Authors Note: Can someone please review this story, I take any kind of review, it's just no one reviews it and it makes me sad, and I can't write being sad. SO REVIEW GOD DAMN IT!
Disclamer: I still don't own anything, if I did this story would be a manga, then an anime and then a crapy video game and maybe a movie. I do still own my orginal charaters though.
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"Men...and Girl: We've made it back to the top, and I don't plan on losing it to Satomi or any of these other fools again, so don't screw up this year and I think we'll all get along this year." Sir Hamgra said calmly from his desk, with the normal stern tone. Ana, Jan and Dew were cringing at the tone of his voice, but listened.
"Yes, Sir!" They all yelled like obeadiant little dogs to Sir Hamgra.
"Are we going to let victory escape our hands again." Sir Hamgra asked.
"No, Sir!"
"Like hell we aren't!" Sir Hamgra yelled, slapping the wood of his desk and knocking over one of the IG-1 Trophy on his desk.
They stared into space for a moment as if the answer would somehow materialize in their brains. They almost thought it did as Jan yelled a fiery: "No, Sir!" His eyes near filled with tears at the supposed passion of Sir Hamgra's speech. Ana just rolled her eyes at Jan and went back in to her own little world.
'Hmmmm wonder if Chaud's going to show up to the party.' Ana thought in her brain
The old man continued as he picked up the trophy and sat back down as if the outburst had never occurred. His hands were clasped together near his mouth, eyes downcast in an expression of somberness that gave the impression he was about to say something wise. Yet, had they ever once pay attention to him they might of not had lost a match to Satomi.
"The opening ceremonies are a huge event in the IG-1 and in this tornament. As always you can never let other teams get an upper-hand. You have to be Charismatic; Crowd-Pleasing..." Sir Hamgra said. Ana justed sighed.
"May I ask what this has to do with the IGPX sir." Ana asked.
"We can't afford to make any more enemies. This is just like the IG-1, it's brutal, and tough. If those pilots see any sign of weakness, they will tear you to shreds." He said profoundly.
'The same could be said for five year olds couldn't it,' Ana thought, barely paying attention.
Sir Hamgra had gone over this every year before they left for the party. They knew things would be difficult from here on out, not that things hadn't been relatively difficult before, but these guys were in a whole other group of teams, so they had no clue what to expect. They would be the champions. It didn't matter what it took: they'd win it. There was no other race or sport like in the world. Two teams. Six racers. Three laps. One Track. It was the speed. The tension as you crossed the finish and begun the second lap. The unrealism as you saw your opponent break out, ready to knock you silly and all you could do was fight back or get the shit kicked out of you. These were the thoughts going throught Ana's head while she paid no attention to Sir Hamgra's preching.
"Cunningham! Ana! Jan! Dew!" Sir Hamgra yelled suddenly, penetrating into his reverie.
To his right was Ana, she was sitting the with a blank look on her face, know
To her right was Jan, wearing a wince as he saluted smartly, yelling out "Sir!" even louder than usual. Apparently Cunningham hadn't been the only one caught in a brief moment of mental-absence. Jan was probably trying to make up for it by being extra Cadet-like. It was just like him: Thinking people actually cared that much if you had personality flaws and weren't perfect.
To his left, Dew had a look on his face that said he'd been in la-la-land just a second ago and didn't really know where the hell he was any more. But then again that was Dew for you. He got bored, he amused himself: any way he could. Spacing out was really the only thing to do when a crazy old guy was preaching to you.
"Hey, Ana did I ever meet your foster parents?" Cunningham asked suddenly. His brain hadn't really caught up yet, either.
"What?" Ana began, but Sir Hamgra cleared his throat very loudly while simultaneously casting a slight glare to Cunningham for interrupting. Apparently he was being chastised for defiance. It was like high school all over again. And he hadn't really liked it the first go around.
"Sorry," he said lamely, then as an after thought added "Sir."
