Go Rescue the Derp Fist

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Who: People in the Defenders and Divers groups
What: The Search for Masaru doesn't go so well
When: June 28-June 30
Where: The Dark Field found on Server

The Trailmon to Server left hours ago. Twenty-one people were aboard and split their separate ways at a terminal close to the Village. Some went to protect the Yokomon and Koromon that were left unaffected by the corruption while most of the others had a mission at hand: rescuing the dummy Masaru Daimon (I mean, who is crazy enough to fall into a dark field after punching a digimon in the face?).

No Digimon seems to be around as group approaches the field. It as Ryou said, too, full of bright colors and random numbers. The size isn't great, so one must wonder how a boy got lost in there. Or perhaps you're unable to think on that when you realize how still everything is.

No wind seems to pass and no sound can be heard.

Whatever's going on, it can't be normal for the Digital World either, can it?


[[OOC: So here's how this will work! We will give you all a few rounds to prepare for going into the Dark Field. This includes roping off the Divers and making sure your groups are ready. For this we're going to need you guys to be a little speedy at first. Once we feel that everyone is ready, we will post of the individual group fight threads. The only difference this time is that we will be setting up a thread for the Divers.

The Digimon you will be fighting will also make their appearance! Please note it will take several hours after the Divers take their leave that the Digimon will appear. We will introduce these Digimon and explain the mechanics of their behavior, and will play them intermittently (Or we will try to! Bear with us if we miss a tag or two!)

Divers, unlike the last time, you will find that the tethers do not last very long. After about a half hour or so in the dark field, the ropes will disappear. Those on the outside will notice this too as the ropes you thought were secure suddenly are no longer there. On the 30th, the Divers will find a clue hinting that Masaru has found his way out of the dark field on his own, though you will not actually see him. It is then that you will be able to find your way out.

Please note for those reading the Divers thread, there is content involving at times graphic death, violence, and issues pertaining to eating disorders. Proceed with caution.

Good luck! If you have any questions please let us know. PM us, Plurk us, or email us. We should be around!]]

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[She nearly cried out in pain when Donatello's arms touched the scratches on her back, but managed to stifle it by biting down on her lower lip. The pain made her dizzy, but Donnie hugging her kept her knees from giving out on her (again).

He was real, then. He was real, and he was here, and wouldn't go away.]

Just...Just so glad you're alive. After e-everything...

[She didn't realize she had started shaking, and almost didn't notice Ed appearing if it weren't for Donnie speaking up. She lifted her gaze and her eyes went wide.

Ed was alive too!]

Ed!

[As quickly as she could, she moved from hugging Donatello to throwing her arms around Ed's neck in a tight embrace. He was alive! They were all alive!

Well...all but Hawkmon...

Her knees finally gave out on her, the realization that she will never see her partner weighing heavy on her on top of everything else. The many cuts she received, the burns, the mental and emotional trauma, and then watching Hawkmon killed right in front of her. She couldn't take it!]

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It's my fault we can't find him. I let you down. I let everyone down! I'm so sorry!

[fuhrinkaed]

[The hug throws him off-balance, but he keeps standing without toppling backwards. Marley blaming herself... Donnie was probably in bad shape too...

Again Ed pushes the pain to the back of his mind.]

Don't worry about it! We didn't fail! You didn't fail! Our lines got cut and we're still in here! We're alive, and we're together! That's enough--and we saw Masaru get out of here, so that means we've definitely succeeded! There's only one thing left to do.

[He gently breaks off the hug, and gives them both a firm, resolved nod.]

We're going to find our own way out. Punching may not work for us, but the Dark Field showed us that last bit as a warning, and then gave us a hint on how to get out. We have to use that--I don't think it wants that light digimon thing to come to pass either! And we're going to make it! As long as the three of us are together, we'll find a way! Absolutely, one hundred percent! So... don't cry. Don't blame yourself. You've both already done a great job--this is more than we got the last time we came in here. And you guys are going to get out of here... we're all absolutely going to be just fine!

After all, we're friends--and friends can overcome anything! So... you don't have to apologize, and you don't have to feel bad anymore. We can do that after we're done over some ice cream!

[hootmons]

[Suddenly a static echoes through the Dark Field.

The vision that disappeared before, with the shining Digimon, is back, and closer, more real. The Chosen can hear screams louder, feel the heat of burning fire.

And not only Digimon stand in the village now.

Another series of scratches, each deeper than the last, this time its for all involved and its in a specific place. The back of one of your knees gives out. You are forced to kneel at the foot of this terror. This Titan. Submissive to the force of the Dark Area, and whatever this thing is.

