Hiya! Sorry for the delay, but I've been pretty busy irl. Also I wanted to finish the entire arc before I released the chapters, so I can release them relatively close together. I'm glad to see a lot of people enjoying my story, it keeps me so motivated and happy to continue writing on my spare time! I definitely want to finish this story, though it may take a while! Thanks for all the support! Please review so I can get some advice as to where my story should go in the future!
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Br0kenTh0rn: Thanks for the story! I think it's really interesting how you started the series! Please continue to review!
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cosmicblader12: I'm super glad you liked the fight! It was the hardest one I've had to do I think! And your story is pretty interesting too! I am always holding out hope for Starforce 4, even though it'll never happen I'm always going to dream of it!
RedBurningDragon: Indeed it is! Thanks for the review!
Jonas: Geo and Sonia as a couple… in short yeah. I'm not sure when, and I'm not sure how, but I think they will eventually hook up. If it were to happen, it would be later in the story.
foxchick1: I'm super glad you are looking forward to my next chapter! Thanks!
Naruichi-SS: Thanks! From Mexico, wow! That's so cool. Anyway, I'm not stopping anytime soon! I may have long breaks between postings, but I always am working bit by bit on my ideas for the next chapters!
And that's all the reviews! This story is focused more on Sonia's POV, though Geo is very much involved. I wanted to develop Harp Note by giving her a trial of her own! I introduced one of my favorite characters in this chapter, so I hope you enjoy!
It had been a few weeks since the incident at AMAKEN. Dubius was taking a leave of absence from work to find himself, and the fan following of Megaman continued to rise. He was quickly becoming a social icon, a hero everyone admired.
Geo spent most of his time busting viruses and fighting Jammer attacks, having a lot of time for training due to the school still being under repairs. Omega-Xis and Geo were becoming more and more in sync, arguing less and accepting each other's quirks more and more. Their synchronicity had been reflected in their fighting.
Megaman was currently fighting a Jammer attack, 2 Jammers attacking an art museum for some reason. Once they saw the blue bomber they immediately shifted focus onto him, battling him on the wave road. Geo was having trouble keeping up with fighting two EM beings at once.
"Keep up the pace Geo! Don't let them attack together or we will be finished!" Mega said, Geo using cannon blasts on one hand to keep one Jammer far and using a sword to fight one on close range. However the far Jammer transformed his arm into a Gatling gun and shot at Geo, causing the boy to halt the offense and put up a barrier. One Jammer shot at his barrier from long range, the other kept punching it with his super strength. The barrier started to crack with the stress.
"Geo! It's not gonna hold!" Mega warned as the barrier broke, Geo being thrown back. The close range Jammer punched him back into a nearby statue from the art museum, and the other went next to the other Jammer and pointed his gun at Megaman.
"It's over Omega-Xis! Give us the key!" It said with its scratchy voice, growling at him.
"Like I haven't heard that line before, it's not happening. I will never give up the Andromeda Key. You losers better just go home before we delete you." Mega said, Geo nodding in agreement.
"Please, we'll just take the key off your corpse then!" The Jammer started shooting, but Geo put up another barrier battle card just in time. However with both Jammers shooting the shield wouldn't last long. Geo strained, his sheer willpower was keeping the barrier together but it wasn't enough.
Just when the barrier broke, both Jammers were blasted by electric music notes, Megaman seeing a familiar ally come to his rescue. The blonde FM human jumped down from a nearby skyscraper and landed next to Megaman.
"Wow Megaman, saving you is really becoming a habit huh?" Harp Note giggled, helping the blue bomber up.
"Thanks, better that then be deleted I guess." Megaman responded, dusting himself off and seeing the Jammers recover.
"I'll take the one on the right, you take the one on the left" Harp Note said, Megaman nodding, both heros going to work.
