DISCLAIMER: I do not own Big O or any of the characters. All are property of Sunrise and their respective parties. Digimon belongs to Toei and their respective parts. I don't own either show. I am not making any money on this story either, it labor of love. Now I own Mary Sanderous, Nivernmon, Aggymon Griffinmon, Metal Aggymon, Metal Nivernmon, the Crest of Order, the Digi Egg of Order and Marry's Digi Jewel. Please don't use them without my permission.
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AURTHOR NOTES: This story is a Big O Digimon Crossover. This story also features some of my own theories about Big O as well. This is also a slight AU for the Digimon part of the story, Gatomon has the ably to go to her Ultimate Level of Angewoman, without any type of help, like she did in the First Season of the show, plus she also can Armor Digivole as well. This goes the same with the first season Digidestined as well. I am also including the third movie sentiment of the Digimon Movie, the one with Willis, even if that part of the movie dose not takes place in the story line of the show.
I am sorry about the long explanations in the stories, but I am writing this for fans of Big O that hasn't seen a signal episode of Digimon of either season. I don't want them to feel like they are lost in the story telling, for I used a lot of references from that show.
SETTING: Reminder the Digimon Episode of His Master's Voice, the episode where Kari is brought to another part of the Digi World by other Digimon. At the end of the episode we see a huge shadowy Digimon with red eyes come out of the water. What if she wasn't really in the Digital World, but in Paradigm City and that huge Digimon-like creature weren't a Digimon, but a Megadeus?
Special Notes: In the light of the acts of terror that our nation suffer on Sept. 11, 2001 in both NYC and Washington DC, this chapter's battles scenes are NO way glorify the destruction of the World Trade Centers Towers and the Pentagon. Unlike my pervious chapter that was wrote before the acts of terror, this chapter is currently being written during the events. I state before that I don't glorify what happen on that date, but the battles scenes are require in these chapters for if they are token out they would weaken my story. Again I morn the lose of all of the people that die in both attacks, I hope that there are people that are alive in both buildings. God blesses you all. Plus this chapter is also a tribute to the all the firefighters, police, and EMT that had die trying to save people and the ones that are right now trying to find survivors right now.
*While it was never confirmed in the series, a majority of Digimon fans generally accepted that Rosemon is Lillymon's Mega Form. I am on one of them.
Alex and Daemon have left the real world to go back to Paradigm with the other two Jewels, leaving the others back in the real world. Once again, the team must head back to Paradigm, but there is a small problem. That problem is that they don't know how to do it. Angel continues her joinery through the rubble of an ancient building.
Chapter 25 – Loss and Recovery
Part 2: The Holy Sword of Virtues
Angel continued her trip through the rubble of a once great building that housed many businesses so that people could work and earn a living. While she didn't know for sure the name of this building was, but she could put a good bet on that this building was one of the twin towers that themselves belong to a office complex that was called the World Trade Center. She didn't know how this building was destroyed but she guesses that it was destroyed in the same way, as it was in the world where the Digidestined belongs. They were destroyed after being slammed by airplanes that themselves were in gulf by a fire ball. While she didn't see it happen, she heard about it and couldn't believe that other humans would do that to their fellow human, she thought that the humans that came from Digidestined world were good and decent people that wouldn't hurt each other. It look like to her that her thinking about them was wrong, it look like that humans from that world were just like the humans that came from this world, that they could hurt each other without thinking about it. Despite that, Angel still had to do what she had to do, she had to help the humans in this world despite what she had heard.
While most of her kind, Digimon, opt for three choices when dealing with humans, one, they knew really cared about them or two they vowed to take control of their world and in salve the human race. The third choice was to not interfere with them at all and most Digimon opted for this choice when dealing with human and this was because most of them didn't know about humans. She belongs to the type of Digmon that really cared about them and would try everything that was inside of her power to help them.
Angel's train of thought was broken literally and figural, this took the shape by her once again tripping. This time she didn't trip over a broken slab that was made out of concrete, but she tripped over a fight of stairs that seemed to just appear out of nowhere. She knew that was impossible to have happen and she guessed the reason behind her tripping. That was because she wasn't paid any type of attention to what she was doing and this was the price that she had to pay for doing something that was so stupid.
She looked at the stairs and she could tell that they went down, underground, the place that almost everybody in this city feared going to. The ones that had enough guts to go underground out of simple curiosity, the human need to know, paid for it. The price that they paid was to get lost under there and was never heard from again. To Angel this was something that she didn't understand, for a Digimon, if a place did this to others that did venture to a place like this, they wouldn't continue to send more. They would leave the place a lone and hoped for the best. For humans, well enough wasn't good enough for them, they would continue to push the limit and she how far they would be able to go before they would get they would get snapped right back to the being. Even that wasn't enough to stop humans from doing things, they would continue to strive until they achieved their goal and when that goal was achieved they would be looking to another goal that would offer the same type of failure and punishment like before. Even with that threat over their head, the humans wouldn't let that stop them and to Angel, this was both their gift and their curse. It was a gift to the humans because without it, the humans wouldn't of invented and developed all of the technology that they had. It was also a curse, because the other element of the human race would use this trait to hurt people over and over again that didn't believe in their goals.
Even with this on her mind, she continued down the stairs and when during the trip down the stairs the small amount of light that still shone in this world started to get lesser and lesser as she got further down the steps. Until she reached the point where no light shined down there and the only source of light that she could used now was the one that she had brought with her. That took the shape of a false light, which she turned on, while it didn't brighten the entire area, as she hopped that it would, it did the trick for her. She could at least she her own two feet in forth of her and because of that she knew that she wouldn't trip on her two feet. So started to walk and while she didn't know the area here, she knew that she had to go on further, deeper into this place, with the full knowledge that she had no clue what was going to jump out of the darkest. Even with this, she knew that this was something that she had to put up with if she wanted to save all three worlds.
I put my faith in the hands of the Four Digimon Guardians, my their blessing fall upon me in my darkest hour she said to herself as she went into the abyss with her flashlight and her own insights as her guide in this dark place. She hopped that all of the Digi Guardians would bless her with their best qualities.
Nancy, the caretaker of this place was once again doing her daily chore of touring the grounds and greeting each person that called this place their home. It was a thankless job, but she knew that somebody in this vast city of forgetfulness had to do it. For if she didn't do it, then whom? She assumed that nobody would do it, because most people here had a strange sense of not caring for the lost. They had the mind set, out mind out of place, or it can't happen to me, but Nancy knew that type of mind set was the type of mind set that had sent a fair share of people down the deaths of this place. The place that almost everybody in this city feared going to, but since these people had nothing to lose, they would go down here with nothing to lose and because of that they didn't fear this place like so many people did. The people that did mange to trip on this place were the lucky ones, there were stories about people that did enter this underground world and never found her place. So they were destined to forever to wonder the numerous underground man-made caverns that were spread out so far with so many twists and turns that if a person did get a map of the underground system, it would be totally unless for them to used it to guide them.
It was that reason, that Nancy didn't wander to far from the man-made caves that she knew, because she didn't want to end up wandering through this underground world, lost to this world and to the people that she cared for. She knew that she was the only ally that these people had in this world that was full with enemies and people that would be temporary allies. In this world, that only allies that a person would had, was themselves. She knew that was a sick and hopeless thought about this world, but that came from experience at how this place treated people like this. They would treat them like dirt, like they were second class citizens, but that only happen if the person was a working-class person that was struggling to carve out a life for themselves. If the person were rich, everybody would bed ass backward to make sure that they would regain what they had lost. For a normal person, that street that would evenly lead to recovering was close to them, because of one thing, money.
She pass everybody that was using this place as their home away from home and she could tell that despite the harsh and rough conditions that they were place in, they were managing to stay alive. One them included the person that she called Wayne, she could see that she was taking everything in without complaining to much and that told her something about him, that he was the stoic type of person, a person that could take everything and not let it affect you. That was a good quality to have, but she knew that in the long run it was also a curse, because a person that would have something like that wouldn't tell you what was bothering them.
"How are you doing today?" Asked Nancy.
"I doing okay," answered Beck/Wayne.
"That good, it seems of late that most of the people here, I have bad dreams," said Nancy.
"Of what?" Asked Beck/Wayne.
"The varied, but most of them see a huge black creature that is covered in shadow so most of the detail is hidden from view. What is seen of this creature is that it has wings and a huge sword, that is so huge that it require the creature to used to of his hands to hold it. This creature is controlling an entire army of things that themselves also have wings, this army is creating rampage and carriage throughout a city, that we safely assume is Paradigm," answered a visible shaken Nancy.
To Beck/Wayne, this was a clear sign that she was having the same type of dream and he wanted to know was this all about.
"I can see that you are also having the same type of dream," he said.
"Yes, but it seems that mine is a little different, I see something different from that," said Nancy.
"How is different?" He asked.
"It is different because I do see the same black creature that everybody else sees, but I see a huge sliver color creature that wheeled the same sword that is in this place. This sliver creature defeats the black creature that everybody else has reported seeing in their dreams," answered Nancy.
"Do you have any clue what that means?" Asked Beck/Wayne.
"No, I don't, but I have funny feeling that is important, but how important that is something that I have to see in the end," answered Nancy.
Beck/Wayne nodded his head at that because he somehow knew that these dreams despite their strangest and difference between each other were somehow linked together. That it would only be a matter of time before the unseen bound that it between these two things would show itself to everybody.
With that Nancy walked away from Beck/Wayne and went to the others that called this place their home. While she was doing that a member of her staff started to jog up to where she was.
"Nancy," the person said.
Nancy turned her head around to see the face of the person that was paging her and she found out that the person was Ann Farkes. Another member of her staff and her job title was a hard one to name and this was because she basically did a little bit of everything in this place. One day she would be working on the books of this place and the next day she would be helping out in the medical room of this place. Yet another day she would be the one that would patrol the outer rim of this place and today happen to be one of those days.
"What it is, Ann?" Asked Nancy.
"There is somebody that I think that you should see," answered Ann.
Nancy felt like rolling her eyes at this, this saying was used so often that it may her sick. She knew that she had to deal with it. So she did.
"Okay, who it is?" Asked Nancy.
"You going to have to see it, to believe it," answered Ann.
Oh, great, she is speaking in riddles, this going to end up in with result thought Nancy. Despite that she knew that she had to do this even if she didn't like doing it. So Nancy follow Ann through the cave-like walls of this place.
Then Ann stopped and because of that Nancy did the same, still having no clue what she was doing. Then she saw Ann move her false light in a direction and when she did that Nancy could see that Ann had pointed the beam of light in the direction of where a person was. In doing that she could see who this person was and Ann was correct with her guest about this person. It was somebody that she didn't expect to see her, and that person was Miss Patricia Lovejoy, one of the many people that worked for the Iron Curtain-like group that control almost anything and everything in this city. While none of the two of them knew what her position of power would be in that group, it didn't matter because she was apart of that group. That meant that she was danger to this place and because of that she knew that she would have to remove that danger from this place. If that meant that she would have kill her then she would have to do it. It was something that she didn't like to do, but if she wanted to kept this place safe from that group and all of the danger that it presented to this place, it was something that she had to do.
"You are right, Ann, I wouldn't have believe it, if you said it. Now, with my own two eyes, I do believe you," said Nancy.
Angel didn't said anything to do this, for she knew that if she did say something it would of may things more worst than they are now. She knew that it was best for her to stay quiet until they spoke to her.
"C'mon, you," said Nancy in a harsh voice.
Hearing that and knowing that style of voice that she was speaking in wasn't the type of voice that was going to allow her to speak to her in a normal conversation. So with that Angel walked with the two of them through the halls of this place and she could see that they won't alone down in the place. While she was walking with them, she noticed that Beck was down here as well, but from what she could tell, he was just a merge shadow of himself. It look like to her that he had suffered from something so extreme that it had cause him not to act like himself. She wondered did it have to do something with that fight that took place almost a mouth and year ago. If that was true, then whatever it, it had to be bad.
Even with that she knew that it was something that she would have to find out later on, right now she had to deal with these people and explain why she was in this place. A place that she knew that she had no reason and no right to be in and this was because of the people that she worked for. Only if they knew the true reason why she was working with them and that was because she was told to get close to the inner circle of this place. This was because to find out what was going on with the government of this place to see what was going to be their next move in this place. While most of the time it was the typical governmental stuff that would have bored most of her bosses, but she knew that she had to give them weekly report about the workings of that place.
The trio of them continues to walk through the place until they reach to what Angel thought that was the office of this place.
"Ann, you can leave," said Nancy.
