Sword Art Online: Unforeseen Content
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-Highton View Terrance June 10th 3:15 PM-
Ken walked up the stairs of the apartment as he had some extra homework for Kari under his arm. She had missed school today, and he sought the need to bring her the assignments for today. Ken remembered hearing from TK and the others that Kari used to get sick a lot, and he had hoped this wasn't the case.
"Hold on a little bit Kari, hopefully everything turns out OK." Ken thought to himself with a slight sign of hope.
"No mom, it's fine." Just as Ken reached the door to the Kamiya family's home, he heard the telltale sounds of Susamu Kamiya. "We can manage on our own."
Ken paused a moment, hearing something he shouldn't have. He had heard about money problems with Tai's medical expenses, but he didn't know how badly. Ken shook his head, then knocked on the door.
"Ken, good to see you." Yuuko said, opening the door with a weak smile. "What brings you around?"
"I, uh brought Kari's homework so she wouldn't fall behind." Ken admitted, reluctantly.
"She's asleep right now, fortunately she just broke out of her fever." Yuuko admitted with a grateful look on her face. "Why don't you come in, I just brewed some tea."
"Uh, I can't stay very long, I have to get home." Ken explained, trying his best to keep calm.
"I understand, we've all had our bad days recently." She said with a smile.
"That's putting it mildly." Ken admitted with a weak shrug.
Yuuko sighed. "I take it you heard part of my husband's conversation." Ken's silence was all she needed. "It's true, we've been running low on money for a few weeks now, and Argus has been only able to pay for so much."
"Is their anyway I can help?" Ken asked quietly.
With a reluctant sigh, Yuuko weakly admitted. "I wish I could say yes, but at this point I don't know."
After a few minutes, Ken left with a frown on his face. No matter how much he wanted to help, Kari's family may not last the end of the year. It was here, Ken's phone went off, revealing Davis was calling.
"Davis, what's up?" Ken answered the phone.
"Ken, docks now, we got a Digimon attack!" Davis shouted horrified.
Immediately, Ken grabbed Wormmon, and headed down. When he got there, he was greeted by Davis, Sora, Veemon, and Biyomon. "Well, this is awkward."
"She was the only one available." Davis explained with a sigh.
"Let's just get this over with." Sora said rather glum. The other two agreed.
The team of six walked down to see random walls had been knocked over. Occasionally, they found large paw prints not far behind.
"Wow, someone does not like the décor." Veemon commented, somewhat disturbed.
"That's putting it mildly." Biyomon agreed.
"Wait, what was that?" Sora pointed ahead, revealing a silver armored tail with a gold tip run past a wall. The six ran after it, seeing a large armored dragon Digimon with wings.
"I know that Digimon, it's Maildramon." Wormmon pointed out. Maildramon then proceeded to slam his head against a brick wall, reducing it to rubble.
"Well, he seems, different." Davis began, cautiously.
"It's like it's a mindless monster." Sora pointed out. Across the street, someone in a black limo took note of Maildramon's behavior.
"Enhanced aggression, lack of proper motor controls, oh delicious." The man said, licking his lips. "But what happens when I turn up the power?" He pulled out a strange remote and twisted the dial on it. Maildramon let out a pain filled shriek, as his tail lit up.
"Lightning Sphere!" A powerful blast of light shot out, and destroyed a nearby condemned building.
"Ok, let's get ready to send." Ken began, only to see Wormmon in pain. It was here he realized that Biyomon and Veemon had begun to thrash about too.
"It hurts." Biyomon cried in pain, clutching the sides of her head.
"Make it stop!" Veemon demanded, tears running down his face.
"What the hell?" Sora asked horrified.
"Whoops, wrong setting." The man in the limo smirked, pleased with the results either way. He pressed a different button, and smirked even more. It was here, Maildramon roared again, and charged at the six.
"DIGI-ARMOR ENERGIZE!" Davis declared quickly.
