Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon.EXE ❯ Session 15: Deeper ( Chapter 18 )

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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. This chapter is dedicated to you, Kinu_Uni! Hope you enjoy it!

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Session 15: Deeper
"So this is what the DarkNet looks like," murmured WarGrowlmon, as he looked around himself. "It's scary." He couldn't help but notice the dead trees that lined the black paths at certain intervals, and the static within the background of the ether. The entire DarkNet resembled a dead wasteland, as if the viruses that constantly plauged DarkNet had ravaged the place. "Who'd want to live here?" he wondered out loud.
"Digital scumbags, viruses, that kind of crowd," was MegaGargomon's reply. The MegaGargomon knew full well that no Digimon in his or her right mind would venture into the DarkNet.
Sakuyamon's eyes narrowed underneath her golden helmet as she thought of what kind of Digimon she had met in the Digital World.
"There's also Beelzemon," she added. The Digimon could still remember seeing Beelzemon. "I met him once down in DarkNet 4. He seemed to glow with an evil aura."
"Wow, you met Beelzemon and survived?" exclaimed MegaGargomon in surprise. "I'm impressed." He had heard that nobody had ever met Beelzemon and survived to tell the tale. All Digimon had been deleted by that powerful Mega level Digimon.
"Is this true, Ruki?" asked Takato curiously. "You fought against Beelzemon and survived?"
"Well, we didn't actually fight him," began Ruki.
Takato laughed at her comment.
"Well, of course not," he exclaimed. "No one can fight Beelzemon and survive." He sighed. "Must have been quite scary," he commented. "You and your Digimon are so brave to come down here."
"Forget it, bandana-boy," stated Ruki sternly. "You're not getting any."
A frown appeared on Dobermon's face.
"What was that all about?" he asked WarGrowlmon.
"Not sure," replied the fire-type Digimon with a shrug of his shoulders. Perhaps it had something to do with that night Takato took Ruki to the movies. They had come back dripping wet, coz Takato had forgotten to check Inphynitio's Weather Control Agency's weather report.
Dobermon grinned.
"Sounds like they're an item," he chuckled.
A bubble suddenly bounced along the ice-covered path. It hit WarGrowlmon and exploded, bathing him in wet bubbles and making him cry out in pain. That bubble came from a Fish.3584.B and a Fish6.3584.D virus. The two looked just like fish with small peashooters sticking out of their mouths. The Fish.3584.B was green, while the Fish6.3584.D was red.
"Viruses!" exclaimed MegaGargomon. He launched his Mega Barrage attack against the two viruses. The missiles of his curved through the air and smashed into the floor in front of the two water-type viruses. The explosion tore both apart, leaving two datacaps behind. "I don't believe that those viruses were so easy to beat."
"WarGrowlmon, you okay?" asked Takato.
WarGrowlmon was still in a bit of pain from the viral attack. His breathing was slightly ragged, but he was recovering slowly.
"I'm fine, thanks," he replied to Takato's question.
"More viruses are coming our way," stated Rena, as she got into a fighting stance.
They were Penguin.261 viruses. Each one of them looked like penguins that floated in the air on the stomachs. Their wings stuck out like that of an aeroplane and each one had a machine gun attached to it. There were three of these Penguin.261 viruses and each one of them flew towards the four Digimon. The Penguin.261 started firing at the Digimon furiously and the air was suddenly filled with tiny bubbles of water.
Dobermon dodged the bubbles and lunged at a Penguin.261. He snapped at its wings with his mouth and grabbed it in his jaws. Like a dog, he began flinging the Penguin.261 around, shaking it violently until the wing snapped off and the virus was sent flying into the floor.
A Penguin.261 dived straight into Dobermon and crashed into the Digimon, sending him flying sideways.
Rena raised an arm and created a sphere of pink petals around her.
"Guys, get in here quick!" she called out to the others, upon seeing more viruses coming their way. "You'll be safe within my Crystal Sphere!"
WarGrowlmon didn't need to be told twice. Being a fire-type, he was susceptible to the water-type Digimon all around him.
