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Walk This World
By Toxic Picnic
Ch. 3. Separate Secrets
Takato scowled inwardly. After Davis, Veemon, Kenta, and Kazu had been pulled into the Data Stream the rest of the group had stopped. They had to decide what they would do, continue on to find Calumon or look for Davis.
"We have to go after Davis. His D3 doesn't work and Kazu and Kenta don't have any Digimon Partners to help." Jeri argued.
"He's been in worse situations and come out unscathed." Henry shot back.
"Example?" Rika put in.
"Blackwargreymon, Daemon, and Malomyotismon!"
"He didn't fight any of them yet, remember."
".Oh yeah. I forgot."
"Guys, I think we should continue to search for Calumon. Davis isn't stupid. He knows if he just gets down and waits it out we'll eventually find him."
"How can you say that Takato? This isn't some kind of game! This is the real deal! There are real predators out there and they won't hesitate to take out Davis and the rest." Rika yelled.
"It would be cruel to leave someone undefended in the Digital World. They wouldn't last a week!" Leomon argued.
Henry stood up. "All who want to go search for Kazu, Kenta, Davis, and Veemon raise your hand now." He told them. Everyone slowly raised their hands. Even Takato in a defeated sort of way.
"Okay, it's settled. Let's go." Renamon said. And they set off, a new quarry in mind.
"Davis what's wrong?" Grumbled the huge Veedramon.
"Oh.Nothing." Davis lied in a distant voice. Veedramon stopped walking.
"I know when something wrong, and something's wrong. So what's wrong?"
"Uh, well." He stole a quick glance at Kazu and Kenta who looked intently at him.
"It's just that when you fought DarkTyrannomon you weren't yourself. I mean you actually killed him. Then what. I'm just confused. I don't understand any of what's happening here." Davis explained.
"I'm sorry Davis. It's just that I couldn't help it. If you were hurt because I didn't finish him off I couldn't live with myself." Veeedramon said.
"Well what happened after that? Did you absorb his data or something?" Davis inquired.
"Exactly!" Kenta explained. "See, in this world when a Digimon is deleted the one who deleted it has the power to absorb its data. Doing that doesn't change how the Digimon sees the world or anything like that, it just makes it stronger."
"One last question. Why did you Digivolve to Veedramon. Why not Exveemon?" Veedramon shrugged. "I don't know. It just happened. Probably something to do with the type of Digivice used."
"OK." Davis said as he looked up. "Wow, this is a great view from all the way up here. Thanks pal."
"No problem." Veedramon told the figures on top of his head. At that moment there was a terrible laughter. Veedramon and the others looked over to see a humanoid Digimon staring at them. He had metal on his face and a metal chain wrapped around him. Blue fire surrounded him. Davis whipped out his D-Power and the Digimon scanner came up.
"Skullmeremon. An ultimate level Digimon. His attack is Metal Fireball."
"Your data is mine." Snarled the ultimate. Veedramon grabbed Kazu, Kenta, and Davis then set them down. He quickly charged up the Vee Nova Blast. Skullmeremon extended his hand and launched his attack.
"Vee Nova Blast!"
"Metal Fireball!"
Both Digimon attacked at the same time. The metal fireball crashed through Veedramon's attack. It continued on to Veedramon who managed to put his arms in a blocking position. He was knocked back and splayed out on the ground. Skullmeremon walked over to Veedramon and stepped on his chest to pin him down. Once again he thrust his arm out and prepared to attack.
"Desolation Claw!" Skullmeremon was smashed forward and fell on the other side of Veedramon. A gray blur suddenly streaked by landed on Skullmeremon's chest.
"Desolation Claw!" The beast kept slashing at his chest. Soon Skullmeremon couldn't resist if he wanted to.
"Cyberdramon! Stop!" A voice yelled. Davis swiveled to turn towards the voice. A tall boy with brown hair, and strange looking clothes was striding towards the beast called Cyberdramon. Cyberdramon didn't head though. He kept slashing and tearing ferociously in a frenzied attempt to kill Skullmeremon. The boy pulled out his D-Power with a sigh.
