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Session 36

Flip Side

Talos cursed under his breath.

He should have known this was a bad idea. And yet, here he was doing it just. Some things never did change no matter how long you lived.

"I can't let them get to me." the angel thought, making a quick glance behind him. While his opponents hadn't caught up to him yet, they were probably closing the gap quite fast. "No time like the present."

Back then, things were different.

There were no factions, no dimensional beings and no overarching story to deal with at all. He was human named Blade then, not the robot monstrosity without a master.

This mess began like every other day. He had woken up, gotten dressed and ate breakfast while watching futuristic rip-offs of popular anime from the 2000's within his decent looking apartment. While the cream colored walls and gray carpet weren't anything special, but they achieved their purpose.

To most people, a letter was just a letter. For Blade however, it was anything but. Nearly all communication was done digitally in his time, leaving the few written requests a big deal to him.

He had been a slayer, which was pretty much what it sounded like. He slayed monsters for people who were too incompetent to deal with them on their own.

"Time to get started." he thought and opened the letter up. Inside, a pale piece of paper with some writing on it awaited his reading.

Dear Slayer,

I need your assistance dealing with some creatures. Please meet at the Micdonalds as soon as possible.

While there wasn't a name at the end of the letter, it didn't really matter. He had a job now, which was the main thing he needed to focus on for the moment.

Blade then grabbed his shinkens and headed out the door of his apartment, making his way down to the parking garage.

Compared to his apartment, the parking garage was what one expected such an area to be. Gray and monotone of course. Nonetheless, he made his way over to his motorcycle and got on.

The open road welcomed him in, easing his worries a little bit. Even among all the hovercars and hoverbikes, his vehicle didn't seem that out of place. Not that anyone even looked down to see if he was even there. No, they were usually more focused on the skyscrapers around them then the long abandoned roads below. Not that it really made much a difference to him in the long run, having grown so used to it ever since he had gotten the job.

"That's just how some days are." he thought and turned left into the parking lot of 'Not McDonalds'.

There, the second piece of this puzzle falls into place in the form of Lily. Even if he had known what she truly was, he still probably would have taken the job.

The angel took a deep breath.

His opponents still were a quite a bit out, leaving him a bit more time to continue his trip down memory lane.

There, the two had their first magical encounter with each other.

"Hi, I'm Blade." he greeted and got off his vehicle.

"Lily." she had answered quietly and messed with her cloak. "I'm guessing you're my ride."

"Yep."

The two then got on Blade's vehicle and headed off once more. It was here, that the third and final piece comes into play, in the form of Officer EMT.

Many times he had faced the troll down, each battle ending in a draw. Mind you, that was from his handful of encounters with the troll. Usually, the idiot just slammed through something in an attempt to kill both him and Lily. But I digress.

It was on this lonesome highway where they encountered Officer EMT and his armored vehicle.

"You two are under arrest!" Officer EMT announced, pointing his missile launcher towards the two and fired. The missile streaked through the air, only to suddenly focus in on the two.

"I'll handle it." Blade explained and jumped onto the much larger vehicle, pulling his shinkens out in the process. While he did that, Lily shot her gigantic bow off towards the oncoming missile.

"How many times are we going to do this, before you realize the truth?" Officer EMT accused, pulling his kukris out. "She has been gone for a long time."

Blade only ignored him, proceeding to slam his shinkens into the monster.

"It's just one of those days." he thought, only for Lily's arrow to slam into the missile. "Good work, Lily."

He then jumped off the vehicle, somehow managing to land back on his motorcycle.

"Nice shot." he added, only to retake control of the motorcycle from Lily.

"Thanks." she answered and the two headed on.

The rest of the trip passed like a distant memory, with nothing of much interest happening amid the ruined and desolate streets. Eventually, they made a turn left, finding themselves at a large building that looked like either a giant fungus or a lamp.

"This is the place." Lily remarked and Blade stopped the bike.

"Are you sure?" Blade answered, only for Lily to nod. The two then got off the bike and headed into the building.

Inside, it what was one expect a mushroom-shaped building to have. It was dry, with rotting wood walls and a marshy floor. Not that it really seemed to interest the two of them, who were currently making their way towards the back part of the area. There, an open hatch awaited their entry, greeting them with darkness on the other end.

