" Digimon: The Digital War "
By
Malcolm Yuy
Episode 03 " The Urban Jungle "
Copyrighted by Malcolm Yuy.
Synopsis: Hi, this is Davis. Things have changed since the attack on Odaiba. Three years have passed, and the world has been taken over by seven digimon, a group called the Omega Seven. They have a leader called the Digimon Overlord, who is in the Digital World. Veemon and I were in New York, and were escaping from the Flymon when we ran into Willis. He lead us to his secret base of operations, where we reunited with Mimi! Later, one of the Omega's troops came and attacked us. Just when I thought I was going to die, a symbol appeared on my D-3 and Veemon net digivolved to become Veedramon!!!
"How……..?"
"How what sire?"
"How can this human get his digimon to digivolve? It doesn't make sense, he shouldn't be able to!"
"Well, maybe there's a way to digivolve without having the berrier absorb it's data."
"Well, if there is, I want to find out how, so I can stop it! Find out where the Digi-Resistance here is hiding, and find out as much as you can about this ' Net Digivolution ' and stop it!"
"Yes sir!"
The digimon was starting to leave when the Omega said "And Gekomon? If you fail, I destroy you and absorb your data," the U.S. Omega said, staring at his servant from the shadows.
"Yes sir," the Gekomon replied, before leaving his leader's castle to head out on his mission…
The sun peaked through the urban jungle of New York, the concrete absorbing its heat. In the Underground, some of the Digi-Resistance were waking up, taking over shifts that others took hours ago. Among the group were those of Willis, Mimi and Davis.
Right now, in her room, Mimi was sleeping. She was in the middle of a dream. In this dream, she was at the party, the party before the Digimon Overlord came and ruined it all. She was by Izzy's side, and smiling at her. She smiled at him, and the two got closer, their lips almost inches apart. Right as they were about to kiss, they heard someone holler from the balcony and stopped. Izzy frowned, and Mimi did too. They then went to the balcony to see what was going on. In the night sky was the digital rift.
Mimi was scared. She hung onto Izzy for support. And then, without warning, a fireball raged through the sky, hitting the city, incenerating the urban area to ashes. The aftermath caused huge shockwaves, hurtling the digidestind up into the air, and Mimi kept her hands interlaced with Izzy's. But the winds were too strong, and in one last moment, Mimi's hands were released from Izzy's grip. Tears formed into her and Izzy's eyes, as they looked at each other one more time before being separated from each other. And in one last holler, Mimi hollered:
"IZZZZZZZZYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!"
"Mimi, wake up, wake up!" Palmon shook her human partner, who's head was turning side to side from the nightmare.
"Huh?" Mimi looked around her room, and then frowned, remembering her last dream.
"Mimi, are you alright? You were tossing and turning in bed," Palmon asked, concerned for her best human friend.
"Yeah, I'm alright Palmon, there's nothing to worry about," Mimi answered, giving Palmon a fake smile. Palmon smiled back. She hoped that everything would be alright for her human partner for the moment. But she also understood that since the war started, her and Mimi have been anything but sane. She had remembered what happened after the shockwave explosions in Odaiba…
***FLASHBACK BEGINS***
Mimi was being blown away from her friends by the ferosious shockwaves, hanging to Palmon for dear life. Her eyes were closed, and she was so scared as she was sailing through the night sky, not knowing where she would end up. The last thing she remembered before going unconscious was her back hitting something sharp.
Palmon had gotten up from her partner's grasp, and looked at her surroundings. The plant digimon knew this place well. It was Mimi's old hometown, New York City. And where the two were, it was even more disturbing. They were at Ground Zero, the location of where the Twin Towers used to be a year ago, before being blown to smithereens by terrorists. Thankfully though, the American construction crew had cleared everything out, so the two didn't get hurt that bad.
