(A/N: Love Machine from Summer Wars vs. Diaboromon from Digimon. Two digital beings that wreak havoc on the internet, seeking to consume and destroy. Who will win?)
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"LOVE MACHINE vs. DIABOROMON"
INTRODUCTION
Wiz: Many believe that artificial intelligence is the key for bringing humanity into the future, yet others believe it will lead to our destruction.
Boomstick: And there are few examples for the destruction theory better than these two digital disasters.
Wiz: Love Machine, an experimental artificial intelligence program that runs wild and grows far beyond the ability to control it.
Boomstick: And Diaboromon, a Digital Monster turned digital terrorist for kicks. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their powers, weapons, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
LOVE MACHINE
Wiz: In an alternate future, there is a place of wonder known as OZ.
Boomstick: And not the kind of Oz as in "The Wizard of".
Wiz: OZ was the name given to the simulated virtual reality world that was connected to quite literally everything on the planet that used data. From cellphones to security systems, everyone had their own personalized account avatar, which they used to run everything in their life. Be it video games or bank accounts, it all went through OZ.
Boomstick: Think of it like the internet turning into an actual virtual reality world that your avatar works through, only a thousand times more complex, and you can interact with everything through your avatar, even if it's something as simple as sending a text or as complicated as selling your house. Gee, I wonder how this could possibly go wrong.
Wiz: OZ was considered a completely foolproof method for everyone to handle all their affairs, and its security was said to be the best in the world and impossible to crack. However, they apparently hadn't taken the possibility of A.I. into account.
Boomstick: Get a load of this freaky-faced thing. Believe it or not, it's a virtual intelligence with a name straight out of Playboy.
Wiz: This is Love Machine, an experimental artificial intelligence program that was set loose for a test run. Only no one had any idea of what it was truly capable of.
Boomstick: Hehe, with a name like Love Machine, I bet I know what kind of activities it was intended for. And they can probably all be found on Pornhub.
BACKGROUND:
Age: unknown
Height: varies
Created as a hacking program
Programmed to learn and take over other programs
Has a sadistic personality where it doesn't distinguish between right and wrong
Loves to play games
Wiz: Love Machine was created to be a hacking program with a desire to learn that would allow nations to use it against their enemies. But once he was set loose, Love Machine turned his attention to OZ. And so he copied the 2,056 digit algorithm for OZ's security code and sent it out in an email to people all over the world, disguising it as a math problem for them to solve. Only 55 people worldwide managed to solve it, but once Love Machine had the security code, he was able to gain complete access to all of OZ's accounts.
Boomstick: Which, as you can probably tell, is a really bad thing. But that's what you get for putting all your eggs in one basket.
Wiz: For an idea of how avatars and accounts work in OZ, here's a bit of a breakdown. You have an avatar, which is basically your virtual self, and that avatar has countless accounts. One for banking, one for email, one for work, one for video games, one for online purchases, etc. If Love Machine takes over your avatar, he now has complete control of all the accounts associated with that avatar, including all personal information. Basically, everything you do online, he now has total control over. And since pretty much everyone did pretty much everything through OZ, once he took control of your avatar, he was basically in control of your life.
Boomstick: And all accounts went through OZ, meaning Love Machine now had access to every single one of them, and everything on them, be it something as simple as a Netflix account or even the president's and military's accounts that they used to launch nukes. All of it was at Love Machine's fingertips. Basically, he pretty much became the god of the internet.
Wiz: With all these accounts available to him, Love Machine began taking them over. And once he had control of them, he blocked out their owners, leaving him alone with all the power those accounts had.
Boomstick: And Customer Support was not going to be able to help you. In fact, even they needed help since all the administrators for OZ were completely exiled from the system.
Wiz: The more accounts Love Machine took over, the more power he obtained, allowing him to upgrade into a far more powerful form, where he became strong enough to allow him to easily defeat King Kazma, the champion of OZ's fighting arena.
Boomstick: Yeah, no kidding. The guy went from some weird-looking Mickey Mouse rip-off to some demonic amazon warrior. I mean, damn, just look how buff he got.
Wiz: Not only did Love Machine gain the abilities of the avatars he stole, including the accounts they were connected to, he was able to rewrite the rules of how things worked in OZ, such as bringing fighting game rules into non-combat areas.
