I don't digimon.

It all must begin with me. -Agnes, Bravely Default

Session 34

Untitled and Forgotten

Lily took another deep breath.

The past was a funny thing for her. Unlike a majority of characters in the digitalverse that didn't have such a thing, she somehow did. And yet, the plush envied them to extreme extent.

After all, some things are just better left unknown to even yourself than to know the truth of it. But, were getting ahead of ourselves. Our story begins in 2267...

She stood in the parking lot, waiting.

That day, the succubus had decided upon a black trenchcoat and a wide brimmed fedora. While not the preferred way she wanted to be seen, it was the only thing she could do at the moment.

"I'm guessing you're my ride."

Lily turned around, finding a boy dressed in a gray t-shirt and pants. To go with his quite typical, was a pair of blue eyes and some short blonde hair.

"Yep." the boy answered. "What's your name?"

"Lily." the succubi whispered, slightly curious of her 'cabbie'. "What's yours?"

"Blade."

Blade then led them over to a large motorcycle that seemed quite out of place for the time period we're going for. The two got on and headed off. As they did, a missile streaked right over their heads.

"Hey!"

The two made a quick glance behind them, finding a large armored vehicle behind them. Standing on said vehicle, was a green humanoid creature hellbent on killing them. Lily pulled her yumi out and cocked the arrow back, possibly attempting to actually aim properly. She then fired the projectile off, watching it land cleanly into the target.

"Nice shot." Blade remarked, only to jump from his vehicle and onto the opponent's. There, he pulled a pair of shinkens out and gave the monster a good ass-whupping. While he was doing that, Lily was continuing to fire arrows off at the nuisance.

"I don't remember this fight going like this at all!" the creature announced, receiving a face full of arrows as his reward. Blade then jumped off and left their opponent to his fate.

"I guess that works?" Lily added and Blade laughed.

"That is how some days are." Blade answered, speeding the bike up. "You just got to keep fighting."

The rest of the trip passed like a dream, with the two soon finding themselves at the entrance of a large mushroom shaped building.

"We're here." she whispered, jumping off the bike and headed inside.

Unlike the dark outside, bright candlelight welcomed them in. That, along with dark oak walls and floors actually made it seem like a possible home.

"Nice place, I guess." Blade added, as the two headed towards the back of the building. An open hatch awaited them, calling to them head through it. The duo jumped down and found themselves in a large cobweb. "See, it's like I said earlier."

Lily only sighed, firing her yumi off once more. The arrow flew through the air, only to eventually collide with something within the dark.

"Wh-h-h-h-ho goes th-h-h-h-here?"

A couple sets of red eyes pierced then pierced through the darkness within the room.

"Us." Lily weakly answered as a long white string headed towards her. The succubi then fired a couple of arrows off, watching as her projectiles pierced through the eyes of the beast. Blade followed it up with a couple of slashes from his shinkens, making sure the monster was actually dead and not pretending to be in a sleeping state.

"That'll do it." Blade added, the two deciding to just stand there. The darkness then faded, revealing a simple tome. The only discernible thing was three words printed on the cover.

The Digital Tome

Lily headed towards the book at full speed. Had she known, she would have just left the book behind for some other moron. But, curiosity got the best of her.

After picking it up, everything became a blur of heat and arrows with some nausea thrown in for good measure.

"Where am I?" she thought, the nausea and memory scrambling finally going away. Lily was currently laying in a small village, with a large amount of corpses strewn around the succubus. Her hands and yumi were engulfed in pink of the dead, each drop a reminder of what she had done. The book sat to her left, a bloody hand now stamped below the title. "What have I done?"

She placed her hand back on the book, everything beginning to swirl around once more and her vision went dark.

When it finally stopped, the succubus found herself not in the futuristic town. Instead, a small warm room had taken it's place. And yet, the wooden walls and carpeted floor did nothing to comfort her.

"You're awake!"

Lily stared upwards, finding a young girl staring back at her. The child looked quite average, just a dark blue t-shirt and jeans complimented by purplish brown hair and amber eyes.

"Uh... hi?" Lily whispered, only for the girl to perk up.

"Anna, the plush spoke!"

"Plush?"

She made a quick glance down at herself and froze.

Her old body was gone, having been replaced with one of cloth and an unknown stuffing. The tome sat right beside her,

"Are you sure, Elaine?"

"Yes, I'm sure!"

'Elaine' then walked up to Lily with a second girl joining her. Unlike girl #1, Anna was dressed in a gray dress with white hair and red eyes. Unlike her friend, she seemed to care less about the plush.

"Hi?" Lily greeted, only for Elaine to pick her up.

"Hello!" Elaine then smiled, handing the succubus over to Anna.

