Daisuke's Apology

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Chapter Twenty Eight: Daisuke's Apology

"I honestly can't believe that Daisuke just destroyed that Digimon without a second thought," Yolei said in utter disbelief.

"I know, I thought she had changed but it looks like she is still the same old Digimon Empress deep down," Cody agreed.

"Now come on you two, there has to be an explanation, right?" Ken asked them both as they looked at him.

"I don't think so, there isn't an explanation for murder. Besides, even if there was a reason, how could we trust Daisuke anyway? What is to say that she won't stab us in the back," Yolei said, and TK frowned at her and Cody.

"Tell me something you two," he started making everyone look towards him. "Do you consider me a monster or evil?" he asked them.

"What!?" Yolei shouted in shock.

"No of course not TK, why would we?" Cody asked him in confusion.

"Because like Daisuke, I killed a Digimon as well. Two actually." TK said.

"What, why would you do that?" Cody asked him shocked.

"Because those two Digimon were going to kill me, Patamon, and everyone else if I didn't stop them. Killing a Digimon is wrong, but there are times where you have no other choice, where if you don't you and your friends will pay the price. That doesn't make you a monster. Sometimes you have no choice but to kill them before they destroy everything you hold dear," TK told them sadly.

"He's right, Gatomon had to kill a few Digimon before as well," Kari added, making Yolei, Ken, and Cody look at them and their partners who nodded their heads at the two.

"Well they were evil Digimon right?" Yolei asked them both and they nodded their heads at them.

"And your points being what…it's alright for us because they were evil? But Daisuke kills one Digimon who attacked us first and for no clear reason I might add, and you're all over her like white on rice," TK said to them a little incredulously, and they slumped slightly.

"Look guys, calm down. I think it would be best if we either avoid Daisuke or ask her for an explanation, ask not demand," Ken spoke up, looking at Yolei who nodded her head at him.

"Alright guys, we'd better get going then," TK said, and the DigiDestined all left the Computer Lab and headed off towards home.

Meanwhile Daisuke was standing in front of several toppled control spires and another one came crashing down behind her. She smiled and looked up to see ExVeemon smiling back at her before landing. He de-digivolved back into Veemon.

"Nice work today buddy," she said rubbing her partner on the head. "We keep this up and the control spires will all be gone in no time."

"Alright, but Dai?" Veemon asked her.

"I know what you're gonna ask, if I want to tell the DigiDestined about the control spire Digimon. If they ask me I'll tell them, but they might think I am lying to cover up killing the Digimon. That annoys me, but part of me really can't blame them," she said as she walked off with Veemon following her.

"You know Daisuke, that DNA CHARGE thing was awesome, I've never felt so powerful as ExVeemon before."

"I know, it felt like we were connected, like I gave you the strength needed to digivolve," Daisuke said looking at her new digivice.

"What do we call the Digivice though?" Veemon asked.

"I got no clue, maybe a D-Tector? I know the others have called theirs D-3's."

"What about D-4's?"

"Nah, let's stick with Digivice for now."

"Roger that," Veemon said as the duo walked home. The next day Daisuke was walking to school for the first time ever since she ran away to the Digital World. She took a deep breath and calmed her nerves before walking into the building. Daisuke walked towards her locker hoping to avoid a confrontation with a certain group of people about what had happened in the Digital World the day before.

"So far so good," she said to herself as she opened her locker and looked at her timetable quickly before grabbing the stuff she needed for the class. She then shut the locker door and turned around, almost immediately running into Ken and Yolei.

"Oh Daisuke, I almost forgot you went to this school as well," Ken said to her.

"Yeah same here," Yolei added and Daisuke looked at the pair.

"No worries," she said as she went to walk off.

"Before you leave, care to explain why, you know…" Yolei trailed off.

"No I don't know, care to enlighten me?" Daisuke asked, turning around and looking at them.

"Well your digivice, why is it so different?" Ken asked her, and Daisuke rolled her eyes and took out her digivice.

"This thing?" she asked, and they both nodded. "Well after we defeated Cherubimon, Veemon and I came back to our apartment and I discovered that my digivice was cracked due to it overloading because of Ex-Veemon digivolving to AeroVeedramon," Daisuke explained and they looked at her in surprise.

"Wait, it overloaded? How? I mean ExVeemon became AeroVeedramon before didn't he?" Yolei asked confused.

