Me: Chapter 7. YEAH!

Remake ace: What has you pumped?

Me: NK is reading my story and reviewed I hope. Kasumi has been reminding him at the end of each chapter. This one is the aftermath of the fight.

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, but I own my own characters, ideas, and personal created digimon for the story. XInsanityXGuiltechXShadowwindX owns the original ideas of cielamon and KitsuAngewomon, but I own my own version of them. I don't own Krystal from Star Fox. I don't own Kasumi, but Neokenshin let me use her.

The OG digidestined had their adventures, but I haven't seen Tri yet I will add that surpise later in the story. I don't know when though.

Enjoy.


Chapter 7: Aftermath

It was the next morning as the ryans were watching over the three sleeping in their separate beds. The tamers still had the day before it's back to school with them. Rika told her mother and grandmother that she and her renamon would be staying over at ace's house because she was woried about him, his own renamon, and kasumi. Speaking of the three, they look peaceful in their sleep and the ryans are wondering about something.

"I think they formed a bond." Ryan K. said and the other ryan nodded.

"Renamon have a tendency to form mental links so this might be a three way link." The other ryan said.

"Wouldn't be the first."

"How are they?" rika asked them as she was coming in the room without her renamon. She was letting her sleep in.

"Their bodies are fine for the moment, but it's their minds that has us wondering a bit. My brother here said that they might be forming a mental link like you and your partner have." Ryan K. said and rika nodded understanding what he ment.

"Maybe I can form a link with them or expand my link to them with my renamon." She said wondering if her idea would work.

"It might work." Ryan S. said before ace's family card glowed, but ace's father and both ryans felt a small energy spike. Rika was looking around like she heard something.

(AN: The card will be going rouge to grant small wishes that are from both rika and ace's heart.)

The three males gathered to see ace's deckcase with his digivice, but they took his deck out pulling out the fading glowing card.

"Has that ever been doing that to you?" Ryan K. asked the father who shook his head.

"Not once, but I think it means that there might something with ace." He said looking at his son.

"Something to do with his wish?" Ryan S. asked.

"Maybe something else." He said.

"While we were watching him, we have been going some data a friend gave to us and it seems that ace might be the one." Ryan S. said and the other ryan nodded.

"For what?" He asked slightly worried for his son.

"Sorry, but that is a secret." Ryan S. said

"I won't put him in danger without knowing about it." His father said.

"You think we would do that to our own step brother?" Ryan K. asked with a look that stopped any future argument from the father.

"I know you two won't do that to him, but what does the two humans becoming digimon mean?" Was asked.

"There is a group we know of that has that method, but that hasn't happen yet. We can get their opinion on this, but ace and kasumi will need to train even more." The other ryan said.

(AN: There are only two ryans in this story that aren't clones being used by them. I just call one of them the other ryan cause it's easier.)

Ace's parents plus rika nodded while the other first gen digidestined nodded trusting them. Rika was still looking at the sleeping trio before her renamon was hugging her from behind resting her head on her tamer's head. Rika was soaking in the feeling of her partner and worrying for her friends.

Ace was moving in his sleep slowly before opening his eyes and sitting up.

"The other two will be awake soon. We were just setting up a mental link and felt our link extending to rika and her renamon's mental link." Ace said as his mother handed him a small galss of water. Rika sprinted to to his side, but waited till he was done with his drink to hug him.

Ace set the glass on the side table before letting rika hugged him and showing the side that she only shows when she is alone with him and her partner. He was making sure that she was ok before she let him go and his renamon was moving in her sleep.

"I know that leech is still alive just from feeling like that ice prick is around rika-chan." He said

"Sounds like the second gen will be needed for that next time. Hopefully, they will be ready for that. You will need to train with this group, but also train even more to understand your new gifts." Ryan K. said as ace nodded knowing that the same is for kasumi when she wakes up.

"Maybe a school tournament is in order for ace-kun test his form and his bond with his partner." Th principal said.

"Sounds good, but only after me, rena-chan, and kasumi-chan gain some understanding with our new forms." Ace said with the tamers plus his parents looking at him like he was crazy.

"He would do that after waking up a new gift." Takato said.

