Agents of the Digital World: Sparks of Digital Animals
Episode 4: "Hoot of the Owl"
Let me tell you a story. A story of legendary agent saviors. It all started with an imaginable project, ending in glorious victory over the enemies. Arise quadruple chosen of the legends! Power of Twinkle! Power of Flow! Power of Wink! Power of Surf! Power of Ripple! Bram! Bran! Bras! Nerdis Summon! Movab Summon! Spark! Breeze! Star! Tone! Wave! Arise quadruple chosen of the legends! A story of legendary agent saviors!
Previously on Sparks of Digital Animals: It turned out that Fred tricked everyone, including his own mates, by showing that none of them were his clones. Fred reappeared behind them. The three left the stadium in a hurry. Fred stopped once he saw smoke in the distance, suspecting it to be his home. With help of Frank's command over water, Fred along with Frank rushed through the flaming house until they reached Debra's room, finding her room secure and undamaged.
Fred secured the door with a force field of ownalis and wind while they both found Debra in the closet. The three left the room, once Vanessa warned Fred about people approaching. Vanessa rejoined them just in time for her to warn them to duck. Debra's room exploded above them as flames burst through the broken window. Through some tactics, Fred returned to his room, he diverted the people in his room away cleverly.
After he locked the door and secured it with a wind and ownalis force field, he along with Debra using their command over ownalis and fire, melted the bars of Fred's barred window, not all of the bars. Just enough for all of them to enter, one by one. The headbands appeared along with the S-Modifiers, minus the agent's S-Modifier of who commanded over the ice and electricity forces.
At that time it was discovered that Debra was part of the trio of the digital agents, confusing Fred since there were five headbands and not four. Anyway, Fred used his laptop to teleport the four to the Digi-world at the exact same location they spent through the night the day before. Fred and Frank walked off looking for branches and wood in the forest, Frank started a conversation about his older sister.
Fred only replied that it was too early to tell. It was mentioned by Frank about Denis; Fred's ex-best friend. Back at the cave, Debra was talking with Vanessa about the same thing. However, Vanessa admitted that she liked Fred. Tromon suddenly appeared but even with Debra as part of a group, the four digital agents were defeated. It took the spirit companions of Fred, Jihamon and Debra, Ranbimon to defeat Tromon.
The spirit companions rushed off to get the DigiDestined before it was too late. Is Tromon really dead or is it a trick from the Digimon Empress? Are the digital agents just unconscious or really dead, defeated? On with the conclusion.
"Finish Laser!" A mechanical creature roared.
The laser collided with Sewirimon, sending him back into a tree unconscious, knowing that he had failed the digital agents once again.
"No!" Tanis whispered, sitting up.
He blinked, finding himself in the cave. He looked around him, seeing Nercan next to him. Vanessa and Debra were on the side next to each other asleep.
"What happened?" Tanis asked, whispering.
"Dragon Storm!" Tromon roared.
The location went pitch black just as four transparent dragon figures flew, one of each, at each of the agents. The dragon heading towards Flowmon broke through her fire attack, colliding through her, making her cry in agony, turning her back into human and collapsing. The dragon heading towards Zotamon broke through his water attack, colliding through him, making him cry in agony, turning him back into human and collapsing.
"Twinkle Shower!" Sewirimon yelled.
The attack just went through the dragon, not fazing it. Sewirimon gasped. He growled, narrowing his eyes.
"The dragon is a spirit. My attacks can't harm a spirit." He sighed.
The dragon collided through Sewirimon, making him gasp. He was knocked out of the sky unconscious, turning back to human.
'That's the last thing I remembered before I lost conscious. Did Tromon kill us or were we saved?' Tanis thought.
"Finally, after two days you awoke Tanis buddy." A rabbit Digimon walked into the cave.
"Yeaks!" Tanis yelled, jumping to his feet, steadied in his fighting position.
The rabbit Digimon blinked surprised. However, Tanis' alert woke up the other three agents. Periral and Tanya screamed and rushed over to Tanis, where Nercan was beside him. A winged Digimon poked its head into the entrance.
"Hey Debra! You are awake finally!" It exclaimed, starting to rush over.