Boomstick: Imagine you're on your school website and you're using your avatar to send your teacher an email that had your homework, but then your teacher's avatar suddenly goes Mortal Kombat on you and starts beating up your avatar, even though that shouldn't even be an option on your school website. Yeah, Love Machine could totally rewrite the rules like that on a whim.
POWERS AND ABILITIES:
Hacking
Absorbing data
Flight
Super speed and strength
Combat skills
Copying data
Data manipulation
Evolving/upgrading
Rewriting online rules
Gains the abilities of stolen avatars/accounts
Wiz: Despite being an A.I., Love Machine possessed a child-like personality. He enjoyed games and causing mischief, but had no conscience at all, or even the concept for the value of life. He began causing trouble all across OZ simply because he found it to be fun, with no care of how it would affect things in the real world. In fact, he seemed to find it rather amusing.
Boomstick: Sounds kind of like the Joker, only with instead of everything being a joke, everything is a game.
Wiz: That's actually a rather accurate comparison, as pretty much everything was a game to Love Machine, and he didn't care who got hurt in it. The more dangerous the game, the more amusement he seemed to take out of it, as it only raised the stakes. In fact, he actually seemed to delight in causing great catastrophe with his games.
Boomstick: What's this, a cruise ship is carrying a bunch of passengers? I'll just have it crash into an iceberg and recreate the Titanic. Oh look, a plane is on its way to Hawaii. I think I'll just reroute it to fly down into one of the volcanoes. Hey, two trains are going to cross paths. How about I have the tracks switch so they collide into each other? Yeah, those are exactly the kinds of things Love Machine was now capable of, and exactly the kind of things he got a kick out of.
FEATS:
Hacked/broke the entire internet
Achieved near-omnipresence while online
Took over 38% of the world's accounts
Made the whole world's digital services go haywire
Spread his consciences across over 412 million avatar accounts
Nearly destroyed the world with a massive nuclear catastrophe
Defeated OZ's combat champion, King Kazma
Broke out of a supercomputer
Pulled a satellite out of orbit
Wiz: As far as we know, Love Machine didn't get the opportunity to actually do anything quite that drastic, but he did cause a lot of trouble all across the world, ranging from interrupting phone calls to causing massive traffic jams, and he was only just getting started. Fortunately, one of OZ's moderators, a high school math genius named Kenji, was able to crack OZ's security code to hack into OZ and shut Love Machine out of it.
Boomstick: Too bad Love Machine was a poor sport and decided to take revenge in a pretty messed up way.
Wiz: Even though Love Machine could no longer take over any more accounts since he was locked out, he managed to track down Kenji's location and interrupted the electric devices in the house to disable the heart monitor of Kenji's girlfriend's great-grandmother, resulting in her death.
Boomstick: But, oh boy, did that backfire on Love Machine. This granny wasn't just any old granny. She was the adoptive mother of Wabisuke Jinnouchi, the very guy who created him. So Love Machine now had his own creator and the entire Jinnouchi family pissed off and intent on taking him down.
Wiz: Which the Jinnouchi family very nearly does by trapping him in a supercomputer.
Boomstick: That is, until Love Machine goes full-on Legion. You know, 'I am Legion, for we are many'.
Wiz: Prior to being shut out of OZ, Love Machine had managed to steal over 412 million accounts, and he manifested all those accounts into a single entity. Sort of like a hive mind that his consciousness was in control of. In this form, he crushed any possibility of anyone defeating him.
Boomstick: And that's when Love Machine decided to raise the stakes as high as they could go with the ultimate game. The last game anyone would ever play.
Wiz: To Love Machine, this did indeed amount to one big game, and wasn't something he was doing out of malice, merely sport. And so, using the account of a space program he had stolen, he took control of a satellite and began pulling it out of orbit, intending to drop it on a nuclear power plant to wipe out the world. The point of the game: simply to see if anyone could stop him.
Boomstick: And with the timer ticking down for the whole world to see, there was no way for anyone to stop him. Well, almost no way.
Wiz: As long as Love Machine had possession of the account that controlled the satellite, he could do whatever he wanted with it. Therefore, the only way to stop him was to take back the account. This was done by challenging Love Machine to a series of card games, where all the people of the world who still had their accounts bet them against the ones Love Machine had stolen.
