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Chapter 3:

Escape from New York

Renamon stood atop the burning building looking down at her unconscious tamer as the humans ran screaming through the streets. A frown appeared on her face as she saw the light bolts falling from the sky bringing digimon with them. There was no way they would be able to cover up an attack of this scale. Kyoto was large but it wasn't New York large.

She waited for a few moments so the humans wouldn't see her as she leapt from the top of the building and plucked the fallen trainer from the ground cradling him in her arms. She ran to the nearby park and set him down on a bench before looking around frowning a bit more, "Rukan this is a bad time to black out! It's happening again!"

It was then that Renamon heard the sound of snapping branches and she was face to face with a very angry looking Devimon. She stared him down pressing her forehead directly to his own as she grit her teeth and readied her claws, "You have no idea who you are dealing with!"

"For the legion," was all the Devimon shouted before bringing one of it's unusually long arms about to grab the back of Renamon's head and rip her away from him. She was just as skilled if not more so than Rukan these days. As she was thrown she flipped through the air and went spread eagle as razor sharp leaves formed around her. She began to spin making them whip up into a twister around her.

A small grin appeared on her face as she snapped her fingers and spoke softly, "Kohenkyo..."

The Devimon's eyes went wide as soon he was transported between their positions putting Renamon close to Rukan and the Devimon in the middle of the twister.

"Fox Leaf Hurricane," shouted Renamon as the twister collapsed on itself driving every one of the glowing leaves into the devimon making it explode into green data. She held a gloved fist over her nose as her eyes went wide, "T...that's impossible!"

Rena quickly went to Rukan who had started coughing again as the D infinity lit up listing several hundred digimon all over the city. With a frown on her face she looked to the sky and saw through the center of the storm. Hanging in the sky was a portal to the digital world.

She scowled before picking up Rukan and running off into the buildings. It would be hard to find a safe place for the both of them, especially with her looking the way she did. She leapt through the city streets at speeds the humans wouldn't be able to see in their panic eventually landing in her safe house. Setting Rukan softly on the couch she stood up only to be hit with a few pellets filled with red powder and digimon destroyer chips.

She yelped and stumbled backwards pulling the chips from her fur and skin with a deep growl, "You son of a bitch... You know those don't work."

"Oh I know... but they sure do sting like a bitch... I would know," Shot back Yamaki as he stepped out from behind the silk screen smirking a bit.

Renamon leapt forward vaulting the couch and growling deeper than before, "I'll kill you this time like I should have done back in kyoto!"

Yamaki lifted a finger and laughed slightly, "Ah ah ah... we have snipers trained on Rukan where he lies and I assure you their ammunition isn't the fun stingy kind. You make another movement and we paint the room with his blood."

Running through the burning streets of Kyoto Rukan saw a girl with a digimon in tow run by the alleyway ahead. He ran after but as he rounded the corner he was met with familiar red eyes. Being struck back SkullRenamon was on top of him before he could react. He tumbled with her until she pinned him down with a grin on her face. She leaned down quickly to lick the scar she had made over his eye and cackled, "Too long have I waited to see you again!"

Rukan quickly regained his senses and using all of his strength he managed to knock her free from himself and hop back to his feet. He reached into his coat and pulled free his blades as he grit his teeth feeling the rage boil up inside of him, "You're long gone! Just a memory!"

The vulpine woman stopped in her tracks before turning her head slightly to the side, "You think I'm gone? You think that by merely destroying the vessel I would just disappear forever? Tell me then why you still feel your sin. You take life without even thinking about it."

She took a step snapping her fingers as they were placed in a rainy street. Rukan held a blade that was running a man through making his eyes go wide. He let go of the blade watching the man fall to the ground even as he felt SkullRenamon's arms over his shoulders pulling him tightly back against her. She let out a deep and seductive chuckle before running her tongue along his ear, "Violence was in your blood. It was all you knew. You were the easiest choice of all."

Rukan froze as he closed his eyes, "I don't remember it... This is all just a fabrication."

