Digimon(2).EXE
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"This is Rosa Maridonna, reporting to you live from
Biyo Town where there's been a new outbreak of the mysterious
computer virus, dubbed Darkspore," announced the reporter on
television. She was a Latino girl with brown hair and tanned
skin, wearing a Gotsumon hat. She was holding a microphone with a
little sign on it with the letters DNN, which stood for Digital
New Network. "The computer virus, Darkspore, somehow
infiltrates the Digimon's natural DIS or Digital Immune System
and infects the Digimon."
Takato's mother, a brown-haired woman, looked up from her
counter to look at the television screen that hung in the corner
of the shop.
"My that's terrible," she stated, as she listened to the reporter. "At least there's none of that horrible virus over here in Rail Town."
"Digimon infected with Darkspore will suffer from green,
circuit-like patterns on their exterior," continued Rosa,
"and will eventually sprout purple flowers from their heads.
These flowers will spread the virus, so Operators are advised to
keep their Digimon well away from infected Digimon. If your
Digimon is suffering from these symptoms, please take them to the
nearest Digimon Hospital ASAP!"
The brown-haired youth at the counter nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I heard that all of S.AmeriSquare's been quarantined because of Darkspore," stated the youth, as he held his D-Tector out in front of the cash register. A few seconds later, the monetary transaction had been made.
"Thank you," thanked Takato's mother with a big
smile on her face, as she handed a bag to the youth. "Please
come again."
"Tadaima!" announced Takato, as he came in through
the back door.
"Takato!" exclaimed Takato's mother, before she
rushed up towards the brown-haired youth and hugged him tightly.
"Your Principal just phoned me about what happened at
school. Are you okay?"
Takato felt as if his mother was trying to suffocate him. Her
hold on him would have put a so-called death grip to shame.
"I'm fine, mum," he told her, as he tried to shift into a more comfortable position within his mother's embrace. "Mum, would you mind not hugging me so tight?" he asked her. "I can't breathe!" He also had a feeling that if this continued, his D-Tector might break and he certainly didn't want that!
"Really, Yoshi, dear, you mustn't suffocate him like
that," stated Takato's father, as he walked past the two
carrying a seemingly very heavy box. "He's a grown boy
now. Our very own hero! Defeater of Criminal Digimon and
Destroyer of Viruses!"
Red creeped across the cheeks of Takato's face.
"Dad," he protested at his father's words. His parents thought very highly of him ever since they found out he had been involved in the deletion of the Juggernaut Virus.
"It's such a shame that practically no knows that you
deleted the Juggernaut Virus," sighed Takato's father, as
he took the box out to the front and placed it on a shelf.
"Everyone thinks the DEVAs destroyed it, but you know, I don't
trust those DEVAs at all. There's something fishy about them.
Give me the Officials any day."
"Takehiro, honey, don't forget that our son is a DEVA
Cadet," said Takato's mother. "And look how well he's
turned out."
The phone suddenly rang. Takato seemed to be the closest one
to it.
"I'll get it!" he announced, and picked the phone up. "Hello, Matsuda Electronics Store, how may I help you? Huh, Ryo? He's in hospital?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. It seemed almost impossible. He had never known Ryo to be hospitalised. "Oh, sure. I'll go check with my parents, first." He lowered the phone, covering the receiver and turned to them. "Mom, Dad, can I go visit Ryo? He's in Palm Town Hospital."
For a while, Takato received no reply. He just looked at his
parents looking at each other. The youth began to wonder whether
they would let him. Why shouldn't they, though? It was, after
all, Friday.
"Sure, you can, son," replied Takehiro, "just
you be real careful, okay?"
"Oh, and Takato, I want you to promise me
something," called out Yoshi.
"Yeah, mom?"
"Please don't be wreckless, okay?" she pleaded to
Takato. "There's some kind of nasty computer virus out
there, so don't go plugging your D-Tector in willy nilly."
Takato nodded in reply.
"I won't, Mum," promised Takato solemnly.
"And bring Ryo a gift," stated Yoshi. "It's
just good manners."
"Can I bring him something from the shop?" asked
Takato curiously.
"I don't see why not," replied Takehiro, as he
looked around him. "Tell you what, why don't you give him
this Leaf Shield Modify Chip?" He took one from off the
display and handed it to Takato. "I'm sure he'll
appreciate, after all, it's the thought that counts."
Takato took it into his hands and looked at it carefully.
"Er... thanks, Dad," thanked Takato. "Well, I've got to change out of this uniform first." He turned round and then ran upstairs to his room, not wanting to take too long.
Large palm trees lined the roadside that led to Palm Town
Hospital. It was a very large and very elaborate hospital
surrounded with parks. Somewhere above the hospital was a group
of people working on the huge neon lights of the Orbital Space
Ring's ceiling.