"Battle Card! Stun Knuckle!" Megaman yelled, charging in with a giant yellow knuckle. It deflected every bullet the Jammer shot, Megaman going in close and uppercutting the Jammer. "Battle Card! Arbo Edge!" He called, a green leaf energy blade forming on his arm, the hero stabbing the Jammer in the chest, deleting him.
"Nice kid, you're getting better at fighting" Mega complimented.
"Thanks, how's Harp Note?" Geo turned and saw Harp Note sitting on the wave road above him, having beaten the Jammer even faster than he did. She was playing simple tunes on her guitar, waiting for Megaman. Megaman jumped onto the wave road and greeted Harp Note
"Thanks again, couldn't have done it without you." Megaman thanked. They had been working together on almost every virus and Jammer attack, the duo were practically partners. To the eyes of the public they were thought to be romantically involved, which Geo scoffed at. Luna still lost her mind whenever someone suggested that of course, Megaman was hers and hers alone according to the class president, which Megaman scoffed at even more.
"Don't mention it" Harp Note winked. "Well I have to be going, see ya, Geo Stelar." She said casually, Megaman's eyes widening as she revealed she knew his secret identity. She disappeared right after, not giving Geo anytime to respond.
"Did she just…" Geo said in shock, unable to comprehend what just happened.
"Looks like Harp Note knows who we are, I think it's time for us to find out the same." Omega-Xis responded, Geo nodding in agreement.
The pink hero flew through the wave road, giggling as she chatted with her FMian partner.
"Wow, you really stunned Megaman!" a voice laughed, coming from Harp Note's blue guitar. The head of the instrument had the face of Lyra.
"I know! Did you see his face!" Harp Note giggled as she floated over her home. The blonde phased into her house and pulsed out. Her hair turned pink, and her clothing became her usual pink hoodie and neon yellow shorts. Sonia Strumm smiled as Lyra appeared next to
her.
"I have to ask, why are we hiding our identity from Megaman again?" Lyra asked the pinkette as they headed to Sonia's room.
"Well, just to keep him on his toes. Wouldn't want to reveal ourselves without being a little dramatic, right?" Sonia winked and smiled.
"So basically you want to mess with Geo" Lyra summed up, Sonia nodding in agreement.
"Gotta have fun when I can" she laughed.
"Well Sonia, I think we still have some prep to do for the concert tomorrow" Lyra said, floating and pulling out a schedule. Sonia nodded and flopped on a couch, using her guitar-transer to check progress reports on the stage and such. "You don't seem very excited for the concert." Lyra commented.
"It's not that, I'm just tired of singing for my awful manager." Sonia sighed, looking at an email from her manager, Chrys Golds. The man was her legal guardian, but he was horrible. He didn't care about anything except money. "Well we still have to go though!" Sonia put on a smile and got ready for the rehearsal they were having today. She didn't want to upset her fans.
After an hour or so Sonia walked out of her house she ran into Geo. The brunette seemed to be going home from somewhere, probably from searching for Harp Note for a bit. That thought made Sonia giggle in her head.
"Hey Geo! What's up?" Sonia asked, hearing Omega-Xis comment about how they had no time for small talk. Geo and Mega had no idea Sonia could hear all their internal conversations, she could even see Mega, Lyra and the wave roads without a Visualizer.
"Hey Sonia, I'm not up to much, just going home" Geo said, ignoring Mega's complaining about having to go look for Harp Note some more.
"That's cool, hey actually do you want to come to my concert? It's tomorrow and since we still don't have school for a bit, why don't you come? The tickets are sold out, but I do have some extra ones. You could give the extras to Luna, Zack, and Bud!" Sonia said, handing Geo four tickets to her concert. Geo didn't even get the chance to possibly refuse, but it didn't matter to him. He was rather curious about the concert.
"Alright, I'll get Bud, Zack and Luna." The brunette said, accepting the tickets. "Are you going to the rehearsal now?" Geo asked.
"Yep, so I'll see you later!" Sonia said walking off.
