Hello, fellow digital monsters. Centurion Maximo and Mobian here and welcome back to Rwby: Digital Tamer. It's been a long while, but we're finally back as we apologize for the wait. In the last chapter, Snowflake revealed herself to Winter that she's a Digimon named Gatomon. Later, Winter was almost influenced by Devimon, but Gatomon saved her and the two worked together to defeat him.
Gatomon suggested going to Ironwood which made Winter tear up and disagree with her which was fine to her new furry companion.
Now let's read Winter's Decision...
Inside General Ironwood's office, Libramon sat on his desk when suddenly the computer came to life and with an image of Keramon. "I see you have been able to spread yourself from beyond the factory server." Libramon said.
"Yes, I've been able to get into several key systems and take control of them. Normally, I would gorge myself on the Atlesian databases, but I don't want the Atlesian military to catch on too quickly. Speaking of the Atlesian military, we may have a problem with General Ironwood's right hand Winter Schnee!" Keramon exclaimed in a worry tone.
"Really, Keramon, what's possibly got you so worried about Winter?" Libramon asked in a calm tone.
"It's better that I show you what happened last night. I was able to pull this video recording after I took control of Atlas security cameras." Keramon played the video showing Devimon's battle against Winter and Gatomon. After the video finished. Keramon came back on the computer screen.
" I don't see a problem at all. Winter dealt with a minor problem which I would have taken care of with little trouble at all. Our plan is still on track. " Libramon said.
"What do you mean that you don't see a problem?!" Keramon shouted in anger. "Winter hasn't turned Gatomon over to General Ironwood yet! She took Gatomon back to her apartment building! Winter could use Gatomon to find us and then it's game over for the both of us!"
"Keramon, you don't understand that Winter is blindly loyal to Ironwood. She believes everything that Ironwood tells her and I am manipulating Ironwood's thoughts by implanting ideas into his head without him even realizing I'm doing it. So Keramon, relax and enjoy your all you can eat buffet because everything is under control."
Keramon looked like he didn't believe Libramon. "Fine, I will leave Winter alone for now, but if she doesn't hand Gatomon over to Ironwood, then I'll get rid of them permanently." Then Keramon disappeared from the computer screen.
In Winter's apartment, she and Gatomon ate their breakfast. They spent most of the morning talking about what General Ironwood did to DarkTyrannomon and Gatomon told her about the Digital World. Once everything was shared, Winter took a deep breath and sigh. "Snowflake, where do we go from here?"
"I don't know what we should do. If you don't tell Ironwood about me, you will lose your rank and the possibility that you will be arrested for treason." Gatomon said with a frown on her face.
"If you think I'm going to turn you in to become some scientist's test subject and save myself, then you better think again." Winter said.
"I know Winter, but we don't have many options at the moment." Gatomon was trying to think what their next move should be when suddenly she got an idea. "Winter, is there anyone you can think of that we can make an alliance with? Maybe someone from your family."
Winter let out a snort. "My father only cares about filling his pockets with Lien and would try to control me again if we went to him for help. My brother is exactly the same as my father. Weiss is in Vale attending Beacon Academy and I don't want to drag her into this. My mother hasn't been able to help herself for years. At least Qrow is still capable of doing things even if he's drunk."
"Who's Qrow and can he help us?" Gatomon asked.
"Qrow is a fellow Hunter, but we don't see eye to eye on many things. He also likes to push my buttons to get me angry! Not to mention he's always drunk when I see him! He probably would ignore my call and delete any of my voicemails without listening to them! That and he doesn't stay in one place for too long or the only two addresses in his files are his former Brother-in-law's home and Signal academy where he teaches." Winter said in anger.
