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A/N: If you're only looking at this because you're wondering what happened to my huge season 2 AU I took it down because it had gotten away from me so I'm reworking the whole thing quite intensively and will then repost it. So for now only my Frontier fic is up. Hopefully it won't take me long to get my timeline together and figure out what needs to change at which point I shall start reposting.
Of Necessities and Consequences
Chapter Three: Fights and Warnings
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"Yeah," Takuya agreed with a nod."That'sa very good question. Since we're sort of separate now how do we evolve?"
"As near as we can tell you just do." Tailmon replied. "Even though you somehow gave them form they are still basically just the Spirits."
"And we still aren't sure how you did that." Turueimon added. "Though we are glad you did."
"After you left we checked the Tunnel of History and Ophanimon's Castle... nothing we found even suggested that it was possible." Angemon said. "All the sources agree that the Spirits are just repositories of the power of the Ancient Warriors and certain aspects of their personalities not separate digimon... and yet here they are."
"Huh?" Takuya said blankly.
"It's fairly simple." Agnimon explained. "We shouldn't be able to animate ourselves without a partner and yet something about you allowed us to... and not just those of us partnered directly with you guys. It mystifies every digimon who thinks about it. Even us."
"Oh?" Takuya couldn't understand what the mystery was. It seemed perfectly natural for the hybrids to be standing there. He hadn't even been startled the first time it happened. Unable to offer any useful comments on that he instead focused on what Tailmon had said. "So we activate our evolution as normal and then what?"
"Well, we don't really know... it's a bit of an unknown. I'm certain you can evolve but I don't know exactly how it will work nor what will happen when you devolve."
"When we devolve?" Takuya frowned. "Isn't that the easy bit."
"Yes...but they think we may return to our spirit forms in your Digivices but they don't know for sure..."
"Because they don't understand your existence to start with." It was Kouji who nodded solemnly. "That does seem a feasible outcome." He looked at Wolfmon. "Are you okay with that?" He asked. Wolfmon just shrugged.
"It doesn't matter." He said finally.
"Yes," said Agnimon."We can all sense it..."
"Something is coming..." Fairymon continued.
"Something terrible and powerful." Blitzmon agreed.
"Something we are not strong enough to face alone." Wolfmon finished. "We cannot defeat whatever it is we all sense on our own and if we must sacrifice this rather odd existence to save the world we'll be glad to do it... even if we wouldn't be proud to share our minds and hearts with you again anyway."
"And we would." Löwemon said softly.
"I see." Kouji said and looked over at Takuya who was also nodding.
"Of course we'll help." He said as he absently adjusted his goggles."And hope it doesn't come to that ... but more importantly we need a plan."
"We need to leave someone here in case it is just a feint." Kouji added as he looked at his brother and Löwemon. "And you are staying here too." His tone brooked no argument. "Neither of you are fit to fight right now."
"You're right of course." Löwemon agreed.
"Though after earlier are you sure you are fit to fight, Kouji?" Kouichi asked.
"I'm fine...actually I feel great."
"Someone else should stay as well." Agnimon said."Löwemon can't fight if right now if anything does come up."
"I'll stay." Fairymon volunteered. "I can fight if necessary but I'm still a touch wonky after that fight with the Gigadramon earlier."
"That's sorted then." Takuya pulled out his digivice. "Let's do this." He said and started to evolve. As he did Agnimon glowed for a moment before disappearing to replace by the Spirits which shot into his digivice.
Almost as soon as the actual transformation started he noticed something odd. Except at the very start there was no sense of duality when he evolved. No sense of Agnimon's presence as a seperate entity. Of course there never had been not even at those times when he realised that he wasn't alone most strongly. Where the digimon were puzzled by theirseparationn he found himself puzzled by the lack of it. [We two become one in body, heart and mind and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.] He thought in answer to his own question. [Yes, that's it.] He wondered if the others sensed it too as they evolved but he didn't ask, instead he just looked at them and jerked his head towards the door. "Let's go! We don't have much time!" They were multiple assents as they rushed to intercept the attacking digimon.
