Episode 3: Defeat Beelzebumon! Attack Omegamon!
It was now the next morning from the day the six Chosen Children and their digimon had left for the Digital World in their quest to defeat the Seven Great Demon Lords. Koushiro had invited the rest of the children to his house this morning to update them on what was happening with their comrades. So they were in his room once again waiting for him to tell them the news.
On the bed sat Mimi and Sora. Palmon and Piyomon sat in their laps. Standing in front of Koushiro's bookshelf was Jyou. He held Gomamon in his arms. Miyako and Iori sat on the floor. Miyako held Hawkmon in her lap, while Armadimon sat beside Iori. Koushiro sat in his computer chair facing the group, with Tentomon standing on the floor beside him.
With a smile Koushiro began, "I have some good news this morning." This got everyone excited. Mimi and Sora turned to each other with smiles on their face, as did their digimon. Jyou looked down at Gomamon, who looked back up at him. Both had smiles on their face.
"Finally some good news." Miyako said with a smile on her face.
"What is it anyways?" Iori asked.
"Taichi and the others have defeated Lilithmon." Koushiro told him with a smile on his face. He couldn't believe the news when Ken told him via e-mail last night. He thought it would have taken longer to defeat just one of the Demon Lords.
"Really? Alright!" Sora gave Mimi a high five. The two began to laugh in excitement.
"I knew they could do it!" Gomamon said as he hopped onto Jyou's head in his excitement. Luckily Jyou didn't mind and just pumped his fists up.
"Yeah, it's only a matter of time now until they have defeated them all!" He said in glee.
"That's great news, Koushiro." Iori said as he tried to stop Armadimon from crushing him in his excitement.
"So, give us the details. How did they do it?" Miyako inquired.
"Yeah, give us all the details you know!" Mimi told Koushiro.
"Well from what I understand from the e-mail Ken sent me, Lilithmon used her powers to take control of WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, Imperialdramon, and HolyAngemon. She then had them attack Angewomon, who she couldn't control. Angewomon managed to dodge the attacks from the controlled digimon and attack Lilithmon. Unfortunately she couldn't hit and in her rage, Lilithmon attacked Angewomon with her Phantom Pain, an attack which slowly kills those hit with hit. It was then that Hikari managed to unlock the true power of her Crest of Light as the Golden Crest of Destiny, allowing Angewomon to evolve to her ultimate form, Ophanimon. Ophanimon was able to free the controlled digimon and defeat Lilithmon." Koushiro finished explaining what he knew about the fight the others had with Lilithmon. The rest of the children's mouths were hanging open when he finished.
"Wow that sounded like a close battle." Iori commented.
"Still, I wish I could have been there to see it." Sora said, "Especially to see Angewomon evolve. I remember the first time Tailmon evolved into Angewomon. At the time it was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen. I wonder what Ophanimon looks like."
"Luckily for you, Ken sent me Ophanimon's data with his e-mail." Koushiro turned to his laptop and pulled up Ophanimon on his digimon analyzer. Everyone gathered around to see it.
"Cool..." Miyako commented as she looked over the data.
"Really, she's the third highest rank of angel digimon..." Jyou trailed off as he read, "I wonder what that means."
"I was wondering that myself," Koushiro said as he pulled up a web page on the Internet on Christian angelic hierarchy, "So I did some research. I think it refers to the three highest ranks of angels in Christian angelic hierarchy, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Ophanim." He scrolled the page down over that information.
"Ophanim... That must be where the name Ophanimon comes from." Jyou commented as he looked over the page.
"So if there is a digimon for Ophanim, I wonder if there is also a digimon for Seraphim and Cherubim. If so who are they?" Iori pondered.
"I would say that it's most likely that there are. Since Angewomon evolved into one of them, it seems likely that HolyAngemon will evolve into another. I don't know who could possibly become the third though. There are hundreds of Chosen Children around the world though, maybe if we can start contacting them, we can find someone paired up with the third... Perhaps Gennai knows something..." Koushiro trailed off.
