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Chapter 7
Later on at the shop….
"….So that's when you came in and saved all of our buts." I concluded. "So what took you so long?"
"I had come as soon as I got the message from Kari. I just happened to be far away from the nearest game port," answered Tai.
"But how did you get in with the engine running?" wondered Matt.
"I can explain that," explained my double. "The emergency exit program actually can run both ways so some one can use it to enter the game while the engine is active."
"So why is the engine active?" asked Tai
"You know that virus we told you about?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"We didn't like the emergence of this virus and the discovery that this world is no longer simply a program."
"so basically you did it to enact a quarantine?"
"That's right."
"But it didn't turn out like we planed," I sighed.
"I definitely wouldn't have expected form him to become corrupted like this so don't feel bad," confronted Tai
"yeah none of this worlds rules seem to still apply at least in their exact form," said Izzy walking in.
"Well the gangs all here," noted the shopkeeper also walking in. "Let's me introduce myself. My name is Joe."
"Ah I was wondering what your name was," said Matt. "But why don't you know his name?"
"It was a ruse to encourage the opinion of a strictly business relationship," explained Joe, "And speaking of ruses I had better remove my disguise," and in a instant he was no longer old looking but rather he seamed to be about the same age as Matt.
"But why?"
"All those here and also Kari and Sora, she's a friend of Tai and also runs an arena in the air city, are all members of a sort of union of elite players in this game that also have intimate knowledge of the game programming."
"You forgot Mimi," added Tai.
"I didn't mention her since she declined our offer to join."
"Still she is as strong and knows the code as well as any of us."
"I never heard of her," I noted
"You wouldn't she learned the code cause at one time she worked for admin. and she was in charge of the debugging of the code, but got demoted to working inside the game when she wouldn't alter the code before the game was launched." Explained Joe.
"So where does she work?" asked my double.
"She is a shop keeper in the forest city."
"Could it be?"
"what are you thinking?" I asked
"well when we had spilt I had ended up out forest city. Once there I had asked a shop keeper for directions but I had some problems convincing her who I was since your fight had just started."
"so you think that…"
"…I am the one he had talked to ," said a figure standing in the door way.
"So you must be Mimi." I assumed
"you are correct."
"And that must be your partner, Palmon, there concealed with a shadow walk card."
"How did..?"
"Please. I am the one who did program the majority of this game and have access to the programmer functions. Not to mention that my partner does that naturally."
"So some cards aren't effective against you?"
"When I need to, yes."
"It figures as much."
"So can we get Sora and Kari here?"
" Well right now neither is logged on right now so before I got on I told Kari to find her and get both of then on right away," explained Tai.
"Good we will need all the strength we can get," I agreed
"Why? Wouldn't Susanoomon be enough?" asked Matt
"Look at it this way: We barely had enough strength to defeat the spirits infused with just his excess power. I do not think even Susanoomon will have enough power to defeat him alone."
"wait, but what if you had another supreme on your side?" Pondered my duplicate.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well we do have a Gabumon and an Agumon on our side."
"I don't know since they are hunters not partner digimon."
"well what about me and Renamon?"
"Huh?"
"Remember EclipseJuronomon?"
"I don't know if that will work since the original one still exists, even though it is corrupted."
"well let's see what every one else thinks."
"I am for it," agreed Matt.
"We have nothing to lose by it." Nodded Tai
"Um guys we still have another problem." Noted Joe
"Oh yeah the virus," said Izzy
"I think it has something to do with this card." I explained pulling out the Digimorph card from earlier.
"May I see it?" asked Izzy.
"Knock yourself out," I told him as I tossed him the card.
"Hmm. I think the best course to discover the cure is for one of us to use this card and then we can work form there. So who is to be the lucky volunteer?"
"I will."
"Yes I think that would be the best since the virus originated form you when this card wore off," he agreed as he returned the card to me.
"well let's get this over with."
DIGIMODIFY:
DIGIMORPH ACTVATE
After the light cleared enough to allow me to see again I knew nothing once again went as expected although this time I think things ended up changing for the better. Right away I knew that at least some of the virus was removed for instead of an Agumon and Gabumon their was Tai and Matt in their human forms. But my D-power wasn't one any more. It wasn't even a
D-module. It looked like a golden ring mixed with a PDA wristwatch. It didn't even have a card slot in it, which made me think, where in the world did the digimorph card go to?
"Well that was most definitely unexpected," noted Izzy stating the obvious.
"What isn't?" I groaned
"My I examine it?"
"sure if you can get this thing off my wrist."
"Hmm it seams as if it had fused with both the digimorph card and with your programmer code. Since you can't remove the program code from you it is the same case with your digivice."
"how did you find that out just by looking at it?" asked Matt
"I can look directly at any bit of code in the game world just by examining the object. It is a perk of being a head analyst."
