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"Your babies?" The pink-haired thing asked, it stood between himself and Poromon. She turned to collected the small, winged ball. "I'm sorry, but these are…"
The In-Training digimon yelped in fear as the creature reached for it. Flamon growled and pushed his hand forward and a spear of flames sliced between the pink-haired thing and Poromon. The thing screamed slightly as the fire rushed past it.
"Dude!" Yelped one of the larger creatures; it had yellow hair. It turned on Flamon and glared at him with its blue eyes.
"My babies…" growled Flamon as curled his clawed hands. Flames erupted around his fingers.
"Matt-" The other larger creature said, this one with brown hair, it lifted a hand and pressed it against the yellow-haired creature's chest. The brown-haired creature looked to Flamon apologetically. "Look, I'm sorry if we spooked you...but we mean you no harm…we didn't know that Elecmon was no longer the-"
"Elecmon is at Primary Village-" Flamon growled glaring at the creatures. The eleven of them seemed mildly afraid of him except the brown haired, larger one. It walked out from the group. Flamon growled. "I am taking these ones out to look for supplies…"
"Then you must be…Elecmon's helper?" the brown-haired creature asked. "What's your name?"
"He's Flamon!" yelped Koromon the little dumpling with ribbon ears hopped forward and smiled broadly to the brown-haired creature.
"Koromon!" Flamon growled loudly.
"Oh, Flamon, they're ok!" the little dumpling giggled as he hopped towards the brown-haired creature.
"They look like…him…" DemiVeemon said as the little plush dragon looked up at the lavender haired creature that was with him and Minomon.
The brown-haired creature rubbed the back of his head and laughed. "I guess we have been horribly rude…huh…" The creature reached into a pocket of his leg pelts and pulled out a flat, rectangular object. The creature peeled the skin of the object back, revealing a bar of some kind of brown material. It knelt to Koromon and offered him some. "Here try some of this…"
Flamon growled, leaping forward and pushing Koromon away. He grabbed the bar away from the brown-haired creature who fell backwards, gulping. Flamon sniffed at the bar, it smelled sweet. Flamon stuck his tongue out and licked it slightly. It was sweet, and so much more, complex milky texture. He bit down on it and felt the confection melt in his mouth, releasing even more flavor.
"Well?" The brown-haired creature asked.
Flamon snorted loudly.
"What is it?" Koromon whimpered. "Does it taste good? Is it food?"
"It's a chocolate bar!" A dark-haired creature said as he adjusted a pair of lenses that rested on its nose.
"Choc-o-late…." The other In-Training digimon said to one another as they looked up at Flamon with wide-eyed envy.
Flamon grunted. "It's…not bad-"
"I want some!" yelped Koromon as he hopped towards Flamon and leapt at him. Flamon danced and dodged as he held the chocolate bar high enough to keep it to himself.
"There's not enough for everyone!" Flamon grumbled.
"Actually…" The pink haired creature with lenses like the dark haired creature said heaving a bag forward and unzipping it revealing many strange containers. "I've got food for everyone! I figured we might need some way of convincing our friends to remember us…"
"YAY!" the little digimon cheered as they piled towards the pink-haired creature with lenses on its face.
"Now wait!" Flamon yelped as the In-Training digimon started sucking on their own confections. He sighed and shook his head knowing the battle was lost.
"Can't ever go wrong with snacks and candy, man." The brown-haired creature said as he extended his hand to Flamon. "Taichi Yagami, a human from Earth…."
Flamon narrowed his eyes at the hand. "Why are you here?"
"We used to be the digi-destined, and those little guys, used to be our partners…" Taichi said smiling back at the gang, as the human creatures and the In-Training digimon paired off. Except for DemiVeemon who was hanging out with Minomon and the slim, lavender-haired human. "We just wanted to find our friends…"
"How do you know these are your friends?" Flamon growled. "There are many of these digimon in Primary Village…"
The Taichi creature smiled and looked down at Koromon as the little creature greedily consumed a chocolate bar. "It's just a feeling…"
"Could…could you help us though?" Another human creature came. She was thin, with tan hair and features not unlike the Taichi creature. She was holding Nyaromon who had a large sucker in its mouth. Flamon fought all his urges to grab the small feline ball from the creature, but relented at the calmness that Nyaromon had in the human's arms. The thin creature looked at him hopefully. "Did another one, like us, show up? Did you see him? My height, brown hair, kinda brash, but well-meaning, flame-colored jacket…"
"You are the only hu-mans…I've seen." Flamon snorted as he looked to the others. "Except…for one that looked like you, but he's hardly well-meaning…"
"What do you mean?" the cinnamon-haired human asked as he stood up from Motimon.
"The sprite, you look like the sprite, but he's not good, he and his army of machines…destroyed Setup Island…" DemiVeemon said looking at the humans. "Are you familiar with him?"
