Primary Survey

Pallet Town was normally a quiet town, more so at night, when most of the town's residents were asleep. Usually, the only living things in Pallet Town that stayed up at night were various Pokemon and night shift workers at Professor Oak's lab.

The drone flew soundlessly into Pallet Town, and came to a dead stop. Pointing a sensory apparatus down at the town, at an acute angle from its axis of rotation, it started to slowly spin on its axis. To the drone, the entire town appeared to be green, with splashes of black. Its infrared vision apparatus detected several heat signatures spiking out of a large human building in the center of town.

The drone, finished with filing its initial survey report, flew towards Professor Samuel Oak's laboratory, miniscule ports on its hull opening to reveal many syringe-like appendages. And one hatch opened to reveal a mini laser cutter.

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Kim and Green, Prof. Oak's two night shift lab assistants, were researching the effects of sleeping pills on a Slowpoke, when they heard a soft hissing sound coming from the lab adjacent to the one they were in. The hissing sound was nearly inaudible, but they managed to hear it, having been working the graveyard shift for many years in the lab.

"Kim, did you leave a gas valve open?" asked Green, slightly worried. Had a gas valve been left open, a single spark in the room could blow the entire floor to bits.

"Nope. The only gas I used earlier was carbon dioxide, anyway," replied Kim, putting down the Slowpoke he had been examining, "But I'll go and check, just to make sure things are all righ-"

A loud crash of breaking glass came from the adjacent lab. The two lab assistants then heard a whirring sound, as though some of the lab equipment in the lab had been turned on.

"Burglars!" hissed Kim, snatching up a shotgun from behind a cupboard. He and Green-who was also armed with a shotgun-padded over to the lab. Slowly using the shotgun's barrel to nudge the door (which had been slightly ajar prior to that) open, they prepared to level their shotguns at the intruder... to see that the lab was empty. And that the floor was littered with a mess of broken glass and dead leaves.

Looking at each other in puzzlement, they stepped into the lab. CRUNCH. CRUNCH. Broken glass broke into minute shards as they walked over it with their lab boots. Taking a look at the equipment around them, they saw that nothing was missing.

"You see anything that's been lifted?" asked Green, inspecting the chemical vault, which was locked.

"Nope. But get a load of this," replied Kim, gesturing to the lab's large window. Green walked up to the window, and saw the thing that had puzzled Kim. A perfectly circular hole, which he guessed to be over a foot in diameter, had been cut through the glass. Cold night air blew in through the hole, together with some dead leaves from the trees outside, that scattered all over the lab floor.

Looking at the hole, he noticed that the edges of the hole seemed to have been melted with a hot object. He called Kim over to check out this new mystery.

"Ya see the edge of the hole, this window must've been cut through with a cutting torch," said Green, feeling the edge of the cut. Smooth and rounded, not sharp at all. Definitely done by a cutting torch.

"Yeah, from the look and feel of it, I'd say you're right," said Kim, feeling the cut for himself, "I'd say we wake up old man Oak and- What are you staring at?" Kim had seen Green staring at the doorway, for no apparent reason. Turning to look at the doorway, he saw what had caught Green's eye. A floating, spike-covered spheroid was moving towards them.

Without thinking, he leveled his shotgun at it, and it stopped in midair, two feet from the two of them.

"Whaddaya think this thing is?" asked Kim, as the object slowly revolved on the spot, making whirring noises similar to the ones they had heard earlier.

"I dunno. But let's just shoot the bejesus out of it and then find out what it is," replied Green, getting the spheroid in his sights.

Suddenly, without warning, just as the two lab assistants were about to pull the trigger of their respective shotguns, the drone fired a volley of toxin-filled darts at them. Kim and Green saw the things' spiky protrusions suddenly firing needles at them, and they opened fire.

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The residents of Pallet Town were jolted out of their sleep by several gunshot sounds. They also heard some short, agonized screaming, before the night returned to its normal tranquility.

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In the Oak Laboratory, the drone brought out its laser cutter, as well as several needle-like probes. Moving over to Green's body, it made a long incision on his torso. Then, using four collapsible arms that it had unfolded from its collection of onboard gadgets, it proceeded to prize open Green's torso, inserting its probes into his heart, lungs, kidneys, and one probe was inserted through an eye, into his brain. A scraper appendage scraped off a portion skin from his tongue, which was now an alien blue in color.

The drone then retracted its probes and other equipment, storing them back in their hatches. It then unlocked the encrypted tight-beam signal that was to be sent to the planet Data, to be read by Grand Admiral Datamon. The signal's activation sequence started, the drone's records being sent in a rapid pulse of encrypted data to Data.

