Author's Notes: Well…this is it. In this Arc, I'm going to have to write like mad in order to clean up most of the messes I had made with my multiple storylines going on. Other minor details can be wrapped up in the epilogue, which has a name! "Unions" is the name of the epilogue and my best case scenario is that it can be written during my last month of summer vacation or something like that. Also, the Parallelmon reference is to another V-Tamers storyline which I haven't read yet. And the implants on the Gizamon heads are not Parasimon!! They are mechanical implants that help to release the virus. I hope that clears things up. Anyways…enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon in any form whatsoever. Bandai, Toei and ABC own the rights and all that stuff. All names mentioned in the omake are not mine except for my own.
Ascension – V 4.1
Gatomon looked around until finally finding something satisfactory to stump the other Digimon. "I spy with my little eye…something that is green!!" The Digimon partners belonging to the Digidestined were amusing themselves with a game that TK had taught Patamon when he was a little kid during the time of the digital world cleansing where the Chosen had to give up the powers of their Crests. "Is it Wormmon?" asked Veemon.
The feline Digimon shook her head. Patamon then made a guess. "Armadillomon's eyes?" She shook her head again. There was a silence as the other Digimon tried to figure it out. Then Hawkmon spotted something. "Ah…I believe that it is the little piece of material hanging on the end of Davis' nose." Gatomon grinned. "Wow, you're good!"
Davis furiously wiped his nose as the others started laughing. "Ha ha, very funny. Ho ho, it is to laugh. I wonder how much farther we have to go to get to that portal." Cody opened up his D terminal. "According to Izzy, we're closing in on the location. If we hurry it up a bit, we can start our journey to Colorado in five minutes!"
"That's what I'm talking about-" Yolei was cut off when the group spotted a large object, moving towards them at a fast rate. As the object slowed down, Ken, Davis, Veemon and Wormmon stiffened when they saw Neo. The tamer was let down by his partner after he had stopped. "I'll make this short…surrender the Digiegg of Darkness to us now!!"
While the others were wondering who this new guy was and how he knew about the Digiegg of Darkness, Davis clenched his fists. "Man!! He has a new partner!! How many Digimon does this guy have anyway?!?" Neo gave a sadistic grin. "Let's see here…by my count, ArcaDemon is my fourth Digimon partner. The others were deleted in battle but fortune has smiled upon me to return the partner that I had originally intended to raise!!"
Sweat rolled off of TK's cheek. "This is bad…judging from the size of that thing, I would have to say he's at least an ultimate. Maybe a mega!! We'll have to make a run for it!" Seeing how it was the best option at the moment, the group started to run towards the direction in which the portal to America lay. But ArcaDemon, with his gigantic legs, leapt over the group and easily blocked their route. Neo crossed his arms. "You are weak. I am strong. The protocol is obvious. Just give me the Digiegg and I won't hurt you."
"The Digiegg of Darkness no longer exists!! It had transformed into the Digiegg of Kindness some time ago so you're wasting your time!" shouted Kari. Neo gave a smirk. "It doesn't matter. ArcaDemon can restore the Digiegg to its original state. Now, I promise that I won't hurt you if you just give me the Digiegg."
At that moment, Ken started to laugh. What disturbed the other Digidestined was that this laugh was the type of laugh that the Digimon Emperor would give. "Do you really think we're fools? I know first hand how lousy villains are at keeping promises. If you want my Digiegg so badly…" He took out his black D3. "…here it is!! Digi Armour Energize!!!" His partner was then enveloped by the power of the Digiegg of Kindness while the others watched, wondering what type of Digimon would emerge. "Wormmon armour-digivolve to…Bucchiemon, the Pixie of Kindness!!"
Neo started laughing. "What good can a green and white pixie do to ArcaDemon? Unless your plan was to kill us with laughter!!" Bucchiemon frowned as he examined himself. "Whoops. Wrong colour." He focused on changing the green areas of his body to red. The colour change was also an indicator of what type of Digimon he was. When he had the green colour, he was a data type. By changing to red, he also changed his type from data to vaccine. After completing the change, he fired an attack. "Heavy Beam!!"