The concrete was smolding, and fog was surrounding the ground. Old shards of glass layed on the debris of gravel. The sky was grey, with the digital rift embedded into the clouds. Palmon saw the astonishing rift, and was amazed, seeing it for a second time, figuring out that it had spread to all over the world. She then turned her head, seeing the unconscious Mimi on the ground. She walked over, and shook her friend awake.
"Uh, Palmon, what just happened?" Mimi asked, giving Palmon a questioning look.
"That's what I would like to know. It seems we got blown away from Odaiba. Far away," Palmon replied. Mimi didn't comprehend what her friend was saying until she got up and looked at her surroundings.
"Oh my god, this is Ground Zero! We must be back in New York! But where are all the other digidestind?" Mimi asked. She looked around, seeing none of her other friends in the area.
"They might've been blown to other places, or maybe we were the only ones blown away," Palmon answered. Mimi nodded. After all, that explanation had made since. She had a lot of dirt on her, so she dusted herself off. After doing so, the two heard a buzzing noise. Flymon had rounded the corner of the buildings that were left standing, and came into Mimi and Palmon's view.
"Oh no, it's Flymon!" Mimi hollered. They came toward her, and stopped in front of her. They all stared Mimi in the eye.
"Are you soldiers of the Omega Seven?" the leader of them asked. There were seven of them.
"Soldiers? Omega what?" Mimi asked, not knowing what the insectoid digimon had just asked.
"You never even heard of them? They are seven Ultimate digimon, coming forth to rule the Real World! They are each located on a continent, and they will eventually take over the Earth. You can either join us, or you're against us," the leader asked.
"Well, if some evil digimon are going to take over the world, then I'm out!!!" Mimi shouted, narrowing her eyes in anger at them.
"Well then, what a feisty one. Too bad you have to die though," the leader of the Flymon said. Stingers then emerged from the digimon's bottom, and the digimon raised them upward, with them shining like new. Mimi flinched for a second, but then calmed down.
"I won't die though. I'm a digidestind. Palmon, digivolve!" Mimi hollered, aiming her digivice at her partner. A green light emerged, and it hit Palmon. Palmon absorbed the power, and started to grow and transform.
"Palmon digivolve to Togemon!!!"
Togemon growled at the Flymon. She was about to attack, but then something out of the corner of her eye caught her attenion. In one of the digital rift blocks high above them in the sky, a white beam emerged, and traveled towards Togemon. As soon as it hit her, it started absorb part of Togemon's binary code. When finished, the beam dissappeared. Where Togemon was standing, now was Palmon, again.
"What? How come I'm not Togemon anymore?" Palmon asked, blinking in astonishment at herself.
"Didn't you know? That digital rift absorbs data from digimon that try to digivolve in this world, so your partner is useless. Sharp-"
"Let's go Palmon!" Mimi hollered, grabbing Palmon by the arm. The two then ran away from the battlescene, running into the depths of the destroyed city. The Flymon started to chase after her, following her through dingy alleyways and shortcuts. Mimi then ran into a building, and locked the door. She and Palmon then ran into the back room, where there were cargo boxes. She then crouched low to the ground, and told Palmon to be quiet. She looked faintly out the window, and saw Flymon fly by. They then stopped.
"I think I heard something," one of them said. Mimi's eyes widened in horror, hoping they wouldn't find her in this abondaned building.
"Probably just your stomach growling," one of the other Flymon stated. The rest of the group flew away.
"Phew, that was a close one," Mimi said, closing her eyes tiredly.
"You're telling me," Palmon said, just as tired as her partner. The two then started to nod off. Just a distance away, was tattered can. And in the shadows, stood a mysterious stranger. The stranger saw Mimi, and took a step forward. As soon as it did, it's arm hit the can, causing it to fall off a box and hit the concrete floor. It then rolled, and made its way to Mimi's side. When Mimi opened her eyes and saw the can, she got frightened. She shook Palmon awake.
"Uh Palmon, I think we're not alone," Mimi said, her hands grasped onto Palmon's arms. The stranger in the shadows then walked forward, and Mimi turned around. As soon as she it, she screamed. The stranger then clamped his hand over her mouth.
