Keisuke Chapter 14—Beauty, in and out—
The next day, I went to the BBS and checked for new cases… but I saw we still didn't have any in. That was too bad… I decided to go to the Digilab and see if I could digiconvert any new Digimon instead. I checked and saw that there were a few I could! I decided to digiconvert a Tsumemon. An egg then appeared before me and soon it hatched into a Tsumemon! When I saw it, I smiled and picked it up as I said: "Hi there! I'm happy to have you with me! My name's Keisuke and I'll be glad to look out for you from here on out!" and the Tsumemon smiled (or at least looked happy based on how its eye looked anyway—since Tsumemon didn't have a mouth, it was hard to tell) before I added it to my phone and took it to Kowloon to train it up.
After a while, I came back to the Digilab and checked to see if Tsumemon could digivolve. I was happy to see it could! I then chose for Tsumemon to digivolve into a Dracmon. Tsumemon then became a colorless wireframe and reshaped into a Dracmon—a short Digimon that walked on two legs and had purple shoes with red toenails coming through them. Its legs were black and it had gray skin all over (except its head and neck, which were also black. It had red blades coming out of its forearms and blue wings that were around its chest and held in place by a jewel with gold hooks. It had a black band around its left bicep and black-and-white wristbands. It had patterns like eyes on its face (the left one was red and the right one was green), but its actual eyes were in the palms of its hands! The left one was red and the right one was green. It had long red nails and looked 1'11 tall.
When the process ended, I smiled and said: "Alright, Dracmon! You already digivolved to the rookie level! You're doing great!" Dracmon then smiled shyly and said: "Thanks Keisuke… I'll keep at it for sure! I'm looking forward to digivolving again." I smiled and then called her back before I prepared to leave, but then decided to digiconvert another Digimon. This time, I made it a Poyomon. When the Poyomon hatched, I picked it up and stroked it before I said: "Welcome to the world, buddy! I'm Keisuke and I'll be happy to help you out!" Poyomon then smiled and I went back out into Kowloon with it, Dracmon and the others.
A little while later, I returned to the Digilab and checked to see if any more of my Digimon could digivolve… and I was happy to find that Poyomon could do so! I then digivolved it into a Tokomon—a little whitish-pink Digimon that had a circular body with four legs (but no arms), two ribbon-like ears and two eyes and a mouth. It looked 6 inches tall. I then smiled and said: "Congratulations, Tokomon! You're already doing a great job and you're coming along fast!" Tokomon then grinned and said: "Thank you, Keisuke! I'll keep doing my best for everyone!" and I grinned and said: "I know you will. You'll be great too." Tokomon then smiled (revealing some unexpectedly large fangs in her mouth) and I called her back. I then went out to Kowloon again to train them.
I had fun training my Digimon (including Dracmon and Tokomon) but soon I got a phone call. I checked and saw it was from Ryuji! I then picked it up and said: "Hello?" and Ryuji said: "Hey Keisuke, it's me. A new case has come in, and it's one big assignment. I wanted you to help with it—are you available right now?" "Yes, I am. Let me log out of Kowloon and I'll be right there." I said. "Great. You can meet me and Erika in her office. See you soon." Ryuji said. We then hung up and I turned around and went all the way back to the entrance and logged out.
When I was back in Hudie, I went straight to Erika's office and knocked. "Come in." Erika said. I then entered and Ryuji said: "Ah, there you are. You got here pretty quick. Nice work." "Thank you, Ryuji. So what's this big case that you were talking about?" I asked. "This one is from Zaxon and it's no ordinary assignment… they want us to hack the cyber crimes investigation unit server." Ryuji said. My eyes then widened and I said: "The cyber crimes investigation server… but the police are in charge of that!" "Exactly." Ryuji said back. "Why…? Why would Zaxon want us to target them?" I asked. "They believe that the higher-ups in that server may have tried to cover up an illicit deal an enemy of theirs made with another company known as the 'Nile Corporation'. So they want us to get in there and get some solid proof." Ryuji said.
