A/N: Heya. Again, I would like to apologize for the long wait for Chapter 13, it was the biggest chapter me and Panther J has done since a chapter of MegaMan X IS. So hopefully, this chapter will not take too long to write. Another thing, I would like to go over one thing. There are cases that are before the ones with Nokia, Arata or Yuuko, so they will also be main cases. And without further ado, here is Chapter 14, the first part of the second anime filler segment with Ranma 1/2.
Warning: Expect Neptune to break the fourth wall a little bit in this chapter.
Neptune: You know it, buster! (Winks)
Chapter 14: Cyber Sleuths vs Nerima Wrecking Crew! Wrath of the Flymon Swarm!
Not long after Yuuko had departed from the agency, our heroes were relaxing around the office while bringing their new friend Kusanagi up to speed on what's been going on for the past couple of days. All the while, they still couldn't get the reason why Yuuko lied to them about her being Makoto Yamashina's daughter to take the case and her real name being Yuuko Kamashino, the same name of the company they're trying to take down.
"Wow, I had no idea what was going on." Kusanagi muttered in shock. "I thought it was already bad enough about that Heathcliff guy trapping people inside SAO, but this EDEN Syndrome sounds just as bad. Not sure which is scarier, now that I think about it."
"I'm sure both of them are scary in their own right, but that's not the worse of it." Ichika frowned seriously. "The worst part is that we're not even sure what's going to happen to the ones with EDEN Syndrome. There's still no word of a cure and we don't know what's going to happen to the victims if this keeps going." Everyone nodded in agreement as Houki brought up another subject.
"Not only that, there's also the fact that Yuuko lied to us before…" Houki stepped in as she questioned Yuuko's actions. "She said she was Makoto Yamashina's daughter, but the real name of his daughter is Chika. And there's also the fact that her real name is Yuuko Kamishino, the same company that's rumored to be behind all these incidents. But the real question is why did she lied to us about her name? Does she have a reason to lie to us about something?"
"It's possible, but we can't really say for sure." Satoru answered her as he scratched his chin in thought. "If she does have a reason to lie to us, then there must something that only she knows and we'll have to find out for ourselves later on." Everyone went silent for a moment until Kyoko decided to break the ice.
"Now now, let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet." Kyoko advised. "I know you all have a lot of questions, but the answers won't be coming to us on a silver platter. We'll have to continue taking cases until we find more evidence about Kamishino and Yuuko's connection with them." Everyone all looked at each other and realized she was right and calmed down.
"Yeah, you're right, Kyoko. We shouldn't let these questions get to us." Ichika agrees with a relieved smile. "It's just as you told me before, if we run into this blindly, then we won't get anywhere fast. We can't let these questions distract us from finding out the real truth about these incidents and Kamishino's actions." Everyone nodded in agreement as he turns to Kyoko and smiled. "Thanks, Kyoko, for reminding us to keep a calm head and not rush in so recklessly." Everyone turned to her and nodded in agreement.
"It was my pleasure, Ichika. And I'm also glad you remembered what I told you before." Kyoko smiled with closed eyes. "I know everyone has questions about why Yuuko lied to us and how I knew her real name, but it's best we not think about them at this moment. For now, take this time to rest up and be ready for your next case." Everyone nodded in agreement as they all stretched.
"Speaking of which, it's about time we'd headed for home." Satoru yawned. "After all that excitement during the case, I'd say we definitely earned it. That way, we can be ready for our next case." Everyone nodded in agreement until Kusanagi spoke up.
"That's all well and good, but where am I going to stay?" Kusanagi asked in concern. "I don't suppose you guys know of any hotels around here?"
"Sorry, but I'm afraid we can't pay for hotels." Kyoko answered him. "It'll be much too expensive to even let you stay for one night, so we'll have to come up with another solution. Now where can you stay without breaking the bank?"
"Hey, maybe he can come to the IS Academy with us." Tatenashi suggested. "That way, he can have somewhere to stay and he'll be attending our classes as well." Everyone all nodded in agreement.
"Not a bad idea, Tatenashi." Ichika agrees with a smile. "We can get him a room at the dorms and introduce him to everyone." Everyone nodded in agreement as they looked at his armor. "But much like Kirito and the others, we're gonna have to get him some new clothes." Everyone nodded again as Kusanagi looked at his armor and realized he was right.
"No kidding, I'm really gonna need some new clothes." Kusanagi agrees with an embarrassed smile. "I kinda forgot about that after being trapped in SAO for two years, so I'm not even sure what kind of clothes to buy."
"Don't worry, we can help you with that." Kirito smiled as he place his hand on his shoulder. "Ichika and his friends helped us find some new clothes for our stay at their school, so we'll do the same for you. Think of it as my way of saying thanks for saving my sister from BlackGrowlmon." Everyone nodded in agreement as Leafa blew a kiss at him and he blushed brightly.
"In that case, you all better hurry and start shopping." Kyoko said with a smile. "You've only got two more hours until Nakano closes for the night, so just buy what you can for tonight. You can buy more clothes at a later date." Everyone nodded and headed out of the office to do some more clothes shopping for their new friend.
Not long after exiting the office, our heroes returned to the 2nd floor to do more clothes shopping for Kusanagi. Upon arriving at Casual Male XL, everyone entered the store and started browsing through the racks and shelves around the store. While searching through the store, Ichika, Kirito, Satoru and Leafa picked some from the racks and hands them to Kusanagi.
"Here Kusanagi, try on these clothes." Ichika smiled as he picked out some clothes. "I'm sure you'll like these." He hands the clothes over to Kusanagi as he nodded in agreement.
"Thanks, Ichika. I think I'll ry them on now." Kusanagi said as he heads for the changing room to try on the clothes.
For the next hour, Kusanagi was trying on different clothes ranging from casual to formal and others. With most of the casual and formal clothes, Leafa thought he looked either cute or handsome that he couldn't help but blush at her complements while everyone smiled with the girls giggling at their budding love. After finding all the clothes he likes and putting back the ones he didn't like or care about, they've paid for the clothes and headed back to the agency.
"Well, that sure was a lot easier than last time." Ling grinned. "We were able to find a good amount of clothes for Kusanagi's stay at our school. Of course it's mostly because we were helping out one person this time instead of multiple people like yesterday." Everyone nodded in agreement while walking down the stairs.
