Me: Sorry I haven't updated this in a while. I've been working on my new drabbles thing.
Lunar: Excuses, excuses. Get to our story!
Dracomon: Yeah! I wanna digivolve!
Lunar: Who says you get to go next? For all you know, I might get to go first.
Petitmamon: You're all wrong, it's gonna be me.
Tsukaimon: I think it should be the most intelligent out of all of us.
Me: You're right. There's only one problem.
All: What?
Me: I'm not a Digimon.
Lunar: I'm gonna… KILL YOU!
*Everyone but Tsukaimon jump on me*
Tsukaimon: The Pandamoniam doesn't own Digimon. If she did… Kazemon from Frontier would either be killed off in the first episode, or she would look like an ordinary lady with wings.
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P01:
Losing a battle once in a while?
But it's okay, because everybody's here for me!
Chapter 7: Xros Friend! The Whereabouts of Trust!
P02:
DarkKnightmon: Twin Spear!
Lilithmon: (To think that I would be forced to go defensive...)
Lilithmon: (Don't tell me this superpower of Demon Lord class has escaped detection by the Bagra Army's intelligence network up till now?)
Lilithmon: Fufu..I beg your pardon?
Lilithmon: I know most of the big names in the Digital World, however...
Lilithmon: Of which rural countryside area might you be a noble of!?
P03:
DarkKnightmon: Fuhahaha? That's right...
DarkKnightmon: Let's just take it that I came from the fields of hell!
Sparrowmon: Gyururuuuuun!
Sparrowmon: Random Laser!
Nene: (She's weaker than I expected...)
Nene: (Her abilities may be powerful, but she doesn't seem to be used to battling...)
P04:
Sparrowmon: Oh? It stopped moving, Nene!
Nene: You're right...let's put an end to this quickly.
ReverseWeddinmon: Hiii!?
ReverseWeddinmon: I...I understand! I'll hand the Code Crown to you, so...!
ReverseWeddinmon: If...if you like, I'll treat you to sweets in place of Lilithmon, is that okay!?
Lilithmon: Wait...what!?
Lilithmon: What's with her, betraying me like it's just natural for her!
Lilithmon: !
DarkKnightmon: Haha! You shouldn't be looking elsewhere now, madam!
DarkKnightmon: Don't you have me as your partner for this dance!
P05:
DarkKnightmon: ! Oof...
Lilithmon: Ahhhhhh~...little boy?
Lilithmon: I think you might be a little too full of yourself, aren't you...
DarkKnightmon: !
P06-07:
Lilithmon: Big sis here doesn't like mischievous kids...3
Lilithmon: Empress Emblaze!
DarkKnightmon: Uoooo!?
Dorulumon: Wha...
Dorulumon: What a ruthless battle style...
Nene: Looks like you've gotten serious, Three Commanders...
Nene: Finish her off, Sparrowmon.
Nene: It's better if we can provide reinforcements.
ReverseWeddinmon: Hii...
Taiki: W...wait a sec!
P08:
Nene: ?
Taiki: Weddinmon has already given in! There's no need to finish her off, is there!?
Nene: Fufu..you're kind, Taiki.
Nene: But, sorry 3
Nene: Once someone has betrayed, he'll continue to betray others again and again, you know?
Nene: I myself am more afraid than anybody else of not being able to gain others' trust...
Nene: I don't see the value of...
Nene: ...trying so hard to keep the trust that others place in me.
Shoutmon: (? What's with her face...?)
Nene: !
P09:
Nene: What do you intend to do...?
Taiki: It's true that she tricked us and betrayed us! However...
Taiki: She didn't do that to look down on or hurt anyone!
Taiki: If she just wanted to defeat us...she could've just done as Lilithmon said and put some poison or something in the cake!
Taiki: However, the reason why you didn't do that...it's because you really like sweets, right?
Taiki: It was such a delicious cake...
Taiki: You couldn't bear to add poison to it...!
Taiki: It's the same reason why she surrendered this Zone without a fight...
Taiki: For these guys, who have no battling experience, surrendering is the only way they could go about continuing to make sweets...!
P10:
Nene: ...I can understand that their desire to make sweets is genuine.
Nene: But that isn't a reason to forgive their lies or betrayals.
Taiki: I know that!
Taiki: However...
Taiki: These guys...they have the dream and pride of making delicious sweets to make others happy...!
Taiki: If anyone were to take that and just step on it...I can't let it go...!
Nene: ! Taiki...
Sparrowmon: Wha...what's up with you!
Sparrowmon: Stop saying stuff to trouble Nene!
Sparrowmon: She's just an enemy!
Nene: Sparrowmon!
Sparrowmon: It doesn't matter what happens to her anyway!
