A/N: Hi! Remi here, with a new drabblechap for your entertainment. This one's for the Valentines Advent (2016), bonus 2, and since it's a tag-team prompt, it's for the both of us. We'll be alternating every few chapters, depending on the luck of the dice (so, sadly, Aiko won't be here till Ch 5). But we've got plenty in store; it is a season rewrite after all.
Enjoy!
A Hole in the Heart
1.
Not every digimon had a human partner, but every illegal one did and that would be their salvation.
Hopefully. At the moment, it was more like the fruit for their destruction. Because it had to be an illegal digimon who could drag the others away from the data-stream and watch them starve and rot. It had to be an illegal digimon that could drag them into that human world: that stage they interacted with behind the barrier but never touched. And it had to be an illegal digimon that could throw a gauntlet from the other side and destroy what should be, in that context, indestructible.
A normal digimon could destroy as well, but not through the barrier like that. And they couldn't fight back for the same reason. The barrier was in the way and they couldn't tear it down either because that would unleash an even more terrible doom upon them.
And that left only the other illegal digimon. Like himself, but there were others too. Their partners across the barrier, unaware of the black knight that fluttered between their worlds.
He was reluctant. He'd known his partner a long time, after all. But it was necessary. For both their worlds.