Author's note: I'd like to give thanks to Ari Phoenix and Black Violin for helping me with the usernames the characters use in the game and Ari-chan specifically wanted me to mention that SilverRei is one of her nicknames and to give credit to her. Please Review!

DigiworldDotNet Chapter 2: Beta-Testers

Akari woke up early the next day for school and got dressed. She went into her bathroom to brush her hair and then grabbed her bags, got on the bus, and went to school.

Akari was 16 years old. She was 5 foot 6 and had purple hair and gray eyes. Her two best friends were a girl named Kyoko and a boy named Keisuke.

She made her way to her first period class which was English and waited for Kyoko to get there. When Kyoko entered the classroom she asked her, "Did you have any luck fixing your computer? I still couldn't do anything on mine."

"No luck." Kyoko said, "My dad fixes computers for a living and he couldn't do anything about it. It's strange. My dad even unplugged everything and took the whole computer apart and it still continued downloading." Kyoko was also 16 years old. She had dark red hair, green eyes and was 5 foot 8.

"What're you downloading?" A voice behind Akari said. They looked over to see their friend Keisuke standing behind them. He was 17 years old, had silver hair and eyes, and was 6 foot 1. "Sounds like some strange virus."

"It is." Akari said "We got e-mails inviting us to play some internet game and I tried downloading the program but it said it takes 3 days to download so I tried to cancel the download but it even continued after unplugging the power cord"

"And after taking apart my computer." Kyoko added.

"So what is this game called anyways?" Keisuke asked.

"DigiworldDotNet." Akari answered.

BEEEEP…BEEEP………BEEEEEEP.

"What's that noise?" Akari asked.

"OH? That's my new phone. It has internet and beeps whenever I get an e-mail." Keisuke took out his phone and looked at his e-mail. A new message had come in from a site called DigiworldDotNet. "DigiworldDotNet? Isn't that the game you just mentioned Akari?" He showed the phone to Akari.

She took the phone and looked at it. Kyoko looked over Akari's shoulder at the phone and gasped. "Oh my god. That's exactly what happened to me. As soon as Akari told me about it I got an e-mail from them."

Keisuke grabbed his phone and hesitated for a moment before deciding to open the e-mail. It took him to the same web page that Akari and Kyoko had been to. He looked at the list of downloads, "Which one did you guys download?" He asked them.

"The registration page said to download three of them. I downloaded Gomamon, Syakomon, and Crabmon I think." Akari said.

"I downloaded Gabumon, Betamon and Tentomon." Kyoko said

"Hmmmmm. I'm downloading it!" Keisuke said.

"Don't!" Akari said

He scanned the list "I'm getting Tapirmon, Demidevimon, and ummm Candlemon." he said. Suddenly downloading screens for the three appeared on his phone. "Hey wait a minute! I didn't start downloading. I only said the names that I was going to download."

"Text-messaging in class again Keisuke?" Miss Hayworth, the English teacher, said with a stern look on her face. She grabbed the cell phone from him and said "I'll take this and after school you three will have detention. Maybe that'll teach you not to play during my lectures." she walked towards her desk and put the cell phone in. "You can get this back after detention."

Hmmm… DigiworldDotNet, an exclusive computer game that seems to invite only those who hears about it from someone. Akari didn't tell it to me directly but I overheard her. Would that make the game invite me to play or does Akari need to tell it to someone about it for them to be invited. I better check my e-mail when I get home.

During the rest of the day Akari had a strange feeling that someone was watching her and listening in on her conversations. That afternoon she, Kyoko, and Keisuke had to stay after school for 2 hours for detention. They weren't allowed to talk, read, sleep, or anything. Finally after detention, Keisuke got his phone back.

"Lets see if I have the same problem on my phone" he said as they walked home. He turned on his cell phone and was surprised to see that it wasn't downloading anything anymore. "Either Miss Heyworth stopped the download or it finished downloading." he searched the files on his cell phone to see if they were there. "Nothing. The downloads aren't here so they must have been cancelled. If you cant fix your computers maybe we can ask Miss Heyworth if she will tell us how she canceled the download.

"Sound like it might work." Akari said.

"Lets go over to my house and do a search for DigiworldDotNet on my computer." Keisuke said. They headed over to his house and went to Keisuke's room. "What the?" Keisuke looked at his computer to see that the digimon downloads were being downloaded on his computer. "It was downloading on my phone before and it jumped to my computer… how?" Keisuke was confused at seeing this.

Akari looked at the computer "51 hours left! you just started today why does ours take three days." Akari thought about something and said. "Hmmm all of our downloads end at the same time."

"Interesting, I'm glad I hid a microphone on him. It seems that even by overhearing about isn't enough I need to get that girl to tell me the name" A boy said. He sat in a dark room listening to a set of headphones. "Whoever created that game must have a bug on Akari because he knows to e-mail whoever she tells. But apparently he doesn't know that I overheard her. That website doesn't even appear on any of my searches. This is it. This is the one. To prove myself, I must hack into this game. And find this person that created it. I must know how he hid it from everyone who doesn't receive his e-mails. But first I'll need to put cameras and bugs in these three's rooms. They must be using a different internet address from what they said. DigiworldDotNet is some kind of fake address. I'll find the real one.

