"So let me get this straight…" Ken was walking down the street with Yolei
beside him. Wormon was up ahead with Hawkmon, looking for Joe's Church.
"This Ladydevimon character traveled back in time, stole the original
digidestined digivices, and created this reality where she rules along side
her Council of Five."
"Yes." Yolei look at Ken, gazing him over in his Digimon Emperor uniform. The outfit really unerved her.
Ken scowled slightly. He'd get rid of this girl in heartbeat, but he needed more information, and allies. He'd defeat this Council of Five first, then worry about the digidestined later. "Now because we have these new digivices, we were uploaded to this reality, according to Izzy. But one thing puzzles me, how come Izzy remembers us, while no one else does?"
Yolei was about to mention Izzy's past, that he was a super powered being born from Devimon and Ladydevimon. But she stopped, she didn't want Ken to know that quite yet. Izzy was sensitive about his lineage, he hadn't even told her before until it came up. Also, Ken may use that information against them in the future. "Something happened to him in the digital world, I'm not sure what."
Ken rubbed his chin. She was obvious lying. But he couldn't force the information out of her in this point in time. Perhaps he can use this girl's infatuation with him against her. There was something about Izzy that she did not want him to know, and that made him want to know even more.
Hawkmon shouted out from the distance. "Yolei, I've found it!"
Ken shook his head. He could worry about Izzy later. "It's about time!"
Yolei and Ken ran up to join their digimon. An old building with a large sign with purple letters proclaiming this as Joe's church. Yolei smiled. "Finally some help!"
KRA-A-ASSHHH!!!! Yolei and Ken jumped back as a window exploded outward, showering the nearby street with glass as two figures came flying out the window. Ken tripped down a ditch, and became entangled in some underground wiring.
Yolei regarded in horror as a bandaged Patamon landed on the ground, with Gomamon's flippers wrapped tightly around him in a bear hug. Gomamon had a look of pure hate on his face as he tried to choke the life out of Patamon. "You winged PIG! You'll pay for what you did!" Gomamon squeezed harder.
Patamon choked and flapped his ear wings, flying up. He shook Gomamon off and coughed. "Gomamon! It was just a hug!" Gomamon just growled and jumped up, lunging at Patamon with his claws. Patamon flew up in the air, just avoiding the claws. Patamon decided he had to knock Gomamon out, before he hurt someone, namely him. He swelled up, "Boom.." and screamed. When he expanded to absorb the air, he ripped open his bullet wound again. He grimaced in pain as fresh blood appeared on his bandages.
Gomamon smiled at Patamon's obvious discomfort. He looked and saw a nearby smashed water fountain, filled with muddy water. He raised his flipper and gestured, "Marching Fishes!" Fish appeared out of the fountain, flying towards Patamon. Patamon was knocked out of the sky by the fish projectiles, and slammed on the ground. He tried to get up, but was too wounded. Gomamon ran up to him, and pulled back his left flipper to strike. "Now you die!"
"Silk net!" A web of silk hit Gomamon's extended flipper, knocking him over as his flipper was pasted to the ground. Gomamon regarded his new attacker with fury. The stream of thread from Wormon's mouth ceased as he finished his attack. "Now can't we all get along?" Wormon politely asked.
"As a matter a fact…" Gomamon ripped the webbing off with his free right flipper. "NO!" With surprising speed, he leapt forward, head butting Wormon and knocking him for a loop.
"Gomamon, what are you doing?!" Yolei shouted in disbelief.
"This!" Gomamon grabbed Wormon and threw him into Yolei's stomach, smacking them both down.
"Hawk Beam!" Hawkmon shouted out from the air, shooting a blast of energy at Gomamon. It shouldn't kill him, but it will put him down for the count. Surprisingly, he managed to duck it, losing a bit of red hair from his mohawk in the process. He jumped straight up, grabbing Hawkmon by the shoulders. The two fell to the ground, Gomamon landing on top. Gomamon cuffed Hawkmon on the face twice quickly. "You can all just go to digital hell with Patamon as far as I'm concerned."
