Well, it's been a little while folks, but I am back. I apologize for the couple of Sundays I missed, but let's just say that a situation completely beyond my control occurred which prevented me from writing, I won't bore you with the details. Hopefully it won't happen again, or at least not for a while. Either way I'm back, and you should expect things to be back to normal.
Disclaimer: No, the situation was not me gaining the rights to digimon, so I still don't own any of this…
Last Timeish: The safe group, consisting of Matt, T.K., Mimi, Kari, Cody, Joe, and Yolei began their travel to the far side of Server, hoping for a way to get to a different continent, and away from Piedmon's long reach. The journey was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that Matt seemed to develop a little crush on Mimi, when they found Digitamamon's diner. Hoping to get a decent meal they went in, only to be attacked by the owner. Matt thought that Digitamamon had returned to his old ways, but soon discovered that he was really just being controlled, by Puppetmon.
Chapter 21 Puppet Master
Kari
"I'm going to make all of you digidestined pay for ruining my games!" Puppetmon shouted at us, earning absolutely no response from us.
"You're going to make us pay?" Matt asked incredulously, and I had to agree with my boyfriend's older brother's tone. Puppetmon was the one Dark Master that I'd never had a little fear of. Sure he could control anyone's movements, but he was one of the most childish digimon we'd ever encountered, and we could manipulate that fact to our advantage. He was also probably the weakest of the Dark Masters, though still more than a match for a normal Ultimate. Luckily for us we had Matt and T.K. with us.
"I think someone's been letting the termites eat his brains up a little too much." MetalGarurumon said, glaring at our revealed enemy.
"Termites?" Puppetmon asked angrily, glaring at the metal wolf like digimon. I think the mention of the wood devouring insects might have upset him a little. "I'll show you termites!"
He didn't move just after saying that, which led me to think that he wasn't going to do anything. Of course that was actually not right. I didn't notice it at first, but he was moving his hands around, which in turn led to both Lillymon and Digitamamon attacking, and I mean attacking. My first clue to this was Lillymon shouting out to us as she raised her flower cannon.
"Watch out!" She shouted just before firing a burst of energy at us, hitting Angewomon with her attack. My partner cried out before dedigivolving into Gatomon.
"Gatomon!" I shouted, reaching out to catch my partner before she could hit the ground.
"That wasn't fun at all…" Gatomon said, shaking her head as she landed in my arms. Unfortunately that wasn't all that happened. Digitamamon attacked as well, forcing Zudomon to dedigivolve into Gomamon, who Joe rushed over to immediately.
The two controlled Ultimates then faced towards MetalGarurumon and MagnaAngemon and launched more attacks, which the two digimon avoided.
"Hahahaha, let's see how long we can play dodge the attacks before the two of you are exhausted!" Puppetmon shouted gleefully as he continued to force Lillymon and Digitamamon to keep attacking MetalGarurumon and MagnaAngemon. I knew they couldn't keep it up for too long since eventually Puppetmon would attack us in an attempt to get at our partners. Eventually they'd be forced to attack Lillymon and Digitamamon, and that wouldn't go well. I didn't know if Puppetmon had done it intentionally or not but he'd left the two most powerful partners for his little game and they had a real good chance of actually hurting the two controlled digimon if they attacked them.
"Double Stars!" A deep voice suddenly called out and I looked to see a pair of spinning blades, attached to what looked like vines, cut through the lines connecting Puppetmon to Lillymon and Digitamamon.
"Alright Shurimon!" Yolei shouted as she jumped in the air. She was holding onto her digivice and D-Terminal, which still held the digieggs that she'd acquired during our fight against Ken as the Digimon Emperor.
"Your turn Digmon!" Cody called out as Puppetmon shouted in anger. He threw his hands out, and I could barely make out the strings that flew from them, heading right for Lillymon and Digitamamon. Before they could hit the two exhausted digimon the ground below them literally disappeared and the two dropped into a hole, obviously created by one of the armor forms of Armadillomon, Digmon.
"Now's your chance!" Yolei shouted towards Matt and T.K. who both nod, looking back towards Puppetmon, who's fuming while this is happening.
"Oh man, you had to go and take my new friends away!" He shouted towards us, fuming and about to start a new temper tantrum.
