"It's good to be back," you sighed happily as you arrived in Kawloon level 1. Especially without the threat of Data Eater's having everyone shitting themselves.
Still, at least with the Eater kicking around there were some tough digimon. Not...this thing.
You eyed the chuckling yellow Numemon wannabe, casually dodging to the side and out of the way as it threw a literal pink turd at you.
Seriously, you'd just walked into the second area where digimon didn't generally hang around, to find this thing skulking around the playground part.
Your eye twitched, and honest to god, subconsciously you called your gauntlets and Ogremon's bone club to your hand.
"Supreme King Fist!" you roared angrily, The Geremon didn't even have time to squeal before the massive shadow fist smash into it and squashed it out of existence, "Yeah, how'd you like that you literal fucking piece of shit!" you screamed, spitting on the spot it died on.
"Gereshmon! Nyoooo!" A croaky high pitched voice drew your attention to behind the stack of crates, where peeking out was a Geckomon. A fucking Geckomon.
"Supreme King Fist!" You cannot under any circumstance, let there be a witness to you fighting a literal shit monster. Geckomon squealed as a second fist made up of compressed darkness smashed it into the ground.
And you rushed over bone club head high over your head and brought it down. Then again. And again! And a fucking again again again again until you murdered it dead and Geckomon burst into data just like the shit monster before it.
You shuddered, "Nasty..."
You eyed the data left behind by the two weak champions, green from Gekomon and fucking brown from Geremon, because of course the shit monster would leave behind brown data.
You shuddered again. How disgusting. Made you wish it was alive so you could shock it some with Electric Stun Blast.
"Well, no point in letting it go to waste," you mused. You raised up your digivice and released your newest digimon, "Reload, Impmon!"
Impmon appeared before you and took a look at the data before eyeing you as if you were insane, "Bro, don't take this wrong, but seriously, I'm kind of terrified to imagine what you'd do to the digital world if you ended up there," Impmon said, "Seriously, it hasn't even been ten minutes and you've killed two champions, alone, with ease - you'd probably take over the digital world given a few months."
It took some effort for you not to snort at the idea of it taking months. If that twit Ken could do it, you bet you could do it in a fraction of the time. Seriously, that guy was a fucking putz, completing ignoring his partner digimon when he had memories of it beating down Gazimon and shit years previously without ever digivolving.
Wormmon was a motherfucking boss.
"Weeks at best," you replied with a smile before gesturing to the two separate pieces of data, "Well, have at it buddy, that should be enough to get you to the champion level I think."
"Honestly, I didn't think I'd ever see dis much data in my wildest dreams, it's been a struggle just ta get some scraps." Impmon admitted, "I actually thought dis might be a dream for a minute."
You gave him a soft push towards the data, "It's not, you're my digimon now and I take care of my buddies," you encouraged him, "So go on, load it and get strong like you wanted."
For a moment, you think you saw tears pooling in Impmon's eyes, before he turned towards the data and held his arms out, drawing the data towards him and moments later erupting in bright silvery white light.
"Impmon digivolve to...!"
"Devimon!"
When the light died down, a very familiar digimon stood in Impmon's place, far taller. You wondered idly how the Digidestined from the anime would react if you just showed up one day with Devimon and kicked all their asses and declared your intent to rule the world?
That would be fucking baller!
No longer cute, Devimon was tall, imposing, powerful looking and had an air of danger around him.
"Bro! Check me out bro!" Devimon whooped excitedly bouncing up and down on his massively long legs and flapping his giant bat wings, "Ain't I badass lookin'? Betcha' nobody'll try ta bully me anymore, huh!"
Of course, his general personality ruined the image within five seconds.
"Bitchin buddy," you replied before sending him a smirk, crossing your arms together, "How about we go test out your power now?"
An excited gleam appeared in his crimson red eyes.
"That's kinda freaky bro." Devimon commented as he flapped his wings, flying a bit in the air and wobbling from side to side.
He was having a bit of trouble adjusting to the new wings. Devimon was an awesomely powerful digimon, but nobody could deny the body he got from it wasn't really awkward.
"You mean this?" you ask, pointing to yours eyes. Generally, you had heterochromia, one crimson red eye and one vibrant green eye. You thought it made you look exotically sexy. But when you activated the Visualizer skill, you may have tweaked the programming just a bit to make the white of your eyes go pitch black.
Just for the heck of it. Plus, you thought it made you look scary and fucking cool. Not many wanted to get in your face in the first place, who would with fuck with you now that you looked like a badass possessed by a demon.