"Ssh, do you want the Flymon to hear us? If they hear us, then we'll be destroyed," the boy said. Mimi nodded, and the boy unclamped his hand from Mimi's mouth. Mimi took a good look at him. He had blond hair, and blue eyes. On both sides of his legs, standing on his sneakers, were two little bunny digimon, one white, and one a very dark brown.
"Aren't you Willis?" Mimi asked, remembering the boy from seeing a picture of him that Kari took the last time she was in New York.
"Yes, and these are my digimon, Terriermon and Lopmon. How do you know my name?" Willis asked, questioning Mimi.
"I'm a friend of Izzy's. I'm also one of the Chosen digidestind. My name's Mimi Tachikawa," Mimi said, extending her left hand. Willis shook it.
"Well, now that we have been properly introduced, what do we now? We just can't face those Flymon out there, they'll wipe us out," Mimi reasoned. Palmon and the other digimon nodded.
"You got a good point there. And I have an idea. Here's what we should do. We should build a secret hideaway, and find others who have survived this incident. We then should develop a way to destroy these digimon, or get past them anyway. We are now in a war," Willis said, looking at her seriously in the eyes. Mimi nodded. "So, are you with my idea?" Willis asked.
"Yes, I am," Mimi answered, after thinking about it for a minute. She then smiled at Willis, and she and the digimon started their plan of action…
***FLASHBACK ENDS***
That meeting with Willis lead all to this, the forming of the Digi-Resistance, groups of digidestind who have rebeled against the Omega Seven. Most of them, though, have joined the Omega Seven as slaves, stripped of their freewill, mindless soldiers, who take orders without question. Their digimon had become loyal servants, and don't take any commands from their human partners anymore.
Palmon shook her head as she came back to reality, to the room where she and Mimi slept. Mimi had gotten up and taken a shower. She then emerged from her bath, in a bathrobe. She then brushed her hair and teeth before choosing some clothes to wear for the day, a lime green long-sleeved shirt and white cargo pants. She then put on some boots, and laced them up. She made her bed, and then grabbed her digivice.
"Come on Palmon, it's time to head to the main control room," Mimi yawned, clamping her hand over her mouth as she did so. Palmon nodded at Mimi, and then proceeded to the main room. Again, she got to a computer and started working. A few minutes later, Willis, Davis and their digimon walked into the room. Willis was holding a wire with a clip at the end, and plugged it into the computer mainframe.
"Hey Davis, can I see your D-3?" Willis asked. Davis just shrugged and handed his digivice over.
"What do you need it for Willis?" Davis asked, as Willis touched a button on the D-3. On the top of the digivice, a port opened up, and Willis attached the clip to the port.
"I want to know what caused Veemon to net digivolve to Veedramon. If we could harness that power, we could get our digimon to digivolve," Willis replied. He then typed a few keys, and the LCD screen of Davis' D-3 lit up. On the monitor screen in the computer room, it showed binary code, in a strange way.
"Wow, this is weird. The binary code is in the form of a double helix, or in other words, a DNA strand. I'm going to scan the helix to discover what kind of properties it has," Willis said. He then pressed a few more keys, and then the ENTER key. A light blue beam scanned through the helix on the monitor screen, and then a window popped up, showing the results. Willis was astonished.
"What's the problem Willis?" Davis asked, anxious to hear his answer.
"Guys, you're not going to believe this, but this double helix is made of real DNA strands, and not just that, it is also made up of code from the Net," Willis said. He then rubbed his chin, and came up with an idea. "Davis, can I take a blood sample from you?" Willis asked. Davis hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.
Willis got up from his seat, and pushed a button on the console. In a little compartment, the door slid open and he got out one little needle. He then motioned Davis to sit down. "Now, this may sting a little," Willis instructed.
