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Digimon World Wars
Chapter 9 - Train Derailment
They continued their way through the forest, Patamon flying ahead leading them. Rex had Duo's arm slung over his shoulder helping him walk.
"How you doing Duo?" Kiru asked.
"I've been better. I think I lost a little too much blood again." The knife wound might have been healed, but it didn't replace the blood he lost.
Patamon turned around to face them, "Once we get to the base we'll have the doctor look over you and see if you need another blood donation."
"There's a doctor there?" Rex asked Patamon, "Is it a digimon or a human?"
"Human." Patamon answered. "There are only a couple handfuls of you who were chosen for a digivice, but that doesn't mean we don't have any other allies from the real world. Most of them are people who defied DATS and managed to escape to the digital world. We have a doctor, two nurses, and a couple of others who help out however they can."
As Patamon finished talking they reached the end of the forest, and before them stood an old town that looked like it came out of an old western movie, past the buildings Duo could see a huge desert.
"There they are, thank god y'all are alive!" A digimon with a revolver for a chest ran over to them, he spoke with a western accent and was wearing a cowboy hat.
"Deputymon good to see you old friend," Patamon greeted the strange digimon. Deputymon stared at Patamon for a few seconds, Duo could almost see the gears turning in his head.
"Angemon is that you, well dang I don't think I've ever seen ya in your rookie form," Deputymon shook Patamon's little hoof.
"Is Starmon around?" Asked Patamon.
"Yeah here he comes now," Deputymon pointed at a star-shaped digimon who had just walked out of one of the buildings.
"Good to see you again Patamon," Starmon also shook Patamon's hoof, "What happened? We were waiting for y'all to get here and when we heard explosions coming from the forest we feared the worst."
"We were attacked by DATS," Starmon and Deputymon both gasped dramatically.
Haru chuckled to himself and pulled out his digivice pointing it at the two western digimon.
Deputymon, Champion Level, Mutant Digimon, Vaccine Type
Starmon, Champion Level, Mutant Digimon, Data Type
"We weren't sure what it was, but since we knew y'all should of been in there and with all the explosions, we sent someone out to the base to get help. They'll probably be here soon."
"Who could you have possibly sent out that could be getting back so soon?" Asked Patamon.
Both Deputymon and Starmon answered at the same time, "Locomon!"
"Locomon? How did you find him, he's usually just driving around randomly all over the digital world."
"Who's Locomon?" Dorumon asked.
"He's a train digimon, who can travel around at high speeds anywhere in the digital world."
"Yup and he just happened to be passing by a little ways ahead past the town. I nearly got my keester run over trying to get his attention," said Deputymon.
"He agreed to head straight to the base and bring back reinforcements." Starmon then looked over at Veemon and Duo, "Why don't you bring these two inside until Locomon gets here, they look like they're about to keel over."
Rex and Dorumon followed Starmon into one of the buildings and helped Duo and Veemon onto a bed so they could rest.
"If Locomon is coming we'll be able to get to the base faster then I hoped," said Patamon.
"Well that's good the faster Veemon and Duo see a doctor the better," said Kiru as he sat down on the steps to the building Duo, Veemon, and Starmon were in. Strabimon walked over and sat next to him. Patamon flew high into the air looking in the distance to see if he could spot Locomon coming.
They all sat around saying nothing, waiting for their ride to come.
Time continued to tick by, Deputymon and Starmon managed to talk Flamon and Rex into a game of poker, Kiru watched as Rex kept winning hand after hand. He was really good at poker.
"There he is!" The group looked up at Patamon as he flew back down to them. They looked off to the distance and could see a cloud of sand. They could see it coming closer and finally the image of a train came into view, it veered off to the right and began to make a wide turn, as it drove train tracks appeared in front of it and faded away after it passed them, it pulled up beside the town and finally came to a stop. Rex stared at Locomon, if it wasn't for the fact that it had eyes that were looking around at them, he would have thought it was just an oddly shaped bullet train. There were only a couple of train cars attached to the digimon, and one of them opened.
