HAHA!

Finally I have finished my first multichaptered story! This has lasted far longer and turned far more actionably (and if not darker) then initially expected. And now I can finally focus solely on 'From One Side to Another'.
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Ah who am I kidding? I'm gonna work on even more stories! I may even try my hand at Ed X again. Maybe do something else, but I think I will write chapters ahead of time before I start publishing it.
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The Love of Many

By True-InTha-Blue

Chapter 5

God

"MEGAMAN!" A blood curdling screech echoed through the red hellish room wanting to tear down the structure.
Through the smoke she saw the outline of a misshapen mass. Instantly Metal Soul, Number Soul, and Gregar took positions to protect Roll.

"How… why?" She thought these two were locked up, and Gregar had left.

Metal turned to her and smirked. "Apparently Gregar seemed to sense our presence in SciLab and was able to get us out."

"Then he was able to take us to MegaMan and help us find you." Number finished. Roll smiled gently at them and then to MegaMan leaning to his touch. But quickly snapped to attention when the smoke cleared revealing Dark MegaMan with half of his upper torso blown of, his red eyes glowing and his form seemingly losing solidity and drifting into darkness.
In a sickening way his deformed body shot out to regenerate itself and slowly he was able to regain his stability. His breathing was heavy and full of loathing looking in hatred at the MegaMans before him and how they held what was HIS protectively.

He spoke, his voice low and sounding like it was ripping himself apart.

"You…. you're here. How… dare..you-" He was shaking in so much rage that he couldn't finish his sentence.

MegaMan the original stepped forward in front of the others.
"How dare I? What on the net are you talking about? You steal Roll and devour the souls that belong to me and harm the peace that I have worked hard for the past several years to maintain." He glared in Dark MegaMan's direction, loathing the thought of this evil being existing. "And I'm going to stop you!" He pounded his fist together preparing for battle. Metal! Number! Get Roll to safety. Gregar!" The beast form took to his side while Metal and Number grabbed Roll and jumped out of the castle.

Dark MegaMan eyes followed them but stopped when his original and the beast got in front of his way.

In a flash MegaMan reached down and absorbed Gregar and his power; growing in size and strength. He was now in almost equal status to his dark counterpart. Their eyes squared off; green versus red. And they collided.


Roll and the souls landed to a ledge far high above the pulsating citadel. For once her breathing was relaxed and she felt safe. Yet she was worried about MegaMan down there. All of them were looking down worried about the outcome.

A sphere of light shown and the next second half the castle was destroyed, crumbling and dissolving into dark data. In the center of the crater and destruction, the two MegaMan's were struggling against one another and hands locked on one another and force was emitting from them that was tearing the ground apart.

Before you could blink they clashed against each other destroying even more around them. It was so intense that it forced Roll and the Souls back.

Flashes came across the sky was the two Navis attacked each other with numerous moves. It looked like a fireworks display only much closer and you could feel the gail of force.

During these spots Dark MegaMan took his time to to explain the situation.

"You don't get it do?" He sneered in his lighter sides face during one of their confrontations , their power still equal. "I have surpassed the others, I am just as equal as you, if not better! I don't have the limitations you do!"

MegaMan just glared at the boisterous dark soul.

"Just shut up!" He snarled before launching a Fire Arm at the him.

The dark soul laughed before blocking it with Aqua soul's Bubble shot. Not only neutralizing the lighter half's attack but also managing to land a hit on MegaMan sending him down to the ground with a colliding force.

However MegaMan brushed off the dripping data from his lip and went back to the offensive. Adapting back to frontal confrontation he charged back at the Dark Navi surprising him with Colonel soul, managing to cut the dark one's shoulder. However Dark MegaMan quickly countered with ProtoSword and the fencing match began.

Just looking in those red eyes sent MegaMan over the edge in rage. He dared not think what his Dark Counter Part did to Roll for who knows how long. It infuriated him, no, enraged him. It wasn't because Roll was his nor was it from all the atrocities this Dark Soul has, or soon will commit, but the fact that she saw this dark side of him was shown to her, how this monster was so easily showed his evil and the fact he relished in this.

Green eyes narrowed before unleashing Gregar's fire breath right into that smug megalomaniacs face. They separated before pursuing their relentless attacks on one another. With each collision they seemed to break more and more data from the surrounding area, destroying and scattering more and more through out the net. And slowly they were cracking away to the tunnel that lead to the Undernet.

From aways Roll looked at the crack forming and thought if she should make a break for it with Number and Metal soul. A strong hand held her back though; turning around she saw Number shaking his head at her probably foolish plan.

So Roll stood by helplessly watching the one of the biggest fights of the net the world had to be hold. Fire and Lighting was soon raging in the sky as both MegaMans unleashed the elements. This would be amazing to watch if it wasn't so terrifying at the same time. Some of the attacks had come dangerously close to the far less powerful Navis.

"MEGABUSTER!" Two loud voiced called out and each shot a powerful attack from their default weapons. The two shots collided and sent shockwaves of force all around. The crack to the under net had now become a clear tunnel, about several miles wide and several miles tall. This was their chance.

Number and Metal kept by Roll as they rushed to the exit. Even deep in the under net was far better than Dark MegaMan's domain. The two titan Navis were too busy fighting each other to notice them going past. However the fight was starting to be less in the dark domain and more started to drift in the net, and rupturing the flow of data so much… it was starting to affect the real world.


