Inspired by Lord Archive's Digimon Cyber and With the Will forums' SeiferA's .hackWtW
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Chapter 2: Who is She? The Mysterious User!
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Haven City, anyone who's been there can tell you what it is at its core: corrupt, evil, dark, dank, crooked. Anyone with half a mind would keep out of there, even if you were an experienced player and knew the city well. However…
"Run, run damn it! They're almost on top of us!" A certain male Twin Blade screamed.
The Blademaster next to him groaned. "What do you think I'm DOING? Of course, I'm not the one who had to make a comment on the Krimzon Guard's appearance!" She snapped at one of her navis: a short blonde-haired girl in robotic pink armor.
Roll shrugged. "So sue me. How was I supposed to know that NPCs were moody like that?"
"Word of advice: stop talking and start running!" Betamon yelled.
Ducking into a dark corner, they stayed with the guards narrowly missing them. Gazimon whispered. "Lucky. Good thing we were able to trick them."
Amanda nodded. "Roll, we have to do something about your mouth… It's going to get us in trouble one day."
The blonde navi smirked. "What problem? It's everyone else who has the problem, not me."
Kyle sighed. "Lets just get to Raccoon City, Alan's expecting us."
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As the teleported in, they came across a deserted and ruined city. It looked like it was attacked by an army. Buildings, windows, street signs, even pavement was ruined. Parts of the city were even on fire; it looked like a war zone.
Amanda looked at the scene uncomfortably. "T-this is Raccoon City? What happened here?"
It was Betamon who answered. "This is the site of Resident Evil 2 and 3, where Zombies and other nightmarish creatures rule the area. One example is the Hell Dogs or Hell Hounds, dogs 'enhanced' by a virus. They became extremely vicious, and much larger than they would be normally. They are also much more agile than regular dogs."
As she spoke, an odd-looking young man in a green and white suit walked over to them shaking his head. "What took you guys so long? I've been waiting over 20 minutes for you."
Before the others could say anything, Gazimon spoke up. "Roll did it. She has this little problem with mouthing off to Players and NPCs. It's a wonder we made it here in one piece!"
Roll replied automatically. "Hey! Is it my fault that some people are so testy?"
"YES!" was the general response.
Alan chuckled at the exchange. "Well, have an idea where we can go, now? This is CyberWorld you know."
A male voice spoke behind him. "I can help you with that. How about a friendly duel? I'm the right sort of mood, now."
The group looked at the person. He had a Power Rangers Timeforce Silver Guardians outfit, something that looked like the Quantum morpher on his wrist with a few additions, with a Duel Disc on his left arm. He was about Kyle's height and had his hair hidden under a cap.
"And you are?" Roll demanded.
The teen smacked his head in embarrassment. "Heh. Sorry about that. Name's Carter, but you can call me QR if you want, or Quantum Thunder, or even Titanium Gold."
Kyle looked over there in state of shock. "Carter? That's you?"
Carter nodded. "Yeah. So how about it? You in the mood for a friendly duel?"
Kyle nodded. "Sure. But who is your navi?"
"Navis actually. Come out guys." Carter pressed a button on his morpher, which had digital pixels spitting out of it resulting in two creatures forming. One was a humanoid in thick yellow armor wielding a large axe, the other: humanoid was female and was dressed in a mix of light blue and pink magician outfit with a wand in her hands.
"Dark Magician Girl and Axe Raider? Those are your navis!" Amanda asked in disbelief, voicing the groups thought.
Carter nodded. "Yeah. Thought I would try something different. DMG is essentially Rika Nonaka personality wise, and Axe Raider is a lot like Tommy in Dino Thunder."
Alan and Jeri exchanged a look at this. 'Essentially' was right. The Rika they knew would never have been seen dead in DMG's outfit.
"Now you ready for a duel, Kyle?" Carter asked.
Kyle grinned, forming a duel disc around his arm. "Just remember you asked for it! I'll go first."
"Duel!" both players called, drawing five cards.
Kyle hid a grin as he drew for the first turn. " I place a monster in defense mode and three cards face down. Your move."
"I place 2 cards face down and summon Goblin Attack Force! " A trio of goblins armed with clubs appeared on the field. "Attack!"
Alan whistled softly. "Now that's a strong monster. Kyle better have a good card to stop it."
Fortunately, he did. "Reveal Magic Cylinder! Your attack is blocked and you lose 2300 Life Points!" At a gesture from Carter that he was done, Kyle drew for his turn. "I reveal my facedown monster, Swarm of Scarabs which destroys one monster on the field. I also play Harpie's Feather Duster to destroy all your traps and magic cards. Next I summon Giant Orc, then both monsters take a bite out of you life points! I also play one card facedown."