"Kazu can't bully me anymore about not having a parnter." Ace said with a dark smile as a dark aura was surrounding him. Said bully was scared of ace now before running like lightning away from the house.

Ace did nothing but laugh as the dark feeling faded while rika was laughing.

"Been awhile since you went that level of dark on the idiot, but it was worth it." Rika said and ace nodded.

Ace stood up working the kinks in his body out before taking his deck from the adults.

"It's time for us to actually sleep anyway. We will talk more about this later in the morning." Ace's father said before everyone went back to their homes minus rika, her renamon, the ryans, and the kamens.

The ryans and their two digimon faded into thin air to get some sleep as ace's parents went to sleep in their room. Ace is sitting on the bed with rika beside him watching his new partner and fellow digi-human sleep.

"How was it for you and your renamon to be one digimon?" He asked rika

"How did you like your first time becoming a digimon?" She asked him.

"All I was feeling was the desire to help fight and protect all of you from that leech. I mean I was surprised at first, but it was faded cause I had a job as a guardian first. Maybe next time I will have a proper reaction to it." He said and she nodded rubbing his back before he was laying in the bed.

Soon ace was back to sleeping and rika with her renamon went to sleep in their own bed. The small group of four went to sleep in their own space in a pocket dimension. Everything is quiet and calm while dreams were getting choatic and interesting. Soon dawn came as the ryans, their two partners, and ace were awake by then. Ace is letting his renamon sleeping in before going to wake her and the other guests up for breakfast.

"So how do I and kasumi go into our new forms?" Ace asked his older step-brothers.

"Channel your energy into your hand." Ryan s. said and ace did as told.

A card appeared in his hand and he took a look at it.

"Digi-Tamer-Modify: Spirit Evolution." Ace read the card

The frame of the card is blue like he saw the other tamers having the blue cards and the card is black with kanji for samurai. He put into his deck case with his other new cards.

'Seems like his body is slowly learning how to use the power of the second soul.' Ryan k. thought.

"With kasumi, you will be needed to help her with her card." Ryan s. said and ace nodded while looking at the card that helped his good friend.

Soon kasumi was waking up to see ace's renamon still sleeping off the night before. Ace wasn't in his bed so he went somewhere.

'Where did he vanish off to.' Kasumi thought before going to take a shower.

She went to grab her phone and noticed that she had calls from her friends and the government.

'Of course they would call me after the fun happens' Kasumi thought sourly before setting course for a hot shower.

During her shower, her mind was going over the fight with the near dead vampire leech and the fact that she and ace could digivolve like digimon.

"I'll help them best I can before I leave." She said to herself before focusing on getting clean.

After 30 minutes, she is clean, dressed for the day, and feeling as bright as the sun (Pun intended). Walking downstairs, she noticed that the three brothers were making breakfast for the whole house. The table was already set for them. Ace's renamon was slowly following her to the table and the parents finally made it into the room.

"Good morning." Everyone said at the same time.

Soon they all were eating in silence, but they were thinking about the same thing.

"What are you three going to do today before you have to go back to school ace?" His mother asked him.

"Training. I have too because round two with that digital leech will be coming." Ace said and the two older brothers are agreeing with him.

"Don't you mean if?" His father asked

"Not if. Only when." Ace said.

"I have to see how that piedmon fell into that punk's hands cause that was a mega." His father said thinking about work.

"Good idea hunnie." Ace's mother said

"What about you kasumi-chan?" Ace asked her.

"I have some calls to make about the fight last night and join you in that training since we are the same in the sense." She said and ace nodded.

"Ok. While you are at work, we can handle training them till they are ready for the next level." Ryan s. said and they all nodded.

After breakfast, ace's father went to work and the group of six is in the backyard cause kasumi is dealing with some personal business on her phone.

Ace is looking at the three cards that let him, kasumi, and his renamon digivolve into new forms. Soon kasumi joined the group and was ready for training.

"So what are we going to be doing training-wise?" Kasumi asked them.

"Making sure that you three will have control and get used to it so it won't be so taxing on your bodies later down the road." Ryan K. said and she nodded her head.