Ann nodded her head at that and with that Ann left the two of alone in this place. That was something that Ann didn't like and was because she didn't trust this person as far as she could throw her. She assumed that Nancy knew what she was doing with this person.
"First at all, what are you doing here?!" Ordered Nancy.
"You wouldn't believe me, so where is it?" Asked Angel.
"What are you talking about? Try me," answered Nancy.
Angel thought of a good way to explain why she was here and every time she went through it, she found herself second-guessing herself about her explanation about what was going on here. With that she shook her head at her explanation.
"No, you won't believe me," said Angel.
"Once again, I said, try me. You would be amazed by the thing that I can believe in, so go for it," said Nancy.
With that Angel knew that it was time for her to tell her what she knew about this place and what she had read that was written on the walls of what look like to be some type of under ground temple. The temple appeared that was put there as a written record of what had happen to this place before "The Event", so that people wouldn't forget what happen there. She didn't know how to read the strange alien script that was written on the walls, which was Digi Code, something that almost no Digimon knew how to read. With the help of Izzy who was a member of the Digidestined who used a translation matrix program to translated the code into something that he knew how to read. Since he was from Japan, he translated it to Japanese, but since some of them didn't know how to read Japanese, Izzy once again had it translated to English for the people that were non-Japanese readers that were with them.
"All right then, where should I start. Oh, yes, I found a perfect spot to start with this, you know there is an under ground temple-like thing that is located under the streets of this city. Now written on the walls of this place there is so strange alien script that I couldn't read so I had somebody that knew what the script was translated it for me," started Angel.
"What dose that have to do with this place?" Asked Nancy.
"Do you know what this place was before you took over it?" Asked Angel.
"Yes, I do know what this place is," answered Nancy.
"Now written on that wall was the location of an object that is called 'The Sword of Seven Virtues' is located in a place where a great loss of life took place. I think this is the place where that Sword is located at," answered Angel.
"Is that so," said Nancy. She knows just like I do that this is the location of where the two towers of the World Trade Center once stood thought Nancy. But how? She asked to herself. Then she figure it out how she knew about this place, it was because of where she work at, she was either told about his place or she somehow tripped over that small bit of information about this place. Whatever the reason she knew, it didn't help Nancy change her mind about this person. She was still connived that her present in this place threaten the safely of this place for the people that were currently living in it.
"Yes, it is, now can I see the item that is in question?" Requested Angel.
Nancy paused to think about this and once again her current employer was the tripping point in letting her see the sword. Nancy didn't know what would happen if she did see it, she didn't know if she would tell her boss about this item and as soon as she did they would send people down here to take it away from this place, it safe house, in a world that was full with dangers to its well being. That was something that Nancy didn't want to have happen because she knew that it was a major key in the destiny of this world and if it was token out of the picture she didn't know what would happen to this place. That was a risk she didn't want to take if she didn't have to.
"Yes, you can, but under one key point," started Nancy.
"Yes, what it is?" Asked Angel.
"I would like to know, are you here because you want to find the item yourself, or are you here because your masters have told you to go find it. Just like a good little dog you listen to them. So what is it?" Asked Nancy.
"I hear because I want to find it myself and I also want to save this world from the path that it current on right now. No, I not here because my people that you called 'masters', have told me to go find it. I tell you one thing, I am not who you think I am. I am not Patricia Lovejoy, the personal secretary of Mr. Alex Rosewater," started Angel.
After that Angel made her body morp into a different form and this form was that of a Digimon. A Digimon that was pure white it color, her new form's body was completely covered with white feathers and around the neck of this Digimon she had a golden ring around her neck. Also this white color scheme that was through her body was also reflected in her wings and arms that were located just under the wings of this bird-like creature. Seeing this, Nancy had to clue what to say at this, for this was something that she had never expected to see from this person.
"Who…or what are you?" Asked a stunned Nancy.
"I am Swanmon, a Digimon. Before you ask what a Digimon is, I will tell you. I am living being that is made completely out of Data and I come from a world that is known as the Digital World. A world that is both completely outside of your world and equally requires your world to stay stable," answered Swanmon.
"What?" Asked Nancy.
"I will tell you on the way to the item," answered Swanmon.
With that out of the way, and knowing that this Digimon that had took human form wasn't as bad as she was making herself as. This was good, but now the only question that was in her mind right now, was why did she act like that.
"Okay, with that out of the way. I just want to know why? Why did you want to work with somebody like Alex Rosewater? And what with the act?" Asked Nancy.
"This is because I was told to do this, because the Digital World that I come from needed a person to be on the inside to feed them information about what is going on in this world. The act will I don't need to explain that one," answered Swanmon.
Nancy nodded her head at that and with that Nancy took point, leaded Swanmon where they Sword was located. During that trip through the many cave-like walls that look like that they had seen better days, Swanmon was becoming more connive that this was the place that this sword was located at. She knew that she couldn't jump the gun on this one, she needed visual confirmation that her assumption about this place was correct. She knew her history better than anybody that she had a bad history of jumping the gun numerous times about important issues that had affected the Digital World. Despite that, Gennai knew that he had the right person to do this despite her history about things. It was because of that high value that Gennai had place on her, Swanmon knew that she had to be very careful with this issue right now.
Even with that on her mind, she couldn't help the fact that she was looking at everything that she could possible take in. She didn't want to miss even the smallest detail no matter how pointless it maybe, it might be important later on. So this was the best time to take in everything that she could. One of the details that saw was a debris pile that the two of them had to walk over, and the one thing that look like that it was a piece of a building that had a crosshatch style to it. With that Swanmon knew that the only other building that had that type of design on it was the World Trade Center tower. Seeing that Swanmon knew without a doubt in her mind that this was indeed the sight of towers and the sword was indeed be in this place. This was the confirmation that she needed to be sure.
"Here," said Nancy. With that Nancy pulls out a key and unlocked a lock. After that Nancy open up two huge doors and when she did that Swanmon took a peek into the room that the two doors were protecting. In doing that she found out that there was indeed a sword that was located inside of that room.
Swanmon looked at the sword and with that she saw all of the details that this sword had. With that she found out that the sword was a gleaming white metal and on the metal blade there were seven symbols on it. Swanmon recognized them as the symbols there were on the crests that came from the Digidestined. She recognized the top symbol as the symbol of Power, then the symbol of Order, after that was the symbol of Light, with that gone the one after that was the symbol of Hope, the others ones were the symbol of Love, Friendship, and Reliability. Seeing the sword, all questions that were in her mind about this place, they were all gone. She knew that this was the place was the location of this sword, now the only problem now, was to get Roger down in this place on his own free will. That was something that wasn't the easiest thing to do. For Roger was the type of person that wouldn't take something like this without a grain of salt, or doubt in his mind about the true intentions of this. Swanmon knew that it was that type of mind set that he had that had kept him alive in this world with the type of job that he had.
"Now that you have found it, what are you going to do with it?" Asked Nancy.
"I will tell you to kept it here, for here it is safe until the person that it was meant for comes to claim it for himself and I think that you know who that person is," answered Swanmon and with that Swanmon winked her eye at Nancy.
Seeing that Nancy did a little bit of a smile at her and with that Nancy closed the two doors. After that she locked the two doors up and while she was doing that Nancy could see that Swanmon had charged her form back into her human form. In doing that she could see that all signs of her true form were gone just like that with no sign that she was indeed a Digimon that was talking human form.
"So what should I call you? Your Digimon name, the name that you give to Alex Rosewater, or some other name that you have picked for yourself?" Asked Nancy.
"Angel, that should be good enough for you," answered Angel.
"Yes, it. By the way what is your Digimon name, your real name?" Asked Nancy.
Angel turned her head back in the direction of Nancy and with a half smile on her face. "Swanmon."
With that Nancy nodded her head at that and after that the two of them left the room leaving the sword in its safe place. Letting it be for now, until the right person would come to claim it and Angel knew that it was Roger.
"I just hope that he will come down here," said Angel/Swanmon.
"Why?" Asked Nancy.
"Because he is the type of person that dose not accept things at face value. He knows me and he knows all of the trouble that I have gotten into, so if I tell him that there is something down here he wouldn't believe that I am telling the truth. Plus I think that his mind set is like this because of the type of job that he has right now," answered Angel.
"So, what you are saying to me about him is that I should tell him about this place because of one reason. Which is that he dose not know me like he knows you, so he not inclined to not trust me like he with you," said Nancy.
"Correct," answered Angel.
"This is isn't good," said Nancy.
"But it is the only way that we can do this," said Angel.
"All right then," said Nancy. "I will do it."
With that the two of them walked through the halls of this place without speaking another word to each other. For the two of them knew what each other had to do to make their goals a reality.
Everybody was heading toward the skyscraper that they had last seen Daemon and Alex at. While nobody knew for sure what they had to do here when they got them, they all knew that this was the best place to start looking for answers about getting back to Roger's world.
"I just hope that this is a good idea," said Tai.
"It has to do be, Izzy suggested it," said Davis.
"No, I didn't," said Izzy.
"Whoever did it, I hope just like you Tai, that it is a good idea. Because the more time that we waste in your world, the more time Alex has to full fill his plans for my world and since it states in the text that I am the savior of my world, I can't let that happen," said Roger.
"I must agree with Roger. We have to waste no time in figure out how to get back to his world," said Marry.
"Then let's waste no time and figure out how to get to his world," said Joe.
"All right, people let's ride," said Tai.
With that all of the flyers took off at a fast clip to get to the summit of the building and they did in a couple seconds. On the top of the building everybody dismounted their Digimon and when they did that all of the Digimon devolved back to their Rookie or Champion Forms.
When that happens Ken, Yolie, Izzy, and Tentomon took at looking at the building with their eyes first. At first four of them didn't notice anything, but when Izzy took a second more closer look at the same area, he found something. Something that was slight and something that he knew that he would of miss if he didn't take a second look at the same place. With that he saw that there was some type of mark on the building here. Noticing that he continues to look for the same type of marking and he did find it.
"Look at this," said Izzy.
Yolie, Ken, Tentomon, Dorothy, and Roger took at the look at the same place that Izzy was looking at. Yolie, Ken, and Tentomon didn't see what Izzy was talking about, Dorothy and Roger did see it.
"I don't see it," said Yolie.
"That goes the same with me," said Ken.
"I see it," said Dorothy.
"I also see it," said Roger. Then something caught Roger's attention so much that he had to stand up from the ground to get a better look at the whole picture of the thing.
"What is it?" Asked Dorothy.
Roger put his hand up and Dorothy took that in, as sign to kept quiet for now.
Then Roger stops his survey of the markings and he was puzzled by it. "I recognized it, but I can swear that I have never seen it before."
"What do you see?" Asked Marry.
"It is a symbol, but as I said before, it no symbol that I have seen before in my entire life before," answered Roger.
"What dose it look like?" Asked Marry.
"It is six pointed star with a circle around it," answered Roger.
Both Izzy and Marry looked at each other for the two of them knew what this symbol was. It was a Lock of Solomon, a symbol that was used to summon demons. With that information, Marry knew why Shafanmon and his friend were in this world. They were here because they were summoned by Daemon from the Digi world equal to Hell into this world.
"It appeared that the two of you know what that symbol is," said Dorothy.
"Yes, we do," answered Marry.
"Then what it is?" Asked Roger.
"It is called a Lock of Solomon and it is a symbol that is used to summon demons. That could explain the reason why those two Digimon appeared in my father's house," answered Marry.
"What dose that have to do with getting back to his world?" Asked Kari.
"I was about to get to that point," said Marry.
"Yes, she was, and I tell you why. A Lock of Solomon is a bridge behind our world and other world," said Izzy.
"So what are you saying, that we have to used this Lock of Solomon to get back to my world," said Roger.
"In sense yes, but we are going to change the exit point of this symbol to Roger's world," said Izzy.
"Good," said Marry. "How long is that going to take?"
"I have to find both the origin and exit point that this started with," answered Izzy.
"Okay, Izzy, but that still dose not answer my question. Which is how long is going to take?" Asked Marry again.
"I don't know for sure, it all depends how long I am going to figure out the origin and exit point of this thing," answered Izzy.
"Just great, Izzy. So what you are saying, is that you don't know for sure how long this is going to take," said Marry.
"Yes, it a way," answered a sheepish Izzy.
With that Marry just rolled her eyes at this, for this wasn't what she wanted to hear from Izzy, who was one of the many brains of this team. If he wasn't sure of something, that was the time when Marry would worry about what is going on with them.
"That isn't want I wanted to hear, Izzy," said Roger.
