Derailed [Closed/Eva]

It was certainly a long trip back to Terminus. The digital world was indeed vast, perhaps even bigger than the human world. Eva wasn't entirely sure. What she did know though, was that walking all that distance back to the city from her latest adventure was just not worth the effort. Good thing public transport existed out here! Even if they were rather strange. She hadn't entirely gotten over the fact that these trains -talk-. And are seemingly sentient. In fact, there were a lot of things about the digital world that just straight didn't add up. It seemed that in many cases this world very much flew in the face of any established laws of physics she knew of. Not that she was a scientist or anything, but, surely anyone could tell that there were many things that just should not be.

Nonetheless, Eva had settled down for the long trip, kicking her feet up and relaxing. However, something else the digital world seemed to be very good at was about to happen. That was throwing a rock at proceedings just when things are seeming almost normal and safe. If it wasn't some big scary monstrosity trying to bite your head off, it was the environment itself trying to kill you.


JUDDER JUDDER


What the heck was that? Eva shook it off at first, just putting it down to some sort of irregularity in the track and nothing at all to be concerned about, however, the juddering didn't stop, instead, ramping up more and more until it turned into an uncontrollable writhing, the huge monstrosity of steel and Victorian era engineering made sentient swayed to and fro, buckling and creaking, lights flickering until...


SNAP!


The locomotive lurched again, this time coming completely clear of it's rails and soaring upwards in an arc before slamming down hard. Eva's HUD quickly switched modes from it's regular blue, to orange, considering the violent impacts certainly enough to flick the safeties off and ready the combat systems, the protective "shades" visor clicking into place over her eyes automatically from their recessed and hidden positions within her skull as the train was still in mid air.




THREAT DETECTED. COMBAT SYSTEMS ENGAGED.

HIGH VELOCITY DEBRIS WARNING.

ADDITIONAL IMPACTS IMMINENT.

STORMSHIELD EM BARRIER ONLINE. CAPACITORS 100%.



Eva quickly raised her left arm, underneath her clothing a carbon fibre panel popped open on the otherwise smooth and sleek human like limb, emitting a high pitched electric whine before an arcing crackling filled the air, the barrier forming in front of her as she flinched, razor sharp fragments of twisted steel and shattered glass, no doubt more than capable of cutting her to ribbons, smashed into the barrier, sparking and bursting into flames before the train finally came to a rest.

The renamon took a deep breath, dropping down from her seat which she had been gripping on for dear life and onto the "floor", which until recently was very much one of the walls, and not covered in shards of glass and jagged metal.

"Hokay... This is why I need to get a Land Rover or something. Damn."

She shook her head, carefully avoiding the various pointy things that had been littered around the cabin due to the crash, and tried the door release. Nothing. Again? Nothing, apart from a few sparks from a broken light fixture. She looked around for another option, and fortunately, one quickly presented itself, a huge jagged tear in the metal structure, barely big enough for her to climb through.

It was hardly comfortable, and she had to be very careful not to cut herself open on it, but, she was finally outside, standing on top of the train as the reality of the situation started to hit home. She had no idea whatsoever where she was.

"Well... sh*t."

Eva checked herself over, her HUD lighting up with a diagnostic screen. Fortunately, no big red flashing warning signs, her timely activation of the barrier took the worst of it, leaving her with just a few cuts and bruises. She took a moment to compose herself, before looking around at the scene of destruction surrounding her, trying to mentally retrace what happened. The train juddered at first, that was for sure. Was it a break in the track? A weapon impact? She hopped down, flicking between multiple vision modes as she attempted to ascertain what happened. She wasn't seeing anything on thermal, but, even with the extra clarity afforded by night vision, there didn't look to be any break in the tracks that she could see. That said, it would probably be a ways back. 

It was at this point when her train of thought was interrupted by a voice, asking if she had any idea what was going on, and if she was hurt. A no to both, certainly. "Not a damn clue. And I'm fine, just a few scrapes.". The British accented digimon retracted her shades. the need for the additional eye protection had seemingly passed, at least, for the time being.

Eva had seemingly similar ideas in regards to seeking out survivors though, as she did a systematic sweep around of the local area, both trying to mentally map out the place and to peek in each carriage to see if there was anyone still alive in there.

"Clear. No signs of anyone at all. The carriage I was in was empty too. I felt a judder before the train derailed. Could have been a break in the track, but these rails tend to be kept in pretty damn good condition. Something doesn't seem right about this."

All business, all concentration. Eva was certainly guarded and on full alert right now.

It didn't take them too long to search the area, and find that they were indeed the only passengers what with the two of them looking around. It wasn't like this was a massive several mile long freight train after all. Eva kept checking the area through her cybernetic eyes' thermal vision modes, seeing nothing but the empty, lonely woodland around them, the only heat signatures for now being the skittering of the various smaller creatures calling this area home.

