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Chapter 4: Angel

Takato forced himself to wake up early despite having only been able to sleep a couple of hours since Renamon left. Even though he was still tired he knew he had a lot to do today and knew it was for the best for him to get up. So far today he had already had a long talk with Renamon explaining to her a little of his past though he had not gone into details. He knew however it was for the best that some others knew about him. Already she had given him a question that he didn't know the answer to but one he was hoping to answer for himself soon. It was a simple question, one that had come without much thought but one that he had never thought to ask himself.

As he slowly sat up in his bed he thought it over, how could he have never thought of it? How could he have spent all these years with the thought never crossing his mind? The question was so simple it scared him, yet it was a question that was actually asking about his very nature itself. To a human it would never need to be considered, but to a Digimon it was a part of nature. As he was both this question might determine who he was from this day forward, it was a question that both excited him with its possibilities and scared the life out of him.

As Takato pondered this a nock was heard from his window. Moving over to the window and pulling the curtains Takato was greeted with the sight of Seth's figure calmly sitting on a tree branch just outside of his window.

Seth gave a slight wave and a smirk before motioning Takato to open the window. As Takato did so Seth hoped onto the windowsill and gave Takato a nod of greeting before addressing him. "Good morning Takato. I got a little gift for you."

Takato raised an eyebrow in response before his eyes widened at the device Seth pulled out of a bag he clutched in his left hand. The device was a red rectangle/octagon like shape, with the sides on the left and right being longer than the others. In the center of the devices was a raised portion with a single dull gold crystal orb. The device however looked dull and seemed largely inactive but Takato knew that the G-ark would change when it was activated.

Seth Tossed the device over to him "Shibumitold me that he would recommend activating your Omni-vices AI system before you activate the G-ark, something about the AI helping the process or something. Anyway I wanted you to talk to me later today at school. There have been some… developments on my end. Anyway got to go, I have a guest over at my place that I have to take care of." Seth advised before hoping off the windowsill and phasing away.

"Show off… but thanks for the info." Takato thought as he went to get ready for school. Trying not to wake BlackGatomon, Takato walk his bathroom before turning on the shower. After a few minutes of staring into the eyes of his reflection in the mirror he shook his head to clear his mind and stripped of the last of his clothes. Stepping under the hot spay of the shower he felt his muscles start to relax and his mind begin to clear, the water beating against his skin made him remember what he had learnt from the martial arts he had taken up to help control his anger. To know yourself is the first step to finding true peace, which made him realize that he did not need to answer the question of if he could digivolve, it meant he had to.

As he washed the sweat and dirt off his body he thought of what he was to do in the day ahead of him. There were only two things that had to happen today, the first was to answer the digivolve question and the second was to go to school. He hoped that Ryo had taken the lesson he had taught him yesterday to heart, he didn't want to have to beat it into the boy every day until he finally got it through his thick skull.

Turning off the water he stepped out the shower and started to towel himself dry, making sure he got every inch of skin on his body and he was just about to dry his hair when he noticed that he had forgotten to shut the door. Wrapping the towel around his waist he made his way back into his room, not bothering to check if any of the Digimon were awake he pulled out a pair of black boxers from one of his draws and pulled them on before dropping the towel.

BlackGatomon had woken up when he had turned the shower on. She had instantly missed the feeling of his warm body beside her. She had slowly opened one of her eyes and looked around the room for him, what she had seen through the open bathroom door was him naked stepping into the shower. Deciding to get a better look she snuck into the bathroom, this was the first time she had got this chance as normally he would have made sure to shut and lock the door. In this form she usually stayed away from water sharing a cat's dislike for it but watching the water run down the boy's body gave her the strange urge to join him. Shaking her head she walked back to the bed, jumping on and deciding to pretend to be asleep and wait for him to finish.

After getting dressed Takato made his way over to his bed to stroke BlackGatomon behind her ear, with a smile on his face he leaned down to whisper in to her "You know its rude to spy on people while they are in the shower." Her eyes opened in shock at hearing this "I hope you enjoyed it because it's the last free show you're getting" he teased.

Takato turned and walked away amused at how she was still frozen in shock, he guessed that she had not expected him to know that she had been watching him. Walking over to his computer desk he opened one of the draws, he was looking for the card he had found next to the Omni-vice the morning after his D-Ark transformed. It was a plain red card with a black strip down one side, it had the same orange pixelated monster the blue cards had but instead of the D it had the letters AI in blue.