"So let's get to work." He said

"Ace, use those cards to help you three and just train your bodies." Ryan S. said and he nodded

"Digi-modify: Dream Digivolution Trigger." Ace said as his renamon was sent into her champion form.

"Tamer-Modify: Lumina Digivolution Trigger." Kasumi was in her own champion form.

"Digi-Tamer-Modify: Spirit Digivolution Trigger." He said as he was into his own champion form.

After that, the two older tamers had sent the three into Hell's bootcamp.

"We are hoping that by the end of the day that you three can delete ultimates fairly quickly." Ryan K. said.

The two older tamers had seal the backyard and turned it into their time chamber. Soon the three champs were knowing the true deffinition of master slave driver. By the time dinner came around, ace, kasumi, and his renamon were back to their normal forms feeling like they were about to die. Their teachers were healing them so they could move and the sealed time chamber was taken down.

"Don't worry about your hotel room, kasumi, they know you will be home later or tomorrow." Ryan S. said.

If kasumi would move her head, she would have and continue to breathe the air around her.

"And I thought my dad's lessons were hard." Ace said.

They made it back inside for dinner and ace's mother had made more than enough to feed an army. The small group of three was eating the food like it was running from them. Soon only ace had a bulge of a stomach while his renamon and kasumi has a stomach twice a beachball.

"I don't think kasumi-chan will be returning to her hotel room tonight." Ace said as the three were contently groaning from the food that they ate.

"I have to say that you almost handle that workout pretty well, ace." Ryan S. said.

"I learn quickly." Ace said.

Kasumi was taken to a guest room while ace and his renamon was to his bedroom. While they were sleeping off both the pain and the food, the two older tamers were looking at the night sky seeing little stars.

"Hard to say that those three were training the whole day in there, but we had time slowing down in there for days on end. Close to a month." One of them said.

"They have gotten a start on controlling their forms, but they will need to fight and gain experience to lear how to control them." The other one said and both nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, but how long till that data leech comes back for round 2?" Was the question.

With the night passing through, the weekend was over and school is back in session. Ace had gottent up before dawn again went to take a shower before anyone else. Soon he was wearing all black clothes and his running shoes standing by a stand with his gear on it. He left his room to grab some toast and a water bottle before going on a run before school.

During his run, his mind was thinking of his new ability plus kasumi getting a form like him. Running before school had help him think things through while doing some light training. Kasumi left the house after a shower and heading to her hotel room for some clothes. Her mind was going over questions like how the illumina gems were reacting to ace's power and why did the gems react like that.

'Probably to help him only I can.' Kasumi thought as she reached her hotel room. She took another shower and help relax her mind and body before putting on new clothes.

Soon ace had returned to house to pick up his school bag and some real breakfast. Rika already left last night with her renamon following her and he knew she would be at school training before homeroom starts. When ace got there, he saw rika doing laps on the track and he went to get things setup for his run after school. He was watching rika doing laps before pulling out his deck for the card game.

While looking through his deck, his mind was going through plans on how to best use them. He has several stratagies cause he knows that a single plan does not survive the first contact with the enemy.

"It know applies to fighting either martial arts or fighting digimon." Ace said to himself.

He heard rika coming over to him as she was drinking water for a break from her run. He put his cards away and opened his drawing notebook as rika was sitting next to him. She was watching him draw in silence, but drawing was something that he and takato had in common.

"Are you sure that you didn't pull a gogglehead move with that digivolution last night?" Rika asked him.

"Yep. I felt that my renamon was mean to be different from say your own renamon." He said still drawing as his focus was demanding something.

By the time he was done, it was still an hour before class starts and it was another fox themed drawing of a digimon.

"Another fox?" She asked

"Two variations of the next level, ultimate." He said before letting her look through his other drawings.

She was mostly impressed with the skill he has, but she stopped on the drawing of the tamers and their new digimon forms.

"Rikamon and takatomon seem to fit, but it won't till the tamers try to turn into digimon like I can." Ace said with a sigh.

"Before you say anything, no I will not force you or the other tamers to be like me." He said with a dark look.

"I know you won't because you aren't like the ones who tried to bully you." Rika said and he nodded kissing her head.

She turned her head so he wouldn't see the blush in her cheeks.