"Digimon you control in any way aren't your friends." Matt stated at the puppet digimon, giving him a cold look. As friendship was Matt's Crest he took a special interest in it any time that someone talked about friendship. He almost took it as a personal insult if someone like Puppetmon made claims of friendship like that.
"Shows what you know!" Puppetmon yelled back, and then jumped into the air, right at Matt, MetalGarurumon, T.K., and MagnaAngemon. "Puppet Pummel!" Puppetmon brought his hammer out and around, and rained energy blasts down upon the foursome.
"Watch out!" I shouted, despite the futility of yelling at that moment, it was too late. I just had to hope that MetalGarurumon and MagnaAngemon would be able to protect them. So far things didn't look so good though.
"Shurimon, stop that mad puppet!" Yolei shouted out, and I turned to tell her not to, Puppetmon might not have been the strongest Dark Master but he was still a Mega Level digimon, but I wasn't fast enough.
Shurimon had already nodded and jumped into the air at Puppetmon.
"Double Stars!" The armor digimon shouted out, its arms extending as the blades at the end of them started spinning. Puppetmon seemed not to notice at first, then…
"Flying Cross Cutter!" Puppetmon held onto his hammer, which was still firing, with one hand while the other took the wooden cross on his back and threw it right at Shurimon. Shurimon didn't have time to dodge, and fell to the ground, Hawkmon once more.
Cody turned to look at Digmon, but I noticed him before he could order Digmon into battle.
"Don't Cody, he's too powerful for Digmon to handle." I told him, as much as I wanted someone, anyone, to do something to help Matt and T.K. out.
"Flash Bancho Punch!" Almost at the exact moment I finished thinking that something shouted, and then Puppetmon was blown out of the air. The explosion caused by whatever had hit him was massive enough to block out the entire battlefield from my view. I could hear a little of what was going on, but not much. Gatomon was perking up though, her ears twitching as she strained to hear what was going on.
"What's happening in there?" Gomamon asked, finally breaking the silent spell that had fallen over all of us as Puppetmon had been attacked. Before Gatomon could respond something went flying out of the smoke caused by the explosion. Puppetmon landed in his head a few dozen feet away from the edge of the smoke, and slowly got back onto his feet. He seemed to be struggling pretty mightily, but was ignoring us for now. All of his attention was focused on the smoke that he had just been thrown from.
"Who's that?" Yolei asked suddenly, and I looked to see what she was referring to. A tall, man like digimon was walking out of the smoke. As he got closer I could make out more details about him. At first I thought it was our old friend Leomon, but this digimon was subtle different. He had a large black coat draped over his shoulders, some sort of hat or visor on his head, and a short sword in his hands. His hair wasn't the normal golden color that I associated with Leomon, but rather it was white, almost as if this was an older Leomon.
"I have no idea…" I replied, but Gatomon laughed.
"I do." She said, and we all looked at her. "That's BanchoLeomon. He's one of the Mega forms of Leomon. He serves his own interpretation of justice, and defeats anyone who stands in the way of that justice with his Flash Bancho Punch or his short sword, Dankon."
"BanchoLeomon?" I asked, a little in awe of the digimon in front of us. He just seemed to ooze power as he continued a slow, measured gait towards Puppetmon.
"Yep. I've heard stories about BanchoLeomon, but I've never seen one in person." Gatomon replied as BanchoLeomon stopped in front of Puppetmon.
"I'm going to get you for interrupting my game of destroy the digidestined!" Puppetmon shouted towards the lion man, though he was barely standing with the support of his hammer.
"I will not allow you to harm the digidestined." BanchoLeomon replied, holding his sword out in front of him. His voice sounded very familiar to me, as did the way he was holding the sword.
"Hey Joe, doesn't he sound exactly like…" Gomamon started to ask, but Mimi finished for him.
"Leomon!" She exclaimed from where she was holding onto the exhausted Palmon. "It's our old friend!"
"He does sound the same…" Joe replied, and I saw him looking at the digimon in question thoughtfully. Then there was a giant clang, and I turned back to see that Puppetmon had jumped into attacking BanchoLeomon, who threw him right off with a parry of his sword. "But didn't our Leomon digivolve into SaberLeomon?
"Sometimes a digimon can have alternative digivolutions." Gatomon said suddenly. "I've heard of times when a digimon's higher levels changed into one of a different digivolution line, though it's apparently very rare."
