"Lan...Laaan..." Lan Hikari stirs to a familiar voice. "LAN!"

"Five more minutes" he groans.

"Lan you're going to be late for school." The voice is none other than his netnavi and brother Hub Hikari AKA Megaman.

"What time is it?" Lan questions, exhausted from netbattling until 4AM.

"7:45" says his netnavi Megaman.

Lan then bolts up. "7:45! Oh man I'm gonna be so late! Why didn't you wake me?!"

"I've been trying for the last 45 minutes! It's not my fault you sleep like a brick" retorted the blue bomber.

Lan hauls on his clothes quickly, brushes his teeth, and runs downstairs while avoiding a glare from his mother for being so late.

It's been several years since the events of MMBN6. Lan is now back in ACDC town to finish his final year of high school. During these past few years Lan and the others have matured significantly. Lan actually does his homework on time, pays attention in class, but if one thing never changes; he's ALWAYS late.

"I'm gonna make it!" He exclaims as he rushes down the last corridor to homeroom. Just as he turns the corner to enter the door, it automatically shuts in his face which causes him to bring up solid. He reluctantly knocks on the door to be let in.

"Lan Hikari you're late again!" Lan winced but then realized it wasn't Ms. Yuri (the grade 12 teacher) who let him in, it was Mayl.

"Lucky for you Ms. Yuri isn't here yet but that's still so irresponsible of you." Mayl says letting him have it. "I waited outside for you this morning and you didn't show up!"

"I'm so sorry Mayl I promise it won't happen again." Lan pleads.

"Mhm" is all Mayl says in response.

(Girls...) Lan thinks to himself. He then trails off into thought; (It's not like to be late for class. Did something happen?)

Ms. Yuri then enters the room tailed by someone he didn't recognize. Then the class starts to whisper amongst themselves as to who this mystery kid is.

"Settle down children." says Ms. Yuri. "We have a new student with us today. Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself to the class?"

This mystery teen had an indifferent look on his face. He seemed like one of those kids who didn't care about anything and usually kept to himself. One thing was for certain, the girls in the class were drooling over him.

He was built, about six feet tall, bright green eyes and medium-length dark brown hair geled into spikes but pushed toward the side. He was wearing pale ripped jeans and a plaid shirt with a few of the buttons undone to reveal just below his collarbone and a silver chain around his neck.

Needless to say, Lan didn't like him.

"Name's Zeke Sarutobi. I like virus busting and long walks on the beach."

The class chuckled. Upon hearing his love for virus busting; Lan sprung out of his seat and challenged this new kid to a net battle. He was then immediately scolded by Ms. Yuri which made Zeke smirk and the rest of the class giggle.

Lan sat in his chair arms crossed with his cheeks puffed out in jealousy. "He's not all that" Lan muttered under his breath.

To tease him, Mayl who was sat across from him then whispered to Lan "really? I think he's pretty cute" which really spurred Lan's jealousy.

Everyone knew Lan and Mayl had a huge crush on eachother except them. Mayl has been constantly trying to make passes at the Hikari boy but he was either too oblivious or too shy to act on his feelings for his best friend. Even after all these years he hasn't mustered up the courage. It's sad really.

Despite this, Mayl knew how he acted whenever she hung around other guys let alone complimented them. He gets huffy much to her amusement. She giggled at his reaction to her statement.

"Now , I'll have to ask you to take a seat behind Lan. If he bothers you let me know immediately" Ms. Yuri said while staring down the young mischiefmaker.

Despite all of this going on. Lan was excited because first period was virus busting. He'd show that pretty boy who's boss.

In the cyber world the class' navis were mingling amongst eachother. Megaman, Roll, Gutsman, and Glyde were in their usual group when a new navi had walked up to them.

This navi was clad in lightweight red armor with a navy-black skintight suit wrapped around his unexposed areas. Strange thing was, this navi had no emblem on his chest. Megaman couldn't place it but something about this navi looked eerily familiar to him.

"Megaman." said the navi greeting him. "It's been a while hasn't it?"

Megaman was completely puzzled by this. Who could this mysterious navi be that knew him? The other navis were confused as well as the two navis locked into a gaze. It seemed like nobody else was around to either of them aside from each other.

(I have a bad feeling about this...) thought Megaman.

This is my first post on so I really don't know how I did so be sure to leave reviews!

I've always had a huge love for the MMBN games, and the anime as well. After reading some fanfics on the series I decided I wanted to write my own. This chapter was relatively short but think of it as a prologue to a lengthy story.

I will write a disclaimer: I will be using elements from BOTH the games and the anime. I'm doing this so that it fits the story I have planned. If you don't like it, I apologize but it's the best way to make things work.

Fun fact: the whole idea for this story came to me in a dream after staying up till 4am reading the fanfics mentioned earlier. I just had to act on it before I lost it! I hope you enjoyed it.

Cheers!

ZX Saber