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.

Author's Note: I've been asked about whether I could include some Season 4 characters later on in this fanfic. The answer to this question is no. I don't know anything about Season 4, as it hasn't (to the best of my knowledge) come out in the UK. As with the previous fanfic, Digimon.EXE, Season 4 characters will only appear in cameos as posters hanging on people's walls or will only have passing references made to them. I cannot do better, I'm afraid. The situation might change in Digimon.EXE 3, my final ever Digimon fanfic, but I severely doubt it.

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Transmission 12: Walk on the Edge

Knightmon swung his sword down at Taomon, but the fox Digimon's forcefield protected her from harm.
"Must delete," grunted Knightmon emotionlessly, as he swung his sword again. "Delete! DELETE!"
It was taking all of Taomon's strength to maintain the forcefield. She was weakening by the second and Knightmon's incessant emotionless rambling wasn't helping.
"Rapidmon, hurry up!" cried out Taomon.
"I'm doing my best!" shouted back Rapidmon, as he fired missile after missile at the Knightmon's back. He could clearly see the Black Gear sticking out of his armour and was doing his best to dislodge it. However, it seemed that Knightmon was impervious to damage and that the Black Gear was stuck good. "Darn it!" he cursed angrily, before he flew down and kicked at the Black Gear.
Knightmon roared out in pain.
A frown appeared on Rapidmon's face, not that it could be seen underneath his armour.
"Oh, so you don't like that, huh?" he exclaimed. "Well, how's about some more?" He kicked out at the Black Gear again, but Knightmon whirled round. "Uh oh," was all Rapidmon could manage to say, before an armoured fist collided with his face and sent him flying across the square and crashing into a DMD stall.
A couple of DMDs clattered on to the floor in front of Rapidmon.
"Hey, that would be great," he exclaimed, as he saw one in front of him. He grabbed it. "Jenrya, activate this DMD quick!" he called out to his Operator.
"Rapidmon, you didn't pay for that!" chided Jenrya.
"Does it really matter?" asked Rapidmon, as he gestured towards Knightmon. "Besides, I'm only borrowing it."
Jenrya sighed.
"Oh, okay," he agreed with his Digimon. "DigiModify– Catcher activate!"
Taomon suddenly cried out. Something was terribly wrong and the fact that she was flickering with static was testament to that fact.
"Ruki! What's going on?" she cried out in fear. The Digimon had never experienced something so weird before. It felt as if she was being pulled one way and pulled another at the same time. "Ruki!" she screamed, before the gravity of the situation won out and she was pulled upwards by a mysterious datastream.
"Taomon!" cried out Rapidmon. "What did you do to her?" he shouted at Knightmon, but it was useless; Knightmon wouldn't respond. Rapidmon cried out angrily and he flung his DMD straight at Knightmon and watched as the Catcher DMD turned it into a flying saucer.
The Catcher DMD smashed straight into Knightmon, knocking the knight Digimon over. The Catcher curved back upwards with something in its grasp. It was the Black Gear! The Catcher turned back round like a boomerang and flew straight back towards Rapidmon.
"I'll take that!" A blue streak passed the Catcher DMD and removed the Black Gear from it.
