Simon Chapter 10—The underground lab—
When I arrived in the Digilab, I greeted Mirei and checked to see if my Digimon could digivolve… but none of them could. I prepared to leave to resume training, but then I decided to check to see if I could digiconvert any Digimon… and saw I had plenty of options! I decided to digiconvert a Botamon. When it hatched, I stroked it and said: "Welcome to the world, buddy! I'm Simon. It's good to have you here!" and Botamon smiled back. Now I had more Digimon than I could contain in my phone, so I put Sabrina and Zachary into the farm island and took my remaining Digimon out to train.
After some time passed, I returned to the Digilab to see if Botamon could digivolve. I was happy when I saw it could! I then digivolved it into a Wanyamon—a small cat Digimon with no arms or legs… it had cyan fur with navy blue stripes, a white chin, two ears and a tail attached to the back of its head. It looked 8 inches tall. When I saw this, I said: "Alright, Wanyamon! You've already digivolved to a higher level! Congratulations!" Wanyamon then smiled and said: "Thank you, Simon. I'll keep working my hardest to digivolve again!" and then I called him back before I went out to train him again.
After a while longer, I returned to the Digilab to see if he could digivolve again… and he was ready! I then digivolved him into a Kudamon. Once the process was complete, I said: "Great going! You digivolved again and in record time!" Kudamon then grinned and said: "That was lucky, but I know digivolving will get harder… but I'm still going to do my best!" Now that Kudamon was old enough, I thought it might be time to give him a proper name too. When I mentioned this to him, he seemed fine with it. We determined his name would be 'Jason'. We then left the Digilab.
After another trip to train, I once again checked to see if Jason could digivolve… and he could! But much to my surprise, Daisy could too! I then called them out and Jason then said: "Ah, Simon. Am I going to be digivolving again?" "That's right! And so is Daisy!" I said. Daisy then grinned and said: "Great! Let's make it happen!" I nodded and we got started.
I began by digivolving Daisy into a Togemon— a giant cactus Digimon with two arms (and ones that had big red boxing gloves on the ends), two legs and a sprig of some kind of pale orange grass growing on top of her head. She had two eyes and a mouth that were all just holes in her face. She was taller than me now at 7'2. When I saw this, I said: "Congratulations, Daisy! You've really grown too, and not just to the champion level either!" She then chuckled and said: "So I noticed. Everything looks different from up high here… I didn't think I'd be in for such a growth spurt. Thanks though—I know it'll be good for me!" "That's the spirit! Get everything you can out of your digivolution!" Jason said. Daisy grinned at him and then I said: "Speaking of which, it's time for yours, Jason. Let's get it started!" Jason nodded and I got started.
I digivolved Jason into a Reppamon—he now walked on four legs and had tan-colored fur and brown fur around his feet. He had a white-and-orange ribbon-like adornment around his neck and a white-and-orange mask with no eye holes covering his eyes and nose… he had a white mane and cyan-colored flaps of hair coming out of the sides of his head. He also had a sword for a tail abstractly shaped like a 'z' with an eye on either side… he looked 3'5 tall. When the process was finished, I said: "Great job, Jason! You're well on your way now!" Jason smiled and said: "Thanks, Simon. It's pretty cool getting to digivolve so many times so fast! I'll keep doing what I can until I digivolve again!" "I like your attitude, Jason! We'll all keep up the good work!" I said. I then called them back and put Pepper and Scott in the farm island (and added Sabrina and Zachary back to my phone) before I decided to return to Kyoko's office to see if any new cases had come in.
When I arrived at Kyoko's office, she looked up and I said: "Hi Kyoko. Have any new cases come in yet?" "As a matter of fact, one has! And this time it's another big one too—our client is a government agency!" Kyoko said. "Wow! What did they want us to do?" I asked. "In order to explain that, I'm going to have to put something about Broadway into context first." Kyoko said. She then went on: "Since you've only been involved with Broadway for a couple of weeks, you wouldn't know this Simon, but there's an underground underpass beneath Broadway known as the 'Nakano Underpass'. It supplies electric equipment and water pipes to make things easier for the inhabitants. That's where this case is going to take place. Now with that having been said, in that underpass there is a gateway that is password protected, but the thing is… the gate has stopped letting anyone in. Groaning sounds have also been heard behind it, and so the agency expected criminal activity, which is what brought this case to us." "I see. Wow…" I said.
