ZAFT: Well, we forgot to update again, but what can we do? We are at a very intense and fun point in the story. :P
Takuya: Don't forget next time… *Grumbles*
DarkFoxKit: Sorry! It gets easy to forget sometimes!
Andy: I need to put a sticky note or something to make sure you guys remember when to update.
DarkFoxKit: Hey, we're updating now!
ZAFT: No sticky notes needed, Andy. ^^'
DarkFoxKit: Besides, knowing you, you'll make something melt or explode.
Andy: No I wouldn't!
Takuya: Um… actually, you seem to have a love for explosions, Andy… ^^'
Andy: Says the firebrand!
Takuya: Why you…
ZAFT: Um… let's just get to the chapter before these two destroy the A/Ns… ^^'
Chapter 22: To Overcome Doubts
Danny went down to Spectra's office, hoping that Sam and Tucker would be okay. He waited, invisibly floating outside of Spectra's door, Andy warned him not to go in until after Tucker and Sam came out, or else Spectra would sense him. He needed Spectra to be distracted with absorbing Tucker and Sam's misery to sense him, assuming that Andy's theory was right.
Then, the door opened and Sam and Tucker came out, both looking miserable.
"I hate my life…" Tucker grumbled. "I know we're not supposed to take what Spectra said seriously, but she is right, I will never find a girl who likes me, and I couldn't survive without technology, I'm way too dependent on it…"
"I hate your life as well…" Sam muttered. "At least your parents accept you. Mine don't, and I do know what Andy said. But she does have valid points, as in my parents don't care about me at all…they only care about having a model they can show off rather than the person."
Danny frowned as he watched his two friends walk away in misery, a part of him wanted to call after them to try to help cheer them up, but he knew if he did that now, then his friends' sacrifices would've been for nothing. Spectra came at the door, giving a peppy smile at the two people who were walking away with dark clouds over their heads. Danny couldn't help but notice some wrinkles on Spectra's face as she waved to Tucker and Sam.
"Buh bye! And remember, there's an 'I' in 'misery' if you spell it that way!" Spectra said before she shut the door. That gave Danny the cue he needed to turn intangible and go through the door into her office.
As soon as Danny was inside the office, the first thing he saw was bright green energy circling around Spectra, who was grinning, then she moved the green energy into her nose, inhaling it. As soon as Spectra inhaled the energy, her wrinkles disappeared, and she looked younger than she did minutes ago.
Danny gave a slight gasp, which went unheard by Spectra thankfully due to inhaling the energy. Andy's theory was right! She does feed off of misery!
"Man that's good!" Spectra gave a satisfying smile before she looked down at some files on her desk. "I'm going to miss these kids, they're a waterfall of misery. Humans can be so cruel to each other and their own kids, even more so than ghosts."
Just then, the shapeshifting ghost, Bertrand, came in through the wall, grinning evilly. Spectra turned her head to face him with a smile.
"Did you hook up the device?" Spectra asked, almost eagerly.
"But of course." Bertrand smiled proudly. "Once the 'spirit sparklers' go off, it'll trigger the signal. All the Soulmon we've been gathering will rip out the souls of those children so we'll be able to feed off of their misery for a long time to come~"
Danny felt his body get chilled at hearing that, and that was saying something because he was half-ghost!
"We do have to be wary of those Legendary Warriors though." Bertrand continued. "They could show up and ruin things for us."
"I wouldn't worry about them. I have a back-up plan in mind for if the Legendary Warriors decided to interfere." Spectra smirked. "With all those Soulmon we have, the Legendary Warriors will be powerless to stop them all, and even if they could somehow manage, the Soulmon are charged up enough to be able to fusion evolve into one big, powerful Digimon. With the ghost kid too miserable to fight back, and the other kid with the annoying fox Digimon lost all his confidence, those Legendary Warriors will have nobody to back them up. We've got this in the bag for sure, Bertrand~"
Danny gave a silent gulp. Crap… This is not good!
Then the school bell rang.
"Well, there's the bell, shall we go hear a speech, and take our dinner to go?~" Spectra smiled as she and Bertrand held each other's hands, which told Danny they may have a relationship with each other.
The two went through the wall in a flash of light, just as Danny landed and turned tangible again. "Oh no… Jazz and Andy… I'd better find them and warn them! … But… maybe I can still stop them before it's too late!"
Meanwhile, Andy had been trying to find Takuya or Dash, he even tried to find the Japanese twins since he knew they were the other two Legendary Warriors who fought alongside Agunimon and Arbormon.
"Where are they?" Andy questioned.
"I think they're looking for the Soulmon right now," Dorimon guessed. "Their scents are all over the place, so I can't pinpoint them."
"Great, they just had to go off on their own, didn't they?" Andy grumbled.
Dorimon gave Andy a look. "You know, you can contact them via your D-Arc, remember?"
Andy paused for a moment, before he facepalmed himself. "... No, I didn't remember…"
Would've saved me a lot of grief if I hadn't forgotten. Andy grumbled to himself before he took out his D-Arc from his pocket and tapped on the call button. "Takuya? Hello? Can you hear me?"
The symbol of Flame appeared on the D-Arc's screen. "Andy? Is that you?" Takuya's voice asked.
"Yes, it's me. Where the heck are you? I've been looking for you all over this school!" Andy questioned.
"I've been looking for the Soulmon." Takuya replied. "Why are you wondering?"
"I'm going to need you, and your friends, including Dash, to get to the gym right away for the spirit week speech," Andy answered.
"Why? Is something wrong?" Takuya asked, concern showing in his voice.
"I… don't know yet for sure, but I think it's possible that the Soulmon may show up at the gym," Andy said, his doubt showing again.
"Well, that would explain why we haven't found any around the school yet…" Takuya's voice grumbled. "Okay, we'll meet you at the gym."
"How do you know that he could be right, Takuya?" Andy heard another voice saying from nearby.
"How else do you explain there being no Soulmon in the entire school, Koji?" Takuya's voice shot back to the speaker, now revealed to be Koji.
"That they're in hiding? This could just be a waste of time, it could just be a ploy to get you to hear his sister's big speech or whatever." Koji's voice grumbled, making Andy frown.
"Well, whatever the reason, we have to at least check it out." Takuya shot back to Koji. "It wouldn't be a waste of time. If Andy does get proven wrong, we can just leave and look some more."
"Tch… whatever."
Andy hesitated before he spoke up. "Um… Takuya…? Not that I'm ungrateful, but… why do you believe in me?"
"Why wouldn't I?" Takuya replied back. "You're my family member, and besides, you weren't yourself in that last fight. I know you are able to do better than that. And besides… you haven't steered us wrong when we really needed you. I don't know where you got the idea that we didn't need you."