"Yeah, and all before everything closed for the night." Ichika agrees with a nod. "We were lucky that Casual Male was still open while the other stores were starting to close up. Now we won't have to worry about clothes for a while." Everyone nodded in agreement as they arrived back at the agency and entered it to find Kyoko packing some files.
"Ah, welcome back, my assistants." Kyoko greeted with a smile. "Nice to see you're all done shopping. So did you all managed to find everything for Kusanagi's stay at your school?"
"Yeah, we were able to find everything for him." Ichika answered her while smiling back. "We were definitely lucky to find Casual Male still open and managed to buy what he needed for his stay at the academy." Everyone nodded in agreement "So what's going on here? You cleaning up some stuff?"
"In a way, yes. I'm just organizing some old files." Kyoko answered him as she began explaining. "A lot of them were from the time my father and aunt ran the agency together back when I was still in middle school and Satoru was in elementary. Whenever they go on case, they'd always let us know by leaving a note on the door whenever we come by. A lot of these files were from the cases they've solved over the years and have been piling up for a while now, so I've decided to organize them."
"They must've been really nice people to you and Satoru-kun, Kyoko-san." Silica smiled. "I bet they were great detectives that you two looked up to and wanted to be like them when you grow up."
"Funny you should say that, Silica, because we went beyond that." Kyoko said with a smile. "Back in our old schools, we had our own mystery clubs where we solved our own cases like who stole someone's lunch money and exposing a teacher's actions towards students. Heh, I suppose you can say we had our own cases to solve during our childhood and it helped us became how we are now." Satoru smiled and nodded in agreement as he also remembers their childhood.
"Wow, you two really had some great memories from back then." Asuna smiled. "I can definitely see you two having fun being detectives during your school days. Is that the reason why you're both now running the agency together?"
"Well, yes and no, Asuna." Satoru answered her with a sad sigh. "Yes, because they were the main inspiration for us wanting to be detectives like them. And no, because they died during a case some time ago and now Kyoko-nee's running the agency."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was a sensitive issue." Asuna apologized as she lowered her head despondently. "I didn't realized they died some time ago, I'm sorry for bringing a bad memory up."
"It's all right, we've managed to overcome their deaths after some time." Kyoko reassured her. "Although, Satoru had it worse because of some complications, but we were able to overcome them." She turns to the clock on the wall. "And on that note, I believe it's time we close up for the night. There's a lot of info we've managed to gather, so we'll go over them tomorrow. Get some rest and we'll go over what we've learned." Everyone nodded as they all exited the agency and headed for the bus station while Kyoko locks the door and headed for her car.
(Meanwhile, in another world…)
"RANMA YOU IDIOT!" Akane Tendou screamed in fury as she swing her mallet at Ranma Saotome. Once again, Ranma has insulted Akane's cooking and she's taking her anger out on him. Ranma ducked and ran for his life while Akane chased after him.
"Damnit, Akane! Why can't you understand your cooking sucks ass?!" Ranma yelled as Akane threw a bucket of cold water on him, turning him into a girl. Unfortunately, for him, Ryoga who just gotten lost again spotted Ranma in girl form.
"Saotome! You will pay for what you did to me!" Ryoga yelled in anger as he threw his bandanas at him, err, her. She dodged it and punched Ryoga in the stomach, making him groan in pain.
"Ranma! You stupid insensitive jerk! Stop hurting Ryoga!" Akane was even angrier than before as she slams her mallet down on Ranma, she dodged rolled out of the way and continued to run with Akane and Ryoga chasing him throughout Nerima.
As Ranma ran for his/her life, Ukyo and Shampoo spotted him/her. "Ranma!" Ukyo gasped in shock. Ukyo is a childhood friend of Ranma and also in love with him.
"Ranma! Shampoo is here to protect you from meanie Akane!" Shampoo, the Amazon warrior who is in love with Ranma said happily as she charged towards Akane and got into a fist fight with her. Things got even worse when Mousse appeared.
"Ranma! Time to fight!" Mousse yelled in fury as he got out his… Okay, I have no idea what he's using, so let's call them spoon like weapons or something.
"My pigtailed goddess!" Tatewaki Kuno, the resident idiot dived towards Ranma to glomp her, she ducked and gave Tatewaki a kick in the stomach. Ranma continued to run for her life when suddenly Kodachi stepped in front of her and glared at her.
"Okay, you red hussie! I'm not letting you anywhere near my Ranma!" She got out her ribbon and was ready to kick Ranma's ass. Nabiki Tendou and Kasumi walked by.
"Ranma! Are you alright?" Kasumi gasped in shock.
"If you want out of this, you'll have to pay me." Nabiki smirked. Suddenly, an earthquake occurred. "W-What the?!" Nabiki gasped in shock. The rest of the Nerima Wrecking crew stopped in front of Ranma and noticed the earthquake.
"RANMA! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Akane screamed in fury.
"Nothing! Stop accusing me of doing crap I haven't done!" Ranma screamed in frustration. Suddenly, a bright light appeared and engulfed the Nerima Wrecking Crew for about 50 seconds until it disappeared. When it cleared, the Nerima Wrecking Crew were nowhere in sight as if they never existed.
(In Ichika's world.)
"Whoa!" Ichika woke up with a sudden gasp as he panted heavily and looked around. He was in his room at his house.
"Boss! Was it another dream?" Agumon gasped as he woke up and saw Ichika covered in sweat.
"Yeah…" Ichika nodded slowly as he looked out his window. "This time, it was another world."
"What was the dream about?" Agumon asked him in concern.
"That world… is very weird to say the least. And the people who live there have a few screws loose. And one of them turned into a girl by being splashed with cold water. And then, the same earthquake from Kirito's world appeared and same white light caught those people and they disappeared. It will possibly be a repeat of what happened with Kirito and his friends, only this time, there are people from another world." Ichika explained.
"Then we better help them tomorrow!" Agumon urged.
"Yeah. But we can't let them attend the IS Academy because of their messed up daily lives." Ichika told him as he and Agumon slept for the night.
The next morning, Ichika and Agumon woke up and headed for the kitchen to have breakfast and found the CPUs, Leafa, Yui and Pina all sitting around the table. The girls all turned to them and greeted the boys as they sat down at the table with them.
"Morning, you two. Glad to see you boys could join us." Vert greeted with a smile. "I trust that you boys were able to sleep well last night?"
