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 14: Todokitai na

It had only been a matter of seconds for Gallantmon to unlock the door. Taomon had then logged out and now Takato, Jenrya and Ruki were running through the empty corridors of the DEVA Headquarters' upper level. They had searched the lower levels, but had found that most of the DEVAs were too busy fighting off viruses within their computers and within the DEVA Servers. It seemed as if the Dragon Syndicate had practically brought the entire DEVA Organisation to a standstill.
Takato turned the corner and the others followed suit. There at the end of the corridor was Colonel Oikawa's room, which the Dragon Syndicate Leader would have taken over no doubt. The youth didn't even slow down. The thought that there could have been Syndicate guards at the door didn't even occur to him.
Matsuda burst through the doors and into Col. Oikawa's room.
Sitting at the Colonel's black, ebony desk was a man with blonde hair. The man was dressed in a blue trenchcoat military tunic. A cape was draped around his shoulders and held in place with a bat-shaped clasp. His pearl grey gloves were tented together, as he sat in Colonel Oikawa's chair.
"Welcome to the Dragon Syndicate's new main server room," chuckled the man in the chair.
"You! You must be the Syndicate Leader," said Takato, as he advanced towards the man.
The Leader chuckled, even though he seemed to have no mouth on his pale face.
"Yes, that's right, Takato Matsuda," he told Takato with a nod of his head. "I am the Dragon Syndicate's Leader, Lord Myotis and this is my new base of operations. Tell me, do you like it?"
"No," replied Takato angrily.
"Why are you doing this?" asked Jenrya angrily. "All over the Earth Sphere, people are suffering because of you."
"That may be, but I can't be bothered with such trivialities," replied the Syndicate Leader. "You see, I only give the orders. My hands are clean." He chuckled again. "Still, the people won't be suffering for long," he told them. "My Super Digimon is already complete and the world shall soon be mine. Why don't you three join me? Join the Dragon Syndicate and together, our Digimon shall be unstoppable!"
Ruki had never been so angry in her life. This creep was offering them a job in his crime syndicate?
"You can take your offer and shove it," retorted Ruki angrily. "We came here to stop you and that's what we're going to do." She turned to face the others. "You guys, ready?" The auburn-haired girl received two nods in reply. "Then let's log in and delete that Super Digimon!"

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The three Digimon landed. In front of them was a raised platform with a large needle above it. In the middle of that was an object that was glowing red then blue then green and then red again. That must have been the forming Super Digimon.
Gallantmon was the first to rush forward, but he didn't get very far when a sword hit him in the side and knocked him backwards.
"What the...?" he exclaimed in complete surprise. "Leomon?"
A leonine Digimon stood in front of them, blocking their way to the Super Digimon.
"You shall not pass," stated Leomon emotionlessly. "You will be deleted in the name of the Blue Dragon Crime Syndicate, in the name of Lord Myotis!" He rushed forward and swung his sword vertically down at Gallantmon. His sword never reached Gallantmon.
Taomon's brush was in the way and the sword was buried deep into the wood. Yet it was still intact and Taomon was struggling against Leomon's sword.
"Get back," she cried, before kicking at Leomon, but it didn't even phase him. "What?" she exclaimed, before Leomon swung a fist at her and knocked Taomon backwards. She crashed straight on to the pathway and de-digivolved back into Renamon.
"Renamon, no!" cried Gallantmon in complete horror. "You're going to pay for that!" he cried and he thrust his lance at Leomon, but missed. He was suddenly kicked in the side.
"Get away from him, you creep!" roared Rapidmon, before firing a missile straight at Leomon.
Leomon was about to leap out of the way, when two data streams struck the ground beside him. Cyberdramon and Dobermon grabbed Leomon and held him right where he was. The missile careered towards Leomon, now defenceless and hit him, exploding and sending him flying backwards.
The Syndicate Leader laughed.
"Do you really think that you can defeat my Leomon clone just like that?" he asked the Digimon. "He is far stronger than the original and he will delete you all for your insolence." The Syndicate Leader laughed insanely, as Leomon got back up to his feet.
