Digimon World Wars
Chapter 4 - The Power to Fight
They were seriously outmatched, both Duo and Veemon were injured and Duo was having a hard time staying on his feet. Duo was thinking hard on what Striker had said, was it a slip of the tongue? 'Nah this guy seems too smart to let something like that just slip out.'
He had said that the digisoul could help a digimon digivolve, maybe if he somehow gave this power to Veemon he'd be able to digivolve again. Striker must have thought it would be impossible or he wouldn't have said anything. Duo held his hand out to Veemon trying to will the digisoul covering his hand to move toward him, but nothing would happen.
"Fool there's no way you could possibly help your blue runt digivolve again, it takes a lot more control and power to get a digimon to digivolve to champion level something that a human can't do without help."
'Dammit what can we do then?'
"Duo stay back," Veemon rushed forward, towards his opponents.
"Wait, stop Veemon!" Duo took off after him.
"VEE HEADBUTT!" Veemon launched himself head first again at Airdramon, who began to counter the same way he had the last time Veemon tried this, but this time Veemon was ready he caught Airdramon's tail as it whipped around and used it to redirect himself back toward Airdramon's head, "VEE KNOCKOUT!" The punch landed but Airdramon barely flinched, but at that second Duo's fist came flying in and hit beside Veemon's fist and Airdramon was flung backward again.
"ENOUGH," Striker held on to Airdramon so he wouldn't get flung off again. "Fly out of reach and blast them Airdramon." Airdramon followed his orders flying to a distance so Duo and Veemon couldn't reach him anymore.
"AIR CUTTER," Duo grabbed Veemon and jumped out of the way as two wind blades shot through the air at them again. They both barely managed to avoid them before, "SPINNING NEEDLE!" Duo held on to Veemon as he ran toward the edge of the roof and jumped, landing on a second roof that stood about a story shorter than the one they had been on, Duo's legs buckled as they landed and he began to fall forward spinning himself around so that he hit the ground and not Veemon.
"Duo you okay?"
"Hehe, not really," but Duo managed to push himself to his knees again, refusing to stop until he was either dead or safe. "Veemon, get out of here, save yourself while you can."
"No I'm staying, I want to avenge the old man too," Duo was surprised, but strangely found himself angry at this comment.
"You don't even know his name, why would you fight for someone you don't even know?" Veemon was surprised by how harsh his voice sounded.
"Because you're fighting for him, and you're my friend right?" Duo was at a loss for words, only one other person had ever called Duo their friend. Duo looked at the blue digimon and nodded his head. Veemon smiled and then turned to where Airdramon and Striker were hovering ready to fight again. "I won't give up if you won't Duo."
"Great, because I refuse to give up no matter what!" Then something happened that made Duo and Veemon both stop in their tracks there was a small blue glow of light glowing at the center of both Duo and Veemon's chests. The two lights floated through the air in front of them and then collided with each other.
"NO THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, HE'S ONE OF THEM! AIRDRAMON KILL THEM BOTH QUICK." Duo reached into the light and pulled out a strange device it was rectangular with a small screen, a few buttons on the front and side, white color on the back and dark blue on the front.
"What is this?"
'It's your digivice,' time was standing still as he could hear a strange voice in the back of his head, 'Charge your digisoul into it, it'll give your partner digimon the power to digivolve.'
"Who... are-"
'You must hurry.'
"NOW AIRDRAMON!"
"SPINNING-" Duo reacted without thinking, he somehow knew exactly what to do.
=EVOLUTION=
Duo: Digisoul Charge!
Duo charged the digisoul into his digivice, the screen began to glow before a light shot out of it and into Veemon, Duo watched as his body began to glow.
"THIS CAN'T BE." Striker was furious.
"-NEEDLE!"
Veemon Digivolve to -
ExVeemon
ExVeemon grabbed Duo and jumped high into the air completely avoiding Airdramon's attack, before slowing hovering back down to the roof.
"This can't be, he's got a digivice, his digimon is at the champion level. How did this happen?" Duo looked up at the new digimon, he was taller than Duo was by a couple of feet, he had wings on his back, long muscular legs and arms, a blade like horn at the end of his nose and a large X-shaped mark across his chest.
"Amazing I feel so strong now." Duo smiled at Veemon's new form.
"Give him hell ExVeemon!"
"YOU GOT IT!" ExVeemon charged into the air with amazing speed, "HEART BREAKER!" ExVeemon pulled his fist back and threw a punch toward Airdramon's head, who slipped to the side and whipped his tail around again. ExVeemon caught his tail with both his arms, "Don't you ever try anything new?" ExVeemon began to spin, swinging Airdramon around by the tail. Striker was fighting desperately to hold on as ExVeemon chucked Airdramon away back onto the roof they had been on before. Where they crashed hard through the roof of the building.
