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Digimon Tamers Crimson: Episode 5 A Frozen Heart
"I just think you're taking this whole Mother/Daughter bonding thing a little too seriously." Seiko said to Rumiko who was somewhat depressed about not being able to get her daughter to try on the dress she had gotten for her. "I'm sorry mom, it's just that she's always hung out with my husband and now I fear that I might lose her too at some point if I neglect her any further." Rumiko responded expressing her worst fears towards her mother. "Now, now I'm sure everything will be fine Rumiko. I'll talk to Rika and see what she would like to do with you. After all I'm certain that your daughter at least wants to bond with her own mother in a way." Seiko said leaving Rumiko to go find Rika in the garden.
As Seiko made her way towards the garden she noticed that it was suddenly colder. But then, she noticed a patch of ice lying out in the garden where she guessed Rika might have been. Instead of panicking she looked around for Renamon to see if she knew what was going on. "I thought you were supposed to be watching her Renamon!" Seiko said to the bipedal kitsune who seemed to be somewhat shaken up by the whole situation. "I was. I had no choice but to. Rika told me to wait until she was taken to inform the Shadow Tamer. Just watching that vile creature take my Tamer away unable to do anything about it, just makes me furious. Now all I can do is merely find the Shadow Tamer and tell him what happened." Renamon responded to Seiko who seemed a little shocked about it.
"Just get my granddaughter home safely young one. I don't want Rumiko finding out about any of this!" Seiko said ordering Renamon before turning around and seeing Rumiko visibly shocked by the sight in the garden. "R-R-Rika… Where are you honey?" Rumiko said frantically searching for her daughter until she noticed Seiko with Renamon. She fainted shortly afterwards. "Just keep her here until I get Rika back." Renamon said before speeding towards Simon's apartment.
Meanwhile Simon was gearing up to go out after Rika in his usual nightly attire. "Now all I need to do is contact Henry and Nia in order to inform them of what just happened." Simon said to Guilmon who nodded and just as he was about to reach the phone Renamon entered his apartment obviously angry. "Don't worry Renamon, Rika will be safe once we reach her. Besides, I'm sure this Digimon doesn't want to kill who he was targeting." Renamon approached him and said "Well, he took the bait and revealed his "motives". He's Icedevimon and it seems he wants Rika to be his Tamer." Simon pondered this and said "I see, so my theory was correct." Renamon confused by his statement asked "You mean that you knew this would happen? On what logic do you have to go by when you have never met such an evil creature!?"
Simon responded "I'm saying through experience. If Icedevimon wanted to get the drop on me and Guilmon he would have done it by now and end up being nothing but data. However, since he did not approach me at all about anything that meant that he wanted to force an offer upon somebody. So, I thought if somebody well known like me which is Rika in this case had a somewhat cold heart he would actively pursue that person to become his tamer. To be honest I didn't want to use this plan, but since he won't hold still I had no choice. I wanted to take him out the old fashioned way but unfortunately experience has taught me that even with allies the normal course of action would not suffice. I learned that the hard way."
Renamon somewhat surprised by his response remembered what he told her a year ago when Rika's father died and realized that maybe there are some things even a tactician wouldn't want to do. "I see now, in that case. Get right to what you were about to do and save my Tamer!" Renamon said to Simon who saluted her and dialed Henry's number first.
Meanwhile, Janyu got finished explaining to Henry about the whole Monster maker project while Henry just sat pondering and Terriermon's jaw dropped to the floor.
"So let me get this straight, you and some of your friends from college got funding to make Digimon in the first place?" Henry asked and Janyu nodded in response. "And because you had to keep putting more and more touches to the project the government stopped funding it? So one of your friends Shibumi decided to finish the project before it was ultimately bought by a major corporation?" Janyu nodded in response to both of Henry's questions and said "Well all of this may be true but understand that we had no intention of making the possibility that Digimon would come to life in the real world. Especially not ones like Guilmon, Renamon or Terriermon right there. By the way I think his jaw might be broken." Henry realized that his partner had his jaw dropped fixed the problem right away.