That sounded like it might be possible to me. The others had told me about the time my brother had accidentally caused Agumon to digivolve into SkullGreymon, though neither SaberLeomon nor BanchoLeomon seemed to be an evil digimon like SkullGreymon was.
"Be gone puppet!" BanchoLeomon shouted, swinging his sword around. "King Lion!" A wave of energy swept out from his sword as he swung it around, hitting Puppetmon and sending the digimon flying backwards. Puppetmon struggled back to his feet.
"I don't like this game anymore!" He said as he finally got back to his feet.
"No one asked to play your games in the first place." BanchoLeomon replied calmly, stepping towards the puppet digimon. "And now I'm going to make sure you don't bother anyone again."
"I don't think so!" Puppetmon shouted suddenly, jumping away from BanchoLeomon with more energy than I thought he had left. "Cherrymon!" Suddenly dozens of the trees that were behind Digitamamon's diner started to move, and I was shocked to see that they were all tall tree like digimon that I had never seen before.
"Cherry Bomb!" The digimon all started firing cherries from their branches, right at BanchoLeomon, who jumped to avoid the attacks. In the ensuing chaos that resulted I noticed Puppetmon making an escape, surviving.
"Flash Bancho Punch!" BanchoLeomon sent an attack at one of the Cherrymon, hitting right in front of the digimon rather than hitting it, and the Cherrymon went flying. Unfortunately the others all moved to attack him at the same instant, and he was surrounded.
"Gold Rush!" Five drills hit several of the Cherrymon, causing them to misfire and hit some of the other Cherrymon rather than BanchoLeomon. Digmon stood facing the Cherrymon, several of whom turned towards him as they started to recover.
"King Lion!" Before any of the could do anything BanchoLeomon swept in a circle, hitting all the Cherrymon with his sword attack, and sending all of them flying away from him, and the area we were in. Silence seemed to descend upon the clearing, for a second, then…
"JOE!" T.K.'s voice cut through the silence, drawing everyone's eyes to where he and Matt and had been attacked by Puppetmon. Gabumon and Patamon were both on the ground, looking pretty beat up from the attack, but T.K. was leaning over Matt, and I could make out the glint of the sun on a lot of red from where I was standing. Neither T.K. nor Matt were wearing red today.
I started moving towards the two of them, with only Joe having a faster reaction than me. He started sprinting almost as soon as T.K. shouted. The two of us got there as soon as we could, and I could see that blood was pouring out of Matt, much faster than I'd ever seen blood gush. I was instantly a little queasy as I saw that, I was never very good around blood.
"Kari, take this and cover up Matt's wound while I get some bandages out." Joe told me as he took off the jacket he'd worn when we left Gennai's. I took it and tried to cover up where I thought the injury was, but I couldn't be certain because of the blood.
"Put more pressure there!" Joe shouted at me as he started to rummage through his bag, and I tried to comply, but there was a lot of blood coming out of the wound.
The blood was not only making it hard to apply the pressure, but it was making me even more queasy this close to it. I'd never been very good around blood, but this was a new extreme.
"Kari, you've got to put more pressure on him, otherwise he'll lose too much blood." Joe said, right next to me this time, and I tried, oh how I tried, but the blood kept pouring out of him, and it seemed like I couldn't anything about it.
Then Joe was there with some bandages, and he pushed me out of the way. I knew he was just in a hurry, so I did my best to get out of the way. I watched Joe as he pressed down on Matt, far harder than I was, applying as much pressure as he could to slow down the bleeding.
"Kari?" I heard a voice ask next to me, and I turned to see T.K. standing there. He had a few scratches, several of which were bleeding but not seriously. "Here, let me take that."
He reached over and took the blood stained jacket out of my hands, which were also covered in blood now.
I didn't know how he could be so clear headed right now, with his brother lying there, bleeding on the ground. I know I'd barely been able to do anything when Tai had been hurt, even an hour afterwards, and that was when we could still get to a hospital in the real world. I needed to quit being so weak and be there for T.K. He probably was in shock, just doing a better job of hiding it than I was.
He dropped the jacket to the ground, and it took me a second to realize that he was shaking and hadn't dropped the jacket on purpose. I wrapped an arm around him, and pulled him into a hug as we both sank down to the ground. I could feel his entire body shaking as I held him, and I did my best to try and comfort him there.
I held him for a few seconds before the shaking stopped, and he looked at me.
