A/N: Sorry for the wait everyone. Here is the next chapter with mine and hopefully your favourite couple, Rukato and RenaGuil. Enjoy.
Chapter 9: Memories:
"Spiral Twister!"
"Diamond Storm!"
Most of the D Reaper Soldiers were wiped out by Biyomon's and Renamon's attacks. After it was all over, they took a deep sigh as Sora and Rika joined them, and then Sora realized something.
"Wait a minute…" Sora said in shock. "Where's Impmon? He was with us a minute ago."
"He's gone" Rika said as she looked around. "Maybe we got separated while we were fighting."
"So what now?" Biyomon asked "Do we find him or what?"
Renamon then looked in the sky. "It's something right. Me and Rika and Impmon are the only warriors fighting for our world. Wish Henry and Suzie are still here and… them."
"Who?" Sora asked.
"Oh, there are some people we do remember in the past. He's a good kid, and his digimon was kindhearted as well." Rika smiled as she crosses her arms "It's a shame they are not here. We sure would love to see their faces again."
Sora nodded. "You care about this boy?" Rika was shocked to hear that but nodded. "Yeah, I just hope Tai regain more of his memories and realize how much I love him as well."
"Wishful thinking I guess" Rika said "Anyway, we gotta go and find Impmon. Sure, since he has no tamer, he gets double the amount of Alice's power while we gets ours separately but it would be worth looking into on what he's doing."
"Good idea" Renamon nodded. "Let's get…" but they were interrupted by running footsteps.
"Someone's coming" Biyomon said as she and the others get into their stance.
Suddenly, 2 figures came around the corner and stopped in front of Sora, Rika, Biyomon and Renamon. Rika and Renamon's glares disappeared to a shocked and surprised faces and gasped. A boy with brown hair and yellow goggles with blue lens and black baggy shorts appeared. Along with him is a red dragon-dinosaur like digimon with bat-like ears, a white stomach, a hazard symbol on his chest and black strips.
Sora and Biyomon looked surprised too. They haven't met them before. "Are you two new here?" Sora asked "cause we didn't see you two before."
"I supposed not" said the boy "Sorry about running into you girls. You all alright?" Then he and the digimon ran by them.
"Wait!" Biyomon said cause them to stop for a while "Who are you two? You two are defiantly warriors of Diaboromon but we don't sense any evil in you."
The red digimon remained silent before saying "If I were you, I wouldn't stay around here for long. This place is kinda dangerous, especially with D Reaper Soldiers around."
"Err… thanks for the warning but that doesn't…" Sora began but was cut off by Rika and Renamon's sudden outburst.
"T…Takato? Takato, you're here?" Rika gasped "When did you get summoned here? We were worried!"
"Guilmon" Renamon gasped as well to the red digimon "Guilmon, is it… really you?"
Takato and Guilmon were surprised, but at the same time, confused. "I'm surprised you know our names, but… who are you two?" Guilmon asked. This cause a shocked look from Renamon.
"Huh? Did we… meet somewhere before?" Takato asked, shocking Rika. "Anyway, sorry. Really got to get going. Come on, Guilmon!" And they ran off.
"You… know them?" asked Biyomon in surprise.
"Yes. They… like you and Tai and Biyomon and Agumon, I have feelings for him and Renamon have feelings for his digimon" Rika said.
"Then you two better go after them" Sora said. "If they're people you cherish, go after them. We'll head back to the Sanctuary."
"Will do" Renamon said. As Sora and Biyomon take their leave she then said to Rika. "It's him, alright. No mistaking it. That's really them."
"But what I don't understand is, is why they are on Diaboromon's side?" Rika asked "Did they forgotten us?"
"No. If we talk to them, I'm sure they remember. Wait… you don't think… they are after Impmon right?" Renamon asked in alarm.
"Oh yes!" Rika said in alarm too "Impmon did kill Jeri's Leomon in the past. Takato and Guilmon must still remember that! Come on, we must find and talk to them at once!"
Renamon nodded and calls out "Guilmon, come back!" as she ran ahead.
