[IC] Digimon: World of Stone

[Crimson Lion]

Kiba Wolfy

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Kiba looked into the air as the red insect circled the sky. As he observed the Kuwagamon, he paused when the Kuwagamon began to stretch it’s wings. “Digital or not it’s kinda just a stag beetle right?” He said to no one as he walked up to the other Tamers. “Hey guys, I know we don’t exactly know each other well but please, listen to my plan.” He said as the others turned to him,. “If we do this right, we can make him lose his wings.” He said with his usual soft smile changing to a confident smirk.

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Wolfy quickly rushed into combat, standing in front of the building that Kuwagamon was perched on. [BLUE BLASTER!!!] Wolfy shot a small torrent of blue flames from his mouth. Striking Kuwagamon on the head only for it to flick his head and blow away the fire. Wolfy prepared another attack, jumping into the air with his claws ready only for Kuwagamon to collide Wolfy.

As the giant insect swooped down it crashed into Gabumon, smashing him to the floor panting as the champion level digimon flew back into the air. "There's no way we can win this." Wolfy sighed.

As Wolfy was about to give up, Kiba walked up to him and kneeled down to get on the same level as him “Wolfy. I need you to listen to do exactly as I say. If we do this right we can squish that bug. Ah, no offense” He said the last part over his shoulder towards Hirschmon.

“O-oi!!! "There's no way our rookie level attacks can ground a champion."

Kiba pause for a second as he sighed. "... You ever play chess?"

Gabumon X started at him in disbelief. "This isn't the time to talk about BOARDGAMES!!!"

Kiba has a serious look on his face as he says, "In chess, even a pawn can capture a king."

Gabumon X stood there silently for a few seconds before turning to him. "... What do you need me to do?"

"The Kuwagamon has a subtle but predictable pattern. Every time it stretches its wings it does a straight forward offensive attack. All you need to do is charge it head on. Then, a meter before you guys meet, jump and roll forward in the air. Then right when you're above him fire that blue flame at the joint between his wing and back. That spot should still be hurting ALOT from Gilts attack. That'll force him to land and make an opening for everyone else to attack."

"I ... don't think my attack will be enough to take it down."

Kiba looked Wolfy in the eyes and raised an eyebrow. “Are you saying your attack won't be enough? If so I'm pretty sure the purple furred dinosaur back there can handle it.” He said as he pointed back at Dorumon.

Wolfy gained a tick mark before shouting. “OI YOU BASTARD JUST WATCH ME!!! I’LL TAKE HIM DOWN IN ONE SHOT!!!” He said as he began running forward, the Kuwagamon beginning to descend then make a 90* upwards turn to charge forward, just like Kiba said it would. Oi what am I doing?! Getting convinced by that idiot!!! He thought as he was getting closer and closer to the Champion level.

Kiba looked behind him at everyone else. "EVERYONE GET READY TO ATTACK!"

100 meters away. Almost there!!!

75 meters away. Almost there!!!

50 meters away. Almost!!!

25 meters. This is it!!!

5 meters. AND

1. "NOW!!" Both Wolfy and Kiba yelled at the same time as Wolfy jumped up, [“BLUE BLASTER!!!”] A stream of blue fire shot out of his mouth and fired straight at the joint in between the wing and the body, causing the Champion to fall to the floor in pain. It's left wing now burnt severely.

“Not exactly checkmate. But check.” Kiba said with a smirk as he turned around to face the others. “GUYS, THIS IS OUR CHANCE FOR AN ALL OUT ATTACK!!!” (Persona)

“I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WORKED!!!!” Wolfy smirked as he turned around from where he landed and rushed the bug from behind. [Little Horn!] he yelled as he stabbed the insect in the arm.

(Kuwagamon is now grounded and much slower.)

[Shiyonichi]

Robert and Doru said in unison.

"Time to stomp an insect."