"Yeah, maybe having all three is the key to defeating all seven of the Great Demon Lords." Iori pondered some more.
"Yeah, but I wonder why there is only three great angels when there are seven great demons. Seems a little unfair to me." Miyako commented.
"Anyways guys, along with the good news comes a tiny bit of bad news." Koushiro told them as he turned back to the group.
"Huh, what could possibly be bad after winning a battle?" Mimi asked confused.
"Well, it appears evolving to Ophanimon used up a lot of energy, so much that Tailmon regenerated all the way down to her baby form, Nyaromon." The boy explained, causing the group to gasp in shock.
"But after evolving to Angewomon for the first time she only regenerated to Tailmon. When I asked her about it she said it was because she possessed higher discipline from the rest of our digimon. In fact the only time she's regenerated to her child form, Plotmon, after evolving to Angewomon was when she gave her energy to allow Agumon to warp evolve to WarGreymon for the first time." Mimi said, not believing it.
"Yeah and even when her and Aquilamon jogressed into Silphymon, she only regenerated into Plotmon while Hawkmon became his newborn form Pururumon." Miyako continued. Koushiro nodded.
"And this is why she may be unable to fight the next time they are attacked by one of the Demon Lords." He concluded, "I just hope the others can handle it."
The sun rose over the Digital World, waking the six sleeping Chosen Children and their digimon. Looking beside her, Hikari was happy to find that Nyaromon had evolved into her child form Plotmon during the night. Happily, she embraced her digimon in a hug.
"Plotmon, you evolved!" She cried.
"Yup, it shouldn't be long now before I'm Tailmon again." Plotmon told her. Pulling the digimon away from her body, Hikari nodded at her. Taichi walked over beside his sister.
"Still, I doubt she'll be able to fight anytime soon and who knows when the next Demon Lord may attack us." It was after that he finished saying this that there was a long bang and something flew by their group into a bolder, causing it to explode into pieces.
"Really, you're not ready to fight." A voice said. They all looked to see it was Beelzebumon, "Because I sure am!" The group had looks of shock on their faces.
"Figures this would happen." Daisuke turned to his digimon, "V-mon!"
With a nod V-mon pumped up his fists, "Right!"
Ken turned to his own digimon, "Wormmon, you ready?" His digimon nodded in response and ran forwards with V-mon. They then evolved all the way to Imperialdramon Fighter Mode.
Takeru turned to Hikari, "You just leave him to us. You two need to rest." He told her then turned to Patamon, "Go Patamon!" Patamon flew forwards and evolved to HolyAngemon. He and Imperialdramon started an attack on Beelzebumon.
"Positron Laser!" cried Imperialdramon fired his attack from his arm at Beelzebumon, who jumped out of the way of the attack.
"Excalibur!" cried HolyAngemon as he lunged at Beelzebumon with the sword on his arm fully extended. Beelzebumon raised up one of his guns to parry the sword and HolyAngemon to the ground. With a laugh he pointed the gun at HolyAngemon.
"What are you going to do now you lousy angel piece of shit?" He asked in a threatening voice as HolyAngemon slowly got back up and raised his Excalibur once again.
"Heaven's Gate!" he cried as he drew a circle to open up the gate which began to suck Beelzebumon in.
Scowling, the demon raised up both his guns. "Don't think you'll defeat me this easily. Double Impact!" He began rapidly firing his guns into the gate. This caused an explosion inside the gate, which closed it and turned it into data. Everyone gasped.
"He beat Heaven's Gate!" cried Takeru in disbelief. He had never seen that happen before. The only digimon to ever escape being sucked in the gate before was BlackWarGreymon, but that was only because he destroyed the Holy Stone making HolyAngemon lose his power and regenerate to Patamon.
Taichi turned to Agumon, "Go help him!"
"Sure thing, Taichi." Agumon warp evolved into WarGreymon and attacked. "Gaia Force!" he cried as he unleashed a ball of energy at Beelzebumon and hit. When the dust cleared, everyone was surprised to find the demon digimon still standing.
