Well, thanks for the reviews everyone. I hope you guys like this
part and of course, I'm still debating on the "couples" thing. That's
the curse of liking so many different pairings, you can never decide on
which one you want to go along with. I might do an episode 50 thing
and pair up people that you wouldn't expect, even though Sora paired up
with Yamato didn't surprise me at all. :-p lol Like I always say,
I do not own any of these characters, places, or anything else dealing
with Digimon.
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Part 22: The Backfired Plan of Sorcerymon!
RP: Last time, Miyako and the other kids were being attacked by Sorcerymon and...
Wormmon: I get to see my Ken-chan again!!
Hawkmon: (Has an unusual sneaky look about his face) And Miyako-san! (Longing sigh) I haven't seen her pretty face in so long.
RP: (Gives Hawkmon a suspicous look) Oh-kay, now as I was saying, Miyako and the other children were being attacked by Sorcerymon. I say we should go back over there to see what's going to happen.
Readers: THANK YOU!!!
RP: Let's see now, where was I? Oh yeah! We now see Takeru, Hikari, and Miyako hanging out at the mall shopping for a present for Daisuke's surprise birthday party being thrown by Taichi and Ken and...
Wormmon then comes from out of nowhere and grabs RP by her shirt collar...how, I have no idea...and threatens her...
Wormmon: I WANT TO SEE MY KEN-CHAN!! NOW STOP STALLING OR ELSE!!! Takeru, Hikari, and Miyako aren't hanging out at the mall! My Ken-chan was about to get hurt!!
RP: (Sweat drops nervously) Um, yeah, you're absolutely right there Wormmon. Your 'Ken-chan' is who you're going to see. I'll stop stalling.
Wormmon: That's better! (Let's go of RP's collar and smiles) Glad I didn't lose my temper there.
RP: (Mutters) So am I...
The cute, adorable worm like Digimon then skipped away merrily.
RP: I take it you all aren't going to let me stall anymore, are you?
Readers: NO!!! Now continue on with this fic or else we stop reading it!!!
RP: Okay, okay! Sheesh, I had a writer's block. Hmm, I guess
I'll start exactly where that scene left off, with a few altercations of
course.
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"Koushirou, look out!" Mimi shouted, grabbing the boy and knocking
him down to avoid being blasted from the energy ball that Sorcerymon had
thrown out. He had used his free hand to keep Koushirou from going
after Miyako. After the smoke cleared, Mimi had Koushirou pinned
to the ground, a big hole right in front of Koushirou where the attack
had hit. The other attack, though, was still headed towards Miyako
since it was such a powerful one.
"NOOO!!" Ken shouted.
The young Ken ran to Miyako to try and save her...
"Miyako-kun, no!" Koushirou shouted while looking up from his spot on the ground.
Ken pushed Miyako out of the way just in time. Koushirou broke away from Mimi to go see if Miyako was okay.
"Thank you," Miyako said as Ken helped her up.
Ken blushed nervously.
"It was noth---oomph!" Ken started, unable to get his words out.
He had been pushed out of the way--pushed down actually--by a certain redheaded boy.
"I never knew he could run that fast," Motimon muttered with a sweatdrop.
"Are you okay, Miyako-kun!" Koushirou asked the now taller girl with lots of concern.
"Thanks to Ken-kun I am," Miyako smiled. "Isn't he wonderful!"
"Yeah, wonderful," Koushirou responded nonchalantly since Miyako had mentioned Ken.
Ken started to wave his hands around trying to get some attention since Koushirou was literally standing on him...
"Um, do you guys mind!! Izumi!!"
"Oh, sorry," Koushirou apologized, stepping from off of the younger boy.
Miyako helped Ken up. "I'm really glad that you helped me."
The boy gave Miyako a bashful smile. "I'm glad that I did too."
Koushirou stared at the two while frowning obliviously. 'Miyako-kun, Ichijouji-kun...why him?'
"Can't you do any better than that!!" Aina snapped at Sorcerymon. "Get rid of that girl! I want her gone!!"
"I can only attack them, I can't control their movements you foolish girl!"
"You are a disgrace to our master!" Aina complained. "If you won't dispose of them, I will!"
"What kind of friends are you two making," Mimi muttered to Koushirou and Miyako.
"I know I don't get along very well with her," Miyako started, "but this isn't like her."
"Yeah, you're right," Koushirou agreed. "She is normally very nice to me, overly nice in fact."
"We really ought to figure out what's wrong with her," Michael suggested.
"They probably used some kind of mind control on her," Mimi pointed out. "Remember how Yamato acted when Jureimon tricked him into fighting Taichi? Yamato told us that Jureimon was one of the flunkies that worked for Pinocchimon that tricked him into fighting Taichi. I bet it's the same thing!"
"It has to be," Ken agreed. "No normal person would attack his or her friends like that."
Sorcerymon raised his hands, as if to use some great, ultimate attack, but someone shouted, "Blast Laser" and some rings from out of nowhere hit Sorcerymon, knocking him off balance.
