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The 7th war

Chapter 19: The War Reaches the Home front

Holy Angel Palace: Radar Room

Sorcerymon has seen better days. His office is a mess of empty coffee cups, scattered papers of various data readings, and a huge mountain of reports from scouts and from the Tamers training yard that he has yet to finish reviewing. His computers have been firing and running for days on all programs he needed for background functions, and some of them are in danger of overheating. He has 3 dark rings around each of his eyes that grew from the last week of overworking himself to this level of mental and physical exhaustion. The main reason he is such a mess at the moment? He has been worried sick, ever since his brother, Angemon 0098, has gone silent in his comms and radios he hasn't been able to sleep more than 3-4 hours at a time every night, waking up if there was the slightest beep from his comm station hoping it was his brother finally checking in, but every time it was a different scout, patrol member, or Leomon checking in with him about the progress of their new troops training schedule. He sighs while he half listens to how 350 of the 1,000 tamers they have, have finally managed to unlock their champion forms and as the news and tips spread more are learning to evolve too. This is good news but I am still worried about my brother, is he alright? Was he captured? This isn't good in many ways, I just hope he will be safe wherever he is and isn't pushing himself too far or too hard. Where are you brother?

Right as he finishes his thoughts he scanners manage a small warning beep before falling silent. Putting his call with Leomon on hold Sorcerymon goes to check it and sees a reading saying Virus types were detected in the area of the island between the Lava Ridge zone and Dragon Valley zone, but it ends before getting a clear number out. Sorcerymon double and triple checks the data and even rescans the area between Lava Ridge zone and Dragon Valley zone, but nothing appears except for Seth and Klein's Digivices and their Digimon partners. He shakes his head and then sits back down with a weary sigh, Too many nights lacking sleep, I need to rest properly, and to do that I need to trust my team again instead of putting them with all my side projects while I handle all three main projects alone. The status of the Tamers training, The scanning for the crests signals, and the progress of the war front for troops we have lost and troops we have remaining. It is too much for myself. I'll call my team and bring them here to help.

He turns to an intercom button and speaks into it, "Wizardmon, Kudamon, Gatomon, please enter my personal lab at once."

He stands from his chair and waits all of 2 minutes before his lab doors slide open with Kudamon from before entering, and another 2 Digimon enter.

Gatomon is a 3 ft tall white cat Digimon with small purple stripes on her ear tips, along her tail and her tail having a small golden tail ring with strange Digimon letters on it. Her feet are cat paws with her claws retracted giving her a softer more huggable look while her hand paws are covered in gloves that look like cat paws only as a yellow color with more purple stripes with small black claw tips coming out of them. She purrs slightly while asking Sorcerymon, "Yes sir Sorcerymon? You needed us for something?"

Wizardmon could be mistaken for Sorcerymon's twin brother just with a different color palate. His cape and hat are a dark purple, his pants are a dark tan with red symbols on them as opposed to Sorcerymon's pants being white with dark blue symbols. His staff is also a warped almost evil looking sun with a scary face on it but despite being a virus type he defected from the 7 vices army after seeing how cruel they were to their own troops and knew they needed to be stopped or the Digital World would be in peril. "You called for us sir?"

Sorcerymon gives another tired sigh showing his colleagues just how exhausted he was, "Yes I need you all to watch over my projects right now while I get some much needed rest, call others if need be, but I am trusting all three of you with this information understood?" After getting a nod from all three Digimon, he turns to his computers and assigns them each a task, Wizardmon got the troop data to watch over, Kudamon got the scanner for energy readings, and Gatomon got the Tamers updates to watch over, they all get to their stations immediately and wish Sorcerymon a good rest as he leaves to his private chambers for some much needed R&R.

Wizardmon immediately calls and updates the captains and commanders of the front lines about the change in staff while Sorcerymon recovers from his working spree. Kudamon is using his keen eyes to double check every read out and every scan of the islands different areas making sure no enemies were sneaking in and causing havoc like the Lava Ridge zone situation where a Virus type had snuck in and was taking over right under their noses. Gatomon updates Leomon on who she is and what she will be doing as the reviewer of the Tamers training progress with Leomon staying on as the trainer for them all.

Unknown to them all though while they were distracted by their new tasks and updating the needed personnel about the change in who was doing which tasks for Sorcerymon, another beep from the radar scanner for enemies came through with a count of 30 enemies heading towards Seth and Klein's group before it is hidden and erased again by an unknown source from within their own server. A small static laugh is heard as a whisper near Kudamon who turns his head form the perimeter maps he was checking over for enemies and crest energy signals. Right as he turns his head the scanner is normal with no anomalies seen on it and no signals either, he shrugs and refocuses his attention on the energy maps.

Rest zone between Laval Ridge and Dragon Valley

Seth and Klein had been sparring and training with their partners for the last 3 days in this rest area, practicing with Rookie forms and Champion forms, and doing mixed matches like before where a champion form teamed with a human partner would fight against a pair of Rookies to see how they handled the challenge. It was beneficial for all involved as they soon learned that if the Rookies took out the human opponent first the champion had a harder time and they could defeat the champion 30% of the time (they had 10 matches a day to confirm this and while low it shows they can do a possible win with a good strategy). So they doubled down on their training to see how far they could grow closer to Champion level stats while remaining Rookies, and Seth and Klein felt like they could somehow keep pace of the Digimon even though humans should normally be weaker than even an average Rookie. They weren't sure what it meant but they weren't going to look a gift horse in the mouth with this kind of progress to help them survive against the virus Digimon threat.