"Hey!" cried out Rapidmon angrily. "Who do you think you are?" He suddenly gasped. That blue trenchcoat. That blue hat. That cane. It could only have been one Digimon. "You!" he shouted even more angrily than before. "Mummymon!"
A smile spread across Mummymon's grey face, as he turned round to face Rapidmon.
"I see you remember me," he chuckled. He then made a flourish of a bow to Rapidmon. "It is a pleasure to meet you again. You are Jenrya Lee's Digimon, are you not?" Mummymon laughed at the incredulous expression on Rapidmon's face. "Come now, don't be so surprised. After all, I am a Syndicate Digimon. We have to know our enemies, even if it means hacking into the Officials' Databases."
"You fiend! Give that Black Gear back!" shouted Jenrya.
Mummymon shook his head.
"I'm afraid that I cannot do that," he told Jenrya and Rapidmon, "unless of course, you wish to fight me for it." He chuckled again, before saying, "However, I doubt that you'd be able to beat me if you do."
"You wish!" retorted Rapidmon. "I'm going beat you so badly, your Operator'll feel it!"
The Syndicate Digimon flung his cane aside. Mummymon began laughing insanely, as his entire body seemed to convulse and tense into tetanus. The blue garments began to disintegrate into tiny bits of digital data that flew up into the air and disappeared to reveal the bandages that covered his body. Mummymon metamorphosed.
"Behold my true form!" he laughed insanely. He now looked like a bandaged Egyptian mummy with elfin shaped ears, and everything below his hips was covered with the bottom half of an Egyptian coffin.
The bandaged Digimon extended his arms out and two coffins dropped down in front of him and floated above the floor in the same fashion that he did. Mummymon then gestured for Rapidmon to advance.
"Come get some," he taunted.
One of the coffins opened and Rapidmon saw there was a ray gun inside it. The ray gun opened fire, letting out a large green laser that flew at him. He flew out of the way.
"What have you done to Taomon?" he shouted at the Mummymon, as he flew straight towards his Syndicate opponent. The other coffin flew into the way and blocked his attack.
The coffin door opened and flung Rapidmon away from itself. The Digimon saw a couple of grenades fly out of the coffin. He flew sideways, avoiding them and letting them crash into the floor behind him and explode. Rapidmon opened fire, letting rip with a couple of missiles. The coffins got in the way once again.
"Coward!" accused Rapidmon, before he flew higher up into the air. "Tri-Beam!" He extended his arms out and created a triangular, green beam that flew through the air.
One of the coffins opened and a pure black cube dropped out of the sky and crashed on to the floor in front of Mummymon. The beam hit the cube and disintegrated it, but didn't pass through and hit Mummymon.
"Is that the best you can do?" taunted Mummymon. He crossed his arms. "Snake Bandage!" One of the coffins opened up and a ream of bandages flew out and wrapped around Rapidmon.
"DigiModify– Hyper Force activate!" announced Jenrya.
With a new found strength, Rapidmon spread his arms out and tore through the bandages that bound him. He then fired another round of missiles at Mummymon, letting each one curve into a different pathway. Due to the Hyper Force DMD, his missiles now exploded with more power, creating large balls of fire. Each one of his missiles crashed into the floor around Mummymon, creating huge explosions that inevitably engulfed the bandaged Digimon.
The first coffin opened and fired a huge beam of energy that caught Rapidmon in the chest.

