Sorry for the real late hour of submitting this. I just started it today and finished it all a few minutes ago.
Shoutout to DigimonAT0318, MadDogLucario96, and GreenD109 for the reviews.
Also, today is the 29th of January... and Kingdom Hearts III has finally come out! I swear, before this year ends, I will have PS4 and that game along with Ace Combat 7. I will regain my childhood!
Chapter 25: Transcendent Evolution! The Digimental of Miracles!
Digital World. August 9th, 2002. 0053 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
After we got back to the mainland, we proceeded to go further inland before we decided to rest in the hills not too far away from a town near the desert. Thanks to our efforts in freeing the prisoners, word was quickly beginning to spread about Chimairamon. Ogremon was actually in the town earlier before sunset where he gave out the warning that Fortress Gotha was on the way. The townsfolk seemed to have been prepared for this as they quickly evacuated and headed for the hills, leaving only a ghost town in their wake. During the same time, we took the opportunity to get as much sleep as we could. It was almost one when we heard rumbling which meant only one thing: the Kaiser had arrived.
All of us looked down at the town and saw Chimairamon flying high above the town with the Kaiser's fortress following right behind him. The fortress was leaving Dark Towers behind every few dozen meters, which explained why the towers we were finding were like a line of telephone poles. We sat back and watched as Chimairamon utterly laid waste to the town; burning anything that was standing. Thank goodness the town was warned and evacuated; they never would've gotten a warning when Chimairamon showed up. After a few minutes of bombing, there was nothing left but ruins and Fortress Gotha planted multiple Dark Towers as it just hovered by.
"Damn… that Chimairamon…" Daisuke growled. "How long is he going to keep this up?"
"He won't stop until he has destroyed everything, will he?" Iori asked.
"No idea… We all thought his plan was to just conquer the Digital World…" Hikari began to speak.
"But it looks more like he'd rather just destroy everything now. Better to rule nothing but ash then lose." Taichi concluded.
"That thing is absolutely terrifying." Sora said.
"Unforgivable…" Takeru muttered. "It's unforgivable that he created that Digimon!"
"We have to stop him somehow… with our own hands." determined Yamato.
"And fast, if things were already bad, now it turns out Fortress Gotha is Dark Tower factory and it's running on full tilt." I observed.
"If we don't stop him, not only will the Digital World be in ruins, but we won't be able to take a step without running into a Dark Tower." Jou believed.
"But… can we really beat him?" Miyako was expressing some doubt.
"Don't anyone dare start believing we can't do this! We haven't come this far only to be stopped by him now! We'll beat the Kaiser if it's the last thing we do!" Mimi exclaimed. Back off, fellas, that's my girl!
"Our biggest problem is that facing off against Chimairamon head-on is almost suicide, we just don't have the strength to take him on." Ken reminded. "Koushiro-san, I hope you've been thinking of a plan."
"Well, I've been going over the data that I stole from the Kaiser's base and… it's certainly quite the read."
"Quit idolizing him and tell us how we can beat him!" Daisuke shouted.
"As of right now, only one thing comes to mind. If we had the time and the resources, we could create our own powerful Digimon to counter Chimairamon…"
"Which as you said, we don't have the time or the resources." Jou pointed out.
"Not to mention none of us would really go along with creating our own monster just to fight." Takeru reminded.
"Yeah, even if we didn't create an evil abomination but rather a creature to serve as a force of good, we're not gonna play God here." I added.
"Yeah, none of us are that arrogant as he is being now." Taichi said.
"Then, I've got nothing!" Koushiro threw his hands up away from his laptop. "I've looked over all the files that the Kaiser had about Chimairamon and we don't stand a chance in our current situation! He's designed this thing to be invincible to anything we can throw at him!" He sighed. "We just don't have the strength to defeat him…"
"Maybe then we need to look at this from a different angle." Yamato believed. We all turned to look at him.
"How do you mean, Yamato-san?" Hikari wondered.