After they gave a one liner that would fit right into an nineties action movie cementing both of them as total dorks Doru got in position to fire aiming carefully at the red gash Gilt made and slabbed the claws on his foot into the ground. Robert looked at Doru and remembered what Norn said and decided to try it out. Robert pulled out his digivice and poured in how he felt about his current situation. Dorumon felt the power flow though him, it was even more than absorbing a digicore, it was the power expected of a legendary tamer just like in the stories, maybe they could win against the army, no they will win against them and this Kuwagamon was just a stepping stone for that goal! It was finished. Dorumon focused the power that Robert gave him and focused it into his attack powering it up even further. Doru's voice echoed across the courtyard as he shouted the attack's name.

{HYPER DASH METAL}

A large metal cannon ball flew from Dorumon's mouth, it was about three times as large as the one from the regular Dash Metal and flew twice as fast. In the blink of an eye it hit the wound of the Kuwagamon and the armor cracked and and smashed under the force going right though the champion level Digimon and into the wall behind him which crumbled as it passed though. Norn was not going to be happy about that damage.

[Duthguy]

While the three of them waited to see if the others would introduce themselves Kiba and Wolfy AKA Gabumon (X) headed back to the cafetaria. Not seeing any reason not to follow, the two Digimon siblings and the human decided they might as well go and grab a bite to eat. As soon as they entered the cafetaria Relemon found them again, somewhat angry that Minomon lied. "Lady Norn wasn't looking for at all!" It then took off in a huff.

After a few hours they could hear coming from far away and saw several Digimon rush to where the sound came from. Hirschmon handed Minomon to Danny. "I want you to keep my partner safe in case we're under attack, okay?" Minomon nodded, excited at the important task he was entrusted with. Danny meanwhile understood the real reason. "Don't worry. I'll try to stay out of danger but it's good to know I'll be protected." As he said that he winked at Hirschmon.

When they arrived at the site of the explosion the spotted Kuwagamon and heard the kid whose Digimon arrived say that he wanted the gold colored Digimon to rush in while Dorumon provided cover. In case it was necessary Hirshmon bent over forwards and readied his Swarm Attack so he could help with blasting down rubble.

Before they could even try too though, Kiba came up with a different plan which managed to ground the giant beetle. Ignoring Kiba's comment about squashing bugs Hirschmon, believing Swarm Attack to be too widespread to be useful in the situation, started charging electricity between his horns. "Lightning Bullet!" While the Stag Beetle launched his attack at the same as Dorumon used Hyper Dash Metal the electric bullet was only about seventy-five % as fast as the giant ball of metal. As such it hit Kuwagamon after it had already been forced into the wall. "Take that you big meanie!"

[Renny]

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Partner Digimon: Zubamon
Digimon Lvl: Rookie
Location: Witchelny, Nyttliv
Tag: @Shiyonichi

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First Sortie!

Phase landed with Gilt who almost instantly released him to face the giant insect Digimon. The Golden Digimon was really tenacious when it came to battle, Phase had discovered. Kiba and his pelt-wearing Digimon came then, followed soon after by the other boy and a bi-pedal brown insect Digimon. Only it wasn't just an insect, It had a powerful physique, deer legs, and a rather unique appearance. It painted the image of power.

* * D * *

The attacks surged through the air at Kiba's command. Who Phase had found to be a rather natural leader in the heat of combat. He knew that calm attitude of his would come in handy. Gilt readied himself suddenly, touching his four paws to the ground. The white-haired kid and Danny's Digimon both launched ranged attacks. They had did fatal damage to it, but just to be sure, Gilt had rushed forwards to deliver the final blow anyway. His cloak fluttered with his speed as he headed straight for the thunder-struck beast. It was shocked that it stuttered and shivered.

Gilt rocketed up, twisted once more, then flew down. [Twenty Dive!] It yelled, impaling the Digimon in the head with a deafening thud.

Phase let out a knowing grunt. "Nice," he said, admiring the golden gleam that had struck down the monster.

[Crimson Lion]

Kiba Wolfy

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Kiba’s determined eyes and confident smirk began to shift into his natural sleepy eyes and softer smile. “Checkmate.” He whispered as the golden digimon landed the final hit into the insect's head. The giant fell to the floor with a powerful crash echoing throughout the town. A brief moment passed before the insect's body began to fizzle, almost like an old tv, and continued to fizzle until its body burst into data. Ones and zeros floated in the air as they surrounded what seemed to be a floating black ball.