"Not really, I had another strange dream last night..." Ichika answered her with a sigh. "But unlike the one I had with you and your friends, Leafa, this one was a lot crazier. From what I told Agumon last night, it all started with this guy running from a girl because he told her that her cooking sucks. As the chase continues on, several more people came in and all joined in the chase after this guy around town until they were caught by an earthquake and just vanished in a bright light, almost like they never existed." The girls gasped in shock.
"Hold on, are you serious, Ichika?" Noire asked with wide eyes. "Are you saying that another group is coming to this world in the same way as Kirito and the others yesterday?"
"Believe me, I couldn't make that up if I tried, Noire…" Ichika answered her with a serious frown. "I'm sure they were caught in the same earthquake that brought Leafa and the others here, but that's not the weird part. The weird part is where the girl throws a bucket of water on the guy and, you're not going to believe this, he changed into a girl!"
"Wait, what?!" The girls all gasped in shock.
"Yeah, I couldn't even believe it either." Ichika agrees, nodding in response. "It was just really weird seeing him turn into a girl after being splashed by water. But there also no question about it, they'll be coming here and we have to help them as Agumon said." Agumon nodded in agreement.
"But what's going to happen after we find them?" Blanc asked with a concerned look. "From what you said about them chasing this one person, I don't think they'll be in a listening mood. They'll probably believe we're the ones who took them from their home. What kind of plan do you have if they start attacking us?"
"I'm not entirely sure yet, but I'll think of something." Ichika answered her as he rubbed his chin in thought. "I'm sure we'll be able to convince them that we're not the ones responsible for bringing them here. Right now, I'll have to tell the others about this as well. They'll need to know about what's going to happen later on." Everyone nodded in agreement as he and Agumon sits at the table and started having breakfast.
After finishing breakfast, Ichika got ready for school and recalls Agumon back into his Digivice before heading out the door and to school. Upon arriving at the academy, he made just in before the bells rings and sat down at his desk with his friends all arriving as well. Just as class was about to start, Ichika started telling the rest of his friends what he told Agumon, Leafa, Yui and the CPUs.
"Wait, are you serious, Ichika?" Klein asked with a gasp. "Are you saying that you had another vision about more people coming here? The same one you had with us?"
"No doubt about it, Klein. It's exactly like how I saw you guys before." Ichika answered him with a nod as he continued. "And like all of you, they were caught in a strange earthquake and just vanished, like they never existed. So I'm willing to bet they'll be arriving in Kowloon at this moment."
"But what are we going to do if we find them?" Char asked in concern. "I'm not sure they'll listen to us because they'll think we're the ones who brought them here. How can we explain to them that we're not the culprits?"
"Blanc asked me the same thing, but I'm still not sure about that yet." Ichika answered her as he pondered about this. "We'll have to see what we'll do if we do encounter them. So if they do start attacking us, we'll have to fight back against them." Everyone nodded in agreement as Maya walks into the classroom.
"Okay, everyone, you all know the drill by now." Maya smiled "We've got another student joining us and I hope you all treat him with respect." She turns to the door and motions Kusanagi to enter as he walks into the room and stand next to her. "Everyone, I'd like you all to meet Hikaru Kendo. He was a last minute addition to the program with Kazuto and his friends, but had to arrive at a later date." She turns to Kusanagi and nodded to him as he stepped forward.
"It's true, I was added in at the last minute, but everyone else had already left." Kusanagi said with a smile. "So I had to wait a day until I can come here and join them for the program. And since I'm now here with everyone, I hope we can get along." He bows at everyone as the room was dead silent. Then in an instant, all the girls started crowding him except for Houki and her friends, Asuna and her friends and Miharu and her friends.
"Oh my gosh, he's just so adorable!" One girl squealed. "How on Earth we didn't even know about boys before? Or just how cute they are?"
"I know, it's like they were keeping a secret from us!" Another girl agrees with a giggle. "And I'm glad this program started, now we get to meet boys for the first time!" The other girls all nodded in agreemen and excitement as they continued crowding him while Ichika and his friends were watching.
"Okay, it's official. This joke is starting to get really annoying…" Ling moaned. "Seriously, every time we bring a new boy in, the girls here just go nuts over them. This is like, what, the 5th or 6th time this happened?"
"I don't know, I lost count after the 3rd time this happened." Tatenashi answered her with a sweat drop. "And now it looks like he's got it worse than you, Satoru, Yukinari, Kirito and Klein, Ichika." The boys in question all sighed and nodded. "He'd better hope Leafa doesn't know about this or he's in the doghouse." Everyone nodded in agreement as they watched their friend being surrounded by girls.
Back at the Orimura Residence
While helping Nepgear, Uni, Rom and Ram in cleaning up Ichika's house, Leafa stopped sweeping the floor while clutching the handle of the broom. The CPUs noticed her standing still and went to check on her.
"Hey Leafa, what's wrong?" Uni asked in concern. "I thought you were sweeping the floor over here. And why are you twisting the broom handle?"
"I don't even know myself, Uni... I suddenly feel this jealously building up inside me…" Leafa answered her with an angry frown. "It's almost like I'm feeling something boiling inside me and I don't know why. But I suddenly have this feeling of punishing Kusanagi later when they get out of school…" She twisted the broom handle so hard that she snaps it in two. The CPU Candidates sweat dropped.
After the school has ended for the day, Ichika and his friends picked up Leafa, Yui, Pina and the CPUs from his house before heading for the agency at Nakano. While riding on the bus, Kusanagi was breathing a sigh of relief from being crowed by girls throughout the day wanting his attention. Luckily, everyone was able to calm Leafa down before she could punish him for something he had no control over.
"Geez, I thought I wasn't going to survive all those girls." Kusanagi muttered. "I didn't think the girls there would be this excited at meeting a boy. It's almost like they've never seen one in their entire life."
"Sad thing is that you're right, Kusanagi-san." Houki said with a dull expression. "Because the IS Academy was built to train girls on using the IS, not a lot of them has ever seen a boy before until Ichika was enrolled. So you'll have to get used to the girls trying to get your attention like they've doing to Ichika, Satoru, Yukinari, Kirito and Klein for the past few days now." The boys in question all nodded in agreement.
"But if that's the case, then how was Ichika and the rest of them enrolled in the first place?" Kusanagi asked in confusion. "Did they have to do some kind of test to be accepted into school?"
"Not exactly, there was another reason for me being accepted into the IS Academy." Ichika answered him with a smile. "While it was mostly due to my older sister being one of the teachers and a famous IS pilot, the real reason why I was accepted was because I was the only boy who can pilot an IS just as skilled as the girls can. But because I was the only boy until now, a lot of the girls were trying to get my attention."
