Kodama Town Japan 2210 Morning February 1 the Albert Resistant
"Yuudai… Yudai! Hey Yudai!" called a voice "YUDAI ALBERT! WAKE UP THIS INSTANT!"
Groaning, the boy slowly open his eyes and sit straight. "Who…?" He then looked on the left side of his room and see the box that he sealed the Tango incase if Cat were doing something at him while sleeping. "Oh, right." He yawned, getting off bed and unlock the box as Cat pushed the lid out of the way.
"WHAT KIND OF VIRUS DID RIDE YOU?" she snarls "DO YOU THINK I SEND MY REPLACEMENT BODY TO DO YOU IF I INTENDED TO HAVE IT LOCKED UP IN A BOX?"
"I had to make sure you don't do anything funny while i was asleep." He answered.
"AND NOW I AM LATE FOR AN ERRAND!" she shouts, jumping out of the box before running towards the window and jumped through it. And she properly ignored the fact that it was closed on purpose.
"And there she goes." Yuudai sighed, dressing himself up before eating breakfast and head towards school.
"Well one part of mine is gone" Stated Cat's voice from the PC.
Kodama Town Japan 2210 Midday February 1 Odaiba Elementary School
As soon Yuudai arrived in his Classroom, Subaru joining the class for the first in a while, as he first experience how his teacher, Ikuta Michimori teach his class. After that everyone when to the gym to rehearse their play, and there is where Subaru learn that his important role is a tree.
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"I know Luna was up to something, but a tree?" Yuudai chuckled, sitting with Subaru and Hikari on a bench in the cafeteria. "Bad luck for you, eh Subaru?"
"Please don't remind me." The brown haired boy sighed.
"I'm sure we can ask Luna-san to think another role for you." Hikari giggled, then asked. "So what do you think of your first day here?"
Subaru leans backwards and answered. "It's really fun. I never thought Ikuta-sensei lessons would be that much interesting."
"I agreed with you there, Subaru." Tailmon said from Hikari's Transfer. "It's a shame that he won't be in Hikari's class in april."
"What do you mean by that?" Rock asked.
"On the first day of April, the students of japan have to go to the next grade based on their age." Hikari answered. "I just became 11 years old right now, so i'll be staying in A-5, while Subaru-kun and Yuudai-kun goes to class A-6 since they are older than me."
"And you can bet that Luna and her goons will be also in our new class." Yuudai add. "So we will be stuck with her for a while."
"That's a bummer." Rock sighed, until he went a bit serious. "Kids, but on your Visualizer."
"Don't tell me it the FM-ains again." Yuudai groaned, as he and his childhood friend put on their Visualizer, to their surprise the gang saw Two Cats heading towards the gym.
"W-was that Cat… and Cat?" Subaru looked confused.
"Okay, this is weird. How come there are two cats?!" Yuudai gawked.
"I don't know, but we better follow them." Tailmon said.
They went after them and go to the stage where they found the Tango Robot with a two other Tango about to exiting the gym through the windows.
"Hey! Stop right there!" Yuudai called out to them, making the cats look at the group. "Who are you and where are you taking those Tangos? Those belong to QuintCat!"
"Back to where they belong!" answered all three of them "And if you have questions then ask QuintCat Alpha."
"Alpha?" The children said out loud at the same time.
"That doesn't make sense either!" Rock stated. "So cough up! Are you three from planet FM? Or are you rip off that Vava sent to foul us?"
"Not telling!" They smirked before jumping out of the window. Then Yuudai got a call on his transfer.
Upon answering he saw Sept is calling. "Yuudai, this may sound strange: But have you seen-"
"Cat's long lost sisters? Yeah we saw them. They took a couple of Tango and run away before we could caught them." Yuudai answered.
"Well, that I wanted to call about as well, have you seen QuadStrikes arms?" asks Sept, which make everyone rise their eyebrows. "The thing is… what the Admins did have some… hiccups for us to comprehend first. Like Cat suddenly able to use some of her Viruses to create real doppelgangers of herself. Complete with personality and Virus Creation system."
"Please tell me it temporarily?" He asked.
"Until we learned how to control it, kind of." told Sept "But in the long run she will be able to call upon a doppelganger whenever she needs one."
"But why is she gathering all of the Tengos?" Subaru asked.