The blast hit ArcaDemon right in the face, creating a small smokescreen. He then started to grumble. "That actually stung a bit." Ken tossed a quick look at his friends. "Get going!! Those two are interested in my Digiegg and won't bother with you! I'll catch up with you guys in a bit!!"
Meanwhile, Neo was yelling at his Digimon. "You actually felt a small bit of pain?!? Just how did that happen, ArcaDemon?!?" The bewitching beast Digimon thought about it. "The attack was powered by the Digiegg of Kindness, which has a link with the Digiegg of Darkness. He also changed his attribute type to vaccine. Finally, a minor bit of his attack hit my eyes. Therefore, I'm feeling a minor stinging sensation." Neo rolled his eyes. "Just attack them and get that Digiegg!!"
"Not so fast, Kemo Sabe!!" A white blur came out of nowhere and tackled ArcaDemon. Just as the bewitching beast Digimon hit the ground, the white blur flipped in the air and landed on the ground. "I've always wanted to say that since Taichi said that line once!!" Zero formed the Omega Sword before taking a defensive stance. Taichi ran over to check up on the others. "It was lucky that Zero caught a glimpse of ArcaDemon. Otherwise, you would have been in serious trouble."
"But now that other guy is gonna get it with Imperialdramon Paladin Mode on our side!!" Taichi gave a glare at his counterpart's protégé. "I'll take care of Neo! You guys better scram!!" Kari began to argue. "But-" "Now is not the time to be arguing with me, squirt!! Get going!!" There was another explosion as Zero attacked ArcaDemon.
As the Digidestined made their retreat, Kari gave a small growl. "Even in a crisis, he still calls me a squirt!! Aaarrggghhh!!!" Bucchiemon changed back into Wormmon as the group got closer to the TV screen. The children each took their respective D3s out and held it close to the screen. "Digi Port open!!" A moment later, they along with their partners were gone.
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Ever since Jeri Katou had become a tamer, each day that she had fought to defend her town from the strange visitors she had been physically and mentally drained. Physically drained from all the duties she has taken on during the times she was awake and mentally drained because of the havoc continuing each day with little moments of peace. But when she had met the new visitor, everything just started falling apart.
This had been the first disruption since the group of Gizamon that had been infected with a strange virus had appeared. Andromon had determined that the virus had characteristics that would be more dangerous to the Digimon immune system than to the humans. So while he, MarineAngemon, Leomon and Dobermon had left to perform some contamination tests, the visitor had dropped in. Jeri was fairly shocked that the visitor was another version of her. What had shocked her even more were her counterpart's actions when Beelzemon had walked in right after she had appeared.
The other Jeri had a spaced out look for a moment before she placed her puppet on her hand. Then the puppet started to speak but with Jeri's pain filled voice. "Why did you have to kill Leomon?!? Why did you decide to attack us?!? What did we ever done to you?!?" Beelzemon just stepped back with a small look of shock. "Whoa! Now hold on here…I don't know what you're talking about-"
The spaced out look was slowly being replaced with an almost crazed one. "Stop it!! Don't try to pretend that it didn't happen!! Just tell me why!!!" Kazu and Kenta decided to step in to try and calm her down but it was to no avail. "You demon lords are all the same!! Manipulative, heartless Digimon who only care about dominance over others!! That murderous intent runs in your code!!"
She felt herself being turned around by another person and soon found herself face to face with…herself. Then out of nowhere, Jeri slapped her counterpart's puppet away. "Don't you dare say something like that about Beelzemon!! Ever since I met him, he's worked hard to help save lives in this city!! He has a good heart and I won't let you say anything bad about him!" Before anything else could happen, they all heard Calumon cry out "Help!!!"
Kenta gave a look outside their base. "Guys!! We've got company and they have Calumon with them!!" Alice cursed herself for not keeping a better eye out on Calumon. He was a key part of the team and losing him would deal a damaging, if not crippling, blow to their abilities to fight off invaders. "Get our Digimon here as soon as possible. We'll have to fight them if they won't give Calumon back willingly. Beelzemon, can you…?"