Back at Sci-Labs

Scientist were confused and baffled at the strange data fluctuations going through the severs. They weren't too big, only spiking a few time but they were becoming larger and larger over time. What they could tell is that this seemingly random data had been streaming from somewhere deep in the under net. However there was really no official way to tell as very little research is conducted there. So one red Navi under Dr. Hikari's orders had been traveling to find out what is going on.

(A/N: I have now dubbed Chaud, 'Sir Not Appearing in this Film')

ProtoMan obeyed without question reaching the under net, but by the time he had reached the entrance small but visible waves along the fabric of the net were already appearing.

"Alright." Dr. Hikari was given a report on what Protoman had just seen. "Keep a look out for MegaMan and Roll down there. I have a feeling they may have gone to the Under Net as well." He said looking at his distressed son and Mayl. The kids had been worried out of their minds for the past hours. MegaMan's connection broke off at some point during the past hour and Roll had been gone for several .

He heard ProtoMan chuckle without humor over the speakers. 'Why do I have the feeling that they are the reason behind this phenomenon?"

In the net Protoman rushed towards growing more and more worried seeing as even the darker Navis and strong viruses fleeing from some invisible force, and by the 7th layer of the Undernet the official could see why. The normally static sky was covered by flaming clouds and storming vortexes, the digital ground had been reduced to mountains and oceans of Data.

"ProtoMan!" He saw Roll and the two souls rush towards him. Immediately he questioned them to what was going on.

"MegaMan and his Dark Soul are fighting… they've… they became too powerful to be contained to the previous realm."Number answered. Hearing the word Dark Soul sent shivers of fear down his digital spine for ProtoMan, having seen first hand of the malice that was Dark MegaMan. While he wanted to know how in the net that the dark soul came back, he remembered he had to report to Dr. Hikari.

'Sir!" He tried to access his communicator. "Sir!" Still nothing but fuzzy sound greeted him. "Gah! Their power is interfering with my connection to the human world." He looked angrily on to the storm of power. "Come On! It isn't safe here anymore." He was disappointed to see no one following his orders. "Well?"

Roll gave him a glare. "No! I am not going anywhere. MegaMan needs me. I have at least the capability to distract Dark MegaMan from the fight at some times. I can't just stand by to worry about MegaMan going down. If MegaMan gets deleted then so do I."

Protoman and the souls were in shock. "What on Earth do you mean?" They shouted. She didn't need to explain. Couldn't explain. Love was incapable of having a rational in the world of data.

Another resounding blast followed by a large storm of lighting lit up the static sky and down in a smoking trail was MegaMan before crashing down for several miles worth of ground. This was the second time this happened.

Everyone could see the dark soul hover above looking down victoriously at the once again downed lighter half. They could also hear his laugh. But it was no longer high pitched, on the bridges of insanity. Now it was low and brimming like thunder, it made the storm above spread as the volume got louder and began to harm the sensors of group.

From the ground you can see the Blue Bomber slowly get up for the fight but this time slower.

This worried Roll. "Is he more powerful than MegaMan? Does that mean Dark MegaMan absorbed more souls than ours did?" She looked at Metal Soul and Number Soul, pleading.

They were all thinking the same thing, doesn't mean they liked it.

"Roll…" Number soul sighed. The pink Navi grimaced. Throughout their journey, Roll had grown fond of the two souls, with all their quirks and traits. They had protected her and cherished her just as much as the real MegaMan. But… they had too.

Another explosion ruptured behind them, as Roll hugged the two Souls and the two embraced her, a silent thank you for the fun adventures they had as powers with their own personalities.

She felt a large metal hand touch her cheek with gentle kindness.

"Miss you." Roll said to them. And that is all they needed to hear. The two souls smiled before rushing past her towards the fight.

Roll followed behind them, they steering towards the original and Roll going towards the dark half. This was a stupid plan however when it came to the two MegaMans looking at her, they often seemed to lose whatever smarts they had.

The two mighty navis were now on the ground at a far distance so the plan they needed to pull off.

Roll had to considered the best way how to attract the dark navi's attention. Attacking him would either amuse him or irritate him. Both would have the dark navi come after her, so she did something that would completely throw him off.

Once again she said this plan was completely stupid.

Getting up to the navi was surpassingly easy, him being distracted by reveling in his own strength, a good shock corded through his system when he felt a fine finger trail up his digital spine, causing his mesh (navi's skin) twitch at the contact.

No way.

Out of the corner of his eye, what he saw, the flash of gold, he could hardly believe it. She was so close… so close to him…

So close to him and distracting him that Dark MegaMan never noticed Metal and Number Soul going and helping up the original. They gave him each a wistful smile before allowing themselves to be dissolved into data and absorbed.

Roll gulped when the dark navi turned to her with a hungry look in his eyes. The battle was ignored by him and now he wanted what was right in front of him and wanted to know why she was here with him and not with his weaker counter part.

But then she winked. And that left his mind blank before feeling searing pain when a huge metal fist hit his head that made the dark navi fly over what seemed to be a human mile in cyber space.

"Thanks Roll." MegaMan smiled at her dismissing the power of Metal Soul.