"To keep our server storage from getting overflowed." stated Sept "She is duplicating faster than she can turn them off and is still working on how to control it in general. All of us has dealing with suddenly new abilities." and suddenly she turned into Drikat "Yeah! Like my Mimic function turned up to eleven! Dare to come over to fight me?" Then she was suddenly Sept again and groans "Great… this is with Personality shift… can it be worse?"
"Ah! Well this is a funny development!" Rock laughed.
"For why I asks for Quadstrikes claws… it popped off and flow away."
"But what about the others?" Hikari asked.
"One is invisible, Orca and Eagle are dealing with new speeds and heavier weaponry, while Drikat… is on a rampage. With six times his known attack and weapon systems." She said.
"That sound really bad." Subaru gulped.
"Need help to cool him down?" Yuudai asked. "We can throw Warrock into the ring if that would help." Which the FM-ain shouts 'Hey!' from Subaru's Transfer.
"The simulator is struggling with keeping up with his battle thirst. But holding. And I don't think you could help us more except finding the arms and get as many storage space as possible for us to park all the Cat duplicates. I've already told Regal, Misora and the other Chosen Children about this."
"Got it. And make sure One is in a cage, please." Yuudai asked.
"He is in a triple secured, highly encrypted quarantine zone which zaps him every thirty seconds to confirm he is still in there." Assured the fox before turning into Quad "And I will kill him myself if he dares to leave that place!"
Everyone sweat dropped of the Sept's switcheroo as Yuudai said. "Okay, we will make sure we found Quad's arms. You keep working on your Multiple Personalities Disorder problem."
"You better! They are last seen in Hikarigaoka according to the reports, now get moving!" She said, ending the transmission.
"Okay, never seen that one coming." Yuudai admit, closing the lid.
"So… are we leaving now?" asks Suberu, his brain currently not working well given the knowledge of countless Cats running around in the town.
"Yep. But i think we should leave the cat chase to Hikari and the rest while we looking for the claws." Yuudai suggested.
"You can count on us." Hikari said. "We can even sent the copies to the digital word, since we know that EM-being can enter there."
"You can't go there the normal way?" Warrock asked.
"Not if you have a Digivice to open the Digital Gate." Yuudai explained. "Now let's go before thing get worse." The three existing the school as Hikari went to her fellow chosen children, while the boys turned into their EM forms and head towards Hikarigaoka.
Hikarigaoka Japan 2210 Midday February 1 Wave Road
"Okay, if i were a pair of floating claws, where would i be?" Rock mused, as Subaru and Yuudai look around the Wave Road.
"Never thought i'll be back here." Yuudai mumbled, looking at the apartment buildings.
"Oh, right. You and Hikari use to life here after the terrorist bombing." Subaru said, turning his head to Zero.
"Actually it wasn't a terrorist bombing that attack Hikarigaoka. It was a Greymon and Parrotmon that was the cause if it." Yuudai explained.
"S-seriously?!" Rockman gasped. "But how is that possible?"
"Don't know, probably it was the Dark Masters who were messing around in the Digital world." Yuudai theorized, but then noticed a pair of claws attack a couple of viruses below them. "Guys! Found our claws!" He point to the platform below them.
"Getting their butts kicked by floating arms? That a new low for the viruses." Rock smirked.
Subaru and Yuudai jumped off, landing on the lower platform, seeing the claws finishing off the last viruses.
"How are we going to caught it?" Subaru asked.
"Without being sliced and diced? Good question" The FM-ain agreed. "Too bad, we don't have the bear's plushy for them to hug."
"One of us could ask Quid to get here while someone keeps the arms busy." Yuudai suggested.
"I think if he could pick up his own claws right now, we wouldn't be needed to search them in the first place." countered Rock.
"True." Zero crossed his arms, thinking of a plan. Until a armless Quadstrike appeared next to the boys to their surprise.
"There you two are!" He growled, charging toward his arms, catching them with his mouth.
"Took you long enough. Had some troubles along the way?" Rock ask.
He mumbled something while he were holding the claws with his teeth.
"Let's focus on putting them back, okay?" Yuudai suggest, walking to the bear's right side. "So any idea how we do it?"
"Maybe just put it on?" Subaru said, standing the left.
"But I don't see any joints here." Countered Yuudai. "We should just go to dad's lab. He might fix him up."
