Tales of The Cosmic War EXE Vol: The Secret War Beyond Good and Evil!

by Darth Necron

Five years after Ben Auro saved the universe from Chaos Zannacross Necron he is still helping try to guide the people to a better place alongside his lover Lacus Raystar. However they must reunite with their friends Mario,Cloud Strife, and others as everything they work for is threatened to unravel at the hands of the reality-destroying Incursion at the hands of the Beyonder!

30. Chapter 230: Innocent Sin

Chapter 230:Innocent Sin.

Despite the rapidly multiplying problems that were popping up around her, in the back of her head Lacus was still bracing herself for Midora to crash the" Party" to have a rematch.

But little did she or her group knew that Midora was undergoing something that was keeping his hands, and many tongues, full.

The head of the Gourmet Corps did as he said and went to where he thought would be the last ingredient he needed for this Full Course, in the depths known as Mementos. At the start of Battle-World it was a metropolis called Paradigm City.

For one reason or another everyone in the city had no memories of who they were before Battle-World aside from their basic skills.

It was unclear if this was how they were before Battle-World or they were the result of an experiment that the Beyonder was conducting but there was no time to find out the truth, with there memories lost the hapless citizens were exterminated by the monsters from Gourmet World before they had a chance to catch their bearings.

While it was assumed the only thing left in the city was the broken survivors hiding in a subway, it quickly was realized there was more to the city, a massive series of tunnels that seemed to lead to the core of the planet that was quickly called "Mementos" for the lingering broken people in the tunnels howling in despair. Midora and Starjun dispatched minions to investigate, only for none to return.

It was because of this that the man chosen to be a candidate to be one of the Beyonder's Champions went himself.

At first Midora only saw what seemed to be a series of subway tunnels with wooden train tracks in place of rails, with various features of a prison such as chains or bars that seemed the same floor per floor.

Midora started to ponder the action of just shattering the entire massive building with his various attacks but held back out of hesitation to possibly damaging the Ingredient.

Before his frustration could override his cation he noticed that the walls were slowly having more and more red cracks that resemble a spider web or fractal patterns. Every few blocks he noticed there were titles to the new level, and after heading pass the "Path of Iweleth" Before he noticed two large steel doors, doors that were already open.

The dark haired man cracked his neck and walked pass the doors to see a massive pit on the other side, with dozens of blood red veins descending into is depths.

Midora then heard various moans, and prepared to attack only to see that in this wide chamber were various people in jail cells.

The people were dressed in normal attires instead of prison outfits, and seemed indifferent to Midora's entrance. He noticed they were looking like they were praying for something and raised an eyebrow."Guess this was not just a randomly transported city after all but some very elaborate prison. I don't sense anything close to formidable energy form any of theses crumbs though, so someone else must desire to keep them bound."

A man noticed Midora and formed a weak smile." C'mon, don't be out there, come in here!"

"Don't open the cells!" A female besides the man shouted timidly."I, I don't want to leave this place!"

"There's nothing we can do!" A pale teenager behind the couple muttered."Parents, teachers, adults, everyone is manipulating us. Nobody listens to us if we try to oppose them…All that happens is that our souls are crushed. Its…its just smarter to just accept life for what it is and surrender to their will."

"What are you doing on the other side of the cell dude? You really think you gain anything on the other side? Who do you think you are thinking your so smug? You idiots think your so smart, you should rethink how your living your life."

"Seriously dude you like a convict or something? Someone with enough will to from their own palace? Hahaha…maybe you guys should stop trying so hard to get out. Wouldn't it be better if people just lived with the hand they are dealt with? How hilarious…."

"Seriously dude, working hard to accomplish your dreams is something only a idiot does. Meanwhile in here any wish can become reality…isn't that what everyone really wants out of life?"

"Odiously…its best to remain stagnant in life. I might lose the one place I belong if I put myself out from the shelter. I'm afraid of that happening, so I think I'll just stay here as I am."

"Tsc…this seems more like a asylum then a jail with all this deluded prattle." Midora uttered as he looked around with disgust. He was about to attack the nearest jail mates just to silence them when a low voice suddenly rasped out," More precise terms would be the "Prison of Sloth or the Prison of Regression", Lord Midora. But its not that theses inmates are insane, its that they are to sane!"

Midora swerved around and saw the person that spoke was an all blue-skinned humanoid with a avian like face with black fur and a tuft of orange hair on its head resembling a mohawk.

It wore very simple attire consisting of what appeared to be some sort of tribal skirt and a necklace and a bandolier made of yellow stone that just crawled up from the edge.

Midora saw a dozen other creatures craw up behind it and just grit his teeth." So you showed yourself at last, eh PAIR? I figured you and the rest of your Nitro breatharian would crawl to where the food was. But that's good, I found another one of my ingredients."

"Tsc…hungry again are we Midora?" PAIR hissed out." Don't forget that us Blue Nitro are inedible to any being in the universe!"

"That's what the legends say." Midora retorted as he grinned." But even if Acacia could not cook you, legends are always surpassed."

"Bah…humans and their bravado, don't waste my time on it. To get what we both want we will need to work together Midora."

"If that's the case you better explain what's going on right now PAIR. None of my men have returned from here, and I thought you Nitro were holding up in the" Farthest Kitchen" to prepare the Neo Gourmet Eclipse."

"We are, that's why we are here. You see Midora, this area is the "Farthest Kitchen", but when we were warped to this Battle-World it merged with this Mementos! Thus, the situation has become a bit more, complex. Before you ask, no we did not betray your men.

In fact we were working together to deal with the problem here, but its been, escalating. As you can see, Mementos and Paradigm City have a bit more to it then we first assumed. The problem is that its now in the way of where the Gourmet God is!"

Midora glanced back at the moaning prisoners before he raised a eyebrow." Really now, the so called "Gourmet Nobility" is having trouble with such scum? Even if your poisoned this should be."

The head of the Gourmet Corps was cut off as a tremor suddenly broke out. A mechanical roar soon followed before the one named PAIR narrowed his eyes." As your quickly finding out, there are others lurking around here.

We been, "extracting" information out of the inmates here when we were not on the run from massive mechanical monsters that seem to form out of the collective will of the inmates, like collective Persona's.

They don't seem to remember much, but more then a few called them "Megadeus" As you just seen, the people here don't have much resolve. We believe they are to be the seasoning, for the "Gourmet God". The people here have lost there memories, they have nothing but despair, yearning to be free from the pain of effort.

Hence they are regressing to the point were they have no life at all, their despair to be offered to NEO. We, think we can alter this area to suit us but, these pesky Megadeus 's are in the way.

These massive toys seem to have limited will, and act to guard what's beneath. From what we gathered, the masses here are prying that they will get salvation from Rabum Alal."

Midora glanced back at the inmates and there blank faces with smirks before he grasped his fist tightly." Worthless prey, to weak to do anything but beg for salvation! I was an orphaned infant born atop a pile of hard straw during the disastrous era of the Gourmet War who along with several other human babies was given to a livestock of wild Red Haired Pigs to be used as food for the carnivorous pigs during the starving times!

No one gave me salvation, I had to grasp it myself! By sheer luck I was born with Gourmet Cells and thus proved to be a competent predator even in infancy, being strong enough for the Pigs to raise me as one of their own.

I won't deny I survived mostly because mothe, because Froese found me that one day and brought me to Acacia. However, its because I survived for years on my own, sometimes getting by for weeks merely on sand and tree bark that I made it that far! Theses weak spineless maggots that can only beg for the mercy of their superior don't deserve salvation!"

The ground began to tremble again before PAIR chuckled darkly." I share your sentiments all to well Midora. But while a maggot is worthless, in a swarm they can be a hassle and this seems to fall into that situation. Yes, the collective desire to be liberated from their fears can form quite the powerful wave at times, and this happens to be that wave!"

Midora heard a thruster sound and saw something emerge from the abyss, a massive crimson humanoid robot. As the robot's eyes glowed PAIR hissed darkly." Individually they are enough of a hassle but despite their size there seems to be no end to theses toys."

"Tsc…no matter how endless they may be to you they will never be as endless as my appetite PAIR." Midora growled out fiercely as he saw numerous targeting lasers appear. The massive red robot had even more guns appear out of its body before a distorted mechanical voice boomed out,"Hahaha…you think your worthy to descend into the realm of the dominus to size the truth? Cast in the name of God, in the eyes of Big Duo Inferno, ye guilty! Be purged in the eyes of Schwarzwald!

Truth, those who seek it out are consumed with the idea that they can control the truth! We are all dancing to the tune of lies, when we are just puppets dancing at god's stage! Hahaha...don't you even realize what are memories are? Its not even a tragedy, its a comedy ! Foolish beings, wake up and be destroyed by your own hunger!"

The Big Duo Inferno Megaduse had its right hand spin around like a drill and dived for Midora. The target of the giant robot sneered as he crossed his arms." You think pompous zealots can deny me my feast? I'll devour every last one of you!"

The leader of the Gourmet Corps once more unleashed his Hungry Tongue attack to have his suddenly massive organ wrap around the drill arm with enough power not only to stop it, but crush it.

PAIR saw Midora casually fling the Big Duo Inferno into the wall before it licked its tongue." As imposing as ever Midora. We were worried when we heard that some new fighter, some doe eyed woman hurt you enough to force you to retreat."

Midora thought back to the look Lacus gave him before he snickered." I figured a being as wise as you Blue Nitro would not take stock in second hand rumors eh?"

"But it was your mother, Joie, that told us this first hand."

"Maybe, but the context is what's important. She did have the same kind of eyes as Froese. She has the same kind of heart, and thus its only proper she realizes the extent of how foolish she is before she dies."

"Tsc…you play with your food to much. But as long as you can get results we don't really collectively give a damn. Now, hurry and clear a path to the depths so we can get to NEO and start cooking. After all, you don't want to keep Joie waiting to long yes? The Dark Chief seems a tad anxious about this " final round" to Battle-World."

"Bah…Joie just loses her composure when she is dealing with unknowns. I'll give her that one must be on guard when the enemy is anyone in the history of the universe like this Beyonder said. Still, the power of the Neo Gourmet Solar Eclipse is the greatest power of them all yes?"

"You think us Nitro waste time on rumors like you humans? No, Acacia 's true legacy, NEO, the embodiment of "Appetite" that can devour everything in the universe is no fabrication! Once its properly cooked and awakens, it does not matter what powers the other worlds have, none of them will be enough! Then, all the lies and weakness will be erased at last so the universe can be cooked into its proper shape at last. This is are shared desire, yes Midora?"

The long haired man paused for only a moment before his eyes hardened." Do I have to demonstrate my resolve by making you my next meal? That's what I wanted from the moment the foolish masses took my happiness away from me.

Ichiryu, Jiro, Toriko and the rest of their lackeys, and this new batch of idiots will find out just what truth there is to their precious justice! Now unless there is anything else vital I need to know PAIR…I have an ingredient to extract and a bunch of large nosy metal flies to swat away. Its faint, but I can smell it, I can smell something with "

PAIR and the other Nitro saw Midora stare down the various Megadueses flying out of the abyss as the inmates moaned before the Nitro shrugged." No…just bear your fangs "Tiger"."

Midora licked his lips in respond before he had multiple tongues burst out to attack all of the massive robots in his line of vision. As the ruthless man descended Mementos and lashed out at everything that stood in the way those that wanted to deny him from getting all the ingredients he and his conspirators needed to complete his genocidal cooking desires were fighting to get to a ingredient as well.

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Since we last left Hiryuumon, Kirby, Trunks, and their new allies in the giant cake shaped 100G Mountain they had been surrounded by various ape monsters. While it seemed endless the group were able to slowly making progress, though Hiryuumon had to Digivolve to help make that progress.

At the moment Kirby had just reflected a lighting bolt released from a green colored eyeball cloud with blue and red spikes that was a variation of the Kracko enemy Kirby had fought over the years and redirected it into a plasma spitting orangutan with his Mirror power before he looked around and scratched his head." I never thought a cake would ever be so big that it would be a maze, but here we are! Are we going the right way? This cake's to big even for me so I only want to eat the best part!"

"Don't worry Kirby we will get their sooner or later!" The now Champion level Wyrmmon chipped out as he fired a Magma Cyclone at an incoming corrupt malformed Apemon. As the dragon Digimon saw a trail of flame melting all the cake in his sight he winced." Man, it bums me out seeing all this cake go to waste! It's all because you jerks can't share anything! Dang stinking apes, you can't stop us! At least we are almost there, I smell something really funny at the peak over their!"

Ben's Digimon Partner prepared to fly to the mountaintop, only to cringe as he saw two wide eyes that he previous assumed were giant cherry boulders blink at him.

As a large round mouth formed Toriko saw the mouth on the giant creature widen before he checked his wrist computer and snarled." Careful, that scent was from a monster! Lets see, the data says it's the mammal type "Master Goritarus" and it has a capture level of one thousand four hungered and five!"

"Is that…high?" Trunks blurted out warily."

"Kind of, it can kill you if your careless." The blue haired man responded. As the giant beast roared Zebra grit his teeth." If this beast's getting cocky crushing it's not enough. Nah…we'll chop the double helices of its DNA right in half! Supersonic Voice Cutter!"

The scar faced man's muscles expanded before he unleashed a focused roar that was powerful enough to slice the massive cake faced monkey in half. As the two pieces fell Jiro chuckled." Not bad kid, you added a supersonic vibration that shook forty thousand times per second to make your sonic blade a tad sharper. Guess your doing more then messing around."

"Tsc…I'm serious about surpassing you old timers to be the best hunter old man!"

"If that's so then don't let your guard down, that beast's not dead yet!" Ichiryu grinded out.

