Digimon(2).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 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.

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Transmission 07: Be All Right

"Guilmon, are you all right?" asked Takato.
"He won't be!" retorted Togemon, as she leapt into the air and flung her fist down towards the unconscious Guilmon. The fire-style Digimon didn't stir from his position on the floor. He still lay there as if he was dead. Her gloved fist smashed into the floor. She had missed.
"All right, Guilmon!" exclaimed Takato.
"Takato, why don't you use the Burner DMD?" suggested Jenrya.
"Oh yeah, good idea," agreed Takato. "DigiModify– Burner activate!"
The tiles surrounding Guilmon suddenly burst into flames and since he was so near to Togemon, the wood-style Digimon got caught in the inferno. She cried out in pain, before leaping away from the Digimon and landing back on her section of the Battle Arena.
"Thanks Takato," he called out to his Operator. "Pyro Sphere!" He inhaled sharply and spat out a sphere of flames that struck Togemon in the head.

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Takato looked at the screen of his D-Tector carefully. It showed the DMDs he had selected. There were rules to selecting DMDs that had to be followed. They either had to be the same or of the same code. He had initially selected a Burner F, a Cannon F and a V-Laser F. Only the Cannon and V-Laser were left and once they were used up, he would have to select some more.
He knew it was a bad selection, but it was the only ones that he could make from the chips he had.
"Takato, isn't that a Lava Line?" asked Jenrya, as he pointed at Takato's D-Tector screen.
"Yeah, I think it is," replied Takato. What was the blue-haired youth getting at? "Why?" he asked Jenrya curiously.

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"Needle Spray!"
Guilmon wasn't very graceful and instead of dodging them skilfully, he found himself being hit by one after another. He tripped over his own feet and suddenly crashed to the ground. He looked up and saw Togemon leap into the above him. She crashed down on top of him, knocking the wind out of his lungs and making him descend into a hacking cough. More and more green patches were covering his scaly skin. The Darkspore Virus was taking hold.
Togemon crossed her prickly arms, as she stood at the edge of her section. It was clear what was happening to her fire-style opponent.
"I don't think I'll need to fight you now," she told the dinosaur Digimon. "The Darkspore Virus will finish you off for me."
"Guilmon, I'm cancelling the DMDs I selected earlier," whispered Takato to his Digimon. "Just try to hang in there, while I load the next set of DMDs."
The Digimon would have replied, if he wasn't so weak from the Darkspore Virus. He looked backwards and saw that flowers had grown from the heads of his friends. They were already spreading the virus like crazy. He apologised, mentally, to his friends and to his Operator. He wanted to be of more use to them but found that even being a fire-style Digimon didn't help.

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Alice knocked calmly on the door. She heard the Director call out to her from within and took that as her cue to enter.
"So, what may I do for you, little girl?" asked the hospital director from his chair, as he propped his glasses back up his nose with a finger.
The blonde-haired girl glanced over at the sign on the desk. So the Director's name was Jyou Kido, huh? She began to wonder whether he was related to the Dr. Kido that was the very first medic to go up to the Orbital Space Ring.
"Mr. Kido, I need to speak to you about the Darkspore Virus," she told the man.
"I'm sorry, little girl, but I'm not a Programmer," the Director told her. "I'm a doctor for human beings."
"I think the virus orginated from this hospital," Alice continued. "Could you please help me find the one that's been spreading it? I need your D-Tector to help me send an e-mail out of the hospital and to the Officials Centre." She waited for a while for his reply. From the look on his face, it didn't seem that he would help her, but she kept her fingers crossed. After all, why write someone off when they haven't given you an answer? "Please," she pleaded. "My friends need your help. It's for the good of their own health. After all, don't you doctors have to look after mental health as well? They'll become depressed if they lose their Digimon... Please, Director Kido."
The man sighed.
"Very well, I'll help you," he told her, as he rose from his seat.

Takato looked at the screen of his D-Tector carefully. It was taking forever for the new set of DMDs to load. If he could ever get his hands on whomever designed the DigiModify System, he would throttle them.
"All right!" he exclaimed, upon seeing that the DMDs were available. He looked carefully and tried to see what combinations he could use. The Lava Line was an L code and he also had a Lightning Blade code L and... That seemed about it. "Okay, DigiModify– Lava Line activate!" he announced.

