Digimon Re: Adventure Chapter 7:
"HE DID WHAT?!" The loud, thunderous voice of a gigantic sized, mechanical Digimon yelled within a deep, mechanical cavern in the digital world, all the while Megadramon cowered before the large, imposing theropod Digimon before it.
"I'm sorry, Lord Mugendramon, but Devimon hadn't had the chance to fully experiment on GrandisKuwagamon's DigiCore! He had too many issues with the X-Antibody within it so he just tossed it aside as a failure!" Megadramon spoke, as Chris chuckled, all the while Devimon himself showed up in the area upon hearing this, alongside a small, childish version of himself beside him.
"Did I, Megadramon? Did I really? Mugendramon, if I may, I'd like to introduce Chris' actual partner Digimon to us all; Impmon." Devimon spoke up, as Impmon walked over towards Chris with a constant arms folded expression towards Chris, before looking away from Megadramon.
"Humph!" Impmon spoke up, as Megadramon looked over towards Impmon and Chris with widening eyes.
"Chris, what is the meaning of this?!" Megadramon asked, as the massive Digimon, known as Mugendramon, laughed as he stepped forward with his right arm pointed towards Megadramon; a much larger, more refined version of Megadramon's own arm.
"You're being replaced." Chris spoke simply, as Megadramon didn't have much it could say before the sudden screaming it had let loose upon Mugendramon crushing him under his arm could be felt disintegrating Megadramon into data.
"Tell me, Devimon; did the plan turn out well with corrupting GrandisKuwagamon's DigiCore? Do the humans still not know of our plans?" Mugendramon asked, as Devimon nodded.
"As a DigiEgg right now, GrandisKuwagamon is back in the real world awaiting to be found by Ken. All is falling into place it seems." Devimon said, before he turned to notice the silent entry of a Digimon covered in bright, glowing gold armor and have a blue and white body underneath of it. The Digimon rushed in at speeds akin to a blur of shining light.
"Magnum Punch!" The Digimon shouted as he rapidly moved between Chris, Impmon, Devimon, and even Mugendramon as he landed a powerful strike against all four of them with his fists that blinded all four of them with the intense light given off by each punch.
"Ankylomon! Begin cracking for the code while the four are down!" The golden clad Digimon gave the order to a quadrupedal, yellow dinosaur covered in armored spikes and a mace-like tail.
"On it, boss!" Ankylomon said as he smashed open a vault containing access to vital security codes, and looking through each of them and finding one labeled "Jungle Troopers" on it and taking it. "Got what we're looking for, Magnamon! Shurimon, mind giving us a ha-"
Within seconds, the whole area was shrouded in smoke, as Devimon, Impmon, and Chris could be heard coughing from the intensity of it. As Mugendramon came to his senses first, his internal senses locked onto the fleeing Magnamon and co., which responded him with charging up an intense amount of energy with the massive cannons on his back.
"Infinity Cannon!" Mugendramon shouted, as he unleashed twin, massive beams of energy from his twin cannons, but by the time he could even remotely hit anything, the three intruders were long since gone and out of sight.
"Devimon! I've had enough of this for one day, AFTER THEM!" Mugendramon shouted, as Devimon cringed as he could feel the intense rage emanating from Mugendramon with his optics glowing a fierce, intimidating red, as Devimon vacated the area immediately as Chris was about to do the same.
"Not you; you stay." Mugendramon said, as Chris looked back at Mugendramon and noticed how Impmon didn't even budge. "We've got some training we need to attend to for the boy…"
Diving back into the expanse of Network, Magnamon, Ankylomon, and Shurimon degenerated into three differing Child Level forms; a blue saurian, a mostly yellow armadillo, and a red colored hawk as they were greeted by Iori, a girl with violet hair, and a man visibly shaken in the background having ruffled, reddish hair as the blue Digimon walked over towards the man with an excited glee.
"Daisuke, calm down, please? Everything went fine because of the Evolution Disk after all!" The Digimon spoke up, only to be grabbed in a tight hug by the nervous as hell man.
"V-mon don't you do scare me and the others by running off like that again!" Daisuke mentioned, as the hawk Digimon looked over towards the girl as the young woman sighed.
