Digimon.EXE 3

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.EXE 3 is based on Rockman.EXE, which is copyrighted by Capcom Ltd. Please read and review. I won't continue unless you do.

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File 09: Yasashii Ame – (Gentle Rain)

The stadium had undergone many revamps since the 1990s. Then it had been called Skydome and later on it had been renamed several things. Now it was called Skydome again and the stadium had been given such a revamp that it was unrecognisable to the people of the late Twentieth Century and early Twenty-First Century.
It now stood in Toronto as a huge complex that dwarfed the previous incarnation. It was like some ancient Mesopotamian ziggurat and on the top was the stadium itself. Below was a mass of retail outlets, restaurants and even the Skydome Hotel. Plants grew at every level, making it seem like some futuristic self-contained city with a huge retracting dome at the top that covered the main stadium.
And posted all around the place were poster and huge banners advertising the event of the World DigiBattle Championships, where the Champions from each National Championships would battle for the title of the World's Greatest DigiBattler. Since there were only eleven supernations in the Earth, that meant there were only twenty-two contestants– eleven for the Youth Division and eleven for the Adult Division.
The crowd around him were cheering him on and Jenrya realised that he wasn't just performing in front of the stadium audience, but in front of the entire world. He could vaguely hear Rosa Maridonna's commentating, but decided to drown it out. Jenrya also tried to drown out the cheers for his opponent, one Takeru Takaishi.
This was his... umpteenth battle. He had lost count, but he knew that it was Day Four of the Championships and there was still much Battling to do.
The Dyjitopian youth looked out towards the blonde-haired Asian youth not too far away from him and then back down to the holographic battle field in between them. He could see clearly Rapidmon's position in correspondance to MagnaAngemon's position. Neither Digimon stood on the ground, but floated above it. That meant only one thing. Attacks that ran along the ground would not work.
The Battle Arena was similar to the one he had faced in the Dyjitopian Championships and to the one that Takato had encountered in the Inphynitio Championships. There was one difference however, and that had been caused by MagnaAngemon's special programming.
On the angel Digimon's side, the tiles had become Sanctuary Panels. If a virus or Digimon was on or above it, any damage they received would be halved.
It was making it difficult for Rapidmon to defeat MagnaAngemon and the bunny Digimon had to resort to chipping slowly away at MagnaAngemon's HP. It didn't help, however, that his opponent had a technique that blocked all attacks and another that sent his attacks back at him.
Jenrya looked at the console screen in front of him and at the DMDs that he was allowed. The youth wasn't allowed to use his own DMDs, as that would probably create an unfair advantage. The standard set that had been loaded showed him a few Combos that would work quite well, but most of the DMDs individually were useless against MagnaAngemon.
"This is going to be difficult," he sighed to himself. "Keep going, Rapidmon. I'll see if I can load some more DMDs."
Rapidmon didn't need to respond. He merely dodged MagnaAngemon's MagnaWave attack, which sent a sonic boom hurtling through the air towards him.
"Thanks for sharing that!" he taunted. "Now here's something in return! Rapifire!" He fired missile after missile at MagnaAngemon.
"Quick, use your Reflect technique!" called out Takeru.
MagnaAngemon braced himself. He caught the missiles by their sides and immediately whirled round, swinging them through the air and sending them flying back towards Rapidmon. The Digimon then swung his sword in an arc in front of him, sending another MagnaWave attack flying through the air and at his opponent.
"Whoa!" cried Rapidmon, as he dodged the missiles but was too slow and was suddenly hit by MagnaAngemon's MagnaWave.
It was a powerful attack and Jenrya watched as 200HP suddenly disappeared from Rapidmon's health in an instant. It seemed to him that all of MagnaAngemon's attacks did 200HP, which meant that Rapidmon would be deleted if he was hit by five more times. The screen in front of him changed and he could see that more DMDs had been loaded. There were now 10 DMDs available to him.
A thought suddenly occurred to him.
"Rapidmon, prepare to launch a Tri-Beam!" ordered Jenrya. He then watched as Rapidmon hovered in place. "Go right!" he called out quickly and Rapidmon floated sideways, narrowly avoiding another MagnaWave. "Charge up your Tri-Beam but don't launch it at him until I tell you to."
MagnaAngemon appeared on Rapidmon's side of the arena and swung his sword straight at the Digimon.
Rapidmon floated back.
"Now!" cried Jenrya.
A triangular beam flew from Rapidmon and suddenly hit MagnaAngemon. It hit him before he could even perform the Reflect technique. The attack was so powerful that it stunned him and since he was on Rapidmon's side of the arena, which did not have Sanctuary Panels, he received full damage for the attack. 120 HP damage done to MagnaAngemon.
Jenrya quickly selected three DMDs, all of which were Wrecking Ball DMDs. He knew that the selected DMDs would merge together to form a special Combo, the Demolition Combo.
"DigiModify– Demolition activate!" he announced, as he pressed a button on the console.
Rapidmon's right hand turned into a wrecking ball on a chain. He swung it around and began hurling it at MagnaAngemon. Due to the slowness of the attack, he missed each time, but in doing so his attack hit the Sanctuary Panels and destroyed them.
Seeing this, Takeru quickly searched the DMDs loaded in front of him.
"Hey, you won't get away with this that easily!" he shouted out to Jenrya and selected a few DMDs. "DigiModify– Sword activate! DigiModify– KnightSword activate! DigiModify– HeroSword activate!" He watched as the three DMDs merged together to form the powerful UltraSword Combo. "DigiModify– UltraSword activate!"
"Get back, Rapidmon!" cried out Jenrya, but it was too late. He watched as MagnaAngemon sliced Rapidmon in half, straight down the middle.
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt!" cried one of the commentators. "Rapidmon's been sliced up like a potato!"
Jenrya shook his head in disbelief. He was great at DigiBattles, so how was it that he could have lost? Well, at least Rapidmon had been backed-up. He unplugged his D-Tector from the console and stepped down. In the nature of true sportsmanship, he walked halfway to congratulate his opponent.
"Great battle," commented Jenrya, as he extended a hand out to shake Takeru's. "Must say I've never seen anyone DigiBattle like that."
"Thanks," said Takeru sincerely. "You were pretty good too. It's a shame we couldn't use our own DMDs. I hear you guys from the Space Ring have some sweet DMDs!"
"That's true," agreed Jenrya. "Well, good luck with the rest of the Championships."
"Thanks."