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The tiles underneath Guilmon turned into ankle-high lava and the tiles behind him and in front of him turned into lava as well. Being a heat-style Digimon, the lava did not affect him. In fact, it was rather soothing. He sighed and felt his digital equivalent of sinuses clear. He still felt awful, as the Darkspore Virus had sapped his strength, yet his condition was no longer deteriorating. In fact, he felt as if he was recovering quite nicely.
"DigiModify– Hyper Heal activate!" announced Takato.
Ah, now that was better. Guilmon felt his strength returning to him. Now he was going to kick some wood-style butt. He inhaled sharply and spat out a sphere of flames straight at Togemon, hitting her in the chest. Guilmon ran straight towards her and leapt high into the air, to come smashing back down on Togemon's side, lashing his claws out at her. He leapt back and spat out another sphere of fire.
Togemon leapt out of the way quickly.
"Do you really think that you can defeat me that easily?" asked Togemon, as she spread her arms out.
"DigiModify– Grass Stage activate!"
Guilmon frowned. That wasn't Takato's voice. Now whose was it? It sounded rather familiar to him. Never mind. He saw the battle arena covered with grass. Wood-style Digimon and viruses are constantly healed on grass-covered tiles, aren't they?
"Oh, so that's the trick," he growled. Still, grass-covered tiles were double-edged blades. Digimon took double damage if a fire attack hit them while they stood on such tiles.
Takato knew this too.
"DigiModify– Hyper Jet activate!" announced Takato.
The Pyro Sphere attack that Guilmon executed spread out and hit a wide range. Togemon was unable to fight back and received quadruple damage.
"Fire burns wood," stated Guilmon calmly, as he leapt towards Togemon and struck at the Digimon. In doing so, Togemon broke up into bits of digital data that scattered into the air.
"Man, that was a quick fight," stated Takato.
"Yeah, really quick," agreed Jenrya.
The Battle Arena disappeared and Guilmon was suddenly free to leave. Yet he didn't move. It was as if he was frozen stiff. His body suddenly shuddered and his digital data changed. He grew and shifted into a Champion level. Guilmon digivolved into Growlmon, yet something was not quite right.
"Isn't Growlmon supposed to be a fire-style Digimon?" asked Jenrya curiously.
"Yeah," replied Takato, but sounded rather unsure of himself. "Something's wrong."
Growlmon was not red anymore. He was green and that was what was worrying. The Digimon was green and white instead of red and white, and instead of a white shock of hair, it was a combination of blue and green. No longer was he fire-style, but he was now wood-style.
"Do you think we can still be able to use him to create a antivirus program against the Darkspore Virus?" asked Takato curiously.
"I'm not sure," replied Jenrya.
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Nurse Mimi quickly unplugged her D-Tector from the socket and stepped back. She thought about her predicament. Togemon had been deleted, but she was lucky enough to have a back-up copy of Togemon contained within the D-Tector. Hence, Togemon hadn't really died. A worried look spread across her face, when she thought of what she would have to tell His Excellency. She had failed in deleting the Digimon of those DEVA Cadets that had destroyed the Juggernaut Virus. His Excellency had told her that they would be a threat to the Dragon Syndicate and wanted them eradicated.
She raised her D-Tector and dialled a number. Nurse Mimi waited for the other person to pick it up.
"Hello? Yes, Your Excellency, I have bad news to report," she whispered quietly, in case there was anyone nearby. "It's about those DEVA Cadets," she began, but trailed off, not knowing what to say to the Dragon Syndicate Leader. That was when she heard him speak. He knew that she had failed. Somehow, he knew. "I'm so sorry, Your Excellency, but I swear that I will do better next time."
"There won't be a next time, Nurse Mimi," said a voice that made her blood run cold.
"Oh, Director Kido, sir, I didn't hear you come in," said Nurse Mimi, as she put her D-Tector away. She pressed a button on the device and cancelled her phone call. "How may I help you?" She noticed that a blonde-haired girl was standing next to the blue-haired Hospital Director. She recognised that girl as one of those DEVA Cadets that the Dragon Syndicate Leader wanted eradicated.
Director Kido glared at her so coldly, that it was amazing that she didn't become an ice block.
"I overheard everything, Ms. Tachikawa," stated Kido sternly. "So, you're a member of the Dragon Syndicate?"
Mimi looked around her nervously. She didn't want to answer his question. Of all the things that she did not want, she did not want to be arrested.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said in a half-laugh, half-nervous manner. Mimi was obviously lying and she knew that the Director knew it too. Something caught her eye. Perfect. She smiled. She grabbed the trolley and pushed it at the door frantically.
The Nurse shoved Kido aside and emerged out into the corridor. She turned and ran for it, upon hearing him shout for security. No, she wouldn't let herself be arrested. Somehow, she'd find her way out of the mess she had put herself in. Suddenly, something grabbed her.
"Let go of me," shrieked Mimi angrily, as she kicked and hit the security guard that had grabbed her. "Let go! Let go!"
"Alice, are you all right?" asked Jenrya, as he came running up the corridor with Takato.
A smile spread across Alice's face, as she walked down the corridor to meet her friends halfway.
"I'm fine, thanks," she replied, grateful that Jenrya was concerned for her. She turned to face Nurse Mimi whom was still kicking and shouting. "How's Dobermon?"
"Not too good," replied Jenrya with a shake of his head, as he handed Alice back her D-Tector. "He's suffering from that Darkspore Virus and if we don't get him some kind of antivirus program soon, he's history. Terriermon too."
"Say, what's with Nurse Mimi?" asked Takato curiously.
"She's the one that's been spreading that virus," replied Alice confidently, "and she's the one that's going to give us that antivirus."
"You don't understand," cried Mimi angrily. "I had to do it for the Syndicate. My husband owed them too much money. If I didn't, they would have..." She trailed off and broke down into tears at the thought of what would happen to her and her family. "They were threatening my family. I couldn't do anything but give in to their demands. I couldn't have gone to the police!" she wailed between sobs of grief. "They would have hurt my family."
Jenrya thought of his father, the Official. Perhaps there was a way around all this.
"Ms. Mimi, I was thinking," began Jenrya, "my Dad's an Official. I could speak to him about your predicament and he could arrange it so that you wouldn't have to worry about the Syndicate anymore."
"Really?" sniffed Mimi.
"Yeah, I'm sure my Dad would do it," replied Jenrya with a nod of his head. "But you have to hand over the antivirus program first. Got it?"
Mimi nodded in reply.
"Yes, I understand," she told the youth. "It's in my D-Tector. The antivirus program is labelled dswiz.EXE. If you apply it straight away to your Digimon, they will recover." She let the security guard unhook the D-Tector from the waistband of her skirt and hand it over to the youths.
Jenrya was very quick in applying it to his Digimon and to Dobermon. It only took two minutes flat for the program to be loaded on to both D-Tectors.
"Terriermon, you feeling better?" he asked his Digimon, as he looked at the D-Tector's screen that displayed the image of his Digimon.
A smile spread across Terriermon's pixelated face.
"Yeah, I'm fine, Jen," replied the Digimon with a nod of his head. "I'm still feeling a bit weak, but that's to be expected, right?"
"Yeah," replied Jenrya with a nod of his head.
One thing bothered Takato though. He had been thinking about it ever since he Alice had explained what Nurse Mimi had done.
"Something doesn't add up," he said after much thought. "How did you know that Nurse Mimi was the one spreading the virus?" he asked Alice.
"I was told by Jenrya's Dad that something like that would happen," she replied.
A frown spread across Jenrya's face.
"He did?" exclaimed Jenrya in complete surprise. How come his father didn't tell him about it? Didn't his father trust him? Then he realised that he rarely saw his father, since his Dad was at the Officials' Orbital Ring HQ most of the time. Even his mother rarely saw Dr. Lee because of his work. Jenrya's Dad practically lived at the Orbital Ring HQ.
"Speaking of which, you think your Dad can tell me what happened to Guilmon?" asked Takato curiously.
"Yeah, why don't we meet up tomorrow at 10?" suggested Jenrya. After all, there was no school on a Saturday. They could do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
"Yeah, that's okay," agreed Takato with a nod of his head. "Shall we meet up at the lobby?"
"Yeah, let's," agreed Jenrya.

