Picking up the Pieces [Private/Mod]

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Marik had known Shana had been a bad influence on his life. He wasn't going to deny that much longer. However, just how bad came much more apparent when his mid term report card came in. He was failing three classes, and just barely getting by on most others. How could he have let things slip so much? His parents weren't too concerned about his education since his sister was born, but this had been bad enough they couldn't ignore it. Days after Marik still sported a large bluish-red mark where his father had smacked him with a ruler.

So now here he was at the library, armed with his school books, pencils, paper, and lots of overdue assignments to catch up on, and he was pretty much in full work mode. He kept his focus on his work, and completely ignored everything else, from the people shuffling through books on the shelves, to the groups of people huddled together, whispering loudly. He had to get this all done. He'd never forgive himself if he let himself finish this year failing.

Kudamon meanwhile, was curled up underneath Marik's Jacket, which Marik had left ontop of his desk. The only thing he really could do at the moment was watch his tamer work. He at first was trying to throw his own suggestions at his tamer, but after a while his attempts to aid him proved pointless as his Tamer became engrossed in his work. So the pipe fox digimon was beginning to grow bored, and after a while had fallen asleep.

Kudamon had a decent nap, until Marik's digivice suddenly went off. Kudamon's eyes blinked open and he slowly pulled the digivice from Marik's inside pocket. It was flashing and emitting a low ringing noise. Kudamon knew what that meant. "Marik?" Kudamon muttered, attempting to get his tamer's attention. Kudamon poked his nose out from under the jacket to see what Marik was doing, but found he was still thoroughly focused on his school work.

"Marik? There's a digimon nearby." He tried again, this time poking Marik's hand with his nose, but still to no avail. What could he do? He couldn't speak louder or leave his hiding and get the attention of everyone in the library. He gulped. This was quite urgent... He did regret coming to this, but it seemed he had no choice. After checking if anyone was within eyeshot, Kudamon poked his nose out again, and this time bit his finger, not hard enough to break skin, but just enough to cause pain.

"Ouch!" Marik cried out. Kudamon withdrew back under his coat in an instant as half the library stared at his tamer. Marik blinked, sucking the finger Kudamon had bitten. "I'm fine, sorry." He said, turning away when everyone else went back to their business. He then lifted his jacket slightly and put his head close to the gap created to hide Kudamon as he spoke to him. "Kudamon! Why did you do that?" Marik hissed to his partner.

Kudamon blinked. "Please forgive me Marik." He apologized, scratching his ear with a paw, before pushing Marik's digivice forward. "Your digivice went off. I tried to get your attention, but you didn't seem to hear me, so I bit you..." He finished, bowing his head. "There's a digimon bio-emerging nearby. We should deal with it." He insisted.

Marik stared at the digivice. It was indeed indicating a digimon was nearby. He sighed, unsure of what to do. Shana wasn't the only distraction that had caused the mess he was currently in. Running after stray digimon had taken up a good chunk of his study time as well. He frowned, looking back and forth between his work pile and his digivice. "Well we better hurry up and deal with it." Marik conceded. He gathered up all his things and started piling it into his backpack. he then carefully put his jacket back on with Kudamon positioning himself under his collar, then put his backpack on, and they headed out.

Marik followed the tracker on his digivice outside, and behind the library into the cluster of bushes just beyond the parking lot. He ran to it, and headed into the fog. He'd deal with this digimon quickly then get back and finish his studying. Hopefully this wouldn't take too long.

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He trained so hard for this moment, fighting off many a digimon and taking their data, growing ever stronger as he fought for his right to go to the human world. The human world was the thing of thing of legends, something every digimon that ever hoped to be strong, yearned for. It was there they'd find power and glory. He worked so hard to be able to go to the human world, and now here he was. Ready to prove himself to any digimon or human who dared challenge him.

However, it seemed his patience would be tried, as he was currently bound to a digital field, and he was anxious to get out of it and challenge the next human or digimon he came across. He paced furiously, running circles around the field, waiting and waiting. Would these cursed clouds ever lift and set him free? To think he worked so hard to get here, and now he was stuck in one place!

Kiwimon was about to lose any hope of freeing himself, when finally a figure appeared running through the field. It was a human. The bird smirked at the newcomer. "About time. I bet defeating you will lift this cursed barrier. Prepare for battle! Pummel Peck!" He declared, firing a trio of ChibiKiwimon at the human.

[marik]

After a while of walking through the mist, Marik arrived in the center of it, though much clearer than the field's walls, the area still had a light mist hanging over it, making the area seem pale and damp. The field's occupant appeared to be a large Kiwi with a skull on hit's head. However, Marik had little time to contemplate what this digimon was, before it announced that defeating him would free him from the barrier, and proceeded to attack.

Marik leaped to the side, avoiding the attack and rolling onto the ground, while Kudamon darted out of his tamer's jacket to face their opponent. "Defeating my tamer will not lift this barrier." Kudamon informed the digimon, his tone was mild, but his half open stare betrayed his annoyance with the digimon's ignorance and assault on his tamer. "Even if it did, I am afraid I can't allow you to harm my partner. So I'll ask you to leave him be."

