Episode 4: Barbamon the Master of Fallen Angel Digimon
Barbamon walked in front of a group of fallen angel digimon laughing hysterically. They were all in front of a very familiar gate. He had waited so long for this. At last both the Digital World and the human world would be his. Turning to face the digimon he spoke, "Comrades, at last our moment of triumph has come!" The digimon let out a cheer. "I want you Deathmon to come with me." He turned to a large swarm of small grey digimon. They had one giant eye on their heads and a mini eye of each of their palms. They had red tattered wings on their back.
"Right!" They cheered out, raising one claws hand each.
"As for the rest of you," Barbamon turned to the gate he was standing in front of, "only the weakest of the Chosen Children were left to defend the human world." He rose up is arms, beginning a chant. Nine cards floated up and arranged themselves on a stone slab right in front of him. With a glow, the gate before them opened up. "You should have no problem taking over the human world for me. Now go my minions!"
Letting out a battle cry, the small group of fallen angel digimon behind him marched through the open gate. Once they were all through, the gate closed and Barbamon turned back to the Deathmon. "Now let us go greet the rest of the Chosen Children." Crackling manically, he led the Deathmon out of the cave.
In the human world, the Chosen Children had yet to leave Koushiro's house. Koushiro had just received his latest update from Ken so he informed the group on what was going on with their friends.
"They defeated Beelzebumon." He told them happily. "Apparently WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon jogressed to Omegamon and took him out."
"Alright! Omegamon is so cool!" Miyako cried out, remembering the spring of 2000 when she had sent all those e-mails to the original Chosen Children as they fought Diablomon. That had been the first time that WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon had jogressed into Omegamon.
"More good news is that Tailmon has regained her energy so Ophanimon will be available for the next fight." Koushiro finished summarizing the e-mail.
"Well that's good." Sora said. Before anything else could happen, Yoshie opened the door.
"I'm sorry to bother you kids," she said, "but there is a report on TV just now about evil digimon appearing in Hikarigaoka." With a gasp, the Chosen Children left Koushiro's room and made their way into the living room where the TV was.
"If you are just joining us," The reporter said almost ironically, "a group of almost certainly evil digimon have appeared in Hikarigaoka just moments ago." The report showed a shot of six digimon, zooming in on each of them. "It is unclear if they are related to the swarm of Evilmon that attacked just yesterday, but officials advise citizens to stay as far away from them as possible"
"Who are these guys?" Iori asked.
"Well I recognized Devimon and LadyDevimon." Sora said, but I've never seen the rest of them before." Koushiro went back to his room to fetch his laptop. Once he had it he pulled up their data on his digimon analyzer.
"The one that looked like a white version of Devimon is IceDevimon." Koushiro started, "He's an adult level fallen angel digimon." He pulled up the next digimon, "The one that looked like a beast is Mephismon, a perfect level fallen angel digimon. The white one with the black pants and horns is NeoDevimon, another perfect level fallen angel. The last one with the pitch fork is Phelesmon. He is also a perfect level fallen angel."
Jyou had a nervous look on his face. "What's with all these fallen angels appearing?" He asked.
"I don't know." Koushiro told him, "But I think we should head down to Hikarigaoka and fight them."
"But our digimon have never been any good at fighting fallen angels." Mimi pointed out.
"I know, but there is no one else to fight them right now." Koushiro turned to Jyou, "Go get your car ready, I'll be down there as soon as I send a quick e-mail to Ken and the others."
Jyou who had just recently gotten his driver's license nodded. "Right!" He turned to the rest of the group, "Let's move out guys."
The other six Chosen Children and their digimon were taking a break when Ken received Koushiro's e-mail. When he read it he let out a gasp.
"Guys, we got a big problem." He said, grabbing the rests attention.
"What is it, Ken?" Daisuke asked as the group gathered around Ken.
"Six fallen angel digimon have appeared in Hikarigaoka." He told them, causing them to gasp. "Koushiro sent me their data." He attached his digimon analyzer to his D-Terminal to transfer the data. Once that was done, he started to display the data to the rest of the group.
"Well, we've faced Devimon and LadyDevimon before, but we haven't even seen the rest before." Taichi said once seeing all the data.
"I wonder if the others can handle this. I know they're only up against two adults and four perfects, but none of our digimon have any been very good against fallen angels without Patamon's and Tailmon's help." Yamato commented. Takeru thought for a moment.
"Maybe Hikari and I should head to Hikarigaoka to help them." He suggested. Just as he said this, they were approached by many flying creatures.
"That's a good idea, Takeru," Hikari told him, "but I think we got bigger problems right here." She faced the approaching digimon.
