SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM THE LAST EPISODE!
...The Camera pulled back as the song "Infinity Mechanism", from the Homestuck Soundtrack, began playing for you, the viewers.
With a massive jump cut, the camera pulled away from the Demon's Nest, revealing it to be viewed from within a dark cloud among other dark clouds that were flickering with lightning and thunder.
The camera pulled back Again, revealing the clouds to being viewed on some sort of window with a set of closing curtains on it. And when that pulled back, you were viewing it through a fluffy white cloud that soon turned dark as it's portal like ability disabled.
There was a massive storm brewing on the horizon as the camera zoomed backwards across the ocean's surface, and then it turned to the side, rushing across as the water began turning to stone, and then...
The camera panned up past a broken, battered suspension bridge and then began rushing towards the nearest cliff-face...
The image flipped over, as if reflected, and turned golden as the camera then pulled away, revealing the dreamer's eyes to you viewers exactly at the 38 second mark- Akari.
She watched without reaction as the stone water began to be littered with a battle field.
Numerous Digimon of all kinds were fighting each other, with either one of two symbols above their heads- A Purple Globe for Bagura, and a Red V for Xros Heart. Also scattered about the Battle field were obscured forms with different, golden symbols above their heads. There was a massive creature with a Z with a slash through it obliterating enemies. A flying digimon with the Greek letter Sigma; a land based form zigzagging through the opposing army with the Greek letter Lambda, and another digimon with a circle with a line through it- A Zero- that was using it's staff weapon for massive damage. Each of these were revealed even further as the camera continued to pan backwards away from the cliff.
At the 52 second mark, the camera spun around to reveal the storm turning into some towering shadow figure with DarkKnightmon's evil, yellow eyes glowing from within the storm. There was green lightning and dark energy coursing through out the shadowy storm that seemed to make the skies itself glow with green energy.
At the 1:08 mark, the Camera shot upwards, aiming at the flickering diamond of gold in the sky- The Code Crown. Something was happening to it, causing it to shoot out energy of green and red wavelengths, each fighting with the other for control.
The Camera pulled out again, revealing Earth orbiting on one side, and a planet broken up into seven pieces on the other side- The Digital World. Both spun around the Code Crown as the Astrological symbol for Cancer formed around them, with each planet taking up the center of each circle.
The Camera pulled away again, revealing the rotating cancer symbol to be floating with in an eye that was flickering with red and white energy, and when it pulled away again, the Eye was belonging to a Dragon, that was orbiting the seven pieces of the Digital World along with a Bird, a Snake, and a Whale.
At the 1:25 mark, the four animals transformed into energy and shot towards the center of the seven, releasing a wave of energy that drew the other pieces in, and reforming the Digital World into one.
At the 1:40 mark, the camera pulled back again, revealing the two whole planets still circling the Code Crown, with the Cancer symbol still around them. The camera pulled back again as the Greek letter Omega shot out of the Code Crown and descended towards earth.
At the 1:56 mark, the letter hit the ocean and the song took a warped sound to it as the other symbols joined Omega, centering themselves around the Greek letter Delta.
Bubbles rushed up and swirled around the symbols as they all transformed into a united symbol with a W shape, much like Starmon's Shades, making up the background. The Symbol began shooting upwards out of the ocean, and finally burst free at the 2:11 mark.
The Symbol floated high and proud above a glowing, humanoid form made up of of white energy that flickered briefly every few seconds, revealing a new Digimon inside at each point, many of which could be recognized as DigiMemory Digimon.
The Camera Pulled back, revealing the shadowy form, which had condensed into a purple tower with a sphere on top, facing off against the holy Digimon on either side of the bay harbor. The sky flickered with the green light of the Air Space as the Code Crown descended behind the Holy Digimon.
At the 2:24 mark, the Camera pulled away, back to the Cancer symbol, which was now a dark reflection in a yellow lens, belonging to none other than Tactimon, whose armor had taken on a more...purified look to it, reminding one more of a Dukemon or a ChaosGallantmon than of his previous form.
And then the camera began pulling back at an even faster rate, retracting through clouds showing images of various lands and future battles, and even scenes Akari herself had seen that week before.
And at the 2:45 mark, the camera finally pulled out of the dream and retracted away from Akari's open eyes, which, despite being such, were still fully immersed inside the dream that was taking place, as evidenced by the flickering light deep within the irises.
And as the camera faded to black, the title card appeared and printed the name of this episode to you in a fine text as the song wound to an end:
Tokyo Showdown! The Power of the Future Forms!
ONE WEEK AFTER THE RETURN TO EARTH_ _ _|
Akari yawned as she walked into the dining room, just adjacent to the kitchen where someone was cooking something that smelled delicious, which, as per usual for the last three days, was a fluster of busy activity.
