The 7th War

by Paladin9800

What if the Digital world faced not a single mastermind, but an entire army that threatened the balance of Virus, Data, and Vaccine types ways of life? And what happens when even Jennai, the head scientist of the observers for the Digital world can't save the eggs of the chosen from Piedmon's invasion? Rated T for violence, some language here and there, and some violent imagery.

10. Chapter 9: Phantoms Ruins Part 2

The 7th war

Chapter 9: Phantom Ruins (Part 2)

Phantom Ruins Graveyard area

The trio of friends were fighting for their lives as dozens of Bakemon's and Candlemon's were appearing from all over trying to kill them. The Three friends had been fighting for the better part of an hour and were tiring out rapidly from the non stop combat.

"Spitfire Blast!" Agumon shouts out as his large fireball attack shoots out and incinerates 4 Candlemon and 3 Bakemon's that were charging at him in a group. He heat of the attack and the ensuing explosion of flames took care of them almost instantly, the remaining burns the survivors sustained ended the last of their HP and turned them back into a small pile of Digi-eggs.

"Vortex Claws!" Biyomon calls out as 6 blades, each one being 2ft long, of sharp wind shoot out from her claws on the ends of her wings at the enemy Digimon. 6 Candlemon Meet their end from one blade of wind per target turning them all into their Digi-egg forms. 2 Bakemon come for Biyomon from opposite sides of her body trying to pincer attack her from behind and in front. She immediately shoots out a "Spiral twister!" towards the front Bakemon, while Seth activates the card Wind Barricade temporarily trapping the rear Bakemon in a small tornado of wind causing him to stop in his tracks as his friend is turned into a Digi-egg by Biyomon's attack.

Just as the barricade drops so he can resume his attack he is suddenly slashed in half by Agumon with his "Sharp Claw!" attack after Seth had activated the Dragon Claw Combat card. The Bakemon's body slides slowly in half from the attack only to disperse his data and reform into his Digi-egg form. Both Digimon turn to their Tamer who was currently standing over 2 Digi-eggs with a Digital Sword from the Digivice inventory.

Seth turns towards his two Digimon and gives them a thumbs up in victory and to let them know he was fine. They return the gesture with nods and scan the surrounding area for more enemies. After making sure that these Digimon were the last ones for now they absorb the eggs into the egg carrier function and find a nearby tree to rest below.

"How-*phew*- How much-*pant*- further to the next zone? *wheeze*" Agumon asks Seth through gulps of air from how hard they had been fighting for the last hour in this area alone.

Biyomon was right behind him with the exhaustion as she notices something, "As we get closer to the end of the zone *pant*, the enemies seem to be growing in number *ugh* this last fight alone was close to what? 36 enemies?"

Seth looks at the number of the Digi-eggs collected from this last fight and counts it out, "39 actually and yeah I've noticed that too, think the champion at the end of the zone knows we are here and wants to take us out for our data?"

Agumon thinks as Biyomon answers, "If I remember correctly from my scouting missions around the island then the boss of this area is called Soulmon, a Champion level Virus ghost/magician type Digimon, he is strong but he isn't power hungry. Going after us for our data and items isn't in his nature unless he was starving, and as the boss the fruits and meat that generate in this area should be going to him first before his subordinates, so the amount of attacks from his Bakemon minions is weird."

Agumon then plops his left claw into his right claw as he has an idea, "Maybe someone else beat him and took over? After all these guys fought us to the end, if Soulmon is as you said they should have fled to tell their boss that the 'big bad tamers and his Digimon' are on their way there to destroy him, shouldn't they?"

Seth then looks up the stats of an average Soulmon from his Digivice encyclopedia and cringes at the information.

"If he was wiped out, the new boss will have to be pretty strong based on Soulmon's stats alone. And even stronger given how the encyclopedia states that Soulmon is a powerful illusionist and curse weilder"

Biyomon then starts to sweat, "You think it could be a Devimon? The last one we fought would have been able to beat Soulmon with only some trouble."