The children looked around to see who could've done that and saw three familiar looking children with a bunch of Digimon with them.
"Aquilamon!!" Miyako exclaimed.
"Hi there, Miyako-san!" the bird smiled.
He landed, devolving back to Hawkmon. Miyako hugged him happily.
"Wormmon!" Ken shouted out happily.
"KEN-CHAN!!!"
Wormmon ran up to Ken and hugged him. He had missed Ken a lot just like Ken had missed him.
"Daisuke," Michael said.
"Takeru-kun," Mimi said.
"Hikari-san," Koushirou said.
"Nice to see you guys too," Hikari smiled.
"Hey, lookit," Takeru said, pointing towards the strange Digimon. "Who is that?"
"Wizarmon?" Hikari questioned.
"That's not Wizarmon," Tailmon corrected them. "That is Sorcerymon, an old rival of Wizarmon! Before Wizarmon met me, he was good friends with that jerk, but he was nothing but a sellout and betrayed his friendship! Later on, he worked for Vamdemon!"
"How come we have never seen him?" Hikari asked.
"I know," Takeru smiled playfully, "maybe he was an undercover mon!"
::A nightclub scene appears and there's a spotlight on Gomamon on the drums doing the rim shot thing. Everyone, of course, groans from the bad joke, minus Daisuke who laughed the loudest at it::
"I hate to say itt, but he's actually right somewhat," Tailmon said. "He was more of a behind the scenes type of Digimon."
"Tailmon?" Sorcerymon stared at the cat like Digimon. "Is that the same Tailmon that used to hang around with that pathetic loser, Wizarmon!?!"
"You're the loser, Sorcerymon!!!" Tailmon shouted out angrily. "How dare you show up here and try to harm these children!"
"Shut that cat up!" Aina ordered Sorcerymon.
"Of course," Sorcerymon said. "But I think I will wait on her. She isn't worth my time. She isn't even a challenge anymore since she no longer has her Holy Ring."
Tailmon frowned a bit. The only ring she had was the one she still wore around her neck that Hikari had given to her two years earlier. It was true, she wasn't as strong in her adult (champion) form like she used to be since her Holy Ring was the source of her power, but she soon stopped frowning. She knew that if given the chance, that she could defeat Sorcerymon in battle as Angewomon.
"See, she's weak," Sorcerymon smirked, "just like Wizarmon. Killed in just one blast."
"You take that back about Wizarmon!!" Tailmon trembled in anger, her paws bawled. "How dare you talk badly about him!! He was one of the best friends I ever had!!"
"If it is true, then it is true," Aina said with a laugh. "The weak are intolerable!"
"She looks familiar," Hikari said, staring at Aina. "Don't you two think?" she asked Takeru and Daisuke.
"She looks like that girl that hangs around in the computer lab," Daisuke said. "I see her every time I go by there for Soccer practice after school."
"I think it's the old Vice President! It looks like her," Takeru said.
"Yeah," Daisuke said. "Miyako told us about her."
"That's because it is her," Koushirou told the three.
"What do you want with us!" Michael demanded. "Tell your master that we aren't going to listen to him!"
"Let her talk to herself," Mimi said. "Who cares what they have to say or who they're working for, let's get out of here!"
"I'm all for that idea," V-mon said, agreeing with Mimi.
"You better armor up so we can get out of here quickly!" Daisuke told V-mon.
"Do you think you could evolve again, Hawkmon?" Miyako asked.
"Sure I can," Hawkmon smiled. "Just say the words."
She nodded and took out her D-3. Daisuke did the same.
"Digimental...Up!!" both Daisuke and Miyako called.
Both Digimon started the process of armor evolving.
*"V-mon, armor shinka...todoroku yuujou, Lighdramon!"
*"Hawkmon, armor shinka...habataku aijou, Holsmon!"
"Takeru, Hikari-san, you guys should have your Digimon armor evolve too!" Ken suggested.
The two sighed and pulled out their Digivices...
"We can't," Takeru frowned.
"We don't have our D-3s or D-Terminals anymore," Hikari said.
"That's strange, I don't have mine either."
"You don't need no Pegasmon," Patamon said. "Patamon shinka..."
Patamon's chubby body took on the form of a human. His build became
quite muscular, and his hair was now long and blonde. He now held
a golden staff, and blue
ribbons draped around his body, along with the wings protruding from
his body.
"...Angemon!"
"And you don't need Nefertimon either!"
"Ooh!! The cat is going to evolve," Sorcerymon commented, overhearing Tailmon. "You know you can't evolve since you're just as weak as a child (rookie) leveled Digimon!"
"I'll make you eat those words, Sorcerymon!" Tailmon threatened in a whisper. "Tailmon, chou shinka...Angewomon!!"
"She evolved?" Sorcerymon said in surprise. "How?"
"Ken-kun," Miyako called while sitting on Aquilamon's back. "Hop on!"
"Okay," Ken called to her.
Miyako grabbed his hand and shyly smiled as she stared at him. She felt strange. Even though the both of them were younger, she was still seeing Ken at the age he was before being sucked back into the Digital World. The same thing applied to Ken when it came to Miyako; even though she was nine years old, he still imagined her at fourteen...
