My Demons are Back! (Timothy, Eva, Dust, Dante) (Closed)

"I'm not going back." Dust said with his arms crossed as his forearm was grabbed by Luna being dragged forward while he was being pushed forward by Hackmon's sister as he was slowly dragged back to the arcade, he really didn't want to come back. Honestly he really didn't after the events of last time. "Come on Dust, Shirou isn't around anymore, that won't happen again." Luna complained dragging the Holo suited digimon towards the arcade. "Plus we need you, come on Dust." she complained once again.

Hackmon's sister, the sistermon had her hat thing removed and her guns, while still on her person were more hidden then she usually kept them so she passed as a young girl easily enough, with a weird fashion sense but whatever. "Yeah Dust, you promised my brother also. If you don't want to do this, you could always take it up with Gundramon." she said with a small evil smirk. Dust closed his eyes for a moment. "Either go into a game where bad things happened before and I was trapped. Or get beaten up by something three times my size. You have no idea how tempted I am to choose the second option.

Hackmon was hiding in a rather large backpack his sister had, just in case he wanted to travel here. He was rather hard to hide after all. "Hey, you didn't have to say you would being us, this is all on you." Hackmon reminded yet Dust had a quick retort. "You guys didn't have to bug me about it for around a week straight, how did you even figure out this was getting released Luna?" Luna simply smiled laughing to herself a bit. "Oh a little birdy told me." she said as Dust, Finally, Started walking with his own feet leaving the Holo suited digimon and Sistermon Noir to walk alongside him.

Finally the four of them made it to the arcade, where Dust instantly saw Dante, and what he assumed was Wormmon since the green hair. Dust felt for some reason he should turn the other way, and walk away slowly. Whenever he met up with him, things turned crazy, really crazy.

Dante sits on the bench waiting for his friends to show. The first ones there are a large group, dragging Dust along. "Hey guys. Wow, I didn't think you'd be here, Dust." Dante can only wonder how much nagging it took to get Dust to play this game again. Poor little fella, suffering Luna's unholy wrath. Suddenly, Dante feels something touch his shoulder. He jumps a bit and looks over, but doesn't see anyone. Then he hears Eva's voice. "Hey, Eva's here! I'm still getting used to the whole invisibility thing."

The group waits a while longer, but no one else shows. "That's odd, I don't see Timothy. He was excited to play Shirou's Game with us. I'll text him and let him know we are inside." The group makes their way over to the arcade. Dante checks in at the counter. "Excuse me, I have this pass for the VIP area. Excuse me, sir?" A young man with long hair wearing a beanie and ripped up jeans turns and walks over. "Uhh, what?" "I have this VIP pass." "Uhh, okay." "Can you take us to the VIP area?" "Okay, let me run this by my manager." This employee clearly didn't know much about his job. His eyes were as red as Dante's hair, and he smelled like old coffee beans. The employee walks over to an older gentlemen and asks about the VIP pass. The manager yells at him and points over towards the back.

The employee comes walking back over. "Alright, uhh, right this way, man." The group follows him to the back of the arcade. They walk into a room with a VIP sign on the door. Dante and Wormmon look around in amazement. Not only are their two high tech pods for playing the game, but there are also tables full of food, massage chairs, and in the back a small bathroom with a shower, for those long gaming sessions. "Whoah! This is what Heaven must be like!" "If you need anything, just pick up the phone over there. Chao." The employee walks out and shuts the door.

Wormmon runs over and starts shoveling food into his face hole. Lasagna, pizza, hot dogs, chips, cookies, the VIP room has it all. Wormmon chases the food with an entire bottle of lemon lime soda. "Alright, time to play the best game ever!" Wormmon gets in the pod and puts on the virtual helmet and gloves. They sign on, but are immediately hit with a super long loading screen. "Hey, what's this?! Stupid loading screen." Dante loads up a plate full of food and puts the helmet and gloves on. "Looks like it's going to take a while to load in. It didn't take nearly this long before." Once everyone loads into the game, they can select their characters, make new ones, or even edit their existing characters.

Eva's cloak flickered slightly, her outline appearing in a blurred orange hexagonal grid like image before fading back into near perfect invisibility once more. Luckily none of the civilians in the area saw that. Or if they did, they weren't responding to it. "Let's get this started soonish, because I'm not sure how long my cloak is going to hold."

However, it easily held up long enough to reach the VIP room, and with no one else around but the current party who were seemingly well versed in digimon enough to not freak out when she became visible once more.

"Pretty sure that guy in the beanie was high as a kite." she said as she looked around the fancy VIP lounge. "Good thing he didn't get the munchies so hard that he wanted to eat all this stuff before we got here."

Eva wasn't really a big eater, nonetheless, she grabbed a can of energy drink and a packet of doritos, somewhat disappointed at the lack of booze on offer before poking her head inside one of the booths, and to the helmets. The gloves weren't an issue, but the helmets were human shaped. Eva, being a Renamon, had a Renamon shaped head. "Don't think it would matter what booths we go into. This helmet might be a problem for me though."

