Chapter 27 Imprisoned / Fight in Tokyo
An almost transparent bubble hovered over the bottom of the digital space. Crusadermon herself looked up at the person in the bubble. Akira herself was still lying unconscious and her legs bent to her chest. Apart from her chest, nothing moved with her. The pink knight noticed another Digimon stepping towards her. It was Craniamon who looked up to the unconscious human with his red piercing eyes before looking at Crusadermon.
"What's going to happen?" he asked, "You've kidnapped a human and you bring it here?! What's gone into you, Crusadermon?!"
"This human, Akira her name, means Dynasmon a lot... I'm going to use her for my advantage and force Dynasmon to surrender and work with us," she said, laughing cheerfully.
"Didn't Alphamon kidnapped Davis, Yolei, Cody and Ken? Do you really think this would work?"
"First. This time it is only one person. And secondly. This human means Dynasmon a lot."
"Yes, yes... And what about the partner of the kidnapped DigiDestined?"
"They were infected by Alphamon with Meicoomon's virus and controlled by him, forgotten?"
"I don't have. Except that Imperialdramon was quite weak," he folded his arms in front of his chest.
"Well..." she shrugged her shoulders indifferently: "Who would have thought then that the partner of the other DigiDestined would digivolve to their ultimate-level..."
"Alphamon had also controlled Armadillomon and Hawkmon..."
"Had also failed terribly... Armadillomon, I mean MetalSeadramon, was defeated by WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. Hawkmon and Machinedramon were defeated by Phoenixmon, Seraphimon and HerculesKabuterimon..."
"Alphamon should not have taken Digimon that can or may not digivolve to their ultimate-level only through a fusion. That's why Gabumon, for example, could do MetalSeadramon damage even though he was a rookie-level digimon."
"Those who are too weak are defeated. Correction. If you don't have a good defence, you're defeated. But do you really think that Alphamon or King Drasil will be satisfied because you brought a human here?" Craniamon looked up briefly to Akira.
"This person is unconscious..."
"If you say so. But you certainly don't want to get the wrath of Alphamon or King Drasil, do you?"
"Are you worried about me, Craniamon?" she sounded a little mocking.
"I'm just worried that if we carry on like this, our comrades will lose..."
"Speaking of comrades. Something doesn't seem to be right with Alphamon... You noticed that, didn't you?"
"True... But why?"
"Don't be silly," UlforceVeedramon's voice sounded: "With Alphamon, everything is fine. He behaves as always."
"He does not," said the purple knight: "Didn't you notice? He gets too aggressive and gets headaches all the time."
"Don't worry, Craniamon... UlforceVeedramon has long said goodbye to reality," the pink knight looked at Craniamon and then sighed.
"What does that mean?" the blue knight hissed.
"That you, dear Ulforci, are escaping reality," the purple knight explained.
"I'm going to destroy these DigiDestined!" quipped UlforceVeedramon, looking at the trapped human: "And who is that?"
"This is Dynasmon's partner... Akira, was her name, am I right?" said Craniamon.
"Akira, is her name," Crusadermon said, "I will use her to get Dynasmon back on our side."
"And if he refuses?" was the blue knight's question.
"Then I will threaten him that I will kill Akira," she laughed darkly.
"This is a good plan... Dynasmon will have no choice," UlforceVeedramon agreed.
The purple and blue knight left the digital space. The rose knight looked up again to Akira. Her face began to shrug slightly before she opened her eyes and looked around the room unsafely. Eventually, her gaze fell on Crusadermon. Her facial expression immediately became angry.
"Where am I?! What did you do with Dynasmon?!" she demanded.
"I didn't think you would wake up so soon... Akira," said the pink knight, flying high to the bubble.
"Where am I?!"
"You may have a harsh tone... Where are you? I can't tell you that. But." she paused.
"But?" she repeated, narrowing her eyes.
"But you're my captive," she laughed, flying behind the bubble.
Akira turned around and gritted her teeth.
"Let me out!" she raved.
"Hm..." the pink knight pretended to think: "No."
"You!"
"Come on," she shrugged: "My goal is to draw your partner Dynasmon to our side."
"And you think he would?! Dynasmon will never do anything that goes against my will!"
