Pyromania99

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

@Rune_Alchemist

"Other people missing you? Huh. Well, sorry. Not my problem. Really. I mean, I have to stay here and watch you now still but it's whatever. It's nice to be away from that music." The Aruekenimon walked over to a nearby cabinet and pulled out what looked to be a thing of meat and then back to in front of Ruruka's cell.

Ruruka's cell was pretty cramped at the moment. It looks like they were using it as a storage room of sorts. There were a number of chests and boxes sitting on one side of the room. There was a bed on the other side and something like a sword with the blade end sticking up. As Ruruka looked over at her Digimon Warden, she'd notice that she was busy eating, not too worried about Ruruka doing anything.

The Digimon perked up though. "Oh! Do you watch 'Systematic Justice' at all?" Ruruka might have heard of that. It was a somewhat popular TV show about court-room trials. "It's on right now I think." The giant digimon turned around and tapped on the wall which produced a TV. After tapping on it a couple of times it turned on and started playing the show.

"This is the man we brought in for the murder. His name is Jimi Uwasaki."

The Digimon seemed a bit focused on the show for now and Manaka's voice appeared in Ruruka's head. "Well then, this could be a chance for you to get out. Unless you want to meet that Siren again I guess." Ruruka could tell there was a curiosity in Manaka's voice as to what she'd do.

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@PsyBlade@King Cosmos

Manaka giggled at Reiko. "You're funny. If it was too dangerous that I didn't think you could handle it I wouldn't have sent you. Besides, Ruruka only got caught because she was being silly. Still though, she's going to serve a purpose for you guys anyhow. I suggest you start searching before the other team makes things a little difficult for you." The woman continued.

She seemed to think about what they had said earlier as it had just dawned on her. "Wait, I never told you what you were looking for? I swear I wrote it in the the to-do list.... Ah... Guess I did. Sorry about that. Well, I suppose I should tell you now. It's a list as I mentioned. It has the names of every group that's been subdued by Thor in their conquest of hackers up until about two months ago. It also supposedly has an encryption of their over all plans. Supposedly." Manaka seemed dead serious about this. "Now, it should be hidden somewhere. I'm supposing it has something to do with that Mega I told you about so be careful."

The hallway ahead of them seemed about as promising as anywhere else. If the group looked, there was a small sign on the wall that pointed that way said "Recording Room" and another one saying "Siren's Room". As good as any to start right? Of course, to their right was a sign that said "Digimon Mess Hall."

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@Hammerman@Duthguy@The World

"Jormungandr? Damn it all, more of you!?" The Elecmon sighed. He switched over to another button and hit that instead. No loud alarms were sounding. Instead, a hole in the ceiling opened and a rope fell down, allowing the Digimon to climb up rapidly. He taunted them as he quickly ascended. "Digimon are on their way! Don't think you're getting out of this, Jormungandr posers!" The digimon added as he crawled through the hole and escaped elsewhere. The hole did stay open though and it seemed big enough for a person to crawl into. Supposing he didn't trigger a silent alarm, he was probably running off to get some help.

"Well, we have to act now. You should search out and find that list. Oh, it's also come to my attention that I didn't tell you what you're here for so let me just..." She quickly informed them of what they were suppose to search for in much a way as she did for Reiko and Hifumi. "Now then you should probably head out and look for it."

To their front was a door that led to what was probably a hallway. To their right, another door that the Elecmon had come from. Or if someone was being brave, they might even consider following Elecmon but was that a wise choice?

Life in another world as a Enemy Mob! - An Isekai RP

"Yuri Monmusu~ Yuri Monmusu~" Kaoru sang, practically dancing down the street. It was finally the release of Yuri Monmusu Ni: The Silkweb Story. It was the long anticipated sequel to Yuri Monmusu: Through Darkness comes Light. Kaoru in particular was excited because the main antagonist, Lady Ashewell Silkweb, was set to be the protagonist this time! It was early in the morning so that meant one thing. "I have all today to play!" The college student cheered while heading towards the trains quickly. Sadly, the game just wasn't downloadable even with all the modern amenities of the internet so one must go to the store to pick it up.