"Oh, it's some sort of plush thing." Anna added, throwing Lily against the wall and walked away.

"Ow." she whispered, pulling herself away from the wall. She then walked over to the tome, only to be picked up by Elaine once more.

"Going so soon?"

Lily sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Yes, my 'friend'." Lily whispered and was placed back down. Elaine then held her hand out, waiting for her friend to do something.

"Promise me we'll see each other again." Elaine whispered and Lily reluctantly shook her hand.

"I promise I'll meet you again." the succubus answered and touched the tome once more. With that, her journey finally began. Sometimes she would have her old body, other times it was the smaller plush body. Occasionally, she would run into one of the alternate versions of her teammates but never Elaine. With each trip, her memories only became even more jumbled-up and contradicting. Yet, that didn't stop her from continuing this practice. Until the end of the fifteenth cycle that is.

In a way, it started like all other trips the succubus had taken. Lily would appear in the world, figure out what was going on, do something and then leave.

It was in the first step where everything fell apart. Instead finding herself in Odiaba ward of Minato, the succubi was in sort of pristine white lab.

"What do we have here?"

Before she could find the source of the voice, a collar was snapped around her neck. Everything now looked lifeless and dead, which made the lab look quite the same.

"Now hold still. I just need to take a little sample." the voice explained, sticking a syringe into the 'slave' as the succubus blacked out.

When she did awake for the umpteenth time, two clones of her hovered by her sides. Below them, a group of people had gathered.

"So now what?" Lily whispered and got a shock from the collar. Her 'orders' were clear now as the world around her went all monotone. The trio of succubi then dived towards her target, only for both to clones to be easily taken down. Clone #1 was crushed to death by a large bat creature, while Clone #2 had her head smashed in with a baseball bat.

That left the original one, who was too occupied in getting a piece of candy from the group's leader, a teenage girl.

"You want a piece?" the leader inquired, holding out a sweet for the succubus to have.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lily answered and looked just about ready to snatch it away from the bargainer. A couple of times, she had jumped

"Then you have to help us."

Lily sighed and rolled her eyes. She didn't have a choice in this. In retrospect, she should have just walked away and moved onto the next timeline. In a way it was the unofficial third mistake. The group quickly got together, some plot stuff occurred and the deed was completed.

"Finally." she thought, placing her hand on the book. Everything began to swirl around, only for it all to go white. "Where am I?"

"It's a funny story." a voice explained.

Lily turned around and found a figure cloaked in green standing before her.

"First off, who are you and second, why am I here?!"

The figure then grabbed hold of her and ripped the collar.

"You'll learn my name when the time comes." the person explained, dropping Lily to the floor. "All you need to know is that you're between the two realms."

Lily stared at the figure, just about ready to flip out upon her.

"Are we seriously going with that for our solution to me having the digital tome?!" Lily shouted, only for the other person to laugh. She made a quick glance down at herself, finding the tome gone.

"Yes, that is the fucking solution we're going with."

Lily rolled her eyes once more. After, a claymore pierced through her body and the succubi slumped to the ground.

She opened her eyes.

Gone was the featureless void, with a pillar in a dark room taking over. The only thing of interest, was a teenage girl with purplish brown hair and amber eyes...

"And that was when I met Elena." Lily explained and finally wrapped up her long-winded backstory.

"At the very least, it wasn't predictable?"

"What the fuck?"

"Could you have made that explanation anymore complicated?"

"Jestery's head hurt."

Everyone made a quick glance over at Jestery, who now had a shark sticking out of her head.

"You had to taunt the dark blades, didn't you?"

Aaron laughed and pulled the sea creature off of her head. Afterwards, the omega then teleported away. Lily then took a deep breath and approached the left grave. The succubi then dug down into it, only to hit a hard object.

'Here it is!" she whispered, pulling a weathered tome out. A few seconds later, a flash of light overrode their visions. With this flash though, something different happened. Their old memories seemed to be blended up, only to get combined with a new set of yet-to-be-filled memories. With that, a surge of power coursed through their body.

A few seconds later, their vision returned. While everything looked the same, something felt different.

"Put your hands in the air!"

A large armored vehicle then drove up to them, with the large green humanoid standing upon it. The creature was dressed like a police officer, even if probably didn't know a single thing about how to do such a job. A large group of police officers now encircled them.

"Surprised, aren't you?"

The members of Delta then looked up, finding Talos floating above them.

"Some days are just going to be like that..."

Notes:

I didn't plan for that chapter to go as long as it did. Oh well.

Yes, I know this chapter is a bit of a mess. Being sick does that at times.

And finally, we're now in the seventeenth cycle! I realize it's quite early to pull that, but I'm confident this time around about what will go down in Tri episodes 5-8.

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Next Time: Outlaws we sometimes are.