"So are we all in agreement?" Taichi asked the gang, just to be sure.
"Yes." Was the universal answer, or nods and other varying expressions of approval.
Then just as they said that, Novice appeared again.
"Hey, Novice," Sora asked first.
"Yes?" The Overseer replied.
"Umm... can you tell us who our predecessors were," the Chosen of Love said awkwardly. This was the result of the conversation. If Novice has knowledge of their futures, then surely he would know who their predecessors would be.
"What would you do with that information," Novice asked with a neutral look.
"We would like to meet them," Jo replied, "I mean, if it's possible."
"Funny you should say that," Novice said, earning several confused looks. "Swift wanted me to tell you about them, but I don't want to reveal too much. So I decided to make a compromise. I only know two of them by name and you guys will meet them in the next few years."
"We will?" Mimi asked with a wide smile, "That's great!"
"But." And that made everyone worried at the grave tone, "One of them is planning something very drastic to get something she wants, but it backfires on her horribly."
"What? What is she planning to do?" Miyako asked in worry.
"I'm not answering that, but I will tell you this much: She will only end up miserable at the end of it," The Overseer sounded like he was pitying the predecessor who was apparently planning something.
"What about the other one?" Ken asked with a serious look," Are they in on it?"
"No, he doesn't know what his old friend was... will be planning," Novice replied with a frown, "On that note, Daisuke, Veemon, Miyako, Hawkmon, Iori, Armadimon, Ken, Wormmon." At their names being mentioned the four sets of Chosen and digimon in question perked up. "If at any point you see a black knight, don't fight, run."
"What do you mean?" Daisuke asked with a small glare at the Overseer.
"You will know when the time comes," Novice replied with a small smile.
"Can't you give us details?" Iori asked, "When does this happen? What day? What time?"
"I'm sorry, I can't," Novice said.
"Why not?" Armadimon asked.
"Because I don't know the exact time," Novice then replied, "I told you kids before, I'm neither omnipotent nor omniscient."
"Can't you check it somehow," Hawkmon then asked, "Don't you have an ability to do that?"
"...I don't know if I can," Novice admitted in embarrassment.
"What?" Came out of everyone.
"Look, I told you, I'm a rookie among Overseers. I'm not sure if I'm even mid tier among them," Novice said like he was ashamed of it.
"...Can't you ask others for help?" Yamato then asked.
"I could, but... I like to be as independent as I can," Novice said, "Call it pride or whatever, but I'm not comfortable asking help unless I'm absolutely sure I can't do something on my own."
"...I guess that makes sense," Hikari commented.
"Soo what about that digivice upgrade," Tentomon then asked, reminding everyone that Novice was supposed to ask about it.
"Sorry, Swift refused to upgrade your digivices," Novice said, earning groans of disappointment. Although if you knew what to look for, you would notice that the Overseer had hard time keeping a straight face.
"So, are we going to keep reading?" Veemon then asked.
"Well... I doubt we're going to get anything useful out of him," Daisuke commented while giving Novice a mild glare.
"Good." The said adult in the room said as he made a holographic screen appear before making a quick call. "Lotosmon, I need you in the reading room."
"Coming." Was the reply that the Children and their partners heard.
It didn't take long until the fairy digimon entered. But there was a small surprise accompanying her.
"Black? Impmon?" Novice asked in surprise, "What are you two doing here?"
"You wanted Lotosmon for something," Black replied easily, "I got curious."
Impmon shrugged a little, "I didn't have anything better to do."
"So." Lotosmon piped up, "What did you need me for?"
"Take a seat," Novice said as he waved his hand and an extra easy chair appeared. Lotosmon did, and soon the book floated to her.
"You want me to read next?" The fairy asked with a raised eyebrow. Or that's what Novice assumed she was doing.
"Yes, you haven't had a turn yet." Was the simple response.
"Alright then," Lotosmon shrugged before opening the book from the appropriate page, while Black took her favorite spot which was also known as Novice's lap. Impmon jumped on Lotosmon's armrest and took a comfy position.
Foggy Days! Search through the City!
The title card showed a city with wisps of fog and the Remnant team scattering to different directions.
"Already?" Mimi sounded out in worry of people of Vale being imprisoned.
Taiyang sighed as he sat on the bed in the small Motel around the outskirts of Vale he'd rented a room in. To say the day had been stressful...would be a colossal understatement. Heck, when he was on the way here, he saw a bunch of families going for the nearest airship or vessel out of Vale...and he honestly couldn't blame them. It didn't help he knew a bit more than them about the situation, thanks to his long lost wife who'd suddenly turned up again, and the story she told him...it was honestly...insanely hard to believe…
She'd been stuck in another world for 14 years when it was only 11 years out here, so now she was a bit older than him, she had a student who was stuck in there for 10 years but was somehow pulled into the world only 6 months ago, his own daughters were also pulled into said world just a week ago with their friends, and spent a whole 2 months there trying to survive, while only 2 hours had passed outside.
No one could blame Taiyang for having such a hard time believing. Koshiro remembered how his mom reacted to the sight of Tentomon the first time.
Taichi and Hikari remember their mom going hysterical at the sight of Greymon.
Yamato was happy that his father was relatively calm about Gabumon, but his face was priceless when he saw Garurumon. That memory made him chuckle a little.
All the other original eight had various memories of their parents finding out about their partners.
Although Ken also remembered the day he finally decided to explain what had been going on.
He wasn't too keen on the fact that both of them had boyfriends, but he supposed it made sense that feelings might start to grow when spending so much time with someone.
At least the boys didn't seem so bad once he'd been able to talk to them a bit… with their older brother and his wife standing very close in case he tried anything.
The girls were glad that Ruby's and Yang's dad was coming around to his girls dating.
"Hey Novice," Hikari suddenly called out.
"Yes?"
"Did your sisters date anyone? If yes, how did your parents react," The Chosen of light asked.
The Overseer raised an eyebrow at the slightly off topic question, but he answered anyway, "Big sis had three boyfriends that I knew of over several years. And our parents never had issues with it. And neither did I, seeing as all of them were nice in their own way."
"Even after you walked in on her and her first boyfriend in the act?" Black snickered, earning various looks of shock and horror from the older Children.
"I was younger and dumber!" Novice defended himself, "Them doing that in the middle of the day never crossed my mind!"
Lotosmon had paused in her reading to cover her mouth to hide her laughing. While the older children gaped at their host walking in on his older sister doing the nasty.