"Thanks for the help and vote of confidence, but I hope you and only you could be like me and kasumi-chan, rikamon-chan." He said teasing her as she punched his shoulder playfully.

They flipped back through to the first page of the notebook and the first drawing he did.

"White Knight digimon, Paladinmon." She said noting the drawing was aging with how long ace had kept it with him.

"The digimon that I thought of myself after hearing my parent's adventures with the digidestined back then." He explained running his hand over the drawing.

Soon they left to for rika to freshen up for class and he to set his locker up with his books and notepads. School was normal as it could be, but something was different.

'That prick hasn't come over to attack me or with a digimon.' Ace thought of the bully usual routine.

'I think the principal finally got him to stop with some help from kasumi-chan.' He added as an afterthought.

Lunch was another thing that was normal and ace was thinking of the amount of normal was going on.

'Something is going on and the fact that the leech escape before the data could be scattered or absorbed.' He thought as he was walking out since school was over. Looking up, he noticed kasumi and rika were waiting for him.

"Sorry, but I need to stay late since I need to do my training." He said and they nodded before the three went to the school track.

During his run, he was listening to music as his mind was wandering on its own. Rika was watching over his bag and kasumi's as said girl went to join him. He made it to his 13th lap before stopping completely still senses flaring danger.

"Ace." Both Kasumi and rika called out. An explosion happened and a small crater was in his spot.

"Damn that was close." Ace said making the girls jump from appearing behind them.

"What happened?" Kasumi asked as rika punched his shoulder.

"I don't know. I just sensed something just before and I had to move faster than the attack." Ace said looking around trying to find the source.

Sixth sense flared again as he grabbed both of the girls and moved out of the way. He set them back on their feet and kicked an incoming shot up into the air into space.

"I knew it. You needed a new routine or a better opportunity and you were caught at lunch." Ace said as a whisper and he pulled out his digivice.

The bully from before walked into their vision as tankmon appeared around them. Ace was growling like a dragon waking up from sleep.

"Renamon, Rena-chan." Rika and ace called their partners.

"Yes?" Rika's renamon answered destorying a tankmon.

"There seems to be a theme here." Ace's renamon said destorying another tankmon.

The bully were scowling in a beast rage.

"Destroy them for their insolence." He said and ace snapped like someone woke the dragon in him.

"Keep the tankmon busy, kasumi-chan help rena-chan with my digivice and deck." He said handing said items to her. Both rika and kasumi saw a look of rage in his eyes like someone poked the bear.

Ace spoke a spell that no one heard and he felt the weights fade away like he was weight of a bird. He took a step before flashing over to the bully and punched him. The bully flew to the chain link fence and slammed into it. Ace appeared before beating the crap out of him. After a minute, ace felt arms pulling him away and he heard voices reaching out for him.

"Ace stop." Kasumi said as she, rika and both renamon were pulling him away from the downed idiot.

"Ace-kun, he had enough." Rika said as a part of her true self broke through to him.

Ace shook his head like he was trying to wake up from a drunken haze. "What happened to the tankmon?" He asked

"Just delete the last one." Rika's renamon said.

"What happened to you, ace?" Rika ask.

"When I heard that order, something in my mind snapped like an idiot poking a sleeping bear or waking a sleeping dragon. Plus throw in the past times of the idiot attacking us before and even before meeting rena-chan. It snowballed and I just wanted to give him a taste of what he and others

put me through." He explain.

"It wasn't like I enjoyed it, but my only thought was protecting you four from him." He added. They smiled at him before both ryans appeared and they had neutral faces.

They didn't say anything while they were working on restoring the school ground. They were walking slowly to the group and looking at the bully unconscious because of the pain ace put him through.

"Anger is something that needs to be controlled, but it seems you were a bit smarter than to just give into your rage." Ryan K. said.

"It's good to know that you didn't enjoy giving him pain like he had been doing to you." Ryan S. said with a small smile.

Both ryans took the bully to heal him and fixed the fence before leaving the group.

Ace felt the weight of the weights come back on his body and let out a sigh he was holding.

"Thanks for pulling me off." He said and they nodded before rika handed both ace and kasumi their bags. They left since it would be harder for ace to get his workout now.

