Darkness in Dentech City

By Last Samurai Ryu-San

Summary: My first MegaMan fic. Set in NT Warrior universe. X-over with Castlevania. It's another normal day and Lan and friends put up with school, homework, and boredom. But what happens when Maddy, Yahoot, Count Zap, and Mr. Match go searching for something in the mountains and end up accidentally disturbing the grave of a certain vampire named Dracula? Big trouble for Dentech, that's what! Enjoy, y'all!

Pairings: Lan/Maylu, MegaMan/Roll, light Yai/Lan, possible Maddy/Match, Chaud/OC later on.

Ryu-san: Ok. This is my second fic I posted on FF.Net. Anyways, I thought I'd try doing a crossover. I hope everyone likes this one.

Chapter 1: Another Day, Another Problem

'Sigh... I am soooo bored...' thought a brown-haired teenager named Lan Hikari. He sat with his chin in his hands, listening to the boring lecture by the teacher, trying not to get in trouble by daydreaming. But boy, is that hard, trying not to fall asleep to the lecture... He'd almost wish for another attack by his arch-enemy, Dr. Wily of World 3, or any of the new NetTerrorists, like Grave. But he isn't that desperate or stupid.

Sitting next to him is Lan's best friend, the red-haired girl, Maylu Sakurai. She and Lan had been friends since practically infancy. But back to the present. Like Lan, she was bored, but she busied herself by taking notes, which she knew Lan would need later to copy down. He's too busy trying not to fall asleep. She quietly giggled at the drowsy look on Lan's face. 'How adorable...' she thought, trying to hide a laugh.

Meanwhile, in their PET's, MegaMan and Roll were sick and tired of the 'boring as hell' lecture, as MegaMan would call it, and decided to play some online games together, using a wireless link since Maylu and Lan were sitting close together. "Haha! I win!" Roll cheered, grinning and laughing. The blue NetNavi standing before her groaned. "Roll-chan... Gimme a break" MegaMan moaned, kinda surprised how good Roll's becoming at the games. "Hey! You've been kicking my butt for a long while now. I think it's time you start kissing it" Roll countered, flashing a cute smile at him. He knew she was kidding around with him. Like their human partners, she and Mega have been close friends since they met. But that's not counting when she was infected with the Dark Empress Chip at the N-1 Grand Prix tournament...

"And to think you always win against the likes of GutsMan or World 3..." Roll mused. "I'm beginning to think that you're taking it easy on me" she added, winking at him. "Naaah... You're getting very good at these games. I need to shape up on it" he answered, giving her a thumbs-up. "Why thank you, Mega" she said, even more cheerful than ever, if that's possible. "Speaking of which, I'll have plenty of time, since the NetTerrorists haven't shown their ugly mugs around Dentech for months now... Wonder what's up with that..." he inquired, thinking about the last time Wily or Grave sent out a squad of viruses.

"Oh I don't know. But let's enjoy the free time we have, shall we? We can still have fun" Roll said, trying to get him to play another game. "True. Wily probably gave up after PharaohMan very literally blew up at him. Now let's play again. This time, I'm gonna win" he declared, answering the female Navi's challenge.



Far away from the boredom that is school, deep in a cave somewhere in the nearby mountains, four tough-looking thugs were exploring, as if looking for treasure. These four were formerly henchmen of World 3. But after PharaohMan destroyed Wily's base, they decided to become 'treasure hunters', aka thieves. "Are you sure that the contact you met in that Giga Byte Tavern said that the rare chips of the old days are in here? I got a date tonight an' I don' want this damp, messy cave to ruin my hair" complained Maddy, an attractive, but evil, pink-haired woman, looking like she's in her late teens or early 20's. "So the lass fin'ly got 'erself a date, eh? A sign that ye stopped wit' the bitchin' mehbe? Hahahaha!" boomed Mr. Match, a red-haired Scotsman with enough muscle to take on 20 fighters at once. "Hey! You arse! My bitchin's how I got the date in the first place!" Maddy snapped, her fluffed pink ponytails shaking in rage, as are her fists. "Guess not then" snickered the pyro.

