Digimon World Wars

Chapter 3 - Hunted

"We're picking up a reading," the man began to type away furiously on the keyboard again, "It's coming from the address we picked up from the hospital files." A devious grin spread across the lips of the man sitting in the back.

"Well let's get this done tonight, I've got more important things to do."

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"Thanks for the food!" Duo watched as the little creature went to town on the candy bar he had in the cupboard, "What is this? It's so yummy!"

"Uh, it's a chocolate bar." The little guy gave another big bite.

"YUM!" The little guy finished the candy bar, "Thanks again, my name is DemiVeemon!" The little guy smiled and waved his little hand at Duo.

"I'm Duo." This had to be the strangest thing ever, Duo was talking to a little blue beanie baby. "So DemiVeemon what are you exactly?" The little creature looked at him like he had asked the dumbest question in the world.

"I'm a Digimon of course!" He proclaimed proudly.

"Digimon?"

"That's right Digimon, Digital Monster." Duo sat down on the little stool he had on the corner of his room, DemiVeemon jumped back up, "Can I have another chocolate?" Duo got back up and pulled his last one from the cupboard without saying anything. DemiVeemon jumped in joy when Duo handed it to him and he began tearing into it.

"Where did you come from?"

DemiVeemon gave a big gulp before answering. "I'm from the digital world."

"Where is that?"

"Hmmmm," DemiVeemon stopped and thought about it, "I don't know, where am I now?"

"Planet Earth."

"Where is that?" Now Duo wasn't sure how to answer.

"I've never seen anyone like you before, what kind of digimon are you?"

"I'm a human being." The little guys cluelessness both annoyed Duo and made him chuckle.

"DemiVeemon are there more digimon other then yourself?"

"Well sure the digital world is filled with them."

"How do you know that if you just hatched?"

"I don't know I just do." Duo began to think back to the giant praying mantis.

"Is there a big green bug, who looks like a praying mantis?"

"Hmm," DemiVeemon had his little hand on his chin while he tried to remember.

"Has big sharp blades on both its hands," Duo held his hands in front of him trying to mimic the way he remembered the giant bug's arms.

"Probably, there's tons of different kinds of digimon in the digital world."

It wasn't an exact answer, but Duo felt it was the most logical explanation. 'That mantis had to of been a digimon and Eureka said monster sightings were coming in around the world, could all of those sightings be digimon that had gotten to earth?'

Then an extremely loud thud sounded from the door, Duo went on alert and surprisingly so did DemiVeemon. Something hit the door again and Duo was getting ready to jump whoever came bursting through his door. But then he heard old man Himura's voice.

"Your trespassing, leave now before I call the police."

"We have business with the boy who lives here," the man pulled out a strange badge.

"I don't care what business you have, if you want to harass my tenant get yourself a warrant!" Duo snuck out the window and peered around the corner where one man was still trying to break down his door and two more were threatening the old man that he had better stay out of their way. DemiVeemon jumped out of the window too and rested himself on Duo's right shoulder.

"Don't stand in our way old man," one of the men pulled out a gun and was pointing it to Himura's head.

'Oh hell no,' Duo picked up a rock and tossed it at the man, hitting him in the arm and causing him to drop the gun. Old man Himura took advantage of this and delivered a swift kick to the mans torso, knocking him to the ground then rounded on the second man pulling his gun away from him and punching him in the face. The third man at the door turned around and was drawing his gun as well. Duo ran around the corner grabbing the mans arm stripping the gun away from him and bringing his left elbow into the man's stomach.

All three men were knocked down and they're guns were taken from them, Duo walked over to Himura both were taking the clips and bullets out of the gun and pulling them apart before tossing the various pieces into different directions. The three men were up and were circling around Duo and Himura.

"I knew it, he is the one we want," one of the men was pointing to Duo's shoulder, "That's a digimon." DemiVeemon looked angrily at the man who was pointing at him. Old man Himura gave one look at DemiVeemon then looked away as though a little blue creature was an everyday occurence.

