The year was 200X, an age in which machines were to a world-wide network and as a result living became easier for society. Net Navis, special digital avatars that live inside Personal Terminals or "PETs" were used jack into the Net to gather information and do other tasks on behalf of their operators. However with this newfound convenience, crimes became easier to perpetrate such as malicious computer virus attacks and Cyber Terrorism. Organizations such as the WWW, Gospel and Nebula caused the world to be in danger at least six times and would have succeeded in domination had it not been for the heroics of a boy and his own Net Navi.
Four years have passed since the last of the major crises when the Cybeasts Gregar and Falzar were defeated and the world for the most part enjoyed peace, prosperity and further advancements in society. Net crimes continued to exist however and the world would stay in constant danger until the day would come when Dr. Wily would finish his theoretical Colonel and Iris system that would guarantee complete Net Safety.
As for the boy who saved the world many times over and his Navi…
"Lan…Lan…! LAN! Wake up!"
"Hwaaaah!?" a voice shouted followed by a thud.
Lan Hikari, world savior and now high school student was on the floor.
"Owww…" he grumbled while rubbing the back of his head, "What's with all the yelling, MegaMan?"
"Finally! Do you have any idea what time it is?" a voice shouted from the PET near a laptop, "You're going to be late for school!"
The boy shrugged while he walked around his room and started getting dressed, putting on a white T-shirt, long black pants with orange and blue stripes on the sides and a sleeveless orange jacket that had his Navi Symbol on the left breast pocket. He slipped on a headband that was partially obscured by his shoulder length spikey brown hair and walked over to his PET, which was now in its 10th and last iteration as a palm sized device that was worn on the wrist.
"Meh, I've been late before, what's one more time going to do?" he said to his Navi while slipping the Terminal on.
"You're going to make Mayl wait."
Lan's face paled as a cold drop of sweat rolled down his cheek.
"Better get moving."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Looks like our son's finally awake," Haruka Hikari said with a glance upstairs.
"Some things never change it seems," Yuichiro remarked with a chuckle while reading the paper.
Lan came running down with his backpack in tow while putting on orange gloves with black palms and blue trimming before running into the kitchen.
"Hi mom, hi dad!" he said while grabbing an apple off the kitchen counter and leaving, "Can't talk! Gotta go bye!"
"Forgetting something?" his father asked.
He looked back to see Yuichiro tapping his glasses, "Ack!
A quick dash to his room later Lan returned with his own pair of blue framed spectacles on before putting on his shoes and running out of the house.
"He's really starting to take after you with those on," his mother said while sitting down at the table with the coffee pot.
"I was never this bad at keeping punctual," came the reply.
"Oh I wouldn't say that, dear. You had your moments when we were younger…"
"Lan Hikari, do you have any idea how long I was waiting here!?" said Mayl Sakurai, Lan's childhood friend and now girlfriend of two years.
She stood with her arms crossed, her now long red hair moving slightly as she leaned back on a leg. She wore an aqua blue shirt with short sleeves that exposed her shoulders, a gold bracelet on her right arm and her pink PET on the other, a short pink skirt and knee high black boots with red soles.
"I'm sorry Mayl, I didn't mean to be late!" he said while ducking under her stare now that she was his equal in height, "I kinda stayed up longer than I should have."
"Were you Netbattling again?" she asked with a raised brow.
He shook his head while taking off his backpack and digging into it, "No. I was cleaning this. Here you go."
He handed her a wrapped object that she took and looked over. Slowly she opened it up and gasped when she saw a clip with a pink heart on it.
"Is this my old hairclip?" she asked while marveling at it.
"Yeah, I found it the other day after you lost it, but it was covered in some really nasty stuff," Lan said with a grin, "It took some elbow work but it's good as new."
She smiled while putting it on to the side of an extremely long bang that partly covered the left of her face, then hugging him, "Thanks Lan, I really appreciate this."
"Ehehehe…no problem."
"Now, let's get moving or we're going to be late," she said while taking his hand and pulling him along.
He nodded as the two walked down the streets of ACDC Town, cheeks rosy.
"So…anything new on the net?" Lan asked.
"Nothing good," a voice said from Mayl's PET, "Another bombing occurred last night. It was a factory this time. Lots of injuries and one person is in critical condition."
"…was it N.O.E.T. again?"
The redhead nodded while bringing up her wrist and tapping it, causing the PET to project a large screen in front of them that she tapped as well, "Yeah it was. Here's the latest."
A new window popped up that he read over, frowning.
"Terrorist Navis attack again. Mysterious black Navi seen at the crime," Lan quoted as they arrived at the gate to ACDC High, "That's the third sighting of this Navi now."
"I wouldn't worry about it too much now," Mayl said with a sigh, "Seeing as class is about to start.
His face pale before the two bolted inside in hopes of catching class before the bell rang.
A/N: Welcome to the world of MegaMan Battle Network Ultimate Universe, a rewrite of an unfinished fanfiction I initially made 10 years ago! To make a long winded tale short, said story was a novelization of several campaigns and lore from a now dead Battle Network Roleplay board aptly named Battle Network Universe that I spent a long time at. Now that 10 years have passed since BNU's founding I figure rather than just simply post the fanfiction on here why not redo it from scratch with some extra stuff thrown in? Hence the Ultimate tag added on here.
This story will be set between the 20 year gap before BN6's ending takes place and because its based on an RP board, there will be OCs and a decent chunk of them in future chapters, just warning you guys on that now. However I do feel that not all OCs are doomed to suck/be Mary Sues and I'm positive I can prevent that from happening here.