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Session 64

Saikai

When we last saw our heroes, they had just reached Hunter's End, having spent the past couple of months travelling on in small groups. And now, would be finally reuniting with each other.

"So we're all back together." Elena whispered and squeezed Alice's hand. "It's been so long."

"I know." Alice whispered back, watching as multiple members of the team glanced towards them with a look of caution. "Feels kinda weird…"

"It probably doesn't help that you're in a relationship now." Lily whispered as she pulled her yumi up, notching an arrow back. "They probably think Alice has managed to manipulate you into thinking that."

"Now, now, let's not jump to conclusions." Adarnamon whispered and gave the succubus a slight slap to the back with her wings. "Maybe everyone has moved on."

As she said that, their teammates gazes focused upon them.

"So, what's new with you two?" Joey inquired and the duo took a deep breath. Yokozamon and Consligmon made a glance towards the two girls, while Adarnamon and Lily looked off into space.

"Alice and I are a couple now." Elena finally answered and took a deep breath afterwards, taking in the expressions of her teammates. Overall, they seemed content with this sudden 'reveal', possibly suspecting the two would end up with each other for quite some time.

"Anything else?" Aaron inquired as he pulled a notebook and pencil out, scribbling down what Elena had said.

*Let's see… * Suiko started and poke her head out of Alice's stomach. Almost instantly, everyone except Elena and Alice now had their weapons focused upon her. *Didn't I introduce myself?*

Yokozamon only chuckled and cleared his throat.

"That is Miss Suiko Tanaka, Miss Alice's something or other." the yak explained and watched as them put their arms down. "Now that we got that out of the way, continue on Miss Suiko."

Before she continued her initial sentence, Suiko decided to shift the rest of her body to be beside her 'vessel'.

"Of course. We found ourselves in some sort of monotone school, eventually leading ourselves to some room where Jestery was teaching some kids."

The members of Delta stared towards the 'ghost', unsure of how to answer this now revealed information. While it did seem quite odd for the jester of all people to be teaching such young and impressionable minds, maybe she had been using the opportunity to learn how t-

But before the author could finish his speculation, Jestery teleported in. Strangely, she seemed to be in quite a good mood for someone who hadn't been on their best behavior.

"Author should shut up." Jestery muttered and pulled her butterfly swords out. "Especially if Author wants to come out 'ahead'."

There was no response.

"Much Better."

With that now out of the way, Jestery turned her attention to the members of Delta and Vanessa.

"So, Delta and Vanessa want to know why Jestery became a teacher at St Velodias, huh?" Jestery whispered and focused her gaze upon Vanessa, the dark blades leader's hands were right on her longsword. "I realize you hate me for what my mother did, but that gives you no right to direct your anger for her at me."

Vanessa then charged towards the jester, slamming her longsword into the omega's chest. Jestery responded by swing her butterfly swords towards her opponent and only managed to hit the air.

"Ugh." Aaron mumbled, following it up with a deep breath. "Just another piece of the puzzle called life."

He scribbled down Jestery's announcement and returned his attention to Suiko.

"There, Consligmon gave us the rundown on why he headed to the digital world and we got to meet 'our' parents."

"I'm guessing it didn't go well?" Joey inquired and Alice laughed.

"Didn't go well is an understatement." the gambler answered. "I attacked them and my mom sent us to some weird ruined earth. After tricking an alternate version of Suiko and I to commit suicide, we got new threads and then got teleported to Drogaciji Academy. I ran into Elena there and we 'celebrated' our victory."

"So you kissed, in other words?" Fatemon whispered, only to burst into to laughter. "To think Alice Zwingli, a lying che-"

Before he could finish his mocking, Polly delivered a right hook to his jaw.

"Thank you." the harem mage whispered and returned his attention to Elena and Alice. "Please continue."

The corsair gave him the thumbs up, only to whisper something to Alice and get a nod back.

"After a brief 'stint' of being a pirate and beating the final boss of this place for the time, I managed to reach Drogaciji Academy." Elena explained. "With Alice and our digimon in tow, I was transferred 'ownership' of Alice from her parents to me as punishment for what she did."

Their fellow teammates gave them a confused glance, even more unsure of how to react to this. At this moment, they would just have to roll with it. Though, it couldn't be any more weirder than the room hurtling down towards the void.

"Of course, her parents were upset and attempted to kill us. So we left and made a stop at some weird high school. Some more stuff happened and we discovered a new power: Unity. After that, we arrived here."

With that, the gale corsair breathed a sigh of relief.

By that point, Vanessa had given up fighting on Jestery and watched the jester teleport away. At least she got to keep her sword.

"I'll go next." Aaron whispered and looked up from his notebook. "We arrived in Witchelny, where Fatemon managed to get himself captured by the authorities."

Both Polly and Chacha gave a Fatemon a questionable glare, but returned their gazes back to Aaron.

"After a short pep talk, he told Gentleman and I to find Usagi. Only instead we found some crazy guy who claimed to be the final boss of all of this. He then babbled for a bit, but I managed to beat him and get a pocketwatch." the detective added and watched as Elena's gaze focus in on him, only to smile. "Once we got back, we found Jestery in Fatemon's cell and just left them there."

Fatemon laughed, only to follow it up by clearing his throat.

"After escaping Aaron and Gentleman, that stupid tournament happened." the harem mage remarked. "Once that was done, I took a shortcut through the dream world and found what remained of one of the two earths, silent."

He made a glance towards Polly, giving her a nod. She gave a nod back and cracked a smile.

"My turn, I guess." the monk magi remarked. "My parents locked me in a test tube, claiming it was for my own personal 'good'. So I bided my time and strength, waiting for the moment to strike back. Somehow, they had managed to capture that corrupted Usagi girl and forced Olrumon to 'cure' it."

Aaron glanced towards his first partner, possibly confused why such smart people would do such a stupid thing. Yet, there was no answer here. So, the detective turned his attention to Vanessa and mumbled something to her. Whatever it was, the dark blades leader understood it and mumbled something back.

While they did that, Olrumon turned his attention to the group.

"After a short chase that involved me digivolving, I hooked up with Chacha and she explained some things." the rabbit idol explained. "After that, Polly broke herself out and we managed to rendezvous with Fatemon."

After explaining his role within all of this, Olrumon turned towards Polly, Chacha and Fatemon.

"I found out the fate of those I had lost." Fatemon whispered and took a deep breath. "What followed was the three of us choosing our own fates and hitchhiking with Aaron, Gentleman and... Vanessa."

Vanessa made a quick glance towards the harem mage and gave him a scowl, only for Jestery to suddenly appear again.

"Reunion time over, Delta!" the jester announced, only to have a bunch of weapons pointed at her. "You can't kill Jestery! Jestery is invincible!"

With that, Jestery floated towards the edge of Hunter's End, only to be pulled back up to the digital world.

"I'm guessing that is our way out." Elena whispered and switched forms, allowing Alice and Lily to get on. While they did that, the other humans and non-flying digimon minus Vanessa got into Officer EMT's armored vehicle. Which he was still able to drive somehow. After getting themselves 'buckled', they headed off…

Notes:

It's good to be back.

While not quite all the endgame stuff is quite ready (Just Another Fangan Ronpa Story is almost there), there is enough to get started on DAO again.

Also, a huge shout-out to fellow digimon fanfic writer J Ken. If you haven't checked out Digimon Future yet, you really should.

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Next Time: For the 100th chapter, a funeral.