That however is how tragedy befalls Kaoru. In an attempt to make it home faster, Kaoru took a side street. Construction was going on here but one could still get by them through a small passage allowed for foot traffic. As the Otaku passed by some weird things happened. A brick crumbled to dust, the edge of a jack hammer chipped off and flew in Kaoru's direct, a steel beam rolled off the top of the pyramid where it was sitting and lastly Kaoru almost stepped in a pothole. In response to all of this, Kaoru merely looked on with worried eyes and spoke inwardly. "I'd really hate to have this for my job with all this stuff happening."

All in all, Kaoru came out of the experience unscathed. That however was just the tip of the iceberg however. Moving back on to another street, the Otaku continued towards the station when an old lady's voice from above could be heard. "Oh criminy! That darn AC fell again!"

As Kaoru looked up there would be a noticeable object falling at a high rate of speed. There was no reaction time fast enough to get fully out of the way of the on-coming object and it crashed into Kaoru. There was a great pain in the student's chest as a heavy old model window AC unit rested there. There was an amount of blood spilling onto the ground as Kaoru's hands clutched the game in them. "I'm sorry. Lady... Ashewell." With a slow closing of the eyes, that was the death of one Kaoru Ushikata.

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"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!" Kaoru screamed. This was a weird dream for sure. Falling? Well, this wasn't the first time in this sort of dream. What was the meaning of falling in dreams again? Insecurities? Yes, something like that. What was there to do? Kaoru flailed around for a little until something weird happened. Some weird feeling came from behind. Not so much getting hit by something but rather shooting something out. "Uwaaaaahh!?"

Soon though the world started to move different. Instead of the ground coming to meet Kaoru it started to move to the side before eventually going away again. There was a pit growing in Kaoru's stomach as the same scene started to repeat itself until finally there was a certain realization. "Am I spinning around something?" Eventually the spinning came to a stop and Kaoru was just hanging in midair teen feet off the ground before a loud audible snap was heard and the Otaku smacked into the ground feeling naught but a small bit of pain.

"Owowow." Kaoru said, pushing up off the ground. "What the hell kind of dream is this?" Thinking on the death defying spinning that was just done, Kaoru couldn't remember many of the dreams that went like this. Hell, how could this happen? Humans couldn't do anything to make them spin around a tree like that! Well, it was a dream after all. Perhaps that had something to do with it. A hand went to Kaoru's head and massaged it a bit, trying to relieve some of the stress from what just happened...

"Geez, my hand feels glossy. That's weird." Taking a look, Kaoru discovered something... Interesting. "Ehh? Eeeeeehhhhh?! What the hell? What's with my arm? It's all glossy and like... I don't know what it's like!" Kaoru looked around noticing many things different. "What with my chest?! My hair?!" Pure white hair and a somewhat large chest. Two things that weren't there before. "Wait..."

Kaoru then noticed something even weirder when trying to stand. "My legs are... There's... Eight?" Kaoru twisted "her" new body around to take a look behind. A spidery abdomen and eight legs. Hell, her vision was even... She furrowed her brow and reached up with a hand to feel. There were in fact eight eyes. "Ummm... Ok. This is a weird dream. did I turn into a Drider or something? I must be having the weirdest most lucid dream I've even had. This is probably just because I'm too excited for Yuri Monmusu Ni. I'm just dreaming that I'm like Ashewell. A good silly dream."

Kaoru just expected that a good silly dream would disappear soon after it was discovered to be one but that didn't happen. Kaoru waited a minute for something to happen but nothing did. Against her better judgement, Kaoru tried standing. It was extremely awkward at first but. Standing and walking came naturally, truthfully. Well, it did after some grueling trial and error. It was refreshing somehow.

The Drider started walking in a direction to make sure there were no problems with her legs. After that fall, it wouldn't be surprising if issues arose. Instead of any bodily issues, however, there was one problem practically staring her in the face as she walked through the tree line. There were a ton of things here. A man, a sheep, a girl? Another girl and a little devil girl? It was hard to make out at this distance. She wasn't sure if introductions were the best idea or not. Well, she was well enough to run should the need arise. "Umm. Hello there?" The look on her face at the moment was "confused" if one wanted to be generous. "Worried" if not.