“What … is that?” Kiba asked no one. But was answered anyways by a new arrival.

The humanoid digimon Dinohumon, who looked to be injured, approached the group and spoke. “That is a Digicore, Mister Kiba. In a way, it is a digimons soul. And all that data that's flying around is the digimons body.” He said before the numbers began to swirl around, the core being the epicenter. “Ah everyone please watch. This is truly one of the most beautiful sights in all of the digital world.”

As the data swirled around the digicore, it began to swirl closer and closer, eventually fully surrounding the core. As the swirl condensed, a random rainbow of colors began shining from the core ultimately blinding everyone there. When the shine ended what stood there was a large egg sitting on the ground, mostly white but with red stripes around it.

“As long as the core is undisturbed, a digimon can be reborn. Although he won't remember anything from his life as Kuwagamon he will be able to start a new life as a new digimon.” Dinohumon said as he picked up the digiegg.

“Wait, so he's not gonna remember anything?”

“Yes.”

“And he's gonna hatch into one of those small digimon?”

“Correct.”

“And he’ll be all small, cute and adorable?”

“Er, I suppose.”

“Cool.” Kiba casually said only for Wolfy to get into his face.

“WRONG!” Wolfy yelled. “He might not remember anything, but a digimon's personality is embedded into their core. When he hatches he'll be just as aggressive as he was as Kuwagamon.”

“... but that doesn't mean he's especially evil right?”

Wolfy turned his head. “Well … no but-”

“Then all’s good.” Kiba cut him off as he grabbed the digiegg from Dinohumon’s hands. “Neh, hatch soon buddy.” He said as he rubbed the digiegg as if he was polishing it.

Oi, is this really the guy that made the plan to defeat Kuwagamon. Wolfy thought as he watched his partner. “There's a boy who can hack the world and another who always wears a mask. I still think you're the strangest out of everyone.”

Kiba chuckled at this as everyone began to walk back to the castle to inform Norn of their victory. “You sound like my pops. Always telling me that I'm unique.” He said with a chuckle.

(Note: On a phone, I'll clean it when I get home.)

[Shiyonichi]

Robert looked at Dinohumon before asking him.

"Wait a moment, how did you get injured?"

Robert brought up a good point. no one seemed to noticed the Kuwagamon until that explosion and Robert was the first one on the scene. From the way he was speaking no else seemed to be injured except the scrapes and scars him and Dorumon and Phase and Gilt suffered from being in the fight the longest and playing the deadliest game of dodgeball in human history, he didn't know much about Digimon history. So how did Dinohumon get injured? Robert wasn't omnipotent, he was just good at making guesses and observations and he quickly came to three conclusions as soon as he finished asking.

Dorumon looked back at the digicore, he had seen so many that he couldn distinguish the digicores from different types of Digimon. Kuwagamon was the steppingstone just the first road bump in their travels, there will be harder and harder enemies. He couldn't damage Kuwagamon this time, mostly due to a unlucky match up and to be honest all of the plans they had between them and Phase and his Digimon, were rather flawed and risky, it was surprising that Kiba came up with that plan, he was right about that inner strength. Then Dorumon saw that Robert was still holding on to his digivice, before Robert realized it he had it in his hands and put it back in his pocket. Though it wasn't going to be enough, it was only going to get harder from here. This Digimon was a just a champion and not a member of the army... There are Digimon that will be far stronger than it, smarter than it, and at a much higher level. Dorumon's mind flashed to the Big Death Stars, The Three Gods of Destruction, and the strongest out of all of them Tactimon. Doru remembered what Robert shared with him. Yeah it wasn't impossible, but he was naive enough to believe it going to be easy, no it was going to be difficult, very difficult. Dorumon's thoughts were interrupted once again by Robert asking what happened to Dinohumon. Well from looking at it one of three things happened. One, he and Robert wasn't the the first ones on the scene and he engaged Kuwagamon before them. Two there was another troublemaker on the scene and he dealt with that. To Dorumon which felt even more guilt if another got into the castle due to him. Three... Dorumon looked at the crumbling wall, the last thing that could have happened is that he hit Dinohumon with that last overkill attack. Well, if he started talking about an oversized cannonball that flew at him out of nowhere, that was another thing to apologize for.

