Author's Note No. 1

Alright, here we go for realsies. This fic's the first actual halfway serious attempt at publishing something that I've done, and I'm (kinda) proud of it. Only kinda though. The first attempt was far from pleasent...but, that's getting ahead of myself. The full thing started back in May 2012 to entertain the tweens of GameFAQs which lead to getting re-written due to problems (read: crappy character OVERLOAD), then re-written again in September 2012, which is the state is now. Kinda, anyway.

Things to mention:

- Don't ask for a character, pls. This is already set in stone and has no room for additionals

- Megaman and all his extensions/characters are owned by Capcom. Regrettably at this point, since they hate their mascot...but that's another story. I claim ownership on the Original Characters, though.

Prologue ~ Dreams

Location: Hidden Area

When I am finished….everyone shall be happy. Everything will be united together for an era of peace. No violence, no unnecessary deaths, no evil. No one will be sad, ever again…

In the darkness of a secluded area, save for the light that illuminated from the moon, a man paces back and forth throughout the enclosed area, going on throughout a rant as he imagined his ideal world; one where everyone would live in peace, under the protection of an organization.

The man was dressed in a dark navy blue tuxedo with a red tie. His outfit choice had complimented his light brown hair, which was neatly combed. He also had a cup of tea in his right hand, heated and poured to perfection. Just how he wanted it.

His world would be one with no form of evil in it. Under the banner of this one, organization. This one legion. Everything….

"WARNING. INTURDER ALERT. WARNING. INTURDER ALERT." Came the screech of the alarm, as it rang throughout the room. The man turned towards the door with a small smile on his face.

"It seems those unwanted guests have arrived…" he cackled out to himself, grabbing a nearby rapier from the wall. As he got his weapon ready, the door violently exploded, and four humans, 3 males and a female stood at the doorway.

The mystery man gave off a small chuckle at the sight of his attackers. "Ah, you sure took your sweet time, balancer. I take it you are here to try and kill me? Because normally, people who wished to visit me wouldn't destroy my door like you ruffians would…"

The man who had been called the balancer was dressed in a light gray tee, a gray vest hooked to a harness, and dark gray pants. He was also wearing long black leather gauntlets, with white jewels on the top of them. He also had chocolate brown hair that had accompanied his gray eyes. He scoffed at the statement the mystery man had said.

"Dude, your ideal world is one where no one presumably has any personality. If we had no personality, we'd all be Lemmings or something. No one wants that."

The mystery man chuckled. "So simple minded. Comes with being a young child, I suppose…" he replied, his tone with a scent of sarcasm.

The balancer responded by sticking his tongue out at him. "Hey, here's an idea. How about we just kick your ass, and then you run away while banging your fist out and declaring "I shall have my revenge!" or something stupid like that. I dunno, that's how it is with the bad guys, right?"

"Bad guys…? No…" the man replied, getting the rapier ready. He then charged towards the group, crying out, "…You are the bad guys!"

As he charged the group of humans, the balancer responded by roundhouse kicking him in the chest, causing him to fall back a considerably distance. The man frowned as the group begun to run towards him.

The man quickly responded by calling fourth some of his magic; he made some hand motions and created wave of wind towards the group, causing 3 of them to fly into the bookshelf in the corner, with the exception of the leader, who seemed to keep his footing.

The balancer smiled at him. "Come on, you think wind's gonna work on me? I'm an Earth user! That was a nice breeze, though. I'll give you a C- for effort."

"Quiet, you brat!"

"Hey! I'm not a brat! I'm almost 21! Few more months, and I can drink! Legally!" the leader quickly spat back, sticking his tongue out again.

The man responded to this by charging towards him again, but this time the balancer was ready for him; he quickly drew his sword from his back, and swung a wave of light at the man, causing him to fly out of the window. He yelled out angrily as he flew out of the window, towards his death.

As the yelling died out, the group of people walked towards the broken window, all of them giving looks of disappointment. As they scanned the area for his body, the balancer spoke up again.

