YES!! IT'S BACK!! I've literally been having DATS withdrawals from not typing this for so damn long…These updates are gonna be harder, though! Because they're in quick succession and I won't be able to update when I like to!

Chapter Forty-Five:

Thomas Bursts On the Scene!

A large pit in my stomach began to from as I watched ShineGreymon and Marcus disappear.

'Oh, if you love me, why'd you let me go?' AA sang. Your emotions give you away. I, Yoshi, Thomas, and Yosyua can read you like a book.

You're getting awfully cocky. I growled to him.

No, I was just running through your head to find the perfect song lyrics for this, and Coldplay delivered. Though, 'Violet Hill' is making me feel depressed…it's making me remember stuff that I don't really want to remember…

Idiot, that line is from 'Violet Hill'! I snapped back.

I'm a digimon. What more do you want from me?! Though, British people can sing pretty good…

Hopefully, I thought that was the end of that.

But, then again, it's AA. He's always got something to say.

I also want to do something with you, which would involve yours and Kidd's separation from the group. This is critical, Loaño, you really don't have a choice.

What? What is it you want?

I'm going to teach you how to control your powers. And keep the bad parts in check.

Bad parts? I repeated, the line stuck out at me as plainly as a punch in the face.

Let me say this: If that part gets out of hand, it will be like Set's destruction of Osiris. You'll be ripped into pieces, if not physically, but mentally. And there will be no Isis to save you, because he's gone in the Digital World.

I understand and all, but what's with the Egyptian stuff?

Just something that fits the description! He responded cheerily.

Somehow I knew he was gonna go there…I turned to the others. "AA says that Kidd and I have gotta kick it, if you don't mind…"

Thomas looked at me with a somewhat-knowing smile. "It's alright. Go, I'm sure whatever AA's got planned for you is important."

"Thanks, Thomas." I said gratefully.

"I've got to check on Relena, anyway." Thomas said as if it was nothing. "Yoshi, you and Keenan are to stake it out at the Daimon house. If I don't keep my promise, Marcus will annihilate me!"

"Well, since we're all separating, CrystalGatomon and I have got to go our own way, too." Yosuya said as Yoshi looked like she was about to make a smartass comment.

"Well, then, I guess it's good that we're splittin'." Kidd grumbled.

"Why?" Keenan asked curiously.

Kidd pointed with a clawed thumb towards the sky. From the Digital World, several lights were appearing, and they were headed this way. "'Cause the Calvary is a'comin." He growled.

And with that wonderful thought, we all went our separate ways…

NNNNN

(Thomas)

"Double Crescent Mirage!!" MirageGaogamon slashed his way through the Knightmon that was assaulting the jet.

I saw the side door open and my father get out.

Well, I couldn't be more pissed-off.

MirageGaogamon degenerated and we entered the jet without a word. I went to a small room where Relena was being put down to rest, her heartbeat faltering here and there. I gripped the curtain with enough strength to rip it from where it hung.

How could he do this!? I asked myself with all my rage. Unfortunately, I didn't have a voice that replied back with a witty response that would cheer me up. It was just me there right now.

I went back to where my father stood, stubborn as the kiss-ass ox he was.

"How could you even think of doing this!?" I snapped. My fists were clenched together so hard I could feel my fingernails bite into my palms and my veins poked out.

"We're going back to Austria to protect the family estate." My father replied simply.

"Yes, and what good will that do when there is a worldwide order grounding all planes, or anything that can fly!?" I seethed.

"Pah." He scoffed. "I can get up in the air just by dropping my name."

I closed my eyes tightly. "You mean the last name I'm completely ashamed of?" I said calmly.

"How dare you!" he snapped, as if I was a child.

Gaomon stepped up nervously. "Sir, we've gotta go…" he muttered.

I sighed with resentment. "There are reports of another attack."

"So? I'm fueling up another jet, and we're leaving within the hour." My father stated.

I growled, "But I just told you why you can't do that!!"

"Then you will be our escort."

I looked down. I knew, that, somehow, someone was going to win this argument.

And it was going to be me, Goddamnit.

"No." I said cruelly.

My father recoiled, shocked at my answer. "Then you obviously care nothing for your sister's life!" he decided in his harsh baritone.

"Then, I guess I can say that very same thing to you, father." I replied, my anger welling up.

"What!?" he gasped (well, his voice is so damned plain it's hard to tell…).