"Oi!" Shoutmon waved her over. "Sleepy head!"
"Sorry, I over slept." She apologized as she walked over to the table to join him and Taiki. "What's up?"
"Lopmon's just finishing up the last testing on the new Xros Loaders." Taiki explained. "Once she's done with that, we'll be waiting on Zenjirou and Yuu to arrive."
"We also managed to get back in contact with Marcus' group while you were still asleep." Shoutmon said. "Things are going from bad to worse faster than we thought."
"You can say that again!" Marcus shot at them from across the room while Tairru finished up bandaging his arm. "OW!"
"Now stop fussing!" she scolded. "You don't want to reopen that wound!"
"What's the status on the storms?" Akari asked.
"Getting more frequent." Wizardmon said as he walked up, having finally cast the spell on himself and now looking like a blond haired British fellow with pale green eyes. "Digimon are appearing all over town now, having fallen through from Sword Zone." he pressed his hand to his forehead and sighed. "But at this rate, we're already running out of friendlies and starting to run into the weaker leveled Bagura digimon. It won't be long before we get swarmed by stronger forces."
"We can't fight 'em right even with our Xros Loaders fixed." Shoutmon huffed as he crossed his arms. "Ballistamon and the Starmonz are a critical key of any of our best Digi-Xrosses!"
"What about the time portal?" Akari asked.
"Lopmon says the Boss's Digivice'll work like it should!" Agumon said as he returned from the kitchen, carrying a plate full of pancakes, fried eggs, and bacon. "That's how we got in contact with HQ again, at least, so we should be able to open up a portal back to the digital world at any time and place we want to!" he stuck a fork into the bacon and then stuck it into his mouth. As he chewed, he continued. "'Though she says th' coordimakes 're a bit 'iffy."
"Swallow then speak!" a hand hit Agumon over the head. "Don't be improper!"
"Yeah!" Hephaestus grinned. "Teach him who's boss."
Taiki took over and sighed. "Can we not get into manners right now, mom?"
His mother, the one who did such manner teaching, smiled at him. "Oh come on now, There's always a time and place for manners." Miyako Kudo was older from when we had seen her last in flash back form some ten chapters ago, twenty years older to be exact. Her hair had settled into a blackish blue, and her green eyes were seated behind round lenses. But even so, you'd recognize her even at a glance. "Just ask your father!"
Said man, Daiko Kudo, was in the kitchen, cooking what was to be everyone's breakfast. "Yeah, sure, whatever she says." He said calmly without even turning around.
A half an hour later, Zenjirou, Yuu, and Yuu's mother had shown up, and now everyone was gathered around the dining room table, which had been cleared off to display the re-worked Digivices, although for the moment they were hidden underneath a large cloth.
Lopmon, accompanied on either side by Taiki and Tyson Sparrow (Who you should remember from chapter 22 along with the rest of these older folk!), coughed politely as she stepped up onto a chair so she could stand over the table. "As a recap, Since Marcus' Digivice had it's programming intact and we also had access to a working Xros Loader, we used them as a base to develop new versions of the Xros Loader. With Sparrow-san's help, and Hephaestus' powers, we were able to combine both devices into one coherent form, which we then reproduced and put inside the other Xros Loaders." With that done, she reached over and pulled the cloth away. "I give you: the Xros Loader: Flare Edition."
On the table were five, golden Xros Loaders, with Gold apparently being the default color for these new Digivices.
"Flare?" Marcus asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Your old Digivice was called the Burst."Tyson remarked. "Don't sound so smug."
"And speaking of..." Marcus frowned. "Where IS my Digivice? I see Five Xros Loaders, not three and one Data Link."
"It had it's programming in a sealed conduit." Lopmon explained. "That saved that part from the melt down the others experienced." She held up a hand full of melted circuit boards. "And I literally mean 'melt down', this was what was inside all of our fancy toys. They overheated due to some obscure form of radiation coming from the void."
"Now, we could only save the external shells and a bit of internal stuff from our Xros Loaders." Hephaestus said. "I had to create new parts for every Loader, even making them in special sizes to fit within Marcus' Digivice."
"Sooo..." Agumon asked. "Where is it?"
"That's the impressive part." Tyson said. "ALL of the Digivices quite literally changed into new, identical forms once we turned them on."
"Really?" Marcus blinked, then picked up one of the new Xros Loaders. "Well, that doesn't surprise me, considering that it's done it before, but still." he frowned. "I liked how it looked before!"
"Oh, by the way." Lopmon said. "That one was yours to begin with."
"Thanks." Marcus turned the device over. "So my Digivice turned into a Xros Loader? How the heck do I use it then?"
