Archives

The Ozluminati had entered into the downstairs room, and they were shocked to see so many pillars throughout the gigantic room, each one depiciting major events throughout Earth's history.

???: "Welcome to the Archives."

They jumped at the voice and turned to see it was Hedge.

Ironwood: "Mr. Badnic? But I thought you were upstairs?"

Qrow: "He is capable of teleporting, Jimmy."

"Hedge" chuckled. "True, but I'm not the Hedge you all know. I'm merely one of his Doppelgängers, assigned over this room. I'm simply here to answer any questions any of you may have of Earth's history."

Ozpin: "I'm sure we'll have questions, but quite frankly..."

Glynda: "We didn't expect there to be so much. There's like thousands of these pillars!"

Hedge(2): "Well you have the 2,025 years of the standard calendar, but then you technically have all the years before that came about too."

Ironwood: "I don't even know where to begin to look."

Ozpin: "How about we focus more on their Great Wars? Or rather, their World Wars as they are referred to?"

The Doppelgänger nodded and led them over to those specific pillars.

One pillar caught Glynda's attention along the way, this one denoted as Women's Rights Revolution.

The Doppelgänger noticed her pause. "Ah, yes this was a troubling time for females."

Qrow: "What happened?"

"The short answer? Women couldn't vote, known as the suffrage movement, personal freedom, equal rights and opportunities for women, housing and credit discrimination, even one where there was a court case ruling that it was illegal to force a pregnant woman to take maternity leave."

Ironwood snorted. "Sexist much?"

"You have no idea. Though, this was before my time, so I only have snippets of the whole thing. And that pretty much goes for everything else in here. As for the movement, things have gotten better for women, but there are still some moments where sexism does poke its head out. I'm not much for politics, but there have been some questionable ideas thrown around."

Glynda: "Well at least our world is different in regards to that."

Ozpin: "Agreed."

They came up to the first World War pillar, instantly they noticed that the war lasted only 4 years, but it was the death toll, both military AND civilian, that caught them off guard.

Ironwood: "How...how many deaths occurred?" Utterly shocked at the numbers.

"Estimates are about 15 to 22 million deaths and about 23 million wounded, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history."

Qrow: "And all of this stemmed off a single assassination?"

Ozpin: "An heir to a throne according to these scriptures," overlooking the data he downloaded to his scroll.

Glynda: "And out of all those countries involved, Germany paid the most."

"Yes, the Treaty of Versailles. Had to give up a lot of their territories, was forced to disarm anything military/war related, and had to pay heavy war reparations to the Allied forces."

Ironwood: "I'm almost worried how the 2nd World War began."

"Funny you should say that considering who was the one most prominent in causing duress."

They then moved over to the 2nd World War's pillar, noticing it started almost 21 years after the first ended. Immediately, they saw what the Doppelgänger meant.

Ironwood: "You're joking. How in the world did they even manage to become battle ready?!"

Glynda: "No doubt due to Adolf," reviewing everything he and his Nazi Germany had "accomplished" during the war, disgust in her tone and shown in her facial expression.

Ozpin: "These...concentration camps. How could he do that to his own citizens?"

"The sad part? Anyone from Remnant who had their aura unlocked at the very least would be sent to them, just for being different. Add on those other reasons people were sent to them, and you'd probably hope your death was swift and not dragged out. There is also a story that was created during those times, a documentary of one of the prisoners you can say."

Their scrolls ping and they notice a file labeled "Diary of Anne Frank." But they notice the picture attached, no doubt being of Anne Frank.

Qrow: "Hold up, she's just a child!" Her age was really shocking once he looked more into her info, and it really scared him when he saw how old she was when she pas...no, was killed. She was the same age as Ruby!

Glynda: "Were they just trying to wipe out most of their citizens or something?!"

Ironwood: "It looks that way," he solemnly said.

Ozpin: "Did America get involved in the war?"

"We did, but after we were surprised attack by Japan at our Naval Base Pearl Harbor in the state of Hawaii. We lost many sailors and ships to those attacks, as they either bombed them...or used suicidal strikes. And our retaliation used one of the most deadly things any human could create."

Ironwood scrolled to that specific retaliation, and nearly dropped his scroll. "Nuclear...bombs?"

Glynda: "In what way, shape or form is that a good idea?!"

Qrow: "I can see the reasoning behind it." Glynda whipped her head towards the drunk.

"HOW CAN THERE BE A GOOD..?!"

Ozpin: "Glynda, think about it. If retaliating with something as deadly as these nukes, it would deter a further attack, especially as America had joined the Allied forces against Japan and the rest of the Axis Powers."

Ironwood: "But if they also resorted into using nukes themselves?"

"I will say this, even after this war concluded, there were a few countries outside the US, Japan included, that had nukes in their arsenal, but a treaty was signed for all countries to dismantle them."

Qrow let out a chuckle at that. "And how many actually went through with that? I find that very hard to believe."

"And you have every right to believe that. As far as I'm aware, that was followed through, but it's been 80 years since World War 2 ended, and while may not focus on the news as much, I believe there have been reports of some countries housing some nukes."

Ironwood: "And nothing has been done about them?"

"Let me ask you, James. Would you risk bringing that up and possibly antagonizing that/those countries into doing so? What do think would happen?"

Ozpin: "World War 3."

