Chapter 9: Journey Northwards
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Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, just the handful of OCs that appear in this fic.
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"Sir, I'm detecting five human life-signs without digivices accompanying them."
Rentaro Satsuma raised an eyebrow when he heard his assistant Megumi say what she said. He walked into the computer area to look at the maps of the digital world. "What? Where are they?"
The woman spoke. "Central Digital World, Surface Level, south of where the Takato's team landed months ago when they went to look for Calumon. Ryo Akiyama also ended up there when he had to travel to the digital world just before the D-Reaper invasion. There are also numerous digivice signals in the area of the emergence point."
"Sir, they're traveling far too fast to be walking," Riley indicated, typing in more commands. "Sending in a probe… It turns out they're flying on a Blimpmon."
"Riley, bring up all known Tamers that can digivolve their partners into that digimon," Satsuma requested, his eyes narrowing under his sunglasses. The broad-shouldered man didn't like this. First, there were numerous Tamers that disappeared across Western Europe. Then they appeared in the digital world for some reason, just after Eduardo showed up there. It just didn't make sense to the broad-shouldered man. There had to be something going on.
"Sir, there's only one known, and that's Taizou," Megumi exclaimed, gasping in shock.
"That's impossible. I just saw him this afternoon," Satsuma said. "We haven't received any missing reports from his parents."
"There's a possibility that they're from a non-aligned region such as much of Africa or Central Asia," Riley suggested. From what she heard, the African Union was trying to put together an organization to monitor the barriers between worlds much like what Latin American and the Arab League had both done shortly after the D-Reaper invasion, but had been having problems since a number of the countries involved didn't have the funds required, especially ones such as Somalia or Zimbabwe.
"That's a reasonable hypothesis," Satsuma said, commending the brunette. He was a detective prior to joining Hypnos, so he looked forward to seeing where the clues went. "Still, monitor them until the blimp devolves. Then we will know who they are."
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Blimpmon flew through the night, the only light on inside was the cabin in the front of the large battle-blimp. And in the cockpit, a certain long-haired boy was staring into space out of boredom. Really, he was supposed to be keeping watch, but that wasn't what was going on. He was just listening to large amounts of music on his CD-player. The CD that he was using just had large amounts of MP3s on it, so there wasn't much of a chance that he was going to run out of music any time soon.
He checked the digivice. Eduardo's location hadn't changed much, though he was running it seemed. Yuji wondered what this guy was like. He imagined that the boy didn't go simply by Eduardo and instead preferred a nickname like Ed, Edd or Eddy. He didn't know much English, though he could understand it pretty well from watching large amounts of TV in the language, including that show he alluded to in thought earlier about three boys with the same name. His parents made the faux pas of thinking that he should watch an hour of English-language television while he was studying the incredibly foreign language several years earlier.
Unfortunately, he noticed something else on the digivice's screen: there were numerous other signals in between him and the American boy they were after. And it was only a matter of minutes before they reached that part of the digital world.
The boy immediately roused his partner who was sleeping next to him. "Commandramon, there's something on up ahead."
The cyborg dinosaur glared at his partner for waking him up. Still, the digimon knew that he had to be alert in case there were enemies afoot. Then Yuji spoke to Blimpmon.
"There's something up ahead. I'm not sure if you should go near it," the long-haired Tamer told the airship that he was on.
"You sure about that?" the digimon asked. "I'm not detecting anything up ahead."
"I detected a bunch of other Tamer's digivices," Yuji explained. "Commandramon, go wake up the others." He was showing a strange display of intelligence. Then again, being stuck at juvie in a cell with someone named 'Bubba' kind of did that to him.
"Okay, I am detecting a number of digimon life signs along with… what's this? Human life-signs?" Blimpmon narrated. "Oh my…"
Tadashi got up to the cockpit after undoing his seatbelt. "What's going on?"
"We detected a bunch of other Tamers," Yuji explained, going through the profiles for each of them.
"What? Did Antonio Guevara decide to go to the digital world early?" Tadashi asked with a sneer.
"No, these guys are all from Europe. Most of them are actually French," the long-haired boy replied. "Okay, there's some German guy named Gunter too. Plus a couple of Italians. Oh, and a few Spaniards are on here too."
The mention of the French being involved made Tadashi remember the French girl from that dream. "You are my favorite," he remembered her saying, but wondered what it meant.
"Blimpmon, avoid that group of Tamers at all costs," the blond told the airship just as Taizou walked up to the front. The brown-haired boy was slightly annoyed that his friend, the guy who stranded them here in the first place, would order his partner around.
"Tadashi, what are you doing?" he inquired in a tone that meant that he didn't want Tadashi doing it.
"There's a group of Tamers up ahead that I think are evil," the pudgy boy responded.