I was a little surprised when I heard this… Ryuji then went on: "So to get into that server, we're going to need to use the talents of everyone here at Hudie. The first step is getting our hands on the login information of an authorized person from that unit." "And that's going to be dangerous business… we'd better proceed carefully." I said. "Not exactly. Ryuji and I have a plan for that, but we'll need your help." Erika said. "Okay… so how can I do that?" I asked. "I'll need your avatar data. I was planning on modding it into a Terriermon—" Ryuji said and then I said: "Wh-what?! For how long?!" "Only for the mission. The idea would be to also install malware into it so anyone who touches it has their account data stolen. That's how we're going to get the login information." Ryuji said. "Jeez… to think I'm going to have to walk around in a Terriermon's body for that whole time…" I began and then Erika said: "It's all temporary and an important part of the mission. You're not going to be a Terriermon for the rest of your life, okay? Jeez…"
Ryuji then nodded and I said: "Okay, so if we're going to get an officer to touch me, how are we going to get one there in the first place?" "I've arranged a meeting with one already. Her name is Makiko Date. She's at the level where getting her account information could get us in. I'm going to be talking with her under the guise that I'm giving her information on a group of hackers who have been up to illicit activity—which I can prove too—in order to meet with her." Ryuji said. He then went on: "We've worked out a variety of back up plans as well. The only problem is that we need someone from outside of Hudie to play one role… but we're not sure who we can trust." I then stopped and thought… I didn't have too many friends I'd be willing to enlist in this, but… maybe Yu could help us. "Well… I may have one possibility." I replied. Erika and Ryuji looked up before I said: "I have a very loyal friend who is a student. He'd be totally unknown and a loyal helper."
"…Alright, then try contacting him." Ryuji said. "Sure. But before I do, when is this meeting going to be so I can tell him?" I asked. "It'll be in a week, at 5 in the afternoon." Ryuji said. "That should work for him too. Alright, I'll be back." I said. I then left Erika's office and tried calling Yu. In a moment, I heard him say: "Hello?" "Hi Yu. It's Keisuke." I said. "Oh Keisuke, hey! Thanks for calling again. What's your latest success story in Hudie?" Yu asked. I smiled when I heard this. Getting to talk to a friend at times like these was always a breath of fresh air. I told Yu about my recent accomplishment helping Ciel and Blanc (since I knew better than to tell him about Yuri's case, since that was Hudie's business). "Wow, that sounds neat! I didn't know Digimon were up to so much in Kowloon!" Yu said. "Yup. But Yu…" I said and he said: "Yes?"
"There's a new case I could use your help with. We need someone to help us create a distraction so we can get a target's login information." I said. "…Aw cool! I'd love to finally have a chance to help you with your work! Count me in!" Yu said. I smiled and said: "Thanks, Yu. Well as long as you're in, this is going to take place in a week at 5 P.M. We also wanted to meet with you at Hudie's office to discuss more details before the time comes. When can you come by?" "I can be there tomorrow at 10 in the morning." Yu said. "Thank you, Yu. I'll send you the address so you can meet us there. See you tomorrow!" I said.
We then wrapped up the conversation and hung up. I sent Yu our address first thing after it was over and kept working. The next day, Yu came to our office at the appointed time and we invited him into Erika's office with Ryuji, Erika and I. When Yu was seated, I said: "Everyone, this is Yu. He's my friend and a talented student at my school." "Hi! Nice to meet you all!" Yu said. Ryuji nodded and said: "So you're the friend Keisuke told us about. Well thank you for being willing to come out here and help us—" and then Yu said: "Hey, after all that Keisuke's told me about what he does here, I couldn't wait to get a piece of the action!"
Ryuji then grinned before he said: "Alright, so let's get started. The target is Officer Makiko Date—" and then Yu said: "Whoa! O-officer?!" He then turned to me and said: "You didn't tell me the target was with the police!" "Sorry Yu! But don't worry—we've got our bases covered. You won't be at risk to get in any trouble." I said. "Oh, I'll still do it anyway. I'm just surprised to hear what you're getting yourselves into…" Yu said. "Well as long as that's sorted out, I'll continue. As I was saying, we're going to be trying to get her to make physical contact with Keisuke—" Ryuji said and then Yu said: "What? How exactly?"