Then I went on: "Well that doesn't exactly sound like it'll be easy, but that will just make it that much more fun to solve!" Kyoko then grinned and said: "Heh-heh. That's my assistant for you. It looks like you're really getting into this, Simon." "Of course! But that still leaves the important question: how do I get in the underpass?" I asked. "Don't worry about that—I'll be supervising you for this case, so we're going together. I'll show you where it is." Kyoko said. "Ah, I see. Thank you, Kyoko." I said. "Not a problem. Now then, are you ready, Simon?" Kyoko asked. "Of course! Let's get going!" I said.
Kyoko then took me to the underpass from within Broadway and when we arrived, it was a dimly lit room with electrical equipment all around us. Kyoko then lead me over to a wall with a door and a small terminal on the wall. Kyoko then said: "This is the device which has stopped letting anyone in, even if they put the correct password in." then she went on: "With your unique situation, I was hoping you could connect jump in and examine it from the inside to see what's wrong with it." "Oh-ho! I like your thinking Kyoko! All right, let's give this a shot!" I said. I then managed to successfully connect jump into the device!
I looked over my surroundings and saw I was in a greenish-blue and black space with many platforms to walk on… I headed further in and came to a teleportation pad and took it and ended up coming to an intersection where there were two odd square plates on the ground, one to the far left and another to the far right, and a clear gate that had clear walls next to it (and very tall ones at that) and another teleportation pad behind it. I walked up to the gate and pushed on it, but it wouldn't budge. It looks like it's going to take more than strength to move it… I then went back and re-examined the plates. One had a yellow tag-shaped projection coming out of it, and the other had no projection. That looked interesting… but then I remembered: Mirei had taught me about a hacking skill called 'copy and paste', which was one that involved plates like these. According to Mirei, you had to start by going to a 'host plate' that had a color and copy that color data, then you go to a plate that has nothing projected and then you would 'paste' the data to make it that color. Of course, in order to use 'copy and paste' you needed a vaccine Digimon, but I had Jason, so I was good to go!
I went up to the plate that was projecting a yellow image and squeezed my hand as I used it. Nothing happened though and I wasn't sure what to make of this… of course, it could just be that I needed to paste the data, so I went over to the other plate and squeezed my hand to use it… and it worked! The other plate projected a yellow tag-shaped projection! I then heard something and turned around and saw the gate was opening! "Alright!" I said.
Once the gate was opened, I walked on through and took the teleportation pad and found myself back with Kyoko in front of the door. Kyoko then said: "It's good to see you made it back. So how did it go?" "It's possible I may have fixed it… Kyoko, do you know the combination? It might be worth trying to see if it works again." I said. "Yes I do. Alright, I'm on it." Kyoko said. She then went over to the terminal and entered it and then the door flew open!
At this point, we may have celebrated if it weren't for what we saw next—behind the door, there was a passageway that had been affected by a digital shift! "Whaaaat?! How did a digital shift come through here?!" I said. "Digital… shift?" Kyoko said. "Oh, it's a greater kind of digital wave." I said. "Ah, okay. But yes, this is quite a mystery… I wasn't expecting to see this behind here…" Kyoko said. She then went on: "I'm afraid I have no idea how this is possible. It sure looks unnatural, but even so, we should investigate further in to see if there is a criminal element to this. It would be negligent to do otherwise."