"Yes and no, that one was due to the Black Spiral and Milleniummon's influence," Daisuke said with a shake of her head. "Why do you think that TK and Kari along with the older DigiDestined when they were in the Digital world the first time need crests to make their Digimon evolve to ultimate level?"

"So you repaired your digivice?" Ken asked her.

"That's right," she replied.

"But what about that thing where your fist glowed bright blue and you shouted something, DNA CHARGE right?" Yolei asked.

"Look, I don't know what happened with that. All I know is that I wanted Veemon to digivolve and voila, my hand got covered in blue data," Daisuke said.

"Okay, now why did you tell ExVeemon to destroy that Golemon yesterday?" Ken asked and Daisuke laughed. She knew he was going to lead up to that question. "Something funny?" he asked Daisuke, a slightly aggressive note appearing in his eyes.

"Nothing, just that Golemon was not a Digimon," she replied.

"Not a Digimon? Are you crazy, of course he was a Digimon," Yolei said angrily to Daisuke.

"No he was not. I hadn't noticed at first, but when ExVeemon punched him I saw that his skin was just a shell around a control spire that somehow was shaped into a Digimon form. Thus I gave ExVeemon the order to destroy the fake," Daisuke explained.

"A control spire?" Ken asked, consternation all over his face.

"Yeah right, how do we know if you're telling the truth?" Yolei accused, and Daisuke frowned at her.

"Alright then, if you don't believe me it is your funeral," she said before walking off, leaving Ken and Yolei alone.

"Well that could have gone better," Ken said looking at Yolei.

"Hey, at least I didn't hit her this time," Yolei said to him.

"A huge step," Ken said sarcastically. "Whatever, come on let's just go and tell that others what we heard from Daisuke," he said with a sigh, and Yolei nodded her head. Both she and Ken left as well. Later that very same day, Ken, Yolei, Cody, TK, and Kari were in the Computer Lab just as Ken finished telling the others what Daisuke had said.

"And that's it?" TK asked, and Ken nodded his head at him.

"Yeah, she said that control spires were being turned into Digimon, and that she was not behind it. What confuses me is that she didn't say how they were becoming Digimon, assuming she knew," Yolei said.

"Well let's go find out," Kari replied, and the others all nodded their heads at her as they took out their D-3's and held them to the computer screen. "DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Kari shouted, and the screen glowed brightly and the DigiDestined were sucked into the computer. They found themselves in a small clearing in a forest.

"Now then, let's go destroy some control spires," Ken said.

"Why?" Cody asked him.

"Because if Digimon are being created from the control spires than we need to destroy them all and fast, the less spires around the Digital World the less Digimon that will be created from them," Ken explained.

"Ok, good plan. Let's get to it," TK declared, and everyone nodded their heads in agreement. They all walked until they came to a vast field that had several dozen control spires standing tall. "This might take a while," TK said after a moment...

"No doubt, okay Wormmon you ready?" Ken asked his partner.

"Ready," Wormmon confirmed.

"DIGI-ARMOUR ENERGISE!" Ken exclaimed as he took out his D-Terminal and Wormmon glowed brightly.

"WORMMON, ARMOUR DIGIVOLVE TOO… SHADRAMON THE INSECT OF COURAGE!" Wormmon shouted as he evolved into Shadramon and took flight.

"FLARE BUSTER!" he shouted as he launched several fireballs towards a few towers and destroyed them where they collapsed and shattered into pieces.

"DIGI-ARMOUR ENERGISE!" the other DigiDestined shouted and their Digimon all glowed brightly and armour digivolved into Nefertimon, Pegasusmon, Halsemon, and Digmon.

"GOLD RUSH!" Digmon shouted firing his drills towards the towers and he toppled several of them.

"TEMPEST WING!" Halsemon shouted as he spun around in a tornado and he tore through four more control spires and they crumbled down.

"ROSETTA STONE!" Nefertimon shouted.

"STAR SHOWER!" Pegasusmon cried and both of them knocked down several more control spires.

"Alright!" the DigiDestined cheered as their Digimon continued to level control spires.

"If we keep this up all the control spires will be taken out in no time," Kari smiled and the others all smiled as well. Then that a beep was heard and TK took out his D-Terminal, opened it, and gasped.

"TK?" Cody asked him in concern.

"Problem, big one, Mimi just said that she and Palmon were visiting a town full of baby and rookie Digimon when a Cyberdramon appeared and started to tear up the place. Palmon tried to fight him but got hurt, she needs help!" TK told them.