The Orbital Space Ring, which surrounded the Earth, was not only divided into four sections– Dyjitopia, Inphynitio, Phyle and Spyrol, but it was also divided into three levels. Its spin meant that objects were pushed outwards away from the Earth and that meant that the levels were arranged opposite, yet parallel to the Earth's equator so that the planet always seemed to be above the Space Ring's inhabitants. The level that was furthest away from the Earth (the lowest level) was where the waterworks, sewage works, power plants and industrial factories were located. The middle level was the one in which people lived and the innermost level was taken up by the offices and laboratories of the Officials.
There were several elevator shafts that led between the industrial level (known as Level 1) and the middle level (known as Level 2). To get to Level 3, where the Officials were located, however, one had to travel all the way to the section known as Spyrol, as the only lifts up there were situated in Kokobashi, the Capital of Spyrol.
It was because of this that travel between the four administrative regions of the Orbital Space Ring was treated as travel within a country, instead of between countries, which was in effect what it actually was.
"It must be really hard for you to be living so far away from your Dad," said Takato, as he sat within the train with his friend, Jenrya Lee. They were heading towards Spyrol and since travel between the four countries of the Orbital Space Ring was treated as if they were travelling within one country, they didn't bring their passports with them. "It must be like having divorced parents."
Jenrya shrugged at that comment.
"It's not so bad," he told his friend. "I get to see him every now and then. Besides, I still get to speak to him on the phone. He calls every week or so to see how we're all doing." He looked out of the window and saw that they were passing into Spyrol. There were marked differences between the streets and buildings of the four different countries– Dyjtopia, Inphynitio, Phyle and Spyrol.
"Looks like we're nearly there," commented Jenrya, as he saw the trees. In Dyjitopia, the trees that lined the streets tended to be cherry trees. In Inphynitio, Takato's home country, they tended to be crab apple trees and in Spyrol, they tended to be Linden trees.
"Say, is it just me or is it getting hot in here?" wondered Takato, as he wiped his brow.
"Yipes!" cried Terriermon from his D-Tector. "My thermometer says the temperature's thirty-six degrees Celcius and rising."
Takato leant over and placed his hand underneath the seat. He knew that the temperature control units were located underneath the seats, gushing out cold or hot air respectively to keep the inside of the train carriage at optimum temperature.
"Youch, that's hot!" he exclaimed, as he pulled his hand away, flicking it in the air.
One of the control units suddenly burst into flames and set the seats alight. Several more followed suit, making the passengers spring away from the affected seats. One of them rushed over to grab a fire extinguisher and rushed over to put out the fire.
Jenrya lifted the lid of his D-Tector and pressed a few buttons, bringing up a temperature display on its screen.
"This isn't good," he muttered under his breath. "If the temperature keeps rising like this, we'll broil before we get to the next station."

To be continued...