"Go get them." She encouraged before running off to safety.

He nodded before turning to the smoldering wreckage that trailed to Dark MegaMan. His face was grim when cracking his knuckles. Though the last power up was only those last two kind souls, the power they had provided had been more than enough to get the original back on his feet.

Now…

MegaMan followed up his attack by a rapid fire Megabuster. The shots being far more powerful than before setoff a chain explosion akin to a several missiles dropping on the ground. Yet the Blue Bomber still stared around warily.

"Peeka boo." Hands wrapped around the originals faces before a electrified fist slammed into his spinal area.

Despite of the pain, quickly MegaMan managed to use Slash claws to pry the darker version's hand from its death grip at the sacrifice of breaking the original's helmet..

Right now a terrifying sight greeted MegaMan.

The Dark Navi was smirking insanely, fangs gleaming, black rings were rimmed around the shrunken red irises; the pupils had completely disappeared. Looks like Roll's distracting method had completely unhinged what little sanity the dark version ever had. But the most terrifying of all, was the fact that Dark MegaMan helmet was, too, gone. In place was dark brown hair. The same hair… that MegaMan had. What he had….

MegaMan actually stepped back in in shock. "You're… you… l…"

Watching the original Dark MegaMan smirked. "What?…. That I…. look like you? That I look like the human you MegaMan? That I may be also Hub?" He let out malevolent laughter the seemed to echo on the torn battlefield, louder than the storm they had created. "Why of course! How else could I exist if it wasn't for the evil of man! Or should I say the evil of your human soul…" He sneered smugly.

Like an actual blow MegaMan felt like he had been punched in the chest. His darker half saw this and continued is philosophical onslaught.

"That right. Even though you had died as an infant, even though your Dead Infant SOUL was digitized into the navi, the potential of evil was still there. And like you, it…. no… I, also grew." The Dark Navi smiled knowingly. "And that's why I am different from the other souls. They… are merely figments of data combined of your base personality and the personality of the powers that reside. I, however, come from the original base. I am you, Hub Hikari.

Just….

unrestrained."

MegaMan glared at the awful truth, that thing that always existed inside of him. …Sometimes… he thought Dr. Hikari was truly a fool of making the potential of man, good and evil, reincarnated to a being of unlimited potential.

"That may be right." MegaMan began while clutching his fist. "However… I know that my soul is also good. And so far, I have been nurturing that far more than I have you!" Releasing his fist he threw Number Soul's dice at the dark half who barely dodge the attack.

MegaMan continued his assault, despite of his darker half's words, the power he felt from his friends and even the feelings of Number and Metal urged him on. He grappled Dark MegaMan and threw him with all the combined strength of the souls, which threw his darker half father away, launching a Shadow Star right in his enemy's head.

Despite of this, Dark MegaMan got back up but considerably weaker than before. Indeed those last two souls certainly gave MegaMan the edge. He may have to debate whether or not to use his… other collection.

While Dark MegaMan plotted from afar, MegaMan stood his ground, trying to regain some of his strength. In his subconscious however told him something big was going to happen.

And he was right from up in a different frequency of the Net, the two omni souls observed the battle finding MegaMan was indeed winning the battle and looking like the dark soul was ready to succumb. It was time to deliver the final blow and be absorbed into their original.

However for as much power they held, they were dead wrong about the outcome.

They appeared behind MegaMan, startling the navi. And thus unleashed the chain of events.

In a millisecond, Dark MegaMan understood what those two souls were and unleashed his formless dark state, streaking across the distance in a matter of seconds. Sharp tendrils were aiming for his original who stood their frozen by overwhelming power. Hub Soul was the one to fall in this trap.

Even with all his great power he could not comprehend how much the dark soul's power had grown and took him by surprise, the darkness' will overtaking his own. Instantly in retaliation Bug Soul quickly relinquished his power to the original hoping to stop what could possibly be the end of the Net.

Both MegaMans doubled over in pain, the power all consuming their sense, blinding them to their surroundings and transforming them to something new.

Roll and Protoman stepped back as large chucks of data started to burst out of the two warriors. And a staggering force hit them and sent them not to their knees but to slammed them down to the floor that they could hardly look up at the battle.

First the wings sprouted from both of their backs painfully. MegaMan sporting bugged out feather like wings and Dark MegaMan having demonic flesh wings. Then the armor and growth began to over take them, gold and dark blue and black and sinister purple, making the two look like titans. Together they breathed heavily, both dazed to what had happen. It was like fire and ice crossing through their circuits, enlarging and hardening everything it touched. The first thing that came to MegaMan's mind was that they still didn't have helmets on them.

'Weird.'

Both stumbled trying to get up, their matrixes trying to adjust to the sudden gigantic increase of power.

Dark MegaMan was the first to speak. "…such..power.." Look at his new body, he began to laugh. "Hhehehehe…. DAMN! That was a good meal!" He thus began to attack his lighter counter-part who was still struggling to get up.

"THIS IS WONDERFUL!" His laughter shook the floor causing it to break apart further. Soon he saw the original charging towards him and retaliated. The collision causing far more damage than anything the net could handle.


