Reading THOR Alter: Digital Story

by Novice4129

I can't believe Swift himself asked me to make a reading story... I mean... I do have knowledge about Digimon, but... FOCUS! I hope I do a good job with this.

41. Chapter 41

Novice had a big grin on his face as he decided the next reader.

"Gabumon, you're up," Novice said as the book floated to the pelt wearing digimon.

"Does this mean my other will become MetalGarurumon?" Gabumon asked eagerly.

"Only one way for you to find out," Novice said with a smile, which prompted Yamato's partner to look for the appropriate page.

"Ow!" Gabumon then complained as he blinked.

"You tried to jump ahead, didn't you?" Novice dead-panned.

"No I didn't," Gabumon protested, no doubt blushing under his pelt.

"Gabumon, just read normally," Yamato said with a mildly amused look.

Great Ultimate Evolutions! Fall of the Undead King!

The title card showed silhouette's of Gyro and Pyrrha with Myotismon's mask above them.

Not to mention the title was pretty promising. Although the title card didn't promise the funny image of 10 Ultimates curbstomping VenomMyotismon.

"Not to use the overused line but...its quiet. WAY too quiet," Gyro frowned as he surveyed the area using his goggles.

"Ironic considering the Bakemon we know are floating around," Blake mused. Currently they were standing on the roof of an apartment complex. High enough to hide them from the street level view, but not so high that an emergency escape would be dangerous.

"So, what should we be looking for?" Biyomon wondered as she looked over the edge of the building.

"At the moment? Not quite sure. But we should probably find out where the Bakemon are going or what happened to the people here," Weiss said.

Hopefully the people weren't hurt or anything.

"Yeah… this is almost like a ghost town, no pun intended for once." Yang said, not seeing anybody walking the streets except for the Bakemon searching.

"But we should probably not let them see us as much as possible. I don't think we'd be able to handle an entire city of Digimon attacking us…" Ruby said.

"Agreed," their partners all said.

"And even if they could, there could be some serious damage from a battle of that scale," Taichi commented.

"Yeah, I hear you," Yamato agreed. As did everyone else.

"Still...it's really kinda scary to see how quickly he took over Vale…" Taiyang couldn't help but say, Zwei letting out a small whine in agreement.

"Normal people wouldn't stand a chance against Myotismon or his troops," Hikari commented with a worried look.

"And Myotismon himself took down a huntress," Ken added in.

"Myotismon isn't an easy opponent by any stretch of the word," Summer nodded with a frown. "But his biggest weakness is his overconfidence at times. If he feels like he's going to win, he starts to get...sloppy."

"How sloppy are we talking here?" Patamon asked, wondering if they might have found a way to win, after all, he knew he had a natural advantage against Myotismon thanks to his holy powers when he evolved.

"He seems to forget that there are other fighters in the area when he's focused on just one person and is about to beat them." Renamon said dryly.

"He didn't seem that way to us," Patamon muttered.

"That's because you were never in that situation," Novice pointed out.

Everyone was silent for a few moments "Well… that's stupid." Tentomon summed up everyone's thoughts.

"But super useful. Ruby, prepare to snipe a vampire," Gyro couldn't help but grin.

"Aye aye!" Ruby laughed a bit.

That did earn a round of laughs, but none of them thought that Ruby's weapon would do much against the vampire.

"But in all seriousness," Blake said, despite quirking a smile at that. "We should be ready to use that if we can."

"We could always try and throw him into the Heaven's Gate. That'd finish things," Patamon suggested.

"That could work too," Patamon commented with a grin.

"Unless, he has something to counter it," Impmon commented, earning sour looks. The imp promptly ignored them.

"Good idea," the others nodded in agreement.

"Seeing you all so used to the idea of fighting these things...it's something that's going to need some getting used to…" Taiyang sighed.

"Sorry dad, a LOT happened while we were in the Digital World for two months," Yang said apologetically.

"Understatement of the century." Blake muttered lowly as she glanced at the blonde brawler.

The Children remembered the reactions of their parents to their adventures. Many of them were surprised that they weren't grounded for the rest of their lives.

"ANYway, let's keep our distance and follow them," Yang said quickly.

"Once we find where they're hiding or where they took everyone, then we can step in," Biyomon nodded.

With that in mind they continued forward, making their way down the building quickly. The trek through the city was a tense one. Every corner they took they made sure to keep an eye on every angle. They knew that if they were not careful it would bring the brunt of the forces down on them, so they were basically acting like they were in a zombie horror story. Doing everything they could to avoid attracting the horde to them.

It sent a shiver down everyone's spine at the thought of fighting a zombie horde.

"Digimon don't have hordes like that do they?" Miyako asked, trembling a little.

"Aside from the various undead type digimon, not really," Lotosmon commented with a shrug.

"If you don't count those who underwent Death X Evolution," Impmon commented with a frown.

"Death X Evolution?" Everyone questioned.

"Urgh! Don't remind me," Black complained, "It was a rough day for all seven of us."

"Yes," Impmon agreed before snickering, "Especially for Mister High and Mighty."

Black also let out a small laugh, "Yeah, I don't think he ever got over it."

"Okay, what are you two talking about?" Gatomon let out with a frown, "And who is this 'Mister High and Mighty'?"

It was novice who decided to reply,"Impmon is referring to the leader of the Seven Great Demon Lords. The strongest and most cunning of them."

"Except that day," Impmon snickered, as did Black.

"Okay, what happened," Lotosmon asked as she had a hard time imagingin him being in a situation that made these two laugh.

"It's a long story," Impmon said, "We might tell you guys after this chapter."

With that, Gabumon continued reading, even though they were all interested in a story from the Seven Great Demon Lords.

The first place they reached that they decided to investigate was a supermarket… though sadly it came up as a dud, with no one inside, and absolutely everything being left unattended."Looks like they came in here so quickly the people barely had any time to even TRY to get away," Weiss frowned.

"But can Bakemon really work that fast?" Tentomon folded his arms.

"I don't think so," Wormmon muttered with a suspicious look, "Bakemon aren't the smartest digimon around."

"Hear, hear," Gomamon agreed.

"Doubt it. There aren't any signs of a struggle," Renamon reported.

"Myotismon himself was probably here then, he's got plenty of abilities that could make it quick." Summer said.

"Okay, that sounds more likely," Mimi muttered, remembering how Myotismon put everyone to sleep, including her. If Myotismon had realized that she was among the Children he captured... The Chosen of Purity shuddered in terror.

"Mimi, are you okay," Palmon asked in concern.

"It's nothing... just... a scary thought," Mimi said before picking up the sweet box and took out some high class chocolate to comfort herself.

"How about Witchmon? Could she have done this as well?" Palmon asked.

"It's another possibility." Renamon nodded at the question.

"Well, she made that barrier to separate everyone," Daisuke reminded.

"Whatever the case, nobody is here anymore," Palmon sighed. "We'd better move on."

After silently leaving the supermarket, they next found a hardware store, but, again, nobody was present "This is getting kind of unsettling." Taiyang admitted as they looked through the store.

"You should have seen that village where we came across Phantomon," Patamon said. "The place was completely deserted cause of the mist he controlled."

"Yeah...I'd rather not remember that, even if it did help in the long run," Blake sighed.

"...no offense to the Digimon in present company, but your kind are REALLY scary," Taiyang couldn't help but say.

"None taken," All the digimon spoke up while staring at Black and Impmon who didn't comment.

"...What?" The two said in unison at the stares they were getting.

"None taken," all the Digimon waved off. They all knew how dangerous the bad apples of their kind could be.

Novice chuckled a little while the two, as of now, lesser evil digimon looked mildly offended.

The hardware store was definitely completely empty, with nothing touched at all. This proved that for some reason, they were only interested in the people that had been here. For what...they didn't know. But whatever it was, they didn't plan on letting Myotismon have his way. With that in mind, they continued on through the city, finding more and more empty locations, and at the same time, noticing an increasing number of Bakemon, meaning they should be close soon. Funnily enough…

"...what are the odds?" Gyro sighed, as they had arrived at their agreed upon rendezvous point...and found a number of Bakemon guarding it.

As well as a sound being audible not far from them, like threads moving on the street.

"Well, that sounds suspicious." Ruby muttered as they listened to the sound slowly getting louder.

"Let's see what we're dealing with." Gyro said, before whatever was making that sound finally came into view.

Obviously, the bottom half of what was making the sound was very much a sort of tank, with a pair of gatling gun coming out of the sides of it, but instead of a turret sitting on it, it was a reptilian Digimon, his hands covered in gauntlets that had three large spikes on it, several small missile pods resting in front of him, his neck covered in heavy armor, a gold mask covering the top half of its head, while two large cannons rose out of the tank and over its shoulders.

"That's Tankdramon," Tentomon commented.

"That's… a LOT of heavy artillery on that thing." Taiyang blinked in shock as he looked at the Digimon.

"Well, it's name is fitting at least. That's a Tankdramon, he's pretty strong." Weiss said as she checked the Analyzer.

Digimon Analyzer: Tankdramon

Tankdramon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Machine Digimon. A riot-suppressing and assault-extermination Digimon, part of a group known as the D-Brigade, a band of mercenary Digimon. It is efficient in hunting down it's targets, and can lock on to multiple enemies at once, and should multiple Tankdramon be present, there is a low chance of escape. Its special attacks are Striver Cannon, firing a miniature nuke from its weapon, reducing everything in a 30 km radius to scorched earth, and Blast Gatling, using the gatlings on its main body to unload as many of its 3600 bullets as possible.

"Okay, that's destructive," Taichi commented in worry.

A moment of stunned silence passed through the group when they pulled out the analyzers and read the description.

"Okay...that's...REALLY bad…" Ruby gulped at the bit about '30 km of scorched earth'.

"You don't know the half of it," Gyro whimpered.

"...I'm afraid to ask, but what has you so afraid?" Blake asked.

"That's a Nuke. It's a weapon from where we come from. The scorched earth is the LEAST of our worries. If he fires that off, he'll render Vale completely uninhabitable for years to come thanks to the radiation Nukes give off," Gyro explained. "I'm not kidding, there was this city back home where a nuclear power plant had a massive malfunction back in the 1980s...and its STILL unlivable even nearly a HUNDRED years later."

"Which city was that and where?" Koshiro asked in worry, not knowing this part.

"I'm sorry, I don't know that," Novice said. The only one such incident that came to his mind was Chernobyl, but to his knowledge, wildlife has been sighted in the area so it couldn't be that.

That wasn't even counting that most of them knew about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in in World War II. Those were dark days for Japan, in more ways than one.

They all fell silent at that, the gravity of the situation settling on them as they realised that they COULDN'T let Tankdramon fire off his weapon at any cost.

"Who the hell came up with that kind of weapon?" Yang muttered a bit fearfully as she looked back at the Digimon.

"It was developed from the theories of the most brilliant scientist our world ever had, Albert Einstein." Gyro answered simply, before scowling "And then the largest amount of blame goes to a person who makes your dad look like a teddy bear Weiss."

Some of the older kids had a guess on who Gyro was referring to, but none of them wanted to voice it.

Weiss shivered in disgust at the thought of someone being an even worse human being than her father.

"You would be surprised what people would do when they think they can get away with it," Novice said with a small sigh.

"Do we want to know?" Hikari asked apprehensively.

"...No. You probably don't," Novice said with a consoling look.

"Okay everyone, first things first. We need to take out those cannons," Ruby said urgently.

"Right," everyone nodded in agreement.

"I suggest we aim to take out the cannons as soon as possible. Perhaps some of us should draw its attention, while others prepare to disable the cannons the first chance they get," Summer suggested.

"That works. We can get behind that plan," Blake nodded.

"Please do," Sora said with a frown. She didn't want to see Vale reduced to ashes.

"So, who should do it then?" Yang asked.

"Probably the larger Digimon should be the ones playing distraction. The smaller ones can destroy the cannons when he's fully focused on them," Weiss suggested. "Just hope he's not too trigger happy on that nuke."

"Right, in that case...I think Palmon and Patamon should be the ones to take out the cannons. Their Perfect Level forms are the smallest here, and they both have some fast moves that can take the cannons out quickly," Gyro nodded. With that in mind, the chosen quickly pulled out their D-Cores and Crests.

"Uh… what are those supposed to do?" Taiyang asked, blinking in confusion at the matching necklaces that each had a different little piece of glass in them.

"You might want to stand back for what's about to happen, dear," Summer chuckled, pulling him back a little. That's when the D-Cores and Crests began to shine, and in response, so did the Digimon.

The Children felt a little sorry for Taiyang most likely getting his mind blown.

"Agumon, Evolution! Greymon! Super Evolution! MetalGreymon!"

"Palmon, Evolution! Togemon! Super Evolution! Lillymon!"

"Tentomon, Evolution! Kabuterimon! Super Evolution! AtlurKabuterimon!"

"Patamon, Evolution! Angemon! Super Evolution! HolyAngemon!"

"Biyomon, Evolution! Birdramon! Super Evolution! Garudamon!"

The group had evolved, and the three larger ones quickly taking to the sky to attract attention.

"And there's our cue to get into position," Ruby said. "Let's go!"

"Right!" the group aiming to destroy the cannons nodded, moving through the city.

At the same time, Summer had to pull Taiyang along, seeing as he was currently stuck with a permanent gobsmacked look on his face, even Zwei was doing a better job than him at holding in his surprise.

"I can't blame him," Yamato commented, "Dad had a hard time believing Gabumon and Garurumon were the same digimon."

"I think all of our parents had similar reactions the first time," Jo added in with a small smile.

Tankdramon was surveying the area diligently. None would pass without his master's permission, and he would ensure it remained that way. Naturally, this was the part the universe decided to shit on his plans.

A bright light caught his attention and suddenly he saw three of the Digimon partnered to the Chosen Children coming right his way. "Enemies at 12 o'clock! All troops prepare for battle!" he shouted, sounding like a military general. Unfortunately all THAT managed to accomplish was the Bakemon running around like a bunch of chickens without heads. "...note to self, ask Lord Myotismon for proper troops next time," Tankdramon deadpanned, before turning to the incoming Digimon. "Battles Stations!" with that he leveled the gattlings on his body and opened fire.

"Evilmon would be smarter," Black muttered in annoyance.

"But they're also cowards," Impmon added in, "Honestly, Bakemon are mostly target practice even if they had a leader that knew what they were doing."

"True," Black shrugged.

The three incoming Digimon scattered, forcing him to divide his attention as he did his best to keep them all away. He would protect this outpost with his life, he would stake it all on his honor as a sol-

He didn't get to finish when he suddenly shouted in pain, as from two sides, another pair of attacks hit his shoulder cannons, the ones he used for his best move. As a result one had been destroyed, while the other was cut off.

The Children and the digimon knew they shouldn't laugh, but poor Tankdramon getting interrupted by that was just too good.

"Operation successful!" Ruby grinned as she saw Lillymon and HolyAngemon destroy the nuke cannons. However…

"And now he's pissed," Yang added matter of factly, as now it seems Tankdramon did NOT take losing his cannons well and was now firing...rather wildly.

"Hit the deck!" Taiyang shouted, finally getting over his shock, to which they all did as they were told, while the Digimon tried to protect their partners as best as they could.

"Okay, that's not good," Veemon commented.

"No it isn't," Biyomon agreed.

"I'm gonna turn you all into swiss cheese for what you did!" Tankdramon roared as he continued firing. However, seeing his attempts not yielding much if any results, he decided to go all out. "I don't care what happens to me! I will defeat you all! Striver Cannon!"

"No!" The kids and their partners shouted in unison.

"Wait, what?!" Gyro shouted in worry.

A second later, a burst came from the cannon that was cut off, a shell being fired off, but unable to fly high.

"No!" HolyAngemon shouted out, before drawing a circle in the air with Excalibur "Heaven's Gate!" in seconds, the gate was open, as HolyAngemon directed it towards the nuke.

