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Chapter 1
"Get ready Matt," I instruct as we are being hooked up to the machine which was part of my crowning achievement.
"Why am I doing this again?" he shouts over the machinery of the game.
"Because you wanted to try the VR world" I replied "and this is the one I personally programmed so since you're my older brother I decided to act as your admin. guide for the first try."
"I didn't ask for it." He pointed out. "Look, I am one of the best guides in the world and almost any one would like to have me instead so if you don't want to see the armory during your start up.."
"Fine just don't push your luck there. I am still stronger than you despite what your reputation is in the game understand?"
"Okay, okay, sheesh. I was just trying to help you out."
"just don't push it okay"
"Fine, besides we're ready to upload to the game."
"You know you could have done more work on the transition from reality" he complained as we reached the digital plane.
"Look, deal with it. I believe it is still preferable to the chance of having your mind erased or being turned into a vegetable or.." I ranted on
"You made your point so stop it before..."
"Or what? Don't forget I am more powerful than you in this world."
"Doesn't mean you are in the normal reality and you do have to come out eventually."
"I get the idea. Just let me open the armory already." I sighed as a blue ring of light appears around my hand and I use it to open up the gate to the armory to prep my elder brother's character.
"Well that's quite the armory" Matt admitted in awe of the massive arsenal that is the digital armory.
"This is a collection of every weapon and armor in the game as well as access to any legendary relic." I explained as we enter the basic equipment room
"This room is where you will outfit yourself with the basic equipment as well as your digivice."
"Digivice? What do you mean a digivice?"
"Well you can't be a hunter or tamer without one."
"Hunter? Tamer? What in the world are those?"
"A tamer is a person who has a digimon as a partner, while a hunter is a person who can turn into a digimon" "Digimon? There are digimon is this world?"
"Yeah, how do you think Bandai got involved with my funding for the game?"
"What ever." he says as he looks around for his starter weapon.
"I'll take this broad sword here."
"what about your digivice?"
"Are you certain I need one?"
"Did I program this world or not?"
"Fine, I'll take a D-Hunter."
"OK. Now chose a basic form from this list" I tell him as I hand him a list.
"hmmmmm I don't know. Who eventually becomes Omnimon again?"
"Agumon and Gabumon"
"Well, then I'll take Agumon then"
"all right, here." I tossed him his D-Hunter
"by the way, what are you?"
"I'm a tamer"
"Who's your partner?"
"Renamon"
"where is she?"
"first off it's a he, second no digimon are aloud inside the armory"
"just asking OK?"
"Anyway, let me give you a tour of the legendary artifacts"
"...and here are the legendary spirits" I instructed him as we enter the spirit room of the armory. "they are used to either digivolve either any human or digimon into a legendary warriors. Wait. That's not right"
"What's wrong?"
"Every single one of the spirits is still in their original place"
"So what?"
"That means someone has changed the rules of the game."
"why does it mean that?" "at least one should have been taken by now."
"So now what are we doing?"
"Well since this is the last room of the armory I guess I'll just leave you at the main city with a good friend of mine to teach you the basics of digital combat while I head over to the admin. building to sort out the problem with the spirits." I informed him as I opened up the gate.
"Renamon come here" I called "um, I don't see him here" noticed Matt "you called?" spoke Renamon as he literally walked out of the shadows. "yes have you been watching the spirit temples lately?" I asked "yes" "has any thing unusual happened?" "no. Every person who was chosen from the group has tried and failed completely normally." "wait, what do you mean chosen?" "well if a group enters only one is allowed to take the trial and possibly earn the spirit." "It isn't supposed to work like that. What should happen is that a group takes the trial and the one who was both strong and strong in character in the trial was supposed to earn the spirit" "well it seems it isn't the way it is working now" grumbled Matt, a little peeved at being left out of things. "here Matt take this card and show it to the guy in the weapon shop he'll show you the basics for me while I handle this problem." "Fine." "Renamon lets get going we have business to take care of." "Right" he responds as he fades into the shadows.
"So this is the weapon shop he told me to find" confirmed Matt while fingering the card that was given to him. "Well might as well head in."
"Hello," he shouts as he looks for the shop keeper, "is any one there?"
"I'm over here," came an elderly voice form the far corner of the shop.
"I was told to show you this card and that you could teach me the basics?"
"ah, so the programmer took the role of guide for another newbie. Hmm, I thought he had stopped doing that."
"Well I am his older brother and he did say he was doing a favor for me."
"Ah, a member of his family then. I wonder why he didn't teach you the basics himself though."
