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Prologue

Today is an exciting day for a young boy. Today is a day where a kid can have fun. Today is one of those days that come around once every year. Today is the birthday of the now nine year old Patch Hikari. As the warm summer day begins, Patch's annoying alarm clock wakes him up at the usual time, seven thirty. He hits the button to silence that irritating alarm. However, he quickly remembers that today is his birthday. He also remembered that his dad said that he would have a very special surprise for him.

Patch quickly got out of bed and rushed downstairs to get some breakfast. Since it was a Saturday, he expected his parents to still be asleep. Patch soon discovers that he was mistaken as he found his mom making a delicious smelling breakfast.

"Good morning, mom!" Patch said enthusiastically. He was naturally very excited. What kid wouldn't be on his birthday?

"Morning, Patch. Happy birthday." Patch's mother, Mayl Hikari, was one of those people who are good at many things. Besides being a great mom, she also paints and occasionally writes novels. She has the heart of an artist and the soul of a mother.

Patch inhales profusely, smelling the sweet tasting smell of pancakes.

"Mmm, pancakes," Patch says in a dream-like voice, "With cinnamon?"

"Of coarse."

"Thanks, Mom!"

"It's your birthday. It's a Hikari tradition to have cinnamon pancakes on one's birthday."

Patch sat down at the table to wait for the delicious cinnamon pancakes to be done.

"Is Dad sleeping?"

"No. He got up early, if you can believe it. Said that he had some things to finish up at work before the party."

"Wow! I thought that he would sleep in as late as possible, like he usually does on his days off."

"I was just as surprised as you. If not more so."

A loud yawn could be heard coming behind them. They both turn around to see Patch's uncle, Hub Hikari, known by most as Megaman E.x.E.

"Oh, excuse me. Good morning everyone," greeted the human net navi, "Happy birthday Red."

"Thanks Mega," Patch responds as they do their little hand greeting. Patch and Megaman were good friends. "Hey, how come you aren't with Dad at Sci Lab?"

"Lan went without me again? Oh, Lan. Patch, I tell ya, your Dad will never change."

"No matter how much we try," agrees Mayl, "and believe me, we've tried."

"Don't tell me. Lan forgot you again, eh Mega?" said Mayl's navi, Roll, as she came out of the room. "Some people just don't change," she said as she moved up to Megaman. "Happy birthday, Patch."

"Thanks Roll."

"Pancakes are ready," Mayl declared.

"Oh, thanks Mom."

"No problem."

After breakfast, the new nine year old gets dressed, brushes his teeth, fixes his messy red hair, and puts on his shoes. He says goodbye to his family as he heads out the door. No sooner as he closes it when he hears a:

"Happy Birthday." Patch quickly spins around. There was his best friend standing in front of the house.

"Oh, Naomi," he said relieved, "Thanks."

"You're welcome," replies Naomi Freemen.

"So, what are you doing here?"

"I was just hanging around waiting for you; wondering if you wanted to do something before your party. I was bored."

"Sure. I was just going to find you when I came out." The two friends start off walking in no direction in particular. They really didn't know what to do. "So, what do you want to do?"

"I don't know. Why don't we go find Jimmy and Ann and see what they are doing?"

"All right."

They head off in the direction of the only mansion in ACDC Town. Jimmy and Ann are twins, though you wouldn't know it if you didn't know them. Although twins are supposed to be similar, they are quite different, but some how they seem to be inseparable.

In a short while, they arrive at the Sparrow's huge manor house owned by Yai Sparrow-Ayanno. Their family was very rich.

As they approach the front gate, a camera turns to look at them and a voice comes out of a speaker somewhere.

"Two individuals approaching. Identified as Patch Hikari and Naomi Freemen," the voice said in a monotone. It was obvious that it was automated. "Access granted." The gate doors slide open as the voice spoke. Patch and Naomi entered their friend's house.

A butler-type navi walked up to them. "Well, if it isn't Patch and Naomi. I hear that it is your birthday today Patch, is it not?" said the English butler navi Glide, "Congratulations."

"Thanks Glide. Where are Jimmy and Ann?" asked Patch.

"We were wanting to do something before the party," said Naomi.

"Well," began the butler navi, "I last saw them in the game room having a net battle, although I am unsure if they are still there."

"Thanks Glide. Bye."

"You're quite welcome. Have fun kids."

Glide was correct. Jimmy and Ann were indeed in the game room in the middle of one of their matches to prove who was better. The two stood in the entrance watching the contest of the twin's navis colliding and shooting and blasting and any other sort of attack that they could use.

Jimmy's navi was a wind type navi called Aero Man. He was clad in green camouflage and a fighter pilot's helmet. He had a jetpack on his back that allowed him to fly.

Ann's navi was called Sparrow. Like Aero Man, Sparrow was a wind type navi but was a pink feathered bird-like navi. She had light peach colored armor on her chest and a belt with her symbol on it.