"Fist of the Beast King!"
A fiery lion's head smashed into Rapidmon and knocked him backwards. He crashed to the floor and de-digivolved back into Terriermon. Another one crashed into Cyberdramon and de-digivolved him into Monodramon. Leomon then rushed straight at Gallantmon, his sword drawn.
Something rushed past Gallantmon before he could even get up. It slashed at Leomon and cut the Digimon in half.
"Leomon?" exclaimed Gallantmon in complete surprise.
Leomon had cut Leomon in half. Unlike the one that had been shredded into pieces, this one had battle scars all over his muscular body. This could only have been the original Leomon.
"That'll take care of you," growled Leomon sternly. He turned his head to face Gallantmon and a smile spread across his furry face. "Well, Gallantmon, it's been a long time, hasn't it?"
"Yeah, it has," replied Gallantmon with a nod of his head. "So, they let you out with good behaviour, huh?"
"That's right."
"Wait a minute!" cried Takato in sudden realisation. "If you're here, then that means..."
"Sheesh, you're slow, Takato," said Juri with a sigh and a shake of her head. "You mean, you didn't notice me beside you all that time?" Juri laughed. "I guess some things never change."
"What?" cried the Syndicate Leader in disbelief. "How could you have gotten out of juvenile hall so early? I made sure you'd be stuck there for a five years at the least." Of course, the Syndicate Leader had completely forgotten about something called an Appeal Process, and said Appeal Process freed Juri of all charges. "Well, no matter, my Super Digimon, Beelzemon, is complete now!"
Ruki remembered that name. Renamon had faced that Digimon before and had barely lived to tell the tale.
"You haven't!" protested Ruki in disbelief. "You've cloned Beelzemon?"
"The one and only," replied the Syndicate Leader. "However, I haven't just created Beelzemon. I am now capable of creating a whole army of them, which will swarm across the Digital World and conquer it!" The Syndicate Leader laughed insanely at the thought of a world under his control. "I think I shall call this copy, Malo. What do you think?"
"I think you're a sick and twisted man," replied Takato. "Come on, Gallantmon, let's delete it!"
Gallantmon rose up to his feet and turned to face the Digimon that floated in front of him.
"Guys, get out of the way," he told the other Digimon.
Malo was a black Digimon with red eyes and a third eye in his forehead. He had sharp, metallic-tipped claws, a black tail and wore a brown, tattered cloak that trailed down to the knees of his leather-clad legs. Since he floated above the ground, his leather boots didn't touch the ground. His pale lips, which were as pale as the bottom half of his face, curled up into a cruel smile as he flaoted towards Gallantmon.
"Guys, your Digimon are in no shape to help Gallantmon," Takato told Jenrya and the others. "Log them out now!"
"But..."
"Please," pleaded Takato.
"Oh, okay."
The Syndicate Leader laughed.
"Retreating so soon?" taunted Lord Myotis. "You overestimate your Digimon's power, boy. Malo, show them what you're capable of."
"With pleasure," replied the Beelzemon, as he flexed his claws. "This fight will be over before you can say, Bada Boom." He spun round and pulled out two guns, before opening fire on Gallantmon. His bullets hit Gallantmon's shield instead of hitting the Digimon himself. He roared out angrily and flew across the floor towards the knight Digimon.
Gallantmon was still in his aqua-style and the Digimon realised it would do him no good in the fight against Malo. Still, there was nothing else he could do but fight and defend himself from the Super Digimon. He ran towards Malo in an attempt to meet the Beelzemon halfway. He swung his lance straight at Malo, only for the Super Digimon to leap over it and perform a roundhouse kick in mid-air that knocked Gallantmon backwards.
The knight Digimon crashed to the floor, just as Malo dived towards him and thrust out his metallic claws. Gallantmon rolled out of the way, just as he heard Takato announce a DigiModify. He felt his right hand change into a cannon.
"Thanks Takato," he called out to his Operator, before he turned it on Malo and opened fire.
