Digimon World Wars

Chapter 5 - The Road Ahead

"What did you say..?" Eureka couldn't believe what she was hearing, there was just no way it could be true, it had to be some sort of sick joke her father was playing on her.

"I'm sorry dear, a warrant has been issued for Duo's arrest," he had just been visited by some government official, telling him to have all his men looking for the boy. "He's wanted for murder."

"Your lying! Duo would never do something like that." Tears were running down her face, "Especially not to that kind man."

Duo was on wanted lists all around Japan, wanted for the murder of Keba Himura. Matsumoto had gone over the report several times, which stated that Duo had shot the old man twice in the chest before making off with all his valuables.

"I DON'T BELIEVE IT, IT'S A LIE!" Eureka ran to her room and slammed the door. She laid down on her bed and began to cry her eyes out.

Eureka's father was still standing where she had left him. "I don't believe it either."

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"Duo shouldn't you be taking it easy?" Rex walked up to Duo where he had done push ups for the last half an hour. Two days had passed since the meaningless little battle against the Flymon and Duo felt almost at one hundred percent again.

"I can't, we've been here doing nothing for days, at least this helps take my mind off things," Duo then swore under his breath, having lost his count. He stood up and jumped up grabbing a nearby branch and began to do pull ups.

"Angemon said he'd be back today, I'm sure we'll be able to figure out what we should be doing when he gets here." Rex was even more anxious than Duo was, he'd been staying here longer and was starting to become extremely irritated with the angel.

Rex sat himself down against the trunk of a tree and let Duo focus on his work out, then something occurred to him, there were no digimon running around making a racket. "Have you seen Flamon and Veemon?"

"They went out with Jijimon, I'm not sure what for exactly," Duo let go of the branch after a while, deciding it was time for a break, he sat down against a tree like Rex and grabbed a bottle of water Babamon had given him, and began to guzzle it.

Not much had occurred the last couple days, Rex had shown him how to scan a digimon with his digivice, Babamon had cooked some of the greatest home-made meals Duo had ever had, and Veemon and Flamon had been exercising and messing around non-stop.

"DUO, WE'RE BACK!" Duo turned his head to see Veemon, Flamon, and Jijimon walking through the forest towards them, then he noticed more people behind them.

"Look who we found," said Flamon pointing up to Angemon, but Duo was more focused on the people behind Angemon. There were two more human boys standing behind him, both looked around the same age as Duo and Rex. One was a little shorter than Duo and Rex, he had silver hair that hung around his head and next to him was a furry purple digimon that stood on two legs, it had a strange crystal on its forehead, and two little wings on it's back.

The other guy was tall and muscular, he had long straw-colored blond hair tied back into a pony tail that hung barely passed his neck, next to him was a digimon that to Duo made him think of a kid werewolf, it had a wolf like head, a furry chest, wore white pants, had long black gloves that covered its claws and arms, and finally it had a black ragged scarf tied around its neck.

Angemon began introductions, "Haru, Kiru, I'd like you to meet Duo Maxwell and Rex Kazinawa. Duo, Rex, this is Haru Glory and Kiru Urashima."

"Nice to meet you guys," the one named Haru walked up to Duo offering to shake his hand. Duo took it and shook, at the same time Rex was shaking hands with the one named Kiru.

"Same to you guys," Duo pulled out his digivice, wanting to try out the scanner.

"This is Dorumon." Haru motioned to the purple digimon next to him.

"Hello!" Dorumon greeted them cheerfully. Duo pointed his digivice at him,

Dorumon, Rookie Level, Beast Digimon, Data Type

"And my partner here is Strabimon," the blond boy pointed to the wolf kid digimon.

Strabimon, Rookie Level, Beast-Man Digimon, Data Type

"We already met your guy's partners."

Angemon stepped forward, "Now that I finally have the four of you together I will tell you what I know and we will begin making plans."

Angemon walked into the house and the four boys and digimon followed him.

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"You failed me Striker."

"I'm sorry sir, that boy was somehow able to manifest a digivice and help his digimon digivolve."

