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Digimon Tamers Crimson Episode 37: Who's the real Puppetmaster?
In another distant location within the Digital World, Suzie and her partner Antylamon had wandered around where they ended up, looking for their friends. With no such luck, they headed towards the nearest location to them... Which happened to be the great library of the Digital World. "So Antylamon, what exactly is this place?" Suzie asked while sitting on top of Antylamon's head. The tall rabbit Digimon responded "This is a sacred place for all Digimon. It is where all our rich history lies within. Anything you wish to know about our world... Is right here whenever you may end up being the slightest bit curious." Suzie then said "So it's basically a library is what you're trying to say, right?" Antylamon sighed and responded "Yes, it is what you humans call a library. However, unlike the normal public libraries in your world, ours always updates based on events that happen every single day." Suzie was quite surprised by what her partner just told her, considering how it takes quite a while for people who write novels for a living to update on their work. And here's a place where information is always being updated, based on events in the Digital World. Antylamon opens up the large doors to enter within the already massive building. Little did they know however, someone was watching them from the distance.
This someone in question appeared to be a wooden puppet-like Digimon. He had on blue overalls with gears on his chest. Cables were attached to the back of his wooden feet and wrists. He carried on his back a wooden puppet cross, and a wooden hammer with a metal head, which contained what appeared to be round slots on a revolver... Which he carried in his pocket. He also wore a red hat and a metal nose, which would give the impression that his nose grows, whenever he so much as tell a single lie. "So, that's the last Deva of the Digimon Sovereign huh? Perfect! Once I kill her and her Tamer, Daemon will surely give me the praise I deserve! Besides, I used to be one the original Dark Masters for crying out loud!" The puppet said to himself regarding the unsuspecting Tamer and Digimon. "Alright, so first, I'll go in and I'll tie them up! Then, once they're powerless to do anything... I feed them an apple which will poison them!" A mysterious voice outside then said "I believe that is based on the fairy tale known as Snow White." The puppet gets somewhat angry at the voice and responds "Okay, how about this... I make the girl prick her finger on a spindle and then-" He was cut off by the voice again who said "That was Sleeping Beauty." The puppet was still confused by this voice and thought of another plan. "Well I'll just throw them into a canyon where a stampede of rampaging Digimon will run them over and-" The voice once again interrupted the Puppet's plan and said "That has already been done in a popular disney film."
The puppet got even more irritated and suggested "Make the girl kiss a geckomon so she'll become one?" The voice responded "Princess and the Frog." Puppetmon then grabbed his revolver and says "Screw this! I'll just kill them straight away!" The mysterious voice disappeared from the blue orb he was spying with. In the top of the library a Digimon wearing a red cloak with a yellow hood was watching the puppet in question enter his domain. "I'm afraid that Digimon has made a terrible mistake. Not only is he entering without my permission, he plans on killing someone who's friends are already on their way to save her. Though, it is partially my fault considering I may have provoked him... But I just wished to point out how his plans were rip offs of other popular human media. Which, ever since I've heard of these things called "films and literature" I have grown very intrigued of the world outside of my own. Though I have discovered that I can travel back and forth between worlds... I never once thought to do so after last time. But perhaps... I might be seeking out someone with similar interests to my own. I may know everything about other Digimon in this world, but I do not know much about myself... Besides my name Wisemon, I know naught a thing about what my personality is... Other than an intelligence gatherer. But nevertheless, I hope that humans do turn out to be as interesting as I've hoped." Wisemon finished his monologue and looked through the blue orb again, to see Suzie and Antylamon wandering around his library.
