Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon.EXE ❯ Session 14: Let's Kick it Up! ( Chapter 17 )

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 graphic acts of a heterosexual and homosexual nature (not applicable to FanFiction.net version), extreme violence and use of swear words. 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. Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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Session 14: Let's Kick it Up!
Takato snored loudly. It was such a loud snore, the bedside table shook.
"Earthquake?" exclaimed WarGrowlmon with a snort, as he woke up from his digital sleep. "Takato! Wake up!" he called out, but to no avail. He listened more carefully, using the D-Scanner's mike and suddenly realised the cause of the shaking. "Man, he's got to do something about that," sighed WarGrowlmon, before turning off the mike and sealing himself off from the sounds of the world.
The brown-haired Operator snorted and turned round, hitting his D-Scanner with the back of his hand.
"Ruki," he mumbled in his sleep. "Ruki... mrph."
"He's dreaming of Ruki again?" wondered WarGrowlmon out loud. "Wonder what he's doing with her this time..."

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The bus chugged away, as it waited there in front of the traffic lights. They were red and a forcefield prevented the bus from running the red light and over the pedestrians that were crossing the road. On the side of the traffic lights were a set specifically for the pedestrians.
At that current moment in time it was showing a green man that in a walking stance. This flashed momentarily, as the forcefield changed. The sign turned into a red man, just as the traffic lights began to turn amber and then green. The bus pulled forward, gliding across the tarmac and then stopping at a bus stop.
"Takato, this has got to be the worst idea you've ever had," said Ruki angrily, as she sat at the back of the bus, looking out of the window and at the people at the bus stop. "This bus stops at every stop!"
"Well, how was I to know that?" asked Takato with a shrug of his shoulders. He let his arms fall back on to the large brown box that sat in between him and Ruki. "I could have sworn that this was the number 75," he said.
Ruki sighed and rolled her eyes. She didn't want to continue arguing with Takato. It wasn't as if the bus wasn't going back to her place, after all. It was just one of those buses that stop more times than the express versions. They'd get back to her house... eventually.
"Sometimes, Takato, I wonder if you need glasses," she said, as she continued to stare out of the window and away from the brown-haired youth. "How can you read 16 as 75?"
Takato turned his head and began to stare at his shoes. He didn't like it when Ruki got into one of her moods. The youth sighed. He liked Ruki, but whenever she got into her moods. 'I like you, Ruki, but how can you I tell you?' he wondered, as he looked at the red head out of the corner of his eyes. He had wanted to tell her that he loved her, but he had never had the courage to.
Every attempt had ended in a dry throat and a smothering silence. 'Why can't I tell her how I feel?' wondered Takato, as he turned his gaze back down to the floor.
"Ruki, I want to tell you something," said Takato quietly, so quietly, in fact, that the words never left his lips. Slowly, he turned his head to look at Ruki. She hadn't heard. "Ruki," he said more loudly.
"Huh? What is it?" asked Ruki irritatedly.
Silence. There he went again. Why was it that Takato could never tell Ruki what he felt? Did he fear something? 'No, Takato, you've got to go through with this,' he thought to himself. There was no point in him stalling.
"Ruki, I want to tell you something," stated Takato more sternly. His voice was saturated with confidence, something that had never happened before in his life. "Ruki, I..."
He never got to finish his sentence, as the bus suddenly swerved violently, throwing Ruki straight towards Takato.
Ruki tried to stop herself, but the swerving of the bus was too forceful. She put out her hand to stop herself, but found it impossible. Not even the box between them had proved any useful in preventing her from crashing into the brown-haired youth. She found her head pressed against him, her hand pressed against his chest.
Red was slowly creeping across Takato's cheeks, as a blush formed. Ruki pulled away quickly and turned away from him, a blush creeping across her cheeks as well. The bus suddenly swerved again.
"Hey, what's going on up there?" shouted Ruki angrily at the driver. "Are you asleep or something?" she wondered out loud. "Wake up! Wake up!"
"Hey, Takato, wake up!"

