The area was bathed in darkness. From within the darkness a single yellow shined brightly, before a large monitor in the room came to life, bringing up a large outline of a compound, which was square-like in nature. There was a title over blueprints, named Fort Sill.
A semi-mechanized voice laughed calmly. "Soon my plans will become complete."
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Infantry Diaries
Chapter 01: Drafted
Part of Lord Archives Diaries Universe, used with permission.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, nor do I own the Diaries universe, nor did I create the Okalahoma Digidestened. This disclaimer is valid for the entire story.
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Eleven-year-old Hank Thomas blinked, a look of confusion clearly evident in his gray eyes. The young boy had dark brown hair, and was dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and pants with a pattern that mimicked army fatigues. The boy looked around, noticing that he was in the middle of a large city where everything looked like an old skyscraper from those post-apocalypse sci-fi movies. Twisted and broken pieces of metal and glass were scattered everywhere.
Hank had no idea how he got into this ruined city, all he remembered was walking home and having a weird device appear in front of him before it emitted some weird bluish-white light, and then he was at this city. It didn't make sense.
"Where are we?" A girl's voice shouted. Hank turned around, and he noticed that a girl around his age standing behind him. She had light brown hair that went down to her shoulders, tied back in a ponytail. She was wearing a dark black shirt and green cargo pants. Her eyes were light green. She was holding something in her hand, but all that Hank could get a glimpse of was some type of silver metal.
"I don't know." Hank replied honestly, turning around to face her. "But it looks like it's a city."
"I know that!" The girl yelled. "Who are you anyway?" she asked.
"Hank Thomas." Hank replied, before turning away from the girl and looking for anyone else that may have been in the city.
"I'm Jessica." The girl introduced herself. "The last thing I remember is some weird device that appeared out of thin air let out some weird light." Hank's eyes widened and he turned towards her again.
"You too?" he asked, clearly thinking about something. It was at that moment that he realized that he was holding something in his right hand. Hank looked down and opened his palm to see that he was holding the device that sent out that light in the first place.
The device was shaped like a hexagon, and was covered in silver metal. An LCD screen was located in the center, and two buttons were on the right side of the screen, while a single button was located to the left of the screen. A short black antenna was sticking out of the top left side, and some weird symbols around the screen.
Hank looked back up at Jessica. "Is this the device that you saw appear?" he asked, holding his up for her to see. The girl widened.
"It is!" Jessica exclaimed, loosing her grip on whatever was in her hand, causing it to fall to the ground. Both Hank and Jessica looked down and saw that she was carrying a device that was identical to the one that Hank had in his hand. Jessica bent down to pick it up.
'Why do I have this?' Jessica thought, turning back towards Hank, a confused look on her face. The boy just shrugged, and turned towards his device, pressing a button on the device. The screen came to life as two red dots appeared close together on the screen, one of them in the dead center of it. Hawk's eyes narrowed in thought. On a hunch, Hank took a few steps away from Jessica, noticing that one of the dots moved away from the dot in the center.
"Where are you going?" Jessica shouted, running to catch up with Hank.
"I was just testing something." Hank answered honestly. "Turns out these devices have some sort of tracking system on them."
Jessica blinked. "What do you mean?" she asked.
"Press the button on the left of the screen." Hank instructed. Jessica blinked, before doing so. Her eyes widened when two red dots appeared on her screen, one of them in the center. The other one was moving away. Jessica looked up to see Hank walking away from her.
Hank then stopped once he noticed that Jessica had begun following him again. Hank pressed the top right button, and the two dots became smaller, while three more red dots appeared on the screen, clumped together, but a considerable distance from the center dot. Hank pressed the button two more times, the dots getting smaller each time. He pressed it a third time, and the dots returned to the size they were in before he pressed the top button, the later three of the red dots vanishing.
"I think I figured out the range on this thing." Hank commented. "Press the top right button." Hank pressed it again, returning his devices tracker to the second setting.
"Three more dots appeared." Jessica stated. "Do you think those dots could be other people?" she asked.
"I think so." Hank answered, turning towards Jessica. "Why don't we go find them?" Hank asked. "It beats standing around here alone." Hank looked down at the device, noticing that the three dots were staying stationary.