"Hold it Rainbow. They're afraid of us." The rabbit Digimon commented, stopping the winged Digimon.
The winged Digimon stopped. It turned back to glance at the rabbit, it stared at the four startled digital agents.
"Bah! They're just spooked. Hey Debra! I'm Ranbimon and I'm your copedam soul-warrior." The winged Digimon greeted, extending its arm.
Tanis blinked, "Jihamon?"
Jihamon sighed, "Well, you remember me at least."
"Ha?" Periral asked.
"Debra, remember the Digimon we drew to ourselves and only told each other details about 3 years ago?" Tanis asked, turning to Periral.
Periral blinked. She stared at Ranbimon.
"She looks like a better detailed Digimon than I drew though." She protested.
"So what? She's your copedam! You detailed her the way she is, but you weren't able to draw her to the exact details you thought of." Tanis commented.
Periral's eyes widened, "Oh my god! Ranbimon?"
Ranbimon smiled, still with her arm extended. Periral rushed over and hugged her tight. Jihamon slapped his head. Tanis grinned.
'Including the same personality I made for him. Cool!' He thought.
"Brrr!" Jihamon growled.
Tanis winced, "You heard my thoughts?"
"Of course! I'm your copedam." Jihamon replied.
"What about ours?" Nercan whined.
"Well, I know that mine is also a Jihamon, a female one though, but I don't know about yours." Tanya replied.
"From the strong copedam I thought and actually drew expertly are either Shomon or Zonemon." Tanis replied.
"What agent are you, the surname?" Jihamon asked.
"Agent Surftone." Nercan replied.
"His is Shomon." Jihamon commented.
"So that leaves Zonemon for the fifth that we don't know." Tanis sighed.
"The fifth agent is Denis Feranin." Ranbimon replied, smiling after being released from Periral's hold.
"What?" Tanya and Tanis asked in unison.
"His father, Mr. Feranin, Stewart Feranin told his son Denis about the whole thing." Jihamon replied.
"Denis' father I think was dead when I and he were best friends." Tanis commented.
"You knew Denis? Since when?" Tanya asked.
"Since we were 9." Tanis replied.
"What happened?" Nercan asked.
"Oh probably just because I moved here he isn't best friends with me anymore." Tanis replied.
"But Denis is here." Tanya protested.
Tanis blinked, "Hold on. What do you mean?"
Tanya sighed, "I used to know Denis before I found out that you were here in Japan as well. I was his girlfriend for awhile, until I broke up with him a few months ago."
Tanis glared at Nercan. Understanding his mistake, Nercan took a step back.
"So it could be possible that he became a digital agent before us." Periral suggested.
"I and Tanya were digital agents during the DigiDestined's first journey. You, sis and Nercan weren't digital agents yet. However, Denis was around the same age the three of us were, during the first journey the DigiDestined had. He probably was with us, but neither he nor we noticed him." Tanis explained.
"Heck Tanis! I didn't even know you were there with me during the first journey." Tanya remarked.
"This is getting very interesting. It seems Denis is our key since he might know more than we do." Tanis commented, nodding his head.
"But one thing still confuses me and all of us probably. First, what happened to Tromon? Second, how come all of us woke up here in the cave?" Nercan asked.
Jihamon grinned, "Considering Tromon, I and Ranbimon finished him off. About you four being in here, was with the DigiDestined's help of carrying you."
As swift as the wind, Tanis moved delivering an upper kick, sending Jihamon into the air, falling on his back.
"What was that for?" Jihamon moaned.
'First thing to know about me is that I hate for anyone to carry me. Especially the DigiDestined, I don't want to know who carried me.' Tanis replied, through telepathy.
"Oh. Sorry." Jihamon apologized.
"Tanis might not want to know who carried him, but who carried me?" Periral asked, pointing at herself.
"Matt Ishida." Ranbimon replied.
Periral blinked. She blushed deeply, lowering her head. Tanis just slapped his forehead, he turned his head away.
"I definitely don't want to know who carried me!" He remarked.
"Me?" Nercan asked.
"Kari Kamiya carried you Nercan." Jihamon replied.
