Author's Notes: In a review, I've been given a website with descriptions of the entire cast of V-Tamer characters and I was able to check out the story going all the way up to chapter thirty four. It's at the Cerebral Assassin. I will give out the address at another time or if you wish, you can browse through my reviews section to find the address for yourself. Of course, this means I'll probably have to write a mini side story concerning Parallelmon (who Taichi and Davis fought in the V-Tamer/02 Crossover Manga special) and the members of Alias III so that means "Unions" gets pushed back further. As for the element of V-Tamer in this story, I split off the storyline after Disc 2 (Chapter 17) and wrote in my own timeline of events as you've seen in chapter 3 of this story.
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 4.2
"We are in so much trouble! I don't suppose we can send some sort of message to Takato and the others to ask them to get their butts back here, can we?" Kazu slashed another card to keep Andromon in the fight but the effectiveness of the card was unable to keep up with the amount of damage that he had sustained during the battle against the Royal Knights. Dynasmon summoned a large amount of energy and changed it into the face of a wyvern. "Breath of Wyvern!!"
Kenta tried to get his partner to keep stalling for time by trapping the Royal Knights in bubbles but they were moving too fast. And they weren't giving too much room so that his partner could help speed up the recovery time of his comrades. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard MarineAngemon cry out in surprise as LordKnightmon came out of nowhere and launched a Spiral Masquerade that exploded right in front of the Digimon's face. "Oh, no!! Hang in there, buddy!!" He frantically tried to find a card to help his partner.
Grapleomon dashed forward to make an attack on LordKnightmon. "You'll pay for hurting our comrades!! Cyclonic Kick!!" Cerberusmon's mouths filled up with green flames. "Emerald Blaze!!" LordKnightmon stood there and took the attacks head on. When the smoke had cleared, there wasn't a scratch on his pink armour. He simply chuckled at Grapleomon's earlier comment. "In that case, I'll be waiting for your bill."
Impmon hobbled out to get closer to the demon Digimon who was holding Calumon and who was giving a predatory smile. He then noticed the vacant look in Jeri's eyes. She was the same Jeri that had accused him of killing Leomon. He blinked once as a part of him noticed the connection. "You played her like a puppet…Lilithmon!" He had no idea how he knew the name of the female demon. Perhaps it was the demon lord part of him that carried knowledge of the six other demon lords.
The smile didn't leave Lilithmon's face. Before she could start to gloat, she felt the Catalyst squirm as he tried to get free. "Now, now…you wouldn't be trying to do anything foolish, would you? Because if you would, then I may have to order my Royal Knights to send your friends to their graves." Calumon flexed his ears out and gritted his teeth. 'I wish that my friends can get super strong and make these meanies sorry for being so mean!!' Lilithmon frowned as she saw the red mark glow brightly. "Shining Digivolution!!!"
She gasped as the Digimon seemed to emit a light. 'It's the power…of digivolution!!' She knew that she could not evolve further and that her Royal Knights were already at their maximum level. But the other weak Digimon can digivolve to their highest level because of the amount of energy the little one was giving off. "Alright, lady…you have three seconds to release the cream puff before I blast you!!" In front of her was Beelzemon Blast Mode who had his gun ready. His wings had changed colour to gold as well as his mask. The red scarf had been replaced by a green one.
Not too far away from where Beelzemon was aiming his blaster, LordKnightmon and Dynasmon leapt back, startled at this new development. Rather than facing three ultimate level Digimon, they were facing three mega Digimon. Anubismon, HiAndromon and Saberleomon decided to take advantage of their opponents' hesitation. "Pyramid Power!!" "Atomic Ray!!!" "Twin Fang!!"
The two knights quickly responded by firing out attacks of their own. "Dragon's Roar!!" "Argent Fear!!" A massive explosion was created as the five attacks collided. Before the smoke could clear, the three mega Digimon belonging to the tamers charged at their opponents with renewed determination.
"Alright!! Now we can really kick some butt!" cheered Kazu. Jeri prepared to take out some cards. "Let's back up our Digimon and get Calumon back from that devil lady!!" Alice and Kazu started rummaging around their cards, trying to find a suitable one. Meanwhile, Kenta had successfully revived MarineAngemon and he was ready to go back in battle. Now they could try to implement their plan to trap the Royal Knights long enough for their friends to deal them a lot of damage.
