Eternal Conflict
Amalgamation
Chapter 03: Demonic Waltz
"Musyamon!"
"Socerymon!"
"Jogress Evolve!" Both digimon shouted as their forms fused together, being consumed in light. When the light vanished, a large red skeleton was standing before chosen, easily around three meters tall. This skeleton's bones were red, and his rib cage was easily viewable, a large black orb in the center of it. He wore black leather pants, and a red tattered cloth was in front of his groin area. Why it was there could be anyone's guess, as the pants clearly covered that area any way. He had black tattered wings coming out of his back. He was also holding large red staff in his hand, one end looking like a bony hand holding a yellow orb, while the other end was clearly scythe-like. "Skull Satamon!"
Pegasmon stared at the new perfect level digimon, before saying the only thing that could possibly come to mind.
"Fuck!"
Hikari looked over towards Takeru. "What just happened?" Hikari asked.
"Musyamon and Socerymon fused together to evolve into a perfect level digimon." Takeru said. "We may want to run." Takeru suggested. Daisuke looked over towards the blond haired chosen.
"You want us to leave!?" Daisuke asked. "We'll just be letting the others get killed!"
Pegasmon took off into the air, a green energy glowing on his forehead. "Silver Blaze!" Pegasmon shouted, a green beam of energy firing out of his forehead, speeding towards the large perfect level digimon. Skull Satamon laughed, before pointing his staff in Pegasmon's direction, the top orb glowing.
"Nail Bone!" The staff shot off a yellow beam of energy, cutting through Pegasmon's beam, hitting the flying horse in the chest, and knocking him back down into the ground. Takeru turned towards Daisuke.
"See?" he asked, almost mocking.
"Curse of Queen!" Nefertimon fired two beams from her eyes, hitting Skull Satamon in the chest, knocking the demon back a bit. Skull Satamon quickly turned towards Nefertimon, pointing his staff towards her.
"Nail Bone!" Another blast of energy shot out from the staff, causing the winged sphinx to stagger backwards. Takeru brought his hand to his side, grabbing a digivice similar to Daisuke and Hikari's, only green trimmed. Pegasmon quickly brought himself back standing. Skull Satamon pointed his staff towards Pegasmon, intent on unleashing another attack.
"Gold Rush!" A voice shouted as six drill like missiles slammed into Skull Satamon's back, catching the demon off guard. The six drills then started moving backwards.
"Tempest Wing!" A large spinning drill of energy also slammed itself into the demon's back, sending him face first into the ground.
Takeru, Hikari, and Daisuke turned their heads towards the temple area, seeing two new digimon standing in front of it.
The first was a large upright yellow insect with strange purple markings on it. Its face has a large drill in the front of it, while its hands had three drills in them each. It also had two more arms to its side, and bug wings coming out of its shell.
The second one was a four-legged bird with red feathers. White feathers were around its head, and a white helmet with two blades coming out of the sides was on its head. The crest of love was on the helmets center, and the digimon's wings were positioned near the front of its body as opposed to its middle. Takeru looked over towards them, as the ground noticed Miyako and Iori, along with Sora, Koushiro, and the two-child digimon who were stuck without any chance of evolving.
"So Digmon and Holsmon were contained in the Digimentals of Knowledge and Love." Takeru said. "...We may actually be able to win this."
Skull Satamon brought himself off of the ground, glaring towards the two new armor digimon.
"Two armor digimon, four armor digimon, makes no difference to me!" Skull Satamon shouted, pointing his staff towards Digmon and Holsmon. "Nail Bone!"
This time the beam of energy was dodged by the two digimon. Miyako and the others who couldn't fight gathered by the three chosen.
"What's going on here?" Koushiro asked. "And what happened to the three digimon that you were fighting before?"
"After Fladramon killed Ice Devimon... and Takeru killed something that was pretending to be the Kaiser, Musyamon and Socerymon merged into a perfect level digimon." Hikari said, trying to explain as best she could. Miyako's eyes widened, while Koushiro and the others eyes were oddly neutral.
"How are we going to beat a perfect with only four armor digimon?" Sora asked. "I know some adult level digimon could defeat a perfect, but how exactly do the armor digimon measure up?"