A red bus made its way across the road. It was fully automated
like all public transport on the Earth and up in the Orbital
Space Ring. It chugged quietly along the road and then stopped at
a bus stop. The doors opened and Takato got off. He looked around
him.
"Takato, there you are!" exclaimed a voice.
"Say, isn't that Jenrya?" asked Guilmon, upon
hearing the voice.
Takato turned round and saw a youth with blue-black hair
running up towards him. He smiled, as he raised a hand and waved
towards the approaching youth.
"Hey, Jenrya!" he called out to the approaching kid. "Long time no see!"
"Yeah," agreed Jenrya with a nod of his head.
"Say, you like my jacket?" he asked Takato, gesturing
towards the orange, sleeveless jacket. "Bought it
recently," he announced.
For a while, Takato didn't say a thing.
"Well, it's very orange," he said hesitantly. It wasn't bad, but the orange nature of the jacket really did put him off. "Very, very orange," he added.
"I told him he shouldn't buy it, but no... he didn't
listen to me," said Terriermon from Jenrya's D-Tector.
"Never listens to me."
A smile spread across Jenrya's lips upon hearing that
comment.
"That's coz none of your advice ever works," he retorted in a playful manner. "Besides, most of the time you're too rude to listen to." He turned to look at the large clock on the face of the hospital. It was getting late. "Come on, let's get going before visiting hours end," he suggested. He turned round before Takato could get a word in. "Race you!" he called out, before he ran for it.
"Hey, no fair!" protested Takato at Jenrya's head
start. He ran after his friend, not wanting to be beaten to the
hospital before Jenrya.
"I win!" announced Jenrya, as he reached the
entrance. It was an easy race and he wasn't out of breath,
unlike someone he could mention. "Takato, man, you're out
of shape," he laughed at Takato's ragged breath.
Takato grumbled something rude underneath his breath, making
his Digimon gasp in complete astonishment. He quickly unhooked
his D-Tector from his waistband and shoved it deep into one of
his pockets before Guilmon could say a word.
"Yeah, so are we going to stand out here or go in and see Ryo?" he asked Jenrya, quickly changing the subject.
"You're right," agreed Jenrya with a nod of his
head. "So, let's go in." He was the first one to walk
in naturally and was taken back by the state of the hospital. It
was so... nice. The place wasn't as he had expected it to be,
cold and sterile. "Hi, we're here to see Ryo
Akiyama," announced Jenrya, as he walked up to the
receptionist. "We're friends of his."
While Jenrya sorted that out, Takato decided to check out the
vending machines. He looked at the selection of candy bars
available. There wasn't anything much in there.
"Tofu Bars?" he exclaimed in complete shock. Surely not! A candy bar made entirely from tofu? It seemed so healthy it was unnatural. "There must be something else in here."
"Takato!" called out Jenrya from the receptionist's
desk. "Come on! We can go up and see Ryo now!"
"Oh, yeah, I'm coming!" called out Takato, before
he ran over to join Jenrya and the nurse that stood beside the
dark-haired boy.
A smile spread across the nurse's face. She was a kindly
looking nurse with brown hair and a dash of makeup around her
face. On one of her lapels was an ID badge with her name– Mimi
Tachikawa– and her face on it.
"Hello there," she greeted the two boys. "You're Takato, right? Ryo has been talking quite a lot about you. The Great Destroyers of the Juggernaut Virus! Fancy that!"
"He told you about that?" asked Jenrya in complete
disbelief. That was supposed to be classified information.
"No one's supposed to know about that," protested
Jenrya. "When I get my hands on him..."
The nurse laughed.
"There's no need to get angry with him," she told them. "No one else knows and I haven't told anyone about you two, so your secret's pretty safe. Still, I don't quite understand why the DEVAs are keeping that info locked up like that. Are they afraid it will tarnish their image?" She shook her head. "Oh well, let me take you to see, Ryo."
Jenrya and Takato followed the nurse into a lift and were
taken up to the fourth floor. There, they wound their way through
a seemingly maze-like network of corridors. Every turn confused
the two young boys, until they had no idea from which direction
they had come from and in which direction they were going.
"We're here!" announced Nurse Mimi, as she led
them into a large hall with several beds lined up in a row.
"Ryo, you have a visitor!"
The youth in the bed had brown hair, which was almost of the
same colour as Takato's, only slightly darker. His blue eyes
were dull, but suddenly lit up like sapphires upon seeing Jenrya.
"Hi, Jen!" he greeted the dark, blue-black haired youth. "Hi, Takato!" he greeted, upon suddenly noticing that he had two visitors.
"I missed you," stated Jenrya, as he went over and
sat down on the edge of Ryo's bed. He looked over to the cast
on Ryo's right foot and at the names scrawled all over it.
"I see you're pretty popular."
"You haven't been flirting with other guys while I've
been gone, have you?" asked Ryo playfully.
