Digimon(2).EXE
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The large doors of the Main Elevator Shaft slid open. The
Main Elevator Shaft, which was the only one to stop at all three
floors of the Orbital Space Ring, was extremely large and
extremely fast so as to get to each gigantic level more quickly.
Takato stepped out, looking around him. He had never been to
the Officials Main Headquarters before and the excitement of his
first visit was making his heart beat quickly. The place didn't
look as Takato had expected it to look like. It was more like an
office block that some futuristic-looking command centre. Of
course, the elevator shaft ran through a large, white, circular
hall with a mezannine, supported by pillars, surrounding said
elevator shaft.
"Is this it?" he asked Jenrya, whom had visited the place many times before. "This is the Officials' Main HQ?" After all that, he didn't expect the place to be like some office block, complete with rented plants.
"Yeah, this is it," said Jenrya with a nod of his
head. "What were you expecting?"
"Something less office-like," replied Takato, as he
walked forward. He, of course, wasn't looking where he was
going and instantly slipped on the floor and fell flat on his
back. "Ouch, that smarts," he complained, as he leaned
slowly back up into a sitting position. He looked down at what he
had slipped on and saw that the floor was shiny. He also a symbol
that looked like a gigantic red triangle surrounded by three
black triangles in such a manner that they formed a six-pointed
star. "Say, isn't this the symbol that's on the heads of
all the Programs?"
A smile spread across Jenrya's face, as he helped Takato
back up to his feet.
"Yeah," he replied with a nod of his head. "It's actually my Grandfather's symbol. The Officials were founded by my Grandfather, Gennai Lee, the Father of all Digimon."
"Guys, are you going to stand around here chatting about
the Officials or are you going to take Growlmon to see Dad?"
asked Terriermon angrily.
"Keep your fur on, Terriermon," Jenrya told his
Digimon. "We've got plenty of time to get things sorted
out."
"What about the Black Gears then?" asked Terriermon.
"He's got a point there," said Takato, upon
realising what Terriermon meant. He could remember what had
happened with the Syndicate Digimon, Mummymon. He had said
something about a Black Gear, and had torn something out of the
Meramon, something that looked black and was gear-like in shape.
"We've got to ask your Dad about those Black Gears."
Jenrya nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, okay then," he sighed. "Follow me." He turned round and walked east down the corridor. That was one of the good things about having the levels of the Orbital Space Ring parallel to the ground of the Earth's equator. It meant that the compass directions of north, south, east and west could be used on the Orbital Space Ring.
The way to Jenrya's Dad wasn't very complicated. All one
had to do after emerging from the Main Elevator Shaft, was to
take the steps up to the mezannine, go through the east exit
(being careful not to go through the east-south-east exit),
follow the corridor down and take the third turn on the left. Go
down to the very end and you're there.
At one end of Dr. Lee's laboratory was one of those
large-screened supercomputers that Takato had dreamt of seeing
within the Officials' Main Headquarters. Not too far away from
it, was something he had not expected to see; it was an ordinary
high-walled office cubicle.
"Hi, Miyako!" greeted Jenrya, as he knocked on the
open door. "Is my Dad in?"
A purple-haired woman stood at the large supercomputer with a
clipboard in her hand. She wore a blue bandana on her head in a
Gypsy-fashion and wore large glasses.
"Oh, hi, Jen," she greeted, upon noticing Dr. Lee's son. "Nope, he's not in, I'm afraid, but he'll be back real soon. He just went down to the cafeteria to get a bite to eat, so he won't be long. You wanna wait here?"
"Sure, why not?" replied Jenrya with a shrug of his
shoulders. "Oh, Miyako, this is my friend, Takato."
Miyako walked straight up to Takato and shook his hand.
"It's nice to meet you, Takato," she greeted the youth. "Have you ever been up here before?" she asked the youth. "No?" she exclaimed in response to Takato's reply. "That's strange. Don't you have a Digimon? You should have at least been here to get your Digimon registered."
"My Digimon was a gift from Jenrya's Dad," replied
Takato, as he thought of how he had got his Digimon. "It was
given to my Dad when I was born, so I guess either he registered
it for me or Dr. Lee did."
