Megaman Battle Network Lan AU

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and what if Lan wasn't just being a good citizen when he stopped everything from WWW to the CyberBeasts? He was gathering valuable and useful allies and sharpening his and MegaMan's battling skills while getting rid of the competition. After all only one can rule the world. AU OOC Bad!Lan Bad!Mega Smart!Lan)

"Is it almost time to start the second part of the plan Lan?" Megaman asked his operator and twin brother who smirked slightly as he put the finishing touches on his math homework and sent it in via e-mail. No one in the class, not even the teacher Ms. Mari would believe that all of Lan's perfectly done homework was done by the boy himself instead of being done by Megaman or just Mega for short.

"Yes. It's about the right time to start part two. We'll have to start with the small things of course but soon we can move onto the bigger phases. If all goes as we planned…no one will realize what is happening until it's far too late to stop us." Lan said smirking darkly as he lent back into his desk chair, looking at the CopyBot Mega was using to sit on his bed. It was a present from Colonel…and while Lan hadn't planned on it being gifted to him he had planned on getting one for his brother eventually. Getting it as a gift just made things much easier for him.

"Not like they could. All the fighting against World Three and the other idiots up to the CyberBeasts made us the strongest NetBattlers around, especially when we're together on the same side." Megaman said with a derisive scoff and a smirk of his own.

"That may be but we can't afford to get too cocky or comfortable with our strength. After all, the CyberBeasts were thought to be the strongest of the strong and yet we beat one of them on our own while the other was deleted by two Navi's made solely to take it over." Lan said kicking his rolling chair away from his desk as he spun around to face his twin.

"Fair enough." Mega said shrugging his shoulders indifferently to his twins counter argument.

"Now then. Who should we start part two off with?" Lan asked pressing a few keys on his keyboard, which revealed a hidden laptop hiding behind his PC. Displayed on the Laptop's monitor were several dozen plans and files, at least three for each person Lan and Mega has met during their adventures. Needless to say there were a lot of plans. Each and every one of them was fleshed out and incredibly detailed with at least four contingency plans within the originals.

"The easiest ones would be Dex, Yai, and Mayl. However Yai is the most useful of the three and even then she pales compared to some of the others." Mega threw in his opinion while Lan nodded in agreement. He wasn't worried about his parents overhearing him at the moment, not only was his room sound proof and his laptop untraceable but they were also out on a date since his dad had the night off.

"Sal and Ms. Mari would be next after them…however they can still wait a while. Ms. Mari believes that none of her students could do any wrong and Sal has unwavering faith in my 'kindness and heroism'." Lan said smirking sinisterly at what Sal had told him once. If only the nature enthusiast knew the true him, she'd be in for a large shock.

"Won't they be in for a shock once people start cluing in on what we're doing?" Mega asked with a sinister chuckle that sounded fit for Dark Megaman.

"Indeed. However we still have to decide where to start…" Lan trailed off as he thought about it before his eyes snapped to his laptop when it gave a small ding to show a new e-mail…straight to his 'evil plans' as many would call them.

"Looks like someone on the inside has a message for me." Lan said turning back to his laptop while Mega quirked an eyebrow there were only three people who knew Lan's secret e-mail account, and they were all extremely loyal to Lan.

"Well well. Looks like you're not the only one who wants to start phase two. My dark queen is getting impatient as well." Lan said with a chuckle once he read the e-mail that came from the one person he trusted almost as much as he did Mega. The young woman had gotten a taste for life on the bad side and was addicted to it…so as soon as Lan let slip that he wasn't actually a 'hero' she was on his side in a heartbeat. It helped that she owed him big time…although the rather obvious crush she had on him was a nice help as well.

"Who does she think we should start with?" Mega asked curiously and slightly eager, the 'Dark Queen' was an evil mastermind that rivaled him and Lan when she wanted to. Also like him and Lan she and her Navi always wore masks so that no one suspected them of being 'evil'. It helped that her Navi was one of the toughest they had ever faced…so she was definitely strong enough to be Lan's right hand woman…and fiancé according to her culture. Lan didn't mind at all, she was a great political figure and had a lot of clout in the right circles.

"Well thanks to Ms. Millions and Tesla being on our side we have plenty of money to support our…hobby so we don't need to target rich people in general as that would bring too much attention to us too soon. She suggests starting small with planting virus's in certain locations. Strong ones that most people can't defeat." Lan said smirking as his eyes greedily scanned her idea, Mega smirked at the mention of Millions and Tesla. The two older women owed Lan a good bit and were more than happy to join the 'winning side' as they described him after hearing some of his plans during the recruitment stage, it helped that the two had taken a liking to one of the only ones to actually give them a challenge in a battle. Lan and Mega didn't mind the two women either, they were a halfway decent challenge in a NetBattle at least.

"So we have one of the Ace's plant the virus's remotely, and make sure they're strong enough that only certain Level Battlers can beat them?" Mega asked causing Lan to hum slightly.

"Yes that's the gist of it. Of course we'll have our 'half and half luck' act up so that of course you and I are on the scene when one of the virus's goes off while the girls are on scene for the other three virus's. I'll forward the plan to our Ace of Diamonds." Lan said typing out a brief message and sending it to the member he mentioned. Lan had given everyone in the 'Deck' as he referred to his 'minions' as Mega called them, titles based on their skills and a playing card.

Ms. Millions was the Diamond Ace, Tesla was the Ace of Clubs, the 'Dark Queen' was the Queen of Spades, Lan was the King of Spades, and Mega was the Black Joker. Usually the Ace's triumphed the Kings and Queens…but that wasn't true with the 'Deck'. Lan and Mega could beat everyone in the Deck. The only minor challenges they got were from the two Aces they currently had, and the only mild challenge was from the so far only Queen.