"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed..."- James Boswell; Life of Johnson
[September 1777].
Chapter 2: Digital Rumble
The room was dipped in pitch darkness with the only light coming from the laser display monitor
of the computer on the desk. The computer user was muttering words.
"Okay, that should be the last firewall. Now if anybody tries to enter this main frame, they'll
receive a nasty surprise. Now I can get on with my revenge. Soon, the whole Internet will pay
for not allowing me to destroy those crooks when they had the chance."
"Digiport open," Davis commanded. The bar changed to green as the screen began to glow. The
light swallowed Davis, Yolei, Cody, T.K., Kari, and their Digimon to be sucked into the computer
and teleported to another world, world where monsters with awesome powers reigned supreme, the
Digital World.
The children felt their clothes morph around their bodies, as they became the outfits that they
wore whenever they were in the Digital World. Demiveemon, Poromon, and Upamon digivolved into
the rookie forms of Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon. For some reason, whenever they were in
the real world, they were in their in-training forms. They could digivolve if they wanted to but
what was the point? Besides, it was easier to hide ½ foot-tall monsters than close to three feet
monsters. However, Patamon and Gatomon remained the same for some reason.
"So tell me, who is this Gennai guy?" Davis asked for the fifteenth time.
"Gennai was the first and only human we met during our first trip to the Digital world," T.K.
explained. "He was part of the group that created our original digivices and tags and crests."
"Sounds like he's one really smart guy," Yolei commented.
"He's... one of a kind." Kari and T.K. shared a smile. "Here we are." The Digidestined arrived
at a lake.
"So where's Gennai's house?" Yolei asked.
"It's been four years since T.K. and Kari last saw him, maybe he moved out," Cody suggested.
"Maybe we can entertain you in his place," an unknown voice answered. The Digidestined turned to
see a group of Digimon standing at the edge of the forest. The source of the voice was a
two-foot tall albino monkey with half a mechanical arm. A large throwing star was strapped to
his back. Another looked like a gray dog. A third Digimon looked human-like but was clad in all
armor. A fourth was a human-size cockroach and the fifth was a vulture.
"Oh no," Veemon said. "It's the Roguemon Gang."
"The Roguemon Gang?" The humans asked.
"The Roguemon Gang are a group of Digimon who do whatever they want whenever they want wherever
they want to whoever they want," Armadillomon explained. "They basically travel around causing
mischief."
"Hey pal," Davis addressed the leader, the albino monkey. "You don't know who you're messing
with."
"Sure we do," the vulture grinned. "Lunch."
"Permit me to introduce myself," the monkey said. "I am Cyber Shurimon. The entire Digital
World trembles at my Cyber Shuriken."
"I'm Jackalmon," the dog spoke up. "None can withstand my Raging Bullet."
Next was the humanoid Digimon in armor. "I am Armordramon, nothing can penetrate me and my
attacks are Earthquake and Sonic Ram."
"I know what you are," Kari addressed the cockroach with a disgusted tone in her voice.
"You're Roachmon, your attack is Garbage Dump."
"Correct, white one," Roachmon grinned.
"I am called Vulturemon. I destroy my enemies then eat them. My attack is Claw Wraith."
"You guys must have rocks in your heads to be taking on us," Davis cracked.
"Yeah," T.K. added. "We're the Digidestined."
"Hey boys," Cyber Shurimon called to his friends. "Looks like we're in the presence of
celebrities. Let's trash them."
"I believe that's a challenge," Hawkmon observed.
"Ready, guys?" Davis asked the others. They nodded collectively. Then all five of them called
out "DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" Various digieggs came out of the Digidestined's D-3s.
"Veemon, armor-digivolve to... Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
"Hawkmon, armor-digivolve to... Shurimon, the Samurai of Sincerity!"
"Armadillomon, armor-digivolve to... Digmon, the Drill of Knowledge!"
"Patamon, armor-digivolve to... Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
"Gatomon, armor-digivolve to... Nefertimon, the Angel of Light!"
