"Lady XV-Mon vs. Angemon"
Koji was beyond furious when he heard about the way the Digidestinds reacted when they were told that Koichi is the Warrior of Darkness.
Daisuke and Takuya had to both hold him back from storming over to the place the Digidestinds were usually seen hanging out and giving them all a piece of his mind or unleashed the power of the Beast of Light on them.
Truth be told, JP, Tommy, Zoe and Takuya were also all mad at them and the rogue Digidestinds were disappointed in their former teammates in how they acted.
Daisuke knew that something like that would happen, but she really hoped that they would keep an open mind about what had happened.
The burgundy haired girl was now walking home from school, V-Mon hanging around from her place above the trees, keeping a look out for any of the other Digidestinds.
Ken, Cody and Daisuke had gone back to ignoring them again and weren't taking any chances at all.
In fact, the rogue Digidestinds decided to rename their group and they even draw straws to see who got the honor to do so and Cody won, so he decided to call the group the Knights because V-Mon was able to become a Royal Knight digimon and she was also the partner of the leader, so it had some significance.
So right now the leader of the Knights was walking home to prepare for a sleep over she was having at Ken's house along with Cody.
"Daisuke!" someone called out.
The child of Miracles stopped walking and turned around to see a familiar boy with blonde hair, azure eyes and was dressed in blue shoes, gray shorts, a green long sleeved shirt and white vest was running over to her with a pair of goggles in his hands while an orange hamster with bat wings for ears and big blue eyes sat on top of his head.
V-Mon jumped down from the tree and made a little scene out of it by doing a few backflips and landed on her feet right in front of her human, making the child of Hope stop short with a look of surprise at the catlike grace the dragon showed, her ruby eyes sending a cold glare to him and Patamon.
"What is it, TL?" Daisuke asked with her arms crossed with a look on her face that would make Matt proud or maybe Koji as V-Mon placed her paws on her hips, her tail flicking with annoyance.
"It's TK and we need to talk about what happened between us." TK said.
"Look, I don't care how you and the others treat me. OK? I'm over it." She said making the blonde smile in relief, but it faded when her eyes turned a piercing gold color as she looked straight at him.
"What I won't stand for is you guys verbally attacking one of my friends." She said.
"It was bad enough when it's just Ken you guys are bad mouthing, but I will not put up with you guys isolating Koichi, especially with all the hell he went through already." She continued.
TK sighed, remembering Kari telling him about Koichi revealing himself as the Warrior of Darkness, the digimon who had brought Daisuke to them to help fight Minotarumon.
He and Patamon bot freaked out, but stopped when Kari and Gatomon slapped them across the face, knowing that their attitudes and personal feelings weren't going to make things any better.
"Look, Daisuke, I know we made a whole lot of mistakes, but we need you guys to come back. I can't be the leader. I'll stand down and let you be the leader and just act as your right hand man." TK said as he held out the goggles to her.
"I already have a right hand man. Ken." Daisuke said and the child of Hope felt like he had been slapped and clenched his fist around the goggles.
Ken this and Ken that.
Why was she always about Ken?
Even when he was the Emperor he was the only guy she ever talked about, of course it was all negative back then, but still!
He got more attention from her than he ever did and the blonde know her better than the plum haired pretty boy that looked like he had the same hair stylist as Kari.
"Why is Ken your right hand man?" he asked, trying to keep his temper in check.
"Because he's my best friend. And I can always count on him to be there for me no matter what." Daisuke said.
"Even after all that he did to us?" TK asked.
"Are we really back on that shit?" Daisuke asked.
TK bit his lip and then went deep in thought.
"Let's make a bet." He said.
V-Mon scoffed at that while Patamon flew down to the ground to stand in front of the dragon, who just gave him a glare.
"What are you talking about, TD?" Daisuke asked half bored and half intrigued by what he has to say.
"We have a battle." The child of Hope said.
Everyone gave him a surprised look.
The sweet, innocent, pacifist angel of Hope wanted to have a battle?