Gomamon pulled his flipper back, ready to shove his claws threw Hawkmon's eyes. Suddenly, Hawkmon heard a thump. Gomamon's eyes went wide, and he fell limp on Hawkmon's body, Hawkmon pushed the unconscious seal off him, and looked at his savior. Hawkmon gasped as he looked over the new Joe, holding an expanding Billy club in his hand. He has a toughed look of warrior in his one good right eye, and a scar down his face partly covered by an eye patch. "I say, Gomamon must have hit me harder than I thought."
Joe shrunk the weapon back down to one quarter it's size, and shoved in a holster in his boot. Yolei ran up to him, "Joe, I'm glad to see you!"
Joe furrowed his brow at Yolei. "Take the flying pot roast there and leave."
Yolei look confused. "But Joe…" She stopped when Joe whipped out a pistol and pointed it at her.
"Now you listen here." Joe coldly motioned to the injured Patamon. "In the short time that digimon has been here, he attacked me and Mimi's gone missing. Also, Gomamon, who had never had a bad thought in his life, suddenly lets the spires take over and goes on a rampage. You will take him, and I will never see you or any of your friends again, do you got it?"
"Pathetic." Joe turned around, and his eyes grew wide. Ken had untangled himself from the wires, and was cleaning himself off. "First a mere rookie digimon nearly kills you, now you're fighting amongst yourselves. I can't believe this is the crack team that foils my plans regularly. I'd laugh if I wasn't so humiliated."
Joe's jaw dropped a foot. Yolei was about to say Ken was their friend now, when Joe rushed up and grabbed Ken by the shoulders, dropping his gun as he did so. "Ken! You're alive!" Joe started to laugh, picking up Ken and spinning him around. Ken was to flabbergasted to say or do anything at first. "My god am I glad to see you!" Joe cheered hysterically.
Ken finally regained his senses. "Put me down you gun toting psychopath!"
"What you don't recognize your old lieutenant?" Joe complied, dropping Ken and touched his eye patch. "I'll admit I didn't have this before, but have I really changed that much?" Joe calmed down. "How on Earth did you come back from the dead? I mean, I saw you die when we killed the original Delta last year. That bowling ball with wings Demidevimon caught me in a trap, but you saved my life before the bomb…" Joe stopped. "At least we sent him to hell where he belongs." Joe picked up his gun, and replaced it in his holster. He grabbed Ken roughly by the shoulder. "Come on inside and tell me about it!"
Ken smiled. If Joe was his lieutenant, then that means he must have had an army. Exactly what he needed. "Of course, let's do so immediately."
Joe smiled and pointed to his church, "Well, let's go!"
"Hey what about us?" Yolei asked, picking up the injured Patamon. Patamon groaned and let Yolei rest him on her head. Hawkmon, who sported a rather puffy eye, flew next to her.
Joe leaned over to Ken and pointed to them. "Can we trust them?"
Yolei just stood there in disbelief. Joe was asking Ken for advice on characters. The irony was not lost upon Ken either as he smirked. "They are almost as trust worthy as I am."
"I doubt it, but if you say so Ken, that's good enough for me." Joe picked up Gomamon. He swung the doors to his church open. Several of the injured people saw Ken, recognizing him, and just stared in disbelief. Joe walked at the end of a hall, do a large barricaded door.
"What is this for?" Yolei questioned.
Joe unlocked the door. Inside was a padded cell. "It's a cool down chamber for when people let the spires take over." Joe dropped Gomamon in the room. "He'll be fine in a bit." Joe shut the door and locked it.
Ken walked up to Joe. "I need to talk to you for a bit." Ken looked back at Yolei. "ALONE."
Yolei was about to protest, but Joe led Ken forward. "What ever you want Ken. Come on upstairs to my room where we can talk in private." Joe took Ken upstairs to talk.