"Yeah, seriously d'ya need ta' do that bro?" Devimon bemoaned.
You rolled your seriously edgy looking eyes, "Yes, because it's funny and I wanna see if people will shit themselves and run." you replied. You have your priorities straight after all.
"Nobody can see us though bro?" Devimon pointed out.
You guys were under the Stealth skill after all. So he was mostly right. Only a few Zaxxon members you had passed who were using the Visualizer skill as well had seen you.
"When we jump out and attack them then and scare the crap out of them." you conceded.
"Whateva' you say bro."
You and your digimon devil walked through Kowloon Level 1. There were a few digimon about here and there, but most were already being cornered by noobie Zaxxon members and while you didn't have a problem jumping in and stealing kills most of the time - you didn't want to get on Zaxxon's bad side, especially when they were apparently training up new members to fill the roles left behind by the ones who were casualties of the Data Eaters yesterday, or lost their digimon to them.
It wasn't until you came across a Demon member facing off against an honest to god Dorumon that you finally found a target to test out Devimon's power on.
And you so wanted that Dorumon's data. You just have to get rid of the Demon member first. And you have no problem picking a fight with one of those psychotic assholes. You might steal his jacket and mask as well in case you have to infiltrate them at some point - well that, and because you know the uniform is made in the home base server for the Demon's you could probably trace if you ever needed to get there.
And with knowing these guys, you wouldn't put the need past them. They're psychotic assholes after all, the worst type of hacker group.
The only problem is, the digimon this guy has. You've never seen it before. And even your identifying program in your visor couldn't tell you much about. Only that it was Bao Hackmon, a Champion level dinosaur data type digimon.
Well, it honestly didn't matter what digimon this scrub had. It's a data type, Devimon should be able to handle it just fine, especially with a free attack before dropping stealth.
Meanwhile, you'll take care of the Dorumon. If it has the X-antibody, Black Greymon could become Black Greymon x, and you remember how much of a badass Wargreymon X was in the movie.
Granted, Wargreymon is generally a badass whenever one showed up.
"Go wild." you told Devimon, pointing at the Demon's digimon.
He grinned, lifting up one of his weirdly long arms, an orb of dark power gathering. "Gotcha boss!" the satanic looking digimon literally chirped happily.
"Demon Ray!" he called out, thrusting his arm forward and firing a large beam of dark energy that struck the Bao Hackmon before it could even turn around at the sound of his voice.
The Doromon looked mighty spooked and turned to run. But you wouldn't have any of that noise.
You thrust your own fist out, "Supreme King fist!" a fist of darkness leaped from your arm and pasted the Dorumon into a wall before it could skedaddle like a little bitch.
"Huh, you wanna piece of us!?" you heard the Demon member shout, at who you weren't sure, obviously you or Devimon though. "Bao Hackmon, get up and fuck this fool up, now!"
Running forward before the Dorumon could get up from your surprise attack, you lifted your bone club up into the air and smashed it into the furry dragon's head before it could get up, crunching its skull and killing it.
It burst into odd purple and silver data a moment later and you turned to to watch Devimon.
The Bao Hackmon had already recovered from the surprise Demon Ray it seemed. Rearing up, it spat out a massive gout of flame that far exceeded the amount even Black Greymon could output.
That was one powerful looking attack. You were definitely going to scan this thing for an egg. It had to be a pretty rare digimon, so it was worth taking.
The attack was powerful, but this is already over. Even as a weakling impmon, Devimon was tenacious as hell.
So it didn't surprise you one bit when Devimon used his wings to thrust himself forward and thrust his arm through the flames. "Death Claw!" he shouted, and to your utter surprise, his arm literally stretched, flying through the flames, ignoring as it burned at him and pierced right into Bao Hackmon's chest.
It gave a gurgle, then exploded into white data.
"W-what the fuck man!?" the Demon member screamed, before pointing at Devimon, "You've got no idea who you're messing with punk, I'm from the Demon gang, we're gonna fuck you up for th-"
He never got to finish. Because you grabbed him around the throat and choked him out, ignoring his gurgles until he fell limp in your grasp and you just dropped him to the ground.
You immediately pulled his jacket and mask off, storing them in your digivice. you'd have just Copy and Paste'd a new set, but you need the originals for the data of their origins if you ever wanted to trace the Demon's base server.
That done, you turned towards Devimon, "You mind if I give this data to a few of the others?" you asked him.
He eyed the data floating about hesitantly, and you could tell the struggle he went through, wanting to load it himself. After all, his greatest desire before had been to have the strength to fight and get stronger, until you came along and gave him what he needed to digivolve in less than an hour.