"Look... just keep reading," Novice muttered, hoping that this wouldn't be brought up ever again. And he was seriously regretting ever telling Black that story.
...now if only that was the worst of the information. No, the worst had to be the part where apparently a terrorist/conqueror from that world found a way to get into this world, and was intend on taking over...oh and apparently his wife, his daughters, and all their friends had made friends with some of the monsters living in that world and brought them over too…
At least the ones they had made friends with were nice. Yang's partner was even quite the hugger when she stopped pretending to be a plush toy. Still...it didn't change the fact that the world just got a lot more dangerous if what he'd heard was true. That was probably why he'd decided to stay here for the time being...though he was a little disappointed when Summer said she couldn't afford to be out in the open just yet. Turns out basically being the leader of a Rebellion Group painted quite a target on your back…
To the Children, that last part made all too much sense. Being Chosen Children painted a huge target on their backs in the Digital World.
Sighing, he decided to just lie down for now. Maybe this would all be clearer once he'd had a good night's sleep. Heck, if anyone had it worse, it would be Qrow. He had to explain this to Ozpin, though Summer had insisted, and he'd seconded her insistence, that the part where the kids were also partnered with Digimon be kept a secret for now. Too many might want to take advantage of that…
Meanwhile, up in his office, Ozpin frowned as he went over the bit of information that he'd just received from Qrow. Honestly, while he did trust Qrow, some of what he'd said sounded...outlandish...especially the supposed source. Not saying he thought Qrow was lying, he did want to believe it too...but it seemed more than a little too…
"Out of this world?" Daisuke let out with a snicker, earning several laughs out of that.
"Okay, that was a good one," Miyako had to admit.
"Täsmälleen(Exactly)," Novice agreed in amusement, not that anyone understood him.
"Good evening, Oz. I see you haven't changed a bit," came a new voice...one he hadn't heard in over a decade.
"I suppose that confirms that Qrow wasn't drunk when he told me what he did," Ozpin mused, earning a chuckle from the figure. "You'll excuse me for my skepticism, but for all its worth...its good to see you again, Summer," he said, turning around to see the long thought dead Huntress...and she wasn't alone. "And I see what he said about a 'Partner Digimon' was true as well."
"Good evening. It's nice to finally meet the great Professor Ozpin. Summer has told me much about you," Renamon said with a polite bow.
"It's nice to meet you as well, Renamon, I believe Qrow said?" he asked, receiving a nod from the fox Digimon.
"So, you have the gist of things understood, right?" Summer asked him.
"I'd like to think so, but it's still somewhat baffling. After all, I heard about this Myotismon on the news today, but hearing it from someone who's been fighting him for even longer, it really puts into perspective how dangerous he is." Ozpin admitted.
"Make no mistake, that vampire may have his sights set on domination rather than destruction, but he's just as dangerous as 'her'," Summer said.
"Her? Is she talking about Cinder?" Gomamon asked with a head tilt.
"Nope," Novice said easily, "Cinder's boss."
That didn't sound good. "Who is she?" Jo asked as he consulted the guidebook, but there was nothing on it as of yet.
"You guys will find out in time," Novice said simply, "But right now, she's the least of Remnant's problems. Especially if she's not like the one from Primal Timeline." That last one the Overseer kept inside his head.
"That is indeed worrying. But from what I heard, it seems like once he's been dealt with, it would be possible to restore peace to the….Digital World?" Ozpin said.
"I wish…" Summer snorted under her breath, but Ozpin noticed it.
"There's something else?" Ozpin asked.
"Myotismon is just the tip of the iceberg compared to THEM. Their not as sneaky as Salem is… but they don't need to be, with just the four of them, they can tear an entire kingdom apart in a few hours." Summer said seriously.
"Ahh... so the boss' name is Salem." Wormmon exclaimed.
"Does anyone else think that Summer is talking about Dark Masters?" Patamon then asked.
"Most likely," Taichi replied for everyone else.
Lotosmon shook her head, "Against me, the only one I can safely say can't best me is Puppetmon. MetalSeadramon I will have some difficulties with and Piedmon I feel confident I can fight off. But I'm not sure about Machinedramon."
Ozpin's eyes actually widened in shock at that. Certainly...entire cities disappearing within a single night wasn't anything new...but the idea that just FOUR individuals could tear apart an entire kingdom in hours...that was worrying. "...should we be worried that they will be coming soon after?"
"I'm pretty sure Belphemon or Leviamon can destroy one of the kingdoms within an hour by themselves," Impmon piped up.
"Do you want to test that?" Black asked, earning a warning glare from Novice.
"Heck no! You know how dangerous Belphemon gets when he's woken up," Impmon shot back, causing Novice to let out a sigh of relief, "It took combined efforts of you, Daemon and Barbamon to put him back to sleep."
"Urgh! Don't remind me," Black complained, "Those two were just as disgusted of teamwork as I was, but none of us wanted Belphemon tearing our headquarters apart."
As the Adult and Child level of two of the Demon Lords complained, the Children were getting some terrible images of if Belphemon really is so powerful that it took three of them to put him back to sleep, whatever that means. And one of them was Daemon.
"Just keep reading Lotosmon," Ken spoke for everyone when Impmon started complaining something about "Mister High and Mighty not helping".
"...not for now...before I started the Rebellion, I was working with another group for a while...it costs most of them their lives, but they managed to seal them away for now...no idea how long the seal will last though…" she admitted.
"I see…" Ozpin mused. "Well...I certainly hope the seal on them stays shut...I'd rather not wish for something that powerful to be free to terrorize the people of any world."
"That makes three of us," Renamon said, remembering the last time she'd fought them...the end result was her degenerating to her current form.
"Degenerating?" Mimi let out, "Was Renamon originally an Ultimate?"
"An Ultimate level partner?" Sora asked with a skeptical look, "I'm not sure that is possible."
"It has happened in one reality," Novice said, earning surprised looks, "Although the Ultimate in question was the size of an average baby digimon."
"...Was it from Numemon line?" Agumon asked with a head tilt.
"Nope." Novice replied, popping the "p", "But it had incredible restoration powers that came in handy for the heroes of that reality."
"So what happens now?" Ozpin asked.
"For now? We'll keep trying to locate Myotismon and end this. But until then, all we can do is subvert his plans as much as we can," Summer sighed. "I've had Keenan and Falcomon scout out every now and then, but even they've been unable to find anything."
"Ah yes...your student. I must say I'm surprised that such incidents had happened more than once…" Ozpin mused. "I must admit though...the Digimon's ability to form a symbiotic relationship with a human or faunus is certainly intriguing."