Ryuji then retold the details of our plan to him and by the end Yu looked shocked and said: "You're going to mod Keisuke's avatar into a Digimon?! I never thought that was even possible!" "Only temporarily. He's not going to be like that every time he logs into EDEN. Calm down." Erika said. "Er-right. But where do I come into this, then?" Yu asked. "We're going to use you as a backup. The plan is to have Ryuji distract Makiko while Keisuke tries to sneak up on her and make physical contact with her somehow. But in the event that she spots Keisuke before he succeeds, we want you to come in and act like you're his tamer and ask her to give him back to you." Erika said.
"Not a bad idea! But what if she says no?" Yu asked. Erika then ran over the other scenarios she had prepared and said: "Also, I'm going to be giving you a special Bluetooth headpiece. I'll use it to relay instructions to you in real time, so you won't be blindsided." "Well… okay! It sounds like it'll be exciting!" Yu said. "Excellent. Then we'll all meet up in the EDEN Community Area and get situated 15 minutes early in 6 days. Alright everyone, dismissed!" Ryuji said.
I continued to train my Digimon and take on cases. I kept switching out my Digimon that were in the farm island and went back and forth from checking on them. One day though, I saw Dracmon by the water's edge on the island and she was looking down at the water, looking gloomy… I approached her and saw she was looking at her reflection… "Dracmon? Are you okay?" I asked. Dracmon then looked a little startled before she turned around and said: "Oh! Hi Keisuke…" "What is it? You looked pretty glum…" I said.
"…Well the truth is that I feel ugly, and that's really making me feel depressed…" Dracmon said. "You're not ugly, Dracmon." I said back. She then frowned and said: "Look at me, Keisuke! My eyes are in the palms of my hands, I have black-on-gray skin like a gorilla and I've got these ugly folded wings… now that I've seen myself enough times, there's nothing I like about how I look…" she then looked down before she went on: "Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have said that, but it felt good to get it off my chest. I hope I can digivolve into something pretty next time, but I don't think that's possible when all I can digivolve into are Digimon like Devimon and Sangloupmon…" and she sighed and said: "Being pretty didn't work out this time, and it probably won't the next time… but I hope it will someday." "Don't worry Dracmon. We'll find a way to make it work!" I said. Dracmon then smiled a little and said: "Thank you, Keisuke. You're really a breath of fresh air, with your good attitude. I'll keep working hard too, so I'll be ready sooner!"
When the conversation wrapped up, I walked away feeling a little worried myself. I had no idea I had caused Dracmon that kind of distress by digivolving her as I had, but at least she told me what was wrong so I could fix it the next time. I kept going as I had for that day and on the next day, I checked to see if my Digimon could digivolve… and it said Dracmon and Tokomon could! I then got everyone out (including the Digimon on the farm island) and when they were all there, Tokomon said: "What are we all doing here, Keisuke?" "I've got some good news for you, which is that you can digivolve, Dracmon and Tokomon!" I said. Tokomon then jumped up and said: "Really? Yay!" while Dracmon looked a little apprehensive before I said: "So let's get started. Dracmon, we'll do you first." And then she stepped forward.
I then checked what Digimon Dracmon would digivolve into. Many of them were Digimon as Dracmon had said (and were the kinds she wouldn't regard as attractive…) but I kept looking… and saw Sistermon Ciel was one of the options! "Oh, this is perfect!" I said. Dracmon then looked up and said: "What is?" "I found a digivolution you'll really like, Dracmon! It's called Sistermon Ciel!" I said. "Really? Is it a pretty Digimon?" Dracmon asked. "Yup! It's definitely the best option out of the ones that you can digivolve into." I said. "Then let's go with it! If that's what you say, I'm behind you all the way, Keisuke!" Dracmon said. "Alright!" I said.
I then initiated the digivolution and Dracmon became a colorless wireframe before she reshaped into a Sistermon Ciel. When the process was over, she looked thrilled when she saw herself. I smiled and said: "Is this what you were hoping for, Ciel?" "Yes! This is a lot more along the lines of what I had in mind!" Ciel said. She was smiling widely like I hadn't seen her do since she was an in-training Digimon… She then turned back to me and said: "Thank you, Keisuke! I can finally feel proud when I look into a mirror now!" she then set her pistols down and came up and hugged me. I smiled and hugged her back before she let go, went back and picked them up again.
