Disclaimer:
I do not own Megaman Battle Network.
If I did, things would be a LOT different.
Seriously.
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Author's Note:
Steve's computer has plagued my writing beyond reason. Every time I halfway wrote Chapter 5 here, the laptop crashed and took the work with it. sigh
But guess what? I finally got my new Dell! Yay!
... wait, now I have no excuse for laziness.
I wAS LYING! I HAVE NO SPIFFY NEW COMPUTER!
Anyway, this story will do things a little differently.
While it will still take Forte's point of view every now and then, this chapter will focus on other characters,
mainly Forte's apprentice. Also, from here on in due to issues with and spacing AGAIN, I'm going to have to reinstate the ----'s to do my spacing for me.
Mess that up, Document Manager, I dare you!
By the way, I've recently taken a liking to a certain Lan pairing since I watched the show, so expet a little bit of non-Navi romance. Yes, there's a frickin' age difference. If people can write about gays, incest, and all the other stuff I've seen on I can write a romance about a decade apart.
Oh, and this chapter is NOT a songfic. It was merely inspired by the Evanescense song I took the name from. And to make up for my previous laziness, this chapter will be riddled with a couple of flashbacks filling in the skipped time of when Forte trained Mia. And finally, there will be several cameo Navis from other old Megaman-series games. I apologize in advance if their attacks are inaccurate to their original selves, I can't remember things -that- good. -
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Chapter Five
-Taking Over Me
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-----Mia sat cross-legged before Forte, who stood staring at her with his usual, seemingly heartless eyes. The young neko navi stared back at her trainer, looking a bit sad. "A week of training," Forte said coldly, "and you haven't mastered even the weakest of life aura generating"
----"I'm trying my best"
----"Obviously your best isn't good enough!" Forte said, crossing his arms,
before seeing the little girl beginning to sniffle. He continued to glare impatiently at his pupil, Mia's eyes beginning to well up with tears as she stared back. The cloaked Navi's eye twitched slightly, before he sighed,
kneeling down in front of the young girl. "But we're here to fix that. You'll learn it soon enough." -----Mia nodded, swallowing hard as the waterworks stopped, Forte standing tall once more. "Now, build up your energy and focus it in an empty sphere around you." he said as his own aura materialized around him. Mia sat there for a few minutes, closing her eyes and concentrating on the task as hard as she could. Forte stood in front of her, watching her like a hawk. "Well?" Forte said after another couple of minutes. Mia sighed and opened her eyes. "I can't do it..." she said sadly.
-----"Then you aren't trying hard enough." Forte said, his right arm turning into a buster cannon and pointing it at Mia. "You have the power within you.
Use it"
-----Mia looked up at Forte and swallowed hard. "You wouldn't really shoot me, would you"
-----"You wouldn't really want to find out, would you?" Forte said with a smirk,
cocking his gun and aiming it once more. -----Mia gulped and quickly resumed attempting to recreate her own version of Forte's Life Aura. Silence filled the void of the WWW Server once more as a minute passed by with no progress. "It isn't that difficult." Forte said,
beginning to focus his power into his buster as his aura faded away once more, the barrel of his buster gun beginning to glow yellow. "Consider this your first lesson of combat training. Protect yourself"
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-----Mia stared at the glowing barrel of the gun. "I-I didn't know I'd have to get shot at!" she said a bit panic-stricken. "You didn't say you were going to shoot at me"
-----"Then you will recieve your second lesson, as well." Forte said as he placed his free hand over the gun, ready to fire. "Always expect the unexpected"
-----Mia screamed, closing her eyes as a blinding flash lit up the server, fading after a few seconds to reveal a shining aura around the hacker Navi. Forte laughed slightly, firing at the aura, the shot bouncing off and flying by his head. Mia slowly opened her eyes to look at the aura, letting out a squeal of glee.
"I did it, I did it, I did it!" she said, hopping up and down as her aura faded away.
She leapt at Forte, pouncing him onto the hard platform in a hug, still shouting triumphantly. "Didja see that? I did it! I did it"
-----Forte seemed irritated by this gesture of affection at first, but eventually sighed and brought his arms around to hug the neko navi back. Mia began letting out a sound similar to purring, feeling happy for the first time since .
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-----She blinked as she felt cold once more, Forte and the WWW fading around her.
She was back inside the little virtual sanctuary that was her old PET, a small square pink platform surrounded by a bubbly void. A large screen in front of her showed her the outside world, where her operator, a young girl with brown pigtails,
was currently in the backseat of a minivan, her mother driving her to a toy store no doubt. It was pouring down rain outside, and she felt very happy to be in the warm shelter of the car, forgetting about her previous flashback for some reason.
The young feline Navi stretched out, lying on her back as the screen moved above her as if to keep an eye on her. "You sure look excited today, Megan." the young navi commented. "What's going on"
-----The girl ignored the navi as her mother parked the car and ran into a toy store, her father sitting in the passenger seat to keep an eye on her. Mia looked near the window and saw the volume was muted for some reason. "Odd.." Mia said,
puzzled. "It's not like Megan to mute me ... Must have been an accident"
-----Megan stared out the window into the pouring rain, watching for her mom to return. Her father sat in silence for a few minutes before turning around to face his daughter. "Your uncle was really nice to custom-make a navi like Mia for you..." he said, his daughter ignoring every word of it. "You really should be more grateful"
-----"Well, he should've made her a better fighter." Megan said, continuing to stare out the window. Mia laughed a little bit, as Megan always teased her about that. It was true. She didn't know the first thing about combat, and couldn't even use the majority of battlechips right. The father sighed and turned to face the dashboard once more as Megan's mother returned to the car, soaking wet, and handed a bag over to the dad.
-----"What's that?" Mia asked, mostly to herself since her PET was muted, as Megan's father began tinkering with some toy of some sort, Megan repeatedly saying "thank you"
the entire five minutes it took.
-----"There you go." he said, passing back the odd device to his daughter. Mia blinked,
a slight horror of being replaced taking over as she recognized the device to be a PET,
but she quickly dismissed the thought. "Probably a new Navi to help me fight." Mia said,
watching her operator boot up the new PET as Megan's mother cranked up the car and began the drive home. Mia heard the new Navi's voice, and became curious. "Megan, let me see!" Mia said, before remembering the volume was muted still. She reached up and closed her eyes as she concentrated, doing a basic hack of the PET to switch the volume back to normal. Mia looked at the window above her now that the volume was unmuted.
"Megan, let me see"
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-----"What..?" the girl said, before picking up Mia's PET. Mia looked over at the other PET and saw a strange green Navi, who's lower half was a silver, robotic horse body. He held a long lance in his hands as he looked up at the feline Navi. "Hi, I'm Mia, what's your name?" she called to the other PET.
-----"Centaurman." the other Navi said in a deep, smooth voice. "Pleasure to meet you,
didn't know I'd be sharing an operator"
-----"You're not." Megan said, looking at Mia's PET. "This one's a defect"
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-----"Defect!" Mia said, staring up at her operator. "I most certainly am not defective! What-What're you doing?" -----The feline navi stared up in horror as her operator reached and pressed the button to turn off the PET, the void fading to darkness as the power turned off. Mia stared around as the darkness surrounded her, her mind swimming with disbelief, anger, horror, and sorrow, letting out an ear-splitting scream .