I then looked down. A digital wave meant there had to be an Eater here… and if Kyoko went in, she would be at risk of being 'kissed' by one… "Kyoko, if it's okay, I would like to carry the rest of this investigation on my own." I said. Kyoko looked a little surprised as she said: "My, what an unusual request. I know you're very capable Simon, but why this all of a sudden?" "Remember? Eaters always cause digital shifts. That being said, since a digital shift has overcome this area, there will be an Eater inside, and if you go in, it may 'kiss' you, like the one in Akihabara did all of those victims…" I said. "Of course I remember that. But even then, that's a risk I'm willing to take. Even if Eaters are becoming more common because of these digital shifts, I can't let them stop me from doing my job as a cyber sleuth." Kyoko said. I smiled and said: "Alright… then let's go."
We then proceeded further in. We investigated some tunnels that were surprisingly empty, but soon when we got further in, a group of Digimon jumped us! One was a walrus-like Digimon with two gigantic tusks coming out of its mouth, a horn on its head and it was covered with a coat of white fur. It looked 8'2 tall. The next was a dog Digimon with four legs, a long tail and a baby blue and white fur coat. It looked 4 feet tall. The last looked like a magician—it walked on two legs and had two arms and a pointy hat. It was also wearing a white and teal shirt and pants and a tattered cape of the same color, as well as some tan boots and tan gloves covering its hands. It had a staff that looked like an ice crystal on a rod and had its mouth covered by a white cloth covering and had tan hair in a ponytail. It looked 4'7 tall.
I then felt my phone vibrate and it said: "Left to right: Ikkakumon scan data: 15%, Garurumon scan data: 15%, Sorcerimon scan data: 15%". It said that all three were vaccine Digimon, so I called out Sabrina, Daisy and Larry.
I then said: "Sabrina, give yourself a boost! Daisy, hit 'em with needle spray!" and Sabrina said: "Mental charge!" and boosted her damage output with magic attacks and her damage resistance to magic attacks. Daisy then said: "Needle spray!" and she sent thorns flying from her body to bombard all of our enemies at once! Sorcerimon then said: "Mirror reflection!" and cast a spell on himself, but I didn't see any immediate effect… Ikkakumon then said: "Ocean wave!" and caused a big wave of water to form in front of his side and come crashing into all of my Digimon! Larry then said: "Tail hammer!" and swung his tail at Garurumon. Garurumon then recovered and said: "Grand rock 2!" and caused a boulder to appear where Larry was standing and explode seconds later.
Ikkakumon then said: "Harpoon torpedo!" and shot his horn at Sabrina, which split into pieces, revealing a small missile inside of it, which crashed into Sabrina! She didn't take it too hard though. Daisy then said: "Crescent leaf 2!" and hit Sorcerimon with those sharp-edged leaves—he took it really hard too! Sabrina joined in and attacked with a burst flame 2, causing a fiery explosion where Sorcerimon was… but as soon as the flames were gone, he swiftly leapt at Sabrina and clubbed her on the head with his rod before he ran back! "Huh? How'd he react to that so fast…?" I asked. "Maybe it was from Sabrina using a magic attack… after all, when Daisy used crescent leaf 2, he sure didn't retaliate…" Larry said. He actually had a point… I guess I'd better be careful of what attack I use on Sorcerimon… Sorcerimon then stood though, but he looked ready to drop, so I decided to finish him off.
I then said: "Larry, use awesome quake!" and Larry said: "Awesome quake!" and the ground really started to shake before he caused a giant boulder to form in between all of the enemy Digimon and it shattered, raining down shards of rock seconds later. Sorcerimon then fell down… and wouldn't get back up! Garurumon then said: "Fox fire!" and breathed blue flames at Daisy.
I then said: "Sabrina, give yourself another boost! Larry, hit Garurumon with tail hammer!" Sabrina then said: "Mental charge!" and boosted the effects of and stacked the duration of her previous boost. Larry then said: "Tail hammer!" and smacked Garurumon with his tail. Garurumon then said: "Grand rock 2!" and attacked Larry again. Daisy then followed up and said: "Needle spray!" and sent thorns flying at Garurumon and Ikkakumon! Ikkakumon then gave me a nasty surprise though… he said: "Heal!" and restored some of Garurumon's health!