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"Huh?" exclaimed Takato with a snort, as he opened his eyes.
"Takato, wake up," called WarGrowlmon from Takato's D-Scanner. "You going to get up or what?"
"Yeah," mumbled Takato, as he sat up on the bed and rubbed his tired eyes. Something didn't feel quite right. The bedsheets were on the floor and something felt a little bit too damp.
A wet patch was present on Takato's pyjamas. Guess where. The grand prize goes to anyone who guesses below the waist. That's not the only thing that Takato had woken up with. A mild hangover, from the polynol he had drunk last night. He wasn't to know that, however. 'Must have been that bad soda,' Takato had thought at the time. He saw a drop of water drip on to him and looked up. So a leak was responsible for that.
"What kind of a backwater hotel is this?" shouted Takato angrily.
"Morning to you too," chuckled WarGrowlmon, as Takato got up and began changing. "Hey!" cried out WarGrowlmon, as a pair of pyjama pants were thrown on to the D-Scanner.

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"I've already flooded the Digital World, are you and your Digimon in position?" asked the Hypnos Digimon.
The mysterious Digimon nodded in reply.
"Yes, sir," he hissed. "It won't be long before the entire Digital World is frozen and all the Earth Sphere's defence mechanisms along with it." He chuckled evilly. "Shall we commence Operation Cold Snap now, sir?" he asked. There was something about his voice. It sounded cold and even more evil than any of the other Hypnos Digimon before him.
"Yes, begin it now," replied the other Hypnos Digimon.
"And Mr. Freeze," said another voice that didn't belong to the two Digimon.
"Yes?" asked another voice that also didn't belong to the two Digimon.
"Destroy anyone who gets in your way."

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There was a violent shudder. Takato stumbled and fell. All around him the place shook violently. The pictures that hung on the walls fell to shatter on the floor. All sorts of things were shaken off their tables and fell to the floor with a crash.
"What's going on, WarGrowlmon?" he asked his Digimon.
"I'm not sure," replied WarGrowlmon.
An alarm suddenly wailed through the silence. It sounded like an air raid siren but suddenly it cut out, dying as if it was run on batteries and the batteries had suddenly run out. The earth still shook however and that couldn't have been good for the water that surrounded Tokyo.
Takato turned his head and saw a huge wave of water smash against the window. Luckily it was waterproofed. That was whe he heard a ringing tone. It was his D-Scanner. He quickly unflipped its lid and placed it to his ear.
"Hello?" he greeted. "Jenrya? What's going on?"

"Someone's tampered with the Earth's EDPS- Environmental Disaster Protection System," replied Jenrya, as he stood at a window, looking out. "It's a special system that protects against all sorts of natural disasters. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but it depends on the Digital World. Something must be up there." He paused for a while to listen to Takato. "Yeah, I'll be sending MegaGargomon into the Digital World as soon as I can get to the Government Centre."

"How do we get there?" asked Takato. He listened. "Okay, I'll find Alice. We'll meet there. Okay. Bye!" He switched off the phone function of his D-Scanner. "You hear that, WarGrowlmon?" he asked his Digimon.
"Yep," replied WarGrowlmon. "Seems as if we've got our work cut out for us."
Takato had no idea that he'd end up saving an entire planet or at least attempting to save an entire planet. He closed the lid of his D-Scanner, hooking it to his belt.
"Guess we've got to find Alice, then," he commented, before he darted out of his room.

