D igimon: Digital Online
Chapter 21 – Two Sides
"Lilithmon, while Daemon is taking care of our little traitors, I'd like for you to go and assemble troops in one of the villages we've already raided." Lucemon asks Lilithmon who accepts the mission.
"Sure, Lord Lucemon." Lilithmon keeps her head down.
"There's no point in keeping your head down. Both you and Daemon, I consider my closest friends in this hell hole. I'd like to treat you as friends." Lucemon says out loud to Lilithmon. "You don't need to keep your head down."
Lilithmon opens up her eyes. "Very well, Lord Lucemon. I shall go and assemble the troops right away."
"No questions?" Lucemon asks Lilithmon, who is surprisingly unquestioning. "I know you're not in it for me. You're in this for Daemon. But please, if there's something you have trouble with, just tell me… You're not even going to ask why I'm asking for you to assemble troops in an abandoned village?"
"No…" Lilithmon walks away slowly, looking at the black background under her feet. "I don't need to question anything anymore…"
"So… it didn't Digivolve into Seraphimon as I had hoped did it?" Akio is talking to Seraphimon. "Not a problem, we still have two Mega-Level Tamer Angel Digimon, and if including the other Celestial Digimon. We have four, more than enough to defeat Lucemon. We'll delete Lucemon, we can't have another rebellion from that traitor."
"I have a question, I was very close with the Seraphimon before me. He thought that you were an amazing father to all the Digimon. But something sparked a change in him… Would you have any idea on what could've possibly made him turn on you?" Seraphimon replies to Akio.
Akio looks away at the large castle surrounded by clouds; though almost empty, still having a few Angel Digimon flying around. "It has to have been Lucemon, Lucemon was a horrifyingly evil character. He betrayed my trust; he tried to usurp my power. He must've manipulated the last Seraphimon and he had fallen to become Daemon. It's sad… but I can't just let him roam free after betraying me… It's the law."
"Making an exception could lead to chaos… I know… you must keep order in this world of chaos." Seraphimon having been looking down at the ground the whole time while talking to God, gets up and flies away. "I'll make sure I can help you defeat Lucemon…"
"Very well… The being of chaos has to be defeated, and we'll see a perfect Digital World. The embodiment of the corrupted data…" Akio sighs and looks away at the computer screen. "I not only need to find a way to defeat Lucemon. I need to find a way to get my children out of the Digital World… This chaos has to stop… I need to get back control... I'll force control myself…"
"We've reached found another village… every other one we've seen has been deserted… we're probably too late for this one as well…" Taisho sighs.
"Probably…" Sylvia falls back and sits down. "I need to rest here…"
"Yeah, we might as well rest. It's not like we can do much anyways." Zephyra replies to Sylvia and sits down slowly next to Sylvia. "We won't be attacked here right?"
"No, we'd be attacked anywhere no matter what. However, we haven't been attacked in groups of mega-level digimon yet, luckily for us." Sojiro replies. "How else do you think these villages became deserted?" Sojiro sits down as Zephyra tries to shuffle closer to Sojiro.
"Well, they probably mainly became deserted due to even the ultimate-level digimon." Niles replies to Sojiro. "We ran into no mega-level digimon when we were reaching the centre of the Digital World. Meaning, there was probably no mega-level digimon that were actually loose."
"Let's not wonder too much on this, our focus should be on getting out of the digital world as well as defeating the demon lords." Taisho adds to the conversation. "If we can defeat the demon lords, we should be able to fix the digital world. Though to get out of the digital world, we'd need to figure out how we got here in the first place."
"We could ask your father, he is God after all? Am I right?" Zephyra asks Taisho. Tanjiro is sitting beside Taisho remaining silent, and looking at the ground trying to take everything in.
"I highly doubt, he'd be the kind to send his own child into a game he could play from the outside." Taisho replies. "Though we could very easily ask him. Maybe, we could use this?" Taisho activates his Digivice and points it to the sky. An array of stairs appear and lead them up to the cardinal.
"We need to figure out a plan of attack, some way to defeat these children." Lucemon continues pondering. "Not only do I need to test how powerful their mega-level digimon is. I need to figure out the best plan of attack. Though I'm sure he could much more easily survive an attack unlike the rest of us."