Koushirou stared in annoyance. This was really starting to bother him, Miyako and Ken acting overly friendly with one another.
"Koushirou, stop standing there and let's go!" Mimi shouted, bringing Koushirou back to his senses. "Daisuke said you can ride with him! Hurry before Sorcerymon stops arguing with that Aina girl and attacks again!"
"Yeah, whatever," the boy muttered.
"Mimi, Koushirou, let's go!" Michael called anxiously.
The two grabbed their Digimon and took off. Sorcerymon, who noticed the children were escaping, was right behind them, throwing out attack after attack, blasting the trees since he kept missing the kids. Mimi and Michael were riding on Holsmon along with Miyako and Ken - hey, they're smaller now, so it probably wasn't too much of a bother to Holsmon - Angemon carried Takeru, Angewomon, reluctantly, carried Hikari seeing as how she really wanted to fight Sorcerymon, and Koushirou rode along with Daisuke with an attitude. He just didn't like the fact that Miyako and Ken were so close. He was starting to get paranoid over it. Motimon noticed Koushirou's attitude, Daisuke too, but Daisuke just didn't say anything and concentrated on getting away from Sorcerymon and the deranged Aina...
"Koushirou-han, what's wrong?" Motimon asked.
"Nothing," the boy snapped.
"Okay, okay," Motimon said, shutting up. He wasn't in the mood to get into an argument or disagreement with his friend.
All of a sudden, all of the Digimon got hit and were shocked. The hit was so powerful, they all ended up landing and devolving. Luckily, none of the children were hurt from the unexpected hit and fall, Takeru and Hikari especially since they were being held by both Angemon and Angewomon. The flyers of the group, tried their best to land without harming the children. Both Angemon and Angewomon fell, tried their best to keep their energy up, landing on their backs, making sure that both Takeru and Hikari were unharmed.
"Who's there?" Sorcerymon called out.
A Digimon leaped from the limb of a tall tree and landed gracefully to the ground. He wore a wicked smirk on his face and a crow sat on his hat, cawing.
"Oh no," Tanemon said in fear. "It's Nohemon!!"
"Sure is," Nohemon said, tipping his hat, his crow sitting itself down on his shoulder. "I'm getting right down to business this time!"
He shot out his arrow and created a net and captured all of them. Sorcerymon and Aina just smiled evilly, but that didn't last long...
"Ice Arrow!" a voice shouted.
"Harpoon Vulcan!!" another one joined in.
Some more attacks joined in too...
*"Petit Fire!" a heavy voiced mon called.
*"Magical Fire!" a female called out.
*"Baby Flame!" a high, squeaky voiced male called out.
The children turned to see who it was and they saw everyone.
"It's Seadramon!" Michael exclaimed happily.
"And Sora and Jou-senpai and the others!" Mimi clapped.
Nohemon fell after he was hit. All the attacks hit him in his back so he didn't even sense them coming.
"Such cowards," Sorcerymon said in disgust, "attacking behind one's back like that!"
"Why not!" Michael said angrily. "He did that to me!! I didn't even have a chance to get away or to defend myself!"
Nohemon got angered and stood up.
"Who did it!" the Digimon snarled angrily. "Who hit me!!"
"I did," Seadramon said proudly.
"And so did I," Ikkakumon smiled.
"I am afraid that I am guilty as well," Gabumon responded with fake sympathy.
"So am I," Piyomon said while flapping her wings.
"We're all to blame," Agumon smirked.
"You fools!" Nohemon snarled angrily. "Why protect them! They are of no concern to you!" He then stared at Iori. "And that boy!! That Kendo boy...I must destroy you!"
"NO!!" Iori responded stubbornly, refusing to go down without a fight.
"Leave Iori alone!" Upamon threatened. "Upamon shinka...Armadimon!"
Armadimon then turned himself into a ball and rolled into Nohemon. He just dodged the "Rolling Stone" attack.
Nohemon laughed at Armadimon's feeble attempt. "Pathetic!"
Ikkakumon and Seadramon joined in the fight too, as well as the other child (rookie) leveled Digimon, minus Angewomon since she had devolved back to her adult (champion) form, Tailmon.
"Sora, Taichi, Yamato, Iori, Jou-senpai," Mimi called, "how about getting us out of here!"
They ran over to Mimi and the others and got them out of the net, but they didn't talk much. They were watching all of the Digimon, minus Tanemon, Wormmon, and Motimon, fight against Nohemon.
"You're not taking Iori!" Armadimon threatened once again.
"And you're not going to hurt his friend either!" Seadramon said.
"Should we actually stay here?" Sorcerymon asked Aina.
Aina nodded. "Yes. I want to make sure Miyako is disposed of as well as that boy like our master wants!"
"I like the way you think," Sorcerymon smiled. "You are truly worthy and believe in not leaving until the job is done."
"If you want it done right, you must stick around to make sure all goes according to plan."