"No way..." Taichi trailed off in disbelief. Beelzebumon pointed his right hand gun at WarGreymon.
Gabumon turned to his partner, "Yamato, I should go help him." Yamato nodded and raised his digivices, allowing Gabumon to warp evolve to MetalGarurumon. The ultimate level digimon prepared his attack. "Cocytus Breath!" he cried as he fired a wave of ice from his mouth. It hit Beelzebumon's right arm, freezing it and his gun.
The demon digimon turned his head to MetalGarurumon. "Too bad, I still have another arm. Double Impact!" He screamed and fired his attack at MetalGarurumon, knocking him out of the air.
"No! MetalGarurumon!" Yamato screamed as he ran over to his digimon who lay wounded on the ground.
After breaking the ice encasing his arm, Beelzebumon turned his attention back to WarGreymon. "Double Impact!" He fired at WarGreymon, causing him to join his companion on the ground.
"WarGreymon!" cried Taichi as he ran over to him. While he was doing this, Imperialdramon and HolyAngemon commenced their attack to distract Beelzebumon.
"If only I could evolve into Ophanimon again..." Plotmon said as she watched her comrades fight. Sadly, Hikari looked down at the digimon she held in her arms.
"I know, but you need to regain your strength." She told her and looked back up to the battle.
Taichi and Yamato kneeled beside their digimon. "I think we should retreat for now." Yamato said. Taichi turned to him in shock.
"What? Retreat? Have you lost your mind?" He screamed at his friend. Angrily, Yamato turned to him.
"No, I haven't, but in case you haven't noticed, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon are too injured to continue fighting, Plotmon still needs to regain her energy from evolving into Ophanimon, and Imperialdramon and HolyAngemon aren't doing much good against Beelzebumon!" Yamato pointed out.
"Well maybe you have a point," Taichi hollered back, "but how do you suggest we retreat? I don't think Beelzebumon is just going to let us walk away." He grabbed Yamato around the collar of his shirt.
"Well maybe Imperialdramon and HolyAngemon can distract him enough for us to make our escape." Yamato yelled back in the other boy's face, also grabbing his shirt's collar. Angrily, Taichi punched him in the face, knocking both of them to the ground.
"Haven't you noticed they are already doing that?" Taichi screamed. Yamato punched him back and the two boys rolled around fighting on the ground.
Beelzebumon had knocked both Imperialdramon and HolyAngemon to the ground and turned to the two boys with a laugh. "Really now, fighting among friends? How wonderful!" He laughed out as he raised both his guns and pointed them at the two. "You will die hating each other. Double Impact!" With that he fired at the both of them. Time seemed to slow down as the two bullets sped towards them.
"Onii-chan!" Both Takeru and Hikari cried as they watched what was happening before them.
Taichi and Yamato watched in horror as the bullets symbolizing their demise came towards them. Their heartbeats sped up in sync and they could practically feel it. Both their digivices started to glow, sending the light to both WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon whose injuries seemed to heel. A power that they had felt before spread through them.
"WarGreymon!" WarGreymon floated up.
"MetalGarurumon!" MetalGarurumon floated up.
"Jogress evolve!" They both cried out at the same time. Both of their bodies glowed and retracted into their heads. A body of light formed between the two. Out of WarGreymon's head came an arm which attached itself to the left side of the body, with the Brave Shield as a shoulder pad. Another arm came out of MetalGarurumon's head and attached itself to the right side of the body. It had metal spikes as a shoulder pad. Finally a cape appeared on the new digimon. "Omegamon!" It cried out in both WarGreymon's and MetalGarurumon's voices.
Omegamon stepped in front of Taichi and Yamato, its left shoulder facing out so that the bullets with deflect off of the Brave shield. Both boys behind him had their eyes closed, waiting for the impact. Omegamon face turned to them. "Taichi, Yamato, are you alright?" He asked in WarGreymon's voice. Both boys opened their eyes and gasped when they saw their digimon.