"A battle?" the child of Miracles asked.
"Yeah, a battle between our digimon. If your digimon wins, then we'll leave you alone and won't come after you anymore. But if Patamon wins, then you and Cody have to come back to us for good." He said.
Daisuke and V-Mon shared a look, wondering what they should do.
The blue dragon nodded her head and so Daisuke looked over at the blonde with a smirk.
"Fine, but don't come crying to me when Lady XV-Mon kicks your angel's ass." Daisuke said.
"We'll meet at the place you found the digi egg of Friendship to battle." TK said as he turned and began to walk away.
"They are out of their minds." V-Mon said.
"Tell me about it. But still, it would be fun to knock Takeru down a few pegs. Come on, V-Mon!" Daisuek said.
A few hours later Daisuke and V-Mon were at the Ichijougi home in Tamachi, Mrs. Ichijougi welcoming the young girl into their home with a bright smile on her fragile face.
"I hope you don't mind me staying over, Mrs. Icijougi." Daisuke said.
"Oh, it's the least we could do. I don't think I've seen Ken smile this much since Sam. I'm just so happy he found some wonderful friends." The brown haired woman said a sad look in her dark eyes when she said the name Sam.
Ken had confessed before that he had gone down that dark path because he had witnessed his own older brother, Sam's death.
He was run over by a car right in front of him and it tore his parents' apart inside, so he tried his best to portray the deceased boy's image to make them happy and it turned him into the Emperor.
"I'm sure Sam would be happy to know that Ken's fine now. He's a really great guy when you get to know him." Daisuke said with a smile.
Mrs. Icijougi looked like she was about to cry, but was stopped by Ken walking into the room and e smiled when he saw is best friend.
"Daisuke, welcome. I hope you two were getting along well." Ken said as he walked over and took the girl's bag from her.
"Oh, yeah, it was great. We were talking about all the funny, yet adorable things you did as a kid. Baby pictures were even brought out for a bit. It was great. Right, Mrs. Ichijougi?" Daisuke said with a wink to the woman, who chuckled at the girl while Ken rolled his eyes in good humour.
"Yes, indeed. We should continue this at dinner." The woman said as she took one of the girl's hands, the other being used to old V-Mon.
"I love that idea." Daisuke said with a giggle.
Ken felt a bit of dread at that and quickly ushered the girl into his room to get her away from his mother before the tales of his childhood were really told.
"You truly are an evil person, you know that?" the child of Kindness asked when he closed the door to his room.
"Aw, you know you love me!" Daisuke teased as V-Mon went to go play with Wormmon.
"Sadly." Ken muttered, then laughed when a pillow was thrown at him.
The rest of the evening went perfectly fine.
The Ichijougis both loved the young child of Miracles and were interested in the stories she had to tell on how she first met Ken at the soccer game and about their other friends Cody, Koji, Koichi, Takuya, Zoe, JP, Yutaka, Willis and Tommy.
The two adults felt at peace with the girl present and were able to finally talk about Sam without crying.
They even showed her a picture of the boy and Daisuke was surprised to see how much the late son looked like Ken's evil persona.
The hair was the same style; the glasses looked a lot like the goggles that were worn.
It was scary, like the Emperor was based off of Sam.
Finally it was time for bed and Daisuke waited until she and Ken were alone before she told him what she and TK had agreed on.
"What? You can't go through with this, Dai!" Ken said worried.
"I have no other choice." She said placing her hands on his shoulder, looking deep into his eyes.
"They'll finally leave us alone if we do this. They need to see that the Warriors and Knights want nothing to do with the Digidestinds. And this is the way to do it. So please, just cover for me, all right?" she asked, her eyes begging with him.
"I still don't agree with tis, but…I'll help you out whatever way I can." He said.
Daisuke barely contained a squeal of excitement as she hugged the plum haired boy, making is face turn as red as a cherry before he opened up a port and she and V-Mon went through.
Ken and Wormmon watched them with worry as they went to battle with the duo of Hope.