"Well, I'd say that was a success. Now then Tokomon, would you care to go next?" I asked. "You bet!" Tokomon said. I then checked the options for what she could digivolve into… and interestingly, I saw that Sistermon Blanc was an option! I decided to give it a go. I digivolved Tokomon and she became a colorless wireframe before she reshaped into a Sistermon Blanc. When the process ended, she said: "Wow! This is certainly ironic…" and Ciel said: "Yeah, another Sistermon! Not that I mind! I feel like I'm part of a new wave here!" and everyone laughed. Blanc then said: "I don't mind, of course. If Keisuke chose this for me to digivolve into, I'm behind it all the way!" I smiled and said: "Alright then! Now that everyone's all digivolved as much as they can be, let's keep up the good work!" Everyone cheered and we went back to training and taking cases.
The next day was the big day we were waiting for… Yu arrived at Hudie before we logged into EDEN… and I logged into my Digimon avatar. When we were there, Ryuji and Yu stood there… as did I, down by their knees. Now that I was in the body of a Terriermon, I was a small rabbit-like Digimon that walked on two legs and had two arms, two eyes, two giant ears that were taller than I was and one horn at the top of my head. I had tan fur, but the fur around my ears was green and I also had a bandana-shaped area of fur around my neck that had green fur too. I felt about 1'4 tall.
"Well, we're all here now, so we'd best get seated until the appointed time." Ryuji said. "Yup!" Yu said. Then he turned to me and said: "Come along, Terriermon!" "Okay!" I said. Even my voice sounded like a child's… I guess Ryuji must have modded that too. Not that I cared. My voice wouldn't sound typical of a Terriermon's anyway. Yu and I then walked off to a distant bench while Ryuji went to a different one. We waited, until we saw a police officer come into the area… she had a light blue uniform and a navy-blue skirt as well as long brown hair with some rather bad-looking bangs that were in her eyes… she eventually looked around and then Ryuji stood up and said: "Ah, officer Date. Thank you for coming." "Um… yeah, sure…" Makiko said. She then went on: "So you must be Ryuji Mishima, right?" "That's correct." Ryuji said. "So I heard you had some information you wanted to give me that you got about those Dinosaurists punks, right?" Makiko asked. "That's right. Let me start from the beginning…" Ryuji said.
And then he began to talk to Makiko. I waited until Makiko looked like she was heavily focusing on what Ryuji was saying and then slipped in. I tried to get in, but soon Makiko (unfortunately) turned around and yet when she saw me, her face lit up and she said: "Wow! What an adorable Digimon!" I smiled and said: "Thank you! You're a nice lady!" "What kind of Digimon are you, exactly?" Makiko asked. "I'm a Terriermon. I may be little, but I'm a hard worker! I do my best every day." I said. Makiko laughed warmly and said: "I'm sure you do. Ooh, you're so cute! You've got to let me pet your ears sometime! I'll bet they're so soft…"
It looks like I've got an open opportunity! The only criteria were that I had to make physical contact with Makiko… that being said, it shouldn't matter whether or not I initiate it myself. I then pretended to look nervous as I said: "O-okay, but be gentle…" "Oh, so you'll let me? Thank you!" Makiko said. She then started petting them and I trembled a bit, but forced myself to stay still. Those were more sensitive than even I thought they would be! Makiko didn't even look like she was exerting that much force, either…
This went on for a bit before Makiko petted me on my head and said: "Say, do you want to come with me, Terriermon? I'll bet you'd make a great partner solving crimes!" "Thank you, but I already have a tamer. I'd better get back to him actually—I don't want him to worry!" I said. "Aw well… alright, then hurry home Terriermon! And tell your tamer to take better care of you and not lose sight of you!" Makiko said. I smiled and said: "Okay, thanks! Goodbye, nice lady!" and I waved with one of my hands (and ears) before I went off. I then heard Makiko say: "Sorry about that. I don't know what came over me there…" and Ryuji say: "It's fine. Don't worry about it. Now then, as I was saying…" and I soon made it back to Yu, but I heard every word they were saying as I went. Terriermon sure have powerful hearing! When Yu saw me, he nodded and said: "Let's go back." And I nodded back before we went away and logged out. When we returned to Hudie, I was so relieved to be back in my own body again… Yu then said: "Great work! Looks like the mission was a success!" "Yup. That was pretty awkward though…" I said. Yu laughed before he said: "I'd imagine it would be. Still, it's a little disappointing I didn't get to do anything…" "Even if that didn't work out, the important thing is that you were so willing to help us. Thanks Yu. We owe you for being willing to get involved with this." I said. "Hey, like I said, it was my pleasure! Let me know if anything else comes up!" Yu said. "No problem." I said back.