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-----Mia screamed as she woke up, gasping for air as she sat up on the small pallet set up on a little square platform surrounded by shallow, crystal clear water. She put a hand to her forehead, wiping some sweat from her brow, her long raven hair falling to hide her face. After Forte vanished, Mia tried her hardest to track him, but even with her hacking prowess she was unable to trace where he went. And despite aiding a sinister Navi regain power, Serenade allowed Mia to continue living in her palace.
-----"What's the matter"
-----The feline Navi turned to see a woman in white pants and a black tube tob walking towards her, long pink strips of cloth streaming behind her. The Underqueen walked up to Mia and sat next to her, a look of concern visible through the open gold helm. "I heard you screaming just then. Did you have a bad dream"
-----Mia nodded, wishing it was Forte there to comfort her instead of Serenade. "Unlike humans, dreams of navis are often just images of the past. What memories could be tormenting you so"
-----"None of your business." Mia said, staring off into the endless waters. Serenade smiled knowingly - a smile that has always irritated Mia for as long as she could remember knowing the queen of the undernet. -----"You miss him already, don't you?" Serenade asked. Mia sat in silence for a split second before nearly hissing at the queen.
-----"Why would I miss that egotistical jerk!" Mia said quickly. "I was just using him to learn how to fight. That's all"
-----"If you were just using him," Serenade said, "you wouldn't have saved him. Had he been left in his condition after just escaping Alpha, the net officials would have soon discovered and deleted his remains"
-----"Yes, well ... It was my duty." Mia said matter-of-factly. "I was simply repaying him for teaching me how to defend myself. A pupil is entitled to, if not expected to,
protect his or her master in time of need"
-----"Ah, yes." Serenade said, giggling just slightly, before trying to sound serious once more. "And isn't a pupil entitled to, if not expected to, find his or her master should he or she vanish"
-----"I've tried, he didn't leave any traces of any kind." Mia sighed. Serenade grinned. "So you must miss him if you've been searching for him." she commented.
-----"Yes! Fine! I miss him! Happy now?" Mia said, sticking her tongue out at the queen of the undernet. -----"Yes." Serenade said, giggling once more, before becoming serious once more. "The question is, are you happy just sitting there waiting"
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-----There was a long silence after that, before Serenade stood up and began walking away. "Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist you, if I'm not busy of coarse." she called back, taking the Undernet rank 1 from a nearby phantom navi and vanishing to redistribute it.
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-----Mia sat there in silent thought for a minute or so, staring at her reflection in the waters below. 'What's wrong with me...?' she thought to herself, staring at her own sad expression. 'He's always so cold, he treats me like a child...' She started to sound angry as her facial features changed to match her mood.
-----'Why should I care if he... if that stupid jerk dies, I shouldn't!' she yelled in her mind, splashing her reflection and staring at it as the water slowly calmed,
imagining Forte's face in place of her own as her anger faded into the same sorrow she'd been feeling a lot lately. 'I really shouldn't'
-----She began remembering all the good times she'd spent with Forte, remembering how despite his cold behavior, he always slipped up and showed he cared for her.
The only Navi who cared for her besides Serenade, but Serenade was more of a mother than anything. She hugged her knees close to her, feeling a couple of tears escape her eyes as she stared off into the void as voices ran through her mind.
-----"Your age really shows." she heard Forte's laughing voice. At the moment, she felt no better than a helpless child... but she had tried her best to find him.
-----"Obviously your best isn't good enough!" she heard Forte's voice yell in her mind from when he was training her a long time ago. "... but we're here to fix that"
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-----She began to remember how Forte never gave up on her no matter what happened,
how the only cruelty he ever showed was for the best when she was training under him. "... I won't give up on you either." Mia said, standing up and putting her black cloak on, looking up and closing her eyes, vanishing to begin her search once more.
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------In a dark, mysterious server in the deepest reaches of the Net, a cloaked Navi could be seen stirring as he just woke up, shaking his head slightly as he stood. "Where.. where did you take us, Gospel?" Forte said, deeply inhaling as he closed his eyes. "This place... I've never felt anything like it." he said as he felt a dark power begin to fill him with each breath. "I can feel my strength returning"
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------He suddenly opened his eyes and turned around to open fire, blasting off the head of a shadowy Navi behind him as the rest of its body shattered. The Super Navi scowled, glaring around through the darkness around him as he saw other dark figures moving around. "I'm feeling generous today. Leave now and I might let you live." Forte warned. The shadowy navis around him just snickered, each one pulling out a weapon and advancing on him as several bombs and shots were hurled in his direction, a large explosion surrounding Forte moments later. ------The dark Navis continued to cackle, but quickly shut up as they realized, much to their horror, that beneath the fading smoke, the black-armoured Navi stood tall, a shining purple aura around him. Forte glared at the Navis as his right arm became cracked and grey, morphing into Gospel's head, pointing it at one of the terrified dark Navis and firing a large stream of energy from Gospel's mouth, nothing but a few ashes strolled across the platform left as proof a Navi once stood there.
Forte smirked cruelly as he glared at the other Navis, the rest of them running in fear as he blasted two more of them, his arm turning back to normal afterwards as he popped his neck, relaxing.
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-------"Bravo, Forte." cackled a familiar old voice. Forte turned around to glare cruelly at an old man standing behind him with unkempt white hair and a white lab coat. ------"You... You're supposed to be dead." Forte said, scowling. "I heard Alpha absorbing you"
------"Did you honestly think the most brilliant human mind in the world wouldn't create virtual backups of himself?" the infamous Dr.Wily said. ------"Relentless old man.." Forte said, his left arm turning into a gun as he pointed it to Wily's head, cocking it back. "Let's see if you were smart enough to make more than one"
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------"Wait!" Wily yelled. "Kill me now and you'll never get what you desire most"
------"And what would that be?" Forte scowled, charging his buster gun.
------"Revenge against the humans." Wily said. "I have something that will help you do that now"
------"And why would you go out of your way to find me just to give it to me?
You hate me as much as I hate you." Forte said, his glare not fading for a moment.
------"I always keep a promise. Besides, I need somebody to test it." Wily said with a shrug as he pulled out a small shining crystal. "This is a working beta version of a navi materialization program. It has a few bugs in it, but it will should work"
------"Your not sure of your own program, and you call yourself a genius?" Forte said with a smirk.
------"It is extremely hard to defy the laws of physics even for me!" Wily yelled,
before calming down once again. "It isn't easy to use, that's the main bug in the programming, and the reason I haven't been able to test it yet"
------"What good is a flawed program to me?" Forte said. "I think I'll just shut you up now and get this over with"
------"Have patience, you fool, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!" Wily said with a growl. "The only reason I'm even rewarding you for helping me is we're both very much alike"
------"Don't ever compare me to scum like you." Forte said icily, his left arm morphing into Gospel's head, the wolf snarling at the mad scientist.