Boomstick: And just like me in Vegas, Love Machine couldn't resist. And wouldn't you know it, just like me again, he lost, big time.
Wiz: After several rounds of a game of Koi-Koi, Love Machine was reduced from having 38% of the world's accounts to just two.
Boomstick: But because he was a poor sport, the two accounts he hung onto were the one he had stolen from that Kenji kid, and the one that controlled the satellite.
Wiz: Taking his revenge a step further, he directed the falling satellite to go from falling on the nuclear plant to falling down on the Jinnouchi house, intending to kill them all. Kenji attempted to hack into the satellite and send it off coarse, but Love Machine kept changing the access code to prevent him from doing so.
Boomstick: But for an A.I. that's programmed to learn, Love Machine never learned this one very basic rule. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Wiz: Since Wabisuke was the one who created Love Machine, he was able to disable all of Love Machine's defenses, which allowed King Kazma to finally deliver the finishing blow to destroy Love Machine once and for all.
Boomstick: Leaving just enough time for genius boy Kenji to disrupt the satellite's collision coarse with the house by messing with its GPS, saving them all.
Wiz: Though OZ was eventually able to return to normal after this, the damage that Love Machine had done was pretty extensive, even resulting in some deaths. Which only goes to show the potential dangers of creating A.I.
Boomstick: Or you could just, you know, not set one loose on the internet.
Wiz: Yeah, or you could just not do that.
DIABOROMON
Wiz: Somewhere in the multiverse is a realm known as the Digital dimension. Within it is the Digital World, a place where everything is made entirely of data.
Boomstick: And like the greatest V.R. system in the world, this entire dimension exists in your computer.
Wiz: Well, no, actually. The computer is just one way to gain access to the Digital World since both use data. In truth, the Digital World has been around for countless millennia, and some even believe it's older than our world.
Boomstick: How exactly does that work with everything being made of data. Didn't humans invent data?
Wiz: Well, in the Digimon franchise, humans merely discovered and learned how to use data, they didn't actually create it. And born from this data are creatures known as Digimon, Digital Monsters who dwell within the Digital World.
Boomstick: Like this badass bad guy. Say hello to Diaboromon, the living embodiment of a cyber attack.
BACKGROUND:
Age: 4+
Height: varies
Also known as Diablomon
Born from data on the internet and a computer virus
A Mega level Digimon whose power surpasses the Dark Masters
Consumed enough data information that it believes it is all-knowing and all-powerful
Seeks to destroy the world and cyberspace to prove its own belief
Wiz: Diaboromon, or Diablomon as he's known by in the Japanese version, is a Digimon that was born under unique circumstances. You see, some Digimon form partnerships with human children in order to become stronger at a much faster rate by relying on a human's inner strength. And after forming a partnership with two of them, a child genius named Willis attempted to create another Digimon on the internet. However, before it could hatch, the Digi-Egg that he created was attacked by a computer virus that mutated the egg into the being that would eventually become Diaboromon.
Boomstick: Wait, are we just gonna yadda-yadda over the fact that some snot-nosed brat basically just created life on a computer?
Wiz: Well, in the original Japanese version, Diaboromon was simply born by chance after an accumulation of data online merged together to form a Digi-Egg, and as far as we known, this is the first time a case like this has happened. The dubbed version decided to expand on Diaboromon's backstory a bit and make things a little more complex, and also to turn the three specials that made Digimon: The Movie into a single continuing storyline, which is where we got the computer virus backstory.
Boomstick: Wow, never thought I'd say it, but the dubbed version actually makes Diaboromon's origins sound more interesting instead of just making his birth some randomly event that happened by chance. Even his dubbed name sounds cooler.
Wiz: In any case, the Digi-Egg eventually hatched into a creature known as Kuramon. And thus this new being began its path of destruction.
Boomstick: Remember that virus that infected the egg, it not only mutated it, but caused Kuramon to grow and evolve super quickly. Like, really super quickly. That and because he ate a bunch of computer data.
