Knowledge Is Power [Armor Hunt][Cas/Viktor][complete]

Dagger spotted the Taomon and human first surprisingly. Alarm sending him scrambling back away from the window and half broken wall as the man and digimon landed where he had stood not seconds before. His cry of surprise causing Cas to turn as Cloak shifted in front of her drawing his sword as the little Kotemon leveled it threateningly at the newcomers while his twin circled around to join him his bladed tail lashing in fear an irritation. Something did not smell right about these two. 

"Viktor!" Cas gasped out in joy and surprise her bright sky blue eyes going wide in shock as she recognized the man in front of her before her brain registered the bare flesh of his chest and she was forced to focus upon his sunglasses lest her cheeks turn redder then mere sun could cause. 

"What. Do. You. Want?" Cloak ground out his words leaving no room for argument as he shot an arm out to stop his Tamer from passing him and going to greet the stranger. 

"Cloak it's fine. I know him...well I didn't know he was a Tamer, but I know Viktor well enough." She joked out voice light, but the little swordsman did not budge. 

"Cas while I'm sure you have a friend name Viktor....I'm not so sure that's him anymore." Dagger hissed out moving forward to block his Tamer's path and prevent the man...if he could even really be called that anymore and the digimon beside him from approaching her. 

"He doesn't smell right. He doesn't smell right at all...." The Zubamon murmured even as Cas came up short with a frown as she eyed the two in front of her with newer sharper eyes. Trying to see what her digimon had so clearly sensed.

"Ascend?" Cas questions softly her confusion clear as she takes a step back her sharp intelligent eyes assessing the situation. It's clear by the subtle tightly of her jaw that she's not finding their odds favorable even as a low growl rises up from Daggers throat at the threat. Cloak remains silent, unwilling to move from his place between his Tamer and the enemy acting as a physical buffer between the two. 

"Viktor you don't have to do this..." Cas murmurs softly, but it's already too late as the glowing red symbol slams into Cloak, the Kotemon unwilling to dodge lest it hit her as the attack sends him tumbling to the ground with a wooden crack as it snaps his sword. Dagger is faster and with his twin down he ducks the staff strike just barely nicking the wood with his horn as he dives for his twin. 

"Cloak!" He yells out with concern his worry for his sibling showing through even as he tries to haul the stunned Kotemon to his feet and drag him back away from their enemy hoping to lead the Taomon away from their Tamer. 

"Perhaps..." Cas murmurs shuddering as she feels Viktor's gaze slide over her form. It is true in the skintight wetsuit there is little to hide the soft swell of her curves and the toned muscles of her arms and legs, leaving her feeling more naked and exposed before this man who was not entirely a man then she ever has before. Making Cas wish desperate for the false safety of her Doctors coat. Despite the wariness in her body language she does not step away from him her eyes when she meets his are hard and bright with that witty dangerous edge he had seen once before when she had confronted him. 

"Perhaps if you had not attacked them I might have complied." She spits out her words like acid as she moves launching herself towards him of all things to attack, before she ducks into a slide slipping between his legs as she dives for the twins. Reaching out she snags her arms around each of the rookies her momentum carrying forward as she makes for the window. No time for fear. No time to stop. 

Cassandra leaps....

Her body and those of her digimon plummeting through the air as she points her feet and tries to lessen the impact hitting the water from a seven story dive will have, but feels something give in her left leg with a sharp crack as she hits the water. Leaving her floundering as she struggles to the surface pulling her digimon up with her as the trio make for the nearest building. Cas less swimming then just trying to stay afloat as Dagger pulls her along and Cloak regaining some of his senses attempts to help. The two rookies hauling the woman out onto a low ledge and half dragging her through a hole into the other building they hope is too small for the likes of Viktor and his digimon to fit through.

"What's wrong? Hime what's wrong?" Cloak whispered, pleaded, begged as he and Dagger helped pull Cas backwards up onto a thin ledge like ramp and onto a somewhat dry floor as the woman kept her eyes closed, her teeth clenched as she tied to breath through her teeth. 

"Leg....fractured..." She began only to let out a yelp of pain despite herself as the limb was jostled when the twins tried to sit her up against a wall. "No. Scratch that. Broken. Definitely broken." She whispered weakly head lolling slightly from the pain as her vision swam. 

"What do you need?" Cloak questioned as Dagger hovered nearby wringing his clawed hands slightly in worry. "We'll get you what ever you want." The Zubamon swore as he inched close his eyes wide with fear for his Tamer. 

"I..I need to sticks or poles or something. Close to the same length. Have to splint it." Cas explained weakly as the twins nodded and glanced at one another.

