Digimon World Wars

Chapter 7 - The Green Mantis

(Nine Years Ago)

"Eureka don't go," an eight year old Duo called out to the teal haired little girl.

"I gotta go home Duo, it's getting late, mama and papa are going to be mad at me if I stay out too late." Duo pouted, he didn't want to have to go back to the orphanage yet. The sun hadn't even set yet, Duo thought he could at least stay out another half an hour. The orphanage was strict but not very aware, Duo had been sneaking away to come to the park for weeks now.

"C'mon, you live right down the road, if they get mad, you can just blame me," Duo grinned. Eureka walked over to the boy and yanked on his long braided hair, "Ow! What the heck was that for?" Eureka began to run away.

"Bet you can't catch me!" The little girl stuck her tongue out at the boy before running away back towards the park.

"Come back here!" Duo took off after her, "I'll get you for that." Eureka ran all around the park with Duo chasing after her. The two kids were laughing and having the time of their lives.

Eureka's father was watching over the two kids, chuckling to himself at their childish game. He was supposed to be bringing their daughter home before it got too late, but he was watching from the top of the hill at the moment, letting his little girl have a little more fun before curfew.

"Wahh!" Eureka suddenly tripped over a log on the ground.

"You okay?" Tears were stinging the little girl's eyes, she had scraped her knee when she fell. Duo reached into his pocket and pulled out a band-aid he had gotten from the orphanage. "Here you go, use this." Duo held out the band-aid to Eureka, who didn't take it.

"You put it on."

"Huh, why me?"

"Cause it's your fault I fell."

"No it's not, you're just a klutz."

"You big jerk!" Eureka was starting to throw a little tantrum.

"Fine, fine I'll put it on," Duo kneeled down and very gently put the band-aid on her scraped knee. "When you get home ask one of your parents to clean it for you," Duo was accustomed to injuries, usually from getting in a fight with some bully who tried to pick on him.

"Thanks," Duo reached his hand out to her and pulled her back to her feet. Duo had his head turned toward the trees like he just saw something, so Eureka leaned forward and pecked the boy on the cheek while he wasn't looking. His reaction was instantaneous, the eight year old Duo became as red as a tomato.

"What did you do that for?"

"It was my thank you," Eureka was laughing at how embarrassed he was, "look at your face!" The sun had almost completely set, and Eureka was getting ready to tell Duo she had to go home when a sudden loud thud sounded from the direction of the trees Duo had been looking at.

"What was that?" Duo began to run off in the direction of the trees.

"Duo wait!" Eureka ran after him, trying to catch up. She was making her way through the trees calling Duo's name, but he wasn't answering. "Duo where are you?" Finally she came to the end of the trees and she saw Duo standing at the edge of the trees staring out at something. "You jerk, you left me be-," the little girl was silenced as Duo put his hand over her mouth and pointed out at something. Eureka walked up next to Duo and saw something that made her shiver with fear. A giant monster was standing in the middle of the park, at first she thought it was a weird statue, until it's head began to turn from side to side. Duo grabbed hold of Eureka's hand and pulled her behind a bush.

"What is that Duo?" Her voice was trembling.

"I don't know," Duo thought it looked like a giant preying mantis, but it looked like its arms were blades instead of claws.

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"Who are you people?" Eureka's father was being blocked out of the park by a group of men wearing suits.

"It's none of your concern, this area is quarantined."

"What the hell are you talking about, my daughter is in there!" A sudden explosion made the hairs on the back of the Matsumoto's neck stand on end. He began to try to fight past the men but they held him back, one of the men hit him with a stun gun and he collapsed.

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The giant mantis had just shot a weird light from its blades, it sliced up a huge part of the park grounds and knocked down a bunch of trees. Eureka and Duo were both trembling now, for kids their age it was the worst possible nightmare come true. The mantis gave another sudden swipe of its blade and light shot out in the kids direction, slicing up a few trees around them. Duo grabbed Eureka and pulled her out-of-the-way as a tree fell down where they had been sitting. Duo began to pull Eureka away from the mantis, away from the park.