Dobermon rushed straight at the Program, but missed the mark. He watched as the white Program rose above them.
"Stay still!" he growled.
The Program laughed at them, as it raised its stubby arms into the air again. Sparks of electricity crackled, flying between the Program's raised hands.
"Must delete!" it called out. "Must delete all viruses! Must delete all viruses and..." The electricity that was building up between the Program's hands became brilliant blue with pure intensity, as its eyes glowed an eerie green. "Must delete all viruses and avenge OOKAMI!" It then spread its stubby arms and let fly with a bolt of electricty that struck Dobermon in the flank, electrocuting the Digimon. "OOKAMI Forever!"
"Dobermon!" cried out Alice.
"DigiModify– StormCloud activate!" announced Ryo.
"Hang on!" roared out Cyberdramon, before a sphere appeared in his hands. Using all his strength, he tossed it above the Program.
The sphere turned into a loud, dark cloud and it began to rain. The water drops splattered against the electrically charged Program, short-circuiting every part of the Program. It cried out in pain, as the rain drenched it and the Black Gear.
"No! Must delete!" cried out the Program, as it writhed in pain. "Must delete all viruses!" The Program cried out in pain as it crashed into the floor. The Black Gear in its back popped out of the Program, flying up into the air.
It then fell onto one of the Ninja Viruses the Program had created. The Black Gear spun round like a buzzsaw and dove straight into the Ninja virus, making it cry out inhumanely. The Ninja virus began to mutate and become taller, more pear-shaped and lost its tail. Its became more tall and less monkey-like with every mutation. The Black Gear was mutating the virus into something even more virulent than the original.
Cyberdramon braced himself for the inevitable fight that would ensue. Every muscle program was tense. His mind was set on fighting this new agent of the Black Gears, that he had forgotten about the wounds that Dobermon had suffered.
The new Ninja virus looked more like a human ninja with a red scarf than the original virus ever did. Its eyes were far more human-like than they used to be, but they were cold and soulless.
"Soon OOKAMI shall be reborn," said the virus in a growling voice. The Ninja leapt into the air and threw out a couple of shuriken straight at the prone, unconscious body of Dobermon.
Ryo's Digimon rushed towards Dobermon, but there wasn't any time to push the canine Digimon out of the way. Instead, Cyberdramon leapt in front and took the brunt of the Ninja's attacks. He did not cry out in pain, but anger, as he leapt into the air and lashed out at the Ninja with his claws. His claws slashed through thin air, as the Ninja virus ducked underneath the blow and unsheathed a sword. The blade cut into Cyberdramon's scaly side, as a fist smashed into his lower jaw.
The Ninja pulled back, only to lunge forward, thrusting the tip of his sword towards Cyberdramon with quick short jabs that made his arm blur into a thousand. All this time, the virus laughed with a voice that sounded like two voices. The Ninja virus then leapt at Cyberdramon and performed a superb roundhouse kick that knocked the Ultimate Digimon backwards.
"Hold on, buddy!" cried out Ryo. "I've got a good Combo lined up. Alice, take this Heal DMD and use it to get Dobermon back up to his feet."
"Right," agreed Alice. "DigiModify– Giga Heal activate!"
A white data stream emerged from the floor beneath Dobermon's prone body and shot skywards. Bathed in the light, Dobermon felt his every wounds heal. The DMD refreshed him and revitalised his digital body. A smile spread across his furry muzzle.
"It's time to bite some virus arse!" he stated, before he rushed straight towards the mutated Ninja virus. He opened his jaw wide and slashed at the virus with his teeth.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Ninja virus turn its sword at him. Dobermon leapt back and heard Alice call out to him. She was DigiModifying him again and the DMD she was using wasn't a bad one. Dobermon opened his mouth and let rip with a ball of fire that flew through the air towards the Ninja virus. He missed...

