Disclaimer:I do not own any of the digimon in this story or the elements within them, they belong to Akiyoshi Hongo, I do however own the oc's Kensuke Rainer, Kasumi Shika, Maki Hiko, Mikato Kagami, Shizuka Kagami,Takuto Hiko, Mikato, Shizuka, Grey, John Shark and Amaterasumon. Helena Souza/Sailor Quaoar belongs to Belletiger, Karin Osaka/Sailor Sedna belongs to Kanius.
I hope you enjoyed that little three part chaos event, technically we've got one peice left before the gang heads back to the digital world, here we go.
Chapter 13: Dance of Truth's, GrapLeomon's Whirlwind Entry.
Two days had passed since the ordeal at the Tokyo dome stadium, Ken and Maki both sat in his apartment with thier digimon watching the news of "Ken's escape" from the police, thankfully luck was on Ken's side as not only were the images on the TV blurry due to digital interference caused by Raidramon, but it had subsequently rained after Ken had left the area washing away any traces of his blood, though the gunshot wound was stiched up by the mysterious Akisame from the Ryzopanku dojo, he still felt the pain as it slowly continued to heal, Maki shook his head. "Still can't believe you did all that, and managed to not get caught." he muttered. "I do hope you realise what kind of jeopardy you've put us in though..." however he was cut off as the news report continued.
"However, several complaints and protests have been filed against the officer who fired on this supposed "digi-destined." said the reporter as an image of a brown haired tall and stout man appeared on the TV screen. "Officer John Shark, who was transfered in from the United States has been placed under suspension pending his actions in this incident." Maki's eyes widened when he heard the name.
"No way, John Shark!" he demaned. "That was my dad's closest friend, great...it's bad enough my mom's suffering now my dad's best friend is too." he said while glaring at Ken. "All because you had to be stupid." Ken shook his head at this.
Meanwhile at the Shinjuku police precinct, John Shark sat in a dark room in front of a large desk, and sitting across from him was superior. "Sir, why am I getting suspended. That kid attacked us!" he demanded, however his superior who was a silightly small man with black hair and a mustache sighed and pushed a giant stack of envelopes towards him.
"Because of these, and the fact that from what I understand the kid did give out a warning...and while I do agree with you for taking the right action. We've got too many factors going against us here." he replied as he motioned to two envelops in particular that looked fancy and stood out compared to the rest, taking them John's eyes widened.
"Wait a second, both of the songstress' Megumi and Lunar are against this!" he demanded.
"Yes, it seems that way. Plus several others who were on hand clearly stated that we were out of line as he was protecting people..." the cheif muttered. "Also doesn't help that i've received word from the top brass, and it does appear that these "digi-destined" as they been chosen to be labeled as have indeed been on our side so far and have kept most of the damage to a minimum, so until they do something wrong that we can prove, or prove that things go far beyond what they can handle...we are to leave them alone." he said while handing John a paper. "I'm sorry that i've gotta suspend you under these circumstances, but you did go too far in shooting, which is usually only a last resort." he said, John took the paper and simply stomped out of the office with a faked salute before slamming the door behind him which made the chief sigh as he turned his chair around, and then opened and looked out the window behind him. "I wonder how long it's been since that night, ever since he's been this way."
Outside in the parking lot garage, John stomped to his car, got in and put on some shades before he proceeded to drive off to his house, glaring at anyone who got in his way through his sunglasses. "Those damn digimon took my best friend from me, and now they've crippled my job...so help me i'm gonna put a stop to this, we should be handling things, not some stupid group of teens, after all this isn't no tv show this is a bloody war!" he yelled in his mind as he drove off, conviently by Ken's apartment where Ken looked up at the ceiling and sneezed.
"Dang cold weather." he muttered wiping his nose to suddenly sneazing, Maki decided to change the subject.
"So did you get a tuxcedo yet for tommarrow night?" Ken sighed as Veemon and Coronamon were confused.
"Explain to me again what this is, cause it doesn't sound like a normal party." Coronamon started, Maki nodded.
"In a way it's not, you see this is formal type party, thankfully it's a masquerade ball so we'll get to wear mask's and no one will know who we are." said Maki with a small smile. "At least I hope no one notices us." Ken sighed.
"I feel like i'm being punished into going, I can't exactly say no after she gave me that gift card a few days ago, but still..." Maki sighed.