"I am sorry about it, but I am doing the best that I can with what I got. I don't see you leading a hand with this," said Izzy.
Marry didn't like what was starting here for she knew that this was going to end up in one result and that one result was Izzy getting his ass kicked by Roger. She thought that Izzy had learned from the last time that he had a war of words behind him. Seeing this, it proved that while Izzy was book smart, he wasn't street smart. Marry knew that if she was in the same spot that Izzy was in right now, she would try her hardest not to get on Roger's bad side. She wasn't Izzy, she was her own person that would make her own choices in her life. That went the same for Izzy, he would make his own choices in life if they were good or bad.
"Izzy I wouldn't do this, if I was you," suggested Marry. "Reminder the last time that you try to pull a trick like this before."
Roger walked slowly toward Izzy and it didn't seem that there was anything different from Roger. Kari knew that he was up to something and to her it look like that history was going to repeat itself with Roger just using the sound of his voice to make Izzy do something against his will, just like before.
"You know she is right," started Roger.
"Oh, now, not again," said Tai.
"Please don't do this," begged Kari.
"I am sorry about this, but Izzy has to learn that I am not the type of person that like to be push around. I thought that I taught that lesson to him before, but it look like that it didn't sink in," said Roger.
"Hey, you have to understand something, Roger. Something takes time, and I think that this is one of them. That is something that can't be help, but I think that Izzy will fine a way to get back to your world," said Marry.
Roger took a quick look at Izzy and when he did that, Izzy knew without a doubt in his mind that he stood get to work as fast as he could.
"Okay, I let him do his work, but he must work as fast as he can without delaying his efforts," said Roger.
Hearing that both Kari and Marry knew that they had quieted the fire dragon that was located inside of him. That brief moment of quiet that they had right now was only a transitorily moment, a thing that would only last a short period of time. That it would only be a matter of time before something else would make Roger go off and the two of them hope that it would be one of their foes that would be the cause of it.
"Hear that Izzy," said Tai.
"Yes, I do," said Izzy.
"Good," said Tai.
"Now the only thing that we can do right now is wait," said Matt.
"That is something that I don't like to do," said Ken.
"You aren't the only other one," muttered Matt. He didn't like the fact that he was waiting for Izzy to solve this problem.
Roger heard Matt's comment about what they were going through right now, but he opted to stay quiet about that. The only thing that he knew that he should worry about right now was to see if Izzy was going to full fill his promise to them all. That meant that he would have to wait, but that didn't mean that he would wait forever, he did have a limit to how long he was going to wait. If that happen, he hoped that it didn't, he would let Izzy know that he had reached his time limit with him.
While that was going on Roger wondered what was going on in his world and unknown to him things were not all well in his world. One of them was the fact that Skull Satanmon, one of the members of the Demon Core was watching to see what Angel was doing on her own. Unknown to Angel, Skull Satanmon knew the real identity of Angel. He knew that this Angel person was Swanmon, a Digimon agent that was sent by the Digimon Guardians to kept an eye out on this world. He didn't know if Alex knew about Swanmon that called herself Angel or even Patricia Lovejoy and if he did know this. Alex was giving the impression that he didn't know about it or maybe he was doing this to make Swanmon feel like she was safe and sound despite the fact that she was in the Lion's Den, the worst place that her kind could be at this moment.
Thinking about that, Skull Satanmon started to get a headache thinking about what was going on inside the mind of Alex Rosewater. It was that fact that made Skull Satanmon stops thinking about that subject and turns his thoughts on what was important right now. That was to keep an eye out on Swanmon no matter what type of form that she was taking. Thinking on this, Skull Satanmon found out that the pain that was from the headache was gone, replace with clearer thinking that allowed him to think well.
With that he started to survey the debris field and he could see that the debris field was full with uneven and jagged pieces that varied in size and shape. That was the only detail that he could tell from them and this was because all of the pieces were weathered down to a pale gray, totally destroyed any and all detail of what this place once was. If the name of this place did worry Skull Satanmon, because it didn't because it was just a detail that didn't matter to him right now. What did matter to him was to see what Angel would do next and he could see that she was doing anything yet. Seeing that, it made Skull Satanmon wondered what was going on down there. He knew that this type of place did offer a lot of hiding places to a person to hide, but a person or a Digimon could only hide for a certain period of time.
"It is only a matter of time before you will have to leave your hiding spot and when that happen. I will be ready to track you like a bloodhound," said Skull Satanmon.
Even with that, waiting for you to appeared out of your hiding spot get boring thought Skull Satanmon and with that he knew that it was time to have some fun with the time that was on his hands. So that meant that it was time for him to fire on his attack off in the direction of a tower that had the same type of color and condition. Knowing that nobody would miss this thing. So Skull Satanmon brought up his staff that was made up by bones.
"Nail Bone!" He shouted and after that a yellow bust of energy was shot out of the bottom of his staff. The energy from the attack hit the tower and when it did, the already stressed building material crumbled under the extra strain that his attack added to it. Most of the deteriorated material was destroyed when the attack hit them, but the few pieces that did managed to survive the attack that Skull Satanmon put on them fall down to street level. When the pieces hit the ground they broke into either two things; one a million tiny pieces or deteriorated further into dust, the final state that building materials would end up in.
"That was fun," said Skull Satanmon.
Skull Satanmon had no clue that his little trick to pass the time that was on his hand nerved Angel.
"Don't worry about that, it happens once in a while," said Nancy.
"What happen 'once in a while'?" Asked Angel as she quoted a part of Nancy's statement.
"Parts on the what is left on the building collapse once in a while. As I said before, it is normal and it isn't anything that you should worry about," said Nancy. Having no clue that the building wasn't falling under natural decay, but was being caused by a Digimon that had time on his hands.
"Oh," said Angel.
After that Angel continue on her way through the twisting hallways following Nancy.
"I have a question?" Asked Angel.
"Sure," answered Nancy.
"Is there another way to get out of this place than the way that I came in?" Asked Angel.
"Yes, and I can understand why. To make matters better for you, I will show you the way," answered Nancy.
Angel nodded her head with that.
"Skull Hammer!" He shouted and after that he swung his skeleton staff at another one of the decaying and broken structure that look likes to be a tower.
Then Skull Satanmon heard a noise and with that he turned his head in the direction of where he thought the sound was coming from. With that he saw that the sky was a blaze in a vortex of different colors. Seeing that Skull Satanmon knew that meant only one thing that his master had returned from the Digidestined's world. If he had achieved his goal or not that was something that he would have to see. Right now he couldn't worry himself about that matter for it was something that didn't affected him of right now. That didn't mean that he could spend some time watching what was going on in the sky and he wasn't the only other one that was watching what was going on in the sky of this world.
The others that were watching this display of colors, where the International Digidestined and Norman, the normal everyday denizens of that city. Each one of them was witnessing this display at different viewing points. For Norman it was at Roger's house, the International Digidestined it was at the hotel that were staying at, for the normal denizens it was at various points through the city. The normal people had no clue what was going on, the only thing that they knew that it wasn't a normal event that they were viewing. For the International Digidestined they had so what of a clue of what was going on, they assumed that someone of something had ripped open a portal through two worlds. Norman also guess on the same lines of what was going on here, but he wasn't to sure this was what was going on right now.
In the mist of the normal people watching what was going on up in the sky was Major Dan Dustan. He couldn't help from not looking at what was going up there, but he knew that he had a job to do. That was to maintain order in this place not matter what was going on up in the sky. He knew that it was going to be a hard thing to do, but he knew that he had to do it.
"Tell me what is going on?" Asked Dan.
"Sir, it appears that whatever is going on up in the sky has caused the almost the entire city to stop and take a look at what it is," answered one of his officers over his radio.
"That could be entire a good thing or a bad thing, but we have to assume that it is a bad thing, because with all of the cars stop and people standing in the streets looking up. We are bound to have trouble. Some idiot in car will think that this is a free for all and drive like a maniac and cause an accident that will cause somebody to get hurt or even worst be killed. That is something that I don't want to have happen not on my watch," said Dan. "Do you understand that?"
"Yes Sir!" Answered the officer.
With that Dan continued to scan the area to see if his fears that somebody would do that and it look like that his fears were unfounded, for he could see that everybody were acting good and decent. Not doing anything that was stupid that would get a person hurt or killed. He knew that could change at anytime, so he knew that he had to kept his scanning going on all of the time to see if he was going to miss anything.
With that he picked up his walkie-talkie. "This is checkpoint one to checkpoint three, how is everything there?"
"It look like that everything is fine, it look like that everybody is looking up at the skies. Sir, do have any clue what is going on up there?" He asked.
"I have no clue, what that is," answered Dan. "It appears not to be hurt anybody at the moment and that is a good thing, but you know as well as I do, that could change at any moment so kept your eyes peel. If you see anything that look like that it is out of place report it to me, that could mean anything, strange lights, strange sounds, or even an accident," answered Dan.
The officer didn't know what was to say to what Major was talking about, but he knew that he had to fellow his orders if he wanted to keep his job. "Will do."
With that Dan started to think about what he just said to that officer and figure out that it sound like he was drunk or on drugs. It seems that officer didn't think like that, but Dan knew that was apart of his job to listen to what his CO told him to do.
Then Dan like the rest of the other people that were watching this phenomena saw that a streak of yellow light shot out the vortex of twisted air. Dan tried to follow the streak of light, but it moved to fast for his eyes to lock onto it. So Dan had no clue where it went, the only thing that he knew was that it was there one second and then it gone the next. When that happens the vortex of twisted air was gone and replace with normal skyline. When that happen it seems that things were started to get back to normal, but that didn't mean that the people that has seen it, were talking about it. For they did and Dan also talks about what just happen here, but he kept his comments to himself, thinking to himself about it, rather than talks a loud.
Now that things were starting to get back to normal, didn't mean that Dan could let his guard down, because there was still a slight change that problems could happen and that meant that he had to kept his eyes on things. That what he was doing as he watch the comings and goings of the citizens. As he watches them, he could see most of them were obeying the laws and generally mind themselves, despite what they just saw happen up in the sky. When almost the entire crowd was gone, Dan thought that it was okay to leave the area and go back to his normal patrol of the streets of this city. His thinking on right on track because when he left the area, nothing happen to the area that would caused him to go back to it. For now, it was his normal routine, something that Dan was happy that he was getting back to.
"Thank God, that is over with," he said to himself as he drove down the streets of this city.
Skull Satanmon was still continuing on razing the reminding structures when he also viewed the strange vortex that was in the sky. He didn't know what to make of it, but the one thing that he knew was that he had to keep his eyes on the ground that was below him to see if Angel/Swanmon would make her appearance out of the rubble that was below him right now. While he wanted to know what it was, he knew that he had to stay here unless he got orders from Daemon or somebody else that was pretty high up in the chain of command. There was something about him, he was a loyal member of the Demon Corp, and that was something that a good majority of this group couldn't say for sure.
Skull Satanmon was about yell out another one of his attacks at the building when he was stopped by yet another vortex. This one was different from the one that was up in the sky, for this one appeared right in front of him and it seemed to be a little bit smaller than the one that was up in the sky. It seems that it was meant for him only. Sensing that this could be important for him, Skull Satanmon pause his actions to see what this new vortex would do.
The vortex stop growing and it appeared be the size of human-like Digimon, not to big and not to small. After that an image appeared and at first he thought that it was his master, Daemon, but on latter inspection he found out that his first guess was wrong, for this wasn't Daemon. This was Daemonicusmon, his master's master, the big boss of everything that was going on here, the real player in this great game. While the image that Skull Satanmon was given was just a dark figure of the Digimon Demon Lord, he still knew that this was indeed Daemonicusmon, and this was because of the huge sword that was with him. Seeing that, Skull Satanmon knew that this meant that he had to listen to what he had to say to him or risk losing his life, yet again. That was an experience that he didn't want to go through a second time, once was good enough for him.
"Yes, Supreme Master Lord, what do you want from me, a merge foot solider in your great army," said Skull Satanmon.
"I need you to go back to where Daemon, your boss is," answered Daemonicusmon.
Skull Satanmon nodded his head at that and without another word from him, Skull Satanmon flew off in the direction of where Daemon was located. That meant that he would have to go back to the Paradigm Group Headquarters despite the fact that would mean that he would have to leave his post. His job was to follow orders, not question them and that what he was doing now. He knew that he would find Swanmon once again.
"We will meet each other again, Swanmon," said Skull Satanmon.