Suddenly, the sound of an electric guitar blasted through the cave. The rock musician, Count Zap, stepped in, the offending instrument in hand. "Ya can stop with the arguin' now. You two are actin' like a bad rock band playin' in a riot" he said, grinning at them. "Are you certifiably nuts, man!?! This cave could collapse!" Maddy yelled, jumping on Zap and shaking him violently. "I agree wit' 'er! You're really startin' to be hazardous to our health, lad!" growled Match. "Enough, all of you!" said the fourth figure, a ridiculously thin old monk, Yahoot. "We must all focus on the mission instead of a group Seppuku (ritual suicide)"

"But he started it!" Maddy groaned, pointing to Match. "Me, lassy!? You're the one who kept complaining about hair, of all things!" the Scot rebutted. "Well, what about him?" Maddy said, glaring at Zap. "Don't look at me! All I did was try and stop the argument" the musician defended. "By trying to kill us?!" Maddy snarled. "Heh. I pity the guy who fell for ya, lassy. You'd have him whipped in 10 seconds!" joked Match, laughing. "Don't start it again, hot head! At least I got myself a date, unlike some Scottish pyromaniac who couldn't get a girl even if it was St. Patrick's Day and he was wearin' all the lucky green he could find! And another thing, you leprechaun chasin', bagpipe playin', 'top o th' mornin'' dork, I have a name! It's Maddy! Mad-dy! Can ya even try to say my name?! Or are your brains so small that you can't comprehend the concept of names!!?" she roared, totally fed up with all of them, especially Match. "How dare you...! I can... What... Why you little...!" Match stammered, completely overwhelmed by Maddy's 'nuclear' explosion. Yahoot just slapped a hand to his forehead, sighing at the stupidity of his teammates and friends. He felt lucky that FireMan, WackoMan, and ElecMan were asleep in their PET's. "Hey! I said shaddup!!!" Zap snapped, playing another loud riff on his guitar.

"Not again!" Maddy shrieked, covering her ears. "You're worse than me uncle Blaze's bagpipe 'talent'!!!" yelled Match, his ears nearly bleeding. Yahoot didn't appear affected by the noise, he was more affected by the disappearing ground which he fell through. As more ground collapsed, the other three thieves fell and followed the monk down the newly created hole. Yahoot managed to break most of the fall by bending himself into the shape of a ball. Maddy bounces back and forth on the rocks, messing up her clothes, her body, and, more importantly to her, her hair. Match kept trying to get a handhold so as to not suffer a harsh landing at the bottom of the pit. Unfortunately, he ended up with bruised and bloody hands. Zap, knowing that resistance is hopeless, just hung his guitar on his back and braced for impact.

Around a mile down, they all landed with loud thuds, except for Yahoot who just bounced himself to a stop, perfectly unharmed. The others crawled to their feet, envious of the old monk. "Why the hell aren't you beaten up, like us?" snapped Maddy, trying in vain to fix her wild, wavy pink hair. "It is because of my training. This is the importance of the task of releasing your minds, my friends. You should learn it someday" was all the extremely flexible man said as he looked around their crash site, lighting a lighter he conveniently had, in case their flashlights were broke or lost. "Feh. Looks like your mind hasn't come back yet, you ol' monk..." Maddy grumbled under her breath.

The dark area, big enough to be a medium-sized room in a luxury hotel, looked oddly in order, as if something was supposed to be placed here. The only exception to this was the rubble made by Zap's rockslide and small stones and rocks lying around from cracks in the ceiling. At the other end of the room, there were some sort of stone crafts, a pair of 4 sided, pointed pillars, both with strange runes marked all over them, placed a good distance away from each other, and a podium-like stone, rectangular shaped and risen to waist-level. The podium had what looked like a dark plaque on it. The room itself was quiet, except for the drip drip drip of water, coming from somewhere in the room.

"Hmm... Curiouser and curiouser... These markings are certainly strange" inquired Yahoot, getting a closer look at the plaque stone and the two pillars, a look of intent on his face. "What the heck is this?" Zap asked, looking around the dank room. "Sigh, I dunno... All I know is that my date won't like me lookin' like this..." Maddy moaned, causing the others to fall down. "Oh not that again! You need a haircut anyway!" snarled Match, furious by now. "Want me to set your hair on fire...?" Maddy mutters, sneering evilly at the big Scotsman. But before yet another argument could break out, Yahoot's PET went active and MagicMan suddenly appeared on the monitor. "Hold it, all of you! I sense something about this thing, even from inside this PET... This thing, whatever it is... It's made of old magic. Centuries-old by what I can tell..." he said, a gravely grim tone in his voice.

"Old magic, huh? How do we activate it? Abra Kadabra? Hocus Pocus?" remarked WackoMan, the legless clown bouncing around on his huge polka- dotted ball. "It's gotta be Open Sesame then..." said FireMan, mocking WackoMan's joke. "What? You'd think I'd get it wrong?" the clown asked, hurt. "No. I just know that you joke 100% of the time, so we can never rely on your ideas, clown" the fire elemental explained, for once calm. WackoMan groaned. "So what do we do? Activate this?" asked Zap, tapping a pillar with a fist. "Maybe. Why don't we ask the living encyclopedia of magic, MagicMan?" sneered ElecMan, electricity pulsing through the Navi's body with curiosity.