"Do you think?" Crusadermon looked at her left hand and stretched it out: "Do you think Dynasmon would obey your "commands"? I don't think so. Because if he likes someone very much, then he sets the safety of the one very high. He would do anything for you to keep you safe. That is what it looks like. And I can also say that I will threaten you so that he will join us again... Unlike Omnimon, Jesmon, Gallantmon and Sleipmon, he is easy to influence."
"Dynasmon won't be influenced so easily! He's a big head!"
"And he always cares about his friends," she added.
"That..." she lowered her head down.
"You know... human. I could very slowly turn my neck... So that you die agonizingly and slowly."
Akira's eyes widened with fear and she had to swallow heavily. Crusadermon rejoiced at her expression and chuckled.
"But," she said, "I won't kill you until Dynasmon is back on our side... and until then... can you still enjoy your short life."
The pink knight laughed quietly and ominously and flew to the ground. She took a quick look over her shoulder, where she saw her captive sitting in the bubble with her legs tightened. She left her alone with a shrug of the shoulders.
In Tokyo, four people stood at the port and looked out at the sea. The ocean gently hit the shore and produced a quiet noise. If the humans had not known better, they would have believed that no imminent invasion was underway. Davis and his partner Veemon and Meiko and her partner Hackmon waited anxiously for the arriving Knightmons.
"When are they finally coming?" the four-footed dragon asked impatiently.
"We don't know," replied the black-haired woman, biting her lower lip.
"Kudamon and Guilmon have said that the lowest number of Knightmons will appear here," Davis said.
"It doesn't matter! We will defeat as many as we need to!" shouted Veemon, banging one fist into the other.
In his eyes there was a determined expression. He would protect the human world. At all costs. Suddenly, a Knightmon raced towards the group of four.
"Something is coming," Davis said, "Ready, Veemon?"
"Yes! Veemon digivolve to..." but the blue dragon briefly collapsed.
Pain-filled, Veemon grabbed his neck and breathed harshly several times.
"Veemon?" his partner asked anxiously, "What's going on?"
"I... don't... know..." he quipped: "It's like when... when I wanted to fuse with Stingmon..."
"You didn't eat enough, Veemon!"
"Um..." Meiko raised her hand and looked anxiously at the redhead before looking at the Knightmon.
"I don't! My appetite is normal!" said the blue dragon, entwining his arms in front of the white chest.
"Um..." the black-haired woman quietly spoke again.
"Hackmon warp-digivolve to... SaviorHackmon!" Meiko's partner shouted and flew to Knightmon.
The young woman was startled by the sudden digivolution and looked after Hackmon with her eyes wide open.
"Hackmon! " she screamed, interrupting the argument from the two hotheads.
At a very fast pace, the ragon man flew to the Knightmon, ready to attack him. But he made no attempt to attack SaviorHackmon. Instead, he said:
"No need to worry. I am not your enemy. Sir Omnimon sends me to help you in battle."
"Omnimon?" asked SaviorHackmon, looking more closely at the Knightmon: "Who are you?"
"People call me Knightmon Wise Sword Mode... But I, Sir Gallantmon and Sir Sleipmon prefer to call me WiseKnightmon."
"Do you know when these other Knightmons will appear?"
"Unfortunately no... But I guess it's going to take some time."
"I see... Come with me first."
WiseKnightmon nodded and followed the dragon man to Veemon and the humans. Meanwhile, Davis and Veemon argued fiercely.
"Come on, Veemon!" shouted the red-brown-haired man.
"I can't! It's no longer possible! I can't digivolve normally anymore!" he said desperately.
"Then armor-digivolution!" he brought out his Digivice: "Digi mental of Cou-!"
"Wait, wait!" Veemon interrupted him: "I can't fly! It doesn't work! I'm completely useless!"
SaviorHackmon landed with WiseKnightmon by his side on the bridge behind the black-haired and the two cocks. The dragon man looked at the red-brown-haired and Veemon and thought his part. The allied Knightmon thrust his large sword into the ground and then entwined his arms in front of his chest. If he could assess it correctly, his help was really necessary, as one of the partner could not digivolve normally. With a sigh, he thought back what Sleipmon had told him.
"We, so I, Gallantmon and the Homeostasis, want you, WiseKnightmon, to support the DigiDestined in the fight against King Drasil," were their words.