[Crimson Lion]

Dinohumon looked away in embarrassment at Roberts question. “Well you see, I was the first to get here when Kuwagamon attacked however the second I got here he threw me into one of the buildings. I was trapped under rumble.” He then sighed sadly. “It's embarrassing, ME a champion taken out in an instant. I'm supposed to be the guard of Nyttliv.” He looked depressed at this.

“Neh neh, it's fine. Everyone has a bad day every once in awhile.” Kiba tries to comfort him. “Although maybe you shouldn't have jumped in all Willy nilly.”

Dinohumon nodded at this. “You are correct. Usually in battle I have Liollmon to back me up. He acts as a distraction while I attack the enemy. Sadly he's still injured from that bastard Titamon! Ah, pardon my French.”

Wolfy huffs and responds. “There is no reason to apologize. I hear that out of the three gods, Titamon is the most destructive. If anything, you should be proud of your partner to be able to survive that.”

“Ah yes, Liollmon is brave for a rookie.” Dinohumon says with a hint of pride.

Kiba chuckled. “So is this Titamon a big deal or something?”

“He's a God of Destruction and is allied with Tactimons army.” Wolfy explained

“...”

“I'll explain it to you later. Basically he's a big bad guy.” Wolfy sighed.

“Ah ok.” Kiba said as they continued to walk to the castle.

[Shiyonichi]

"Titamon? A God of Destruction, Tactimon?"

Robert questioned Titamon sound extremely similar to Titan, in Greek myths they were the beings who came before the gods, being known for being well, enormous in size and God of Destruction sounded pretty much a title of a bad guy, though while being the most destructive sounded dangerous he didn't really know what all of that meant, except that they are bad news and the ones that they need to take down, luckily Doru decided to clarify.

"Titamon is as you heard a member of Tactimon's army, which currently controls most if not all of the outside world and a member of their Gods of Destruction, who are basically like an elite force within it. Titamon is the muscle of the group and possesses the most raw power of the group, but looses out on skill and speed compared to the other two. He has the title of the One-Man Division and that's more of an understatement, he's more of an One-Man Army, I heard he was looking for vengeance against a certain group of Digimon, who they are I've got no clue, but I pity them if Titamon is after them. Before you ask, Titamon is much more powerful than us. Allow me to explain, there are 6 levels a Digimon has, well six officially accepted levels. They are Baby, In-Training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega. Most of us are in the Rookie level, while the Digimon we just fought was in the Champion level, while Titamon is in the Mega level. If you noticed, there's a big gap between levels, as many as ten times and that applies to all levels, including Ultimate and Mega."

Doru paused gritting his teeth in anger when he remembered Tactimon's army. He took a moment and took a deep breath.

"But the Three Gods aren't the only powerhouses in the Army, there are Big Death Stars, I'm pretty sure Norn will explain more about them. As for Tactimon, all I'm going to say about him is... if you ever meet him, run. Just run."

Doru looked visibly shaken when he mentioned Tactimon. Robert put his hand on his shoulder. Robert wondered why Doru knew about all of them and what he saw in the outside world. Robert looked at the Doru and realized that he was silently asking if he still wanted to go on and Robert gave him his answer by pulling out his D-terminal and sending him a bit of his emotions. To which Dorumon sighed having calmed down a bit, but he knew that he was still filled with worry.

[Renny]

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Partner Digimon: Zubamon
Digimon Lvl: Rookie
Location: Witchelny, Nyttliv
Tag: @Crimson Lion

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Finally things had came to an end. Phase made good on his promise and found it surprisingly invigorating. Where had that strength come from? Gilt strode beside him, that glare in his eyes were gone, now misplaced by that alien coldness. It was hard but not fixed, it could shift, Phase knew that now. He and Gilt departed from the rest, striding into the cafeteria to check up on the others. They had matters, that couldn't be changed nor improve, to discuss. The smaller Digimon needed to be check up on.