Yolei sighed. Joe trusted Ken and treated her like the enemy. She did not like this new time line one bit. Someone called out, "Yolei?" Yolei looked around, then remembered Patamon was on her head. She took the injured digimon off her head. "Can you drop me off at that room over there? I need to see Biyomon." Patamon thought to himself. "By myself if you don't mind."
Yolei agreed, figuring there was something that Patamon didn't want spread around. She placed Patamon gently on the ground by the door. Patamon, still too hurt to fly, walked, or rather limped inside the room. The door shut behind him.
Hawkmon looked around. There were a few humans casting rather nasty glances. "Excuse me Yolei?" Hawkmon whispered into her ear. "I think my presence is causing a bit of a stir with the natives."
Yolei looked around, realizing the scowls on the people's faces for the first time. She could hear the word 'digimon' being whispered from person to person in disgust. "You're right Hawkmon. We'd better make ourselves scarce."
Hawkmon and Yolei took shelter in another empty room, adorned simply with a chair, sink, and bed. Yolei sat down on the bed, breathing in deeply. Hawkmon flapped down on the chair in front of her. It was then that Yolei finally took a good look at him. His eye was swelling, and there was a gash on his forehead that she could just see under his white head feathers. "Hawkmon, you're hurt!"
"I faired better than poor Patamon at least." Hawkmon straightened his headband. "That Gomamon is one rough character when he's angry."
"Still, that cut needs to be cleaned." Yolei grabbed a cloth from the sink and wetted it. She bent over in front of Hawkmon and began wiping the damp cloth over his forehead.
Hawkmon winced at the pain, and began talking to keep his mind off of it. "Today has been a unnatural day, has it not?"
"You're telling me." Yolei ran the cloth over his swollen eye. "Ken, a hero in this world."
"And Joe doesn't trust us, but Ken instead." Hawkmon winced as the cloth went over his eye. "I would like to now why Joe trust that distasteful child so completely."
Joe climbed up on top of his bed, and removed a ceiling panel. He removed two cans of soda. "I've been saving these for a special occasion." He tossed one of the cans over to Ken, who was sitting in a chair. Wormon sat huddled under the chair with strict orders not to talk. "And you coming back from the dead, it doesn't get any more special than that."
Ken cracked open the ancient Pepsi and took a swing. It was warm of course, and a bit flat from being several years old. Nevertheless, it was better than anything else he could get here. Ken sighed to himself, being reduced to drink warm soda with someone who was completely beneath him. Of course, everyone was completely beneath him. Still, he was smart enough to realize the Council of Five had virtually complete control over the world, and he need information and allies. He had no intention of hiding from a digimon of all things. "So…Joe," Ken actually had to think about his name for a second. "My mind is a little hazy, coming back from the dead and all." Ken didn't want Joe to know he was an alternate version of his Ken. He needed Joe to trust him completely as his Ken. Not that it would have mattered, the fool probably would have followed him off a cliff anyway. "Tell me about the rebellion."
Joe breathed in, and placed his drink on a table. He sat down on the bed. "Well, I'll start at the beginning. I can't begin to imagine how tough this is on you. You'll have to tell me about how you came back. You know how Ladydevimon came from some other dimension called the digital world with a horde of digimon. She took over the world in days."
"What about the human armies?" Ken was curious. As powerful as the digimon are, the humans should have put up some sort of a fight.
"How do you fight an enemy that is scattered and attacks from inside your own borders? Human armies are trained to fight human armies and countries. You can't use atom bombs and missiles on a digimon without destroying your city in the process. Besides, most of the machines were linked to computers. And somehow, all the computers were on the digimon's side. Planes, tanks, aircraft carriers, all refused to work." Joe breathed in deeply.
Because that other dimension is the digital world, Ken thought. If Ladydevimon took over the digital world, she could theoretically control all the computers. Still that would require remarkable computer skills, almost equal to his own. "So then what?" Ken rubbed his chin.