------"Fine." Wily said. "You're very smart like me as well... you'll be able to work through the flaws in the program"
------"I'm losing my patience with you, old man, get to the point"
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------"The program will allow you to form your body in the human world, but in order to do it, you must have a great deal of energy yourself, as well as great knowledge in hacking. Unfortunately, since the program is such a difficult thing to accomplish, one Navi's energy isn't enough to materialize anywhere. You must find a port leading directly to the Human World, such as a computer port or a port in a large server for people to jack into for maintenance, and hack through it with the program. And whatever you do it from, it has to have a very strong source of power... such as a SciLab server, or the servers for a large television station." Wily handed the program to Forte. "I'm sure you can figure something out"
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------Forte looked at the program warily as Gospel took it in its mouth, swallowing it as the super navi began absorbing the program.
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------Suddenly Forte's entire body up to his neck turned into the cracked grey pattern of bugfrags, yelling as a shining light poured from the cracks along his body, especially in the middle of his chest as the program installed itself in his form. Wily cackled a little bit as the glow faded, Forte falling to the ground,
gasping for air. ------"What... what did you do to me...?" Forte said as he staggared up.
------"Don't worry, I would be a fool to destroy the only Navi powerful enough to beta test my ingenious program." Wily said. "The program has installed itself in you,
set to automatically activate whenever you attempt to traverse through a port between the cyber world and the human world"
------Forte stood up and looked at his hands as his body recovered its old look once more. He smirked, quickly charging his buster and pointing it at Wily's head.
"Allow me to say thanks." he said.
------"Wai--" Wily started to say before his digital head was blown off his shoulders in one big shotgun burst. Forte put his gun away as his cloak covered his body once more, closing his eyes. "That felt good"
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-------He heard a soft growling from beneath his cloak and looked down. "Gospel, we need to find somebody... you got us here, take us back to somewhere I know." Forte demanded, as he vanished into the darkness once more.
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------In the Human World, the people of the DNN Server were in a panic as all of their television stations were going ballistic, and all Navis they had sent in to figure out what was going on had been swarmed with viruses and deleted. Fortunately, they had called for professional help half an hour ago, and as well over half of the server became currupted by whoever was doing this, a group of pro NetBattlers were already headed up the stairs to the DNN servers to deal with it.
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------A man with shades and a long white trenchcoat walked into the room first, saying in a somewhat strong british accent, "What's the situation"
------"Our last team found the hacker, but wasn't able to do anything ... It appeared to be a Navi without a net-op causing all of this chaos." one of the directors said as he pulled his PET out of the control panel to allow more room for the newcomers. A young boy with brown hair and a bandana came in next to the man in the white trenchcoat.
------"Lan, do you think it's him?" Megaman asked from inside the brown haired boy's PET.
------"I don't think so... Mr. Famous, has Sci-Labs had any trouble with Forte in a while?" Lan asked.
------"No, there've been no more sightings of the super navi, though we still have navis hunting him untill we have proof of his deletion"
------"You're pathetic if you can't deal with an abandoned Navi." a boy with layered white and black hair said coldly as he joined the other two, followed by a somewhat large boy with a mohawk and darker skin, a taller and more professional looking man with glasses and slightly messy orange hair, sighing slightly. "You can't underestimate any Navi." he said as the netbattlers took seats around the control room, a young lady with two long brown ponytails taking a seat beside the orange haired man, and a woman in her twenties with long black hair and a little razor wheel hairpin in her hair sitting beside Lan.
-------"Ready for an awesome battle, Lan?" the woman said as everyone plugged their PETs into the server and putting in battlechips as they prepared to jack in.
-------"It's only another virus-throwing navi... it won't be very challenging." Lan said with a slight smirk. "I bet me and Megaman'll take it down before the rest of you can blink"
-------"I'll take that bet!" the young woman said with a grin, a fire burning in her eyes. "At the end of the fight, whoever deleted the most viruses wins - the Navi sending them counts for ten"
-------"Yeah, if I win, you have to buy us all a pizza!" Lan said, the same competitive look in his eyes.
-------"Oh, yeah! Tomako, lay it easy on Lan, I'm hungry!" Dex said.
-------"Easy on me? H-Hey! Who's side are you on?" Lan said, glaring at Dex.
-------"Fine, and if I win, you'll have to go and eat pizza with me, in a fancy italian resturaunt, just the two of us"
-------"H-Huh?" Lan said, looking up at Tomako, his face a little red. "You mean like ..." His mind began to wander.
-------"And you'll have to pay for it." -------"Ahh!" Lan said, snapping out of his near-daydream as he realized money was at stake. "You're on! Megaman, jack in!" Lan shouted as everyone jacked their Navis into the hectic server.
-------"Those two will never grow up." Mr.Famous said with a chuckle.
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-------Deep in the heart of the abandoned WWW Server, lost and hidden amidst an endless sea of platforms, a young Navi could be seen hiding under a staircase, curled up into a ball, crying softly to herself. "Why did I have to be designed so young"
she sobbed quietly. "I'm just a kid in his eyes... I'm 'like a daughter to him'..." she said, bitterly remembering the words that, the first time she heard them, had felt rather special at the time. "Why can't that idiot treat me like an equal..? Why can't he feel the same way I do"
-------She stared off into the endless void of the WWW as she cried, knowing it was ridiculous to be so emotional but not caring whatsoever. "Why can't he love me too..." A few seconds after the words left her lips, she felt a hand softly rest upon her shoulder.
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-------Mia closed her eyes and smiled at the rest of the memory, standing amidst an army of Mettaurs that were wrecking the DNN server, most of the background ripped open to reveal a black void with green numbers & symbols. She opened her eyes after a few moments, pulling down a few screens to watch a few broadcasts, browsing through countless different shows. "Honestly, how can humans watch this garbage?" she said as she flipped through late night TV. "Eww"
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-------She turned around and realized that, amidst the complicated tangle of platforms that was the DNN Server, all of her Mettaur viruses had vanished. "What the.." she said,
before looking down the stairs from her current platform to see Megaman, Gateman,
Gutsman, a commercial grade Navi with odd armor colors, Protoman, Metalman, and a very familiar Navi, green with a cybernetic right arm and a robotic horse for a lower body, a long javelin in his left hand... "You're under arrest!" Gateman shouted.
-------Mia and the Centaur locked looks and both looked shocked to see eachother,
before Mia growled. "You!" she screamed as a pink aura of power surrounded her, much like Forte's. "You're the Navi I saw that day! You're the Navi who ruined my life!" she hissed as she made five round silver Hardhead viruses appear, each one opening its large mouth to begin blowing away the stairs. -------"And you're the defective Navi my operator got rid of.." Centaurman said in the familiar deep voice. -------"I'M NOT DEFECTIVE!" Mia screamed as her aura exploded, decimating her hardhead viruses, her platform, and the stairs as she floated in the middle of the void, glaring at the heroic band of Navis, her fists glowing with rage-induced power, a new aura reforming around her as the navis began hurling projectiles at her. She stood with a laugh as all of their shots bounced off.
-------"Who's defective now!" Mia shouted with an arrogant laugh, before her aura began sparking a bit as it flickered away. Her ears dropped as she realize her shield had vanished, and screamed as she hacked her way onto a higher platform, summoning three large black wall Dominerd viruses around herself.
-------"Come on, let's go!" Megaman shouted as he and Gateman led the pack of heroes up the stairs towards the hacker Navi. -------"Megaman, make sure we get the last hit on her!" Lan called to his Navi. "We're behind by five points... and I don't want to lose my allowance!" whined Megaman's operator.
