Digimon: Endgame
"Ragnarok; the last battle. The gods will fall and humanity will become extinct. At Ragnarok, the World Tree will shake but will not fall. After the battle, Ygdrasil will produce humans to repopulate the world."
They thought they had destroyed me, but I am life itself. The humans have ruined their world and are doing the same to this one. In order to save them, I may have to destroy them all…
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"Guys, I got the game!" "Nice one, Niall…" Fourteen-year-old Niall flashed a trademark grin to his less-than-enthusiastic friends gathered around his kitchen table. His dark brown, almost black hair stuck out from his scalp as though statically charged. "Guys, this game is freaking epic. I've only played five minutes, but it's insanely good." Eoghan, Niall's childhood and lifelong friend, regarded him sceptically with his piercing green eyes. "Seriously? I hope you're not just buying into all the hype."
Darren, the concluding member of the trio, snorted derisively. "Knowing Niall, he just picked it up for the hell of it. Seriously, has he ever followed the crowd?" The three boys cast their minds back as far as they could, none of them able to recall ay instances in which Niall had done anything that could be considered normal. Niall tore his mind's eye away from fond memories of breaking things and redirected his attention to the laptop in a bag slung over his shoulder.
"Here, take a look at these graphics!" he smirked, clicking rapidly. Darren pointed to a small folder icon in the bottom left corner. "What's that?" Niall gave a weak grin. "They're digimon designs." Darren opened the file and browsed rapidly. "These are surprisingly good." "Is that a compliment or an insult?" Niall snapped the laptop away and tried to close the file. "What the- What did you do? It's frozen!"
Niall groaned as he frantically typed long streams of code into the computer. "Oh, come on! Unidentified error sequence? What the hell?" The screen began rapidly flickering before enveloping them in a bright light. Niall fell back off of his chair and landed painfully on the floor. "Oh, Christ, that's gonna leave a mark." He scrambled to his feet and gazed at the message appearing on the screen.
"To whom it may concern;
The digital world is in grave danger. With the exception of hacks, the entire world is under the control of an unimaginably powerful being. Our last hope is to find humans with the potential to defeat him. You have been chosen. Please, save us.
V-mon X"
"What the hell? Is this part of the game?" enquired Eoghan. Niall's eyes grew wide as the message degraded into a series of zeroes and ones. "This is unprocessed data. The filter should be keeping these out, but-" Niall's speech was cut short by a series of sparks issuing from the computer. The sparks formed regular shapes and shaped themselves into the forms of small electronic devices, roughly one and a half times the size of Niall's fist. One was green, one crimson and one golden-coloured.
Darren reached for the red device. "What are these?" he wondered aloud. As he touched it, a beam of light shot from the end of the device to the laptop screen. The file he had mentioned earlier opened and Niall stared incredulously as streams of data flew from the computer into the device. Seconds later, the other two devices did the same.
Another message appeared onscreen, but this was clearly not from the same pleading source.
"You who would dare to anger a god, cease this foolishness! You cannot possibly hope to win, I rule this world! These insignificant hacked digimon are nothing more than an annoyance. What could you possibly hope to achieve?"
This message was followed by another in the style of the first.
"This is our last chance! Enter the digital world! Or else the unthinkable shall befall both worlds! We n d y u he p-----------------------------------------------------"
The light grew brighter, blinding the boys. To his left, Niall saw Eoghan slump to the floor. Darren did the same to his right. Niall felt unimaginable pressure envelop his body. As his vision grew dark, Niall saw the last message on the screen.
"Welcome to the digital world."
(Credit for V-mon X goes to onlinewarrior094. R&R.)