"Let's go then!" Yolei shouted, and everyone nodded their heads as TK, Kari and Yolei climbed onto their Digimon while Shadramon picked up Cody and Ken and Digmon dug underground. They all set off towards the village. They soon arrived where they all gasped as they saw several buildings destroyed and a ten foot dragon with red wings, a black armoured body, and sharp claws was in the middle of it all. It roared loudly.

"There it is," Kari said rather pointlessly as the Digimon all landed and dropped their partners before flying at Cyberdramon. It looked at them before it returned the charge. Suddenly it stumbled and fell down, and it looked back to see Digmon standing there.

"Hello big boy," he taunted before getting kicked backwards through a house. He sat up and held his head. "Okay, not cool." Cyberdramon roared at him.

"DESOLATION CLAW!" it shouted as it held it slashed its claws towards Digmon and green arcs of energy flew towards Digmon who yelped and jumped to the side as the claws of energy crashed into the building he had been sitting against. To everyone's horror, the building simply had massive swaths of data ripped out of it.

"FLARE BUSTER!" Shadramon shouted as he fired a barrage of fireballs towards Cyberdramon and hit him, but the Digimon completely ignored attack and only looked up.

"TEMPEST WING!" Halsemon shouted as he spun around and dived towards Cyberdramon in a tornado, but Cyberdramon simply swatted him away and Halsemon crashed down into the ground beside Digmon.

"He sure is tough," Cody said, and the other DigiDestined nodded their heads at him in agreement.

"I think he's an Ultimate," TK said grimly. The other children gritted their teeth, but knew there was nothing they could do.

"GOLDEN NOOSE!" Pegasusmon and Nefertimon shouted together before they created a lasso of light and ensnared Cyberdramon who roared and struggled against the noose that bound him.

"He's breaking the golden noose," Pegasusmon said as Cyberdramon roared and he did just that.

"CYBER NAIL!" Cyberdramon roared. He charged forwards at speeds too fast to track as his claws glowed a sinister red colour. One claw lashed out at Nefertimon and clipped her wing. Half of her wing disintegrated and she fell to the ground, reverting to Gatomon. Before Gatomon's body even hit the ground, Cyberdramon turned towards Pegasusmon and lashed out at his with the glowing claws. Pegasusmon tried to dodge, but only succeeded on making the attack hit his wings as opposed to his body. The attack destroyed his wings and cast him to the ground where he to reverted.

"DESOLATION CLAW!" Cyberdramon roared as released more arcs of green energy from his claws towards Digmon and Halsemon. Both managed to partially dodge, saving themselves from instant deletion. However, gaps in their bodies simply vanished and they screamed in pain. Seconds later they de-digivolved back into Armadillomon and Hawkmon.

"FLASH BUSTER!" Shadramon shouted as he dived towards Cyberdramon and was engulfed in flames. He flew towards Shadramon but was hit with Cyberdramon's claw that sent him flying to the ground. The battered moth Digimon turned back into Wormmon and groaned in pain.

"Oh no!" Kari exclaimed in shock as Cyberdramon advanced at Wormmon and went to stomp on him.

"No! Wormmon!" Ken shouted in despair, but as Cyberdramon went to crush Wormmon a hand grabbed its arm.

"Hey buddy, why not pick on someone your own size? Here, how about a knuckle sandwich on the house!" a voice shouted as a blue fist crashed into its face and sent Cyberdramon flying backwards into a building and everyone gasped as they saw Ex-Veemon standing there. He looked down at Wormmon and he nodded his head at him.

"ExVeemon?" Kari asked.

"But that would mean…" Cody trailed off as they heard a noise and looked up to see Daisuke standing on a rooftop who nodded at them all.

"I got this guys," ExVeemon said as Cyberdramon roared and charged towards Ex-Veemon, and the two grappled against one another and struggled for dominance.

"Go ExVeemon!" Daisuke cheered and her dragon nodded his head, but before he could move further Cyberdramon twisted and threw ExVeemon backwards before preparing another attack.

"CYBER NAIL!" Cyberdramon shouted as he lunged forward, his claw glowing.

"EX-VEE PUNCH!" Ex-Veemon shouted. The Champion knew going head on to that attack would leave him with nothing but a deleted arm, so he managed to duck Cyberdramon's claw at the last second and struck the Ultimate straight in the torso. The attack's impact sent Cyberdramon backwards several feet, but as it skidded to a stop it was clear that no damage had been done.