"Okay, so Chimairamon has clearly got us beat in terms of firepower, even if all thirteen of our Digimon attacked. But what about the fortress? We could really slow down the Kaiser if we took that out." Our eyes widened.
"Onii-chan… that's brilliant!" Takeru cried.
"You're right, Yamato-san." Koushiro typed away at his computer. "We might actually be able to win if we could first stop the fortress!"
"Okay, easier said than done, that place is huge! How do we bring it down?" questioned Miyako.
"I suppose the easiest way to hurt it would be from the inside."
"Which means we have to get back in there." Sora nodded.
"All without drawing Chimairamon's attention." Mimi added.
"So… that means that a diversion would be needed… to keep Chimairamon and the Kaiser distracted while a group goes inside to take down the fortress." Taichi gave a suggestion to the plan we were beginning to come up with.
"Huh… this might work…" Koushiro sounded interested in something he found. "Apparently, we might only need to do one thing and the whole place would come down."
"How?" Jou asked as Ken looked over Koushiro's shoulder to the screen.
"Of course… it appears that the Kaiser found some black object before he built the base that radiated energy which he harnessed to be used as the power source of his base! There was a large reactor room in between the large stairwells!"
"Oh, the place was like the Death Star to begin with!" I exclaimed. "We take out the reactor core, the whole place goes up!"
"Well, now we got a plan, but how do we get back in there?" Daisuke inquired.
"Could we use that pipeline?" Iori finally spoke after being silent for a while.
"Pipeline?" Hikari repeated before we all saw what he was seeing. Indeed there was a large pipeline that ran across the desert.
"Where does it come from?" Sora asked.
"Let's see…" Koushiro typed away at his computer once more. "Right, it's from that undersea oil rig."
"The same one Iori-kun found his Digimental." remembered Jou.
"Pipeline… oil… That's it!"
"You thought of something?" Taichi tapped him on the shoulder.
"If it works, we might be able to stop the moving fortress. I think this might actually work…"
P.O.V. – Third Person
Back in his fortress, the Kaiser was standing close to the screen and witnessing the absolute carnage that Chimairamon was delivering. It brought a twisted joy to him which caused him to laugh manically.
"Good… Run… be afraid… The Digital World is practically in my hands!" The Kaiser laughed once more.
"Osamu-chan…" Monodramon whispered to himself. "Is this what you want? Is this really it?" The Kaiser calmed back down after laughing. At this moment, he felt pretty confident in himself. Chimairamon was practically invincible against anything the Chosen Children could throw at him. It would only be a matter of time before the entire Digital World would bend its knee to him. To him, the Chosen Children had two options left now: either fight and die, or get smart, leave the Digital World with their Digimon, and never come back.
The thought of victory brought great pleasure to his mind and he soon began to chuckle once more… until he heard someone else chuckle at the same time… and it sounded exactly like the same dark voice he heard in the Dark Whirlpool. His eyes widened before he fell onto his knees as he felt a pain in his chest, like an icy hand was gripping his heart and slowly tightening it.
"Osamu-chan! What's wrong?" Monodramon ran up to him.
"Nothing!" The Kaiser lied as he was trying to hide his moment of weakness. He panted as he tried to catch his breath while sweat was slowly dripping down from his head.
"You should rest. You've been attacking all night… plus, maybe get something to eat and drink maybe…?" Monodramon was still greatly concerned by how much the Kaiser had been rejecting his own body. His obsession with creating Chimairamon had slowly been draining his life.
"I'm fine…"
The Kaiser continued to pant and recover but the voice began chuckling again.
"You cannot run away from the Dark World anymore…"
"What!?" The Kaiser exclaimed.
"Osamu-chan, what's wrong?" Monodramon questioned as it appeared that the Kaiser was talking to himself now.
"Look below you…" The Kaiser looked down and his face turned into one of horror as he saw no floor underneath him but rather a whole that lead to a pitch black abyss below. The Kaiser screamed in terror.
"Osamu-chan!" Monodramon tried to bring him back to reality, which it did. "Osamu-chan, are you okay? Osamu-chan!" The Kaiser recovered quickly and masked his fear with a look of insanity before he began laughing like he had now truly lost his mind.
