The 7th war
Chapter 1: The gathering
The alarm blared from the Agumon alarm clock as the young adult groggily woke up and stretched his toned arms over his head, rubbing the sleep from his eyes he checked the time.
Eight am on a saturday... dang spent too much time on the Digimon Forums helping newbies get their Digimon together. Welp no time like the present to start preparing for my shift at work.
Seth George, a 21 year old lover of games; with his olive skin, toned body, and bright eyes, one wouldn't think he spent at least 8 hours a day playing and helping others with the biggest game to come out in the last 10 years. Digimon the MMO-RPG, where players can create avatars and accounts to play against and with other players. Checking himself in the bathroom mirror after a shower, Seth saw his brown almond shaped eyes and rich black hair that went down to below his ears in a wavy motion, he trimmed his goatee into a soul patch and finished his brushing for the morning then headed to the kitchen.
As he cooked breakfast, Seth thought back to yesterday's chat forums where he helps players with their accounts and gaming time on the Digimon game. There was talk about Jennai, the head creator of the Digimon game, offering a quest to gamers online at midnight tonight.
Well if it happens it happens. Though... I should be able to make that timing after work and at least check out the game during that time.
Looking at the time, Seth sat down with his breakfast and ate at his table for one in his apartment, getting ready for his job at the Game Masters Arcade where they host Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Digimon games of all kinds. After breakfast, Seth dressed in his uniform, a plain black short sleeve shirt with a sky blue over shirt, and gray jeans. He locked his apartment after grabbing his deck of Digimon cards and his account disk for the Digimon game, which allowed him to give tutorials to a group of new Digimon gamers that were coming into his work today after lunch. Making it to work on time he saw everyone was busy looking at the news on TV with Jennai and the Bandai company President in a press conference.
Reporter 1 "Mister Jennai there have been rumors stating that you plan to make an exclusive midnight quest that reaches all players on the server of your game, is this true? And if so what are the details of said quest?"
All the cameras start flashing almost blinding Jennai as he sits up and talks into the Microphone.
"Well yes there will be a special event at midnight tonight. However I am making a Special tournament tonight not a quest. It will be to determine the top 100 players in the Digimon terminal game world wide, I hope as many people participate as possible to give us the best results, as there will be consolation prizes as well for those that lose and the main prizes for the top 100 players who win in the end. Now we must end this meeting as there is a special trip I must attend to today, but I will look forward to the results, and those who are the top ten will get to go on a special quest with my personal avatar in a special zone I have made recently as a Beta test. Now goodbye and may the best players win"
Of course this bit of news creates a buzz of excitement as the reporters clamor the stage for just that one last quote or for one more answer to another question.
The TV clicks off and the theme for gaming mixes play over the arcade speakers.
Seth's boss, Damian, a man in his mid forties, turns to him and says in a gruff but friendly voice,
"Ah Seth you're here on time! Excellent! The gamer group that was coming for that tutorial has come early, so would you please teach them how to use the Digimon game right now?"
Seth looks at the bright eyed, wide smiled, excited faces of 8 kids each of them being around 9 years old. Seth shrugs and beckons them to follow him with a smile as he shows them a terminal for the Digimon game. The terminal shows a large 4 foot wide 3 foot tall screen with a seat that you sit in while you put on the helmet to dive into the virtual world of the Digimon Game,
"You see kids to log in, you need a disk like this," Seth pulls out his game disk; A disk with the Digimon logo splayed on its cover, no bigger than a CD. Seth puts the disk into the terminal's disk slot and the game disk slides into the terminal.
"Normally for new players you register through the system with a password of your own and a user name, since I have registered before, I can skip that step and show you what's next." The screen beeps, showing an accepted user name and log in information screen, then after it blips away, another screen showing an avatar set up menu appears; Seth's avatar is an olive skinned young man with white tiger colored hair, and bright emerald eyes standing around 6 foot even, with the same clothes he wears now. Seth gets comfortable in the terminal seat and presses the accept option on the terminal keyboard, after that the screen goes to a rainbow circle saying standby for dive as the helmet comes down and rests gently on Seth's head showing the same circle loading. Then the rainbow circle dissolves inward and soon Seth feels as though he is entering a long tunnel of rainbow colors as he dives into the virtual world of Digimon.
