Episode 8: Is This the Third Angel? Wallace Arrives in Japan
It was early morning in Japan. Jyou and Mimi stood at the air port with their digimon waiting for Wallace to arrive.
"So what time is his plane supposed to arrive at?" Jyou asked Mimi.
"8:30." Mimi told him and looked up at the clock. "It's 8:20 now so it shouldn't be too much longer." It wasn't long after this that they finally heard an announcement.
"Flight 502 from New York City has just arrived at gate 7. Those waiting to meet up with passengers on this flight should head over to customs now."
Their same grouped made their way over to customs upon hearing this. Once there it wasn't long before they saw a boy with blonde hair come through with two digimon on both his shoulders. Both digimon sort of looked like bunnies with their long floppy ears. One was light green with dark green strips. This one had one horn on its head. The other was brown with pink strips. This one had three horns on its head.
"That's him!" Mimi cried out and began to wave to the boy, "Hey Wallace, over here!" The boy spotted her and ran over.
"Mimi, it's good to see you again." He said as Mimi embraced him in a hug. When she let go he turned to Jyou.
"It's nice to meet you Wallace." Jyou greeted him. "I'm Jyou Kido, one of the Japanese Chosen Children, and this is my partner Gomamon."
"Nice to meet you!" Gomamon greeted from Jyou's arms.
"It's a pleasure." Wallace said as he held out his hand to shake it with Jyou. Still holding Gomamon is his left arm, Jyou took his hand. "As you already know, I'm Wallace. These two are my digimon. The green one is Terriermon and the brown one is Lopmon."
"It's nice to meet you, Jyou and Gomamon." Lopmon politely greeted.
"Moumentai!" Terriermon said. Jyou blinked in confusion at this.
"Moumentai?" He asked confused. He had never heard this greeting before and how no idea what it meant. Terriermon laughed at his confusion.
"Don't you know, it means take it easy." Terriermon responded. Jyou blinked some more.
"That still doesn't make sense." He said. Wallace sighed.
"Terriermon, I thought I told you not to confuse people like that." He told his digimon. With that he turned back to Jyou, "Sorry about that. Terriermon likes to be funny."
"It's no problem. Gomamon likes being funny as well." Jyou told him.
"Hey, I'm right here you know!" Gomamon said from his arms, a bit offended.
"See what I mean. Anyways, we should get going. Koushiro really wants to meet you." With that, the group left the air port.
It was morning in the Digital World. After what had happened the previous day, all the boys were still asleep. Hikari on the other hand couldn't sleep. Her mind couldn't stop racing over everything that had happened. Everything that Dagomon had said, was it true? Did digimon worship her because of her powers? Had all those digimon died because they thought she could save them all? Her mind turned to what Takeru had said, about how much he loved her. Hikari had no idea what to think about this. She had always seen him as just a good friend. Someone who shared similar experiences to her own. She never thought of the possibility of having that kind of a relationship with him and she wasn't sure if she wanted it. She was so deep in her thought that she never noticed Tailmon wake up.
"Hikari it's early and we had a long day yesterday. Shouldn't you still be sleeping?" Tailmon said as she walked beside her partner. A bit startled, Hikari turned to her. Upon realizing it was just her digimon and not anyone else she let out a sigh.
"Don't startle me like that Tailmon." She told her digimon and turned to look out over the ocean they were camping beside. They hadn't wanted to be near an ocean after what had happened, but this is where they arrived when they returned to the Digital World and they were all too tired to move somewhere else. So this was where they had camped. "And how could I sleep after everything that happened?" Tailmon frowned at this.
"Is this about what Dagomon told you?" She asked sternly. Right now that digimon second on her most hated digimon list, right between Vamdemon and LadyDevimon. After everything he had done to Hikari she had every right to hate him so much. "You shouldn't let what he said bother you. He's a lying bastard and only wanted to corrupt your powers of light for his own personal gain. He didn't know what he was talking about. Wizarmon didn't die because of your powers and no other good digimon ever has."
"Well I'm tiring not to let what he said bother me, but what's bothering me the most right now is what Takeru said." Hikari admitted with a blush. With this Tailmon gave her a sly smile.
"Oh, is this about him saying he loved you?" She asked slyly. Still blushing Hikari nodded.
"I have no idea how to react to this. I mean I've always seen him as just a good friend. I never really thought of it and I'm not sure if I love him that way or not." Hikari told her, wanting to get all this off her chest.
"Well if you're not sure, I'm sure he won't mind remaining friends. Besides, you're still young. You have lots of time to figure out your love life. Why rush into anything now?" Tailmon told her. Hikari thought about this.
"You're right Tailmon, but how do I tell him. I don't want to disappoint him..." She trailed off as she looked over to see Takeru waking up.
After stretching, he turned to Hikari. "Morning Hikari." He greeted her. Unsure how she should react, Hikari remained silent and turned back to the ocean. Takeru frowned at this, feeling guilty. Patamon woke up and noticed his partner looking down.