"Great….well, come on, team. We'd better go see if we can find his body…"

- Later -

The group searched below near were the mystery man had fallen. So far the implications had been far from pleasant; there happened to be many sharp, pointed rocks down here, as was the ocean. He could have easily died from the fall.

The answer came after a while, when the black haired male called out, signaling that he had found the boy in question.

The body had a crash course with the rocks; his body was impaled by the rocks, with blood dripping out of his lifeless body.

The balancer sighed and shook his head, while the blonde haired female placed a hand on his shoulder. She spoke up.

"Let's try not to think about it too hard. He was technically evil, after all. We should report to HQ that his death was completely unintentional and that we at least have his base under control." She stated with a relaxing tone.

He glanced at her. "Yeah, guess you're right. I just…" he placed two fingers on his forehead, thinking for a moment, then spoke up again. "…something tells me we won't be seeing the last of him. Just this feeling I got, I dunno."

The woman nodded, then begun placed her hand on her ear in order to communicate with HQ to report their status. As she reported the mission status to HQ, the balancer glanced at the body once more.

"Sheesh. Weird guy. Wanting to create a perfect world under an organization. Or was it a legion…? Eh, whatever. Mission's done. Hopefully we won't see him again…"

Finishing his thoughts, the balancer walked away, having some trouble taking his eyes off the body. Perhaps, this was the last time they would see him…

- ? -

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I….can't die….yet….

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….not…..

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And that's th-

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Wait, no, better idea.

Chapter 1: Home sweet Home

- Time: 7 years after the prologue, and 3 years after the events of Star Force 3 -

"Gaaaaaah….you….you haven't won yet!"

Sirius was one his knees. He had tried to take over Planet FM using a Black Hole and faux creations of warriors born of noise. Unfortunately for him, the hero of Earth, and a good friend of the FM King, Megaman, had caught wind of his plan and dove into the Black Hole Server to smash his plans.

It had worked well; Megaman easily fought his way through Sirius' "R" bosses, and eventually made it to the man himself. After some banter, the two begun to fight, and the fight quickly went in Megaman's favor, due to hanging so close to Sirius that he was unable to use most of his moves. With this tactic, Megaman was easily able to get an upper hand on Sirius, bringing him to now.

Megaman stood over his defeated opponent, in Black Ace form, one of his two options for his Super Form. He glared at Sirius with anger in his eyes.

"Shut up. You've lost! Your men are gone. I've beaten you. It's OVER!" he yelled out, his voice laced with determination. Sirius scoffed at his statement.

"Ha…ha…even with my demise, your days shall be numbered, boy. You cannot escape your fate…ha…one day…you will plead for the simplicity of being a toy for me…" Sirius managed out, as he was nearing his demise. "The Black Hole…it will live on!"

Geo grew impatient. The power of his Finalized form often did that to him. "Oh YEAH?! HERE'S YOUR BLACK HOLE!" he yelled out, holding his hand upwards. "BLACK END…"

Geo chucked the hold at Sirius, sealing him in a black hole. He then charged at the hole, a blade of noise on his arm, and sliced it in ha-

"Beep Beep Beep Be-"

"WAAAAAH!" Geo had let out a very startled cry over his alarm clock. Darn. Once again having a cool dream ruined by waking up. He hated it when that happened. Well, it was too late to change that now.

Geo tapped a button on his alarm clock, stretched his arms out, and got out of his bed. He walked over to his dresser, grabbed a few clothes, and walked off to his shower to get ready for the day.

After a quick shower, Geo re-entered his room, and glanced at himself. Three years had been good to him; for starters, he had gotten taller. Not too much, but just enough for someone his age. While his outfit hadn't changed much, he had been wearing a pair of pants over his shorts to adjust for the colder weather. He still kept his Dad's visualizer despite his return; Kelvin had insisted that the boy keep it since it had helped him so much before in the past during his absence.

Omega-Xis, Geo's alien best friend, materialized out from Geo's Hunter-VG. He hadn't changed much during these three years. Geo guessed that it had to do with his EM body already being mature.

"Morning, kid! What's on the agenda today?" he spoke out in a gruff tone. Geo glanced at him with a small smile.