"Wow!" Some of the boys in the group have wide eyes and are staring at the entry screen as the world of Digimon loads, after a bit the screen clears showing a grand city called the Holy city that shows Tamers and their partners coming and going through the shops, the arena, and to the fields for training in the game. The city has many tall white buildings with chrome colored windows and futuristic looking streets and see through travel tubes going in and out of the city for Tamers to get to different areas. Seth Raises the visor on his game helmet to look at the kids and their expressions, their faces show pure happiness, Seth smirks as he puts the visor back down and begins to move his avatar around using the terminals movement joysticks on each end of the arm rests and show them how to buy and sell items at the market place, got to the field to hunt for wild Digimon to gain items, exp, and training points for their Digimon partners.
Then Seth hears the laughter of a jerk who comes to the arcade often to show off against newbies. Said jerk is known as Iman he is around 16 years old and is a regular 'customer' that Seth has to deal with regularly when he starts bullying new players for the Digimon game.
Seth also hears a kid he knows crying and his voice breaking as the kid yells out, "Stop you already won the match! If you keep attacking my Kabuterimon will turn back into a Digi-egg!"
Iman turns to the kid, "You know, you're right kid, maybe I should stop..."
The kid looks up with hope in his eyes, before the Imans face contorts into a sneer, "But I gain so much more experience when I delete my opponents Digimon! Hahahahaha!"
With one final Fire ball the man's Tyrannomon, a Dragon type champion Digimon that stands as a red scaled T-rex with long arms tipped with razor claws and green spines going down his back and to his tail, destroys the kids giant Insect with blue exoskeleton and a gray Beetle helmet turning it into a Digi-egg again.
"KABUTERIMON!" the kid breaks down crying at his Digimon being destroyed.
Iman simply looks at the kid going, "Better luck next time NOOB! Hahaha! besides why are you using such a weak champion Digimon? Tyrannomon has much better attack stat versus your weak ass bug!" he says while grinning from ear to ear.
Seth snaps at that final remark, pausing his game terminal. Seth gets up and marches over to get Iman's attention, "Hey Iman I challenge you to an official Digimon Arena battle. Arena 7, be there in 5 minutes" Iman sizes up Seth. Thinking back to all the times Seth has gotten in the way of him having fun crushing the new players with his strength and skill, and chuckles. Iman grins at Seth with a cocky grin that shows his slightly yellow teeth.
"Fine by me you annoying prick! I'm tired of you defending these weaklings from me just because I keep them where they belong! In the gutter! HAHAHAHAHAHA! A battle in Arena 7! I'll be there and you'll see just how powerful I am!"
Seth glares at this idiot saying, "I'll see you there, however I need one thing before we fight," turning to the kid who lost, and recognizes him as James, a 12 year old regular who loves coming here to play with other kids his age, "Hey James mind if I borrow your Digimon?" James looks at Seth like he's lost his marbles but hands over his disk. Seth put's James disk into the trading slot that allows players to trade Digimon or items with each other. And load James Digi-egg onto his account. Using a revive item in game Seth brings back the James Kabuterimon and takes a moment to check his Digimon's attack options and stats, while smirking to himself,
I think I have this match already won, but better show it to this smug punk myself now.
"Hey James get ready for a show that proves this guy is wrong about your Digimon," the kids gather around Seth as he loads the arena screen for the up coming battle, Imans avatar looks like some stereo type motorcycle punk with a bright red mohawk, he calls out his Tyrannomon, Seth calls out James Kabuterimon. Both Seth's avatar and Iman's avatar are on a flat 200ft wide slab of gray stone, this slab is the battle platform for these quick player versus player fights. There is a hologram screen on the right side of the field that shows the players Digimon and their Health bars for the fight to help the audience follow who is doing better or worse in these fights.