"It has its benefits," Summer nodded. "At any rate, we'd better return to the others for now. We'll be formulating a new strategy soon enough."
"If you'll excuse us," Renamon nodded, before grabbing hold of Summer and the two of them vanished.
Ozpin blinked for a moment, before shaking his head in amusement "I feel this is going to be a recurring thing."
"Probably," Veemon commented, earning small chuckles in agreement. Black and Impmon were still arguing about something, getting into each others faces. But they were ignored, especially by Novice considering the fight was happening across the two easy chairs. Lotosmon acted like nothing was happening as she continued reading.
"Well...today's been...eventful…" Weiss sighed as once more the groups were gathered, discussing the day they'd had...and the plans for the next day…
"That's a very nice way of putting it," Gyro and Pierce deadpanned.
"I'm still impressed you two were so concentrated on that game you missed the fight with Myotismon… which was just a few blocks away." Azure deadpanned to his brothers, having clipped his D-Core to a pocket on the front of his shirt.
"What?!" Yamato, Taichi and their partners let out in unison.
"Hey, we were focused on keeping each other alive against that horde of Grimm and Zombies," Veemon defended.
"Can't believe Remnant has its own version of Left 4 Dead," Pierce chuckled.
"But calling it 'Dust 4 Dead'...eh, still was really fun," Agumon shrugged.
"Those four were busy playing an arcade game while Myotismon was rampaging in there," Sora let out, not sure if she was angry or just disappointed.
"Boys." Mimi let out, earning various vocal protest from the said representatives in the room.
"Well… that's a cheap pun." Wizardmon said dryly.
"So, hey, question, how does going from having no partner to suddenly having one feel with how long you've been solo?" Gomamon couldn't help but ask, and all the Digimon turned to Wizardmon, all very much curious as well.
"Well… it's different, that much is for sure, I can't describe it easily, but I CAN say however, that I actually feel stronger to a degree. I suppose that us partnered Digimon are somewhat stronger than others." Wizardmon explained with a small laugh.
"Well, we can beat most other digimon of the same level in a fair fight," Agumon commented.
"Well, except the Dark Masters when we were still inexperienced," Gabumon muttered in shame.
"Huh, that's interesting," Weiss mused. "But more importantly, we should make plans on what to do next," she said.
"Pumpmon and Gotsumon are well hidden with Summer's group in the Emerald Forest, so they should be safe for now. They may act like kids but they get that if Myotismon finds them...they're toast," Azure said.
Yamato and Takeru smiled at hearing those two being safe.
"Glad to hear that," Pyrrha sighed in relief. The last thing any of them wanted was for those two to meet their end at hands of the evil Digimon. They were still a little uncomfortable at the memory of what happened to DemiDevimon...and they all didn't like him one bit.
"Guys, what happened to the DemiDevimon you faced," Iori asked, not remembering if the seniors had told them.
Yamato looked to Taichi, wondering if they should tell that.
"He was eaten by VenomMyotismon," Agumon piped up.
"Agumon!" Taichi exclaimed.
"It's... okay," Iori muttered, despite part of him wondering if it was... graphic.
"He was swallowed whole, if that makes it better," Yamato said, guessing what images Iori must be having.
It did help a little.
"So what should our next move be?" Blake asked.
"For now...I think we can only keep going with what we've been doing so far. From what we found out, Myotismon's base should be out at sea somewhere," Ruby mused.
"Doesn't that seem kinda...hard to search?" Nora pointed out.
"Not if we assume that they can't be too far out at sea. Not to mention transporting large forces would be hard to do if they were somewhere too far away," Ren said.
"Then...should we look for an island just off the coast or something?" Biyomon asked.
"I remember having to take a rowboat to a small islet where Myotismon was hiding," Taichi mentioned, revealing how he found the place, by following his digivice.
"That's a good as any place to start," Yang nodded, pulling out her scroll and with it, a map of Vale and the surrounding area.
"Well...we can probably rule out anywhere as far as Patch," Jaune mused as they looked over the map.
"And considering they can't be too far…" Tentomon mused...before pointing at a few small islands that would fall into the range. "Would these places be good possible hideouts?"
"Actually...can we get a map that includes Grimm infested areas too?" Gyro mused.
"Huh?" Armadimon let out.
"Why Grimm infested areas?" Agumon asked.
"Because there's no way a few Grimm are gonna be able to do anything against Myotismon's army," Pierce nodded in agreement with his brother.
"Good point." The Armadillo commented.
"Those things are barely target practice," Impmon said.
"As Beelzemon maybe," Black pointed out before looking thoughtful, "Actually, even your Adult form should be more than enough against them."
"Thank you." Impmon said in mild exasperation of being acknowledged.
"Oh yeah, that's a good point." Veemon said in realisation as Yang updated the map, and there were now a few more island added, one being even closer than the rest.
"I think that's the most likely one." Ruby said as she pointed at said small island, probably big enough for a pack of Beowolves or two to make their home. "And the topology seems to be perfect for a hideout too...and it even says there was an attempt to set up an outpost on the island...too bad it didn't work out so well…"
No one needed to be told what that meant as they had varying mental images of what went wrong.
"So its close, the threat can be neutralized easily, and it even has infrastructure...I think we found the perfect spot," Azure nodded.
"I'll be sure to inform Summer of this news immediately. Let's regroup and make our plans in the morning," Wizardmon nodded and suggested.
"Good call. It's been a LONG day," Gabumon agreed, yawning tiredly.
The sound of tired agreement rang through the room as the group went their separate ways for the night.
As Team JNPPR entered their dorm, Pyrrha stopped when her scroll started ringing, drawing it out and blinking in surprise at the number before she looked at her teammates "You can all head to bed, I need to take this. I shouldn't be too long." she said quickly as she walked away from the room and around a corner.
Now everyone was curious about who was trying to reach Pyrrha.
She stopped walking at that point and looked back at her scroll, the person still attempting to reach her, before she took a deep breath and accepted the call, the screen going to video, showing a young woman with short maroon hair and red eyes, having a similar face to Pyrrha, but a few years older.
"Hello Yoshino." Pyrrha greeted her politely.
"Hey lil sis." Yoshino said, sounding a bit awkward as she bit her lip and looked away "Hey, listen, I know we left each other on the wrong foot the other day, but, I have to know, are you ok? I saw the news, and Vale is looking pretty dangerous right now."
"Oh! So that's Pyrrha's sister," Hikari exclaimed in surprise. A surprise that was shared among the others.
