Chapter 5.
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In an unknown location...
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The professor's eyes were glued to the computer monitor in front of him, his fingers were typing obsessively on the keyboard. He grinned sinisterly. In between controlling rogue digimon and torturing Laika, the long-haired scientist would work on a certain secret project.
"Splendid! Simply splendid! At this rate, it will be ready in about a week from now!" He laughed.
Walking towards a small table in the room, he picked up a mallet with a tiny metal spike attached to the head and made for the door.
"I feel like...Celebrating!!"
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During the meeting, Yuuichirou received an electronic message from the ameroupian government. They were reporting several dark digimon attacks. Suddenly, the power went out, startling everyone in the room.
"What was that!?" Meiru shrieked.
Leomon held on to her protectively and added. "Strange, it seems like there's been a power failure."
A scientist came rushing in sweating and panting.
"H-Hikari....*gasp*...Meijin....The power plant is...Under attack!!" He urged in between breaths.
The hologram of Qinglongmon and Baihumon's orbs appeared over Netto and Jasmines' respective PET-Arcs.
"These digimon are under the curse of darkchip power. The proffessor is the one behind this!" Qinglongmon said.
"Hikari Yuuichirou, there are vaccine chips to cure the effects of darkchips, were you not working on converting vaccine chips into data usable by digimon?" Baihumon asked.
"Y-Yes, but the thing is..." Yuuichirou started. "We are working as hard as we can, but it's a very complex process...It will take time!"
"We will contribute to this project any way we can...The unnecessary suffering of digimon, humans and net-navis must cease!!" Qinglongmon declared.
"Really? Thank you for your help, Qinglongmon, Baihumon! This will be great!!" Yuuichirou sighed.
"We are more than just digimon, we are holy beasts! We have powers greater than any ordinary digimon could imagine! This won't be a challenge!!" Baihumon declared.
"Great news! Now back to business! Netto! Meiru! Go to the power plant to investigate, and bring Guilmon and Leomon with you! Enzan! You go to meet with the mayor of Densan! Tesla! Charlie! Kingland is in a fix, help them out! Jasmine! You and Renamon go help out the capital of Choina!!" Meijin ordered.
"As soon as the power is back on, we will begin our search for the professor and laika!" Yuuichirou said.
The net saviours, navis and digimon nodded.
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Meanwhile in Creamland...
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The king and queen of Creamland were in the hallway of their palace next to the door to their daughter's room. They were whispering to each other in harsh tones.
"Me? I have to spend some time with her!?" The king protested.
"Pride is going through a rough time, she needs someone to console her!" The queen whispered.
"But can't YOU talk to her instead?!? Oh, it's about that kid, isn't i-"
The king was interrupted by the queen's palm landing squarely on his face.
"How could you be so selfish!!? Laika saved our lives and possibly saved Kingland! Right now, your daughter is worried sick and NEEDS YOU!!" She hissed, her voice barely above a whisper.
"Hrrrmmm....Oh, alright! I'll talk to her!!" The king grunted.
Opening the door, Pride's father walked into her bedroom. Pride was staring at the bedroom window, deep in thought. Her father sat down on the edge of her luxurious bed.
"Pride? Honey...? Are you.....um...Are you feeling okay?" He asked, trying to find the right words to say.
Pride remained silent, then ran to the other edge of her bed, sprawled on it, and cried quietly into a pillow. The king rubbed his daughter's back affectionately, trying to comfort her. After (Somewhat) composing herself, Pride looked her father in the face.
"Why? Why did all this have to happen?? People are suffering and dying...Some cruel, heartless monster is corrupting poor, innocent digimon with Darkchips! And now Laika has to be the one to suffer!! Why?!? All he did was save our lives..." Pride sobbed.
Knightman and Knightmon looked at Pride and her father from within the PET-Arc and then at each other, wishing they knew what to say to comfort her.
"I just hope he's safe....Oh, please. Please let Laika be safe..." Pride mumbled.
Quietly, a secret service agent walked up to the king, leaned in, and whispered something into the kings' ear. His eyes widened.
The king took out his PET and turned on the cell-phone.
"Get me on hold with the prime minister of Sharo!!!!" He ordered.
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Laika's uncle sat in a chair at the military conference room, his face a total mess. Ever since he learned of Laika's abduction, he hadn't been able to think of anything else. The anxiety was eating away at him. He needed news, good news, bad news, any information at all.
The sharoan military had been searched restlessly for their missing soldier. Day and night, city and countryside, national and international. Out of desperation, they called japan and creamland asking for help.
Luckily for him, Iriya burst in the room. Sweat pouring down his forehead.
"GENERAL....*gasp*....General...*pant* I have...Information...About Laika...*pant**gasp*" He murmured in between breaths.
"What?! Then tell me immediately!"
Shortly after Laika's disappearance, Iriya was put in charge of leading the S and R parties due to the fact that Laika and Iriya were best friends. Iriya waved his PET-ARC into the general's face.
