Reincarnated in another world as a Lvl 1 bug!?!? [DM]

Even though she was putting up a good fight, it looked like Gihai was having a hard time. Midori sniffled her little worm tears as she saw her new friend get pummeled by kicks and water alike. Midori didn't think that she would ever be able to take that kind of punishment, so she was definitely thinking highly of the green dino right now.

But to her credit, Gihai was laying quit the hurt on the top-tier Fox Digimon. He wasn't exactly made out of granite, but thankfully he didn't shatter. "Augh!" He profoundly declared while getting shoved back, using the force to somersault away so he could at least fall back while still looking awesome. But he looked like he was ready to charge at the Guilmon once more.

But while Gihai was busy putting the Renamon in immense pain, the Sangomon was getting ready to fire some more coral shots out at her while she was distracted.

Midori... had to do something! She didn't want to jump in the way, because that would be painful, and she didn't want to get hurt anymore. But... there was something inside of her that just seemed to know what to do. "N...Nature String...!" She cried out, rather pathetically, really, but she shot out a web at the shell-covered little racist. It stuck to him cleanly, and the Wormmon suddenly jerked her head away, causing the Sangomon's body to twist just as he fired off his shot.

The fragments of coral shot out, missing Gihai by a fair amount... and hitting the Renamon directly in the chest. The unsuspecting fox Digimon let out a choking gasp as the coral spikes lodged into his torso, unable to speak, but instead collapsed to one knee while giving Sangomon a "What the hell, man!?" look of raw hatred.

Meanwhile, all Sangomon did was squirm around, trapped in a web at the moment.

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- Renamon gets more hurt by Gihai's attack. He's a little frail, so he's taking some serious hits.

- Midori webs up Sangomon, making him miss his attack against Gihai and instead hitting Renamon, hurting the Fox even further. Also he's immobilized for a turn. Sadly, not even a top-tier can win a doubles match with a trash partner.

- Turns out that Renamon's a filthy doubles casual who didn't realize that Team Attack was on, so he's too surprised and in pain to attack someone this turn.

Moves used:

[Active]
1. Nature String - Spits out a webbing that surrounds one enemy, immobilizing them for 1 post. Afterwards, the web suddenly sprouts various vines that wrap around the target, reducing their speed by 50% for another 2 posts.
Duration: 3 Posts
Cooldown: 4 Posts

Coral Shot - Sangomon fires off a barrage of coral spikes at an enemy. 1-post cooldown.

C&D's

Midori
Nature String - 1/3 Duration, 0/4 Cooldown

Sangomon - +20% Defense, -10% Speed
Coral Shot - 0/1 Cooldown

Renamon - -16% Defense
Leaf Shine - 2/2
Multi Shine - 2/2
Toryah! - 2/2
Top-Tier Combo Ready!

Things were finally looking up! Gihai was looking prepped to take out the fox dude while the mollusk dude was still trapped in the web. But then... Midori started getting a bad feeling. Suddenly, the Renamon began to move around back and forth, dash-dancing like a madmon and ran out of the way of Gihai's tail strike, dodging it completely. "Fool! Now it's my turn to counterattack! I hope you're ready for a real attack!" It looked like the Renamon was going to do the same thing to Gihai that hurt Midori so much, and unless Gihai L-canceled her aerial, she was going to be in for a world of hurt! And Gihai was already a little beat up! She didn't want to see her get bullied anymore!

Midori didn't know how she managed to move her little worm body so quickly, but she flew through the air, spitting out a bunch of webs along the way! Only problem was... shooting webs while moving forward... kind of got Midori caught up in her own webbing! But the little worm didn't stop! She kept shooting more and more webs until Midori herself was trapped inside of a cocoon of her own making, but continued rocketing forward.

"Now you're mi- huh?" The Renamon unleashed his mighty combo attack, only to get blocked by Midori's tiny cocoon body. And despite the Renamon's immense shield pressure, the Wormmon's web barrier didn't break! And by the end of the combo, Midori's squishy little cocoon was stuck to the Renamon's foot. "What the hell is this gross thing!? Get it off, get it off!" He started kicking around in the air, but the cocoon wouldn't come loose. He turned over towards Sangomon who had broken free from the webbing binding him, though there was still a good deal of it hampering his movement. "Sangomon! Stop standing around doing nothing and get this thing off of me!"

"I've been busy... and don't tell me what to do!" The Sangomon muttered, still complying with Renamon's request by shooting a stream of water right at the Renamon's foot. The jet stream was more than enough force to send Midori's cocoon flying... along with a good chunk of the Renamon's fur that was still attached to the webbing.

And then Renamon let out a comical yelp of pain as he hopped around on one foot while nursing his pained leg. He really should have turned his legs into metal, or something.

Meanwhile, the cocoon crashed into a tree, the webbing slowly dissolving and revealing a very dizzy and motion-sick Wormmon. "I don't wanna go back on that ride..." She complained weakly.

