I've finally gotten Pokemon Ultra Sun! Now just play and hope I don't forget to write~
Hiya guys~!
So yeah, I've gotten a new video game. Thanks to which I keep forgetting to write my stories... I have a major addiction to Pokemon ^^" Let's just hope I won't forget this month and manage my deadline. If not...nothing will happen, but I will beat myself up -_-
Enjoy~
Disclaimer: Don't own it, never gonna own it, that's all. I only own Sophia, her Spirits, one of which will finally be revealed, changes to the story and any other character not mentioned on the wiki page.
After another day or so of traveling, the warriors arrived at another town. It was a marketplace sort of town. They entered a restaurant, because honestly... They. Were. Starving! It had been about 2 days since their last meal, because the Floramon were kind enough to serve everyone Gram soup a la Floramon, and even that wasn't a lot. Even Takuya and Tommy had some of that (revenge scheme of Zoe, because they wouldn't believe she Spirit evolved).
Unfortunately, like at any restaurant, they had to pay. As soon as Zoe pulled out her Yen, they were kicked out by a Kongoumon worker.
"Please, come back." he said in a nice voice, before going over to madly annoyed. "When you're not just a bunch of deadbeats!"
"But we're really hungry!" Zoe argued. "And we do have money." She pulled out her money again, showing it to the armor digimon. "See? Right here." But Kongoumon shut the door in her face without looking at it a second time.
"I wonder why that digimon doesn't accept our money..." Koichi said softly, putting his own Yen back in his pocket.
"Probably because it's Yen." Sophia reasoned. "They probably have digi-money, or use American dollars if I can trust the anime." she told Koichi, being soft enough that the others didn't hear. "That's probably why Kongoumon didn't see this as money."
"How do you know?"
Startled, Sophia turned around. Tommy had been listening to her and Koichi's conversation.
"I...um...w-wha- err..."
"And how did you know that digimon's name?" Tommy asked.
Nervously, Sophia started fiddling with her sleeves and jean's pockets. "W-well... I-I just... L-Later okay, Tommy?"
She suddenly felt something in her pocket. Thinking it to be a good distraction, she pulled it out. It was the 10 Euro she still had from before. It was a perfect distraction.
"Hey Bokomon!" she went to the gnome digimon. "Is this worth anything?" she handed it to him. "And if it's not, please don't throw it in the air."
Takuya looked at her funny, wondering why she'd ask that. "Why would your money by worth anything if ours isn't?" he asked.
"Because it's Euro, not Yen." Sophia said. "I guess I forgot to trade it for Yen…" A lie, but no one needed to know.
"I'm sorry, but this isn't our kind of money either." Bokomon said, handing it back.
"Sophia knew about the digimon and why our money isn't worth anything." Tommy said, shattering the calm-ish mood.
"TOMMY!" Sophia screeched.
But too late of course. Their hunger forgotten for a moment, they turned to the brunette girl for an explanation. When she didn't say anything, they began questioning her.
"Is that true?" Zoe asked.
Knowing it was impossible to hide, especially with her panicked screech earlier, she carefully nodded.
"How?" Takuya questioned. "Bokomon didn't even do his usual explaining. How could you know about that digimon?"
She remained silent.
"Now that I think about it, didn't she also know about that Minomon?" JP added his own thoughts, reminding everyone about that little thing.
'Oh man… Why did Koichi have to be right?' Sophia fiddled with her sleeves. Taking a deep breath, she prepared to calmly explain it- "I'm from another world!" -only to blurt it out without thought. Everyone, except for Koichi, stared like her as if she'd gone insane. "I know it sounds stupid, but it's true. That's why I know about digimon." When their expressions didn't change, Sophia groaned. "Look, just drop it and let's move on."
The mood was still very awkward. In their awkwardness, they looked around the marketplace for something to distract them.
A sign in the distance caught JP's eye. "Hey, you guys. Take a look at that." he pointed to the sign as he read what was on it. "Heroes wanted? All your meals for free?! Rock solid!"
They all ran towards the sign, their hunger suddenly returning. After almost knocking over Bokomon and Neemon, they came face to face with 3 snail-like digimon. They were looking a little down in the dumps, even when they arrived.
"Ehh..." Takuya wasn't sure what to say to them. Obviously they weren't expecting them to be heroes. "We're heroes?" He tried.
Their faces immediately lit up. They told the group to follow them which, in their hunger induced state, they did. The digimon introduced themselves as KaratsukiNumemon, and told the group that the trouble they needed help with was at their home, so they'd have to take them there first. The gang followed the snail-digimon to a wooded area and hid behind some bushes.
