Brainstorm
By: Theodore 'Blitz' Leung
Disclaimer: All Digimon and their characters (except for those introduced in this fic/series) do NOT belong to me. I do not have permission to use their characters, but it's a FanFic, so, who cares? =) This story line belongs to me and me alone. Please ask for permission if you wish to use it. Thanks. Now let's get onto reading!
I don't understand this Merger very well. All I know is that it is forcing two worlds together.
I am not entirely opposed to the idea, but I don't agree with the current method of merging.
Merging at this kind of speed will only result in death and destruction between the two cultures. As it is, Chaos will ensnare both worlds if this keeps up.
Time may be of the essence, but this is just taking it too far.
~Diary of Tiberius 'GTK' Hartz, fourth generation Digi-Destined
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"I just don't get it," Tiberius spoke out, leaning against the wall. Izzy was busy typing on his computer, trying to assist Tiberius any way he. "The Merger is going, but hardly anything is happening; yet, on the first few days it was activated, Digimon were appearing quite often."
"Maybe he decided to slow down the process," Izzy suggested, turning to face the younger intellect in the room. "A quick transition maybe too much of a strain on the population as well as the two worlds." He turned back to his computer, clicking some more. "Here, let me show you," he offered. Tiberius pushed off from the wall and looked over Izzy's shoulder.
"Trying to graft the Digital World onto the Real World is like building a model airplane," Izzy used as an example. Both worlds were down on the screen, the Digital World disintegrating and forming onto the Real World. "Going to fast and the glue will not dry. The pieces won't stay." The parts of the Digital World that fell onto the Real World globe slowly rolled off.
"But, how does that work?" Tiberius asked, watching the reply of the Digital World fall apart once more.
"Well, for lack of anything better to use, it's a de-fragmentation device that the Merger is working on," Izzy continued. "When you save multiples of one file, the sectors for that file are spread out, thus taking longer to load. The same applies here. Slapping together all the areas for one region won't mean it'll be all together when it shifts over. It won't be a whole, and until it's a whole, it cannot maintain its form. Eventually, it will break down, the data to spread out for anything to happen."
"So, in the end, it would be useless for a speed merger to take place," Tiberius concluded. "What about these beacons he talked about? Err...transfer points I believe."
"Oh, well, those are simple," Izzy answered, quickly typing on his computer. "The Digital World and Real World are linked in many ways, one being physical features. A mountain in the Real World could be a mountain in the Digital World."
"Setting up a transfer point," Izzy continued, painting a small portion of the Real World Red. "Will make it easier to see which Digital World location is good with what Real World location." Multiple red globs ran over the Digital globe, signalizing a match. "It's sort of a faster defrag device."
"I see..." Tiberius mused, the answer becoming clear now. "So, can you estimate when the Merger will be complete?"
"Well, unless we know exactly what speed it's working on, the best estimate would be around a month to a year remaining," Izzy assessed. "Of course, even a month is pushing it. If you thought de-fragmenting a 8 Gig hard drive is bag, try something the size of the Digital World."
"Point well taken," Tiberius agreed. "I'm guessing the...the only sure sign of knowing it's about to be complete is when we start seeing more and more Digimon show up in the Real World."
"Exactly," Izzy replied. "Of course, I don't think anyone would be happy if a massive Digimon appeared and started to destroy Japan, as been done before."
"Man...we got so distracted we forgot about the Merger completely," Tiberius cursed, clenching his fist. "Guess we aren't fit to be Digi-Destined if that can happen."
"Hey, don't feel that bad," Izzy reassured his friend. "It's easy to get distracted when faced with a missing team member. At least your group didn't break up."
"No, but we didn't go the Digital World for a while either when Tao vanished, presumed dead," Tiberius answered, sighing. Izzy stood up, placing a hand on Tiberius' shoulder.
"It's to be expected," he reasoned. "You've never felt that kind of loss before, and I'm sure no one else on the team has either." Tiberius remained silent, turning his gaze towards the direction of his partner, sleeping on Izzy's bed, then back to his old colleague.
"Is there a way for us to distort the Spire technology we seem to run into so often now a days?" Tiberius asked. He didn't want to Ainoko Digivolve all the time, especially since it is not always possible to get your Ainoko partner at the battle scene.
