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 11: Tomadoi

Takato looked at the computer screen and at the garbled computer code that ran across it. So this was what Growlmon's digital data looked like.
"I hope you're going to be okay, Growlmon," he told his Digimon, as he sat next to Dr. Lee. "We've been through a lot together and I'd hate to lose you now because of some virus."
"Yeah," agreed Growlmon. "Hey, you remember when I was first given to you by your Dad?"
"Sure do, buddy," replied Takato with a nod of his head. "It was on my sixth birthday." He smiled at that memory. "I remember wanting to plug the D-Scanner and load you to the Digiworld so that we could explore it together, but the Digital World was under attack from that mysterious virus, was't it?" He was so caught up in his memories that he did not notice a momentary nervous expression pass across Dr. Lee's face. "My parents wouldn't allow me to plug you into the Digiworld, but we still managed to do something together, didn't we? I remember going to Jenrya's and showing you off to him." He laughed at that memory. "Was Jenrya surprised or what? The moment he saw my Digimon he challenged us to a DigiBattle. Just you and Terriermon and he creamed us coz we didn't have any DMDs," he chuckled.
"Really?" asked Growlmon curiously. "I don't remember that."
"Oh, sorry," apologised Dr. Lee, as he suddenly realised his mistake. He then pressed two keys on the keyboard and undid his accidental deletion of Growlmon's memories. "There, is that better?"
For a while, Growlmon didn't reply. It was as if he was in thought.
"Yeah, that's much better," replied Growlmon. He could remember how after the fight, Jenrya had given them their first DigiModify Chip, Hyper Speed. "Say, Dr. Lee, do you have any idea what's wrong with me? I went to a DigiHospital and they had no idea what was going on."
"I have an idea as to what the virus did to you," began Dr. Lee, as he continued typing away on the keyboard. "The virus has installed some strange program to you. It's like some kind of glitch. Your digital body will change after a certain number of battles against viruses, according to what DMDs you used in the battle and how you fought." He tapped the enter key a few times and then looked at the screen more carefully, studying the code. "That should do it!" he exclaimed. "Takato, Growlmon is now a very adaptable Digimon. I've altered his data so that he can store three different styles."
Takato didn't understand one bit and so he told Dr. Lee that.
"How does Growlmon change styles? How does it work?" asked Takato curiously.
"Well, let's use an example," said Dr. Lee thoughtfully. "Let's say that Growlmon fights a battle and uses only water-style DMDs and a lot of them. The program the virus installed will, after a certain number of battles, alter Growlmon into a water-style, data-type Digimon. If, however, Growlmon merely used a few electric-style DMDs and fought using his own abilities most of the time, then the program would change him into an electric-style, virus-type Digimon and so on."
"And if Growlmon used only defensive DMDs, he'd change into a vaccine-type Digimon?" suggested Takato.
"Yes, that's right," replied Dr. Lee with a nod of his head. "Now, Takato, I've changed Growlmon back into his original mode. That will remain the same and can never be deleted. However, you will only be able to store two more modes. The wood-style, data-type mode is currently stored in the D-Tector, so you've got room for one more."
One more style? Takato took the D-Tector back from Dr. Lee and looked at it thoughtfully. Perhaps he and Growlmon could work on a third mode and change the Digimon into an electric-style, vaccine-type Digimon.
"Thanks, Dr. Lee," he thanked Jenrya's father. Thoughts then shifted towards Jenrya and Rapidmon. He glanced over towards Dr. Lee's son, whom was using a different computer not too far away. Takato was about to go and help when his D-Tector suddenly began ringing. "Hi, Takato here," he greeted the person on the other end, when he raised his D-Tector to his ear. "Ryo?"

"It's getting real bad down here at Kokobashi," continued Ryo, as he looked at the traffic lights. "The traffic signals are going beserk and you know the buses are automated. We're getting really horrible bus crashes down here and there's too many viruses in the traffic signals for us to deal with. You think you can come down and help us out?" He waited a while for the reply. "Thanks. I'll be seeing ya!" He then hung up and lowered his D-Tector to look at the screen. "It's no good, is it?" he asked Alice.
The blonde-haired girl shook her head.
"I'm afraid not," she told Ryo. "Our Digimon are completely outnumbered, even if we use Combos against the viruses." She glanced down back at her screen and saw that her Digimon was in trouble. "Hang on, Dobermon," she called out to her furry Digimon. Alice then pressed a few buttons. "DigiModify– Hyper Speed activate!"
"Another bus is coming!"