It was slowly falling towards the ground, even with the pull of the gate, but soon, it stopped, before gradually being pulled towards it.

The Children and their partners had hopeful looks at the nuke now being sucked into the gate.

"Heavier than it looks." HolyAngemon ground out as he maintained the gate for as long as he needed to.

"Not done yet! Blast Gatling!" Tankdramon roared, unloading EVERYTHING he had in an attempt to take SOMETHING with him.

"Is he insane?!" Mimi cried out alongside Miyako.

"Probably," Novice shrugged.

"Don't say it so casually!" The Chosen of Purity shrieked.

For the most part, everyone was able to block or get out of the way thanks to their partners...however, Blake wasn't among those.

Blake's eyes widened at the spray of bullets heading towards her, Tankdramon's wild firing managing to cut off any escape route she had.

Just as she thought they were going to hit her, something shoved her out of the way, a slab of metal being held by whatever it was, and shielding her from the attack.

Takeru and Patamon let out the sigh of relief at Blake being saved. But the question was, who is it?

Shock ran through the group, but it was quickly replaced with relief when they saw Blake was safe, before focusing back on Tankdramon.

"End it quick, guys!" Weiss said, and they were all too happy to oblige.

"Giga Destroyer!"

"Horn Buster!"

"Shadow Wing!"

"Flower Cannon!"

"Get wrecked!" Daisuke, Veemon, and Agumon shouted in unison.

The four attacks hit, causing a massive explosion, sending Tankdramon flying.

"Thank the Servers for my thick armor," Tankdramon managed to sigh in relief...until he realized WHERE he was going. "Nononononon-!" he didn't get to finish as he was soon sucked into the Heaven's Gate, which had just finished absorbing all of the explosion resulting from his best attack, and when it closed, he was gone.

"And that's a goal," Taichi couldn't help joking.

Sora shook her head, but smiled none the less. As did several others.

Everyone sighed in relief when the gate disappeared, while the Digimon all reverted to their Child Levels.

"Nice initiative there Patamon." Gyro said with a thumbs up.

"Yeah, we'd be toast if you didn't use the Heaven's Gate." Yang said, before snickering a bit.

"Yang, not right now please." Biyomon asked, not in the mood for puns right now.

"...What pun?" Gabumon asked Novice in confusion.

"No idea," Novice admitted.

"Who saved Blake though?" Ruby asked after Yang got her amusement under control, everyone looking towards the slab of metal that had protected Blake and whoever protected her… which chose that moment to fall down, and…

"Oh my god this is gold right there." Gyro muttered, trying to hide his laugh while he took out his scroll and set it to record.

"What? Who is it?" Miyako now sounded interested, as did several others. Though not as vocally.

Blake's savior was quite obviously female, wearing a tight sleeveless outfit with the legs cutting off at her thighs, which honestly made her look like some kind of spy, while also wearing small boots and a glove on their right hand. Their hair was tied back into a ponytail, the tip of which curled on itself like a chameleon's tail, and they had several freckles on the exposed parts of their skin. Gyro knew normally her skin would be somewhat tan, and her hair a maroon color, with her eyes gray, but at the moment, her skin was pink, her freckles and hair a bright red, matching with her eyes.

"Whoa!" Everyone exclaimed at the color change.

"She's a chameleon faunus," Novice explained. Earning varying expressions of realization for that.

"Chameleon's change the color of their skin," Koshiro pointed out the obvious.

The reason for this strange color scheme, was due to the fact her lips were in contact with Blake's own, the two girls frozen in place and staring at each other wide eyed.

"Wait what?" Came out of everyone, while Miyako once again covered Iori's eyes.

"Hey!" the youngest Child complained. It wasn't the kissing that made Miyako do this, but rather if it... escalated.

"Uh...should we…?" Ruby started.

"Nope," Gyro and Yang snickered before fist bumping.

"If you say so…" Patamon sweat dropped at seeing his partner in her current state.

"Don't they need to breathe though?" Biyomon muttered… just as the girls separated, gasping for breath "Ah, there we go."

And now Miyako let go of Iori's eyes.

"Uh-I-tha-eh-mh-" the girl started, her skin going through a literal rainbow of changes, before Gyro shouted "Get on with it!" making her snap back into her normal colors as she looked at Blake "... Hi Blake."

Blake blinked slowly at her "Um… hi Ilia." she said, her cheeks red as she looked at the chameleon faunus before her. A VERY awkward pause happened...before Blake finally decided to ask an...important question, considering the current situation. "...not that it's not good to see you again but...why are you in Vale?"

"Jo?" Ken was the first to say.

The Chosen of Reliability opened the guidebook to check, "Ahh! Ilia was a friend of Blake's from... White Fang?!"

"Doesn't that make her a bad guy," Daisuke asked as he looked to the screen.

"Not all White Fang are murder happy psychopaths," Novice reminded everyone, "But as you all know, Adam is seeking to change that."

He really didn't need to add that last part. Still, Ilia saved Blake, so they were at least going to give her the benefit of the doubt.

"Um… the weather a week ago actually stopped me from heading on back to Menagerie, and no boats were leaving at all through the week, so when the fog rolled in last night, I was stuck here." Ilia admitted, blushing a bit in embarrassment.

"I see… well, since you're kinda stuck here...would you be willing to help us?" Blake asked tentatively.

Ilia looked at everyone else, looking at the Digimon assembled in confusion, especially when Patamon came and landed on Blake's head right between her ears, before she looked at Weiss in suspicion "Depends on why there's a Schnee here." she said, spitting the family name like it was venomous.

"Right... Weiss' family problems," Sora muttered with a downcast look.

"It's not fair that Weiss is hated for being related to her father," Hikari muttered.

"No, it isn't," Novice agreed, "Especially how far she's come now."

"Oh for the love of Oum." Weiss groaned as she palmed her face.

Despite the heavy situation the Children found themselves letting out small laughs at Weiss' reaction.

Blake sighed, before grabbing Ilia's face and making her look at her again "Weiss isn't racist alright? So don't hate her for no reason unless you want to be like the worst kind of humans."

Ilia flinched at that, but nodded in acceptance "So… this is still a bit awkward for me since you left the Fang recently and I'm still in it." Ilia admitted.

"Yes, well, I didn't want to be partnered with a psychopath who is fine with murdering innocents, even those of his own kind." Blake said, scowling as she thought about Adam.

Ilia looked at her with wide eyes "He… he killed other Faunus?" she gasped. She knew Adam was...strong on his views...but this didn't...

"Because they were married to humans." Blake explained simply.

And that made everyone have a twinge of hate for Adam or horror at the reminder of his actions to varying degrees.

Ah...there it was...

Silence passed through everyone "Jesus fuck… I had my suspicions… but still." Gyro muttered.

Gabumon looked a little confused after a beep came from the speakers while the corresponding part was blurred.

"Just keep reading," Novice said, not wanting the kids to hear that strong language.

"Right from the horse's mouth." Weiss added.

"Cat in this case." Agumon said before Tentomon nudged him with a small "Not the time."

"Agreed," Taichi agreed with Tentomon's other before giving his partner a light noogie.

"Hey! I didn't say it!" Agumon complained.

"It's the thought that counts," Taichi quipped.

"That doesn't even make sense!" Agumon whined.

"Gabumon, just keep reading," Yamato said, having a hard time keeping a straight face.

"So uh...are you planning on joining us? I mean...there's kinda an army of evil monsters around here, and the longer we wait…" Ruby started.

"No, I'll help," Ilia said quickly. "I'm still...I don't know what to think about what you just told me...but standing around is just going to make things worse for us," she sighed.

"Welcome aboard then, what kind of weapon to do you use?" Gyro asked, even though he already knew, he just used the standard act since he wasn't supposed to know her already.

In response, Ilia reached for the back of her waist, pulled off what looked like the grip of a gun with an oversized revolver barrel, before she pulled the large trigger and it extended into a rapier, and then extended a little further and went slack, becoming a whip, as she then retracted it back "I can also put a dust cartridge in if I want an element added to my attacks." she added as she got to her feet, Blake doing the same.

"I could use something like that," Black commented with a thoughtful look. Which earned her a whack. "What?!" the black feline complained as she held her head.

"You know why," Novice said, earning an outraged look from Black.

"No I don't, you meow... I HATE YOU!" Black screeched as her words were being censored again. Then she jumped off Novice's lap and moved a few ways away. Then she clapped her front paws twice, and a comfy basket with pillows and a fuzzy blanket appeared. Black moved into the basket and pulled the covers over herself, most likely sulking.

"...Why did she get angry," Palmon asked with a head tilt.

"Just ignore her," Lotosmon said with a smile as she closed a small holographic screen she had opened before sending the clip of this incident to Ophanimon. No doubt the angel digimon would be happy to see this.

Gabumon, at least, followed that advice as he kept reading

"Here." Weiss said as she tossed her a few cartridges of dust, surprising the chameleon faunus as she juggled them a bit before catching them, looking back and forth between Weiss and the cartridges in confusion.

"Um… thank you." she said, blinking from how weird it felt for her to be thanking a Schnee.

"I'm not going to act like I don't know why Faunus don't take kindly to me, and frankly, I can't blame them," Weiss said simply. "I can't say anything that will make what my father has done any better, but just know I fully intend to fix things once the SDC is in my hands."

Everyone smiled at once again hearing what Weiss wanted to do.

"Uh… well, if that's truly the case… I'll look forward to seeing you in charge, and hope you do well." Ilia said with a nod, being a bit hopeful for the far future of the faunus.

"It sounds like a problem has been solved," Veemon said with a nod.

"Good, now there won't be problems for Ilia at the very least," Biyomon added in with a nod.

Jo took a quick look at the guidebook and saw that Ilia would have been redeemed eventually, but he was glad that it happened sooner.

After that, the group headed towards the mall, the Bakemon having all cleared away thanks to the fight against Tankdramon.

However, Blake did hold up Ilia slightly "About what happened earlier…" she started, her cheeks pink "We'll talk about it once the city is safe, alright?"

Ilia nodded after a few moments, her freckles turning pink "A-alright." she said, before following after Blake.

Getting into the mall was surprisingly easy, even with the Bakemon now on alert...they still weren't very smart.

"...are these things usually so…?" Ilia couldn't help but start to ask.

"Stupid?" Gomamon supplied helpfully.

"Try brainless," Impmon commented while looking satisfied at Black sulking in her basket.

"Stupid? Yeahp," Gyro nodded, though he was snickering to himself that their plan was actually working.

"Wait, what plan?" Armadimon asked first.

"I honestly don't know how this is working," Weiss sighed, as currently they were all under a bunch of...cardboard boxes. That's all they were using, and the Bakemon didn't seem to find it suspicious at all.

"...What... the heck?" Jo let out.

"...I know Bakemon are stupid, but..." Iori let out, unable to finish that sentence.

Impmon meanwhile was laughing at the new low of Bakemon intelligence. Soon enough, Veemon, Agumon and Gomamon joined him. As did Daisuke.

"Let's just be glad the Bakemon are so stupid," Tentomon sighed.

"Yeah... let's just go with that," Tentomon agreed with his other, chuckling at the whole thing.

"Still though...how did you know this would work, Gyro?" Agumon asked.

"...wait, I just realized...we're sneaking in with cardboard boxes…" Biyomon said. "...you're copying Metal Gear, aren't you?"

"Okay, is that a video game?" Takeru had to ask, not remembering a game with that kind of name immediately.

"Yup," Novice said.

"Oh, you guys got around to playing that huh? Yeah, I always knew this tactic would work with idiots after playing through so many games and never being caught thanks to it." Gyro said with a snicker.

"...you seriously bet everything on how stupid the Bakemon were?" Blake deadpanned.

"Eeeyup," Gyro nodded.

"...so...anyone else feel like kicking Gyro's ass for that one?" Yang deadpanned.

As much as Gyro's plan was risky, idiotic and riding on the enemy being idiots, the Children and their partners couldn't help laughing. Actually, maybe that was exactly why this was so funny.

"I actually don't, this is pretty fun." Ruby said with a small laugh.

"Sometimes I forget she's younger, and then she reminds me." Weiss sighed.

That made everyone look to Iori for a moment.

"...What?" The youngest Child asked, feeling a little embarrassed.

"You're much more mature than Ruby," Miyako said with an almost proud look.

Novice burst into laughter at hearing that.

The Children decided to leave him and keep going.

"Well, you know what they say, sometimes the simplest plans are the best ones." Summer said.

"Wasn't that your motto back when you lead the team?" Taiyang asked her.

"It still is." Renamon said dryly.

Taiyang sweatdropped at that one as an awkward silence descended on the group, but they continued on, easily getting past more patrols. Eventually they found themselves pretty deep in the mall.

"...damn, it's a shame the communications are being blocked...or we'd want to show the others this," Gyro couldn't help but say at the sight they found.

In one of the larger areas of the mall, they found several people, probably in the hundreds, all on the floor, seemingly unconscious, ranging from kids to adults.

"Just like when we found them," Jo commented at the sight.

"W-why are they all just… like that?" Ilia wondered in confusion.

"It probably has to do with Myotismon." Palmon said with a frown.

"Hmm…" Summer hummed as she looked around the area "It's pretty large… there are doors… and it feels cold… he may be trying to preserve them for meals."

And that reminded everyone that Myotismon has developed a taste for human blood.

"Wait, meals?!" Ilia asked in a panic.

"Right, we forgot to mention, our enemy is a vampire." Gyro said almost casually.

"How can you say that so casually?" Ilia asked in shocked awe.

"We've fought sea serpents, dinosaurs, dragons, devils, angels, monkeys, parasites and a VERY persistent giant beetle, trust me, a vampire is par the course." Blake told her in deadpan.

"...What does it say about me that I agree with Blake?" Jo asked now feeling a little worried.

"That you are just as used to it as the rest of us?" Yamato supplied helpfully.

The sad part is, the first eight of the Chosen were indeed used to it. And now the second generation was used to it, for the most part.

"...what the heck happened to you…?" was all Ilia could ask.

"A lot," the chosen children deadpanned.

"Isn't that the truth," Mimi agreed.

Meanwhile, a van was riding through Vale...okay, riding was a nice way of putting it. What was REALLY happening was that it was quite literally tearing through the various Bakemon scattered through the city, and in some cases it was clear the driver was purposely hitting some of them, while other occupants were busy shooting from the windows at any Bakemon that tried to come at them from the air.

"Did not expect her to be able to road rage." Pierce muttered as he glanced at Lisa… who had a grin plastered on her face while ramming into the various Bakemon.

As fun as it was seeing Lisa driving over Bakemon, they were a little disturbed by the look on her face.

"I normally don't, but after having been running from these things for hours, this is sweet sweet payback," Lisa said, letting out a slightly maniacal laugh as a Bakemon was currently doing the impression of a fly on a windshield, to which Lisa engaged the wipers and wiped it off.

"...Okayyy," Gatomon commented with a very disturbed look.

"...at least you're having fun," Keenan deadpanned.

"She's not the only one!" Nora laughed as several Bakemon were sent flying from a grenade she fired out the window.

"They're surrounded by crazy people," Gatomon lamented. Hikari stroked her partners head comfortingly.

"Normally I wouldn't condone this, but this time is an exception," Azure sighed.

"...so, about that lead you were talking about?" Jaune decided to ask to change the subject.

"Oh, right. Anyway, from what I can tell, the fog is thickest near the VNN building, cause I think that's where it all started," Lisa explained. "But thing is, when I tried sneaking back in, there was some kind of barrier blocking the building," she started.

Everyone else shared a look at that, all coming to the same conclusion "Myotismon."

"Who else?" Veemon quipped, earning snorts.

"Wait, that terrorist those other Digimon were chasing?!" Lisa asked in surprise.

"Not other Digimon. Us, well, two of us, you talked to me and Gabumon the other day in our evolved forms, MetalGreymon is with another group right now." Gomamon said.