"But she still seems to care about Pyrrha," Sora pointed out from the previous dialogue.
This made everyone smile a little. Except Black who rolled her eyes.
"Oh, lighten up you little sourpuss," Lotosmon said with a small snicker, causing Black to grumble something incoherent.
"I'm alright Yoshino, don't worry." Pyrrha reassured her older sister with a smile "And, about the other day…" she sighed then, still remembering the horrible things they'd said to one another "I'm sorry about everything I said, I had no right to say that."
Yoshino blinked in surprise, before smiling warmly "Thanks Pyrrha, and, I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have called you a glory hound and all of that."
"So that's what their fight was about," Yamato assumed.
"Maybe she felt jealous?" Mimi commented.
"Probably," Daisuke added in, being pretty familiar with the feeling. Except he was the younger sibling and in this case it was the little sibling that was more popular.
For Ken, this was like him and Osamu in reverse.
Novice let out a weary sigh.
"What's wrong Novice?" Biyomon asked first.
"Nothing important," Novice said, looking a little down.
"It's not nothing important if you sigh like that," Mimi butted in with a mildly worried look.
Novice then sighed, "It's nothing, just... some old thoughts of jealousy I had of my sisters."
"What did you have to be jealous about?" Iori asked, "You're pretty amazing. I mean you can see to-"
"I meant, before I became an Overseer," Novice then clarified, "Let's just say that I wasn't... a miracle child or anything. Always feeling that my sisters were better than me at anything that mattered."
"Were they?" Ken asked, feeling that this was getting a little too close to home.
"...Well they had lives outside our family and I didn't," Novice said, "Now enough about me."
Pyrrha chuckled a bit "It's fine Yoshino. And before you say it, don't worry, I'll be careful."
Yoshino laughed a bit "Yeah. Well, I'll talk to you again soon lil sis. Have to get up early tomorrow, rise and shine with the training and all that, makes me wonder why I chose to go to Atlas sometimes. See you another time." Yoshino said, before ending the call.
The Children realized that Yoshino was in Atlas. And if they assume she's in combat school, then that could put her a year or two ahead of Pyrrha. Which also served as another reminder that Pyrrha must be pretty amazing to outshine her sister.
Pyrrha smiled, before sighing in relief as she pocketed her scroll, happy her relationship with her sister was just fine, before heading back to the dorm.
As all of this was happening however, something else was happening in Vale.
Myotismon stood on top of the Vale News Network (VNN) building, a pentagram underneath his feet, Witchmon standing a few feet behind him.
The Children weren't commenting on what was happening, instead, they were frowning at the screen. Especially the first eight who had a pretty good guess on what the vampire digimon was planning.
"Everything is ready?" he asked her.
"Yes, my lord. Your forces simply await your signal to begin." Witchmon said as she bowed.
"Excellent," Myotismon smirked, as he bit into his own wrist, and let a few drops of...blood? Data? It was hard to say WHAT the liquid was, but suffice to say, the moment it made contact with the pentagram, it began to light up. "Let us begin!" he declared, his cape spreading out. "The beginning of my Kingdom of Darkness!"
That did NOT sound good.
The moment he did, a mist began to descend on the city of Vale, barely noticeable at first, but as it spread, it became thicker and thicker till a fog covered the area. At first people didn't notice, but by the time they did, the city was now being covered in a thick fog.
"He's going all out now," Gatomon commented with a glare at the screen.
"Weird weather tonight," a random security guard mused.
"Eh, compared to the snowfall this is nothing," his partner commented, taking a bite of his hot dog. Glancing out at the mist, he blinked when he noticed what looked like a bunch of monsters walking through the streets. Rubbing his eyes, when he looked again, they were gone. "Did you see that?" he asked his partner.
"Nope," the first security guard said...looking at his scroll.
"Some security guards tehy are," Iori commented with a small scowl. Most likely because of discipline drilled into him by his grandfather.
The second then looked at him...then to the hot dog in his hand, before promptly throwing it away. "No more late night hot dogs for me…" he muttered. "Makes me see things."
Everyone shook their heads at the guy deciding that something in his food was the reason for what he saw, after who knows how many times he had eaten it before.
"How stupid can humans be," Impmon grumbled.
"About as stupid as some of the digimon," Novice commented with a small smirk.
"...Are you implying something?" Impmon then asked with a suspicious look.
"Of course he's not," Black butted in, "That would be implying you're worth the effort."
Lotosmon decided to keep reading so as to ignore Impmon glaring at Black.
Meanwhile, in the VNN building, a team of reporters was busy at work, going over some footage they'd happened to get earlier. It depicted another monster battle, but this time...it was different. Depicted on the footage was what appeared to be a human child riding the large black bird...and not some bystander, the child was clearly fighting alongside the bird.
"Oh no," Miyako muttered at the sight on the screen.
"That could be bad," Koshiro added in.
"Well, Keenan isn't exactly known so maybe that's not too bad," Jo added in.
It was true. With all that was going on, Keenan would be completely unknown. Unlike teams RWGBY and JNPPR.
"What does this mean? They're far too coordinated to be some random team up...but would a child really be able to work with a monster so well that they'd fight this well?" Lisa Lavender mused as she went over the footage again. Normally she'd have been elated that one of her off duty crew members happened to be close enough to get this sort of footage...but now she was...confused.
Suddenly she felt like things were MUCH deeper than she thought...and she thought they were deep to begin with...however, before she could ponder further, that's when she noticed the fog rolling in.
"Huh? Was there a fog warning in the weather forecast?" one of her crew members asked.
"No...no there wasn't," Lisa frowned as she tried to call the other division, but… "Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"My scrolls getting a wonky signal...could the fog be getting in the way?" she frowned.
"It did stop dad from contacting anyone outside of Odaiba," Yamato commented, remembering his dad telling him that nothing worked.
"And everyone else," Sora added in, remembering how people were unable to use their phones.
"Uh… how does that make sense?" another member of her crew asked.
"The signal was fine before the fog rolled in...so I guess it'd make sense…" she said, though not sounding very convinced herself. 'This fog...why does it feel...unnatural?' she mentally frowned as she looked out the window, at the city she could barely see now.
Gyro was starting to drift off, the exhaustion from the day melting away as he drifted off into dreamland. Then it was promptly shattered.
"WAKE UP!" came Pierce's loud voice, waking up the entirety of team RWGBY.
"Rude," Agumon commented with a frown.
Every single digimon in the room agreed with that.