Roachmon and Vulturemon took to the sky. Pegasusmon and Nefertimon took off after them.
Shurimon, Flamedramon, and Digmon faced off against Cyber Shurimon, Jackalmon, and Armordramon.
"We shall see who is the better Shurimon," Shurimon announced. "Double Star!" The two shurikens
that were in place of arms lanced out towards their opponent. Cyber Shurimon leaped up and
dodged them at the same time taking out his own shuriken.
"Cyber Shuriken!" Shurimon barely dodged the attack. Shurimon tried slashing at him with his
Double Stars but again, Cyber Shurimon leaped up to avoid them.
{He seems to like attacking from above,} Shurimon thought. "Double Star!" This time, Shurimon
had a plan. He aimed one of his stars low while aimed the other one high. Cyber Shurimon fell
back but didn't see the tree behind him. He bumped his head and fell to the ground.
"Raging Bullet!" Traveling at hypersonic speeds, Jackalmon attempted to ram Flamedramon. But
the armor-Digimon held his ground, pushing Jackalmon back.
"Fire Rockets!" Three fireballs emitted from Flamedramon's hands. Jackalmon plowed through
them.
Flamedramon decided to try to experiment with a new attack. Of course, if it didn't work, he
could always set up a quick flame shield. The question was would he have time?
"Heat Wave!" Flamedramon's body was covered in flames, which heated the air around him. When
Jackalmon tried to get anywhere near him, the heat made him disoriented and forced to pull back.
Flamedramon smiled, his new attack worked. "Flaming Fist!" His hand became energized with fire
and Flamedramon sucker-punched Jackalmon. Jackalmon was thrown back. "I think his bark is
worse than his bite," Flamedramon commented.
"They say your drills can crack open anything," Armordramon commented to Digmon. "Let's see if
it's true."
"My pleasure," Digmon replied in his western accent. "Rock Cracking!" His drills pounded away
at Armordramon's armor. Armordramon vibrated but nothing happened.
"Too bad, my turn. Earthquake!" Armordramon pounded on the grounded, which threw Digmon back.
Armordramon pounced but Digmon slammed his feet into him. Armordramon back flipped and landed on
his feet.
"Gold Rush!" Digmon fired his drills but Armordramon knocked them away.
{This is getting us nowhere,} both Digimon thought at the same time. Suddenly Digmon had an
idea. He focused his attention behind Armordramon.
"Rock Cracking!" Digmon drilled into the ground.
"Ha, if you think I'd fall for that old trick, you're sadly mistaken." Armordramon leaped up but
Digmon wasn't aiming for Armordramon, but rather the tree behind him. The tree toppled over and
pinned Armordramon to the ground.
Nefertimon and Pegasusmon were having a dogfight with Roachmon and Vulturemon. So far, both
sides were holding their own.
"Nefertimon, we need to take them both out together," Pegasusmon instructed.
"How do we do that?"
"Follow my lead." Pegasusmon's front hoofs began to glow. Nefertimon's front paws began glowing
too.
"Golden Noose!" They flew by each other and the energies that emitted connected forming a rope.
As Pegasusmon and Nefertimon circled Roachmon, the rope began entangling him.
"Ack, help!"
"Claw Wraith!" A giant claw knocked both armored-Digimon away.
"Garbage Dump!" Tons of junk appeared out of nowhere and began dropping on Pegasusmon and
Nefertimon.
"Equis Beam!"
"Rosetta's Stone!" These were the most powerful attacks the two had in their arsenal. The
attacks neutralized the Garbage Dump attack.
"They can't handle both of us," Vultremon commented. "Wraith Claw!"
"Garbage Dump!"
"Star Shower!"
"Cat's Eye Beam!" This time, the attacks didn't phase the attacks and Pegasusmon and Nefertimon
were forced to dive under the attacks.
"Fire Rockets!"
"Double Star!"
"Gold Rush!" The others have come to their aid. Their attacks cancelled the Roguemon Gang's
attacks.
