"Samurai of Sincerity"
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The group had all gone to the Digital World through the computer lab while Izzy waited on them in the lab.
They had picked up the signal of a digi egg and sent a message to Izzy to tell them they were going to look for it.
"Is anyone else starving?" Armadillomon asked as they all stopped walking.
"Yeah, me too. Maybe we should take a break." Dai said as her stomach hurt from hunger.
"But we're very close to finding the new digi egg." Yolei pointed out.
"When we find that digi egg, I'm going to eat it." Armadillomon said.
"You'll do no such thing and besides your cholesterol's too high." Hawkmon stated.
Kari giggled as Gatomon gave a sour look while Renamon sighed.
"Well, if we wanna eat we'll have to go back." Kari said.
"Sounds good to me." Dai said as everyone started nodding.
"So long digi egg." Cody said.
"Hey, look!" TK called making every turn to see him look at a spot between the trees.
"On the other side of the lake, I think it's a restaurant." He said.
"Hold on. Does anyone have any money?" Renamon asked.
"Of course we do. Now let's go eat!" Yolei cheered as everyone started running.
"We're saved at last!" Armadillomon cheered.
Once they got to the dinner, they all were greeted by a large egg digimon with a crack that reveal two yellow eyes and green dinosaur legs sticking out and he wore an apron, then led them to their booths to sit down.
While Dai was eating, she noticed something was off with Renamon.
"What's up?" she asked.
Renamon looked over at her partner.
"I'm just curious; remember when we did a few chores for those Numemon and Gotsumon? They paid us for it. Do you still have the money?" she asked.
Nodding, Dai pulled out her wallet and found the bills she was given by some of the digimon to see that they didn't have the usual words or people on them like most money from Earth would have.
"They look different." Dai said.
"Yes, because this is our world's currency." Renamon explained.
"Digitamamon will accept only this kind of money." She said.
"Oh. Oh! Uh oh." Dai said as she realized that something was going to happen.
"What does our bill come to?" the lavender haired girl asked as she was at the cash register while the others were checking out a magazine rack.
"87 digi dollars. Plus tip." Digitamamon said.
"Huh?" Yolei asked.
"What's the problem? Don't you have any money?" Digitamamon asked.
"Heh. We don't have digi dollars, but we have plenty of-"
"Forget it." Digitamamon cut her off.
"Huh? But our money's just as good." Yolei insisted.
"Since the Dark Masters left, we only accept digi dollars!" Digitamamon yelled.
"What's the problem?" TK asked.
"The lunk headed waiter won't take my money." Yolei stated.
"I see you're being your usual blunt self." Kari muttered.
"I'm just trying to be honest." Yolei said.
"I think you kids are trying to skip out on the bill." Digitamamon accused.
"I told you, we have 87$." Yolei said.
"Only digi dollars or the Digi Express card." He said.
"That's it. I'm not gonna recommend this restaurant to anyone." Yolei said with her temper rising.
"Good! I don't want any Human World deadbeats in here. No wonder the French detest tourists." Digitamamon said as Yolei was nearly growling at him with a clenched fist.
"Now are you going to work off your bill, or do I have to call a cop?" Digitamamon asked.
"I think I've heard something like this before." TK said.
"If we work here, we'll be late getting home." Cody said with Armadillomon sitting on his head.
Having enough of watching this, Dai quickly ran over to settle things down.
"Whoa, chill out!" she said placing her hand on the taller girl's shoulders.
"No, this lunk head won't take our money." Yolei hissed out.
"Because you don't have any digi dollars!" Digitamamon yelled.
"OK, everyone calm the heck down!" Dai said waving her hands in a peaceful manner while the others watched.
"Please, we have digi dollars." Renamon said making everyone look at her.
"You do?" the others asked.
"Yeah, Renamon and I did some chores for digimon before and they paid us for it. See?" Dai said as she showed off the money.
"That's a relief." Patamon sighed.
"Leave it to Daisuke to always save the day." TK smiled as the girl checked the price of the food and pulled out 67$ while Renamon handed her 13$ for the added tip.
"Here, 87$ digi dollars plus tip." Dai said pleasantly.
"Thank you. How kind." Digitamamon said as he accepted the money.
"My, that was a close call." Someone said.
Gasping in confusion, everyone turned to see a tall blonde teenager who looked American was standing at the door with a smile.
"Ooh, how wonderful. A prince charming character." Yolei gushed with hearts in her eyes.
"Who are you?" Kari asked.
