Well… It's finally time for my MegaMan fanfiction round two. For all my supporters of the old fanfiction, thank you for sticking with me and I promise to improve the quality of my writing.

And if you happen to be new and have not seen my first (dead) fanfiction, thanks for stopping by to read my fanfic!

I'm going to start off by saying that this story is NOT a repeat/retell of the Mega Man Starforce Franchise. In fact, this story is not canon by any means. While I love reading retells of the video game that made my childhood, writing retells never really interested me. I was inspired by so many MegaMan fanfictions and I want to make mine stand out compared to the others out there. This story is not only inspired by MegaMan but also other incredible franchises such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe, Sword Art Online, etc.

Also important to note that if you previously read my last fanfiction, while this is a second attempt of that with a very similar plot, the two stories will not be exactly the same and you'll definitely notice a lot of differences.

While reviews are obviously not mandatory, it is extremely important and it means a lot to me if you review my fanfiction. I'm completely fine with any constructive criticism and will take any advice you guys have to offer. Even a short "great job" review still means the world to me and motivates me to continue to write this fanfiction.

With that being said, please enjoy MegaMan!

Prologue:

March 29, 2019. It was on this day that everyone I once knew was gone. It was on this fateful, cruel, merciless day that my life was going to change… forever:

"Agh, sorry about being late Lyra! That prick Cepheus can't make up his goddamn mind."

A voice beside me giggled. That voice belonged to my girlfriend, Lyra. An FMian just like me, she could really only be described as a flaming harp. To a normal being, who is made up of blood, bones, and skin, Lyra may have looked like a possessed harp, perhaps even a monster. However, to an FMian such as myself, whose physical embodiment is made up of electromagnetic waves and armor, Lyra truly was a sight to behold.

The two of us were at a cafe, the usual thing we do on a Friday.

"It's alright Mega. Your work as the King's champion is more important than a simple date."

Lyra replied back. I burrowed my face into my hands. I hated being the King's champion. While I highly respect King Cepheus and while being named "King's Champion" was a tremendous honor, it ultimately put too much pressure on me.

I was named the King's champion four months ago, right before the humans crashed onto our planet. There was twelve of them on the ship at the time but the crash was so devastating, we didn't expect any survivors on board. Miraculously one human somehow someway managed to survive the crash. His name was Kelvin Stelar.

While Kelvin survived the crash, it did not come without a cost. Despite our technology is far superior to that of the humans and Earth, it took almost two months for Kelvin to recover.

Lyra must have noticed my increasingly serious face looking down at the ground. She sighed and held my green electromagnetic hand with her pink ones.

"You know… if the job is too much for you I'm sure Cepheus will allow you to resign or at least take a break."

"Don't worry about me. I'm fine with all this."

I said, half-lying, back to Lyra. The "King's Champion" is essentially the general of the FMian army. Generally the strongest FMian, it is the champion's job to lead an entire army and protect the planet if a war was ever declared.

However, unlike the "King's champions" before me, I also had another task which was to be able to fuse with another entity. Fusion or Wave Change was a secret FMian talent that hasn't been performed in centuries. Ultimately, while fusing provided incredible strength to the two fused individuals, it also created mass inequality and crime as there were few non-FMians residing on this planet. Cepheus banned FM Fusion when he came into power but suddenly ordered Kelvin and me to start performing a fusion.

When Kelvin regained consciousness, he revealed that he and his now deceased crew were aboard that spaceship in order to reach our planet to negotiate a peace treaty though he never really explained why.

"Are you guys ready to order?"

A waitress came up to our table and asked us.

"Yes. Can I have a mettenna meal?"

Lyra told the waitress. Being fairly small for an FMian, Lyra usually never orders much to eat. I, however, am a different story.

"Can I have two mettenna meal and a fried crowcar?"

I said proudly at the waitress. Another thing I took a lot of pride in was my insane metabolism and ability to eat. Of course, being involved in military combat situations almost every day requires me to eat more than the average FMian.

"Alright, I'll be back with your foo-"

BOOM-

The entire cafe shook as an explosion could be heard in the distance. Dust and crumbles of the roof began to fall on top of us. Even the chandeliers and lights grew dark and fell on the floor below us.

"What in the world was that?!"

Lyra asked in fear. I had no idea. There was no way Cepheus would begin testing new weapons without notifying me first. Expectantly, there were people screaming everywhere. Looking up at the sky through the cafe window, I finally saw it. The source of the explosion and the reason behind the screaming. It was a foreign spaceship: we were being invaded.

"Lyra! I need you to get to safety right now! Follow the police officers to shelter!"

I told Lyra as the two of us ran out of the cafe, along with everyone else, out into the busy frantic streets.

"And what will you do, Mega?"

"Fight."