"What's the matter Takeru?" He asked as he fly up to his partner's height.
"I shouldn't have said anything..." He trailed off.
Back in Japan, Jyou's car had just recently pulled up to Koushiro's place. Their group piled out of the car and Jyou and Mimi help Wallace carry his luggage up to Koushiro's door. Once there they rang the doorbell. It wasn't long before Miyako opened the door.
"Well it's about time you guys got here..." She trailed off as she saw Wallace. Her eyes began to sparkle and drool came from her mouth. Both Jyou and Mimi shook their heads with a sigh, thinking 'here we go again'. Miyako had seen yet another cute boy that she liked.
"Hello, I'm Miyako. Who might you be?" She asked dreamily.
"I'm Wallace, a Chosen Child from America. These are my partners Terriermon and Lopmon. Mimi told me to come here since you guys believed Lopmon might be key to saving the world." Wallace told her. Miyako's eyes lit up at this and she attached herself to his arm.
"Oh so you're Wallace! Mimi never said you were cute!" Wallace sweat dropped at this, unsure how he should respond. Luckily for him, Terriermon knew exactly what to say.
"Miyako, you need to moumentai." He told the girl. Miyako looked confused.
"Just don't ask." Jyou told her, "Now can we all go inside?"
"Oh ya, right..." Still holding onto Wallace's arm, she led the group inside. Once inside, the rest of the group looked up.
"You must be Wallace." Koushiro said as he stood up. "I'm Koushiro Izumi and this is my partner Tentomon." Koushiro motioned to the digimon flying beside him.
"I'm Sora and this is Piyomon."
Being that he was brought up with manners, Iori stood up and walked over to Wallace. With a bow he introduced himself. "Nice to meet you Wallace. I'm Iori Hida."
"I'm his partner Armadimon."
Hawkmon let out a tisk as he noticed how Miyako was behaving towards Wallace. "Really Miyako, what would Ken say if he saw you acting like this towards another guy." Miyako turned to him confused.
"But Ken and I aren't dating... yet..." She muttered the last part under her breath, but the others still heard her and let out a laugh.
"Well this certainly won't improve your chances." Hawkmon told her then turned to Wallace. "I'm sorry about this. She gets like this around guys she thinks is cute. I'm her partner Hawkmon by the way."
"Well Wallace, why don't you make yourself comfortable? You must be tired after that long flight. Plus I don't think the time zone difference doesn't help much." Koushiro told him. Wallace laughed at this.
"You got that right. It's morning here, but back in New York it's the evening. I don't know how I'm going to stay awake today." Wallace said as he made his way over to sit on the couch.
"Don't worry, we'll understand if you want to take a nap today." Koushiro told him, "Now can I get you anything?"
Back in the Digital World, everyone was up now. They all sat around eating the fish Tailmon had caught for breakfast in silence. While no one asked anything, they felt that the tensions were high between Hikari and Takeru. They figured it had something to do with Takeru's confession of love the previous day. Some of them wondered if Hikari had rejected him. After he had finished eating, Takeru stood up and walked away from the group.
"Hey, Takeru, wait for me!" Patamon called out as he flew after his partner.
"She probably hates me now..." Takeru muttered once they were far enough away from the group.
"Don't say that, Takeru. Hikari could never hate you. She probably just doesn't know how to feel. I'm sure once she sorts out her feeling everything will be back to normal." Patamon told him.
"But do I really want that?" Takeru looked down. This didn't last long though. Bubbles came from the ocean grabbing everyone's attention. "Huh, what's that?" Takeru wondered as he ran back over to the others. It wasn't long until Leviamon rose out from the water and snarled at the Chosen Children.
"It's Leviamon!" Ken cried out.
"Quick, everyone evolve!" Taichi commanded. It wasn't long before Seraphimon, Ophanimon, Omegamon, and Imperialdramon faced Leviamon. Daisuke let out a laugh.
"This should be a piece of cake." He commented. "We've got four powerful digimon on our side now. Leviamon is toast."
"I admit, you Chosen Children have proven yourself to be more powerful than we expected, but you will not defeat me!" Leviamon snarled, "I have searched this ocean to find powerful comrades to aide me in defeating you once and for all." At his words, four digimon rose from the water to face the Chosen Children.
"He has allies?" Yamato asked, not able to believe it.
"I recognize MarineDevimon, but who are the rest?" Takeru asked. Ken pulled out his digimon analyzer to answer this.
"The one who looks like a blow fish with arms is Pukumon." He began, "The square looking metal fish is MetalPiranimon. Apparently he carried the X-antibody. Finally the one who looks like a merman is Neptunemon. He's based off of the Roman God of the Sea, Neptune."
"I doubt they'll pose much of a threat to us though." Taichi said. "Let's get them!"
Meanwhile, Wallace had just finished eating a Japanese style breakfast with the rest of the Chosen Children. Once all the dishes were put away, Koushiro turned back to Wallace.
"So Wallace, what has Mimi told you over e-mail about why you are here?" Koushiro asked him.