"Well, most of the humans submitted completely. But some of us resorted to guerrilla tactics. Hit and runs against Ladydevimon and her council. For years we were a constant thorn in her side. Then you came to us. Many called you a Godsend. Somehow, you found good digimon to be on our side, and they helped turn the tide. It seemed that we had a chance of sending Ladydevimon and her council back to where they came from. But then, over a year ago, it got worse." Joe took off his glasses and cleaned them. He put them back on and continued. "These black spires began appearing all over the world. We didn't bother destroying them, since we thought they were some tribute to Ladydevimon from herself. Then weird things happened. Humans would go into a berserk frenzy every time they lost their temper, as with the good digimon. We put two and two together and realized the spires must being influencing our minds somehow. We realized we had to destroy Ladydevimon once and for all. Our underground launched on all out attack on the Council of Five's armies, but she had another trick up her sleeve, the black spirals. When we attacked, she converted most of our digimon allies into her drones. The rebellion was all but crushed, but we had some victory thanks to you."
Joe reached over and took a swing off his drink. "You learnt Ladydevimon was visiting Delta. So while the armies battled, you and I snuck in, planning on blowing up the pair and taking them out once and for all with a home made explosive we concocted. Datamon and Andromon assured us the bomb would kill Ladydevimon if we got it close enough. Most of the digimon were fighting in the battle, so getting in was easy. Problem was, we couldn't find Ladydevimon in the castle. Delta's remaining forces attacked us, so we retreated and were separated. I wandered around weaponless after loosing my guns in the previous battle. All I had left was our bomb. I was still intent on completing the mission when suddenly; a blast of some sort of glue hit my feet, pinning me in place. Something swooped down from the shadows and I felt something tear at my face." Joe tapped his eyepatch on his left eye. "I fell to the ground in pain, blood dripping from my socket. When I recovered my senses, I saw the bomb I dropped, just out of my grasp. I reached for it, when this little digimon walked in front of me, his claws red with my blood. He smiled and said he was Delta, but I could call him Demidevimon. I told him I could call him a lot of other things as well. He laughed and pulled out a lighter, and to my horror he lit the fuse to the bomb. Demidevimon told me he'd see me later, in pieces. He backed up and was about to leave, when I heard a whistling sound. An arrow, made from digizoidium, hit Demidevimon in the forehead. I watched his form break up in front of me and then saw you standing behind me, with that cross bow Andromon made for you. You saw the bomb, and I told you to get out of here. I knew the bomb would explode in seconds, and the glue on my feet prevented me from escaping. You smiled briefly at me, and picked the bomb up. I hollered for you to stop, but you ran down the hall. A split second after you turned the corner, there was an explosion that rocked the halls."
Joe stopped briefly and looked at Ken, just to make sure he was not seeing things. He breathed in deeply and continued. "I took out my knife, and freed myself a minute later. I ran up to the explosion, and found you propped up against the wall. I knelt down and told you would be all right, even though I could see you wouldn't. You coughed up blood and told me you had to tell me something. I told you to be quiet but you continued anyway. You grabbed my shoulder and whispered, "Looking for Ladydevimon…I found …dared me to… and I couldn't kill..kill…I tried..really tried…" You coughed up more blood and continued. "Those eyes, red eyes, soulless red eyes…". You stopped, a strangled gasp escaped your lips, and you were gone."
Ken shook his head. My god, on this Earth, he was a bigger fool than any of the digidestined. He sacrificed himself for this waste of carbon, and deprived the world of his brilliance. "That's an…interesting tale to say the least."
Joe finished his soda and stood up. "Why am I mourning about the past? You're back, and we have the future to look forward to." He grabbed Ken by the am and hauled him up. "Come on, we have to go!"
Ken shrugged off the grip instinctively. "Where are we going, you Oa.." Ken caught himself. For now, this cyclopean oaf was your best source of information. "Old friend."
"Why the underground resistance!" Joe grabbed his shoulder. "Your army awaits!"
