Digimon Scammers: Ragnarök
Prologue
Disclaimer: Don't own either Digimon or Ed, Edd n Eddy.
A Note: This story is a sequel to my previous fic, Digimon Scammers: Empire, so if you haven't read that one, you might not understand everything that's happening in this one. However, most things will be explained as time goes on.
I also wrote a different version of this story which I posted a few months ago but that was deleted. This one takes a slightly different (hopefully better) direction than the previous draft.
Also, the fic uses many obscure digimon, so I'd recommend having either Digimon Wiki or Wikimon on standby. Let's face it: my descriptions can't do the digimons' drawings justice.
The sparkle of the setting sun against the canal was all Eddy could see. He spent far too much time here, getting his thoughts in order. It was a hard thing to do, especially since there was so much information in his head. At least this meant that the next school year was going to be easy.
Academically at least. He had other problems to worry about.
As he took a deep breath, he realized someone else was standing behind him. "How long have you been here?" he asked.
"Only a few minutes."
"And how did you get here, anyway? I'm like a couple thousand miles out of your way for you to just swing by."
"I flew, of course. I paid for it from savings."
Eddy chuckled. The person he was talking to was definitely resourceful. "And how'd you find me?" The person showed him their green and purple digivice. "Ah," Eddy responded in understanding.
"So, how have you been?"
"Decent. There's not much to say. I'm not sure why I'm even in this part of town. Listen, you need a place to stay or something?"
"No, I'll be fine."
"Okay, but if you need anything…"
"I'm fine. Don't worry."
Eddy smiled. "Well, after all we've been through, we all need something, I'm sure of it."
"It's hard to believe it's been almost two months."
"Yeah... it is."
Two Months Earlier… Secondary Timeline
He stood there, sweating. It was the middle of spring and he needed money so there he was, standing at the street corner, hoping for handouts. It didn't help that everything had gone wrong a year before when his mother was arrested and thrown in jail and he had nowhere else to go. So he ditched town and headed north.
Life throws you down strange paths, as he would find out later that day. He knew that already. He also knew not to trust anybody. There's no one in the world that can help him but himself. He realized that. That made it all the more infuriating when a motorcycle pulled up in the parking lot behind him and the rider got off, putting the helmet back on the bike. The rider, a tall man with a round chin and jet black hair, walked toward him out of curiosity.
"You been standing out here long, kid?" he asked. The kid turned around and looked at him.
"I'm not a kid. What do you want?"
"You want something to eat?"
The kid accepted and a few minutes later, he was scarfing down a burrito from Qdoba while the man was only halfway done with his. "You look like you haven't had one of those in a while."
"No, eating out is too expensive. Don't you live on your own?"
"Nope, still live with my dad. I'm trying to move up here, though. You?"
"My mom's in jail and I never knew my dad."
The man nodded in understanding. "My parents divorced when I was twelve. The mum ran off with a loser and left us. Haven't seen her in years."
"I'm sorry."
"Sounds like your situation's worse. You live with relatives?"
"No way, man. My cousins are insane. There's no way I could live with them."
The man smiled upon hearing that. "Large family?"
"Oh no. I just have three cousins as far as I know, all girls."
"So, where are you living at?"
"Varies from day to day. Last night I slept under a park bench. In the winter, I usually find a Wal-Mart bathroom stall or fitting room to sleep in. Sometimes I sneak into 24-hour Fitness in the middle of the night when there's absolutely nobody there. Plus, that way, I get a shower in the morning."
"That really sucks."
"It's a sucky world."
"I live in the Springs and when I move out, there's gonna be an extra room in my house. I want you to have it."
"Huh?" The boy asked before biting out of his burrito again. "You talked to me for only a couple minutes and you want me to stay at your house? What's the catch?"
"There is none. Chances are: my dad would love to have you. I have a couple of younger brothers too. I'm sure you'd get along."
"How do you know I won't steal something and run away?"
"Would you?"
"No."
"Then there isn't a worry."
"Again, I don't trust you."
The man nodded. "Okay, it's your loss. Still, if you change your mind or you'd like a place to stay when I'm finally up here, I'll probably be around. My name's Derek, by the way."
The boy nodded. The thought was tempting, but he did not trust anybody. As Derek left, he thought of all the betrayals he had already had while living on his own. Then someone sat down in front of him.
"What do you want?" the boy asked before glancing up at the figure in front of him, a man in a labcoat with brown hair split combed to both sides and circular sunglasses. That was when the boy recognized him, causing the boy's eyes to widen in shock.
"Would you like a better life, my son?"