"Just give him some time; he's just been worried about Ken as of late." The woman spoke to her Digimon, as her Digimon nodded.
"Miyako don't you feel it wise that we should get back to the real world now?"
"Yeah; Armadimon and Hawkmon won't be able to fight so long as V-mon can't as well." Iori spoke up, as Miyako looked towards Iori and nodded.
"And PLEASE do us both a favor and take a shower when we're back at the apartment!" Miyako said towards Iori, as Iori blinked as he wondered what Miyako was referring to… until he recalled his earlier encounter with Takeru and Hikari, and suddenly he remembered what he himself was doing further away which caused him to blush timidly towards Miyako and Daisuke.
"Yeah, regardless, did you get the D-Word?" Daisuke asked, as Iori nearly butted in looking rather offended, only for Armadimon to hand Daisuke the code file.
"Here it is." Armadimon said, as Daisuke looked at it and nodded.
"Good; we'll call up Ken and then sort everything out between him and that one guy." Daisuke spoke up, as Miyako and Iori nodded.
"Good idea, he's still kind of pissed about what Devimon is doing behind his back." Miyako said, as Iori groaned.
"If it wasn't for the fact Daisuke told him about that instead of one of us than we wouldn't have him blindly taking the accusation out towards somebody else…" Iori said, as Daisuke laughed a bit nervously.
"Look, I may be stupid compared to you guys, but can we at least report back to our boss and enjoy some rest tonight?" Daisuke asked, as Miyako and Iori nodded.
"Gotcha." They both said, as V-mon, Armadimon, and Hawkmon also nodded in response. However, the trio were interrupted when they heard a girl's shriek nearby, as Daisuke quickly turned towards an a darkened void within Network that led to somewhere he didn't quite recognize. Grabbing his digivice, which appeared to be the exact same model as the one Takeru and Hikari had, he took off towards the dark void with V-mon quickly running behind.
"V-mon, Evolution!" V-mon said as he began to glow with an intense surge of energy, all the while his body morphed into a much larger, grown up version of himself as parts of his body, head, arms, and feet became covered in a fiery armor that materialized around himself, as his claws grew incredibly long and sharp with his head gaining a singular horn at the top. "Fladramon!" Fladramon called as he rushed into the dark vortex with Daisuke to investigate what exactly was going on.
Miyako and Iori, meanwhile, looked at both of their Digimon and nodded with each other and were quick to rush after Daisuke and Fladramon.
"Hawkmon, Evolution!" Hawkmon called, as he glowed with an immense light as his body morphed into that of a much larger, fully flight capable eagle-like Digimon with twin horns on his head. "Aquilamon!"
"Armadimon, Evolution!" Armadimon called, as he glowed with a bright flash that caused his whole body to reconstruct itself into a heavily armored, spike covered body with powerful legs and a mace-like tail. "Ankylomon!"
As the duo rushed into the vortex in search of Daisuke and Fladramon, Ankylomon was quick to notice something was off with the area.
"Smells like…" Ankylomon was beginning to say, as Iori's eyes widened before his expression turned into that of anger, all the while he moved to crack his knuckles together.
The surrounding dark area appeared to be a corrupted version of Network; while several demonic Digimon appeared here, they looked otherworldly in appearance to the point it didn't seem like they were even Digimon at all but rather servants for something much bigger in charge here. Iori, looking all over the walls, could see insignia's in the shape of a cartoonish, white colored rabbit's head with a devilish grin on its face with piercing red eyes.
"… Oshiro Roy is in these parts somewhere…" Iori warned Miyako, as Miyako looked over towards Iori with concern as she stayed close to both him, Ankylomon, and Aquilamon, all the while the duo walked through the area in search of where Daisuke had went.
The sound of another woman's scream could be heard breaking the silence, all the while the tearing off of fabric and the sounds of a very, very brutal mauling could be heard; the sickening sounds of bones getting snapped apart, flesh and muscle getting torn apart from each other, and the various organic pieces being liquefied and absorbed into something that was nearby could be heard; the sounds were sickening to Miyako, but it only made Iori even more angered.
