History of a Royal Knight

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Thoughts

"Talking"

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Chapter 3

Four days since his meeting Calumon again and he finds that the little guy seems to be sticking by his side like glue. Which slightly puzzles him but overall, he doesn't mind having the white Digimon around, for Calumon makes him feel complete for some odd reason. He never gave it much thought since there are other things to worry about, like the fact that the D-Reaper occupying that's currently holding part of the city that has the Hypnos towers seems to have alter colours, it's not instead of red with black stripes, totally neon green with patches of bright red.

It doesn't help that more parties of non-cable agents were swarming around the edges of the massive blob in about thirty foot radius. Why they were there, they didn't know and he personally doubts that they'll figure it out until the D-Reaper makes its next move. Though the Tamers and himself have taken to harassing these agents since yesterday morning and had continue in rounds through out yesterday and last night, they only stopped when the Monster Makers wanted to meet with them to discuss possible courses of actions that the D-Reaper was likely to take.

Which kind of meant that they talked over possible scenarios and what they could do to counter or nullify them, although it gave him a lot to think about, he doubts that they could possible predict what's going through the D-Reaper's mind. After all, whatever is causing this new rapid growth spurt seems to be powerful enough to make most of the agents independent of the D-Reaper. He wouldn't mind a chance to chat with Yggdrasil about this but then; they haven't been able to re-establish a link to the Digital world as the D-Reaper within the Digital world was beginning to be affected by what the real World D-Reaper is doing here.

He frowns behind his helmet as he thinks about Yggdrasil and wonders if what the D-Reaper had learned from dealing with that program is finally being applied, but not in the Digital world but here, in the real world. And if that's what's happening, then what the D-Reaper might be doing the same in the Digital world. But why do it now? Why not during the first year or even second year of terror? He wonders to himself, not listening to the discussion coming from the monitor in his room.

He groans mentally, there's a reason why he prefers to make split second decisions then to discus strategy. My imagination keeps me up at night, thinking of what could have been or what ifs. I'm a worrywart, plain and simple, that's why I was so relieved to let the others attend those strategy meeting, volunteering to take someone's patrol duty just to get out of it. Not that it worked for very long, though I can still manage to skip about three a year now. He muses to himself with a slight grin on his face, not that anyone could see his facial expressions.

It's not long after that does Kenta and Kazu call a halt to the meeting so they could think about what was said as they eat the snacks brought in for them to eat. He blinks as he hears someone snoring softly and looks down to find Calumon sleeping on his cape, wrapped up in said cape as well from the looks of things. A small smile appears behind his helmet as he studies the little in training Digimon.

He glances at the snacks that were brought up for them to eat and finds that most of them had been consumed by Calumon, he notices that instead of tea, cola, or juice, the drink had been milk, which likely explains why Calumon's fast asleep. With his index finger, he brushes some crumbs off of Calumon's chin. He glances at the monitor and then out of the window.

He watches as some pigeons fly pass his window, likely heading up to the roof. He hears a throaty cough and looks towards his monitor to find Kazu before it. "I'm not sure if anyone's introduced me yet, but I'm Kazu, Guadromon's Tamer. Also, the guy with the glasses with the MarineAngemon is Kenta. And I'm sure you know Ryo, the Legendary Tamer, who's taken me under his wing." Kazu says and he hears Kenta in the back ground say, "You wish he did, you know it's Suzie that gets those lessons."

"Kenta!" Kazu says and it's not long before those two are bringing up embarrassing moments and have started a round of name calling, like 'chicken legs,' 'patches,' and for some bizarre reason Kenta called Kazu 'rock fish' at which Kazu would go bright red at. Once Kazu has Kenta in a headlock, the visor wearing Tamer continues, "Any way, I was thinking that maybe you would like a tour around the city, you know, to help you get the feel of the land and all."

He thinks about it for a few seconds, going through the pros and cons of spending a large amount of time with the two Tamers that still act like he remembered them acting like before he found himself as a mega level Digimon called Gallantmon. Before he could decline their offer, Dobermon pipes in, "We'll be glad to have you two find gentlemen give us a tour of this fine city."

To his amusement, the two teens jump back in surprise and glance at Dobermon who's standing behind them. "Don't do that!" Kazu shouts, causing Dobermon and himself to grin slightly at that. "Do what?" Dobermon asks the pair and the two teens doesn't know what to say to that.

"You know, that sounds like a great idea. Count me in too." Ryo says off screen. On hearing Ryo's voice the two teens that were old childhood friends say, "Right on! We got Ryo!" They even leaped into each other's arms and hugged as they jumped up and down in excitement.