Everyone looked in shock as the beast still moaned despite being sliced in half, and was slowly getting up. Coco saw the beast's two pieces slowly try and move back together before the Gourmet Hunter with a turban on his head grasped his hand tightly." It has some regeneration power as well? That won't be enough! Drop Poison!"

Toriko saw his friend form two poison spheres in his hands before he looked at him. The blue haired man grinned before he shouted out,"Flying Fork!"

The others saw him unleash two projectiles shaped as forks of energy before they hit the poison spheres, and became covered in said poison. The forks flew out to hit the two sides of the beast and cause poison to inflict the two halves.

As the entire body started to melt a smaller ape's head popped out of where the bigger head was split in half. Suddenly a smaller but still muscular gorilla with sabretooth like fangs burst out, and quickly gathered energy in his mouth.

Sunny saw the monster beat his chest and smirked." A sour loser eh? How distasteful. Satan's Hair!"

The Gourmet Hunter had his rainbow hair extend before becoming a fist. Sunny showed off his power by punching the blast with enough force to shatter it. The fractured blasts of energy did head for his comrades, but Toriko unleashed his "Fork Armor" technique to fortify his defenses enough to endure the blast, while Coco unleashed his own, "Poison Membrane" skill to protect himself with a poison armor while Zebra did the same with his "Sound Armor."

Toriko saw Sunny get pushed back a few feet before he chuckled." What's wrong man, bit off more then you could chew?"

"Not quite." The rainbow haired man retorted." I pushed myself a bit, but I can't eat to much with just my left arm. However, my hair can eat just about anything. And what it can eat, it can spit out! Satan Vomit!"

Sunny showed he was not bluffing as his hair threw back the fragment of the energy blast, causing the massive monkey to defend himself. As he did Zebra dashed behind his current target and smashed it in the back of its neck.

As the beast staggered Coco unleashed a Poison Mold spear to try and finish it off, and while it pricked his target's neck the massive gorilla widened its eyes and quickly spat on the wound, which caused the wound to stabilize.

This sight caused Coco to wince." It realized the danger in a instant and was able to create a antibody to my poison by instinct?"

"Heh…its one tough beast but its not the king of the jungle!" Toriko shouted out as he ran up." If you think you can hog all the food here your in for a rude shock when you try and hoard from a Gourmet Hunter! Jet Fork!"

The member of the Four Kings unleashed a spinning attack that was powerful enough to shatter the massive mammal's right arm. As the beast roared out in pain Coco jumped up to above its head and grinned." Time you settle down, if I can't subdue you I'll never be able to subdue the great beasts or Midora! If your immune to fatal toxins I'll just make you be poisoned by one that gives a addiction that has absolute dependency!"

Coco then had his Appetite Demon, one with the shape of emaciated traditional Japanese ghost with stringy, black hair and empty, void-like mouth and eyes called the Poison Devil" form out of his back. The demon forced pitch black poison to go down the giant monkeys mouth, and in a matter of moments its eyes looked sullen.

As the others looked on guard Coco grinned." Don't worry, this lunkhead might as well have been my pet for years now. Alright, you cost us some time big fella so how about telling us where the Ingredient is eh?"

The giant beast staggered for a bit before pointing to the lower left. Wyrmmon sniffed for a bit in that direction before he wagged his tail. "I do smell something different over their! Hope its more then another monkey! And hope its soon because this is making me really hu, huh?"

The Digimon and his comrades noticed that suddenly in front of them was a large baboon monkey with ruffled fur around his head, back and shoulders as well as around the arms. He had dark pink and purple skin covered in bright webbing around his body and sported a long tail.

The primate had bright skinned forehead and the fur on his head spiked in a messy hairy form. He had notably bright eyes that seemed to lack pupils.

Wyrmmon saw the monkey starch his rear and just shrugged."Are, you buddies with that other ape? This is just like Donkey Kong and Diddy! Sorry for beating up on your buddy but we got important work to do so you can just go back to, whoa!"

Wyrmmon was about to fly off when suddenly the monkey grasped his tail before the Digimon noticed and slammed him across the ground four times in a second. As the dragon went flying into the cake Toriko and his pals got into a fighting stance."So this is one of those times when the boss is the smaller one eh? If you want to be a extra ingredient so much then be my guest!"

"Hold it you moron!" Ichiryu yelled out suddenly." Unless your keen on being ripped apart again hold it because your about to charge into the same class of fella who just ripped you apart last time!"

Toriko and the others froze in their tracks before the blue haired man slowly glanced back at his mentor." Wait, your saying this monkey is one of the divine kings?"

"I'm just saying it looks mighty familiar to Bambina, the king of all monkeys."

Trunks saw Bambina just tilt its head before he got his sword ready." So this is the same class of monster as that giant hoarse from before? Well, Frieza and the others showed that size does not equal power, lets just do this."

As those around him nodded Bambina just looked around and laughed. As it clapped for a few moments Wyrmmon got back to the others and growled enough to have steam rise out of his nostrils." This jerk mocking us or something?"

Kirby looked at the laughing monkey and shrugged." I don't know, he looks like he wants to play a game!"

"If it's a game involving pain count me out!" The Digimon answered grouchily. Sunny gulped before he checked out his computer." It says the capture level here is, over six thousand?"

"Only six, not nine thousand?" Trunks threw out casually."

Sunny blinked before he prepared to respond. That cut-off of visual information lasted a mere zero point one seconds, but in the wild, that lost time…translates again and again to a fatal mistake.

For when his eyes opened his fellow Gourmet hunters were all being sent flying into the air with holes in their bodies, with Trunks blocking the monkey King's fist with his sword.

The half Saiyan was quickly finding himself being overpowered and once again transformed into a Super Saiyan. He was able to push his target back a few feet, till Bambina growled and had his muscles bulk up before he uppercut the Time Patroller Agent.

Trunks was able to rebound from the blow in midair and as he saw the monkey king laugh at him he grimaced." This monkey is as strong as a Super Saiyan? That's…well ironic but annoying never the less."

"Seriously, this is taking forever, we got to get back encase Lacus needs our help!" Wyrmmon growled out. The champion level Digimon prepared to attack before Ichiryu got in front of him, and took out his chopsticks." Down boy, you have eyes right? Rushing this and getting owned is not going to help your pals! Got to beat this monkey at its own game! Got to be careful, we are this close to the ingredient."

Wyrmmon winced before nodding in agreement. He prepared to think his next move before a collected voice form above cut in with a cold," Don't kid yourselves old man, you already lost. Its time you realize that."

Everyone got on guard as they heard a monstrous roar, and glanced up to see Starjun flying down. He was on a different, larger dragon from before, one that was mastodonic, and had an entire upper body covered in black, round, scales, which, in turn, were decorated by spiraling, blue markings.

Its lower body, specifically its chin, chest, stomach, inner tail, thighs, and arms, were gray in color, and appeared to be rather smooth.

The dragon's eyes were white and beady, and its head was round and blunt with four, large, elongated plates extending backward. Its mouth was full of razor-sharp teeth, and, attached to his chin, its protrusions resembled an arrowhead.

Its large wings were feathery in appearance, akin to a bird's. The scales disappeared at the end of its tail, which, in itself, ended in a stinger-esque shape.

As the dragon flew down Jiro saw its rider and sneered." Midora's lap dog Starjun right? Your mighty cocky to think you can do much without your master to bail you out. You may be strong, but all you Gourmet Corps punks are going to learn real quick to respect your elders."

"Oh I'm completely respectful of my seniors," Knocking Master" Jiro. That's why, I'm relying on more them my own skills to neutralize the two that trained alongside the boss. To bad for you all I brought along some comrades who are very eager for some carnage. Go and have your fill, Acnologia!"

The massive dragon underneath him roared before swiftly unleashing a massive burst of black flames. As Trunks flew out of the fire's path he grit his teeth." Great, not like the situation was convoluted enough as it is."

In a flash Bambina was above Acnologia with a furious look on its face. As it prepared to smash the dragon Starjun threw a ball sized red orb at the Monkey King. The projectile was smashed in a instant, but the orb suddenly exploded, causing Life-Fibers to burst out and constrain the primate.

Starjun saw his target roar, but also saw the Life-Fibers constrain its target no matter how much it roared or flexed." I see Ragyō was not being deceptive about the powers of Life-Fibers. It may be customized, but the fact that the item is powerful enough to constrain one of the Great Kings is, promising."

"Bah…don't think you can just take what you want punk." Ichiryu started darkly. He prepared to attack Starjun, only for Bambina to suddenly glare at him. The ace Gourmet Hunter took all of his skill to evade being hit and as the member of the eight kings howled with rage Starjun smirked." So the control factor works to, that's even more promising."

Wyrmmon growled at the man on top of the larger dragon as he flew up." Think you can just tell anyone what to do with cheap tricks? I'll show you that when you poke real beasts to much you get bit back hard enough to lose something! No more playing around, Wyrmmon Digivolve to…Geno-Wyrmmon!"

Ben's pal quickly transformed into his ultimate level state and had his new Ion engines flare out so that he was on the same level as the enemy dragon." Alright jerks chew on this! Trinity Fury Cannon!"

The now metallic dragon knew the odds were not good for his attack to take out his enemies with one hit, but he got even more dismayed as Acnologia merely glanced at the incoming energy attack, and swallowed it hole.

The sight caused Ben's dragon pal to roar with anger as he just charged right for the larger dragon." Hey I did not mean seriously eat my blast jerk! But if you want to be that way then I'll give you indigestion! Striking Crusher Claw!"

The ultimate level Digimon struck his target right in the stomach, only for the blow to have no effect. Acnologia merely roared and wrapped its attacked with its tail. As Geno-Wyrmmon roared out in pain he glanced at his comrades." Ah nuts…did not want to look bad and have to go all out so soon but, got to clear this up soon so I can help the boss! Alright, Geno-Wyrmmon Mega Digivolve to…Shinryudramon! Giga Drill Breaker!"

The now smaller Digimon quickly burst forward with the new power of his Mega level form to strike Acnologia with his drill. The blow was powerful enough to knock the dragon back, and as it stabilized itself it glared at Shinryudramon, and suddenly laughed." That scent, I have not smelled that in a while! Something was off but I see your scent mutated, just like mine! Well, so this is what happened to you, eh Daigo?"

"Who? Sorry mister you got the wrong guy I'm Hiryuumon!"

"Oh, so you took a new name after transforming to? I see. Well, maybe a more familiar face will jog your memory!"

The dragon's eyes glowed, and Starjun jumped off Acnologia before the dragon started to glow red and begun to transform. A surge of light blinded everyone, and when they could see a man was standing where the dragon was. He looked like a rather muscular young man with long, dark blue colored hair. He carried a sharp gaze; his eyes had black circles around them.

He was dark-skinned, and on his body he bore the same light blue markings he did when he was a Dragon.

For attire, Acnologia now donned a high collared, black cloak (which also bore his draconian markings), sharp red claws around his neck, a sash around his waist, a gold arm ring tightened around his right upper arm, and baggy pants which are decorated the same as the most former article of clothing.

The now human Acnologia flashed a wild grin as he crossed his arms." Now do you remember me, Daigo Hyōga!? Ungrateful bastard, after I gave a runt like you the chance to become a bigshot this is how you repay me?"

"You hit your head earlier buddy?" Shinryudramon answered in confusion." I never met you in my life and my name is Shinryudramon! Well, normally its Hiryuumon but when I'm at the mega level I'm called this! You must be confused but its ok, this Battle-World has been confusing me all day!"

"A Dragon's scent does not lie boy! You managed to evolve to even further heights then how the Dragon King Festival was going to turn out, even further then becoming the Shinryu dragon eh? What are you doing aligning with theses riffraff? Oh, is this to maneuver through this game so we can get back to killing Seiya? Don't be an ingrate, Zannacross always expects his favors returned!"

"Who? Wait, I heard that name before. That's right, that's the guy who had the Star Sword before the boss right? So your another ex Imperial jerk who was brought here or something? I can see why your confused now but your wrong, I'm the Digimon Partner of Ben Auro, the ultimate hero!"

"Heh…you can pretend all you want but I know what you are whelp, your someone who wanted revenge on the heretic Seiya Leingod for defying the will of Chaos Zannacross Necron, and for condemning you to live in his shadow! Why else would you hate Seyia long enough to betray him and his friends so we could raid his home town and size the lover of his friend Siegfried?

You can't be having doubts now, the ritual went far better for you then it did for that Kisara wench, you got to retain your sanity and the master even allowed you to keep control as his thanks for allowing him to kill Seiya's family easier!"

"Even if your just a crazy guy ranting about random things its getting annoying!"

Trunks saw Shinryudramon glare at the man dragon hybrid before he glanced at Acnologia." Is this guy just crazy? Considering where we are that's likely but I know I heard of this guy before.

Wait, I remember the last time I talked with the Supreme Kai of Time about the decisive war between Cosmos and Zannacross of the second age, and all the enemies Seyia had to fight. She did say one of the most bitter ones was…oh damn this could be bad if its what I think it is!"

Acnologia suddenly laughed madly as he grasped his arm tightly." What is this, they got to you or something or were you not as committed to the truth as I and Sergius R'hllor thought!

Only the weak are bound by emotions as weak as guilt! Enough, either end this joke or I'll beat you till you snap out of this because once my team wins this little contest Genhenna Gate will open so that at last Chaos Zannacross Necron can, oh?"

Acnologia saw a energy blast coming for him and easily batted it away, only for Trunks to suddenly appear above him and punched him in the face before he could react. The Super Saiyan saw his target go flying deep through the cake like mountain before he glanced at his Digimon teammate." Don't waste time with this scum Shinryudramon, he's just trying to get you off track with his rambling."

"Oh, you fought this guy before Trunks?"

The Time Patrol agent glanced at Ben's friend before he sighed." Not personally, I just heard about his reputation. That's why you should not listen to a word he says. Leave him to me, and go secure this ingredient so we can wrap this up and go back to help Miss Raystar and the others."

