I don't Own Digimon
Lucemon's Utopia, The Great Reformat
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"Tai CHI!" the golden dragon fired downwards at his dark counterpart. The twelve winged beast with surprising agility given its size swept past the attack and turned its head.
"Tide of Despair!" the back lighting of maroon flames belied a pile of plush blocks that were built up into towers and buildings. Empty cradles lined the paths between the toy towers.
The golden dragon put up a yellow, circular barrier to block the attack.The golden dragonopened its mouth and returned fire, but thedark dragon swept to one side and the golden blast exploded into a tall mountain that dominated the island they were fighting over. The large pantheon-like columns that were on an ancient and feared temple at the top of the mountain crumbled and shook free.
"Huanglongmon, you can not destroy me, I have, through my time, accumulated an unimaginable amount of power," growled the black dragon as he flared his wings. "I will have my utopia!"
"I will stop you," returned the golden dragon, "Lucemon, you are a digimon without a world, a despicable despot, you have been rejected, no one will follow you by choice."
"Who says I'll give them a choice?" growled the black dragon. A black swirl of clouds appeared above the dark dragon. It absorbed the dark energy and opened its mouth. "ANNIHILISM MAELSTROM!" a focused blast of black lightning exploded into Huanglongmon's chest. A black aura covered the golden dragon as the dark dragon charged. Lucemon put his head down and prepared to gore the golden dragon.
"Tai…CHI!" wheezed Huanglongmon as he fired a weak burst and retreated slightly. The golden dragon shook off the effects of the dark aura and drew its head up. "Yellow CIRCLE!" ring after ring of golden, positive chi energy wrapped around Lucemon's body pinning his wings to his scaled back, arms and legs. Huanglongmon then hovered over the black dragon and mustering all of his power opened his mouth. A golden orb ballooned forward, but Huanglongmon was not done yet, one, two, three, four, five of the dragon's digi-cores merged into the orb. "TAI CHI!"
Lucemon roared in pain and crashed into the Digital Sea. It was impossible. The guardian's power had amassed beyond his own. His eyes flashed and he growled. His wings were torn and his body burned. The effects of the battle in the Human World soon multiplied on top of his bones. The residual effects of Kougen's existence were fading; he couldn't keep up this act of invincibility much longer. He would not give up. He would bring this world to utopia. Even if it meant, Lucemon chuckled slightly.
The dark dragon exploded from the water. He looked worse for wear. Huanglongmon opened his mouth again. "Lucemon, you have weakened considerably; you're not as invincible as you believed."
"Though I hate to admit it," growled Lucemon as he looked up at the golden fiend. "I am starting to falter, but if I were you, I wouldn't be celebrating."
Huanglongmon's eyes narrowed. "You cannot defeat me. Give up, Lucemon, your battle is over."
"I came back for a reason, and I will achieve my goal," The dark dragon chuckled. "My powers are weakened, but there is one that remains most, irrefutably unstoppable."
"Fool, you will destroy everything!" growled Huanglongmon.
"Wrong, I'll destroy you and the Digital World!" returned Lucemon smugly. "I on the other hand will be quite safe to rebuild this world as I see fit, and it will give me plenty of time to replenish my strength and return to the Human World to finish off those pesky humans!"
"You would destroy this entire world?" growled Huanglongmon. He looked down on the barren world below him. "And everything on it?"
"Do not play sympathies with me, I can sense that this world has been evacuated, not that it matters, once it is destroyed I will absorb its energy and find the rest of the insurgents and destroy them as well, nothing will stand in my way. I will then rebuild all the worlds as I see fit, and then peace and happiness will reign," replied Lucemon calmly.
"Peace and happiness at the expense of so many lives, is not peace nor is it happiness," returned Huanglongmon, "It is false, it is a lie, and to believe that you will be making peace and happiness through destruction and deathmakes you a fool!"
"This coming from a digimon who would rather let humans fight its fights for it than to actually rise up," chuckled the dark digimon as it opened its mouth. "This may hurt…and I hope it does…"
Huanglongmon reared back as Lucemon's body started to glow an ill green. Lucemon started laughing as the first streams of green light hit the surface of the world below him. The water immediately broke up into particles. The emerald light grew.
