BLACK CONQUEST
Sailor Moon © Naoko Takeuchi
Digimon © Akiyoshi Hongo
Chapter 26: A Nice Feast
- Rio Salaz -
The scene shifts towards Rio Salaz. The town that was once a quiet place now is a friendly and lively place to be at. It had been a couple of hours after almost everyone rebuilt the town into a new and improved place to live. Even a few new extra places were built in for the DigiDestined kids to stay at. Some of them like Mimi, Palmon, Sora, Biyomon, TK, Patamon, Kari, and Gatomon were getting use to their new places. Others like Tai, Agumon, Matt, Gabumon, Joe, Gomamon, and Samson went out to a fishing pond to pull out some fish for lunch. And Kera was in the middle of town, training by herself.
Over at the Saloon, we see scan inside to see Louise and Marisa talking to each other. It seemed like they were catching up on old times. Izzy was still looking up information with the Chaos Emerald, while Tentomon watched him. Larcen was not too far behind as he stood next to a wall and relaxed himself. And Silver and Blaze were talking to each other about something.
"So, has your magic improved?" Louise asked.
Marisa nodded. "I've gotten better at it. I've been practicing for a long time after you left."
"Do you still need help with it?"
"Mom..." Marisa's face blushed. "I'm not a kid anymore."
"I know that." Louise smiled. "But I feel like your magic isn't in tip-top shape, yet. If you want my help, I'm always there for you, okay?"
Marisa smiled. "All right. I understand."
Meanwhile with Izzy, we see the young kid typing something on his laptop. Tentomon was curious about something.
"Izzy? What are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm trying to look up more information about these Chaos Emeralds." Izzy answered.
"What kind of information?" The bug Digimon asked.
"Like how many are there and where they are located." Izzy replied. "If I can do that, perhaps we have a better shot at finding these things before Mephiles can."
"But Izzy!" Tentomon exclaimed. "We don't know if Mephiles really has found all seven Chaos Emeralds!"
Louise heard this comment coming from Tentomon. She looked over to see Izzy hard at work typing on his laptop. Curiously, she got up from her seat to see what was going on.
"Mom?" Marisa called out to her, but got no reply. Instead she got up from her seat and followed her mother.
"Izzy?" Louise called out to him.
"Huh?" Izzy looked up at the brown-haired woman. "Oh hello, Louise. What can I help you with?"
"I heard your friend say something about the Chaos Emeralds." Louise nodded her head towards Tentomon.
"Uh...what about it?" Tentomon asked nervously.
"Your looking up on where these Emeralds are located, right?"
"Yeah." Izzy replied. "I know that Mephiles doesn't have all the Chaos Emeralds, so it would be possible that he is still looking for them."
"There are seven, in all." Silver said, as he joined in the conversation.
"Right." Blaze nodded. "And Mephiles has three Chaos Emeralds."
"Plus, there was that team who won another emerald at that Extreme Gear Mini-Tournament." Marisa added.
"So there are three more Chaos Emeralds out there." Izzy rubbed his chin.
"Actually..." Louise trailed off. "There is two more to be yet found."
"What do you mean by that?" Tentomon asked her.
Louise reached into her pocket and pulled out a green Chaos Emerald. The others were in shock.
"That's a Chaos Emerald!" Izzy exclaimed.
"Where did you find it?" Tentomon asked.
"When I heard that the Black Arms were invading cities again, I decided to investigate why it was happening. During my travels, I happened to come across a Chaos Emerald. And this was before I came across with Silver, Blaze, Michelle, and Amara." Louise answered.
"Where exactly did you find it?" Larcen questioned, getting into the conversation.
"I found it at Spogania. It's far from where we are right now, but that's where I found it." Louise answered.
"Hmm..." Izzy rubbed his chin in thought.
"What are you thinking about, Izzy?" Tentomon asked his friend.
"Louise, may I borrow that Chaos Emerald?" He asked.
"What do you need it for?" Louise wondered.
"I heard from Blaze that the Chaos Emeralds attract to each other like magnets. If that's true, then perhaps we can use it's power to track down the last remaining Chaos Emeralds." Izzy replied.
"How are you going to do that?" Larcen questioned.
"I can upgrade my laptop as a tracking device to locate the other Chaos Emeralds. It may take me a while, but if it works, then we might have a chance at it." Izzy said.
"Well, if you can really do that, then I guess we can leave it all up to you." Louise said as she handed the Chaos Emerald over to Izzy, who took it from her.