"This is Michael. He's a friend of mine I brought with me from America." A pink haired girl said as she popped out from behind the blonde.
"It's Mimi!" everyone but Dai exclaimed since she had never seen the girl.
"Oh, Mimi, it's so good to see you again." Yolei smiled.
"What are you doing here in the Digital World?" Cody asked.
"Izzy sent me an e-mail saying there was a digi port open in America, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to come visit everyone. And since Michael's a good friend of mine, I thought I'd bring him along." Mimi said.
A digimon that looked like a green plant/lizard hybrid with a flower of her head came into the room with a green tadpole digimon that had an orange shark fin.
"And I want everyone here to say hello to a good friend of mine, too." The hybrid said.
"Pleased to meet you. My name's Betamon." The digimon said bowing.
"Betamon is really cool. He lives in the water and uses his Beta Slugger attack to wipe out his enemies." The female said.
"Hey Palmon, are you sure it's OK if you're here?" Kari asked.
"What about the area you were protecting?" TK asked.
"Oh, no problem. Tentomon said he'd watch it for me if I brought him back a souvenir t-shirt." Palmon said.
"I don't understand something, Mimi. How are you able to bring Michael to the Digital World?" Yolei asked.
"You see, Michael's a Digidestind and his digivice is the same kind as mine and the others." Mimi said.
She then spotted Dai and walked over to the younger girl, taking her hands in her own.
"You must be Dai. Sora's told me all about you." Mimi smiled at the blushing girl.
"Um, thanks." She said.
"And Biyomon's told me all about Renamon. It's nice to meet you." Palmon said as she walked over to the fox.
"It's a pleasure." Renamon said with a bow.
The group all then went over to the booths to sit back down to talk.
"So he became a Digidestind in America at the same time our original group did in Japan." Mimi said.
"Tell us, Michael. Are there anymore Digidestinds in America?" Dai asked from her place next to the American.
"And tell us how you became a Digidestind in the first place." Cody said.
"And tell me you're single." Yolei said with a dark pink blush and smile.
"All I know is everything happened four summers ago when I first saw Gorillamon in New York. I thought it was simply another ape climbing the Empire State building." Michael said.
"That's the same time Myotismon was taking over Tokyo." TK said.
"TK's right." Kari said.
"My, that's strange. I wonder if that means we all had an encounter with the digimon at the exact same time." Michael said.
"It's possible. That's when I was on that air plane that had to make an emergency landing in the water. I didn't know it then, but that's when I saw my first digimon." Cody said.
"Weird. About four years ago these weird ghosts barged into my apartment and kidnapped my family and me and brought us to the convention center with that freaky vampire dude and the bowling ball with bat wings." Dai said as she thought it over.
She and Jun had both supressed the memories of that time since they had more issues to deal with after the monster problem was taken care of.
"I wish I could say that summer was as terrifying for me as it was for all of you guys, but it wasn't cause nothing happened. Although, I did send a bunch of e-mails during the battle with Diaboramon." Yolei said.
"So then everyone was involved somehow." Mimi said.
"It's like we're all connected." Palmon said.
"Wait a minute!" TK gasped standing up in his seat.
"Now I remember where I saw him. He used to be one of Myotismon's henchmen. He made Matt and Joe work in the kitchen here. He got really mad when Matt asked if he could get half priced on his meals." He said as Digitamamon walked by us.
"I can't believe you used to be one of the bad guys." Yolei said to the digimon who was blushing in shame.
"All right, I admit it. I was a rotten egg, but that was in the past. After the Dark Masters were all defeated, I knew I had to break out of my shell. I've become a whole new mon." Digitamamon swore.
"We're all very proud that you changed your ways." Kari smiled at him with her fellow pink lover.
"Don't you feel a lot better about yourself?" Mimi asked gently.
"Well, now that you mention it, it is kind of nice making an honest living." Digitamamon said.
"It seems to me you're still one of the bad guys after the way you treated me." Yolei said.
"Come on, Yolei. Everyone gets a little cranky. He says he's changed, I believe him." Mimi said in defense of the egg digimon.
"I guess you're right." The child of Love sighed.
"Sometimes it's easy to get cranky with you." TK said making Dai chuckle.
"I feel pretty bad about how I treated you last time." Digitamamon said sadly making Yolei look at him thoughtfully, trying to figure.
"It's OK, Digitamamon. I'm sure you're not a total loser anymore." She said.
"Huh? I don't want your pity." He glared.
"Relax, don't get upset. She was just trying to make you feel better, right Yolei?" Mimi asked trying to be the peacekeeper.