"They work off of voice matching software, but first you need to set it up for your voice." Taiki said as he picked up one from the middle. "Ahhem." He cleared his throat, then pressed the center button and spoke clearly into the device. "Kudo, Taiki."
Immediately, the golden color reverted back into it's familiar orange color scheme.
"Voice Identity Locked." The Digivice said in a replica of Hephaestus' voice. "Have a nice day!"
"Hah!" The denizen laughed. "I don't think I'm going to get tired of that."
Akari rolled her eyes. "Very funny."
Marcus repeated the process of pressing the center button and speaking into it. "Marcus Damon."The Digivice shifted from gold with blue highlights to a translucent crimson red with Black highlights and said it's confirmation message again. "Nice!" he grinned.
"Continuing..." Lopmon coughed again, getting everyone's attention back on her. "There are a few new features to the Xros Loader thanks in part to Marcus' Digivice. Namely, a curious program called 'Burst Evo exe' that we've been unable to run, but have opened up to look inside."
"Oh, I think I know where this is going!" Agumon grinned.
"It's mostly just a random mash of Binary." Lopmon said. "But there were a few key lines of text describing how it uses emotions to power a 'future form' that was more powerful than the current one. It listed four types, a "Champion Future," "Perfect Future," "Ultimate Future," and the oddly named "Time Burst" Form. I have NO clue what these things do, but the Xros Loaders programming update locked out the first two, leaving us with the last two forms only."
"Damn." Agumon frowned. "No RizeGreymon then."
"ShineGreymon can take hits better anyways." Marcus grinned. "Besides, we still have Burst mode!"
"Ooooh." Agumon whistled. "Shiny!"
"Wait." Zenjirou started. "You said Marcus's turned into one. Including ours, that makes four. So where'd the fifth one come from?"
"Ah, that...actually..." Taiki began nervously. "Was me trying to see if I could turn my old MP3 player into a Xros Loader once we'd finalized the design..."
"Long story short: it worked." Hephaestus summarized. "Just a bit too well..."
"Eh?" Shoutmon blinked. "What do you mean."
Lopmon held up a Light brown Xros Loader with Purple highlights. "He means he made two Xros Loaders out of one MP3 player. This was the one I accidentally activated."
"So that's six Xros Loaders then?" Yuu asked as he picked one up. "Not including Sparrow-san's Xros Loader?"
"That's about the gist of it." The girl nodded.
"I think once we find Nene and Kiriha." Taiki began. "I Can update their Xros Loaders in a similar way, and maybe purify DarkKnightmon's Darkness Loader if we ever get the chance." He narrowed his eyes. "The tricky part is getting back to the Digital World. It's already been a week, and the Bagura empire's probably taken the Code Crown and used it to their own ends. If we can go back to just after we left, then we should be able to make sure that everyone gets out alright without too much fuss." and after a brief pause, he added "And I do mean everyone."
Finally, Yuu's mother spoke up. "If you can bring Nene and Kotone home after all these years, then ...Then I think that's all we can hope for."
"Bring my daughter back safe too." Tyson said. "Sally's been missing from our lives for far too long now."
The goggle wearing boy nodded. "I..." And, like many times over the past few days, for a single second, the color of the world seemed to invert itself as the dull hum of static filled everyone's ears.
Taiki narrowed his eyes. "We'll do our best." He then turned to Wizardmon. "Where was the portal just now?"
EYE CATCH!
Zoom in, towards a disk with Lopmon on one side, Akari on the other. Both were standing in a pose, holding their two Xros Loaders together at the top. Zoom out, the disk turns over, and a green filled in outline of what looks like Turuiemon Xros Two standing with a golden triangle behind her.
EYE CATCH!
Xros Heart hit the streets, heading towards where a Digimon was thought to have emerged. Each of the Xros Loader holders had a handful of Digi-Memories with them, all twenty evenly distributed between them all- Including a new one that had somehow found it's way to Earth (An Omegamon Digimemory) that had been found during the previous week.
The Sky was dark despite it being mid morning- A storm was coming.
"Is it working right?" Lopmon asked Marcus.
"Yeah, the portal program seems to be fine...But then again." he sighed. "The darn thing never worked right to begin with on some days, so who am I to judge?"
"We'll just have to hope it'll put us right where we need to be then." Shoutmon muttered.
Zenjirou tossed his new Xros Loader into the air, Dark Green with tan highlights, and caught it again. "Well!" he said with a grin. "I'm ready to get back to the Digital World once we get this digimon under control!"
As they walked past a flower shop, Cutemon stopped as something caught his attention. "What the?"
"What's up?" Dorulumon asked, looking back as his student walked over towards a half red, half white sphere, no larger than a baseball, that was lodged into the gap between a city dumpster and the building behind it.