As they were beginning to pack up camp to progress towards the Dragon Valley, Agumon suddenly turns stiff as a board and begins to sniff the air. Biyomon notices him do this and stops what she is doing as well to look around and scan the sky by leaping up and gaining altitude to have a clear view of their surroundings. Kotemon is the next to notice what his two friends were doing and draws his shinai blade to be ready for any incoming attacks. Seth and Klein notice their Digimon and their actions and immediately activate their Digivice's auto clean function to finish packing away their gear and equip their armors and weapons. Klein now has a two handed broadsword along with his half plate armor, while Seth prepares his leather armor with metal plate reinforcement and a buckler with an arming sword combo. They look around the area with Kotemon all three being back to back in a trio formation while Agumon finishes his sniffing and rushes over to them to join the formation. Biyomon Gasps and lowers herself to hover over their group and be ready to be the aerial support unit as usual for their usual formation plan.

Seth asks them as soon as they return, "What did you guys see or smell?"

Agumon says it first, "I smelled somewhere close to 15 maybe 20 Digimon coming? They smell like Virus types and they are all around champion in strength! We are going to have a hard fight on our hands. We should Digivolve."

Biyomon nods as she confirms this but with more worry, "I agree but I saw close to 30 troops heading towards us some are by land others are by air, it is tricky to tell when they will each hit us as they seem to be in groups of 3 each. And I recognize a familiar thorn in our sides coming for us from the furthest squad back!"

Seth thinks for a moment, "Let me guess big tall and leather bound ugliness?"

Biyomon nods and Seth sighs in anger and exasperation, "Devimon!"

Klein tilts his head in confusion, "Wait why is one Devimon so much trouble? Aren't they just the rank and file troops of the enemy alongside Ogremons, Golemons, and Minotarumons? Why is one Devimon a thorn in your side?"

Seth sighs as Klein wasn't there for their earlier battles against him, "He is actually a long time rival between Agumon and I against him, he was an Impmon sgt. In the 7 Vices army and we managed to beat him that first time. Then he came back as a Devimon and this time we unlocked Greymon to help us beat him. From then on he seemed to be taking his time to return but now we know he is coming back here, I am just afraid if he is close to evolving or has unlocked Ultimate and just hasn't evolved due to not wanting to tip his hand too early, or is planning to use it to recover mid fight. It might not be he has it but we can't rule out the possibility. He is an officer in their army for a reason, and his battle tactics and battle instincts are top notch from any enemy we have fought before."

Klein gulps alongside Kotemon with looks of nervousness at this info and then they look to each other before determination settles over them, and they both look back to Seth, "Then count on us to fight off the remaining members of his group to give you guys the rematch you all deserve to finally revert him to a Digi-egg! We can do it! We have trained hard for this kind of situation in the first place! Rely on us to pull you through the finish line against this kind of threat!"

Kotemon nods to them as well, Seth, Agumon, and Biyomon all nod back with smiles on their faces at their friends standing beside them and giving them hope they can pull through this. Unknown to the group Kleins Digivice suddenly has a grayish screen with a symbol similar to a medical cross with an arrow pointing to the center of it in each corner of the cross before it disappears again. No one notices except Kotemon who sees it briefly and feels a pulse of energy come from his form and he feels stronger and faster now. He chuckles quietly to himself and readies himself for the coming fight.

(Cue Fairy Tail Dragon force extended)

Seth and Klein raise their Digivice's to the sky and yell out, "Digivolution activate!"

Agumon Digivolve to! GeoGreymon!

Biyomon Digivolve to! Birdramon!

Kotemon Digivolve to! Gladimon (Guardian mode)!

With all three Digimon ready they prepare for the first squad to arrive in their camping clearing. And with crashing and rustling trees sounding out they don't have to wait too long. A Golemon, a Minotarumon, and an Ogremon all come rushing out of the tree line towards the group of defenders roaring out battle cries ready to deal some lasting damage to them, or if they fail that, at least try to weaken them for the next group.

(Pause music)

Golemon is a tall Digimon that is close to 15ft tall even when he is hunched over on his two large hands, his entire body seems to be made from a coarse stone with two large shoulder spikes on his shoulder blades. His body seems to have strange joint nails in it like a skeleton model at his wrists, knuckles, shoulders, and knees almost as if he wasn't really living. Next his head is made of a strong looking dark iron with bandages wrapped around it in a way to hide the point of fusion between iron and stone as his neck is stone leading up to the metal head. His eyes are a deep and powerful red color that almost seems piercing in its gaze as it looks with a predatory lock on to the group.

Minotarumon seems to be a humanoid Digimon that is about 12ft tall and has the body of a well trained bodybuilder. He entire body is covered in a leather like look with a zipper going down his chest and abs, he also wears thick combat boots on his feet to help him with his kicks and stomping around against his enemies despite any terrain he might be fighting them in. He has two large horns on his head with a mane of wild nearly black brown hair and two blazing red eyes glaring right at the group. His mouth is wide like a bulls and shows his human teeth clearly as he has a nose ring similar to a bulls hanging out of his nostrils. His right arm ends in a large and muscular hand but his left has a strange looking device that doubles as a drill hammer and a small energy launcher. He is also covered in a variety of stitches to show his battles that were hard fought and how powerful he really is to his opponents.

These two flank Ogremon and make an arrowhead formation to supplement their charge as they approach the Tamers and their Digimon.

(Resume Music)

The fight begins as Gladimon and Geogreymon both charge forward to meet their foes halfway, Gladimon slams his shield into the midsection of Minotarumon with a large grunt of effort and a gasp of pain from the virus bull humanoid. Geogreymon immediately charges Golemon and stops just short of slamming into the golems chest area to catch the double palm crush attack he used, catching one hand with an arm and the other with his opposite arm Geogreymon grunts under the weight but manages to stop the attack cold.

As the powerhouses collide Ogremon charges towards the two humans remaining on the ground ready to crush them with his club in his signature Pummel Whack attack, but as he closes in he is slammed by about 10 fireballs launched at him from the air. He stops due to the pain and heat suddenly dancing across his skin from the solid hit. Right as he pauses from the hit and raises his arms to try and ward off any other incoming attacks he is struck from both sides as blades slash across and past his ribs as Seth and Klein rushed towards him right as the fireballs landed their hits. They landed solid blows that leave a solid chunk of HP lost from the Ogremon they are facing, making him wince and growl in more pain. Right as he turns to face the two humans that managed to hurt him so badly he is suddenly caught painfully with large talons spearing into his shoulders as Birdramon lifts him up into the sky and then drops him down after 100ft in the air is achieved.