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Taomon looked down at herself. She had finally digivolved back to her Ultimate form and that was kind of satisfying. A smile spread across her lips.
"Now it's payback time," she told the viruses, before she brought out a huge brush and aimed it straight at the viruses, which looked like a sword. "Talisman of Light!" Taomon drew a symbol in the air and it glowed brightly like the light from a thousand suns.
The symbol flew down at the viruses and deleted two of the Sword viruses.
"Eat this! Rapidfire!" cried Rapidmon, as he fired one missile after another down at the viruses below. They looked like a ghost wearing a helmet and an incredibly huge shield that covered most of their body. Each one carried a sword and these were known as Knight viruses. "Ha! That takes care of you!" he cried, after seeing each one of the viruses deleted by his attacks.
The Digimon in front of them shrieked out in anger. The beserk Digimon was covered in armour and was known as Knightmon by the locals. He was supposed to be the one guarding EuroSquare, but now he was creating viruses to destroy the place.
"Viruses! Viruses!" chanted Knightmon, as he drew his Sword. "Must delete all viruses!" Knightmon roared out a battle cry, before he charged straight towards Rapidmon. "Destroy! Destroy!" He swung his sword straight at Rapidmon, but missed, as the green-armoured Digimon flew out of the way. "Wretched virus!"
"For the last time, we're not viruses!" protested Rapidmon, but his words fell on deaf ears. He dodged another attack, as the Knightmon leapt up at him, trying to spear the Digimon from beneath. "Man, these Black Gears sure do make them go nuts."
"We may have to delete him," stated Ruki.
"What? We can't!" protested Rapidmon.
"I'm afraid we may have to, Rapidmon," said Jenrya, taking Ruki's side. "We have no idea as to how get that Black Gear out of him, and if he carries on like this, then we'll have no other choice."
Taomon thrust her arms forward and fired a barrage of paper spells down at Knightmon. Each one of the paper parchments stuck onto Knightmon, binding him tightly to one position.
"There, that should stop him long enough for us to remove the Black Gear," she commented. Her pupils suddenly widened in complete amazement. "Watch out! He's producing more viruses!" She dived down and swung her huge brush down at one of the emerging Sword viruses, sending it flying away from Rapidmon.
The spells that Taomon placed on Knightmon began to burn with a black fire, as Knightmon began to move.
"Must delete!" roared Knightmon. "Must delete viruses with viruses!" He spread his armour-clad arms upwards and more viruses budded out from his body. The Digimon began to laugh insanely, as the viruses spread out from his body and swarmed towards Rapidmon and Taomon.

"We must find the source of all these viruses!" cried Dobermon, as he leapt over another Brain Virus. He turned round to face it. It looked just like a brain and was deadly due to its electric-style attacks. The canine Digimon saw the virus charging up, crackling with electricity. "Not this time!" he howled, before he rushed straight at the Brain Virus and tore through it with his sharp teeth, ripping the virus to shreds.
"Cyberdramon, you've got to hurry!" cried Ryo. There was a tone of panic in his voice and he had good reason to be so worried. "The traffic lights are changing more rapidly now and the bus is getting closer!"
The Ultimate Digimon merely growled in acknowledgement, as he fought off a Ninja.1195 virus, which looked like a monkey in a black ninja suit. They were quick, quicker than he could ever be and that was made them so formidable compared to him. Whenever Cyberdramon attacked, he would find his claws swiping through thin air. He tried again, but missed once more. With a wordless roar, Cyberdramon slammed his hands down into the terminal causing the floor to ripple out in front of him like a tsunami wave. It splintered into pieces, sending sharp shards flying upwards, catching the Ninja virus with them.
Cyberdramon flew forward, seeing the Ninja Virus was taken by surprise. He smashed his right fist into the virus and sent it flying. With a snarl, he then cupped his two hands together and fired a white beam of energy straight at the virus. Each beam smashed into the Ninja.1195 virus, sending it flying back into the air again and again.

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Takato emerged from the elevator shaft and looked around in horror. Only a few metres away from him, at a junction, was a huge nine-car pile up. The youth looked up at the traffic signals and saw that they were indeed changing erratically, from red to green to yellow to green again and red and so on. He looked down and saw that the forcefield that usually prevented cars from running red lights, and also safe guarded pedestrians crossing the road, was flickering erratically.
"This ain't good, Growlmon," he told his Digimon.
"Look out!"
A bus careered round the corner and passed through the flickering forcefield, before crashing straight into the other wrecked vehicles, sending one wrecked car flying off the road and straight into a nearby building.
"We'd better get going, Takato," suggested Growlmon. From within Takato's D-Tector, he had heard the crash and was worried for the human beings that might have been in the bus. "If this carries on, there'll be a lot more casualties."
Takato nodded in agreement, even though Growlmon couldn't see him nod.
"You're right," he agreed with Growlmon, before he dashed to the kerb and stopped, looking bothways, and then crossed carefully. He suddenly skidded to a halt. "Whoa! It seems that there are crashes going on all over the city!" Takato looked upwards, at the metallic ceiling high above him and the buildings of Kokobashi. "I wonder if the Officials are going to take action?"
Something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye.
"There they are!" he exclaimed all of a sudden. Takato rushed fowrard and suddenly found his way blocked. "What?" he exclaimed in surprise.
Here on the Orbital Space Ring, whether it be in Inphynitio, Spyrol, Dyjitopia or Phyle, forcefields prevented pedestrians from straying off the roads, which forced people to cross at crossing points or using subway crossings.
Takato found himself prevented from crossing by one of those forcefields. He looked around.
"The traffics signals are green both ways!" he cried in horror. There had to be a way he could cross the road. There had to be another way. "Hey, Ryo!" he shouted to the other brown-haired youth across the road. He got a wave back and Ryo shouted for Takato to use the subway crossing a few blocks down to cross over. "Okay, I'll see you in a bit!" shouted back Takato, before he ran westwards.

