Man…. Don't plotholes rule? ::stabs plotholes:: There are sure a lot of them in this chapter. But like Songs for the Future, all will be answered…
Chapter 5:
Star Beam!!-
Power and Harmony Revealed
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"No!!!" Skydramon was horrified. "They… joingress evolved!? That was not supposed to happen!!"
But that was not the only thing. For with the joingress digimon, there was also Metalgreymon, Weregarurumon, Zudomon, Lilymon, Megakabuterrimon, and Garudamon.
"The Perfects…!!" Skydramon wailed, "Impossible!!"
Power and Harmony stepped forwards. "Now," Power smirked, "Who is powerless?"
"You two are!" Dramon answered for Skydramon, "Your digimon have not evolved!!"
"You're wrong," Harmony answered, "They don't need to. They've beaten your friends and they can beat you!"
Power nodded.
"We'll see about that!!" Skydramon stepped out from behind the tree and the chosen children saw her clearly for the first time. She had straight, medium-length black hair, with bangs out of her face. She wore a black skirt and skimpy top with leather straps over them. Her skin was a pale blue-green, and four hideous, scaly wings sprouted from her back.
"Who are you!?" Taichi asked demandingly.
Skydramon smirked, "I'm the one who has been destroying the digital world, sweethearts," she laughed. "I am Skydramon. Perfect level, Dragon Queen type digimon. A virus. My attack:"
She pointed two of her fingers in the air and shouted: "Dramon summon!!"
In a swirling flash of light, five large Dramon flew out from behind the trees and hovered above her.
"Then…" Power trailed off.
"The enemies we've fought," Mimi sputtered, "They were illusions after all!"
"So, these are illusions as well?" Koushiro wondered.
Skydramon shook her head. "No, no," she smiled evilly, "These Dramon are very much real. And they will be your destruction!!"
"I don't think so!!" Taichi yelled, "Metalgreymon! Get 'em!"
The digimon tried to attack the Dramon, but these were much faster and stronger than their predecessors.
Skydramon laughed. "Don't you see?" she cried, "I cannot be stopped!"
Then, the Dramon began to attack the chosen children. Power and Harmony ran to them.
"We can't fight here," Power told them, "If at all possible, we have to move to the digital world."
"How?" Miyako asked, adjusting her glasses, "We're not near a computer."
"You do have your laptop, Koushiro, do you not?" Harmony asked Koushiro. He nodded.
"Good, then we can get rid of her now," Mizunomon came over and stood by Power.
Yamato bolted up, a sudden thought going through him. He remembered back to Monday, when the cat with the bell had stolen his food.
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Yamato hastily knocked on Megun's door. A strange woman answered it. She had purple hair with yellow streaks through it. Yamato knew this as Megun's sister, Nadeshiko.
Megun came to the door after her sister called her. "Yes?" she asked.
"Um," Yamato looked down at his feet, "There was this cat on the streets today, and it ate my last piece of food."
Megun was confused, "And…?"
"I followed it here," Yamato looked up at her. "The last glimpse I saw of it was it going through this door."
Megun shook her head. "I don't remember any cat coming in here. You live a long way away, don't you? Would you like a ride home?"
But Yamato wasn't listening. His ears had caught the faint sound of a bell coming from inside the house.
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"Megun!?" Yamato cried. Power stopped and looked up. "You're Megun, aren't you? And," he turned to Harmony, "You're Jaime. I know it!"
"What!?" the other chosen children were stunned. Megun and Jaime were Power and Harmony?!
Power shook her head and looked back down. "Never heard of either of them."
"No, wait…" Koushiro looked hard at Power. "Come to think of it, you do look like them."
'No way!' Hikari put her hand to her mouth.
'How could they be…!?' Ken thought, astonished, 'How… could she be…'
"I said, we have never heard of them!" Harmony snapped, and stood up.
"Hmmm…" Skydramon took to the air and hovered above the chosen children. "Seems that those two girls have been discovered. Oh, well. At least they will know before they die!!"
"Watch out!" Lilymon cried, "The Dramon are back again!!"
"Huh?"
The Dramon had swooped down and were aiming Acid Fireballs at the chosen and their digimon. Bravely, the older chosen children's digimon leapt in front and took the blast on full force. Their Child forms fell to the ground, barely able to stay conscious.
"No!" Sora cried. "They're too strong!"
Hikari took a step back. "We can't beat them alone!"
Power was still bent down on the ground.
"And our digimon cannot go any stronger," she muttered, "We're useless."
"No, we're not!!" Harmony turned to her friend, "We still have a fighting chance."
