If anyone's interested. My Healing fic has 4 chapters. Nobody may not like Meiko. But I admire her greatly.
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The group is once again walking as it was now sizzling and everyone is exhausted. "We passed this place before." Sora said.
"You mean we walked all the way around the whole planet?" Joe asked loudly, and Mimi fell to her knees.
"That just can't be, I can walk that far can I? I'm so tired." She said. Gomamon pants as he walks, TK collapsed as did Gomamon, and Patamon flew right on his head.
"My feet are hot." TK said, making his brother look at him and the two Digimon. "Looks like we're taking a break."
"So are mine." Meiko agrees. "They also hurt."
"Well it's not like we have a place to be." Sora said.
"I guess you're right." Tai replied. "There's no reason to hurry."
"Check out Izzy. I bet he's trying to email the aliens." Matt said as they look over towards the genius.
"Maybe he's asking them to beam him up." Tai joked.
"Seriously Tai?" Sora scuffed, giving him a look.
"Hey, he might be." Tai said with a shrug.
"Still crashed and the warranties expired." Izzy said as he's sitting on the ground with his laptop resting on his lap.
"Hey Izzy I know how to get it to boot up! You've got to give it a couple of subtile adjustments!" Tai said, snatching the laptop and smacking it.
"Hey, quit it!" Izzy cried, waving his arms. "Are you brain cells malfunctioning?" He asked as he snatching. His laptop back.
"Gosh, you're acting like I'm hurting the dumb thing." Tai said
"Too bad your brain isn't as big as your hair. Maybe Izzy doesn't want grimy fingerprints and dents all over his computer." Sora said with her hands on her hips.
"Huh?" He then huffed. "Hmph!" He folds his arms, he pouts for a bit then sees something in the distance. "Wha? Hey, look! Do you guys see that smoke over there? I'll check it out!" He ran in the direction of the smoke.
"Hey Tai, wait for me!" Agumon called, following Tai.
"The attention span of a nat." Joe said.
"Oh, whatever." Matt said.
Izzy continued to type away on his laptop, when a beeping is heard. "Ahh! We've got graphics, we've got sound. Beautiful! Up and running." He said until he notices his battery icon flashing. "Huh? But it indicates that the battery needs recharging. Oh, that's odd."
"Hey everybody, coming over quick and check this out!" Tai suddenly yelled.
"We're coming, Tai!" Sora calls. She and the others run up to surround Tai, see a huge factory.
"Looks like some kind of factory." Joe points out.
"Let's hope they can manufacture a way for us to get home." Matt said.
The team climb down the downhill and reach the factory.
"Hmm. I wonder what they make in here." Joe wondered as he scratched his chin.
"I don't know, but wouldn't it be great if there's a manufacture's outlet store? They always have killer deals." Mimi said.
"Don't ask me how, but there doesn't seem to be anybody here." Matt said as they look around.
"There's gotta be someone running the equipment." Sora replied.
"Well, I don't know. It appears to be doing quite well all by itself." Izzy said.
"Matt, what are the machines making?" TK asked as they watched pieces being put together by the machines.
Matt shrugs. "You got me. Maybe parts for robots or spaceships." He tried to answer.
"Somebody's got to be moving those belts and people gotta eat, so is there a cafeteria here cause we could really use a good meal!" Joe shouts.
Matt then moves, catching TK's attention.
"Matt where are you going?"
"I'm going to look around."
"Good idea." Tai said. He, Agumon, Meiko, Guilmon, Joe, and Gomamon go in one direction while the others go in a different direction.
"Hello? Anyone here?" Tai yelled.
No response.
"Did you really think that Casper or his uncles were gonna answer?" Meiko asked, making Tai shrug.
"Somebody has to be running this place."
Meiko started to go down a hallway, but Guilmon reached out to grab her shirt.
"Don't go any further in this direction." She warns.
"What's wrong with this direction?" Joe asked. "It's just as good as any other direction, isn't it?"
"What's wrong Guilmon?" Tai asked.
"I heard something." The Digimon answered, just before they heard a loud crash.