Gatomon debated telling Winter that she might have feelings for Qrow, but decided to let her figure it out by herself. "Qrow sounds a lot like the Royal Knight Gankoomon." Winter looked dumbfounded that Gatomon said that Qrow sounded like a member of the Royal Knights from the Digital World. "Gankoomon is probably the most approachable of the Royal Knights. He's one of the few Royal Knights that actually sees taking care of problems big and small in the Digital World. The other Royal Knights only show up if there's a major crisis happening. He also doesn't stay in one place for too long and I heard Gankoomon likes to drink. Now what would be strange if Qrow had a pupil who wears a red hooded cloak because that same thing that Gankoomon's pupil Hackmon wears."
Winter didn't know how to answer that question because Ruby, Qrow's niece, does wear a red hooded cloak and he had taken her under his wing as his pupil. The tension broke when Winter's scroll began to ring, she answered it. "Yes General Ironwood, what can I do for you? I understand sir, you want me to meet you at the lab where they are studying the creature. I'll be there in a half hour." Then Winter hung up her Scroll. "Snowflake, we will figure out what we are going to do after I see what General Ironwood wants." Gatomon nodded her head in agreement.
Once inside the lab, Winter found General Ironwood looking at something one of the scientists handed to him. Ironwood looked up to see Winter had arrived. "Winter, you're just in time to see the Atlesian Loader prototype." It was a white, metal rectangle with a screen and under the screen was a circular control pad. "This device will allow the user to capture the data after it is weakened. It's capable of storing multiple creatures in it. The original plan was to build the Atlesian Loader into a scroll, but that would've taken up too much power and memory space. It probably would have gone better if Pietro was still on it." Then Ironwood handed the Atlesian Loader to Winter.
"Sir, why are you handing this to me? " Winter asked.
"There's no one I would trust more than you to use the Atlesian Loader prototype." General Ironwood said.
Winter felt honored by the General trusting her, but she couldn't go through with what he wanted to do to the Digimon when suddenly an idea came to her. "Sir, you said the project is going slowly, would the project go faster if Pietro came back to work on it?"
"Yes, if Pietro came back, I believe it would go faster. Why do you ask, Specialist Schnee?"
"I will try to convince him to return to the Atlesian Loader project." Winter answered.
"It would speed the project along. Winter, Pietro has a pharmacy down in Mantle. That's where you will most likely find him." Once General Ironwood dismissed her, she went to pick up Snowflake and scheduled a flight down to Mantle.
Winter was walking the streets of Mantle with a backpack on her back. The whole time, a sheep Faunus was following Winter a good five feet away. She was trying to make sure that it didn't look like she was following Winter. She stopped when Winter was in front of Pietro's Pharmacy. "Why would a Specialist come all the way down here to go to a Pharmacy?" She scratched her head in confusion. "I probably should go tell Robyn about this." She raced off to inform Robyn.
"Winter, There was a sheep Faunus following us until we got to the Pharmacy. " Gatomon said from the backpack.
"Did this sheep Faunus have sheep ears and olive eyes and was she wearing a green sleeveless coat with dark brown lapels with a broach on the left side?" Winter waited for Snowflake's response.
"Yes. " Gatomon said in a whisper.
"Then it was Fiona Thyme. She's one of Robyn's Happy Huntresses. Most likely Fiona is going to report to Robyn about me being here in Mantle which means Robyn is on her way here. At least I won't have to tell my plan two times."
The doorbell rang as Winter entered the pharmacy. Then Pietro's voice could be heard from the back room. "One moment and I'll be right with you." When Pietro entered the main room his face became a frown once he saw Winter in the room. "Specialist Schnee, I told General Ironwood that I was not interested in helping out in this project."
"Pietro , I understand your feelings, but can we wait until Robyn arrives before we go any farther with this conversation?" After the words left Winter's mouth, Robyn entered the room with Fiona right behind her. "Good, everyone is here, so we can start this conversation." Before anything else could happen, Penny came out of the backroom chasing a silver mechanical quadrupedal mouse with a blinking light at the end of it's tails and right behind the robot mouse was a brass color mechanical quadrupedal dog with a screen where eyes should be. All three paused when they saw the other people in the room.
