This is my second fanfic, and first real story. It's based on MMBN (Mega Man 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 story line.
(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.)
Chapter #2: Enter Calculus
"ALRIGHT! IM UP! TIME TO SHOW THOSE VIRUSES NOT TO MESS WITH ME AN' GUTSMAN! HYAA! HYAA!!!"
"Uh, Dex…"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT LAN? CANT YOU SEE THAT I'M BUSY?!?!?"
"Dex, it's just a simulation. You couldn't loose if you tried."
"I knew that, Lan."
"Sure you did."
"Ms. Mari? Where are the viruses?"
"There was a small problem with the emulator, but I just fixed it. Here they come, Dex"
"Yaaa! Time for me 'n Gutsman to rock!"
-*~*~*-
"What's taking those viruses so long?" Gutsman complained impatiently. "If this was a test against viruses, then WHERE ARE THE VIRUSES?!?"
"My scanners indicate that there is a problem with the emulation process." Calculus reported.
"You can sense things like that? Woah!" Roll remarked with disbelief.
"The error was just overwritten. They should be coming anytime now." Calculus reported once again. He spoke as if it was normal for him to locate things like that. The other Navigators were stunned.
"Look." Calculus said simply. He lifted his hand slowly, and pointed at the battlefield, as if to avert attention from himself. Sure enough, the virus emulation had fully loaded. Gutsman was pivoted against three Mettools, and one Green Cannon.
"ALRIGHT! TIME TO BE DELEATED!" Gutsman yelled and jumped into action. Using his SoniWave and GutsPnch Battle Chips, Gutsman quickly laid waste to the few scrawny viruses.
No one had been noticing that Calculus' red eye had been scanning the short fight. He stored the battle data in his RAM slot and announced the results:
"Deletion time: 00:01:46 seconds."
"Busting Level: 8"
"Acquired Data: MetGuard A"
"What the… Calculus? You can analyze the results too?" Roll asked amazed. She couldn't believe the newcomer's abilities.
-*~*~*-
"See? Didn't I say that me 'n Gutsman are the bomb?" Dex bragged. "Look at that deletion time! See? 00:01:46! We rule! See? We even got a MetGuard A Battle Chip!"
"I already have 24 MetGuard A Battle Chips, Dex." Mayl pointed out.
"Shut up, Mayl" Dex snarled, "You may have the Chips, but… are you AS FAST? LOOK AT THAT TIME!"
"Dex, those were puny viruses. Anyone could beat them fast" Lan pointed out.
"…" Dex walked sheepishly back to his desk from the blackboard Jack-In port and dropped back into his chair. On the way to his desk, he noticed Dana grinning slightly evilly, but any moron could tell that she, though she did nothing, had gotten back at Dex.
Several other students went, including Mayl and Yai. Mayl proved to Dex that she and Roll could get a better Busting Level, Battle Chip, and Deletion time. Dex decided to keep himself from bragging for the rest of class. At last, it was Mega Man's turn.
"Lan, I know that you defeated WWW five months ago…" Ms. Mari pointed out "So I was wondering if you would like some tougher virus data, because I know that you can handle it."
"Sure, but not much stronger than viruses that the others fought. I don't want to make it too unfair to Dex." Lan turned around and grinned at Dex, and his friend did the same. Dex made a gesture to NetBattle him after class. Lan nodded his head.
"Ok, Lan. Get Mega Man ready. I'll prepare the virus data."
"Roger that, Mega Man!"
-*~*~*-
"Ready, Lan?" Mega Man asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be," his operator replied. The virus data was unleashed, but something was wrong. Instead of releasing the Red Mettools and Blue Cannon, the emulator had created three Fireman backup copies, and one Magiman backup copy.
"What the?" Mega Man yelled. He could take out Fireman and Magiman by themselves, but not three Fireman backups and one Magiman backup.
Calculus stated the obvious: "The emulator has gone viral! A virus has infected it! Classification: WWW!"
"But we already defeated the World Three! Lan! I could fix this, but I can't take these four on all at once!" Mega Man yelled to his operator in panic. He was the strongest Navi there, but he couldn't take these guys on. But then again, he couldn't leave the school's network for the WWW to trash. It was a loose-loose situation for him. And the four backups were already approaching him, seeking revenge from when he had deleted them.
-*~*~*-
"Mega Man! NOOOOO!" Lan yelled in horror. He, nor Mega Man, could do anything about this uprising. The room filled with the cries of his classmates "Lan! Do something!" "Stop 'em Lan! Show 'em what you're made of!" "Lan." "Lan!" "LAN!" Lan couldn't take much more of the yelling of his classmates. And then he couldn't take the loss of his best friend. The other students rushed up to the blackboard. Lan was just about to Jack-Out when…
-*~*~*-
"It's that blue Navi again!" the Fireman on the left pointed out.
"We don't have time for him now, fool!" Magiman fumed. "We have our orders, or have you forgotten? Our mission?"
"Mission?" Mega Man queried
"That's right, blue boy" the right Fireman snarled. "We were sent to OOF!" the center fireman jabbed his elbow into the right's ribcage.
"Tell 'em our mission, and I'll grind you to a pulp, backup!" The middle one Fireman hissed at the one on the right.
-*~*~*-
"I've no time for these little games." Someone said from the back of the class. "Calculus, dispose of them."
-*~*~*-
"Yes, Mistress!" Calculus chimed. "Mega Man, you think you can distract them for a minute?"
"Yah, but what good will that do?"
"Just do IT!" Calculus yelled, and pivoted in a fighting stance. A small, red dome-like half-sphere appeared on the palm of his right hand. He made a fist, and brought it to his chest. Mega Man switched to his Buster Gun and shot wildly at the middle Fireman. It did 5 damage a hit, but it wasn't even enough to make the backup Navi flinch.