Back in the city of Philadelphia, Digidestined, their Digimon, Roger, and Dorothy were all still waiting for Izzy to figure out how to control the vortex that was made my Daemon that somehow connected this world and Roger's world. While Izzy was making some process with the thing, there was still a couple of tripping points that were confusing Izzy. One of them was exit and entrance parts of the vortex, Izzy understood the theory behind it, but actually doing it was other thing all together. It seems to him that he was up a creek without a paddle, but he was afraid to tell everybody that he didn't know what he was doing. For he didn't know what would happen to him if he did tell them that he had no clue what the heck he was doing. Even with that he knew that he had to do kept on doing this, and hope that something good would happen to come across that would be good for them.
"Izzy, are you having any good luck?" Asked Tai.
"The same," answered Izzy.
Tai didn't know what that meant, but he knew that if he came from Izzy that it either some technical term that Tai would never understood no matter how much Izzy would explain it to him. So Tai figure out that the best thing for him was to expect what Izzy just said to him and not ask any further.
"Okay," said Tai.
After that Izzy got the break that he wanted, he somehow figures out how to work the vortex and Izzy didn't know how he did it. He hoped that he found out this by his own merit and not trip on it by accident, but Izzy guessed that he figure this out by accident, which he did. Even with that he now knew how to work the vortex. It work on a set coordinates that by themselves were unless, but when grouped together in a group eight would point to a location. Seeing that, Izzy could swear that he had seen that before, but he didn't know where, but he knew that it was either from a movie that he had recently seen or a TV show, he just couldn't reminder where it came from.
"I found it!" Shouted Izzy.
The sound of Izzy's voice caught everybody's attention.
"What have you found?" Asked Roger.
"I found how to used the vortex that Daemon used," answered Izzy.
"That good news, Izzy. I just have a small question, how dose it work?" Asked Marry.
"Okay, let's me first state, I have no clue how I found out this bit of information, but right now I personally don't give a dam. We have found the information that we wanted and that is good enough for me, do you agree with me on that part," said Izzy.
"Yes, I do agree with you, but dose not answer Marry's question, about how it works," said Roger.
"Okay, he goes, it seems that these vortexes are based on coordinates which are patented after the symbols of the zodiac and you need eight of these symbols to plot a location. Now I have the eight symbols that are need to plot the trip back to Roger's world," said Izzy.
"Yes, very similar to the movie Stargate and the TV series Stargate SG-1, which is based off that movie. Instead of using zodiac symbols they used star constellations, or group of stars, symbols to mark locations. Izzy, I have one question, about it, is the last eight symbol the one that is the point of origin?" Asked Marry.
"Yes, that is where I saw it, Stargate. I just have one question about it, which season are you currently in?" Asked Izzy.
"That is a hard question to answer and that is because it all depends on what channel you are watching here in the States. Because on regular TV, like the local Fox station, there are on the 4th season, but on the Showtime channels they are in the 5th season, and finally on the Sci-Fi Channel they are showing the last season of the show, the 6th season. Why?" Asked Marry.
"Because we are still in the 2nd season," answered Izzy. (Author's Note: I have really no clue what season of Stargate SG-1 that they are airing in Japan, or if they air the series at all in Japan, that is just a guess. I might me wrong or I might me right.)
"Hey, this is getting off from the point," said Roger.
"Sorry about that," said Marry.
"Okay, I will set up the zodiac symbols to make the vortex work," said Izzy. After that everybody saw that Izzy was busy working on his laptop working on the symbols and alighting right to open up the vortex. With Izzy's speed on the computer, Izzy alighted the symbols up in a matter of seconds and when the final symbol was put into the program, the vortex open up.
Unlike when it open up for Daemon, which was an almost a hot pink in color, the color of their vortex was green in color.
"I hope that you did it right, Izzy. That is because that isn't the same color the vortex appeared to be when Daemon summoned it," said Marry.
"You aren't the only other one," said Izzy.
"I just have one question, dose the same rules apply when he first enter it?" Asked Veemon.
"We can safely assume that it dose. So Ken and Davis, you better get your Digimon ready," said Izzy.
"Right," said Davis.
"Wormmon are you ready?" Asked Ken.
"I am already ready," answered the worm-like Digimon.
With that both Ken's and Davis's Digivice glowed.
"Veemon Digivoled to…" started Veemon.
"…ExVeemon," ended ExVeemon.
"Wormmon Digivoled to…" started Wormmon.
"…Stingmon," ended Stingmon.
"ExVeemon…" started the blue dragon-type Digimon.
"Stingmon…" started Stingmon.
"…DNA Digivoled to…" the two of them continue together.
"…Paildramon," ended Paildramon, which contained voices of both Digimon.
"Paildramon Mega Digivolve to…" started Paildramon.
"Imperialdramon," ended the Mega-Level Dragon-type Digimon. Out of the light that came from Digivolution a huge dragon appeared. With that everybody expect Marry and Nivernmon got on the back of the Digimon.
"Marry, why aren't you getting on the back on Imperialdramon?" Asked Tai.
"I have a Digimon that also protect me, in the same way that Imperialdramon can, don't worry about me," answered Marry.
With that Marry pulled out her Digivice and it glowed in the same fashion that Tai's and Matt's did when their Digimon skip their Champion and Ultimate Levels and when straight to their Mega Level.
"Nivernmon," said Marry.
"Right," said Nivernmon.
"Nivernmon Warp Digivolve to…" started Nivernmon.
Unseen by everybody Nivernmon's Warp Digivolution process happened. It started by Nivernmon being in gulf by the sky blue light. With that Nivernmon went to her Champion form of Aggymon, then she went into her Ultimate form of Metal Aggymon and right before the next stream of sky blue light hit Metal Aggymon she brought both of her hands across her chest. Then she made both blades come out so that they would fall on either side of her body. After that the last stream of blue light hit her and with that metal dragon body of the Digimon that was known as Metal Nivernmon appeared, but not entirely, there were still some details that didn't come out during the changing process of the Digimon. But their details were full in later as the head armor was completed and that also included a few lines that were added to the wings of this dragon. When that was all done, Metal Nivernmon fired her missiles at a mountain. With that Metal Nivernmon roared, "Metal Nivernmon."
"Metal Nivernmon mode change to…" started Metal Nivernmon.
"…Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode," ended the Digimon.
Seeing that, both Metal Nivernmon and Marry knew that they weren't done, Marry knew that she still had to use her Digi Jewel to complete Nivernmon's line. With that Marry pull out her Digi Jewel and in the light of the sun, the blue jewel shimmered. After that she put the Digi Jewel back into her shirt pocket.
Seeing that Metal Nivernmon who was now in Fighter Mode, and being in that form give her human features. One of the features was hand that had four fingers and a thumb, this feature allowed her to pick up Marry, which she did. On the hand of her Digimon, Marry carefully stood up while she was being transported to the head of her Digimon. When she was fully erect, Marry once again pull out the Digi Jewel. When Marry had reach the head of Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode's head, that was the time when Marry placed the Digi Jewel right in the center of her head. After that another transformation would occurred to the Digimon.
"Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode, mode changed to…" started Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode.
Once again unseen by all, Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode's transformation happen. It first started with flicker of blue light that was in the center of her head. With that Metal Nivernmon Fighter Mode's sliver armor started to change into a blue armor and the same blue metal armor that started with the head went through her entire body. During that transformation process the tail that was located on her back disappeared from that spot and it reappeared in a different location. That location was her right arm. To round out the transformation was her wings, which were sliver, they were now gold.
The light from the process had silhouetted her Mega-Level Digimon, hiding all but the most general details of this Digimon. With this, it give Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode the appearance of an angel, to be more specific the ArchAngel Micheal, with her sword-like attachment on her arm, the similar appearance between these two beings was identical. After the light was gone, more details came evidence to everybody.
Everybody was impress by the appearance of this new form of Metal Nivernmon, it seemed to them all that this new form of this Digimon, was her most powerful form. With that gone, some of the Digidestined recognized this new form of this Digimon.
"Isn't that…?" Asked Kari.
Roger took a good look at the Digimon and he recognized the Digimon as the huge blue armor thing that had attack him. Seeing that, Roger knew that there was only one thing that he had to do, and that was to make sure that thing, whatever or whoever that thing was, would never do that again. So Roger jumped out of the shield that Imperialdramon had produced so that it would be able to protect them when they crossover between the two worlds. After that he started he started to walk toward Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode and it seemed that he was pissed at seeing this Digimon again.
"Roger… don't do it," pleaded Kari.
Roger did hear it, but it was something that he didn't need right now and to show his annoyance toward Kari, he shot his head in the direction of Kari. In doing that Kari could see the face that Roger grave to her and it was a face that she didn't like. For it was a face that was hard, cold, and void of any type of compassion toward any follow living being. Seeing that Kari was socked that her half-brother could be even capable of doing something like this, despite the fact that she knew that Roger was some type of warrior. She knew that warriors at some time of their life had to act like this, but that didn't help her at all.
"Don't worry about him, I have seen him like this before. It always happens before he goes into battle," said a voice.
Hearing the voice, Kari turned her head in the direction of where the voice had came from and she found out that it was Dorothy that said that to her. Somehow a voice that was void of any type of emotion was good enough for her to stop her plea with Roger and let him fight this fight his way and in the Emotion State that he is currently in right now. While it was something that she didn't to have happen, but she knew that there was nothing that she could do to stop him from acting like this. So with that Roger turned his attention back to Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode and Marry. At this time, the two of them were ready for him.
"I sorry about that, but I had to do that," said Marry.
Roger didn't say anything like that and the two of them took that as a sign that things weren't going their way. Even with that, Marry knew that the three of them shouldn't fight between each other, because it would in the long run weaken them all, no matter how this fight would end up.
"You have to understand, that was something that I had to do. If I allow you to capture the two of us, it wouldn't of force you and the rest of the other Digidestined to head back to their world. I didn't mean to do that," said Marry again.
"You have to understand, that I personal don't like to out done by a simple understudy like you," said Roger.
Hearing that, which socked her, she couldn't believe that he would think like that toward her after all of the things that they went through. "Is that how you think of me? I think you are off by a long shot. No, no, wait, I know that you off by a long shot. Don't try to say that I am off, because I know that I am not."
"You know, that I have never once in my life time, have never hit a woman, and I have rule that I made up that a follow to the letter that states never to hit a woman no matter what. But, I can make a acceptation to that rule," said Roger.
"You wouldn't," said Marry.
"If you kept this up, I will give you why word that I will do it," said Roger.
"Don't push it. From what I heard, his word is like an unbreakable bond. That when he dose that, he commit himself and he will do everything that is in his power of make true," said Sora.
Hearing that, Marry was affected by it, but she didn't let the impact of this knowledge affect her physical, but in her mind it hit her with the force of a tidal wave. In her mind it felt like she was knock down and she was drowning, that every time that she try to reach the surface something would pull her down when she was about to breathe in the precious oxygen that would allow to continue to live. Which would only bring in more of the deadly water that did contain oxygen, which would have allowed her to live, but she didn't have the organs that would bring out the oxygen for her.
She knew that Roger was telepathic, which would allow him to sense or even read her feelings and thoughts that were going on in her head. That meant that while she didn't show any physical affects from what she heard from Sora, her mind and her thoughts had betrays her. That was something she didn't know how to control to the level that a telepath, like Roger wouldn't be able to pick up.
"I know, that you fear that part of me, so it is pointless to try to hide it from me," said Roger.
"You are right with that, I do fear that part of you, and that is the reason why I don't want to make you my enemy. I not you enemy, if you want to me to say that I am sorry about what I did to you, I did say that I was sorry. What else do you want from me?" Asked a now worry Marry. For she knew that he could wipe her out with a simple flick of his hand and there was nothing that she could do to prevent this from happening. To make matters worst for her, is if her Digimon got involve in the fight, he would just change into that darn Megadeus of his, that might destroy her. That was something that she didn't want to have happen to her Digimon again. Losing her Digimon once was enough for her and something that she didn't want to repeat if she could avoid it.
"I would like to know why? Why did you do that? Attack me like that?" Asked Roger.
"I had to do that, because if you prevent me from going through that portal, it wouldn't of force you and the other Digidestined to go into our world. In turn, you wouldn't have found out why Alex and Daemon went to our world. That the reason why I did what I did, I never wanted to spare with you. Can you understand that?" Asked Marry.
"No, I don't understand that, because we would have found out anyway," said Davis.
"Idiot, you aren't getting the point," said Izzy.
"Which is?" Asked Davis.
"Her point is, that while are actions were traitorous when we first look at them, but in the long run, her actions might have save us time, lives, and resources," answered Izzy.
