Digimon Keepers Ep 16 "Shadows of the Past"
"Do you believe it other worlds then this one, where animals talk, and call people their partners?" Asked Alexandria, as she sat on her grandfather's lap.
"Yes because those kinds of things are what fairytales are based on" said Marko patting his granddaughter on the head.
Her mother called from the other room, and Alexandria hopped away cheerfully.
Marko looked out the window as his granddaughter left "for he knew that miracles are born in the dreams of children" he smiled as he said this
After Alexandria ate breakfast, she ran off to her tree house in the forest, hopefully the book will open that door once again. She reached the throne, and say in it, she looked out, and looked toward the area the door had opened, nothing was there all that she saw was the other side of her tree house, and not some door of light, she let out a long sigh.
The book she was holding burst opened, and flung itself away from her, landing opened in front of her the door of light once again appeared, she covered her eyes to stop from being blind from the light, why did it have to be so bright, she thought to herself, she entered the door, and opened her eyes, it was like how she remembered it, she ran through the forest. "Metalkoromon" she called as she looked for her partner as she ran.
-Digital world Alpha Zone-
When court was adjourned they had been put into a room it was way better then the cell they had woken up again.
Alexandria had been sleeping, she had dreamed of a time she was 10, and seeing the digital world through innocent eyes, she would never see the world through those eyes ever again. She looked over at Kari who was looking the door, her expression seemed pained like she was missing something it must have been the fact that had been Separated from Gatomon her Digimon partner she felt the same way about Metal Koromon, she wanted to be near her Digimon partner too, she might lose him if this trial didn't go her way.
Henry walked up to Kari wanting to comfort her, but his nerves wouldn't let him speak, or get even closer to her to let her know he was there for her, and felt the same way about this as her it was really frustrating.
-Another Cell –
This was the cell the Digimon had woken up in the first time, and Metalkoromon had rejoined after his supposed trial had come to an end for the day, he hasn't moved from staring outside of the cell.
Gatomon had nodded off, and Terriermon was laying down right beside her snoozing too, he had this no worries attitude that wouldn't let him show that he missed his partner as must as all of them there, Gatomon opened her eyes, and she turned to look at Metalkoromon. "Your partner is fine, Alexandria is tough not as tough as my partner Tough that's just my opinion though" she looked at him thinking little caused so much trouble, she couldn't that this was the Digimon who was the dark master Machinedramon.
"I can't ask for forgiveness for that is the way of the warrior we were enemies then now we are allies" said Metalkoromon still looking outside of the cell.
"I understand and Forgive you anyways" said Gatomon placing her paw on top of Metalkoromon, and winking "I hope we can be friends now I was evil myself but through Kari I leaned I could change and that can go for you too even though is somewhat mental but deep inside there is a heart and she cares for you deeply"
"I miss the old Alexandria the one I was reunited with after I was reformatted was different, it was like something changed her makes me wonder, why She returned to the digital world." said Metalkoromon seemingly sighing.
It felt like it was yesterday, and everything was great, they were happy on their first adventure together Digidestined and her Digimon partner, Alexandria and himself working together at a perfect team before the events that took the girl that I remember from me replacing with the girl he was with now.
-Flash back-
The forest was quiet, only sounds were the birds in the tree and the wind blowing through the tree, Alexandria stepped out of clearing with her Digimon Partner Metalkoromon on her shoulder its glowed red.
"I heard there is trouble going on around here someone thinks they can pick on weak Digimon as a Digidestined I must protect innocent Digimon" Alexandria said cheerfully stroking Metalkoromon metal skin, she ran forward looking for any trouble, and anything that was out of place, she was ready for anything, and her first battle, from a distance she could already see various Digimon being tossed into the air, she had to find out what was doing that and why.
A Grizzlymon was tackling baby Digimon, it had found a Digimon nursery, and decided that it would be fun to torment them while the caretaker was sleeping.
"This is so fun" the Grizzlymon laughed, as it knocked a Chibomon into wall making sure not to kill it so it could hurt the little Digimon some more. "Just Digivolve so I can have more of a challenge this pathetic I am nearly dying from laughter"
"Please stop hurting us; said a chorus of baby Digimon.
The Grizzlymon growled and knocked a baby Digimon so hard it dissolved into data reformatting into an egg which Grizzlymon destroyed, and absorbed the data "Shut up or I'll do that to you all sooner than later.
When they arrived on the scene just to see Grizzlymon destroy the digiegg, which watching this infuriated Alexandria, she clinched her teeth and was tempted to take care of this herself
"That a champion level Digimon I am still in baby form" said Metalkoromon, it jumped from Alexandria's shoulder, and turned around to look at her Digimon partner.