"Is everyone okay?" he pondered aloud, ignoring the scrapes and bruises that had accumulated from hail of rocks. "Its okay, Everyone. Come on out, we all protected you just like we said we would."

[Crimson Lion]

A chill goes up and down his back as he listens to Dorumons explanation of Titamon and Mega level digimon. Its like a Queen but stronger. Like a super Queen or something. he thought as they passed the cafeteria, seeing Phase pause and enter the place.

“... Tactimon.” Kiba said aloud

Wolfy raised a brow. “What about him?”

Kiba stayed silent for a solid 30 seconds before responding back. “My pops always said that an army is only as strong as their tactician. If a digimon is named after Tactics then there army must be strong right.”

Wolfy huffed. “Well thats a given. Last I heard there army has around a dozen Mega level digimon.”

“Nah thats not what i meant. Like, it doesn’t matter if you have a million soldiers if you can’t use them effectively. So if Tactimons the leader that means he’s using them efficiently right?”

“... I guess.” Wolfy said, not exactly sure where Kiba was going with this.

“So that means if tactimon fell then so would the rest of the army, right?” He asked with a monotone tone.

Wolfy was physically shocked by Kiba’s statement.”Oi you dumbass don’t you DARE get any weird ideas. Tactimon is one of the most feared digimon in all of the digital world. There are stories of him single handedly destroying whole areas by himself in a matter of hours.” Wolf lectured. “Listen, don’t even THINK about thaty guy right now got it? We can’t even dream to handle a guy like that.”

Kiba sighed. “Dang it, and here I thought I had found a shortcut.” He pouted.

Wolfy rubbed his temple at his partner. To think to even have the idea of defeating Tactimon how we are now. Then again ... The memory of what Kiba said before Kuwagamons defeat rang in his head.

Even pawns can capture kings.

Maybe you CAN do it, Paretner.

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Back at the cafateria,the room seemed empty, only until small in training digimon began popping out from various hiding spots around the room, as well as Liollmon and Nyaromon who were hiding behind a counter. “Oh thank Yggdrasil you guys are safe. I had thought that whatever was outside had gotten you all.” He(?) said as the in trainings began to surround the masked man and golden digimon. “Some of the in training digimon were to scared so me and Liollmon stayed here to protect them.” Nyaromon said as Liollmon nodded in confirmation.

(@Renny It's your call on what their response is)

[Shiyonichi]

Doru and Robert looked at the damages dealt to the castle. Well the damages were three different places were wall were... Well gone and in pieces on the floor and in different parts of the wall. There were several trenches in he ground and several buildings were completely destroyed and numerous potted plant and flower beds that looked like they were blow up could as well as a window that Robert smashed.

"Well I think this is an improvement. It gives so much more personality."

Robert commented to which Dorumon responded with...

"Yeah the personality of a child living in a war zone."

Dinohumon, being the only other person there looked at the damage in shame. He had gotten taken out easily by the Kuwagamon and allowed it to damage the castle.

"You know you were the unsung hero in all this."

Dinohumon looked at Robert in surprise. To which Robert continued.

"After all you managed to delay it by a few seconds when it threw you if it wasn't for those few seconds we'd be fighting much closer to the little ones and we'd causalities. So good job, you saved many lives with your heroism"

Dinohumon didn't know if he was serious, but then realized this was the human's attempt at cheering him up.

"Thank you."

Dinohumon just decided to take the human's attempts at it.

"Well I guess it's time to fix all of this up."

Both Dinohumon and Doru looked at him as he was crazy, there was no way they could do this themselves and this looked like it would take months with a full team much less with three people. Robert smirked.

"Clearly you went off the deep end, there's no way that we can do it with just us."

Doru said to Robert expressing both of their thoughts. To which Robert responded with.

"Just who do you think I am! I am No_World_Order! Britain's strongest hacker!"

Robert tapped a buttons on the keyboard of his watch and loaded up a back up file he found by hacking the data of the castle. A loading bar appeared on Roberts watch as it loaded the data from a few days before. The walls of the castle would turn to green lines of data appeared along the walls of the castle and after they faded away the castle courtyard looked good as new.