"This is going tiresome. It is time to end this fight!!" Before Dynasmon could do something of the sort, he found himself trapped in a large heart shaped bubble along with LordKnightmon. "Now hit them with everything you got!!" shouted Kenta. The two knights quickly raised their arms to shield themselves from the barrage of attacks to come. "Howling Crusher!!" "Atomic Ray!!" "Amemit!!"
The bubbles had popped as soon as the attacks collided so the two Digimon took almost every bit of it directly. LordKnightmon was not pleased by this. "You shall regret this…" The other three Digimon had smirks on their faces. "When the battle is over, remind us to find a church to make a confession!" Saberleomon and HiAndromon stopped smirking and looked at Anubismon.
"What? Alice told me about how humans went to church to do that type of thing…" HiAndromon shook his head. "Forget about that now! We have to get Calumon back!!" Lilithmon snarled as she pondered on how to get herself out of the situation. She didn't have to think too long as a rift started opening up behind them several feet away.
She wasn't sure if it was a way back to her digital world but it beat having to stay in this place with a good demon lord and several other mega Digimon. The thought of a good demon lord made her sick. "Phantom Pain!!" "Corona Blaster!!" Beelzemon fired a shot before Lilithmon could complete her attack.
Dynasmon and LordKnightmon shook off the effects of the attacks of the other Digimon and dashed towards where their lady was flying to. But not before Saberleomon reached her first. "Howling Crusher!!" The attack was enough to force her to drop the Catalyst. He snared the rookie Digimon in his mouth gently. "Wow!! That was kinda fun!!" Saberleomon rolled his eyes before seeing the three Digimon disappear. As soon as the rift closed, the other Jeri Katou collapsed like a lifeless doll.
Alice went over to the body and checked for life signs. "She still has a pulse. Physically, she seems to be alright." The empty look in the other Jeri's eyes started to spook Kenta a bit, although he wouldn't admit it. "I don't get it. What happened to her and why did she collapse like that all of a sudden?"
Beelzemon's right arm shifted until the giant weapon was gone. "It was Lilithmon. She's one of the more manipulative demon lords out of the seven demon lord Digimon. I'm guessing that this Jeri had an unfortunate encounter and was used as a puppet. While she distracted us, Lilithmon and her cronies went after the cream puff." Alice gave a small frown as the body seemed to sink into the ground. All that was left was a small white blink of a rift closing. "Looks like that she'll have to be dealt with by the people on her world. And they're going to have a tough time helping her on to the road to recovery."
HiAndromon started scanning Beelzemon as to why his colour had changed. "Odd…you seemed to have contracted some aspect of the virus that the Gizamon had tried to infect us with and it seems to be trying to delete your data. Your code seems to be holding off some parts of it however you will need to absorb data at a certain rate in order to make up for the data loss. It also seems that some of your physical patterns have been slightly modified but other than that, there seems to be little change."
The demon lord crossed his arms. "That shouldn't be too much of a problem considering all the wacko Digimon that pop in here." He paused when he heard some snickering from Anubismon. "You know…the gold really does bring out the green in your eyes!!" The others started to laugh at that comment while Beelzemon snorted. "Ah, shaddup!!"
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"Are you sure we're heading in the right direction, Cody? We've been on the move for hours!!" When Raidramon stopped running to take a quick breather, both Ken and Wormmon were grateful for it as sitting on Raidramon while he runs for hours is quite tiring. "Well, this is the proper way to get to Colorado from where we exited the Digi Port, Davis. I'm quite sure I read the map correctly." Cody had to balance himself so that he and Armadillomon didn't fall off of Halsemon.
"Forget the map. Just follow the road of destruction," stated Yolei as she pointed out the many military vehicles that were burning. At the sight of the bodies and the human remains, Kari wanted to throw up. TK had to also fight to keep his lunch down in his stomach. "We had better get on the move again. Whatever destroyed those vehicles and killed those humans could still be at large!!" The boy agreed with what Pegasusmon had just stated.
Ken narrowed his eyes. "We're probably going to need Imperialdramon to fight off this Digimon who did all this damage. Wormmon, can you try and digivolve? Maybe we can access the normal digivolution protocols in our D3s!" Wormmon hopped off of Raidramon. "Here we go!! Wormmon digivolve to…" The group waited a bit and noticed a small glow coming from the rookie Digimon. But when it faded, he still remained Wormmon.