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Trying to come up with a plan on such short notice has not been easy. About the best they'd managed was that they needed to deal with the most dangerous Perfect level threats first and worry about mopping up the Adults later.
They located the three MetalTyrannomon easily enough though the SkullGreymon was nowhere to be seen. This was a little worrying since a giant, skeletal dinosaur is generally hard to miss. However they decided to deal with the immediate problem first and split up to engage them. In spite of their supposedly being powerful they proved to be no match for a concerted attack by eight of the ten legendary warriors. None of them even had to slide evolve to knock them out of the fight. The giant dinosaurs barely had time to get off one shot between the three of them before their digicode appeared and even that missed.
"Something is odd here.... that was too easy." Wolfmon noted as he moved to scan them. He didn't get the chance however when a tearing sound heralded the advent of some sort of portal that looked like a rip in space opening and SkullGreymon appeared in theirmidst and took the MetalTyrannomon's code before any of them could react.
"Well that explains how they move around undetected." Agnimon said as the SkullGreymon used the data it had absorbed to grow even larger.
"Yeah." Ranamon agreed and fired off a "Rain Stream" at it. The attack had no discernable effect except to enrage it and it immediatly swatted her away with casual ease before stomping on Grottomon as her raced into to try a "snake eye break" attack. Both digimon seemed to fade slightly and the Spirits appeared in the code ring but the others managed to distract their attacker long enough for them not to be scanned though both were unconscious on the grass now.
"It looks like this one is going to be a tough one." Agnimon said and Slide Evolved to Vritramon.
"Yeah." Wolfmon agreed as he followed suit and became Garmmon just as Chakmon and Blitzmon fired off a combo attack that was slightly more effective but still only stunned it for a while. "A lot tougher."
SkullGreymon was now even more enraged and fired off it's 'Ground Zero' attack at them. They all scrambled to get out of the way and somehow managed to do it except for Mecuremon who stood his ground and lifted his mirrors to attempt to use 'Generous Mirror to reflect the potentially devestating attack back at it. It didn't work and he only succeeded in getting himself caught at the heart of the vast and blinding explosion. When the intense light faded and they could see again the Warrior of Steel had staggered to his knees and was fading fast as his code surrounded him.
"The digicode it absorbed has made that digimon stronger than it alone had any right to... it's getting power from somewhere else." He said as they rushed to protect him but even though they once again managed to stop the SkullGreymon scanning him when the ring faded he was gone and the somehow forlorn spirits of steel dropped inertly to the ravaged ground.
"Damn!" Garmmon cursed as Chakmon, Blitzmon and Arbormon all Slide Evolved without having to be told. "Let's hit him with our best attacks all at once, everyone." He suggested. He didn't have to wait for responses he knew they agreed and they knew he knew so they all just did as he said. The simultaneous hit by the five attacks finally did the trick and its code appeared. Garmmon slide evolved to Wolfmon and scanned the data. A red coloured Agumon fell to the grass where SkullGreymon had stood.
"That was hard." Agnimon had also returned to his human hybrid form and was walking towards the groggy Red Agumon. "So," He asked looking down at it, "Was this just a random rampage or were you working for someone?"
The little digimon looked confused and upset and didn't answer for a few moments. "I don't know." It said finally. "I'm sorry but I really don't. I barely remember anything." A tear trickled down its cheek. "I did something terrible didn't I?"
"You could say that." Agnimon said in a neutral tone. "How can you not remember causing this devastation?" He gestured to the damage done to Flame City by the "Ground Zero" attack and to the Spirits of Steel lying quiescent at the heart of that devastation.
"I don't know." He admitted. "But I don't ... the last thing I recall was being in my home one night and not being able to sleep. So I went for a walk in the forest and I heard this voice whispering to me. I remember straining to hear what it was saying and then nothing except a blur until just now."