"Right…" Taizou responded, not buying it. He knew that in the real world, good an evil weren't so absolute. True, there would be those with black morality, like Hitler or Pol Pot, and those with white morality who tried their best to be good to everyone. Everyone else was grey and even the white morality was somewhat doubtful since he doubted that anyone was purely good.
"Come on Blimpmon, what's going on?" Tadashi asked the digimon. Unfortunately, he hadn't changed course yet, which was getting the blond a little worried.
"Okay, the nearest digivice signal belongs to some French dude named Pierre who has a Wizardmon for a partner," Yuji said. "And he's far away from everyone else other than a group of three other Tamers, all with their digimon at the Ultimate level."
"What?" Taizou gasped. "Wait, why are you saying that?"
"Come on, man, Wizardmon could like read minds or something on the show. Maybe he's got Blimpmon under mind control or something," the long-haired boy responded. "Plus, this group seems to be some sort of hive mind. All these digimon signals that head near these groups of Tamers just suddenly join up for no reason."
"You've got to be kidding me," Taizou responded before going over to the controls. "Blimpmon, can you hear me?"
"Certainly," the airship responded. "Sorry, I kind of blacked out for a few seconds. I think we need to get out of here."
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!" Tadashi exclaimed.
That was when he noticed that Taizou's eyes were blank.
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Deep within Taizou's mind, he found himself tied to the wall inside a room with all sorts of bizarre devices and tools, some of which he knew the use of, others he didn't, and others he wish he didn't know. He shuddered at the sight. Some of these were torture instruments. Amnesty International would go berserk, he thought.
"Unfortunately, they're not here right now, since this is the Digital World," Taizou heard a woman speak in a French accent. He looked in the direction of the sound to see a strikingly beautiful woman with black hair up in a strange style, thick black eye shadow, black lipstick and a long, extravagant black dress.
It took Taizou only a couple seconds to realize who she was. "You were in the dream of a friend of mine," he stated.
"A friend?" the woman asked touching the boy's left cheek. "I would like to hear more."
"What are you doing?" the brown-haired boy asked, suspicious. He agreed with Tadashi's sentiment that this girl was evil just by looking at her and seeing the little torture chamber he was in.
"Well, I tried to bring your partner digimon into my little army, not knowing that he had a Tamer," she explained. "It turns out that if we want to control a Tamed digimon, we have to go through the Tamer first. I have to admit, you're the first one my partner has faced awake."
"So, where is your partner now?" he asked, looking around. "I don't see her anywhere."
"That's because he's right here," she responded, touching his head. "I might have to do some work on you. It's a shame, since you're really not my type."
"Your type?" the brown-haired boy asked, confused and not liking where this was going.
"Yes, I prefer real men, not pretty boys," she said. "Of course, since this is the realm of the mind, I could always change what you look like."
He was really not liking where this was going.
He tried thinking of a way to combat this woman's influence. Let's see, this is all a mind illusion. So far, though, I've been letting her control it.
"So, what's your name?" Taizou asked the girl.
"Oh, wouldn't you like to know?" the woman said playfully, moving towards Taizou who flinched. "You can call me the Digimon Queen."
Taizou found that title disturbing. "But, that's… That's Rika Nonaka's title!" he exclaimed.
The Queen smiled. "Yes, it is. I figured that since Rika is no longer with us, I'd take the title for myself."
"You didn't even do anything to earn it, though," Taizou objected.
The girl smiled. "Look outside when you get a chance. Since you're not really my type, I'm probably just going to put you on the front lines, though, so you'll have to get used to that. At least Blimpmon will be useful for carrying troops."
Taizou really wanted out of there. Come on, think!
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"Okay, any more ideas?" Tadashi asked the group, hoping for at least a little input.
"Well, here's one," Yuji started to suggest, despite knowing that everyone would hate his idea. "We need to break this whole mind thing off, right? So how about we go into one of those Data Streams that we've been constantly avoiding? Come on, it's good!"
"Yeah, but aren't you worried about Taizou suffering brain damage from suddenly being disconnected from this link?" Ayaka objected. "And how do we know it's actually some sort of mind control?"
"You know, according to my training, that was what was recommended," Commandramon indicated. "Of course, you could end up anywhere in the digital world if you're not careful, so we're only supposed to use it as a last resort."
"But if whoever is doing this controls Taizou, that means they'll control Blimpmon too, right?" Miki deduced. "Yeah, we should do your suggestion, especially since this creep might go into my mind too and I definitely don't want that. Ew!" The dark-haired girl grimaced.
"All in favor of going through a Data Stream raise your hands," Tadashi said, raising his own. Miki and Yuji both favored this decision along with their digimon. Ayaka on the other hand didn't.
