All right, here we are... This is Protocol Omega, the third volume of a very long fanfic...albeit one with relatively short chapters. It's all part of a trilogy called "MON: 2028" and it combines characters from Digimon, Pokémon, and Monster Rancher. It's not Pokémon vs. Digimon vs. Monster Rancher, but it's all three versus a whole new breed of creatures that I've designed to serve as the bad guys: evil man-eating robots called "menace machines" bred by an alien empire. They're efficient, ruthless, and stupid, thanks to a low programming budget. The story, as it happens, takes place in the world of Digimon, but not in the digital world---only in the Earth of the 01 - 02 TV show.
Before you start reading, I think you should know that the story is built on a Christian worldview, with such ideas as "reality is objective" and "physical matter is real" and "Jesus is God" and such things as that. Some people are offended by that stuff, but I figure that if other people are allowed to publish sexually explicit, unnecessarily violent, and/or hateful material, I should be allowed to publish this.
While I'm on the subject of violence, there is enough of it in Protocol Omega---as there is in the other two previous volumes, namely Arrival and Operation: Salvage Earth. Let's face it: how little violence can I have when the robots eat people? Some people may find that tough to stomach. I'm not totally explicit about the violence; I don't find blood and guts all that fun and didn't write them in, so I've given this a PG-13 rating. Still, the violence is there; reader discretion is advised.
Oh, and other thing: there's a touch of sexually implicit material---and by that I don't mean suggestive pictures. Let's just say one of the main villains has a very baboon-like view of the role of the opposite gender, and I chose such attributes for him to make him all the more villainous. The idea, I guess, was to portray some real evil in the story, and a lot of it so that a lot of evil could get wasted-on later.
As to the other two volumes, they're kind of introductions to this volume. Admittedly, they've got a lot of good stuff in them, and it's not altogether fair to say that they're nothing but introductions to Protocol Omega, but still...most of the plot gets revealed here. Nonetheless, I think they'd be worth your time to read. They do a good job of explaining how the different heroes got to be in alliance with each other and serve to tell you more about some of the plot. Besides, with some of this stuff, you might end up feeling kind of lost without the proper introductions.
It's a royal pity that I can't show off the illustrations that I've made; you can see them in Arrival and Operation: Salvage Earth. A lot of the illustrations are animated digivolution sequences, and for those of you who think it's unfair that Digimon get all the glory, I agree with you: I made some Monster Rancher and Pokémon animations, too. Anyhow, I hope I get a chance to add them into the story, somehow, since there are a few animations that I would've put in Protocol Omega that don't appear in the previous two volumes.
But enough introduction out of me...
NOTE: I don't own digimon, pokémon, or Monster Rancher. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners, which would seem obvious, but I'm going to say this here, anyway.