"We'll stop their attacks while you take them out," Digmon called to Pegasusmon and Nefertimon.
The two flying Digimon nodded. They formed the Golden Noose again and tied up Vulturemon and
Roachmon. The two flying members of the Roguemon Gang fell to the ground.
"Let's get out of here," Cyber Shurimon called. The members of the Roguemon Gang (with the
exception of Armordramon who was still trapped underneath that tree) ran into the forest. The
Digimon reverted to their rookie forms.
Suddenly they heard clapping sounds. They saw Gennai standing at the edge of the lake, a flight
of steps descending to the bottom of the lake behind him. "I haven't seen such a good battle
since I ordered Hoganmon vs. Machomon on Pay-Per-View."
"Gennai, it's been a long time." T.K. shook the old man's hand.
"It sure has, T.K. I assume these are the new Digidestined."
"That's right," Kari confirmed. "These are Davis, Yolei, and Cody."
"Pleased to meet you. Please come with me." Gennai turned and went down the stairs.
Davis shot a glance at T.K. and Kari. "You two knew that he lived under water, didn't you?"
"I did," T.K. admitted. "But Kari didn't. The older kids and I came here just before we
returned to Earth to hunt for the eighth child."
"Hey, I take personal offense to that remark," Kari said. "You make it sound like I'm a bear."
"Sorry. We came here just before we returned to Earth to LOOK for the eighth child."
"Better," Kari replied.
"Look at all the fishes," Veemon gawked.
"And me without my pole," Armadillomon added.
"It's times like these that I wish I was hatched with gills instead of wings," Hawkmon commented.
"You get used to it," Patamon assured him.
"Is this a bad time to mention that, being a cat, I hate water?" Gatomon asked.
"Yes," everybody except Gennai said.
"I'll shut up now." The group finally arrived at Gennai's house, which looked like an ancient
Japanese-style house. It looked just the same as when T.K. and the original Digidestined came
here.
Gennai lead them into a workshop with a laptop that was more sleek-looking than Izzy's.
"So why did you bring us here, Gennai?" Patamon asked.
"Let me show you," Gennai answered. He activated the Internet access folder. The screen turned
white. Then nothing happened for five minutes. Finally, a web site appeared.
"You brought us here because your computer is slow?" Davis asked, outraged that they would be
brought here for such a meaningless task.
"It's not just me," Gennai commented. "I did a scan of the Internet and found that there was a
delay action timer on it. The time it took for web pages to load would take anywhere from five
minutes like you saw here to ten hours."
"That's weird," Yolei commented.
"It gets worse," Gennai continued. "Something is deteriorating all the memory on the Internet
to the point where all computers systems would be useless.
"What could cause this?"
"I think there's a very powerful, very malicious computer virus on the Internet," Gennai deduced.
"Not again," T.K. moaned. "I thought we were through with computer viruses after Diaboromon was
destroyed.
"I don't believe this is the work of a virus Digimon. It worked too fast, too mechanical-like.
I believe it's a macrovirus."
"A macrovirus?" The Digidestined chorused.
"A macrovirus is an incredibly powerful computer virus. It can infect systems in a ten-mile
radius in a minute. And another thing, I think that the creator of the macrovirus is the same
one that created the computer virus that created Diaboromon."
"That's incredible," Cody commented.
"Okay, how do we go about debugging the Internet?" Davis asked. For once, it was an intelligent
question.
"I believe the only way to do that is to go into the Internet, find the source of the virus and
destroy it."
"Do we have to?" Yolei whined. "The last thing I want is to kill someone, even if it is evil."
"Didn't you hear him, Yolei? He said that this wasn't a viral Digimon. It's technically not
alive which means we can trash it all we want."
"Davis is right," Kari agreed. "It's a program, which means that it can be deleted. And we're
just the ones to delete it." Davis mentally patted himself on the back. Having Kari agree with
him was a big victory in his opinion. Yolei was still a little queasy about killing. She just
kept telling herself that it wasn't killing; it was deleting an inorganic program. But why was
there a little voice inside her telling her that there was something wrong about this task?
