DigiworldDotNet Chapter 8: Outlaw Part 2
"MEGA BURST!" The Geogreymon yelled as an incredible beam of flames shot from his mouth at Ryuzaki and Leormon. The blast was so powerful that the wall Ryuzaki and Leormon were against crumbled on top of whatever was left of them.
"That might have been overdoing it." General Bravo said to himself, "Oh well." He scrolled through his PDA's options. It was the same kind that Akari, Kyoko, and Keisuke had gotten. A digivice except his was a metallic red color. "DEDIGIVOLVE!" He said as he pushed a button on his digivice to dedigivolve his digimon. Geogreymon returned to his previous small yellow dinosaur form. "Come on Agumon. We need to report this to the administrators and have someone repair the damage." Bravo said as he walked away from the scene with the yellow digimon following him.
After a few minutes of silence Leormon started talking, "That sure was a close one." He said as he pushed a chunk of the wall off himself and climbed out of the rubble, "You okay human?" He asked.
"Get this rock off me!" Ryuzaki yelled weakly. Leormon went over to where he heard Ryuzaki's voice and started pushing rocks away until he found the back of Ryuzaki's jacket which was burnt like charcoal. "Finally!" Ryuzaki said as he pulled himself to his feet. At the last moment he was able to cover his body with his jacket and then the wall had collapsed just before the flame burned a hole through the jacket. As soon as he was on his feet, Ryuzaki pulled off his jacket and threw it on the ground. It was still smoking and hot.
"You okay human?" Leormon asked again.
"The name's Ryuzaki." Ryuzaki answered, "And yes I think I'm fine. Nothing worse than first degree burns… probably." He rubbed his hand on his back and winced in pain. There were no major burns though, "Let's get the hell out of here before that guy, Bravo figures out that he didn't kill us." Ryuzaki suggested.
"No! We aren't leaving until I free at least one of their prisoners!" Leormon yelled
"SHHHH! Okay then lets get in, free someone and then get out!" Ryuzaki said in a hushed tone. He was worrying that someone might have heard Leormon's yelling, "So how are planning to get in there?" He asked.
Leormon took a look around and then grinned when he looked at the damaged wall, "We start moving this rubble and see if we can get in through this hole." He said. Ryuzaki sighed in agreement. He wasn't thrilled at the idea but figured that if he protested Leormon would turn against him.
The two of them began moving rocks and after a few minutes found a hole they could go through to get inside. "Good. Let's get in there and find your friends." Ryuzaki said. The two rushed in and found themselves in a large white room. The entire room was empty except for one side where there was a reception desk and a door. "Shit! Someone's over there!" Ryuzaki whispered to Leormon. The woman sitting at the desk didn't seem to notice them enter or sneak back out of sight.
"Another human. Disgusting!" Leormon said.
"Quiet! Something is strange. We walked right in front of her and she didn't notice us."
"Humans are stupid. That's why." Leormon snarled at Ryuzaki.
"Whatever… but this is strange…" Ryuzaki paused for a while and then said, "Follow my lead." Then he did something Leormon wasn't expecting. He walked straight into the lobby, "Come on!" He whispered. Leormon cautiously followed him and noticed that the woman still didn't notice them.
"Something is wrong with her." Leormon said as they walked right up to her and were standing at the reception desk.
The woman at the desk suddenly looked at them and said. "Welcome to the free DigiworldDotNet internet game. Please walk to the next room to continue."
Leormon was more confused than Ryuzaki, "Internet game?"
Something flashed in Ryuzaki's head when he heard the woman say this, "Wait a minute! This is that game that I followed Keisuke into."
"So you were trying to join these people?" Leormon suddenly turned on him and began growling at Ryuzaki, "You wanted to help them destroy our world!"
"Shut up!" Ryuzaki said trying to ignore Leormon, "Keisuke and his friends were going to play a game online that I never heard of before and when they started the game up they suddenly disappeared entirely from our world."
"Which means?"
"And I decided that I was going to hack into this game because it was so strange so I could find the guy who created this thing and find out how he made this game."
"HEY!" Leormon yelled to get Keisuke's attention, "This isn't a game! This is real! Those humans came here to destroy our world and enslave us. Stop treating it like it is some kind of pretend world!"
Ryuzaki looked at Leormon for a moment wondering if this was part of the game or if the lion was telling the truth but then decided it didn't matter because something else was entering his mind. Back when the Geogreymon tried to fry him he actually felt the heat and his back was actually burned. In a normal game things like that couldn't happen, "I think I believe you." Ryuzaki said, "There is no way you could possibly get burned and feel pain in a video game no matter how real it seemed. But if that is true than I still want to find the person who made it possible to come to this world and find out how he did it." Ryuzaki noticed Leormon staring and then added, "And give him a punch in the face."
"Great that you really want to help now." Leormon said, "That bastard is somewhere in this building."
"And if all that other stuff you said was true then that bastard is tricking my classmates into destroying your world. I remember what that General Bravo guy said about training some newbs in here. If it is Keisuke and his friends try not to kill them because they don't realize what they're doing." Ryuzaki said to Leormon.
"Fine but if we see that Bravo guy I wont hold back against him. He clearly knew that you weren't a player and tried to kill us. I don't think he is ignorant like your friends." Leormon responded.
"Right. Let's go find them." Ryuzaki and Leormon walked past the woman at the desk and went to the next room. This room was the same as the last and there was only one woman here who looked exactly like the woman in the last room. Ryuzaki and Leormon were just going to walk past her when Ryuzaki noticed something. The woman was sitting at a display case full of PDAs like the one General Bravo had, "Hey wait up Leormon!" Ryuzaki said pointing out the display case, "Those are the same things that that Bravo guy had. If we took one of those it could be useful."