Quadstrike nodded, head towards the Regal's lab with the two following him.
The Ministry of Science Japan 2210 Midday February 1
Regal were typing on the computer while Quadstrike sat inside the system which was isolated, so his… limbs would fly away anymore. Thought in his current status he missed anything that connects head, hands and foot with the body.
"Well, from the data I can tell, the missing limbs aren't an accident. Quadstrikes initial data shows that his new ability is to remove processing power to visualize the connections to turn them into raw power for the arms and calculations to do a series of attacks." Regal explained.
"In order words he got a power up." Yuudai said. "And what about our cat problem?" He points to the other computer, where Jo, Taichi and Takeru opened the digital gate as the Cat's doppelgangers jumped out of their Tango and into the gate. "I hope Jijimon won't mind the extra baggage making trouble in his city."
"HEY!" Came the shouting voice of over - looking at a counter that Alpha-Cat set up - 250 501 022 Cats.
"I've almost solved Cat's problem. It going to be a matter of time before she can control her powers." Regal stated.
"I just hope we can resolved the other predator's problem too." Jo sighed.
"For a group made to prevent trouble is sure giving a lot of trouble for us." Gomamon said.
"For their defense, this time it isn't their fault." Stated Regal "The Predators never had a chance to adapt these before they turned on or getting into special servers helping to get used to them. In this case the Admins should have known the possible consequences of removing restrictions of their data."
"Speaking of data. Did any of you see any new memories or new info about their Father?" Tentomon asked.
"That's right, since the restrictions is gone, they should get some data about him." Koshiro agreed with his partner, typing on the computer next to Regal.
"That part of our systems hasn't rebooted completely yet… in fact it is in a de-fragmentation circle right now. We have only limited access and this access doesn't make any sense." stated QuadStrike. "But one thing got out… a man with white hair, white clothes, golden eyes and a complex tatoo at the right eye. I don't have a name but the data suggest he is dangerous… and had his hands on a creature." and the computer showed a picture extracted from this useable memory… and they saw that man holding the throat of a GrapLeomon with ease.
"That guy literally screams bad guy all over him." Harp said.
"I think… that some kind of Digimon belong to the Leomon species." Koshiro suggested.
"What kind of human can hold a Digimon like that?" Asks Taichi with wide eyes.
"Probably the kind that has two funny looking floating thing behind him." Rock said, appearing on the picture, pointing on the metal objects behind the man. "My guts telling me it some kind of power juice for human to use."
Quad and Cat looked closer to the picture holds their head in pain, spasm around before simply floating there like a body in water.
"Quad?! Cat?! Are you two alright?!" Asked Yuudai, while everyone looked at the two predators.
Then suddenly the bear got in an upright position and stated "Biometal Model Omega, Biometal Bass identified. Danger level: Extreme."
"Biometals." began Cat "Complex and unknown technology to combine non-combat Reploids and/or humans with data of past legendary Reploids to emulate a new form. Biometal users must match by DNA. With exception of Model C and Model D, known Biometals are W, for Wiel, A for Albert, X for X, Z for Zero, H for Harpuia, L for Leviathan, F for Fenrir and P for Phantom. Two more Biometal users known but no Model identification possible. Error. Data of Model D, Dragon, incomplete. Cannot initiate."
"Deactivating Biometal system." Came from Quad "Return to new primary system." and the two collapsed.
Cat was the first to groan "What… happened…"
"Don't asked us! You all suddenly act all robotic after seeing those metal blocks." Tachi said, feeling complete lose as the rest of the group.
"Parts of your original program from your father seems to have reactivated upon seeing that object." Suggested Regal. "But as for your creation these programs were only partially useful, a lot were deleted in your creation process and replaced. And it seems among the remaining data are not only fragmented memories but also a database which couldn't accessed by your current personality core programs, so your programs went for the basic ones which are in any navi type program."
"But that kinda leave more question for us." Takeru said. "Like what are Reploids? And why is there a Zero Biometal?"
"Reploids….. X…." Yuudai mumbled to himself, having a strange feeling from hearing those words.
"My head!" Grunts Quad "Did Drikat blast me with a cannon again?"
"You and Cat suddenly starting to talk weird for a sec after seen that photo." Misora answered, looking at it. "Hope we don't have to meet that creep, one day. That guy really sent me a chill through my spine."