Life in another world as a Enemy Mob! - An Isekai RP

Character Sheet

Appearance:

Lady Ashewell

Name: Lady Ashewell Silkweb (Kaoru Ushikata)
Age: 24
Gender: Female

Personality: Kaoru is a very impressionable person, directly lending to a Theatre Career. It’s hard to say what the true face of this Theatre Circle member, but what is usually shown is a kind and forward personality. Inside though is just an Otaku, someone who loves anime and manga.

Aside from anime and manga, one of Kaoru’s loves are beautiful and cute people and things. Kaoru dreams of meeting with creatures and people from a fantasy world.

History: Kaoru was a college student, known for looking beautiful and also a part of a Theatre Circle. Secretly, Kaoru was an otaku and help develop the Circle’s stories in a manga-like way. Aside being a secret factor behind the storyboarding, Kaoru tends to be one of the leads in the story, being a very good actor.

At home, Kaoru was a well known internet personality talking about anime, manga and games. As a favorite game, Kaoru’s was known as Yuri Monmusu. A Visual Novel turned action game about yuri relationships between monster girls with the main villain/rival being an Arachne named Lady Ashewell Silkweb.

One day, a sequel came out. Yuri Monmusu Ni: The Silkweb Story. The sequel and story of Lady Ashewell Silkweb after she was banished from the world of Yuri Monmusu of Lilysphere into the world of Yuriglove. Kaoru went out early in the day to get the game, even deciding to skip university for the day to play it. On the way back from picking it up, the otaku met a very unfortunate fate...

Inventory

A handful of string! Oh, that may just be spider silk.

Tier Zero Skill

Ashewell's Tier Zero Skill is Precognition. The ability to feel when danger is coming. She doesn't always know where or when but there is a feeling when there is.

Skills

Tier One Skill

Spider Senses: No, not that kind. Driders, an underground species, are basically nocturnal with the ability to see in the dark. While this is true, their eyes have a tough time adjusting to the light, taking a much longer time adjusting to the light and it can blind them if they are suddenly introduced to direct sunlight due to their time spent away from it. Their eyes have two modes, Night Vision and Color which change according to the lighting. Their eyes are more powerful than a standard human. They are extra sensitive to movement and can read them better, though reactions are a different story.

Their noses can smell more sharply and their ears hear more sharply. Though, as much of a strength as it is, it is also a weakness as one can use a bad smell or extra loud noise to cause pain. Some say that Driders hate the smell of Vinegar.

Envenomed Body: A drider has a paralyzing venom coursing through their body which they can administer through a bite or spitting it out. In addition, they are resistant to most poisons and venoms. Antidotes administered can also temporarily weaken or disable this ability in high enough doses, alternatively Cure Poison spells also have the same effects.

That said, the poisons they may not be resistant to are more serious.

Spider Body: Driders’ lower bodies are like that of a spider. They can climb walls like a spider and even stay attached to the ceiling. They can spin silk like a spider and their lower body and a large part of their arms are naturally armored with their spider exoskeleton, though the rest of the humanoid top side is still soft and squishy as an elf.

Driders can also eat normally or more like certain types of spiders where they… Well, liquidize is the word. Their nails are also claws that can be used to rip and tear but also weave with her thread. They also have larger bodies that make it difficult for them to move through human-sized doorways.

Drider Pheromones: Driders have a certain sway over Dark Elves, giving them a higher natural opinion of the Drider. It also has a strong effect on Spiders, making them into something of underlings depending on the strength of the two parties.

Thread Manipulation: Driders can manipulate their thread a somewhat small ways which allow them to weave their webs into intricate designs. As they become more powerful, their control over their threads become better though this may just be due to practice more than anything.

Tier 2

Basic Silk-Weaving: Ashewell can weave clothes out of silk, most specifically her own. She can also weave light armor out of the very durable spider silk.

Scouting: This skill gives an understanding of surveying and tracking. One can decently survey the land and can track less obvious trails though knowledge of a specific species would of course be needed to tell beasts tracks apart.

Agility: This skill bestows its owner with the ability to move in a more quick manner and increases reflex speed.