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-------Thousands of screens popped up around the wrecked server, each one with Mia's tongue sticking out at them. "Let's see you make it all the way up here"
she said with a smirk as viruses began to pour down the long spiraling staircase leading to the platform she was at.
-------"Metalman, crush'em all! Don't let Lan catch up!" Tomako shouted as a wave of spiny-furred wolf viruses began to run towards the heroes, spewing flames towards them. Gutsman smashed his fists into the ground, causing shockwaves to slam into the fireballs, bursting them early to create a smokescreen for Protoman to dash through with a shower of cover fire, slicing through the rest of the wolves in seconds. -
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-------"... Don't kill the Navi when we get to her. Take her alive." the orange haired scientist said.
-------"What?" Lan shouted. "But.. I need those points to win the bet"
-------"Don't delete her." -------"Just give the points to whoever captures her!" Dex said, trying to help Lan out so he can get a slice of the victory pizza.
-------"Uncle, who cares what happens to a stray Navi?" the young brown-haired lady said, sounding slightly annoyed. "It'd be a lot easier to delete her now"
-------"I want to capture her intact. Don't delete her." the scientist said,
giving his niece a stern look. "We wouldn't be dealing with this now if not for the irresponsibility of certain operators"
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-------The team of navis reached the top platform after deleting countless hundreds of viruses, Mia standing in the middle of it, her face still as cocky as ever. "Megaman, go get'er quick!" Lan shouted, as the blue bomber quickly charged his bsuter gun and fired a shot at the hacker Navi.
-------Right as the buster shot was about to blast Mia in the face, a large black wall virus with wicked white eyes sprung up to block the shot before vanishing, another one appearing in front of Megaman and opening its mouth to chomp down on him.
-------"Ahhh..!" Megaman started to shout, before a long spear shot into its mouth,
shattering it into fragments. The commercial-grade Navi's arm turned into a cannon as he blasted at Mia again, a second Dominerd wall springing up to block it, before teleporting into the Navi's face to do the same trick, the cannon arm of the Navi transforming into a blade as he sliced the dark wall virus in half.
-------"Go away!" Mia shouted, pulling out a pair of buster guns and beginning to rapidly spray at the heroes. Metalman rushed towards the hacker navi, her shots bouncing off of his hard armor as his fist began shining. Mia screamed, falling backwards as a third and final Dominerd sprung up to protect her, Metalman's fist shattering the Dominerd with ease and nearly crushing Mia's foot.
-------"Careful!" the orange-haired scientist exclaimed as Tomako's navi nearly crushed Mia. -------"Leave me alone!" Mia screamed, her face appearing on every channel's screen that filled the server as she tried to crawl away from the heroes, her once cocky smirks replaced by a look of horror. "Go away"
-------"Don't delete her." the commercial-grade Navi said, Metalman nodding in agreement and walking back to the group.
-------"Megaman, that last dominerd makes my score eleven above yours.." Tomako said with a laugh. "Someone owes me dinner"
-------"Aww, man..." Lan sighed. "There goes my allowance for a month"
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-------Suddenly, before anyone could stop him, Centaurman hurled a javelin at Mia. At that moment, everything seemed to slow down; the commercial Navi shouted out "No!", everyone else gasped with mild surprise, the brown-haired girl with pigtails smirked cruelly, and Mia screamed, closing her eyes as the spear hurdled towards her head, the server quaking as if the damage she'd done to it had finally taken its toll.
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-------And as fast as the spear had been thrown, a blinding flash lit up the server as the sound of the spear shattering could be heard. As the light slowly faded, everyone stared in surprise at a cloaked Navi with a dark purple aura of power surrounding him, the shattered pieces of the spear fallling from the edge of his shield. --------Mia slowly opened her eyes to look at her old master, realizing she was surrounded by his aura, and squealed as she ran around to wrap her arms around his waist, hugging him close and nuzzling his chest. "Forte..." she said with a purr as the cloaked Navi wrapped his arms around her, glaring at the hero navis.
--------"You won't get away this time, Forte!" the commercial Navi shouted. "There are far too many of us and only one of you"
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------"Forte'll delete all of you for messing with me!" Mia shouted, sticking her tongue out at the other navis. Forte's body faded to grey as it cracked all over from his neck down, reverting to its bugfrag form as bugfrags began to slowly envelop Mia's body.
------"Wh-What're you doing!" Mia shrieked as she felt bugfrags crawling around her body.
------"I'm saving us both..." Forte said as his aura began shining so brightly no one could see what was happening inside. The entire server began to tremble, barely able to contain the power coming from the super Navi as he united with his apprentice, his shining aura growing bigger and bigger untill it exploded, sending all the heroes sprawling backwards down the long winding stairs to a large platform below, the entire platform Forte was on and the stairway leading to it shattering.
------As the flames and smoke from the explosion faded away, everyone stared up in horror to see Forte hovering up above, his cloak ripped in many places; the wings on his helmet had extended and grew somewhat spikey, his armor trimmed in purple instead of yellow with long, purple and black cybernetic angel wings sprouting from his back as he glared down at the heroes with shining white eyes, a black aura surrounding him.
"Pitiful Navi Slaves, your time has finally come!" Forte and Mia's voice yelled, the server flickering and glitching up everywhere as the last bit of it that had remain uncurrupted shattered, leaving the server in darkness except for a small group of broken platforms floating in the endless void. "This will be the beginning of the end for all of mankind"
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must make a choice now. Here's how the contest will work. Follow these rules or you probably won't be able to win anything.
Inside this chapter is a line from a Megaman game. Find it, and email me at with the subject "Megaman Fanfiction Contest." Inside the email,
put your answer first - go ahead and guess, because if I like the rest of your email, I'll probably still count you in. After the answer, you must choose whether to join the heroes and fight alongside Lan and company to save both worlds, or choose to become one of Forte's loyal followers and help him to destroy humanity. In your email, say which side you want to join, then follow the next instructions carefully.
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I need a name for your NetOp (you) if you're Good, if you're evil you're just a Navi.
Either way, I also need a name for your NetNavi - try to come up with an original one,
because I don't want to see a bunch of clones walking around, except for commercial navis perhaps. If you want a Commercial Grade Navi, just pick a bodystyle (Normal,
or Undernet), pick your body colors and what battlechips you use, and your personality,
along with some quotes you may say in battle. If you want a custom navi, give me a complete description of him/her, what special abilities your Navi can use, your personality, and some quotes you may say in battle. Of coarse, bear in mind if you choose evil, you're guarenteed to be deleted. If you're a good guy, you may be deleted anyway - to make it easier to decide which heroes will go down, put in your email if you don't mind being deleted in epic battle or not. And please, no god-modding. I hate that. In other words, no navis with "SuperUltraMegaHyperUber1337haxX0rzpwnage Cannon that blows everyone up" attacks,
or being completely invincible - it just wouldn't be fair. If your Navi is expected to be completely untouchable, it won't make an appearance. I'm going to hold off on updating for a short while to give you all a chance to enter - if the chapter after this is already made, sorry, you missed your chance. If you enter in time, however,
you'll make an apperance in a huge war that will take place next chapter.
