"You're kidding me." Ruki deadpanned, looking at her new pig that was currently happily flitting about the air with his ear wing...things. ".."Right?" she turned to you and there was uncertainty in her eyes.

"There's gotta be some trick to this," she shook her head before asking another question, "How did you digivolve your Garurumon to the Champion level?"

It seemed to be pretty important to her.

"I loaded him up on tons of data," you responded, "And to actually trigger the digivolution I fed him the data of two extremely powerful champion digimon."

She bit her lip, "T-thats-"

"Destruction Grenade!" an echoing voice rang throughout the area and suddenly there was a pair of high pitched whistles cutting through the air.

"Boss!" Garurumon howled.

Turning, your eyes went wide as you took in the form of a golden Guardromon at the other end of the large platform, and two missiles slicing through the air towards you and Ruki.

Your digivice came out and you returned Salamon in an instant. And then you thrust your hand out, pushing Ruki with all the enhanced strength you had on this server, sending her flying into Tukaimon and throwing both out of the way.

You threw both arms up over your head to guard your face, having no time to dodge. A massive lupine shadow threw itself into the air above you though and took both missiles, blocking the attacks.

Garurumon howled loudly in pain and the ensuing explosion threw him up over your head and sent soaring for dozens of feet before he crashed hard against one of the platform walls dozens of feet away, cratered it and fell to the ground.

"My brothers," the Guardromon began, another pair of missiles loading atop its outstretched arms, "I have lost communications with my brothers, what have you done to them!?"

Usually you would feel bad. This thing seemed to genuinely care about those two digimon you just killed. But you aren't the good guy. You aren't even the anti-hero type.

And this thing not only nearly killed Ruki, but also hurt YOUR Garurumon.

"YoU.." you snarled at it, blood pounding in your ears and rage beating in your heart. "Black Greymon, KILL IT!" you roared, swinging your digivice through the air and calling forth your second champion.

Black Greymon burst into existence a roar of rage that shook the world around you and flames already pooled in his mouth, "Mega Flame!"

The torrent of compressed flames smashed into the golden robot digimon before it could react and pushed it up against a wall, burning away at it.

But after taking a moment to regain its balance, it actually waded through the sea of flames like it was actually water and raised its arms up, "Destruction Grenade!" it called again, firing both missiles.

At you.

Black Greymon roared and stepped into the path of both, taking them both in the chest. But even as the explosion rattled him, the massive dinosaur was already using his giant and heavy frame to push through and rush towards the robotic digimon.

Seeing your digimon managing for the moment, you turned to Garurumon already lumbering to his feet, a snarl leaving his lips.

You thrust your digivice and activated the newest digimon skill you obtained from Socerimon, "Crystal Heal!" you declared, and a cyan blue light covered Garurumon, some of his wounds fading.

"Help Greymon!" you shouted at him, and it was a testament to how much your digimon obeyed you that he didn't even bother aknowledging the command and just blitzed towards the fighting duo of digimon.

That done, you turned to Ruki who was tightly griping Tukaimon to her chest, eyes wide and arms trembling. "If that hit us.." she trailed of despondently.

"Ruki, use that skill I gave you and go!" you ordered her.

She looked at you wide eyed, "B-but-"

"Go!" you barked, cutting her off, "I don't wanna see you get hurt here, let me handle it!"

Her lip trembled for a moment, before she bit a lip into it and settled on nodding. "F-fine!" she grunted. She brought the digivice up about to activate the skill and paused, pinning you with violet coloured glare, "Don't go dying on me gogglehead, I'm looking forward to shooting you down when you ask me out."

You rolled your eyes, "As if I'd die to a weakling like this." you shot back easily. She huffed, sending you one last concerned look, before activating the Gate skill and disappearing from the Kowloon server.

You turned back, just in time to see Garurumon release a wave of ice along the floor, freezing part of the ground and Guardromon's legs, forcing it to get stuck as it tried to turn and fired its missiles at Black Greymon.