"I'm so close to digivolving, Ken!! I can taste it! Maybe if I try again after a while…" He hopped back on to his partner's shoulder. With renewed determination, the group moved down the path of destruction that the Digimon in question caused. It wasn't until Halsemon spotted something in the distance that they had found who they were looking for. "I see some explosions up ahead!"
"I don't like this. That guy looks pretty large. Could be a high level Digimon that can give us a lot of trouble if we're restricted to armour digivolving," stated Nefertimon. Cody gave a small frown and gave a quick glance at his partner. A moment later, both Armadillomon and Wormmon were trying to digivolve again. Neither of them had much luck. "I wonder how much longer we have to wait! Looks like we'll have to use the Digieggs!!"
"Digi Armour Energize!!!"
"Armadillomon armour-digivolve to…Digmon, the Drill of Power!!"
"Wormmon armour-digivolve to…Bucchiemon, the Pixie of Kindness!"
As they underwent armour digivolving, the others went ahead to draw the enemy's attention. "Golden Noose!!" Pegasusmon and Nefertimon went on the offensive to dry and drag the other Digimon away but he was too big. Raidramon and Halsemon decided to try their luck. "Thunder Blast!!" "Tempest Wing!!"
The attacks virtually did no damage and merely annoyed the giant. "Leave them alone, Cocomon! You want me!!" Cherubimon merely glanced at Willis. "We're at the place where we first met!! Now what do you want?!?" That was a relatively easy question for the mega Digimon. "Destroy…"
"Hey!! Who's that kid?" asked Davis. When Kari got in for a closer look, she gave a small gasp. "I think the bigger question is…how did Suzie get here in the first place?!?" When the Digidestined and their partners saw the little girl, who was hugging a Terriermon tightly to her chest, the same thought ran through their minds. 'Henry is not going to be happy about this.'
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Henry just gasped as Metamormon, impersonating Gallantmon Chaos Mode immediately launched a Syphon Mind attack and placed the four personas of Takato Matsuki in deep trouble. The statistics that he pulled up on this new form didn't alleviate the tension he was feeling. "We don't even have a clue as to the extent of the damage that the Syphon Mind and Syphon Soul can do to anyone who gets hit by it!! This is really bad!!" Terriermon mentally rolled his eyes. "What ever gave you that idea, oh wise one?"
The boy frantically tried to figure out what to do before noticing that Daemon was preparing to attack Rika's personas. With the attributable advantage and the fact that she was in an unstable state, a strong attack by him could kill her. He quickly used the Goliath Rook to get into position. "Firestorm!!" "Mega Barrage!!" The missiles that came out of the vaccine Digimon were enough to snuff out the seven fireballs.
"You keep him distracted for just a bit, Henry! We'll help out Takato before taking out Metamormon for good!!" Before Kuzuhamon could protest at Rika's new plan, Sakuyamon grabbed her by the hair. "And you're coming with us." The dark shaman just crossed her arms and gave a small frustrated growl.
Sakuya started to wave her arms in a strange motion before attacking Metamormon. "Amethyst Wind!!" It didn't do much damage but it was enough to allow the others to break free of his Syphon Mind attack. Satisfied, she prepared to take on Metamormon. He took a defensive stance, ready for any attack but what he didn't expect was that someone else initiated the attack. As soon as Rika launched him, the four personas were all over him, delivering as many blows as they could. Then as he started tumbling to the ground, they all simultaneously hit him with one final blast of energy.
"HEAVEN FINAL SYMPHONY!!!"
(AN: This group combination attack was based on one of the party time ultimate combos in Project Justice, another instalment of the crazy fighting game Rival Schools by Capcom)
As an explosion occurred due to the final blast, GCM quickly shook off the pounding headache he was feeling. "Come on!! Let's try blasting one to Metamormon!! Get into position!!" The only response he got was a series of grunts and moderate grumbling but eventually, his counterparts were ready to go. The smoke started to clear and they could see Metamormon had been tossed in the air and was feeling quite groggy.
"HAZARD CRUSH BLOW!!!"
The thick beam was released by all four Digimon and it enveloped the mutant Digimon. Parts of him were turning back green since he wasn't able to keep holding his form. Daemon quickly glanced over. 'Great…it seems I might have to go visit a few other planes in order to find another such as him!' When he was searching for additional minions, he had decided to see whether there were some suitable ones in other quantum planes. Since he was able to travel from one plane to another thanks to Millenniumon's spore giving him additional powers, he was able to expand his search.