"Well that's weird." Wolfmon mused and turned at a tug on his scarf. Ranamon had come round unnoticed at some point during the fight or just after and now she was standing behind him holding the Spirits of Steel. "I think you should keep these." She told him. "If we can find a way to unlock Hyper Spirit Evolvution again you'll need them."
He nodded solemnly and accepted them. "We'd better go and find those adults before they cause trouble." They turned to start searching and found a Rosemon hovering over them.
"The Human Children must return to their world." She said in a steely tone.
"What!" Agnimon blinked at the demand. "We aren't going anywhere. We're needed here!"
"No." She replied though her tone did soften. "You only think you are. Your presence here will make things worse. I know you mean well and I am grateful to you for saving our world before so I'm giving you this warning... it will be your only warning. Go back!"
"Or what?" Agnimon asked but she was already flying away and didn't reply. He looked at the others. "What was that about?" He asked but no one had any idea. "We'll worry about it later lets find those Adults."
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After the other had left to deal with the attack Kouichi had dozed off in the corner while Izumi had joined the others in watching the battle via the monitors. It was just as they saw the SkullGreymon appear that the doors exploded inwards and over a dozen obviously hostile adult digimon piled in and began attacking them. She turned round and looked at Bokomon who began pawing through his book trying to identify the attackers.
"What are they?" she yelled over the chaos. The little digimon didn't answer he just kept leafing through the pages. After a moment she sighed and looked at Fairymon. She didn't have to say anything. Her partner knew what she was thinking and nodded at once. Izumi grabbed her digivice from her pocket and activated her evolution. As Fairymon's form dissolved into the Spirits of Wind and she began to evolve she found herself musing on the same lack of duality that,although she didn't know it, Takuya had noticed earlier but in the circumstances she didn't spend any time worrying about it as she turned her attention to the battle.
The chaos of the unexpected attack also woke Kouichi from his fitful doze. In spite of his exhaustion he took in the situation and also grabbed his digivice as looked around for Löwemon. He finally spotted him and began to head over but was prevented from reaching by him one one of the attacking digimon dived towards him with outstretched talons of energy. He hit the floor just fast enough to avoid them but heard the thing turn and swoop towards him again. He flinched and braced himself expecting to feel the talons rip into him but the attack never came. After a few moments he looked up and saw Turueimon standing over him with his knives drawn.His attackers digiegg, meanwhile, was just flying off towards the Village of Beginnings.
"Are you okay?" The lilac rabbit asked even as he spun and took out another of the attacking digimon. Out of the corner of his eye Kouichi saw that Tailmon and Angemon had also joined the fray.
"Yeah. Thanks." He climbed to his feet and started heading towards Löwemon again but Turueimon stopped him.
"Don't be foolish. You aren't in any fit state to evolve and even if you were Löwemon is in no fit state to fight. If you do you'll both just end up sick... anyway we're almost done as it is." At that comment Kouichi looked around and realised that it was true. Only three of the attackers were still active and they were trying to retreat. The one that seemed to be the leader was facing down Fairymon and she couldn't move to attack it because it had Bokomon and Neemon held between them in its tentacles. Even as Tailmon and Angemon finished off the other two it suddenly emitted a terrible, ear rending shriek that nearly burst his ear drums. In response a rip similar to the one SkullGreymon had appeared from opened in the heart of the room. It dived towards it and prevented Fairymon from intercepting it by the simple expedient of throwing Bokomon and Neemon at her.
As the portal to goodness knew where started to seal Bokomon darted towards it wailing in obvious distress. Fairymon had to pick him up to stop him throwing himself through it. "Let me go!" He battered ineffectually at her arms. "I have to get it back!" He yelled then wailed again as the rip sealed totally.
"Bokomon? What's wrong?" Angemon asked, obviously concerned for the digimon who had been a surrogate parent to him.
"That Digimon...." Bokomon said with tears in his eyes. "it... it... it took the book!"