Agumon shakes his head, "Nah it couldn't be him, I would imagine he would want a second round to prove his strength and might, not give us all this data, EXP, and combat experience that would allow us to grow more powerful given how our last encounter went."

Seth then retracts the Digivice and makes sure his sword is secure on his left hip, "One thing is for certain guys we won't find out just resting here, if you two are ready let's go take care of this new boss and help out the Bakemon and Candlemon that are stuck with this tyrant who sends them to their deaths for the fun of it!"

With that small speech Agumon and Biyomon stand with determination in their eyes as they all look towards the exit to Phantom Ruins zone where a large church could be seen near the digital wall that divides the zones from each other. With a strong purpose to their step they march towards the enemy lair.

Holy Angel Palace Sorcerymon's lab area

A crash is heard from the inside of the lab followed by an absolutely livid roar of anger from none other than Sorcerymon himself.

"NOOOOOOOOO! Damn it! Angemon! Come in! This is Sorcerymon! I repeat Come in!" Sorcerymon frantically pushes the communicator call button again and again as he continues to yell into the microphone on his computer to try and reach Angemon.

He was peacefully coming into his lab to check the recent scans of the Digital world for any more readings of the crests when he saw a notification that made him drop his thermos with his morning tea in shock. The notification was 'Angemon 0098 signal lost in Phantom Ruins zone, please re-establish communication to check and confirm signal'. Having seen that Sorcerymon had been working tirelessly for the last hour to re-establish contact with the missing champion. So far nothing has worked.

The only thing that let him know that Angemon was still alive despite not getting a response from him was that his Digi-egg hadn't reappeared in the Palace Nursery where all of the soldiers were automatically sent to should they fall in battle and be turned back into their egg forms.

His anger and panic diminished as he saw a Digivice signal nearby the last area Angemon fell out of contact. Feeling some hope Sorcerymon begins to call the Digivice and then stops his hand one inch away from the call button. If I contact them will they be able to do anything? After all the opponent was able to capture Angemon with little to no difficulty.

Closing his eyes to think more deeply Sorcerymon realizes a good compromise. The least I can do is warn him and his Digimon companions about the danger.

Making his plan Sorcerymon begins to scan the area for the champion that captured Angemon, "Computer begin scan in area around the final Church in the Phantom Ruins zone where Angemon 0098 was last seen in."

"Beginning scan..."

Having collected his thermos of tea Sorcerymon begins to pour himself a cup to calm down with as the scan commences.

"Scan complete, local Digimon found are Candlemon" That's expected "Bakemon" Also a known factor "An Agumon and Biyomon with a Human signature" That is Seth and his two companions, as Sorcerymon begins to drink his tea the computer gives him the last signal, "IceDevimon"

"PFFFFFTTT!" a small rainbow is seen as the spray of tea coming out of Sorcerymon's mouth came out extremely fast and in a very fine mist form in response to this news. "AN ICEDEVIMON!? Computer confirm scan!"

"IceDevimon signal confirmed in the church area of the Phantom Ruins zone"

Dropping his tea cup on the table Sorcerymon immediately begins to call the Digivice of Seth and his two companions to warn them of the danger they were in, Please let me be in time to warn them!

Phantom Ruins Church area

Seth and his two companions were looking at a very spooky church that had at least three stories to it along with a possible basement area and it was a large building, the first floor alone was almost the size of a high school gymnasium, with 4 Candlemon and 3 Bakemon guards at the doors and in the courtyard directly in front of the steps leading to the church entrance.

Taking stock of the guards Seth then begins to bring out his bow and arrow set from the storage folder in his Digivice when his communicator goes off. Quickly answering it before the guards could hear it Seth brings the Digivice to his ear like a cell phone and speaks quietly into the speaker, "Seth here, who is calling?"