Good luck, have fun, and um. Review. Please. Pretty please?
If I did, things would be a LOT different.
Seriously.
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Author's Note:
Steve's computer has plagued my writing beyond reason. Every time I halfway wrote Chapter 5 here, the laptop crashed and took the work with it. sigh
But guess what? I finally got my new Dell! Yay!
... wait, now I have no excuse for laziness.
I wAS LYING! I HAVE NO SPIFFY NEW COMPUTER!
Anyway, this story will do things a little differently.
While it will still take Forte's point of view every now and then, this chapter will focus on other characters,
mainly Forte's apprentice. Also, from here on in due to issues with and spacing AGAIN, I'm going to have to reinstate the ----'s to do my spacing for me.
Mess that up, Document Manager, I dare you!
By the way, I've recently taken a liking to a certain Lan pairing since I watched the show, so expet a little bit of non-Navi romance. Yes, there's a frickin' age difference. If people can write about gays, incest, and all the other stuff I've seen on I can write a romance about a decade apart.
Oh, and this chapter is NOT a songfic. It was merely inspired by the Evanescense song I took the name from. And to make up for my previous laziness, this chapter will be riddled with a couple of flashbacks filling in the skipped time of when Forte trained Mia. And finally, there will be several cameo Navis from other old Megaman-series games. I apologize in advance if their attacks are inaccurate to their original selves, I can't remember things -that- good. -
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Chapter Five
-Taking Over Me
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-----Mia sat cross-legged before Forte, who stood staring at her with his usual, seemingly heartless eyes. The young neko navi stared back at her trainer, looking a bit sad. "A week of training," Forte said coldly, "and you haven't mastered even the weakest of life aura generating"
----"I'm trying my best"
----"Obviously your best isn't good enough!" Forte said, crossing his arms,
before seeing the little girl beginning to sniffle. He continued to glare impatiently at his pupil, Mia's eyes beginning to well up with tears as she stared back. The cloaked Navi's eye twitched slightly, before he sighed,
kneeling down in front of the young girl. "But we're here to fix that. You'll learn it soon enough." -----Mia nodded, swallowing hard as the waterworks stopped, Forte standing tall once more. "Now, build up your energy and focus it in an empty sphere around you." he said as his own aura materialized around him. Mia sat there for a few minutes, closing her eyes and concentrating on the task as hard as she could. Forte stood in front of her, watching her like a hawk. "Well?" Forte said after another couple of minutes. Mia sighed and opened her eyes. "I can't do it..." she said sadly.
-----"Then you aren't trying hard enough." Forte said, his right arm turning into a buster cannon and pointing it at Mia. "You have the power within you.
Use it"
-----Mia looked up at Forte and swallowed hard. "You wouldn't really shoot me, would you"
-----"You wouldn't really want to find out, would you?" Forte said with a smirk,
cocking his gun and aiming it once more. -----Mia gulped and quickly resumed attempting to recreate her own version of Forte's Life Aura. Silence filled the void of the WWW Server once more as a minute passed by with no progress. "It isn't that difficult." Forte said,
beginning to focus his power into his buster as his aura faded away once more, the barrel of his buster gun beginning to glow yellow. "Consider this your first lesson of combat training. Protect yourself"
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-----Mia stared at the glowing barrel of the gun. "I-I didn't know I'd have to get shot at!" she said a bit panic-stricken. "You didn't say you were going to shoot at me"
-----"Then you will recieve your second lesson, as well." Forte said as he placed his free hand over the gun, ready to fire. "Always expect the unexpected"
-----Mia screamed, closing her eyes as a blinding flash lit up the server, fading after a few seconds to reveal a shining aura around the hacker Navi. Forte laughed slightly, firing at the aura, the shot bouncing off and flying by his head. Mia slowly opened her eyes to look at the aura, letting out a squeal of glee.
"I did it, I did it, I did it!" she said, hopping up and down as her aura faded away.
She leapt at Forte, pouncing him onto the hard platform in a hug, still shouting triumphantly. "Didja see that? I did it! I did it"
-----Forte seemed irritated by this gesture of affection at first, but eventually sighed and brought his arms around to hug the neko navi back. Mia began letting out a sound similar to purring, feeling happy for the first time since .
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-----She blinked as she felt cold once more, Forte and the WWW fading around her.
She was back inside the little virtual sanctuary that was her old PET, a small square pink platform surrounded by a bubbly void. A large screen in front of her showed her the outside world, where her operator, a young girl with brown pigtails,
was currently in the backseat of a minivan, her mother driving her to a toy store no doubt. It was pouring down rain outside, and she felt very happy to be in the warm shelter of the car, forgetting about her previous flashback for some reason.
The young feline Navi stretched out, lying on her back as the screen moved above her as if to keep an eye on her. "You sure look excited today, Megan." the young navi commented. "What's going on"
-----The girl ignored the navi as her mother parked the car and ran into a toy store, her father sitting in the passenger seat to keep an eye on her. Mia looked near the window and saw the volume was muted for some reason. "Odd.." Mia said,
puzzled. "It's not like Megan to mute me ... Must have been an accident"
-----Megan stared out the window into the pouring rain, watching for her mom to return. Her father sat in silence for a few minutes before turning around to face his daughter. "Your uncle was really nice to custom-make a navi like Mia for you..." he said, his daughter ignoring every word of it. "You really should be more grateful"
-----"Well, he should've made her a better fighter." Megan said, continuing to stare out the window. Mia laughed a little bit, as Megan always teased her about that. It was true. She didn't know the first thing about combat, and couldn't even use the majority of battlechips right. The father sighed and turned to face the dashboard once more as Megan's mother returned to the car, soaking wet, and handed a bag over to the dad.
-----"What's that?" Mia asked, mostly to herself since her PET was muted, as Megan's father began tinkering with some toy of some sort, Megan repeatedly saying "thank you"
the entire five minutes it took.
-----"There you go." he said, passing back the odd device to his daughter. Mia blinked,
a slight horror of being replaced taking over as she recognized the device to be a PET,
but she quickly dismissed the thought. "Probably a new Navi to help me fight." Mia said,
watching her operator boot up the new PET as Megan's mother cranked up the car and began the drive home. Mia heard the new Navi's voice, and became curious. "Megan, let me see!" Mia said, before remembering the volume was muted still. She reached up and closed her eyes as she concentrated, doing a basic hack of the PET to switch the volume back to normal. Mia looked at the window above her now that the volume was unmuted.
"Megan, let me see"
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-----"What..?" the girl said, before picking up Mia's PET. Mia looked over at the other PET and saw a strange green Navi, who's lower half was a silver, robotic horse body. He held a long lance in his hands as he looked up at the feline Navi. "Hi, I'm Mia, what's your name?" she called to the other PET.
-----"Centaurman." the other Navi said in a deep, smooth voice. "Pleasure to meet you,
didn't know I'd be sharing an operator"
-----"You're not." Megan said, looking at Mia's PET. "This one's a defect"
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-----"Defect!" Mia said, staring up at her operator. "I most certainly am not defective! What-What're you doing?" -----The feline navi stared up in horror as her operator reached and pressed the button to turn off the PET, the void fading to darkness as the power turned off. Mia stared around as the darkness surrounded her, her mind swimming with disbelief, anger, horror, and sorrow, letting out an ear-splitting scream .
