Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon.EXE ❯ Session 10: What Planet is This? ( Chapter 12 )

Digimon.EXE

By Wolf O'Donnell

WARNING! May contain Alternative Universe situations and out-of-character experiences. Upon reading this, you hereby agree that you forfeit all your rights to sue me and that I cannot be held liable for any psychological or physical damage caused by the fact that I use British English spelling and that this fanfic contains non-graphic depictions of a heterosexual and homosexual nature. Digimon is copyrighted by Bandai and Toei Animation Ltd. Wolf O'Donnell is copyrighted by Nintendo Ltd, although that might have nothing to do with the fanfic. Digimon.EXE is based on Rockman.EXE, which is copyrighted by Capcom Ltd. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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Session 10: What Planet is This?
Takato inhaled deeply.
"Ah, so this is what fresh air is like," he commented, as he stepped out of the spaceport. He looked around him and for the others. They were waiting at the bus stop that would take them to one of Asia's most technological cities. "Hey, wait up!" he called out to them, as he ran up to the others.
"You were in there for a long time," commented Juri. "The in-flight meal not agree with you?"
"Yeah," replied Takato sheepishly.
"You missed Ms. Wong being frog-marched out of the Space Port," mentioned Alice.
"I did?" exclaimed Takato in disbelief. "Aw, man!" He sighed frustratedly.
Jenrya checked his watch as he said, "Well, don't worry. I'm sure we'll get to arrest more bad guys." He then looked up and around him. "That's strange, he commented. The bus should be here by now to take us to our hotel." Was it late or had they arrived late and missed the bus entirely?
"I wonder what the meeting will be about," stated Alice in an attempt to strike up a conversation.
"What else could it be about?" asked Jenrya. "It's Hypnos for sure."

Ruki entered Dr. Lee's office. She had never reported to such a high-ranking Official before, but now! What an honour! Walking into the office, she brought out her D-Scanner.
"Dr. Lee, I have the report you wanted," she announced, before he could even ask her what she wanted from him. She handed her D-Scanner over to him.
"The report on the Syndicates?" asked Dr. Lee just to make sure. He saw Ruki nod. "That's great," exclaimed Jenrya's father, as he plugged Ruki's D-Scanner into his computer. "Let's see what they're up to."
"It appears they all know about Hypnos's operations," she told them. "They're attempting to build a Super Digimon, or rather, a super virus by the name of Juggernaut. Once it enters the Digital World, it will delete everything." To Ruki that meant only one thing. "That means Hypnos must be creating Juggernaut on the Orbital Space Ring," she concluded. "The only question is where on the Space Ring."
Dr. Lee examined all the information carefully. He downloaded it from Ruki's D-Scanner, being sure to leave Rena on it.
"It seems as if we've got to work overtime," he sighed. "I'll send your data to the Convention in Beijing and to the other Deva and Officials Offices across the Earth Sphere." He glanced sideways at the papers on his desk. Yamaki.
"Sir, is something wrong?" asked Ruki with concern.
For a while, Dr. Lee wasn't sure whether he should tell her. After all, it was all on high level authority.
"Let me tell you about the past," he told her, as he tented his fingers. "A long time ago, my father worked on something called a D-Scanner. He created special programs for them called Digitally Integrated General Information Manager and Online Navigators or DIGIMON, as you may well know." He paused hesitantly for a moment, before continuing. "He was friends with a man by the name of Yamaki Mitsuo."
"The two of them were brilliant scientists. While my father worked on the D-Scanners, Yamaki worked on trying to create new life forms," he continued. Dr. Lee opened one of his drawers, as he continued talking. "He had discovered a way of manifesting digital data, something he called BioEmerging. He claimed that this could be used to mass produce products cheaply. All one had to do was copy, paste and then BioEmerge the products."
Ruki wondered.
"What happened to his project?" she asked Dr. Lee. Why hadn't he gone through with it? Was it the possibility that Digimon could have been BioEmerged as well?
"There was only enough money for one project," replied Dr. Lee. "So each one of them worked against each other. Dr. Yamaki claimed that his work could turn Digmon into real living creatures that could be used as a task force." He finally found what he was looking for and brought out a picture. "This is him here with my father," he said, as he handed it to Ruki. "You can guess whose project got cut."
"Yamaki's," muttered Ruki under her breath.
Dr. Lee sighed.
"Yamaki vowed revenge against my father, before he disappeared," he continued. "And now, my son, Jenrya, has confirmed the name of Hypnos's Leader to be Yamaki."
There was a look of surprise on Ruki's face.
"Do you think it could be him?" she asked.
"It must be," replied Dr. Lee quietly. "It must be him."