"At least we don't have to get her any presents, she told me she'd be happy with us just showing up and staying out of sight." he replied, Ken shook his head.
"And I thought they were making headway, damn..." he thought, but as he stood up Veemon realised something.
"Hold on though, Ken you don't have a tux." he said, Ken sighed as Veemon was right.
"Well I wasn't planning on doing any formal things here, guess I better find a place that rents em cause I ain't keeping one." he muttered as he took up his digivice. "Time for you to be stored buddy." Veemon sweatdropped, but nodded as Maki did the same and the two headed out.
Meanwhile, over in the Ueno district inside a small housing residence, a group of three females sat around a table in the houses kitchen area. "So while I discuss things with your family Helena, you and Karin need to track down the boy on the news and make sure he doesn't leak our secret to the world." said the third woman who had long dark green hair and was wearing a purple business suit.
"How are we gonna find him though, I mean if he and his friends were in thier school uniforms we could've tracked them that way but..." Karin stopped while rubbing her head.
"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Helena added, however the third woman smiled.
"I think might be able to make the serch abit eaiser for you then." she said as she held up her hands forming a sphere of light and showed what looked like a fancy but still small estate in the shinjuku district.
"Where is that Setsuna-san?" asked Karin, Setsuna smiled.
"If i'm right the one we seek will be going to this building tommarrow night, that will be your chance to confront him." she replied letting the sphere die out. "After all that mansion belongs to the infamous Shika family, and I hear the daughter's birthday is tommarrow as well." Karin nodded and took out a similar pen to the one she had used before but this one was different which caused Helena to raise an eyebrow.
"What kind of pen is that?" she asked, Karin smiled.
"It's called a digusie pen, it allows me to transform myself into a disguise for a few hours, i've used it to inflitrate some enemy hideouts and the like before." she said as Setsuna nodded with a simple smile
"Yes, and certainly not used it as rediculious as how Sailor moon used hers." she said as she took another one out and handed it to Helena. "By the way i spoke to Luna and she agreed to loan us this pen for this one time, and I trust the two of you can figure out how to disguise yourselves properly?" the two girls nodded and prepared to head out.
Back in Shinjuku, it had taken two hours, but Ken had finally accquired a simple tuxcedo for the party, the only problem was that he was forced to buy it as all of the rentals had been taken for other events. "Man this bites, now I gotta keep this stupid thing." he muttered as he and Maki walked back to his apartment.
"Think of it this way, it saves alot of trouble in case you need it again later." Ken sighed as they reached his apartment and split up for the day which passed peacefully, when the following day came Ken enjoyed the morning hours as best he could until the late afternoon hours came and he was forced to put the tux on.
"Hey you don't look so bad in it." said Veemon as Ken checked himself in a mirror, knowing that if his mother was there she would've forced him to be as perfect as he could be so out of instinct alone he was making sure of that.
"I know one thing, Kasumi will pay for this." he said as he fixed his tie and called Veemon into his digivice. "Time to go." he muttered and with that he left again, outside was Kasumi's limo which was waiting for him, but inside was Maki who was also dressed to go.
"Heh, you look rediculious in that." said Maki, Ken almost snapped his arm, but pain shot into it."
"When my arm heals, i'm gonna choke you so hard..." he muttered as the car drove along to it's destination, neither noticed that two familiar girls were watching from a nearby rooftop with smiles on thier faces.
"I can't wait to see this, and show off the results of our training." said one of the girls who smiled with a giggle and with that they vanished from sight, when the limo got to the mansion Maki and Ken noticed that it was getting darker as they proceeded into a tunnel underneath the mansion and came up through a hidden parking lot where only few cars were located.
"The heck!" demanded Maki, but when they got out of the car, Kasumi's two bodygaurds got out of the drivers seat and lead the two silently to a nearby elevator, at which when they rode it up they found themselves in a hallway that lead to an opening, and upon exiting it, found a fancy corridor that headed to a large ballroom with a stairwell inside it before them.
"This is a secret passage way we have for miss Kasumi when she needs it." said the first bodygaurd as they looked around and exited it without drawing attention, they then motioned for the two boys to head into the ballroom. "We'll have another car waiting outside the front for you both when the party is over." they said disappearing down a hallway, but not before the second one handed them each a white mask to wear over thier faces, with string on the back.
