Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 6 - Meandering Pathways ❯ Chapter 4

Chapter 4

"Cohesion at sixty three percent, energy rating fifty over twenty," a computer voice said.

"We're losing it!" Said a young woman in a lab coat.

"No we are not," said another young man in a similar long white lab coat. "Increase power input to one hundred fifty percent and prepare to reverse polarity."

"Damn it Dex this won't work!" The woman said.

"Do it right now Libby or it won't!" Dexter yelled.

"Increasing power," she said typing a command into a computer in front of her. The whirr of energy and equipment became louder and they both looked through a window from their quiet, climate-controlled computer lab to a room where an Ogremon was strapped to a table screaming horribly. Electrodes were hanging off every part of him and all were live making him scream in pain and small droplets of blood form where the skin was weaker.

"Cohesion at twenty four percent, energy rating thirteen over six," the computer voice said.

"Reverse polarity!" Dexter said.

"We can't, not while he's this weak!" Libby said. He pushed her out of the way sending her chair wheeling across the smooth tile floor, and entered the command himself. The digimon on the other side of the glass screamed and is a brilliant flash of light, exploded. The coloured pixels faded into the air around them.

"Cohesion lost, energy rating zero," the computer voice reported. Dexter pulled the headset of his head and whipped it across the room. The door to the room opened and a tall brunette woman in a dark business suit came in.

"How goes everything in Dexter's laboratory?" She said. He didn't turn and kept staring at a stream of paper coming from a line printer showing a steady decline of several black lines. Libby pointed out through the glass to the empty table. "You lost another one?" She said.

"It's these bloody champion levels!" Dexter yelled. "They can't take any kind of power surge at all!"

"Their energy throughput is less than six percent," Libby said. "Where's a mega would be near ninety-eight or ninety-nine percent."

"Do you know how hard it is to even catch a champion?" She asked.

"Alexis, do you know how bloody impossible it is to run these experiments on a champion-level digimon?"

"What about an ultimate?" She asked.

"Better, but with only fifty-five percent throughput we'd see the same thing, it would just take longer." Dex said. The three of them just stood thinking for a moment.

"Is the watcher's database decrypted yet?" Libby asked.

"Actually it is," Alexis said. "And we have a virus running on their servers sending us constant updates."

"So how difficult is that new group of Guardians going to be?" Dex asked.

"Remarkably easy." Alexis said. "I didn't want to mention it before, but how is the Tesla Cannon development coming?" Dex looked at her coyly for a second.

"Fine. One power source is only good for four shots, but it works fine. Completely, albeit temporarily, reverses a digimon's energy polarity." Alexis picked up the light bazooka looking device, smaller than the real thing, but it still had that look, and was used over the shoulder.

"Resulting in them reversing to rookie for at least forty-eight hours," she said.

"Yes," Dex said. "Why do you ask?"

"I think the alpha Guardians are having a little trouble. You may have a shot at two megas soon. But you two are leading the attack."

"The alpha's two megas are going to be available?" Dex asked. "They're a bit strong aren't they?" Alexis took aim at a target though the open doorway into the larger room, and fired. The target shattered and the energy rating hit one hundred percent accuracy.

"Not as strong as they think," she said.