He screams the entire fall back down to the ground with a loud, "AAAAAAAGGGH! BOOM" he lifts himself out of the crater with a grunt of pain as he comes face to face with twin swords aimed right for his eyes, Seth and Klein finish their charge and spear Ogremon right through the eyes landing a critical hit for their efforts and making him turn into 1s and 0s and reverting into a Digi-egg. They catch their breath for a moment and turn to the other two fights to see where Gladimon and Geogreymon were still fighting Golemon and Minotarumon in a hard fought battle. Birdramon immediately veers towards them to give them proper support while Klein and Seth are about to charge over too when they hear rustling in the bushes and trees as well. They turn their blades towards the noise and find another trio of Digimon emerge. The three are Fugamon, another Ogremon, and Hyogamon. Seth and Klein ready themselves to hold off these three oni Digimon while the others focus on their battles.

With Gladimon against Minotarumon the fight is intense as Gladimon activates, "Stalwart wall!" coating his shield in the energy barrier that absorbs and stores the energy released from Minotarumons attack of "Dark Drill!" where his drill arm hammers into the shield with dark spike tips trying to break Gladimons shield, his shield holds and he prepares to release the energy back onto Minotarumon. He changes the energy to his sword and activates "Guardians blade!" launching the energy stored up with his own energy into a solid hit of a swords cut all along Minotarumons gut and head area. As he does the bull rears back in pain and Gladimon moves to try to capitalize on this opportunity and charges forward to launch another sword attack on him while he is wounded and weaker. But right as he does Birdramon swoops in with her inferno claws and leaves the bull further weakened and in the red of HP right as Gladimon gets in the finishing blow. His sword comes in and cleaves into the Bull humanoid leaving a bright red line leaking 1s and 0s and with a burst of data Minotarumon reverts back to his Digi-egg as well. Gladimon is about to turn towards Geogreymon to see if he needs help but his attention is grabbed by a battle cry at the rear, looking over immediately he sees Seth and Klein about to be rushed by a trio of Ogremons who are all the variations of the green ogre. He sees Birdramon flying over to Geogreymon and his fight knowing she will be backing him up, "Birdramon I'm off to help Seth and Klein! Support Geogreymon in his fight until we can catch up to you both!"

Birdramon screeches out an "Okay! Take care!" Before he rushes over to be the main shield for the two humans. As he rushes over Birdramon comes over to launch a quick trio of fireballs into the back of Golemon who was still in a stalemate of strength against Geogreymon. The fireballs explode one after another on the golems back leaving large scorch marks and a grunt of pain from the stone Digimon. He instinctively turns his head to see who is attacking his back, but this disrupts his focus on his constant strength battle with Geogreymon and the dino capitalizes on this chance, "Ha! Got you know you lump of stone!" He grunts and uses his horn to hook Golemon under his leg, the golem gasps as he notices the bad turnaround of their strength match but by the time he tries to fix it Geogreymon has already grasped both of the stone forearms and has his back and neck straining to lift the golem up and off his feet. With a herculean effort he lifts the 4 tons of stone over his head and throws him onto his back in a suplex maneuver. Golemon is laid out in pain from the throw and as he begins to try and get up he is immediately bombarded by the Meteor Wing attack of Birdramon. His now fully scorched body is near defeated when he hears a charging up energy behind him. Turning his head he gasps in shock at a large glowing mass of yellow energy gathering in Geogreymons mouth, as he chuckles and lets out, "Mega Burst!" the attack is shot out in a huge beam and engulfs the golem Digimon entirely as he lets out a pain filled scream and his shadow within the is eroded quickly before he vanishes entirely and is reduced to his Digi-egg state.

Geogreymon pants slightly from the strain of using Mega Burst but manages to quickly recover and looks to Birdramon with a thumbs up in thanks and turns to head towards their Tamers to give them back up. Birdramon blushes slightly at how cool Geogreymon looked there but shakes it off to focus on the fight at hand. She banks quickly to turn towards their friends to assist them with their fight.

(End music)

Hyogamon is an oni type Digimon who looks like Ogremon got frost bite. He is a blue color with snow white hair instead of the usual gray, his sharp metal horns and spikes like Ogremons are replaced with natural ice formations that could be mistaken for ice pillars with how they are formed out of his body. And he now only has a singular horn in the center of his forehead, his bone club is replaced by an ice pillar club as his main weapon and he has black leather forearm guards, shin guards, and kilt as his armor instead of the tiger pelts like Fugamon or the leather/pelt combo of Ogremon.

(Cue music – Jet set Run extended)

Seth and Klein prepare themselves as they see the three oni Digimon charge towards them, Ogremon in the center, Fugamon to their right and Hyogamon to their left. A solid formation as the three oni's all prepare their various versions of Pummel Whack. Seth and Klein immediately roll to each side of the attacks, the dark energy of Ogremon, the Green energy of Fugamon, and the ice burst of snow and frost from Hyogamon impact the spot both humans were just on and leave a deep crater where they once stood. Seth is now facing Fugamon and Klein is now facing Hyogamon with Ogremon having free reign of who he wants to turn and face. But as they prepare themselves for continuing the fight Ogremon yells out an unexpected line, "Hey! You two idiots remember what general ChaosGallantmon told us! We are to bring these humans in alive! Beat them up to capture them if we have to! But we need them alive for our plans to work! Understood?" As Ogremon then smacks both his variants on the back of their heads at the end of his yelling. Both other Digimon rub their skulls sheepishly having forgotten their orders and go, "Right boss/Understood boss" And they refocus on their objective.

Seth and Klein share a quick glance and nod agreeing that once they have a moment to breathe they would discuss these overheard orders, once they ready their blades they leap towards their respective enemies ready to battle them and defeat them.