Taiki: Wait! She hasn't...
P11:
Nene: !
Taiki: Ballistamon...!?
Sparrowmon: Ehh...?
Sparrowmon: Wah...w-what's with you, let go of me!
Ballistamon: Ca...calm down...you shouldn't fight with others with those feelings.
DarkKnightmon: (Hmph, those children sure are carefree...)
DarkKnightmon: (While I'm here facing off with some absurd monster...)
P12:
DarkKnightmon: Ugh!
DarkKnightmon: (!? Lilithmon is...)
Darkknightmon: Ku...
P13:
DarkKnightmon: Mu!
DarkKnightmon: (! Tch...this is bad...)
Shoutmon: Wah!?
Shoutmon: What's with him, cutting his own arm off...!?
Starmon: Hehhh!
Shoutmon: It...it rotted and melted away!?
P14:
DarkKnightmon: (The demonic poison claws, "Nazar Nail", that corrode anything they touch...)
DarkKnightmon: (If I had reacted a moment later, my whole body would have decayed and I'd have died...!)
DarkKnightmon: (As expected of the Three Commanders, a terrifying opponent...)
DarkKnightmon: (And what I get in return for losing this arm...)
Lilithmon: C...cut...
Lilithmon: O...on my face...a cut...!
P15:
Lilithmon: A CUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
Dorulumon: What!?
P16-17:
Starmon: Uwawawawa what's going on!?
Shoutmon: My body's getting sucked iiiiinnnnn!
Dorulumon: H...her anger caused space-time to split open!?
Reverse Weddinmon: I...if we get sucked in by that, we won't be able to return!
DarkKnightmon: Or rather...if we leave things as it is this whole Zone will get sucked in and be annihilated.
Shoutmon: NO WAYYY!?
DarkKnightmon: Sigh...I know that a woman's hysteria can be scary but for it to come to this level...
Lilithmon: (No way! Did I just explode?)
Lilithmon: (If I let a Zone get annihilated again...the Emperor will get mad~~!)
Lilithmon: (Welll..but I guess it's okay! I'll be able to finish off some troublesome enemies this way anyway!)
Lilithmon: (I can come for the Code Crown later...I'll use my beauty to convince them I guess!)
Sparrowmon: Oh darn it! Let go of me!
Ballistamon: Wa...watch out!
Ballistamon: Don't be rash...
Taiki: Ceasefire for now, Sparrowmon! If we don't do something about that space-time rift now...
Sparrowmon: Shut up, shut up!
Sparrowmon: Like heck I'll listen to people who give Nene trouble!
Taiki: Ahhh!?
P18:
Taiki: Wah...!?
Taiki: Waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Shoutmon: Ta...Taiki! Ballistamon!
Nene: S...Sparrowmon!
DarkKnightmon: Ku...this isn't good! If this goes on, we too will be...!
P19:
DarkKnightmon: Hm!
Dorulumon: !? The flow stopped...!?
Nene: What are you doing, DarkKnightmon!?
DarkKnightmon: Closing the space-time rift!
DarkKnightmon: Really...I wasn't planning to spend all the magic power that I've been saving in this place...
Nene: !
Shoutmon: Wa...wait up! What are you gonna do about Taiki and the others who got sucked in...!?
Sparrowmon: Uwa...uwawawawaa!
P20:
Ballistamon: Oof!
Sparrowmon: Hgya!?
Sparrowmon: Yeeeesh!
Sparrowmon: Why the heck did this happen! It's all your fault!
Ballistamon: Owowowww...we lost Taiki too...
Sparrowmon: I...I can't stay here!
Sparrowmon: I gotta hurry back to where Nene is!
Ballistamon: Ah...wait! This place is...
Sparrowmon: Toooo bad!
Sparrowmon: You can just stay here and be a lost child forever!
Sparrowmon: Ouch...!?
Sparrowmon: Wha...what is this!? Ow! Owowowow!
P21:
Sparrowmon: Awawawawawa...dah!?
Sparrowmon: Waaaaahhhhh it hurts, Nene~~~!
Ballistamon: Are you okay?
Ballistamon: This place is most likely the digital space that exists between Zones.
Ballistamon: When we Digimon leave a Zone, we become normal data and cannot maintain our stability...
Ballistamon: This is probably also made of fragments of Zones that got separated from the Zone and somehow landed up here...
Ballistamon: It's safer not to leave here.
Sparrowmon: Then...then how can I return to where Nene is...?
Sparrowmon: We already lost sight of the exit...if I can't fly for long I won't be able to find it...!
Ballistamon: ...
P22:
Ballistamon: What should we do...