'I've got to protect her.' Duo turned back around and could see vehicles pulling up around the mantis and men with strange guns firing at the creature. He could hear the creature roaring in pain, could hear the men as they shouted to each other, but couldn't make out what they were saying. When Duo looked back the mantis was gone.

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Duo wasn't sure when they made it out of the park, or how they had reached Eureka's house so quick. The little girl ran up to the door, looked back to Duo waved goodbye and disappeared inside. Duo made his way back to the orphanage, determined to crawl into bed as soon as he got there.

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(Present Day)

"I don't believe it," Duo was staring at the creature in front of them, it was twice the size as the one he remembered, it had to be over forty feet tall. He fumbled for his digivice and pointed it at the giant insect.

Snimon, Champion Level, Insectoid Digimon, Vaccine Type

"Duo what's wrong?" Veemon was concerned, Duo looked like he'd just seen a ghost, which could actually happen in the digital world.

"Now Snimon erase them!"

"TWIN SICKLES!" Snimon launched two slashes of energy from its blades.

"EVERYONE MOVE!" The attack was tearing through the forest, destroying all in its path. Duo and the rest were all flung away by the force of the blast as it passed by them. They all landed in a heap of rubble and debris.

"Shit!" Rex was pulling himself out of the rubble, he turned to see that Snimon's attack had sliced through a huge chunk of the forest. "This is bad."

"Veemon you alright?" Duo was digging Veemon out of a pile of rubble.

"Ugh, I don't want to go to digi-school."

"Focus Veemon!" The blue digimon shook his head and snapped back to reality. "Come on we got to try to bring that thing down."

=EVOLUTION=

Duo: Digisoul Charge!

Veemon Digivolve to -

Ex... never mind.

"What's wrong Veemon?" Duo looked at his partner. "Why can't you digivolve?"

"I'm too tired from the last battle, I just don't have the strength."

Duo, 'This is bad, really bad.'

"Fools!" Striker turned and began to walk away."Snimon kill them all."

"Wait you bastard!" Duo was about to run after him when Snimon began to wind up for a second attack.

"TWIN SICKLES!" Once again everyone dodged the blasts themselves, only to get flung away from the force of the attack. They were all flung like rag dolls again, landing in weird and painful positions.

Strabimon was struggling to his feet, "Dorumon, Flamon, Veemon we gotta try to hit him all at once." Strabimon charged forward and the other three rookie digimon climbed to their feet and charged off to help him.

"Guys wait, he's too strong, we gotta try to get out of here!" Haru was having a hard time getting to his feet, his foot felt like it was broken. Rex rushed to his side to help keep him from toppling over again, slinging one of Haru's arms over his shoulder.

The four rookies reached their target, Veemon, Flamon, and Strabimon all jumped up at Snimon while Dorumon planted his feet firm and began to wind up for an attack.

Veemon, "VEE HEADBUTT!"

Flamon, "FLAME TAIL!"

Strabimon, "LIGHT NAIL!" The three rookie's attacks all hit against Snimon's chest, next to each others. The three rookies jumped back out-of-the-way as Dorumon's attack was shot through the air.

"METAL CANNON!" Dorumon's cannonball hit at the same point the other three rookies had attacked, exploding on impact. The three rookies landed back next to Dorumon and stared up at their opponent to see if they had at least made a scratch. When the smoke cleared, Snimon appeared to be completely un-harmed.

"GUYS GET AWAY FROM HIM!" But it was too late Snimon was already attacking again.

"ULTIMATE TWIN SICKLES!" This time four slashes of energy shot from its blades, one for each rookie. There wasn't enough room for any of them get away.

Duo, "VEEMON NO!"

Rex, "FLAMON!"

Haru, "DORUMON MOVE!"

Kiru, "STOP! STRABIMON!" Again the blasts tore through the earth and forest, and again the four boys were pushed away by the force of the attack.