"I definitely heard that!" Tai exclaimed.
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The other group stood by a door.
"I say we go inside and have a look around." Patamon. Matt opens the door and they gasp. Seeing room with giant batteries, Izzy is definitely awestruck.
"Prodigious! A battery like that could run my computer forever! I wonder if there's a way to access it's power!"
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Tai's group ran down the hallway they heard the loud crash. Agumon stopped and looked in the room next to him. "Hey!" He called to the others.
The group turned back and walked in. Seeing what looked like a robot with a skull helmet as it was unconscious.
"What do you suppose happened to him?" Tai asked.
"Should we try to help him?" Meiko asked.
"It's just a busted robot." Tai replied.
"It's not a robot. It's Androgen." Gomamon corrects Tai.
That shocked Tai. "What!? This big clunk is a Digimon!?"
"Yes. And very much advanced." Agumon nods.
"Poor thing. I guess he got caught in the gears." Guilmon said. "And that's how he got mangled."
"Maybe if we work together, we can pull him out of there." Meiko suggests.
"My mom doesn't want me moving any heavy objects." Joe said. "I have bad knees."
"So you want two 10-year-olds to lift him up?" Meiko asked, gesturing to herself and Tai. "A Digimon who looks taller then all three of our dad's?"
"She's got you there, Joe." Tai said with a big grin.
Joe ground, hanging his head.
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"What are you doing Izzy?" A confused Matt, asked as Izzy admires the giant battery and feels around the wall.
"I'm trying to tap into the power source. If I can get this baby to fire up, then we can use my computer to get some help." Izzy answered, explaining.
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Back to Tai's group. The group worked hard to pull Andramon out from under the gears, but the Digimon was wedged pretty good.
"I think it's moving!" Tai yelled, he skids backwards and accidentally activates the lever, and the gears start to move.
"Hey, something's happening! He's coming loose!" Joe said. As the gears are moving, a black gear enters Andromon's right leg, giving off sparks. They pulled Andromon out of the machine and cleared. Andromon mumbled regaining consciousness.
"I think he's slowly coming to." Agumon said.
"He needs a couple of whacks for a jumpstart!" Tai moved, raising a fist.
"No!" Joe and Meiko cried, quickly grabbing him, but Agumon whacked Andromon in the face. Waking the Digimon.
"I am Androgen." The robot Digimon said in a metallic voice.
"There's this movie where a robot came to life and killed everyone." Joe said.
"Joe! Don't put that in my head!" Meiko cried.
Andromon grabs her leg and stood up, holding Meiko.
"I shall punish alien intruders!" Andromon said.
"Andromon is one of the most powerful Digimon of all. His body is a tireless machine capable of almost anything." Guilmon said.
"Meiko!" Tai exclaims.
"Help!"
"Lets give him all we've got!" Tai yells.
"Pyro Sphere!" Guilmon sends a blast of fire at Andromon's head, causing him to throw Meiko into Tai who catches him in his arms, but the force sent him falling onto his back with her on top.
"Meiko, are you ok?" Tai asked, she rapidly nods.
"To bad we didn't catch him on a good day, watch out!" Joe cried in panic.
"Maybe this is a good day." Gomamon said.
"This is not a good day!" Joe is still panicked.
"Well Tai, what do we do now?" Agumon asks as he stood in front of him and Tai while Andromon came towards them.
"Agumon, how about you try and blast the roof?" Tai suggested, as Meiko hugged his left arm.
"Hmm … Pepper Breath!" Shouts the dinosaur Digimon, aiming at ceiling above Andromon, causing it to fall on top of him.
"Boy, he's going to have one ugly headache!" Tai said, pulling his arm from Meiko but took her hand. "Now, let's get out of here!" He exclaimed as they start to run.
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In the supply room. Izzy continued to search for way to access the giant battery. "Ah ha. I have located an access panel to the interior operations." He said as he opens a panel.
"Hey, let me see, Izzy." Tentomon said as Izzy opens the panel all the way, revealing codes. Walking inside the battery, Izzy looks up to see more codes. "What exactly do you think this is?" Tentomon asks.
