Holy hand grenades! This chapter was really hard to write. Not
because I had writers block, but because I never really planned out what
would happen. Honestly, I'm surprised I got this far. That's why I'm
updating two chapters at once, so please don't flame me until the end just
because characters 'die'(notice the quotation marks). Gets a little
disturbing...
Disclaimer: This fiction is the work of an insane sixteen year old. It is based off characters from Capcoms wonderful MegaMan(aka RockMan) games and also some characters and places from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The author owns nothing except the story line, which some people hate and some people like.
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"IRIS!" Zero ran into the room without a second thought. Within moments, the red Navi had reached Iris. "Iris! Wake up!"
Roused by his yelling, she opened her eyes. "Zero..."
"Iris I... I thought I'd lost you again." Zero smiled at her. Iris looked up into his eyes. Her eyes seemed empty...
"But you did."
"Huh?" Zero looked up. ProtoMan, IceMan, GutsMan, and Glyde were all standing before him. "Guys! You made it!"
"Not without a little help from Ireul." All four of them grinned in unison.
"Oh... This sucks." Forte shook his head.
"What? What's wrong with them?" MegaMan looked at each of them. They all looked fine...
"THEY'RE INFECTED!" Zero immediately set Iris down and readied his Chain Rod.
"Right you are. They've become my puppets in this little game."
Forte recognized the voice. It had spoken to him when he was infected. "Ireul! Where are you? It's time for a little pay-back for that infection!"
"Impotent fool! You are a nothing." A single tentacle reached down and slapped Forte into a wall. After a few seconds, Forte finally found the strength to stand.
"Yeah, this ain't cool." Forte limped over to MegaMan. "My HP is at 200 out of a thousand."
"You see now that you are nothing." A single eye lowered from the darkness above them. Then another, and another, and another until there were seven of them. "I will wreak havoc on the humans once their little toys have been deactivated."
"Your going to destroy the net?" Roll shook her head. "Wouldn't that destroy you too?"
"Only a facet of me. I still have a physical form. I still have a soul, unlike you pathetic programs!"
"A soul..." MegaMan whispered the words.
"That's it! Your going down! I have a physical form! I have a future! And I won't let some seven eyed virus delete my friends!" Zero charged at the eyes and fired his Chain-Rod at them. Before the weapon could strike Ireul however, a orange field blocked the attack. "What?"
"I told you, you are nothing! My AT field is impenetrable!" Another tentacle reached down to slap Zero away, but MegaMan intervened with his buster. "What?? How can this be?"
"From the records we received from Nerv, you 'Angels' were sometimes venerable when you attacked. Taking that simple knowledge and applying it was easy." MegaMan stepped forward, now ready to fight. "And now that we have applied knowledge, you are almost defenseless."
"Wrong yet again little Navi." MegaMan's infected friends stepped in his way. "You're going to be deleted before you can even get close to me!"
"Not if I can help it!"
Zero fired his Chain Rod at ProtoMan. The weapon struck ProtoMan dead on, allowing Zero to drain the virus from him. GutsMan decided that this wasn't a good thing and charged at Zero. Forte lunged and landed a solid punch into GutsMan chest, sending the Navi rolling away. IceMan lobbed several of his Ice grenades at Zero and Forte, but MegaMan switched to his fire style and shot the weapons out of the air. Before Glyde could get involved, Zero had finished curing ProtoMan. He tossed ProtoMan to Roll, who began to tend to his wounds.
Zero now turned his attention to GutsMan, who was still struggling after Forte's punch. Zero fired his Chain Rod again, leaving MegaMan and Forte to cover his back. Forte used his electric rush attack to stun Glyde, while MegaMan used the fire style's elemental strength to counter IceMan's own. Eventually, GutsMan was cured as well. Since Roll had finished healing ProtoMan, she moved on to GutsMan. ProtoMan himself started to contact Chaud...
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Chaud, meanwhile, was about to kiss Yai on the cheek when ProtoMan contacted him. He blushed slightly as he backed away from Yai and picked up his PET.
"Lord Chaud. We are currently fighting Ireul."
"I see. ProtoMan, why did you leave me?"
"I wished to prove my strength and end this matter quickly so you would not have to be involved."
"I see. We will have to discuss this later. Lan! I've gotten in contact with ProtoMan."
"Really?" Lan and the others quickly crowded.
"How's the battle going?" Dex almost knocked Chaud over trying to get closer, which earned him a "Watch it you oaf!" from Chaud.