"Well, that sounds like a good plan but you sure you don't need my help with theses guys?"

Trunks just had lighting crackle around his aura as he powered up to the second Super Saiyan level known in the past as " Ascended" Super Saiyan." I gauged his power, and bar from any drastic hidden moves, I dealt with worst."

Ichiryu chuckled bitterly as he had his giant golden chopsticks hold back Bambina 's right arm and glanced over his shoulder." We got a few pain in the asses to wrangle around but we got this, just make sure Midora or another one of his new pals swipes the ingredient! It should just be up ahead!"

Starjun saw the Mega Level Digimon glance at the direction before he had his burning" Kitchen" knife form in his hand." How presumptuous of you. I may not be quite as strong as Midora but turn your back to me and your going to be deep fried. Fire Spear!"

The second in command of the Gourmet Corps prepared to throw a spear of fire at the Mega level Digimon, only for some rainbow colored hair to lash out and grasp the arm. Starjun saw that the attack came from Sunny as he and his comrades had just finished healing their wounds. " I could say the same for you hothead!" Sunny quipped out as he grasped his target's arm. Toriko got in front of his enemies face before he got into a fighting stance." We got interrupted last time Starjun, about time we settle this!"

"Tsc…that eager to get the beat down you were going to get before we got interrupted? Unlike Heracles, I won't stop till its over."

"Things are different now, its more then just a fight for pride, everything's on the line so I'll do what it takes to win!"

Zebra chuckled before adding,"Heh, I missed out last time but I want a piece of you before its done pretty boy! Go on and leave this to us, this is my hunt! Thunder Noise!"

The scar faced man shouted upward into the air, where a "cloud" of sound formed. The sound echoed and condensed within the cloud, becoming louder and more intense, before falling from the sky as thunderbolt-like blasts of sound that suddenly struck Starjun's blade like it was a lighting rod.

As their target grunted in pain Toriko, Sunny, and Coco all went on the assault before Shinryudramon glanced at the direction that looked like it could be the center of a giant cake and took a deep breath." Well, you guys got it cover so I guess I can handle it solo. Heh, I may not have as much smarts as the boss but I got enough smarts to be able to handle getting food!"

"Don't worry you don't have to go it alone, I got your back!"

A eager voice shouted out before Kirby landed on the Digimon's shoulder. Shinryudramon noticed Kirby had a monkey like appearance and his hammer out before he chuckled." Thanks Kirby, between the two of us we can out eat whoever's in our way no matter how crazy they get! Let's get, oh?"

The Digimon member of Squad 7 saw four monkey like creatures with hammers land around Kirby before he cleared his throat and got his beam saber ready." Um, don't look now Kirby but I think some of the bad guys followed you."

"Oh? No wait don't attack them! They use to be baddies but I made them my Star Allies after I swallowed them! Been a while since I made this many at once but since we are missing our friends I figured I'd make some more to have our back!"

"Heh nice thinking Kirby! All right lets nab some food!"

"Great I'm hungry!"

"Er…just remember we can't eat this one Kirby!"

"Aw…just a little?"

"Depends on how big it, no wait, we have to ask first ok?"

As Kirby nodded Shinryudramon went in the direction of what they were after. Trunks saw the two hungry hero's go off before he sighed." Hope they can take care of the rest while I contain this mess. We don't need the problems we have to deal with to multiply."

Before he could go on he saw a flash of light before a massive red energy blast was racing for him. As he slashed the blast in half with his sword he heard a monstrous roar before Acnologia flew out of the ground, back in his dragon form.

The berserk Dragon juts glared at Trunks before hissing out," You, you're the one who's got Daigo all confused eh? No matter what spell you used he's part of my pack now and I'm going to get him to wake up so the rightful winners get, get what I am due!"

"You're the one that's going to wake up the hard way." Trunks uttered as his expression hardened." Sometimes its best to know the truth, but other times its better to let the nightmares of long past be buried forever. Your time is over, and I won't let you drag anyone back to where you belong!"

"Damn brat…I'll teach you to mock my wrath! Eternal Flare!"

"You need to be taught to fear the anger of a Super Saiyan Acnologia! Finish Buster!"

The two unleashed massive energy blasts at each other, and the collision produced a explosion that lit up the sky. Shinryudramon felt the shock-wave from the blast and looked back. Kirby saw the worried look in his face before he got worried himself." You think Mister Trunks and are new friends are going to be ok?"

"Yah…Trunks seems pretty hardcore and theses Gourmet Hunters seem to know how to handle themselves! We got a job to do so lets get going!"

"Right! Just hope they were right about this!"

"I think they were right, if that ahead is not something important whatever giant made this giant cake really likes to be fancy."

Kirby glanced at where the Mega Digimon was pointing and saw what seemed to be a giant red and purple flower at what would be the tip of a cake. Kirby saw rivers of chocolate flow out of it, hot enough for it to be lava before he gulped." That does look like something really tasty, and important! Lets go before anyone gets their first!"

"Right, just, huh?"

Shinryudramon saw that something was on the tip of the flower before he realized something was already there. As he got closer he saw that it was it was a bipedal cat-like creature with orange fur on most of its body, and white on its snout, paws, and inner ears, as well as a white mane. It has many black spots on its head fur.

It had green eyes with cross-shaped pupils, that turn red with X shaped pupils when threatened. It also has a tail, and two scarf-like appendages on each neck. Both the tail and the scarf-like appendages have multiple black "X" on it, and X-shaped protrusion on its end. It also has white hexagonal crystals with golden borders on its fore legs.

Kirby gasped as he saw that the cat was breathing weakly." Oh no, that kitty reminds me of my shorter friend Nago! But this is a really weird place to take a nap!"

"Look closer Kirby, that cat's wounded! Hey, are you ok?"

Shinryudramon landed next to the cat and as Kirby landed next to the cat and saw it meow weakly he raised his hammer." What happened to you? Did someone get mad that you were trying to get their snack?"

Before they could get a answer a darker voice hissed out,"Meicoomon was taught the same lesson you lot are about to receive, and it's the futility in defying me!"

Ben's Digimon Partner tensed up as he saw the ground shift and pushed Kirby away just as a large red lance erupted out of the ground.

As the lance collided with his shield Shinryudramon saw that it came form a black armored figure who's arm was red lance while the other was a blade. Shinryudramon saw the figure chuckle before he growled." I thought knights were suppose to be honorable? You one of those Gourmet Jerks to?"

"I have an alliance with Lord Midora but my group hails from, a different area."

"Wait, that smell, you're a Digimon to?"

"Heh, I see you have some intuition lad. But only having some intuition is not enough to survive the wrath of DarkKnightmon!"

"If I had a Gil for every time a jerk told me that well, I could buy a lot of food!

The two knight Digimon unleashed a furious barrage of sword slashes, and as DarkKnightmon got cut across the face he snickered." I see, so you're a veteran warrior. You have the skills, but have the nativity of a pup."

"Its called having a heart jerk!"

"The naïve are the first to fall in the battle clown! Treason Vortex!"

The enemy Digimon spun its Twin Spear to form a vortex of darkness and hit Shinryudramon right in the chest. Kirby saw Shinryudramon get blasted back before he had his " Star Helpers." attack DarkKnightmon from behind.

As the foe got staggered he growled with rage and kicked them back Kirby tried to smash his enemy in the back with his hammer only for the Digimon to block with his other limb. " What joke is this? You deserve to be deleted if you need the help of such weak, GUH!"

Shinryudramon showed he was not as down as DarkKnightmon thought as the member of Squad 7 resisted the vortex enough to unleashed his Infinite Exia Ray attack.

As DarkKnightmon got blasted back and just barely managed to block the follow up strike from the incoming Royal Knight Digimon his opponent glared at him." You're the joke jerk! But your right about one thing, I don't need his help to take you out! Leave this to me Kirby and get the ingredient inside!"

"You sure?"

"Yup, this way we can eat faster!"

"That makes sense! Alright be careful!"

DarkKnightmon saw Kirby dive into the flower before he narrowed his eyes." However meager a assist the puffball might have been, you will pay for treating me so lightly!"

"DarkKnightmon, I heard that from stronger guys then you! You can huff and puff all you want but your not blowing me down!"

"Heh…you do seem like the stubborn type. But I have more then one way of eroding my enemies will! Before your deleted you will realize how foolish you were."

"Unless you Digivolve to something way stronger then your going to sound really stupid really soon you lunk, OW! Huh?"

Shinryudramon swerved around and realized he was poked in the chink in his armor on his right foot with something sharp, and realized it was Meicoomon. "Hey what was that for? You get hit in the head or something? He's the one who attacked you!"

The royal Knight tensed as Meicoomon purred darkly, and suddenly grew larger with much shaggier fur. It gained shinier, glowing eyes, long sharp claws and its three tails grew to to allow it to fly.

As Mecioonmon growled wildly and had its eyes glow purple DarkKnightmon laughed." Simple minded dolt, Mecioonmon is my comrade! She pretended to be defenseless to lure heroic types like you! And now that I snared you in my trap, you will never get out! No more games, go for the kill Mecioonmon!"

"Right. Digivolve to… Meicrackmon, Vicious Mode!"

Shinryudramon braced himself as the deceptive feline Digimon quickly emerged in its ultimate level state, and had a more feminine humanoid appearance. Its eyes were red with white "X"-shaped pupils. Its limbs, ears, and scarf-like appendages have grown, and its tail now has a braid, and a purple stinger at its end.

Its mane now covered its back, and its front paws now resemble human hands with four fingers each and red demonic claws. It also had black armor on its shoulders, thighs, hands, and feet. Its armor had purple neon-like lights, and it also has light purple neon-like lights on its forearms, thighs, and on the cross-shaped cut under its eyes.

Shinryudramon got into a fighting stance as Meicracklemon had a dark aura form around her." I should be surprised but this whole place is crazy so I'm only a little surprised!"

"Are all your remarks about things you done already?"

"Er…sorry, normally the boss handles the jokes."

"I see, well don't worry you won't have to worry about it much longer."

"Ah thanks I, hey wait!"

DarkKnightmon charged at his target as he was realizing his intent. Shinryudramon blocked the ax strike, only for Mercaklemon to dive down from above to try and slash at him with her now glowing claws but Ben's pal reacted faster then she expected and counterattacked with a sudden head butt to slam her into the ground.

The member of Squad 7 tried to finish her with his beam saber but winced as he felt a sudden pain flare up in his right arm, slowing his strike long enough for Mercaklemon to escape the attack.

The royal knight realized his vision was blurry before he shook his head." Oh man, now is not the time to get sick! This better not be like the time I got the Pokérus!"

"Hahah…I assure you its far worst dolt."

DarkKnightmon uttered cruelly." This feline inflicted you with quite the nasty virus with that previous poke. Soon, your very existence will rot away!"

"Listen hear Knightjerk!" Shinryudramon grasped out as he grasped his head." No matter what kind of nasty virus you sneaked into me it won't break me! Zannacross threw everything and the kitchen sink on me and it still was not enough to break me! No matter what I'm the boss's number one pal, the guy who has the savior's back!"

"It must be reassuring to have such a strong dose of self-confidence. But its going to be even more enjoyable when its revealed to all be a façade."

"Its not, whatever you said means! Your going down!"

"I don't think so dolt. And to make sure that's the case, seal the deal and go all out Mercaklemon!"

"As you wish, Meracklemon, Digivolve to… Raguelmon!"

Shinryudramon winced as his cat like enemy Digivolve yet again to her Mega level form. As soon as he saw his enemy finish transforming into her more armored and demonic state Raguelmon had her larger claws glow neon purple before she became a blur.

Shinryudramon realized she was attacking but his leg convulsed from the effects of the virus and he was to slow, thus his enemy slashed across his leg hard enough to leave a burning mark.

Before he could even react DarkKnightmon slashed into his shoulder with his ax. Upon seeing the member of the Enji scream out in pain the dark knight Digimon snickered." Realize you're a fool yet? Beg for mercy and I might let you live as my squire!"

"Hah, sounds like with that deal I'm better off dead or deleted or whatever! DarkKnightmon, even if your tricks tripped me up, your not going to win! Because I got friends and you don't nearly have enough tricks to get through all of them!"

"Want to bet on it? Ugh, this is going to be one of those friendship speeches is it? I know all about having a united front, let me show you know to do it properly! Raguelmon, I think it's time we use the Darkness Loader eh?"

"What? But I don't want to become a part of you!"

"That was not a request! I'm ordering you to DigiXros!"

DarkKnightmon had his chest plate open up to reveal a dark crystal. Said crystal shined with light before striking Raguelmon. She cried in pain before she was suddenly sucked into the black knight.

For a few moments his body glowed before he took on many of Raguelmon's features, became more demon like and had claws burst out of his arms. As a dark aura shimmered around him the now larger and bestial hostile hissed out," You were being a pain before, but now…that I'm Dark Raguel Knightmon your powerless to watch yourself be assimilated!

"That's what you call what you just did? That…does not look like DNA Digivolveing to me!"

"Haha, your more aware then I figured. How very observant, DigiXros is far more advanced, and powerful! To DNA Digivolve is to have two compatible Digimon fuse in unison, but to DigiXros you just need the right core uploaded to assimilated as many Digimon as you can, and the energy to handle the power!"

"So your just forcing people to be absorbed into you? Sounds like that Cell creep Trunks told me about earlier, that's disgusting! You're a even bigger jerk then I thought, no way I'm going to lose to you!"

"Spare me the noble prattle dolt, the only thing that's truly honorable is victory! This is the only true value in teamwork!"

"Your wrong, friendship's better than slavery any day of the week!"

"At least my method is sincere! I'll enjoy forcing you to DigiXros with me to kill your comrades to prove how wrong you are!"

