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. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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File 11: Yuuki wo Tsubasa ni Shite – (I'll turn my Courage into Wings)

"Atomic Blaster!"
WarGrowlmon fired twin beams of pure red energy straight at the Whale Virus, hitting it. The Virus seemed unfazed and continued to weave through the path, punching holes as it leapt towards him.
"It's no use, Takato!" cried WarGrowlmon.
"Oh yeah?" exclaimed Takato. "DigiModify– ThunderStorm activate!"
WarGrowlmon's right arm turned into a cannon and he aimed it straight ahead of him.
"ThunderStorm!" he cried out, as he fired three bolts of electricity out in front of him, each of which went in their separate directions. His attack hit the Whale Virus, dealing double damage to the aqua-style virus but didn't manage to penetrate the hard shell of the Freezer.980 Virus. "Takato, I need something more hard hitting for the other virus!"
"Try this Hammer DMD," suggested Takato.
A hammer appeared in the place of WarGrowlmon's right hand. He then charged straight at the moving Freezer.980 Virus and swung straight at the hardened body. The hammer smashed into it, crumpling the Virus' body and destroying it. WarGrowlmon then glared at Frigimon, only the aqua-style Digimon had long since gone and much to his dismay, Frigimon had not left a patch of ice at all.
"Takato, Frigimon's gone," hollered WarGrowlmon, as he ran across the narrow path, shrinking to a miniature size as he did so and then becoming his normal size when the path widened again. He looked around him and all he could see were the dead trees that lined the pathway and the static that the entire DarkNet floated in. "I can't see where he went. There's no ice or anything!"
The Digimon looked around and then saw a Digimon nearby. It occurred to him that he could ask the Digimon over there. WarGrowlmon walked up to him.
"Er... excuse me, but did you see a snowman-like Digimon run past?" asked WarGrowlmon politely.
"Huh! Get lost," sneered the Devidramon. "This is the DarkNet, fool! No surface dwellers from the Regular Digiworld are allowed here, so scram! Beat it!"
"But..." began WarGrowlmon.
Devidramon rose to his full height, which was the same height as WarGrowlmon, only slightly taller.
"Look here, pal, what part of scram don't you understand?" slurred the Devidramon. "Your kind ain't welcome here, I can tell you that. By decree of the Dark King, MetalEtemon, no one from the Regular Dark World is allowed here. No one! If you don't leave here, I'll be forced to have to shred you to pieces!"
A snarl had spread across WarGrowlmon's scaly face.
"Look here, I need to find that Digimon and if you've seen him, you better tell me where he is!" he shouted at the DarkNet Digimon. "Whoa!" he cried, as Devidramon rushed straight at him. He side-stepped the attack and in doing so, he grabbed Devidramon by the wing and swung the Digimon round and straight into the trunk of a dead digital tree.
The DarkNet Digimon roared angrily, as he pried himself from the tree trunk. He whirled round and swung his sharp claws straight at WarGrowlmon.
WarGrowlmon crossed his arms and blocked the attack with the blades on the sides of his arms.
"Look, I don't have time for this!" he roared and swept his arms aside and then headbutted the Digimon. He grabbed Devidramon and then charged, slamming the Digimon against the side of the path. "If you've seen the Digimon I'm looking for, tell me which way he went!"
The look on WarGrowlmon's face was one of pure rage. It came from an untapped Darkness within him, one that he had never had a need for. Now it welled up within him, making him burn with a passionate fury of rage. This Darkness made itself known within him and Devidramon could sense it.
"He went that way!" stuttered Devidramon, as he pointed to his right. "Looks as if he went towards the abandoned Dragon DigiSquare." He felt WarGrowlmon let go of him and he slumped back to the floor. "You're... you're not going there are you? It's in the Neutral Territory!"
"I have to go," was WarGrowlmon's reply.
"You can't!" protested Devidramon. "There's a monster there. It destroys anything that it comes across. That's why not even the Syndicates dare claim the territory for themselves. Even they're afraid of it, man!" WarGrowlmon turned round to glare at Devidramon angrily and the Digimon nearly shrunk in size at the sight of the cold glare. "Oh, okay, but you at least have to take this," said the Devidramon, as he brought out a data packet. "It's the Dark-ID. Every DarkNet Digimon has one... It shows everyone that you belong to the DarkNet."
WarGrowlmon took it from Devidramon wordlessly and then noticed that it was a Custom Program, which was to be installed as a part of him. That was okay. Takato could easily uninstall it. So, now that he had this Dark-ID, perhaps he would be more accepted by the Digimon and Programs that resided in the DarkNet?

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Jenrya kicked at the ice once more. It had frozen the doors shut, making it impossible for them to use the elevator and another spill had frozen the door to the staircase.
"I don't think that's going to do any good," shivered Alice, her breath condensing in the cold air. She had shed her jacket a long time ago, as the rain droplets on its plastic surface had solidified into ice. "The ice is far too solid." Even though she had Jenrya's orange vest draped around her, she still shivered. It was no good. The cold was far too penetrating.
