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 13: Itsu ka no Iro

"This is Rosa Maridonna reporting to you live from downtown Kokobashi," announced the news reporter, "where a strange mist has suddenly enshrouded the Main World Headquarters for the DEVA Organisation." She stepped slightly to the side, giving the camera a better shot of the purple-grey mist. "As of yet, the Officials have been unable to unidentify the mist and the DEVAs are unavailable. We believe that trapped inside are several DEVA employees, the Leader of the DEVAs, Colonel Yukio Oikawa and one DEVA Cadet, Ruki Makino."
Dr. Lee reached out and switched off the television, shutting off the broadcast with a sigh. Not since the radiation incident at Phyle had there been such an emergency on the Orbital Space Ring and like the radiation incident, he had a feeling that this purple-grey mist was just the precursor and front for something more sinister.
"Are you sure you want to go in there?" asked Dr. Lee. "It's just, I don't want you to be involved this time."
"Why not?" protested Jenrya. "I've been safe up until now and so have the others." He gestured back towards Takato, Ryo and Alice behind him. "We've managed to survive everything that the Dragon Syndicate has thrown at us and those infernal Black Gears."
A faint smile spread across Dr. Lee's faces.
"You're really determined to go in there and save Ruki, aren't you?" he asked the youths.
"Of course!" replied Takato sternly. "We have to rescue her. She'd do the same for us and I know you'd do the same if we were in her position."
Jenrya's father nodded, his smile widening.
"I guess I would," he replied and he thought of all their past achievements like their defeat of the mighty Juggernaut Virus. Though he feared that the Black Gears in the hands of the Syndicate would merge into the formidable OOKAMI Program, somehow he felt as if they would be able to handle it. "Let me get this straight. I'm not doubting your abilities, guys. It's just that this time... it feels different, that's all. This battle might just be the toughest you've ever faced and the most dangerous."
"That doesn't matter," protested Takato sternly. "We'll look after each other and we'll be safe. Right, Gallantmon?"
"Right!"
"Okay then," sighed Dr. Lee, as he walked over to a large metallic cabinet. "I want you to listen carefully then. I'm going to explain the situation." He delved into his pockets and fished out a key, as he continued to speak. "That purple-grey mist is some sort of by-product of a strange radiation that's being produced within DEVA Headquarters. From our research, it seems that the mist is absorbing that radiation, which is good. However, it's causing some bizarre warping effects that is preventing people from moving within the mist." Dr. Lee slotted the key in and turned it, before opening the door. "That's why I want you to take these radiation suits. Hopefully, they'll protect you from the effects."
Alice noticed that the black radiation suits within the closet were the same as those she and her friends had used during the Juggernaut Incident at Phyle.
"Thank you, Dr. Lee," she said as she received hers.
"Dad, there's something else, isn't there?" asked Jenrya sternly. He knew his father and he knew when his father had something else on his mind.
Dr. Lee finished handing the suits out and closed the door of the cabinet.
"There is," he replied with a nod of his head. "The entire thing stinks of the Dragon Syndicate. I have a feeling that they've set up base within the DEVA Headquarters and are probably taking advantage of the Organisation's supercomputers." He thought about the situation carefully and realised that there was only one thing to do. "This time, we've got to go into the Power Plant underneath the building and shut off the power completely."
Takato remembered the Juggernaut incident about a year back. The DEVAs had attempted to shut off the Power Plant, but found that Hypnos had its own power source.
"What if the DEVA Organisation has its own power source?" he asked Dr. Lee.
"That is a possibility," mused Dr. Lee. "However, we have to chance it. If we don't try, then who knows what will happen?"

The Leader of the Dragon Syndicate was seated at his grand, ebony desk, his elbows resting on his armrests and his gloved hands tented. His eyes were fixed on the computer screen in front of him. Gear Fusion was nearly 62% complete. It wouldn't be long before he had an army of Beelzemon at his command.
"It has been so long," he muttered under his breath. "Already I have the Blue Dragon Key back in my possession. Soon the Black Tortoise Key, the Red Phoenix Key and the White Tiger Key shall be mine again." He chuckled. With those keys, he would have control over the DarkNet, the resting place of the Digitally Amalgamated Electronic Manager of Online Networks or D.A.E.M.O.N for short.
"And there's nothing those stupid Officials can do to stop me!" he laughed. "Not this time! This time I will have DAEMON and I will make it obey me."
A warning suddenly flashed across his computer screen.
"What's this?" he exclaimed in surprise, as he looked at the screen carefully. The system was warning him of intruders in the Power Plant below. "Is that so?" He reached out and pressed the intercom button on his desk. "Forte, we've got intruders. Deal with them."

