AC: The previous chapter had a part cut because it wasn't believable at all that one character tried to stab a god in the back.
Chapter 7: Victory and Execution
Millenniumon watched Ryo, Agumon, Mimi and Palmon reaching the inverse pyramid where his servant Etemon was. He was on his throne watching the event with a table brought near him with a bowl of popcorn. He spun his thumbs, waiting patiently for the great battle to come. For now, he only saw Agumon and Palmon defeated any minions of Etemon without any trouble and Ryo cumulating more data in the digivice. Millenniumon was sure that Ryo had enough for his partner to evolve in his perfect form. He didn't mind it was a two perfect digimons vs his minion. If Ryo was victorious, it was all that he needed.
One thing was pissing him off. He didn't like that Ryo and Mimi were getting friendly. Millenniumon felt a little jealous that he grew closer to a chosen child, an enemy. If there was one thing that pissed him most that Ryo being friend with a boy, it was with a girl that might interest Ryo in a deeper relationship he won't approve. He knew Ryo and the chance were slim for it to happen now. Ryo was too young for his body to desire such relationship.
Millenniumon had popcorn in his hand as he watched Ryo and Mimi entering in the inverse pyramid. Millenniumon picked some popcorn and ate with excitement.
"Grrr...He should have prepared popcorn a god deserves to eat," Millenniumon complained. "Note to self...Eat the Digitamamon after cooked on a frying pan by his brother with bacons and maybe a Seadramon with it," he licked his lips just at the thought.
When he was out of his thought, he noticed that Ryo and Mimi were talking with Etemon. It wasn't a long speech before the orange monkey turned more aggressive. Millenniumon guessed that his threat forced him to be more violent than usual.
Millenniumon grabbed popcorn and put it in his mouth. He stuck out his tongue and said: "Argh! How can anyone fail to do popcorn?!"
"He didn't put butter," the servant Devidramon replied entered in the throne room. "Hum...Watching our enemies getting destroyed?"
"Yes." Millenniumon lied before shouting: "Why didn't he put butter?!"
"You hate butter my lord. You said it yourself," Devidramon replied.
"...Well I changed my mind! Butter now!" Millenniumon ordered.
Devidramon walked away while Millenniumon rolled his amber eyes and hatred even more the Millenniumon of this reality.
"Who would be stupid enough to hate butter with popcorn? Except Monodramon who somehow had allergies because of the special program that caused the joygress which I can't explain why and won't try too," he said when he was alone. He saw the battle was about to begin and smiled. "Now, let the fun begin."
Ryo, Mimi, Agumon and Palmon finished listening to Etemon speech and they regretted not interrupting him. Ryo found it boring and felt the monkey was insulting Elvis Presley.
"If you want to save the chosen children, you have to defeat me first," Etemon said.
The four others felt that sentence so predictable.
Ryo looked in his digivice and smiled. He saw in his digivice that he cumulated a lot of date: "Agumon, are you ready to reach perfect level?"
Agumon nodded: "Agumon Shinka! Greymon!" Agumon was now Greymon and continued to evolve: "Greymon Shinka! MetalGreymon!"
Mimi took out her digivice and her crest. "Let's do it Palmon!"
"Yes!" Palmon replied. "Palmon Shinka! Togemon! Togemon Shinka! Lilimon!"
MetalGreymon was a giant orange dinosaur with red hair, a silver plate on his chest, a helmet with horn on his nose and the two sides of his head, a metallic left arm and two purple wings on his back.
Lilimon was a humanoid wearing a pink flower hat and flower clothes with green leaf as boots and as wings on her back.
Etemon watched both of his adversaries and wasn't sure he could beat them. He was surprised that Ryo survived and knew he couldn't fail his mission.
"You may beat my troop you four, but you cannot beat me! I'm stronger than last time MetalGreymon! Dark Spirit!" Etemon shouted.