Lisa blinked slowly at that "You… wait… you turned into that giant turtle walrus thing?"

"That's right, and Gabumon was the werewolf." Gomamon added as he nudged his friend.

"So… when you Digimon undergo those weird transformations, anything can happen?" Lisa asked, understandably curious. She knew that those metamorphosis could be extreme, but the idea of something the size of a plush toy turning into a giant was...hard to swallow...

The way it was worded was funny to the Children and their partners. But it was true, sometimes digimon evolution lines can be... whacky.

"Within reason… although I'm not one to talk, I'm a puppy, that turns into a cat, which then turns into an angel." Salamon said sheepishly.

"...I feel the need to ask, but I think I'm better off not knowing just yet," Lisa sighed. "Anyway, while the VNN is impenetrable, when I was going over it with my camera, I noticed these thin…threads...for lack of better words, extending from the building. I was able to follow them to a warehouse area before I was chased away by that dinosaur. From what I glimpsed, the place seemed heavily guarded for some reason," she explained.

"Must be important place, if it's guarded," Tentomon commented with a head tilt.

"Most likely whatever is powering that barrier is there," Miyako deduced.

"And that's where we're headed, right?" Pyrrha mused.

"Right," Lisa nodded. "Anyway, we should be arriving really-"

She didn't get to finish as suddenly the van went out of control as something hit the tires, bursting them, right before they saw a figure jump up high, looking like they were about to come down on them.

"ABANDON VAN!" Wormmon shouted, something none of them were arguing with as everyone exited through the nearest door.

"Evolution time! Right now!" Jaune said, each Digivice and Crest glowing, Keenan slashing the blue card as well, none of them wanting to waste time.

"Gomamon, Evolution! Ikkakumon! Super Evolution! Zudomon!"

"Gabumon, Evolution! Garurumon! Super Evolution! WereGarurumon!"

"Wormmon, Evolution! Stingmon! Super Evolution! JewelBeemon!"

"Veemon, Evolution! Veedramon! Super Evolution! AeroVeedramon!

"Salamon, Evolution! Gatomon! Super Evolution! Angewomon!"

"Falcomon, Evolution! Peckmon! Matrix Evolution! Yatagaramon!"

"I wish you had a D-Ark." Wizardmon said in deadpan as he looked at his partner.

"I wish the same for us," Daisuke let out, still a little sour that they wouldn't get them.

"So do I, still haven't finished analyzing the data from Keenan's own though." Azure shot back.

"More importantly, who are we up against?" AeroVeedramon said, right as the Van hit a wall and exploded, the figure responsible landing on a lamp post, and folding their arms...in an almost superhero like pose.

Though of course, they didn't look all that heroic, they had a small black vest covering their extremely thin chest, with long pink sleeves that had plenty of extra material that fluttered in the wind, four small bat like wings coming out of their back and curving around to the front, the top 2 being red, while the lower ones were yellow. They wore large red pants with a strange eye-like pattern on them. Attached to their feet were large blades that actually completely went around the edge of their feet, and their head… it was rather far from looking humanoid. Honestly, it almost looked like it's face was made of a sword that seemed to be acting like a chin, two purple lens to act as the eyes, and everything else was just spiked orange hair that pointed backwards.

Impmon glared at the figure, "Matadormon."

At the mention of that name, Black came out of her covers with her ears high in alert. Then she saw the screen. "Of course it's him," Black muttered.

"You know this mon?" Wormmon asked out of curiosity.

"We know one of his possible Ultimate forms," Impmon clarified with a glare.

"Okay...who is this guy?" Jaune blinked. He'd read the Analyzer in his own time too, but he hadn't come across this particular Digimon before.

"Let's check," Pyrrha said, before bringing it up. "His name is...Matadormon."

Digimon Analyzer: Matadormon

Matadormon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Undead Digimon. An undead martial artist Digimon who, much like Myotismon, has vampiric tendencies, yet was said to be born from data related from folk dancing. It uses its colorful appearance to distract opponents, before striking at them with the rapiers sticking out of its sleeves. Its special attacks are the Butterfly-breaking Trumpet-kick, a flying kick with enough power to shatter the earth put into it, and Thousand Arrow, a series of several high speed jabs with its arms to try and skewer the opponent.

"Another vampire," Miyako said with a light shiver, before feeling a hand over hers. It was Ken who looked mildly embarrassed.

"It's... alright," Ken managed to push out.

"Thanks," Miyako replied with a small smile and just a faint blush.

neither of them noticed Novice smiling a little.

"A single warning. Leave," Matadormon stated. "Or suffer the consequences."

"Yeah, like that line hasn't been overused," Pierce deadpanned.

"Seriously, you think villains would try to be more original." AeroVeedramon said as he shook his head with a sigh.

"To be fair, there's not much to say in that situation," Lotosmon said with a small smile.

"Well, no choice then, we'll just have to take him out," Angewomon said.

"Let's make this quick," Jewelbeemon nodded.

"Very well, if that is your decision," Matadormon said...before suddenly vanishing.

"Where'd he go?" Zudomon asked...right before he felt a sharp kick to the side of his head. "Nevermind!"

"Ow." Gomamon winced for his other.

"Careful, looks like he's another fast one," Ren warned, before narrowly dodging an attack aimed for him, the ground cracking considerably when Matadormon kicked it.

"And he's got strong legs too. Break them!" Nora said in slight alarm.

"Okay, I agree with that," Gatomon commented on Nora wanting to break Matadormon's legs.

"Gonna try!" AeroVeedramon growled as he tried to catch Matadormon. Unfortunately, due to the size difference, Matadormon had the advantage. It didn't help AeroVeedramon couldn't make use of his speed without risking demolishing a building or two. Even WereGarurumon was having a hard time keeping up...though it probably helped he WAS slower.

Gabumon scowled at his Perfect for being called slow, even though there was some truth to it. WereGarurumon sacrificed a little speed for increased power.

"Okay...maybe going Perfect was a questionable idea," Zudomon admitted as he felt another impact on his shell. Fortunately while he was fast, it seemed Matadormon wasn't a very heavy hitter.

"Starting to wonder if we should have stayed at Adult for this one," Keenan growled as he and Yatagaramon tried to hit the slippery target, but as it was, Yatagaramon wasn't as fast as his previous forms.

"Then they probably would have gotten their butts kicked, "Hawkmon commented on the very real possibility.

"Okay, we need a new plan," Pyrrha frowned.

"And fast," Azure nodded in agreement, as Wizardmon was busy trying to hit Matadormon with Thunder Cloud, but to no avail.

"We gotta stop his movements," Jaune frowned.

"Stop his movements? THAT I can do," Angewomon grinned, before getting airborne. "Saint Air!" she called out, the holy energy spreading through the area. The moment it washed over Matadormon, he suddenly felt like his body weighed a ton.

"Nice one," Gatomon muttered with a grin.

"Can't...move...much…" he choked out, as incredibly enough, he WAS still moving...albeit MUCH slower than before.

"Okay...that never happened before," JewelBeemon admitted. Normally when an evil Digimon was hit with Saint Air, they STOPPED moving altogether.

"Is Matadormon really that strong?" Hikari asked in worry.

"Not really," Impmon said in suspicion, "It's... something else."

"But still really helpful," Zudomon chuckled, before hefting his hammer. "Fore!"

The next thing Matadormon knew he had a hammer smash into his chest, sending him flying RIGHT into the very warehouse he'd been protecting, and judging by the sound that followed, something heavy must have fallen on him.

Despite it happening to their enemy, that little slapstick moment was funny.

"Ok… that sounds like a photo opportunity." Pierce said with a grin.

"And probably a good chance to break his legs." Nora added with her own grin.

"Are you ever going to tell me where you get that obsession from?" Angewomon asked in amusement.

"Maybe~" Nora sang out, before they headed into the warehouse, to find…

"...The guidebook doesn't say anything," Jo commented, deciding to check if there was an explanation.

"Drat." Gatomon complained. She wanted to know what was that girl's deal with breaking legs.

"Well… that's not good." Wizardmon summed up simply, as they saw Witchmon there, giving them an annoying glare.

"You humans are a lot more trouble than I thought you'd be." she said, shouldering her broom. Furthermore, she was standing in a magic circle, with a pitch black stone hovering in front of her, seemingly absorbing whatever the circle was giving off.

"What is that?" Patamon was the first to ask.

"Maybe the story will explain," Takeru suggested, seeing as that stone looked important enough.

"Why thank you, we do a very good job at being trouble for villains like you," Jaune snarked. "Its over, Witchmon, surrender or face deletion."

"And while we're at it, we'll be taking that obviously evil looking stone you got there and put it somewhere safe...like on the moon," Pierce added.

"Better yet, destroy it," Veemon commented.

"Uhh... Veemon," Iori sounded out, "What if destroying it has consequences?"

"Like what?" Veemon asked.

Novice decided to pipe up on that,"Like causing an explosion large enough to level a large portion of Vale?"

The blue dinosaur clammed up at hearing that. While the others begun wondering if that was what was going to happen with that stone.

At that Witchmon grabbed the stone and held it to herself in a show of abnormal protectiveness. "Not happening," she growled, before turning to Matadormon. "On your feet! You still have a job to do!" she barked, before casting a spell that hit the downed Digimon, before he got up, looking completely refreshed.

Everyone frowned at Matadormon being healed.

"Understood!" Matadormon nodded, before standing by her side.

"Guess it's the hard way as normal," Angewomon frowned. "But we're in a hurry. Saint Air!"

"Not this time," Witchmon smirked, before the magic circle let out a pulse of dark energy, which hit them all like a bucket of cold water and the Saint Air's effect was gone.

"Okay, that's just cheating," Gatomon dead-panned.

"Oh?" Black piped up, "What do you call when you used that on Myotismon?"

"Justice." Gatomon countered easily.

The black feline scoffed.

"Okay...home field advantage...we might have walked into this one," WereGarurumon admitted.

"Don't we always fight on their home field?" Nora pointed out.

"...good point," Pyrrha couldn't help but say with a small chuckle.

The sad thing is, that tended to happen to them too. Although sometimes they were able to get their enemy out of the home field.

"Wow… I just realised never ONCE have we fought bad guys on our own playing field." AeroVeedramon muttered with a blink.

"Probably cause we never HAD our own playing field," Ren pointed out.

"Yeah, how is that fair," Gomamon whined.

"Last I checked, you guys beat your enemies in spite of them having an advantage," Novice commented, causing everyone to think for a moment. And then they all started feeling good about themselves.

"Excuse me, are we going to fight or what?" Matadormon asked, cutting into the conversation.

"...you know we could have just attacked them while they were talking, right?" Witchmon deadpanned.

"I have standards," Matadormon shot back, causing Witchmon to facepalm and grumble something about 'chivalry not staying dead'.

"That was nice of him," Sora commented on Matadormon having standards.

"Ahh! There we go," Impmon suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" Jo let out.

"What are you talking about," Taichi followed up.

"The reason Saint Air didn't completely immobilize him," Impmon clarified.

"Huh?" That didn't explain anything.

"He's saying that Matadormon isn't that evil," Lotosmon clarified, "At least, compared to Myotismon."

"That... actually makes sense," Takeru muttered.

"Well, that's honestly pretty refreshing," JewelBeemon couldn't help but say.

"Enough talk, let's settle this," Matadormon said, before he was suddenly zipping across the field.

"I'll handle him. You guys deal with Witchmon, JewelBeemon said, before he soon started to try and match Matadormon's speed. Sure it still wasn't easy, but with the area now being a large warehouse, there was less to keep track of.

"Hate to leave this to him, but looks like we have no choice," Wizardmon sighed, before they turned to Witchmon. "I suppose I've always wanted to see which of us was the better magic user."

"Bring it," Witchmon growled.

"...is anyone else suddenly worried?" WereGarurumon asked. Right as he said that, a stray spell hit a box nearby...and suddenly it was a chicken.

"Okay that can't be good," Hawkmon commented.

"...that's probably why," the others deadpanned, before everyone ducked for cover, the crates actually giving enough cover for AeroVeedramon and Zudomon.

"Come on!" Daisuke cried out in disappointment, "They're Perfects, there's no way that could work."

"...Daisuke," Hikari called out with a stern look, "If we were in that situation, would you really want to risk it?"

Daisuke was about to comment before getting a mental image of Paildramon being turned to chicken. That image was equal mix funny and terrifying. "...I guess I wouldn't."

Even the two mon fighting at high speed stopped when they saw that "...take this outside?" JewelBeemon suggested, even IF that might put him at a mild disadvantage.

"Take it outside," Matadormon nodded in a hurry. No way were they gonna keep zipping around when two magic users were having a magic duel.

Back with the two spell casters, spells, hexes, and jinxes were flying through the air, as they ran around the warehouse, trying to get a hit in to the other. Wizardmon was clearly the more skilled caster right now, but Witchmon had more mobility thanks to her broom. "Hm...I need to do something about that," Wizardmon frowned...before quickly casting a powerful spell at the same time, the two spells manifesting as beams that were now clashing against each other.

"Give up! You can't beat me!" Witchmon grunted.

"I wonder," Gatomon muttered, remembering how powerful of a sorcerer Wizardmon was.

"On the contrary," Wizardmon grunted back. "I'm confident I can win!" he said, and to emphasise the point, he pushed back against her spell, slowly but surely overpowering her. Eventually she broke off, and avoided the attack.

"Fine then, burn!" she growled, igniting the ground near him, forcing him to jump back a few times.

"No thanks, you need to cool off!" he countered with a cloud, which soon started to rain on her.

"How's this supposed to hurt?" she laughed...before the cloud disgorged its entire contents, leaving a rather drowned looking Digimon in its place.

Everyone burst into laughter at seeing a wet, and highly pissed off Witchmon on the screen. Especially when for an instant the could disgorged its contents they saw her shocked eyes through it.

"Okay...this is actually pretty funny," Nora couldn't help but say.

"Not gonna be so funny when she gets pissed," Azure frowned, as true enough, Witchmon was NOT happy about that.

"That does it!" she roared, before a magic circle appeared before her, one that was clearly that of dark magic if the upside down pentagram was any indication. True enough, a lot of dark energy started to gather, becoming stronger and stronger, and from the looks of it, she was ready to level a portion of the building if it meant winning...or she would have, if Wizardmon didn't think fast, and cast a hex onto her broom...which she was standing on...causing it to suddenly shrink.

Witchmon let out an undignified squawk, before her attack was sent skyward...and vaporized the entire roof.

The Children and their partners would have laughed if the building hadn't suddenly lost it's roof.

"Okay, do not get hit by that," Gomamon said, despite their others not being able to hear them.

"...glad she didn't get to use that…" AeroVeedramon couldn't help but say, his jaw hanging open.

"More importantly, she's down! Get her!" Azure shouted, everyone realizing that yes, that was the case, before springing into action.

"Finish her before she can try that again! Hammer Spark!" Zudomon called out.

"Dragon Impulse!"

"Thunder Cloud!"

"Holy Arrow!"

"Gurendama!"

The attacks raced towards her, but before they hit, Witchmon noticed Matadormon and JewelBeemon fighting outside, the two seemingly evenly matched...before she raised her hand and chanted a spell. A flash occurred, and the attacks suddenly hit...Matadormon?

"What?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Darn...I was hoping to catch the other one," Witchmon frowned.

"Too bad you didn't," Black said uncaringly, while everyone gave the black cat a disapproving look. Including Impmon.

"What the hell?!" JewelBeemon shouted from outside, before running back in "What just happened?!"

"Witchmon grabbed herself a meat shield." Angewomon said in annoyance.

"Still… gotta be pretty damn evil to do that." Zudomon said with narrowed eyes.

"That's putting it nicely," Lotosmon commented with a frown.

"Yeah, you said it," Yamato agreed. As did everyone else that wasn't Black.

"...is the stone safe?" was all Matadormon asked.