"Cyberdramon, OBEY!" He pushed a button on the device and thrust it forward. A blue beam shot out and attached itself to a metal implant on Cyberdramon's arm. At once the Digimon stopped trying to destroy the fallen ultimate and began tugging on the beam. He seemed to be in pain. He roared a few times before backing off and jumping off of Skullmeremon.
Cyberdramon was surprisingly small for an ultimate. Most ultimates that Davis saw were big and intimidating. This one definitely hit the intimidating part with his huge teeth and vicious claws, but was far from big. Sure, compared to Davis he was about twice his height, but Skullmeremon was a medium sized ultimate and he was triple the size of Cyberdramon. What he lacked in size though he made up for in strength. Skullmeremon managed to flip his body over. He began to crawl away, which caused Cyberdramon to growl angrily. He knew better though than to disobey his master though.
When the newcomer was sure that Cyberdramon wasn't going to go attack Skullmeremon he turned to the group. Veedramon had reverted back to Veemon, who looked pretty beat up.
"Hi, you looked like you were in real trouble back there." The boy said with an air of great confidence. Kazu and Kenta looked like they were temporarily dumbstruck.
"Are you.are you?" Kazu stuttered.
"Am I, what?" The new person asked.
"THE Great Ryo." Kenta followed up.
"Well, I don't know abou-" Ryo started but never finished. Kazu and Kenta suddenly went into a rant about every Digimon Card Tournament he had won. Somewhere in the middle of it Davis jerked himself out his stupefied look and held out his hand to Ryo.
"I'm Davis. Nice to meet your." Ryo had barely grabbed his hand and began to shake it when Davis' hand was slapped out of Ryo's grip.
"I'm Kazu. It's great to meet you oh Great Ryo." Kazu barely got the chance to shake his hand when Kenta butted in and grabbed Ryo's hand.
"I'm Kenta, can I have your autograph?" He yelped joyously.
"Take it easy guys." Ryo scratched the back of his head. Skullmeremon was now completely concealed in the woods.
"Say, why don't we head to a nearby camping spot. It's pretty isolated so we don't have to worry about being attacked. Then you can tell me all about you guys." Ryo suggested. It sounded like a pretty good idea so they all agreed to it and set off. The day, as suddenly as usual, changed to night at that exact moment.
Skullmeremon dragged himself further into the forest, trying desperately to get away from that demon which had attacked him. His legs didn't work anymore after being shredded to pieces. They were scratched up and almost bursting into data. But Skullmeremon wouldn't dare give up. Not if he wanted to avoid punishment from The Master. His fear of The Master seemed to extend beyond death. He feared being punished more than being deleted. Skullmeremon's arms grew tired. He pulled himself to the base of a large tree and sat with his back against it. A Crowmon, a little black bird Digimon with multicolored head feathers, watched him with interest for a moment before continuing foraging for food. If he was going to get well again he would have to delete other Digimon to reenergize himself. Skullmeremon held his hand up near the Crowmon. He bent his hand in a flicking position just as Crowmon looked up. WHAMM! The Crowmon slammed into a nearby tree nearly deleting it. Skullmeremon was just about to finish him off when a high pitched screech resounded from nearby. What Skullmeremon saw made his stomach clench. The ultimate form of Crowmon, Raptordramon, was staring at him. Raptordramon were a lot more dangerous than Crowmon. They had orangish scaly skin, a metal breastplate like Metalgreymon, huge claws, and piercing red eyes. The way they fought with such viciousness it was scary. With blinding speed the Raptordramon charged and dug its claw toes into Skullmeremon's hand as he raised it. Skullmeremon yelled, grabbed the Raptordramon, and threw it. It fell back into the dark forest, its red eyes staring menacingly at him. Suddenly another pair of red eyes flared into life, and then another. Before he knew what was happening he was surrounded by Raptordramon. Skullmeremon was just able to scream before the whole clan regained their nesting ground by clashing in and deleting him in just a few seconds. The evil Digimon's scream was silenced by the dozens of triumphant roars everywhere. The clan leader picked up the dying Crowmon and held him out to Skullmeremon's data. The data turned blue and directed itself into Crowmon. There was a sudden flash of white light and Crowmon was replaced by his much bigger champion form, Ravendrimon. The clan roared in delight and was joined by a flock of Crowmon, Ravendrimon, and the new Ravendrimon.