"Around the same." Takeru answered. "Although with both Pegasmon and Nefertimon worn out, we'll just have to hope that this guy isn't used to his new form yet."
"...None of them are used to their new forms." Piyomon pointed out.
"Pegasmon is." Takeru replied. "But at least Pegasmon and Nefertimon are experienced." He said, before turning his attention to the battle.
Pegasmon, Nefertimon and Holsmon had taken up to the air.
"Silver Blaze!" Pegasmon fired off the green blast of energy from his forehead again.
Nefertimon's jewels on her gauntlets began to glow. "Nile Jewelry!" Two beams fired from the sphinx's jewels.
Skull Satamon took to the air using his wings, dodging both attacks, causing them to make a crater in the ground. He pointed his staff towards Digmon, it glowing with light.
Holsmon noticed this and his eyes started to glow red. "Red Sun!" two red beams of energy shot out of his eyes, aimed for the demon's back.
"Nail Bone!" This time pure lighting shot out of Skull Satamon's staff, hitting Digmon in the back, knocking him back. Holsmon's two beams of energy hit him the distracted perfect digimon in the back, although all the demon did was stagger a bit.
"...This isn't going to be easy." Iori said, looking over towards the battle. 'I just get the feeling that we have to win this.' Iori thought.
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The Kaiser sat at his computer terminal, watching the battle in satisfaction. True, Takeru was getting better and stronger, but he still had the upper hand. The Kaiser looked down at his digivice.
'Why do you resist Takaishi?' The Kaiser thought. 'As long as we have our power, this will not end. And what of Ichijouji.'
His two former comrades still didn't realize the extent of what they had done to stop Millenniummon. And what had happened after the psycho ultimate's defeat.
"You're deep in thought." A male voice said from the control center of the Kaiser's base. The Kaiser turned his chair around, to come face to face with a black haired teenage man, around thirteen years old. He had black hair and black eyes, and was wearing black armor and armored pants, although he didn't have any weapon on him. A Patamon was floating by his side, although unlike Takeru's Patamon, this one just had an aura of hatred around him, in addition to a scar going over his eye.
"Hyobanshi Kairuto. (1)" The Kaiser remarked. "To what pleasure do I owe your appearance?"
"Skip the pleasantries." Kairuto said. "You've allowed the new chosen to gain control of four digimentals."
"Yes." The Kaiser said, knowing that Kairuto wasn't asking a question. "But really, does it matter that much?"
"Those chosen could become a threat to our plans!" Kairuto yelled. "If we have enemies that can evolve their digimon in the presence of the dark towers, we may actually lose this!"
"You know as well as I do that the Dark Towers only block evolution because of the power source." The Kaiser said, calmly. "And you also know that we can only block a digivice's signal. The chosen are going to learn how to evolve their digimon directly, so even if they have the digimentals it isn't going to be much of a problem. Now... what exactly are you doing here in the Digital World? If I recall correctly, you're supposed to be helping Oikawa on Earth."
"We don't serve a master." Patamon said. "Unlike you."
The Kaiser could only chuckle at that response. "So I have a master now? If you recall, I was the one who approached Oikawa, not the other way around. Now, I suggest you leave, before I order you killed."
Kairuto and Patamon just glared as they left the confines of the control area. The Kaiser then turned back towards the showing of the battlefield.
'This battle isn't going as good as we hoped.' Koushiro thought, looking over towards the four armor level digimon, fighting against the perfect level, and doing no damage with its attacks. Koushiro turned toward Takeru. "Is there anyway that we can get our digimon to evolve without the digimentals in the Dark Tower's range?" Koushiro asked. Takeru looked over towards him.
"Yes... although it isn't something that can be learned easily." Takeru said. "It takes an immense amount of concentration." He paused. "I doubt even you would be able to manage it."
"What is it?" Koushiro asked. Takeru looked over towards him.
"You have to be determined, and concentrate on sending your energy directly to your partner." Takeru said. "You'll need to act as if your digivice isn't there. Again, I don't think that you'll..."
Koushiro closed his eyes as Tentomon started glowing with bright light. "Tentomon Evolve!" Tentomon shouted, the light exploding around him. Tentomon's form grew far larger then he was before. Once the light vanished, Tentomon had become a large blue insect with four arms. Two large wings were growing out of his back. A gray hard shell covered his head, and he had a large overbite. "Kabuterimon."