Puppetmon was sneaking around the library to see where his targets were. What he didn't know was that the library was large enough to hide something as tall as the Antylamon. "Where in hell are they!? It can't be that hard to find a ridculously tall rabbit with long ears! I mean, how tall are these shelves!? What could a non-flying Digimon gain from all of this huh!?" Puppetmon kept on complaining about the size of the library in question, not knowing that all his yelling alerted Suzie and Antylamon to his prescence. "Xiaochun... I think you should get out of here." Antylamon said to her Tamer who responded "Antylamon, I'm not just gonna leave you here. Family sticks together... No matter what!" Antylamon figures to not argue with her, due to the threat that Puppetmon poses. "Alright, we'll try and sneak out together. But let's be quiet okay?" Suzie nodded and followed Antylamon towards the exit of the library. As they approach the exit, Antylamon suddenly stops moving altogether. "Antylamon? What happened? Is everything alright?" Suzie asks the tall rabbit who responds "Get... Away... From... Me..." As she feels like her body won't respond to anything it tells her to do. "You two honestly thought you could get away? Fat chance! I've been looking to fight you all day little girl!" Suzie, instead of running away in fear, puts up a fighting stance and protect Antylamon. "Really? You're gonna actually fight me little girl? As if! What are you gonna do huh? Talk me to death?"
Suzie would have normally taken her time to analyze the puppet Digimon, to see what it's stats are. However, she didn't take too kindly to his comment. She ran towards Puppetmon who was surprised by her speed and was on the recieving end of several kicks to his body. Each of those kicks seemed to cause various cracks on his body... Even breaking off one of his arms. Puppetmon was genuinely shocked by this sudden turn of events. Suzie in turn goes back to her partner who has been released from Puppetmon's strings. "Alright Antylamon, let's get out of here!" Antylamon knew that Suzie had been taking martial arts lessons from the same man who taught Henry, though Suzie decided to go with a somewhat different fighting style. As the two attempt to make an exit, Puppetmon pulls out his revolver and says "This, is what you get for breaking the rules!" He then fires a bullet that ends up hitting Suzie in her abdomen. Antylamon grabbed the mortally wounded Suzie and tries to hide deeper in the library. "There's no use hiding Rabbit! I will hunt you down!" Puppetmon declared knowing Antylamon heard him. Suzie seemed to be losing quite a bit of blood. Antylamon was trying to see if there was anything she could do... Give her data, a healing tome, anything to save her Tamer. But from the moment of her despair... She thought of an idea, one of which she had never thought to do. From where the idea in her head originated, she doesn't know. But suddenly, she transformed herself into... A transparent barrier healed Suzie's wound. Though, it seems that she is still too weak to wake up.
Puppetmon finds this barrier and tries to shoot it. However, his bullets merely disintigrated the moment it made contact with the barrier. He then tried to touch it with his remaining arm... But later found himself incredibly drained for some reason. To prevent himself from losing his physical being, he decided to find his arm, heal up, and wait for the barrier to go down... Or someone else to play with. Inside the barrier, it seemed that Puppetmon's energy was used to re-energize Suzie a little bit. However, Antylamon knew that if she wanted Suzie to fully recover... She'd need the energy of the others. "If anyone can hear me... Heed my voice... Please give me your power, so that I may help heal this little girl. And Jianliang... I was glad to be your little sister's partner. Please... help her from now on..." Antylamon said as though she was going to die from this ordeal. However, Wisemon, who had just witnessed this turn of events... Heard the rabbit's plea. "There's no need to worry Antylamon, your story has not ended yet... For you see, your friends whom you allign yourself with... Are already on their way here. So for now, you can relax and help heal your Tamer. And for now, there's no need to worry about Puppetmon... For he is currently trying to recover as well. Now all you need to do, is believe in your friends... Believe that they'll arrive and they will."
Later, outside the library...
Simon and co. arrived at where he sensed the signal of spiral energy. "Well, the signal's telling me that the person is here. However..." Simon started saying to everyone before they entered the large building. "There is some kind of force at work here, which is interfering with my abilities. So for now, we're gonna have to split up and search this place." Everyone nodded to Simon's suggestions and he proceeded to open the door. As everyone looks around, Guilmon and the other Digimon were shocked by what they were looking at. Books, almost literally everywhere they looked. "This is... The Great Digital Library." Renamon said which didn't really get anyone's attention. Henry then said "You're not kidding about that." As they were about to decide who goes where, the owner of the library appeared before them. "Welcome... To my library. A place filled with so much knowledge that, it keeps on getting bigger and bigger, the more information that is stored here. Allow me to introduce myself... My name is Wisemon, and I am the one who holds any answer to any question of the Digital World you may ask me." Henry got out his Digivice and analyzed the new Digimon. "Wisemon, Virus Type, Ultimate Level. Attacks are: Pandora Dialogue and Eternal Nirvana." Henry quoted his Digivice. Wisemon then approached the Tamers and their partners and said "I'm still surprised that these devices don't ever tell you personal traits about Digimon. But then again, it can't be helped. After all, it is only a mere piece of plastic with powers depending on the user."