"As for the rest of us, we were accepted for this program going on at the school." Satoru explained. "The program was pitched by Ichika's sister and Maya-sensei to the other teachers to make the school co-ed and they agreed to the idea. So now they're accepting boys at the academy until the end of the year where it's decided to make the school co-ed or not." Everyone else all nodded in agreement.
"Wow, that does sound really interesting." Kusanagi gasped in awe. "So this program they're doing is going to determine whether or not the school is going to be co-ed by the end of the year?" Everyone nodded. "Cool, I'd really like to see how well this program plays out and see what happens by the end of the year." Everyone smiled and nodded in agreement as the bus reaches its destination.
Upon arriving back at Nakano Broadway, our heroes made their way to the office to meet up with Kyoko and Agil to see if there were any more cases. As they entered the office, Agil was the only person sitting on one of the sofas, but Kyoko was nowhere to be seen. Agil turned to faced them and waved at his younger friends.
"Hey guys, nice of ya'll to drop by." Agil greeted with a smile. "I take it you were all expecting Kyoko to be here as well, right?"
"Yeah, we wanted to tell her about this vision I saw last night." Ichika answered him. "Remember how I saw all of you in my vision before?" Agil nodded as he knows what he's talking about. "Yeah, I saw more people in this one last night and we wanted to tell her, but I guess she's not here. Did she say where she was going?"
"Yeah, she said that she was meeting with someone named Detective Matayoshi." Agil answered him. "He invited her for some important business and they decided to talk about it over lunch. So she got up and left to meet with him just before you guys arrived."
"Huh, then I guess we just missed her." Satrou figured. "She probably got into her car and drove passed us while we were getting off the bus. That explains the honking we heard before, that was her letting us know she was heading out, but we didn't see her."
"So what are we going to do now?" Ram asked as she tapped her foot impatiently. "Since Kyoko's not here, what can we do until she returns from her meeting with this Matayoshi guy?"
"Hey, how about we do some training in Kowloon?" Houki suggested with a smile. "Since we've got some time until she gets back, we can train with our Digimon partners to improve our fighting skills. That way when we do have another case, we'll be ready for whatever Digimon or hacker we might run into."
"Not a bad idea, Houki." Ichika agrees with a smile. "It was really tough fighting against BlackGrowlmon yesterday, so there's no saying if any Digimon we might encounter later on will be even stronger. We should definitely take this opportunity to make sure we don't get rusty when Kyoko gives us another case. Let's head for Kowloon and get this training underway." Everyone nodded in agreement as they all gather around him as he uses his Connect Jump to enter the TV while Satoru and Twoearle followed behind on his computer after entering their EDEN accounts.
Upon arriving back in Kowloon, our heroes made their way to Galatica Park to start on their first training session with their Digimon partners to prepare themselves for the coming battles ahead. As they arrived at the park, they were deciding on who should fight with whom during the training while everyone else watched.
"Okay, this is the perfect place to start with our training." Ichika smiled as he looked around the area. "We can use Galatica Park as our training grounds when we have some free time. And since we won't have to deal with hackers for a while, we can be ready until our next case starts." Everyone nodded in agreement until Laura noticed something.
"Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we've got a slight problem." Laura frowned as she gestured to Kusanagi, Veemon and Wormmon. "Kusanagi's the only person who has two Digimon while the rest of us only have one. How can we make this work if one of us has more than one Digimon?" Everyone all thought about it and realized she was right.
"You have a good point, Laura." Cecilia agrees with a nod. "This does prove to be a problem since Kusanagi-san has both Veemon and Wormmon as his partners while the rest of us each only have one. What can we do to make this training fair?" Everyone thought for a moment until Kitito walks over to them.
"Hey, maybe we can help you guys on that." Kirito suggested with a smile. "Me, my friends and Neptune's group could train with you guys and your Digimon to come up with some strategies if we encounter stronger Digimon like BlackGrowlmon from yesterday. Besides, it's high time the rest of us helped you guys in fighting other Digimon." His wife, sister and friends all nodded in agreement.
"I concur with Kirito's plan." Vert said, smiling as well. "This could be the best way for us to know more about Digimon and figure the best plan of attack while also figuring out their weaknesses. It's also the best way to see how different Digimon are than the monsters myself and my fellow CPUs have fought." Her fellow CPUs all nodded in agreement.
"I'm not sure that it's a good idea." Renamon said with a frown. "You all saw just how strong other Digimon like BlackGrowlmon and Cyclonemon were before, but they were only Champion levels. There's no telling if any other Digimon will be even stronger in their Ultimate or Mega levels. Even the Rookie Digimon could be dangerous if you're not careful."
"We know, but we still want to help you guys." Asuna said with determination. "When BlackGrowlmon almost killed Leafa yesterday and Kusanagi-san, Veemon and Wormmon saved her, it made us realized how helpless we were standing there on the sidelines while everyone else was fighting. Even from our fight against Crabmon and Shellmon was proof enough that we were no match for the Digimon. So we're willing to help you in any way we can."
"So what do you guys think about this?" Ichika asked his friends. "Should we let them help us in this training? They seem serious about helping us fight hackers and Digimon, but I also want to hear all of your say in this. Should we let Kirito and his friends help us in fighting hackers and Digimon while also finding out the truth behind Kamishino Enterprises?" His friends all looked at each other and thought for a moment before nodding.
"Yes, I'd say we let them help us." Houki answered with a smile. "They were taken from their home and have no means of going back until we help them find a way. And since Leafa was nearly killed by BlackGrowlmon yesterday, I'm sure they're more than ready to help us fight against hackers and evil Digimon we'll be encountering sooner or later." Her friends and their Digimon partners all nodded in agreement.
"Then it's decided, you and your friends can help us train, Kirito." Ichika smiled in approval. "We could definitely use your help in situations that might call for your skills. And who knows, maybe being stuck in a game for two years might have some benefits when it calls for it."
"Yeah, maybe you could be right." Kirito agrees with a smile. "There have been some upsides to being trapped in SAO, so this could be the perfect time to put our skills to use. And don't hold back on us just because we're helping you guys train."
"Good, because we're not planning to either." Ichika said while grinning. "We want to be sure we're all ready for anything until our next case starts up. So let's all give everything we've got." Everyone nodded in agreement as they picked who's facing whom in their training exercise while Yui, Twoearle and Yukinari's group watched.