Takeru looked over towards Kabuterimon, then at Koushiro, who still had his eyes closed, shock actually appearing on his face. "Never mind then." Takeru said, shaking his head.
Kabuterimon took to the sky, heading towards the battle with Skull Satamon.
Sora closed her eyes, trying to concentrate. Piyomon joyfully looked up over at her partner...until she realized that the energy boost that would allow her to evolve wasn't coming. Sighing, Sora opened her eyes, looking over at the others. Koushiro looked winded.
"What's happened to Koushiro-sempai?" Miyako asked.
"He used up a lot of energy evolving Tentomon without the digivices help." Takeru said. "He should get better at it with time."
A blue ball of electricity began growing into Kabuterimon's mouth. "Mega Blaster!" Kabuterimon fired off the blast of energy, sending it straight towards Skull Satamon. The perfection digimon looked up towards the blast, confusion apparent on his face as the blast slammed into his chest area, cracking the black orb in the center of his chest.
"Where did you come from!?" Skull Satamon demanded, pointing his staff towards the adult level digimon. "Nail Bone!" Lighting shot out of the staff, slamming into Kabuterimon dead on, causing the adult digimon to fall to the ground and devolve back into Tentomon.
"...That wasn't really that useful." Iori remarked as Tentomon moved away from the battle.
"Needle Rain!" Pegasmon's mane straightened and many sharp pieces of air shot off towards Skull Satamon, not really doing anything to the jogressed perfect.
Skull Satamon flew up towards Pegasmon, his staff raised. "Skull Hammer!" The large skeleton digimon hit Pegasmon in the head with his staff, sending the flying horse into the ground once again. Pegasmon got up, rage evident on his face.
"Alright! Enough of this!" Pegasmon shouted, has he started glowing with black light. "Pegasmon D----"
"Stop Pegasmon!" Takeru ordered. Pegasmon growled, before shooting up towards the sky again. Hikari looked over towards the blond haired swordsman.
"What was Pegasmon trying to do?" she asked.
"Don't worry about it." Takeru snapped coldly, grimacing and rubbing his neck.
Sora noticed this. "Are you alright Takeru-kun?" she asked.
"I'm... fine." Takeru replied.
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A large two-meter tall creature that looked like a giant cactus with boxing gloves was walking through the forest. Red leaves were on the top of the cactus's head, and three holes were in the top part of its body for its eyes and mouth. This was Togemon.
Flying above in the sky, was a large green humanoid insect. He had four fly wings coming out of his back. The green insect had red eyes, and two antennae coming out of its head. He also had short red hair coming out of his head. He had gray gloves, one of which had a silver blade coming out of it, in addition to gray armor on his upper legs and feet. This was Stingmon.
Two humans were running after the two digimon.
"I hope we aren't too late." A teenage girl with brown hair and brown eyes said. Well, most of her shoulder length hair was brown, although two long locks of hair in front of her face were white. She was wearing a red shirt, along with dark blue jeans that fit her body smugly. A digivice similar to Hikari's, except lime green around the areas where Hikari's was pink, was clipped onto her pocket.
"We'll be there as soon as we can Tachikawa-san." A young boy around the same age as Takeru said coldly. He had dark bluish-black hair. His hair was styled in a messy style, as if he didn't really care about the style that his hair was in. He was wearing a black muscle shirt and black pants. He also wore a black leather jacket, and had black fingerless gloves.
"Ken-kun..." the girl trailed off.
"It would help if we could've been sent closer to the battle." Ken stated. Suddenly Ken clutched his neck.
"Are you alright?" the girl asked.
"I'm fine... Mimi." Ken said, gritting through his teeth. The girl frowned.
"You are not fine." Mimi said, glaring at the boy. Ken turned towards her.
"Why do you say that Tachikawa?" Ken said, grimacing.
"Because you never call me by my first name." Mimi said. "...Or forget to use a honorific."
"Stop pestering me and let's get going." Ken said, as he started following the two digimon. Mimi just sighed and shook her head.
"What are we going to do with you Ken-kun?" Mimi asked herself, before following after the younger boy.
"Silver Blaze!" Pegasmon shouted, firing off another green beam of energy. Skull Satamon dodged the beam, causing it to make a crater in the ground.
