I DO NOT OWN MEGAMAN!
(In case any of you are wondering when this story happens in the Megaman Battle Network time line, I shall tell you now. This chapter starts out the story so I will start from here. It is approximately 25 years after the end of Megaman Battle Network 6. This is so you can get a proppor time frame if any of you were confused or wondering.)
CHAPTER 1: The New Day
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!" Patch groaned as he awoke from a rather pleasant dream he was having. He reached over and silenced his alarm. Looking at the clock, he groaned again as he saw the time, seven- thirty. He rolled over and relaxed, unaware of the day.
"Patch," said the voice from his PET, "Get up now."
Again, Patch groaned as he replied to his navigator, "X, why must you always. . ."
"It's time to get ready for school," X sighed, "If it wasn't for me, you would be late almost every day."
"Alright," relented the boy of thirteen. Like father, like son. That was the phrase that his mom, Mayl Hikari, often used to describe her son, and it was true. The way Patch acted sometimes was almost exactly like Lan at that age.
Patch showered, brushed his teeth, got dressed, fixed his hair and everything else he did before school. When he was ready, which was still several minutes before he had to be there, he headed downstairs to get some breakfast. When he got there, he found his parents sitting at the table talking to someone using the phone on Lan's PET.
". . . I'll be here today," the person said.
"I've got the day off," said Lan, "if you need some help unpacking."
"We'd be happy to help if you need it," added Mayl.
"Thanks," replied the person, "It'll be nice seeing you guys again. I assume I will also meet your son."
"Of course," said Lan, "And I assume we will get to see your kid too.
"Yes, you will. Well then, I'll see you today. Bye," the person said as he hung up.
"Morning, Mom. Morning, Dad," greeted Patch, "Who was that?"
"That was an old friend of ours. He was calling to tell us that he is moving back here, and that he will be here today." Patch could tell that his dad was excited about this.
Patch ate his food and headed out the door to school. But no sooner then he closed the door when he heard a:
"Well, he finally decided to get up!"
"Naomi," Patch began, "It's been four years since you started trying to surprise me. I've gotten used to it."
"I know, but I still like to do that anyway. So, shall we be off?" The two friends set off for ACDC High, talking about random things.
"You heard about the navi attacks in Netopia?" Naomi started. There have been some unusual navis attacking apparently random places throughout the continent of Netopia. As it is, officials have no idea why these navis are randomly and spontaneously violent, although the suspect some sort of navi infecting virus. It's just speculation though.
"Yeah," replied Patch, "My dad says that the officials think that it may be just a matter of time until whatever is doing this to spread to Electopia, and the rest of the world."
"I hope that they can find out what's causing it and stop it before it gets that bad."
"Me, too."
They arrived at school a few minutes early and went to find Jimmy and Ann before the bell rung. However, they run into someone who considers himself Patch's eternal rival.
"Hikari," he began, "It's so nice to see on this fine day."
"Ogreon," responded Patch, "It's not so good for me. How have you been Ray?"
"Just fine, thank you. You know what?"
"What do I know?"
"We haven't had a good net battle in a couple of days. So, how about it, you want to have a go?"
"Sure," Patch answered confidently, "I guess I could find the time to beat you good, like last time."
"Not this time Hikari. I'm most defiantly going to beat you," responded Ray even more confident than Patch, "After school in the rec room."
"See you there." Ray is the son of Dex Ogreon, the mayor of Den City. Dex was always trying to defeat Lan when they were kids. Patch and Ray have carried on the rivalry.
"Ray challenge you again?" Jimmy asked as he walked out from the class room. "That guy is persistent."
"He sounded surer of himself then usual," said X, "If we are going to battle him, we should proceed with caution."
"You worry yourself too much, X. We've beat him many times and we can do it again. It will be easy." As Patch said this, the bell sounded saying that it was time for class to start. "Well, time for school."
The day happened like any other Friday. He went to class, took notes, ate lunch, and took a math test. All in all, a normal day.
After school at three, his scheduled net battle against Ray was about to start in the recreation room. He headed there to meet his friendly rival in a battle with navis.
"Ah Hikari," Ray said as Patch entered the rec room. A small crowd had gathered, which obviously indicated that Ray seriously thought that he was going to win and wanted witnesses. "I see that you had the GUTS to show yourself today. That's pretty brave of you, considering that I am going to be the winner."
"Yeah, yeah," started Patch unconcerned with his opponent's overconfidence, "You can talk all you want to Ray, but in the end it all comes down to how you play." Patch walked up to the net battle machine and pulled out his chrome blue PET. "Jack in, Megaman X. EXECUTE!"
"As you wish, Hikari. Jack in, Rang Man. EXECUTE!"
Inside the net battle machine computer stood the two combatants of this contest. On one side of the field stood Megaman X ExE and on the other side stood the navigator of Ray Ogreon, Rang Man. He is a tall and built sword type navi sporting red and blue armor, and his helmet had a dark visor covering his face. Each hand held a sharp, bladed boomerang, which looked quite dangerous if used in the right way. Rang Man was an expert with an sort of bladed weapon.
"So Hikari," Ray said, "Are you ready to lose?"
"Well," started Patch, "I am ready, although I'm not sure if I'm ready to lose to you just yet. But please give it your best shot."
"If you insist!"
"Alright X, lets show Ray how it's done."
"Ready when you are," replied the blue navi.
"Battle routine, set!"
"Execute!"