"So that's how we're going to do things, eh…? Fine. Sabrina, Daisy, attack Garurumon! Use burst flame 2 and crescent leaf 2!" and they did so. Garurumon then attacked Larry again with grand rock 2 and Ikkakumon said: "Heal—" before I said: "Oh no you don't! Larry, shock him!" and Larry said: "Shock!" and leapt at Ikkakumon and swiped at him with his claws. Ikkakumon then fell down and looked dazed. It worked!
"Daisy, finish Garurumon off! Needle spray!" I said. Daisy then did so and hit them both… and Garurumon was down after the attack! Sabrina then said: "Burst flame 2!" and burned Ikkakumon with fire before Larry hit him with a tail hammer—and he was down too! We won!
After the battle was over, I said: "Good work guys. You really pulled us through that in the end!" "Darn right! We did a great job keeping them off balance!" Daisy said. "Hmm… They were easy enough. Good job to you too, Simon—you were a good tactician." Sabrina said. "Yeah, they were no match for us." Larry said. Kyoko grinned and said: "Those are some nice Digimon you have there, Simon."
Sabrina, Daisy and Larry then turned to her and Daisy said: "Come to think of it… who's she?" "This is Kyoko. She's my supervisor and mentor as a cyber sleuth." I said. "So you're Simon's boss? That's impressive! It's nice to meet you!" Daisy said and Sabrina and Larry nodded along. Kyoko grinned and said: "It's a pleasure to meet you all too." We all grinned for a moment and then we proceeded further in.
We kept going through the tunnels until we came across some more Digimon. One looked like an enormous, floating sea serpent—it had an aquamarine colored back and white underbelly, with some aquamarine colored flippers. Its head had two eyes, a mouth and a yellow-orange helmet-like cover over the upper half of its head. It looked 8 feet tall.
Another one was a Kyubimon like Sabrina and the last Digimon was a giant roadrunner Digimon with a yellow scarf and goggles above its eyes. It had purple, white and mahogany feathers, two long, powerful legs, two wings and a beak. It looked 4'2 tall.
I felt my phone vibrate and I took it out. It said: "Left to right: Seadramon scan data: 15%, Kyubimon scan data: 15%, Peckmon scan data: 15%". It said Seadramon and Kyubimon were data Digimon, while Peckmon was a vaccine Digimon, so I called out Elena, Daisy and Sabrina. I then said: "Daisy, Sabrina, hit Peckmon with crescent leaf 2 and burst flame 2! Elena, hit Peckmon with your lightning paw!" and Daisy said: "Crescent leaf 2!" and caused a bunch of sharp-edged leaves to slash Peckmon. Sabrina then said: "Burst flame 2!" and caused a fiery explosion with Peckmon at the epicenter. When the leaves and flames were gone, Elena leapt at Peckmon and said: "Lightning paw!" and swiped at him with her claws.
Remarkably enough, these three hits caused Peckmon to go down! I could see my clever planning in using Elena's lightning paw worked great—normally a virus Digimon like her couldn't do very much damage to a vaccine enemy like Peckmon, but Elena's lightning paw never fluctuated in how much damage it did (not even against an advantaged target), which paid off big time here! The Kyubimon looked frustrated though, and she said: "Panic wisp!" and sent a small wisp of red fire flying at Elena and burned her. Elena then looked flustered. Seadramon then followed up and said: "Hydro water 2!" and sprayed Sabrina with a forceful stream of water.
Elena then ran over to Daisy and swiped at her with her claws before I said: "That's enough friendly fire. Sabrina, cure Elena!" and Sabrina said: "anti-panic!" and cast a spell on Elena that healed her health and removed the panic status condition! Kyubimon then said: "Panic wisp!" and this time targeted Sabrina with it and Sabrina looked flustered… Seadramon then said: "Ice blast!" and coughed up a giant icicle, which hit Daisy! Daisy then got up and said: "Needle spray!" and bombarded Kyubimon and Seadramon with thorns!