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A/N: If you're only looking at this because you're wondering what happened to my huge season 2 AU I took it down because it had gotten away from me so I'm reworking the whole thing quite intensively and will then repost it. So for now only my Frontier fic is up. Hopefully it won't take me long to get my timeline together and figure out what needs to change at which point I shall start reposting.
Of Necessities and Consequences
Chapter Three: Fights and Warnings
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"Yeah," Takuya agreed with a nod."That'sa very good question. Since we're sort of separate now how do we evolve?"
"As near as we can tell you just do." Tailmon replied. "Even though you somehow gave them form they are still basically just the Spirits."
"And we still aren't sure how you did that." Turueimon added. "Though we are glad you did."
"After you left we checked the Tunnel of History and Ophanimon's Castle... nothing we found even suggested that it was possible." Angemon said. "All the sources agree that the Spirits are just repositories of the power of the Ancient Warriors and certain aspects of their personalities not separate digimon... and yet here they are."
"Huh?" Takuya said blankly.
"It's fairly simple." Agnimon explained. "We shouldn't be able to animate ourselves without a partner and yet something about you allowed us to... and not just those of us partnered directly with you guys. It mystifies every digimon who thinks about it. Even us."
"Oh?" Takuya couldn't understand what the mystery was. It seemed perfectly natural for the hybrids to be standing there. He hadn't even been startled the first time it happened. Unable to offer any useful comments on that he instead focused on what Tailmon had said. "So we activate our evolution as normal and then what?"
"Well, we don't really know... it's a bit of an unknown. I'm certain you can evolve but I don't know exactly how it will work nor what will happen when you devolve."
"When we devolve?" Takuya frowned. "Isn't that the easy bit."
"Yes...but they think we may return to our spirit forms in your Digivices but they don't know for sure..."
"Because they don't understand your existence to start with." It was Kouji who nodded solemnly. "That does seem a feasible outcome." He looked at Wolfmon. "Are you okay with that?" He asked. Wolfmon just shrugged.
"It doesn't matter." He said finally.
"Yes," said Agnimon."We can all sense it..."
"Something is coming..." Fairymon continued.
"Something terrible and powerful." Blitzmon agreed.
"Something we are not strong enough to face alone." Wolfmon finished. "We cannot defeat whatever it is we all sense on our own and if we must sacrifice this rather odd existence to save the world we'll be glad to do it... even if we wouldn't be proud to share our minds and hearts with you again anyway."
"And we would." Löwemon said softly.
"I see." Kouji said and looked over at Takuya who was also nodding.
"Of course we'll help." He said as he absently adjusted his goggles."And hope it doesn't come to that ... but more importantly we need a plan."
"We need to leave someone here in case it is just a feint." Kouji added as he looked at his brother and Löwemon. "And you are staying here too." His tone brooked no argument. "Neither of you are fit to fight right now."
"You're right of course." Löwemon agreed.
"Though after earlier are you sure you are fit to fight, Kouji?" Kouichi asked.
"I'm fine...actually I feel great."
"Someone else should stay as well." Agnimon said."Löwemon can't fight if right now if anything does come up."
"I'll stay." Fairymon volunteered. "I can fight if necessary but I'm still a touch wonky after that fight with the Gigadramon earlier."
"That's sorted then." Takuya pulled out his digivice. "Let's do this." He said and started to evolve. As he did Agnimon glowed for a moment before disappearing to replace by the Spirits which shot into his digivice.
Almost as soon as the actual transformation started he noticed something odd. Except at the very start there was no sense of duality when he evolved. No sense of Agnimon's presence as a seperate entity. Of course there never had been not even at those times when he realised that he wasn't alone most strongly. Where the digimon were puzzled by theirseparationn he found himself puzzled by the lack of it. [We two become one in body, heart and mind and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.] He thought in answer to his own question. [Yes, that's it.] He wondered if the others sensed it too as they evolved but he didn't ask, instead he just looked at them and jerked his head towards the door. "Let's go! We don't have much time!" They were multiple assents as they rushed to intercept the attacking digimon.