Blood spills from the light, and humans fall as well. Humans, or other sentient beings, like the whole universe is being destroyed. And then, through the light, the creature looks right into the eyes of each Chosen, bright burning red.

Almost a message. Almost, I’m coming for you.

YOU ARE SCRATCHED ONE LAST TIME, MORE DEEPLY THAN BEFORE, AS THE FIGURE APPROACHES. It may not be real or in there...but it is slowly, coming towards you.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[Ed drops to a knee and looks at the light itself again.

So that's it. That's the big bad... That light with the burning red eyes... why did he have to kneel to it?

The Dark Field was trying to tell him something, but what? This titan of light... It is coming... and it's spewing the death of the universe itself from him. The Dark Field is part of the universe.. but it knows about this thing's existence. That meant one of two things... either the dark field is showing off that it was going to destroy everything, or it's making ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that this was not a threat to take lightly.

You get no points for figuring out which one Ed clings to. After all, it was a creature made of pure light, and the Dark Field is the Dark Field. It doesn't take a genius to know they're at odds, right?

He winces as he's cut,deep--across the gut. He grunts loudly from the scratch... but he won't break his gaze on the titanic digimon.]

Don't worry... I understand.

I won't let this guy destroy everything. You can believe in that. [He watches its approach, unflinchingly.]

[brain_behind_purple]

[He barely heard Marley's words due to how soft they were. Buit he heard htem, and his heart was breaking even more. She and Ed looked as bad as he did, and now eh realzied that he must have hurt Marley when he hugged her. A ping of guilt hit him, and it just added onto the heartbreak and sorrow that he already felt. The tears were building up again.]

Marley... Marley, you didn't-

[He was cut off at the appearance of that light... that horrible, horrible light. Whatever it was it looked... outright horrifying. Even more than the Shredder. it send chills down the young turtle's spine. He was forced to hear those bloodcurdling screams of horror of the Digimon and... were those humans as well?

Oh shell...

He couldn't speak, he couldn't move, he couldn't even cry anymore. He had seen so many people get brutally slaughtered, his father, his brothers, his partner... He had no emotion or feeling left in him.

It wasn't until a huge slash cut him deeply across his plastron that he reacted. He nearly screamed, but he but the bottom of his lip. His fists clenched, blood split from the injury, a pool forming under him. He tried to turn his gaze away form the demon, but he couldn't. Was it due to terror? Curiosity? Both? He didn't know.

What he did know was that Ed and Marley were still in danger. If this monster killed him, fine. he'd welcome it, he'd be back with his family and Kamemon then. But the two of them... they deserved to live. He couldn't let them die.

He almost chuckled at Ed's words, it sounded exactly like something that Leo would say. It just made the pain return, but he forced himself to ignore it. He forced his body to move in front of Marley, even if it was only slightly.

He wasn't going to let this demon hurt his friend. It would ahve to kill him first.]

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[When Ed disentangled himself from Marley's hug, she subconsciously made sure her feet were spread some so that she wouldn't fall down. She felt dizzy, weak, but she managed to stay standing. She only caught half of what Ed was saying, and she barely turned when she heard Donnie tell her something...

That's when she saw it. The beast of light from before. Her eyes went wide and before she could warn the others, she cried out as the back of her knee erupted in pain. She fell to the ground, kneeling as it were, in front of the creature that presented itself to them.

Her heart ached for the screaming Digimon and...were those humans she saw?!]

STOP! PLEASE, STOP!

[She pleaded with the creature as it continued its war path. Even with Donnie moving in front of her, and Ed's talking to the Dark Field as if it were just a messenger, Marley could only think about those poor souls who were dying because of this...this monster in front of them.

And then it turned to them and she gasped when the eyes turned to her. Those soulless, red, demonic eyes that bore into her, as if seeing into her very being. Unnerving as it was, she couldn't tear her gaze away. Her eyes would only widen in fear when she willed them to close.

Marley's lips parted in a scream, her hands flying to her right side as she bit down on her lower lip to stifle her cries of pain. She could feel the blood seep from the new wound, deeper than the last. Just one more to add to the many others she received, as well as the burns from the spotlight. She couldn't muster up the energy to care. She was tired, exhausted even, and every move and every feeling and every wound just took more out of her.

She leaned forward some, resting her forehead against the back of Donatello's shell. She was too tired to even register who it was she was touching, just that something had stopped her from falling completely forward.]

...How much more do we have to take before it ends us...?