"So, I just did the impossible, am I still crazy?"

Doru looked at Dinohumon.

"So I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"

To which Dinohumon responded.

"Let's get back to the others there should be food there, I also have to get back to Lady Norn."

Robert grumbled as he followed the two Digimon. Though it should be noted as the Britain's strongest hacker, he had a connection that to a certain Digimon that he didn't know about. A certain, Pufferfish punk causing trouble where ever he goes.

[Duthguy]

Danny's good mood at having defeated such a seemingly powerful quickly faded upon learning about Ultimate and Mega Digimon as well as Tactimon and Titanmon. He did however have a potential idea about dealing with with those two which he hoped to discus with both the other and Norn.

Minomon unaware of his carrier's concerns wiggled out of Danny's arms and headed straight for Hirschmon. "I knew you could defeat him." The bipedal Digimon bent over and patted his little brother on the head. "Honestly Kiba's plan and Dogumon's last attack were probably enough. I only interfered to be absolutely sure Kuwagamon would be unable to flee and reveal our location."

While his partner explained all that Danny looked for Kiba. After a while he spotted the other boy. "Do you think it might be a good idea to try and turn Tactimon's army against those so called Big Death-Stars? I mean I doubt our group can handle two armies at once."

[Shiyonichi]

A voice behind Danny answered his question for him.

"The Big Death-stars are part of Tactimon's army, not a different army. Unfortunately there really isn't a shortcut in dealing with them. The only real weakness they got is that if you take out leader ship they'll fall apart quicker than most armies, but good luck with doing that. The ones in charge may as well be an Army of their own.

Dorumon stated. Robert turned to the other people in the room of course like he guess the only damage was them being shaken up by the encounter. Robert grabbed a plate of food for him and Doru, but looked down as he saw a bunch of In-trainings surrounding him.

"Woah guys, don't jump me or I might get eaten by the big purple dinosaur."

Dorumon called out to him.

"Didn't I say I don't have a taste for weirdos with strange fashion sense!?"

[Renny]

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Partner Digimon: Zubamon
Digimon Lvl: Rookie
Location: Witchelny, Nyttliv
Tag: @Crimson Lion

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Liollmon and his cute admirer appeared, just seeing them had lightened the load on his heart, but with that came a burden he hadn't been expecting. Why had his limbs become so heavy? his mind was a bit hazy. He frowned but maintained his stance and composure. "Gilt," he whispered.

"I got you," he reassured him.

For some reason, he had noticed Gilt basically holding him together. He let out a shallow breath, "I feel exhausted all of a sudden."

Gilt and Liollmon was propped on either side of him. His voice may have been mute but he could feel Liollmon's worry and stoic resolve to protect. Phase looked towards Gilt, who appeared bothered by something, agitated at the most. Nyaromon bounced at the table.

"Come, come. Bring the Tamer here."

[Crimson Lion]

"Do you think it might be a good idea to try and turn Tactimon's army against those so called Big Death-Stars? I mean I doubt our group can handle two armies at once." the partner of the bipedal bug asked Kiba.

“Hmmmm, that sounds like a more friendly plan. It would solve our biggest problem, which is that we’re Kinda out numbered. But I seriously doubt we can handle converting ALL of them to our because. Maybe one or two if they are sympathetic but I'm sure Tactimon has the loyalty of most of them.” Kiba said as he readjusted the Digiegg in his arms. “However I don't think we'll have to worry about facing them 2 at a time. Wolfy tells me that the digital world is huge and that most of the Big Death-Stars are spread out.”

“Oi, how many times do I have to tell you to NOT call me that!!!” The wolf digimon said. “Although yes you're correct. The Big Death Stars are separated into different regions they control. The only time we'd ever have to worry about facing multiple armies is if we had to deal with a God of Destruction. They are the only 3 who move around the digital world freely.” He explained to the two humans.

“Maybe we’ll get lucky and one of the Big Death are friendly?” Kiba joked.

As they talked they saw the castle up ahead. “You know Beany dude, we should talk strategies later. I didn't even think of that approach.” Kiba said to Danny.

