Sorry, didn't really get a chance to work until Tuesday for this one.

Anyways, shoutouts to Whiteling, MadDogLucario96, DigimonAT0318, and Foggsaurus8 for the reviews.

And to Yagami Kuzuki... there's a right way and a wrong way to give criticism. You gave a completely wrong way that makes it more likely for me to ignore you. For instant, where does it say I can only do First Person POVs on Wattpad and not here?

Well, I've got that all out of the way... let's continue.

Chapter 29: Tail Hammer! Ankylomon!

Ichijouji Residence, Tamachi District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. September 10th, 2002. 1923 Hours.
P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji

Boy, the last few days have been… quite the reawakening. Everything has been going much better at home; the mood has been greatly uplifted. Even better is Ken and I… it feels like we're back to the way we used to be. Plus, I've gotten Ketomon, or well, Hopmon as he is now, back. I still regret my actions and can never truly atone for them, but I'm certainly going to try to somewhat make it up… somehow. My heart may have changed, but one thing that hasn't is I'm still as sharp as ever. The past few days I've been playing catch up with my school work. Knocked it all out quick without much of a challenge. I'm actually planning to return to school tomorrow. The questions my classmates are probably going to ask. Eh, I'm not worried about that right now; that's tomorrow. Tonight, I'm just enjoying Mom's great cooking.
"Osamu-chan, want some more?" Mom asked as I finished my bowl.
"Um…" I felt a bit hesitant to ask as I didn't want to seem greedy.
"You're still growing, so eat more!" Dad insisted. "Dear, this is delicious!" I finally decided.
"Okay then… Mom…" I handed her my bowl.
"Right away." She got up to get some more.
"Hey, don't give him all the extras!" Ken joked which actually caused us all to chuckle.

After dinner, I went back to my room where I was bringing Hopmon some leftovers.
"Osamu-chan? What's wrong?" Hopmon asked as I walked over to my computer. Hopmon; the best way I can describe him is that he looks like a fleshy bulb with two fins on the side of his head and a small horn on top.
"I just… ate too much." I told him.
"Why?"
"Dad and Mom are so happy when they see me eat a lot like a normal boy…"
"You shouldn't force yourself." Hopmon suggested.
"I'm not forcing myself. I'm glad to see Dad and Mom happy."
"Oh… Well, after eating…" Hopmon started bouncing and flailing on my bed. "Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!" I was surprised for a moment before I could help but smirk at him.
"Hey, don't jump on the bed!"

Ichijouji Residence, Tamachi District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. September 11th, 2002. 0121 Hours.

I found myself waking up from my sleep as I heard my computer being turned on and the light of the screen illuminating my room. I shook the sleep from me before I sat up… and found a woman in red standing right by it! I gave a light gasp that woke up Hopmon.
"Osamu-chan?"
"Wh-who's that?" I questioned.
"You're done with." The woman answered me. "You're not worth anything."
"Who… are you?" I questioned once more with a hint of anger in my voice. She turned her head to me and I could now see she had long white hair and purple sunglasses over her eyes.
"Poor you…" Suddenly, the shadows in my room began to spell out letters in kanji. Really familiar ones that made my blood run cold.
'But what if I told you there was another option? A different world, where you wouldn't be crippled by the stupidity of society? A world that will completely free your mind and fulfill your destiny.' It was that e-mail again! The woman chuckled before she vanished and the computer turned off, leaving me and Hopmon alone in the room again.
"Osamu-chan…" Hopmon sounded frightened. Once again, just when I think life is going well once more; life has to throw me another curve ball.

Digital World. September 11th, 2002. 1635 Hours.
P.O.V. – Iori Hida

Our repairs of the Digital World were continuing as normal. Today, we were assisting in the repairing of an entire village. Everyone had their own job; Daisuke and XV-mon were gathering wood for construction along with Holsmon, Pegasmon and Nefertimon. Miyako and Hikari were doing some painting, Takeru was hammering nails, and I was bouncing on Digmon's back like a jackhammer as we were trying to get to the village's sewers. It was hard work, but I honestly felt proud of what I was doing. It was actually getting to be around sundown when we finally decided to call it a day.

"That's it for today." declared Daisuke as we stood on a cliff overlooking the village.
"We'll continue tomorrow." Miyako nodded as the wind began to pick up.
"There are still so many broken houses…" Hikari observed.
"Yeah…" Tailmon agreed.
"Not just in this town. In other places, too… All of us; Onii-chan, Taichi-san, we're all working hard to repair what was broken." Takeru informed.
"That thing hurts the eyes… We should take it down." Daisuke turned to look at the deactivated Dark Tower that was not too far away.
"I guess. But let's repair the town first. Show the village that the threat is over."
"I agree." I spoke up.
"Yeah…" Daisuke sighed in defeat. "I guess."