Ken let Joe keep his arm on his shoulder this time. "Why yes." Ken smiled and let out a little chuckle. "My army."
"Yes." Yolei look at Ken, gazing him over in his Digimon Emperor uniform. The outfit really unerved her.
Ken scowled slightly. He'd get rid of this girl in heartbeat, but he needed more information, and allies. He'd defeat this Council of Five first, then worry about the digidestined later. "Now because we have these new digivices, we were uploaded to this reality, according to Izzy. But one thing puzzles me, how come Izzy remembers us, while no one else does?"
Yolei was about to mention Izzy's past, that he was a super powered being born from Devimon and Ladydevimon. But she stopped, she didn't want Ken to know that quite yet. Izzy was sensitive about his lineage, he hadn't even told her before until it came up. Also, Ken may use that information against them in the future. "Something happened to him in the digital world, I'm not sure what."
Ken rubbed his chin. She was obvious lying. But he couldn't force the information out of her in this point in time. Perhaps he can use this girl's infatuation with him against her. There was something about Izzy that she did not want him to know, and that made him want to know even more.
Hawkmon shouted out from the distance. "Yolei, I've found it!"
Ken shook his head. He could worry about Izzy later. "It's about time!"
Yolei and Ken ran up to join their digimon. An old building with a large sign with purple letters proclaiming this as Joe's church. Yolei smiled. "Finally some help!"
KRA-A-ASSHHH!!!! Yolei and Ken jumped back as a window exploded outward, showering the nearby street with glass as two figures came flying out the window. Ken tripped down a ditch, and became entangled in some underground wiring.
Yolei regarded in horror as a bandaged Patamon landed on the ground, with Gomamon's flippers wrapped tightly around him in a bear hug. Gomamon had a look of pure hate on his face as he tried to choke the life out of Patamon. "You winged PIG! You'll pay for what you did!" Gomamon squeezed harder.
Patamon choked and flapped his ear wings, flying up. He shook Gomamon off and coughed. "Gomamon! It was just a hug!" Gomamon just growled and jumped up, lunging at Patamon with his claws. Patamon flew up in the air, just avoiding the claws. Patamon decided he had to knock Gomamon out, before he hurt someone, namely him. He swelled up, "Boom.." and screamed. When he expanded to absorb the air, he ripped open his bullet wound again. He grimaced in pain as fresh blood appeared on his bandages.
Gomamon smiled at Patamon's obvious discomfort. He looked and saw a nearby smashed water fountain, filled with muddy water. He raised his flipper and gestured, "Marching Fishes!" Fish appeared out of the fountain, flying towards Patamon. Patamon was knocked out of the sky by the fish projectiles, and slammed on the ground. He tried to get up, but was too wounded. Gomamon ran up to him, and pulled back his left flipper to strike. "Now you die!"
"Silk net!" A web of silk hit Gomamon's extended flipper, knocking him over as his flipper was pasted to the ground. Gomamon regarded his new attacker with fury. The stream of thread from Wormon's mouth ceased as he finished his attack. "Now can't we all get along?" Wormon politely asked.
"As a matter a fact…" Gomamon ripped the webbing off with his free right flipper. "NO!" With surprising speed, he leapt forward, head butting Wormon and knocking him for a loop.
"Gomamon, what are you doing?!" Yolei shouted in disbelief.
"This!" Gomamon grabbed Wormon and threw him into Yolei's stomach, smacking them both down.
"Hawk Beam!" Hawkmon shouted out from the air, shooting a blast of energy at Gomamon. It shouldn't kill him, but it will put him down for the count. Surprisingly, he managed to duck it, losing a bit of red hair from his mohawk in the process. He jumped straight up, grabbing Hawkmon by the shoulders. The two fell to the ground, Gomamon landing on top. Gomamon cuffed Hawkmon on the face twice quickly. "You can all just go to digital hell with Patamon as far as I'm concerned."