"Hah! A fabrication? Then why would you feel so disgusted when I am close... oh and don't try and give that bullshit answer that you've turned to the company of men," Replied the woman whispering softly into his ear.

The Hisashi closed his eyes feeling something inside him stirring with more power than before. He gripped the digicarbide blade in his hand tighter feeling it retreat, "You're a monster."

"Oh I'm no monster. I was going to bring peace to the warring digital world but you wouldn't have it would you? Oh how I miss the ferocity in your eyes as you fought each time. I wouldn't have missed a single moment for the world. The venom you spit to your opponents... it was my lullaby," Replied the Dark Queen as she softly let her fingers dance along his shoulders while walking around him.

Rukan shook his head quickly, "You wanted slaves not peace!"

"Oh ho ho so you do remember. Liar liar pants of fire hero boy," Replied the woman with a big grin showing off her yellowed teeth.

Rukan looked away from the man who was still bleeding out in the rainy street knowing now that this memory wasn't a fabrication. He looked over his shoulder and felt his heart sink again as his sister lay there on the road limp and lifeless.

"Oh how I do love family reunions. All the people we love to hate all in once place. It's enough to drive someone to... well... kill," Laughed SkullRenamon as she pressed her body up against Rukan's front only to get shoved away.

"I remember it all now... She's not dead. She's eternal. You're not alive and Renamon is looking for me. Wrath was defeated when he couldn't strike her down. You have no power over my soul anymore fraud," Shouted Rukan as he held his blades at the ready while the scene melted away and they stood at the core of the digital world once again.

SkullRenamon frowned deeply as she slowly took up a fighters stance getting her claws ready for a fight, "Fraud! You'll see how far my influence still flows in the ether! You think the virus is gone!? I am still inside you! I am Wrath! Boy you've already seen that the virus still flows!"

Rukan frowned as he saw the Raremon again bursting into the foul smelling green data. He had unfinished business to take care of apparently but now wasn't the time to think about it. He ran forward striking out at the woman only to see her disappear and start to cackle.

The Hisashi looked around confused until Lilithmon slowly began to rise from the pathway to the core. Her black hair done up just as he remembered while the kimono barely draped over her form.

"You are a fool to believe you can fight me like that. It's insulting boy. You couldn't even really beat me before could you? Wrath always held you back and now... He is the most powerful of all the infected ones. You believe you can fight him off your whole life," Said the woman as she looked into Rukan's scowling eyes, "Oh yes that look. It always was the one that got to me. The one that made me desire you to be my own."

Rukan spat to the side before he palmed the digicarbide blade. He took a step forward before extending his arm quickly sending the blade spinning through the air at her face, "You will always be nothing but a memory. A memory that will never be forgotten again. I am the master of my destiny now and I will choose my path!"

Lilithmon screamed as the blade lodged itself in her forehead and soon she disappeared back into the ether. While the world started to melt around him again. This time it was replaced with blackness and he heard a familiar voice.

"You harm one hair on his head Yamaki and I will make sure you feel every centimeter my claws dig into your flesh," Replied Renamon standing only a few feet from the man as he smirked holding a radio in his hand.

Rukan kept his eyes closed for now as his hand reached slowly into his coat making it seem like he was turning in his unconsciousness. He had to do this just right as he knew Yamaki wouldn't risk everything like this unless he was sure he had won.

"Oh enough of the dramatics. It's better just to kill him off anyway," Replied Yamaki with a grin as red dots appeared on Rukan's head and chest. Rukan saw the light across his closed eyelid and knew he had to act. He opened his eyes rolling to the side as he shouted, "Digitize!"

Rukan continued to roll out of sight of the window as shots rang out tearing the couch and the floor apart in the path he rolled across. Light enveloped his form as he felt himself changing. His humanity being torn away from him and the waiting beast inside coming to the surface. He opened his green eyes seeing the thatched reed gloves on the back of his three fingered paws.