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Trying to come up with a plan on such short notice has not been easy. About the best they'd managed was that they needed to deal with the most dangerous Perfect level threats first and worry about mopping up the Adults later.
They located the three MetalTyrannomon easily enough though the SkullGreymon was nowhere to be seen. This was a little worrying since a giant, skeletal dinosaur is generally hard to miss. However they decided to deal with the immediate problem first and split up to engage them. In spite of their supposedly being powerful they proved to be no match for a concerted attack by eight of the ten legendary warriors. None of them even had to slide evolve to knock them out of the fight. The giant dinosaurs barely had time to get off one shot between the three of them before their digicode appeared and even that missed.
"Something is odd here.... that was too easy." Wolfmon noted as he moved to scan them. He didn't get the chance however when a tearing sound heralded the advent of some sort of portal that looked like a rip in space opening and SkullGreymon appeared in theirmidst and took the MetalTyrannomon's code before any of them could react.
"Well that explains how they move around undetected." Agnimon said as the SkullGreymon used the data it had absorbed to grow even larger.
"Yeah." Ranamon agreed and fired off a "Rain Stream" at it. The attack had no discernable effect except to enrage it and it immediatly swatted her away with casual ease before stomping on Grottomon as her raced into to try a "snake eye break" attack. Both digimon seemed to fade slightly and the Spirits appeared in the code ring but the others managed to distract their attacker long enough for them not to be scanned though both were unconscious on the grass now.
"It looks like this one is going to be a tough one." Agnimon said and Slide Evolved to Vritramon.
"Yeah." Wolfmon agreed as he followed suit and became Garmmon just as Chakmon and Blitzmon fired off a combo attack that was slightly more effective but still only stunned it for a while. "A lot tougher."
SkullGreymon was now even more enraged and fired off it's 'Ground Zero' attack at them. They all scrambled to get out of the way and somehow managed to do it except for Mecuremon who stood his ground and lifted his mirrors to attempt to use 'Generous Mirror to reflect the potentially devestating attack back at it. It didn't work and he only succeeded in getting himself caught at the heart of the vast and blinding explosion. When the intense light faded and they could see again the Warrior of Steel had staggered to his knees and was fading fast as his code surrounded him.
"The digicode it absorbed has made that digimon stronger than it alone had any right to... it's getting power from somewhere else." He said as they rushed to protect him but even though they once again managed to stop the SkullGreymon scanning him when the ring faded he was gone and the somehow forlorn spirits of steel dropped inertly to the ravaged ground.
"Damn!" Garmmon cursed as Chakmon, Blitzmon and Arbormon all Slide Evolved without having to be told. "Let's hit him with our best attacks all at once, everyone." He suggested. He didn't have to wait for responses he knew they agreed and they knew he knew so they all just did as he said. The simultaneous hit by the five attacks finally did the trick and its code appeared. Garmmon slide evolved to Wolfmon and scanned the data. A red coloured Agumon fell to the grass where SkullGreymon had stood.
"That was hard." Agnimon had also returned to his human hybrid form and was walking towards the groggy Red Agumon. "So," He asked looking down at it, "Was this just a random rampage or were you working for someone?"
The little digimon looked confused and upset and didn't answer for a few moments. "I don't know." It said finally. "I'm sorry but I really don't. I barely remember anything." A tear trickled down its cheek. "I did something terrible didn't I?"
"You could say that." Agnimon said in a neutral tone. "How can you not remember causing this devastation?" He gestured to the damage done to Flame City by the "Ground Zero" attack and to the Spirits of Steel lying quiescent at the heart of that devastation.
"I don't know." He admitted. "But I don't ... the last thing I recall was being in my home one night and not being able to sleep. So I went for a walk in the forest and I heard this voice whispering to me. I remember straining to hear what it was saying and then nothing except a blur until just now."