"She's definitely an odd one" Mega commented as she ran off, feeling something off about her.
"Maybe, but we still gotta go. Wouldn't want to upset her." Geo shrugged, looking at the tickets. "We get to go with the class president too, yay" Geo sighed as he walked off, starting to call up the trio.
"YOU GOT TICKETS?!" Both Bud and Zack screamed. Geo winced as both boys were getting up in his personal space, so he pushed them back a bit.
Even Luna had a look of shock when Geo presented the tickets for Sonia's concert.
"Yeah, Sonia gave them for us" Geo said, a bit off put by Bud and Zack hyperventilating over the tickets.
"DO YOU REALIZE HOW RARE THESE ARE?! THEY'VE BEEN SOLD OUT FOR WEEKS!" Bud grabbed Geo by the shoulders and shook him back and forth as he yelled
"Bud, let him go" Luna sighed, Bud obeying, however still staring at the tickets like they were a juicy steak. Zack was doing the same.
"I don't see what the big deal is, it's just a concert." Geo shrugged. Zack looked at him with a murderous expression.
"Just. A. Concert." He said before starting to scream at Geo about the perfection of Sonia's singing and how it transcended the term 'beauty' and more compliments Geo ignored.
'Why did I agree to go to this with them?' Geo internally sighed.
After the boys recovered from their shock they agreed to show up to Sonia's concert the next day. Soon Luna changed the topic
"Hey did you hear about Megaman stopping another attack! He saved this art museum that's close by! Oh Megaman~!" Luna swooned for the blue hero. Geo felt like he was gonna puke.
"Yeah, I heard Harp Note helped too!" Zack said, both he and Bud were crushing on Harp Note, which made Luna furious.
"That wannabe hero probably got in Megaman's way more than anything! What a bitch!" Luna scoffed.
"Jeez I don't think she's that bad, and I heard she saved Megaman's life!" Bud said, defending the hero. Zack agreed too.
"I agree." Geo spoke, which surprised everyone, Geo usually was quiet whenever they talked about that stuff.
"See! Even Geo agrees!" Zack said, using Geo to validate their claim.
"You guys are so hopeless!" Luna sighed and walked off.
"We're probably going to pay for that later" Zack shrugged "Prez is pretty petty about stuff."
"I noticed" Geo said before leaving himself, leaving Bud and Zack to practice their cheering for Sonia's concert.
The next day a security guard stood outside of Sonia's concert hall, carrying a young boy. The guard was extremely tall and muscular, carrying the tiny boy with one hand. The boy, in contrast, was extremely tiny. He was about as short as Zack and wore a red hat with an open vest, with tan clothing underneath.
"Kid! This is the fifth time already! You can't go into the concert without a ticket!" The annoyed guard said, lifting the boy with one arm.
"S-Stop it! I need to see Sonia sing! I have to! And the tickets were sold out before I could buy one!" The boy whined as he struggled under the Guard's grip.
Little did they know a FMian was looking at them from above. The tiny FMian was shaped like a crab and had blue flames with a red body and shiny yellow orbs for eyes.
"Finally! I have found a the strongest human to fuse with! With that body and my incredibly amazing fighting skill I will destroy Omega-Xis and get the respect I deserve!" Mwahahahaha!" The crab like FMian cackled. It had a deep voice that did not match his tiny and laughable appearance.
"The universe will remember how awesomely amazing Cancer is!" The FMian, Cancer, said before diving towards the security guard.
"What the-?" The guard and the boy looked up as a blue light engulfed them. Cancer opened his eyes and examined himself. His arms were purely giant pincers, and his head looked more like a crab.
"Finally, I've fused with a human, now I am the unstoppable Cancer Bubble!" He yelled in triumph, though his voice sounded much more high pitched than normal.
"Riiiight Kid." A voice said. Cancer Bubble turned and realized he was looking at the guard he was trying to fuse with. Cancer had missed him and fused with the child! He realized he had become even shorter!