"We don't need any more thorns in our side, I'll give you one more chance to clean up your mess Striker."

"Thank you sir."

"We have proof that it was Angemon who saved the boy and took him to the digital world. Use whatever means necessary to track him down and eliminate him, and if you manage to somehow get rid of the angel as well, I'll forgive you for your failure."

"I will not let you down sir." Striker left the office furious at having to take orders from someone almost half his age. He walked through the base until he came to one of the control rooms, searching the room he found who he was looking for.

"Wolfbane, I need your help."

The man peered through his sunglasses at Striker, "Why should I help you Striker?"

"This is an order from the boss, he needs someone eliminated and I need your help to find him. I need you to send out your Dobermon unit to track this someone down." He held up an article of clothing sealed away in an evidence bag that he had taken from the boy's place while they were staging the crime scene.

"You want me to send my pets to scour the entire digital world for one person, are you crazy!"

"Not the entire digital world I want them to search all the areas our spies have spotted the digimon Angemon around."

"I hope you know if something happens to my pets, the boss will be the least of your worries." The man lowered his sunglasses revealing red eyes. Striker gulped, Wolfbane was known as an insane madman, who had fun torturing his victims in battle.

"I just need them to find him, I'll take it from there."

Wolfbane stood up after a few seconds and walked up to one of the technicians, "Show me all the areas our spies have seen Angemon around." About ten blips appeared on the map of the digital world, showing that Angemon was always around the southern hemisphere of the delta continent. "You have two hours after that I'll be taking back my pets."

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Angemon had just finished explaining everything to them. As far as the motives of the organization they didn't learn anything new, but they did learn that the organization referred to themselves as DATS. They did however learn that they're were eighteen other humans in the digital world with digivices, and Angemon's allies were working to gather all of them together so that they could begin preparations.

Kiru, "So, do we have a plan?"

Angemon, "Right now Kiru our focus is gathering all the chosen together, and training them."

"How are we suppose to fight DATS if we have no idea what their aim is?" This time it was Duo who spoke.

"Right now all we can focus on is defense, they have bases hidden in both the real and digital worlds. I have allies who are searching for the bases in the digital world, but there's a problem with finding the ones in the real world, we digimon can't go into the real world without being detected by their scanners."

"That must be how that Striker guy was able to keep finding us when we were running from him Duo." Duo nodded at Veemon's comment.

"Will all of you fight to save the digital world and the real word from this organization who views both as their playthings." Angemon had become extremely serious. "If anyone would like to back out, I'll understand." No one said anything for a few seconds until Haru spoke up.

"None of us would be here if we weren't ready to fight, right guys?" Duo, Rex, and Kiru all nodded.

"It makes me extremely happy to hear that, gather what you need we have a long walk ahead of us, and we need to leave within the hour."

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Babamon loaded up bags of snacks and water bottles for the boys, "Make sure you don't eat all of it in one sitting, you boys have a long walk ahead of ya." Babamon then walked over to a closet and pulled out a vest, It was the same as the one Rex was wearing but Rex's was brown and the one Babamon had was gray. "Here you go Duo." Babamon handed the vest to him, it had many pouches and pockets on the front, and felt extremely light.

"Why are you giving this to me?"

"I made one for Rex too, it only seemed fair that you get one as well," Babamon smiled at Duo as he put the vest over his white t-shirt. Like Rex he didn't bother to zip it up.

"Thanks a lot, it fits great."

Each of them slung a bag over their shoulder and stepped outside where Angemon was waiting.

Rex, "Later Jijimon, goodbye Babamon, thanks for letting me and Flamon stay here the last week."

"Anytime dear boy, you're welcome back whenever you want," Babamon waved good-bye to the boys as they marched off behind Angemon. Duo and Veemon, Rex and Flamon, Haru and Dorumon, and Kiru and Strabimon.

The eight of them were resolute in their choice to fight, and they wouldn't look back, no matter how tough things got, each of them had promised themselves that they would keep going, they would follow this path to its conclusion with no regrets.

As they walked through the forest none of them were aware that a pair of red eyes were watching them.

