I still don't own digimon.
Butterflies, that is what we all are. We enter the world, growing up from caterpillars into butterflies. We then migrate from home, mate with other butterflies and die once we reach our home. And the cycle repeats itself. -Victoria, DA03
Session 73
A Nostalgic Storytime
Victoria Arcana was many things.
'People person' was not on that list. Mind you, she had her preferences in who could really be with her for extended periods of time, but preferred to spend her time
One of those people was Kuro Neko, the catgirl priestess of shadows. Currently, the two were camped just outside of the forest-desert divide and were currently awaiting the arrival of their partners. Night had already fallen, signalling the end of another day in this madhouse.
"What time is it, nya?" Kuro remarked and watched Victoria pull her pocket watch out and give it a quick glance.
"It's a couple minutes to nine." the black cat whispered and watched her friend lay down beside her. "It's best we both get some rest, sooner or later."
"Could you least tell me a story?"
Victoria took a deep breath and sighed.
"Fine." she whispered and gazed down to her friend. "Our story begins a long time ago in a place called Odiaba..."
It was an early day in January for the coastal city. There, three kids (a blonde, a brunette and a redhead), had been tasked with catching a 'black cat'. What exactly this cat had done to require them to chase it weren't really known, not that it really mattered to them at the time. They were probably more focused on other things like what was for dinner or what can I do to make the brunette actually interested in them. But I digress.
Once they had finally caught up with their target, they unleashed their digimon upon it in the typical 'let us pretend we are tanks' mentality that really shouldn't work in this franchise.
Of course, the cat had her own tricks up her paws, turning into a Lilithmon variant and destroying the 'mystical gate of destiny'. But not before saying hi to her ex. After all, such opportunities should not go unwasted.
After that, some voice invaded the girl's head as their digimon were defeated. As such, the black cat got the redheaded boy.
Fast forward a couple years and a kidnapping later, we find the digidestined holding a funeral for someone. Possibly, for the thought to be dead redhead. Nearly everyone that mattered at the time (pre-tri) was there, ready to give their eulogies for this poor soul. Yet, that was not what happened that early morning. Instead of saying goodbye, they found themselves saying hello to the redhead, who not only was still alive, had gained a magical girl assistant to boot.
What followed, was another battle and the possible death of the digidestined of love, who was actually a clone of said digidestined. The only other important thing of note was the digidestined of knowledge attempting to file a complaint. It didn't go too well.
But not everyone took part in that battle, for a raven-haired boy had decided that he would just head home. He probably made the best choice out of all them, having spared his own partner's ass from getting kicked. His reward was a flash drive filled with text documents, telling a tale of conquest and betrayal. So, this digidestined took a nap instead. Though, all he got was some weird dream flashback and a visit from the 'digimon emperor'.
Meanwhile in the digital world, trouble was brewing at a digidestined base. A small group of thugs going by the name 'the dark blades' had decided that storming the base for something they might of have was the best thing to do at the moment. So they did just that, tearing up the place in the process and release some weird plant anthro. All so that they could get their 'digivices' back.
Back with the blonde and brunette, things were going alright. Well, except for the 'vision' that the brunette had temporarily found herself in. Thankfully, all it took was a new message on her d-terminal to snap the digidestined of light out of her 'trance' in conjunction with a stray bullet.
She then joined the blonde in the living room, which was totally unlike her bedroom.
At the time, their digimon partners had been watching a show about a blonde dude with a ponytail taking on some sort of lion creature. Strangely, they all thought this blonde hair dude sounded a lot like the raven haired dude. It was probably a coincidence though.
They then headed out, only to run into Redhead, his partners and the black cat from before. What followed was a wonderful conversation between the blonde and the feline, resulting in the boy temporarily losing an important organ. Once that was out of the way, the group reluctantly headed outside where the media awaited with question about the pink haired girl. Thankfully, another gunshot ran out and some girl claiming to be the pink-haired girl's cousin. Along with that, she was also a 'digidestined', with a digimon capable of mega digivolution no less. Though, it was through a magical tattoo made from some kind of digivolution data along with being the sole one. Which this idiot used in this one encounter.
It wasn't all bad, with the digidestined of knowledge and reliability getting his partner to the ultimate form finally. Oh, and the black cat turned into some sort of purple lolita girl and that she had everyone's favorite female fallen angel digimon.
And so, the group headed onwards to the train station. There, the lolita girl and the brunette did some 'bonding'. Which involved throwing the brunette on the train tracks and attempting to get brunette to shoot lolita girl. They then got on a train, only for it to be attacked by a anthro robot biyomon creature thing. Another fight happened and the out of place conductor asked for lolita girl's name. She gave it and they headed onwards, quickly reaching Tamachi. There, lolita girl might have temporarily lost her soul on the way to raven haired boy apartment.
At the apartment, lolita girl proceeded to kill some hawk creature twice, only to follow it up by stabbing the raven haired boy. In her defense, she did technically promise to do such an act the next time their paths crossed. They then had a nice meeting, where the blonde guy revealed himself to be evil and stuff and pulled a switchblade. It wasn't quite as effective or menacing as his handgun.
One battle and a pair of gained evolutions later, the threat was vanquished and our heroes split up into three groups.
Meanwhile back in Odiaba, evil blonde was meeting up with a member of royalty in an airship. An empress, no less. That wanted to sell mind-controling fruit juice at a stand for some reason.
Below, some blue haired guy was examining a body while talking to a spiky haired dude. After this enlightening conversation, spiky haired dude and his digimon headed outside. There, they managed to resist tasting the mind control juice, only to run into a mysterious person and their digimon partner. Then evil blonde showed up riding on top of a tank and an airship fell out of the sky. It killed the blue haired boy, but not spiky dude or mysterious person. In all seriousness, that was the only casualty of the entire battle.