"Grey Claw!" Black Greymon roared, taking advantage and slamming a glowing clawed hand into Guardromon's side and ploughing its back into the ground so hard even you almost got thrown off of your feet.

But he wasn't done there. As soon as he smashed the robot digimon down, flames were already spilling from his mouth, "Mega Flame!" he followed up with, basting the golden Guardromon in a point blank devastation of flames.

They spilled out all around them, Black Greymon even burning himself in the attack he was that intent on attacking and Garurumon was forced to retreat backwards.

Perfect, this was your chance.

Lifting your digivice up, you aimed it at the downed Guardromon and activated the Copy and Paste program. A program of your own making that took you months to get done and based on the digimon's ability to load data of defeated foes and obtain their skills.

A moment later, it was done. If there was one thing the digivices were good for, it was their sheer speed.

Looking into the screen, you were a bit disappointed to see that the only thing it managed to copy and create though, was a slimmer pair of the Guardromon's armored arms, a pair of golden Chrome Digizoid gauntlets.

ou cast a look around you while your two digimon has the opponent pinned for now. You couldn't see anyone around, but considering how much you liked to sue the Stealth skill to ambush people, well you couldn't exactly take being without anyone in view as truth.

You really need to get your hand on the Visualizer skill.

For now though, you loaded your new gauntlets from your digivice, and your epic Goblimon club to go with it. You wonder idly if you could take the properties of the Golden Chrome Digizoid and imbue the club with it to make it stronger.

...

Questions for later.

You turned your attention back to the digimon.

"Let's finish him together!" Black Greymon shouted to Garurumon. Stepping up over the Guardromon, flames once again pulling in his mouth.

"Power Laser!" From the downed robot digimon's eyes, twin beams of golden energy burst forth and struck Black Greymon under the chin, literally carrying your dino into the air from the force behind it.

And if that weren't enough, it fired them twice more after it in rapid succession, each shot blasting Black Greymon higher and higher into the air.

The ice around its feet melted thanks to Black Greymon, it stood up and aimed another set of primed missiles at the airborne dinosaur digimon.

"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon howled, cutting it off and blasting it off of its feet with a massive shot of blue flames.

"Greymon!" you called out worriedly.

"I'm fine boss!" the still airborne dinosaur called out, turning mid air to show the flames still in his mouth, "Mega Flame!" even after being attacked so hard, he still managed to follow up and hit the golden armoured digimon after being given an opening by Garurumon.

That was fucking it. You'd had motherfucking enough of this damn bitch ass robot.

You lifted your club into the air, familiar cackles of electricity enshrouding your arm and then slashed the club through the air, "Electric Stun Blast!" you roared, putting all your anger into the attack.

The bolt of lightning struck and zapped at the downed digimon right after Black Greymon's flames washed over it, and to your glee, you actually heard it groan in pain, the first time since the battle began.

"Homing Laser!" it called out though, even through the lightning coursing through its body. Twin beams of golden power shot up from its head into the air, then spontaneously changed courses, rocketing through the air towards you faster than even a bullet.

You had a split few moments to react. You saw Garurumon turn, he was faster than the laser, you could tell that, but having to turn cost too much time for him to get to you fast enough.

There was a split moment where you thought to sack off Bukamon's egg. Instead though, you let your rage lead you and you stepped into the lasers path and thrust your arms just, catching them in the palms of your golden gauntlets.

It burned like a motherfucker and the bones of your arms creaked beneath the force of it so badly it felt like they were going to grind into powder.

Mercifully though, after a second of your resistance, it was too much for you to push back against and you were sent soaring backwards like a punted football.

You covered your head with your arms to protect it and tucked into a ball. Once, twice, three times you skipped over the ground before you unrolled and lashed out, smashing your hands into the ground and using them to grind to a halt a few dozens of feet back on all fours.

Your limbs shook and you groaned.

"Boss!" Gaururmon shouted.

"Bastard!" Black Greymon roared, there was a massive thump and the ground shook beneath you.

