Rachel Holt

Rachel was wholly unprepared for the dodgeball to the face.

The ball hit her square in the forehead, which also had the effect of slamming the back of her head into the tree. Impmon didn't fare much better. Not a second later a ball hit him square in the back of the head and sent him careening right into Rachels...chest. Well, that was something he couldn't exactly complain about. Rachel was only stunned for a few seconds, however and shook the dizziness from her head as the Augumon apologized.

She had half a mind to toss the ball back at them...buuuut, that'd be boring.

"Hmm..." She hummed quietly to herself as Impmon laid, completely unconscious. She lifted him up, shaking him gently. She was pretty sure she could see a little digital ghost of Impmon flying away. "...dead." She turned her head back to the Augumon, before standing up with a stretch. She looked down at the Augumon sternly....well, as sternly as she was capable of being, at least.

"What game are you playing?"

Vivian Benini

"I wasnt planning to leave the town, but thank you for the advice. " Viv spoke, eyeing his digimon for any inappropriate comments. Lucky for him Candlemon decided to simply grin and stay silent for the moment. His attention wandered back to the other human, his partner digimon, was looking impressing, but he had no idea what level they were.

"Digimail? There is a digimail? Why not call it just mail? Or does most things here just love to add digi on the start or mon or the end?" Viv couldnt help himself as he said it adding after a moment that the spider woman digimon told them about the contact. And that they should check hacker activity. He did mention that this was his first mission, just to make sure Neil knew he had three newbies at hand.

"I would love to be from help to you... both. And learn from someone skilled like you." He grinned, really happy at the idea Neil was their contact. The idea of spending more time on this mission now looked a lot more appealing. "Yumeko and Rachel are in my group. We split up to search for you. So... Could we digimail them to meet up?" He was still figuring the digivice, he knew it had some communication but he wasnt sure exactly how to communicate with the other two tamers on his group.

Rachel

"Game?" The Agumon replied, wondering himself. It's not like they had a specific name for it. He looked back to his fellows and shrugged. "Ummm, Smash-Ball?" The one Rachel asked said. Another chimed up with his opinion, "I thought this was Dodge-shot Ball." Really, that started a chain of chatter and all of them huddled up discussing the name before they broke the group and returned to their previous positions. "Soccer?" The first one said, unsure of the answer. They didn't seem to have a name.

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Vivian

"Digimail is just Digimail. It's like mail. Just, I dunno'. Digital or something?" Niels said, unsure himself. "But me? Skilled? Hehe, hear that GrapLeomon? He'd love help from a skilled person like me."

GrapLeomon sighed as he smacked his human partner on the back again. "Overconfidence will be your downfall, Partner." He said it, but smiled while doing so. Vivian and Candlemon could tell the two had a good relationship. "That said, you'll need their mail address to contact them. If you don't have it, might as well just go and look for them."

Niels smiled at Vivian. "Yea, look for them. Rachel and Yumeko you say? A lovely Japanese someone and a cute girl I'm to assume?" The tamer turned and went back towards town square where they were more like to find the two girls and their digimon. "Let's go look for them." He lead Vivian back but had to ask on the way back. "So, fancy either of them? I'll try not to seduce both of them if you fancy one. I've been called a playboy in my day you know?"

GrapLeomon looked annoyed as he looked to the side. "If being rejected every time counts as being a playboy, I guess you'd be right." Niels gave his partner a dirty look who just returned a sly look.

Vivian Benini

Candlemon hummed, at seeing the digimon slack his partner just like Viv did to his partner. When the human gave a brief glance at the digimon he could see in the digimon eye a mischievous plan being born. It was entertaining and fearful to Vivian, as he couldnt guess if he was gonna be the planned victim or not.

"Maybe." Candlemon answered to his glance, and the redhead sighed. The future never looked less planned in his life than now.

"Looking for them sounds like a start of a plan." He followed Niel back, remembering the direction which Rachel took off to, guessing the girl would fall over and be sleeping somewhere if her behaviour in the agency was any example of normal for her.

The question about if he fancied any of the girls, was one he should have awaited. Still he answered it as well as he found it appropriate. "Nah, neither is really my type. Thougth they are cute and attractive, so go for them. " Candlemon piped up right then.

"Tell Yumekos partner that you find her cuter than any digimon you ever saw and you will probably get her blessing." The candle digimon nodded in all seriousness, little flame dancing up and down.