Back at SciLabs

The scientist screamed when all their machines and computes started to emit large amounts of electricity; screens shattered, and foreign black cables spouted like an infection latching onto floors, ceilings and walls. The rooms shook as well. Dr. Hikari was so shocked that he could hardly hear one of the engineers yelling over the chaos that nearly half the servers in SciLabs have either crumbled to dust or started to glow and grow random growths from the machines.

But this all paled to what Lan's father saw outside.

Right above Den City was a crack. A crack in the sky. It was thin, you'd be barely able to see it, but this man did. And he feared the worst what might happen.

"DR. HIKARI! YOU MUST GET OUT OF THERE AND LOOK AT THIS!" One of the officials yelled grabbing him and yanking him out of the hazardous room.

Yuchiro shook his head trying to get his thoughts strait so he might do something about… whatever was going on. He knew without a doubt that MegaMan was behind this and dreaded what on Earth was the navi fighting to unleash such fury.

Yet even more bad news when looking at a video camera that was set up in the Antarctic that was there for research. Above a huge mountain of ice was a gapping black whole with data leaking out. Up close you could see ice forming at a rapid rate, faster than any any man made technology.

The Doctor paled further. This was also a hole to the net and what was worse that because the net had no atmosphere or anything related to earth, it was cold.

Absolute Zero cold.

And if anymore cracks sprouted above cities like Den City an opened any wider then the freeze of death would wipe out all life around it.

At this rate, the Earth would be consumed in ice in about two days, that is, if the reality breaking shakes didn't destroy it first.


Though while the reality of Earth was looking grim, the Net scene was at least better in circumstance even though the destruction there ever more increased.

MegaMan was winning.

Despite of the add on of their demigod like power and despite of Dark MegaMan having the great and powerful Hub Soul on his side, the original still was coming through the top. He still had more power over the dark soul and thus was slowly but surely winning this battle.

The two powerful titans only focused on deleting, no, killing the other. They were surrounded by nothing but they paid no heed.

Yet the red Navi and the pink one stood approximately over 20 miles of human measurements on the net witnessing the clash. Yet the destruction was spreading, the area had truly been absorbed by the two for healing their wounds, but you couldn't tell this because they were either moving too fast or surrounded by such light it was hard to make out anything.

They watched in worry at the total chaos, and spurned the helplessness that filled them. THis was beyond any level that has even been seen on the Net. The only thing close would've been the event on Duo's comet and even that took place off of the Earth.

There very being defied everything that was logical and stable.

'What on the Net or the Earth are they?' Roll thought.

A flash of her memory recalled MegaMan facing off Nebula Grey. The evil soul had came back even though MegaMan had destroyed it. In what seemed like seconds, MegaMan changed. Gone was his suit and everything that made him a Navi, a human figure with human hair, though glowing an ethereal blue, appeared in place. And with a mere wave of his hand, the evil, Nebula Grey was gone.

Roll remembered that vividly. It was unlike anything she had ever seen before. She saw him move his arm, not even all the way up, and hardly swigged it to utterly annihilate his enemy. The other Navis, even the ever ready Colonel and cool-headed ProtoMan were shocked speechless by the sight before them.

What ever was going on, whatever the two MegaMan's were turning into, Roll hoped deeply that the true one would win.

For as something as evil as Dark MegaMan would to get his hands on that power….

Everything would be consumed in his evil.


With fire, lightning ice and wood surrounded both Navis constantly clashing again and again But MegaMan was smiling victoriously while his dark counterpart gritted his teeth in frustration. A mere kick sent the evil one crashing on the ground followed by a punch to his chest made the Dark Navi cough data up his throat. Somehow by shooting a charge shot he managed to escape his lighter soul's hands and manage to jump backwards a long distanced away.

Dark MegaMan clutched his chest breathing heavy; the original took time to regain his footing. Their new bodies were hard to control. While MegaMan was winning, it took an astounding amount of control not to just destroy everything around him, to focus solely laying his attacks on the dark soul. Not to mention he was still not use to this massive adonis like body.

"Well then…" MegaMan snapped attention to the evil being in front of him. "Looks like I misjudged you…." Still his fanged grin sent chills down MegaMan's spine especially with the helmet off that made Dark MegaMan look so much like Hub. "Guess your pretty ruthless after all… but I'm afraid this has to end."

MegaMan glared. "Yeah…" He cracked his knuckles. "I'm going to end you!"

The dark one just nearly chuckled until reaching treble in his maniacally laughter once again rupturing the very fabric of the net. With a quick snap of his armored clad fingers, the tide of battle truly turned for the worst.

A red vortex appeared right above the dark navi and out came several-

Dark Souls.

Dark Search Soul.
Dark Colonel Soul
Dark Manget Soul
Dark Number Soul
Dark Gyro Soul
Dark Toad Soul
Dark Medi Soul
Dark Knight Soul
Dark Proto Soul
Dark Shadow Soul
Dark Tomahawk Soul
Dark Napalm soul

Twelve Dark souls, right behind Dark MegaMan himself.

Before you knew it, the dark tendrils sprouted from the dark soul himself and absorbed them effortlessly. Now the darkness and suffocation surrounded the Dark MegaMan as his power grew.

The advantage Megaman had was all for naught as the darkness surrounded him. And then the pain begun.