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-----Mia screamed as she woke up, gasping for air as she sat up on the small pallet set up on a little square platform surrounded by shallow, crystal clear water. She put a hand to her forehead, wiping some sweat from her brow, her long raven hair falling to hide her face. After Forte vanished, Mia tried her hardest to track him, but even with her hacking prowess she was unable to trace where he went. And despite aiding a sinister Navi regain power, Serenade allowed Mia to continue living in her palace.
-----"What's the matter"
-----The feline Navi turned to see a woman in white pants and a black tube tob walking towards her, long pink strips of cloth streaming behind her. The Underqueen walked up to Mia and sat next to her, a look of concern visible through the open gold helm. "I heard you screaming just then. Did you have a bad dream"
-----Mia nodded, wishing it was Forte there to comfort her instead of Serenade. "Unlike humans, dreams of navis are often just images of the past. What memories could be tormenting you so"
-----"None of your business." Mia said, staring off into the endless waters. Serenade smiled knowingly - a smile that has always irritated Mia for as long as she could remember knowing the queen of the undernet. -----"You miss him already, don't you?" Serenade asked. Mia sat in silence for a split second before nearly hissing at the queen.
-----"Why would I miss that egotistical jerk!" Mia said quickly. "I was just using him to learn how to fight. That's all"
-----"If you were just using him," Serenade said, "you wouldn't have saved him. Had he been left in his condition after just escaping Alpha, the net officials would have soon discovered and deleted his remains"
-----"Yes, well ... It was my duty." Mia said matter-of-factly. "I was simply repaying him for teaching me how to defend myself. A pupil is entitled to, if not expected to,
protect his or her master in time of need"
-----"Ah, yes." Serenade said, giggling just slightly, before trying to sound serious once more. "And isn't a pupil entitled to, if not expected to, find his or her master should he or she vanish"
-----"I've tried, he didn't leave any traces of any kind." Mia sighed. Serenade grinned. "So you must miss him if you've been searching for him." she commented.
-----"Yes! Fine! I miss him! Happy now?" Mia said, sticking her tongue out at the queen of the undernet. -----"Yes." Serenade said, giggling once more, before becoming serious once more. "The question is, are you happy just sitting there waiting"
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-----There was a long silence after that, before Serenade stood up and began walking away. "Let me know if there's anything I can do to assist you, if I'm not busy of coarse." she called back, taking the Undernet rank 1 from a nearby phantom navi and vanishing to redistribute it.
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-----Mia sat there in silent thought for a minute or so, staring at her reflection in the waters below. 'What's wrong with me...?' she thought to herself, staring at her own sad expression. 'He's always so cold, he treats me like a child...' She started to sound angry as her facial features changed to match her mood.
-----'Why should I care if he... if that stupid jerk dies, I shouldn't!' she yelled in her mind, splashing her reflection and staring at it as the water slowly calmed,
imagining Forte's face in place of her own as her anger faded into the same sorrow she'd been feeling a lot lately. 'I really shouldn't'
-----She began remembering all the good times she'd spent with Forte, remembering how despite his cold behavior, he always slipped up and showed he cared for her.
The only Navi who cared for her besides Serenade, but Serenade was more of a mother than anything. She hugged her knees close to her, feeling a couple of tears escape her eyes as she stared off into the void as voices ran through her mind.
-----"Your age really shows." she heard Forte's laughing voice. At the moment, she felt no better than a helpless child... but she had tried her best to find him.
-----"Obviously your best isn't good enough!" she heard Forte's voice yell in her mind from when he was training her a long time ago. "... but we're here to fix that"
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-----She began to remember how Forte never gave up on her no matter what happened,
how the only cruelty he ever showed was for the best when she was training under him. "... I won't give up on you either." Mia said, standing up and putting her black cloak on, looking up and closing her eyes, vanishing to begin her search once more.
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------In a dark, mysterious server in the deepest reaches of the Net, a cloaked Navi could be seen stirring as he just woke up, shaking his head slightly as he stood. "Where.. where did you take us, Gospel?" Forte said, deeply inhaling as he closed his eyes. "This place... I've never felt anything like it." he said as he felt a dark power begin to fill him with each breath. "I can feel my strength returning"
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------He suddenly opened his eyes and turned around to open fire, blasting off the head of a shadowy Navi behind him as the rest of its body shattered. The Super Navi scowled, glaring around through the darkness around him as he saw other dark figures moving around. "I'm feeling generous today. Leave now and I might let you live." Forte warned. The shadowy navis around him just snickered, each one pulling out a weapon and advancing on him as several bombs and shots were hurled in his direction, a large explosion surrounding Forte moments later. ------The dark Navis continued to cackle, but quickly shut up as they realized, much to their horror, that beneath the fading smoke, the black-armoured Navi stood tall, a shining purple aura around him. Forte glared at the Navis as his right arm became cracked and grey, morphing into Gospel's head, pointing it at one of the terrified dark Navis and firing a large stream of energy from Gospel's mouth, nothing but a few ashes strolled across the platform left as proof a Navi once stood there.
Forte smirked cruelly as he glared at the other Navis, the rest of them running in fear as he blasted two more of them, his arm turning back to normal afterwards as he popped his neck, relaxing.
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-------"Bravo, Forte." cackled a familiar old voice. Forte turned around to glare cruelly at an old man standing behind him with unkempt white hair and a white lab coat. ------"You... You're supposed to be dead." Forte said, scowling. "I heard Alpha absorbing you"
------"Did you honestly think the most brilliant human mind in the world wouldn't create virtual backups of himself?" the infamous Dr.Wily said. ------"Relentless old man.." Forte said, his left arm turning into a gun as he pointed it to Wily's head, cocking it back. "Let's see if you were smart enough to make more than one"
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------"Wait!" Wily yelled. "Kill me now and you'll never get what you desire most"
------"And what would that be?" Forte scowled, charging his buster gun.
------"Revenge against the humans." Wily said. "I have something that will help you do that now"
------"And why would you go out of your way to find me just to give it to me?
You hate me as much as I hate you." Forte said, his glare not fading for a moment.
------"I always keep a promise. Besides, I need somebody to test it." Wily said with a shrug as he pulled out a small shining crystal. "This is a working beta version of a navi materialization program. It has a few bugs in it, but it will should work"
------"Your not sure of your own program, and you call yourself a genius?" Forte said with a smirk.
------"It is extremely hard to defy the laws of physics even for me!" Wily yelled,
before calming down once again. "It isn't easy to use, that's the main bug in the programming, and the reason I haven't been able to test it yet"
------"What good is a flawed program to me?" Forte said. "I think I'll just shut you up now and get this over with"
------"Have patience, you fool, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!" Wily said with a growl. "The only reason I'm even rewarding you for helping me is we're both very much alike"
------"Don't ever compare me to scum like you." Forte said icily, his left arm morphing into Gospel's head, the wolf snarling at the mad scientist.
