Digimon.EXE

By Wolf O'Donnell

WARNING! May contain Alternative Universe situations and out-of-character experiences. Upon reading this, you hereby agree that you forfeit all your rights to sue me and that I cannot be held liable for any psychological or physical damage caused by the fact that I use British English spelling and that this fanfic contains graphic acts of a heterosexual and homosexual nature (not applicable to FanFiction.net version), extreme violence and use of swear words. Digimon is copyrighted by Bandai and Toei Animation Ltd. Wolf O'Donnell is copyrighted by Nintendo Ltd, although that might have nothing to do with the fanfic. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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Session 1: Kaze wo tsukinukite

Guilmon ran along the silvery path as quickly as he could, which floated in a sea of darkness. There was no ground except for the silver paths and square floors that floated within the dark ether. This was the Digital World, the home of all Digimon. 0s and 1s floated in the sea of darkness around the silvery path, but that was just about it. There were very little other landmarks to tell the Digimon where he was. Sure there were a few sites, and sometimes the silvery path gave way to a coloured, tiled floor that kept changing colours and had hypnotic, swirling patterns within it, but that was about it.
The Digimon looked like a little red dinosaur with a white stomach and a grey hazard symbol on his belly. He was a virus-class Digimon. All Digimon were separated into three classes, five types and six levels. The three classes were data, vaccine and virus. Data class Digimon were very similar to data packets and thus could travel through the Digital World more quickly than any other Digimon. In fact, data Digimon are the quickest of the lot. Vaccine Digimon were poorly named. Really, they should have been named Anti-Virus, because they were really good at virus-busting. When it comes to attacking viruses and other Digimon, vaccine-class Digimon are the best. Then there are the virus-class, which are similar in digital structure to the computer viruses. Simple computer viruses cannot distinguish the difference between a virus-class Digimon and a fellow virus, so simple computer viruses leave virus-class Digimon alone.
Then there are the nine types- normal, water, wood, earth, electrical, mechanical, holy, dark and fire. Water types include any Digimon with water attacks and those that usually dwell in the water. Wood types are any plant Digimon. Earth types include any Digimon that can dig and any rock Digimon. Electrical Digimon are any with electrical attacks. Mechanical types are self-explanatory. Holy Digimon are those like Angemon, Digimon with light attacks. Dark Digimon are mostly virus-class Digimon that have shadow attacks or are classified evil. Guilmon fell into the last category, the fire type. Fire type Digimon are all those that have fire attacks.
Of course, there are the six levels- New Born, Baby, Child, Adolescent, Adult and Mega. Guilmon was only a Rookie level Digimon, but he still packed quite a punch. It was possible to upgrade the level of your Digimon, but it was a difficult process that involved absorbing quite a lot of data before the Digimon could digivolve.
"Guilmon, turn left here!"
The red, scaly Digimon complied. He passed a directions sign, but paid no attention to it. There was no need to pay attention to the sign, as his Operator was giving him directions. Besides, he was the one that put the sign up there in the first place. By the way, just in case you were wondering, Operator is the term for the owner of a Digimon. Any person that owns a D-Scanner, which is practically everyone, is an Operator. He stopped in his tracks.
"Takato!" he called out to his Operator. "There's some kind of firewall here!"

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The brown-haired kid scratched his head, as he sat at his computer. He looked at the screen, which displayed an isometric view of his Digimon. The firewall was respresented on his screen as a door made up of horizontal, flickering neon bars. The Operator, Takato, wore a red bandana around his neck, a blue shirt, brown cargo shorts and white socks that were just a little bit too large for him.
"I don't remember there being a firewall there," Takato told his Digimon. "Are you sure you took the right turn?"
"Takato, I followed your directions," whined Guilmon's voice from the loudspeakers. He walked back a little bit and saw the sign. "Yep, that's definitely the portal to Ruki's computer." He then turned around to face the screen, a difficult thing to do when he couldn't see where it was. He wasn't exactly sure how he heard Takato's voice, either. "What shall I do now?" he asked.
"Hold on," sighed Takato, as he pressed a button at the top of his keyboard, which was labelled 'phone' and then typed in a number. There was an emulated dialling noise, before he heard a familiar voice.
"Moshi, moshi, Ruki speaking," announced a voice that sounded rather tom-boyish nature.
"Er... hi, Ruki," stuttered Takato. He didn't know why, but Ruki always seemed to make him feel nervous. That girl had balls, most likely ripped off the last boy that had crossed her path. Silence. Takato was so nervous, he wasn't saying a word. "You wanted me to deliver something to you and Guilmon's just outside the portal to your computer, but we can't get through," he blurted out quickly, afraid of getting her impatient.
Ruki sighed.
"Hold on, Takato, I'll send you the passcode," she said in a frustrated manner, before there was a click as she put down the phone.