Andy thought about Spectra for a moment and frowned. "Thanks, Takuya… that means a lot to me."
"No problem, buddy!" Takuya chuckled. "We'll meet you at the gym." There was a slight pause before Takuya spoke up again. "And…by the way, why is your symbol a pink heart? When you called me, it showed up."
"What?" Andy blinked. "What do you mean? As far as I know, I don't have a symbol."
"Well, it has shown up each time you called me. I didn't think much of it until now." Takuya replied.
"... Um… maybe it's just what my D-Arc defaulted to?" Andy shrugged. "I don't know why it's a pink heart, I didn't even know I had a symbol at all."
"Well, we can figure it out later. We have some Soulmon to hunt down." Takuya said. "We can deal with that symbol issue after this."
"Okay. I'll see you at the gym then," Andy answered before hanging up, he turned to look at Dorimon. "Ready to face some Soulmon?"
Dorimon gave a toothy grin. "Do you even need to ask?"
Andy started heading to the gym, hearing the school bell ringing earlier. I hope I don't get there too late.
By the time Andy got to the gym, he saw a bunch of depressed kids just sitting at the bleachers, looking like they were contemplating their life choices already, and the cheerleaders just kind of stood there in the middle of the gym's floor, not moving around, they just held their pom-poms, and monotonically saying a 'cheer'.
Jeez, these kids look more half dead than Danny… Andy frowned.
Mr. Lancer apparently thought so too, as he snatched up the pom-poms after giving the cheerleaders a scolding, and began to do the cheer himself.
"We've got the spirit, yes we do! We've got the spirit, how about you!?" Mr. Lancer cheered as he was surprisingly flexible for his age and posture.
Despite Mr. Lancer's best efforts to pump up the spirit, nobody made a sound, they all just kinda stared at the man with little to no enthusiasm whatsoever.
Mr. Lancer frowned to himself, wondering what was going on. Behind him, Jazz spoke up, unsure of what was going on herself. "Okay…?"
Andy frowned as he didn't hear from Danny yet, but he couldn't just leave this alone either. He didn't like seeing all his fellow students suffering from self pity and depression that Spectra was, no doubt, responsible for. Despite his doubts, Andy walked over to Mr. Lancer since Jazz wasn't quite ready to give her speech yet.
"Mr. Lancer… I need to tell you something," Andy said to the teacher.
"And what would that be, Andrew?" Mr. Lancer asked as he looked down at Andy to make eye contact with the boy.
Andy resisted the urge to look away. "Um… I think that… maybe that teen therapist you hired… may be responsible for why nobody's… gotten into the spirit."
Mr. Lancer blinked. "Are you alright, Andrew? That's quite a serious accusation you are making."
Andy wanted to back down, since he had no definitive proof until Danny would come over, but he felt a nudge from in his backpack, he knew Dorimon was trying his best to encourage him.
"I know it's serious, which is why I didn't want to say anything, but I don't want this to escalate any further," Andy said. "Ever since Ms. Spectra came into office, haven't you noticed that the other students have become quiet and more withdrawn? How some of them are worried about seemingly random things, not paying attention in class, seeming hesitant to say anything?"
Mr. Lancer frowned at hearing that. Now that I think about it… "You do have a point, Andrew. I have noticed it lately, even in my English class."
"I'm not saying that I'm accusing Ms. Spectra, I'm just saying maybe you should investigate her just to be safe," Andy stated.
"Well, if this worries you so much, and because it is so wide-spread at the school, I will have Ms. Spectra investigated." Mr. Lancer assured Andy. "If she is such a renowned therapist, then why are students so miserable?"
"... When a kid is loud, obnoxious, and rambunctious, you see a troubled kid. When a kid is quiet, obedient, and doesn't complain, what do you see?" Andy quietly asked.
Mr. Lancer had to give Andy credit for that question. "A good, well-behaved student. But that is not always the case, is it?"
"Sometimes the most quiet ones have the most trouble going on with them," Andy answered. "Just… something for you to think about the next time you notice someone is being unusually quiet and obedient."
"I will take that to heart, Andrew." Mr. Lancer said. "Now, why don't you go and find a seat? Or if this bothers you here, seeing all these depressed students, you can leave if you so wish."
Andy shook his head. "I do still want to hear my big sister's speech." And see what's going to happen.
Mr. Lancer nodded. "Very well. But if you ever wish to leave, you can."
"Thank you, Mr. Lancer," Andy said gratefully before he walked over to the nearest bleacher and sat down on it.
Jazz finally began her speech, she definitely had the most spirit out of the entire school. Andy was worried though, Danny still hadn't showed up. Did he get caught or something? I probably shouldn't have left him alone.
"Andy?" A familiar voice asked from beside him as a hand tapped his shoulder.
Andy jumped at the sudden tap with how high his guard had been, his hand hit something hard behind him.
"Ow!" It was none other than Takuya. "Jeez, you can pack a punch!"
Andy turned, seeing Takuya rubbing his nose. "Err… sorry, Takuya… I'm a bit on edge right now."
"So I noticed…" Takuya grumbled, feeling for if his nose was broken, which it wasn't much to his relief. "I just got here. Is everything okay?"
"Considering the state the students are in, not really. Dash is looking a lot like them as well," Andy answered. "Danny isn't here yet, so I can't help but worry about him."
Takuya frowned at hearing that before he sat down next to Andy. "That's worrisome… Normally he is good about finding us before something happens."
Andy was nervously tapping his fingers on his pants. Surely… surely he didn't decide to face Spectra and Bertrand on his own, did he? I know our last battle together didn't go so well, but… oh my gosh, he totally decided to face Spectra and Bertrand alone!
Takuya nudged Andy. "Andy, are you okay? You looked freaked out."
"I… I think I have to go check something out," Andy said, looking ready to bolt to the door just to charge into Spectra's office.
Takuya frowned. "Alone? Or would you like some backup?"
"Whooooo!" Their trains of thought were interrupted when they heard Mr. Lancer cheering, or at least tried to cheer.
Andy and Takuya looked at Mr. Lancer and Jazz, seeing how Mr. Lancer tapped on a domino piece on a large table. The dominos began to fall on each other, slowly creating some words.
Takuya looked at the 'Spirit Sparklers', noticing something seemed off. "Um… Do those sparklers look like lasers to you?"
Andy looked at the Spirit Sparklers, something he hadn't been paying much attention to due to his minor freakout, and a bunch of other things on his mind. He squinted his eyes as the sparklers looked to be pointing up at the ceiling, and almost looked like focused satellites. Andy had never really seen machine Spirit Sparklers before, so he had nothing to compare it with.