"This wasn't here yesterday." Cutemon said as he reached out for the orb. "And it's energy's all off too..."
"Wait!" Revolomon's eyes went wide as he recognized the sphere from a certain Monster themed Anime he'd seen the day before. "Don't touch it!"
Too late, Cutemon touched the sphere, and it split open with an explosion: Sending both Cutemon and the dumpster flying (in different directions) as the monster reloaded from the sphere, as if it acted like a Xros Loader.
Dorulumon caught his student with ease, and growled as something laughed from the smoke.
Marcus and Agumon tensed up as they spotted the familiar form slithering out of the shadows.
"Not this guy again!" Agumon growled as he shifted back into his Digimon form. "PEPPER BREATH!"he let loose a fire ball that flung into the smoke, and- when it exploded- scattered the smoke instead of creating more.
"GRYARHHH!"Blossomon, a flower plant type Digimon, roared in dismay at it's entrance being ruined.
"What the hell!" Shoutmon summoned his Microphone stand.
Suddenly, there was another explosion, further down the street- Another Monster Ball had opened, as if on a chain reaction.
Stepping out of the Shadows was a rather feathery looking creature: A Harpymon.
More explosions could be heard across town, and more Digimon were appearing from these strange orbs.
"Go!" Marcus ordered. "We need to take care of all of these Digimon before they can cause any more damage!"
"Right!" Akari nodded. "Let's go!"
Marcus cracked his knuckles and smirked at Blossomon as Xros Heart ran off to fight the other digimon. "Well well well, look who the cat dragged in. If it isn't our old pal, Blossomon."
Blossomon, who had yet to say or do anything up until this point, just laughed again. "You're someone I don't recognize." it hissed. "So I get to destroy you completely!"
"Fat Chance."
Blossomon blinked as both human and Digimon vanished into thin air, as if they had stepped out of sight at the speed of light.
"Where did you-?"
SMACK!
Suddenly, two fists, belonging to two arms belonging to two bodies, appeared out of thin air and smashed into it's central face.
A heart beat passed as time seemed to freeze...
*Data Swirl*
And then a flurry of orange data EXPLODED out of the contact zone between Marcus's fist and Blossomon's face.
Marcus and Agumon back flipped away.
*cue Koubou*
"D.N.A.!" Marcus spun around mid air, and then slammed his glowing fist onto the top of his evolved Digivice. "CHARGE!" Still spinning, he threw out his hand with the Xros Loader out towards Agumon. "OVERDRIVE!"
Blinding white energy shot out of the Digivice towards Agumon, who absorbed said energy and roared out Four magic words: "AGUMON FLASH DIGIVOLVE TOOOO!"
"Hell Yeah!" Marcus grinned as his partner grew in height to match Blossomon- Wings shot out of the dragon's back, and horns sprouted from his head.
"SHINEGREYMON!"
When the Light faded, Marcus stood atop ShineGreymon's shoulder.
Blossomon's eyes widened in surprise. "Uhoh."
ShineGreymon cracked his knuckles. "You can say that again."
The resounding punch could be heard for miles around as Zenjirou and Kotemon (now back in his Digimon form) chased after a Zanbamon who was charging through the streets, cutting through anything he could with his swords.
"Alright, Kotemon!" Zenjirou held up his Xros Loader and spun the dial. "Let's see if we can make this guy stop and think for a few seconds!" With that, a symbol looking like a pair of Crossed Swords appeared on the Xros Loader's screen. "HERE WE GO, NOW!"
"KOTEMON: FLASH EVOLVE!"
The Kendo sword turned into an olden styled sword, Kendo armor was replaced with that of a Samuai's...
"MUSYAMON!"
Poor Zanbamon had to turn around at the words "Flash Evolve."
"Hi!" Musyamon smirked, his voice now back to the way it was back in Shinobi Zone. "Remember me?"
Zanbamon's horse head shook "No" as he replied. "Who the hell are you?"
"The guy who's gonna kick!" Musyamon jumped up and forward, sword raised. "Your!" He swung down. "ASS!"
Zanbamon raised his swords to block...but at this close range...
"KIRISUTE GOMEN!"
The following energy attack hit with it's full force.
CLANG!
Harpymon's wings clashed against Taiki's sword as they dueled it out mid air.
"You again!" The Bird hissed. "I haven't seen you in years!"
"Somehow I'm not surprised!" Taiki said as he dodged Harpymon's next wing slash. "Would it be twenty years, to be exact?"
"DIEEEEEE!" the bird screamed.
"I'll take that as a yes then!"Hephaestus remarked.
"DORULU TORNADO!"