"These markings are binary options of some sort, a computer program." Izzy used answered as he walked up to the codes on the wall. "A very complicated program indeed." Hew places his fingers on one of the codes and erases some of it.
And suddenly the whole factory goes dark.
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Tai and his group are running down a hallway when the lights go off. "Hey, who turned out the lights!?" Tai yells.
"I break out in hives in the dark!" Joe said, before they hear grumbling behind them to see a pair of glowing blue eyes. "What was that?"
"It might be a good plan to keep running so we don't find out." Tai said.
"I'm all for that!" Joe agreed.
"Or we can just stay here until the monster gets us." Tai added.
"Door number 1 please!" Meiko cried.
"Yes, yes, yes!" Joe cried rapidly bobbing his head, agreeing.
"Let's sneak away." Tai whispered. Andromon's eyes then changed from blue to red, letting him see in the dark.
"Can anyone explain to me why we're tiptoeing instead of running for our lives?" Joe asks, brining out a real good point.
"Intruders sighted and Andromon does like intruders." Andromon raised his right arm, causing it to rapidly spin and making electricity to form. "Lightning Blade!" He sends an electric blade of energy towards the four Digidestined. They turned to see the attack coming at them and the group dive down.
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"That was a smooth move, Izzy. Scratch that theory." Izzy said to himself. "Could I have possibly deleted the wrong program?"
"I think that is a distinct possibility, Izzy." Tentomon said. "Why don't you undelete it?"
"Capital idea! A stroke of metallic paint right here." Izzy said as he takes a marker and redraws what he accidentally erased, causing everything to come back on. "Voila!"
Izzy sat down on the floor, putting his laptop in his lap, typing away while looking at the different codes. "That's rather mysterious."
"And just what is so mysterious?" Tentomon asks.
"Well, you see batteries are driven by acidic chemical reaction which generates a current." Izzy explained. "But this one produces its own current independently."
"And what does that mean in plain English for those of us who didn't major in engineering?"
"Give me a nano."
"I'll give you three."
Izzy kept typing on his laptop, while his Digimon watches.
"If I can decode the particulate program, then I can trace its base functions and figure out a way out of here."
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Tai and his friends continued to run from Andromon on the catwalk, they screamed as they kept running.
"This is not good! I don't like this at all!" Joe panted out.
"Come on, you guys!" Agumon yelled.
Andromon targets the group again. "Lightning Blade!" He shouts. "And fire!" He sends his attack again. The kids and Digimon scream as the blade of energy was coming at them. They jump sideways, grabbing a hold of the railing of the catwalk, having no choice but to dangle on the sides. "Here me, intruders! Andromon will exact his vengeance!"
"Hey come on!" Tai said, looking around. "Vengeance? We're the ones that jump started you!" He yelled as Andromon approached them.
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"I admire how you keep working while your friends are out having fun." Tentomon told Izzy. "Don't you ever feel sort of left out?"
"Not at all."
"So you'd rather spend your time with puzzles then people?"
"Precisely. What can be more fun then breaking a cryptogram that nobody else can figure out?"
"I can think of a lot of things." Tentomon said. "Like relaxing on a warm beach, and not worrying about trapped in a small room with no exit. But that's just me."
"I'm just trying to determine how we all got to his place." Izzy told him. "And I'd like to learn more about you Digimon perhaps prove some of my theories."
"What are you theorizing about? What's the big mystery? I am who I am, I'm not hiding anything."
"Really?"
"I simply can't understand this preoccupation with who you are." Tentomon looks at Izzy. "Is there some kind of deep dark secret in your origins?"
Izzy pauses as a far off look crossed his face. "Oh well." He trails off.
"Izzy?" Tentomon tried to get his attention. "Izzy!"
Izzy jumped. "Huh?" He turns to his Digimon. "What'd you say?"
"You were off in another world. Look at the screen." He points at the laptop.
"Huh?" Izzy blinked, as the data moves around on its own.