Wiz: See, Digimon go through a process called Digivolving, where they evolve into more powerful creatures. After hatching, the stages they typically go through are Baby, In-Training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega, each form being, quite frankly, ridiculously more powerful than the last. And depending on how strong each stage is and how quickly a Digimon is able to absorb data, this entire evolution from Baby to Mega could actually take centuries, if not millennia, without a human partner to draw power from.
Boomstick: But not for this one-eyed jellyfish looking thing. In a matter of hours, of hatching, he was able to reach his Mega form thanks to the virus and all the data he ate online. That's like, crazy ridiculous fast.
Wiz: Thanks to all the free data he could eat, mere minutes after his birth, Kuramon was able to Digivolve to Tsumemon, and then Keramon shortly after that. He later even bypassed over his Champion level form of Chrysalimon to become the Ultimate level Infermon, and then, finally, the Mega level form of Diaboromon.
Boomstick: And that's when things really got crazy.
POWERS AND ABILITIES:
Attacks – Web Wrecker, Cable Crusher, Lost Paradise, Tsume Kougeki, Tentacle Bug, Line Surge, System Failure, Page Fault, Virus Download, Multiply
Flight
Super speed and strength
Data absorption
Duplication
Hacking
Energy attacks
Evolving
Attacks as Armageddemon – Destiny Destroyer, Full Scale Attack
Wiz: Diaboromon was truly a force to be reckoned with. Even at the Rookie level, his potential and threat level was recognized to be so great that the four Dark Masters, who were powerful enough to reshape the Digital World, were referred to as cupcakes in comparison.
Boomstick: And this sentient computer virus thing was loose on the internet. You thought a regular computer bug was bad, just see what one that can actually think and act out on its own is capable of.
Wiz: Pretty much immediately following his birth, Diaboromon began causing trouble online, even indirectly in some cases. This caused countless of issues for anything that was connected to the internet, or even using data at all. And Diaboromon didn't just cause the world problems, he also gained access to all the information available online. And with attacks like his Web Wrecker and Cable Crusher, he could take down anything in his path that got in his way, or even use his System Failure to force his opponents to devolve.
Boomstick: But like me, he apparently had daddy issues, because he began seeking out the one who created him. And he started by calling every phone number in the world at the same time. Boy, talk about a collect call.
Wiz: Just be glad that Diaboromon had a set goal in mind at the time, because he could have done a lot worse if he wanted to, and we saw only some of what he was capable of while he was on the loose.
FEATS:
Reached the Mega level within hours after being born
Hacked the entire internet
Achieved near-omnipresence while online
Took over military bases to gain access to nuclear missiles
Made over a million copies of himself in minutes
Created millions of Kuramon
Defeated WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, Tentomon, and Patamon
Resurrected after being destroyed by Omnimon (twice)
Managed to break into the Real World
Digivolved to Armageddemon
Defeated Omnimon and Imperialdramon Fighter Mode (as Armageddemon)
Boomstick: Which is why the DigiDestined somehow uploaded their own Digimon online to try and destroy him before he could do any more damage than he already did.
Wiz: Which didn't exactly go over so well the first few times. After defeating the DigiDestined's partner Digimon, Diaboromon hacked into the U.S.'s military base and launched two nuclear missiles, one at Willis' hometown, and one at the DigiDestined's.
Boomstick: And then, just for a laugh, he made millions of copies of himself and decided to play a game of Guess Who with them before the missiles hit.
Wiz: While each of the Diaboromon copies held just as much power as the original, each one was fragile and easily destroyed. And once the original one was found, all the copies disappeared. Fortunately, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon were able to do this by using a process called DNA Digivolving, where they merged together to become the Royal Knight known as Omnimon, allowing them to send the nuclear missiles off course after they defeated Diaboromon. Temporarily anyway.
Boomstick: Yeah, get a load of this. Even though Omnimon managed to slice Diaboromon's face in half with his sword, the guy was somehow able to survive this.
Wiz: As we said before, Digimon are beings made of data. When they're destroyed, their data reconfigures, and they're reborn in a place in the Digital World called Primary Village, where they start over from scratch. Diaboromon, however, managed to preserve his data on online, and four years later was able to reform.
Boomstick: But he was a little sore at the DigiDestined for cutting his freakin' face in half and stopping his nuclear attack, so he came up with a plan for revenge.