"Yes, that is correct, Izzy. Now do you see the point, Roger? That was something that I had to do to save us a lot of headaches in the long run," said Marry again with the same type air of desperation in voice. She really wanted Roger to understand her reasoning behind her actions of that day so many weeks ago.
It seemed that they were getting through him, but it look like that, that there were still a few walls that they had to do break down with their words and their actions. It look like that these few walls that still remained up look like that they were going to be the hardest to break down. Marry was used to a challenge, heck she played Starcraft and it's sequel which was an expansion set which was called Starcraft: Brood War. She also played Warfcraft games as well, but she didn't like it as much as she liked the two Starcraft games, but she hadn't played the third game in the Warfcraft series, yet. So she had to hold her dislike for the games until she played that game. She knew that they were games, and this was real life and while she could restart the mission, which would clean the slate for her. In real life she knew that was an impossibly and that was because in real life you didn't get a second chance in life, if you screw up with it, you were stuck with the results of what actions one would take. So she knew that she had to make sure that she didn't screw up with it.
"Roger, listen to her, she is telling you the truth…" started Kari.
After that Roger put his finger up in the air and with that everybody knew that he had make his choice in this matter. What would happen next was up to him, so everybody waited to see what he was about to do.
"I didn't like the fact that you attack me like that, and while you actions did prove to be useful. That dose not lessen the fact that you fired upon an ally, like me," said Roger.
"I know, what I did was wrong, but stated before, I had to do it," said Marry.
"You have proven that is correct, but as I stated before, that is something that you don't do," said Roger.
"So what are you going to do to me?" Asked Marry.
"I will let this one go, but if you do that again, I won't be so benevolent to you," said Roger.
With that Marry let out a sign of relief that she didn't have to go against Roger, but she knew that she got luck this time and she knew that if she did something like this again, she wouldn't life to tell the tale of what she did. Now with that over Roger got on the back of Imperialdramon and Marry with the help of her Digimon got inside of her.
"Are you ready?" Asked Marry.
"We are ready," answered Izzy.
"Okay, then, people let's go," said Marry.
With that the two Mega-Level Digimon rose up in the sky where the portal between their two worlds was. After that the duo of Digimon went through the rip between worlds. Like before they traveled through bridge that was long and shape like a cylinder that had images of both worlds on the walls of the bridge. On one side of the cylinder there was an image of their world and on the other side of the bridge there was an image of the world that they were heading toward. While the image was slightly twisted, they could still make out the world and that it was Roger's world. Izzy did it, he had used the right code of symbols and now it would only be a matter of time before they were enter this world for a second time.
"Nice job Izzy," said Marry.
"Now, we have to see what type of damage happen here, since Roger is gone for almost an entire year," said Metal Nivernmon.
With that Marry slapped her head with her hand. "That's right, I forgot about that little wrinkle. Oh well then, we will see what will happen to this world when we get there," said Marry.
"Well, here we go," said Metal Nivernmon.
With that the two of them like the rest of the others enter into Roger's world in the same fashion that Daemon and Alex had. Since it was at night, only a hand full of people saw the light show that was up in the sky and that was a good thing. None of the few people that did see the light show included Dastun and without him to report about what had happen they were free to head back to Roger's house without explaining things.
Everybody took a long good look at the place and it look like that nothing had change from the last time that they had seen the place.
"It looks like that nothing had change from the last time that we have seen the place," said Tai.
"Yes, how long have we been away?" Asked Roger.
"According to the time dilatation between are worlds, it seems that we have been away from this place for almost a year, despite the fact that it felt like two weeks," answered Izzy.
"A year! What about the International Digidestined and their Digimon? How are they doing?" Asked Yolie.
"We have to send somebody to check them out to see if they aren't skeletons," suggested Ken.
"Don't worry about them, I said before, I have people that will take care of them. I do agree with you, that you should send somebody to check them out just in case something did happen to them. I would rather be safe then sorry," said Roger.
"Then, I will be the one that will go," said T.K. T.K. knew that this was something that he didn't want to do, he wanted to stay with Kari to kept an eye out on her despite the fact that Roger had from time to time shown that he was quiet adapt at the job of protecting Kari from this world.
"Agree," said Roger.
With that T.K. had armor Digivoled his Digimon, Patamon, to Pegasusmon and after that the two of them were ready to take flight up in the sky. Then Roger give them a few directions of where the hotel was at and with that the two of them took flight into gray clad sky of this world. Despite the fact that Pegasusmon's golden color would make him stick out in this world. It was something that they had to do if they wanted to know what had happen to them.
"Pegasusmon, do you have any clue what we will find in that place?" Asked T.K.
"No, I have no clue what we will find there," answered the Armor-Level Digimon. "We have to do this, to find out what happen to them."
"Yes, that is true," answered T.K.
With that the duo of them took off in the direction of the hotel.
With that gone, Roger turned his attention back to the rest of the other Digidestined. "I suggest that we head back to my house."
"Yes, we should," said Sora.
With that everybody suited his or her Digimon up for action and with that everybody was off in the direction of Roger's house. Good majorities of the Digimon that belong to the Digidestined were up in the sky, there was a few of them that took the land route through out the city. While the sky route was the prefer route, the land route was just as good for the ones that took it, because the two groups reach their destination at the same time.
"I can see that everybody is here," said Roger.
After Metal Nivernmon Battle Mode put Marry down on the ground and went back to her Rookie Level of Nivernmon everybody had agree with that statement. With that everybody went inside of Roger's house. While they were doing that Angel/Swanmon had watch them.
"So he had return, now the only thing to do right now is to get him to that place that is under the streets," said Angel. I know that almost everybody in this city fears going under the streets of this place, but Roger is different because he had gone down there. Even with that I know that he will have reservations about doing it. Still I know that he has to do it thought Angel.
So Angel made the choice to head to Roger's house and tell him the information that she knew where the location of the sword that was destined to belong to Roger. "It is now or never." After that she made her way to the huge tower-like house that was Roger's home. While she knew that he was just discovering what he could do the sight of his home with this knowledge made it feel bigger than it ready was. Even with that she knew that she had to do this and she did.
In another part of the city, the main doom of the city, Alex Rosewater and Daemon were busy looking at the two Jewels that they had captured from Digidestined's world. Alex knew that these two Jewels were powerful and could turn the tide of this war that they were fighting on their side. But, they appeared be simple decoration for the rich and to the untrained eyes of normal people they would be nothing than that, simple decoration. Alex knew better, he knew that these Jewels contain hidden power within them. Unlike most people knew what that hidden power within them was. That was that they had the power to change a person that was made out of flesh and blood into a huge fighting machine that was made out of metal alloy that could deflected almost any to all normal weapons. The only way to destroy that thing was to find another one that was like it.
"It is amazing, that a thing like this that appeared to be innocuous, can have the power to change the favor of battle on our side," said Alex.
"You are right about that one," said Daemon. "The big question is when are you going to used them? That is because the two that you do have, the black one you can't used, and the red one that you would give to wouldn't trust you no matter what you would said. Plus, the third one, the golden one is in the hands of our enemy."
"Don't worry about that one, things have a funny way of working themselves out. You just have to learn to wait," said Alex.
Daemon did and didn't like this because yes he was a Digimon that like to wait and by his time to wait for his moment to strike out at his enemy. He was also a Digimon of action as well, because he knew that if you waited to long for your moment to hit your enemy, the moment would pass you bye and most of the time your moment would never come back to you again.
"You are correct about that one, but some times waiting to long for your moment to come makes you loss your moment and most of the time it dose not come back to you. So you shouldn't wait to long," said Daemon.
Alex didn't say anything to that because he knew that he was correct about that, but he also knew that he was correct about buying his time and waiting. Looking at his close circuit TV he found out that the moment for them to put their plan into action was coming to pass and this was because he saw that T.K., one of the Digidestined was flying through the air of this city. While he didn't know the reason why he was doing that. The only thing that he knew was that T.K. was going to be in big trouble.
"What are you saying that you have one of the three Jewels? I thought that it was stolen," asked Ken.
"Yes, I do and I completely forget to tell you about it before the two agents from Daemon stolen a fake one, " answered Marry.
"Why?" Asked Roger.
"Because there was some many things going on that it slipped my mind," answered Marry. "If you reminder, I am human and I do forget things once in a while. Sorry about that one."
"Okay, which one do you have?" Asked Roger.
"The golden one," answered Marry.
"Can we see it?" Asked Kari.
Marry didn't answered the question via words but through actions and her action was that she took out the Golden Jewel out of her pocket to show it to everybody. In doing that everybody took a good look at the Golden Jewel that was located in her pocket. They could see that it was just like the Blue Jewel that Marry used to transform her Digimon from Fighter Mode to Battle Mode, the only different from this one that the one that Marry had was the color. Her was blue and this one was golden in color.
"I can see that is just like yours with one exception, the color. Your is blue rather this one is golden," said Tai.
"Thank you for stating the oblivious, Tai," said Marry.
"Now the only question is what are we going to do with it," said Sora.
"That is a good question, because I know for a fact that Roger can't used it," said Dorothy.
"Why?" Asked Izzy.
"Because, look at the color of the Jewel, it is golden," answered Dorothy.
"What dose that have to do with it? Because Roger's Digimon form, Triplexdramon is golden in color," said Yolie.
"No his Digimon form isn't apart of the formula, it is the color of his Megadeues form, which is black, which mean that the black Jewel is his," said Dorothy.
"What do you base that on?" Asked Izzy.
"Marry and her Jewel, she used a blue one to chance her Digimon from Fighter Mode to Battle Mode. The color of the armor that is on her Digimon while she is Battle Mode it is blue and what is the color of the jewel," she paused to let everybody answer the question for themselves.
She could tell that everybody was answering the question. "If you don't know the answer I will tell you, it is blue."
"If that is true, than what do we do with this one?" Asked Roger.
"I think that we should us it as a bargain tool," answered Ken.
"He is correct about that one, right now we have an edge right now. What do you think?" Asked Marry.
"I think that Ken is correct about that one we should kept it as a bargain tool," said Roger. Then Roger monition with his hand to Marry to give him the Jewel and at first Marry didn't know what to think at what he was doing.
"Please, can I have it," said Roger.
With that Marry knew what he was talking about. "Oh, I am sorry about that." After that she give him the jewel.
Roger held up the prism-shaped golden jewel in his hand. "I will put this in a safe place. A place that I know for a fact that nobody will find it."
With that Roger walked out of the room toward his office that was located a couple of floors under the Living Room where Digidestined were. While he was doing that he place the Jewel inside of his pockets, with full knowledge of the power was contain within this jewel. He swear that he heard the thing speaking to him, telling him things, telling him to bring itself back to his real master, but Roger was unaffected by the voice and continued on his way to his office. This was a place that before he meet up with Dorothy that he would seek solace from the rest of the other world. A place that only a few people knew the location of it and because of that he thought that it would be the best place to put this Jewel at. With that he thought of a better place to put this thing, inside of his desk and this was because he knew that people that did live here with him knew the rule about this object, that he was the only one that was allow to touch this object. So he knew that this place would be safe from harm. With that task complete he got up from his desk and started to walk away from his desk. Just like before he heard what sounded like a voice trying to convince him not to kept itself there, to bring itself it the person that would take him to his real master and like before Roger ignore the whispers that came from that thing. To fully shut down the voices from that thing he shut the door to this room and with that he didn't hear anything from it. After that he started his trip back to the Living Room.
In the Living Room the Digidestined were once again alone and had a little bit of time on their hands. This meant that it was time for them to start to talk about what was going on with them and make up theories for themselves to help explain what was going on all around them. While some of them were completely out there and while other ones were down to earth that had a good base in reality.
"So what do you think that Jewel dose?" Asked Izzy.
"I think it dose the same thing that my Digi Jewel dose to my Digimon while she was in Fighter Mode. The only different is that we are dealing with human beings just like me and Digimon that has been change against their will into huge armor fighting machines that have the power to destroy entire city's blocks without blinking an eye," answered Marry.
"She might be correct about that thing. I wish that had more information about these things," said Dorothy. "Before we form a theory about them."
"That one thing that you have to learn about the real world, that nine times out of ten you have to make a guess on information that has gaps in it. Sometimes you find information that might prove that your guess in right and sometimes you find information that will prove that your guess in wrong. You can't allow the threat that your guess might be wrong prevent you from making guesses," said Kari.
The elevator in this house ringed and with that everybody turned their heads in the direction of the noise. They found out that inside of the elevator was a woman and at first they didn't recognized the person, but as she started to walk in their direction they found out who that woman was. It was Angel, the woman that had helped them with some of the translation that was written on the temple wall that was underground. Seeing her they wanted to know why she was here.