The Renomon stood taller than Rukan and much more menacing than the man it once was as it leveled it's gaze on a flabbergasted Yamaki. Rukan kicked the dresser hard knocking it into the window so none could see inside before he moved to block the doorway out as well.

"That's... That's impossible," Were the only words Yamaki could get out before he was leapt upon by Renamon. She tore into his chest with her claws screaming in rage before Rukan ran to her and tore her from the man now bleeding out from hundreds of claw marks. He shook his head pinning her to the wall as he looked into her eyes.

"We are better than him. Never stoop to his level. Let him live in fear... the coward that he is," Said Rukan as he stopped pinning her and wrapped his arms around her, "He can't hurt us anymore."

Yamaki gurgled a few times before falling to unconsciousness on the floor.

Renamon looked confused and angry for a few moments before her eyes filled with tears and she held Rukan tightly as she finally let the tears flow sobbing into his chest. Ten years of pain bottled up came out all in one rush as the dam had finally burst. She pounded his chest, "He deserves to die! After what he did he deserves so much worse!"

Rukan held her taking the blows as he rested his chin gently on her head while speaking softly, "I know. But we aren't like that. Lets get out of here. New York is lost. There is no way we alone can take care of an army this size by ourselves. We need help and you and I know the only place we can find that hope is on the other side."

Renamon sniffed hard a few times as she regained her composure and nodded, "Okay... just... Don't ever leave me like that again... You promised..."

"I won't ever leave you again Renamon. We can talk about how things have changed later when we are out of danger. Right now though we have to get out of here," Said Rukan even as the door was kicked in and men rushed the room. Rukan turned his head and frowned as he lifted a paw and a series of spinning white blades shot forward into the men's flack jackets knocking them off their feet and dazing them enough that Rukan and his digimon could rush out of the room.

Renamon looked over the rail into the pit that was the stairwell at the middle of the building before frowning, "Rukan there's at least thirty of them down there."

Rukan looked up and nodded, "Then we take the roof. If we move fast enough we don't have to worry about the snipers."

The two nodded to one another before they took off as a pair of yellow blurs running up the stairwell to the roof exit. Kicking the door free of it's hinges Rukan stepped out into the orange haze that hung around New York from the fires all over. He frowned deeply at the destruction all over but hearing the jets pass by overhead made him frown. The military was already here and that bode poorly for him and Renamon.

"The military is already mobile. We will have a harder time from here on out. Not only HYPNOS will be aiming for us," Said Rukan as he looked to the thick smoke haze in the sky below the gate to the digital world.

Renamon looked up with him even as they both heard the thumping of helicopter blades. They turned their gaze to see an assault helicopter was about to buzz them. The two moved fluidly together running quickly to the edge of the building and leaping to another nearby. The pressed their backs to the brick lip of the structure as the helicopter continued on.

Rukan let out a deep sigh of relief as he reached for his D infinity which was alive and well now marking out all sorts of digital anomalies. With a frown he closed his eyes, "So how are we gonna get up there?"

Renamon pointed to the watch and smiled a bit, "I think I saw a Garudamon on there. If we can hitch a ride well... that's a chance."

Rukan smirked a bit with a laugh, "Just like old times..."

"Almost," Said Renamon with a bit of a frown before she shook her head, "I'm sorry now isn't the time for this. Lets get to the digital world first."

They both leapt up only to have the helicopter reappear from the street below and open fire with it's heavy vulcan cannon. Rukan opened his eyes wide as he grabbed Renamon and they were running faster than the pilot could really track but he was better than the average pilot. He followed their path as they leapt from building to building. It wasn't until Rukan leapt short and purposely felt from the top of one of the buildings down into the alleyway below, that he lost them. Rukan grit his teeth as he knew this was going to hurt.

Renamon spun them about mid air as she slammed her claws into the brick of one of the buildings and let out a scream as they began to heat up from the friction as they slowed their decent. By the time they were at the ground her claws were smoking and glowing slightly. They didn't have time to worry about it as they started following the D infinity to their target.