A robot Referee, that looks like a white metal ball with blue glasses and two thin arms on each side of it's circular body, comes over on the left side of of the platform and calls out in a digitalized voice, "Match begin in 3... 2... 1... Fight!"
Of course the enemy makes the first move (big surprise), Iman calls out,
"Finish him in one shot! Blaze Blast!"
Tyrannomon rears its head back and shoots out a massive stream of fire that coats Seth's side of the field in a sea of flames. After shooting, Iman checks and sees no Kabuterimon on Seth's field,
"So ref I guess I wi-"
He checks the battle screen but sees Kabuterimon's health is still full.
"The hell?! Where is it?!" He looks all over the field,
Seth simply points up with a single index finger from his left hand and says, "Electro sphere now Kabuterimon!" A 10ft wide ball of purple and blue electricity shoots from the sky above their battle platform and electrocutes Tyrannomon while causing a small explosion that blows past both tamers making their clothes whip around them. Seth see's an icon of a lightning bolt appear next to Tyrannomon's health.
Nice he's paralyzed.
Iman angrily orders Tyrannomon to use blaze blast again but can't due to the effect of paralysis. Smirking Seth yells out, "Kabuterimon Sky drop attack!" Kabuterimon flies down and zoom's towards Tyrannomon with all four of his blue toned insectoid arms out and grabs Tyrannomon's head and his sides as he hoists him into the sky.
Iman looks on with a panicked expression and in a scared voice breaking with desperation,
"No I can't lose! I just got my win streak at 8 again! Don't do it please!"
Seth look at him with contempt, "Didn't James also say something similar to what you're saying? And what did you do? You kept going, now Kabuterimon finish it!" Iman looks at him with fear and shock as his Digimon comes crashing down and causing cracks to appear in the battlefield spreading out in a ragged spider web fashion going as wide as 15ft out from his crash site, Tyrannomon stumbles to get up as he looks up to where Kabuterimon is in the sky.
Iman sees his chance as the paralysis wears off and yells out, "Now Tyrannomon while you still have energy! Use Dragon blast!" Tyrannomon opens his jaws wide as a solid beam of orange energy with heat radiating off of it comes out and shoots towards Kabuterimon.
Seth looks at the quickly approaching beam and hears it crackling and humming with energy as it nears Kabuterimon.
Seth utters one command, "Kabuterimon, use Carapace guard!"
A shield of blue energy erupts in front of Kabuterimon that looks similar to a beetle's shell and stops the incoming beam of energy. The beam shakes the shield for a few brief seconds before the attack is spent and the shield, still steaming from the burn of the energy hitting it, dissipates showing a Kabuterimon with no damage.
"No way! No way! No way! How is that possible!? Kabuterimon shouldn't have that high of a defense stat! It's a bug type!" Iman is shaking in fear, frustration, and anger at being schooled by a Digimon he had already defeated, "This can't be happening! My Tyrannomon who has beaten 3 champions already can't lose to a bug type! he's stronger!"
Seth shakes his head in pity at this guys antics, "What I used is called Carapace Guard its a defensive move that Kabuterimon can learn to defend itself against energy attacks. If you read up on him and studied different Digimon instead of being a noob with your all out attack strategy then you would be winning." Seth looks up at Kabuterimon and issues another command, "Kabuterimon use Electro shocker now!"
A huge orb of concentrated blue electricity forms between Kabuterimon's arms and shoots towards Tyrannomon. The Dragon Digimon tries to dodge, but after the loss of energy from his last attack and all the damage he has taken thus far, he collapses instead and the attack hits and explodes in a shower of electric currents. Tyrannomon is down to his last 3% of HP according to the board for the battle platform.
Seth glares at Iman,
"So you want to continue? After all you didn't stop after the kid begged you to stop!"
Iman takes a step back in fear while quivering, "No please I see how wrong I was! Please! I can change!" as he falls to his knees and begs Seth with his head touching the cold metallic ground of his tamer battle box.
Seth sighs as his expression softens to a sad one instead and looks at Tyrannomon with pity at what tamer is using him.
"I am too nice for my own good," Seth scratches his head with a bored expression on his face, "Take him and leave, just remember there is always someone better than you in this game."
