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Digimon Tamers Crimson Episode 16: Snakes on a Train
A plane flies in nearby Tokyo where it appears to be descending. One man with long blond hair and dressed in a suit looks out the window of the plane. He thinks to himself "Simon... I wonder if you remember me at all... Last time I saw you was that incident 6 years ago... I hope you're okay." He notices the plane is descending and the announcer said "We are about to make our final descent in Haneda Airport. Please fasten your seat belts and we hope you enjoyed your flight. Welcome, to Tokyo, Japan." The blond man fastened his seat belt like the announcer said, and with a serious look on his face thought "Well, it's now or never. I just hope I made the right decision to come back after all these years."
Meanwhile in Shinjuku...
Early in the morning Henry was busy sleeping until... "Big brother! Big brother!" Henry wakes up to the sound of his sister yelling in his room and says "Suzie, it's 6 in the morning and a weekend, can't I sleep?" Suzie responds "Simon's on the phone and he wants to ask you something!" Henry picks up the phone and says "What is it Simon? Anything to do with patrol?" Simon responds on the other side saying "Actually I want to see if you could come with me to the Airport to meet with someone." Henry ponders this and says "Well, I guess I could. Just give a second to get changed and I'll meet you in the parking lot." Simon responds "Thanks Henry, I appreciate what you're doing for me. I couldn't take Guilmon with me considering that unless he de-evolves he's not allowed in the airport. Plus he's busy with helping V-Mon with training."
Henry hangs up the phone and says "Tell dad I'm gonna be going with Simon to the airport." Suzie then asks "Why's that Henry? Did Simon say what he needed?" Henry then says "He wanted me to meet up with someone he knows... Probably a cousin of his and I'm gonna need you to leave my room for a little bit." Suzie at first wonders why but then she realizes he needs to get changed and leaves.
Henry finished getting changed and takes Terriermon with him to meet up with Simon at the parking lot nearby the apartment building. Kittan was driving Simon and Henry to the airport and Henry asks "So Simon, who exactly are we meeting today?" Kittan responds instead of Henry "An old friend of mine. His name is Gai Tsutsugami." Henry raises an eyebrow and Simon says "He's a good friend of the family and he's a very good man with a charismatic attitude about a lot of things. Though at times he does jump the gun." Henry then says "But why do you want me to meet up with him when your dad is driving you?" Kittan then responds "I've had some... Bad experiences with planes..." Simon sighs and says "Here we go again..." Henry then asks "What kind of bad experiences?" Kittan then responds "I pretty much kamikaze-d a Demon lord Digimon into an active volcano... I remember it like it was yesterday..."
Flashback...
Flashback Kittan was flying a plane to go help his friends but then he realized...
"HOLY F**KING JESUS CHRIST! HOW THE F**K DO YOU FLY THIS THING!? HOLY JESUS-
Suddenly Piranha-like Digimon appeared in the cockpit and started biting on Flashback Kittan... WHAT THE F**K!? F**KING PIRANHAS! F**KING PIRANHAS! F**KING PIRANHAS! WHAT THE FU-
And then a giant octopus appears and causes the propellers to expolde. WHERE DID THE OCTOPUS COME FROM!? WHAT IN GOOD JESUS- WAIT WHAT THE F**K IS THAT!?" Flashback Kittan in a plane panics while handling the plane where all these oddities happened and then suddenly comes across Lucemon Falldown mode saying "Fabulous..." Flashback Kittan then starts yelling before ramming into Lucemon "WHAT THE F**K IS THIS!? OH MY GOD! The plane then crashes into the volcano...
Flashback end...
"And that's how I got quite a lot of scars on my body... Good times..."
After that whole story Kittan drops off Simon and a somewhat shocked Henry at the airport and waits for them. Simon waves a hand in front of Henry's face and says "He told that story to me when I was 12 minus all that freak out swearing. Which basically means that my dad fought against Digimon before." Henry gets out of his shock and says "And I thought my dad had an odd story about Digimon but taking on a demon lord... That just somehow takes the cake." Simon then holds up a large paper that says "恙神涯(Gai Tsutsugami)" And Henry asks "When did you have time to make this?" Simon responds "I made this overnight, why'd you ask?" Henry then shrugs and says "No reason.." Terriermon looks around since he's never been to an airport before thinking "Does Henry do this every year he goes to Hong Kong and back? Because this place looks a bit disorienting..."