Suddenly Lucemon screamed and the golden dragon looked down. Tortured screams erupted from a now blazing emerald core. "NO! WHAT'S GOING ON! I CAN'T STOP THE PROGRESSION….!
"Without Kougen your power to hold the Hazard has failed, it seems you cannot control the power once it is activated, and it has started to consume you!" returned the golden dragon. He watched as the core pulsed. The golden dragon narrowed its eyes and a new fear filled him. "Every particle of his body will turn into pure Hazard…the power released…the destruction…the barriers between the worlds may not hold it!"
Huanglongmon continued up and up but the aura was expanding at an enormous rate. Soon enough he felt his body trembling as he struggled to hold his fused form.
A huge light erupted behind the golden dragon as he watched the oncoming aura of green. The light ensnared Huanglongmon and pulled him up.
The dragon exploded into four, large, holy beasts and they collapsed onto the plane. They were burnt and bruised and looked like they had been put through a wood chipper, especially the forested turtle. A tall man with long dark hair looked at them.
"The Hazard…" whispered the phoenix in a weak voice. The entire plane shook hard and the hosts of digimon that were now occupying the Dream plane screamed in terror.
"The barrier between the Worlds is not strong enough. The Hazard will break through!" called an old man as he pushed through. "Oikawa!"
The tall man turned and nodded. "I will do what I can to stabilize it…" His body glowed brightly, disappearing and the shaking plane stopped shaking.
The Guardians looked at the four beasts. "You were unable to stop him."
"His defenses started to fall, but…he instantly became desperate…"hissed the tiger as he lay on the 'ground'. The ambiguous world of dreams seemed to hang in the air.
"And without Kougen's containment, he was consumed himself, by his own power," grumbled one of the heads of Ebonwumon.
"We must see the damage…" whispered the old man.
"Lord Omega…such a task is impossible," said the blue dragon. "You would be destroyed."
Omega held out a small orb. He pressed it against his chest and then a rainbow of light flooded from the body of the old man. It twisted into a ball and then vanished.
"Ugh…" grumbled the old man holding his chest. "I never want to do that again…it's like having a perpetual heart attack for week…" The old man looked up at the four beasts. "Dear…me what has happened…"
The beasts looked up and sighed. "The Guardians have given your body back now, I am glad you are not severely harmed by the process, Gennai."
"I'd like to be asked next time though," groused the old man.
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"The damage is indeed expansive…" whispered a female voice. There was nothing but void, save a tiny miniscule bauble of earth that somehow escaped the onslaught.
"It is difficult to even feel the data…" said a male voice.
"At least we know the Hazard was effective…" said another male voice. The others looked at him and scowled.
"There is no physical data left, all of it was put into limbo…" said the female voice. "The Hazard's program has mutated…I can not reintegrate the data…"
"What?" nine other voices turned. "It is impossible. The data connection sites are gone…we have to find a way to anchor the data. Or else…the Digital Plane will remain barren."
"The digimon cannot survive in the Dream World indefinitely, the world's overt spirit power will eventually overwhelm their physical forms and they will be etherealized," said a third male voice.
"What can we do?" asked a second female. "What is proposed, Knowledge?"
The second voice sighed. "We have no choice…we must ask for assistance."
"From who?" the second female looked at Knowledge.
"Do not be naive, Love," replied Knowledge as he looked at the second female.
"He proposes we ask the other Digital Worlds for data transplants," said the first male.
"Hope is correct," said Knowledge with a nod.
"No…they will never…" An orange burst flared.
"Courage, it is time for diplomacy, not war," said a blue flare to the orange.
"What if they refuse?" asked a dark force.
"Darkness, we can only have hope," replied Hope quietly.
"We have to go and ask," said a third female voice. "We should prepare to make trans-digital platforms."
"Sincerity is right," said a male voice quietly. "We will send the Harmonious Ones to gain ourselves treaties with these other worlds."
"Practical as always, Reliability," said a weaker male voice. "To appear as we are would only spark fear."
"Are we in agreement?" the first female voice asked.