"Of course, Your Excellency, right away," agreed Forte, before he put down the his D-Tector. He turned round to face the others around him. They were all thugs with hardly a brain cell between them, but loyalty and strength were their assets. "Let's find those intruders and get rid of them."
"Not if we find you first."
There was the sound of guns being prepped and Forte looked around him. They were completely surrounded by Officials, each armed as heavily as his Syndicate colleagues. He also noted that they were completely surrounded. There was nothing to do for it. He and the other thugs knew that they were outnumbered and didn't stand a chance against the Officials. Forte raised his hands up into the air in the universal gesture of surrender.
"All right!" cried a kid's voice, before a brown-haired youth rushed past the Officials. He rushed over to the controls and tried to shift them. "What? They won't budge!"
"You've got to be kidding me!" cried Alice, as she rushed over towards Ryo. She helped him with the controls and found that she might as well have been pressing cardboard buttons for all it was worth. "You're right," she sighed exasperatedly. The controls were frozen and didn't do a thing.
"What have you done to the controls?" asked one Official sternly.
A devious smile spread across Forte.
"Why don't you log in and find out?" asked the Syndicate thug.
Ryo raised his D-Tector and dialled a number, before raising it to his ear. He waited a while for his call to get through.
"Hey, Takato, it's Ryo," he greeted abruptly. "The controls down here are frozen good. We can't shut off the power. Are you and Jenrya in the Headquarters yet?" He received a reply that could best be summed up as nearly. "Well, you'd better hurry. Okay, I'll see you later. Bye!" Ryo lowered his D-Tector and turned to face Alice. "Should we both log in together?"
Alice nodded in reply.
"You bet," she told him, giving Forte a glance. "It's bound to be a trap."
"Well, in that case, let me help," volunteered an Official.

"It won't budge!" called out Jenrya, as he pulled on the door. "It's locked tight."
Takato noticed the keypad to the side of the door and saw that it had a log-in port.
"Well, we'll see about that," he said. "Gallantmon, I'm going to load your new data-type, Aqua style and log you into the door's lock system. You think you can unlock the door for us?"
"Just log me in and let me at it!" came the reply from Gallantmon.
A smile spread across Takato's face, as he connected his D-Tector into the port.
"Okay, I'm logging you in now!" he announced.