He sighed, "Sure bro."
You returned Devimon to your digivice and switched him out for both Garurumon and Black Greymon. They hadn't been getting much love lately data wise in comparison to the others.
But first. You wanted that Bao Hackmon's egg. Raising your digivice, you scanned half of its data and formed a new digi-egg from its remains.
awesomely, you actually got an attack skill from Bao Hackmon. Fif Cross, weird name, but apparently it was a skill that let you make claw shapes of fire with your hands.
"Right, Garurumon you take the rest of that data," you directed the wolf digimon. Then you pointed towards the Dorumon's data, "And Greymon, you get that bunch."
"On it boss!" Garurumon barked, pouncing forward to absorb Bao Hackmon's data. Black Greymon following his lead a second later and absorbing Dorumon's data.
Garurumon absorbed it just fine.
Black Greymon though, the moment he was done, the thing you hoped for happened.
"Black Greymon...X-Digvolve to...!"
He burst into silvery white light that hid his body from view, and you saw his body get a little bit taller, his legs morphing slightly and his arms growing.
And when he was done, a new Black Greymon stood in his place.
"Black Greymon X!" he roared as the light receded.
His body had become much more defined. His previous dark stripes turning orange. Amazingly, his legs had morphed into a likeness of a velociraptor's and would no doubt grant him a big boost in movement speed. The biggest difference though, was the bladed tip of metal at the end of his tail, and his helmet having turned metallic, his front horn almost looking like a blade now.
"Woah!" He looked fucking amazing.
"Bos...I feel so strong!" Black Greymon X clenched and unclenched his clawed hands, "I feel like I could take on an Ultimate and win!"
You smiled. Now you were definitely ready for Kowloon Level 2.
After Black Greymon X blew a massive crater in Kowloon Level 1 with his new Mega Burst attack when he tried it out - you decided to get the fuck out of dodge before Zaxxon fell on you like a swarm of locust thinking you were a terrorist or something.
You briefly logged out of Eden after leaving to grab a bunch of your cards. You honestly didn't have that many modify cards that would work well with your digimon. Most of your cards were actually geared towards getting Black Wargreymon out because with his Black Tornado attack, he absolutely stomped in the card game.
Funnily enough the ones you figured would work well added up to a total of ten.
With that done though, you plopped back into your computer screen and got right back into Eden. It's a good thing you acquired - stole - the URL's for the lower Kowloon Levels prior to ever going there. You were always the type to prepare in advance, despite how cocky of an image you liked to show, as if there was nothing you couldn't just do right off the bat.
Still, when you stepped out of the teleporter the URl for Kowloon Level 2 dropped you at, right next to an elevator/teleporter that led back to Kowloon Level 1, you were quite surprised.
It was a narrow hallway like area, well in comparison. The path was still a good thirty feet across.
But standing in your way, blocking the way into Level 2, was a digimon.
An Exveemon. It stood there blocking the path, muscular blue arms crossed across its chest and a gruff look on its face.
The moment it saw you, it perked right up though. "Ah, another tamer!" it exclaimed, almost happily.
What the hell is an Exveemon doing here? You'd think with how popular that digimon line is, people would have basically rushed it like mad to try and capture it or at least turn it back into an egg after beating it.
Heck, you want to do it yourself. Exveemon is just cool looking. You aren't that big a fan of blue as a colour, but you have to admit, he rocks that blue and white colour scheme.
"I have waited all day in this spot," Exveemon continued, "One after another I have tested you tamers, yet not one has been strong enough to become my tamer."
He thrust a muscular blue scaled hand out, "Come tamer, if you and one digimon of your choosing can defeat me in combat, I will pledge to follow you as your underling!"
Well now, didn't that make things much simpler. You could just get a strong looking champion without having to raise it from an egg if you did this right.
You know, you're kind of tempted to go with Black Greymon X. He's your strongest digimon no doubt. He's been the champion longest, has been in the most fights out of all your digimon and just went through a pseudo digivolution.
But honestly, it's been a while since you've had a real fight yourself And you've gotten way stronger now. You want to test your own strength.
Ogremon's bone club manifested in your hand and you gripped it tight, stepping forward and grinning at Exveemon, "I like the idea of you becoming my digimon," you replied, "And to prove my worth as your future tamer, how about I fight you myself and show you how strong I am without even relying on a digimon?"