"True Tinkermon really appeared like she cared about it. "Viv picked up, nodding himself in understanding. Still he felt obligated to warn the guy. "But when we are already on advice giving... I wouldnt exactly go for Rachel in your place. She is... having a strange vibe. Like a combination of lazy and scary. I can imagine her easily be in a horror movie just sitting there, a monster popping up and her trying to eat it ... I dont want to know how she is like when hormones hit." Viv, waved his hand as if trying to wright off some scary ideas.

Rachel Holt

Ah...they didn't have a name for it. Well, she at least understood the rules well enough though, right? Rachel ran her hands over the ball. She was never really one for sports, but this at least seemed like it could be fun - or at least just something to pass the time until she got ratted out by the law for slacking off. So instead of waiting for a reply, Rachel tossed the ball towards one of the Augumon. Surprisingly, it was a fairly fast and hard hitting shot.

"...I hit him, so I win right?" Impmon finally managed to wake up, rubbing the back of his head with a frown.

"Urgh, what in tarnation hit me..." Pushing himself to his feet, the digimon looked over at Rachel. "H-hey! What are you doing?"

"...Oh, he's alive." She tilted her head to the side, frowning slightly as if somewhat disappointed.

"Don't sound so happy about it..." Impmon grumbled. "And what are you doin' playing some stupid game when we need to be workin?"

Rachel

"Working?" The one Agumon asked before looking to his fellows and back again. "You guys are working?" It looked to it's friends and did it's best to not laugh. "You two looked like you were lazing around. 'Working' my butt! Heheheh." The whole group joined in. Before either Impmon or Rachel could finish a sentence though, another set of voices call through the air.

"DCD BOMB"

With that, a couple of loud explosives went off in the group of Agumon that sent them flying to the side. The group of Dinosaurs screamed in terror as they were knocked aside by the couple of blasts. Behind them, Rachel would notice a small group of four more dinosaurs dressed in some weird military outfits with M16's. They even seemed to have marine digital camo. "Targets found. Move in for capture!"

"Boss! There's a tamer and her digimon!" One said, pointing to Rachel and Impmon.

"Open fire! M16 Assassain!" The apparently leader called out as he opened fire on Rachel's position, luckily, Rachel and Impmon had the cover of the giant tree.

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Vivian

Niels scratched his chin in thought. "Keep away from Rachel, ehh? Compliment Yumeko's Tinkermon? Never heard of that digimon. . . But I assume it looks like Tinker Bell from Peter Pan? Mom always watched that with me." He chuckled a little bit and slapped Vivian on the back like a friend would for good advice. "Thanks bud, I owe ya'."

"Oh Vivian. Did you find our contact?" A familiar voice called out. It was Yumeko! "That's good. I was worried we'd just pass them by. I was talking to a Greymon near the entrance to town. Gave me a map app with the forest and pointed out some places we should look out for."

"Oh, you must be Yumeko and Tinkermon. It's lovely to meet you both. Tellings of cuteness and beauty do not do you justice!" Niels said, as he fawned over the two. Tinkermon seemed fairly amused by the boy's attempt. On the other hand, Yumeko seemed not so.

"Can we just leave him where you found him Vivian?" Yumeko asked as GrapLeomon smacked his partner on the head again. She just sighed. . . That was when the sound of explosions happened. "That's the way Rachel went, right?"

Niels rushed off towards the sound. To get there it'd probably take them a bit of running. "Shall we go?" Yumeko asked a rhetorical question as she dashed off after.

Rachel Holt

Well

This had just suddenly turned bad.

Before Rachel could even say anything to the Augumon, there was a loud explosion followed by the screams of the small dinosaurs. Someone was speaking, very loudly, and very annoyingly. What was that? Something about moving in for capture? Targets found? The small digimon here? What did they want with the Agumon?

"Oi, don't just stand there ya dung-fer-brain!" Impmon shouted as he grabbed Rachel's hand, practically dragging the human behind the tree just as the assailants fired upon their position. "Just what in blazes do these fella's think they're doing, picking on these agumon like this?" Impmon grimaced as something nicked the tree right by his head. Rachel, was as silent as ever. She didn't really want to be a part of this, but she was currently not in any position to not be a part of it. Well, at least this looked somewhat fun. She turned her head towards Impmon.