His Excellency's gloved hands were tented, as he rested his elbows on the sides of his chair. If he had a mouth, he would have been smiling. As it was, his eyes merely glistened with pleasure as he sat in his chair with his back to the large double doors behind him.
The computer monitor on the desk behind him showed much progress. Already, the Black Gears were crackling with energy and when he had enough, he would be able to create the Super Digimon known only as Beelzemon. There would be no need to try and find the original copy. He would be able to create one Beelzemon after another and with an army of Beelzemon, he would be able to complete the task at which he had failed so long ago.
The Leader of the Dragon Syndicate closed his eyes and imagined the new world order, one that would be controlled by him. All the other crime syndicates– Red Phoenix, Snake and Tortoise, White Tiger– would all be wiped out. The DarkNet would be under his control and he would turn it into his very own private network from which all his Beelzemon would be created. With arn army of Beelzemon, he would be able to maintain order and secure the Digital World as his own domain to rule over like a King.
The Dragon Syndicate Leader chuckled in joy at the thought of his New World Order.
"Begin Gear fusion!" he ordered.

The power all over Kokobashi began to flicker violently.
Ryo looked around him, ignoring the fight between his Digimon and the viruses within the traffic signals. Something wasn't quite right. Then he realised something. Had the Dragon Syndicate thugs managed to get back into the Power Plant like they did the last time? The lights returned, as if nothing had happened.
"What was that?" he wondered out loud.
"I have no idea," replied Alice with a shake of her head. "Hey, get Cyberdramon over! I think Dobermon's found the source of all these viruses."

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Dobermon's lips were raised into a snarl, as he stood there. In front of him was the source of all the viruses. He could clearly see that it was a Program, yet its usually adorably cute exterior had been twisted into something hideously evil. His keen sense of smell told him that there was something extremely wrong with the Program. It was as if something else was inside it. A virus, perhaps? Well, there was only one way to find out.
With a cry of his battle howl, Dobermon charged towards the Program. He leapt straight at it and tried his best to attack the Digimon. His teeth couldn't get a hold on the Program, as its body seemed to be as hard as diamond and as strong as titanium. Dobermon leapt back and surveyed the Program. The insane smirk was still on its face and the Program was still intact.
"What is up with that Program?" he wondered out loud. Did it have some kind of StoneBod DMD, which made the Program impervious to all damage?
"Must delete," droned the Program. "Must delete all viruses!" It raised its stubby arms into the air and charged up a sphere of eerie green energy. "Must fight viruses with viruses!" The Program threw the sphere of green energy straight at Dobermon, only for the Digimon to leap out of the way.
The green energy sphere splintered into four smaller pieces of energy. The glow from each piece began to dim down, to reveal that they were in fact viruses. Two of them were Ninja.1264 viruses, a stronger version of the Ninja.1195. The third was a Sandy Virus, a virus that looked as if it was made entirely out of sand. The fourth was a Brainy, a stronger version of the Brain Virus.
The Brainy virus, which looked like a grey version of the Brain Virus, began to crackle with electricity as it floated towards Dobermon. The electrical attack of a Brainy was enough to paralyse any virus or Digimon and that was what made it so formidable, since it was always paired with a hard hitting virus like the Ninja viruses.
"Guys, hurry!" cried Ryo.
A huge bolt of electricity flew through the air and struck Dobermon, paralysing every muscle program with Dobermon. The Digimon foud himself unable to move and that was when the Ninja viruses lunged in for the attack. Each one threw several sharp shuriken at Dobermon, hitting him on target. The Sandy virus moved over and lunged forwards, engulfing Dobermon in its sandy body.
Cyberdramon suddenly rushed in and grabbed the Brainy virus.
"Take this!" he roared, before flinging it straight towards the Ninja viruses. The three viruses collided with each other and were knocked over like bowling pins. "Strike!" He then turned to glare at the Sandy virus. With another roar, he rushed towards it and slashed away at the Sandy viruses grainy body over and over again. It was no use.
"Hang on, Dobermon!" called out Alice. "DigiModify– Biyomon's Spiral Twister activate! DigiModify- Hypre Speed activate!"
A gust of wind suddenly blew the Sandy virus away from Dobermon. The canine Digimon then ran straight for the Sandy Virus. He charged straight towards it and lowered his head, running through the virus, punching a hole in its body and emerging out the other side. Dobermon stopped with a doggy smile on his face, as he turned round to face the virus. It crumbled away into nothing.
"Let's go get that Program," said Dobermon to Cyberdramon.
Cyberdramon nodded silently in reply. There was no need for him to communicate with words. He knew what Dobermon wanted him to do; it was evident from the way Dobermon was acting. The two Digimon then leapt into action, flying straight at the infected Program. Whether they would succeed in removing the Black Gear from the Program was another matter.

To be continued...