Meanwhile Marik got up off the ground, and flipped through his digivice's menu's until he came upon the scanner. It immediately analyzed the digimon and came up with it's data, showing the digimon to be Kiwimon, the ancient bird digimon, a champion level data type, who's special attack was Pummel Peck. Marik's gaze returned to Kiwimon and Kudamon. Kudamon seemed to be trying to reason with the digimon, but Marik could only guess whether the digimon would listen to him or not.

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Kiwimon snorted as the attack missed, the birds exploding harmlessly on the ground that the human had seconds go vacated. Dodging wouldn't save the boy forever! Kiwimon took a step forward, about to charge, but then the Kudamon appeared out of no where, catching him by surprise. He leaped back and glared at the long ferret-esque digimon. "Hmph. If you think you know everything, then tell me what does lift the barrier?" He questioned. Now that the Kudamon was here, he couldn't care less about the human. The Kudamon was such a more appetizing subject.

[marik]

So far the Kiwimon seemed content to concede to Kudamon's request to cease his attack on Marik, instead questioning Kudamon further into how the barrier lifted. "The field will dissipate eventually, and you'll be free to wander around as you wish." Kudamon informed him. "Though I'd advise avoiding human contact. Many are prone to panic, and others won't take kindly to your presence in their world." He warned.

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Eventually? He must have been waiting here for hours! How much longer was he supposed to wait for this stupid barrier to go away?! Kiwimon thought furiously. He then scoffed at the Kudamon. "Hmph. Don't go thinking you can tell me what to do pip squeak!" Kiwimon squawked. "I'll do what I want the second I'm free!" He then began scratching at the ground, much like a bull might before charging, his eyes glared menacingly at the Kudamon. "and while I'm waiting, I guess I'll just have to use you for target practice! Nose Mattock!" He shouted, dashing forward, attempting to strike Kudamon with his bill.

[marik]

Kudamon became cautious as the Kiwimon became more and more violent in his speech patterns. It came to him as no surprise that their little talk had turned into a battle. However, the Kiwimon had attacked quickly, and had managed a glancing blow when Kudamon attempted to dodge his attack. "Very well then." Kudamon sighed, shaking his head at the Kiwimon. "If you must, though I promise, now you won't ever see the outside of the digital field's walls. Shining piercings!" Kudamon spat, and his piercings began to glow with a blinding light.

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Kiwimon kept his eye on the Kudamon. The floating pipefox ferret thing wasn't at all slow, but he certainly wasn't too fast for him. However, right now it seemed that keeping his eye on Kudamon was not the greatest idea, not at that moment, as the Kudamon called an attack, and was now glowing very brightly. Too brightly. Kiwimon shut his eyes to the blinding light, but it was useless. The light pierced through his eyelids, and when he opened them, he could only see pulsing colors of red and yellow, his vision damaged from the bright light. "Cursed little rat!" The Kiwimon spat, shuffling on his feet as he wandered blindly. "I'll still get you! Pummel Peck!" The Kiwimon then fired his attack wildly, sending three chibikiwimon flying in random directions.

[marik]

The Kiwimon had been successfully blinded by Kudamon's attack, but even though he couldn't see, it didn't stop the Kiwimon from trying to attack. Three ChibiKiwimons were fired, hitting a tree in the opposite direction of Kudamon, another just missing Marik and exploding harmlessly several feet behind him, and the last hitting the digital field and exploding there. Marik searched through his deck. Kiwimon was a champion level digimon, so while Kudamon could blind him and make it hard for the Kiwimon to attack, it would take a while for Kudamon to take him down on his own and he'd be in trouble if the Kiwimon landed any hits. So Marik pulled out his Metal Armor card. "DigiModify! Metal Armor activate!"



Kudamon began glowing with a bright light, as his power shot up. "Kudamon armor digivolve to!" Kudamon said as his body altered its form, becoming a new more powerful champion level digimon. "Reppamon!" He finished, the glow subsiding to reveal a much larger digimon, wearing an oriental mask and having a large Z-shaped blade for a tail. Now that the playing field was more evened out, it was time for an actual attack. "Rolling tackle!" Reppamon shouted, rolling forward, his blade tail making his attack more akin to a buzz saw.

Name: Metal Armor
Duration: 10 Posts
Color: Gold
Effect: Allows a Digimon to Armor Digivolve for the Duration of this card's effect.

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Kiwimon hadn't seen what had become of his earlier attack. He heard them explode, but there was no indication of them hitting his target. Then he heard Kudamon digivolving. Wait what? "Hey! How could you digivolve so easily you litt..." Kiwimon was about to call him a little rat again, but as his vision began to recover, the digimon he was facing clearly was no rat. It was bigger than him! Next thing he knew, the Reppamon bowled right over him, striking him hard with it's razor like tail. "Whatever! Size isn't everything! High Jumping kick!" Kiwimon spat, jumping into the air, launching himself toward the Reppamon and aiming a kick at him.