So here they were now. Hidden behind in the bushes, in a cart. Now they just had to wait for a Trailmon to pass to take them to the KaratsukiNumemon home. Luckily the waiting didn't take long. Before even 5 minutes had passed, a loud honk was heard in the distance.
"Wish we knew what these guys wanted us to do." Takuya wondered out loud. The digimon didn't tell much aside from telling them to stay in the cart. After that they just left.
"Relax. I'm sure they have a good plan." Zoe reassured him.
Right after she finished talking the cart was pulled from the bushes. It startled everyone inside, as they hadn't seen the KaratsukiNumemon drop onto the Trailmon with the ropes in hand... Did they even have hands? But anyways, those ropes were attached to the cart, so when they dropped onto the speeding Trailmon, they took the cart with them.
"I hope all their plans aren't as crazy as this one." Takuya muttered to the group.
"So, what did you need our help with?" Koichi asked the KaratsukiNumemon as soon as they got back into the cart after tying the ropes to the Trailmon.
The digimon explained. "One day a mean creature called Grumbemon attacked." the middle one said. "We're peaceful, we can't fight him by ourselves."
"He demanded our mountain's Fractal Code." the one on the left continued. "We told him we don't even know where it is. But he thinks we're lying, so that's why we need you heroes."
Of course they agreed to help. Even though they weren't sure what they needed help with. Did they just have to fight this Grumblemon? No problem, Takuya figured.
"Guys? I'm not sure I understand this." At least someone voiced their doubts. "Why can't he just take the Fractal Code?" Zoe asked.
"We already talked about this." Bokomon said, going into his explanatory mode. "As I said, the source of all energy in the digital world is data. Everything. Mountains, rivers, villages. Everything that's solid matter is made up of energy. So it has Fractal Code. Only in some places the code is out in the open and in some places it's hidden." he finished his explanation. "Try to remember that."
"I'm afraid there's more of our story to tell." the middle KaratsukiNumemon spoke again. "Grumblemon took all of our daughters* to trade for the mountain's Fractal Code."
"That's horrible!" Tommy said.
"Man. Guys can sure be jerks sometimes." Zoe said, obviously not thinking women can be jerks as well. "So that's why you wanted our help? To save your daughters?"
The digimon nodded.
"Just leave everything to us." JP said, suddenly way more open for helping others.
Everyone eyed Sophia, who hadn't said a word since they left the marketplace. She noticed them staring and raised a questioning eyebrow.
When they still didn't say anything, she reluctantly spoke. "What?"
A little at a loss for what to say, Takuya rubbed the back of his head. "Well..." He caught the eyes of JP and Zoe before speaking again, more confidently. "You know about digimon, right? Anything on Grumblemon we should know about?"
'Other then the fact he's a Legendary Warrior, corrupted by Cherubimon, is the warrior of earth and completely in his element on the mountain and the fact he's got a Beast Spirit that's way stronger then our Human Spirits? Not much.' Sophia fought a smirk back. "I don't know that digimon." she lied.
The human warriors looked crestfallen at the lack of information. JP tried to lighten the mood a little by reminding them about the chow they got as reward, but Neemon butchered that mood.
Looking up ahead, there was a big drop followed by a few loop-de-loops, a steep as all hell rail up the mountain, and a criss-cross of impossible-to-ride rails.
"Hold on... You want us to ride through that?" Takuya asked gesturing to the rough road. "In this?!" He gestured again, now to the buckle-less cart they were in. Panic! "ARE YOU SNAILS INSANE?!"
Of course there was nothing they could do about this. All they could do was hold onto the cart for dear life as the Trailmon took them through the loops and up the steep mountain. After what seemed like forever, it all luckily came to an end... when the cart came loose from the tracks... The cart ended up sideways on a fence, humans tumbling out and grasping the fence.
"That wasn't so bad." Zoe said, trying to remain optimistic about the nightmare of a ride they just went through.
Unfortunately JP didn't seem to think so. "What's your definition of bad?!"
"Falling off of this cliff!"
"Cliff?!"
It really didn't help their panic that they ended up facing down the cliff. They scrambled to get up and started looking around for the KaratsukiNumemon.
"Come on heroes." was heard from up top. They looked up, finding the digimon clinging to the mountain. They were on the edge of a sideways village. "What are you all waiting for?"