"Takato, wait!" Rika called as she follows.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, Impmon begins looking around after being separated from the others.
"Man, I wonder where the others went" Impmon said to himself "But these D Reaper Soldiers just keep coming. If I don't watch myself I…" then he stopped and turned around and looked surprised. "You? Goggle boy and pineapplehead?" Impmon was surprised to see Takato and Guilmon standing before them "What are you two doing in a place like this? And what's with the scowls?" They looked at Impmon very angrily. Impmon then changed the subject "Anyway, great that you two are here. We need help and these soldiers are multiplying as we…" but then he was interrupted by Takato.
"We're here to destroy you. In other words, we're taking you down, you monster!" Takato said "What else would we be doing here."
"D…Destroy me?" Impmon asked in surprise. Then he remembered that back in the past, he did kill Jeri's Leomon as Beelzemon. He groaned and said in a cross voice. "Don't tell me that's it? Diaboromon and his creeps brought you two here to try and beat me did they? You still remember that day and not anything else? You two can't just stop pestering me, don't you?"
"Can the talk already!" Guilmon scowled as he goes into his stance "Shut it and bring it on, or are you too scared to fight us?"
"Stupid kid, gone and gotten yourself brainwashed" Impmon snarled back "well, you two asked for it, you traitors!" And he goes into his stance too when…
"Impmon!"
"Impmon, stop!"
Rika and Renamon ran past him and stopped in between them facing Takato and Guilmon.
"Rika? Renamon?" Impmon asked in surprise.
"Just… wait a minute OK?" Rika said to Impmon.
"Hey, there's no need to worry" Impmon said "I can handle these two on my own. You two can just step back and keep safe."
But to his surprise, Takato and Guilmon loses their glares and now looked at each other confused.
"Rika?" Takato asked himself.
"Renamon?" Guilmon asked himself.
They were trying to remember their names and who there are but couldn't.
"No, Impmon" Renamon said "We won't let you. They understand if we explain. They'll remember. I know they will. Just, give us a little time."
"Alright, you sure?" Impmon said "tell me something, Renamon, you love Guilmon, don't you?" Renamon blushed at this but Impmon understood. "I'll understand. Go. See if you can reach them."
Rika and Renamon stood a couple of steps further towards the two. It was Rika who spoke first. "Hey, goggle-head. It's me, Rika. The Digimon Queen, remember? And Dino-boy, you remember Renamon right?"
"My name's not 'goggle-head' and I don't know any Rikas" Takato shouted "Now, get out of our way! This is mine and Guilmon's fight! It has nothing to do with you!"
"Yes it does, Takato!" Rika said "It has a lot to do with us!" Takato still looked in determination and confusion but Rika continued "You… remember our adventures together, don't you? Even we don't remember everything. But there's one thing we do know, is that we remember you two. Takato, I never forget you. And Renamon never forget Guilmon too."
"I don't…" Takato was at a lost for words.
"You fought to protect us all" Rika continued "And you even taught me a thing or two about friendship and love, remember?"
"We don't know what you're talking about, OK?" Guilmon retorted "As Takato told you, get out of our way! Don't make me go through you two!"
"We're not moving!" Renamon said "We know you won't hurt us!"
"What are you… talking about?" Guilmon said as he lost his glare and was deep in confusion and worry. Takato begins to do the same as well.
"Guilmon…" Renamon said as she and Rika walked up to them "we… we wanted to see you two for so long."
"If you two just remember" Rika said "there won't be any fighting against friends. We'll stay with you two and keep you two safe until you do."
"She's right" Renamon said "we'll never leave you. So please… come with us."
Takato and Guilmon gave a small gasp and they looked even more puzzled. "Look I…" they said. But then they looked in shock as an familiar evil Digimon appeared before them.
"Myostimon!" Impmon gasped in surprise.
"That is enough out of you two!" Myostimon said to Rika and Renamon "Crimson Lighting!"
He creates some red energy stream from his hands and used them as whips as he aims them at Rika and Renamon.
"LOOK OUT!"