"What are those?" Daisuke asked. Ken looked them up on the digimon analyzer.
"Those are Deathmon." He said. "They are ultimate level demon lord digimon. Their special attacks are Death Arrow and Explosion Eye." The group then spotted something amongst the Deathmon.
"Look, its Barbamon!" Taichi said. Ken pulled up Barbamon's data on the analyzer to confirm something.
"Yes, it all makes sense now." He said with a scowl on his face as he looked back up at Barbamon, "Barbamon has the ability to manipulate fallen angel digimon as well as Deathmon. I bet he's the one who sent those fallen angel digimon to Hikarigaoka." This caused the rest to scowl at Barbamon as well.
"That bastard!" Daisuke cursed, "Let's get him!" As everyone evolved, Ken quickly wrote Koushiro an e-mail.
Jyou had almost reached Hikarigaoka. Everyone else was waiting as patiently as they could to arrive. Who knew what these fallen angels would do during the time it took them to get there. Miyako let out a sigh.
"Can we really win?" She asked, kind of depressed and useless.
"Don't worry, Miyako. I'm sure we'll find away." Hawkmon told her from her lap.
"But Hawkmon, you can't even evolve to the perfect level on your own. Neither can Armadimon." Miyako pointed own. Iori looked down at Armadimon who he held in his lap.
"You're right. That is kind of depressing." He agreed.
"We're pretty useless." Miyako mumbled.
"Cheer up, Miyako!" Hawkmon told her, "You can be useful. Just whack LadyDevimon with a skateboard." Everyone in the car burst into laughter, having heard the story of how Miyako had whacked LadyDevimon with a skateboard when Silphymon fought her during the holiday season of 2002.
"Hey, that isn't funny!" Miyako yelled at them. The laughter stopped when Koushiro's D-Terminal started beeping. He pulled it out and read the e-mail Ken had sent him.
"Barbamon have confronted the others with a swarm of Deathmon." He told everyone in the car, "Ken thinks he may be behind all the fallen angels in Hikarigaoka since he has the ability to manipulate fallen angels and Deathmon."
"That makes sense." Jyou commented as he finally pulled into Hikarigaoka. It wasn't long before the fallen angels were spotted. Jyou stopped the car and everyone piled out of the car.
"Everyone evolve now!" Sora cried out. Piyomon, Tentomon, Gomamon, and Palmon all evolved to their perfect level. Miyako and Iori looked on with doubt in their eyes. They really did feel useless right now. Mimi walked up beside them.
"Just do what you guys can." She told them, "After all Takeru and Hikari didn't give up three years ago when their digimon couldn't evolve to the perfect level." Iori nodded.
"You're right. They didn't give up and neither will I!" He turned to his digimon and raised his D-3, "Armadimon!" His D-3 let off a glow and light surrounded Armadimon.
"Armadimon Evolve!" The digimon cried out as he spun around and with a flash turned into his new form. "Ankylomon!"
Miyako still looked unsure. Hawkmon reached up to her hand. "Come on, Miyako." He told her, "I'm still in a better position than Tailmon was three years ago, having lost her holy ring and being unable to evolve to Angewomon. I still got all my power even if I can't become Silphymon." Miyako smiled at this and rose up her D-3.
"You're right, Hawkmon. Now go get them!" She said. Her D-3 glowed and light surrounded Hawkmon.
"Hawkmon Evolve!" He cried out as he spun around and with a flash he too was in his new form. "Aquilamon!"
"Now go get them!" Miyako cried as their digimon charged forwards. The fallen angels took notice to them.
"Oh look, these children think they are a match for us." LadyDevimon said in a mocking voice.
"Well now, we can't have that." Devimon faced the approaching digimon raising his hands, "Death Hand!" He shot energy out of his hands at the digimon, which knocked Aquilamon and Garudamon from the sky.
Ankylomon charged at Devimon and leapt into the air. "Megaton Press!" He cried as he landed on top of the fallen angel digimon, pressing him to the ground. He then leapt off the digimon. "Tail Hammer!" He began beating Devimon with the spiked iron ball on his tail.
"We'll help." AtlurKabuterimon said as he and Zudomon rushed beside Ankylomon. "Horn Buster!" He fired lightening from his horn at Devimon.
"Hammer Spark!" cried Zudomon as he struck the ground with his hammer, sending a shock wave at Devimon. The two attacks hit the fallen digimon, killing him.
"Aquilamon, focus on IceDevimon now!" Miyako ordered her digimon.