"Next up," announced Rosa Maridonna, the Match's Official announcer, "is the match you've all been waiting for. It's a match between the Juri Katou from Phyle and Takato Matsuda from Inphnitio! So, Izzy, do you think you could tell us more about them?"
The red-haired man next to her smiled and nodded.
"Of course, Rosa," he replied with a nod. "Let us have a look at our two contestants and their Digimon. Juri has Leomon, a superb warrior Digimon that some say was made especially for DigiBattles. With his great sword, he can attack with slicing slash or his, Fist of the Beast King attack, which is a punch so powerful that it sends their opponents flying back a panel."
"Then there's Takato Matsuda with his Digimon, WarGrowlmon," continued Izzy enthusiastically. "Unlike Leomon, WarGrowlmon has a fire-style loaded, which if Juri was allowed to choose her own DMDs, could be exploited. As it is, however, WarGrowlmon's pretty safe from aqua-style attacks."
"Isn't this Takato the same Takato Matsuda that brought down the Blue Dragon Syndicate?" asked Rosa curiously, she asked Izzy.
The red-haired man nodded in reply.
"It sure is, Rosa," he told her, "so this will be quite some match, I'm sure." He paused for a while to look at his statistics and then continued, "Currently the odds are in young Matsuda's favour. The bookies are saying he has a 1 in 10 chance of winning against Ms. Katou."
"Thank you, Izzy," thanked Rosa exasperatedly. "Now let us go... Oh, my gosh!" She rose up from her seat, a look of pure horror on her face. "Did you just see that?" she cried, nearly shrieking at the top of her voice. "Something terrible has happened down at the consoles. I can't exactly tell what's happened from up here, but it seems as if Ms. Katou is now unconscious! I repeat, she is now unconscious!"