Life in another world as a Enemy Mob! - An Isekai RP

Lady Ashewell Silkweb

Appearance:

Lady Ashewell

Name: Lady Ashewell Silkweb (Kaoru Ushikata)
Age: 24
Gender: Female

Personality: Kaoru is a very impressionable person, directly lending to a Theatre Career. It’s hard to say what the true face of this Theatre Circle member, but what is usually shown is a kind and forward personality. Inside though is just an Otaku, someone who loves anime and manga.

Aside from anime and manga, one of Kaoru’s loves are beautiful and cute people and things. Kaoru dreams of meeting with creatures and people from a fantasy world.

History: Kaoru was a college student, known for looking beautiful and also a part of a Theatre Circle. Secretly, Kaoru was an otaku and help develop the Circle’s stories in a manga-like way. Aside being a secret factor behind the storyboarding, Kaoru tends to be one of the leads in the story, being a very good actor.

At home, Kaoru was a well known internet personality talking about anime, manga and games. As a favorite game, Kaoru’s was known as Yuri Monmusu. A Visual Novel turned action game about yuri relationships between monster girls with the main villain/rival being an Arachne named Lady Ashewell Silkweb.

One day, a sequel came out. Yuri Monmusu Ni: The Silkweb Story. The sequel and story of Lady Ashewell Silkweb after she was banished from the world of Yuri Monmusu of Lilysphere into the world of Yuriglove. Kaoru went out early in the day to get the game, even deciding to skip university for the day to play it. On the way back from picking it up, the otaku met a very unfortunate fate...

Inventory

A handful of string! Oh, that may just be spider silk.

Tier Zero Skill

Ashewell's Tier Zero Skill is Precognition. The ability to feel when danger is coming. She doesn't always know where or when but there is a feeling when there is.

Skills

Tier One Skill

Spider Senses: No, not that kind. Driders, an underground species, are basically nocturnal with the ability to see in the dark. While this is true, their eyes have a tough time adjusting to the light, taking a much longer time adjusting to the light and it can blind them if they are suddenly introduced to direct sunlight due to their time spent away from it. Their eyes have two modes, Night Vision and Color which change according to the lighting. Their eyes are more powerful than a standard human. They are extra sensitive to movement and can read them better, though reactions are a different story.

Their noses can smell more sharply and their ears hear more sharply. Though, as much of a strength as it is, it is also a weakness as one can use a bad smell or extra loud noise to cause pain. Some say that Driders hate the smell of Vinegar.

Envenomed Body: A drider has a paralyzing venom coursing through their body which they can administer through a bite or spitting it out. In addition, they are resistant to most poisons and venoms. Antidotes administered can also temporarily weaken or disable this ability in high enough doses, alternatively Cure Poison spells also have the same effects.

That said, the poisons they may not be resistant to are more serious.

Spider Body: Driders’ lower bodies are like that of a spider. They can climb walls like a spider and even stay attached to the ceiling. They can spin silk like a spider and their lower body and a large part of their arms are naturally armored with their spider exoskeleton, though the rest of the humanoid top side is still soft and squishy as an elf.

Driders can also eat normally or more like certain types of spiders where they… Well, liquidize is the word. Their nails are also claws that can be used to rip and tear but also weave with her thread. They also have larger bodies that make it difficult for them to move through human-sized doorways.

Drider Pheromones: Driders have a certain sway over Dark Elves, giving them a higher natural opinion of the Drider. It also has a strong effect on Spiders, making them into something of underlings depending on the strength of the two parties.

Thread Manipulation: Driders can manipulate their thread a somewhat small ways which allow them to weave their webs into intricate designs. As they become more powerful, their control over their threads become better though this may just be due to practice more than anything.

Tier 2

Basic Silk-Weaving: Ashewell can weave clothes out of silk, most specifically her own. She can also weave light armor out of the very durable spider silk.

Scouting: This skill gives an understanding of surveying and tracking. One can decently survey the land and can track less obvious trails though knowledge of a specific species would of course be needed to tell beasts tracks apart.

Agility: This skill bestows its owner with the ability to move in a more quick manner and increases reflex speed.

Life in another world as a Enemy Mob! - An Isekai RP

If you still got room, I'd be interested.

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

@Rune_Alchemist

Ruruka's ears echoed, "Minus 40 points to Ruruka!~~" Manaka's voice. "Boy-oh-boy are your points dropping fast, girly." Only Ruruka could hear her, of course.