"We've already sent in countless amounts of ultimate-level digimon, maybe we should send in another mega-level and follow up with Belphemon?" Barbamon suggests a plan towards the fallen angel digimon. "This way, Belphemon is even more likely to survive the attack. Well, if I recall. What digimon do they have? IceLeomon, Yatagaramon, CannonBeemon, Megadramon, ClavisAngemon and Wingdramon? If so, they are mostly uncovered for attacks by Vaccine Digimon." Barbamon replies. "So sending SkullMammothmon would be to our advantage."
"Let's not underestimate them. We'll send in a cavalry of champion-level digimon as well." Lucemon adds on to the plan. "This should tire them out more than enough. Let's not expect that they would return though. In the meantime I'll think of another plan of attack. We'll also not send out Belphemon. He is important to our plans of taking out the Cardinal."
In the Cardinal, Akio is answering the questions of the six children. "No, I would do no such thing to send you guys to the digital world. However, your ability to evolve to ultimate-level in comparison to other tamers in the former Digital Online game, is rather outstanding." Akio continues on, looking at the six children.
"Then, what would happen if they die?" Dracomon asks Akio. "We digimon have managed to learn that we would eventually be reincarnated after death, though most without memories. What about the humans?"
"To be honest, I would have no idea myself. I did not make such a function, however, I did make sure that anything that did not go into my thought of the world, would be deleted after death, in case anything were to slip into the digital world, like an actual virus rather than a virus digimon." Akio replies to Dracomon's question.
"In other words…?" Elecmon replies looking at Sojiro.
"We don't reincarnate. We'll die…" Taisho looks at his fellow tamers, and the Digimon. "If the code did not allow such, and you made sure it was flawless, we would never be reincarnated. You say that if something non-digimon were to die, it would die. Am I wrong father?"
"Logically speaking, yes." Akio replies.
"And if they were to die, we would be unable to digivolve due to us having no tamer. So we would die soon after following them?" Penguinmon continues on.
"Most likely." Patamon answers Penguinmon's question for him.
"Yes, I did not implement such a line of code in the original idea for the online game. If the Digimon were to die, then nothing would happen to the tamer in the game. If the tamer's account were in some way terminated. The digimon would still stay alive, though albeit unable to digivolve and, may come back as an NPC or a wild digimon." Akio continues replying to the questions.
"Though would we have any way to digivolve however?" FanBeemon asks.
"No, that had never happened. A digimon with a dead tamer, had never digivolved." Akio continues on.
"So, nothing has changed since we first came to see you?" Solarmon sighs. "We still need to protect these humans, until our last breath."
"We need to protect you until our last breath as well, we have no powers in this world." Taisho looks to Patamon. "You'll protect us, and we'll make sure you succeed in defeating the demon lords. That was our deal after all."
Sylvia looks to the rest of the group. "I guess we should return to the digital world. What was our current goal again?" The whole group remains silent to Sylvia's question.
"Do we stay here in the Cardinal, where it's safe or travel around the digital world?" Tanjiro asks his brother. "You and Niles have mainly been telling us what to do, what shall we do now?"
Taisho and Niles remain silent. Niles replies for the both of them. "I don't think even we know, we were just mindlessly wandering across the digital world. Being attacked by dark area digimon."
"We still need to find a way to get back home don't we?" Taisho continues. "I highly doubt, staying here would aid such a task."
"You have a point. Let's go back." Sojiro replies, and everyone nods.
"Dad, can you also make sure that you look in the Cardinal for any possible ways we could get back home?" Taisho asks, before leaving with the others.
"Sure…" Akio sits there wondering himself.
As soon as they appear, back at where they left off in the village. The array of stairs disappears, and when they're about to continue walking. They hear a noise from behind them. "THERE YOU ARE!" A SkullMammothmon appears behind them. "I've been looking for you guys. They said that you had a very powerful digimon with you that I could absorb if I defeated." SkullMammothmon laughs. "Let's see just how strong you are." SkullMammothmon is then followed by a herd of champion-level digimon. From Youkomon, Chyrsalimon, Apemon, Wendigomon, Sealsdramon, Sangloupmon, Porcupamon, Musyamon, DexDorugamon, Devimon to DarkTyrannomon. All in their own herds.
"Oh, boy." Niles sighs. "Let's get this over with. All this time, we've been having ClavisAngemon take down our digimon. We'll take care of the army, ClavisAngemon takes down the SkullMammothmon. This shouldn't be too much trouble. There wouldn't even need to be strategy to this."