"Yeah right Dr. Willis. Let's get it over with," Davis mumbled, rolling one of his sleeves back, exposing his tan skin. Willis then slowly inserted the needle, and Davis started to grip the chair hard, grimacing in pain. Blood then came out, and shot itself into the needle. Willis then took the needle out, and put a band-aid over it.
"I'll give you a lollipop later," Willis said, going back over to the console. On it was a little device, big enough for a needle. Willis placed the needle on it, and it was hooked to the device. The computer then scanned the blood sample, and another window popped up onto the computer screen, showing a model of Davis' DNA.
"I thought so. So this is how Net Digivolution works with the power of the Net plus the DNA of the digimon's human partner. I assume it only works for digidestind and their digimon only," Willis theorized. Mimi and Davis nodded.
"Can I have my digivice back now?" Davis said. Willis laughed before handing the D-3 back to Davis. As the group was celebrating, they didn't know that a Gekomon had followed one of their members into the base, pretending that he was a human's digimon partner. The Gekomon smiled as he finally had the base under control. He had climbed into an air vent, and recorded everything with a tape recorder.
"Oh, boss is going to love this," Gekomon said. As he moved backward, the tuba part of his body hit the left side of the vent.
Below the air vent, Willis, Davis and Mimi were talking until they heard a clanking up above. They then stopped talking. "Did you hear that?" Palmon asked.
"Yeah, I did. I'm going to go check that out," Willis said, having his digimon follow him every step of the way. He went to a storage closet nearby and pulled out a ladder, before proceeding to the air vent. He then stepped up, climbing until he reached the top, with his digimon on his shoulders. He then took the cover off, looking into the vent. In the dark, was the nervous Gekomon. He didn't move, but he was sweating vigorously.
"Terriermon, fire a warning shot," Willis commanded.
"Right! Terrier Tornado!!!" Terriermon twirled around at an alarming rate, creating a small tornado. He then released it, having it travel in the vent, all the way in the back until the trio heard it pick something up and had the body fly through the air towards them. The Gekomon screamed as he nailed Willis in the face, causing the teen to fall back, rocketing off of the ladder, falling toward the floor.
"Willis NO!!!!" Lopmon and Terriermon hollered in unison. The two flew off of the ladder, grabbing their human partner's arms to balance the weight out, as the two landed safely on the floor. The Gekomon fell off of Willis' face, and Willis grimaced as he saw the frog-like digimon on the floor.
"So, what were you doing in the air vent?" Willis asked, crossing his shoulders, looking down upon the Gekomon. Gekomon got up and brushed himself off, before looking at Willis and the rest of the digidestind.
"Oh, nothing. I just ended up there by accident. Now, if you excuse me, I have a human partner to return to," the Gekomon replied snobbishly as he waltzed out of the room. Out of the corner of his eye, Willis noticed a little black tape recorder in the Gekomon's right hand.
"Stop right there. Mimi, Davis, this guy work's for the Omega housed here," Willis said. Davis and Mimi nodded. Palmon and Veemon then ran in front of Gekomon, blocking the digimon's way out of the room.
"You think that will stop me? How pathetic," Gekomon said, before sucking in a huff of air. He then released it out of his tuba, the air creating a loud, irratating sound, also creating a powerful shockwave, which rocked Veemon and Palmon. The two Rookie digimon flew back as they hit the base walls, allowing Gekomon to escape. He ran out of the room.
"After him! Don't let him escape!!!" Willis exclaimed. Mimi and Davis followed as the three humans followed after that Gekomon. Their partners then joined up with them, advancing towards the Gekomon. Gekomon then created another shockwave through the entrance, causing the door to collapse, causing the little green digimon to emerge in the outside world.
"Oh great, now he's out," Davis said.
"Don't worry Davis, I'll get him! Vee Headbutt!!!" Veemon exclaimed as he pounced from his place upon the ground, his body then traveling through the air. The yellow V on his head lit up as he soared through the air, hitting his target in the back. The collision then caused the Gekomon to drop the tape recorder, having it fall onto the ground, and slide further forward.
