Alright, after last chapter's shocking revelation, let's see how they all react.
Adding Tommy too.
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● GoggleGirl: I take it you mean the Takato/Megidramon thing? Or the two people from the future, making Suzie out to be a FutureBadass?
Suzie's eyes widened when she registered fully what Ophanimon had just told her. A few minutes passed where she did nothing but gape in incredulity, trying to take it all in.
"T-t-that's impossible!" She stuttered, more trying to convince herself of that, than convince the others of it. "Takato wouldn't do that!"
"Nor has he," Ophanimon softly replied. "This is not the Takato Matsuki you know."
"Oh, so he's from an alternate timeline?" The brunette interjected, smirking. "Or a parallel universe, same difference!"
Zoe watched with some amusement as her blonde companion proceeded to lecture the brunette about the difference between alternate timelines and parallel universes, and that she should at least bother to get her terminology right, which she dismissed immediately, giving the blonde a beaming grin.
"Alright..." Suzie whispered, somewhat uneasy at the notion of fighting Takato. She ignored the mildly concerned Ophanimon and everyone else gave her, and shrugged off her shock as best she could. "We'll fight him."
Ophanimon didn't speak, instead doing a flourish with her arm, conjuring up a portal in the middle of the floor. Within that portal, Suzie saw nothing but vast, endless darkness.
"The fates of several worlds lies in thy hands!" Cherubimon declared passionately. "Knowing that, will you all accept this task?"
"Don't be ridiculous, bunny-boy!" The brunette retorted, shooting the bewildered bestial angel an indignant glare. "There's no way that Boss is remotely fazed by some punk and his overgrown lizard, so how can we do anything less than follow her, charging full-speed into hell itself?"
While she appreciated the confidence the brunette seemed to have in her, truthfully Suzie had some mild and less mild apprehension about what she was being asked to do.
Once again, the blonde chided the brunette gently, saying that Suzie might not ever become the woman she calls Boss, same as their past selves might not ever become them.
"Wait, if you can open portals to other dimensions and Digital Worlds, why did you tell me that you couldn't send me home?" Suzie asked to the angels.
"We apologize for the half-truth, Suzie Wong," Seraphimon spoke, mildly regretful. "What Ophanimon said then was not entirely correct, nor entirely incorrect."
Suzie blinked; what exactly had Seraphimon meant by that?
"While we possess the capability to create portals between the worlds, making another would expend too much of what remains of our power. Indeed, we have already spent nearly all our strength bringing you all here. Were we to return you home once all this is over, we would also have to enter a lengthy state of hibernation to recover our strength..." Ophanimon responded.
Suzie, Lopmon, Cody, Armadillomon, Keenan, Falcomon, and the Legendary Warrriors all stared in shock. They were stuck here? Cody knew, or assumed at least, that they had all accepted not coming back when they came here, but hearing it outright still felt... Cody didn't even know how to respond to something like that...
"No turning back now," Suzie muttered under her breath, as she and Lopmon entered the portal. Cody and Armadillomon, Keenan and Falcomon, the brunette and her Biyomon, and the blonde and her purple dragon entered shortly behind her.
Before anyone could stop him, Tommy leapt into the portal after the five humans and Digimon, ignoring the cries of 'Tommy!' and 'No, Tommy Himi!', as he went, the portal fading after him.
"Open it again!" Takuya exclaimed. Tommy knew that the Legendary Warriors would only be a liability in this battle, so why had he done that?
Ophanimon could give nothing more than an apologetic look to the shocked Warriors. "I cannot. Leaving the portal to that world exposed this Digital World to unfathomable horrors and dangers. We cannot re-open the gateway unless we are certain the monsters within have been slain."
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Soon, Suzie and the others stood in the other Digital World, and she gasped, understanding exactly what the Great Angels had feared. From their description, she had been expecting something like ruined, desolate fields, and widespread destruction.
What was actually here, was much, much worse.