"Urgh, wish ya could at least be a little more...vocal..." Impmon frowned. "What do we do, boss? Not sure we can handle those guys ourselves - eh?"

And suddenly once again, he found himself being lifted off the ground.

"H-hey! Wait! What's with the manhandling all the time?!" Not getting a single answer aside from a small smile and an encouraging thumbs up, Rachel once again tossed Impmon - this time towards the group of assailants. Well, guess it was his turn to try something then? In the palm of the imp digimons hands, small flames of darkness formed. Just as he landed on the ground in front of one of the assailant, it exploded with brilliant dark flames.

Urgh, curse his careless master! What exactly was he supposed to do against these guys? Not exactly like Rachel was in any position to try and fight herself, though.

The human in question was simply quietly observing the battle from behind the tree, to see what happened next.

Candlemon

Things were going really good in Candlemon opinion. His tamer was enjoying the company and was wasting words quite happily away. The contact trainer even told Vivian that he owned him one for the advice. The redhead laughed a bit shaking his hand as if it was no big deal.

Quicker than awaited Yumeko spotted them and even got a map. That was quite in candlemon approving. Sadly their fun together was cut short with an echo of an explosion. Vivian shared a worried look with him, and Candlemon flame nodded while he started to jump run into the right direction.

When they arrived they had something to see. Four digimon dressed in armor and wielding weapons. Vivian stopped beside Candlemon eyes big.The digimon quickly looked around and spotted Rachel using the tree as a cover, and Impon in the mist of the enemy. That was kind of stupid of him to try and take them on alone.

"Guns." Vivian said and Candlemon understood. "On it." He responded to his tamer and rushed closer jumping into the air and readying two golbs in each of his wax arms. He counted that he could have the moment of surprise on his side as he called loudly out. "Melt Wax! " Firing several globs of wax, at the barrels of the guns. Trying to clog them and disable them. With the guns out the way, they would have a bit better chance. Thougth Candlemon was trying not to forget that maybe they had more weapons, maybe more bombs. They heard explosions from far away not gunshots. If they do he would need to go for cover himself.

Impmon landed in front of one of the henchmen digimon and blasted him off his feet. To the outside observer, he was definitely knocked out. The others turned on Impmon just as wax clogged their guns. "What the what!?" The leader said as mini explosions occured at the end of their guns. They were inopperable at the moment. The two henchmen pulled out some device from their pocket and threw it. "DCD Bomb!" One landed near Candlemon and another near where Rachel was. With the distraction, the commander of the group pulled out a walkie talkie and started yelling into it. "Commandramon Leader to Squad Leader! Our Sealsdramon support never reinforced! Requesting back-up!"

A voice came out of it barely audible aside, ". . . erstood. . ."

The three remaining digimon, apparently called Commandramon, fell back quickly to a house as a really loud noise sounded. Like a vehicle of destruction. "Striver Cannon!" The group would hear before the building the small dinosaurs were retreating to was destroyed in a mushroom cloud.

"Niels! That's. . ." GrapLeomon said as he recognized the attack. Niels did as well it seemed as he nodded.

"Tankdramon." The tamer said as he pulled his goggles over his eyes. "Looks like this will be our fight, GrapLeomon." The mechanical lion-man nodded and started to walk forward as a giant tank with a dragon head and plenty of guns to spare slowly moved forward. "Alright, Vivian my friend, you, Yumeko and your partners need to take care of the Commandramon. Me and my partner here will take care of this large lug while he's alone." He gave Vivian and Yumeko no time reply as he and his partner ran off towards the giant tank.



"I. . . Alright, well, you know how to fight Tinkermon?" Yumeko had to ask as she looked at the Commandramon move forward toward the unconcious Agumon and their fellow.

"Can do! Watch as I do this beautifully!" The small fairy jumped off her partner's shoulder and zipped quickly towards the Commandramon, "Speedy Nightmare!" The pixie yelled as it flew circles around on of the Commandramon. He was unsuspecting of the attack before he took a number of stabs from the spear. It took jumps as if it was being stung by multiple bees before seemingly becoming stiff and then passing out. "Nyehahaha! Fear the might of the cute and beautiful!"

Rachel Holt

As the bomb went off near her, Rachel simply ducked back behind the tree. Sealsdramon support? Sounded some level of dangerous. Hrm. Take care of Commandramon though? She didn't really know who exactly the new guy was that was ordering around, but she didn't have much room to argue. Besides, looked like Impmon was having a bit of fun, at least, judging from the large grin on the digimon's face.