"All right. I'll get to work on it, right away." Izzy nodded as he began to type something on his laptop.
As the others watched Izzy get to work, we see the side-winder doors open, revealing to be Samson, Tai, Matt, Joe, and their Digimon friends carrying a pack load of fish inside a large cooler.
"Hey guys, we got dinner, right here!" Tai held up the cooler with a large grin on his face.
Marisa's eyes widened at the large group of fish that were inside the cooler. "How in the world did you get all of that fish?"
Gomamon raised his hand. "Let's just say that the fish and I are close friends. You can thank me, later."
Joe muttered to himself. "Showoff."
"Let's gather everyone over here, amigos." Samson suggested with a puff of smoke from his cigar. "Tonight, we are going to have a feast."
"I'll go get everyone." Matt said as he went off towards the others.
"Wait for me, Matt! I'm coming too!" Gabumon said as he ran off towards Matt.
"Hey, smart guy." Tai called out to Izzy. "We're gonna have some fried-fish! You in?"
"Not right now, Tai." Izzy said as he continued working on his laptop. "I'm busy trying to locate the other Chaos Emerald."
"Wait, what?"
"Izzy is finding a way to make his laptop into a tracking device so that we can locate the remaining Chaos Emeralds." Louise told him.
"How long will it take?" Agumon asked.
"Not for a while, I'm afraid." Louise answered.
"Oh well." Tai said as he put the cooler of fish down. "At least we can pass the time by chowing down on some fish."
"I'll get the BBQ grill working." Samson said as he headed towards the kitchen.
"Well, I suppose I should go get myself a drink." Tai said. "You guys want anything?"
"No." The group shook their heads.
"Well, I guess it's just me then." Tai shrugged. "Come on, Agumon. Let's get something to drink."
"Okay." The dinosaur Digimon nodded.
As the two walked away, Louise turned to Izzy, who was hard at work on his laptop. She sighed sadly to herself.
"Mom? Are you okay?" Marisa asked.
"Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm fine." Louise quickly nodded.
"Can you teach me to perfect my magic?" Marisa asked.
"Huh? Really?" Louise wondered.
"Yeah. After thinking about what you said, maybe I could use some help in perfecting my magic." Marisa smiled at her. "And with your help, I could can reach that goal."
Louise smiled back at her before nodding. "Okay. Let's go outside and I'll teach you what I know."
With that, the two women walked outside the saloon to start off Marisa's training.
Larcen watched, as the two girls began to cast magic towards each other, while Joe and Gomamon followed Samson into the kitchen to see how the preparations on the grill were going.
- Tails Workshop -
The scene shifts back towards Tails Workshop in the Mystic Ruins. Shadow, along with Rouge and Omega stood there as he explained everything to our heroes about what has been going on these past couple of days.
"So, these kids came from this place called the Digital World?" Raye asked.
"Yeah." Shadow nodded.
"And there hanging out with these creatures called Digimon?" Knuckles added.
"Yes." Shadow nodded again.
"What's a Digimon?" Mina wondered.
"Don't ask. Even I still don't fully know, myself." Shadow replied.
"Anyway, so after you and these kids went back to Earth, you ended up at the Dusty Desert." Lita asked.
"And we ended up investigating the temple that me, Rouge, and Omega were in over a year ago." Shadow said.
"I remember now." Rouge spoke up. "It was where we were investigating Mephiles whereabouts."
"Yes. But there were some extra rooms that we were unable to check when we were in there." Shadow told her.
"You mean...?" Tails wondered.
Shadow nodded his head again. "That's where Eggman was. He was staring at a portrait of a Black Dragon."
"And this was the one from the legends, right?" Serena asked.
"Exactly." Shadow answered for her.
Sonic tapped his foot in thought. Ami seemed to noticed this.
"What is it, Sonic?" Ami asked.
"I wonder how Eggman knew what Mephiles was up too." Sonic wondered.
"Perhaps he knew of this because of the Black Aliens that were invading the Earth again." Michelle thought.
"And add to the fact that Mephiles has joined with Black Doom as well." Amara added.
"Maybe this was the reason why Eggman sent us this calling card." Rouge said as she held ii in her hands.
"What are you going to do about it?" Sonic asked.
"For now, we'll just wait until the last Chaos Emerald reveals itself. Wherever it reveals itself, we'll just keep a close eye on Eggman. We'll know if he's up to something." Shadow replied.
Rouge looked up at the sky. "Well, it looks like we better get going. It's getting late."
