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Chapter 3:

Ambush

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           The first light of dawn was showing through the rice paper door to Rukan's room. The dim light was only faint but still showed trainer and digimon cuddled up close to each other on Rukan's sleeping mat. Rukan held to Renamon as if were he to let go he would surely perish while Renamon held her trainer protectively. The night had been peaceful and Rukan's nightmares hadn't caused a disturbance. In fact they didn't visit him that night at all. It seemed he was finally coping with the loss of his sister.

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           A single ray of the sun's light hit Rukan's eye and he stirred slightly opening his eyes and smiling. He hadn't woken Renamon with his stirring and was grateful for that. She looked so peaceful while sleeping and he didn't want to rob her of a few extra minutes. He rested his head on her chest softly as he watched her sleep. Everything that the both of them had gone through for the past few months was well worth it if he could share moments like this with her. All the fighting and the violence for just these few moments of peace and quiet was nothing.

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           Renamon stirred and Rukan smiled a bit more as she opened her eyes and looked down at Rukan returning the smile, "Did you sleep well Rukan?"

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           Rukan nodded in reply but remained silent rubbing his cheek on her soft mane.

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           Renamon murred softly and hugged Rukan a bit tighter for a moment, "How is your shoulder?"

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           Rukan looked up and shrugged a bit giving Renamon a squeeze in response to hers, "I don't know. I think it's better. A bit odd."

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           Renamon nodded and rubbed her eyes letting Rukan go for a moment with a yawn, "What time is it?"

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           Rukan let go of Renamon and looked up at his computer desk to see his alarm clock blinking 5:30 am, "It's half past five."

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           "Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?" Said Renamon softly.

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           Rukan shook his head and chuckled a little, "It's Saturday Renamon... No school on the weekends, remember?"

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           Renamon giggled a little and nodded, "It's early. Forgive me if my memory is still booting up."

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           Rukan nodded and laid back again snuggling up once more, "I don't want to get up yet..."

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           Renamon nodded and gave him a little nuzzle, "I don't either..."

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           Rukan looked up and into Renamon's eyes. He blushed a little feeling his heart beating faster and faster until he had to break the gaze for fear that his heart would become exhausted but mostly out of fear that the feeling that was growing inside him would be shown.

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           "Renamon?"

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           "Yes Rukan?"

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           Rukan shifted a bit getting a little closer, "How do you know if you love someone? I mean really love them..."

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           Renamon quirked a brow at the question not really sure how to answer it, "Well... In the digital world love doesn't really come into the equation... It's survival of the fittest and so I guess I would find someone strong to make sure my children would be powerful enough on their own."

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           Rukan shook his head and frowned a bit, "But what about your heart? I mean... I know you have one. How do you really know that you have met someone you love?"

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           Renamon shrugged, "I... I don't know. Love is a complicated emotion..."

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           Rukan bit his lip and looked into Renamon's eyes. He found himself moving closer and closer while Renamon was also inching closer until their lips were only millimeters away. Rukan closed his eyes but snapped them back open as the D-infinity began to beep loudly.

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           "Ugh... That's the second digimon in the past 12 hours. They didn't use to be so common..." Said Rukan flustered and confused.

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           Renamon nodded slowly a pink color apparent on her cheeks but it left her quickly. The both of them quickly got out of the comforter and Rukan ran about the room strapping on his belt with the card case then went about fastening his harness around his chest. The harness was custom made for him so his tontos were easily accessible at all times. He threw on his long black jacket and his sunglasses then turned to Renamon, "You ready?"

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           She nodded slowly and folded her arms across her chest with a smirk, "I was born ready."

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           Rukan chuckled and looked down at the D-infinity, "It looks like it's in an old abandoned warehouse five blocks from here. I'll see you there."

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           Renamon nodded once before disappearing in a yellow streak.

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Rukan quickly opened his back door and began running using the D-infinity as his guide to the battlefield. He didn't know what he was thinking earlier. He was only 15, much too young to be thinking about things like love. Though he was also defending the world from rouge digimon and fighting battles that would make many adults cower and run in fear.