In a serious and firm voice Seth hears, "This is Sorcerymon speaking! I have vital information regarding the foe you are about to face in the church area of Phantom Ruins, it is an IceDevimon a champion level virus type, he has the ability to consume raw data from other Digimon once he freezes them to gain their abilities and attributes to increase his power and move set, after eating Soulmon I can only guess from the data that he has the power of illusions now. Proceed with extreme caution so you don't end up like our Angemon agent that was sent to observe this area and be captured as one of his meals. Understood?"

Seth looks to his two companions to make sure they heard the information as well, seeing both of their nods Seth answers quietly, "Understood sir, we will bring Angemon out of there alive and well, and we will remain as safe as we can."

Sorcerymon is heard on the other side of the line sighing in relief, "Very well at this point that is all I can ask. Be careful and swift, the longer you take the longer IceDevimon has to figure out what illusions will work against you the most for faking you out. Good luck team. Radio silence for now, Sorcerymon out."

As the line goes dead, Seth looks to his companions once more and sees their eyes harden with determination and trust in each other, smirking Seth then says, "C'mon guys, we've got Digimon to save."

A quiet "Right." is all Seth hears as he draws his bow back and aims down at the courtyard where the Candlemon roam in their patrol formation, while Agumon and Biyomon head off to surround and surprise their targets.

Phantom Ruins Courtyard area

One of the Candlemon looks around and sighs in irritation, "I'm bored as hell just patrolling back and forth! Can't something happen already!?"

His fellow Candlemon looks to him and says in fear, "You idiot! Don't you know that old troupe!? The minute you say that, something is gonna-!"

Hearing a shattering sound the first Candlemon looks to his panicked friend and sees an arrow piercing the spot his friend just was with a new Digi-egg laying there next to the arrow as he hears, "Pepper Breath! Spiral Twister!" coming from the other area of the courtyard, he hears a quick cry of panic from the church doors and rushes to them.

Upon reaching the entrance he sees 5 fresh Digi-eggs lying on the ground with no other guards at the door, sweating furiously in confusion and fear Candlemon was about to call out the alarm, however he never saw the arrow coming until his body was already a Digi-egg again.

Agumon peeks his head out from the bushes by the stairs as Biyomon comes down from clearing the roof of sky top guards. They look around one last time to make sure they are clear when Seth comes sneaking up to them by using the tombstones as his cover by dashing from stone to stone.

Seth pops up once he reaches his two Digimon and walks over to them as he puts the bow and arrows away into the storage function of his Digivice. After pulling out the combat sword once more the trio of friends turn towards the doors of the church to see them closed tight.

"Alright guys we're gonna need an entrance in there." Seth looks to his two companions who both nod and prepare an attack each so they can burst through the doors. However right before they fire their attacks they hear a loud CLANG and see the doors start to creak open.

Biyomon looks nervously to her two friends and speaks up, "Ummmm should we find a less obviously trapped entrance into the church?"

Agumon looks to her and the door and remembers his attack, "Pepper Breath!" his Fireball attack launches into the church only to be snuffed out by an extremely cold wind blowing it out like a birthday candle.

Seth sweat drops at this, "Well they are obviously expecting us, Agumon save Greymon form for after the bos reveals himself then Biyomon and I will keep the minions off you while you handle the big ice cube, ok?"

Agumon nods and gives Biyomon and Seth a thumbs up, "Heh no prob! I'll melt him faster than a snowball in the summer!"

Biyomon grabs his arm just before he dashes into the church and says to him, "Just be careful I couldn't bear it if you got turned into a Digi-egg like my family..."

Agumon smiles gently at her and grips her wing in comfort, "Don't worry with Seth and you supporting me, I won't lose!"

With the fire of bravery and friendship in their eyes the trio jog into the church and set up a triangle formation in the middle of the church of overturned and rotting pews.

They look around carefully trying to see anything among the dark corners of the walls and ceiling.

Suddenly the church is filled with a sinister laughter and a cold wind blows through and around the trio freezing the floor and everything else in it's path, Biyomon and Agumon think quickly and stand at Seth's back to use their flame based attacks against the wind continuously to shield both Seth and themselves from freezing like the room.