The Arukenimon stopped and held Ruruka up so they were eye level with each other. "Girl, I think you need help. There's no way in hell a Direct Link could put you in so deep into the Muse server. I doubt even Thor could do that without access to a server. Well, I say access, but you know what I really mean right?" Of course someone in Ruruka's field would know this. The Digimon was implying a... hostile takeover, one might call it to be nice. Complete invasion force was a different one.

"Well, regardless, I hope you won't go up on stage like that again. Siren's a bit..." The Digimon searched for an exact word as she put Ruruka under her army again and opened a door. "Strange? Not that you'd say that to her face. Now then..." They were in a jail-like room. "We'll hold you here until Muse is done with her concert. Shouldn't be too much longer, but since you interrupted her she'll probably sing her troubles away."

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@PsyBlade@King Cosmos

Manaka came through on the party chat for Reiko and Harumi. "Take it easy, Reiko. I told you, it's a test~ We have to see how you work under stressful situations of course. Ruruka doesn't seem to get stressed... A negative in her case it would seem. Reiko doesn't seem to like it and Hifumi.... Well, as long as you get paid right?" She didn't seem like she was trying to be mean though she was a bit blunt.

"Alright though. From where you are there are three paths. To the left and around the corner. If you wanted to try rescuing Ruruka that's the way to go I'm pretty sure. Ahead is a bunch of rooms, the list might be there." Manaka mentioned, seeming excited saying it. "To the right and up the stairs seems like some more rooms and pretty much back to where you were before." The only thing about going that way was there was a small barricade to try and keep people from going past, though that was easy to get around.

"List might also be there. It's probably guarded by some different forms of security wherever it is. And, again, there's still a mega level here. You two can probably handle an Ultimate Digimon by yourselves but completely turn around and run if you meet the Mega and it proves itself hostile." Besides everything else so far, Manaka's voice did carry a bit of worry when talking about the Mega.

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@Hammerman@Duthguy@The World

The Elecmon wasn't even suspicious anymore, he was pretty damn sure. "Alright, who the hell are you guys. First you steal my food and then you say some damning words. 'Don't know what Muse is.' 'teach that singer a lesson.' I thought you were just noobies but you're obviously not. Who are you and why are you here?!" The Digimon said, holding his hand over one part of the terminal. "I hope you have some really good excuse." His eyes quickly darted between everyone in the room that wasn't him. This seemed like some bad news. That said, they really had no idea why they were here.

Manaka spoke up in their ears, "Come on, let's see what you can bullshit without Mama Bird telling you. Talk yourselves out or you might be up against the entire facility, you know~."

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

@Rune_Alchemist

The Arukenimon shrugged. "Not really. Orders are orders you know? That's one boss lady you don't want to piss off in my opinion. She didn't use any amount of spider silk or web, but instead had a lame rope and tied Ruruka up. "She's a little extra pissy when she's actually up on stage." The Arukenimon added before double checking the ropes were tight. Ruruka's arms were behind he back with a rope rather tight around her gut. "Well, there's that." With that, the spider Digimon carried the girl under her arm. "Come on, gotta take you to the holding room." They left through the doors right behind the spider.

"Man, you really got stones to go talk to her like that." Arukenimon mentioned as she carried Ruruka out. There was little to do at the moment but talk as they went to the far side of the facility. "I'm surprised you even got back there like that. Err, that dress. How'd you end up back there?" The Digimon asked.

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@PsyBlade@King Cosmos

Manaka came up in the chat to Reiko and Harumi. "Hmm, well, I think it would be best to get Ruruka out, but realistically she got herself into this~ Hmm, but I can't tell you what to do here. Just... If I wasn't clear before, don't get caught. I rather hoped that our little group would stay secret longer than about five minutes." She went silent after that, but the two would definitely feel her presence following them.

On the other side of the stage from where they started, there was a door leading out to somewhere and a small staircase leading down to the ground floor. The crowd was rather dense and it would be difficult to get through them. That said, there was another doorway further down and it would be easy enough to get out through. They could move behind the curtains to get to the other side stealthily and from what it seemed, the concert would go on for a while.