Glynda: "But with nothing but nukes being fired off."

"Exactly."

Realization came across Ironwood's face and he decided to keep quiet. The Doppelgänger then received a ping, and a smile appeared on its face.

"Something just came up in the theater room. You all should head back upstairs. If any of you want to look into other events, you're welcome to do so."

Ozpin: "Thank you."

Ironwood was contemplating how things had turned out on Earth. If he still had his old semblance, he probably would use the nukes.

The Ozluminati came back up the stairs that led into the theater room, noticed everyone was crowded around JNPR's couch, specifically now around Nora. When they see the bubbly girl, they notice she isn't as bubbly as normal, as she is caressing a small, fluffy white baby Digimon in her lap with two small puffs on its head, likely its ears.

Ozpin: "So another Digiegg hatched."

Ironwood: "What's the name of this one?"

Nora brought up her Digivice, which was now also a D-Spirit strapped to her wrist. "Well according to my Digivice, her name's YukimiBotamon."

Glynda: "Well, we can probably guess who this next chapter will be focused on," starting to notice the trend.

Yang: "How'd it go down in the archives?"

Qrow: "Lots of pillars of historical events tied to Earth's history from what we could see." He kept out the info about the Holocaust and what he learned about Anne Frank. The less his nieces knew about that, the better.

Everyone got prepared for the next chapter as the TV turned back on.

"Flashing Claws! Gatomon!"

Ironwood blanced at that name. "Please don't tell me Salamon's going to evolve into a cat like Digimon again from a dog one."

Hedge: "Ok, I won't."

Ironwood: "That doesn't make me feel better about it."

Ren just looked over at his childhood friend, now girlfriend. He knew she could handle herself, but that was when they ever faced Grimm. So far, thankfully, there hasn't been any sightings of their natural enemy here in the Digital World, but he was afraid of what dangers she would be in to have Salamon evolve.

Nora caught onto his stare. "Come on, Ren, you know I can handle myself in tough times. I'll make it out of whatever they throw at my other," taking hold of his hand.

Ren squeezed her hand. "That's what I'm afraid of: seeing your other in danger."

After the rather stressful night when they'd been attacked by Seadramon, the group was once more on their way to Infinity Mountain. Though it was clear the previous night's sleep wasn't as well rested as they'd like.

Blake: "Considering we slept up against a few trees, I wouldn't blame them if their necks were a little cramped up."

Qrow shrugged. "Eh, you get used to it."

Ruby: "We don't constantly go off on missions like you, Uncle Qrow."

Qrow: "Touché."

Salamon yawned loudly from her spot on Nora's head. "I didn't sleep so well last night…"

"Tell me about it," Patamon yawned as well. "Hopefully nights like that don't become a habit."

Weiss snorted. "That's just asking Murphy to put it into reality."

Yang: "It's going to be just like our time at Mountain Glenn, only scaled much higher."

Ozpin: "For what it's worth, Doctor Oobleck did give you girls exemplary reports for the mission. Yes, the breach still happened, but you did what you could to protect everyone."

Team RWBY beamed with praise, but they still wished they had stopped Roman's train from crashing into Vale.

"Please don't tempt the universe you two," Blake sighed.

"Well...look on the bright side. Now we got two Digimon who can evolve to...uh…" Ruby started, then paused as she realized she had no idea what those stages were called.

"They're called the Adult Level," Tentomon supplied helpfully.

Pyrrha: "Seems we have a name for that form now."

Yang: "Fresh, Baby, Child, and Adult. What, no Teenager form?" She joked.

Glynda: "Hopefully not," she muttered. She already had to deal with Teenager humans and Faunus, she'd rather not deal with Teenager level Digimon.

"Right, now we got two Adult Digimon on our team!" she said, giving him a grateful nod.

"Does it go above Adult Level?" Weiss asked, rather curious about it.

"It does, beyond Adult is the Perfect Level, and there are rumors that there's a level even above that." Tentomon added.

Winter: "So, we have a Perfect form and a speculated form higher than that."

Jaune: "Strange...you would think a form named 'Perfect' would be the highest one achievable."

Pyrrha: "This is the Digital World we're talking about."

Nora: "Why do I get the feeling we'll be using that phrase a lot when trying to make comparisons to our world?"

Ironwood: "Because that's probably the most likely thing that will happen."

"Let's...hope we don't run into any of those soon," Jaune gulped. Adult Digimon were scary enough. He wasn't in a hurry to run into, and with their luck, fight, a Digimon that was at a level titled 'Perfect' of all names.

"And now we're almost definitely going to run into one of those," Ren deadpanned, causing the blonde to blanche when he realized what he did.

"Ooohh! This is new!" Nora said, getting everyone's attention as she looked at her digivice with raised eyebrows.

"What is it?" Gyro asked, it had to be either extremely mundane it went around to awesome, or just straight up awesome if Nora reacted like that.

Nora pouted. "Hey!"

Ren just patted her head as she moped.

"That radar that didn't have anything anymore has a black dot on it now." she said, before the others all pulled out their own digivices and went to the same screen, showing that there was indeed a black dot on it now, moving quickly.

Weiss: "So that radar now is picking something up. Something that is a black dot and fast."

Ruby looked back to Hedge. "Does whatever that second tracker track the same as ours do?"