Patamon was ecstatic. "I'm going to be going web surfing again. And I won't wipe out this
time."
"What makes you so sure?" Gatomon asked.
"Gabumon's been giving me surfing lessons," Patamon said with some pride.
"Hold on, Patamon, what do you mean again?" Veemon asked.
"I'll handle this," T.K. told his Digimon companion. "Remember when we were talking about
Diaboromon?"
"Yeah. So?"
"So, the only ones who were able to battle him were Agumon, Gabumon, Tentomon, and Patamon. The
four of them cruised the Internet for him and when they found him, they did battle."
"Why didn't Biyomon, Gomamon, Palmon, and Gatomon come along?" Cody asked.
"That's because Sora, Joe, Mimi, and I were unable to reach a computer." At least that was the
answer Tai told Kari once the whole ordeal was over.
"What are we waiting for?" Davis stood up. "Let's get online and stop that virus!"
"One question, Flash Gordon, how are we going to get there?" Yolei asked sarcastically.
"You can use the same portal that Agumon and Tentomon used," Gennai offered. "Unfortunately,
it's closed now. It won't open again until later tonight."
"Aw."
"You're free to stay here for a while until it opens up again."
"Looks like we have our work cut out for us," Davis observed.
"One other thing," Gennai added. "I discovered a prophecy regarding you."
"A prophecy? How do you know it's for us?" T.K. inquired.
"It said 'Digidestined Prophecy' on top."
"Oh. Well what does it say?"
"It's really catchy." Gennai cleared his throat. "'When hope and light unite with love, when
sincerity relies on knowledge, friendship shall bring forth courage and the truth shall be
revealed. To light the darkest hour, two shall become one, and once they come together, only
then, shall the battle be won.'"
"That is catchy," Yolei critiqued.
"Hey, the crests are mentioned in it." Cody noted.
"That's how I knew it was for you especially." Gennai left leaving the Digidestined with tons
of questions.
[September 1777].
Chapter 2: Digital Rumble
The room was dipped in pitch darkness with the only light coming from the laser display monitor
of the computer on the desk. The computer user was muttering words.
"Okay, that should be the last firewall. Now if anybody tries to enter this main frame, they'll
receive a nasty surprise. Now I can get on with my revenge. Soon, the whole Internet will pay
for not allowing me to destroy those crooks when they had the chance."
"Digiport open," Davis commanded. The bar changed to green as the screen began to glow. The
light swallowed Davis, Yolei, Cody, T.K., Kari, and their Digimon to be sucked into the computer
and teleported to another world, world where monsters with awesome powers reigned supreme, the
Digital World.
The children felt their clothes morph around their bodies, as they became the outfits that they
wore whenever they were in the Digital World. Demiveemon, Poromon, and Upamon digivolved into
the rookie forms of Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon. For some reason, whenever they were in
the real world, they were in their in-training forms. They could digivolve if they wanted to but
what was the point? Besides, it was easier to hide ½ foot-tall monsters than close to three feet
monsters. However, Patamon and Gatomon remained the same for some reason.
"So tell me, who is this Gennai guy?" Davis asked for the fifteenth time.
"Gennai was the first and only human we met during our first trip to the Digital world," T.K.
explained. "He was part of the group that created our original digivices and tags and crests."
"Sounds like he's one really smart guy," Yolei commented.
"He's... one of a kind." Kari and T.K. shared a smile. "Here we are." The Digidestined arrived
at a lake.
"So where's Gennai's house?" Yolei asked.
"It's been four years since T.K. and Kari last saw him, maybe he moved out," Cody suggested.
"Maybe we can entertain you in his place," an unknown voice answered. The Digidestined turned to
see a group of Digimon standing at the edge of the forest. The source of the voice was a
two-foot tall albino monkey with half a mechanical arm. A large throwing star was strapped to
his back. Another looked like a gray dog. A third Digimon looked human-like but was clad in all
armor. A fourth was a human-size cockroach and the fifth was a vulture.