"Yeah and boy T.K. and Davis were really jealous. Kari was the one who carried him on her own will." Ranbimon giggled.
"For you Tanya, I think Mimi carried you into your position that you were in. As for you Tanis, Sora was the one who carried you." Jihamon grinned.
Tanis growled. He went for a strong punch to Jihamon's stomach, Jihamon side-stepped that. He smirked.
"I was ready for that." He commented.
"But not for this!" Tanis exclaimed, moving his left leg over both of Jihamon's legs, making him slip on his back.
"Man! I wonder why you four together couldn't beat Tromon with that skill. Are you four actually weak in your domestic forms?" Ranbimon asked.
"We aren't weak!" Tanya yelled.
"Hey! Easy on her." Periral commented.
"She's lucky she's your soul-warrior or I would've kicked her butt hard!" Tanya growled, glaring at Ranbimon.
"You need to be cleverer in the way you beat your opponents Tanis. You're the captain of the group after all. If you misjudge something, the others would fall like you. You need to be a better tactician like when you were fighting Ancient Socceramon." Jihamon commented, getting onto his feet.
"I know you are right Jihamon. If we changed into our digital agent forms, we would have had a chance against Tromon. I could have used the wind force to lead the dragon, heading towards me, away." Tanis sighed, realizing his mistake, including the quick dream.
"Actually that wouldn't have worked. The spirit would have increased its push stronger than the wind you used. Only my spirit attacks can work on such spirits." Jihamon explained.
"But I know now to be a better captain and tactician. If it wasn't for my misjudgment, we might have not lost." Tanis sighed.
"Easy on yourself Fred, any leader would make a mistake of misjudgment more or less than you." Tanya commented.
Tanis blinked. He turned staring at Tanya. Tanya blushed, turning her face away.
"Oh! Tai told me to tell the four of you that all the DigiDestined agreed, for the digital agents to be allies with the DigiDestined." Jihamon remembered.
"Did they consult with each other?" Nercan asked.
Jihamon nodded, "Yes. Tai told me they did, before I and Ranbimon brought them."
"How long have we been unconscious?" Periral asked.
"Two days max." Ranbimon replied.
"Two days?! Geez, our family is probably worried about us." Nercan commented.
"Not to mention the school. They probably think that we purposely missed school for three days." Tanya added.
"What do you all think?" Tanis asked, glancing at the soul-warriors first, before he looked at the other three digital agents.
"Think of what?" Periral asked.
"That we announce our presence and tell the world about us and our abilities." Tanis replied.
"Including us?" Jihamon asked, pointing at himself.
Tanis nodded.
"We'd have a big responsibility then. We'll need to tell both our families and school. We shouldn't forget about Denis either." Tanya explained.
"And we'll need to divide once the school and both our families know. Two to protect earth and two to protect the digi-world." Tanis added.
"Divide our forces? How?" Periral asked.
"There's no way I'm staying with your sister Tanis." Nercan protested.
"Don't worry. That wasn't my idea. You'd be with me Nercan while Periral and Tanya would be together. Ranbimon would be with Periral and Jihamon would be with me." Tanis explained.
"Girls with girls and boys with boys? Oh grow up Tanis." Tanya protested.
Tanis knew that first; his older sister had a huge crush on Matt. Second, he knew that Tanya wanted to be with him.
"That's my decision. All who vote for it raise your arms." Tanis decided.
Periral; Nercan; Tanis; Ranbimon and Jihamon all raised their hands.
"Five against one Tanya. You lose. It's decided." Tanis remarked.
"We'll need to tell them that there are good Digimon and evil Digimon. That not all Digimon are evil." Nercan pointed out.
"Jihamon and Ranbimon would be examples of the good Digimon. If Denis joins us, the divide would change." Tanis remarked.
"To what? What do you have in mind?" Tanya asked.
"Well, all our soul-warriors would need to be with us first. Denis along with his Zonemon would be with Periral and Ranbimon while the rest are with me." Tanis shrugged.
Tanya instantly smiled.
"It might take some time though, before Denis joins us, once we locate him." Tanis commented.
"It would be nice to meet someone new." Periral shrugged.
"What now?" Ranbimon asked.
