Digimon(2).EXE
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The train had turned into a moving inferno. In each of the
carriages that Jenrya had ran into, he had seen raging fires.
Takato looked around him wildly. He knew that if he could plug
his Digimon into the train's temperature control network, he
would be able to solve the problem. But where was the control
panel for that carriage? He looked around wildly and then saw a
plug-in port at the end of the corner. He ran over it, as he
brought out his D-Tector from his pocket. His path was suddenly
blocked.
"Jenrya, what are you doing?" he asked angrily, as he tried to step around his blue-haired friend, but found it impossible to do so. "Out of my way. I've got to log Growlmon in and fix the temperature control system."
"Not with Growlmon, you're not," protested Jenrya
with a shake of his head. "Have you forgotten already? He's
a wood-style Digimon now. Chances are that the train's computer
network is completely flooded with fire-style viruses. How else
would this have happened? If you load Growlmon into the network,
he'll be deleted."
"Oh yeah," sighed Takato in sudden realisation.
"Don't worry about me," shouted Growlmon from
Takato's D-Tector. "I can handle that heat. Just load me to
the network and I'll fix the problem." Takato protested at
Growlmon's willingness, but the dragon Digimon wasn't going to
take no for an answer. "Takato, I'd rather I sacrifice
myself than let you burn. If you were in my shoes, you'd do the
same thing, wouldn't you?"
Only the sound of the raging flames could be heard, as Takato
remained silent in thought.
"Yeah, I would," he replied shortly after. "Okay, Growlmon, I'll load you in. It was a good thing I decided to load a selection of aqua-style DigiModify Chips on to my D-Tector."
"You did?" exclaimed Growlmon and Jenrya in
surprise.
"Yeah," replied Takato with a nod of his head,
"I thought that what with Growlmon being a wood-style virus,
he would need some aqua-style DMDs. Aqua-style and wood-style go
together quite well, don't they?"
Jenrya was surprised at Takato's preparedness. Usually, Takato
would leap into a situation armed without the proper DMDs.
"Gosh, today must be a good day for pigs to fly," he commented.
Takato hadn't listened to Jenrya's quip. He had already made
his way to the end of the carriage. He plugged his D-Tector in
and pressed a button.
"Log in Growlmon.EXE," he announced.* * * * *
A data stream struck the ground and Growlmon emerged from
it. He looked around him and saw that the paths were like
traintracks, some of which glowed red as if they were made out of
neon lights, and the terminals were like train station platforms.
This floated within a black sky that looked like a screensaver of
spinning trains.
"Man, this place sure is hot," he commented, as he looked around him. He could see that some of the paths and terminals were blocked with raging fires.
Out of the corner of Growlmon's eye, he noticed a white
Program floating about in a panic.
"Hi," he called out to the Program and waved at it.
Upon seeing Growlmon, the Program stopped floating around. For
a while, the Program just stared at Growlmon in wide-eyed
disbelief. Eventually, it lifted a stubby arm and waved back at
Growlmon.
"Hi, my name's Growlmon," announced the Digimon, as
he walked over towards the Program. "I've come to help fix
the network."
The Program looked around him and then back towards the
Digimon.
"You?" exclaimed the Program curiously. He received a nod in reply. "That's nice and all, but I don't think that you can handle it. You see, the network's divided into two sections. The red parts belong to the heater. The blue parts belong to the air conditioning." He pointed over towards a switch not too far away from the Digimon. "You see that? That's the Emergency Master Control, but those virus jerks have gone and broke it."
Growlmon sighed. Nothing ever came easy to him.
"So what do we do?" asked Growlmon curiously.
"If you're a Digimon, then you can help me," replied
the Program. "I can manually switch of all the red paths. If
I can do that, I'll be able to switch off the heaters and
activate the coolers, but there's too many fires for me to get to
the switches."
"But that won't stop the fires that are raging across the
train," protested Jenrya's voice.
A frown spread across the Program's face.
"Fires?" he exclaimed in complete surprise. "Oh, that's no good. Still, from what I can tell, the heaters are still switched on. Surely if I turn off the heaters and switch on all the coolers, then it would help the situation?" It saw Growlmon nod in reply and heard him agree verbally. "Okay then, so would you put out the fires for me, please?"
The wood-style Digimon nodded in reply.
"Sure thing," he told the Digimon. "I've got a handful of aqua-style DMDs, so I can deal with those fires." He looked around him and then found that he didn't know where to go. "Okay, lead the way!"
The Programs rushed towards the Digimon causing the
problem in an attempt to stop him. They were too weak, however,
and were flung aside by fiery jets of flame.