"Same here." Subaru agreed, noticing the rest of the Tangos were laying on the grounds. "Hey! What happen to the rest of the Cats?"
"They are only viruses with Cats data. They face the Blue Death right now." Stated Regal. "They must have died when she went to her trance."
At that moment, Regal answered of an incoming call from Sora and put the screen on the main computer for everyone to see.
"Guys! Something strange happen! All of the Cats suddenly disappeared!" Sora told to the rest.
"Don't worry, Sora-neechan. The real Cat is alright. She just went a little crazy for a sec." Told Misora to her step sister.
"Little crazy? Isn't she like, constantly crazy?" Asks Sora confused.
"Nope. Still the Cat that like to send kitty pics to everyone." Tachi said. "But i think that she and Qued has quite a hangover after that little episode."
"Yea, you guys don't look very good." Agumon agreed with Taichi. "Maybe you need a day off."
"Ughh… I think that a good idea…" Cat groaned, rubbing her head.
"Then how about we all go to the Digital World?" Taichi suggested. "You can even take the other with you!"
"I thought only the Chosen Children can go there. Did you find a loophole somewhere?" Qued asked.
"Any EM-beings can go there if Taichi-san and the other open the gate." Subaru told him. "At least that what Yuudai told me before you came."
"Shouldn't we first ensure that there is no chaos because we cannot control ourselves?" Asks QuadStrike.
"I agreed." Regal said. "But it seem you can control your new ability a little better now. Probably because of your trance, maybe?"
"That… we have to test first." Stated Cat "But are you suggesting that we show everyone this pic, so they also can control their power a degree?"
"If would help us to understand your legacy, yes. And maybe each Predator carries different information. We need to know more of this Biometals and that tattooed man." Regal said.
"Won't hurt to try it out, right?" Taichi asked. "It would be a nice change of pace to get our questions answered."
"The problem is how to reach each of them?" asks Cat "I mean Eagle and Orca are on the road waves and speed around the world to not crash our home server. Sept is dealing with a new form of split personality disorder, One is in an electroshock of a cage due his new invisible ability and Drikat… do I have even to tell it?"
"Why not start with Sept and One first? Their problems aren't bad as the rest of your friends." Tentomon suggested.
"Shouldn't we first make sure that One, even after getting control of his ability that he doesn't do something STUPID!" stated Cat "Like sneaking into dressing rooms of girls. So we'll go with Sept first, thank you very much!"
"Make sure you make a record when you show the picture." Regal said, looking at Sora. "Sora-kun, you can go back now. And tell Jijimon that i said thank for the trouble."
"Will do." She said, ending the call.
"So i guess we'll be heading back home." Taichi said, while Agumon rubs his rumbling belly.
"Yea, i'm starting to get hungry." The reptile Digimon groaned.
"Do you have a black hole in your stomach or something?" Shouts cat in irritation but then ponders "How it would feel to eat solid food…"
"You can try it out for yourself in the DIgital World." Gomamon said. "There are a lots of thing to eat there."
"Cool! I get the largest picnic basked in the world to get snacks for everybody there! Then the entire squad can try food!" declares Cat
QuadStrike looks at the Digimon "If you just unleashed a demon into OUR digital reality, I drag you over to face the consequences." Causing Gomamon to gulp dryly.
2210 Night February 1 Night the Albert Resistant
Later that night, Yuudai lay on his bed, thinking about the word that the Predator said during their trance.
"Reploids… X…. Why does those words feels so familiar?" He sighed, rubbing his head until he suddenly sit right up when the boy heard a sound coming from the living room. "What was that?" Yuudai wondered, standing up from his bed when suddenly the floor that he's standing on, start to descend like an elevator. "What is going on around here?!"
The elevator moved down into something that seems like a warehouse full of technology that is different to what he knows. As he descends he looked around until he stared into a pair of red glowing eyes.
He gasped and stepped back, staring at a large human in black jumpsuit which is greatly covered by red and white armor with a symbol on the shoulder and the chest… the glass orbs made for a moment the impression a female was standing in front of Yuudai but the facial features clearly show male.
"W-who are you?" Yuudai asked, taking a couple of steps back.
An evil grin appears on the face and the man lifts his armored fist to punch him, before turning at the sudden sound of a gate being opened behind him.