Primary Timeline
The final strike on the smaller team of tamers was underway and Lee Kanker didn't understand why they had a non-Tamer with them. The boy did absolutely nothing as they raided the place, defeating whatever enemy they encountered. They had already beaten Reichmon and were headed into the next room. The Mega-class Hybrid-level warrior digimon was a piece of cake, and his defeat was most satisfying. The girl was surprised, however, to find another pair of Megas in the next room.
One was an angel digimon in white and yellow armor, Lee recognized him as ClavisAngemon. The other was a black-armored android. This one was clearly HiAndromon. SincewhendidtheygetalltheseMegas? Lee asked herself as she and her partner prepared for Digivolution. "Biomerge Activate!"
"BlackTailmon biomerge to… Lilithmon."
Her teammate, a pale-skinned boy with black hair and two partners wasted no time either. "Biomerge Activate!" He chose the stronger of the two, the mantis-like Arkadimon, due to the other's weaknesses against holy digimon being a PicoDevimon. The digimon that he merged with didn't change names as it changed forms, simply transforming into Arkadimon Mega. The pair dispatched the enemy duo with ease and soon there were two defeated tamers and their digimon on the ground.
"Jesse, I thought better of you than to lose to me," the pale-skinned boy commented to one of the defeated tamers, a brown-haired guy who was on the ground in pain next to his partner, one big gear and two small ones, named Hagurumon. He didn't say anything, because he didn't want to. His teammate was simply knocked out next to a flying purple rodent, Tsukaimon.
Jesse just looked at the enemy tamers' accomplice with disbelief as he walked on by before collapsing into the ground and being carried off by a pair of soldiers.
"You girls stay here!" another brown-haired boy, this one muscular, told two girls, one a brunette with long hair and one black-haired.
"You can't do this," the black-haired girl said.
"I need to, to buy you time. Terriermon?"
"Yep?" his partner, a cross between a dog and a bunny asked.
"You with me on this?"
"You know it, Robert."
Robert turned to the two girls. "Best of luck. Find the others and warn them."
"Robert, please…" the brunette pleaded.
"No. I have to do this." Robert pressed on the button to the escape pod and the hatch closed, leaving him to deal with the enemies coming their way.
"You know we can't even become Mega, right?" Terriermon asked.
"You know we can…" Just then, Robert saw Arkadimon and Lilithmon go around the corner and felt his connection with the terrier grow far stronger. "Biomerge activate."
"Terriermon Biomerge to…" Tamer and digimon became one as Robert felt himself fuse with Terriermon. The digimon turned into a giant android dog with green armor that stood on two feet. The dog had large guns on each of his arms as well as a pair of yellow missiles with dog faces on them. "SaintGalgomon!"
SaintGalgomon immediately went on the offensive, launching both his missiles and shooting his guns at Arkadimon. He figured that even if he went down, he would at least try to take the strongest of his enemies down with him. Then he saw him. No, he saw himself watching on from past the two enemy Megas that were taking on his onslaught of missiles and bullets.
It felt wrong. Who was that? Did his dad decide to clone him or something?
Yet there he was, facing himself.
Edd led his team to the last coordinates of the other tamers' Blimpmon. It was gone, though it obviously crashed beforehand. There were too many questions going through the boy's mind as he glanced over the area. His team, consisting of Nazz, Ed, May, Jonny, a girl named Abby and a boy named Garrett investigated the crash site: their last known location.
"Dude, still nothing," Nazz coming up from behind him. "There's a chance that they may have ejected an escape pod. Zeppelinmon picked up an exhaust trail but that disappeared about ten kilometers away with no sign of it."
"Keep searching. We have to find the others," Edd ordered.
"Don't you think we should leave," another girl asked. This time it was a brunette with blue-rimmed glasses. She had Jonny 2x4 by her side.
"No, we should stay until we get some answers," Edd insisted. "Jonny!"
"What is it, Double D?" The dark-skinned boy asked.
"I'm going to need you to take a group over to the end of the escape pod's exhaust trail."
"Alright, Double D! Want to come with, Abby?" he asked the brown-haired girl enthusiastically.
"Uh, sure, do you want to bring somebody else while we're at it?"
"Uh…" Jonny looked around at the others. "Any volunteers?"
With that, a pudgy brown-haired boy raised his hand. His hair was curly, he had blue eyes and he was wearing an orange long-sleeved shirt. He also had an annoying smile, at least according to Abby.
"Okay, Garrett! Come along!" Jonny and his partner, Monodramon. "This is going to be great, right Monodramon?"