Wiz: For a while, Diaboromon laid low, and began creating millions of copies of Kuramon that were much more stable than his Diaboromon copies, and he began sending them out into the Real World through people's phones by sending everyone emails that contained his, uh, children. Since Diaboromon himself contained so much data, he was unable to break through to the Real World on his own, so he sent his Kuramon instead.
Boomstick: Think of him like an email that's too big to be sent, so he sent a bunch of smaller files containing his data instead.
Wiz: This was only one part of Diaboromon's plan though. He next lured Omnimon and a few other DigiDestined online, where he willingly allowed himself to be destroyed. However, this was just a ploy to trap them online while he made his real move. His true goal was to enter the Real World and Digivolve to an even more powerful form. Mega may be the highest form of Digivolution a Digimon can achieve, excluding the very rarely seen Ultra level, but a Digimon is capable of becoming an even stronger Mega than the one they already are. And Diaboromon has such a form.
Boomstick: Doesn't he also have, like, a porn star form or something?
Wiz: Uh, a porn star form…? Oh, you mean his X form. Yes, if Diaboromon manages to obtain an X Antibody, he's able to Digivolve into an upgraded version of himself known as Diaboromon X. However, Diaboromon's most powerful form, which some sources actually classify as an Ultra, though most say is still a Mega, is known as Armageddemon, or Armagemon according to his Japanese name.
Boomstick: Yeah, gotta go with the dub again on this one. But seriously, just listen to how Diaboromon pulled this off, it makes, like, no sense.
Wiz: To us, maybe, but Digimon are completely different life forms, and this is something they're known for doing.
Boomstick: Yeah, whatever, it still makes no sense. After Diaboromon allowed himself to get his face cut in half for the second time, and then blown up after taking several of Omnimon's cannon blasts to the gut, he somehow spread his consciousness to the millions of Kuramon he created and then merged them all together to Digivolve to Armageddemon.
Wiz: This is Diaboromon's ultimate form, and it's far more powerful than Diaboromon. Where before Omnimon was able to defeat Diaboromon almost easily, Armageddemon was the one who was able to take down not just Omnimon, but also Imperialdramon Fighter Mode, with little effort.
Boomstick: Well no kidding. I mean, look at that thing. He's like some cross with a spider and a dinosaur, plus he's the size of a building. And did you hear the name of his primary attack? Destiny Destroyer. It doesn't get much more badass than that.
Wiz: Fortunately, Omnimon was able to transfer his power Imperialdramon, allowing him to unlock his Paladin Mode. This provided Imperialdramon with a mystical sword that causes the data of anyone he stabs it with to reset. And upon stabbing Armageddemon, he caused him to break down into the millions of Kuramon once more.
Boomstick: After that, everyone used their phones to suck them back up online and send them to the Trash… Geez, how anti-climatic.
Wiz: While it may not have been the most… epic of finales for one of the DigiDestined's greatest enemies, there's no doubt that Diaboromon established himself as one of the biggest threats both the Real World and the Digital World ever faced. And remember, due to circumstances, we likely didn't get to see what Diaboromon, or even Armageddemon, was truly capable of, both online and off.
Boomstick: Don't know about Diaboromon, but I'll tell you what I'd do if I ever gained online omnipresence. I'd hit up all the porn sites all at once.
Wiz: What is with you and porn today?
Boomstick: Wiz, statistically, about 40% of the internet is porn. With who the guys we're talking about for this Death Battle are, how can I not talk about it?
Wiz: Your baser instincts disgust me.
THE BATTLE
Keramon is inside a computer on the internet, hovering in place as he eats a ribbon of data. Suddenly, Love Machine in his Mickey Mouse-based form leaps over, jumping off Keramon's head. Growling, Keramon turns to him.
Keramon: "Bug Blaster!"
He fires a blast of energy from his mouth. The attack misses Love Machine, but the blast cuts him off. Love Machine turns back towards Keramon and grins, letting out a snicker. Keramon hovers closer to him.
Keramon: "So you like to play games, huh?"
FIGHT!