"Are you kidding me?!" JP exclaimed, mildly annoyed by them. "Sticking to the side of a mountain may be fun for you guys, but one slip and we're graveled pancakes!"
To emphasize they looked down, gripping the fence even harder. It was terrifying! They decided together it would be best to look up instead of down, so they focused on the KaratsukiNumemon again.
"Just how do you propose we get up to you?" Zoe asked. "We can't cling to walls."
With that extra bit of information, the snail-digimon lowered a wood and rope ladder, which almost hit Zoe and Takuya. They told them to climb it and that it'd be 'fun'. Yeah... One polite 'thank you' on Koichi's part later, they were climbing the rope ladder. First Takuya, then Tommy, followed by Koichi, Bokomon, Neemon and Sophia, who thanked the lord she was wearing jeans.
Finally JP and Zoe climbed the ladder, in that order, the former now sporting a red hand print on his cheek. They climbed up a few more ladders until they reached a white house. One of the KaratsukiNumemon was already waiting by the door.
"You're almost there." the digimon told them.
Takuya was glad, wanting nothing more than standing on solid ground, so he climbed a bit faster. Tommy noticed a shadow by the window, wondering who it was. He also noticed the weapon the shadow seemed to be holding and quickly yelled at Takuya to wait. Little too late...
The shadow moved and the stick it held came down (or up depending on how you view it) on Takuya. The others saw him tensing up, before his upper body went limp for a second. That was most likely him getting hit.
"Hey! What was that for?!" he yelled, facing whatever hit him. He froze when he saw who it was. "Huh? You're here?"
Koji struck a defensive pose with his make shift kendo stick. "You're the people these guys found to help out?" he asked, not believing his bad luck to run into them again.
The other warriors finally decided to poke their heads through the door opening as well. They were getting sick of Takuya just standing there. Though, they were admittedly also very curious who he was talking to... Upon seeing it was Koji, Koichi froze, though nobody noticed.
"Yeah, none of us could find any food either." Takuya admitted in defeat.
"Hey, don't lump me in with you guys!" Koji exclaimed defensively. He turned to one of the KaratsukiNumemon. "These kids aren't gonna be able to help you out at all."
"Kids? I'm a teenager, thank you very much!" Sophia exclaimed jokingly. "Besides, we're pretty much the same age, except for Tommy, so what does that make you?" She ignored the glare he send her way and just answered with a childish tongue out of mouth and wink.
Of course Takuya and Koji got into the first of their soon-to-be-infamous fights. Luckily the elder KaratsukiNumemon intervened before things escalated.
"Gentlemen, please." He bowed to the group before continuing. "My thanks to all of you for coming to help." he said in an accent that was almost too hard to understand. "And now it's time to eat."
"Alright! Time to chow down!"
In their excitement, the group let go of the walls, which caused gravity to pull them down. Koji got out of the way in time, unfazed, like he expected them to fall way before they actually did. After brushing themselves off, they followed the KaratsukiNumemon to a different room, where they could eat.
Expecting a fancy meal, the group was a little (a lot) disappointed to find a pile of different colored lettuce heads.
"Is that what I think it is?" Takuya asked, staring at the pile of food uncomfortably.
"I don't know." JP said. "Looks like rabbit food."
Zoe, having enough of their complaints, grabbed one. "Well, at least rabbits get to eat." she said. "Here goes nothing." Deciding to be the brave one of the group, she took a bite. After chewing a bit, her eyes snapped open in surprise. "Molto bono! Dig in!" she exclaimed. "Tastes like steak."
Surprised at her reaction, the others took a head as well. They all looked up in surprise. It wasn't steak, but still held familiar tastes.
"Mine tastes like chicken." JP said.
Mine's like a potato." Tommy said.
"Mine's just like asparagus." Takuya said, to which everyone had a disgusted reaction. "I like asparagus."
Sophia, who'd broken off a small piece instead of taking a big bite, held hers out. "Anyone want to trade? I've got fish." she said, holding a hand to her mouth.
Koichi nodded. "I can trade." he said. "If you like cauliflower that is."
They ate in silence for a while, aside from Takuya's small conversation with elder KaratsukiNumemon about Koji. It wasn't an uncomfortable silence, but soon after finishing became one as they all eyed Sophia. She, noticing the stares, went a little closer to Koichi, fiddling with her sleeves.
"So..." Takuya tried to start a conversation. "Mind explaining what you meant earlier today? About… being from another world?"
