JLGJT PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS...
THE DDLA!
Episode 1: Captured and Liberated
Part 1: Enter the Yakuza...
Date and Time: Thursday January 29th, 2004 2:00am (New York time)
Place: An apartment building somewhere in Manhattan...
To an outside observer, the man moving through the apartment building's hallways would've looked like a typical janitor. However, this man had a mission, and he was rapidly heading toward the apartment number of his target...
He pulled out a walkie-talkie and pressed the talk button. He whispered into it "This is Alpha Agent, moving towards target location. Undetected so far."
The walkie-talkie responded just as quietly: "This is Beta Agent, confirming your status. Good luck in there, it'll make the boss' year if you pull this off. Entering radio silence period."
"Confirmed." Agent Alpha responded. "Be ready with the getaway when I ask for it. Over and out." He holstered the walkie-talkie as he approached his target: one of the apartments.
The two agents had staked out this target for months now, and "Alpha" moved with nervous precision as he searched under the doormat in front of the target apartment for a housekey he had found out about through a bug he had placed inside the wall of the apartment beforehand. He found the key and carefully turned it in the lock. The door opened silently.
Reaching a hand inside to unfasten the chain that prevented the door from swinging open, he did so and silently entered the apartment. The apartment was protected by the building's burglar alarm system, but because of "Alpha" posing as a janitor he had gotten a disable code and was able to use it to turn off the system for that apartment.
Silently sneaking through the dark living area of the apartment, he entered the kitchenette and began a quiet, visual-only search for the safe. He found it in a relatively used and cluttered corner, and once he spotted it he went to work, putting on gloves and gently moving stacks of papers covering the safe.
Once the safe itself was uncovered, "Alpha" pulled out a tool from his belt: a wax key that could be gently heated and softened using a cigarette lighter and then inserted into a lock, form fitting the key for the lock and allowing instant access to the contents of the safe. He did just that, using a lighter that he had clipped to his tool belt; the key partly unlocked the door on the top of the safe.
However, "Alpha" frowned in the light of his flashlight as he saw another obstacle to opening the safe: a keypad lock. Because he wasn't sure if he could use standard code-cracking techniques without setting off an alarm, he decided to try a potentially less problematic approach. He grabbed what looked like a thermometer with a tip out front and a wire out the back end.
This tool, as you might have guessed, was wired to a battery attached to the tool belt, and as he touched the tip to the LCD of the keypad lock a brief spark of electricity jumped from the tip to the circuitry of the keypad lock, shorting it and releasing the grip that held the door closed.
"Alpha" opened the safe, and in the light of his flashlight he carefully pulled out some birth papers and a couple passports. Below these were some pieces of jewelry, which he quietly stowed in a cloth bag in hopes he could pawn them off for quick cash if he needed to. Below the jewelry was a heavy plate, possibly a lead plate, with several lights shining on it and what he immediately figured to be a false bottom painted on the plate. "Those lights are probably sensors of some kind.", "Alpha" thought to himself, so he again grabbed his electrode tool and with a careful application of electricity he shorted out each of the lights in turn.
As quietly as he could, he lifted the lead plate out. Beneath it and at the true bottom of the safe was what looked like two long boxes filled with CDs extending the length of the bottom. In each box, the CDs were packed tightly, and "Alpha" guessed there were about 100 CDs per box. The CDs in those boxes, according to orders from the boss back in Tokyo, were his target items.
He reached over to his left and picked up one of the large CD holders he had brought with him and, moving as quickly and quietly as he could, slowly began to pull CDs from the boxes and place them in a CD holder. He filled one holder that way, then another. Starting on the second box, he filled a third holder and finally a fourth. He had gotten all the CDs, but his load was awkward to carry...
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As he turned to sneak out with the CDs, "Alpha" accidentally bumped the safe with his foot, setting off a crudely designed motion-sensor alarm placed between the boxes. "Shoot!" he said to himself as he bolted out of the apartment, balancing his CD holder load and grabbing his walkie-talkie from the belt.
"Agent Beta, come in! Agent Beta, come in!" he loudly spoke into the walkie-talkie.
"This is Agent Beta. What's your status?" was the reply from the other end.
"I've got the target, but I set off a personal alarm in there. I need to use the getaway before they can get the police or activate the building alarm. Do you have getaway ready?"
"Affirmative. I'll direct you to where I am. Don't try to set off any more alarms."
"Roger that. Alpha out." "Alpha" continued to run down the hallway, now ready to listen to "Beta"'s directions...
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Meanwhile in the apartment...
"Willis. Willis wake up." a small green-and-white Digimon with very large ears said as he nudged his human partner out of sleep. Terriermon had picked up the alarm that had gone off, and now tried to wake up Willis.
Willis groggily responded to his Digimon's request, then in hearing the alarm he bolted out of bed. He entered the main room and turned on a light to find the safe open and completely emptied of contents.
"What's going on in here...?" his dad dazedly said as he stumbled out of the parent's bedroom into the now-lit main room.