"Gold Rush!" Digmon fired off his drill missiles at the demon again, colliding with Skull Satamon's chest, causing the demon to yell in pain as the drills returned to Digmon. Skull Satamon pointed his staff at the armored digimon, firing off another blast of energy, smacking the yellow armored digimon to the ground.
Iori looked over towards his partner, noticing that Digmon's armor had many cracks in it. Digmon weakly brought himself up, before pointing his drills towards Skull Satamon.
"Gold----"
"Nail Bone!" This time the beam hit Digmon straight in the chest, knocking the bug armored digimon back as he skidded into the ground, before he began shrinking as a yellow light shot off towards Iori's digivice, before the digivice shot off another beam of energy into Iori's pocket, forming a D-Terminal.
"Armadimon!" Iori shouted, running towards his partner.
Skull Satamon quickly turned his attention towards Nefertimon and Pegasmon.
"Mach Impulse!" Six small red beams hit Skull Satamon in the back, causing him to turn around to see Holsmon flying, his wings outstretched. "Mach Impulse!" The tips of the armored bird's wings glowed red, before six beams shot off from them towards the perfect level digimon.
Skull Satamon dodged the beams this time, causing Nefertimon and Pegasmon to have to dodge the beams quickly to avoid getting hit. Skull Satamon quickly flew behind Holsmon, and raised his staff. "Skull Hammer!"
And the demon brought his staff down, hitting Holsmon's helmet, sending the flying bird staggering. Holsmon quickly recovered, his eyes glowing red.
"Red Sun!" Holsmon fired too red beams from his eyes towards Skull Satamon. The perfect level digimon raised his staff to block them.
"Curse of Queen!"
Only to have two pink beams of energy slam into his back, actually causing him to stagger back a bit, dropping his staff from its position, which allowed Holsmon's beams to hit him square in the chest. Skull Satamon grunted, as Pegasmon fired off another green beam to his back.
"...Are they winning?" Daisuke asked, looking on at the battle. Takeru stared for a few seconds.
"It's doubtful." Takeru said. Sora glared at him.
"Aren't you supposed to be the Child of Hope?" She asked in an accusing tone.
"Not anymore." Takeru said. Hikari looked over at him, looking to say something. "The Digimentals are not exclusive items."
"Then what's fueling Patamon's armor evolution?" Piyomon demanded.
"The desire to utterly destroy a madman who was once a friend." Takeru answered darkly, causing all of the chosen around him to gasp.
"...Takeru..." Hikari trailed off, never hearing him act like that. Takeru rubbed his neck again.
"...Damn it... it's happening to..." Takeru then shook his head, looking up at the battle once again.
Sora looked over at him with worry, but turned her attention back to the battle, forgetting about it.
Skull Satamon was now dodging the attacks, pretty certain he had figured out their pattern, although he was now too busy dodging attacks to bother firing off his own.
"Moon Shooter!" a new voice yelled as three purplish-white blasts of energy hit Skull Satamon in his left arm. Skull Satamon, the digimon, and the chosen looked over in that direction to see Stingmon, one of his arms outstretched with the other holding it for support.
Takeru grinned. "Took Ken-san long enough." Koushiro looked over towards Takeru, confused, until two humans, one male and one female, in addition to a very familiar walking cactus emerged from the forest.
Takeru turned. "So Mimi's here too." He said.
"What, did you expect me to leave you here when you need help?" Mimi said, in a tone that was almost mocking.
"...How the hell did the bastard get a Skull Satamon?" Ken remarked.
"Apparently he can jogress two digimon from a distance." Takeru said.
"What two digimon were used?" Mimi asked, quickly getting to the point. The chosen that had already known her looked on at her at shock, noticing that she was acting very different then the Mimi they were used to.
"A Musyamon and a Socerymon." Takeru supplied. Mimi and Ken both had blank stares.
"And that actually worked?" Mimi asked. Takeru just nodded.
"I think they could use some more help before the get killed trying to stop that thing." Togemon said, looking towards Mimi. Mimi looked over towards her partner.
"Right." Mimi remarked, her eyes narrowing in concentration. Suddenly Togemon started glowing.
"...What?" Tentomon remarked weakly.