"Gennai…" the smallest human said looking up from Upamon.
"So he survived…" the auburn-haired human said as she patted Yokomon's head.
"But where's Daisuke?" The thin human holding Nyaromon asked.
"We'll use the D-3s…" The lavender-haired boy. "He has to have his D-3 with him right?"
"That's quick thinking!" said the human who was with Tanemon. She looked up from the leafy head of the little green digimon.
The lavender-haired human took a black device. Flamon took a breath as he saw it. It looked…it looked…
"There's a signal, he's close!" the lavender-haired human said as he looked at the screen, then his eyebrows furrowed and looked up.
The lavender-haired human walked forward and walked straight up to Flamon. Flamon swallowed as the human looked straight at him. Flamon looked away.
"What's going on?" The larger of the blonde humans asked as he walked forward, Tsunomon hopping behind him.
"The D-3 signal is coming from…" The lavender-haired human looked at Flamon. The human pointed to Flamon. "Him-"
All the humans were looking at Flamon now. The digimon felt very unsure about this. They were surrounding him and the little digimon were with them, side by side. DemiVeemon walked forward.
"You should show them, Flamon…" DemiVeemon said looking up at Flamon.
Flamon reached into the pocket of the jeans he was wearing and pulled out the two devices that had been with the eggs.
"Those…those are Daisuke's!" The thin human yelped.
"Where did you get those?" The smaller blonde said as it stepped forward putting itself between Flamon and Tokomon.
"They came with the five eggs I was able to evacuate from Setup Island before it was destroyed." Flamon growled, glaring at the humans whose eyes were filled with accusations. "Where did you get your things?"
"They were given to us when we were chosen!" the pink human with the lenses said. "What did you do with Daisuke?"
"I don't know who you are talking about!" Flamon growled as he glared at them. He could feel the flames building around his body. "How do I know this isn't all some kind of trick? Some plan by the sprite!? What are you doing here?"
"Guys…" The Taichi human said glaring at the others. "Calm down…there's no reason to believe anything's happened to Daisuke." Taichi looked to Flamon. "He was our friend, he got trapped here, a long time ago…we had hoped we could find him."
"I have not seen-" Flamon started.
"I know…but maybe, you could help." The Taichi asked, looking up at Flamon with soulful brown eyes.
"We should ask Elecmon…" Flamon said.
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Gennai grunted as his back slammed against the wall. He slid to the ground.
"WHERE IS IT!?" screamed the black winged angle as he lifted his hand. A single finger was pointed at Gennai. Gennai felt his body dragged up against the wall against his will. The flaming blue eyes of the angel glared at him. "What kind of trick is this!?"
"I'm sorry…but your hazard is in another castle…" Gennai chuckled through his tightened throat.
The angel snarled loudly flicking his hand back and Gennai was sent sailing through the air and crashed into a heap on the floor. He grunted as he struggled to his hands and feet.
"Lucemon has control over the hazard, I know it!" growled the angle loudly as he turned and glared at Gennai. "Don't lie to me, sprite! I know that he has the hazard inside of him!"
"In the form you're in, the hazard isn't accessible." Gennai said between breaths. "Only in his Chaos Lord form and dragon form does he have access to the hazard's power."
"So he has to evolve…" The angel said tapping his lip. "Good thing I have a vast reserve of data left…to gorge upon…"
"Won't help-" Gennai grunted as he crawled to the edge of the room and slumped against a wall. "You need a special execution program…just gorging on data will only make you some other kind of digimon…you gotta jump through the hoops…"
"What hoops!?" the angel growled, glaring at Gennai.
"Gospels…" Gennai grunted. "Of the Fallen Angel…."
"You know of them?" the angel asked, a smirk playing across his lips.
"Knew of them…" Gennai replied. "Only Lucemon knew where they were…"
"Perfect!" the angel said clapping gleefully. He closed his eyes and almost instantly frowned. Before Gennai could move the child angel was lifting Gennai off of the ground. "The vessel doesn't know! Are you-?"
"Lying to you?" Gennai grunted. He shook his head. "No. Lucemon knew, back when he found them…problem is, you forced Shakamon to reformat the world. She's not likely to put them back where they were…and that body you have is completely naïve to the gospels…"
"Then you will tell me where they are!" The angel growled.
"I can't." Gennai replied. "Weren't you listening? The world and where the items in it are, have all been re-randomized."
"Liar!" the child roared, tossing Gennai against the wall.
"You were in my head…" Gennai growled, wincing as he fell back to the ground. "Look me in the eyes and tell me I can lie to you." The angel snarled loudly and then turned, pointing his finger at another wall and promptly causing it to explode into a cloud of masonry shrapnel. Gennai narrowed his eyes. "That's not behavior befitting you…" The angel turned its head and glared at Gennai. "You're supposed to be all cool and collected and Zen. I mean considering what you are…or rather aren't that is…" Gennai furrowed his brow and a small smirk crept up on his bruised lips. "Oh, it couldn't possibly be….could it? That would be too ironic…"
"Don't taunt me, sprite, I can destroy you!" the angel snarled pointing a menacing finger at Gennai.