We then caught up with each other until Ryuji eventually arrived back and he said: "Looks like we got what we needed… good work. Now let's report back to Erika." I nodded and we went to her office. When we arrived, Ryuji knocked and Erika said: "Come in." We all then came in and Erika turned around and saw us before she said: "Looks like that was a total success. It went way easier than I thought it would…" and then Yu said: "Yeah. But I wasn't even involved…" Erika then turned to me and said: "Yeah, all thanks to our little Terriermon here. You handled yourself pretty well around Makiko. Maybe being a Digimon is more your thing." "Knock it off!" I said. Everyone else then laughed before Ryuji said: "We still appreciate you being willing to get involved, Yu. Thank you for your support." "Hey, no problem! So are you going to need me for a later part of this mission?" Yu asked. "No, we should be able to handle the rest ourselves. Thank you, you can go now." Erika said. "Alright then. See you!" Yu said.
He then left and Ryuji said: "I'll go get Chitose. He'll have to be here for the rest." Erika and I nodded and then we waited for a bit. I then turned to her and said: "How's Wormmon doing?" "She's doing fine. She's been going a little stir-crazy, but that'll all be fixed during the next part of the mission." Erika said. "Oh, so Wormmon's in it too?" I asked. "Yup. You'll hear more when Chitose gets here." Erika replied. I then heard her stomach growl and I said: "Did you skip lunch today or something?" Erika then frowned a little before she said: "Why? Are you worried about me all of the sudden?" "Friends look out for each other." I said back. Erika then crossed her arms and said: "I just haven't been eating well, that's all. I normally eat whatever I can buy from the vending machines and eat it in here so I can keep working." "But Hudie is a cafe… you could eat something from the cafe area and it would probably be better for you, too…" I said. "That would take too much time. People go in and out of there constantly." Erika said. That was sad… I felt bad that Erika was eating junk food just because she was a hard worker…
Just then though, we heard a knock at the door and Erika said: "Come in." and Ryuji and Chitose came in and Ryuji said: "Alright, we're all ready to continue. Erika, is Wormmon on screen?" "No, let me get her. One minute…" Erika said. She then started typing on her keyboard and soon a window with Wormmon popped up and she said: "Hey everyone! Long time, no see!" "Alright, now that Wormmon's here, we can continue with the briefing. Now that we have Makiko's login information, we can infiltrate the cyber crimes investigation unit server anytime. Our plan is to do so first thing tomorrow morning. Keisuke, Wormmon and I will be the ones going directly in. The objective is to find the connection point to the main network." Ryuji said. He then turned to the window with Wormmon in it and said: "Wormmon, has Erika told you about what your role is?" "Yup! She said I had to relay a made up pass she'll send me to the connection point so you can extract the data." Wormmon said. "Excellent. Of course, going in there will be very risky, so we'll need you to cover our tracks while we're in there, Chitose." Ryuji said. "Leave it to me!" Chitose said. "Great. Keisuke, you'll be in charge of protecting us from any security, including Digimon. That being said, do you all understand your roles?" Ryuji asked. We all nodded and Ryuji said: "Excellent. Then we'll all get ready tomorrow. Dismissed!"