"Agreed. You talk to the train..." Eva couldn't believe she just said that. Crazy world, right? "...and I'll provide overwatch to make sure no hostiles sneak up on us. In fact, I have something for this."

With that, there was something akin to a digivolution. Almost. It was far more subtle that was for sure, but then again the train smashing through the thick jungle growth was more understated than plenty of digivolutions what with the flashiness and often times shouting.


TACTICAL LOADOUT SELECTED

DEPLOYING NANOCONSTRUCTORS

ARMAMENT SELECTED: KKSBR

CONSTRUCTING...

PATTERN ESTABLISHED

SENSORS ONLINE

WEAPONS ONLINE

ALL SYSTEMS, NOMINAL.


Instead with this? First an outline was formed around Eva, a 3D wireframe, quickly filling in until what was standing there wasn't just a cybernetic Renamon in a hoodie and jeans, it was a cybernetic Renamon in full body armour holding an assault rifle. The whole design looked very human, the armour, the weapon, all what you might expect to see a human world special forces infantryman wearing into a combat scenario. British, to be more specific, judging by the Union Jack flag on the shoulder. That said, it had a few "near future" looking touches to it, the rifle especially.

She reached into her backpack, and pulled out what appeared to be a small quadcopter drone. Again, it looked human in design just like the weaponry and armour. "Deploying drone." With that, it took off vertically, quickly reaching a high altitude as it started scanning the area.

"Do what you can, but I think we're going to need to call in someone more specialised in this sort of thing to do any more than just stabili- Wait one. Skyeye drone is picking up movement. One hundred meters north." She squinted, despite doing that being rather pointless. After all, the video feed from the drone's camera was being displayed right on her artificial retina anyway. "Can't tell what they are. Too much tree cove- contacts have opened fire!

Two missile traces streaked out from the thick canopy, the first nailing the drone, the large anti armour missile making short work of it, the second arced down and impacted the trailmon which quickly burst into flames, detonating in a shower of jagged metal and raw data. Eva didn't waste a second, rolling into cover behind a rise in the terrain and opening up with a burst from her rifle. These creatures had very little chance to hide, being clearly picked out in Eva's vision, glowing like christmas trees on thermal.

The magnetically accelerated slugs sailed true to the target, punching holes clean through one of the strange, hazmat suit wearing figures yet seemingly doing very little apart from blasting in one side and out the other. The hostiles returned in kind with a hail of heavy automatic gunfire tearing through the brush forcing Eva to duck back down.

Two more of them walked up under the cover provided by their comrades who were seemingly wielding some sort of minigun type weapon. They were wearing large tanks on their backs, walking forward seemingly without a care in the world as they begun shooting gouts of flame, the napalm quickly setting the surrounding jungle landscape ablaze.

Eva certainly had problems of her own what with being pinned down by multiple heavy weapons, but nonetheless she saw the gesture. She wasn't entirely sure that would be a good idea though, who knows what sort of pressure those packs were under. Nonetheless, with those things getting closer she didn't exactly have many other options. She could only snap off a couple of shots, but, several of them nonetheless tore right through one of the creatures, rupturing the tank in a violent fireball. 

Eva ducked back into cover, those gunners weren't giving up for a damn second but it had seemed that even the explosion hadn't finished off that creature, which was still marching ahead engulfed in flames and torn full of holes, yet nonetheless not slowing up in the slightest. However, it was certainly less of a threat now, what with its main weapon being knocked out. The other one though was very much still in play, letting off a burst of fire directly at K!

It seemed that the missile launchers had reloaded though, as two more missiles soared through the air, leaving a trail of fire and fury in the air as they arced towards their targets, one after Eva, the other flying straight for the other renamon. Eva barely managed to evade, shoulder rolling just out of the blast radius in time. That said, this put her momentarily in the path of the chainguns, and while they weren't exactly accurate, one round still struck her square in the chest, knocking her to the floor. Luckily, the armour took the brunt of the impact, the plate in the carrier shattering. She grumbled, pulling the few armour chunks that were left out. All they were at this point were dead weight after that hit.

Well, that was one of the flamer units well and truly defeated, and the other attempting to re-ignite the pilot light which had been knocked out of whack by the fireball disabling the flamethrower for at least the time being. However, seeing the threat from the other Renamon, one of the gunners opened fire on K, the heavy weapon's barrel glowing red hot as it almost barked with a barely contained fury, spitting lead at a terrifying rate of fire. However with only one gunner baring down on her, this was an opportunity for Eva to level out the numbers a little bit. 

Her HUD lit up, displaying targeting data on each hostile. Of course, it couldn't hope to actually identify these creatures to give accurate threat assessments, after all, the designers of the Sentinel Optics Package that her eyeballs were replaced with never could have known that its potential future users might be up such creatures. She just had to wait her moment. With the barrels of those weapons glowing like that, it seemed to her as though those things would eventually overheat and jam, however, the cyborg was only half right, the weapon seeming to automatically slow its rate of fire to prevent that dangerous eventuality. 

