Digimon: Corrupted City - The RP

[brimney]

New Athens was beautiful today. The artificial sun sun was bright today, and the 'sky' was clear. Anywhere in the city you could hear the loud roars of the city's machinery - something extremely reassuring to most people on the floating island. After all, without the machinery, how could they live? And indeed, they lived well. Or at least, everyone on the surface seemed to. 

Daniel Carter walked briskly through the streets. Unlike others on the path, Daniel didn't stop to enjoy the fake flowers, the buildings that seemed to grow and shrink to their owner's wills, or any of the video screens inside the artificial trees. Daniel's mind was on one thing today - getting to his class on time. He never let anyone arrive late to class - he always made them stand out in the hall. He had no idea how he would punish himself if he were late. 

He had less time than usual this morning because - though he would never admit it to anyone - he was up late playing with his new v-pet. The v-pet's were easy to raise, but you raised your pet to get to certain levels by being diligent and hard working, and organized - all traits Daniel idolized. He had only got it the other day, after confiscating it from a student who was distracted from it. He later heard the student explain the virtues of the toy, to convince Daniel to give it back. Daniel told the student he would need to get an 'A' on his next test. Until then, Daniel would take care of the thing. He never realized how fulfilling it was. The creature obeyed him to a T- it ate when he wanted it to eat, fought and trained when he asked it to. He didn't realize it was nearly 2am when he finally told it to go to sleep - and of course, it did. 

As he strolled into the classroom with only a minute to spare, he shoved his hand into his coat pocket to make sure the device was still there. It was. Last he checked, the small creature turned into a bunny-like creature. Supposedly it would be self-sufficient enough to wait until lunch break for any of its needs to be met. The devices original owner strolled in, giving Daniel the 10th worst stare he's ever received from a student. 

Daniel was unfazed. 

"Alright, class. I hope you've all done your homework. Statistics goes by quickly, and if you miss any of what I teach, you'll be left behind."

[virusomnimon]

Micheal woke up tp the sound of his alarm he looked at it.
"what time is it"
The clock read six thirty.
"oh my god im ganna be late"he got dressed and shovef his stuff into his satchel. Grabbing his digivice which lay on the table he looked at it there was a worm like digimon on the screen
"don't have time to see the.name"
He ran out.of the house and to the school barley making it into the clasd room before the bell rang.
"man that was close"
He said tacking his seat.

[CheeseyJoe]

Terrence Rider yawned in the back of the class room. He could care less what Carter had to say today. He had done the homework and as usual would get a decent score, getting a new assignment, go home, do the work and come back the next day to repeat the process. Everyone always told him that once out of school and into his career that everything would change. But Terry knew that wasn't true, he would continue this monotonous existence for the rest of his days if the government of New Athens had its way. Up until about a week ago Terry thought they might actually succeed in keeping him in "The Fishbowl" as he referred to it.

Now though, he laughed to himself, with enough time the people at the government building would be taking his orders. He would only have one; open the doors. Gazing off into space Terry thought about the stories that his grandma had told him about the world. Trees that grew food, rivers that were home to fish and frogs and the most astounding thing to him of all, no walls. He would go where he wanted when he wanted and would see countless new things everyday.

"Rider."

Terry awoke from his fantasy to be met with the glaring eyes of his teacher.

"Oh, sorry sir. May you please repeat the question?" Terry asked innocently.

Carter pushed his glasses up. "I simply wanted to remind you that class time is not the time for napping."

Terry nodded "Yes sir."

Carter returned to his lecture and Terry spaced out again, this time pretending to pay attention.

When the class bell rang for lunch Terry followed a group of students to an empty classroom where the school's V-pet club met. There tournaments were organized, contests made, conversations were had and V-pet Tamers fought to gain the title "Champion". Terry had little use being there, his V-pet device was... Unusable for raising at the moment. But still he liked to keep up appearances and lots of people liked coming to him for advice for betting on certain battles.

The bell rang again for the start of class and like clockwork the students returned to their seats. Terry starred back into space for the rest of the day, thinking about who was waiting for him back home and the long night of work that also awaited his return.

