Chapter 3: Good News and Bad News.
***Azulongmon's Relm***
A portal opens up in the main room and Azulongmon himself comes out looking tierd and scratched up. Upon seeing him enter, Gennai walkes nevously up to him.
"Welcome back sir, um... how did things work out in the southern quadrent?" He asked conversationally and not without a bit of curiosity.
The Dragon guardian sighed before speaking. "We were victorious, however half of the southern quadrent was deleted. In the end, much to Zucquimon's disgust, the southern digidestined destroyed the chaos."
"I hope he can restore the deleted parts." Gennai commented.
"In time." Azulongmon reassured him, before changing the subject. "So tell me, what has happened in my absence?"
Gennai looked uncomfortable at this. "Would you like the good news or the bad news sir?"
"I could use some good news at this point."
"Then you should be pleased to know that we have found the final crest."
"The Crest of Miracles?!" He said producing the article from his robe.
"The same."
"That is good news. I assume you have arranged an appropiate challange for Davis in order to have him activate it."
"Actually sir, he should be able to activate it as soon as he recieves it. I was intending to give it to him after we are done here."
"That is good news in itself. With the final crest activated, we should be able to create a barrier that will be sure to keep Daemon out for the next world evolution."
"Sir?"
"Every so often, the digital world goes through an... upgrade of sorts. It is reshaped by a number of factors, however the main ones are the will of the digimon and the will of the current guardian of quadrent. The last evolution happened when the Dark Masters locked me away. It was what allowed them to create Spiral Mountain. And that was with me still in partial control. Daemon would try to wrest my control away from me or try to bring the digital world to despair. Anything to corrupt the evolution of our world."
"That would not be good." Gennai commented, visually shaken. He took a deep breath and tried to compose himself. "Anyway, I'm afraid I have some bad news as well. Since you have been away there have been spottings of a rogue dark-digimon causing chaos. My sources think that he came with the Daemon Corps and has been under-cover until now."
"Do you think he was waiting For the evolution."
"That's our guess, however, that's not the worst of it, about three hours ago he attacked some of the the chosen digidestined while they were on a picnic. And again, an hour later when more came to help."
"Are they safe?"
"Well that's the odd part sir. They were reformatted. As digimon."
It took Azulongmon a second to process this information. "Digimon? Which chosen? What kind of digimon?"
"All of the chosen except for Matt, Sora, and Cody. As for what digimon, their new ones so the analyzer can't get anything more than the type and level. However, We do know that they are all perfect level, and can still use their crests."
"So, you do not think there is too much of a problem for the moment?"
"No, however we're not sure if they can change back."
Azulongmon sighed as he tried to think of what to do. Gennai finally broke the silence. "I had better go to the chosen." At Azulongmon's nod he began walking out. He turned around as he remembered something. "Oh! I forgot! Some representatives of a group of digidestined calling themselves "Virus Busters" wish to talk to you."
***
"Explain it to me one more time." Tai said as he sat down on a block with a confused look. The entire group was hanging around in a clearing just outside Primary Village, since elecmon didn't want them in the egg field.
Izzy sighed. "Ok it's like this: When we come to the digiworld, our bodies are turned into data. Right?" after recieving a nod he continued. "And since we were deleted, we were sent to Primary Village to be reformatted. But Primary Village isn't equiped to handle humans, so our DNA was modified to what it would be if we were digimon so we could be reformatted."
"So we're digimon now." Tai said as he took another look at himself. He was wearing an elaborate suit of light armor, simmilar to a knight's with (the now standard) digicode running along it. Hanging from his belt was an elaborate longsword. "Could you run that analyzer program again? I kinda wasn't paying attention the first time. Shock and all."
Digimon Analyzer: Swordsmon, Perfect Level, Vaccine Type, Sword Warrior Digimon. A noble protector of the weak, he wanders throughout the digital world looking for evil to fight and digimon to save. His Brave Sword attack is devestating at close range, and his Wave Slice will take care of any cowards.