"Oi, you blokes think ya can just run like that?" Impmon said as he recovered from using his attack. The Imp like digimon bolted towards the house where they were trying to retreat too, easily closing the distance between himself and another Commandramon. "Not a chance, ya gun-totin' morons." A ball of dark flame once again formed in the imps hands before blasting the next Commandramon with a large explosion.

"Annnd Bada-boom, ya armor-wearin' clunk heads, that's how ya take someone out." He said, bouncing back and ready to avoid another attack.

Vivian Benini

When he arrived at the scene he was shocked at the amount of hurt digimon, and when he looked onto the group that was responsible he saw dinosaur like creatures in marine outfits and were those ... "Guns." Vivian blinked absolute conffused, for some reason Candlemon gave him a nod and told him on it to immediately go into the fray shooting wax.

Vivian wondered if Candlemon misunderstood his confusion for actually having a clue what he wanted him to do. Was this what they were supposed to do? This was a war zone. When he was told that they will deal with hackers he imagined at worst a few punches being exchanged... not ... definitely not guns, bombs and explosion. Looking over to Niels, he received a answer in the form of them moving into the fight to deal with a tank, ordering them to deal with the commandramon...

"Great, my dad gonna kill me for signing up for a paramilitary organisation." Viv muttered into his chin, trying to take some calm from his digimon confidence. Candlemon looked like he knew what he was doing as he followed impmon staying a few hops behind. It felt like it wasnt their first rodeo. Were they trained to fight? Were they soldiers?

Vivion stepped away from the fight and closer to the side where one of the hurt Agumon was. Kneeling beside it, he gently touched him. "Hey can I help you somehow? What is digimon first aid?... " Vivian looked back to the fight spotting Candlemon aiming waxs at the digimon feet. "How about some tragedy practice!" He called to Impmon and Tinkermon, allowing them to finish the movement restricted digimon. Yet as his partner was focused on his task, he didnt spot that he was attacked on a instinct Viv called loudly out. "To your left!" And the flame head turned to the left spotting just in time to hop out the way of the attack and throw a clog of waxs into the commandramon eyes.

Niels and Grapleomon seemed to have pushed the Tankdramon behind the buildings out of sight. Which was fine. The last Commandramon tryed to grapple with the wax in his eyes but started franctically running around until he ran into the tree nose first and passed out. As it were, all the Commandramon were passed out.

"Well, that's that." Yumeko stated, looking at all the passed out dinosaur digimon. It really was a bit of a mess. Still, she quickly made her way over to Rachel as Tinkermon laughed at Impmon a bit.

"Your Tamer threw you headfirst into danger, Impmon! Hahaha!"

Ignoring the two's interaction she just wanted to check up on the girl. "Are you okay Rachel?" Rachel didn't seem very interested prior, but that didn't matter too much. . . Did it? Probably not. Hopefully she was interested enough in her own safety. "You're not hurt are you?"

Meanwhile, from behind Vivian and Candlemon, a familiar figure appeared. Her(?) silvery hair fluttered in the wind as addressed the boy. "Oh my, it seems you all took care of them. Not that I was especially worried. Not to be alarmed, but those Sealsdramon shouldn't be a worry for us now." Arukenimon chuckled. She obviously did some behind the scenes work here. "But where there's Tankdramon, there should be its Tamer. We won't have to worry about that one though, probably." She obviously knew more than she was letting on at this point though.

Rachel Holt

"Oi, I didn't get tossed anywhere! I-it was a tactical plan to get me right in the thick of it so I can give 'em what-for!" Impmon replied to tinkermon, obviously more than a little upset at the fairy digimons laughing. Rachel, meanwhile was busy dealing with Yumeko. The American simply gave the other girl a thumbs up and her usual neutral expression. She seemed fine at least. Fine enough to walk over to Impmon and start petting the imp digimon on the head again before shortly picking him up and holding him in her arms.

The human turned her head to Arukenimon. She was definitely hiding something. Rachel could tell simply from her voice, but she had her fill of excitement for now so she wasn't going to press the issue. So...what now then?

"Oi, legs." Ipmon said, directing his gaze over to Arukenimon. "We done here?"