Hyogamon sees Klein rush towards him and calmly blocks the broadsword he is swinging not expecting much, but right as their weapons connect Hyogamon lurches from the force behind the blade and has to fight back with some strength to keep Klein in check. Klein pushes harder when he sees and feels Hyogamon underestimating him and sees his blade bite deep into the ice club leaving a large crack and deep cut in it. Hyogamon panics at seeing this and swings his other arm as a backhand towards his head to try and knock him away. Klein sees the sloppy back hand and immediately ducks under it causing the blow to swing wide as he then takes this chance and leaves a long and painful gash in Hyogamons side with his blade up his ribs and past the ice onis arm pit. The cut causes the oni to flinch in pain and rear back to avoid further blows, but in his haste he backs up right into his ally Ogremon who was coming to assist him once he saw the ice club being blocked and cut into. Both onis fall to the ground in a tangle of limbs with Hyogamon quickly rolling off Ogremon and to his feet as he sees Klein rushing towards him once more. Klein runs up to Ogremon and using his face as a spring board to leap towards Hyogamons face and land a devastating slash from the ice ogres forehead down to his hip. The Digimon screams in pain and falls to one knee as his health falls below 5%. Ogremon gets up with an angry growl and charges to defend his ally only to be blasted aside by a tower shield from the courtesy of Gladimon. The two Champions engage in a flurry of attacks with club meeting shield and sword as they try to over power each other.

Klein quickly thanks his partner and rushes to finish off Hyogamon. The ice ogre Digimon managed to get to his feet during the intervention of Gladimon and raises his club in a desperate bid to take out Klein even if he fails to live through it. His efforts go to waste though as he doesn't expect Klein to throw his sword into his gut, the blade goes 1ft deep into the Digimons gut he takes a step back from the pain and looks to the sword hoping to pull it out, but he snaps his attention back to Klein to find the human warrior hasn't stopped his rush and is doing a leaping kick into the sword kicking it all the way to the hilt inside Hyogamons stomach. The Digimon gasps in wordless pain as the shock sets in and he bursts into an explosion of data as he reverts to his Digi-egg form. Panting from the fight Klein glances to Gladimon seeing him in a battle where he is slowly getting the edge in his exchange with Ogremon, he picks up his sword and he prepares to catch his breath as he sees Seth is making headway with his fight against Fugamon.

Seth has been fighting Fugamon for the last few minutes and is losing ground against the red oni Digimon. But not without an actual reason for the ground loss, Seth has been leaving counter attacks in his wake for every blow Fugamon attempts Seth manages to dart in and leave a quick slice or cut on his body in a new location. Fugamon is covered head to toe in scratches and cuts at this point in their fight and the number keeps increasing. The Digimon is panting as well and sees that while Seth is breathing harder he is keeping his wits sharp and his sword sharper. Fugamon is getting desperate to take him out as Seth still has plenty of stamina but the growing number of cuts is taking its toll on his HP and his energy reserves. Feeling yet another cut find its way to his body on his leg for the umpteenth time the Digimon gets desperate and activates his area skill Wild Roar hoping to stun Seth with the sound wave. "WILD ROOOOOOOAAAAARRR!" A blast of sound erupts from him as he unleashes the attack skill in all directions for at least 100ft. However while he does make Gladimon and Ogremon pause in their battle Seth takes this opening to slash upwards from his hip to his shoulder in one clean cut making him drop below 3% HP remaining. He falls to his knees in shock and bewilderment at how this weak and puny human can still move from taking a point blank stun skill like that, before he glances up as Seth is running towards him with his sword brandished above his head for a coup de grace. On Seths head are a pair of sound canceling headphones that he summoned from his Digivice just before the attack hit thanks to his experience with those attack patterns from the Digimon World VR full dive game from the real world. He managed to have just enough time during the charge to summon them and equip them as a piece of his gear. Using them he was unaffected and managed to land the critical strike. He goes in and finishes off Fugamon off with a beheading cut making him explode into data and turn into his Digi-egg.

Seth gulps in fresh air as he knows now that while his fighting style is effective against one on one opponents he needs to work on his stamina and his strength to make the fights shorter, or failing that make sure he can still outlast his foes. This fight showed him he has a long way to go on both aspects of his skills and physical capabilities. He looks over to where Klein is and walks over while being ready to intervene in the fight between Gladimon and Ogremon where the knight Digimon is stockpiling the damage against the oni Digimon and is bringing him down to red bit by bit. Right as Ogremon leaps back to gain more ground he is blasted by a combo hit of Geogreymons, Mega Flame, and Birdramons Meteor Wing.

(End Music)

The smoldering crater left behind from the flames shows a Digi-egg remaining from that combination of moves that finished him off. Gladimon looks to his friends with a nod and a quick, "Thank you both!" as Birdramon lands on the ground next to their Tamers to see who is injured so far. "Are you all okay? I did my best to help you all but man it was somewhat hard to find the right timing to help you without hitting you all as collateral." Seth looks to Birdramon with his body having recovered a bit from the small rest, "No worries you have all improved by leaps and bounds and based on this gauntlet we are in I think I know what is going on. After all they are coming one after another so they are probably trying to wear us down before their aces enter the stage." The group all nod and murmur in agreement at that thought, especially since it seems to be how the pattern is developing. Klein smirks as he remembers the two new cards he unlocked and how they can help here, "Well to be fair I believe I know how we can make it through with out stamina intact! Remember those new cards? We should be able to use them once we are close to the final wave, what do you think?"

Seth thinks it over as all eyes turn to him and they then hear the crashing of more trees and branches as the next wave is fast approaching, "Honestly yeah that combo will be our saving grace here, so save them for after we have broken through another 2 waves of these 2 teams of 3 battles, sound good?" Klein nods immediately as the group quickly ready themselves in their go to formation as the next enemy wave approaches them.