"Its right here," Witchmon nodded. "You did well. The master will be pleased."

"What is that stone for it to be so important," Takeru wondered aloud.

"Good," Matadormon nodded. "Anything...for our master…" he choked out, having taken a LOT of damage.

"Anything indeed," Witchmon chuckled, before pushing him forward, his body suddenly glowing a bright angry red, before…

"Hit the deck!" Wizardmon called out, using a spell to pull everyone back, before Matadormon exploded.

"Okay, that was worse," Palmon said angrily.

"Way worse," Mimi added in with equal anger.

When the smoke cleared, nothing was left, not even data, but from the light cackling they could still hear in the air...Witchmon had escaped...though the warehouse had been destroyed, and with it the magic circle.

"Dear Monty… she just turned him into a suicide bomber." Pyrrha said after a moment, her eyes wide with horror.

"Even though he was an enemy, nobody deserves that." Keenan said, hanging his head.

Everyone agreed to that. Except Black and Impmon who had small smiles at Matadormon's death.

"Kinda like when Mister High and Mighty vaporized GranDracmon, right, Black?" Impmon commented.

"Nah," Black replied, "That incident was better."

Everyone looked curious about what the BlackGatomon was talking about, except Lotosmon who looked horrified.

"You went against GranDracmon?!" the fairy digimon practically screamed, "And you won?!"

"Okay, how did that happen?" Novice asked with a frown.

"Long story short," Impmon began, "Mister High and Mighty had us attack GranDracmon so we could be the sole rulers of Dark Area. We had to give our Code Crowns to him so he could destroy him when the seven of us together couldn't do it."

Then Black took over," He would have then vaporized us if Barbamon hadn't placed that spell on his own Code Crown that wrested them from him and returned them to us upon victory."

"But the best part was that Barbamon pretended that it was mister High and Mighty's act of kindness, to which he started to lie to our faces that he was that grateful for our trust in him to save face," Impmon said before bursting into laughter.

"But none of us were fooled." Black said with a smirk, "We all knew that Barbamon screwed him over." And then the black feline Digimon joined Impmon in laughing. You don't get to laugh at Lucemon's expense very often after all.

Lotosmon looked a little skeptical alongside Novice. They would ask details later, but for now...

"Just keep reading Gabumon," Novice said, not wanting to delve into topics that weren't relevant to the story.

While everyone was curious about half of the things Black and Impmon were talking about, they figured that they wouldn't get any answers.

"Still… that stone must be pretty important to Myotismon if they were willing to do anything to keep it safe." Azure said with a frown.

"From what I can tell from the residual energy...this was a key point in whatever is helping some kind of magic in the main base. With this gone, I think we might be able to get into the VNN tower," Wizardmon said.

"Great, then we should hurry to the rendezvous point. We need to tell the others," Ren said, while the Digimon all reverted.

"...though the van is kinda...smashed…" Wormmon pointed out.

The next thing they heard was the sound of Pierce forcing open the door of an abandoned bus. "Think anyone would mind?" he asked, noticing the key was still in the bus.

"Can I drive again?" Lisa asked, having been hiding and keeping quiet for most of the battle.

"No." everyone said together, before everyone got onto the bus.

As much as the Children didn't approve of any of them stealing a bus, they knew that needs must when needs must. Hopefully JNPPR won't get into trouble later.

"Okay...so we know we need to get the people out...but how do we do that?" Gyro frowned. "There's too many things not exactly conducive for us if we get caught…"

"Why can't we just carry them out?" Agumon said.

"That many?" Armadimon commented with a grin, causing their Agumon to look embarrassed despite him not being the one who said it.

"Cause there are way too many of them to carry," Tentomon deadpanned.

"...good point," Agumon sweatdropped.

"We probably could though if we had something like the GrandLocomon Ren's group met back when we were split on Server." Yang noted.

"Except that's not an available option right now." Biyomon said with a sigh.

"Well, we COULD cut a bloody swath, but that'd just attract the boss," Yang sighed.

"...I think that last part was just taken out of our hands," Blake sighed.

Everyone took a double take on that last one.

"...He's behind her isn't he," Ken was the first to dead-pan.

Yang was silent at that "... How many feet behind me?"

"I'd say about 15 feet." Ilia answered as she swallowed nervously.

Ken sighed at being right, given Ilia's reply.

Yang nodded slowly at that… before whirling around as Ember Celica activated and she punched forward, firing a concussive blast, which Myotismon leaned away from, the impact blasting against one of the walls.

"...wow...he is a vampire," Ilia couldn't help but say, seeing him for the first time.

"You didn't believe us the first time?" Blake deadpanned.

"Sorry," Ilia said sheepishly.

"Now then, seeing as you've all made it this far, I can't have you getting away again," Myotismon frowned.

"Isn't that what you told us the other times too? But we're still here," Ruby challenged.

"A fact I intend to rectify right now."

"And something you will certainly be able to do this time," came Witchmon's voice as she suddenly floated into the room, landing next to Myotismon, she soon presented him something. "The Abyssal Stone, my lord," she said, to which he took from her with a smirk.

"Abyssal Stone?" Gatomon let out. "I haven't heard of something like that."

"Nor have I," Lotosmon said.

"Me neither," Impmon added in.

"I have never heard of it either?" Black said with a frown.

"It could be something unique to this world," Novice said.

"Excellent. Though I was expecting this sooner," he mused.

"It was finished several minutes ago, but the other Chosen Children got in my way, and even destroyed my broom," Witchmon growled.

"Ah, that makes sense," Myotismon nodded before turning to the group. "And now...your end is ensured!" he declared as the stone radiated an ominous dark energy. "But first...let us take this somewhere else, I do not wish to ruin my meal," he smirked, before the chosen and their Digimon (and Ilia, Summer, Renamon, Taiyang, and even Zwei...for some reason), before pulling them out...through the roof.

"What is he doing?" Takeru said in worry.

"Okay...this is weird…" Weiss admitted.

"You're telling us?" Taiyang grumbled as he tried to maintain his balance, Zwei running around in circles and barking inside the sphere.

"I swear, I can almost hear Richard Epcar's voice talking about Darkness within Darkness." Gyro said dryly.

"Who?" Half of the Children and their partners let out.

"That… doesn't make sense." Agumon muttered, confused.

"No it doesn't." Another half said.

"That's what everybody who's played Dream Drop Distance says." Gyro sighed as he shook his head "Back to the matter at hand though..." he then turned to Myotismon. "Don't suppose you'd answer if I ask 'where are you taking us?'"

"A video game?" Takeru commented with a questioning look. "Never heard of it."

Novice was about to question it before remembering that these kids were from a little after year 2000. The game wouldn't be released for another ten years or so, if Kingdom Hearts series even exists in their Earth.

"A more fitting stage for a finale like this," was the reply he got.

"At least the people won't get hurt." Patamon muttered as he glared at the back of Myotismon's head.

"Thank the server for small mercies." Palmon agreed with him.

Everyone else also agreed that the people not getting hurt was a small mercy.

"And villains having egos the size of train cars," Yang added, earning a few snickers of amusement.

The Children and their partners also found it funny.

Although Impmon shook his head a little. No one's ego was bigger than Lucemon's.

That didn't last long though, as the sphere suddenly vanished, depositing them on the hard surface of a rooftop.

"Okay, looks like we went from the mall to...the VNN building?" Taiyang noticed, seeing the large VNN logo on the ground.

"Convenient logos are convenient." Renamon said dryly.

"Now then," Myotismon said, the stone in his grasp as he was radiating dark energy. "It is time for the beginning...of your end," he smirked.

"Care to put your money where your mouth is?" Biyomon frowned, as the hunters grabbed their Digivices and Crests.

"Agumon, Evolution! Greymon! Super Evolution! MetalGreymon!"

"Blast him apart!" Agumon cheered his other.

"Biyomon, Evolution! Birdramon! Super Evolution! Garudamon!"

"Get him!" Biyomon joined her other.

"Palmon, Evolution! Togemon! Super Evolution! Lillymon!"

"Crush him!" Palmon and Mimi cheered in unison.

"Tentomon, Evolution! Kabuterimon! Super Evolution! AtlurKabuterimon!"

Koshiro looked to his partner. "Aren't you going to cheer?"

"Umm... Not really," Tentomon said, fidgeting a little.

"Patamon, Evolution! Angemon! Super Evolution! HolyAngemon!"

Patamon had a very eager look at the thought of throwing Myotismon into Heaven's Gate

"Renamon, Evolution! Kyubimon!"

"Oh no," Sora let out, "Keenan has the Blue Card."

With that, the Digimon all readied their attacks, while the hunters leveled their weapons, and opened fire. The attacks flew through the air, to which Myotismon held the stone before him, a shield appearing and the attacks impacted, causing him to grunt as the force was considerable, and for a moment, it looked like they would overpower him...only for the stone to radiate energy, and the attacks were thrown to the side, fizzling out in the air.

"Of course the stone would do that," Yamato complained, not even surprised.

Myotismon panted a little, but grinned. "Magnificent. This stone was truly worth the preparations. But perhaps a more...usable form is needed," he mused, before closing his hands over it, and when he revealed it, he had fashioned it into a circular amulet, the stone set in the center, before he placed it around his neck.

"Okay, now he's just ripping off Dr. Strange," Gyro commented.

Another character the Children haven't heard of.

"That's from a comic book right?" MetalGreymon asked while still keeping his focus on Myotismon.

"In case you want to know, Dr. Strange is from Marvel Comics in America," Novice explained.

Ahh that explained a little.

"Yeah, and Myotismon basically looks like an evil version right now." Gyro said as he tried to think of a way to get through the barrier.

"You will never defeat me now! Night Raid!" Myotismon called out, launching his legion of bats.

"Koenryu!" Kyubimon countered, burning them down. "We'll see about that! Onibidama!" she called out, sending a number of blue fireballs at him, which impacted the barrier, before bursting into massive blue flames, covering him in it.

"Let's see how well he handles those flames," Summer frowned...before the flames were dispersed easily in a blast of energy. "Okay...so he can handle them well enough…"

Sadly no one was surprised at this. turn of events.

"Our turn!" Weiss frowned, before making an array of glyphs. "AtlurKabuterimon!"

"Right!" AtlurKabuterimon nodded, before positioning himself before one of the glyphs, before charging up his horn. Then with a flick of her wrist, the glyphs turned black, and AtlurKabuterimon was launched forward, looking like he was just shot out of a cannon, aiming right for Myotismon. The horn impacted. Hard. So much so a shockwave occurred, nearly blowing them all off (and would have even blown Zwei off by accident if Yang hadn't thought quickly and grabbed the dog).

"Okay, that was cool," Koshiro commented on Weiss using AtlurKabuterimon like a railgun.

"I wish I could do that," Tentomon thought with a forlorn look. If his face was capable of that.

"Did that get him?" Ruby asked hopefully, but when the dust cleared, somehow, the barrier held up, Myotismon grunting in visible effort, before eventually repelling AtlurKabuterimon.

"Impossible! That was supposed to work like a railgun!" Weiss said in alarm.

"How strong IS that barrier?!" Blake growled.

"Plenty strong, apparently," Veemon grumbled, stating the obvious.

"Well then, if we can't break it, how about moving it!" HolyAngemon frowned, before raising Excalibur. "Heaven's Gate!" with the gate formed, the suction began, but Myotismon remained grounded.

"Okay, that's just cheating now," Patamon joined in.

"Okay...I'm guessing we need to push him into that gate, right?" Taiyang guessed.

"Yes, but thing is, how do we do that? The barrier is blocking most of our moves," Ruby frowned.

"Let's hit it with all we got again. Maybe he'll get pushed to the gate!" Lillymon suggested.

"Probably the best chance we got," Garudamon nodded. With that in mind, they all tried again, peppering the barrier with their attacks. Myotismon grunted, getting pushed back...before one well placed Giga Destroyer managed to blow off a section of the ground, sending him into the air, and towards the gate. However, right as he was about to fly into the gate, the barrier appeared and expanded, stopping his entrance, the barrier strained against the gate, and just as it seemed like he was about be pulled in, the barrier expanded, hitting the gate and shattering it.

"Oh come on!" All the guys, Children and Partners, let out in unison.

"I told you, it's impossible," Myotismon smirked as he idly did his hair that had gotten ruffled in the suction.

"And now he's just taunting them," Black dead-panned.

"Well… this is getting annoying." Blake said as she narrowed her eyes.

"At least you're helping in a way." Ilia said, a bit bitter about not being able to do anything.

"Where's the cavalry when you need it?" Garudamon said as she took a moment to look out into the city.

"Hopefully not far." Lillymon told her.

At that moment, everyone heard… an actual cavalry horn blaring out from the streets below, before WereGarurumon vaulted over the railing at the top of building, followed by Angewomon, JewelBeemon, AeroVeedramon and Yatagaramon who were lifting up Zudomon.

Okay, the cavalry horn blew out some of the tension. Especially when the missing team just got there.

"Did somebody call for backup?" the large Digimon asked with a grin.

"We're here too!" Nora shouted from Zudomon's back, as all the humans in their group (minus Lisa, she had opted to stay away from this since she wasn't a fighter), plus Wizardmon, were holding onto his top most shell spike, before climbing off as Zudomon was deposited on the roof by his friends.

"Perfect timing!" Gyro grinned at seeing them all here.

"Hmph, isn't this just excellent," Myotismon smirked. "I get to kill all of you right here, right now."

"Let's hope that stone doesn't increase his attack power too," Taichi said with a frown at the screen.

"Not happening," Pierce said.

"Now that we're all together, we're gonna smash you into the ground!" Nora grinned.

"And there's nothing you can do to stop us!" Jaune nodded with a grin.

"Really now? Night Raid!" he called out, sending his bats out...only for them to be blasted apart, before the attacks hit him, but the barrier blocked them. "It's useless useless useless!" he laughed. "You can't break this defense!"

"He's right," Summer frowned. None of our attacks are getting through.

"But it looks like his attacks aren't stronger either," Jo commented with a hopeful look.

"If they could just get through the barrier somehow," Gomamon added in.

"What do we do then?" Pyrrha asked.

"There's gotta be some kind of weakness to the barrier. Even the strongest walls crumble eventually," Ren said.

"Even the strongest….that's it!" Gyro gasped.

"You got a plan?" MetalGreymon asked.

"Well, none of individual attacks are getting through, but what if we all attacked at one point at the same time?" Gyro suggested.

"Sounds like a plan," Iori commented, before remembering a problem.

A problem Miyako voiced, "It didn't work against Chimeramon."

"Most Armor type digimon are equal to an Adult level digimon," Novice then pointed out, "Chimeramon was a Perfect digimon.

"Wait, you said most." Daisuke pointed out, "What Armor types are considered Perfect?"

"Why do you want to know?" Novice asked with a quirked eyebrow.

"I'm curious," Daisuke shot out.

Novice shook his head before replying, "You've already seen it, Magnamon."

"Whoa." Daisuke and Veemon said in awe.

"Anyway," Sora then butted in, "They have ten Perfects, it should work."

"Let's hope it does," Biyomon also said.

"That… could probably work." Pyrrha admitted.

"How are we gonna do that though? Not to be rude, but a lot of our attacks would probably end up clashing against one another and cancelling each other out before hitting the point we choose." WereGarurumon pointed out.

"Right... that's also a problem," Jo sighed.

Gyro opened his mouth in response, before closing it again, trying to come up with an answer, until… "Yeah I got nothing."

"Actually, we might be able to make this work." Angewomon said as she floated over to Gyro and whispered something so that Myotismon wouldn't hear, the gogglehead slowly grinning as he looked back at the angel Digimon.

"Do it." was all he said.

"Hope you're ready Myotismon, cause you're about to be history," Angewomon said.

"How long will it be before you learn? You'll never defeat me!" he laughed.

"Well see about that! Saint Air!" Angewomon called out, spreading the holy energy.