------"Fine." Wily said. "You're very smart like me as well... you'll be able to work through the flaws in the program"
------"I'm losing my patience with you, old man, get to the point"
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------"The program will allow you to form your body in the human world, but in order to do it, you must have a great deal of energy yourself, as well as great knowledge in hacking. Unfortunately, since the program is such a difficult thing to accomplish, one Navi's energy isn't enough to materialize anywhere. You must find a port leading directly to the Human World, such as a computer port or a port in a large server for people to jack into for maintenance, and hack through it with the program. And whatever you do it from, it has to have a very strong source of power... such as a SciLab server, or the servers for a large television station." Wily handed the program to Forte. "I'm sure you can figure something out"
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------Forte looked at the program warily as Gospel took it in its mouth, swallowing it as the super navi began absorbing the program.
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------Suddenly Forte's entire body up to his neck turned into the cracked grey pattern of bugfrags, yelling as a shining light poured from the cracks along his body, especially in the middle of his chest as the program installed itself in his form. Wily cackled a little bit as the glow faded, Forte falling to the ground,
gasping for air. ------"What... what did you do to me...?" Forte said as he staggared up.
------"Don't worry, I would be a fool to destroy the only Navi powerful enough to beta test my ingenious program." Wily said. "The program has installed itself in you,
set to automatically activate whenever you attempt to traverse through a port between the cyber world and the human world"
------Forte stood up and looked at his hands as his body recovered its old look once more. He smirked, quickly charging his buster and pointing it at Wily's head.
"Allow me to say thanks." he said.
------"Wai--" Wily started to say before his digital head was blown off his shoulders in one big shotgun burst. Forte put his gun away as his cloak covered his body once more, closing his eyes. "That felt good"
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------In the Human World, the people of the DNN Server were in a panic as all of their television stations were going ballistic, and all Navis they had sent in to figure out what was going on had been swarmed with viruses and deleted. Fortunately, they had called for professional help half an hour ago, and as well over half of the server became currupted by whoever was doing this, a group of pro NetBattlers were already headed up the stairs to the DNN servers to deal with it.
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------A man with shades and a long white trenchcoat walked into the room first, saying in a somewhat strong british accent, "What's the situation"
------"Our last team found the hacker, but wasn't able to do anything ... It appeared to be a Navi without a net-op causing all of this chaos." one of the directors said as he pulled his PET out of the control panel to allow more room for the newcomers. A young boy with brown hair and a bandana came in next to the man in the white trenchcoat.
------"Lan, do you think it's him?" Megaman asked from inside the brown haired boy's PET.
------"I don't think so... Mr. Famous, has Sci-Labs had any trouble with Forte in a while?" Lan asked.
------"No, there've been no more sightings of the super navi, though we still have navis hunting him untill we have proof of his deletion"
------"You're pathetic if you can't deal with an abandoned Navi." a boy with layered white and black hair said coldly as he joined the other two, followed by a somewhat large boy with a mohawk and darker skin, a taller and more professional looking man with glasses and slightly messy orange hair, sighing slightly. "You can't underestimate any Navi." he said as the netbattlers took seats around the control room, a young lady with two long brown ponytails taking a seat beside the orange haired man, and a woman in her twenties with long black hair and a little razor wheel hairpin in her hair sitting beside Lan.
-------"Ready for an awesome battle, Lan?" the woman said as everyone plugged their PETs into the server and putting in battlechips as they prepared to jack in.
-------"It's only another virus-throwing navi... it won't be very challenging." Lan said with a slight smirk. "I bet me and Megaman'll take it down before the rest of you can blink"
-------"I'll take that bet!" the young woman said with a grin, a fire burning in her eyes. "At the end of the fight, whoever deleted the most viruses wins - the Navi sending them counts for ten"
-------"Yeah, if I win, you have to buy us all a pizza!" Lan said, the same competitive look in his eyes.
-------"Oh, yeah! Tomako, lay it easy on Lan, I'm hungry!" Dex said.
-------"Easy on me? H-Hey! Who's side are you on?" Lan said, glaring at Dex.
-------"Fine, and if I win, you'll have to go and eat pizza with me, in a fancy italian resturaunt, just the two of us"
-------"H-Huh?" Lan said, looking up at Tomako, his face a little red. "You mean like ..." His mind began to wander.
-------"And you'll have to pay for it." -------"Ahh!" Lan said, snapping out of his near-daydream as he realized money was at stake. "You're on! Megaman, jack in!" Lan shouted as everyone jacked their Navis into the hectic server.
-------"Those two will never grow up." Mr.Famous said with a chuckle.
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-------Deep in the heart of the abandoned WWW Server, lost and hidden amidst an endless sea of platforms, a young Navi could be seen hiding under a staircase, curled up into a ball, crying softly to herself. "Why did I have to be designed so young"
she sobbed quietly. "I'm just a kid in his eyes... I'm 'like a daughter to him'..." she said, bitterly remembering the words that, the first time she heard them, had felt rather special at the time. "Why can't that idiot treat me like an equal..? Why can't he feel the same way I do"
-------She stared off into the endless void of the WWW as she cried, knowing it was ridiculous to be so emotional but not caring whatsoever. "Why can't he love me too..." A few seconds after the words left her lips, she felt a hand softly rest upon her shoulder.
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-------Mia closed her eyes and smiled at the rest of the memory, standing amidst an army of Mettaurs that were wrecking the DNN server, most of the background ripped open to reveal a black void with green numbers & symbols. She opened her eyes after a few moments, pulling down a few screens to watch a few broadcasts, browsing through countless different shows. "Honestly, how can humans watch this garbage?" she said as she flipped through late night TV. "Eww"
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-------She turned around and realized that, amidst the complicated tangle of platforms that was the DNN Server, all of her Mettaur viruses had vanished. "What the.." she said,
before looking down the stairs from her current platform to see Megaman, Gateman,
Gutsman, a commercial grade Navi with odd armor colors, Protoman, Metalman, and a very familiar Navi, green with a cybernetic right arm and a robotic horse for a lower body, a long javelin in his left hand... "You're under arrest!" Gateman shouted.
-------Mia and the Centaur locked looks and both looked shocked to see eachother,
before Mia growled. "You!" she screamed as a pink aura of power surrounded her, much like Forte's. "You're the Navi I saw that day! You're the Navi who ruined my life!" she hissed as she made five round silver Hardhead viruses appear, each one opening its large mouth to begin blowing away the stairs. -------"And you're the defective Navi my operator got rid of.." Centaurman said in the familiar deep voice. -------"I'M NOT DEFECTIVE!" Mia screamed as her aura exploded, decimating her hardhead viruses, her platform, and the stairs as she floated in the middle of the void, glaring at the heroic band of Navis, her fists glowing with rage-induced power, a new aura reforming around her as the navis began hurling projectiles at her. She stood with a laugh as all of their shots bounced off.
-------"Who's defective now!" Mia shouted with an arrogant laugh, before her aura began sparking a bit as it flickered away. Her ears dropped as she realize her shield had vanished, and screamed as she hacked her way onto a higher platform, summoning three large black wall Dominerd viruses around herself.
-------"Come on, let's go!" Megaman shouted as he and Gateman led the pack of heroes up the stairs towards the hacker Navi. -------"Megaman, make sure we get the last hit on her!" Lan called to his Navi. "We're behind by five points... and I don't want to lose my allowance!" whined Megaman's operator.