"Lasers? No, they just look like machines to me," Andy shrugged. Though I guess they do look kind of… high tech for Spirit Sparklers.
"I don't know…" Takuya murmured. "Spirit Sparklers shouldn't look that high tech, I think…"
As Andy watched the dominos falling on each other, he couldn't help but let his mind wander a bit. He remembered hearing Jazz talk about the domino thing being Spectra's idea, and while she thought it was a bit much, she didn't see any reason not to do it. Jazz also told Andy how Spectra wanted to make the Spirit Sparklers bigger than they ever had been for this year's Spirit Week, so they set up a machine for it. The machines that were a bit close to Jazz. As if something just clicked, Andy realized that the 'Spirit Sparklers' were a trap just as the last domino fell onto the trigger button for the machine.
"Takuya! Get Jazz out of there!" Andy suddenly shouted.
Takuya looked at Andy in surprise, but he stood and bolted to where Jazz was in a matter of seconds. As soon as he reached her side, Takuya tackled Jazz, and knocked her down to the floor and away from the 'Spirit Sparklers'. There was no time to Spirit Evolve, so he had to do it as a human.
Not a second later, the 'Spirit Sparklers' fired some kind of white beam at where Jazz was, and suddenly, dozens of Soulmon appeared. If Jazz had been standing there, they would have consumed her soul in a second.
Takuya, still next to Jazz with one arm around her, looked up. "Ugh… Great…" He then looked at Jazz. "Are you okay, Jazz?"
"Y-yeah, I'm fine, thanks," Jazz answered, looking a bit shaken up.
The students started to cry out in fear as the Soulmon began to fly around the gym. The Soulmon put up barriers around the exits, making it so nobody could escape.
Shit… I can't get out to Spirit Evolve! Takuya thought as he saw that.
Andy ran over to Takuya and Jazz. "Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah… I'm fine." Takuya replied as he sat up.
"I'm okay…" Jazz added, looking shaken up still.
Despite everyone being half dead before, they still had some sense of self preservation, and were trying to run as the Soulmon were surrounding them. One of the Soulmon floated in front of a student and reached out its claws at them.
"Dark Claw." Soulmon reached into the student's chest, and brought out their soul, leaving the empty husk of a body to fall to the ground.
More Soulmon were grabbing the other student's souls.
"We have to do something! Takuya, where are the others!?" Andy asked frantically.
Takuya looked around, but he only saw Dash there. Koji and Koichi were nowhere to be found. Maybe they found a place to evolve? "I… think they went and 'hid'."
There was a loud booming sound coming from outside the gym. Andy didn't know if that was the other warriors, or Danny fighting with Spectra and Bertrand.
"Well, we're on our own right now," Andy said, seeing how they were behind the stage. "Jazz, come with me. Takuya, you stay here and… do what you have to do."
Takuya nodded as he saw Andy and Jazz run off.
Takuya then held out his D-Tector and the blue digital form of his first Spirit appeared visible on the screen of his D-Tector as he formed the familiar fractal coding on his left hand. He swiped the D-Tector over the coding, calling out the familiar phrase he knew by heart. "Execute! Spirit Evolution!" His clothes ripped away as his body became digital, and the process began. Coding surrounded him as the power of the Spirit flowed into his body. Red armor formed and latched onto his body as his hair changed to blonde and became long and wild. His height increased, as did his strength and agility. His eyes snapped open, now a brilliant blue instead of brown, and his teeth were sharper than a human's as well. He landed, crying out his name. "Agunimon!"
"Jazz, you have Lopmon with you, right?" Andy asked after he had pulled her away from behind the stage, and they were now hiding under the bleachers.
"Yes, I do." Jazz replied. "He's currently in hiding under the domino table. Why?"
"He may be able to help us, like before," Andy answered. "And… if I'm right, you two might be able-"
A kid screamed, another soul was taken.
"Try to get to Lopmon, Jazz. Dorimon and I will try to slow these Soulmon down before they take anymore souls," Andy quickly instructed. "Dorimon!"
Dorimon jumped out of Andy's backpack, and glared at the nearest Soulmon.
"Give me your soul," Soulmon commanded.
"Not on your afterlife!" Dorimon snapped.
Andy's D-Arc glowed, and Dorimon was surrounded by fractal code.
"Dorimon digivolve to… Dorumon!" As soon as Dorumon had digivolved, he jumped at the Soulmon. "Dash Metal!"
The attack landed on the Soulmon, knocking it back into another Soulmon and away from Andy.
Jazz was concerned as Andy jumped out to follow Dorumon, she didn't want one of her little brothers put himself in danger like that, but she knew there wasn't much she could do on her own. Deciding to listen to Andy, Jazz hurried over to the domino table, seeing Lopmon crawling out to see what was all the commotion.
"What the? Where did all these Soulmon come from?" Lopmon frowned.
Jazz looked back as Lopmon crawled out. "Lopmon! We're going to need your help for this!"
"I'm sorry, Jazz… I don't know how much help I can be, there's too many of them, and they're already getting stronger with each human soul they take." Lopmon frowned.
Jazz felt her face pale at hearing that. "Then… there's nothing we can do?" She didn't like hearing that news at all.
A Soulmon started to fly towards Jazz from above. Lopmon reacted quickly and jumped, headbutting the Soulmon with his three horns. The Soulmon yelped as it flew away to get an easier target.
"Maybe, maybe not…" Lopmon began. "How determined are you to fight back?"
Jazz looked down for a moment. True, this was not a fight she was confident in winning, but her brother Andy was in trouble, and with Takuya in hiding, she had to do something to protect them. She frowned before looking up. "I will do what I can to help protect my family." The determined look in her teal eyes said it all.
"If you choose to fight now, you may not be able to go back on it. It'll be dangerous, you could die. Are you willing to take that risk?" Lopmon questioned, looking up at Jazz in the eyes.
Jazz nodded. "If I don't do something, I will most likely regret it for the rest of my life, wondering 'what if I did something different?' every day."
"Then fight with me," Lopmon said, holding out a hand. "Fight with me as my partner."
Jazz reached out and took Lopmon's hand, clenching it tightly, but not too tight as to cause pain on accident. "I will, Lopmon."
Something suddenly glowed in their hands. Lopmon let go of Jazz's hand, and there was a device in the girl's hand. It was a device that looked very similar to Andy's, it was clearly a D-Arc, but its colors were different. It had a golden body, while the screen outline and buttons, and strap, were pink.
Jazz stared at the D-Arc. "Is this… What Andy has?"