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Two Days Later

Kyoko had gotten a new cell phone yesterday and was at her computer. "2 minutes till hatching" She said into her cell phone.

"Same" Keisuke said on his phone

"Same here too." Akari said.

The three kids had decided to try the game and used cell phones to keep in contact. They waited the rest of the two minutes and then all of their downloads ended at the same time. "Okay lets go try the game" Akari said. Beep. A tone indicated that she got new mail. At the same time Keisuke and Kyoko also got e-mails. Akari opened up her e-mail at it took her to a direct link to the registration page. she entered all of her info and then thought about her game name. "hey guys have you decided on the names you are gonna use in the game." she asked over her cell phone.

Keisuke and Kyoko's e-mails took them to the same registration page. "I'm going to be BrokenAngel." Kyoko said.

"I'm going with SilverRei." Keisuke said.

Akari thought about what to use as her username and decided to go with "SnowMaiden" . After entering all of the information she hit register and the site took her to the log in page. She typed in her name and password and entered the game.

Her computer screen turned all white and let out a bright light as the game loaded. She closed her eyes to shield them from the light . Her whole body began to turn numb and she opened her eyes to see what was going on. "AHHHHHHHH!" she screamed. Her body was lifting into the air and was being sucked into her computer. She quickly shut her eyes again and when she opened them she found herself in the middle of a white room. She looked around and saw only one person in the room, sitting at a receptionist desk.

Akari was breathing hard and felt dizzy. She walked up to the woman and asked "Wh … where am I?"

The woman at the desk looked at her and said. "Welcome to the free DigiworldDotNet internet game. Please walk to the next room to continue."

"Umm… how do I exit this game?" Akari asked.

The woman just looked at her and said. "Welcome to the free DigiworldDotNet internet game. Please walk to the next room to continue."

"I …I don't want to play the game. I just want to leave."

"Welcome to the free DigiworldDotNet internet game. Please walk to the next room to continue."

Finally Akari just gave up and began walking to the next room.

"Hey Akari!" a nervous voice from behind said.

Akari turned around to see Kyoko and Keisuke walking up to her. Kyoko was a little startled but Keisuke seemed to be hyperventilating .

"What the hell happened to us?" Keisuke said.

"I don't know. After I logged on I went numb and was sucked into my computer." Akari answered.

Kyoko meanwhile was staring at the receptionist. "Something's up with this woman. All she says is 'Welcome to the free DigiworldDotNet internet game. Please walk to the next room to continue.'" she said in a mock voice.

"Lets just do that. It doesn't seem like we have any other choice in the matter." Keisuke said. He followed the two girls to the next room and in there was another woman that was identical to the first woman. Keisuke looked back into the first room to see if the other woman was still there. She was. "Huh? Twins maybe?" He said in response to the looks the girls gave him.

"Whatever. This is just plain weird." Kyoko said.

The woman in the second room was sitting at a glass display case. Akari, Keisuke, and Kyoko walked up to it and looked in. The display case was full of gadgets that looked like PDAs in different colors. "Please choose a digivice in whichever color you please." The woman said.

"Digivice? What the hell are they?" Kyoko asked the lady.

"Please choose a digivice in whichever color you please."

'This is starting to get annoying.' Keisuke thought.

"So we just choose one? Okay, I'll take the Purple one." Akari said to the woman. The woman opened the display case and handed Akari the purple PDA device. "Thank you!"

"Uhhh… I'll take the green please." Kyoko said.

"Silver… silver… I don't see a silver one here. Darn, I really wanted a silver one." Keisuke said.

"To match your hair and eyes?" Akari said jokingly.

"Yeah." Keisuke replied

" … "

" … "

"What? Is it that weird to want one that matches my hair and eyes?" Keisuke asked the girls. Neither of them answered him, feeling too embarrassed for him. "What?"

"Uhh… never mind. Forget about it. Just choose a different color." Akari told him.

"If you do not see the color you want, you may make a special request that will be here in one business day. Until then you may use a temporary digivice and then exchange it tomorrow." The woman said.

'Finally she says something different.' Keisuke thought. "Can I have a silver one."

"Your requested item will be here tomorrow. Until then please choose a temporary digivice." The woman said.

"Uhhh… Black then."

The woman handed Keisuke the black digivice and said, "Please walk to the next room to continue."

"What do these digivices do?" Keisuke asked.

"Please walk to the next room to continue."

"C'mon!" Akari said as she grabbed Keisuke's shirt collar and dragged him into the next room. They were beginning to calm down about being sucked into their computers and were starting to get excited about the game.

As they walked into the third room, they saw a third woman exactly alike the first two. "Maybe they're robots?" Keisuke said. The girls ignored him.

Unlike the other rooms they were in so far there was actually another person in the room. It was a boy who looked as if he was about collage age. He looked up at them and said, "Hi, I'm Gennai. You guys must be the beta-testers."