"Oh no," Veemon said. "It's the Roguemon Gang."
"The Roguemon Gang?" The humans asked.
"The Roguemon Gang are a group of Digimon who do whatever they want whenever they want wherever
they want to whoever they want," Armadillomon explained. "They basically travel around causing
mischief."
"Hey pal," Davis addressed the leader, the albino monkey. "You don't know who you're messing
with."
"Sure we do," the vulture grinned. "Lunch."
"Permit me to introduce myself," the monkey said. "I am Cyber Shurimon. The entire Digital
World trembles at my Cyber Shuriken."
"I'm Jackalmon," the dog spoke up. "None can withstand my Raging Bullet."
Next was the humanoid Digimon in armor. "I am Armordramon, nothing can penetrate me and my
attacks are Earthquake and Sonic Ram."
"I know what you are," Kari addressed the cockroach with a disgusted tone in her voice.
"You're Roachmon, your attack is Garbage Dump."
"Correct, white one," Roachmon grinned.
"I am called Vulturemon. I destroy my enemies then eat them. My attack is Claw Wraith."
"You guys must have rocks in your heads to be taking on us," Davis cracked.
"Yeah," T.K. added. "We're the Digidestined."
"Hey boys," Cyber Shurimon called to his friends. "Looks like we're in the presence of
celebrities. Let's trash them."
"I believe that's a challenge," Hawkmon observed.
"Ready, guys?" Davis asked the others. They nodded collectively. Then all five of them called
out "DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" Various digieggs came out of the Digidestined's D-3s.
"Veemon, armor-digivolve to... Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
"Hawkmon, armor-digivolve to... Shurimon, the Samurai of Sincerity!"
"Armadillomon, armor-digivolve to... Digmon, the Drill of Knowledge!"
"Patamon, armor-digivolve to... Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
"Gatomon, armor-digivolve to... Nefertimon, the Angel of Light!"
Roachmon and Vulturemon took to the sky. Pegasusmon and Nefertimon took off after them.
Shurimon, Flamedramon, and Digmon faced off against Cyber Shurimon, Jackalmon, and Armordramon.
"We shall see who is the better Shurimon," Shurimon announced. "Double Star!" The two shurikens
that were in place of arms lanced out towards their opponent. Cyber Shurimon leaped up and
dodged them at the same time taking out his own shuriken.
"Cyber Shuriken!" Shurimon barely dodged the attack. Shurimon tried slashing at him with his
Double Stars but again, Cyber Shurimon leaped up to avoid them.
{He seems to like attacking from above,} Shurimon thought. "Double Star!" This time, Shurimon
had a plan. He aimed one of his stars low while aimed the other one high. Cyber Shurimon fell
back but didn't see the tree behind him. He bumped his head and fell to the ground.
"Raging Bullet!" Traveling at hypersonic speeds, Jackalmon attempted to ram Flamedramon. But
the armor-Digimon held his ground, pushing Jackalmon back.
"Fire Rockets!" Three fireballs emitted from Flamedramon's hands. Jackalmon plowed through
them.
Flamedramon decided to try to experiment with a new attack. Of course, if it didn't work, he
could always set up a quick flame shield. The question was would he have time?
"Heat Wave!" Flamedramon's body was covered in flames, which heated the air around him. When
Jackalmon tried to get anywhere near him, the heat made him disoriented and forced to pull back.
Flamedramon smiled, his new attack worked. "Flaming Fist!" His hand became energized with fire
and Flamedramon sucker-punched Jackalmon. Jackalmon was thrown back. "I think his bark is
worse than his bite," Flamedramon commented.
"They say your drills can crack open anything," Armordramon commented to Digmon. "Let's see if
it's true."
"My pleasure," Digmon replied in his western accent. "Rock Cracking!" His drills pounded away
at Armordramon's armor. Armordramon vibrated but nothing happened.