[Shiyonichi]

"Yeah it's not like they performed countless atrocities, killed and absorbed who knows how many Digimon and destroyed several areas. Clearly they are the reincarnations of the Royal Knights. So of course we'll get along like house on fire."

Doru responded sarcastically to the Big Death-stars being friendly comment. Though Robert noted the older Digimon and Norn's brief look of sadness when they heard the name of the Royal Knights. To Robert it seemed that the context of the name was a group of a paragons of justice, from they way that Doru was sarcastically comparing them to a group that had the death in their name and the fact that he called them reincarnations which seemed to indicate that they are long gone by now. Considering the events that are going on could they have fell to Tactimon's forces?

Robert sat down with the two plates of food, which was a rather large piece of seasoned roasted meat wrapped around a leg bone. To Robert who came from a rather rich family, he had only really eaten rather high class and healthy meals, due to his parents paranoia about not getting a proper diet and health issues in the future, they decided to get a nutritionist to plan out his meals. Meals like this really was something new to him, just simple dish and sitting around with others during it rather the large dining tables that felt empty, other than the few times that a major event was going on or times when he used to visit his grandfather's home. Robert's thoughts were interrupted when Doru sat down next to him.

Unlike Robert who was unconsciously following table manners that was drilled into him, Doru was attacking the piece of meat like it was his last supper or it was the only thing he had for ages, Robert had a feeling it was the latter. It seemed that Dorumon's lively way of eating calmed down most of the kids, as a way of confirming that the threat was over now and they can stop being afraid. Robert grinned at his partner and prepared to eat before realizing that there were no forks or knives. Robert interrupted Doru as he was eating and asked him.

"Are we supposed to eat this with our hands?"

Doru looked stopped eating for a moment and after swallowing a large bite of meat he responded with.

"Do I look like I have hands to eat with? Look just eat it and don't over complicate things."

Robert looked with a blank look and told him.

"Doesn't that seem a bit barbaric?"

To which Doru smacked Robert over the head with his tail, which felt like being hit with a pillow, a really soft pillow.

"And this barbarian is telling you to just eat it!"

Doru went back to attacking his meal and Robert picked up the two ends of the bones and was about to break all sorts of table manners by eating with his hands like a barbarian, until he saw someone in the corner of his eyes. Robert slowly put down the meat and got up squeezing though so he won't step on any of the in-trainings. Doru stopped eating and looked up at Robert leaning his head slightly to the left. To Robert said to him.

"Don't worry about it I'm just going to be talking with someone for a bit. Just keep doing what you're doing."

Robert walked towards two cats, a set of golden armour, and a patch of moss and turned and asked the patch of moss, Phase.

"You ok? Or do we need to get you a pen and paper to write your will?"

@Renny

[Renny]

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Partner Digimon: Zubamon
Digimon Lvl: Rookie
Location: Witchelny, Nyttliv
Tag: @Crimson Lion @Shiyonichi @Duthguy

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Phase felt his vision blur. He remembered the way the Golden Digimon had dodged his gaze, the way his eye shifted downward ever-so faintly. "Gilt, what did you do?"

Liollmon nudged the nosy furball away until it understood the meaning behind it. At first her questions were incessant but eventually she moaned and was led away. Gilt pulled himself up onto the bench, sitting beside Phase and finding his long claws to fiddle with. "I'm not exactly normal, Phase. I was going to tell you, really I was. But as you can see, I don't exactly adhere to normal when danger is around. I didn't forget to... I just didn't care at the moment."

"Tell me now then," Phase mustered through the aching in his back and shoulders.

Gilt released a houseful of tension. "I'am of an exceedingly rare kind. My type or family is called the Legend-Arms." He knotted his claws together forming a hammock of reflection in his golden palms. "Essentially we are weapons and normally I could be used by another Digimon. But you changed that... Think about it like this, when you swing a sword you exert energy in that pursuit. Well, I told you I'am yours. Every attack I make drains you, every mote of damage recoils against your bones if only a little. You are my Tamer and that makes our Bond ironclad... In exchange for that degree of exhaustion, our attacks are all the more stronger."