"W-What? B-But I was supposed to fuse with you?" Cancer Bubble stuttered before he started to bawl like a baby. Apparently Cancer's personality started to become more like the child he fused with.
"Ugh why do I always get all the crazies. Whatever kid I'm tired of your games, I don't know where you got that weird mask but it's time for you to go!" The guard literally tossed Cancer Bubble away, farther than what should've been possible. Apparently Cancer Bubble was as light as, well, a bubble.
When Cancer landed he immediately started sulking and walking in the street aimlessly. Every so often he'd yell at some kid for staring at his crab-like face.
"What am I supposed to do now with a weak host like this? I can't fight Omega-Xis in this form! But I can't figure out how to defuse…" He said to himself. Soon he saw a billboard advertising Sonia's concert, Sonia smiling in the ad. Cancer felt the human's personality kick in once again and take over. His heart started to beat fast, and he felt an odd feeling. He suddenly started running to the concert stage as fast as he could, screaming like a lunatic.
"SONIA SONIA SONIA!"
Meanwhile, walking on the street Geo and the others were going to the concert. The brunette was standing behind everyone, internally sighing as the others were chatting and talking about the upcoming concert like it was a once in a lifetime event, which Geo didn't really understand. I mean they all knew Sonia personally so what was so special about a concert?
"Geo, why aren't you excited? It's Sonia Strumm's concert! Plus we have great seats!" Zack said enthusiastically, Luna nodding in agreement.
"Yeah, well I guess I'm not a concert person" Geo shrugged. Not to mention Geo was still thinking about Harp Note and who she could be. It seemed like the answer was right in front of him, but he just couldn't figure it out.
"Whatever, let's hurry before we're late!" Luna said, her, Bud and Zack speeding off ahead.
'You'd better catch up kid. Though I'm with you, I'm not sure why this concert is being so hyped up.' Mega said in Geo's mind.
"Yeah, hopefully it'll be fun." Geo said before hearing screams ahead of him. "What's that?" He said, running ahead and seeing Luna and the others trapped inside giant bubbles. A bunch of pedestrians were trapped as well.
"It's an FMian attacking! Quick pulse in!" Mega said, Geo running behind a tree and transforming. He sped towards the source of the bubbles and did a double take when he saw who was causing it.
"Get out of my way! I need to get to the concert now!" Cancer Bubble yelled, bubbles shooting from his claws and trapping people.
"Is that seriously an FMian?" Geo asked Mega when he saw Cancer. The villain was so… tiny.
"It's Cancer, wow can't believe he managed to get here. Cancer is an over-zealous one who thinks he's a lot tougher than he is. He's just a civilian in planet FM, he shouldn't be too hard." Mega said. Geo nodded and blasted Cancer from behind with a Mega buster blast.
"Cancer! Stop now!" He said, Cancer turning to face Megaman.
"Omega-Xis! Hahaha! I didn't think I'd see you here! I'll get the Andromeda key from you, then see Sonia's concert! Mwahahahahahaha!" Cancer laughed like a child.
"He sounds like he's 8, is this guy for real?" Geo asked Mega. Cancer was more like an overdramatic cosplayer than an actual menace.
"Do the people trapped in floating bubbles not show I'm a big deal! I'll show you! CHAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGE!" Cancer cried out and ran towards Geo. He instantly was blasted point blank with a cannon battle card and flew back.
"Is… Is he crying?" Geo said, being completely baffled.
"Sniff…sniff… you meanie that hurt!" Cancer was on the ground holding the area where he was blasted, tears rolling down his face.
"Jeez, this is… pathetic." Geo sighed, face palming.
"YOU BIG BUTT FACE! I'LL SHOW YOU! TIDAL WAVE!" Cancer Bubble cried out and summoned an enormous wave that engulfed Megaman and blasted him back.
"Whoa! What the… he's gone!" Geo said, getting up and seeing Cancer had ran.