The blood curdling shriek of Raptordramon pierced the night. Davis looked back from the warm fire behind him to see if anything was there.
"Don't worry about it." Ryo said. "There's nothing to be afraid of as long as Cyberdramon is here." He patted his partner who growled in a dignified sort of way. They had set up a fire right before Veemon dozed off to sleep. Kazu and Kenta had soon followed on his example and fell asleep. Davis had quietly told Ryo about his home world. The other sat pondering it for a long time before speaking.
"Well it certainly is possible. I mean, if this world exists then it's definitely possible for another one completely different from this one to exist. Although it does seem weird that you're a TV character where I come from." Davis nodded.
"But why am I here?" He asked. "Is there a purpose for me or am I just the victim of some random accident."
"It seems likely that there's a reason," Ryo said thoughtfully "because dimensional travel seems too unlikely to be an accident." Davis had to agree with him. It seems extremely unlikely that he had slipped between dimensions by a fluke. He decided that such things could be thought about in the morning and slowly closed his eyes. He could still hear the crackle of the fire as he drifted off to sleep.
Takato sat warming himself at a fire some distance away from Davis'. They had moved into a cooler part of the Digital World, plus the nights dropped the degrees by about 10 Celsius. Everyone else was sleeping peacefully, well almost everyone.
"Can't sleep, eh Takato?" Takato started as Jeri's voice came from behind him. He swiveled around to see her smiling face.
"Yeah." He replied while turning away.
"What's on your mind?" She asked sweetly. Normally Takato wouldn't have said anything, but he had a soft spot for the girl.
"Well, I'm worried about Davis. I mean he just showed up two days ago, and he's being thrown into the mix without any time to get ready for it. It's kinda scary." He explained nervously. Jeri nodded in agreement.
"I know what you mean. I'd be afraid if this was happening to me. It's lucky that he has the Crest of Courage." Jeri smiled lightly.
"But now's not the time for that. Now is the time for sleeping." She stated before bidding him goodnight. He replied with his own before laying down to rest, with the worries lessened on his mind.
Davis awoke slowly. He had been having such a nice dream. He was back on his world, and everyone was glad to see him again. He was tempted to roll over and return to the dream-world, but the sun was shining in his eyes and he decided to get up.
'No point in dwelling on false dreams.' He thought to himself. He stood up to see Veemon, Kazu, and Kenta still sleeping.
Ryo and Cyberdramon were nowhere to be found. Davis decided to stretch and take a walk around. He strode around their campsite for a little bit before stopping at a rock.
"Where are Ryo and Cyberdramon?" He muttered to himself. He glanced down at the boulder to see something that caught his eye. There was a hole in the ground near the boulder. It looked deep too, like some kind of underground cavern. Davis crouched down to examine the hole. Before he could react, or even move the ground beneath him crumbled falling into the chamber beneath him taking both him and the boulder. He fell for a second before landing hard on the stone. He looked up just in time to see the huge boulder land right above his head.
'That was too close.' He thought. Davis stood up with some difficulty, he was sore from the fall. The first thing he noticed was the huge mural on the wall. There were some pictures and runes that obviously told some kind of prophecy. There wasn't anything else interesting about the place. Davis inspected the mural a little closer. He saw that the paint was fairly worn away, but still distinguishable. In fact, in one of the pictures he saw a person who looked remarkably like.himself? No it couldn't be. He must have still been a bit dazed from the fall. His thoughts were intruded upon by a big blue hand on his shoulder however. Davis jumped and whirled around. He stared at the figure for a moment before shutting his eyes and rubbing them. When he opened them he saw the same figure. Tall, with shining gold armor and blue scaly skin the Digimon said in a soft voice "Davis." Davis was completely stunned by what he was seeing. There was no way that he could be here. Davis' voice quivered as he addressed the incredible creature, "Magnamon?"