VEEMON ARMOR DIGIVOLVE TO FLAMEDRAMON, THE FIRES OF COURAGE!
Veemon had been switched over to his flaming armored form, who grabbed Maildramon by the neck. Struggling, the armor Digimon tried in vain to stop it.
"Now calm down, now." Flamedramon ordered, struggling to hold his grip on the armored Digimon.
"Guys, get in there." Ken ordered. Biyomon and Wormmon nodded in agreement.
WORMMON DIGIVOLVE TO STINGMON
BIYOMON DIGIVOLVE TO BIRDRAMON
The fire bird and armored bug man charged at Maildramon, in an attempt to help Flamedramon. Well the key word was "try". Maildramon's rage made it so the three champion Digimon couldn't hold him.
"This is better than I expected." The mystery man laughed victoriously. "I just wish I had some popcorn."
"Maybe we need to switch it up to Paildramon?" Sora suggested. It was here, Maildramon screeched horrified.
"Lightning Sphere!" Maildramon was covered in electricity, forcing the other Digimon off. A powerful lightning blast fired off at Ken. Sora reacted quickly and pushed him to the ground.
"IRON PRESS!" Maildramon leapt into the air and aimed right at Sora and Ken.
"FIRE ROCKET!" Flamedramon fired several fire balls at Maildramon, sending it off course and into a condemned building.
"Nice shot." Stingmon said with a grateful sigh. Maildramon ran out and began thrashing again, this time screaming in pain. Before anyone could say or do anything, the Digimon was deleted.
"I didn't hit him that hard." Flamedramon said surprised.
"I don't think you did." Sora pointed out.
"Damn it, the clone became too unstable." The man in the limo said grimly, leaning forward. "Get me out of here!" The limo driver acknowledge the man, and drove off.
Several minutes later, Izzy showed up with a specially designed scanner, and began looking over the area. Yolie, Cody, and their respective Digimon showed up, ready to help.
"So it just killed itself?" Yolie asked skeptically.
"We all saw it." Ken said surprised.
"I don't believe it." Izzy said surprised.
"Why, if this Maildramon really was armor plated, Flamedramon's attacks couldn't have done that much damage." Cody pointed out, believing the story.
"No, I meant there wasn't a Digimon here, or at least a real one." Izzy said, surprising the others. "When the second team first dealt with Arukenimon, I noticed a strange frequency coming from her control spire Digimon." He showed them his scanner. "Ever since, I've begun isolating it, in the event she ever did return."
"That thing couldn't have been a control spire Digimon." Veemon pointed out. "It hit too hard."
"That's not what I'm saying, I'm saying Maildramon isn't a real Digimon, but also not a control spire Digimon." Izzy explained, shocking the others.
"Oh I've seen this horror movie before, later the mad scientist that tried to play god will drop to his knees and go: I was a fool, there are just some things man was not meant to tamper with." Davis said dramatically.
"You mean Rise of the Mutant Sludge People, I love that movie." Izzy said with a smile.
"Wait, you mean somebody made a cloned Digimon?" Yolie asked confused.
"Crudely put, maybe," Izzy admitted. "I'd need some more data to confirm this."
Walking into the front of RECT INC., the mystery man walked through the halls agitated. He had dark brown hair which was pulled back. His black eyes were covered by rather large glasses. This mad man is Sugou Nobuyuki, a key member of RECT's programing division.
"Mr. Nobuyuki?" His assistant asked timidly. She stood a few inches shorter than him, with black hair, clad in a white suit dress. Her eyes were covered by large glasses that gave off a white glare, preventing her eye color from being seen. "Mrs. Yuuki wants to ensure you're coming over later for dinner."
"Of course I am you twit," Sugou said rudely. "Now leave me be, I have some important work I have to get done."
"Of course sir." His assistant forced herself to say, visibly afraid of the man.