"Maybe I should help him out," the wizard like Digimon said.
The Digimon concentrated as he formed a small, yellow sphere in his hands. He used launched powerful electrical attack, which formed into multiple spheres, on the Digimon that were currently fighting against Nohemon. They all screamed in pain and the children yelled at Sorcerymon in pure anger.
"Thank you for that shocking performance, Sorcerymon," Nohemon smiled.
The Digimon took out his bow and tossed it into the air. He then caught it and loaded it.
"This will teach you children to interfere."
He shot out arrow after arrow, hitting each and every one of the Digimon, draining them of energy, which caused both Seadramon and Ikkakumon to devolve. Nohemon then headed towards Iori. The other kids tried to hold Nohemon off, but they were no match for him. He just trapped them the way he had before with the net, only this time, he trapped them in a cage.
"Now, let's not have anymore interruptions!" Nohemon growled in anger, grabbing Iori by his neck. "You have a price over your head and I plan on earning it! I get paid extra for offing you since you are the youngest of the group! I don't care if I don't get any of your friends over there, just as long as I kill you and that girlfriend of yours!"
"Not...again...just...leave...me...alone..." Iori gagged, trying to get a breath of air.
"No way!" Nohemon said, surprised that Iori would request such a thing. "I am going to get rid of you! You are lucky I can't find the girl!"
"Eiji-san is safe?" Iori managed to ask between breaths with the tight grasp Nohemon had on him.
"Sure she is, until I find her!" Nohemon squeezed his neck harder.
"No," Iori choked out.
The other children tried to get out of the cage, but nothing helped. The door wouldn't budge, and they knew that they wouldn't be able to pick the lock.
"We have to help Iori-kun," Ken said.
"We can't if we're all trapped in here!" Jou said, feeling useless.
"Wormmon, evolve!" Ken ordered. "Maybe you can break us out of here!"
The Digimon nodded and evolved to Stingmon. He was the only one who hadn't tried to fight against Nohemon so he had pretty much all of his energy. He tried to pick the lock and even slice it, but nothing would work and when he did try, he got a very nasty shock.
"Stingmon!" Ken called.
The shock was pretty powerful, and caused the Digimon to devolve, and fly back into Ken's arms.
"I'm sorry, Ken-chan."
"That's okay," Ken said while picking up the small Digimon. "You tried. I had no idea that the locks were wired."
"Prove your loyalty to your master and go and destroy all of the ones in the cage," Sorcerymon instructed Aina.
The girl nodded. Sorcerymon smiled and handed the 15-year-old girl a gun and she headed over towards the cage. She took the six shooter and held it up to the cage.
"Aina-san, stop this right now!" Koushirou begged while holding onto the bars. "Iori-kun is my friend! Stop this!"
"Why should I listen to a fool like you!"
"DON'T CALL HIM A FOOL!!" Miyako argued defensively. "HE IS NOT A FOOL! HE'S REALLY SMART AND IS A TERRIFIC FRIEND!!"
"Yeah!!" Mimi joined in. "Who do you think you are anyway!! You, you...jerk!! Only an insensitive idiot would say such a thing!"
The young Mimi continued insulting Aina, why, she didn't know. She just felt the need to defend her red-headed friend. Seems that the New York life had toughened her up a bit. >_;
"Calm down girls," Yamato said, trying to keep the two girls from angering Aina enough to shoot.
Aina got an annoyed look and held her gun up towards Miyako, right in between her eyes pointed right at the bridge of her glasses, which quieted Mimi down. Everyone was now too scared to move in fear of the gun going off...
"Miyako-kun! No!!" Koushirou said. "Aina-san, do you not recognize me?"
"I don't know you!" the girl said, starting to grow impatient with Koushirou's interfering. "All I know is that the four-eyed girl is going to get it after Nohemon finishes with that kid with the bowl cut!"
"No, you don't want to hurt Miyako-kun or Iori-kun," Koushirou told her.
"Oh yes I do!" the girl said in a deranged manner. "I have nothing against the Iori kid, but Inoue is my true rival!"
"What have I ever done to you for you to hate me so much!" Miyako asked while shedding tears fearing that the gun would go off since it was so close to her. "All I have ever tried to do was be your friend! When I first met you, you treated me badly!"
"You took something away from me that I have been after for the past two years!" Aina said with pure hatred and anger. "Someone who means a lot to me!"
"I never did anything like that," Miyako insisted while trying to remain calm.
"What is she talking about?" Takeru whispered to Daisuke.
"I dunno," the boy responded with a shrug. "Girls sure are confusing."
"Do you think that gun is real?" Takeru asked.
"I don't think so!" Daisuke said. "Children aren't supposed to play with guns. Only grown-ups and policemen are."
"Oh yeah, you're right," Takeru agreed.
Aina noticed the two talking and shouted, "BE QUIET!!"
The two sat still and didn't utter another word.
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RP: Hmm, seems that their aging backwards has affected those two the
most. They actually sound like a couple of eight year olds and have the
mentality of eight year olds, don't you all think?
