Digimon(2).EXE
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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.
* * * * *
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."
* * * * *
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.
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 11: Tomadoi
"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, 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."
"How does Growlmon change styles? How does it work?" asked Takato curiously.
"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?"
"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!"
"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.
"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!"
"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.
"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.
"This ain't good, Growlmon," he told his Digimon.
"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?"
"There they are!" he exclaimed all of a sudden. Takato rushed fowrard and suddenly found his way blocked. "What?" he exclaimed in surprise.
"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.
"Begin Gear fusion!" he ordered.
"What was that?" he wondered out loud.
"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?
"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.
To be continued...