"What's that going to do? My barrier protects me from even your precious holy power!" Myotismon laughed.

"Not what I was going for," she smirked. "Everyone feeling better?"

That's when the first eight Chosen remembered.

"Ahh! They're going to use that!" Tentomon said with a cheer.

A cheer that made everyone smile.

"Oh yeah, this is the boost we've all been needing!" the group agreed.

"Then let's do this together!" she called out, as a large holy ring appeared over her head.

"I understand! Everyone, fire your attacks at the holy ring!" HolyAngemon called out.

"You heard him, do it guys!" Gyro grinned, as EVERYONE present opened fire on the ring, the attacks all absorbing into the ring, causing it to glow brightly. So bright that despite the barrier, Myotismon had to shield his eyes.

"Wait! What is this?!" he gasped, as he soon realized that this...this was different.

"Myotismon, you have terrorized the Digital World, sought to turn the human world into your own kingdom, and trampled upon countless lives for your ambitions! For this, I bestow upon you, divine judgement!" Angewomon declared as the energy gathered into her hand, forming a single Holy Arrow, but one practically bursting with energy, which she soon loaded into her bow. "Holy Arrow!" she called out, pulling back and firing the arrow.

"Talk all you want, but nothing will stop me from achieving my goals!" Myotismon growled as he placed his arms forward, the barrier focusing on protecting him from the arrow. The arrow hit, and in a brilliant shower of light, the two energies clashed...before the arrow began to push through….and broke through completely. A massive burst of light blinded everyone, and when it was over, there was Myotismon, a stunned expression on his face as his arms were still facing forward...but now sprouting a MASSIVE hole through his torso. "I-Impossible!" he managed to choke out as he teetered back and fell of the edge, shattering into data in the air. The only things that remained were the Abyss Stone that had survived the amulet's destruction, and Myotismon's mask.

"Guess that trick worked this time too," Gatomon said proudly.

"Yeah! 10 fully powered Perfects combined powers into one attack," Patamon said, feeling a little happy that his other was in Perfect for this.

"The extra two might have actually been the boost they needed," Koshiro said, also smiling at Myotismon being defeated at the hands of Remnant's Chosen.

"Well...that's that I guess," Blake said as she looked over the edge.

"But...shouldn't this be the part where the barrier fades or something?" Ruby pointed out, while their partners all reverted back, though due to how much fighting they'd done so far, they were back in their baby forms.

That was not promising.

"Okay...that's different," Ilia couldn't help but comment.

"Happens a lot these days." Weiss sighed as they all gathered their partners.

"I'm not even going to complain for once." Koromon sighed.

Gyro chuckled at that, before looking out into the city, seeing that the fog didn't seem to want to leave "If it's still present… we're probably not done, it's possible Myotismon may have had a contingency plan."

"That's not good." Pierce said with a grimace.

"I vote we take a few minutes to recover first, let the Digimon eat to get their strength back." Jaune said with a sigh, and the others nodded to the idea as they sat down on the roof and took out some of their supplies to recover their strength.

"...I'm starting to hope that Myotismon only goes VenomMyotismon," Gomamon muttered, despite never having faced BelialMyotismon in a fight.

"So...does this happen often?" Taiyang couldn't help but ask.

"Very often." Yang said as she fed Yokomon some fruits.

"We usually just take the reprieves to gather our strength again, before the next monster that wants to kill us shows up," Pierce said with a shrug.

"We got used to it after the first 2 weeks," DemiVeemon commented as he ate his fill.

Taiyang stared at them all silently "Dear Oum… that almost sounds like hell."

"It kind of felt like it several times," Mimi admitted, before smiling at everyone, "Without you guys I wouldn't have been able to take it."

"I don't think any of us could have taken it by ourselves," Jo added in.

"...Yeah," Takeru admitted, though the part about him being least capable of surviving on his own at the time was left unsaid.

"It'll be a lot better once we get rid of whatever else remains as a threat." Pyrrha said.

"I doubt we'll be lucky enough that whatever enemies Gennai's group sealed will REMAIN sealed." Tsunomon said with a sigh before continuing to eat.

And now everyone was reminded of Dark Masters being out there too.

"...you know I just had a thought...we should probably start investing in armor...or better armor in some cases, if we're gonna be fighting for our lives against REALLY dangerous Digimon again…" Gyro mused.

"That...might be a good idea," Ren agreed.

"And more Chrome Digizoid for our weapons too," Ruby added.

"If we do, I think we may need to build copies of our weapons from back when they were just Remnant brand steel," Jaune sighed. "Or we'd be breaking every other weapon we clash against…"

"That...might be something to consider, yeah," Azure admitted, before opening his scroll, glad he had the data analyzed from the D-Ark on this and not his computer at Beacon, and started taking some notes about things he might need.

It was a little amazing that the Remnant crew was already making new plans for the future.

"How's the analysis coming?" Keenan asked curiously.

"About 90% done, should be finished all the way in an hour or so." Azure said as he glanced on the corner of his screen which showed him the progress of the data he was analyzing and decrypting.

"Umm... Novice," Koshiro let out.

"No." Instant denial, "I'm not giving you data on D-Arks, or releasing that laptop."

The Chosen of Knowledge visibly slumped.

"Sorry," Novice said, "But I'm not risking you being absorbed into it."

It wasn't long before their break was over, and the Digimon soon back to their Child Forms, the group immediately went to work on what to do next. First, Weiss went to the mall to see if she could find a way to wake the no doubt still unconscious people, seeing as the fog was still up. The rest were busy trying to cut through the fog.

"We're making holes at least." Gyro said as his D-Core was shining its light through the fog, cutting holes through it, but they had to be up close to the fog for this to even work as the burst of light was rather short distance.

"But I don't think we're making any sizeable damage," MetalGreymon frowned.

"How are you guys doing?" Gyro asked through his scroll, which thankfully had its connection back.

"Slow," was Blake's response.

"Other tricks aren't working either," HolyAngemon said, as from the scroll, Gyro could see that he had the Heaven's Gate open...zilch. The same could be said on another screen that showed Angewomon's Saint Air. Neither of the moves were doing anything notable if at all to the barrier.

Of course Heaven's Gate wouldn't help in this case.

"Well...we'll just have to keep trying for now," Jaune said, before they all hung up after a nod of agreement.

For a while things went on, the group trying their best to punch a hole through the barrier...but save for a few small ones...no dice.

"At least there's enough of a hole so that people can leave if Weiss found a way to wake them up." MetalGreymon said as Gyro had managed to make a hole big enough for several people to walk through at the same time.

"There's that at least yeah." Gyro said with a sigh, before he heard his scroll ring, bringing it back out to see Weiss was doing a mass call to everyone, which he quickly accepted "Something wrong?"

"Well for starters we haven't been able to wake anyone up, but there's something else, Gennai sent me a message, you'll all want to see this, come meet me at the mall." Weiss explained.

"If the message is what I think it is then that's gonna be a problem," Jo commented.

"Well the chapter title was 'Ultimate Evolution Fall of the Undead King'," Mimi pointed out.

"So they are going to face VenomMyotismon at the very least," Palmon added in with a frown.

"Well… at least we aren't the only ones with news." Blake said, glancing to the side where Ilia was just barely visible.

"What happened?" Yang asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You'll see when we get there." was all Blake said.

"Similar here actually." Azure said dryly, he was glad he could do something thanks to his own D-Core "Lisa was with me and… well, like with Blake, best you see for yourselves."

"Okay, this I think we all want to see," Pierce couldn't help but say as everyone made their way back. Once they did...well…

"Oookay, that was really unexpected," Gomamon couldn't help but say at the two new Digimon among them.

"What?" Was the universal reaction.

The first of the two was a short green Digimon, wearing a ninja-style outfit with a utility belt and a large backpack… and it's head was a television.

The other was a Kotemon, not the same one the twins had met though, as they quickly confirmed this one was a girl, she was also a bit shy, and hiding behind Ilia's leg, while the other Digimon was standing next to Lisa.

And both of them had a D-Core in hand now.

"Of course they do," Jo said with a sigh.

"That's three adults that are Chosen," Iori said with slight awe now.

"Ok… what happened?" Gyro asked.

"Well… I kind of just met Kotemon suddenly when she ran pass a hole Blake made in the fog barrier, and she had a Boarbatusk chasing after her, so I took care of it, and then the next thing I know, I have one of these." Ilia explained, shaking the D-Core a bit for emphasis.

"That thing was still really scary." Kotemon said, burying her face into Ilia's leg, the faunus girl awkwardly trying to comfort her.

The girls smiled at the cute scene.

While the guys also felt more at ease in believing Ilia was a good person.

"As for my case I met him while I was trying to record some footage of the city now that scroll signals were restored. We just started talking about recording equipment and things like that and then I have one of these as well." Lisa said, honestly a bit confused.

"As for my name, I'm Monitamon, nice to meet all of you." the small Digimon introduced himself.

Digimon Analyzer: Monitamon

Monitamon. Data Type. A Child Level Cyborg Digimon. A small Digimon with a hobby of watching and recording every new thing it finds, having hundreds of different recordings saved up in his body. It's not that great of a fighter, but it excels at gathering information discreetly. It's special attack is Lightning Flash, discharging electricity from its body, mostly its screen though, to blind and paralyze its enemies in an effort to conceal itself once more.

"Monitamon, huh?" Hawkmon commented, "Can't say I have heard of it."

"Neither have I," Wormmon added in.

"Okay...well...not what we expected, but new help is always appreciated," Gyro scratched the back of his head, before turning to Weiss. "Now, you said you had something important to tell us?" he checked.

"Right," Weiss nodded, before pulling out her Scroll. "Gennai sent me this," she said as she showed them a picture of an ancient carving...with subtitles.

The sky will be shadowed by wings of darkness. The fallen will chant the name of the undead digimon king. When the clock strikes the hour of the beast, the undead digimon king will rise anew as the beast of darkness. Only when Courage and Friendship rise above shall victory be found.

"Huh?" The first eight let out in unison.

"The prophecy is different," Sora said in surprise.

"What?" The second generation asked.

"The last portion was, then angels will shoot their arrows of Light and Hope at the loved ones of those the have been sent to protect," Koshiro cited, still remembering it.

"So... what does this mean?" Daisuke asked.

"It sounds to me like Gyro and Pyrrha will have to create a miracle on their own," Taichi deduced.

"Undead King... pfft," Impmon scoffed, "More like King of Fools."

"What was that?" Came out of Gatomon.

"Firstly, GranDracmon is the King of Vampires, making both of Myotismon's Ultimates little more than subordinates to him," Black said haughtily.

"Besides," Impmon piped up again," Any one of us can beat him by ourselves."

Didn't take a genious what Impmon meant by "us".

The Children didn't like their accomplishments being belittled. They chose to ignore the two.

"...okay, aside from the blatant reference to Gyro and Pyrrha at the end, anyone understand this?" Jaune asked.

"Well, the undead digimon king is probably Myotismon, seeing as he IS listed as an 'undead type' in those Analyzers you have. As for the hour of the beast...that would be a reference to something from back home, the number 666." Azure said, being mindful of his words with Ilia and Lisa around.

"Why is it called the 'number of the beast'?" Lisa couldn't help but ask.

"Because it was from a VERY old text that spoke of a monster arising in the end of days, probably some kind of Grimm or whatever, the text was never clear. The gist of it was that it would give out its mark, that number, to anyone who pledged fealty to it," Pierce said, before shrugging. "No clue how true or not, but it's likely what we're looking for."

"So… 666 would probably be… 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 6 seconds." Ruby said with a nod.

"That gives us…" Blake started, looking at her scroll...and gasping. "30 minutes!"

"So they don't have any hope of stopping it either," Taichi sighed a little.

"At least I can see my other kicking VenomMyotismon's butt again," Agumon said eagerly.

"Hey! You weren't the only one there," Gabumon protested.

"Okay, that's not a lot of time to do anything in this situation" Keenan frowned. "What should we do?"

"I think for now, we should assume that whatever happens in 30 minutes would be VERY destructive...so perhaps we should set up a defense around this mall. We need to protect the people inside," Summer suggested.

"We should also warn anyone so they don't come...but how?" Taiyang frowned.

"I can handle that," Lisa said. "Think you can help me make an emergency broadcast?" she asked to Monitamon.

"Of course! I just need a signal and we'll be on the air ma'am!" he answered professionally, treating her like his boss.

It earned some chuckles to see Monitamon treating Lisa like a boss. If digimon are allowed to live on Remnant when this is over, Lisa will probably have the best cameraworker ever on her side.

Moving into position, they agreed to keep all the chosen out of the picture, with Summer being the 'guest speaker' for this bit of breaking news. They also properly prepared the information, the prophecy, and even a view of the comatose people behind them, all with the intent of hammering in the severity of the situation.

Behind Monitamon, Gyro was checking on his scroll with a timer everyone had synced up, before raising his hand up to Lisa and counting from 5, while Monitamon stood on a box and his head was hooked up to a scroll to give him a worldwide signal to broadcast over all of the network, his screen facing Lisa with a small light slowly flashing, indicating it was about to go to live broadcast.

"This is Lisa Lavender, reporting live from the Viola Memorial mall. As many may have noticed earlier today, communications with the city of Vale have been cut off, only recently has a solution been found to restoring them. As covered in previous reports regarding the existence of an otherworldly terrorist seeking to subjugate Remnant, this was in fact another of his schemes. Even now, the fog that covers Vale hasn't dissipated, and the effects of his actions are here to be seen," she said, as the camera panned past her, to the hundreds of comatose citizens. "And while the situation appears bad, I am afraid to inform everyone that we have received word that the situation may become more dire," she continued, before panning the camera to Summer.

"If this incites panic, then the city will be crawling with Grimm," Novice pointed out with a very evil look.

And that reminded the Children that if this did incite panic, then VenomMyotismon won't be the only problem.

"People of Remnant," Summer started. "My name is Summer Rose, and while that may or may not mean something to you, I would like to confirm to those that do know, that this is not a hoax," she said, no doubt aiming that both at Ozpin's faction...and HER faction. "But in light of the situation, allow me to reintroduce myself as also the leader of the Rebellion force that chased after Myotismon into Remnant. After a hard battle, we were able to defeat him just an hour or so ago. However, it seems this is not the end. While we were uncertain as to his reasons for being fixated on Remnant, a new document we unearthed seems to have shed some light on this matter," Summer said, before holding up her scroll, with the prophecy on it.

"Understandably, I am certain most viewers will be...skeptical of what appears to be a prophecy," Lisa said. "However, after what I've witnessed today, I implore all viewers to take this as fact. As we speak, the prophecy is about to begin, for with some help, we have deciphered that the 'Hour of the Beast' begins…." she didn't get to finish as…

"Lord Myotismon! Lord Myotismon!" an almost brainwashed sounding chant filled the room as the camera panned to the people on the ground, all of them calling out the name of the evil Digimon.

"Okay, that is creepy," Miyako said with a slightly creeped out look.

Daisuke and Ken also had apprehensive looks.

"The prophecy is beginning as we speak!" Lisa said urgently, before Monitamon panned to the large window, and through the glass they saw a flurry of bats flying through the air, so many that they practically blanketed the sky in darkness.

Gulping thickly, Summer turned to someone outside of the screen. "How long do we have left?"

"4 minutes!" was the reply, as the live feed began moving, running up the stairs and soon they were on the roof, the feed seeing a legion of bats flying towards the VNN building not far away. No commentary was done. There was no need, as for the next few minutes, everyone in the world watched with bated breaths as the phenomenon played out on live television.

Everyone were waiting with baited breath. Was it going to be VenomMyotismon or BelialMyotismon.

"10 seconds! 9! 8…!" someone counted down from off screen, as the bats began to stop gathering, and right when the time struck the fated hour….the VNN building exploded, something MASSIVE coming out from within it.