She trailed off when she saw the demon lord slowly change back to his rookie form and collapse on to the ground. "Aw, man!! This couldn't have come at a worse time!!" complained Kazu. Impmon rolled over on to his back and the group noticed that the colour on the face on his stomach as well as the colour on other areas was rapidly changing. The other Jeri Katou just looked at him in disgust. "Serves you right…you never were much of anything in the first place, were you?" The tone in her voice had shifted to something more sinister. She then ran out of the building at top speed with the other tamers behind her.
When the Digimon came back from the tests, they noticed that their tamers were out front along with another Jeri Katou and two other Digimon. One had pink armour and had a rose while the larger Digimon in white armour had Calumon enclosed in his left fist. The tamers were busy looking up statistics on the two opposing Digimon. "Dynasmon is a mega level, knight Digimon. Data type…" They pointed their Digivices to the pink knight. "LordKnightmon. Same nasty type and level but this Digimon is a virus…" (AN: Go to Lelola.Net and check out the Frontier episode guide. There's a screenshot in there that I based the preceding pose on)
Kazu started to yell at the two knights. "If you two are supposed to be knights with dignity and honour and all that stuff, then let Calumon go!! What's the big deal?!?" There was no response from them until another Digimon landed behind them. Dynasmon handed over the Catalyst to the new Digimon while LordKnightmon threw away his rose. "We shall take care of them for you, my lady."
A chill went through the tamers as they saw the Digimon who landed behind the knights. She was dressed in a black robe with long fingernails sticking out of her hands. The top of her chest along with the top of her head can be seen. The black wings along with the tentacles sticking out her back gave an additional eerie effect. "Don't waste too much energy on them, boys." Dynasmon chuckled. "Although they have some notable qualities, their lack of discipline and self-control will be their undoing. This shouldn't take long."
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"We're off to see the Sovereign…some plan you have, Casanova," grumbled Shadowgallantmon. GCM gave a small snort. "That was our original plan after we had taken care of the other business at hand." After getting some rough directions from Gennai, the different personas of Takato Matsuki and Rika Nonaka had set off to find a way to combine back into one being as well as find the new power that had been described earlier by GCM.
Henry and Terriermon had tagged along as well to try and keep order among the personas. "How are you doing back there?" The boy had hitched a ride on Grani and was holding on to Gallantmon's cape to keep from falling while his partner just hung on to his hair. "Don't worry about us. We're fine."
"Oh, my…what is that thing up ahead?" The others turned their attention to Sakuya's words and noticed what she was looking at. It was a big green blob, with a tail that had a zig zag design coming from the bottom. There was a pair of arms sticking out with big purple hands that had claws on them. A purple design was on the stomach of the creature with two spheres that resembled eyes on it. There was a small bit of hair coming out of his head, which had a steel mask on it. The wings were red in colour and each wing had three separate parts to it with a long body and a dark, dull coloured ball at the end.
Henry took out his Digivice and started to make a scan. "Metamormon is a mega level, virus, mutant Digimon. Specialty attacks are Laser Translation and Transceirave." Just as the boy finished reading the description, the blob began to change shape. GCM gasped in surprise when the blob finished changing. "It changed into Daemon?!?"
Kuzuhamon blinked in surprise underneath her mask. "That's Daemon?!? He looks like a bad ass version of a Seraphimon…" Rika had her thoughts on another matter though. "I don't believe this…that Digimon can shapeshift!! If he can also mimic attacks, then we're in trouble!!" Kuzuhamon didn't know how powerful Daemon had become but now she was going to be able to make a reasonable guess thanks to this facsimile of him.
"Oh, he can do more than mimic attacks, my dear…" The group had a shock as the real Daemon appeared beside his doppelganger. "He still has access to his own attacks. Laser Translation helps him to transform and perfectly duplicate one Digimon while Transceirave allows him to take traits of any number of Digimon it scans and mix them together." Then Daemon started to wave his arms in a strange motion while Metamormon did the same. Seven flaming balls then appeared in front of each Digimon, making a total of fourteen. "Firestorm!!!" (AN: This is Daemon's version of Strike of the Seven Stars)
"Everyone scatter!!" shouted Sakuyamon. The group split up to avoid the fireballs but one exploded in front of Grani, knocking Henry off of Gallantmon's cape. He whipped out his Digivice and concentrated as hard as he could. "Bio-merge Activate!!" The Digivice glowed green for a moment before the transformation took place.