"I'll stay with her." Cloak murmured as Dagger nodded sharply. His claws and bladed tail would be better for cutting the right lengths.

"I saw some pipe that might work further back." The Zubamon quipped spinning and all out sprinting on all fours to fetch what his Tamer needs as Cloak reached out carefully mopping Cas's gradually warming brow with his soaked sleeve. 

"It's ok Hime. It's going to be ok." He murmurs unable to tear his eyes from her pale face as she leans her head into his touch. Silently the Kotemon urges his twin to hurry. It's not long before the tapping begins leaving the rookie to stiffen. He is alone, weaponless, without his sibling, and with only his wits to defend his injured tamer. Shaking slightly with fear he feels the Cas's slim hand close around his own. Her breathing is shallow and eyes hazy, but there's still a spark in those blue depths that refuses to die out. 

"Lead him into the water." She whispers to him softly nodding towards the shallow pool between them and the hole in the wall the sound echoes from. Silently the Kotemon nods and hefts the shattered remains of his bokken and steps towards the edge of the shallow pool.

Cas lay still and silent gritting her teeth in order to not call out in frustration from where she was just barely hidden from sight around the corner near the ledge her Digimon had pulled her up on. Silently she hoped Cloak knew Viktors words were not true. None of them were true and if he hurt her digimon...The mere thought made Cas see red or perhaps it was more black as pain made her vision hazy as she tried to quietly shift back down the ledge towards the water filled tunnel Dagger had ventured down in search of a splint.

"I will never let an abomination like you touch her!" Cloak hisses out even as he levels the remains of his sword at the man. Fury and desperation overcoming his fear as he watched this...this thing scale the wall and lash out at him with the baton. The Kotemon blocks the strike fairly easily, but the force behind it sends him skidding back on the slick ground. 

"BURN." The Digimon growls out lashing out with it's broken sword as it sends a arcing blade of flame flying at him.

Cas however, would not get far down the ledge before Dagger returned, the Zubamon alerted by the sounds of battle rushing to his Tamer's side. Two pieces of even pipe clutched in one hand as he opens his mouth to question her, but snaps it closes as she makes a shushing motion. Cloak is buying them precious time and quietly she motions for Dagger to lay the pipe on either side of her leg as Gaze fishes out gauze from her medics pouch to use as makeshift ties. Then she pulls off her headband leaving her soaked locks to cascade down around her face as she shoves the piece of cloth between her teeth and sets her leg. 

The bone coming back together with a sickening crack as the woman slumps over. Leaving Dagger to rapidly try to tie the split into place around his trembling Tamer's leg.

Cloak Uses Rising Sun

The pair of fighters danced across the shallow pool of water as the Kotemon leans back out of the way of Viktor's jaw strike. The little rookie's golden eyes glaring back at the man...the abomination balefully. He did not waste his breath on words. Not when he admittedly needed every ounce of his skill just to keep the monster that sought his Tamer's blood busy. Dagger had always been the more powerful combatant and while it galled Cloak to admit it with out the support of his twin and Tamer the tactics and intelligence he had so prided himself upon were next to useless. He had the knowledge, but he had not the power to wield it as Viktor so aptly demonstrated as he swept the legs from beneath the little rookie forcing the Kotemon to roll across the soaked ground to avoid the head strike aimed at his face. Leaping to his feet once more only to find his legs trapped and swept from beneath him once again as his knees hit the ground. In the silence broken only by Cloak's exhausted panting the digimon vainly hoped his Tamer had made good her escape, but as the snap of bone echoed through the silence he felt his blood run cold. Watching as the monsters eyes glanced over his shoulder settling on Cas's hiding spot concealed just around the corner of a thin wall.

"No..." Cloak whispered in horror as he lurched to his feet, but the rookie was too slow as he felt the baton slam into the back of his skull making his vision go white as he fell, his sleeved palms impacting wetly with the ground leaving the digimon doubled over, stunned, and helpless as his broken sword rolled from his lax grip. Leaving him to stare with wide unseeing eyes at his own twisted reflection in the watery depths beneath his hands.

Distantly he could hear his twin as an ugly snarl ripped from the Zubamon's throat as he screamed "STAY AWAY FROM HER!" Only to be silenced as the sound of the baton impacting hard with metal and flesh rang out through the quiet room. Through it all Cloak willed his body to move. To fight. To do something rather then remain frozen where he knelt. He would give anything. Anything to protect her. To turn the useless facts and figures in his mind to strength. To trade the wit he so prided himself on sharing with his Tamer to power.