"Go, Chimairamon." He looked to the screen and saw his fortress sailing across the sands. "I will indeed become the ruler of this Digital World."
Back at the pipeline, Taichi, Yamato, Ross, Koushiro and their respective partners were sneaking up to a valve in the pipeline that was next to an extraction pipe.
"Okay, we're here." Agumon observed.
"You sure this is gonna work, Koushiro?" Gabumon wondered.
"Of course it will, you don't need to doubt Koushiro-han!" Tentomon gave his faith.
"I agree but we need to time this just right." Guilmon added. All of them peaked their heads over the pipe and saw that the fortress was slowly approaching.
"Okay, let's quickly go over the plan before we do this." Koushiro whispered. "We release the oil in the pipe and let it cover the fortress, then we use our Digimon to light it causing a massive fire."
"That should distract the Kaiser long enough for the New Breed to sneak in and take out the core". Ross recounted the earlier plan.
"Meanwhile, we regroup with Jou and the girls, then take on Chimairamon, buying the others as much time as they need." Yamato recalled their part.
"No heroics, okay? Don't try to risk yourselves too much, just keep Chimairamon's attention." Taichi said. The Digimon quickly nodded.
The group stayed quiet for a few moments as Chimairamon flew over them, unaware of their presence.
"Now!" The Digimon quietly exclaimed before they jumped on the pipe and turned the valve. The extraction pipe opened up and a large tower of oil shot upward and began pelting the fortress.
"Baby Flame!" "Petit Fire!" "Fireball!" "Petit Thunder!" The attacks ignited the oil and soon flames began covering the fortress as it sailed over the flume of fire. Warning sirens began ringing in the base.
"How did that fire…?" The Kaiser questioned. "Hurry up and put it out!" He ordered Monodramon and any controlled Digimon he had in the base. The fires soon went out and the boys all watched as the fortress flew away.
"Well, we gave them the window." Koushiro said.
"Now, we just gotta hope they can do it." Ross nodded.
"Will they be okay?" Yamato asked. "I mean, attacking the stronghold like that…"
"All we can do is pray and believe in them. Come on, let's regroup with Jou, Sora, and Mimi and buy the others time." Taichi said as they all took off.
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji
We all watched on a cliffside the fiery fortress slowly moving by us as we waited for the right moment to get in. We sat on or stood next to our Digimon as we waited. I quickly looked to my hands and tightened my hand on my D-Terminal. Thank goodness for Takeo staying behind. He went by my house, picked up my D-Terminal and went back to HQ before Taichi quickly went back to the Real World the previous night to pick it up and hand it to me several hours ago. Without it, Wormmon was not going to evolve with those towers and the Dark Digivice, and that wasn't going to help anyone.
"Okay, while the Kaiser's busy, we'll charge in!" Daisuke went over the plan one more time as we could hear alarms ringing from inside the base.
"That's the entrance to the fortress." Iori pointed to a doorway that had a platform underneath it on the side of the base.
"Let's go, Lighdramon!" Daisuke shouted as they jumped down onto the platform. "I'm the first!" He yelled back at us.
"He's perfect for leading the charge, huh?" Takeru admitted.
"He's so silly…" Miyako rolled her eyes.
"Come on, we've only got one chance!" I informed.
"Right, let's go everyone!" Hikari said and we all followed Daisuke inside.
We all quickly walked through a stone tunnel as we got deeper and deeper inside the base. Before long, there was a bright light ahead of us. At the same time, we began hearing faint explosions from the outside which meant that the others were beginning the attack. Hang on, you guys, we're gonna try to be as fast as possible.
"It's the next entrance." believed Daisuke. Another couple of meters, the light died down and we could better see what we just walked into. "Wh-what the?" We walked into this large empty room with a large opening towards the reactor. Both Miyako and Daisuke looked up at the power spire at the center of the base before looking down and that area where the power source must be at the lower part of the spire.
"That's it! That's the power room!" I exclaimed.