"I'm going to get up now." He said, and I just nodded, his voice somewhat calm and even, not the cracked or panicked voice I half expected him to have. I remembered how panicked I'd been when Tai had been hurt, so I knew a little how he felt.
So needless to say I was confused at first as he stood up, no longer shaking, and started to get Yolei, Cody, and Mimi doing something to help out, starting with finding shelter.
I was a little shocked as he took charge and got everyone moving towards actually getting something done. I almost felt bad as I thought that, but T.K. was never really given the opportunity to be a leader with us digidestined. I mean, he and I did a little bit of leadership during the fight against the Digimon Emperor, but that had been more like showing Davis, Yolei, and Cody how to be digidestined than actually leading them. Davis took over, other than the one time we all left him behind when finding Ken's base and no one looked back.
After Ken joined the team, T.K. didn't even get the de facto second in command status that his brother had during our first adventure because Ken took that over as Davis's DNA digivolution partner. So he'd never really had a chance to show what he could do as a leader.
Well, he was doing it now.
"We need to find somewhere else to wait besides here in the open." T.K. said to Yolei, Cody, and Mimi, who were all paying attention to him though Mimi was glancing towards Matt every couple of seconds. "Yolei, you and Mimi start looking around for someplace that we can stay for a while. Cody, you come over and help Joe. Kari and I will also look for somewhere to hold up…" T.K. said, glancing at me to make sure I was ok with that. I nodded at him, and then felt something moving next to us.
I looked over to see BanchoLeomon standing there, having walked over to where we talking. He looked over to T.K., waiting for him to turn to look at him. I decided to speed the process up, and cleared my throat to gain T.K.'s attention. He turned, and immediately saw BanchoLeomon.
"I'm sorry I could not arrive sooner digidestined." BanchoLeomon said looking around at all of us as he said this, and I began to be certain this was the same Leomon we'd known during our first adventure.
"Is that you in there Leomon?" Mimi asked before anyone else could say anything to the large digimon.
The lion man digimon looked at Mimi and nodded. "It is indeed. The Sovereigns gave me the ability to reach the Mega level once more when Piedmon returned, asking me to help protect this sector." BanchoLeomon told us. "I do not know why I entered this form rather than SaberLeomon, but I am not one to complain about the gifts bestowed upon me."
Mimi smiled as the Mega level digimon said this, but the smile quickly left her face as she glanced back to where Matt was still being looked at by Joe. BanchoLeomon looked over as well, and seemed to see Matt for the first time, as he stared at him and Joe for a few seconds.
"We need to get all of you out of the open, in case the puppet returns." BanchoLeomon said, turning towards all of us.
T.K. nodded and stepped forward as BanchoLeomon said this.
"We were just about to start looking for a place to do that when you came over here." He informed the digimon.
"I know of a place which should be safe from Puppetmon." BanchoLeomon replied, looking over all of us again. "It is not too far away, and most of you should be able to make the journey."
"Matt can ride between Angemon and Angewomon, that worked when we had to transport Tai." I said, knowing exactly who BanchoLeomon was referring to when he was thinking of who couldn't make the journey. The digimon looked right at me for a second, and then nodded.
"Very well, we should leave immediately." He said to us, earning more nods from us. T.K. and I went right over to Matt, followed by Mimi. I knew T.K. wasn't ok, no matter what front was put on, and I hoped more than anything that Joe had some good news for us.
I didn't want him to go through anything like what I'd gone through when Tai had been hospitalized. I knew he and Matt weren't the closest of brothers, but they'd been getting closer since we'd started dating. Him spending more time with me partially translated to more time with Matt, since he was my brother's best friend, and would spend a good amount of the time he wasn't practicing at our apartment. Also the fact that they went to the same school for the first time helped things.
All of that together had to have him feeling even more connected to his brother than normal, so he was sure to be feeling somewhat like I had.
We walked up to Joe, who looked up as we approached him. Joe looked exhausted, but not defeated.
"How is he Joe?" T.K. asked as he stepped up beside his brother.
"He should be ok, with a few days' rest. We managed to stop the bleeding before he lost too much blood, and is uninjured other than that." Joe said, and I felt a sense of relief flow through my body. I could see the look on T.K.'s face, mirroring the feeling going through my body. "That being said, he's going to be weak for several days. He still lost a lot of blood, and I don't have any way to replace the blood, so he's going to have to take it easy."