Sir Hamgra sighed and massaged the bridge of his nose for a moment in thought then said in a tired voice, "I don't know why I'm lecturing to you boys. You always pull through in the end. And you even manage to listen to my advice from time to time; I suppose I should be grateful. Not many coaches can say that. I'm proud of you boys. Don't worry too much, just have fun tonight."
"And if I don't see you all socializing, there will be hell to pay," he said ominously.
"Oh, and Cunningham, Ana?"
"Sir?" They answered curiously.
"I know your mouths, keep them shut." Sir Hamgra warned.
"Dismissed."
"Sir!" The four pilots yelled in unison as left Sir Hamdra's office to go to the party.
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Team Hikari HQ
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"Well guys, we're here, the firth round. Tonight will start the rivaly with some of your best friends. I want you guys to go out there and do your best. Don't worry if you don't make a great speach, just have fun with it. So get going, and Lan, can you stay behind for a minuet." Dr.Hikari finshed as Raika, Makoto, and Blazer all walked outside and into the limo Blazer had aranged for them to get them to the 'Gala'.
"What's up dad." Lan asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
"Well...it's about your sister, Ana. Have you noticed that she's been trying to distance herself from the family. Just a little bit everytime." Dr.Hikari asked his son.
"Nope why, something bothering you." Lan asked.
"Hmm never mind then Lan, I'll just have a chat with Ana at the 'Gala' tonight." Dr.Hikari said, and with that Lan took his leave to the 'Gala' in his black tuxcito.
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The IGPX Gala, Two Hours till Live TV showing.
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Ana, Jan, Dew and Cunningham had all arrived at the same time as Team Satomi and Team Hikari. Cunningham looked at Takashi, while Takashi was compleaty oblivious to the fact Alex Cunningham was stareing at him. All the pilots hated the fact that they had to show up two hours ahead of time to the 'Gala' before everyone else showed up because the stupid little meeting planers needed time to place all the pilots.
Ana let out a large sigh,"This is why I always hated this party. We show up two hours early and then we get asked personal questions by Bright and then we're left on rumor control for weeks."
"Your kidding right." Lan said nevously as Ana nodded.
Megaman just sighed,"I told him this before we left and does he listen."
Lakura teleported over to Lan's PET, and started to pat Megaman on the sholder,"You try so hard, and never thanked."
"Thanks Lakura, at least someone can reconize helpfulness around here." Megaman replied.
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Thirty Minuets Later
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People were busily setting up large pictures of the mechs on the stage. As predicted the ten meeting planers were busy pushing all the pilots here and there. Roughly ten minuets after that Team Blaze, Team Skylark, and Team Satomi had all showed up late. After the meeting planers had rounded up all the girls, they had sent them off to make-up, even thought they all had applied their make-up ahead of time. They all retured five minuets before they went live. All the girls fell into place with their respective teams.
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By the Team Velshtein Mech Pictures
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Alex, Jan and Dew all let out a little chuckle as they saw Ana approch them, who basically had the make-up and the clothes to look like a Geisha. She had the kimono, the pale white face, the red lipstick, the hint of pink on her cheeks, which really did make her look like a geisha.
"You going for the Geisha look this year, Princess." Dew said sarcastically as Ana went digging through her purse to find her small compact, with make-up remover inside.
"Everytime, this frigging 'Gala' comes around they always do this to my face." Ana mumbled, while Jan and Dew continued to laugh.
"Yet, every year you come prepaired with make-up remover, so what's the big deal. I'd hurry up if I were you as well." Alex said as he spotted Team Hikari all laughing like hell.
"HEY LAN! I STILL HAVE MAKE-UP TO MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A GOD FORSAKEN CLOWN ON WORLDWIDE TELEVISION!" Ana shouted as Lan cringed in fear, knowing she probably did have the stuff.
"We're going live in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." The director yelled as Benjamen Bright, Ribbita and Mr.Higsby all came out on stage.