Hedge: "They're not 1:1 to the same as the ones on screen, and I'm not going to say what it is used for yet. That'll come later."

The students pouted at not knowing yet what it would track, but at least they know their Digivices won't track the same thing.

"So… judging by this thing, that black dot should be… over there." Pierce said as he looked west, just in time to see something small, and black, move quickly across the sky.

Blake: "That can't be good."

Glynda: "I don't think anything can be good unless your others know about it."

Pyrrha: "Unless we can confirm it's good."

Glynda: "True."

"What the heck was that?" Veemon wondered, tilting his head in confusion.

"Dunno, but I get the feeling we'll find out," Gyro frowned.

"Why am I not surprised?" Weiss sighed. "With our luck, it'll lead us straight into another life or death situation at the hands of a violent Digimon...no offense to all Digimon in present company," she said, adding the last part quickly.

Qrow grunted at that. He already had to deal with Raven and the rest of the Branwen tribe. As much as he hated thinking about it, he really hoped the kids' others didn't have any issues with their Digimon partners turning on them.

"None taken," all the Digimon waved off.

"Well, no use worrying too much. We might as well keep going while it's still bright," Yang said.

"Then let's go!" Biyomon said enthusiastically.

"She's got a point," Blake nodded. "We've still got a long way to go."

"Hopefully we at least manage to find ONE group of civil Digimon willing to hold a conversation instead of outright attacking us." Pyrrha said with a sigh.

"I'm sure we will. There are lots of friendly Digimon on the island," Gabumon reassured.

Yang: "And how many are big, powerful, AND friendly at the current time he's saying that?"

Ruby: "Yang, being moody is not your thing. Leave that to Blake."

"Hey!"

"Make that hope we run into them when they AREN'T pissed off at something," Pierce commented.

"This is about the Monochromon isn't it?" Veemon said with a sweatdrop.

Winter: "What ever gave you that idea, Veemon?"

"What do you think?" Pierce told him dryly, earning a nervous chuckle from his partner.

Despite that, they continued on. However, after a while of walking, Yang felt the urge to address a growing elephant in the room. "So...anyone else wondering about all the road signs in this forest?"

"Yes," was the unanimous response.

"Yes," Everyone said. "But we've been trying VERY hard not to think about it," Blake said with a sigh.

"...I'm guessing it goes without saying we all agree they don't actually mean or lead anywhere, right?" the blonde brawler couldn't help but ask.

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Yeah, their kind of all over the place on the island and are just… there." Biyomon said, gesturing with her arms all around her.

Pyrrha: "So being there just because..."

Glynda: "How much of the Digital World is influenced from the real world?"

Hedge: "A hefty amount."

"Stuff like this does show up a lot, huh?" Tentomon mused.

"Though I wonder why we never had any of that in the plateau we lived in," Agumon couldn't help but say, causing all the gathered Digimon to frown in thought...but ultimately shook their heads unable to answer that.

"Let's just… focus on moving ahead." Gyro said, rubbing his temples. He never considered himself someone who overly adhered to rules of logic, but the Digital World was just plain confusing some days.

Ren: "The sooner we throw logic out the window the better, otherwise we'll be dealing with nonstop headaches."

"As much as I don't want to, I agree," were the muttered responses from both Weiss and Glynda.

"Hm?" Palmon blinked as they continued walking.

"Something wrong, Palmon?" Ruby asked.

"The soil seems more worn here. I think we're getting close to an actual trail," she reported.

Ruby: "Awesome, that means we should be coming up to a village or something."

Yang: "Which also means we should be running into more Digimon."

"Ok, that's good. A trail means people walk here regularly, so that means we're close to a lived in area, meaning a place with civilized Digimon. I think we're catching a break today." Weiss said with a relieved sigh.

Winter: "I don't think you want to celebrate too soon, Weiss. You still have that black dot to worry about."

Weiss: "Let me have some sort of a good moment, Winter. I'll take anything at this point."

"Aw man, I was hoping I'd get to do something fun today." Nora said with a pout, while Salamon looked down at her dryly from her spot on top of her head.

Ultimately deciding to ignore the overly energetic girl, the group continued down the path, Palmon guiding them till they found it. What they soon found was a small village...literally.

Everyone blinked at the size of the huts and the...well, literal small village.

Ozpin: "Well, you all did find a village."

Ironwood: "But even I didn't expect to find one so small."

Qrow: "It's something, right?" he shrugged.

Glynda: "I guess so."

"Huh...its a village, but the huts are all so small," Jaune blinked at the sight.

"That probably means whoever lives here isn't very big," Gyro pointed out. "I mean, we HAVE seen some pretty small Digimon so...I guess it makes sense."

They remembered how small the baby forms of their partners were. He had a point there.

"And I know what the villagers are." Wormmon said as he pointed at a hut where one villager was poking his head out his entrance to look at them.

It was roughly the same size as Wormmon, and in the same shape of a caterpillar, but it had a yellow carapace with a red belly, blue claws as legs with a blue beak like mouth and a long dark blue stinger on its rear end, it had a pair of long antennae, and covering its body were lightning bolt shaped black marks.

Nora: "It's actually kind of cute," as she eyed the little fella.

"Oh, it's Kunemon." Salamon noted in a slight tone of surprise.