Author Notes: I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed my story. This isn't possible without you. And I'm sorry for not updating in a LONG time. I get tied up you know. I'll try to speed up the next chapter.
Walk This World
By Toxic Picnic
Ch. 3. Separate Secrets
Takato scowled inwardly. After Davis, Veemon, Kenta, and Kazu had been pulled into the Data Stream the rest of the group had stopped. They had to decide what they would do, continue on to find Calumon or look for Davis.
"We have to go after Davis. His D3 doesn't work and Kazu and Kenta don't have any Digimon Partners to help." Jeri argued.
"He's been in worse situations and come out unscathed." Henry shot back.
"Example?" Rika put in.
"Blackwargreymon, Daemon, and Malomyotismon!"
"He didn't fight any of them yet, remember."
".Oh yeah. I forgot."
"Guys, I think we should continue to search for Calumon. Davis isn't stupid. He knows if he just gets down and waits it out we'll eventually find him."
"How can you say that Takato? This isn't some kind of game! This is the real deal! There are real predators out there and they won't hesitate to take out Davis and the rest." Rika yelled.
"It would be cruel to leave someone undefended in the Digital World. They wouldn't last a week!" Leomon argued.
Henry stood up. "All who want to go search for Kazu, Kenta, Davis, and Veemon raise your hand now." He told them. Everyone slowly raised their hands. Even Takato in a defeated sort of way.
"Okay, it's settled. Let's go." Renamon said. And they set off, a new quarry in mind.
"Davis what's wrong?" Grumbled the huge Veedramon.
"Oh.Nothing." Davis lied in a distant voice. Veedramon stopped walking.
"I know when something wrong, and something's wrong. So what's wrong?"
"Uh, well." He stole a quick glance at Kazu and Kenta who looked intently at him.
"It's just that when you fought DarkTyrannomon you weren't yourself. I mean you actually killed him. Then what. I'm just confused. I don't understand any of what's happening here." Davis explained.
"I'm sorry Davis. It's just that I couldn't help it. If you were hurt because I didn't finish him off I couldn't live with myself." Veeedramon said.
"Well what happened after that? Did you absorb his data or something?" Davis inquired.
"Exactly!" Kenta explained. "See, in this world when a Digimon is deleted the one who deleted it has the power to absorb its data. Doing that doesn't change how the Digimon sees the world or anything like that, it just makes it stronger."
"One last question. Why did you Digivolve to Veedramon. Why not Exveemon?" Veedramon shrugged. "I don't know. It just happened. Probably something to do with the type of Digivice used."
"OK." Davis said as he looked up. "Wow, this is a great view from all the way up here. Thanks pal."
"No problem." Veedramon told the figures on top of his head. At that moment there was a terrible laughter. Veedramon and the others looked over to see a humanoid Digimon staring at them. He had metal on his face and a metal chain wrapped around him. Blue fire surrounded him. Davis whipped out his D-Power and the Digimon scanner came up.
"Skullmeremon. An ultimate level Digimon. His attack is Metal Fireball."
"Your data is mine." Snarled the ultimate. Veedramon grabbed Kazu, Kenta, and Davis then set them down. He quickly charged up the Vee Nova Blast. Skullmeremon extended his hand and launched his attack.
"Vee Nova Blast!"
"Metal Fireball!"
Both Digimon attacked at the same time. The metal fireball crashed through Veedramon's attack. It continued on to Veedramon who managed to put his arms in a blocking position. He was knocked back and splayed out on the ground. Skullmeremon walked over to Veedramon and stepped on his chest to pin him down. Once again he thrust his arm out and prepared to attack.
"Desolation Claw!" Skullmeremon was smashed forward and fell on the other side of Veedramon. A gray blur suddenly streaked by landed on Skullmeremon's chest.
"Desolation Claw!" The beast kept slashing at his chest. Soon Skullmeremon couldn't resist if he wanted to.
"Cyberdramon! Stop!" A voice yelled. Davis swiveled to turn towards the voice. A tall boy with brown hair, and strange looking clothes was striding towards the beast called Cyberdramon. Cyberdramon didn't head though. He kept slashing and tearing ferociously in a frenzied attempt to kill Skullmeremon. The boy pulled out his D-Power with a sigh.