"Father, I'm sorry I didn't realize you had guests with you. I accidentally turned on your prototype robotic animals and I tried to turn them off, but they got away from me." Penny let out a hiccup, in which she covered her mouth.
Gatomon popped out her head from Winter's backpack. "I didn't expect to see Squeakmon and Barkmon while we were here." Robyn and Fiona are staring at Gatomon. Pietro and Penny didn't seem to be shocked by the talking cat 2hile Squeakmon hid under Barkmon.
"Did that cat just talk?" Fiona asked with a dumbfounded look on her face while Robyn watched Gatomon closely, looking for any kind sign of a string or stiff robotic movement from the cat, but Robyn couldn't find anything that said this was a puppet or a robot.
"What, do I got your tongue?" Gatomon asked in a joking manner. "Ok, all jokes aside, I think we should get down to business."
"If I remember correctly from Robyn's file that your Semblance allowed you to tell if someone is telling the truth or not." Winter held her hand towards Robyn which shocked Robyn, but she grabbed Winter's hand and activated her Semblance. Winter explained how she met Snowflake and up to the point where General Ironwood gave her the Atlesian Loader. As this was going on, Pietro was messing with the Atlesian Loader that Winter gave him.
"That's so cool!" Fiona said excitedly. "We're meeting a new race of creatures! Hi, I'm Fiona, what's your name?" Fiona got close to Barkmon and Squeakmon which caused Squeakmon to scurry up Penny's leg and hide in her pocket. "Did I do something wrong?"
"You must forgive my companion, Squeakmon. She's not comfortable around new Digimon, human or Beast Man." Barkmon said in an apologetic tone.
Gatomon caught what Barkmon just did. "Barkmon, Fiona is a Faunus, not a beast man. Please forgive Barkmon for what he just said. The closest thing we have to a Faunus is a beast man type Digimon."
"That's understandable you would relate Faunus to something familiar to you, and I doubt Fiona took offense to what you called her. Isn't that right, Fiona?" Robyn looked toward Fiona.
"Of course I'm not offended by what Barkmon just said. He and Squeakmon are new to Remnant. There's no way they could know what a Faunus is." Fiona said.
Pietro put the Atlesian Loader on the table. "I looked at the circuitry of the device ,but I need to see it in action before I can change its function. In other words, we need a Digimon to volunteer to let us use the Atlesian Loader on them." Pietro explained to everyone.
"I'll do it!" Barkmon volunteered to be the test subject. "You took Squeakmon and I in last night. It's the least I can do to repay your kindness."
Winter picked up the Atlesian Loaded and pointed it at Barkmon. She pressed a button on the Atlesian Loaded which caused a beam of energy to shoot out of it. The beam hit Barkmon and he got turned into data and the data was absorbed by the loader. Winter looked at the Atlesian Loader's screen, she used the circular control pad until an image of Barkmon appeared on the screen. With a simple click of the button, Winter released Barkmon. "Barkmon, how are you feeling?" But Barkmon just stood there without responding to Winter's question.
"It seems that the Atlesian Loader has robbed Barkmon of his ability to speak." Pietro said. "My best question at this point, Barkmon's only capable of following orders that involve fighting or capturing the enemy. Is their any other ability that you can see on Atlesian Loader's screen?"
"Yes. There one called Force Evolution. Should I hit it to find out what it does?" Winter asked.
"No! I don't want to see Barkmon Dark Digivovle! "Squeakmon shouted from the opening of Penny's pocket.
The humans, Android, and Faunus in the room didn't like the sound of the words Dark Digivovle and what they could see from the two Digimon who weren't affected by the Atlesian Loader didn't care for the words either. "Pietro, can you deactivate the force evolution feature and free Barkmon's mind?" Winter asked.
Pietro's only response was taking the Atlesian Loader to work on it. The room was silent except for the sound of tools. This went on for a bit until Robyn decided to speak up. "This time James has gone too far with his action. No one should have their free will taken away from them!" Then Robyn turned toward Winter and narrowed her eyes. "Why did you bring this to my and Pietro's attention? Last time I checked your were Ironwood's loyal right hand."