"I support that decision," Blimpmon told the team over the intercom. "We need to do whatever we can to get him out of that trance."
Ayaka still wasn't too sure. This wasn't a good idea to her. She didn't even know what was going on with Taizou in the first place.
Suddenly, just as they were on their way to the nearest data-stream, the group felt the airship they were on shake. "Okay, what just happened?" Miki asked, annoyed that she couldn't sleep through whatever crisis they were in.
"There are a number of digimon headed our way," Blimpmon told the group from overhead.
"They're Champion-Levels, five of them," Yuji said, looking at his digivice and panicking. "We're doomed."
"There are only five of them and they're only Champions," Ayaka assured the group, looking at her digivice. "Obviously whoever's behind this has Ultimates at their disposal, so most likely they're just trying to disable us."
"And make us join their twisted army," Tadashi concluded. "Coronamon, Ayaka and Salamon, come with me."
"What? You mean we're going to be fighting?" the blonde asked, frightened at the prospect. They had never faced this many enemies before.
"Yeah, we're the only ones that can fly so it has to be us," he told her.
"But can't we just direct the battle from in here?" she suggested.
"You know, she's got a point," Coronamon stated, agreeing with the girl. "I wouldn't want you to get killed by accident."
The airship shook again. "Okay, we'll direct the battle from in here," the blond ordered, not really liking the suggestion from the girl but seeing the practicality of it. The four of them walked to the back where Blimpmon started to open up a large hatch. "Ready Coronamon?"
"You bet!"
"How about you, Salamon?" Ayaka asked her partner, nervous about this battle.
"We'll do what we have to," the small dog replied.
"Digivolution activate!" the two Tamers yelled, taking advantage of the new cardless digivolution feature.
"Coronamon digivolve to… Firamon!"
"Salamon digivolve to… D'Arcmon!"
The two Champion-levels flew out of the airship's hatch, ready to fight whatever forces were attacking them.
"Okay, now for you guys," Tadashi said to the other two Tamers in the airship. "Blimpmon, keep the hatch open. Yuji and Miki, digivolve your partners to Champion and head to the edge of the hatch. We're going to give these enemies a few attacks from behind. Blimpmon, make sure that you attack every enemy that's in front of you."
"Okay, man, this is going to rock! Digivolution Activate!" Yuji exclaimed, holding out his digivice as his partner ran to the back.
"Commandramon digivolve to… Sealsdramon!" the reptile shouted, taking up his position.
"Eh, so much for a good night's sleep," Miki commented as she held out her digivice. "Digivolution activate!"
"Syakomon digivolve to… Ranamon!" The female digimon took up a position next to Sealsdramon. "So, honey, ready to give this our best?" she asked in a southern accent, or better yet, an Osaka accent.
"Yeah, sure," the cyborg answered gruffly. "Hey, Yuji, there's a problem. I don't have any long-range attacks."
"Okay, no problemo. Let me look through my cards," the long-haired boy shuffled through his deck, trying to find something that would be useful. "Aha! Oh yeah!" he celebrated before sliding a card through is digivice. "Digi-Modify, MetalGarurumon's Metal Wolf Claw, activate!"
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Taizou, in the meantime, was still brainstorming. Let's see, what should I do now? He had to hurry it up unfortunately, since he was attached to the wall of the giant torture chamber. He knew that with that girl's partner messing about in his mind, he had to do something quick.
He took a deep breath, or so that seemed to him, and then proceeded to shape the room he was in. "Now, what should we start with," the Queen asked, moving through the various torture devices.
He decided to mess with that last. But first things first, he removed the restraints that were holding him back.
Then he thought of his friends, creating images of them in the mindscape and surrounding himself with them. True, they weren't actually them; however, it should make an effective anchor. The Queen noticed something was up. There seemed to be something going on with her current project so she looked straight at him and gasped at the sight.
"Well, what do you know? You're actually good with manipulating the environment of your mind," she told him with a twisted smile.
"There's no way I'm going to let you brainwash me, ma'am," Taizou said, smirking slightly.
"Well, it's a shame I'm not going to let you go. You'll make a good transport for my soldiers," she replied, using her abilities to try to banish the images of Taizou's friends, though it seemed she was having trouble getting rid of Tadashi for some reason.
Taizou fought back though, and rematerialized his friends and then brought forth his mother and his sister. He hoped that the others were planning something, since he didn't know how long he could hold this up. He thought of more people, Jeremy, Yamaki, Satsuma, Antonio.
He thought up all their partners as well.
He was running out of friends to bring to mind.
"So, what are you after, anyway?" the girl asked, smiling. "You weren't sent after Ed, were you?"
Taizou looked at the girl straight in the eye. "What makes you think that?"