"Oh my gosh, we've been robbed! Someone get the cops!" Willis' mom said as she stared back from behind her husband. She rushed over to the phone and dialed 911 while Willis ran over to the safe and looked inside it.
He gasped in petrified horror at the empty boxes that once held dozens of CDs. Those CDs were his darkest secret: the scientific diaries and instructions on how he had created the Digimon that eventually became Diaboromon, as well as "templates" he had come up with in order to create a full Digimon from raw data. This kind of power in the wrong hands could prove to be disastrous for both the human and Digital worlds!
Ignoring his parents bustling around him, he fell to his knees, on the verge of crying. Terriermon approached him and asked with uncertainty plain in his eyes, "What's going to happen now?"
Willis looked back with an expression that said "I wish I knew." What he didn't understand was who would know enough about what he had done to want that information badly enough anyway. He thought that he had escaped his sin when he saw Cocomon reborn, but now... who knows what was going to happen...
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Outside...
Agent Alpha sprinted out the apartment door right in front of a idly running car. As he approached the car, he saw it was "Beta" in the driver's seat... and heard the apartment alarms go off as well.
He flung the door open and threw himself and his cache of stolen CDs in the passenger seat. "Beta" took off as "Alpha" closed his door and put his seat belt on. "You got the target loot?" Beta asked as he drove onto the street.
"Right in these." Alpha replied, pointing to the cases. "You got the next flight non-stop to Tokyo?"
"Yeah, I can pull enough strings to make it happen, and get those things through security untouched by scanning devices."
"Good. Now please hurry before the cops come after us."
The car drove on toward the JFK International Airport, hoping that the agents could smuggle the CDs into Japan and deliver them to the boss...
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Date: January 30th, 2004
Time: 3:00 pm (Tokyo time)
Place: Main Room, Ankokuwa Headquarters, Tokyo
A high backed chair on a platform swiveled back and forth with some impatience in the center of the room. The occupant of this "throne" was Ankokuwa leader Giman Uirusu, anxious because he was expecting the culmination of everything that he had worked for over the past year...
Shortly after winning a fierce internal battle for leadership of the Ankokuwas in early February 2003, Giman had begun remaking the yakuza gang in his own direction, demanding tribute not just in money but in computer systems as well. He also began to expand Ankokuwa operations in pachinko and other forms of gambling as well as in loan sharking and fraudulent money-making schemes. Using the money that flowed in, he began building an extensive but secret computer network at a place only called "Hub X", buying and holding both the extensive number of "techies" needed to maintain the network and the equipment necessary to militarize the entire organization.
Within months, he had transformed the Ankokuwas into a para-military organization, focusing on internet attacks and using "traditional" activities to maintain a constant supply of money and computers flowing in. He had intended to use his combination of physical and digital force to knock down other yakuza gangs and specific target companies, but something happened to change this...
Giman became insatiably curious about the monsters that attacked the city in summer of 1999, and wanted to figure out where they came from so that he could have monsters of his own. This lead to him scouring media outlets for info, and in doing so came across a theory stated by the son of a Fuji TV reporter about "digital monsters"; through following that lead, he found out about the boy that created the monster that made havoc on the Internet. Sending two agents to New York City, he bugged the family apartment where the boy (Willis) was living and found out about the CDs to create one of these "digital monsters." He was now waiting for those CDs to be delivered to him, which would be the final piece to the puzzle...
The double doors in front of Giman were pulled open by two armed guards and Giman's excited "little brother", his second-in-command named Kobu, entered the room with a fast walk. He bowed slightly and said breathlessly "The target data you wanted has arrived, boss."
"Then by all means send it in to me." was Giman's deep-throated reply. Even off his throne, his deep voice combined with his perfectly straight and long jet-black hair, piercing green eyes and beak-like nose to give Giman an air of intimidation.
"Right away, boss." Kobu replied before leaving to fetch the two agents in. He returned with the agents, each one holding a holder full of CDs in one hand. "What you seek is in these." the agents said together, holding out the CD holders in front of Giman.
An evil grin spread across Giman's face. "Most excellent indeed." he replied. He snapped his fingers and one of the guards grabbed Giman's laptop and brought it to him. Giman took it and turned it on. As it booted, he also took one of the CD holders and opened it. He pulled a CD from it and inserted it into the laptop. The CD immediately autostarted, filling the screen with labeled diagrams of a Digimon and long strings of programming code.
As the pictures and code filled the screen, Giman's evil smile became wider and wider. Finally he loudly said, "YES! This is perfect!" He popped the CD out of the computer and returned it to the case.
"I want analysis and application of this started on immediately. Use every idle processor cycle you can get out of the network." Giman ordered Kobu and the agents. They all bowed and rushed off, leaving Giman and his evil smile in the room alone with the guards.
"With this, I could take over not just Japan, but maybe even the world!" Giman thought to himself. Such were his malevolent illusions of grandeur...
What exactly does Giman plan to do with the data? How will the Digidestined respond to the theft of Willis's data? And... will it lead to conflict between the Ankokuwas and the Digidestined? Find out more in Part 2, "Two Councils"!...