And it's been a while!
Seriously, to everyone who was patient, thank you, and I do apologize for how long this took, the mood for Frontier isn't as strong as the one for Adventure sadly, and recently I've been working on building up chapters for other stories, like my Heisei Multiverse, and yes, that includes chapters for currently unpublished stories.
Hell, I'm working on Kabuto after this.
Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy this chapter, because it features one of our first big original Digimon!
Sparking Land! Blitzmon & Gnomemon!
"So many tracks, no idea where they're going," Jaune sighed. Currently the group was travelling by following the tracks (the twins had left to do their own thing again). After leaving the village, they had followed the tracks...and soon found themselves in a rather barren looking mountain area, lush forests spread out under them via a drop that would have killed them, and in the distance were more tracks with Trailmon going through.
"Well...so far these tracks DO lead to settlements, so we'll have to find a place soon enough," Pyrrha said encouragingly.
"Think I should fly and see what's ahead?" Ruby offered, holding out her D-Scanner.
"Naw, don't bother, we practice enough, but they still like to be finicky sometimes, so best you don't risk it." Yang told her, Ruby nodding as she put it back.
"On another note, we're going to need food again soon." Weiss said with a frown.
"She's right. We find some decent stuff here and there, but we'll need something substantial soon or we'll constantly be running on fumes." Blake added.
"Guess our best bet for now is following the tracks," Ren mused. "If nothing else, it'll lead us somewhere."
"Well, let's get going then," Yang chuckled, as the group continued on. However, as they did, they noticed they were going up a path with walls on both sides...and really didn't look like anything good. "...think we took a wrong turn?" she couldn't help but ask after a while.
"...we...might have yes," Bokomon admitted. Unfortunately his book didn't come with a map.
"Think we should turn back then?" Blake frowned.
"Maybe." Nora shrugged, before they were buffeted by a strong wind "Although that might be worth checking out, might be something up ahead."
"Not to mention it'd be hard going back out in the open with this wind," Ren added.
"Okay then, let's see what's at the end of this path. We can always turn around later," Pyrrha nodded.
The group continued onward, and before long they were met with the sight of a large metal gate, with the words 'Wind Machine Factory' written on top. The gate was also wide open with the tracks leading inside.
"A factory for wind machines?" Jaune blinked in confusion.
"That's… strange." Weiss admitted.
"Maybe they have a cafeteria they would let us borrow if we ask nicely?" Ruby mused.
"Well, it's worth a shot at least." Yang shrugged, before they cautiously headed through the gate.
As they entered though, Weiss spoke up. "Wait...can we just walk into a factory like this? Don't they usually have security?"
"...that's a good point," Jaune mused...though Nora answered it for him by looking around.
"No security here," she said cheerfully and walked in...only to be met with bagworm like Digimon falling down in front of her.
"Intruders detected!" it said.
"No security, huh?" Weiss said dryly towards Nora.
"They weren't there before," Nora shot back. "Besides, there's only one of them," she said...and right as she said that, two more showed up. "Well...at leas-" she started again, but Ren stopped her by covering her mouth. The last thing they needed was for the devil called Murphy to make an army show up.
"We're sorry about intruding," Ren said. "We saw the gates were opened, and we were hoping to look around, maybe take a tour of the factory?" he said.
"You sure they're gonna be okay with that?" Blake asked skeptically as the three Digimon (Minomon, Bokomon supplied) were discussing among themselves before…
"Okay, welcome to the factory!" they said cheerfully, much to a few cheers...and a few incredulous looks. Whatever the case, the group soon made their way into the factory for the 'tour'.
Inside the factory was rather bustling, with the majority of the Digimon working in the factory looking like stag beetles made out of tasers.
"And these are?" Pyrrha asked Bokomon.
"Those are Kokuwamon." he answered.
Digimon Analyzer: Kokuwamon
Kokuwamon. Data Type. A Machine Digimon. When scared, Kokuwamon tends to discharge over a million volts from its body, though it is quite a peaceful Digimon normally, and far from violent. Its special attack is Scissor Arms Mini, using the electricity in its hands to cut through objects.
"Alright, so metallic thunder bugs… neat." Yang said after a moment. It seemed they were busy at work, making metal parts in what appeared to be an assembly line.
"I wonder what they're making," Ruby said.
"Well…they're making propellers, so it's probably something to do with that," Jaune shrugged.
"This factory is amazing," the Minomon said.
"Amazing?" Blake asked skeptically. So far nothing really amazing was visible.
"That's right, amazing," the Minomon nodded.