"Elena, hit Kyubimon with power energy 2! Daisy, hit Kyubimon with crescent leaf 2!" I said. Elena then said: "Power energy 2!" and caused an explosion of gray energy to engulf Kyubimon. Daisy followed up with her sharp-edged leaves. Kyubimon looked worn out now and said: "Panic wisp!" and sent another wisp of red fire at Elena and burned her. Not again… Seadramon then said: "Hydro water 2!" and sprayed Sabrina with a forceful stream of water. Elena then ran up to Daisy and swiped at her with her claws before Sabrina went up to Seadramon and rammed into him!
I then said: "Daisy, it's time to finish off Kyubimon! Use crescent leaf 2!" and Daisy said: "Crescent leaf 2!" and slashed at Kyubimon with sharp-edged leaves… and she went down! Just in time too… Elena then attacked Daisy (and Sabrina attacked Elena) before Seadramon said: "Ice blast!" and he coughed up icicles that hit Sabrina. I then said: "Alright, it's time for him to get a taste of status conditions! Daisy, ripping net!" and Daisy said: "Ripping net!" and she began to crackle with electricity as she ran up to Seadramon and punched him. He then looked in pain after that—he was paralyzed! Sabrina then hit Elena again (while Elena hit Daisy) and Seadramon tried to get up to attack, but then he fell back down again!
Luckily, Sabrina was back to normal after that, so I said: "Daisy, attack with crescent leaf 2! Sabrina, heal Elena with anti-panic!" and Sabrina said: "Anti-panic!" and healed Elena from the panic status condition. Daisy then attacked with a flurry of sharp-edged leaves. I then said: "Elena, get him with power energy 2!" and Elena said: "Power energy 2!" and followed up with an explosion of gray energy to engulf Seadramon. Seadramon still couldn't move though, so Elena said: "Lightning paw!" and swiped at Seadramon with her claws and he was down!
"Great job everyone!" I said. "Thank you, Simon." Elena said. "Yeah! We did a good job to get that done all by ourselves." Daisy said. "Naturally. I have to say though, that was some good work you did attacking, Elena—you really did some damage." Sabrina said. Elena then smiled and said: "Thank you. Truth be told though, I really appreciated how you healed me from that panic state though, Sabrina. You were a lot more helpful than I was strong." "Helpful? I couldn't even stop that Kyubimon from sending me into madness…" Sabrina said. "No need to be so modest, Sabrina! You were a big help! Just take a compliment!" I said. Daisy, Elena and I then laughed while Sabrina looked around at us before chuckling along.
Then we kept on going. Eventually, we came to a long path ahead. We all walked up it—before another group of Digimon jumped out at us! It was a group of a Garurumon, a Seadramon and another Digimon—it looked like a small snail-like Digimon in a shell. Its shell was tan with pale pink stripes and its body that came out of the shell had yellow-green skin, two small feet, a mouth and two eyes on stalks. It looked 1 foot tall. This group had one vaccine member, one data member and one virus member, making them a well-rounded bunch. I decided it would be wise to start eliminating Digimon first, so I sent in Jason, Sabrina and Elena.
I then said: "Elena, attack Garurumon with lightning paw! Sabrina, back her up with burst flame 2!" Elena then said: "Lightning paw!" and leapt at Garurumon and swiped at him with her paws. Sabrina then said: "Burst flame 2!" and caused a fiery explosion to occur where Garurumon was. He already was looking pretty tired too! He then said: "Fox fire!" and spat a stream of blue flame at Elena. Elena got up (although she took it pretty hard) and Seadramon then said: "Hydro water 2!" and hit Sabrina with a forceful stream of water. ShellNumemon then said: "Guard break!" and cast a spell on Sabrina to reduce her damage resistance to non-magic attacks. Jason then said: "Razor wind!" and he curled up into a ball and rolled at ShellNumemon and struck at him three times with his sword tail, although it didn't seem to do that much, even with his advantage…
I then said: "Sabrina, finish Garurumon off! Use Burst flame 2! Elena, use power energy 2 on Seadramon!" and Sabrina said: "Burst flame 2!" and caused a fiery explosion to occur where Garurumon was and when the flames cleared, he was on his side and wouldn't get up—he was down! Elena then said: "Power energy 2!" and hit Seadramon hard with an explosion of gray energy. ShellNumemon then said: "Ice archery!" and conjured an icicle and sent it flying at Sabrina… and she couldn't get up after getting hit! "Sabrina!" I said. "Urgh… how humiliating…" Sabrina said. "Don't feel bad Sabrina—you've been through a lot of battles. You did a great job every step of the way too. Leave the rest to the others." I said. I then called her back and sent in Zachary.