There was nothing here. No scattered corpses floating around, no ground, or skies, or distant planets and stars, just nothingness and the endless dark, illuminated by a faint blood-red glow from above them. What sort of Digimon could possibly cause this sort of devastation?
Behind her, she heard Armadillomon, Falcomon, Biyomon, Gumdramon if his Tamer was to be believed, and Tommy assume their most powerful forms; ElDradimon, Ravemon Burst Mode, Hououmon, Fanglongmon, much to Suzie's surprise, and Korikakumon. "Wait, TOMMY?!" Suzie exclaimed, turning around to the transformed boy, while everyone stared at him in shock and bewilderment. "What are you doing here!?"
"I'm not letting you guys fight this thing alone!" He declared. Both the brunette and blonde shook their heads in exasperation.
Suzie was about to open her mouth to retort when she heard a voice from above her drawl. "How sweet..."
Her eyes widened when the group looked up, and she saw the spitting image of the twelve-year old Takato float above them, his deep-red eyes radiating none of the kindness and compassion she normally associated with Takato's soft-crimson orbs.
Suzie took a few steps cautious back when she saw the great evil beast, the Digital Hazard itself, Megidramon, next to him.
"Welcome, all of you, to my world," The boy greeted them cordially. He couldn't possibly be oblivious to their unease, Cody thought, so he was likely savoring it. "I hope you like what I've done with the place." If they were taken aback by his polite tone, there were no trace of it in their expressions.
"Not really," Suzie laughed to Takato, who quirked an eyebrow in mixed amusement and bemusement, the sharp-red glow of his eyes illuminating the darkness. "I mean, did you even try? No pulsating, undulating shadows? No unearthly, skittering noises from within the endless darkness? Talk about underwhelming!"
ElDradimon, Korikakumon and Keenan all let out a brief chuckle at her retort, before remembering the situation.
"Allow me to correct that," Takato smiled, and held out his hand. As he snapped two of his fingers, Megidramon released a stream of flames towards the group.
"Fanglongmon!" The blonde quickly shouted to her partner, who responded by blowing a typhoon from it's maw towards the flames, while Lopmon transformed into Cherubimon. The attacks collided, unleashing a massive explosion.
Everyone quickly covered their eyes, while Takato eyed the explosion with mild boredom, while Keenan eyed the perfect opportunity to end the battle.
Takato blinked when the boy leapt at him, and yelped when the boy forced his boomerang into his mouth, gargling in pain as it scratched against his throat.
Once Takato's body went limp, Keenan removed his boomerang. After eyeing briefly, he decided to leave it here. He wouldn't need a saliva-drenched boomerang at home.
Suzie gaped in shock; while she knew that killing him might have been necessary, it was still awful to watch. Cody, however, had a nagging doubt of something more going on; why had the dragon-digimon allowed its partner's death? Shouldn't it have some twisted loyalty to him, and go berserk on them?
Everyone froze when a quiet chuckle filled the area, and Takato's body shuddered. "Nice try... Next time, try slitting my throat..."
Korikakumon stared, incredulous. There was no way that he should be alive; they saw him die. "H-h-how!?" Suzie stuttered.
"Being Megidramon's lord and master... Has it's advantages..." Takato laughed, as Megidramon unleashed another torrent of flame.
Cherubimon unleashed a flurry of lightning bolts, which collided with the flames, blocking the flames, though Suzie was starting to sweat from the heat the attacks unleashed.
"I don't care what you are! AVALANCHE AXES! Korikakumon exclaimed, furiously flinging his pair of axes at Megidramon, who sent another burst of flame at them, melting them instantly.
Deciding that a change of strategy was in order, Tommy Slide-Digivolved to Kumamon, thick fur becoming frigid ice. "Blizzard Blaster!" He shouted, pelting Megidramon with frozen snowballs, which all cracked to pieces upon contact.