The dark-blue-haired youth sighed angrily.
"This doesn't make sense!" cried Jenrya. "It was just some spilled water. Now look at it! It's so hard you'd think it was made out of diamond!" He thought of how they had tried using hot water from a Thermos flask. The water had solidified in an instant afterwards, merely adding to the thickness of the ice.
"I wonder how Juri is doing," said Dobermon thoughtfully. "I can't imagine the patients are faring well in this cold air."
"She'll be fine," said Terriermon positively, although even he wasn't sure. Being a Digimon inside a D-Tector, he had no idea what such cold was like. "Hey, Jen, what do you think you're doing?" cried Terriermon, as Jenrya pulled the D-Tector out of his pocket. "Hey! Wait! No!"
"Shift, darn it!" shouted Jenrya angrily, as he swung his D-Tector down at the ice and struck at it with all his might.
Terriermon cried out.
"Jenrya, please stop it!" he protested. "You're making me dizzy!"

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Graffiti was scrawled all over the floor of the DarkSquare, not that it mattered. The place looked broken and there were huge gaps in the floor, gaps which would lead to a Digimon's demise. Some parts looked as if they had been burnt. Other parts of the floor looked cracked.
Frigimon looked around him. This place scared him so much, yet at least it was quiet and safe from the DarkNet Digimon. He walked up to the huge ice crystal that grew in the middle of the DarkSquare ruins and touched it. The crystal still felt cold to the touch and he smiled. It comforted him to know that the Control Program was still working and still intact. With this, he would be able to freeze the entire world and wreak vengeance on those Digimon that had Operators.
The aqua-style Digimon brought out a red object. It looked like a key and the top of it was sculpted into the shape of a phoenix. This was the Red Phoenix Key, one of the TetraKeys that corresponded to a firewall within the deepest recesses of the DarkNet, a place known as the Forbidden Account. He knew all about the Forbidden Account, the Domain of the Twelve Sentinels and the DarkKing, Ruler of the DarkNet. It was the oldest part of the Digital World, standing guard to the entrance to the Dark Ocean, the resting place of the 'Beast'.
It would only be a matter of time before Hypnos released the 'Beast' and then the Digital World would be entirely destroyed. Only those that belonged to Hypnos would survive and they would rule the World!
"Give it up, Frigimon."
Frigimon whirled round.
"No!" protested the aqua-style Digimon, as he saw WarGrowlmon advance towards him. "How is it possible? You couldn't have found me! Not so quickly!" The aqua-style Digimon began to back up.
WarGrowlmon had had quite enough of chasing Frigimon across the Digital World. He charged up for one of his Atomic Blaster attacks.
"Your plan is going to end right now!" roared WarGrowlmon. "It's time to set the people free! Atomic Blaster!" He fired twin beams of energy at the frozen control program behind Frigimon, cracking it into pieces and destroying it.
"WarGrowlmon, you did it!" cried Takato all of a sudden. "The air conditioning units have stopped! Achoo!" He sniffed. "Aw great, I've caught a cold," he said sarcastically through a bunged up nose.
The Hypnos Digimon looked at the cracked pieces of his Control Program. It was shattered now. His dreams of revenge were gone and he had failed his superior.
"You fool!" shouted Frigimon. "Now Dr. Yamaki will delete me for my failure." He turned round to face WarGrowlmon. "Well, if I'm going down I'm taking you with me! Sub Zero Ice Punch!" Frigimon smashed his fist into the ground and iced it up, sending a wave of ice hurtling towards WarGrowlmon.
Seeing it hurtling at him, WarGrowlmon fired his jet boosters and flew over the attack. He rushed straight at Frigimon and swung his arm straight at the Hypnos Digimon, but missed as Frigimon slid across the ice right underneath him. WarGrowlmon landed back on the icy ground but lost his footing and fell on to his back.
When the snowball flew through the air, WarGrowlmon could get back up in time. He was hit by the cold, aqua-style attack and it did double damage to WarGrowlmon, scything off 160HP off his total 900HP. The pain was intense, but WarGrowlmon managed to get back to his feet. He charged up a powerful attack and then let rip with his Atomic Blaster.
Fire-style attacks do not do double damage to aqua-style Digimon or viruses, even though you would think they should. As it was, his Atomic Blaster only damaged Frigimon by 100HP.
"Darn!" cried Takato angrily. "I don't seem to have any Electric-style attacks, except for this ElecSabre." And he wanted to use that in a UltraSword3 Combo, which was far more powerful than the UltraSword and the UltraSword2 Combos.
"I'll just have to tough it out then," growled WarGrowlmon, as he lunged straight at Frigimon.
The aqua-style Digimon inhaled sharply and breathed out. His breath was icy cold to the touch and billowed out in a fine, white mist, doing double damage and wounding WarGrowlmon by 200HP. Frigimon then punched WarGrowlmon, the force of which sent WarGrowlmon sliding backwards on the ice. He ran and slid straight after WarGrowlmon, getting down low to the icy ground as he slid.