Takato rushed towards Juri from the other side of the large holographic battle arena, but was being kept back by the paramedics that had just arrived.
"Juri!" he cried to her, but the medics wouldn't allow him to get near. "Hey! Let me past! She's a friend of mine."
"I'm sorry, sir, but you can't get near her," protested the paramedic. "She's in a critical condition right now."
"Please, I'm her friend," pleaded Takato. "Let me at least go with her."
A voice suddenly announced something over the P.A. speakers. It was Rosa Maridonna, who had finally been told what had happened.
"For those of you that could not see, I must regretfully inform you that due to some faulty wiring one of the contestants has been electrocuted," announced Rosa Maridonna. "I have been told that she is in a critical condition and must be rushed to hospital. Due to this incident, all matches for today will be cancelled for repairs to the Battle Consoles. I am sorry for this inconvenience." She then continued to talk about how to get refunds, giving out instructions that were so complicated that one needed a PhD to understand them.
Takato ignored it. He ran alongside Juri, as she was taken out of the stadium on a stretcher by the paramedics. As he ran, he prayed that Juri would be all right. He talked to her, telling her things that she couldn't possibly hear. Without even knowing, he got into the ambulance and continued to sit by her side, as the paramedics worked hard to save her life.
"Please, Juri, please be okay," pleaded Takato, as he sat beside her. "Please stay in there. Don't leave us. I'm here for you, Juri, so please don't give up. Please, stay alive."
Tears dampened his cheeks. They streamed down from his eyes and the sky above went grey in sympathy and began to rain.

The bus screeched to a halt in the pouring rain outside the hospital, Indramax Hospital.
Alice stepped out with a raincoat on, the rain splattering against the plastic forcefully. Jenrya followed her and the two then ran towards the hospital doors, going through them as they slid open.
The inside of the hospital was white and the floor was made up of blue tiles. Near the entrance, past the large entrance mat used in public places, was a mosaic of an Arabian horse. It was the symbol of Indramax Hospital, North America's newest and most state-of-the-art hospital with automatic cleaning robots, fully automated climate control that kept the temperature at a comfortable 21ºC.
Jenrya brushed the hood of his raincoat back and looked around him. It was then that he saw the reception desk. He walked over to it with a solemn look on his face.
"Uh... hi," he greeted the receptionist. "We're here to see Juri Katou. We're friends of hers." While he waited for the receptionist to find her details, he looked around him. "This sure is a nice hospital," he commented.
"It's not bad," stated Alice, as she looked around. "Don't know what's up with the horse motif, though."
"I don't know, it's pretty classy," commented Dobermon from her D-Tector.
A shiver ran down Jenrya's spine.
"Is it just me or is it cold in here?" he asked in the hope that someone would also say that it was quite cold. He received negative replies from Alice and no reply from the receptionist. "Guess it's just me then," he said, almost huffily.
"I'm sorry, I can't seem to find any details of a Jeri Gatu," stated the receptionist.
"No, it's Juri Katou!" corrected Jenrya quickly.
The receptionist laughed at her silly mistake.
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry," she apologised. "Silly me." She then went through the records once more. As she did so, she failed to notice that a message for her had appeared on the computer screen next to the one she was looking at. "Ah, here we go!" she exclaimed. "She's in Room 237, Floor 2."
"Thank you," said Jenrya gratefully, before he turned and made his way to the elevator with Alice close by his side. "I hope Juri's all right," he said to Alice in an attempt to make conversation.

