Chapter 3: Digital

"Ugh, what a pain." BlackAgumon said as he walked toward the beach. "At least now I can kill a few humans."

"No killing, just disabling." Artur told his new partner. He was surprised at how quickly his new clothes were made. Along with his D-Vice turned goggles, he was wearing a black trenchcoat and a black facemask, rendering him completely unidentifiable.

"You're no fun." BlackAgumon pouted.

"Oh, just shut up and evolve already."

"Huh, I was expecting more resistance." A soldier said to himself. "Be careful everyone, it may be an ambush!" He called over his COM unit.

"He's right." The voice of the captain spoke, "Activate your HEADs."

As soon as the infantry finished, they heard a rumble from the treeline in front of them.

"Remember, try to scare them off with your Mega Flame attack first." Artur advised.

"You know just as well as I do, that won't work." Greymon replied. (It's the Xross Wars/Fusion Greymon, cause it looks cooler, otherwise I would have changed it to BlackGreymon.) "But I'll try anyway." Greymon released a torrent of flames from his maw, lighting the trees nearest to the beach on fire, and creating a wall of flame which he came through, attempting to scare the humans.

With a cry of anger, several marines began firing their weapons at Greymon.

"Oh that's adorable, they think their HEADs are weakening me." Greymon mocked.

"Focus Greymon." Artur replied. He really didn't want to have to use his ability yet.

"Party pooper." Greymon mumbled as he swept his tail, hitting the front line. "And don't worry, I just gave them a love tap."

The marines became wary. So far, the HEAD weakened all digimon enough to allow them to be harmed by conventional weapons, yet their guns didn't even leave a scratch.

"You might have scared them off Greymon." Artur sighed in relief, before seeing one marine pull out a knife and stab it into Greymon.

"Artur..."

"Don't you dare."

"... He fucking stabbed me..."

"DON'T YOU DARE!"

"Sorry partner, this dino's on a rampage now."

"YOU FUCKING-" Artur was interrupted as he heard the cry of Greymon's Mega Flame attack from the ridge he was standing on. "SON OF A BITCH!"

"So, how do you think Artur and BlackAgumon are doing, fending off the humans." Lucemon asked Datamon before hearing an explosion. He looked out a window and saw a blazing inferno where he had sent the two.

"About that well, I presume." Datamon said as he looked out with Lucemon.

Both looked at each other uneasily when the heard the cry of "Son of a bitch!" From in the distance.

"Koharu, you understand that your parents will be very cross with you if you return to them without the letter of apology." A purple fox told her strange looking rider in a monotone voice.

"Stuff it Youkomon, they aren't my parents." The girl, Koharu, said.

Youkomon sighed, she was grateful that she was taken in by a fairly kind family when the "Digital Pet Act" was ratified, but she wondered if it was worth babysitting the troublemaker on her back. Then she wondered what she was thinking about. She did know that Koharu's parents were in fact her biological parents, whatever biological meant, but she knew they were real.

"Youkomon, look, a portal!" Koharu, who had chosen today to wear a green bowtie on her school uniform, said as she pointed to the side of the road. It wasn't unheard of portals to open in the digital world. "Go into it."

Youkomon thought she remembered her master, Koharu's father, say something about going into portals. But since he was not here, Koharu had the highest authority. "Yes, mistress."

I couldn't believe what I had just done. It started off innocent enough. I needed to cut through one of the rich neighborhoods in the digital world to reach the data buyer. It was one of the only ways those of us who got to this world by accident could get enough bits to survive. Then I see a kid crying as Digital enforcers start beating on a Gargomon, who didn't even fight back, and everything went straight to hell.

Earlier...

"Daddy, why are those people hurting Terriermon?" The little girl cried. It was obvious to see she was from a very rich family. In the digital world, you were either rich enough to buy a portal, or somehow got sucked in.

This kind of scene was normal ever since the Digital Pet Act was passed, it allowed for families to keep digimon as pets, within limits. The digimon couldn't have weapons, or be over a certain size/weight limit, and there were no rules against abuse, but at least some digimon got to live without the fear of being mercilessly slaughtered.

But this was a new one, I'd never seen a human actually care about their pet. The digimon were usually treated as toys, when one was old and used, time to get a new one.

"Lopmon, run, don't look back..." Hearing the Gargomon say that broke something inside me. I said those same words to my brother before he was mercilessly gunned down by humans.

A moment later, the Gargomon broke into shards of data, which one of the enforcers promptly absorbed with his DCD. Then they turned their attention to the Lopmon. "This type evolves only into a monster or weapon wielder, better to take it out now."

"NO!" The girl cried as she turned, sobbing into her father's leg.

"Manifest." I called as I ran at the enforcer that suggested it, slicing off one of his arms. I couldn't save Jonny, but I would find my way to heaven and kick god's ass if I couldn't save this Lopmon. "Kid, don't turn around." At the sight of blood, the girl's father fainted.

"GAHHHHH!" The enforcer I'd injured screamed as he snapped out of shock, noticing his arm was no longer attached to his body. I swiftly silenced his screams, then killed all but the one that had absorbed the Gargomon's data.

"Release the data in your DCD." I demanded. The devices were DNA encrypted to make it harder for a criminal to steal hard earned data. The man quickly complied, and joined his companions just as quickly. "Hey kid, do you care about that Lopmon?"

The girl, still sobbing, muttered a weak yes.

"In this society, this Lopmon will be killed within a week, if you entrust it to me, I'll make sure nothing bad happens to it." I told her, "Don't look, this isn't a sight someone your age should see." I said as she started to turn to give me her answer.

"I-if you can save Lopmon, then do it." The girl said, I could tell she was trying to be strong, and for a moment, my blackened heart lightened, just a little bit. With a kid like this in the next generation, maybe humanity wasn't doomed.

"Don't worry kid, I'll take care of Lopmon for you."

Now...

God DAMNIT! I had ruined my chances of living in the human community, I forgot all enforcer's helmets had cameras that stream to their HQ. While human's aren't exactly my species of choice, at least they didn't try to murder me. At least not-

"Did, did you mean what you told Suzanne?" The Lopmon interrupted my thoughts, this was the time it spoke since I had grabbed it.

"Yes, although, I don't know what to do now. I'm a wanted criminal now."

"Why?"

"I killed those enforcers, that's against the human law, thanks to that, I can't show my face in human society anymore."

"Then why not join Digimon society?" Lopmon asked.

I laughed. "Kid, that's something a lot easier said than done." There were several problems with even finding a digimon society, all of which I explained to Lopmon.

"Well, why not go through that portal over there?" Lopmon pointed towards a shining ovaloid gate. "I think I feel digimon on the other side."

I sighed. To be honest, that portal couldn't really put me in a worse situation than I was currently in. I still had the two digi-eggs I scavenged, so if I ran into some unfriendly digimon, I could use them as bargaining chips. "Aw, what the hell?!" I said as I ran fill tilt at the portal.

A/N: I'm glad I have all OCs. I may have taken a few liberties with the OCs so far, but it was mainly to adapt them to this new world. I really do need input for the Digisoul abilities of the OCs that don't currently have one. One that fits with your personality would be much approved. This chapter felt a little lighter than the others, but I still think it's dark enough. I've really been feeling my mood lift as I've written these, so yay for self-imposed therapy. The cheapest kind. Anyways, remember to put a review to tell me how I'm doing. Oh, and I'll only update this on Wednesdays from now on. (Unless I get a ridiculous amount of reviews.) Love Y'all, bye!