You fell to the ground face first, little strength left in your arms and looked up, and despite yourself, you had to snort. Because Black Greymon had literally come down and body slammed the robot beneath his massive bulk as he came down.

Weakly, lifting your digivice and trusting your digimon to take care of things, you activated your Stealth skill and disappeared from sight, and right after activated your Crystal Heal skill and literally moaned in pleasure as the intense pain in your arms soothed to little more than the feeling of sore muscles.

Holy shit that was close. That was the last time you picked a fight with a digimon like that until you got buffed up with some more skills. If it weren't for your newly copied gauntlets, you'd have been killed, no question about it.

But how the fuck did it see you? There's no way it can just fire off that Homing Laser without a target. So does it have scanners then? You know Adnromon did in the show and Andromon is the main digivolution of the normal Guardromon. and since this Guardromon is like a Guardromon on super steroids, that fit right?

...Maybe.

"Grey Claw! Grey Claw! Grey Claw!" You were roused from your thoughts by Black Greymon letting out guttural shout after guttural shout and looked up to see him smash three glowing punches into the robot digimon he was piled on one after the other.

"Power Laser!" As he wound up for the forth, another set of lasers shot out of its eyes and smacked into Black Greymon's chest, blowing him off of it.

Even as Black Greymon shot back and smashed into the ground dozens of feet away and it began to rise, Garurumon stepped forward to attack, "Flash Feeze!" the blue and white lupine digimon howled, letting loose a breath of icy cold tundra.

The Guardromon had little time to react, still struggling up as it was and the waves of ice rushed over it, in seconds covering its body in a block of ice, freezing it in place.

Seeing the frozen robot digimon, you couldn't help the primal grin of satisfaction from spreading across your face.

This thing had been the hardest fight you and your digimon had taken part in till date. It almost killed you, Ruki, Tukaimon and Lopmon. Then hurt Garurumon, did so much damage to Black Greymon and then almost killed you again, and it had taken so many attacks it was unreal.

And you thought that other Greymon was a beast for being able to stand after taking two of Black Greymon's attacks.

You looked to Garurumon watching the frozen digimon warily, ready for anything and Black Greymon struggling to his feet.

"Finish it off boys!" you ordered.

"Right boss!" they agreed as one.

Together, they both stepped forward, a duality of red and blue flames leaving their mouths and blasted the golden Guardromon with all of their power.

To your utter relief, the ice melted and the robot digimon burst into data, although not before glaring at your two digimon.

It was like an ocean of golden data that hung in the air after it was deleted and you couldn't help but sigh and fall on your ass in relief.

"Garurumon, can you smell anyone around?" you asked tiredly.

Garurumon took a sniff of the air before shaking his head, "No boss, the only ones I can smell are some digimon deeper into Kowloon."

Well that's a relief. Now what to do about this data?

..You suppose it's about time to get DemiDevimon up to champion. You lifted your digivice up into the air, "DemiDevimon reload!" you called out.

DemiDevimon appeared before you, hovering slightly in the air as he flapped his wings, "Can't you give this to Salamon?" he asked, "Honestly, becoming stronger will be a bit of a pain, it'll cut into my work schedule here if you make me too strong and want me to fight."

You rolled your eyes, "I promise I'll only make you fight if its really strong guys and I need your help, alright?"

DemiDevimon gave you a dubious look before sighing, "Fine boss," he rolled his eyes and promptly turned to the massive amount of golden data and just got right to it.

Your tiny little bat digimon did so hate wasting time.

He drew it in and seconds later, you couldn't see his small body at all beneath the waves of golden flakes. There was so much of it, it took him a good thirty seconds to load every piece.

The second he came back into view though, he exploded into bright white light.

"DemiDevimon digivolve to...!"

And he grew, and grew, and then grew. He continued gaining height until he even towered over Black Greymon by a good ten feet.

And then the light receded and in your little digital bats place, stood a gargantuan demonic looking black dragon.

"Devidramon!"

"This is quite disconcerting, I'm not used to this kind of size," the now massive dragon grumbled, he eyed his Devimon-like arms and sighed, "Well, at least I have arms now, though I won't be able to fit in my hammock anymore like this."