"Sorry Henry, I just lost a bit of composure there." Terriermon said while smiling sheepishly. "Jenrya, who calls you by that name?" Janyu asks confused by his son's nickname. "Simon calls me by that name since he felt that calling me Jen would make me sound like a girl and I guess he couldn't pronounce my full name." Henry explains to his father who responded "I'm guessing he's not really from around here is he?" Henry answers "He did say that he was from America originally but his family moved to Japan when he was 8 years old." Janyu then thinks "Must've been hard for the kid to adjust." Afterwards Henry's cell phone rings and Henry says "Hold on I need to take this." Henry answered his phone and heard who he thought was Simon on the other side "The plan worked so far, I need you and Terriermon to meet me outside of the apartment at this time." Henry hung up his phone upon hearing the message and said "Dad, I need to go now alright? Tell mom I'll be home before dinner!" He then took Terriermon and headed out the door.
"Shuichun, do you know about this?" Janyu asked his daughter who seemed to have eavesdropped throughout the entire conversation. "Yep, and I'm sure big brother Henry will be right back." Janyu sighed at Suzie mentioning his son's apparent nickname and said "Does mom know about Jenrya's nickname?" Suzie nodded in response and Janyu face faulted thinking "How does everyone in this family know about this and not once told me!?"
Meanwhile, Nia seemed to be getting ready to leave the house when her phone ringed and when she was about to answer it, Erwin decided to answer before her. "I'm guessing this is urgent Simon if you're demanding my daughter to speak with you." Erwin said over the phone. Nia was nervously eavesdropping for a bit before deciding to sneak down towards the door but then Erwin caught her before she could leave. "Normally this is where I would tell you to go to your room and let me handle this. However, until you have your own Digimon to protect you as well as having Ackerman this is the only exception." Nia nods in understanding and Erwin hands her a handgun "You know what this is correct?" Nia picks it up and says "A weapon for self defense and protecting your loved ones from those who would not hesitate to murder them." Erwin nods in response and says "That is correct; I want you to only use it for either one of those circumstances understood?" Nia saluted and said "Yes sir!" before heading out to meet up with Simon and Henry.
As Simon and Henry were heading out Nia caught up with them and Simon said "I guess it took some time convincing Comm. Eisthiem to let you go." Nia nodded in response and Guilmon noticed the weapon she's carrying "Simon, Nia is armed with a weapon!" Simon looks at him skeptically and then back at Nia who held out the hand gun in question. "I am only to use this in self defense or defending the people I care about." Simon looks at the gun and back at Nia and says "At least there is a reason. And since you have been training to join the force I assume you know how to use it." Nia nodded and answered "Of course I do, flip the safety and pull the trigger. But aim only to incapacitate not kill." Simon understood and said "Well I looked at my Digivice's compass and well…" Renamon who has been quite impatient says "Well what!?" Simon points his digivice upwards towards a building that had a large ice sphere on top of it. "Let's just say he's no longer being ambiguous."
Inside the sphere Icedevimon was holding Rika prisoner within to coax her into becoming his tamer. "What do you think of my humble abode?" Icedevimon said to Rika who was somewhat shocked by how much ice is within his supposed home. "Why did you even bring me here? You should know that I would freeze to death under normal circumstances!" Rika responded harshly towards her captor.
"All I wanted was to merely show you all of the trophies I have collected as proof of my strength." Icedevimon answered with an evil grin. "Trophies? What does he mean by that?" Rika thought before looking up to see all of the frozen Digimon within and it appears that they were/are screaming in agony. "You see? This proves that I am worthy of being your partner and you my Tamer." Icedevimon said before breaking out into an evil laugh. "Simon, where are you? I can't keep this psycho busy much longer."
Meanwhile Simon and co. climbed up the stairs in the building but as they got higher, it got much colder. "We're getting close guys, just a few more steps." Simon said as they all kept climbing. "Easy for you to say. You're not the one freezing to death here." Terriermon complained while shivering somewhat. "Terriermon, Simon's been in much colder temperature than this. I'm sure that he wouldn't want you to start dragging us down." Guilmon said before Renamon could interject. "What do you mean by colder?" Renamon asked and Simon responded "When I was 10 my sensei told me to survive in a harsh environment where it's survival of the fittest. Naturally I chose part of Siberia and this is nothing compared to that." This shocked Henry quite a bit but Nia seemed to not be surprised at all by this news. "Alright we're here. Now to make a Dynamic entry." Simon said ready to punch the door open.