"Calm down little guy," Duo whispered to DemiVeemon, "Just hang tight." Duo launched himself at one of the thugs, the thug threw a punch at him but Duo ducked under it, crouched down and swiftly sweep kicked the guys feet out from under him. The second man charged at Himura attempting to throw a punch at him, the old man simply grabbed the mans arm and flipped him over his head like it was nothing before spinning backwards and bring the back of his heel into the third mans face as he came at him.

Duo slammed his fist into the man's forehead, knocking him unconscious. He then looked at the old man seeing that he was bringing the other two men down with ease.

'Who are these guys what do they want with me and DemiVeemon.' As that thought crossed his mind the sound of a gunshot made his heart skip a beat.

Duo looked to the direction it came from seeing a man with short brown hair, the man looked to be in his late thirties and was wearing a long black jacket.

He was standing there pointing a gun towards them. Duo looked over his body but couldn't find a wound, he then heard DemiVeemon gasp and looked to where the little guy was pointing. Old man Himura was clutching his chest and on his knees, blood was flowing from his chest as he struggled to stay up. Duo moved to him a silent scream etched on his face when a second gunshot hit Duo catching him in his left shoulder, he fell to his knees yelling in pain, and looked at the man who was pointing the gun at him again. "YOU BASTARD!"

The man pointed the gun lower toward his knees and fired, Duo braced himself but felt no pain. He opened his eyes and saw old man Himura had thrown himself in front of Duo to protect him, Duo grabbed the old man as he collapsed, holding him in his arms.

"No, no... don't die on me old man."

The old man smiled before coughing out "Run... you fool." Then his eyes went blank as all life left him. Duo had never experienced anything like this before, overwhelming grief and sadness mixed with pure rage. Duo glared angrily at the man silent tears running down his face, the man was smiling to himself. Duo stood up, DemiVeemon was still on his shoulder telling him they had to run but Duo couldn't hear him, all he wanted at the moment was to cause as much pain as possible to the man in front of him. Duo took two steps forward when the man raised a strange device up to the air, a blinding light came from the device forming a flying serpent like dragon.

"Airdramon wound him but don't kill him we need his Digisoul."

"Duo we got to run now, we can't win that's a champion level digimon!" Duo didn't know what that meant, but he saw the dragon winding its head back and before Duo could do anything.

"SPINNING NEEDLE!" Spirals of air flew through the air toward Duo and DemiVeemon exploding on the ground around them, one landed in front of him and blew him off his feet sending him flying several yards back. Duo landed in a heap and DemiVeemon landed right next to him. Duo quickly got back to his feet ignoring his aching bruised limbs and the bullet wound in his shoulder, he scooped up DemiVeemon and began to run into the city.

"Airdramon come here," the dragon hovered down to the ground and the man climbed up on top of its head, "They won't get away."

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Eureka laid awake in bed, trying to go to sleep, but she just couldn't. She couldn't shake this intense feeling of danger, it was the same feeling she had when they saw the giant mantis attack the park. She sat up trying to clear her head, she found herself wondering about Duo again, when she got up tomorrow she would try to talk to him again. Hopefully he would have had enough time to think about what she said.

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Duo ran down the street, refusing to look back. His mind was set, he had to put as much distance between him and that man's dragon. DemiVeemon climbed back up onto Duo's shoulder as he ran between buildings weaving through the closed shop district trying to lose the man riding on the dragon. He ran non-stop for nearly fifteen minutes.

Duo was now on the street near the river he had taken a nap at just yesterday. He hid himself in an alley across from the river and tried to catch his breath.

"Duo are you okay." DemiVeemon was motioning to his left shoulder which was bleeding pretty bad from the bullet wound, blood was running all the way down his arm.

"Don't worry about me, just let me catch my breath for a second then we'll get out of here." Duo wasn't sure where he could escape to though, his body was screaming in protest, his wounds from the previous day were acting up, on top of the wounds he received not twenty minutes ago.