Takato pushed Rika out of the way and Guilmon pushed Renamon out of the way. But by doing so, they looked the blow themselves sending them hurling into the air and crashing to the ground just behind them.
"TAKATO!" Rika screamed in alarm.
"GUILMON!" Renamon screamed.
Impmon reaches to them first. "Hey! Hey, stay with us you two! Rika, Renamon, I'll look after them! You deal with vampire boy here!"
"Hmph. You seasoned Tamers are a troublesome lot" Myotstimon said "Awakening memories in others better left forgotten."
"You… you're one of Diaboromon's aren't you?" Rika said.
"Yes I am. Amusing is it not, that the boy and dinosaur summoned her to slay Impmon would fall defending one of their own enemies" Myotstimon said smirking evilly "If not for your meddling, we may have born witness a more ironic tragedy here."
"How dare you! Using Guilmon like he was a pawn! You won't get away with this!" Renamon snarled.
"Impmon, take Takato somewhere safe!" Rika said angrily "You'll pay for this! We'll take you down ourselves!" He slashed a card through her digivice yelling "Digi-Modify! Digivolution Activated!"
Renamon digivolved in Kyubimon and goes into her stance.
Myotstimon grinned evilly and said "You two don't want to be with them as they die?"
"They won't!" Kyubimon said "we'll make sure of that!"
Myostimon grinned evilly and said "Grisly Wing!" and manipulates a countless swarm of bats, and send them towards Kyubimon who dodged out of the way.
"Fox Tail Inferno!" each of her nine tails lit on each ends and fired fireballs at Myostimon who flew away and she gave chase with Rika running along the platform besides them.
Meanwhile, Impmon watched in horror as Takato and Guilmon, who laid on their backs, began discorporate into dark smoke and they were breathing weakly.
"Hey, come on!" Impmon called out to them "This is the real deal! Don't go dying on me here, guys!"
"I…Impmon…" Guilmon said weakly "please… protect… Renamon…"
"Impmon…" Takato said weakly as well "Take care of… Rika…" And with that both of them closes their eyes as their head lulls to one side.
"None of that now!" Impmon yelled "Stupid kids!" And his hands both glowed with white energy "Since I have double the amount of Alice's powers while the others have 1 each in both human and digimon so you both get half of this! Take this!" And he put both hands on Takato's and Guilmon's chests.
The energy of Alice were transferred from Impmon to both Takato and Guilmon and the dark smoke stopped spooling off Takato and Guilmon. Impmon then collapsed to the ground opposite of them and laid on the ground about to lose conscious.
"Telling me...to do stuff for you...when you're gone... Like I'm gonna let you two die...and take care of people for you... Pfah. And no more saving your skin... Pull some punk stunt again, don't look at me…" he then closes his eyes before saying "…Next time, it's on you two."
"Dragon Wheel!" Kyubimon yelled as she starts to spin her body very fast, which causes the flames on her body to erupt into a fiery inferno. This turns her body into a ball of swirling blue fire. When in this state, she summons a mystical dragon, which emerges from her body and aimed at Myostimon.
"Crimson Lightning!" Myostimon destroyed the fire dragon with his red energy whips. As Kyubimon charged again, Myostimon held up his hand telling them to stop as he gazed towards where Impmon, Takato and Guilmon laid. "Oh? It seems that events have taken a rather interesting turn."
"What are you...?" Kyubimon asked when Rika gasped as she turned to see what's wrong and what she saw made her gasp too.
"Impmon?" Rika gasped as Impmon laid on the ground opposite Takato and Guilmon.
"W...What happened?" Kyubimon asked as she reverted back to Renamon.
"He has given his own strength to that boy and dinosaur" Myostimon said "now that digimon is but a empty vessel. I've acquired quite the unexpected boon" he chuckles and walks over to Impmon's body "It's time that we part ways, my dears."
"Hey, come back here!" Rika called "Our battle isn't over!"
"No... but the war may as well be..." Myostimon said.
"What are you...?" Rika asked.