"Too bad, my turn. Earthquake!" Armordramon pounded on the grounded, which threw Digmon back.
Armordramon pounced but Digmon slammed his feet into him. Armordramon back flipped and landed on
his feet.
"Gold Rush!" Digmon fired his drills but Armordramon knocked them away.
{This is getting us nowhere,} both Digimon thought at the same time. Suddenly Digmon had an
idea. He focused his attention behind Armordramon.
"Rock Cracking!" Digmon drilled into the ground.
"Ha, if you think I'd fall for that old trick, you're sadly mistaken." Armordramon leaped up but
Digmon wasn't aiming for Armordramon, but rather the tree behind him. The tree toppled over and
pinned Armordramon to the ground.
Nefertimon and Pegasusmon were having a dogfight with Roachmon and Vulturemon. So far, both
sides were holding their own.
"Nefertimon, we need to take them both out together," Pegasusmon instructed.
"How do we do that?"
"Follow my lead." Pegasusmon's front hoofs began to glow. Nefertimon's front paws began glowing
too.
"Golden Noose!" They flew by each other and the energies that emitted connected forming a rope.
As Pegasusmon and Nefertimon circled Roachmon, the rope began entangling him.
"Ack, help!"
"Claw Wraith!" A giant claw knocked both armored-Digimon away.
"Garbage Dump!" Tons of junk appeared out of nowhere and began dropping on Pegasusmon and
Nefertimon.
"Equis Beam!"
"Rosetta's Stone!" These were the most powerful attacks the two had in their arsenal. The
attacks neutralized the Garbage Dump attack.
"They can't handle both of us," Vultremon commented. "Wraith Claw!"
"Garbage Dump!"
"Star Shower!"
"Cat's Eye Beam!" This time, the attacks didn't phase the attacks and Pegasusmon and Nefertimon
were forced to dive under the attacks.
"Fire Rockets!"
"Double Star!"
"Gold Rush!" The others have come to their aid. Their attacks cancelled the Roguemon Gang's
attacks.
"We'll stop their attacks while you take them out," Digmon called to Pegasusmon and Nefertimon.
The two flying Digimon nodded. They formed the Golden Noose again and tied up Vulturemon and
Roachmon. The two flying members of the Roguemon Gang fell to the ground.
"Let's get out of here," Cyber Shurimon called. The members of the Roguemon Gang (with the
exception of Armordramon who was still trapped underneath that tree) ran into the forest. The
Digimon reverted to their rookie forms.
Suddenly they heard clapping sounds. They saw Gennai standing at the edge of the lake, a flight
of steps descending to the bottom of the lake behind him. "I haven't seen such a good battle
since I ordered Hoganmon vs. Machomon on Pay-Per-View."
"Gennai, it's been a long time." T.K. shook the old man's hand.
"It sure has, T.K. I assume these are the new Digidestined."
"That's right," Kari confirmed. "These are Davis, Yolei, and Cody."
"Pleased to meet you. Please come with me." Gennai turned and went down the stairs.
Davis shot a glance at T.K. and Kari. "You two knew that he lived under water, didn't you?"
"I did," T.K. admitted. "But Kari didn't. The older kids and I came here just before we
returned to Earth to hunt for the eighth child."
"Hey, I take personal offense to that remark," Kari said. "You make it sound like I'm a bear."
"Sorry. We came here just before we returned to Earth to LOOK for the eighth child."
"Better," Kari replied.
"Look at all the fishes," Veemon gawked.
"And me without my pole," Armadillomon added.
"It's times like these that I wish I was hatched with gills instead of wings," Hawkmon commented.
"You get used to it," Patamon assured him.
"Is this a bad time to mention that, being a cat, I hate water?" Gatomon asked.
"Yes," everybody except Gennai said.
"I'll shut up now." The group finally arrived at Gennai's house, which looked like an ancient
Japanese-style house. It looked just the same as when T.K. and the original Digidestined came
here.
Gennai lead them into a workshop with a laptop that was more sleek-looking than Izzy's.