After picking out their training partners, it was time to start their training. Ichika and Agumon were up against Kirito and Purple Heart, Houki and Elecmon were up against Asuna and Black Heart, Ling and Gatomon was up against White Heart and Liz, Cecilia and Renamon was up against Green Heart and Silica, Laura and Candlemon were up against Purple Sister and Sinon, Tatenashi and Monodramon were up against Black Sister and Phillia, Kanzashi and Palmon were up against the White Sisters (Rom and Ram), Satoru and Dorumon were up against Agil and Klein and lastly, Kusanagi, Veemon and Wormmon were up against Leafa. All the Digimon digivolved into their Champion forms save for Gatomon and began their training.
"Mega Flame!" GeoGreymon yelled as he launched his attack at Kirito and Purple Heart, they leaped out of the way.
"Starburst Stream!" Kirito yelled as he got out his twin swords and clashed with GeoGreymon, he was hit by two of the hits, but GeoGreymon blocked the remaining attacks and swipe his claws at Kirito who was hit by it for little damage.
"You're good, Kirito!" GeoGreymon smiled. "But me and Boss are just getting warmed up! Mega Shot!" GeoGreymon fired a blast of fire at Kirito but Purple Heart got in the way and swatted it away.
"Not bad. Even though I'm not the main character in this fanfic and you're the main character in it, Ichika, I won't hold back!" Purple Heart smirked as she readied her katana. Ichika, GeoGreymon and Kirito looked at the CPU of Planetune in confusion.
"What?" All three of them asked in unison and confusion. Purple Heart blushed in embarrassment and looked away shyly.
"Err… Never mind what I said. Critical Edge!" Purple Heart yelled as she flew towards GeoGreymon and clashed with him three times.
"Mega Roar!" GeoGreymon roared as his shockwave attack hit Purple Heart for medium damage.
"Not bad, GeoGreymon!" Purple Heart smiled. "Let's keep this up!"
"Got it!" Ichika and Kirito nodded as GeoGreymon, Purple Heart and Kirito continued their training.
With Houki, Leomon, Asuna and Black Heart. Houki was by her partner's side on the left side of the training field with Black Heart and Asuna on the right side of the training field. "Okay, Leomon." Houki smiled at her partner. "Time to start our training. Noire and Asuna may be experts in sword fighting, but we need to give it our all."
"Right." Leomon nodded as he got his sword ready.
"Hmph!" Black Heart huffed. "You better not disappoint me, Shinonono." Asuna looked at Black Heart with a look of surprise.
"Noire! That wasn't' very nice!" Asuna scolded her.
"Well I was just saying what's in my mind." Black Heart frowned as she got ready.
"Still, that's not a nice way to say to your friends…?" Asuna was scolding her again until she asked Black Heart this. "Do you have any friends in your world, Noire?" That caught Black Heart off guard as she blushed in embarrassment.
"O-Of course I do! I have millions of friends in my world!" Black Heart stuttered. Unfortunately for her, Houki, Leomon and Asuna caught wind of her lie.
"Liar…" Houki showed a dull expression.
"Sounds to me you sound like a tsundere, Noire." Leomon sighed as he rubbed his forehead in annoyance.
"Now I am starting to figure out why Neptune calls you Lonely Heart…" Asuna showed the dull black eyes expression. Black Heart's expression then showed the blank white eyes shocked expression.
"S-Shut up! I am not lonely! Ah screw it! Let's start our training! Lace Riibbons!" Black Heart flew towards Leomon who was caught off guard by this and was hit by her sword attacks five times.
"Leomon! Don't give up!" Houki encouraged. Leomon nodded as he got ready.
"Juga-maru!" Leomon yelled as he launched a powerful version of the Fist of the Beast King at Black Heart, she was hit by medium damage.
"Flashing Penetrator!" Asuna yelled as she dashed towards Leomon and clashed with him using her rapier.
"Hasaigeri!" Leomon yelled as he kicked Asuna in the chest which knocked her back a little.
"Not bad. B-But it's not like I'm praising you or anything…" Black Heart looked away shyly before regaining her composure. "Drop Crush!" Black Heart leaped up and drop down, slashing Leomon two times in medium damage.
"Beast Sword!" Leomon yelled as he slashed Black Heart two times.
"Linear!" Asuna charged towards Leomon and tried to hit him, but he quickly noticed and blocked her attack. She backfliped out of the way. Asuna smiled. "You're really good, Leomon."
"Thanks, you too, Asuna and Noire." Leomon smiled back.
"You two are no slouches in battle yourselves." Houki smiled as she placed her hand on her hip.
"But we're just getting warmed up!" Black Heart yelled as she, Asuna and Leomon clashed again.
With Ling, Gatomon, White Heart and Liz, Ling and Gatomon were on the left side while White Heart and Liz were in the other side. "Okay, Gatomon." Ling smiled as she kneed down to Gatomon's level. "It's been weeks since we became partners and after our skirmish with that hacker and his Drigermon during their attempted bank hacking. Blanc and Liz may be experts in fighting monsters in their worlds, but they're about to know the extent of our teamwork! So it's time for training!"
"Ready when you are, Ling!" Gatomon smiled as she got ready.
"So, are you ready?" White Heart smiled softly as she lifted her axe above her shoulder.
"You and Gatomon may be skilled in handling Digimon, Ling. But you're about to experience first-hand the strength of master macer Liz!" Liz smirked as she lifted her mace over her shoulder.
"Ready when you are!" Ling grinned as Gatomon, White Heart and Liz charged towards each other.
"Cat Laser!" Gatomon flicked her tail which made a laser appear and hit White Heart for medium damage.
"Not bad!" White Heart grunted as she yelled out "Tanzerin Trombe!" She charged towards Gatomon and hit her with ax 7 times.
"Neko Kick!" Gatomon yelled as she leaped up and kicked White Heart in the chest, knocking her back a little.
"Hum… Not bad." Liz muttered as she got ready. "Now it's my turn!" Liz slams her mace down on Gatomon, knocking her back a little.
"You're pretty good, but me and Ling are better!" Gatomon smirked as she got ready. "Cat Tail!" Gatomon lashed her tail at Liz, forcing her to backflip out of the way. But this was Gatomon's plan all along as she dashed towards Liz as soon as the master macer landed on her feet and gave Liz a punch in the chest.
"Oof! I can't believe I fell for that tactic!" Liz gawked. "Are my skills in SAO getting rusty all of a sudden?"
