“What are you doing Lee?” Sharmamon asked curiously
as Lee packed up a notebook and a few writing utensils.

“I”m going to the Museum. We’re supposed to research
history and I figured that I can find what I need there.”
Lee put on his backpack.

“Can I come?”

Lee shook his head. “Sorry Sharmamon, you have to
stay here with mom and grandpa. If you could get smaller,
then I could carry you in a duffel bag.”

Sharmamon pouted. “I guess it’s okay. Bring back
something from the gift shop, okay?”

Lee nodded, smiling. “I will. Bye Sharmamon.” He paused.
“Sorry you can’t come along, but it would be hard to
explain a digimon to the museum.”

The door closed as Lee left the house. Sharmamon watched
him go as he grinned mischievously. “Lee said I couldn’t
come along. He never said anything about me following
him.” Grabbing his club, he rushed after Lee, keeping a
short distance from the chosen.

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Digital Diaries : Adventures 2003

written by Shaun Garin


authorized by Lord Archive, set in his Digimon Series,
Red Digivice Diaries/War Diaries

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File 10 : Insufficient Power

Lee looked up on the dinosaur bones as he read the
discovery credits. “Discovered by Professor Hart, a local
archeologist.” He blinked. “Hey, Raine’s dad found this.”

“Hello Lee.” Lee turned to see the blonde haired Gina
standing behind him, holding a large metal case in her 
hands.

“Good day Gina,” he said politely.

“You here to do research?” she asked, moving to stand
beside him.

Lee nodded. “I have a report to do on history and I have
a wide variety of topics to research.”

She smiled. “Well, good luck with that.”

Lee motioned to the case. “What is that?”

“This?” Gina asked. “It’s a new item a team from
Australia sent us. I’ll show you first.” She opened up
the case and held out a strange crystal. It was orange
and seemed to glow with an inner light. “Beautiful, isn’t it?”

Lee nodded. Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he 
saw a meter tall trenchcoat clad figure. Lee sweatdropped.
“Sharmamon.”

The digimon in the trenchcoat bumped into a passerby,
muttering his apologies as Lee confronted his errant 
digimon. “I told you to stay home! You couldn’t come 
along!”

“You never said anything about no following,” Sharmamon
said, earning a frustrated noise from Lee.

“That’s beyond the point.”

Sharmamon sighed. Suddenly, he tensed as the 
Digi-Locator went off. Lee grabbed it and opened it up. 
He paled. “Oh no.”

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“It’s okay people, just keep moving along.”

Gina, Lee and Sharmamon ran up to the guard who was
helping people away from the fog that had collected on 
the west wing. “What’s going on?”

“Darndest thing,” the guard said, “The ventilation system
must be malfunctioning. We’re trying to get these people
out of here before the whole fog engulfs the entire
building.”

Gina nodded. “Just concern yourself with getting people
out. We’ll handle the malfunction.” She motioned for
Lee to move into the fog. Lee nodded and he and
Sharmamon rushed into the digital field.

Inside, Lee squinted. “Sure is dense.”

Suddenly, an angry cry came as a figure barreled out of
the fog, fists flying. Lee and Sharmamon dodged the
attack as he rounded.

“Asuramon, a perfection level digimon,” Sharmamon
warned. “Lee...”

“I see him. Go for it!”

“Sharmamon evolve!” The light flared around him as his
skin started to rip off. Suddenly, a double barreled punch
slammed into his stomach as Sharmamon was knocked
back in mid evolution.

Asuramon rounded on Lee as he swung. Lee was thrown
into the wall as his D3 slammed against the wall, a
faint tinkling sound echoing across the empty hall.

Asuramon grinned as he bounded towards the end of the
field. Reaching out, he actually ripped a hole in the field
before escaping out of the field.

Sharmamon ran up, helping Lee to his feet. “You okay?”
he asked carefully.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Some bruises and bumps but I’m fine.”
Lee reached out for his D3 and held it out. “Sharmamon,
you’d better evolve!”

Sharmamon nodded as he called out, “Sharmamon
evolve!” But there was no light show, no pillar of light.
Sharmamon scowled. “Sharmamon evolve!” he called out 
more forcefully.

Nothing.

Lee stared for a long moment, and then looked at his D3. 
The screen was cracked and a piece of it was missing on 
the side, revealing a bit of electronics beneath the casing. 
He stared at it for a long moment before the words of 
Sam Beckett came to him. “Oh boy.”

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Gina looked up as Lee trudged out of the fog with
Sharmamon trailing behind him. “He escaped,” she said. 
“He went that way.... what’s wrong?”

“My D3 is broken,” Lee replied dully. “We can’t fight
it.”

“You’d better still chase after it,” Gina said. “I’ll call
Sean, he should be available at the moment.”

Lee nodded as he followed Sharmamon through the
halls filled with shattered glass cases. The pair waded
gingerly through shattered piles of pottery as Lee
said, “keep a close eye out.”

“Not a problem.”

A scream split the air as Lee flinched. “Too late now.
C’mon!”

The pair ran down the hall into the main foyer where
a group of children and a female teacher were being
backed into a corner. The teacher was suffering from
a broken wrist as she held a worn battle mace in one
hands, straining from the weight.

“No time for being discrete,” Sharmamon said, leaping at
Asuramon. “Shaman Hammer!”

“Asura God Fist!” The fist drove into Sharmamon’s
stomach, expelling his breath in one blast. He rolled
to his feet as he threw his hammer.