Having visited the Temple of the Sun, Earth and Heaven, they had then visited the Summer City. Beijing had modernised quite a lot, with plenty of futuristic looking high-rises that towered up into the sky. However, the old places of Beijing, the old palaces and temples still resided.
"So where to now?" asked Takato, as he stood in Tiananmen Square with the others.
Jenrya looked at his watch.
"We've got to get to the Forbidden City," he told the others. That was where Beijing's Officials HQ was located. "Guys, check your e-mail."
Each one of them picked up their D-Scanners and looked at it, searching for their e-mail. The four of them had each received an e-mail from the Officials stating the time at which the meeting would begin. It also gave them maps and special codes to enter the secret Officials Base that had been hidden within the Forbidden City a long time ago.
"We'd better get going."

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In the Darkness of the Hypnos Computers, something began to form. At first it was small and had no set shape, but then it became spherical. The thing grew and glowed with an intense darkness that somehow illuminated the entire place. It glowed so darkly that its edges became blood red.
An insane laughter echoed all around it.
"Soon the Juggernaut will be complete," chuckled the voice. "It won't be long now before my creation is born. One more program shall do the trick and then you can say goodbye to the Earth Sphere! Goodbye to everything!"
A blue sphere suddenly floated towards the dark sphere of energy and merged with it. It made the dark sphere glow more darkly and smallers balls of dark energy broke off away from it and started orbiting the Juggernaut like electrons around an atom's nucleus.

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Jenrya reached into the mouth of the lion statue and felt around. Yes, he could feel the keys of the numberpad under his fingers. He could feel the numbers engraved into it. Thinking carefully of which numbers were which, he pressed the buttons. He stepped away when he heard a grating sound, pulling his hand out of the statue's mouth. The wall in front of them slid open to reveal a high tech command centre on the other side.
Neither of the four dared to venture in. They stood there in amazement.
"What are we waiting for?" asked Juri, as she walked past them. "Come on!" she caled out to them, before stepping in. She looked around her.
There were several people all of different nations. It seemed that they were the only ones that hadn't arrived yet. Well, that was okay.
"Welcome!" greeted a black-haired man at a large screen on one side of the room. It was Dr. Oikawa, the Founder of the DEVA Organisation. "Please, do come in before the panel shuts," he called out to the remaining three. "Well, let's get started shall we?" he suggested, as the Devas all took their seats.

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"I don't understand, Ruki," stated Rena, as she floated down the path of the DarkNet. She had digivolved in the past few hours to her Mega level. "Why are we back here? Dr. Lee said there was nothing else that we could do."
"There's always something else we can do," argued Ruki. "Right now, that something is hacking into the Dark Ocean."
Underneath the golden armour, Rena frowned. The golden, armoured Sakuyamon had never heard that tone of voice used by Ruki. Something was up.
"Ruki, do you think we can do it?" she asked her Operator. "What if we're not prepared for the Dark Ocean?" She continued on down the dark path, passing a few dead trees and a sign that warned her to go back or else.
"We're prepared," stated Ruki calmly.

The Hypnos Digimon smiled, as he reached out and turned the switch on. Everything was going according to plan. Very soon, nothing would get in their way of finishing the Juggernaut Project. The Digimon knew that the Super Digimon would be finished soon and it would help them conquer the Earth Sphere. Little did he know, however, that he was being lied to by Yamaki.

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An alarm suddenly wailed. Dr. Oikawa turned round.
"What's going on?" he asked out.
"Sir, someone's hacked into our security system," announced one of the Officials. That was before the Official fell through a trapdoor. Several more opened all around the command centre and every Deva fell through it.

"Ouch, my head," groaned Takato, as he sat up. He looked up and saw that the trapdoor had closed. "Who put that there?" he wondered out loud. That was when his D-Scanner started ringing. As if his head didn't hurt enough! He picked it up and flipped the lid open.
"Is everyone okay?" asked Dr. Oikawa.
"Well, I'm fine," replied Takato. Over his D-Scanner, he heard the voices of the others. Obviously Dr. Oikawa had created a multilink between all the D-Scanners of every Deva, so that they could all talk to each other at the same time.
"Someone's activated the security system and trapped us here," stated Dr. Oikawa. "We'd better leave our communication lines wide open and regroup together." That was when there was a loud roaring sound and Dr. Oikawa's scream could be heard.
Takato winced, holding his D-Scanner away from his ear. He heard no more sounds.
"Dr. Oikawa?" he exclaimed. "Hello? Anybody there?" He heard the voices of the other Devas but there was no word from Dr. Oikawa. Could it be that the security system had got him? `I'd better see if I can find the others,` thought Takato, as he got up to his feet. He looked around him and found that he was the only one in a cell-like room.
The door, however, was wide open. `If someone wanted to get rid of me, then why would the door be open?` wondered Takato. He stepped cautiously through the doorway, ready to leap back when ready. Being a wimpy coward really did have its good points.
"Hello, anyone there?" asked Takato, just in case another Deva was on the otherside.
"Hey! What's going on?" shouted one of the Devas, his voice coming from Takato's D-Scanner. There was a scream.
This was beginning to be like one of those horror movies, where the heroes are separated and picked off one by one by some mysterious creature. Takato's heartbeat was racing.
"Takato, you all right?" asked Jenrya's voice.
"I'm fine, Jenrya," replied Takato. `What, can't Jen tell the difference between my voice and another guy's voice?` thought Takato. "Where are you?" he asked.
"I'm not sure," was Jenrya's reply.
Takato walked out of the doorway and came into another empty, cell like room. He wondered when these things were built. Suddenly, he heard a whooshing sound. Takato leapt backwards, as a couple of arrows flew past him. He landed back on the cold, hard, stone floor and looked to the wall where the arrows were. They formed a column of arrows from the floor to the ceiling.
"Say, isn't that a jack-in port?" wondered Takato out loud, as he saw something next to the opening where the arrows came out from. Perhaps he could deactivate the trap. "WarGrowlmon, I'm going to jack you in," he told his Digimon, as he brought out his D-Scanner.