"What's so special about it?" Weiss asked.
"I don't know," the Minomon said, making them twitch in annoyance.
At that moment, Nora felt a certain need. "Um...where's the bathroom? I gotta go," she said.
"Down that hallway to the left," Minomon said, to which the girl ran off.
Just as she reached the door to the bathroom, she thought she heard something that sounded like an electric shock, before shrugging as she went in to do her business, come back out a minute later with a sigh of relief, about to head back to the others, before she heard the noise again, though this time she noticed some light coming from further down the corridor as well "What's that?" she muttered, taking a few steps towards it.
"Nora! Come on or we'll leave you behind!" Yang's voice called from back where she left them, making her quickly turn back to go join them. If she had stayed just a bit longer, she might have seen the bright light and the shadows of several Kokuwamon.
The next part of the tour took them to the center of the factory, with a bizarre tower-like structure which for some reason had several cranes hanging out of it. "This is the heart of the factory. We produce super high tech machines with the latest technology," Minomon said, though the stuff that was going on the conveyor belt…
"...they're just fans," was several flat expressions from several of them.
"What's so high tech about them?" Yang couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know," Minomon said, causing them to groan. "Now then, the tour of the factory is over. Any questions?"
"Where's the cafeteria?" everyone asked as one, deciding to finally go for what they were REALLY here for.
"You have GOT to be kidding me." Weiss said with a sneer as she looked down at her plate.
"You know, for once, we're of the same mind." Yang admitted as she looked down angrily at her plate, her eyes bleeding into red.
"Who eats batteries?!" Ruby asked in confusion as she looked at the plate full of literal batteries.
"They do apparently." Jaune said as he watched a Kokuwamon drain the energy from the battery.
"Likely because their machine Digimon… which we're not." Blake said with a sigh.
"Don't you have something else here? You must eat something." Ren asked the Minomon.
"I don't know." was the answer.
"Like hell!" the kids couldn't help but snap at him.
"Stupid factory," Yang grumbled as the group were on their way out of the factory. The Factory itself wasn't anything really interesting for them, and they couldn't even get anything to eat. Growling, she kicked a discarded battery in frustration, causing it to fly and hit the train tracks which curved around the factory. However, this had an additional result, drawing everyone's attention to it...and with it, something else.
"Hey...are those...houses?" Ruby asked, looking at the direction to find some simple looking stone homes.
"Looks more like a slum to me," Ren frowned.
Curiosity getting the better of them, the group soon made their way to that area, and indeed found a rundown looking town/neighborhood made of simple brick houses, filled with nothing but Kokuwamon. "Is this...where the Kokuwamon live?" Blake asked in slight alarm at the sight of the place.
"This is… like the Faunus districts in the Atlas slums." Weiss murmured with a slight frown.
"Basically, it's shit." Yang summed up, muttering to herself.
"Living like this is bad." Ruby said simply with a sad frown.
"It really is." Jaune , before they could say anything else, several of the smaller Kokuwamon came up to them and greeted them, with a rather old looking Kokuwamon inviting them inside. Oh, and they actually had food that was edible for something OTHER than a machine.
"Thank you very much for you hospitality." Pyrrha said politely as they ate gratefully, even Weiss was silent, whereas normally she might have commented due to the food not looking like much, but she was too hungry to complain.
"Why are you all living here? Especially when the factory is right next to this place," Nora asked.
"Well…" the Elder started, but it seemed he was getting senile as he suddenly cut to the end without context, to which one of the younger ones explained in detail. It seemed originally they were residents of the nearby forest, but one day a group of Goburimon lead by the 'boss' of the factory came and attacked. The Kokuwamon, being timid and pacifistic Mon, were unable to fight back and were ultimately captured and forced to live here where they were basically being forced to work in the factory which harnessed their electric energy. Even the batteries that were their food had been charged up with their own electricity, making it flat out slavery.
"That's horrible!" Ruby said in dismay.
"No way we're gonna just let them get away with this!" Yang said.
"Hold it!" Weiss cut in. "Don't tell me you're planning on attacking the factory."
"Well they're the bad guys who attacked the Kokuwamon, so why shouldn't we shut them down?" Yang shot back.
"Because no matter how you look at it, we're outnumbered! It'd be better if we simply escaped!" Weiss said.
"Why the heck is the first thing you think about running away?!" Yang glared.
"Better than rushing into things without thinking about it clearly!" Weiss met the glare.
"Um...about that. We've tried to escape, but security is too tight for us to do so," the elder spoke up, dousing the argument.