"Hello and welcome to the opening of the fifth round of the N2 World Prix." Ribbita announced.
"Your going to be in for a real treat these next few weeks." Mr.Higsby said.
"For the first few rounds we've been focusing on the navis, but what would happen if they had a good navi but a not so great operator. So now it's time to test the operators and see if they can make it in the IG-1. Strangely enough three compleat IG-1 teams all entered and have survied to see us today. So let's introduce you to our teams. First up is Team Hikari, a new comer team from Japan, with barely any IGPX experiece or knoledge. Could they be this round's black horse or will they compleatly and uterly fail. There pilots are Lan Hikari, with his co-pilot Megaman at forward. With midfielder Blazer Blaze, defender Raika and co-pilot Searchman, and back up pilot Araya. Let's get a word from their forward Lan Hikari, Lan, do you have any messages for the other teams before we move on." Bright said colorfully.
"Yeah, just one." Lan said.
"And what would that be." Bright asked as the music continued to play behind them.
"Ana, prepare to get your ass kicked out there." Lan shouted into the microphone, as the spotlight moved over from Team Hikari over to Team Skylark. With Ribbita standing nearby.
"Next up is Team Skylark, this all girls team from france placed in third in their last season, and I bet there iching for a win. Let's have a word with Skylark's Team Caption, Fantine Valjean. Fantine is it true you and Takashi broke up last season after your last race with Team Satomi." Ribbita asked.
"Sadly, it is Miss Ribbita. It was something that had to be done." Fantine said as then the spotlight moved over to Team Blaze with Higsby.
"Here we have Team Blaze, an all male team from America. With Chaud Blaze at forward, Light Yagami at defender, and Meijin Famous at midfielder. Light Yagami is no newcommer to the IGPX, he's the EX Team Kagerou midfielder. After the mysterios break up of the team nothing has been heard of from him since. Light, do you have any comment on this." Higsby asked.
"My answers will remain the same, no comment." Light said as the cameras from the media all flashed to get pictures. Then the spotlight moved over to Team Sakurai.
"Our next team is Team Sakurai, another all girls team from Japan, with Maylu Sakurai and co-pilot Roll at forward, Princess Pride at midfielder, and Jasmine as defender." Ribbita said as the spot light once again moved over to Team Satomi.
"Well last years second place team, Team Satomi is back and are going to try and reclaim their thrown from Velshtein. As always we have Takashi Jin, Amy Stapleton and co-pilot Luca, Liz Riccaro, and River Markqe. So tell us Takashi, what went wrong last season, and is it true you are now starting to see Amy Stapleton after your break up last week with Fantine." Higsby asked.
"Nothing went wrong, it was simply a close race, we tried our best that day and now we're going train even more to beat them. It is true I am seeing Amy, but I'd not like to go into details." Takashi said as the spotlights moved over to Team Velshtein.
"Finally, let's give a warm round of applouse for last seasons champions, TEAM VELSHTEIN!" Bright said energentically as tons of clapping and screeming happpend,"This year, they have a new team member, Team Kagerou's ex forward, Ana Hikari. Word on the street is that Cunningham has been reported to be dating, miss Hikari, here, well Cunningham would you like to confirm this."
"Yes, I know I have been seen with her on more then one occasion, it has never been a date. We've actaually been childhood friends, nothing more." Alex replied calmly as Ana's face turned red with embrassiment.
"Well then, Miss Hikari, do you have any closing comments." Bright asked.
"I have one for Light, Lan, and Chaud. Remeber what I said at breakfast, oh and..." Ana continued," STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE LAN!"
"Oww, I see we have a few rivalys before the races even start, so let's get this party started, and let's have a great time to night!" Bright shouted as the lights on the stage dimmed and the cameras went off.
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IGPX Gala, Ten PM
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"So I heard your upgrading the mechs again." Dew asked Takashi.