"Currently, Zero is disinfecting the other Navies. Forte and MegaMan are covering his back, while Roll and myself are supporting them in any way we can. Currently, that included alerting you to our situation."
"I see. ProtoMan, since you are not directly in combat, alert me to when get low on HP so I can get you out." ProtoMan nodded and disappeared again. Chaud set his PET down and returned to sitting by the wall.
Vash sat in front of the computer, Kasumi standing next to him. "So all we get to do is sit here while MegaMan and them fight something that technically can't be defeated?"
"That seems to be it." Chaud nodded as Yai sat next to him again.
"Saito, you'd better pull through this." Lan took the seat next to Vash.
"Saito? Who's Saito?" Vash raised one of his eyebrows, indicating his confusion.
"He's..." Lan explained the entire matter to Vash and Kasumi. After a short while, Shinji withdrew from a game of Egyptian Rat Screw(don't ask me where the name comes from, but it's fun on long car trips.) to join the conversation.
"So your Navi is actually a digital clone of your brother?" Shinji sat down next to Vash.
"That's about the size of it, Ikari-san."
Kasumi, who had been silent throughout the explanation, suddenly had a question. "Does that mean your Navi has a soul?"
"A soul?" Lan thought about if for several minutes. "I... I don't know. Why?"
Kasumi shrugged her shoulders. "I was just wondering."
"Wait... Souls. AT Fields..." Shinji began pacing around the room, all the while speaking his thoughts aloud. "If I remember what Ritsuko said about AT Fields, their really just souls. When I was in Eva and concentrated on my survival, my AT field activated. Usually, I had very little control over it and it just canceled out the Angel's AT Field during close combat..." Shinji stopped in the middle of the room. "If MegaMan has a soul..."
Tory ventured a guess. "Then he could form an AT Field and make Ireul defenseless?"
"Maybe! I'm not sure though, and it may not even work. I've never tried to use an AT Field outside of an Eva. And even still, inside Evangelion my mothers soul comprised the AT Field."
Count Elec dropped his cards. "So your saying that we might be able to beat this thing?"
"I'm not sure... Heck, we were never sure back then either." Shinji laughed, remembering his former guardians crazy 'plan of attack' against the fifth angel. "Lan, Vash, I would stay close to you PETs. You never know when MegaMan or Zero could need a chip or two."
"Speaking of that, if Zero is disinfecting our Navies, then we should be able to reach them soon!" Kasumi raced to plug her PET back in, as did the others...
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As Lan picked up His PET, MegaMan felt a surge of energy flow through him as he changed to the Saito Style. 'Lan! Glad you finally found me, but now you're in danger too! Just means I'll have to be extra careful!' MegaMan snapped out of his thoughts and shot down one of Ireul's tentacles. Meanwhile, Zero pulled his Chain Rod free from Glyde. He tossed him to ProtoMan, who set him next to IceMan. Their work finished, MegaMan, Zero and Forte turned their attention Ireul.
"You disinfected your friends. It seems you may yet present a challenge."
Forte clenched his fists when Ireul spoke. "Shut up Ireul. Roll! Get yourself and the others out of here! You can't help us anymore."
"But..." Roll hesitated as the others left. She couldn't just leave MegaMan and the others here to possibly die, could she? "I want to stay! I CAN still help you!"
"Roll, please! I don't want you getting hurt!" MegaMan turned his back, leaving himself wide open. "Get out of here!!"
"MEGAMAN!!!"
Roll screamed out his name, seeing several of Ireul's tentacles lash out at him. MegaMan wheeled around and tried to shoot them down, as did Zero and Forte. There were too many however, and many of them rammed into the Navi, smashing him against the nearby wall. Roll dashed to MegaMans side while Forte and Zero shot away the tentacles from the fallen Navi. She held his limp form as he began to digitally fall apart, his base code rent to shreds...
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The screen of Lan's PET flashed. "MegaMan? Wha-AAAAAAA!!" Lan screamed out in agony as wounds ripped open all over his body. He fell from the chair, covered in his own blood. His PET was still attached to the computer, and his hand had a vice grip on it.
"Lan!" Maylu was at his side in a flash, as were the rest of the boys friends. Tears were streaming down Maylu's face as she realized what had happened. "No... No! Lan, MegaMan, don't die!"
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Yeah, I'm cutting it off here. The next parts of the story is entirely dependent on Dr. Hikari's words before the LifeVirus battle -I finally killed it- at the end of MegaMan Battle Network 1 (the whole thing about whatever happens to the MegaMan is shared by Lan. If that changed during the second or third game, I apologize). Sorry if I pissed you people off, but this won't be the end of MegaMan OR Lan. That I can promise you 'cause I'm not that evil, so please don't flame me! Also, I apologize for the long authors notes on this chapter.