Phase rolled his shoulder blades, rebelling against the pain. "Which explains why you were capable of hurting that Kuwagamon."

Gilt nodded. "That and being a sword-weapon gives me certain properties."

Phase looked towards the corner of the cafeteria and let out a long sigh.

The Golden Digimon's hammock tighten. "Don't throw me away because of my burden... Please. You're all I know."

Phase smiled, he could hardly see himself living without a few burdens now. His father, his promise to the Digimon and Norn. They were all in some form, in some teensy way worrisome. But Gilt's burden, that was something he would hold without guilt or regret. "Relax, Gilt. You said you were mines. I guess this trade off makes us even. Besides, this is nothing if it means its us saving the others."

Phase and Gilt sat in that comfortable silence again. Liollmon and Nyaromon, who hadn't been too far away were suddenly next to him. The yellow puffball found its spot in his lap, Liollmon was at his feet, providing warmth for his throbbing calf-muscle. Gilt helped keep him rigid, from showing the telltales of aches and pains.

The white-haired Kid asked him a question. Phase disliked the situation, though he knew his mask would hide the pain of the battle, he wasn't so sure his voice wouldn't crack or falter. He swallowed in preparation to speak. "What? you worried about me now? I'm good. Go eat."

[Shiyonichi]

Robert looked at Gilt for a moment and then Nyaromon and then Liollmon and then sighed. Going back to Phase he stated.

"So what if I am? Does that make you happy moss-head? Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm just here to make fun of you if you were and see if I can't nick that silly looking mask off your face if you were kicking the bucket."

Robert said mockingly. Robert moved back to his food, seemingly fooled by Phase's ruse, but barely in ear shot he mumbled something that sounded like lyre.

With that Robert went back to his table and picked up his piece of meat.

"You know you'd be more popular if you cut the BS."

Doru said to him. Robert deadpanned back at Doru.

"Oh like you're the one to talk."

[Duthguy]

When they sat down Danny decided to expand on his idea a little. "We don't have to befriend or even ally ourselves with one of the Big Death-stars, if we can make Tactimon or one of the others think one of them is a traitor." Hirschmon who ended up sitting between his brother and tamer wasn't too sure about that. "I doubt fooling them will be easy."

After he awkwardly tore off some of the surprisingly tasty meat with his teeth Danny nodded in agreement. "True, but if we can keep our presence here in the Digital World a secret we should have the advantage and if we can get the two or more sides pissed of enough they might even keep fighting after discovering our ruse. Either way it'll require a lot of planning and luck, as well as all the info we can get." When he said the last part Danny stared in the direction of both Norn and Dorumon, Norn because well her connection to Yggdrasil and the purple dragon because of everything he had said about their enemies. Still not entirely convinced Hirschmon none the less had to admit it didn't sound bad in concept.

[Shiyonichi]

Dorumon spoke up.

"That will be extremely difficult. Rather it's for two reasons, one Tactimon is not dumb. It's in his name, Tacti as in tactics. He is a tyrant and he has many years of experience of dealing with conspiracies, after all he didn't keep his position as tyrant for no reason. Though the second reason is that don't you think they would have an intelligence network? Rather they got a pretty good one. They'll find us out if we try and even if we do, we'll never fool Tactimon and that's the key to your plan fooling Tactimon if we just fool the Big Death-Stars or the Three Gods, that will accomplish absolutely nothing. Again the army isn't as unified as you'd think, heck some of the BDS and the Three Gods openly hate each other, however they'll never act upon it. Why? Because they are terrified of what Tactimon will do to them. So, unless we fool him that plan is going nowhere and in conspiracies both Tactimon and another member of the BDS got you all beat in experience in that department. So, the chances of you pulling it off is about 1%."

Robert responded to that in his usual manner with snark.

"Wow you can do math?"

Doru responded with a silent 'shut up'. Though Robert kept going with another question.

"So, who is this other member of the BDS?"

Dorumon frowned as well as a purple dinosaur could.

"Gravimon, he is probably the only member in the army that can match Tactimon in intelligence."