Exveemon blinked, lowering his fist, "..Ah, I admit I did not expect this. Every tamer I have run into so far has been content to hide behind their digimon and then run away after I load their data, granted I only landed here today, but still." he admitted, before a toothy grin overcame his face and he punched his two muscular hands together, "Still I admire your bravery Tamer, tell me what is your name my possible future lord?"
You lifted your free hand and curled it into a fist, "My name is Hayato Sota, remember it," you replied, "Now come at me Exveemon!"
Exveemon barked a gleeful laugh, "Very well, prepare yourself!" the mythical dragon digimon shouted. He tensed his legs and it was only because you had been dealing with your own digimon's insane speed lately that you managed to react at all, even on instinct.
He blitzed forward, lashing out with a full frontal kick, covering the thirty feet between you in what seemed like an instant.
You tensed and took the kick in the stomach. The force behind it almost drove the air from your lungs, but you held strong, and wrapped your arm around his large muscular leg and then spun.
"What!?" Exveemon's eyes widened in shock, and so taken off guard he was, he didn't react in time to prevent you form spinning on your feet and bodily lifting him by the leg with your arm wrapped around his leg and slamming him into a wall a few feet away as hard as you could.
The blue dragon digimon grunted in pain, face smooshed up against the wall, and you didn't hesitate to follow up your counter and smash your bone club into his back with all the strength you could muster driving him into the ground hard enough to make the ground shake beneath your feet.
If you wanted to beat Exveemon here to death and just take his data to make an egg, you'd Electric Stun Blast him while he was down, try to stun him and then beat him over and over with your bone club.
That's the pragmatic asshole tactic you usually like to employ. But right now, you aren't going to be that asshole, not to a digimon who will join your team.
Because yeah, you're a cunt, maybe even a bit of a violent sociopath and care not a lick for enemies you put down. But one thing you aren't is somebody who disregards those around you.
You take good care of your boys...and girl. And Exveemon is gonna be one of your boys.
So you stepped back, and then you done something you usually wouldn't ever do in a violent fight. You dismissed your weapon, letting your club fade.
"That was quite the counter," Exveemon complimented as he stood up, rubbing slightly at the part where you smashed him with your club. He blinked though upon seeing your lack of weapon, "Why have you got rid of your weapon?" he asked, puzzled.
You smirked, raising your hands up in a basic guard around your face, fists clenched and ready, "I could have taken advantage of you being down and jut lay into you," you explained, "But if you're gonna be my digimon, I'll earn your respect by beating you head on."
Exveemon's eyes went wide, "Glorious!" he declared with a happy guffaw, "Very well then, I will reciprocate, I will not use any of my powers, let us settle this fight with just our bodies!"
When you nodded, his guffaw got even louder and happier and he jumped forward rapidly, swinging a round house kick at the side of your head. Thankfully because of the lack of room, he didn't get to accelerate and so you saw the attack coming, near bullet like, but you got your arm out just quick enough to block it with your forearm.
"Orah!" Exveemon shouted in exertion, lashing out with a speedy jab with his right hand right towards your face. You couldn't react fast enough and his giant fist slipped past your guarding hand, slamming into your face.
Your face throbbed in pain, but you used the momentum behind the punch to lash out with your other hand and grab the hand he punched you with and tug both him forward off of his feet and you forward before you fell back and drove a brain rattling headbutt into his head.
"Gah!" he choked in pain and stumbled back, off balance because of the way his leg was up as he kicked at you.
Grinning, you stepped forward and laid a quick one two, a right jab, then a left jab that drove the air from his lungs, and then ducked as he lashed out blindly and jumped up to smash an uppercut into his chin that lifted him up off of his feet and laid him flat on his back.
Bouncing on your toes you let Exveemon struggle his way up to his feet on shaky legs. Only, the moment he got up, you were already in motion driving your strongest punch into his stomach.
This is still a fight after all.
The massive blue bipedal dragon bent over your fist and you followed up by jerking your elbow up and catching him under the jaw again.
His body jerked up, but you weren't done there. Lashing out, you grabbed his head with both hands and pulled it down into a driving knee that smashed into his chin with enough force to bodily lift him up into the air, flip over and smash into the ground face first groaning in pain.
You panted deeply, and retracted your fists into a guard around your face once again, "Wanna keep going?" you asked, unable to keep the smile from your face.
This is awesome. You haven't had an awesome fist fight like this since you left the gang you used to run with. Ever since you started fighting digimon, you'd been all about pragmatism, jumping them from behind, ganging up on the, never letting up until they went down.
It was fun to just let loose like this in a proper fist fight for once, with a really strong opponent. You'd missed this.