Its work done, the drone fell to the floor with a dull THUNK!

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Prof. Oak's other lab assistants, who had been checking his many labs for the source of the gunshots (only Prof. Oak had licensed shotguns in this town), heard it, and hastened to the lab. Before they could enter the lab, a wave of blindingly bright light and heat blasted out of the doorway. As soon as they had recovered from the shell shock, they entered the lab.

Finding nothing but a room that was on fire.

After they had extinguished the fire, Officer Jenny was called in. But no evidence was found. The burnt corpses of Green and Kim were duly buried, and the case was closed. The two men's deaths were filed as a group suicide that resulted in destruction of a laboratory, no questions asked.

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On the planet Data, in a darkened chamber, a computer monitor came to life, displaying a rapidly scrolling list of symbols. A shadowy figure, moderate in height and sporting a shiny glass head, stepped up to the monitor.

The figure had a head that was half a large transparalon bell jar and half a mechanical face that looked like Pablo Picasso had designed it. Four feet stood firmly planted on the floor, connected to the body by steel cable 'legs'. Two long, cable-built 'arms' were connected to three-fingered hands that consisted of manipulatory appendages and friction pads.

Grand Admiral Datamon of His Majesty Lord Apocallymon's army looked at the scrolling symbols with interest. This type of encryption was only used for one type of message. Microprocessors in his computerized brain changed frequencies, altered existing thinking algorithms temporarily, and inversed the mathematical functions that were on screen. Finally, even as the screen was still displaying the encrypted symbols, Datamon had already decrypted the message:

EARTH IS READY FOR HUMAN AND ANIMAL HARVESTATION.

Datamon smiled, his metal teeth glinting wickedly. He had been waiting for this moment for the last 400 years. Now his plan was coming to fruition. As he watched speeded up replays of the drones audio-visual recordings, he marveled at how much humans had advanced in science and technology since he had last sent a drone to Earth, 50 years ago. The recordings came to an abrupt halt as the drone self-destructed - as it had been programmed to do - after it had sent him the important data.

He left his chambers, to report this marvelous stroke of luck to Emperor Apocallymon.

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"We are in a prime position to take Earth," declared Datamon, to the Digimon High Council. Even though he was the second-highest ranking officer (after Emperor Apocallymon himself), he still believed in letting his underlings do some of the thinking, "Are there any volunteers for the first wave? We will be attacking the human colony called 'Kanto', which has been determined to contain all the biological specimens we need. Other than that colony, we'll be destroying all the others."

In front of him were the holographic representations of the High Council's other members.

Admiral Raidenmon (Supreme Commander of all Digimon troops) was in front, with Generals Zanbamon (the Commander of the Musyamon), Fuijinmon (the Digimon of Speed), Suijinmon (the Digimon of Power), Raijinmon (the Digimon of Thunder), and Metalseadramon (Commander of all organisms aquatic) seated behind him. Behind the five generals were the Military Division heads. Marinedevimon the logistics chief, Arukenimon and Mummymon (they were husband and wife), joint Intelligence chiefs cum professional Interrogators, cryptology chief Diaboromon, and the head of Ground-and-Space Warfare (GS-W), Machinedramon. Flanking Machinedramon were his ground, aquatic, and space battle advisors, Colonels Kokatorimon (head of ground assault), Pukumon (head of aquatic assault) and Venomyotismon (head of space combat).

"I volunteer the services of my ground attack troops," screeched Kokatorimon, bowing her gigantic plumage-covered head, "The humans will be destroyed before they know what hit them!"

"How do you plan to achieve this?" asked Zanbamon, who was the most pessimistic (he said he was realistic, not pessimistic) of all the High Council.

"I shall use my Triceramon troops to burn the other colonies. The burning of the unneeded colonies shall be followed by a saturation bombing run by the Megadramon and Gigadramon troops. Once that is done, I shall personally lead a legion of foot soldiers into ground battle with the humans and their pokemons," replied Kokatorimon.

"Very well, colonel. We do not take lightly to failure," rumbled admiral Raidenmon, fixing the mechanical gaze of his one, cyclopean eye upon Kokatorimon, "You know what the price for failure is, yes?"

Raidenmon further emphasized his point by swiveling one of his large cannon appendages to be aimed at Kokatorimon.

"I will win!" said Kokatorimon, who looked slightly shaky after Raidenmon's veiled threat, "By the end of this month, the humans will be ours!"