You spent a few moments admiring Devidramon's new body, before remembering there were still some digimon lingering around.

You turned to Garurumon, "Hey, how many digimon are further in?" you asked.

He took a sniff of the air again before answering, "I can only smell four boss." he replied.

Well, four shouldn't be too hard. Unless they were all champions, but you highly doubted it. If there were any champions with them, that Guardromon would have went for them.

Right then, best to get this out of the way quick style. Holding up your digivice, you returned both Black Greymon and Garurumon. "Let's get this done quick," you said, then turned to Devidramon, "You up for testing your new power by taking these guys out nice and fast?"

The giant black dragon sighed, "Fiiiine boss," he groaned, "But I really need to go see about getting a bigger hammock to relax in when we get back to the private server."

You rolled your eyes, "I'll code you one, I promise."

Sheesh man. He's such an odd guy for a digimon. Most of the ones you've seen so far are always itching for a fight, Black Greymon and Garurumon certainly are.

Brigning up your digivice, you put all of Black Greymon's energy into the Function Call skill and then released it.

A massive look alike of black data cache formed in front of you and you grinned, while Devidramon eyed it curiosly, "That looks like quite a bit of data," he commented, "If I didn't already know what it is, because there's so much of it I even might have gotten drawn to it."

That was the plan, that amount of data even with the Function Call at level 1 would be insanely hard to resist for a rookie, even some champion's would be drawn to it.

Probably.

"Will you be okay for flying?" you asked Devidramon next.

He nodded, flapping his wings a bit. "Yeah boss, should be fine to go for a while," he replied, "I'm used to wings, so flying will be easier than walking about at least."

Perfect.

"Right, give me a lift then buddy," you said, "I want you to fly up high so we don't spook any of the digimon coming and then we'll attack them from above."

Well, you could really just use the Stealth skill, but this would be more cool.

Devidramon sighed, rolling his four crimson red eyes, before holding his hand out for you to jump on, which you did. He curled his hand around you gently just to make sure he didn't drop you.

And then you let loose a whoop of excitement as he flapped his wings and jumped into the air, soaring high.

"This is amazing!" you gushed as he glided up through the air.

"I prefer my hammock." Devidramon commented.

With his wings, it took little effort for the demonic dragon digimon to keep you both aloft. And so you waited.

Thankfully, you didn't need to wait long.

The lure of Black Greymon's energy must have been way too much resist, because within a few minutes, the four digimon practically raced into the room, pushing each other out of the way, climbing over each other and shit in a mad rush to get to the fake data cache.

It was hilarious.

And then the second all four got within reaching distance of the fake data:

"Datk Gale!" Devidramon shouted, unleashing a massive tornado of dark wind, with a massive bolt of black lightning contained within it.

It erased the four digimon, the data cache and even a giant chunk of the platform from existence.

Damn.

"Take us down buddy," you ordered your personal giant demon dragon, "It's time to get Salamon to the champion level as well."

Devidramon heaved a deep sigh, "You realize she's only been alive a day right?" he commented as he began to descend towards the ground, "Sure basically reincarnation and all, and she automatically inherited a lot of knowledge from her previous self, but she's literally jumping from an In-training to a Champion in the span of a day. That's not normal boss."

"Yeah we're pretty awesome aren't we?" you replied, with a smile as Devidramon touched ground and lowered you to your feet. He sighed.

"Just put me back in the digivice so I can get back to work. boss."

"Touchy huh?" you mused with a chuckle, but did as he said and returned him, switching him out for Salamon who plopped out in front of you super cute as always.

"Are you sure this is okay boss?" she asked, tilting her adorable little head cutely, "I have not yet even took part in a fight to help, I don't feel right taking the data earned by the others."

You waved her off, "It's fine," you dismissed her concerns, "You're my cute little digimon now, so getting you nice and strong so nobody can hurt you is my main goal, and if it bothers you so much, you can just pay them back later by beating others yourself and giving them the data."