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- Renamon dodges Gihai's tail, and prepares his 3-hit combo to pummel Gihai, but gets blocked by Midori's [Cocoon Veil]. Thankfully, Renamon didn't have the matchup knowledge to know that an obscure low-tier like Wormmon's ability blocked ALL attacks in the round, and wasted his precious combo. 

- Sangomon breaks free of the immobilizing web, but is still hampered by the web's lingering effects, lowering his speed. He fires off his water attack to get Midori off of Renamon, taking a few handfuls of fur along with him. Renamon is now in pain, and probably really vulnerable for an attack right now. For realsies this time. 

Moves Used... meh. Feeling lazy. Midori's omni-shield, a bunch of moves Renamon used earlier, and Sangomon's 0-cd water attack. It's a battle between rookies. Not that complicated, yo. 

C&D's

Midori
Cocoon Veil - 0/3
Nature String - 2/3 Duration

Sangomon - +40% Defense, -60% Speed
Coral Shot - 1/1 Cooldown (Ready!)

Renamon - -16% Defense
Leaf Shine - 0/2
Multi Shine - 0/2
Toryah! - 0/2

Gihai's glob of acid struck true, the Renamon screaming out in sheer agony, unable to take much more. Or... really, any more at this point. His data began to shimmer and fall apart as he collapsed to the ground. With the last of his strength, he looked at his two green combatants, murderous fury in his unfocused eyes. "You bastards... When I come back, I'm gonna find you again... then I'm gonna tear you apart limb from limb... and then when you're begging for the sweet release of death I'm gonna..." But by that point he had vanished into tiny cubes of data that scattered like dust in the wind.

...Which left a particularly horrified Midori as she shivered in place. That fox creature... while definitely not a nice creature... he just died in front of her eyes.

But there was still one person attacking them left, wasn't there? Midori looked around for the coral baddie, only to find him... putting his tendrils up into the air.

"Yeah... no. I'm not gonna deal with this shit anymore," Sangomon stated. "I was just gonna grab a couple of filthy humans, maybe get rich and famous or something, and live the rest of my life as some guard captain or something... But this ain't worth it, man. I'm gonna like, do what Grandpa Shellmon told me to do and make ice sculptures, or something..."

...Huh. Did that mean the scary part was over now? But there was something Midori was forgetting... "Oh no! My friends! Come back, please! I need to ask you where my friends are!" 

But it was too late. The author had already removed the Sangomon's text color from her saved colors, and there was no going back. 

The Renamon sure was mean before he died, though. It was enough to shake Midori up quite a bit, even thought all the Renamon did was make threats... and hit Midori a bunch. She supposed that the Renamon really stayed true to himself until the very end. Still... if Midori was a little shaken up, Gihai seemed really bothered by it. Either that or she was in a lot of pain. She had gotten hurt a whole bunch during that fight. She was crying and everything.

"I'm sorry..." Midori began, crawling up the green dino's leg and torso to get close to her face. She would try and wipe away the tears but... short, stubby hands, and all. "Umm... thank you for helping me... I would have gotten really, really hurt if you weren't there, and..." Midori had no idea how to make her feel better, but she had to try. Hell, she began to cry a bit herself, because she was going to have to ask Gihai to get herself even more hurt, and that made her sad. "I'm really sorry! But please help me even more! I have to help my friends, and I know I can't do it on my own! You're probably hurting a lot right now, and... and..."

Midori swallowed all her fears, pride, and anxieties as she began to talk extremely fast. "You won't ever have to see me again after this and you can hate me for the rest of your life and if someone tries to bully you can send them over to bully me instead I don't mind because I'm a really bad person for making you do this and I deserve a whole bunch of bad stuff for asking for your help and I'm sorry again and please help me find my friends and I'm sorry I'm really sorry!" She caught her breath, giving Gihai ample time to notice a trail of slime that the Sangomon left behind when they arrived. And judging by the fact that it wasn't in the direction that the coward ran, it was probably the right way to Midori's friends.

Gihai really was a good person, for trying to pretend that Midori wasn't a really bad person for doing all of this. If she wasn't really a bad person, then why did she get turned into some squishy, gross bug creature instead of like, a majestic bird or cute kitty or something like that? Clearly this was Midori's punishment for being awful. So awful, that Yukihara-san and Akabane-san were probably in danger, too. Midori was probably reincarnated as a worm to protect them, but she had probably already messed that up the instant she came here!

But Gihai was right in that they had a job to do! So even though it was probably Midori's friends in danger, Midori would help Gihai who was helping Midori! If Midori looked at it that way, then it didn't seem like she was gonna fail at all! So Midori decided to believe in the Gihai who believed in her, and followed behind her while watching out for any potential dangers the might be around! You know, since Midori was so familiar with the Digital World and she'd definitely be able to tell whether something seemed out of place!