Takato hated it whenever they talked like that. He wasn't
some sort of homophobe, but their conversations did make him feel
really uncomfortable.
"Ryo, I brought you a gift," announced Takato, as soon as Jenrya and Ryo were done with their flirts. "I thought you'd be doing nothing but DigiBattling with other patients, so I brought you a Modify Chip. It's a Leaf Shield."
"Oh, cool!" exclaimed Ryo with a clap of his hands.
"I just lost my only Leaf Shield in a match with the nurse.
Man, is she tough."
"The nurse?" exclaimed Jenrya in surprise. "You
mean, the one that brought us to you? Nurse Mimi?" He
received a silent nod in reply. "No way! She beat you in a
DigiBattle!" he cried out in disbelief. "She doesn't
look like much of a DigiBattler," he stated.
"Why? Is that because you think DigiBattling's only for
guys?"
Jenrya turned around and double-taked.
"Oh, Alice," said Jenrya in startled manner, "didn't expect to see you here so far from home. What are you doing here in Dyjitopia?"
"What, can't I see a friend too?" asked Alice in
reply. Sure, it was a long way from Spyrol, her home section of
the Orbital Ring, but it was still worth it. "So, Ryo, you
feeling okay?"
"Sure, I'm fine," replied Ryo with a nod of his
head. "Oh, flowers! How nice."
"Say, can we sign your cast?" asked Takato
curiously. He couldn't resist the temptation, after all, other's
peoples names had graced that rough, white surface. He even
spotted Ruki's name somewhere on it and wanted to place his
right next to hers.
A devious grin spread across Jenrya's face upon the mention
of signing.
"Say, Ryo, do you think I could sign something else other than your cast?" he asked his friend. He raised his eyebrows twice in a silent, yet very meaningful gesture and then winked once.
"Hentai!" laughed Ryo.
"Your Excellency, sir!"
"What is it?"
"Your Excellency, Lord Myotis, those DEVA Cadets are
here; the ones that destroyed the Hypnos Organisation. They're
here in the hospital."
"Then seal them in and get rid of them!"
"Yes, Your Excellency. It shall be done."
"Oh, and what about the Black Gear?" asked His
Excellency curiously. "Have you found it, yet?"
"Yes, sir," came the reply. "It has already
been sent to you."
"Man, that took us a long time," sighed Takato,
as they finally stepped out of the lift. "I swear, this
place is like some kind of maze."
"Shouldn't you phone mom and dad to tell them where you
are?" asked Guilmon from his D-Tector. "I mean, it is
getting late, after all."
Takato realised that Guilmon was right.
"Yeah, I'd better phone them," he agreed with a nod of his head, as he fished his D-Tector out of his pocket. "They're probably worried sick by now." He dialled a number on the keypad and then placed his D-Tector up to his ear like a phone. Takato waited. "Hi, Dad! Just wanted to call you to say I'm okay. Yeah, I kind of got lost inside the hospital but I'm on my way home now."
"No, we're not," argued Jenrya with a shake of his
head. He saw that the entrance to the hospital had been blocked
by shutters and that there was also a crowd of very angry people
around the receptionist's desk. "Something tells me we're
going to be here for quite some time."
"Oh no," whined Takato miserably, as his arms went
limp to his side. "Now I'm going to miss tonight's
DigiBattle Match!" He raised his D-Tector back up to his
ear. "Dad, scratch that," he told his father.
"There's some lock-down on the hospital. I can't even
get out now." He pulled the D-Tector away from his ear, as
his father shouted in some kind of rage. "Dad, take it easy.
I'm not deaf, you know. Well, yeah, okay, I'll be fine. Okay,
I'll phone you the moment I can get out, okay? Okay, bye."
"So, are we stuck here?" asked Guilmon curiously.
"Maybe," replied Takato in an unsure manner.
"I've just had a talk with the staff," announced
Alice, as she walked back to Jenrya and Takato. "Apparently,
there's some sort of malfunction with the hospital's computer
networks and the entire place is in lockdown. Even the Digimon
can't get out."
A smile spread across Takato's face. Now this was the sort
of thing he liked.
"Well, I guess it's lucky for them that we've got three DEVA Cadets in the hospital, eh?" he stated smugly. He couldn't wait to have a shot at fixing the network. "You up for this, Guilmon?" he asked his Digimon.
"You bet!" came the Digimon's reply.
"Hey, if Guilmon's going, then so am I!" announced
Terriermon.
"No way," protested Jenrya angrily. "Takato,
are you nuts? This is no time for us to go acting around like
heroes. We're only cadets." Ever since more powerful
viruses had emerged in the Digital World, Jenrya had been fearful
for his Digimon's safety. Look at Terriermon, for example. He
had been at Mega level only a month ago, but a virus had seen to
that. "We can't go putting our Digimon into the hospital
network. The networks of hospitals are pretty heavily defended.