He had encountered Metamormon in a strange digital world where the Chosen children had the ability to change their shape into any Digimon they had scanned with their Digivices. (AN: I haven't read any Digimorph like fics out there so please don't bother me about this minor detail) A few simple offerings of power was all it took for him to sign up. He even provided a demonstration by taking on his form and annihilating an entire city. Once he was satisfied, Daemon transported the two of them back and that was when they had arrived. 'Enough of that…' He looked back at his giant opponent to find him gone.
"Impossible!! Nothing that big can move so fast!!" Before he could figure this out any further, someone kicked him from behind. "Now we got you!! Gargo Barrage!!" Megagargomon fired both of his bigger missiles along with several of his smaller missiles. Daemon flipped in midair, bounced off of the tumbling Metamormon and leapt high into the sky, leaving his minion to take the full attack.
As Shadowgallantmon watched, he still had the vision of the Chaos Mode fresh in his mind. He was going to need Grani in order to obtain that form but the glider won't be willing to graft with him even if he wasn't in this ridiculous state. Acting entirely on impulse, he quickly moved behind Gallantmon and shoved him off of the machine. The holy knight caught himself in midair and turned around. "Hey!! What was that for-" He stopped as he saw his dark counterpart plunge his lance into the machine.
All the Digimon heard the machine's final loud beep before it dissipated into data. The dark knight immediately absorbed it into himself. As soon as the last of the data had been completely infused into his body, his black armour started changing into mostly blue armour. The lance and shield were replaced by a black staff and sword. Blue demonic dragon wings came out of his back and tore his blue cape to shreds. He quickly glanced over at Metamormon, who was in the process of shifting back to his normal form as a result of the amount of damage dealt to him already. "Syphon Soul!!!" The chaotic knight fired an energy ball out of both weapons. Like a pair of homing missiles, they both converged on Metamormon at the same time to finish him off. "And to the victor goes the spoils…" He moved over to absorb the data while everyone else was in shock for what he had just done.
GCM moved in front of him with his golden eyes flashing in anger. "You…you just destroyed Grani like he was nothing…how could you do such a thing?!?" His dark counterpart gave a blank stare. "Look…we're in a pretty desperate position. We got Daemon to contend with and we had Metamormon to also worry about. I realized that Grani would give me more firepower and that in the long run, he'll be better off with me than with dork face over there. My increase in power more than makes up for the minor power loss suffered by him. I guess you couldn't realize that sacrifices must be made sometimes. Some leader you are."
The crimson knight, now blinded by his own fury, swung his sword wildly at Gallantmon Chaos Mode. Megidramon then joined in the attack since GCM's anger at the dark knight affected what little mind he had. The only one from the group who didn't do anything was Gallantmon as he was still trying to understand how his dark counterpart could done such a thing without even the slightest bit of guilt. As Gallantmon Chaos Mode prepared for combat against the crimson knight and the dragon, he gave a smile which was thankfully concealed by his helmet as it would have given anybody an unnerving feeling had they seen it. "So this will end everything…"
There we go for chapter 32. Anyways, in the V-Tamer side story I have planned, I'll probably get down to finally resolving the little Flamedramon/Renamon/Flamedramon triangle that's been batted around for a while. I have a working title which is "Cause and Effect" but I don't know if that's the permanent title. I may change it…just stay tuned to keep up to date. And now, I present another episode of…
THE CASE OF THE MISSING BIKINI SHOT (Part 4)
Epsilon could swear that the surrounding temperature had dropped down all the way to absolute zero (which is zero degrees Kelvin or -273 degrees Celsius. I don't know the conversion for Fahrenheit but all you need to know is that it is damn cold!!). He heard a small bit of mumbling coming from Phoenix. 'Why didn't she go and beat the living snot out of him already?' Then he found his answer through Phoenix's mumblings.
"I'm a pacifist…I'm a pacifist…I'm a pacifist…"
The Chinese author then walked up to Koji and smacked him on the back of his head. "Why in the hell would Phoenix want you to be the father of her children?!?!? Good lord, that's really freaky!!"
He blinked once. "So…you two aren't members of my psychotic fan club?"
Phoenix and Epsilon blinked right back. "Hell no!!!"
Koji gave a sigh. "Thank goodness…the members of my fan club are insane. Whenever I walk around, some of them find me and ask me all sorts of questions like 'Are you in a relationship with Takuya?' or 'Are you in a secret gay relationship with your brother?' and 'Do you have the hots for Zoë?' And most of the female fan girls want to bear my children. It's driving me mad, I tell you!"