"Uh, yeah." The lavender haired girl said.
"You're right, I'm sorry. My brain's been scrambled lately. I've got to look at the sunny side. I've got my job, I've got my health and someday I might even have friends. Tell you what. Forget the bill, it's on me." Digitamamon smiled.
"You know, Mimi, I admire you because no matter who you meet, you bring out the best in everyone. You're really special." Michael said smiling at the girl.
"Looks like someone has a crush on Mimi." Dai teased.
Yolei frowned at that in jealously at how Mimi, Kari, Sora and Dai seemed to be the ones to attract all of the guys.
Just then, the ground shook making everyone cry out in shock as they all ran outside to see what the cause was.
"Over there." Dai pointed to the trees across the lake.
"It's Gorillamon! Gorillamon was the digimon I saw in New York. Watch out for his Energy Cannon attack, it'll drive you bananas." Michael said.
"He's got a dark spiral." Yolei pointed out the black interlocking rings on the gorilla's arm.
"I thought that the dark spirals only work on Ultimate level digimon." Dai said in confusion.
"If they can control Champion level digimon too, then there might be different kinds." Cody said as Gorillamon aimed his cannon at us ready to fire it off.
Before we could duck out of the way of the blast, Digitamamon jumped up and took the hit for us, getting blasted far off away from the group.
"Digitamamon!" Mimi cried in worry.
"We need to get the spiral off and fast." Dai said as she held her D-3.
"Please, allow me to handle this." Michael said stepping up beside her as he pulled out his own digivice.
"OK Betamon?" he asked his partner.
"OK." Betamon chirped as the digivice glowed green along with the little guy as he dived into the water.
"Betamon digivolve too…SEADRAMON!"
A large sea dragon emerged from the water after the evolution was over.
"Wow, Michael. Seadramon's your digimon? I still get chills remembering his Ice Blast and Ice Winder attacks." Mimi said.
Gorillamon and Seadramon snarled at each other as the gorilla tackled the dragon into the water.
"Now that they're in the water, Seadramon will win." Michael said.
A few minutes later we saw bubbles and gurgling coming from the lake.
"He's in trouble." The America said worriedly.
"Palmon, you better digivolve and help Seadramon." Mimi said.
"Ready when you are." Palmon said.
"Palmon digivolve too…TOGEMON!"
Gorillamon was then throw up out of the water and came sailing down to where Togemon was, the cactus quickly punching him with her Light Speed Jabbing until she destroyed the spiral and Gorillamon fell down to the ground, exhausted.
"Togemon, you did it!" Mimi cheered as Seadramon surfaced and roared in victory.
"Victory at last." Michael smiled as the Champions went back to their Rookie levels and we crowded around the freed gorilla.
"Sorry we had to treat you so rough, but it was the only way to get that dark spiral off you. You should be safe from now on, but try to stay away from the Digimon Emperor." Mimi said kindly to Gorillamon.
"Thanks." He said before he stood up and walked off.
"Without that dark spiral, he doesn't seem like a bad little monkey after all." Palmon said.
"I don't think any digimon is born evil, but when they get those dark spirals on them, they're not responsible for their actions." The pink haired girl said as the America stepped up beside her.
"How do you get them?" he asked.
"Remember when I told you about the Digimon Emperor? He captures the digimon and makes them his slaves." She said to the frowning boy.
"Hmm. I can't believe it. Why would a young kid want to take over the Digital World when he could be playing polo or practise the violin?" Michael asked.
"To him it's a hobby." TK said.
"Do you want to know what my hobby is, Michael?" Yolei asked dreamily.
"Boys don't count, Yolei." Dai teased making the other girl pout at her.
"Who asked you? Hey! Where's Digitamamon?" she asked making everyone all look around.
"He tried to protect us and now he's gone. He could be all alone somewhere scared and hurt." Mimi said worriedly.
"Don't worry. Kari and I will go off and look for him." The child of Hope said making their partners nod.
Soon enough the two were taking off on the backs of their armour Celestials to go look for Digitamamon.
"I'm sure they'll be able to find him in no time." Mimi smiled to her American friend.
"I hope so." Michael then gasped making everyone look over as a large egg rolled over to them.
"Is this fast enough?" the egg asked.
"Digitamamon! Are you OK?" Mimi asked relieved.
"Yes, no thanks to you." He answered.
"We're so glad you're back." Mimi said.
"Yeah, well, don't be because now I'm going to make you pay." Digitamamon said opening his eyes to reveal that they were red.