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'Put the gun down,' Ken inwardly prayed, his eyes closed. "Please
put the gun down."
"Miyako-san," Hawkmon called weakly, wishing he could help to protect his partner.
"Miyako-kun has done nothing to you, Aina-san!" Koushirou said, remaining calm. "Leave her and my friends alone!"
"Aww, you don't want me to hurt your friend," Aina mocked. "How about I hurt the girl wearing the pink hat instead!!"
She took the gun and pointed it towards Mimi's face.
"I'm sure this pretty girl wouldn't mind if I blew her face off," Aina laughed.
Mimi was petrified with fear and stood there, too scared to move.
"Get away from her!" Michael shouted to Aina.
"No, not Mimi-san!" Koushirou pleaded. "Don't hurt Mimi-san!!"
"Shut up," Aina snapped. "Now maybe you shouldn't interfere with my work and let me get it over with. I have nothing against this girl, but her beauty does surpass that of my own so she must die. You are a Chosen Child and I am sure that to my Kawaii Koushi-kun, you are pretty."
'Kawaii Koushi-kun?' everyone thought, thinking Aina was nuts.
"I have never done a thing to you! I don't even know you!" Mimi said, defending herself fearfully. "I don't know what Koushirou thinks of me! He's probably always thought of me as a nuisance and annoying since I never liked his computer talk much since I could never understand it!"
"Yeah, sure!" the girl scoffed, not really believing her. "You're probably trying to get him too! I bet at your real age, you look very pretty and have a good chance at getting him."
"What!!" Mimi said in surprise. "No, please! Don't!"
"Mimi!!" Michael called out.
Koushirou stared at the scene in disbelief, just as everyone else who was too scared to do anything--including the crest bearer of courage. He couldn't believe that someone admired him so much that they were willing to get rid of the competition. This was tearing him up inside. One of his favorite, and attractive, female friends that Aina didn't even know, was about to get killed. He did the only thing that he could do...scream out.
"YAMETE (STOP IT)!!"
Aina turned to Koushirou with a smirk, taking the gun off of Mimi and putting it back on Miyako.
"What's the matter, kid?" She wore a mocking grin on her face, as if she were enjoying taunting Koushirou. "You don't like the idea of my hurting your two friends here? How about I go after the girl over there with the dirty-red hair?"
Yamato bawled up his fists in anger and said, "If you hurt Sora, I'll..."
"...beat the crap out of you!!" Taichi finished. "I don't care if you're a girl or not! If you hurt anyone here, you'll have to deal with me!"
"I have nothing against her," Aina yawned. "I shall spare her and that small girl holding that cat like Digimon, but I won't spare Miyako. I won't spare that loud-mouthed girl either that insulted me! That hat girl."
"Don't hurt either of them," Koushirou begged. To the others, Koushirou looked to be debating with himself on what to do. After a small moment of silence, the boy spoke up. "If you must kill somebody," the boy paused slightly and lowered his voice a bit, "kill me!"
Everyone gasped.
"Just don't hurt Miyako-kun and please don't hurt Mimi-san!" the boy said again. "I don't understand what you have against Miyako-kun, but you shouldn't hurt Mimi-san just because she's very pretty! She's a wonderful person and it'll affect everyone if you killed her!"
The boy sighed a bit and continued, ignoring the looks he was now receiving from his friends.
"Like I said, if you must kill someone, kill me! I don't know what my purpose is in life, both Miyako-kun and Mimi-san already know what their purposes are. They know of their families and where they come from. I, unfortunately, don't, so just kill me! No one would miss me anyway and when I am dead, I can then join my real family."
"No, don't say that!" Motimon shouted out.
"Don't do it!!" Mimi begged.
"I'm not worth it, Izumi-senpai!"
"Are you crazy!!" Sora asked in surprise.
"Koushirou-san, no," Hikari said.
'Does he care that much?' Jou wondered. 'But is he doing this for Mimi-kun or for Miyako-kun? Koushirou isn't the heroic type, but he did admit to me that he had a small thing for Mimi-kun when she visited before he got to know Miyako-kun better since they go to school together now; but then again, I did too, but I got over Mimi-kun. I wonder if Koushirou has? He does talk about Mimi-kun a lot, Miyako-kun too. We can't have a conversation without him mentioning either Miyako-kun or Mimi-kun. Mimi-kun especially since they talk through e-mail and Instant Messages a lot.'
He ignored the pleas of his friends and continued on.
"If you have to kill somebody, kill me," Koushirou said once again. "I just don't want you to hurt Miyako-kun or Mimi-san! They are two of the best friends I have! Get rid of me in their place."
Mimi and Miyako both looked over at Koushirou who had a very serious look on his face. They couldn't believe what he was saying and what he was doing. They, as well as the others, didn't get what he meant by his statement, "They know of their families and where they come from. I, unfortunately, don't, so just kill me!" He sounded so pessimistic, which definitely wasn't like Koushirou. He was never all that optimistic either, but he would never resort to having his life taken and give up hope.
