Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon.EXE ❯ Session 17: Flaming Ice ( Chapter 20 )

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 17: Flaming Ice
Jenrya ducked underneath the punch and went for his own attack. He flung a punch into the stomach of the Hypnos henchman, practically knocking the wind out of him. The blue-haired youth leapt into the air, doing a round house kick that sent the fat thug spinning through the air to crash on to the floor.
Two of the Hypnos henchmen rushed towards him and grabbed him by the arms, pulling on them as if they were like children fighting over a teddy bear. A third thug rushed towards Jenrya.
Using the two Hypnos thugs, he lifted up and kicked the advancing thug in the stomach. Jenrya then kicked out at the Hypnos agents that held him, hitting each one painfully in the groin. Both let go of him, which was fortuitous. He had expected them to be more of a match for him. Still, he couldn't complain. Jenrya turned to face the rest of the thugs. There were six all together. Was he able to defeat them?

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The odds seemed stacked against him. WarGrowlmon was standing on an ice platform, which disadvantaged him and he was already disadvantaged because he was a fire-type fighting against a water-type. The rules of elemental weakness were clear. Electricity was weak against wood, which was weak against fire, which was weak against water, which was weak against electricity, which was weak against earth, which was weak against mechanical, which was weak against the ice-subtype only. It was a shame then that WarGrowlmon was both fire-type and mechanical, and that IceDevimon was a water-type and also an ice-subtype.
IceDevimon was the first to make his move. He lunged straight at WarGrowlmon, slashing at the fire-type Digimon with his cold ice-subtype claws. He slashed out at WarGrowlmon again and repeated, suddenly becoming a flurry of icy fists.
"You're a fool to come across me," laughed IceDevimon. "You may be an Adult level Digimon, but you haven't matured enough." He kicked out at WarGrowlmon, sending the fire-type cyborg Digimon flying backwards.
WarGrowlmon landed with a painful thud on the icy floor.
"Takato, please hurry with those Modify Advances!" he called out to his Operator.
"DigiModify- Big Wave activate!" announced IceDevimon's Operator.
The ice-subtype devil Digimon slapped his hands down on to the floor and caused a huge wave of water that rose up into the air and crashed down on to WarGrowlmon, washing the Digimon away. IceDevimon laughed.
"This is far too easy!" he chortled. "Time to finish this!"
"Not just yet!" shouted Takato. "DigiModify- SnakeEgg2 activate!"
A small yellow snake landed on the floor in front of WarGrowlmon and began slithering its way across the floor.
"Do you really think that tiny thing can harm me?" asked IceDevimon, who had clearly not seen the SnakeEgg2 Advance before. "Foolish Digimon!"
WarGrowlmon knew exactly what the SnakeEgg2 Advance was capable of. It was an electric-type attack which worked well against all water types. He waited. The SnakeEgg2 hit IceDevimon and electrocuted the Digimon, making the Hypnos Digimon cry out in pain. That was his cue! WarGrowlmon leapt to his feet and slashed at IceDevimon with his powerful axe blades.
IceDevimon staggered backwards. He realised that the Adult level Digimon he was facing against was more powerful than he originally thought.
"So, you think you're so hot just because you can trick me, huh?" hissed IceDevimon angrily. He spread his wings and floated backwards. "Floor Avalanche!" he called out.
The entire platform began to shake, much to WarGrowlmon's surprise. Ice spikes began to burst out of the ground and travel towards him. He charged up his Atomic Blaster and fired a powerful twin blast of energy beams straight towards his opponent. He missed, but he did manage to destroy the advancing ice spikes. WarGrowlmon rushed straight towards his opponent and ducked underneath IceDevimon's cold punch. With his head lowered, he slammed straight into his opponent and knocked IceDevimon backwards.

"Okay, I'm in!" announced MegaGargomon. He looked around him. The entire computer network seemed frozen, like the rest of the Digital World. "Where to now?"
"Try and find Kenta's Digimon," ordered Jenrya.
"Tsunami Wave!" A huge wave of water appeared from suddenly nowhere. It flowed across the floor and then rose up before it crashed down on top of MegaGargomon. The torrent of water washed the Digimon backwards. MarineAngemon smiled. He had done good. "How was that?" he asked Kenta.
Kenta laughed.
"Beautiful," was his reply. "Now finish him off."
"That's not going to happen, pal!" cried MegaGargomon as he leapt to his feet. "Mega Barrage!" He fired several missiles into the air, all of which curved straight towards his opponent.
MarineAngemon raised his arms and he glowed with an aura. He had activated the weakest of all the Barrier Advances, the AquaBarrier. It still protected him from the explosions of MegaGargomon's missiles, however, the AquaBarrier disappeared soon after the missiles hit, leaving MarineAngemon unscathed.
"Want to try that again?" asked MarineAngemon. "I can regenerate my AquaBarriers."
"Yeah, but they're weaker than jello," retorted MegaGargomon. He rushed towards MarineAngemon.