Takato shot them an amused look. "Is that really all you've got?" He asked, as ChaosGallantmon unleashed his Judecca Prison, which Kumamon narrowly managed to dodge.
Suzie blinked. They had been fighting Megidramon, and now ChaosGallantmon was here instead. A Mode Change or Slide-Digivolution, she could understand, but nothing of the sort had taken place; Megidramon was just gone, and ChaosGallantmon stood at Takato's side, ocean-blue cape billowing behind him.
"Crimson Flame!" Hououmon roared, unleashing a burst of deep-red flames. Megidramon responded in kind, his flames swallowing up Hououmon's.
Ravemon swooped in on the fallen knight, shooting blasts of violet light, which was blocked with his shield, pushing him back slightly. Cherubimon followed up the assault with another round of thunderbolts, regressing into Lopmon immediately afterwards.
"Bad timing, Lopmon," Suzie joked, before pausing, as ChaosGallantmon was charging directly at them, his lance poised to kill.
He, in turn, was given pause when ElDradimon gave a dry "Yeah, no," and lowered a foot on the knight. Though his shield took the brunt of the impact, he was still flung several hundred meters down into the darkness... Which quickly turned out to be the very worst thing ElDradimon could have done, as Megidramon shot a burst of flame at his stomach.
ElDradimon groaned from the sudden pain in his midsection, as Megidramon flew up to the group, roaring in anticipation of his triumph.
Suzie knew that they needed a miracle to win; Megidramon was near unbeatable in ranged combat, ChaosGallantmon was untouchable in close combat, and neither of them were slouches in the other area. Add their ability to switch forms instantaneously, and it all made for a dangerous predicament.
And she preferred not to dwell on him being able to fight Hououmon, Fanglongmon, ElDradimon, three Megas, and Ravemon Burst Mode, a Super Ultimate, simultaneously...
Takato's eyes glowed intensely when he ordered Megidramon to finish them. The dragon complied immediately, unleashing another torrent of flames, larger than any of the previous ones.
In response, Hououmon unleashed a Crimson Flame attack at the same time as Fanglongmon unleashed it's Oukai, Ravemon his Crimson Formation, and Kumamon shot his Blizzard Blaster.
The attacks collided, and the energies dispersed quickly. To Suzie's surprise and annoyance, Takato and Megidramon were entirely unscathed.
"Ready to give up?" He smirked.
"NEVER!" Suzie shouted back.
His grin dropped immediately; this was getting nowhere. Somehow the combined power of these six was great enough that while not exactly capable of rivalling his, they could stalemate him for longer than he cared for. He needed a change of plans, in order to end this quickly.
"Bio-Merge Activate!" Takato declared, his body fading into ChaosGallantmon's, and soon, a new form of ChaosGallantmon stood before the shocked group.
While he had the same ten energy-wings that Takato and Guilmon's Crimson Mode had, these ten were navy-blue, as opposed to bright-white. His armor was navy-blue where Crimson Mode's was red, and a sharp-silver color where Crimson Mode's was a soft golden color. Unlike Crimson Mode, he only had the lance, though his was larger.
Suzie briefly wondered how it was even possible, before realizing that no matter how horribly damaged this world was, it was still a Digital World.
"Et Vade!" ChaosGallantmon exclaimed, swinging his lance, discharging a dark-violet wave of energy, which took Fanglongmon's, Ravemon's and Hououmon's combined attacks to counter.
Smirking at having an upper hand, ChaosGallantmon unleashed several more blasts
Seeing no other options, as it had taken three Megas to deflect a single blast, ElDradimon leapt in the way, sending him hurtling back, even as he separated into Cody and Armadillomon.
"Cody!" Suzie shouted horrified, begging for him and Armadillomon to survive.
"I had hoped to avoid this..." The blonde whispered, getting the brunette's attention. "Fanglongmon! Hououmon! Execute plan D-8.1, with Ravemon as the recipient!" She sharply commanded both Digimon, who nervously wondered whether she knew what she was asking for, though Fanglongmon complied immediately, reverting into Nyokimon. Hououmon did likewise after receiving the all-clear from the brunette, similarly reverting to Nyokimon.