"Look! It's the king of creamland!!"
"Former general of Sharo...I wish we could be talking under better circumstances, but there is something important that you need to know." The king started.
"Yes...?"
"Creamland authorities investigated the site of Laika's disappearance, and they found his PET-ARC! Would you prefer we send it to you or to the net saviours?"
Iriya and Laika's uncle were both elated to hear new information about the disappearance.
"Give it to Hikari Netto. If anyone can save my nephew, Netto can..."
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Netto, Meiru, Enzan and their digimon and net navis arrived 45 minutes later at the electric plant. Netto held up his license to a supervisor and introduced himself.
"I am Hikari Netto! This is Sakurai Meiru and Ijuuin Enzan! We're all Net saviours."
"We were sent by Kifune to investigate the blackout." Enzan added coolly.
"Th-Thank god!! A small mob of darkloids and digimon attacked the electric plant's network! Our navis and partner digimon are fighting them off, but we're losing ground! We need backup!" The supervisor explained in a panicky tone.
The three net saviours nodded and plugged-in.
Rockman, Guilmon, Blues, Impmon, Roll and Leomon entered the plant computer. In the computer, the security navis and several Elecmon were fighting a Giromon.
"Don't bother resisting us! The professor says the world is his! Just give up, and save yourselves a lot of pain!!" The Giromon taunted.
"ROCKBUSTER!!"
Rockman fired at the machine digimon to get it's attention.
"You have some explaining to do!" Roll declared.
Blues activated his sword. Guilmon arched his back and snarled. Leomon clenched his fist.
"Well, well, well...Looks like we have a little resistance!" Giromon taunted.
"I can handle you just like THAT!" He added, snapping his fingers.
The Giromon revved his chainsaw and rushed at Guilmon and Rockman. Guilmon and Rockman quickly moved out of the way. Blues snuck by the tiny digimon and thrust his sword. Giromon caught on to him and countered with his chainsaw.
Giromon's saw cut Blues's sword clean off, and slashed him across the chest. Blues was forced to plug-out.
"Battle chip! Barrier! Slot-in!" Netto declared, inserting the barrier chip.
"Battle chip! Barrier! Slot-in!" Meiru used a barrier to protect Roll and Leomon as well.
"Heart flash!!"
"Juuouken!"
"Rock buster!"
Rockman, Roll and Leomon's combined attacks barely left a mark on the Giromon. Angered, the digimon swung his chainsaw at the barrier, ripping it open.
"Battle chip! Elec-sword! Slot-IN!" Netto shouted.
The Giromon dashed at Rockman, Rockman jumped over him and barely hit him in his back with the electric sword.
"OOOWWW! Oooohh, you...!" The Giromon mumbled.
In a rage, he revved his chainsaw again and rushed at Rockman and Roll.
"Leomon! Take this Goldfist!" Meiru urged, placing the chip in Leomon's side of the PET-Arc.
A golden metal fist covered Leomons' right hand, the Giromon headed right for Guilmon and was about to swing his chainsaw when Leomon jumped in between them and blocked it with his newly-acquired fist. The blades on the chainsaw became dulled and bent out of shape. Leomon punched the now weaponless digimon, heavily damaging him.
"Grr.r...rr...You win this round...But heed this message...The world...As you know it...Will fall in a matter...of weeks..." The digimon mumbled weakly.
Rockman finished it with a charge shot. As if on cue, the power in the grid was restored.
Roll picked up the residual data and brought back into her home page with her.
"Thank you for your help, net saviours!" The supervisor said.
"We can easily pick up this mess from here!" His navi commented.
"We'd better report to scilabs...." Enzan said flatly.
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Laika weakly struggled against the chains that held him in place, head hung low and breathing heavily. He had no idea where he was. He didn't know where Terriermon was or where Searchman was. He was anxiously waiting for someone to help him.
He jerked his head up at the sound of a door opening, his eyes widened as his captor walked in with a sick grin on his face. The professor had an arm behind his back.
"Hello, once again...My little plaything. Guess what i've got in store for you!" He taunted.
There was silence.
The professor walked behind Laika, he was unable to see him now. The fact that he couldn't see what would happen to him was what frightened him the most.
"This time, for your punishment, i've decided to hit you on the back with this hammer for every time you and your annoying net saviour friends foiled my plans...At last count, that brings me to 20!"
The boy's eyes went wide as what the professor said registered in his brain.
"One..." He began in a singsong voice.
The professor swung the hammer and Laika gasped.
"Two..."
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Meanwhile...
The power for Densan and Akihara had been restored. The cities were able to return to business as usual.
"Yaay! We saved the power plant! Do I get bread?" Guilmon cheered.
Netto was more concerned about what that rogue digimon said to them. "In a matter of weeks..." He whispered to himself.
"The world as we know it will fall..." Meiru mumbled.
"I have the Giromon's leftover data. We can let Meijin examine it." Roll said.
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Meanwhile in Kingland...