Digimon Analyzer: Kunemon

Kunemon. Virus Type. A Child Level Larva Digimon. Kunemon are among the more docile Virus Digimon, and serve as a reminder to never judge a book by it's cover, or in this case, type. While unclear, it's believed the lighting patterns on its face act as it's ocular organs. Its special attack is Electric Thread, spitting a thread of silk charged with electricity, which can knock out most large digimon when wrapped up for long enough.

Ruby nodded at the mention of "never judge a book by its cover." There were many times that people would pick on her back at Signal, but after she got some training from Qrow, she taught them a lesson with Crescent Rose.

"Why are you surprised to see it?" Ren asked her.

"Because usually Kunemon make their homes in trees." Gomamon answered for her.

Ozpin frowned at that. "Hopefully these Kunemon just wanted to branch out from the rest."

Qrow facepalmed. "Oz, you did not just make a pun." Yang laughed at that.

Ozpin realized shortly after. "I suppose I did. My apologies. It seems Miss Xiao Long is rubbing off on me."

Ruby: "That's not a good thing, Headmaster."

"I'll see if I can convince them we're friendly." Wormmon said as he jumped off of Ren's shoulder.

"Let me help. I'm a bug too after all." Tentomon added as he followed after Wormmon.

With that said the group watched as the two Insectoid Digimon went into the village proper and started talking with the Kunemon who had been brave enough to peek outside.

And, after a minute or so of them talking, the Kunemon took a deep breath "Friendly people!" it shouted into the village.

Everyone but Hedge had jumped up and winced at the volume of the small Digimon's voice, even with Hedge lowering the volume of the TV.

"Always the quiet ones," Pierce blinked, the group wincing at the small creature's surprisingly loud voice.

It's shout though had the actual intended effect, as more and more Kunemon started coming out of their homes while Wormmon and Tentomon went back to the group.

"They won't be having any issues with us resting here for the day, mostly because this is the first time their meeting humans." Wormmon explained as he reclaimed his spot on Ren's shoulder.

Jaune: "Well that's good at least. We have somewhere to hunker down for a bit."

Blake: "Now we just have to deal with whatever the black dot was," while cleaning out her Faunus ears, which were still ringing from the Kunemon's yell.

"Glad to hear that," Jaune sighed in relief.

"Guess we finally got a good experience outside of our partners, huh?" Ruby chuckled, something they all shared, glad to finally have an actually good encounter with other Digimon other than their partners.

Everyone was relieved when they were able to relax in the village, even if the many Kunemon stared at them curiously, and some brave ones came up and poked them curiously.

Ironwood: "That's right. They would not have any experience with a human, or a Faunus in Miss Belladonna's case."

After lunch had passed though, it seemed that their luck had finally caught up to them…

Everyone groaned at that statement.

Yang: "Why can't things just go our way?"

Qrow gave a deadpan response. "Because it'd be too easy."

"Hm?" Gyro looked up, looking around confused.

"Something the matter?" Pierce asked him.

"You don't hear that?" Gyro shot back.

"Blake?" Everyone but Hedge questioned.

Thankfully, the ringing had stopped in her ears and Blake started to focus on the sound. "It...sounds like...buzzing? Maybe even static."

Weiss: "Maybe it's one of the nearby Kunemon?"

At that, Pierce rose an eyebrow, before simply trying to listen to what his brother had seemingly heard.

He could sort of hear… something, but he had no idea what it was supposed to be.

"What the heck is that?" Yang said, starting to hear it too.

"It sounds like… static electricity, or something along those lines." Blake said, obviously making use of her hidden advantage.

Blake frowned. "I'm not going to be beating the Faunus allegations, aren't I?"

Glynda: "Probably not, but you are valuable in being able to hear incoming danger before it arrives."

Blake: "I guess that's one good thing about being a Faunus."

"It must be just some of the Kunemon. They do have electric energy charged into their nets," Tentomon said.

"The only problem with that is that none of them are using their threads near us at the moment." Weiss pointed out, stumping Tentomon.

Weiss: "Well that throws my theory out the window."

"So uh...should we be worried about that?" Jaune asked.

"Considering our track record so far...yeah, I think so," Gyro deadpanned.

"Oh don't worry, it's just Thundermon," a random Kunemon said. "He's kinda like our next door neighbour. He doesn't bother anyone." if the Kunemon could, he would be waving their concerns off by now.

"Wait… isn't that like that the second time we've been told something like that?" Nora noticed, blinking in realization.

Yang: "She does have a point."

Blake: "Nora having a point...Ren has that happened before?"

Ren: "She has her moments."

It took a moment for everyone to first process that 1) Nora was right and 2) that electric sound was getting louder and louder.

In fact…

"Hit the deck!" Gyro shouted as everyone dived down as something incredibly fast whizzed past their heads. The blur crashed into and through a few huts before going through a few trees, causing several of them to topple over, leaving a small trail of destruction in its wake. And as if to further hit in the point…

"Big trouble!" came a shout from the direction the blur had come, as several other Kunemon came 'running'. "Thundermon...Thundermon's gone crazy!"

"A little late on that alert, don't you think?" Nora deadpanned.

Ruby shrugged. "I mean Thundermon was going even faster than I do in my semblance, so I can't really blame them."