Ravemon wasn't sure of what exactly this 'plan D-8.1' entailed, but he soon got his answer, as their energy went into him. Never in his life had Ravemon imagined this much power flowing through him; it was almost overwhelming!
"What's this?!" ChaosGallantmon exclaimed in shock. Had the fools actually willingly given up their power?
"YOUR DEATH!" Ravemon roared, sending another surge of violet energy at him.
ChaosGallantmon wondered with amusement if the bird actually expected his infusion of power to make a difference, as he flung another Et Vade at the blast. However, to his utter shock, Ravemon's blast was undeterred by his own.
After a few more Et Vades, however, the blast was dispersed.
"Pathetic..." Ravemon laughed. ChaosGallantmon shot him a furious glare. This piece of trash had the gall to mock them?!
"Pardon?" He asked, deciding to repress his irritation.
"You can't defeat me anymore," Ravemon smirked, earning a skeptical look from the knight. "Just now, it took a few of your attacks to deflect one of mine, and I'm willing to bet that from all this fighting, your power is all but expended."
ChaosGallantmon twitched almost imperceptibly. Truth be told, he was starting to feel a bit weary, but from there to outright fatigue was a long way. And the notion that he might ever be defeated by the likes of him? Absurd!
"Hold your tongue..." ChaosGallantmon growled. "ET VADE!" He yelled, sending several waves of energy at the bird, who simply responded with a single blast neutralizing all of his.
"Don't delude yourself," Ravemon sternly spoke. "This is over."
If the knight acknowledged Ravemon's statement amidst the throes of his fury, he didn't show it, as he tried to slash Ravemon with his lance, missing each time.
"THERE!" ChaosGallantmon declared jubilantly, as his blade sliced into Ravemon's wing. "Now prepare to-ARGH!" He yelled in pain, as a series of lightning bolt struck him. "Who dare interrupt I amidst a killing?!"
"I dare, fallen one," Cherubimon responded, while Suzie, Kumamon, the blonde, the brunette, and their partners moved behind her for cover.
"And who be you?" ChaosGallantmon sneered, unimpressed by his assailant's effiminate appearance.
"I 'be' Cherubimon, a servant of the divine, sent here to bring the wrath of god down on thy mortal ass!" Cherubimon smirked, while Suzie wondered why her partner was suddenly so dramatic to listen to in her Mega form, when she was generally polite and reserved in her Rookie form. "However, I 'be' not your executioner."
"What?!" ChaosGallantmon gasped, before realizing to his horror that he had...
Forgotten Ravemon entirely...
"CRIMSON FORMATION!" Ravemon roared, putting as much of his power as he could into this attack.
ChaosGallantmon was swallowed up entirely by the enormous energy-mass, and when it dispersed a minute later, Ravemon had reverted into Tokomon, and both knight and dragon were gone, replaced by the unconscious boy and dinosaur.
The fierce battle ended, a few minutes passed before anyone spoke. "Do we have to kill them?" Suzie quietly asked. Lopmon gave her a worried look; back in their own world, they were almost exactly what Yoshino had implied them to be; child soldiers, but they hadn't yet killed anyone in cold blood. In the heat of battle, yes, but not in cold blood.
"I agree with Suzie," Cody called out to them, receiving a push forward from Armadillomon, who latched on to his leg. "Let's revert that Digimon to a Digi-Egg. Maybe it'll give them a fresh start."
Tommy, Keenan and Tokomon nodded their assent to the suggestion, while Suzie and Lopmon grimaced, unsure of how to break it to them. "We can't. Takato and Guilmon are from our Digital World, and there, Digimon don't turn into Digi-Eggs; they die for good..."
Cody, Armadillomon and Tommy stared at the two, horrified. What sort of terrible world was the girl from?