Dr. Lee's assistant nodded in acknowledgement of what she
had heard. That explained everything.
"Say, shouldn't you be in school?" asked Miyako after a moment's silence.
"It's Saturday," Jenrya told her. He knew that she
was so busy with helping his father out that she often lost track
of the time and even the day and time of month!
Miyako frowned at that comment.
"It is?" she exclaimed in sudden surprise. "Oh, no! My date! I was supposed to meet Ken last night!" She couldn't believe it. She reached out and pressed a button on the supercomputer's control panel. Instantly, the simulation displayed on the screen paused. "Oh, I hope he's not too mad with me," she muttered, as she rushed over towards a phone.
"Is she always like that?" asked Takato curiously.
"Yep," replied Jenrya with a nod of his head, as he
crossed his arms and waited. "My Dad's bogged down with so
much work that even Ms. Inoue here has too much to deal with. Dad
really should try and get another assistant." He sighed and
shook his head at the thought of his father. He turned his head
to look at the clock, which was situated above the doorway and
then saw someone walk in. "Dad!" he exclaimed upon
seeing his father.
A surprised look spread across Dr. Lee's face.
"Jenrya? It's so good to see you again, son," he greeted, as he rushed over to his son and gave Jenrya a great big fatherly hug. "So, how's your mother doing?"
"She's fine, Dad," replied Jenrya.
"That's great," said Jenrya's Father, Jiang Yiu
Lee. "Takato, it's nice to see you again, too," he
said, as he extended his hand to shake Takato's. "What
brings you two up here then?" he asked the two curiously.
Takato delved into his coat pocket and fished out his
D-Tector.
"It's my Digimon," replied Takato. "Something happened to him after he got infected with the DarkSpore Virus." He lifted the lid of the phone-like D-Tector and presented it to Dr. Lee. "He digivolved normally, but when he became Growlmon, he kind of changed styles."
A frown spread across Jiangyiu's face.
"Changed styles?" he exclaimed. He took the D-Tector from Takato's hands and pressed a few buttons, searching through it. He soon came to the status screen. "He's not supposed to be a wood-style Digimon," he muttered under his breath. "This is strange. I'll have to examine him carefully. You don't mind if I keep him here overnight, do you? It's just that I have a lot of other things to get on with."
There was silence from Takato. Growlmon heard it very well and
knew what it meant.
"Don't worry about me, Takato," said the Digimon. "I'll be fine. You just leave me with Dr. Lee and I'll see you again tomorrow morning."
"Actually, I'll be going down to Level 2 tomorrow
morning, so I'll leave Growlmon with Jenrya," stated Dr.
Lee. "Is that okay?"
"I guess so, if it's okay with Jenrya," replied
Takato.
"It's fine with me," announced Jenrya. "Dad,
on the way to the Main Elevator Shaft, the Digimon of one of the
train's conductors went beserk and started attacking the
train," he told his father. "I'm all right," he
said quickly before his father could fuss over him, "it's
just that, there was also a Dragon Syndicate Digimon there. The
Syndicate Digimon tore something out of the conductor's Digimon.
The Syndicate Digimon called it a Black Gear and I think that was
what was causing the conductor's Digimon to go beserk. Do you
know what that Black Gear thing is? Dad? Are you all right?"
Dr. Lee's face had become pale as a sheet, as if he had seen
a ghost.
"Jenrya, let me just check up one thing. Did you say, Black Gear?" he asked nervously. The reply he received filled him with dread. "I thought me and Shibumi cleared all those up."
"Dad?"
"Son, it's nothing for you to worry about," Dr.
Lee told his son sternly. "You just leave everything to the
Officials and the DEVAs."
Jenrya had this feeling that his father was hiding something
from him. He hated it when his father did that, even if it was
supposed to be in his best interest.
"Dad, you could at least tell me what these Black Gears are," said Jenrya sternly. The expression on his face wasn't quite that of anger, but was verging on that fiery emotion. "Dad?"
Dr. Lee sighed.
"The Black Gears are remnants of an old military program that North America was testing out," began Dr. Lee. He paused a while and began to wonder whether it was best to tell them about the Black Gears. If they knew about them, surely they would go after them? That would put them in direct danger and he didn't want that. "Perhaps I shouldn't tell you," he stated after a while. "It's not as if you need to know."