"Who goes there?!" a voice announced, only for a long white thread to grab hold of Lily.

"We do." Blade responded and charged towards the beast, slamming both his shinkens into the creature.

"Time and time again, we dance this dance." the creature whispered, almost ignoring its attacker. "Only to get the same result."

Before she continue on, Blade slashed the monsters head off and freed Lily.

"Thanks." Lily remarked, only to run towards the far end of the room. She picked up the digital tome once more. After, everything went white as reality returned to Talos.

"There he is!"

Officer EMT's armored vehicle then rolled up, with the members of Delta and their digimon on the roof. No scratch that. It was more of an assortment of actual digimon and 'paper digimon' per a say. Not that it really changes anything per a say, it still kind of interesting to think about.

"Hey!" Chacha announced and flipped the open sky off. Lily then made a quick glance towards her, not at all amused by the gynoid's antics. "What?"

Lily only sighed.

"Can you please try not to make this situation any worse than it already is?"

"What do you mean?"

Elena made a quick glance towards the two and rolled her eyes. As much as she wanted to be the one to take the angel down, this was Lily and Officer EMT's fight to finish. Anyone else and it would have lost all meaning for them and make all of this completely pointless in the long run.

"Everyone ready to do this?" Officer EMT inquired, only to receive nods from everyone. "Good. Considering we're finishing this in a single blow."

The chosen and their digimon stared at the police officer, wondering if the troll had gone mad. Afterwards, he pulled a body out, which appeared to be cocooned in duct tape and landmines. Officer EMT then flung the body a couple hundred yards out in front of the vehicle and then handed everyone a pair of sunglasses.

"Let's do this." Lily whispered, only to get onto Officer EMT's back. There was no turning back from this, for this was their one and only shot. It was now or never, with the time to turn back long gone. "For it is now to to end this once and for all.

The armored vehicle then hit the explosives, getting launched up into the air. As the large vehicle reached the climax of it's flight, Officer EMT fired his missile launcher off at the roof of his vehicle, launching the two into the air.

"I guess there truly is no going back, is there?" Lily thought and glided through the air, pulling the string of her yumi back. In the end, it would be the slayer trusted most that would be his downfall.

Talos only watched on, a realization.

If this was what fate had in store for him, so fucking be it. In a way, he probably deserved this.

The arrow quickly came into view, only for Talos to disengage his helmet.

Tonight seemed like as good as any night to finally let this end. The arrow quickly reached its desired mark and the angel fell over, a smile forming on his face.

As that happened, Officer EMT and the armored vehicle managed to land safely with everyone not breaking a bone. Well, except for our six wheel, of course. Even then, I doubt this will be his last appearance. But I digress.

"We did it." Elena whispered, only for Lily to finally land. "Good work."

"Thanks." Lily answered and sighed. Her gaze then focused on the dead body of her former friend and began to tear into his armor to no avail. "Fuck."

"It'll be alright." Adarnamon added, only for Lily to grab hold of the bird and slam it into the corpse. Somehow, this managed to be the magic touch in breaking through the seemingly invincible angel armor.

Underneath all that armor, was a measly boy that looked like the protagonist from Project Digital. And by that, I mean bland and boring. The only thing of note, was a single slip of paper.

The belly of this foul beast lies where the loop begins

They stared at the message for a couple of seconds, only for the obvious yet unclear answer to come to them.

"One more stop and then we head on?"

Everyone nodded in agreement, making their way back towards the armored vehicle. All the while, a gatomon watches on, waiting to strike...

Notes:

So here's the short story on why there was a guy covered in landmines and duct tape:

While working on this chapter, I got a message from darkhaseo asking to make an OC for DAO. Naturally, I said yes, hoping for something usable.

Usable doesn't even come to half of what the final character ended up with. What I ended up with, was an incomplete character sheet for a guy with a partner who wanted to secretly make him a male harem. Mind you, this was after five days attempting to get the person to finish said sheet. In the end, I actually took it off his hands and completed it myself. But I took away his partner's infusion element as payment.

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Next Time: This is where the fucked things are.