"Who wants to be destroyed first?" he asked.
"But Digitamamon, we're your friends." Mimi cried running over to him.
"Ha!" he scoffed.
"You tried to protect us." Mimi said.
"Mimi!" Yolei called making the pinkette stop.
"Careful, he's acting differently now." She warned the older girl.
"You're egg-actly right. Before I was soft and runny, but now I'm hard boiled." Digitamamon said glaring at us.
"I knew it." Yolei said with her fists clenched.
"Nothing can penetrate my shell and when I pouch my enemies with my Nightmare Syndrome attack, their minds get cracked." He said.
"Watch out, Mimi!" Michael called.
"Now, Yolei?" Hawkmon asked his partner, who nodded to him.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!" she called.
"Hawkmon armour digivolve too…Halsemon: the Wings of Love!"
Digitamamon then charged at the child of Sincerity, but Halsemon jumped in front of her, taking the hit and getting knocked to the ground.
"We better help them." Armadillomon said.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!"
"Armadillomon armour digivolve too…Digmon: the Drill of Power!"
"Get in there, Renamon." Dai said.
"As you wish." The fox said as she jumped over. Digmon then used Rock Cracking, trying to break through the shell, but couldn't get it to work.
"I need an Egg Cracking attack." Digmon said.
Renamon then appeared over Digitamamon and rained down her Diamond Storm making him close up so he wouldn't get hurt.
"None of our attacks are working on him." She said as she landed between Halsemon and Digmon.
"Wait!" Mimi cried running in front of them, her arms held out in a protective fashion.
"You guys have to leave Digitamamon alone right now." She said.
"Digitamamon, listen. You're being controlled by something evil. Remember what you said to us in the restaurant? You're not like that anymore." Mimi said as she faced him.
"I'm not being controlled by anything. The one in the restaurant was a fake. This is the real me." He said.
"I refuse to believe that." Mimi said.
"Then it's your problem." He said.
"Mimi, stand back, let us attack him." Yolei said.
"No, I'm sure if I just talk to him, he'll come around." Mimi said confident.
"But Mimi, he's evil." The lavender haired girl said.
"I have to try." Mimi said making Yolei give her a conflicted look.
"Think back to the restaurant. Do you remember when you said that you hoped to have friends? Well, today is that day because we're your friends." Mimi said.
"Friends?" Digitamamon asked softly.
"No! That was just a trick so you'd let your guard down!" he yelled.
"I don't care how rough and tough you try to act on the outside, deep down inside, I know you're not evil." Mimi said with a soft smile.
"Quit trying to butter me up. What do I look like; a piece of toast?" he asked.
"Stop pretending you don't wanna be friends, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to protect us." Mimi said.
"You think I'm pretending?!" Digitamamon asked as he then tackled the pink haired girl to the ground, making everyone gasp at the show of violence towards the kind hearted girl.
"Are you OK?" Yolei asked as she and Palmon knelt down beside Mimi, the lizard/plant holding her partner in her arms.
"I'm all right. He didn't mean it." Mimi said shocking Yolei and Digitamamon that she was still protecting him.
"Please, Yolei. Don't hurt him. I know you can get through to him." Mimi said.
"But he's a phony." Yolei said.
"It doesn't matter. Talk to him." Mimi said.
"It won't be easy, but I'll try." Yolei said and stood up to go face Digitamamon.
"Oh, so you want a piece of me too? You think you'll do any better than her? I'll knock you for a loop." Digitamamon threatened making Yolei grit her teeth and stood up, anger clear in her eyes.
"I don't wanna hear another word from your mouth!" she yelled.
"Digitamamon, you're the rudest digimon I've ever met. At first I thought you were just an obnoxious waiter looking for a tip, but when you told everyone you had a change of personality, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. But when you pushed Mimi to the ground, it was absolutely the last straw." She said walking closer to the egg.
"All she was trying to do was make you our friend and how did you thank her?" she asked.
"But-"he was cut off.
"By viciously attacking her without any cause." Yolei continued not letting him talk.
"Mimi doesn't have a mean bone in her body and you didn't see that."
"But-"
"I want you to know that I won't tolerate that kind of behaviour any longer." Yolei said stopping right in front of him.
"You're one to talk! You're the one who wanted to be friends and then called me a phony. You're the phony!" Digitamamon accused.