"There it is…right there…" Gennai said as he slowly pushed himself up to his feet and looked down at the black haired child, with twelve black wings. He chuckled even though it hurt all of his body to do so. "Gotcha…"
"What are you laughing at!?" the angel growled.
"It's getting to you. In my head, I gave you an easy time….but inside of that…" Gennai pointed to the angel. "Much stronger personality….and the more you get frustrated, the more you struggle…the more…you become…"
"Don't insult me!" growled the angel glaring at Gennai. "I have the power to destroy you where you stand!"
"Oh, what splendor, what majesty, how completely magnificent…" Gennai laughed loudly as he pushed away from the wall and staggered around the angel. He glared down at the child in a black toga. "You may have the power to destroy the odd army of digimon, sink an island, to murder a defenseless sprite….you may even have an army of mindless, soulless automatons…." Gennai leaned against a panel on the far wall, "but it all pales in comparison to the truth that even with all of that you are still pitiably impotent in the face of reality, and that it is consuming you! You still haven't got what you want, and you won't get it either. You've lost, face it. Even as we speak the world is moving into position, destiny is re-establishing itself, and you're lost and alone, and you will be consumed by existence, just like all the other attempts that you've made in the past."
"I will not fall!" growled the angel. The angel closed his eyes and balled his fists. "I will complete my task! AND YOU AND NO ONE CAN-"
Gennai didn't catch the rest of it as he slipped through the secret hatch in the wall. First rule of capturing someone is, 'don't give them freedom of movement in their own castle'. He heard the rumbles of the storm erupting where he'd left the angel. He could feel them. He had worked on the barrier for so very long, he noticed when it had been penetrated. He had to get to them. Had to warn them of the coming storm…
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"I just can't…" Hikari sighed as she looked up at the others. They had walked all day, and had finally reached Primary Village at evening. The deep oranges and purples of the evening sky was outlined by the plush blocks which the village was constructed. She looked down at Nyaromon, the little ball of catness was snoozing peacefully on her lap. "We came all this way…"
"Don't give up hope." Hikari smiled and looked over to Takeru. He was sitting next to her, looking across the village. He remembered it from when he first came to the Digital World. Tokomon was sitting on his lap, napping. "Just because he's not with his D-3, doesn't mean he isn't here."
"How are we going to find him though?" Hikari asked as she looked over to the rest of the group.
Iori and Upamon were sleeping, leaning against Miyako and Poromon. Minomon and Ken were sitting under a tree near some bassinets. DemiVeemon was following Flamon around as Flamon went about feeding the babies. Elecmon and Tai were talking with the other older kids. They were trying their best to convince him that they were all familiar with each other but Elecmon was as skeptical if not more so than Flamon. Even their digimon looked at them askew a few times. Tanemon was often struggling to get out of Mimi's arms and Tsunomon was shy around Yamato. Only Taichi and Koromon seemed to instantaneously get along. Nyaromon even though she was napping on her lap still seemed a little distant.
"If Daisuke is still around, he'll make his presence known." Takeru said, yawning and stretching. "He isn't exactly known as a subtle individual, plus why would he hide from you?"
"Well, exactly…" Hikari said quietly.
"Well, that was disappointing…"Taichi's voice sighed. Hikari looked up to see Taichi and others walking towards her.
"We're back to square one." Koushiro said as he sat down between Hikari and Takeru.
Motimon wobbled towards him. "Square one?"
"Yeah…" Koushiro said frowning. "No idea about anything…"
"That's not true is it?" Mimi said as she sat down petitely. "I mean we've got our digimon, we know what we're capable of, and we have a goal…"
"Your digimon?" Tanemon asked looking up with a confused face. "Do you own us now?"
"What? That's not what I meant…" Mimi said blushing. "I mean you're our friends, like you were before…"
"You keep saying 'like we were before'…" Bukamon said as the hovering seal glided past and pointed to Jyou. "But I don't ever remember seeing you…"
"No, you wouldn't…" Koushiro sighed quietly. "Your memories got erased in the reformat. Just like the rest of the world."
"And some stuff is different." Sora said as the auburn haired girl said, as she looked over to Flamon. "Have you ever seen a digimon like that?"
Koushiro slid his book bag off of his shoulders and pulled out his laptop. "No, and the digimon analyzer doesn't seem to recognize him either…"
"He's nice, usually!" Motimon said as he looked around the edge of the computer and looked at the screen. The little digimon reached forward and started tapping at the keyboard. "I'll just put that in…"
"HEY!" Koushiro yelped.