"Your wrong, that will never work! My buds are not going to let that happen! But they won't have to worry about that, because I'm shutting you down!"

"I'm going to enjoy breaking you fool, Choujigen Axe!"

"Hey we agree on something for once! Magna Scintillate Edge!"

The two Digimon struck at each other with all their might, and despite Shinryudramon finding his vision going blurry again he pushed himself to not let his enemy have his way.

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The impact from the two's attacks was so intense that as Kirby landed in the inner area of the cake he felt a tremor.

As some whipped cream fell on him he happily swallowed it but got worried again as he looked up." Shinryudramon and the others are fighting some really nasty enemies up their!

Well, guess they handled even nastier meanies when we stopped Zannacross so they should be ok. Long as I can get to that ingredient it should be ok. But…what is it? Everything looks like food around here."

As Kirby rubbed his head in confusion one of his Star Helpers nudges him before pointing to the right. The hero of Dreamland glanced up to see a giant chocolate fountain with marshmallow surrounded by a giant golden flower.

Kirby glanced up in awe as he saw the flower shake. " Oh wow that looks more juicy then a Maximum Tomato! Wait, is the whole flower the ingredient thing? Oh…I can't eat it all to test it if we need it later for that guy to cook it! Or, can I store it in my tummy? No, they said they had to get it first before anyone could eat it! Well, seems there is just lots of cake here so guess I can just wait here till, oh?"

Kirby saw the chocolate liquid ripple, before a angry female voice hissed out," Think all the food in your sight is yours to eat your gluttonous puffball? You been eating far to much, now you must own up to what your due, Kirby!"

The member of the Justice Force saw the fountain glow purple, before the flower glowed even more, till it suddenly rippled and grew to become a beanstalk before the flower at last opened. Kirby saw that inside the flower was a insectoid creature with a red and purple color scheme. It wore a green crown with a yellow crystal like object in the front with a red heart in the front.

As Kirby saw four wasp wings extend form the sides before he rubbed his head." Glad I did not eat it if there was something inside it already! Hey, this buggy woman reminds me of something but I can't remember."

"You insolent cretin, you will pay for trying to steal from Queen Sectonia!"

"Hey I fought a Queen Sectoina once! She, did not look quite like you did though, and she was in Floralia at the end of that crazy dreamstalk! Oh wait, Ben said the Beyonder could recreate bad guys from the past so, uh no!"

"You dare mock your queen? That filthy Ragyō dared to say she was more beautiful then me and tried to ruin me but I absorbed the energy of the Miracle Fruits. I will have my revenge on all! My beauty rivals the divine! True beauty is control, and I will control all!"

Sectoina roared some more before flower buds appeared out of the ceiling and took the shape of cake skinned wasp heads. As those heads suddenly fired red energy beams at him Kirby quickly slid out of the way and saw how much of the cake they melted before he groaned." Silly bug lady, you can't control much if you don't even have arms! Still, at least since I beat you before I can do it again!"

Kirby saw more energy beams heading his way and shifted to his Mirror Power to catch the blasts and redirect them. As the flower cannons blew up a few more flower blades burst out of the ceilings and walls to try and slice up the pink hero, only for his helpers to bash them into the ground. Sectoina roared with frustration before she had more flower peddles shoot out and try and form an energy cage around Kirby.

As Kirby saw his Helpers get zapped he prepared to strike the right most peddle, only for Sectoina to fire another one from the ground, and had it smash into the one he was going to attack to hit him in to the energy cage.

As Kirby yelled in pain and fell to the ground Sectoina laughed at the now sizzling hero." You insolent eyesore! You will pay dearly for biting off more then you could chew!"

As Kirby got back up he saw his insectoid enemy glow before she leaned right above Kirby and had energy ripple across her body. The pink hero realized Sectoina was charging a laser attack and that the cage was preventing him from getting out, before he saw his Helpers looking worried and just looked determined." Your wrong you nasty lady bug! I can bite off a lot more then you think I can! I have to if I want to protect my friends!"

Sectoina just snarled as she unleashed her massive energy blast. Kirby quickly showed he was not bluffing as he used his Hypernova inhale power to swallow the entire energy blast. Sectoina screamed with rage, but for all of her fury Kirby was able to swallow the entire energy blast.

As Sectoina 's attack faded she saw Kirby had expanded to twice his size before she moaned." How can such a puny creature have such a bottomless appetite? Don't you ever get ful…AHH!"

Kirby cut her off as he discharged all the energy he had swallowed, in the form of a massive star shaped projectile. The blast was powerful enough to shatter Sectoina 's soul, and as only a few blue flower petals floated down Kirby cleaned his mouth." I was full once, it was not fun.

Yuck, its handy when I have to but eating lasers always taste bad. Ah well, I don't eat so much because I want to eat everyone's food, I just need to eat to have enough strength to help everyone!

Ah man, those Gourmet Hunters are going to be mad that the food they were looking for was a giant bug but guess its better they found out before they ate it and got really bad tummy a, oh?"

The roundish person was cut off as he saw a shinning light from where Sectoina was rooted. The native from Popstar braced himself as he went to the center and looked down.

He saw a golden orb in the center that was rippling like liquid before he widened his eyes." Oh wow, this looks and smells cool! This has to be what the Gourmet guys are after! Better get it out of here!"

"You think everything is yours to eat Kirby? You think everyone will forgive the damage your endless hunger causes?"

Kirby looked around and saw the remains of Sectoina rippled before melting together to form a puddle of black liquid. As the liquid boiled Kirby looked confused."Um…did I take something from you mister voice? Sorry, sometimes bad guys deserve to have their food taking like with Dedede and some of the others. Wait, who are you again?"

"I'm the voice you silenced…the voice you repressed to the depths of your mind...till now!"

The liquid continued to boil till it suddenly grew, and took the shape of a large penguin-like creature dressed in royal, red finery, with the peace sign embossed on the back of his robe.

The figure was portly, blue-skinned and had a yellow mouth with his round red cap, which has a yellow or golden rim and a white ball at the top, a crown , had blue flipper-like hands, though they are usually covered by a pair of yellow mittens.

In his hands were a large star-studded hammer, and as the figure smashed the ground with the hammer Kirby just looked even more confused." Huh? When did you get here King Dedede? I thought you were still in Dreamland?"

The being that looked like King Dedede grinned as his eyes turned red." You thought wrong boy! Now see here Kirby, you been nothing but a pain ever since you showed up in Popstar!"

"Aw how can you say that? I saved the world a lot of times and with Ben and the others I saved the whole universe!"

"But have you really son? Seems like everything's falling apart worst then that time we were yarn! You always cause problems because your always so hungry like with Dyna Blade, the Sneak Squad and all the other times you were to hungry or curious for your own good!"

"Hey that's not fair, you're the one who stole all of Dreamland's food!"

"Ever think that's because you ate so much food that I had to secure more for the winter and people were just to upset to realize the truth?"

"Hey, wait, that does not make sense."

"Course it does not make sense to you boy, you're a moron! I was right about Nightmare, Dark Nebula, and the others remember? You and your hero buddies got everyone to think your so great when you're always just causing messes and get people to swoon over you when you clean them up! You caused a big debt with all your eating Kirby, and its time you pay up!"

Dedede had his eyes glow red before he charged at Kirby. The pink round life-form saw the being that looked like his long time enemy raise his hammer and jump into the air before Kirby just sighed and jumped out of the way." Are you another clone or copy or something? Well, real or not I have a lot of things to do! You never can beat me so just give it up!"

Dedede smashed the ground with his hammer hard enough to break the area around it. After seeing he missed Kirby the regally dressed penguin grit his teeth, and sucked in with enough force to try and suck in Kirby.

Kirby saw he and his Star Helpers being pulled in and quickly shifted to his bomb power to hurl a explosive at his opponent's mouth. Dedede widened his eyes but was not able to close his mouth before the bomb went in.

Before he could spit it out the bomb exploded, causing Dedede to fly up and land back on the ground with a thud. Kirby heard Dedede moan before he just sighed." Its not nice to call people dumb meanie! But that being said you're the one being dumb when you mock me then think you can beat me with the same old tricks. Eh…in any case I, AH!"

Dedede suddenly slammed the ground with his bare hand with enough force to cause the ground to rumble.

As Kirby staggered he saw his opponent just get back up Dedede suddenly had his entire body become pitch black."Well then boy it seems we need a change in the program here eh? Your not squeezing out of this, this is your reckoning Kirby!"

The humanoid penguin roared with rage before a dark aura flared out of his body, and Kirby got shocked as his the being that looked like his half time friend half time transformed into a larger and muscular body that tore his robes to shreds in the process.

After finishing transforming Dedede pounded his chest like a ape and grasped his discarded hammer. It glowed red for a moment before transforming into a demonic ax, and as it did Kirby looked angry." Hey wait a second, Dedede can't do that without anything crazy coming to him! Your almost like how he was when Dark Matter possessed him! Wait, are you like, one of those dark copies like that copy of Meta-Knight in that Mirror World?"

"Heh…not quite son. I'm not the darkness of your idiot king buddy, but of you!"

"Huh? That's silly, I already met my mirror self and we got along fine!"

"You been putting up the innocent kid act for years Kirby, but time to face up to what you truly are! For god sake your decades old son start acting like it! I am what you really are when all the fluff is cast aside, a tyrant with never ending hunger that gets those around you to submit out of fear, to the point where they conned themselves to think they are your friend to hide from the painful truth!"

Kirby saw this demonic shadow Dedede have a second demonic mouth from out of his chest like with the time Dark Matter possessed the true Kirby while he formed demonic flaming wings and had his crown morph into the Master Crown that the villain Magolor had.

Kirby thought over what the demonic creature was saying before he got angry." Even on Dedede 's worst days he never said anything as mean as that! You got it all wrong, that's not how things are at all! I would never want to rule Dreamland, its way to much work!"

"Heh…that's what all you hero fella's tell yourselves to feel better, but in the end heroes are just tyrants that con the masses into thinking they are their to help!"

"I am there to help you meanie! There is no way your like me, you speak way to confusing to be like me!"

"I'm what you could be, if you give up the façade and give in to your true nature! Kirby, like it or not your going to wake up!"

Dedede flew down with his ax with a blow that could slice Kirby in two. The pink puffball evaded the strike, but as the Ax hit the ground, causing spikes of energy to erupt out of the ground. Kirby saw one of his Helpers get impaled by the spike, but as he tried to attack Dedede had a laser blast out of his crown to hit Kirby spot on. As the hero was blasted up Dedede grasped Kirby with his now muscular arm and smashed him into the ground.

He then threw Kirby hard into the right wall before he snickered." You may have only thought about it for ten seconds or so a year Kirby, but deep down you know your, we are a monster! Its time for all the lies to be erased Kirby, be true to yourself and you will be able to eat all you want!"

"Your wrong, I don't want to eat that much!" Kirby moaned out as he got back up." Its more fun to eat with others anyway as long as I have enough food to be full! You're the part of me that never wants to be hungry? To bad because I don't let that decide what I do when I focus! And I'm super focused now!"

"Still want to hide from the truth Kirby? I tell you what son…you been hiding from the truth your entire simple minded life but time you wake up!"

"Your going to wake up you meanie!" Kirby got his remaining Star Helpers to grasp his hands before they got into a "circle" formation and spun like a wheel . They then burst at the nightmarish form that looked sort of like Dedede. The creature of shadow snarled in response and fired a ebony energy blast from its chest mouth.

But Kirby surprised his enemy by having his wheel of friend jump up, before quickly shifting to his Jet form to have the wheel speed up, and bash into Dedede with enough force to create a shock-wave. The being shaped like his long time rival yelled in pain before cracks formed on his body, till the entire being shattered like a mirror.

Kirby saw the fragments of his enemy vanish before he moaned from his injuries." I knew you were just a mean guy placing a mean trick and are not me or Dedede! Still, it really was a nasty trick that hurt a lot!"

The small male staggered over back to the Ingredient and saw it was still floating in the center below before he rubbed his stomach."Oh, I know the others said not to eat it but I really could use some food right now.

Maybe if I just take a little piece? Even if its not good till its cooked like they said, if I just have a little piece it can't be that bad right? I mean, I eat things most people can't so it should be ok right? I mean, I beat the baddie so that should be worth a little snack right? Right, I'm going for it!"

Kirby pushed himself to the edge, but as he landed on the platform with the golden Ingredient the water rippled, before it washed over his feet and hardened over it like cement. As Kirby got shocked a female voice hissed out," Such an arrogant hungry child, like a spoiled brat! Your either naïve or hellbent on denying reality. But in the end, your only a fragment anyway, maybe that's why you only have a fragmented view on reality. Either way, at last you will have your true nature realized, spawn of the Majin!"

Lighting crackled into Kirby and as he yelled in pain his Helpers were shocked hard enough to be vaporized. As Ben's friend fell the water suddenly showed a image, and Kirby was shocked to see himself, being pet on the head by a larger pink creature with a purple cape and yellow gloves.

The image flickered for a moment before the image changed to the smaller Kirby in a sphere, with Android 21 looking over him. The image changed again to show Android 21 in a larger lab, surrounded by the same Nitro creatures that Midora encountered.

The image then changed to a monster in a crater near the Fountain of Dreams, were a pink and black large humanoid monster with grayish skin and a mane of black feathers on its neck.

It had flat feet with three toes on each and two two horns that stretch down its back. It wore gold armor around its waist, arms, feet, and shoulders, the latter of which drape purple tags.

Its arms had curved claws and tentacles were on its back. Its face was composed of an large red eye, the same kind of eye Dark Matter and its O2 form had. The towering nightmarish creature was devouring three popstar natives named Tiff, Tuff, and a Snail like creature called Escargoon before it glared at a mortified King Dedede and a wary Meta-Knight and his men in front of him, till the Fountain of Dreams shined with light, and the Nova Comet in the sky both shined with light before unleashing a beam that struck the pink monster.