When he could see again, MegaMan was in a choke hold by a monstrous form of Dark MegaMan. It was hard to tell if he was in a human shape or some fabrication of darkness. It terrified him. This darkness, this power was far more than what Regal could ever create with that pitiful thing called Nebula Grey. Regal couldn't even dream of this monster.

This… this was true evil.

And soon he was overwhelmed.

Roll and Protoman watched in horror as Dark MegaMan had transformed in a monster holding the once powerful MegaMan in a helpless grasp and proceeded to beat the lighter half ruthlessly like a deranged madman.

"So… this is how it will turn out?" A voice startled both the navis out of their wits. Protoman actually screamed at the Black Navi who had appeared out of no where. Roll was a bit more calmer who didn't mistake him as Bass but simply as Bass-Cross.

"I…" She began.

"I guess darkness will take over the world after all. The age of Navis over humans will begin." Bass Cross said in a relaxed tone, like he was discussing the weather.

But his words horrified Roll, Protoman remained silent for the first time in his digital life wanting to flee from this horror didn't hear a thing to lost in his own thoughts.

"What on the net do you mean?!" Roll nearly screamed at the soul. This was outrageous! Was he… was he considering to side with Dark MegaMan?!

Bass Cross turned to her, his eyes impassive. "What I mean is, with the stronger one in power, this will allow Navis will finally be free of our human oppressors. Isn't that an ideal future for our kind?" He seemed honestly curious at Rolls question. He did not seem at other bothered by the fight of the two MegaMan that were shaking the fabric of the net and unbeknownst to them, the real world.

Dread filled her, not the sort of hopeless dread she felt in Dark MegaMan's citadel but a type of dread that if she didn't do something soon, then this dark awful future would indeed become a reality.

"You can't mean that." Her tone surprised both Bass-Cross and Roll. Instead of wavering, it was strong and calm. Determined Roll continued.

"I know you MegaMan. I don't care if your Bass-Cross. You are still a part of MegaMan and I know without a doubt his will is stronger than Bass's pathetic reasons to hate humanity. MegaMan isn't just a NetNavi, but a human and he's a symbol! He put his life on sacrifice over and over again because he believed in the relationship between the humans and the NetNavis! And even more so! He has been the closest to humans than any NetNavi has ever been before!"

Bass-Cross looked away. "But…. that's because.. MegaMan…. I… was human."

Roll grasped his hand with force. "Exactly…. MegaMan… You have emotions that none of us has ever experienced before. I know you love your human family. Lan, Mrs. Hikari and even Dr. Hikari…" She looked so sad to what she was about to bring up next. "And I've seen you at your weakest when you wish you could have that family again. When you remember the feeling you had as a human infant while your mother and father held you. I've seen you shed tears wishing once again you could feel that parental love."

Roll could see that she was getting through to him. "And… that same.. human love that you showed me. That love… that had made me develop emotions beyond what normal navis could ever feel. Does that not mean anything to you?!"

Instead of answering, Bass Cross flew off to the battle ahead.

And all Roll could do is hope that he would make the right choice.


MegaMan had never felt so helpless in his life, the pain witnessed was unbearable as he was held dangling by his neck. For a short moment he had been powerful but that all had went away. And it was caused by himself no doubt. Well he wasn't sure if Dark MegaMan was even him anymore. The dark navi had become truly monstrous. His eyes completely red, no sclera or pupils. Every teeth had become sharp with blistering hot breath coming from the maw, his hair had become a spiked brown mane, his form had become massive towering over the already tall MegaMan by a good 10 feet and muscles bulged.

It was terrifying.

MegaMan was slammed against the ground with a grinning face above him, the dark soul's grip tightening around his neck. It was impossible to choke a Navi, since they didn't breath but it didn't stop from their neck being broken

"Gah….!" Data was bleeding from his mouth.

"This is wonderful…." Dark MegaMan sneered, his breathing heavy, almost exhilarated. Finally after fighting from within and outside of MegaMan pathetically good soul, his dark desires would win. Finally he could have what ever he wanted and control what ever he wanted. Crush anyone who got in his way and indulge in the most pleasurable activities that he craved. Nothing could stop him. Not with the newfound power.

The world would no longer sate his desire to rule. No… it would be too easy. Dark MegaMan wanted more.
Nothing, not Navi, human, or even Duo could stop him from attaining more power, so that the entire universe would bow down to his might.

The prospect sent him in ecstasy

"I can't imagine anything better! This power throbbing through by circuits! You helpless in my grip! I've dreamed of this! FINALLY! It's the end MEGAMAN!" He reared up his fist, charged with dark power. After all this damage that had been done previously, this would surely finish him off.

MegaMan felt nothing but regret. How could he fail? After all the trials he had gone through, his life would be ended by literally his own hands. But mostly he was worried about his friends and his lover. Mama, Dr. Hikari, Lan's friends, Gutsman, Glyde… Roll and Lan… what would happen to them once this deranged doppelgänger would replace him as… MegaMan, as the only remaining piece of Hub Hikari… Hub Hikari's evil…..

"Hmph… I think I should have the honor." The two MegaMan's snapped attention to the black and gold navi. He was floating above them, looking down at them with at the scene with contempt. But instead of raging at the interruption, Dark MegaMan grinned at the prospect of having another rouge soul finish off MegaMan. It would be sweet revenge. So the dark soul let go of his lighter counter part and stood at full height which reached the floating Navi's chest. Truly his new height was impressive.