"...okay, perhaps we should at least take the ones who can't fight away while the others attack the factory…" Weiss sighed.
"That could work, though I'd personally feel more confident if we had more people," Jaune sighed.
"Not much we can do. We can't force the twins to stay with us," Ren sighed.
"Well, let's focus on what we CAN do for now," Yang said, none of them noticing the Minomon that had been watching and now left to report its findings.
Night soon fell and the group prepared for their assault. Due to the dual nature of the plan, they had split into two groups, with the first group being the assault group, made up of the adult or teenage Kokuwamon as well as the kids who had Spirits with them, namely Yang, Ruby, and Ren. They would attack the factory (Ruby would be playing decoy at the gates first, something Yang STRESSED to her to get out of there when things got too rough), with the goal being to dismantle and destroy it. At the same time, the escape group, made up of the kids without Spirits, and the old or too young Kokuwamon would escape in the chaos.
With the time being optimal, Ruby was first the step up, as Fairymon, she began causing havoc at the front gates, drawing the Minomon's attention, and while she hated to do this, she sent them flying quickly. This in turn drew the Goburimon, but she continued to whip out a barrage of wind blasts and waves, keeping them off balance and distracted. In the meantime, the assault team infiltrated the factory, while the escape team managed to get as many non-combatants as they could out of the factory are.
Inside of the factory, it was chaos as the assault team struck fast and hard, the Kokuwamon shocking most if not all the Goburimon that tried to stop them, while Agneyamon and Chackmon were attacking fast and hard, taking out guards and machines at a rapid pace. Eventually they fought there way well into the central room, and found the core of the factory.
"Here we are, time to shut this factory down!" Agneyamon grinned.
"It may not be restoring the Digital World, but things like this still need to be stopped." Chackmon agreed with a stoic nod.
However, before they could actually make good on that… "Shadow Sickle!" a voice called out, as projected blades of energy flew through the air, forcing them to dodge.
"Who's there?!" Agneyamon growled, looking to the source, and found a large mantis like Digimon with actual sickles in place of regular mantis ones.
"I was wondering when you lot would come here," the Digimon snickered. "The name's Snimon, and I'm the boss of this factory!"
Digimon Analyzer: Snimon
Snimon. Vaccine Type. An Insect Digimon. Though created to be a Virus Hunter, Snimon's cold personality is feared by many other Digimon, knowing he only cared for battle. The sickles that act as its hands are honed to their sharpest, letting them cut through anything. Its special attack is Shadow Sickle, a supersonic slash that cuts the target at a distance.
"This is as far as you lot go! Unfortunately for you, we've seen through your ridiculous decoy strategy!" Snimon declared, striking at them with his sickles, forcing them to dodge.
"This is dangerous! Get the Kokuwamon away, I'll hold him off first!" Agneyamon said, earning a nod from Chackmon who quickly got the Kokuwamon away. "I don't know what you want with this factory, but it's going down! The Kokuwamon aren't your slaves!" Agneyamon said. "Fire Darts!"
"Shadow Sickle!" Snimon countered, the force of the attack breaking through the attack, forcing Agneyamon to dodge, before Snimon was on her, forcing her to grab hold of his sickles to stop the attack. "Heh! Is that all? You're way too weak!" Snimon laughed.
"You haven't won yet!" Agneyamon shouted, and on pure reflex lashed out with a kick. Only...with how close they were…
Snimon let out a high pitched yelp, all force he was exerting stopping completely, as Agneyamon's kick had caught him right in his equivalent of the groin, allowing her to flip him over, making him land on the hard ground. "How's THAT for weak!" she smirked.
"You die first…" Snimon snarled, flying up again, albeit a bit shakily.
"Looks to me like you have your own problems," Chackmon said, coming up next to Agneyamon, several frozen Goburimon left in his wake while the Kokuwamon were at a safe distance.
"Double team this guy?" Agneyamon smirked.
"Of course," Chackmon agreed, before Agneyamon slammed her fists together, charging up her Burning Salamander move, but Snimon was faster.
"Shadow Sickle!" he called out, firing his attack, but Chackmon got in the way.
"Snow Bazooka!" he called out, firing his attack, the attack meeting the Shadow Sickle and managing to cancel out the attack, before he got out of the way...and allowing Agneyamon to surge forward.
"Burning Salamander!" she called out, slamming him with her attack, and sending him flying back, but he quickly regained his stability in mid-air.
"Hah! You'll need to do better than that to get-!" he didn't finish as one of the cranes with a wrecking ball on them slammed into him, sending him flying into a nearby wall.