As a light flashed the image shattered, before Kirby moaned out,"What, what are you doing making up random nasty images? I don't, remember any of that. I, AH!"

Kirby was shocked with dark lighting till the same voice from before hissed out," Your feeble mind may refuse to remember, but your true nature still remembers in its core. No matter what was changed your true nature is still in your cells, your Gourmet Cells! I don't know how a fragment ever managed to become so distorted but, you will serve your true nature at last, the true nature of NEO!"

Kirby felt a dark burning sensation in his stomach and struggled with all his might to stay awake." I don't know what's going on but I know I'm not a monster! My friends don't see me as a monster, and I believe in them! I, really wish they could hurry up taking down the real monsters though! The pain's getting worst and I can't, AH!"

The member of the Justice Force felt the pain become more and more overwhelming as more images flashed across his mind. As Kirby resisted the best he could, his friends were doing all they could to shut down the monsters that were in their way.

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After Trunks saw Shinryudramon off he was keen on taking out Acnologia a moment later. However to the Time Patroller agent's dismay while he was able to overpower the black dragon's energy attack. But even as the Finish Buster hit Acnologia right in its head, the dragon just burst out of the explosion a moment later.

The Super Saiyan just grit his teeth before unleashing a barrage of blows that were so fast that he was just a bunch of golden blurs. Acnologia roared with annoyance, but was not subdued from the physical attacks either.

As Trunks was to fast for him to hit he transformed back into his human from, and had his aura explode again before he charged at Trunks with a upper cut.

As his target blocked the blow with his sword Acnologia sprouted yet another savage grin."You have a sharp edge eh goldilocks? Nice try but it's useless, I'm the ultimate dragon, that can devour all energy! My body is so toughened that no blow is hard enough to crack it either! I don't know what part of the universe you crawled under and I don't care, I have evolved to become the perfect monster and you can only beg for mercy!"

"Tsc…I'm going to show you what happened to the last guy who said to me he was perfect. I suffered to much from egoistical pricks like you to ever have their way again!"

"I hate the heroic types! No matter what the weak want they are just prey to the strong, and all are prey to the king of dragons! If only my fiancé could be here to see me prove my dominance, maybe then she would have to concede we are perfect for each other! Its so annoying, she in some ways is a even more supreme dragon then I am but she defies her true nature!

Bah…must be because she was forced into the ritual. No matter, if that Ragyō woman is not just barking out lies Kisara will be "enlightened" soon enough and the black and white dragons can fry their enemies together as it should be!"

"Wait, did you say Kisara? No, she, a version of her would be here to? Damn it, if that's who I hope it's not this could get even more messy!"

"Hahaha! Do you now realize how foolish it is boy? Tremble in des,PARGH!"

Trunks showed how fed up he was with his enemy as he swiftly stabbed at his enemies mouth. Acnologia grasped it with his fist and as he glared at Trunks the golden haired man spat out," You scum and your rants get so damn repetitive after all this time. Just shut up and fight or die!"

"Heh, you bark a good game boy! But I'm not bluffing, my power makes me immune to all types of energy, my energy triumphs over all so all you can do is die!"

The son of Vegeta saw his opponent gather a blast of black fire and energy in his mouth and grit his teeth before he swiftly swung his sword to block it. As the blast was cut off just inches from his mouth Acnologia winced as Trunks had a killed look in his eye." If your power is above all, what if it has to crash with itself? Only one way to find out, this is the end!"

Trunks showed he was not bluffing as he kept blocking the attack with his sword, before he had the energy swarm around it, becoming a pillar of raw energy. Acnologia realized what Trunks might be up to before he screamed with fury and tried to punch the Super Saiyan, only for his target's blade to go right through his hand.

Acnologia yelled with primal fury as he saw himself wounded before he tried to gather even more power." No…it can't end like this, not to me! I want more…more blood…more destruction…more tears…I want to see that Siegfried fool break as I have his own lover kill him! I will…destroy…all who, GUH!"

Despite his efforts Trunks swung his blade through his targets head." Your dreams as dead as you are Acnologia!"

The longtime friend of Goku proceeded to unleash a barrage of enhanced slashes to slice up the self-proclaimed King of dragons in to as many pieces as Frieza was when Trunks introduced himself. And just like with Frieza, in a matter of moments all that was left of the enemy was bite sized pieces before Trunks casually extended his free hand to unleash a energy blast to vaporize the rest.

After making sure his target was not coming back Trunks allowed a small smirk." It's a good thing I enhanced my sword before stepping into this ring. Well, his bark was worst then his bite, I just hope his barking did not cause things to get out of hand. The other should be able to handle things here so better check up on things."

Trunks put his sword away before flying off to catch up with Shinryudramon and Kirby. As he did Starjun saw him fly off, and saw the chard ashes that were all that was left of Acnologia before he cringed." Damn it, no matter what world they come from or what kind of life form they all are, most of them have been to weak to get the job done."

"That's what you get when you depend on outsiders to get the job done pretty boy!" Zebra yelled out as he tackled Starjun hard enough to knock him through a bolder sized chocolate chip.

Starjun spat out blood before unleashing a wave of fire, only for Zebra to shock him by screaming loud enough to knock the flames back into him. While being hit with his own flames did not hurt him, his attack failing caused Starjun to curse before he tried to unleash the same attack he did to previously injure Toriko, only for Sunny to catch his hand with his hair.

Starjun glared at the rainbow haired Gourmet Hunter and was about to try and burn the hair binding him till he saw Coco unleash a poison spear at him. As he moved out of the way he saw Toriko was ready for him, for the blue haired man was unleashing his Ice Pick Nail Punch for his face.

Starjun swiftly unleashed another wave of blue fire at him, and as he saw Toriko push through the flames he seethed out," You idiots really think you can make your Full Courses? You can't even master your Appetite Demons, the Ingredients are wasted on you when you can't even get through a first serving!"

"I'm the first to admit I'm not a master yet Starjun, but I don't have to be! Because I'm not just eating for myself or my " pack" like you, Midora and the rest of the Gourmet Corps. Like Acacia I want my Fool Course to feed everyone! After all, its easier when you don't have to eat the entire meal yourself, its also easier fighting like that to!"

Before Starjun could argue Zebra screamed at Toriko, unleashing a sonic force powerful enough to rocket through the flames and hit Starjun right in the chest. Cracking noises were heard as Toriko saw his opponent yell in pain before he went flying out of the area.

As the Gourmet Kings saw their enemy vanish from their sight Toriko made his hands get into the" Knife" positions as he grinned." I'd say that' meals done eh guys? I preferred to have beaten him on my own, but more important things then pride on the line right now."

Coco eyed the hole that Starjun made in the mountain that he flew through carefully before he sighed." Hope we did not cook him to much. Last thing we need is him popping back up with his Appetite Demon like you did earlier Toriko."

"Maybe, but it does not smell like it. One perk about not having your Appetite Demons in synch with yah is that they can check in when you check out. For now lets just hope the king monkey won't cause even more of a mess if Starjun is not controlling him."

Sunny heard a furious yell to the right and glanced over before in that direction before he winced." Boss Ichiryu and old man Jiro are as tough as they get. Still, better get ready in case things get messy."

The four long time comrades all saw that their elders were struggling against the primal rage Bambina was unleashing, for after Starjun's control of him was weakened his assault got even more unrelenting.

Ichiryu had just unleashed his Minority World and also tried to bind his target's limbs with his giant energy chopsticks, but even with all that he found Bambetta was on the verge of overpowering him.

As he saw the beast pant furiously the president of ICO chuckled tensely." Damn, the king of beasts don't get there title for nothing. Its instincts are strong enough to stay one step ahead of Minority World's effect!"

"It's one shrewd beast, I reckon we will have to do this the natural way Ichiryu." Jiro threw out calmly." Keep it busy for a few more seconds…I'll knock some sense into it the old fashion way. Intimidation Knocking!"

The man took out two blue taser like objects before injecting himself with them. Suddenly his muscle mass and overall size tripled. As he towered over Bambina the monkey king roared before ripping the ground up and throwing it at Jiro. Now revealing his battle lust Jiro snarled back a feral roar at the sight of this." Settle down monkey, the grown ups have work to do! Rising Wolf Guinness Punch!"

perform a powerful spiral-like blast of Appetite Energy that takes on the shape of a Battle Wolf head. The energy beam easily vaporized the make shift projectile, but Bambina merely snarled before the beast uppercut the blast into the air.

It pulled that off without getting a single bruise, but as it did that Jiro showed he was fast enough to be in front of Bambina before it finished blinking. As the beast's eyes widened Jiro widened his eyes." You need to take a time out," King. Million Knocking!"

Jiro proceeded to show why he earned the title of " Knocking Master" as a matter of moments he struck his target a million times from every angle. As Jiro reappeared Bambina was motionless, becoming frozen in place after the barrage of Knocking strikes.

Toriko and the others ran over and were shocked at the great beast being as still as a statue before the blue haired man laughed." Damn old man, knew you were hard core but did not think even you could Knock one of the great beast kings!"

"How the hell did you think I got this title boy?" Jiro threw out flippantly as he reverted to his normal size." I'll admit I had a edge, I got all the weak points from Guinness, the Wolf King, when he was raising me. It should hold him long enough for us to get stuff done here. Speaking of that, are the foreigners pulling their weight?"

Ichiryu glanced at the direction where Trunks flew off before he cracked his neck." They seem like they seen there share of combat. Something feels odd with that guy who had the same scent as the computers though."

"Oh you mean the Digimon?" Toriko threw out curiously." I was wary at first since a lot of the other Digimon were siding with Midora but the dragon kid seems cool, reminds me of a talking Terry. C'mon, lets make sure they got the Ingredient secure so Komatsu can get cooking! Huh?"

He and the others saw various primates jump down to try and come to the aid of their King before Zebra rolled his eyes." Damn it, I thought these monkeys had good enough instincts to know when they are screwed? Ugh, guess I'm going to put another species to extinction at this rate."

"They have guts, but we have more! Hope the other guys can get the job done while we clean house here! All right you damn stinking apes, who wants to be part of the meal?"

Toriko swiftly unleashed another salvo of fork shaped projectiles to take out the first wave of incoming hostiles. As he did little did the others know that their Digimon ally was finding himself in a bind.

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Between trying to fight off the virus Mecioonmon infected him with on the inside, and staying one step ahead of DarkKnightmon's attacks Ben's Digimon partner was quickly finding himself exhausted. Raguel Dark Knightmon just evaded enough blast before unleashing a barrage of his own with his Darkness Zone attack.

The Digimon member of Squad 7 tried to evade or reflect the bombardment of purple energy blasts, but after a few moments his shield arm spasmed from the virus and he got hit in the chest. As he fell down to the ground before he could even try and get back up his opponent slammed down on his head.

"I'll concede that for a dolt you have an extreme amount of stubbornness. RaguelDarkKnightmon dryly threw out as he slammed his boot on Shinryudramon's head." That's good, it will be to my advantage, once I force you to become part of me!"

"Don't count on it jerk!" Shinryudramon retorted weakly." I only join a team when I want to!" The Mega level Royal Knight tried to fire off another attack only for his target to suddenly have the claws on his free hand extend to impale him.

As Ben's friend screamed out yet again his attacker hissed out a vicious," You have to learn a lesson the hard way dolt, and that's that the weak have no say in how they are used! You have enough skill to pass off as a Royal Knight, but your simply inferior! I am the ultimate knight, and all who defy me are to be punished by becoming part of my glory!"

"No way am I going to become part of your anything DarkKnightmon! I'm the partner of Ben Auro, the ultimate hero! No way…am I going to lose to a two bit villain like you! If you think I'm through then I got a surprise for you, I'm just getting started!

I wanted to hold off going all out for the final match of this Battle-World thing to look cool and maybe surprise that freaky tongue dude but to protect Lacus I'll do whatever it takes! Boss, no matter who your thrashing now, hope your got my back! Shinryudramon, Mode Change to!"

Shinryudramon unleashed a surge of power that was powerful enough to blow Raguel Dark Knightmon off him. As he flew into the air his cape faded away, and his armor changed into golden and red colors, while large wings that were the mix of dragons and angels popped out of his back.

The enemy Digimon saw a new large golden broadsword from in his opponent's hand before his eyes widened with raw hate." Bah…is this one of those burst modes? Such tricks can't save you from the likes of, GUH!"

A surge of power suddenly knocked Raguel Dark Knightmon off his feet, and as he stabilized himself he saw Shinryudramon was above him before Ben's digital pal shouted out a firm,"Judgment Mode! All right, your time's up "dolt". "

"You dare mock me? That's your last mistake!"

The black armored Digimon had his lance glow before he struck the transformed Shinryudramon, but was shocked as his target did not even flinch. As he looked shocked the Enji narrowed his eyes."

"Hey that's what I was about to say! Dividing Quantum Slash!"

In the blink of a eye Shinryudramon was behind his enemy. As Raguel Dark Knightmon turned around he realized his lance was now cut in half before he yelled with fury." Damn you! Your stronger now but you still can't stop me!"

Shinryudramon saw his opponent fly above him and unleash another barrage of energy blasts before he shrugged." Sorry but I don't have time to drag this out to make you feel better, I got things to do! Verus Explosive Barrage!"

The transformed Digimon unleashes a barrage of golden energy orbs that blasted through his enemies projectiles, and proceeded to home in on the one who unleashed them. Raguel Dark Knightmon tried to evade the Verus Explosive Barrage projectiles only to find them coming for him to fast for him to react.