He had put it in this draw and not touched it since, but over the last two years he had chucked all his unneeded cards on top and this now made it harder to find. After ten minutes of searching Takato finally found what he was looking for and pulled it out while leaving the rest of the cards in an unordered heap. He was a little unsure of what would happen and his nerves caused him to hesitate, he knew this needed to be done but he simply didn't know how the AI would affect both him and the Omni-vice. Slowly he mustered up the last of his courage and raised his left arm. Taking a deep breath he swiped the card with shaking hands.

For a few seconds the only thing that happened was the screen on the Omni-vice flashed, and then the holographic screen activated. 'Omni-vice Artificial Intelligence Activated' appeared on the screen, making him sit on the computer chair. 'Compatibility scan started' all the nerves inside his body suddenly becoming alive. 'Personality profile completed' 'Profile Uploaded' He felt a slight buzz in his head before reading the screen 'Link Established'.

"Hello there Takato" a female voice said from within his own head "it's good to finally be able to talk to you."

"How is this possible?" Takato said to himself, not understanding what was happening to him.

"I am you Omni-vices AI, I'm sending electric impulses to your brain which translates it into words" the female voice answered.

"How did you create your personality?" Takato asked slowly, he had not expected to have his Omni-vice to talk in his head but he was curious about what had happened.

"I scanned your brain checking for a suitable profile, I finally decided upon a teasing but kind hearted personality. Taking the teasing nature of a LadyDevimon you know and then mixing it with the honesty and kindness of an Angewomon." The Omni-vice answered truthfully, before teasing "Though it's up to you if you want to name me, after all you are the only one that can hear me and Omni-vice makes me sound like a simple item."

Takato smiled to himself at the last part, she had only just become able to think for herself and she was already making sure that he didn't treat her as a machine. He didn't even need to think about what to name her, based on the two Digimon she had used to create herself and how he was hoping that she could help him find out more about himself there was only one name that fit her. "Well I was wondering if you can help me understand a few things Angel" he said with a smile on his face.

"Did you just call me Angel?" she asked with a small amount of surprise in her voice.

"Well you used an angel and a fallen angel for your personality and I'm hoping you will be able to help guide me, maybe watch over me a bit" he said rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

"I love it" Angel said, before asking "what would you like help with?"

"I was just hoping that I could ask you a question, I was asked recently but was unable to answer" he replied.

"I would be happy to help Takato" Angel said in a cheerful voice.

"I was asked if because my body was reformed with Digimon data, if that means I would be able to digivolve once I hooked up the G-ark Seth gave me. I just wanted to know if you knew the answer." Takato said, his nerves starting to come back.

"… Actually yes you should but only to one form" she said.

"So I can only get to rookie?" he asked in in slight disappointment.

"No I didn't say that, you can create your Digimon form like you did Guilmon. As long as I scan the picture and data you decide on before you activate the G-ark. What I meant was if you make a rookie you can only go to rookie but if you make a mega then you will only go to that."

"So all I have to do is draw the form I want and then write the data for a mega. Then when you scan it you will save it as my only digivolved form to the G-ark" Takato smiled as ideas entered his mind already. "Thanks Angel, you really are heaven sent." 'Now I just need a way to talk to her in public without looking like I'm talking to myself' he thought, he didn't want people staring at him.

"But you can just think it when you in public" she said answering his thoughts.

Takato sat there in shock, he hadn't said a thing and yet she had still answered him. 'She can read my thoughts' "Yeah so now you don't have to worry" Takato sat there in shock before he heard a voice behind him.

"Takato who have you been talking to?" he heard. Recognizing the voice in seconds he didn't bother to look round.

"My Omni-vice BlackGatomon," he explained a smile on his face. Pulling forwards one of his notebooks and opened it to a blank page, he started by drawing a human body, legs and arms. He drew a tail coming out from the bottom of the back, large wings from the shoulder blades and two small horns from the head. Then over the light sketch of the body he drew the armor on, drawing the outline of the armor darker and darkening the outline of the body where it was left exposed.

After writing the data for the Digimon down under it he looked at the time on the clock and decided to finish the details and coloring while at school. Getting up he woke up Guilmon and BlackAgumon and made his way to breakfast to eat before making his way outside to get on Grani.