Lyra's eyes widened in shock as if she didn't expect the answer, despite me being the commander of an army.

"Please… if I were to lose you, Mega…"

"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

With that, we broke apart and as people flocked to shelter behind me, I flew towards the explosion.

"King Cepheus, do you see what has happened?"

I asked as I pressed into my left ear. A voice responded back in the same ear.

"Yes… and what I fear most might be happening before my eyes."

"What? Who are these people?"

"The ultimate cleansing… but I thought we had a lot more time…"

I stopped flying, confused and frightened by the words Cepheus just said. The ultimate cleansing? More time for what? None of this made sense to me. Shouldn't I know what he was talking about and what this all means as his champion, his most trusted ally?

"What are you talking about, my king?"

"No time to explain. Just find Kelvin and start defending. I am aligning the FM Legion as we speak."

Cepheus' voice faded from my left ear. None of this made any sense to me except for one thing.

Defending. My planet was being invaded and I needed to stop this.

"Kelvin! Where the hell are you at?"

I yelled telepathically. Another voice spoke back, this one was clearly the voice of a human: Kelvin Stelar.

"The question is where the hell are you at? I'm already here getting my hands dirty with these scrubby aliens."

And indeed he was. As I arrived at the scene, I saw a fearless Kelvin as he easily killed a few of the invaders, one by one. Punching with one hand, and slicing them with a sword on the other.

Despite Kelvin coming to Planet FM to make peace and learn about our race, becoming close with Kelvin made me realize that he was, in fact, more mysterious to us than we were to him. We've seen human beings before and know about their primitivity but Kelvin was no ordinary human, not in the slightest.

Kelvin was very vague about his past when we conversed with one another but he told me that he was a descendant of a different race inside human society, a race that has been almost extinct for centuries except for a few survivors. They were known as Murians, who once inhabited a place known as Mu.

Murians were apparently more technologically advanced than the humans of today's world though he has repeatedly stated that the gap between the technology is closing very soon. He went on to mention something known as AMAKEN and another thing known as WAZA but I've forgotten what they were all about.

What Murians had that the humans of his time did not were masterful weapons which were called "Divine Weapons". Only about a dozen of these weapons were created but they were said and certainly proven before my own eyes to have immense power. The Divine Weapon that Kelvin possessed was a sword known as The Infinity Blade. It was an elegant sword, that had its blade and hilt not connected directly but rather connected by a metal ring, which would so often glimmer and shine along with its blade.

"Agh, I'm coming I'm coming."

I said back to Kelvin. As I flew closer to Kelvin, my electromagnetic body began to expand until it enveloped his body. Covering Kelvin's body in blue armor, along with a helmet and red visor, I viewed the world through the eyes of Kelvin himself. This was the secret, unique power of an FMian: The Art of an EM Wave Change.

"This shit never gets old. Wouldn't you agree, Mega?"

Kelvin said as he took a moment to admire his EM form. I couldn't help but laugh. He was right. Wave Changing never got old, especially since I was the only FMian doing it. Kelvin smirked confidently as he tightened his grip on The Infinity Blade and began to attack the invaders, kicking up into the air and slicing the poor souls that dared to stand in our way.

Below us, we saw the FM Legion finally making their stand. About ten thousand men strong and four elite commanders in front, the invaders seemed slightly intimidated by our might.

That intimidation did not last long.

A giant monstrosity suddenly appeared as it detached from the invaders' ship. It was a giant robot with a massive mouth and two sets of teeth.

And then something else came out from the foreign ship. This time, a living being which upon first sight suddenly made me tremble in fear.

The dark figure stood before us. He was a titan, covered in black armor, his skin color grey and slightly wrinkled but it didn't make him any less terrifying.

"FMians! Unfortunately, your time has run out! In order to establish balance and order throughout this peaceful universe, your almighty emperor has decided to cleanse the universe of your species."

The titan remarked. He didn't seem to care about Kelvin and me at all, almost as if he thought of us as puny, not even a threat…

"Kelvin! Let's pound this sucker back to where he came from!"

"Haa"

Kelvin and I, as one entity charged at the black-armored titan. As the titan took notice of us, he merely sighed and grabbed us by the throat. We grabbed our throat, trying to release ourselves from the titan's grasp.

"Primitive beings. A race as primitive as a human trying to be a defender of this planet? Don't make me laugh."

And in one charged, painful, terrifying punch in the gut, he knocked us back into the ground. He paid no more attention to us and continued his conquest.

"Aghh."

I grunted in pain as I tried to assist my gut with my left hand. Now being forcefully separated from Kelvin by the agonizing punch, I looked around me.

The scene was dreadful. The entire city was engulfed in flames, people screamed as a few invaders managed to reach the ground and began attacking innocent civilians.