He rushed towards IceDevimon. WarGrowlmon side-stepped the falling icicles and continued running.
"Stand still!" roared WarGrowlmon, as he swung his axes at his opponent.
"WarGrowlmon, don't forget the program that Datamon gave you!" reminded Takato.
That was right. All WarGrowlmon had to do was to use the program on the origin of all the ice and he had a feeling that that origin was IceDevimon. If he could only get the ice-subtype Digimon to stay still, though...
"I won't forget, Takato," he promised his Operator, as he backed off and charged up his Atomic Blaster. "Take this!" he roared and fired twin beams of red energy towards IceDevimon.
"Is that all you've got?" asked IceDevimon after flying around the twin beams of energy and straight at WarGrowlmon. "Frozen Claw!" He lashed out at WarGrowlmon, his claws sinking into WarGrowlmon's exposed, scaly hide. "An eye for an eye, my friend," he laughed, before headbutting WarGrowlmon with his white horns stabbing into the fire-type Digimon.

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The place was deserted. That was no surprise, seeing as all the civilians had evacuated. Ruki could hear the crackling of the electromagnetic radiation, as she stood there. The buildings were crumbling apart and the lights, that illuminated that part of the Orbital Space Ring during the official designated hours of daytime, were flickering eeriely. It was strange and it was frightening.
Ruki held her D-Scanner out in front of her. A holographic image hovered over it and it showed her a compass point that rotated round. Suddenly, it stopped and pointed towards the statue in front of her. 'That's the statue of Yagami Taichi, the first President of Phyle,' thought Ruki.
"Its coming from the statue," exclaimed Ruki out loud.

Takato didn't like the way things were going. IceDevimon had the upper hand. 'How am I going to protect WarGrowlmon?' he wondered. 'IceDevimon's clearly going to wipe the floor with him.' He looked at his D-Scanner and checked the Advances that were selectable. There were a couple of electric-type advances, but there weren't enough.
"Alice, is Dobermon functional yet?" he asked the blonde-haired girl.
"I'm afraid not," replied Alice with a shake of her head.
"Guess I'll have to go it alone," he sighed. That was when Takato noticed that he had a special Combo right in front of him. "If I combine that combo with an electrical attack," he murmured and trailed off. A smile spread across his face when he realised that the battle wasn't completely over. "All right, WarGrowlmon, it's time to end this battle!" he called out to his Digimon. "DigiModify- ZapRing3 activate!"
On Takato's computer screen, he could clearly see a strange two-pronged plug device appeared on WarGrowlmon's right arm. WarGrowlmon aimed straight at IceDevimon. The prongs charged up and then fired a ring of pure electricity at IceDevimon, which hit the devil Digimon square in the chest.
"DigiModify- Wide Sword, Long Sword, Knightmon's Berserk Sword activate!" announced Takato. The three Modify Advances never reached WarGrowlmon. On the holographic screen of his D-Scanner, the three Modify Advances flickered and then merged into a new Advance. "DigiModify- Double Hero activate!"

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IceDevimon gasped in horror, as he saw a Knightmon appear right next to WarGrowlmon. Two Digimon were doubling up against him? That wasn't fair! Then again, when did he ever fight fair?
"You can't defeat me that way!" protested IceDevimon.
"You sure about that?" asked WarGrowlmon, before both the Knightmon and WarGrowlmon charged straight towards IceDevimon. The two of them slashed at IceDevimon mercilessly, dealing a huge amount of damage to the evil Hypnos Digimon. "And now," he roared, as the Knightmon disappeared, "to finish this! Atomic Blaster!" He fired powerful twin beams of red energy straight at his opponent.
This too hit IceDevimon square in the chest, and propelled the wounded Digimon backwards. The evil ice-subtype Digimon smashed into his throne, shattering it into a thousand shards of ice.

"It's not use, Jen," protested MegaGargomon. His breath was ragged from fighting against MarineAngemon. "He keeps healing himself." How could you fight against a Digimon that kept healing itself? You couldn't, especially when there was no way to stop the Digimon from healing itself. "We've got to find some other way to deal with MarineAngemon!"
All around him, MegaGargomon heard Kenta laugh.
"There is no way you can stop MarineAngemon," he told Jenrya. "Just face it, Hypnos has won. We'll rule the Earth Sphere!"
"You think that your Leader wants to rule the Earth Sphere?" asked Jenrya. "Well, you're sadly mistaken. He wants to destroy it. You're being used by him."
"What? You're lying!"
"Hey, would I lie?" asked Jenrya.
"Would he?" asked MarineAngemon curiously.
MegaGargomon shook his head in reply. Of course, there was the time when Jenrya lied about that birthday party for him, and the time he lied about liking Ryo, but those times didn't count.
"No way," was his verbal reply to MarineAngemon's question. "We heard it from a very reliable source. Your Leader's making a super virus, not a super Digimon. He wants to use it to destroy the Digital World."
"That's nuts!" cried Kenta, who had heard MegaGargomon's statement. "Why would he do a thing like that? You're lying! MarineAngemon, delete his Digimon now!"
"Hey, I'm not lying!" protested MegaGargomon. "If you want, go ask him yourself."
"What are you waiting for?" shouted Kenta. "Finish him!"