Before anybody could ask her any guess, Davis's Digimon, Veemon ran up to the woman to see whom this person was. When he did he smell something on this person, this smell got the attention of Veemon and because of that he started to sniff her with his nose. When he did that he found out what this smell was, it was the smell of a Digimon.
"Veemon, stop that! Didn't you learn with Willis?" Asked Davis.
"Davis, this woman is a Digimon," said Veemon.
"What?! She doesn't even look like one," said Davis.
"That not true, reminder, Arukenimon," said Yolie.
"Yes, I do reminder her, how she took the form of a human woman, but it turn out that she was a Digimon that just took human form," said Davis.
"Your Digimon is correct, I am Digimon that had taken human form, but unlike Arukenimon, whom reason behind it was to do evil things to the Digi World, my reason behind this is to good things," said Angel.
"If that is true, then you sent you and why?" Asked Kari.
"That is easy, Gennai did," answered Izzy.
"How do you know that?" Asked Matt.
"I know that because I was told all of this before we left for this world for the first time. He told me that he had sent a Digimon to kept an eye out on this world to see what was going on," answered Izzy.
"And when are you going to tell us this bit of information, Izzy?!" Demanded Tai.
"When the moment was right, I was about to tell you when we first discovered the ruins of the temple, then Roger got infected by that virus and almost went on a rampage. That wasn't the right time and them all hell broke lose here and our world. It seems that we haven't be able to caught our breath that would allow me to explain things like this," explained Izzy.
"That dose not matter right now, what dose matter is I found the exact location of the Sword that is destined to come in the custody of Roger," said Angel.
"That good, but where is it?" Asked Marry.
"Let me give your some history, this city, Paradigm was built on the ruins of another city, and your might know it despite the fact that some of you might of spent a short time in it and even a few of your live there," answered Angel.
"New York City?" Asked a stunned Marry.
"As you human put it, 'You hit the nail on the head', yes Paradigm was built on the ruins of New York City, and before you ask what happen to all of the famous buildings that make up the famous skyline of this once great city. I think that you all know what happen to a pair of them," answered Angel.
"The World Trade Center Towers," said sorrowful Marry.
"Yes, just like your New York City, the Towers in this world's New York City were destroyed, but not in the same fashion as your were. This world Towers were destroyed by an explosion in the basement of both towers, but it happen on the same date as your were destroyed, Sept .11," answered Angel.
"Yes, in 1993, a bomb was set off in the basement of one of the towers, the north of the south one, I don't really know for sure. Which was the first terrorist attack on US soil, six die in that attack, and a dozen of people were injured by it, but a good majority of them were mirror ones, but the towers remained," said Marry.
"Yes, I reminder that on TV," said Tai.
"Okay, what are you saying, that this sword is located in the ruins of the World Trade Center's Towers?" Asked Izzy.
"Yes," answered Angel.
"Okay, then, I just have one question, why wasn't this site built over with new buildings, which seems to be the pattern in this place, to bury the past, literally and physically," asked Marry.
"There are two reasons, one; the land which the site is located on is owned by a private individual and thus the city can't built on it without buying the property up. Two; the site is located outside of the dooms on this city, which is another reason why nobody wants it not even the city," answered Angel.
"That hasn't stop Alex Rosewater and his group before," said a voice that was behind them.
Everybody turned around and saw that it was Roger that had said that. They could see that he was leading up against the wall with his arms followed against his chest. They could see the look that was on his face that he wasn't too happy with the fact that Angel was inside of his house again.
"I stated before, I you aren't welcome in this house despite the fact that we are allies right now, but I come to fact that you aren't on anybody side expect your own," said Roger.
With that he started to walk in the direction of Angel still with the look of quiet anger on this face. Dorothy knew that Roger had a great well of patience, but with every well it would evenly dry up in the long run and it look like that Roger's well of patience was drying up. She knew that wasn't a good thing because history had shown that when that happen something got destroyed.
"No, there are more important things right now then this petty rivalry that the two of us are having right now," said Angel.
"Listen to her, she has important information about that sword that was mention in the texts that were on that temple," said Kari.
"Oh, yes I did hear about that," said Roger.
"Just how long were you listening on our conversation?" Asked Davis.
"Long enough to know that Angel isn't a human, that she had found the location of the Sword, and you talking about some type of building that is called 'Word Trade Center'," answered Roger.
"So basically, you heard everything that we talking about," said a upset Kari.
"Yes, you are correct about that," said Roger.
"So what do you think?" Asked Kari.
"Do you think that we should go?" Asked Davis.
"No, because we don't know for sure if Angel is telling the truth, she might be lying about this. She might be setting up a trap for all of us to be in one place and it is a lot easier to take out your enemies if they are in one place," answered Roger.
"No it isn't like that at all, I am telling the truth about this. Why would I want to lie about this?" Asked Angel.
"Well, let me start with the two times that you have sent me on assignments that were more than meet to the eye," said Roger. "Secondly, I don't know what this place looks like and I have funny feelings that don't either."
"Then we should bring somebody along that dose know what this place look like," suggested Kari.
"Yes, we should bring along that dose know what the place looks like and that person should be me," said Marry.
"Why you? I also live in New York City as well and I was there also. In fact I was at the school that had a view of the towers and I saw the jets hit both towers," said Mimi.
"Because I was at Ground Zero two days after that day," answered Marry.
"I think both of you should go with us," said Roger.
"Okay," said Mimi.
"All right then," said Marry.
"I think that I should stay there," said Angel.
"No, you are coming with us," said Roger.
Angel didn't say anything with that because she knew that it was pointless for her to say anything to him. This was because it look like that he had his mind made up on how to deal with this and it look like that nothing would be able to change him otherwise.
After the entire group was out on the streets of this city once again despite the fact that it was night and the air that was all around them was a little bit chilly. The cold feeling that was in the air wasn't help with the fact that it was windy and it was starting to drizzle.
"I know that I should have brought my hooded jacket," said Marry. "This rain is cold and it dose not help the fact that it windy."
"You think that is bad, take a look at what the wind and the rain is doing to my hair," said Mimi.
"Mimi! There are more important things right now than your stupid hair!" Shouted Marry.
"Hey, clam down," said Griffinmon, the Armor-Level form of Nivernmon. "Mimi, Marry is correct about not worry about how your hair looks like, you should be worry about what is going to happen to your world, the Digi World, and this world if Daemon and Alex wins this war. Marry, you shouldn't have jumped down here throat about that. The two of your are here because the two of you have something to offer in this mission. Now I don't want to here another word from either of your about this. Now if are going to talk about other things, than that is fine, with one exception, if the two of get into another fight like this about things that are petty then I will be force to tell the two of your to kept your mouth shut until somebody asks you a question. Do I make myself clear on this issue?"
"Griffinmon, that is a little harsh," said Marry.
"No, I am clear on this issue, now do I make myself clear?" Asked Griffinmon again.
"Yes," said Marry.
"Now to you Mimi," said Griffinmon.
"Yes," said Mimi.
"Good," said Griffinmon.
With that the two of them kept their mouths shut, this allow them to do some thinking about what they have done to each other. They found out that Griffinmon was right about the two of them fighting with words about things like how the weather was affecting their hair, it wasn't wroth the effort that they were putting out on it. Even with that Marry saw that was at the place, the former place were this world's World Trade Towers stood so proudly for years. She could tell that site didn't chance from the last time that she had seen it and that was good for that meant that nobody had touch it, but she knew that could chance at anytime. So she knew that they should get a move on as fast as they could to acquire the sword that was located somewhere under all of this rubble.
"Look, Griffinmon," said Marry.
Griffinmon look at the horizon that was approaching them and she could tell that Marry was correct, they approaching the location of the World Trade Towers of this world. "Yes, we are approaching it."
"I think that we should tell Roger about this," said Marry.
"Yes," agreed the Digimon.
With that four of them headed to the location of Roger's car and when they did, Marry monition with her hand to Roger to tell him to rolled down his car's window despite the drizzle that was falling down from the sky. Roger did.
"Yes, what is it?" Asked Roger.
Marry pointed in the direction of the site of the place. "Look for yourself."
Roger looked in the direction of which Marry had pointed and he saw what Marry was talking about. He saw that she pointing in the direction of a plot of land that had nothing but ruins of to what to him were once buildings. By the amount of debris that was littered on the ground it look like that these building were huge and had a lot of work put into them.
"Yes, I do see it, but to me it look like a pile of rubble," answered Roger.
Angel just rolled her eyes at this. How can this guy be the one to save this city from itself if he continues to believe the same old story that has been told you numerous of time?
"There is more to that place than meet to the eye, what we are looking for is beneath the rubble," said Angel.
With that Angel could see that Roger was a little afraid of going beneath the rubble of this place, even with that she could see the Roger was fighting the conditioning that was put on him by the Inner Circle of this city.
"I know that you don't want to go down there, but you have to do it to claim what is destined to belong to you," said Angel.
"Don't tell what I have to do," said an angered Roger. "I know what I have to do and I don't need you to tell me it."
Ouch thought Marry. Marry was about to say more things to herself about what she had just saw here, but she knew that Roger would be able to pick that up, so she made the choice to kept her mouth shut about it. She it was better for herself in the long run and she knew that she was right about that. She didn't have enough time for her to think about it and this was because she saw that Roger was taking point toward the debris field that was in front of them. That was something that she didn't want to have happen.
"Roger, please let us take point, our Digimon can easily defend all of us," said Marry.
Mimi just nodded her head in agreement.
"All right then, but don't get yourself into much trouble," said Roger.
"I won't," said Marry and after that Marry slightly kicked her Armor-Level Digimon. Griffinmon knew what that meant, which was that it was time for her to go. Griffinmon did that for her and Roger watch from afar as the Armor-Level Digimon took the lead in their small caravan.
Up in the air, Marry could see that Armor Digivoling Nivernmon was a good idea because Nivernmon in this form gave her access the sky without putting to much pressure on the Digimon as well. Also this form allowed her to transport others and it also gave her a slight edge as well, this was because being in the air allowed her to view more of an area than if she was on the ground no matter what type of weather that she was in.
"I can see that taking the Armor route was a good idea," said Marry.
"I have to agree with that one," said Griffinmon.
Marry took around good look around the area and she could see that the road that Roger was traveling on was safe from dangers. Like before Marry did the same going down, telling Roger, Roger agreeing with the news and after that she went back into the air. Unlike the other time she didn't go high in the sky, she kept a close distance to Roger's car. They kept this formation for a couple minutes until Roger couldn't travel any further via car and with that he got out of the car. Angel did the same thing and with that Marry went down on the ground. After that she dismounted her armor-level Digimon, Mimi, and Palmon did the same thing as well. Griffinmon stay in her form because she didn't trust this area like the others did.
The small group of people and Digimon started to walk through the debris field. While they were doing that Roger was looking at Angel, Marry, and Mimi, he was judging their action. He didn't need to have any of his hyper senses to tell him that the trio was seeing something that they have seen before. That was something that he had acquired from being in the police for so many years and further strengthens through his current job.
"I can see you have seen this place before," said Roger.
"Yes, I have seen this place before," answered Marry.
"Can you say that this place is where the World Trade Towers once should in this world?" Asked Roger.
"Yes," answered Marry.
"What you?" Asked Roger who directed his question toward Mimi.
Mimi was a little shaken by the direct asking that Roger had toward her. While she was around him, she had never been so close to him right now couple with the fact of the power that was between him. She was a little scare of him and it didn't help the fact that he was dress completely in black that made him seem a little frightful than he was. She didn't know what to do with him.
"I ask you a question, and I do expect an answer. I would like to know have you seen this place before and can you agree with Marry that this is where the World Trade Towers once stood in this world?" Asked Roger.
Mimi started to nod her head at that. "Yes."
"Good, now you," said Roger and after that he pointed in the direction of Angel. "Show me how to get under this debris field."
"I will and I won't do anything that is funny," said Angel.
"Good, now should me the way," said Roger.
With that everybody follow Angel as she took them through the many torn and broken buildings that had showed the many years of being forgot about. If there was any markings on the buildings that would of told anybody what these building were, they were gone through the many years of weathering that would of washed off the markings.
"Are you sure that you know where you are going?" Asked Roger.
"Yes, I do," answered an Angel that sounded so sure of her.
I would of love to see if she is wrong about this thought Mimi.
Roger heard that and he didn't need any effort and that told Roger that she kept a lot of things close to the surface. You aren't the only other one that would love to see something like that happen to her thought Roger.