Simon responds to Wisemon "These "pieces of plastic" have helped us come together as both partners and friends." Wisemon then looked at Simon directly and said "My apologies, it's just that there is only one thing I put enough passion to in this world. And that... Is knowledge. From what I've gathered in the Digital World... Your names are, Simon Ackerman, Guilmon, Jianliang Wong, Terriermon, Rika Nonaka, Renamon, Nia Esthiem, and Impmon." None of them were really surprised, since they knew that he has gathered quite a large amount of information. And their names... Were easy to obtain. "What may surprise you is that... Three out of Four of the Tamers here, are slowly becoming data." This surprised just about everyone in the room. "What do you mean we're becoming data!?" Henry asked bewildered by this revelation. "Yeah! Give us some answers after springing that on us!" Rika yelled angrily at the cloaked Digimon. "Isn't it quite obvious? The moment all nine of you entered this world, you slowly become part of it. Eventually even becoming like Digimon themselves. So until you humans leave this world, you are for now Digimon like the rest of us." Nia then asks "But wait... If we're all slowly becoming data... Shouldn't this affect Simon as well?" Simon turns to face his girlfriend and responds "Nia... Because of Megidramon... I've always been part data. I guess that now he's gone from my body, I seem to have gained some form of immunity to it."
Wisemon nods and says "That would appear to be the case. However, your newly acquired power and link to Guilmon seem to be what is truly preventing you from being... Fully human." Simon looks at Guilmon who then asks Simon "So, if I were to die then... You would no longer be part data." Simon then responds "Guilmon... At this point, I'm grateful to be part data. Because if that weren't the case... I'd probably have never met you." Henry then goes up to Wisemon and asks "Getting back to the matter at hand, if you own this library... Could you show us where one of our friends is?" Wisemon remembers who they are looking for and responds "I can direct you... But, I don't think that you'd want to know who this person you're looking for is Jianliang." Henry is at first confused by Wisemon's words... But then, he realized what this meant. "Take. Us. To. Suzie!" Henry said to Wisemon angrily who then cued them to follow him. As they traveled through the library, everyone noticed that Henry was the one directly behind Wisemon instead of the usual Simon leading the team. Rika then asks Simon "Is he gonna be okay?" Simon turns his head to Rika and responds "Henry's an older sibling as you are aware. At this point, if so much as one scratch is on Suzie's head... Let's just say he might not be inclined to forgiveness. How do you think you'd feel if you had a younger sibling who's constantly at risk?" Rika then looks past Simon to Henry and thinks to herself "I... Honestly don't know. I'm sure Daisuke, Takeru, Hikari and Ken would know. But... I just don't know..."
After quite some time, Wisemon then showed the Tamers whom they were looking for. Henry's eyes widened quite a bit, and tears threatened to leak out as he gazed at the sight of his little sister with a fatal wound on her abdomen, inside a barrier. "XIAOCHUN!" Henry yelled his little sister's name as he approached the barrier. He was about to touch the barrier when Simon grabbed his hand and pulled him away from the barrier. "Simon, my little sister is severely injured and trapped within that bubble... Let me go!" Wisemon then says "Unfortunately, Simon has the right idea about not touching the barrier. For Antylamon created this field to drain those who would try and pierce it." Henry is then released from Simon's grasp, and he proceeds to gaze upon the healing barrier. "...Suzie, why didn't I get here sooner? How did it all come to this!?" Henry asked no one in particular. Simon once again felt responsible for this issue because of his recklessness. "Henry, I know it's my fault that all this happened... But we need to focus on finding a way to save her and all that. Alright?" Simon said to try and reassure him. Henry knowing his best friend is prone to blaming himself for things, turns and asks "Simon, why do you keep assuming it's your fault? I mean, wasn't it Daemon who got us into this predicament?" Simon was honestly shocked to see that Henry doesn't blame him for what happened to Suzie. "Thank you Henry. Now Wisemon, is there any way to dispose of this barrier and get Suzie back?" Simon said while asking Wisemon what to do next. "Hmm, I think one of you needs to charge this barrier with Spiral Energy."