They repeated their chant for a few more minutes until Rika got annoyed at them and threaten them both with smacks upside the head. They quieted down at that and it's not long before the meeting starts up once more. He wonders just what Kazu and Kenta have planned for this trip as people go back to their seats before the discussion begins once more.

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"Tell me again why we're trailing along with them?" The red head Tamer asks her partner for the fourth time within the last hour as the pair trails behind the group containing one mega level knight Digimon, a Digital doggy, two dunderheads, Mr Perfect, and their Digimon partners. "We're doing this because Calumon asked us to while he stays with Jeri for the day." Her partner informs her and she quiets down once more.

She knows how important Calumon has become to Jeri and for the last few days, Calumon's been glued to Gallantmon's side instead of Jeri's. Not that they blamed the little guy since Gallantmon does remind them of Guilmon and to a lesser extent, Takato. Someone who they miss just as much as his red, goofy, fun loving, bread scoffing partner Digimon, she guesses that they all feel various degrees of guilt on not trying to get Takato out of there before that light began to form from the floor and then shoots upwards into the sky.

Once more she can hear Takato's cry as those bullets hit the pillar of light that had encased Guilmon and him. There wasn't any doubt in their minds that if Beelzemon hadn't attacked the pillar of light, they would have encountered Guilmon's true mega form. Her eyes drift to Gallantmon's armoured form and knew that if they had survived, it's likely that they would have a knight similar to Gallantmon on their side instead of just as an ally.

Gallantmon glances behind him; their eyes meet for a few seconds before Gallantmon's gaze turns away, looking down to Kazu, likely listening to whatever twiddle de is saying. She adverts her eyes from the mega Digimon, looking to the shops to her far right. She doesn't know exactly what pipes her interest more in the mega Digimon, that he's a mega Digimon or that he's part of an order that serves the program Yggdrasil.

As they're about to turn around and head back to head quarters, they're ambushed by a swarm of blaster agents. The only warning was when Gallantmon started to shout for them to duck and cover which was followed by a large firework show in and about the area where Gallantmon had been standing. As Renamon body slams her into an alley way, she caught glimpses of Gallantmon already attacking the agents.

"Are you alright?" Her partner asks her, Renamon's voice laced with concern. "I'm fine, but it's time for you to suit up, Renamon." She says and the golden fox Digimon nods and within moments, Taomon joins the battle. She stands at the entrance of the alleyway to watch the battle. She prays that Renamon makes it out of this battle without too many injuries.

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His lance pierces through the body of a blaster agent; he pulls it out as quickly as he can to parry a blade aimed for his gut. He bellows out, "Lightning Joust!" as he attempts to slice through the bladed arm of the close combat agent. To his surprise, his attack doesn't do more then crack the blade.

He uses his shield to ram the agent and side steps as the four armed agent tries to press the attack. He stabs his lance into the agent's side, he jerks back as one of the arms tries to slice him in half. He grinds his teeth and leaps back from the agent; it seems that this agent was a heck of a lot tougher then those blaster agents he had been dealing with a few moments ago.

He leaps into the air just as something attempts to catch him from behind. He lands and leaps back once more, so he can assess the situation occurring before him. He notices the spider legged agent that had tried to catch him from behind. Unlike the four armed agent, this one was much smaller and likely highly agile, which will make it just that harder to kill since its small size make it that much harder to target.

It's time to bring out the big guns. He thinks to himself as the two agents prepare for a charge. He holds his shield before him, bracing his body from the power back coil that's about to be released from his next attack. "Shield of the Just!" He shouts as the two agents begin their charge.

He braces himself as his shield begins to glow and as the pair get within three feet of his shield, a blinding light shoots from the symbols on his shield. He hears his boots dig into the roof at the back coil of the attack. The light vanishes two seconds after its release and he stands up straight, he feels slightly drained from that attack, but knows he doesn't have much time before he's targeted by agents again.

He notices that there are about four more pairs of the two of the latest agents. He notices that Dobermon's about to be attack from behind and launches himself at the smaller agent that was attempting to come upon the champion from behind. "Lightning Joust!" Rings through the air as his lance slices through the spider limbed agent.

Dobermon then leaps out of the way of the charging four armed agent, whose head he stabs with his weapon. The agent vanishes, leaving him alone with Dobermon for a few seconds. "Thanks for the help." Dobermon says and he nods at the champion dog Digimon.

Without much warning, they both split apart to help the Tamer against the remaining ground agents. He keeps an eye out for air borne agents since they were going to busy enough with these agents that seem like they want to work in pairs. He comes to the rescue of Kazu as one of the spider agents targets the Tamer instead of the partner Digimon.

"Thanks man, I owe you one." Kazu says before shouting out, "Andromon!" He turns to find Andromon being embraced in the thin arms of the spider leg agent. He races to the aid of the ultimate level Digimon as one of the four armed agent attempts to slice off Andromon's head.