They traveled a few more yards up they reach an opening to the underground of this section of the city. The opening that they were about to enter didn't have anything fancy to it that a lot of the people thought it would be like.
"That it?" Asked a stunned Mimi.
"What are you expecting? A big neon sign that says 'Welcome' on it?" Asked Marry.
"Well, yes," answered Mimi.
"Well I wasn't, having something like that would only encourage the wrong type of crowd to head to this place," said Roger. "I think that we should enter into this place as soon as we can. The longer we wait to talk about this place to more chances that are enemies have a shot at claiming my sword."
Hearing that Marry knew that Roger was slowly accepting his destiny, which was that he was picked by faith of some other cosmic force to save this world. When she saw him go into the portal that was the barrier between the surface world and the underground world without showing any sign of trepidation of doing it. Angel wasn't also impress at what he was doing, but she also knew that it could all be an act that he was playing to make the others feel safe about what they were doing. She just didn't know what he was doing, all she did know was that they were going to the place where Nancy was at.
In a matter of seconds everybody walked through the portal and they did it just in time, this was because the rain that was drizzle of sudden turn into a more steady rain. Also the wind was starting to pick up as well. With quick look at the weather, Roger monition to Angel to lead the way to where the sword was located. Angel listened to his action and took point of the group.
"Do you think that we should kept an eye out on her?" Asked Marry.
"Yes," said Roger.
"Griffinmon," said Marry.
"No need," said Griffinmon.
With that Marry got on the back of her Armor-Level Digimon and with that the two of them walked a little closer to Angel. As soon as the two of them got close to her she felt their present on her back and with that she knew that failure wasn't an option for her.
"I can see that you really want me to show you the way to where the thing is at," said Angel.
"You are dam right about that one," said Roger.
"Okay," said Angel.
With that Angel continued on her way through the many man-made caverns and everybody expect Angel and Roger where taking in the sights. In doing that Marry could tell that where in the place where the PATH train station was once located here. Her thoughts were confirmed by the flight of stairs that she saw a head of them and she wasn't the only other one that was happy to see the flight of stairs. Angel was also happy in seeing them and that was because it meant that she was on the right path.
"We are also there, the only other thing that we will pass is wall painting," said Angel.
Everybody nodded their heads at that and after that the group continued to walk through the underground train station without saying a word to each other. It was that reason that it seemed to talk so long for them to reach that checkpoint, but they reach it.
"Here is the wall painting that I was talking about," said Angel.
They all stood there to take a look at the work of art that was painted on the wall of this train station. They couldn't tell what was painted on the wall, the detail and the color that was to badly worn away. All they could tell was that there was something that was painted here, but what it was that was something that they would never find out. Time had stolen that answer away from them, but they all knew that they couldn't spend time thinking about what they thought was painted on there.
"Yes, this was once was a painting, but of what that is something that we can't tell from the lack of detail," said Marry.
"Because of that we can't stay around and guess what it once was," said Roger. Even if we did know what was painted up here it still wouldn't help us.
"I was expecting you," said a female voice.
Roger turned around in the direction of the voice and he saw the face that was behind the voice. He didn't recognize the person and he was a little surprise to see something that was living down here.
"Who were you expecting?" Asked Roger.
"You," said the person and after that she pointed at Roger.
"Me?" Asked Roger.
"Yes, you, who else can change form?" Asked the person.
Roger reacts to that first with his finger shaking in the air and started to walk toward the woman. "I would like to know how do you know me?"
"Who dose not know Paradigm's top Negotiator?" Asked Nancy.
Roger wasn't too happy with that type of answer and he shows his distaste for that answer on his face. Seeing that Nancy knew that Roger wasn't happy with her answer and she knew that was a little dangerous for her to do it. So she knew that it was time for her to tell him the truth about how she knew about Roger and so she told him everything. She told him how her father had given her this place when he died, how he told her to kept this place safe from harm until the right time, how she went to her make shift office and open up a case that contained a letter which she read. When she did that she found out what this place was and who the sword that she and her father had protected for some many years until the right person. That she would know who that person was and that person would be the one that would have the ably to change form when the time needed required them to do so.
"That person is you," answered Nancy.
"If that is true, than you are the one that should take me to where the sword is located," said Roger.
"Yes that is true, Angel here was to guide you to this point, but she can't continue the joinery with you, that is my job," said Nancy.
"What about the others? Marry, Mimi, Palmon, Griffinmon, can they come with me?" Asked Roger.
"If that is your wish, then can come with you, but I don't think somebody whom ascension to god hood is almost complete is worry about their safely," said Nancy.
"That might be true, but I would rather be safe than sorry about my safely," said Roger.
With that Nancy, Roger, Mimi, Marry, and Palmon made their way through the underground world that Nancy called home. On their way they could see that others made this place their home as well and Roger wondered just like other that why these people were in this place just like she was. With that Nancy explained that this was a place where people that had lost their way could find their way back to world and it didn't matter what type of person they were. She was here to help them get back and not judge them and Roger commented that her work was very progressive when compared to the general feeling toward people like this. Roger could see that a majority of them were asleep and Roger didn't feel that it was nice for him to wake them up to see that they were, so he left them alone. Lucky for him because one of them was Beck.
After passing through the halls that contained these people that were trying to get back to real world, they walked into another hall. This one was unlike the pervious one and this was because it contained a huge pile of debris that they had to walk around. In there, Marry saw something that she had seen before, and it was a piece of metal. The metal was in the shape of cross-hatch pattern and this pattern was to uncommon, she might of pass if off just like that. But it was the size of the piece of metal that caught her attention, it was the same size as the piece of metal that was twisted, but stood up on the ground after the day the towers fall. The huge piece of metal that was in the background as a pair of gray clad New York City's Firefighters were raising the United State Flag. That was the second confirmation that she got that told her that this was the site of this world's World Trade Center's Towers and seeing that almost scared her. So the only thing that she had to do was to look around from the piece of metal and kept her eyes on the straight and narrow, to look ahead in the future. That future, were Roger and his sword and that what she did. It seemed to take forever to get past this part of the trip, but they did get past it and with that the room seemed to open up.
At the end of the room was a pair of huge metal doors as they got closer to the doors Marry noticed something was happening in the direction of her chest. Without thinking about it, she picked up the string that was holding the tag that contained her Crest when she did that her Crest was brought up and out of her shirt. When she did that she noticed that her Crest was glowing the sky blue color of when she had triggered it.
"Mimi, Roger, take a look at your Crests," said Marry.
Both Roger and Mimi did that and both of them saw that two of them were glowing. Mimi's was glowing Green and Roger's on the other hand was glowing Sliver. Neither of them knew what this meant.
"What going on?" Asked a worry Mimi.
"I have no clue, but the only other time when this happen is when I personally triggered it to make my Digimon go to her Ultimate Level," answered Marry.
"That happen to me as well, when I first triggered it as well, that allowed my Digimon to go Ultimate," said Mimi.
"If that is true, then what about Roger's Crest, he never triggered it to make his Digimon go Ultimate," said Marry.
"It also could be that your Crests are reacting toward a something other than your personal traits, like a extremely powerful source," said Griffinmon. "I've heard that these things that you call 'Crests' do that."
"She might be on something," said Marry.
"This is all good in theory, but we are here do something," said Nancy.
"Right, then let do it then," said Marry.
Nancy nodded her head at that and with that she open up the doors. When she did that the room that they were in got bathed in a bright almost blinding white light, but somehow the bright light that was coming from that room didn't hurt their eyes. As the doors fully open they could see the source of the light was coming from a huge metal sword. Griffinmon, Mimi, nor Marry knew what to think of it, but Roger on the other hand felt like he was being called toward it. Because of it he was moving toward it and in a matter of seconds he took the sword from it location. When he did that the light that was coming from it disappeared and the room returned to it normal color.
When Roger picked up the huge sword he expected the thing to weight heavy on him but he found out that it didn't feel heavy at all. It was light also as if the thing was made out of air and because of that he swung it like it was a piece of wood, with no effort from his body or his muscles in his arm.
"Man, this thing is light," said Roger. "A lot lighter than I thought it would be."
"Let's me see," said Marry.
"Okay," said Roger.
With that Roger handed Marry the sword and as soon as Marry put her hand on it the thing felt like it weights a ton. Because of that she was struggling to hold it even with both hands and with that the muscles that were in her arms grave way. With that the sword fall down to the ground and to show the weight that was from the sword it created a hole in the ground in the shape of the sword. Roger didn't understand what was going on here, he wanted Marry to see how light the sword was despite the size of the sword.
"I will pick it up," said Mimi.
So she tried to pick it up and unlike Marry who couldn't hold because of the weight, Mimi couldn't hold it because as soon as she touch it she felt a shape pain in her fighters also like it was a needle that was tipped with fire. Because of the pain that came from it she was force to take her hand off the sword.
"Ouch," said Mimi. "That thing burnt me or something like that."
"What?" Asked a confused Roger who started to walked toward the sword and after that she reach for the sword. In a matter of seconds he pick the thing up without any sign of pain or struggle. "You can't pick it up?"
"No I can't," said Mimi.
"I can't even hold it," said Marry.
"I don't understand that," said Roger.
"I do," said Nancy.
"You do," said Roger.
"Yes, it is because that sword is meant for you only and because of that it can't be picked up nor handle by anybody expect you. That is the reason why you, Marry, can't hold it even for a second, and that is why, you, Mimi, can't pick it up either, which is the reason why Roger can both pick it up and handle it without pain nor effort from his body," answered Nancy.
"Nice," said Marry.
"Now, that I have my sword what should I do with it now?" Asked Roger. Before anybody could answer the question Roger felt a sharp pain in his left wrist, the same wrist where he had place his watch, the very same watch that he had used to summon Big O in action whenever he needed the Megadeus, his ace in the whole. The pain was so bad for him that he had to go down on ground on both of his knees. Everybody tried to aid Roger, but he put his hand up to stop them.
"I know what this look like it, but I think I know what is going on," said Roger.
"What do you mean?" Asked Marry.
"Look for yourself," answered Roger. With that he show his left wrist and they could see that sword that he had claimed for himself was merging with him, becoming a part of him, a living part of him.
When the merging of the sword on his left wrist was done the pain was good and another thing was gone the handle of the sword as well. With the pain gone, Roger got up from the ground and when he did that they could see that the sword was apart of him, almost like it was an extension of himself. So much so that his left hand was completely covered by a sliver metal. The same time of sliver metal which the sword was made out of and Roger took a look at what had happen to his left hand. He wasn't to surprise at what just happen to him, it look liked that he was expecting it to happen to him.
"It look like that my work here is down, well at least with you," said Nancy. "I still have a job to do with these people that are staying with me." After that Nancy started to walk out of the room.
Roger turned his head, like he was watching for something or expecting something to have happen. " I don't think so."
"What are you talking about?" Asked Nancy.
Seconds after that the ground started to shake and the ground that they were standing on started to lose it solidity, like it was turning into mud and after that the mud was starting to turn into water.
"What the hell is this?" Asked Nancy.
"Liquefaction," answered Marry.
"What is that?" Asked Nancy.
"It is the process of solid ground literally turning into quicksand by the process of shaking," answered Marry.
"We should get out of here," said Roger.
"Yes," answered Marry.
With that Marry, Mimi, and Palmon got on the back of Griffinmon. Roger with inhuman speed ran in the direction of Nancy before the ground would shallow her up. Even with the speed of Griffinmon and Roger running in the opposite direction of the collapsing ground, they still weren't getting any ground from it.
"It is gaining," said Mimi.
"Even with our speed it look like that we aren't going to make it," said Marry.
Roger turned his attention away from the straight and narrow, and behind him. He could see that the quicksand that look like that it was gaining ground on them stopped. That was something that puzzled Roger.
"Take a look at that," said Roger.
"What?" Asked Marry.
"The ground it stop doing what you called 'Liquefaction'," said Roger.
"That because I control it," said another voice.
"Who is that?" Asked Nancy.
"Me," said the same voice. After the soft ground that was produced by the Liquefaction a huge snake-like creature appeared. The huge snake-like creature look like to be a Seadramon or even a Mega Seadramon, but there was something different about this one. For one, this snake-like creature didn't have the horn that was located on top of the head, like Mega Seadramon did. Another different from these two creatures was the fact that this creature was green in color and scaly. In this creature mouth was a huge row of dagger size teeth and in the center of this creature was a jewel, a blue jewel.
"Who is that?" Asked Marry.
