Megaman Battle Network – The Greatest Challenge
Chapter 1 – Joy
As this fic is set 10 years after Sibiling Rivalry you'll need some updates on the characters.
Sarah and Chaud are engaged, have been for two years but never found the time to arrange the wedding. Sarah is in a teacher training course and still finds time to work for the officials, Chaud took over as head of his fathers company and works for the officials as well.
Yai was put into an arranged marriage by her father and is married to a Netopian businessman. Last Lan and Mayl heard she was expecting a baby.
Lan and Mayl tied the knot (Duh!), Lan works at SciLab whilst Mayl does volunteer work at the hospital, Lan does the odd job for the officials, mainly providing back up if Sarah and Chaud ask for it.
Dex works full time for the officials, needless to say he isn't their best netbattler. Chisao is in college in Netopia.
Sarah and Yai had an arguement over Chaud, alls I'm saying is it was an explosive arguement and Yai needs better timing.
Dr. Hikari is officially retired but is one of those people who just can't pull himself away from his work, he works for SciLab for free now his pension scheme paying what his wages would have. Needless to say, his wife isn't best pleased about this arrangement.
It was 10 years after Lan first met his sister Sarah. With her and his friends he had good times and bad. They'd finished school and college and Sarah got into the record books by being the first navi to gain a human qualification. Sarah had gone onto university and was halfway through a teacher training course. And Lan was married to Mayl.
Lan paced up and down in the corridor, he hadn't been here much since he stopped Alpha. He really was nervous about being here.
"Will you sit down and stop pacing," said Sarah, "You're making me feel nervous."
"Sorry but," said Lan.
"I know, it's not every day that an event like this happens."
Out of the door at the other end of the corridor a figure in a green gown stepped out and walked towards the two of them.
"Congratulations Mr. Hikari," said the figure, "Your wife has just given birth to a healthy baby boy."
Lan and Sarah went in to see Mayl. In her arms she held a baby boy.
"He has his father's eyes," said Sarah looking at the baby's chocolate brown eyes, "Have you two thought of a name for him yet?"
"Lan demanded to name it if it was a boy," said Mayl.
Sarah turned to Lan who was looking at his child with a smile on his face.
"There's only one name I could give my first born boy," said Lan looking at his PET, "Hub."
"Stop embarrassing me," said Megaman.
As it was a holiday Sarah slept in the corridor outside Mayl's room in the hospital. Due to a complication during the birth they were keeping her in to make sure she was ok. Lan had gone to work and had taken Megaman. Their Dad chose that moment to visit.
"Hi honey," said Dr. Hikari, "How are they?"
"They're fine Dad," said Sarah, "Is that the navi you've been working on for the baby?"
"Yes."
"Let's go see Mayl and your grandson."
The two of them went into the room. Mayl smiled and looked over at the sleeping form of Hub.
"What's his name?" asked Dr. Hikari.
"Lan named him so guess," said Mayl.
"Only one name it could be then," said Dr. Hikari, "Welcome to the world Hub."
"Is that the navi?" said Mayl, "Can I see?"
Mayl looked at the PET that Dr. Hikari had brought and Sarah looked too.
"She's so cute," said Sarah.
"I guess the new programs you've been working on work then," said Mayl, "Is this the navibaby system."
"It's an adaptation," said Dr. Hikari, "This navi will grow with Hub and her abilities will change according to how she's been raised."
"How is she raised?" asked Mayl.
"I was hoping Roll and Megaman would agree to be test subjects for raising her," said Dr. Hikari, "It would be a massive breakthrough if the two of them raised an operational navi."
"Sure," said Roll.
Dr. Hikari connected the two PETs and Roll transferred herself into the new one. Picking up the baby navi she went back into her own PET with her.
"Two mothers and two babies," said Sarah.
"The new navi is a combination of Megaman and Roll," said Dr. Hikari, "Unfortunately some Empress data got mixed in. I'm sorry Roll."
"It's ok," said Roll, "Don't worry too much about it."
After keeping her promise for the last nine years Roll had changed a little. Instead of the standard Roll matrix she had permanently gained Empress' high heeled boots and teeth. It had worried her at first but she was used to them now and after a few modifications Sarah and Dr. Hikari had assured her that she wouldn't change anymore.
Roll took the time to look at the navi. She looked a lot like her only she sported more of her 'fathers' amour and it was coloured blue. Her antennae were the same golden colour as Roll's but her hair was brown. Instead of Roll's single flat pigtail she had two which were fuller than Roll's.
"I'm a little jealous of her hair," said Roll, "What's her name?"
"She doesn't have one," said Dr. Hikari, "I was hoping you'd think of one."
Roll looked at the now sleeping figure in her arms. "I know the perfect one," she said.
"What is it then?" said Mayl.
"Una," said Roll.
"One," said Sarah as Roll nodded.
Ok, the stuff up top was easy to think about, now here's the difficult part. My fics now have one of two places, present and future. Future is anytime after this point, present is before this point. Most future fics will in fact be based on Hub and Una so unless stated assume any fic entitled MegaMan Battle Network is in the present and any fic entitled Una.exe is in the future.