Sugou made his way to the elevator's interior, where he pressed the elevator buttons like he would a keypad. Once the code was entered, the elevator shifted downwards into a secret area, few knew existed. In the room, Sugou was greeted by several tubes filled with strange liquids and beings. Some were Digimon, others were humans that slowly started to show inhuman features.
"Sir," Sugou turned to see one of his scientists walk up. "What happened with the specimen?"
"It became unstable, it appears our research was correct, the lower the level Digimon, the more unstable it becomes." Sugou said, anger in his tone. "To make matters worse, one of those kids has designed a tracker, which could come back to haunt us." The truth was, after the whole thing where Control Spires started popping up all over the world, the government got in contact with ARGUS to help deal with the Digimon threat. But Kaiyaba said no, for ethical reasons. So, they went to RECT instead, and were once again turned down, claiming they were for programing, not weapons design.
That is when Sugou took over. He approached Senator Hashima, and claimed he could create his own Digimon army, one they could control, not some snot nosed kids. With a private lab installed, Sugou began working with some of the greatest minds RECT had to offer, and they began working. For two years they toiled over cloning Digimon, with minimal results. Today, was essentially the beta testing, and it failed.
However, a side project just might: Project Eden, which hybridized humans and Digimon into perfect soldiers of war. Which however was highly illegal, considering they did kidnap people off the streets, and the whole inhuman testing thing. Sugou stopped for a moment, seeing TK's pod, as black talons slowly started coming out of his fingertips. The idea was using someone use to Digimon data as a test subject, which seemed to work, for now.
"Sir, what if we release Subject Alpha-019?" One of the technicians suggested.
"That could work." He admitted, turning to another pod, which held a large silver and blue beetle like Digimon with a large dish on its back.
"Let it out." Sugou said maliciously.
The Digimon was released, as it slowly opened its red eyes. The Digimon let out a menacing screech, which caused the humans to hold their ears.
"Good, good, but save it for the main event, Searchmon." Sugou said, pulling out his remote, and putting the Digimon under control.
-Odaiba High School Computer Labs 4:14 PM-
Izzy ran the data he had been given, in hopes of finding the source of it. Being he was such a great help repairing the computer systems, Izzy was allowed access into the labs, after hours. Plus, the power was out at his place for local repairs, preventing Izzy from using his own equipment.
"I've tried isolating this frequency, but the encryption is too heavy for this system." Izzy explained concerned. "But whoever made Maildramon, knew what they were doing."
"Mad scientists, they want to rule the world." Davis brought up, seeing this horror movie way too often.
"But still, why would somebody clone a Digimon?" Yolie asked confused.
"Seriously?" Davis asked incredulously. "We have pets that become weapons of mass destruction, why wouldn't somebody clone a Digimon?"
"I can't help but agree with Davis on that one." Cody admitted.
"Strange, something's trying to connect to my server." Izzy said confused. An attempted video feed was trying to play on the monitor Izzy was working on. Despite being filled with static, the six digidestined noticed one all too familiar person.
"TK!" They all shouted in horror. They saw the images of the lab TK was in, as he was being tortured.
"Izzy, how'd you do this?" Sora asked confused.
"I'm not, somebody's trying to connect to my IP address, without letting someone else know." Izzy explained, trying to connect.
"HERTZ JAMMING!" A voice said, sending out a sonic wave. It was here, Searchmon jumped through the windows, and landed on the table Izzy's computer was on. Everyone in the room soon scattered, in hopes of dodging the beast.
"Um, hi." Izzy said surprised. Searchmon's response was a menacing hiss.
"Anyone want to guess we have another clone?" Cody asked confused.
"That thought did cross my mind." Yolie admitted horrified.
"I know that Digimon, it's Searchmon, capable of sonic distortion." Hawkmon explained.
"We got this!" Armadillomon said excitedly. "Diamond SHELL!" Armadillomon rolled up into a ball, then crashed into Searchmon. The attack sent it back a ways.