"Should we bring it to a vote, Light?" asked the weaker male voice to the first female.
"Yes, Kindness, it is a vote, all in favor express yourself in the normal fashion," said Light. She scanned the area quietly. "Right, it's unanimous, we must work immediately towards building transfer platforms."
With that said the council disappeared.
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Zhuqiaomon looked up in anger. He flashed his eyes back and forth. "Dear roaming digi-cores, now there are two of you…." The phoenix growled as he looked from one blue dragon to the next.
"Let me see if I understand this," said the blue dragon on the right. "Your Digital World was attacked by a being known as Lucemon?"
The blue dragon on the left nodded sagely. "He brought pain and death to both worlds, we fought him but unfortunately we could not stop him from destroying the Digital World."
"And now, you need data, to rebuild?" growled Zhuqiaomon.
"Yes, that would be most amiable," said the dragon quietly. The phoenix looked back at the twin headed turtle and the white tiger and growled.
"We have only just finished a battle of magnitude ourselves," said the tiger.
"But as you can see, we did our jobs," growled Zhuqiaomon.
"Zhuqiaomon…" warned the blue dragon on the right.
"It would not 'arm oos to be a wee beet 'elpful. Come on the wee chappy joost wants some 'elp," said the turtle with his left head.
Azulongmon chuckled slightly; he thought his Ebonwumon had a thick accent. The four beasts looked up at the dragon and then turned. "We will be back soon," said Azulongmon's doppelganger.
The four beasts retreated into a large palace. Azulongmon waited a while and suddenly a bright light erupted from the palace and the four beasts returned. Between their auras was a huge data core. It was at least twenty four yards in diameter.
"We compressed the data, it's from one of the planes that has been abandoned since our problem with the great enemy," said Azulongmon's doppelganger.
"We werrrre plannin' to mach it a 'ealth spa, boot you sound lech you need it morrre," said Ebonwumon. Azulongmon could only chuckle and bow and thank the four digital Sovereigns before accepting the core.
"DON'T SCREW THIS ONE UP!" shouted Zhuqiaomon as Azulongmon moved towards a huge platform, "We're not bailing you out again!"
"ZHUQIAOMON!" the peel of thunder reached Azulongmon's ears as the platform passed through the dimensional divide.
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Lord Holy Angemon looked up at the huge phoenix. "I see, such a task is labor intensive, and we have not many Mega Digimon to assist in collection of data…"
"I understand this, and it would not be a problem to wait but we must have data to recorporealize our world," said the phoenix as he looked at the robed Ultimate.
The angel looked up in dismay. "Even if I said 'no' we could not stand up to you and your forces. We would not have much choice but to do as you wish…"
Zhuqiaomon immediately picked up on the small lilt the angel had used. "You cannot believe we would enslave your world! We are not persecutors; we just need the data to anchor the information that was damaged during the battle."
The angel looked at the phoenix with apprehension. "You will understand why I do not trust you; we ourselves have just finished a battle with a very powerful foe…"
"Yes, I understand, we are willing to wait as long as we can get an affirmative from you," said Zhuqiaomon.
"We will assist our brethren…" said the angel with a bow. The phoenix lowered his head deeply and turned.
"Thank you, may your world find peace, always," called Zhuqiaomon as he glided up to the platform.
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Baihumon stood in front of the two angular knights bowing slightly. "Dukemon X, Omnimon X, I thank you for this council."
"We understand your situation," said the taller knight with the sharp angular armored white knight with the Metal Garurumon and WarGreymon heads for hands. "Our world was also destroyed. We were lucky enough to restore it. We will do whatever it takes to restore the data to your world."
"I believe there is a surplus where Yggdrasil's domain was," said Dukemon X quietly and looked to Omnimon X. "It would not hurt to give them that."
Omnimon X nodded slightly and Dukemon X turned and walked away. The knight looked at Baihumon for a while before he spoke. "We had never imagined that there were other digital planes other than our own."
"Yes, there are many, we were lucky enough to have the power to transcend the dimensional folds that make us invisible to each other," replied Baihumon stoically. "Have you yet made contact with the Human World?"