"...how did THAT happen?" Agneyamon and Chackmon blinked.
"Hey guys!" Nora shouted from one of the cranes, for some reason she had a Goburimon mace in her hands, and several Kokuwamon were cheering on the crane platform.
"Nora?! What are you doing here?!" Agneyamon asked in surprise, while Chackmon...just groaned into his hands, like this was something she'd do...a lot of times.
"Well, I wanted to help, and since the other Kokuwamon are out, I came back!" Nora said with a grin...and slapped the control, causing her to pull a lever, which caused the crane to swing...right into a recovering Snimon, who in turn smashed into the tower in the middle, causing it to break off and fall to the ground, smashing more stuff.
"...think we should just leave this to Nora and that crane?" Agneyamon asked.
"The scary part is that might actually work…" Chackmon groaned. Any further conversation was cut off when a bright light shone from the wreckage of the tower, and out of it floated something. It was, quite obviously, a Spirit, this one blue and rather beetle shaped.
Nora, upon seeing it grinned widely "That one's mine!" she said, before… jumping off the crane, club in one hand and Digivice in the other.
"Nora!" Chackmon shouted incredulously, even as she aimed her Digivice at the Spirit, which flew into it.
(Play 'With the Will')
Green points of light began tracing an image before forming the silhouette of the Spirit of Thunder, before the scene shifted out to reveal it was on the screen of Nora's Digivice as she held out her free left hand, the Fractal Code ring forming around it, before she brought it to her Digivice and scanned it. "Spirit...Evolution!" she called out with a grin, the ring flying off of her hand, before spiralling around her as her clothes seemingly burned off and her body took on a darker tone as behind her a larger version of the Spirit of Thunder appeared before shifting slightly and releasing a burst of electricity. As with before, a grid began forming around Nora as a 'mask' appeared from her face, which the armor parts formed around, aligning with her body before slowly compressing, the light from her eyes glowing brightly as in a flash, a new figure was formed. Clad in blue and yellow armor with a few silver pieces, the right gauntlet had a plus sign while the left held a minus, the helmet sporting a rhinoceros beetle horn on the forehead, turquoise eyes visible behind the mask. Their figure was feminine to a degree, but bulky and muscular nonetheless, the wings of a beetle on their back, while their hand held a large blue and gold color mace with several bolts screwed into it, giving it a few swings as she landed down "Blitzmon!"
"Oh yeah, this is more like it!" Blitzmon laughed, hefting her weapon over her shoulder.
"Adding another one of you won't make a big difference!" Snimon roared, before charging at Blitzmon...and was casually knocked aside.
"You sure about that?" she chuckled.
"It seems the legends weren't lying when they spoke of Blitzmon's strength!" Bokomon cheered from the sidelines.
Digimon Analyzer: Blitzmon
Blitzmon. Free Type. A Cyborg Digimon. A Digimon possessing power over thunder, inherited from an ancient warrior. Her keen movements, unbecoming of her large build, are a technique to form a high voltage current that runs through her body, channeling power from it to manipulate the gravity around her and move faster. Her special attacks are Thor's Hammer, charging electricity in her mace before bringing it down on the enemy, and Mjolnir Thunder, making lightning fall from the sky like rain.
"I've been running this Factory for too long to go down to some brats!" Snimon roared.
"Sorry, but you're going whether you like it or not!" Blitzmon said, before charging forward to meet the evil Digimon, slamming her mace into him, sending him back again.
"Shadow Sickle!" he roared, firing his attack, however when it made contact with Blitzmon...the attack harmlessly splashed off of her armor.
"Hey, this armor is great. A bit heavy, but great," Blitzmon smirked, before smashing her mace into Snimon's head.
"Let's...not draw this out," Chackmon said, wincing a bit at that hit.
"Okay!" Blitzmon saluted, before charging up electricity all over her body, which gathered into her hands, and then flowed into her mace. "Thor's Hammer!" she called out, bringing it down on Snimon's head, the Digimon shouting in pain both from the impact, and the electricity running through his body, before slamming into the wall and slumping, his body turning dark and his Fractal Codes were exposed. "Soul dyed in evil…" Blitzmon spoke, her voice suddenly a lot more reserved and dignified than normal. "My Thunder will purify you!" She declared, pulling out her Digivice and pressing the button on the side. "Fractal Code Scan!"
The data was pulled into her Digivice and Snimon faded away, leaving a wireframe egg that soon flew away.
(Song End)
With Snimon gone, and the Goburimon running away, peace could return for the Kokuwamon.
"Take care! Thank you for everything!" the Kokuwamon said, waving as the kids were on their way to continue their journey.