ExVeemon flew back over to Duo and landed next to him, "What do you think?" ExVeemon had a goofy grin on his face, clearly pleased with himself.
"You're awesome big guy," Duo and ExVeemon turned back to their enemies, waiting for them to surface.
"Airdramon keep your distance, he's a short-range fighter we'll blast him from a distance," Airdramon took off into the air again making sure to stay far away from ExVeemon.
"I heard that, you think I can't get you up there, you're wrong!" ExVeemon grinned as he crossed his arms across his chest.
"SPINNING NEEDLE!"
"VEE LASER!" A large X-shaped laser beam shot out from the mark on his chest it met Airdramon's attack in the air and blasted through them.
"DAMN YOU!" ExVeemon's attack hit Airdramon straight on blowing Striker off of him, the beam tore away at Airdramon until his body was split in two. The two halves of Airdramon slowly began to disintegrate until they faded into nothing.
ExVeemon's body began to glow and shrink, when the light faded Veemon was standing where ExVeemon had been less than a second before.
"You did it Veemon, you really..." And Duo collapsed unable to keep himself conscious anymore.
"Duo wake up," Veemon was worried Duo's breathing was becoming really ragged and his face had gone pale. "Come on Duo, open your eyes!" Veemon was scared, because it looked like Duo was dying. 'What do I do, someone please help!'
As if answering his plea a green light appeared behind him, he turned around to see the holy warrior Angemon standing there as he walked through a portal that had torn open the very space, he stepped forward toward Duo and Veemon.
"Veemon we must bring him to the digital world as long as he's here he'll be a target," Angemon picked Duo up and turned back to the portal with Veemon behind him. Veemon knew he could trust this digimon, their wasn't a more trustworthy digimon in the entire digital world.
And with that they were gone, Striker had managed to save himself and climb his way back to the rooftop, only to find Duo and Veemon gone. "I SWEAR I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER BOY!"
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"How are his injuries?"
"They're terrible Rex, although I think he'll make it now, it sure is lucky that you have the same blood type as him," Rex looked at the bandage on his arm, he had just donated his own blood to the guy Angemon brought in. Babamon was looking over him for the fourth time in the last hour.
"Alright you hungry Rex?" Babamon walked to the door, "I'm sure Flamon is." Rex chuckled to himself, his partner was always hungry. They walked outside into the hallway where they saw the little blue digimon that came with Angemon sitting outside on the floor.
"How is he?"
"He'll recover, but he needs to stay in bed and rest for a few days, now come on I'm sure you're hungry too." Veemon followed after Rex and Babamon downstairs where Jijimon was drinking a cup of coffee and Flamon was sitting next to him curiously studying the strange liquid Jijimon had given him.
"Hey Rex have you ever had coffee before?" Flamon asked Rex hoping to figure out if this drink was gonna kill him or not.
"Yeah it's alright, but I like mine with a lot of sugar and cream."
"Jijimon, Babamon do you have any sugar or cream?" Babamon handed Flamon a small pot of sugar, and he began spooning tons of it into his drink. Babamon began cooking a simple meal of omelets for everyone.
After they ate, Rex stepped outside, Babamon and Jijimon's house was nice, but a little cramped it had two floors a living room, kitchen, main bedroom, and a guest bedroom where Duo was resting, of course its main attraction is that it was situated smack in the middle of no where, they were in the middle of a huge forest. Flamon followed him out, a noticable spring in his step from all the sugar he had.
Rex was a 17-year-old young man, with brown hair which spiked up and to the right with a purple streak of hair in the middle, his partner Flamon was a humanoid looking digimon that stood on two legs had red hair, a puffy red tail, wore red pants, and had earings in both ears. Rex and Flamon had been here for the last three days, the angel digimon Angemon had told them to wait here until he heard from him, and when he finally showed up again he had brought a near dead boy with long brown braided hair, and short bangs that hung out over his forehead. After Angemon dropped the boy and his partner Veemon off he disappeared again. Leaving Rex with no clue as to what he should be doing. Rex stared into the sky and saw a large insect flying through the sky he had no idea what it was, so he pulled out his digivice and pointed it at the creature.
A virtual screen formed over the screen of his dark red digivice and read,
Flymon, Champion Level, Insectoid Digimon, Virus Type
For fun he then pointed his digivice at his own partner who was climbing up to the top of a nearby tree at breakneck speed.
Flamon, Rookie Level, Demon Man Digimon, Vaccine Type
"Jeez Flamon how much sugar did you put in that one cup of coffee?" He had to shout a bit for Flamon to hear him since he was standing all the way at the top of the tree already.
"I don't know... all of it," Flamon had a goofy grin on his face as he began to climb back down to the ground as fast as he had climbed up.
"Jeez why don't you run a few laps around the house, work off some of that excess energy," Flamon seemed to think this was the best idea ever as he immediately began running around the house as fast as he could. Veemon walked out of the house and nearly got run over as Flamon ran by him.