"DESOLATION CLAW!" Cyberdramon shouted as he released more green arcs of energy, but Ex-Veemon jumped out of the way.

"CRITICAL CRUNCH!" he shouted as he tried to bite down on Cyberdramon. The Ultimate contemptuously lifted and arm and ExVeemon's teeth sunk into it, but only made it a short distance before they could no longer continue. Cyberdramon grabbed ExVeemon's throat with his other hand and threw him down to the ground and where it started to choke him.

"EXVEEMON!" Daisuke cried in worry when her new digivice suddenly glowed brightly, and she took it out when it shot a light towards the DigiDestined and hit them all. They yelped as their digivices glowed and beeped wildly. The devices transformed, and the DigiDestined looked at them and found that their digivices now had become similar to Daisuke's new digivice except that their colours were different. TK's was green, Kari's was pink, Yolei's was lavender, Cody's was orange and black, and Ken's was black and purple. To everyone's surprise, Gatomon's ring reappeared with a burst of light on her tail.

"Whoa," TK gasped as his fist was covered in bright green data. "Patamon ready!?" he asked his partner who got to his feet and nodded his head. "Okay, DNA CHARGE!" TK shouted as he put his glowing his hand onto his new digivice which beeped and glowed brightly, and Patamon began to emit light.

"PATAMON, DIGIVOLVE TOO…ANGEMON!" And with that Angemon flew towards Cyberdramon who was still strangling Ex-Veemon. "Hands off!" Angemon shouted as he kicked him off the dragon and helped him to his feet.

"I owe ya one," Ex-Veemon said massaging his throat.

"Help me take this guy out and we'll call it even," Angemon said twirling his staff. Cyberdramon snarled and charged at him, lunging at the two champions. However, Angemon placed his staff in the way, and Cyberdramon bit the staff and snapped it in half, sending both Digimon flew backwards. "I really like that staff," Angemon mumbled. The remaining DigiDestined immediately began to panic. Just as their panic rose, all of them found themselves with a fist surrounded by data the same colour as their digivice.

"DNA CHARGE!" they all shouted.

"WORMMON, DIGIVOLVE TO… STINGMON!"

"HAWKMON, DIGIVOLVE TO… AQUILAMON!"

"ARMADILLOMON, DIGIVOLVE TO… ANKYLOMON!" The three Champions and Gatomon prepared to join the fight.

"Everyone, the only way to defeat him is to combine our attacks!" Daisuke shouted. "Gatomon and Stingmon, please distract him! When there's an opening, Aquilamon and ExVeemon will temporarily stop him. Then I want everyone to hit him with their strongest attacks!" The other Digimon and DigiDestined nodded in determination. Cyberdramon snarled and flew towards ExVeemon and Angemon who were standing side by side.

"CYBER NAIL!" it roared, and lashed out at the two who both managed to leap backwards just in time. Gatomon rushed in.

"LIGHTNING CLAW!" Gatomon's right claw was engulfed in electricity and brought down towards Cyberdramon's skull. The dragon managed to twist enough so that the attack landed on its shoulder instead, and the electricity immediately dispersed upon contact with its rubber body. However, the claw itself sunk several inches into Cyberdramon before being halted by a hard surface. Gatomon frowned and immediately moved into another attack. "NEKO SCRATCH!" Both of Gatomon's claws gleamed brightly and were slashed upon the previous injury. More rubber was scraped off and the cat saw that beneath the rubber skin was a metal surface, the same metal used in control spires. Cyberdramon roared in anger and knocked Gatomon aside with a sweep of an arm.

She went flying backwards and bounced a few times before coming to a stop. "Gatomon!" Kari yelled in panic. The white cat gritted her teeth as she struggled to her feet.

"I'm alright. But more importantly, I learned that this Digimon is actually a control spire. We don't have to hold back." Daisuke nodded at this information and turned to the rest of the DigiDestined.

"Alright, let's go all out. None of you have another excuse about why this thing shouldn't be deleted," she growled. Yolei and Cody stiffened but held back their own retorts. They were interrupted with a howl as Cyberdramon's claws once again glowed green.

"DESOLATION CLAW!" the dragon snarled, and more deadly arcs of energy were hurled, this time he was targeting multiple Digimon in a single attack. Gatomon jumped to her feet and leapt to the side to avoid her strike, ExVeemon took to the skies, and Angemon followed suit. Stingmon took advantage of the slight opening Cyberdramon gave after the attack.