"It's a D-Arc," Lopmon said before turning to face the other Soulmon that were now looking at them. "Here they come!"
Andy ran over to Jazz, seeing the light show himself. "Jazz, what was-"
Andy was surprised to see the D-Arc in Jazz's hand.
Jazz smiled at Andy. "Andy, I got a partner Digimon! I agreed to be Lopmon's partner!"
Before Andy could answer, a Soulmon nearly pounced them. "Metal Cannon!"
The Soulmon was hit by an iron ball, and Dorumon ran over to them. "Shock later, focus now!"
Jazz realized Dorumon was right and nodded. "Right." She then stood up and faced the horde of Soulmon, D-Arc in hand as she clenched it tightly. "Let's go, Lopmon. Andy and Takuya need our help."
Jazz and Lopmon charged into the action. "Tiny Twister!"
Lopmon was able to hit multiple Soumon by spinning around quickly and slamming her ears into them while bouncing between Soulmon.
Andy started writing something on his notepad while Dorumon was trying to keep the other Soulmon away from him.
Just then, a Soulmon tried to pounce on Andy, slipping past Dorumon's defenses, Andy gasped at seeing how close the Soulmon was, and it was reaching a dark claw towards him, only for a familiar voice to cry out across the gym. "Pyro Darts!"
The small flaming darts hit the Soulmon, forcing it back as Agunimon landed beside Andy. "Sorry it took a while. There were Soulmon lurking everywhere."
"Boy am I glad to see you!" Andy said in relief.
"How many Soulmon are there? There must be hundreds of them!" Dorumon groaned.
"They're taking souls faster than we can take them." Andy frowned.
"There have to be at least 50, but that is just my best guess." Agunimon admitted with a growl before he round-kicked another Soulmon away from them. "They just keep coming!"
"With this barrier, the other Legendary Warriors can't get in," Andy realized. "Why didn't they come into the gym?"
"Dash was at home, he passed out during class, so the nurse called his parents to take him home earlier," Agunimon answered. "Koji… didn't think you were right in your suspicion, so he and Koichi decided to keep looking around while I went to the gym myself."
Dorumon frowned. "So we are three Legendary Warriors short… This is not good odds for us."
"But we do have my sister and Lopmon helping us out," Andy said. "So the situation isn't all bad."
Agunimon frowned a bit at hearing that, but he didn't voice any objection to it.
"I'm going to see if I can make an explosion that will take out most of the Soulmon. Agunimon, try to keep the other students out of the blast range," Andy instructed.
"I can't make any guarantees, but I will definitely try my best." The Warrior of Flame assured Andy before he turned to see if there were any students close by that he could help.
Andy tore off the page from his notebook and slapped it onto an iron ball that Dorumon spat out earlier. Dorumon grabbed onto the iron ball before throwing it into the center of the gym. Agunimon, seeing the paper on it, knew that iron ball was a grenade. He grabbed onto as many panicking people as he could.
"Move! Get to a wall! Hurry!" Agunimon shouted.
Andy couldn't detonate the iron ball as long as there were people too close to the blast range. The Soulmon were starting to wise up, however, they could see the students seemed to be running towards the walls for some reason. The Soulmon began to fly up quickly. By the time the other students and Mr. Lancer were far enough away from the iron ball, Andy had Dorumon detonate it, but most of the Soulmon had already gotten out of range, so only a few were hit.
Damn it! Too many people around, I couldn't catch them by surprise! Andy hissed.
Unfortunately, this caused the Soulmon to see Andy as a real danger, so they began to fly towards him.
Agunimon, seeing that, felt his heartrate increase rapidly. No! He ran as fast as he could to Andy, using his enhanced abilities to his advantage. "ANDY!"
Jazz looked back, only to see all the Soulmon still around converging in on Andy, and she began to panic. "ANDY!" Her voice was filled with panic and fear as she ran towards Andy as well, hoping to save her baby brother from getting his soul taken out. "RUN, ANDY!"
Andy and Dorumon were trying to get away, but the Soulmon began to circle them.
"Necro Magic." The cries of the dead quickly began to weaken Andy to his knees.
One of the Soulmon floated to Andy. Dorumon jumped to attack, but another Soulmon bodyslammed Dorumon into the ground.
"Stop! Let me go! LET ME GO!" Dorumon shouted, struggling against the Soulmon that had him pinned.
Andy struggled to move as the Soulmon came up to his face. "Dark Claw."
Andy let out a gasp as a dark claw phased into his chest. Agunimon was running towards them as fast as he could move, he shoved the other Soulmon away. Agunimon's eyes widened when he saw something being pulled out of Andy. It looked like that Phantom kid, the same white hair, the ghostly aura, the only difference is that he didn't seem to have any clothes on, and his eyes were purple instead of green. He looked really weak too.
W-what is… Is Phantom living inside Andy too? Agunimon wondered before he realized that Andy was still in danger. Not taking any more time to ponder the situation, Agunimon rushed towards Andy and the Soulmon that was trying to remove what looked like that Phantom kid from Andy. "Get away from him!"
The Soulmon let out a screech as Agunimon tackled it away from Andy and the supposed Phantom kid, it sounded like it was in far more pain after being cut off from the soul it was trying to take.
Agunimon had a pissed off expression on his face, revealing his sharp fangs to the Soulmon as he then kicked the Soulmon back into another set of three Soulmon, sending all four to the ground.
Agunimon quickly looked back at Andy in fear that they might have taken his soul, but he saw the Phantom kid(?) slipping back into Andy's body. Andy groaned, coming out of the daze he was in.
Relief filled Agunimon's body at hearing that. Andy's going to be okay…
"Look out!" Andy suddenly warned.
Agunimon felt sharp pain in his back, a Dark Claw had phased into his armor.
Agunimon couldn't help but let out a scream of pain before he felt something lift his body and then, the next thing he knew, he was airborne before he finally hit something really hard, most likely a wall. A groan escaped the Warrior of Flame before he fell from where he had smacked into the wall, landing on the ground limply. There was even a slight blood splatter on the wall from where he had hit his head.
"Ta- Agunimon!" Andy called out in worry.
Dorumon rushed over to Andy, since the Soulmon was off of him now, he was worried about Andy since his soul was just pulled from his body. "Are you okay?"
"A little dazed, but I'm fine. But Agunimon is knocked out, and we're on our own." Andy frowned.
"Andy!" Jazz called as she and Lopmon made their way to him. "Are you okay!? Did the Soulmon hurt you?"
"I'm fine, Jazz. I just feel a little dazed from the experience, but I'll be fine," Andy reassured his sister. "But we have to stay focused or it'll happen again, and this time they'll actually take it."