"Please, you must stop this!" pleaded one of the
Programs. "You're messing up the temperature control
network!"
The Digimon roared out as if in pain.
"No, must burn!" he cried out animalistically, before laughing insanely. "Must burn everything!" He turned round and attacked one of the Programs, grabbing the little white thing with his large hand. The Digimon looked at the Program with an insane smile on his face. "Burn! Burn! Burn!"
"DigiModify– Bubbler activate!"
Growlmon's right arm turned into a cannon and he fired a
sphere that hit the fire and then burst open to smother the
flames with water. The cannon turned back into his right arm.
"There, is that the way?" asked Growlmon curiously.
"That's the way," replied the Program with a nod of
his head. "You'd better go ahead, unless you want to be
deleted." It saw Growlmon nod in acknowledgement and walk
ahead. Being only a Digimon, Growlmon didn't trigger the switch
ahead. "All right then, let's switch off this red
path!" He floated forward and passed a glowing sphere. The
red path that behind them suddenly became dim, as if it was a red
light that had suddenly been switched off. Ahead of them, a blue
path suddenly lit up as if it was a neon light that had been just
switched on.
"Is that it?" asked Growlmon curiously.
The Program shook his head.
"I'm afraid not," he told the wood-style Digimon. "We've still got lots more paths to change manually."
"Look out!" roared Growlmon, before he leapt past
the Program. He swung his hand at the virus and swatted it back.
"A Manowar virus," he muttered under his breath. The
virus in front of him looked like a Portugese Man-o-War and was a
very famous aqua-style virus. "Go ahead and do your worst.
I'm a wood-style Digimon, so you can't harm me!" He saw the
Manowar Virus glowing. Suddenly, a gush of water spurted from the
virus and headed straight for Growlmon. He side-stepped past the
attack and inhaled. "Leaf Wind!" He opened his mouth
and a howling leaf-littered wind hit the virus.
Growlmon saw that the virus was still intact.
"You're one pretty strong virus," he commented, before he rushed straight at it. He could see that the Manowar was charging up for another attack. Growlmon lashed out and slashed the thing in half with his sharp claws. It disintergrated and left behind a spherical data packet. He reached out and took it. "Cool," he said, after examining it.
"Way to go, Growlmon!" praised Takato. "I
always wanted an Aqua Wave DigiModify Chip!"
"Growlmon, I'm loading Terriermon to the network,"
announced Jenrya. "He'll help you get through. You just make
sure he's okay, all right?"
"Okay, Jen," agreed Growlmon with a nod of his head.
He waited and a few moments later, a data stream struck the
ground in front of him and deposited Terriermon. "Hey,
Terriermon," he greeted the small furry Digimon with a wave
of his scaly paw.
"Behind you!" warned the Program.
Terriermon whirled round and executed his Terrier Tornado
attack, sending the aqua-style virus flying away from him. He
turned back to face the Growlmon and the Program.
"Hey, you two didn't think I couldn't handle a measly virus, now did you?" he asked them with a mischievous smile on his face.
"Would you lot get a move on?" asked Takato angrily.
"It's getting really, really, really hot in here!"
"Sorry," apologised Growlmon. He raised his arm as
if to gesture for the Program to lead the way. "Please, lead
the way." He waited for the Program to go ahead and then
lifted the child-sized Terriermon up his shoulders. "Hold
on," he told Terriermon, although it wasn't really
necessary. After all, Growlmon wasn't that large. He couldn't be,
since large Digimon moved so slowly around the Digital World they
were practically useless, and thus did not exist.
Growlmon followed the Program carefully, keeping his eyes open
for any viruses. If there were any, he would leap into action and
delete them.
"So, Terriermon, how are Takato and Jenrya?" asked the Digimon in an attempt to make conversation.
"They're doing pretty well," replied Terriermon. He
too was keeping an eye out for viruses, as they ran off a blue
path and on to a black path. "Jenrya's keeping everyone
pretty calm and Takato's... well, you know what Takato's up to,
don't you?" He noticed that they were a crossroads and
Growlmon noticed too. "Why are we stopping here?" asked
Terriermon. "Don't you remember the way?"
Suddenly, a bunch of fire-style viruses came swarming down
from one of the red paths. One was a Firewalk virus, which looked
like a small burning head-shaped virus with two large eyes and
two very large feet. It was accompanied by one more Firewalk
Virus and and an Inferno.781 Virus, which was like a large dog
made out of fire.