"Keep your head in the game, master macer!" White Heart yelled as she got ready to do another of her attacks. "Getter Ravine!" White Heart lifted her axe up and slams it down on Gatomon, but the cat Digimon used her cat like agility to evade it and gave White Heart a uppercut. "Argh! Damnit! I can't believe I fell for that one!" White Heart then smirked. "But you're no slouch yourself, Gatomon."
"Thanks. But we're just getting started!" Gatomon smirked as well with Ling cheering her on as Gatomon, White Heart and Liz continued their training.
With Cecilia, Kyubiimon, Green Heart and Silica, the four were getting ready for their training. "Okay, Kyubiimon." Cecilia smiled as Kyubiimon stood by her master. "Ready for this?"
"I'm ready, Master Cecilia." Kyubiimon nodded as she got ready.
"Good." Cecilia nodded in approval as she stands by to issue orders. "Vert may be a goddess, but we're giving it our all." She then eyed Green Heart's CPU form with a bit of envy. "Still… I don't get how she is not embarrassed wearing that outfit in her CPU form and how she got fine developed breasts…" Cecilia then grabbed her breasts and pretended to make them bigger in disappointment.
"Master Cecilia, we need to focus." Kyubiimon reminded her.
"R-Right." Cecilia snapped back to reality and got ready to issue orders again.
With Green Heart and Silica. Green Heart nodded to Silica. "Alright, Silica. We need to do everything we got to help Cecilia and Kyubiimon in their training… Is there something wrong?" She noticed Silica staring at her form with a bit of envy.
"H-Huh?" Silica snapped back to reality and blinked. "I'm sorry, what was that again?"
"I noticed you were staring at my form like that." Green Heart smiled as her breasts bounced. "Don't worry, when you get older, you'll have breasts as beautiful as me. But right now, we need to focus." Silica nodded as she and Green Heart clashed with Kyubiimon.
Now we turned to Laura, Wizardmon, Sinon and Purple Sister. Wizardmon was dodging every shot the two girls can throw at him with Laura issuing orders. "That's it, Wizardmon! Use Thunder Cloud! And give them a sneak attack!" Laura commanded. Wizardmon nodded as he launched his attack at Purple Sister and Sinon, giving them medium damage.
"Tch, they are good when working together." Sinon grunted.
"I know. I wonder if we'll reach their level and help them out with the tougher Digimon." Purple Sister questioned herself as she and Sinon continued to train with Laura and Wizardmon.
We see Tatenashi and Strikedramon sparring with Black Sister and Phillia. The two have a little trouble at first, but thanks to Tatenashi encouragement, they sparred with her partner Digimon well enough.
"Needle Spray!" Togemon launched her attack at the White Sisters, they were hit by it for small damage.
"Not bad! But me and Rom are tough when we work together! Ready Rom?!" White Sister (Ram) grinned.
"Ready!" White Sister (Rom) agreed as they launched their attacks at Togemon who evaded them. The White Sisters were training well with Kanzashi and Togemon.
Satoru, Dorugamon, Agil and Klein were also doing well in their training.
Now we turned to Kunasagi, ExVeemon and Stingmon as they faced Leafa. Leafa smiled as she readies her sword. "Ready Kunasagi? Just because you saved me yesterday doesn't mean I will hold back!"
"I'll do my best!" Kunasagi nodded. "I'm still learning how to command ExVeemon and Stingmon, so don't expect me to go easy on you just because you're a girl!"
"Same to you!" Leafa smiled as she, ExVeemon and Stingmon clashed in their training.
As our heroes were training with each other, the rest of their friends were watching them train from the sidelines and cheering them on throughout the training session. Twoearle was acting as the supervisor for the session as she opens up a menu and activates a recorder to start recording the session to review on any errors in their exercise.
"Hey, whatcha doing over there, Twoearle?" Kirie asked as she looked at what Twoearle is doing. "Are you recording their training session on that?"
"Yeah, I want to make sure I capture every moment of their training." Twoearle answered her with a nod as she began recording. "I need to see if there are any errors in their fighting styles and let them know to redo it or try a different strategy. So far, I'm not seeing anything wrong in the training and everything's doing great, but I'll keep recording in case there are any errors we didn't catch." She moves her finger around the screen to reposition the angles on each of the fights happening, though she was more focused on Satoru as she angles the camera around him.
"Wow, Kirito sure wasn't kidding when he told Ichika and his friends to not hold back on them." Yukinari gasped in awe. "Everyone's really giving it their all in this, even though it's only training. I can tell they're really giving it everything they've got."
"But doesn't anyone think this looks dangerous?" Koyomi asked worriedly. "It looks more like they're really fighting each other rather than training. Should we try to stop them before they really hurt each other?"
"I don't think that's a good idea, Koyomi." Lisa answered her while shaking her head no. "From what Kirito told Ichika, he made it clear that they shouldn't hold back on him and his friends because they wanted to help. Since they couldn't fight off both Crabmon and Shellmon before and were helpless when Leafa was nearly killed by BlackGrowlmon yesterday, they wanted to do this so they can have a fighting chance against any Digimon we might encounter later on." Her friends all nodded in agreement except for Fukuyama before leaning on Yukinari's arm. "Of course, I wouldn't mind it if my dear Yukinari would do the same for me when Kusanagi saved Leafa." That made Yukinari blush while Kirie was getting jealous, but didn't want to admit it.
"Me too, I want Yukinari to save me too!" Miharu agrees with a smile. "He would be like one of those heroes I've read about in those books I found in Kirie's room." That made everyone stop in their tracks and turns to her while Kirie's face was bright red.
"Miharu! What did I say about looking through my room?" Kirie stuttered. "I know I invited you over to my house before, but I also told you not to look through my stuff! I can't believe you read one of my books!"
"Kirie, what kind of books is Miharu talking about?" Yukinari asked in confusion. "And what did she mean about me being like those heroes in your books? Is she referring to fairy tales?"
"Yep, those are the kinds of books Kirie reads." Miharu answered her with a happy nod. "There are all kinds of books where the heroes save the princess from an evil witch, a dragon or an evil wizard and having a happily ever after in the end. It was all so romantic." Dorugamon, ExVeemon and Wizardmon couldn't help but feel offended for being called evil.
"Oh my, I didn't expect you to be into fairy tales, Kirie." Vert smirked deviously. "I always thought a tomboy like you would be more interested in things such as boys are, but I suppose some of them do keep their feminine side. Though I didn't expect that side of you to prefer fairy tales about heroes, princesses and such."