"Takato there is a Digimon watching us" he heard Angel say within his head.

"I know Angel I could sense it the moment we stepped outside, but I haven't been able to work out where it is" he thought back.

"It's on top of the building to the right of us" she said sending him a mental image of where to look.

"Is there something I can do for you or you just looking about" Takato called out to the hiding on the roof. He watched as a strange Lillymon walked to the edge and looked down at him, he could feel the others get ready to fight but just waved them off.

"Just watching for now" he heard the Lillymon reply before she smiled at him "I will let you know if I need anything." She then turned round and flew off. Takato just shrugged and got on Grani to leave for school.

Upon arriving at school Takato ignored the awed stares he was getting from the other students and made his way to class. However he was stopped in his tracks when he saw Seth up ahead in front of him. However it was not the sight of his friend that stopped him in his tracks but the Digimon standing next to him.

There standing beside Seth and looking around at the school around it was a Sangloupmon. The Digimon stood on all fours at 6'2 making it slightly taller than Seth. The students where giving the bladed Virus type plenty of room no doubt fearful of the dangerous Digimon. Takato raised his Omni-vice to the Digimon "What do you have for me Angel?" Takato asked as he scanned the Digimon.

"Sangloupmon, a champion level virus type Demon Beast Digimon, a female by the looks of it. Its attacks are Sticker Blade and Black Mind. It is a noble, bloodsucking wolf Digimon and a considerably old species of Digimon, it is even said to have survived since the Genesis of the Digital World. Digimon who have had their blood sucked by Sangloupmon have all the information drawn out of their DigiCores, and cease vital functions, and thus die. Sangloupmon are able to instantaneously move to different places as it rushes about the Net by breaking down its data into packets at its own volition. For this reason it is said to be very difficult to capture Sangloupmon." Angel told Takato who nodded before approaching the two.

"Hey Seth who's your new friend?" Takato asked.

Seth gave a nod in greeting before he introduced his companion "Takato this is Shade, I ended up saving her in Kyushu from some over eager Tamers. She is staying with me for now. Shade this is Takato the Virus Tamer." Seth introduced.

Shade looked Takato over before bowing her head "It's an honor to finally meet you Takato word of your accepting of Virus Digimon had spread far and is a beacon of hope for us Virus types."

Takato chuckled while scratching the back of his head "I didn't think I had made such an impression. It's a pleasure to meet you Shade. So… are you and Seth partners now or…" Takato drifted off.

"No she's just staying with me for now until she finds a Tamer." Seth answered however Takato noticed the faintest of blushes appearing on Shade's muzzle though it was only barely noticeable through her fur. Apparently she didn't mind the idea of being partnered with the normally anti-social human. Deciding to think about the blush later Takato and his partners made their way to class with Seth and Shade who had to be careful not to accidently slice any passing students with her blades.

Sitting down at the table at the back near the window and pulling out his notebook, Takato spent the ten minutes till math started to finish off the drawing. Being satisfied with the end product he put it back into his bag, he felt like today would be a good day right up until the moment Rika sat down next to him. He knew that this would mean two things. First it meant that Renamon had told Rika about their conversation meaning she will want to talk soon and secondly it meant that Ryo will get jealous again and forget about the lesson he had learned yesterday and thus he would likely challenge Takato again.

He stayed quiet while he watched the other first tamers walked, the shock on their faces at Rika's seating choice and at the bladed wolf Digimon was nothing compared to the look of jealousy and hatred on Ryo's face at Rika's favor of Takato. It was at this moment that Takato knew that he would have to fight Ryo at least one more time before he would get over it and learn his lesson properly.

The Ms. Asaji entered the room at this point with a large smile on her face, "It seems we have two more new students joining the class this morning… Err two new students and three new Digimon." Ms. Asaji amended as she caught sight of Shade. "Seth, is this your Digimon partner?"

Seth shook his head as Shade sat behind his desk "No she's just staying with me for a while."

"A wild one it mine!" a student said as a few rose from their seats as their partners readied themselves.

"She is also under League protection so anyone that attempts to harm her will quickly find both their hands parted with their bodies." Seth said in a monotone that both a tone of authority and a confidence of upholding the threat. Everyone immediately stopped any attempt to attack the wolf like Digimon and one by one sat back into their seats not willing to test the usually silent but intimidating human.