Takato held Juri's hand, as he sat beside her bed. He could remember the times they shared together, as friends and nothing more. They had been happy times and now... Now it was nothing but sorrow.
"Juri, I know you can't hear me," he said to her, "but I want you to know that we're all rooting for you. I know that you'll get better. You're not one to give up, after all." He smiled weakly at her sleeping form, as he held her hand.
The brown-haired youth had been talking to Juri non-stop, encouraging her to wake up. He knew she couldn't hear him. Takato knew that there was a slim chance that Juri would ever wake up again, but he knew he had to try. There was no point in not trying.
"Please, don't give up," Takato pleaded to the unconscious girl. "You can't give up, Juri. I don't want to see you die. You've got friends here, loving friends. None of us want to see you go, Juri."
Leomon sighed from his D-Tector, which sat on the bedside table next to her bed. He and Takato had been talking to Juri alternatively, each giving the other a rest.
"Takato, I don't think that this will work," he told the youth. "We must rest and give her time. She must wake up in her own time, of her own accord, not because we want her to."
Takato nodded.
"You're right, Leomon," he agreed. "WarGrowlmon, you think you could phone Alice and Jenrya, see where they are?"
"Okay," agreed the dinosaur Digimon.
"Paging a Mr. Marshall," announced a feminine voice over the P.A. System, which Takato ignored. "Paging a Mr. Marshall. Please report to the Temperature Control Room immediately."
There suddenly came a knock from the open door and Takato turned round. He saw a man standing at the doorway and instantly recognised him. The lurid yellow jacket was a give away.
"Hey, you're the guy I bumped into near my school!" exclaimed Takato all of a sudden.
A smile spread across the bearded man's face, his domed forehead glistening in the light as if it had been waxed.
"I see you recognise me," exclaimed the man. "May I come in? I wish to apologise to Ms. Katou."
"Apologise?" asked Takato curiously.
"It was my company that made the equipment," explained the man. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr. Merzuno, the Head of ShibuCorp."
Takato turned solemnly towards Juri's unconscious form, looking away from Dr. Merzuno. He knew deep down that the man wasn't directly responsible for the accident. After all, it wasn't him that built the machine himself. The Heads of big companies like ShibuCorp never did make the machines themselves.
"Yeah, I guess you can come in," said Takato quietly.
Dr. Merzuno walked in quietly.
"It seems that everything I create turns out to hurt people," he muttered under his breath, as he stopped next to Juri. "Mr. Matsuda, Ms. Katou, I must apologise to you both. I guess, if I hadn't gone into computer programming, none of this would have ever happened." He then remained silent, with his arms crossed and his head lowered in respect. "I feel as if I must make amends to what I've done," he finally said after a while of silence.
"There's nothing that you can do," said Takato quietly with a shake of his head.
"Paging all technicians," announced a feminine voice over the P.A. System. The owner of the voice sounded very nervous and very strained. The voice sounded urgent. "Paging all technicians. Report immediately to the Temperature Control Room."
"Say, is it just me or is it getting pretty nippy in here?" asked Dr. Merzuno curiously, as he began rubbing his arms.
Takato, whom was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, nodded in agreement as he hugged himself for warmth.
"Y-y-y-yesssss," stuttered Takato through chattering teeth.
A nurse rushed in with a whole set of blankets.
"Help me put this blanket on the patient quick!" barked out the nurse, as she started unfolding the blankets.
"What's going on?" asked Dr. Merzuno curiously, as he grabbed a corner and helped her drape it over Juri.
"The Temperature Control System has gone beserk," replied the nurse, as she got another blanket and placed it on Juri. "The temperature's dropping rapidly and if we don't do anything soon, the patients might just end up suffering from hypothermia."
"Why don't you just turn the system's power off?" suggested Takato.
The nurse shook her head.
"The technicians say they can't do it," replied the nurse. "All the systems are fully integrated. If we cut the power off for one, we cut the power of for all of them." She exhaled and her breath became misty.
Dr. Merzuno brought out his own D-Tector and pressed a button on it. He looked carefully at the screen.
"The temperature's now 5 degrees and getting lower," he said concernedly. "I'm a computer engineer," he announced suddenly. "Do you think they'll need my help?"
"All the help we can get is very welcome," replied the nurse.
"Then I'm going too!" announced Takato, as he rose from his seat.
"But you're just a kid!" protested the nurse.
"I'm a Reservist too," stated Takato sternly, "and I'm not going to sit by while the temperature drops below freezing. Juri's got enough on her plate, as it is. I don't want her suffering from this hyperthermia as well."
"Hypothermia," corrected the nurse. "Well, I guess if you're a Reservist you could be of some help. I'll take you to the Temperature Control Room. Follow me!"

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The Digimon smiled evilly, as he stood within the hospital's computer network.
"Things are going according to plan, sir," he announced to his superior. "I have the Red Phoenix TetraKey and to top it off, all of our air conditioning units are putting a freeze on every building on the Earth and Orbital Space Ring. It won't be long before we have frozen people-cicles."
"Good," chuckled the voice of the Digimon's superior. "Continue with the Plan. Freeze them all!"

To be continued...