Gallantmon then added:
"We rely on you, WiseKnightmon. The two of us will also support the DigiDestined... And that's where most Knightmons will appear..."
"Understood!" he confirmed the order at the time, turning around.
"And you're really our ally?" asked Meiko, somewhat insecure.
The question ripped WiseKnightmon out of his thoughts. He had not fully understood the words, yet he nodded and looked at the black-haired man.
"Be a little more alert, WiseKnightmon," said the dragon man: "Otherwise you will regret it."
"SaviorHackmon?" Meiko tilted her head slightly to the side and looked at him in amazement.
These words were unusual for her partner, who always sprayed with life and hardly took anything seriously. Probably it was because SaviorHackmon remembered his former life more and more, as in Izzy's room, where he partly remembered the fight against Raguelmon. However, Meiko did not want her partner to remember his former life. She didn't want to lose him. She did not want to lose her cheerful friend, who had grown so dear to her heart.
"What is Meiko?" was SaviorHackmon's question.
She swallowed heavily before shaking her head.
"Nothing..." she replied softly, folding her hands and playing something with them before dropping them back to the side.
"Okay..." the dragon man looked to the side.
He didn't know why, but he felt that his partner was very worried about him. That was actually okay. Because Meiko was his partner. But this time he didn't want her to worry about him... whatever she was worried about. SaviorHackmon barely shook. Then he looked at Davis and Veemon, who were still arguing.
Why couldn't the latter digivolve more? The dragon man knew that the answer was somehow connected to his former life. Why did he know that? He couldn't explain it.
"What's next?!" Veemon screamed angrily: "Oh, I know! Just because I can't digivolve right now, you want to say that I can't fight anymore! You forgot the armour-digivolution!"
"Armour-digivolution?!" Davis repeated, laughing dryly: "Armor digitations are as strong as Champion-Level Digimon or even weaker... Veemon. I don't want to lose you."
"I understand this, Davis... But I'm a Digimon and I'm getting stronger... Somehow."
"Somehow? How do you want to do this, Veemon?" in the eyes of the red-brown-haired man, a sad expression appeared: "We don't have a crest like Ken, Yolei or Cody... That's why you can't digivolve to your perfect-level..."
Meiko and Also SaviorHackmon had the impression that they should not interfere... or, more precisely, that they should not even be present at the argument. WiseKnightmon looked at the dragon man. With his eyes he asked the perfect-level Digimon next to him. He whispered:
"We should leave them alone."
"Good idea," the allied Knightmon nodded to him, clutching the handle of his sword.
Then he pulled it out of the ground and placed the wide side on his shoulder, protected by thick armour. Eventually, together with SaviorHackmon and Meiko, he left the jetty and settled a few meters away on the sandy beach. Meanwhile, the two hot heads continued to discuss.
"Why?" the blue dragon asked, addressing the question from his partner why they did not have a coat of arms.
"What do I know," Davis replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"Say, Davis..." all of a time Veemon sounded very serious: "Do you think I somehow knew Quetzalmon in my previous life?"
"Who was..." he wanted to ask who this digimon was, but then it came to mind, so he asked something else: "Why do you think that?"
"I just don't get rid of the feeling that I knew her..." he looked sadly to the ground: "Maybe it's because of it. I can't digivolve because I'm grieving for Quetzalmon... She was somehow familiar to me..."
"Don't start with that, Veemon. Quetzalmon is dead and she cannot be reborn!"
"I KNOW!" he snapped at him, tears forming in his eyes: "You don't have to say this a thousand times! Do you think it's easy for me to know that there was someone who might have known my previous self! Quetzalmon would surely have known why I couldn't digivolve anymore! And I constantly wonder why I am so sad about her death! I hardly knew her!"
He looked at Davis with a heavy breath. Asking for an answer. Hell, he needed an answer. But at the same time, the blue dragon knew that his partner never knew the answer.
"Veemon..." the red-brown-haired man spoke softly and closed his eyes.
He was hurt that he had no answers to his partner's questions.
"It's okay, Davis. I'm just upset because I can't digivolve normally anymore," Veemon apologized, gritting his teeth.
Suddenly, a digimon rushed towards the two. WiseKnightmon flew protectively in front of them and parried the attack with his sword.
"Digi mental of courage, up!" exclaimed Davis.