Keramon fires his Bug Blaster several more times. Love Machine jumps around, avoiding the blasts, then charges at him, head butting into Keramon. Keramon goes flying backwards and crashing into the wall. Love Machine rushes over and begins raining punches against him. Keramon suddenly bites his arm and spins him around. Letting go, he sends Love Machine flying across the room. Love Machine does a flip and lands against an ad floating around, then leaps back at Keramon, who begins glowing.
Keramon: "Keramon Warp Digivolve to… Diaboromon!"
Keramon is surrounded by light as he Digivolves straight to the Mega level. When the light fades, Diaboromon is now present, but Love Machine keeps flying towards him.
Diaboromon: "Cable Crusher!"
One of his arms shoots out, stretching across the room. It slams with Love Machine, carrying him back and smashing him against the wall. Diaboromon repeats the attack with his other hand, but Love Machine manages to squeeze out of Diaboromon's palm and avoids the second attack. He then grabs hold of a computer file and eats it. This causes him to upgrade to his amazon warrior form.
Diaboromon: "Web Wrecker!"
He begins shooting blasts of energy from the cannon on his chest. Love Machine uses his staff to knock the blasts away, then charges at Diaboromon. He throws a punch, but Diaboromon flies straight up, avoiding it, and Love Machine ends up punching the wall. Diaboromon charges up the cannon in his chest to unleashes his more powerful Paradise Lost attack, firing a massive blast of energy down at Love Machine, which explodes upon contact.
Diaboromon lands a short distance away and laughs, but then Love Machine comes flying out of the cloud of smoke towards him. He delivers a punch, his fist slamming into Diaboromon's face, sending him flying backwards. Diaboromon halts his momentum and uses his Cable Crusher, his hand shooting out towards Love Machine.
Love Machine grabs hold of Diaboromon's arm before it hits him. He then uses it to swing Diaboromon over his head and slam him on the ground. He does this several times before spinning him around and letting go, and Diaboromon goes spinning through the air. Love Machine flies after him and begins delivering a series of punches before balling up his fists and slamming them down on him.
Diaboromon hits the ground as Love Machine hovers in the air. Holding out his hand, he begins firing Diaboromon's Web Wrecker attack from his palm. Diaboromon gets up and starts jumping around to avoid the blasts. He suddenly grabs a pop-up ad and leaps up at Love Machine, using it to hit him. Love Machine crashes into the wall, and Diaboromon flies at him and begins repeatedly hitting him with the ad.
Love Machine raises his staff to block as Diaboromon attempts to bring the ad down on him. This leaves him open though, and Diaboromon fires his Web Wrecker at him. This sends Love Machine flying backwards to crash into the wall.
Tossing the ad away, Diaboromon uses his Cable Crusher, and both his arms fly at Love Machine, pinning him to the wall and making him drop his staff. Diaboromon chuckles and begins charging up his Paradise Lost attack, but Love Machine kicks his staff up at him, dazing Diaboromon as it hits him.
Breaking out of Diaboromon's hold, Love Machine suddenly grabs the Trash icon and flies up at Diaboromon. He brings it down on him, and Diaboromon is sucked inside. Love Machine then slams the lid down and rests his foot on the lid with his arms crossed.
A few seconds pass, and then the Trash starts shaking. It suddenly bursts open, and several dozen Diaboromon begin flying around, having copied themselves. They circle around Love Machine, and then one flies past and hits him. This is repeated by another, then another, each one striking him. Love Machine manages to block one and strikes the Diaboromon that hit him, causing it to burst into data. The rest of the Diaboromon hover around him, and each begins firing their Web Wrecker.
Love Machine holds out his hand, and his staff flies back into it. He begins spinning it around, deflecting the blasts of energy back at the Diaboromon, destroying several of the copies. He then flies at one of the Diaboromon in particular and delivers a punch that causes the remaining copies to disappear and sends the Diaboromon he hit crashing into the wall. Love Machine flies at Diaboromon again, but Diaboromon looks up as he sees him approach and suddenly encases himself in a green sphere.
Diaboromon: "System Failure!"
Just before Love Machine can slam into him, the green sphere surrounding him explodes outwards. Love Machine is blasted backwards, reverting back to his previous Mickey Mouse form. Diaboromon followed up with his Cable Crusher, once again slamming Love Machine against the wall. Keeping Love Machine pinned there, he floats over to him and laughs. But then Love Machine snickers right back at him before placing two fingers into his mouth and whistling.