Rex watched as three people and digimon stepped out, one was a girl shorter than him with dark hair tied up to the side of her head, she had sharp-looking eyes and behind her stood a tall yellow fox-like digimon. The next one was a boy who looked about the same age as Rex, he had red hair held up with a large bandanna around his forehead, and most noticeably he had an eyepatch over his right eye. Next to him was a red dinosaur digimon with strange black marks over its body. Finally a second boy stepped out he had dark hair tied back tight to the back of his head, he had lazy eyes and was smoking a cigarette, his digimon was a little yellow dinosaur.
"What's going on, Locomon kept going on about danger and needing reinforcements," said the guy smoking the cigarette.
"Sorry you're a little late, we managed to beat down the enemy," Rex paused, "well barely."
"It's nice to meet you three, my name is Patamon. You've probably have heard of me as Angemon though," Patamon gestured for Kiru, Rex, and Haru to come over. "This is Kiru Urashima, Rex Kazinawa, and Haru Glory."
The red-haired boy with the eye patch spoke, "Nice to meet you guys, my name is Lavi." He seemed to have a cheerful personality. "This lazy guy behind me is Shikamaru and her name is Setsuna." He gestured to the two others with him, who both nodded their heads.
Haru offered his hand to Lavi, who gave him a high-five instead of a handshake. Kiru shook hands with the boy named Shikamaru, and Rex offered his hand to the girl named Setsuna. She eyed him for a few seconds before shaking his hand.
Flamon and Dorumon walked over, with Strabimon behind them. Setsuna pulled out her yellow digivice scanning the three of them, at the same time Haru was scanning their three digimon.
Agumon, Rookie Level, Reptile Digimon, Vaccine Type
Guilmon, Rookie Level, Reptile Digimon, Virus Type
Renamon, Rookie Level, Beast-Man Digimon, Data Type
After Haru scanned the three he said, "I'm sorry you guys had to come out here for nothing."
"It's a drag, but at least we can bring you three back to base with us." Shikamaru said. "Andromon said your team wasn't expected for a couple more days."
"There's four of us," Rex corrected, "one of us got injured and so did his partner, they're both resting in the house."
Patamon flew over to Locomon's head, "Thank you so much for bringing these six here, would it be too much trouble if you could give us a ride back to the base?"
"No problem at all!" Locomon let out a whistle of steam.
"Can someone go get Duo and Veemon and help them onto Locomon?" Asked Patamon.
Rex made his way for the building, Lavi and Guilmon followed him, "We'll give you a hand Rex."
A few moments later Rex came out supporting Duo again, and Veemon was riding on Guilmon's back.
"Thanks for the ride, my name's Veemon, what's yours?"
"My name's Guilmon," the red dinosaur seemed just as cheerful as his partner.
Everyone loaded into the train car. Patamon waved goodbye to Deputymon and Starmon and they were off. Locomon pulled away from the town and drove over the desert at high-speed. Rex laid Duo down on one of the larger seats. Setsuna had brought medical supplies and they used them to finally bandage up Duo and Veemon.
"Still doing alright Duo?" Haru asked.
"No worse than I was at least." Duo then turned to his partner who was laying across from him, "How are you feeling Veemon?"
"Very sore!"
"Me too buddy," Duo looked at the three new faces, "Sorry I haven't properly introduced myself yet, I'm Duo Maxwell." Still lying down he held out his hand to whoever would take it. Shikamaru stepped forward and shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Shikamaru Nara," Duo noted that he sounded very tired for some reason.
"I'm Lavi," the red-head stepped forward and shook Duo's hand after Shikamaru let go. "And her name is Setsuna." Duo looked over to the girl sitting next to the yellow fox.
"I can introduce myself Lavi!" Her voice sounded very irritated. She stood up and bowed to Duo and the rest, "My name is Setsuna Sakurazaki."
"It's very nice to meet you Setsuna," the girl sat back down without another word.
"So how come they only sent you three out?" Asked Haru.
"The three of us, were the only one's outside when Locomon ran up, when he started shouting about danger and needing reinforcements, we jumped on!" Lavi grinned.
"You mean you jumped on, and dragged the rest of us with you," said Shikamaru as he sat down.
"Yeah we should have at least let someone know before we took off with Locomon," the little yellow dinosaur named Agumon spoke for the first time.
"No one will care when we come back with Angemon's team," said Lavi, "wait til you guys see the base, it's awesome."