"Daisuke, where the hell are you…?" Iori asked to himself, as he could hear the screams of innocent lives running through the void wondering what the hell was happening; the demonic looking "Digimon" did nothing but walk around the area undisturbed, as if they couldn't notice what was going on at all. As Ankylomon and Aquilamon made their way through the area with their human partners, Daisuke could be heard grunting as the sound of a punch cracking through the air like a foreboding thunder could be heard.
"Is that all you got, you sick fuck?!" Daisuke asked the man before him, as was confronting a mysterious male before him with a devilish look on his face; the man was quick to pull out some form of revolver on his belt as he was quick to fire shots towards Daisuke as he chuckled like a madman, with Fladramon moving to block and incinerate the bullets before they could even remotely get close to Daisuke. Using the same, superior speed to send a flurry of punches towards the male, the man was eventually pinned to the wall all the while the man could be seen still chuckling as blood was beginning to leak from his, seemingly painted on, mouth. His face, in a permanently crazed expression, slowly looked over towards Daisuke and Fladramon while still laughing like a maniac.
"You don't understand, do you? You were chosen by the false gods of both of our worlds; they don't even need you; nobody does." The man spoke as, as Fladramon kicked the man in the stomach as he jumped back and stood by Daisuke defensively. Daisuke looked over towards the man as he took out cuffs to move to shackle the man's hands together.
"Now then, Oshiro Roy, looks like you've finally been caught at last." Daisuke said, all the while Roy was still laughing mad as if he had not even noticed what Daisuke had said, much to the latter's confusion. "What's so funny anyways?"
"Oh, oh nothing… just the fact that if Flare were even remotely intelligent she'd tell you to flee for your lives while you still could and leave me behind." Roy spoke up, as Fladramon nearly cringed with he thought he had heard something, but only turned around to see Ankylomon and Aquilamon arriving with Iori and Miyako respectively.
"Oh, hey guys, you made it!" Fladramon said with excitement, all the while Ankylomon hushed him as Aquilamon kept a careful look around with a sharp, wall piercing gaze as he had tried to locate something in the area… something making a lot of noise.
Something was approaching the area the four were in; dragging a body alongside it as it was moving along, as the sound of some liquid dripping could be heard every once in a while. Sound nearly drowned itself out and focused entirely on this ominous newcomer, as Aquilamon, Ankylomon, and Fladramon kept a sharp eye and ear out towards anything that was approaching the group from all directions they could see. Daisuke, meanwhile, looked back over towards Roy…
… To see a large, giant hand moving to grab Roy through the wall and lifting him back up onto his feet and have him disappear through the wall. As Daisuke backed away a bit, the freakish appearance of a humanoid just only a tad bit shorter than Roy could be seen emerging through the wall. Carrying alongside it someone's, partially liquefied, corpse, the beast in white had striking red eyes, a rabbit-like head in the shape of a mask, a permanent, reddish tinted, toothy grin, and an asymmetrical body with a large, cannon-like right arm compared to the skinnier, three digit tipped left arm which appeared to have a mouth on the palm of it.
Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori watched in horror as the monstrosity resumed "eating" from the corpse right in front of them; the corpse turned out to be alive still as the vaguely female voice could be heard screaming out for help from the three before her, but her entire body, clothing and all, was melted down and liquefied as it was sucked in through the rabbit-like entity's left hand in a grotesque fashion, all the while the rabbit maintained a complete static, unhinged expression towards the three before it.
With the corpse consumed, the rabbit-like entity lunged at the three and delivered a powerful kick to Aquilamon, only for Aquilamon to quickly retaliate with a fiery blast of rings from his mouth to stun the entity in place, just in time for Ankylomon to smash the beast into the ground with his tail club, and just as Fladramon jumped up into the air as his body shrouded itself in flames.
"Fire Rocket!" Fladramon shouted as he dive bombed towards the white rabbit, as the entity was caught in the middle of the attack as it was sent stumbling backwards in a semi-dazed state, all the while the entity could be heard letting out a hellish, human-like groan of agony as the creature began to violently convulse as its eyes glowed an intense, infernal red.