"He did have to quickly head over to the admin. building for something to do with the spirits."
"Ah, that explains it. I can not count the number of times that he has had to head over there to confront the admin. group on changes to the game without his notice."
"Hmm. Yeah but this thing even his digimon hadn't noticed that it was a change."
"oh, he is going to be on warpath now"
"why is that?"
"The fact that his digimon saw it as normal means that it was changed before the game was even released to the general public."
"wow. He is going to murder the one who did it, that's for sure."
"All right who changed the game before it was even released and never even told me!" I ordered as I entered the admin. council room. "Tell me now!"
"I did," rebuked the head of the admin., "and I did it to stop the encoded virus you made"
"What virus?!"
"You know what I am talking about, the apocalypse engine."
"That's not a virus!"
"Humph. Then what was it? And why did you have it so encrypted then? Hmm?"
"For your information it was an end of the world scenario that was to be the high point of the game and it was so heavily encrypted so that none would know that it was coming. Even the admin. weren't supposed to expect it. It was meant to be the ultimate trill of trying to save your life and others with out actually being in danger."
"Did you ever think that it may cause extra trauma on those with psychological problems as well as those who need to get out?"
"For your information I did and I built an escape pod program to remove those that might end up worse off from the program and not to mention that I had run the program enough times to be sure that it would not fail when executed without outside interference."
"No program is full proof"
"That's why I made it remove it self once it executed"
"What good would that do?"
"Simple. It would run once and only once."
"Why would that do any good?"
"The laws of chance dictate that the more times something happens the more likely it will fail one of those times and it can't fail even once."
"So you wanted a trill ride for the world and you wanted to make the news with a once in a life time experience through your game."
"No. I wanted to make the game and all of the scenarios the most fun that they could be"
"Still we now know we can remove this engine and not risk any breaches in integrity."
"YOU WILL NOT!" I commanded.
"And how will, pray tell, plan to stop me?"
"Meet me an the arena at 5:00 P.M. We shall end this there."
"You are aware that I am the best hunter in this world and perhaps the best character."
"I know that I am the best tamer in this world and I know this world inside and out." I cautioned thus ending argument and exiting the room
"That has yet to be proven"
"How did it go?" asked the receptionist as I left the council chambers.
"The head of the council and I have an appointment for a duel to the death in the arena at 5 O'clock." I responded coolly
"So I gather in went rather well"
"All in the eye's of the beholder"
"To bad I'm out on lunch for that duel."
"Yeah. Hey could you do me a favor?"
"What?"
"When she asks you to schedule the match could you schedule it as a public match"
"sure but I can't advertise it"
"don't worry I can handle that part myself"
"Any thing else you need?"
"yeah, can you put it on pay-per-view?" I teased with a smirk while I'm walking out.
"yeah sure" she sighed with a roll of the eyes
"...and that's about it," concluded the shop keeper
"All right. I get the idea now. So do you know where my brother is?"
"He is coming" informed Renamon fading in and out of the shadows.
"Do you ever get used to him doing that?"
"Well he does have his usefulness with that ability"
"yeah but you never know if he's watching"
"at least you don't have to worry about his purpose unlike the head of admin."
"why it the head a tamer?"
"nope she's a hunter"
"Hmm"
"I'm back Matt," I bellowed as I entered the weapon shop.
"bout' time you got here" stated Matt as he sits impatiently
"Has he..?"
"he has been on the edge of his seat since Renamon came by" informed the shop keeper
"well you could have told him to give us more information!" demanded Matt
"well what happened was they did it to prevent a scenario from occurring" I reported
"that doesn't seem like them so why did they not want to have it run?" pondered the shop keeper.
"Well they said that they thought it was a virus but I believe that they did it because they couldn't decode the programming."
"So what happened next?" inquired Matt.
"well he wanted to remove it completely so to challenge the action I challenged him to a match in the arena" I concluded
"this is going to be the match of the century here" chuckled the shop keeper in awe. "too bad it's going to private"
"who said that it was private?"
"you mean..?"
"A sincere favor from her secretary"
"so I finally get to see what in the world you have been bragging about for so long." Matt assumed.
"Yes you will. But the most important thing is that this will be no easy fight."
"so do you want me to watch your sibling while you prep?" offered the shop keeper "could you please?" "wait a minute.." complained Matt.
"also could you promote the match for me? I want to have this match to be as public as possible." I asked "no problem" complied the shop keeper
"why do I feel like the younger brother now?" moaned Matt