"Well that's weird." Wolfmon mused and turned at a tug on his scarf. Ranamon had come round unnoticed at some point during the fight or just after and now she was standing behind him holding the Spirits of Steel. "I think you should keep these." She told him. "If we can find a way to unlock Hyper Spirit Evolvution again you'll need them."
He nodded solemnly and accepted them. "We'd better go and find those adults before they cause trouble." They turned to start searching and found a Rosemon hovering over them.
"The Human Children must return to their world." She said in a steely tone.
"What!" Agnimon blinked at the demand. "We aren't going anywhere. We're needed here!"
"No." She replied though her tone did soften. "You only think you are. Your presence here will make things worse. I know you mean well and I am grateful to you for saving our world before so I'm giving you this warning... it will be your only warning. Go back!"
"Or what?" Agnimon asked but she was already flying away and didn't reply. He looked at the others. "What was that about?" He asked but no one had any idea. "We'll worry about it later lets find those Adults."
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After the other had left to deal with the attack Kouichi had dozed off in the corner while Izumi had joined the others in watching the battle via the monitors. It was just as they saw the SkullGreymon appear that the doors exploded inwards and over a dozen obviously hostile adult digimon piled in and began attacking them. She turned round and looked at Bokomon who began pawing through his book trying to identify the attackers.
"What are they?" she yelled over the chaos. The little digimon didn't answer he just kept leafing through the pages. After a moment she sighed and looked at Fairymon. She didn't have to say anything. Her partner knew what she was thinking and nodded at once. Izumi grabbed her digivice from her pocket and activated her evolution. As Fairymon's form dissolved into the Spirits of Wind and she began to evolve she found herself musing on the same lack of duality that,although she didn't know it, Takuya had noticed earlier but in the circumstances she didn't spend any time worrying about it as she turned her attention to the battle.
The chaos of the unexpected attack also woke Kouichi from his fitful doze. In spite of his exhaustion he took in the situation and also grabbed his digivice as looked around for Löwemon. He finally spotted him and began to head over but was prevented from reaching by him one one of the attacking digimon dived towards him with outstretched talons of energy. He hit the floor just fast enough to avoid them but heard the thing turn and swoop towards him again. He flinched and braced himself expecting to feel the talons rip into him but the attack never came. After a few moments he looked up and saw Turueimon standing over him with his knives drawn.His attackers digiegg, meanwhile, was just flying off towards the Village of Beginnings.
"Are you okay?" The lilac rabbit asked even as he spun and took out another of the attacking digimon. Out of the corner of his eye Kouichi saw that Tailmon and Angemon had also joined the fray.
"Yeah. Thanks." He climbed to his feet and started heading towards Löwemon again but Turueimon stopped him.
"Don't be foolish. You aren't in any fit state to evolve and even if you were Löwemon is in no fit state to fight. If you do you'll both just end up sick... anyway we're almost done as it is." At that comment Kouichi looked around and realised that it was true. Only three of the attackers were still active and they were trying to retreat. The one that seemed to be the leader was facing down Fairymon and she couldn't move to attack it because it had Bokomon and Neemon held between them in its tentacles. Even as Tailmon and Angemon finished off the other two it suddenly emitted a terrible, ear rending shriek that nearly burst his ear drums. In response a rip similar to the one SkullGreymon had appeared from opened in the heart of the room. It dived towards it and prevented Fairymon from intercepting it by the simple expedient of throwing Bokomon and Neemon at her.
As the portal to goodness knew where started to seal Bokomon darted towards it wailing in obvious distress. Fairymon had to pick him up to stop him throwing himself through it. "Let me go!" He battered ineffectually at her arms. "I have to get it back!" He yelled then wailed again as the rip sealed totally.
"Bokomon? What's wrong?" Angemon asked, obviously concerned for the digimon who had been a surrogate parent to him.
"That Digimon...." Bokomon said with tears in his eyes. "it... it... it took the book!"
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