Episode 3 - Briefing on the War

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Bandai, and so on... and is used without consent. I'm only borrowing
them I'll return them as soon as they release uncut episodes with
original Japanese language and subtitles.
Daisuke: What?! They'll never do that!
Archive: It's not my fault they won't cater to their market.

WARNING, PLEASE READ: This series will get extremely violent, very
dark and will include sexual violence in later parts, so I don't
suggest that anyone under eighteen to start reading this.

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"This is just great!" Mimi whined. "I'm sucked into a different
world to fight in a war that I should have no part in. Worse of
all, one of these annoying creatures, Sukamon, threw his shit at
me. It got all in my hair and was beyond disgusting. Fortunately
Palmon-san evolved and took care of it for me."

Mimi sighed. "At least we know the names of the six digimon that
befriended us. We've been told the basics of what is going on, but
not even our new friends know enough to satisfy the guy with the
limp. I wonder what happened to him."

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The nine children gazed upon a massive structure that looked a lot
like a ruined temple with plants growing all over the outer walls.

"This is your hideout?" Taichi questioned.

Agumon nodded. "Yep. This is home."

"Couldn't you have found a nicer place to live?" Mimi asked.

"Sorry, about the accommodation, madam," Gomamon replied sarcastically.
"But we are in a middle of a war. Having roof over our head is a luxury for us."

"It is?" Mimi blinked. "I can't image what that is like."

Palmon sighed and place a hand on Mimi's arm. "I'm afraid learning
about that should be the least of your concerns."

Daisuke scratched the back of his head. "You know, I'd have thought
you would've had some kind of underground base, that'd make it harder to find."

"We tried that, but we ended up buried." Tentomon sighed. "That
was when we might have lost one of your partners."

"What are you talking about?" Daisuke asked.

Tentomon sagged. "There was another digimon, Patamon, that was like
us. He was bonded to someone, but he died during that attack. Hopefully
his Chosen partner wasn't brought here, since if it's one of you-- you wouldn't have a digimon."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?" Daisuke demanded.

Takeru smacked Daisuke on the back of the head. "They did. You were too busy peeping on Mimi-san."

"Oh, right." Daisuke laughed sheepishly as Mimi and Palmon started to glare at him again.

"We better get inside before someone spots us." Piyomon walked into the temple.

"Yes." Sora nodded. "It wouldn't be much of a secret if they watch us entering this place."

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The temple was one enormous maze. The Chosen were lead through it
by the digimon to the back of corner where there were some makeshift
beds and some computer equipment. The digimon went straight to the
over sized refrigerator and got some things to eat and most of the children joined them.

"Did we have to go through that maze like that?" Miyako asked. "There has to be a quicker means."

"Oh, there is," Agumon answered between bites.

"Then why didn't we use it?"

"Because we lined those passage ways with traps."

Daisuke grinned. "Certainly will keep the salesmen away after you
behead a few with some well placed traps."

"What are you doing?" Yamato asked.

Koushiro didn't even look up. "I'm trying to get my laptop to function,
but there seems to be something wrong with it."

"Tried repair tactic one?"

Koushiro glared at Yamato. "You're a friend of Taichi's, aren't you?"

Yamato scratched his head. "So?"

"Only an idiot would consider hitting an expensive piece of hardware
to be 'repairing' it. Being friends with Taichi only increases the level of stupidity."

Before Yamato could reply, a voice interrupted them, "I resent that
first part. Sometimes hitting a piece of machinery is the only way to get it working."

"Who said that?" Koushiro looked around.

"I did."

Koushiro eyes widen in shock as an image of an old man's face was
displayed on his lap top screen. The same man whose image briefly
appeared outside of Tokyo Tower.

"Sorry about hacking you computer, but this is the safest way I
could contact you. I'm afraid I had to delete a few files to get
this and a few other programs to work though."

"Which ones did you delete?" Koushiro's hand twitched, wanting to strangle him.

The man smirked. "Just all the hard-core hentai pictures in the hidden file."

Koushiro's lower lip quivered.

"Ouch. Sorry to hear that, man." Yamato patted Koushiro on the back.

Koushiro began to blush remembering he wasn't exactly alone. He
then glared. "I don't appreciate having my computer hacked. Now who are you?"

"Gennai-san!" Tentomon flew over. "It's good to see you again."

Gennai chuckled. "It's good to see you, too. How's your corner of
the war going? Have the Chosen been of any help yet?"

Tentomon laughed nervously. "Well, Unimon's group isn't back yet
from their last battle. I'm getting a bit concerned."

"And the Chosen?" Gennai pressed.

Tentomon glanced sheepishly at Koushiro. "Well... Agumon and Palmon
were able to evolve temporarily to a Greymon and a Togemon, but
we haven't done much more than that."