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"Striker one of the trackers has found the target, he's currently traveling with Angemon and that's not all. There's three other human teenagers with digimon partners traveling with them."

This wasn't good, his target was now surrounded by allies. "Open the digimon storage area." One of the technicians open a large steel door with a keycard and Striker walked inside.

"Which digimon do you want to take sir?" Striker looked at the devices laid out along the shelves, each one housed a different digimon that they had captured and turned into their slave.

"I'm gonna need to outnumber them." He carefully began to select different digimon, flying types, power types, speed types. He selected eight different digimon, placing all the devices in his jacket and left the storage room.

Making his way through the large base he came to the gate room. He gave the technician the coordinates and stepped on the platform. There was a blinding green flash and Striker was gone.

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They had walked for four hours, they had left the forest and now were walking along a rocky path uphill towards a mountain, the boys weren't complaining, but the digimon wouldn't stop whining, all except for Strabimon.

Dorumon, "Haru, I'm hungry."

"I know buddy, don't worry I'm sure Angemon will let us stop and have dinner soon." The sun was starting to set over the mountain in front of them.

"Sorry we can't stop yet, we need to make it to cover before we stop," he motioned toward the mountain. Veemon and Flamon both groaned, and Dorumon's stomach growled.

"My feet are so sore." Veemon then looked up at Duo in front of him and got an idea. He jumped up onto his back nearly knocking Duo face first into the ground, wrapped one arm around his neck and rested his head and right hand on Duo's shoulder.

"Veemon get off me, you're too big to ride on my shoulder now."

"But I liked riding here, you didn't complain before."

"You didn't weigh a ton then!" The guys were laughing at Duo and Veemon's argument.

"Oh come on I don't weigh that much." Veemon acted offended to try to get Duo to give in, and he did. Duo grumbled to himself about having to carry the extra load on his back.

Flamon was staring at Rex's back with a smirk, like Veemon he tried to jump up on his back and hitch a ride, but Rex stepped to the side and he flew right past him, comically crashing face first into the ground.

"No way buddy, now come on you walk in front of me so I can keep my eye on you," now Flamon was the one grumbling.

It took them a little over an hour to reach the foot of the mountain where Angemon revealed a cave for them to stay in for the night. The four of them rested for a moment and pulled out the food and water Babamon had packed for them, there were various snack food, water bottles, and a few sandwiches for each of them, they each ate a rational amount before putting it away again.

Within a few moments after they ate Veemon, Flamon, and Dorumon were asleep in a pile around each other while Strabimon leaned back against the cave wall and fell asleep with his arms crossed. The four boys stood around the cave entrance each sharing stories about how they got here. All of their stories were pretty similar to Duo's, except none of them had to watch someone they care about get killed by the DATS organization.

Angemon then offered to stand guard for the night so the four of them could rest. They each walked back into the cave except for Duo who wanted to ask Angemon a question.

"Can you tell me why out of all the people in the world with digisoul you only saved those of us with a digivice?"

"We can't save everyone Duo, as much as we'd like to, we can't. We saved all of you because you are the best chance both the real world and the digital world have. Because of the actions of DATS there are digimon who want to declare war on the real world, while at the same time DATS has instilled fear into the rulers of the real world, and now they want to wipe out the digital world before they destroy the real world. Those of you who received the digivice, were granted them because of a strong bond you shared with your digimon. But that's not all, you and your digimon all have the potential to truly make a difference."

Angemon, "You chosen ones are the only hope of stopping DATS and preventing both worlds from destroying each other."

~To Be Continued~

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Characters

Haru Glory

Age: 16

This is the main character from Rave Master.

Kiru Urashima

Age: 18

This character I don't remember how I decided on him, but he's based off of Dragonball Z's Sharpner who was one of Gohan's classmates that you only saw during the Great Saiyaman arc. The only difference is his hair is tied back in a ponytail, his face is more serious, his forehead and eyebrows aren't as big, and his personality is nothing like the lame Sharpner that he's based off, lol. All around kind of like just a cooler version of the character. I came up with the name, because I just didn't like the original character's name. Usually wears an army green tank top, and baggy black jeans.