[Ash]

The red, blinking light from the device on his wrist told Kyle Phillips it was the end of his shift and time to leave the blistering heat of the New Athens metro tunnels. After pressing a few buttons, the screens display on the device shows the nearest checkout and so he starts the journey to more artificial light.
Kyle joins the small queue of other 'rats', he hated the term they'd dubbed themselves, although he knew they were to dumb to know what rat actually was.
Finally he reaches the gate and passes through to the all familiar release of pressure around his wrist and monotone female voice:
"Thank you for your service. Please leave your clock and return in 16 hours."
Just the daunting reminder every down trodden New Athenian needed at the end of each shift!

He made sure the 'rats' hadn't seen him as he swooped into the shadowed alley...there she was, 'Betty'! Kyle's leg swings over her, kicking the mechanical beauty into life as a throaty roar explodes into existence. Something felt right about the wind in his hair. It was probably recycled air but it was the closest he was going to get.

Pulling up outside his apartment and killing Betty's engine, Kyle's eyes are drawn to the building across the street. The windows and doors were sealed and automated police where outside...another murder?! He couldn't be bothered to think about it! Time to enjoy a rehydrated meal packed with no where near enough nutrients to keep him going and some well deserved sleep...

[brimney]

Daniel watched Michael come in, just in time. He was tempted to scold the boy, but he remembered how very close he came to being late - and entire minute! It was such an odd feeling, being almost tardy. It almost seemed pleasurable to blend the rules. He decided, for the first time in his life, not to stick to his normal set of rules, and continue the class without a comment. 

The class went on without a hitch.. Well, one or two students showed the usual disrespect. Terry in particular. Daniel knew he was a good, smart kid. He just had so much trouble appearing like one. 

He wanted class to end early, for the first time ever. From time to time her grabbed the v-pet in his hand to remind himself it was there. It almost felt warm, and had a rhythm like a heart beat - wait, no impossible! Daniel simply had too much coffee, that must have been it.

The bell did ring, and Daniel reminded the class to read chapters 6 and 7. Some groaned, and as usual, Daniel ignored it. He left the classroom and went to the teacher's lounge. He was about to check on the little guy, when the lounge's tv was turned on by another teacher. It was the news. And it was grim. 

"Another murder," the other teacher said, almost wincing. "You know, that happened not too far from my place," the older teacher started. Daniel wasn't listening.

"- and yet another ghastly murder. In this fine apartment on the river, as you can see where all the police cars are - another victim of what police are calling 'the slasher' - named for how he kills his victim. The victim was a young single male who is reported to have some connection to an underground gambling ring," the reported said. Daniel sighed. He wondered if education could have prevented this. Didn't matter. He pulled out the v-pet. There it was, smiling, happy and waiting for Daniel to clean up his poop. Here, at least, all was well. 

(Also, hey Ink - you're a cool guy and all, and I did like your post, but Daniel is not an npc, he is my player character. Please don't take him over again.)

[virusomnimon]

Micheal repeatedly feel asleep in class and the teacher kept on calling out his name evrry tkme he would jolt up drool coming out of his mouth.
"Im awake he said"
Hearing he class mates laugh at him. He looked around seeing every body tacking notes. It wasnt his fault he haf so much homework last night. He couldent wait till school ended.
"I cant wait till you digivolve he felt for the little digivice in his pocket"
Thinking about all the kids who made fun of him because he had a wormmon. Yet agine he feel asleep.

[CheeseyJoe]

Terry nearly had a heart attack when that tunnel worker had ran into the alley. Luckily he and Khan still had their heads down behind the crate that they had been hiding behind. The worker had mounted the motorcycle that had been sitting in the alley and sped off. The two made sure that the cyclist was gone before speaking.

"Smell anymore?" Terry asked Khan.

Khan sniffed the air and shook his head. "Hard to tell with all this garbage around, these human's have almost the same smell. But I don't think there will be anymore."

Terry nodded and the two made their way around the corner. At the end of the street one human slowly walked down the road, he was too far away to see them. Silently the human and digimon made their way to the staircase leading to the tunnels. They were careful as some people would sleep in the subway stations or do drug deals in the dark of night. But the trip down was uneventful and eventually they found their way to the maintenance access. A rack of arm devices hung on the wall by the door. The door was sealed by a computerized lock, taking a screw driver from his pocket Terry took the case off of the hub and by crossing a few wires and keying in a code the door opened with a mechanized hiss. Now the pair were under neath the rails, pipes hung from the ceiling sending water and electricity from all over New Athens.

Khan lifted his head sniffed the air and smiled. "Got one."