At that, the humans all just shared deadpan stares at each other, while the gathered Digimon had HUGE sweat drops on their heads. "Uh…" they were honestly at a loss for words.

"Right, no point in trying to explain Murphy being a jerk I guess, but this is weird though if he's supposed to be friendly." Gyro said as the humans (and one hidden faunus) all had to stay low.

"It gets worse," one of the Kunemon said. "He's suddenly started rampaging through our game trails. Our village depends on those for our food supply."

Jaune: "Game trails are really important for a village. Those go out, you can expect the village to not last long unless they go out to hunt."

Qrow: "And in our world, that's tough to do given the Grimm."

"That's not good," Ren's eyes widened at the news.

"We gotta help them," Nora said suddenly, her voice losing the silliness it usually had.

"In that case, we need to find a way to stop Thundermon." Salamon said, a little part of her glad her partner was taking this seriously.

"But how do we find him?" Pyrrha pointed out. "He was moving almost as fast as Ruby with her semblance."

Qrow: "Oh boy, I'm remembering all the times Ruby had a sugar rush after she unlocked her semblance."

Weiss: "I can imagine it was a lot of running around for you and their father."

Yang: "I was in the mix too, but at least when she crashed, it was easier to grab her."

Ruby just put her hood over her head.

"Well, finding him is easy, seems like he wants to wreck the place. What we need to do is find a way to stop him." Ruby pointed out.

Everyone started looking around, hoping to get any sort of clue as to what might stop Thundermon, before Nora suddenly grinned as she darted towards the edge of the forest.

Glynda rubbed her temple. "What is Miss Valkyrie up to now?"

Ozpin: "I wish I knew Glynda. I wish I knew."

"Ok what the… hell?" Pierce started, before his voice turned into a whisper as Nora actually lifted up one of the tree trunks that had fallen down, hefting it over her shoulder.

Yang: "Ok, what the heck is your workout regime?!"

Nora: "I can show you.~"

Pyrrha: "Yang, I wish you the best of luck."

Jaune: "And I'll pray for you."

"Suddenly, the randomness has become worth it." Salamon said with a grin.

Nora gave the tree a few test swings, almost like a baseball bat, pursing her lips in thought "Hey, can someone electrocute me a bit?"

That gave everyone pause as they looked at her, completely thrown for a loop.

Winter: "Why would someone want to be electrocuted...willingly?!"

Ren merely sighed, before turning to Tentomon "Just zap her a bit, her semblance will absorb it and make her stronger."

Ren: "That's why, Winter."

Ironwood: "How did you unlock that?" genuinely curious.

Nora: "Struck by lighting, didn't die. It was a crazy day," she supplied nonchalantly.

"Um… alright then." Tentomon said, still confused, but complying as his wings started buzzing and he gathered a charge between the two halves of his shell "Petit Thunder!"

Nora grinned as the attack hit her, her semblance activating as the electricity arced off her body and she started swinging the tree trunk much faster.

"I'm gonna knock you out of the park." Nora called into the area with a wild grin. "So come on Thundermon, show me what ya got!"

Against all odds….that actually worked, as the sound of static could be heard, and a familiar blur soon came back. Thundermon came at her with all the intent of a seeker missile...only to be met with a whole lot of wood in his face, before he was sent flying back, hitting a rock, finally revealing to them what he looked like.

Nora/Yang: "Home run!" Even YukimiBotamon and Punimon cheered.

Hedge: "Eh, it was a line drive. I'd give it a double at best."

Nora: "Wow, tough crowd."

Yang: "He's probably still butt hurt he lost to us."

Hedge: "For the record, I was unaware the sparks from the Corrupted Super Form could be used to power her semblance."

Glynda: "That sounds like a skill issue to me."

Hedge: "Whose side are you on?"

In all honesty, the group expected something more intimidating, for all he was, was just a black ball with a yellow thunderbolt sticking out the top of his head, a pair of short arms and legs.

Qrow: "Well that's underwhelming," he muttered.

Winter: "Well, considering how small the blurs were, it makes sense."

Digimon Analyzer: Thundermon

Thundermon. Data Type. An Adult Level Mutant Digimon. Known as the Digimon Dynamo, it's a part of the Mamemon family of Digimon. His body is like a small magnet, constantly clad in electricity generated by his high speed. His special attack is Thunder Ball, discharging several spheres of electricity at it's targets.

Thundermon groaned as he pried himself from the stone, letting out a roar that was probably supposed to be intimidating. However, considering his size…

The humans (and one hidden faunus) couldn't take it anymore...and promptly started laughing. They knew they shouldn't, they knew that they should have been taking this more seriously, but after all the life and death situations they'd been through at the hands of massive Digimon, seeing such a TINY Digimon being their opponent...the novelty was too much.

Apparently, Thundermon took offense to that as he started rushing again…

Only for Nora to just bat him away with the tree again.

Ruby snickered. "This is both hilarious and embarrassing."

Yang: "It's like hitting a ball back and forth off a wall."

Hedge: "In my world, we have two games like that. One called handball, self explanatory, you use your hands/arms to whack a dodgeball against the wall. The other is racquetball, where you use a tennis racket to whack a racquetball against the wall."

"This is almost embarrassing," Yang snickered as they saw the Digimon go flying like a baseball again.

"But it IS pretty funny," Biyomon chuckled.

