Sorry for not writing in so long, I had exams then lack of inspiration, but now I bring you chapter 10 mwahahahahahaha! If you didn't read chapters 1-10 then what are you reading this for 0.o Go back and read the other chapters first.

Digimon Data Squad Beyond: Chapter 10

The tall grass crunched beneath their shoes and feet as they headed towards Loop Swamp.

"This is taking forever can't we just fly there or something" Daniel complained in his snotty tone.

"Yeah, this is sooooo boring" Tremormon added.

"Well if we want to give away our position to the enemy then yes" Thomas said.

"Well it's better to fight them than sneak around!" Daniel countered snottily.

"The enemy would have the home field advantage and crush us, it's easier to stay as a group if we walk" Selena explained.

"I agree with the smart girl!" Sean said brightly.

"Because you have no brain?" Daniel asked snottily.

"Leave Sean alone or I'll show you just how sharp my claws are!" Gazimon growled.

"Come on guys, don't fight" Relena pleaded.

"Yeah, fighting won't solve anything" Floramon said.

"It'll beat the enemy!" Tremormon was quick to point out.

"That's not what she meant" half the group said, sweat dropping. They continued walking for a while before the silence became near unbearable.

"So, does every human and their digimon partner have something that helps them be able to digivolve?" Selena asked.

"You mean a trait of sorts?" Thomas ventured and Selena nodded. "I think so. Marcus's and Agumon's would be determination, Yoshino and lalamon would be perseverance-" Thomas began.

"Thomas's and Gaomon's would be Responsibility" Yoshino added.

"Oh, I get it! And Keenan's and Falcomon's would be friendship, Christy's and Biyomon's would be bravery, Selina's and Labramon's would be Cleverness or intelligence, mine would be.. Umm-" Relena paused and tapped a finger to her lip in though.

"Selflessness and understanding" Floramon said, saying what all the group was thinking and everyone except Daniel and Tremormon burst out laughing.

"And Daniel's and Tremormon's would be strength.." Relena said once the laughter had calmed down.

"What would mine and Gazimon's be?" Sean asked.

"I'm not sure" Relena said, honestly "I'm sorry"

"I don't think it is possible to calculate until more information is at hand" Selina said.

Sean sighed and glanced at Gazimon.

"Don't worry, Sean, I'm sure you'll figure it out" Keenan said, putting a hand on his friend's shoulder.

"That's right" Falcomon said.

Sean smiled lightly "Thanks" he said and fell silent as the group walked on..

"Are we there yet?!" Daniel complained after a while.

Selina looked at a map in hand "If my calculations are correct we're about-" she stopped in mid sentence when her foot sank into very soft ground with a loud splat. The back of the map was covered in muck "Gross" Selina said, holding the map at arms' length.

Thomas chuckled and took the map, wiping the mud away with a cloth "I believe we're in Loop Swamp"

"No duh, Einstein" Marcus muttered under his breath.

Christy elbowed Marcus in the side "Daniel is snotty enough for the both of you, so zip it" she hissed.

Keenan coughed into his hand to disguise a grin.

Sean looked around "Wow, loop swamp is huge"

"Did you figure that out all by yourself?" Daniel asked snottily.

"Daniel! Be nice!" Relena pleaded.

Daniel rolled his eyes "Okay, whatever"

"What's that smell?" Gazimon asked, taking a whiff of the air, it smelled awful and he covered his nose and mouth with his pale blue paws.

"It might be me, being hungry makes me gassy" Agumon said.

"No Agumon, I think he's referring to the swamp's odor" Gaomon said.

"It is rather disgusting" Lalamon said, floating by Yoshino.

"All kinds of toxins get dumped into this swamp" Labramon said, scratching on of his red floppy ears with his back paw.

"That would explain it" Selina said.

"Okay everyone, stick close together and try not to get separated' Thomas said. No sooner had the words left his mouth than Daniel was beginning to walk off by himself.

"Where do you think you're going? Tommy said we have to stick together!" Relena said, rushing after the boy.

"Well then you aren't doing what your brother asked either" Daniel said, folding his arms over his chest.

"Daniel please, we don't need you getting hurt or worse, come on" Relena said.

"Fine, for now" Daniel said and followed her back to the group.

The group was going deeper into the swamp slowly as if expecting something to jump out and swallow them all in one gulp. Suddenly there was a loud beeping..

Beep..beeep...BEEEEP.

It got louder and louder. Marcus whirled around "What is that?"

"Is it the enemy?" Agumon asked.

"It sounds like a machine" Thomas said.

"No duh, nerdstine" Marcus said.

"Quiet you two, the machine is making enough noise!" Yoshino said.

Selina tossed open her backpack and the beeping got louder, she pulled a small device out and the beeping got even louder.

"For goodness sakes, please shut it up!" Daniel growled.

"What is that?" Sean asked.

"A Dangerous Digimon Alert Device, DDAD for short" Selina explained.

"Well then it works great- look!" Gazimon said fearfully and pointed. In the distance a large shadow grew closer and closer to the group, each step the ground beneath them trembled.