"It's acting rather strangely." Tentomon replied. "Perhaps you should stop focusing on the problem and start looking for a solution. Your friends are in trouble. Can't you feel it in your bones?" Izzy's Digivice starts to glow green, alarming Izzy.
"My Digivice has been activated!"
Tentomon to Izzymon, are you reading me?" Tentomon asked as Izzy's laptop virtually displays the entire island, and Izzy is awestruck at his findings.
"This is merely scientific speculation, but I believe I've stumbled onto something more then a simple computer game and I'm about to abandon my alien theories as well, which will make Meiko happy."
"Oh my, it's getting hot in here!" Tentomon cried, Izzy turned to see his Digimon is burning up as blush white lines shines on the Digimon's body, Tentomon cries in pain as he moves about. "Ow! Ow! I can't stand it! I'm burning up! Do something quickly! I'm being zapped!"
"What's going on!?" Izzy exclaimed/
"Oooh, ouch! I can't stand it! Help!" Tentomon cried in pain. Izzy looked at his device and looked at the number of bars that's gone up.
"Its it short circuiting?"
"Ooh! Meh! Mercy!" Tentomon danced in place. "YIKES! I'm dancing like I never danced before!"
"I'm disconnecting the power." Izzy turns off his laptop, and immediately Tentomon starts to cool off. "Now I may never figure the mystery out. Oh, well."
"Oh, I don't like computers." Tentomon sighs, lowering himself down to the floor as Izzy looks at his Digivice.
"What happened to my Digivice?"
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"Andromon will exact his vengeance."
"Oh yeah? Just try it, you tin can!" Tai jumped to some controls beneath him. Joe and Meiko were scared out of their minds. "Come on!" Tai pulls and pushes a couple of levers and the crane moves a hook.
"Would you please stop taunting the deranged android!?" Joe demanded. The hook grabs the robot Digimon.
"Yeah!" Tai yells, pulling the middle lever, and the hook raises Andromon causing him to flail and roar.
"Ground interrupted! Altitude reading abnormal!"
Joe and the Digimon climb back onto the catwalk, as Tai jumps back onto the catwalk.
"Let's get lost!" Tai exclaimed as he and Joe help Meiko back on the catwalk and grabs her hand.
"Lost sounds very good!" Joe cried out panicked. The group bolted away, leaving Andromon swinging and falling his feet.
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Matt and his group stood outside. When Izzy and Tentomon ran towards them. "Hey, everybody! You'll never guess what I just discovered!" Izzy exclaimed as he reaches his friends.
"What's up Izzy?" Matt asked.
"Well, the computer program operating the factory is what producing the generating power to keep it going." The group is unaware of Andromon coming towards them. "Even more incredible in the Digital World basic data and simple living information are a Bible substance! It's alive!" He yells as Tai, Meiko, Joe, Agumon, Guilmon, and Gomamon rejoins the Digidestined.
"Hey you guys listen up!" Tai yells.
"I don't like the tone in his voice." Matt said.
"We have got to get out of here now!" Tai continued.
"What do you mean Tai?" Matt asked, just seconds of Andromon erupting through the ground, separating the two groups again, and making them scream.
"Capture intruders! Sensors detects hostility!" Andromon emerges completely. "Bring intruders into firing range!" He targets Matt's group.
"Mr. Whatever-mon, are you talking to us?" Mimi asks.
"Bring missiles to position!" Andromon ordered, opening his chest. "And fire!" He fires two missiles, heading straight for his target.
Matt's group quickly separated as they all dodge, except for TK.
"Matt, help!"
"TK!" Matt yells, Gabumon races past him.
"Gabumon Digivolve to … Garurumon!"
"Oh no!" TK covers his eyes, just before Garurumon smacks the missiles away. One of them explodes, and the other comes at Tai's group. Tai yelped as the missile opened its mouth and fired, making his group jump. Agumon ran into the battle.
"Agumon Digivolves to … Greymon!" Once he digivolved, Greymon smacked the other missile into the air, making it explode.
"Who challenges Andromon?" The robotic Digimon demands.