Taking a deep breath, she nodded, making sure Koji was listening too. "L-like I said… I'm from another world." she began. "I'm…not sure how I got here. I just remember a white light washing over me. I was looking for something digimon-related on my computer at the time, so when I got no results I got confused. In my world it's an anime with multiple video games and card games, so getting no results is near impossible." she rambled on, explaining the best she could while the others gave her odd stares. "But that's all it was…fiction. Not to mention before the weird light hit I was still in the Netherlands, and after I was suddenly teleported to Japan."
"So, that made you think you jumped worlds?" Takuya asked for clarification.
"Me suddenly going from the Netherlands to Japan and from a world where digimon is a pretty big thing to one where it's nonexistent?" she asked. "Yeah, it did."
The others nodded, understanding where she was going. Sure, they found the whole thing strange and hard to believe. But evidence was in her knowledge about Minomon back then. Koji, having heard everything, didn't believe a word of course. Just a stupid girl with some stupid fantasy to get some attention.
Time came to make a plan to free the KaratsukiNumemon daughters. The digimon provided them with a map of the mountains on Koji's request.
"Grumblemon has the captives in a cave." he begrudgingly informed the others. He really didn't want to work with them, but he'd have to... "It's right about... Here." He pointed to the middle mountain, just above the town. "We'll have to get in and out quickly."
The KaratsukiNumemon's mood fell, being reminded of their kidnapped daughters.
"Just relax." JP said, trying to cheer them up. Just those words seemed to work in lifting their spirits, which in turn fed JP's overconfidence. "Have no fear, leave everything to us... Legendary Warriors!"
Instead of cheering like he'd expected, the KaratsukiNumemon looked at them in shock and backed off. This action confused everyone in the group. The Legendary Warriors were good guys, why did they look so frightened?
"You mean all of you...are Legendary Warriors?" the elder asked, shaking in fear.
"Yeah!" Takuya exclaimed proudly. "Well... Except for Koichi and Sophia over there." He pointed to the two of them.
The digimon gathered together in a corner of the room and began discussing in hushed voices. This made the group a little uncomfortable, but most of them didn't see it as too strange, especially after Bokomon's explanation. The only ones who had trouble believing his theory were Koji, for obvious reasons, Sophia (again, obvious reasons) and Koichi, who slowly started sensing bad intentions from them.
Finally the snail-digimon seemed done discussing whatever they were discussing and turned back to the warriors. "It's time to go to bed." the elder told them, suddenly seeming uncomfortable talking to them.
But Takuya didn't agree. He stood up, striking what he deemed a heroic pose. "And I say it's time for us to rescue the girls."
"No, no." the elder kept insisting. "Get some rest first and then you can tackle the job in the morning."
Finally they agreed, though reluctantly still. Nighttime fell soon, finally allowing Sophia to think over everything that happened in peace. Last night they had all been too tired, and the night before nothing too out of the ordinary happened to think about.
She went to sit by the window, or what she thought to be a window, with a notebook in hand. She always had that and a pen on her in case of spontaneous drawing and story ideas.
'Let's see...' she wrote down her thoughts. 'Not much oddities happened so far...' She'd already written down most of the changes from the first two days. 'Koichi felt the Goblimon weren't trustworthy...' she looked at the sleeping, soon-to-be warrior of darkness. 'How could he feel that? What would you feel about someone that would make them untrustworthy in the first place?' she thought back on the Goblimon. 'They were smirking and beating the club into their hands... Maybe it was that? Their appearance?' she shook her head. 'No... They can't really change facial expressions anyways... And that beating only happened once.'
She decided to pocket the question for later and went on with other changes from what she knew. Though she came up drawing a blank. Most of the other changes were triggered either by herself or Koichi. With a sigh, she pocketed her notebook and went back to the improvised leaf-bed and fell asleep.
She woke up to the sound of yelling. Groggily she sat up, looking around for the source. When she found nothing that would make that sound, she lay back to go to sleep again. With a start, she sat back up. There was nothing to make the sound! No people around her aside from Koichi!
"Koichi!" she yelled hushed. "Koichi, wake up!" she shook him by the shoulder until he opened his eyes.
"Wha- what's wrong?" he asked, still half-asleep, rubbing his eyes to emphasize how tired he still was.
Choosing to ignore the cuteness of it, Sophia explained. "The others are gone!" That sure woke Koichi, who immediately looked around in a panic.
After finding nothing, they climbed up to the living room/kitchen area, where they had lunch earlier, but still found nothing. Not even the KaratsukiNumemon were around.