"You fool! You gave away our position!" Daniel growled, grabbing Selina up by her shirt front.

"It's not her fault, put her down Daniel" Thomas ordered.

Daniel growled and tossed Selina into the swamp with a splash.

Selina got up, covered in swamp gunk, the shadow was nearly on top of the group and then it came into clear view. It wasn't as big as its shadow, but it was quite a powerful being. It was apparent this was one of Machoreapermon's higher ranking lackies though not quite the elite. His dark green hood concealed his horrible face and crimson bat like wings sprouted from his back. He was Murmuxmon.

Murmuxmon glared at the group "You shouldn't have made it this far, but I understand that means Devitamamon has fallen. He was weak, now young heroes shall you deal with me and all the powers I possess"

"You aren't worth our time" Daniel spat.

"Daniel, do you really want to antagonize him?" Relena whispered.

Murmuxmon smirked "The girl is wise. Perhaps if all of you join machoreapermon now you will be spared"

"I think I speak for everyone when I say: I'd rather die!" Selina yelled to the mega.

"That can be arranged, my dear" Murmuxmon said and before anyone could blink he'd swooped over and grabbed her up, taking her high into the air. He held her with his sharp claws pointed at her neck.

"SELINA!" Sean cried out.

"Let her go!" Thomas called out.

"All you humans expect me to listen to you, typical.." Murmuxmon grabbed around Selina's throat tightly enough where the group could tell she was struggling to breath. "Now all of you listen to me, surrender to Machoreapermon and your friend will be spared"

"We can take you on!" Marcus called out.

"no, Marcus, he's the type that won't hesitate to kill Selina' Labramon said.

"We need a plan" Thomas whispered.

"Tick tock, I won't wait forever" Murmuxmon said, tightening his grip.

"You're despicable" Selina managed as she struggled to breathe.

Murmuxmon smiled a twisted grin "Thank you, my dear"

"Can you give us one second to discuss this?" Sean asked weakly, eyes full of fear.

"Very well, but hurry up" Murmuxmon growled.

The group huddled around one another.

"This is the worst! We can't let Selina get killed" Yoshino said.

"Even if we do surrender he'll probably kill her" Keenan said with a frown.

"How do we save her?" Relena and Kristy asked at the same time.

Sean bit his lip as the others discussed it. "What are you thinking, Sean?" Gazimon asked and everyone looked at Sean.

"If the rest of you can stand together and distract him by faking surrender, Gazimon and I might be able to sneak up behind him and find a way to get Selina down.

"If you can hit a point on his left shoulder blade it's his weak spot and he'd have to drop her" Labramon said.

"Are you sure you two are up for this?" Marcus said.

"If we don't do it Selina could die" Sean said.

"It's up to you two now then" Gaomon said.

"Good luck, and keep your wits about you" Thomas said.

"You can do it" Relena encouraged.

"Well kiddies I'm waiting" Murmuxmon growled.

The group nodded together and all except for Sean and Gazimon spread out into a long line as the boy and his digimon crept slowly around until he was behind Murmuxmon.

"We've decided" Daniel said snottily.

"And?" Murmuxmon asked.

"We think that-" Relena began.

Sean picked up a small stone and Gazimon tried to find a good sense of aim.

"That?" Murmuxmon urged, losing patience quickly.

"That you have given us a very generous offer" Yoshino said.

"Not one to be refused lightly" Thomas added.

"And seeing as Selina is our friend-" Keenan said.

"-We can't let anything bad happen to her" Christy finished his sentence.

"And so-" Marcus began, but was cut off.

"Will you get on with it already?!" Murmuxmon hissed impatiently.

Sean made an okay sign from behind Murmuxmon to show that he and Gazimon had their aim set.

"Alright, jeesh" Marcus said.

"Well?!" Murmuxmon growled.

"Electric stun blast!" called Gazimon as he fired his attack at Murmuxmon's left shoulder blade as Sean tossed his stone at the same target. Both hit their mark and Murmuxmon's jolted in pain and let go of Selina. The girl was now falling from the sky at a rapid speed.

"AHHHHhhhhhhh!!!" she screamed as she fell.

Sean caught her though the impact of her fall sent him to the ground with her in his lap "Don't worry Selina, I'll protect you" he said. His digivice began to glow brightly and Gazimon did too.

"Gazimon warp digivolved to.. Etemon!" the digimon called out as he became the ultimate level monkey digimon.

"You fell for it!" Agumon burst out laughing, pointing at Murmuxmon.

Murmuxmon growled "So you did have a plan, but no matter, I will defeat you!" he snarled.

"Everybody, you know what to do!" Thomas said.

The others nodded and Yoshino, Marcus, Relena, Christy, and Keenan all joined Thomas in a familiar cry

"DNA charge! Overdrive!" in unison the six slid their hand over their respective digivice's DNA scanner.

Gaomon, Lalamon, Agumon, Floramon, Biyomon, and Falcomon all glowed brightly and took on their mega forms.

"Sir, do you have a battle plan?" MirageGaogamon inquired, glancing back at Thomas.

"Still working on it" Thomas replied, calculation their plan of attack.