"Veemon armour-digivolve to... Flamedramon! Fire Rocket!" he shot at the attacker, engulfed in flames.
However, Flamedramon was thrown away with a punch. He hit the ground and immediately turned back to Veemon. His partner and allied Knightmon rushed to the blue dragon. Meanwhile, SaviorHackmon rushed to the opposing Digimon, but stopped.
/Why did he stop?/ Meiko wondered and examined the foreign Digimon.
It looked like a human in a black full-body suit. She didn't know. Where does it come from? She had never seen such a human-like digimon before.
"You... you..." the dragon man stammered, his eyes widened: "You... are... Gankoomon..."
As soon as WiseKnightmon heard the name, he uttered a quiet curse.
"What is, WiseKnightmon?" asked Davis.
"He is a Royal Knight... Gankoomon," the allied Knightmon declared, "And SaviorHackmon's former teacher and master."
"Is he an ultimate?"
WiseKnightmon sighed heavily and nodded before saying:
"Yes... I say it quite openly. It would be a miracle if we win against him."
The red-brown-haired man swallowed heavily. How should they get against a ultimate-level digimon? In addition, Gankoomon was a Royal Knight and certainly very strong. Davis gritted his teeth. If no allied ultimate-level Digimon appeared, they would be lost. Veemonon's partner clenched his hands firmly into fists, so that the ankles were already white. The situation was hopeless.
"I could digivolve to my ultimate-level..." the allied Knightmon raised his voice.
This sounded unusually cool and sharp.
"But?" asked the red-brown-haired man.
"But I know I don't have a chance against him. I could stop Gankoomon for a while... but not more."
"Is your ultimate so weak?"
"Caution. My ultimate-level is not so weak... I know only quite accurately from my own experience that I wouldn't stand a chance against a Royal Knight."
Meanwhile, the Royal Knight raised his fist and wanted to crush SaviorHackmon. He did not want to react. Couldn't respond. He did not want to fight and kill his former master. He just didn't want it. His earlier memories blocked him. Had he not had them, he would have fought Gankoomon. Or? The dragon man was not so sure.
"SaviorHackmon!" Meiko screamed in panic.
She did not understand why her partner did not react and fought the enemy Digimon.
"Please, WiseKnightmon. You're the only one who can digivolve to its ultimate-level," Davis begged.
The allied Knightmon closed his eyes and sighed heavily.
"Okay..." he sighed again: "WiseKnightmon digivolve to...!"
Akira opened her eyes. Astonished, she blinked. Where was she? Then it came back to her. Caught somewhere, probably far away from their partner or her... friends? Did she consider Tai and Co. to be her friends? She quickly suppressed this thought, because she heard footsteps. She probably woke up from it. Was Crusadermon back? Instead, she saw another Digimon, Alphamon. He looked up at her briefly before flying to her. The black knight calmly modelled her... too quiet. The unpleasant calm made Akira swallow heavily. What did Alphamon have in store for her?
"I learned that Crusadermon had captured you," his calm and calm voice rang out.
The prisoner noticed that the black knight behaved strangely. Normally, at least she estimated it, he would become very aggressive towards her.
"What do you want?" she asked half angrily.
Akira struggled to contain her anger. No wonder. She was still trapped in this bubble and gradually she became hungry and thirsty.
"Crusadermon has comparatively little idea of you humans," Alphamon said, reaching into the bubble.
He grabbed the captive and pulled them out of the bubble. She herself got quite scared. Would he kill her here now?
"So..." said the black knight: "I know that you humans need something like food to live."
"Yes," she tried to pull her arms out of her grip.
"Forget it. You'd die anyway if you fell down from that height.'
"And why do you treat me so kindly, Alphamon?" she looked him suspiciously into his blue eyes"
'Don't get me wrong. I just want you to live so long Crusadermon can enforce her plan. After that you will die," the black knight declared.
"And what if I refuse to eat? Then I will die sooner."
She didn't like the idea that she had to die, no matter how good her situation was. She didn't want to die.
"It's up to you," Alphamon replied coolly: "Dynasmon will be so devastated after your death that he voluntarily joins us."
"Don't underestimate my partner!" she hissed.
"You know. I could break all the bones here now." to reinforce the threat, the black knight narrowed the room in his hand somewhat.