Nonetheless, she knew she wouldn't get another chance. The digimon quickly engaged her cloak, disappearing from view and leaving the Troopmon firing at empty cover still believing that she was behind it rather than moving to flank, the cloak working near perfectly in the busy jungle environment even through all the carnage of combat.

After a little bit of re-positioning, she sprung the trap, a blade deploying from her wrist and spearing the hazmat suit wearing gunner through the head, destroying it instantly. Unfortunately, such an action knocked the cloak offline, the light bending technology not able to react quickly enough to the deployed blade, however, she instantly let out a burst with her rifle to keep the other gunner off balance and unable to bring its weaponry to bear. 

Eva quickly loaded another mag into her rifle, quickly cambering the first round and tossing the empty magazine away onto the ground where it quickly disintegrated into nothing. The motion was smooth, precise, and quick, as though she had done that a million times before. In truth, what with the combat sims she probably had done just that. The missile armed hostiles were seemingly having problems aiming, their projectiles being eluded by the fire and heat of the burning jungle, locking on to false signatures and slamming into the ground, further adding to the scene of devastation with their heavy high explosive yields. 

The remaining gunner, seeing that K was seemingly incapacitated on the ground and that Eva was on the other hand still very much a threat, lowered its gun in her direction. The cybernetic digimon barely managed to shoulder roll out of the way, avoiding the worst of it yet still taking a hefty hit to her left arm, the heavy caliber round smashing through the carbon fibre titanium weave alloy material as though it was nothing but black opaque glass, sending jagged fragments flying onto the forest floor and an irregular, shattered mess of her bicep the critical damage running the length of a soda can. 


WARNING LEFT ARM CRITICAL DAMAGE.

WARNING. LEFT ARM ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE OVERHEA-

WARNING. LEFT ARM ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE FAILURE.

WARNING. LEFT BLADE FAILURE

WARNING. STORMSHIELD EM BARRIER FAILURE

WARNING. LEFT ARM STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY AT 44%


She barely made it into cover behind a large boulder, rock dust and fragments spraying everywhere from the relentless torrent of firepower threatening to chew through it and by extension her. She looked down at her arm, wincing as a small plume of smoke from the burnt electronics rose from it. In truth the pain wasn't too bad, part due to the adrenaline rushing through her body, the rest of it being the artificial nerve endings failing or being shut off to avoid the agony of her injury causing distraction in a critical combat situation.

She knew that rock wasn't going to last forever, and getting a clear shot right now at this target would have been next to impossible right now even if her arm was in perfect working order what with the hail of lead flying her way. Instead, she pulled a frag grenade from her tactical webbing and yanked out the pin with her teeth. It was likely this creature would be so distracted by the combat, plus with its seeming lack of intelligence, it wouldn't even notice the little ball of fragmentary death but nonetheless she waited for the countdown to be at just the right moment before blindly tossing it backwards at the direction of the incoming fire.

The grenade detonated with an earsplitting crack, sending a storm of metal death in all directions. The creature that was easily within the five meter lethal radius was shredded instantly, its right arm and right leg flying off and its head split in twain. Eva knew her job wasn't over yet though. She peeked out, scanning the area for any sign of those missile troopers. Nothing. Smoke was no problem, thermal vision could pick through that without an issue, the real complication here was the heat and fire. These creatures weren't exactly kicking out much heat, and were easily concealed behind the mass of searing white hot flames. They would have to get this over with fast. Those things had gas masks, Eva had augmented cybernetic lungs, but, even they wouldn't be able to deal with all this for much longer, their filters would no doubt become clogged causing her to asphyxiate, not to mention K, someone who didn't have any of these advantages.

She deployed the only functional nanoblade she had left, the weapon deploying from its hiding spot with a solid and satisfying metallic SNIKT sound, as she used the enemy's tricks against them, hiding in the smoke and behind the flames to elude their sensors as she closed in on the position those missile tracks came from. They had powerful weapons for sure, but, shoulder fired AT missile launchers like she was sure that they were utilising weren't exactly known to be too effective against infantry. Sure, if they hit it was massive overkill but tracking and accurately eliminating a small target, especially a relatively quickly moving one which they couldn't lock onto? That was another matter, especially as she was sure these weapons were something akin to the FGM-148 Javelin, flying skywards before dropping upon their targets to penetrate the thinnest protection on an armoured vehicle, the top of the turret or engine deck.

It didn't take her long to flank and put them in her rifle's ACOG sights, locating them a good distance away from the combat acting akin to artillery, like a very short ranged cut price version of the British MLRS rocket artillery unit. She lined them up in her sights, bracing the weapon upon the terrain and with what little movement and strength she had in her left arm and prepared to take the shot.