"It's like the whole place just got abandoned." Sophia muttered. "Do you think they're outside?"
Koichi nodded, hesitantly. "M-maybe they went behind the KaratsukiNumemon's back and went out to save the daughters?" he suggested. "We don't have Spirits, so maybe they wanted to leave us out of it."
Sophia reluctantly agreed, knowing how far from the truth that was. They went to the closest opening to look outside and above, hopeful to get a glance of a fight, or an attack they were familiar with.
When nothing happened, Sophia began to look around, trying to find where the guys were. Koichi caught onto her plan and joined in.
With a gasp, Koichi pointed down. "There they are!"
Sophia followed his gaze down the mountain. There they were. Being held by ropes on one of those tiny fences they used to climb up to the house. They were all awake and talking to the KaratsukiNumemon elder. The mountain hadn't been blown yet, so Grumblemon hadn't arrived yet, thankfully.
"Come on! We need to get down there." Sophia exclaimed, undoing the strings that held the rope ladder rolled up.
The duo climbed down to the first fence, which just held a couple of spectators. Deciding their luck with those guys, the duo started asking them questions.
"Why are you holding our friends hostage?" Sophia asked them.
The digimon looked up in surprise at their entrance. "They're Legendary Warriors! That's why!"
"That doesn't make any sense." Koichi told them. "What does being Legendary Warriors have to do with you capturing them?"
The KaratsukiNumemon glared at the duo as they answered their questions. "Don't play dumb!" one of the women yelled. "You're their friends. Surely they told you about their allegiance with Grumblemon!"
"We have no allegiance with him!" Sophia exclaimed, while Koichi stared at them in shock of what he heard. "The only allies we have are each other and a handful of digimon we met so far."
"Right..." Another KaratsukiNumemon stared at them unconvinced. "We may have spared you two from the same fate that will befall your friends, but don't think we'll trust you any more then them!" He pointed at them in a threatening manner. "Get them!"
The snail-digimon jumped at them from all possible directions, pinning them to the fence. At the same time, part of the mountain next to the warriors exploded outwards.
Someone or something could be heard moving around in the tunnel it exposed, and it was getting closer! Soon after, out walked a gnome-like digimon with a long pixie hat, armor, a bunch of odd markings and a huge nose. What caught everyone off guard, was the symbol of a Legendary Warrior in the middle of his chest armor.
"He's also a- ….A Legendary Warrior?!" Takuya exclaimed in surprise.
Luckily for them, Grumblemon didn't take notice of the fact he just exposed everyone as his enemies. His thoughts were more focused on why there were humans danging from ropes and when he'd get his Fractal Code.
"Grumblemon!" Elder KaratsukiNumemon called the evil warrior's attention away from the humans. "If you want to save your allies, give us back our daughters now!"
He and the other KaratsukiNumemon now held knives to the rope, which JP nicely pointed out, which in turn freaked out everyone else as well.
"What so!" Grumblemon called to them, mispronouncing 'so what'. "Me no care what happen to weak human thing." He almost sounded amused saying that.
The KaratsukiNumemon eyed each other for a moment before deciding to bring the knives even closer to the ropes. This send the humans back into a panic, including the ones not in the ropes.
"I knew something was off..." Koichi muttered. Sophia looked up in surprise and confusion. Catching her glance, Koichi explained. "It's just like with the Goblimon. I felt some...odd feeling. It was just telling me something wasn't right with these digimon." he explained. "But it's a lot less. The Goblimon I felt just...pure malice. The only one I feel that from now is Grumblemon, but stronger... More evil."
'Feeling malice? Evil?' Sophia wondered.
"Wait! You mean you really don't care about them?" Elder KaratsukiNumemon asked the evil warrior. "But they're Legendary Warriors as well!"
Grumblemon's previous unimpressed look swiftly changed to a surprised one. "Whaa-? These weaklings be Legendary Warriors?!" Again, his face changed to one of pure evil scheming. "Me thinks somebody got their hands of some Spirits and took them when they shouldn't have~!" he taunted playfully, which just sounded disturbing. "Now I'm to put my hands on you and take them all right back!"
He stuck his hands in the ground, pulling out a huge hammer. When he prepared to swing, the KaratsukiNumemon looked confused. They pulled the knives away from the ropes.
"Wait, what's going on?" Elder asked. "You mean you aren't allies?"
"That's what we've been trying to tell you!" Tommy cried.
"And I said it loud and clear!" Sophia added to it.