That thing about the helemet did bring another question to the four person squad that came with. Dust and Noire looked at the small white digimon, who had a digimon shaped head and most likely didn't know how to put it on. Dust grabbed the helmet and handed it to Noire. "He's your brother." he said with a small cocky smile. "You do realize I have two guns on me, right?" She asked very non threatingly to hopefully not make Dust be a sarcastic jerk for just a small threat.

Noire simply got on one knew before looking down at Hackmon. She then spent the next ten minutes working the helmet to fit his head, she managed to get it done after getting really fustrated and just pushing it down, Hackmon didn't seem to mind that much though, since the aspect of doing something fun apparently blocked out the pain of having a helmet forced down on his head.

Dust and the rest had no idea what the DLC was, nor did they really know how to do anything again. "Character deleted for hacking the server, that sounds about right." Dust muttered out as his character was deleted, great. Luna still had hers and simply just adjusted the look to her Holo suit form, since that's what she liked to see now. Dust simply made his Holo suit form, or as close as he could get. Though instead of a gunner he decided on a brawler, because he remembered this was a futuristic game, so deciding to punch stuff sounded like the best idea.

Noire and Hackmon had to spend some time making a account, eventually they managed to get to the thing. Noire simply went with a gunner as Dust had before with her normal twin pistols, that was her class. The character looked very similar to how she normally looked, sadly without the black church outfit she was know for. After scrolling through multiple provocative outfits for women she finally managed to find a red vest with beige cargo pants and combat boots. Since you know, best she could find.

Hackmon decided on a nice simple warrior with a massive greatsword outfitted with some type of rocket launcher and machine gun, though Dust and Dante would know what that weapon type was refrancing as they fought one person here like that before. The outfit was simple. White short hair similar to Luna's Holo suit with a large red scarf that hung around his neck covering some of his mouth. A thin white jacket and a black shirt with black pants and slip on shoes. Though he didn't know how to adjust height so he ended up making his character the same height as a twelve year old.

The helmets are on. The game has finished loading. It's time for chaos and destruction. Dante and Wormmon make a few changes to their characters. Dante stays as a Duelist, but gives his character long black hair with a red stripe in the front. He also specs more towards DPS, leaving the Tanking to Wormmon. Dante is wearing a high tech black and red suit of cybernetic armor that he got from Shirou while they were playing together.

The stats on Dante's gear are off the charts, or at least they were until New Management introduced new gear that nerfed everything into the garbage. Wormmon tweaks his Tank character, focusing on defense, while retaining his giant laser cannon. He goes with blonde pigtails, but is giving up the bikini armor for some green and white cybernetic plate armor that actually provides some protection. Although it doesn't have the same blatant eroticism. "Oh ya, we're back!"

The gang loads into the game. They appear in their faction's main city, a giant city of steel with players running all over the place. Dante takes out his samurai sword and examines the blade. "The blade is on the correct side. Not unique, but deadly." Wormmon charges up his laser cannon and fires a massive blast, incinerating a small information stand. "Oh baby, I missed you! Muhuhahaha!" They could have probably used that info to read up on the new features, but like most games, they will figure it out as they go along.

"Let's stock up on supplies and head out." Dante runs over to a merchant and purchases some potions and armor repair kits. "Wait, didn't that message say we need rabbit stones to get new armor? And we need to complete activities to get rabbit stones." "That's right. Look who's paying attention for a change." "Grr, shut up your face! I'll build a wall in front of your mouth!" Dante notices a new quest giver near the center of the city. "That must be where we get started. It will be a while until we have enough rabbit stones to get anything decent, but we gotta start somewhere."

Dante approaches the quest giver. He gets a new activity and shares it with the group. "Looks like we are starting out easy. Just gotta eliminate some space bandits." Dante turns around the corner and walks down a dark alley. Only players in the same party can enter the same instance. Otherwise, dozens of players would be standing around camping. The group continues onward, reaching a large opening surrounded by tall steel buildings. 8 space Bandits emerge from the shadows. They don't have high defense, but they are very fast, and can both dodge attacks, and strike in rapid succession. They are equipped with modified laser pistols and energy swords. "Let's rock."

Timothy was late, he had to deal with Bibi and Faluo complain about not being able to fit in the grocery bag together anymore, which let out a great sigh to Timothy. He eventually grabbed an old backpack he used to haul around books when he was a few years younger and stuck them in there next to each other and said, "Now don't move, you're stuffed animals."

"Yeah, and you're the nerd with stuffed animals!"

"Yes... I am."

He strapped his messenger bag with his laptop on, then put the backpack with Bibi and Faluo in it over his back and raced out of the small apartment they lived in. He got down to the train station and took the first train down to Norther Shibuya and raced over to Cat Street. From there he ran up to the guy up front and said, "I'm with Dante, I was running late and only just arrived."