"Hmm..." Izzy mused, sitting back down at his desk. "It is obvious that it's a portable spire," he spoke. "I don't think they can construct a spire everywhere in the Digital World in a matter of 24 hours, especially since you don't ever see spires when you fight, or at least, I hope there are no spires. If there were spires, then you're all going blind or something like that." Izzy loaded up his Digimon Analyzer, followed by loading up Axeramon's profile on it.
"Can I borrow your Digivice for a minute?" he asked, stretching out his arm. Tiberius nodded, placing the Brown Digivice into Izzy's hand.
"This trip is becoming more informative then I thought," Tiberius spoke, watching the young genius hook up the fourth generation Digivice into the computer. Quickly typing on his keyboard, another profile appeared. Izzy compared the two, then got the computer to analyze both. There was a small bleeping sound once the scan was complete.
"Ahh...that's how..." Izzy spoke. Tiberius examined the imagine, recognizing the profile image, but not the second one of Axeramon.
"That," Izzy started, pointing at the other image. "Is the battle data image your Digivice collected when you fought Axeramon for the final time. He is almost completely similar to the profile one, except, there's a bracelet on his left arm."
"And...I'm guessing that..." Tiberius paused, narrowing his eyes to get a better look at the bracelet on the battle data image. "...that black bracelet is the cause for all our troubles." Izzy nodded, closing the profile picture and loading the scanned data of Black Spire's onto the computer. Tiberius took a closer look, seeing the similarities.
"The only difference I see is that the power output is less, so the radius of the bracelet is much smaller," Tiberius noted. Both images zoomed out quickly, entering a wire frame mode. The area of the spire technology for each picture was represented by a blue circle. Both pictures were zoomed out the same amount.
"How Serangmon recreated that technology is what bothers me," Izzy mused. "Ken never knew what he did when he built those. The internals are complicated."
"Well, he did have three years to study that kind of technology," Tiberius replied.
"Even with three years, to study and reproduce that technology, it is quite a feat..." Izzy countered.
"Well, someone told Ken how to make those Spires, right?" Tiberius inquired. Izzy nodded slowly, still wondering. "Serangmon could be told how to build them as well."
"I don't know...anything is possible when you get down to it," Izzy concluded, sighing. "And unless you knock on Serangmon's humble abode and ask for an explanation, I don't think we'll find an answer anytime soon."
"Well, maybe we should knock then," Tiberius suggested, in a half serious tone. Izzy gave his compatriot a quizzical look. "He's the last one standing between us and stopping the Merger. No matter how we look at it, we'll have to fight him sooner or later. We'll be coming around to knock on his door."
"Well, you aren't going to fight him in the state you're in right now," Izzy countered, turning back around to face his computer and loading Serangmon's profile onto his computer. "He's a Mega level Digimon. Even if you had five Ultimate level Digimon to fight him, you won't stand a chance."
"What makes you think that?" Tiberius inquired, sickened by Izzy's lack of confidence.
"He's a Mega level Digimon," Izzy repeated. "To make matters worse, he's an experienced Mega level Digimon. He's got a lot more time then your Digimon in his level. He'll cream you for sure!"
"We won't know until we try," Tiberius countered.
"Listen to reason," Izzy tried to tell his companion. "At your current state, and if Serangmon comes at you with spire technology, which he probably will, you will only have 2 Ultimates to fight him with, max. To beat an experienced Mega with five Ultimates is hard enough, but with just two?! You must have a death wish!"
Tiberius remained silent, unable to respond. He knew that he couldn't just sit around and do nothing though. Time was of the essence now, and even if what Izzy says is true about at least one month on the Merger. The sooner they could defeat Serangmon and shut off the merger, the less harm that will come to the Real World.
"Don't forget Serangmon is not your final adversary," Izzy commented, turning back to his computer. Tiberius turned to face Izzy, his mind unable to believe why. "Remember what Serangmon said: there's a energy drain in the Digital World."
"Oh yeah," Tiberius spoke, remembering. "The energy drain on the Digital World, the reason why Serangmon activated the Merger."