Omnimon X looked down. "We are not eager to engage with humans as of yet, this world is still unstable, many factions wish to destroy the Royal Knights, even though most have been converted with the X antibody."
"Yes, the Harmonious Ones have also met with resistance in the past, but do not worry, as your world settles you will find that things will grow ever more peaceful, even if there are a couple of uprising throughout the millennia," said Baihumon quietly.
"I suspect you are correct," said Omnimon X quietly as a flash appeared and a port opened revealing Dukemon X with a large core of data.
"Here is the data you requested, Baihumon," said Dukemon X quietly and handed the core to the white tiger. The core hung like a large pearl around Baihumon's neck.
"I thank you again, as I have said we are in desperate need of this data," The tiger bowed deeply and then walked away.
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"This is quite the task that you ask of us, Ebonwumon," said a regal looking archangel. Blue armor covered his body and a golden star was at the eye level of his helmet.
"Aye, I know, that is why we came and asked, instead of just takin' it," said Ebonwumon's right head.
"But this is almost too much to ask," growled the pink rabbit-like beast at the far end of the table slamming his fist on the large flat surface.
"It is a lot to ask, but there is no need for you to be a Cranky O'Bunny about it," grumbled the left head.
"Shush, you, we're tryin' be diplomatic," groused the right head loudly. It turned to the pink rabbit beast, "I apologize for myself; he woke up on the wrong side of the Dream World…"
"You say your world was destroyed by, Lucemon?" the women angel looked up at the turtle. The two heads nodded in unison. The woman looked from the male angel to the beastly angel. "We have no choice in the matter, to fight Lucemon is a noble cause, and one that calls to our heart strings, we will assist."
"What?" the two other angels looked at the woman, "Ophanimon, how can we allocate that much data?"
"Seraphimon, Cherubimon, we have plenty of data…" The female angel looked up at the streaks that were raining down from the sky. "The chunks of Seraphimoon, Cherubimooon and Ophanimoon, have been wrecking havoc across all the continents, only yesterday the City of Fire was nearly obliterated by a hunk of Seraphimoon, the day before that the Burgermon Village was devastated by an assault from Cherubimoon, and the week before, my namesake crushed a village near the Autumn Leaf Fair grounds. This is an appropriate and most just way of disposing of the hindrance."
The two other angels looked at each other and then at Ophanimon and nodded in agreement.
"I want to see the alien!" shouted a voice.
"Neemon, I can't let you through; the angels are in council!" suddenly the doors exploded open and two little digimon tumbled through. One was like a golden rabbit with large red pants. The other was a round almost chimpanzee like digimon with a pink waste band. "Now you've done it, you idiot!"
"Look, Bokomon…it has two heads…" whispered the golden rabbit in surprise. The white digimon stood, dusted himself off and then looked at golden digimon as the red panted creature gawked at the twin headed beast in front of them.
Suddenly and without warning the white digimon snagged the rabbit's pants by the elastic band and snapped it so hard that Ebonwumon winced. An academic snarl escaped its lips. "Don't stare, it's rude!" the white digimon chastised the golden one loudly as he dragged the stunned golden digimon out of the angels' chamber.
"I told you it would be impossible to get work done with those two here," grumbled Cherubimon.
"We can deal with them later," said Seraphimon quietly and he stood, "Do not worry, Ebonwumon, we will gather that data for you."
"We will have it ready by night fall," announced Ophanimon. The two heads of Ebonwumon nodded and then bowed deeply to the angels.
"Your sacrifice will be remembered," said the right head.
"That is if old, sieve for brains gets to the Dream World before forgetting," said the left head.
"OI!" grumbled the right head. He growled and then looked up at the angels, "I best be getting back, don't want old wood rot to slip his tongue again." The left head glared at the right. Together they turned and walked out of the chamber to the inter-dimensional platform.
"If all the Guardians of their world are like that one…" started Cherubimon as he watched the platform fade into the sky.
"May the Warriors protect them…" finished Seraphimon with a coy smile.