Gomamon pulled his flipper back, ready to shove his claws threw Hawkmon's eyes. Suddenly, Hawkmon heard a thump. Gomamon's eyes went wide, and he fell limp on Hawkmon's body, Hawkmon pushed the unconscious seal off him, and looked at his savior. Hawkmon gasped as he looked over the new Joe, holding an expanding Billy club in his hand. He has a toughed look of warrior in his one good right eye, and a scar down his face partly covered by an eye patch. "I say, Gomamon must have hit me harder than I thought."
Joe shrunk the weapon back down to one quarter it's size, and shoved in a holster in his boot. Yolei ran up to him, "Joe, I'm glad to see you!"
Joe furrowed his brow at Yolei. "Take the flying pot roast there and leave."
Yolei look confused. "But Joe…" She stopped when Joe whipped out a pistol and pointed it at her.
"Now you listen here." Joe coldly motioned to the injured Patamon. "In the short time that digimon has been here, he attacked me and Mimi's gone missing. Also, Gomamon, who had never had a bad thought in his life, suddenly lets the spires take over and goes on a rampage. You will take him, and I will never see you or any of your friends again, do you got it?"
"Pathetic." Joe turned around, and his eyes grew wide. Ken had untangled himself from the wires, and was cleaning himself off. "First a mere rookie digimon nearly kills you, now you're fighting amongst yourselves. I can't believe this is the crack team that foils my plans regularly. I'd laugh if I wasn't so humiliated."
Joe's jaw dropped a foot. Yolei was about to say Ken was their friend now, when Joe rushed up and grabbed Ken by the shoulders, dropping his gun as he did so. "Ken! You're alive!" Joe started to laugh, picking up Ken and spinning him around. Ken was to flabbergasted to say or do anything at first. "My god am I glad to see you!" Joe cheered hysterically.
Ken finally regained his senses. "Put me down you gun toting psychopath!"
"What you don't recognize your old lieutenant?" Joe complied, dropping Ken and touched his eye patch. "I'll admit I didn't have this before, but have I really changed that much?" Joe calmed down. "How on Earth did you come back from the dead? I mean, I saw you die when we killed the original Delta last year. That bowling ball with wings Demidevimon caught me in a trap, but you saved my life before the bomb…" Joe stopped. "At least we sent him to hell where he belongs." Joe picked up his gun, and replaced it in his holster. He grabbed Ken roughly by the shoulder. "Come on inside and tell me about it!"
Ken smiled. If Joe was his lieutenant, then that means he must have had an army. Exactly what he needed. "Of course, let's do so immediately."
Joe smiled and pointed to his church, "Well, let's go!"
"Hey what about us?" Yolei asked, picking up the injured Patamon. Patamon groaned and let Yolei rest him on her head. Hawkmon, who sported a rather puffy eye, flew next to her.
Joe leaned over to Ken and pointed to them. "Can we trust them?"
Yolei just stood there in disbelief. Joe was asking Ken for advice on characters. The irony was not lost upon Ken either as he smirked. "They are almost as trust worthy as I am."
"I doubt it, but if you say so Ken, that's good enough for me." Joe picked up Gomamon. He swung the doors to his church open. Several of the injured people saw Ken, recognizing him, and just stared in disbelief. Joe walked at the end of a hall, do a large barricaded door.
"What is this for?" Yolei questioned.
Joe unlocked the door. Inside was a padded cell. "It's a cool down chamber for when people let the spires take over." Joe dropped Gomamon in the room. "He'll be fine in a bit." Joe shut the door and locked it.
Ken walked up to Joe. "I need to talk to you for a bit." Ken looked back at Yolei. "ALONE."
Yolei was about to protest, but Joe led Ken forward. "What ever you want Ken. Come on upstairs to my room where we can talk in private." Joe took Ken upstairs to talk.