"We will! You take care of yourselves too!" Nora said with a grin as she waved back.
"Pretty strange adventure we had here," Pyrrha chuckled.
"At least we got something out of it too," Ruby said with a smile.
"OTHER than the good feelings of helping, even if those are really nice too," Blake said in amusement, as true enough, they'd gotten some food from the Kokuwamon that should last them a couple of days.
"Yeah, and I kicked some goblin butt!" Nora cheered as she still had the mace with her, tied to her back with some ropes they had gotten from the Kokuwamon.
"I still can't believe you just charged in like that and beat up a Goburimon with your bare hands." Weiss sighed incredulously as she remembered how Nora had rushed in last night.
"I think she would have done better with… bear hands." Yang said with a cheeky grin, eliciting a round of groans "Oh come on! That was good!"
"Just keep walking," Weiss said dryly. As they did, none of them noticed a Minomon getting blown away.
The Minomon was carried by the wind, and soon settled inside a cave, there a figure caught it. "What do you have to report?" the figure said coldly.
"Human Children attacked the Wind Machine Factory. With this 6 of them have gained Spirits," the Minomon reported.
The figure hummed as he let the Minomon jump off and hang from the ceiling "A little over half, with four more remaining. They progress at an acceptable rate. It will still likely be a long time before we can claim what is ours by right. But soon, the shadows and light will exchange their places, and WE will claim our place as the Heroic Spirits." the figure said, the low lights of the cave showing dark armor on their body, though little else, with 9 other silhouettes visible nearby, all with malicious smiles as they awaited their time.
A few days later, and once again group was making their way towards the Forest Terminal. Unfortunately they were lacking the 'forest' bit. "How hard can it be to find the Forest Terminal? Apparently VERY hard." Jaune groned. Once again they were going through a mountain trail, and unlike the last one while it wasn't barren, it wasn't making navigation easy, even with the only clue they had being a Trailmon track...which SOMEHOW they hadn't seen a Trailmon even once so far.
"How long have we been walking again?" Neemon asked.
"Firmly between 'Don't know' and 'Don't want to care'," Yang said dryly.
"Good idea. It'll only make it feel worse," Blake couldn't help but agree.
"And it's so hot too." Nora groaned as they walked.
"Maybe we should try to find some shade." Ren suggested.
"I see a cave over there, I think!" Ruby cheered as she pointed off in a direction, the others squinting their eyes at what appeared to be a cave in the cliff wall a little whiles away from them.
"Good eye," Pyrrha nodded. "Let's rest there first. We can always continue later," she said, earning sounds of approval from the rest of them. The group quickly made their way towards the cave...and soon found something else.
"Are these...tunnels?" Jaune blinked at the sight that awaited them. Rather than a dark cave, they saw numerous crystals embedded in the walls deeper into the tunnel, the light from them providing enough light to see into the tunnels.
"They have to be. They're too...neat...to be natural," Weiss couldn't help but say in wonder.
"I wanna see what's deeper inside!" Nora cheered and soon ran off.
"Nora, wait!" Ren said, before chasing after her.
"Guess we're going in after all," Blake sighed, the group soon chasing after them.
As they got deeper though…
"You know...this isn't so bad," Yang couldn't help but say, as true enough, when they emerged into a larger room, they found Nora and Ren looking in wonder...and they couldn't blame them. They were standing on a higher location, with a bit of a drop before them, but down below it was illuminated by many glowing mushrooms. Furthermore, they noticed at least 5 paths bridging across the gap with sturdy stone supporting them. Along the way more crystals glowed while a carpet of soft green moss was under them, streams of sunlight coming in through a few holes, helping the plant life of vines and a few flowers decorating the tunnels for lack of better words.
"Wow… this place looks amazing." Jaune said in awe.
"I'll say, there's no way this is natural though, it HAS to be man-made." Weiss added.
"I think you mean Digimon-made." Bokomon corrected, though Weiss just rolled her eyes.
"But...where do we go now?" Pyrrha frowned. There were several directions…which Nora once again answered by picking up a random stick and letting it fall.
"That way!" Nora said with a cheer, before taking off down one of the paths.
"Should we really?" Bokomon wondered.
"Not like we have any other ideas." Yang shrugged before they followed Nora down the path.
The pathway that followed took them through more of the beautiful tunnels, and along the way, they even found a few caves that aside from a set area for a path was covered in a mix of moss and flowers, with several large vines or roots curling together to form what appeared to be seats, while streams of water running through the areas.