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It had taken several months but finally the data cores were ready. Many digimon were eager to escape their temporary home. A number of them had gone a slight bit crazy over the months of their exile. Gennai told them that it was due to the expansive wishing energy of the Dream World, but none of that would matter soon. The portal opened brightly and the data cores, carried by the four Harmonious Ones were released into the Digital Plane. Instantly the cores merged and reconfigured the latent data trapped in limbo.
A sphere of blue and green formed in front of their eyes. An explosion of light rocked the plane as the world took its final shape. The digimon gasped at the beauty. Gennai closed the portal and then reopened it onto a strange new world, a new home. He stepped out.
"This shall be the Village of Origins," announced Gennai loudly. The digimon ooed and awed at the announcement.
"What about the Primary Village?" yelped a familiar red rodent.
"Do not worry, this will just be the hub of reformation, growth and childhood shall still take place on File Island!" replied Gennai loudly. He turned and looked around and then lifted his arms, "Go forth and find yourselves your new homes!" the digimon charged past him and into their new world.
When the digimon had rushed past Gennai turned to the Harmonious Ones behind him. "The many side universes that are hooked to this plane seem to have weakened barriers…"
"We will work on it," said the four beasts in unison.
"No…we have much work to do, firstly, we must get a number of digimon to Mega digivolve to provide for defense, I like the way the Celestial Digital World worked it, try and copy that formula…" Gennai turned, "The barriers can wait…now is a time of work and celebration, not worry."
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Little did any of the celebratory digimon know that in the core of their world a small red blip was pulsing. It's algorithm looking for a servant, looking for someone powerful enough to stop the hated Holy Beasts and bring it to its past glory, after all it had a whole new world to infest and it planned to do just that, but first it had to learn, to investigate, to search and it would.
None knew that the barrier to a world of oblivion had weakened and that the red blip had made contact, tentative as of yet, but still it was contact. It was sending energy there as the foolish digimon cheered. An insane laugh echoed through the white void of oblivion.
"I'll be back…soon enough," said the voice with a chuckle, "And my encore shall be even more impressive than my initial work!"
The End…..
………..or is it just the Beginning?
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That's right it ends on a cliffhanger, this story leads into In the Shadow of Chaos. That is the end, Lucemon realizes his utopia, but pays the ultimate price, but like any paradise, it is lost; but what snake is lurking in the garden? What evil wishes to raise its tempestuous head?
AN: Eh I'm probably going to go into a post story rant….so zone out if you wish. This is the last chapter of Fall of Harmony, and it was a nice ride, I enjoyed writing it. Some parts were more tedious than others but I think you'll have that with any adventure. I hope you enjoyed the run, though if you didn't I won't hate you, I know some of my antics probably seemed, unpleasant or arbitrary, but in the end I hoped everyone found at least one scene or bit of dialogue that you liked. I'd like to thank those that reviewed, so far if anyone else posts, I may respond in the next story, In the Shadow of Chaos, anyways thank you. Dark Qiviut, Alforce Veedramon, Lodis Lord, don't worry I understand you were out, Seraphic Tempest, Sora Takenouchi, Joh, and finally the first reviewer, well gets an extra point, Saber Lightning.
I personally, liked the beginning of the story, and then the second part of the middle and most of the end, I liked the way Gatomon reacted to Takeru's ranting about how Koushiro and Kari were sort of quitting, I liked Lucemon, owning the digi-destined and I liked how Lucemon rose from the ashes in The Power of Twilight. I'm not saying that the rest of the story was bad, I'm saying that it was not as enthralling to me, at least.
This story was basically never intended to be written, in all actuality I had another Lucemon vs O2 story going where Lucemon enlists the assistance of digimon like Ice Devimon, Harpymon, Boogeymon and Bastemon, the sort of anti-angels of sorts of the Digital World, but that got very unpleasant, but it did have Lucemon's child mode fighting Magnamon…(Yes the boys in one big fight…) but I quickly started reformatting my story In the Shadow of Chaos. I needed a catalyst for the Great Reformat, and an explanation for Lucemon's actions in that story and the others' trepidations about him so I got to thinking…. "mmm, we have the epilogue of '02 with Lucemon's undeniable kickassness, and we have Takeru's smug, we'll be ready for darkness." I never liked Takeru's characterization all that much.