Daisuke and V-Mon arrived at the area they were told to meet TK and Patamon in and saw that the two were there already, waiting on them.
"Are you ready for tis, Daisuke?" TK asked as he pulled out his D-3.
"Are you?" she asked pulling out her own.
"Let's do this!" they said.
Their D-3s then started glowing brightly and the two Rookies digivolved just as the Digidestinds and Warriors all came running to them.
"TK, what are you doing?" Matt yelled to is brother.
"Patamon digivolve too….Angemon!"
"V-Mon digigvolve too…..Lady XV-Mon!"
The angel and dragon stood their ground as they waited for the first one to make their move.
"TK, why are you doing this? This is totally impulsive and not you!" Yolei cried.
"I just want to see what they can really do. Let's see if you're even still a Digidestind." TK said.
"Sorry, but I'm not a Digidestind anymore. I'm the leader of the Digi Knights." Daisuke said.
Angemon started the fight by using is Hand of Fate, but Lady XV-Mon simply dodged it and then swooped in behind the angel with great speed, surprising everyone.
She delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to his side, sending the angel a few feet away.
"Give up, TP. Angemon is a celestial." Daisuke said.
"Yeah, so what?" TK asked.
"It means, you bastard, that he can't win this! Angemon has an advantage against fallen angel or demon digimon, but he can't master up to a Royal Knight digimon." Koji said with a glare pointed towards the young blonde haired boy.
"Both of you, stop this right now!" Tai yelled.
"Shut up, Tai! I'm not talking to you." Daisuke said as Angemon stood up and flew right at Lady XV-Mon, but the dragon woman used her V Laser on him, knocking him back down and he then reverted back into Patamon.
"You guys understand nothing about friendship. You preach it enough, but in the end, you really know nothing about it." Daisuke said as she walked over to the Rookie who was exhausted and lying on the ground.
She kneeled down and carefully scooped him up, making sure he wasn't too badly hurt.
"Are you mad about what happened with Koichi?" Tai asked.
"What do you think, you jackass?" Takuya snarled at him.
"Guys, calm down. It's fine." The Warrior of Darkness said.
"No, it's not." Kari said as she walked over to where the Warriors all stood as Daisuke handed Patamon back to TK.
"We were rude and unfair to you. We shouldn't have acted that way. And I'm very sorry." Kari apologized.
"I don't buy it." Zoe said.
"Look, it's been a long day already and it's late, so let's all just go home and get some rest, OK?" Sora suggested.
Everyone agreed as Daisuke and Lady XV-Mon went up to the Warriors, the Champion going back to her Rookie form as Koichi wrapped is arm around the child of Miracles as she went into his arms.
"We'll talk later then." Matt said.
"Actually, that's not possible." V-Mon said making everyone stop.
"What are you talking about?" Gatomon asked.
"TK and Daisuke made a deal. If I won the fight, then Daisuke and Cody would come back to the Digidestinds forever. But if V-Mon won, then we all had to leave them alone." Patamon said.
"And Lady XV-Mon won that fight easily." Izzy said as everyone realized what had happened.
"But how? There's no way they could be that strong!" Yolei said.
"Shows what you know." Zoe said.
"Daisuke has been making the digimon all train to get stronger to fight the control spire digimon and take down all the towers." Tommy explained.
"V-Mon, Wormmon and Armadillomon are all now at the strength of a Champion in their Rookie forms and could take on a Champion if they wanted." JP said.
"Lady XV-Mon, Stingmon and Ankylomon are all getting close to their Ultimate levels. Daisuke upped the training by making them fight with us in our Warrior forms." Takuya said with a proud smile.
"As you can fully see, we don't need you around. Can we help it if you aren't up to our level?" Koji said with a nonchalant shrug pissing Matt, Tai and TK off.
"Guys, we really don't need a fight to break out. Let's just do what Sora said and go back home." Koichi said as he hugged Daisuke to his chest.
"Sorry guys, but this is it. Bye." Daisuke said as she and the Warriors turned their backs on the Digidestinds.
TBC