Simon then sees a blond haired man coming down the escalator and holds up the large paper for him to see. He walks up to Simon and extends his hand saying "I'm not sure if you remember me but-" Gai is interrupted by Simon taking his hand and saying "Of course I remember you Gai! I just haven't seen you in a long time." Gai smiles seeing that Simon remembers him and then looks to Henry and Terriermon. "You a friend of Simon? I'm Gai Tsutsugami. And you are?" Gai says extending his hands to the bluenette. "Jianliang Wong, but most people call me Henry." Gai then walks with his suitcase towards the entrance. "Let's get a move on Henry." Simon says following Gai. Terriermon then says "Why did that woman sound so... Masculine Henry?" Henry pinches the bridge of his nose and says "Terriermon, that's a man... With long hair." Terriermon upon hearing that faints and falls off his Tamer's shoulders.
After Henry picks Terriermon back up he follows Simon and Gai to the car. "I'm surprised you even came to the airport." Gai said to Kittan taking the passenger seat. "I'm surprised you came back like you said." Kittan responded. Gai then says "Touche'. Now then you mind telling me why that stuffed animal talked?" Henry smiled sheepishly saying "Well, it's quite complicated. You see... Me and Simon are um..." Simon then interrupts him saying "We're Digimon Tamers as you might have heard. And this "stuffed animal" is one of the Digimon that have been on the news." Gai laughs a bit and says "I'm just messing with you! Of course I know what Digimon are. After all, me and your old man go way back Simon." Simon nods to confirm Gai's statement and Henry surprised says "Wait! You two are best friends!?" Kittan responds "Of course we are. Now strap in boys."
Kittan then proceeds to drive back towards the apartment where Simon gives a recap to Gai what happened over the past 6 years he's been absent. When they arrive Gai comments "I see, It must have been hard for you here while I was away." Simon responds "Considering that I've had quite a bit of luck with friends. Now I've got at least 8 new friends plus their Digimon." As they were about to walk into the apartment Daisuke and V-Mon rush right of the door dressed in their soccer uniforms. "Hi Simon, bye Simon!" Daisuke said quickly as he and V-Mon ran towards the school. Henry then asks "What's up with Davis today?" Simon responds "His soccer game against Odaiba is today and he along with Ken have to go on a subway train headed towards Odaiba... They'll be back by the end of the day."
Gai notices the Digimon with Daisuke and just looks towards the two... "I would wonder why the fate of the world ends up in the hands of busy teenagers... But then again I guess the same question has been said about us, right Kittan?"
Meanwhile in the Digital world...
Daemon came up to Vamdemon and said "Mi lord! It would appear that the barrier is weak enough to send another Deva through! I suggest we act now and- What are you eating?" Vamdemon was busy consuming another bowl of lemons, addicted to their sour taste. "I'm eating a Lemon... What else could it look like?" Daemon confused at first by this sight blinked a few times and then said "Does this have anything to do with that Ackerman boy? He said that I was a lemon last time we met and now you're sitting there consuming them like it's your personal entertainment?" Vamdemon laughs and says "It is merely to acknowledge that I am a cannibal by textbook definition and he did say we are lemons correct?" Daemon angry at Vamdemon's antics just gives in and says "Which Deva do you think we should send out?"
Vamdemon ponders this question for a little while and says "How about we send Sandiramon? Perhaps that might prove to work to our advantage..." Daemon then responds "I'll go make for preparations." Daemon leaves Vamdemon alone for a bit until Reapermon appears at Vamdemon's side. "Your report Reapermon?" Vamdemon said and Reapermon responded "The human Simon Ackerman is currently accompanied by his partner Digimon, Guilmon. And one of the original Chosen Fighters." Vamdemon then says "Which one?" Reapermon responds "Gai Tsutsugami..." Vamdemon then brings up a crystal orb and says "How about I finally meet my arch-nemesis..." He then laughs quite a bit before putting in some power into the orb.
