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Before we start, it's recommended that you go read chapter 20, due to it getting a major overhaul and a lot of the context here being related to that.

Session 75

Breakfast and Truths

Dawn quickly arrived upon the digital world, bringing forth the start of a new day for its inhabitants.

"Ugh…" Alice whispered as her eyelids slowly opened up, finding purple rubber feathers currently obscuring her vision. "How did I even end up down here?"

She then took a deep breath and hoped that Suiko had already woken up.

*Did you have to do that?* Suiko whispered and let out a yawn. *I thought you two were getting along quite happy, doing whatever fun thing that you were doing?"

If Alice could, she would stare right into her head in an attempt to discern whatever exactly Suiko had even meant by that. Yet, the gambler took a deep breath and returned her attention to Elena.

"Time to wake up." Alice remarked and began to shake the transformed gale corsair. "Get up and get the day started!"

Elena slowly stirred to consciousness and shifted to her human form.

"Good morning." Elena whispered and focused on Alice, only to give the gambler a confused look. "Uh… why are you in your infusion form?"
Alice made a quick glance down at herself and did a double take, only to switch back to her human form.

"Let's leave it at that." the gambler whispered and took a deep breath. "Suiko, is your shotgun ready?"

Suiko then poked her head out of her host's stomach, giving a quick nod.

"I got my kris." Elena added and pulled her blades out, only to sheath them afterwards. "Want me to wake our partners, up?"

"Sure."

The corsair then made her way to the far end of the 'room', finding a familiar bird and succubus curled up in the corner.

"Time to get up." Elena explained and gave the two a slight poke, only to get an arrow and a wing slap in return. "Hey…"

Adarnamon and Lily slowly got themselves up and focused in on their human.

"So you want us to get anything that we need from the armored vehicle and be ready to head out?" Adarnamon inquired and actually seemed on the ball for once. "Uh… thanks?"

Lily only took a deep breath, choosing to pick up her yumi afterwards.

"I'm ready." the korawamon remarked and slung the bow onto her back. "Not sure what birdbrain needs to do exactly, outside of waking everyone else up."

Seven Song!

A loud screech echoed throughout the armored vehicle, as a seven orbs of light blinded those in the near vicinity. On the plus side, it woke everyone inside along with the people outside.

Terra Archens (Blazing Earth)!

A stream of lava then shot across the room, forcing everyone to duck and not get roasted by the harem mage.

"Ugh…" Polly remarked and casually walked over to the group. Fatemon and Chacha were right behind, seeming to stomp their way over. "Good morning, everyone."

"How are you, Polly?" Elena inquired and watched the monk magi sigh.

"Alright." Polly answered as she focused in on Fatemon. "Just got some things on my mind."

"Oh."

With that, Joey and Aaron stumbled their way over, falling over once or twice in the short distance that they had to go. And while they could've gotten the help of their digimon, that idea did not come to them somehow.

"Breakfast is ready." Gentleman announced and poked his head into the room. "I would suggest you get it now while it's still hot and the crazy catgirl's aim somehow doesn't lock onto me."

The members of Delta quickly grabbed the remainder of their necessary stuff and exited the armored vehicle.

Outside, they found themselves in a clearing surrounded by light forest. A jalopy sat at the edge of the clearing with a small fire in its general vicinity. A couple large sleeping bags had been scattered all about, with a long table filled with a variety of food having been put right near the armored vehicle.

"So, what do you guys think?" Consligmon inquired as Yokozamon and Issacmon walked up to him. "Hopefully this will be enough for you guys."

"You shouldn't have." Elena remarked and made her way towards the table. Everyone else followed right behind, sitting themselves down in the dirt. While they would've have preferred some chairs, this would do for the time.

What followed, followed was a no holds-barred feast into a variety of breakfast related goodies.

"Hopefully you're enjoying this." Officer EMT explained and sat himself down. "It was a lot of work getting this all together

It was another ten minutes before they even close to being full, which was then followed by a quick clean-up and tear down. Afterwards, they grabbed whatever else they needed from the

"Is everyone ready?" Elena remarked as everyone nodded in agreement.

The journey to Despair High passed quite quickly, with them reaching their destination in little time. Since the last time anyone had actually been to the place, some jokester had placed a couple corpses on long stakes along with a list of names by the door.

Banned People:

Devi

Victoria Arcana

Makoto Naegi and co.

Alice Zwingli/Suiko Tanaka

"Uh… why is Alice listed on there?" Joey remarked as Alice took a close look at the list, only to give the bodies a quick glance.

"Crap." the gambler whispered and took a deep breath. "This is kind of my fault."

As Alice said that, both her partners and Elena turned to face her, confused by what she had just said.

"A while back, 'we' chased a rumor about there being some sort of powerful weapon or something, I'm not quite sure what." Suiko explained as she poked most of her body out for them to all see. "There was also this girl who somehow knew we would be there and did everything in her power to get us killed. So we brought her down a peg, I hope."