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Rena thrust the pointed end of her golden staff forward and speared the Frigi1 virus. It looked like a Frigimon without legs. The thing flickered like a faulty hologram before it broke up. Rena took the datacap that it left behind and absorbed it. She gained a snowball Advance, which wasn't very helpful.
"Ruki, it looks like all the water has frozen up," she called out to her Operator. "There's ice all over the place."
"Try and destroy as much as you can," ordered Ruki. "We can't let Hypnos win!"
The Sakuyamon nodded.
"Right," she agreed, before she floated over the ice-covered path. Running over it would have been a mistake. She would have slipped and slided all over the place. That would have been bad in a fight against a virus.
Rena was within EuroNet. It was easy for the Sakuyamon to travel through the Digital World to the Networks of other countries, easier for her to do so than for Ruki to travel to a foreign country. The path of EuroNet looked very much like the on in Inphynitio, from which Takato and Ruki came from. The ether, however, had the European symbol floating within it instead of 0s and 1s.
A fist suddenly hurtled towards Sakuyamon and the Digimon leapt out of the way. That fist was pastel blue in colour, as was the rest of the virus. It was a CyberPrismA. There were two of them.
"Where'd you come from?" asked Rena. That was a futile question, though. Viruses couldn't speak. Also, she knew exactly where the CyberPrismA came from. All CyberPrism viruses came from the DarkNet. "Ruki, I need some fire attacks and fast!" she called out to her Operator. No. That was wrong! She needed electric attacks. "I meant, electric type!" she corrected herself.
That was a good idea. Any Digimon or virus that was attacked by an electric-type attack on ice would suffer double damage. Still, Rena knew that she was strong enough to attack the CyberPrismA virus. Its AquaBarrier was the weakest of the Barrier series of Advances. However, it would be a good idea to have a few electric-type attacks just incase.
Sakuyamon rushed in and slashed at the two CyberPrismA viruses. The AquaBarrier disappeared instantly. Two fists flew out at her, one from each CyberPrismA. She ducked underneath them, letting them fly overhead. Spinning round, she kicked at the viruses, sending them flying away from her. Rena floated back and raised her hand.
"Try this on for size!" she told the viruses. "Spirit Strike!" She fired four foxes of elemental energy at the CyberPrismA viruses.
Neither could get out of the way in time. Both were split apart by the Sakuyamon's powerful attack.
"That's two of them down," commented Rena smugly.
Two cold and slimy hands pushed Rena and the Digimon was sent flying to the ground by the force of the push. Those hands belonged to the sludge like virus known as the IceNull3 It was like some creature made out of blue slime, as if someone had tried to make a ghost out of blue slime.
"That's another DarkNet virus," stated Sakuyamon, as she got to her feet.
Another virus attacked her. This virus threw a sphere at Sakuyamon, which landed at her feet. It created a powerful surge of eletricity that kept her pinned down to her current position, unable to move a single thing. This virus was the Gravi2 virus. It wasn't very powerful, yet the powerful surge it created prevented any Digimon from attacking it. The thing looked like a scorpion on wheels. It revved up and hurtled towards Sakuyamon.
"Oh, no you don't! Double Edge!" A Digimon landed on top of the Gravi2 virus. It was red and had metallic armour, and a grey hazard symbol on its chest.
Rena frowned.
"WarGrowlmon!" she exclaimed.
"Nice to see you, too," commented Dobermon, as he rushed at the IceNull3. He lunged at it and slashed at it. Dobermon checked the virus's health. It was gradually replenishing its health. "This one's tough," he stated, before he lunged at it again and delivered the final blow.
"Mega Barrage!" Several missiles flew through the air and struck an Ice.734 virus that had attempted to sneak up on WarGrowlmon.
"Thanks, MegaGargomon," thanked WarGrowlmon, as he waved an armoured arm at Jenrya's Digimon. "So, how've you been keeping, Rena?" asked WarGrowlmon, as he stood with his back to her, looking around him for any other viruses.
A smile spread across the Sakuyamon's face.
"I'm fine," she replied. "So, it looks as if you've guys have done well." She smiled at WarGrowlmon. It seemed to her that he had managed to digivolve.
"Nice new look, by the way," commented MegaGargomon, as he looked around him. Unlike in the Anime, this MegaGargomon was only double the size of WarGrowlmon, whom was the same size as Sakuyamon. The person that had designed Digimon, couldn't make them too large, however, otherwise they wouldn't be able to be transmitted through the Digital World quick enough to be of any use. Thus MegaGargomon, set the size limit of all large Digimon. No Digimon was to be larger than a MegaGargomon. Likewise, no Digimon was allowed to be smaller than a Pichimon, a Gomamon's new born level.
Dobermon lunged straight at another Ice.734 virus, which looked like an icecube, and tore at it.
"So, got any info on what's going on?" he asked Rena, after absorbing the virus's datacap. He noticed that it had merely gave him an Icecube Advance, which did nothing but place an Icecube in front of the Digimon. "You any idea why all this ice has appeared all over the Digital World?"
"No idea," replied Rena with a shake of her head, as the surge began to dissipate. "I've looked all over the Digital World for clues. I've been to AfriNet, ArabNet, even NANet and still I've got nothing."
A frown spread across Dobermon's face upon hearing what Rena had said.
"Even NANet?" he exclaimed in disbelief. "The Digimon at NANet have an eye on everything. You know how paranoid they are over there, what with Hypnos concentrating its attacks on NANet." He saw a wave of more viruses coming towards them. There were a huge number of viruses, each one of them accompanied by other viruses that would make their weak attacks stronger. "There's far too many of them," he stated. "We've got to fall back."
"We can't do that," argued MegaGargomon. "We have to stay and fight."
Rena grabbed MegaGargomon by the arm and pulled him aside.
"Are you nuts?" she shouted at him. "This is a mission to unfreeze the Digital World and save the Earth Sphere!"
"She's right," agreed Jenrya. "You guys have got to retreat."
"If we retreat now, we won't be able to get back in," protested MegaGargomon. "Can you see how many viruses there are here now? If we leave, they'll multiply and soon..."
"He's got a point," stated Takato. "Is there anywhere else you guys can go to? Somewhere safe?"
"How about the DarkSquare?" suggested Ruki.
"Are you nuts? I said, somewhere safe!" shouted Takato.
Rena didn't like that tone of voice.
"It's safe," she said on her Operator's behalf. "As long as we don't get into any fights with the local Digimon, we'll be just fine." She turned round. "Come on, I'll lead you there," she told him. "I know how to get there from here." Sakuyamon floated down the path. She stopped to turn and look at them. Just as she had suspected. They were still standing there like statues. "Come on!" she called out. "You guys have got to trust me. Look, there's no other option. Do you trust me or not?"
"I trust you," said WarGrowlmon after much silence. "Lead the way."
"WarGrowlmon, are you sure we should go?" asked MegaGargomon.
WarGrowlmon turned to face his green friend. He could see the viruses behind him, advancing towards them. There didn't seem to be any other choice. Besides, he didn't want his childhood friend to be deleted.
"MegaGargomon," he said, "we can trust her. We've known her ever since she was at Child level. How can't we trust her? She's a friend and she would never lead us wrong."
Jenrya's Digimon smiled.
"It seems like almost yesterday when you were talking like a child, but now look at you," he chuckled. "Becoming a Deva has really made you grow up." He remained silent. "Okay, let's go! Let's go to the DarkSquare!"

