Jazzerman here, I do not own any of these characters, they are owned by their respected companies, as many as there are. You've heard this crap before. I only own my OCs.

Revenge of the downtrodden

Chapter 1

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Joel laid back on the grass, he and his partner were relaxing in a field not far from a digital gate. He had come here to relax and get as far away from other humans as he could. While many children in the world had Digimon now he was the only one partnered with a Demidevimon. Other Digidestined would shun him or awkwardly stare as he would walk with the bat like Digimon perched on his shoulder or on top of his red head. Some believed that he made a deal with a powerful evil Digimon like Daemon for such a partner or was being controlled for some evil design. Joel had given up trying to convince other people that he was a good tamer and had taken to being alone most of the time. He didn't mind being alone as long as he had his partner and no one tried to bully either him or his Digimon.

"So Joel are we going to do today?" Demidevimon asked, getting a little tired of being idle for so long. "My wings are starting to fall asleep."

"I don't know... I'm thinking of heading towards that forest over there." Joel pointed to the forest to the north, he wasn't really interested in going there, he only wanted something to occupy his own mind and give his partner something to stop complaining about. "I doubt we'll run into any one there."

"Heh, speak for yourself." Demidevimon said. "I'd like to see some more of those Digidestined who get scared when they see me in my Champion form and run away leaving their food."

It had happened before, a few too many really. In his Champion form of Devimon Joel's partner had terrified any Digidestined that had a partner unable to digivolve past Champion level simply ran away, often leaving their supplies. The rare few that could go past Champion to Ultimate or just fought back and proved equal to Devimon forced both Joel and Devimon to flee. Since Joel could never catch up to any who ran from them to offer them their supplies, both he and his partner would divide the food and would often find stronger Digimon who claimed to be hunting a Devimon bandit who preyed on weak Digidestined.

Joel and Devimon didn't actively prey on human-Digimon teams, it would just be a shame to let all that food and supplies go to waste by being eaten by wild Digimon. It made sense to Joel, if they were moronic enough to run from Devimon at first glance and pay no attention to the human standing nearby then he didn't care enough about their needs. Those other partners could get more supplies if they needed it, after all the set back might make those Digidestined and their Digimon more determined and stronger.

Joel walked into the woods with Demidevimon on his shoulder, stretching his wings before taking flight flying just over his partner's head. The woods were much like the ones Joel had camped in when he was younger with friends but after all the time spent in the Digital World he knew there were worse things that lived in here than bears and raccoons.

"Hey Joel, we got something big comin our way..." Demidevimon said, defensively flying in front of Joel to put himself between his human partner and the incoming danger.

Out of the trees came a large insect Digimon resembling a red bipedal stag beetle. Joel had heard about this Digimon before, it was an unintelligent terror for new Digidestined that was called Kuwagamon. Without even needing to announce it, energy traveled from Joel's digivice and the small 'bowling ball with wings' to a large humanoid demon wearing black leather from head to toe, two horns on his head, and two large ragged bat wings on his back. Grinning a fanged grin, Devimon cracked his knuckles as he prepared for battle.

Kuwagamon snipped his pinchers together, charging at the newly evolved fallen angel only to receive a Death Claw attack to the center of it's armored head. The attack did not destroy the razor toothed beetle but it did knock it back into the bushes. Not waiting for another attack, Devimon leapt after it to deliver a finishing blow.

Joel decided to wait to see if Devimon called for him, he had found it better to wait when it came to running blindly into dense foliage. He could be stepped on or otherwise flattened by Kuwagamon or Devimon. However instead of a death cry from Kuwagamon he heard some screaming, the kind kids his age made when they were terrified. Joel sighed, time to see another group of people scream at seeing a dark Digimon.

Past the dense bushes he saw a small group of Digimon and their partners and Kuwagamon taking flight above the trees headed away from the group.

"You okay D?" Joel asked, looking up at the large demonic Digimon standing next to him.