"Yes. What have you ever protected in your whole, damned selfish life, hm!?" I asked angrily. I looked him straight in the eye. "You didn't seem to care about mothers dieing. You showed no compassion for Loaño when she lived with us. You kicked her out when she had nowhere to go, for God's sake! What kind of person are you?!" I yelled.

My father didn't respond.

"Just as I thought." I muttered.

"That damnable girl broke your nose, Thomas." He said after a moment.

"Yes. But it was an accident." I replied sternly. "She is still my best friend. She is like my sister, and both I and Relena take her as such. You were just afraid that she'd do it to you next time." I smirked a bit, knowing Loaño would do anything within her power to get her hands around this guy's neck.

My father recoiled, as if stung.

I compelled myself to add to his reckoning; "When we went to visit my grandmother…I'll never forget what you said that day – or what you didn't say. By keeping your pig-mouth silent, you completely insulted my mother!"

He drew in a hissing breath, like a snake curled in my path. "You don't know anything. Anything at all!"

Gaomon spoke up again, as I was about to give a bitter retort. "Sir, you'd better take a look at this." He said loudly.

I went to the window, and looked out. I hissed.

Outside, a legion of Knightmon were charging for us.

I swore loudly.

"Well, Thomas, if you really want to consider yourself a Norstien, go out there and do it." My father replied emotionlessly.

I growled as the doctor came in and threw open the curtains. "Relena's going into shock, sir!"

"Well save her, dammit!" he snapped.

Outside, I heard commotion as Yushima and the newly digivolved Shawjamon tried to drive off the legion.

I followed my father inside the doctor's small compartment where Relena was being stabilized.

"My brother…" she murmured through the mask. "I want…my brother…" she instinctively grabbed my hand weakly. I remembered when she was just born, when I went in to see her. Everyone was worried about the complications she'd had…but she'd always stop crying when she grabbed my hand. I felt more apart of that family then than I do now…

I knew that my sister was all I really had in this family.

I bit my lip and put my other hand on top of hers. "Alright." I said. "I'll save us. But not for you." I drew my gaze right into my father's eyes again. "For Relena. And not because I happen to share the same last name as you."

I walked out, where Gaomon asked me; "Are you alright, Sir?"

I looked back at him. "I'm perfect." And then, we both ran outside.

We came out just in time to see Shawjamon become enveloped in a cloud of smoke. I pulled out my digivice.

"Digi-Soul Overdrive!" I yelled.

"Gaomon warp digivolve to………MirageGaogamon!"

"Get rid of them!" I ordered.

"Sir, yes Sir!" MirageGaogamon yelled, flying up in the air where Shawjamon was trying to fend off a Knightmon. "Full Moon Blaster!" he shot the enemy off of him.

"Thanks, MirageGaogamon." Shawjamon said in his scratchy voice.

"Your welcome." He replied. "Let's take care of this!"

"Right!" the ninja took up his stave and they both flew to do battle.

I ran up to Yushima. "Sorry about my father." I apologized.

"Don't be. It's not your fault. Your just his son." He replied.

"Your right…" I murmured. Then, I ran up beside MirageGaogamon. "Finish them off!"

"Sir…" he wasn't able to finish.

"They're falling back, but why?" I asked myself as the Knightmon began to, well, fall back.

In the apocalyptic purple (hah, new color for Crayola!) sky above us, a whirlpool of clouds and lightning began to form as a digimon wearing pink-and-yellow armor cascaded down. On his arm was a broad yellow shield-like object and he stopped when he was level with the Knightmon legion.

"Another Royal Knight!?" I grumbled. Great, just what I needed now!

"Traitor!" the Knight said in a surprisingly female-sounding voice. "You'll pay for destroying my squadron and defying your King!"

"Let's go, MirageGaogamon!" I yelled.

"Sir, yes Sir!" he flew up.

"No, Thomas!" Yushima yelled. "RhodoKnightmon will kill you!"

Well, RhodoKnightmon did. "Spiral Slice!" he yelled as he dissipated from MirageGaogamon's range and swirled around, slicing and dicing, and MirageGaogamon fell.

Shawjamon flew up to confront RhodoKnightmon in his place. MirageGaogamon quickly regained his footing and flew up to help.

RhodoKnightmon seemed to take this all as a fun game, and quickly downed MirageGaogamon again.

"You digimon just don't learn, do you?" he said.