A titanic beast, his upper body red with long arms that nearly reached the ground with sharp, clawed fingers. Four torn, leathery wings on his back, one pair larger than the other. His lower body was covered in black fur, ending in large clawed feet, and an almost metallic tail came out of his back. Finally, his head, while humanoid, had eyes that seemed to hold nothing but the mind of a beast within, as his blonde hair fell about haphazardly and horns were sprouted on the side of his head. The creature seemed raise its head up, before letting out a bellowing roar, one that shook the entire city.

"It's VenomMyotismon." The Digimon said in unison.

Although Impmon had a memory of the time he faced three of these as Beelzemon. He could have wiped them out if Lucemon hadn't ordered a retreat so they could sic Belphemon and Leviamon on them. Oh well, those two beasts were a slight overkill if you ask the imp digimon.

"This….is very concerning…" Ozpin could only say, trying hard to maintain calm in this situation. Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that most of Vale was apparently...comatose...had they been awake to see this, the sheer amount of fear and terror would have attracted swarms of Grimm…

He'd seen the news report, and when he looked out his window, even through the thick fog he could see a silhouette of the monster that had just emerged. Truly...he may have underestimated just how big this really was….but he didn't regret holding Qrow back. He didn't want to risk losing any good men to something they had no idea of.

"I'm glad Ozpin doesn't want to risk any lives against something they can't fight," Hikari said, feeling relieved.

"Yeah," Taichi agreed, "No human on Remnant can fight this."

As if to further confirm things, he was receiving an emergency call, unsurprisingly from Ironwood.

He didn't even turn to the screen as he accepted the call, Ironwood's face appearing on the screen, half angry, half panicked.

"Ozpin what the hell is that thing?!" He asked, and in the background Ozpin could very well hear troops scrambling.

"I wish I could give you a proper answer James, but as it stands… the prophecy Summer showed already did it for me." Ozpin said, a strange tone Ironwood couldn't identify in his voice.

"What should we even do?" Ironwood asked, groaning into his hands as he tried to think of ANYTHING that could help them with that beast.

Ozpin turned to the screen, and it was then that Ironwood saw it in his fellow headmaster's eyes.

Fear.

"We pray."

As sad as it was, that was the only thing the headmaster could really do in that situation.

"...anyone getting that feeling that's telling you just how FUCKED we are?" Gyro couldn't help but ask as they looked up at the towering new form of what was CLEARLY Myotismon.

Fortunately the f-bomb was censored for the Children. But eight of them remembered how they felt facing this monster. They were scared.

"I think we're all right up there with you," Salamon deadpanned.

"Not that that's gonna stop us from trying," Agumon added.

"You know it, buddy," Gyro chuckled.

"Wait wait wait! You're all actually going to try to fight THAT?!" Lisa couldn't help but ask incredulously, Monitamon having long cut off the live feed out of fear.

"Not the first big ass monster we had to fight," Pierce shrugged… before tacking on "Though he does take the title of biggest, I'll give him that."

"And I've looked up this guy already," Weiss added, fiddling with her scroll, before bringing out the page for everyone to see. "He's VenomMyotismon now."

"And it gets worse when you see his level," Tentomon sighed.

Digimon Analyzer: VenomMyotismon

VenomMyotismon. Virus Type. An Ultimate Level Demon Beast Digimon. The true form of Myotismon as the undead king, this Digimon is just a shell of his former self. Gone is his previous refined self, leaving behind nothing but a raging beast, hellbent on destruction. His special attacks are Venom Infuse, inject a virus into his enemies thanks to beams flying out of his eyes, that slowly weakens them before destroying them, and Chaos Flame, firing off a wave of purple flames from his body.

A moment of silence passed between everyone as they read the description.

"Here it comes," Hikari said, waiting for the Remnant reaction to the first Ultimate they have to face.

"A… an Ultimate Level…" Gyro breathed, wide eyed.

"I'm going to take a guess and say that's VERY bad…" Lisa asked weakly.

"He's one level higher than what all of us can reach," Renamon said flatly. "And a single Ultimate is said to be worth AT LEAST 10 Perfect levels...unless its a Numemon-line evolution anyway."

"We have at most 12 Perfect Levels, that is if Summer and Keenan can use the Blue Card at the same time." Pyrrha said with a worried frown as she glanced at the two mentioned.

"We can, the card doesn't disappear after being used, so I can just pass it to Keenan after using it." Summer explained.

"Something tells me that won't be enough," Gomamon said, still remembering how small he felt against this thing even as Zudomon.

"Then we've got 12 Perfects on our side. Think that'll be enough?" Ruby asked.

"It has to be," Jaune frowned. "Or Vale is toast."

"Okay then…" Ren sighed.

"Looks like we're in for the fight of our lives...everyone ready?" Nora asked, her expression DEAD serious for a change.

Gatomon didn't voice it, but she was actually happy that Nora was taking this seriously. She would have lost it if the orangette had acted like nothing was wrong.

"Now or never," Patamon nodded.

"We'll have to ask all of you to stand back. This...is going to get ugly," Blake frowned.

"Don't need to tell us twice," Azure nodded, even if Ilia seemed unsure, but she soon nodded as well. As it was, they would only be getting in they way.

The group soon stood at the edge, and readying their Digivices and 'extensions', initiated their strongest evolutions. A bright light covered the roof, before the 12 Perfect levels and their partners were soon flying towards the battle.

Back at the roof, Lisa stepped to the edge, before looking at Monitamon. "Can you censor what you record?"

"Huh? Well...yeah, I can choose to a degree…" Monitamon said.

"Good. Then can you make it so those 10 kids with those…Crests...can't be seen?" she asked.

"That I can do," Monitamon nodded.

"Okay that's a good call," Jo said, "That way they won't risk Ironwood trying anything with them."

"Or any other shady person on Remnant," Yamato added in.

"Good call. We wouldn't want anybody getting ideas about making use of the kids." Azure said, approving of her idea.

Lisa nodded in thanks, before turning back to Monitamon "Then start rolling. Whatever the outcome, this is something Remnant HAS to see," she said.

"You got it," Monitamon nodded, before he started filming, and once again Remnant got another breaking news report.

"This is Lisa Lavender, we apologize for the earlier cut off, but due to technical difficulties caused by the creature's roar, we have only just been able to return," she said quickly. "As of currently behind me, several more of the Digimon have appeared, all of them part of the 'Rebellion' group lead by Summer Rose. As it is, they are currently fighting against the creature which I have been informed is a more powerful form of the terrorist Myotismon, now VenomMyotismon," she said, as true enough, the various Perfect level Digimon were fighting tooth and nail against the colossal monster.

Shots were fired, holy attacks flew, and body parts impacted the gigantic monster, causing so many explosions, that before long, VenomMyotismon was covered in smoke.

"Did that do it?" Keenan asked...right as a strong wind blew by, dispelling the smoke...and revealing VenomMyotismon completely unharmed.

"Of course it didn't," Black dead-panned, "He's mindless, not weak."

"Except for us," Impmon decided to add needlessly, earning a whack from Cadeuceus.

"Not nearly enough…" Taomon frowned.

"Then let's try that arrow again!" Nora suggested, before Angewomon and any of the smaller Perfects, deposited their partners on the back of AtlurKabuterimon.

"Saint Air!" Angewomon called out, sprinkling VenomMyotismon with the holy energy, seemingly stopping his movements, before everyone added their power to the holy ring, which was soon turned into the Holy Arrow. "Holy Arrow!" she called out as the arrow flew through the air, aimed for VenomMyotismon's forehead. For a moment it looked like it was going to work...before in a sudden movement that nearly blew them all away, VenomMyotismon's large arm moved and grabbed the arrow, seemingly straining against it for a moment...before promptly crushing it in his hand. For a second they could swear a cruel smirk appeared on the side of his face, before…

"Chaos Flame!" VenomMyotismon declared. Fire began to appear before his mouth, and it soon was unleashed in a raging torrent, hitting every Digimon present, but not before they could shield their partners from the brunt of the attack. Once it was over, everyone was sent crashing into the ground, all of them reverting to their Child forms.

"Of courese that didn't work either," Gatomon sighed.

"Guess it's up to Gyro and Pyrrha to get our others to evolve," Gabumon commented before returning to reading.

"Okay...we're in trouble…" Yang groaned as they struggled to get up, before making sure their partners were okay, which thankfully they were, albeit badly weakened for most of them.

"What do we do now?" Weiss questioned, a hint of worry in her voice.

"We...have to keep...fighting…" Pierce groaned, he'd taken a bit more of the attack thanks to being near the side, though the fact he was okay was enough.

"But we can't exactly keep using the same strategy," Ren pointed out.

"Neither can we just sit here!" Keenan countered.

"Guys, enough!" Gyro said, stopping the growing argument. "We need to keep fighting yeah, but we also need a new plan…"

"Okay, so any ideas? Cause I'm having a hard time thinking of one," Jaune asked quickly.

"...I think Gyro and I should be the ones to fight," Pyrrha said.

"If this is about the prophecy then yes, that seems to be the case, but...are you sure that is a good idea?" Summer questioned, not happy with the idea of leaving the two to fight this battle alone.

"But how are they going to make their partners reach Ultimate," Iori asked, wondering how they were going to do that.

"We'll have to," Gyro said, standing up. "Maybe this is bad, and yeah, I won't deny it...I'm probably this close from wetting myself really…" he admitted. "But you know what REALLY scares me? The idea of letting this guy hurt everyone, making everyone suffer just for HIS mad ambitions! So yeah, if the prophecy says we gotta do it, I'm game."

"And you won't be doing it alone," Pyrrha added. "This is going to be tough...but when we're all together, it's not so scary, and really...I also don't ever want to lose any of you!"

"And we'll be there, right by your sides!" Agumon and Gabumon grinned as they got up as well and stood alongside their partners.

The two of them smiled and nodded. "Ready guys?" Gyro grinned as the four of them turned to face VenomMyotismon.

"Always," Pyrrha, Gabumon, and Agumon all said as they stood tall, the fear they were feeling dying out in the face of the courage that was growing, supported by the fact that they had each other to fight alongside.

At that moment, a miracle occured, as Gyro and Pyrrha suddenly started glowing. Literally. The two of them were glowing with the same colors as their Crests as two pillars of light shot up into the sky, so much so that back in Beacon, Ozpin could clearly see the two pillars cutting through the fog. "What in the world…?" was all he could say with a gasp, his coffee mug clattering on the floor in shock.

Everyone were now smiling widely at what was no doubt about to happen.

"So… I'm not dreaming… right?" Ilia asked back from the roof of the mall, blinking several times as she saw the twin pillars of orange and blue light.

"Nope, I'm seeing it too." Kotemon said in awe.

"Nice to know we're not crazy then." Azure murmured, hoping this was something good.

"To all viewers...DO NOT adjust your screens! I am seeing this and while I'm having a hard time believing it, I can confirm that it is 100% real!" Lisa said frantically. This was officially the biggest story she'd ever covered in her entire career, possibly the biggest one ever, and the fact she was able to do it live...words didn't even begin to describe the emotions running through her. She didn't know what was going on. Heck, she wasn't sure she COULD understand...but whatever it was, she prayed it would be what would save Vale.

And it probably did by just giving whoever was watching this in Vale hope. Or that's what Takeru and Hikari believe.

Back in the fight, Gyro and Pyrrha stared at themselves in awe, before their Tags floated out of their clothes, the Crests shining brighter than ever before...then a cracking sound was heard. Immediately looking at the Tags, they saw the glass start to crack, which was spreading to the entire Tag, before they shattered, leaving the Crests floating in the air.

"What's going on?" Miyako asked before turning to Taichi and Yamato, "Did this happen to you?"

"No it didn't," Yamato said first, wondering why the Crests were acting like that.

"Uh...is that supposed to happen?" Gabumon couldn't help but ask. They soon got their answer, as the Crest suddenly shot into Gyro and Pyrrha's chests, going into their bodies. At that moment, their Digivices came floating out, the entirety of the light suddenly absorbing into their right hands, which were now glowing white. Looking at them in surprise, the two soon looked at each other, and nodded, before grabbing hold of their D-Cores. The moment they did, the light entered the Digivices, and in a flash, they transformed. Gone was the simple pager-like design and in its place was a more phone like design with a colored crip on each side, orange for Gyro and blue for Pyrrha, a small antenna came out the top near the edge, and next to it was a silver mesh area, like those seen on a microphone, finally, over the screen on the new Digivice was a smaller piece of glass in a ring shape.

"...Is that a D-3?" Takerui asked first.

"No... it's different," Iori said as he had taken out his D-3 to compare it.

"These are...our D-Cores?" Pyrrha gasped, before they saw their Crests appear on the glass covering.

"Did their Digivices just absorb their Crests?" Ken asked with a shocked look.

"No. These aren't Digivice Cores," Gyro said, before a wide grin spread on his face. "They're Digivice Crests!" he said, before looking at their partners. "Wanna see what they can do?" he asked, and he had a VERY good feeling he knew just what they could do.

"Digivice, Crests?" Koshiro muttered in awe before turning to Novice, "Did you know about this?"

"...Possibly," Novice said sheepishly.

Judging by the glares he was receiving, that was the wrong thing to say.

"Keep reading Gabumon," Yamato encouraged his partner. Being just a little more interested in the story now than Novice withholding something like this.

"You know it!" Agumon and Gabumon grinned, before Gyro and Pyrrha pointed their new Digivices at their respective partners.

(Play Brave Heart)

The image of the Crests of Courage and Friendship appeared on the respective glass coverings of the D-Crests, before a massive burst of light shot through them, sending the Crests flying forward, before they entered Agumon and Gabumon respectively, their bodies turning the color of the respective Crests.

"Agumon, Warp Evolution!" Agumon called out, doing a backflip before a beam of light shot out of him, before revealing Greymon, who turned and fired another beam, revealing MetalGreymon who did the process one last time, and this time, the beam revealed a new form. This form, while still clearly reptilian, was much more humanoid compared to his previous forms, and notably smaller, standing just a foot or two taller than the average human adult. He was clad in sturdy shoulder, and torso armor with a waist guard. On his head was a metal helmet that had three horns on it, much like MetalGreymon, while on his arms were a set of three of belts on each forearm. Additional armor began to form in the form of a pair of clawed arm guards which he gripped firmly, followed by a pair of shin guards on his lower legs. On his back the Crest of Courage appeared, before a shield of sorts formed, before it split in two, forming almost wing-like armor on his back, as the orange shade of color faded, revealing most of his armor to be a yellowish shade of gold, while his chest armor, front waist guard, and shin guards were silver in color, followed by a bit of spiky orange hair emerging from the back of his helmet, as his eyes opened, revealing Agumon's green eyes within the helmet. "WarGreymon!" he called out his new form as he slashed the air a couple of times with his new weapons, a torrent of flame coming from the motion, before he crossed his arms and spread them out, the image of a sun appearing behind him at the release of energy from the transformation.

"YES! WARGREYMON!" Agumon practically roared as he jumped in place.

"Gabumon, Warp Evolution!" Gabumon called out, backflipping as well as he released the beam of light from his body, revealing Garurumon, followed by WereGarurumon, and finally also revealing a brand new form. This one was back to being a quadruped, but was notably shorter than Garurumon, his body covered in metallic armor as the blue faded away into his real colors, reaching the metallic armor to be dark blue on his legs and back half of his body, and yellow on his torso, his head looking like Garurumon's, but with the fur replaced completely with metal as Gabumon's red eyes could be seen, the Crest of Friendship visible on his right shoulder just below a missile pod. As he ran forward, he jumped, robotic wings appearing on his back, before a bladed tail appeared on his backside. He did a short aerial flip before landing on a mound of raised earth, as he called out his new form "MetalGarurumon!" and then several ports and plates on his body open, revealing an arsenal of hidden weaponry, which all flew out and struck the area around him, turning it into a frozen wasteland as the moon could be seen behind him while he howled.