Sparrowmon: You IDIIIIIOOOOOTTTTTTT!
Sparrowmon: Waaahhhhh! I'm lonely, I'm hurt, I'm hungryyy~!
Sparrowmon: Even though I promised to eat crepes together with Nene afterwards~!
Sparrowmon: Aahhh! DigiNoir!
Ballistamon: I always have them…if not Shoutmon will make a fuss.
Ballistamon: You want some too?
Sparrowmon: Ehhh! Are you sure~~!?
Sparrowmon: Yayyy I'll have some then-
Sparrowmon: Abyaaa!
P23:
Sparrowmon: What's that, are you making fun of me!?
Ballistamon: You were going to finish off an injured opponent that was going to surrender to you.
Ballistamon: If you don't reflect on that I won't give you any DigiNoir.
Sparrowmon: Wha...what's wrong with finishing an enemy off!
Sparrowmon: Nene said that it was okay to destroy the enemy as many times as you want!
Ballistamon: Even if Nene said that, no.
Ballistamon: You shouldn't just make any opponent out as an enemy. Everybody has their own reasons for fighting.
Ballistamon: Among them, there might also be others that you can understand.
Sparrowmon: Th...then what should I do!? If others come attacking, I'll get defeated if I don't fight back~!
Ballistamon: I'm not saying that you cannot fight.
Ballistamon: There are also times when you cannot understand each other through words.
Ballistamon: During those times, we fight, we battle...
Ballistamon: And maybe you can convey your feelings to the opponent through fighting.
P24:
Ballistamon: In the past, I was afraid of fighting...my hometown Zone was captured by the Bagra Army and I managed to escape.
Ballistamon: After that, I got angered by Shoutmon, whom I met in Green Zone.
Shoutmon: You have a tough body and great power, so why don't you fight!
Shoutmon: You can't tell the opponent anything if you just keep quiet and get defeated!
Shoutmon: Listen up! You know what can really convey your feelings! It's rock! It's battles!
Shoutmon: Show your courage and shout out loudly, 'I am who I am'!
Shoutmon: You may have gone through painful experiences and be in a gloomy mood, but so what!
Shoutmon: When you hit each other at full strength with your feelings, it's possible to make friends that way too!
P25:
Ballistamon: To him, battles are just like words or songs; they're a way to convey your feelings to your opponent.
Ballistamon: Shoutmon's a weird guy, he naturally gets mad or goes into a rage according to his feelings. That's why I'm following him now, because I want to see the future of the Digital World that he will make.
Ballistamon: That girl...Is Amano Nene your friend?
Sparrowmon: Huh?
Sparrowmon: Ah...yeah! Nene is my bestest friend! She reads me books, sings songs for me, and even bakes sweets for me!
Sparrowmon: I love Nene so much!
Ballistamon: ...
Ballistamon: If you really treasure her a lot...you can't just listen to whatever she says without thinking.
P26:
Ballistamon: Friends should accept each other's weaknesses and inexperience.
Ballistamon: If they have any faults, you should try to correct them.
Ballistamon: If you can't do that...when she is really suffering, you won't be able to save her.
Sparrowmon: ...?...Wha...what are you saying...
Sparrowmon: That sounds complicated, I don't understand...
Sparrowmon: !
Ballistamon: You can have some.
Ballistamon: But try to remember and think of what we talked about just now once in a while.
Sparrowmon: ...
P27:
Taiki: (Hmmm, this is a problem...Usually, the Code Crown would lead us to the correct destination, but...)
Taiki: (Without that, how am I supposed to get out of this space?)
Taiki: (Not only that...)
Taiki: (T...the cake I ate just now has all been digested...!)
Taiki: (I'm in big trouble, in the middle of nowhere with nobody around!)
Taiki: ?
Taiki: What is it...?
DarkKnightmon: Just maintaining this gate will continue to expend a vast amount of my magic power!
Nene: But Sparrowmon and the others will never be able to return like that!
P28:
DarkKnightmon: Sparrowmon isn't an indispensable necessity in our plans!
Nene: But it's really powerful in battles! I can't just lose it...
Taiki: (These voices, Nene and...DarkKnightmon? The path of space-time is still connected through the Xros Loader?)
DarkKnightmon: If you're hindering our plans just for the battle potential of one member, you've got your priorities wrong! Get down; I'll be closing the gate right now!
Taiki: (Seems like they're having a scary conversation...it's better if we escape quickly.)
Taiki: (But the two of them don't seem too friendly with each other, despite them being in the same team...)
Taiki: Ohh!?
Sparrowmon: The first time we met, I was still a baby, and Nene's group just recently got lost in the Digital World!
Sparrowmon: The both of us didn't know left from right, so it was pretty troublesome!