As he got bombarded his aura exploded with dark rage." I won't accept this, I am the strongest Digimon of them all! Your little tricks, won't save you! If you cheated your body to be stronger, then I'll rip out your soul and put it into me! Brother Bagramon, time your " borrowed" power to help me evolve even further! Hand of Doom!"

The angry hostile Digimon dropped his lance before his hand turned skeletal and it suddenly burst for his opponent. Shinryudramon saw the hand was surging with dark power before he sighed." No one likes a sore loser you greedy freak! Verus Zenith Ray!"

The Royal Knight promptly fired off a golden energy beam in the shape of a roaring dragon that hit Raguel Dark Knightmon the hostile roared out," I will not accept this, I REFUSE TO…RAHH!"

Despite his rage, Shinryudramon saw his enemy get vaporized by his attack. As dark fragments rained down he shrugged." Did that Beyonder dude just pick a bunch of those stereotype things out of a hat and smash them together? Because that guy really was just one of those cliché things. Ah well, he got a cliché beatdown to top it off I guess without much hassle and, ugh."

Shinryudramon coughed a bit and felt his vision was getting blurry before he landed on the ground." Nuts…I was counting on that virus to be deleted when the baddies did to but no dice! Ugh…there is plenty of healing potions back at the ship, just got to make sure Kirby is ok."

The member of Squad 7 landed in the hole were Kirby went and quickly found that the pink hero was on the ground near the golden food. The Digimon looked alarmed at how injured his friend looked before he flew over." Kirby what happened? Whatever punk did this to you is going to be sorry!"

Kirby rolled over weakly before he looked up." I'm not sure, the meanie keeps changing shape. He…took the shape of King Dedede and some other baddies I fought to confuse me. He keeps saying mean things but, he's wrong, they are all lies!"

"I hear yah Kirby, today must be lying bad guy day or something. But hey we can't some random jerk make us think fake news is reality right? Just got to not listen to them, and shut them up if they won't shut up! C'mon lets get this thing back to the ship so we can, ugh."

Shinryudramon felt his vision get even more blurry before the pain caused him to stagger before he turned back into Hiryuumon. As he fell to his knees the Dragon Digimon wagged his tails weakly." Man, that kitty's poison really hurts! Ow, this is worst then when I ate that bioweapon from those Vong guys that I thought was a food on Zonama Sekot.

I don't think I can wait to get back on the ship, unless Trunks is here with one of those fancy Senzu Beans right now I need to do something! Ugh…you don't think those Gourmet guys will mind if I nibble on this super food right? Hopefully they don't care more about food then life, if it's as super as they say we need a bite right now! I'll just take a piece for both of us and they can clean it later!"

Hiryuumon staggered over to the golden rare food and sliced off a thumb sized fragment with his right claw. As he coughed a bit and saw some liquid drop out he focused as much as he could." I don't care if it tastes like that bean that can randomly taste like puke, I'll give it five stars and have the Boss and Lacus promote it on all the food shows in the universe if it makes me feel better."

The Digimon quickly sipped a few drops and after swirling it in his mouth he swallowed it. Ben's dragon pal waited a few seconds and felt his vision clear before he smirked." What you know, tastes like turkey! Hey I feel a little better already this things the real deal! My tongue's feeling a little numb still but guess that's just the, huh? Wait, now my tongue feels like its on fire, with the rest of my head! No one said this food was a spicy one! This is worst then when I had those Quetzlzacatenango peppers! Quick get me some, whoa!"

Hiryuumon suddenly felt the room go dark, and when he blinked again he found himself on a spaceship. He nearly tripped as he blinked a few times before he growled." Hey no one said eating this would warp me somewhere else? Am, I back on that Wave-Rider? No wait this looks different, not sure how it smells because I can't smell! Great drinking that clogged my nose! Is the Beyonder doing that " trolling" thing? Well, better see what's going on and who I have to eat."

The Digimon walked out of a room and walked into what looked like a ship's bridge. He saw a blue haired man pilot the ship and saw he did not seem hostile before he cleared his throat." Um, excuse me sir don't freak out but I think I got lost."

The blue haired man did not respond for a few moments before he suddenly laughed." Alright, that Hutt was not just trying to get us to go fly into a black hole after all! Get ready dudes, this is Earth Prime, the first earth! We should be ready to land any second Seiya!"

"Um…excuse me sir I'm not Seiya I'm Hiryuumon! Wait, I heard that name before somewhere. Where are we a,"

Before the Digimon could finish a confident male voice cut in with," Nice going Kamina! Make sure everything's cool with the Spry Eagle and lets score some treasure!"

Hiryuumon swerved around to see a man in early adult hood with shoulder length brow hair and red eyes in bronze knight like armor strut in the room. The man walked right over into the blue haired man and gave him a high five before he looked out of the bridge and into what seemed to be Hyperspace.

Hiryuumon saw neither of the men were noticing him before he cleared his throat." Hey guys I'm glad your not attacking me or anything but I really would be happy if you filled me in on where I am because I have to get back to my friends! Your Seiya right? Are, you like a famous swordsmen or something because you remind me of the dude who had my boss's previous job."

Seiya looked deep in thought before he turned around and grinned." Man…if we pull this off we will be invited to all the big leagues so lets do it right ok guys? Hey, the landing gear all set their Hyōga?"

Hiryuumon saw Seiya was looking at him before he frowned and was about to respond till a high pitched male voice threw it." It's all set for us to become bigshots boss!"

Hiryuumon was shocked as someone walked right through him. He saw it was a lanky male dressed in grey boots and a brown set of overalls with long poofy blue hair. The man gave his peers a thumbs up as he gave a goofy grin and took over the controls to the ship." Don't worry, I triple checked everything and we are good to go!"

Kamina rolled his eyes before throwing out a sour," You really sure there Daigo? Part of the reason Seyia got me on board is because you screwed up the landings so many times till I was on board!"

Hiryuumon poked the man named Daigo and saw his claw go right through him before he winced." Hey, what's going on? If eating that food kills me or made me invisible I'm going to be really mad! Wait, Daigo, that's the name that dragon said! Why would he say I looked like this guy we don't look at all alike! I mean, he does not even have a tail!"

Before he could say more Daigo just widened his smirk."C"mon dude you doubt my MAD SKILLZ? Seriously I know I got distracted a few times but that's just when I was checking out some nice gals on the way out of town or something! This time's different, this time is important. After all, if this goes right we will be somebodies, right boss? I mean, its like you promised all along right Seiya?"

The brown haired man crossed his arms as he nodded confidently." Seriously doubting me after all this time man? Not cool. Seriously though, I figured you know by now I only lie to nosy bounty hunters eh man? Its like I promised, all those years when we were yearning to get our own ship and escape.

We were going to become somebodies no matter who said otherwise. I kept my word about us getting a ship when we got the Spry Eagle eh? This is going to come true to Daigo, I promise. Heh, just make sure we don't crash or anything else so we can pull it off eh?"

"Got it boss, not going to blow what we wanted for are entire lives eh? All right, we are going to pull off the big score and become big shots all over the universe! Y, ye, ye aaaaaawwww yeeeaaahhh!"

Hiryuumon saw Daigo run off the bridge and saw Seyia and Kamina share a laugh together before the Digimon groaned." Oh man drinking that thing made me pass out because this is so confusing that this has to be a dream! Still, this is giving me that, Déjà vu thing for some reason. I guess I spent so much of the past five years with the Boss, Lacus and Moz that this feels like that? Still, this, huh? Whoa!"

Hiryuumon got on guard as the image suddenly flickered and he found himself on what seemed to be the boarding ramp of the Spry Eagle, with Daigo along side him. Hiryuumon looked around and saw a ruined world, and realized he was in Earth Prime, near where he landed with Ben himself when he and the rest of Ben's friends landed on the ruined world with the angels to find the Tower of Salvation to prove the right to wield the Divine Nova sword.

Just as Hiryuumon was going to ask what was going on he got his answer as he saw Daigo looking at Seiya and Kamina returning, and with them was a gorgeous woman with long red hair formed in a pony tail that was only clad in a brown cloak.

Daigo looked excited at the return of his friends, but Hiryuumon noticed that the lanky man winced as Seiya did not even bother to answer his questions and seemed more concerned about the woman.

Hiryuumon was about to yell again before the image suddenly got blurry before things changed again to back in the Spry Eagle's command deck where Seiya and Kamina were talking with the woman and caused her to laugh.

Daigo looked jealous and told a joke of his own, only for the joke to fall flat. As the woman raised an eyebrow Kamina yelled at Daigo before Seiya apologized for Daigo not being around girls much, causing Daigo to wince.

The image then changed and Hiryuumon saw the four were on a frosty planet, the four were outside the ship looking at glaciers with Daigo behind the others, being ignored as his friends were talking to the woman, the woman that had the title of Antitype Apostle bloodline before Lacus, Serenity.

Suddenly the images kept flashing again, either changing to the Spry Eagle or various planets, showing Daigo looking older, and more isolated with each scene change.

After a few more changes the next change showed Seiya, Kamina, Serenity and a few others shaking hands with a man in knight attire, Siegfried Schtauffen, the warrior that in time would become Nightmare, the Inquisitor of the Zannacross Empire in what seemed like a castle filled with important people from various worlds. In that room Daigo was at the edge of the doors, not even allowed in.

Hiryuumon saw him look angry for a moment, and as the lanky man grasped his fist the image suddenly changed again, and Hiryuumon saw himself over a volcano. Dango was in front of him and in his hands was Serenity, with a gun to her face with her arms shackled.

In front of Daigo was none other then Acnologia in his human form. The only thing more shocking then that was the fact that their was another man flying above the two, and it was none other then Zamasu, still looking like Goku.

Ben's Digimon Pal noticed Seiya, Kamina, Siegfried and a few others he did not recognize before he blurted out,"Now what's going on? That's the guy that looked like Goku right? Is, this all his fault? Glad I know who to bash at last!"

Hiryuumon prepared to try and Digivolve again before Seiya suddenly shout out a furious,"You scum, your all going to pay! If you want to get off easy release my friends from your control now!"

Zamasu laughed darkly as he got more smug."You think you have any right to say how things go mortal? The time for you to pay for your insolence is now! Yes, your feeble mortal senses don't even grasp the situation. We did not mind control your comrade heathen, he came to us willingly! He is the one that lowered the energy shield, he willingly gave Serenity and Kisara to us!"

"Your lying!" Seiya yelled out." Daigo would never have lowered the energy shields to let Giedi Prime , the planet where we grew up, be attacked, be invaded!. He would never handed my friends over to the enemy, and allowed my family to have been captured! Right Daigo?"

To his, and Hiryuumon 's shock Daigo just looked remorseful before his eye twitched, causing a chill to fall down Seiya's spine. Siegfried saw the lanky man's pale look and gave a harsh glare before pointing his massive Soul Caliber blade at him."Seiya, unless your " old" friend is under very powerful magic that we can't sense, he seems to have done this act of treachery from his own free will. Traitor, confess your sin before facing your fate!"

"Don't jump to conclusions, he's my oldest friend, my partner since the start! He would never do this on his own! Tell them man! Tell them!"

Daigo grit his teeth before suddenly blurting out,"You have not really seen me as anything but a extra droid for years "boss"! How could you ever know what I feel! You just assumed things from the start Seiya, you assumed I wanted to be a super hero like you and the others!

I just wanted to be a big shot to at last be able to take it easy. But I stuck around even though every group in the universes from the Didact to that "Illusive Man" to all those crazy Helghast guys seems to be gunning for us because we were friends! But, you just presumed I had nothing better to do then do whatever you wanted, for years! You acted like, like it was the only thing I could do, that the only thing in my life was to be the butt of all your jokes!"

Kamina spat on the ground before his aura exploded."Hyōga…I knew you were lazy but damn it all, you doing this just because you wanted to feel like a big shot? You doing this because Serenity did not give you enough attention? You pathetic,"

"I'm not pathetic!" Daigo screamed out with a unhinged look." You always though I was stupid, but who looks stupid now! I really don't want to do this to Miss Serenity either. Really, I like her very much. But, but I... I... have no other choice! Because I'm no good... I don't have the strength like the boss, or the smarts like Serenity!

I, I know everyone thinks of me as some annoying handyman pilot who talks too much... I know that...I know Serenity, Kisara, and the other girls just laughed at me behind my back, thought I was to stupid to know they did not like me but, I knew! You think I did not know you were dissing me behind my back? You think I like being laughed at? No matter how I try to be smooth, the " gears" in my brain never seem to respond the right way till its to late!

I know that... I'm different from you all! I'm not special like you! A "normal" guy like me has no choice but to do this! It's the only way, the only way I'll be anything!"

Serenity gave Daigo a sorrowful glance as she looked him right in the eye." Daigo…I'm sorry we over looked your pain for so long. But that being said, don't let your pain blind you to who wants to help you and who wants to hurt you. You really think theses demons will help you over your friends?"

"Their you go…all looking down on me again! They are going to help me, really help me, all people like me! You guys talk about helping the little guy again and again but you never really do anything to help guys like me, you just make yourselves feeling better being called legendary heroes and all that! But theses guys may be rough but its for something, its to make a world were guys like me are not losers!"

Seiya saw the madness in his oldest friend's eyes before he took a deep breath."You really think the illusions some demons showed you are the truth Daigo?"

Before his friend could answer Zamasu chuckled as he crossed his arms." Mock us all you want mortal, the will of Zannacross Chaos Necron is no mirage! He accepts everyone that submits to his wisdom, from an enlightened Kai such as myself to a lowly human such as your former comrade. For after the advent of the new era of darkness, their will be only one race, one of perfect harmony!"

"Damn you, you're going to pay for every last life that was taken for your corrupt vision scum!"

"Bah…you call me corrupt? You give corruption far too much credit, evil does not inform good. It sullies it. You conceited mortals sullied this sacred realm by swinging your fists at the divine. Mortals receive the divine gift of intellect, the potential for wisdom, but they misuse to destroy the beauty of creation.