"The honor is yours. Just remember… as soon as your done… your power is mine to devourer." If the dark soul had capability to produce saliva, he would surely be drooling at the prospect of what Bass Cross Souls combined with MegaMan super powered soul would do to him. Its possible that even the net would no longer be able to contain his being.

MegaMan didn't have the will to fight back. Everything hurt, and even if he was able to fight against Bass-Cross, Dark MegaMan would surely intervene and kill and absorb both of them while distracted. So either way… it was lose-lose.

"Just… get it over with." MegaMan said quietly while Bass-Cross got closer.

"Sure thing." Bass-Cross reared his fist just like Dark MegaMan before him.

And..

He winked.

He did indeed plunge his hand inside MegaMan's symbol….

But MegaMan didn't feel any pain. Instead he felt himself growing… stronger?

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Dark MegaMan screamed in shock and rage.

As Bass-Cross was being absorbed into MegaMan, he laughed at Dark MegaMan, the first time he showed genuine emotion on his face. "Well… I didn't say I would kill him. You got to pay more attention to what people say."

With that there was a glowing light and Dark MegaMan launched himself at all of them with all his power that crushed all the data that surrounded him.

It was stopped, his fist were grabbed by a glowing gold hand. He stared in horror at the figure before him. The light emitted was so bright he could hardly see the towering MegaMan glaring at him.

"Its time to end this." His voice echoed all over the place. With that the true MegaMan punched a hole right through the evil being before him.
Not only did this incapacitate the dark soul and sent his flying torso right only a small distanced away from where Roll stood.

She couldn't help but run up to the fallen almost destroyed soul, Protoman didn't bother to stop her. She saw half his body torn of by the force of MegaMans blow, and she knew that even Dark MegaMan couldn't recover from that.

And indeed she was right. Dark MegaMan had reverted back into a more human appearance, and half his body was missing, data was leaking out from the torn torso. But he somehow had managed to stay alive, but he was slowly being absorbed from afar from the strangely still (still glowing) MegaMan.

"Well… that's disappointing." Roll snapped to attention to Dark MegaMan who was looking at her. Weirdly, he didn't seem angry that he was defeated, in fact he was rather calm.

"Good defeats evil once again." Roll said equally as calm. Seeing the being that terrified her, that caused so much fear in her core; seeing him helpless and utterly crippled slowly dying, there was no need for that anymore.

"Tch… your still so naive Roll-chan…" He winced as his body was disappearing. "That had nothing to do with it. It was only a matter of power. Always have been, always will be." Roll stayed silent acknowledging it but not convinced that was all to it.

"I really did love you though." That snapped her out her thoughts and started at Dark MegaMan in shock. That was… out of the blue.

Her confusion obviously showed and yet there was a red blush that showed. Dark MegaMan chuckled at her cute face despite even more of him was fading away. "What? Just because I'm a monster and evil doesn't mean I didn't love you. Sure, my intent wasn't pure but I certainly wasn't going to hurt you. You would've been my queen if I had my way. Worshiped by all beings and including me in fact."

Roll stared into the pools of red. She didn't know how to exactly feel about that. "I don't want to be a queen… nor do I want to be worshiped. I just want to be Roll."

His eyes narrowed, not in anger though. It seemed all his rage had been extinguished. "I see."
Roll knew he really didn't. Dark MegaMan as long as he existed would always hold on to his ideals, no matter how twisted they were.
"Now… this is the end." She said.

He started to chuckle though, soon laughing insanely. It sent chill one more time. "Oh how wrong you are." Soon the menacing aura was back on; even though he had been crippled and being absorbed,the dark navi was grinning menacingly and the lust in his eyes were coming forth. "Just because I'm being absorbed and losing a body doesn't mean I'll be gone. I AM MegaMan's evil. I shall always exist within his soul. And… I'll always be fighting to take over! And you'll know it. When ever you find yourself bruised and aching from MegaMan's lost of control of his lust, when ever he won't let you go and clings to you for hours whispering you his, that will be me… beneath the surface, wanting to get out.

And I will never, never stop."

Dark MegaMan said this as the last of him faded off into data leaving a very disturbed Roll in his wake.

And as soon as the last of the data was absorbed into MegaMan, he disappeared.


Where was he?

It felt like he was there…. no there… here? No…

He was… everywhere. All over the place, his being stretched across the net, into every stream of data, every byte and every number.

He was The Net.

He should be shocked but… why should't he be? The power he had was immense. Even time itself was stilled as he looked around… everywhere. He could see everywhere all at once. His mind had grown to heights beyond human and computer comprehension. Everything… was so simple now. Mind boggling concepts had become mere trivial things.

And yet he wondered…..

Ah yes! That too had become simple. Now his consciousness was in the real world. Scilab was a familiar place. He could see the scientist in a state of panic and electricity and sparks sprouting out from the machines. Of course, they were all frozen in time. Going outside of time had become remarkably simple as well. All one had to do was be faster than the speed of light. He was curious as to why this scene was happening. His consciousness stretched to the windows. It was harder to expand his consciousness in a world with no net… though… with a bit of maneuvering, it would be possible to expand a digital atmosphere among the real world… an interesting prospect.