"Shouldn't we figure out why Thundermon is going crazy?" Ruby asked.

"Sure we will," Gyro said...right as Nora knocked Thundermon back again. "Right after this stops being funny."

Weiss: "Best to do it after he's knocked out."

Ozpin: "That may take awhile if he keeps coming back to attack. He could just be very durable."

Ironwood: "Matter of fact, how durable can a Digimon be?"

Hedge: "Depends on the Digimon, really.Though their Level can also play a huge factor."

"Is it wrong that this is actually pretty fun to watch?" Patamon couldn't help but ask as he snickered at the sight of Thundermon being launched away.

"...maybe a little," Agumon chuckled.

"And here's one for the road!" Nora shouted as she gave one last mighty swing, and Thundermon was sent soaring beyond the trees.

Nora: "Now that is a Home Run! Out of the park even!"

They all waited for a moment for Thundermon to rush back again, that moment stretching on into seconds, and then a full minute.

Blake: "I think you hit him a bit too hard, Nora."

Nora: "Whaaaaat? Nonsense."

It was at that minute that Ren deadpanned "We lost him."

"Ah...we...probably shouldn't have been enjoying that ball game too much, huh?" Pierce sweatdropped.

Yang laughed at the unintentional pun there. "Is that supposed to be a pun toward baseball?"

Hedge: "More or less."

Gyro gave him a look at that "Now really isn't the time for your stupid puns."

"Wasn't even trying to this time," Pierce shot back.

"Okay you two, enough of that," Pyrrha said, breaking up the argument. "We need to find Thundermon first."

"She's right, we'd better hurry and find him before he causes more trouble," Veemon nodded, to which the two brothers did the same and the group immediately set their sights on the direction Nora had launched Thundermon.

Ruby: "How banged up do you think he'll be?"

Jaune: "Considering it's Nora we're talking about?"

Winter: "I'd be surprised if he's still raring to go."

Unfortunately for the group, this unsurprisingly, proved a bit harder than expected. "How far DID you launch him?" Weiss couldn't help but ask in annoyance as they trudged through what they assumed to be one of the Village's game trails considering the number of berry bushes and and various other fruit they noticed along the way.

After asking Hedge what type of fruits those were, Pyrrha and Nora gave some to their Digimon.

Pyrrha: "Probably further than what we would find preferable."

Jaune: "Ain't that the truth."

Ren: "You two have come to understand her, haven't you?"

Jaune: "Very much so."

Pyrrha: "It's easier to do that instead of just question everything she does."

"Uh….whoops?" Nora said sheepishly.

Weiss shook her head in annoyance, before turning to the Digimon who were helping with the search. "Any luck with finding him?"

"Not really. He's pretty small, and he was sent flying, so there's really not much to track," Tentomon shook his head.

"Hey, hold on… I think I got something." Pierce said, looking at his digivice.

Ruby: "Yeah, but is it a good something?"

Glynda: "Most likely? Both."

"What is it?" Jaune asked, grabbing for his own just in case.

"Remember that weird black thing in the sky earlier? It's in range of the Digivices again." Pierce pointed out.

The others checked and, sure enough, the black dot was on their radar again, coincidentally, it seemed to line up with the area that Thundermon was knocked into.

Winter: "I don't think that's a coincidence."

Ironwood: "I agree."

"Whatever it is, looks like it may have latched onto Thundermon." Gyro noted.

"Do you think maybe it's the reason he's acting different from how the Kunemon describe him?" Ruby wondered.

"It makes sense, according to them last night he was perfectly fine, and we saw that black thing heading roughly towards the area he makes his home." Palmon agreed with the theory.

"So...what? Did we see some kind of parasite or maybe even a virus that causes Digimon to go berserk or something?" Yang frowned.

Ozpin: "I think you hit it on the nail with that, Miss Xiao Long."

"That...might be pretty accurate actually," Blake mused.

"But also really scary," Wormmon shivered. "If there are more of these things, then Digimon all over the island could go berserk at any time."

"Then we'd better try and see what we can do about this before things get worse," Ren said.

"Right," everyone nodded in agreement. Using the radar as a guide, they were able to home in...and found a cliffside...with a small hole in the nearby rocks and the sound of something drilling.

"...wow, either he's trying to get into the rocks, or you REALLY hit him hard," Gomamon blinked at the sight.

Jaune: "It's Nora we're talking about."

Students: "Latter."

"Well, let's see if we can get him out AND figure out what's wrong," Ren said, before turning to Wormmon. "Can you make your nets thicker and stronger than normal?" he asked, earning a nod from his partner. "Alright, we'll need those to try and catch him."

"Okay everyone, nice and easy now unless someone wants to lose a bodypart," Gyro gulped a little as they slowly approached the hole, Wormmon quickly spinning an extra strong net. Getting into position, they were ready to catch the berserk mon when he got out of the hole he was in, and evident by how the sound of spinning and electricity was getting louder, he was about to do very soon.

A moment later, he burst out, getting caught in the net, and everyone was about to cheer, before he continued forward, and everyone was holding on started getting dragged around by him.

Everyone sweat dropped at what they were seeing.

Weiss: "We probably should've seen that coming."

The hunters all had a collective thought as they got dragged on the ground.

'Thanks god for aura.'

Although the Digimon… let's just say it was painful, because that was a rather cacophonous series of 'Ow's.