"Togemon Super Evolve!" Togemon shouted, light shooting out of her eyes and mouth, before the red leaves moved away, revealing a flower bud on the top of her head. The flower bud opened, revealing a creature that looked like a very small female human. This figure wore a pink flower dress. Her head also seemed to be part flower. She had long green wines for hair that went down to the small in her back, and she had two pairs of leaf-wings coming out of her back. Lastly a pair of gloves that seemed to be full-blown flowers covered her arms. "Lilymon!"
"She evolved to perfect!" Piyomon shouted in shock. Most of the chosen were in surprise, except Takeru, Ken, and Mimi. Lilymon quickly flew up to join in the battle. Sora turned to Mimi.
"Did you not unleash you're crest power when Gennai told us to?" Sora asked. Mimi turned angrily towards Sora, looking slightly winded.
"Of course not. I was simply given the power by another source." Mimi answered.
"Moon Shooter!" Stingmon fired off another three blasts of energy this time hitting Skull Satamon in the leg. 'This would've been much easier against a Vamdemon.' Stingmon thought, dodging a blast from Skull Satamon's staff.
Lilymon brought her arms together, her gloves forming one single flower design around them. Something similar to a gun barrel came out of her hands. "Flower Cannon!" Lilymon fired a green blast of energy out of the gun thing, hitting Skull Satamon in the back. Skull Satamon turned around, looking towards the perfect level digimon who attacked him.
"So... another perfect joins this battle." Skull Satamon said. "But are you sure you wouldn't want to join me in this?"
Lilymon's face took on a look of disgust before blasting the demon with her attack again. This time the attack hit Skull Satamon in the chest, causing the black orb to crack again. Pegasmon noticed this, and seemed like he was concentrating.
'Nefertimon!' Pegasmon spoke out with his mind.
'What!?' Nefertimon shouted in her mind. 'And how are you doing this?'
'A side effect of the digimentals that we used.' Pegasmon said. 'But I think that I've figured out how we can beat him.'
'And what would that be?'
'If you and I can combine our powers to bind Skull Satamon, the others should be able to attack his center and kill him.' Pegasmon said.
'And how are we going to do that?' Nefertimon asked.
'We'll need a distraction.' Pegasmon said. "Holsmon, attack him!" Pegasmon shouted.
Holsmon started spinning around, creating a cyclone to form around him. "Tempest Wing!" The wind shot off towards Skull Satamon, causing the demon to have to shield his face.
"Now!" Pegasmon shouted as he and Nefertimon circled the perfect level digimon. The gauntlets on the two digimon's front legs started glowing and a beam of gold energy linked both digimon together.
"Sanctuary Bind!" Both armored digimon shouted as the circled Skull Satamon, wrapping the golden beam of energy around the evil digimon's upper chest and upper arms, restricting his movement.
"Lilymon! Stingmon! Attack his center!" Pegasmon ordered, and the two other digimon were quick to agree.
"Flower Cannon!" Lilymon formed her arms into the cannon again, firing the blast of energy, causing Skull Satamon's center orb to crack some more as the demon screamed out in pain. Stingmon pulled his right arm back and a purple blade of energy slide out of his hand. Stingmon flew forwards, his blade extended as he charged towards Skull Satamon's center.
Skull Satamon's eyes widened. "Spiking Finish!" Stingmon thrust his blade into Skull Satamon's center, causing a weak gasp of pain to leave Skull Satamon's mouth, before he burst into black specks. The digimon then flew towards the ground.
"What happened?" Iori said, looking at the area where Skull Satamon used to be.
"Skull Satamon's dead." Ken said simply as the armor digimon, except Pegasmon, devolved back into their normal forms.
"...What?" Miyako gaped, not noticing that a D-Terminal had formed for her, while Iori looked over at Ken.
"So Pegasmon just had our digimon do an attack that was meant to kill someone?" Iori asked.
"...Pretty much." Pegasmon said.
"...You forgot the whole willingly supporting the Kaiser, wanting to kill us, and he was going to kill us." Takeru pointed out.
"That still isn't an excuse." Iori said. "Killing should be used as a last resort if it even has to be used at all!" Iori shouted.
"...Which we did." Mimi pointed out, turning towards Koushiro and Sora. "You two should get Tentomon and Piyomon out of here as soon as you can."