"I wonder what he'll do now…" Hikari whispered mostly to herself. Some of us turned to look at her. "Ichijouji Osamu."
"He should help too." Daisuke took a step in front of us.
"Right!" V-mon chimed.
"But… he probably won't come to the Digital World anymore." Miyako pointed out. "I mean, Ken-kun's last message said he's up but apparently suffering some sort of self-inflicted amnesia or something."
"True…" Hawkmon nodded.
"Well, whatever the reason, I don't think the Digimon would forgive him either." Takeru believed.
"Exactly." I said in a low voice; my anger was slowly bubbling.
"Iori?" Armadimon turned to look at me, somewhat concerned.
"I don't care if he honestly thought this was all just a game. I can't forgive him for everything he did."

"I'm starving!" Daisuke and the Digimon cried as we returned back to headquarters.
"Ohagi! Ohagi!" Miyako cheered.
"I'm sorry, I have to go to the dojo today." I broke the bad news to the others, much to Daisuke and Miyako's disappointment. "I have to leave now."
"Do your best at practice!" Hikari encouraged.
"Yes." I smiled before I grabbed a loose newspaper that got caught in the gate fence.
"But Iori's Ohagi…" Daisuke and Miyako moaned as I opened up the newspaper. 'Follow up – the missing genius.' It was an article about Osamu. I growled before I crumpled up the paper which I would later throw away. I don't care if he is Ken's brother… I will never forgive that monster, no matter how remorseful he could become.

Odaiba Police Dojo, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. September 11th, 2002. 1841 Hours.

"Men! Men! Men! Men! Men! Men! Men!" I shouted as I kept repeatedly striking Grandfather before I just rammed him in the gut and knocked him to the floor and struck him three more times. I was filled with a rage. I was just imagining that it wasn't Grandfather I was fighting but Osamu.
"Enough, Iori! Enough!" Grandfather shouted with brought me out of my trance. "Why…" He panted. "Why don't we call it a day?"
"Yes! Thank you very much!" I bowed before we both kneeled on the floor and began to remove our equipment. I took off my helmet before I felt him tap me on the shoulder. He then dug into his bag and pulled out two packets of Chu-Chu Jelly.
"Would you like some Chu-Chu?" I nodded and took one from him as he began to drink his. "What a surprise… I used to think jelly was something you eat with a spoon, but being able to drink it like this… When I first drank this, I realized I still had a lot to learn. What about you?" I didn't really say anything. I just went along with him and drank the jelly with him.

P.O.V. – Third Person

It was going to be a long night for the Chosen Children as they were all very tired from all the labor they had done during the day. At Daisuke's, he and Chibimon were already snoring logs; so loud in fact that his sister Jun was putting a pillow to her ears just in an attempt to muffle the sound.
"Um, can I take a break?" Poromon asked as he was bouncing on Miyako's back at her place.
"A little more to the right!" Poromon was essentially being used like a massage ball.
"To the right?"
"Ahhh…" She sighed in absolute relief. "This is paradise…" At Takeru's apartment, he was just putting on the final touches to a house of cards he was working on while Patamon stood close and watched. Once he finished, he leaned back in his chair and relaxed… before Patamon's nose twitched. Patamon couldn't control himself; he ended up sneezing and blowing the whole card house down.
"What about this one?" Hikari pointed to a picture of a castle in a book she had while sitting with Tailmon. And at Iori's, Upamon was enjoying some food, though how he was holding chopsticks without any arms was hard to understand. Meanwhile, Iori was sitting beside him and holding his Shinai and being in deep thought.

Chosen HQ, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. September 12th, 2002. 1534 Hours.

The Children were all standing around the computer at the Headquarters when Daisuke finally showed up.
"You're late, Daisuke!" Chibimon informed.
"I can't stand it… he could have just let me go." Daisuke said.
"What did you do?" Miyako asked. Daisuke nervously chuckled upon being asked that.
"I broke a window playing soccer. I apologized, but he wouldn't forgive me…"
"Again?" Iori muttered.
"Daisuke-kun's done it so many times." Takeru rolled his eyes. Hikari nodded with him, to Daisuke's worry.
"Not you too, Hikari-chan!" The rest of the gang couldn't help but give a bit of a laugh at his reaction.
"Okay, let's get to it! Digital Gate, open! Chosen Children, let's roll!" Miyako shouted.