They winced at seeing their partners bounce up and down from hanging on to Wormmon's nets. At least their others had their aura to deafen the pain.

At the very least, the plan was having some sort of effect on him, as with everyone dragging behind him it stopped him from going too quickly or getting up high, and with all the twisting he was doing he was getting tangled up in the net more and more. Unfortunately, at the last minute, he hiked upwards, and the sudden jerk caused the Digimon to let go thanks to the leftover effects from all the dragging. The effects were soon known, as Thundermon started picking up some speed thanks to the lighter load, and was soon pulling them all over the place.

"Okay, this wasn't such a great plan!" Gyro admitted as they were now screaming through a small flight.

Blake: "He'll keep gaining speed the more of us get thrown off."

Yang: "And I think that's going to happen right now."

"Ya think?!" Everyone else shouted, before a shout happened...and Ruby let go from a sudden turn, the younger girl falling...and landing on top of Palmon who had moved to catch her.

"Sorry Palmon!" Ruby said, quickly getting off.

Ruby let out a sigh of relief. "Thanks Palmon for the cushioned landing."

"...shit…" was all Gyro could say when he realized where this was going. The teens were soon screaming again when Thundermon renewed his attempts to shake them off, and one by one they were forced to let go, all of them thankfully landing safely thanks to their auras, but each time one let go, Thundermon became faster and faster, till finally only Nora was still holding on, the orange head actually biting onto the net to help keep her grip.

Nora cackled. "Some have said I have a strong bite. I wouldn't mind trying that out when we get back."

Ren facepalmed. "Nora, no."

"Nora yes!"

"Nora!" Salamon shouted in alarm seeing her partner in a rather precarious position.

Eventually it seemed Thundermon had gotten fed up with the girl's grip, and soon flew straight to the cliffside. Seeing the incoming rocks, Nora's eyes widened, and she immediately let go, falling through some trees, but ultimately landing on the ground, more or less okay, since her aura finally broke. "I'm okay!" she said quickly. Too bad at that moment, Thundermon rammed into the cliff, causing a strong tremor, which caused several rocks to fall...headed right for the girl.

Nora: "Never mind!!"

"LOOK OUT!" Salamon shouted running towards her partner to try and save her.

(Play Brave Heart)

At that moment, Nora's Digivice shined bright, sending the signal to the sky, and once more the light emerged releasing the waterfall of data.

"Salamon, Evolution!" Salamon started as the data flowed into her before she transformed. "Gatomon!" She hadn't changed much in terms of height, being just a half foot taller as she stood on her hind legs, but what had changed however was her species, going from a dog to a cat with a white coat of fur, her ears tipped with strands of purple fur, while her tail was very long and striped with purple. Hanging around said tail was a Holy Ring, a smaller one than had been around her neck in her previous form, but still something that showed how strong she was nonetheless. As for her forepaws, there were clad in a pair of yellow cat gloves with red stripes, and sporting large claws on their tips.

Ironwood was beyond baffled by what he just saw. First, she was a cat like Digimon as Nyaromon, then she was a dog like Digimon as Salamon, and now she was back to a cat like Digimon as Gatomon. "What even is the connection with these Digimon evolutions?"

Hedge: "Oh don't get me wrong, there are some where they stay roughly the same throughout all their forms. Not all Digimon have a set evolution line."

A white blur zipped between Nora and the incoming boulders, before those were promptly sliced apart, falling harmlessly around the girl, Gatomon landing defensively between Nora and where Thundermon was.

"Salamon, you evolved!" Nora said, her eyes widening a little in wonder.

Digimon Analyzer: Gatomon

Gatomon. Vaccine Type. An Adult Level Holy Beast Digimon. Although small, Gatomon is the true definition of not judging a book by it's cover, as her small body holds a lot of power, most of which is concentrated to her legs, making her not only an excellent jumper, but also an extremely fast Digimon. The Holy Ring on her tail serves as the source of most of her power. Her special attack is Neko Punch, striking the opponent at high speeds with her sharp claws.

Hedge: "Fun fact, she's the fastest out of all the Adult Level forms your partners can take."

Ruby: "How fast we talking?"

"Its Gatomon in this form, Nora," Gatomon chuckled lightly, before turning and glaring at Thundermon who'd just broken free of the rocks again. "Enough games, this ends now," she said.

Thundermon seemed to think the same, before he started zipping around the two, looking for an angle to attack...or he WOULD have if Gatomon didn't suddenly appear in front of him and promptly batted him away with a strike from the Holy Ring on her tail, causing Thundermon to dig a small trench on the nearby ground.

Yang: "Okay, really fast!"

Weiss: "I think she has even your semblance beat, Ruby."

Ruby pouted and crossed her arms. "I can get that fast too."

"Damn! She's fast!" Yang whistled at the sight.

"I've heard Gatomon are among the fastest Adult level Digimon, but this is something else," Biyomon said in agreement.