"Now we head back to earth. Tell the school together first. After that, Nercan and Tanya would split up with me and Periral to head to our homes to tell our parents." Tanis replied.
"Phillip isn't going to like this once he finds out." Tanya sighed.
"Phillip?" Tanis asked.
"He's a younger brother that I have, but who is older than Nercan. He is between the two of us in age." Tanya replied, explaining.
"O.K. Let's head back to earth." Tanis commanded, marching out of the cave, followed by Jihamon on his side.
Ranbimon; Nercan; Tanya, and Periral delayed a second or two before they followed.
Like always, but with Periral added this time, the four digital agents landed on their knees.
"Let's head to the principle." Tanis nodded.
They all headed towards the principle's office, the students that were walking in the hallways stared at them, including some of the DigiDestined. Tanis knocked on the door that led to the secretary's office. The digital agents were in their animal uniforms.
"Come in." A voice replied.
Tanis turned the knob. He pushed the door open and went in followed by the other three agents. The secretary gasped, once she saw the four agents.
"Is the principle busy?" Tanis asked.
"Aren't you three the ones who skipped school for three days?" The secretary asked.
"And if we are?" Tanya asked, firing a fireball from her left fist.
The fireball collided to the side, which was a wall behind the secretary, shaking her.
"The principle isn't busy. You want me to tell him that you three came?" The secretary asked.
"That would be appropriate." Tanis replied, nodding.
"Take a seat. I'll go tell him." The secretary commented, getting up.
Tanis collapsed into the chair that was to the desk's left. Tanya sat on the chair that was next to it. Periral sat in front of Tanis, staring at him; Nercan sat in front of Tanya, staring at her.
"We'll discuss the way to approach people later on." Tanis whispered.
Tanya just smiled. A few moments later, the secretary came out.
"You four may enter." She announced.
"Thank you." Tanis nodded, standing up.
The four digital agents went into the principle's office, the secretary closed the door behind Periral. Tanis immediately sweat-dropped, once seeing the principle.
'On second thoughts, maybe we should back down on telling the school. Just only our families.' Tanis thought.
'Backing down now?' Tanya thought.
'Look at him!' Tanis thought.
Tanya blinked. She looked at the principle.
'I see your point.' She nodded.
'I'm with you two.' Nercan added.
'I'm not telling that creep anything.' Periral finished.
"It's a major thing to skip school and to skip school for three days." The principle started.
'On three from me. I'll send us out to the school yard with a gust of wind from me.' Tanis thought.
'We're all for it.' Tanya agreed.
'I'm outta here with you.' Periral nodded.
'I'm going with you all.' Nercan added.
"I hope you all--" The principle continued.
'1...' Tanis thought.
"Skipping school is--" The principle lectured.
'2...' Tanis thought.
"And just was--" The principle added.
'3... Now!' Tanis thought.
Using his command over wind, Tanis used fog to cover the room. He used four gusts of wind into one, sending the four digital agents into the school yard, out of the principle's office.
"Man! Am I glad I'm out of there." Tanya sighed.
"I'm not coming to school again." Nercan commented.
"We'll have to come back tomorrow Nercan. Mom and dad would lecture us about school." Tanya rejected.
Nercan moaned.
"Well, I'm going to my school just fine. As far as they know, I've skipped it for two days." Periral remarked.
"How are we going to explain what I did today in the office?" Tanya asked.
Tanis sighed, "I really don't know. I'll figure something out today."
"So we'll meet tomorrow here then." Tanya decided.
"Probably later on today if things are havoc." Tanis shrugged.
"After school tomorrow, we need to go back to the Digi-World; Ranbimon and Jihamon are still there. I'll get to the Digi-World through my own school computers." Periral commented.
"O.K. See ya all tomorrow then." Nercan waved, leaving.
"See you soon." Tanya whispered, leaving.
Tanis blinked.
"Man, she likes you." Periral grinned.
Tanis sighed, "Even if she does, I'm planning to be careful. Come on, let's go home."
"Like this?" Periral asked.
"Do you want in Digital Agent form?" Tanis asked.
"I haven't been in it yet." Periral replied.
"O.K. Let's do it then." Tanis nodded.