"Robyn, I think Winter's gotten quite attached to Gatomon and doesn't approve of General Ironwood's plan for the Digimon. So she went seeking help from people willing to help. Isn't that right, Winter?" Fiona asked with hope in her voice.
"Yes. You're correct on your assumption. I was hoping to get Pietro help and when Gatomon saw Fiona following us, that your aid in Mantle would make things easier. I want a partnership with you, Robyn. As my equal." Winter held out her hand toward Robyn. Gatomon, Penny, Squeakmon, and Fiona were watching and waiting to see what would happen.
Robyn was debating if this was the right move to make. She looked over to Fiona who was giving her big doe eyes. She shook her head and let out a small laugh. "Who would have thought that I would make a deal with a Schnee of all people?" Robyn grabbed Winter's hand and shook it. "I hope you don't expect me not to tell the rest of the Happy Huntresses."
"Of course not. We will need their aid if we want to cover Mantle." Winter stated.
Right then, Pietro finished working on the Atlesian Loader. "I removed the force evolution feature and you should be able to store more Digimon in the Loader." Then he pointed the Atlesian Loader at Barkmon which reabsorbed his data, then released Barkmon a few seconds later. "Barkmon, how are you feeling now?"
"I'm a bit woozy, but doing better than the first time you use that device on me." Barkmon sat down and collect himself. "When Winter used it on me, I could see everything that happened but I couldn't move on my own accord." Squeakmon raced out of Penny's pocket to comfort Barkmon by giving him a hug.
Winter's Scroll suddenly started ringing, she saw it was General Ironwood calling her. When Winter answered her Scroll, it wasn't General Ironwood on the other end of the line. "Hello, Winter, I'm Keramon. I waited patiently for you to turn Gatomon over to the General, but I see now you have no intention of doing that! So I'm nipping this in the bud before it becomes a problem. I'm in Atlas, at an Atlesian Knight factory. You have ten minutes to find me. And if you think I'm not dangerous, you can ask Gatomon on how much of a threat I am." After that, the call ended.
Winter looked at Gatomon for answers. "If Keramon is here, then Atlas and Mantle are in danger. He's known to devour every inch data in sight which means he has control of all the security cameras, the Atlesian knights and can knock Bullheads out of the sky." Gatomon explained.
"Then we will go with you." Fiona said.
"No! Keramon is after me and Gatomon. If he sees anyone else he could send General Ironwood evidence that I went behind his back and revealed classified information to civilians. Then our plan is doomed and Ironwood will round all of us up and try us for treason. Gatomon and I will handle this problem." Winter along with Gatomon headed off to face Keramon in Atlas.
Winter and Gatomon arrived at the Atlesian Knight factory with a few seconds to spare. Like most things in Atlas, it was automatic. No need for employees when robots work for free and don't complain about overtime or how little pay they get. "I can assume that Keramon will send the Atlesian Knights to attack us" Winter could tell by Snowflake's face that the answer was a yes. She pulled out her sword as they entered the factor.
As Gatomon and Winter went down the hallway, they were met by five Atlesian Knight-200s. The androids took aim and fired their rifle. Winter used ice dust to create a shield for two of them. The Atlesian Knight-200s either hit the ice or missed completely. Without saying a word to each other, they prepared for their counter attack. Gatomon started to run toward the androids while Winter created a time dilation glyph that connected to Gatomon and increased her speed. "Lighting Paw!" Gatomon released a flurry of claw slashes. When Gatomon landed, the Atlesian Knights-200s split in half.
"Winter, if this is the best Atlas can come up with for robots, then you're in serious trouble! A Guardromon, a Mekanorimon, and a Tankmon would be more challenging then this!" Winter wanted to be insulted by this, but the Atlesian Knight-200s either hit the ice wall or missed the target by wide margin. It was like the androids were badly trained foot soldiers from the movies that she and Weiss watched before her sister left for Beacon.