"NO! My master needs that information!!!" the Gekomon exclaimed.
"Well, it's over now!!! Poison Ivy!!!" Palmon shouted, her claws extending forward. Vines wrapped themselves around the Gekomon, having him fall on his butt.
"We got you now Gekomon," Mimi smiled. Willis and Davis smiled in unison, along with their partners.
"Not so fast digidestind," a dark voice said. The three humans looked up, and saw something in front of them. It was a huge Champion level digimon, a Tortomon. He smiled evilly as the digidestind looked at him.
"A Tortomon? Well Veemon, that's the same kind of digimon that got us to digivolve the first time remember?" Davis asked, looking upon his partner.
"Yeah, but this one's different. He's….evil…" Veemon said, grimacing at the Tortomon.
"Then's let do something about it. Veemon, net digivolve!!!" Davis shouted, raising his D-3 high in the air, expecting for it to work. Nothing happened. "Huh? Why isn't it working? It worked last time!!!" Davis said, banging his fist upon his digivice.
"Too bad then," Tortomon replied, bending his head. Spikes then erupted from his shell, flying towards the digidestind. Their partners moved, pushing them all out of the way while dodging the oncoming attack.
"It's our turn!!!! Petit Twister!!!" Terriermon and Lopmon exclaimed in unison, releasing small bubble blasts. The oncoming blasts made their way towards Tortomon, hitting him in the head. Even though they didn't damage him, they made his eyes sting.
"Gekomon, go to the master while you can!!!" Tortomon exclaimed, while taking the hits of the blast.
"Right!" Gekomon said, realising where he was. He then released a tiny shockwave, powerful enough to release himself from Palmon's crutches.
"No!!! Poison Ivy!!!" Palmon extended her claws forward, this time coming up empty-handed.
"Oh no, he escaped!!!" Mimi exclaimed. If that Omega found out the secret to Net Digivolution, then there would be no hope in this world to defeat this evil. It had to be stopped. It just had to. Sweat was forming on her forehead, as the battle continued. Tortomon then recovered from the little onslaught, before ramming his tail into the twin bunny digimon, wacking them against the concrete walls of the urban jungle.
"Terriermon! Lopmon NO!!!!" Willis exclaimed. He grimaced sadly as his partners hit the wall, falling onto the ground, all beaten up and dirty.
"It's our turn to take a swing! Show them what you got Veemon!!!" Davis exclaimed, encouraging his digimon partner.
"Right Davis!!! Vee Headbutt!!!" Veemon shouted as he charged towards Tortomon. Again he pounced, ramming his head into Tortomon's neck, causing the reptile digimon to fall back slightly. Meanwhile, Gekomon was searching for the tape recorder, which somehow got lost. He then saw it.
"Ah, here it is. Won't master be pleased," he said happily as he grabbed the tape recorder. While paying attenion to getting it, Palmon came up behind him, and jumped him.
"Dah!!! NOOOOO!!!!" Gekomon exclaimed, again releasing the tape recorder into the air. In slow motion, it traveled, soaring down, until at the last moment, it shattered, ruining the tape and all.
"You dolt! Now the Omega won't know what causes Net Digivolution!!!" Tortomon exclaimed. This little amount of time then caused the little digimon team to regroup and attack.
"Here it goes! Vee Headbutt!!!!" Veemon shouted, again ramming into Tortomon's side, making the digimon slide to the side a little.
"Terrier Tornado!!!!" Terriermon released his attack, having it lift Tortomon up into the air.
"And, to finish it off!!! Poison Ivy!!!!" Palmon extended her claws. The vines wrapped around Tortomon, as he was caught off-guard. Palmon then slammed the rock-hard digimon onto the ground.