Everyone had sat themselves down, and really started to relax. Everyone was quiet, except for Flamon and Dorumon who were talking to Agumon and Guilmon about random things like food and such.
All of sudden Locomon's whistle sounded and he slammed on the breaks, everyone was flung out of their seats, Duo rolled off his bench seat and smacked against the floor, Flamon and Dorumon were flung into Agumon and Guilmon, Shikamaru fell flat on his back and Kiru landed next to him, Setsuna was kept from being thrown out of her seat by Renamon who was holding onto her, Haru fell forward on top of Dorumon and the other digimon, Rex smacked his head against the floor and Lavi and Veemon fell on top of him, and Strabimon had managed to catch himself with Patamon holding on to him.
"What the hell was that!" Rex was holding his head as he tried to climb his way out from under Lavi and Veemon. Patamon and Strabimon were helping Duo off the floor and Haru was trying to untangle himself from a pile of digimon.
"Locomon whats wrong?" Patamon yelled out.
"Enemies!" That was all the group needed to hear, they rushed to their feet and made their way out onto the hot desert sands, all except for Duo, Veemon, and Patamon.
The group wasn't impressed with what they saw, a single man was blocking their path, the man was short, skinny, balding, and was wearing large round glasses.
"Fools, I won't let you pass," the man sounded confident in himself.
Lavi started laughing, "Oh yeah, him and what army?"
The man raised a device into the air, and it started spawning ghost after ghost until about forty of them were floating around him, Lavi had stopped laughing.
"Great, just what we need, another battle," Kiru rubbed the back of his head. "Haven't we fought enough today, I'd like to at least take a nap."
"Those are Bakemon and Soulmon." Rex looked over at the fox digimon, it was the first time she had said anything, "they aren't very strong, even though they're champions."
"Well guess we'll have to get past this guy, do you think you can digivolve Flamon?" Rex asked his partner.
"After all the battles today, I'm feeling wiped, maybe if I had something to eat," Flamon rubbed his stomach.
"Damn it, if it weren't for that damn bug we'd still have food for you guys," Rex said. Snimon's attacks had destroyed their supplies that Babamon had given them.
"Don't worry guys, leave it to us," Lavi stepped forward with Guilmon next to him, the red dinosaur was growling viciously towards the ghosts.
The Bakemon and Soulmon charged forward as Lavi drew his digivice, a light red digisoul enveloping his hand.
=EVOLUTION=
Lavi: Digisoul Charge!
Guilmon Digivolve to -
Growlmon
"Shoot em down Growlmon," Lavi pointed out at the ghost digimon, with his new digivolved partner standing next to him. Growlmon was a bigger version of Guilmon with short white hair.
"PYRO BLASTER!" Growlmon opened his mouth letting out a high concentrated stream of fire. Two of the ghosts were unlucky enough to be caught in the blast, and were destroyed. The rest of the ghost digimon were still charging towards the group, Growlmon charged forward ready to meet them head on.
"Come on Shikamaru we can't let those two have all the fun," Agumon called out to his partner.
Shikamaru drew an orange digivice out of his vest, "Alright go get em Agumon," he spit his cigarette out of his mouth as his hand began to glow with a light orange digisoul.
=EVOLUTION=
Shikamaru: Digisoul Charge!
Agumon Digivolve to -
Greymon
The new champion digimon stomped forward past his partner, Greymon was a large dinosaur digimon with a brown horned helmet covering the top of his head.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon fired a fireball from his mouth which burned an unfortunate Soulmon to bits.
"Alright Renamon, it's your turn," Setsuna was holding her digivice, her fist covered in a yellow digisoul. Renamon leaped forward to join the other two.
=EVOLUTION=
Setsuna: Digisoul Charge!
Renamon Digivolve to -
Kyubimon
The fox digimon now stood on four legs, had nine tails flowing behind her, and wore a large red and white ornament around her neck.
"FOX TAIL INFERNO!" Small balls of purple flames shot forth from all of Kyubimon's tails hitting several Bakemon and Soulmon stunning them. Kyubimon rushed forward jumping into the air and flipping, "DRAGON WHEEL!" Kyubimon's body flared with purple flames that took the shape of a dragon, blasting and deleting the stunned ghosts.
"PLASMA BLADE!" One of Growlmon's blades began to glow, as he slashed it through one of the Soulmon, slicing the ghost in half.