Gennai nodded. "Well, that's quite all right. They'll need time
to learn their powers like the first group did."

"First group?" Yamato and Koushiro questioned.

"Long before you, there were five children like you who were called
to save the Digital World. But the threats that await your group
far surpasses what they had dealt with."

"Swell. Just what do we do now?" Koushiro asked.

"Do now? You defeat Devimon, of course." Gennai nodded to himself.

"And just how do we do that?"

"By first finding the digimentals for the Chosen without digimon."

Koushiro's eye twitched. "And how do we do that?"

"By using the digimental digivices."

"Those would be the white ones, and not one of these." Yamato held up his digivice.

"Didn't you already know that?" Gennai asked.

"No!" Koushiro yelled. "How could we? We barely learned anything about this entire situation."

"Hey! What's going on?" Taichi walked over to Koushiro and stared
at the screen with a puzzled look.

Gennai waved. "Relax, my boy. It's really quite simple. Unfortunately
I don't have enough time on this connection to explain everything I know."

"Try," Koushiro demanded.

"So hungry for knowledge." Gennai laughed and pointed at an icon
that was now flashing on the screen. "All I can say at this time
is to use this program in the room with no floor and input the proper
code and it will act as a portal to get your group to an area where
a digimental would be located."

"And how do we learn what the proper code is?"

"With this program." Gennai pointed at a different icon and it started
to flash. "This will translate the old Digimon language into Japanese.
You should be able to figure things out from there."

"So, this will get all of us digimon?" Taichi asked.

Gennai didn't appear to hear him as he looked off screen. "Damn
it. Nanomon aga-" Gennai's image disappeared and the screen returned
to normal except there were three new icons on it.

Tentomon shakes his head. "That always happens."

"What? Half-ass explanations and then being cut off before we get
the information we need?" Koushiro asked sarcastically.

"Yep," Tentomon replied. "At least this time he was focused enough
to give us this much. He's usually a lot more scatter brained."

Koushiro moaned with expectant pain.

"How soon do you think you'll be able to figure this out?" Taichi asked.

Koushiro snubbed him. "I'm not sure until I've gone through and
learned how to use these programs. It could be a few minutes or
a few days depending on how stupid the programmers were."

Koushiro stood up. "Tentomon-san, do you know where this 'room with no floor' is?"

Tentomon nodded. "Of course. But we thought it was just a built in trap."

"Good." Koushiro turned. "Miyako-kun, I'll need your help with a
couple programs. We might be able to find you a digimon soon."

"Cool!" Miyako chirped. "Tell me what I have to do."

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"There's only seven of them? Where's Tentomon?" a white unicorn
with black wings and a red metal mask asked upon entering the room with four other digimon.

"Unimon!" Agumon saluted. "There are two more Chosen, sir. They're
with Tentomon preparing a portal to get the digimon our group is missing."

"I was hoping for more." Unimon sighed. "This war isn't going good."

Taichi looked skeptically at the newly arrived digimon. "This is your army?"

Unimon nodded sadly. "What's left of it. Devimon and his men have
either taken control or killed most of us."

Daisuke looked over at the 'army.' "Perhaps you could tell us about
what you guys can do, not to mention who and what our opponents
are so we can develop some kind of strategy."

"Where did you get the idea to ask that?" Taichi questioned.

Daisuke shrugged. "I like playing RPG's on the computer, particularly
that new Gundam War game. If I don't get the basics of force placements, I tend to get my ass kicked."

Taichi sweat-dropped. "This isn't a game."

"Of course it isn't. The concepts to victory are the same though."

Taichi nodded. "As long as you have that straight."

Unimon chuckled. "Perhaps, you can succeed after all. I am Unimon,
the leader of the free digimon on this island. My Holy Shot can blast away evil."

"I am Piyomon." The black bird bowed. "My attack is Magical Fire."

"Um, isn't she Piyomon?" Sora asked.

"We're both Piyomon," the pink bird replied.

"That'll get confusing." Yamato scratched the back of his head.
"Can we just call you Kuro for now?"

The black Piyomon blinked. "Why do you have a problem? It's not confusing at all."

"Well, it is for us, Kuro." Taichi folded his arms.

'Kuro' scowled.

A large gray crab snickered. "I'm Ganimon and my Scissors Execution
is sure to cleave my opponent."

"I'm Yuki Duramon, and while my freezing attacks may leave you cold,
I'm really one hot party animal!" the walking snowman smiled.

"And I'm Mojamon," a meter and a half ball of grayish-brown fur
said. "And my bone boomerang attack is sure to give someone a headache."

"Can we get relative power levels?" Taichi asked.