The blonde and the brunette shared a look, agreeing that the kids wouldn't do this, shouldn't do this. "This is the part where you all close your eyes..." The blonde whispered, apologetically, as the brunette's Nyokimon assumed it's Champion form.
"NO!" Suzie screamed, while Cody and Tommy's eyes widened, all three of them frozed in shock, as the meager fireball that Birdramon could muster flew at Takato and Guilmon, engulfing them both.
Suzie and Cody knew that it was necessary; had they let this Takato and Guilmon live, they would only have threatened other Digital Worlds.
Tommy, however, was shaken to his core at what had just unfolded. They were Digidestined, the good guys. They were supposed to keep everyone safe, human and Digimon alike, so how could they just kill him and that Digimon so easily?
"I'm sorry, Tommy," He faintly heard Suzie tell him. He appreciated the gesture, but it just felt so... Pointless... "This is sadly what it means to fight evil Digimon."
"That's not what it means!" He snapped at her. "This was..." He paused, trying to think of something, anything, that could accurately convey his outrage and disgust at what they had done.
"Something we had to do..." Suzie finished for him. "I'm sorry, but it was necessary..."
"It wasn't!" Tommy shouted at her, while everyone watched their debate with mild interest, as they had all resigned themselves to spending eternity in this empty void. "We should've found another way!"
"Like what?" Suzie bitterly laughed, briefly wondering why she was bothering to defend their actions, when she didn't fully agree with them. "Ask nicely if Takato and Megidramon wanted to be good guys again, after destroying this Digital World? Just delete Megidramon, and leave Takato here forever? Should we have settled for killing Takato, and left Megidramon to his rampages?"
Tommy was completely at a loss as to how to refute her arguments, while Cody, Armadillomon, the blonde and brunette eyed her warily, more than slightly disturbed at hearing someone so young spout such notions so casually.
"N-no, but," He weakly began, before Suzie cut him off.
"'But', nothing!" She declared. "I know enough about everyone here to know that they walk the paths they're on, primarily because we choose to. And now, you want to quit, simply because that path has taken a few unpleasant turns?"
"... Yes," Tommy replied quietly. When he went down to the Shibuya station per Ophanimon's request, he had never thought about committing cold-blooded murder. It had never even crossed his mind in any fashion, and it wasn't something he ever wanted to do again.
"Then do that," She responded softly. "What we do isn't worth tainting your own soul over."
"But it's worth tainting yours over, Suzie?" Cody worriedly asked, and got a bitter half-smile in return.
"Trust me, it definitely is," She responded, giving Lopmon a wistful look. "Better me than others."
"And if the three of you are done being cute, in a rugged, gruff, kinda-creepy sort of way, let's figure a way outta here," Armadillomon muttered, only half-joking.
"I'm not cute..." Suzie pouted, when a sharp voice suddenly called out to them from above.
"And leaving this wretched place is what we are for!"
When the group looked up, they respectively saw Omnimon and Magnamon, Omnimon and Magnamon of the Royal Knights, and in Tommy's case, a Susanoomon-wannabe who couldn't quite get it right and a blue man with claws and a lot of golden armor.
"Veemon?" Cody asked, once his surprise at seeing them had passed. "Agumon? Gabumon? What are you guys doing here?"
"Cody, this isn't the same Omnimon and Magnamon you know." Suzie told him.
"Indeed, the girl speaks true, we be not the ones you know," Omnimon spoke loudly, while Magnamon eyed his overtly dramatic companion with amusement. "We be Omnimon and Magnamon of the Royal Knights!"
Cody blinked. "Royal Knights?" To his further surprise, Keenan eyed them warily, while Tommy suddenly yelled, transforming into Korikakumon and throwing his axes at the two, which Omnimon effortlessly deflected with his sword.
"Yes, Tommy Himi, we must apologize for the travesties our comrades committed," Omnimon solemnly spoke, as both he and Magnamon bowed before the group.