Icedevimon continued to offer many promises to Rika saying that they'll be the strongest Digimon/Tamer team in the whole world. "If you accept my offer I can guarantee you that Renamon, and your pathetic friends will be a thing of the past!" Icedevimon declared offering his hand to Rika who slapped it away in rage. "Never! I've come to realize that they were the ones who helped me through my depression. And for me to just leave them and my partner would be no better than giving up. So sorry, but the answer is no!" Rika answered with rage in her voice. "I'm afraid now you leave me no choice but to add you to my collection, Tamer." Icedevimon said reaching closer to Rika until… "Sorry to ruin the mood, but I'm afraid you just gave yourself away freak!" Simon said at the entryway with the door taken off of its frame. Rika looked towards the group and saw Renamon with them. "RENAMON!" Rika yelled to her partner who also noticed her.
Rika then ran towards the group but then Icedevimon channeled energy into his hand as though he were about to attack. "FROZEN CLAW!" He said as he was about to reach Rika only for Simon to intervene. Icedevimon ended up grabbing Simon's right arm which ended up freezing due to the attack. "Hah! Let's see you recover from that weakling!" Icedevimon said not noticing Simon's lack of concern over the inconvenience. Simon then walked up to a wall and backhanded it revealing his metal prosthetic. "Damn, didn't think anyone would ruin the trench coat. But you sir are the first." Simon said flexing his metal fingers. Icedevimon shocked by this revelation then figured something out. "I've heard of you. One who carries a sword but doesn't kill his own kind. He who wields a chain link whip. Also, bearer of the metal arm." Simon raised an eyebrow at Icedevimon's listing of supposed titles. "You are the Shadow Tamer! The most revered Tamer among Digimon!"
Simon then said "So, I'm famous where you come from?" Upon saying that everyone face faulted. "What? This is kind of news to me! I would like to know exactly just what the hell is going on myself." Icedevimon got up and was about to strike Simon until gunshots went off and Icedevimon groaned in pain as Nia shot him with a few bullets. "Looks like someone else just made my shit list!" Icedevimon said before charging at Nia. However, Guilmon, Renamon and Terriermon all shoulder charged him and it stopped him somehow. "SIMON!" Guilmon said as Simon and the others got their Digivices in position.
"CARD SLASH… EVOLUTION ACTIVATE!" Simon, Rika and Henry said in unison.
"EVOLUTION_."
GUILMON EVOLE TO… GROWLMON!"
"TERRIERMON EVOLVE TO… GARGOMON!"
"RENAMON EVOLVE TO… KYUBIMON!"
All of their Digimon evolved into their champion levels to fight Icedevimon.
They all charged at Icedevimon with their attacks "PYRO BLASTER!" "GARGO PELLETS!" "FOX TAIL INFERNO!" With all of their attacks launched Icedevimon realized that he was done for and was thus turned into nothing but data which Kyubimon absorbed. "That, was for Rika you bastard." Kyubimon said before turning back to her Tamer. The ice sphere disappeared and it seemed all was well once again. In the aftermath Simon offered Rika to slap him in the face since he said "I deserve it after all for being somewhat cold hearted about the decision." Rika thought about it and responded "Simon, I understand that you didn't want to do it either so I forgive you for that. But that doesn't mean we'll do this again in the future." Simon a little surprised by her statement patted her on the head and said "Next time I'll do it so that at least we'll be even." He and Guilmon then left the scene and then Henry said "I'll just be walking home then since I got nothing better to do." Before going back down the stairs, with the now de-evolved Terriermon on his shoulders.
Kyubimon walked up to Rika and asked "What's wrong Rika?" Rika was thinking "Between you and me Simon, we'll never be even." "Nothing, let's go home and make sure mom is okay." Kyubimon nodded letting her tamer climb on her and Rika turned to Nia saying "You sure you don't need a ride Nia?" Nia shook her head in response and said "Don't worry Rika, my father's likely waiting for me outside the building since he's investigating this case." Nia then walked down the stairs waving goodbye to Rika and Kyubimon who then headed towards their home.
Meanwhile in the Digital world a little imp like creature was wandering the landscape likely very depressed. He had a bandanna around his neck and a devilish grin face on his chest. This was Impmon who once had a close friend that he thinks about every now and then. However, it seems that fate has decided on an interesting route for him to take on. Impmon noticed a data stream headed towards him and he said "At this point, just take me anywhere. I don't give a crap anymore about this place." He passed out just as the data stream touched him.
Now with Icedevimon out of the picture what new challenges await our young Tamers? Where will the data stream take Impmon? Find out next time on Digimon Tamers Crimson!