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-------Thousands of screens popped up around the wrecked server, each one with Mia's tongue sticking out at them. "Let's see you make it all the way up here"
she said with a smirk as viruses began to pour down the long spiraling staircase leading to the platform she was at.
-------"Metalman, crush'em all! Don't let Lan catch up!" Tomako shouted as a wave of spiny-furred wolf viruses began to run towards the heroes, spewing flames towards them. Gutsman smashed his fists into the ground, causing shockwaves to slam into the fireballs, bursting them early to create a smokescreen for Protoman to dash through with a shower of cover fire, slicing through the rest of the wolves in seconds. -
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-------"... Don't kill the Navi when we get to her. Take her alive." the orange haired scientist said.
-------"What?" Lan shouted. "But.. I need those points to win the bet"
-------"Don't delete her." -------"Just give the points to whoever captures her!" Dex said, trying to help Lan out so he can get a slice of the victory pizza.
-------"Uncle, who cares what happens to a stray Navi?" the young brown-haired lady said, sounding slightly annoyed. "It'd be a lot easier to delete her now"
-------"I want to capture her intact. Don't delete her." the scientist said,
giving his niece a stern look. "We wouldn't be dealing with this now if not for the irresponsibility of certain operators"
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-------The team of navis reached the top platform after deleting countless hundreds of viruses, Mia standing in the middle of it, her face still as cocky as ever. "Megaman, go get'er quick!" Lan shouted, as the blue bomber quickly charged his bsuter gun and fired a shot at the hacker Navi.
-------Right as the buster shot was about to blast Mia in the face, a large black wall virus with wicked white eyes sprung up to block the shot before vanishing, another one appearing in front of Megaman and opening its mouth to chomp down on him.
-------"Ahhh..!" Megaman started to shout, before a long spear shot into its mouth,
shattering it into fragments. The commercial-grade Navi's arm turned into a cannon as he blasted at Mia again, a second Dominerd wall springing up to block it, before teleporting into the Navi's face to do the same trick, the cannon arm of the Navi transforming into a blade as he sliced the dark wall virus in half.
-------"Go away!" Mia shouted, pulling out a pair of buster guns and beginning to rapidly spray at the heroes. Metalman rushed towards the hacker navi, her shots bouncing off of his hard armor as his fist began shining. Mia screamed, falling backwards as a third and final Dominerd sprung up to protect her, Metalman's fist shattering the Dominerd with ease and nearly crushing Mia's foot.
-------"Careful!" the orange-haired scientist exclaimed as Tomako's navi nearly crushed Mia. -------"Leave me alone!" Mia screamed, her face appearing on every channel's screen that filled the server as she tried to crawl away from the heroes, her once cocky smirks replaced by a look of horror. "Go away"
-------"Don't delete her." the commercial-grade Navi said, Metalman nodding in agreement and walking back to the group.
-------"Megaman, that last dominerd makes my score eleven above yours.." Tomako said with a laugh. "Someone owes me dinner"
-------"Aww, man..." Lan sighed. "There goes my allowance for a month"
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-------Suddenly, before anyone could stop him, Centaurman hurled a javelin at Mia. At that moment, everything seemed to slow down; the commercial Navi shouted out "No!", everyone else gasped with mild surprise, the brown-haired girl with pigtails smirked cruelly, and Mia screamed, closing her eyes as the spear hurdled towards her head, the server quaking as if the damage she'd done to it had finally taken its toll.
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-------And as fast as the spear had been thrown, a blinding flash lit up the server as the sound of the spear shattering could be heard. As the light slowly faded, everyone stared in surprise at a cloaked Navi with a dark purple aura of power surrounding him, the shattered pieces of the spear fallling from the edge of his shield. --------Mia slowly opened her eyes to look at her old master, realizing she was surrounded by his aura, and squealed as she ran around to wrap her arms around his waist, hugging him close and nuzzling his chest. "Forte..." she said with a purr as the cloaked Navi wrapped his arms around her, glaring at the hero navis.
--------"You won't get away this time, Forte!" the commercial Navi shouted. "There are far too many of us and only one of you"
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------"Forte'll delete all of you for messing with me!" Mia shouted, sticking her tongue out at the other navis. Forte's body faded to grey as it cracked all over from his neck down, reverting to its bugfrag form as bugfrags began to slowly envelop Mia's body.
------"Wh-What're you doing!" Mia shrieked as she felt bugfrags crawling around her body.
------"I'm saving us both..." Forte said as his aura began shining so brightly no one could see what was happening inside. The entire server began to tremble, barely able to contain the power coming from the super Navi as he united with his apprentice, his shining aura growing bigger and bigger untill it exploded, sending all the heroes sprawling backwards down the long winding stairs to a large platform below, the entire platform Forte was on and the stairway leading to it shattering.
------As the flames and smoke from the explosion faded away, everyone stared up in horror to see Forte hovering up above, his cloak ripped in many places; the wings on his helmet had extended and grew somewhat spikey, his armor trimmed in purple instead of yellow with long, purple and black cybernetic angel wings sprouting from his back as he glared down at the heroes with shining white eyes, a black aura surrounding him.
"Pitiful Navi Slaves, your time has finally come!" Forte and Mia's voice yelled, the server flickering and glitching up everywhere as the last bit of it that had remain uncurrupted shattered, leaving the server in darkness except for a small group of broken platforms floating in the endless void. "This will be the beginning of the end for all of mankind"
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-----CONTEST:
Forte will be gathering a band of loyal followers the next chapter, so you, THe Reviewer,
must make a choice now. Here's how the contest will work. Follow these rules or you probably won't be able to win anything.
Inside this chapter is a line from a Megaman game. Find it, and email me at with the subject "Megaman Fanfiction Contest." Inside the email,
put your answer first - go ahead and guess, because if I like the rest of your email, I'll probably still count you in. After the answer, you must choose whether to join the heroes and fight alongside Lan and company to save both worlds, or choose to become one of Forte's loyal followers and help him to destroy humanity. In your email, say which side you want to join, then follow the next instructions carefully.
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I need a name for your NetOp (you) if you're Good, if you're evil you're just a Navi.
Either way, I also need a name for your NetNavi - try to come up with an original one,
because I don't want to see a bunch of clones walking around, except for commercial navis perhaps. If you want a Commercial Grade Navi, just pick a bodystyle (Normal,
or Undernet), pick your body colors and what battlechips you use, and your personality,
along with some quotes you may say in battle. If you want a custom navi, give me a complete description of him/her, what special abilities your Navi can use, your personality, and some quotes you may say in battle. Of coarse, bear in mind if you choose evil, you're guarenteed to be deleted. If you're a good guy, you may be deleted anyway - to make it easier to decide which heroes will go down, put in your email if you don't mind being deleted in epic battle or not. And please, no god-modding. I hate that. In other words, no navis with "SuperUltraMegaHyperUber1337haxX0rzpwnage Cannon that blows everyone up" attacks,
or being completely invincible - it just wouldn't be fair. If your Navi is expected to be completely untouchable, it won't make an appearance. I'm going to hold off on updating for a short while to give you all a chance to enter - if the chapter after this is already made, sorry, you missed your chance. If you enter in time, however,
you'll make an apperance in a huge war that will take place next chapter.
Good luck, have fun, and um. Review. Please. Pretty please?