Dorulumon didn't even need to transform back into his Digimon form to kick ass and take names. He just put out his hand and threw tornadoes at his target- As a Digimon pair by the name of Ogermon and Fugamon just found out.
"KYUUU!"
Cutemon got in on the action as well, throwing punches like no-one's business. Even as a human- No, doubly since he was still in his human form- he was very much a cute bruiser.
"These are all my dad's Digimon!" Akari said as she, Shoutmon, Lopmon, Revolomon, Yuu, and Corone chased after a MetalTyranomon.
"You think Tactimon's behind this?" Shoutmon asked.
"Who else would my dad's signature Digimon run instead of fight?" She narrowed her eyes.
"Then this guy's leading us right to Tactimon!" Shoutmon brought up the red, now with green trim, Xros Loader. "You should Digi-Xros then!"
Akari nodded. "Go for it!"
Zanbamon was running for his life. "Stop it!" he cried out in terror, having already lost his swords to the former Bagura employee's melee attack.
"Hahah!" Musyamon swung his sword, sending wave after wave of energy after the horse-man. "Not on your life!" he grinned. "This is the most fun I've had in my entire life!"
And then Taiki did something strange- He turned his sword arm into something that looked like half of the Dorulumon cannon.
In fact- it was!
"SINGLE SHOT!"
Harpymon's eyes widened in surprise.
ShineGreymon held up his hands and summoned a sphere of fire. "GLORIOUS BURST!"
Blossomon squealed in terror as ShineGreymon threw it.
Silence filled the street as Shoutmon, Turuiemon Xros Two, and the others rounded the corner.
Standing next to MetalTyranomon was, indeed, Tactimon. "Xros Heart." He said trivially. "I do believe it's time to begin our duel proper."
"Tactimon." Shoutmon growled. "We're in no mood to fight!"
"Oh but you are!" Tactimon leveled his...Drawn sword at them. Damn that thing is freaky looking. How the hell did that even FIT in the case? ! "You see, I was hoping to force you into this back in Sword Zone, after I'd finished explaining..." He nodded over at Yuu and Corone. "But it seems like you've already gotten a head start on it." he hummed for a moment. "How you managed to pull this off in a day, I have no clue."
"We've been here for a week." Akari said flatly.
"A week?" Tactimon relaxed a bit in surprise. "Well...I suppose that explains it then." he straightened up again. "Well then! Bring out your strongest Digi-Xros!"
"Can't." Revolomon said.
"What?" Tactimon blinked beneath his helmet.
"Ballistamon and the Starmons aren't here." The cowboy shrugged.
"What." Tactimon said flatly.
"Can't Digi-Xros with out 'em, I'm afraid." Akari shrugged within Xros Two. "This is all you're going to get."
Tactimon seemed to struggle with that for a moment. "Well..." He paused. "This isn't going to plan at all." he admitted.
"Ya think?" Shoutmon asked.
"Hmmm..." Tactimon paused to think on this for a few moments. "Well..."
"Plan B?" MetalTyranomon growled.
"Yes. Plan B." Tactimon replied with a nod. "Excellent idea."
And before anyone could react, MetalTyranomon's clawed hand shot out at lightning speed, grabbing Yuu, Corone, and Revolomon in one fluid motion before pulling them back towards him.
"WAHHH!" Corone gasped in surprise. "Being squished! I don't know how to deal with being squished!"
Tactimon did a double take at this. "what did she just say?"
"Oi! Give her a break, You...Whoever you are!" Yuu narrowed his eyes. "She's been through a lot, you know!"
"Yuu Amano." Tactimon blinked in surprise. "I almost didn't recognize you without your goggles!"
"What?" The boy blinked, not a moment before MetalTyranomon began squeezing tighter. "GAH!"
"Hmm..." Tactimon looked over at Xros Two and Shoutmon, noticing the arrangement of how they were standing. "You!" He pointed his sword at Shoutmon. "Drop the Xros Loader!" he pointed at Xros Two. "De-Xros immediately!"
"Why should we?" Shoutmon growled.
"Do it, or I'll have Tyranomon squash them like the bugs on a windshield!" Tactimon threatened.
Revolomon groaned. "Really? A Bugs on a windshield joke? That was Lame!"
"I'll have him do it!" Tactimon continued. "I'll create a Paradox if I have to! Put the Xros Loader down and De-Xros or I'll have them squashed like...uh...Roaches!"
Shoutmon narrowed his eyes. "Dude. Really?"
Could he really do it? Too much was at stake here... Did he really do what Tactimon said in order to get Yuu to survive to make that video?
"GLORIOUS BURST!"
The explosion further down town, made his eyes snap back open.
Looking towards the distance, Shoutmon could even see A Zanbamon being chased by...Was that Musyamon?