"Ok, do you feel like a dork now, cause I sure do." said Ken as the two headed into the ballroom flashing thier invite cards to some men standing gaurd and looked around, there were several adults dressed up for the occasion and while most of the men wore simple white mask's, the women wore masks with colored outlines. "Ok, here's the plan you go where you want, i'm going to be near the balcony in case I get the urge to puke." Ken muttered to Maki who sighed and watched him head off towards the balcony.
"Anti-social as always." he muttered as he decided to stand in another corner, not wanting to draw attention either. "This is probably as close as i'll get to her, so I might as well enjoy it, heck i'm suprised she invited me." he thought as he looked around, but became dumbstruck as did most of the males present when two females suddenly entered that seemed to catch the eyes of several males, even the gaurds were so dumbstruck they didn't notice that neither girl had an invitation card in thier hands, one was a female with long wavy brown hair in an azure dress that covered her whole frame, sans her shoulders and arms, around her right wrist was a bracelet and she had teal earings on her ears as well as her fingernails well done with a dark blue coloring.
Her compainion also had brown hair but hers was done up in a fancy ponytail style, and she was wearing a smaller golden brown dress that covered the mid frame of her body leaving her shoulders, arms and the bottom of her legs revealed, she was wearing defined clear like high heels on par with her nails and wore a fancy beige coat, the men at the door handed the two girls each a mask still stupidified while most of the women in the room decided to "stomp" on thier dates/husband's feet and continue on as if nothing had happened, Maki however was not convinced. "Who the heck are they?" he wondered as the two walked over towards the balcony area where Ken was conviently standing while eyeing a bottle of wine on a nearby table.
"So we got in, now we gotta find that person right?" Helena whispered to Karin who nodded and giggled as Helena blushed abit. "You know i'm not used to walking in these, why couldn't I get sandles like you?" Karin sighed.
"That's the problem with the transformation pen's..." she whispered back. "They give us disguises but we have to be careful or else they could backfire." she said looking around. "I wasn't expecting this to be a masked party though, this might be tougher than we..." she stopped when she and Helena eyed a pair of eyes from outside reach around and grab Ken's shoulder which caused him to grunt abit in pain catching the attention of a few nearby patrons, however he stopped and went outside quickly as Helena smiled slightly.
"You were saying?" she asked, as they followed him outside where he was talking to two girls in ninja gear.
"So you two finally came back from your training with Grey huh, picked a fine time to show up." Ken said silently while still being angry.
"Hey, forgive us for having some fun after all we didn't get invited." said Mikato pointing inside, Shizuka however sighed.
"Like we could go in sis, the closest thing we have to fancy outfits are our chinese outfits we had when went to that costume party back when we were kids..." Mikato groaned as Ken chuckled.
"I wonder how that turned out." Mikato lightly chopped his shoulder again. "Dang it, quit doing that I'm still recovering from a gunshot wound." this was all Karin and Helena needed to hear, they had found thier target.
"Well whatever, we did talk to Kasumi so we'll be running gaurd duty incase a digimon shows up, you just have fun and relax if you can." said Mikato with an evil face as she and her sister lept off the balcony and out of sight, Ken was about to follow them, but once again his arm stung causing him to grip it.
"Damn pain, i'm gonna kill them." he muttered as he heard footsteps and saw Helena and Karin walking up to him. "Uh hi, can I help you ladies?" he asked trying not to blush as they were drop dead gorgeous.
"Actually, you can." said Karin as she and Helena removed thier masks, shocking him.
"Those two sailor scouts! No way! did they like have a huge growth spurt or something over the past two days...nah they have to used something for this." he thought as he cleared his throat. "What can I do for you?" he asked cautiously.
"Well I think you know why we're here, we need to make sure you won't tell anyone what you saw." said Karin in a serious tone, Ken shook his head.
"Look it was an accident, I did try to avert my eyes but it was too late, and what would I have to gain from telling anyone who you are anyway since I don't even know your names." he replied, Helena however approached him making him blush.
"That doesn't change the fact that you saw us, I want you to apologize." she demanded, Ken sighed and rubbed his head.
"Ok then i'm sorry for what happened, I didn't mean to do it." he said looking both of them in the eyes to prove he wasn't lying.
