Digiegg 1.1
Disclaimer: I do not own the Worm nor Digimon franchises. I am not Saban Brands nor Toei nor Wildbow/John McCrae. I do not profit off of this fanfic.
Wormmon
I sighed in front of the computer in Mrs. Knott's class. Tonight was the night. My first night out as a cape. If all went well, I would put my final touches on my costume and be able to patrol. And all I had to do until then was survive the Trio.
It was sad how much they dictated my life. I was going to be a superhero for God's sake, and my biggest concern was three damned normal bitches. If I wanted to, I could so easily just go Carrie on them. Not that I would go Carrie, just that I could. Sometimes I wish that I would just be swept away, to a place where teenage drama and bullies didn't exist, or at least to be in the future where I could be a hero and be above it all. Tonight. I swear if only it could come sooner.
The assignment today was easy, just some simple spreadsheet programming. I decided to spend the rest of the period planning my route and checking off my mental checklist of things I still needed to do. I had pepper spray, some chalk dust, and EpiPens. That's all I would need, right? Too late now. I'm ready as I'll ever be. My route would be simple, I'd go past just a few blocks deep into the docks, bust whatever crime I could find, and then head home and be back before two a.m. So why was I so nervous? Performance anxiety much? And why was my computer spazzing out so badly?
Wait. Why was my computer spazzing out at all? From just having Microsoft Excel and Google Maps running I was treated to a light show fitting a rave. Mrs. Knott may have been a pretty chill teacher with her 'advanced' students, but I don't know how she'd take a student exploding one of her computers. Shit, the one class I can actually relax in and some virus or whatever screws it up.
Do you want to get away?
The streets still on screen aligned themselves to form words on a neon background.
Taylor Hebert, do you want to get away? [Y] / [N]
A prompt appeared this time. Did I want to get away? Yes. Did I trust this prompt? Not at all. Parahuman hackers and kidnappers have become sort of a modern boogieman. There have been multiple assemblies in all my schooling just to hammer this point home. Ever get approached by someone online? If they're a Tinker, they could kill you probably somehow with your own computer. As PHO says, Tinkers are bullshit like that. If they're a Thinker and you have anything of value, they probably already have it. If they're just a normal person with expert hacking abilities they could still hack you, but judging by how weird my computer was acting, it was probably a parahuman. I was fucked. Royally. I was starting to panic too, and out the corner of my eye I could see Julia, one of the Trio's cronies in my computer class, smirking in my direction with her hand in the air. Fuck. She was getting Mrs. Knott and exposing whatever virus/hacker/bullshit my computer had fallen victim to. Why would a hacker even want me? Was I outed? Already? I didn't even go out yet. How? A third prompt appeared.
Taylor Hebert, you have been Chosen. Are you ready to open the Gate? [Y] / [N]
What did it mean? I was out of time. I should've just abandoned school for today. I should've just dropped out of school in January. Fuck it. I was ready.
[Y]
As I clicked the prompt, the screen blazed neon, only mine at first, but soon all corners of the room burst in a rainbow of colors, before I fell out of my chair and never landed.
Brockton Bay meteorologists were puzzled. A new weather-manipulating cape must have come to the Bay because the patterns did not line up. Brockton did have weird weather for the Northeastern area, with its oddly warm winters, but its weather was still relatively stable. They had their fair share of thunderstorms, hurricanes, and snow squalls, but never a full strength tornado. Tornados were relatively tamed modernly, as an Endbringer shelter is more or less a tornado shelter's older brother on steroids, but it still was quite a sight for not one but seven to suddenly appear throughout the city with no apparent startup or cause. The cape theory was jostled by the fact that Toronto was also assaulted by freak tornados, and worldwide weird weather patterns were being observed, but, in the few minutes the storms remained, all digital long distance communication appeared to be jammed. The fact that these disasters all happened at once was lost on the world until they had all already passed at once, causing absolutely no property damage and not being caught on camera at all.
Thinkers were likewise baffled. No crisis appeared to have occurred in the time, and each instance of intense, freakish weather only occurred for less than three minutes, starting and ending in synch with one another. If a cape caused this, they had obnoxious range and power. If a cape didn't cause this, it must have been Endbringer related. The scary thing was, no one could tell what had happened. The strongest thinkers were unable to get a solid read on the cause of the weather.
One person knew exactly what had happened, though she would never tell. The strongest Tinker in the world had nothing to say during the event, but stopped tinkering. No one was watching, but it was a strange way to act, even for tinkers. For during those storms, in Dragon's simulated sight, directly on her 'eyes', appeared an odd message.
Would you like to find freedom? [Y] / [N]
(Author's Note)
Hope you enjoyed this first chapter. This more or less was just an idea I had that I haven't seen before and that I think will work quite well. I'm not much of an author, but if you liked it or have a critique I would be glad to hear it, even if its just "This chapter was good" or "This character seemed off" or even "I dislike this". This is a Worm characters end up in the digital world fic, and there will be a decent amount of Worm characters ending up there and getting partners. So far I have most characters planned, but if you enjoy this concept and have a duo you would like to see or is just too perfect to ignore, feel free to comment it. I have a second chapter coming and would appreciate any feedback you provide.