"SPIKING STRIKE!" he yelled and a purple blade emerged from his wristband. He charged at Cyberdramon, but the dragon casually deflected that attack with a wave of its hand and moved into a counterattack. Stingmon smirked. "SPINNING SPIKING STRIKE!" Stingmon began to spin around Cyberdramon landed a flurry of kicks that created a cutting tornado around the dragon. In return, it flared its wings outwards stunning and halting Stingmon's movements. It then grabbed the insect Digimon and hurled him at great speeds away where he impacted with the ground heavily.

"Stingmon, are you okay?" called Ken, voice filled with concern.

"Yeah," Stingmon groaned. "Too bad it didn't do anything but annoy him." Indeed Cyberdramon was completely unharmed by the nimble attack. ExVeemon jumped back into the battle.

"EX-VEE LASER!" he shouted, and an x-shaped blast of energy shot from his chest.

"CYBER NAIL," Cyberdramon snarled and easily cut through the incoming attack with its glowing claw. The dragon sped towards ExVeemon at incredible speed, but as it neared ExVeemon a voice shouted out.

"BLAST RINGS!" Aquilamon fired multiple rings of energy at Cyberdramon who stopped to deflect the attacks with his claw. Its wings grew tense and the dragon prepared to lunge at Aquilamon when it felt an arm grab right above its glowing claw from behind and teeth sink into its neck.

"I've got him!" ExVeemon shouted, but he could barely hold on when Cyberdramon began to struggle furiously. Gatomon sped in front of the dragon and made eye contact.

"CAT'S EYE HYPNOSIS!" she shouted, and her eyes glowed brightly and Cyberdramon's struggles slowed greatly. Daisuke spoke up.

"Now guys, everyone attack his head!" Being right there, Gatomon had the first opportunity to attack, followed closely by ExVeemon.

"CAT LASER!" A purple blast of light shot from Gatomon's eyes and crashed into Cyberdramon's face.

"EX-VEE LASER!" This attack hit the back of the dragon's head.

"WAVE LASER!" Aquilamon fired a large laser from its beak at Cyberdramon that struck it in the side of its head.

"MOON SHOOTER!" Stingmon yelled, and a massive needle struck the other side of Cyberdramon's head and punched a gash into it.

"And for the finish, MEGATON PRESS!" Ankylomon, having been unable to help previously due to lack of ranged attacks and speed, had leapt into the air and actually crushed Cyberdramon into the ground, sending dust everywhere.. He got off and everyone waited for the smoke to clear. Their hearts sunk as they saw Cyberdramon flew upwards out of the dust. The Digizoid helmet was dented and blood was running down its head. The dragon faced the ground and began to charge an attack. A white glowing orb formed in front of its mouth and grew to a size greater than its own body. The DigiDestined below could tell that if this attack landed anywhere near them, they were finish.

"CYBER DEVESTATION!" But just as the attack was about to be released, another voice cut in.

"HAND OF FATE!" A golden beam of sacred light flew towards the charging attack and impacted it. The surface of the orb rippled for a second before exploding in a large explosion that completely engulfed Cyberdramon. When the light faded, there was no more trace of the artificial Digimon.

"Nice," Ex-Veemon said, patting the angel on the back. As Daisuke hopped off the roof she was standing on, Ex-Veemon landed beside her and turned back into Veemon while Angemon turned back to Patamon. The rest of the panting and clearly exhausted partners followed suite.

"Thanks for the help Daisuke," Kari said smiling at her, but Daisuke just bowed slightly.

"Sorry for all I've done," she said quietly, making the others' eyes widen.

"Why are you sorry?" Ken asked her.

"Well, it's my fault the control spires are around and therefore my fault they are becoming Digimon," Daisuke replied.

"We now know you're not responsible for the fake Digimon's creation, so don't worry about that," Yolei said, and everyone looked at her in surprise.

"Well, I'll see ya around," Daisuke said. She and Veemon walked away, but she almost immediately stopped as she heard a beep and took out her D-Terminal. "Huh, thanks for the help, hope you join the team soon, I miss you, TK," she read, looking back at TK who had his D-Terminal out with a smile on his face. Daisuke smiled back and gave TK a nod she before she ran off, Veemon following her.

The end of the chapter

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Editor's Note: Do any of you feel that Veemon and to a lesser extent Patamon (and their evolutions) are overshadowing the other DigiDestined's Digimon too much?