"Yeah, Mark was going on about something, not exactly sure what, but I heard it's going to be good." Takashi replied.
"So you going to go a bit easier on us this year." Jan joked as Takashi let out a small laugh.
"Nope, cause I know you guys, you'll never go easy on us." Takashi said as he continued to laugh,"Err... so what's the deal with Ana and Cunningham?"
Dew srugged,"Oh, you know b The Works /b ."
"As in...what." Takashi said with some antispation.
Jan sighed,"Same as always."
Somewhere across from Jan, Dew, and Takashi was Dr.Hikari, pulling Ana aside from her talk with Amy, Maylu, Chaud, Light, Lan, and Cunningham for a small privet chat.
"Ana, I think we need to have a talk in privet." Dr.Hikari asked as Ana simply nodded and followed Dr.Hikari to a quite area. Alex on the other hand was getting suspicios, it was getting to be more and more natural just having her around. He always protected her, he thought it was just a habit, but he's starting to think something more of it.
So Alex carefully watched where he was going,"Guys, I think something is going to go down, and I'm not liking it."
Lan gave him one of the what-the-hell-do-you-mean kind of looks,"Eh, whatever."
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With Ana and Dr.Hikari
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"What is it Dad, I want to get back to my friends." Ana said lamely.
"Well I've been noticing for a while, how you've been distancing yourself from the family." Dr.Hikari said with a hint of enthusiasum.
"What on earth would give you that idea." Ana said with a lot of sarcasum,"If you really want to know why, I'll give it to you straight forward. I've been told when I was born, when mom got pregnant with Lan and Hub around six months after I came into this world, you abandoned me. Thank god, the Koshaki family adopted me. When Light came into my life, I was about to kill myself from the bordem, the foster parents were always away on bussness trips, and just left me at home with a huge house and a lot of money. Then again, if they hadn't died, I would be having to marry Chaud and have no way to get out of it. Now I've finally found my center with Alex at my side, and you just want to come here and invade my life, when you only want me around when a new world crysies is on your hands. No thanks, I'll be doing what I like with whoever I like. So try as hard as you like, but you'll find nothing to throw back at me, the only people who I consider family now is Light, Lan, Mom, Alex, Jan, Dew, Maylu, and Tori. They're the only people who care."
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Cunningham and friends
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At this point in time, Jan, Dew and Takashi had all came over to the table the Cunningham and everyone else and was now just sitting there commenting on the rage Ana was letting out.
"So who do you think won that argument." Takashi asked.
"Ana did hands down." Light commented.
"I guess our little princess has some damn right family issues. She's not as purfect as she seems." Dew also commented.
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Ana and Dr.Hikari
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"Oh and one more thing, you have never been throught the things me, Lan, Light and Alex have been through, we've all be through hell and you know it." Ana said darkly as she looked back at her father with tears rolling down her cheek.
Now Dr.Hikari was asking to have his ass kicked, Alex stood up from the table anda started to chase Ana. But he stopped infront of Dr.Hikari and told him,"Some father you are, she has every right to be the cyncle baster to you. I've heard how you treated her."
Cunningham then continued on his way torsed Ana, with Lan, Maylu, Light, Jan, and Dew all closely following behind.
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Somewhere near a balcony
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Cunningham was about to reach the balcony where Ana was, then shouted,"ANA... hufff... WAIT UP!"
Ana turned around to see Cunningham come running torsed her,"Whats, up guys."
A tear still rolled down her face as Maylu looked at her with concern,"We just want to see if your alright."
Ana sniffed in the snot that was about to come out of her nose and wiped the tears off with the sleeve of her kimono,"See I'm fine, but I've already sent Lakura out to tell the Cheif that the Kira case will be my final case."
"Why... why are you quiting." Lan said in shock.
"I'm going to be needing to sort out my prioites in life, being a net savior was no more then a hobby I did to pass the time."
Alex could not hold his sigh any longer, he grabbed Jan and Dew and took them off to the side.