"Alright Miyako!" Aquilamon flew at the icy fallen angel. "Glide Horn!" He cried as he slammed his horns into the digimon, knocking him to the ground. Garudamon and Lilimon flew above him.
"Shadow Wing!" cried out Garudamon as she unleashed her bird shaped attack.
"Flower Cannon!" Lilimon cried as she fired her cannon. The two attacks hit IceDevimon and he was also killed. The Chosen Children cheered.
"Don't get too excited, Chosen Children." LadyDevimon told them, "Those two were the weakest of us. You still have us to deal with. Darkness Wave!" Hundreds of bats flew out from seemly nowhere at the digimon.
As this was happening, the other six Chosen Children were locked in a battle with a whole swarm of Deathmon. Barbamon currently sat to the side, watching the battle.
"Garuru Cannon!" Omegamon cried as he fired a blast of ice from his cannon at a group of Deathmon, turning them to ice and killing them.
"Positron Laser!" cried Imperialdramon as he fired the laser at the swarm. It ploughed through the swarm killing every Deathmon it touched.
"Eden's Javelin!" Ophanimon unleashed a beam of light from her javelin. The Deathmon hit with the attack screamed as they died from the attack.
"Excalibur!" cried HolyAngemon as he cut down the Deathmon around him. Even after all this, there was still a countless number of Deathmon left. "I guess it's time to pull out the bug guns. Heaven's Gate!" HolyAngemon opened up the gate, which began to suck in all the Deathmon around it. Smiling, HolyAngemon turned to his comrades. "Try to blast the remaining Deathmon into the gate." He told them.
"Right." Omegamon, Imperialdramon, and Ophanimon moved beside each other so that they were facing all the remaining Deathmon and the gate. Simultaneously, they unleashed their attacks causing a large explosion. The Deathmon not killed in the blast were blew by the force of the blast towards the gate and sucked in. With all the Deathmon out of the way, the digimon turned their attention to Barbamon.
"It's your turn!" Taichi cried out.
The six Chosen Children in the human world were having problems with the four remain perfect level fallen angels. They gasped as their digimon were knocked to the ground in front of them.
"Is there no way for us to beat them?" Koushiro asked as he watched AtlurKabuterimon struggle to get back up.
"There must be a way." Jyou told him as Zudomon somehow managed to bring himself back to his feet.
"But our digimon can barely do anything..." Mimi pointed out as Lilimon slowly flew back up into the air.
"Come on guys, the whole world is counting on us." Sora told them as Garudamon slowly got up.
"That's right, Sora, you guys shouldn't give up." A voice said. Everyone turned to see who had said that.
"What, Gennai?" Jyou cried out as he spotted the man walking towards them.
"What are you doing here?" Iori asked.
"Qinglongmon sent me here to help you guys. He's going to once again lend his power." Gennai answered as he walked up beside them. This got the Chosen Children excited.
"Is he going to give our digimon the ability to evolve to ultimate?" Jyou asked excitedly. Sadly, Gennai shook his head.
"Unfortunately Qinglongmon doesn't have that kind of power. He can only help digimon achieve the level of evolution they have in the past, but are unable to at the time." Gennai told him.
"But what about the time his power helped Paildramon evolve into Imperialdramon?" Miyako asked him.
"That was most likely because V-mon had used the Golden Digimental of Miracles to become Mangamon, a digimon with a power level equivalent to the ultimate level." Gennai told her. Iori was deep in thought.
"So this power can only help digimon achieve evolutions they have before but can't now. Wouldn't it still be useless?" He looked up at Gennai, "After all neither Angemon nor Tailmon are here. There's no way our digimon can jogress without them here."
Gennai turned to him with a smile, "Do you know what jogress means?"
"It means join and progress, doesn't it?" Koushiro answered for Iori.
With a nod Gennai continued, "And by that it means that one digimon joins with another so that digimon may progress to the next level without meeting all the requirements."
"Wait, are you saying that it is possible for our digimon to evolve to Silphymon and Shakkoumon without Tailmon and Angemon?" Miyako asked in shock. Gennai nodded, causing the group to gasp.
"You may find it even more weird to know that when they jogressed, it was also possible for them to become HolyAngemon and Angewomon." He told them.
"OK, now I know you're lying." Sora said.
"It's true." Gennai defended himself and held out an orb from Qinglongmon, "Miyako, Iori, just hold out your D-3s and you'll see rather or not I am lying." Miyako and Iori looked at each other than to their digimon who were still trying to fight the perfect level fallen angels and figured they had nothing to lose. Slowly they rose up their D-3s to the orb of light. A flash of light covered them and spread to Aquilamon and Ankylomon.