"Oh, no that Leviathanmon, an Ultimate Level Digimon who lives most of his time in the deep seas waiting for foolish Digimon to come his way. When they did they either crush to depth by the huge weight of the Digimon. If he dose not get your like that he will either get by his Pandemonium Wave or his Forbidding Rain attacks," answered Griffinmon.
"Well let we can't have that," said Marry.
"Right," said Griffinmon.
After that Marry, Mimi, and Palmon got on the back of her Digimon.
"Mimi," said Palmon.
Mimi nodded her head with that.
"Palmon Digivolve to…" started Palmon.
"…Togemon," ended the Champion Level Digimon.
With that the two Digimon headed directed toward Leviathanmon with the full knowledge that he was an Ultimate Level Digimon.
"River of Fire!" Shouted Griffinmon. Seconds after that a stream of fire was shot out of the mouth of the Armor Level Digimon. The fire base attack caught the attention of Leviathanmon so much that the huge Digimon turned his head in the direction of Griffinmon. The Armor Level Digimon base herself for a painful attack and because of that she embedded her claws into the dirt despite the fact that she knew that the soil between her wasn't as strong as used to be.
"Forbidding Rain!" Shouted the Digimon and second after that he opened up his huge mouth and a shower of water that look like rain, but in fact that it was extremely powerful acid rain. The acid rain hit Griffinmon and when it did it started to eat away at the armor that was encased Griffinmon. The acid rain reached to the skin of the Digimon and because of that Griffinmon shouted out in pain as the acid burned her unprotected skin. The pain from the acid attack made Griffinmon lose her focus and because of that she went back to her Rookie State of Nivernmon.
"Nivernmon!" Shouted Marry.
"Now to finished you off," said Leviathanmon. Second after that the huge Digimon open up his mouth to eat Marry's Digimon.
"She going to eat her! NO!" Shouted Marry.
"Not if I can help it!" Shouted Togemon!
"Needle Spray!" Shouted Togemon. With that Togemon release a shower of needles that hit their mark, Leviathanmon's skin.
The needles didn't do much damage, but it did the trick it stops Leviathanmon from eating Nivernmon. It was the distraction that Roger was looking for to make his move on this powerhouse of a Digimon. While Leviathanmon was making conversation with Mimi's Digimon he jumped on the back of the Digimon. When he did that he could see the layer of scales that had protected this Digimon from attacks and he also noticed the smell that was coming from this Digimon as well. It had the smell of depth and decay, I smell that almost made Roger sick to smell it, but he knew that he had to do stand it. He did, and with that he used his newly acquired sword and stabbed Leviathanmon with it. Unlike the others who tried to damage this Digimon, he did the trick with his own weapon, he had breach the scales, his armor. Leviathanmon cried out in pain as he tossed and turned to relive himself of this pain that was in his back. While he was doing that Roger held own for dear life and he was doing that via the sword which he forget that he still embedded in the back of this Digimon. During that he could feel the pain in his wrist as he thought the sword was going to broken by the force of that this Digimon was producing.
The only thing that he knew that he had to do was to free the sword from the back of this Digimon. So he used his free hand to gain a foothold on the back of this Digmon that would allow him to power to free sword from the thick skin of this Digimon. He did and in doing that he causes this Digimon more pain, as result of that the thrashing that Leviathanmon was producing was even more violent than before. This cause Roger be throw off the ride and Roger landed hard on a wall. Roger quickly recovered from the toss that he had and when he did he noticed that he was slightly bleeding from the attack.
"What I thought that I couldn't be hurt," said Roger.
"You can, be hurt in the present of a Blue Jewel, reminder what I told you," said a voice that Roger recognized as his own and with that he knew that it was Big O speaking to him.
"That right, Leviathanmon, has a Blue Jewel on his head," said Roger.
"Guys, I not as powerful as you think I am, as long as Leviathanmon had that Blue Jewel in his head, I like a normal human being," said Roger. "Destroyed that Jewel and I might be able to kill this beast."
"What? Oh, forget it," said Marry.
"Marry, I can't, help you," said Nivernmon.
"Then that leaves you Mimi," said Marry.
"Togemon, can't touch him," said Mimi.
"Then get her to the next level," said Marry.
"Yes," said Mimi. Seconds after that her crest glowed green.
"Togemon Digivolve to…" started Togemon.
"…Lillymon," ended Lillymon.
After that a new Digimon appeared and this time the new Digimon appeared to be fairy like in appearance with a flower-shape dress and a rose hat on her head.
"Do it, Lillymon!" Shouted Mimi.
"Hold on, Mimi," said Lillymon.
"Flower Cannon!" She shouted and seconds after that a green shot of energy was shot out of the flower that was in her hand.
The attack hit it mark, the blue Jewel that was in his head, but it didn't destroyed it, it only crack it. Leviathanmon wasn't to please at this attack and turned his attention turned the Fairy-type Digimon.
"Forbidding Rain!" He shouted and like before, the acid rain attack was shot out of the mouth of this Digimon. Unlike the pervious time it didn't hit his target an this was because Lillymon was to fast for the attack.
"Miss me!" Said Lillymon.
"Flower Cannon!" She shouted again. The attack once again it mark and before it only did a little bit of damage.
"I can't see to destroyed this thing," said Lillymon.
"Then you have to go to the next level, your Mega Level," said Marry.
"Lillymon has a Mega Level?" Asked a stunned Mimi.
"Yes, all Digimon have a Mega Level, only a few reach it. Mimi you have to believe in your self, like you did before to get Lillymon to appear," said Marry.
"Mimi, believe in me," said Lillymon.
"The same with me," said Roger.
"I do," said Mimi.
With that Mimi's crest once again glowed green and that went the same for Roger's sword, which glowed yellow. Before anybody could react to it, it shot out a beam of energy that was directed toward Mimi. It hit her and her body glowed yellow and energy from the beam give Mimi to power to allow Lillymon to reach her Mega Level.
"Lillymon Digivolve to…" started Lillymon.
"…Rosemon," ended Rosemon.
Seconds after Rosemon had voiced her name she made her appearance, and just like Lillymon, she kept her human-like appearance. Unlike Lillymon who was mainly green, pink, and her face was clearly visible. Rosemon was mainly black, red, and the only visible part of her face was her mouth. The rest of her face was cover by rose. Her neck was flank by a crest that was green that gave it the look of leaves, attached to this crest was a cape-like thing that hung behind Rosemon. This cape-like thing was white in color and the cape-like thing gave the appearance that they were petals of a flower. On her body she was wearing a body suit that was skin tight and because of that it accented a majority of her feminine features. A clear signs that this Digimon was female in nature.
The color of her skintight body suit was rose red and this color continued all the way until it reached mid way of her upper legs. The body suit that she was wearing had no shelves to it, but to make up for this she had gloves that were also rose red as well, and the gloves covered all but a third of her arms. The color red continued until it reached mid way of her upper leg and when the color red reach that point, that was when the body suit turned black. Around her body there was a green vine that wrapped itself through her entire body that included her chest region in which they cross her heart and they also wrapped themselves around her arms until they reach their ends. Which was at her hands, on her right side the vine was slightly coiled and on the other side the vine was straight, like it was ready to be wiped.
Mimi didn't know what to say at this new form of her Digimon, she couldn't believe that her Digimon would be able to reach this state like Matt's, Tai's, Kari's. T.K.'s, Marry's, Ken's and Davis's did, but right there her Digimon's Mega Form was staring right back at her. While she didn't have the color pink, which was the color that she personally liked above any other color, which still didn't mean that she didn't like this Digimon at all. These new colors of red and black made her look maturer, almost like she had grown up, a perfect metaphor for her. She had grown up as well and to further stress this idea about her was the fact that her voice had also change as well. While it was the same as Lillymon's voice, it had slight differences to it and one of them was the fact that Rosemon's voice was a little deeper that Lillymon's voice.
"Are you Lillymon's Mega form?" Asked Mimi.
"Yes, I am, and my name is Rosemon, Lillymon's Mega form* and I wiped by enemies into submission via my Thorn Whipping attack, if that dose not work I will hit them with my Rose Spear Attack," answered Rosemon.
"Why I am not impressive by this, you are just the same Digimon just with a new set of clothes and attacks," said Leviathanmon.
"We will see," said Rosemon.
"Forbidding Rain!" Cried Leviathanmon. Like before a mist of rain that was mixed with acid was shot out of the mouth of the Ultimate-Level Digimon. Rosemon just avoid the acid shower with quick moves in the same way that an insect would do to avoid being hit.
"Now my turn," said Rosemon. "Thorn Whipping!" She called out her attack and seconds after that vine that was coiled through out her body detached itself from her body and form a huge green line that required her to use both of her hands to hold it. Then she used her new acquired weapon to whip Leviathanmon.
Leviathanmon cried out in pain from the attack, not because the way that the vine was being used as it, like a whip. The pain also comes from what was on the vine; thorns and these thorns stuck themselves on his skin, breaching the thick scales of his skin. Leviathanmon tried to stand up to this attack, but he found himself slowly faulting under the numerous sources of pain that were throughout his entire body and more popping up as soon as he found them. Then the pain was to great for even this might Digimon to take and because of that he fell onto the soft ground kicking up more of the ground. The soft ground that Leviathanmon landed into found its way into the wounds that were on his skin and this cause even more pain for him. Now Leviathanmon welcome depth and this was because it would end the pain that he was in right now.
"End it, kill me," said Leviathanmon.
"That not my job," said Rosemon. "I am just making it easier for the one that will kill you. Rose Spear!" She shouted her another attack.
Seconds after that Rosemon raise her hand up and when she did that a rose color spear that was made out energy. Then she throw the thing at the head of Leviathanmon and in a second the spear hit it mark, Leviathanmon's head. Rosemon's attack not only hit Leviathanmon's head, but also destroyed the blue jewel that was in the center of his head.
"My Jewel! What have you done?" Asked a socked Leviathanmon.
"Broken it!" Answered Rosemon and after that she took a look behind the Digimon, she could see that Roger with his sword was rising from the ground, almost like a Phoenix. "That was only the being, that will happen to you. My job is done here."
With that Rosemon flew away from the scene and while she was doing that Roger jumped on the back of the Digimon. Roger wasted no time in getting the job done, he stabbed the Digimon in the back and this time he made sure that this Digmon wouldn't get a second wind. He force the sword all the way through the neck of the Digimon until it reach the other side and then he ripped the sword out the same way. With that Leviathanmon yelping out a depth cry, hearing that Roger knew that he had to get out the back of this dying Digimon. He did and in a matter of seconds the Digimon was deleted into a million tiny pieces.
"Are you guys are all right?" Asked Roger.
"We are fine, thanks to you," answered Mimi.
"Yes," said Marry.
Roger pulls the sword back in and when he did that his hand reappeared. When he did that he went over to where Marry and Nivernmon was located. He could see that Marry was holding her injured Digimon.
"Is she all right?" Asked Roger.
Marry took a look at the blue color dragon-type Digimon and while her body was covered with carbon scoring, she could tell that her Digimon was all right.
"Yes, she is," answered Marry.
"All right then, we should be leave this place," said Roger.
That what they all did, they headed out of the underground place, and back to the surface. When they did that they could see that the rain and wind that was going on when they first enter into this place, had stopped. Nobody took noticed that to that, for they returned back to Roger's house. On that way, Marry was thinking about Angel, Roger, Nancy, and the parallels to a work of classic fiction that was called Divine Comedy. While she only read small parts of the story, she knew the jest of what this story was all about; it was about the author and how he had lost his way to heaven after he died. That the only way that he could get to heaven was to first go through Hell, then Purgatory, and finality Heaven, the author's goal. That the only way that he could do that was through the use of Guides that would escort him through the many twists and turns of the afterlife. But his first guide told him that he wouldn't be able to travel with him when he went to Heaven, for that was the job for other. He listen to him about his first guide took him through the many different circles of Hell, each one worst then other, finally until they meet up with the Devil himself. After that they accented to Purgatory, when they traveled through the many stages of Purgatory than he would go to Heaven and leave his first guide behind. That sounded my much like Angel and Nancy.
Then her mind switches from thinking about that to how T.K. was doing. Had he made it to where the other Digidestined where located at, if so, what happen to them, where still alive after a year of being left alone in this city that they had no friends to fall back onto.
T.K. I hope that you find them soon, and when you do, hurry back as fast as you can thought Marry.
T.K. was doing his job he was heading to the hotel and while he was doing that he was being watch by minions of Daemon and Alex.
TBC…
In Chapter 26: Rescue! Save the International Digidestined