Mortals do not succumb to evil, they are the evil. They create it, and spread it with minds they shouldn't possess. How can we call ourselves the will of justice if we watch this plight and do nothing to stop it?!"

Siegfried 's eyes hardened as he got closer to the fallen angel." I once thought justice was absolute to, but things are not always black and white. I don't care about how you justify yourself, all I know is that you killed those that were dear to me and my comrades and you will answer to that! Now curs, release Serenity and give me back Kisara or you will know suffering!"

Acnologia laughed snidely as he walked forward to give the knight a middle finger." Give it up lover boy, your woman's never coming back to you! She was to good for a simple clank head like you anyway, she belongs with someone that can match her blood, like me!"

"Acnologia, every time you utter Kisara 's name I'll add another layer of pain to your death! I'll free her from your grip no matter where in the universe you hid her!"

Before Acnologia, Zamasu or Daigo could respond a pillar of black fire raised out of the volcano before lighting struck the ground and a deep voice boomed out,"Submit to fate heathen, your beloved will never return to you! For now Kisara 's soul is property of the one true master of all, the Shin-Emperor of Darkness! And as his chief enforcer, I will educate you vermin on what true power is!"

The pillar of fire parted to reveal an robed being. His entire body was covered with a red robe and his face was covered with a black hood and a mask over its face. He had demonic wings and horns sticking out of his head, and in his right hand is a staff with a glowing red crystal and a Z at the top. As flames danced around the new arrivals eyes Zamasu merely chuckled." My…did not think you would handle such, mundane affairs directly, Darth Damonus."

The leader of the seven demon lords merely narrowed his eyes before responding with a foreboding," Theses inferior beings have dared to mock the master, I want to see personally there" Enlightenment' before we have Ranakar, Hacky, Yeshua and the other pawns make their final move. Did you humans truly think you could match the will of the ultimate life form?

Of course not, as always the sin of pride clouds your judgment. And now, your own weakness will be our bane. The Emperor's will is stern, but not without mercy. Daigo Hyōga…you turned your back on your comrades, and allowed your former home world to be invaded in order to see true justice realized in order to have the power to have the justice you been denied all your life yes?"

Daigo cringed as he saw Damonus glaring at him before he gulped and muttered out,"Y…yes! I want the power to be stronger, and be on the side that really changes things!"

"Well, if your resolve is true and thou really seeks power, then prove what you will do with that power!You lot wanted to know what happened to your spunky friend? Well there is not enough time to go through the ritual to forge another Celestial Beast but, there is more then enough time for a display of power! Prove your worth mortal, if you survive the Dragon King Ritual then remember to pay your debts!"

Damonus had demonic energy explode out of him before he pointed his staff at Seiya and fired a dark energy beam. Daigo was hit before he could react and yelled in pain before he fell off the cliff. Despite everything Serenity cried out his name before Acnologia quickly grasped her again.

Seiya cursed at the demon lord and prepared to attack him and the others to free Serenity before he heard a monstrous roar below that shook the entire area. Moments later a gigantic skeletal dragon emerged from the volcano, one clad in golden and ebony scales with several horned protrusions and multiple "tails". As the dragon roared Kamina grimaced with disgust."Damn it Hyōga…you really sold your soul to the devil and all to become a mindless beast!"

Before Seiya or the others could nod all of a sudden everyone heard a human voice laughing, before suddenly the upper half of Daigo appeared out of the dragon's head. Daigo, junctioned to the dragon, looked all but deranged as he grasped his fist, and the dragon beneath him grasped his claw." Ah yah…at last, I hit the jackpot! I can feel it, I can feel true power! I was finally able to get it... Super-strength... Just like you, boss! It feels so good...having power that can reshape the world, that can reshape all worlds! Zannacross did this for me, all the times you said you cared about me and he kept his word, he helped me!

"Dumbass!" Kamina shouted out bitterly." All the time we been together and you think becoming fused with a super dragon is the,"

The dragon half suddenly roared loud enough to nearly blow the humans off their feet, even forcing Zamasu and Acnologia to brace themselves before Daigo had a enraged look on his face." I'm so sick of you all looking down on me, treating me like nothing but a dumbass! I'm not a moron!

You always dissed me Kamina but I always was a pro about everything dragon related, and this is Shin-Getter Shinryu, the strongest most evolved dragon in the universe! And now I'm him, now I'm stronger then all of you! But even after all of this since we were friends for so long I'll show mercy.

Resistance is useless. I'm much too powerful for you now...so just leave Serenity and the others and you can still live!"

Seiya grasped his blade tightly before his energy flared up."What are you saying, Daigo? You really think after my brother and cousins and their families died because of you that I"ll just walk away!?"

"What? You seriously still think you can win? Even you, 'boss', won't win against me now. Time you see who the real " winner always was Seiya! Cimmerian Rain!"

Daigo, now junctioned with the dragon Shin-Getter Shinryu unleashed a barrage of golden energy blasts to try and vaporize his former friends. Hiryuumon saw a energy beam go right through him, before Siegfried deflected it with his sword.

As the former friends fought each other Hiryuumon glanced at the man who betrayed Ben's predecessor and felt even more sick then before."This…this joke's not funny! This jerk, he looks a lot like how I look as Shinryudramon, and a little bit on how that Helldramon version of me looked like from the videos! But, like the boss said, history is really, really big! It's just, lame that he looks like me. I mean, he's not a Digimon at all, its just bad, huh?"

The Digimon was shocked to see his surroundings flicker once more, before the battle fast forwarded like someone was watching a movie. Hiryuumon saw that more of Seyia's allies, including some of the celestial ones came to drive Zamasu, Damonus and the others back, but Daigo stayed, driven by berserk fury, if not desperation to kill those around him.

Time went back to normal just as a slightly more battered Daigo charged at Seiya and cried out a frantic,"Damn it, this time, this time I'm going to be the one to win boss! I'll get you, I'LL GET YOU! Apocalyptic Flare!"

Daigo 's eyes glowed red as the symbol of the Zannacross Empire burned brightly on his forehead. At the same time the Shinryu dragon he was attached to surged with purple light before it unleashed a massive energy blast. Seyia saw the attack coming and just grasped his sword tightly." Damn it Daigo, damn it all!"

The swordsmen unleashed a cry of rage as the light surged around his blade, till in a instant the energy around it quadrupled. The warrior of light remorsefully swung the blade down, and shocked his friend turned enemy as it slashed through the Apocalyptic Flare blast, and went right through the head of the dragon.

Daigo cried out in shock, till the tip of the blade of light stabbed him in the chest as well.

The former mechanic of the Spry Eagle coughed up blood, but as he saw Seiya and the others get closer he just chuckled bitterly." Heh heh... That's the boss all right... Far too strong... Even for me... Just when I thought I finally got powerful enough to beat you too! But, guess you really are a legend, and no matter what I'm just the loser."

"Damn it Daigo, why did you never say anything? If, you just reached out to me I would have done something!"

"Seiya…even if you meant that you were in a different world now, and despite what you guys thought I was not dumb enough to see I was a third wheel. You had Serenity, and after we had enough cash for the ship's AI I knew you had no use for a guy like me, and I was just kept around out of pity. I knew I was dragging you down. I wanted to change like you did but, I just could not do it as easily as you did.

I really did thought taking those guys up on their offer was the only way I could ever change or evolve like they said it. Heh…to be honest when they made the offer I was really damn sure they would kill me if I said no so I was screwed either way. But hey, I know it cost us a lot but at least we had to show their plans out before it was to late right?"

"You dumbass." Kamina uttered bitterly as he and Siegfried joined Seiya." We make the impossible possible, no matter what the problem was we could have handled if you just told us!"

"Heh…maybe that's you but, I never had your guts man. Maybe if I was in the right place at the right time I could have had your guts but... It's no use now...

I... For a small time guy... like me... this is probably... the end... I had coming.

Boss…no matter what, you can' t end up like all those jerks who just love hearing their name and seeing statues about themselves. Promise, your going to be a real hero that changes things for the better."

Seiya saw his friend was serious before he used all of his will power to keep his composure as he nodded." I'm more serious about that then anything else Daigo, I'll keep that promise as long as I live!"

"Heh…good to hear. Well, I'll have to see from the other side if you keep that promise Seiya, see you there."

Daigo coughed out blood before he fell back into the lava. As he exploded Seiya cried his name bitterly. As he fell to his knees he punched the ground hard enough to shake the entire area." Damn those demons, they think they can just take as much as they want without having to answer for what they do! But they will, they will if it's the last thing they do!"

Siegfried put his free hand on his comrades shoulder to give him a solemn nod." We all have plenty to be angry about Seiya…but alas now is no time to grieve. We must stop Sergius and the rest of the Wisemen from opening the Pan-Dimensional barrier on the Source Wall! a fleet under Baron Ashura is already engaging Mazinger Z but that's just the first phase of the attack!

Zalicur, tell Kilowog and Dr. Saotome we will be boarding the Spry Eagle shortly."

Kamina patted Seyia on the back before he nodded."Serenity…I won't lose you to, I promise!"

Hiryuumon saw the legendary hero's run off before he growled."Whoever thought showing me random sad movies was a good idea is going to find just how wrong they are! This is just wasting everyone's time! I, huh?"

When Seiya and the others were gone Hiryuumon saw his surroundings fast forward light before a handful of angels descended and Hiryuumon quickly recognized Gabriel Celestial, the Alcor angel he and Ben met earlier in the Time Nest, Ganthet, a angel that was formerly one of the guardians of the Green Lantern Corps, and another angel that was close to Thor, the angel in charge of the Bifrost Bridge that opened pathways between the realms, Heimdall.

Gabriel glanced at the magma and waved his hand before the charred remains of the junction of Daigo and Shinryu before he sighed." How regrettable, it seems Seyia's comrade could not control the darkness in his heart, and caused his friends to suffer greatly."

Alcor nodded before looking curiously at the remains." The Anguished one's soul was full of conflict, but in the end the choice was his to make and he choose poorly. Still, his last actions showed he was clearly remorseful."

"Many vanquished warriors regret their failure Alcor, it does not mean they are truly repentant." Heimdall threw in briskly." He betrayed the chosen one, like everyone else he must repent in hell for his actions. "

"Maybe, maybe not." Gabriel threw in cautiously. The archangel extended his staff before a golden sphere came out of the remains." Daigo Hyōga…his last moments were of regret of not being able to save his friend. Its to late for him to be able to help Seiya after Zannacross shattered his soul. But, if the need ever arises he can redeem himself by helping the savior's successor."

"Oh, fancy having the Anguished One redeem himself by serving the future Shinning One?" Alcor threw out wryly." It's a worthy idea, though I admit I hope it's a task we never have to have him try. "

"That would be ideal Alcor," Ganthet uttered wearily." but while we will always be diligent we all know the sin of man, its possible that once more the tide will turn to the darkness and the forces of evil will try and free Chaos Zannacross Necron will arise.

If that day comes about and a new chosen one draws Seyia's blade, he will at least have one extra comrade to have his back. Since Daigo committed the "ultimate sin." and we don't know how much time will pass his memories will be erased, and he will be reincarnated with only the core of his soul intact.

Let's see, with the power of the Infinity Soul Gem, we will send it to the shard on Mobius. At the moment it has the least people to bother if things go awry. Damonus merged his very soul with his Shinryu beast, he's been altered to the core. He will emerge as a dragon most likely, though one with humanistic traits.

Their will be precautions to make sure this does not bold ill for the next chosen hero, but its still up to Daigo to prove his resolve, it won't be memories that propel him though, but instinct. Wither that will be enough remains to be seen.

Alcor saw Gabriel have a pillar of light descend form the sky to have a thumb sized round green crystal materialize. The Soul Gem shimmered with light before it shot a green energy beam into the soul.

As the soul surged with holy energy, the angel with wavy white hair chuckled." With Chaos Zannacross Necron sealed, the curtain of mankind's previous history has been drawn and a new era has begun.

There is no knowing what this new future holds.

However...

Mankind will go on as a species with untapped, limitless possibility...

As they embrace the day's victory in their hearts..."

A portal formed in the air above the three celestial ones Gabriel just nodded." Its still up in the air if humanity will reform from this. If they have not learned from a trauma as wide as this, its hard to know what could. Still, you will lead the way to humanity's hope Hiryuu that seeks redemption."

With another wave Daigo's soul floated into the portal. The three vanguards of heaven saw the soul land in the shrine already set up on Planet Mobius in what would later be Mystic Ruins.

As the soul became a dragon statue in the front of the shrine Gabriel nodded to his fellow angels." Well, that task is done. Now to meet with Rassilon on how to break it to the God's of Destruction that they are not going to resume their old jobs. Sigh…we will need half are forces to be ready just in case Beerus and Champa throw another temper tantrum."

The other angels gave fellow looks of exasperation before flying into a portal of light. Hiryuumon was to shocked at what he saw to even notice. With no one to talk to the Digimon just blinked for a moment before muttering a weak," This is a joke right, it has to be a joke! That still does not make any, huh?"

The image then changed to fast forward to countless years later, to show a man with red hair, the famous scientist who worked on Digimon, Damon Mizrahi, conducting an experiment on the statue and have it surge with the substance called" Digisoul" before it turned into a giant blue egg, the same egg Ben and James found Hiryuumon in.

Hiryuumon felt dread and panic consume him as he saw time speed up one last time showing Doctor Robotnik and a Digimon expert he contacted, Professor Akihiro Kuratahe, stumbling into the lab after Mizrahi died as one of the many who died when Brad caused his parents and others to die to ruthlessly gain his power, and had his forces ticker with the entire area to add his own touches, right before Ben and James arrived, before the image went blank. Hiryuumon found himself surrounded with darkness before he moaned." No…this has to be a trick, this has to be! I, I was a traitor to the boss, to the previous boss? That's, impossible!"