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@Hammerman@Duthguy@The World

The Elecmon looked between the group suspciously. "THE Concert? You know? The big one? 'If you don't show up I'll gut you alive IRL' That one? Holy moly are you all dense. I really hope ya'lls new or she really might gut you." The digimon seemed irritated and serious about that. "Wowzers I'm glad I'm you're not my Tamers. I feel like you'd get me into a bad fight." He added, bluntly. "Muse's quality for new members have gone down over the years."

He then looked at Issei, "No, you can't. That's my food." He then gave Shion and her digimon a nasty glare as it was obvious they took some. He then turned to his monitors... And snorted which turned into a giggle which further turned into a good hearty laugh. "Oh! Perfect example of what I meant!" He laughed. A giant monitor fused from all the smaller monitors behind him and he clicked a button putting an image on the big screen. "Look at this fool! Got up on stage with that violent woman." It was an image of the girl they briefly met, Ruruka, walking up to this girl on stage before being hit and then pushed off by the Etemon. "Oh, geez. I can't believe someone did that. Anyhow newbies don't interrupt Siren's concert unless you want that to happen." Ruruka was now being tied up on screen.

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

@Hammerman@The World@Duthguy

The meat tasted fine. In fact, rather high quality! It was definitely not a mistake to take a bite! Juicy or something. It tasted really good.

After Kotoki got up, she'd hear the door that was more or less behind her open up. If she or the others looked, they'd notice a small little red digimon walked in and basically ignore everyone as it climbed up and grab a chunk of meat. "Gah, I hate those concerts." The little thing said, taking a bite of the food and walking over to the computer thing. He then bumped into Kotoki. His face didn't register shock or anything as he looked up. "Huh, black. Weird." He then bumped into the girl's leg again. This time he jumped back, finally realizing he wasn't alone. "What the hell!? People!? Shouldn't you all be at the concert!?" He asked, looking odd about it. "Well, who the hell am I to judge." He shrugged, moving his hands in a motion to get Kotoki to move out of his way. Whether she did or not he made it around her and to the console.

Elecmon

The Elecmon touched his tails to the console and shocked it before jumping up in the chair to get to the keyboard. "You kids hate her music too?" He asked, looking between them all. "The kitchen is the perfect place to get away. Other humans don't usually come here so it'll be perfect."

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@Rune_Alchemist@King Cosmos@PsyBlade

As Ruruka moved on stage, she'd notice that the crowd was QUITE sizable. That and it started to quiet down. "Get off the stage you broad!" Someone yelled. Siren herself went quiet mid-song as she turned towards Ruruka. Her face initially showed shock as it turned to anger. Her teeth grinded together and her hands clenched.

"Get..." She breathed.

"GET OFF MY STAGE YOU BIMBO!" Siren yelled, staring daggers into the girl of Rashomon. "GET! OFF!! MY! STAAAAAGGGGEEEEEE!!!!!!!" She yelled again before punching and kicking Ruruka repeatedly, trying to force her off the stage. They weren't much, really. Very weak one might say.

The Etemon walked over to Siren and put his hand on her shoulder. "Take it easy, Si." He said before pushing Ruruka hard and out to the crowd.

"Tie her up so I can interrogate her later!" Siren yelled, tears coming to her eyes. She didn't seem to be concerned with what might have also appeared backstage as she continued her songs, this time singing about dumb bimbos.... Or whatever might qualify as a song. Etemon rushed back over to where he was and started playing along with her.

Currently, Ruruka was crowd surfing to the back of the crowd. With an Arukenimon waiting to tie her up.

Arukenimon

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

Manaka smiled as everyone agreed to join her in her self-righteous crusade against Thor. Well, for now at least. Half of them were goody-goody two shoes as she had expected. Really, virtual space was at stake and they were worried about inconsequential things like "Morals" or "ethics". Well, whatever worked for now.

She looked at everyone, thinking about how to keep them with her. Ruruka would be the easiest. A bored rich girl? Never been easier to keep interested considering all the interesting plans she had.

Reiko seemed similarly easy so long as their goals of freedom remained. Though her threats of quitting if it got dangerous were concerning.

Issei was a crap-shoot to say the least. So far he seemed to be in so long as it didn't seem too... Fishy.

Shion seemed up to it as long as it served her sense of justice. Strength also helped some.

