This is my second fanfic, and first real story. It's based on MMBN (MegaMan Battle Network.) and in order to understand this story, you would have to have beaten the game. If you haven't gotten as far as Dentown, or had never played it, I suggest you read no further. For those who have, you must understand that the 'LifeVirus' is Dr. Wily's ultimate weapon. If you just don't give a @#$% about my warnings, you can go ahead and read it… but you probably won't understand it. You must also understand… no, I'm not spoiling any of the storyline.

(Same old drill… all characters that are familiar are property of Capcom, yada yada, anyone else is property of me, yada yada, so on and so forth.)

Prologue:

Deep into the area of the net, which had once been the WWW Undernet, a Navi searched desperately for old DataStrands. The mysterious Navi trotted over the data platforms, scanners in overdrive. Its operator had only a sliver of data, and a whole program was needed…

Chapter #1: Another Day, another…Navi?

"LAN!" a voice shouted.

"…"

"LAN!" The voice shouted again.

"Huh? Mega Man?" Lan said groggily, sitting upright then rubbing his eyes.

"Lan, I know I told you that I wouldn't wake you up for school anymore, but… YOU'RE 15 MINUTES LATE ALREDY!" Mega Man shouted at his still-exhausted operator.

"Aww, great!" Lan yawned as he jumped out of bed and hastily got dressed. "Any new messages?"

"Three. The regular NetNews and BattleMail, and one from Yai. She called your name in homeroom again. I don't understand how she puts up with you."

"Good old Yai. Where would I be without her?"

"In a heap of trouble, now lets get to school! You'll be lucky if second period hasn't started yet!"

"Roger!" Lan said hastily. He ran out of his room, down the stairs, grabbed a sandwich and ran out the door toward the ACDC Town Elementary School.

-*~*~*-

Lan peered into his homeroom through the back door. (They're still here! Its still first! Sneak Time!) Lan thought. He wiped the jam and peanut butter from the sandwich off his face, and sneaked into his seat.

(Made it!) Lan thought. He looked casually up at the front of the classroom. Ms. Mari was introducing a new person to the class.

"Where have I seen this before?" Lan whispered suspiciously to himself.

"… And so class, I'd like you to meet your new classmate Dana." Ms. Mari explained. "Dana, would you like to say a few words to your classmates?"

The new girl shook her head, and went to her seat at the bottom-right desk, which was empty.

"Shy kid." Dex pointed out. "I bet that anyone with that type of attitude is a pathetic NetBattler." A few students giggled at the remark. Dex turned around and smirked at Dana. Her green eyes aflame with fury.

"Silence! Now we will begin class."

"Begin class?" Mega Man asked suspiciously. "We just got here, fifteen minutes late, and class is just starting? Did it take so long to get aquatinted with that Dana?"

"Everyone Jack-In. We'll have a pop quiz with battle skills against random opponents. Only one operator will fight at a time, so feel free to analyze one another's skills and tactics." Ms. Mari explained.

"Lets do it, Lan!"

"Roger!

Jack-In!

Mega Man.EXE

Transmit!"

-*~*~*-

"I'm in Lan… But who's that?" Mega Man asked. He had taken notice of the gray humanoid standing on the networks newly created battlefield. It's left eye looked normal, but over it's right eye was what looked like a infra-red battle scanner, around it was gray mechanical hardware. All and all, it looked fairly powerful, but overall, incomplete. Its hydrolic-controled legs were completely shown all of its parts unarmored.

"Poor guy." Mega Man said pitifully, "No armor. He must take a lot of damage form even a Mettool."

"Who's that?" Roll, who was standing behind Mega Man, asked suddenly. "That poor guy has no armor! Can his operator not be able to afford it?"

"I don't know who that is, but he could never stand up to me!" Gutsman bragged, trying to redeem himself in front of a Navi who had beaten him so many times.

"Don't judge by looks," Glyde said calmly. "He looks fairly powerful to me."

"What do you know about NetBattleing, Glyde?" Gutsman snorted.

-*~*~*-

"Ok!" Ms. Mari said, "Looks like everyone is online. Any volunteers to go first?"

"Shall we?" Mega Man asked Lan hopefully.

"Nah. Besides, we both know that Dex wants to go first, so let him."

"Fine, I guess we can wait until we're called on."

"I'll go first, Ms. Mari!" Dex yelled, jumping out of his seat.

"Nice guess, Lan"

"Thanks."

"Ok Dex, you can go first." Ms. Mari sighed. She knew this would happen. Dex's pride was far bigger than his wallet. Anyone with the money for upgrades could grind Gutsman's digital bones for digital bread.

"YES! I'll show everyone how good me 'n Gutsman are!"

"I'll release the enemy data once Gutsman enters the battlefield. Everyone else, please leave the battlefield. Ready?

-*~*~*-

The gray Navi walked calmly off the battlefield. Several other Navigators followed, murmuring about the new Navi. The gray one walked over and stood beside Mega Man. Uneasily he spoke in a half-mechanical voice: "Lets see if this boy's mouth is bigger than his skills, hmm?"

"Believe me gray. Gutsman is good, but not terrific." Mega Man assured him.

"Thought so…" the gray Navi replied, calm once again.

"Listen…" Mega Man began, his courage was as strong as it would ever be, "Me and my friends would like to know…"

"My name?" gray replied. "Ah, yes. I'm sure you do. We never met before, have we?"

"No, never."

"I guess that minor memory loss problem wasn't as big as she… oh, sorry. Just thinking aloud." gray replied, embarrassed of being caught talking to himself in front of others. "My name is Calculus. If you haven't already guessed, I am an incomplete Net Navi program."

"That's why you have no armor!" Mega Man concluded.

Calculus nodded. Grinning, he spoke: "Yes, I have no armor. None that you can see, anyways. I have a transparent deflector shield built into me. It's fairly decent, repels the weak attacks."

"I told you guys not to judge a Navi by its looks." Glyde pointed out.

"By the way Calculus, I'm Mega Man. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"I agree, Mega Man"

"Quiet over there!" A Navi called, "The fight is about to start!"

END OF CHAPTER #1!

Well, that ends chapter 1. I'm gonna get to work on chapter 2 tomorrow. After this story, I plan to re-write Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Mega Man characters and script. I just don't know who to make who do what. Give me ideas! You can use any Mega Man-based character (basically, anyone from MMX series, MML series, and the original MM series) e- mail the ideas 2 Shadow_Dragon64@hotmail.com or submit them in review.

See yaz later!