"OK, I admit it. I have a problem judging others by my first impression of them. I see a cute looking boy and I instantly fall in love. I never stop to think what kind of person they might be. They could be really cool like TK or a total jerk like Ken. Then I also treated Daisuke like she was a terrible person just because of all of the lies I heard about her and that wasn't fair when she's really an amazing person who would risk her life for us no matter what. Well those days are finally over! From now on, I promise to be as sincere with people as I possibly can!" she yelled her vow.
Just then, the ground in front of her glowed a pretty green making Digitamamon back off in shock.
"Was it something I said?" she asked as an oval green shaped egg with a purple ninja star on the bottom hovered in front of her.
"It's the new digi egg." Cody said.
"It's got the…Crest of Sincerity on it." Mimi blinked as Yolei took the egg.
"It must have responded to Yolei when she started to talk so sincerely about her feelings." The child of Knowledge said.
"Then I can sincerely accept her apology." Dai said.
"It's my second. I've got two digi eggs." Yolei said.
"Then let's use it." Halsemon said making his partner nod as he turned back into Hawkmon.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!" Yolei cried.
"Hawkmon armour digivolve too…Shurimon: the Samurai of Sincerity!"
"I am Shurimon. As Hawkmon, I used the digi egg of Sincerity to armour digivolve. My Double Stars attack is double trouble." He said as he used his attack on Digitamamon, but couldn't break the shell.
"Not even you can penetrate my shell. Nightmare Syndromer!" Digitamamon yelled as this black creature thing shot out at Shurimon.
"Protect Yolei. I'll take care of Digitamamon." Shurimon said as he jumped up into the battle.
"Don't let it get through!" Digmon said as he and Renamon jumped in front of the attack and blocked it.
"What's he looking at?" Digitamamon asked.
"I see the dark spiral. It's inside his shell." Shurimon said from the sky as he used his Double Stars, a huge ninja star hitting him inside the shell.
"Hey, watch out! You almost hit me in here!" he yelled.
"Pegasusmon, Nefertimon. Get him." Shurimon said as the Celestials appeared.
"He's trying to get away!" Kari yelled.
"Not if we have anything to say about it." TK said as their partners used their Golden Noose, tying the digimon up.
"Now to take care of that dark spiral." Shurimon said as he used his attack again and destroyed the spiral, making Digitamamon cough out the black pieces of the spiral.
"He coughed up the spiral!" Yolei said as the Syndromer faded away.
"That egg is over easy." Yolei said pumping a fist.
(Later on…)
"He's waking up." Mimi said as the group stood around Digitamamon.
"What happened?" he asked as he sat up.
"You had a dark spiral in you." Mimi smiled softly at him.
"Oh, you saved me." He said.
"Actually, Yolei was the one." Mimi said looking at her new successor of Sincerity.
"What do you mean it was me?" Yolei asked as Digitamamon stood up and walked over to her.
"I want to thank you, Yolei." He said.
"Huh?! Well, there's no need to thank me, but I do want to apologize for those things I said about you earlier." She said.
"I'm the one who should be apologizing." He smiled at her.
"From now on, I promise not to judge a book by it's cover." Yolei swore.
"And I promise not to put all my eggs in one basket." Digitamamon said.
"Yeah, that's great. Anyway, Mimi, thanks to you, I'm gonna be totally honest with people. Especially boys and I won't be friends with then just because they're cute." Yolei said.
"Great, then neither will I." Mimi smiled not seeing this weird yellow digimon sneak up on her and poke her shoulder to gain her attention.
"Oh, Mimi!" he sang as a pink mouse popped up on his head as she looked at them.
"If you don't care about looks, how'd you like to go on a date with me?" yellow dude asked making her glare at him.
She then gave him one hard punch, making all of the others gap as he sailed across the lake.
"I'LL TAKE THAT AS A NOOOOO!" he yelled.
"Ooh, now I know what to do when someone asks me out on a date." Yolei gushed.
(Sunset…)
"Well Michael, it was nice meeting you. I hope we'll get to see you again soon." Dai said as she shook hands with the teenager.
"Thanks, I feel the same way. Mimi's always telling me stories about how great all of you are and now I know it too first hand." He said.
"Oh, before I go. There's one thing I wanted to do since I got here." Michael said as he stepped closer to Yolei.
"Yolei, I want to ask you something." He said holding out his hand to her as she looked at him curiously.
"Would you like to go out on a date with me sometime?" he asked her.
She was quiet for a bit, then smiled happily at him as she took his hand.
Then, Michael, Betamon, Palmon and Mimi left to go back to the portal to return to New York.
"Goodbye, Michael! Friday night's good. Or any other night works too." The child of Love and Sincerity giggled as she waved them all off.
To be continued…