"So why did you bring us here, Gennai?" Patamon asked.
"Let me show you," Gennai answered. He activated the Internet access folder. The screen turned
white. Then nothing happened for five minutes. Finally, a web site appeared.
"You brought us here because your computer is slow?" Davis asked, outraged that they would be
brought here for such a meaningless task.
"It's not just me," Gennai commented. "I did a scan of the Internet and found that there was a
delay action timer on it. The time it took for web pages to load would take anywhere from five
minutes like you saw here to ten hours."
"That's weird," Yolei commented.
"It gets worse," Gennai continued. "Something is deteriorating all the memory on the Internet
to the point where all computers systems would be useless.
"What could cause this?"
"I think there's a very powerful, very malicious computer virus on the Internet," Gennai deduced.
"Not again," T.K. moaned. "I thought we were through with computer viruses after Diaboromon was
destroyed.
"I don't believe this is the work of a virus Digimon. It worked too fast, too mechanical-like.
I believe it's a macrovirus."
"A macrovirus?" The Digidestined chorused.
"A macrovirus is an incredibly powerful computer virus. It can infect systems in a ten-mile
radius in a minute. And another thing, I think that the creator of the macrovirus is the same
one that created the computer virus that created Diaboromon."
"That's incredible," Cody commented.
"Okay, how do we go about debugging the Internet?" Davis asked. For once, it was an intelligent
question.
"I believe the only way to do that is to go into the Internet, find the source of the virus and
destroy it."
"Do we have to?" Yolei whined. "The last thing I want is to kill someone, even if it is evil."
"Didn't you hear him, Yolei? He said that this wasn't a viral Digimon. It's technically not
alive which means we can trash it all we want."
"Davis is right," Kari agreed. "It's a program, which means that it can be deleted. And we're
just the ones to delete it." Davis mentally patted himself on the back. Having Kari agree with
him was a big victory in his opinion. Yolei was still a little queasy about killing. She just
kept telling herself that it wasn't killing; it was deleting an inorganic program. But why was
there a little voice inside her telling her that there was something wrong about this task?
Patamon was ecstatic. "I'm going to be going web surfing again. And I won't wipe out this
time."
"What makes you so sure?" Gatomon asked.
"Gabumon's been giving me surfing lessons," Patamon said with some pride.
"Hold on, Patamon, what do you mean again?" Veemon asked.
"I'll handle this," T.K. told his Digimon companion. "Remember when we were talking about
Diaboromon?"
"Yeah. So?"
"So, the only ones who were able to battle him were Agumon, Gabumon, Tentomon, and Patamon. The
four of them cruised the Internet for him and when they found him, they did battle."
"Why didn't Biyomon, Gomamon, Palmon, and Gatomon come along?" Cody asked.
"That's because Sora, Joe, Mimi, and I were unable to reach a computer." At least that was the
answer Tai told Kari once the whole ordeal was over.
"What are we waiting for?" Davis stood up. "Let's get online and stop that virus!"
"One question, Flash Gordon, how are we going to get there?" Yolei asked sarcastically.
"You can use the same portal that Agumon and Tentomon used," Gennai offered. "Unfortunately,
it's closed now. It won't open again until later tonight."
"Aw."
"You're free to stay here for a while until it opens up again."
"Looks like we have our work cut out for us," Davis observed.
"One other thing," Gennai added. "I discovered a prophecy regarding you."
"A prophecy? How do you know it's for us?" T.K. inquired.
"It said 'Digidestined Prophecy' on top."
"Oh. Well what does it say?"
"It's really catchy." Gennai cleared his throat. "'When hope and light unite with love, when
sincerity relies on knowledge, friendship shall bring forth courage and the truth shall be
revealed. To light the darkest hour, two shall become one, and once they come together, only
then, shall the battle be won.'"
"That is catchy," Yolei critiqued.
"Hey, the crests are mentioned in it." Cody noted.
"That's how I knew it was for you especially." Gennai left leaving the Digidestined with tons
of questions.