If something goes wrong with the hospital network, then that
means something is very, very wrong. Our Digimon won't stand a
chance!"
Terriermon couldn't believe what he was hearing from his
Operator.
"Mo mantai, Jenrya," he told his Operator. "Don't you have faith in us? We can handle any viruses that come our way."
"I don't know..." began Jenrya, trailing off at
the end. "I guess you could..."
"All right!" exclaimed Terriermon. "Well, what
are we waiting for? Let's go!"
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 NO graphic depictions of a heterosexual and homosexual nature. 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. Digimon(2).EXE is based on Rockman.EXE, which is copyrighted by Capcom Ltd. Constructive criticism is very welcome.
Transmission 05: Asu e no Doa wo Tatake
"My that's terrible," she stated, as she listened to the reporter. "At least there's none of that horrible virus over here in Rail Town."
"Yeah, I heard that all of S.AmeriSquare's been quarantined because of Darkspore," stated the youth, as he held his D-Tector out in front of the cash register. A few seconds later, the monetary transaction had been made.
"I'm fine, mum," he told her, as he tried to shift into a more comfortable position within his mother's embrace. "Mum, would you mind not hugging me so tight?" he asked her. "I can't breathe!" He also had a feeling that if this continued, his D-Tector might break and he certainly didn't want that!
"Dad," he protested at his father's words. His parents thought very highly of him ever since they found out he had been involved in the deletion of the Juggernaut Virus.
"I'll get it!" he announced, and picked the phone up. "Hello, Matsuda Electronics Store, how may I help you? Huh, Ryo? He's in hospital?" He couldn't believe what he was hearing. It seemed almost impossible. He had never known Ryo to be hospitalised. "Oh, sure. I'll go check with my parents, first." He lowered the phone, covering the receiver and turned to them. "Mom, Dad, can I go visit Ryo? He's in Palm Town Hospital."
"I won't, Mum," promised Takato solemnly.
"Er... thanks, Dad," thanked Takato. "Well, I've got to change out of this uniform first." He turned round and then ran upstairs to his room, not wanting to take too long.
"Hey, Jenrya!" he called out to the approaching kid. "Long time no see!"
"Well, it's very orange," he said hesitantly. It wasn't bad, but the orange nature of the jacket really did put him off. "Very, very orange," he added.
"That's coz none of your advice ever works," he retorted in a playful manner. "Besides, most of the time you're too rude to listen to." He turned to look at the large clock on the face of the hospital. It was getting late. "Come on, let's get going before visiting hours end," he suggested. He turned round before Takato could get a word in. "Race you!" he called out, before he ran for it.
"Yeah, so are we going to stand out here or go in and see Ryo?" he asked Jenrya, quickly changing the subject.
"Tofu Bars?" he exclaimed in complete shock. Surely not! A candy bar made entirely from tofu? It seemed so healthy it was unnatural. "There must be something else in here."
"Hello there," she greeted the two boys. "You're Takato, right? Ryo has been talking quite a lot about you. The Great Destroyers of the Juggernaut Virus! Fancy that!"
"There's no need to get angry with him," she told them. "No one else knows and I haven't told anyone about you two, so your secret's pretty safe. Still, I don't quite understand why the DEVAs are keeping that info locked up like that. Are they afraid it will tarnish their image?" She shook her head. "Oh well, let me take you to see, Ryo."
"Hi, Jen!" he greeted the dark, blue-black haired youth. "Hi, Takato!" he greeted, upon suddenly noticing that he had two visitors.
"Ryo, I brought you a gift," announced Takato, as soon as Jenrya and Ryo were done with their flirts. "I thought you'd be doing nothing but DigiBattling with other patients, so I brought you a Modify Chip. It's a Leaf Shield."
"Oh, Alice," said Jenrya in startled manner, "didn't expect to see you here so far from home. What are you doing here in Dyjitopia?"
"Say, Ryo, do you think I could sign something else other than your cast?" he asked his friend. He raised his eyebrows twice in a silent, yet very meaningful gesture and then winked once.
"Yeah, I'd better phone them," he agreed with a nod of his head, as he fished his D-Tector out of his pocket. "They're probably worried sick by now." He dialled a number on the keypad and then placed his D-Tector up to his ear like a phone. Takato waited. "Hi, Dad! Just wanted to call you to say I'm okay. Yeah, I kind of got lost inside the hospital but I'm on my way home now."
"Well, I guess it's lucky for them that we've got three DEVA Cadets in the hospital, eh?" he stated smugly. He couldn't wait to have a shot at fixing the network. "You up for this, Guilmon?" he asked his Digimon.
"Mo mantai, Jenrya," he told his Operator. "Don't you have faith in us? We can handle any viruses that come our way."
To be continued...