Jazz frowned, but nodded. "You're right. We need to defeat these Soulmon." She looked around as she stood up from beside Andy. "But there are too many."
"Such pure soul, such lustful taste, such power, must have it!" The Soulmon that had grabbed onto Andy's soul earlier roared, it was the first time a Soulmon spoke up from their monotone voice.
Jazz stood in front of Andy with Lopmon at her side. "No way, creepy sheet! That's my baby brother!" Her D-Arc gleamed in the light of the gym's lights as she clenched it tightly.
Lopmon and Dorumon stood in front of Jazz, ready to defend their partners. The one Soulmon that had apparently reawakened itself, and wanted Andy's soul, let out a loud call, the other Soulmon stopped what they were doing and looked up at the one that called them. Then, they began to fly to the Soulmon that called them, coming together like an amalgamate.
"What are they doing?" Andy asked.
"They're fusing," Lopmon spoke up. "They're going to try a fusion evolution!"
"Fusion what?" Jazz asked, confused now.
"It's when a Digimon digivolves by fusing with others. The digivolution will make them far stronger than if it was a normal digivolution," Lopmon explained.
Jazz felt her face pale at that. "I don't like the sound of that…"
A bright fractal code surrounded the amalgamation of Soulmon, shortly after a flash, the fractal code dissipated, revealing a huge ghost-like Digimon, its body was a gray cloth looking thing, it wore a crimson red cape, and a crimson hoodie that covered up most of its face, they could only see two gleaming blue eyes under the hoodie. There was a skull head at the top of the hoodie. It wore a necklace with a pale pink orb, and a red glowing energy inside it, it also had chains around its cloth-like arms, holding a pendulum at the end of one of the chains, and a golden scythe with its other arm.
Jazz looked at Lopmon. "What Digimon is that?" Her D-Arc glowed, making her look back at it as a holographic image of the Digimon showed up on it.
"Phantomon, an Ultimate level Digimon, and a Virus type. Phantomon is a Ghost Digimon. A Reaper-like Digimon holding a gigantic sickle and chain. There is a crystal shaped like an eyeball hanging from its neck, and similar to Mammothmon's crest, it is able to foresee everything with its power of clairvoyance, in order to perceive those that are close to death," Jazz read out loud.
"No way, that thing is ten times bigger than most other Phantomon!" Dorumon shouted.
"Well, this isn't a normal Phantomon since we saw several Soulmon fuse into it." Jazz pointed out. She then looked at Lopmon. "Do Digimon have certain advantages against one another or disadvantages?"
"Yes… unfortunately, we're the ones at a severe disadvantage," Lopmon warned. "Both Dorumon and I are Data types, we are weak to Virus type Digimon, and we are also currently at Rookie level, two levels lower than Phantomon."
Jazz blinked with a frown on her face, not liking what she was hearing at all. "What about that Legendary Warrior? Does it have an advantage against this Phantomon?"
"Agunimon is considered a Vaccine type, but he is more of a Free type," Lopmon answered. "And he is unconscious right now."
Jazz looked over, seeing that was indeed the case. "Oh boy…"
"We're not giving up," Andy spoke up, getting back onto his feet. "We'll find a way to beat this thing. I know Danny wouldn't give up."
"That's right, it's too early to give up now," Dorumon agreed.
"Then we'll keep fighting until our last breath," Lopmon replied.
Jazz sighed before looking up as well. "Okay then… Let's see if we can beat this thing!"
Dorumon and Lopmon took a deep breath.
"Metal Cannon!"
"Blazing Ice!"
Their attacks hit the Phantomon, but it didn't phase the ghost Digimon, not one little bit.
"Was that supposed to hurt?" Phantomon asked.
Jazz gaped. "I...I thought that Phantomon was similar to Soulmon! It can talk with ease?!"
"All Digimon can talk, they were being controlled before," Dorumon answered. "Andy's soul must've woken them up somehow."
"Why?" Andy asked.
"You likely have a strong soul, the stronger the soul, the more a Soulmon wants it," Lopmon guessed.
Jazz blinked but didn't say a word on the guess. They had bigger issues with the Phantomon to worry about right now.
Phantomon held up its scythe, and it began to glow with dark energy. "Shadow Scythe!"
"Look out!" Dorumon and Lopmon tackled their partners away from the attack, only to get swept up in the scythe themselves, they let out a loud cry as their fractal codes began to show.
"LOPMON!" Jazz shouted in fear. "NO!"
"Dorumon…" Andy's eyes widened, seeing that his partner was about to be taken away from him in front of his eyes.
"DORUMON!" Andy screamed in worry.
"Fractal code, a Digimon's soul, it's just as tasty~" Phantomon purred as he began to float down to Dorumon and Lopmon.
Just then, a loud explosion echoed from one of the doors, which was blown wide open. Smoke was seen before a green blast of ecto energy came out from the smoke and slammed into the Phantomon, forcing it away from the two Rookie-level Digimon. A form came from the smoke, a black and white blur that was very familiar. Two green eyes were blazing with anger.
"BACK AWAY!" Danny shouted.
"D-Danny!" Andy and Jazz both said in shock at seeing their ghostly brother.
"Sorry it took a while." Danny said as he floated down in front of them. "I had to deal with Bertrand and Spectra. One ghost was caught, Bertrand, one, Spectra, got away."
Phantomon hissed angrily, despite being a high level Ultimate Digimon, it appeared to be in pain from Danny's ghost rays, Andy noticed a couple of green holes were smoking on Phantomon's cloak.
"You were able to break through the barrier?" Jazz asked, surprised.
"Yeah. Apparently ghost energy can break through Digital energy and vice versa." Danny replied. "Andy explained that to me."
Danny then looked at Phantomon. "What is that? Are you sure that's not a ghost?"
"It is but it's also a Digimon," Andy replied. "It's called Phantomon, it's an Ultimate level Digimon, it was made from all the Soulmon that fused together."
Danny scowled. "Phantomon… I don't like it. I mean that's my name!"
"Worry about the name later!" Jazz exclaimed. "We have to beat that thing first!"
"You will pay for defiling my sacred clothes, ghost boy!" Phantomon snapped before raising his scythe. "Shadow Scythe!"
Danny gasped before he flew up and away from the attack, using his flight abilities to his advantage. He was quicker in the air than the Phantomon thought.
While Danny was distracting Phantomon, Andy and Jazz hurried to their Digimon partners. They appeared to have recovered enough to bring their fractal codes back into their bodies, but they were still injured and unconscious.
"They're out cold…" Jazz frowned. "How can we wake them up? We need to help Danny!"
"I know we do," Andy sighed. "But how…?"