And Chitose left Erika's office before I said: "Ryuji, you are going to fix my avatar before tomorrow, right?" "Huh…? Why is he asking that…? Wormmon asked. I didn't answer and Ryuji said: "Of course I am! What do you take me for?" "I just wanted to be sure… I wouldn't be much use like that…" I said. "Don't worry—it'll all be sorted out. I'll fix it, but in the meantime, you can't log into EDEN, because when I fix the avatar, it will spontaneously update itself—and we can't have anyone else around when that happens." Ryuji said. I sighed and said: "Alright, then I'll just work on what I can around here then…" "Good answer. Ryuji will tell you once he's done too. Keep at it, Keisuke." Erika said.
The next day, we all assembled in the office and Ryuji had us log in to the cyber crimes investigation unit server. When we arrived, we saw it—it had many black-and-white walkways with green teleportation pads! There were also screens of data everywhere! Ryuji then said: "Well, here we are. Keep your guard up, everyone—this is important." "Right!" I said. Ryuji and I then walked forward and then Wormmon said: "Hey, Keisuke?" and then I turned around and said: "Yes?" and she went on: "Last night, I heard Erika say that Ryuji turned you into a Digimon! Is that true? Did you like it?"
Suddenly I felt annoyed and said: "He did NOT turn me into a Digimon! He modded my avatar so I'd look like one! There's a difference!" Wormmon then giggled and said: "Wow! I never knew hackers could do that! So which one were you?" "…Terriermon." I said back. "Hee-hee! Aw, how cute! I didn't see that coming!" Wormmon said before Ryuji frowned and said: "Stop it Wormmon! We're losing time! Now let's go!" "I agree! Let's get a move on!" I said.
We then proceeded through the server. The teleportation pads made advancement difficult, but we eventually made it into a closed area that had some odd square plates in each corner of the area (and they had certain characteristics in common—two had colored tag-shaped projections coming out of them, one red and one blue and the other two had no projections), as well as a data terminal in the middle… we then approached it and I said: "Is this the connection point, Ryuji?" He nodded and said: "Yeah. It looks like it." He then approached it and started trying to use it, before he said: "Hmm… that's odd…" and he started looking all around it…
"What is it, Ryuji?" Wormmon asked. "It's not on. And there doesn't look like any way to turn it on either…" Ryuji said. "But there has to be a way! It'd be useless otherwise!" Wormmon said. "I know. We'll just need to keep our eyes open…" Ryuji said. I then eyed something nearby the terminal… it was what looked like a series of pages that had 3 red lines, 2 of which were in an 'x' shape and the third was wrapped around the middle across them. I approached it and Wormmon said: "Keisuke? Do you have an idea?" "Let me see if I can use this…" I said. I then used my hacking skill 'code scan' to decrypt and access the data saved in it…
Soon it was decrypted and then I saw it: these were saved files! And they contained instructions for how to turn the terminal on! "Aw yeah! Here's what we were looking for!" I said. "Did you find something, Keisuke?" Wormmon asked. "Yes! This has instructions for how to turn on the power to the connection point!" I said. "Great! What does it say?" Ryuji asked. "Let me just show you. The explanation is a bit complicated and would eat up our time." I said.
I then went up to one of the data plates (this was the one with the red tag projection) and used my hacking skill 'copy and paste' to record the red data characteristic, then I went to one of the two data plates and used it again to make the red tag projection appear on that plate! "Whoa! What's the deal with that?" Wormmon asked. I then went to the data plate with the blue tag projection and used copy and paste again before I went to the last data plate I hadn't been to and used the copy and paste skill again to make the blue tag projection appear on the plate. A second later, I heard Ryuji say: "Whoa! It booted up!" and I turned around and went next to them, only to find the terminal had booted up!
Ryuji then nodded and said: "Excellent work, Keisuke. Now I'll handle the hacking. Once I do, there's no telling what they'll throw at us, so watch my back, okay?" "You got it!" I said. Ryuji then went to work for a bit (and I monitored the surrounding area) and he soon said: "Alright, as expected… ah! What the…?!" and then Wormmon and I turned to him and I said: "What? What is it, Ryuji?!" "Something's coming! It must be a trap embedded in the data!" he said.