Meanwhile, the ryans were healing the bully and keeping him in a deep, deep sleep. They healed him to where he was just sore, but let him keep the memories of ace kicking his ass.

"Something tells me that something in ace is waking up, but its too early to tell." Ryan S. said.

"But he needs to be watched for a while." Ryan K. said and the other nodded.

"I think that leech will do something soon." Was added before leaving the room.

The small group was at ace's house watching rika train with ace's father when he came home from work. The group of five were talking about some things and rika was the one that asked ace if his father could start training her. He thought about it for a few minutes and he nodded his head thinking it was a good idea.

"It good to start you off slow and slowly go faster till you can't keep up." Ace's father eplained before the training began.

'When will that card will trigger.' Ace thought about the blank card rika has from him.

After a couple of hours, rika was on the ground breathing hard and kasumi had just returned with some water for her. Ace was looking at her before kissing her head with a small smile.

"Keep it up and you will be in my league and kasumi in a couple years." Ace had a teasing grin. Rika would have punched him, but she was too worn out to do so.

Ace carried her to the couch and dropped her on it before handing her a small towel to dry off.

"Your renamon went to get you some clothes so you can take a shower before dinner if you want." He said before heading back out.

He and kasumi were training with his father since he was only bearly winded after rika couldn't handle anymore. Soon rika was sleeping on the couch dreaming of ace and fighting by him and kasumi plus their renamon.

Meanwhile, both ace and kasumi were giving his father trouble since he was slightly tired from training rika. By the time dinner came around, all three were on their knees breathing hard and heavy.

"Soon both of you will have to fight each other then picking on me." His father said and they nodded. They went to get cleaned up for dinner and ace noticed rika still napping on the couch.

In rika's dream:

Rika is dreaming of being with ace and walking through the sakura trees, but they were enjoying the silence.

"Rika-chan do you want to stand by me when we fight digimon or have round two with that leech?" Dream ace asked.

She thought about before nodding her head.

"Yes. I want to be at your and our digimon side to equal with you." She said as dream ace kissed her head. He simply smiled.

With that, her dream was a peaceful one before the smell of food was waking her. Ace had food in his hands as she was waking up to see him.

"I saved you some food." He said handing her the dinner.

"Did I sleep through it already?" She asked and he shook his head.

"Thought you wanted to be alone to eat." He said and she went to think about the dream.

She took her dinner from him before eating it at a pace with some manner.

"How is your training with the twins and the other two rookies?" She asked between bites

"Its going, but my own training will have to be stopped with this new training for my new form." He explained.

"Rena-chan and kasumi-chan's training is about the same, but we need time and experience with the forms like how the body moves and training with the attacks." Was added and she nodded.

(AN: The original gang will reveal their skill later to show how the old school do it.)

Evryone went to sleep for the night after ace took kasumi and rika back to their respective homes. Ace was looking at his ceiling as his mind was thinking on too many things like being able to become a digimon. Soon he went to sleep because he had school in the morning.

The two ryans were on the roof looking at the stars just thinking about couple of things like helping the two humans being digimon.

"We will have to bring in the second gen in next because of the leech." Ryan S. said and his twin nodded agreeing with him.

"So we are going by that line of logic." Was replied.

"What logic?" Ryan K. asked.

Both chuckled as their partners were watching them.

"Two of them are already back, but the rest will be needed so they can pull out their aces. I'm wondering about ace and if he is going to get to the next stage or blast all the way to mega level." Was said as a thought and there was a nod of a head.

"Well, we have some gathering to do so we can be prepared for the second act of killing that digileech." Was the last thing said before those four faded into thin air. The card glowed in the darkness of the case as a blue card appeared in front of the deck.

Ace woke up before dawn before getting clothes for his shower. He was thinking of things in no order, but letting the water hit him. He turned the water to cold so it would help him wake up though he was taking a longer shower than normal. Soon he was ready for school and down the stairs as his parents, their digimon, and his renamon were at the table eating breakfast.

'I don't know about doing my morning exercises since three of us have to get used to being in new forms.' Ace thought while eating his breakfast that his mother gave him.