Khan led Terry through the tunnels, Terry made sure to leave a trail of red thread back to the exit so they would not get lost under New Athens. Khan slowed and motioned for Terry to be quiet. A T-intersection was ahead of them and Terry could hear humming. Khan crept on all fours his tail flicking back and forth, at the corner both peaked over the corner and saw a small green blob humming as it ate what looked like an orange peel.

Terry recognized this guy as a Numemon. A champion virus digimon, although it was considered pathetic Khan would need to surprise it to have an advantage. Terry stayed at the corner as Khan crept closer to the still merrily humming Numemon. It was almost finished with its orange peel and gulped down the last bite letting loose an unsavory belch. Patting his an area of his body most likely containing its stomach Numemon yawned and turned to be eye to eye with Khan.

Before Numemon could release the screech that would summon dozens more of its kind Khan had already torn it in half. With each tear streams of 0s and 1s would release from the body and be absorbed into Khan. Terry stood from his hiding spot over to Khan stepping on a stalked eyeball on the way. Khan had finished with the kill and was wiping excess slime onto the wall of the tunnel before sniffing the air again in search of another digimon.

This would continue for the rest of the night, occasionally they would find a terminal an by using the digivice hacked into different records from the are they were in. Data such as maintenance records and garbage dump dates were downloaded onto the digivice, so far it seemed that no pattern followed the dumps and Terry still had no idea where the garbage ended up if it was not safe to incinerate.

Hours later the two returned top side three hours before Terry would need to be awake for the next school day. The artificial sun was still not up by time Terry returned to his house. Khan climbed up a tree and into the open window of Terry's room, Terry carefully opened the door and crept through the living room to the stairs. At the top of the stairs were three doors, one lead to his room, one lead to the bathrooma dn a tird lead to Terry's mother's room. Quietly Terry opened his mother's door and saw her asleep in her bed.

"Good" Terry thought shutting the door "Still has no idea that I've been gone."

This had been Terry's fourth "hunting trip" since Khan had generated in the real world. Terry did not want his mother to find out that he was going out late. She already knew of his contempt for New Athens and often worried that he would turn to drugs or fight clubs as a distraction.

Terry crept back into his room where Khan was already on the computer typing up a list of the digimon that had been deleted and the estimated amount of data that he had absorbed.

"Ok, I think a few more nights like this and I should be able to digivolve into champion." Khan said without looking up. "Which is good because the digimon we have been seeing are getting progressively stronger. Next time we go out we should probably hit one of those factories, we would need to shut down the security system completely but the basements of those places should be spawning ground for all kinds of-"

Khan looked away from the screen to see that Terry had collapsed in his bed and was already sound asleep. Khan sighed. Standing up he went to the closet and opened the door reveling a small makeshift bed for himself. He closed the door behind him and followed suit of his tamer and drifted to sleep.

[CheeseyJoe]

{Sorry Brimney,thought it was something that Daniel would say if someone wasn't paying attention in class. No harm intended.}

[CheeseyJoe]

{Hey in my last post I feel like I made a mondo mistake. I had digimon appear in the underground of New Athens but looking back on the back story of New Athens it doesn't make any sense that they would be there. I assumed that digimon were just leaking through to NA but I really should not have. If this post goes against continuity or preferences of others rping I would rather delete it. Just tell me if I ever do anything any of you don't like and I will try my best to fix it.}

[brimney]

(dunno if my pm went through, so -

Sorry if I was too harsh earlier. I know you didn't mean any harm.
I think wild digimon are fine as long as no one besides tamers know. It actually would fit into the setting - there are some random murders, remember? If everyone else is cool with it, I am too. Only edit your post if you really think it is necessary. And keep up the good work!)

[CheeseyJoe]

{Ok, yeah your message got through I just missed it. Sorry when I make my mistakes, I'm a noob to online rping like this. Thanks for dealing with me and y confusion :3. This should be really fun.}

[Ash]

Lights flashed, a klaxon buzzed and Kyle slowly opened his eyes before realising the gravity of the situation...he was late for work! Jumping to his feet, he made the two or three steps across the studio apartment floor and stood to face the monitor.
"Report, I.D 27CA6 - 1B", Kyle reeled off half asleep as if the numbers where his own name. The WERE his own name.
"I.D. Phillips. Kyle. Question: Please state reason/reasons for failure to attend work. State..." the monotone voice asked.
"I, err, overslept. I'll be there in ten minutes!"
"...todays wage has been deducted from your account. Please clock in within 9 minuets and 23 seconds."
It seemed today he was working and had payed for the privilege!

