Chapter 2
Digital World:
Serena and Takuya look around the Digital World in awe while Demiveemon digivolves up to Veemon. Davis smiles, he was back. Sure, Digiworld may be in trouble again but he was freaking back. " Any advice, cous, to impart upon us newbies? " Takuya asks him.
" Yeah, not all digimon are friendly and our luck some of the spirits have been corrupted, so not all of them may be on our side to begin with, and chosen children can be corrupted as well, it happened with Ichijouji Ken and he became the Digimon Emperor until his partner Wormmon, myself, and Veemon knocked some sense back into him. " Davis says.
" Ouch, so one of the kids called could be turned against us at some point. Well, that's just dandy. " Takuya mutters.
Serena shrugs, " Doesn't really bug me, I know how fickle humanity can be. I live on the streets for the most part. "
" Takky, how the hell did you meet her anyhow? " Davis asks.
Takuya blinks, he hadn't expected that question from his cousin so soon. He shoots a look at Serena, asking how she wanted him to play it. Serena winces but nods, he'd get the full truth, " My team was in Juuban for a game a year ago, she was actually in attendance at the game as one of the players. I caught ten of my teammates surrounding her, and well, they had managed to rip her shirt off. "
Davis winces, " Not good, her team would have gone nuts. "
" They did, my presence and my loud roar at them got them to stop for a few moments, and then one of them grabbed her from behind and she let loose this highly recognizable scream. The rest of her team came running while I went to get my coach. Her coach had been in his office. My coach and the school principal followed me back in time to see her team pound those ten idiots into the ground and Serena right in there with them, she fought really dirty, though considering what they wanted to do with her it's not surprising. " Takuya says.
Serena sighs, " The fucking bastards caught me off guard. My street friends have had them harried ever since. I'm the only street kid that is still in school, mostly because my genetic providers don't want to deal with children's services. That and they seemed to think that I would amount to nothing, so I take great pleasure in proving them wrong, of course, I had to go to the school counselor and ask to be tested for learning disorders, of which it was discovered I have ADHD. Since then my grades have skyrocketed, as I'm getting the help I need for my education. "
" At least my parents cared enough to have me tested when my grades didn't reflect how smart they knew I happened to be. " Takuya says.
Davis snorts, " You're lucky, Takky, it was Kamiya Taichi whom suspected my educational troubles and convinced the school to test me, as when he helped me study I did better on my tests. Even now when my grades are in the top ten of my grade my parents refuse to acknowledge me. My so called friends, most of them think I'm an idiot. They don't realize that you need to maintain certain grades in order to stay on the team and I'm the damn captain as well. "
" You're a Kanbara, what did you expect soccer wise. " Takuya says as they start walking, " Still, for the rest, if they don't know you they shouldn't judge you. That's just wrong on waaaaay too many levels. "
" They've never treated Davish right. He was named the leader of his group by the previous leader of the Virtue Digidestined, yet they treated him like garbage, if he had a plan to win a fight that they wanted to run from they'd run and then when the so called Child of Hope came up with it they came back and helped us. " Veemon says.
" Anybody you want me to bitch slap? " Serena asks curiously.
That was when Davis told them everything and the other two looked ready to go to war, " Inoue is the worst offender, leave her to me. Kari will most likely come around, she probably didn't even realize she had shunted you to the side. Takeru…" Serena starts.
" Will be dealt with by me, no one messes with my family, but I won't hit girls. Human girls, mom taught me too well for that, unless it's survival, she gave me that out when Serena pointed out that, that mentality could get me raped or killed. " Takuya finishes.
Davis can't help it, he laughs, " Man, I'm actually going to have a team other than my best friend whom used to be my enemy accept me. That's just too rich. "
" You don't mind not being the leader? "
" As I said, Takky, it's your turn to shine, not mine, I saved the worlds from MaloMyotismon, pain in the ass that he was, I was the only one that didn't fall prey to his illusions yet Light, Hope, and the Inheritor of Love and Sincerity downplayed my part in the battle, I saved them all, all I wanted was to beat MaloMyotismon. Gatomon and I now have a shared hatred of him. I swear he comes back again I'll have Magnamon tear him apart. " Davis says.
Serena grins, " Taku-chan, I like your cousin. "
Takuya rolls his eyes, " Yeah, because he's just as violent as you are, he just hides it better than you do. "
Serena pouts at him and Takuya smirks, " When are you two going to make it official? " Davis asks.
Both pale at this question and Serena sighs, " We can't, not until after I'm sixteen. "
Davis and Veemon both look at her, confused, " Why? "
With that Serena goes into the explanation of her previous life and what was a head of her as well, Davis winces, " That seriously bites, you're going to have to act as though you actually like Endymion in order to save the Earth? "
Serena sighs, " Unfortunately yes. If not for that then…"
" It sucks, but I damn well know she's mine and after it's all over with I'll deal with Endymion. " Takuya says.
" Looks like we both got raw deals, huh, Serena? " Davis asks her as they continue on, the area around them had several hot springs now.
It was then that Veemon tensed, " Davish, trouble. "
Davis grabs his D-Terminal and selects the egg of Courage, " Digi Armor Energize! "
" Veemon armor digivolve to…Flamedramon, the fires of courage. "
" Damn pest. "
Davis curses, " That's a problem. That's a BlackGreymon. "
Flamedramon takes the fight to the gray t-rex like digimon as the humans run out of the crossfire. " I will find that spirit, it will make me strong. "
That was when Takuya's D-Tector came to life, a white beam of light pointing straight towards a too hot for human use hot spring. In a trance like state Takuya follows the beam, " Flamedramon, cover my cousin. " Davis calls out.