"Alright, we got him!!!" Willis exclaimed. He rejoiced too soon. Tortomon then got back up, and growled at the digimon. He then stomped his feet like a bull, before going to a head-on charge. The digimon shrank back in fear as the large reptile digimon made his way toward them, plowing into one after another, sending all of them to hit the wall of the buildings, hard. The humans grimaced in sadness as they saw each of their partners being abused. After falling off of the walls and colliding with the ground, the digimon were tired out.
"Hmm hmm hmm, it seems your digimon friends are tired. Well, now that I tired them out, now I can destroy you all!!!!" Tortomon exclaimed. He then charged towards the digidestind at full speed. The digimon saw this, and Palmon saw Mimi in fear.
No, it can't end like this. Not after all we've been through. Not after all the times my friends and I had to save the Digital World. No, it can't! It can'tttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mimi exclaimed in her thoughts, before opening her mouth to let out her emotions.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"
And with that scream, a light emerged from the sky, traveling into her digivice. When the light collided, it transformed the digivice into a D-3 with a lime green colored lens. Under the LCD screen was the Symbol of Sincerity. The D-3 then glowed with new surging power, before having a beam come out, and collide with Palmon's body. The power surged through the plant-type digimon, causing her to get up, and giving her the power to digivolve.
"Wow…." Mimi said, seeing her partner glow in dazzling display of light. The new transformation then began.
"NET DIGIVOLUTION…"
Palmon's skin ripped apart, as her binary code made its way into her system, making her body evolve. She changed shape as she became more tree-like, her body branching out. New skin emerged, but it was bark. Yellow eyes emerged, and her transformation was complete.
"Woodmon!!!!"
"As Palmon, I used the power of Net Digivoultion to digivolve to this form. My Twig Tap and Woody Smasher attacks are painstaking!" Woodmon exclaimed. Mimi smiled, looking at the new digivolution of her partner.
"Uh oh," Tortomon said. Gekomon shrank back below the bigger, yellow reptile digimon.
"You better be scared. Twig Tap!!!" Woodmon hollered, thrusting an arm forward, plowing it into Tortomon's skin. Her branches got stuck in the spiky hard quills, and Woodmon smiled as she lifted Tortomon up tiredly.
"You got him on the ropes! Now finish him!!!" Mimi hollered.
"Right!!! Uh!!!!!" Woodmon hollered, throwing the Tortomon into the air. "Woody Smasher!!!" Woodmon shouted, as thousands of wooden nettles emerged from her mouth, hitting Tortomon in the side as he was falling to the ground. In one final moment, Tortomon screamed as he hit the ground, dissolving into data.
"Well, time for me to scram!!!" Gekomon shouted. He ran off, and Woodmon was about to go after him when Mimi told her to stop.
"That's enough Woodmon. You can relax now, he's not going anywhere," Mimi said. Woodmon nodded, and released her energy, returning to her Rookie state. Davis stood there, amazed. Mimi was entirely different just a few minutes ago. She was like a totally different person. But then again, this was a war they were into, and wars can change the way people were…
"WHERE'S THE TAPE RECORDER I GAVE YOU GEKOMON?" the Omega asked.
"I'm sorry sir, but the recorder was destroyed when I tried to get away. My apologies. This won't happen again," the Gekomon said, bowing before his master.
"YOU'RE RIGHT GEKOMON, THIS WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN!!!" the Omega shouted.
"What do you mean sir? You can't…you can't!"
"I CAN, AND I WILL!!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" the Gekomon screamed, as he was killed. He transformed into green bits of data, and the Omega quickly absorbed the lifeforce of computer bits. The Omega then looked at a monitor screen at the digidestind.
"This won't happen again. This time, I'll go against them. It's time to stop this little brigade," the Omega said, as the scene faded to darkness…
Who is the mysterious North American Omega? And are the digidestind ready to go up against him? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters!!!
Well, that's the end of Episode 03. That one took a while to complete. I'm sorry for the delay, but I've been really busy lately. I'll try to come out with more episodes as soon as I can. 'Till the next one, ja ne!!!