Vivian Benini

"Sure it was." Candlemon hummed at Impmon try to explain himself. "My tamer is tactical." He hopped in place, bragging a bit back. The flame head grinning wide. The trainer in question was still processing all the things that happened. Which were a lot of them technically. When he heard the steps behind him.

Viv turned around as the Arukenimon walked up commenting how things technically looked okay now. The redhead blinked being a bit on the lack of words. There were a lot of things he wanted to say. SOme involving the lack of actual combat training and yet throwing them in the mids of battle. Some complaining how for hacking this had way too much explosion. And how they should get a guide book on how to properly explain things.

Viv took a deep breath, a smile again on his face. He stood up and moved closer to the girls just in time to hear Impmon question. "I second that question. Do you need us here for something else? Or is it time to get home and sleep?" Just as Viv said that Candlemon turned away from the other two digimon and hopped up beside him. Staying by his side looking proud of himself and quite happy.

"My folks may start to get worried if they notice me missing for so long. What about you two? Would your family start to worry?" He looked at Yumeko and Rachel, wondering if they may have siblings. As well as realizing how little he knew about either of them.

"We totally should set some chat room to talk off mission as well."

"My parents don't worry too much. I take random trips to Akiba at times so they wouldn't think it's too weird if I'm missing for a bit." Still she was curious like Vivian. That one guy with the mechano-lion never returned either. "He does have a good question. Do you need us still?"

Arukenimon scratched at her head. "I don't think it's quite over yet but I wouldn't worry too much about your 'folks'. This world has a weird way with time. By time you get back, I doubt anyone'll notice." She looked around at the carnage. A whole building was lost, there were explosive craters in the ground. On the bright side, the Agumon started to stand up and retreat further into the village.

"So, what do we do with these guys?" Tinkermon asked the womanly Digimon while pointing to the small squad of Commandramon. "We can't just leave them like this right?"

Arukenimon looked over the little guys before looking at Yumeko. "Look for an App on your Digivice called, 'Data Integrity Check' would you?" Yumeko looked a little worried but otherwise complied finding it and nodding. "Now, use it on those Commandramon."

"Ok. . ." Yumeko said as she opened the App and followed the instructions. "Now I just point the camera at them and then. . . There. Wait, what's this?" It said something that she couldn't believe. One would run an intergrity check if a program seemed to have some deep issues. So if what this said was true then it was hard to ignore. "It says it's heavily fragmented and the integrity is something around 25% of the original. What does that mean?" She asked, unsure of the implications.

Arukenimon looked at a loss of words before speaking. "Strickly speaking. We're dealing with hackers. They like to invade on a Digimon's program and fiddle with the data until it's to their liking. I suspect that these Commandramon were once Agumon. There've been some missing person cases but I think this attack proves it." Arukenimon confirmed. "Well, we have two options here. We have either format their data and return it to the world, or format it and use it to increase your digimon's data line, it can strengthen them a bit."

Yumeko was unsure herself. She looked to Tinkermon who just shrugged so she looked to her fellow tamers to see what they thought. If they had to be "formatted" anyway, what was the harm. Still, it felt bad to just effectively delete them.

It was quite interesting to Viv to hear Yumeko having so much freedom, he couldnt imagine many situation where he could just wander off without telling his father about it. The man was slightly protective of him, as well as valued the traditions of being respected and the like. Wondered if that was a normal thing for japanese kids?

Maybe he jumped onto the opportunity, because he wanted to know how it is to run away, from home. Be free to do completely bat shit crazy. Viv smiled at thinking that, he so regretted it, and not regretted it at all at the same time. Thougth as technically time manipulation was mentioned off handedly, Viv blinked. He really had to give a brief comment. "You are aware that what you just implicated would make all of science community lose their minds and beg to study or work in it?....Just putting it out there..."

"Food for thought." Candlemon supplied. Watching as the Agumon his tamer worried about were getting up, shaking off the hits they got. As Tinkermon spoke Candlemon yanked on Viv shirt and once the redhead looked towards the digimon, Candlemon grinned wide pointing with a nod in the direction of Agumon. Viv looked in the indicated way and started smiling with a really noticeable relief, he was definitely glad and happy to see there were no real innocent victims.. Candlemon decided that he really liked that expression on his tamer face.

The moment ended as Viv looked back at Arukenimon and followed the instruction to check on his device for the mentioned App.