The moment the children arrived at the village, they found themselves swarmed by a whole horde of happy Punimon that had big smiles on their faces.
"Who are these guys?" questioned Daisuke. The Punimon couldn't really speak but their noises they were making sure sounded like they were very excited to see the humans. All of a sudden, Iori came to a realization about the Punimon swarm.
"Ah, the kindergarten from yesterday!"
"We fixed it so they came back!" Armadimon added.
"We… did that?" Daisuke sounded confused.
"Yes." Iori confirmed.
"So these are the children." said Hawkmon.
"I see… when we rebuild the towns, the Digimon will come back, right?" Miyako theorized and awaited the others answer to it. She got her answer from the Punimon who were all jumping up and down in pure joy.

"They're full of energy, huh?" Takeru observed.
"They're just noisy." Daisuke tried to cover his ears. Hikari kneeled down and picked one up.
"They're so cute…"
"Yeah, they sure are!" Once again, when Hikari says something, Daisuke's tune immediately matches hers.
"Daisuke, your attitude changes too much." V-mon practically was calling out Daisuke on his crush of Hikari. Daisuke gave him a quick glare before he dismissed it and focused on the task at hand. He pulled out his D-3 and held it up high.
"Okay, time to get to work! Let's go, V-mon!"
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON…!" It took a moment for everyone to realize that V-mon didn't evolve at all. "Huh?" V-mon looked at himself.
"What are you doing? Try again!"
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON…!" Once more, same result. "Uh… I can't evolve, Daisuke…"

"Because you're not trying hard enough! Come on, get it together!" insisted Daisuke.
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON…!" Third time was not the charm for him. "I can't…" V-mon groaned in defeat.
"That's weird… you could evolve yesterday."
"Are you feeling sick?" Hawkmon suggested. V-mon shook his head in disagreement.
"Are you hungry?" Armadimon gave his suggestion.
"He ate a bunch of snacks just a little while ago." Daisuke reminded.
"Ate too much?" wondered Miyako. Daisuke snapped his finger as he believed he had the answer.
"I got it! You haven't fought in a while, so you're out of shape. Besides, all you do is eat. You need to go on a diet!" The others were muttering with each other while Daisuke was trying to cheer up his partner. "Cheer up! Wanna try Armor Evolution?"

"Ah, it's fine! You don't have to evolve." Miyako informed him as the others broke the huddle. "Iori, we'll do it, right?"
"Yes." Takeru, Hikari and their Digimon began walking away.
"But why…? Where are you going, Hikari-chan?" asked Daisuke.
"We just want to check what we fixed yesterday." Takeru informed.
"We'll be right back." Hikari assured.
"Hikari-chan!" Daisuke moaned before Miyako helped him up.
"Hey, hey! There's a job for you guys too! Okay?"
"But…"

P.O.V. – Hikari Yagami

We wandered off into the nearby woods to try our attempts at evolving considering that V-mon was having trouble.
"Well, it's a no go for me." Tailmon reminded.
"We'll try it." Takeru said. "Patamon, let's do it."
"Patamon, evolve! ANGEMON…!" He just stayed as Patamon; just like V-mon. "I can't, Takeru…"
"So Patamon can't evolve either…" Tailmon sighed.
"Why?" I questioned. Takeru shook his head as he had no idea. All he did was turn and looked towards the nearby Dark Tower.
"Maybe…" He hesitated to say what he wanted to say but he eventually said it. "That Dark Tower started working again?" I could see why he didn't want to say it. If that was the case, then could that mean that Osamu had returned? I couldn't wrap my mind around that. I truly believed his reaction to everything at the end was genuine and that he truly felt so disgusted with his actions. But, then why are the towers reactivated again?

P.O.V. – Third Person

Miyako and Iori took Daisuke aside to try to take his mind off the whole evolution hiccup. Miyako found a small ball and began inflating it before handing it to Daisuke.
"Here you go!"
"Then, we'll continue the underground repairs from yesterday." Iori informed as he and Digmon headed away.
"Ok."
"So, why do we have to be babysitters?" Daisuke questioned.
"We need someone to look after them, right? And they seem to like you, Daisuke!" The Punimon all jumped up and down. "See?" Miyako then got on Holsmon and took off. "I'm counting on you!"
"Hey, wait!" He heard a familiar noise and both him and V-mon slowly turn their heads back to the Punimon. "Did you just… poo?"