They turned a corner in the alleys and were met face to face with a group of Elecmon. Rukan didn't even bother to stop as Renamon leapt over his head and into the group making three of them explode into data with a single strike. Rukan pulled his blades free and rolled through them before making a huge swipe turning the rest to foul data before they could react.

Running out of the alley the Tamer and digimon saw the true scale of the attack. Cars were overturned and burning while bodies lined the streets. Some dead, some near. Rukan frowned deeply as he shook his head, "Whoever is behind this will pay..."

Renamon put a paw on his shoulder and nodded as she pointed up again. A group of civilians were running from a Greymon as it started taking in air and flames were coming out the corners of it's mouth. Rukan frowned deeply as he took off quickly in the direction and eventually reached the slip speed that allowed him to move effortlessly through the air. He was between the civilians and the greymon as Renamon appeared beside him.

Looking over his shoulder Rukan shouted, "Get out of here! Find the military and stay with them! We'll take care of this!"

The people looked confused as they had only seen the monsters attacking people. This was the first they had seen of any of them helping. They didn't stick around for a second glance as the group ran off.

Rukan turned about only to see the Greymon opening it's mouth. Renamon hit him to the side unleashing a fox leaf arrowhead attack having it land squarely in the Greymon's neck. The dinosaur like monster roared loudly as it shot it's fire into the sky instead of at them.

Renamon offered a paw to Rukan and he nodded taking it as she launched him into the air. He gripped his blades tightly as he went clear over the monster's head and landed cleanly on it's back. He took both blades into one hand to free the other. Power seemed to be swirling around the paw as he drew it back and quickly brought it forward with a growl. He felt the flesh below him rippled from the impact as the Greymon moaned and began to fall. He leapt into the air spinning a few times with his eyes closed.

After a few moments he opened his eyes and hundreds of glowing white blades appeared around him. They shot forward as he shouted, "Bladestorm!"

Renamon knew this meant get the hell out of the way and so she leapt to the right as the Greymon fell smashing into the asphalt before it was peppered with the blades and it erupted into the green data. Rukan began to fall but closed his eyes as he knew in a few moments where he would land.

Renamon quickly ran to catch Rukan effortlessly before letting him down with a smile, "You haven't lost any of it..."

"I wouldn't say that... But yes it all came back to me. I'll explain later," said Rukan as a great shadow passed over them. They both looked up into the sky to see the Garudamon flying above. Rukan looked to Renamon and nodded as they both leapt high enough to reach one of the nearby roofs and Rukan threw a white charged blade at the digimon to get it's attention.

The Garudamon let out a loud screech as the blade stuck into it's shoulder and disappeared leaving the wound behind. It swooped about before landing hard on the roof of the building and letting out a menacing bird cry at the two vulpine. The sheer amount of force behind it was enough to make them both lift their arms to shield themselves.

Rukan looked to Renamon before nodding with a bit of a smirk, "Big, nasty and we can't kill it right off the bat. I'll get my blades into it's shoulders. You just try and hang on okay?"

Renamon nodded quickly before they both turned to the creature as it flapped it's wings and they found themselves in a storm of razor sharp feathers. The two Demihumon's leapt through the storm deftly dodging some while a few nicked them on their arms and legs. A few blood streaks were appearing in both of their yellow fur on their cheeks as they weathered the storm while rushing ahead.

Rukan leapt quickly at the creature bringing his leg around to smash into the side of it's head with enough force to shatter bones. The creature was an ultimate level digimon after all, a bit more force would be needed to take it down.

The bird creature yowled as it got a little tipsy. This was Renamon's que to leap onto it's back and drive her claws into a place the bird wouldn't be able to reach with it's hands. Rukan fell to the ground quickly rolling between the Garudamon's legs. He leapt blindly into the air with his hands outstretched only to have them caught by Renamon as the creature took off.