Disclaimer: This fiction is the work of an insane sixteen year old. It is based off characters from Capcoms wonderful MegaMan(aka RockMan) games and also some characters and places from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The author owns nothing except the story line, which some people hate and some people like.
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"IRIS!" Zero ran into the room without a second thought. Within moments, the red Navi had reached Iris. "Iris! Wake up!"
Roused by his yelling, she opened her eyes. "Zero..."
"Iris I... I thought I'd lost you again." Zero smiled at her. Iris looked up into his eyes. Her eyes seemed empty...
"But you did."
"Huh?" Zero looked up. ProtoMan, IceMan, GutsMan, and Glyde were all standing before him. "Guys! You made it!"
"Not without a little help from Ireul." All four of them grinned in unison.
"Oh... This sucks." Forte shook his head.
"What? What's wrong with them?" MegaMan looked at each of them. They all looked fine...
"THEY'RE INFECTED!" Zero immediately set Iris down and readied his Chain Rod.
"Right you are. They've become my puppets in this little game."
Forte recognized the voice. It had spoken to him when he was infected. "Ireul! Where are you? It's time for a little pay-back for that infection!"
"Impotent fool! You are a nothing." A single tentacle reached down and slapped Forte into a wall. After a few seconds, Forte finally found the strength to stand.
"Yeah, this ain't cool." Forte limped over to MegaMan. "My HP is at 200 out of a thousand."
"You see now that you are nothing." A single eye lowered from the darkness above them. Then another, and another, and another until there were seven of them. "I will wreak havoc on the humans once their little toys have been deactivated."
"Your going to destroy the net?" Roll shook her head. "Wouldn't that destroy you too?"
"Only a facet of me. I still have a physical form. I still have a soul, unlike you pathetic programs!"
"A soul..." MegaMan whispered the words.
"That's it! Your going down! I have a physical form! I have a future! And I won't let some seven eyed virus delete my friends!" Zero charged at the eyes and fired his Chain-Rod at them. Before the weapon could strike Ireul however, a orange field blocked the attack. "What?"
"I told you, you are nothing! My AT field is impenetrable!" Another tentacle reached down to slap Zero away, but MegaMan intervened with his buster. "What?? How can this be?"
"From the records we received from Nerv, you 'Angels' were sometimes venerable when you attacked. Taking that simple knowledge and applying it was easy." MegaMan stepped forward, now ready to fight. "And now that we have applied knowledge, you are almost defenseless."
"Wrong yet again little Navi." MegaMan's infected friends stepped in his way. "You're going to be deleted before you can even get close to me!"
"Not if I can help it!"
Zero fired his Chain Rod at ProtoMan. The weapon struck ProtoMan dead on, allowing Zero to drain the virus from him. GutsMan decided that this wasn't a good thing and charged at Zero. Forte lunged and landed a solid punch into GutsMan chest, sending the Navi rolling away. IceMan lobbed several of his Ice grenades at Zero and Forte, but MegaMan switched to his fire style and shot the weapons out of the air. Before Glyde could get involved, Zero had finished curing ProtoMan. He tossed ProtoMan to Roll, who began to tend to his wounds.
Zero now turned his attention to GutsMan, who was still struggling after Forte's punch. Zero fired his Chain Rod again, leaving MegaMan and Forte to cover his back. Forte used his electric rush attack to stun Glyde, while MegaMan used the fire style's elemental strength to counter IceMan's own. Eventually, GutsMan was cured as well. Since Roll had finished healing ProtoMan, she moved on to GutsMan. ProtoMan himself started to contact Chaud...
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Chaud, meanwhile, was about to kiss Yai on the cheek when ProtoMan contacted him. He blushed slightly as he backed away from Yai and picked up his PET.
"Lord Chaud. We are currently fighting Ireul."
"I see. ProtoMan, why did you leave me?"
"I wished to prove my strength and end this matter quickly so you would not have to be involved."
"I see. We will have to discuss this later. Lan! I've gotten in contact with ProtoMan."
"Really?" Lan and the others quickly crowded.
"How's the battle going?" Dex almost knocked Chaud over trying to get closer, which earned him a "Watch it you oaf!" from Chaud.
"Currently, Zero is disinfecting the other Navies. Forte and MegaMan are covering his back, while Roll and myself are supporting them in any way we can. Currently, that included alerting you to our situation."
