Digimon Adventure: Virtual Frontier
Written by: FossilQueen1984
Disclaimer: Hey guys, happy 2012! Here I am with a whole new story, based off of a Digimon role-play I participated in a few months back. I don't own anything mentioned here. The characters are based on random anime pictures, with the exception of Makoto Usagi, who is modeled off of Saukra-Hime from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles. Enjoy!
Suggested Soundtrack: The Legend of Ashitaka and Land of the Impure, Princess Mononoke
Chapter 1: Genesis of the Digital World
With the constant speed of modern technology becoming more and more sophisticated, it is getting harder to distinguish between actual and virtual reality. With so many functions of armies now using robots and mechanical controls to run drone duty and massive online games, is it any wonder then that left over data gained sentience and formed a third reality, the digital world?
Certainly, the Chosen Children from 1998 and 2002 would argue that point. Given that Japan turned towards technology as a way of life following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, along with three years of American occupation, this would seem logical. However, the origins of the digital world are steeped in political gain, conspiracy theory and possible world domination.
In the early 1920's, it was well known that Nikola Tesla was lecturing about his coils that could easily provide electricity to the entire world via alternating currents and hydro electric plants. While his lofty ideas fell on deaf ears in the West, these ideas reached Emperor Hirohito. Intrigued, he began the building of large supercomputers and Tesla coils along Japan's waterways, universities, business centers and provincial capitals.
By 1926, Japanese scientists had been experimenting with supercomputers to see if they could do more than simple algorithms. When Chancellor Hitler visited Hirohito in 1933 to extend commercial and diplomatic ties, he offered Germany's top physicists and engineers to help out. Originally, the idea was to have the supercomputers run farm equipment and build machines in factories all over Japan. The one major obstacle was relaying the information to different sides of the country. Using refurbished Tesla coils to acts as storage bins, the first successful transfer of digital data took place on January 3rd, 1937 at 12:06 in the morning. Deemed successful, the Emperor poured huge amounts of money into the supercomputers and had Tesla coil 'collectors' to further their technological gains. In between 1937 and 1945, the technological data ran rampant, and the data collected gained not just artificial intelligence, but sentience and created the first virtual reality, the Digital World.
In 1943, Digimon began to run amok, and five children were chosen randomly to fight the subversive creatures and restore balance to the separate realities. The first gate between worlds, located in Hiroshima, was destroyed by American bombers in 1945. Afterwards, the children and their families were forbidden to speak of it. The proto-digivices were stored in attics as family heirlooms. Years passed, and with it the digital world evolved along with the technology humans created. So, our story begins.