(Phoenix O_O;;;) "I…see. So I take it that you only view Miss Orimoto as a friend? And that you had no intent to steal the bikini shot from the master copy of Digimon Frontier Episode 15?"
"That's right. Why would I want to see her in a bikini? She's not old enough to be wearing that type of provocative swimwear!!" protested Koji.
"Okay…I guess we can check Koji off the list for the moment. Let's go, Phoenix." She nodded before the two of them left the area.
"Weird…" He was about to walk off when he heard a small animalistic growl. The smart part of him started screaming "Run away!! Run away!!" but instead, he listened to the stupid part of him which said "Duh…let's look behind and see who is making that scary noise!"
WE INTERRUPT THIS PROGRAM FOR A SPECIAL MESSAGE…
We now have the results of the poll question (which applies to anime boys and fan boys). For those of you who don't know, the poll question was "Which of the following would you rather piss off? (A) Dark God (B) Anime Fan Girl (C) Anime female character". The results are as follows:
Dark God: 99%
Anime Fan Girl: 0%
Anime female character: 1%
The idiot who has voted that he would rather piss off an anime female character than a dark god or an anime fan girl has recently been admitted to the Odaiba Hospital. The moral of the story is…DO NOT PISS OFF ANIME FEMALE CHARACTERS OR ANIME FAN GIRLS!!!!
This message has been brought to you by the Coalition to prevent Anime Boys and Anime Fan Boys from doing something stupid.
WE NOW RETURN TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM…
As Epsilon and Phoenix headed out to find another cast member, they thought they heard a male yelling in terror from a distance.
"I hope that the girl doesn't hurt Koji too badly or something," stated Epsilon.
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"I knew that it was you guys who were making me win all the time! Can't you stop using your special powers already?" Lucemon washed his hands in the bathroom. In the mirror, he could see chibi versions of Lucemon Falldown Mode and Lucemon Satan Mode.
"It's just a game! Calm down already!! It's not like the others are going to beat the living snot out of you just for winning." Lucemon Falldown Mode gave a smirk.
"Actually, if he keeps winning the way he has now, they'll definitely do some bodily harm to him. When that happens, you can always count on us to bail your ass out and spread the wrath around!!" Lucemon Satan Mode appeared to be quite happy.
Lucemon stepped out of the bathroom and sighed. "Just stop cheating and let me play by myself. It's not that hard."
He stopped as he heard someone yelling above him. Just as he looked up, a boy fell down on him. Koji had a dazed look in his eyes. "Never knew that little girl could hit so hard with a BAM…I don't think I'll be able to move for a while." The Digimon beneath him didn't reply as he was knocked out.
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Wyld Stallyns frowned. "Dude…where is that guy? I got to get my money back so I can impress this chick I met several hours ago." There were three other people at the poker table where Lucemon was playing at. His side had a huge pile of money.
Dragoon gave a shrug and looked at his cards again while Dark AnT drummed his fingers on the table repeatedly. Then he stood up. "That's it! I'm looking at his cards!"
He reached over and took a sneak peek. "Ah, crap. I fold."
"AnT!!! What did I say about gambling, you idiot?!?" He shuddered as his muse, Terra came up to him and started to drag him by his ear.
"You should be working on your projects and stopping Kuzaimon from giving Misty an up close and personal encounter with all of those Spinaraks!!"
"Hey!! Leggo!! Ow, ow, ow!!!"
The two remaining poker players just watched as he was taken away. Dragoon looked at the other person. "So…what have you been up to?"
Before Wyld Stallyns could reply, a skeleton in a black robe with a sharp scythe walked up to them. On his shoulder was a tiny rat skeleton with the exact same accessories. AH, POKER. I KNOW HOW TO PLAY THIS. CAN WE JOIN?
SQUEAK?
"Sure. Pull up a seat," replied Dragoon cheerfully.
Death took the cards from everyone and started to shuffle the deck while Dragoon got some books for the Death of Rats to sit on so he could reach the table. I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I AM THE POKER CHAMPION OF THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.
The Death of Rats blinked underneath his hood. SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK?
RONNIE LEFT THE GROUP BEFORE WE BECAME FAMOUS, REMEMBER?
SQUEAK.
Wyld Stallyns started to grumble. "Us against the Poker champion of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? That is most unfair to us, dude."
Well, that's it for me since I can't think of anything else to say. Later all!