"...No..." Exveemon's voice muffled by the ground sounded in your ears. He drew himself up and took a knee before you, "You definitely have the strength to be my tamer. Won't you please take me as your underling Lord Hayato?"
Huh. Lord Hayato. You kinda liked the sound of that.
You grinned, "Yeah, I'll train you up nice and strong." You pulled your digivice out and lifted it up, screen facing Exveemon, "Now don't resist. Capture on!" you declared.
From the screen, a beam of light shot out and surrounded Exveemon's form in a ring. Then from the feet up a glow began to go up his body until he was covered in the glow fully, and he was sucked inside the digivice.
There was silence for a moment, just you alone in the hallway leading into Kowloon Level 2 and the sounds of your deep excited panting.
"...Bro you're fucking insane." Devimon's voice rang out from the digivice.
"What no, that was awesome!" Black Greymon X cut in, gushing, Garurmon agreeing and cheering with him.
"...This recording should make for great advertisement on our website." Devidramon commented.
Gatomon just sighed.
"Well, it's quite lively in here isn't it now?" Exveemon, the newest resident of your digivice piped up.
Well, honestly at this point. You were just too happy to go into Kowloon Level 2 and started murdering and loading digimon.
Besides, you kind of have been putting off doing any jobs and selling the excess eggs you have.
That decided, you activated your Gate skill and left level 2 behind, and instead went to your private server.
Some relaxing and getting to know Exveemon sounds like a good plan.
The second you appeared on the beach, you raised your digivice up, "Reload, Black Greymon X! Devidramon! Garurumon! Gatomon! Devimon! Exveemon!"
Seconds later, your full line up, all giant sized, sans the cute little kitty cat all appeared before you.
"Finally!" Devidramon groused, jumping up into the air and flying over to his massive hammock just at the start of the tree line, "Now I can relax, upload that video and put some of these eggs you don't want up for sale."
"Greymon, let's spar!" Garurumon excitedly pawed the ground, "I wanna test out your new power!"
"Let's do it!" Black Greymon X cheered just as excitedly and both giant dinosaur and giant wolf ran off down the beach out of the way to spar.
Gatomon just rolled her eyes and walked over to you, curling up on the sand at your feet already knowing you'd cuddle up with her as you always did in here. She acted like she didn't like it, funny thing was, she couldn't stop purring even when you weren't petting her sensitive spots.
She just didn;t like to act all improper. So dignified your kitty cat was.
"She's got the right idea," Devimon said, nodding at Gatomon. With a flap of his bat-like wings, he fell into the sand and propped his head on his hand and yawned, "Im'a take a nap."
"Quite the collection of personalities you have here," Exveemon commented, sitting down with a wince and giving you his full attention, "I must admit though, I am surprised at the sheer quantity of digimon you have, all that I can feel are stronger than myself at that."
"Well, I've put quite a bit of effort and risk into raising these guys." you replied, sitting down and pulling Gatomon into your lap. She grumbled a bit, but quieted down when you began stroking her ear. "So tell me about yourself Exveemon, how did you end up in Eden?"
"Aha, it is tale rife with hardships and adventure," Exveemon laughed broadly. He kind of reminded you of that trope about those overly happy knight types from anime, "I first came aware as a Demi-Veemon you see, within a village of chivalrous digimon who built a community and swear off taking part in the barbaric practices of the digital world."
He spun a tale of a young Demi-Veemon idolizing the strength of those who protected his village. But because of their swearing off of competing for data, Demi-Veemon had little chance to grow from taking data, and so was stuck at the In-training level for years.
He worked and trained hard, but all was for naught when the village was attacked by a Mega Level digimon, even the villages strongest defender Knightmon proving no match for it. The attacker, a GranKuwagamon, ravaged the village, devouring the data of any and all who got in its way.
It was only through Knightmon, somehow bestowing Demi-Veemon with some of its data upon its death that allowed him to digivolve into Veemon and make his escape.
From there he vowed to one day grow strong enough to defeat that GranKuwagamon and so set off on a journey to get stronger. Fighting battle after battle, slowly growing stronger with each victory earned until he digovlved later into his current form, Exveemon.
It was then he heard tales of the the human world, and the tamers who could help strengthen digimon and allow them to digivolve. He ended up in Kowloon Level 2 while trying to get into the human world, and challenged any hacker he came across in the hopes of finding a worthy tamer.
Thankfully, his searching didn't take too long. Because within a day of arriving, here he was, as your digimon.
Anyway, 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.