However, MagicMan was already at work at trying to figure out the mystic runes and odd markings of the old altar...



It was about this time when, back at Dentech Academy, Lan's class let out for lunch. "Finally...! I was this close to snoozin'..." groaned Lan, practically sleepwalking out of the classroom with Maylu. "You need more sleep, Lan" giggled the redhead, ignoring the light glare that came from the bandanna-wearing teen. "Need more sleep... Feh. If I could, I'd sleep til' noon..." he grumbled, trudging after her.

The minute they got outside, they spotted Dex, Yai, and Tory together at a nearby table, talking about recent net battles. "...used the ElectroSword battle chip to slice the poor Navi to shreds! That cool or what?" Tory ended, excited about the last battle he saw at the local arcade. "Hey, guys" Lan said as he pulled up a seat for Maylu and then sat himself down. "Yo, Lan. Tory was just tellin' us about this prodigy of a NetBattler he saw yesterday. Said that he could be as good as you or Chaud sometime soon" Dex said, his mouth obviously full of food. "Yeah. But I still say that Lan's better than Chaud" said Yai, throwing the mentioned boy a smile. "Yeah, well..." he said, not knowing what to say. "C'mon, Lan. You kick some serious butt, yet you don't make MegaMan go through any cold- hearted, 'boot camp'-style training, like Chaud forces ProtoMan to do. That's an A in my book" Maylu said, playfully messing up Lan's hair. "Way to tell 'im, Maylu" said Roll from her PET, smirking for some reason. Lan blushed, really not knowing what to say when 2 girls compliment him.

"Heh. Check out Lan the Player. Scoring with 2 beautiful girls and he gets all flustered" joked Tory, snickering all the way. This sent Dex into a minor rant, but he quickly calmed. "I envy you, man. I seriously envy you. Ya got 2 babes clinging off ya and everything..." he started. "Dex! I don't cling on Lan! Jeez!" Yai steamed, jumping up and down in annoyance. Maylu just giggled. "But... Ya earned that. You and MegaMan helped beat World 3, PharaohMan, and Grave, you and Maylu rescued Yai from a hot place once, literally, and... well let's just face it, you're the only one out of this group who's nice enough to endure Mesa's lectures about fish with the least amount of complaints!" the owner of GutsMan said, the last comment giving everyone a good laugh. A minute or three later, everyone was winded and their faces were as red as Maylu's hair. "Yeah! You might moan and groan, but you wouldn't even throw in one fish pun against him, ya big softie" Tory said, trying in vain to stifle some last snickers. "Guts needed earplugs for fish guy lectures. Guts pity Lan the Enduring One." GutsMan guffawed.

"I get it, I get it... Jeez... And these are my friends..." muttered an annoyed Lan, groaning and taking a bite out of his sandwich. "Oh Lan, Lan, Lan... That was a compliment" Maylu replied, smiling at her best friend. "Like a quote from Shrek is gonna get me in a good mood..." he paused for a good 10 seconds. "Coming from you, Maylu-chan, it does" he finished, grinning at her. "Really..." said MegaMan. "Really really" Roll answered. "Speaking of Shrek, anyone remember the time when Shrek 2 opened and we all dressed Dex up like that ogre?" Yai asked, a sinister grin on her face. "YAI!!!" snapped Dex, remembering the image of him with green body paint, ogre ears, and ragged clothes. "Not funny!" he added, just as everyone else burst out laughing again. "If that's not funny, what about when we had him mimic Shrek's accent?" That comment from Lan caused the heroes' laughs to be heard from the other side of the school.

"I got to admit, seeing Dex as Shrek made me glad I'm not green and fat" said Glyde, a sweatdrop forming on the back of his head. "Please don't mention the part when they forced Chaud to come as Donkey... He was so mad, I felt the blows he gave Tory..." IceMan said, remembering the beatings Lan's rival gave everyone with his 'hooves'. "Whew... I remember that... That's the first time I've heard of an ass kicking ass..." MegaMan joked. "Oh, real good one, Mega..." Roll got out before she laughed.

And so, lunch went by with everyone chatting and making plans for after school. But elsewhere, trouble was soon about to put a dent in those plans...