He received a stern glare from his son.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you," he said, giving into his son's glare. "The North American military developed a program called the Online Operational Killer of Aggressive Mainframe Infections or OOKAMI for short. It was designed to destroy all viruses on the Digital World, but it rebelled against its creators and started destroying the Digimon instead of the viruses. The event was known as the OOKAMI Rebellion. Perhaps you've heard about it in your history lessons?"
Both Jenrya and Takato shook their heads silently in reply.
Dr. Lee began to wonder. What were they teaching them in
school? Well, it didn't matter for now. He continued.
"We Officials were called in to put an end to it," continued Dr. Lee. "We sent our Digimon to fight against OOKAMI. The battle was a long, difficult one and many a Digimon was lost, but OOKAMI was eventually defeated and shattered to pieces. Those pieces were known other than the Black Gears. On their own, we thought that they would do no harm, and we could find no evidence to support fears that the Gears could combine to recreate OOKAMI, so we left them alone." Dr. Lee sighed, as he reached over to his desk and grabbed a file. "Unfortunately, as time progressed, I found out that there was a chance that the Black Gears could have a nasty side-effect on any Digimon that possessed them, making them go beserk and stark raving mad, so we tried our best to rid the Digital World of these Black Gears."
Jenrya suddenly realised the jist of what his father was
trying to tell him.
"The Syndicate beat you guys to it, though, didn't they?" he asked Dr. Lee.
"That's right," replied Dr. Lee. "Every time we
tried to get a Black Gear, we were too late. They would always be
one step ahead of us and the DEVAs, and I have no idea why."
His fist clenched tightly at the thought of how they were beaten
to the punch every time. Dr. Lee then relaxed his fist, as he
went over to his desk and placed Takato's D-Tector on the desk.
"Jenrya, Takato, I want you to promise me that you will not
go after the Black Gears or Digimon infected with Black
Gears."
Jenrya shook his head in protest.
"I'm afraid I can't promise you that, Dad," he told his father. He placed a hand against his D-Tector as if it were a good luck charm that would comfort him in his time of need. "These Black Gears are a menace to society and the Dragon Syndicate is after them. I can't just let them take every Black Gear and recreate the OOKAMI Program. I won't let them have it. I just won't!"
Such a strong sense of justice. A smile spread across Dr.
Lee's face.
"You remind me of me when I was your age," he sighed after a silent pause. "Always wanting to fight for the underdog and challenge injustice." He began to wonder whether it was any use for him trying to stop his son from going head on into danger, especially after the Juggernaut Incident. "Well, I guess it would be okay for you to go, but you'll have to upgrade Terriermon first."
There was suddenly a ringing noise and it came from Takato's
D-Tector. Without thinking, Dr. Lee reached over and picked it
up.
"Hello?" he greeted the person on the other end. "Ruki! Oh, yes, Takato's here. Hang on a minute." He handed Takato's D-Tector back to the brown-haired youth. "Takato, it's Ruki," he announced, as if Takato hadn't heard the first time.
"Hi, Ruki?" greeted Takato nervously, as he lifted
the D-Tector up to ear in the manner of a phone. He listened as
Ruki explained the situation to him carefully. "Okay, I'll
load Growlmon on to the Digiworld and send him over to
EuroSquare."
Dr. Lee was startled by what he heard.
"What?" he cried out. "Takato, you are doing no such thing!" he protested at the youth's idea. How could Takato be so careless with his Digimon? "Have you forgotten about Growlmon's condition already?" He gave the youth a disapproving look that nearly wilted Takato and extinguished his fiery spirit. "I think it would be best if Growlmon stayed with me."
"But Ruki needs my help!" protested Takato.
"Hey, what am I, chopped liver?" exclaimed Jenrya
angrily. "I could help her too, you know." He quickly
snatched Takato's D-Tector from the brown-haired youth's hand.
"Hey, Ruki, it's me, Jenrya. Yeah. Growlmon's feeling a bit
poorly of late, so I'll be sending Terriermon down to help you.
