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Chapter 11 - Digital World

The girls stared at the figure, who was flying above them. As the world slowly began to look like plastic.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Stella questioned loudly.

"I just said it, my name is Digit. And I am here to save the world from pain!"

​"What is this?" Cecilia asked angrily.

"I'm just fixing the world. That's all!" Digit stated.

The trees around them turned into brown cubes, their leaves into green triangles, they stood frozen. The birds weren't flying either, they stopped mid-air.

​"It's not a glitch," Ursa whispered. "She is taking life out of nature and life!"

"Correct," Digit said. "Nature is so boring anyways."

She tapped her disc player, and a glowing blue square came out from it, and it turned the grass plastic.

​"I am just… trying to fix the world." Digit went on.

​"Hey! Glow-stick!" Cecilia shouted, she flew up towards Digit, her weapon in hand.

​Digit dodged easily, she grabbed Cecilia by the wrist, and threw her into the ground.

"She's forcing everything to follow her rules." Yvette mumbled.

​Harley dived from the sky. "Try dodging this!"

​Digit looked up. And snapped her fingers. Suddenly, Harley fell from the sky, landing onto a bush.

Harley looked at her back, and saw that her wings were gone, which made her gasp. "My wings!"

Digit flew away, she tapped a car, and it turned into a glowing cube. She tapped a streetlamp, and it bent into a rectangle.

​"Yvette! Hit her with the big stuff!" Dee commanded, drawing her bow.

​Yvette stepped forward, she channeled a massive bolt of lightning, aiming it directly at Digit's chest.

​Digit didn't flinch. She caught the lightning in her bare hand. The electricity didn't shock her, it turned into a yellow bolt shaped drawing.

​"She's too strong," Stella whispered, touching the plastic leaves. "I can't feel the Earth through this... this stuff."

​"You are persistent," Digit remarked, floating a few inches off the glowing grid. "But you are fighting for a world that shouldn't even be. You are fighting for a world that rots and breaks. In my world, nothing ever dies. It just stays... perfect."

​"Because a world that doesn't change isn't a world!" Stella shouted, firing an arrow. "It's just a drawing! People need the mess, Digit! We need the curves!"

"Curves are exactly what I hate about the world." Digit stated. She raised her hand, and the entire city block began to turn darker.

A few shadow creatures appeared from below the ground.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Cecilia grumbled. But she had to jump up to avoid getting caught by one of the shadows.

"I am not about to get turned into a ZIP file!" Harley shouted.

"Undo this now! I liked my world better with HD quality!" Stella yelled.

​Digit tilted her head. "No…" She flicked her wrist, and the shadows started to attack them.

"In this place, physical elements don't exist!" ​Digit descended, walking on air.

Stella swung her weapon at Digit, but her bayonet passed through Digit's chest as if she wasn't even there.

"I said… I control this world," Digit explained. "Nothing can harm me here. Shadows. Attack."

The shadow creatures started to attack the girls. They tried to fight off the shadows, but it got harder with the world around them changing so much.

A shadow managed to grab Dee by her arm, but something made it drop her to the ground.

"What?" Dee whispered. But she didn't think for long. She cut through the monster, and made it explode into glitter.

"We aren't gonna last long! We need to do something about her!" she said.

Digit looked at all of this with no expressions, not even a smug smirk, or a speech.

"She's not even talking…" Yvette mumbled.

"Well, there has to be a way to fix these things!" Harley said, as she tried to cut through the shadows that were around her.

"Turn it back, now!" Dee ordered, pointing a finger up at Digit. "Or else we'll-"

"Or else you will what? You can't beat me here." Digit remarked.

Dee looked at her angrily. She flew up to Digit, and began to try and hit her.

"Don't fight with me." Digit said, dodging each of Dee's attacks. "Please…" she whispered, so quietly that Dee didn't hear it.

Below them, the girls kept fighting the shadows, but they looked up at the sky.

"Why isn't she hitting Dee back?.." Stella asked.

"Maybe it's her plan?" Yvette suggested.

Digit clicked her disc player, and four glowing walls beneath the girls' feet began to rise up.

​"We have to go, now!" Ursa yelled. "If she finishes the cage, you will all be turned into statues! And I can't fix that!"

"But we can't just leave the school behind!" Harley cried out. She looked back at the students, who were standing inside the school, staring at everything.

​"We kind of have to!" Cecilia grabbed Harley by the hand. "We can't break her light yet! We don't know how!"

"Dee! Come on!" Ursa shouted.

Dee looked back at Digit. "You will pay for this."

​With a flash of energy, the girls vanished just as the glowing walls slammed shut, turning the school into a solid, silent cube of neon cyan.

​Digit stood alone. She landed down to the ground, and she noticed a single, small piece of grass. She reached down and tapped it with a finger, which caused the grass to turn into a tiny, glowing green line.

​"Much better," Digit whispered. She looked up at the sky, and saw the birds, she moved her hands, and the birds turned into giant monsters.

"Find the Guardians," she ordered the creatures. "Just… don't hurt the Guardian of Balance… okay?"

The creatures nodded, and scattered into every direction.

Elsewhere, the girls appeared in the basement of Cecilia's home.

"I never knew you had a basement." Harley said, and she sat down on a box.

"My parents never use this place, so I sometimes come here for the fun of it." Cecilia explained.

"Alright, we need a plan." Dee stated, pacing back and forth.

"Maybe if we find the real her, we can defeat her?" Yvette said.

Stella angrily punched a box. "I wish we would know! I wanna punch that… that person in the face!"

"Hey! Careful!" Cecilia shouted.

"Why? These boxes are empty."

"Maybe. But I don't want you causing any property damage!" Cecilia argued.

"A few boxes won't cause any damage!"

"Girls. Focus!" Ursa yelled loudly, which got the attention of the girls. "Arguing will get us nowhere!"

"She's right," Dee added, her hands on her hips. "We never even knew a villain like this exists. And we just met them. Which means we don't know their weaknesses."

"Which also means we have no idea how to beat them," Cecilia said with a sigh.

Harley groaned, annoyed at everything. "This is just the best…" she said sarcastically.

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