Patch and Naomi stood there and watched as Aero Man fired of two of his Aero Missiles at Sparrow, but the bird gracefully dodged the missiles and threw some of her sharp feathers at him.

"Battle chip, Reflector 3," Jimmy said as he held up the battle chip, "Slot-in!" As the chip slid into the PET slot a shield came up in front of Aero Man and blocked the attack. At the instant the attack hit the shield a blast came out of it and hit Sparrow, who was so surprised at the sudden counter attack found herself unable to move.

"No, Sparrow," Ann yelled worried at what her brother was about to do next.

"Now's our chance," Jimmy said excitedly as he slid three battle chips into his PET, "Program Advance, Giga Cannon Three!" The boy twin was even more excited when the cannon formed and his pilot locked on target.

"Fire!" Aero Man felt the shear power of the program advance surging through his body as the powerful shot was fired from the cannon.

"No!" Ann yelled as the cannon shot hit her defenseless navi with deadly accuracy. Sparrow's body disappeared and a computerized voice from her PET said that her bird-like navi had been defeated. She groaned in frustration as streams of data flowed into her handheld device and reformed into the bird-shaped program.

"Oh, yeah!" Jimmy exclaimed in victory.

"Nice move Jimmy," said Patch as he and Naomi entered the room. The twins turned around to see their two friends.

"Yeah well, don't get too excited because I won the first match. That one that you just saw was our second one," Ann said. They could tell she wasn't very happy about this loss.

"Well, since you're finished with that match," Naomi started, "how about we join the contest?"

"Yeah," said Patch, "You and Ann versus me and Jimmy. See which team is the best."

"Alright," agreed Ann, "Standard net battle rules. First team to jack out or quit loses."

"Perfect." The four competitors approached the net battle machine and prepared for the battle. They pared of on either side of the machine. With zeal they said:

"JACK IN! EXCECUTE!"

The four friends passed the morning and afternoon with net battles and friendly competitions and before any of them knew it, it was time for Patch's party. No one was more excited than Patch. Naomi, Jimmy, and Ann retrieved their gifts and met Patch a short time later.

It was three pm when Patch's dad, Lan Hikari, got home. He looked very excited.

"Hey everybody, Lan Hikari is here for his son's birthday!"

"So," said Mayl sarcastically," He's finally here. Nice of you to join us. We were just about to start without you."

"What do you mean? I got here on time!"

"Are you sure?" asked Megaman, "Cause you didn't have your PET with you."

"What?"

Everyone had a good laugh at Lan's expense, but they quickly started the party. Lan wanted to get at the delicious looking cake his wife made and so did Patch, however everyone else insisted that they start with the presents. So that's what they did.

Patch started with the gift from his good friend Jimmy Sparrow, which turned out to be all three Gun Del Soul battle chips which he needed to complete the Pile Driver program advance. The gift from Ann was a couple of very rare navi custom programs. Naomi gave him something she knew he would like, a blue bandana and shirt with his symbol on it, a red circle with two black lines, horizontal and vertical, with a yellow X in the middle. Unfortunately, the shirt was a little big for him. He would have to grow into it.

He got some other presents from his grandparents, Lan's mom and dad, but the best gift he got that day was from his dad. Lan's special surprise was incredible.

"Now," Lan began, "This was very difficult to program. So you better be grateful."

"I most defiantly will," assured the nine year old kid. Lan handed his son a brown box. He had just finished it and didn't have time to wrap it. Patch didn't care however. He had been looking forward to this since his dad told him about it a couple months ago. Patch took off the top of the box and was stunned at what he saw inside.

"Dad," he begun stuttering, "This, this is a new kind of PET." Patch pulled out a new PET. This compact handheld had a very efficient design with a second screen that flips up. It had a chrome blue color with a yellow stripe on each side.

"It's a prototype PErsonal Terminal. And guess what's inside."

"You mean. . ." he began, "You mean that you programmed my own navigator?"

"It's not just any navi. It's a very special navi, so take good care of him. It took me months to program. I think that you'll like him very much."

"I hope so. Thank you Dad, this is amazing."

"Go ahead and turn it on!" said Jimmy, "We all want to see the navi!"

Patch complied with the request. He activated the new PET with great anticipation. With a couple of clicks and beeps, the PErsonal Terminal activated and started loading its many complex and powerful programs. All of Patch's friends were so anxious, almost looking like they were holding their breath. Patch was especially nervous.

Lan looked at his dad who was looking at his grandson with a happy smile on his face. He was just remembering the time he gave his son his own navi, Megaman, when Lan was this age. Lan had been so happy that day. He looked kind of like Patch was looking right now. But Yuchiro Hikari was smiling for another reason.

The PET made a beep. It was finished loading everything programmed into it. The bottom screen lit up as a blue helmeted figure appeared wearing the same X symbol that Patch had. It almost seemed to happen in slow motion as his eyes opened for the first time.

"Hello," the navi greeted, "I am Megaman X."