BIOMERGE DIGIVOLUTION….
As Megagargomon landed flat on his back unhurt, Daemon was wondering what had saved the four Digimon that he had thought killed by his Dark Banishing attack. 'No matter. With Metamormon as my loyal servant, they shall not get so lucky again!!' "Metamormon, see if they have any interesting forms that you can borrow…" The other Daemon simply stated in a monotone. "Transceirave."
'Odd…I can sense that there is an alternate and powerful form residing in both of them but in their present state, I cannot make heads or tails out of it.' Metamormon continued to make a scan until he noticed an interesting combination. 'Yes…the dark knight and the glider will do just perfectly.' His body changed back into a green blob and started to restructure itself. Megidramon stuck his tongue out in disgust. "Bleah…"
Daemon kept the group busy with another Firestorm attack. "Ooh…it seems that my friend here has found something interesting after all." The blob continued to change until it resembled GCM's body in terms of height and armour appearance. However, rather than a red colour with yellow adornments, it was blue with black adornments. The best way to describe the wings was that it had a demonic dragon quality to them. An ebon blade was in one hand while a black staff was in the other.
GCM started to sweat underneath his helmet. "Gallantmon Chaos Mode. This is the resulting Digimon when Grani combines with Shadowgallantmon. His specialty attacks are Syphon Mind and Syphon Soul." Terriermon just gave a squawk of surprise in Henry's mind. "For the love of God…doesn't Guilmon ever get tired of all these multiple digivolutions?!? I swear, first it was him. Then Renamon…when am I going to get my fair share of alternate forms and stuff?!?"
'Why didn't this form arise when the quantum bio-merge program was activated? It must have been because this form has never been seen before…by any of us. And the dark aspect of Takato's essence had not been able to go this far because Takato would not allow it. Was this form a part of him that he had tried to suppress? I'll have to figure this out later since we're going to get a first hand taste of what it can do!!' GCM summoned his own weapons as he prepared for battle.
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The crystal stood in the centre of the void as Millenniumon's consciousness was enjoying the fact that finally his body was done. It had taken him quite some time to complete but it was ready to accept him. The process of settling himself into the body was a bit lengthy so there would be more waiting involved. But it would be worth it because in this new body, he cannot be defeated. He would be invincible and not even Ryo could do anything.
He had thought about getting vengeance on those pets and the children who controlled them. Killing them off one by one appealed to him but he decided against it for a few reasons. One was that vengeance can bring about one's own destruction. This lesson was shown through the death of Diaboromon. Another was that it would be more fun to let them live through the destruction, watching helplessly and knowing that there was nothing that can be done to stop him.
Before he started the process, he had made additional preparations in the infinitesimal possibility that those children would get the best of him again. It was something that had kept him occupied while the towers were being installed in the four digital worlds. This was the type of thing that would ensure a final legacy for those brats. "If I become incapacitated, then it will be up to you to cleanse everything that has gone beyond their original parameters…D Reaper." In the background, the red liquid glowed softly, acknowledging that it understood his message.
And so the fourth and final arc of this story begins. I hope that I can space out events and segments evenly so that I don't have to scrunch everything in the finale. And now, without further adieu…
THE CASE OF THE MISSING BIKINI SHOT (Part 3)
"Come, Phoenix!! The game is afoot!!"
The Authoress of Angst gave a groan as she followed Epsilon to the vault where the master copies of all the Digimon episodes have been kept. 'Mou…what was I thinking?'
She then heard Epsilon hiss a "Yes!!" underneath his breath. Before she could ask him what he was so excited about, he tiptoed over to the open vault door.
"Freeze, crimi-" He paused before giving a loud scream.
Phoenix was right by the Chinese author's side. "Are you all right?"
"It's…a…Pokemon trainer!!!" She looked inside and saw a boy with a purple star creature floating on his right.
The star then gave an exasperated sigh. "You know, if you had put more thought into imagining me, Anime Fan, then I wouldn't be mistaken for a Starmie. Let me introduce myself…I am Trimon."