"Takato, we really need some electric-type Advances!" he called out to his friend. He knew that electric-type attacks were the best against water-type Digimon and viruses.
"Okay, boy, I'm sending them right now!" called out Takato. "Here, try this one! DigiModify- Elecball activate!"
A yellow sphere appared in WarGrowlmon's hands.
"Elecball, I don't remember getting one of those!" exclaimed the Digimon.
"I borrowed it from my dad's Modify Chip shop," stated Takato. "Just throw it."
"Okay," sighed WarGrowlmon, before he lobbed it at the oncoming viruses. It bounced like a beachball before it hit a Penguin.261. The Elecball exploded, unleashing a burst of paralysing electricity. "That's not bad," he commented, but he realised that the Elecball wasn't powerful enough. "Atomic Blaster!" he roared, before firing powerful twin beams of atomic energy at the incoming viruses.
"Good one," commented MegaGargomon. "Gargo Missiles!" He fired two large missiles at the water-type viruses.
Rena looked sideways. She could see the portal that would lead them straight to the DarkSquare. If only they could reach it. She raised her hand and unleashed her Spirit Strike attack against the incoming viruses. Her attack didn't seem to do much. The Sakuyamon rushed in and swung her staff at the Penguin.261 viruses, smashing them open and absorbing their datacaps.
"Here, use this!" called out Jenrya. "DigiModify- Elecmon's Super Thunder Strike activate!"
MegaGargomon smiled.
"That'll do the trick," he commented. "Super Thunder Strike!" He fired a potent beam of electrical energy at the viruses, wiping them all out in one go and leaving a path full of datacaps. "Help yourselves, guys," he stated, as he gestured towards the glistening data capsules.
"That's very nice of you," thanked Rena, as she floated over and absorbed a handful of datacaps and downloading their Modify data. She waited a while, watching as every Digimon absorbed a datacap each. Rena noticed that there were a lot of datacaps left over. There were a lot of viruses and they had destroyed quite a lot of viruses, together. "We make a good team," she said.
WarGrowlmon nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, we do," he agreed, after finishing loading up the datacaps. He had acquired quite a lot of Modify Advances that he already had. Perhaps he could pawn them off in the automatic Advance Traders at the shop Takato's dad owned.
"Aw man, we already have these!" whined MegaGargomon, as he inspected his Advances. He sighed. "It's a shame we can't sell Advances."
"Well, I guess we could if we were in the DarkSquare," laughed Rena.
"No, you won't!" protested Jenrya on the other side of the screen. "You're Devas and you've got to set an example to the people."
"Jenrya's right," agreed Takato. "You need a licence in order to sell Advances."
The portal to the DarkSquare's entrance was enticingly close. Rena could practically feel its presence.
"We'd better get out of the DarkNet and into the DarkSquare," she suggested sternly. "There's no more time to lose." She floated ahead of them and turned right. "Come on," she called out to the others, "we're nearly there!" She flew along the path and straight towards a platform on which was a yellow glowing circle in the middle. "What are you waiting for?" she shouted at them. "Come on!"
"Okay," called out WarGrowlmon, before he ran after her, trying his best to not slip across the ice.
Seeing WarGrowlmon go after her, the other two Digimon followed suit.
"Are you sure this is safe?" asked MegaGargomon. It was a strange question for a Digimon that lived on the wild side of things. Wherever there was a fight, the other Digimon would have known that MegaGargomon would have been somewhere at the bottom of it. "I mean, this is the DarkSquare we're talking about."
Jenrya laughed at his Digimon's question.
"Come on, MegaGargomon, don't tell me you're frightened already?" he asked MegaGargomon. "You've been to the DarkNet several times before. The DarkSquare can't be that much worse, now can it?"
"I guess not," sighed MegaGargomon.
"That's the spirit!"
"Rena, lead the way," called out Dobermon.
"Of course," said Rena, before she floated over the portal and then disappeared.
The other Digimon looked at each other as if looking for the answers to their unasked questions. They then looked at the portal. With a deep breath, they walked into the portal one by one and were all taken away by the portal to the notorious, legendary DarkSquare.