Devimon shrugged at the mention of his nickname, somewhat annoyed that his foe had taken flight instead of staying and fighting him. Kuwagamon was weak, it had obviously seen better days. Devimon guessed that it had been fighting someone else before encountering him and Joel.

There on the other side of the foliage staring at his partner with a mixture of surprise and gritted anger were four kids about his age, three boys and a girl. The youngest of the boys had sandy colored hair that was nearly hidden under his bucket hat, wore a yellow and blue shirt, grey shorts, and odd teal shoes. His partner was obviously the orange furred Patamon that was sitting on his head, a Rookie, no threat unless it could digivolve.

The two older boys both wore green school uniforms, but that was where similarities ended. One had spiky blond hair and a cold stare, the other had a massive hairdo that resembled a bird's nest. At their sides were an Agumon and a Gabumon. Both rookies, again no real danger.

The girl had short brown hair and was wearing a white and pink shirt, yellow shorts, pink fingerless gloves, and what looked like a large locket around her neck. At her side was a Gatomon, a Champion level Digimon. That alone was worry enough for Joel, if they wanted to fight and that Gatomon could go to the next level Joel and Devimon could be facing an Ultimate and three Champions... not good odds.

From the other teenager's perspective they saw a young man of heavy Irish decent with short messy red hair and blue eyes, wearing a gray T shirt with blue jeans. Very nondescript clothing that looked like it had been worn and abused over the years as evident of the unreadable remains of green lettering that was left of his shirt. On his shoulder was a black duffel bag, what it was filled with none of them was sure of.

"Hey are you the ones attacking people and stealing their supplies?" The kid in the bucket hat exclaimed, a little too threatening for Joel's taste.

Joel scoffed and scratched the back of his head, gritting his teeth as he began to explain to another hostile punk who wanted to fight just because they had heard exaggerated rumors.

"We never attack anyone who doesn't want to fight, and it's not our fault that people scream and run away when they see D here..." Joel said, motioning towards Devimon who had held his long arms over his chest. "It's not our fault most of them drop their supplies and take off before I can explain a single thing."

Joel noticed the kid with the bucket hat was glaring at Devimon, not normal 'you did something wrong' glaring this was an 'I hate you and I want you to die' kinda look. The other boys seemed a little unnerved but that was better than all four of them wigging out and attacking full force in a panicked first strike. Surprisingly the girl seemed the most neutral as she simply shifted her attention to Joel to Devimon and back with a look that could equally be considered either confusion or curiosity.

"So... You're saying your partner is Devimon?" The older kid with blond hair said with a distinct air of skepticism.

"Give hot shot over there a prize." Joel exclaimed, causing his partner to chuckle and resulting in the bucket hat kid to grimace. "Actually this is just his digivolved form, normally he's a Demidevimon. He's been able to go to Champion form since day one."

The girl noted her bucket hated friends' expression and sighed. "You'll have to forgive T.K. He has never liked Devimon, it's nothing personal."

"Well sorry, I have a Devimon as a partner, there's not much I can do about that. I can still leave though." Joel snorted as he turned around to head back into the foliage and away from these irritating people. "Let's go D."

"Hey what's your problem?" 'T.K.' shouted at the red haired kid, clearly annoyed by his words.

"T.K. don't bite off more than you can chew." The nest haired kid warned, the other young man in the green school uniform only nodded in agreement.

"I don't like people dissing my partner." Joel said over his shoulder. "And if you're thinking of taking us on I'd suggest you just calm down and let us be."

"Oh yeah? Then why did you jump out at us?" TK snorted, crossing his arms.

"Jump you?" Joel's right eye was beginning to twitch, if this kept up then he'd be getting into a fist fight. "D, we're getting out of here. When I got up I wasn't expecting a Spanish inquisition."

"Calm down TK, you're starting to act like Davis." Kari said, she was starting to regret her suggestion on traveling through these woods.