She sighed before nodding, "Very well boss," she replied, "I shall endeavour to meet your expectations and repay my new brothers what they have given me so freely."

With that said, she took on a familiar pose, arms outstretched and absorbed all four different collections of data.

Then exploded into bright white light.

"Salamon digivolve to...Gatomon!"

The minute the light receded. You were upon her. Cheering you lifted her up into the air and happily nuzzled your cheek against her white soft furry one.

She sighed. "Really boss?" the white cat digimon deadpanned.

While cuddling Gatomon you noticed something you'd forgotten about. Her Holy Ring. to be fair, it was such a minor thing only really touched on in the anime as a way to nerf Gatomon so that the edgy blue haired kid wouldn't just get his shit punched in.

You used the Copy and Paste skill to scan it into your digivice. And then set it to automatically stay on your finger. When you dismissed your golden chrome digizoid gauntlets, you found your right index finger wearing a smaller version of the holy ring around your newest digimon's tail.

The defence buffs it gave were pretty amazing.

After returning Gatomon to your digivice, you attempted to use the Gate skill to leave Kowloon.

You face palmed when you remembered,"That's right, I gave it to Ruki."

You sighed in annoyance, but at least you know she has an instant escape avenue if she comes back to Kowloon again.

Which reminded you.

On the way back, you pulled up up your terminal and called her.

A few moments later, her faced appeared on your screen, and what looked like a room. "Hey, so you got away okay then?" you asked her.

She rolled her eyes, "Yeah, but I should be asking you that idiot," the redhead replied, "So how did that fight go?"

"Not gonna lie, it was the hardest fight we've had yet," you admitted, "Even with both Garurumon and Black Greymon it was a bit touch and go because of that things chrome digizoid armor."

Ruki bit her lip, "Couldn't you use like modify cards to help you?"

You shook your head and sent her a raised eyebrow, "Nope, can't do anything like that, would be cool if I could though," you replied, "Why do you ask?"

Ruki bit her lip a bit harder before shaking her head, "No reason."

Well, a bit odd she'd bring the cards up specifically. Especially with her other little slip ups. She definitely knows more about digimon being real than she's letting on. But well, it didn't really bother you. It's not like you outright told her your secrets right? And you were the one to bring up the whole digimon in Eden thing with her anyway as an in to flirt with her.

"So where are you now?" you asked.

"I'm at home, I couldn't get back into your private server," she replied, "I had to come back anyway because I've got a few things to take care of right now."

Well that's fine. You were kind of beat after that mess anyway.

She turned her head to the side and shushed someone and flushed slightly when she saw your raised eyebrow, "Look, I've gotta go, I'll talk to you at school tomorrow." Ruki hurriedly said.

"Sure, see you then." you smiled at her and bid her goodbye.

Just before hanging up she bit her lip again and sent you a look, "I'm gonna send you something later okay? Just as bit of gratitude for your help."

You raised your second eyebrow, but before you could say anything she hung up.

And then you went on to leave. You headed back to your private resort after leaving Kowloon, and got to work on coding. You spent easily ten hours at it, the first two going in to just making a hammock good enough for Devidramon, and the next eight went into making a new Gate skill.

You'd grumbled quite a bit about how Ruki better be grateful. But it wasn't until you logged out you realised how grateful she actually was when you saw you had an email from her.

'Look, you helped me out a ton today and you went above and beyond what I I initially asked you for, and you got nothing out of it. I'm not saying I'm into you or anything, but at this point, I wouldn't mind getting to know you more.

Oh, and this is to help with the massive case of blue balls I put you through dude.'

It was an image. An Image of Ruki herself laying flat on her back atop a bed, completely nude, her hair down from its usual spiky ponytail and falling in long luscious orange waves. Her creamy, voluptuous body on full view for you. From her full thighs, to her thick waist, and her slender arms were cupped under her large, round breasts tipped with cherry pink nipples that you ached to wrap your lips around.

Your pants hit the ground faster than even Garurumon could run.

Anyway, again, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.