Simon was walking around Shinjuku showing Gai what changed around there. "So... Not much has changed over the past few years huh?" Gai says and Simon nods in response and says "Well quite a lot of things went viral over the internet, Somebody thought it'd be a good idea to manipulate a former friend who killed himself and I got probably one of my closest friends ever." Gai looks over to Guilmon and asks "So, how long have you known Simon?" Guilmon ponders and says "For 4 years now! But for some reason it feels like much longer." Gai a bit confused was about to ask Simon but suddenly a Dark transparent figure appeared in front of them and Simon was poised to fight gripping his sword. "Hold there young warrior." The figure said and Simon loosened his grip on his sword just by a small bit.
The figure then revealed itself and simply bowed in respect. "I am known... As Vamdemon. And you Simon Ackerman along with Guilmon... Have been chosen to be... My arch rivals!" Guilmon kept on growling and had a viral look in his eyes prepared to defend his Tamer and his new friend. Gai approaches the figure and says "Why are you here then? Why simply meet your nemesis in the open like this?" Vamdemon responds and says "Just to simply give you a tidbit of information... Regarding one of the possible Digimon headed for your friends..." Gai was going to ask but Simon then says "I'm guessing you have your own side to fight with rather than Yggdrasil or us." Vamdemon then responds "Interesting, so someone gets the gist after all. You better hurry up, or you might lose some friends... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Vamdemon disappeared from their sight and then Gai said "If that ends up being true, which of your friends is he going to attack?" Simon ponders and says "Probably the ones farthest away from me which means... We gotta get to Odaiba ASAP!" Simon then pulls out a blue card from his deck and says "Guilmon! Can you give us a lift!?" Guilmon nods and says "Will do!"
CARD SLASH! SUPER EVOLUTION ACTIVATE!
EVOLUTION._
GUILMON EVOLVE TO... GROWLMON!
GROWLMON SUPER EVOLVE TO... WARGROWLMON!
Simon and Gai jumped onto Wargrowlmon's back and they then flew towards Odaiba...
Meanwhile on board a subway train headed towards Odaiba...
Daisuke and Ken discuss some things about recent events...
"Can't believe it's been at least 2 weeks since we got our Digimon and joined up with Simon..." Daisuke says starting up the conversation. "Well, he does certainly know how to bring people together. I'm just surprised that he snapped Takeru out of his jerkass phase." Daisuke laughs a bit and V-Mon meanwhile is busy clearly having too much fun playing with Wormmon. Daisuke looks over to the other players discussing about the game and they're gonna do and how to explain a Digimon being on a soccer team. "Ken, do you think that we're all linked in a special way?" Ken confused by Daisuke's question responds "How so?" Daisuke then says "Well, I think maybe all of us are somewhat friends with Simon in a way. And in some way we have an affinity to these Digimon we're partnered up with. If I have to be honest meeting Simon was probably one of the greatest moments of my life."
Ken then responded to Daisuke's monologue by saying "I think that in a way we are connected but, by what I'm unsure. But I know this... Whatever it is, must be connected to some traits of ours and our Digimon's somewhat conflicting personalities." Daisuke pondered Ken's statement and looked closely at V-Mon's cheerful demeanor and thought "You know, maybe Ken is right. Maybe our Digimon having conflicting personalities might have some connection to it."
As they arrived in the Odaiba subway station suddenly fog appeared in front of the train...
Daisuke immediately recognized the threat and sought his coach out. "Mr. Mikisugi!" The coach noticed Daisuke and said "What's wrong?" Daisuke responded "There's an evil Digimon about to attack us! Can you get all the students off the train?" Mr. Mikisugi saw the fog and said "Good thing we're at the station! Otherwise there'd be a huge problem! Everyone! Off the train and out the station! NOW!" All the team members fled the train except for Daisuke and Ken who got out their Digivices prepared to fight the oncoming threat.
What appeared to be a giant cobra came out of the fog started to attack the Train and it suddenly started to disintegrate but not before the passengers, Daisuke and co. got off. "Ken! We gotta evolve!" Ken nodded and pulled out an evolution card.
CARD SLASH! EVOLUTION ACTIVATE!
EVOLUTION._
V-MON EVOLVE TO... XV-MON!
WORMMON EVOLVE TO... STINGMON!