"There are references to 'future forms'." Lopmon's words from that morning echoed back. "Future forms?"he mouthed to himself.
And while this realization took place in the course of a few seconds, something had already snapped within Corone's thinkpan.
"Bugs?" She asked, rather calmly for someone who was panicking just a few moments before. "Did he just call us 'Insects'?"
"Yeah." Yuu said. "He did."
"Did he just call me. And Us." She continued. "Roaches?"
"Ummm..." Revolomon blinked. "Yeah?"
"I am NOT an insect!" the girl growled. "I am not a roach! And I Am Most Certainly NOT a bug!"
Tactimon looked up, eyes widening in surprise. "Oh...Crap. Did I really forget that about her?"
"Insect insect insect." The girl continued to growl. "That jerk turned me into a stupid, squirming, Fracking BUG!"
Yuu blinked, taken back by this. "Corone?"
"I REFUSE." She yelled to the man with the sword. "To be even compared to a bug ever AGAIN!"
"YEAH!" Revolomon got in on the act. "We're not insects! We're not bugs! We're people! We're Digimon! We're Generals! We're REAL!"
Yuu, catching onto it, began to smile. "Oh yeah! Another thing too! I can't be squashed like a bug today!" He narrowed his eyes at Tactimon. "I've got two sisters to save!"
"You!" Corone yelled as she began to glow. "YOU Are the insect, bug eyes!" she spat at Tactimon. "IT. IS. YOU!"
"CONGRATULATIONS!" Revolomon added as he and Yuu caught the glow too. "You just pissed off the one digimon in all of the universe who even DarkKnightmon was scared of on some level!" He had no idea if this was true or not, but- hey!- it sounded good.
MetalTyranomon suddenly didn't feel so safe holding these three, glowing, squirming prisoners in his hand. "Ummm... Tactimon?"
"We." The trio yelled. "Are Not!" They glowed so brightly that MetalTyranomon had to let go from the heat that they were putting off. "INSECTS!"
There was a blinding flash of light, and then...
From the spot where ShineGreymon sat on Blossomon, everyone could see the sudden explosion of emerald green light that shot up into the sky.
"What in the world?" Marcus blinked.
Taiki and Harpymon had to swerve aside as the pillar of light nearly hit them.
"What the-!" Taiki yelled, very annoyed at the interruption.
Zenjirou stared up at the sky as the pillar of green light hit the clouds, scattering them and bringing the blue sky on the other side to everyone's view.
"What the hell?" Musyamon asked as he, too, sat on his opponent.
*Cue We Are Xros Heart*
Xros Two was the source of the pillar of green light, standing inside it and fueling up on the energy of those around her.
"Know what?" Shoutmon asked as he opened the Xros Loader. "I think you've forgotten just who the hell we are." He held the red and green device up, revealing that the screen had the Greek letter Delta glowing brightly on it. "How about we engrave it on your heart again, Tactimon?"
"Wait." Tactimon blinked. "What?"
Shoutmon threw the Xros Loader high into the air and roared: "TURUIEMON: TIME BURST!"
The energy pillar collapsed onto Turuiemon Xros Two, and the Digi Xros Digi 'volved.
"TURUIEMON CHOU SHINKA!"
The thicker ninja clothes changed into lighter and less heavy clothing, and the swords transformed into emerald axes. The ears smoothed out, becoming more simplified, and the eyes turned into a glimmering emerald color.
"DELTANTYLAMON!"the new digimon struck a pose in front of a glowing emerald Delta letter.
Tachiagare, tomo yo
The Evolved Digi-Xros rushed out of the explosion of light, smashing into MetalTyranomon, sending the Dinosaur flying with one punch.
tomaranai, BURNING SOUL!
With a reflection of emerald light, DeltAntylamon landed next to Shoutmon again, letting the three hostages back down to the ground.
"I-Imposible!" Tactimon gasped. "That isn't how the time line goes!"
dokomademo yuku sa
"Just call us the Paradox squad then." Akari smirked from inside the evolved Digi-Xros.
And then...
She flung forward at the speed of light, leaving a trail of green light behind in her wake.
Tactimon went flying into the sky as DeltAntylamon landed a solid kick.
Kimi wa, Hitori, ja nai
"Well." Corone said as she brushed her dress off. "I'd say he wasn't expecting that.
nakama no kizuna ga kirifuda sa
From where Marcus was standing, all he could see was a trail of green light shooting out over the harbor. "Well. Looks like RizeGreymon all over again, right pal?"
"yup." ShineGreymon nodded.
inochi wo muyashite
Taiki and Harpymon just stared at the blur of green light.
"Damn." The bird swore. "I'm never going to be faster than that."