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"Now the Digital World's frozen up, communications are incredibly poor," the Official told Jenrya. "The message from your father was a bit fuzzy, but Dr. Lee did say something about a DarkNet Digimon called Datamon."
"Is he behind all this?" asked Jenrya, as he leaned against the desk.
The Tokyo Official shook his head in reply.
"No, your father hasn't been able to find out whom is responsible for all this," replied the Official with a sigh. "It's undoubtedly Hypnos though. No, this Datamon is said to be able to provide cures for anything."
Jenrya understood now. His father had obviously sent an e-mail to tell them about Datamon. Perhaps his father thought that this Datamon could help them unfreeze the entire Digital World.
"Where can we find him?" asked Jenrya calmly.
From a nearby computer terminal, Takato listened. He took his attention away from the computer screen, which showed him his Digimon's progress through EuroNet. He heard the Official utter one name- DarkSquare.
"That's great!" exclaimed Takato. "Our Digimon are going to DarkSquare right now!"
"Really? Is that such a good idea?" asked another Official.
"Don't worry, our Digimon can handle it," stated Alice from a computer terminal next to Takato's.
The room suddenly shook violently again. It wasn't a very long earthquake and nor was it very powerful, yet it frightened them all very much. It especially frightened the Officials. They knew that having been suppressed for so long, a gigantic earthquake could hit their area very soon. It was all a matter of time. That gigantic earthquake could destroy Tokyo completely and even devestate the mainland of Asia.
"I just hope we can get the Digital World back online," prayed one Official. "If not, we'll be doomed for sure."
Takato banged his fist on the table angrily.
"I don't understand it!" he cried out. Whether his exclamation was inspired by fear or not was a mystery that only Takato himself could solve. "What does Hypnos hope to gain through freezing the Digital World? What are they up to?"

"Have you got the program yet?" asked the Hypnos agent. "Well?"
"Not yet, sir," replied his Digimon. "It's getting a bit difficult, especially with all this ice around."
The Hypnos Agent grimaced. His own plan was back-firing in his own face. This was not how it was supposed to happen. That Mr. Freeze was going overboard and he didn't like that one bit. Of course, that didn't matter at that current moment in time. What did matter was that they finished the Juggernaut Project. He'd deal with Mr. Freeze afterwards, when he became one of the Rulers of the Earth Sphere.
"Well, see to it that you do your best," stated the Hypnos Agent. "Given the circumstances, however, I expect to you to at least get through to the Program in about five hour's time. Do you think that you can do it?"
"Yes, sir," replied the Digimon. "I won't fail you, sir."
"I know you won't."

To be continued...