Ryuji then backed up and two Digimon appeared before us… one on the left was very humanoid and walked on two legs. It had red, gold and black armor over a black body suit and had sharp, curved shoulder armor, as well as three horns (one pointed straight ahead, while the other two went sideways) on a red mask it was wearing. It had very long, spiky blond hair and looked 5'8 tall. The other on the right walked on two legs and wore a full body white suit with black belts around its waist and thighs. It had white-and-purple shoulder and arm armor and a white helm that looked like a wolf's head covering its face. It also had white, purple and black shoes. It had short, blond hair and wore a purple cape. It looked 5'10 tall.
"Damn, talk about cunning…! Embedding Digimon into the data?!" Ryuji said before the white Digimon said: "Only authorized personnel are allowed to view this data. I don't know how you got in here, but we can't let you leave." "Hmph. If that's the way you want it…" Ryuji said before he called out Cyberdramon and I said: "I guess that's it then! Let's knock 'em down!" the red Digimon then said: "Try us! Now let's go, punks! It's time to burn!"
I then felt my phone vibrate and it said: "Left to right: Agunimon scan data: ERROR, Lobomon scan data: ERROR." That was the second time that happened… how weird. It said that Agunimon and Lobomon were both free-typed Digimon, meaning they were no better off against one enemy than another, so I called out Angewomon, BlueMetalGreymon and Ciel. I then said: "BlueMetalGreymon, use revenge flame! Ciel, hit 'em with silent bullet!" and BlueMetalGreymon said: "Revenge flame!" and caused blue flames to surround him. They didn't hurt him, but heightened his concentration instead, so he'd retaliate against any attack. Ciel then said: "Silent bullet!" and she shot at Agunimon and Lobomon three times. Both recovered relatively easily, although Lobomon had a harder time than Agunimon. Angewomon then said: "Holy light 3!" and made a shining, exploding cross explode where Agunimon was! Agunimon then said: "Attack charge field!" and cast a spell on himself and Lobomon that made them do more damage with non-magic attacks. Lobomon followed up and said: "Attack charge field!" and strengthened himself and Agunimon a second time. It looks like they're going to be good at applying pressure fast… if I don't do something soon, this might get bad… Ryuji then said: "Cyberdramon, hit Lobomon with destruction cannon 3!" and Cyberdramon said: "Destruction cannon 3!" and lobbed a purple blob of darkness at Lobomon, which he took a little hard!
Agunimon then said: "Wolkenapalm 2!" and caused a fiery explosion where Ciel was. Lobomon then said: "Wind claw 2!" and leapt at Angewomon and scratched her with his hands, which had shears of wind coming from them. "BlueMetalGreymon, hit Lobomon! Wolkenapalm 3! Ciel, follow up with fury fire!" I said. BlueMetalGreymon then said: "Wolkenapalm 3!" and caused a fiery explosion to occur where Lobomon was standing. Ciel then said: "Fury fire!" and shot at Lobomon twice. "Cyberdramon, use Desolation claw on Agunimon!" Ryuji said. Cyberdramon then said: "Desolation claw!" and he put his hands close to each other, but they weren't touching. A cyan ball then formed in between his hands and he fired a beam from it at Agunimon! I then said: "Alright, time to fight back Angewomon! Use celestial arrow on Agunimon!" and Angewomon said: "Celestial arrow!" and conjured a white bow on her right arm's glove and shot a shining arrow of light from it at Agunimon! It squarely hit him and when he got up, he looked mad and said: "Ngh! No! I lost my power!" "What? What are you talking about, Agunimon?" Lobomon asked. "Our attack boosts! They went away when she shot me with that arrow!" Agunimon said. "Really? She's going to be a big problem then…" Lobomon said.
"Heh-heh-heh…" I said as Angewomon giggled. "Well done, Keisuke! That'll keep them on the ropes!" Ryuji said. Lobomon then frowned and said: "Zwei Sieger!" and took two handles off of his belt and they emitted beams of light, like they had turned into swords! He then swung them at Angewomon in one attack and she managed to recover. I then said: "BlueMetalGreymon, give Ciel a boost! Critical charge!" and he said: "Critical charge!" and improved Ciel's ability to identify enemy weak points. Then I went on: "Ciel, hit Lobomon with fury fire again!" and Ciel said: "Fury fire!" and shot at Lobomon twice, although he took the shots harder this time! "Cyberdramon, you help too! Use destruction cannon 3 on Lobomon!" Ryuji said and Cyberdramon attacked with it again. Agunimon then said: "Attack charge field!" and boosted his and Lobomon's damage output with non-magic attacks again. I then said: "Angewomon, keep everyone's health up! Aura!" and Angewomon said: "Aura!" and cast a spell that restored everyone's health!