TK's face turned red, he already wasn't in a very good mood and being compared to a hot head like Davis didn't help. In an act of blind and thoughtless anger TK plucked a rock from the ground and threw it, striking Joel in the back of the head.

TK expected that attacking Devimon's partner would leave him feeling satisfied, but the result was the exact opposite. The sight of Joel going limp and crumpling to the ground filled the Digidestined of hope with an instant feeling of dread when he realized that he could've seriously injured another human being.

While TK had calmed down, Devimon had rushed over to his partner to see if he was okay. The fallen angel could see Joel was breathing slowly but was no longer awake, knowing how frail humans were compared to Digimon Devimon had to make the conclusion that Joel could be seriously hurt.

Devimon let loose a loud growl as he turned to the group of Digidestined, eyes blazing red and wings spread wide. The group and their Digimon prepared to battle a powerful champion but instead the fallen angel Digimon hissed and turned to his partner. Scooping his human ally in his elongated arms the Digidestined watched as the massive black Digimon flapped his wings once and took flight.

"TK, I think we need to talk." Matt said, glaring at his younger brother. But before he said anything he remembered he had something of a chip on his shoulder when he was younger.

Tai only shook his head, this is not what he had expected to happen on a quiet walk through the digital world.

Kari looked at her brother; "Do you think that kid will be alright?"

"It was only a bump on the head," Tai said, "He may wake up with a headache but he'll be fine."

"If his head is half as hard as yours then he won't have a headache." Matt joked, giving his trademark smirk.

Tai laughed, he had known Matt long enough to know when he was joking.

TK was looking at the ground, he couldn't believe how he had acted earlier. That kid may have been annoying but he didn't deserve to be attacked like that, even if he partner was a former enemy.

"Hey TK, what are you thinking?" Patamon asked, giving TK a concerned look as he landed on his partner's shoulder.

"Just thinking about what happened in hindsight Patamon." TK said, "Sorry I nearly got you involved in a fight."

Patamon smiled, "It's okay, nothing too bad happened."

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Not far from the woods on a grassy hill Devimon set Joel down and reverted to his rookie form. Anger still clearly apparent on his round face, Demidevimon landed next to his partner and sat down.

"All this just because Joel got stuck with me as a partner. Not his fault, it's their fault for being jerks." The small virus type gritted his teeth, "If I could I'd-"

Before the small raven like Digimon could complete his sentence Joel sat up and rubbed his head. "What... happened? Where are we?"

Demidevimon held back a few tears of joy at seeing Joel was alright and perched on his head to examine Joel's injury. There was a little blood from a cut and a good sized lump but there didn't seem to be anything worse than that. "That kid in the bucket hat nailed you with a rock when your back was turned. I managed to fight off all their big bad Digimon and get you outta there."

Joel had known his partner long enough to know when he was lying but he knew that it didn't matter, it was Demidevimon's way of saying he was worried about him. But still the whole experience with that kid left Joel feeling emotionally drained.

"You know D, I just wish we could just be left alone." Joel sighed, "We never get any respect around other people..."

"Wow, you guys too huh?"

Joel looked over to see two humans and their Digimon partners. One was a girl about Joel's age who had long black hair that went down to her shoulders and was wearing a red t-shirt and blue jeans. Standing next to her was a Blackgatomon, the virus equivalent of the vaccine type Gatomon.

Her friend seemed to be a little younger than Joel, but seemed to be rather one the lanky side with blonde hair and brown eyes. Aside from his blue baseball cap, gray shirt, and blue jeans he had a brown back pack that seemed packed with food among other things. His Digimon's head could bee seen scarffing down a few sweets, Joel had never seen a Digimon like this. He had a small executioner's hood on with painted red and green eyes and large red claws.

The girl picked up her Blackgatomon and sat next to Joel on the grass. "Let's talk..."

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To be continued

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