"Oh, let me put some stuff in!" Koromon said as he bounded forward. "How he's really tight about food!"
"And how he's strict!" Tsunomon yelped hopping forward.
"And how he's always making us help do chores!" Tanemon said.
Nyaromon yawned loudly and flickered her eyes open. "He's always taking the biggest fish too…"
"You got up to join in too?" Hikari asked looking down at Nyaromon and giggling.
"And sometimes he just stands way up there and stares out to the ocean!" Tokomon said getting up from Takeru's lap and looked at the highest tower of blocks.
"And sometimes, he always is on our case for being too silly!" Everyone looked up to see Ken and the other kids with their digimon. Minomon was waving his arms.
"He's always afraid we'll wander off…" Poromon added.
"And he's always saying we should be careful of strangers…" Upamon said from Iori's arms.
"I guess that explains why he was so…aggressive with us…" Miyako said looking back to Flamon. DemiVeemon was passing him a bottle. The demon child smiled and sat on his haunches as he fed a baby and patted DemiVeemon on the head with a bright smile.
"Did you get all of that in Motimon?" Koromon asked.
"I think so!" Motimon said as he finished tapping at the keyboard.
"It's…it's…." Koushiro drooped his head, "complete gibberish…."
"No, see look, I've got all that bit in there…and that…and that!" Motimon said defensively as he pointed at the screen and then tumbled slightly falling forward. The Digimon Analyzer disappeared from the screen and was replaced by a folder. Motimon tilted his head. "What's that?"
"It's just a folder of old pictures…." Koushiro said.
"Hey! That's me!" Motimon said pointing.
Koushiro looked and smiled. "Oh yeah, that's that day we went and bought those bits for the computer I built!"
The other digimon seemed very interested in this as they pushed closer. Koushiro smiled and cycled through the photos. The digimon cheered and were mystified as they saw themselves with their chosen child.
"DemiVeemon, come look!" shouted Minomon.
The little blue dragon looked up and came bounding over. Flamon was with him.
"It's you! It's you!" Poromon giggled as they looked at the picture.
"I remember taking that picture…" Hikari said as she looked at it. "It was that one night we all went camping…."
"Who's that?" DemiVeemon asked, glaring at the picture of the boy in a blue shirt sleeping, his shirt tussled, one leg braced against a tree, his face scrunched up against the grass, his body twisted in an almost impossible shape, and on top of him was DemiVeemon sleeping.
"That's Daisuke…he's…he's your partner…" Hikari said. DemiVeemon looked up at her. Her face was somewhere between a smile and a sob. She lifted her hand to her mouth.
"Are you ok?" Nyaromon asked, looking concernedly at Hikari.
"I'm…I'm…fine…it's just I haven't seen this one in a while…" Hikari said. She closed her eyes. "I thought we'd come here and find him and…."
Quickly enough Sora, Mimi and Miyako were hugging Hikari tightly.
"Maybe that's enough pictures." Koushiro said as he closed the laptop.
"Jeesh, he must be important…" DemiVeemon said looking at Hikari.
"He's very important." Ken said quietly. "He's our leader…"
"Not much of a leader…" Everyone looked up to see Flamon standing there, his arms crossed. "He just ups and disappears on you all, and doesn't even have the decency to show up when you come looking…"
"He got trapped here, because he was fighting against something very dangerous!" Ken growled glaring at Flamon. "He was that kind of guy! He'd sacrifice anything to save his friends, he'd fight any fight, even if he knew he couldn't win!"
"Yeesh…" Flamon said, rolling his eyes. "I'm just coming over here to say that Elecmon has a place for you guys to stay. No point in you looking for this Daisuke of yours tonight…"
"Thank you, Flamon." Taichi said quietly.
"The rest of you…" Flamon said looking to the digimon. "You know what time it is…"
"Awwww!" groaned the little digimon. "We want to stay with our friends…and we want to hear stories!"
"Bed time!" Flamon grunted.
"But just a little while longer!" yelped the digimon.
"You know the rules!" Flamon ordered.
"Perhaps…just tonight, they could stay with our new guests." Elecmon's voice said.
Flamon looked back and scowled. "If we let them…"
"One night will not kill them." Elecmon said twitching his ears. "Plus, Flamon, don't forget, I'm the caretaker, you're just…some help…"
"Yes, Elecmon…" Flamon sighed quietly.
The little digimon cheered as Elecmon led them towards a small area with a fire pit. "Sorry, we don't have any indoor beds. You'll have to make do with what we can offer…"
"It's actually quite ok!" Jyou said smiling brightly at the fire. He was already pulling a sleeping bag out of his bag. "Far better than what we had to deal with the last time we had a first night here…"
Yamato shivered. "Seadramon…."