"Well I think we can believe you." said Karin, Helena still wasn't convinced. "Still, i'd like to talk abit more with you if it's ok." she said as the tune of a waltz inside was heard starting up, and she extended her hand. "Come on, you can dance with me as we talk." she said reapplying her mask, Ken nodded and did the same as he knew there was no way he could get out of this if he tried.
Back inside the ballroom, dancing had indeed begun even though Kasumi had yet to appear, Helena decided to stand by the balcony wall as Karin and Ken walked to the dance floor and began a slow dance, at first Ken's movements were clumsy, but after a while he was able to get the hang of it with Karin's help. "Your a quick learner, it must be because of your Parkour skills." she said as they danced abit more, Ken sweatdropped.
"So you know about that?" he asked. "It's not something i'm proud of in all honesty..." he said as he twirled Karin around gently, Helena seemed to be enjoying watching this as it was different from what she was used too, but nice to watch.
"Why's that?" she asked back.
"Cause if I hadn't learned how to do Parkour, i'd be in jail right now..." he said as while they danced things seemed to drift off around them as if nothing was there but them with her listening. "You see, back when I was twelve years old and still living in the states, I went to a modest school. Small but proud." he said remembering things, however I was bullied and picked on alot because of the fact I used to eat too much." he said.
"So you were bullied because of your weight?" Ken nodded and remembered when he had finally had enough of it. "One day I had enough, grabbing some rocks and some sand I blinded two people had been picking on me long enough to beat the daylights out of three others...all five went to the hospital, and while the school board took my side as they had started it, thier parents threatened to sue the school if action wasn't taken so I was given two choices, go to juni aka jail, or take up something to as the cops put it. "put your anger into something else." and the only two choices were Parkour and Ballet, and no way was I doing the latter." he said moaning abit, Karin couldn't help but giggle at first but then realised something.
"So that's why you ran from the cops, I was wondering why you were so scared of them." Ken nodded.
"Yes, and now you know why." he replied as the dance ended and the two stopped before bowing and curtesying to the other, Helena couldn't help but clap as she walked up.
"That was amazing Karin, I didn't know you could dance that well." Karin sweatdropped.
"Again, I think the pen's responsible for that." she said smiling back, soon enough trumpets were heard as an announcement was made.
"Ladies and gentlemen presenting the head of the Shika household Thomas Shika!" a large slightly grey haired and bearded man stepped into the room at the top of the staircase in the center portion of the room, following him with her hair down up and wearing a long pink gown was Kasumi. "and his daughter and the girl of the hour, Kasumi!" Kasumi however did not look happy at all as they descended the stairs and stopped at the central outcropping, Ken and Maki could tell.
"Geez, it's her birthday and she's not happy?" asked Ken, Karin and Helena shrugged.
"Maybe she has her reasons." said Helena, Karin nodded as Thomas began to speak out about his daughters birthday and how it was a joyous occasion, but Kasumi did not smile once and Maki was the only one who knew why.
"This was also the night she lost her mother and her dad has the nerve to go this far?" he thought, although he knew if he was caught, he would be sent to jail in a heartbeat.
Oustide Mikato and Shizuka both stood atop some trees as they kept thier eyes on the front gates of the mansion. "Are you sure Grey was right sis?" asked Shizuka.
"He's been right before, if a digimon shows up, we'll be here to handle it." Mikato replied, several minutes passed and nothing seemed to happen. "Maybe he was..." she stopped when the giant spider digimon SkullDokugumon lept down from the sky into the garden, the shockwaves were heard inside.
"What was that!" demanded Thomas, several of his gaurds ran to the balcony opening and were quickly blasted back by a sticky net like good that hardened around them and even some of the guests, several more blasts were fired into the room, out of instinct Ken tried to grab both Karin and Helena but was only successful in saving Helena from the goo as Karin was hit by it and pinned to a nearby wall.
"What is..." she stopped when she noticed it hardened quickly and felt like being wrapped in steel as more blobs were being fired in, another one of which almost hit Kasumi and her father, but only her father was hit and was knocked outcold at the same time which allowed her to run down and join Maki and Ken.
"What's going on?" she demanded as all three heard voices from outside, looking out the door they saw that Liamon and Grizzlymon were starring down a large spider digimon as Helena tried to get Karin unstuck to no avail.