Harumi seemed easy enough to get a handle on. Let her make some money and she'd be happy. Nothing makes you want to help more than survival apparently.

Kotoki was the most likely of them all to be an issue. Unlike Reiko, Issei and Shion she wouldn't be the type to quit if Manaka did something wrong. She'd likely go full power to shut her down. Little girls like her were no problem of course, but that could serve certain complications.

Well, regardless, "I'm glad to have you all on board with me. I'm sad little Ruruka beat me to inviting Harumi to come live with me. We could have so much fun bathing and watching scary movies an--" Before she could continue, Raguelmon poked her in the back of the head.

"You're saying way too much, Boss." The giant cat humanoid digimon said with an embarrassed look on it's face if anyone could actually tell. "I think you should just stop before you say something wrong."

Manaka glared at the Digimon who reciprocated it. There was a small stand off until Manaka blinked, winning the match for the Digimon. "GAH! Fine." The human whined before turning to her new team again. "Anyhow, as long as you work with me, I can make sure your account is secure and no one will get into it." She seemed to be thinking. She then smiled and brought up not just one but two terminals. A feat of sorts. While it wasn't impossible, it was quite impressive to bring up to and seem to use both without problem.

"Well them everyone, the day is still young. How about we see your Digimon in action? I have JUST so happened to a perfect training ground for you all." The woman said as she did a couple of last taps on one of the terminals. On the party's UI they'd notice a display message.

You have joined the group chat, Manaka's Daring Six.

"Yay~ Now we can all keep in touch if we want. Just don't clog it up with chatter too much. We don't want it too difficult for me to give you information." When she was done with that, she went to the other terminal and seemed to be closing in with that. "Alright gang, this is a test of your skills. One warning. You WON'T be able to win against the Mega-level threat so find another way around it. Good luck!"

With that, the floor disappeared below everyone as the fell into something. Anyone that knew anything about EDEN would know what that was. A Direct Link, but where to?

It was a falling start as everyone landed in a pile. "Sorry about that. I've been working on this for a while and that was the only way I could get you in without alarms." As group got their bearings, they'd notice something was a bit amiss. There was only two others with them! Well, two humans and their digimon if they were out originally.

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Shion would find herself sitting on Kotoki and Issei under her. The area they were in was fairly bland save for some weird posters on a wall, old promotional ads for Yuzurin before she formed KuroYuri. She was about fourteen in this promo. Another featured a singer in some KISS type make-up. Along with those were some other bands that have gone defunct. The weird thing was that the pictures had a X through their picture, all except the last one which was the current KuroYuri. The man in the kiss make-up, if anyone had knowledge on pop figures, was fairly popular for a couple of months until it was revealed that he was a total creep. All of these other bands and groups seemed to have for some reason or another fallen out of grace for some reason or another.

Beyond that, there was a door that led out to what looked like a kitchen of sorts on one side. Which was weird considering there was no need to eat in EDEN, at least for humans. Oddly, there were a couple of trees in the corner of the room with... Meat hanging from them. Some thing that tended to appear on Digifarms. This certainly was not a Digifarm though.

The other side seemed to be a monitoring station of sorts. There were a lot of monitors but none seemed to be powered up with no obvious way to turn them on. Beyond those two parts of the room, there were two doors that seemed like they would lead out to somewhere else in whatever this place was. Whatever the case, there didn't seem to be any immediate danger to the group.

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In another room, Ruruka found herself on the ground laying across Harumi and Reiko's bellies. They seemed to be... In a prop closet of sorts? There were instruments and other things of the sort all around them. "Oh my, I'm sorry... I might have gotten you guys a bit too close to somewhere you shouldn't be. Please be careful you three~" Manaka said, not sounding too concerned. If they listened, they'd hear cheering. "-ren. S-. -iren." What they could hear even more was the heavy metal noises of an electric guitar and what could only be described as guttural screaming.

If they looked outside the door, they'd notice that they are in the back of some giant stage. Up front was an odd sight. An Etemon playing Guitar and a Sukamon on drums. On stage was a girl in a very exaggerated Punk Rock outfit. The source of the screaming was her. The cheer was for her it seemed. "Siren."