He held up his phone for proof, showing the text messages and ran past the guy saying, "Thanks!"

Upon getting into the room, he spent a few minutes catching his breath while Bibi and Faluo hop out, Bibi saying, "Man you're lazy."

"Shut up..."

"Yeah, what he said!"

"Not the time Faluo."

"Aww..."

After a few more seconds (with Bibi and Faluo chowing down of course), Timothy goes over to the last three headsets and fits two of them on Bibi and Faluo before putting his last one on. They read the message with Bibi shouting, "Aww, man! Loading screens!?"

"Looks like a new upda-... No. Oh please, God no!"

"What?"

"Our stuff is useless!"

Everyone: "Nooooooooooo!!!" While they did this, the loading screen finished and they edited their characters a little. Timothy decided to change his class after finding one literally called 'Walking Armory'. He now looked even more like a soldier from every bad Sci Fi move, and great Sci Fi game ever, with blue and white armor with a blue techsuit underneath. He was now absolutely ripped under the techsuit, with the armor hopefully making him incredibly bulky. He also carried a minigun, a Sci Fi assault rifle, a Sci Fi rocket launcher, and a ton of more gadgets, especially due to his already high level.

((Totally making a Spartan outta Timothy))

Yokomon decided to edit her class as well to a 'Space Wizard." She was now wearing a purple cloak with a hood, some wings, and wielded a double bladed laser sword that totally wasn't a lightsaber. She kept most of her look, other than her clothing and now she could use magic, not the force, the new developers swear.

Tokomon changed to a class called 'rifleman', it sounded boring, but seemed to have some pretty cool grappling hook and jetpack tricks, especially due to his already high level. He was boring and didn't do anything but add a pair of wings to his back. He kept to his light body armor, with wings instead of a jetpack, seeing as that was an option now.

Upon getting in, the party instantly saw Dante and co. and decided to play a little prank on the party as they joined in with a new inconspicuous feature that didn't show who they were at all, climbed up some buildings at the top of the alleyway and got ready. Timothy started off his assault by standing over the edge and just laying down heavy fire with the minigun in an AOE that he was already pretty good with due to his time with the laser cannon. Bibi dived right outside the AOE, ready to join in as soon as Timothy's lackluster AOE was done. Faluo was on the side of a wall, ready to fire shells down after Timothy as well. They were so trying to mess with the group and kill everyone before anyone got a chance.

First mission in, and the gang had already hit the ground running. These bandits made for a decent challenge, but the party was able to overwhelm them with numbers and sheer firepower. Dante engages one of the bandits in a sword fight. He deflects a strike and responds with a quick slash, but the bandit dodges back. Dante steps forward and goes on the offensive, with a couple of fast strikes that are easily blocked. He steps back and takes up a defensive stance. The bandit goes for an attack, but Dante uses Blink Strike, teleporting behind the bandit and slashing him across the back for the kill. Green XP goo flies out of his wound. Dante picks up a couple handfuls and stuffs his face, increasing his XP bar a whooping 2%.

It isn't long until the party finishes off the space bandits. However, there appears to be some new assailants up above on the rooftops. Dante takes out his pistol and fires a few shots. Wormmon charges up his laser cannon and fires a powerful blast, shaking the foundation of one of the buildings. "That's strange. This wasn't part of the mission." "Hey, stop cowering up there, and come down and take your butt whoopin'!" The party couldn't tell who they were. Are they rival space bandits? Other players? Whatever they are, they had broken one of the most important video game commandments: Thou shall not steal kills.

Another bandit emerges from behind a dumpster full of old broken down computer equipment. This one has long blonde hair, and is wearing black leather armor with a gold shoulder pad on his right shoulder. He takes out a box of pocky sticks, and puts two in his mouth, breaking the tips off and chewing loudly. "Hey look, Dante! He's got pocky sticks with pink frosting! Oh, where can I get those at?" Dante lowers his pistol and take a few steps towards the mysterious stranger. "Who are you? Some kind of boss fight or something?"

The bandit smiles a sinister grin, revealing nasty yellow teeth. "No. I'm here to deliver a message. The Bandit King has been waiting for you to return." Dante thinks back to the first time they played Shirou's Game. "The Bandit King? Is Soulja Boi still in charge?" "Surprisingly, yes. You should pay him a visit. Although I recommend you get better gear." Wormmon gets angry. "Better gear?! What are you? Some kind of elitist tryhard?!" Wormmon fires a blast from his laser cannon at the bandit, but he vanishes into thin air before the blast reaches him. "Drat! I wanted to blast him to smithereens." "Hmm, Soulja Boi is still the Bandit King? Maybe we should pay him a visit later." If only they didn't have to collect rabbit droppings, I mean, err, rabbit stones, in order to get the flavor of the month gear. Fuck Destiny.