Book 5 The Unison War, Chapter 8: Yagami Taichi

"Hmmm…" It was an unusual sight to see Masaru in such deep thought, especially when his face was sandwiched between two curious Agumons trying to get a better look at the item that was displayed on the kitchen table. "There's no doubt about it, it's a Digivice iC."

"The question is, why would a Digivice appear in this world? There doesn't seem to be a reason for anyone in this world to have a Digivice." Taichi replied as he stood at the opposite end of the table.

"Well, this is the first instance that I can think of where a Digimon has been pass down from one human to another. Maybe this 'Digivice iC' as you call it, is a heirloom device that appears anytime a Digimon is passed down within a family or even from stranger to stranger?" Koushiro piped in, he too was taking a closer at the red and light blue box sitting on top of the table.

"But Lily said there was a summoning circle and instead of her Digimon appearing, this," Taichi pointed to the Digivice as he faced the others, "appeared and it's somehow related to a Mega Digimon de-evolving to her." Taichi shifted his index finger, now pointing at the rabbit like rookie Digimon who was hiding behind the legs of her new master.

"Digimon science is still not an established field of study, scholars are known to waste their entire life trying to find the secretes behind these creatures, only to die without finding much evidence." Koushiro replied. "So far we've only been able to establish that Lily is indeed the new master of Lunamon but as for why she has reverted to a lower rank, that is still a mystery."

"That's a simple one. A Digivice acts as link between the Digimon and it's human partner, Lunamon becoming her rookie form means that her latent power to become her Mega form is stored within Lily now. It should act as a wire for Lily to input that power to her Digimon when the need comes forth. The bigger question is, does Lily even have the ability to Digivolve her Digimon or not." Taichi pulled out his Digivice to compare with Lily's. "Her Digivice more closely resembles Masaru's, I'm not an expert when it comes to the different evolution methods but I know Masaru's form of evolving his Digimon is entirely different from mine."

Masaru finally stood up after bending down to table level to get a closer look, he flexed his fingers and summoned a bright orange flame which enveloped his hand. "Digisoul." He plainly stated.

"Digisoul?" Every one of them in the room asked.

"Digisoul. As far as we've figured, it's a medium that's based on emotions." Masaru stated before he swished his hand in the air releasing himself from his orange flame. Now it was Lily's turn to have every eye in the room turn on her. She starred blankly not knowing what to do. She brought up one hand as everyone looked on with awe expecting a flame similar to Masaru's to appear. She starred intensely at her hand for a few seconds, to everyone looking on it seemed like an eternity had gone by. After a few minutes of nothing happening, she sighed.

"I guess it doesn't come naturally for everyone. The first time I was able to digivolve Agumon was when I thought Agumon was dead. Like I said, it's based on emotion." Masaru explained.

Taichi then became deep in thought as it was certainly a big help if they were to get Lily and Lunamon to become part of their team for when they needed to take on Yggdrasil. After his short trip to Mount Royale to initiate Ken as the new King of Royal after the death of his brother, he was given an update by Koushiro of what had happened when the city was again attacked. Not that he did not care about what had happened to King Osamu, but they were short on time which caused him to be indifferent about the King he barely knew. Sure Mount Royale was in chaos but he trusted those who were left to make the correct decisions.

Although it was nice for him to see those he had left back at the academy and his sister once again. His sister was still very much angry with him, the entire time she had avoided talking to him and spent much of her time by the side of her fiancé. He had gotten word that his doppleganger parents had died during the capture of Central, part of him was sad but another part of him knew that there wasn't much time for him to morn - he wished that he would had been able to talk to Hikari about it but it seemed that they continued to grow apart.

The ceremony to crown Ken was a short one, as only families that had escaped Royal before the Romans seized it were there to witness the crowning ceremony. Of course the new King's friends, much of those were people Taichi knew from Saint Germain Academy were there also. Miyako was there by Ken's side, no doubt she was to become the next queen once Ken decided he was ready to marry. Yamato, being the King's cousin was also there; he had not changed from when they were still at Saint Germain and seeing as they never really had a conversation with one another before, the young Lords did not see any need to start then, only a crude nod to acknowledge each other. Yamato's brother of course was also there, again he spent most of his time with Hikari, leaving little time for Taichi. All in all, Taichi wished he would be able to leave the city the moment he arrived and he was mentally jumping for joy when the day after the crowning he was summoned by the King and briefed on his next mission.

"We do have some time before the start of our next mission. Masaru-san would it be possible for you to train Lily here before we are to set sail?" Taichi asked. Masaru nodded in agreement and proceeded to usher Lily and Lunamon outside of her kitchen and into her backyard. Taichi turned to Koushiro as they were the only remaining occupants of the room. "We need to discuss our next course of action Lord Admiral."