Tesla and Charlie just got off the plane to Kingland from japan, where they were greeted by members of Kingland's secret service.
"Net Saviours Charlie Airstar and Tesla Magnets, i presume?" One of the men said.
"Please come with us, we will explain on the way..." The other said flatly.
The men escorted them in a limo to a coastal irish city where the reported incidents occured.
"About ten'o clock yesterday morning, a dimensional area appeared over a large area around the coast of northern kingland. It was then that a small group of darkloids came and invaded." The first agent said.
The second agent added. "Their leader is a rogue digimon, according to eyewitness reports, it appears to be an ebidramon. It appeared and caused chaos along the shores."
"I see..." Tesla murmured.
"We were asked to investigate, our forces tried to subdue them, but their navis and digimon were overwhelmed. So we decided to ask for a little help..." The first agent said.
In about 2 hours the government agents had successfully brought Charlie and Tesla to their destination.
The northern half of the city, which rested on the foot of a coastal hill, was relatively undamaged, whereas the southern half, which was closer to the shores than the northern half, was completely waterlogged. The citizens were evacuated to the community center on the outskirts of town.
"Oh dear..." Tesla mumbled.
"Whoah...We're really dealing with one tough cookie here!" Charlie commented.
"You will need to stay until tomorrow." The first agent said.
"We have reserved a room for you at the hotel. You can spend the night there and be ready to face the darkloids at 10 the following morning." The second one added.
"Looks like we'll be here for a bit..." Charlie grunted.
"We'll contact Scilabs when we get to our hotel room." Tesla sighed.
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Choina:
Jasmine and Renamon got off the plane from japan to choina and rushed to the area where darkloids were recently reported. They were at the border of Choina's mountain region. A rogue digimon was seen near a mountainside town. Jasmine cautiously approached the mountain villa, trying not to avoid the attention of any darkloids. When she got there, she observed her surroundings.
A woman walked up to her and said "Young lady, you must leave this place. It has been dangerous here since...Since those digimon arrived."
Jasmine showed her Net Saviours' badge and explained "It's alright. I'm a net saviour. That's exactly what i'm here for!"
The woman gasped in delight and ran back to the mountainside town yelling "Help is here! Help is here!"
The other citizens ran out and gathered around Jasmine, mumbling under their breath.
A young boy ran like the wind back to the town and screamed "HIDE!! THEY'RE BACK!!!!!"
The townspeople took to their houses screaming. Suddenly a dimensional area appeared over the mountains. Renamon materialized and took on the crane stance. From the peaks of the northern mountains came a swarm of Numemon.
"Just Numemon? You have got to be kidding!" Jasmine said.
"Kouyousetsu!!"
Renamon took care of the mutant digimon wave with ease. She had eliminated Numemon in groups until there was only one left. Renamon suddenly stopped and urged "Jasmine! The red card!!"
"Huh? Why, Renamon?" Jasmine asked, suddenly confused.
A dark fog covered the digital area. A darkchip materialized from the eye of the haze and infused itself with the Numemon, giving it immense dark power. The Numemon became so powerful, it evolved. In it's evolved form, it was now a giant, dark-umber teddy bear with red eyes, a tattered cape, and metal claws on one hand.
Jasmine scanned the digimon.
"WARUMONZAEMON. PERFECT-LEVEL PUPPET DIGIMON. VIRUS TYPE."
Jasmine immediately scanned the red card. Allowing Renamon to evolve as well.
"RENAMON, SHINKA! KYUUBIMON!"
"Synchro-chip IN! CROSS-FUSION!!" Jasmine yelled.
Jasmine crossfused with Medii, and with Kyuubimon's combined strength, they took on the warumonzaemon. The puppet digimon waved it's claws in the air wildly. R Medii and Kyuubimon easily dodged the attacks, then retaliated.
"CAPSULE BOMB!!"
"DRAGON WHEEL!!!"
The combined forces of Kyubimon and R Medii mildly damaged the dark monzaemon. Suddenly, Baihumon's lapis-colored crystal ball materialized in the real world. Baihumon appeared inside it and a white light shot forth from the sphere and hit the warumonzaemon.
The digimon's fur changed from burnt umber to yellow, and it's claws and cape disappeared.
"What? Am I still in the digimon world? How did I get here??" The monzaemon asked, lost and confused.
"You are not in the digital world, you are in the real world. This is Choina." Jasmine started.
"You had been corrupted by dark energy, but with Baihumon's help, we purified you." Kyuubimon finished. (Notice a Shadow pokemon complex here?)
"Dark energy? Purified? Oh, dear! I certainly hope i didn't hurt anyone! I'm sorry for any damage I have caused...I guess I should stomp on back to digimon world now..." The monzaemon apologized.
With that, the dimensional area generator shut down, and the monzaemon entered the nearest computer and returned to the cyber world.
TBC
Author's comments: Last week was literally the week from hell. Starting last friday mom had migraine attacks.
-Sekhmet'sembodiment223