Suddenly, several account avatars with Love Machine's demented smile appear behind Diaboromon. They begin slamming into Diaboromon, knocking him away from Love Machine. Diaboromon turns and begins firing at them with his Web Wrecker, destroying them one after another. Love Machine whistle again, and the remaining ones fly over to him. He then eats a few and transforms back into his warrior form before flying at Diaboromon, delivering a kick to his stomach that sends Diaboromon crashing into the wall.
Growling, Diaboromon looks up at Love Machine, then holds out his arms.
Diaboromon: "All Kuramon, come to me now!"
A pop-up appears, and a countless number of Kuramon begin flowing out of it. Love Machine watches with interest as they surround Diaboromon, forming a sphere around him that begins glowing.
Diaboromon: "Diaboromon Digivolve to… Armegeddemon!"
Having finished Digivolving, Diaboromon has become the giant Armageddemon. Love Machine takes a step back uncertainly as Armageddemon towers over him. Armageddemon roars and swipes at Love Machine, but Love Machine dodges the swipe by flying into the air. Armageddemon then swings his tail, hitting Love Machine and sending him flying through the air until Love Machine manages to halt his momentum.
Armageddemon: "Full Scale Attack!"
Armageddemon fires a bunch of energy shells from his back into the air that come back down as scattered beams. Instead of retreating, Love Machine flies straight at Armageddemon, maneuvering around the beams as they come down around him. He reaches Armageddemon and throws a punch, hitting him in the nose, but Armageddemon doesn't even flinch. Instead, he swipes at Love Machine again, sending him crashing into the wall.
Armageddemon: "Destiny Destroyer!"
Opening his mouth, Armageddemon fires a destructive wave. Love Machine sees it coming, but is unable to do anything about it as the attack hits, resulting in a massive explosion. Armageddemon throws back his head and roars in victory before looking back at the cloud of smoke and laughing. He turns and begins walking away, but suddenly something catches his attention and he looks back.
Emerging from the cloud of smoke is a giant formless mass made of millions of avatar accounts. Slowly they shape themselves into a demonic humanoid shape as Love Machine appears in his ultimate form. Armageddemon turns back to him and roars, and Love Machine roars back. Copying Armageddemon's Full Scale Attack, he launches his own series of energy shells into the air that come raining down on Armageddemon.
As the smoke clears, Armageddemon gets back to his feet and uses his Destiny Destroyer. Love Machine copies him, firing his own blast from his mouth, and the two beams collide together in a stalemate, causing an explosion that fills up the room.
When the blast dies down, both Armageddemon and Love Machine are still standing. Armageddemon growls and charges forward, tackling into Love Machine. This causes all the avatars that make up Love Machine's body to disperse. Armageddemon looks around as they fly around him like an angry swarm. Then they all fly down and begin covering his body as they start biting him. Armageddemon roars and begins thrashing about and firing off his Destiny Destroyer, but the avatars keep eating.
Armageddemon continues to thrash around as the avatars cover him completely before finally going still, now making it look as if he were the one made of millions of avatars. Then they suddenly come apart, and Armageddemon is gone. That avatars form Love Machine's body once again, and his markings and the giant halo on his back flash as he roars his victory.
KO!
An assimilated Diaboromon is seen amongst the millions of avatars that make up Love Machine's body as he spreads across the internet.
OUTCOME
Boomstick: Now that's what I call one virtual victory.
Wiz: This was a very close battle that actually could have gone either way, but Love Machine had a few advantages that Diaboromon lacked, despite them being very similar in power and abilities.
Boomstick: Like the way they both ate data. For Diaboromon, it was a food source that helped him Digivolve faster, but Love Machine was able to put it to much better use.
Wiz: As stated before, Love Machine is a hacking A.I. that's programmed to learn. Like Diaboromon, he too was able to evolve with the more data he consumed, but while the data was merely a power source for Diaboromon, Love Machine was actually able to assimilate the data he consumed and gain the powers and abilities of the data, avatars, and accounts he ate. This provided him with a lot more room for growth and development, including gaining powers Diaboromon couldn't.
