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Aftermath
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The figure in the robes walked into the large palace in the center of Chuuten City. Most of the digimon had been detained by the humans before he had destroyed the humans' anti-digimon weaponry. It was truly a shame that he had to destroy those weapons. He had put a lot of effort in finding a way to destroy the Harmonious Ones without actually having to fight them. He smirked. It was ingenious to have the humans do it. He knew that Azulongmon and Ebonwumon, at least, would stifle any attempt to fight back against the plush, impotent apes.
The only time he worried was at the moment the four Harmonious Ones attempted to fuse. He knew none could stand against the power of Huanglongmon, not even the mercenaries he had chosen. Fortunately the exposed core gave Medieval Dukemon the opening he needed to destroy them. Now he had both worlds at his mercy. He just needed to find the proper caretakers for the human world until he could take his proper place.
He chuckled softly; those chosen humans were trying to interfere. He knew they were powerless now. They currently only had one Mega level digimon at their disposal and he was endeavoring to find Agumon and have him destroyed before the human partner could come and attempt to rival him. He narrowed his eyes. He hadn't realized it until now, but there had been no report of Gennai or that other guardian...Oikawa. The sage and his ethereal ally would undoubtedly try to interfere.
He smirked, "No, matter. It is too late; without the Harmonious Ones...they are nothing more than insects. I have nothing to fear from the likes of them," He gently placed himself in the throne and looked over the large room draped in crimson, blue, grey, deep green and gold. "I am the ruler of this world. None shall defeat me now, and soon, I will rule the humans as well. I will bring these worlds to total peace even if it means I have to destroy them first!"
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Gennai roared forward in Mecha Norimon. Datirimon was resting in the inside of the contraption. He had seen the auroras and knew that something horrible had happened.
The mechanical digimon dove for the lake where Gennai's house resided. A small circle opened on the surface of the lake. Mecha Norimon flew through it and a tunnel in the water opened ahead of them and opened into a small dome that pulled the water from the courtyard around Gennai's house. Gennai and Mecha Norimon walked into the house and let the water slowly return. Datirimon hopped out of the robot and looked at Gennai.
"Things have gotten bad," said the small digimon. "Oikawa is having trouble manifesting himself. He keeps saying there is a very odd energy that's permeating the Digital World."
Gennai looked up. "An evil force or a good one?"
Datirimon shrugged, "He says it's neither...He says the forces of light and darkness keep merging and separating. He can't seem to obtain enough spiritual energy to manifest himself in human form, he'll have to resort to butterflies for awhile to observe things."
Gennai nodded. "Tell him to find the Chosen Ones...we need to talk..."
"He has already found one, the one called Yolei..." said Datirimon. "She has a group of the Chosen Ones' children and the children's digimon with her..."
"That's good, ask him where, I'll see if I can't get a projection there..." said Gennai.
"Let me put the coordinates in," said Datirimon and the little digimon hopped on a consul and started pressing buttons.
"Ah, an email from Izzy, such a nice..." Gennai was reading the text message, "The fools!"
"What?" Datirimon hopped next to the man.
"He says Kari, TK and him are trying to fight the digimon that they say destroyed the Harmonious Ones..." Gennai growled softly, "They only have Angewomon as an Ultimate, and I really doubt she could muster much against digimon that could destroy the Harmonious Ones, as the energy she has to Ultimate digivolve is much more similar to normal Champion digivolving than it is to crest digivolving..."
"Reply! Tell them to meet here!" yelped Datirimon. "We need to get things set straight; the longer this goes on the more difficult it will be to restore it to the original!"
As he sent the messages it struck Gennai. Azulongmon was gone, for good. He wasn't just sealed away, but destroyed. He sighed softly and then pressed send.
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"Great now I'm stuck in this horrible, stupid cave..." thought Yolei as she watched the children huddled against the walls with their digimon. "I don't even like caves," she grumbled aloud.
"What?" the kids looked up.
Yolei blushed quietly, "Never mind, children," she looked around. "Kiyoshi? What are you doing?"
"I found this thing over here in the cave...it looks like a projector," replied the boy quietly.
Suddenly a light flickered from the projector.
"Leave it alone, Kiyoshi," chided Yolei, "You don't know what kind of germs it has on it..."
An image appeared in the light. It was Gennai. "Ah, Yolei, I'm so glad you are safe..."
"Safe?" asked the woman. She stood and walked up to the image. "Are the others in danger?" whispered Yolei quietly.
"Not at the moment, but it has been touch and go, since the most evident destruction of the Harmonious Ones..." replied the man.
"What?" gasped Yolei quietly.
"You must come to my house, immediately, bring the children I have a feeling, that we will be needing them," said Gennai.
"But how...?" replied the woman quietly. "I've never been to your house before..."
"Through Oikawa, follow the butterflies, they will lead you to my house," said the man quietly and the projection flicked off.
"But..." Yolei's eyes narrowed, "Just like a man to run off when there are questions to be answered!"
"Your mom is pretty hot headed," said Kougi to Ai.
"Well, duh, she had to put up with your dad all this time!" returned Ai malevolently.
"Well, my dad said your mom is a nut case waiting to go to seed and grow into a crazy tree!" shouted Kougi.
"Yeah well my mom said your dad was an idiot goggle head!" replied Ai grabbing Kougi by the lapels of his jacket.