T.K. nodded again, looking past Joe at his brother.
"Do you know when he'll wake up?"
"No. It could be in a few minutes, or a few hours." Joe replied, shrugging.
"Ok, Thanks Joe." T.K. said patting the doctor to be on the shoulder. Joe just nodded, to tired it looked to do anything else. "Is he ok to be moved?"
"What?" Joe asked, surprised by that question.
"We can't stay here in the open, especially with Matt already injured. We need to find some shelter while we figure out what's going on." T.K. replied, looking at the older boy. "BanchoLeomon has someplace we can take shelter for a bit."
Joe looked like he was going to argue at first, but after T.K. finished he closed his mouth, looking thoughtful instead.
"I guess some shelter would be better for him than being stuck in the woods camping again…" Joe said, barely loud enough for me to hear, which led me to believe that he was talking to himself. He then looked back at T.K. "He should be ok to move, as long as it isn't too fast, or rough."
T.K. in turn nodded, looking down to where the digimon were all resting after the fight. Hopefully they'd have the strength to get Matt where we were headed.
After that things went pretty quickly. We built a stretcher for Matt so he could be carried, and then Patamon and Gatomon both digivolved. They were able to carry the stretcher with no problem. The rest of us travelled on Aquilamon and Ankylomon since Hawkmon and Armadillomon had the most remaining energy (we'd discovered that armor digivolving took less energy than normal digivolution, since they were heavily assisted by the digiegg).
We travelled for about half an hour when we reached a massive mountain that was in the center of a forest. You couldn't see the mountain, despite its size, until you were almost going up it thanks to the surrounding trees.
BanchoLeomon led us to a cave entrance, and then into the cave. We thought that he'd been leading us to the cave but he told us our destination was deeper in, so we all followed him in.
The cave turned out to be a tunnel, and the mountain itself turned out to be hollow. We discovered this as we entered the main portion of it. The cave we had been travelling through suddenly opened up into a massive and lit chamber. I looked around in amazement as all of us stopped.
My eyes were drawn straight up to the opening at the top of the massive cavern we were in. It was open and allowing sunlight to fall down into the cavern. This alone wouldn't have illuminated most of the cavern, but the walls were lined with some sort of lights that was helping to illuminate the entire cavern.
As my eyes travelled down the walls, they finally fell on the center of the cavern, and the large city that was sprawling out from the exact center of the cavern.
"Wow…" Yolei said as we all took in the scope of where we were standing.
"Welcome to Drill City." BanchoLeomon said as he made a sweeping gesture to include the entire town.
"Drill City?" I asked looking at the large grouping of buildings. It was certainly large enough to be a city, much larger than almost any city I'd seen in the digital world, except possibly Andromon's city.
"It is the central city of this part of Server, and the place that I am supposed to be protecting." BanchoLeomon said, and started to walk forward. "This cavern was discovered by a group of Digmon years ago before they became nearly extinct. They found an ancient temple at the center of it, and started building their homes around it. Eventually other types of digimon curious about this cavern, or the temple, or simply looking for somewhere to live started to come here. By that time the Digmon had all but died out and could not prevent the other digimon from moving in. A few years later and this was the largest city in Server."
"That's amazing." Cody said in wonder as we moved closer to the city. As we got closer I could make out more details. Most of the buildings seemed to be made of the same material as the cavern we were in, which made sense since it was the most immediately available resource. I also noticed the defenses.
A little distance away from the city a low wall seemed to have been recently constructed, and behind the wall were a number of Tankmon, all tracking us as we approached.
"Is there supposed to be a big group of Tankmon taking aim at us?" T.K. asked before I could alert everyone to the digimon.
"Yes. Those digimon are volunteers for the city defense force." BanchoLeomon replied. "If they didn't know we were friends they would have fired on us already. Right now they're most likely just practicing setting up targeting."
"I wish they'd practice on someone else…" Mimi said quietly, holding onto one of her arms as we continued to approach the city. Once we reached the defenses the Tankmon stopped tracking us, and a few even cheered as we passed by. They must have felt some encouragement from us being the digidestined, after all we had saved the world a few times already.