[terminalcresting]

[And 'lo, just as a strong light will create a deep darkness, the opposite itself is true. A small sphere of light, a deep crimson in color and glimmering despite the darkness, pierces through the top of the Dark Area and floats in front of Ed. The Dark field reacts, trying to crush the sphere. To vanquish this unrelenting source of strength. It pulsates once, throwing the darkness away. The vision of the creature is gone, as the light fades, going back to the more important task at hand. The light glimmers around Ed.

His crest forms. The Crest of Tenacity.

Yet its not done yet. It begins to pulsate it’s light once more, to fully fight back against the anomaly. The Dark field itself is unable to do anything, as it is fighting against a force of an un-breaking will. The Crest and its owner standing, unwavering against any odds. It shoots out a beam of light forward. The light comes off in a single, unbending straight line, its intensity simply increasing. Yet it makes sure not to hurt the Chosen. Though the Dark Field holds for a few moments, another light from the outside shatters the wall, wrapping the chosen in a soft and gentle light, a protective bubble.

And together, they cut through the rainbow light, through the darkness inside, and reveal a path for the Chosen trapped inside.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[As Ed holds his crest close to his heart he feels energy surge through him. His wounds didn't seem so bad anymore--and neither would his friends, if they were close enough. But healing wasn't the real thing Ed was focused on. Someone from the outside had given them a path out, and his crest had met that path--it was enough.

More than enough.]

Ed, are you okay?! You made all these weird noises and things and...

Guilmon. Digivolve, now. [Ed helps Marley to her feet while his digivice shines brightly. Guilmon's wounds seemed to close somewhat as well before she digivolved in a burst of light.]

Guilmon, digivolve geko..! KYUBIMON! The flame of balance!

[Digimon looks at partner, and Ed helps Marley aboard the fox before climbing on himself.]

Hey guys, I think we found our way out. Let's get out of here so everyone else can go home too.

[brain_behind_purple]

[Once the monster was gone, the illusion broke. This included Donnie's old body vanishing, turning back into his human body. He realized this and he stared at himself, but he didn't really care at the moment. That... thing was gone, thank goodness.

Donnie just kinda stared as Ed helped Marley get onto Kyubimon as he struggled to stand up. Well... looked like he was walking on his own... wile pretty much bleeding to death... Ah well, Marley was safe, that's what was important.

Wait... If Ed's Digimon was back, then...?]

D-Donnie... Wh-wha the heck happened to you?!

[That voice... that annoying little voice. He turned behind him, and the tears fell again. This time in relief.]

K-Kamemon..Your alive... Y-your really...! [Her stopped when he stood fully, and a shockwave of pain went through him. he was about to hit the ground...]

Donnie! [Digivolves into Gwappamon and catches him quickly before lifting him into his hand. Oh Donnie... you big nerd, what happened to you? [Sure, he himself had a few scratches, but nothing even close to as bad ah him.]

Hang on, I'm getting you out Donnie [Glares at Ed] Thanks for offering to help him four eyes! Lets just go already!

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[Marley barely even recognized that she had been lifted up, let alone that a way out had presented itself to them. She was so sure that the monster was going to kill them, and she had all but shut down.

It wasn't until she noticed Guilmon digivolving, and Kamemon as well, that it dawned on her that their partners were back. Well...all of them but--]

MARLEY!

[Hawkmon came flying out of nowhere and barreled into Ed trying to get to Marley.]

Sorry! Marley! Is she okay?! She looks awful!

[Sorry Ed! He just wanted Marley and wanted out of there! Marley, though, chokes on a sob, though she smiled as she made sure she wasn't going to fall off of Kyubimon.]

[fuhrinkaed]

[Hawkmon, meet skull.]

BWARGHFLF-- [Ed is sent forward into Kyubimon's back, bonking his head against his digimon. It didn't hurt much, but from the look of it he wasn't in the mood to get back up in a hurry.]

...That... was not how stuff was supposed to go...

Adversity breeds in the darkness. In a rainbow path then, lies humiliation.

...yeah okay... let's go with that.

[brain_behind_purple]

[Eye roll] As heartwarming as this is, this nerd here is bleeding to death and you tow humans look really, really bad too. So can we please just get out of here before who knwos what else happens?

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Go...get them out. Get them safe...

[Marley's eyes fell close with a sigh. Hawkmon muttered a quick apology to everyone before taking to the air, flying above Marley and Kyubimon.]

Let's get them out of here!

[He planned to follow close to Marley while they made their escape.]