Slowly, Winter and Gatomon made their way into the assembly line where they spotted Keramon with the creepiest grin on his face. "Welcome to my parlor, said the Infermon to the Flymon." Gatomon realized what Keramon meant by that. Before Gatomon could warn Winter, a bright light covered Keramon, and when the light died down, a white spider that had legs created from wires, at the end of its legs were red circles with three yellow claws. "Spider Shooter!" A gun muzzle popped out his mouth which fired multiple shells. Gatomon and Winter went and ducked for cover. The shells exploded causing holes in the factory.
"Winter, I need you to run and go find help." Gatomon tried to remain calm.
"Snowflake, this is not my first Champion level Digimon." Winter tried to reassure.
"Winter! This is not Devimon or Darktyrannomon! Keramon skipped his champion level and went straight into his Ultimate Level! Remember when I asked you about the Grimm? Infermon basically rivals the strength of elder Grimm. And if Infermon reaches his Mega level, not only will Atlas be in trouble, but all of Remnant will burn. I can't lose you, Winter! I already lost Wizardmon and Spellmon!" Gatomon started to cry.
"Snowflake, I'm not leaving you behind, and I promise we will find Wizardmon and Spellmon together. Now let's deal with this Digimon." Winter prepared a summon Glyph.
"There's no point in hiding from me. I control every security camera in Atlas." Infermon taunted his opponents. At that moment, Infermon jumped out of the way from a monster White Beowolf. It was bigger than a normal Beowolf. "Spider Shooter!" Infermon fired several more shells. The Beowolf with great ease avoided the attack. Each shot destroyed part of the equipment. "So this is the famous Schnee's summon ability. Tell me something, Winter. If you defeat a Digimon, can you summon them in the same way?" He got no reply. "Very well, I will destroy your summon and then I'll make you watch as I delete Gatomon before I kill you."
"Cocoon Crasher!" Infermon's legs retracted into his body and along with neck also disappeared. He charged toward the avatar Beowolf at high speed, the Avatar Beowolf barely dodged in time. Infermon slammed into the ground, causing the ground to shake which knocked over the Avatar. At that moment, several shells hit the Avatar Beowolf and exploded in contact which caused the Avatar Beowolf to shatter into pieces. He looked to the left side of the room where the machinery was. "I know you're here, Winter! Why don't you come out and we can finish this game of Gatomon and Chuumon."
Winter came out slowly with her sword in hand. While Infermon was focused on her, Gatomon was sneaking up behind him with several Avatar Grimm right behind her when suddenly Infermon jumped in mid air and turned around to face Gatomon. "Spider Shooter!" He released several shells that hit Gatomon and the group Avatar Grimm. The shell exploded causing a smokescreen covering the area. Once the smoke cleared, Winter could see Gatomon laying in the crater. Infermon moved in for the kill, but he felt a blade slash his back.
Infermon turned to see Winter with an angry look on her face. "You will not touch Snowflake!" Winter charged Infermon. The two traded blow after blow, but Gatomon could see Winter's aura flickering. The destruction of the Avatar Grimm had taken a good chunk of her Aura. "I've got to save Winter." Gatomon's tail ring began to glow and light covered her. As soon as light came it disappeared, and standing in Gatomon's place was a female angel with six, white dove wings. She had long blond hair, and the same helmet as Angemon. Her outfit was a white bodysuit and high heels, a golden ring on the left ankle, and a ribbon wrapped around the right arm going over shoulder to the left shoulder.
Winter's aura broke and she was breathing heavily. Infermon had her cornered. He was about ready to end this game. "Heaven's Charm!" A golden light hit both Winter and Infermon, but it affected them differently. Winter's wounds began to heal and her Aura started to replenish. Infermon was in pain. "Infermon, do you regret any of the pain and suffering you've caused?" He gave Angewomon hate filled glare. "I see, then face the judgement of Heaven itself!"