Several of the Bakemon and Soulmon flew toward Growlmon and Greymon. "ZOMBIE CLAW!" Large decaying clawed hands flew out from the ghosts striking the two champions.
"You alright Greymon?" Shikamaru ran to his partner's side.
"Yeah, be careful they can pack a punch when they work together."
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"Duo what are you doing?" Patamon was trying to push Duo back down on to his seat.
"All of them are out there fighting. I have to go, I can still fight," Duo was slowly making his way to the exit.
"Duo you're far too injured to fight, please let them handle it," Patamon pleaded with him, but Duo continued to make his way toward the train exit. He drew his digivice trying to will it to form his sword again, but the digivice did nothing.
"Duo you have to trust them! They are your allies and they can handle this, now listen to me and lay down, before you pass out!" Patamon had become very serious, which was surprising considering how harmless the little guy looked.
Duo finally gave in. What could he do, Veemon couldn't fight and neither could he without his sword. Duo laid down feeling helpless.
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"FLAME TAIL!" Flamon whipped around smacking one of the Bakemon with his tail, setting the ghost on fire.
"LIGHT NAIL!" Strabimon slashed one of the Soulmon across the face cutting off its hat and leaving a noticable scar.
"METAL CANNON!" Dorumon's cannonball smacked into a Bakemon and exploded knocking several ghost out of the air.
"Nice job guys, let us put the finishing touches on em," said Lavi, "Blast em Growlmon!"
"PYRO BLASTER!" Growlmon blasted the Bakemon and Soulmon that were lying in the sand trying to recover from Dorumon's attack, destroying them.
They were starting to make some progress, if they could just keep this up, they'd be done in no time. Rex smirked to himself, 'Is this the best these ghosts can do?'
"REX LOOK OUT!" Rex turned around to see one of the Soulmon had snuck up behind him.
"ZOMBIE CLAW!" Rex felt the claws dig into his chest, as he was knocked off his feet.
"REX, REX!" Flamon was rushing back to his side.
"Damn it!" Soulmon's attack had pierced Rex's chest but not nearly deep enough to be a fatal wound. Rex began to sit back up, blood slowly staining his shirt.
"ZOMBIE CLAW!" Rex rolled to the side avoiding the attack, but something grabbed his foot. A Bakemon was pinning his foot down so he couldn't get away again.
Lavi and Setsuna were running to his aid, but they were too far away.
"ZOMBIE CLAW!" The ghost aimed right for Rex's head, and Rex closed his eyes waiting for the ghost to strike him. Rex's eyes snapped back open as he heard the sound of his partner yelling out in pain. Flamon had taken the hit for him, the ghost's claws dug into his chest wounding the fire digimon.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon's fireball blasted the ghost, destroying him. Rex kicked the Bakemon off his leg as Strabimon and Dorumon rushed in and began to attack the ghost.
"Flamon, you alright buddy, look at me!" Flamon opened his eyes, and Rex sighed in relief.
"I'll be alright Rex, just need a little re.." Flamon passed out, and Rex panicked checking to make sure his digimon was alright. He could still feel his heart beating normally, but he was losing quite a bit of blood. Rex picked up his partner and carried him to the train cart. He set Flamon down in the train and turned back to the ghosts and the man who summoned them.
Rex's blood was boiling, 'These damn ghosts hurt Flamon!' Rex stared out at the battle, it looked like they were winning. Growlmon, Greymon, and Kyubimon were blasting away the ghosts little by little while Strabimon and Dorumon backed up the three champions the best they could. Lavi and Setsuna came to Rex's side.
"We'll get that bastard Rex!" Lavi and Setsuna both drew out there digivices, but Rex wasn't paying attention.
Rex took hold of his digivice, holding it tight in his fist. "I promise you Flamon, I'm gonna take this creep and his ghosts down!" With his vow to his friend, Rex's digivice began to glow and change shape.
Lavi stopped and stared in awe at Rex's new weapon. Rex was holding a very large blade, it had a red and gold etched base, a long red handle with what looked like a motorcycle-like gear shift, and was at least over four feet long.