Yolei sighed. Joe trusted Ken and treated her like the enemy. She did not like this new time line one bit. Someone called out, "Yolei?" Yolei looked around, then remembered Patamon was on her head. She took the injured digimon off her head. "Can you drop me off at that room over there? I need to see Biyomon." Patamon thought to himself. "By myself if you don't mind."
Yolei agreed, figuring there was something that Patamon didn't want spread around. She placed Patamon gently on the ground by the door. Patamon, still too hurt to fly, walked, or rather limped inside the room. The door shut behind him.
Hawkmon looked around. There were a few humans casting rather nasty glances. "Excuse me Yolei?" Hawkmon whispered into her ear. "I think my presence is causing a bit of a stir with the natives."
Yolei looked around, realizing the scowls on the people's faces for the first time. She could hear the word 'digimon' being whispered from person to person in disgust. "You're right Hawkmon. We'd better make ourselves scarce."
Hawkmon and Yolei took shelter in another empty room, adorned simply with a chair, sink, and bed. Yolei sat down on the bed, breathing in deeply. Hawkmon flapped down on the chair in front of her. It was then that Yolei finally took a good look at him. His eye was swelling, and there was a gash on his forehead that she could just see under his white head feathers. "Hawkmon, you're hurt!"
"I faired better than poor Patamon at least." Hawkmon straightened his headband. "That Gomamon is one rough character when he's angry."
"Still, that cut needs to be cleaned." Yolei grabbed a cloth from the sink and wetted it. She bent over in front of Hawkmon and began wiping the damp cloth over his forehead.
Hawkmon winced at the pain, and began talking to keep his mind off of it. "Today has been a unnatural day, has it not?"
"You're telling me." Yolei ran the cloth over his swollen eye. "Ken, a hero in this world."
"And Joe doesn't trust us, but Ken instead." Hawkmon winced as the cloth went over his eye. "I would like to now why Joe trust that distasteful child so completely."
Joe climbed up on top of his bed, and removed a ceiling panel. He removed two cans of soda. "I've been saving these for a special occasion." He tossed one of the cans over to Ken, who was sitting in a chair. Wormon sat huddled under the chair with strict orders not to talk. "And you coming back from the dead, it doesn't get any more special than that."
Ken cracked open the ancient Pepsi and took a swing. It was warm of course, and a bit flat from being several years old. Nevertheless, it was better than anything else he could get here. Ken sighed to himself, being reduced to drink warm soda with someone who was completely beneath him. Of course, everyone was completely beneath him. Still, he was smart enough to realize the Council of Five had virtually complete control over the world, and he need information and allies. He had no intention of hiding from a digimon of all things. "So…Joe," Ken actually had to think about his name for a second. "My mind is a little hazy, coming back from the dead and all." Ken didn't want Joe to know he was an alternate version of his Ken. He needed Joe to trust him completely as his Ken. Not that it would have mattered, the fool probably would have followed him off a cliff anyway. "Tell me about the rebellion."
Joe breathed in, and placed his drink on a table. He sat down on the bed. "Well, I'll start at the beginning. I can't begin to imagine how tough this is on you. You'll have to tell me about how you came back. You know how Ladydevimon came from some other dimension called the digital world with a horde of digimon. She took over the world in days."
"What about the human armies?" Ken was curious. As powerful as the digimon are, the humans should have put up some sort of a fight.
"How do you fight an enemy that is scattered and attacks from inside your own borders? Human armies are trained to fight human armies and countries. You can't use atom bombs and missiles on a digimon without destroying your city in the process. Besides, most of the machines were linked to computers. And somehow, all the computers were on the digimon's side. Planes, tanks, aircraft carriers, all refused to work." Joe breathed in deeply.
Because that other dimension is the digital world, Ken thought. If Ladydevimon took over the digital world, she could theoretically control all the computers. Still that would require remarkable computer skills, almost equal to his own. "So then what?" Ken rubbed his chin.