The battle had begun and Rang Man was the first to make a move. He dashed forward at X running up close enough to slash his boomerangs like swords. However, X sidestepped the swing and shot his opponent in the back with a fully charged X-buster shot which he had been charging when Rang Man started his move. The shot knocked the red and blue navi back a little and left him motionless for a second, but that was all Patch needed.
"Battle chip Step Sword, slot in!" Megaman X moved faster then one could see him and stopped right in front of Rang Man so he could attack him with a sword. But to both X and Patch's surprise, Rang Man disappeared and a shrunken star flew down at X. If X hadn't moved back to where he was he would have been hit.
"Anti-damage!" thought Patch, "So that's why he was so confident."
"Yeah! That's right!" Ray exclaimed, "Now you can't attack Rang Man without a star getting shot at you!"
"Well, don't depend on just one thing Ray. It may let you down."
"Yeah, right. You're just saying that because you know that you've lost already!"
"Don't be too sure of that." Patch held up a battle chip and slid it into the PET, "Battle chip, Circle Gun. Slot in!" The battle time immediately stopped when the chip was activated. A sight started circling Rang Man. When it crossed him, it stopped and fired, doing damage to the red and blue navi, who was unable to use the new program.
"What the!" Ray exclaimed as his navi took damage from the battle chip. "Well it doesn't matter. I'll still beat you anyway." With that, Rang Man took off again, this time using his best battle chip to attack. "Here's one you didn't see coming. Mega chip, Hero Sword. Slot in!" A very long and powerful sword appeared on Rang Man's arm, threatening to do serious damage to the blue navi.
"You're not the only one with a mega chip. Mega chip, Guardian. Slot in!" Time stopped as a statue appeared in front of X right before the sword type navi slashed. When time resumed, Rang Man hit the statue instead of the intended target. Time stopped again as the statue launched a punisher attack, dealing critical damage.
"All right!" Ray exclaimed, "Time to finish this! Slasher, Variable Sword, Protoman. Program Advance, Double Hero!" His PET lit up as the names appeared on the screen. But Patch quickly slid a battle chip into his PET. "Go!"
Time stopped again while the program advance fired. Another navi appeared next to Rang Man. They both charged up power for an attack, which they soon launched. The navi started firing his buster gun rapidly while Rang Man repeatedly slashed with a sword and at the end they joined together to release a violent explosion.. Unfortunately, the attack was unsuccessful as X was transparent and the shots passed through him.
"What?"
"Invisible battle chip," Patch explained, "I find it very useful in avoiding powerful attacks like that one. Nice try though."
"Rang Man, end this now!" The navi threw both of his boomerangs and he dashed at his blue opponent wielding Long Blade battle chip.
"Not so fast. Gun del Soul 1, 2, 3. Program advance, Pile Driver, activate!" Once again, time halted, but this time two columns burst forth from the ground in front and behind the target. They aimed at the red and blue navi and what they did was very bright. A huge solar beam was fired from each column and hitting Rang Man doing massive damage. When it was all over, Ray's navi had no energy and when time resumed he was forced to jack out. Ray yelled in frustration. The audience was wowed at the brilliant move that was used to win the match.
"This isn't over Hikari! I will get you one of these days!"
"Yeah, yeah, that's what you say every time. But I always win. And like I always tell you, you should try getting better in skill and not better programs."
After the match with Ray Ogreon, Patch headed straight home to see who this old friend dad was talking to this morning. When he turned on his street, he saw a moving truck parked outside the former vacant house across the street from his own house. He saw his mom and dad standing outside talking to someone with white long hair and a serious look on his face. Patch got off his skateboard he was using and walked up to them.
"Ah, Patch," said Lan, "Come over here and meet an old friend of mine."
"Well Patch," said the stranger, "You have changed quite a bit since I last saw you. I'm Chaud." Patch shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you," he replied, "I've never met a colonel before." Chaud was a lieutenant colonel in the army. He used to be a world class official until he was invited to join the World's Armed Forces.
"I just moved here for a long term assignment."
"It is nice to have you back," said Mayl.
A couple seconds later, the door the house opened and out came a young girl of red-blond hair who was about the same age as Patch.
"Hey Dad!" she said, "So these are the friends you mentioned. Hi, I'm Kira."
"We're the Hikari family," Lan started, "I'm Lan, this is Mayl and my kid Patch."
"Nice to meet you all. When Dad said that he knew some people here, I didn't know he was talking about the Hikari family."
"Well, I see that you've heard about us. I assume that Chaud has said nothing but good things about us?"
"Well actually," began Chaud, "You have been more of an annoyance over the years."
"What! Oh come on!" Lan exclaimed, "I have not been an annoyance. I've done things that you could never do. And I've beaten you in net battles more times then you beat me."
"Actually," said a red navi with long white hair and a sword on his arm, "Chaud and I have beaten you and Megaman in approximately same number of matches as you and Megaman have."
"Protoman is right Lan," added Megaman.
"Well, we shall have to change that," said a very excited Lan, "Won't we Megaman?"
"Lan!" said Mayl, "We're here to welcome them back to Den City, not to challenge them to net battles."
"Well, if Lan wants to get himself beat, I don't mind," said Chaud.
"Alright," Lan exclaimed, "Lets go Chaud!" The eternal rivals headed inside the new house followed by a disapproving Mayl and the kids, who were eager to see their fathers do battle for the first time in almost twenty five years. The opponents took up places in front of the TV, each preparing for the challenge. When each was ready, they sent their navis into the television.
"Jack in, Megaman. EXECUTE!"
"Jack in, Protoman. EXECUTE!"