Grumblemon finally took a swing at the kids. Luckily they quickly managed to pull their feet up. The hammer slammed into the mountain, missing the humans by not much. The tremble startled the KaratsukiNumemon so much they retreated, dropping their knives. Koji took this chance to get himself free. He kicked off the wall just in time, launching himself towards where the knife fell. Still spinning, it cut through his ropes, freeing the lone-wolf.
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …LOBOMON!"
Speaking of wolf... Lobomon quickly spun around, grabbing the rope he'd just been cut free from, using it to swing towards Grumblemon. Grumblemon, a little too slow with his reflexes, was met with 2 legs to the face, mid-swing. Lobomon somehow managed to kick him upwards into a building where they continued to duel it out, out of sight from everyone else.
Meanwhile, the KaratsukiNumemon returned to the human children to help. They pulled them up an untied them, few of them even personally brought Koichi and Sophia to the lower fence. The elder didn't waste time apologizing to the warriors. It was cut short by Takuya, claiming they didn't have time for this now. A series of noises caught their attention. Lobomon and Grumblemon were falling from the now destroyed house right into another one passed the fence.
The warriors broke through the wall, fell through the house and broke the other wall as well. Lobomon, now moving closer to the losing side, clung to the wall for dear life. Underneath was nothing but hard and pointy rocks few miles below him. Grumblemon smirked, seeing the mighty warrior of light I such a position. He lifted his foot, stomping it painfully on Lobomon's right hand. As soon as he'd let go, the warrior of earth repeated the action on his right hand.
Thankfully, Lobomon didn't immediately let go this time. He stubbornly kept holding on. But everyone could see he would last much longer.
"We have to Spirit Evolve too." Takuya said as calmly as he could at the moment. He actually sounded like a responsible leader for a second.
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …AGUNIMON!"
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …BEETLEMON!"
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …KAZEMON!"
"EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION! …KUMAMON!"
They made a quick plan. Agunimon and Beetlemon would keep Grumblemon busy, while Kazemon flew inside with Kumamon to help Lobomon. With a nod, they set the plan in motion. Agunimon got a lift from Beetlemon to the 'roof-wall'. Just in time too. Grumblemon was about to hammer Lobomon's face in. Beetlemom grabbed the weapon in time to prevent that and took him for a fly up to where Agunimon was.
With Grumblemon out of the way, Kazemon picked up Kumamon and flew inside through the door. The fairy-digimon held out her hand to the wolf-digimon. After a bit of stubborn arguing, he took it and made a new plan to follow up Takuya's. Kazemon and Kumamon would free the daughters of the KaratsukiNumemon, while Lobomon helped out Agunimon and Beetlemon.
While the ice and wind warriors left for the chambers, Lobomon joined the other duo, who now had lost their opponent. The lone-wolf was none too happy about that, but what else is new?
Meanwhile, there were the Spiritless humans, just watching everything that went on in frustration. Both so badly wished they had Spirits to help their friends, even the pacifist Koichi. If it meant helping his brother and preventing others from getting hurt, he'd fight. Reluctantly, sure, but he would!
Both he and Sophia were desperately looking at their D-Tectors. Maybe one of their Spirits were close-by? Please let one of their Spirits be close-by!
Sophia clutched her D-Tector. 'Please...! Spirit, if you're close... Give a sign.' she begged. Not knowing where the Spirits of darkness or...whatever hers was, was frustrating. 'I want to help!'
A soft buzzing caught her attention. She looked over at Koichi, sure it'd be his. But the look in his eyes as he looked at her told her otherwise. It wasn't his D-Tector... it was hers! She sprung up from the fence, almost losing her balance.
"My Spirit..." she gasped. She looked around, trying to find a point where it may be.
'Center left, gold.'
"Did you say something Koichi?" Sophia asked.
Koichi met her eyes, looking confused. "I didn't say anything." he said. "No one did." He gestured to the surrounding KaratsukiNumemon.
She rose an eyebrow. "But-"
'Center left, gold.'
There it was again! But no one moved their mouth. Then who... She glanced at her D-Tector. Was it Ophanimon? It didn't sound like her... It was then that she noticed something. The middle button on her D-Tector was golden-yellow.
'Center left, gold... Center left button... Gold button?'
Trying her luck, she pressed them in that order. A map appeared on her D-Tector with a purple dot in the middle and another white one pointing somewhere else. Confusion must have been written on her face as multiple KaratsukiNumemon offered to take her to where it was pointing. Luckily the fence they were on was all around where they needed to go.