"We can't let this stand This world has given me a lot of memories in the short time I have been here I heard fortune favors the bold and in my books those who are good are always in good favor" said Alexandria remembering the book that had brought here to begin with which felt like only yesterday when it actually been months since that day, and the beginning of her travels through the digital world. She looked down at Grizzlymon, and then ran toward it; she picked Metalkoromon while she did, when she was close enough, she picked up a rock, and threw it at Grizzlymon, the rock connected with its forward.
Grizzlymon felt pain surge through his forehead as something hit him, he glared at the human that had just appeared "How dare you hit the great Grizzlymon" it growled at her.
Metalkoromon Digivolves to Kapurimon
"Metalkoromon?" said Alexandria, as she watched a Metalkoromon turned into something that looked like a purple fuzz ball with a horned helmet.
"I am still your partner but I am now Kapurimon, My Howling Blow kicks major ass" said Kapurimon cheerfully bouncing up and down.
"Cool" said Alexandria, she almost forgot what was going on, when she snapped out of the awe of her partner's transformation and she looked at the very angry Grizzlymon, and realized what she had to do "Kapurimon Attack"
Kapurimon blasted Grizzlymon with little to no effect, and repeated but only seemed to make the large bear Digimon angrier with every attack, Kapurimon was suddenly savagely knocked away it still wasn't strong enough to face a champion level opponent, So Kapurimon retreated after being knocked away once again, it was now in front of Alexandria shaking off the last hit it received.
"I think we should retreat hopefully Grizzlymon would follow us out of the nursery, and we can find a way to trap it somewhere away from here to make it not able to return" said Alexandria looking the cliffs not that far from her, she picked up Kapurimon, and ran for it.
This seemed to work Grizzlymon chased after them its rage hadn't because they had ran from it, the fact was it made it angrier.
She kept looking over her shoulder, Alexandria was scared this was her first time in any sort of fight, she had always avoided conflict, the only fights she had ever known were the ones mentioned in the books she read, and she knew they were only fantasy.
She reached the forest that she knew that would lead her to cliffs that she would make last stand in front hopefully it wasn't her actual last stand, she barely had enough time to explore this land of digital monsters.
-Present day-
Digimon Keepers Kyoto branch
This was another blow to the moral of the Digimon keepers of the Kyoto branch, except for Bise he seemed to care less of what was going on, and he sat in his usual corner since joining this branch being transferred for the duration of the current situation with Izzy.
"Is there any news of our missing members were they taken by the same people that took Izzy" said Davis nearly shouting, he was angrier now, and everyone could tell that, he was chomping at the bit to go out and find them.
"We don't know what happened to them other then the fact they haven't reported in, we have some more pressing matter like what were they doing at the File island central computer, and they have wiped it clean of all Digimon files" said Matt walking into the room, and looking at everyone as he spoke. He was measuring everyone reaction.
"The Team isn't important" said Davis angrily in disbelief at what Matt had just said, "They are our friends and Team mates, Even if we haven't known a few of them long enough, we should find them before something happens to them"
"Davis is right but so is Matt, We can't put the friends over the digital world but can't ignore our friends as well we need to figure out how to take care of both of them" said Takato, he stood up looking at everyone like he was looking for ideas in everyone's eyes, he was on the edge of breaking down like Davis had.
Seira stood up to, and looked at everyone like they were stupid "I say send a team of people we can do without at present to find the people that are missing, and bring them back' she said with a hint of arrogance "We have over a dozen Digidestined in this branch along why not send Rika, Bise, and Davis they have been pretty useless in this whole thing with some of their failure at file Island and I was the only one that managed to do something right and also Davis too stupid to be of good use"
Davis glared at Seira, if looks could hurt this one should have killed Seira in two seconds flat, and very painful of one.
Matt gestured for them to settle down "Ok we will send a team I don't agree with the reason but the team will be Davis, Bise, but instead of Rika, Seira will go with them that is an order no arguments or you are suspended" he said before leaving the room leaving a few people grumbling as he did so.
In turn everyone left the meeting room leaving Davis, and Seira glaring at each other, with Bise still sitting in his corner not giving a crap of what every is happening around him, seira was the first to leave the room followed by Davis after a few minutes had passed leaving Bise alone.