"The best plan is to work together" Shinegreymon said.

"Yes, together we can win" Rosemon added.

"Well then, it's our turn!" Daniel said snottily and held out his digivice.

"Tremormon digivolved to.. Bouldremon!" his digimon announced, taking on its champion form, he was now much larger.

"Pound that freak!" Daniel ordered.

"Hold it Daniel!" a voice called out.

Everyone looked at the owner of the voice.

Selina stood and pushed a carrot colored strand of hair from her face "If we're all in this together then count me in too!" she held out her digivice and a bright beam of light struck Labramon.

"Labramon warp digivolved to… Cerberumon!" the small red and cream colored dog had now become an ultimate level Cerberus digimon.

Murmuxmon growled "Gehenna flame!" he called out, releasing a torrent of purplish flames from his mouth.

"Not so fast, celestial flame!" Ravemon called out, driving his blade into the ground as violet bolts of lightning shot into the purple balls of fire. The clash caused an amazing show of fireworks, but accomplished little.

"We need to attack together!" Relena called out.

"It's the only logical thing to do! Everyone put your heart and soul into it!" Selina called out.

Murmuxmon glanced at the girl; she seemed unprotected at the moment..

Murmuxmon dove from the sky, about to attack her, his long claws outstretched to perform his necro interrogation attack. However, he did not expect Sean to jump in the way of his attack and this threw him off guard as his sharp nails pierced the boy's right side like many sharp knives.

"Sean!" Selina and Etemon both called out.

Sean was in immense pain, the claws still in his side; he slowly raised an arm and made a thumbs up, telling the others to take their shot.

"We can't attack, Sean might be hurt more" Selina cried.

"If we don't attack then we will lose him entirely" Thomas said.

"So is everyone decided?" Yoshino asked after a moment of silence.

Selina nodded along with the others "Let's do this" she said

"Autumn's dance!" Demetermon called, sending diamond hard leaves at Murmuxmon.

"Spiral Raven Claw!" Ravemon called out, including his attack.

"Crimson flame!" Phoenixmon included her attack, the burst of power exploded from her mouth.

"Glorious burst!" ShineGreymon said, adding the burst of fire energy.

"Double crescent mirage!" MirageGaogamon yelled, adding his powerful attack.

"Forbidden.. Temptation!" Rosemon shrilled as she added her plant type power into the attack.

"Monkey claw!" Etemon said, adding his scratch-based attack to the others.

"Emerald blaze!" Cerberumon added, firing the powerful blast.

"And last, but not least, Bouldre bomb!" Bouldremon added his ground based attack.

All the digimon attacks combined into one powerful blast and hit their target. As the blast connected there was a huge explosion and nothing was visible but smoke for several minutes after. The group was silent. Waiting, watching, hoping- all of them praying that it had worked out okay.

The smoke cleared and Murmuxmon's data was seen become a digiegg and floating off towards primary village. On the ground, lying in a heap was Sean. Etemon leapt over and scooped the boy up before he could sink into the mucky water. He laid him on solid ground and Selina raced over "Oh please don't die, Sean! Mummymon died because of me and if you die because of me too- I don't know what I'll do!" tears welled in her eyes.

Sean was loosing blood from the deep gashes in his side, he was barely conscious, but he managed a ghost of a smile "I'm fine, are you okay?" he said weakly.

"Yes, I'm fine thanks to you" Selina said, she was scared.

Thomas rushed over and began immediately tending to Sean's wounds.

"Give him some space!" Yoshino told the others, making them step backward some so Thomas had room to work.

"Do you think he can save him?" Selina asked.

"My brother saved me from a disease thought incurable" Relena said.

"And he's the best doctor I know, don't worry" Gaomon encouraged.

Thomas stopped Sean's bleeding first and then put medicine in the gashes. Finally, he bound the gashes in gauze Luckily, Sean had not lost enough blood to need a transfusion, but it had been close.

Thomas washed his hands with some sterilizing products he had in his bag. He then turned to the group "He should be alright, but he'll need to rest some before we can move on." Thomas said.

"Then maybe we should all take a break" Yoshino suggested.

"It might benefit the group" Thomas agreed.

"So in other words- let's kick back, take a snooze!" Marcus cheered.

Keenan and Christy both giggled and Relena smiled softly.

"It's a waste of time, but whatever" Daniel said, but sat down as the others did.

The digimon became rookies again and sat by their respective partners.

Agumon went nose first into Marcus's bag and pulled out some snacks "Mmm! It's not fried eggs, but this is soooo good!"

"Agumon! Those are my snacks!" Marcus protested.

"You two are so childish" Christy said and almost everyone chuckled.

Selina sat by Sean and wiped his blonde bangs from his face "Hey Sean, I figured out what your special trait is" she whispered to him, still worried about him.

"Yeah? What's that?" he asked weakly, barely conscious.

"Protection. You care about protecting your friends even if it puts you in danger. And that's a very special trait, Sean" she said so only he could hear.

A faint smile crossed his face as his eyes closed entirely. In moments he was fast asleep and Selina smiled lightly.

"Get better soon, Sean" Selina whispered..