However, this caused the prisoner to let out a sound of pain. She then soaked the air through her mouth, while her whole body was covered in sweat.
"Alphamon..." she cried and breathed in and out several times.
"But I don't do it because we need you hostage," he said, pushing his hand back into the bubble: "I'm going to get you food now. And since I am a Digimon with honour, I will fulfil one last wish for you."
He put Akira in the bubble and pulled his hand back.
"I want to go back to my family!" she exclaimed angrily.
"A wish that does not demand your freedom," replied the black knight.
"Then tell me why you help King Drasil."
"I help him because there is no other way."
"How am I supposed to understand this?" the prisoner asked.
"Something will make your world fuse with ours. To prevent this, a world must be destroyed."
"Wouldn't the other world be destroyed?!"
"That is why King Drasil is beginning to isolate the digital world from your world more and more while we will destroy it."
"And you think that our universe consists of only one planet, which has technology?!"
"King Drasil doesn't believe it, he knows it!"
"Where did it come from? Has he ever been in my world?"
"King Drasil knows everything."
"The number Pi on four decimal places," she couldn't resist and began to grin.
"I'm not King Drasil," Alphamon said, folding his arms in front of his chest guard.
Her face darkened again and she looked down from the bubble to the ground. Immediately, she was terrified. It was at dizzying heights. Her eyes slowly widened, but wondered a bit why she hadn't noticed the height earlier.
"But suddenly you show a lot of fear for a prisoner," the black knight replied.
"B... B-because I fear heights... You want to torture me with height now, don't you?" she admitted.
She narrowed her eyes and took a deep breath to get her fear under control.
"No," Alphamon replied, "Although I am your enemy, I am a very honourable digimon. I'm not torturing my enemies."
Akira's eyes widened. Not out of fear, but in amazement. She would never have believed that her enemy had such a soft side that he talks about honour.
"Really?" she said.
"Really." he assured her.
Then he flew down to the bottom and turned his back on her. He took a few steps before he put a hand on his helmet. The prisoner noticed this and asked:
"Is everything okay?"
"I don't need your worries," he replied coolly.
Alphamon's mood had already changed. Cool, cold-hearted, that's how she would have described him now. Without another word, the black knight left. However, Akira somehow noticed that Alphamon was behaving strangely.
"WiseKnightmon digivolve to... DarkKnightmon!" he shouted.
A large digimon, wrapped in black armour, appeared behind the light of digitation. The front of the armour was white and on the chest sat a w-like, gold metal symbol with six slits. The feet, if you could call it that, consisted of golden blades, while the head of the digimon was comparatively very small. The head itself was also wrapped in armour that was black at the back and white at the front. Upstairs sat a golden hood with two horns. The Digimon wore a mouth guard and his golden eyes looked determined at Gankoomon. In his right hand he held a red spear with two ends. DarkKnightmon looked like an infidelity, eerie and ominous knight.
When Gankoomon saw the dark knight, he raced toward him. DarkKnightmon swung his spear and parried the man's punch. Although it seemed that the dark knight Gankoomon was superior, this was not the case. The man was constantly at his ultimate-level, while DarkKnightmon could only hold it for a maximum of five minutes.
The dark knight briefly thought that it was foolish to put his life at risk. Again, he knew that if the human world were to be destroyed, the digital world would cease to exist. That's why DarkKnightmon fought.
Around Gankoomon's fist, a yellow aura ignited. The dark knight was already preparing for a painful blow, but SaviorHackmon flew in front of him and was hit by the fist instead. The dragon man was thrown against a house wall before hitting the ground and turning back to Hackmon. Meiko ran to her partner, knelt down and lifted him up.
"Hackmon... Hackmon!" she shouted again and again.
But the four-footed dragon had lost consciousness. DarkKnightmon took a quick look at the black-haired woman and her partner. However, this carelessness was followed by a devastating injury. The man had the yellow aura formed around his fist into a claw, which then drilled into DarkKnightmon's armour. With his spears, the dark knight tried to meet Gankoomon, but the entire figure of the aura appeared and parried the attack with the free claw.
DarkKnightmon's spear fell to the ground while the energetic figure removed its claw. The dark knight's body immediately fell towards the ground. From a distortion, a red flash came in and caught DarkKnightmon.