"We got careless, though I'm not too worried about it. Cancer is harmless, look the people are already getting out of the bubbles." Mega said, Luna and the others free, and very confused about what happened.
"Either way he's going to be a nussince while he's on the run, so we gotta find him." Megaman said, phasing into the wave world.
Meanwhile in Sonia's dressing room the singer was getting ready for the show. She had on her outfit and was touching up some makeup on her already angelic face.
"Hey Sonia, why are you so interested in this Geo kid? I mean I know that he's Megaman and all that, but before you knew you still seemed fascinated by him." Lyra asked, floating in the room.
"I can't quite put it into words, but I guess I just… relate to him in a way I don't with anyone else. Plus he doesn't treat me as a celebrity, even though he does find me annoying sometimes" Sonia chuckled, fully aware of Geo being bothered by Sonia's social personality.
"I suppose that makes sense. Anyway why don't we head out?" Lyra said before they suddenly heard a commotion down at the stage. "There's an FMian attacking!" Lyra warned. Sonia stood up.
"The nerve, coming to my concert and attacking? I'll show them!" She said, very annoyed.
"EM Wave Change!"
Cancer Bubble was in the concert hall, blasting people with bubbles out of his way. They were too weak to actually hurt them, but they were frightening enough to run people out.
"MOVE! MOVE! WHERE'S SONIA!" Cancer Bubble yelled as he went through the hall. With no one to stop him, he tore up the concert hall. Suddenly he was blasted with a musical note.
"Cancer! Why have you come here and destroyed my-er, this concert hall!" Harp Note said, appearing on stage. She was reasonably upset at the destruction of her stage. Cancer looked at her and growled.
"Get out of my way! I need to see Sonia sing!" He yelled, his pincers detaching from his body and spinning towards Harp Note. "Boomerang Cutter!"
Harp Note jumped and flipped as the spinning blades went towards her, narrowly dodging. She frowned at the sight of her stage ruined, remembering how much effort the stage crew put into making it as great as it was. She landed on the broken stage and stared at the tiny FMian.
"Cancer! You're messing with the wrong pop star!" Harp Note said, jumping in the air and strumming her strings. "Quick Strings!" She yelled as her guitar strings extended and wrapped around Cancer.
"What the- Aaaaaaaaah!" Cancer yelled as Sonia swung him around and slammed him into the ground. She then started playing notes on her guitar and electric notes started electrocuting Cancer. "Aaaaahh! Stop! I give up!" Cancer Bubble cried. Sonia stopped the attack and stood over the defeated FMian.
"Finish him Sonia! Now's your chance!" Lyra said, Sonia nodding in response and getting ready to strike the finishing blow. However when Sonia saw the defeated FMian squirming on the ground she hesitated, she felt her hands shaking.
'Come on Sonia, just do it! He's not even a human being! Ugh why can't I do it!' Sonia thought to herself, unable to deal the finishing blow.
"Sonia! What are you doing!" Lyra said before Cancer suddenly broke out of the strings.
"Tidal Wave!" He called, a giant wave of water catching Harp Note by surprise, throwing her back through the seats of the audience.
"Ow" Sonia groaned as she got up. Her eyes widened as she saw Cancer's two arms speeding towards her. She barely dodged to the side by a roll, got up and shot out her 'quick strings' from her guitar. However this time Cancer was ready, phasing into a different frequency to dodge. Harp Note groaned and matched his frequency quickly.
Harp Note rushed towards Cancer, grabbing a chair as she did so and throwing it at him, surprising him as he dodged to the side, right into Sonia's fist. Her super strength blasted Cancer into the stage again, where Sonia once again had an opportunity to end him.
"Sonia! Now!" Lyra called once again. She sensed her host being filled with doubt. After a full, unbearably silent minute Sonia finally made a decision.