"Anything...?" His warped reflection seemed to ask the gold eyes staring back up at him bleeding red as his features shifted beneath the water.

"Anything." Cloak silently swore as the rookie's body slowly sank beneath the water as the golden edges of the egg hidden just beneath it's surface answered his desperate call encompassing the digimons body and soul to smelt it down and reforge it into something...someone new. Burning away his weakness like dross before the flame.

At the same time Dagger hit the ground with a wet thunk of flesh and metal as the stunned rookie slowly slid to the floor not feet from his injured Tamer. Leaving Cas the glance up blue eyes wide, fear sparking for the first time in their bright depths as the man she had once thought a friend turned monster stalked ever closer.

"Reaper? What? I don't understand..." She spoke her words dying in her throat as Viktor's fingers closed around the strap and zipper of her wetsuit tearing them in twain as he pulled her towards him jarring her injured leg as whatever she might of said was silenced with a pained and strangled gasp. His palms smoothing over the edged of her wetsuit peeling the damp fabric from over her shoulders and down to the small of her back leaving her upper torso bare except for the slim coverage her black swim top affords her exposing the flat expanse of her stomach and the soft swell of her breasts covered by the damp swatch of fabric as he drags her forward. Cas's palms pressing flat against his chest, her nails digging into his flesh hard enough to draw blood as she struggles in his grip like a wild thing. Fighting to the bitter end despite the lack of strength in her blows and her limbs trembling with agony.

"I don't~" She sobs out tears caught in her lashes from the pain and teeth bared in fury at the thought that hewould do this to her as she rakes her nails down his chest and snarls. Until her eyes catch his blue ones, blue on blue and for a moment she freezes and he can see that brilliant mind of hers at work even as she pants against him shaking and desperate in her anger and fear.

He had spoken so proudly not moments before when taunting her and Cloak about how he was part digimon. Not quite human. His DNA mixed with data, but data like DNA was susceptible to viruses. More importantly though was the fact it could be influenced from the outside. "You've been hacked..." Cas whispers eyes going wide as her mind connects the dots fitting the pieces of the puzzle together. "You're being controlled..." She murmurs voice a little more sure as she holds his pleading eyes as he begs her to hit him. It takes everything in her as she lashes out raking her fingernails across his face in a harsh swiping slap, but the crack that follows her palm meeting his flesh is not from the woman's strike alone.

No Viktor has a split second as Cas's digivice erupts in light before the wall behind them detonates with the force of the blow cutting it in twain as a sword embeds itself in the stone wall beside the man's head so close that if he did not move it would slice a bloody gash down his cheek as a dark figure rises from the rubble looming over him as red eyes, red as blood, red as it's sword, redder still with the deepest rage clashes with the D-reaper's crimson.

"Touching her is the last mistake you will ever make." The Baalmon swears in a dark vicious growl that promises only death as it jerks it's sword to the side cutting a ragged gash through the stone intending to take the abominations head clean from his shoulders.

Taomon is fast, but Baalmon is just a smidge faster without the need to draw symbols like the fox as he slices his gleaming red blade through the air eyes burning with fury as cuts Genesis's attacks in two. The destruction parting around him as he stands stalwart before his Tamer and twin. The walls on either side of the Demon digimon are not so fortunate leading to them quickly being reduced to rubble as Baalmon determines he cannot both defend and engage. In a prolonged fight he will lose unless....

The Digimon's blood red gaze flits to Viktor who seems to only have eyes for the petite tamer sheltering behind his legs. The slow smile that curls the abomination's lips as he waves at her is enough to seal the Digimon's decision. He knows what must be done....he only hopes perhaps one day Cassandra will forgive him for doing it. In a blink of an eye his cloak of talismans and seals explodes into a cloud of paper acting as a smokescreen as the Demon digimon melts into the shadows appearing from their inky blackness behind Viktor as he thrusts his blade forward with both hands aiming to impale the monster right through the chest. 

"Never Again."  Baalmon hisses the rough growl of his voice like steel on stone as his sword seeks flesh to make good his promise. 

Upon the floor by the destroyed remains of the far wall where she had fallen Cas's eyes grow wide with horror as she muffles a sharp intake of breath in surprise against Dagger's armored side where she has dragged the dazed digimon close. "Cloak..." She whispers tears gathering at the corner of her eyes. "Cloak what have you done?" She whispers as the Baalmon lifts his gaze to meet the blue of her eyes with his own bloody red. He'd always thought she'd look good in red. 

"What I had to."  He murmurs in a harsh rasp.