"Hold it!" Noriko pulled them apart and stood between them. "We have more important things to deal with, your mom needs all the help she can get," Noriko left out the fact she felt that things went badly at Chuuten City.
"Yeah," it was Kiyoshi. He looked at his sister. "You have to admit mom does have a temper...something you seemed to have inherited..."
"Shut up, Kiyo!" shouted Ai.
"Kiyo is right," said Hiroshi. He stepped forward, "Of the three of us you're the one with the temper..."
"Just like men to gang up on the girl!" snapped Ai.
"Heh, and just like mom to say something like, 'Just like men dot, dot, dot..." jibed Kiyoshi and Hiroshi.
Kougi looked up and his face paled. "Umm...weren't you just saying how nice your mom was and fair....?"
"What? Our mom has a horrible temper..." said Kiyoshi and Hiroshi.
"Yeah but it's a just temper right..." Kougi was making weird faces and moving his eyes about.
"Nah, half the time she goes off about nothing," said Hiroshi. He laughed.
"Yeah, she's like a time bomb only she just keeps going off," said Kiyoshi and he laughed.
"But...oh just forget it..." sighed Kougi.
"What?" asked the two brothers. Suddenly, a hand was on each their shoulders. The two boys blanched.
"A time bomb eh?" growled Yolei's voice. "You're lucky, if this wasn't an emergency situation..." her sentence degenerated into a grumbling growl. "Now, come on everyone. We're going to go see Gennai..."
She marched her two sons out of the cave followed by the children and the digimon, at a safe distance of course. Outside the cave a swirl of semi-luminous butterflies glided.
"Right, we're following these guys, everyone buddy up in groups of four," shouted Yolei over the children. "Two humans two digimon, got me?"
"Yes," replied the group.
"Ok then, let's move out!" shouted Yolei and they marched behind the butterflies as the little insects drifted through the air.
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"Patamon, you got to hold still," instructed Hikari. She was wrapping the hamster's ear wing with bits of her torn shirt. TK had already sacrificed an amount of a jacket he had to help Gatomon, who had lacerations on her shoulders and back and chest. She looked up when the bushes started to shake. It was Izzy. He had Tentomon riding on his back, piggyback style. Hikari hopped up and smiled. "Thank god you're safe!"
"It would take more than an arrogant knight to finish me off," Tentomon lifted his arm weakly, "though; I don't think it would take much more..."
"The white armored one hit him as he was getting away," explained Izzy. He looked at the other two digimon. "They really worked us over good..."
"Yeah, and it wouldn't have mattered if Yolei was there or not or Davis and Ken," said Gatomon. The cat tried to sit up but she just ended up leaning back. "I still have my tail ring...no DNA digivolution..."
"That's right..." Izzy lowered spike backed beetled down against a tree gently. "Then we only have Agumon on our side when it comes to Mega digimon...This is really looking bad..."
"Too long have we been complacent," coughed Gatomon. She closed her eyes, "Too long have we slept, we should have been monitoring things more closely. You just don't get digimon like the ones we met from the thin air...some one had to have either given them power or trained them..."
"They must not have been overly interested in us," said Izzy. He looked back, "When I went back for Tentomon they had already moved on, and they aren't pursuing us..."
"We're not a threat," said Gatomon quietly. "We didn't even leave a smudge on their armor...we might as well have thrown marshmallows at them for all the good our attacks did..."
"That's no way to talk," Patamon stood up. "We were taken by surprise...but next time..."
"We could get killed," Tentomon pointed out, "They weren't even trying that hard and look at what they did to us, think of what would happen if we annoyed them enough that they wished to destroy us..."
"I just never realized how defeatist the digi-destined had become," said TK quietly. He looked from Izzy to Kari to Gatomon and Tentomon. His eyes rested on his injured partner. "What happened to that 'don't give up style' we had when we fought Piedmon and Daemon and MaloMyotismon?"
"TK, that was twenty years ago," said Izzy quietly. The researcher looked TK in his eyes, "We were young, we had the strength, and we didn't have our own families to worry about..."
"So we're just going to give up!?" TK was getting incensed.
"It's not like we want to," said Gatomon quietly lifting her head to look at TK, "but we have to face reality. They outclass us in power, speed, and tactical advantage, without an upsurge in power we'll only accomplish getting ourselves killed if we fight them again..."
"So we're just supposed to give up hope!?" returned TK. His fists were clenched.
"There is a difference between hope and naïve wishing," replied Gatomon and she laid her head back down. "We will have to retreat and regroup and try and find a chink in their armor..."
Izzy's phone beeped. The researcher lifted it and looked at the screen, "It's Gennai, he says to meet him at his house, he has called Yolei and she's to bring the kids with her..." He looked up, "It's at least somewhere safe..."
"How are we to get there?" asked Hikari, "I mean the last time you guys went he sent up flares or something..."
"He says, 'follow the butterflies,'" replied Izzy. He looked up and saw the flicker of semi-luminous butterflies weaving between the trees. They weaved forward and then back almost enticing the group of humans forward. Izzy gently lifted Tentomon and TK gently placed Patamon on his head and Kari lifted Gatomon and they walked after the ghostly butterflies.
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AN I liked this chapter, I especially liked Gatomon...for some reason this seemed to cut home to something...I also liked the bit in the cave...hehe...poor Kougi tried his darnedest...but the brothers Ichijoji couldn't get a clue...