Boomstick: And since he's programmed to learn and gains the skills of whatever data he eats, Love Machine could even potentially learn Diaboromon's attacks since they're technically data. So basically, anything Diaboromon threw at him, Love Machine could likely just learn and throw right back at him, which wasn't something Diaboromon could do.
Wiz: There's also limitations to consider. As powerful as Diaboromon is, he still has his limits, and his power does cap off eventually. But as far as we know, Love Machine has no such limitations, and can, in theory, continue to grow stronger indefinitely with the more data he consumes.
Boomstick: Not even Diaboromon's ability to copy himself would save him for long. Since Love Machine is able to hack other programs, he should be able to figure out which Diaboromon was the real one since his digital code would be different from the copies.
Wiz: What more than that, despite the copies being fragile, Love Machine could still consume their data, which would only serve to make him stronger. Overall, Love Machine had far more and greater ways to increase his power than the limited number of ways Diaboromon could.
Boomstick: Even their evolutions are different. For Diaboromon, it takes a required amount of data for him to Digivolve to a new level, but Love Machine gets stronger and evolves with every account he steals. He actually went from getting his ass kicked by King Kazma to kicking his ass after consuming just two avatars. If he got that strong after eating two, just imagine how strong he was when he had over 400 million.
Wiz: Diaboromon did something similar to this when he created millions of Kuramon that he merged with in order to become Armageddemon, but while Armageddemon was still just a single individual, Love Machine, when he reaches his ultimate form, had the advantage of being one being made of hundreds of millions of others, not to mention all of the abilities that each of them possessed. And while we can provide an estimate of how strong Diaboromon was as Armageddemon, there's really no telling just how powerful Love Machine was at that point. But judging by how strong, or even how potentially strong, an individual avatar is or can be compared to how strong a Kuramon is, Love Machine's final form would be more powerful than even Armageddemon.
Boomstick: As Kenji's squirrel avatar showed, he was able to take quite a beating from Love Machine, but Kuramon's are just Baby level Digimon who aren't anywhere near as strong or as durable as even the most basic of avatars like Kenji's squirrel. And that's not even counting all the powers and abilities that all those avatars would give him. And he could still potentially even copy Armageddemon's attacks and abilities with the way he's able to learn.
Wiz: Even Diaboromon's System Failure attack didn't have quite the impact he was hoping for. While this may be a good attack to use on rival Digimon to force them to devolve, it wouldn't have any lasting affects on Love Machine. Love Machine's upgraded form was from him eating all those avatars, so even if Diaboromon devolved him, Love Machine still had all those accounts, and could simply use them to upgrade himself once again.
Boomstick: Even if he couldn't, all he had to do was eat another avatar or two and he was good to go. But Diaboromon wouldn't have that luxury if Love Machine decided to copy that attack and use it on him though, which was just one more advantage Love Machine had over him.
Wiz: When it ultimately came down to was that since Love Machine was made of so many individuals, it would make it difficult for Diaboromon, and even Armageddemon, to put him down for good, as he would need to wipe out each and every avatar that made up Love Machine's body and that he had spread his consciousness to. However, there's still only a single one of Diaboromon.
Boomstick: Even if he broke down into all those Kuramon again, each of Love Machine's avatar bodies could easily pick them off at that point since all Kuramon can really do is blow bubbles, but every avatar has at least decent fighting potential.
Wiz: There's also the fact that Love Machine is quite literally made to hack and consume other programs, including data sources, and that would include Diaboromon since he's made of data. And while Diaboromon is known for consuming data as well, it's only ever been pure data he and other Digimon have ever been seen consuming, while Love Machine has been seen devouring whole avatars. And being made up of so many individuals, he was able to use this to his advantage to consume Armageddemon and bring an end to the battle.
Boomstick: Looks like Diaboro got Dia-voured… Sorry, bad joke.
Wiz: The winner is Love Machine.
TRIVIA
Both Diaboromon and Love Machine are sentient, digital life forms who take over the internet.
Both enjoy causing destruction and chaos.
Both are known for consuming data to become stronger.
Both merge with others to obtain their ultimate form.
Both become internet terrorists who cause disturbances online and in the real world.
Both attempt to use nuclear activity to try to cause global destruction.
Both are mischievous and vengeful.
Both enjoy playing cruel games and taunting their opponents.