"Yes of course…wait what?" Koushiro became wide eyed as Taichi began to laugh.

"Yup, just got word in the morning. The alliance decided you would be most fit and named you Lord Admiral this morning; told me I'm directly under your orders. Also, you're getting your own ship, the eighty gunner HIMAS Tristan." Taichi announced to a shocked Koushiro who was visibly speechless and gulping like a fish on land. Taichi inwardly laughed at his friend, he reached for the documents and maps he had set aside on the table before their little inspection of Lily's new Digivice. Taichi spread out the large map allowing Koushiro and himself to have closer look at their current situation. Both of them took a moment to look over the map, Taichi being relatively new to strategic war planning - seeing as back during his Digidestined days he would often just rush in without thinking. The map was a large one, it's contents covering the entire world, of course some of the newly discovered lands and those still unexplored were not located on the map and merely covered in ocean; Taichi noted that much of Australia was missing and nothing had shown below what he knew to be Texas.

The map had shown the current territory each country occupied, both the Empire and Royal had been reduced to only their colonies and even after that Royal only occupied the known northeast of the New World. What both boys did fear was the huge territory the Romans had amassed throughout their conquest. Even though each of them were standing at opposite ends of the large kitchen table, the map did not hide the fact the Romans now held both the Empire and Royal homelands, along with most of Europe and slowly advancing what use to be Ming territory.

"Ming will fall within half a month." Koushiro pointed out.

Taichi nodded in agreement, there was no denying the prowess of the Roman war machine. "That's why we should attack them head on while the majority of their forces are occupied on the eastern front." Taichi pointed to the woodcarving they were using as stand-ins for armies.

"I agree Lord Captain but the only fear I would have it that once Ming falls, we would also be attacked on both fronts." Koushiro pointed to the Atlantic Ocean showing the openness the New World had on their western boarders. "There's also the fact the enemy has found ways to send their new Mega Digimon to our cities without the need to cross oceans from what we have seen so far and if what Lunamon tells us is believable."

"According to Lunamon there's only three of them remaining. If we can get Lily and Lunamon to join us, I'm sure we can get them to turn their minds to our side. Plus, we have Davis and Takato to defend the colonies." Taichi pointed out.

"You forget Taichi, both Magnamon and Gallantmon are currently suffering the same illness Agumon had. We still don't know the effects of the illness or why Agumon was cure of it." Koushiro rebuttaled. It was true, Taichi had heard nothing new about the illness nor did he know why Agumon had a new Mega form. He was sure it had something to do with Yggdrasil but he did not have time to ask the supercomputer last time when it was in possession of Mimi's body. Taichi had wished he had Koushiro from his world right now, surely he would have found the answers by now.

"Well we can't just spend all day in here arguing about what we should do. Sooner or later the majority of the Roman army will begin their attack on us. We have to bring the fight to them before that happens." Taichi replied hotly, it was an impulse reaction after years of being the leader.

"Hmm…" Koushiro put his hand to his chin and began to examine the map once again. Taichi could see Koushiro's eyes open wide when he knew his old friend's doppleganger had come up with a plan. "If we can capture back the Empire's homeland, we'll have a foothold to Europe. We can then launch attacks on the Romans if 'Britannia' becomes our gateway." Koushiro started, Taichi only replied with a giant grin on his face.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get ships ready!" Taichi was eager to begin their new adventure and had not thought about the logistics of such an operation.

"Wait Taichi!" Koushiro ran after his friend. "We'll need plan out how many ships we'll need."

Thus the two began their planning, the number of ships, the number of soldier and sailors, amongst other things were thought upon. When the two began to lose track of time during this planning stage, they were interrupted with a large explosion coming from the yard of the Crowle's manor house. The two rushed out to where the noise was coming from and was shocked to find an exhausted ShineGreymon laying flat on his bottom. Taichi turned his head to the other direction and became worried when he spotted the Lord Crowle's second daughter on all fours panting with heavy breaths. Above them stood Dianamon, who once again gained her Mega form after what Taichi could only guess to be hours of hard training from Masaru.

"Amazing, Lily you've done it!" Taichi shouted a congratulation out of impulse.

"Of course, with Daimon Masaru-sama, nothing is impossible!" Masaru appeared behind his Mega level Digimon, patting himself on the back for a job well done. Lily on the other hand had returned to her feet with without help and was blushing at her results and from the praise Taichi had given her.

It was then Taichi who walked up to her and gave her his hand with a wide grin on his face, "Lady Lily Crowle, it would be an honour if you were to join His Majesties' Joint Aerial Force."


Note: Royal's ship moniker is HMAS (His Majesty's Air Ship) and the Empire's are HIMAS (His Imperial Majesty's Air Ship).