"Lyra, I can't" she said, dropping her guitar. "I can't end another life, even if it's a psychopathic alien." She sighed. Harp Note's action stunned even Cancer Bubble, whose limbs were trapped in an indent the size of his tiny body from the impact.
"W-Why aren't you deleting me?" Cancer asked, his deadly urge to see Sonia calming down a bit.
"I-I don't know, I guess… I don't want to ever take another life and sink to the FMian's level." Sonia said, voicing her inner doubts about fighting this war with the FMians for the first time. "Why did you come here Cancer? Lyra told me you are just a civilian, not a soldier like the other FM invaders." She asked.
"I-I just wanted to prove everyone wrong and show them I'm not too small or weak to help! I wanted to stop being the punchline of everyone's jokes! By getting the Andromeda key maybe I would actually make…" Cancer's voice wavered.
"Friends." Harp Note finished his sentence. She watched as Cancer freed himself and they stared at each other curiously, as if waiting to see what the other would do. Finally Harp Note made her move, holding out her hand.
"I want to be your friend Cancer, I really do. If you just abandon planet FM's sinister objectives and just live on earth like Lyra does, then we can be your friends." She said.
Cancer Bubble looked stunned, never, ever having someone genuinely want to be associated with him, much less be his friend. Part of him wanted to throw his life on planet FM away and stay on earth with Harp Note, but abandoning everything he'd ever known and cared for in his home? That was a tall order.
After a while Cancer finally decided, he accepted Harp Note's handshake.
"Okay, I promise to help you guys in anyway I can! Living here doesn't seem too bad!" Cancer said, smiling as he did.
"Awesome!" Harp Note smiled widely, her expression so bright it practically made the room warmer. "One thing though, you probably should release control of the boy who you possessed. You might be able to live in his transer if he lets you!"
"Oh, right." Cancer said, releasing the EM wave change and appearing in his true form next to the unconscious boy. Harp Note blinked in surprise, recognizing the kid.
"Hey isn't he that one boy who kept getting turned away from my concerts?" Harp Note whispered to Lyra, the FMian nodding in response.
"I think his name is Claud." Lyra whispered back. Claud started to stir.
"Let's release the wave change, we wouldn't want him to freak out when he sees Harp Note." Sonia said, before transforming back into her normal form. Cancer's jaw dropped.
"Y-You're telling me, you were Sonia Strumm this whole time! Oh no! I'm so sorry!" Cancer cried.
"It's okay! I forgive you, now how about you hang out in Claud's transer, I'll figure out how to break it to him." Sonia chuckled. Cancer nodded and disappeared into the transer. Claud woke up and was startled by Sonia's presence.
"Hey sleepyhead, c'mon we better get out of this concert hall, I'm going to hold the concert outside." Sonia smiled, holding out her hand for Claud.
"Y-You mean I can watch? R-Really?" He said, Sonia nodding in response. He cheered and accepted her hand. Together they went out of the damaged building and Sonia to called everyone for a free outdoor concert.
Watching from above, Megaman had seen the entire exchange between Cancer and Harp Note, and seen the true identity of his ally. Geo was quite shocked, however Mega was just amused.
"Heheh! Looks like Harp Note was really your girlfriend all along! Isn't that something!" Omega-Xis chuckled.
"Shut up Mega, but still that is… interesting I guess." Geo said, not really sure how to feel. " She just did something we still haven't done, she got through to an FMian." Geo said, astounded that something like that was even possible.
"Yeah, that is pretty impressive. I never thought something like that was possible." Mega responded, both hearing the concert starting. Geo transformed back into his human form and joined Luna in the others to watch the concert like he promised.
'Seems we have a lot to discuss with Sonia' Geo thought as he watched Sonia singing and dancing, looking like she didn't have a care in the world.
Hope you enjoyed this one! I had a lot of trouble forming my ideas for introducing Cancer into the story, but I think I did it well! He won't be involved immediately in the chapters, but eventually he will be a protagonist just like in the show. Please review!