I decided to merge all the 'fairytales' into one! Here's the longer version of 'Megaman Battle Network: Cinderella'!
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Megaman Battle Network Crossovers
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Chapter 1: Cinderella
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Once upon a time, in the town of ACDC, there lived a wealthy merchant named Yuuichiro Hikari. He lived with his wife, Haruka, and only son, Lan Hikari. But one day, Haruka died of a sickness called HBD.
"I just want the family to be happy," she whispered to her family before she went to paradise for eternity. Lan was very depressed. Seeing this, Yuuichiro decided to remarry, thinking that Lan needed a mother's tender loving care. As long as Lan is happy, he thought.
His new wife was a woman by the name of Yuri. She had two other sons, called Tohru and Dex. Dex was short and round, while Tohru was tall and skinny. Both looked ridiculourly hideous, but thought very highly of their appearance.
Yuuichiro, as a successful merchant, went out often. Whenever he did, Yuri would treat Lan like a slave, ordering him around the house, waiting on her sons like a lowborn servant. She was only nice to him when Yuuichiro was home. However much Lan suffered, he never complained, remembering his mother's words. He therefore always put on a cheerful face, and Yuuichiro thought all was well.
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One day Yuuichiro died as well. Yuri dropped all pretense of being nice to Lan. Hating Lan because of his cuteness, her sons followed her example, and poor Lan suffered thus.
"Lan, get me my ice cream soda. Be quick!" Tohru yelled. "With lots and lots of ice cubes, all in the shape of a star!"
"Yeh, and fetch my massager while you're at it!" Dex cried. "Remember to plug it in first!" All day long, Lan was ordered about. But there was nothing he could do.
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One day, an invitation arrived from the palace.
"His Majesty, the King, is holding a grand ball tomorrow night to celebrate the birthday of her Highness, Princess Mayl. Everyone is invited to attend, and from all unmarried young men, the Princess will choose a beau."
"Oh gosh! I hear the princess is a glamourous beauty in all lands!" Tohru exclaimed.
"Yeah, she will be wowed by my charm and ask me to be her groom!" Dex said excitedly. "We must get ready for the ball! Get the tailors, the barbers..."
"You don't need a hairdresser, you only have a dorsal fin anyway!" Tohru snorted.
"Shut up, beanpole!"
"How dare to you speak to your elder like that, big dummy!"
Lan longed to go, having never been to a ball. But...
"Lan, you must help Torry and Dexy get ready for the ball tomorrow. After that, sweep and dust the house and then clean up the fireplace," Yuri ordered. Lan's face fell.
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That day and the next, jewellers, hairdressers, tailors and beauticians (?) appeared constantly at the Hikari house. Regardless of Lan's wonderful help with Tohru and Dex, and how many times he begged, Yuri would not allow him to go.
"You look so nasty you'd be out of place at the ball, and you don't have a suit anyway," she said.
The carriage rattled off as Dex and Tohru laughed at the fate of their poor stepbrother. Not even a drop of sympathy did the two brothers have for young Lan. And they left without leaving a word of thanks.
Lan started to feel sick. Just then, a young man appeared out of thin air with sparkles and stars and some music that did not seem to come from any radio.
"What? Who? Are... Who are you?" Lan stammered in amazement. The young man had white and black hair and blue eyes that gleamed.
"I'm the guardian your parents sent. Your Fairy Godbrother Eugene Chaud. I refuse to use father, you're not much older than me," he said.
"But... Why are you here? And what did you mean my parents sent you?" Lan asked, totally confused. Chaud snorted impatiently.
"I'm here because the Hikaris regret leaving you behind with that old hag and they want you to be happy. So I was sent to get you to Princess Mayl's birthday ball. Now get me a pumpkin, four rats, two lizards and a mouse. And hurry up, I don't have time to wait," Chaud ordered. Meekly, Lan obeyed. He had four pet rats that were named Guts, Ice, Roll and Glyde. The two lizards were called Mega and Proto. The mouse was named Yai.
Chaud raised a red sword. "Change, you infernal goons, into what you're supposed to change into! Change.bat!"
The pumpkin became a handsome blue carriage, the rats four horses; green, aqua, pink and yellow; the lizards two footmen, one dressed in blue and the other red, and the mouse a coachman who seemed vain and arrogant. He kept pulling at his long blond tresses. (Daidairo:...)
Chaud waved his sword again. Lan's dirty rags turned into fine robes, simple but lovely. Instead of normal shoes, Chaud had given him special shoes with wheels on them.