He threw dark spheres at the group. Lilimon and MetalGreymon ho picked their partner and put them to safety before the dark spheres hit them. The two perfect digimons glared at the monkey digimon and passed to the offensive.
"Giga Destroyer!" MetalGreymon shouted before he fired two missiles from his chest.
Etemon dodged the blast while Lilimon passed over Etemon. She trusted both her arms forward and fired energy shell at Etemon.
He couldn't dodge those and moved her arms forward to protect himself. Etemon grunted and jumped at Lilimon. He grabbed her wrist and threw her at MetalGreymon right on his chest. The crashed against a wall and returned to battle.
Etemon smirked and started singing loudly. MetalGreymon and Lilimon stopped charging and started dancing. Ryo watched this confused and didn't know why their partners were dancing.
"It's his Love Serenade," Mimi said.
"That's a horrible voice," Ryo commented at the sound.
"You would like it if he targets you Ryo," Mimi warned.
"I guess so and-" Ryo stopped talking when Etemon turned at them with his evil smile.
Etemon walked at their direction. Ryo and Mimi walked backward, knowing too well they were their target because of the smile. He jumped in the air and was about to give them a dive kick.
"Look out!" Mimi shouted pushing Ryo away.
Etemon missed both of them and grunted before he continued singing. Ryo noticed that the moment he stopped singing with his horrible voice, MetalGreymon and Lilimon spell that forced them to dance calmed down.
Etemon summoned dark spheres and threw them at Ryo. The chosen boy was almost hit by them, but managed to evade them. He picked a rock on the ground and threw it at Etemon who was charging at him. It hit right on the sunglasses of Etemon. The sunglasses cracked before breaking in two pieces. As they felt on the ground, the sunglasses hid another pair of sunglasses.
Mimi and Ryo gasped surprised that Etemon had another pair of sunglasses under his first pair.
Etemon stopped singing: "You dear break my sunglasses!" He shouted furiously as he walked closer to Ryo with his voice calling for blood. He cracked his knuckles when he was closed to Ryo. Ryo took a few steps backward as he heard the sound of the cracking knuckles. His front lost his color, covered in sweats and his eyes lost size.
Etemon was about to kill Ryo when Ryo face turned from fear to relief. "What are you doing accursed chosen child?"
He was suddenly trapped rope of vines and flowers. He tried to escape the vines, but he was trap.
"You won't hurt them Etemon!" Lilimon shouted.
"You tried to hurt my friends!" MetalGreymon shouted appearing near Etemon. His metallic claw shined. "No one hurt my friends! Metal Slash!" He slashed with his claw, but Etemon escaped at the last second. MetalGreymon didn't lose any seconds and fired his claw at Etemon and slashed the chest of Etemon.
"Vicious Vine!" Lilimon shouted. She slashed the back of Etemon who grunted in pain as blood came out of his injuries.
Lilimon tried to grab him again with her vines, but Etemon dodged them. Etemon lost his strength for a few seconds and grunted.
"You are too numerous for me," Etemon shouted. I should retreat and change strategy before I die. Etemon threw dark spheres at Ryo and Mimi.
"No!" MetalGreymon and Lilimon shouted before acting like a shield and took the hit. They grunted in pain as smoke rise. When it dissipated, the two digimons looked around and didn't see Etemon anywhere.
"He's running away!" MetalGreymon grunted.
"Go after him. I'll watch them," Lilimon said.
"Alright. I'll kill him once and for all," MetalGreymon grunted.
He ran after Etemon and left the others alone. They three others waited for a while for MetalGreymon to come back. They looked around them warily in case Etemon came for a surprise attack.
MetalGreymon eventually came back frustrated and said: "He escapes. We cannot save the chosen children as long as he's alive. Maybe Taichi will never be saved if he always runs away!"
"Don't worry MetalGreymon. I'm sure he didn't go far away with his injury," Ryo said.
"Let's go outside and search for Etemon through the air," Mimi suggested.
MetalGreymon dropped his hand and held Ryo and Mimi on his palm. They nodded and ran outside the pyramid.