At this point Ms. Asaji decided to introduce the two students by waving them in. First in came a blonde boy in blue jeans and a white t-shirt followed by a brown haired girl with blue jeans and a pink top on entered the room. "This is Takeru Takaishi and his partner Patamon" Ms. Asaji announced pointing to the boy and the Digimon behind him "and Kari Kamiya and her partner Gatomon" pointing towards the girl and the Digimon at her feet.

"Please just call me TK" the boy said a kind smile on his face before the two made their way to the spare seats at the back. The girl's Digimon froze when it got to the back of the room. It seemed to have finally spotted BlackGatomon sitting on the window seal and the large wolf in the back of the room. Turning to look back at Ms. Asaji and asked "May I ask why there are two virus Digimon in the room?"

Before the teacher could answer though Takato's strong voice spoke out "I think you will find that there are four virus Digimon in this room." Every eye in the room in the room was now focused on the boy, Takato though had his gaze locked on the feline Digimon's with a look of extreme dislike on his face. Behind him all three of his Digimon were up and ready to battle, Gatomon looked down in apology and stated "I meant no disrespect to the Digimon's class, though I am curious as to why they all seem to follow your reaction with exception to the Sangloupmon in the back. I know about what is happening to them in the Digital World and find extreme issue with it. I just never knew that any had a Tamer."

A small smile appeared on Takato's face as he relaxed his posture "Then let me apologize for my hasty actions and answer your question, there is a tamer with a virus Digimon as a partner but there is only one. As to why they follow my reactions, that's because these three are my partners and all four of us have had personal experience with what is happening to virus types in the Digital World. The Sangloupmon is a ward of sorts of the human she is sitting next to."

"THAT'S A GIRL!?" A large part of the class shouted in disbelief which caused Shade to growl threateningly at them.

"Well that was just plain rude" Thought those that had recognized the Sangloupmon as female being Rika, Ms. Asaji, Seth, Takato, Kari, and their partners.

Shaking her head to focus back on the conversation, Gatomon gave the Tamer a sad smile before saying "You seem a very interesting person, would you mind if we could speak about the situation sometime." She bowed slightly "I would like to hear more about it" Gatomon added before walking to lie under the chair Kari chose. Every other person in the room was now trying to work out just what was going on in the Digital World and why it would affect them the way it did while at the same time trying to shy away from the now fuming Shade. Kari didn't know what this boy and his Digimon had been through but she knew she could ask Gatomon about it tonight. Looking back Kari saw the strange boy seeming to drift off and look out the window, clearly not interested in the class while his three partners seemed to relax and simply take a nap. Next to the four Kari saw an older boy who was consoling the angry and slightly depressed Sangloupmon by patting her gently on the shoulder.

"There, there none of them are important anyway. All the important and smart people can clearly see you're a girl." Kari heard him whispering. Kari herself couldn't help but smile this class was going to be interesting, she could already tell.

X Break X

Takato made sure he was the first one out at lunch, sitting down under a tree he quickly scanned the picture and stats before putting back away. "Evolution data accepted Takato" he heard Angel say in his head. The boy sighed after hearing this, he didn't want others knowing yet and he didn't want to have to answer more questions. Looking around he saw that he was in the clear for the most part and quickly pulled the G-ark from his backpack and strapped it onto the same hand that held his Omni-vice. Taking a deep breath he taped the golden crystal on the top which suddenly lost its dullness and now gave off a soft glow that thankfully no one noticed.

Takato grimaced as light electric shocks traveled up his arm and over his entire body. He noticed that the Omni-vice in his hand suddenly was surrounded by light that traveled into the G-ark before it disappeared. The shocks lasted for a couple of minutes before finally stopping and allowing Takato to sigh in relief. As he caught his breath he noticed some changes almost immediately. His body felt more dense and stronger despite the fact that his muscles hadn't grown, as well as lighter and a little more limber. This took a backseat however to his enhanced senses. He could see clearer and further that he had previously. He could hear any and all conversations happening throughout the yard.

"Angel, are you still there?" Takato thought casting his gaze at the G-ark on his arm. After a few minutes he finally heard a response.

"I'm here Takato. There is so much more room in here! The software is so much better than the Omi-vice's. It's like going from a Macintosh to a Colfax Personal Supercomputer!" Angel announced which caused Takato to wonder if her apparent knowledge of different computers came from the fact that she was an A.I.