Power looked Harmony in the face, "But five Perfects couldn't overtake those Dramon. What makes you think three can? And then Skydramon… she can create as many Dramon as she wants!"
"And you think we won't win!" Daisuke turned around and looked at Power angrily, "We can still try! There's nothing wrong with trying!"
Power kept her eyes on the ground. Then, she stood up. "We need to get into the digital world," she called to Skydramon, "That way we won't risk hurting anyone."
Skydramon frowned. "Fine," she said, "Come with me, to my fortress!"
The program on Koushiro's laptop opened. Miyako held her D-3 out towards the computer and all the chosen, their digimon, Dramon, and Skydramon were sucked into the digital world.
Once there, the chosen did not see any sign of Skydramon at first. But then, they spotted her riding on a Dramon towards a wall of whiteness.
"Oh no!" Hikari cried. "The edge of the digital world!"
"It's getting closer!?" Takeru stuttered.
"My fortress lies in this white world!" Skydramon bellowed, "Follow me if you dare!!"
The chosen chased after her. She led them through forests, and across gorges. Finally, they reached a place where the ground suddenly dropped off under their feet. Skydramon gave them a smirk and flew right into the whiteness, and as soon as she did, it appeared to enclose her.
"Well, who's first?" Taichi asked.
"We should all go at the same time," Harmony suggested, and looked at Power. She nodded.
"One…" Harmony began, "Two… three!"
In a second, the chosen children and their digimon ran into the whiteness.
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Mimi felt her stomach fly up into her throat before she hit the cold, hard ground. Instantly something hot grazed her neck, and passed over them. She screamed, and covered her head.
"Ahahahahahaha!!" Skydramon jeered, "You came! What fools!! Don't you know that now I have the home team advantage!!"
Mimi got up, and looked at her partner. Palmon was injured, but she was beginning to recover.
"Now you die!! Acid Fireballs!!"
Black fire pelted the chosen from all directions. It surrounded the older chosen children in one circle and Power and Harmony in another.
"Now," Skydramon faced the new chosen and their joingress digimon. "I will deal with you, first."
"Skydramon," a voice hissed, and the console blinked on. Mostly everyone let out an audible gasp or shriek. The hairs on the back of Ken's neck stood up. An illusion of Demon was right there, in front of them.
"Oh, hello, chosen," Demon remarked, his voice dripping with false sweetness. "Skydramon," he turned to his minion. "I trust you shall take care of them?"
"Yes, sir," Skydramon nodded.
"Very good, then. I was checking on your progress, but," he eyed the mixes of anger and fear on the chosen children's faces with amusement. "Continue."
The screen blanked out. Skydramon turned back to the chosen, a hideous smirk on her face.
"Where was I? Oh, yes," Skydramon slowly began to walk towards the children. "Now it's time for you to die!!"
"No," Power shook her head. "They can't die!"
'But we can't do anything!' Harmony bit her lip. "Power," she finally said, "We have to tell them the truth."
Power looked back at her friend. "You mean…? Harmony, they're better off not knowing!"
"No, on the contrary," Harmony responded, "They're better off knowing. They can't die not knowing. Not yet, anyway."
Power smiled and nodded. "It's too early in the game," she smiled. "Fine. We try to break out of here, then we tell them."
Something caught Skydramon's attention. She turned rapidly towards the fire enclosing the two girls. "What?!" she gasped. "They're…!?"
"Mizunomon…!!"
"Rainbowmon…!!"
"Joingress evolve!"
The chosen were awed. Power and Harmony's digimon had joingress evolved into…
"Cephiramon!!"
A new humanoid digimon was now floating above Power and Harmony. She had long, blonde hair that was halfway hidden by a helmet. The helmet, like most helmets, covered her eyes and was black and had a yellow stripe that ran along the edges of the helmet and down the center, with some sort of yellow crescent moon in the center. She wore a halter-top, with a black part that seemed to overlap the orange part, and instead of a tie in the back there were yellow beads. She wore white, baggy pants with orange on the bottoms, and red slippers, and she wore orange wristbands. She wielded an orange staff with a point at the bottom and top. On top of the top point was a cylinder that had a black star on top of it.
"Cephiramon," Sylphimon gasped in wonder. "Holy star digimon! Ultimate level… vaccine type. Her attack, star Beam, makes her one of the most powerful Ultimates."
"I don't believe it!" Miyako gasped, "Mizunomon and Rainbowmon joingress evolved?!"
Power looked blankly at her partner's new form.
'So,' she thought, smiling, 'We aren't helpless after all.'