"WHAT? She heals too?!" Lobomon said. "Looks like we'd better do something, quick! Pyro punch!" Agunimon said. He then lit his fists on fire and ran at Angewomon while Lobomon said: "Zwei sieger!" and once again made those light swords before I said: "Not so fast! Angewomon, get ready to block!" and she assumed a defensive position. Agunimon then punched Angewomon twice before he leapt back and Lobomon swung his swords at her, but she was still doing fine, thanks to her defending! "Alright! Now finish Lobomon off, BlueMetalGreymon and Ciel! Use wolkenapalm 3 and fury fire!" and Ryuji said: "Cyberdramon, you too! Destruction cannon 3!" and they all attacked and knocked Lobomon out!
Agunimon was starting to look worried, and he said: "Pyro punch!" and hit Angewomon twice more. "Angewomon, time to heal! Aura!" I said. She then said: "Aura!" and healed everyone again! "That's the way! Now BlueMetalGreymon, give Ciel another boost! Critical charge!" I said. BlueMetalGreymon then did so and Ciel said: "Fury fire!" and shot at Agunimon twice. "Cyberdramon, use desolation claw!" Ryuji said. Cyberdramon then attacked with the beam again.
Agunimon then punched Angewomon again with pyro punch, but I had Angewomon take away his boost again with celestial arrow. Ciel then followed up with a fury fire and BlueMetalGreymon did too with wolkenapalm 3 (and Cyberdramon pitched in a desolation claw!). It didn't take long before Agunimon was down too!
When the fight was over, Wormmon jumped up and down and said: "Way to go, Keisuke and Ryuji! You made those Digimon look easy to beat!" "Thank you, Wormmon. Although it was only because we were so prepared." I said before I turned to my Digimon and said: "Still, I have to agree—you were awesome, Angewomon, BlueMetalGreymon, Ciel." Angewomon smiled and said: "Thank you, Keisuke." BlueMetalGreymon then threw his arms up into the air excitedly and said: "Yeah, and we did it all on our own! No defeats on our side or anything!" and Ciel breathed a sigh of relief before she said: "I'm just glad I did so well, even though it was my first major fight." She then turned to Angewomon and BlueMetalGreymon before she said: "Of course, I owe you both a lot of credit for that too." "You should be proud though, Ciel—you did a great job attacking and it was true that you really did great on your first big battle." I said. Ciel then turned to me and smiled widely before she said: "Thanks!"
"Don't forget the mission, all of you—we need to get the data. Besides, in case you haven't noticed, it's not over yet…" Ryuji said before Wormmon said: "Hmm?" and Ryuji went on: "Since we took down those Digimon, the admins are going to be notified… things are going to get dangerous real soon…" he then turned to us and said: "You two go back. I'll take it from here." "But…!" I began and then Ryuji said: "Don't worry about me; I'm experienced enough to get out in one piece. But it wouldn't do if you got captured… just leave this to me, okay? I can do this."
"How irresponsible would that be? We came here to finish the mission together, Ryuji! We can't just leave you in the dust—" I began and then Ryuji suddenly looked very mad before he said: "Stop it! We're wasting time we need to analyze the data bickering like this! Just go!" "Yeeeeh! I've never seen Ryuji so mad before! We'd better go, Keisuke!" Wormmon said. "Umm… okay…" I said.
And Wormmon and I left the server together. When I returned to Hudie, I had trouble getting back on task… that sudden change in how Ryuji was acting was really weird, especially given what a mess he's forced onto himself… all the same, I suppose all I can do is wait… I checked the BBS for cases and didn't find any, so I decided to train my Digimon for a while. Luckily (when I next came back to Hudie) I saw Ryuji! I approached him and we talked and eventually he mentioned that he retrieved the data successfully and the mission was complete. It was a daring escape we made, and I was just glad it was over… I was ready for things to calm down for a while.