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           Rukan sighed heavily as he ran knowing that had the watch not gone off at the time he would have shared his first kiss with Renamon. He frowned deeply and shook his head as he rounded a corner and saw the warehouse in the distance. For now he decided to see how things went. He would let Renamon move the way she wanted to and wouldn't bring up the subject again. He had to focus on the battle ahead.

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           The warehouse was just a few yards from him when he heard a loud bang and his head began to throb with pain. His vision was starting to fade as things became fuzzy but he recovered and began to run again his head still throbbing.

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           He kicked open the warehouse door and ran into a large storeroom filled with crates and other large storage units. Renamon was no where to be seen but the fog that was created as a side effect of a digimon forming in the real world without the work of a D-infinity and a blue card was very apparent.

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           Rukan looked around carefully searching the area but still couldn't find his companion. He finally called out for her though not very loud, "Renamon?"

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           Something fell nearby and it made Rukan jump. The building was dark and he could barely see. He was using the light cast from the D-infinity to guide him through the maze of storage units. Something ran by quickly at the edge of the light's range.

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           Rukan jumped again and stepped back almost whispering, "Renamon? Is that you?"

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           The computer voice in the watch told him the truth, "Dokukumon, threat level yellow, champion level digimon." Rukan looked down as he saw the holographic display of the arachnid type digimon. The lack of Renamon's presence worried Rukan and he quickly drew his tontos ready to defend himself from the monster.

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           The sudden attack from above caught Rukan by surprise and he only had enough time to roll out of the way of the dropping spider as it hissed and ran at him quickly on it's eight legs.

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           Rukan quickly spun to the side at the last second racking his blades across the spider's legs and cut one of them clean off making it hiss and growl loudly as it turned and reared up shooting sticky web at Rukan. He quickly cut at it with his tontos so it didn't bind him but it still stuck to his body in sheets.

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           Rukan frowned as he felt the weight of the web wearing him down and the stickiness still restricted his movement. He would have to play this one carefully. The spider ran at him again and he ran directly at it waiting for the last moment to slide to his back and stick the tontos up sliding under the spider and slicing open its entire bottom making it burst into a cloud of green rancid smelling data.

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           This was the second time that had happened and Rukan was beginning to think there was definitely much more to it than just one isolated incident. Something was corrupting the data of these digimon and that meant Renamon might be in trouble. He waited until the data disappeared before turning only to find a much larger spider type digimon looking down at him.

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           "Arukenimon, threat level red, ultimate level digimon."

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           Rukan frowned and shook his head with a sigh, "Don't you things ever give up?"

           The digimon laughed and spoke, "No little boy we don't. I'm surprised you killed my minion but you won't be so lucky with me."

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           Rukan quirked a brow and chuckled, "I'm sure." Rukan quickly leapt to the side, kicked off the wall and brought a roundhouse kick to the spider woman's head but found pain as she seemed a lot harder than expected. It felt like he had just kicked a solid steel pole and he shouted a bit in pain.

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           "Foolish human. You are no match for me." Said the digimon swinging one of her legs and hitting Rukan hard in the stomach slamming him against a wall and making him collapse blacking out from the force of the hit.

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           Renamon slowly regained consciousness in one of the upper control rooms of the warehouse only to hear the loud impact of Rukan being slammed into the wall. She shook her head and blinked a few times. Her world was moving while she wasn't.

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           She had entered the warehouse and was ambushed by something powerful enough to knock her out with one swipe. Her head still throbbed from the impact she suffered when it was bashed into one of the storage units.

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           Her vision began to stabilize and she tried to walk forward but found herself unable to move. She looked down to find that her current situation wasn't so great. She was wrapped up in web from the neck down. She sighed and closed her eyes bending her neck to start to bite at the webbing tearing it away from one of her arms just enough so she could rip it and use her claws to cut away the rest of it.