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Ruki tried to move, but found herself unable to. Every time she tried, she found her arms bound against this strange purple-grey mist that enveloped her. The strange thing about it was that it didn't even seem like a mist.
"Taomon, can you get a reading on this?" asked Ruki.
"The D-Tector's not that good, Ruki," Taomon told her Operator. "However, I can tell that its definitely not poisonous." The Digimon had some questions of her own. For example, how was it that she was in EuroSquare one moment and then the next, she was trapped in her D-Tector? It didn't make sense. "So, you still can't move?"
If Ruki could shake her head, she would have, but even that was impossible. All that was possible was the movement of her very own lips and thankfully, her lungs.
"Nope," she replied abruptly. If she could, she would have phoned Takato or the others. As it was, she was stuck in this mist that had suddenly and mysteriously engulfed the DEVA Organisation's Main Headquarters. "I wonder if anybody outside has noticed what's going on inside here?"

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Mummymon laughed, as he floated over towards the unconscious body of Rapidmon. He looked up, as if to expect to see Jenrya's face.
"See, boy? You are nothing against the Blue Dragon Syndicate!" he shouted up at Jenrya. "Your Digimon has fallen and I am the victorious one!"
"I... don't think so."
The bandaged Digimon looked down and saw Rapidmon struggling to get back to his feet. This surprised Mummymon. He hadn't expected a Digimon to withstand the full blast of his cannon. Something made the Digimon think that Rapidmon was more special than the other Digimon he had encountered.
"So, you're still operational, huh?" he chuckled, as he floated back. His two protective coffins floated in front of him like shields. "Well, I'll fix that and delete you real quick." He crossed his arms and both of his coffins opened up.
An Anubis statue fell to the ground and began emitting a purple, poisonous gas. The other coffin then fired a beam of pure energy straight at Rapidmon, being careful not to hit the statue.
Rapidmon leapt up into the air and over the laser beam.
"You're not taking the Black Gear out of here!" he cried, as he fired a couple of missiles down at the statue. One of the coffins moved in and blocked his missile, shielding the statue from all harm. "Darn it!" he choked, as the purple gas started to get to him. "If this carries on, there'll be huge bugs in my system. I might crash. Jen, how's the DMDs coming?"
"I've already got one loaded" replied Jenrya. "Here goes! DigiModify– Lava Line activate!" The floor on which the Anubis statue stood suddenly became hot molten lava and the statue sank in and melted. Without its source, the gas dissipated. "DigiModify– Mag Line activate!"
A smile spread across Rapidmon's face, as he saw a magnetic line of tiles appear. It drew the coffins and Mummymon on to them.
"All right, Jen!" cried out Rapidmon. From what he saw, he could tell what his Operator was going to do. "It's the Multi Punch Combo, isn't it?" He received a reply that confirmed his suspicions. "That's brilliant." He then opened fire with some missiles.
They curved round and hit Mummymon's exposed back, making him cry out in pain.
"I can't believe that you have such a DMD!" he cried out angrily. "Well, no matter. I have one myself!" He spread his arms and his coffins slammed into the floor, shattering the magnetic tiles and breaking their magnetic hold on him. Mummymon looked up at Rapidmon and laughed, as he lifted the Black Gear up into the air. "You think that you can defeat the Dragon Syndicate if you defeat me? Ha! Such a foolish Digimon for such a foolish Operator." Mummymon tossed it into the air and the Black Gear was caught by a data stream and whisked away.
"What have you done?" cried Rapidmon.
"The Black Gear is now where Taomon probably is," laughed Mummymon. "They're all at DEVA Headquarters, where our Syndicate Leader is using the DEVA Supercomputer to fuse the Black Gears into a Super Digimon!" He raised his hand and in response, one of his coffins shot into the air and straight towards Rapidmon. "Now, I shall delete you!"
"I don't think so, pal!" cried Jenrya. "DigiModify– Hyper Speed activate! DigiModify– Heavy Punch activate! DigiModify– Desolation Claw activate!" The three DMDs merged together to form one special Combo. "DigiModify- Hyper Punch activate!"
Rapidmon whirled round. The guns on his arms disappeared to reveal his furry hands. He then began punching the air and sent several rocky fists flying through the air like rockets. Each one smashed into the coffins ruthlessly with machine-gun-like quickness and was so forceful that it sent it flying back into Mummymon. The coffin fell on Mummymon and crushed him underneath it and seconds later, he was deleted.

The Ninja virus split off into three clones. Two were transparent and were obviously not the real versions. All three versions of the virus rushed forwards and slashed their swords at Cyberdramon and Dobermon, catching both Digimon. The swords were all real.
"It's no use!" cried Ryo in horror. "We can't get to the switch."
"The bus'll crash!" cried Alice in horror.
The three Ninja viruses merged back into the original copy. It leapt into the air, bringing its sword high above its head and then swung it vertically in an arc down at the two Digimon below it. There was suddenly a clang of metal. The Ninja virus had a shocked look on its face, as it saw that a lance had blocked its attack.
"Gallantmon!"
"Takato!"
A smile spread across Gallantmon's face, hidden underneath his helmet.
"Hey, miss me, guys?" he commented, before he swung his lance upwards with such force that the virus lost its grip on its sword. Gallantmon rushed towards the virus and smashed into it with his shield, before turning his other shoulder and knocking it over. "Lightning Joust!" He thrust the lance straight into the virus and speared it.
It cried out and burst into bits of digital data that flew into the air to reveal the Black Gear, which then shattered into a million pieces and broke.

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Takato turned round and saw the bus slowing down in response to the now functioning traffic signals. A smile spread across his face.
"Sorry about the delay, but I got caught up near the DEVA Headquarters," he told them. He turned back to look down the street and the grey-purple mist that enveloped the building that was DEVA HQ. "Something weird's going on there and I have a feeling that the Dragon Syndicate is behind it."

To be continued...