"Question. Why am I still a Renamon?" asked my twin.
"I think you were sort of at the eye of the storm so to speak. Because you are Identical to him that the device just saw you as him and it knew that he wasn't infected or it could be that…"
"Just stop Izzy, we don't have all day to listen to your theories," interrupted Matt.
"So what are we going to do now?" asked Tai.
"Well I think the only thing we can do right now is try to figure out this device and use it to remove the virus from the players," I explained, fingering the new digivice.
"How long will that take?"
"To figure out the digivice? Maybe an hour to a day. To cure everyone? If we're lucky maybe a week."
"I don't know about you but I am really regretting making this game real-time," noted the copy.
"Yeah but I we hadn't we wouldn't be here right now would we? For if the game moved faster than reality, we would have been dead cause Tai would have gotten in much latter in the confrontation."
"And it will give Kari and Sora more time to get onto the game," added Tai.
"Well let's get started."
A few hours later…
"Man, where is Kari and Sora?" wondered Tai.
"That's right, they should have been able to get on by now," I agreed.
"Well at least we have this device just about figured out, or at least all that we are able to," announced Izzy.
"That is the first bit of good news that I have heard all day," noted my twin.
"I wonder…," I murmured as I fiddled with the new digivice.
"So what are we going to call this new digivice?"
"how about D-Programmer?" suggested Izzy
"That sounds good, what do you think T.K.?"
"Could you guys be quite? I am trying to make a call."
"Making a call?" wondered Izzy
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that emergency function," remembered my twin. "Once the engine has started you can communicate with the operators in case off emergency. And I do think this is an emergency."
"shh. Someone is picking up," I said listening to the blue ring of light around my digivice.
"Hello," came a voice from the blue ring. "This is digital world game building, may I ask who is calling?"
"I am the programmer."
"Impossible, He is right now inside the game trying to deal with the Apocalypse engine."
"Look I am the programmer, I am calling from within the game through one of the emergency features and if you still don't believe me put me on the phone with Kari."
"Very well," He said his voice trailing off. "Kari, some one on the phone claiming to be the programmer want's to talk to you…"
"Maybe we should have informed the Admin. of this little feature," I told everyone.
"Of course he is the programmer let me talk to him," came Kari's voice faintly form the digivice.
"You can always count on Kari to get things done," tell myself with a smirk.
"Hey T.K. what is going on? I get back form my lunch break and find that the head has been fired for negligence and that the apocalypse engine was activated."
"Well It's a very long story…"
One long story later…
"…then my digivice transformed and that is about where we are now."
"sounds like you had a fun day."
"I was wondering Kari, why haven't you or Sora got one to help us after Tai had logged on."
"Well I just got a major promotion, and now I am the Head of Admin. and I need to stay on this side to try to repair some of the previous Head's damages."
"and what about Sora?"
"She hasn't been returning any of my calls."
"I wonder why?"
"I don't know, but I think there is something happening on our side that has to do with the digital world."
"Crap, That just figures."
"I think we are going to need to have a massive player evacuation. Can you coordinate it?"
"I can but I going to need time. So in order to get me more time enable the emergency temporary life support system. That should give the players some time to get out with out having any permanent damage."
"And what about you and the others?"
"Their should be a few extended term life support systems along with the temporary ones. I what you to hook those up to us."
"So why aren't you leaving?"
"Remember what I said about this game becoming real?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Well there is a power hungry destructive supreme level digimon on the rampage who has the power to cross over to our world."
"So you and the others are staying behind so you can stop him or a least contain him in the digital world."
"Right, so should you be able to do that?"
"Their should be no problem with the evacuation, but I don't know how to convince them to let you stay behind."
"well, you could tell them that we are staying behind to try to salvage the game since there might be some that won't be able to log out do to the limited capacity of the escape program."
"That should work, and it probably is true since we designed it only for those few who could suffer permanent damage form the Apocalypse engine."
"Well good luck."
"Thanks I'll need it. So when should we expect the evacuation to come to our end?"
"In maybe a week. And I think you should keep this form the media until then."
"Why?"
"Some people may panic form this."
"And demand an early release of the players."
"Which may cause some of them to be left behind."
"I see what you meant. So what should I tell the Media?"
"Just blame the crisis on you predecessor's folly."
"Good idea. That way the admin. will be free of the blame and instead the we will be recognized as a hero in the crisis."
"So the game will not be shut down."
"Good. Well I think that covers just about everything."
"I hope that does. Cause if it doesn't we might be in big trouble."
"I hope not."
"Bye."
"Bye."
"So How are we supposed to coordinate a massive evacuation of the game?" asked Matt.
"Well now we have the admin. on our side so we can send out the announcements out faster and we can also have the dungeons shut down so no one will get left behind."
"so basically we have our work cut out for us?" confirmed Tai.
"Yeah. We have a long week ahead of us.
Chapter 8