"Let's go." Jessica said, walking past Hank. Hank shrugged and began to follow her. She had her gaze focused solely on the device in her hand. Hank only occasionally looked down at his device, but kept looking around the ruined city.
'What happened to cause this?' Hank thought as he stepped over a piece of twisted metal. 'Is this Lawton?'
"I wonder who those other people are." Jessica said they continued walking. "I wonder if we come from the same town. Where are you from anyway?"
"Fort Sill." Hank answered truthfully. Jessica stopped walking for a second.
"I'm surprised. That's near where I come from. I live in Lawton." She said.
'I'm not that surprised.' Hank thought. He was about to say something in response to Jessica's answer, but then he thought he heard something. Hank turned around, but he didn't see anything.
"Did you hear anything Jessica?" Hank asked. Jessica stopped walking, and turned towards him.
"No. Is something wrong?" Jessica asked. Hank looked around.
"I guess not." Hank said, although he didn't sound sure of himself. At all.
"JESSICA!" A female voice shouted from around the group. Jessica paled and turned towards the voice, only to have a red and blue blur speed into her knocking her to the ground. The red and blue blur turned out to be some odd four-legged creature with red fur that had blue streaks in it. It had a tail that seemed to be similar to a spread peacock's tail, only it was not made out of feathers.
Jessica stared at the creature that was standing on her stomach. "I've finally found you!" the creature shouted, her blue eyes seeming to light up with happiness. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"…Why her?" Hank asked, before looking around for anything else. As such, he wasn't really that surprised when a robot beetle made out of gray metal flew up and hovered in front of him.
"Are you Hank?" the creature asked in a polite tone. It had red eyes, and its hands were two of those robotic arms that could be used to pick up stuff. Two electric plugs extended out of its chest underneath its arms, and its arms and legs were connected to its body by red wires.
"Umm…yes." Hank answered. The creature's mechanical mouth moved into a slight smile.
"I am glad that I found you." The creature stated. "My name is Kokuwamon, and I have been waiting for you my entire life." Hank blinked.
"…Okay. And what about that?" Hank asked, pointing to the creature that was on Jessica's stomach, much to the protest of the human girl underneath her.
Kokuwamon turned his head towards the furred creature. "That's Elecmon. She's been searching for someone for about as long as I've been searching for you. There are other digimon in similar positions to us."
Hank blinked. "You mean Jessica?" Kokuwamon blinked.
"Yes. I have heard Elecmon mentioning that name before." The small robot digimon answered, before landing on the ground near the pair of girl and digimon.
"You may want to let her get up Elecmon." Kokuwamon advised. Elecmon jumped off of Jessica, who quickly moved backwards to get away, before pulling herself off of the ground. She moved back towards Hank.
"What are they?" she asked, very nearly pointing at the two creatures.
"We're digimon!" Elecmon said.
"What are 'digimon'?" Jessica asked skeptically.
"We are digimon, otherwise known as Digital Monsters." Kokuwamon said.
"Kokuwamon and I have been waiting for you for a long time. There are other digimon looking for others as well." Elecmon said.
"Benjamin should know more about it." Kokuwamon said. "He sure looks like these digimon, even if he does seem to be at a much higher level."
Hank and Jessica blinked. "We aren't digimon." Hank finally said after a moment.
"We're human beings." Jessica added.
Elecmon blinked. "What are human beings?" Jessica blinked.
"Where on Earth are we anyway?" she asked, changing the subject. Kokuwamon turned towards Hank.
"What is Earth?" the small robot asked. Hank gawked in disbelief.
"How can you not know what Earth is?" the boy shouted.
"I have never heard of this Earth." Kokuwamon stated flatly. "Where in the Digital World is it?"
"What's the Digital World?" Jessica asked. Hank looked down at his device.
"Those other three dots have started moving away from us." Hank said. "It would be a good idea for us to go after them, and then try to figure out where we are."
Hank started walking away, and Kokuwamon flew up to Hank's eye level and flew after him. Jessica and Elecmon followed soon after.
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Eleven-year-old Bobby Raven looked around at the destroyed city he had found himself in, he especially felt confusion at the pink bird flying in front of him. Which was understandable, considering he was randomly thrown in a destroyed city and now had a weird flying creature in front of him. "Who are you again?" Bobby asked. He had short blond hair, and was wearing a green T-shirt and blue jeans.