Tommy blinked; were they sincere? They seemed to be, so hesitantly, Tommy reverted to his human form.
"We have been called by the Great Angels to bring you all back to that world you have very recently left." Magnamon told the group.
Cody eyed them quizzically; from little what he could infer, the Royal Knights were a group of Digimon, and if the other Magnamon was to be believed, they could travel into other dimensions. He decided that he needed to know more. "That's great, really, but, who and what are the Royal Knights?"
Omnimon visibly tensed at the question, while Magnamon eyed his ally wearily in anticipation of the speech he knew the Jogress knight to enjoy giving. "I am truly pleased to hear such a magnificent question from a formidable, upstanding, easy-on-the-eyes young boy like yourself." Omnimon exclaimed.
Cody blinked, wondering whether he had heard Omnimon correctly, but he decided that that particular question was best left unanswered, while Tommy decided the knight to be freaking crazy.
"THE ROYAL KNIGHTS ARE A NOBLE GROUP OF INTERDIMENSIONAL WANDERERS, CODY HIDA!" Omnimon declared, startling the group slightly with his sudden change of tone. "WHENEVER THE DIGITAL WORLDS ARE THREATENED, WE ARRIVE TO KEEP THE DARKNESS AT BAY!"
"And now that you have had your chance to spout your usual spiel-" Magnamon froze upon noticing the blonde and brunette, who had kept their distance from the remaining group since the two knights arrived.
"I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS DAY!" Magnamon roared, unleashing a blinding surge of energy from his entire body at the two, which they narrowly got out of the way of.
"That's our cue," The brunette pulled out a strange device from her back-pocket, and smirked to the blonde, who sheepishly shrugged her shoulders, pointing out that it had been an accident.
The device released a bright golden light, and soon, the two and their partners were gone entirely. Everyone gaped, dumbfounded at what had just transpired, while Magnamon cursed loudly that his enemy had escaped once more.
"Magnamon, would you care to explain why you just did that?" Omnimon inquired, severely displeased by his comrade's attempt to kill the very Tamers and Digidestined they had been dispatched to retrieve.
"I would not," Magnamon grumbled, as memories of that dark day replayed in his mind.
Cody briefly wondered, a bit annoyed, why if those two could've teleported out at any time that they hadn't brought anyone else along. Suzie shrugged that what he suggested most likely hadn't been done in their alternate timeline, and they simply allowed history to unfold as they remembered. It wasn't much, she knew, but it was the best explanation she could think of.
Cody and Tommy eyed the girl curiously, wondering how she seemed to know the subject matter of alternate timelines and parallel universes as well as she sounded to.
"Really, I've seen a few alternate timelines before, even before ZeedMillenniumon sent me to Cody's timeline." Suzie revealed. Cody wasn't sure of what exactly the girl meant by his 'timeline', when to the best of his knowledge, Cody was from his 'universe', and not some alternate timeline.
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"No..." Mayumi and Janyu whispered at Henry, sobbing heavily. He definitely hadn't expected them to take the news very well.
"I'm sorry," Henry spoke softly. "It's my all fault."
Mayumi and Janyu shared a concerned look. They knew of his predilection for shouldering the blame whenever he could, though he had thought that Henry had grown past that. Mayumi, however, couldn't quite not blame him, as she honestly thought it was his fault, if solely because he had failed to keep her safe. Still, she decided not to reprimand him for it, as he was likely harsher on himself for it than they would be.
"You're damn right it's your fault!" Jaarin spat, trembling with barely-restrained fury. Henry hung his head in shame, unable to face his family, knowing them to be right in blaming him for it.
"It's not your fault, Henry," Janyu told him. "It's going to be alright, everyone." He told his family, though he didn't believe it himself. "If there's a back to this universe, I know that Suzie won't stop until she's found it."