"What about you?" Piyomon asked. Mimi looked over towards Takeru and Ken.
"I assume you're heading back towards the base before you return back to Earth." Takeru said, rubbing his neck again. Mimi nodded.
"Yeah." Mimi said. "Are you alright Takeru-kun?" she asked.
"I'm fine." Takeru said. "We should all get going."
Stingmon and Lilymon landed on the ground, before their partners grabbed onto them.
"Are you two just going to leave!?" Miyako shouted. "Why did you let your digimon kill Skull Satamon!?" the violet haired girl demanded. Ken turned his head to him as Takeru got onto Pegasmon.
"We didn't have a choice." Ken said coldly. "This isn't a game. This is a war." And with that Stingmon and Lilymon took off. Takeru looked over towards Hikari.
"This battle isn't going to be won in a day." Takeru said. "Four of you may be able to use the digimentals, and Koushiro-san can evolve Tentomon without using his digivice, but even then it isn't enough."
"What do you expect us to do?" Hikari asked.
"Locate Gabumon and Gomamon." Takeru said. "Without all of the chosen digimon, the rest of our plans can't be put into action." Hikari then actually glared over at Takeru.
"How do you expect us to do that Takeru?!" Hikari shouted. Sora gaped in amazement.
'Is Hikari-chan actually being rude to Takeru-kun?' Sora thought.
"I know for a fact that their last known location is in the file that I gave to Koushiro-san." Takeru answered. "Now there is something that I need to do." And with that, Pegasmon took off into the air.
Miyako just stared blankly at Takeru and Pegasmon's retreating forms. "What a jackass." Miyako said, shaking her head.
"You really should try to give him more respect Miyako." Hawkmon said. Miyako crossed her arms and glared.
"I'll give that jackass respect once he shows to me that he deserves it!" Miyako exclaimed. Hikari looked over towards the violet haired chosen.
"Miyako-san..." Hikari said, shaking her head. "Continue your tirade later." Miyako just looked over at her friend.
"What do you mean?" Miyako asked.
"We're still in enemy territory." Koushiro stated. "We should get back to the real world as soon as possible."
No one in the group was going to argue with that statement.
"What took you so long?" Ken asked as Takeru and Pegasmon rode up to the adult and perfect level digimon and their partners.
"Miyako and Hikari-san held me up." Takeru said. "But never mind that... I'm pretty sure Ken and I should check in with Gennai as soon as possible."
"Why would..." Stingmon started to say, before Takeru cut him off.
"I think that Pegasmon and Stingmon should get checked over as well." Takeru said. Pegasmon snorted.
"I'm perfectly fine." Pegasmon said. Takeru's eyes narrowed.
"You tried to Dark Evolve!" Takeru shouted. "You know how risky that would be!"
"How was I supposed to know that Stingmon and Lilymon would be there to help us!" Pegasmon shouted.
"Enough!" Mimi yelled. "It's pointless to argue. Takeru-kun is right, you are all going to see Gennai as soon as we get back to the base."
Ken looked over towards the brown haired girl. "I'm pretty sure I'm..."
Mimi then glared at Ken. "I saw you rubbing your neck. I know what that means!" Mimi sighed. "Look, Ken-kun... just goes see Gennai. Save us all our sanity."
"Please." Lilymon added, while Pegasmon rolled his eyes.
Ken sighed. "Alright, Tachikawa-san." He paused. "...So Pegasmon tried dark evolving. Is there any reason why?"
"I refuse to evolve into Holy Angemon unless is absolutely necessary." Pegasmon answered. "Remember where that power is coming from." He insisted.
Takeru turned towards Mimi. "Are you alright?" Mimi turned towards him.
"I'm fine." The brown haired girl responded. "I'm not the one with..."
"I get your point Mimi-san." Takeru said. "I was talking about how Sora accused you." Mimi turned away.
"Oh... that." The young girl remarked.
"Don't let Sora get to you Mimi." Lilymon said. "Really, how was she supposed to know that we were powered up by Qinglongmon?"
"I supposed you're right." Mimi said.