"I see. ProtoMan, since you are not directly in combat, alert me to when get low on HP so I can get you out." ProtoMan nodded and disappeared again. Chaud set his PET down and returned to sitting by the wall.
Vash sat in front of the computer, Kasumi standing next to him. "So all we get to do is sit here while MegaMan and them fight something that technically can't be defeated?"
"That seems to be it." Chaud nodded as Yai sat next to him again.
"Saito, you'd better pull through this." Lan took the seat next to Vash.
"Saito? Who's Saito?" Vash raised one of his eyebrows, indicating his confusion.
"He's..." Lan explained the entire matter to Vash and Kasumi. After a short while, Shinji withdrew from a game of Egyptian Rat Screw(don't ask me where the name comes from, but it's fun on long car trips.) to join the conversation.
"So your Navi is actually a digital clone of your brother?" Shinji sat down next to Vash.
"That's about the size of it, Ikari-san."
Kasumi, who had been silent throughout the explanation, suddenly had a question. "Does that mean your Navi has a soul?"
"A soul?" Lan thought about if for several minutes. "I... I don't know. Why?"
Kasumi shrugged her shoulders. "I was just wondering."
"Wait... Souls. AT Fields..." Shinji began pacing around the room, all the while speaking his thoughts aloud. "If I remember what Ritsuko said about AT Fields, their really just souls. When I was in Eva and concentrated on my survival, my AT field activated. Usually, I had very little control over it and it just canceled out the Angel's AT Field during close combat..." Shinji stopped in the middle of the room. "If MegaMan has a soul..."
Tory ventured a guess. "Then he could form an AT Field and make Ireul defenseless?"
"Maybe! I'm not sure though, and it may not even work. I've never tried to use an AT Field outside of an Eva. And even still, inside Evangelion my mothers soul comprised the AT Field."
Count Elec dropped his cards. "So your saying that we might be able to beat this thing?"
"I'm not sure... Heck, we were never sure back then either." Shinji laughed, remembering his former guardians crazy 'plan of attack' against the fifth angel. "Lan, Vash, I would stay close to you PETs. You never know when MegaMan or Zero could need a chip or two."
"Speaking of that, if Zero is disinfecting our Navies, then we should be able to reach them soon!" Kasumi raced to plug her PET back in, as did the others...
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As Lan picked up His PET, MegaMan felt a surge of energy flow through him as he changed to the Saito Style. 'Lan! Glad you finally found me, but now you're in danger too! Just means I'll have to be extra careful!' MegaMan snapped out of his thoughts and shot down one of Ireul's tentacles. Meanwhile, Zero pulled his Chain Rod free from Glyde. He tossed him to ProtoMan, who set him next to IceMan. Their work finished, MegaMan, Zero and Forte turned their attention Ireul.
"You disinfected your friends. It seems you may yet present a challenge."
Forte clenched his fists when Ireul spoke. "Shut up Ireul. Roll! Get yourself and the others out of here! You can't help us anymore."
"But..." Roll hesitated as the others left. She couldn't just leave MegaMan and the others here to possibly die, could she? "I want to stay! I CAN still help you!"
"Roll, please! I don't want you getting hurt!" MegaMan turned his back, leaving himself wide open. "Get out of here!!"
"MEGAMAN!!!"
Roll screamed out his name, seeing several of Ireul's tentacles lash out at him. MegaMan wheeled around and tried to shoot them down, as did Zero and Forte. There were too many however, and many of them rammed into the Navi, smashing him against the nearby wall. Roll dashed to MegaMans side while Forte and Zero shot away the tentacles from the fallen Navi. She held his limp form as he began to digitally fall apart, his base code rent to shreds...
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The screen of Lan's PET flashed. "MegaMan? Wha-AAAAAAA!!" Lan screamed out in agony as wounds ripped open all over his body. He fell from the chair, covered in his own blood. His PET was still attached to the computer, and his hand had a vice grip on it.
"Lan!" Maylu was at his side in a flash, as were the rest of the boys friends. Tears were streaming down Maylu's face as she realized what had happened. "No... No! Lan, MegaMan, don't die!"
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Yeah, I'm cutting it off here. The next parts of the story is entirely dependent on Dr. Hikari's words before the LifeVirus battle -I finally killed it- at the end of MegaMan Battle Network 1 (the whole thing about whatever happens to the MegaMan is shared by Lan. If that changed during the second or third game, I apologize). Sorry if I pissed you people off, but this won't be the end of MegaMan OR Lan. That I can promise you 'cause I'm not that evil, so please don't flame me! Also, I apologize for the long authors notes on this chapter.