I let Takuya get hurt, I let Dorumon get hurt… I almost let them take my soul… somehow I created this monster… Danny could get hurt next… what if they try to eat him because he's a ghost right now? If that scythe gets to him, what will it do? Andy looked up at Danny, seeing that he was trying to dodge Phantomon's attacks. He can't dodge forever. I don't think the Fenton Thermos will work on a Digimon, even a ghostly one.
Danny flew around the next attack with ease, but he was slowly getting tired. It was taking a lot to just dodge the attacks.
Then Phantomon called out his next attack. "Diabolic Star!"
Dark energy surrounded the scythe and the pendulum's chains. The chains acted alive, and shot towards Danny. Danny's eyes widened, having not expecting that, before his body was wrapped in chains. The ghost let out a scream of pain and agony before Phantomon threw him to the ground, still having Danny wrapped up in chains that were slowly draining his energy away.
Andy stood up. "Jazz! It's now or never! I can't stand by and watch our brother get beaten up!"
Jazz looked at Andy, surprised, but she stood up as well. "I'm with you, Andy."
Both of their D-Arcs glowed brightly, they looked at their D-Arcs for a second before they pointed the screens at their Digimon partners. The bright light shot out from the D-Arcs and surrounded Dorumon and Lopmon, both of their eyes shot open.
"DIGIVOLUTION."
Dorumon was surrounded by fractal code as he felt the energy of Andy's will fill him. His skin began to peel away from his face and head, then his stomach and his tail was last to lose the skin. But as he regained his skin, his claws and legs came back first, then his wings came back with skin, flaring open to reveal their larger size, his tail swung around once as it regained the skin, and then his head and face were last to regain their skin.
Lopmon began to lose his own skin, on his face, and then his legs lost their skin as well. His ears also lost their skin before his skin began to come back, but on his legs and feet first. Lopmon's legs gained shoes and yellow pants with a belt and yellow top that matched, two blades appeared as his hands regained their skin and red gloves, grasping the blades in both hands. The skin on Lopmon's head and face came back, just as a blue bandanna appeared around his neck as well.
The fractal code vanished, revealing the two new Champion Level Digimon.
"Dorugamon!" The newly evolved Dorugamon called out.
"Turuiemon!" The newly evolved Turuiemon exclaimed.
Jazz gaped at what she was seeing, and she was fairly certain Andy was reacting the same way.
"Are you seeing this, Andy? Tell me I am not the only one seeing this!" Jazz exclaimed.
"Both of our Digimon just digivolved!" Andy exclaimed as well.
"What level are they?" Jazz asked, trying to process what she had just seen happen.
Turuiemon and Dorugamon jumped at Phantomon as Danny was weakening.
"Cannonball!" Dorugamon shouted as he shot out a huge iron sphere from his mouth as he was flying towards the Phantomon.
The large cannonball slammed into Phantomon's back, causing it to fall to the ground. Turuiemon hopped on top of the Phantomon's back, smirking. "Gauntlet Claw!"
Turuiemon began to rapidly punch the Phantomon's back with his fists and the metal spikes on his fists, digging into the Phantomon's cloth-like back.
Jazz felt a bit of a grin cross her face. "Andy, I think we may have a chance now…"
"Yeah…" Andy then looked at his D-Arc, seeing that Dorugamon's data was registered.
"Dorugamon, a Champion level, it's considered a Data or a Vaccine type. Dorugamon is an Animal Digimon and a carrier of the X Antibody. It is a ferocious Digimon that possesses the disposition of a beast and a dragon," Andy read.
Jazz then checked her D-Arc for Turuiemon. "Turuiemon is a Champion level. It's a Data type. Turuiemon is an Animal Digimon. It is a martial artist Digimon that was discovered within the hinterlands of a Chinese mountain province."
Jazz then looked back at the two Champion-level Digimon. "I wonder if two Champions can take on an Ultimate level and win." This was said with some musing.
"Maybe… but…" Andy looked over at Danny, who was still tied up in chains. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't help. Come on, we need to get Danny out of those chains!"
Jazz nodded. "Right. Let's go!" She ran over to where Danny was, intent on getting him out of his bind, literally.
Andy hurried over to Danny as well. Danny opened his eyes, surprised to see his siblings.
"Heh… aren't you two a sight for sore eyes?" Danny chuckled weakly.
"No need to make jokes, Danny." Jazz sighed. "We're going to get you out of those chains, so don't worry." She began to look at the chains for a way to get them off.
"These are digital chains…" Andy noted. "I wonder if it's possible to override their code."
Jazz looked at Andy. "You have an idea on how to do that?" She had seen him working on something with Dorumon's iron ball earlier, but she didn't know what he had been doing.
"No… this isn't from my Digimon, so I'd have to hack into it in order to change the code, this would be something Tucker could do… but maybe there is something I can still do," Andy observed before looking over at one of Dorugamon's huge iron ball that rolled off of Phantomon. "Jazz, help me get that iron ball over to Danny."
"What? That thing is bigger than a freaking cannonball!" Jazz pointed out.
"Yeah, which is why I need your help," Andy responded.
Jazz sighed before she and Andy ran over to the iron ball that was half their size, and began to push it to get it to roll towards Danny.
Meanwhile, Dorugamon and Turuiemon were still fighting with Phantomon.
"Shadow Scythe!" Phantomon swung his scythe at the two Champion Digimon.
Dorugamon flew upwards and away from the blow while Turuiemon jumped up and onto the bleachers before jumping off and landing on a basketball hoop support.
"That was close." Turuiemon noted while panting a bit.
"You're telling me… I rather not get hit by that scythe again," Dorugamon agreed before he landed. "Fighting Spirit!"
A purple aura began to surround Dorugamon as he began to power himself up.
Meanwhile, Turuiemon got ready to attack again to buy Dorugamon some time. "Ninja Fist!" He jumped off the basketball hoop support and began to attack with stealthy attacks while jumping around to get to new locations to attack from.
Phantomon glared from under his hood, obviously losing his patience. "It should not be difficult to take down two Champion Digimon."
Phantomon then took a deep breath. "Words of Death."
A giant Japanese Kanji for 'death' appeared in front of Phantomon, before it started to charge for the two Digimon. Dorugamon flew up, and Turuiemon jumped out of the way.
"Diabolic Star!" Phantomon wrapped the chains around Dorugamon's tail and began to pull him down.
Seeing that, Turuiemon directed the next strike of his Ninja Fist attack at the chains and severed them before Dorugamon could be caught like Danny had been.
"Thanks," Dorugamon replied gratefully.
Turuiemon smiled before jumping away to avoid the chains himself.