“Shaman Hammer!”

Asuramon batted it away as he rounded on the pair.
“I’m gonna enjoy ripping you two apart,” he growled
as he advanced, cracking his knuckles.

“Get to safety,” Sharmamon said, staggering to his
feet.

“No way!” Lee said, picking up a fallen two handed
sword. “I’m gonna help!”

“I’m not gonna risk you! Go!”

Lee considered the fact a second before Gina 
skidded into the room and heaved the thick metal 
case at Asuramon. It hit the demon man digimon as 
he staggered back. “Take that!”

“Stupid bitch!” Asuramon advanced on Gina as he
flexed his hands, ready to cause harm.

“Gina!” Lee shouted.

On his belt, the D3’s cracked screen shot out
several wires which snapped around it. They started
to pulse as it started to wail incredibly loud. Asuramon
clapped his hands over his ears in pain as Sharmamon
cried out, “Sharmamon evolve!”

Sharmamon’s flesh started to tear off as a grid revealed
itself underneath. All of his flesh but his eyes were
ripped off as Gina grimaced. “Oh yuck.”

His grid reshaped itself into a smaller form as he was
reskinned in a tan and red form. He drew a large
shurinken from his back, readying it. “Ninjamon!
Iga Style Shurinken Throw!”

The weapons bit into the ground before Asuramon as
Ninjamon grinned evilly. “Care to take me on now?”

“Gladly. Asura God Fist!”

Ninjamon danced around the attacks as he let loose
with another row of ninja stars. Asuramon growled
as he slammed the ground with all four fists, sending
the ground beneath Ninjamon in a rolling wave.

Ninjamon was caught on the end of the wave of
concrete and linoleum as he was thrown into the
wall.

“Ninjamon!” Lee shouted.

“Lee.... get away...” came the weak reply as Lee
lost his grip on the sword he still held in his hands as
Asuramon turned towards him and Gina.

“Now to break you in two,” he snarled, punching
Lee into the wall, rounding on Gina who backed up.
“I’ll enjoy ripping you apart,” he leered, “in more
ways than one!”

The sword fell from Lee’s numb fingers as the
sharp blade sheared through the broken metal case.
Suddenly, a golden energy flared out from the case
as Ninjamon’s eyes shot open in shock. “LEE!” he
cried out before the energy overtook him.

“Ninjamon super evolve!” he cried out. Lee’s D3
shot out several more wires that wrapped around it
and began to pulse in time with Ninjamon’s evolution.

Ninjamon held out his shurinken as he began to spin
it around, his body shrinking with each rotation. Winds
kicked up around him as two dragonfly like wings 
appeared out of his back. The spinning shurinken
slowly lengthened into a three foot spear. The spear
jammed into the ground as the diminuitive digimon 
glared down on the Asuramon. "Piximon."

“He... evolved to Perfection,” Lee said in awe as he
slipped into unconsciousness.

Piximon made a bomb with wings appear. “Time to 
take you out. Bit bomb!”

Asuramon cried out as he was blown into digital
information. Piximon sighed as he floated over to the
comatose boy. “Help me with him,” he ordered as
Gina nodded, shouldering the surprisingly light boy
and stepping gingerly over the debrie.

Piximon floated towards the case and popped it
open. The sword still stuck in the case as the remains
of the strange golden crystal lay around it. “Whatever
it was is unrecoverable,” he murmured to himself,
picking up a particularly large shard. “I’ll hold onto
this.”

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When Lee awoke, he found himself lying on his
bed with Piximon sitting down beside him, legs
crossed and spear sitting on the side. “Glad to see
you’re awake Lee,” he said.

“Sharmamon...” Lee said, struggling to get up but
a sharp pain bit into his back.

“Lay down,” Piximon said. “And it’s Piximon in this
form.”

Lee nodded, feeling the throbbing in the back of
his head. “What do you remember?” Piximon
asked.

“I remember you getting slammed into the wall and
I followed quickly afterwards. Did he hurt Gina?”
Lee asked, gingerly resting his head on his pillow.

“Gina is fine,” Piximon assured him. “In fact, she
carried you home.”

Lee reddened in embarrassment. “Is she still here?”

Piximon nodded. “She wanted to remain here until
you woke up.” He floated into the air. “I’ll go get
her.”

After a while, the door opened and Gina entered. She
had a few scratches and a bandage over one cheek
but other than that, she seemed fine. “Hi,” she said
softly.

“Hi,” Lee replied.

“Are you okay?”

Lee chuckled. “I’ll be sore for a few days but I’ll 
live. Are you okay?”

Gina nodded. “Yeah, I’ll be fine. Just a few cuts
and bruises but nothing major.”

Lee smiled. “Okay... glad to hear it.”

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I honestly didn’t know if we had something then.
Maybe it isn’t meant to be. She’s 21 and I’m 11.
It’s too much of an age group.

But somehow, I could tell that we had something
that day, even if it was just a one time thing. God,
I don’t want to be falling for an older girl... even
when my heart says yes and my mind says no, I
still won’t listen.

I sound like a boy with a crush. But this feels more
powerful somehow. It must have been the heat of
the battle. That’s it. Nothing more.

But I’m glad someone cared enough about me to
bring me home.

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Authors notes : this is fun.

The Lee/Gina subplot will work itself out soon.
Just a matter of time.

And yeah, for all you Sharmamon fans, Sharmamon 
is stuck at perfection... for now anyway.