This snapped Epsilon back to reality. He quickly went inside and grabbed the boy by the collar. "Anime Fan?!? What type of lame ass name is that?!? What the hell were you doing here in the vault?!? Were you the one who stole the bikini shot?!? Answer me!!"
The boy, frightened by Epsilon's mad accusations, started crying. And we're not talking normal tears. We're talking waterworks. If you wish to see examples, please refer to Whamon's waterworks in Frontier Episode 14 or we can always refer to Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon. "I…didn't do anything!!! Wwwaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!" (Epsilon O_O;;;;)
"Nice going, Epsilon."
"Phoenix, you're not helping," replied the Chinese author in a flat tone.
Anime Fan stopped crying almost immediately. "Wow!! Epsilon!! You're the guy who wrote Beyond The Other Side and Ascension!! Can I have your autograph?"
One big facefault later, the boy was beaming because of the fact that he has obtained the autograph of one of his favourite authors. "So what were you doing in here anyway?" asked Phoenix.
Trimon decided to reply. "My friend here was looking for more shots to support Takumi, Rukato and other couples while at the same time, hunting for more photographs to add to his goggle head shrine."
"Ok…" (Epsilon & Phoenix -_-;;;)
Epsilon straightened up. "The time of the crime was approximately 1:45 PM. I would like to know your alibi at that time."
"Me and Trimon were out playing…Calvinball!!! We even have photos too!" (AN: Calvinball is the invention of Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, a kick ass comic strip)
Taking out their digital camera, they showed several shots that were around the same time as the theft. "This is me hopping around to find the Bonus Box. This is me trying to tackle Trimon after he made an illegal play with the hula hoops."
"Alright, we get the idea! After a quick sweep of the place, we start checking out the Frontier cast's alibis," stated Epsilon.
There weren't too many clues as the thief did a very good job of not leaving clues behind. With nothing else to do, the duo set off to find the cast of Digimon Frontier. "I suggest we check JP out first since his infatuation was made early in the show."
Phoenix stopped. "Wait. I think I see Koji. If we talk to him now, we can save some time."
Epsilon nodded. "Hey, Koji!! We need to ask you a few questions!!"
As soon as Epsilon said that sentence, Koji broke into a run. The Chinese author narrowed his eyes. "This looks very, very suspicious."
"Let's go already!!" shouted Phoenix.
Koji decided to activate his Beast Spirit. "Execute Beast Spirit Evolution!! KendoGarurumon!"
The Beast Warrior of Light was able to move faster because of his wheels. Epsilon and Phoenix slowly fell behind until they heard a crash.
When they got to the scene, they saw that Koji, who had changed back to his human form, had crashed into someone and smashed some sort of project.
"Y-you d-destroyed Dragoon's present…" whispered Tsunami Wave.
Epsilon started to pant heavily. "Alright…huff…we got you…huff…" He was too busy trying to breathe.
Koji stood up wearily. "Let's get this little interrogation over with. No, I am not involved in any relationship whatsoever, be it gay, straight or incestuous." He then looked at Phoenix. "And no, I do not want to be the father of your children."
Epsilon's jaw dropped to the ground. He glanced over at Phoenix, who was now twitching and had a look on her face, similar to BlackWarGreymon's before he goes on a killing frenzy.
…...by now, you should have cued imaginary cliff-hanger music in your mind.
Reader Response:
(A) Oh.
(B) How the hell was I supposed to know?!?
(C) Sorry about that.
(D) All of the above.
DUN DUN DAA!!!!!!
And this chapter is done!! Gallantmon Chaos Mode and Metamormon came from the Digimon Encyclopaedia belonging to the Cerebral Assassin. I made up Gallantmon Chaos Mode's attacks and made up the effects of Metamormon's attacks. I'll give out the address to the Cerebral Assassin's site later at the end or something. And I have a perfectly good explanation for the omake so Phoenix, please don't kill me yet!! I've cleaned up some things in the previous chapter but it shouldn't change things too much. As for DC's trial…I probably will save that mini side story for the epilogue. That's it for me. See you all next time…assuming Phoenix doesn't find me and rip my guts out.