Iman recalls Tyrannomon and then logs out after wards and runs out of the arcade while saying. "Thank you!"
Seth logs out as well, as he comes back to the real world from the terminal, he hears the kids cheer and James thanks him with a large smile on his face. Seth smiles back and retrieves Kabuterimon's disk from his terminal and hands it back to James.
Damian comes over with an impressed wide eyed expression after seeing Seth's battle in the Arena, "Dang Seth! No wonder you're one of the best tamers in this area, you knew how to fight with Kabuterimon despite how you normally fight using Greymon, that's the local 'Digimon Sage' for you."
Seth scratches his cheek in embarrassment as he watches the 9 year old's using the guest account disks to register and make their own accounts, "C'mon Boss, that names embarrassing for me, I just happen to know a lot about Digimon and I help others when they need it."
His boss chuckles and waves Seth off to help the kids learn about the game, other than that incident with Iman it was a basic day at work.
Soon the shop closed at Six pm. However that was for everyone not affiliated with the Digimon Game, for those with registered accounts, Seth and the other employees cleared away all the non Digimon games and set out all 50 terminals they had for every player that entered their store. It was a dream come true for Seth since he was registered and an employee at the shop, Seth's boss gave him his own reserved terminal for when midnight came around. Everyone was buzzing with excitement at the first ranking event ever for the game. Until now its only been top arena rankings for each individual tamer level, in the game each tamer is divided into Basic, Bronze, Iron, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Adamantine tamers. Seth is a Silver tamer but that's only due to him spending his spare time helping others versus going for battle records or looking for fight after fight in the game.
Soon after the preparations are finished all gamers go to their terminals and look out at the clock in the middle of the store for the event to begin. However, unknown to all the Digimon gamers around the world something was about to go very, VERY wrong.
Meanwhile: Digital World Lab
Being in the human world for the last 20 years has been exhausting, Jennai thought to himself as he waited for the portal to open. And it is true 16 years after his initial pitch to Bandai they created game after game, shows, comics, and even hand held Digimon virtual pets similar to Tamagotchi. In fact 4 years ago his fellow scientists had finally found a good location to perform a Digidestined test to see if they could find their chosen 8. The initial reports were good from his lab mates back in the Digital World. They began creating the Digivices right after gathering the necessary data and working on the qualities of each crest based on their chosen candidates souls. The test at Highton View Terrace was a major success giving them 8 Digidestined to work with for the crests chosen wielders. They let him know that they would continue their observations and gathering of data to prepare for their chosen 8 as time goes on. So Jennai waited and focused on his own work with the Digimon games for their back up plan of other possible Tamers to recruit.
He was dressed in his brown Monk robes as he watched the clock reach 11:30pm. The portal opened, slinging his rucksack over his shoulder Jennai entered the vortex to head home.
As the portal closed he double checked his watch for human world time and saw it was 11:35pm, hmmmm 5 minutes? That should have been a maximum of 2 minutes tops, whats going on with the regulators?
Jennai looked up and saw a horrific sight greet him. The lobby of the laboratory showed many bodies of the secretary staff dead on the floor, smeared on the walls and benches with their body parts flung all over the room that contained the portal doors. Jennai couldn't believe it, the lab had been attacked! He saw Virus, Data, and Vaccine Digi-eggs everywhere along with the bodies of his fellow scientists as they laid motionless with holes, claw marks, or burn marks all over their bodies with weapons laying around them either broken or still gripped in their hands. Jennai ran through the lab his foot falls echoing in the now silent hallways and checked bodies and rooms one after another, he saw a one handed long sword with a red handle lying nearby and picked it up.
He then heard an explosion come from the inner lab and realized something, NO! The Digi-eggs! The Digivices! The Crests!, he gripped the rough leather around the swords hilt so tight his knuckles turned white as he sprinted down the hall to the inner lab. Upon entering he froze as he saw their machines and lab equipment in flames and destroyed into pieces, while some of the machines were still usable the majority of the lab was ruined for their project launching abilities.