Dracomon Super Digivolution! Wingdramon!
Penguinmon Super Digivolution! Yatagaramon!
Elecmon Super Digivolution! IceLeomon!
FanBeemon Super Digivolution! CannonBeemon!
Solarmon Super Digivolution! Megadramon!
Patamon Warp Digivolve! ClavisAngemon!
"Alright, ClavisAngemon. Let's go. Heaven's Arrow!" ClavisAngemon forms an arrow using the key on its right arm, and readies to fire it at the SkullMammothmon. The SkullMammothmon seems unaffected.
"Gran Charge!" SkullMammothmon, retreats itself into a steady position, and pushes itself towards ClavisAngemon charging towards the angel digimon.
IceLeomon jumps into the air "Blizzard Breath." IceLeomon in the air, fires a freezing breath from its mouth, and freezes its fair share of the army. The ice crumbles along with the digimon, as the data is released into the digital world.
"Explode Sonic Lance." Wingdramon flies into the air, and circles around another group of the army. It accelerates to maximum speed, and then flies into the air, as fast as possible then quickly turning in a smooth motion back down, and it flies through the opponents with its lancing slashing through them. The digimon are defeated and the data is released into the digital world.
As SkullMammothmon is still charging towards the angel digimon. The angel digimon tries to dodge, however, fails due to the large size of the mammoth digimon. The angel digimon tires another attack. "The Key! Zenith Gate!" ClavisAngemon summons a gate, and while it's about to open, charges through it with its key charging towards the mammoth digimon. The Key is surrounded by a bright white light.
The mammoth digimon, unable to dodge due to its large size and inability to move sideways at high speeds. Counters using 'Dash', its legs charging straight forward as fast as it can. Aiming so that the angel digimon hits one of its tusks. The tusk is damaged, and chipped by the attack of the angel digimon. However, the mammoth digimon itself remains unfazed by the attack.
CannonBeemon is flying upwards, and prepares to launch 'Sky Rocket Infinity'. However, a Devimon has jumped up to attack the ultimate-level digimon. Making it disintegrate due to a 'Nitro Stinger'. Now, in a perfect position to attack as many champion-level digimon as it can without hitting its friends. It launches "SKY ROCKET INFINITY!"
Yatagaramon, uses 'Haguro' transforming the surrounding 3 kilometres into a dark ngiht from the black light emitted by its jet-black feathers. It then proceeds to use its other attack diving down into the ground, and creating a force that takes out the opposing digimon within range. "Mikafutsu-no-kami." The ground becomes a disassembled state of 0s and 1s, as the dark night returns to normal.
ClavisAngemon, then tries another attack. "The Key! Heaven's Arrow! Combination Attack!" Opening up a gate, the angel digimon releases arrows from that gate all which go flying towards the mammoth digimon. However, though, chipping at the bones, nothing seems to faze the mammoth digimon in the end, and its bones regenerate.
"Spiral Bone Crusher!" The digimon proceeds to hurl one of its vertebra at the angel digimon, with the angle digimon barely avoiding the attack. "I have no weakness, shame on you."
ClavisAngemon looks at the DigiCore inside its chest surrounded by bones. "I guess that's your weak spot." The angel digimon prepares to dive for that point. The SkullMammothmon tries to defend that point, however, disintegrates once hit by the key from ClavisAngemon.
Meanwhile, Megadramon has released a flurry of Dark Side Attacks at the rest of the champion-level army. "Let's finish this off quickly and leave this village. DARK SIDE ATTACK!"
"Well, that's finished." Megadramon says de-digivolving into Solarmon. "Let's leave…"
"You don't need to recover any energy?" Sylvia asks them and then looks at Patamon.
"No, that was rather easy." Patamon replies. "I used up a lot less energy than I expected, especially since I found the digimon's weak point."
"Then let's leave." Taisho says, as they all start moving away from the village. "The power of a mega-level digimon, we didn't even need to consult with Niles on a strategy…"
"Seems, like I can take a long break from strategizing." Niles thinks to himself while walking with the others. "More rest of me then, and less energy wasted. I really dislike having to waste my energy. As long as we have ClavisAngemon, we don't need to worry about anything."
Lucemon is still resting his strength. "What to do, what to do, what to do…" His restless demeanour shows itself as he continues thinking about Taisho and ClavisAngemon. "We need to get rid of them… we need to get rid of them… How…"