Simon put his hand on Henry and said "I'm counting on you Jianliang. Use the core drill to pour in Spiral Energy. As long as you believe in yourself and getting your sister back... The drill will never run out of energy." Henry looked at his core drill before nodding to Simon and responding "Alright, I'll get Suzie out of there." Henry had Terriermon come closer to the barrier with him, and he then inserted the drill into the barrier which started to feed off of Henry's spiral energy. Just as the drill was getting through, Henry and Terriermon were pulled into the barrier which ended up giving off a green glow that obscured Suzie from view. "So where did they end up Wisemon?" Guilmon asked out of curiosity. Wisemon pondered this for a bit and responded "They most likely ended up inside Lopmon's subconscious. From there, they'll be able to help both Xiaochun and Antylamon." Just as they were about to pray for Henry's safety, a puppet-like Digimon appeared before them. "So, that's your game huh Wisemon?" Simon looked at the puppet Digimon and scanned him. "Puppetmon, Virus Type, Mega Level. Attacks are: Bullet Hammer, Flying Cross Cutter and Drill Nose." Simon said quoting his Digivice. Impmon looks at Puppetmon and asks "Hey, aren't you one of those Dark Master schmoes?" Puppetmon looks at Impmon and responds "I'm surprised you know about them. Yes, me and another one of us were members of the Dark Masters... But now, we are a part of Yggdrasil's army! And all you need to do bow before me!"
Simon raises his eyebrow and asks "So, how much do you need the world's tiniest Violin?" Puppetmon looks at Simon and says "How dare you show me disrespect! I'll have you know, that I've been a more significant threat than most Digimon have been in this whole forsaken world!" Simon then gestures playing a small violin and says "Actually I have the world's smallest violin in my fingers." Upon closer inspection, there is an actual small violin on Simon's thumb... That he plays with his index finger. "Although... With the amount of wood that made you... I could make one hell of a rocking chair." Puppetmon then gets so angry and tries to use his puppet strings on Simon, who cuts up his strings effortlessly. "Tell me you've got something stronger. Otherwise... I might be a tad bit disappointed." Puppetmon then snapped his fingers. After that, the ground started shaking around them. Wisemon then used his power to put the entire library into a sphere he made. The Tamers and the other Digimon were still intact and outside the orb. They looked up and saw a giant house-like mecha. Rika expresses some excitement and says "Henry's gonna miss out on this." Renamon then responds "Given the likelyhood of us defeating this thing effortlessly... Maybe not. I'm surprised you've regained your resolve so quickly." Rika looks at Renamon and says "My faith in my friends is probably what saved me." Nia then said "Can we please focus!" Everybody then got out their core drills and prepared to fight the house mecha.
Meanwhile inside Lopmon's subconscious...
Henry and Terriermon found themselves in, what appears to be a kingdom in the clouds. "Is this really in Lopmon's mind?" Terriermon asked Henry who was focused on getting his little sister. "Oh, right... Sorry about that." He said before getting back onto Henry's shoulder. As the two traveled through this somewhat barren kingdom in the clouds, they come across what appears to be a throne room... With Suzie sitting on the throne. Henry immediately ran up to Suzie to check and see if she's awake. Suddenly, from the ceiling came Lopmon who said "She'll wake up soon. It's just how soon, that's the issue." However, before Henry could try and encourage Suzie to wake up... He, Terriermon and Lopmon were surrounded by what appear to be shadow versions of Puppetmon. Lopmon looks quite frightened by the scenario... Henry and Terriermon however looked at the shadow puppets with anger. "Why are such dark creatures in this sacred place?" Henry asks rhetorically. Terriermon adds "I guess they think that, they own the joint. And I may be laid back at times... But I feel the same way that Henry does when it comes to family!" Suddenly a green aura appeared around Henry and Terriermon. "The thing about family is that..." Henry started. "You mess with one of us..." Terriermon added. "YOU MESS WITH ALL OF US!" They both shouted at the same time. Suzie stirred from the duo's shouting. However, when she woke up, she knew what they should do. "Lopmon, how about we all do this together..." Suzie said to Lopmon before standing next to Henry and grabbing his hand. Lopmon nodded and did the same with Terriermon.