"Well, I guess I'm going on vacation for a little while." Tai said with a sigh. "I get the feeling I'd have a hard time getting this through security."
"Yeah, and you got off easy." Said a voice from behind them.
Tai turned and looked at Ken, who was sitting in the shade of a tree. "Hey it could be worse."
Ken was dressed in a Dark grey rendition of his Digimon Emperor costume, minus the glasses. However, what was really off was the fact that he was slightly translucent and there appeared to be black whisps of smoke curled around him.
"Izzy will you tell him what the analyzer said?" Ken said with a sigh of his own.
Digimon Analyzer: Spectermon, Perfect Level, Virus Type, Shadow Ghost digimion. At night he roams around the digital world looking for the ones who cursed him. His Aura of Fear attack will render his enemies petrified with fright, and his Haunting Dark attack calls the shadows to his aid.
"That won't exactly inspire people to trust me." Ken finished.
"Oh come on, cheer up." Davis said as he landed.
"I don't mean to be rude Davis, but how am I supposed to cheer up when I look like the Digimon Emperor's ghost?" Ken said, getting annoyed.
"Hey, you could have been a giant skunk. Think about it. People would know you're coming from a mile away, you wouln't be allowed in a lot of buildings, and we'd all have to walk around with clothespins on our noses."
Ken smiled at the mental image. "Thanks."
"No problem."
Yolie took this oppertunity to walk up to them. "At least you're not the only virus here."
"Yeah, viruses arn't exactly thought highly of." Izzy commented as he walked over. "I've done some research in my time here, Most of the wars and crisises in the digital world's history were caused by some sort of virus. They aren't well loved."
"Like we've been telling you guys, just stick with one of us." Davis said, "Preferably a vaccine type."
"That's odd..." Kari mumbled to herself as she studdied Ken's form. "Hey TK, tell me what you can sense off of Ken."
"What?"
"Normally, dark digimon give me the chills, but Ken doesn't. I can still sense the darkness, but it seems... harmless."
"... Hey your right!" TK said as he thought about it. "What do you think it means?"
A voice from behind them, "It means that his crest is protecting him from the darkness."
***
Azulongmon, still exausted from his ordeal in the southern quadrent, floated in front of a group of about eight digidestined, who were anxiously awaiting his response. "So you would like to have permission to watch over the digital world and protect it against any threats that would arrive?"
"That's right sir." Said the groups spokesman. He appeared to be about 16-17 and about 6'1" with blond hair, green eyes, and european features. In his arms he held a lopmon. "We have almost a hundred recruits already with more coming in. Many of our digimon can even make it to the perfect level."
Azulongmon stopped to think about this. He didn't sense any darkness from the group, and with the crisises going on, it wouldn't hurt to have the extra support. "I see no harm in-"
"HOLD IT!"
The group turned to look at the voice's owner. Standing in the entryway was a digidestined holding a black salamon. He looked about the same age as the leader, with brown hair, brown eyes and again european features.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, "He appoligsed, "but I don't think it would wise to let these self-richeous bullies have that sort of authority."
"What are you doing here troublemaker?" The leader asked with venom, the rest of the group demanding simmilarly.
"Let me hear what the boy has to say." Azulongmon said with authority to the Virus Busters. They complied glaring at the boy the whole time.
"Thank you sir. I've come to complain about this group. They've been going around deleting any viruses they come across, and harassing any digidestined with a viral partner. Including me."
Azulongmon narrowed his eyes at the group of boys. "Is this true?"
"So? What's wrong with deleting those troublemakers? All they do is go around and try to cause wars and stuff. No true digidestined has a virus as a partner."
Azulongmon quaked in rage at the boys words. "Not all viruses are out for world domination. I'll have you know that Zhuqiaomon, the guardian of the southern quadrent, is a virus. Deleting inoccent digimon will not make you a hero, just a murderer. Leave here until you develop a better respect for life."
Now it was the leader of the group who was enraged. "And to think you call yourself the guardian of this relm. How can you let those filth just walk around this world? And even rule in another?"