"Let's go Red Queen!" Rex charged forward, leaving Lavi and Setsuna behind. Rex came up to one of the ghosts, he took hold of the large blade with both hands and sliced through the digimon. Three more ghosts surrounded him as he destroyed the first one. Rex took hold of the gear shift on his sword and began to rev the blade, causing the blade to glow red.
"EXCEL STREAK!" Rex spun, slashing the blade through the air. Red energy flew out of the blade, slicing and burning through the ghosts.
"What is that, how did Rex get that weapon?" Haru was staring wide-eyed at Rex as he fought against the ghosts, holding his own just as well as their digimon were.
"He called it forth," Shikamaru answered, "all of us have the power to unlock a weapon or ability from our digivices, it's just a matter of finding that power." Shikamaru had his digivice in his hand and it began to glow. "I guess it's time we go all out," Haru could see the word 'DIGITIZE' spelled across the screen on Shikamaru's digivice.
"Digitize, Shadow Arts!" Shikamaru's digivice turned into a ball of light and floated into his chest. Shikamaru then formed a weird hand sign. Haru was confused as to what he was doing, he turned back to the battle and saw five Bakemon standing still, they were all mimicking the act of lighting up a cigarette and taking a drag. Haru turned back to Shikamaru and saw a lit cigarette now in his mouth.
"Shadow Possession Jutsu," Haru looked down at his feet and saw Shikamaru's shadow stretched out connecting to the shadows of the Bakemon. "Anybody want to take these guys out while I got em pinned?" Shikamaru rubbed the back of his head and the Bakemon copied him.
"I got it!" Lavi ran forward his digivice glowing, "Digitize, Iron Hammer!" Lavi now held a small hammer in his hand. Haru watched in amazement as the little hammer grew until it was the size of a truck. Lavi swung the giant hammer through the air with little effort smashing the immobile ghosts to data-bits.
"Digitize, Yunagi!" Setsuna now stepped forward as her digivice turned into a very long traditional japanese sword.
"ZANGANKEN!" Setsuna drew the sword from its sheath and instantly sliced three Soulmon in half. She too entered the battle and together with their digimon, the group began to make quick work of the remaining Bakemon and Soulmon.
Haru stared down at his digivice, trying to get his to change into a weapon too, but nothing happened.
It only took a few more moments before all the ghosts were gone leaving the man who summoned them shaking in fear as the group closed in on him.
"Who sent you!" Rex grabbed the man by the collar, lifting him face to face.
"It's obvious who sent him," Shikamaru stated plainly but he seemed to be thinking about something. "Guys search him good."
"Huh why?" Lavi asked, "He don't have any weapons we already looked."
"DATS wouldn't send someone like this out to defeat us, they probably expected him to fail and hoped we would drag the man back to base for interrogation. I bet if we search him good we'll find some kind of tracking device." The man was panicking and beginning to sweat bullets. Rex nodded his head and began to look over the man with Shikamaru. After a few moments Shikamaru pulled a small earring out of the man's ear, it looked normal but when he un hooked the end, he could see a small transmitter. Shikamaru tossed the earring to Lavi, who had fun smashing the device to bits with his hammer.
They looked over him for a few more moments before Shikamaru said he was clean. Lavi and Kiru tied the man up and threw him unceremoniously into the back of Locomon. They began to climb back onto Locomon. Growlmon, Greymon, and Kyubimon returned to their rookie forms and climbed in after the rest.
"Flamon how you doing buddy?" Flamon was awake laying down on one of the train seats. Patamon had used the remaining bandages from Setsuna's bag to patch up the digimon.
"I'm alright," Flamon smiled, as his stomach growled, "Still hungry though!" Rex laughed and sat down next to him.
Locomon took off across the desert again, back towards the resistance's base.
~To Be Continued~
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Characters
Shikamaru Nara
Age: 17
Character from Naruto Shippuden.
Lavi
Age: 18
Character from D. Grayman
Setsuna Sakurazaki
Age: 16
Character from Negima, a couple of years older than the original character.
Weapons
Rex's Red Queen - This is a weapon from Devil May Cry 4, it is Nero's main weapon from the game.
Lavi's Iron Hammer - His own weapon from D. Grayman
Setsuna's Yunagi - Her own sword from Negima.
Shikamaru's Shadow Arts - Ability to use his shadow attacks from the Naruto series.