The Firewalk leapt into the air, its feet moving back and
forth erratically, before it ran straight towards Growlmon,
leaving a trail of fire in its wake. Growlmon leapt out of the
way.
Terriermon inhaled sharply and spat out bright green
projectiles at the Firewalk virus. Out of the corner of his eye,
he saw another Firewalk charge straight at him. He leapt back,
performing a Terrier Tornado attack to give him extra momentum.
He leapt back and tried his Bunny Blast attack again.
"Watch out!" warned Growlmon, before he leapt to
Terriermon's side. He took the full blast of the Inferno's fiery
attack, which was similar to the fire-style Growlmon's Pyro
Blaster attack.
"Growlmon, are you okay?" asked Takato.
"I'll be fine," replied Growlmon through clenched
teeth.
"Here try this," called out Takato.
"DigiModify– Aqua Sword activate!"
A large sword that seemed to be made out of liquid appeared in
Growlmon's right paw. Yeah, that would certainly do the trick. A
smile spread across Growlmon's face, yet he would have to wait
before the new DMDs could be used properly. There! He saw the two
Firewalk viruses grouping together and then rushed forward,
swinging the sword. He caught the both of them with the watery
blade and deleted them both in an instant. The sword disappeared
from his hands instantly.
"DigiModify– ShowerCloud activate!"
Terriermon threw a blue sphere into the air and it turned into
a cloud. Raindrops fell from the cloud, as it moved horizontally.
He saw the rain spray on to the last Inferno virus and heard it
roar out in pain.
"Guess that ShowerCloud wasn't strong enough," stated Terriermon. "Try this on for size, pup! Bunny Blast!" He inhaled sharply and spat out a stream of light green energy blasts at the Inferno.
They struck the Inferno.781 virus and tore it apart. The
digital data spread into the air and left behind a data packet.
"Good job, Terriermon," commended Growlmon with a
smile on his scaly muzzle. He turned to face the white Program.
"So, which way from here?" he asked the Program.
The Program looked around him.
"Over there!" he called out and pointed towards a path that was blocked by a single fire that burnt brightly. "We have to go straight through that path and turned left to that switch over there. It'll block our way forward, so we'll have to come straight back down this path and go down that path and turn that switch, before back tracking to that path over there and turning that switch."
"Huh?" exclaimed Growlmon. If he was a cartoon,
question marks would have been floating over his head.
"It's a security measure," the Program told
Growlmon.
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Jenrya looked around him. His heart wasn't in the job at
hand.
"Has anyone tried smashing the windows?" asked Jenrya, as he wiped more sweat off his forehead. He had unsightly sweat patches around his armpits and felt the cloth of his shirt sticking to his skin uncomfortably. Any hotter and he was sure he'd burst into flames.
"Tried that," replied a man gruffly. "No use.
Those windows are too tough."
"I've been thinking," gasped Takato between breaths.
"How come none of the train's staff have put an end to
this?"
"Takato, all the trains are automated," Jenrya
reminded the brown-haired youth.
"Yeah, but the trains must have some kind of conductor to
ensure that it's working properly," pointed out Takato. He
was right. The trains all had two conductors to ensure that the
train's systems were functioning properly, and if not, to fix the
systems or shut the entire train down. "Perhaps something's
happened to them."
For a while, Jenrya didn't say another thing. He knew that
Takato had a valid point.
"Whoever's causing this must still be onboard then," he stated. He began to wonder what they were hoping to gain by setting an entire train on fire. "Terriermon, I'm unloading you right now," he called to his Digimon. "No, buts," he said upon hearing Terriermon's protests. "Takato, once you're done with this carriage, meet me at the front of the train."
"Okay," agreed Takato with a nod of his head.
* * * * *
Growlmon used the ShowerCloud DMDs on the fire. The gentle
shower of raindrops drenched the fire and it died down and
vanished, leaving behind a white plume of steam.
"There, that should do it," stated Growlmon. He stepped forward on to thed red path and stopped in his tracks. Out of nowhere appeared a computer virus.
It was a Burnt.773 Virus. It looked like a round head with
arms made out of charcoal. These were said to be very dangerous
fire-style viruses. The Burnt raised its arms and clapped its
hands together. A large stone brazier with a fire burning in it
appeared behind it and burnt brightly. The Burnt opened its mouth
and spat out a fireball and then another and then another.
With a roar, Growlmon lashed out at the Burnt. He hit it and
broke its arm off. The fire within the brazier became blue and
rose in height. Growlmon was surprised to see the virus grow back
its arm in response.
"What's going on here?" he exclaimed in complete surprise.