It didn't take long before the duo and digimon arrived at the point the map was leading them to. But there was nothing there... The human duo looked again, trying to pinpoint where exactly it was pointing to.
"Oh!" Koichi got it first. The smallest of gaps was between the rocks, with the faintest light coming from it. "It's over here!"
"Good eye." Together they pulled the rocks apart, revealing the small statue of an unknown Spirit. 'It's mine... It's actually mine... I'm actually a part of the team!' She held out her arm with the D-Tector, pointing it at the Spirit. "Alright! It's Spirit time!"
… But nothing happened. Confused, she tried pressing buttons. She even called out 'Spirit, come to me!' like Tommy did. Nothing seemed to work. This was odd... This was a new Spirit... It had to be hers...right? She moved to grab it, and suddenly all she could see was white.
"What the-?! Where am I?" A dark silhouette appeared in front of her. "Who are you?"
"I am the Spirit of sound." It said in a voice unlike her own. Usually the Spirit's voice sounded like the human-wielder.
"Spirit of sound…" Sophia muttered. So that's what her Spirit was. "I-I need your-"
The silhouette cut her off. "I know why you need me. But why should I help?" it asked. "You know how the 'story' ends without your assistance. Why bother? What reason do you have?"
Sophia was stunned. This didn't happen to the others, did it? Well... They did seem out of it before accepting their Spirits... Maybe it did?
"Well?" the silhouette seemed to get impatient. "What's your answer?"
She clenched her fists, eyes snapped shut towards the ground. "Because I don't know what's gonna happen! Not anymore!" she exclaimed.
She thought back to the time Koji was fighting the Pagumon. There was originally no Pagumon coming straight for his head. And it would've ended badly if she and Koichi hadn't reacted so quickly. Speaking of Koichi, he was physically in the digital world now, and with the group. That was a big change as well. Not to mention the 2 extra Warriors and the small change in history. And of course her whole presence here.
"I wanna help. I have to help! They're my friends!" Her eyes pointed their gaze to the digimon. "Maybe I don't have a good reason to help, but you don't have a good reason not to! You're a warrior!" she called out. "If I don't help- if we don't help- and something happens that I don't recall happening, we're all screwed!" she exclaimed. "So, please. Let me help to save your world!"
The figure seemed to smile to her. "Very valid reason." It said. "I will grand you my powers. Use them wisely, and good luck, descended of Suzumi."
"What?"
Before she could question it any further, she was back on the mountain fence. Of course Koichi and the KaratsukiNumemon were still with her.
"Sophia? Are you alright?" the bluenet asked.
The girl nodded. "Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well..." Koichi was struggling to find the words to explain it. "You kind of... zoned out for a minute. And your eyes had these odd purple...waves in them." he tried explaining the best he could. "Almost like soundwaves."
'Figures.' "I'm fine, promise." She looked down at her D-Tector, now seeing the Spirit present inside of it. Her smile quickly turned into a smirk. "Always wanted to do this!" she said to herself as a ring of Fractal Code appeared around her hand. "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!... SONAMON!"
The newly evolved warrior checked herself over, taking in every detail of her new body. She now had short, teal colored hair which was kept out of her eyes with a purple headband of sorts, which held a red gem and the kanji of sound. She wore a violet shirt with long sleeves that had flower-like endings. There were 2 microphones strapped to her wrists which seemed able to detach. Her shirt had a teal strap around the chest with 2 speakers on it, and a white part by the neck.
She wore a darker purple skirt, which almost seemed ripped apart at the end, separated by a white belt. Underneath she wore light blue tights and white boots. On her knees were another set of speakers, held there by white straps. Of course, one part not to miss were the wings. They were shaped like G-keys, and purple and pink in color, and though she couldn't see it, her eyes were grey.
"Woah..." She took a breather, then suddenly burst into joyful laughter. "This is awesome!" Deciding to try out her wings, she fluttered up close to the fence. It seemed easy, which was odd... But she didn't complain. "Come on, Koichi!"
Sonamon took off towards the fight, Koichi running on the fence just behind her. He was holding onto a KaratsukiNumemon with multiple surrounding him, so it was pretty save to run. They arrived just in time to see Grumblemon falling down the mountain.
"But where are the captives?" Lobomon asked Kazemon and Kumamon, who also just joined the group.
Kumamon pointed to another mountain just in front of him. "There!" he answered Lobomon's question.
The others followed his gaze, which fell on a mountain not far away. It was connected to the one they were close to by rope. They watched as fathers, mothers and daughters (and possibly sons) were reunited with each other, talking, laughing, hugging and just being together.