"See ya later, Shadow." Sonic said.
The GUN members walked away from our heroes before stopping.
"Chaos Control!!"
After shouting those words, a bright light flashed, blinding our heroes for a second before the light died down. When it was gone, so was Shadow, Rouge, and Omega.
"So, what now?" Serena wondered to herself.
"We originally came here looking for you guys." Amara answered.
"You were?" Ami asked.
"Yes. We were sent here by Louise Harmon to find you guys because you have the Chaos Emerald that you guys won at that Extreme Gear Mini-Tournament." Michelle told them.
"That was, until what just happened today." Amara added.
"But we still have the other Chaos Emerald Tuxedo Mask gave us." Lita reminded.
"That is true." Amara thought.
"Since there have been a slight change of plans, we'll stay here with you." Michelle decided.
"Really? What about Louise?" Mina asked.
"Don't worry about it." Amara replied with a small smirk. "We'll tell her about everything you told us."
"Do you have a phone we can borrow?" Michelle asked.
"Yeah." Tails remarked. "There's one inside my workshop."
"Thank you." Michelle nodded at him before heading towards the workshop.
"Now if you'll excuse us..." Amara said as she followed Michelle.
Our heroes watched as the two girls headed inside the workshop. Serena and Mina's stomach were still growling.
"Oh man, I'm still hungry." Serena groaned.
"Me too. Taking care of Chao is one thing, but fighting a robot really takes it's toll on you." Mina added.
Sonic only smirked. "Don't worry about it. Tails can prepare something good for you. Can you, buddy?"
"Sure." Tails nodded. "I'll prepare something good for all of us."
"Oh, thank you, Tails! You are a life-saver!" Serena exclaimed happily as she and Mina leaned down and hugged Tails.
"I-It's nothing, really." Tails laughed.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go cook something up!"
With that, our heroes went inside the workshop to prepare themselves a nice feast.
- Rio Salaz -
Back at the Western town, we see Samson in control of the barbecued fish. They were just about done and everyone else had gathered around at a few tables. As this was going on, the telephone rang. Samson glanced over at it before picking it up.
"Senor Samson speaking." Samson said. "Hello, senorita Michelle. How can I help you?"
Outside the Saloon, Louise and Marisa were still practicing with each other. Louise created a fireball in her hands and casted it into the air. Marisa did the same thing as she casted her arm back and lunged the fireball as far as she can. The fireball connected with Louise's own as it disappeared into nothingness.
"Not bad, Marisa." Louise complemented. "You are getting better."
"Thanks, Mom." Marisa nodded happily.
As the two chatted, Samson opened the side-winder doors. "Senorita Louise! There's someone on the telephone who wants to talk to you."
Louise tilted her head in confusion. Who would be calling her? Deciding to check it out, Louise made her way inside the saloon, while Marisa followed behind her.
When she got to the phone, she picked it up and put it next to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Louise?"
"Hello, Michelle." Louise greeted. "Did you find them?"
"Yes. But there are some things that you might need to know, first."
"Really?" Louise wondered. "Like what?"
As Louise was on the phone, Marisa sat down on a table that consisted of Kera, Larcen, Sora, and Biyomon.
"Are you all right, Marisa?" Larcen asked.
"Yeah. I'm okay." Marisa replied. "How's Izzy?"
"Same as usual." Sora replied as she Izzy hard at work on his laptop. "Ever since Louise handed him that Chaos Emerald, he's been working non-stop to try and locate the remaining Chaos Emeralds."
"Did he tell you about what's been going on?" Marisa asked.
"Yeah. Now it feels like everyone is involved in this somehow." Sora sighed.
"I know." Biyomon agreed. "But at least all of us are together. That's a good thing, right?"
"Yeah. That is true." Marisa nodded.
"The question is, what happens when the final Chaos Emerald reveals itself?" Kera wondered.
"We'll just have to beat those villains to it, I guess." Sora shrugged.
"Let's just hope your friend knows what he is doing." Larcen said as he eyed Izzy carefully.
Sora could only hope for the same thing, too."
Meanwhile, Louise came back from her phone conversation and sat down next to Marisa.
"Who was it that called you, Mom?" Marisa asked.
"It was Michelle and Amara." Louise replied. "They found whom they were looking for."
"And? What did they find out?" Kera questioned.
"Unfortunately, the Chaos Emerald that Team Sonic won at the Extreme Gear Mini-Tournament had been stolen earlier by Mephiles and a grey tiger." Louise answered.