"Hold your tongue! Now leave here or I will throw you out."
"You don't look like you're in any condition to do that." He said pointing out the guardian's fatigue. "Guys, let's take down this corrupt digimon." He said as he held up his digivice. In the span of a second, the tired azulongmon was now facing eight perfect-level digimon with the leaders Antiramon in command.
"I will not allow you to hurt Azulongmon." The boy's black salamon said as she hopped in front of the mob.
Black Salamon digivolve to... Black Gatomon
"We won't let you through" her digidestined said as he stepped beside her.
"And now the virus doesn't want her corrupt ruler to go." Said the leader. He turned to the boy, "If you don't move we'll be forced to delete you along with that virus."
"..."
"Your funeral. Attack!"
The viral digidestined and his partner didn't even have time for the pain to register before they exploded into data.
***
"Gennai! Your here!" Kari exclaimed as she turned to look at the speaker.
He gave a jolly chuckle before speaking, "Sorry I took so long. Azulongmon just returned from a trip, and I had to fill him in on what's going on." He took a moment to look over the group. "Anyway, I imagine you want to know what's going on." He waited for their nods before continuing. "Well, apperantly there has been a mysterious dark-digimon going around causing random destruction. However, you're the first case we've heard of where he's deleted anyone. Anyway, once you were deleted, as you probably guessed, you were reformatted as digimon. Any questions so far?"
Izzy raised his hand. "Why were we reformatted to perfect level?"
"Actually, I think I can answer that." Ken spoke up. Everyone turned to look at him. "First off, you all know how digivices work right?"
TK answered for the group. "Sure, it transfers energy from the digidestined to the digimon, and allows the digimon to use his partner's energy to digivolve."
"Do you all know how the Dark Spires worked?" Everyone execpt Izzy shook their heads. "Well, besides being the control center for the dark rings, they were originally designed to supress the slow buildup of energy in a digimon that allowed them to digivolve. Later on, I also noticed later that it could stop a connection from forming between a digimon and digidestined. You were able to get around that by using the digimentals because you charged up the digimentals directly when you weren't fighting. Do you follow?" after seeing everyone nod, he continued. "Anyway, the connection you have with your digimon isn't a full connection, so unless you use your crests, or have an incredibly strong connection, the highest you can make your partners digivolve to is Adult. However now, we are digimon and our power has gone directly to our forms. If we used our crests, we could probably become Ultimates."
"Man I wish I had a crest." Davis said as he thought about being an Ultimate.
Gennai smiled as he reached into his pocket and grabbed the Crest of Miracles, which was glowing softly. "I normaly don't grant wishes, but here." he said as he tossed it to Davis. who fumbled slightly before catching it. Everyone looked at the object in the boys hands.
"Hey! That's the same symbol that was on the gold digmental." Davis said as he stared at the crest.
"That's right. Davis, you are now the keeper of the Crest of Miracles."
"Hey, congratulations Davis." TK said as he slapped him on the back. The rest of the group doing simmilarly.
"Hey, Gennai." Davis asked as they settled down. "I've been meaning to ask you, what about our digimon. Can they still digivolve?"
"I'm afraid I don't know."
"But I do." Izzy spoke up from the back of the group. "I've already scanned our digivices, they were altered slightly when we were. They should work, but I'm not sure how."
"Well, why don't we try it?" Davis said, grabbing his digivice and looking it over. The digivice looked simmilar to the standard one, except it was bigger, had a knob on the side, and had a strap on it. "Um..."
"From what I got from my readings, you have to turn the knob there."
"Okay. let's see here..." Davis mumbled as he fiddled with his digivice. His digivice made as the screen lit up.
Sync digivolution: 5% ratio
Veemon's digiegg started to glow.
Digivolve to... Veemon.
"Whoa, that was wierd." The confused Veemon said as he opened his eyes. "Huh?" The confused digimon said as he looked up at the digimon in front of him. "Davis?"