"Well, Kuro and Ganimon are both child digimon like us," Agumon
answered. "While Mojamon, Yukiduramon and Unimon are adults, like Greymon and Togemon."

"Greymon and Togemon?" Unimon asked.

Agumon smiled. "Greymon is my adult form. I evolved into it briefly when Taichi needed me."

Unimon seemed to pause in thought. "Perhaps we should all get aquatinted
and come up with some plan of action."

Taichi nodded. "Sounds good to me."

Yuki Duramon frowned. "I think we should celebrate the arrival of
the Chosen first, THEN talk about what we should do next."

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Yuki Duramon sulked in the back corner with a bag of chips as he
was out-voted. At least Mimi and Palmon were keeping him company.

"So, we can free a digimon possessed by a black gear by attacking
and destroying the gear?" Taichi asked.

"Yes." Unimon nodded. "At one time or another, all of us except
Ganimon were under the influence of the black gears. Leomon was
able to free most of us before Devimon corrupted him entirely."

"What do you mean, corrupted entirely?" Daisuke wondered.

"We do not believe he is under the control of a black gear, but
by Devimon's direct manipulation."

"Leomon's not the strongest good digimon, is he?" Sora asked with a hint of dread.

"Actually, no." Unimon shook his head. "The strongest potential
ally we have would be Andromon. But freeing him of his black gear
would be nearly impossible. He has turn Factorial Town into a fortress
since Devimon has him guarding some item there."

Taichi crossed his arms. "We'll probably have to attack that base
at some point to get that item, won't we?"

Yamato nodded. "It's a safe bet that if Devimon doesn't want us
to have it, then it must be useful to us."

Daisuke tapped the table he was sitting at. "However, we should
hold off any plans on attacking this Factorial Fortress place until
we've improved our forces. If that guy with the limp can get the
portal working, we should have four more digimon on our side."

Kuro-Piyomon shook his head. "An increase of our forces power by
thirty percent is still not enough to defeat Andromon."

"But our power has increase by more than a mere thirty percent with
the Chosen. It should be entirely possible to marshal a force of
twelve adult digimon when we begin the attack," Unimon corrected.

"But there's no proof of that, sir," Kuro-Piyomon replied.

"I'm positive that we'll all be adults by that time," Agumon said firmly.

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Koushiro traced his hand over a series of cuneiform lettering. "According
to the translation program, this should lead us to the digimentals of Aijou and Chishiki."

"Love and knowledge? Those hardly go together," Miyako commented.

Koushiro shrugged. "True, but who am I to argue with this. We should
be able to get two digimon from this one trip."

Tentomon nodded. "It sounds like a good plan at least."

"Yeah. Let's just hope nothing goes wrong with it."

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Author's Notes:

Sigh. I'd like this one to have been a little longer, but if I didn't
cut it here it'd get way too long.

What's with Daisuke knowing basic strategy?
Well, he is starting his adventure two years older than in the series
and having him play war games on the computer is entirely possible.
Besides, planning something and being able to carry it out himself are two different things.

Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake!

Chibi-Taichi waved. "Hi. Now we can't do a series verses series
competition and leave out the 'greatest' of all fighting anime series, Dragon Ball Z!"

Chibi-Sora crossed her arms. "More like Drag-on-and-on Ball Z."

"She's just upset that Bulma didn't end up with Yamcha."

Chibi-Sora glared. "He took her virginity. They should've stayed together!"

Chibi-Taichi laughed nervously. "Without further ado... Goku verses the entire Digital World!"

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"All right Badassfighter, this has gone too far! Kame! (Turtle!)
Hame! (Destruction!) HA! (Wave!)" Goku shot his hands forward as
a ray of annihilating death speed forth faster than the speed of light.

"That was pathetically slow," Badassfighter said from behind Goku.

"Damn..." Goku wondered what he should do.

Mean while on the Digital World....

Hikari was traveling with a few of her friends trying to defeat
the latest threat to the world. She then paused and looked up to the sky.

"Something wrong, Hikari-chan?" Takeru asked and then felt a shudder
through his spine as he looked to the sky as well.

Ken looked to the sky and saw without seeing, since the speeding
beam of destruction was impossible for them to see by the naked eye. "Oh, shit."

Hikari grabbed Takeru's hand. "I... I love all of you."

Daisuke noticed. "Hey, what are you-"

Daisuke never completed his question as the beam of death shot through
the core of the Digital World, destroying it entirely.

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"Oh, my gawd! You killed Kenny! You bastard!" Chibi-Miyako began to sob.

Chibi-Sora ushered her off the stage.

Chibi-Taichi laughed while scratching the back of his head. "Well...
I'd like to know when the omake will stop being darker than the
series." He shrugged. "Oh, well. Be seeing you."

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