The two looked and saw a tall bald man with a red gem on his forehead, wearing green armor with spiked kneecaps. Yuudai immediately recognized the man from his flashback some time ago.
The bald man looked a bit surprised by the red armored figure's appearance, but the figure turned, letting out a battle cry and charged at the bald man.
Yuudai watched as the bald man stepped back and dodging the red figure's punch before he dodge another one of his opponent's attack as the red figure's kick, destroyed a wall creating a large cloud of smoke.
The bald man chuckled until he saw the red figure stepping out from the smoke, he chuckled again before letting out a battle scream, charging at his opponent. Once both of them got close to each other, the red figure starting throwing punches while the bald man simply dodges all of his attack and gave the figure a knee kick, sending the red figure skidded around the room, but the figure stopped himself, glaring at the bald man and charged at him, throwing more punches.
The bald man once again dodges all of the attack and grab the red figure's arm slam him to the ground and throw him into the air as the figure's head slammed into the ceiling. It seem to be over until to both Yuudai and the bald man surprise, the red male pull himself out of the ceiling, breaking one of the handles and throw it towards the bald man.
"What is going on around here?!" Yuudai yelled, hiding behind a barrel and looking up, where the two armored man are standing on their own beam before the bald man draw his laser sword while the red armored male use a pipe as his weapon and the two leap towards one and other, clashing their weapons together. Both of them landed on the ground, continuing the clash swords until the bald one broke the red one's pipe.
Though it seen who's going to be the victor was obvious, until in a twist of fate, the red figure managed to cut off the bald one's arm, the man cried in pain as Yuudai looked at the cut off arm seeing the clean cut wires in side of it. "That guy is… a robot?"
The red figure then proceeds to beat up the robot. But before the man could finish the robot off, he shouts as he were in pain while the crystal in the helmet began to glow with a bright W. Yuudai immediately use this opportunity, tackled the the man, only to phase through and stumbled on the ground.
"Huh?" Yuudai turned around, surprised and saw the beat up robot punching on the red figure's head, breaking the crystal and knocking him out cold. And with that the room began to fade. Only the following words from an old man were heard. "Oh you won't underestimate him. I gave him the number DWN-Infinity for a reason… Forte."
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Yuudai shot up awake, gasping heavily as he sat on his bed, as his heartbeat was fast, ice cold sweat fell from his face and was overcome with exhaustion. Yuudai looked around his room, before making a deep sighed. "What for dream was that…?" He wondered, rubbing his temple.
"What kind of dream?" asks a voice from the Transfer. Yuudai looked in wonder and opened it, finding Drikat in there.
"Drikat?! Why are you here?" The boy asked.
"I was seeking your father before I noticed your behavior in sleep. And you muttering the serial number DWN-Infinity." stated Drikat "What was you dreaming about?"
Yuudai pause for a couple of seconds and told Drikat about his dream, once he finished he took his Transfer and head to the kitchen to get a glass of water. "It was so weird. It almost like it was some kind of memory, but it wasn't mine." He said, drinking his glass empty in a few gulps.
"That bald man… this has to be a reploid." Stated Drikat "That much I can tell you thanks to the data that came from Sept."
"How can you be so sure?" Yuudai asked, heading back to his room. "From all i know they can be call robots, you know. And what is a reploid anyway?"
"Because the man of the memory we got, was identified as reploid by my trace. And as for your other question…. Think of them as the robotic version of the NetNavis."
Once Yuudai entered his room, sitting back on his bed he then asked. "But that doesn't explain why i have this dream/memory." Yuudai ponders.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Drikat said. "But just to be safe, I'll be accompany you tomorrow during school period."
"You sure? Don't you need to work with that floodlights guy?" Yuudai asked.
"Sept is covering me." explains Drikat "She wanted to "study" him anyway to know why I am always in foul mood after a day with him."
"You mean she testing her new tricks." Yuudai stated. "Speaking of which, is yours okay?"
"Depends." He stated. "Here are data I need to sort through. Ask about it sometime later."
"If you say so." Yuudai sighed, getting back in his bed. "And if you see Cat trying to do any fun while I'm asleep, please take her Tango somewhere she can find her."
"Neither of her Tangos are even close by. She is still busy to bring the others back of their recharge stations." The leader explained. "But I'll keep an eye out just in case."