" Got it, Davis. " Flamedramon calls back.
Once Takuya's in front of the spring a totem pops up and the twelve year old brings his D-Tector up in front of it, even as in his mindscape he and the spirit walk towards each other, fire fills his eyes, " SPIRIT! Execute…Spirit Evolution! Agunimon! "
BlackGreymon stares in shock while Flamedramon smirks, " Finish him, Agunimon. "
" With pleasure. " Agunimon says and leaps over Flamedramon, slamming into BlackGreymon with a Pyro Punch and then he goes into a Pyro Tornado, causing a strand of data to appear around the virus type, " BlackGreymon, it's extinction time, fractal code, digitize! "
Davis and Serena watch as Agunimon uses his D-Tector to scan BlackGreymon's fractal code and then he's turned into an egg and flies off. Takuya's evolution ends after that, " Man, that takes a lot out of a guy. "
" Hey, Flamedramon, go find us some food, if Takuya's anything like you digimon then he'll need a lot of food to regain the strength he just used. " Davis says.
" On it, Davis. " Flamedramon says.
" Well, I guess we're going to be turning into digimon for this. " Serena says.
Real World, Odaiba:
Kamiya Taichi was beside himself with fury as after Davis had stormed out Cody had spoken up and told the older kids what had been going on the entire time. The original virtue goggle head leveled his best glare at TK, Kari, and Yolei, his sister he was disappointed in, " What the hell were you thinking, Hikari! You should fucking know better. "
Kari winces, she couldn't believe how she had treated Davis, she'd been his friend for years and this was how she repaid that friendship, sure, she'd never said anything bad about him but she'd never really defended him to TK and Yolei either. Plus, she knew damn well that his family didn't like him, he braved her mother's cooking just to avoid them. Why had she come down on him like that when they'd gone to help Gabumon, why hadn't she backed him up with Matt, because Jun would have done that, she was capable of it. She'd heard Jun badmouthing him to Tai before and Tai had torn into the maroon haired girl.
" Takeru, what, did you think just because you had been to Digiworld previously that you would make a better leader? " Tai had moved on and Matt made no move to stop his best friend, Tai was in full on leader mode.
" He's entirely too damn reckless, Tai. Never running from a fight, he's goddamned lucky we left and regrouped, otherwise he would have been dead. " TK fires back.
" Since when did running from fights ever help when we were called upon the first time! " Tai all but roars it out, starting to glow orange, his crest of Courage was activating, " I chose Davis to be the leader because I damn well knew he would be able to make the hard decisions, not just cut and run when things got tough. Did I run from Etemon, from Piedmon? You saw how well running worked when it was Matt. He tried to run from his damn destiny and because of it we all had to separate, which meant WarGreymon and I were nearly fucking killed by Piedmon! "
Matt flinches, he hated being reminded of his utter stupidity, but Tai was right, running hadn't helped, " Inoue, don't think I've forgotten about you. How the hell you inherited Sora's crest I have no damn clue let alone Mimi's. You constantly belittled and undermined Davis. What would have happened if he hadn't taken the high road for the sake of the Digital World, you would have never beaten Kimeramon for one and then don't even start me on MaloMyotismon, I was there when he told Mimi everything about that battle. Mimi thought we knew what was going on! "
" Tai's right, I called Mimi after Davis left and she wasn't surprised, when I asked why she told me about how he had been treated by almost all of you. He confided in her and Willis, then later he confided in Ken as well. What do you think Ken will do to you all when he finds out Davis quit. " Sora points out.
Kari, TK, and Yolei all wince, he may just go Digimon Emperor on them. That would suck, as Davis was the only one whom could get him out of Emperor Mode as they now called it. The Digimon Emperor was his dark personality. Not that long ago he'd been diagnosed with D.I.D. or Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Digiworld:
Ichijouji Ken looks around the area he'd ended up in with Wormmon, he'd been startled to get the message he had on his cell phone, he'd followed the instructions and then his phone had turned black and grey while becoming something shaped similarly to his D3. He'd been told to find his human and beast spirits, whatever that meant.
Matsuki Takato( AN: he is wearing what he does for 03, no changes) blinks as he looks down at his now blue and red transformed cell phone while Guilmon stood beside him. Takato wasn't quite sure what he had signed up for this time but he was glad he had Guilmon with him. " Takato, we need to save Digiworld again, don't we? " Guilmon asks.
" Well, I was told to find whatever these human and beast spirits are so I guess we should get going. " Takato says.
Guilmon freezes, sniffing the air, " Takato, I smell humans and digimon, together. "
" Lead the way boy, but not too fast. " Takato says.
Ken is stunned to see a red velociraptor like digimon approach him and Wormmon at a fast pace. The dino slams on the brakes and his partner skids to a stop moments later, " Hey there, I'm Matsuki Takato and this is my partner Guilmon. "
" I'm Ichijouji Ken and this is my partner Wormmon, did you receive the message too? "
" I did, why don't we travel together. " Takato suggests.
Sovereign Meeting Hall:
" How dare Ophanimon summon a Digidestined from the southern sector for this! " Zhuqiaomon roars.
" Oh, hush, the Celestials created us, " Azulongmon points out, he was seriously looking over why he had chosen Yolei, " Besides, we need all ten warriors up and running, because AncientGreymon and AncientGarurumon had to seal Ornismon they didn't have enough power to deal with Lucemon properly and could only seal him away! "
Zhuqiaomon quiets, he knew the ruler of the East had a point, all ten warriors would be needed.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Digimon.
Author's Note: The Digimon Card Game exists but the anime does not, they're in the same dimension.