Holy Angel Palace: Sorcerymon's Lab

We find Wizardmon, Gatomon, and Kudamon all working hard on their assigned tasks as everything is going very smoothly so far and no complaints have been found from others about the change in staff for who was doing what. Wizardmon was using his magical game spell to monitor real time movements of the troops in the front line with the data pouring in and is giving proper advice for how the generals should move their troops to better prepare for another attack as the current front lines are dealing with a renewed assault from a pair of 7 Vices generals Lilithmon and Lotusmon who are challenging the Generals BanchoLeomon and VictoryGreymon. They are hard pressed but Wizardmons abilities have been invaluable in helping them keep the enemy armies at bay until reinforcements from Ophanimons troops can come assist them.

While Wizardmon is helping the armies, Gatomon is happy to hear from Leomon that the last hour has helped over 50 more Tamers achieve Champion form swelling their numbers to 400 who are able to head to the front lines soon. Gatomon is telling him to make sure not to send any out until 500 at once can be sent to make a large and proper difference in the troop numbers. Leomon agrees as they continue to discuss what training regime the Tamers should follow next to continue this new surge of Digivolutions.

Kudamon is humming to himself as he is keeping an eye on the maps and is seeing the group of Seth and Klein seem to be locked in combat given how their Digimon are all in Champion form, but he isn't concerned as they might be fighting a powerful champion enemy in the wild. But as the next 20 minutes go by he notices how they are still in champion form, he shrugs it off at first thinking it is taking them a longer than normal time defeating a powerful foe, but once 40 minutes hit and they are still moving around the map locked in combat and still in Champion form he then grows actual worry. He looks at other map data in the zone and finds no reason for them to be having this long of a battle against wild Digimon unless they were an Ultimate, but no wild Ultimates live in the in between zone areas. He looks at his scanner closer and doesn't see anything until a small red blip appears as he shuffles between scanning modes quickly, it only appeared for a moment, but his eyes saw it. Gasping he calls for his friends, "Gatomon! Wizardmon! I need a moment of your time! Quickly!"

Ending their calls as Leomon has left to train the recruits with a new plan thanks to Gatomon, and Wizardmon having helped until the reinforcements arrived both head over to see what the problem is. Wizardmon speaks up first after looking at the map for a minute, "Soooo what is wrong Kudamon? It looks like Seth and his group are in combat? Why is that an emergency?"

Kudamon switches scanner modes until the red blip appears again and both Gatomon and Wizardmon gasp at seeing it before it disappears again. "That, that is what has me worried. Not only have they been in combat for nearly an hour now but they have also been fighting enemies we can't seem to pick up unless we cycle our scanners quickly to catch whatever is hiding them off guard. Are you thinking what I am thinking?"

Gatomon quickly leaps back to her station and does the same quick scanner shuffle on her radar system of the surrounding area around the palace, "Yeah it means we could be hacked or we might have a downed radar and thus a blind spot the enemy is exploitiNG?!" As she yelps loudly at a shocking piece of information she finds. Wizardmon rushes over to see what she found and he too gasps in terror, "What!? How?! Quickly! Warn Lord Seraphimon and Commander Leomon! They are coming!"

Kudamon nods quickly and flies down the hall as fast as his abilities will allow him while Wizardmon runs to grab sir Sorcerymon. For on Gatomons radar screen is a large horde of red blips, at least 300 Champion level Virus Digimon were on approach towards the Palace from the sea coming from two directions. The Palace was under siege!

The Battleground

While Holy Angel Palace was in an uproar at the news spreading, Seth and Klein were currently each blocking a scythe blade from a Snimon. They manage to push the Mantis Digimon with actual blades for scythe arms and a face that has a jaw full of jagged teeth and no eyes, instead the face has 4 red lines resembling eyes on it, and its wings are out constantly. The big green bug Digimon is thrown back as he is punched by the edge of a tower shield from Gladimon rushing up and slamming his defensive tool into its mid section. Snimon flips back onto its stomach due to the force and both Tamers leap onto the back to slam their swords straight through the insectoid. He screeches in pain and then digitizes into a Digi-egg form. Both Tamers barely get a moment to breath before they are shielded by Gladimon and his "Castle Fortress!" ability, the wall of energy shoots up and blocks the a gout of flames that were heading right for them. The corrupt Airdramon that shot the attack flies past being pursued by Birdramon as she chases him down and finishes him off mid air with an Inferno Talon strike.

Another Digi-egg forms and drops out of the sky without the corruption virus present as Geogreymon manages to catch and throw his foe into the ground. A large stag beetle that is crimson red with no eyes as well called Kuwagamon. He roars in pain right before a Mega Burst goes off right in his face making him share the fate of his two aerial partners.

The group is panting looking around at the now 21 Digi-eggs that litter the clearing around them. Right after the opening two groups of foes they fought off two more groups that were a mish mash of Ogremons, Minotarumons, and Monochromons. They were dispatched right before a trio of aerial fighters dropped down on top of the group making them panic slightly as only Birdramon could fight them on equal ground. They managed to lure them down to melee range and take them out bit by bit before their finishing blows could finally end them.

Seth is resting with his hands on his knees from the non stop fighting as Klein is leaning back taking large gulps of air. Gladimon is currently sat on his butt with his weapons laying on the ground next to him with large gulps of air being heard and Birdramon is resting next to a kneeling Geogreymon who are both exhausted from the waves. The large dino puts an arm around the tired phoenix and tells her, "You did nicely out their Biyo! Keep it up! We can do this together!" This results in a barely seen blush on her face as she coos sweetly and nuzzles his cheek in thanks. That action gets Geogreymon to blush bright red at the sign of affection making him smile sheepishly at such an open sign of their budding relation in front of their friends. He hears chuckles from the others as he scratches his cheek in embarrassment while the literal bird of flames cuddles close in his one arm side hug, for a quick rest between their battles. Seth gulps down another breath of air before asking, "According to my math, we should be down to the last 3 teams given how we have 21 eggs here and there were 30 heading towards us initially. That sound about right?"

