Digimon Keepers Ep 18 "Not as It Appears"
The area seemed void of color, and life Except for a shadow, The Ice Princess, and Panjymon, The person in the shadows walked into the light, his silver mask glinted in the moon light.
"We were told not to engage them, and you nearly lost your partner, you need to set aside your hate for another time Princess" said Silver mask placing his hand on The Ice Princess, and looking from her to Panjymon "The Master has promised us power that we can take care of them"
Ice Princess stared coldly at Silver mask, she didn't speak letting the silence drag on for over 0ver 5 minutes when she finally spoke "I don't care about power I want my revenge for what they put me through all the pain, and suffering" her voice was still a melodic tone, and her expression never changed not even showing any bit of anger what so ever.
"Just wait and you will get what you want, and so will I, everything we want and more, it will be annihilation of those Digidestined" said Silver mask, with the light glinting of his mask, "don't
"I don't care what we do to them to gain what we want even when it destroys fellow Digidestined, I want to know some of these people were your friends, will you regret it when you crush them?" said Silver mask turned his back to the Ice Princess.
-Real world-
Ken stood in front of a very large computer in the meeting room, it displayed the countdown that came in the email he opened earlier "This is almost exactly the same except it was sent decoded this time, it seems the sender knew that no one would be able to decode it this time since Izzy had been abducted"
"This is the second time they have sent this to us, like they want us to stop them" said Matt who was intensely staring at the countdown on the computer.
"Unless they think we can't stop them unless this isn't Coming from them at all and can be coming from someone who knows what is going on, maybe an insider that doesn't like what is happening and wants it stopped" said Ken looking hopeful.
"We can't make assumptions right now, we need to stop it before we lose another digital zone, we don't even know why they are doing this" said Matt bringing Ken's attention back to the matter at hand, I wish Izzy was here now when we really need him he thought to himself, this brought up memories of his first time in the digital world and adventures, and how long it has been since he was on an adventure of his own the digital world was for the young now, he sighed mentally for the good old days.
"I know what is happening now is a serious matter which needs to be dealt with before it gets any worse" said Ken "we need to get a message to all the branches to keep an eye out for the signal that shows that juggernaut is active and which zone it is coming from" he stood up, and was geadinf toward the door "This could be our darkest hour may we walk away from this unscathed, and we lose no one "
"Hope it doesn't get any darker" said Matt gesturing to Ken that he may leave, and got up himself and left the room too, They had a lot a head of them, and hopefully a light will shine at the end of the dark tunnel that represents current situation.
-Digital world Alpha Zone –
Alexandria lead the way followed by Kari and Henry they didn't have a plan to how they were going to deal with Juggernaut and Ushasmon, they were head down hallway, their escape not yet discovered or hopefully they weren't, this whole situation made Kari anxious, her feelings were mirrored in digimon partner Gatomon.
"Are we really going to charge into this with Ushasmon here, it's an enigma how powerful she is" said Henry breaking the silence "We should be leaving and getting some help"
"You can leave I am going forward, Me and my partner can handle this by ourselves, we don't need any help from civilians" said Alexandria not even looking back at them "you can follow if you get in my way I will crush you"
Kari sighed "We need to go, don't make me have to fight" she said as Gatomon walked to now be standing in Alexandria's way "We need a plan before we just jumped into more trouble then we can handle.
Alexandria went to go forward, but was halted by Gatomon who was joined by Terriermon, if she wanted she could have kicked them out of her way.
"Kari is right We need a plan, and back up before we can do anything at all it would be insane to dive into the unknown. " said Gatomon glaring at Alexandria, this has to have some common sense she thought to herself.
Alexandria have a long cold stare, which lasted for about 5 minutes before she backed up slightly "Ok Fine We will do as you says if we can't get in contact with anyone that the plan is to go in even if it is just me and my partner, and if you get in my way I'll kill you"
-Flash back-
It had been a couple hours since the close encounter with the Bearmon, and she was no closer in doing anything about the gears, but her belief that she could do it had not waned a bit, she was getting an accurate number of Bearmon and their locations, she pulled out Digivice "MetalKoromon Digivolved to Kapurimon.