Siren

"Force out the illusionary sound!" She sang as the Digimon played their instruments. It was pretty loud overall. "Sail the ship to the shores! Crash! Crunch! IT IS NO MORE!" One thing was sure... They should not get caught here! There seemed to be some hoodies with an emblem for "Muse" on it. And a door that was on the opposite side of the stage from them. Luckily, there were curtains that could obscure them to the other side from the audience.

Digimon Hackers: Jormungundr

Manaka seemed surprised by all the pushback she got. It was most obvious that she did not expect everyone to disagree with her so much. "Wha!! Hold on, hold on! One question at a time!" The woman said, trying to get all the questions in her head. "Geez, I was hoping you all would be happy enough to learn from the best Hacker in EDEN..." Manaka muttered to herself before looking over everyone. "Alright, first thing first. I'm not an "old lady" like I think I heard from someone in the audience. Repeat offenders are subject to heavy penalties." She said, glaring at the direction of the gun toting Digimon.

The hacker cleared her throat and continued. "Now then. I'll address that question first. I actually sent out more invitations, but all the males aside Issei decided to not show up." She shrugged and moved on. "That aside, I suppose you don't know the behind the scenes of Hackers? I vetted you all very hard, I'm sure you all figured out. Do you all realize how much of an iron grip that Thor has on the major hacking groups and the higher tiered hackers?" She looked to the faces of her perspective members. "I can't just pick up anyone. Thor has their hands in way too many cookie jars. I'd rather not have a spy in here. The only reason this place is safe is because I have more than a couple of measures to make sure it was tough for you all to get here and this place was forgotten even by EDEN's programmers."

She sighed a bit. "Anyway, I'm more than sure you all wouldn't betray me for any small reason." Then she looked at Harumi and Shion. "Now, you have some issues with us being "evil" was it?" She then looked to Issei, "You as well, right Issei?" She added, remembering he said that as well. "Well, what can I say? Good, bad, Evil... They're just human concepts aren't they? Back in the day, some members of Jormungundr did some account raiding and other things, I snuffed that light out as soon as I figured it out. I didn't do that out of some sense of justice, I just didn't want other hackers to group up and beat us down. What good that did." She chuckled to herself. "I won't lie, I've done some less than scrupulous things in my day as many of you have." In particular she looked to Harumi and Ruruka as she said this.

"I'm not too worried about those sort of things though. Do what you want, that is what it means to be a hacker. Freedom. Even at the expense of others. Right? Well, Thor intends to regulate us all and put us under their thumb. Wouldn't that be terrible? Duchess, what if Thor got on you and forced you to dig up information on the Prime Minister and blackmail him to commit injustice?" She looked to the Duchess with a smile. Then to everyone else. "And this comes to Reiko's question. Why should you help me? Freedom. I mean, you also get to learn from the best hacker on EDEN and you can get a bit of money while working."

She hoped this would be enough to convince them. To be fair, she was a little hyperbolic. Thor would likely never do something like that, but things happen when people let power get to their head. "And before anyone asks, I'm sure we can win this time. We lost last time because of one deciding factor." With that, she brought up a terminal. Terminals were something familiar to any hacker. Much like the menus available, Terminals were what hackers used to bypass security and other things. The Sistermon seemed worried for a little until Manaka finished and nothing major seemed to happen. The woman put her hands on her hips as something fell from the ceiling and landed behind her. After that, something else slowly fell from behind the group and touched the ground.

Digimon 1

Digimon 2

"Say hello to my friends, Ophanimon and Raguelmon." She introduced them. "Digimon. When Thor did their takedown on Jormungundr originally, they had Digimon. It was a mass of confusion. We didn't know what hit us. Now though, with some Digimon at our side, we can win. Of course, we need to build our support and strength. I doubt that we could just go in guns blazing and win. The first thing we can easily do is hit their vassal groups and destroy or turn them."

In an attempt to not seem too threatening, Raguelmon waved at the group and gave them a smile. Ophanimon seemed a bit bothered with the entrance. "Manaka, don't you think that was a bit too dramatic?"

The woman looked at the Digimon and rolled her eyes. "Just go with it." She then looked back to the group. "Anyhow, what do you all say now? Are you with me? Or are you against me? Or are you in the group of not caring one way or another?"