Gabumon could barely focus on reading as his other became MetalGarurumon.

Impmon was about to open his mouth, before feeling murderous intent. Turning to the source, Impmon saw Novice being surrounded by the aura of "If you say something to ruin this I will delete you.". The imp wisely kept his mouth shut.

When the light subsided, the two new Digimon stood tall and proud before the colossal demon.

"Looks like the tables just turned," Gyro grinned, already knowing just how far up on the scale their partners had jumped.

"Get ready VenomMyotismon! This is your end!" Pyrrha added as they climbed on their respective partner's backs and soon took to the sky.

Back below, the rest of the team was looking up in awe. "This is...it's a new evolution!" Ruby couldn't suppress the glee in her voice.

"And not just any evolutions too!" Weiss added as she brought up the data on the new forms.

Digimon Analyzer: WarGreymon

WarGreymon. Vaccine Type. An Ultimate Level Dragon Man Digimon. One of the strongest dragon warriors, with armor made out of Chrome Digizoid, it serves as one of the strongest of the Greymon species. He wields the Dramon Killers on his arms, capable of easily killing any Digimon of the dramon subtype, and the wings on his back double as the Brave Shield, capable of stopping almost any attack. His special attacks are Gaia Force, gathering the energy of the atmosphere and turning it into a giant ball of fire, which he then throws at his enemies, and Brave Tornado, spinning on himself like a drill to the point he turns into a tornado that can tear through anything.

Digimon Analyzer: MetalGarurumon

MetalGarurumon. Data Type. An Ultimate Level Cyborg Digimon. A Garurumon with it's body modified into that of a cyborg, and unlike some other Digimon who undergo this process, MetalGarurumon has kept all his intelligence. Within his body are hundreds of concealed weapons, rivalled by very few Digimon, though his own brand freezes the enemies he attacks. His special attacks are Cocytus Breath, firing a cold wave at absolute zero from his mouth, freezing the enemy solid, and Grace Cross Freezer, unleashing his full arsenal on his enemies all in one burst.

"They're both Ultimate level!" Veemon cheered, before an excited grin crossed his face. "They're SOOO gonna kick his butt now!"

"Are they?" Daisuke asked eagerly despite partly knowing the answer.

"Well, we still had to work for it," Gabumon muttered in embarrassment.

"But yes," Agumon said with a grin.

"Go WarGreymon! Go MetalGarurumon!" Patamon and Salamon cheered as well. Now, now they had a chance to win.

Back to the fight…

"Careful, we're still getting used to these new forms!" WarGreymon cautioned as they evaded a few strikes from VenomMyotismon's arms.

"So is VenomMyotismon," Impmon pointed out.

"Heh, don't worry about us buddy, just do what comes naturally!" Gyro grinned.

"That so? Alright then!" WarGreymon nodded before he rocketed forward, his body gaining a bright orange light, before he rammed into VenomMyotismon's chest, the light turning into a large sphere, as VenomMyotismon roared in surprise as he was pushed backwards, the force pulling him along for a good several blocks before he fell on his back.

"And not done yet!" MetalGarurumon added as his eyes glowed blue and his armaments revealed themselves. "Grace Cross Freezer!" he called out as he fired everything, VenomMyotismon roaring in pain as the missiles hit, his body freezing till he was soon covered in ice.

Back on the rooftop…

"D-Damn…" Azure could only say as his jaw was hanging open.

"I-I knew the power jump to the Ultimate level was supposed to be strong, but this is beyond anything I imagined," Wizardmon gasped, while Lisa was completely unable to comment at the sudden reversal of the flow of battle.

Likewise, a LOT of people watching were completely jaw dropped at the sight.

"...what are we seeing here?" was all Ironwood could say as their faction was holding another conference, as he had managed to dispatch a fleet to try and contain the situation.

"This...this can't be real…" Lionheart almost whimpered. "Are we all in some kind of nightmare?"

Everyone frowned a little at Lionhearts words. How could he possibly call VenomMyotismon being beaten a nightmare?

"Wish I could say I was drunk right now, but nope. I'm stone cold sober," Qrow sighed, inwardly having a VERY good idea what was going on right now.

"As much as I can't deny that would be easy, this is very much real," Ozpin frowned deeply. He himself was still reeling from what he'd seen. "But suffice to say I think Summer's little 'rebellion group', is likely behind this."

"Yes…" Ironwood frowned at the reminder. "It's still hard to believe she'd been alive this whole time, albeit trapped in whatever world these Digimon came from."

"And for that reason, I believe the best we can do is trust in whatever her group is doing. They clearly know how to handle this better," Ozpin said as they continued to watch the live broadcast.

"Did that get him?" MetalGarurumon asked.

"Don't count on it," WarGreymon frowned.

"Good point. I say we hammer him more," MetalGarurumon suggested. Nothing like making sure the enemy was data dust to make sure they were dead.

For once, no one even frowned at the ruthlesness here.

"Sounds like a plan," Gyro nodded almost sagely.

"Is it bad that I'm not the least bit put off by what would normally be overkill?" Pyrrha asked.

"Less talking, more killing." Gyro said with an almost shark like grin.

"...right, cause we all went insane somewhere down the line," Pyrrha said flatly before turning to the frozen and shaking form of VenomMyotismon...wait, what was that last one?

Novice turned to glance at everyone and saw that no one had any intention of critizising this situation. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

But they did frown when VenomMyotismon broke free... Just like last time.

At that moment, VenomMyotismon broke free from his icy prison, getting up quickly and boy was he angry. "You little brats!" he roared. "Venom Infuse!" he called out as he fired beams from his eyes, the ground where the shots missed rotting away.

"...okay, do NOT get hit by those…" WarGreymon said, sweat dropping a little.

"No need to tell me twice," MetalGarurumon agreed before they were soon dodging. Even with their new power boost, VenomMyotismon wasn't going down without a fight.

"Okay...even with those new forms he's not going down easily," Blake frowned, before everyone looked at each other.

"...anyone up for being annoying flies?" Ren suggested with a rare smirk.

"Oooh yeah," everyone nodded in agreement.

Back in the fight, the two Ultimates were evading the large arms, while trying to find a good shot...easier said than done. However, right as they were avoiding, a flurry of missiles hit VenomMyotismon in the chest, followed by several powerful shots, and a beam of holy energy.

"Hey ugly!" Veedramon grinned, catching VenomMyotismon's attention. "Your furry ass can't even hit the broad side of a barn!"

Unsurprisingly, that managed to piss VenomMyotismon off, as he proceeded to stomp towards them, no doubt wanting to make pancakes out of them.

"We got him distracted," came Jaune's voice from their scrolls. "Now hurry and take him out before he actually manages to make pancakes out of us!"

"Did somebody say 'pancakes'?" Nora's voice was heard before the call ended.

"Seriously?" Gatomon exclaimed at Nora.

Novice was surprised how little outward reaction everyone was showing at this fight.

"...same old Nora," they couldn't help but chuckle before getting serious.

"I'll slow his movements, you hit him hard," MetalGarurumon said, before firing another volley of missiles, this time aiming specifically for the giant monster's limbs. As expected, the monster roared in anger as his limbs froze solid, stopping his movements for a bit.

"You got it!" WarGreymon nodded. "You might want to get off for this one, Gyro," he said as he brought his Dramon Killers together, and Gyro wasn't about to argue as he jumped off and used his Semblance and weapons to keep him hovering in the air for a bit. "Brave Tornado!" WarGreymon called out as he spun rapidly and flew towards VenomMyotismon with all the intent of a drill, punching a hole right through him, causing him to roar in pain as he fell to his knees for a moment.

Miyako was too late to cover Iori's eyes for this, but to her relief, the youngest of the chosen merely winced at the gaping hole VenomMyotismon now sported.

"I... I'm okay," Iori said, trying to sound brave, but that wasn't what he wanted to see.

"Did they get him?" Weiss asked.

"I think they did," Birdramon nodded, seeing the gaping hole in VenomMyotismon's body. However...instead of dissolving, something seemed to be happening

VenomMyotismon groaned, a mix of pain and discomfort, before the hole in his… lower area… was filled by a strange black thing, which sported its own mask and had two stubby arms. It let out a bizarre, yet disturbing, roar of its own.

"Okay….that's just wrong…" Togemon commented.

"Looking back, it kind of is," Jo agreed with Palmon's other.

"And THAT is saying something," Stingmon agreed, considering the shit they'd been seeing lately.

Things soon went from bad to worse, as the odd creature opened its mouth, and released a wave of darkness that soon blew them all back. "Okay...someone plug that thing!" Pierce groaned from where he'd landed.

"Good idea...anyone got something big enough?" Nora asked, a little dizzy.

"Forget plugging that thing, we need to stop his movements, or at this rate he'll level Vale!" Ruby said urgently.

"...more than he's already done anyway…" Blake added flatly seeing as the area they'd been fighting in had been more or less flattened by now.

Just like Odaiba, was what most of the Children thought.

"If we can just make him stop then we'll probably be able to get a clear shot at ending him." Jaune said with a frown as he tried to think up a plan.

He didn't have to think for long.

As if in response to their will to end this fight, their crests started shining, the 8 who still had their tags pulling them out, while Gyro and Pyrrha found the crests appearing in their palms and glowing just as bright.

Suddenly, the light shot out from the crests, and towards VenomMyotismon, before it started wrapping around his various body parts, stopping his movements completely.

"Unhand me! You'll let go of me this instant, you miserable Chosen Children!" the weird thing in his lower section screeched at them as he tried to struggle free.

"What?!" The second generation of Chosen and their partners let out.

"Yeah... That's the real body," Taichi admitted, the first generation never revealed this detail of their fight with VenomMyotismon.

"That thing can talk?" Pyrrha blinked in surprise.

"Maybe… that's it! That's his real appearance, the whole body is just a thing he's controlling!" Gyro realised, as it would definitely explain why it was like all their attacks weren't really having any real effect.

"Well then, let's finish this now!" WarGreymon said, earning a nod from MetalGarurumon.

"Gaia Force!"

"Cocytus Breath!"

The two attacks hit VenomMyotismon full force, the giant ball of flame hitting first before being pushed further in by the ice breath, the explosion causing spasms throughout his entire body, before little by little it started to dissolve and before long there was nothing left of him. Nothing left save for a familiar little stone that was absorbing parts of his data, before it fell into a waiting hand, which soon retreated into a portal in the ground, unnoticed by anyone.

(Song End)

"Who was that?" Gomamon commented on someone taking the stone.

"Who knows..." Jo commented with a frown.

"...Maybe Witchmon?" Hikari suggested, "I mean... we haven't seen her since she gave it to Myotismon."

"That... makes sense," Takeru muttered.

They might see her again, possibly trying to use that stone again. Maybe it would be that stone to revive Myotismon as BelialMyotismon... Now that was a scary thought.

"Jesus christ…" Gyro breathed in awe after seeing how the two attacks had erased any trace of Myotismon's evolved form.

"We did it… we won!" Pyrrha exclaimed with a wide smile.

"Who's the best?!" WarGreymon cheered as they flew back down.

"We are!" MetalGarurumon shot back as the two Ultimates landed, their partners climbing off, before in just a second, Koromon and Tsunomon stood in their places.

"I'm too happy to complain for once." Koromon said after a moment, laughing loudly while Gyro picked him up.

Up on the mall roof…

"Its over! Its finally over!" Lisa said into the camera. "Despite that hard battle, the rebellion has triumphed! Remnant is safe!" she said, cheering, before regaining her composure. "Ahem…" she coughed a little at her moment of emotion. "This has been Lisa Lavender, Vale News Network, signing off and wishing everyone a good night."

No one could blame Lisa for her reaction. They were pretty sure that anyone who was in the slightest bit of know would be too.

Ozpin watched the screen for several seconds more, wondering if anything else would be shown, before slowly letting out a sigh of relief, the tension draining from his body.

Lionheart had long since disconnected, and Ozpin couldn't exactly blame him, he knew how fearful the man was.

"Well, glad he's been taken down." Qrow said with a sigh.

"I have to agree, I'm glad it's over." Ironwood agreed with him, Qrow grimacing a bit because of how rare that was "But I do wonder who he was talking to when he said 'Chosen Children'."

"Uh-oh." Was the universal reaction.

"He's onto them!" Armadimon cried out.

Qrow had a good idea about that, but decided to clam up… especially when he looked up, his eyes going wide.

"I… believe we have bigger issues at the moment James." Ozpin said, having turned when Qrow became strangely silent, noticing the same thing as the scythe wielder.

"What...the...FUCK?!" Gyro swore when the fog cleared and instead of clear skies, what they found was…

It was unnatural for one, as right there in the sky, were several tears in the air, and beyond them, several land masses could be seen.

"Oh, great," Mimi groaned, "Here we go again."

"It's not us going through that," Sora reminded.

"Well I wouldn't wish what we went through on anyone," Mimi retorted as she remembered what they went through against the Dark Masters.

"What… what is this?" Weiss breathed in confusion.

"That's… the Digital World." Summer quickly realised, recognizing a few points in the sky.

"Hey… mom's right! I can see Mount Infinity right there!" Ruby noticed, pointing at a certain area in the sky.

"What happened in the Digital World if we can actually see it in our sky?" Ren wondered.

"If I were to guess...THEY got out," Renamon growled.

"They? You mean those guys you and Gennai sealed away?" Jaune and Gomamon gulped.

"The very same ones," Keenan frowned.

"Ok… names, PLEASE, we don't want to be too blind when we go in." Pierce requested.

"Right." Summer nodded, she was already going to do so anyway "They call themselves the Dark Masters, 4 powerful Ultimate Level Digimon. They are composed of MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon and their leader, Piedmon. All of them are Virus, save for MetalSeadramon who's a Data. Furthermore, if you need power level...well...if the four of them were to attack Remnant...I'd say just the four of them would be enough to take over the entire world in oh...a few months to half a year tops," Summer finished off…

"We could probably do that in less time," Black said matter of factly

"No one cares," The Children and their partners said in unison.

"...okay, that last bit wasn't very comforting…" Blake deadpanned.

"It wasn't supposed to be," Renamon said flatly.

"Hey!" came Azure's voice as they saw him, Lisa, Ilia, Taiyang, Zwei, along with their Digimon, coming over to them. "We saw the fight, and you destroying the big demon, but…." Azure gestured to the continents in the sky hoping for an answer.

"Oh, that's just the Digital World so out of balance that the walls between worlds are getting VERY thin," Falcomon said matter of factly.

"Is… is that bad?" Ilia asked.

"Well… it's most likely the reason Monitamon and Kotemon are here, if the wall is thin, anything could get through, right?" Lisa ventured a guess.

"That's just about right." Wizardmon nodded at her deduction.

"Speaking of get through," Wormmon said dryly as he pointed upward, to which everyone looked up and…

"Oh come on!" came the long suffering groans from the chosen as up in the sky was….a Kuwagamon.

"If that bug starts attacking again, Uncle Ben's saying can go to hell, cause we're going Ultimate on that thing's ass," Gyro growled.

"Okay... none of us like Kuwagamon," Taichi said before addressing everyone,"But does anyone hate it that much?"

"Nope." Yamato and Gabumon let out.

"I don't really hate it," Takeru added in with Patamon nodding in agreement.

"He's annoying but not worth hating," Gatomon added her opinion into the mix.

"You said it," Jo added in despite remembering being scared of the one they faced on File.

"It's just a clown," Gomamon said while puffing his chest.

Everyone else gave various confirmations that they don't have an extreme hate for Kuwagamon.

"I… I don't get it." Taiyang voiced his confusion.

"This is the third Kuwagamon we've met, and the two before him were annoying enough that we just absolutely hate that Digimon now." Biyomon answered dryly.

"We should probably get back to what's important though." Salamon noted, though not without glaring at the bug flying around in the sky.

"She's right. How much time do you guys think it's been in there?" Nora wondered as she looked up at the sky.