Once the wind was over they saw that the church had been turned into an icebox with icicles hanging from the ceiling.

Looking around carefully Biyomon begins to hover in the air while Agumon and Seth take a few testing steps to see how hard it was to keep their footing, luckily the ice was closer to hard packed snow so they could get a decent grip without loosing their footing.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Such delicious looking morsels have wondered into my ring! I won't lie I haven't tasted human data before! But I am relishing the chance to have a good taste of it!"

The trio hear the chilled voice resounding around them off the ice and walls and quickly scan their surroundings to find him before the voice could get the drop on them. Then from 15ft in front of them appears the wings and horns, and rest of the body, of IceDevimon appearing right out of the ice.

"Let me tell you three, you look- yikes!"

As he appears Biyomon and Agumon immediately launch their Spiral twister and Pepper Breath attacks towards him, however he manages to create an ice wall in front of him that takes all the damage from the two attacks.

A snide leer appears on his face with slight enthusiasm as he glares at the trio, "Fine if you three want to begin this show down, let's begin the show down!"

(Cue BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma OST - Condemnation Wings II)

He flaps his wings to gain some altitude and launches his first attack "Icicle spear!"

quickly creating and throwing a 6 ft lance of ice in his hand, the spear soars quickly towards the trio in an attempt to split them up.

It kind of works as Seth and Biyomon dive to the left as Agumon rolls to the right. The spear strikes the ground they once stood and causes a small explosion of frigid air to blow across the room. Biyomon immediately launches her Spiral Twister once more hoping to strike IceDevimon before he attack again.

The spiral of flames rushes towards the ice devil and he simply smiles as he calls out "Cold Breath!" the flame is frozen solid from him blowing on it, as the green spiral of ice hits the ground and shatters uselessly.

Smirking at the sad attempts of attacking him IceDevimon looks to the human hoping to shock him from their lack luster attempts of attacking him, only to see said human smiling up at IceDevimon with an arrow nocked on his bow. The arrow sails right towards IceDevimon's face as the Ice devil dives down to avoid the weapon. Landing in a standing crouch IceDevimon looks up to glare at them until he comes face to face with a Fireball flying right at him. Causing a small explosion on the cold Digimon the trio cheer and prepare their next assault on this ice virus.

Seth nocks another arrow as he then calls out to his two Digimon, "Biyomon get to the air and use your Feather Rain attack to keep him pinned down! Agumon I'm activating speed boost so get in there and keep him busy while Biyomon gets into position!"

Agumon charges IceDevimon as Biyomon soars through the air, the enemy looks up and smirks at how far Agumon still is until he hears a dreaded line, "Agumon Digivolve TOO! Greymon!"

Seth smirks as he pulls out a card and shouts out, "Speed Boost!"

Suddenly a small dinosaur has become a two story tall T-Rex with a lot more weight behind him as IceDevimon is literally bowled over and stomped on as Greymon runs to the other end of the church to turn around and build up momentum for another pass.

Biyomon is finally in position as she launches her feathers, "Feather Rain!" her feathers come raining down harder than sharp stones until Seth activates Steel Feathers making her attack all the more deadly as they suddenly become harder than steel.

Seth checks their opponents health as he sees they have managed to bring it down to 70% of his total maximum. "Guys we've got him going down steadily! He's already down by 30% health we can keep this up!"

Just has he says it though Seth hears a sinister evil chuckle coming from IceDevimon as the foe is slowly getting up, "Well I suppose I should be getting serious too now eh?"

(Cue Final Fantasy VII Advent Children - One Winged Angel (Music))

With only being able to say "Huh?" in response Seth is suddenly blasted back into one of the frozen pews with a very loud and painful THUD. As he opens his eyes Seth sees Biyomon on the ground with both her wings frozen and Greymon trying to push through the wind blowing around IceDevimon like a personal blizzard.

Greymon Finally manages to launch a Nova Blast attack at IceDevimon before he loses his footing and is sent sprawling across the church into the pile of frozen pews with a loud crash.