"It looks like a place for someone to take a break," Pyrrha mused.
"It's almost as if this place is a subway station…" Blake commented.
"...huh...you think it is for Trailmon?" Jaune wondered.
"Well...there aren't any tracks, but it sure feels like a place for them to go through," Ren mused.
"I think it is for Trailmon actually." Neemon said, pointing at something, making them look to see… a warning sign, that this was a subway system in the middle of construction.
"Huh… what do you know?" Blake mused.
"I wonder if they know about the state of the world outside though?" Weiss wondered with a frown.
However, right as she said that, a sound that sounded like an explosion was heard, with the tremor soon following, causing several rocks to fall from the ceiling, fortunately nothing big.
"...either that was an accident, or the state of the world came down here," Jaune sighed.
"We'd better make sure nobody's hurt!" Ruby said, already running off.
"Not again! Ruby wait!" Yang shouted, chasing after her sister, the group soon following.
The path took them through more tunnels...but this time the once beautiful crystals had been tarnished as some had fallen off and broken, and others were looking dimmer than before. Not to mention the tunnels had bits of rocks all over, with some vegetation ruined.
"I hope nobody was hurt in this…" Bokomon frowned.
"That's what we're here to find out," Nora said, a rare frown on her face. The group delved deeper and found another 'stop'...only this one was completely ruined, with rocks littering the area from a cave in while the plant life was destroyed from whatever caused the explosion. They also found life, as two Digimon were present in the area, sprawled out on the ground, mole like in shape, with white bellies and purple backs with a drill on their snouts.
"Oh my, those are Drimogemon." Bokomon said in surprise.
Digimon Analyzer: Drimogemon
Drimogemon. Data Type. A Beast Digimon. Thanks to the drill attached to its snout, it can move around underground at high speed. It usually prefers to stay underground due to being rather shy. Its special attack is Drill Spin, using it's drill to attack it's opponent.
"I'm gonna take a guess and say they were the ones digging the tunnels." Ren said.
"You'd be right. Drimogemon are among the best if not the best diggers," Bokomon nodded. "If anyone could have built these tunnels its them."
"We'd better get them out first," Yang said, before the group went to shifting about the rocks. Thankfully the chunks weren't too big so moving them wasn't too difficult for them. Eventually they got the rocks off of the two Drimogemon, who had started to come to.
"Uh...wha? What happened?" one of them groaned.
"I dunno...but did anyone get the number on that Trailmon that ran us over?" the second groaned. Eventually they stopped seeing stars...and noticed the kids. "Uh...who are you?" they blinked in confusion.
"We're the ones who got you two out of under those rocks," Pyrrha chuckled lightly.
"How did that happen by the way?" Ren asked. "We heard some kind of explosion."
"Explosion?" the two Drimogemon blinked...before their eyes widened. "Oh no!"
"Uh...something wrong?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah, our brother's deeper down in the tunnels, and he's still completely out of his mind!" the first Drimogemon said.
"Lost his mind? Do you know what happened?" Pyrrha asked in concern.
"Well, these last few days, he's been getting kind of glum and all that, but today he just suddenly started going berserk and trashing everything." the second Drimogemon explained.
"Said something about us taking credit for the work, when we've said so many times we couldn't have done this without him, especially not make the tunnels in a way that'll be great for visitors," the first Drimogemon explained.
"It sounds like your brother's been affected by the Evil Magic," Bokomon frowned.
"Well that's just great… how are we gonna snap him out of it now?" the second Drimogemon groaned.
"You can leave that to us." Yang said with a grin "We have the help of the Legendary Warriors, so I think we can handle him."
The Drimogemon looked at her for a moment, before glancing at each other, and then back to her "You'll forgive us if we don't just believe your words, because that sounds… crazy."
"Meh, it's cool, we'll prove it to you when we find him." Nora said with a grin, and the Drimogemon nodded.
"Well if you're serious, he should have gone deeper inside. Just follow the tremors," they said. "But be careful, there's no telling what he's going to do."
"We'll keep that in mind," Blake nodded, before the group soon made their way deeper. True enough, searching for the Drimogemon's trail wasn't TOO difficult. Just follow the destruction.
"This is terrible…" Weiss frowned, seeing what was probably quite beautiful once having been torn apart.
"This is the power of the Evil Magic," Bokomon said. "Even the gentlest of Digimon become monsters."
"That's even more reason for us to knock it right out of Drimogemon," Yang said.
"And maybe even find a way to stop the source," Jaune said.
"We should break those evil Digimons' legs!" Nora agreed.