That okay? All right then. I'll see you there." Jenrya then
handed the D-Tector back to Takato. "Dad, I'll be logging
Terriermon on to the Digiworld and sending him to EuroSquare.
Is it okay if I use your computer?"
For a while, Dr. Lee did not reply. Jenrya's father was too
busy rummaging through his drawers.
"Hang on," he called out to his son, as he fished through its contents. "Ah! Found it!" He pulled out a chip from his drawer. "Sure, Jenrya, you can use my computer. Use the direct link to Zerva to take you straight to EuroSquare." Dr. Lee turned round and handed the chip to Jenrya as he said, "And please take this too. It'll upgrade your Digimon to Ultimate level. Use it for Terriermon and then send the data to Ruki so she can upgrade her Digimon."
A smile spread on Jenrya's face.
"Thanks, Dad," he thanked his father.* * * * *
"There's too many of them!" cried Dobermon, as
he leapt back.
The entire terminal was filled with viruses of all sorts.
There were Vandal.1869 viruses and Vandal.4096 viruses, as well
as Semtex.A viruses and Brain Viruses. Most formidable of all
were the Vandal series viruses, which were protected by an
ability to become as hard as rock when they weren't attacking,
thus reducing all attack damage to the minutest possible amount.
Cyberdramon didn't comment, however, as a Vandal.1869 floated
towards him. It was shaped like a spraypaint can and was
completely grey. He waited for the moment it attacked. The
Vandal.1869 became blue with a yellow stripe. Its top compressed
and a spray of poison gas ejected from its top. Cyberdramon
roared and leapt over the gas and landed behind the Vandal.1869,
striking his claws straight into the virus. He was too slow,
however, as the Vandal.1869 had become stone again.
"Look out!" warned Ryo.
A Semtex.A virus, which looked like a gigantic white glove,
placed a time bomb right behind Cyberdramon, before floating off.
The digital clock counted down from three and soon reached zero,
before exploding and engulfing the Ultimate-level Digimon in the
fiery blast.
Cyberdramon was flown forwards by the force of the blast and
crashed to the terminal floor with a heavy thud. He tried his
best to get up, but his digital muscles were sore and weak. Yet,
he knew he had to get up. The Digimon had to help delete the
viruses that infected the traffic signals of Kokobashi City, the
capital of Spyrol. With a loud battle cry, he rushed straight at
the viruses.
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 10: Itsumo Itsudemo
"Is this it?" he asked Jenrya, whom had visited the place many times before. "This is the Officials' Main HQ?" After all that, he didn't expect the place to be like some office block, complete with rented plants.
"Yeah," he replied with a nod of his head. "It's actually my Grandfather's symbol. The Officials were founded by my Grandfather, Gennai Lee, the Father of all Digimon."
"Yeah, okay then," he sighed. "Follow me." He turned round and walked east down the corridor. That was one of the good things about having the levels of the Orbital Space Ring parallel to the ground of the Earth's equator. It meant that the compass directions of north, south, east and west could be used on the Orbital Space Ring.
"Oh, hi, Jen," she greeted, upon noticing Dr. Lee's son. "Nope, he's not in, I'm afraid, but he'll be back real soon. He just went down to the cafeteria to get a bite to eat, so he won't be long. You wanna wait here?"
"It's nice to meet you, Takato," she greeted the youth. "Have you ever been up here before?" she asked the youth. "No?" she exclaimed in response to Takato's reply. "That's strange. Don't you have a Digimon? You should have at least been here to get your Digimon registered."
"Say, shouldn't you be in school?" asked Miyako after a moment's silence.
"It is?" she exclaimed in sudden surprise. "Oh, no! My date! I was supposed to meet Ken last night!" She couldn't believe it. She reached out and pressed a button on the supercomputer's control panel. Instantly, the simulation displayed on the screen paused. "Oh, I hope he's not too mad with me," she muttered, as she rushed over towards a phone.
"Jenrya? It's so good to see you again, son," he greeted, as he rushed over to his son and gave Jenrya a great big fatherly hug. "So, how's your mother doing?"