Gyro groaned as he looked at the clock. It was still 10 PM. "Pierce...I swear to god...you'd better have a good reason for this…" he growled.
"I think we're all in agreement of that," Weiss said as all the occupants of the room were glaring at him.
"Look out the window," Pierce said simply.
They looked at him in confusion for a moment, before doing as told, looking out the window and trying to see what was so important they had to wake up.
They didn't see anything though, they saw the courtyard, the emerald forest off to the far right, Vale covered in fog-
Wait what was that last one?
Everyone chuckled at that, while also acknowledging that Vale covered in fog was pretty important, all things considered.
"That's… that can't be normal… right?" Ruby asked hesitantly.
"Probably not, the forecast didn't mention anything about fog today, even at night." Blake noted.
"And fog rarely just come by so suddenly, there's usually signs in the atmosphere that shows the temperature is right for it several minutes before it happens." Weiss added with a frown.
"Translation, something else is causing the fog," Veemon deadpanned.
"Hey! I was supposed to say that," Veemon complained at Lotosmon reading too fast for him to say it.
"It's not my fault you're slow," the fairy digimon replied back with a smile.
"She's not wrong," Daisuke agreed with a grin, earning a glare from the blue dinosaur.
"Well, get ready guys...we got another thing coming our way...was it too much to ask for a good night's sleep first?" Yang sighed as they all got out of bed.
Pulling on their normal clothes, they were soon out of the Dorms and headed towards the fog covered city.
"Will they be alright with so little sleep," Sora wondered aloud.
"Some people have functioned with little sleep," Jo commented as a form of encouragement. Although if they were lucky then they wouldn't have to stay up all night.
Meanwhile, Ozpin frowned as he tried to patch in a call to the other members of his faction. What had started as another late night had become another incident when he saw the unnatural bank of fog roll in. However…
"Strange…"Ozpin frowned. So far all his attempts to contact his allies were met with static, as if something was blocking the signal. Looking out the window again, he noted how the fog seemed to be covering Vale and Vale alone, while not actually reaching Beacon.
He narrowed his eyes at that fog, it had rolled in far too quickly for his liking, and it was utterly impossible to make out Vale within, as even the tallest buildings were covered all the way to the top.
"This doesn't bode well." he said, knowing something BAD was going to happen. The worst part however...was that he had no idea how or WHAT to do in regards to this.
No one could blame Ozpin. No normal human would be able to know what to do in such a situation. Not to mention it was highly likely that the wizard had never encountered anything like this in any of his lives.
"Perfect timing," Summer said as the Chosen Children and their partners reached the outskirts of Vale, to find the Rebellion group waiting for them.
"So what are we dealing with here?" Jaune asked.
"While this appears to be an abnormally thick fog, it is in fact a barrier of some kind," Wizardmon said. "From what I can tell, while it doesn't stop anything from coming in...its intended to stop anything from getting out."
"So, once we're in, no coming out till we deal with Myotismon then." Gyro said with a frown.
"We're not getting any sleep tonight are we?" Nora asked tiredly.
"Probably not," Gatomon commented on the last part.
Salamon yawned from atop her partner's head "Probably not."
"Oh, look an ech-" "No." Gatomon spoke up, not wanting to hear that joke right now.
Impmon shut up with a grumble.
Gyro moved his hand around a bit, everyone feeling the wind shift around "Well… guess we'll have to go in and hope for the best." he grumbled, annoyed they couldn't get an idea of what it was like on the inside.
"We'll want to be careful, Myotismon is at his strongest in the night, and the fog will help him once morning hits and protect him from the sun." Renamon advised.
"Doesn't matter," Gomamon commented with a grin, "Angewomon can one-shot him."
"Yeah," Patamon agreed with that, "Plus I got a critical hit on him, and my other can go Perfect too."
"Unless this Myotismon has something up his sleeve," Takeru muttered in worry.
"Oh, come on," Daisuke shot back with a grin, "What can he possibly do in this situation."
At that, everyone gave the Chosen of Courage and Friendship a dry look.
"You did NOT just say that," Miyako said with a disapproving frown.
"Now we can expect him to have something to even the odds," Tentomon let out a sigh.
"What, like evolving into VenomMyotismon mid-fight?" Gomamon asked innocently.
That didn't inspire confidence. Much less when Hikari stiffened at a very scary thought, "...Or BelialMyotismon."
"...Okay, but they still have 10 digimon," Iori said, although he too did find it scary if BelialMyotismon appeared to fight the Remnant crew.
"And if Gyro and Pyrrha can evolve their partners to Ultimate, then they should be good," Yamato also added.
But then Mimi remembered something as a light bulb went off in her head, "Wait! You guys remember when they heard the prophecies of their Crests."
And that made everyone remember that the digimon mentioned in them are most likely Ultimate forms of their partners.
This gave everyone a mental image of BelialMyotismon/VenomMyotismon getting curbstomped by 10 Ultimates.
It was a very pleasant thought.
"Then get ready everyone, we'll need to be on our toes," Agumon said.
"About that...Gennai sent over something earlier," Summer said, before transfering an app to all their scrolls.
"A Digital Barrier?" Pyrrha asked, looking at the title.
"Oh?" Koshiro sounded out, remembering how he got one and barely activated it to protect his family.
"Something you know, Koshiro?" Gabumon asked with a head-tilt.
"The story will probably explain it," The Chosen of Knowledge said simply.
"It's a little something we can use to lighten the load for us," Summer explained. "If we apply this app in a building or room, that area gains what we like to call 'the wallflower effect'."
"Wait, so you mean they won't see us or that building?" Ruby asked.
"That's exactly correct," Summer nodded. "With this, we could probably set up a safe house inside enemy lines...but the thing is...it takes a few minutes to set up...so we'll need to find a secure location to use it."
"That is convenient," Wormmon commented.
"Well, hopefully we find a good place then." Yang said with a sigh, before they all started going through the thick fog, making sure they weren't too far apart and that they were all going in the same direction.
Eventually they got through the thick of the fog, and found that inside the barrier the city was covered in a mist that obscured vision, but not so much that seeing around was impossible.
"Well hello there Silent Hill." Azure said dryly.
"Silent Hill?" Iori questioned.
Taichi, Daisuke and Takeru looked thoughtful. They could swear they had heard the name somewhere.
"Oh dear god if I see some nightmare fuel, I'm hiding." Pierce said in response, shivering as he was reminded of the psychological horror series.
"Ahh! I think there was a game with that name," Daisuke said first.