WarGrowlmon fired his jet boosters and flew above Frigimon.
"Takato, how's the DMDs coming along?" asked WarGrowlmon.
"Not too good," replied Takato. "I'm having problems finding the other two sabre DMDs. Oh, wait! There's a FireSabre!"
Frigimon leapt back to his feet.
"Ha, no DMDs will help you now!" laughed Frigimon, as he drew his hands back. "Try this on for size!" He performed one complicated manoeuvre before slamming both his hands down to the ground.
Huge spikes of ice rose up from the ground and one sliced past WarGrowlmon's leg, making him cry out in pain. He staggered backwards and crashed into the sharp edge of another spike. The two spikes had sliced his HP down considerably and he was no down to a very low 10HP. One more attack and he would be deleted in an instant.
"Now let's try another snowball!" chortled Frigimon, as he threw a snowball through the air.
WarGrowlmon dodged it, being careful not to hit the ice spikes that still stood around him. He swung his arms in an arc around him, cutting through the surrounding ice spikes with the axe blades on his arms. They fell and shattered all around him.
"Wait, WarGrowlmon, I've got some DMDs for you to use," announced Takato quickly. "DigiModify– Sanctuary Panel activate! DigiModify– GigaHeal activate! DigiModify– Taomon activate!" To his surprise, none of the DMDs actually appeared but instead merged into one. "Wow! I never knew this Combo existed. Oh well... DigiModify– GigaHeart activate!"
Taomon suddenly appeared, or rather a copy of her did. She flew straight at Frigimon with such speed that the aqua-style Digimon couldn't get out of the way. The fox Digimon thrust her arms forwards and let rip with her Thousand Spells attack, which plastered Frigimon with strips of paper with incantations written on them. Moments later, Taomon clapped her hands together in prayer. The pieces of paper became beams of light that shot upwards and then bathed WarGrowlmon, healing all his wounds. Seconds later, Taomon disappeared.
"Now that's one good Combo," commented WarGrowlmon. He felt completely refreshed. No wonder, seeing as he had 900HP again. WarGrowlmon smiled as he braced himself for battle. "Time to show you what I can do when I'm at full power, Frigimon." He rushed straight at Frigimon and slashed straight at the aqua-style Digimon, cutting away at his digital data.
Frigimon was unable to get out of the way in time. Each time one of WarGrowlmon's blades cut at him, he lost a considerable amount of HP. There was no other thing for it. He thrust his arms out and punched WarGrowlmon in the chest and sent the fire-style Digimon flying backwards.
"I won't be defeated by the likes of you!" protested Frigimon, as he threw a capsule down to the floor. "Now feast on viruses!"
"That coward!" accused Takato.
They were all Freezer.980 Viruses and to make things worse, there were three of them. They moved sideways as if they were on wheels and were positioned one behind the other, moving in alternate directions. The three viruses made it impossible for WarGrowlmon's Atomic Blaster to hit Frigimon.
"WarGrowlmon, when one of them attacks, step back and let them have it," suggested Takato.
"Right," agreed WarGrowlmon with a nod of his head, as he steaded himself. The ground around him rumbled again. This time, he leapt sideways, avoiding the icicles that sprouted up from the ground.
A Freezer.980 teleported in front of WarGrowlmon and opened its door.
There was an ice spike behind WarGrowlmon, so he had to step sideways instead. In doing so, he was not able to attack the Freezer.980. Another one appeared in front of him. He stepped back and swung his axe at it, slicing the inner part of the Freezer.980. The Virus shook in pain and closed its door, before teleporting back to its original position. WarGrowlmon quickly swung his arms around in an attempt to cut the icicles that surrounded him.
The third Freezer.980 appeared in front of WarGrowlmon and attacked. Its cold attack hit the Digimon, doing double damage to the fire-style WarGrowlmon. The virus then teleported back to its original position.
"WarGrowlmon, you all right?" asked Takato concernedly.
"I'll be fine," replied WarGrowlmon. "You have any more DMDs I can use against these viruses?"
"Well, I'm still looking for the final part to the UltraSword3 Combo," admitted Takato, "but I've got a couple more Hammer DMDs. I'll load them for you."
Frigimon laughed, as he threw a strange ball of cold mist through the air. It arced upwards and then landed straight on WarGrowlmon's head, dealing double damage and encasing him in a block of the coldest, purest ice that Frigimon could create.
"WarGrowlmon!" cried Takato.
"You're history," laughed Frigimon. "Go get him!"
The three Freezer.980 Viruses then surrounded WarGrowlmon completely. Each one opened their doors and attacked WarGrowlmon, piling on the damage. With WarGrowlmon trapped in the ice he was not able to move or use any DMD or Combo in retaliation. He had become a sitting duck and his 900HP dropped rapidly past the halfway point and down into the red figures of 100HP and decreasing.
"WarGrowlmon!"

To be continued...