With a swing of her staff, Cephiramon split the black fire surrounding her and Power and Harmony.
"Girls," she said as she turned to them.
'Odd,' Harmony thought, 'It's as if Rainbowmon and Mizunomon were speaking at the same time.
"Are you all right?" Cephiramon asked.
"Yeah," Power and Harmony nodded.
Cephiramon lifted up her staff. The black star began to glow, and all the black fire surrounding the chosen and their digimon disappeared into the blackness of the star. The next instant, it emitted a flash of yellow light that seemed to warm everything up.
"Woah!" Daisuke cried as the light blinded him. When it disappeared, the Dramon were gone.
"Cephiramon… you…!" Piyomon began, "got rid of the Dramon?"
Cephiramon nodded and smiled. However, when she turned to Skydramon, she was less than happy.
"Your minions are dead," Cephiramon said in that strange voice of hers. "Now it is time for you to join them."
Skydramon smiled. "Is that so?" she asked tauntingly, "You think this will end it? No way, honey!
"You may have defeated me," Skydramon continued, "But you will never defeat Master Demon, I promise you!"
She turned to Ken, "Congratulations, boy genius," she snapped at him, "Maybe it's a good thing I didn't kill you right away. Now you can suffer the consequences of your actions directly by being killed by Demon himself!!"
"Enough!" Cephiramon cried, gripping her staff tightly. "Star…" The star on her staff charged up with a rainbow colored light.
Skydramon began to laugh maniacally. She looked up to the sky and seemed to shout: "Dark Quartet, I got the best of you this time!!"
"…Beam!!!" Cephiramon screamed, releasing a powerful, yellow, star-shaped energy beam at Skydramon. She was still laughing as she faded away into dust.
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Four girls watched from a pool of smooth water as the star-shaped light destroyed Skydramon.
"She's gone," one girl said disdainfully, "Skydramon was not worthy of being a servant of Master Demon."
A swishing of a cloak brought the girls to attention.
"Skydramon has been defeated," Demon announced. "Okay, girls. It's your turn."
"Of course, Demon," the same girl replied, stepping forwards. "The Ultimate-leveled Dark Quartet won't let you down."
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The chosen children and their digimon stood still for a moment, their breath taken away. Power and Harmony were the first to react. Cephiramon glowed, and turned into a small, rainbow-colored digimon and a small, blue cat digimon.
"Oh, wow!" Harmony gasped, bending down to pick up her little rainbow-colored friend.
"You guys did it!" Power held her little in-training cat proudly. "Good job!"
The blue, small cat, Tommiyomon, smiled. "We no do it without you!" she said.
"Yeah!" Starstramon, the other in-training, answered. "Thanks for your help, too!"
"Now," Power set Tommiyomon down and stood up. "We have something to confess."
Harmony stood up as well. They each took a few deep breaths and took their masks off.
Everyone was shocked. Standing in front of them, without a look of embarrassment or shame, were none other than Jaime and Megun.
"Yes, it's us," Megun began, "It was us all along. You were right, Yamato."
She picked up Tommiyomon and went to the nearest television, which was conveniently near Skydramon's console. She gave the screen one last look of hatred and held out her digivice. She disappeared into the computer, and they knew she was back in the real world. Jaime gave them a last look and followed suit.
"Why… did they do that?" Ken asked, his face slightly red, hand on his cheek.
"Who knows?" Yamato asked. "But I want to find out."
"I think we all do," Koushiro agreed, "But not now."
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Monday would be the first time any of the chosen children would see Jaime and Megun after that day. But, surprisingly, they weren't there.
At the mall after school, Mimi thought she saw a girl with a ponytail and another, slightly shorter girl with a bun-like ponytail at the mall. She looked at the other girl chosen children, who were with her at the time. In unison, the got up and approached the brunettes.
Jaime and Megun turned around and saw the girls approach them.
"What do you want?" Jaime asked Mimi.
"Um… uh…" Mimi scratched her head, trying to think of an answer.
The two girls left rather quickly.
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That same day, Yamato spotted Jaime by her apartment door.
"Jaime?!" he called to her. Jaime turned and looked at him blankly for a moment. Then, she turned and went inside.
"DA-NY!!!" came the yell from inside. "Why don't you ever bother to clean up the hallways at least!?"
Wow. In all my writing chapters… that ending…. SUCKED!!! XP I bet you weren't excited at all, huh? It's sooooooooo obvious!! I'm an idiot. :P So ends the Skydramon "saga" (for lack of a better word)… What comes next? Find out on the next Digimon Adventure: Digimon SuperS!! ……………………::shoots self for making references to the dub:: X(