Klein nods as the information sinks in and he gives a tired sigh in resignation at their fighting not ending yet. "Yeah that is correct, and MAN! These guys just aren't letting up! I mean sure we get about 2-5 minutes between each other wave but it still is getting to me."

The others nod at this before Birdramon perks up at what Klein said with the timing of the waves, "Wait! If they were trying to tire us out and try to defeat us sometime DURING the gauntlet… why give us breaks at all? Wouldn't it make more sense to either attack all at once or keep the pressure on without any gaps? I thought they would be more coordinated than this?"

The others all begin to think on that tidbit of realization before Seth snaps his fingers. "Wait the only thing we know is that they are from the 7 Vices army right?" Nods all around. "But what if, they are all from different generals?" Reluctant nods as they begin to consider that possibility. "Think of it if they are all off on tier timing and only some of the trios are working together. And while the first 6 mentioned ChaosGallantmon by name while they fought, this last team seemed to be all aerial units instead of ground units! SO we must be dealing with either a hastily made team of the different battalions of Generals, or they are all trying to get th eglory of capturing us for some leader figure and are accidentally getting in each others way? That is the only thing that makes sense with the variations of their troops and the gap in timing between their attacks." With that out there the entire group all murmur and agree to that. Before they hear another wave coming only this time it sounds like a bunch of leaves rustling through this time.

Entering the clearing are a trio of plant type Digimon, Veggiemon, Woodmon, and RedVeggiemon.

Veggiemon looks like a gourd that grew a head with razor sharp teeth and a pair of vine like arms. He is colored a deep yellow with a hair design similar to a headband with leaves that look blue and red. He has two squinted together eyes that look at everything with an evil glint to them with his bright red coloring of the irises and small cal like pupils.

RedVeggiemon might share a similar name but he is like the mean older brother compared to Veggiemon, He is colored a deep red this time but with the same body, the key difference being that while he has vine like arms as well he has large morning star head like pummeling tools on the ends of his arms. These weapons are colored a yellow-green color and have spikes all over them. His teeth are larger and his also has a meaner smile with crazy looking eyes this time that are white with small beady pupils.

Woodmon looks just like he sounds, he has a stump like body with 4 legs and 4 arms. The four legs are each at a corner of his body to look similar to a desk that has four outward facing legs with feet designs. His body and head are in the same area so his 'hair' is actually a broken off section of his stump body that looks wide and unkempt. But he is fair from harmless or broken. His two upper arms are thick like small trunks and have sharp jagged edges to the ends of them as well. Thy are big and powerful that allow him to have a lot of power and deal a lot of dmg with his favored Deep Wood Punch. His lower set of arms are actually more human like with thin arms and 4 fingers on the end of each hand. He has deep blue eyes but is stubborn, has a bad temper, and is very territorial to his areas.

These three plants all enter and growl at the Tamers party ready to battle. Geogreymon looks to the phoenix in the clearing, at the same time Birdramon gives him a side eye as well. Both Champions stand up and ready their signature attacks as Seth activates a classic Attack Boost card for each of them that allows them to boost their dmg output by 50% now. All the plant Digimon gulp at the error they made right before they begin to scream as they are engulfed in flames from a powered up combination of Mega Flame and Meteor Wing. All three scream in pain and then burst into data one after another as they are burned quickly and efficiently as the flames die down and reveal their scorched Digi-eggs in the clearing. Seth and Klein look to each other and go, "Yeah they are not working together at all/like I thought."

The two laugh at their similar thoughts along side their partners due to the comedic ease they had with dispatching that latest squad of fighters. They were down to 6 enemies left and were ready to see what they had to do next to battle them.

Hearing the flapping of wings coming towards them the group prepare themselves once again for another fight as the next trio breaks through the tree line. They are shocked seeing a trio of enemies land in the clearing, the trio is a Flymon, crashing through the trees comes out a Wendigomon roaring out a challenge to the group, and the final member is Kogamon who leaps off of Flymons back. The three champions look well coordinated and ready for a fight.

Flymon is not well named as he looks more like a bee or wasp than a fly, but he has the bee black and yellow design with a large magenta stinger on the end of his abdomen. His thorax is covered in dark blue fur that has 2 pairs of wings growing out of it all 4 of them are magenta as well with a yellow evil looking eye design on them. He has 2 legs and 4 arms all in yellow exoskeleton with the 4 arms ending not in hands but instead with large black talons. His face is lined with a row of red feather like hairs and his face I similar to a bee but with mandibles giving his mouth a 4 split look, and his eyes are not visible beneath the black lines that are similar to makeup on his face, his two antennas bring to thought yellow ribbons flapping in the air as he flies around.

Wendigomon is a different story being close to 15ft tall (the same as Geogreymon) he is hunched over with a muscular body that is hidden beneath dark brown fur, he has patches of red skin showing between the patches of fun, he has a bone helmet on his head and twin shoulder spikes giving him a more intimidating presence, and he has a white bandage wrapped around his left wrist. He roars once again in challenge as he faces down the Tamers group.

Kogamon is the least intimidating but the most dangerous. He looks like a 3ft tall ninja with a ball like body covered in a purple ninja outfit. He has white armored forearm guards, two spiked paldrons covering his shoulders, an armored mesh covering over his arms and purple tabi socks to bring his ninja outfit together. He has a ninjato on his back as his main blade and is brandishing an 8 pointed shuriken (ninja star) as his throwing weapon.

The trio looks to our group as they all ready themselves with Kogamon actually yelling out to them, "I hope you are ready to be captured for the glory of Lord Barbamon! Cause we are his elite Champion capture squad! Prepare for combat!" After saying this Kogamon brings out a second blade and an armored headband, while Wendigomon summons up twin armored sleeves and knuckle duster gauntlets (Think major armstrong's gauntlets from Fullmetal Alchemist with scale male sleeves behind them), and Flymon brings out 4 long blades that extend his talons out by another 2 feet each.