"Yes, of the aforementioned genre," Novice added in, never having played himself, but having heard a lot of it. But never planning to play it, horror and him do not mix.
"How scary is it," Hikari asked with some dread.
"You don't want to know," Novice said with a sympathetic look.
"So far it doesn't look like Myotismon's forces have hit this area," Blake mused.
"They're probably focusing on the inner parts of the city, where more people are around," Wormmon said.
"Not the most comforting of news, but useful for us," Falcomon sighed.
"Right, we'd better find somewhere to use as a base as soon as we can," Gabumon said, earning nods of agreement.
The ensuing journey was...tense...everyone was tired from the long day, and the eerie atmosphere wasn't helping at all. Honestly, Vale was quiet enough in these outskirts normally, but with the fog...it was practically dead. The only bits of life they sometimes noticed was the occasional shape of Bakemon floating about in the distance every now and then.
Okay, the scenery made some of the Children think of a horror movie.
"Over there." Wormmon pointed out towards a motel, some lights on inside of it.
"Good find." Ren said with a nod as they headed towards it silently.
When they got there, they started discreetly checking every room, until eventually…
"Is that dad?" Yang blinked in surprise as she looked through a window, seeing her father asleep on the bed in the room.
Sora couldn't help smiling at the girls finding their dad free and well.
"Wow, talk about sleeping through the apocalypse...or something like it," Pierce couldn't help but say in amusement.
Novice let out a chuckle. "I remember my little sis being threatened with ice packs in the morning several times. One time we actually went through with it."
"Some of us are also heavy sleepers," Taichi commented while giving his partner a look.
"What?" Agumon didn't get it.
That earned some laughs.
"To be fair, I doubt the fog barrier was loud," Ren commented a little dryly.
"Wait, where's Zwei?" Ruby asked, to which a familiar corgi was suddenly at the window, barking excitedly at seeing them.
"There he is," Palmon said.
No one could help smiling at the cute corgi. Except for Black who rolled her eyes and curled in Novice's lap.
"I think it's safe to say we found our first potential base," Veemon chuckled.
"A motel's a pretty good base too. It's got rooms, can be hidden, and it even might have a kitchen if needs be," Gyro nodded in approval.
The kids nodded in approval of this choice.
"Let's go then," Nora said.
"Yeah, let's not stay out here more than necessary," Biyomon nodded in agreement.
Quickly making their way to the motel...they found the door locked.
"I got this," Keenan sighed, before sinking into the shadows, and a few moments later, the door was opened, Keenan having unlocked it from inside. "Get in."
They did as they were told to which Keenan quickly locked the doors again. No point making it easier for any of Myotismon's forces to get in.
"Not that the door would hold them," Koshiro commented, remembering how Bakemon broke into his home.
As did several others.
"Excuse us," Jaune said….but nobody responded.
"...aren't there usually supposed to be people in these places?" Gomamon asked.
Out of curiosity, Patamon flew over the counter and well… "I found someone," he said, to which they found who was no doubt the owner of the motel...curled up in a fetal position, wrapped in a blanket, and sucking his thumb in a fearful breakdown.
No one was sure if they should be disturbed or feel pity for the poor man.
"Wuss." Impmon commented, earning a whack from Lotosmon's Cadeuces.
"...Okay, probably best if we leave him alone for now…" Wizardmon said, earning nods of agreement.
"Let's just grab some keys and check for empty rooms." Biyomon suggested, everyone doing just that.
They thankfully found plenty of empty rooms, but also rooms that had people sleeping in them… or doing other things.
"Huh?" Iori let out.
"Oh jeez, uh, sorry, just, emergency problem, big monsters in Vale, we're setting up this motel as a safe house." Pierce said, covering his eyes when he walked in on a couple that quickly covered themselves with the blanket of the bed.
As soon as Pierce covering his eyes was red, Miyako felt the need to cover Iori's eyes before the rest of it could be red.
"Um… thanks for the warning." the first woman said awkwardly, before Pierce closed the door back up, making sure it was locked again.
"Was it something like this when you walked in on your big sis?" Black asked with a snicker.
"No. They were done... At least I think they were," Novice commented with a stern look.
"We don't need to hear more, please," Ken said with a blush. As did most of the older kids.
Silence in the room for a few moments "That kind of killed the mood babe." the second woman said, making the first sigh, but agree with her.
"Wait, what?" Everyone let out.
"You guys don't know?" Novice asked with a headtilt, "Some girls are attracted to other girls." If Novice's memory served, Japan in general wasn't supportive of LBTQ people, but they weren't actively against them either.
"...Right," Jo commented. Havin red about that.
Everyone else decided to just forget it and practically pleaded Lotosmon to move on.
"Okay...note to selves...knock on the doors before opening them," Pierce said to the others, who nodded in agreement. They may not have had THAT happen to them, but there was bound to be one or two more like that…
Hopefully no more will be shown.
Fortunately the rest of the process went without issue, until they found the room they were looking for.
"...think he could sleep through an entire city wide battle?" Keenan deadpanned.
"...can't say Taiyang wasn't always a heavy sleeper," Summer admitted.
"We should probably wake him," Renamon said.
"And how are they planning to do that," Hawkmon asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Maybe a loud noise right next to his ear," Veemon suggested with a snicker.
"I'll handle that," Yang said, as she walked over to him, clearing her throat, and then "Dad! Help!"
"Who's hurting my daughters?!" Taiyang shouted as he jumped out of bed.
"That works too, I guess," Hawkmon then added as everyone else laughed at the prime example of a good dad.
"That was fast," Palmon blinked.
It took a few seconds of wildly looking around before Taiyang realised there was no actual danger, and that Yang had simply wanted him awake… and then a few more seconds to realise just how many people where in the room "Uh… what's going on?"
"The end of the world happened, we're one of the few survivors, and you slept through it," Gomamon snickered.
Jo facepalmed, easily imagining his Gomamon doing the same thing.
"Okay, that's funny," Gomamon snickered.
"Depends on who you ask," Novice said with a small smile as he took in looks of amusement on some of the older boys.
"Wait, what?!" Taiyang blinked.
"Gomamon…" Jaune sighed at his partner's antics. "Well...not really the end of the world, but the city's been attacked," he clarified.
"Myotismon has made his move," Summer said. "We came here aiming to set up a frontal base of sorts for now, and well...seeing as we saw you through the window, we decided here was a good a place as any," she chuckled at the end. Some things never changed it seems.
"Oh… that sounds bad yeah." Taiyang said after a moment.
"That's an understatement," Ken dead-panned.