"Get him outside and take him down." Davis ordered. The Digimon nodded, tackling Searchmon, out the window it came in. It was here, Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon reached the ground and took a fighting stance.
ARMADILLOMON DIGIVOLVE TO ANKYLOMON
VEEMON DIGIVOLVE TO EXVEEMON
Yolie meanwhile grabbed her D-3. "Digiarmor Energize!"
HAWKMON ARMOR DIGIVOLVE TO SHURIMON, THE SAMURAI OF SINCERITY.
"OK, sorry, no digivolving for me, I have too much of a headache." Wormmon groaned, alongside Biyomon and Tentomon.
"You three just rest then." Sora said warmly. The Digimon nodded.
"HERTZ JAMMING!" Searchmon fired a sonic blast at the three Digimon that opposed it.
"VEE LASER!"
"MEGATON PRESS!"
"DOUBLE STAR!"
The Digimon fired their respective attacks Searchmon, who narrowly dodged the attack.
"Alright try this, TAIL HAMMER!" Ankylomon swung his tail, slamming Searchmon into the air.
"HOWLING BLASTER!" An icy blue wave nailed Searchmon in the back. Matt, while riding Garurumon rode in, ready to help.
"Sorry I'm late guys, good think Izzy texted me when he did." Matt said, getting off the wolf.
"No I didn't." Izzy said confused, walking out of the building. "I haven't had the time."
"According to my phone, you did." Matt explained holding up his cell. It was here, they all looked confused, especially Izzy.
"Matt, I've been busy working, I haven't been able to send a text." Izzy said confused.
"AHHHH 01010001001!" Searchmon bellowed horrified. It was here, Searchmon stood on its hind legs, while taking some horrific changes. Its arms bulked up, while a parabolic dish appeared on its left shoulder. Two more eyes appeared on its face, just above the normal ones. A pair of moth wings with static like aura soon appeared.
"SEARCHMON CORRUPTION MODE!" The monstrosity said in a warped tone.
"Well, I wasn't expecting that." Sugou said, completely surprised. He was watching the events unfold through a series of monitors.
"STATIC SHREIKER!" A distorted energy beam shot out of its mouth.
"MOVE!" Matt ordered. No one argued and did as they were told.
"Parabolic Punisher!" A sonic pulse boosted Searchmon claws first at Garurumon, who was sent flying.
"Now that wasn't." Ankylomon began, only for Searchmon to turn its attention towards the others.
"STATIC SHRIEKER!" The blast sent the other three Digimon flying, causing them to revert to their rookie forms.
"Garurumon, try to digivolve again!" Matt ordered, noticing the evident power boost.
GARURUMON DIGIVOLVE TO WEREGARURUMON!
"GARURU KICK!" WereGarurumon delivered a powerful kick to Searchmon. The attack pushed it back a bit, just as WereGarurumon pulled his brass knuckle covered fist back.
"BALDY BLOW!" WereGarurumon delivered a barrage of punches right into Searchmon's chest. However the attacks did little to no damages.
"What?" The Ultimate Leveled Digimon asked horrified.
Searchmon grabbed WereGarurumon and tossed him to the side. "Gigahertz Guillotine!" Searchmon released a sonic powered slash at WereGarurumon, who quickly recovered and jumped over it.
"CIRCLE MOON KICK!" WereGarurumon's foot was engulfed in lunar energy, then nailed Searchmon in the face.
"I think it's mad." Davis said, checking up on Veemon, then realizing the angered look on Searchmon.
"Static-!" Searchmon was about to fire again, when its whole body began to shake violently. Before anyone knew it, Searchmon was gone.
"Sir, why?" One of the technicians asked confused. Searchmon, still in its corruption mode, was returned to its pod.
"Two reasons, one I couldn't let that brat find us." Sugou slowly walked over to the pod, touching the container. "And two, I want a full scale diagnostics on this alternate form."