The four of them were extremely bruised and battered from being flung through the air and smashing against earth and rock so many times. Duo was the first to recover, quickly climbing to his feet.

"Veemon?" He stared at the spot where Veemon, where all their digimon had been standing seconds ago, there was no trace of them. Duo's body began to tremble, his fists shook with rage, and unbeknownst to him, his digivice was beginning to glow within its case on Duo's hip. "VEEMON!"

"Duo!" Duo stopped dead, and looked above him, he had heard Veemon's voice. Hovering above him was Angemon, carrying all four rookies in his arms. He landed next to Duo and set the four of them down, Veemon flung himself on Duo, "I'm alright buddy." Duo couldn't help but smile.

"Dorumon!" Haru, was being carried over by Rex, Dorumon ran up to Haru as he dropped to his knees and gave the furry purple digimon a hug. Strabimon and Flamon ran to Rex and Kiru, who were both beyond grateful to Angemon for saving their partners. Duo noticed how beaten Angemon looked, he had blood stains across his chest and back.

"Head for the trees, I'll be there in a moment," Angemon suddenly took off into the air, "HAND OF FATE!" He punched his fist through the air, firing a beam of light at Snimon. The bug roared in annoyance.

Duo and the others followed the angel's orders and ran into the forest.

"TWIN SICKLES!" Angemon flew far around the slashes with ease, diving around and landing on Snimon's head.

"HAND OF FATE!" This time Snimon was actually injured, but barely. Angemon jumped behind him and dove into the forest out of sight.

"TWIN SICKLES!" Snimon turned himself around and fired his attack again, blasting apart another chunk of the forest.

Angemon was already out of the line of fire, flying through the trees out of sight towards Duo and the rest.

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Striker cursed under his breath, the angel was alive and had stolen victory from him, but it was not over, Snimon would just have to keep leveling the forest until he found them, they wouldn't be able to hide forever. He was now standing on top of one of the many plateaus in the area, looking out at the destruction his beast was creating.

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Another explosion sounded in the distance, by the sounds of it Snimon was firing attacks all over the place. Duo turned to see Angemon flying through the forest to them.

"Angemon what do we do? We can't beat that thing like we are now," Rex was still supporting Haru.

"We have to stop him, if we let that digimon live it will continue to destroy and destroy, who knows how many innocent digimon will be killed."

"How can we stop it, were all too tired and banged up to fight anymore," Kiru had blood running down the side of his face from a cut on his forehead.

Angemon suddenly reached into a pouch on his hip and pulled out a vial, that seemed to be filled with light.

"What is that Angemon?"

"It's a special gift, given to me by a close friend. With this I can restore your strength and heal some of your injuries," said Angemon, holding the vile out in front of him.

Flamon, "Are you serious?"

Angemon nodded, "We need to defeat Snimon and the man controlling him."

Duo, "Do you know where he is?"

"He's at the top of a plateau west of here."

Duo clenched his fist, "Guys I need a favor. Let me handle Striker, the rest of you worry about Snimon. That includes you Veemon."

"Are you crazy, you want to try to fight that guy by yourself Duo, don't you remember what happened the last time we fought him, he's no push over," said Veemon trying to get Duo to remember how he had been punched through a window.

"I know that Veemon, but I gotta do this, it's personal," Veemon opened his mouth to argue some more, but closed it.

Another explosion sounded, this time it was much closer. "Are you all ready?"

"You bet we are," Rex set Haru down and Angemon walked over to him, a small bit of the light came out of the vial and Angemon pushed it into his foot, after the light faded Haru stood up good as new. Angemon pushed another bit of the light to Kiru's wounded head, healing up the cut. Then he split the remaining light into eight pieces, each heading towards one of them and fading into their chests. Duo felt his sore muscles fade away, all his fatigue suddenly gone.

"Awesome," Kiru said, punching his palm.

"You guys ready?" Haru said.

"Let's bring them down!" Rex shouted.

~To Be Continued~

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