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Guilmon saw the firewall flicker and then disappear. On the other side was Renamon, Ruki's Digimon. She was an anthropomorphic fox with yellow and white fur.
"Hi," he greeted, his tail wagging happily. He was a very friendly Digimon and even though Renamon scared him at times, he would always be friendly to her. The Digimon was sure that they would be able to become friends sooner or later and he woud very much like that.
"So, you've got the repair program?" asked Renamon, as she walked across the silvery path towards Guilmon.
"Guys, watch out!" shouted Takato's voice. "Viruses!"
The red dinosaur Digimon turned round to see a SpyEye virus, which looked like a flower stem with petals and an eye as its flower. There were two of them.
"Easy!" he exclaimed, before inhaling and spitting out a sphere of fire straight towards one of the SpyEyes. His attack smashed into the SpyEye and caused the thing to break up into bits of tiny digital data that dispersed into the air to reveal a small blue-silver diamond- what was known as a data capsule or datacap for short.
"Hey, what about the repair program?" asked Renamon. She got no response, as Guilmon tore into the last SpyEye with his claws. The Digimon shook her head with a sigh.
"I'm sorry," apologised Guilmon, as he stood by the second datacap. "Would you like one?"
Renamon walked gracefully over to the first datacap that appeared.
"Yes, please," she replied, before she took the datacap into her hand and absorbed the data from it. "Hm, nice. An Invisi1 advance."
"Oh, I just got a shield advance," whined Guilmon miserably. For some strange reason, he kept getting shield advances from the SpyEyes, when he could get an Invisi1 from them. Advances, by the way, are the nicknames for any bit of data that can be used to DigiModify a Digimon.
"Don't forget the repair program," Ruki reminded her Digimon.
"Yes, that's right," agreed Renamon. She extended a paw out towards Guilmon. "Would you mind?" Guilmon nodded in acknowledgement and handed a round, spherical data packet or datapack to Renamon. "Thank you," she thanked him.
"Er, Ruki, did you know they're holding Deva Licence Exams at the DigiSquare now?" asked Takato, as he thought about the square within the Digital World, where Digimon could chat, shop and get things repaired. "Would you like to go down there tomorrow and...?"
Ruki laughed, as she thought of Takato doing an exam.
"Sure thing," she replied. "It would be nice to have a Deva Licence." There was a pause, as she went to find her planner program. "Why don't we meet at ten tomorrow?" she asked Takato. "At the DigiSquare?"
"Sure, ten would be fine," replied Takato. "Oh, wait!" he called out, before she left. "Do you think we should invite Jenrya and Ryo?" he asked her.
For a while, Ruki didn't reply.
"Nah! There's no need," she told them. "Those two lovebirds will eventually find out. Besides, doesn't Jenrya's dad work at the Deva Centre? Surely Jenrya would have heard about them by now. Heck, he's probably the one giving the exam!"
Though it couldn't be seen by any of the Digimon within the Digital World, Takato grinned at that comment.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," he said. There was a silent pause. "So, I'll see you tomorrow at the DigiSquare!" he told her.
"Yeah, see you," stated Ruki. "Renamon, jack out!"
Renamon nodded in reply.
"Yes, Ruki," she stated, before she turned into a column of white light that shot upwards towards the black sky filled with glowing 0s and 1s.
"Guilmon, jack out!" ordered Takato and seconds later, Guilmon did the same.

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Takato reached out and pulled the D-Scanner out of the mini-tower. He then switched the computer off carefully. A yawn escaped his mouth, as he stood up and walked towards the window. Looking out, he looked at the sky and saw metal. It was dark outside. It was night within the Orbital Space Ring, in which he lived.
"Takato, shouldn't you be going to bed?" asked Guilmon's voice from the D-Scanner, which was white and looked like a flip-top phone. On the little screen was a pixelated picture of Guilmon's face. "It's late," he told his Operator, "and you know how hard it is for you to get out of bed."
"I don't see you getting up earlier than me," retorted Takato. It was true, the both of them were very heavy sleepers and it would probably take a nuclear explosion to wake the two of them up. He laughed. "Well, I guess you're right, Guilmon," he chuckled. "I'll take a bath, brush my teeth and go straight to bed." He placed his D-Scanner down on the bedside table, before walking past a poster of Takuya from Digimon Frontier and out of the bedroom.