Back at the fight, Thundermon charged forward again, but Gatomon met his attacks blow for blow, and several times, landed her own strikes with punches and kicks. Eventually Thundermon got fed up of fighting the feline, and charged up his special attack, before throwing it at Gatomon, who smirked at the sight. "This one's for you, Nora," she chuckled before spinning in mid-air...and knocking the attack right back with her Holy Ring, causing Thundermon to shout in pain as his internal electricity was overloaded. Taking her chance, Gatomon jumped forward, fist reared back. "Neko Punch!" she called out as she landed a haymaker right in Thundermon's face, the impact launching the small mon back and through several trees, before finally slamming into a nearby boulder where he slowly slid down, and fell flat on his face out cold. When they all went to check, they arrived just in time to see something small emerge from his back, before flying into the sky and shattering to pieces, the signal on their radars going dead when it did.

Nora: "K.O!"

Winter: "But what was the importance of that Black Gear that came out?"

Ironwood: "No doubt it was what was making Thundermon go berserk."

Pyrrha: "Will we be dealing with more of them?"

Jaune: "Only time will tell, but I wouldn't doubt it."

(Song end)

With the fight over, Gatomon glowed and reverted to Salamon, while Gyro was staring at the sky a little.

"Was that… a black gear of some sorts?" Gyro mused as he looked at where the gear at burst apart.

A groan alerted them all to Thundermon, slowly getting back up as he rubbed his cranium "Owww, what the heck hit me?" he whined at the pain he was still reeling from, before opening his eyes and looking at everyone in confusion "Uh… who are you guys?"

Yang: "Oh you know, friends of who knocked you out."

Minutes later, everyone had returned to the Kunemon village, where Thundermon explained what had happened this morning.

"I was just minding my own business, zipping around the trees like I usually do, then all of a sudden, this weird black gear thingy comes out of nowhere! I dodged it of course because, hey, I'm faster than it was, and I was able to keep on doing that for a good while, but then I suddenly felt something hit me in the back and the next thing I know, I'm waking up with a massive headache." Thundermon recounted, sitting on top of one of the huts so he was eye level with the hunters.

Ozpin: "Hmm, so he has no recollection of his time being berserk."

Glynda: "That's not a good thing. A Digimon could go berserk because of it and do terrible things, but once the gear is removed, they wouldn't know why there is a bunch of other Digimon giving them the stink eye."

Ren: "Unless those Digimon are smart enough to figure out the one berserk was not because of their own accord."

"So, it made you go berserk then? That's troubling, since there's likely more of those out there." Weiss said with a frown.

"Betcha we're going to have to deal with those more often now." Gyro said with a groan.

Everyone: "No bet."

"Even I think that would be exhausting, and I ALWAYS have energy to spare." Nora said, having spent a lot of energy earlier, thus why she was remaining so still.

Ironwood: "Heh, so she is capable of being still."

Jaune: "There are a few things that will keep her still, General."

Pyrrha: "Pancakes being the top one." Team RWBY nodded in agreement at that.

As the sun shone high in the sky, the Kunemon thanked the group, giving them a few bag fulls of supplies for saving both their village and Thundermon.

"Don't be a stranger if you come around these parts again," Thundermon said. "And if you ever need a hand, I'm your mon. I owe you guys one."

"We were happy to help Thundermon, hope we see you again soon." Pierce answered, the others nodding in agreement.

The little Digimon grinned at that, before floating off the ground "Well, see you guys some other time then!" he said, before turning to one of the trails "Beep beep!" and shooting off.

Gyro and Pierce both adopted deadpan looks as they saw him rocket off.

Ruby: "What was that sound?"

Hedge chuckled. "In my world, there's a cartoon by the name of Looney Tunes. It's main cast is of talking animals and one goes by the name of Road Runner." A picture of said character is shown on screen. "Another character by the name Wile E. Coyote (his picture is shown too) would always tend to try to catch him with some traps, but the Road Runner would always find a way to either outspeed them, or just outsmart him, leading to Wile E. being at the tailend of his own traps." Ruby's scroll beeps and she sees she has some new files on it. "That's all the episodes of the show if you want to watch it." Ruby nodded in thanks.

'Freaking Road Runner expy.' they thought in unison, as the group continued onwards, the heat of the sun blaring down at them. Despite it all, if one looked closely, Nora could be seen with Salamon sitting on her head, enthusiastically talking about the fight before, the little Digimon smiling the whole way.

The TV then shut down for the time being.

Hedge: "I think we have time for one more chapter before we call it a night. But before we do continue, what did you guys think? Besides the obvious thought from you, Ironwood."

Ironwood just grumbled at that, he'd have to get used to these types of evolutions sooner or later.

Nora: "I liked it. Outside of being in mortal danger of course."

Weiss: "Which we're just going to have to get used to if we all want to unlock the Adult Level," not fully looking forward to seeing herself like that, but if it's what needs to be done? So be it.

Ruby: "I wonder who's going to be next," she said excitedly.

On cue, another Digiegg started to wobble in one of their laps, this time being in the lap of a certain blonde.

AN: Chapter done!

On a roll with getting these out.

Not much really to address here in the note, other than once we finish up here (both Swift finishing THOR Alter proper and me finishing up this reaction story), what media should I have this group (along with their Digimon once they all hatch) should have them react to first:

Arcane (both seasons)

Devil May Cry series (no, I won't subject them to DMC2 and no, won't include the Reboot game either)

Sonic the Hedgehog (the games, specifically the main storyline ones, maybe would throw in the comic book games (Secret Rings and Black Knight))

Let me know in the reviews.

Till next time folks. This is Shadow Drivver, signing out. Peace.