"What I want to know is why Qinglongmon refuses to grant Takeru-san and myself power." Ken said. "I mean, wouldn't using his power to evolve our digimon to perfect be a better idea then forcing us to evolve them to perfect using our current 'benefactor'?" Ken asked, saying the last word sarcastically.
"You know that the other three Harmonious Ones are paranoid." Pegasmon said. "They see you and Takeru as a threat as it is. I'm assuming they don't want to risk giving us the power to evolve to Ultimate unless it's absolutely necessary.
"Are you're parents home Daisuke-kun?" Hikari asked as she stopped in front of the door to her apartment. Miyako and Iori had already brought their digimon back to their apartments after the group left Koushiro's.
"No... they won't be home for a few hours." Daisuke said, somberly. Hikari looked over at the brown haired boy, who was holding a small blue digimon in his arms. Apparently the fact that V-Mon had reverted into Chibimon in the Digital World meant that he was too weak to even hold that form on earth, reverting into his Baby I form of Chibomon, who looked like a small blue ball with eyes. Tailmon was standing next to Hikari, still in her adult form, although tired out.
"Are you okay?" Hikari asked, opening the door. "You can stay here for a while if you want."
"Thanks." Daisuke replied as the three walking beings entered the apartment door.
"Kaasan! I'm home." Hikari yelled. But she didn't get an answer. Hikari then noticed a note taped onto the backside of the door.
Dear Hikari,
You're brother, father and I have gone out to speak with Ishida Hiroaki and Yamato. It concerns what we could possibly do to help you in your battles.
Know this. You are not alone in this. You don't have to pretend to be.
Love,
Your Mother
"...Kaasan." Hikari whispered, before turning over towards Daisuke. "Seems my parents are gone for a while as well."
"...Really?" Daisuke asked weakly. Hikari looked at him oddly.
"Are you sure you're alright Daisuke?" Hikari inquired, concerned.
"Not really." Daisuke said as he entered another area of the apartment, with the couch and TV in it. He sat down on the couch, placing Chibomon next to him. Hikari quickly sat down next to him. "What V-mon was forced to do today... the two of us can't go back. I don't see how I can possibly act like a normal kid after allowing someone to get killed."
"Daisuke-kun." Hikari said, looking over at the brown haired boy. "You and V-Mon did what you had to."
"I know that." Daisuke said. "Still doesn't mean that I can forget it." He paused, zoning out. Finally he turned his head towards Hikari. "Does that make me weak?"
"No." Hikari said, closing her eyes and shaking her head. "That just shows that you're a decent person Daisuke. Remembering that the digimon that die in battles were actually alive will never make you weak. It shows that you're stronger than you know."
"Wish I felt like it." Daisuke mumbled. Hikari stared at him, before moving closer to him and wrapping her arms around him. "Hikari-chan?" Daisuke asked weakly. After all, he would usually like being in this position.
"I wish I could tell you it will be okay." Hikari said. "But it's too hard to truthfully get over killing someone, regardless if they needed to be stopped." Hikari paused. "Get some rest." She insisted.
End Chapter 03(1) Readers of the previous edition of Eternal Conflict will recognize Kairuto as the 'evil Jenrya clone'. He's basically the same character, although his partner digimon as changed, and he also doesn't look like Jenrya anymore. What he's doing working with Oikawa is a major plot point, so for now don't even bother asking what he's doing here.
I'll answer the reviews here since no one seems to be going to my Yahoo! Group.
Digi-fan: I really shouldn't have to answer this, but the Kaiser isn't Ken, as seen in this chapter.
Stratagemini: Not really, I was trying that sentence from Daisuke's point of view, but not having it be in first person. You know, similar to how the writing is done in the Harry Potter books. Daisuke doesn't really know much about Takeru yet, other than he wears armor and can use a sword.
Takeru got the armor from the same place that Ken got his Kaiser outfit in 02. The Digital World. As for why, he wanted to mock the Kaiser.
Peter Kim: In the original series, yes, that was the case. But that changed in this timeline. Exactly how it did I can't say, but no one will be going to the Tamers dimension in this story.
Preview: The Chosen decide to go find Gabumon next, but with V-mon still too drained to fight, and with Miyako and Iori refusing to fight, can Hikari, Koushiro, their partners, and Yamato get Gabumon out of the Digital World alone?
Next Chapter: 04: Crippled Forces