"Exactly," Izzy agreed. "Given the current state of affairs, you're also going to have to find the source of all this energy drain after you handle the Merger. Obviously, the Merger will take less time to complete before the Digital World is destroyed due to the lack of energy."
"Yeah, of course," Tiberius concurred. "If not, then there was no point in activating the Merger in the first place. Finding the funnel in the energy will be the problem though."
"How so?" Izzy inquired, loading a chart. The chart contained the energy of the Digital World, and by the chart, it was slowly decreasing.
"According to Serangmon, he couldn't find the source of the energy drain," Tiberius answered, sighing.
"And you believe him?" Izzy asked, a bit surprised. "After all that he's done, you would still believe his words?"
"As strange as it sounds, yes!" Tiberius answered with much force in his tone. "Even though he's been doing crazy things in the past, he's doing for his own little righteous cause."
"In other words," Izzy corrected. "You believe he's misguided, but honest."
"Man, you must think I'm a psycho or something," Tiberius half-joked.
"No, just mentally ill," Izzy replied, also in a half joking manner. Tiberius chuckled softly, quickly getting serious again.
"Oh well, we all have our views," was Tiberius' answer. The Digi-Destined checked his watch, gasping at the time.
"Man, I'll never get home on time now!" he complained, cursing at himself for his tardiness. "I better get going," Tiberius told Izzy, waking up Lepumon, who was sleeping peacefully on the bed. "Thanks for your input Izzy."
"No problem," Izzy answered, turning around to watch the other two go. Lepumon groaned groggily, but before he could awake fully, Tiberius opened a portal for them. Scooping his partner up, Tiberius entered the Digital World, waving quickly at Izzy before leaving.
"I just hope that kid doesn't do anything crazy," Izzy whispered, turning back to his computer.
* * * * * *
"And how do you propose to stop this behemoth of a Digimon?" Marc asked, stepping back, Xemon in front of him. Tao remained between Marc and his partner and the 'behemoth' that they were fighting. Harriermon stayed in the air, watching.
Tesaurmon was a large dinosaur Digimon, most commonly similar to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The similarities end with the fact that instead of claws, each arm was replaced with a gattling gun.
"It's got to run out of ammo sooner or later, right?" Tao asked, stepping back when Tesaurmon stepped forward.
"I don't think so," Marc answered. "You know these Digimon; for all we know, he could have an internal factory making those bullets."
"Great...." Tao muttered, keeping an eye on those two barrels that could pump him full of lead. "So what do you propose to do?"
"I just asked you that!" Marc shouted. Tao grinned slightly. In response, Tesaurmon unleashed a burst from both his cannons at Tao. Tao's eyes went wide, leaping backwards, rolling backwards, and quickly blasting Tesaurmon with a Sonic Sword attack The dinosaur cried out in pain, stopping its attack and cutting a hole into his skin.
From that breach in the skin, both Humans and Digimon alike could tell that dinosaur was a mechanical one. Just the fact that there was no blood, just circuitry of unknown sorts within.
"So, we short circuit it then!" Marc shouted out.
"Electric blast?" Tiberius suggested, just stepping through a portal and entering this scene. Eyes fell onto the newcomer.
"Well, where did you come from?!" Tao exclaimed, turning back to face the Digimon who was still stunned with the breech in its defense.
"Izzy's apartment," Tiberius answered. "Ask later, there's a more immediate threat at hand." Tiberius set Lepumon down, the Digimon ready for a battle. "I'm guessing there's some spire technology here."
"Yeah," Marc replied. "It's obvious, isn't it? We haven't Digivolved yet, nor will we unless we can get one of our Ainoko partners here."
"Your sarcasm is so appreciated," Tiberius answered, also sarcastic in his voice.
"So, do you want to e-mail or show I?" Marc asked next, sarcastic still, but there was a touch of seriousness in his tone for this question.
"Or we should just with one of our pairs," Tiberius answered.
"Would you just hurry the f*** up?!" Tao shouted, leaping forward and slashing at the dinosaur. At close range, it was impossible for the Digimon to blast holes into his foe without blasting holes into himself first. Of course, this just resulted in Tao trying to avoid getting crushed by those legs or the Digimon's tail.
"Man, he rarely swears like that," Marc commented. "Now, as you were saying?"