MetalKoromon Digivolves Kapurimon
Once again MetalKoromon turned into the digimon that looked like a flying cog with a face, it hovered behind Alexandria. "There are still too many of them" said Kapurimon.
But we have to save them those gears are not for them I can feel that they are evil and they gave me the shivers last time, whoever or whatever did this must be stopped" said Alexandria being a stubborn as ever, This was her crusade. and nothing was going to stop her at all, before she could move an inch a portal opened in front of her. And out came an old man, with white hair and long beard.
"Stop Alexandria" he called out, he gave a wary smile, he gestured for her to follow him "Gennai and you need to come with me before you charge into battle, Welcome to the Continent of Proxy"
She was confused how the old man knew her name, but felt like he was here to help and wouldn't harm her in any way, so she followed Gennai through the door that he had come out of, and into a room filled with computers, it was like something out of a sci-fi movie, it had pictures of weird looking animals she recognized as different type of digimon, and then all the screens suddenly had a scary looking Metal skeleton digimon.
This castle is his Domain, and his name is MetalPhantomon, he is the reason these Bearmon have dark gears in them he is not to be taken lightly as he can make you experience your worst memory" said Gennai pointing at the monitors, with a grim look in his face "he turned and handed her what looked like a metal keychain with a slot in it. "You Put your crest in it when you find it"
"What is a Crest?" She asked looking somewhat confused; she took the keychain, and looked at it as in dangled in front of her face.
Gennai looked at Alexandria, and smiled warmly "That you are holding is a Tag it alone won't help your partner's digivolution, but the crest that will go in it will and make you're a stronger Digidestined in the process" he placed his hand on her shoulder. "Your digivice is the preserver of life against the darkness"
"So my crest is somewhere out there, and it will make me stronger "she said looking into the old man's eyes, as she put the tag around her neck, she was getting for the quest ahead to save digital world
-Present-
Kari, Alexandria, and Henry had started searching all the rooms of the court house, Alexandria had refused any help and had run deeper into the building, not willing to let her do this alone they had followed her even though it was severely dangerous to do so but Digidestined stick together regardless.
They entered a very large room, this had been the court room, the trial of MetalKoromon had taken place, but it was completely devoid of any furnisher, like it had before, they left the room, only to enter a room that looked exactly like it, they walked out of that room and entered another that also looked like the others they just left, this happened a few more time, it appeared like they were going absolutely no where.
Kari looked around as she followed the others "I have a weird feeling about this" she took something out of her pocket, and dropped it on the floor, when they left the room the object which was a coin was waiting for them in the entered another room.
"What the hell is going on, I dropped that coin in the room we just left" said Kari as she picked up the coin she was talking about.
"I had a idea that this was going on but I couldn't confirm it, I was keeping track of how many room that looked alike" said Alexandria without an inch of surprise in her voice. "I think someone is messing with us. How long this deception has been taking place is the question, and is this building even real, something feels very familiar about this like I have been through this already"
"Yes it does feel like we have been through this" said MetalKoromon, his eyes flashing in confirmation.
"I hope we can get through this soon, I don't want to miss movie night with Tenshimon, we'll be watching a scary movie that will probably make my fur all pointy, and I don't want her take one of my nine live if I miss it" said Gatomon shivering at the thought.
"I won't let you miss movie night, I don't want to miss it either" said Kari smiling and petting Gatomon.
Suddenly a stage appeared, with a spotlight highlighting the center of it, very fast music started playing, Gatomon was pulled away from Kari, and started dancing like she was being controlled like a puppet, and was joined by Metalkoromon, and Terriermon.
"This feels strange Henry" said Terriermon trying to stop dancing but couldn't "this is starting to hurt" as he was forced to put his hands to his forehead like the others except Metalkoromon who didn't have them.
"Maybe if I stop the music the dancing would stop" Kari started looking for the source of the music, trying to stay calm with what was going on.
Alexandria was doing the same with no sign of this even bothering her in any way she was only shaking off of a sense of Déjà vu about was going on.