"So Hackers can... change living beings... like altering DNA. Yeah I can see why they would be in such a critical state afterwards. " And after saying that Viv looked at the commandramon, formerly the missing agumon. He was torn, what the digi spider woman said sounded a lot like putting down the dog, and throwing their meat to rot, or eat it to get stronger... He didnt felt like those option were either right.

Viv winced at his brain analogy, he crouched close beside Candlemon. Hopefully looking at the flame face of his. The flame looked down, giving a slight shake. There was no hope to simple restore them back. None that Candlemon at least knew off. The wax face didnt change as the flame looked up at Viv and whispered so only his taimer could hear him.

"Trust me?"
Viv didnt break eye contact with the flame eyes and whispered just as silently back.
"I dont know exactly why I do, but I do."
Candlemon grinned, and turning his wax body around.

"Increase for us." Candlemon wax body responded quickly towards the other already shifting to be closer, the flame eyes staying on his tamer, following as Vivian stood up and adjusted the setting on the app. So they could add the data to Candlemon and get him stronger. And didnt the saying said in love and war everything goes?

Rachel Holt

At the mention of parents, Rachel unconsciously frowned, even if only a small one. At least their parents were home half the time. Not that she minded, really. She liked the alone time. Allowed her to do things as she pleased. Parents probably wouldn't approve of half the stuff she got up to in her free time if they found out about it. She supposed that's how it went when your father was a businessman that was out of the house a lot and your mom generally didn't really care what you did and spent more time doing...well, Rachel wasn't really sure what. She didn't take much of an interest.

The mention of a time dilation brought Rachel out of her thoughts and back to virtual reality, though. Curious. If things happened at a slower rate here...did that mean their minds were sped up? Would make sense, since computers tended to think much faster than humans could. And since apparently they were inside a computer, wasn't all that hard too accept.

She'd love to get her mitts on some programming or something and study it.

"Oi, it'll make us stronger, right?" Impon spoke up. "What're you waitin' for then, partner? I'll take a power-boost over whatever 'returnin it to the data stream" is any day!"

Well, if he insisted...

Rachel pulled out the digivice, and did as was instructed for strengthening Impmon.

Those Hackers sounded like a real problem, and she was curious as to what the data was, exactly...maybe she could do something with it? Strictly for good, of course. That was how one should use their powers. For good...obviously.

Arukenimon decided to make an analogy for her time speed mention. "This is the Digital World. You don;t expect it to just play by your world's rules do you? Think of it as a game. Have you ever played a strategy game where you can either play it at a faster pace or a slow pace to your choosing? Think of it as that, except the world is rather picky on it and changes itself." She seemed rather confident in her statement as she saw the tamers, Yumeko included, absorb the Commandramon's data. They would first shine bright and slowly turn into a string of odd looking variables and wrap around the respective digimon.

Yumeko looked a bit weirded out. Who wouldn't be in this situation? It was like they killed something and permanently deleted them from the world. . . But if they were suffering as it were, then it shouldn't be a problem, but something good instead. "We did the right thing. . . Right?" The girl asked Tinkermon who giggled and slapped its partner on the shoulder.

"Well, it's not like we should do it to all Digimon. Only those that have been mutated and manipulated like that. Might as well not leave data just laying around." It should be obvious that it was just a way of life. The Fairy Digimon floated around to Impmon just to laugh in its face again. This one was fun to make fun of.

Arukenimon nodded at Tinkermon's words, making sure to emphasis the point. "Yes, please do make sure you only do this to Corrupted Files and Hacked Digimon. If we do that which we hunt them down for, what good are we?" She asked the group, just about rhetorically. "This area is clear for now. Let's return to town and check in on Greymon, as the town's watcher, he may have news for us." However, hardly before she even began to turn and walk that way, a pair of Agumon and Gabumon ran from the direction.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no!" The Agumon panicked. "Greymon! Chessmon! Kidnapped!" Obviously not speaking right, his Gabumon friend smacked him over the head before explaining himself since Agumon was in no state.

"Shortly after the explosions over here, a RookChessmon Black and two KnightChessmon White came and took Greymon away by force! He never had a chance" The Gabumon said excitedly. What he said made more sense than his companion. "They ran off toward their base deeper in the forest a Falcomon said!"

"Wait, they took Greymon!?" Yumeko exclaimed, surprised to hear that. How strong were those Digimon that they could take a giant talking dinosaur like that!? "Isn't Greymon a bit giant dinosaur that's kind of like a kind old man?"