He'd barely had his hand in as Kyle crossed the check-in and the clock had tightened around his wrist. 2 and a quarter seconds to spare he smiled to himself, thinking how that computer's face would look now!
Pressing at some buttons, the clocks display map gave off positions of where he was needed and so he began to walk the few miles to his first job.
Some way into one of the sweaty tunnels, Kyle notices a junction box has been broken open and on further inspection, sees fuses are missing. A short way up a conjoining tunnel, he spots the thief. Meitu, one of the six men including Kyle on the 'Technical Service Division' (T.S.D). Kyle sees that behind him, his tool bag is full of the missing fuses.
"H, heyyy Kyle! You going up to help on this job? S, sounds like a tough one huh?" The small man is aready shaking, clinking the glass tubes at his back and giving himself away.
Kyle slowly grabs the handle and pulls the bag toward himself. Meitu's knuckles are white as his hands still grip on. Kyle's face comes close to Meitu's.
"I've already payed to be here today Meitu. You know if property goes missing down here, we all gotta pay for it!" Kyle's voice was deep naturally but he spoke calmly to the tiny and obviously scared man.
Out from nowhere, Meitu's mouth came up to Kyle's face, biting down and gnawing and his cheek. This 'rat' wanted blood! Bringing up his foot, Kyle kicks into the man's chest, sending him stumbling backwards into a wall as the tool bag drops where he stood. Kyle bends to pick it up.
"Awww c'mon Kyle! My, my Ma! She's sick and..." Meitu smashes Kyle's temple with a rock but to his horror, his huge adversary barely flinches. Instead Kyle calmly stands, silently turns to Meitu.
"...you dumb rock! Everyone knows your Dad came back from a 'booting' to kill your cripple Mum! You dumb rock!" Meitu blurts in fear and anger but Kyle has heard enough, raining down on the man with unbridled fury.

God knows how much time has passed before Kyle snaps out from within the red mist. He stands up and steps back from the beaten Meitu, limp, bruised, bleeding and barely breathing. On Meitu wrist, his clock display blinks slowly.
Before he has time to think, a spot light blares, blinding Kyle. He brings his hand up to his eyes, knowing what's beyond the bright beam of light.
"DESIST! I.D 27CA6 - 1B. You are in breach of the laws of New Athens. 1 count. Violent conduct. 1 count. Theft. How do you plead?" A more authoritative monotone voice demanded an answer.
"I was trying to stop him from stealing them! I request a trial!" Kyle shouted, trying to point at where he thought Meitu would be.
"...Request granted. Please report to New Athens Police department. C14. Within the hour."
"I'm not gonna be able to get there in an hour!"
"Failure to comply!" The authoritative voice boomed as it fired two tiny prongs into Kyle's chest and began to put an electrical current through them.
"Oh, SSSSSHHHHH....."...

[brimney]

The school bell rang. Another class. When the first murders happened, the school let out early. But now that they were happening more recently (and to less important people, so it was said) there was good deal less panic. It almost seemed to become just another part of living in New Athens. Daniel knew he should have felt thankful about living up int he sky city, especially after his parents told him of the wars and other catastrophes so common back on the ground. Still, on occasion, Daniel felt like he was trapped in a huge glass bubble. And he felt like that bubble could be shattered at any moment.

His dark thoughts dispersed as he pushed through his second class of the day - geometry. It was one of his preferred classes, as most of the students were there by choice, and seemed serious about the work. It was supposedly the only group of students who didn't spread nasty rumors about him or outright hate him. He did tend to give them a bit more slack, though. 

The rest of the day seemed to pass without incident. The only thing of note besides the gruesome murders was when Daniel was playing with the device in the hallway after school, just trying to see what else he could do with the mechanism. It seemed simple on the surface, but it had to be more complex, he felt. He heard someone call for him - a young man's voice. Daniel snapped to attention, worried that the student he took the device from found him playing with it. It turned out to be one of the older students from his geometry class. But this student was also interested in the device.

"Oh, Mr. Carter, I had no idea you were a v-pet fan as well!" 

Daniel shrugged. "It's interesting, from a technology standpoint. But I'm still very new to it."