"Heaven Slash! Digital Agent!" Tanis yelled.
"Life Slash! Digital Agent!" Periral yelled.
Periral's school bag formed the black hood while a smooth dark emerald mask covered her nose and mouth; a green visor covered her eyes; a slot opening at the top of the coat that Periral was wearing, unleashed a flianis colored cape, twisting around Periral's body, changing her suit. A black badge that had her eagle spirit sewed on in an outline was on her upper right shoulder. Tanis' white badge had his owl spirit sewed on in an outline on his upper right shoulder.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" Twinklespark yelled.
Ripplewave grinned her teeth.
"I'll show you. I hate it when he says that. That's getting really old." Ripplewave whispered.
She rushed after her brother.
Twinklespark stopped, once he saw a beast, biomechanical beast, in front of his family's home. Ripplewave stopped beside him with her mouth opened wide.
"What the heck is that?" Ripplewave asked.
"How the heck should I know?" Twinklespark replied.
The beast turned to them once he heard their voices.
"We're dead." Ripplewave gulped.
"Not if I can help it." Twinklespark whispered.
His dream earlier that day in the cave flashed back into his head. The beast was the same.
"This is where--" The voice paused.
Twinklespark, Ripplewave and the beast looked at the newcomers. It was a field anchor.
"Turn it on live. Hurry!" The field anchor whispered.
The cameraman shivered, "Yes--sir."
He turned his camera on live. In a few more moments, it was on the TVs of near and far homes as an urgent report. The beast roared, making the cameraman tremble in fear, but he stayed steady.
"Are we on?" The field anchor asked.
"Yes." The cameraman replied.
Twinklespark sweat-dropped along with Ripplewave.
"Think of it as a positive thing. At least we're in it." Ripplewave whispered.
"Name's Finisher and I'll finish all of your miserable lives!" Finisher growled.
He charged at the cameraman and the field anchor. Just when he was a few feet away, tremors were felt, forcing Finisher backwards. Blasts of fire hit him to his side, forcing him to fall to his side. Finisher quickly got back onto its feet. Flowbreeze and Surftone jumped at it, but Finisher just punched them both away. The two agents landed in front of Twinklespark and Ripplewave.
"That---" Ripplewave growled.
She charged at Finisher.
"Life Slash! Ripple Feather!" Ripplewave yelled.
Her ID card changed into a black razor feather.
"Death Stomp!" Finisher yelled.
A tremor was felt as Ripplewave slipped to the ground, face first. Her feather slid away out of her hand, from the fall. She was on her stomach, while Finisher approached her. Finisher looked down at her once he was over her and aimed at her. Twinklespark suddenly got out of his trance. Flowbreeze and Surftone were still conscious, but both drained. Twinklespark rushed at Finisher. Finisher noticed him coming in time and caught his kick.
Just before Finisher let Twinklespark go, Twinklespark kicked it with his free leg: true and fierce. Finisher let go of Twinklespark, it stepped back from the kick that surprised and stunned it for a moment. Twinklespark landed on his legs, a moment was all of what he needed.
"Heaven Slash! Para Sword!" He yelled.
His ID card formed into his Lirf sword. Twinklespark held his sword backwards, he rushed at Finisher.
"End Missile!" Finisher yelled.
Twinklespark continued on with the rush, but he threw his sword into the air. Twinklespark was forced back into the street, with the missile, exploding. Twinklespark screamed in agony, returning to his human form. He quickly used a gust of wind to send himself away, before the camera got him. Finisher forgot all about the sword as it landed on his missile launcher. It exploded, giving Finisher extreme agony, screaming out. The sword stuck to his shoulder.
Tanis reappeared behind Finisher with his hood on. He quickly took his sword back and changed it back to his ID. Tanis still had enough energy to harness into Sewirimon.
"TWINKLE BRAM! SPARK! NERDIS SUMMON!"
"...
SEWIRIMON!"
Sewirimon gracefully bowed, appearing in Tanis' place. Ripplewave flipped backwards, getting onto her feet. Flowbreeze and Surftone regained enough energy to get on their feet. All three agents got their weapons and had them change back to their IDs.
"SURF BRAM! TONE! NERDIS SUMMON!"