L-Lyra…

Was she safe? Surely she was somewhere in a safe shelter, right? Even if she was, how would we be able to stop this unstoppable invasion?

I screamed, not particular at anyone or anything. I wasn't able to protect anyone I loved. I couldn't even stand up properly as I could feel my EM legs severely broken.

"Mega."

I looked up from my despair and saw Kelvin, his right hand still on that Infinity Blade, somehow still standing despite the devastating blow.

"It was fun while it lasted."

I stared at Kelvin. What was he talking about? There is no way he is possibly thinking of attacking that titan again… this time all by himself.

"Kelvin… wha- I don't understand."

"This is goodbye, Mega. Thank you for everything."

He turned his back to me and slowly began to walk away, towards the battle in front of us. A sudden flash of anger engulfed me.

"KELVIN! YOU STUPID BASTARD… COME BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!"

I finally felt it for the first time. Something watery began to form in my eyes… was it teardrops? No… I couldn't be crying. It was a rule that a champion must never show an ounce of weak emotion.

But despite my constant screaming, Kelvin didn't look back.

"PLEASE KELVIN! IF YOU WON'T COME BACK, IM GOING TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH."

"WHAT ABOUT THE PEACE TREATY?"

"What about your family… your son… back on Earth… waiting for your return…"

At my last remark, Kelvin stopped walking for a moment. But he never looked back at me and he probably never even thought about retreating. He stood there, thinking for a moment, and then continued walking forward, the back of his hand waving at me, signaling his goodbye…

"Take care of them for me, Mega."

I punched the ground and started to scream again. This imbecile was trying to sacrifice himself, in order to save my life.

I have never felt so powerless than I currently did now.

"Ugh…"

I sighed as I began to regain consciousness once again.

"Where am I?"

"My castle of course."

A familiar voice said in front of me. I turned around and saw King Cepheus, a green FMian with a cape and crown, as he looked off into the distance, probably toward the current invasion.

"As of right now, thousands of FMians are being evacuated in space pods, being transporting to different planets throughout this galaxy as refugees of the ultimate cleanse."

"I'm sorry, my king. That titan was extremely powerful, stronger than anything I've ever seen before."

"No, my young Mega, I'm sorry for believing there was more time. Ahh but I guess Kakos' conquest is inevitable anyway."

"Your majesty, I don't understand what all of this is about."

I told King Cepheus. He nodded at me expectantly and started to explain everything.

"That titan's name is Kakos. Some call him Kakos the destroyer, others Kakos the cleanser. He is the most powerful being in the universe and he seeks to maintain his power through conquest. Destroying planets that have advanced to the point where he fears revolution."

"And what happens now? Do we just sit here and watch him kill everyone?"

Cepheus shook his head.

"No, Mega, a great king will fight in the front lines, along with his loyal legion. You, however, will leave this planet at once."

"What? You can't possibly be serious, your majesty."

"I am always serious. You, more than anyone, should know this. I can stall for long enough against Kakos so that all the civilians can safely escape. You will be heading to Earth, where Kelvin and his crewmembers originated from."

"But-"

"That is an order from your king."

Powerless… once again. A person like me, who was saved twice in one day by his best friend and king, was unfit to be called a Champion. The Champions before me must've looked at me in disappoint and shame.

"Yes, sir…"

Kelvin… Cepheus… Lyra…

I continued to call out their names as I aimlessly drifted in space, inside my evacuation pod.

Why? Why did it have to be me? Why was I the one that was chosen to survive while everyone I loved valiantly fought to stop Kakos' invasion? Why was I the one that has to grieve and suffer the loss of my loved ones?

A still new yet familiar emotion started to overcome me once again. As I began to mourn the deaths of my loved ones, I felt teardrops forming in my eyes. When Kelvin departed to fight Kakos, I forcefully held back those tears. It was an embarrassment for a Champion to display any kind of weak emotion.

But now… now that everyone I loved was dead… now that the planet I once grew up on ceased to exist… now it was ok to cry, wasn't it? After all, there was no one to witness my sorrow, yet at the same time, there was no one here to comfort me as well.

While my mind was conflicted between this battle of emotions, my body didn't care as the tears I tried so desperately to hold back began to flow out endlessly.

Just this once… I was allowed to cry my sorrows away. I cried and cried and eventually, cried myself to sleep as my space pod slowly drifted to the planet known as Earth.

I hope you guys enjoyed that prologue! I got a bunch of AP Exams in the next couple of weeks so probably won't post a chapter next week but I definitely will the week after. Also, if you guys want a better picture of the Infinity Blade, there used to be a mobile game called Infinity Blade produced by Epic Games which is where I took the design and name from. I think if you play fortnite the blade is also featured there but I'm not 100% sure. The model of the Infinity Blade I'm using is the design from the 3rd installment if you guys want to google what it looks like.