Title: Lonely Destined
Chapter 4: Digi-Modify?
Author: Hahn
Summary: An alternate Season 3 story about a very different kind of Destined. Well, here's chapter four. The action starts at last.
Notes: Well, time for me to do my sporatic "write a story or two then disappear for another month" thing... Still, I hope someone, at least, reads this...
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I'm alive, was her first thought, followed closely by I'm awake, and I'm in one piece. None of this really surprised her; bad things rarely happened to her. It was part of the curse.
It took her several seconds to even think of checking out her surroundings. She was in the middle of a grassy field, near a sudden cliff, with small trees and bushes dotting the landscape, a forest nearby. This certainly wasn't Kansas. Or Odaiba, for that matter. Climbing to her feet and brushing herself off, Marian rubbed her forehead as a sudden, but thankfully short-lived headache came pounding along. Shrugging it off, she steadied herself on her feet, and continued to visually explore her surroundings.
A sudden rumbling in her gut warned her what her most immediate need might be. She was, apparently, lost in the unknown wilderness with nothing but the clothes she was wearing, a couple digimon cards in her card belt, and her beeping D-Ark.
Wait a minute. Card belt? Beeping D-Ark? Sure enough, on a quick re-examination, Marian was now wearing a leather belt with a couple pouches for digimon cards, one of which contained the two she had. Also clipped onto this pouch was her D-Ark, now active and fully functional. Except that she had heard that digivices, as she guessed this must be, were supposed to point to ones Digimon. This one didn't even seem to have support for a Digimon, which was strange, considering the nature of the device. It did, however, have a red, blinking dot that wasn't here, but seemed to be approaching her. Right over...
There. From out of the bushes, a silver, robotic creature slowly padded. Instantly, the D-Ark brought up data on it.
"Mechanorimon. Robot Digimon. Mechanori are simple Digimon that follow their programming exactly, and so make excellent servants. Their Twin Beam attack is not very accurate, but fires two powerful laser bursts." After this quick verbal explanation, the picture on the Digivice changed to a picture of the Mechanorimon Digimon card.
"Now why would that be neccisary information?" Marian wondered aloud. She hadn't known that the Digital World, as this must be, even 'knew' of the existence of the card game. Of course, truth be told, ten minutes ago she hadn't believed the place existed, so maybe she wasn't the best to make judgements.
All of a sudden, the robotic Digimon turned to face her. Apparently, although her comment had been much quieter then the Digivice's description, the creature had heard her and not the Digivice. "Figures. Well, let's just hope he's programmed to be friendly and helpful..." Looking around, Marian couldn't see any weapons to fall back on if he wasn't, so she crossed her fingers.
"Welcome, Digidestined, to the Digital World. I have been sent to greet you and..." In the middle of this rather comforting speech, the Mechanorimon simply froze. It twitched slightly, then spoke again, in a much harsher tone. "ERROR. ERROR. SYSTEM ERROR ENOUNTERED. SYSTEM GLITCH DETECTED; UNABLE TO BYPASS. NEW MISSION DATA: ELLIMINATE SYSTEM GLITCH." About to stand back, in the hopes of letting it go about it's business of fixing itself, Marian was rather startled when it stepped towards her and raised its hands, forming a red ball between them. "Twin Beam," spoke the monotonous voice, and the ball split and shot out as two ruby beams of light, which impacted the ground inches from Marian, blew small holes in the grassy field, and sent her running for dear life away from the crazed Digimon.
"I thought it said it had an internal error! Why is it attacking me?"
As if answering her question, the robot spoke again. "DESTROY SYSTEM GLITCH," was quickly followed by another horribly inaccurate, but still terrifying, Twin Beam, and then another.
"What do you mean, 'System glitch'? I'm not a glitch, I'm a person! You said yourself I was a Digidestined!" By now, her flight had carried her dangerously close to the edge of the cliff.
"FATAL ERROR, UNABLE TO BYPASS. GLITCH MUST BE DESTROYED. Twin Beam." This time, however inaccurate, the shots were luckily placed on each side of Marian, forcing her backwards toward the cliff's edge.
"Oh great. Just like in the movies. If there's a cliff, the hero always has to knocked off of- Aaah!" By this point, the Mechanorimon had supplied the action for her words, landing another shot right at her feet, flinging her back off the edge of the tall cliff, and spiraling dazed toward the ground far below. Recovering, Marian could do nothing but scream, and watch as her life flashed across her eyes. She screamed so loud, in fact, that she only barely heard the voice.
"Use your D-Ark," it said. Calming slighty, though not much, Marian shot back, "Why? I don't even have a Digimon!" Without any apparent change in tone or volume, the strangely familiar, yet at the same time scary, voice spoke again. "Use your D-Ark. All will become clear." Realizing she had no choice, Marian let her instincts take over, and, still falling, managed to grab her D-Ark, and one of the cards. Thinking back to what little she knew of Digimon, Marian remembered what always came next. Although the motion was difficult while falling, Marian managed a somewhat fancy pose, followed by twisting her arms so the edge of the card rested at the bottom of the D-Ark.