This can't be happening, Jennai thought as he looked around the once bustling lab that now had dead scientists and many more Digi-eggs from all three Digimon program types in here, must have been a last stand from the guards Lord Seraphimon gave us and from my own coworkers, Jennai thought as he saw some of his closest friends now lying dead at their stations or at areas that should have been well defended.
At least my station survived the attack, as he made his way through the destroyed lab equipment towards his personal computer that stood 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide. He was about to touch the launch button for the project, when he heard a noise of a sword entering flesh nearby and ducked behind some fallen debris. As he looked around the debris what he saw froze his blood in fear and anger. Jennai saw the last head scientist being stabbed through his chest with a sword wielded by a clown in a gaudy red outfit with baggy green pants and a half black half white mask on his face and three swords on his back.
Smirking the Digimon simply discarded the dead body and easily punched through the casing for the eggs, and devices meant for the Digidestined.
Shit! It's Piedmon! He's a Mega level! We are only equipped for Ultimate level enemies at our highest defense capabilities.
A White skinned female with black leather gear and cape, bright red eyes gleaming as she carries a bloodied claw on her left arm comes up to Piedmon, "Milord Piedmon we have wiped them all out without raising the alarm to Seraphimon, your orders now?"
Piedmon regarded her and smirked, "Destroy the rest of these machines so they can't replicate this 'Project' of theirs and we can take this world for our seven lords."
LadyDevimon bows and walks off with her dark leather high heels clicking on the stone ground of the large laboratory to start destroying the machines, before she can start though Jennai jumped from his cover and in one clean slash is able to cut Ladydevimon into two clean halves from head to foot. Piedmon looks over shocked at Jennai having his sword cleaving through LadyDevimon's body in one blow turning her into a purple Digi-egg with black bat markings all over it. Piedmon angrily sneers as he addresses the powerful warrior scientist. "Well well Jennai, I was wondering why it was so easy to take over this place, now I know why, the prized pupil of the Digimon Sovereign wasn't here to help his fellow scientists in their time of need, how disappointing for you. Hmhmhmhm."
Jennai clenches his jaw hard in anger and jumps toward Piedmon with his sword drawn back for an overhead cut, only for an orb of clear energy to escape Piedmon's hand and destroy the case of Eggs and devices. "NO!" Jennai completes his attack until Piedmon blocks with his own sword and pushes Jennai across the room. Jennai then notices his desk clock is at 11:58pm Human world time, One last hope is left, "Damn you Piedmon those Digi-eggs and Digivices were one of our last hopes!"
Piedmon smiles "Well I certainly try to dash them as they app- one of?! What do you mean one of?!"
Jennai smiles wide as he pushes a button on his station that he landed next to, "I mean I have a plan B!" The button is pushed and a program is loaded and sent to the human world. The station is destroyed by Piedmon's energy attack a second later and Jennai is knocked across the room. Jennai lands painfully with a loud deafening crash in a pile of broken machine parts as Piedmon looks at him with contempt.
As his consciousness starts to fade Jennai hears, "Well then no helping it, I'll just take you as compensation for that little trick you did."
As his vision goes black he activates one last device from a watch on his wrist, the SOS signal for lord Seraphimon, to be alerted about the situation and to tell him to prepare for plan B to activate.
Holy Angel Palace
Seraphimon looks sadly at the message across his main computer screen, those unborn Digimon had no chance to live, but there is still hope for the eggs at my castle to find their partners, Seraphimon stands from his white throne in his full 7 foot glory with his ten golden wings and his grand light blue angelic armor covering him. He watches the Globe of the Digital world as portals appear all over his island, called file island, watching for the eggs reactions to any of the in coming tamers as potential partners.
With hope and pain laced in his voice, "I hope this will save us", Seraphimon sighs thinking to the 8 Digidestined that will never know their unborn partners.