The approaching fireball is stopped cold, literally, as IceDevimon laughs and releases his Cold Breath attack freezing the ball of flames solid and grabbing it before sending the ice cold ball right back at Greymon.

Greymon was getting up after shaking his head from the ringing sound of all the ice he landed on breaking at once before he suddenly had a large object of ice crash into his chest sending him down again into the pile of ice. As he tries to get up once more he is sucker punched across his helmet as IceDevimon lands an Ice Punch attack square into his jaw.

Greymon lands hard into the ice covered wall with barely 10% of his HP left and he is suddenly reverted to Agumon from all the nonstop damage he took just then.

Biyomon is struggling to get the ice off her wings as Seth is running towards Agumon.

IceDevimon is smirking evilly as he approaches Agumon and is readying his Touch of Cold attack in his hand to freeze Agumon solid just like he did with Angemon.

Seth jumps up and tries to slash down at IceDevimon only to fall through an illusion of the ice devil. Looking around quickly Seth suddenly has his face gripped by one of IceDevimon's caws that had risen from the floor and is slowly crushing his face.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Seth drops his sword in pain as he tries to grip the arm that is currently attempting to crush his skull in.

"Hahahahaha! You think you can beat me? I beat Soulmon and he was slightly stronger than your orange dinosaurs Champion form kid! Next time you should have two Champion levels attack me! You might stand a chance then! Hahahahaha! Oh wait! There won't be a next time!" With a sneer IceDevimon starts to apply more pressure to Seth's slowly creaking skull as the human is starting to go limp from pain in his grip.

Agumon tries to get up but he is in so much pain he can't, No! Not again! I need to turn into Greymon again! Please! Body listen to me!

Biyomon is frozen in remembrance and fear at what she is currently witnessing, she suddenly sees her family and friends being torn apart by an invading Virus Digimon force once again, only this time she had actually done something to try to stop them.

It's happening again! I can't stop him! And Seth and Agumon are dying in front of me! Biyomon's thoughts run rampant and start to mix together from pain, panic, fear, frustration, and anger, her memories flash through her mind in fast forward, she sees her mother being blown up by an enemy Ultimate, her father being impaled by Piedmon's blades, and her siblings egg being stolen while she ran. She was not going to let that happen again!

Her emotions started to run fever pitch around her in a fiery aura melting the ice around her and slightly singing the church floor beneath it. She slowly stood up as she felt power surging through her body as Seth's Digivice was glowing with a hot red aura shooting a stream of red data right at her. All of her emotions and thoughts combine until only one clear thought remains, I WILL SAVE THEM!

IceDevimon was having the time of his life slowly crushing this insignificant Human's head in his hand, but he was getting hungry, "Well kid not that this hasn't been fun, but even I have to eat… And you are my main dish! Hahahahahahaha-huh?"

His laugh is cut off as he suddenly feels a surge of heat coming from behind him He looks to the clearly still Rookie Agumon, but notice he is in as much shock as the orange dinosaur, the human is still barely conscious but manages out a weak, "You've got this Biyomon."

Eyes widening in shock, IceDevimon's head snaps around at the same time he drops Seth to the floor in a heap, Agumon quickly scooping up the human and getting him out of the way despite his body's screaming protests from pain.

IceDevimon is trembling in fear at seeing a horrible type match up right in front of him, only this time he was the one in danger.

(Cue Music 【My Hero Academia】 -You Say Run- (Orchestral Arrangement))

A small tornado of Fire had surrounded Biyomon after the stream of red data hit her, absorbing into her body and filling her with more energy than ever before, she yells out "Biyomon Digivolve TOO… Birdramon!"

Suddenly a 15ft tall bird made made of red/orange flames emerges from the spiral of fire, Her two clawed feet land graciously on the ground as her bill, filled with razor sharp teeth, opens to let out an ear piercing shriek of rage at the one who hurt her friends.

IceDevimon immediately panics and launches his classic attack, "Ice SPEAR!"