"Now, we should be just a little bit quieter, the babies are awfully cranky if they are awoken." Elecmon said quietly as he waved a hand to them and started walking towards a row of bassinets. "Sleep well young ones…good dreams…"
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Taichi grunted as he felt a heavy weight drop across his chest. His eyes opened almost without command and he looked down to see a leathery orange hand laying across his chest. Taichi turned his head to see Agumon sleeping at his side. He jumped up and looked around, all the children's partners were in their Rookie form. All of them except for DemiVeemon, who was fidgeting in his sleep next to where Flamon had been when Taichi had turned in.
The red-haired fire demon was missing. Taichi stood up and stretched, as he did so Agumon whimpered and opened his green eyes. What followed was chaos in a bottle. Agumon yelped in surprise waking the others who simultaneous cheered and yelped in surprise as the kids hugged their partners and the digimon looked down at themselves in amazement.
"But how?" Tentomon asked as he buzzed around on new wings.
"It must have been the food you guys ate…" Koushiro theorized.
"But DemiVeemon didn't evolve…" Armadillomon pointed out. Everyone looked over at DemiVeemon. The little plus dragon retreated slightly, a look of shame on his face.
"Maybe it's because his partner isn't around…" Gomamon said, lifting a white flipper.
"Gomamon!" Jyou grumbled with a hiss.
"My, my!" Elecmon's voice rang out from across the village. The red rat was walking towards them. He was surrounded by baby digimon who were blowing bubbles everywhere. "Such progress…amazing…"
"Where's Flamon?" Takeru asked as he looked around.
"Hmmm, probably up there…" Elecmon said grumbling, as he pointed a claw to a high tower of plush blocks. "He goes up there every night after all the babies are tucked in. Says he's keeping a look out." Elecmon frowned slightly. "Not sure for what but whatever it is, Flamon will see it coming…"
The kids looked up at the tower. They squinted in the morning daylight to catch a sight of even a silhouette of the demon.
"He said something about someone like us destroying an island he was on…" Mimi said as she visored her hand over her eyes.
"Yes, he came here months ago with a small boat with some baby digimon, DemiVeemon was one of them…." Elecmon said. "I was at first suspicious but he was so bruised and skinny when he came, and the young ones were so fat…I could only assume he was their caretaker, but I've not yet seen anything or heard of any news from anywhere that suggests such an evil walking the world…."
"He never talks about it?" Sora asked as she looked to Elecmon.
"All the time…but never with much detail." Elecmon replied.
Elecmon's ear twitched slightly. He narrowed his eye and looked up to the sky. The children turned their heads. There was an object coming towards them across the sky, from the ocean.
"Hmm, we've become quite the tourist attraction…" Elecmon said smiling.
Taichi reached into the pocket of his pants and pulled out a small hand scope and leveled to his eyes.
"What is it Tai?" Yamato asked.
"Uh, guys…it looks like Gennai riding on some weird digimon-" Taichi said, lowering the scope.
"What!?" the kids said in surprise.
"I don't know he's sort of kneeling on a giant robot spider…thing-" Taichi said as he looked back up at the digimon through the scope.
Koushiro ran to him and Taichi handed the cinnamon haired boy the scope. Koushiro watched as the digimon circled over the village. "That looks like Gennai but that digimon I've never seen-"
As Koushiro spoke a bolt of fire erupted from the tower that Elecmon had said Flamon had been upon. The digimon tumbled crashing to the top of the tower.
"Is he nuts!?" Miyako shouted.
"We gotta get up there!" Iori said.
"Uh…guys…" Koushiro said as he pointed further towards the horizon. The kids looked to the sky. A dark cloud was forming on the edges of the sky.
"A storm's coming…" Tentomon said.
"It's made of those spider things!" Koushiro said.
"Could Gennai still be…evil?" Iori asked, whispering the last word.
"What Flamon said would make sense if that thing that pretended to be Gennai was the one that attacked his island…." Ken said.
"It'd make what Flamon did understandable…." Jyou said.
"Then we gotta get ready!" DemiVeemon said hopping forward towards Elecmon. "Flamon always says that the monsters that destroyed the island we were born on were a swarm of weird machine things….and now they're coming here!"
"Indeed…" Elecmon said nodding. He looked to the Rookie digimon and DemiVeemon. "Get the babies into their bassinets, I will go to Toy Town, I will get help, if this is an invasion…we have to fight together!"
"What about Flamon?" buzzed Tentomon.
"He can more than take care of himself…" Elecmon said as he looked up at the tower. He shook his head and looked to the other digimon. "Come on, now snap, snap, there's work to be done!"
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Gennai grunted loudly as he rolled from the dissolving machine. He sat up and came face to face with a burning fire.