"So far it's not too bad...yet…" Gyro sighed, before turning to Weiss. "How's the barrier coming along?"
"I managed to set it up to cover the entire building, so as long as we don't leave it, we SHOULD be safe," she answered. "I should get it up and running about...now," she said, as a hum filled the air, and a small gust blew through, probably the barrier expanding.
"There wasn't a gust when I got it up and running," Koshiro pointed out.
"So...did it work?" Nora asked.
"Seems like it," Veemon said...from the window...where he was making faces at a Bakemon who clearly didn't see them.
"Stop that." Pierce said in slight annoyance as he pulled his partner away from the window.
"Yeah, I still wouldn't take chances," Takeru commented on the other Veemon.
"Agreed," Yamato added in.
"Unlike Taichi at some point," Jo said with a meaningful look.
"What are- Can we please forget that already," Taichi grumbled when he realized what Jo was referring to.
"At least we know it works," Agumon sighed.
"We should gather everyone and explain the situation," Pyrrha mused.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" the manager babbled as he was currently clinging on to Azure.
"Poor guy," Sora muttered in sympathy. A sympathy everyone shared. The guy must have been terrified out of his mind.
"You're welcome. Now off off off!" he grunted, pushing the overly happy man off of him. "Now then, as we explained, as long as you all stay in this building, you SHOULD be safe from the monsters outside. However, in the event for whatever reason the building is compromised, be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice," he said.
"But for now we're safe, right?" one of the people asked, earning a nod.
"I say we all get some rest then. We're gonna need all our energy to survive through this," Gyro added, gaining more sounds of approval.
"Right, but we should have some people stay as lookouts in case any of the monsters get in or the barrier fails," Ruby added.
"You can use the fire alarm to signal a building wide alert," the manager supplied helpfully.
"I'll stay up, I got plenty of sleep already honestly, went to bed early because of everything you all told me earlier." Taiyang told them, earning grateful nods.
"So we can finally sleep now, right?" Patamon asked, hiding a yawn behind his hand.
"Yes, yes we can." Blake said with a relieved sigh as everyone went off into rooms the manager had lent them for the night, though Summer stayed in Taiyang's room with Renamon deciding to stand outside of the room, deciding to give the two some alone time to talk.
"Or do other things," Black commented on the last part, earning herself a whack from the stick of widsom. "What?!" Black complained while rubbing her head, "It's a very real possibility!"
"Doesn't matter," Novice said with a stern look," We don't need to hear that."
But the Overseer didn't notice that the Children and their partners were ignoring him in favor of their own conversation.
"Sounds like they now have their own secret base," Daisuke commented with a grin.
"And they have surveillance, and warning system figured out," Koshiro added in, happy that they had an actual base.
"Makes me feel a little jealous of them again," Taichi commented remembering how they had to find a new place to hide temporarily when Myotismon launched his attack proper.
The next morning saw everyone in the building seated at the dining room, as this motel was one of the types that served breakfast too. Despite the initial scare some guest had at the small monsters eating with them, they were assured that they were harmless...so they decided to just roll with it…
The digimon felt happy that their others weren't treated the same as Myotismon's troops.
"So what do we do now?" Ren asked.
"For starters, we need to find out where the fog is coming from," Summer said. "It's a good bet Myotismon is there."
"So we'll need to be careful when moving through the city. No doubt the closer to the source we get, the more heavily guarded it will be," Renamon mused.
"In that case… moving as one large group would be a bad idea, we'd be easier to spot, it would be a whole lot better if we split into smaller groups to try to find what we're looking for." Gyro said.
"Makes sense, that way they could cover more ground," Taichi commented first.
"Although it does run a slight risk," Sora added in.
"But all of them can go Perfect, if needed," Mimi pointed out.
"That can work, but we'd better not split into more than 2 or 3 groups," Jaune mused.
"I think we may want to stick to 2 groups. It may be easier to spot, but with Myotismon...we'd want to keep our fighting forces strong," Blake suggested.
"Good point," Gabumon commented, remembering his loss against the vampire. As did Palmon who shivered at the memory of getting hit by Dead Scream.
"Well, we'll split into our teams then, simple as that." Nora said with a shrug.
"I'm going with the girls, and I don't care about me not having a Digimon partner, I'm going to help." Taiyang said, before a bark was heard from below the table "And so is Zwei."
"Uhh... Can Zwei actually fight?" Iori asked in slight worry.
"Yup." Novice replied simply,"You would be surprised what that little dog can do."
Iori was skeptical, but decided to take the Overseer's word for it.
"In that case, that's where I'm going as well, someone needs to stop you from being reckless." Summer said as shoved her husband's shoulder a bit.
"In that case I'll be going with Jaune's team then," Azure mused.
"I'll come along too. It should balance it out well enough," Keenan said.
"And of course we'll follow," Wizardmon chuckled while Falcomon simply nodded in agreement.
"So now that we're agree...when do we move out?" Wormmon asked.
"As soon as we're done eating seems like a good answer." Pyrrha said in amusement, before everyone returned to their breakfast.
"Can't evolve on empty stomach," Agumon commented, earning various sounds of agreement from the other partners.
"Okay, everyone ready?" Gyro said, taking a deep breath.
"Yes," came a chorus of responses.
"Okay, as agreed, we should go down two separate paths through the city. We'll meet up at the Vale City Mall. In the event of anything happening...send up some kind of signal. The fog is thick, but not so thick we can't see something like a flare or if needs be, one of our partners," Summer nodded.
Everyone agreed that it was a good plan.
"Then let's get going," Yang grinned.
"And don't worry about the barrier. Even without the scroll that started it, it'll last a few days," Weiss said to the people in the motel. "You should be safe here for long enough."
"But what if it doesn't last for that long?" one of the people asked.
"Then get ready to run," Ren said bluntly before they were out the doors. Fact were facts after all.
None of the Children or the digimon liked that, but all they could do was hope that they defeated Myotismon fast.
"Hm...so far it looks like the Bakemon are mainly focused on more crowded areas of the city," Jaune said from their current position.
"Not surprising. It's a pretty standard practice to try and keep the population in check as soon as possible," Azure mused.
"Why do you know that?" Wizardmon asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Lots of movies growing up." was the simple answer.
"Still...for now that means we have the element of surprise," Falcomon mused.
"The question is, how best to use it," Keenan frowned.
"For now, all we can do is get closer till we know what's going on," Pyrrha sighed.
"So we'd better stay out of sight then," Salamon nodded.