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With the Velshtein Boys
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"What's up Cunningham." Dew said in his normal loud and obnocuios tone.
Cunningham was scilent for a second then spoke up,"Dew, tell me does it mean something if at the pit of your stomach something bothers you and just won't go away."
"Is this about Ana... cause if it is..." said Dew.
"Well it happends when ever I see her." Cunningham said in a soft tone.
"Do you always have the urge to protect her... like she's something valuble to you." Jan asked.
Alex rased an eyebrow,"Well I've guarded her for years, there was some nerve that everytime I see her just never wants to see her sad."
Dew and Jan both nodded togeather and said,"Your in love."
"WHAT..." Alex said in a panic.
"You got every symtom to when a guy is in love and you want to know what...I bet she feels the same about you." Dew said as pointed his finger at Cunningham.
"How do I know if she does then..." Alex said in a quite, soft like tone of voice.
"Ask her to dance, odds are with that big of mouth she'll spill her emotions, not even she can mask them that well." said Dew as he then pushed Cunningham back toards Ana.
"Nice going Dr.Dew, where'd yah get your digree in phycharty." Jan commented.
Dew fround,"I liked you better as that GI-Joe wannabe."
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With Ana and Friends at the punch bowl
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"Errr umm... Ana want to dance with me." Cunningham asked.
"Yeah, sure let me just finsh my punch." Ana said cheerfully as she took the last sip from her cup and quickly tosed it in the nearest trash can.
Alex started to think,"I think someone must of spiked that punch with alcohol or upped the amount of suger in it, cause she seems a bit a bit hyper, high, and/or tippys, eh whatever.'
"Looks like it a slow dance." Alex said.
"Oh yeah, I love slow dances." Ana said with a huge energenic grin as they entered the dance floor.
'Yeah, definitally alchole.' Cunningham thought.
Many eyes went on the couple as Cunningham started to put his arms around her waist. Ana gentally put her head down on Cunningham's sholder.
"Thanks...for a...great night..." Ana mumbled as her high quickly vanished and she fell asleep. Lan was able to steal Maylu away from Chaud and they slowly made there way over to Cunningham and the sleeping Ana.
"Yo Cunningham, did she fall asleep on you." Lan asked.
"I think so, how far is her house. You know." Cunningham asked.
"Umm around fifty miles, don't tell me your planing on walking her to her house. Since everyone just walked down that 'No Man's Land' to get here." Lan said as he watched Maylu poke Ana everywhere.
"Yep, she's out cold." Maylu said.
Just then an idea popped into his head,"Got an idea, oh and good luck tommarrow, your going to need it since your racing against us."
Cunningham slowly made his way out of the ball room and into the area where every team watched the other races, it was empty of course, Alex knew it would be the easiest way to get her a place to sleep, he was going to let her sleep at his appartment, which was connected to the Team Velshtein HQ, which was connected to the 'No Man's Land' area.
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Cunningham's Appartment
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"Sleep tight, Princess." Cunningham wispered into her ear as he exited his bedroom
Only to here Ana mumble,"Alex... Don't go...warm."
'Could it be she's still partchally awake...no can't be, she...nah, what the hell.' Cunningham thought in his head as he re-entered the room and went next to Ana in the bed,
Ana put her arm across his chest and mumbled,"Thank You."
Alex sighed and went to sleep.
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Lakura: Next Time on Megaman NT Warrior: Reloaded.
Roll: Ana and Cunningham have finally slept togeather, so strange.
Medi: And why are Jan and Dew makeing out in the hallway.
Lakura: Nasty, guys with guys, bleh. Anyways the race is about to start between Teams Velshtein and Hikari, who will win.
Roll: And who will lose.
All: Next Time, Time To Shine: Velshtein VS. Hikari
Lakura: Be there or be dead.
Roll: I thought it was square.
Lakura: Dead sounds better.
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