There was a similar poster on Jenrya's bedroom wall, except that it was custom drawn by a friend of his and featured Takuya and Koji in a shounen-ai position. Something suddenly began to ring within the room. It rang again and again and several more times.
"Jenrya!" called out his Digimon, Rapidmon. "Jenrya! Wake up!" The Digimon sighed. "Figures! He's tired himself out. Jenrya!"
There was a sound that was something between a moan, groan and an exclamation of surprise. Jenrya, a blue-haired half-Chinese, half-Japanese youth, disentangled himself from the arms of his brown-haired lover and reached for his D-Scanner. He flipped the top.
"What is it, Rapidmon?" he asked his Digimon.
"Phone call from your dad," replied the Champion-level vacccine-class Digimon.
Jenrya placed the device against his ear.
"Dad?" he slurred. "What you're calling me at this hour for?" he asked.
On the other end there was a murmuring background noise like that of several alarmed headless chickens trying to find their heads.
"Jenrya, it's only eight o'clock!" protested Mr. Lee. "Don't tell me you're with Ryo!"
"Well..." began Jenrya and trailing off at the end.
There was a sigh on the other end of the line.
"Look, Jenrya, we've got a bit of a problem down at Deva HQ," replied Lee Jianyiu, one of the Orbital Ring's leading scientists and experts on Digimon. "Let me explain the situation. There's currently been a huge viral infection in Phyle DigiSquare and we're having problems dealing with it. Would you mind sending Rapidmon over to help out?"
"Sure thing, dad," replied Jenrya calmly. "Rapidmon'll be right there." He paused a minute and listened to what his father said. "Okay! Sure. Bye!" He then pressed a button and ended the call. "So, did you catch that Rapidmon?" he asked.
"Huh? What's going on now?" mumbled Ryo, as he rose up from the bed.
"Nothing much," he replied before giving Ryo a kiss on the nose. "I've just got to sort something out in the Digiworld. Don't worry, I'll be real quick."
A sly grin spread across Ryo's face.
"You'd better be," he said in a mischievous tone of voice, "coz I've got something very special planned."
"Oh, like what?" asked Jenrya.
"You'll just have to beat all those viruses to find out," replied Ryo and he smiled widely.

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There are places within the Digital World that even the bravest Digimon daren't venture. One of these places is the DarkNet. It is a place deep within the Digital World that only the most vicious of criminal Digimon venture. Somewhere within the DarkNet is the DarkSquare, the criminal version of the Digital World's many DigiSquares. It is where all the criminal lowlifes of the Digital World gather.
Here, the paths are black and lined with dead trees. Here, the ramps glow with orange or blue or green lights. Within the DarkNet, 0s and 1s didn't float in the ether around the paths. There was only static in the background. This was truly a frightening place for any Digimon concerned.
However, even these criminal Digimon daren't venture further into DarkNet and into a place that had been nicknamed, the Dark Ocean. It was a region filled with firewalls and security programs, an area that led to a part of the Digital World owned and completely controlled by the most infamous criminal organisation ever, Hypnos.
The ether within Hypnos was different from the part of the Digital World in which Takato and Ruki constantly used. It was different to the ether within the DarkNet. The paths were even different. The paths were light blue and the ether was white, with the Hypnos symbol floating within it instead of 0s and 1s.
"It's rumoured that somewhere in the DarkNet is a Digimon without an Operator," stated one of the Hypnos Digimon. "They say his name is Beelzemon and that those that lay eyes on him, never leave to tell the tale. If we can get him on our side, we..."
"Silence!" roared another voice, one that was deep and growled like a wolf. It was the voice of the mysterious Leader of Hypnos. No one knew who this Leader was for sure and the fact that he used the Digital World to communicate with most of his minions, made it almost impossible to find out his true identity. "I will not hear of this! There is no need to rely on him, when we can create the Ultimate Digimon!"
"I know, but..." began the first Digimon, only to be interrupted again.
"I shall not hear another word of such insolence!" interrupted the Hypnos Leader. "Kenta, see to it that your Digimon is suitably punished." There was a silent pause as if the voice was taking time to think. "Now, let us move on to the next agenda, shall we?" The voice chuckled. "To complete our Super Digimon, we must scour the Digital World for the proper components. There must not be any hindrances to our plans!"
"Of course, sir!"
There was an evil chuckle.
"Hirokazu, I trust that you have got everything ready?" asked the Hypnos Leader.
"Yes, sir!" came the reply from the Operator of the Digimon. "Operation Viral Overload is go!"
The Hypnos Leader laughed.
"Excellent!" he exclaimed. "Nothing can stop us now! Nothing!"

To be continued...