Phantomon then began creating illusions of itself, throwing Dorugamon and Turuiemon off guard. Dorugamon's forehead gem began to glow before he turned to Turuiemon, seeing the Phantomon above him about to use its scythe.
"Cannonball!" Dorugamon shot out an iron ball that was even bigger than the last one right at the Phantomon's scythe, causing a loud CLANG as the two attacks hit each other.
Turuiemon looked back at the sound and had never felt so glad for Dorugamon's intervention. "Nice shot! That would have done some damage had you not intervened."
"Yeah, but it's not over yet. This Ultimate level isn't easy to take down," Dorugamon responded, seeing more illusions being created.
Meanwhile, Andy and Jazz managed to get the iron ball close to Danny. Both siblings were out of breath, but they couldn't rest for long, the chains were still draining Danny, and he was getting weaker by the second. Andy quickly began to write something in his notepad. Then he stuck the paper onto the iron ball. Suddenly, half of the iron ball began to melt down into liquid, the liquid started to crawl onto the chains and started melting them like acid.
Jazz blinked, surprised. "Wow… That's impressive, Andy! You can manipulate your Digimon's attack's coding!"
"Only the physical attacks, like the iron balls he leaves behind," Andy answered. "It wouldn't work out so well if you tried to put a piece of paper on one of Lopmon's Blazing Ice since the paper would turn to ice on contact."
Jazz smiled. "Well, it's something interesting to see you do. It gives you more of an advantage than for me."
Andy couldn't help but blush at the compliment. With the chains weakened from the metallic acid, Danny was able to wiggle his way out of the chains before the chains broke apart.
"Are you okay?" Andy asked Danny in concern.
Danny nodded. "Yeah, but that attack drained me quite a bit."
Then Danny looked at Jazz, before remembering he was in his ghost form. Jazz looked at Danny, while Danny gave an awkward grin at her. Then suddenly, black claws came up from underground and grabbed onto Danny's shoulders, almost piercing through his hazmat suit. Danny let out a yell as he was suddenly pulled away from Jazz and Andy, and was pinned into a wall.
"DANNY!" Jazz shouted in worry. She wanted to run towards Danny, but looked back at Andy. "What should we do?!"
Andy dug into his pocket for the Fenton Rod, only to realize his pockets were empty. Where the crap did I put my Fenton Rod!? "Do you have any Fenton weapons with you?"
"I brought the Fenton Peeler…" Jazz admitted, feeling a bit embarrassed. "But only because I was worried about ghosts attacking!"
"Okay, use it then, but be careful not to hit Danny with it. I'm going to see if I can wake up Agunimon," Andy quickly said.
Jazz nodded and ran after to help Danny while Andy ran over to the still unconscious Legendary Warrior of Flame, pulling out the Peeler as she did so. Hang on Danny! I'm coming!
"You're no help to your friends or your family, you're just some creepy little boy with creepy little powers, you scare them, you make them unsure about you, how would they know you wouldn't just one day snap and attack them? How would you know your ghostly instincts wouldn't make you turn on them one day? After all, as your parents said, all ghosts are evil, right?~" Spectra sneered with a wicked grin.
Danny groaned as he tried to struggle out of the shadow ghost's grip, but her words cut deep into his heart, and Spectra began to absorb his doubt, worry, and misery.
Jazz reached Danny and Spectra, aiming the Fenton Peeler. "I would like to call a rain check on that claim, wispy!" She pressed the button and the Peeler began to form armor on her body to protect her from Spectra in case she tried to attack.
The Fenton Peeler Jazz was holding out had turned into an arm cannon, and it fired out a bright green beam at Spectra. Danny managed to open his eyes to see Spectra's forms were peeling off of her like a banana, and each form that was peeled looked like an older version of her human disguise, each version kept getting older and older until she was nothing but a wrinkly old lady.
"Wow… Talk about having nothing within…" Danny mumbled to himself.
"What… what have you done to me!?" The old lady who was Spectra screeched.
"I peeled away your powers." Jazz replied as she glared at Spectra from behind the glass that protected her face. "No one harms my baby brother!"
"Uh…" Danny looked at her in surprise before he opened the cap of the Fenton Thermos he had with him, sucking the feeble old lady ghost into it.
Once Danny closed the Fenton Thermos, he looked over at Jazz. "Jazz…? You… you know who I am?"
Jazz then realized she had just said something she shouldn't have said. "Uh…" Oh, darn… "Sorry, no, you just look like my brother, that's all."
Danny rubbed the back of his head before sighing. "No… you're right, I am your brother, well one of your brothers. I'm… Danny. Andy… suggested that I should consider telling you, since it would be dangerous to keep you in the dark if you started fighting together with us with a Digimon of your own. And… you did get a Digimon of your own. So… it would be best not to keep secrets from each other."
Jazz smiled a bit. "Well, I'm glad you told me." She then walked over and hugged Danny. "And I couldn't be any prouder of you, Danny."
"You… aren't freaked out by the fact that I'm a ghost?" Danny asked, surprised.
"You're still my brother, whether a ghost or not. And Andy is still my brother despite having a Digimon partner." Jazz replied. "Heck, Andy could be a Digimon and I wouldn't care either way. Besides, Andy found out that I found out about you, so he did tell me about the accident, and how you're now a half ghost. He believed it would've been better if I was told of the situation before I started making my own assumptions."
Danny grinned sheepishly. "Probably for the best… I wouldn't want you thinking I actually died or something."
Jazz then rubbed Danny's glowing white hair. "C'mon. We have a Phantomon to beat."
Danny smiled. "Right!"
Fired up with new confidence, both siblings rushed towards where the battle was taking place. Meanwhile, Andy was trying to get Agunimon to wake up.
"... How do I wake up a fire warrior…?" Andy wondered for a moment.
The boy walked away for a few minutes, then he came back with a bucket of ice cold water. "Sorry about this, Takuya."
Then Andy splashed Agunimon with the ice cold water.
There was a slight groan from the Digimon, but it was all Andy got aside from a slight movement of his head. It was enough to let the boy know he was still alive at least.
"Too bad I don't have a card that heals…" Andy frowned. "Hmm… would reverting him back to human heal his head wound? His wounds usually disappear when he reverts… but how can I get him to revert?"
Andy put his hands on Agunimon's chest armor. "There's got to be a way… Maybe the D-Tector might be the key?"
But before Andy could reach for the D-Tector, Dorugamon cried out and landed near Andy with a loud CRASH. The Phantomon had gotten the jump on him. Andy ran over to Dorugamon.
"Dorugamon! Are you okay?" Andy asked in concern.
