Hello and I am back again! School really took up my time and I have only free time now to write this new chapter. Anyway, I will update fast since I have finished my examinations. This chapter is mainly the views of the digidestinied and the views of the leaders of the Vaccine and Data army towards the events that happened in the previous chapters and some time after it. Enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. They are owned by whoever owns them. However, I do own Helios, Catastrophe, D-merger and the Cyber Agumon. I am damn poor as always and you will get nothing if you sue me.

"…"= Talking

'…'= Thinking

-…- = Action

Side Story: Renegade

The night skies of the digital world were beautiful. Its gave off an aura of peace but however, what was happening on the land beneath it was a direct opposite. Through the night, a bright sphere of dark flames was seen. It was heading towards a group of digimon that were not expecting it and deleted them in an instant. Following the sphere, a gigantic sword was found slashing at another group of digimon. The blade of the sword radiates an aura of darkness. Together with it, the eerie color of dark purple sent chills to the surviving digimons' spine. They fled in pure terror as they saw the figure holding the blade turned towards them. With a cry of terror, the digimons scrambled away but they met instant deletion by a blast of fire. Their data flew into their executioner's body which powered him up to an even higher level. Turing towards the last surviving digimon, the figure holding the sword gave a cold and sinister smirk. Making sure that the surviving digimon could see him, the figure walked towards the terrified Floramon.

? " Don't blame me… Blame on luck that you have let me see you committing such acts…"

The Floramon froze in terror as she heard these words. She knew that she would be deleted like the rest of her friends. She did not want to meet her end this way. Why should she be deleted for doing something which was right. Gathering her nerves, she forced herself to look at the figure that had tore through her friends which were of Champion Level with absolute ease. She was astonished when she saw that the figure was but a young human teenager of age around sixteen looking at her. His eyes were filled with anger and she felt herself shivering as those eyes stared her down.

Although Floramon had seen many young humans in the bases of the Alliance of the Vaccine and Data, she had never seen one with such eyes. The young humans or children she had met were innocent and kind. Some might be a little snotty but none like the one in front of her. The more terrified thing was that this was the same person that had deleted her friends with that gigantic sword of his with ease. According to her knowledge, no human could perform such a feat and she wondered if this was a human at all. The teenager in front of her spoke again.

? " Last words?"

After his sentence, the teenager pointed the sharpen tip of the sword to her. Floramon knew that he would thrust the mean looking weapon at her after she had talk. Actually, she knew that he would do so after sometime even if she remained silent. Not willing to be deleted without yelling at this person, she took a deep breath and began to yell.

Floramon " Why? Why are you doing this? What did my friends and I do to suffer such fate?"

The teenager in front of her did not looked like he would be willing to reply. For some weird reason however, Floramon felt that she had increased his anger. She did not know why but she just felt it. The teenager moved towards her slowly with his bladed point of his sword still pointing at her. Floramon felt herself trembling in fear again. However, she managed to find the courage to ask the teenager again.

Floramon " Aren't…you …suppose to…be our friend?"

At hearing her question, the teenager stopped advancing. Floramon could see his eyes fleshing with cruel humor. Without even a single movement, he spoke.

? -snickering-" I am your friend… a friend that will send you to the depths of hell, that is."

Floramon-shivering in fear- " Why? What have we done to suffer this?"

?-shouting- " You and your friends were deleting off injured digimons and babies that cannot even defend themselves! Do you think anyone sane would allow this kind of slaughtering to occur in front of their own eyes?"

Floramon " But…they are viruses…"

? " So? You don't consider them as digimons?"

Floramon " But… Lord Takeru says that no mercy should be shown to virus digimons…"

?-shouting- " Screw him! Let me tell you what. I will let you live so that you can tell that scum that I am coming after him. Now, scram before I change my mind!"

Floramon found herself looking at the teenager in bewilderment. This man wants to fight Lord Takeru? He must be mad. No one had ever defeated him in combat. Even Daemon, the leader and the most powerful viral digimon was defeated by Lord Takeru and his digimon partner. Moreover, this crazed individual was giving her a chance to live. She did not know whether she should trust him. However, after making an eye contact with those eyes of his, she decided to accept the offer. She knew that he would delete her without any problem so he might not be lying. Turning around, she ran off so as to return to her base.

Black Greymon " You sure we should let her go?"

Dark Tyranomon " She should be deleted for what she has done."

? " I know. But we cannot force out the location of that Lord Takeru from her. She is fanatically loyal to him. All the Vaccine digimon and Data digimon are anyway."

Black Greymon " So the best way is to lure that Lord Takeru out?"

Dark Tyranomon " I doubt he would though. After all, he is known as the leader of the Alliance Army."

?-Shrugs- " Doesn't hurt to try… Even if he doesn't come out, we will get him…"

Black Greymon " How?"

Helios-feral grin- " We can find and join Daemon's forces to overthrow him."