"So you finally come to this island, too…" the fire spoke. Gennai gulped and refocused and found that the flame was simply the end of a clawed finger attached to a tawny arm, attached to lithe, child-like body with attached to a head crowned by huge amounts of flaming hair and shorn demon-horns. "I am telling you now, don't think you can do what you did on Setup Island…I may have been forced to flee by Leormon, but I'm ready to fight, monster."
"I can see why you may be mista-" Gennai said as he tried to scoot backwards.
"Don't lie to me!" the digimon roared. The flame at the tip of its claw grew larger and changed to a blue color. "You may have changed your robes but your face is the same…."
"Allow me to explain!" shouted Gennai loudly.
"You don't think I can see your armies growing in the west?" the digimon shouted.
"They aren't my armies!" Gennai retorted. He jumped to his feet but instantly regretted it as his stomach burned in pain. He winced and fell to his knee. "I don't even know what kind of digimon it is….or what kind of digimon you are for that matter…" He smirked slightly. "That's new….not knowing…." He winced again and leaned forward bracing himself up by pressing his hand on the plushy surface of the block they were on. "All I know is that it is made by the thing that had control of me, that it was nothing more than programming and circuits…devoid of any independent thought…of any soul…"
"So you admit you were the one that destroyed Setup Island!" the digimon growled.
"That's what you got from all of that!?" Gennai sneered and closed his eyes. "I said I wasn't in control of my body! It wasn't me! It was…." Gennai looked up and lifted his hand up and pointed. "It was him…"
The digimon turned to see what the man was pointing at. It was a digimon, a winged angel but its wings were black as were its toga and hair. The sapphire eyes burned as a cloud of the metallic spiders swarmed around him. The angel looked down at Primary Village below and pointed.
Like a micro-burst, the cloud of robotic spiders rained down on the village. The angel disappeared in a wave of spiders and then seemed to apparate onto the tower that he and the strange digimon were on.
"I found you, clever sprite…" the angel said smiling. "You really didn't think you could steal one of my Gizmon and escape could you?"
"I don't know, you look like a inverted Kid Icarus character…and Pit's kinda dumb…" Gennai said, smirking to himself.
The angel frowned and flicked his hand. Gennai felt the punch, or the force of the concussion that smashed into his chest and sent him rolling backward. His right arm hung over the edge of the toward and his left hand clenched grabbing onto the plush fabric, keeping him from going over the end.
"I don't know if I should be proud or scared…" Gennai said quietly, as he looked up at the angel. "Should I be proud that the ultimate emptiness that was in my head, understood that pop culture reference that I made…or should I be terrified at the fact that the ultimate emptiness would be so enraged by such a petty comment that he would respond with violence…"
"You shouldn't fear at all, Gennai…." the angel said glaring at the sprite. "For soon, you and everything on this island will be saved…"
"You say that…" Gennai said as he looked over the edge and heard the crying babies, and then he saw the bursts of light. He smiled as he turned to looking to the angel, "but all I see is a monster being cruel to babies…"
"NOVA BLAST!" a massive fire ball erupted from behind Gennai.
"HOWLING BLASTER!"
"ELECTRO SHOCKER!"
"Meteor WING!"
"Needle Spray!"
"Hand of Fate!"
"Lightning Paw!"
"Stinging Strike!"
"Blast Rings!"
"Tail Hammer!"
Gennai stood dusting off his robes. "…and the heroes who fight the monsters…."
"Fools…they came back…" the angel narrowed his eyes. "And here I'd hoped this time I could just clean up the mess…"
"You're the one that destroyed Setup Island?" Flamon said, the little fire demon was glaring at the angel.
"Yeah, he did it so he could get that body, undoubtedly…" Gennai said, narrowing his eyes. "He's got a grand plan, or so he thinks, but I think it's going to fall apart…"
"Not just this body, with all that data I was able to greatly increase my ranks…" the angel said smugly. "Each digimon processed, and reconstituted into a more perfect form…"
"HA! More perfect! You took out the only thing that makes a digimon a digimon, and not just some icon on a desktop!" Gennai growled.
"I removed all those horrible, little, noisome, thoughts. I removed their pain, their suffering, their sadness and their pain…" the angel returned.
"And their love, their hope, their happiness and glee!" Gennai snarled. "You cut out their hearts and incinerated them, and then twisted their bodies into those cybernetic shells!"
"They…" The fire digimon looked as the sky swirled with the spider creatures. "They were digimon? Digmon from the island?" Gennai watched the fire demon as he clenched his fist. "Leormon…one of those digimon was Leormon! You killed him and turned him into one of those things!?" Flamon glared at the angel. The digimon's arm was a blaze of swirling flames. "You will pay!"
"Wait-" Gennai shouted as the demon leapt forward.
The angel simply quirked its eyebrow, and like a rubber ball hitting a glass wall, the fire demon rebounded off of the air and crashed backwards a few feet from Gennai.