As Suiko finished that particular part of the story, Victoria and her group of people and digimon walked up.

"That's funny." Victoria added and turned her attention to Alice and Suiko. "One of my 'teammates' gave us some information about you people somehow being behind the death of Arresterdramon, their personal mode of transportation. Though, she did sneak away in the middle of the night."

Elena and co's attention shifted towards the black cat, curious of anything else that she could add to that particular part of their journey. But, it was her partner who decided to clear her throat.

"Oh right. There's also you sending me off to this forsaken place to do something with your 'master'." LadyDevimon remarked and gave Victoria a glare. "We wouldn't be in this situation if you hadn't just went and grabbed her yourself?"

Victoria took a deep breath and sighed, only for her gaze to fall on the ground.

"Because 'she' would just set it back again." Victoria whispered and shook her fist in the air. "But not this time. I'll make sure of it!"

BlackGatomon infusion digivolve too… Selenemon!

LadyDevimon infusion digivolve too… LadySucimon!

In place of the lolita girl, now stood the woman in the purple gown. Beside her, stood another woman dressed in a fairly questionable black dress and matching sandal heels. A pair of short bat wings hung out of her back, complimenting her long silver hair and lack of a gauntlet on her left arm. Finishing off her look was a pair of silver eyes and pink lips.

Scanning…

LadySucimon

Mega, Despair

Special Moves: Suci Wing, Suci Temptation, Binta

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Lily: Big whoop. You aren't even a full-on succubus.

Elena: Lily…

Lily: Fine.

Scan Complete.

"As you were saying, nya?" Kuro added, only to focus on LadySucimon.

"There wasn't anyone there except for some Monokumas and one of the digimon sovereigns for some reason."

Both Alice and Suiko gave her a confused glance, unsure of what to make of this new information.

"That can't be…" the gambler whispered and allowed her gaze to fall upon. "Both Suiko and I saw actual people in there, who we left alone to the best of our abilities."

LadyDevimon only gave a glare as she turned to face the two.

"Afterwards, we grabbed some stuff from their vault and made a promise to this 'Despair' la-"

Fatemon slammed his fist into Alice's face, only to find a rubbery tail wrapped around it.

"Let go of me, you brain dead bimbo!" he whispered as Elena's gaze focused on him. "Sometimes, I wonder if you're really cut out for this leadership thing."

Yet, Elena didn't let go. Instead, her 'grip' on the harem mage tightened.

"Then why did you slap my girlfriend then?" Elena whispered in the calmest tone she could muster at the moment.

"Because she did the one thing you never do with Despair." Fatemon whispered and stared down towards the ground. "You don't make promises with that 'thing'. You just don't."

Everyone else's gazes fixated on the harem mage, except for Victoria and her group. Who decided to give Delta some space.

"Please tell me you at least agreed to do something reasonable." Chacha added as she and Polly focused on Fatemon.

"She asked me to come back, claiming that I would find a reason sooner or later to come back." Alice finished as Elena released her grip from Fatemon's arm. "Afterwards, Suiko and I got knocked out by some unknown force and woke up to a bunch of dead bodies."
"That still doesn't explain how this is your fault." Aaron remarked as Olrumon finally caught up to them.

"Before we blacked out, we got a glimpse of another Alice." Suiko whispered and took a deep breath. "Though, she also looked like an overdressed cosplay character."

Alice made a quick glance towards the schoolgirl, possibly attempting to hold back her laughter.

"I have no idea what you're talking about…" Alice remarked as Elena switched back to her human form. "Though, I doubt my current outfit would bring such a reaction."

While she said that, Elena jumped up onto her back.

"Overdressed cosplay character or not, I think your outfit looks nice." the gale corsair complemented and let go of Alice.

"Thanks, honey." Alice whispered as Victoria's group watched on.

"They're an interesting bunch." Victoria whispered and turned her attention to Kuro Neko. "No, don't even think of trying of that on me."

Kuro gave her a confused glance and then attempted to jump onto Victoria. Only to remember at the last moment that her friend was part slime.

"Oh right." the catgirl priestess whispered and carefully pulled herself out of Victoria. "Sorry about that, nya."

Victoria took a deep breath, only to crack a smile afterwards.

"If you people are done with whatever sort of thing that you're currently doing, are you at least ready to enter this place?"

The members of Delta gave a quick nod as Suiko returned to Alice's body.

"Then what are we waiting for then?" the black cat whispered as she headed towards the door, slipping through in the process. The rest followed right behind, ready for whatever could possibly await them on the other side.

Notes:

Not going to lie, this chapter is kind of a mess. But, I like how it turned out. And in all seriousness, I'm fairly certain that Alice's initial outfit was modeled after Celestia Ludenburg's from the Dangan Ronpa franchise. Along with the whole original twist (her actually being someone else) and her getting pissed if you found out that secret. Though, if she was French instead of German, it would have really looked awkward.

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Next Time: This is what remains when Julie is allowed to play...