Malo performed a back-flip, narrowly avoiding being blasted by Gallantmon's one-shot cannon. He whipped his guns back out and opened fire, not relenting with his onslaught. His bullets flew through the air, scattering all over the place.
The Mega Aqua-style Digimon rose his shield and protected himself from the onslaught of bullets. He then ran, with his shield protecting him. Gallantmon lowered his lance and charged straight at Malo in the hope of catching the Beelzemon on the end of his lance.
"Aqua Lance!" he called out, before thrusting his weapon straight at Malo. His opponent leapt over the lance and landed on top of it, much to Gallantmon's surprise.
Guns were aimed at Gallantmon's head and the triggers were pulled. Bullets resounded against Gallantmon's head and he was blown back by Malo's attacks. He dropped his shield and it clattered to the ground, as he crashed onto the floor. Gallantmon grabbed his blue cape and tore it off, flinging it into Malo's face. The Digimon leapt to his feet, even though he was feeling the pain from the wounds Malo had inflicted on him. He grabbed his lance and rushed straight at Malo, thrusting his lance straight into the cloned Digimon.
Clawed hands grabbed the cape and tore it to shreds. There was an evil smirk on Malo's face, as he grabbed Gallantmon's lance and tore it out of his leather-clad body. Then with all his strength, Malo swung the lance round with Gallantmon still on it repeatedly until Gallantmon had become a silvery blur. He let go and let Gallantmon fly.
"No, Gallantmon!" cried Takato in disbelief. This was not going well. "Hang on, boy. I'm going to load your normal style."
"That will do you no good, Matsuda," warned the Dragon Syndicate Leader. "My Beelzemon will tear your Digimon to shreds."
Gallantmon shook his head.
"No, he won't!" he protested. "Takato, go ahead and change my style, but don't worry about me. I'll be fine, even if I am aqua-style."
"No, I won't let you be deleted so easily!" protested Takato. "DigiModify– Giga Heal activate!"
A beam of light engulfed Gallantmon and healed all of the wounds that Malo had inflicted on him.
"Thanks," he called out to his Operator. He stared Malo right in the eye, before he charged and swung his lance straight down at the Beelzemon. Malo reached out to grab it. Gallantmon swung it back behind him and then punched Malo in the face with his free hand.
Malo floated back quickly and aimed his guns straight back at Gallantmon. He opened fire and suddenly the floor began to spark with bullets.
Gallantmon was running towards Malo, unhindered though. He wove around in a zig-zag pattern, not letting the bullets hit him. A bullet rushed towards his head. Gallantmon swung his lance at the bullet and deflected it.
"This one's for Takato!" he roared out, as he leapt into the air and swung his lance down at Malo, striking the Beelezemon on the head with it. He kicked out at Malo, his left foot striking Malo in the chest and sending him flying backwards.
"Gallantmon, your normal style's been loaded!"
The Mega Digimon's body began to flicker with static. His cape reappeared, as did his shield with Officials' Symbol on it. This time, though, his cape was red, as it should have been.
"You're in trouble now, Malo!" cried out Gallantmon, as he aimed his shield straight at the Beelzemon clone. "Shield of the Just!" His round shield began to glow with pure energy, before a huge blast of energy flew out from it and struck the Beelzemon, engulfing him in its energy and ripping his data apart.

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The Syndicate Leader swore.
"How could this be possible?" he cried in disbelief. "How could you have destroyed the Super Digimon? He was supposed to be invincible, unstoppable!" He then noticed something. "What? What are you staring at?"
"I don't believe it," stated Takato in a plain tone of voice. "You're Colonel Oikawa."
Oikawa had always had a pale face, but this time, his face was even more pale than usual and it was pale from fright.
"What? My disguise!" he cried in disbelief. "What happened to my disguise?" The Head of the DEVA Organisation couldn't believe how this was happening. "No! I spent years manoeuvering myself into this position and now...! Now it's all ruined." He glared angrily at Takato. "I should never have let you and your friends join the DEVA Organisation. You've been a thorn in my side ever since you did."