"Digi... MODIFY! Hyper Wing, ACTIVATE!" Sliding the card across the D-Ark, electricity sparkled around her, and raw data filled the air. Her voice echoed rather dramatically, and then the energy coalesced... Around her. The data solidified, and suddenly she had wings, and wasn't falling. With a mere thought, she shot up through the air, back above the clif, and was hovering in the air above the Mechanorimon. While half her mind screamed in terror, the other half was thouroughly convinced that what just happened was the coolest thing to ever happen to anyone, anywhere.
Her minds came to an agreement just in time for her to dodge another Twin Beam. Well, half a Twin Beam, anyway, as the other shot had possessed the usual, horrible inaccuracy. Thinking back to the TV show, and getting into the 'mood', Marian looked down at the Digimon. "You are seriously going to regret that buddy. Now, let's try this on for size!" Snatching her other card, she posed yet again, and, mentally replaying the "Digi-modify" music to herself, slid it.
"Digi... MODIFY! Angemon's Angel Rod, ACTIVATE!" Again, the card became a cloud of data. Again, the data formed into a shape. This time, it was a white staff with golden, runic carvings. All of the sudden, the staff felt as much part of her as the wings. She easily deflected the next Twin beam, then focused her energy on the staff, which began to glow. "You can throw..." The staff completely absorbed itself into her hand, forming a bright golden glow around it. "But can you catch!? Hand of Fate!" Throwing a punch into the air, Marian sent a powerful beam of white-gold energy down and entirely through the Mechanorimon, which disintergrated into data moments later.
Breathing heavily, Marian dropped to the ground, and her wings disapated. As they did, her two cards re-formed in her card holder. The data from the fallen digimon floated into the air, the began to swirl and form together into something solid. When it finished, a Mechanorimon card floated to the ground. As she picked up the card, Marian realised that it must have been what the D-Ark was referring to with the picture at the end of the description.
Wondering briefly if that was how she was going to get all her cards from now on during this strange adventure, Marian pocketed the card, and, picking a direction randomly, headed toward the forest.
End Notes: Hey, no cliffhanger this time. Anyway, what do you think? Please review and let me know, k? Please? :)
Chapter 4: Digi-Modify?
Author: Hahn
Summary: An alternate Season 3 story about a very different kind of Destined. Well, here's chapter four. The action starts at last.
Notes: Well, time for me to do my sporatic "write a story or two then disappear for another month" thing... Still, I hope someone, at least, reads this...
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I'm alive, was her first thought, followed closely by I'm awake, and I'm in one piece. None of this really surprised her; bad things rarely happened to her. It was part of the curse.
It took her several seconds to even think of checking out her surroundings. She was in the middle of a grassy field, near a sudden cliff, with small trees and bushes dotting the landscape, a forest nearby. This certainly wasn't Kansas. Or Odaiba, for that matter. Climbing to her feet and brushing herself off, Marian rubbed her forehead as a sudden, but thankfully short-lived headache came pounding along. Shrugging it off, she steadied herself on her feet, and continued to visually explore her surroundings.
A sudden rumbling in her gut warned her what her most immediate need might be. She was, apparently, lost in the unknown wilderness with nothing but the clothes she was wearing, a couple digimon cards in her card belt, and her beeping D-Ark.
Wait a minute. Card belt? Beeping D-Ark? Sure enough, on a quick re-examination, Marian was now wearing a leather belt with a couple pouches for digimon cards, one of which contained the two she had. Also clipped onto this pouch was her D-Ark, now active and fully functional. Except that she had heard that digivices, as she guessed this must be, were supposed to point to ones Digimon. This one didn't even seem to have support for a Digimon, which was strange, considering the nature of the device. It did, however, have a red, blinking dot that wasn't here, but seemed to be approaching her. Right over...
There. From out of the bushes, a silver, robotic creature slowly padded. Instantly, the D-Ark brought up data on it.
"Mechanorimon. Robot Digimon. Mechanori are simple Digimon that follow their programming exactly, and so make excellent servants. Their Twin Beam attack is not very accurate, but fires two powerful laser bursts." After this quick verbal explanation, the picture on the Digivice changed to a picture of the Mechanorimon Digimon card.
"Now why would that be neccisary information?" Marian wondered aloud. She hadn't known that the Digital World, as this must be, even 'knew' of the existence of the card game. Of course, truth be told, ten minutes ago she hadn't believed the place existed, so maybe she wasn't the best to make judgements.