"This is bad, I can't reach my transfomation rod, Helena you'll have to handle this one alone it seems." Karin whispered, Helena was abit reluctant at first but Karin's gaze reassured her.
"It's a digimon again." said Ken, looking back at Karin and Helena, Karin nodded to Helena who took the opportunity to go transform in secrecy this time.
"Well it's not getting inside." said Ken as he ran towards the balcony and preformed a running leap off of it and lept from tree to tree fighting back the pain long enough to slam his right arm, his good one into the spider digimon's skull triggering his digisoul charge.
"That idiot!" yelled Maki as he and Kasumi digivolved thier partners and sent them forward.
"Digisoul charge!" yelled Ken, causing Veemon to digivolve as well, the five champions stood thier ground and surrounded the giant spider in a star like formation.
"You may have me outnumbered, but numbers mean nothing to SkullDokugumon!" yelled the spider.
"SkullDokugumon?" asked Mikato, trying to analyze it, but then realised something else. "Hey wait a second, this one has a dark aura but is able to talk!" she demanded, this only made the spider digimon chuckle more.
"That's because i'm an ultimate level and can resist the darkness better than champion and armor level trash, my body's made of chrome digizoid and so is my thread!" it yelled out as Veedramon nodded.
"That's right, this digimon has two types of threads, a thread that can cause massive corrosion on metals and a second one that can entrap all it touches in pure digizoid, it also has a secret power but no one knows what it is..." SkullDokugumon laughed.
"That's cause no one knows what it is, not prepare yourselves! Molten Thread!" it yelled out launching more strings of digizoid.
"Block it out! V-nova Blast!" yelled Veedramon blocking the string before it hit him.
"Thunder of King!" yelled out Liamon stopping the string heading for him.
"Firey Dive!" yelled Firamon who covered himself with fire and burned the strings, Grizzlymon was forced to dodge the attack, but Lekismon wasn't so fortunite and was pinned to a tree.
"Dang it, I can't move!" she yelled out as the threads hardened.
"Mikato, we need to go for it while we have the chance!" yelled Shizuka, Mikato reluctantly nodded and the two jumped next to each other and held up thier D3's.
"Let's go, DNA digivolution activate!" they yelled shocking the others, Grizzlymon and Liamon both began glowing before shooting up into the air in a spiral like tornado of data.
"Grizzlymon..." Grizzlymon started.
"...Liamon..." Liamon continued.
"...DNA digivolve too..." when they combined together a new digimon was born from the light, a warrior like metallic garbed humanoid lion that seemed to have spinning electrical turbines on his arms and legs. "GrapLeomon!" yelled the new digimon.
GrapLeomon: also the champion form of normal leomon, this speedy powerhouse is a force to be recokened with when he uses his turbines for his attacks, Cyclone Kick, and The King of Fist.
"Just because you digivolved doesn't mean i'll lose!" yelled out SkullDokugumon. "Acid Stinger!" it yelled shooting out a purple like thread towards them all, but GrapLeomon got in the way.
"The King of Fist!" he yelled spinning forth his turbines on his arms which created a powerful enough force to stop the threads in thier tracks as well as throw SkullDokogumon back abit while dealign some damage.
"Hit it now!" yelled Ken, Firamon and Veedramon were glad to oblidge.
"Got it, V-Nova Blast!" Veedramon fired off his attack hitting the spider's belly.
"Fira Bomb!" yelled Firamon launching several small fireballs that hit it's underside more which did indeed cause it pain, however to thier suprise it flipped back onto it's feet with ease.
"You dare hurt me!" it yelled out as it's skin began to break off slowly, Veedramon growled.
"Oh crud, now I remember!" he yelled out as Sailor Quaoar showed up and freed Lekismon from the tree with her staff.
"Thanks sailor scout." said Lekismon with a smile before turning back to Veemon. "What Vee?" she asked as SkullDokugumon's skin broke off but then gathered around her head and frontal claws powering them up.
"Her final power is call Armor Smash, she can break off her digizoid armor to..." Veedramon was cut off when he was drilled by a now faster ultimate. "Agh!"
"No one devulges my secret and lives!" it yelled before turning to GrapLeomon. "Your next!" it yelled out and lept at GrapLeomon, Lekismon lept at it with her kicking move while Firamon tried to use his Firey Dive, an explosion occured as the three digimon collided and were forced back, Firamon and Lekismon both dedigivolved while SkullDokugumon took even more damage. "Curses!" it was at that moment, Quaoar noticed something.