"Cyberdramon, OBEY!" He pushed a button on the device and thrust it forward. A blue beam shot out and attached itself to a metal implant on Cyberdramon's arm. At once the Digimon stopped trying to destroy the fallen ultimate and began tugging on the beam. He seemed to be in pain. He roared a few times before backing off and jumping off of Skullmeremon.
Cyberdramon was surprisingly small for an ultimate. Most ultimates that Davis saw were big and intimidating. This one definitely hit the intimidating part with his huge teeth and vicious claws, but was far from big. Sure, compared to Davis he was about twice his height, but Skullmeremon was a medium sized ultimate and he was triple the size of Cyberdramon. What he lacked in size though he made up for in strength. Skullmeremon managed to flip his body over. He began to crawl away, which caused Cyberdramon to growl angrily. He knew better though than to disobey his master though.
When the newcomer was sure that Cyberdramon wasn't going to go attack Skullmeremon he turned to the group. Veedramon had reverted back to Veemon, who looked pretty beat up.
"Hi, you looked like you were in real trouble back there." The boy said with an air of great confidence. Kazu and Kenta looked like they were temporarily dumbstruck.
"Are you.are you?" Kazu stuttered.
"Am I, what?" The new person asked.
"THE Great Ryo." Kenta followed up.
"Well, I don't know abou-" Ryo started but never finished. Kazu and Kenta suddenly went into a rant about every Digimon Card Tournament he had won. Somewhere in the middle of it Davis jerked himself out his stupefied look and held out his hand to Ryo.
"I'm Davis. Nice to meet your." Ryo had barely grabbed his hand and began to shake it when Davis' hand was slapped out of Ryo's grip.
"I'm Kazu. It's great to meet you oh Great Ryo." Kazu barely got the chance to shake his hand when Kenta butted in and grabbed Ryo's hand.
"I'm Kenta, can I have your autograph?" He yelped joyously.
"Take it easy guys." Ryo scratched the back of his head. Skullmeremon was now completely concealed in the woods.
"Say, why don't we head to a nearby camping spot. It's pretty isolated so we don't have to worry about being attacked. Then you can tell me all about you guys." Ryo suggested. It sounded like a pretty good idea so they all agreed to it and set off. The day, as suddenly as usual, changed to night at that exact moment.
Skullmeremon dragged himself further into the forest, trying desperately to get away from that demon which had attacked him. His legs didn't work anymore after being shredded to pieces. They were scratched up and almost bursting into data. But Skullmeremon wouldn't dare give up. Not if he wanted to avoid punishment from The Master. His fear of The Master seemed to extend beyond death. He feared being punished more than being deleted. Skullmeremon's arms grew tired. He pulled himself to the base of a large tree and sat with his back against it. A Crowmon, a little black bird Digimon with multicolored head feathers, watched him with interest for a moment before continuing foraging for food. If he was going to get well again he would have to delete other Digimon to reenergize himself. Skullmeremon held his hand up near the Crowmon. He bent his hand in a flicking position just as Crowmon looked up. WHAMM! The Crowmon slammed into a nearby tree nearly deleting it. Skullmeremon was just about to finish him off when a high pitched screech resounded from nearby. What Skullmeremon saw made his stomach clench. The ultimate form of Crowmon, Raptordramon, was staring at him. Raptordramon were a lot more dangerous than Crowmon. They had orangish scaly skin, a metal breastplate like Metalgreymon, huge claws, and piercing red eyes. The way they fought with such viciousness it was scary. With blinding speed the Raptordramon charged and dug its claw toes into Skullmeremon's hand as he raised it. Skullmeremon yelled, grabbed the Raptordramon, and threw it. It fell back into the dark forest, its red eyes staring menacingly at him. Suddenly another pair of red eyes flared into life, and then another. Before he knew what was happening he was surrounded by Raptordramon. Skullmeremon was just able to scream before the whole clan regained their nesting ground by clashing in and deleting him in just a few seconds. The evil Digimon's scream was silenced by the dozens of triumphant roars everywhere. The clan leader picked up the dying Crowmon and held him out to Skullmeremon's data. The data turned blue and directed itself into Crowmon. There was a sudden flash of white light and Crowmon was replaced by his much bigger champion form, Ravendrimon. The clan roared in delight and was joined by a flock of Crowmon, Ravendrimon, and the new Ravendrimon.