"Alright, if we go there we can stop this huge thing."
P.O.V. – Third Person
The Kaiser watched the screens closely as he saw seven of the Chosen Children currently engaged with Chimairamon but the other six were still missing. He got his answer quickly when Monodramon spotted them on another monitor.
"Osamu-chan, it's them!"
"They're back? I guess we better welcome them…"
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji
"Okay, let's go!" Daisuke said and we turned to find a way down. However once we turned, we saw one of the doors open and a swarm of Bakemon with Evil Rings came out to greet us.
"That's quite the welcoming party." Iori observed.
"Sure is." Hikari agreed.
"But… They won't get in the way!" Daisuke declared.
"Blue Thunder!" Lighdramon struck three of the Bakemon that was fast approaching him.
"Gold Rush!" Digmon dealt with the seven Bakemon that was spinning around him.
"Red Sun!" Six Bakemon that were bearing down on Holsmon were taken care of in short order.
"Teter Spin!" Tetermon spun through a line of eight Bakemon and destroyed all their Evil Rings.
"Nile Jewelry!" Nefertimon took care of the six Bakemon that were coming after her.
"Needle Rain!" Pegasmon dealt with the final nine Bakemon that were attacking.
"Okay, let's hurry!" Daisuke motioned and led us out of the room and towards the reactor.
After running through a few corridors, we came across this large room with some crates on the sides.
"This looks like a hanger…" Iori looked around.
"It's as big as a soccer field…" Daisuke guessed. The whole base slowly began to rock and we looked up to see the roof cracking. "What's that?" As if we didn't know… in came Chimairamon. That was a bit surprising though… The Kaiser actually ordered him to knock a huge hole in the base just to get us? "Chimairamon…" Once he said that, a large group of Bakemon also flew into the hanger. I guess the Kaiser just wants us destroyed more than the others.
"We were so close to the power room…" Takeru cursed.
"Daisuke, get off and hide." Lighdramon advised.
"Eh?" We all looked at him.
"Chimairamon's powerful. If we don't combine our powers, it will be impossible."
"Takeru, leave this to us." Now, Pegasmon gave the same instruction.
"Pegasmon…" Takeru muttered.
"Don't worry, Hikari." Nefertimon tried to assure her partner.
"But…"
"It's alright, dagyaa!" "Miyako-san, hurry!" Digmon and Holsmon chimed in.
"Okay." Both human partners replied.
"Tetermon…?" I asked.
"I won't allow you to get hurt, Ken-chan." I nodded and joined the others as we took cover.
"We're counting on you, guys!" informed Daisuke.
"Let's go!" Lighdramon shouted to the other Digimon and they charged straight ahead. The Bakemon moved first and the Digimon just repeated what they did before with the Bakemon, all the while Chimairamon just stood there and stared ahead.
"That's it!" Daisuke cheered in terms of our Digimon winning over the Bakemon. Our cheer was quickly replaced with fear as Iori gasped and pointed towards several Bakemon that were spinning towards us.
"Gold Rush!" Digmon was quick with the save and knocked the Bakemon away from us before they could do any harm.
"Thanks, Digmon!" Iori spoke for all of us. We owed Digmon for that save. However, things would take a dark turn fast. The remaining Digimon jumped forward to try to attack Chimairamon but he open his mouth and unleashed that devastating Heat Viper attack that completely disintegrated several Bakemon that were unfortunate to get in the way! Our Digimon barely got out of the way but the sheer close proximity was enough to blow them away towards the walls which they hit, hard.
P.O.V. – Third Person
"What power…" Daisuke muttered in both shock and awe.
"Even though they dodge it!" Hikari cried.
"He doesn't care about attacking his own…" Takeru said in terms of the Bakemon that were destroyed in the attack.
"Osamu-chan, if he keeps doing that, he'll destroy the fortress!" Monodramon tried to explain to the Kaiser.
"I know!"
"Blue Thunder!" "Gold Rush!" "Tempest Wing!" "Precision Sting!" "Shooting Star!" "Rosetta Stone!" All the Digimon's attacks hit Chimairamon and engulfed him in smoke.