"Who are you!!" Aina asked, giving him a suspicious look. "I don't know you, so why are you trying to negotiate with me," she asked while cocking the gun and pointing it towards the boy's face.
"Izumi Koushirou," he responded while sweating in fear. Aina was definitely ready to shoot now since she had cocked the gun. She hadn't with Miyako or Mimi. "Your classmate and President of the Odaiba Junior High Computer club."
"Izumi-sama?" the girl asked slowly with a look of confusion on her face.
"Yes," he nodded slowly. "Your friend, Koushirou."
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR," Sorcerymon shouted. "BLAST THEM!!"
"I can't kill Koushirou," Aina said slowly. "I like Koushi-kun, he is nice."
"Just put the gun down," Koushirou told the girl while trying his best to remain still and calm, yet he was still feeling a bit nervous from the gun being so close to him.
Aina listened to Koushirou and started to put the gun down. Sorcerymon and Nohemon stared in shock. They couldn't believe it. During this time, Nohemon had stopped strangling Iori, but just held him in place so that he wouldn't run. He was curious if Aina was going to pull the trigger.
"Good," Koushirou sighed out in relief.
Aina then tossed the gun aside, broke down, sitting on the ground, and cried, muttering, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." She couldn't believe what she was about to do. She was about to kill someone, something she would never do.
"Koushi-kun, Miyako?" Aina asked while looking up from the ground. "Is that really you? You guys shrank and Izumi-sama, you look so-so different."
"Meet the ten year old me," Koushirou smirked nervously while scratching the back of his head.
Aina could only shrug as she wiped away her many tears. She was so used of the handsome, older Koushirou, not the younger one.
"DAMNIT!!" Sorcerymon cursed. "NO ONE HAS EVER BROKEN OUT OF MY MIND CONTROL SPELL!!" He then muttered, "Even that fool Gennai hasn't been able to do so since I put him under!!"
"Did he say Gennai?" Taichi asked in thought, overhearing Sorcerymon.
Iori kicked Nohemon in the leg right at that moment and started to run off, but Nohemon, in a flash, appeared in front of him, catching him in the process, and started to strangle him again. Nohemon was truly angry now.
"That does it brat!"
Iori was starting to lose consciousness and was starting to turn blue in the face. This made Sorcerymon smile.
"So you are worth paying after all!" Sorcerymon said to Nohemon, his arms crossed, a smirk on his face, that no one could see since his face was always covered.
All of a sudden, a white light shined around the area and a girl's voice called out, "Iori-kun!" The bright light caused Nohemon to drop Iori and Sorcerymon couldn't see anymore either. An angelic voice was then heard...
"Leave these children alone," the voice said. "You have caused enough damage here!"
"That voice..." Taichi said.
"That's the voice I heard on my way here, " Sora remembered.
"It told me not to worry," Yamato said.
"That everything will be explained later," Koushirou added on.
"The voice is so assuring," Mimi said.
"And she sounds so trusting," Jou finished up.
'I'm not getting paid enough for this!!' Nohemon muttered in thought. "I'm out of here!"
The assassin took off in a flash after seeing what he had seen. It was a woman, and she had a girl and a Digimon with her that resembled a swan. Iori looked up to see who it was. He gasped as he saw who it was as the girl helped him up. She then gave him a gentle smile and headed over towards the cage where the others were still trapped.
"You shouldn't touch the cage," Aina warned. "You'll get shocked."
"Don't worry," the girl smiled. "I'll be fine."
All of a sudden, Hikari started to glow that same pinkish tone she always did whenever something extraordinary was about to happen concerning her or her crest, and so did the girl.
"Hikari!!" Taichi called to his sister. "What's wrong!!"
"I don't know, oniichan."
The girl then reached her hand out and the lock magically unlocked. The kids and their Digimon were then freed, who immediately went over to see if Iori was okay. Sorcerymon stared in shock. He couldn't believe his eyes.
"You guys won't get away with this!" Sorcerymon threatened.
"We will stop you!" the woman said with confidence. "You will not get away with harming the Digital World anymore and I won't allow you to harm their world either! My old world!"
"You're too late, you know," Sorcerymon said with a smirk. "It's not like those children can actually do anything!"
"The prophecy and the Holy Guardians said that---"
"Well, that prophecy is wrong, thanks to yours truly here!" Sorcerymon interjected.
"What are you talking about?" the swan like Digimon asked.
"We are one step ahead of you," Sorcerymon said. "We always have been. We knew of the prophecy so I altered it a bit, but I don't think I should sit around here telling you this. Zanbamon wouldn't appreciate it and neither would our partner."
He then opened up a portal and stepped through it.
"Good bye losers," he called to them as the portal closed behind him.
The woman frowned and turned towards the children who all had questioning looks.
"Hello there," the swan like Digimon greeted.
"Wow, that sure is a beautiful Digimon," Hikari exclaimed.
"Excuse me," Taichi said ignoring his sister, "but what's going on?"
"Why did you bring us back here?" Michael asked.
Iori, who had been trying to grasp onto reality, noticed the small girl with the woman.