He cries out as twin blades enter into his shield arm, cutting deeply into his shield. His lance goes into the agent's gut before the second pair of blades make their way into the side of his chest. The blades vanish as the agent vanishes, Taomon deals with the spider agent as he grabs a hold of his injured arm.

"Don't move too much, Gallantmon, you might cause your injuries to worsen." Taomon says and he smiles weakly behind his helmet. "I'll try." He vows as he allows the priestly ultimate to check his injures.

Takatomon, look out! Goes through his head, he stiffens. He then tackles Taomon in time to keep a bunch of needles from borrowing themselves into Taomon's side. He cries out in pain as he feels the needles burn within him. "Gallantmon!" He hears most of the Tamers and their partners shout.

He smiles weakly, not that they could see it. "Hang on, Gallantmon, helps on the way!" Taomon says as he feels the ultimate's arms pull him up off the ground. "Sorry…" He manages to say before the blackness finally managed to pull him in, he does hear Guilmon's voice say,Takatomon…

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They managed to delete the agent that had thrown those needles that Gallantmon saved Taomon from at the expense of his welfare. Not even his partner made a corny joke about the situation, which was likely Terriermon's way of respecting the mega knight that saved one of their own from certain deletion since unlike himself, Taomon didn't have much in the way of armour to take the blunt of the attack.

How could that agent make it so close to us without us knowing that it was there? Too bad we couldn't scan its data to know what kind of virus those needles contained. Thinks the partner of Terriermon, Henry as they watch as a tow truck slowly pulls the fallen knight onto the back of the truck. They didn't dare try flying Gallantmon back since they didn't want to jar the mega too much especially with injuries as serious as his.

He glances over to where Dobermon is standing, the champion level dog Digimon seems to have a far away look in his eyes as they wait for Gallantmon to be ready for transport. "He saved my life before he helped Guardromon keep his head." Kazu says to Kenta, he glances over to the visor wearing Tamer that's partners with Guardromon and an old childhood friend of Takato, Kenta, and Jeri's.

Kenta comforts his shaken friend with MarineAngemon hovering over Guardromon's unconscious form, likely helping to speed along the machine Digimon recovery. The fact that the pink mega wasn't hovering over Gallantmon's fallen form told them without words that Gallantmon's worst for wear and in a very delicate state, that the pink mega feels that he'd help out better by speeding up Guardromon's recover then Gallantmon's.

"How are we going to explain this to his friends back in the Digital world?" Rika wonders not far from him. "They must have known that they might not see him again, after all, we're at war." Renamon says to try and comfort her partner.

He feels someone rest a hand on his free shoulder and is slightly startled until he glances into the face of his father. He notices that there's more worry lines around his dad's eyes then before and even more grey hairs. "Is he going to be alright, dad?" He asks his scientist father, one of the original Monster Makers.

"He's a unique Digimon from what our readings tell us. He should have de-Digivolve to recover from this, but from what we've found, it's as if he's fighting that progress. As if he won't or maybe can't de-Digivolve." His father tells him. He blinks and Terriermon asks, "What do you mean that he can't de-Digivolve? I mean, from what I've heard, Guardromon de-Digivolved from Andromon when they made contact with the android Digimon. So if he can't, why don't we force him to?"

His father looks towards Gallantmon's armoured form, the hand that had been resting on his shoulder is used to push up his father's glasses. "We're not sure if he'd survive the progress considering how injured he had been before he saved Taomon from those virus needles. All we can do is try and counter the virus that's in him and hope that he allows himself to back a level." His father states before his dad is called away.

"I guess it's up to Gallantmon to help Gallantmon." Terriermon states humourlessly and he nods in agreement with that. "Seems so, seems so." He says, frowning slightly as his thoughts go back to his hypothesis about how Gallantmon came into being. Within his mind, he re-examines his hypothesis, trying to see what other opinions there were as to why Gallantmon couldn't got back a level.

He's snaps out of his thoughts as Terriermon calls out his name. "Huh? What?" He asks, blinking a few times. "I said, we better get into the van before they decide to ditch us, Henry. What did you think I was saying, huh? That Takato's alive in the Digital world and Guilmon is Gallantmon? Shhess." His partner says in a bit of a huff, he blinks as he moves towards the open door to one of the Hypnos vans.

Nay, it couldn't be, could it? He wonders as he closes the van's side door about the part about Guilmon being Gallantmon. But he couldn't help but wonder what Terriermon had jokingly said out of his mind since it could mean that if Guilmon was Gallantmon then it could mean that they both survived, which means that they were never lost to them, just misplaced.