"Don't you remember?" Geo replied, pulling something out from his backpack. It was a sheet of colorful paper, with pictures of food all over it. "Today's the day of the Echo Ridge food festival. I only remember because Bud's been bugging us like crazy over it, and since Bud remembers something for once, that means that the Prez and Zack also remember it."

Ah yes. Geo's friends had also been growing up nicely; Bud had been adapting to his Taurus Fire form more often now, in the event that he was needed to help Geo protect the world. He had also been trying to lose some weight…that hadn't been going well. Least he was trying.

Zack had finally begun to hit that growth spurt he had been yearning for last year, and his dreams of being taller finally started to come to fortune. He had grown up to Geo's old height…which, suffice to say, still wasn't very tall at this point.

Luna, on the other hand had gotten the best of it. She was much taller, and according to most of his male classmates (including Zack and Bud), she was considered "hot". This of course, was due to the one day where she was forced to let her long long hair out, which upped her on the scale, apparently. Geo didn't notice it much.

Thankfully. Keep in mind they are still kids, readers.

Personality wise, she was more or less the same Prez.

As for the others, he hadn't heard from Sonia in about a year or so due to having to take a yearlong tour of the world to help further her music career. Jack was still in school, but he usually spent his free time watching over Ace in a vain attempt to get him to stop hitting on his sister (to no avail), and he had no idea where Pat was.

Once Geo finished his sentence, Omega-Xis replied, "Well, at least this way we won't be bored all day. Time to get started?" he inquired to his friend. Geo nodded.

"Let's go. First, we start with breakfast…"

- Later -

After eating his breakfast, and saying goodbye to his mother (Kelvin was away at work), Geo ran off to the park, where the Food Festival was taking place. He found his friends near where his house was, waved his hand, and walked towards them.

Luna glanced at him with a picky face. "You're late." She stated to Geo, her tone a bit annoyed.

Geo scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, by about two minutes…not that bad, Prez."

"We agreed on 10 a.m. Did you want someone as pretty and delicate as me to wonder with just Bud and Zack?"

Geo frowned. As he was about to say something, Luna chuckled lightly, and said, "Relax, I'm just pulling your leg, Geo. You're easy sometimes."

Zack adjusted his glasses. "You guys remember what happened last year? Bud lost the food eating contest because he had too much to snack on. You don't think that's gonna repeat this year, do you?"

Bud joined in with a hearty laugh. "The contest?! This year's MINE! Come on, my stomach's been waiting weeks to get here! This time, I'm gonna WIN that contest!" he said in an excited tone, clearly eager to devour as much as his belly could hold.

The others stared at him questionably as Bud begun to lead the group into the masses of people selling food. They glanced at each other, then Geo shrugged and begun to follow him, with Zack and Luna close behind.

- Later again -

Bud drooled at the sight of the food. All of his favorites; most of them involving beef of some form. Especially Ginger Beef. As he reached out to grab some beef to buy, Luna slapped him away from it.

"Bud! Don't spoil your appetite! We want the whole class to know who was able to win the Food eating contest, and who helped him do it. Don't you want that?" she snapped out quickly.

Bud frowned. "But….the Ginger Beef…Prez…" he looked down in defeat. Bud knew better than to piss off the Prez.

Luna smiled at him warmly. "Don't think about it too hard. If you win, I'll get you tons of the stuff, maybe even get Geo's mom to help me make some. Sound good?"

Bud's face quickly warmed up. He glanced at the Prez with a big smile on his face. "You'd do that?! Thanks, Prez!"

Luna smiled back. "Now come on. We need to wait for that contest." She motioned him to the area where the contest would take place. Despite her coldness at times, she really did care about her friends. In her own way.

- Food eating contest -

Bud now stood at the front of a large crowd, with his friends in sight. Geo and Zack waved towards him, and Luna just stared with a smile. This was his big moment.