Both Stingmon and XV-Mon attacked the cobra and Ken checked his Digivice to see what it was... "Sandiramon, Virus Type, Ultimate Level. Attacks are Cobra Axe and Bao Kui" Just as Ken said this Sandiramon charged at XV-Mon who grabbed Sandiramon by the teeth along with Stingmon. "I think we're gonna need some help here guys!" "VENOM AXE!" Sandiramon said about to stab one of them with his sharpened tail. XV-Mon and Stingmon both got out of the way before the attack hit but then suddenly it spat out a spear which was then grabbed by it's tail.
Meanwhile Simon and Gai were standing on Wargrowlmon just reaching Odaiba and Simon was looking for the signal to the Digimon...
"Considering we're currently on top of the signals origin... I'm gonna have to swipe another card just to get us underground. Ready Wargrowlmon?" Simon said confirming the location. Wargrowlmon nodded in response to Simon's question who then swiped a card through his Digivice...
CARD SLASH! DIGMON'S DRILL ACTIVATE!
Wargrowlmon's claws then turned into drills which burrowed into the ground. "Gai, you coming?" Simon asked Gai who then said "Considering that I want to see this action why not?" Simon and Gai then jumped back onto Wargrowlmon when he was deep enough into the hole he dug.
Back with Daisuke and Ken they notice that XV-Mon and Stingmon are barely holding their own against Sandiramon. "Ken, any ideas!?" Daisuke asked hoping his best friend would lend them a strategy. Ken then responded "Considering that we act a bit as one in terms of strategy... How about we make it a bit more literal?" Daisuke was a bit confused until he figured out what Ken was trying to say. "Do you think we could use a blue card?" Daisuke responded and Ken nodded to his question. They both then held up a card they found and focused on making it blue... Surprisingly it worked for both of them. However only half of the Digimon logo appeared on their blue cards. Daisuke and Ken both nodded in understanding along with XV-Mon and Stingmon...
CARD SLASH! JOGRESS EVOLUTION ACTIVATE!
JOGRESS EVOLUTION._
(Cue Beat Hit!)
XV-MON!
STINGMON!
JOGRESS EVOLVE TO... PAILDRAMON!
Paildramon had the appearance of a large bipedal dragon with a mixture of XV-Mon's body and Stingmon's armor. He also had blue and white wings as well as twin cannons that can fire ammunition like a machine gun. Suddenly the ceiling began to crumble and Wargrowlmon along with Simon and Gai came down to the station. "Looks like you guys don't need my help after all." Simon said waving to Daisuke and Ken. He takes out his Digivice and examines the Digimon "Paildramon, Data Type, Ultimate Level. Attacks are: Desperado Blaster, Sting Strike, Electric Bolt and Cable Catcher." Paildramon then stood facing Sandiramon who took another Bao Kui spear tried to attack Paildramon but Paildramon no sell-ed his attack.
Paildramon was easily able to beat back Sandiramon's attacks one by one. Meanwhile Daisuke and Ken seemed to be in sync through their minds, both plotting how to finish this.
"Paildramon, Finish it with your blasters!" They both said simultaneously. Paildramon nodded and as Sandiramon charged, Paildramon caught Sandiramon's mouth and held it open for Paildramon to lay the finishing blow... "DESPERADO BLASTER!"
Paildramon then shot several times inside Sandiramon's mouth until he disintegrated into nothing but data. "Well I guess that's that."
(End Beat Hit!")
After de-evolving back into their rookie forms Simon and co. exited the station with their Digimon. "Looks like I wasn't needed after all." Simon said noting the fact that Daisuke and Ken handled Sandiramon all by themselves. Daisuke then said "Well I'm glad you came Simon!" Simon and Daisuke both smiled on the lighter note of the day. "Daisuke, we should probably head to Mr. Mikisugi since he might be worried about us." Daisuke nodded and they all headed towards their coach. Simon and Gai looked towards them and Gai said "You know what? Maybe we should watch their game. We're here now... Might as well see your friends play." Simon shrugged and asked Guilmon "You wanna see an actual soccer/football game?" Guilmon nodded and they headed towards where the game would take place...
Now with two capable Ultimate Level Digimon, can our Tamers fare against the might of the Devas? Or will Vamdemon have an even bigger surprise? Find out next time on Digimon Tamers Crimson!
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