"Such an insolent, little thing." the angel said, turning to the demon as it slowly rose to its feet, its fangs clenched tightly as a growl rumbled from its throat. The angel lazily lifted a hand and slowly pointed a finger. "I shall have to teach you how tiny you really are…." The angel tilted its head. "Your entire existence is nothing more than pithy little equation. And with the artful application of the right co-variants…" a black dot formed at the tip of the angel's finger, "one can simply zero you out completely…"
The demon roared loudly and the angel flicked his finger, and Gennai did something he would routinely chastise almost anyone else for doing. He leapt and pushed the demon off of the tower as the dot embedded itself into his chest. Gennai was surprised at first, it hadn't hurt as much as he had expected, but then the initial wave of adrenaline passed and he screamed in excruciating pain as the very fiber of his being burned with an inexplicable electrical charge.
Gennai dropped to the ground heaving loudly. He looked up to see the angel looking down to him.
"You probably thought that since you weren't that little hot head, that maybe you could survive it, because I was being precise…" the angel said, his arms folded over his chest and shaking his head, "Typical for an ephemeral, you failed to see the big picture, specifically, that I'd still be here to finish the job…"
The angel lifted his leg and then kicked Gennai and Gennai felt the weird sensation of twisting through the sky. In his blinking vision, his mind screaming alarms, still he clearly wondered if this was how the children felt when they were first dragged to the Digital World, as he watched the blur of the Digital World's ground and then sky spiral in and out of view as he tumbled through the air, the ground becoming increasingly larger and the sky increasingly smaller until…well until the spinning stopped.
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Miyako dove behind a plush block as explosions erupted throughout the village. Babies were crying in bassinets as the robot spiders fired lasers that lanced through the blocks and started fires. Somehow, someway the digivices had reacted and their partner digimon had evolved and were fighting the battles in the skies and ground.
She looked over to see Ken and Hikari holding DemiVeemon. The little blue dragon was crying, covering his head with his tiny hands. Then the little dragon looked up.
"FLAMON!" yelped the little dragon as he pointed. A figure was seen falling from the tower.
DemiVeemon flailed in Ken and Hikari's arms and then rested himself free, bounding through the explosions and the flames.
"DemiVeemon!" Hikari screamed as she got up and ran after the digimon.
"Hikari wait!" Miyako shouted as she jumped up, Ken was already in a sprint after the girl.
The ground shook from the fighting. Hikari seemed to bounce and weave through the legs of Greymon and Garurumon. Ken dodged in and around Togemon and Ankylomon. Miyako was running straight behind them when her vision was filled with white as her face planted into the rear-end of Ikakkumon. She struggled extracting herself from the heavy white fur and bounced slightly as she fell to the ground.
"What are you doing?" Jyou shouted.
"They ran off…I think…" Miyako shouted as she pointed, but stopped as soon as she realized the silence. Everything had stopped. The spider digimon were just hovering there. She looked up and saw the angel descend. She swallowed loudly.
"So, Chosen Ones, you don't learn your lessons do you?" the angels asked loudly. "I'd have thought that the loss of your number would be a deterrent, that the loss of the Digital World that you defended would be enough…that simple fact that you are no longer remembered, no longer wanted….would be enough…I should have guessed, the greed and self-importance of ephemerals knows no end…."
"We came for Daisuke Motomiya!" Miyako looked up to see Taichi walking forward. "Where is he?"
"Deleted…lost to the world, everything foreign to this world was erased." the angel returned. It's blue eyes blazed from under its black hair.
"NO!" Hikari screamed.
"You were foreign to this world!" Ken said loudly. He looked up at the angel. "You are that thing that took over Gennai right? You sound like him…you are still here!"
"I am not foreign to this world…" the angel said quietly. "Quite the inverse, this world is foreign to myself, and I will see it ended so I can return to my peace." The angel took a deep breath. "But I suppose I will have to evict you first, and then when I've finally rid myself of these destined heroes I can finally finish this long, long awaited work."
"We won't let you!" growled Greymon as the massive blue and orange tiger striped tyrannosaur said as he pushed himself between the angel and the children. He was followed by Garurumon, and the other Champion digimon.
"You don't have a choice in the matter." The angel growled, its blue eyes glaring forward.
"We'll see about that!" Angemon shouted as the angel clenched his fists. "Hand of FATE!"
What followed was a chorus of attacks, fire balls, missiles, needles, rocks and rings of sonic energy. Each attack flaring towards the angel. The angel simply lifted his hand, opening his palm. The attacks froze and then melted away as if they were nothing more than a fog.
"Silence you foul, little things…" The angel's hand curled and he snapped his fingers.
Miyako winced as the sound reverberated. She looked up to see Hawkmon falling towards the plush ground. She ran to the little, brick-red hawk, catching him before he crashed to the ground. He groaned loudly as she stroked his feathers. She looked over to see the other kids kneeling next to their partners, each one reverted to their Rookie form.