Inside the city things escalated. It looked like most of the city had come out to greet us as we entered, and we were slowed considerably by the digimon surrounding us. A few blocks into the city and we were met by the ruler of the city, a warrior digimon called Grademon. He, thankfully, got most of the crowd to disperse, and, after talking with BanchoLeomon, led us to some lodgings were we could stay for a while.
It didn't take us long to get settled in, and thankfully the digimon of the city were respectful of what Grademon said and gave us some space (though the pair of Knightmon guarding the door to the building we were in may have contributed to the discouragement of any curious 'mon.).
Joe settled the still unconscious Matt onto one of the beds that occupied our room, and the rest of us just found someplace to be. Joe almost immediately fell asleep, but T.K. didn't let any of the rest of us do that.
"Ok, now that we're here, we need to figure out what to do next." He said, not long after BanchoLeomon had left and Joe had passed out.
"Why don't we wait for Matt and Joe to wake up before we make any plans." Mimi said from where she was leaning back against the bed Matt was in.
"Because some pretty big things have changed." T.K. replied, and that got me thinking. My brother had told me over and over the last few years that I had to be able to be independent, and think for myself and others on occasion. Those, they weren't really lessons but encouragements, allowed me to realize exactly what T.K. was talking about, right away.
"Like what? Matt getting injured?" Mimi asked, and I answered for T.K.
"Like us not really being safe anymore. That's the whole reason we left my brother and the others behind, so we could be safe, not get hurt." I told her, and T.K. gave me a smile.
"There's also the fact that if Puppetmon is back that means that MetalSeadramon and Machinedramon are both probably back, and if they aren't following us, where do you think they are?" T.K. added after I paused.
"They could be attacking the others…" Cody said, being the first to get what T.K. was thinking. The others let this information sink in. Yolei was the first person to speak up after that comment.
"I see what both of you are saying, but we can't go anywhere until Matt's healed a bit, and that won't be for at least a few days." She said, looking back and forth between me and T.K. "I think we can probably wait until Matt wakes up to figure out what to do next."
Yolei made a really good point, and even though T.K. was filling in as our leader he couldn't force any of us to do anything. Our leader was never a dictator, just the person who we followed most of the time.
"Ok, that's a good point Yolei." T.K. said, I guess either following my logic or just not wanting to be confrontational. "We could all use a little rest anyways." He smiled at the end, and the rest of us smiled back.
We'd managed to survive again, with hopefully only minor injuries, so there was a reason to be a little happy.
"Ok, so we'll all rest for a bit." T.K. said, yawning as he did.
"And then we can check out the city!" Mimi suddenly exclaimed, and I had to shake my head. I knew exactly what Mimi was thinking of in the city.
"Then we can check out the city…" T.K. replied as he laid his head against my shoulder.
Well there you go. I'm actually really kinda excited about where this is going. Drill City sorta just came out of nowhere, but I really started to like it as I wrote it, which means it'll be used more than I originally planned for this part of the story, which means longer story. Yay!
Ok, so now I'm sure you guys want your preview, so here goes.
Preview:
"The best place would be to look along this area." Izzy said, using his hand to gesture along a particular part of the map.
"Ok, what are we waiting for?" Davis asked, looking at the area Izzy had pointed out. "Let's get going and find ourselves this temple!"
"It's not that simple Davis." I said, looking at hi, Izzy, and the map.
"What do you mean?" The younger goggle wearer asked me.
"Well, that entire area is controlled by Piedmon."
Review Replies:
Matani: I'm glad you did! and yea, the lack of sleep sucked a lot, and fortunately that hasn't happened so badly in a while now. And don't feel selfish, every reader always wants more updates, which is completely understandable. And I'm bringing it in as something from the past. There will be no Saibas in this story, and nothing else directly from V-Tamers (other than the Digimental) . And yea, thanks again for point all of those out, I was more than a little out of it when I was writing and editing it. And yea, I thought it was good, though I did kinda borrow it from the Revenge of Diaboromon, but that just ties it in with the show more I think. And sorry for the long delay.
Pontiac56: Thanks! and you should check it out. You can actually read the manga online, and it's a pretty good read in my opinion. And yea, I like it a lot more. The Matt and Mimi thing is a little different. I'm kinda indifferent to who Mimi's with (based on the show Adventure I'd say she should be with Joe, but if a story develops her relationship with one of the other guys she can be with pretty much any of them) but I need her and Matt together for the sequel, so it gets to happen lol. And sorry for the long delay.
