This marks the beginning of the first Darkus Eclipse side story, I hope you enjoy, please leave any questions or comments in the reviews.
Prologue; The Day of the Fiends
2 hours before the Bakugan arrived on Earth
Marduk readied his sidearm with a look of determination, the Cult Leader Malacree had determined him too young to utilize a fully automatic weapon, but that hadn't stopped him from arming the teen and sending him on a high priority mission along with several other cultist teens. The team was currently riding through Moscow inside of a black van heading towards a private estate just north of the city. Marduk finished his preparations and looked around to his team to see that they were nearly ready for the drop off as well, he wore a long black trench coat with fingerless gloves along with black leather pants and combat boots, his hair was red with white highlights and he wore a mask that covered half of his face while the other half was concealed by his hairstyle.
The girl next to him was named Valkyria, she was the youngest of the group at age thirteen and wore jeans along with a white floral top and was covered in a fur coat. She had green hair fashioned into a ponytail matching her emerald eyes. The only obvious sign that the girl was a part of the Cult of Crimson Lightning was the armband that she and all the other cultists wore bearing the symbol of Myotismon. She was also the only member of the team that Marduk truly feared because he knew why she was often referred to as the deceiver.
Next to Valkyria was another girl dressed in an insulated morphsuit along with a pair of sweatpants and a light jacket. Her blonde hair was secured into a bun and her gaze held a no nonsense attitude behind some glasses that were framed red. She hadn't been given a weapon because she didn't need a weapon with her capabilities. The cult exclusively referred to her as hierarch because of her inheritance. Her name was Flare.
Across from the three of them were a set of triplets, two of which being boys who wore the same outfit of a black t-shirt with Myotismon's symbol fashioned onto it in red, they wore an open short sleeve woven shirt over their t-shirts and had camouflage pants worn as well. The only way to tell the two identical brothers apart was the colors of their clothes with the first one, Dominus, wearing an orange and brown color scheme while the second one, Slaine was wearing a lime green and dark green color scheme.
And lastly, the third triplett, a girl named Sapphire wore a blue summer dress and a pair of light blue tennis shoes. She had auburn colored hair along with lilac eyes. She was the most immature of their group and often people wondered if she was just dumb but her teammates knew better. She may be a bit goofy, but when someone was stupid enough to anger her, they had a nasty habit of winding up in the ER.
Together the group of six cult combatants, young elites known as The Fiend Guard, continued their silent ride to their objective. The Russian branch of the Cult of Crimson Lightning had received intelligence that a Russian scientist by the name of Dr. Michael Gehabich was nearing the completion of his life's work, a fully functional dimension transporter. With this kind of technology, the Cult would be able to enter the Digital World and find those Digimon who shared their point of view. The mission was simple, breach the lab, force the aging scientist to hand over schematics, and leave. Little did they know, that today would change everything.
The group arrived at the gate of the estate and scaled the wall. They snuck further onto the grounds all the while keeping a sharp eye out for any potential witnesses, this mission required discretion of the highest kind or it could spell disaster for the Cult's plans. They passed by a wooden house and spotted a ginger haired teen wearing a green and yellow dress as she pulled some freshly baked cookies out of an oven inside the kitchen while humming Amazing Grace. The group of cultists couldn't risk her spotting them but they were also ordered not to kill unless absolutely necessary. With this in mind, Flare quietly chanted under her breath and before her target knew it she fell asleep.
Without another word, the cultists continued their sweep of the grounds and eventually found the lab. After checking the outside and making sure that nobody was watching, the Fiend Guard breached the lab and surrounded the scientist.
"Who are you people?!" Dr. Michael demanded in a mixture of shock and anger
"Who we are doesn't matter old man" their leader began "what we want is the schematics to your dimension transporter, hand them over and nobody gets hurt"
"You're obviously criminals" Dr Michael sighed "I won't allow you any access to my creation"
"Fine" the leader replied with a smirk before turning to Dominus "go back to that house and kill the girl."
"No!" Dr. Michael panicked "Please, don't hurt my granddaughter, Alice has never done anything to hurt anyone!"
"It's the schematics or Alice" the leader stated while motioning for Dominus to wait
"Ok, I'll give you what you want" Dr. Michael submitted in a tone of sadness while he developed a desperate plan
"A wise choice" Sapphire praised
"We're waiting" the leader said making it obvious that their patience was borderline nonexistent. Dr. Michael held his hands up as he went towards the control computer for the device and began downloading a copy of the schematics onto a flash drive while simultaneously typing in a command for the transporter to activate at full power, his transporter would be severely damaged, but it wasn't anything a little work couldn't fix. Anything was worth keeping these sadists from attaining such power, anything except family that is. After a few minutes, the copy was finished downloading and he carefully took the flash drive out of the computer before walking it over to the group's leader.
"Here you go" Dr. Michael sighed "Please, just leave me and Alice alone" before he could receive a reply, Flare chanted under her breath and knocked Dr. Michael out while simultaneously erasing the memory of their encounter from his mind.
"Good work team" the leader congratulated "Now le-"
"Boss!" Sapphire cried out in alarm as the transporter activated. Dr. Michael was pulled through almost immediately as Flare began chanting to keep herself and the rest of the Fiend Guard from flying through the unstable portal. After about a minute of weathering the scientific storm that raged around them, there was a sound of glass shattering coming from the transporter and suddenly Flare yelled out in pain before passing out due to a pulse she felt in her head, causing her incantation to fail and pulling her group through the portal.