Seraphimon thinks back to the last few years where commander Leomon, a humanoid Lion champion level standing at 7 foot with black leather pants and a broad sword in a sheath behind his hips in a sideways position, was leading his Holy forces of vaccine type Beast, Dragon, Holy, and Bird Digimon against the emerging forces of the Virus Digimon. They were successfully holding them back until last year when 7 Mega level Virus types appeared and went about destroying their forces. Leomon was their strongest champion in the standing army and he barely got away with 10 champion level survivors, the rest of their champion and Ultimate level troops fell to the Mega level Virus Digimon. Soon after being destroyed and turned into their respective Digi-egg types the Mega level Virus Digimon went about corrupting them into potential virus type Digimon that will hatch from the eggs.
Seraphimon wishes he could have went to the lab himself, or at least one of his Mega level Generals, but he needed all troops at his castle in case of an attack on his base along with needing the necessary guards to watch over the baby Digimon and the Digi-eggs under their care. And his Mega level Generals were busy guarding the front lines against these new Mega level enemies called the 7 Vices.
Thinking about the eggs did give Seraphimon a rare moment of being able to chuckle at knowing some of the young had already hatched and were being watched by his Angewomon nurses, who are beautiful looking 6.5 foot tall woman with bright golden hair and 8 white wings on her back she wears a metal helmet on her head covering the upper half of her face and wears a white body suit that covers the left side of her body but leaves her right arm and leg practically bare, they also have a purple holy symbol etched scarf that floats around them to enhance their abilities. These nurses have been kept busy raising the newly born Digimon until their human partners can come meet them. However that little rascal Koromon has gotten himself outside the castle once more and has an Angemon guard; A 6 foot tall humanoid with six white wings, white skin, and a gray helmet with blue sacred combat wrappings for pants, tracking the little escapee down again.
Seraphimon allowed himself a small chuckle thinking back to the ball of energy and remembered Koromon's reason for wanting to go outside the walls of the castle,
I want to find my partner! I know he is coming here soon!
Seraphimon shakes his head at the memory, who ever gains that Koromon as a partner will have a powerful bond if Koromon can already sense him before he even came to our world. He gazed silently at the globe once more to keep track of the incoming tamers who he hopes will save their world.
Real world Arcade
The clock strikes Midnight and all the tamers logged in search for quest icon, the players soon find it in the arena but as soon as one person touched it in game a searing light bright enough to blind anyone looking into the terminal screens at this moment appeared and illuminated everyone who was in their terminals. Seth suddenly feels himself get sucked into a vortex of energy, panicking Seth grabs onto the terminal seat he is sitting on for support as he tries to avoid being sucked in. However the suction is too strong, Seth loses his grip on the terminal seat and then gets pulled into the terminal screen yelling out for help. As the light dies the Gamers look around after hearing ten voices cry out for help but just as suddenly as they start they stop, as Damian and the other players check the terminals, the players become panicked and are yelling questions at each other about the ten other Tamers that have suddenly gone missing from their terminals with no explanation.
In the vortex Seth feels like he's going on one long loop-de-loop until a hole opens up at the end of the vortex, as he sails through it with enough force that he feels like he was shot out of a cannon.
Looking around Seth notices that he is falling through the air now over an island with the biggest mountain he has ever seen.
That's when Seth realizes something, Wait I'm in the AIR over an island. Looking down he notices how fast he is free falling while surrounded by the same energy of the vortex that brought him there. Seth covers his face with a cross arm block as a bone rattling crash like a drop pod sounds out across the meadow he crashed into on the island. Getting up and popping his arms, legs, and back Seth notices his surroundings,
Solid ground?Check. Plants and flowers I recognize?Check. looking up at the data filled sky he thinks, Data streams going through the sky... ok not my world.
Looking around further Seth sees other players falling from the sky, all of them seem to be falling towards the same spot, Where are they landing? Aw man don't tell me we were supposed to land over there and not in this meadow. Well just complaining about it won't get me any closer. Time to go there and hope someone knows what the heck is going on around here. Bracing his sneakers into the soft soil of the meadow Seth takes off in a hard jog to where everyone else is landing unknowing about the pair of big brown eyes watching him from the bushes nearby.
"Oh boy! He's here! He's here! I can't wait to meet him in person!" as the young Digimon bounces after Seth towards the location where all the other players are landing.