I then said: "Elena, attack Seadramon again! Grand rock 2!" and Elena said: "Grand rock 2!" and made a giant boulder form where Seadramon was and it burst moments later. Seadramon then said: "Ice blast!" and coughed up icicles at Jason. "Jason, use razor wind on ShellNumemon! Zachary, use grand rock 2 on him too!" I said. Jason then rolled up and attacked ShellNumemon again, while Zachary made another boulder explode to attack ShellNumemon. It looked a bit more effective than Jason's razor wind though! ShellNumemon then said: "Idle bubble!" and sent a bubble flying at Elena. She recovered from the hit easily—but she fell asleep immediately thereafter!
Seadramon then followed through and said: "Ice blast!" and attacked Jason again… "Jason, heal everyone up! Aura! Zachary, slam Seadramon with a tail hammer!" I said. Zachary then said: "Tail hammer!" and hit Seadramon with his tail hard. Seadramon even fell down and looked dazed when Zachary was done! Jason then said: "Aura!" and cast a healing spell that restored all of my Digimons' health! ShellNumemon then said: "Guard break!" and cast that same spell to reduce Elena's damage resistance to non-magic attacks.
I then had Jason and Zachary attack ShellNumemon, and Seadramon looked too dazed to move too! ShellNumemon tried to use idle bubble on Jason, but he merely sidestepped the bubble. After that, I said: "Jason, use shining laser! Zachary, hit ShellNumemon with grand rock 2!" and Zachary did so before Jason said: "Shining laser!" and the floor beneath Seadramon and ShellNumemon turned a bright yellow color before pillars of yellow light shot up from it and hit them both! ShellNumemon fell on his side and withdrew into his shell—he was down! Seadramon then retaliated with an ice blast on Jason. From there, it was only a matter of time, blocking and healing until Elena woke up and she massacred Seadramon with a power energy 2!
"Good job everybody!" I said. "Yeah! We did it!" Jason said. "Yeah, we did… there were definitely some bumps in the road there, but we came out on top!" Elena said. "Well that's how some of these things go; not all trips to a worthwhile destination are smooth ones." Zachary said. "Well said, Zachary! Now come on—we've got more ground to cover!" I said. We then pressed on, but what came next was unexpected: we stepped into a giant room with odd machinery!
"What? What is all this machinery doing here…?" I asked. Kyoko looked very surprised and said: "Wait a minute… could this be… the Roppongi underground research lab?!" "Huh? Wait… you know what this place is, Kyoko?" I asked. "Yes. It's a research laboratory used by Kamishiro Enterprises. I've heard it played a role in their development of mental data…" she replied. I then turned to the machinery and said: "Whoa…" Kyoko then said: "Still, I never expected it would be connected directly to Broadway…" then she turned to me and said: "Simon—let's get out of here and head back. I think we've seen enough." I nodded and said: "I agree. It's not worth risking provoking Kamishiro… or the Eater." Kyoko smiled and said: "Exactly. For now, just keep this in the back of your mind, okay?" I nodded and we headed back.
We eventually made it back to the door that previously wouldn't work and Kyoko reentered the password to open it. We then headed back to Kyoko's office and explained to a representative of the agency that was our client what happened the next day. The meeting was long and difficult from all the explaining we had to do, but at least it got done… once it was over, I went back to the Digilab.