All of a sudden, the robotic Digimon turned to face her. Apparently, although her comment had been much quieter then the Digivice's description, the creature had heard her and not the Digivice. "Figures. Well, let's just hope he's programmed to be friendly and helpful..." Looking around, Marian couldn't see any weapons to fall back on if he wasn't, so she crossed her fingers.
"Welcome, Digidestined, to the Digital World. I have been sent to greet you and..." In the middle of this rather comforting speech, the Mechanorimon simply froze. It twitched slightly, then spoke again, in a much harsher tone. "ERROR. ERROR. SYSTEM ERROR ENOUNTERED. SYSTEM GLITCH DETECTED; UNABLE TO BYPASS. NEW MISSION DATA: ELLIMINATE SYSTEM GLITCH." About to stand back, in the hopes of letting it go about it's business of fixing itself, Marian was rather startled when it stepped towards her and raised its hands, forming a red ball between them. "Twin Beam," spoke the monotonous voice, and the ball split and shot out as two ruby beams of light, which impacted the ground inches from Marian, blew small holes in the grassy field, and sent her running for dear life away from the crazed Digimon.
"I thought it said it had an internal error! Why is it attacking me?"
As if answering her question, the robot spoke again. "DESTROY SYSTEM GLITCH," was quickly followed by another horribly inaccurate, but still terrifying, Twin Beam, and then another.
"What do you mean, 'System glitch'? I'm not a glitch, I'm a person! You said yourself I was a Digidestined!" By now, her flight had carried her dangerously close to the edge of the cliff.
"FATAL ERROR, UNABLE TO BYPASS. GLITCH MUST BE DESTROYED. Twin Beam." This time, however inaccurate, the shots were luckily placed on each side of Marian, forcing her backwards toward the cliff's edge.
"Oh great. Just like in the movies. If there's a cliff, the hero always has to knocked off of- Aaah!" By this point, the Mechanorimon had supplied the action for her words, landing another shot right at her feet, flinging her back off the edge of the tall cliff, and spiraling dazed toward the ground far below. Recovering, Marian could do nothing but scream, and watch as her life flashed across her eyes. She screamed so loud, in fact, that she only barely heard the voice.
"Use your D-Ark," it said. Calming slighty, though not much, Marian shot back, "Why? I don't even have a Digimon!" Without any apparent change in tone or volume, the strangely familiar, yet at the same time scary, voice spoke again. "Use your D-Ark. All will become clear." Realizing she had no choice, Marian let her instincts take over, and, still falling, managed to grab her D-Ark, and one of the cards. Thinking back to what little she knew of Digimon, Marian remembered what always came next. Although the motion was difficult while falling, Marian managed a somewhat fancy pose, followed by twisting her arms so the edge of the card rested at the bottom of the D-Ark.
"Digi... MODIFY! Hyper Wing, ACTIVATE!" Sliding the card across the D-Ark, electricity sparkled around her, and raw data filled the air. Her voice echoed rather dramatically, and then the energy coalesced... Around her. The data solidified, and suddenly she had wings, and wasn't falling. With a mere thought, she shot up through the air, back above the clif, and was hovering in the air above the Mechanorimon. While half her mind screamed in terror, the other half was thouroughly convinced that what just happened was the coolest thing to ever happen to anyone, anywhere.
Her minds came to an agreement just in time for her to dodge another Twin Beam. Well, half a Twin Beam, anyway, as the other shot had possessed the usual, horrible inaccuracy. Thinking back to the TV show, and getting into the 'mood', Marian looked down at the Digimon. "You are seriously going to regret that buddy. Now, let's try this on for size!" Snatching her other card, she posed yet again, and, mentally replaying the "Digi-modify" music to herself, slid it.
"Digi... MODIFY! Angemon's Angel Rod, ACTIVATE!" Again, the card became a cloud of data. Again, the data formed into a shape. This time, it was a white staff with golden, runic carvings. All of the sudden, the staff felt as much part of her as the wings. She easily deflected the next Twin beam, then focused her energy on the staff, which began to glow. "You can throw..." The staff completely absorbed itself into her hand, forming a bright golden glow around it. "But can you catch!? Hand of Fate!" Throwing a punch into the air, Marian sent a powerful beam of white-gold energy down and entirely through the Mechanorimon, which disintergrated into data moments later.
Breathing heavily, Marian dropped to the ground, and her wings disapated. As they did, her two cards re-formed in her card holder. The data from the fallen digimon floated into the air, the began to swirl and form together into something solid. When it finished, a Mechanorimon card floated to the ground. As she picked up the card, Marian realised that it must have been what the D-Ark was referring to with the picture at the end of the description.
Wondering briefly if that was how she was going to get all her cards from now on during this strange adventure, Marian pocketed the card, and, picking a direction randomly, headed toward the forest.
End Notes: Hey, no cliffhanger this time. Anyway, what do you think? Please review and let me know, k? Please? :)