With a yelp the two held on tightly as the creature tried desperately to shake them off. Rukan slowly started to crawl up the feathery back until he reached the shoulders. Driving one blade in the bird screeched and took a dive. Rukan saw Renamon starting to slip and in a moment he shrugged his shoulders to throw his coat off and held onto it with one hand while the other held to the blade jammed deep into the digimon below.

Renamon yelped as she fell free but she caught the coat only to have her eyes go wide. The Garudamon took a sharp turn into the alleyways just barely making clearance in an attempt to knock them off it's back. Renamon let go of the coat flipping upwards as they passed under a skywalk. She flipped over the top before landing next to Rukan on the other side.

Rukan looked over his shoulder a little sad as he saw his coat left behind. Now wasn't a time to get sentimental though. He quickly drove the other blade into the opposing shoulder and pulled back hard on the two trying to gain a bit of control. The Garudamon screeched again and began to pull skyward only to be met with a force of helicopters.

The choppers opened fire tearing into the large digimon as Rukan and Renamon knew this was now a race against time. Flecks of green data were already bleeding from the creature as they continued to climb higher and higher above the city. Rukan closed his eyes gripping the blades tightly as they broke through the clouds of smoke bullets whizzing past them and finally he felt a bizarre tingling all over his skin. His fur stood on end as it felt like all of the air was charged around them. He slowly opened his eyes as he saw they were between worlds. Green lines on black as data streamed about.

He felt them beginning to fall again but this time everything became disorienting as gravity made a flip. He lurched slightly as soon they were tearing through levels of data encryption placed to keep this world hidden from the real world. Renamon and Rukan both let out howls of fear as they saw their companion was falling apart at the edges. Their eyes went wide as the ground was rushing towards them.

Rukan pulled hard on the blades but the Garudamon was completely limp in the air. They saw what looked like a city below making Rukan frown more as he looked to Renamon shaking his head, "This is gonna suck..."

Renamon frowned as they impacted the ground only with what remained of the huge digimon to soften their impact. They both flew off in different directions smashing into the walls of buildings. Rukan grit his teeth and reached up to hold the back of his head with a groan as his two blades came flying at him and stuck into the wall on either side of his face.

He sat there wide eyed and surprised for a few moments before regaining his composure and reaching up to pull the blades free. He tried to stand up but let out a cry as he put pressure on his arm. He looked down to see it was snapped in the wrong direction at the elbow. Closing his eyes and panting a few times he yelled out, "Renamon? Are you okay?"

He listened quietly for a reply but none came. He lay back with a loud sigh as he closed his eyes deciding it was best to stay this way for now. Digimon of all kinds were starting to come to the sight of the crash landing and peering at Rukan. It took some time for him to open his eyes again and he looked about surprised, "Umm... I could use some help guys," Said the fallen Renomon.

A few Agumon and a Gaomon stepped out of the crowd and walked up to him inspecting his injury before he spoke, "No no in the other direction you'll find a Renamon. She should be over there. Make sure she is okay. I'll be fine."

They nodded quickly and ran off in the direction he pointed as a few new digimon were showing up all over. Rukan saw the white and blue uniforms they wore and looked a little confused but he didn't want to think about anything right now. Everything was fuzzy at the edges and he felt sick to his stomach when he tried to focus on anything. It was a sure fire sign he had been concussed on the impact.

It was a loud voice that came over the crowd that made Rukan open his eyes as it shouted, "Everyone move back!"

Rukan saw the fuzzy outline of what looked like an angemon only to cry out as he felt his arms being pulled behind him. He screamed in agony as the dislocated elbow was pulled behind and cuffs were put on his wrists, "Wrath, you are under arrest for threats made against the capitol of Digicentral and continued incitement of rebellion in the outlying wild lands."

The Renomon cried out in pain completely unable to respond as he was dragged to his feet soon losing it and lurching forward to leave what food he had eaten that day in front of him on the ground. Digimon all around were shouting and running while a few stuck around shouting curses at Rukan as he was taken to a car and thrown in the back. He simply couldn't take it anymore. He blacked out soon after the door was shut behind him.