"Well, so far, Ainoko Digivolves have worked on same Crest combinations, my Crest of Courage forming with K.H.'s Crest of Courage to make a whole," Tiberius used as an example.
"Yeah, I noticed that as well," Marc spoke. "Unfortunately, Tao and I have tried that with Hope. It didn't work out, as you can tell."
"Maybe there's more then we thought to this Digivolve..." Tiberius muttered.
"I don't know about you though," Marc spoke, taking his Digivice. "But I'd rather try something then do nothing at all." The teenager raised his shades, glancing over at Tiberius while loading his Crest of Knowledge.
"Yeah," Tiberius agreed, taking his own Digivice. "Better something then nothing at all," he concluded, taking his own Digivice and loading his Crest of Knowledge.
"Ready?" Marc asked. Tiberius nodded. Both teens pointed their Digivices towards each other. Purple energy collided from each Digivice, the Crest of Knowledge forming where the two beams collided.
"Xemon...." "Lepumon..."
"Ainoko Digivolve to..."
Once more, the Crest that revealed its self absorbed both Digimon into it. The Crest shattered, leaving nothing for a brief second. Two bunny like legs formed on the ground, following up and creating more of the body. The back was yellow, turning into white as it circled towards the front. Long silver claws formed at the ends of white arms. The head was created in a fox like manner, the ears bent back a bit to resemble that of horns. The head was yellow with white lightning slashed across the eyes. From the head down formed spikes, all the way reaching to the newly formed dragon tail. Dragon wings erupted from his back. All in all, the Digimon was also quite furry.
"Jinchimon!"
"Woah..." both Tiberius and Marc muttered, unsure how they just did that. Tao leaped backwards, narrowly dodging another stomp from the dinosaur's foot. Quickly, Jinchimon leaped up at Tesaurmon, punching the dinosaur into the chest.
"Well, at least we know someone's Ainoko Digivolve will work," Tao muttered, omitting the fact he knew the Hope Ainoko Digivolve wouldn't work. His Crest of Hope was still shadowed, despite all the time he had to try to get it back.
"BALL LIGHTNING!"
Electric energy charged in front of Jinchimon, before being released at high speeds towards Tesaurmon. It hit his mouth, shocking with many volts of electricity.
"Ball Lightning? This isn't Magic the Gathering," Marc commented.
"Huh?" Tiberius inquired, a bit confused.
"Six/one, trample, haste, sacrifice at end of turn," Tao informed Tiberius, just confusing him even more with that explanation.
"Err..." Tiberius muttered. "I'll take it this isn't the same Ball Lightning like in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons."
"Probably not," Tao answered, looking down at the opening he made before with a Sonic Sword. Tesaurmon was lashing out with his gattling guns, spraying the area where Jinchimon was running. "I'll be back!" Tao shouted, rushing forward. Tesaurmon was distracted, giving Tao full element of surprise.
He jammed his weapon into the spot he opened before, getting a cry of pain from the dinosaur. Tao quickly twisted the blade in a 90-degree turn, then cross cut with the blade still in the Digimon. There was another cry of pain. Tao then kicked off the dinosaur, rolling out of the way of stampeding Digimon.
"Aim for that opening!" both Tiberius and Marc shouted to their Digimon. The dragon/rabbit hybrid nodded, charging more electric energy.
"BALL LIGHTNING!"
The blast entered the wide opening, shorting out circuitry as it went through. More did the Tesaurmon cry out, before he was silenced, though was clearly in pain. From the head did it start to disintegrate into data, no more of a threat to the three Digi-Destined.
* * * * * *
"Tao, come on, go back," Marc persisted. Tao shook his head once more.
"There's a reason why we couldn't Ainoko Digivolve that time," Tao remarked bitterly.
"And what's that?!" Marc questioned, gritting his teeth. He was getting frustrated at his friend's stubbornness.
"His Crest of Hope doesn't shine yet," Tiberius answered softly. Tao sighed, nodding.
"Oh..." Marc muttered, trailing off. "I hope you plan to come back once that Crest starts shinning again..."
"We'll see..." Tao answered, glancing down at his Digimon by his side. The two turned their back towards their companions. "We will see..." he repeated, beginning to walk off.
Fin
Completed: 03/20/01