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A data stream fell from the sky and struck the floor of the path. Gallantmon, wearing a blue cape, landed on the path.
"Okay, I'm in," he announced to his Operator. It was then that he double-taked. What was in front of him didn't make any sense. He was standing on a path that was made out of a meshwork of green lasers or possibly wire. This network of paths and terminals floated over an inky blackness through which the tops of tower blocks poked out.
"Whoa! Isn't that the top of this building?" cried Takato, as he saw what Gallantmon saw.
"I guess so," replied Gallantmon.
"Takato, let me have a see," stated Jenrya. There was a silent pause for a while. "Man, that is weird! It looks as if this strange radiation and mist are warping our two worlds together! I bet Dad would love to hear about this.... Hey, Gallantmon, look out!"
A white, spinning thing was blown across and suddenly hit Gallantmon, knocking the amour-clad, aqua-style Digimon over. He crashed on to the floor.
"Hey, you're a Program!" exclaimed Gallantmon, as he saw the thing's frilly, purple-edged ears and large eyes and the symbol on its forehead. "What's going on here?"
"Radiation surges are blowing us Programs all over the network," the Program told Gallantmon. "Oh, no! Here comes another one!"
Gallantmon suddenly felt as if he was caught up in static. The Program was suddenly blown out of his hands and flew off into the distance. Since he was much heavier, Gallantmon wasn't blown as far. He managed to stand his ground, his shield raised and his cape billowing out behind him.
"I've got to break through this," he cried out.
A data stream suddenly struck him and plucked him off the path and blew him away. It felt as if he was being pulled two ways by the data stream. Gallantmon could feel the gravity program pulling him back down to the pathways, but the data stream was pulling him in the opposite direction. He felt as if the strength of the two forces would crack his armour.
Without warning, the data stream suddenly dropped Gallantmon. He fell through the sky uncontrollably and down towards oblivion. Gallantmon reached out and grabbed the edge of a pathway with his hand. There he dangled from the edge. The Digimon looked down at the void below him. This wasn't possible. Digimon weren't able to drop off the edge of a path, so how come Gallantmon could?
The radiation had to be altering the rules of the Digital World. Maybe Jenrya was right. Maybe the Digital and Real Worlds were slowly being merged together by this strange radiation. If that were so, then the viruses from the Digital World would become real life monsters that would appear in the Real World and then his Operator would be in really big trouble.
"Gallantmon, are you all right?" cried Takato a split second after Gallantmon managed to catch onto the edge of the path.
"I'll be fine," replied Gallantmon, as he used all his strength to haul himself back up onto the path.
"Gallantmon, look out!" warned Takato.
The aqua-style Digimon looked up and saw a virus heading straight for him. Gallantmon didn't even take the time to register what type of virus it was. He merely raised his lance and prepared himself for the attack.
"Ha, no virus is going to get the best of me!" he cried out. "Aqua Lance!" Gallantmon charged straight at the oncoming virus and the metallic lance became one of pure water, which he speared the virus with.
Seconds later, the virus was deleted and left behind a glowing, purple data packet.
It had been ages since Gallantmon had seen one of these. Lately, the viruses had refused to leave behind anything. He bent down and picked it up, examining the contents.
"What the...?" he exclaimed in complete surprise. "This is a Meteor Storm DMD!" Such a DMD was only left behind by a Starmo3 virus and those were only found in the abandoned HypnosNet. "Something's not right here," he murmured, as he absorbed the digital data.
He rose up to his feet and looked around him. Gallantmon needed to find the lock program quickly, before anything other strange events could happen.
"I'm going ahead," he called out to Takato, before he started to run across the path. He lowered his shield and ran as fast as he could, not stopping for anything that would get in his way.
Several thoughts were in his mind, one of which was how Taomon was. Gallantmon hoped that she would be all right, as he ran. If anything happened to her, he would never forgive himself. He suddenly skidded to a halt on the path, not advancing any further. Something felt incredibly wrong, as he stood there.
"What's wrong, Gallantmon?" asked Takato curiously. "Why did you stop?"
"Something's coming," replied Gallantmon abruptly.
The path ahead of him suddenly ruptured, as something large appeared. It looked out as if it was made completely out of gears and Gallantmon could clearly see that each gear had a face. It was a Super MultiHaguru Organism, a super colony of Haguru viruses. The path was completely destroyed by that virus and Gallantmon saw there was no way of getting past to the lock program. Yet, he felt obliged to at least destroy the MultiHaguru Organism and rid this network of it.
The Organism was the first to attack. It started chucking Haguru viruses straight at Gallantmon.
They merely bounced off Gallantmon's shield. He lowered his shield and its began to glow blue.
"Eat this!" he cried out. "Aqua Wall!" A huge gush of water emerged from the shield and crashed into the Haguru viruses, deleting each one. He then quickly rushed towards the MultiHaguru and leapt at it, slashing his lance straight at its body, shredding a couple of Haguru viruses to pieces.
"DigiModify– HvyW8t-1 activate!" announced Takato. "DigiModify– Hvyw8t-2 activate! DigiModify– Hvyw8t-3 activate!" The three diffeerent DMDs merged in Gallantmon's free hand to create one special Combo DMD. "DigiModify- PowerQuake activate!"
Using his shield bearing arm, he threw the PowerQuake DMD straight up into the air above the MultiHaguru Organism. It turned into a gigantic black weight with a smiley face on it, before the weight crashed into the MultiHaguru Organism. Gallantmon saw the Haguru viruses scatter. He lowered his shield, aiming it down at them before firing off another Aqua Wall attack against the multitude of viruses.
"You did well in destroying my Multivirus Organism, but it won't do you any good."
Gallantmon looked around him wildly in a vain attempt to search for the source of the voice.
"Who are you?" he shouted out. "Show yourself."
"I am the Leader of the Blue Dragon Crime Syndicate," replied the voice in response to Gallantmon's question, "and no, I can't show myself. I'm too busy finishing off the final touches to my Super Digimon, you see? No, it would be too inconvenient for me to deal with you personally. However, I have an old friend here that is willing to delete you. Stingmon, delete that wretched Digimon!"
A data stream struck the floor in front of Gallantmon. It was Stingmon that appeared in all his insectoid glory.
"Must delete," murmured Stingmon, as he unsheathed a large spike on his right arm. "Must delete Gallantmon." He hovered above the floor, glaring at Gallantmon coldly. "Must delete!" he cried out, before he flew straight towards Gallantmon. The insect Digimon thrust his spiked fist straight at Gallantmon, but hit the round shield instead.
Gallantmon put his lance away and then flung a metallic fist straight at Stingmon's face. The force of his punch sent the Digimon flying. He then leapt straight at Stingmon and kicked the Digimon in the abdomen and sent it flying.
"Now go away," Gallantmon told the insectoid Digimon.
"Must delete!" cried out Stingmon, before he rushed straight at Gallantmon.
There was no need for Takato's intervention. Gallantmon brought out his lance and speared Stingmon on it. Another Stingmon suddenly appeared and rushed towards him. Swinging his lance in an arc, he slashed Stingmon in two with the sharp point of his weapon. Another Stingmon appeared.
"What?" he cried in disbelief. "Where are all these Stingmons coming from?" This was bad. It was looking like a repeat of the battle against Wizardmon he had experienced in HypnosNet. "No! I won't let these things get the best of me!"
Suddenly, a huge wave of light struck the numerous Stingmon and deleted them. A white-clad figure rushed past and knocked one of the Stingmon away.
"So, Gallantmon, miss me?" asked Taomon with a smile on her face.
"Taomon?" exclaimed Gallantmon in surprise. "Where's Ruki?"
"She's fine," replied Taomon, as she looked towards the path. She extended her hands and cast out several paper spells, which bridged the gap made by the MultiHaguru Organism. "You go ahead and unlock the door for Takato and Jen. I'll deal with these Stingmon."
"Can you handle them?"
Taomon smiled at that question.
"Of course I can," she replied. "Now get going before things get worse!"

To be continued...