At this Seth sweats a bit in worry, Kogamon wasn't bluffing they ARE an elite champion squad. He equppied a speed headband, and gained the twin attack swords which allows him to gain an echo slash with each attack he performs with them. Wendigomon has the power knuckles and defender sleeves boosting attack and defense by at least 1.5 times. Flymon has the talon blades now giving him a chance to slice through energy and elemental attacks 25% of the time while boosting attack by another 1.5 times. This gear is perfect for each of them and shows they have a strong backer, plus probably the skills to earn this gear too. We need to be careful with this trio.

Seth relays all this info to his team and also tells them, "With this information we can't split to deal with them or else they will pick us apart, Gladimon your form isn't suited to this fight, switch to Dinohyumon, we need speed and attack here, not defense. Geogreymon hold back Wendigomon until Klein and I are done helping Dinohyumon against Kogamon, Birdramon go to Saberdramon you need to distract Flymon until we can help you take him down. Remember we work as a unit against each of them, not alone otherwise we will all be taken out one after another." With a nod form the group they all begin their prep.

With a nod Gladimon reverts to Kotemon shocking the enemies for a moment, allowing Klein to excite his spirit for combat and allow Kotemon to Digivolve into his large bladed Champion form with a yell of power. With a smirk Dinohyumon draws his blade and points it at Kogamon in challenge. Klein and Seth both flank him to give him extra blades to use for this fight. Geogreymon readies himself to hold back Wendigomon until the others can reinforce him, and Birdramon goes back to Biyomon then switches to Saberdramon to gain speed and more dodging capabilities so she can distract Flymon until the others and assist her.

(Cue Digimon Braveheart song)

Kogamon smirks and yells out, "Switch forms as many times as you want! It won't change the result at all! We will still take you down! Wendigomon! You take out the dino! Flymon the birdbrain is yours!" With a roar the wendigo based Digimon charges Geogreymon while Flymon brandishes his blades and flies after Saberdramon. Kogamon disappears in a smoke bomb and the trio of warriors go back to back to ready themselves for him.

As he reappears Geogreymon roars in pain as Kogamon appears over his back and leaves a series of slash marks on his back from neck to tail. Geogreymon falls to his knees in pain as Wendigomon charges in and bowls over Geogreymon while he is off balance With both fist gauntlets digging right into Geogreymons stomach hurting him further. Geogreymon tries to twist as he falls to land on his front where he can push himself back up, but his enemy reaches him and rolls him to his back with a hard kick, where Wendigomon gets ready to pummel him into oblivion with both fists raised. But right before the first fist flies Wendigomon roars in pain next as both his calves are sliced open by a flurry of blades cutting through his thick skin and fur. Looking at his wounds he sees Dinohyumon having just finishes his Blade Dance attack on his left leg while Seth and Klein had done a combo of sword slashes on his right leg. Dinohyumon smirks before gasping and barely manages to bring his sword up in defense of Kogamon coming down on him from above using another smoke bomb teleport. As the two warriors go at it Klein and Seth get ready to go help right as Wendigomon gets back to his feet and roars out, "COCO CRUSHER!"

His stomach suddenly extends as he bends backwards and 8 gun barrels appear on his abs and charge up their shots. The pair of human warriors prepare to dodge the shots or block them if they are too fast right before Wendigomon is grabbed around his neck from behind and Geogreymon judo throws the large virus Digimon over his shoulder and into the ground right as the first bullets fired off. The shots go wide shooting the ground, just missing the humans, and hits some bushes and trees before a few shots barely miss both fliers in the sky making the bird and the insect have to break off their dog fight or else they would be hit by stray shots.

The large wendigo Digimon accidentally keeps up his attack drilling the shots into the ground for a good few seconds before he gets up while ending his attack. He raises his head just in time to see Geogreymon gathering flames into his mouth, unleashing Mega Flame right into his face. Wendigomon manages to roll away after the first 3 seconds but he is still covered in scorch marks and heavily burnt. He lost 15% of his HP from that 3 second attack. Growling his leaps up and readies another attack and shoots out his arm with "Wild Whip!" His arm extends out and slams into Geogreymons gut launching the dino off his feet.

As Geogreymon flies past Dinohyumon and Kogamon have been locked in a battle of blades landing a cut here, a slash there, or a gash on a leg here. The speed that Kogamon has shows him flitting around Dinohyumon with barely a sweat while the reptilian humanoid warrior is doing his best to keep his focus and trying to track the speed demon ninja. However his guard breaks as Kogamon uses another smoke bomb and lands a devastating hit of "Ninja blade!" right across Dinohyumons chest. He screams in pain as the blades effect hits him and he has two gashes now instead of one. He looks to where Kogamon should be but only sees a blurred image left as he twists and uses his largest sword as a shield to block a flurry of shuriken that fly at him.

Kogamon appears behind him with a smirk thinking to himself, one down! But right as he draws his blade to finish the Digimon off he has to turn and use both of his blades to block a dual hit from Seth and Klein who came rushing up behind him with their swords drawn and ready to deal a lasting chunk of damage to the small ninja. Both parties grunt in the struggle to break the blade lock, but both humans smirk suddenly at Kogamon making him wonder why until he feels a large critical hit slash on his back where Dinohyumon managed to hear the clash and recover from the pain of the double cut, landing his best attack "Dino Slash!" landing 28% of Kogamons HP in his critical hit attack. The Ninja Digimon stumbles and loses his grip on his blades thus allowing Seth and Klein to finish their attacks and hit him with both blades shaving off another 24% of his HP making Kogamon go to yellow after loosing more than 50% of his total HP in a few solid hits.