Carter winced at the play. "That brings me down to 3000 Life points… All right. I play Pot of Greed to draw two more cards. Now I use Monster Reborn to bring back Goblin Attack Force and I sacrifice him for Jinzo!"
"Crap." Kyle muttered. That means my traps are useless!
Carter finished up. "I place a card face down and summon Z-Metal Tank! Z-Metal Tank, attack Giant Orc which has switched to defense mode." Kyle winced as his Orc was destroyed. "Now Jinzo attack!" Kyle watched as his Swarm of Scarabs was blown to pieces by the machine monster Jinzo. "That brings your Life Points down to 6100!"
Kyle growled. " I play this card: Tribute to the Doomed! I discard one card from my hand to destroy Jinzo. Next, I summon Dark Blade in Attack Mode! Attack Z-Metal Tank!" Carter watched as the dark warrior destroyed the tank.
"Your Life Points are down to 2700. Your turn." Kyle said with a smirk.
"I place 1 card face down and another card face down. " Carter said in an indifferent tone.
Kyle thought for a minute before moving. I better be careful. No telling what his facedown card is. "I play Bait Doll which forces you to activate a facedown card. If it's a trap and activated at the wrong time, it is destroyed." Kyle pulled another card from his hand.
Carter growled slightly. "You destroyed my Draining Shield."
"I summon La Jinn The Mystical Genie of the Lamp in Attack mode! I also reveal Frontline Base: this magic card allows me to Special Summon one four star or lower Union Monster from my hand, and I choose Pitch Dark Dragon! Now Pitch Dark Dragon can combine with Dark Blade raising his attack to 2200! And then there's La Jinn! Blow away his facedown card!" The genie blew a small snake-like creature called Sinister Serpent to bits.
Carter groaned. "Great. Now I'm defenseless."
"I'm not finished! Ookazi! This allows me to do 800 direct points of damage! Dark Blade attack Carter's life points directly!" The Warrior swung his sword through Carter bringing the Life Point total to zero. "That's means I win. It's over."
Carter stood up and shook Kyle's hand. "Good match. Next time, I won't lose so easily."
Kyle grinned. "Of course."
"Where are you guys heading next?" Carter asked.
"I was thinking of heading to Nar Shaddaa. You know: from Knights of the old Republic 2, The Sith Lords?" Kyle responded.
"Never heard of it." Alan replied.
"Heard of it, don't own an X-box." Carter added.
As the group their way to the edge of town, a cloaked figure was watching them from afar. "Hmm… So they still haven't figured it out yet… What this world really is about… Perhaps I should give them a hand." The cloaked figure waved her hand as the portal the group entered changed color from yellow-gold to pitch black.
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Like the previous area, the house was rundown in the middle of large swamp. The group materialized landing in a pile. Amanda and Roll were on the top.
Kyle blushed deep red. " Roll get off me, please."
Betamon hopped off Axe Raider. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you'd enjoy that Kyle…"
"And you came to this conclusion because…"
"Well, you are blushing. That's a sign."
Alan had landed under Amanda (and on top of Jeri and Dark Magician Girl).
"If you wanted to be on top you should have just asked." Alan muttered, dazed.
Amanda groaned, pushing off Alan as she did so. "Tell me another one. That line is tired and old. Do you have nothing better to do than send girls bad lines?"
Alan shrugged as he got up. "Passes the time. Where are we? I'm guessing this isn't Nar Shaddaa."
Kyle nodded as he pulled out his D-3. "According to this, we're somewhere in the X-box game Fable.
An evil-sounding chuckle was heard over in the corner. The group stared at its owner. The user was female, had dark purple hair and eyes, and a gray and black cloak and purple boots reminding Kyle of Raven from Teen Titans but slightly darker. "My true name is unimportant but you may call me Lady Shadow. And you all are Kyle Evanick, Alan Wilkinson, Amanda Falks, and Carter…"
Dark Magician Girl aimed her wand at Lady Shadow. "You don't need to broadcast it, lady. We get the picture."
She chuckled slightly. "Very well. I mean you four and your navis no harm. I would like to work with you to help each other.
"And that would be?" Amanda voiced.
"Now, now. That would be telling. Soon you will get an email from me, what it contains is a secret. Oh, and one more thing before I leave and send you on your way… Most of the Admin are not to be trusted. They have their own ways which interfere with that of the players of Cyber interest piqued. "What do you mean? Are you saying none of them can be trusted?"
"No. Not all of them. Just some of them." As she said that a purple portal opened up and she disappeared as she touched it.
The others looked to each other and silently nodded, touching the portal, as the four humans and six navis disappeared.
To Be Continued…
Authors Notes: Sorry for taking so long for this chapter. Not sure when chapter 3 is coming… Thanks to Alan for edits and pre-reading.