The music suddenly stopped, with their digimon falling over exasperated, and panting as they all hit the floor all at once,
Alexandria, Kari, and Henry decided that it would be better to wait for their partners to rest, the dancing tired them completely out, hope this was over, they didn't think their digimon could have taken any more of that.
Alexandria tried to think about something that could help them get out of here, she knew that if they didn't get out soon they would be trapped on here forever, and time was running out, this whole place was illusion, and was everything that happened in trial one too?"
-Somewhere else in the Alpha zone-
They were close to where the supposed signal from Juggernaut core was coming from, Seira walked ahead of Rika, and Kae, while Bise followed from way behind with his Greymon, Bise was doing his nails with black nail polish.
In front of them was what appeared to be a stately manor, it was like something out of a horror movie but the signal was coming from it, Tenshimon did not have a good feeling about this as she followed partner Seira toward it, a shiver ran down her spine, and threw her wings, it was like looking at this place was a decent into madness, and going there was a bad idea, Seira would just yell at her if she said anything about it.
Seira walked up to the front door, and knocked, there was no response, then suddenly the door swung open, it was dark inside, she hesitated then entered followed by the others, the door suddenly slammed behind them.
"I knew this was a bad idea" Tenshimon suddenly blurted out loud. "This is exactly like the horror movie I have watched.
To great them inside was two marble statues of fanged digimon that looked like gargoyles, and in the far wall above a fireplace was a painting of a laughing child.
"This is so dark, it's great" said Bise apathetically admiring the room décor, for some reason his partner Greymon was still outside. "I don't think I need him now since I am not going to be doing anything anyway and he can guard the entrance"
"Whatever" Seira replied not even giving a crap, it was one less person that could get in her way, if only the other annoyance would go away too, since she didn't need any help to take care of this mission.
A pulsing noise sounded from inside the room and it intensified with each beat, they all clutched her and screamed it was so deafening, and then it stopped.
"Um guys the door is gone" Kae said looking behind them, after she took her hands away from her ears.
"Oh great we walked into a trap, some leader we have?" said Bise looking like didn't care at all "death comes to us all now"
"Shut up you are upsetting Kae" said Rika placing her hand on Kae's shoulder, who was clearly panicked "Calm down we will get out of here"
Seira ignored the others, she seemed calm and not bothered by what was going, and she continued heading the hallway to the left of them, she was also ignoring the dangers of this it was like she was determined to get this mission done.
The hallway went on seemingly forever with no end in sight, frustration was starting show on each of their face, even on Kae wondering where Seira was leading them, it seemed like nowhere in her opinion, she was even thinking she would have been a better, by her goggles she should have been the one leading.
"This is totally not gnarly" said Yasyamon, pulling down his shades, and looking at Seira, then looking at his partner Kae, he leaned toward her shoulder "this is a dictatorship who put her in charge"
"Everyone knows I am the leader, She just thinks she is. Just do what she says for now, I'll tell you when not to do so" said Kae tapping her finger on the on the right lens of her goggles.
Seira looked at her digivice, "The signal Matt told us about is coming from this direction" she said ignoring everyone else and heading toward it.
The signal seemed to be coming from a weird looking black castle, dark energy got stronger the closer they got to it.
A chill went down kae's spine. She didn't like the looks of the place, and neither did her partner Yasyamon "I don't like this at all" said Kae stopping in her tracks, "Should we be doing this" she gulped, and closed her eyes so she could continue forward.
"Be Strong, I know you are scared, so am I, this is totally not cool" said Yasyamon taking Kae and placing her on his shoulder "let's give each strength" he know she needed to help his partner to deal with her fear or else they were all dead.
-Location Unknown-
He woke up, very little light was in the room he was in, only the flicker candle that was above the door, Izzy was confused, he didn't know where he was and how he got there "Hello" he called out into the darkness, and there wasn't any answer, he got up to search his surroundings, there was no door to the room he was in, "where am I" he called out only to only hear an echo of his own voice.
-To Be Continued-
Will Alexandria find their way to The Juggernaut, is the castle that Seira and the others are heading the same place, and where is Izzy being held captive, please tuned into the next Digimon Digital Keepers to find out?