"Enough!" the Magiman yelled. "LIFEMA…"
-*~*~*-
"NOW!!!"
-*~*~*-
"VIRUS INFERNO!!!" A voice yelled out of nowhere. Mega Man shielded his eyes from the bright red light. He felt something extremely HOT pass by his right. Then he remembered, (that was where Calculus was standing.) Thinking further, he remembered (that was Calculus who yelled!) Mega Man noted that the light had dimmed. He removed his arms from shielding his eyes, and looked around. The four Navigators were no more, in their place was a piece of mystery data. Behind him, Calculus was hunched over. Had his legs not have been hydraulic (digitally hydraulic) he would have most likely be on his face in the digital dirt.
"Uhh…"
"You… ok?"
"Umm…" Calculus straightened up. He placed his left arm on his forehead. "Yah. I think…so."
Mega Man couldn't contain his excitement: "THAT WAS AWSOME! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"
Calculus grinned slightly. "Amazing? What's amazing is that I'm still functioning properly." He flexed his right arm, then left. "Yep. Still good." Calculus walked over to the piece of mystery data, and downloaded it. "I'll deal with that later."
"What was that?" Mega Man asked, "That mystery data? Data usually doesn't appear after a fight."
"It… it's just Zenny. That's all."
-*~*~*-
"What was that, Lan? I've never seen a Battle Chip attack like that one ever before." Yai spoke weakly. "It terminated four Navis in a flash."
"The reason why you've never seen that Battle Chip before, is because it isn't a Battle Chip." A voice spoke behind the group. Everyone turned around from the blackboard. Dana was standing to the right of the teacher's desk. She walked up to the blackboard, not making eye contact with anyone.
"That was a custom battle program. My last one, I might add, and my Navi's only real form of protection. It also has a buster weapon, but that's to weak to do any real damage."
"Well, the emulators' fried, and most of this classroom's mainframe with it." Ms. Mari concluded. "We can't continue, so I guess you group get off of school early."
"All right!"
-*~*~*-
"Well, the mainframe and this area's matrix is terminated." Calculus pointed out. "I guess I used too much energy in my attack."
"Don't worry about it," Roll encouraged him "Knowing the school, this place will be in tip-top shape by tomorrow."
"I hope so."
"Mega Man, you want to Jack-Out?" Lan asked from outside the net.
"Well, there's not much else to do online here."
"Ok! Roger!"
-*~*~*-
"Looks like everyone's offline," Ms. Mari said. "The school board won't approve of this…but…go on! Get out of here!"
"YAHOO!"
-After Class-
"So, I guess the WWW's back in business." Mega Man said simply. "You think Chaud knows?"
"Knowing him, most likely…"
"Hmm…"
"Hey! Lan Hikari!" A voice called.
"Huh? Who's that" Lan wondered. A girl came running up behind him. "Huh? Dana?" Something bugged Lan about her. Like he knew her. Not personally, he just knew that face. And that voice made that feeling stronger.
"Hey, Lan… that's your name right?"
"Yah, so…" Lan replied. Dana laughed. "What's so funny?"
"Heh, you remind me of… um, never mind. Oh anyway, you have a fairly powerful Navi. I was wondering…"
"You wanna NetBattle?"
"No. You know how my Navi is incomplete right?"
"Yah."
"I was wondering. There are small programs on the net called 'DataStrands.' You know about them?"
"Not really."
"Well, there these powerful programs, 20 in all. Four for each battle type. Some are contained in well-hidden mystery data, old WWW Navis carry others. Most are in mystery data deep in the net or on the old Undernet userface. You think, because your Navi's so strong, keep a lookout for these programs for me?"
"If these programs are so strong, then why should I give them to you?"
"Because," Dana said stiffly, "Only one program, Navi, can be made out of the DataStrands. My Navi's program is based on these DataStrands. I'm not asking you to go out of your way for me, just keep your eyes peeled, ok?"
"Fine, on one condition…answer a question of mine" said Lan, crossing his arms.
"Sure. What is it?"
"Is your name Tron Bonne?" Lan asked suspiciously.
Dana practically fell over. "What kind of question is that?!?!"
Calculus piped up "Excuse me for interrupting, but my operator is not a person off of one of your TV shows!"
"Thank you for that bit of information, Calculus. Not like I didn't already know that, but…"
"Lan I think you went over the edge with your questions." Mega Man pointed out.
"Well, sorry if I provoked you Dana" Lan apologized "It's just that…"
"We look alike. That's it, isn't it?"
"Yah."
Surprisingly, she wasn't as mad as Lan thought. "Don't worry. That's ok. I get that a lot. So, thanks. And by the way… Dex told me to remind you that you owe him a NetBattle. See you later" Dana said quickly, and hurried off.
"Well," Mega Man said calmly, "Dex and Zenny await us both. Let's get going, Lan."
"Roger."
-*~*~*-
"I've been waiting for you, LAN!" Dex spoke as if Lan had lost to him a million times. "Lets NetBattle! I'M gonna win THIS time!"
"Just be ready with the Zenny, that's all I ask…"
-Somewhere Outside of Dentown-
"So, they're here"
"Yes, my lord."
"All of them?"
"Yes, my lord. Everything is going exactly as the dark one said."
"That means…"
"Yes, my lord."
"EXELENT!"
END OF CHAPTER #2
Yet another chapter done. Since tomorrow's Christmas, I won't be doing any work on this story. I also haven't gotten any ideas for my Monty Python/Mega Man fanfic. Please e-mail me ideas, or submit them in review. You can use any Mega Man character in history. If you're e-mailing the ideas, please title the e-mail 'Mega Man and the Holy Buster Gun' so I can get on that the story faster.
See yaz later!