"Did we do it?" questioned Daisuke. The smoke cleared and revealed Chimairamon didn't even have a scratch on him. All he did was just roar an ear shattering roar that practically rocked the foundations of the fortress.
"Their attacks didn't work!" Hikari exclaimed.
"What a beast…" Daisuke said.
"Even all of them attacking at once didn't scratch him…" Miyako groaned.
"He's strong… he's too strong!" worried Iori.
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Takeru wondered.
"I don't know… I'm trying to think of something but I'm coming up blank!" Ken told the others. Chimairamon launched another Heat Viper attack which the Digimon avoided once more but the shock wave blew them all against the wall again. Chimairamon soon began just unleashing wave after wave of Heat Vipers which continually knocked around the Digimon.
"At this rate, they're just wasting their power!" Hikari feared.
"I can't, dagyaa…" Digmon muttered as he was knocked into a bunch of crates before he devolved all the way back to Upamon.
"Upamon!" Iori cried out. The rest of the Digimon began to follow suit.
"My power…"
"Poromon!"
"Ken…chan…"
"Wormmon!"
"Daisuke… I'm sorry."
"Chibimon!"
"I can't go on…" "Gah…"
"Tailmon!" "Patamon!"
The Kaiser kept watch on the battle inside the fortress while wondering why the ones outside were keeping back. It didn't matter to him though, let them stay outside and worry for their friends inside. However, his eyes slowly widened when he looked at the three Baby-Level Digimon.
"Those little ones… I've seen them before…" He muttered. His mind suddenly flashed to the soccer game he attended a few days before he abandoned the life of Osamu Ichijouji. He remembered seeing the Digimon in the stands with the Chosen Children that attended the game. "That time…?"
"Their bodies can't take attacks like that." Monodramon explained.
"What?" He turned to look at Monodramon before looking back to the screen. "Their bodies…? They're alive?" He looked so conflicted for a moment before he sighed. "Chimairamon, stop the attack!" He ordered. The abomination suddenly stopped.
"Chimairamon… stopped." Takeru observed.
"What does it mean?" Daisuke wondered.
"Let's go get everyone now!" Hikari advised and the children ran out of cover to grab their Digimon.
"Those guys… I'll take them down with my own hands." The Kaiser walked out of the control room.
"Osamu-chan…"
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya
"Let's escape." Takeru suggested as we ran back in to cover with our Digimon.
"Escape?" I questioned.
"We can't fight anymore. Our mission has failed. We'll retreat and wait for another chance."
"You're right. We have no other choice." Hikari agreed with Takeru.
"Understood." Iori nodded.
"No." I said, utterly surprising everyone. "We can't just say 'another chance' like that. If we leave now, they'll keep attacking anything in sight." I turned to look at Chimairamon who was still staying still. "We don't know if we'll be able to get in the fortress again. So this is our only chance!"
"That's crazy…" Miyako told him. "They're all back to their Baby-Levels…"
"Daisuke…" Chibimon spoke up from in my arms.
"But… didn't you all see it? Destroying those towns… and all we could do was watch quietly. Sure, the town was evacuated, but what about the next one that doesn't get a warning or what about what happened to those Bakemon? I don't want to see that ever again. I won't let them do whatever they want! So I'm going, even alone. I won't give up now. After getting this far, all I can do is go forward!" I declared, even if it was practically suicidal.
After a few moments of silence, Chibimon climbed onto my head.
"Let's go, Daisuke."
"Chibimon…"
"If you're going, I'm going too!"
"Alright!"
"Daisuke!" Ken shouted. "I'm… I'm coming with you!" Everyone was taken aback again.
"Ken-kun…" Miyako muttered.
"I came here to bring my brother back… and I'll be damned to back down now! Wormmon!"
"I'll follow you anywhere, Ken-chan!" I smiled and nodded.
"Let's go! Chibimon, hold on tight" I ran for chain pulley and dropped down to the power room with Ken following close behind.