"I've heard about this virus," exclaimed Takato all
of a sudden. "The fire behind the Burnt virus replenishes
its health whenever the virus gets damaged. Here, use this DMD.
DigiModify– Aqua Bomb activate!"
A balloon appeared in front of Growlmon and floated towards
the Burnt virus. The Digimon inhaled and then executed his Leaf
Wind attack against the Aqua Bomb. He knew that the more damage
he inflicted on the Aqua Bomb, the more damage it would inflict
when it finally explode. 'Not too bright, is it?' thought
Growlmon, as he saw that the Burnt virus was also attacking the
Aqua Bomb.
It burst and sprayed water everywhere, dousing the brazier and
wounding the Burnt virus. Seconds later, both were deleted.
"Way to go, Growlmon!" praised Takato.
The path suddenly burst into flames and Growlmon was engulfed
in the raging fire.
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 08: Fire!
"Jenrya, what are you doing?" he asked angrily, as he tried to step around his blue-haired friend, but found it impossible to do so. "Out of my way. I've got to log Growlmon in and fix the temperature control system."
"Yeah, I would," he replied shortly after. "Okay, Growlmon, I'll load you in. It was a good thing I decided to load a selection of aqua-style DigiModify Chips on to my D-Tector."
"Gosh, today must be a good day for pigs to fly," he commented.
"Log in Growlmon.EXE," he announced.
"Man, this place sure is hot," he commented, as he looked around him. He could see that some of the paths and terminals were blocked with raging fires.
"Hi," he called out to the Program and waved at it.
"You?" exclaimed the Program curiously. He received a nod in reply. "That's nice and all, but I don't think that you can handle it. You see, the network's divided into two sections. The red parts belong to the heater. The blue parts belong to the air conditioning." He pointed over towards a switch not too far away from the Digimon. "You see that? That's the Emergency Master Control, but those virus jerks have gone and broke it."
"So what do we do?" asked Growlmon curiously.
"Fires?" he exclaimed in complete surprise. "Oh, that's no good. Still, from what I can tell, the heaters are still switched on. Surely if I turn off the heaters and switch on all the coolers, then it would help the situation?" It saw Growlmon nod in reply and heard him agree verbally. "Okay then, so would you put out the fires for me, please?"
"Sure thing," he told the Digimon. "I've got a handful of aqua-style DMDs, so I can deal with those fires." He looked around him and then found that he didn't know where to go. "Okay, lead the way!"
"No, must burn!" he cried out animalistically, before laughing insanely. "Must burn everything!" He turned round and attacked one of the Programs, grabbing the little white thing with his large hand. The Digimon looked at the Program with an insane smile on his face. "Burn! Burn! Burn!"
"There, is that the way?" asked Growlmon curiously.
"I'm afraid not," he told the wood-style Digimon. "We've still got lots more paths to change manually."
"You're one pretty strong virus," he commented, before he rushed straight at it. He could see that the Manowar was charging up for another attack. Growlmon lashed out and slashed the thing in half with his sharp claws. It disintergrated and left behind a spherical data packet. He reached out and took it. "Cool," he said, after examining it.
"Hey, you two didn't think I couldn't handle a measly virus, now did you?" he asked them with a mischievous smile on his face.
"So, Terriermon, how are Takato and Jenrya?" asked the Digimon in an attempt to make conversation.
"Guess that ShowerCloud wasn't strong enough," stated Terriermon. "Try this on for size, pup! Bunny Blast!" He inhaled sharply and spat out a stream of light green energy blasts at the Inferno.
"Over there!" he called out and pointed towards a path that was blocked by a single fire that burnt brightly. "We have to go straight through that path and turned left to that switch over there. It'll block our way forward, so we'll have to come straight back down this path and go down that path and turn that switch, before back tracking to that path over there and turning that switch."
"Has anyone tried smashing the windows?" asked Jenrya, as he wiped more sweat off his forehead. He had unsightly sweat patches around his armpits and felt the cloth of his shirt sticking to his skin uncomfortably. Any hotter and he was sure he'd burst into flames.
"Whoever's causing this must still be onboard then," he stated. He began to wonder what they were hoping to gain by setting an entire train on fire. "Terriermon, I'm unloading you right now," he called to his Digimon. "No, buts," he said upon hearing Terriermon's protests. "Takato, once you're done with this carriage, meet me at the front of the train."
"There, that should do it," stated Growlmon. He stepped forward on to thed red path and stopped in his tracks. Out of nowhere appeared a computer virus.
"What's going on here?" he exclaimed in complete surprise.
To be continued...