"Now, I am feeling…charitable…." The angel said as he looked down at them. "I'm more than willing to destroy you and your partners, and this entire village all in one…fairly large fell swoop…"
"You can't!" Mimi yelped, looking up at the angel. "All the babies!"
"I most certainly can…" the angel said, a smile playing across his face.
"They are innocent, they've never hurt anyone!" Mimi yelled.
"Wrong…their very existence is a wound that cuts me deeper than any wound could…" the angel replied, his eyes narrowed. "They are a disgusting curse that has been applied to me….and I will see it ended…every child, every baby, every living and non-living thing in this world will go…I will obliterate them all…and you, you will be the first to fa-"
"No one, is getting destroyed today…." a feral growl erupted from behind the angel. A figure was standing on the other side of the angel, beside it was DemiVeemon. Flames were engulfing the figure. Miyako thought she saw a shape in the flames, large wings, a vague dragon like look, but with a human face.
The angel sneered and turned. "You are a persistent thing aren't you, you really should've taken your chance and run…."
"Shut up!" the figure snarled as its flaming arms lifted. A ball of fire simply expanded into existence above its head. "I'm done with watching others die…of running away…of listening to YOU! No one is falling…no one except for you!"
"Pathetic…" the angel growled. "Empty threats…."
"Burn-" snarled the figure and the ball of fire condensed and then rocketed forward.
The angel screamed loudly as his entire body erupted in flames. The angel burned for only a few seconds, but when the flames dispersed the angel dropped to the ground his body smoking his skin covered in burns. The figure that had assaulted him collapsed the flames, falling away revealing Flamon as DemiVeemon bounced to the little digimon's side.
The kids all slowly approached the angel. The angel gasped loudly, prompting the children to leap backwards in terror.
"How…how…" the angel hissed loudly as he rose to his hands and feet. He clenched his fists and glared at the limp Flamon. He lifted his charred arm and pointed. "It changes nothing except the order of executions…you will die first!"
DemiVeemon leapt forward; light seemed to burn around him and he charged forward.
"DemiVeemon Digivolve to….VEEMON!" A blue blur flew forward. "V-HEADBUTT!"
The glowing V on the blue dragon's forehead slammed into the angel and the twelve-winged creature was sent flailing head over feet.
He crashed to the ground and tried to stand, but winced, falling forward. He growled loudly glaring at the positively glowing Veemon. "My Gizmon…" The spider horde descended to the angel, lifting the angel up. The little angel huffed and glared to them. "I will not falter, I will not fall, I will see my peace fulfilled…"
And then the horde of spiders rocketed away.
"Well, that happened…" Jyou said, as he adjusted his glasses.
"What the hell was that!?" Yamato shouted.
"He…" a voice came from behind the children. Miyako turned to see Gennai, the Gennai she knew with the beige Jedi robes, laying limply against a toppled pile of plush blocks. Gennai winced. "He's the end of the world…"
"Your hurt!" Mimi shouted as she ran to him.
"I'm glad the obvious hasn't escaped-" Gennai coughed loudly. "Oh, it hurts too much to be sarcastic…"
The other kids were quick to run to him, except for Hikari and Ken who were helping Flamon to his feet. Veemon was already bracing Flamon up. They soon joined the others. Gennai weakly lifted his hand and tried to wave them to stand back but they were insistent. Jyou was already unpacking gauze and salves.
"So, it wasn't really you that caused all of those problems…" Koushiro said, in a relieved voice.
"Eh…" Gennai said, as he tried to look up at Koushiro. "I made a few mistakes of judgment that let it happen…"
"But but..." Koushiro started.
"I'm sorry…" Gennai said, as he took a deep breath. He grunted and looked at his hands. Miyako gasped slightly as she saw a jitter, the outline of his body got fuzzy. "This old body of mine…it's wearing a bit thin…."
"Just hold on, I've got something, here!" Jyou yelped as he was diving through his medical bag. He pulled out a bottle. "Here, take an aspirin…"
"Oh, I shouldn't think so…" Gennai said quietly as he waved off the pills. He leaned his head against the plush bricks he was laying against. "Should've been taking my digi-vitamins...too late now…"
The outline of Gennai's body became indistinct, the core of it glowed. The children stood back as the core shrunk and then, and then seemed to solidify. It coalesced and then a new outline formed around the core.
"Who's that?" Iori asked as he looked and watched an old man's body form in front of them, a large bulbous nose, a thing bob of hair on top of a bald head with a wrinkly face and moustache. The beige robes replaced by black and red robs.
"He…" Takeru started.
"He turned back…" Koushiro said as he looked down at the old man sleeping on the ground in front of them.
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AN: Work started so I was busy…this should've been out last week…Sorry guys….
But none the less, the adventure advances….