After getting down to the platform that leads to the room, I jumped… but was too short in the jump and missed it. I thought for a second that this was how it all ended. Gives a whole big speech then does something cool, only to mistime a jump and fall to my death.
"Daisuke!" I felt Ken grabbing me before I could actually start falling. I looked down and saw a pretty dark floor before looking back up at Ken.
"Thanks!"
"Hey, I'm not gonna let my best friend die like that." Best friend? I think that's the first time he's said that. He quickly pulled me up to safety.
"Phew, that was close…"
"Be careful, Daisuke!" Chibimon reminded.
"Come on, we're almost there!" insisted Wormmon.
P.O.V. – Third Person
Daisuke and Ken's acts of bravery proved to be the spark the others needed to get their confidence back.
"Let's go too." Takeru said.
"Yes." Iori nodded.
"We can't let Daisuke-kun and Ken-kun be the only ones who looks cool!" Miyako joked.
"They're really leading the charge." Hikari believed. The four of them started running towards the chain but the Kaiser soon walked into the stairwell and saw them running down below.
"Chimairamon, resume attack!"
"Digimon Kaiser!?" Takeru exclaimed. They all turned to the Digimon abomination but the monster was just standing still. It quickly looked back to the Chosen Children before it flew back out the hole it made earlier.
"Where are you going, Chimairamon!?" The Kaiser demanded. "Chimairamon!" Suddenly, the monster began laughing that same voice that had been taunting the Kaiser earlier as it flew away. The Kaiser's eyes shrunk in fear before that same pain from earlier returned and he fell to the floor.
"That voice…?" Takeru questioned.
"Osamu-chan! Osamu-chan, hang in there!" Monodramon tried to help.
"Shut up!" He shouted. "I'm not afraid… the power of darkness doesn't scare me… I am the ruler of this world! Even the power of darkness is under my command…"
"I knew it… I should have tried harder to stop him from recovering that dark data…" Monodramon thought to himself. "I'm the only one who can protect Ken-chan, and yet…"
"He tried to use the power of darkness, but ended up being used himself." Takeru explained to the others. "Alright! Let's get to the power room now!"
"Contact!" Ross shouted as the Old Breed spotted Chimairamon leaving the base.
"Alright everyone, let's attack again!" Taichi ordered.
"Hope the others are okay…" Sora worried.
"Don't worry, if they were killed, I'm pretty sure the Kaiser would be bragging right now." Yamato believed which made the others agree with him. Everyone quickly refocused their efforts to attacking the monster while the desert was completely dark as it was just before the dawn.
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji
Both Daisuke and I stared at the power room for a moment before we got ready to charge it. However, our path would be blocked as Monodramon glided down in front of us.
"Hey, you're… the Digimon Kaiser's…" Daisuke tried to quickly piece things together.
"Monodramon…" I muttered as I thought that he was actually going to fight us.
"This way." He turned and motioned us to follow him. "Hurry! The power room is just right here!"
"Why are you helping us? You're leading us to a trap, huh?" Daisuke accused.
"No, Daisuke. He's not." He looked at me with a confused look. "I'd trust him with my life." Daisuke's eyes widened for a second before he regained his determined look and nodded in agreement.
"I just want to help Osamu-chan." Monodramon explained. "Chimairamon is terrifying… and he can't be controlled, though Osamu-chan refuses to realize it! Since he brought him to life, I feel like Osamu-chan is going to a place where he can't be reached. If we don't defeat that… that thing, I'm sure we'll reach a point of no return. Please… help me! Trust me!"
"Got it." Daisuke understood. Monodramon was surprised by the answer.
"Thanks… Come on, this way!" We ran into the room and the whole place was moving as if there was a massive heat wave even though the room was actually cool.
"What's that…?" Chibimon wondered at the black object that was in front of us that stood on a metallic pedestal at the center of the room. "It's like this place is filled with an incredible energy…"
"What's going on?" Daisuke questioned.
"It's coming from that black thing." Wormmon said.
"Osamu-chan found it. It's what makes the fortress move." Just like Koushiro's note said.