"Morning." He greeted his family and gave him a nod.

Soon ace was walking to school like it was any other day and his mind was thinking over a number of things like skipping his morning training or not.

'I think that some walking on the track will help clear my mind.' Ace thought once he made it to the school grounds.

'With the bully out of my way for a while, I won't have to watch my back or my friends of underhanded tricks of that bastard.' He added as an afterthought.

He spent most of the time before class walking on the track listen to his music on his Ipod. Rika was watching him walking when she got their and she was wondering what he was thinking about. Meanwhile, kasumi was busy doing her own job working as the Illumina knight.

"Maybe ace will need my help again." She thought before getting back to business.

When it was closer for class to start, ace stopped before seeing rika there sitting by his bag. He walked over to her and picked up his bag.

"When did you get here rika-chan?" Ace asked her.

"Maybe some time after you did. You were walking the track when I got here so I left you be. I think you were thinking on something pretty hard during your walk." She said and he nodded.

"One of the main things i'm thinking about is when that dracula reject is coming around again for the last time." He said and she nodded.

"Don't worry ace. You have us and the old guys. Plus a handful of digimon." She said and he nodded again.

"Yeah so I hope get a handle of the digimon half of me or I might be like terriermon was when he first digivolved into gargomon." He replied.

"Just relax and let school take your mind off of it." She said and they went to class.

During the day, ace knew rika was right and class made his worries leave his mind for a while. Soon it was lunch and ace had gotten his before going to the usual table. While eating his lunch, he was drawing his renamon's new form as he saw it. Rika and the other tamers came in and joined him talking about homework and other things.

"Your were right rika-chan. Class did help calm my nerves." Ace said and she smirk.

"Told you so." She said playfully.

Kazu had a stupid thought and went to take ace's drawing to look at it, but he felt eyes were watching him.

"Keep playing stupid, baka, and we won't show mercy." Rika said to him as both her and ace were giving him dark glares. He backed away scared knowing what they could do to him.

"What are you doing ace?" Takato asked.

"Drawing. One of the things to help me calm down like walking on the track or actually training. Except with being a digimon changes that till me, kasumi-chan, and rena-chan learns how to use our forms. My whole training schedule is gone, but I think I can make a new one with my step-brothers help." He explained and they nodded.

He put his drawing back into his books to put it in his art binder when he gets home. He had already finished his lunch, but he was talking with them about a plan for the return on the leech.

"We will have to keep the plan flexible, but biomerge when he comes back. We were lucky to have help when we did, but I think the older people had their own motives." He said.

Lunch had to come to an end so they went back to class as ace went to focus on his studies. Meanwhile, the ryans were sitting on a roof of building again like before talking on the phone with two other people.

"Yeah You and the others will be needed. The power of DNA digivolution will be needed again and burn the leech at the stake." Ryan K. said.

"Also both groups might be helping the third group train." Was added.

"TK and kari have been here since he is the principal. She is a teacher like she wanted." Ryan S. said.

"You might only have a couple days to get here, but I don't know when the leech is coming back." He added.

Soon they hung up before laying on the building with a sigh.

"They might make it in time with imperialdramon dragon mode, but it's wait and see till it shows up." He said.

"I think ace could think of something with omnimon and imperialdramon, but I think he needs to see paladin mode before trying something." Ryan K. said rubbing his head.

"Still those three will need up the training so they need to fight while in the forms." The renamon said after a while and both and the gatomon nodded.

"They need the practice, but it will take time." The gatomon said.

"So the race against time and the waiting game begins." Was the last thing said before they faded away to set things up for the three rookies.

Chapter 7 End

Remake Ace: Well that took forever.

Me: I got stuck with a bad case of writer's block.

Original ace: So the second group is on the way I think.

Me: Yeah, the person who was asking for that in the review will be happy I hope.

Remake Ace: Why is the card making cards more often than now?

Me: Because you will have train that power to control it or it will be turned into a crutch.

Kasumi: Please keep leaving reviews, but also message Koshikaden.

Me: I will try to read them if I have any. Flamers will be ignored or used to make ramen.

Remake Ace: See you next chapter.

Koshikaden Out!