Viral Menace
"The hell's going on!" Rika's voice was the first to break the silence their side of the 'screen'.
"Like I said Rika, I'm not from around here" Alex told her, turning back to Techno, "Anything happening on your side?"
Techno grinned, "only the usual, there's been a bit of a lull over here, but that's understandable, he's over there, so were all glad of a bit of a breather, means we can get a bit more done" he told Alex, and the Tamers, who were beginning to get confused.
"What about the 'Old Crew'? Any of them around at the minute?" Alex asked
Techno nodded; "David just got back" he told them and left, presumably to fetch David.
The tamers could now see where Techno had been sitting, it looked like a hanger type place, except there were people dressed in camouflaged fatigues everywhere, with digimon by their sides, helping in their various tasks. White coated people were walking backwards and forwards, presumable researchers or technicians, they had digimon too, and some were walking around in what looked like normal clothes, but had a colour coded shoulderpad on their right shoulders, a rank system.
Someone sat in front of the 'screen' and turned to them. He looked about Alex's age with spiked up red hair that had a few spiky licks of it falling in front of his face (A/N think Vash from Trigun) and red eyes he was wearing flame effect boots, red jeans, a red t-shirt and a flame effect jacket.
"Hey Alex" he said, playing with a lighter "How are you?"
"I'm good, how are you? And the others?" Alex asked, noticing the metal flame pendant around his friend's neck, "is that what I think it is?"
"I'm fine, they're fine and yes it is, we found them. Had to trek halfway across both worlds to find them, but we got all of them" David began, then he saw Alex's face fall when he mentioned that they had all of 'them' "Sorry man, I know how you feel, here, take both of them"
David held up two necklaces and chucked them lightly towards the 'screen', they emerged on the tamers side of the machine and Alex caught them, looking sadly at the twisting, tornado one before clipping it to the hilt of one of his swords, he clipped the intricate one round his neck, there were four scimitars forming a circle, crossed by two katanas with four small daggers protruding from the point where the katanas crossed.
"I'm timing out at this end," said Alex, glancing at the laptop, "see ya whenever, say hi to Becky and the others for me would ya?"
"OK man, see ya," said David as the portal began to close and the rings' whirling slowed until they stopped and the portal disappeared completely.
"Would you mind explaining what that was?" asked Takato, looking at Alex like he was some kind of alien
Alex sighed, and turned round to see all the tamers staring intently at him, "OK, OK. Right, I told you I'm not from around here, I'm actually from a bordering dimension to yours, pretty similar actually, although I never got the chance to go to Japan, so I don't know how similar our layouts are."
Takato nodded, "ok, that explains that, so that thing is a form of phone back to that dimension?"
"Got it in one Takato"
"What's with your friend's eyes?" asked Kazu, thinking about how cool it would be to have red eyes
"They're contacts, David is a bit of a pyromaniac and like the colours of fire"
"So, what about the troops and things we saw in the portal" asked Rika
"Yeah!" yelled Kazu, "Are you in a war or something?" when Alex flinched he shut up, he must have been right for a change
"Actually, yes, we are in the middle of a war, a war against an army of viral digimon, corrupted and commanded by Viramon and his subordinates. I'm here because Viramon and a selection of his commanders and troops have fled here, for what reason, intelligence doesn't know, but if I know Ni…Viramon, he's looking for more Digimon to corrupt" Alex told them, just as his Digivice flashed, and a window opened on the laptop.
Alex spun around and investigated, "Dark gateway opened, Hypnos complex, that's bad, Viramon may be attempting to find out about you lot," he didn't add 'like I did'
"Then why are we here? Lets get him!" yelled Rika grabbing her Digivice and cards
"I agree with Rika" said Takato, turning to Guilmon he said "ready boy?"
Alex nodded, "OK, Rika, you, Takato, Henry and Ryo come with me, the rest of you, stay here"
Kazu began to whine, "Awww, why can't we come, we can fight, we can even just watch"
A nerve leapt in Alex's temple, this Kazu kid was beginning to grate on him, "OK, I have an idea" he said, pulling a box out from under the desk, he opened it and extracted a device. It was a thick disk with a lens on a short tube at the front and small fins at the back, "this is a scout drone, you can watch us on my laptop through this"
Alex took a card out of the drone's side and plugged it into the laptop, opening the program and switching on the drone. He unplugged his Digivice and attached it to his belt before turning to the others.
"OK, Razormon, if you'll do the honours" he said, prompting Razormon to open a black gateway to Hypnos that the five of them walked through.