Arukenimon would have rolled her eyes at Yumeko if it were to make an impact, but alas, sunglasses do not allow for it. "Greymon is only a champion. If he were subdued by a RookChessmon alone, an Ultimate level like myself, that would be enough, but there were more as well. She seemed to ponder the situation a minute.

"We need to go after him! I mean, I only really talked to him for a couple dozen minutes, but he was a good guy and a protector!" She considered that she had companions with her. . . Rachel, Vivian and their digimon. "You'll help. . . Right?" She asked the two and their partners with a pleading look.

Arukenimon looked over the girl and then the others. "Well, fine. Do what you want. If you have any questions ask. I've barely touched on the Chessmon Empire so now's the primetime for that subject."

"Death comes to all." Candlemon said simply at Yumeko worrying if they did the right thing. He didnt exactly looked the same way as tinkermon. The data may have formed into a new digimon and they could have a happy life full of join. But just as likely it could could have their fate repeated. Being taken by a hacker and played with toyed with until they were nothing like themself anymore. Dying at hands of people who tried to save others.

This way the data would serve the goal of stopping the mistreatments of others, and once in the future they when he dies himself all the data he took will become free and return to the steam. Or become part of someone stronger to help them reach their goal.

He didnt felt like explaning thought any of it. As two panicked digimon run up to them. Candlemon was sure that it wasnt the time for it either. Maybe he will explain it to Viv. But that only because they are partners.

"I dont know how much from help we would be...but shouldnt we go and fetch Niels he is stronger than us. With his help it should be easier to rescue the Greymon, right?" Viv suggested, he was starting to get the idea between the differences in levels. It wasnt just like in games where a level 20 could defeat a lv 25 if they are clever. This was more like big jumps in power scale between the digimon. Like level 1 vs level 100.

"I wouldnt mind fetching him, I bet he is surely done with his fight against a tank...Or maybe Rachel and Impmon could do it?" Viv offered, really not wanting to risk another digimon being hacked and die if they could help...but that was what he worried. Yumeko didnt sound like she was planning anything beside racing after Greymon and his kidnappers. And Rachel.... He wasnt sure if Rachel is awake or sleep walking at the moment. Sleepwalking people usually dont make plans.

And about plans... He really wanted to have at least some semblance of one.

"We need to know everything, Arukenimon. From what are they usually goals, and actions. Who the leader is, do they share some weakness that can be exploited. Are they prideful or greedy? How they are structured? Is there any way we could sneak into their hiding place and rescue Greymon like that? "

He all but erupted with questions, he couldnt plan anything if he was to be kept in dark or thrown into situation without any idea what he should await. His imagination couldnt imagine all possible outcomes... even less in a world where the time apparently liked to behave whimsical. While strange creatures with guns and magic run around.

He opened the digivice of his and tapped until he got a map of the region they were in. Candlemon hummed beside Viv and leaned to whisper to Impmon. "My tamer is so much cooler than yours."

Rachel Holt

As usual, Rachel simply observed more than spoke. Everything made sense, more or less to her at least. That said, she was curious as to what she could do with this data other than just a small power up. She wanted to maybe test it a little bit, anyways...though that might get her in trouble. Not that she cared in the end, but next time she got some she'd save a little to play with. As Tinkermon fluttered over and started laughing at Impmon again though, Rachel simply tilted her head at the fairy. Something then followed about someone being kidnapped while they were busy here. Ugh, how tiring. Well, at least it was a better than sitting at home doing nothing aside from chillin' to some smooth jazz or somethin'

Impmon simply glared up at the pixie.

"Oi, don't ya got somethin' better ta do? Like kiss up ta that moron of a tamer ya got?" He grunted as Rachel set the digimon down just as Candlemon floated over just in time to insult her. "H-hey! What's with this? I bet ya dunderheads think yer funny, dont'cha?!" Rachel frowned slightly as she looked at Candlemon. Oh, she might let someone pick on impmon for giggles, but insult her? Now that was something that would even make her a bit irate. "Coolness has nothin' to do with whatever it is that carrot head of yours does!"

...hmm, she wished she had a bucket of water. She'd get one later.

Moving on...

"Sneaking sounds tiring." Rachel replied. Smart, but tiring. "Where are they keeping them?"