"MirageGaogamon!" Shawjamon said, worried. RhodoKnightmon spun out of sight and slashed Shawjamon out of the sky and he degenerated into Kamemon.

"Let's get this done quickly!" RhodoKnightmon sneered. "Fist of Fear!" he slammed his shield into MirageGaogamon.

"No!" I yelled, running up to him while RhodoKnightmon stood by, watching.

I head someone shouting behind me.

"Thommy! Thommy, don't go! Don't leave me!"

It was Relena.

"No, Relena!"

My father. What was going on!?

I turned around to find her running towards me, my father close behind.

Before she reached me, a Knightmon interjected, slashing his sword and sending a wave of energy towards my sister.

"NO!" my father and I yelled. My father dove for Relena…

And missed.

MirageGaogamon stepped over her and took the attack as I picked up my sister. She looked up at me.

"Thank you…Thommy…" she whispered before blacking out.

"Relena! Relena!" I yelled, trying to rouse her.

My father limped over and fell in front of me. "I'm sorry…" he murmured. "I'm sorry that I've treated my children as if I owned them…I'm sorry that all I've cared about was protecting our family's name…" he began to shudder and break down.

"Don't cry." I murmured.

But he didn't stop. He just lay there, crying for the first time I'd ever really seen him cry so sincerely.

"Take Relena." I said, handing him my sister. He took her and stood up, still sniffling. I stood up and braced myself against MirageGaogamon. "I'm going to protect you."

"Ready when you are, Sir." MirageGaogamon stated.

"Right." I turned to RhodoKnightmon. "RhodoKnightmon, it's time you left the Human World. I swear upon the Norstien family that I will send you back to where you came from!"

"You'll beat me? That's insulting." RhodoKnightmon scoffed. He charged a us, holding his ribbon-blade ready and he swung.

MirageGaogamon caught the blade between on of his claws and blocked the attack.

RhodoKnightmon was shocked to say the least. "Y-You b-blocked me!?" he sputtered.

"I'm going to do more than that, you transvestite!" I yelled. "Ready, MirageGaogamon?"

"Sir, yes Sir." He said simply. My digivice began to glow bright red, and a blue light enveloped me all around.

"Digi-Soul, Overdrive! Burst!" I yelled.

MirageGaogamon became more human-shaped, with a long staff in his hands. One end was a sickle-shaped moon, and chained at the other end was a large spiked ball-and-chain. "MirageGaogamon, Burst Mode!"

"MirageGaogamon, show them was Burst Mode can do!" I yelled. "Attack pattern, 15A!"

"Sir, yes Sir!" he replied. He took out the remaining Knightmon with his ball-and-chain, and then he trust it at RhodoKnightmon, who blocked with his ribbon-blade.

The blade shattered. "What!?" RhodoKnightmon gasped. "Oh, I'll beat you good! Spiral Slice!" he disappeared and attacked from different angles, but MirageGaogamon blocked each and every hit like it was nothing.

Exhausted, and completely pissed-off, RhodoKnightmon growled, "I'll get you yet1 Fist of Fear!" he thrust his fist at MirageGaogamon.

He swung his ball-and-chain at the shield and stated, "Meteor Shackle!"

The two attacks clashed and RhodoKnightmon's shield began to shatter.

"Impossible!" he howled as he dissipated with a pink light into a Digi-Egg. The egg was then caught up by a yellow column of light.

NNNNN

(Loaño)

I looked up from where I was hiding in a small ally. No Knightmon had noticed us yet.

I saw a large column of light take away a small egg.

"Good job, Thom." I said. "Good job."

Kidd settled down beside me. "Yeah, he sure can take care of himself."

With Thomas and Relena's safety behind, are you ready? AA asked.

Yes. What do I do? I asked.

Just fall asleep…

"Kidd, keep an eye on the Knightmon. If they come near, you know what to do." I told him as I closed my eyes. "G'Night."

NNNNN

(Thomas)

"What the prognosis?" my father asked me, as he leaned over Relena's bedside.

"She'll be fine." I replied.

"I was talking about you." He said, giving me a jolt. "You're leaving again, aren't you? I worry when you're away."

I blinked. "I'll be fine, father. After all, I am a Norstien."

He grunted. "You are…" he murmured.

I walked out, seeing Yushima, Kamemon, and Gaomon waiting for me.

"Let's go." I said.

Gaomon smiled and walked next to me. "Yes Sir, whatever you say, Sir."