"Here goes!" Daisuke started to dribble the ball like a soccer ball a few minutes later. "See? This is how you control the ball! Let's so, V-mon!" He kicked the ball over to V-mon.
"Ok!" V-mon blocked the ball with his chest.
"Everyone, follow the ball!" Daisuke told the Punimon who happily followed along.
"Daisuke, pass!" V-mon kicked it back to him but the Punimon got their heads on it and the ball started to bounce around.
"Alright! There it goes!" The Punimon were so happy playing which actually made Daisuke feel good. "Come on! Hang in there!" He laughed as Miyako watched on.

P.O.V. – Takeru Takaishi

"Looks like it went well." I observed Daisuke playing with the Punimon as Hikari and I walked up to Miyako.
"I left it to them. I knew he'd be perfect!" She said. Hikari chuckled as she watched Daisuke run along with the Punimon and the ball.
"Even among Digimon children, Daisuke-kun still ends up as the leader."
"So, how did it go? Did you figure it out?" Miyako brought our attention back to the evolving issue.
"No… and we couldn't evolve normally either." I told her.
"I see…"
"Well, let's just see how things go for now. Hey, where's Iori-kun?"

P.O.V. – Iori Hida

"It's a compete wreck…" Digmon observed as we got into the sewers. "I can't stand what that Kaiser did." I stared forward as I agreed with him. My blood ever more boiling thinking about it all. "Iori?" He brought me back to reality.
"Let's start, Digmon."
"Dagyaa!" Before he could begin however, I felt a sharp pain cut across my left cheek that was delivered by a tiny object. Digmon turned towards where the object went and it turned out to be a Digimon the size of my fingernail. It was a small black ball with arms and legs and a thunderbolt on its forehead. "That's Thunderballmon! He's a Digimon whose body is constantly releasing electricity. He's small, but he attacks with the power of ten million volts." My eyes widened in fear as he turned around to look at us once more. He flew all over the place around Digmon who couldn't get a bead on him.
"Why is he attacking us? He doesn't have an Evil Ring or a Spiral!" I wondered.
"Iori, what should we do, dagyaa?"

"What do we do…? Is It right to fight him?" I thought to myself. I felt so conflicted at the moment. I mean, we'll defend ourselves without question; that much is for sure. I have no problem about that, but to fight back, to properly attack a Digimon not under any sort of dark influence… My attention was brought back to the situation at hand once more when Digmon cried out in pain as he was struck by a heavy electrical attack on his head. The attack was so strong, it blew a massive hole in the sewers that it went through the multiple layers of earth and the surface above. I could see multiple pieces of debris also being shot way further into the sky. The pain that Digmon suffered was too much for him and unfortunately, he devolved back into Armadimon. The two of us then fell to the ground of the sewer before we hit the floor hard.
"Iori…" Armadimon groaned as I looked back up towards Thunderballmon.
"Why is he attacking without any reason?" There has to be an answer to his aggression and why he's taking it out on us. There was only one answer I could think of that would make any sense to me. "Could it be… the Kaiser!?" The debris that had been thrown out began falling all around Armadimon and I as Thunderballmon dived down on us again before he stopped.

I soon saw a giant piece of rock being grabbed by Thunderballmon before he tossed it at us; planning to finish us off then and there. I looked down and growled as I closed my eyes and awaited being crushed by the rock.
"I can't fight…" It was my last thought in both senses. I couldn't bring myself to have Armadimon directly attack a Digimon not under an evil spell or control, nor could Armadimon really do much. Of course, I guess I clearly underestimated him for what he did next.
"Armadimon, evolve! ANKYLOMON!" Ankylomon looked like a much bigger and tougher version of Armadimon with large spikes all over him and a large metal flail on his tail. Before the rock could land, he used it to smash the rock to pieces, covering us in its debris but not bringing any harm. He then used his arm to hold back Thunderballmon who tried to drill right through me but was only stopped by strong armor plating.
"Dagyaa!" He swatted him away.

"You… evolved…" I muttered in compete surprise.
"How come I evolved, dagyaa?" He was just as surprised as me.
"I don't know." I turned my head to look outside. "I don't know why V-mon couldn't evolve earlier, either."
"Anyway, we have to get out, dagyaa!"
"Yes!" Ankylomon jumped out of the sewer and we were once more on the surface. He then put me down on the ground.
"Iori, hide somewhere!"
"Y-you're going to fight?"
"Don't worry, I'll try to get rid of him." He turned to look back into the sewer but apparently couldn't find Thunderballmon. "Huh?"