SPIRAL MATRIX EVOLUTION._
"Spiral Matrix Evolution!"
Terriermon Spiral Matrix Evolve To... MegaGargomon!
Lopmon Spiral Matrix Evolve To...
As Suzie fell into Lopmon, the rabbit began to undego some changes. Her color changed drastically from brown with pink... To pink with white. Her arms grew somewhat larger, her torso has changed into that of an hourglass-like shape, the legs shrank somewhat and the ears looked more like angel wings than actual rabbit ears. She also had gold rings on the ears as well as what appears to be a neck piece like that on a clown.
Cherubimon!
MegaGargomon may have been quite a contender... Cherubimon on the other hand, was a whole different story. With one swipe of her hand, the Shadow Puppetmon vanished without a single trace. "Hey Henry, wanna go help the others?" Cherubimon asked MegaGargomon who nodded and responded "Well I came here to help you so... Looks like we'll need to see how they're doing..." They then exited the heavenly kingdom and headed back into the Digital world to help their friends.
Meanwhile on the outside...
Simon and co. were landing blow after blow on Puppetmon's house mecha, which seemed to have a difficult time hitting them. Beelzemon kept on firing low shots since his method of fast mobility was his bike. While Gallantmon and Sakuyamon kept on striking it in the air. But every time they would hit the robot... It's parts kept on regenerating, even when the parts were burnt by Sakuyamon. "Well, unless we can incinerate the entire machine in one go... It looks like we won't be getting anywhere." Gallantmon pointed out. Grani then said "Even my Yuggoth Blaster was no good against this machine! All it did was prove your point." Puppetmon then laughed at everyone's current predicament. "As long as there's a part to work with... There's no way in hell you're beating my House Mecha! And now, I'm afraid it's time to finish the three of you off!" Puppetmon then had the House Mecha try and crush everyone... Only for a giant metal fist to appear out of the orb and stop the attack completely. The House Mecha backed away from the giant metal fist and saw two things... One was MegaGargomon while the other was, Cherubimon one of the Three Archangels. Gallantmon, Sakuyamon and Beelzemon all looked in awe at Cherubimon's magnificence... While Puppetmon could only look in anger. "You know what?! I am One Hundred and Ten Percent done with all of you! Destroy them!" Puppetmon shouted, while ordering the House Mecha to destroy Cherubimon who merely raised her hands and summoned bolts of lightning to strike the House Mecha.
"Heaven's Judgement!" Cherubimon shouted as the bolts launched themselves at the house mecha, which caused it to fall apart almost instantaneously. However, before it could regenerate, MegaGargomon said "Mega Barrage!" before launching several missiles at the broken mecha. Puppetmon felt strings loosen from his hands and was stricken with fear when the five mega level Digimon cornered him. "I've been waiting for this!" Beelzemon said. Gallantmon gave the signal for all five mega level Digimon to attack Puppetmon. "Okay, Now!" Beelzemon later said before the all charged at Puppetmon. Wisemon watched as the fight was taken into a huge dust cloud and said "This always happened whenever someone would approve of the "All out Attack". That doesn't mean it isn't amusing per se." After the dust cloud dissapated the five mega level Digimon looked over the data that used to be Puppetmon. Later on, they all de-fused from their Digimon and were invited to Wisemon's quarters. "Now as you can see, this is where I oversee the library and the vast majority of the Digital World. However, I can only see what go out of my way to see. So unless I leave this place... I cannot hope to see all the secrets of the Digital World. So tell me something... What is it that you want... Simon Ackerman?" Simon looked at Wisemon who was sitting across from him, while the others were seated in a circle with Guilmon and Renamon sitting behind their Tamers. "I want to find the rest of my friends and apologize for my foolishness." Wisemon thought about Simon's question and responded "Well, there's no need to worry about your other four friends... For they're already on their way here." Everybody then shouted at the same time "WHAT!?"
How does Wisemon know of this? Will Simon finally be able to atone for his supposed sins? Find out next time, on Digimon Tamers Crimson!