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Moments later, WarGrowlmon found himself in a strange network. It was unlike any he had seen before. The path looked like a part of the Wall of China. It seemed as if it was made out of brick and looked very old, as if parts of it would crumble. This path and the terminals, some of which had turrets, floated within what looked like an ancient Chinese Palace that had no floor or ceiling.
"This network looks pretty old, Takato," he called out to his Operator.
"Be careful, then, WarGrowlmon," warned Takato. "I'll make a back-up copy of you just in case."
A smile spread across WarGrowlmon's face.
"Thanks," he thanked his friend. He knew that his consciousness was in the D-Scanner. If he got deleted, then his consciousness would be transferred back into the back-up copy in the D-Scanner.
WarGrowlmon stepped cautiously forward and the floor crumbled. He fired his jet boosters and flew to safety, landing on a more stable part of the path. He looked behind him, his breath ragged from the fright he had received.
"When was this place built?" he wondered out loud. He looked around himself. "Takato, have you got a lock on the switch's location?"
"Not yet," replied Takato, as WarGrowlmon moved cautiously forwards.
There was an awful moaning and wailing from the path to his right. WarGrowlmon turned round to see what looked like a grave. A grave? The Digimon felt nervous, very nervous. That was when he something rise up from the grave. It was a Program but had its arms outstretched. Imagine Calumon wearing a black Chinese robe, with a little black cap and with fangs. It floated in the air, its arms outstretched. It then hopped like a Chinese vampire would.
Legends say that Chinese vampires are stiff all over, due to rigor mortis. Thus the only way they can move is through hopping. If wounded by a Chinese vampire, it is said that wounded person becomes a vampire. Whether that applied to the vampiric Program that was hopping on thin-air towards WarGrowlmon, was another matter altogether.
"I'm out of here!" shouted WarGrowlmon, before he ran down the path with the Program in hot pursuit. Turning round, he saw that the vampire was closing in on him. "Darn!" he cursed and then tripped over on a step and fell flat on the flight of stairs. "Stairs! Thank Azulongmon!" he cried out and ran up them as quickly as possible.
The vampire was having a little trouble with the stairs. Yes, it could climb them, but they were slowing it down. You try hopping up a flight of stairs, and you'll know what I mean.
WarGrowlmon took this opportunity to run for it and bumped into something, which screamed.
"You frightened me," stated the little white Program, holding his hand to his chest. "What are you doing wandering around in this network anyway?"
"I'm here to deactivate the trap," replied WarGrowlmon.
"Well, be careful. There's bandits, vampires and zombies about," the little white Program told WarGrowlmon.
WarGrowlmon looked behind him at the flight of steps that led down to where the vampire was.
"I know about the vampire," he said. "Bandits? Zombies? What are they like?"
The little Program looked around him cautiously, as if he was afraid that one was sneaking up on him.
"Bandits are Programs that have been corrupted by some kind of virus," replied the little white Program. "They steal things. It's pretty easy to avoid them though. They always turn right whenever at a junction. So predictable. The Zombies aren't that bad. They just drag you back to their grave, which can be quite inconvenient if you're going somewhere. It's the vampires, you've got to watch out for. They'll suck your health and if you don't treat yourself, you'll become one too."
"Just a word of warning, there's a vampire down those stairs," WarGrowlmon warned the little white Program.
The Program hopped on to WarGrowlmon's shoulders and leaned forward, peering towards the staircase.
"You're right," agreed the Program, as it hopped off of him. "Well, I'm out of here." The Program then floated off, flying away from WarGrowlmon.
"Wait!" called out WarGrowlmon. "You could at least tell me where the switch program is!" The Program was too far gone, however. He sighed. "Well, guess I have to find it myself."

To be continued...