"Boy, it sure must be nice to get back to your family." Beetlemon said, which struck a cord with everyone. They did just leave their family to go on this adventure. It would be nice to get back to them. "Hey." The little moment of peace didn't take long, as something already happened. "What's that?"
A wall of data had suddenly appeared where part of the mountain had just been.
"It must be the mountain's Fractal Code!" Kazemon concluded.
Sonamon decided to let her presence be known to the team. "That means we've got to protect it from Grumblemon." she said.
Everyone turned to face the new, yet familiar, voice. "And just who are you?" Lobomon asked, suspicious of the new digimon.
"I'm Sonamon." she said, not waiting for Bokomon to finish flipping through his book. "Legendary Warrior of sound. Though... I guess Sophia sounds more familiar, doesn't it?" she asked with a playful wink.
"Sophia?"
"Yup~" She looked up at Bokomon, who was still leafing through the pages of his book. "What's wrong, Bokomon? Bummed because you didn't get to say it this time?"
"Will you stop that?!"
If the team wasn't convinced earlier, they were now. Sophia just laughed at Bokomon's usual rage fit, completely forgetting her previous statement to protect the mountains Fractal Code. Her attention was brought back to it once she saw Grumblemon's ugly face pop up from the side of the mountain.
"Oh! Look like I found what I want anyway." he said in his usual broken English. The data field glowed briefly, as if responding to his comment. "And thank you. I never find without you." he snickered, pulling something from behind his back. "Now get rid you!"
He pulled the item into view of everyone else. To their shock, it appeared to be another Spirit.
"EXECUTE! BEAST SPIRIT EVOLUTION!…GIGASMON!"
To their even bigger shock, he could actually use it! He was now bigger, bulkier, and seemed stronger.
The warrior jumped up, slowly beginning to spin with his arms wide out. "QUAGMIRE TWISTER!"
He launched himself at the three flying digimon, who just barely got out of the way. Ignoring them, he made his way to the three other warriors holding onto the ladder. He succeeded in knocking them off the ladder, sending them falling down. Luckily for the good guys, Kumamon was a quick thinker.
"Hey, grab onto me!" he told the older boys, as he changed into a formless figure. He stuck himself to the mountain and changed again into a more solid and pointy ice form. "FROZEN TUNDRA!"
Lobomon and Agunimon thankfully were able to grab onto him. Beetlemon went in for a direct attack, but was quickly send flying by the same attack. The thunder warrior broke through the fence that held Bokomon and Neemon. The two digimon companions were hurled into the air before falling to gravity, but Kazemon and Beetlemon quickly caught them.
Gigasmon went on with his attack towards another part of the mountain. Usually you'd be happy when the enemy moves on, but this was an exception. Because he was heading straight for Koichi. Not wasting a second, Sonamon flew to him, catching him off the fence just before Gigasmon destroyed it. After making sure he was safe and placing him on Kumamon, she decided to try one of her attacks.
"MICRO ROCKETS!" the microphones on her wrists detached from the holder, flying straight to Gigasmon.
Unfortunately, the attack did absolutely nothing and automatically returned. The evil warrior finally quit his quagmire twister and landed back on the mountain.
He slid back into Grumblemon and looked down at the others. "That it?" he asked mockingly. "That best you do with your Spirit? That pathetic. Even make pathetic look good!" He mocked them some more before, again, shifting into his Beast form. "You joke!"
"Wait a minute! What's going on?" Agunimon, as well as the rest, were utterly confused. How did he evolve like that?
"Now I take Fractal Code in name of Cherubimon!" Gigasmon shouted out to the world.
Before anyone could even think of stopping him, he ate the mountain's Fractal Code, leaving a big, gaping hole in the middle of it. The mountain began to rumble and shake violently. The cables connecting it to the other mountains snapped, and the smaller mountains fell away from the middle one. The violent shaking got too bad for Kumamon to hold on and he, along with Agunimon, Lobomon and Koichi fell.
Rocks fell left and right. A large one struck Sonamon in the back, more specifically her wings. She fell in the same hole the guys fell into. Last thing the four of them saw, was the mountain being covered in Fractal Code and disappearing before it became too dark to see.
*Yeah, I know in the dub it's women, but I chose to go for daughters like in the Japanese version, because in the episode you see KaratsukiNumemon with long eyelashes like all female digimon seem to have. So, not all women were taken~
Thanks for reading!