"And that's not all, she also has a collection of dolls in her room as well." Miharu said, still smiling. "She has plenty of dolls she always collects whenever we go out shop-" Kirie tries to stop her by covering her mouth, but it was already too late as everyone now knows about her collecting dolls and reading fairytales.
But before anyone could say a word, Kyubimon's ears perked up and turns to warn GeoGreymon. "GeoGreymon, on your left! There's someone coming your way!" GeoGreymon heard her and turned his left to block an oncoming kick with his tail from a familiar face from Ichika's vision, not that anyone else knew.
"You're the one from my vision!" Ichika gasped in shock as GeoGreymon stood by his partner.
"Alright, pal. Tell us where the hell we are before we break your faces!" Ranma growled as Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, Kuno, Naibki, Shampoo, Kodachi, Kasumi and Ukyo appeared and some of them got ready to fight.
"N-Now wait just a moment! Just listen to us!" Char pleaded.
"Shut up! It's a shame you're about to be beaten to a pulp by experienced fighters like us. I don't get the stupid looking animals with you." Kodachi smirked, Ichika and his friends' Digimon partners reverted back to their Rookie forms.
"Stupid looking creatures, huh? Well these stupid looking creatures are about to beat the data out of you and make you nutjobs listen!" Agumon growled as the gang got ready.
"Here I go!" Ranma charged towards Ling, but Gatomon got in the way and made Ranma freeze in his tracks. He screamed out "C-Cat!" He hid behind a digiblock in fear.
Akane growled as an anger vein appeared on her forehead. "Oh Ranma you stupid idiotic fraidy-cat! I'll just have to solve this as usual!" Akane got out her hammer and charged towards Houki and Elecmon, but Black Heart got in the way and blocked her hammer with her sword. "W-What in the world?!"
"Can't you see we need to talk?!" Black Heart snarled in fury.
"D-Don't try to trick me! You're just probably playing innocent so you can kill me!" Akane snarled a bit in fear.
"Hmph!" Black Heart smirked as she turned her back. "Your IQ is really low. You're not even worth my time." That made Akane really mad. Shampoo and Ukyo knew Akane's anger and how she is unstoppable when angered, but as Akane was about to attack Black Heart, the CPU of Lastation grabbed her hammer with ease, shocking her, Ukyo and Shampoo. "See? It's just as I told you. I guess stupidity runs in the family." Akane then felt a creeping fear that's growing inside of her. As her anger vanished and she is experiencing fear, when angered in her world, she was unstoppable, but now she may have lost her unstoppable strength.
"Take this!" Ryoga threw his bandanas at Ichika and Agumon who evaded or swatted them away.
Agumon stared at Ryoga. "…Are you right in the head? Who uses bandanas as weapons? Pepper Breath!" Agumon spit out his attack on Ryoga, catching his pants on fire.
"Augh! Fire! Fire!" Ryoga stops, drops and roll and put out the fire.
"If I defeat the ones who brought us to this strange place, Shampoo will love me and dump Ranma!" Mousse got out his Spoon weapons and charged towards White Heart. White Heart was silent as she stepped aside and sticks her foot out and made Mousse tripped, causing him to crash into the ground.
"W-What the? How can weak nobodies like you lot best us?!" Kodachi gawked before she got out her ribbon and charged towards Renamon. "Time to fight, you fox freak!" Renamon was silent as she waited for Kodachi to make a move, she vanished before her eyes, shocking Kodachi, Renamon then reappeared behind her and karate chopped her, knocking her out cold.
"M-My sister and my lovely Akane!" Kuno gawked before growling at Kirito. "Alright pal, I'll have you know that I am an expert swordsman than you and the ladies love me!"
"Prove it then. I know that's a lie." Kirito frowned as he readies his sword.
"W-Well…" Kuno tried to think up an excuse, but couldn't find one, so he charged towards Kirito who easily knocked him out with his sword skills.
Ukyo and Shampoo knew these strange people are strong and they even command strange creatures. So they lowered their guard and surrendered, surprising Naibiki.
"What are you two idiots doing?! Can't you see we're outnumbered?!" Naibiki growled in fury. Kasumi stopped her greedy sister.
"Hold on. I don't think they're the ones who brought us here. So let's at least hear them out." Kasumi assured her. Naibiki sighed and grumbled to herself.
"Finally, someone who can actually think around here!" Black Sister sighed in relief. "We've been trying to tell you nutcases that we're not the ones responsible for bringing you here. You guys were all caught in an earthquake and sent here in Ichika's vision last night." Her friends and fellow CPUs all nodded in agreement as Ranma comes out of his hiding spot, Kodachi and her brother regains consciousness and Mousse stands back up and dusted himself off.
"Hold on, did you say that he saw us in a vision?" Ryoga asked in confusion. "How's that even possible to begin with? There's no way you could've seen us in your vision."
"I know it sounds stupid, but we're telling you the truth." Ichika said with a serious frown. "I did see all of you in my vision last night and had to tell my friends about your arrival. Although, I was also warned that all of you might think we were the ones responsible for bringing you here and attack us, but I suppose that couldn't be avoided."
"True, but that was still no reason for our behavior towards you and your friends." Kasumi agrees with a smile. "I'm very sorry for how my sisters and friends attacked all of you out of the blue like that. When we saw all of you in the distance, everyone thought you were the ones who brought us here and started charging right towards you. I hope you can forgive them for their rude behavior."
"It's all right, no one was hurt too seriously." Satoru smiled in gratitude. "It was mostly thanks to Renamon who heard you guys heading towards us that we were able to react in time." He then turns to Ranma. "Though from what Ichika told us before in his vision, your friend there transformed into a girl when he was splashed by cold water. How the hell those that work?"
"It's a long and really complicated story, but I can give you the short version." Ranma answered him with a sigh. "It's really a curse I have that whenever I'm splashed with cold water, I turned into a girl and can only turn back if I'm splashed with hot water. So be ready if I get splashed by cold water and turn into a girl at one point." Everyone nodded as he glances over to Gatomon and hides behind the digiblock again. "But keep that cat away from me! I don't want that little furry demon anywhere near me!"
"So you're afraid of cats, huh?" Ling asked with an evil grin. "I think I know how we can keep him in line if he starts doing something stupid. You with me, Gatomon?"