Coughing the Ninja Digimon sits up right as he hears "Horn Impulse!" And sees Wendigomon flying at him while bent in half form the powerful charging attack he just took from Geogreymon. His eyes go comically wide right before the huge Champion lands right on the small ninja much to his further pain and rage at how the tables are turning fast on them. He manages to dig his way out from under the hulking Champion in time to see Flymon is currently on the receiving end of the Shadow Talon attack from Saberdramon. Where Saberdramon is diving in and out of different shadows just below the tree tops and she cuts Flymon once every pass, however as he tries to slash or sting her she uses her faster form to bank and spin away from each attempt. With a 15th cut Flymon takes too much damage and crashes in front of Kogamon and Wendigomon with a resounding thud. Kogamon hisses in pain as he finishes pulling himself out from beneath Wendigomon as he sees several pairs of feet in front of him now with the flapping of wings over his head. Looking up in fear he sees his former victims, now turned hunters, standing over him with their arms crossed or their attacks charged and ready.

(Music ends)

The trio of virus Digimon all struggle to rise form the beating they just took while seeing their enemies readying themselves for one more attack. They all gulp and try to prepare to intercept the attacks. Seth yells out, "Now!" and a Mega Flame, Shadow blast, and Dino Slash all launch towards their would be assassins.

But right as all three attacks were about to make contact they are intercepted by three voices who call out with "Wave of Evil!" a wave of darkness appears, "Hand of Destruction!" a bright purple beam of concentrated energy comes in, and "Cat's eye Beams!" a pair of red energy beams shoots out.

The three evil attacks cancel out the three good attacks in a huge explosion of fire and darkness. As the smoke clears the Tamers and their Digimon see a familiar enemy appear, Devimon appears but with two surprise allies beside him. Standing to his left is FallenAngemon, and to his right is a BlackGatomon. A color swapped Gatomon who is now black furred, with purple stripes and now yellow eyes instead of blue. She sneers at the humans and practically drools over the physique of Dinohyumon and Geogreymon as their muscles are on full display. She purrs at them both before a screech reaches her ears and she looks up to see an angry Saberdramon glaring at her for eyeing up her dinosaur love interest with her eyes. The cat shrugs and waves her off as a non-threat before refocusing on the task at hand.

Devimon smiles addressing Geogreymon and Seth, "Well, well, if it isn't my favorite pair of rivals. Are you still cowering with your birdbrain up there trying to stay out of my sight? Because I'll be honest… it was working for a while! But now I have a team as well! And we were hand picked by the generals of our army to come here and capture you all!" Looking behind himself at the failed attack squad, he shrugs before tossing them some recovery potions, "The other squads at least did their work, now you three heal up and get ready for round two, we are taking in these Tamers and their Digimon whether they come in healthy, beaten up, in their rookie forms, or as Digi-eggs!"

Seth grits his teeth and looks to Klein before both nod and then activate a pair of cards, Devimon raises his eyebrows at this before his jaw falls as a healing light covers their entire group as he hears, Combo Cards: Area heal! Area Recovery!

With this combo their wounds all heal and their fatigue washes away as well revealing the group is back to full fighting capacity. Devimon grits his teeth in annoyance before smirking again. "Fiiiiiine so you have your recovery done, but how will you deal with all 6 of us?"

Klein quickly answers, "We will fight you all! Don't forget it is 6 versus 5! And we have been training hard to get ready for you all! So prepare yourselves for a whooping! Even if you win we will have taken out at least half of you!"

As all eyes are trading glares Seth looks to the FallenAngemon next to Devimon before seeing a familiar badge on his waist with the number 98. It can't be!

Seeing this Seth yells out, "Angemon 0098! Is that you?"

FallenAngemon answers with determination, "Yes I was that weaker Digimon you are asking about but now I am a much more powerful form and a much more powerful version that has allowed me to get closer to the strength of an Ultimate than ever before! So even if I was your ally before you had best prepare for defeat! I am on the 7 Vices side now so get ready!"

Seth thinks to himself quickly as the tension is about to explode into another brawl, He must have been corrupted by some sort of virus! I'll need to bring him back to his senses with the cleansing effect of the Digivice, but I need to get close and hold him still for at least 15 seconds for it to work properly or else he won't get properly cleansed.

Seth sends a message explaining this to Kleins Digivice who looks, reads, and then nods after seeing it, he nudges Dinohyumon and motions to Kogamon letting the warrior Digimon know that they will be tackling him together to increase their chances of winning.

Seth tries once more to reach the Angemon inside the corrupted shell, "Come on Angemon! This isn't you! You can come back with us to Holy Angel Palace and we can get you treatment to break you out of whatever they corrupted you with!"

Right as he finishes his statement all the Virus types begin to chuckle then full blown laughter is heard after that. This causes worry and confusion in the team as Devimon calms down with a sigh of contentment, "Ah that was good, you really don't realize the situation do you? haven't you wondered why even though you have been fighting for so long against so many enemies no one has sent reinforcements to you from the palace? About why they haven't sent an escort to you since you have finally gotten this close?"

The team begins to connect the dots as their faces fill with horror and realization. Devimon then drops the bomb, "Here's the thing we learned there is a hole in the long range radar in the palace thanks to my new friend here and his knowledge. It can't detect Champion level virus Digimon until they are within one mile of the palace. So our Generals sent a huge strike force to cripple them while we tried to capture you, they are probably still locked in combat as we speak! Go ahead! Give them a ring!"

Seth shakily brings his Digivice up to his mouth to call and begins the message, when it is picked up he hears sounds of clanging, yells, blasts and explosions, and even the bursts of data from Digimon turning back into Digi-eggs. He asks quickly in a panic, "Sorcerymon?! Are you there!?"

Only to hear more crashes and yells before their comms go dead from an enemy shooting and destroying the machine. But before they went dead he heard a voice that sounded like Sorcerymon fighting for his life, so he had hope they could last for now until they reached them.

Devimon cracks his neck and knuckles seeing their fear and worry filled faces, "Now" they all turn to him with anger and determination to finish them off quickly filling their faces, "Shall we begin?"

With a roar both sides charge and the fight begins anew. But with a new driving force and purpose filling the Tamers and their friends. To defeat these enemies and try to reach the palace quickly to help them with the war that has reached the Home Front.