~Guess who's back and at again? Me, UpbeatButNegative!~
I own no Megaman characters, any familiar dialogue or the main plot. Credits to Capcom.
The Year 199X...
The streets were quiet. The night was peaceful. At least outside Beach Street Hospital it was.
Yuichiro Hikari, a SciLab scientist, gripped the hand of his wife, Haruka Hikari, and lent her his support in the struggle called childbirth. At first, Haruka moaned in pain, but the pain grew too much to bear and the moans grew louder. Eventually, the soon to be child deliverer couldn't help but scream in agony. The blank atmosphere of a hospital turned into an intense scene.
"You can do it, Haruka! Just a little longer!"
"Gaaah! Aaaahhh!"
As she pushed harder and harder under the doctor's orders, the pain grew stronger and stronger. How long did it have to go on? Why did it have to hurt horribly? When would it all be over?
Somehow, though, it was all over. Haruka made it through. After all the pain and torture, what appeared as two infant boys finally arrived into the human world. As the twin sons wailed in the warmth of their new blankets, the witnesses to the childbirth couldn't help but feel overjoyed.
"They're... beautiful..." Haruka cried happily, tears flowing down her eyes. What should we call them, Yuichiro?"
"..."
The scientist thought long and hard about.
"Let's name them 'Hub Hikari' and 'Lan Hikari'," Yuichiro smiled warmly.
After showering every single doctor and nurse in Beach Street Hospital with gratitude, Yuichiro and Haruka left in happiness. With twins Lan and Hub to watch and raise, they were officially a family and nothing could tear the four apart.
It's been two months since Hub and Lan were born and life was nothing but pure bliss. While Yuichiro was off at work in SciLab, Haruka stayed behind at home to look after her recently born sons. The Hikari family lived in a comfortable house in the center of ACDC Town, located within the boundaries of DenTech City.
The white and blue house's lower floor was padded with glossed up wooden planks. The kitchen, one with all the basic essentials and a bit more and where Haruka was warming up the babies' milk, was tucked away neatly in the far left corner of the entrance. Outside the kitchen was the dining table, covered with a red and white checkered cloth. Far behind the tucked in chairs was the living room, with a flat screen TV installed on the wall, a small seating area in front of it and a tall lamp to the side of it.
Sitting in separate baby seats were Hub and Lan, playing with their educational toys. Lan found it amusing to reach over and knock down Hub's number block tower. Hub countered by stretching his arm to destroy Lan's alphabet block tower. The two brothers messed with each other frequently, but laughed off what the other did. Life was good.
Suddenly, breaking the sound of Hub's laughter was a furious cough! Following this were several very throaty coughs. Immediately, Haruka stopped what she was doing and rushed over to Hub.
"Hub! Are you okay!" she demanded to know, only to receive gruff coughs as a response. "Oh no... I never knew this was going to happen... I have to get him to the hospital!"
Lan noticed his mother's very panicky tone and made a little 'Hmm?' sound, to which the mother translated as, "Is everything okay?"
"Nothing's going right at all!" Haruka told him, taking the babies from the seats.
As she rushed to Beach Street Hospital, Hub continued to cough roughly. Lan responded to this by reaching his hand over to his brother's and gripped it as tightly as he could, almost as if to say, "Everything will be okay! Don't worry!"
After being alerted of the problem, the doctors quickly brought the three to another room, took Hub and inspected him. Meanwhile, Haruka called Yuichiro to alert him of the dilemma. Right after the call, the scientist rushed over to the hospital and demanded to see the rest of the Hikari family. In no time flat, the assistant led Yuichiro into their room.
"Yuichiro! Thank goodness you're here!" Haruka sobbed, wrapping her arms around him and throwing her face to her husband's shirt.
"Honey, calm down!" he told her. "I'm sure the doctors can do something about this!"
"Uhh..." Lan sounded worriedly from his mother's arms. Yuichiro took this as, "Are you sure?"
"Your brother will be okay, Lan," he spoke to his son softly. "At least, I hope so..."
A doctor looked at the heart monitor and was devastated. Hub's heart was beating all over the place! One second, it beat as fast as a cheetah, but the next, it crawled down to a snail's pace.
Oh no! It can't be... HBD! Urgh... And I can't use the defibrillator on a baby! His body wouldn't be able to take the electrodes!
Frantically, possibilities popped up in the doctor's head, but they all had fatal flaws. Eventually, he gave up. Nothing could be done...
He didn't know how to put it, but he broke the bad news to the rest of the Hikari family. This resulted in Haruka breaking down to a flood, Yuichiro being filled with despair and rage and Lan reacting to his parents' negative feelings by crying himself.
"No... He can't be..." Haruka murmured. "Why...?"
Suddenly, Yuichiro's eyes were filled with determination.
"Hub will live on..."
Well, here's the prologue to my first Megaman fanfic. It's a novelization of Megaman Battle Network. To be honest, my novelization of a spin off Mario game called 'Mario Tennis: Power Tour' wasn't my best work. I kinda lost interest in doing the whole game after about half way and decided to cut it after the final round of the big tournament called the 'Island Open'. I find that it's a good spot to end, though.
What did that have to do with this fic? Well, simple: I won't let one lackluster story put me down. I hope that my novelization of this game goes a lot better! If I find that I enjoy writing this, I'll probably do the whole Battle Network series!
For now, though, this is the beginning of a new fic. And that fic is...
~Virus Busters, The Rise Of World Three~
~Have a great day, week, fortnight, month, whatever~