The other Guy: Told you they'd be gone quick, just like the show. And I thought so as well (like I said lol) And yes, you're absolutely correct. Kari is next, since she's the longest without. And ok, I remembered this time as well, and got it in during the early morning, so ha! Commenting is always good. You can do whatever you want, though I'll always like longer/more reviews, just fyi. And you should check it out, the manga is available online, you just have to put in V-Tamer manga in google, and you can find it. And you can tell TaioraWarrior yourself, he usually reads the other reviews, though he wasn't so excited I told you that…I think he was surprised lol. And I really do enjoy them, though when time crunched it's a little annoying to type out the review reply, but only a little, the enjoyment of the reading the review, and coming up with a reply usually is much more interesting than annoying lol. Nice, and yea, things should be getting more and more intense until we hit the climax, that's the plan at least. And at least 200…I really would like to hit at least 200, though more is always nice. I like numbers…lol. And sorry about the long delay.
TaioraWarrior: Why wouldn't I tell him? It makes things like ten times more fun for me! Lol. And I know, I'm just trying to motivate you a little bit, for purely selfish liking to read long review reasons. And he does claim, but we'll see. Only time will tell with this one, and luckily there is plenty of story left lol. Yea, he's my favorite Dark Master as well, I found his humor to be the best, so I tried to duplicate as much of it as I could. And I wouldn't give in on Daemon just yet. I've never actually said Piedmon is the final bad guy, and there is a sequel…that means another bad guy…and yea, though I actually don't dream that often, that doesn't prevent me from offering a new Adventure/V-Tamer view. And, yea, good times, though technically Birdramon saved both of them…lol. And sorry about the long delay.
LyraXEthan: Thanks! and I won't say yes or no straight up, but it's definitely a big possibility. After all the Digimental has to do something…and sorry about the long delay.
twilightromance4ever: Thanks! and sorry about the long delay.
Supershooter: Thanks! and hopefully it was interesting enough, things should keep that way for a while. And sorry about the long delay.
Odinson83: Thanks! and feel free to look if you want, it's all open and public, otherwise it should be PMed not reviewed. Thanks again, and I was sorta just thinking that parents wouldn't want their kids to grow up like Matt and be a rock star and stuff…I was on too little sleep and it made sense at the time…and yes, it was indeed based on V-Tamers, in fact lifted directly from V-Tamers would be the right term lol. And sorry about the long delay.
Lachelle92: Thanks! and yea, I thought the dramatics would have people interested lol. And sorry about the long delay.
The other Guy: Review reply power…is not working so well…ops…and yes, that is my intent with that line. It seemed perfect at that moment, and I've decided to run with it. Wait till you see everyone else's reaction to it…lol. My big thing with not doing anymore perspectives (and I've thought about this a lot) is the fact that I wouldn't get to everyone as much. 6 means everyone gets one chapter for them every six chapter, if not more. Adding to that would mean less of other people's perspectives, and I really didn't want to do that. On GigaSeadramon, I'm thinking of Magnamon as on par with WarGreymon in terms of power. It's really unclear exactly how powerful he is. As a royal knight he should be a Mega, but in Adventure he was about an ultimate. He's one of my favorites, so I tend to think more power, but I'm trying to compromise here, so I'm making him a mid-range mega as opposed to the high level mega his royal knightness calls for him to be. As for being defeated so easily, he's still a Dramon type, and therefore weak to WarGreymon, plus WarGreymon is a total badass. Therefore he dies easily…you know, I think you jinxed me with that last sentence…you just had to mention it again, and mess everything up…and yes, you can check reviews and PMs can be about anything.
The other Guy: I'm not dead, and busy doesn't even begin to describe my last three weeks. Thanks for checking on me though!
JadeBrycin2116: Slight forgetfulness? Lol thanks! I aimed to double their length, even though it is the death of me on several weekend now lol. And thanks! I'm really going for that, so it's nice that I'm getting there! I'm sure Izzy will get lucky eventually, and yea, they can be a little buggy at times, but that's what makes them them. And thanks again! Thanks! and I'm sure if you tried you could get it to work. And no worries! Lol. And thanks again! Sorry there was such a long delay on the update.
xOne N Onlyx: Thanks! And yea, it's much longer than usual, and I was, but I'm now freeish. And thanks again! Sorry for the delay!