"I guess. Doesn't Abby want to avoid that Garrett guy?"
"She does?"
Abby quickly followed Jonny along with her partner, Lopmon. Garrett also headed after them.
"So, how's it going?" Garrett asked Abby in his usual nasally sounding voice. She found it his least attractive physical trait.
"Oh, not too bad. I just gotta catch up with Jonny." She started to make a break for the black kid while Garrett followed.
"Well, now that that's taken care of, what else have you figured out about this?" Edd asked. The rest of the team just shrugged.
"There had to be at least one Mega on the other team," May guessed.
"That is an excellent assumption. With the strength of Reichmon and ClavisAngemon, said Mega or Megas had to be extremely powerful. Unfortunately, we don't have any clues as to who they could be. The digimon that they fought aboard was destroyed and there's no wreckage to salvage.
"Maybe it's Damien's doing," Nazz suggested. "I mean, who else?"
"Yet, we also have numerous other enemies. Due to our journey through El País Occidental, the Triple Alliance sees us as a threat."
Then they heard a loud explosion. The culprit behind said explosion, Arkadimon Mega, appeared.
"Then again, maybe Damien was a good guess after all…" Double D said, pulling out his digivice.
"There's nothing here, guys," Jonny said as they reached the end of their journey with the help of their champion level digimon.
"Then maybe we should head back," Abby said. "This is so weird."
"Anything, Leomon?" Garrett asked.
"No, absolutely nothing is amiss other than the disappearance of that escape pod." The forest they were in was rather thick and there were no noises.
Then something struck each of their digimon, causing them to devolve. "What was that?" Lopmon asked.
"That was my doing," a female voice said from behind. Lilithmon. "Hello," the goddess of darkness greeted.
"Great… Elecmon! Ready to attempt a biomerge?"
"Uh…" The red and purple rabbit didn't know what to say. "I would, but…"
"Come on, Biomerge Activate!" Garrett held out his digivice. Nothing happened. "Oh, for the love of…"
"It's pretty obvious that none of you weaklings can become Megas," Lee said from inside Lilithmon. "Still, killing you would just be too easy. Robert!"
A brown-haired boy came out from the trees along with a digimon, Terriermon. "No…" Garrett said, his eyes getting wide.
"Hi, I'm Robert. I'm not sure if I've met you."
"Of course we have! It was at Eddy's funeral!"
"Hmph, I must have forgotten about that. Oh well. Terriermon! Attack the Elecmon first!"
Terriermon just stood there. "What did I say?"
"Oh well, if you want, I can just kill them right away," Lilithmon yelled out. "Empress Embrace!" summoning a twisted being of darkness and aimed it above the others, destroying a massive section of the forest in the process.
"Let's get out of here!" Jonny yelled out, grabbing Monodramon and running. The other two followed suit.
"Come on, cousin, if you want to prove yourself against our enemies, go after them. I'll help deal with the others."
Robert nodded and ran after the three tamers.
It turned out that Arkadimon didn't need any help. The tamers were all defeated and Zeppelinmon had been destroyed. Almost all. "Wasn't there some hot blonde chick here by any chance?" Damien asked from inside Arkadimon.
"I sent her away," Edd said, shaking and determined.
"Oh, drat, we'll just have to find her then, won't we?"
Nazz ran as quickly as she could with Lillymon trailing behind. The procedure she was now following was set by her and Edd towards the beginning of their current journey. Now, however, there was a slight change in it.
She was supposed to find Zack.
She sent him a message but didn't get one back. Lillymon was carrying her along at as quick a pace as she could manage and at a low altitude so they couldn't be seen.
Unfortunately, the fact that the plan was conceived by her and Edd before didn't make things any easier. In fact, they made them harder since she was practically leaving behind all her friends.
Eventually, they stopped for the night and Nazz checked her digivice for a message. She didn't get one back, which really worried her. Something had to have happened to the boy.
That realization made the girl all the more depressed.
"What's going on, Nazz?" Lillymon asked.
Nazz didn't speak. Instead, she sat there as the darkness enveloped them and brought them to another world.
It would be several days before she met up with another tamer.
A/N: Yeah, that was short. Oh well. It set the stage far better than the prologue for the previous incarnation of Ragnarök, though. Wait till you see what's next.
Part of my plans for this is to only focus on a few characters for the first part and develop them. These characters are mainly ones that were introduced in the first story, but never had much of a part, including Jonny and Rolf (the latter helps defeat the first major enemy of this storyline and also knows another method of Digivolution. More info in a couple chapters.) Also, I left the fates of a couple more characters ambiguous.