In one of the other pods, which held an unspecified human, he made note of what was going on, as a small red energy blade appeared in his left hand.
"So, somebody is cloning Digimon, and somebody hacked Izzy's phone, but we still don't know anything?" Matt asked confused.
"Crudely put, yes to all." Izzy said, looking over the lack of data from the battle with Searchmon.
"I swear things just aren't getting any easier." Sora groaned, seeing the other Digimon recover.
It was here, Izzy got an email. Given the circumstances he would have ignored it, but it was how the subject line was written, he couldn't. "It's in Malbolge?"
"Mall bow what?" Davis asked confused.
"It's a rather complicated form of electronic coding." Izzy said. "Fortunately, I have a translator." Quickly running the program, everyone was shocked at what it translated to.
"I KNOW WHERE TK IS."
"Open it, NOW!" Matt demanded, not as temporary leader, but as a brother.
"You didn't even need to ask." Izzy opened the email to see the entire message was in Malbolge. Running the translator again, everyone was surprised at what it said:
Digidestined, I know what I say might sound odd, but the simple fact is, I am your ally. There is a lot I can't disclose right now for my safety and yours. Because of this, do not make contact with me, I will make contact with you. But know this, unless we trust each other, no one will be safe, not even Tai.
For now, call me Athena.
Attached to this message was a strange form of coding, one Izzy began to understand. "It's a tracking unit, one meant to find Cloned Digimon.
"Thank you Athena!" Izzy shouted happily.
"Wait, what does she mean by Tai's in trouble too?" Sora asked confused.
"I don't know, but for now we take this one step at a time, this is the best we've gotten in who knows how long." Matt said firmly. No one could disagree with that logic.
-Highton View Terrance 9:44 PM-
Kari slowly walked out of bed, intent of going to the bathroom to splash cold water on her face. Her fever had died down a bit, but it was still preventing her from getting a good night's sleep. Slowly she stumbled through the hallway, stepping into the sand.
Wait, sand? Kari shook her head, maybe Miko spilled some of her cat box again. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, Kari knelt down and cupped her hands in the water, putting it up to her face. Noticing the salty texture and taste, every ounce of sleep left her eyes.
"No, god no, anywhere but here!" Kari begged horrified at her dark surroundings. She found herself once gain in the dark ocean.
"Damn it all!" Kari bellowed, realizing she left both her digivice and D-Terminal on her nightstand. Instinctively, she ran, as far away from the water as she could. However the tides quickly came, revealing the monstrous Scubamon she encountered in her last visit.
"Well, well, you returned, our master has been expecting you." One said with a raspy tone.
Kari tripped on something, falling on her face. Looking over, it was a long blue tentacle, which originated behind the Scubamon. A titanic figure rose from the waters, revealing a humanoid squid with wings on his back.
"I've been waiting far too long for this moment girl." The monstrosity bellowed. "Soon all will feel the wrath of Lord Dragomon!"
Kari did the only logical thing anyone would do at a time like this, scream bloody murder.
-Aincrad Floor 33 Hyrok same time-
Taiki shot up, pushing Agumon off the bed at the same time. "No, it couldn't be."
"Tai, what happened?" Agumon asked confused.
"It's Kari, she, she's in trouble." Taiki said horrified.
And here is chapter 13. I know it's shorter than what I usually write, but it just seemed to fit for this time out. And to all of you who guessed Sugou's involvement, yay for you. I purposely revealed him sooner because any fan of SAO would have known right from the start.
Anyway before I go, I have a little update for you all: I bumped into the subbed version of Appmon episode one today, and quiet frankly, it was a bit better than I expected. The whole thing reminds me of Xros Wars Hunters, my least favorite incarnation of Digimon in all. I will fully admit I don't care for it, and the various Appmon I've seen on the Digimon Wiki, but it's still better than what the trailers revealed.
To anyone who wants to see it, the site is called: Watch Cartoons Online Dot Com .