"Aquilamon Super Evolve!" The bird digimon cried. His wings glowed and turn to hands with claws on them. His faced turned humanoid with fangs coming from his mouth. A visor covered his eyes with cat like easy coming out of them. "Silphymon!"
"Ankylomon Super Evolve!" The digimon's whole body glowed as he stood upright and morphed. Wings spouted from his back. As the light faded his body become more metallic like. "Shakkoumon!"
As the light of evolution faded, the six Chosen Children stood stunned. "Wow, Gennai was telling the truth." Miyako said in shock.
"I don't believe it." Iori commented.
"Oh, so you two evolved." LadyDevimon commented, looking at the two new digimon. "It doesn't matter, you'll still lose anyways. Darkness Spear!" Her left hand turned into a spear and she flew towards the new digimon.
"Top Gun!" cried Silphymon as he fired a ball of energy from his hand at LadyDevimon.
"Aramitama!" Shakkoumon fired a red laser from his eyes at LadyDevimon. The two attacks hit her and she screamed.
"This can't be happening!" She yelled as she was reduced to data. The remaining three fallen angels were stunned as they stood in a group.
"Everyone attack together!" Silphymon commanded. "Top Gun!"
"Aramitama!"
"Horn Buster!"
"Hammer Spark!"
"Shadow Wing!"
"Flower Cannon!"
The power from the six perfect level's attacks collided together causing an explosion where the remaining three fallen angels were. When the dust cleared none of them remained. The Chosen Children cheered.
"Well my work here is done." Gennai said, "I'll return to the Digital World and tell the rest what have happened here." With that he entered into a portal that appeared in front of him.
Back in the Digital World, the digimon had Barbamon cornered. HolyAngemon moved his Heaven's gate right behind the evil Demon Lord. Nervous, Barbamon glanced back at the gate than to the digimon before him.
"Give it up, Barbamon, you are finished!" Daisuke yelled at him.
"Never! Death Lure!" The orb on Barbamon's staff started to glow.
"Eden's Javelin!" Ophanimon fired off her attack at Barbamon, causing the orb on his staff to crack and break.
"Damn it!" Barbamon scowled.
"Let's finish him now!" cried Omegamon and rose up both arms. "Double Torrent!" Ice shot from the MetalGarurumon head while fire shot from the WarGreymon head.
"Positron Laser!" cried Imperialdramon as he fired his laser.
"Sefirot Crystal!" Ophanimon shot ten crystals out from her hands. The attacks all hit Barbamon and sent him flying into the Heaven's Gate that was behind him.
"Nooooooo!" He screamed as they gate closed behind him and disintegrated behind him.
"Well that was the easiest Great Demon Lord to beat yet." Taichi commented as their digimon regenerated and rushed to their partners.
As she hugged Nyaromon a thought came to Hikari. "I wonder how the others made out in Hikarigaoka..."
"Don't worry Hikari; they managed to beat all six fallen angels just fine." Gennai said as he approached the group.
"Gennai!" All six children cried out.
"How would you know what happened in Hikarigaoka?" Takeru asked.
"Qinglongmon sent me there so that I could give Aquilamon and Ankylomon the ability to evolve to Silphymon and Shakkoumon on their own." Gennai explained. The group let out gasps.
"I didn't know they could do that." Hikari said. Gennai then told them what he had told the others.
"Wow, I had no idea." Takeru said after hearing what Gennai had to say.
"Well we had never really planned to reveal the truth of jogress evolution, but we didn't really have a choice there." Gennai said, "By the way, Qinglongmon also have a present for you guys. Everyone hold out your digivices." The Chosen Children obeyed and Gennai held out another orb of light. Light surrounded Koromon, Tsunomon, and Nyaromon and when it faded they had evolved back to Agumon, Gabumon, and Tailmon.
"They evolved." Taichi pointed out.
"Yes, since the remaining Great Demon Lords are so powerful, Qinglongmon thought it would be best if your digimon didn't lose energy to evolve to higher levels. Now none of you digimon will do so when they do so." Gennai told them.
"Does that mean when I evolve to ultimate for the first time, I won't regenerate past Patamon?" Patamon asked Gennai, who nodded.
"That's great!" Takeru exclaimed. He ran over to Patamon and hugged him.
Back in the dark cave, Lucemon was aware of what had happened. "It seems Barbamon has failed as well." He said as he sipped on some brandy. The ground shook as Belphemon walked up beside him. Smiling, Lucemon turned to the giant digimon. "Belphemon, would you like to face them next?"
"Yes, I will easily crush the Chosen Children. They will not live to see the light of day again!"
To Be Continued...