Dark Tyranonmon "…" ' How simplistic in thinking…'

Helios " It might be weird, but I feel that this fanatic leader and his army will have to be destroyed if any peace can be restored… ' The main concern is, why is he doing this?'

Black Greymon " Lets move out then!"

Helios and Dark Tyranomon looked at each other and simply shrugged their shoulders. No matter where, Black Greymon is always very energetic. As they moved on, Helios cannot help but start having doubts about what he was doing. Thinking rationally, what he was doing was no different from what the Alliance Army was doing. Using force to solve problems. However, he knew that it could not contribute but create more chaos in this digital world. Sadly, that is the only thing he knows how to do and it was to fight. However, unlike his partners, he fights only for survival and occasionally for anger at the ill treatment the Viruses got. He realized that this Takeru person must have a better reason to do what he was doing as it would not be possible for the digimons to be loyal to a mad man who thirst for destruction. Helios wondered if what he was doing was correct…

Alliance Main Base, two days after the above incident

I gave a sigh as I heard from Floramon what had happened. There was another loss of digimon life due to all this fighting. After comforting Floramon and sending her back to her room, I allowed myself to show a little fear. What I heard from Floramon was terrifying. Although I had been in battles as well, I had never heard something like what Floramon had described before. If the sword this person was holding was the Catastrophe, our base would be in danger. From what Floramon said, this person seemed to be very angry to what we have done to the viral digimon. I did not want this to happen but Takeru did say that it was for the best when we had started this. He believed that by not letting the viral digimon to be able to live without constrain, they would not be infected by the forces of darkness. I believed him but now, I am not sure. Takeru seemed different from what he used to be. He had allowed the slaughtering of villages and experimenting on viral digimons. He said that it was for greater good but… I don't know. All this feels… wrong…

? " Reize, it is time"

I was knocked out of my thoughts by my digimon partner, Angewomon. She was my digimon partner and she seemed to be able to stay in this ultimate form for almost all the time. I gave her a smile and nodded my head and I left my seat to head for the meeting room. Angewomon followed me closely as I made my way to the meeting room. I saw young digimon and their partners training hard to prepare themselves from upcoming battles. Seeing this makes me feel guilty, as it was Takeru that had asked for the training of digidestinied. This was to prepare them to fight the forces of darkness or this is what Takeru said. I felt guilty as it seemed to rob away their childhood. I hate to send them to battle but I do not think there would be a choice. I reached to the door of the meeting room and headed in.

I saw Takeru sitting on the main seat as I moved in. He seemed to be in a foul mood, as his eyes were not calm like it always is. I think it might have to be due to the interference to his plans made by that person. I was right. He was furious with that person. Takeru was shouting and screaming about the person not knowing what he was doing. It seemed that he was the same person that had destroyed the research laboratory and the outpost we had in the Flaming Valley. The lost of the outpost had made us lost the area to Daemon's army. However, I am glad that the laboratory was destroyed as well. The experiments performed there were inhuman. However, there were no ways that I could use to stop them and the best I could do was not to participate in them. Takeru became calmed after a few minutes of shouting and the meeting continued on as usual. At the end of it, we decided to mark this person wit the codename known as Renegade.

Later, in Takeru's Room

Takeru was sitting on his chair. He was trying to get a little rest after the day's hard work. He had received many reports of Daemon's forces trying to restore their lost lands. Although the attempts were all stopped, many digimon were deleted. These digimon were not able to reborn as they were deleted by attacks that wiped out data. This made Takeru very angry as he knew the pain of losing his digimon partner. The digimon casualties all had human partners and he pitied those children. The Renegade topic is also making him angry as well. Who did that idiot think he is? He knew nothing about viruses and the troubles they can cause.

Takeru smiled grimly. He would destroy all these viruses so as to prevent them from hatching plans to overtake the digital world and the real world. The only virus digimon that he trusts in was Wormon but he was gone, together with all his friends. His brother was gone and so was his fiancé, Hikari Yagami. As he remembered this past memories, Takeru felt rage building up within him again. These viral digimon would never change their ways. He will destroy them and not allow them to pollute this dimension. Although what he is doing now is actually manipulating the minds of the people and the digidestinied of this world, he will not feel guilty as this is for greater good.

Luckily, Patamon had always been there to support him. Takeru do not think that he could last without Patamon's support. This Renegade will be eliminated quickly to prevent him from harnessing the true powers of his damnable blade and cause further disruption in his plans. Yes… The moment of truth, where all viral digimon would be deleted and peace can be achieved in this dimension will be soon…

End of Side Story

This is actually quite a short chapter. It is after all, a side story. It seemed pretty bad as I have been not writing for quite a long time. There will be plenty of battles in next chapter though. I will need opinions of whether or not to include this as a chapter of my story… Anyway, R&R are always welcome.