"Good so what can you tell me about the operating system of this thing? Does it come with a manual or something?" Takato asked.

"Hold on it will be easier if I just send the knowledge to you directly." Angel stated and before Takato could respond suddenly he felt a huge pain in his head causing him to grip it in pain. After the headache subsided Takato couldn't help but marvel at the new information he now had. "Sorry about that Takato. Are you all right?" Angel asked.

"Yeah I'm fine Angel" Takato thought before some rapidly approaching movement caught his eye. Looking up he saw Ryo walking straight towards him looking angry.

"Me and you are going to have a rematch only this time you're going to start with that 'Crimson Mode' of yours, I don't want that sneak attack involved." Ryo challenged crossing his arms in a rather pathetic attempt to be intimidating.

Takato shook his head slowly before agreeing "Angel I need you to quickly work out how hard I have to hit Justimon and how many times to take his energy away without hurting him too much and knock some brains into his head."

"Power at 25% would do it in 36hit should deplete his energy. As for knocking some brains into him I'm afraid no power in existence can do that." Angel replied.

Takato smiled at Angel's joke "You really are an angel, did you know that"' he said and heard her giggle in his head before he told her to call Grani.

Once again news of the fight traveled quickly and everyone made their way to the battle area, Kari and TK were shocked when they heard a boy was taking on a first tamer. Upon sitting down they noticed Ryo standing on one side of the battle area with his partner and the other side was the boy from early that morning. The boy only had one of the Digimon from this morning and yet he still looked calm.

Inwardly however Takato was pissed off that the boy wouldn't learn so he decided to let off some steam "To think I used to respect you, but that was until I found out that fame was all you cared out. You don't understand what it means to be a Tamer, I hope you learn what it means before it's too late." "He's just lucky I can beat it into his skull now" he thought to himself.

"Looking forward to a fight, tut tut" he heard Angel tease.

"I'm not, I'm just glad that I can teach it to him before he loses someone" he said in reply.

"I am what it means to be a Tamer!" Ryo called back, he would demand the respect from Takato by beating him in front of the entire school. Than Rika would forget Takato and return her attention to him.

Takato laughed at this, "How can you think fame is what it means to be a Tamer? Being a Tamer is about protecting those around you whether that's your partner or a stranger. I hope you learn that soon because your kind are the cancer that is corrupting the Tamer community" he said causing Ryo to growl angrily.

"Bio-merge activate" they both shouted.

BIO-MERGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE

Guilmon bio-merge to …. Gallantmon

Kari was staring at where the boy had been only to now see a large knight that now stood there and suddenly jump high into the air landing atop a dragon. Kari hadn't expected the dragon's arrival and couldn't guess why it was here, she wondered briefly if he was there to ride into battle.

TK was at the same moment watching Ryo, he could not believe what he had heard. How could Ryo think of himself first? He was meant to lead the first tamers not think of fame.

BIO-MERGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE

Cyberdramon bio-merge to …. Justimon

"You ready for this Grani?" she heard the knight ask.

"I'm ready Takato" was his reply.

"Mode change activate" he shouted before a sphere of red light encased both the dragon and knight.

MODE CHANGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE

Gallantmon mode change to …. Gallantmon Crimson Mode

Takato flew down to the ground where he stood proudly in his red armor with Blutgang and Gungnir in his hands. He wouldn't need to fly in this battle unless Angel could find a quicker way of lowering his opponent's energy levels without hurting him too much.

Takato looked up at his opponent "Let's begin"

Aaannnnddd Chapter! Well hope you all enjoyed the chapter now its Question Time!

This one is from Coppa-Cola: How come all of the Spec ops people are teenagers?

I'm actually glad you asked this Coppa as it gives me a chance to clarify this. Now not all the spec ops guys in the last fic where teenagers only Vigilant. If in the fic you see a spec ops guy with a partner Digimon and digivice they are a teenager otherwise they are all adults unless I mention otherwise. The reason you would see these teenagers in the armed forces of the league is that because of the existence of Digimon in the world some tamers are needed to combat the more powerful Digimon as typically a normal human would stand no chance against it unless they called in heavy ordinance. The Tamer's that are in the military forces of the League are highly screened and usually don't participate in the tournaments the regular Tamers do as part of their contract.

Well hope that cleared that up for you all and if you have any more questions feel free to PM me or leave them in a review.

Until next time stay frost and don't forget to review!