And following the path, it didn't take them long to hear others before they could spot them. 

"Wh-what the hell do you think you're doing, you gross-ass lizard? Get away from us before I rip off that horn and stick it up your-" It was a girl's voice, suddenly cut off by a loud smack. That voice definitely belonged to Aoi! 

"Aoi!" Another girl's voice cried out. And that was Rion! "...Let's stop antagonizing them, alright?" 

"Both of you, be quiet! I'm trying to concentrate!" A voice Midori didn't recognize. Midori climbed up a tree to get a better viewpoint, seeing her two friends. A young girl in blue and white, with black hair tied into pigtails and another girl wearing red and pink. Both of them had their hands tied behind their back with what looked to be vines. "You're going to tell me all of your secrets, humans! Even if I have to pull them out of your minds!" 

"We've already told you everything we know!" Rion exclaimed, exasperated. "We don't know anything about what's going on! My friend and I just suddenly appeared here and then you guys showed up!" 

There were two Digimon nearby. One was a pink-scaled lizard with white fur coat with striped on it. He hard a large, pink horn sticking out of his head. And the other looked to be a boy that was up in some weird cosplay. He had these... pinwheel-like blades at his side, a long, metallic  scarf that flew down his back, and... was wearing what looked to be a grenade for a necklace. Midori didn't know what to make of these guys, but Gihai would possible recognize these Digimon as Psychemon and Ignitemon.

Midori immediately wanted to scream out for them, but her voice froze up. If she caused a lot of attention, then there might be a fight again. And Gihai was still hurting. And there was a chance that Aoi and Rion could get hurt, too. 

While Gihai could casually hop down and approach these cruel Digimon who were attacking his friends, Midori couldn't quite work up the courage just yet. She froze in fear as she watched her new friend approach the enemies, as well as Midori's old friends.

The Guilmon took the couple by surprise, but while the Psychemon visibly flinched at her arrival, the Ignitemon didn't seem to be affected very much. He waved to Gihai, a smile on his face. "Oh, nothing much. We're just patrol who managed to find a couple humans wandering around." He gestured towards the two bound girls, who were looking over at Gihai with a look of horror. Probably because they just saw one more monster. Ignitemon looked back at the two humans' reactions, then back to the Guilmon. "Things have been tense lately, you know? And we're just about in the area making sure that these humans don't have any more friends about. We'll try not to be in your business for much longer! I swear!"

"So unless you have any information, leave us alone and let us do our jobs!" Psychemon called out while still focusing most of his attention on Aoi and Rion. His horn began to glow, and whatever he was doing, the two girls looked to be in extreme discomfort.

"Pychemon, that's ain't no way to talk to someone!" Ignitemon chastised, then turned back to Gihai. "Sorry about 'em. He's a little zealous. You know how these young Rookies are nowadays. Fresh off from being a Tsunomon and wanting to show the world how awesome his new moveset is. But he's a sweetheart once you get to know him!" He gestured towards a fallen log where an Infinistore sat. Ignitemon opened it up, pulling out some bandages and what looked to be a couple of hamburgers. "Gotta say though, you're looking pretty roughed up. You come into any dangers nearby? If you want, I can radio out to some of my comrades, see if they can take care of it."

Meanwhile, Midori gulped down every last bit of courage she had, and began to crawl around the area to get as close to Aoi and Rion as possible. She had absolutely no plan in this. She didn't want to leave Gihai alone with these two, though, but she needed to look after her friends, too! But she didn't dare approach them, though. Psychemon was still nearby, and she didn't have the courage or the strength to pick another fight!

"They found those intruders way back when, and things have just been tense, remember?" Ignitemon stated like it were obvious. "It was on the news and everything! I thought everyone on ElDoradimon had heard about it!" His suspicions seemed to be growing, and then they increased as Gihai commented on the children.

"Children or not, humans or humans. They're a lot more dangerous than a Digimon child is! They can make their partner Digimon become unbelievably powerful, and that poses a serious risk!" Ignitemon explained as if he were quoting some kind of propaganda. "These ones seem new to the Digital World, and I don't think they pose a risk just yet, but if you give them time, they'll no doubt be a threat to us, and maybe even the entire Digital World! It's best to just lock them up for the time being until the higher-ups decide what to do with them!"

Everything else seemed to check out, though. Ignitemon didn't seem to be too wary of Gihai's explanation for her current status. "Some Digimon ain't the kindest. But #notallEldoradis are like that. And as for how the humans got here? We're still trying to find that out."

It seemed like Gihai had ingratiated herself with the group. So maybe their guard would lower a bit more! Midori crawled along edge of their little gathering, trying to be as sneaky as possible. Turns out her tiny green body was good for a forest stealth operation! She managed to crawl her way up a tree that was directly above Psychemon, Aoi, and Rion! Now... if only Psychemon were distracted, maybe she could use her webs to get the two to safety somehow! Like if she were Spiderworm or something!