"It won't," She bitterly said to her husband, younger son, and older daughter, though a part of her was slightly amused that Janyu believed that Suzie hadn't been killed. "I'm sorry, both of you..." She quietly told Janyu and Henry. "I know that what you do is important and necessary, but... I just can't deal with all this insanity anymore... Hypnos, Digimon, parallel universes and Takato's parents getting abducted..."
Janyu's, Henry's and Jaarin's eyes widened in shock; how long had she felt this way, and why hadn't she said anything sooner?
The world seemed to disappear entirely for Janyu, every concern, major and minute, completely forgotten, when he heard his wife speak.
"I think I want a divorce," Mayumi whispered, almost unable to bring herself to say it. "I'm truly sorry, Janyu..."
"Mom..." Jaarin whispered, shocked at what she had said. "Why...?"
"I'm sorry, Jaarin, but I just can't watch this anymore. Henry fighting for a good cause, I'm proud of him for, but I won't watch Suzie risk her life too... She's only ten! No girl her age should have to deal with all that, and I just can't... Just look at what it's done to her!" She exclaimed, her voice cracking up at the last part.
Janyu, Henry and Jaarin knew what she was referring to; in the years since the D-Reaper invasion, Suzie had changed greatly, being no longer as cheerful and energetic as she once was, though Jaarin had attributed that to her mellowing with age. She wasn't spending her days perpetually depressed, though the change was still unsettling.
Everyone froze suddenly, spotting Suzie and Lopmon at the front door, their eyes wide with shock, their mouths agape; how much had she heard?
"Mom...?" She whimpered, running to her mother, wrapping her arms around her waist. "Why?"
"I'm so sorry, Suzie..." Mayumi whispered back. "But I just can't deal with all this anymore..."
"Don't go..." Suzie pleaded tearfully.
"... Honey, is there any way that this family could ever settle back on something even resembling normality?" She softly asked her daughter, looking around to her family, who shared guilty expressions, unable to answer her question.
Suzie managed a weak smile. "Normality's overrated, Mom..."
Mayumi eyed her daughter disapprovingly. "Normality is safe, Suzie. Normality is predictable. Normality doesn't get my children flung into alternate universes." She crossly informed the girl.
"I know, and I'm sorry..." Suzie whispered. "But please stay..."
Mayumi mulled it over, while Janyu, Suzie, Henry and Jaarin eyed her hopefully. "... Alright, Suzie... On a few conditions; 1, hand over your D-Arc, and cards..."
"Thank you..." Suzie whispered, smiling, greatly relieved, handing her mother the specified objects without a complaint.
"2, Lopmon won't be leaving the building for the next six weeks."
"Thank you so much..." Suzie and Lopmon whispered in unison. Mayumi was a bit taken aback at the sheer elation and gratitude in their voices.
"3, you're likewise grounded for the next six weeks." She sternly told her daughter. However, she hadn't expected the girl to clutch her tighter, nor for the rabbit to likewise hug her.
"Thank you so much, Mom..." Suzie whispered softly, briefly wondering whether she would ever meet Cody and Tommy again, though she mused that she would if they were fated to meet again.
For now, she was simply happy to be home again.
Wasn't this story supposed to explain the NoodleIncidents, and not make more?
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Had to make up an attack for ChaosGallantmon Chaos Mode, since the Wikia lists none: Chaos Bleeds / Et Vade (Be Gone!/Get Out!) as opposed to Crimson Mode's considerably less hostile Crimson Light / Quo Vadis (Whither goest thou?/Where are you going?)
Yes, I realize perfectly that the identities of the blonde and brunette are obvious. But just in case someone hasn't worked it out, I'm leaving them blank.
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What sort of ending had you guys expected? For Suzie and Lopmon to simply waltz back in like none of this ever happened? That her family wouldn't react in the slightest? The loss of a child is the most devastating thing a person can experience; in that light, Mayumi wanting out from that pain and all the crazy isn't implausible in the slightest.
In Tamers, Mayumi was shown to be the more affected one, so her reacting so strongly isn't OOC.