"You go on ahead I'll find him and try to hold him off." Duo snapped toward DemiVeemon in surprise, as he jumped off Duo's shoulder.

"No way! I'm not leaving you behind, that thing will eat you alive... probably literally."

"Don't worry about me, I'll help you get away to thank you for the chocolate." Duo didn't know what to say the little guy was so brave, but still Duo couldn't leave him behind, he couldn't save the old man, but he had to at least save this friendly little guy.

"SPINNING NEEDLE." Duo reacted instantly grabbing DemiVeemon and jumping out of the alley to the right as the alley they were in was blown to bits. He struggled to get up again he had never felt so tired in his whole life. He looked up to see the man walking towards him, that same evil grin on his face. Duo's anger rose to a fever pitch as visions of holding Himura's dead lifeless form in his arms came back to him. With surprising speed he jumped to his feet and moved to punch the man in the face, as he did the glow came to his fist again and he knew he was going to send this guy flying... He was wrong. The man caught his fist with ease and delivered a punch to Duo's chest and sent him flying back through the large window of the small shop behind them.

"DUO!" He heard DemiVeemon shouting his name as he fell among the debris of glass and various shelves. "Stay away from him, POP ATTACK!" DemiVeemon tried to ram his head into the man but was swatted away, landing in the building next to Duo. He got back up standing between the man and Duo, his little arms spread wide hell-bent on protecting him.

"DemiVeemon stop he'll kill you," Duo reached out his still glowing hand to the little guy. The man walked up to DemiVeemon and lifted his foot up intent on stomping on him, DemiVeemon closed his eyes waiting for what was coming. Duo could already see the poor little guy dead in front of him, crushed by the mans foot. 'Not again.'

"STOPPPP," at his plea, a small part of the blue energy shot out of Duo's outstretched hand and went to DemiVeemon, which caused his body to start glowing.

"WHAT!"

DemiVeemon Digivolve to -

Veemon

"Impossible!"

"VEE HEADBUTT!" The man had the wind knocked clean out of him and some of his ribs broken as the digimon in front of him rammed his head into him, he flew back out the window and collided with Airdramon.

"Come on we have to go," Veemon was trying to help Duo back to his feet. Duo was amazed by what had happened and how much bigger the little guy who was small enough to ride on his shoulder mere seconds ago had become. While still only bout half as tall as Duo, Veemon was able to push him to his feet and the two escaped out the back door.

"Why that little piece of trash, I'll make sure they both suffer." The man was back on Airdramon's head clutching his chest and breathing heavy. "Show no mercy Airdramon!"

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Duo and Veemon were running away for another ten minutes before Duo had to stop again, he had been cut up a bit from being thrown through a window not to mention his back had slammed into a shelf. He was fighting hard not to pass out, he had to stay awake, had to find a way out of this. The two ducked into an abandoned building and sat down catching their breath again. Duo had lost quite a bit of blood by now and his entire body felt bruised and beaten at the moment.

"What happened DemiVeemon, how did you get so much bigger and stronger?"

"I digivolved, now I'm Veemon, and as for how I don't know, whatever that light was that came from you filled me with energy and all of a sudden I was digivolving." Veemon sat down catching his breath and rubbing his hard head, he had hit that man as hard as he possibly could.

"Do you think your strong enough to beat that dragon thing then?" Duo was pretty sure he knew the answer already though.

"No I don't think so, I'm a rookie level digimon and like I said before, Airdramon is a champion level." Veemon poked his head out the door and looked to the sky checking to see if the coast was clear. "Maybe if I could somehow digivolve again I'd be a match for him."

"You're saying if you digivolve again that would put you on the same level as... Airdramon?" It felt strange to Duo to call that dragon by a name.

"Yeah the next level after rookie is the champion level, when I was DemiVeemon I was at the In-Training level." Duo was soaking all this information in when the wall in front of him exploded, Duo shielded himself from the debris.