A heartbeat could be heard as the entity twisted in shape; the main body gained more muscularity to it, the right arm stretched outwards with the claws becoming a tiny bit more defined, and the left arm stretched out even further with the digits looking more like they ended with teeth instead of claws. In addition, the cape-like structure on its back transformed and split apart into near wing-like structures as the entity's head remained mostly unchanged all the while the creature's legs stretched out as once it was done transforming, it slouched and held both of its arms down as its long ears drooped downward for a brief moment.
Fladramon, Ankylomon, and Aquilamon looked ready to attack when ready, but they were too busy being disgusted with how the creature had transformed into its bigger form to have tried to attack during the transformation proper. As the creature could be heard breathing with a sickly, growling voice, Ankylomon made the first move by preparing to charge at it head on, as the entity suddenly lifted its head up to face them in a near instant before launching itself into the air, all the while its right arm revealed the cannon inside of it as it fired numerous barrages of missiles towards the trio, all the while Ankylomon tanked the blast as Aquilamon fired more intensive barrages of fiery rings from his mouth towards the creature. As the creature snickered a bit with its deep voice, Fladramon could be heard giving a yell as he lunged at the creature and kicked it further into the air, before slamming his body down on the creature's backside and slamming it into the ground with a fiery, infernal dive towards the ground with the entity landing face first into the floor.
"Hey, guys!" A voice spoke up from Miyako's cellphone, as Miyako answered it and looked as to who was calling; it was Ken.
"You need to get out of there, and fast! That thing will just transform further if you stay around there longer!" Ken ordered of them all, as Miyako nodded, all the while she had her digivice open up a gateway into the real world. Iori and Miyako were the first to get out, with Ankylomon and Aquilamon degenerating into Armadimon and Hawkmon respectively and fleeing as well. Daisuke and Fladramon, however, stayed where they were as Fladramon was lifting the freakish entity by its lengthier left arm and slamming it into the ground repeatedly to at the very least cripple the entity from trying to escape so easily.
"Daisuke! Fladramon! Get out of there, now!" Ken yelled from Daisuke's cellphone now, as Daisuke sighed as he looked towards the seemingly unconscious beast in white as Fladramon degenerated into V-mon after using up all of his energy to land a finishing blow by slamming the creature's head into the ground face first. As Daisuke and V-mon moved to fall back and flee into the real world, both of them had gotten out on time…
… but none of them expected the entity to get back up in seconds flat and bum rush the portal towards the real world; before any of the trio could freak out with the thing trying to escape, however, the creature was being held in place not by any of them, but by the help of the robotic arm of Roy's own right arm.
"No, not yet; you're not perfect yet you fool! If you go out there now, you will perish!" Roy ordered of his creation, as the rabbit-like monstrosity, without even changing in expression, silently groaned in annoyance towards its "master".
"Y̷͟͝és͢,̛ ̢͘̕R̶͘͠o͏̡ý̸…͝҉ I̢͠t'͡͡ś ̕t̵̡i͘m͏̢͢e͝͝ t̡͞o͘ ̀st͢o͝p̸ ҉pl̀a̡y͘͝į̶͞ǹ̶͡g̵ ̸̴͟f̵̛͠o͢͝r̢̡ no̷̷͠w…̸"̸ ͞The entity spoke as it moved to leave back into the void with Roy; before Daisuke or the others could do anything, Roy forcefully shut the portal just as the others were back in the real world.
"Wow… I didn't expect we'd get out of trouble so easily…" Daisuke said, all the while he heard the tapping of someone's fingers against a countertop, as Daisuke slowly turned around and looked as to where they were; back at a building called the "Digital Monster Association", and with a very disgruntled looking Ken there facing the trio as Flare and Tempest were both on the scene as well.
"These two here; they want to know EVERYTHING you had seen or experienced in that area, and that's an order I'm afraid you're not just going to walk out on." Ken asked of Daisuke, Iori, and Miyako, all the while Miyako moved over towards Ken's side and moved to, rather calmly, peck him on the cheek before getting back in line with her two friends. Ken stumbled a bit as he looked embarrassed to try and say anything now, but Tempest looked over at him and quickly smacked him aside casually with his right arm as he looked over towards the trio with their respective Digimon.
"No, seriously; we need answers from you three, pronto."