"Are you actually considering fighting the ones causing this?" Blake asked, her tone a mixed of skeptical and incredulous. "We're barely getting by as is. We just need to collect the Spirits so we can go back."
"She's right, we don't actually need to go through all this trouble." Weiss sighed.
Jaune just gave them a look "Ok… but how would you feel if you could actually do something, but decided to leave a world to die?"
His words made the two girls develop a rather sour expression, though they remained quiet, not wanting to reply.
"Thought so," Jaune nodded.
"Let's just focus on freeing Drimogemon first, THEN worry about our next step," Ren said, diffusing the situation before it got worse. "For now, we should probably get ready to fight too," he added, earning a few nods, before the ones with Spirits went for their Digivices...but nothing. "...or the Spirits can pick now to be picky…"
"Well...at least they're working when we NEED to Evolve more often," Yang sighed.
Any further conversation was cut off when another tremor hit, and they could tell it was pretty close by.
"You think that's him?" Neemon asked...and got a waistband slap for asking a stupid question.
The group ran forward, and true enough, came upon another room...though unlike before the tunnel leading up to this one seemed freshly dug, and clearly hadn't been made with any real planning. Not to mention where they came out…
"Woah… this looks like some kind of old shrine or something." Yang said as she looked at what was basically an old underground shrine, very much in ruins.
"I wonder what it was built for." Pyrrha mused.
"Well… perhaps for one of the Spirits?" Ren figured, tapping his chin in thought.
"Finally, I'll be able to find mine." Weiss said in her usual haughty tone.
"Why do you think it would be yours?" Ruby asked her with a blink, making Weiss, as usual, come up short of a retort.
The sound of something falling and smashing on the ground was heard again. "Well, he's deeper inside," Jaune frowned, the group chasing after. When they got inside, the first thing they were met with was a pillar getting tossed their way.
"Look out!" Nora gasped, her Digivice glowing. "Spirit...Evolution!"
The pillar was smashed when Blitzmon hit it with her mace, breaking it apart. When the dust settled, they saw the Drimogemon they were looking for, and boy did he look enraged, what with the red eyes, and him roaring as he smashed another pillar.
"Yeah...we'd better get him straight quick," Ren frowned, pulling out his Digivice, which the others did as well. "Spirit...Evolution!" a couple of voices shouted, as Chackmon and Fairymon joined the fray.
"Oh come on!" Yang said in annoyance, as her Spirit didn't seem to want to cooperate right now.
"Don't worry, we'll take care of this!" Blitzmon said, before she ran forward, and aimed her mace at Drimogemon...who suddenly tunneled into the ground, completely getting away from her attack. "What the-?!"
Drimogemon soon emerged from under her and rammed into her back, before soon diving into the ground again.
"He's tunneling through the ground!" Fairymon said in alarm, narrowly avoiding an attack.
"I'll try and stop him!" Chackmon frowned. "Frozen Clinking!" he called out, covering parts of the ground and some of the holes in ice, hoping that might slow Drimogemon down. Unfortunately, while there was a moment's pause when Drimogemon came out, and landed on the ice, he quickly used the momentum...to tunnel into the wall.
"...that didn't help…" Blitzmon groaned, as soon enough, trying to hit Drimogemon was more annoying than they expected, since it was like a game of whack-a-mole...only the mole appeared at near random, and took pot shots at them.
"They can't hit him if he keeps going in and out of the ground," Yang said with a frown.
"We have to help them!" Pyrrha said.
"How?" Blake pointed out.
"Try to distract him! Maybe we'll make an opening," Jaune said. "Heck, maybe we'll get lucky and find a Spirit here!"
"I can manage that," Weiss spoke up, before focusing, and a Glyph appeared...though it was rather small, and appeared over her hand, to which she had to actually throw it at Drimogemon, a small burst of ice catching his leg.
"Thanks Weiss!" Fairymon said. "Brezzo Petallo!" she called out, hitting Drimogemon with the blast of wind, tossing him aside. However, he quickly got back up, and with a growl, threw a pillar, which the three braced for...only to realize it sailed over them, aiming for their friends, especially at Weiss.
"Look out!" Pyrrha shouted, pushing Weiss out of the way, but in the process she was in the way of the pillar. At that moment, her Digivice started to glow, and suddenly something burst out of the wall behind her, ramming into the pillar, causing it to break into a pile of dust. Everyone covered their eyes, but when the dust cleared, they could clearly see what it was that had emerged.
Quite obviously, it was a Spirit, though this one appeared rather small, looking similar to a garden gnome with its tall and pointy hat, and a small dress that had pieces of armor clipped onto it.
