Hello everyone! You are probably wondering why I am starting a new story instead of updating my old ones. Well, the this is, I got a new job so I haven't been able to write as often as I would like. ALso, this rewrite has been sitting on a thumb drive for at least a few years now and it is something that I truly want to see through. I am also rewriting some of the earlier chapters of "The Other Chosen", my Tales of Symphonia fanfic. Until then, please enjoy this rewrite of Cyber Heroine.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Megaman/Rockman franchise. All rights go to Capcom.
If I had known that this is the legacy that my family would have left, I might not have done what I did.
Once upon a time, my name was Aile, the last of the Wily and Light bloodlines, and I was a Rockman.
In the beginning of our story, the year 20XX, there were two genius robotics scientists. At one point mutual partners, they eventually became bitter rivals when one fell to his ambitions and sought to conquer the world with his machines, known as Robot Masters. Dr. Thomas Light, had created three robots previously by the names of Blues, Rock, and Roll. Eventually, Rock became known as the first Rockman. He fought over a dozen Robot wars, even battling robot races from beyond the stars, in order to preserve the peace that Dr. Wily set out to destroy.
Thomas Light wanted to create a self-aware robot capable of thinking, acting, living, being like a human and to do battle if necessary, but Dr. Light did not want him to feel that battle was the sole reason for this robot's existance. And so, Rockman X was created to form his own personality and the ability to adapt to his environment, something that was only available to humans, to show that humans and robots can live in peace. He was sealed away, constantly going through a 30 year ethics program until he unearthed in 21XX. Along with Zero, his counterpoint that had been created by Dr. Wily in he hopes of destroying Light's creations with the Maverick Virus, and numerous allies they fought against a menace called 'Mavericks' and destroyed their leader Sigma.
Soon after, there was the discovery of Cyber Elves, sentient AIs who were the remains of humans and reploids that had entered and left behind a part of themselves in cyberspace and we reborn upon death of their physical forms. Powerful and resourceful, Cyber Elves were able to almost cure the planet of the Maverick virus, but at a cost. The later misuse of the Cyber-elves would mark the Elf Wars.
A man named Dr. Weil sought out to not only amplify the abilities of every Reploid, but to place them under his direct control, which would have them into Mavericks and reignited the Maverick Wars. The Mother Elf herself was also intended to be used in Dr. Weil's Project, a plan to combine the Mother Elf's power with the reploid Omega to create the Dark Elf, which would leave Weil to control every Reploid on Earth. Dr. Weil's ambitions were stopped by X and Zero, who worked together to rescue the Mother Elf, defeat Omega, and seal away the Baby Elves.
One century after the Elf Wars, X, who had become the leader of Neo Arcadia, would turn into a Cyber-elf himself upon sacrificing his own body to keep the Dark Elf sealed away in Yggdrassil. In the process, his own soul was split into five Cyber-elves; one retained X's consciousness while the other four were used to create the Four Guardians, who were essentially the children of X. X was then replaced by Copy X to cover up his disappearance.
Due to the use of Cyber Elves, the war lasted only four years due to firepower yet it had dire casualties. Approximately 90% of all Reploids and 60% of all humanity were gone by the war's end. One entury later, X would become a Cyber Elf himself in order to keep the Dark Elf sealed away. In this process, his own soul was split into five Cyber-elves; one retained his original consciousness while the other four were used to create the Four Guardians. X was then replaced by a flawed puppet named Copy X to cover up his disappearance.
Following the death of his friend, Zero sealed himself to prevent anymore Maverick Wars and awoke in 22XX. He helped Ciel, my ancestor, take down a fiend called Copy X, a flawed replica of the original X, and the Guardians, though they were only following orders. He became known as the third 'Rockman' and took down a menance called Weil and his partner Omega. Zero officially perished taking down Ragnarok, a space station that Weil created, to prevent the outcome of the sixth Maverick War form repeating itself.
About 200 years after Zero's sacrifice there were the fourth and fifth 'Rockmen', myself and my brother Vent. Ten years prior to our adventure, we lost our mother in a Maverick attack. Taken in by a man named Giro, we learned that the legendary warriors were not dead, but sealed away in metal shells, ready to lend their power to those who fought for justice.
After retrieving all six biometals and their creeds, we were able to enter the ruins and locate Model W, the remains of Weil himself. Model W, a biometal created from Weil himself.. We thought that we had destroyed Model W, but that was not the case. Out biometals were stolen from us, and once again we had to do war, having the aid of the sixth and seventh 'Rockmen' appeared, Ashe and Grey.
Together, we defeated Albert, who happened to be the original Albert Wily and creator of Model W. We took back the biometals and rejoiced, thinking that the fight was over, but it was not.
When we Chosen died, we became Cyber Elves ourselves due to the biometals. For millennia were had to watch as humanity repeated the same mistakes over and over again.
The year was 44XX, and another one of us 'Rockmen' had been gotten stuck on the moon to save humanity.
Earth had flooded, leaving only a few sparse islands and limited resources. Humans had to live in aerial ships that demanded high levels of energy, and thus humanity was left to scavenge the leftover lands and waterways for relics and ancient ruins. Others left Earth long ago and began to colonize the Moon and surrounding asteroids.
We were selfish. We did not want to see how the planet would fall, so we did the only thing we could: We travelled back in time to stop Thomas Light from progressing with his plan to integrate robots with society.
We overshot ourselves, landing in a time thousands of years before our intended destination. We became the founders of the hyper-advanced prehistoric civilization called Atlantis.
All we had to do was seal away the continent of Mu, may we be forgiven.
Atlantis fell, but we left behinds clues of cyberspace, of the 'internet' as it was called, and inspired the minds of millions. We were thankful that Hikari Tadashi, the new age counterpart to Thomas Light, decided to expand the internet and integrate the world as one network.
However, there was also a counterpoint to Albert Wily. Fearing the worst, some of us Cyber Elves decided to be reborn as humans, to have our minds essentially uploaded into infant bodies to act as sleeper agents.
It took 11 years, but I finally woke up.
My name is now Hikari Netto, granddaughter of Hikari Tadashi, and this is how lived, died, and lived again.