But staring out of the window he observed a crack in the sky.

Ah so that was the strange feeling of going somewhere else. The net broken through the real world. Of course this was an easy way to start to experiment to expand him… the net to it…. no no no. These were far to messy. It would go all wrong.

So he couldn't have those annoying cracks in the sky no could he?
He didn't even need to think it, as the cracks all over the world disappeared, including the one in Antarctica.
Soon he left the real world and turned inward to himself.
The net, or HE was much more relaxing than than the real world.
Something nagged at him as he viewed the still activity of him as all the denizens that lived inside of him.
Ah. He had a lover.
He should feel embarrassed that he couldn't respond right away. He was probably still not use to have this omniscient consciousness.
He viewed her, frozen of course. Should he materialize a body so that he could touch her? Of course, why should he?
He surrounded her, all of her, she was existed within him. There was nothing she couldn't hide. No one could hide. He wondered how she would feel if she knew what he was doing right now?

Why he could do anything right now and…

and….

It occurred to him that he was a god now.

He really could do anything, anything he wanted. Anything he desired.
Everything was so simple with the power he had. He could destroy the world and remake it. He could reshape humanity into digital beings.
He could give souls to every Navi using his own as a basic blue print.
Of course they would be downgraded version. They would have to grow their own, really.
And… he could also give them the ability to give birth to children. He could completely remove the net and make it into a new dimension! He could make the NetNavis into a race independent of all humans, he could rearrange it so that the humans didn't need to depend on NetNavis. It was perfect.

All so simple! All he had to do was…

was…

A word passed through his mind.

MegaMan.

He was MegaMan.

did… did he really want to do that?
It… it would go against everything he stood for.
But he was a god now so that didn't matter right?
He would be no better than the enemies he faced.
They couldn't comprehend or had the capability to do what he could do.
He would be no better the Dark MegaMan.
Despite of the fact he had no need for a spine, MegaMan's consciousness felt a shudder affect him. The fact was true.
He began to remember he had friends and family to consider. Would they like that? Would they like what he could do to the world.

No they wouldn't.

Lan wouldn't
Mama wouldn't
GutsMan wouldn't
Glyde wouldn't
Dr. Hikari… well he would be impressed on the prospect of Navi evolution but still probably wouldn't
Roll wouldn't.

No she certainly won't.

It would break the promise they made.

Human emotions filled his consciousness and suddenly he felt his being focused into a shape that was more like his previous form.
T
his wasn't right.

He didn't have the right to do this to everyone.

He had god like power, yes.

But really… he was just MegaMan.

Yeah… sure he did save the world a few times, but he had help. Really before all this started, all he wanted to do was go on patrol with Protoman. And Lan wanted to check out the help board to see if there was any one in need of some help.

On Friday Roll wanted to go on a date/netbattle.

And sometime this month..
Mama had said she wanted to see him in a copybot, dressed as a human. She said she would like to actually see her Hub grown up… that was going to be wonderful.

No.

He was not going to reshape the world. He shouldn't have this power to begin with. Not now at least.

One day, this power would be required. But not now.

So what he would do is lock this power up. Make it impossible for any technology to accesses it. And lock it in such a way that the aspect of temptation would not be able to reach it. He would… sorta forget this event, yet it will still be in his subconsciousness, waiting. Only in a true dire situation would he call on this power and he had a feeling it would be a while before that would happen.

So… time to go back.


"Are you alright?"

Roll blinked. MegaMan was standing before her concerned. But she was sure far away and had disappeared. How did he….

'You know what? Never mind' This had been an mentally exhausting week. She was tired of thinking of the impossible.

"I'm… I'm fine. Well… as fine as anyone who would go through all of… 'this'." She said sardonically.

MegaMan smiled though. "You stayed so strong though. You have been so amazing going through everything that you've gone through."
His gaze was heartwarming and Roll couldn't help but blush, for the first time in warmth.

"So… how are you?" She was surprised he was back to looking like his sixteen year old self. The form before this whole soul thing happened.

MegaMan sighed, taking a good look over himself placing his hand on the Hikari symbol. "I am… me."
Roll raised an eyebrow, edging him on for more.

"Heh…What I mean is… I'm back to normal. I have a few powers that Dr. Hikari originally intended but really that's all there is. Same body, same states."

Roll smiled. "Good."

THUMP!

"GUH!"

MegaMan doubled over and landed on his knees clutching his gut. He looked up to Roll with tear filled eyes.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!" He yelled his voice cracking.

Roll glared her fist still clutched. "That's because everything that has happened to me was ALL because of you! And before I was completely helpless to the 'all powerful MegaMans'! So finally I am able to get the small satisfaction to get back at you without having to break my hand!"

MegaMan sobbed.

"ROLL-CHAN!" He cried out to the heavens.


"So… you're back to normal?"

"Yep."

"And everything that happened to you, with all the growth and attitude is gone now?"

"Yep."

"Hmm strange." Lan was sitting on his bed taking to MegaMan who resided in the PET.

"And Dark MegaMan is gone right?" Lan prodded once again.

MegaMan sighed scratching his head. His helmet was off right now, allowing his brown hair to stick out. "Well… he's as gone as he was previously." Lan didn't exactly understand that answer but it seemed to be good so he left it at that.