Mr. Match, Maddy, and Count Zap, along with their Navis, were almost asleep until MagicMan suddenly came out of his trance. "Ah ha! I got it! I know what the runes mean!" he called, waking everyone up except for Yahoot, who was meditating while waiting, of course. "Really? Cool..." yawned Match. "Gimme 5 more minutes, daddy..." muttered a dozing Maddy, tossing and turning. "My NetOp has no patience..." griped WackoMan, feeling embarrassed for her. "Look who's talking, Mr. 'Why-Don't-We-Play-Tag'" scoffed ElecMan, smirking in amusement. "C'mon, woman. Wake up before you say something even more embarrassing..." said Zap, using his foot to get Maddy going. "So what is it, MagicMan?" asked Yahoot.

MagicMan focused his energies before reciting an old forbidden spell...

"Lord of the Night, King of the Vampires.
One who is blessed by the Darkness, one who is cursed by the Light.
He who was banished by the Light, shall return with the Darkness.
To bring evil and chaos to all, in the name of Dark Lord, Dracula.
Let the defeated rise again, and the savior fall to sorrow!!!"

As the wizard Navi chanted the evil mantra, the pillars began to glow with a dark energy. The black darkness pulsed through the pillars, sending bolts from one pillar to the other and back. The runes on the podium also glowed a grim black and then they morphed into English before disappearing. Just as the runes disappeared, the ground began to shake, freaking out the 4 ex-villains. "Wha...?! What's happenin'!" Match yelled, trying to stay on his feet. "Does it look like I know, Match!? It sounds like someone cranked up the bass!" countered Zap, watching the pillars pulse with black energy.

"I got one thing to say now... RUN!!!" Maddy shrieked, trying frantically to climb the rock wall back up to the cave they dropped in from. The others agreed, Yahoot being the calmest about it. Maddy went up first, followed by Match, then Zap, and lastly Yahoot. "Yaaaahhh! Why did MagicMan have to activate that?!" Maddy yelled as she climbed. "I only did what you all wanted! Jeez!" snapped the mage Navi. "Next time we find some ol' magic thingy, let's not activate it unless we know wha' it does, ok?" Match butted in, having a migraine from all that's happening. They were halfway up when all the sudden, the glowing pillars shot bolts at each other at the same time, colliding at the center and clashing with a burst of power. After a dark flash, a jet-black portal was formed, evil pouring out of it like a torrent. The foursome reached the cave and began running out when something began to claw its way out of the dark vortex.

5 minutes later, the four finally reached the exit, with sunlight and fresh air. However, that didn't stop them from running, since the ground was still rumbling from whatever magic that was activated. "What... the heck... was that?!" Zap panted, running downhill. "I dunno... Wha'ever that was... it wasn't good..." Match answered. Another 2 minutes and they reached the bottom of the mountains, a few miles away from Dentech City. Panting, they looked back at the mountains.



Somewhere in Dentech, the sky-blue-haired psychic known to most people as Miyu was walking back to her store, her fortune-telling abode. That was until she suddenly froze in place, her mind going wild, as well as her crystal ball, which she always carried with her. "Wh...What is this? I'm sensing something... Something which should have never occurred!" she gasped, her eyes wide open, as if looking death in the face. "I... I have to do something! Otherwise... Oh, I don't even want to think of the consequences!" she stated frantically. If she was seen by anyone that knew her well, like Lan and his friends, they would have said that they had never ever in their lives seen Miyu so panicky before.

Miyu ran to her new motorcycle, parked in front of her shop, and drove off quickly. She knows that she has to do something, even if it'll help at the slightest, to undo what should not have done...



Back at the mountains, a geyser of black power burst straight upward out of the high rock, like a beacon of evil. It was like someone had shaken a giant bottle of champagne too much and then popped the cork. From their position, the ex-henchmen of World 3 felt like the evil was flooding their minds, as if trying to drown them in darkness. Maddy was so terrified by this strange anomaly, she actually cowered behind Mr. Match, blubbering about how she won't be able to live to go on her date. Mr. Match was, for once, speechless. The pyro just stared at the rising power, not moving nor speaking. Count Zap started to have hallucinations about something trashing Dentech City. "Oh God no! Help! Somebody help this poor guitarist!" Zap screamed, running around in circles. Yahoot felt the bleak darkness invade his mind also, but with his monk training in mental concentration and focus, he wasn't affected by it. But he only said one thing amid the cowering and screaming of his friends...

"MagicMan... What have we done...?"

End of Chapter 1

Ryu-san: Well, looks like things are looking grim already, at least for the former World 3 agents. What's Miyu so scared of? What came out of the black portal created by MagicMan? And will Lan and co. find out what's going on before it's too late? Stay tuned for Chapter 2 of Darkness in Dentech City, "What A Psychic Fears...". Peace, y'all.