Etemon ran until he was exhausted and stopped to regain his breath: "I will have my revenge next time. I just need to fight them one at the time."
Etemon gasped when he felt everything around him different. He looked around him and saw the sand in the air. It wasn't moving at all. He also noticed he didn't felt the wind anymore.
"Well well...What did you just do Etemon?" a voice said calmly. Etemon heard the sound of hands clapping with each other's.
Etemon turned around and saw Millenniumon clapping at him. He knew the clapping was a bad sigh when he met the glare of his lord. It was the eyes of a beast targeting his prey.
"I retreat to change my strategy so I can kill them my lord!" Etemon shouted, kneeing at his lord.
"Retreat?" Millenniumon asked. He said nothing and put his claw on his chin as if he was thinking. "Let's play a question game Etemon."
"W-" Etemon was cut by his lord.
"QUESTION 1! What did you just do right now?" Millenniumon asked.
"I retreated because the chosen children had the advantage against me," Etemon replied.
Millenniumon let a deep sound coming out of his throat. He sounded a little annoyed by Etemon and replied: "Question 2. What were my orders?"
Etemon dropped his head and felt like he was caught in a hunter trap: "Fight to the end."
"And?!"
"Not running away. But it was only-" Etemon was cut before he could defend himself.
"Retreating. You say it already. The problem is that in my ears, retreating sounds like running away. Also...I ordered you to fight to the end. Question 3: Was did I mean by the end?" Millenniumon asked.
"It wasn't possible to defeat them and-" Etemon was cut once again.
"My orders were clear Etemon. FIGHT TO THE END!" Millenniumon screamed. He stomped his feet near the face of Etemon. "You disobey my orders Etemon. You ran away like a coward. Etemon...You know that I hate a lot of things, but there something I hate more than anything else. Disobedience! I am a god and my words are...Absolute." Millenniumon said looking with his amber eyes right through Etemon sunglasses. Millenniumon opened his mouth and licked his lips.
Etemon felt like his lord thought how tasty he was with his glare.
"Devimon was weaker than you, but he didn't run away. He met a peaceful death. You however, run away. Etemon...Last question: Why did I order you to fight to the end?" Millenniumon asked.
Etemon didn't reply. Millenniumon grabbed Etemon, slowly crushed the body of the monkey and lifted him right in front of his amber eyes.
"You don't know. I'll give you the answer Etemon. I gave you three choices. Defeat them and come back alive, get kill by the chosen children digimons peacefully and if you run away, execution by MY hands," Millenniumon said before opened his hand and impaling the chest of Etemon with one of his claw.
Etemon screamed painfully and begged: "P-Please! G-give me a-another ch-chance!"
"Another chance? Diner. If you fail once, you don't get another chance. You want to know why? It's simple. If you fail once, you will fail again! Another chance is meaningless! FAILURE IS DEATH!" Millenniumon screamed right at his face. He lifted Etemon who begged to still be alive as Millenniumon opened his mouth: "You're so pitiful that I don't need to add sauce. You will surely taste crap anyway," Millenniumon concluded. He let Etemon felt in his mouth and slowly crushed the body of Etemon, using his tongue to make sure his mastication killed him slowly. He felt he broke the bones of his servant before he crushed the core of Etemon and ended his misery. Millenniumon coughed and said: "Just as I thought, it tastes crap. I should have used the torture room."
Millenniumon snapped his fingers and restored time. He watched the inverse pyramid and waited for the four to come out of the pyramid.
Ryo, MetalGreymon, Mimi and Lilimon appeared and saw Millenniumon tapping his arms with his fingers.
"We meet again Ryo. As you can see, I was waiting for you," Millenniumon said with a smile. The four saw blood in Millenniumon teeth and also some data coming out of it. "If you are searching for Etemon. Don't bother. I got rid of him. Now, let's talk."
AC: This is the end of chapter 7.
Chapter 8: Uneasy tease.