"I'm Piyomon!" the flying bird answered. "And I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Bobby's hazel eyes blinked.
"What's this about waiting for me?" Bobby asked, Piyomon's explanation obviously failing to clear anything up.
"I'm not to clear on this either." Another boy, named Rick McCross looked at a black circular creature with two legs and wearing a mask with a skull emblem and wings coming out of its head. "Pico Devimon hasn't been explaining things to me any better than Piyomon has." Rick was dressed in a black shirt and black pants.
A young nine-year-old girl was looking in at an odd device in her hand. She had black hair and blue eyes, like Rick did. Her hair went down to her neck. "Those two dots that I saw on this thing are coming closer." A green plant creature with purple leaves coming out of its head was at her side. This girl was Lisa McCross, Rick's younger sister.
"Do you think we should run?" Pico Devimon asked.
"I don't think that's a good idea. They could be like them." This creature was named Alraumon, and it spoke with a female voice.
"No." Bobby and Lisa said at the same time. They both turned their heads to look at each other.
"Alarumon might be right." Lisa said. Bobby turned his head away.
"Besides, we can protect you if we need to." Alarumon stated. "Unless Nanomon attacks us."
Rick's eyes narrowed. "Who's Nanomon?" he asked.
Before anyone could answer his question, Kokuwamon walked into view from behind a large pile of debris. Alarumon, Pico Devimon, and Piyomon braced themselves for a fight, but then Elecmon walked into view behind him, and they relaxed.
"Good to see you Elecmon." Piyomon said, before turning his attention towards Kokuwamon. "Is this the machine digimon that's not under Nanomon's control?"
Elecmon nodded. "Yes. We've also found Hank and Jessica." Rick looked at the small digimon.
"There are more people here?" Rick asked. "As in, more humans?"
Hank and Jessica walked into view just as he said that. Lisa placed her digivice on the waistband of her pants.
Jessica blinked. "Let me guess. Strange device and odd creature claiming to be waiting for you?"
"Yep." Bobby answered. Rick and Lisa nodded.
Hank looked around the group, especially eyeing the Digimon. "Do any of you have any idea as to why we're here?"
Bobby shook his head. "Not a clue." Before anyone else could add anything to the conversation, a large metallic creature flew overhead. Piyomon looked up at it.
"That's a Mecha Norimon!" Piyomon exclaimed, before turning towards Bobby. "Run!" Piyomon then started flying away from the group. The other digimon soon followed him. Lisa looked around in confusion, looking up at Mecha Norimon, who landed right by the children.
Mecha Norimon's torso was square shaped with a red orb in the center of it. It had two arms and legs, and a large engine was sticking out of its back. There was a blue tinted dome on the top of it. Two eyes were slightly below that, hidden in a mask. Most of its metal was chrome colored.
"What is that?" Hank asked. "Is it some type of armored vehicle?" Mecha Norimon turned towards him as he said that, before looking at the other four humans and the five digimon.
"FIVE UNIDENTIFIED INTRUDERS DETECTED. FIVE KNOWN INSURGENTS LOCATED. ACTIVATING EXTERMINATION MODE." Mecha Norimon stated in a flat emotionless voice.
Hank's eyes widened. "Run!" Hank turned around and started running. Rick moved over and grabbed Lisa's hand before dragging her away from Mecha Norimon, following Hank and the Digimon. Jessica needed no prompting in order to run away, and Bobby ran after her.
Mecha Norimon took to the air and chased after the group, fire escaping from the engine device on his back. The red orb in the center of his chest started glowing red.
"TWINKLE BEAM." Mecha Norimon called out. A blood red beam of energy shot out of the robotic digimon's 'core', headed towards the group. Hank looked back and saw the beam.
"Scatter!" Hank shouted, jumping out of the way of the beam. Rick grabbed Lisa by the waist and dodged to the side, while Bobby and Jessica did the same. They were all thankful for that as the attack created an explosion when it came into contact with the ground. The five children looked back at the ground in shock. The crater encompassed the entire width of the space between two buildings.