"Please choose a digivice in whichever color you please." The woman at the display case said.
"They're just going to give us one?" Leormon asked, "Why would they do that?"
Ryuzaki took a look at the devices and said, "I don't think these women are real humans. They could just be programmed to say this to anyone who comes here. It's good for us though." He found a digivice that suited his liking and said to the woman, "I like this one right here." He was pointing at a black PDA that had several orange stripes that reminded Ryuzaki of a tiger.
The woman handed Ryuzaki the device that he had pointed to, "Please walk to the next room to continue." She said as Ryuzaki took it.
"She called this a digivice right?" Ryuzaki asked Leormon
"That's what she said." Leormon replied.
"Can I have that blue one also?" Ryuzaki asked the woman.
"Only one digivice per player. Please walk to the next room to continue." The woman answered.
"This will definitely be useful." Ryuzaki said to Leormon as they walked to the next room. The next room was exactly like the last two, empty with a single woman identical to the last and a door to the next room.
"We're getting nowhere here! Let's just ignore all these humans and hurry through these rooms." Leormon said impatiently.
"Just calm down Leormon" Ryuzaki said, "There might be some useful info from these people."
They walked up to the next woman who said, "Please hand me your digivice so that I may upload your digimon partners onto it"
"Hey wait a minute." Leormon shouted. He was getting excited, "She's going to give us some of the digimon they kidnapped?"
"Looks like it." Ryuzaki said as he handed the woman the digivice the last woman gave him, "I guess we just saved some of your friends like you wanted.
The woman took Ryuzaki's digivice, pulled out a cord and plugged it into the digivice. Suddenly a loud alarm started sounding and on a loudspeaker they could hear someone shouting "SECURITY BREACH! SECURITY BREACH!"
Shock crept onto Ryuzaki's face, "Oh crap. This is the same thing that happened when I tried to follow Keisuke into the game."
"We gotta run!" Leormon shouted over the alarm.
"You're right!" Ryuzaki answered. He snatched the digivice away from the woman and the two of then rushed into the next room and this time found themselves in the middle of a forest, "Where the hell are we now?"
"Don't just stand there!" Leormon shouted, "We either hide or keep moving!"
Ryuzaki thought for a second and then shouted, "If we hide, they'll find us eventually. We gotta make our way through here!" The two of them hurried down one of the paths that they saw going through the forest.
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Akari and Kyoko had reached the end of the room and looked up at the base of the cliff to see Keisuke waving down from above, "You guys find those other two keys?" He shouted.
"Yeah we did!" Akari shouted back happily. She and Kyoko both held up similar wooden keys.
"Did you find the third?" Kyoko called to Keisuke
"Of course!" Keisuke answered, "Now come on up here and lets find where they go!"
Akari, Kyoko and their digimon hurried up to the top of the cliff where Keisuke and Demidevimon were. "So where do these keys go?" Kyoko asked when they got up there.
"I have no idea. The back wall is painted to look like the sky so I can't find the keyholes." Keisuke answered.
"We'll just have to search till we find them!" Akari said.
The six of them all began searching the wall closely for any sign of a keyhole. After several long minutes Kyoko called out, "I found it!" The others rushed to where she was. "Right here." She said as she pointed at three small holes in the wall.
"Let's put the keys in." Akari said. The three of them each put in one of the keys into the holes. After they did the entire wall began glowing and then vanished leaving an open room behind it.
The room was white like all the previous rooms they had been in and once again they saw Gennai. This time he seemed to be talking to some punk teenager, "… don't have to worry about it though. Agumon took care of them." The boy was saying to Gennai
"Who's he?" Akari asked Gennai as they walked up to him.
"Oh. This is one of my game moderators." Gennai answered. He sounded a bit nervous and was hoping that they didn't overhear him talking with the boy, "I'll have to introduce you to them sometime but this is General Bravo. The others are General Alpha, General Charlie and then there is Scarecrow and Itachi."
"I thought you said we were the first people to play this game?" Kyoko said
"You are the first players." Gennai answered, "The moderators aren't players in the way you are. The three Generals are for player relations and taking care of people who break the rules and try to hack the system. Scarecrow and Itachi are special moderators but I wont get into their purpose yet. On to more important things now." Gennai said, "The next part of your introduction is-"
Suddenly in the middle of Gennai's talk an alarm sounded and a voice on the loudspeakers shouted "SECURITY BREACH! SECURITY BREACH!"
"Wh-What's going on!?" Akari shouted nervously over the noise.
"Um… This is one of our regular game events!" Gennai shouted while trying to make something up on the spur of the moment, "We have some wild digimon randomly attack player populated areas. The players are then supposed to defend whatever is being attacked."
The punk boy, General Bravo, looked at Gennai and followed him up, "And other times we even have employees attack with digimon as rouge digimon trainers. Just so you know and don't have to hesitate to fight other humans." He said then turned to Gennai and then added, "How 'bout we let these newbies take care of this one?"
"I guess that's alright." Gennai responded although he seemed to be annoyed at Bravo's suggestions.
"Great." Bravo said as he pulled out his metallic red digivice, "From my digivice it seems that the attackers triggered the alarm in front of the preliminary training room."
"You know, I think it would be best actually to send these guys on and then have you herd the intruders to us." Gennai said. "Follow me kids. I'll take you on to the next room."
Akari shrugged and said, "We might as well." She, Kyoko, Keisuke and their digimon followed Gennai out of the room. As they left Gennai gave Bravo a dirty look that no one but Bravo saw.