There was one thing he was curious about though. "And you said you didn't remember your fight with him? There was a lot of crazy stuff being caused by it in both the net and the real world. Its kinda hard to believe you don't."

MegaMan shrugged. "I've told you, its all really fuzzy. I was to busy to stay alive than focus one what was going on around me. I thought you asked Roll?"

Lan shrugged looking up at the ceiling. "She wouldn't tell me. She's your girlfriend."

Girlfriend? Please, that title applied only to last year. Wife.. was a far better word. What? Navis didn't care about age when you got married and you didn't have to tell anyone about it either. Of course, there was no way in hell he was going to tell Lan.

"I guess I can understand her reasoning. She went through a lot because of me, so I would expect she doesn't want to recall those events." He unconsciously put his hand on his stomach. The affect of Roll's punch still left soreness to this day, two days to be precise.

Lan turned to look at his NetNavi and brother. "Well I'm glad all of this is over with."

MegaMan nodded. "Yeah really. I'm going to have to tell Dr. Hikari, no more experiments for me. I'm done with all of this crap. And I think everyone else is too."

Lan got up grabbing his PET. "That's for sure. So wanna go to the arcade with me?"

"Nah. I think I wan't to go see Roll. Its friday and I promised her a date, last week."

Lan quirked an eyebrow. "Isn't she still mad at you?"

Megaman grinned sheepishly. "Well… its been two days.. so uh here's hoping."

Lan chuckled. "Yeah… I'm going to wait in my room for five minutes to see if you come back with your tail between your legs." He was unaffected by the blue Navis glare.

"Thanks for the support."

"No problem."

MegaMan sighed logging out. Immediately he headed to Den Area. He B-Lined for Roll's link only to find that her security cube was in his way. When he tried to accesses it he was greeted with this voice message.

"Hi This is , Mayl Sakura's NetNavi. I apologize for changing my password for the security cube however certain circumstances had come up.
Also if this is please note that, no I won't let you in. I am still angry at you and no matter what you say will change that.

Love
Roll"

The Blue Bomber felt his eye twitch. He considering of breaking the security cube, yet this would do nothing to ease his love's anger at him. Immediately he pulled up his message mainframe and began typing.

"Cute message. Its friday, I'm here to pick you up on our date that we made. Please let me in.

Love
MegaMan"

He sent it and he didn't have to wait long to for a response.

"No I'm not going to let you in. Still angry at you.

Love
Roll"

MegaMan huffed in annoyance. She was being stubborn. So he sent a another message

"Roll. Please let me in. I really want to go on this date to make it up for you. Please Roll-chan?

Love
MegaMan
". Yes he was begging, but Roll liked this. He sent it and waited.

Roll message came.

"Yeah and how do I know you won't suddenly go berserk in the middle of it and start attacking the guy who looks at me? Yeah no. Even with begging, its cute… but not that cute.

Love
Roll"

"Aw common! At least let me in! This message thing is really getting annoying. I promise I won't do anything funny to you! I'll stand back 10 feet away from you! Please…. I really am getting to the end of my wits here. And I will break down you security cube because…. well because!
Really Love
MegaMan"

MegaMan knew this message was stupid but it really did express the irritating feeling inside of him right now.

Rolls next message appeared.

"Oh fine. AND YOU BETTER NOT BREAK IT! Do you know how much those things cost?! And no funny business either.
Love
Roll"

Soon the security cube disappeared and MegaMan wasted no time waking in.
"Okay one, I would've bought you a knew one and two, thank you for letting me in."

Roll turned sharply to him. "Ah beh beh beehhh! You stand at least 10 feet away like you said."
She watched him with satisfaction step back and hunched over like a frightened animal.
"What do you want?"

MegaMan looked at her pleading. "I told you. I still want to go on the date with you." He put his hands up defensively. "I know I know you said you didn't but please Roll. I know you've been through a lot of stress-" She glared again "Yeah I know because of me. But I want this date to relax you. I'll take you anywhere and I promise I won't be a-"

"An Over protective obsessed stalker?"

MegaMan cringed at his dear's words. "Yeah."

"I want you to say it." Roll said still standing firm.

Another sigh. "Alright… I, MegaMan, will not act as 'an over protective obsessed stalker' during the date and shall allow you to relax… so long as you go out with me and allow me to stand near you."

Roll smirked. "Let's see how you do in the first half hour and then maybe I'll allow you to a closer. Maybe to five feet almost."

It was a yes if he ever heard one.
"I guess I'll take what I'll get." He let her pass him out to the internet with him in tow, ten feet away as per said.

Lan eventually left his room after the five minutes were up, impressed by his brother's skill of soothing a lady's wrath. He decided he'll either go help his mom or bother Chaud… hmmm…. he hadn't seen the young official this week.

And it didn't take even ten minutes before MegaMan and Roll walked down the lane of NetSquare with their hands intertwined before the male leaned down to kiss her gently.

One day, things might go south for the NetNavis and for the humans. One day the digital beings would have to make a choice to separate themselves from their creators.

But that day was far away, there was no need to fret about the future right now.

All that concerned these two Navis and eventually their NetOps was loving one another.

The End


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