Lisa moved back in fear, her body shaking. Bobby looked around, noticing that the Digimon had turned back. Piyomon flew up towards his side.
"What are you still doing here?" Piyomon shouted. "Run!"
But Bobby wasn't moving. Jessica stood next to him, looking over at Mecha Norimon, who had turned towards Hank. The red orb was glowing once again.
"TWINKLE---"
"Stun Shock!" A golden bolt of electricity shot off from behind Hank and slammed into Mecha Norimon's 'core', pushing the large digimon back a few inches.
Kokuwamon suddenly flew over Hank's head and landed in front of him. "Hank, please run from here." Golden lighting coursed over the top of his head. "Stun Shock!" Another bolt of lighting slammed into Mecha Norimon's core. Two bits of lighting appeared around Kowuwamon's hands.
The small metallic beetle then flew forth towards Mecha Norimon. "Scissor Arms Mini!" Kokwuamon thrust his arms forward, slamming aiming for Mecha Norimon's core.
But the large machine digimon moved, causing the lighting charged arms to slam harmlessly against steel. Mecha Norimon then used his arm to slap Kokuwamon into the wall of a nearby building.
Hank's eyes widened as he looked around for anything that could be used as a weapon. Despite the broken condition of the city, there was nothing that he could use to attack Mecha Norimon anywhere on the ground.
"Where's a broken pipe when you need one?" Hank shouted. Mecha Norimon turned to face him, the red orb glowing again. Hank's eyes widened.
"Run Hank!" Jessica screamed.
"HANK!" Kokuwamon's voice boomed, as Hank felt something begin to move in his hand, before his hand opened and bright bluish-white light shot out of his device. The light slammed into Kokuwamon, who was still embedded in the wall.
Kokuwamon started glowing the same color as the light. He suddenly broke out of the wall and sped forward, before landing in front of and facing Hank.
"TWINKLE BEAM." Mecha Norimon said, firing off his red energy blast.
"Kokuwamon Evolve!" Kokuwamon shouted as the light surrounding him glowed brighter, extending into a pillar. When the light subsided, a large crimson robot was standing in the robotic insects place. "GUARDROMON."
Hank looked on in surprise as he saw the new digimon. Then his eyes widened even more as Mecha Norimon's red beam of energy slammed into the robot's back. Guardromon staggered forward slightly, before turning towards Mecha Norimon.
"TARGET ACQUIRED." Guardromon stated as he raised his arms. "DESTRUCTION GRENADE." A pair of missiles that had eyes on their warheads shot out of the robot's forearms, slamming into Mecha Norimon's torso, the resulting explosions knocking it back.
"What's going on?" Jessica asked.
"Kokuwamon evolved to his Adult level." Elecmon said. Jessica turned towards the striped digimon.
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
An engine on Guardromon's back ignited as the robot digimon charged towards Mecha Norimon, raising one of his arms. "WARNING LASER." This time a gun-like device rose out of the forearm, shooting of a red beam of energy that struck Mecha Norimon in the arm.
Mecha Norimon fell back into the ground, and Guardromon jumped up onto the machine digimon's chest, pointing his arm down towards Mecha Norimon's 'core'. "WARNING LASER." This time laser after laser shot off from Guardromon's forearm blaster into Mecha Norimon's core, before the last one shot through the digimon.
Mecha Norimon stayed frozen for a second, before bursting into black specks. Guardromon glowed white before he shrank back into Kokuwamon.
Hank looked at the robotic beetle digimon. "What the hell did you just do?"
"I evolved into my adult level and killed Mecha Norimon." Kokuwamon answered simply.
Hank looked thoughtful for a second.
"You killed him?" Jessica asked in shock. Kokuwamon nodded.
"As long as we're alive, that's all that matters." Hank said, turning towards the other humans and digimon. "Now let's get out of here before more of those guys show up."
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Author's Notes:
This story is part of Lord Archives Diaries universe, which is a massive Digimon Adventure AU taking place during a large part of the Digimon Adventure timeline. This is the story of the Oklahoma team of Digidestend, which a rather established in the storyline. The authors of the AU can be found here:
www. Fanfiction . net. /the diaries guild
Just remember to remove the spaces. And unlike my other stories, Infantry Diaries will continue to have Author's notes located in the chapter itself.