"Well, if the Bakemon DO spot us, at least they aren't very strong… or smart." Gabumon noted.
The digimon chuckled a bit at that.
"So, sack of bricks for brains then, noted." Veemon said with a chuckle.
"I think we all know by now that the brunt of his army are idiots who are just cannon fodder to make way for the actual fighters," Wormmon deadpanned, getting a few laughs.
"He's not even wrong," Gomamon snickered, earning a few laughs in turn.
"But the actual fighters aren't exactly pushovers," Palmon commented, remembering DarkTyrannomon she couldn't beat as Togemon.
"Come on, let's get closer. We might as well get as much info as-" Pierce started, but didn't get to finish, as suddenly they heard the sound of the screeching of tires.
"Ok, who's got hell on their heels?" Gomamon asked with a raised eyebrow as they all peered around a corner.
"So… we're all seeing a news truck being chased by a black tyrannosaurus, right?" Nora asked, making sure the fog wasn't messing with her vision.
"Oh, great," Palmon groaned a little.
"That is exactly what we're seeing." Pierce answered.
"Who pissed off a DarkTyrannomon?" Salamon asked as she looked at the large Digimon.
Digimon Analyzer: DarkTyrannomon
DarkTyrannomon. Virus Type. An Adult Level Dinosaur Digimon. A Tyrannomon that was infected by a vicious computer bug, turning it into a frenzied Digimon that acts completely on instinct. It identifies anything that moves within it's line of sight as an enemy and attacks it wildly. It's special attack is Fire Blast, launching a burst of flames from its mouth that can potentially turn the surrounding area into a sea of flames.
"Well, reasons aside, we need to help them," Wizardmon said.
"Right, first we need to get that DarkTyrannomon's attention," Veemon said. "But...which way do we want to do it?"
"The easy one." Pierce said as he held up his D-Core, which quickly glowed along with his Crest.
(Play Brave Heart)
"Veemon, Evolution! Veedramon! Super Evolution! AeroVeedramon!"
"Isn't that an overkill?" Wormmon asked.
"I couldn't beat a DarkTyrannomon as Togemon," Palmon countered.
"Besides... they will want to finish this quickly before the rest of Myotismon's forces are drawn to the fighting," Ken added in.
"Oh, right," Wormmon sounded out.
"Hey sunburn!" Aeroveedramon shouted, catching the DarkTyrannomon's attention before ramming him into a nearby street. "Stay down if you know what's good for you!"
DarkTyrannomon roared in response, getting right back up and countering with his Fire Blast, only for AeroVeedramon to swat it aside.
"He's screwed," Impmon commented, having laid down with his arms behind his head and one leg crossing another.
"Hard way it is," AeroVeedramon nodded, before ramming into his opponent again, pushing him to somewhere that there were less buildings, knowing he should end it quickly.
DarkTyrannomon didn't feel like being cooperative and began thrashing around, firing his attacks wildly and generally being as frenzied as his kind usually is.
"Can't let you damage the city more than this," AeroVeedramon frowned, charging up his attack, before grabbing hold and taking DarkTyrannomon into the sky. "Dragon Impulse!" he called out, firing the attack point blank, sending DarkTyrannomon into the air where he was overwhelmed and deleted by the attack.
(Song end)
"Okay, if none of Myotismon's forces saw that then I call BS," Jo commented.
"That might not be an issue if they get out of there before any of them investigate," Sora commented, hoping that none of Myotismon's army was close enough to get there before team JNPPR and the others were gone.
Once the smoke cleared, AeroVeedramon flew back down, the fog helping to keep him hidden despite the explosion from his point blank attack, quickly landing down and reverting to Veemon.
"Good job." Pierce said as he came up to him and fist bumped his partner with a grin.
"Well, that's the Digimon taken care of, but what about the person driving?" Jaune wondered, not being able to see into the truck because of how dark the windows were.
After a few moments, the engine was cut off, as the driver side door was opened, and shakily stepping out of it was Lisa Lavender "Dear Monty in heaven that was terrifying!" she said nervously as she held onto the door.
"Oh, it's that reporter," Miyako commented the obvious.
"So, what's a reporter like you doing being chased by a huge dinosaur?" Azure asked as the Digimon were hiding on the other side of the van for the moment so she wouldn't over react.
Lisa looked at him "Well, when the fog rolled in last night, all communications were brought down, can't even call each other inside of it. I've been running all night, both surviving and trying to figure out what's going on."
"What about your crew?" Ren asked with a raised eyebrow.
"We split up a while back while we were being chased by these weird frog shaped things with iron fins on their backs, hopefully their fine." Lisa said, worried a bit for the members of her crew.
"They will probably be alive even if they were captured," Takeru pointed out, remembering the unconcious people they found.
"Well, we're going to try and fix the problems going on as best we can, there's a motel not far from here we set up as a safe house that the bad Digimon can't get inside of, so you might want to get there." Keenan suggested, with Lisa blinking in surprise as she recognised him.
Despite her surprise though, she quickly shook her head "No, I can help. I've been trying to look into this myself while running all night, and I may have some leads. I'll be willing to give them to you if you let me come along so I can cover this."
Azure sighed at that "Just… alright, fine, but you have to do exactly what we say, ok?"
"Understood." Lisa nodded.
"Now then, hope you're awake and ready enough for this next bit." Pierce said, before motioning to the Digimon to come out from hiding on the other side of the van.
Lisa blinked, once, twice, and then rubbed her eyes before blinking again "Well… if they're with you, then it's fine with me."
"...That was easy." Hawkmon commented on Lisa accepting the partners of the Remnant crew so easily.
"Most Child level digimon are cute and cuddly," Lotosmon piped up,"That is one of the most likely factors."
"Along with them coming out when one of her saviors called them out," Novice added in.
"Don't worry, these ones are our friends." Pyrrha reassured the woman, who nodded, before everyone piled into the news truck, which soon drove off towards one of Lisa leads, the ones inside hoping it would help them.
And with that, the book shut itself.
"Guys, do you really think Lisa can help them?" Hikari asked in slight worry.
"Well if she was investigating until being chased by DarkTyrannomon, then she probably knows something," Mimi supplied.
"Hopefully something helpful," Sora added in.
"I'm sure these guys can save the day," Taichi said, despite him and the others having some of the worries of Myotismon possibly evening the odds somehow. And then the mental image of BelialMyotismon being curbstomped by 10 Ultimates returned to their minds.
"Idiots," Impmon muttered, "Both Myotismon's Ultimates are just fodder compared to that guy."