Sora's eyes widened. "Mephiles?"
"Yeah. It kind of took me by surprise, as well. But I guess this was their was of what happens when someone has a Chaos Emerald in their possession." Louise said.
"So how they have...how many Chaos Emeralds right now?"
"Four." Louise answered for her. "The good news, fortunately, is that Team Sonic does have another Chaos Emerald that was given to them some time back."
"Including the one that you handed to Izzy." Biyomon added.
"Right." Louise nodded. "That means only one Chaos Emerald remains hidden. And until Izzy is done with what he is doing, we can only wait."
Our heroes sat there in silence. That was, until the silence was broken when Samson came out from the kitchen.
"All right, amigos!" Samson said with a grin. "The fish is ready! Come and get it!"
Without wasting anytime, most of the DigiDestined kids (excluding Izzy) and their Digimon made their way inside the kitchen. Silver and Blaze decided to get some as well, followed by Kera, Larcen, Marisa, and even Louise decided to have some dinner as well.
As this was going on, Izzy continued working on his laptop until Tai showed up again.
"Hey genius, come get some fish while there are some left." Tai told him with a smile.
"I'll get some later. I'm almost already done upgrading my laptop." Izzy replied.
"Well, all right." Tai shrugged. "Just don't forget about the fish later, all right?"
"I got it." Izzy nodded.
With that, Tai sat down as he began to chow down on his fish while Izzy continued working in his laptop.
- Black Comet -
The scene shifts inside the Black Comet. Inside the briefing room, we see Mephiles and Black Doom conversing to each other about something.
"So, you believe that this human woman has a Chaos Emerald with her?" Black Doom questioned.
"I am certain of it." Mephiles answered. "And since the last Emerald will soon reveal itself, it will almost be time for our grand plan."
"Yes. We went over it before." Black Doom said. "The question is; Will you be able to take the Dragon Sword away from Kera?"
"That can be arranged." Mephiles stated.
"How is that?" Black Doom questioned.
"While I was waiting for your comrades at the Dusty Desert, I came across something rather interesting about the Dragon Sword's power." Mephiles explained. "Even if the Dragon Sword was taken from it's pedestal, the Chaos Emeralds can still be used to play a slightly different role."
"And what role might that be?" Black Doom asked.
"To stop time. But in a slightly different way." Mephiles answered.
"And do you know how that happens?" Black Doom asked with interest.
"I do not fully know. However, I do know that this will work once we have all seven Chaos Emeralds and we are at the Dusty Desert as well." Mephiles replied.
"So you and I will remain at the Dusty Desert, while our army hunts down the final Chaos Emerald, where it reveals itself. And once we have all of the Chaos Emeralds, you will do what you need to do. Are we clear?"
"Yes." Mephiles bowed. "Tomorrow, it will be war."
"Yes. It will." Black Doom agreed.
"Now, if you will excuse me. I must be off." Mephiles said as he disappeared in a dark cloud of smoke.
Once he was gone, a new figure, revealing to be Maiza, jumped next to Black Doom.
"So, you believe that this plan of his will work?" Maiza asked.
"I believe it will. Since our heroes have two Chaos Emeralds, I'm sure that both of them will be brought together once the final Chaos Emerald reveals itself." Black Doom answered.
Maiza could only stand there and think about how this whole thing would work out. Black Doom turned to her.
"Maiza. I have a task that wish for you to perform." Black Doom told her.
"What would that be, my lord?"
"Since Mephiles and I will be absent at the Dusty Desert, I want you to lead the army into tracking down that last Chaos Emerald."
Maiza raised an eyebrow. "You want me to lead them?"
"Yes. And you will be responsible to take the other two Chaos Emeralds that our heroes will be holding." Black Doom explained. "I trust that you can do this?"
"...Yes, my lord. I shall obey." Maiza bowed.
"Excellent. Now, get some rest. Tommorow, everything will be put into order."
"As you wish, Black Doom." Maiza replied as she turned around and walked away into a different direction, while Black Doom watched her go until she was fully gone.
"Once tommorow comes, the Day of Awakening shall commence and the world will fall into darkness." Black Doom stated before laughing evilly.
Darkness comes closer and the final Chaos Emerald is about to reveal itself. Can Izzy be able to locate the last Chaos Emerald within his laptop? Will Mephiles plan about the Chaos Emeralds work? And will our heroes be able to prevent themselves from losing their Chaos Emeralds to the villains? Find out on the next Black Conquest!
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