"We challenge you!" Meiko picks up a rock and throws it at him. "Bucket of bolts!" The rock smacks the Digimon in the face.
The Digidestined watch as their Digimon fight the android Digimon.
"Get him, Greymon!" Tai cheers.
"Recycle that hunk of tin!" Matt added. "Send him to the junkyard!"
Biyomon Digivolves into Birdramon to help in the fight. But even with three against one, it was still a no good battle.
Tentomon turns to Izzy. "Try re entering that program that activated your Digivice." He suggested.
"But what for?" Izzy asks.
"I believe that's the key to my Digivolving." Tentomon said, and Izzy realizes that was key.
"Yes." Izzy turns on his laptop. "It's gotta work." He types in the data. "If I can just recall the exact sequence."
Light beams from Izzy's Digivice as it starts to vibrate and Tentomon's body begins to glow brighter then before.
"We've cracked the program!" Izzy exclaimed. "Yeah!"
"Tentomon Digivolves to … Kabuterimon!"
Everyone cheers as they see Tentomon's Digivolve form.
"I am Kabuterimon, the Digivolved form of Tentomon. They don't come any harder then my head here, it can withstand any attack. You try to use a bug zapper on me, and I'll just zap it back with my Electro Shocker attack. It's quite the shocker."
The team continues to watch the battle. "Boy, doesn't that Andromon ever run out of gas?" Joe asks.
"That's it." Izzy said, trying to figure our a weakness on Andromon, and finding the sparks coming from his weak spot. "Cut his power demobilize his right leg, and we'll interrupt his energy source!" He yells to his Digimon.
Kabuterimon turns around as the missiles explodes, making Izzy yelp. Kabuterimon flew back and aimed at Andromon's leg. "Electro Shocker!" He fires his attack of electricity, striking the android's leg, and forcing a black gear to fly out and break.
"He stripped a gear!" Matt exclaimed.
"That must have hurt." Sora said.
Andromon falls on his knees and his eyes returned to normal.
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Later.
"That black gear reprogrammed my systems somehow. I'm normally a nonviolent Digimon." Andromon told the Digidestined.
"You could have fooled us." Tai said.
"I never meant to hurt anyone." Andromon said.
"Don't give it another thought." Matt told him. "Hey, we all make mistakes."
"I can't answer your questions about how this place came to being or what it's for, but I can be of some help. The best way to escape from here is to follow the underground waterway." Andromon provided them with a way out. "The labyrinth begins just beyond this point."
"Thanks for your help, Andromon." Tai said.
"I hope you find your way home, and no matter what try to remember the guy that turned out to be not so bad."
"There's a few things you can count on. We'll never forget you Andromon." Tai smiled.
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The team went into the pipeline. Mimi is the only one left to come down.
"I know I can do this. Really I can." She said. "Ok, ready, set." She jumps down.
"Ok, that only took 4 minutes, let's get out of here." Tai complained. The Digidestined start to walkthrough the sewer.
"I'm I the only one that finds strolling leisurely through the sewers a slightest bit disgusting?" Joe asked.
"I find it un healthy." Meiko nods, agreeing with him.
"Tell me the truth Izzy. Was it your computer that made Tentomon turn into a superhero?" TK asks.
"Prodigious, huh?" Izzy smiled.
"Would your computer make Patamon become a superhero?" TK asks, pointing to his Digimon who's resting on his head.
"I suppose that is possible." Izzy said.
"Wow, ok!" TK smiled.
"Let's see now." Izzy turns on his laptop ad tries to do the exact data.
"What's happening?" TK asks.
"That's strange." Izzy frowns as the computer turns off. "The program's right." He kept typing. "But nothing's happening."
"Just give it a few whacks!" Tai ran over. "That'll do it!"
"Let us try!" Agumon ran over too.
Both Izzy and TK look from one to the other, before quickly dodging and Tai and Agumon it each other, resulting in both getting bumps.
"Sorry guys, but my computer is not a toy." Izzy told the two.
"Now that you boys have holes in your heads, maybe your brains will get enough oxygen." Sora said.