Afterwards, they went to the digital world as a group people travelled back in time for no particular reason. Possibly, they were heading after the empress, which begs the question of what method that this person used to get herself over. But I digress, again.
Our focus then turns to an unimportant boy, who managed to run into the time travellers. Another fight then occurred, though one could argue it was more of an excuse to show off the various combat abilities of these sudden arrivals. Afterwards, they too went to the digital world.
In said digital world, the leader of the digidestined had gotten a phone call telling him to go to a particular place. So, he did just that, somehow making his way to File Island with his digimon.
There, some douchebag spouted on about some stuff about being a part of some other digidestined group that came before the leader's. Also, the gang of thugs were there for some reason. What followed, was an eating contest and philosophical rambling about one's existence. It was the sort of combination that would make one wonder if they were even in the right fic. Afterwards, the leader opened a portal for the thugs to reach the human world. There, they broke up a protest and got a present from a friend along with a new member to boot.
Back in Odiaba, the empress's goons were playing a game of chess while evil blonde attempted to get them to beat up people up. For his trouble, a trio of succubi attacked the group, forcing them to actually do something other than chess. Once that was done, two possibilities occur. The first involves one of the succubus joining the empress group, bringing with her a mystical book known as 'the digital tome' along with a bunch of new weapons for them. Along with that, empress gets an unsigned message showing her the bodies of the time travelers getting impaled on spikes. Afterwards, they head to the succubus's master and beat the crap out of him. Once that was done, they became the third group in the digital world.
The second possibility was them managing to beat the succubi up and empress getting a message on her pda thing. Unlike the message in the first possibility, the sender gave a name: ?BugInFFnet. For some reason, this person wanted empress to choose between good and evil. After taking some time to consider both options, empress chose anti-hero. While not quite an option for the question, the person accepted it and told them to beat up some smart dude for some reason. So they did just that, getting rewarded with a sense of deja vu and a just barely prevented time paradox. Somehow, both of these outcomes are simultaneously canon.
Back with spiky dude and mysterious figure, things were going alright. Mysterious figure revealed that she was actually female redhead from another timeline dimension thing who got saved by lolita girl from a bunch of people in charge of keeping the timeline 'together'.
Afterwards, she allowed spiky dude to get eaten by the clockwork bird thing.
Back in the real world, some woman appeared with her digimon partner. Though, one could argue that it was just some random naked woman running around for some reason. For some reason, they were taking on some weird clown girl.
As this happens, brunette and lolita girl made their way to the train station, getting into another fight in the process. In this case, a boss rush for some reason along with a character the author didn't own at the time. So they took each threat on, making sure to give it their all. All the while dealing with brunette's sudden transformation into pink catgirl priestess thing and lolita girl temporarily turning into a pile of sentient goop. Once that was over, they hopped on a train and headed back to Odiaba.
In the digital world, redhead and unimportant boy were dead, having fallen at the hand of redhead's magical girl thing. Which left, the raven haired boy and his magenta haired girlfriend in some weird battle royale tea party. That involved the emperor from before and the girlfriend getting transformed for some reason. Then a sextape happened for some reason. Yeah, I don't really know either.
All of this, bringing us back to Odiaba one final time with lolita girl and catgirl. There, lolita girl opened up a little bit while 'butterfly' played. Yet, once the curtain fell, it was time for the two to part.
Afterwards, lolita girl found a pair of girls, giving her D-3 to them. Not that long after, the world 'reset' and our story ends. But to call it that would be ignoring what came after, the stories that followed. For the end is just a period for the next story to begin.
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"Are you happy now?" Victoria whispered and gazed down at her friend, who had fallen asleep partway through. "I guess so."
She took a deep breath, only to catch a trace of orange and blue.
"Jestery, show yourself." the black cat added and watched her daughter teleport over. Compared to her previous appearance, a sense of joy and seemingly oblivious happiness seemed to hang over her once more. Yet, she still paraded around in her bloody outfit. "This is about Cora, isn't it?"
Jestery did not answer, choosing instead to sit down beside her mother.
"Maybe…" Jestery whispered and stared down towards her lap. "I did something that needed to be done, but I feel hollow now."
Victoria looked her daughter over and took a deep breath afterwards.
"Sorrow." she whispered and focused her gaze on the jester. "That is what you're feeling."
But all she got from Jestery was a confused expression. Not that Victoria could really blame her, especially after making the choice that she did.
"Is Cora alright, at least?"
"Jestery made sure to leave Cora in a state that she could recover from." Jestery remarked as she pulled herself up. "Would momma kitty mind if Jestery asked a question?"
Victoria gave a nod and watched Jestery perk up.
"Why is momma kitty all the way out here? The only thing out in this direction is that 'high school'."
The black cat proceeded to sigh, only to wrap her arms around Jestery. Jestery did the same, embracing each other in a short yet effective hug.
"I have some long unsettled business in there." she whispered and focused on the divide between the forest and the desert. "If I don't do it now, I doubt I'll ever quite get this sort of chance again."
Jestery didn't answer, only giving a slight nod as Victoria watched her teleport away. She proceeded to return her gaze to the divide, just making out a pair of figures getting chased by what appeared to be a large vehicle.
"Figures." the black cat whispered and stood back up. "I guess my night isn't anywhere near being over quite yet…"
Notes:
At the time of this chapter coming out, the digitalverse will have been going for three years. Kind of crazy to just think about. What better way to celebrate that accomplishment than to do a recap in Digital Adventures Online? Outside of a version will less errors that could be canon to Tri, maybe once Tri finishes up.
Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this!
Next Time: The cat and the troll, sparks are going to fly...