"Well, Mr. Carter, I'm sure you'll be fine," the student continued. He presented his own device - it looked like an elongated device with grips. The student challenged Carter to a quick battle. Carter accepted, out of curiosity. Carter's digimon won easily against the student's armadillo creature.

"You're good, better than I thought... but hey, I'm guessing you haven't heard the rumors, then," the student continued, after looking around, checking to make sure the hallway was empty. When he was sure, he continued, "Some people think these v-pets are what caused all the murders!"

The comment made Daniel balk. Surely these devices were only toys, not weapons. The city would not have allowed them to be here if they were dangerous, surely.

Taking Daniel's silence as a hint to go on, the young man continued, "I hear they come to life if infected with a new virus! They-" the young man, Thomas, was interrupted by his friends, who wanted him to walk home with them. "Sorry Mr. Carter. Got to go!" Daniel watched Thomas run off. So much new information, and all these odd rumors... hogwash surely. But what if they weren't? No, Daniel had to concentrate. He had lesson plans for tomorrow. He put the device back in his pocket, and prepared to go home, get dinner, and good night's rest. 

And the night continued exactly as planned. From time to time he would stop what he was doing - grading, cooking, watching tv- to look at the device. It looked the same as ever. The little creature - Terriermon, it was called according to the device - was resting peacefully. 

---

Thomas and his friends left school, laughing.

"Betcha teach will be off his hinges for awhile. Good job, Thomas," George said. The others continued to smile and pat Thomas on the back. Operation: Disorient teacher for a day went swimmingly. 

Thomas, however, didn't tell them what he really was thinking. He was wondering just what kind of tamer Mr. Carter would become. People we so interesting, Thomas had always thought. And so easy to manipulate. 

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Mr. Carter woke up at precisely 6am, like every other day. He was fully groomed by 6:15. Breakfast was ready by 6:30. He had his tie on by 6:40. He was a few minutes ahead. Daniel decided to check the device. Terriermon would need breakfast, after all. 

He turned on the screen. It was all black. Terriermon was gone. 

(sorry for the long post. and I present - an antagonist!)

[Ash]

Kyle's eyelids rolled back as his vision began to clear. He groaned as he looked around the room, every surface gleamed and Kyle couldn't really smell anything at all. This wasn't a prison cell, it was a room a hospital!
At the end of his bed, the human police inpsector lowered his reading tablet before standing to inspect the patient.
"Seems your in trouble again Phillips!" The man spoke in a funny accent.
"I swear to god Ted, I was trying to stop Meitu from stealing..."
"Relax kid, they let you off! You'd taken quite a knock before they put you down!" Chuckled Ted, pressing against Kyle stitched temple, "They almost put you into a coma! I managed to get you a few days off work for R&R."
Kyle felt a wave of calm fall over his body.
"C'mon, lets get you outta here." Ted smiled, putting his old arm out.
Ted had always been around while Kyle grew up. Before he came to New Athens, Ted had served with Kyle's father back down on earth in somewhere called "New York". After Kyle's father was 'booted', Ted done all he could to be there for his friends wife, after the stress of having a baby and her husband being expelled from the city, her mind had gone!

Kyle signed the relevant forms and left the building, hopping down the steps to where Ted was waiting.
"Listen kid, I got something I want you to do" Ted's voice was low and his face serious, "you tell anyone about this conversation and I'm outta here you got that!"
Kyle nodded, he'd never seen the man look so old and frail.
"People are saying that monsters are responsible for these murders. We picked up a guy last week certain that he was attacked by some kinda dinosaur!" Ted whispered, pulling some rolled paper from inside his jacket, "I want you to see if you can dig something up for me, take this blueprint but don't show anybody!"
Kyle takes them and stuffs them into his jacket, "Why me Ted?" Kyle asks
"In an automated city, even people become like computers. You've just been programmed alot better!"
The two men hug before parting ways. Kyle glances the blueprint, he knew exactly where to go to get what he needed!

[virusomnimon]

Micheal had to stay up all night just to catch up on some home work that a techer who apperantly didnt like him gave to him.
"why me what did i ever do"when all of a sudden he rembered how he was tardy all the time and hardly payed attention in class.
"oh ya haha well im ganna take a break"
He got up from his chair stretched and turned on the tv there was something about some murders but he hardly pays attention.
"Where half way thete wormmon"he says looking at the evolution bar on his digivice yawning and finally falling asleep