A sly smile spread across IceDevimon's face upon hearing his Operator's command. Yes, he'd finish off WarGrowlmon. With a powerful roar, he rushed straight towards his opponent.
WarGrowlmon tried to dodge the attack, but he was too slow. IceDevimon's cold, claws grabbed on to him and held tight. He could feel the cold getting to him, the water-type, ice-subtype Digimon weakening him with his every cold breath.
"Let go!" growled WarGrowlmon, as he tried to flex his muscles and break free from his opponent's icy grasp.
"Hold on, buddy," called out Takato. "DigiModify- Spike Body activate!"
Though WarGrowlmon couldn't feel it, spikes had grown from his scaly skin and from his metallic armour, piercing IceDevimon and making the ice-subtype devil Digimon float away from him. He smiled toothily at his opponent.
"It's time for a little payback!" he roared, before charging up his powerful Atomic Blaster. He fired two beams of pure red energy once again. He missed, though.
IceDevimon may have been wounded, but he wasn't slow. He had flown around the twin beams of energy.
"This has gone on for long enough!" he roared, as he backed away towards the icicles that lined the long terminal. "Surrender now or these Digimon, who are still alive, might I add, will get it."
"You're serious, aren't you?" asked WarGrowlmon. He didn't dare move a muscle. "You coward."
"Well, that's just how I operate," laughed IceDevimon, as he aimed his right palm at WarGrowlmon. "Now, surrender and be deleted or suffer the consequences."

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"No, it can't end this way!" cried Takato, as he banged his fist on the desk. "I can't lose you now, WarGrowlmon." He closed his eyes, averting his gaze away from the computer screen. Takato didn't want to see his best digital friend deleted, especially since he hadn't taken the precaution of making a back-up copy. "All of your data will be lost forever, if you're deleted now," he told his Digimon. "I can't let you sacrifice yourself like that."
"I have to, Takato."
Alice looked at the computer screen in front of her. Dobermon's stats were all displayed in front of her.
"Takato, don't cry," she told him from the computer terminal she was using. "WarGrowlmon'll be all right. You just wait and see."

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"Bye bye now," taunted IceDevimon evilly. "What?"
Dobermon leapt at IceDevimon and tore at the ice-subtype Digimon with his claws. He was relentless.
"You're going down!" he howled, before biting into IceDevimon's overly long arm and tugged at it like a dog playing Tug-of-War with a shoe. "Now, WarGrowlmon!" he called out, his voice muffled by arm. "Use the cure.bat Datamon gave you!"
"No, I can't, you'll be deleted as well," protested WarGrowlmon.
"I'm backed up on my D-Scanner," explained Dobermon, as he tugged at IceDevimon, jerking the ice-subtype Digimon about. "Now use it!" he growled, as he pulled the Hypnos Digimon into WarGrowlmon's direct line of fire, such that he himself wasn't in the way.
WarGrowlmon prayed for success, as he took out the cure.bat program.
"This one's for you the Digimon and the humans of the Earth Sphere!" he cried out, as he threw Datamon's special cure program straight at IceDevimon.
"This can't be happening!" screamed IceDevimon, as the program hit him. He glowed blue, then green and then began to flicker like a TV picture on a television that hadn't been tuned to the right frequency. "Hypnos... forever!" he cried out, before his data was torn apart by the program.
There was a powerful explosion, which tore through IceDevimon and Dobermon simultaneously. The shockwave passed through WarGrowlmon harmlessly and shattered the ice all around him. The ice on the floor melted. The Digital World was unfrozen!

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"All right, War..." began Takato, only to trail off. "What's going on?" he wondered out loud, as he looked at his screen. Before his very eyes, WarGrowlmon's stats changed.
WarGrowlmon's entire classification altered. He changed from a fire-type to an electric-type. The mechanical classification, which had also been assigned to him, disappeared. WarGrowlmon's data size increased and his very shape changed. He still had that hazard symbol on his chest, but he was now like some armour-clad knight of days gone by. His eyes were yellow. On the top of his helmet was a design that looked like Guilmon's head. He carried a lance and a round shield, which had the symbol of the Earth Sphere Officials (an upright, red triangle with three triangles on every side to form a six-pointed star) on it.
"You've digivolved!" exclaimed Takato in surprise.
"I guess I have," said Gallantmon, the Mega level of Guilmon.
"Congratulations, Takato," congratulated Alice, as she walked over to him.
"Thanks," thanked Takato with a smile on his face. However, it soon disappeared when he remembered what had happened. "Oh, I'm sorry about Dobermon, by the way."
"Don't be," replied Alice with a faint smile on her face. "He's been backed-up, so he's alive and well."
Suddenly, Takato's D-Scanner began to ring. It was a phone call.

Kenta was held up against a metallic wall and Jenrya was the one holding him up.
"Guys," began Jenrya, with his D-Scanner against his ear, "we've got to head back to the Orbital Space Ring. Ruki needs us up there." He turned to face Kenta momentarily, giving the green-haired youth a look that would have put the Fear of Devas into any criminal scum. "She's at Hypnos Headquarters and needs our help badly."

To be continued...