RO-A-R!
Axes and Sword met in mid air as the duo battled it out over the harbor.
"Impressive!" Tactimon said as he flew backwards while struggling to get a grip on himself. "I wasn't expecting this!"
ima, hitotsu ni GREAT XROS tokeau
"Then you won't be expecting THIS!" Lopmon roared as she threw the axes at him. "TREASURE AX!"
The axes suddenly glowed pink and split into six identical pieces that then transformed into... Little angelic versions of Lopmon that giggled as they spun towards Tactimon.
ore ni kure minna no hiketa SHOUT wo!
"Oh Crap." If Tactimon's mask had been missing, his face would have said it all as the bunny blades hit him with massive explosions.
Ima umareru GREAT HEART asu no kiba!
The former general went flying, unable to control his flight.
tobitate tatakae WE ARE XROS HEART!
Eventually, though, he did come to a stop a few feet over the water. He looked up and narrowed his eyes at the evolved Digi-Xros. "How?" he asked.
tobichitta mirai senran no BATTLE FIELD
"You didn't pay attention Tactimon." Akari said. "We don't care if it's for the sake of the timeline or not." she narrowed her eyes. "We've got a world to save."
kono mune ni todoku tomo no nageki namida.
"Well, then..." Tactimon soared high into the sky, raising his sword for a solid strike at DeltAntylamon. "SAN-NO-TACHI!"
The swing sent a wave of dark energy right at the emerald Digimon, but...
hohoemi ubatta zetsubou wo!
She simply dodged as if it were nothing. The poor bridge behind her, however, was sliced in half- Thankfully nobody was on it or else that could have been messy!
"Ehhhh!" Zenjirou stared in horror. "What the hell was that! ? !"
tamashii tsunagete Ku-Da-Ke!
DeltAntylamon brought her hands down in front of her waist and spread her legs out as spheres of energy formed on her hands and feet. "DELTA...!"
Ima chikaou
An emerald triangle formed between the three points. "WAVE...!"
GREAT XROS
"SPIN!"she flung her hands up to her sides and high into the air while snapping her legs together- Causing the triangle to suddenly spin as it lurched forward towards it's target.
asu wo kono hata ni atsumatta
Tactimon's eyes widened as the wave of energy lanced down at an improbable speed.
minna no kazu dake
Another explosion, and Tactimon was sent flying upward, being pushed back by the still spinning Delta Wave.
ima kagayaku GREAT HEART yume no shisha!
DeltAntylamon wasn't giving him a break, however, and immediately launched another "BUNNY BLADES!"attack at him, firing even more energy into the ongoing attack, creating another massive explosion.
butsukare takamare! WE ARE XROS HEART!
Tactimon finally got a grip on himself somewhere up in the sky. "Fine!" He roared. "You've brought this upon yourselves!" He spun his sword... "SAN NO...No!... SHI-NO-TACHI!" holding it up into the air, the blade extended high up into the sky, creating the illusion of a purple blade piercing the sky from above, when, in fact, it came from below.
"If that hits...!" Taiki's eyes widened. "The town will be...!"
"Not Happening!" Lopmon cried out. "TREASURE AX!" The still energized bunny angels flew up and smashed into the blade as Tactimon began to bring it down.
It barely held for the moment, And Akari followed the bunnies up with another "DELTA WAVE SPIN!"
nakama no kizuna ga kirifuda sa
The two combined attacks managed to hold the descending blade from descending for the few moments it took DeltAntylamon to prepare their next attack.
inochi wo moyashite RO-A-R!
The town fell silent as Akari roared two words: "RECORD SCRATCH!"
Ima hitotsu ni GREAT XROS tokeau
DeltAntylamon began spinning, and then began soaring up into the sky, beginning to circle Tactimon as fast as possible, yet still managing to take her time with it.
ore ni kure minna no hiketa SHOUT wo!
Completing the circle, DeltAntylamon suddenly shot down at an angle, zigging back quickly, and then zagging forward again, managing to cut through Tactimon THREE times in time with the song.
Ima umareru
"I Hold...!" Tactimon cried out as an implosion of purifying energy collapsed upon him. "NO REGRETS!"
GREAT HEART Asu no kiba!
DeltAntylamon stopped spinning as Tactimon's body began shrinking down to a younger, purer form, in which the energies she had just unleashed quite literally scratched his physical record back to an earlier time.
tobitate tatakae WE ARE XROS HEART!
Tactimon's younger body splashed into the water, followed by his sword a moment later.
Ah! Butsukare
Shoutmon gave a thumbs up.
takamare
DeltAntylamon returned it.
WE ARE XROS HEART!