"Uh, hey Veemon."
***Azulongmon's Relm***
A portal opens up in the main room and Azulongmon himself comes out looking tierd and scratched up. Upon seeing him enter, Gennai walkes nevously up to him.
"Welcome back sir, um... how did things work out in the southern quadrent?" He asked conversationally and not without a bit of curiosity.
The Dragon guardian sighed before speaking. "We were victorious, however half of the southern quadrent was deleted. In the end, much to Zucquimon's disgust, the southern digidestined destroyed the chaos."
"I hope he can restore the deleted parts." Gennai commented.
"In time." Azulongmon reassured him, before changing the subject. "So tell me, what has happened in my absence?"
Gennai looked uncomfortable at this. "Would you like the good news or the bad news sir?"
"I could use some good news at this point."
"Then you should be pleased to know that we have found the final crest."
"The Crest of Miracles?!" He said producing the article from his robe.
"The same."
"That is good news. I assume you have arranged an appropiate challange for Davis in order to have him activate it."
"Actually sir, he should be able to activate it as soon as he recieves it. I was intending to give it to him after we are done here."
"That is good news in itself. With the final crest activated, we should be able to create a barrier that will be sure to keep Daemon out for the next world evolution."
"Sir?"
"Every so often, the digital world goes through an... upgrade of sorts. It is reshaped by a number of factors, however the main ones are the will of the digimon and the will of the current guardian of quadrent. The last evolution happened when the Dark Masters locked me away. It was what allowed them to create Spiral Mountain. And that was with me still in partial control. Daemon would try to wrest my control away from me or try to bring the digital world to despair. Anything to corrupt the evolution of our world."
"That would not be good." Gennai commented, visually shaken. He took a deep breath and tried to compose himself. "Anyway, I'm afraid I have some bad news as well. Since you have been away there have been spottings of a rogue dark-digimon causing chaos. My sources think that he came with the Daemon Corps and has been under-cover until now."
"Do you think he was waiting For the evolution."
"That's our guess, however, that's not the worst of it, about three hours ago he attacked some of the the chosen digidestined while they were on a picnic. And again, an hour later when more came to help."
"Are they safe?"
"Well that's the odd part sir. They were reformatted. As digimon."
It took Azulongmon a second to process this information. "Digimon? Which chosen? What kind of digimon?"
"All of the chosen except for Matt, Sora, and Cody. As for what digimon, their new ones so the analyzer can't get anything more than the type and level. However, We do know that they are all perfect level, and can still use their crests."
"So, you do not think there is too much of a problem for the moment?"
"No, however we're not sure if they can change back."
Azulongmon sighed as he tried to think of what to do. Gennai finally broke the silence. "I had better go to the chosen." At Azulongmon's nod he began walking out. He turned around as he remembered something. "Oh! I forgot! Some representatives of a group of digidestined calling themselves "Virus Busters" wish to talk to you."
***
"Explain it to me one more time." Tai said as he sat down on a block with a confused look. The entire group was hanging around in a clearing just outside Primary Village, since elecmon didn't want them in the egg field.
Izzy sighed. "Ok it's like this: When we come to the digiworld, our bodies are turned into data. Right?" after recieving a nod he continued. "And since we were deleted, we were sent to Primary Village to be reformatted. But Primary Village isn't equiped to handle humans, so our DNA was modified to what it would be if we were digimon so we could be reformatted."
"So we're digimon now." Tai said as he took another look at himself. He was wearing an elaborate suit of light armor, simmilar to a knight's with (the now standard) digicode running along it. Hanging from his belt was an elaborate longsword. "Could you run that analyzer program again? I kinda wasn't paying attention the first time. Shock and all."
Digimon Analyzer: Swordsmon, Perfect Level, Vaccine Type, Sword Warrior Digimon. A noble protector of the weak, he wanders throughout the digital world looking for evil to fight and digimon to save. His Brave Sword attack is devestating at close range, and his Wave Slice will take care of any cowards.