"LAAAAAADIEEESSS AND GEEEEENTLEEEEMEN! It's time for the big "Stuff Ze Face" contest! Our three competitors here, all citizens here in our own, beautiful, Echo Ridge, all have a simple goal; EAT! Whoever eats the most Pies in 20 minutes, wins the contest, and the alleged "FOOD KING" CROWN! Who will be this year's lucky winner?!"

The announcer spoke in a term that sounded like he was eager to watch the contest, but at the same time, that he knew how this would end. Geo shrugged; didn't really matter.

"ALRIGHT! Now, ready…..and EAT!" the announcer boomed out through the mike, and the three contestants begun to eat. Quickly.

As Geo and co. stared at Bud, who was eating at an extremely quick pace; that was something. Usually, he only ate that fast when he had been starved or something. While the others were also eating at a quick pace, Bud was outspeeding them by a long shot; good thing he hadn't eaten anything earlier, than.

10 minutes passed. Bud was ahead of the closest competitor by about 5 pies. Seemed like he had this in the bag.

Then, something plot related happened. A man dressed in a brown trenchcoat with ripped sleves, and underneath a pair of dark navy jeans and a black shirt, and a pair of gloves to compliment his slevelessness. He also had long black hair, which had touched his neck, and a pair of sunglasses.

In this author's hands, he looked kinda…crazy. Not in the good way, either. He walked onto the stage, and a stage hand walked up to him.

"Excuse me sir. You aren't allowed on stage."

The trenchcoated man gave off a grin. He pulled out a small metal object out of his pocket and held it up. This had caused most of the crowd to notice him, Geo included. He then spoke up, in a menacing tone.

"Yeah? Well, allow me to change into something more suited for a stage..."

He then proceeded to hold the medal out in front of him, and cried out,

"WAVE CHANGE! Xel Giga, On The Air!"

With that, a flash of light surrounded the man, and gasps emerged out from the crowd. Geo winched. Trouble. After all this time…

When the light faded, the man was replaced by an armored humonid figure in what appeared to be Scorpion armor, complete with the tail and everything. The armor was dark neon blue, covering most of his arms, legs, and torso, save for a few pieces leaving gaps. On his back, was his "tail" which stretched out over his head. The tail had twin ends on it, and looked like it could open up. His face now had a visor attached, covering his eyes but leaving his mouth.

"Emperor Scorpius!" he shouted out, as portions of the crowd had begun to run away in fear. Scorpius spoke again, "It is time I destroyed this damned festival, all in the name of the UL!"

Bud's competition had run off in fear at the sight of Scorpius, but Bud had given off a determined glare. He glanced at his Hunter.

"Taurus!"

"Right!" came the voice of his Wizard, the FMian Taurus. Bud quickly threw one of his arms out, and yelled out,

"Transcode! Taurus Fire!"

With those words, Bud changed into Taurus Fire, and quickly pushed the table out of the way, causing whatever pies to be left to hit the announcer, who hadn't gotten away yet.

As Bud was facing down his opponent, Luna and Zack glanced at Geo.

"Geo…" Luna stated in a worried tone.

Geo nodded. "Right. You two get to safety. We'll handle this." Geo threw his arm out as well, and declared,

"Transcode! Megaman!"

Geo transformed into his "Super Hero" identity, Megaman. He quickly aimed his buster towards Scorpius.

"Don't know who you are, but neither of us are letting off easily for ruining the festival!" Geo yelled in determination towards Scorpius.

The scorpion scoffed at his statement, then rose his tail up dramatically at the blue bomber, getting poised to fight…

"…We're lost, aren't we?" a female voice spoke in a dry tone.

"We aren't lost! I, uh, just…don't know where we are right now…?" came a male voice in response, sounding like someone in his mid-late twenties.

"That means we're lost."

The male rolled his eyes. "Oh please. Look, there's a town right there. Why don't go and ask for directions if you say we're "lost"?" he said, making sure to move his fingers in junction with the word "lost". You know, air quotes.

The town in question was… Echo Ridge. Sure, why not?

The female voice sighed, then motioned for her companion to follow…

And there's the prologue and first chapter. Not much of a point in posting them separately, but hey.

See ya on the Flipside.