Summon Seven - Azulongmon Explains it All...Again
The Digimon and their partners rejoiced.
"We did it! We did it!" Guilmon and Takato sang together as they jumped up and down.
Takato suddenly felt a tug at his pant leg, and looked down to see Patamon. The orange winged ear Digimon looked up at him with tears in his eyes. Takato bent down and picked him up.
"What's wrong?" Takato asked concerned.
"I failed you...Even as a Mega I could not destroy the evil, WAHHH!" Streams of tears emerged from Patamon's eyes as he struggled and whined.
"I'm afraid I am also subject to bear the guilt of faliure..." Salamon said, whining and rubbing up against Ryo's leg.
"Poor things..." Henry said.
"But aren't they so cute when their upset!" Terriermon said as he ran over to Salamon and gave him a hug, "So cuddly, too!"
Henry sighed, "Not the appropriate time for sarcasm, Terriermon."
"MOUMENTAI!"
"Alright, so what do we do with you now?" Ryo looked down and asked the dog Digimon that was continuing the whimper at his shoe.
Rika covered her mouth to hide her laughter at Terriermon's remark.
"Oh come on Rika, they are cute..." Renamon said, giggling a bit.
"I suppose as always I must deliever all the lore to you children..." Said a booming voice from Ryo's D-Drive.
Ryo's digivice began to glow, and rose on its own. It flew towards an area in the park where it was in the middle of the four children, their Digimon, Patamon and Salamon. The D-Drive fell to the ground, right side up. The screen began to shine brightly as alarge hologram of Azulongmon (approximately hisnormal size)appeared above it.
"Patamon, Salamon," The Sovereign said, adressing the two valiant Digimon, "You have faught bravely and drove the enemy away, do not bear the burden of defeat."
The pair nodded, "Thank you, great Sovereign."
"As for the rest of you," Azulongmon said, clearing his throat, "We have much to discuss."
Thus this began a question and answer period. Henry was first to chime in with his question about how the Digimon appeared. Instead of state Azulongmon's long response, with Takato and Guilmon's several intrusions, I will try to describe it as simply as possible:
When the D-Reaper was first destroyed three years ago, the Sovereign had many thanks to pay. To the Tamer's, to their partners, and above all to Shibumi. Without his help, the Red Card would cease to exist and the children could not defeat the evil. Although instead of thank him and bestow upon him digital riches, the Sovereign Digimon approached him (they were able to cross over to our world for a small period of time) and asked him to be their eyes for the Real World. They knew evil did not rest and nor did it die. It was if they knew something was going to happen. Shibumi therefore dedicated nearly three years of research and work to create a new Digivice program. An algorithm that not only allowed communication and contact with Digimon, but the essential digital core of them to be transferred into kenetic energy and stored into a natural brain and body. For this to work, he must create exact replicas of the Digimon in question of whom the minds will be stored.
He created a mold, much like flesh, that could used as body's for when thetransfer of digital mentalityis complete. He created these bodys in accordance with the Digimon card game, and created a specific mold for each and every single Digimon. He called this mold the Monster Costume.
When the digivice program was complete, Shibumi had to find a way to essentialy create this mold. This is where the Digi-Discs came to be. He found a way to copy slight amounts of data that was held deep within each of the existing Digimon cards. He stored them onto discs. These discs then loaded the data, and told the digivice what Digimon it needed to look like. The mold then appears in the form of the Digimon requested, and then the true power of the D-Drive comes into motion. It sends a signal to the Digital World to hunt down any Digimon that looks exactly like the shape that we see on Earth. This information is sent as a data stream, and picks up all the Digimon's data, brain, abilities, and transfers it all to the Monster Costume in order to animate it.
The Monster Costume ergo becomes a living Digimon, although does not maintain its original digital integrity. Shibumi had to do this, for fear that if evil were to return, a Digimon's digital consistency could not stand the Real World's non-digital atmosphere for to long. This was lucky for Shibumi had also lost the algorithm used for the Red Card. Since this new enemy is also the D-Reaper, making the Digimon non-digital allowed them to be protected by the D-Reapers direct attacks.
These new digivices, or D-Drives as we have come to call them now were sent to the four Sovereign. These four Digimon made an oath that if evil were to return and threaten the world alongside theirs, that they will call the most powerfull Tamer's and give them this new ability.
"Well that explains the Digimon that are summoned via Digi-Discs, but what about the modify cards?" Rika asked.
"That is a question we cannot answer, child. It seems that the algorithm that Shibumi created kept and could not updatethe original 'Card Reading' ability that once held the D-Power. Since the D-Drive does not support such a feature, I suppose the AI within this new digivice automatically allowed modify cards to be used through different means. In this case, Digi-Discs," Azulongmon replied.
It was Takato's turn, "How can we defeat Malvagitamon if none of our partners can digivolve?"
"Yeah! I feel pretty useless knowing we always have to call a Mega for help!" Guilmon whined.
"Oh, but you see you can. The original algorithm for combining human's and Digimon are still imprinted on the D-Power's originally hard drive, and therefore on the D-Drive."
"You mean Biomerge? How can we do that if now neither of us are digital?" Henry aksed, perplexed.
"No, not Biomerge. There is another type of evolution that remained dormant in the D-Power, and I assume still remains that way with the D-Drive. It was intended as a sort of back-up power if the Biomerge could not be enabled the first time around for exactly the argument you have stated," Azulongmon explained.
"Another type of evolution?" Rika asked, curiously.
Azulongmon sighed, "It is not as powerfull, but enables your Digimon to attain Mega forms without the need of the Crystal Matrix. It does not combine both of your bodies persay, rather your energy."
"You mean like the digivolution from the TV show? When the Digidestened just transferred their energy to their Digimon to digivolve?" Ryo asked.
"I suppose, but it is far more complicated then that...Unfortunately I do not posses the information you desire," Azulongmon spoke with uncertainty, "I highly recommend you do not get dependant on this and summon other Digimon in your battle as an alternative. Your partners may aid them, but not substantially enough. We did not originally plan for you to summon your partners first. It was your will, so we let it be."
"One more question," Said Henry, pointing to Patamon and Salamon who were now standing beside each other and not on Takato or Ryo's legs, "What do we do with them, or anyone else we summon that get destroyed or reverted to rookie forms?"
Azulongmon paused for a great deal of time, "Actually, that never occured to us."
The entire group stood flabergassed with their jaws open.
Azulongmon smiled, "But the more the merrier!"
"Azulongmon! Are you still wasting your time sharing instructions with those foolish human's. You know they won't understand!" Said Zhugiaomon in the background.
"Oh be quiet, why dontcha. You're makin' me leaves turn red!" Ebanwumon shouted.
"Have neither of you heard of Cat-Naps? Keep it down!" Bahimon said at his turn.
"As you can see, children, these assemblys get quite rowdy. I must attend to my family. Good luck in defeating the Chaos." Azulongmon said with a smile, and then his hologram dissapeared.
"Well..." Terriermon said, "That was...interesting."