"Your hands will be full enough fighting D-Reaper Soldiers" Myostimon said and turned to the sleeping Takato and Guilmon "let those two fall just the same, if that is what they wishes." He laughed evilly and grabbing Impmon's body, he teleported away.
"Impmon!" Rika alarmed but they were long gone. "That creep just taken Impmon! What is he up to?" But then she saw Renamon running towards Guilmon.
"Guilmon!" Renamon called in alarm close to tears and knelt down and begin trying to rouse Guilmon's chest. "Guilmon... wake up! Please! Wake up, Guilmon! Please!"
Rika then saw Takato's body and ran to him. "Takato!" she called as she knelt down and shook his chest "Takato... open your eyes! What now, Renamon? Think. What should we do?"
"I... I don't know" Renamon sobbed.
"Rika! Renamon!" they both turned to see Joe, Gomamon, Taiki and Shoutmon running towards them.
"Taiki! Joe!" Rika said as they go over to them.
"Hey, are you two OK?" Taiki said and then looked down and saw Takato and Guilmon lying down "What happened?"
Rika and Renamon closed their eyes trying not to make them see them cry, but failed as tears come down from them. "Where do we even start?" Renamon said.
"How about a deep breath?" Gomamon said "Take your time and fill us in."
After a deep breath, Rika and Renamon told them what happened.
"Alright... I get the situation now" Joe said "Nothing to get upset over though. Hear me out will you?" Rika and Renamon looked at him and nodded "If Impmon got taken away, that means he's still alive right? And Takato and Guilmon are over there sleeping like a log."
"I bet a good punch would wake them right up" Shoutmon said.
"Tactful as a freight train aren't you, Shoutmon?" Taiki said "So, Rika, Renamon, kicking and punching aside for the moment..."
"I didn't say we should kick them" Shoutmon said.
"Well whatever we do with him, the three of us still have some fighting to do with all of Diaboromon's other warriors. So what we probably shouldn't be doing right now is sitting around here, getting all glassy-eyed and glum about things. And besides, with Impmon's strength passed down to them, that would make Takato and Guilmon our allies now, right? I mean, they are now warriors of Alice right?" Joe said.
Rika and Renamon was shocked. They didn't think of that. With that said about their lovers now on Alice's side, they sighed of relief.
"I guess you're right" Renamon said.
"Alright then, it's settled" Joe said "the only thing to do is to keep forward right?"
Rika sighed and nodded "Right."
Renamon picked up Guilmon in her arms and Joe helped Rika carry Takato back to Alice's base.
Meanwhile…
"And who did you bring forth?" Apocalymon asked Myostimon as he approached him and Diaboromon and laid Impmon next to them "Is he not a Warrior of Alice?"
"He 'was' a warrior of Alice" Myostimon said "but that is of no importance. I must speak to the god of discord."
Diaboromon sat up from his chair and looked at Impmon. "A powerless pawn, drained of its former strength. Hehehe. This is your offering?"
It is. This pawn once sat on Harmony's board. But now...now, he is but an empty vessel. Diaboromon, my lord and master! Will you not grant unto this man a pittance of your own divine power?" Myostimon asked.
Apocalymon looked surprised. "What?"
"You need but to fill this vessel and we gain ourselves a mighty new ally to serve your will in this campaign" said Myostimon.
"Insolence! At what do you plot?" Apocalymon snarled as he suspected that Myostimon is up to something.
"Is that jealously or contempt I hear in your voice?" Myostimon said "I thought we both wished for the same thing, Apocalymon… victory for the god of discord. What else would I desire?"
Apocalymon grunts crossly but Diaboromon cackled and said "Very well. I shall give this pawn a taste of the power of discord. Let see him return to the board as one of my own."
Myostimon cackled.
And thus, the tables have changed… Impmon shall awaken in the 13th cycle, as a Warrior of Diaboromon, under Myostimon's watchful eye. But on the plus note, Takato and Guilmon shall fight again, as Warriors of Alice.
To be continued…
A/N: That's all of them now. And Thomas, in the next chapter, will uncover an shocking truth from Tai. So stay tuned.