"Well... I think that's Pyrrha's spirit." Jaune said after a moment, and the others had to agree as it DID save her.
Looking at the Spirit which turned to face her, Pyrrha nodded after a moment before lifting up her Digivice and aiming it at the Spirit, which was soon absorbed into it, the symbol of earth being displayed on her screen.
(Play 'With the Will')
Brown points of light appeared before forming the silhouette of the Spirit of Earth, before the scene shifted out to reveal the screen of Pyrrha's Digivice, before she held out her left hand which formed a ring of Fractal Code. Bringing it to her Digivice, she scanned it. "Spirit...Evolution!" she called out, finishing the scan as the code flew off of her hand and spiraled around her, her body taking on a darker tone as her clothes seemingly burned off, in the background a faded image of the Spirit of Earth appeared, a burst of dust and stone coming off of it when it shifted. A grid formed around her as armor started forming around her arms, legs and torso, while a 'mask' formed from her face, which soon had armor and what looked like a hat of some kind form around it, before the parts gathered together, aligning with her body properly and soon began compressing, the light from her eyes glowing brightly before a flash occurred and her new form was revealed. Her body was short in stature, only a few inches taller than she was before, with a large brown hat on top of her head that pointed to the sky, her face tan colored with freckles on her cheeks and green eyes, pointed ears on the side of her head with long and poofy red hair falling down on her back. Her dress was a pale green in color, hiding the majority of her body, the collar of the dress even being high enough to hide the lower half of her face, while she had a small bronze breastplate on her chest, and large gauntlets of the same color on her hands, armored bronze boots on her feet as she landed and punched the ground "Gnomemon!"
"It's another Spirit!" Neemon cheered.
"Not just any Spirit, its the Spirit of Earth too!" Bokomon agreed, going over his book.
Digimon Analyzer: Gnomemon
Gnomemon. Free Type. An Oni Digimon. A Digimon possessing power of earth, inherited from an ancient warrior. With a mastery over a unique type of martial arts, Gnomemon uses it to both strike her opponent powerfully, and manipulate the land around her. Her special attacks are Eruption Blast, slamming her hand into the ground to cause magma to rise up from the ground in a gout and harm her opponent within the area around her, and Terra Spike, causing sharp spikes of stone to emerge from the ground.
"This ends here!" Gnomemon said, surging forward, and despite her small size, when she landed a punch on Drimogemon, he was sent flying back. Growling, he soon tunneled into the ground, but Gnomemon stood her ground, seemingly not moving until... "There!" she shouted, punching the ground, a tremor was felt, before Drimogemon was launched out of the ground by a pillar that suddenly jut out and grew under him. She soon stomped the ground, causing a boulder to come out, before she punched it, sending it flying right into Drimogemon who was still in mid-air, flattening him against the wall, before he fell off with a groan.
"Woah, she's good." Fairymon said, rather impressed.
"Total control of the earth… impressive." Weiss admitted.
By now the Drimogemon was completely dizzy...and perfectly open to Gnomemon's attack. "Let's end this! Eruption Blast!" Gnomemon called out as she slammed her palm into the ground, a crack travelling through the ground till it reached Drimogemon and a blast of magma and earth hit him head on, causing him to cry out in pain before his body turned dark as his Fractal Codes were exposed.
"Evil will that taints this soul!" Gnomemon declared, pulling out her Digivice. "Sleep forever beneath the Earth! Fractal Code...Scan!" she called out as she scanned the Fractal Codes, drawing them into her Digivice, while Drimogemon's body started glowing red, and when the light faded, Drimogemon had returned to normal, his expression losing the anger it once had.
(Song End)
"Huh? Just what was I doing?" he wondered in confusion, before noticing the Digimon and humans around him "Uh… who are you guys?"
"Just people who helped you." Gnomemon said with a small smile, before she reverted to Pyrrha, the other warriors doing the same.
"I'll say." came the voice of one of the other Drimogemon from earlier, coming into the cavern along with his other brother "We watched the whole thing, guess you kids weren't kidding when you said you were the Legendary Warriors."
"Told you so." Yang said smugly.
"You didn't do anything though." Jaune pointed out, causing Yang to twitch in annoyance before getting him in a headlock and giving him a noogie.
"Nobody asked for your commentary!" she said in annoyance, bringing about a few laughs.
And there!
So, obviously, things are VERY different from canon.
You'll learn the reasons eventually, though I will hint that there's a LOT more villains this time around.
Anyway, see you all next time, because...
The Legend Evolves.