The lance of ice approaches the phoenix and melts as it comes close to her body becoming steam, she smirks (as well as you can with her beak anyway) and launches into the air above the ice Digimon, the frozen devil tried to launch himself after her so she wouldn't keep the high ground until she shouts out, "Bir-Flame!"

Sending out a blazing stream of fire right out of her mouth, and engulfing IceDevimon from head to boot. Coming out from the bath of fire the icicle falls to one knee with steam still coming off him and Seth's Digivice saying he was down to a mere 25% health left after a critical attack.

NO,NONONONO, I am the Champion who beat the previous boss of this area! I can't lose! IceDevimon looks up with a glare of determination leveled at the bird, I will defe-

His thoughts are cut short as he sees her wings wide open with at least 10 fireballs ready to launch right at him, IceDevimon was about to lunge to his left hoping to dodge the fireball barrage aimed at him when he suddenly gets hit after hearing, "Power Card activate!" followed by a "Spitfire Blast!", a large fireball lands right into his left leg from behind causing him to fall onto both knees.

"DAMN! I WON'T DIE HER-"

When suddenly he hears, "Meteor Wing!" come from above him and he suddenly get hit 10 times with the fireballs, each one feeling like a decent sized bomb was strapped to his body and they all went off one after another.

(Music end)

Seth and Agumon both look into the smoke as Birdramon lands near them ready to defend them from any other attacks, They see a slowly deleting IceDevimon as he is slowly turning back into a Digi-egg while he is covered in black scorch marks and is missing his left arm, and both wings from the damage he took. He looks to the heavens as his body is slowly disintegrating into 1's and 0's, "Forgive me Sir Wisemon… I have...fail…ed…you..." and his white colored Digi-egg covered in bat designs was then laying where he had been.

Birdramon goes back to Biyomon as she collapses in exhaustion due to this being her first Digivolution. She looks at her two friends as they two are laying on the groun with her in pain and exhaustion, Seth activates the recovery card and is letting the healing ability take affect on their aching bodies.

"Good job guys, we somehow pulled out a win there, but man was it a painful win." Seth states with a smirk towards his two companions, while his muscles were aching all over his body.

Agumon speaks up despite his obvious pain from the fight, "Yeah I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to finish him off, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to protect you two, and I'm sorry that-"

Biyomon cuts him off with a stern voice looking like she just went through a wind storm with how ruffled and worn down her feathers looked, "Agumon! First we'll just train more, Second it's ok we can protect each other as we get stronger, and whatever that third thing you were going to say was, forget it, we are alive, we can enjoy the euphoria of winning, and we are going to be fine with my new Digivolution to help out Greymon from now on, OK?"

Agumon gulps and nods his head, he may be stronger by stat base, but she had the air advantage and even he realized form spending time with her, a pissed off woman, is never a good sign, or survival strategy. "Alright… guess we will just have to train more and push ourselves further like you said. So let's finish healing and get out of here and into Lava Ridge Zone."

Seth and his two friends grunt as they sit up and see dozens of Candlemon, Bakemon and various other Digimon who look like they just stepped out of the shower around them, all of them glancing around nervously.

A Bakemon spoke up, "Is… is he gone?"

Seth looks around to the frightened faces of the gathered Digimon and smiles in relief, "Yep we took care of him his Digi-egg is over there."

All the Digimon look to the egg and then at each other and suddenly thunderous applause and cheering was coming from the gathered Digimon.

Seth slumps down into a sitting position on the floor to lessen the pain of his body, then says to his two companions, "I think we just became heroes in their eyes."

Biyomon smirks and with an eye roll says, "Gee you think?"

Agumon then realizes, "Maybe they can give us some supplies and a safe place to stay to heal our wounds as a payment for this?"

Seth thinks and then stands up to walk towards a Bakemon, "Wouldn't hurt to ask."

As they are greeted warmly and hugged by the Digimon they just rescued from IceDevimon's tyranny, on the roof still wet from his time as a living ice cube was Angemon, "Well they pulled it off, I'm sorry I wasn't much help this time around you three, but I'm glad you were able to pull through using the power and ties of friendship you have all developed in each other."