The blood curdling shriek of Raptordramon pierced the night. Davis looked back from the warm fire behind him to see if anything was there.
"Don't worry about it." Ryo said. "There's nothing to be afraid of as long as Cyberdramon is here." He patted his partner who growled in a dignified sort of way. They had set up a fire right before Veemon dozed off to sleep. Kazu and Kenta had soon followed on his example and fell asleep. Davis had quietly told Ryo about his home world. The other sat pondering it for a long time before speaking.
"Well it certainly is possible. I mean, if this world exists then it's definitely possible for another one completely different from this one to exist. Although it does seem weird that you're a TV character where I come from." Davis nodded.
"But why am I here?" He asked. "Is there a purpose for me or am I just the victim of some random accident."
"It seems likely that there's a reason," Ryo said thoughtfully "because dimensional travel seems too unlikely to be an accident." Davis had to agree with him. It seems extremely unlikely that he had slipped between dimensions by a fluke. He decided that such things could be thought about in the morning and slowly closed his eyes. He could still hear the crackle of the fire as he drifted off to sleep.
Takato sat warming himself at a fire some distance away from Davis'. They had moved into a cooler part of the Digital World, plus the nights dropped the degrees by about 10 Celsius. Everyone else was sleeping peacefully, well almost everyone.
"Can't sleep, eh Takato?" Takato started as Jeri's voice came from behind him. He swiveled around to see her smiling face.
"Yeah." He replied while turning away.
"What's on your mind?" She asked sweetly. Normally Takato wouldn't have said anything, but he had a soft spot for the girl.
"Well, I'm worried about Davis. I mean he just showed up two days ago, and he's being thrown into the mix without any time to get ready for it. It's kinda scary." He explained nervously. Jeri nodded in agreement.
"I know what you mean. I'd be afraid if this was happening to me. It's lucky that he has the Crest of Courage." Jeri smiled lightly.
"But now's not the time for that. Now is the time for sleeping." She stated before bidding him goodnight. He replied with his own before laying down to rest, with the worries lessened on his mind.
Davis awoke slowly. He had been having such a nice dream. He was back on his world, and everyone was glad to see him again. He was tempted to roll over and return to the dream-world, but the sun was shining in his eyes and he decided to get up.
'No point in dwelling on false dreams.' He thought to himself. He stood up to see Veemon, Kazu, and Kenta still sleeping.
Ryo and Cyberdramon were nowhere to be found. Davis decided to stretch and take a walk around. He strode around their campsite for a little bit before stopping at a rock.
"Where are Ryo and Cyberdramon?" He muttered to himself. He glanced down at the boulder to see something that caught his eye. There was a hole in the ground near the boulder. It looked deep too, like some kind of underground cavern. Davis crouched down to examine the hole. Before he could react, or even move the ground beneath him crumbled falling into the chamber beneath him taking both him and the boulder. He fell for a second before landing hard on the stone. He looked up just in time to see the huge boulder land right above his head.
'That was too close.' He thought. Davis stood up with some difficulty, he was sore from the fall. The first thing he noticed was the huge mural on the wall. There were some pictures and runes that obviously told some kind of prophecy. There wasn't anything else interesting about the place. Davis inspected the mural a little closer. He saw that the paint was fairly worn away, but still distinguishable. In fact, in one of the pictures he saw a person who looked remarkably like.himself? No it couldn't be. He must have still been a bit dazed from the fall. His thoughts were intruded upon by a big blue hand on his shoulder however. Davis jumped and whirled around. He stared at the figure for a moment before shutting his eyes and rubbing them. When he opened them he saw the same figure. Tall, with shining gold armor and blue scaly skin the Digimon said in a soft voice "Davis." Davis was completely stunned by what he was seeing. There was no way that he could be here. Davis' voice quivered as he addressed the incredible creature, "Magnamon?"