"Well, most of the humans submitted completely. But some of us resorted to guerrilla tactics. Hit and runs against Ladydevimon and her council. For years we were a constant thorn in her side. Then you came to us. Many called you a Godsend. Somehow, you found good digimon to be on our side, and they helped turn the tide. It seemed that we had a chance of sending Ladydevimon and her council back to where they came from. But then, over a year ago, it got worse." Joe took off his glasses and cleaned them. He put them back on and continued. "These black spires began appearing all over the world. We didn't bother destroying them, since we thought they were some tribute to Ladydevimon from herself. Then weird things happened. Humans would go into a berserk frenzy every time they lost their temper, as with the good digimon. We put two and two together and realized the spires must being influencing our minds somehow. We realized we had to destroy Ladydevimon once and for all. Our underground launched on all out attack on the Council of Five's armies, but she had another trick up her sleeve, the black spirals. When we attacked, she converted most of our digimon allies into her drones. The rebellion was all but crushed, but we had some victory thanks to you."
Joe reached over and took a swing off his drink. "You learnt Ladydevimon was visiting Delta. So while the armies battled, you and I snuck in, planning on blowing up the pair and taking them out once and for all with a home made explosive we concocted. Datamon and Andromon assured us the bomb would kill Ladydevimon if we got it close enough. Most of the digimon were fighting in the battle, so getting in was easy. Problem was, we couldn't find Ladydevimon in the castle. Delta's remaining forces attacked us, so we retreated and were separated. I wandered around weaponless after loosing my guns in the previous battle. All I had left was our bomb. I was still intent on completing the mission when suddenly; a blast of some sort of glue hit my feet, pinning me in place. Something swooped down from the shadows and I felt something tear at my face." Joe tapped his eyepatch on his left eye. "I fell to the ground in pain, blood dripping from my socket. When I recovered my senses, I saw the bomb I dropped, just out of my grasp. I reached for it, when this little digimon walked in front of me, his claws red with my blood. He smiled and said he was Delta, but I could call him Demidevimon. I told him I could call him a lot of other things as well. He laughed and pulled out a lighter, and to my horror he lit the fuse to the bomb. Demidevimon told me he'd see me later, in pieces. He backed up and was about to leave, when I heard a whistling sound. An arrow, made from digizoidium, hit Demidevimon in the forehead. I watched his form break up in front of me and then saw you standing behind me, with that cross bow Andromon made for you. You saw the bomb, and I told you to get out of here. I knew the bomb would explode in seconds, and the glue on my feet prevented me from escaping. You smiled briefly at me, and picked the bomb up. I hollered for you to stop, but you ran down the hall. A split second after you turned the corner, there was an explosion that rocked the halls."
Joe stopped briefly and looked at Ken, just to make sure he was not seeing things. He breathed in deeply and continued. "I took out my knife, and freed myself a minute later. I ran up to the explosion, and found you propped up against the wall. I knelt down and told you would be all right, even though I could see you wouldn't. You coughed up blood and told me you had to tell me something. I told you to be quiet but you continued anyway. You grabbed my shoulder and whispered, "Looking for Ladydevimon…I found …dared me to… and I couldn't kill..kill…I tried..really tried…" You coughed up more blood and continued. "Those eyes, red eyes, soulless red eyes…". You stopped, a strangled gasp escaped your lips, and you were gone."
Ken shook his head. My god, on this Earth, he was a bigger fool than any of the digidestined. He sacrificed himself for this waste of carbon, and deprived the world of his brilliance. "That's an…interesting tale to say the least."
Joe finished his soda and stood up. "Why am I mourning about the past? You're back, and we have the future to look forward to." He grabbed Ken by the am and hauled him up. "Come on, we have to go!"
Ken shrugged off the grip instinctively. "Where are we going, you Oa.." Ken caught himself. For now, this cyclopean oaf was your best source of information. "Old friend."
"Why the underground resistance!" Joe grabbed his shoulder. "Your army awaits!"
Ken let Joe keep his arm on his shoulder this time. "Why yes." Ken smiled and let out a little chuckle. "My army."