"It's my Digimon," replied Takato. "Something happened to him after he got infected with the DarkSpore Virus." He lifted the lid of the phone-like D-Tector and presented it to Dr. Lee. "He digivolved normally, but when he became Growlmon, he kind of changed styles."
"Changed styles?" he exclaimed. He took the D-Tector from Takato's hands and pressed a few buttons, searching through it. He soon came to the status screen. "He's not supposed to be a wood-style Digimon," he muttered under his breath. "This is strange. I'll have to examine him carefully. You don't mind if I keep him here overnight, do you? It's just that I have a lot of other things to get on with."
"Don't worry about me, Takato," said the Digimon. "I'll be fine. You just leave me with Dr. Lee and I'll see you again tomorrow morning."
"Jenrya, let me just check up one thing. Did you say, Black Gear?" he asked nervously. The reply he received filled him with dread. "I thought me and Shibumi cleared all those up."
"Dad, you could at least tell me what these Black Gears are," said Jenrya sternly. The expression on his face wasn't quite that of anger, but was verging on that fiery emotion. "Dad?"
"The Black Gears are remnants of an old military program that North America was testing out," began Dr. Lee. He paused a while and began to wonder whether it was best to tell them about the Black Gears. If they knew about them, surely they would go after them? That would put them in direct danger and he didn't want that. "Perhaps I shouldn't tell you," he stated after a while. "It's not as if you need to know."
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you," he said, giving into his son's glare. "The North American military developed a program called the Online Operational Killer of Aggressive Mainframe Infections or OOKAMI for short. It was designed to destroy all viruses on the Digital World, but it rebelled against its creators and started destroying the Digimon instead of the viruses. The event was known as the OOKAMI Rebellion. Perhaps you've heard about it in your history lessons?"
"We Officials were called in to put an end to it," continued Dr. Lee. "We sent our Digimon to fight against OOKAMI. The battle was a long, difficult one and many a Digimon was lost, but OOKAMI was eventually defeated and shattered to pieces. Those pieces were known other than the Black Gears. On their own, we thought that they would do no harm, and we could find no evidence to support fears that the Gears could combine to recreate OOKAMI, so we left them alone." Dr. Lee sighed, as he reached over to his desk and grabbed a file. "Unfortunately, as time progressed, I found out that there was a chance that the Black Gears could have a nasty side-effect on any Digimon that possessed them, making them go beserk and stark raving mad, so we tried our best to rid the Digital World of these Black Gears."
"The Syndicate beat you guys to it, though, didn't they?" he asked Dr. Lee.
"I'm afraid I can't promise you that, Dad," he told his father. He placed a hand against his D-Tector as if it were a good luck charm that would comfort him in his time of need. "These Black Gears are a menace to society and the Dragon Syndicate is after them. I can't just let them take every Black Gear and recreate the OOKAMI Program. I won't let them have it. I just won't!"
"You remind me of me when I was your age," he sighed after a silent pause. "Always wanting to fight for the underdog and challenge injustice." He began to wonder whether it was any use for him trying to stop his son from going head on into danger, especially after the Juggernaut Incident. "Well, I guess it would be okay for you to go, but you'll have to upgrade Terriermon first."
"Hello?" he greeted the person on the other end. "Ruki! Oh, yes, Takato's here. Hang on a minute." He handed Takato's D-Tector back to the brown-haired youth. "Takato, it's Ruki," he announced, as if Takato hadn't heard the first time.
"What?" he cried out. "Takato, you are doing no such thing!" he protested at the youth's idea. How could Takato be so careless with his Digimon? "Have you forgotten about Growlmon's condition already?" He gave the youth a disapproving look that nearly wilted Takato and extinguished his fiery spirit. "I think it would be best if Growlmon stayed with me."
"Hang on," he called out to his son, as he fished through its contents. "Ah! Found it!" He pulled out a chip from his drawer. "Sure, Jenrya, you can use my computer. Use the direct link to Zerva to take you straight to EuroSquare." Dr. Lee turned round and handed the chip to Jenrya as he said, "And please take this too. It'll upgrade your Digimon to Ultimate level. Use it for Terriermon and then send the data to Ruki so she can upgrade her Digimon."
"Thanks, Dad," he thanked his father.
To be continued...