"Well...assuming time has flown more or less the same as when we were there...and we've been here for about a week...I'd calculate its been over a decade, maybe even two decades, since we left the Digital World," Weiss estimated.

"That… would probably be plenty of time for the Dark Masters to set themselves up and take over." Pyrrha said with a frown.

"Guess we have another tough battle ahead of ourselves." Tsunomon said.

"Before that…" Gyro spoke up, earning everyone's attention as he was looking at the sky with his goggles "Hey Weiss? I can see some Atlas ships in the distance… and your sister's personal ship."

Weiss took a moment to blink at that, before her eyes went wide "Wait, Winter's here?! NOW of all times?!"

"...If the broadcast was shown all over Remnant then... wouldn't it be possible for Winter to have heard what was going on," Iori asked, causing everyone's eyes to widen.

"Or she could have heard from Ironwood," Novice pointed out the other possibility.

"Uh...I think it also just got worse…" Palmon said, as the Kuwagamon flew near the ship...and suddenly the propellers stopped working.

"The ship's going down!" Patamon said in alarm.

"No! Tentomon!" Weiss shouted.

"You got it!" Tentomon said jumping into the air.

"Tentomon, Evolution! Kabuterimon! Super Evolution! AtlurKabuterimon!"

The ship's pilot was desperately trying to stabilize the system, and regain their altituted, but it was no good. The rotors weren't working at all. However, before they went down too far, they came to a sudden halt.

"W… what just…?" the pilot muttered in confusion, as they had suddenly stopped heading straight for their doom.

"What's going on?" a voice was heard behind him, making him turn to see a white haired woman with her hair done up in a tight bun on top of her head, wearing a military uniform (custom-made obviously) and a saber at her hip.

"That must be Winter," Patamon pointed out.

"I… I honestly don't know ma'am. But we're stable now… and whatever stopped us is bringing us down gently." the pilot said, he wasn't even holding the steering anymore.

Iori was having faint flash-backs of when he was on the plane that AtlurKabuterimon saved.

The woman narrowed her eyes at that, before, to the pilot's surprise, she broke open a window with her elbow and looked around outside, eventually finding what was helping them… and slowly sticking her head back inside "... the giant beetle from the news is on top of the ship and bringing us to the ground… right… I need to sit down." she said, before going into the back, presumably to clear her head of the confusion.

Eventually the aircraft came to a stop as it landed on the ground, AtlurKabuterimon letting go before reverting to Tentomon.

"Getting an aircraft to land is a heck of a lot easier than fighting a gigantic vampire that's for sure." Tentomon said idly as he flew down to the ground next to Weiss as she went up towards the small ship.

When the ramp finished coming down, Weiss watched as her elder sister stepped off, looking around quickly, before her eyes fell on her.

"Weiss?! Why are you in the city?!" she asked in shock.

Instead of answering directly, Weiss went up to her sister, hugging her "I've missed you Winter."

Novice had a wistful look, "I'm pretty sure that's the reaction of any sibling who missed their older sister."

Unfortunately Daisuke couldn't relate to that, while Miyako was able to a little.

Hikari was probably the only one who could really relate to Novice and Weiss alongside Takeru.

Winter was… a little shocked at the action, but eventually returned the hug after letting out a sigh "I've missed you as well Weiss. But, really, why are you in the city after everything that just happened?"

"It's… quite a long story." Weiss eventually said as she broke the hug.

"Can't you just give her the short version?" Tentomon said as he came up… and was then looking at tip of Winter's sabre as she had stepped back in shock.

"W-what is-" Winter didn't get to finish her confusion though as her sabre was sent out of her hands after a glyph appeared beneath her feet, stopping her, and Weiss's rapier came up and launched the sabre up.

"Don't point your weapon at my friend Winter, please." Weiss said with a sigh as she caught her sister's sabre when it came back down.

"Okay, that was cool," Daisuke commented on Weiss disarming Winter.

Winter was honestly speechless at how efficiently her little sister had managed to disarm and immobilize her, and honestly, she could feel some pride well up inside her at that, but before she could talk…

"I think you should listen to your sister Winter." a voice spoke from behind her, and both she and Weiss went stock still, Weiss even dropping the two weapons she was holding and her glyph coming undone.

Tentomon looked at both of them in confusion, before he looked around Winter, seeing yet another white haired woman, this one though had her hair done in a bun that hanged low rather than high, wearing a more formal outfit that ended in a long skirt that reached her knees.

"Is that Weiss' mother?" Tentomon was the first to question.

If he could, Tentomon would have blinked "Uh… are you Weiss's mother?" he asked bluntly.

That earned small chuckles at the other Tentomon asking a similar question, while their Tentomon's antennaes drooped in embarrassment.

The woman looked down at him, before nodding "Indeed I am, Willow Schnee, and I assume you must be a friend of my daughter's?"

"That's right!" Tentomon exclaimed as he buzzed upwards and held out his claw to the woman "I'm Tentomon, nice to meet you!"

Willow blinked at his claw for a moment, before grasping it and shaking it "Nice to meet you as well Tentomon."

"M-mother… why are you here?" Weiss asked, some of her nervousness fading away thanks to her mother accepting Tentomon so casually.

Willow sighed "I was worried about you of course. I know I haven't been the best at showing it recently, but when I saw the news earlier… well, let's just say your father lost a very expensive wine bottle."

Everyone smiled at Weiss' mother coming to see her daughter because she was worried.

Weiss blinked at that, putting the pieces together.

Her mother, who had been drinking wine almost every day for as long as she could remember, had actually dropped the bottle just to come see if she was ok.

"As any good parent should," Lotosmon commented with a smile,"Ophanimon would approve."

It was… impossible to stop the tears from coming as she ran to her mother and hugged her.

Willow smiled as she wrapped her arms around Weiss, hugging her daughter tightly.

Eventually the two let go of each other, Willow wiping away some of her daughter's tears.

"Now then, why don't we have a chat together, your sister would like to know what happened." Willow asked Weiss, who looked at Winter.

"Well… you're going to have to keep this secret from Ironwood… please." Weiss requested.

Winter was surprised at that, but sighed "Weiss, you know I can't-

"She will." Willow said easily, cutting off Winter, the two looking at each other, Willow giving her eldest daughter a look.

Eventually, Winter let out a sigh "Yes mother."

Novice let out a small laugh.

"What?" Sora was the first to ask.

"The militant Winter being put in her place by her mother," Novice said in amusement.

"Oh, right," Sora then muttered.

Meanwhile, over in another spot…

"So… about what happened earlier…" Ilia said nervously as she wrung her hands, looking anywhere but at Blake.

Blake closed her eyes, blushing a bit, she was glad that Patamon and Kotemon had understood the need for privacy and were hanging back a bit.

"Well… I didn't hate it." Blake said, opening her eyes and looking at her… she wasn't sure what Ilia classified as at the moment, but she'd figure it out soon enough.

Ilia looked at her in surprise, her body becoming red and pink "R-really?" she asked, and it was easy for Blake to notice the hopeful tone.

Blake smiled at her "Really."

Ilia smiled back shyly, glancing away before looking back at Blake "Then do you think we could… um…"

Blake rolled her eyes, knowing what Ilia was trying to get at, before grabbing her cheeks and kissing her.

Most of the older Children blushed, while the younger ones still felt weird seeing this scene.

"Kyllä ne tottuu(They'll get used to it)," Novice muttered, remembering how he once thought it was weird.

Then he noticed Black jumping on the armrest before getting to his ear and whispering something.

The Overseer's eyes widened a little, "Are you serious?"

"Why not?" Black shrugged.

That made Novice think a little before shrugging himself, "Sure if the opportunity arises."

At that moment a blinging sound in the room. "Excuse me," Novice said before getting up and walking outside the reading room. "You guys keep reading. This shouldn't take long," Novice said before the door closed after him.

"What was that about?" Ken asked Lotosmon.

"I don't know," Lotosmon replied simply, "But I think you should keep reading.

Gabumon decided to follow that advice.

After a few moments, Blake pulled back, looking at Ilia's stunned face as she kept shifting through a rainbow of colors.

Eventually though, Ilia snapped out of it, shaking her head a few times as her colors returned to normal "So… we're dating now?" she asked hopefully.

"I think we are." Blake said with a smile as she hugged her new girlfriend.

None of the girls could imagine dating another girl, but... if people like these really exist then okay.

Ilia happily returned the hug, though as the two separated, she had a curious look on her face "Blake… I… I don't really know what I should do right now… I'm still in the Fang… and you aren't… I kind of want to leave, but I don't know if it's the right thing to do."

Blake frowned, she knew this should be Ilia's decision, but she didn't want to fight her at all… then she remembered some of the things from the original timeline she had discussed with the brothers privately "I think I know what could help you decide. Contact Fennec and Corsac, get information out of them, but I want you to give critical thought to what they tell you, it might help you decide." at the very least, she wouldn't bring up Ilia's parents like her original self had, no, she'd have her judge the words of those two manipulators.

"Jo?" Mimi said with an apprehensive look.

"...It says that Corsac and Fennec use pretty words to manipulate people," Jo cited with a frown.

"Sounds like something Mister High and Mighty would do," Impmon commented.

Ilia took a deep breath, before nodding "I will… hopefully I'll have you answer when you get back from that." she said as she looked up at the sky.

Likewise, at another spot…

"Do they HAVE to go?!" Taiyang asked, trying his level best to remain...relatively calm. About as calm as a father who had just been told that his daughters had to leave to basically fight not one, but FOUR evil overlords to protect the future of the worlds. Yeah, no pressure really.

"My mom didn't want us to go," Takeru commented, remembering his mother's reaction on what they were about to do. Especially Takeru.

"I don't like this anymore than you do," Summer frowned. "But there's no other choice. Only the Crest Holders can defeat the Dark Masters. If there were another way, we would have taken it by now," she sighed.

"At least Summer seems understanding," Sora commented.

Yamato also remembered that it was their father who talked their mother into letting them go.

"If anything, we at least have a chance of reaching Ultimate as well to make the fights easier, that way Gyro and Pyrrha won't have to shoulder all the burden." Yang said with a sigh.

"...I wish we could have done that," Hikari muttered.

At that moment the doors opened again with Novice returning. The Overseer let out a small sigh as he flopped on his chair.

Deciding to question it later, the Children encouraged Gabumon to keep reading.

"HOW did they reach it though?" Ruby wondered "I mean, we saw them do it, but I can't exactly tell what was different from when the crests activated the first time."

"We'll probably have to figure that out as we go…" Palmon sighed.

"Think maybe Gennai might know something?" Biyomon asked.

"Only way to find out is to ask him when we get the chance I guess…" Ruby frowned.

"...Maybe there is a way for us too to reach Ultimate," Tentomon then said, "I mean... what would make Yamato and Taichi so different that we couldn't?"

"I find that a little insulting," Taichi commented, "But now that you say it, could there be a way for you guys to reach Ultimate too?"

"...I'll look into it once we get home," Koshiro then offered.

During this, Novice shook his head a little. Funny they should talk about that.

Taiyang sighed at what he heard, realizing that there really wasn't anything he could actually do about this… "Are you going as well?" he asked Summer.

Summer frowned a bit, looking up at the sky, while Renamon did the same. "...I think it might be best if we stayed," she said.

"Huh?" Taiyang, Ruby, and Yang all blinked in surprise.

"You may need to deal with the main issue up there, but we can't exactly leave the Digimon to keep pouring out. If some are hostile, we need to deal with them," Renamon explained.

"So anyone without a Crest should stay here to try and keep things...relatively stable," Summer nodded.

"Well, digimon were pouring into human world back then too," Patamon commented.

"Except we couldn't attack them," Tentomon complained as he remembered how Mega Blaster phased through Kuwagamon.

"Ah...good point," Ruby and Yang nodded. It wouldn't do much good to save the Digital World but leave Remnant to be torn apart.

Several more minutes passed as the family members present said their goodbyes. Among them Weiss had to constantly reassure her mother who looked all but ready to forbid her from going.

Mimi let out a chuckle, "My parents were pretty much the same."

"Don't worry, we'll make sure what's left of the city is still standing when you're back, you guys just make sure the sun still comes up tomorrow." Azure said with a grin.

"Will do," Gyro and Pierce nodded. Eventually the 10 of them were gathered together with their Digimon at the side. "Everyone ready?" Jaune asked looking a little nervous.

"About as ready as we'll ever be," Ren sighed.

"Let's get going before any of us get cold feet…" Weiss sighed. She herself had reservations of this what with her starting to reconnect with her mother…

"But how do we get up there?" Yang asked.

"If I were to guess...I'd say the Digivices might be the key," Ruby suggested.

"Worth a shot," Pyrrha nodded, as they all held out their Digivices, forming a circle. When they did, the devices began to glow, before a rainbow beam from above shot down, covering them in its light. Raising the devices upward, they were all slowly pulled up, their Digimon floating alongside them.

"Okay...this is kinda weird," Veemon couldn't help but say.

"So it's basically normal for us," Gabumon chuckled.

Everyone chuckled too.

"Sounds about right," Gomamon laughed.

"Woah… it's like a rainbow just decided to suck them up." Keenan muttered as he kept looking upwards.

"I hope they'll be ok." Lisa frowned "I may have just met them, but I've seen how much they've done, and the fact they have to do more…" she said, sighing while Monitamon patted her leg supportively.

And just moments later, the Chosen Children disappeared from sight, returning to save the Digital World.

With that, the book shut itself.

"So it's up against the Dark Masters next," Takeru said with a frown.

"And our others might evolve to Ultimate," Patamon commented, imagining what he would look like as an Ultimate Digimon. Probably a holy digimon like HolyAngemon.

"Funny you should bring that up," Novice said as he got up from his chair.

"Huh?" Came out of the Children.

"Swift called me," Novice informed them, "He... told me to do a few things for you."

"Like what?" Miyako was the first to ask.

The Overseer took a deep breath, "First, the time you meet your predecessors is year 2005."

"Why didn't you tell us before," Daisuke demanded.

"Because I didn't know," Novice shot back, "Swift just told me."

"Okay, so watch out for new enemies in 2005," Yamato then said before frowning, "Did he say anything else?"

Novice turned to Koshiro, "Koshiro, Swift adviced you to work any possible anti-virus for Digimon in preparation for that."

"Anti-Virus?" Koshiro sounded out before his eyes widened," Will there be some kind of infection?"

"Basically yes, but I'm not sure what kind of infection it is, so no use asking me about it," Novice then said, while also stomping out any questions, "And one more thing. Taichi, Yamato, you guys better check your Digivices."

"What?" The two in question exclaimed before pulling out their Digivices. But nothing seemed to be off about them.

"Yllätyyys(Surpriiiise)!" Was the only warning they got before Novice shot an orange and a blue light into Taichi's and Yamato's Digivices respectively from a holographic screen.

As soon as the lights hit the two digivices, they transformed. Into D-Crests, the same ones Gyro and Pyrrha have.

"You can thank Swift for that," Novice said with a grin. Then before anyone could say anything else, Novice turned to Impmon, "And with all that done, Impmon. It's time."

The imp looked confused before a grin spread on his face. "Oh? Are you challenging me?"

"Yup, meet me at the Arena," Novice said before being covered by blue light.

"Hey, wait!" Yamato managed to shout but it was too late, Novice had just teleported out.

"Oh yeah," Impmon cheered as he got up and practically ran out.

All the while leaving shocked and confused Children and their partners behind.

"...Some host he is," Black muttered as she made herself comfortable on Novice's chair.

---

Me: You ready for this Impmon?

Impmon: As soon as you give me my Code Crown back.

Me: Alright. Restriction 666 shattered. Breaking the Venus lock holding the Purgatory Gate. Code Crown of Gluttony, full release!

Impmon/Beelzemon: Just so you know, I won't hold back.

Me: This fight would be pointless if you did.

Beelzemon:*grins* This should be fun.