They arrived on the top of one of the Hypnos towers just as a digimon burst through the roof of the other one. It was tall, thin and wiry, clad in gold armour plating with curving shoulderpads and spikes all down its back. Two long swords protruded from its bracers around its wrist above its clawed hands, its red eyes accented its demonic face and curving horns. Its legs were like Renamon's, they bent at knee, ankle and halfway along the foot, the digimon's feet were un-armoured and clawed.
Alex held up the DV5 (Digivice) to get the digimon's name,
Kijinmon said the voice in the DV5, Alex took it from there
"Viral digimon, Ultimate level, one of Ni…Viramon's 8 commanders, this Fiend type digimon is the stealthy one and usually leads Suterusumon squads, his attacks are 'Devil's Flame' and 'Chaotic Inferno', as with all of Viramon's commanders, he can summon Yamimon to his side" he told them, he know all the statistics of Viramon's commanders
Rika uttered three words "Bring it on"
She, Takato and Henry all drew blue cards, slashing them through their D-powers
Matrix Digivolution
Renamon, Digivolve to…Taomon
Guilmon, Digivolve to…WarGrowlmon
Terriermon, Digivolve to…Rapidmon
'Interesting' thought Alex, 'Never seen this way of powering digimon'
The gold armoured fiend turned to face them, setting down the case it was carrying it readied itself in a fighting pose as the three ultimates jumped towards it. Kijinmon smiled sadistically, he had found a worth battle in this mud hole of a dimension, he would enjoy tearing them limb from limb and scattering their data to the winds.He looked up and saw Alex. His smile vanished.
"Talisman of Light"
"Atomic Inferno"
"Rapid Missiles"
"Desolation Claw"
The four Tamers digimon called out there attacks, sending them flying towards Kijinmon, who took one look, and dodged them in the blink of an eye, moving to the side and back so quickly that they seemed to pass straight through him,
"Digimodify, Hyperspeed activate!" yelled Rika, slashing the card, Taomon speeding up to close the difference between the paintbrush wielding fox and the demonic fiend
Takato followed suit and Henry also slashed a card,
"Digimodify, Training grips activate" he called, attempting to re-do what he had done with Apemon, Rapidmon threw the grips at Kijinmon who slashed them apart with one of his wrist blades, sighting up on the offending android he failed to remember Taomon behind him thanks to the speed card.
"Devil's Flame!" yelled Kijinmon, hurling an upside down pentagram of fire at Rapidmon, who tried to dodge but the pentagram unravelled into strands of flame and wrapped around the android bunny before exploding.
(A/N upside down means point to the bottom, THAT'S the devil worship one, the other one is a pagan symbol, Grrrrr makes me angry when people think pentagrams are devil marks /)
"Talisman of light!" Taomon's attack hit Kijinmon in the back, blowing him forwards towards Cyberdramon
"Desolation Claw!" Cyberdramon attacked the fiend as he flew towards him, hitting him back into the ground.
Kijinmon straightened up, and a plate of armour dropped off, he looked at it, then at Cyberdramon, he cracked his neck…and disappeared, reappearing right in front of the cyber dragon
"CHAOTIC INFERNO!" he screamed, blasting pentagrams all around Cyberdramon, the pentagrams all unfurled into a net around the dragon, and then fire erupted within the net, burning every inch of Cyberdramon. Kijinmon lent backwards, glowing pentagrams of fire appearing around his wrists, they melted into his blades, setting them alight as he dove towards the fireball, cross-slashing Cyberdramon out of it, extinguishing the attack.
"What the hell? It beat Cyberdramon! But…but Ryo's the Legendary Tamer, the Digimon King, how can he be beaten?" yelled Kazu in Alex's apartment, the others shielding their ears
"That digimon is too powerful for an Ultimate" said Kenta, Marine Angemon agreeing with him
Alex frowned, Kijinmon was supposed to be an Ultimate, but had thrashed Cyberdramon, one of the strongest Ultimates he knew of, something was wrong, Kijinmon shouldn't be this strong, he was one of the weaker, if not the weakest, commanders, that's why he headed stealth missions.
"Razormon, we're going in" he said, his partner nodding as he stepped forwards, but felt something holding him back, it was a hand, attached to an arm in a white sleeve, attached to Rika, he raised an eyebrow.
"Don't go over there, you'll get toasted" she said, he removed her hand from his arm
"I can take care of myself," he told her, "Rune Armour activate"
The pendant flashed and what looked like liquid metal flowed all around Alex's body, solidifying into rather gothic armour with the blades symbol on the front, four small holes in the centre of the symbol.
Alex raised his DV5
"Razormon"
Razormon, Digivolve to…Katanamon