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           She fell from the wall and panted heavily at the effort. The fox digimon heard the clicking of something moving in her direction and quickly leapt to the ceiling of the room wedging herself into a corner to see what it was.

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The Arukenimon entered the room dragging Rukan behind her in a web cocoon like the one Renamon had just escaped. The arachnid went to work fixing Rukan to a wall and made her way to where Renamon had been hanging and let out a hiss looking about the room trying to find her prey.

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"Boys we've got a escapee! Find her now!" shouted the spider to her dokukumon cohorts.

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Renamon heard the warehouse erupt in the sound of movement as the smaller spiders began searching for her. She cursed inwardly knowing that she would never be able to take them all on without Rukan's help and his cards. She would have to get Rukan and run from this unwinable battle.

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Renamon moved a little using her claws to help her climb but touched a thread of the silk and the Arukenimon immediately turned to look directly at Renamon spitting a ball of web at her but Renamon dropped off the wall and landed in a spot without web silently.

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"I know you're in here fox. Give up now and I'll make sure you die quickly." Said the spider woman.

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Renamon quirked a brow as she was standing right in front of the digimon not more than ten feet from her. She smirked as she realized that the spider couldn't see well enough without the aid of her web ley lines. Renamon looked about and picked up a piece of debris throwing it at a patch of web behind the spider.

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Arukenimon turned quickly and spat another ball of web at the stone as Renamon leapt at the spider silently and shifted her data to another point with web shifting immediately to another point making the digimon spin about trying to find her. Renamon's chance was now. She shifted to Rukan and cut open the cocoon picking Rukan up and dropping from the wall to find Arukenimon looking directly at her.

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"Put the boy down now!" Shouted the spider. Renamon frowned and looked down at Rukan then back to the spider. There was one escape route and that was blocked by the virus digimon.

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Renamon put Rukan down and quickly spun around and kicked the thin metal wall of the warehouse hard bending the metal away from it's supports and tearing a small section away to let the daylight in. The spider hissed and backed away from the light.

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Renamon didn't have time to wait and see the reaction to the light. She grabbed Rukan and leapt out of the hole she had created landing on the roof of the small building next to the warehouse. She crouched low as to not be seen and put Rukan down turning to see the spider peering through the opening blindly.

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The sound of screeching tires filled the air making Renamon peek over the side of the roof to see five black unmarked cars parked in the road in front of the warehouse and men in black suits with dark sunglasses storming the building. Renamon looked back to the warehouse and saw the arukenimon fall over and burst into the green data as the men surrounded the area. The sounds of silenced gunfire filled the warehouse as the men went about cleaning up the horde of dokukumon.

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Renamon frowned deeply. She didn't like where this was going and when she saw one of them men pointing out the opening at her and Rukan she knew she had overstayed her welcome. She scooped Rukan up once more and began to run away from the warehouse dropping from the roof into an alley. She took the back roads and less traveled alleys back to their home and slipped in through the back door, as was custom these days.

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Panting heavily she set Rukan down on the bedroll and stood over him trying to catch her breath. It was apparent that he was knocked out and not really in danger but still she worried. Rukan meant a great deal to her. More than anyone else had ever meant to her.

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She leaned down close to him and spoke softly, "Rukan, wake up."

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He didn't stir.

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Renamon frowned and bit her lip slightly at the sight. After this morning she thought the day would be a good one. The d-infinity had brought them right into a trap. She was beginning to wonder if perhaps the digimon knew about the device and were using it to lure Rukan and herself out into the open and into very real danger.

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She sighed softly and nuzzled his cheek speaking in a whisper, "I'm sorry I didn't answer your question Rukan... You know you love someone when your heart tells you. You know the feeling just because it's like nothing else in the world. It makes you feel powerful but weak in the knees. Your heart beats faster and faster and all you want to do is make that person know the exhilaration and the rush brought on by it."

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She closed her eyes and let a tear fall on Rukan's cheek as he slumbered, "I know I love you Rukan... I'm so sorry I wasn't there to protect you."