"Is that..." he started.
"Hey Iori-kun!" the girl smiled. "And the answer to your question is yes, it's me, Eiji."
"I was so worried about you!" Iori said, feeling grateful that his friend was safe. "I was worried because you don't know much about the Digital World."
"How did you do that thing with the lock?" Hikari asked. "What happened? I felt very strange when you did that."
"I borrowed some of your crest power since my light trait isn't as strong as yours," the girl explained.
"What?" everyone asked in confusion.
"I'll explain that," the woman smiled.
"Yes, please do," Miyako said.
"I should first introduce myself," the woman said. "I am..."
"Angelique!!" Agumon interrupted. "Gennai has spoken highly of you!"
"Yeah!" V-mon said. "That is what Agumon told me! Gennai is very fond of you!"
"I am quite pleased to hear that Gennai speaks so highly of me," Angelique smiled.
"You know," Koushirou started, trying to figure out why this woman seemed somewhat familiar, "her voice sounds somewhat familiar."
"You're right," Tailmon said.
*"She sort of sounds like Hikari after that weird spirit took over her body," Patamon said.
"That's because it was her," the swan like Digimon explained. "Qinglongmon gave her the power to do so."
"Qinglongmon? Light Trait?" Aina asked. "What is going on?"
"I'm assuming that you were the one brought back by mistake," Angelique noted. "You do not have the characteristics of a Chosen Child."
"Chosen Child?" Aina asked.
Ever since the girl had obtained full control of her mind again, she didn't have much of a recollection of all that was told to her by Sorcerymon about the Chosen Children and what they were. The only thing she remembered was everything before Sorcerymon had hypnotized her and the horrific murder she almost committed.
"That's a no brainer," Eiji said. "It's obvious that she isn't one. She's too old, first of all."
"Hey!" Aina shouted, taking offense to the younger girl's statement. "I am not that old!"
"Well, it's true, you are too old," Eiji repeated. "For someone to become a Chosen Child, you have to be under the age of 12. The ones you see here were all chosen when they were 12 or younger."
"That is correct," Angelique confirmed.
"Excuse me, Miss Angelique, but would you mind explaining what's going on?" Sora asked timidly.
"Hey, I just noticed something!" Eiji shouted out. "That picture that was in your house! The girl I recognized in it is that girl sitting there! The one I borrowed the crest power from! I also recognize the girl with the helmet and the girl with the pink hat from the picture. Now that I think about it, the girl with the helmet and the boy with the big hair looks like Takenouchi Sora and Yagami Taichi! The two best Soccer Players Odaiba Elementary has ever had!"
"Yeah, that's us!" Taichi smiled.
"You mean our records still haven't been broken?" Sora asked.
"No way!" the girl exclaimed. "There's a big display case dedicated to you two in the sports department!"
"We really ought to hang around there more often," Sora said to Taichi.
"You two are like celebrities there and are an inspiration to the athletes of our school!" Eiji explained. "I play Tennis and our coach always tells us how disciplined Odaiba Elementary's best athletes were."
"Too bad I never broke any records when I was there," Daisuke gloomily muttered.
"But you did get the best player of the year before you graduated from there last year," Hikari reminded the boy.
"That's not a bad thing," Takeru complimented.
"It is very nice to reminisce, but why are we here?" Koushirou asked. "And how come we seem to have our Crest Powers back?"
"That I cannot answer."
"Which one? The crest thing or why we are here?" Jou asked.
"The crest thing," Angelique said. "I can't answer that, but I can explain a few things to you as to why your Digimon were able to evolve and of course as to why you are here."
"Wait!" Taichi said. "What about Gennai! Agumon told me that he was missing."
"Gennai-san?" Koushirou asked.
"He's missing?" Mimi asked.
"My, this is going to take a while," Angelique said. "You all should have yourselves a seat."
The kids obeyed and sat down and awaited Angelique to tell her story...
****
Meanwhile...
"What!!" Zanbamon shouted out angrily. "The girl got out of your mind control!"
"I was just as shocked!" Sorcerymon said. "No one has ever gotten out of my mind control! Just look at Gennai, he still has the mind of a doorknob!"
"And did you say Angelique showed up with that girl!" Zanbamon asked fearfully.
"Yes she did! She did something amazing and unlocked the cage that Nohemon had all of the other Chosen Children and their Digimon trapped in."
"Where is Nohemon!!"
"I have no idea," the wizard like Digimon told him. "He just disappeared when Angelique and Swanmon showed up."
"Damn, I hope he knows what he's doing by not going out and destroying these children himself," Zanbamon said referring to his partner. "It's obvious that these children aren't going to get their regular ages back. It would've been easier to just let us do it."
"Yes I know."
"Let's go. He really needs to know what's going on and what our next plan of attack is going to be."
"Without Ebemon, our taking over the human world is somewhat pointless," Sorcerymon said. "Without that brain extractor to control all of the humans, it won't be all that fun. It is also quite obvious that his brain extractor is more powerful than the powers of mind control that I have."
"True, but we can still take over their world with no problems. Mind control or not."