"Think I'm going to be feeling that in the morning…" Dorugamon groaned.
Turuiemon landed next to Andy and Dorugamon. "I've noticed something about the Phantomon. It seems to be getting weaker the longer we fight."
"The souls it consumed as Soulmon must be losing energy," Andy theorized.
"Then that's our ticket to winning!" Dorugamon realized.
"Wait, will we be able to get the souls back from Phantomon if we defeat it?" Andy asked, seeing the bodies of lifeless students lying on the gym's floor.
"I believe so, yes." Turuiemon replied. "Phantomon and Soulmon take souls, but they can't keep them if the Soulmon or Phantomon gets defeated since the souls of the living are… not exactly data in this case."
"Okay, Turuiemon, is there any way to revert Agunimon back to his human form?" Andy asked, remembering Jazz telling him how Lopmon had a history with the Legendary Warriors.
"Yes, but I would rather not tell you right now because one, your sister is coming back, as I can sense her energy through our bond created by the D-Arc, and two, what if the students wake up before you can revert him?" Turuiemon pointed out.
Andy frowned.
"Don't worry, we'll beat this thing, and get Agunimon home safely," Dorugamon promised.
Turuiemon nodded. "Dorugamon is right. Let's beat this Phantomon!"
Dorugamon flew towards Phantomon. Danny flew with him.
"Wow, Dorumon, looks like you got big!" Danny chuckled, having seen him and Lopmon digivolve earlier.
"Let's say it's thanks to Andy and his determination to help you." Dorugamon chuckled back.
When Danny and Dorugamon flew up to Phantomon, Danny fired his ghost ray, leaving holes in Phantomon's cloth body, and causing it to scream out in pain.
"Dorugamon! Keep looking at it in its eyes!" Andy called out before he took out his D-Arc and a card.
Andy looked up as the card spun before he caught it in two fingers, looking up from the shadows. He then held the device over his head, the car slot facing down towards his head. He stuck the card's edge into the slot and dragged it through, the card being pulled towards the right side of his body and the device towards the left side of his body. "Digi-Modify!" Andy called out. He pulled the device and card apart from each other. "Devidramon's Red Eyes activate!"
Dorugamon's eyes flashed red into Phantomon's eyes. This time it worked, the Phantomon's body became stiff and unmoving.
"Now's your chance! Attack it with everything you've got!" Andy called out.
Dorugamon nodded and focused all of his energy on his last attack. "Cannonball!" He shot out a large iron ball at Phantomon, using his tail to hit it so it flew at an even higher speed to impact the Phantomon harder.
Seeing this, Danny got an idea, and fired his ghost ray at Dorugamon's giant iron ball, infusing his ghost energy into it. The Cannonball now glowed with green ghostly energy. Turuiemon jumped over Phantomon, before using Gauntlet Claw to punch the Phantomon right into the ghostly Cannonball. The ghostly Cannonball ripped right through Phantomon's face, nearly obliterating its entire body. Its fractal code immediately showed after that.
Jazz ran up, now out of the armor of the Fenton Peeler. "Andy! Are you okay?!"
"Yeah, just have to take care of this," Andy said before he took out his D-Arc, a pink heart showed up on the screen, not that Andy saw it.
Andy began to slide the D-Arc's slider across the code. "Fractal code… digitized!"
Jazz blinked in surprise. "Wow… We can do that?" Then her own D-Arc flashed as she looked down at it. It was beeping, as if telling her something. "W-what's going on?"
Phantomon's fractal code turned into a card in Andy's D-Arc slide, and Phantomon reverted back to all the Soulmon, though the Soulmon were still stuck together, and they too were showing their fractal code as one big fractal code. Andy looked over at Jazz, seeing that her D-Arc was glowing.
"Jazz! Slide the card slider on your D-Arc against that ring of code!" Andy instructed.
Jazz looked at Andy, surprised, but did as he suggested. She held it up, unaware of a purple symbol appearing on the screen, one that looked like two circles connected together. "I hope I get this right…" She then ran the slider across the code. The fractal code of the Soulmon was absorbed by the D-Arc before a card formed on the slot, making Jazz blink as she took it out. "Wow… That was weird."
Andy took out the card from his card slot and looked at it. It was Phantomon's Shadow Scythe. Jazz, meanwhile, took out the card from her D-Arc, seeing it was Soulmon's Dark Claw.
"So… we get cards from scanning that code ring thing?" Jazz asked as she looked at her card. "That's pretty cool."
"Yeah, if you slide it across your D-Arc, your Digimon will be able to perform that move," Andy explained.
"Uh, guys…" Danny spoke up before landing beside Andy. "What are we going to do with all those eggs?"
All the Soulmon who were fused, turned into eggs, there were a lot of them.
"And what are we going to do about the panicking students and Mr. Lancer?" Danny added, seeing the students and Mr. Lancer, who's souls didn't get taken, staring in shock.
The other students who had their souls taken, slowly started waking up, as when Jazz scanned the Soulmon, the human souls that were taken were released, and went back into their bodies.
"What are we going to do about the unconscious Agunimon over there?" Danny asked, pointing at the still unconscious Agunimon. "And how are we going to explain everything that's happened once the authorities get here?"
"... Danny… it's time to make everything disappear." Andy smirked evilly.
Titanic X: DarkFoxKit: Thank you!
ZAFT: We figured he would be a good partner for Jazz. :)
It1023: DarkFoxKit: Well, we never said Danny isn't going to get a Digimon partner at some point. We just don't want to limit ourselves to an ice element Digimon though.
ZAFT: As for Andy's bio-merge, that is going to be revealed as the story goes along. No spoilers. :P
GirlFish: DarkFoxKit: It's going to be a while before Lopmon can become Cherubimon again. Besides, it would be too OP if Lopmon can just go straight into his mega form at any time.
ZAFT: But they will eventually become Cherubimon again. Just not sure when yet.
DarkFoxKit: As for Sam possibly being paired with Salamon… well, that'll be something for later. Paulina is… we won't say about her yet. As for Zephyrmon, or I guess Zoe in particular, she's not going to be in Amity Park for a while. We want to mostly focus on the DP characters since they don't have all the character development or power that the Frontier gang have. This is post Frontier after all. But that doesn't mean we can't still use them for further character growth later on.
ZAFT: As for Tommy and Youngblood, that is an interesting idea for further down the road. It will be noted and kept in mind. :)
Luna Lillyth: DarkFoxKit: Yeah, kinda makes you wonder why parents think school is a good learning environment.
ZAFT: But yeah, stressed out from Spectra, the stress of a ghost/Digimon attack, it would be stressful for anyone to deal with. :P