Smiling softly at the trio as they were being bandaged and given food by the Digimon they had saved his smile turned into a gasp of horror as he realized one key factor from this entire situation, "CRAP! Sorcerymon!"

Grabbing his communicator from his belt he switches it on only to see a new call coming in from none other than the aforementioned Digimon. Groaning at the earful he was no doubt going to receive Angemon opened the line and braced himself for any yelling…only for the line to be silent, "Hello?… Sorcerymon?"

The other end of the line comes in clearly but quietly, "Angemon, thank Yggdrasil you are alright, I was worried we had lost you forever brother."

Angemon scratches his cheek in shyness and surprise at this calm conversation, "I'm alright bro I was captured but wasn't harmed thanks to the efforts of our little prodigy team that has been going through the zones and gaining strength as a team."

Holy Angel Palace Sorcerymon's lab area

Sorcerymon pinches the bridge of his nose to relieve the strain he had been feeling from worry about his brother as he slumps into his lab chair.

"Well at least you are fine and I can now worry less about you."

"Yeah and now we can-"

Sorcerymon stands up suddenly as he slams his hands on his lab console while yelling at the top of his lungs, "YEAH! NOW WE CAN GET TO THE PART OF ME TELLING YOU TO BE MORE CAREFUL YOU IMBECILE! I HAVE TOLD YOU MANY TIMES TO ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EARS OPEN! WATCH YOUR BACK! DID YOU LISTEN?! NOOOOOOOO! I'M THE FIELD OPERATIVE AND SO ON AND SUCH DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I WORRIED ABOUT YOU! YOU BIG STEAMING PILE OF-"

Nearby as the rant continued we see the messenger Kudamon hiding around the corner of the entrance to Sorcerymon's lab alongside the lab assistant Kudamon.

"How long will he-?" asked the messenger Kudamon.

"Last time this happened was a good 2 hours later" Lab Kudamon said with a large anime style sweat drop going down his head at his bosses antics.

"Should we try to-?" asked the messenger Kudamon as the rant was only continuing.

"Let's get lunch and check on them in about an hour" Lab Kudamon said.

"Agreed" with the plan set both Rookies leave the area where they continue to hear a ranting and screaming mad Sorcerymon giving his brother a long lecture about his duties not just to the Palace and Tamers but to the Digimon who live in this world as well.

It would be another hour after their lunch before he finally ran of things to rant about, and by then Angemon had already used the mute mode of his communicator to shut off the long winded lecture.

7 Vices HQ Wisemon's study

"Hmmmmm, So IceDevimon was a failure was he?" Wisemon asks himself as he studied the data from his DemiDevimon spies he sent to log the data of the area, "Well at least the Human has grown stronger with his Digimon companions, they have unlocked a second Champion form and are able to fight in sync with their human and his Digimon warrior weapons, no doubt a gift from that bastard Jennai."

Lost in his thoughts Wisemon failed to see his teacher Piedmon hiding behind his ability the clown trick cloak to remain invisible and see his pupils progress as a schemer and planner. You have come far as a back stabbing master my pupil, but what is your keen interest in apparently trying to bolster the fighting capabilities of this trio of enemies I wonder?

As Piedmon wondered that he heard it, "Hmmm they are on the way to become strong enough to defeat the current 7 Vices and assist Devimon (Impmon) and I in taking the control so that we can rule as the Kings of this army and of the lands we have conquered, now to set up their next test in the Lava Ridge zone to help them become even stronger than they can currently imagine."

Getting to work on his notes and troop movements in the Lava Ridge Zone, Wisemon missed Piedmon leaving silently using his stealth and invisibility while mentally chuckling to himself. Hehehe well well, my pupil does take after me, to try and use my own plan against me and Murmukusmon is brilliant, now to warn my friend and tell him of this plot so that we can all team up and rule as a team, then see who emerges in the end victorious heheheheheHAHAHAHAHAA!