"So, who tells him?" Sorcerymon asked.
"We shall tell him together," Zanbamon said. "He is sitting on his throne. I guess he is trying to come up with the perfect time to take over."
The two Digimon went to tell their partner, who was pretty pissed...
"WHAT!!" the Cloaked Digimon screamed, his dark purplish blue eyes glowing. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE GOT OUT OF YOUR CONTROL!!"
"I am sorry! It was not my fault," Sorcerymon assured him. "Somehow, her fondness for this Koushirou person was much stronger than the control I had over her! If he would not have interfered, she would have succeeded in getting rid of them all!"
"Yeah, whatever," the Cloaked Digimon, no feeling in his voice.
"I say we go get Nohemon and kill the bastard for chickening out!" Zanbamon said in anger. "We technically paid him for nothing!!"
"Please don't get mad at us," Sorcerymon begged the Cloaked Digimon.
"Actually, I'm not," the Cloaked Digimon responded in a calm manner. "I do agree about having Nohemon assassinated, and I will see to it personally, but I also think we should go to the human's world now. We can still take it over."
"But what about here?" Sorcerymon asked.
"We shall worry about this world later. We shall leave as soon as possible for the human world!"
"Right!" the two bowed.
"Gennai!!" the Cloaked Digimon called. "Get in here now!"
The brain-dead Gennai entered the room obediently and bowed to the Digimon.
"Help Zanbamon and Sorcerymon gather the troops!!"
"Yes sir," Gennai obeyed.
"If you're good, we might not let them get their practice in by using you as the target," Zanbamon laughed.
Sorcerymon laughed as well. He, along with Zanbamon, left along with Gennai to gather the troops.
The Cloaked Digimon got up and looked out of his window and smiled.
"I'm going to take this place over as well as the human's world!
They'll pay for all of the misery they have caused me and my fellow Digimon!!"
****
Nohemon was now wandering around the forest. He was in deep thought.
He then sat down under a nice shady tree. It was an apple tree...
****
Tentomon: I've never seen an apple tree in the forest!
Gomamon: Hey, this is the Digital World. Anything is possible.
Tentomon: (Muttering) I guess.
Piyomon: (Smiled) Sure, what's wrong with apples in the forest?
Palmon: We normally only find bananas in the forest.
RP: Do you guys mind! Like Gomamon said, anything is possible in the Digital World, now shoo so I can finish this story!
The Digimon all obeyed and left to let RP continue on...
****
Nohemon took out his arrow and shot the tree to knock the apples out
of it. He then used another arrow to stop them from falling.
He then took the arrow from out of the tree and pulled the two apples off.
He kept one for himself and gave the other to his crow.
'Why does that child care so much about the Digital World?' Nohemon asked himself. 'I kept stalling. I couldn't kill him no matter how much I tried.'
The crow cawed as he ate the fruit. Nohemon thought back to what Iori said when he encountered him with Blue Meramon...
Flashback>
"Now to get rid of you."
"No, don't," Iori said between gasps of air. "Why do you want to hurt me!"
"Because I am being paid to! That's my job and I like to
say that I do it well!" Nohemon's grip grew slightly tighter when
something he had been wondering for a
while came to mind. "Why do you care so much about my world!
You're a human! It should be of no concern to you!"
The boy cried in pain since Nohemon's grasp on his neck was getting stronger and tighter. Digmon saw this and felt helpless since he couldn't save him.
"I have great respect for the Digital World as well as to the Digimon
in it and all those who make up the Digital World! Because of this,
I'll always try my hardest to
try and protect it from people like you who don't care what harm comes
to it!" Iori said with hot tears trickling down his face. "It is
my responsibility as a Chosen
Child to!"
/Flashback>
"He really cares about the Digital World," Nohemon noted. "Why am I so hateful towards humans anyway? They've technically never done anything for me to have something against them. That boy is right, though. I know this world is going to hell once they take it over and so is that boy's...but killing is my job. It's the path I unfortunately chose..."
He got up and tossed the uneaten apple aside.
He sighed. "I sometimes wonder why I ever got into this business to begin with."
The Digimon then started to walk off, recalling his crow, wondering
what to do next...
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Note 1: That just says, "V-mon, armor evolve...Lighdramon,
rumbling with friendship!" Also, Lighdramon is "Raidramon's" original
name. The ironic thing is this, if you pronounce Raidramon the way
it's originally supposed to be, if speaking Japanese, it's pronounced like
"Lighdramon." The pronunciation of it for the dub, if basing it on
the original, is wrong...but no biggie.
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Note 2: That just says, "Hawkmon, armor evolve...Holsmon,
the flapping wings of love!" I just used the original armor call
for him.
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Note 3: Petit Fire is the original name for "Blue
Blaster"
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Note 4: Magical Fire is the original name for "Spiral
Twister"
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Note 5: I think I've said this one before, but here's
a reminder. Baby Flame is the original name for "Pepper Breath"
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Note 6: For the original, Hikari's voice wasn't different.
Not noticeably different like the dub was.