And as the song wound down, DeltAntylamon glowed a soft yellow, and then split back into Akari and Lopmon (both in their Digimon forms). They were very surprised by this turn about, clearly shown by their eyes going wide, as, not a moment later, they fell down into the harbor as gravity took hold.
Shoutmon gasped. "Akari!"
Half an hour later, everyone was fully gathered outside of Taiki's house, prepared to move out to the Digital World properly before something drastic happened to keep them from leaving.
To fully say "We're ready to go!" everyone had changed clothes in some form or another. Taiki had replaced his previous shirt and vest combo with a simple Red and Blue T-shirt with a sound wave theme to it. Akari had ditched her red jacket entirely, and had switched from the old pink Heart T shirt to a sleeveless shirt with a gear on the chest. Shoutmon on the other hand had grabbed a jacket with a broken record over the back, and had somehow acquired a yellow scarf nearly identical to the one that had mysteriously appeared back in Shinobi Zone.
Dorulumon had found a fisherman's hat and now sported it proudly, Cutemon now had on a pair of sunglasses to add onto his previous look, Lopmon had found a jacket, and Zenjirou now wore a light green button down shirt with a tie added on for good measure. Corone, who was returning to the Digital World with them, had switched to a shirt and skirt combination instead of the one piece dress she had on before. Zenjirou must have stolen his clothes from Yuu's closet, however, because the boy was dressed in a similar manner, except with a yellow shirt and no tie.
Revolomon was dressed in more normal clothes, but still retained the cowboy hat. Wizardmon was wearing a teal leather jacket with the British Flag as a background pattern. Tailmon Had added shoulder length gloves to her previous look, along with having gotten a quick hair cut earlier in the week. Finally, Rounding off the group were Marcus and Agumon- Both having changed into matching blue and white uniforms with the logo for a "DATS" Group embroidered on the back. Nobody knew where they had gotten them from, however, and just assumed they had used the Xros Loader's 'redress' function.
"Ready to go, everyone?" Taiki asked.
"Ready." they all replied with nods and cheers.
"Alright then." He grinned as he held up his Xros Loader, its screen reading a series of numbers and letters. "Let's go!"
Five more Xros Loaders went into the air, and, as one, they yelled out a phrase that would be very ironic in the year to come:
"TIME SHIFT!"
}INTERMISSION-Bridge: END
}LOAD: ARC 2: The Seven Swords
}STORY: TO BE CONTINUED.
"DIGIMON INTRODUCTION CORNER!" The Three Red Monitamon cried out in unison as the curtains opened on their new stage segement.
"DeltAntlyamon!" Aradia pointed to a poster board with a picture of said digimon on it. "A Holy digimon born from the bonds between a Shoutmon and a Lopmon that evolved as one!"
"Her finishing move is the Record Scratch!" Sollux explained as he switched the poster board to the next one, a freeze frame from the previous battle. "It is a purifying attack that, when used, resets the target's physical age and emotions to a time where they were not such a bad person, all while retaining their older memories!"
"Her name is spelled formally as DELTA, En, Te, El, Why, Ay, Em, Oh, En in English, and is pronounced as "Delt-An-ty-ra-mon" in every day speak." Eridan explained as he held up a note card showing the proper English spelling of the name. "The name is also a punny fusion of "Delta" and "Antylamon" at the..."
"Oi!" Aradia narrowed her eyes at the other Monitamon. "Don't Explain the Joke!"
"Ack!" Eridan dropped his note-card. "Sorry!"
NEXT TIME:
"This is the Digital World? !"
"The name's Dracomon! And you'd better watch out for Dorbickmon's forces!"
"It's Blue Flare!"
"Kiriha!"
"OI! I'm not about to let these suckers win by a long shot!"
"Next time: Digimon Xros Wars: The Seven Swords!"
"Dragon Land! The Death Generals' march?"
"I Can't turn my back on you!"
"Let's go, Shine Greymon!"
A.N.: WHOOOOO! YEAH! Heh. Well. Believe it or not, this would have been up last NIGHT if the site hadn't logged me out every single time I tried accessing the document uploader! No clue what was up with that, but hey, it's fixed now, and this is up for everyone to see! Whoo! Death Generals, here we come! (And yes, I did rename the arc to Seven Swords, based off of the old rumor name. Why? Just 'cause.) Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this here. I'm...not sure If I'm as happy with the whole transition between episodes, but, hey, that's what future re-writes are for, right? Right! Heh. Well. Tactimon did seem a bit flustered there at the end. Probably fully gripping the idiot ball for most of that fight. But, to be honest, I think he was finally just letting go of the whole 'tough and grim' facade there. No, he ain't dead. Yes, he'll be back. When? Who can say. But it won't be for a long while, despite what Akari's dream says. :P