"She told me that a group of evil digimon appeared called the Seven Great Demon Lords appeared in the Digital World. A group of your friends entered the Digital World to fight them. After one of their digimon evolved and some research, you believe the key to defeating them might be a group of three great angel digimon and believe Lopmon might evolve into one of them, so you wanted me to come to Japan to confirm this." Wallace explained. Koushiro nodded.
"Yes, our friends Hikari's digimon evolved into Ophanimon, which we believe represents Ophanim. Last night we received word that our other friend's digimon evolved into Seraphimon, which probably represents Seraphim. So that means there must be a digimon out there that represents Cherubim and that's what we're trying to figure out right now." He explained. Lopmon let out a gasp upon hearing this.
"What is it Lopmon?" Wallace asked him.
"I don't know, but that name Cherubim rings some sort of bell with me..." He said. Nodding at this, Koushiro turned back to Wallace.
"Why don't you explain your story from the beginning?" He suggested. With a sigh, Wallace complied.
"It all started six years ago. I was playing in a field in my old home in Colorado with Terriermon's and Lopmon's baby forms, Gummymon, and Chocomon. All of a sudden, Chocomon mysteriously vanished for some reason. Three years later he reappeared in his adult form looking for me. Since I was older he didn't recognize me and started kidnapping Chosen Children from across America and deaging them, hoping he would find me. Meanwhile Terriermon and I were on a trip back to Colorado. We ran into him at various points along the way. Terriermon managed to evolve to his Adult level, Gargomon to fight him. Shortly after we arrived at Colorado, we met up with him again and somehow he evolved to his perfect level. As expected, Gargomon was no match, but refused to give up. It was then that he evolved to ultimate and I thought all hope was lost. Gargomon couldn't hold his form and degenerated to Terriermon. It was then a golden light appeared before me forming the Golden Digimental of Destiny. With it, Terriermon became Rapidmon, but was swallowed up by Lopmon's ultimate form. Luckily he somehow managed to purify him from the inside. I saw his purified form before he was reduced to data. Later that evening I found his digiegg and he was reborn again like nothing had happened."
Koushiro mused over this story. "But still, I wonder why the Golden Digimental of destiny appeared before you that day. When exactly did this happen?"
"It was on August, 7th 2002." Wallace told them. Everyone gasped at this.
"That was the same day Daisuke used the Golden Digimental of Miracles to evolve V-mon to Magnamon." Iori pointed out.
"Did it somehow send the Golden Digimental of Destiny to Wallace in America?" Miyako asked.
"It's possible." Koushiro said, "The crests of Light and Hope have always been close. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same for Destiny and Miracles. Anyways, could I have your digivice Wallace? I'll use my digimon analyzer to determine if Lopmon really is the third angel."
"Sure." Wallace handed over his digivice and Koushiro attached it to his laptop. It wasn't long before a smile spread across Koushiro's face. On his screen was Cherubimon.
Back in the Digital World, the group had just finished beating Neptunemon, leaving only Leviamon.
"Damn, you chosen Children are so annoying." Leviamon cursed.
"Give it up, Leviamon!" Daisuke told him, "You know you can't win."
"Or so you think, I still have tricks left up my sleeves." With that the giant monster flew from the water, capturing Omegamon in his giant jaws. Omegamon used his strength to stop Leviamon from closing his jaws.
"Bad idea, you've just left yourself wide open." Omegamon commented. "Everyone, attack the inside of his mouth!"
"Seven Heavens!"
"Sefirot Crystal!"
"Positron Cannon!" The three attacks traveled into Leviamon's mouth down his throat. In his shock, the demon's jaws loosed its grip on Omegamon, allowing him time to escape the monster's body exploding. Everyone cheered, having now defeated six of the seven demon lords.
"Alright! All that's left is Lucemon!" Taichi cheered. Ken was still a bit worried about this.
"But still, what will Lucemon do. He's a perfect level so he can still evolve further. What if we can't beat him if he does that?" He pondered.
"Then we're just going to have to beat him before he can do that." Daisuke said. With a sigh, Ken pulled out his D-Terminal.
"Anyways, I should tell Koushiro what happened." Ken's eyes lit up when he saw Koushiro already sent him an e-mail. "Wallace arrived in Japan this morning. Apparently his digimon does evolve into the third angel we are looking for." This got everyone excited as they moved around to see.
"Alright, now we can't lose!" Daisuke commented.
"Though I must say, Cherubimon doesn't look like any angel digimon I've ever seen before." Patamon commented.
"Ya, I was expecting something different, but he's still cool." Tailmon agreed.
"Alright, now let's go kick Lucemon's butt!" Taichi cheered, leading everyone on.
Lucemon let out a sigh. These Chosen Children were way stronger than he originally had thought. He'd never expected them to reach him. But he didn't mind. There was no way, no matter what powerful digimon they had on their side, that they would ever beat him.
"After all, those Chosen Children don't know my weakness. Without that, I am invisible." With that he let out an evil laugh.
To Be Continued...