"I don't understand, why are you doing this?" asked Jenrya.
"Yeah, especially after you were so keen to have me locked up," stated Juri angrily.
An insane smile spread across Oikawa's face.
"Don't you see?" he asked, his voice taking on a hysterical tone to it. "Don't you see that this was all for the greater good? I would have destroyed all of the Crime Syndicates with my Army of Beelzemon. They would have reinforced the laws and kept order over the entire Digital World." He began to chuckle and then burst out into an insane laughter. "I would have ruled over the entire Digital World and crushed all the criminals."
He turned to his keyboard and began typing on it quickly.
"And it will happen!" laughed Oikawa. "Nothing you can do can stop me. Nothing! Nothing!"
"Quick, we've got to log in and help Takato!"
A wall of grey-purple mist suddenly surrounded Takato and Oikawa, sealing them off from the outside world.
"Takato!" cried out Ruki, before she rushed at the mist. She hit it and bounced off, as if she had run into a brick wall.
"Ruki, are you okay?" asked Juri, as she rushed towards the auburn-haired girl.
"I'll be fine," replied Ruki, as she shrugged her arm away from Juri. "It's Takato that I'm worried about."

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"Oh, no, not again!" protested Gallantmon, as he saw another figure form before him. It was another Beelzemon.
"This time there will be no screw ups," laughed Oikawa insanely. "Go and destroy him, Malo2!"
Gallantmon steadied himself and waited for the oncoming onslaught. It would be a long and difficult fight, he knew that, but there was no other choice. He had to stop Oikawa's insane plans of world domination if it was the last thing he did. The Digimon heard Takato tell him to be careful.
"Don't worry, Takato, I'll be fine," he told his Operator. "You can count on it."
The new Beelzemon floated forward and it would have attacked, had something strange not happened. Malo2 clutched at its throat, as if it was being strangled and made strange gargling noises. These noises turned into growling noises, as the Digimon began to glow.
A ghostly image of a huge wolf, which was missing its left eye, appeared over Beelzemon. Moments later, the image disappeared.
"OOKAMI?" exclaimed Oikawa in surprise, upon recognising the ghostly image to be that of the military program.
Beelzemon started to mutate and grew to a formidable size. His limbs became white and huge purple wings sprouted from his back. A large, red mask like that Oikawa used to wear, covered his face and his aquiline nose. His arms were white and like rounded stumps on the ends with black claws. The new creature was crouched at its knees, which had Yin-Yang symbols that were twisted to look like evil faces. Its shoulders were large and round. To top it off, the monster had blonde hair and as the saying goes, Blondes have all the fun. And this one seemed as if it was going to enjoy pummeling the stuffing out of Gallantmon.
If you've watched Digimon Season 2, you'll notice that Malo2 looks a lot like MaloMyotismon. But appearances are only skin-deep...
"Avenge," growled Malo2. "Must avenge. Must avenge OOKAMI." Malo2 then roared and all its mouths opened, the one on on its head and the two on its shoulders. "Must destroy all Digimon!"
"No, stop!" cried Oikawa. "Stop! I command you to stop!"

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Takato started pressing buttons on his D-Tector frantically in an attempt to set up the DMDs necessary to delete Malo2.
The computer at Oikawa's desk started to spark violently. Oikawa leapt back, as the monitor cracked.
"No, stop this!" protested Oikawa. "Malo2, I command you to stop! What is with this thing? It's disobeying me, just like DAEMON did. No, this can't be the way it all ends!" He rushed forward to shut the power off to the computer, but was suddenly electrocuted. Oikawa cried out in pain and was suddenly flung aside.
"Nearly got it," murmured Takato, as he loaded more DMDs into his D-Tector. Then without warning, a bolt of electricity shot out from the computer and struck Takato. The surge of electricity flung him away from the computer and he crashed to the floor, his every muscle convulsing and his hand gripping his D-Tector so tightly that no man could tear it out of his grasp.
And so Takato lay there, staring sightlessly at the ceiling.

To be continued...