"Thank you for helping Duo, your name is Rex right?"
'Duo, so that was his name,' Rex smiled at the blue digimon, "Don't worry about it, it was nothing, and yeah I'm Rex," he pointed his digivice at Veemon to see what it said about him.
Veemon, Rookie Level, Dragon Digimon, Vaccine Type
"That's cool, that's the same thing that came out of that light, Duo used it to help me digivolve, but Duo's is blue."
"Yup, it's called a digivice." Rex handed his digivice to Veemon who looked at it for a second then handed it back to him.
"WOOHOO!" Flamon was still running around the house.
"Flamon quiet down a bit would ya."
"Is he your partner?"
"Hehe yup, and I'm gonna start watching his sugar intake."
"Are you able to use that digivice to help him digivolve too?"
"Yup," Rex raised his fist as a dark red colored digisoul wrapped itself around it, then faded when he dropped his hand. Flamon flew by them again.
"I'll think I'll join him," and with that Veemon began to run as fast as he could to keep up with Flamon. Rex laughed at the two, Veemon's shorter legs were making it hard for him to keep up with Flamon. After awhile Flamon overlapped him but the two kept going.
Rex laid down on the grass and stared at the night sky. 'The digital world sure is a beautiful place,' but he knew what was coming was gonna push him to his limits, he might not even make it out alive.
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A few days passed before Duo began to show signs of life again. Veemon had slept in the guest room on a couple of pillows he laid out on the floor, when he woke up early in the morning and looked to see Duo sitting up in bed. "Duo you're awake!"
"Hey there Veemon, where are we?" Duo laid his head back down, his muscles were still very sore.
"We're in the digital world, this is Babamon and Jijimon's house they've been taking care of you and letting me and another human and digimon stay here while you were unconscious."
"The Digital World? Are you serious? How did we get here?"
"You got here thanks to me." Duo turned and saw a very tall man with long blond hair, a helmet that covered his eyes, and skin-tight white cloth covering his whole body except for his face, and most noticable of all were the six white wings on his back.
"Who are you, and why did you bring me here?"
"My name is Angemon, and I brought you here because you are no longer safe in your own world."
Duo stared intently at Angemon, "What do you know about the men who attacked me?"
"I know a bit, but not everything. I promise I'll tell you later, right now you need to rest," Angemon pulled out a vile of a strange green liquid. "Here drink this it'll help speed your recovery." Duo was weary at first, but he figured if this guy wanted to poison him he would have just left him to die, so he drank the liquid, and immediately regretted it, it tasted horrible. "I'll be back in three days." Angemon got up and headed out the door. Leaving Duo extremely angry about being left in the dark as well as having the taste of a sewer in his mouth.
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The next day Duo got Babamon to let him out of bed as long as he promised to take it easy, which he abided to, he really wanted to get a chance to talk to the other human who was staying here. He walked outside and saw him sitting on the ground, leaning back against the trunk of a tree. He sat down against another tree across from him.
"Hi I'm Duo," Rex opened his eyes and looked at him.
"I'm Rex, nice to see you up and about."
"Heh, thanks." Duo looked around and saw Veemon running laps around the area along with Flamon Rex's partner. From the sound of it Veemon and Flamon were becoming fast friends. "How did you get here?"
"More or less the same as you, me and Flamon were being hunted by that organization until Angemon came and brought us here," Rex stood up and began to stretch his arms and legs. "I heard you got a digivice too," Duo pulled out the dark blue device out of his pocket and showed it to him, and Rex pulled out his dark red one, to let Duo see.
"Can you tell me what's going on?" Duo became really serious as he too stood back up.
"It's hard to explain, I don't know all the details but I'll tell you what I know," he paused for a moment to get his thoughts together, "I'm not sure what the organization calls themself, but I do know they deal specifically with digimon, they're behind all the disappearances in the real world. They've been kidnapping anybody who shows even the slightest sliver of digisoul to gather enough of the energy for some purpose, and that's not all, they've also been in the digital world where they slaughter as many digimon as they can, gathering their data in order to further their plans."
"How can they possibly keep all this covered."
"They've got clearance from the world's governments, the world leaders are scared to death of the digimon, and they allow the organization full access to do whatever they have to."
"But what about the people they kidnap how can they possibly allow them to lock up innocent people."
"From what I know they've convinced the government that any human who shows digisoul, or comes into contact with digimon is a threat."
"But that man Striker was using a digimon to fight with."
"They use the data of digimon they destroy and reform them into mindless puppets, once a digimon is like that the only way to free them is to destroy them. When a digimon is destroyed their data returns to the digital world where it is reformatted and born again." Duo couldn't believe what he was hearing, he looked over to Veemon and Flamon who were happily sparring with each other.