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"So this is the DarkSquare," muttered Jenrya, as he looked at his computer screen. It showed him an isometric view of his Digimon from above and of MegaGargomon's surroundings.
The DarkSquare was shaped like a phoenix drawn only with straight lines. The floor was made out of black tiles specked with red and it seemed to float in a mass of blackness filled with white static, and scrawled all over the place was graffiti of all sorts of different fluorescent colours. On the right wing were a couple of stands where a few Digimon stood, selling their wares. At the head was a house-shaped door, which probably led to the DarkSquare Message Boards. On the left wing was a portal and surrounding it were the four Digimon that belonged to Alice, Jenrya, Ruki and Takato.
However, Jenrya couldn't see that. The view that the Officials's computer screen gave him was only of a part of the DarkSquare, not enough to see the door nor the stands.
"Okay, guys, I want you to split off into groups of two," he commanded. "Datamon is somewhere there. Ask around if you have to."

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It was a strange music that sounded like a cross between Gangster rap, hip hop and R&B. Where this music came from was another question altogether. The Digimon that used the DarkSquare, didn't seem to pay much attention to where it came from. They just listened to it like any living creature would listen to music, and they seemed to like the music as well.
However, the music seemed to make WarGrowlmon nervous. He didn't like that sort of stuff. He was more into JPop and Indie, just like Takato. That was besides the point. The music sounded rather menacing to him and menacing music always made him nervous, especially after Takato accidentally put WarGrowlmon into the middle of a Resident Evil game.
"Excuse me," he began, but he sounded rather quiet, possibly because of his nervousness. The SkullMeramon he had approached didn't even acnkowledge him. "Excuse me," he called out more loudly.
Rena sighed. She had paired off with WarGrowlmon, a possible representation of the relationship between Ruki and Takato. WarGrowlmon had spoken loud enough for anyone to hear. She knew the SkullMeramon was actively ignoring them. 'Well, if he wants to play hardball, so be it,' she thought.
"Excuse me," growled Rena, as she grabbed the SkullMeramon by his neck and lifted him off the floor. "My partner and I were looking for someone by the name of Datamon. You wouldn't happen to know where he is, do you?"
""Why should I tell you, foxy?" asked the SkullMeramon angrily, as he struggled to break free from Rena's grasp. "I only rap with those that I like and, you, I don't like you. Now let go, before I show you what I do to punks like you!"
Rena raised glared at him coldly.
"Please co-operate or else," she warned him. There was something in her tone of voice that seemed very threatening. When Sakuyamon wanted something from DarkNet, she'd get it. "Now!"
The SkullMeramon felt incredibly threatened. Yet, he knew that was she was at a higher level than he was. If he fought her, there was a high likelihood of him getting beaten into a digital pulp.
"Sure, I'll tell you," he blurted out quickly. "I like you. You've got balls and I like that in a Digimon."
"Yeah, and if you don't start talking now, I'll rip yours off," threatened Rena seriously.
"Datamon usually hangs out at the Message Boards," stuttered the SkullMeramon. "In fact, he's right there now."
A smile spread across Rena's face, as she let go of SkullMeramon.
"Thank you," she thanked, although it sounded incredibly insincere. "Come on, WarGrowlmon," she called out to Takato's Digimon, before she floated past the SkullMeramon as if he didn't exist.
WarGrowlmon followed Rena like a dog on a leash, which was almost how Takato acts around Ruki coincidentally. Out of the corner of WarGrowlmon's eye, he caught sight of the stands. Another Digimon had appeared and was setting up a third stand.
"Say, could we go see what's at those stands?" asked WarGrowlmon. He was curious about what those Digimon were selling.
"They're just selling Modify Advances," stated Rena calmly. "I bet they're all stolen Advances too, but there's no way to prove it." She turned round and noticed that WarGrowlmon had stopped walking. "Come on," she called out to him and floated back over. She grabbed him by the arm and the pulled him along the DarkSquare behind her. "This is no time to be shopping, especially in the DarkSquare!"
Rena dragged WarGrowlmon through the door and appeared on the other side in the Message Board area. Like the rest of the DarkSquare, fluorescent graffiti covered the floors and hovered in place where the walls of the room were supposed to be. However, none seemed to cover the two lone Message Boards on the far side of the wall, which no one was using.
"That lying bastard! Wait till I get my hands on him!" she cried out angrily, when she noticed that not only was no one using the boards, but there was no else in the area at all. "I'll delete him!"
"Wait!" called out WarGrowlmon. "Can you hear that?"
For a while, Sakuyamon didn't say a thing.
"Yeah, I hear it," replied Rena with a nod of her head. It sounded a lot like typing. Someone was typing furiously. "Where is it coming from?" asked Rena. "I can't see anyone here. Ruki, could you call for the others?"
"Sure thing, Rena," replied Ruki.
WarGrowlmon advanced towards the boards. He looked at them. Some of them had some incredibly good information, like the one which talked about a Digimon by the name of Beelzemon. There was even a tip on how to defeat the HardHead viruses.
"Say, I think it's coming from behind these boards," called out WarGrowlmon. He reached over and tried moving the board and it didn't budge. "Perhaps it's the other one."
Rena floated over and tore the other one off to reveal another doorway behind it.
"You're right," she commented. "Ruki, tell the others that we've gone through the doorway in the Message Board area!" Slowly and cautiously, she peered in through the doorway. She could see a path that led to some CPU somewhere. "WarGrowlmon, you stay here and wait for the back-up," she commanded. "I'm going in."
"Rena, I don't think you should..." protested WarGrowlmon, but it was far too late. He watched as Sakuyamon disappeared through the doorway. The Ultimate level Digimon sighed.
The path that Rena floated along was narrow. All around her was the static that was the background of the DarkNet. She could see nothing else. It was only her, the path and the static. 'I wonder where this leads to?' thought Rena, as she continued down the path. The typing sound was coming from somewhere down the path. It was then that the path ended.
The path led to a house-shaped door frame. Going through it, she found herself standing on a platform that floated in the middle of the static. Unlike the DarkSquare, this place had no graffiti. It was clean and the music was of a classical nature instead of the gangster rap that filled the DarkSquare. The terminal seemed as if it would hold only ten Digimon, and that was if they were squeezed in there and vacuum packed. It was decidedly small, almost like the lone Digimon that occupied the terminal.
Rena saw that the Digimon had a glass dome for a head and was a mechanical-type. She floated over towards the Digimon and cleared her throat in order to get its attention.
"Datamon, I presume?" she asked.

To be continued...