"He's back we gotta go." Duo and Veemon made for the exit hoping once again to lose him by running between and through the various buildings. They got outside and to their surprise saw that the man was waiting for him along with Airdramon. Airdramon's tailed whipped around knocking Duo to the side and into the wall, then wrapped itself around Veemon picking him up and flying off with him.

"I'll start with this little pest then I'll be back for you," the man shouted back as they took off into the air. Duo struggled to stand up again, but collapsed. There was just no way, his body was damaged far beyond what the average person could take, he had lost so much blood, his limbs felt like jelly. He laid on the cold ground for a few seconds slowly losing consciousness.

"DUO HELP ME!" Duo eyes shot back open and he began trying to push himself to his feet again, he stumbled and fell again.

"I..." Duo pushed himself up onto his hands and knees, "WON'T..." he lifted his torso back and planted one foot solid on the ground, "LET..." he was up on both his feet raising himself until he was standing straight, "ANYONE... ELSE... DIE!"

He saw Airdramon fly over the abandoned building he and Veemon were just in, he ran back inside and made for the stairs trying to get to the roof of the six-story tall building.

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Veemon bit down hard on Airdramon's tail which caused him to roar in pain and drop him. He landed on top of the building and looked back up at Airdramon and the evil man who killed the old man Duo was with earlier.

"VEE HEADBUTT," he launched himself through the air to try to attack Airdramon before he got too far for him to reach, but Airdramon slipped himself to the side and whipped his tail around smacking Veemon in the face sending him straight back onto the roof where he crashed with a hard thud.

Airdramon began to fly farther away so that Veemon wouldn't be able to reach him again, "SPINNING NEEDLE!" The attack blasted Veemon in the chest, causing him to yell out in pain and send him flying toward the edge of the building, he managed to grab hold of the railing before he fell over the edge. Dangling over the edge he tried to pull himself back up onto the roof, "AIR CUTTER!" Two blades of air shot from Airdramon's wings. One nicked Veemon in the shoulder and the other hit the railing slicing it in half. Veemon slipped but managed to grab hold of the edge of the building with his good arm, blood was trickling down his right arm.

"Airdramon move in, let's finish him," Airdramon flew down so that they were hovering right above the building where Veemon was desperately hanging on. "Kill him!"

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"I DON'T THINK SO," Duo rushed in from the side, sinking his fist into the side of Airdramon's head as the blue aura surrounded his fist again although it felt bigger and stronger this time, it was whipping around the area where his fist connected with Airdramon.

Airdramon gave another roar of pain before being knocked away from the force of the blow, the man was flung from him and landed on the roof of the building. Duo quickly reached over and pulled Veemon up onto the roof, Duo was breathing very hard, his gaze was weakening, but at this moment he didn't care if he actually died as long as he went down fighting.

"Who the hell are you people and what do you want from me?" The man was back on his feet, smirk back on his lips as he studied Duo. Duo's right fist still had the blue energy surging around it.

"Who we are is unimportant, the only thing that you need to know is that you will give us what we want."

"And what could you possibly want from me," spat Duo.

"Your Digisoul."

"My what?" The man pointed towards Duo's hand, he looked at it for a couple of seconds, 'So that's what this is.'

"Why don't you come quietly before you get yourself killed, my boss will be pissed at me if you die before we suck your digisoul from you."

"What the hell is digisoul?" The man was becoming annoyed with Duo's questions and Airdramon was starting to hover back over to join his master's side.

"Digisoul is a form of energy that exists in all humans, but only a small percentage of people are able to tap into this power. In older times this energy was referred to as ki. Digisoul has the unique ability to empower a human being giving him greater strength then what could normally be attained by a normal human and it has the ability to help the Digimon here digivolve." The man stepped back up onto Airdramon's head, "Now enough questions."

"Just one more, who the hell are you?"

"My name is unimportant, but you may know my code name, it's Striker."

~To Be Continued~

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