"Why do they see digimon as so much of a threat?"
"There all tons of incredibly powerful evil digimon out there who take pleasure in causing as much pain and suffering as they can, but then there's digimon like these guys, kind and fun-loving."
"None of this is right." Duo ran his hand through his hair, 'is the world really this messed up.'
"So what are you gonna do?"
"Huh?"
"Are you gonna fight with us?" Duo thought heavily about what he said.
"How do you intend to fight them?"
"However we have to, from what I've heard there all a bunch of others like us with digimon partners and digivices who can fight."
Duo stared up toward the bright sun and closed his eyes, thinking heavily about what old man Himura had spoken to him about. Some of his final words playing through his head, especially the part where he told Duo that he was a hero, before Duo snapped at him. "I never did apologize to him for that."
Rex, "Huh? What are you talking about?"
Duo hung his head remembering how Himura had died, how he had lived, Duo had only lived with him for a little over a year, but he had never respected anyone more. He was the kindest, wisest, strongest old man Duo had known. All those times he tried to spar with him, and always got his ass handed to him.
"Those bastards killed the only adult who ever treated me like a son. He once told me I was a hero because I threw myself into danger to protect someone weaker than myself. I don't want him to be wrong, if I can save innocent people and digimon I'll fight for as long as I have too."
Rex smiled, he held out his hand to Duo and shook his hand. "You'll make him proud."
"DUO, REX LOOK OUT!" Veemon and Flamon were running toward them Duo looked around and didn't see anything coming, but Rex did, he pushed Duo out of the way before a large stinger hit him and dodged a second one aimed at him with ease. He looked up at the three large wasp like digimon flying above them, as Flamon ran to his side and Veemon ran to Duo's.
"What are those?"
"Flymon, but why are they attacking us?"
"Um, me and Veemon accidentally woke them up, they were asleep in a tree we were messing around next to, I guess they're pretty cranky."
Rex face-palmed, "Nice job Flamon..."
"BROWN STINGERS!" The four of them ran away as several giant stingers were shot at them.
Duo pulled his digivice out of his pocket, "Ready Veemon?"
"Yeah!"
=EVOLUTION=
Duo: Digisoul Charge!
Veemon Digivolve to -
ExVeemon
"HEART BREAKER!" ExVeemon launched himself at one of the Flymon and delivered a solid blow sending the insect soaring away over the forest.
"Awesome!" Shouted both Rex and Flamon, admiring ExVeemon's power. "Let's show these two what we can do Flamon."
"You got it!"
=EVOLUTION=
Rex: Digisoul Charge!
Flamon Digivolve to -
Agunimon
Duo and ExVeemon stared at Flamon's champion form. He was a tall humanoid digimon wearing mostly red armor with silver and gold pieces mixed in, black underclothes, a red mask with horns on the top of it, and he had long thick blond hair hanging loose behind him, but what impressed Duo and ExVeemon the most was the way he seemed to radiate heat.
"PYRO DARTS!" Fire spilled out of the armor on Agunimon's right wrist and he snapped his left hand through the fire flinging it at the two Flymon. Both shots hit the remaining two Flymon in the face where they began to freak out trying to put out the flames. Agunimon then jumped up in between the two of them and began to spin. "PYRO TORNADO!" Flames whipped around him as he span, scorching the two Flymon. Agunimon landed back on the ground and looked back up at the Flymon who were both comically charred black, both coughed up a bit of smoke up before falling into a heap on the ground. "I let the two of you off with a light toasting, maybe that'll teach ya not to just randomly attack someone."
Rex turned to Duo, "I don't think it was that random, I'd be cranky too if these two woke me up when I'm tired." The two boys laughed at this.
"Dang if that's a light toasting I'd hate to see what he considers a well done toasting," said ExVeemon, both Duo and Rex laughed again. The two Flymon walked away probably to find their buddy and some burn ointment. Agunimon and ExVeemon returned to their rookie forms.
"CONFLABBIT! WHATS ALL THE COMMOTION ABOUT OUT HERE!" Jijimon was standing behind them.
"Oh you know, random Flymon attack," chuckled Flamon.
"Again with the random," Rex face-palmed again.
"Well you four get inside my wife cooked you all up something tasty," The five of them walked back into the building. Duo walked behind Rex thinking that he was gonna get along with the guy well.
~To Be Continued~
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Characters
Rex Kazinawa
Age: 17
The only character I came up with myself, kinda. He usually wears a black tank top, wears lite brown cargo pants held up with a black belt, also wears one of the Naruto vests, brown in color and like Duo's is smaller and fit better to him, with no shoulder pads or raised collar, also never zips it up. His hair is a sort of between Dragonball GT Goten and Gundam Wing Heero. Hair stands up, out, and to the side is brown with a streak of purple going up the middle. The name and the purple streak idea came from Yugioh's Rex Raptor.