I'm not bashing him because I understand why he acts that way but I'm just saying it could've been done better, not that I did much better but I believe it could've been done better, actually there were a lot of things that could've been done better in 02, Dragomon's filler episode status, Daemon's somewhat behind the scenes action and then of course the ending hook, MaloMyotismon, sure he kills Arukenimon and Mummymon, but Myotismon's Mega forms always seem such let downs…
Anyways….in the series Takeru comes off as a person in a bully pulpit, or at least in a pulpit, that he knows best because he's all righteous….well I thought about it. Takeru is always nattering on about how the darkness is evil, though some of this is beaten back after the destruction of Black WarGreymon, well he kind of half way has to eat his words when it comes to Lucemon, a being of Darkness and Light, and he has to eat his words when it comes to his nephew, Kuro Ishida, Child of Darkness. I guess that whole battle with Damienmon was just gloss, an attempt to fix something that I felt fundamentally wrong with 02, the second player aspect of Daemon, who I have always felt, from reviews and story synopsis and such, as being a much grander villain than well Mega-Myotismon, and then the total abandonment of Dragomon, a character who is basically left hanging as if he was part of some semi-formed plotline that got hashed during editing and so he was used as filler. Damienmon himself, came as a flash, and I ran with it. He is mine, sort of, in the sense I made him up, name and circumstance, but don't own the concept behind him. I really debated bringing in Dragomon, because, he's a character that is, for all intents and purposes non-existent he has no known personality, other than being the ruler of the Dark Ocean he has no, background he just is, so any personality he has, has to come from the author.
Lastly, I am debating doing a third story in this causality line or whether I am going to just go heck with it and do a totally different universe story, rather like they did with '03 in that the two timelines don't mesh, but vaguely.
I already have the digimon chosen, that's usually the first thing I do, so I can plan for digivolutions and partners and such, this was kind of already done in Harmony in that all the digi-destined, the new ones anyways, had known In Trainings, and I had to sort of shoe horn in what digimon I wanted, especially with FanBeemon, I didn't want like five Biyomon and seven Wormmon and twenty seven Agumon. I wanted each character to have a digimon of their own, this kind of failed when it came to Kougi and Kiyoshi, as they needed to DNA digivolve (The DNA digivolving thing was also a plot device so I didn't have write twenty evolution stories, there are just some crest attributes where it is nearly impossible to get a heat of battle response out of someone for that attribute), and I had to flub to make Veedramon and Stingmon digivolve to DinoBeemon, I was quite surprised no one said a thing about it, just goes to prove the hardcore fans aren't reading…heh.
I usually like to stay as close as possible to digivolution lines, but sometimes in order to make things work I have to fluff up an excuse or make up a digimon or a mode change, Alforce knows what I mean by making up a mode change…if that offends people I just want to remind them, that sometimes it is very difficult to balance what the author wants from a story and what a reader wants. Obviously I don't want things to be unbelievable, other wise I wouldn't have made excuses for them, but I want to have fun writing the story, and there are some digimon that are better to describe, and have more exciting attacks and are just more easier to write for, like I had a horrible time writing for Black Rapidmon and Black MegaGargomon but I loved writing for Valkyrimon, if only because he's so pretty. As I have said before, I make certain remarks and funny little situations for me, like the Data/Vade ship and there are a couple of references to a Goo Goo Dolls song in the story, two I know of, but I may have made an unconscious remark. I guess all I can say, is I wrote this, at first, to make it easier on Alforce and the readers of In the Shadow of Chaos, but in doing that this story sort of took precedence and became more fun at times, but I did this because it was fun. It was fun to write, it was fun to have people react to it, and I enjoyed it. If at any time had I started to find this to be fundamentally unfun, I'd have probably said, forget it, I'm done, but instead I could hardly wait to post chapters, because I would be re-reading something and say, jeesh, this isn't so bad, this is bad, and there were parts of the story I semi-cringe at because, gosh darn it, I couldn't seem to get the right words to come out of someone's mouth. This turned into quite a ramble, and I think I'll stop so I hope you all enjoyed this and I am glad you reviewed, those that did, and I hope you have a nice day.