"I hope you die at the ball, but remember this, all these stuff disappears at the last stroke of midnight. Leave before that, or else!" Chaud warned.
"Thanks, Chaud. These shoes are unique, for running fast ri-! Uaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!" Chaud sighed and smacked his forehead as Lan, unable to walk properly with the shoes, rolled on them and crashed into the blue carriage.
"Ahhh... Gimme boots anytime!" Lan got into the carriage, finally able to control his feet.
"Don't be so ungrateful, you no good pig!" Chaud yelled after him.
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At the ball, Dex and Tohru were trying their hardest to get Princess Mayl's attention, but she ignored them totally. In fact she stayed away from all the young men until Lan appeared. His shoes were totally out of the world, and he looked so young, so cute...
Dex, Tohru and Yuri did not recognise him, and were furious when Princess Mayl asked him to dance. Since Lan could not dance well, especially in his crazy wheelie-shoes, he ended up telling the pretty princess jokes, making her laugh. Princess Mayl liked this young guy better than all the others, whose mouth spouted only words like 'You're so beautiful you make my heart melt', or 'I can't live without you!' and other sweet nothings.
Lan enjoyed himself so much he panicked when the clock suddenly struck midnight. A tiny figurine came out of the hall clock: a small guy with a fish bowl for a head. "Aqua-twelve o'clock! Aqua strike one! Aqua strike two!"
"It's that late already? I'm gonna have to go!" He tried to leave.
"Please, stay for a while, I don't even know your name!" Princess Mayl protested, holding on to his arm.
"I must go!" Lan pulled away somewhat reluctantly and dashed out. Mayl ran after him, calling in despair.
The steps to the main gate were covered by a thick red carpet and Lan's wheelie-shoes could not move well on them. One shoe slipped off, and Lan afraid of stopping to pick it up, instead left it behind. He reached the carriage just as the last stroke went, and everything turned back to what it was before. The only thing remaining was his special wheelie-shoe, the one he did not drop.
Dex, Tohru and Yuri returned, filled with indignance, late at night. Lan did not tell them what happened, for fear they would disturb Chaud for immortally stuff.
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The next day, Princess Mayl rode out on her beautiful pearl-white pony, Miyu, with the shoe she found left on the steps, declaring that she would marry no one but the owner of the shoe.
Immediately every young, unmarried man vowed to try and prove the shoe his own, but as hard as they tried, none could fit their absymally large natural stinkpots in. Lan's house was the last one visited.
"Why, hello, princess, remember I passed you that soda yesterday night?" Dex said, smilling brightly.
"Oh, my dear princess, I did bring you a much more satisfactory drink, the sugar cane drink, not so unhealthy, right?" Tohru scowled at his brother, jostling him out of the way. Mayl started to feel sick, hoping that neither guy could get his foot into the wheelie-shoe. Much to her relief, Dex's foot was too fat and too short, while Tohru's was too thin and too long.
"Have you no other sons?" The lady-in-waiting, Sal, asked, sighing.
"Well, a stepson, but he did not go to the ball," Yuri said uneasily.
"Everyone, including those who did not go, must try on the shoe," said Sal firmly.
"Lan! Come here."
When Lan appeared, Princess Mayl recognised him immediately. She opened her mouth to greet him, but Sal frowned at her.
"We don't know if he's the one, your highness. And he is the last guy in the country."
Mayl watched breathlessly as Lan slipped on the shoe easily. It was a perfect fit. She breathed a sigh of relief.
"I don't believe this!" Dex shrieked. "If you are the princess' consort, where's the other shoe?"
"Yeah, shoes like that don't appear everyday, so if you lie, we'll know." Tohru sneered, thinking that his stepbrother could never produce a shoe of the same kind, even if he was lucky enough to be able to fit the shoe. Lan calmly took out the other shoe and put it on. Mayl jumped up.
"You ARE the one I met yesterday! My Romeo in rollerblades!" (Lol, I know this is lame) She threw her arms around the surprised guy. "Come back to my palace with me!"
Blushing, Lan nodded. Chaud appeared suddenly, much to the amazement of everyone.
"Hope you guys meet with a nice, painful accident," he said, waving his blood-red sword. Lan's rags once again turned into fine, lovely robes. On his head was a blue crown with a circular symbol of yellow and red in the middle.
"Thanks, Chaud! I won't forget this!" he said happily. Chaud snorted.
"Neither will I."
And so, Princess Mayl married Lan and they lived happily ever after.
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Ahhhh... Finished, I did try to lengthen it, but it was kinda difficult, there were some parts I found lame... Watch out for the next chapter: Beauty and the Beast!