"FLOW BRAM! BREEZE! NERDIS SUMMON!"
"RIPPLE BRAM! WAVE! NERDIS SUMMON!"
"... ZOTAMON!"
"... FLOWMON!"
"... REQUIEMMON!"
The three agents changed into their spirit forms. The cameraman and field anchor were getting excited, as well as the audience watching. Among them were Tanis' and Periral's parents along with Tanya's and Nercan's family. Finisher turned around, facing Sewirimon
"Finish Laser!" He roared.
The laser collided with Sewirimon, sending him back into a tree, unconscious. Zotamon; Flowmon, and Requiemmon all gasped, they attacked together.
"Yami Twirl!" Requiemmon yelled.
"Breeze Flame!" Flowmon yelled.
"Diamond Flood!" Zotamon yelled.
The attacks collided with Finisher, but they didn't even scratch it. Finisher was about to attack, but glowing light caught his attention. They all turned to see Sewirimon stand up, glowing. With a thunderous hoot, Sewirimon harnessed into the next form.
"SEWIRIMON TWINKLE..."
"...
JEREMON!"
Jeremon leapt at Finisher, kicking it square in its stomach. Finisher fell backwards onto its back. Requiemmon; Flowmon, and Zotamon all backed away. Finisher rolled backward and got onto its feet. Jeremon slid under Finisher, making it fall onto its face again. Jeremon jumped into the air, flapping his wings in midair, holding his position.
"Spark Tornado!" Jeremon yelled.
A green, emerald tornado, with sparks flaring inside it, approached Finisher. Jeremon landed on his legs gracefully. The tornado swallowed Finisher up with it, screaming. It ripped it apart, deleting it. The tornado vanished with data particles left in the air. Jeremon absorbed them. With a gust of wind, Jeremon sent himself along with Requiemmon back to his room. He sent Flowmon and Zotamon back to their room, in their human forms. Tanis and Periral were in their human forms as well.
They left Tanis' room, the barrier that Tanis made was gone. Everything else was the way they left it. The two went downstairs. They saw their mom and dad watching T.V.
"When did you two come home?" Tanis asked.
Mr. Spenian turned to his son.
"Two days ago. We were worried sick for you two." Mr. Spenian commented, getting up.
"Once the schools told us that both of you skipped school, we knew that both of you were missing. We also knew that both of you eventually would return." Mrs. Spenian added, getting up.
"You're both forgiven." Mr. Spenian smiled.
"Yeah. At least you two are home now. No punishment or grounding for you two." Mrs. Spenian agreed.
"The strange thing is that we didn't hear either of you come in." Mr. Spenian shrugged.
"How was the house when you got back?" Periral asked.
"It was the way we left it. Neither of you two were around though." Mrs. Spenian replied.
"We tried to talk with my principle--" Tanis started.
"No need. We made an agreement with your principle and Debra's principle. Neither of them would talk to you about the absence once you're both back." Mr. Spenian interrupted.
"That's good to hear." Periral sighed.
"We'll be going to our rooms now. It's great to see you two again, mom and dad." Tanis smiled.
"It's good to see you too Fred." Mr. Spenian agreed.
Tanis and Periral returned to Tanis' room.
"That was strange." Tanis started.
"Tell me about it. How could the home be the way it was when mom and dad left it?" Periral asked.
Tanis shrugged, "Another weird thing is that my principle started to lecture us when we entered, on the contrary to what mom and dad told us."
"Yeah... How did you get to that other form?" Periral asked.
Tanis sighed, "I really don't know. I probably won't be able to do it again. It was just for once."
"Well. I'll be heading to my room. See ya tomorrow bro. Don't forget to wake up early and not to smash the alarm." Periral joked.
Tanis laughed, "Don't worry, I won't."
Tanis turned to check his alarm. A new one was there in its place.
'How?' Tanis thought.
He shrugged. Maybe his parents bought a new one for him while he was away. He took off his cape; shoes, and gloves. He put them on a stool and went to bed, right to sleep.
To be continued...
Now hush my dear son. Go to sleep. I'll tell you another story of the agents tomorrow. Sleep tight my dear son. Legendary agent victory!