"Oh yeah, I'm more than ready for this." Gatomon answered, smirking deviously. "I'm ready to scare the pants off of him if he tries anything stupid. I'll give him a scare he'll never forget." Both started laughing evilly as they started thinking about scaring Ranma if he steps out of line while everyone else watched them.
"Uh-oh, looks like Ling and Gatomon are about to go on a power trip." Tatenashi sweat dropped. "I guess they really want some payback from them attacking us out of nowhere. Does anyone think we should stop them before it gets out of hand?" Before anyone could answer, there was a loud buzzing sound coming from above them.
Gatomon's ears perked up. "Is that what I think it is…?"
"What is it, Gatomon? Something wrong?" Ling asked her partner in concern. Gatomon's eyes widen in shock.
"Flymon!" Gatomon gasped as 30 giant bee like Digimon appeared and flew around the gang.
"Destroy them! Destroy them for our masters!" The Flymon swarm chanted.
"What in the world?! Who are they working for?" Purple Sister gasped.
"I dunno, but we can't let them stop us in our tracks!" Ichika yelled. "Everyone, get ready!" Everyone nodded in agreement as Ichika and his friends' Digimon Digivolve into their Champion forms and got ready to fight. Ichika placed his Digivice over his eyes and scanned the Flymon. "Okay, it said here that the Flymon are known as the bee-fly Digimon. Watch out for their Brown Stingers, everyone! And also their Poison Powders!"
"Brown Stinger!" five Flymon yelled as they tried to stung Kyubiimon and Strikedramon, luckily, they evaded them.
"Dragon Wheel!"
"Strike Claw!" Kyubiimon and Strikedramon combined their attacks to delete the five Flymon. Only 25 remain.
Two Flymon tried to get Togemon and Birdramon with their Poison Powder, but Birdramon quickly flapped her wings to push the Poison Powder on the two Flymon. "Needle Spray!" Togemon hurled her attack at the two Flymon, deleting them. 23 left.
"Fly Attack!" Three Flymon yelled as they tried to ram into Dorugamon, but he flew out of the way and the three Flymon crashed into the floor.
"Now's your chance, Dorugamon!" Satoru issued.
"Power Metal!" Dorugamon launched three Power Metals at the three Flymon, deleting them. 20 left.
"Ew, I hate bees… They sting like a wasp and are even worse than eggplants and dogoos." Purple Heart frowned as 6 Flymon swarm around her. "But I have to toughen up in order to help the main character of this fanfic! And I know just the attack to do it! 32-Bit Mega Blade!" Purple Heart summoned a pixaled sword of some king that hit one of the Flymon and caused an explosion that wiped out all 6. 14 are left.
"Total Eclipse!"
"Lightning Paw!" Kirito and Gatomon combined their attacks to hit one Flymon and deleted him. Only 13 to go.
"Electro Squall!"
"Fist of the Beast King!"
"Exvee Laser!" Wizardmon, ExVeemon and Leomon also combined their attacks to delete 3 more Flymon, only 10 to go.
"Multi-Moon Shooter!"
"Slant!" Stingmon and Leafa combined their attacks as well to delete five more Flymon. Only 5 remain.
The Flymon were desperated as the remaining five charged towards GeoGreymon. "Mega Burst!" GeoGreymon launched his attack at the five remaining Flymon, the Flymon roared in agony as all five of them were deleted.
"Cyber Sleuths, that's a cyber win!" Ichika grinned as he gave his friends a thumbs up. The Digimon save for Gatomon dedigivolve back to their Rookie forms.
"Whoa…" Ranma and his friends all gasped in awe.
"Whew, that sure was a close one." Houki sighed in relief "For a minute there, I thought those Flymon had us pinned down when they came after us, no pun intended." Everyone chuckled at her pun as the CPUs returned to their civilian forms. "Well, that's another win for us and another lost to the evil Digimon."
"Still, that was just strange how they attacked us out of nowhere like that." Cecilia wondered as she scratched her chin in thought. "Those Flymon acted like they were ordered by their masters to destroy us. Who could these masters they've mentioned?"
"Your guess is as good as ours, Cecilia." Satoru answered her with a serious frown. "But at least we now know one thing from this. There's someone out there who's sending Digimon after us and we have no idea who they are. We'll have to be on guard until we can find any clues about these masters the Flymon mentioned." Everyone nodded in agreement before turning to face the Nerima Wrecking crew. "And speaking of which, we should take them back to the office. I can tell we're gonna do a lot of explaining."
"Okay, what the hell was that all about before?" Nabiki asked in confusion. "What were those giant bugs coming at us and how were you guys able to deal with them? Are you guys some kind of superhumans or something?"
"We could tell you guys, but not here." Ichika answered her. "There could be a chance that more Digimon like the swarm of Flymon might be around and could be coming at us right now. Let's head back to the office, there's one more person you should meet and we'll explain everything there." Ranma and his friends all nodded as they followed the Cyber Sleuths back to the office in the real world.
Not too far from their location, the same runaways from before were hiding behind some digiblocks as a Digimon resembling a triceratops was looking for them. After searching for a few minutes, the triceratops Digimon turned around and walked away in the other direction as the runaways watched him leave.
"Okay, I think we should be safe now." The woman said with a serious frown. "I was worried he might've found us when he was looking around, but I'm glad he didn't." She peeks out from their hiding spot to see if anything else might be looking for them, but glad there wasn't. "Still, I can't believe now that someone else is after us. It's already bad enough with Phantom Task looking for us, but now we have another party trying to find us. I can already tell it's going to be difficult getting back to the lab."
"Erika, why is it that everyone's always coming after me?" The boy asked in confusion. "Is it because you turned me into a weapon to counter the IS? Back when you were still working for Phantom Task?"
"I'm afraid so, Gen. That's the very reason why they're after us." Erika answered him with a sad frown. "But believe me, I'm going to find a way to turn you back to normal if it's the last thing I do. Just hang on for a little longer, we're nearly home." Gen and Bearmon nodded as the trio got out of their hiding spot and started running into the distance.
To be continued…
Next chapter: The Straw Hat Pirates and Gen! I'll Get You, Whamon!
A/N: Another chapter done. And just in time for the end of February. Next up, our heroes meet the Straw Hat Pirates of One Piece and they help CaptainHookmon settle the score with Whamon while Gen and Bearmon joined forces with the Cyber Sleuths and Bearmon digivolves for the first time and when Gen and Laura meet, it's love at first sight. So stay tuned for more updates.