"Wait a second, her armor!" she called out.
"What about it?" asked Mikato, before realising what she was getting at. "Hey your right."
"Without her protective armor, she just left herself open!" said Shizuka excitedly, SkullDokugumon however was not amused.
"Are you one of those magical girl brats that took out SkullSatamon and the others? If so your my enemy as well!" it yelled leaping at her quickly before she could react, however Ken was quick to react and punched her right frontal claw which was reared back with his left arm...which caused not only in her impaling herself in the face but Ken much more pain as he fell to his knees as he could feel the wound slowly reopening.
"I'm not hurt i'm humoring you!" he grunted as the others looked dumbfounded. "Attack and kill it!" he yelled out! Grapleomon was first.
"Cyclone Kick!" he yelled spinning around before unleashing more kicks onto the spider's body damaging it further.
"Veedramon, fuse your attack with hers and end this thing!" said Ken, Veedramon nodded and jumped next to Quaoar.
"Ready miss!" he asked, Quaoar nodded and held her staff forward.
"V-Breath Arrow Max!" yelled out Veedramon using his strongest move.
"Terra Breaker!" yelled out Sailor Quaoar fireing a beam of earthern energy from her staff, the two beams combined into a stronger beam that went right through SkullDokugumon's head and caused the digimon to explode into nothingness.
Back in the digital world it's data was soon absorbed. "I can't believe this, perhaps next time we should send more than just one Ultimate since these pests are getting on my nerves." said SkullDarkKnightmon, Takuto and Dorumon could only sigh at his behavior.
Back in the real world, an hour passed by since the incident the party had been canceled due to the attack and many of the patrons had gone home Ken and Maki along with the Ninja twins decided to leave the mansion and head back to the park where Grey was waiting for them, while Kasumi stayed behind to make sure her father was ok. "I take it Kasumi won't be joining us." he asked before noticing Ken was holding his shoulder once more. "That wound is never going to heal if you keep this up..." he muttered before chuckling. "Still, now that you've all got Ultimate digimon the time has come to engage the enemy more, tommarrow we shall all return to the digital world and we're not coming back until the evil is gone, so make sure that your ready for this." he said before leaving them, Mikato and Shizuka nodded as they held thier unconcious partners.
"We're ready." they both said, Maki and Ken did the same as they held thier digivices up having withdrawn thier partners.
"Me too." said Maki.
"and me." said Ken. "But what about Kasumi?" he asked, Maki smiled.
"I'm sure if she's coming she'll be here tommarrow, but this time we need to all be prepared before we head in, so clothes and food are necessities to bring." he said as he headed off, the ninja twins nodded as well and headed off, but before Ken could leave a pair of voices stopped him.
"So that's your leader, he seems quite the mysterious guy doesn't he?" asked Karin, both she and Helena were now standing before him in thier civilian clothes, thier disguise powers having worn off.
"How come you two followed us here?" he asked, Karin giggled abit and motioned for Helena to step forward.
"Well I uh...wanted to thank you for saving me back there from that giant spider digimon." she said holding out her right hand. "How about a quick dance?" Ken shook his head.
"I think this once i'll be glad to do so, I accept." he said taking her hand gently and the two began to waltz similarly to how he and Karin had done before, only in Karin's eyes it looked much better.
"Those two make a nice couple." she thought as after about ten minutes of dancing they stopped and both smiled.
"That was pretty fun." said Helena, Ken nodded.
"Indeed it was." he said before kissing her lightly on the cheek. "Thanks for the fun evening and hopefully we can meet again after this digital world chaos is over ok?" he said heading off, Karin couldn't help but giggle as he ran off while Helena held her cheek.
"He's certainly an intresting person isn't he." she asked as Helena nodded with a smile.
"Yes he is, and that was a nice kiss, next time i'll have to return the favor." she said smiling before she and Karin headed back home for the night.
Ken and the others return to the digital world and once again split into two groups, one group heads towards the dominion of the sky, but what will they find there?
Thanks again to Kanius for helping me on Karin and Helena's outfit designs and he and Belletiger for letting me borrow thier characters, until next time peace out^^