Suddenly he found himself back in the inside of the giant cake, with Kirby unconscious besides him. As Kirby twitched a female voice cackled in the distance."Don't be a fool, one who has eaten the PAIR ingredient never sees lies. They say the truth has a bitter taste, but you gotten a bigger dose then you ever thought possible eh?"

The liquid chocolate in front of the Digimon rippled, before suddenly Joie casually arise out of it. The Black Swan twirled her purple knife around before she chuckled." The flavor of Innocence is so sweat is it not?

Everyone wants to bath in that aroma, to hide their sin. But even if your superiors tried very hard to bury the truth the "cats" out of the bag now eh? Yes, you thought that brute Acnologia was spouting nonsense but Daigo Zalde Hyōga…the orphan dolt of a sidekick to the great Seiya Leingod was surrounded by those that were far superior to him, a fact that over time bore down on his soul, and eroded his sanity.

As you can see, your former self was so consumed with envy and other sinful emotions that you betrayed your friends and sold out your former home to Acnologia with the promise of becoming part of his dragon tribe and helped bring him Kisara and Serenity in order to help him get revenge on his longtime foe Siegfried.

It was an act of treachery so great that your name was all but erased from history, a forgotten " loser" who was to pathetic to even be put in the same sentence as the " legendary heroes" and so was all but forgotten but all but the true god of existence.

And as further punishment you were transformed, reincarnated or however you call it to be the loyal pet of the successor to the one you betrayed to atone or whatever.

What, was the truth to much to bear? That's most likely why the angels never bothered to tell your master, it would bring nothing but pain to the lot of you. Of course, that works fine for me, as my master wants to give you fools nothing but pain!"

"No…this is not true, its impossible! That was not me!"

"Well to be fair its not quite you, the angels pulled and bounced your soul around that its only a faint link, but the link is their never the less! Even if you don't have memories of it, even if it's not precisely you, call it the sins of the father or whatever but its still your sin! Don't feel bad, your not the only one that was hiding from the truth.

Your pink comrade acted as innocent as a baby, but he's a monster of highest caliber! Even if it seems like they have nothing in common, thanks to the all-seeing eyes of Rabum Alal I saw that your comrade Kirby is both linked to the great demon Majin Buu and the Nitro race's greatest creation, the demon of endless appetite, Neo! After his evil half was defeated by the legendary warrior Goku, it was said Majin Buu in time found a way to divide himself, and have a family.

Kirby, was one of his sons, and was taken off planet by Android 21, where she would find the Nitro race. Kirby was want allowed the Nitro to discover Gourmet Cells, and they sent "Kirby" to the planet Popstar. But somehow that goofy primitive planet shattered him and turned him to this revolting surgery farce.

The celestial ones do seem to take great pride in turning those they like in to harmless buffoons eh? But its time for the lies and illusions to be unraveled, and for the truth to have its due! What you say now eh traitor? Your existence is a lie, a façade, a Eternal Punishment. Won't it be a blast to get revenge on your" Master" and all the others that forced this life of servitude?"

"Back off you freaky lady, before I make you choke on your own knife!" Hiryuumon shouted furiously." No matter what happened in the past, the boss, Ben, he never has wronged me! He, Lacus, and all the others are the best friends a Digimon can ask for! Only petty jerks hold on to grudges for stupid things like that!"

"Heh...is that what you really think or just what your" Master" and those smug angels brainwashed you to think? Well, they do take their propaganda seriously so you just might need an extra boost eh?"

Hiryuumon snarled and was about to try and attack before he felt his eye twitch, and suddenly a dark aura burst out of him. As Ben's Digimon Partner yelled out in pain and his eyes glowed purple the golden PAIR started to flicker before it suddenly glowed purple as well.

As it took more of a heart shape Joie laughed snidely." Normally PAIR does not have such side effects but thankfully for me it seemed to merge with that Jamba Heart thanks to all the merging going on in Battle-World, and thus gained the feature to bring out the deeply repressed desire of one's heart! So give in, get the revenge you know you want!"

"Never, I'll never betray Ben, I'd delete myself before I would hurt him like that!"

"Ugh…since you're the pet of the champion I suppose the angels did pile on the shackles. Heh…thankfully I can pile on my own ingredients to cook out the desired outcome! Is that not right, DarkKnightmon?"

Hiryuumon moaned again as the aura around him took the shape of the opponent he thought he destroyed earlier before laughing." Yes, for as they say if you can't beat them, join them! Or more like, make them join you!"

"Wonderful!" Joie replied as she waved her knife and had a demonic frying pan form in front of her." The universe is full of lies, its time for everyone to see the ugly truth! Come along now my pretties, get ready to show your former friends the true you!"

Joie then threw a orb of raw dark magic into Kirby, and as he moaned in pain Hiryuumon felt Dark Knightmon's essence overpower him before he yelled out,"Hiryuumon…Dark DigiXross to!"

The now possessed Kirby then swallowed Hiryuumon before the two dived into the frying pan of darkness. A explosion of red light blasted out as the entire cake mountain shook.

Moments later the light faded, and Hiryuumon emerged, once more as Shinryudramon. However now he was entirely colored black aside from the left side of his face being pale white. His eyes were glowing purple and he had demonic wings.

His shield now had a demonic set of jaws, and on his chest armor was a eye that highly looked like the eye Kirby's foe Dark Matter had. As his transformation stabilized Shinryudramon gave a blood thirsty howl before he opened his now glowing purple eyes." Shinryudramon Malefic Mode!"

As the nightmarish forced fusion between Hiryuumon, Kirby and the remains of DarkKnightmon roared again Joie felt the amount of dark energy the new figure was releasing before laughing." Yes, that's more like it! Say now, how about you be a good pet and make Cosmos's precious chosen one into a meal? Nothing would delight Rabum Alal more then to see the chosen one be forced to see his lover be devoured by the one he trusted most to protect her! After all, its because of her predecessor that you were shackled to this fate in the first place yes? C'mon, just what are you hungry for?"

Shinryudramon had his eye twitch before he staggered forward." Revenge! So hungry, so very hungry!"

Shinryudramon Malefic mode had his wings extend before he burst out of the cake mountain so hard that the shockwaves caused the entire area to crack. Joie just giggled darkly at the destruction as she licked her lips." Yes…this will due. Even if it took a little extra help Cosmos's pieces will crash into each other.

Midora should be able to drag out the last ingredient from the depths of Mementos no matter what deluded vermin swarm around it. Then at last, the Neo Gourmet Eclipse will be unleashed.

Innocence has been a subject of amusement to Rabum Alal. Are the pure guiltless of sin? Or is it just a facade the powerful, the lucky and the arrogant put over their eyes to not trouble themselves? Some of the other swans have been presenting clashing ideas but, we will see if innocence is pure of heart or just pure ignorance after the most" naive" and innocent have there hearts pitched black with despair! This will break this laughable excuse of a resistance.

And then, all the heathens on this world and all others will be on the menu! And from there, the Master will at last have his grand banquet. The pawns of the light think they can repeat the heroic encore that they preformed on Zannacross.

But soon they will see that they, and everyone else in their precious universe is nothing but the ultimate banquet. Now, time to make sure my allies add the final specks of seasoning."

The Black Swan warped away, just as Trunks was approaching the area. The Super Saiyan saw and felt the surge of dark energy and grit his teeth at the sight." Rip, I was separated by the others fighting the enemy, but something seems to have gone wrong. Anything unusual?"

"Gideon has had the Wave-Rider scan the area, and various energies have gone through a metamorphic surge. I don't have enough details yet though."

"Well whatever it is I doubt its good. If that Midora guy or another one of their top men are coming, then might as well try and end this, huh? Wait that energy, no!"

Trunks heard a roar of fury, and just as he was about to head into the inside of the cake mountain Shinryudramon Malefic mode burst out. The Time Patrol agent looked mortified at how different Ben's Digimon pal looked." Shinryudramon, is that you? Your energy is so different that I hardly could tell. I, sense some of the energy of the enemy you were fighting! Did he do some maneuver to take your body over? No matter what he did, we will break free and make things right!"

Shinryudramon had his eye twitch before his head lowered." It will be right…when you all pay! Malefic Paradox Ray!"

The corrupted Digimon lunged forward and fired off a black and white laser right at Trunks. The half Saiyan quickly caught the blast, but found that the attack was so powerful that he could barely hold it back. As he was pushed to the bottom of the mountain Trunks pushed back and unleashed all of his power to repel the energy blast.

Vegeta's son saw the defected blast blow up in the distance, and saw that Shinryudramon did not bother to follow up his attack and instead was flying off swiftly to the right while screaming, "So hungry, for the light!"

Trunks realized he was heading back for Xibalba before he cringed." Wait, I sense Kirby was mixed in with him to? What kind of hellish fusion happened, Digimon are not suppose to be able to fuse with other life forms! Damn it, almost sounds like Shinryudramon found out about the past, about his previous life!

This is bad, the Beyonder is being even more cunning then we hoped, he's not just powerful, but sadistic and seems to like to toy with hearts as much as Demigra and others.

Damn it all, no matter how much the enemy tries to distort things, I refuse to let him shape the future! We will find a way, just got to find it fast before time runs out."

Trunks quickly went to check on the status of the Gourmet Hunters, hoping things have not become so chaotic that things have spiraled out of his control.

Authors Notes: Heh, got another big one today but hopefully everything will be clear. For the small stuff, firstly Queen Sectoina was the villain and final boss of the Kirby Triple Deluxe game. Not the most unique bad guy but did have a sweet song to fight to lol.

Also the Jamba Heart was from the new Kirby game that just came out for the Switch, Kirby Star Allies. With good timing I found stuff that could fit, and so I fit it in lol.

Acnologia is the final villian of the Fairy Tail anime and manga series. He, was a bit of a bore who's final battle failed to live up to the hype but, he had enough to him to fit for this moment lol.

Dark Knightmon was one of the peskier villains from season 6 of Digimon, while Meicoomon is the massive pain from the Digimon Tri OVA series. In that series she also had a virus and caused a lot of pain, causing quite a lot of heart wrenching moments, some that seemed to be because they made the Digi Destined idiots but that's for another time lol, needless to say I wanted to see theses guys get owned for the pain they caused, the virus Shinryudramon is like the virus that affected the Digimon in Digi mon Tri.

Now for the more complex stuff. Heh, needless to say that the origins I gave to Kirby are not cannon but, the way I saw it they made so many nods to Kirby being like Majin Buu I figured I might as well have made it official in my version at least lol.

For those not aware in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 they reveal Buu got lonely and split apart to make a family out of himself so I made that cannon for my story line. In my version Buu had kids but they were off planet when he merged with Ubb for GT, then Kirby was found out by Android 21 and she escaped earth.

The Nitro demons are also from Torko, I don't want to spoil things just yet but, if you look things up with them hopefully it would make sense with just now natural a fit Kirby is with theses guys. For how cute Kirby is the series can have moments of intense darkness when your not looking.

For example, in the Kirby Triple Deluxe game it seems simple enough, but in the post game you find out that Sectoina was not just a generic bad guy but driven mad by Dark Meta Knight and that Kirby was brought to her to put her out of her misery.

On top of that, in Kirby Planet Robobot things seemed simple enough till you realized that the main villain went mad looking for his lost child, so mad that he did not realize his child was serving him after loosing her memories, all without realizing it.

To top it off, there have been a few hints that Kirby and Dark Matter were linked, in Kirby 64 02 had Kirby's face before the fight started, and without spoiling things yet Kirby Star Allies also gave a small but possible hint.

I seriously doubt Nintendo will ever go that direction but, their is enough small things to make it so that Dark Matter being the endless dark hunger to control souls is a being Kirby once was a part of before being split, well who knows lol.

In any case have not seen Mario do much of that kind of stuff lol.

More will be revealed but, for now I'll say Kirby is linked to Neo as well and that he and Dark Matter in my timeline were once one being.

Meanwhile, I had Big O make a small cameo in the previous Cosmic Wars but figured it would be a good nod here, they never had a official explanation for how things worked in that series but one theory was that the entire world was a virtual construct, figured it would be fitting if some were aware that the lot of them were just puppets of the Beyonder.

In relation to that part, Mementos is a major area of importance in Persona 5 and I figured it could fit well for this segment.

Lastly, the truth about Hiryuumon. I admit this is not something I thought up of when I first started Cosmic Wars but, after I finished the trilogy but before I started Zilos I had ideas for a while for a Prequel, I did not go through with it but I did think of some ideas for a while, the previous life of Hiryuumon was one of them and this is now me making use of all of that, hope you guys like how it turned out.

His first name, Daigo comes from one of the new characters introduced in Digimon Tri, someone who revealed themselves to be the previous generation of Digidestined before the group from season one. Meanwhile his last name, Hyōga , is from the best pal and former rival of Seyia from the original Saint Seyia series.

The" Getter" Shinryu is a cross of the final form of Shinryu in Dissdia NT along with a mix of the Shin Getter Dragon from Getter Robo Armageddon, part of the" Getter Robo" series, one of the oldest super robot mecha shows.

Baron Asura was also a nod to the other old Super robot Show in Japan,Mazinger Z.

Heh, his Malefic mode was inspired from the Malefic monsters used by Paradox in the Yu-Gi-Oh movie Bonds of time, in that movie he used corrupted versions of monsters like Malefic Blue-Eyes-White Dragon, Red-Eyes-Black Dragon, Cyber End Dragon, Star-Dust Dragon and more.

Well, don't worry, things will return to Lacus next time as things get crazy on all sides so hope you liked today's chapter enough to see a review and stay tuned next time to Chapter 231: Eternal Punishment!