"Well, I guess I'm going on vacation for a little while." Tai said with a sigh. "I get the feeling I'd have a hard time getting this through security."
"Yeah, and you got off easy." Said a voice from behind them.
Tai turned and looked at Ken, who was sitting in the shade of a tree. "Hey it could be worse."
Ken was dressed in a Dark grey rendition of his Digimon Emperor costume, minus the glasses. However, what was really off was the fact that he was slightly translucent and there appeared to be black whisps of smoke curled around him.
"Izzy will you tell him what the analyzer said?" Ken said with a sigh of his own.
Digimon Analyzer: Spectermon, Perfect Level, Virus Type, Shadow Ghost digimion. At night he roams around the digital world looking for the ones who cursed him. His Aura of Fear attack will render his enemies petrified with fright, and his Haunting Dark attack calls the shadows to his aid.
"That won't exactly inspire people to trust me." Ken finished.
"Oh come on, cheer up." Davis said as he landed.
"I don't mean to be rude Davis, but how am I supposed to cheer up when I look like the Digimon Emperor's ghost?" Ken said, getting annoyed.
"Hey, you could have been a giant skunk. Think about it. People would know you're coming from a mile away, you wouln't be allowed in a lot of buildings, and we'd all have to walk around with clothespins on our noses."
Ken smiled at the mental image. "Thanks."
"No problem."
Yolie took this oppertunity to walk up to them. "At least you're not the only virus here."
"Yeah, viruses arn't exactly thought highly of." Izzy commented as he walked over. "I've done some research in my time here, Most of the wars and crisises in the digital world's history were caused by some sort of virus. They aren't well loved."
"Like we've been telling you guys, just stick with one of us." Davis said, "Preferably a vaccine type."
"That's odd..." Kari mumbled to herself as she studdied Ken's form. "Hey TK, tell me what you can sense off of Ken."
"What?"
"Normally, dark digimon give me the chills, but Ken doesn't. I can still sense the darkness, but it seems... harmless."
"... Hey your right!" TK said as he thought about it. "What do you think it means?"
A voice from behind them, "It means that his crest is protecting him from the darkness."
***
Azulongmon, still exausted from his ordeal in the southern quadrent, floated in front of a group of about eight digidestined, who were anxiously awaiting his response. "So you would like to have permission to watch over the digital world and protect it against any threats that would arrive?"
"That's right sir." Said the groups spokesman. He appeared to be about 16-17 and about 6'1" with blond hair, green eyes, and european features. In his arms he held a lopmon. "We have almost a hundred recruits already with more coming in. Many of our digimon can even make it to the perfect level."
Azulongmon stopped to think about this. He didn't sense any darkness from the group, and with the crisises going on, it wouldn't hurt to have the extra support. "I see no harm in-"
"HOLD IT!"
The group turned to look at the voice's owner. Standing in the entryway was a digidestined holding a black salamon. He looked about the same age as the leader, with brown hair, brown eyes and again european features.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, "He appoligsed, "but I don't think it would wise to let these self-richeous bullies have that sort of authority."
"What are you doing here troublemaker?" The leader asked with venom, the rest of the group demanding simmilarly.
"Let me hear what the boy has to say." Azulongmon said with authority to the Virus Busters. They complied glaring at the boy the whole time.
"Thank you sir. I've come to complain about this group. They've been going around deleting any viruses they come across, and harassing any digidestined with a viral partner. Including me."
Azulongmon narrowed his eyes at the group of boys. "Is this true?"
"So? What's wrong with deleting those troublemakers? All they do is go around and try to cause wars and stuff. No true digidestined has a virus as a partner."
Azulongmon quaked in rage at the boys words. "Not all viruses are out for world domination. I'll have you know that Zhuqiaomon, the guardian of the southern quadrent, is a virus. Deleting inoccent digimon will not make you a hero, just a murderer. Leave here until you develop a better respect for life."
Now it was the leader of the group who was enraged. "And to think you call yourself the guardian of this relm. How can you let those filth just walk around this world? And even rule in another?"