"DarkKnightmon, are you well?" Sleipmon asked him.
Her voice was accompanied by concern as she pointed her crossbow at Gankoomon.
"Don't... don't worry... Sir Sleipmon... I will be dead soon..." he broke off.
The six-footed horse closed her eyes. She knew that the dark knight would die right away. But she could not leave the Digiritter alone with a Royal Knight.
"Sir... Sleipmon..." panted DarkKnightmon: "Don't… leave… them… alone..."
"Can you last a little bit longer, DarkKnightmon?" was her question.
Gankoomon rushed to Meiko and Hackmon and wanted to attack them. The black-haired woman gripped her partner tighter. She was afraid that the man would kill her, so she closed her eyes. Meiko noticed her breathing was going faster as tears gathered in her eyes. As if out of nowhere, another Digimon raced in and beat the enemy away with a fist. It was Dynasmon who looked furiously at Gankoomon.
"Where's your hiding place?!" the ultimate-level of Wanyamon demanded: "Don't force me to torture you, Gankoomon!"
Rosemon flew to his side and replied:
"Stay calm."
"Tch," Dynasmon said, angrily eyeing the man.
He gritted his teeth. He did not expect the two DigiDestined would receive support from two Royal Knights and an ultimate-level Digimon. By now he had defeated one and he would not live for so long. Gankoomon quietly uttered a curse before a distortion appeared behind him.
"Do you want to flee, Gankoomon?!" shouted Wanyamon's ultimate-level.
"I don't think I can win against you," he said, wanting to disappear into the distortion.
Furious, Dynasmon raced towards him, but he did not make it in time and landed just before the water of the sea. Meanwhile, DarkKnightmon began to creep up.
"Sir Sleipmon... I am... glad... that you... are... with me… right now... I… am sorry… that I… that I… could no… longer… be… at your side…" he panted before dissolving into data.
Sleipmon closed her eyes again to suppress her tears before she said:
"Thank you, DarkKnightmon... Thank you for helping us, despite your loyalty to Alphamon."
The six-footed horse landed on the sandy ground of Tokyo harbour and digivolve back to Kudamon. Then she flew to Davis and looked up at him.
"Kudamon... Is it possible that a digimon that was previously able to digivolve can no longer digivolve?" he asked her.
"It's impossible... Once a digimon can digivolve, it can and does not forget it again. But why do you ask, Davis?" her white ears shrugged.
'Because Veemon can't digivolve anymore even though he had eaten enough and rested."
"That's really weird..."
"Do you have an idea about why?"
"No... And I don't think Gallantmon or the Homeostasis know the answer either."
Meiko, who was still caring Hackmon in her arms, Mimi and Rosemon joined them and looked at them.
"What exactly is going on with Veemon?" asked Rosemon.
"He can't digivolve normally anymore," the red-brown-haired man explained.
Veemon, who was lying next to him, opened his eyes and looked around slightly astonished at first. Then his gaze fell on the sea and he breathed only one name:
"Quetzalmon..."
"Not again," Davis moaned, giving his partner a gentle head nut: "Don't dream!"
"Sorry... Where is Akira?" the blue dinosaur asked after looking at Dynasmon.
"Kidnapped," Mimi said succinctly.
"What?" the black-haired woman said in shock.
Akira's partner flew back to the beach and growled:
"Don't blame me for kidnapping her."
With this he flapped powerfully his purple wings and flew high into the air. He had to calm himself down.
"And who says that to Akira's sister?" the red-brown-haired man asked uncertainly.
"You," Veemon replied.
"Not me."
"Who then?"
"If Mr. Nishijima or Ms. Himekawa were still alive, they could have done it," Mimi said.
"But they're not," Rosemon replied.
"Unfortunately..." she looked to the ground.
Meanwhile, Dynasmon flew through a cloud.
/Akira.../, he thought to himself: /It is my fault that you were kidnapped. Mine alone./
He was plagued by more and more accusations and he just wanted his partner to be safe. He toyed with the idea that he would join the opposing side if Akira was kept out of the matter in the future. But then Homeostasis would have lost a valuable ally. Wanyamon's ultimate-level was in discord. On the one hand, he did not want to risk his partner's life, but on the other hand he did not want to betray the Homeostasis. Infuriated, Dynasmon screamed.