Suddenly, a massive field of debris exploded around me and sent me flying into the sky, causing me to scream in sudden fear.
"Iori!" Ankylomon called out for me.
"Ankylomon!" I shouted as I flew higher and higher. Thunderballmon had come up with a brilliant plan; put me out of range of my Digimon, leaving me wide open to attack. I wondered for a moment if I thought I was gonna feel any pain before the end, but I felt myself being grabbed by something that jumped up to me and was bringing me back down to the ground. I found myself in the arms of the large purple dragon like man. He had on green pants, had armor on his claws, shoulders and tail and had a large mask with a sharp blade over his entire head with long red hair coming from it. He quickly handed me back off to Ankylomon before he started to preform multiple backflips as Thunderballmon came after him.

"That Digimon…" I continued to observe as him and Thunderballmon began to exchange blows.
"I've never seen him before, dagyaa…"
"Iori!" I heard Daisuke call out to me before I saw the others running towards us.
"Are you alright?" Hikari asked.
"Yes!" "Dagyaa!" Both myself and Ankylomon responded.
"Is that Digimon…?" Holsmon questioned Ankylomon and I as we continued to watch the fight my mysterious rescuer was in.
"Yes! Armadimon evolved!"
"Evolve?" "Armadimon?" Hikari and Daisuke inquired.
"Then, who are those?" Patamon pointed to the fight.
"I don't know." Ankylomon informed.
"The purple one saved me…" I explained.

The fight reached a fever pitch as the purple reptile Digimon decided the fight had gone on long enough and his claws began to glow.
"Strike Claw!" He ran fast towards Thunderballmon and passed right through him before a moment later; Thunderballmon exploded into data! We were all shocked about what he had just done.
"Why did he do that?" Daisuke exclaimed as the Digimon turned his attention towards us.
"It's horrible…" Miyako muttered. The Digimon held still for a moment before he performed multiple backflips and landed upon the top of the ridge that overlooked the village. He began to glow until he shrank down and devolve… into Monodramon! As if on cue, then walking up was the last person we expected to see in the Digital World again: Osamu Ichijouji.
"Osamu Ichijouji…" Daisuke said. Osamu was now dressed in a white polo shirt and black denim jeans as he stared at us with a stern look on his face.
"He came back to the Digital World?" Hikari couldn't believe the words she was saying.
"And Monodramon's back too? And can evolve?" Takeru added. The two of them turned and disappeared over the ridge line as we just continued to stare.
"He saved Iori…" Daisuke reminded.
"I… guess…" Miyako admitted. I just gained a stern look on my face.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"Are you sure we don't need to tell them?" Ken asked Osamu as they walked away.
"It's none of their concern. Doubt they'd believe us anyways… Let them focus on fixing the Digital World. We'll take care of that woman. By the way, you okay, Monodramon?"
"I'll be fine, Osamu-chan."
"She managed to somehow lose me. Sorry, guys." Wormmon apologized.
"It's okay; you guys did your best." Osamu encouraged. "We'll get another chance."
"Yeah… you're right, Onii-san. Let's just go home."

P.O.V. – Iori Hida

We contacted Ken immediately afterwards but we got no response from him. It was getting close to sundown when the Punimon were getting restless again. So Daisuke quickly solved the problem and was playing ball with them again.
"Here we go! C'mon, c'mon! Over there!" Daisuke kept up with the Baby Digimon while we all watched him from a swing set.
"You sure are popular!" Takeru said.
"Shut up." Daisuke scoffed. "Okay, here I come!" He chased back after them.
"That's our Daisuke…" Miyako smiled. I turned around to look back at the ridge before I finally realized something was off about it.
"It's not there." I informed. "The Dark Tower that was there this afternoon isn't there anymore." The others were surprised.
"You're right…"
"But when…?" Takeru wondered.
"Maybe that's why you could evolve." I picked up Armadimon.
"Dagyaa?" There were just too many questions and no real answers to everything that was going on right now.

A little later after we got back home, I was once again doing kendo with Grandfather once more.
"Men! Men! Men!" Like yesterday, my rage and anger was fueling my attacks. My mind was just so confused. Why did Osamu save me? Why him, of all people? I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. My thoughts and actions proved to be my undoing as I lost focus and Grandfather quickly overwhelmed me.
"Dou!" He struck me in the chest and won the fight. "Iori, constantly striking the head is not kendo."
"Yes…" I panted.
"You need to be more flexible, in heart and mind."
"Like Chu-Chu jelly?" I suggested.
"You got me there." He began to laugh which I soon joined in too. Still, my thoughts remained focused on earlier.

What game was Osamu playing now…?

Don't really have much to say for this one, though for a moment, it kinda looked like it was gonna be a bit shorter in terms of word length, like my Cockatrimon episode from Sweat and Tears.

Take care everyone.

"Push the button, Frank."