"Then, if we remove this, the fortress should stop, right?" Daisuke wondered.
"Should be." I guessed.
"Ken…" My eyes widened when I heard that voice… it couldn't possibly be… I turned around to look at the closed door behind us, half-expecting the Kaiser to just walk in. Instead, I was greeted by the ghostly apparition of Osamu that walked straight through the closed door. It looked like him the last time I saw him in the Real World before I discovered he was the Kaiser, however his outfit was something different. It was a large white armor that somewhat resembled the Kaiser's outfit, but looked more fitting for a protector than a tyrant.
"Os-Osamu?" I thought.
"Hello, Ken. I'd love to speak to you more but time is short… the thing in front of you, you and Daisuke need to take it. Take and use it, its only thing that can stop Chimairamon and free me from the darkness that I've fallen under."
"So the message was true…"
"'Compassion will release the golden light.'" Osamu repeated the message that Wizarmon said. "Only you two can release it."
"I understand."
"And Ken… bring me back home, would ya?"
"I promise you, I won't fail you, Onii-san."
"I know you won't. You're my little brother after all."
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya
"Hey, Ken!" I shoved Ken as he was staring out into space behind us. When I pushed him, he seemed to have come back to reality.
"Wha-?"
"Hey, don't you go falling apart on me now."
"I don't… di- did you hear that?"
"Hear what? Stop acting craz-"
"Daisuke…" I heard a voice in my head. I turned to the black object where I assumed the voice came from. "Free me… help free me… trust in Ken… and Osamu…"
"Never mind what I just said, Ken. I hear it too."
"What exactly is this thing?" We walked up to it.
"I don't know, but I heard it say 'Free me.'" Suddenly the black object began rising off the pedestal. Then all the lights went out. Pretty sure everyone noticed that.
The pitch blackness of the room was soon destroyed as the object began exploding with rays of golden light that was almost blinding.
"Daisuke, look!" Chibimon jumped off of my head and onto the ground. The black thing suddenly flashed a light blueish object that looked like one of those crests the others had. Except this one was one I never saw before as it was a sun shape that had a crescent moon underneath it. A moment later, Chibimon evolved back into V-mon and even he was surprised.
"You evolved… buy why?" I questioned. The light grew even brighter and we all had to avert our eyes. The light soon died down and we could see all the metal of the room around us was now gone. The blackness began to fade away and now it was a golden object… a familiar object.
"That…!" Ken began to speak but couldn't find the words.
"A golden Digimental…" I helped finish the sentence for him.
"Free me…" There's that voice again.
"Daisuke… we grab on three, okay?"
"Wait… this Digimental? It's…?"
"Ours. On three."
"One… two… three!" We shouted as we grabbed it and pulled it back. It split in half like the early Digimentals but then restored itself like before. I turned to V-mon.
"V-mon. Should we try?"
"Yeah!"
"Wormmon?" Ken asked.
"Let's do this!" Ken and I both looked at each other and nodded in perfect sync.
"Digimental Up!" We shouted.
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Radiance of Miracles, MAGNAMON!"
"Wormmon, Armor-Evolve! Illumination of Miracles, KONGOUMON!"
Wow… just… wow… Those two Armor-Evolved… and looked amazing. Magnamon looked like Fladramon had traded his armor and upgraded to sharper, golden plates. Kongoumon looked like a golden beetle with a sumo-wrestler sash around his waist and six arms all carrying those Indian Vajras.
"Amazing…" Both Ken and I muttered.
"Incredible." Monodramon was also impressed.
Call me crazy, but I think we're about to win this war…
Let's be honest, this scene was already badass to begin with.
The Crest of Compassion that's on the Digimental is designed by SailorTrekkie92 on DeviantArt. Oh, and this may just be me playing too much Old Republic but I honestly think that Osamu would look cool in Valkorion's armor, which is what phantom Osamu is wearing.
See you all for the next chapter... which we all know how it's gonna end... at least it ain't Wormmon though.
"Push the button, Frank."