Viral Menace
It was morning, and Alex had the semblance of a plan in is mind, but he needed a few things, things he couldn't get in this world, it was time to phone home,
The portal whirled open and showed Alex a young technician, who looked up sharply and, seeing who was looking at him, saluted,
"Sir!" he said
"At ease, could you fetch Techno? I need to speak with him" he asked the technician
"Aye sir, right away General AOC" the technician left the view and Alex heard him calling Techno,
Alex, along with all the 'Old Crew' had dropped their last names when their families were killed in the merging, using OC and the first letter of their names as an abbreviation for their last names.
Techno came into view, "What can I do for you Alex?" he asked, as Alex sorted out a few crystal chips, putting one aside from the others he unbuckled his chip storage bracer
"You remember our Idea, the Chip? How much more dark data would it need?" Alex asked, handing his bracer through the portal and feeling again the dead sensation in his arm as it transversed dimensions
Techno removed all the chips in the bracer, handing it back, "there's probably enough here to get it finished, why?"
"I know where he is Tech, I have a few tricks to equal him, but that chip will make me surpass him, beat him, and end this war" He told him, holding up a chip, "I want this chip added to the basic chipset, like the last one"
The chip came through and Techno put it in his handheld chip analyzer, "So…you got another one? Guess the count is down to six commanders then"
"Yeah…once you have the code add that to the chip, Timing out here, speak to you later, I have another idea that requires your expertise" Alex said as the portal began to fade and cut him off from home
He sighed, as once again he was furthest away from home it is possible to be,
Razormon was lying on the floor, awake but not needed,
"Ah Razor, my faithful friend, the end is in sight, could you open a gateway? I need to fetch the others," he asked, checking through the info on his DV5, filing the recording he had made that morning before he talked to Techno.
The Tamers were meeting in the park again, but as they approached they found someone already there, waiting for them, it was Alex.
"Hey guys, good to see you again," He said, waving
"Hiiii Alex" said Guilmon, pouncing on him, Razormon twitching as he fought his instinctive urge to protect Alex, knowing that Guilmon was just playing
"So, going to explain yesterday?" came Rika's voice as she moved forwards
Alex smiled, "I'm going to explain a lot" and Razormon opened a gateway back to Alex's apartment.
"I guess I should start from the beginning, well, in the beginning there were eight of us, we were chosen, similar to you guys, to help save the digital world that had been messed up by the two warring gods. We managed to fight our way to the virus plains, home of the dark god, but one of our party, Diana, was…well, she was killed, and that sent one of our party over the edge, he wanted revenge and Nick left us, he went to search for some way to avenge Diana, we haven't seen him since.
Then after a while, the dark god's top general appeared, Viramon, and all hell broke loose, the real world and Digital world began to merge as Viramon, and the dark god corrupted and recruited digimon to the side of darkness, it was absolute chaos, the entire world became crushed and warped into the centre of the digital world as the rest of the shattered world spun around it.
We managed to form an army of who were left, we had a few clever people, like Techno, who managed to figure out the workings of our DV5 digivices and the basics of digimon, using that knowledge to create digimon, an army of digimon partners to aid us and the uncorrupted digimon in fighting the Viral army.
Our biggest battle was the Battle of the Storm, a dark and terrible night…"
Alex looked back at the lines of troops under his command, each of the 'old crew', the original teens who had fought for the digital world, had a command, they all held the rank of General, and Alex had a full platoon of Riflemon and their partners.
The Riflemon were humanoid in appearance, with an armoured head and combat fatigues that ended at the elbow where their arms became automatic rifles, their partners also carried automatic weapons, Alex just had his swords, and Razormon.
Behind all the troops were the Turtle-like Cannomon, their huge cannons on their backs lined up on the enemy in the distance, their partners helping them aim, sighting the enemy through binoculars.
Overhead clouds were becoming thicker, blacker and heavier, signs of a coming storm.
The first flashes of lightning, and the first peals of thunder came momentarily before the downpour fell on them, drenching them completely in seconds, it was then that the call came through,
"Enemy movement, hostile vector, begin attack!"
With a roar, ripped straight from the souls of all those present, the army charged at the sea of Virus digimon, all weapons and attacks being flung the distance as the huge, blue bolts of pulsating plasma screamed overhead, smashing into their designated targets, black fire was lobbed back by the viral artillery, taking out one or two Cannomon, their data hurled to the winds as the storm grabbed it.
Alex charged ahead of his men, rifle bursts whistling by as he crashed into the front line of the viral digimon, smashing through the Yamimon like a human whirlwind, tearing them into data and scattering it in the storm, the lightning causing a strobing effect and lighting his screaming features, but the numbers were telling, for every one he destroyed, 20 more took its place, he and his men were being swamped by shadows, consumed by the raging tide of darkness when a blade flashed in the night,
"Tornado Fang!"
The attack cleared a space beside Alex and a tall, graceful teen bounded into it, swinging a Zanbatou,
"Hey, my command is backing up yours, but we're dropping like flies here, High command is ordering a fall back, the Cannomon will cover our retreat" she said, a whirlwind like creature tearing up the digimon attacking them,
"And hello to you too Link, OK, FALL BACK!" he yelled to his men, the army retreating as the darkness pressed onwards.
"…We lost that battle, we were driven back further and further until even our central HQ was destroyed, the digimon creation facility razed to the ground, cutting off our chance of reinforcements.
We have been fighting on, but we grow less every day, our chances are not that good, and I followed Viramon here to stop him gaining even more troops"
Alex finished his tale,
"You fight bad things lots then?" asked Guilmon, his head tilting sideways
"You are truly a warrior," added Renamon, fading into view for a moment
Rika remembered how he had looked yesterday when they had returned from battle, "You lost someone, didn't you?"
"Yes…I did…" Alex said, his face falling further as a wave of memories broke upon the beach of his mind.
The portal opened as the timer Alex had set reached the preset time, Techno appearing through the whirling blue vortex, "Hey guys, what can I do for you?"
Alex turned to Rika, "can I borrow your Digivice? And a card?" he asked her, taking it as she nodded, "Techno, can you have a look at these, I need a transfer connection between my DV5 and their Digivices" he said, handing it through the portal
"O…K…this is interesting, I'll give it a try, I call you back when I'm done" he said, looking at the D-arc in his hand, the portal closing
Rika got up sharply, "Hey! My Digivice" she said, stepping towards the closed portal mechanism,
"Don't worry Rika, time flows faster over there, you'll get the Digivice back in a little while" he said, holding up a hand to stop her.
"Just hope a wild one doesn't appear," said Henry, being ironic,
"Yeah, cause then we'd have to fight, and you'd have to stay back and watch," said Terriermon from Henry's shoulder, flinching as Rika turned around
At that moment the portal opened again, Techno appearing again, "ok, I managed to whip up something" he said, saving Terriermon.