Davis entered his room; he went to the closet searching for his lucky goggles the ones that Tai gave him when he first entered the digital world, before he found them he found the cast his hand was in when Alexandria had broken his hand, it dawn on the irony that he was rescuing his tormentor, there was something about that he couldn't put his finger, he threw the cast back into his closet and then began again the search for his goggles.
When he couldn't he suddenly caught sight of them twirling in the air around the finger of a young girl, "Kae what are you doing here in my room" said Davis following his goggles around with his eyes.
"This is my room too" said Kae "I guess they wanted to cram the both goggles in one room "she handed Davis his goggle"Also I am also until they get Izzy back I call top bunk" she ran toward the bunk bed.
"Hey wait a second my bed is top bunk" said Davis thinking of all the girls they put in my room why couldn't it be someone else, he let out a sigh.
-Flash back-
When they reached the cliff they did a sudden U-turn so the Grizzlymon fell off it instead of them, When they were celebrating prematurely the Grizzlymon pulled Alexandria, and Kapurimon, over the cliff with it, on the way down they saw something black on the Grizzlymon's back, Kapurimon blasted and it flew into the air and exploded, when they landed they jumped from its back and got ready for a fight, But instead Grizzlymon was apologizing for its behavior, they both watched as it left wondering what the hell just happened. Not knowing that what they had seen was a black gear, she didn't know that other Digidestined which she found out later that were pulled in as well and were dealing with them too. But she would have to deal with someone just as bad as Devimon.
-Present day-
Alexandria was escorted into the court room once again, and took her seat the bench, followed by Kari who now took over the job of her attorney, they now placed the cage that contain MetalKoromon beside Alexandria.
The judge walked out of the back room and sat in his chair facing everyone in the room "Call your next witness" he gestured to the Numemon prosecutor, who called Andromon to the stand, a Digimon that looked more like a man with one metal leg and a leg that looked more like a dinosaurs walked over to the stand, and sat down.
"Of all the Digimon that were wrong by Machinedramon you were the most out of all of them other then the Digimon that belong to the Digidestined themselves, please re-count the events of what he did to you" Numemon prosecutor said.
"Machinedramon was cruel and tortured, he took control of area I protected, and I raised a resistance to fight against him to stop his tyranny as a Dark Master, with the help of Tai's Wargraymon he was defeated, if he tries it again I'll be there to help defeat him again" said Andromon keeping his eyes locked on MetalKoromon.
Numemon prosecutor turned around heading back to his seat saying "That's all the questions I have the witness is excused"
Andromon was getting up when Kari stood up shouting "Object we of the defense haven't cross examined this witness"
"Alright you can question the witness" said The Judge "you can approach the stand"
Kari approached the bench, and looked Andromon right in the eyes "Remember the day you were freed from the dark ring you weren't good either when you were corrupted by that dark ring or the dark gear when you meet my brother like I have said before Machinedramon was also corrupted"
"How could have ever forgotten the Digidestined have saved and I owe them my life, even when I tried kill them when I had a dark Gear or a dark Ring, but Machinedramon didn't have either of those" said Andromon looking at Kari.
The crowd of Digimon watching this all nodded in agreement at what Andromon said, before Kari spoke up again with another question "but an Evil Digimon called Apocalymon brought Chaos to the Digital world even creating the Dark Masters, so why Machinedramon should be blamed for that"
"I see you are right he is not to blame for what someone has done to him Machinedramon should be set free" Said Andromon standing up.
The crowd of Digimon was upset now even the Jury stood up and was shouting uproariously, all of them were calling for the death of MetalKoromon, letting them know what the verdict was even with the evidence of innocence. Kari, Alexandria, Henry and Metalkoromon were ushered out of the court and back to their separate rooms once again.
This time they were shoved into their room with Kari flying backwards landing on her butt, and was helped up by Henry, Alexandria stared as the door to the room was slammed shut; a tear that no one else saw rolled its way down her cheek, which she wiped away before anyone could notice it.
When Kari looked at Alexandria, now knowing they had to get out of there, they were going to destroy Metalkoromon no matter what they had to say about it, it wasn't logic they were acting with, at this moment she noticed something with Alexandria dog tags it was a cracked Crest it had a strange symbol that she couldn't recognize but it wasn't the time to ask about it right now they had to escape.
-Other Cell-
Metalkoromon stared out the barred window, hoping that he would see Alexandria before his last moment of life, a tear rolled down his cheek knowing that soon his life was over ended by the Digimon he had wronged in his past.
-To be Continued-
Will Metalkoromon be destroyed, or will they escape before it happens, and what was the crest that Alexandria had with her dog tags, to find out the answer to these questions tune into the next Digimon Digital Keepers.