"Angewomon, don't interfere! Spider Shooter!" Infermon firde three shells from his mouth. Angewomon weaved in between the shots at high speed. "Celestial Arrow! " The Angewomon's glove on her right hand with wings grew until they became a bow, she drew back on the bow string and an arrow made from light appeared. The arrow shot toward Infermon who was about to jump but ice covered his body. The energy arrow struck Infermon and his body turned to data.
Winter was staring at this new Digimon called Angewomon. That when saw Gatomon's Golden ring on her right ankle. "Snowflake, is that you?"
Winter, if you're going to be in this much shock seeing my Ultimate level, I'd hate to see how you would react to my two possible Mega levels Ophanimon and Magnadramon." Snowflake said while giving Winter a smile. Suddenly out of nowhere, Angewomon let out a horrible painful scream and her body started leaking data. "No! I can't go back to the Digital World, I need to stay by Winter's side so she won't be alone!"
Winter saw how much pain Snowflake was in. Snowflake had saved her life several times and most importantly, she was her first true friend. There had to be something that could help Snowflake. That's when she remembered the Atlesian Loader. She pointed it at Snowflake and the beam hit Angewomon and turned her into data which went into the Atlesian Loader. Before Winter could check on Snowflake, General Ironwood came into the room with a squad of Atlesian soldiers.
"Specialist Schnee, what happened here!? " General Ironwood asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Sir, when I was trying to convince Pietro to return to the project, I got a Scroll call from you, but it was actually a digital creature that somehow got control of Atlesian systems. It found out that I was trying to get Pietro back on projects and threatened to shutdown all Atlesian tech. I also found out that my cat was one of these creatures and trapped it in the Atlesian Loader." Winter released Snowflake who was back to being Gatomon.
General Ironwood looked over Gatomon. This data is remarkable that it can take the form of a cat. Winter, you were able stop this data and another from causing damage? Then I made the right decision to name you as the new director of the Digital Capture Division. You will be in charge of dealing with these things. I'm expecting big things from you, Winter."
"Thank you, sir. I won't let you down." Winter saluted.
Now back to the present time. Down in Mantle, Winter was meeting with Pietro and the Happy Huntresses in Pietro's Pharmacy. There were several Digimon in the room including Snowflake. "Winter, why did you call us all here. You know that if James finds out, we'll all be in trouble. Robyn recalled.
"There is a good reason why I called everyone here. It seems that Atlas and Mantle are not the only places where Digimon are appearing. It seems Vale is also having Digimon sightings." She could hear everyone muttering about the news. "That's not all. It seems my sister team and another team have devices similar to Atlesian Loader, but the Digimon seem still have their personalities." That's when several Digimon started gasping in surprise.
"I can't believe they are real?!" Frigimon exclaimed.
" I thought they were a Myth?! " Meramon shouted.
"The Digital World and Remnant must be in serious trouble If they were called in?!" Drimogemon yelled.
"Snowflake, what are they talking about?" Winter was confused.
"An old story about the Digital World and Remnant's last line of defense. When children with Digimon by their side carry items of light and hope and they'll be called the DigiDestined." Gatomon informed the Human and Faunus in the room.
Hello, everyone. Mobian and I hope you all liked this brand-new chapter of Rwby: Digital Tamer. Looks like we Have Robyn, Fiona, Penny, Squeakmon, and Barkmon added to the mix, not to mention Keramon.
Keramon bypassed his champion level just like in the film straight into his ultimate level Infermon who came close to killing Gatomon and Winter, but fortunately, Gatomon digivolved into Angewomon to save Winter and deleted Infermon, but began turning into data. Winter saved her with the reprogrammed Atlesian Loader. After that, General Ironwood names her the new director of the new Digimon Capture Division.
She and the others discuss the other Digimon sightings in Vale and that her sister's team and JNPR have Digivices, surprising the other Digimon present.
As usual, if anyone has any ideas for this story, please let us know in the comments/reviews, or personally PM us.