Sparrowmon: So we joined forces and wandered around...when we arrived in Shinobi Zone, we made friends with the Monitamons and she finally became a General and learned how to use DigiXros!
Ballistamon: (? Group...?)
P29:
Sparrowmon: But then for a while, Kotone's condition got quite bad...
Sparrowmon: She was always sleeping and wouldn't open her eyes.
Ballistamon: (...huh? Kotone? Who's that...)
Sparrowmon: Then there's that time! Those guys...SkullKnightmon and DeadlyAxemon came to the village!
Sparrowmon: They said they would save Kotone and made some deal with Nene...
Ballistamon: Wawawawawait a minute! Who's Kotone? Is it a Digimon? And SkullKnightmon and Deadly-something-mon...
Sparrowmon: Eh? Kotone? She's Nene's little sister. She's so small and cute, I like her!
Sparrowmon: But I hate SkullKnightmon and DeadlyAxemon! After they joined the team, Nene got kinda scarier...
Ballistamon: (L...little sister!? So there are other humans who got lost in the Digital World...!)
Sparrowmon: Oh no! That was supposed to be a secret! Idiot! It's because you asked unnecessary things!
Ballistamon: Oww! You were the one who said it yourself...
Taiki: So, according to what you said...
P30:
Taiki: I was wondering if you could tell us a bit more about Nene...
Ballistamon: Taiki! You're okay!
Taiki: No, I'm actually in big trouble...
Taiki: Um...Ballistamon...
Taiki: Do you have any paper?
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Taiki: Alright! I'm alive again!
Taiki: As expected of Ballistamon, you're always well-prepared!
Ballistamon: Yup, well...wash your hands.
Sparrowmon: You stink, so don't come any closer for a while.
P31:
Taiki: Alright! So, while we have a talk...
Taiki: Why don't we escape from this space at the same time!
Ballistamon: !?
Sparrowmon: Escape...how?
Taiki: Sparrowmon! I'll borrow your power for a while!
Nene: Wait! DarkKnightmon!
Nene: What will you do about Taiki...? He's the 'Third General', we cannot remove him from our plans...
DarkKnightmon: You seem to be quite interested in him for some reason, however...
DarkKnightmon: At worst we can also use Aonuma Kiriha from Blue Flare as the 'Third'.
P32:
DarkKnightmon: I can't bear to expend any more of my magic power that I was saving to fight the Bagra Army! There's a possibility of a hindrance cropping up during that 'ritual'!
Nene: ...But he's more!
Nene: Our wavelengths...will meet.
Nene: It's worth waiting a while more...
Shoutmon: (? She...)
Shoutmon: (Don't tell me, she's trying to cover up for Taiki...?)
Kiriha: What's going on...?
Shoutmon: !
Kiriha: I flew here after hearing that Kudou Taiki has appeared in Sweets Zone...
Kiriha: But it looks like some strange stuff has happened here.
P33:
Kiriha: You seem to be going on about whether or not you can use other people in your own way...
Kiriha: You're saying a lot of selfish things, DarkKnightmon. So you're the one pulling the strings behind that girl...
Nene: Kiriha...
Taiki: Sparrowmon! Ballistamon! DigiXros!
Taiki: Sparrowmon AB (After Burner)!
P34:
Sparrowmon: Dogyururu~~~n! Awesome, awesome!
Sparrowmon: I've never flown this fast before!
Taiki: Since a DigiXros form can withstand the corrosion of digital space for a longer time...we should be able to make it if we continue flying at this speed towards the response!
Ballistamon: After that, once we get out we can stop the paralysis and close the exit.
Taiki: Sparrowmon! Continuing from what you said just now...Nene made a deal with DarkKnightmon in order to save her little sister, Kotone, right?
Taiki: Then what is DarkKnightmon's motive? I bet he wasn't helping Nene out of sheer goodwill, right?
Sparrowmon: I dunno...Nene seems to know though. I've never heard anything of it you know?
Taiki: The 'Three Generals' that are needed for the plan...
Taiki: He should be aiming to use me, Kiriha and Nene for some kind of ritual...
P35:
Taiki: Waaahhh! Drive safelyyyyy!
Sparrowmon: Aahh, he's not using Aonuma Kiriha.
Sparrowmon: He said Kiriha's and Taiki's colour compatibility is bad so he won't be using them together!
Taiki: Ehhh...!? That means...isn't he short of one person!? Isn't there supposed to be another General...
Sparrowmon: Huh? That's Kotone.
Taiki: Eh...!?
Sparrowmon: Kotone's a General too, you know? Didn't I tell you?
Taiki: I didn't hear anything like that!
-Chapter 7 End-