Mega Man Battle Network 5

**Mega Man Battle Network**, known as **Rockman EXE5** in Japan, is the fifth installment of the *Mega Man Battle Network* series. It was first released in Japan on 2004, later released in the west on 2005 for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

A Nintendo DS version of the game titled *Mega Man Battle Network 5 DS: Double Team* was released in 2005 for the aforementioned console.

## Story

After the events from the previous game, Nebula has reemerged to cause havocs again. MegaMan and Lan joined Team ProtoMan or Team Colonel (depending on the versions of the game) to stop Nebula and also saved their dad Yuichiro.

After delivering a recipe to a pink NormalNavi under his mom's favor, Lan and his friends went to SciLab to see Yuichiro Hikari. However, when Regal and his goons breaks into SciLab, the goons kidnaps Yuichiro and also stealing the PETs from Lan's friend.

**Chapter 1** - After waking up from bed, Lan jack MegaMan into the cyberworld to see the state of it. Then, MegaMan encounters a HeelNavi who sends some viruses on him, after MegaMan deleted the viruses, the Heel Navi flee away through a door and MegaMan can't go through it. Afterwards, Lan went to SciLab to send MegaMan to the main computer to stop ProtoMan/Colonel from infiltrating the lab, which later turn out to be a test for MegaMan and Lan to join their team. The next, MegaMan and ProtoMan/Colonel went to their first liberation mission to delete a Darkloid named BlizzardMan at the ACDC Area.

**Chapter 2** - Lan and his friends went to Oran Island with Yai's boat to get there. Suddenly when they stop at the coal mining area, Mayl, Dex and Yai fell into the bottom to their trap and therefore must go into the mine to save. Later, the duo encountered Telsa Gauss and MagnetMan/Princess Pride and KnightMan and stop them from using the machine to find Magnometal. Afterwards, Telsa and MagnetMan/Pride and KnightMan eventually joins Team ProtoMan/Colonel. The team's next liberation mission is to ShadeMan at the Oran Area.

**Chapter 3** - After returning from Oran Island, Lan meets Charlie Airstar/Dusk and then having MegaMan to play a game of tag with their NetNavi GyroMan/ShadowMan. After catching and defeating them at the SciLab Area, GyroMan/ShadowMan joins Team ProtoMan/Colonel. In the next liberation, the team must stop CloudMan at the SciLab Area. Afterwards, MegaMan has been kidnapped by Nebula and was turned to Dark MegaMan.

**Chapter 4** - After MegaMan was kidnapped by Nebula and turned into Dark MegaMan, Lan meets Chaud/Baryl at a dock near SciLab and give him ProtoMan/Colonel as his temporary Navi. In party held at Queen Bohemia Cruiser, Fyrefox/Dingo used NapalmMan/TomahawkMan to steal the Booster System but they were stopped by MegaMan and thus they agree to join Team ProtoMan/Colonel to make up for their crime. The team's next liberation mission is to stop Dark MegaMan. After defeating him, Dark MegaMan turns back into MegaMan.

**Chapter 5** - After introducing Raika/Higsby as the new member of Team ProtoMan/Colonel at SciLab, Lan went to discover about Gow, a pet dog mentioned from the letter from his grandfather Tadashi Hikari. Later after he found Gow at Vision Burst version of ACDC Town, MegaMan has to defeat six Heel Navis who broke into the area and SearchMan/NumberMan showed in the same area to tell MegaMan that Regal asked them to keep an eye on him.

**Chapter 6** - Lan went to the Gargoyle Castle at End City and then he jacks into the computer located on top the castle to fix the server. As MegaMan is about the fix the server in the computer, he encounters SearchMan/NumberMan and defeats them. Afterwards, MegaMan and SearchMan/NumberMan starts blame each others as they both believe to be Nebula agents. Suddenly, the imposters showed up and admitted that they cause trouble for MegaMan and SearchMan/NumberMan, later the duo defeats the imposters. Afterward, Team ProtoMan/Colonel went to End Area to defeat CosmoMan in their liberation mission.

## Characters

* MegaMan
* Yuichiro Hikari
* Haruka Hikari

Lan's Friends* Mayl Sakurai
	+ Roll
* Dex Oyama
	+ GutsMan
* Yai Ayano
	+ Glide
* BlizzardMan
* ShadeMan
* CloudMan
* Dark MegaMan
* CosmoMan
* Nebula Gray (Final boss)

Other characters* Gow
* Higsby
* Doctor Wily

	+ ProtoMan
* Tesla Gauss
	+ MagnetMan
* Charlie Airstar
	+ GyroMan
* FyreFox
	+ NapalmMan
* Raika
	+ SearchMan
* Jasmine
	+ Meddy
	+ Colonel
* Princess Pride
	+ KnightMan
* Dusk
	+ ShadowMan
* Dingo
	+ TomahawkMan
* Higsby
	+ NumberMan
* Ribitta
	+ ToadMan

## Adaptation

### Rockman EXE anime

Most of the story elements from the game were used for the Stream season of anime series.

## External link

* Article at MMKB