"Hold your tongue! Now leave here or I will throw you out."
"You don't look like you're in any condition to do that." He said pointing out the guardian's fatigue. "Guys, let's take down this corrupt digimon." He said as he held up his digivice. In the span of a second, the tired azulongmon was now facing eight perfect-level digimon with the leaders Antiramon in command.
"I will not allow you to hurt Azulongmon." The boy's black salamon said as she hopped in front of the mob.
Black Salamon digivolve to... Black Gatomon
"We won't let you through" her digidestined said as he stepped beside her.
"And now the virus doesn't want her corrupt ruler to go." Said the leader. He turned to the boy, "If you don't move we'll be forced to delete you along with that virus."
"..."
"Your funeral. Attack!"
The viral digidestined and his partner didn't even have time for the pain to register before they exploded into data.
***
"Gennai! Your here!" Kari exclaimed as she turned to look at the speaker.
He gave a jolly chuckle before speaking, "Sorry I took so long. Azulongmon just returned from a trip, and I had to fill him in on what's going on." He took a moment to look over the group. "Anyway, I imagine you want to know what's going on." He waited for their nods before continuing. "Well, apperantly there has been a mysterious dark-digimon going around causing random destruction. However, you're the first case we've heard of where he's deleted anyone. Anyway, once you were deleted, as you probably guessed, you were reformatted as digimon. Any questions so far?"
Izzy raised his hand. "Why were we reformatted to perfect level?"
"Actually, I think I can answer that." Ken spoke up. Everyone turned to look at him. "First off, you all know how digivices work right?"
TK answered for the group. "Sure, it transfers energy from the digidestined to the digimon, and allows the digimon to use his partner's energy to digivolve."
"Do you all know how the Dark Spires worked?" Everyone execpt Izzy shook their heads. "Well, besides being the control center for the dark rings, they were originally designed to supress the slow buildup of energy in a digimon that allowed them to digivolve. Later on, I also noticed later that it could stop a connection from forming between a digimon and digidestined. You were able to get around that by using the digimentals because you charged up the digimentals directly when you weren't fighting. Do you follow?" after seeing everyone nod, he continued. "Anyway, the connection you have with your digimon isn't a full connection, so unless you use your crests, or have an incredibly strong connection, the highest you can make your partners digivolve to is Adult. However now, we are digimon and our power has gone directly to our forms. If we used our crests, we could probably become Ultimates."
"Man I wish I had a crest." Davis said as he thought about being an Ultimate.
Gennai smiled as he reached into his pocket and grabbed the Crest of Miracles, which was glowing softly. "I normaly don't grant wishes, but here." he said as he tossed it to Davis. who fumbled slightly before catching it. Everyone looked at the object in the boys hands.
"Hey! That's the same symbol that was on the gold digmental." Davis said as he stared at the crest.
"That's right. Davis, you are now the keeper of the Crest of Miracles."
"Hey, congratulations Davis." TK said as he slapped him on the back. The rest of the group doing simmilarly.
"Hey, Gennai." Davis asked as they settled down. "I've been meaning to ask you, what about our digimon. Can they still digivolve?"
"I'm afraid I don't know."
"But I do." Izzy spoke up from the back of the group. "I've already scanned our digivices, they were altered slightly when we were. They should work, but I'm not sure how."
"Well, why don't we try it?" Davis said, grabbing his digivice and looking it over. The digivice looked simmilar to the standard one, except it was bigger, had a knob on the side, and had a strap on it. "Um..."
"From what I got from my readings, you have to turn the knob there."
"Okay. let's see here..." Davis mumbled as he fiddled with his digivice. His digivice made as the screen lit up.
Sync digivolution: 5% ratio
Veemon's digiegg started to glow.
Digivolve to... Veemon.
"Whoa, that was wierd." The confused Veemon said as he opened his eyes. "Huh?" The confused digimon said as he looked up at the digimon in front of him. "Davis?"
"Uh, hey Veemon."