"Omegamon..." Taichi said stunned. So far he had only seen their digimon jogress to fight Diablomon. He and Yamato had never figured out how to get them to jogress any other time.
"You saved us..." Yamato trailed off, just as stunned as Taichi. After having just fought with his friend, the last thing he expected was for their digimon to jogress.
Beelzebumon snarled at the jogressed digimon. "Do you think jogressing will allow you to win? I'm still the strongest one here! Double Impact!" He fired more bullets at the jogressed digimon.
Omegamon turned fully to the demon digimon, raising the MetalGarurumon head on its right arm. The mouth of it opened up to reveal a cannon. "Garuru Cannon!" He cried in both voices as he fired a shot from the cannon. The attack froze the bullets in mid air and Beelzebumon who stood behind them. With his enemy frozen, Omegamon raised up his left arm and a sword came out of the WarGreymon head. He charged at the frozen demon. "Grey Sword!" He slashed diagonally at his opponent, slicing him. Beelzebumon's body fell apart from the slice and turned into data.
"Alright, we did it!" Daisuke cried out in excitement. "Only five more Demon Lords to go!"
"Way to go, Omegamon!" Taichi congratulated his and Yamato's digimon. The jogressed digimon turned to face them and degenerated into Koromon and Tsunomon. The two baby digimon hopped over to their partners to celebrate.
"I should e-mail Koushiro to tell him about this." Ken pulled out his D-Terminal and was surprised to find he had received mail from Koushiro awhile ago and never noticed. He opened it up to read it and gasped.
"What is it?" Daisuke asked him.
"Koushiro and the others think they may have found out something important that will help us defeat the Seven Great Demon Lords." Ken told them. Everyone gasped.
"Well what is it?" Takeru asked as he walked towards Ken.
"Well after examining Ophanimon's data and doing some research, they believe she is based off of the third highest rank of angels of the Christian angelic hierarchy, Ophanim. The other two are Seraphim and Cherubim. Koushiro believes HolyAngemon ultimate evolution will represent one of these and that there is another digimon to represent the last one. He and the rest of the Chosen Children are getting in contact with the Chosen Children around the world to see if any of them are partnered with the last one or know anything, as they believe having all three great angel digimon is key to defeating the Seven Great Demon Lords." Ken explained after reading the e-mail over a few times to understand it.
Takeru nodded, "That makes sense."
"I agree with Takeru." Hikari said.
"Huh, no it doesn't!" Daisuke burst out, "Why are there only three great angels when there are seven great demon lords? The angels seem rather outnumbered if you ask me." Everyone thought about it.
"I wouldn't worry too much about it, Daisuke." Takeru finally told him, "There always have seemed to be more fallen angel digimon then regular angel digimon. In fact I've never even seen another angel digimon besides mine and Hikari's, but the fallen angels have yet to take over yet. I'm sure even with the uneven numbers, we still stand a pretty good chance here."
"Takeru's right. As long as we have the power of light on our side, we will always stand a chance." As she said this, Plotmon shone brightly in light right in her arms. When the light faded, she was Tailmon again.
"Oh, now you regain your energy." Taichi said sarcastically.
"Well sorry." Tailmon shot back and burst into laughter.
"Well the good news is that it appears Ophanimon will be available to fight against the next Demon Lord." Hikari said as she gave Tailmon a hug. Tailmon nodded.
"Should be a piece of cake with both Ophanimon and Omegamon." She said. Patamon flew in front of her.
"And maybe if I evolve to ultimate it will be a breeze." He said excitedly. Everyone nodded and laughed.
Back in the dark cave that was the lair of the Seven Great Demon Lords, Lucemon stepped in front of his fellow demons.
"The Chosen Children has defeated Beelzebumon. Who would like to step up to the plate next?" He addressed the demons around him. Barbamon stepped up.
"I will go next." He said, "Those Chosen Children will be crushed by my hoard of fallen angel digimon! I will rule both this world and the human world and there is nothing that can stop me!" He burst into evil laughter.
To Be Continued...