Fur Chronicles Preludes: Restart
KKKEEERRRR-CRASH!
That was the noise that echoed through out cyberspace as the glowing green SuperNavi with light blue static decals on his suit/body and helmet delivered the final blow to the MultiBug Organism, an uncontrollable beast formatted from glitches in a failed attempt to create the strongest navi of all time….
The conquering Navi's brilliant suit dimmed done to a cobalt shade with plain white decals. The navi took a deep breath and looked up to cyberspace with his green eyes, opening a Vid-Window in front of him, displaying his operator, a young lad with spikey brown hair that was being held up by a blue head band. The boy was unconscious and this worried the Navi, fearing that the radiation has done him in.
"LAN!" shouted the blue humanoid from of cyber data, "LAN! Please Wake up! Mom's making her famous curry! Dex wants a match with the Net Battler that just took down Gospel! Yai is taking all of her friends to Yumland! Chaud is acting tough and snobby again! Dad's home! Mayl loves you!"
The boy began to wake from his harsh spell. His brown eyes slowly opened up, adjusting to their blurry surroundings. His groggy groans relieved the Blue Navy of his worst case scenario.
"LAN! Can you hear me?
"Meg…man, is that you?"
"You're okay!"
Lan got off the floor and onto his feet. He took a look at his PET, the electronic device that allows him to make contact with Megaman. "What were you saying about Mayl and me?"
"Oh… nothing, just something to get you up and at-them."
"Did we… do it? Did we took that thing out?
"You bet we did! Gospel's history! Look! The servers have
Completely stopped!" said Megaman with wide smile to ear-ear. The numerous computer servers that were in the room had ceased to function, causing the electromagnetic radiation that spew from them to stopped. "I think the effect of the Hub.Bat and the radiation had triggered anew style change in me, and it wasn't Guts, Custom, Team, Shield, or any element we encountered before."
"Wow!" Lan gasped in amazement, "I can remember it too. It was like we were one."
"Yes. And oddly enough… today is also the anniversary of my last day as Hub, the day that I left you in the real world."
"Ya that's right, with all of that happened today, I totally forgot. Megaman, for the sake of today, let's call your new style… Hub-Style!"
"Sounds good to me, Lan."
"Hey! What about Gospel's leader?"
Lan turn his head at the end the of room, where the head of the Net-Mafia Gospel, a young boy in a blue sweat shirt and black pants, lied unconscious between a computer desk and a wall-mounted TV screen. Lan stepped closer and noticed that the boy's brown had dulled in a gray shade. You can clearly see that the boy was having a bad dream by the painful expressions on his face and how his head continues to shift back and forth.
"Hey! Are you okay? Hello? Can you hear me?" Lan's word went unheard, "He doesn't look good." Lan pointed his PET to the kid so Megaman can get a look at him.
"Well, he was in the electromagnetic field the longest...huh" Megaman noticed something that the must had boy knocked off his desk when he fainted. "There's something next to him… a book?"
"I'll check it out."
Lan plopped down on the floor and opened the book to where a piece of newspaper stuck outside the pages. Lan pointed his PET so Megaman had a look at it.
"This is the news article about that plane crash fiver years ago!"
"That's right! There was a bug in the plane's computer… it was considered the biggest netcrime ever.
"So what does it have to do with him?"
"Should I really read it? It is a personal dairy."
"Lan… this kid did said that his reason to rule world because he picked on and he hated it. Maybe we can learn more about him."
"Okay, Mega. But if the he gets upset about, it's your fault."
"Willing and able, Lan."
And indeed they did learned a lot about the boy. That his parents dead in that crash and how afterwards he was force with a cruel relative. His inheritance brought him will joy and he grew to distrust anyone but himself. But most of all… Lan and Megaman learned how lonely the boy was.
"Gee, why do I feel so bad now, Lan?" Megaman asked.
"I feel the same way."
"These machines were the only things that didn't betrayed him."
"Yea, using them to play as grown-up and make Net friends, people who were like him, having a great anger to all the unfairness that they faced."
"Bringing them together to form the NetMafia: Gospel!"
"All of this just to get back to the real world that forsaken him."
The child then groaned as he regained consciences, his ruby eyes slowly opening
"Oh!" shouted Lan with joy, "You're alive!"
"Huh?" the boy tilted his head to his right to see Lan standing over him with a smile on his face. Filled with panic, the Boy sprawled back to the end of room. His eyes were welling up from the frustration he was feeling.
"I'm finished! Do what you want with me! There is no reason for me to live! Not anymore!"
"C'mon. Everyone has a reason to live."
"Not me! Everyone in this world hates me! I want to die!"
"No Way! But… you'll have to be punished for your crimes…
"See, everyone hates me!"
"But…"
"'But' what?"
"Once you atoned for what you did… I promise to be your first friend, I'll never hold anything against you, and I'll never turn my back against you"
Lan then knelt down and offered an open hand to the boy. The boy just stared at it with his glassy eyes. After a short paused, the boy's expression was then broken by a wave of tears; he leapt on to Lan and gave him a hug. Lan was taken totally by surprise, but he hugged the kid back. Then there was trouble.
"Lan!" Megaman shouted, reading the kid's health position with the PET's sensor, "He took too much radiation! He's body systems are failing!"
"What?" Lan shook the kid up to wake him up, "Hey! Come on! We have to get you out of here."
"Mmmmrrrrrrrrr-sorry-mmrrrr," the child groaned, barely loud enough to be under his breath.
"Hang in there!"
And the world slowly faded for the boy. He could no longer feel anything with his body; his ears deafened Lan's words. Then his eyes were getting so heavy, he just closed them and slipped into darkness.
000
"…I promise to be your first friend."
The young child Sean Obihiro then began to stir from his slumber to find himself in a dark room. The last thing he remembered was talking to that stranger NetNavi, promising him to grant him the power to make the world less evil, then falling asleep, and finally awaking in this dark room.
The computer prodigy examined his surroundings. The entire room was a perfect square of grey metal. A door ajar allowed a shine of light in this room. As Sean looked at the metal wall, which now showed his reflection because of the light. He noticed something different. He was now taller than any normal 5-year old. His glossy brown hair was now a dull grey, and his emerald eyes turned into a ruby shade. This greatly disturbed Sean.
"What's wrong with me? Why do I look older?"
A sharp pain jolted in Sean's mind as a rush of memories flooded in his head.
"The radiation, it caused a change in my body's pigment. But, why was I doing it? And how did I get here."
Sean turned his attention to the opened door, knowing that his answers won't be answered in this simple, yet bizarre, room. Before he left, he noticed a key of simple design in the lock of the outside side of the door. Sean putted it his pocket, as good luck.
He entered a corridor that was at least a thousand times more complex in design than the room that Sean just came out of. The walls were made of smooth-out onyx with navy blue lights that glowed lowly The corridor lead to five doors, with the largest, and highly possible the main door, was across where Sean stood.
"So, you awoke." Said a voice them seems to came all the way around Sean.
"W-Who are you?"
"Did really forgotten me, my brother? It only has been five years. Well, I grant you back you're partial control of Obihiro; IF you can last out in the trials."
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" shouted Sean, "I AM OBIRHIRO!"
"Hemp, how right you are. Now, just choice one of the trials, and lets see how 'good' you are when you are in the real world."
"What do you mean?"
"Just try to exist when you are face with the realities of this dark realm."
The two smaller doors then opened. Sean had no idea what kind of game his in, but he does know the rules: Face the two trails and get your answer from the main behind the main door.