The Queen chuckled. "Oh please, it's either that or… of course… Your friends are stuck in the digital world. Only they're not. They were taken beyond the Sovereign's level, whatever that means." She smiled even more widely. "There's a lot you know about this world that I don't. You would be valuable. If you join me, I can let you keep your free will."
Taizou glared. However, the girl gave him an idea. He caused each of the original Tamers of Shinjuku to appear in the mindscape along with their partners. The room was so full at that point that the walls fell over, revealing the blackness beyond. "There's no way I'm joining you," the brown-haired boy replied point-blank. "You can scour the entire digital world for us and you can submit me and my friends to the worst kind of tortures but there's no way I'm giving in to you, lady!"
She was shocked at his determination and his mental fortitude. But she had a back-up plan. "You may not join me, but maybe one of your friends will." She caused the image of Tadashi to walk forward. "Maybe him." She then brought forth the image of Antonio forward and gazed at his bulk. "Who's he?"
"That's Antonio Guevara," Taizou responded. "He's my mentor." The dark-clad woman's expression changed from one of admiration to one of sheer rage.
"Him!" she yelled. Apparently she recognized the name though Taizou had no idea why.
"Yeah, he goes over my code. He's a real nice guy," the brown-haired boy responded, surprised that the girl was steaming at his sight.
Then everything went black.
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A few seconds earlier in the digital world, Yuji was making his final preparations. "Okay, guys, get in!" Tadashi yelled out to his and Ayaka's partners.
Firamon was busy shooting down a pair of champion-levels that were after him. "Alright, coming in!" he yelled out, hitting an Aquilamon using a fireball launched from the jewel on his head. "Man, these guys are rough!"
"La Pucelle!" D'Arcmon yelled out, slashing a Snimon across the chest before heading into the airship along with the lion.
"Okay, closing the bay doors," Blimpmon warned the group. Suddenly, as the door was almost closed, a dark-feathered Saberdramon attempted to come in, almost getting stuck in the bay door.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Sealsdramon yelled out, unleashing a number of missiles from a number of compartments all over his body, causing the flaming bird to get flushed out.
"Now, brace yourselves!" Blimpmon shouted through the overhead speakers. He didn't really need to say that to the humans who were already strapped. The digimon, on the other hand, were all thrown back as soon as they entered into a data-stream.
They then found themselves literally on the edge of the world. Blimpmon had to do all he could to prevent himself from falling into the void beyond the landmass that they were right next to. The airship then skidded across the grassy ground, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.
"Well, the good news is that no one followed us into that data-stream," the rust-colored blimp commented. "On the other hand…"
The digimon devolved with the tamers in it, causing them to fall into the ruined ground as he assumed his rookie form of Solarmon.
"Okay, will someone tell me what the heck just happened?" Yuji asked the group, lying in the dirt.
"It seems that Blimpmon sustained too much damage and devolved," Sealsdramon commented. "Good work, soldier!"
"Eh, thanks," the conglomeration of gears remarked.
Tadashi got up groggily and walked over to Taizou, who was gazing up at the globe in the sky. The brown-haired boy looked happy to be alive. "So, you alright?"
"Yeah. I just had to fight off that chick from your visions using my willpower, that's all," Taizou responded with a smile. "It's thanks to my friends that I could do that."
Tadashi grinned widely. "Awesome!"
Then the brown-haired boy sat up. "No, not awesome. She was going to do unspeakable things to me." The boy took a deep breath before the next part. "They're after Eduardo, but that's only the start." Taizou looked straight into Tadashi's eyes with all seriousness. "Then she's going to go after you, Tadashi."
This took the blond boy aback. "What? She knows about me?"
"To fight her off, I had to remember you guys. All of you," the brown-haired boy responded. "I didn't think she'd even notice you since… You know…"
"Okay, I know I'm not a good looking guy, but… Hey!" Tadashi was slightly offended.
"Hey," the brown-haired guy responded. "There's no reason to be offended. Don't worry about it."
The blond boy stood there for a few seconds, thinking about everything they've already gone through. Then he heard his friend speak again.
"You know, I still wish we would have stayed home," Taizou admitted. "And I really wish I didn't have to deal with that chick. Do you miss anybody?"
Tadashi thought about it for a second. He really missed his parents and his older brother. And, for some reason, he also wished that he had Jeri around since she had at least been in the digital world before. Still, he felt a need to be strong and wasn't going to admit it. He stood there silent until he heard a screech from Miki.
"What is that thing!" the dark-haired girl yelled, causing the two boys and their partners to run over to her. Right in front of her was a grey, spherical object with what looked like a camera on the front.
The group took out their digivices to find data on it. It wasn't a digimon. Instead, it was a probe of some sort sent by an organization in the real world. On the side were the letters 'SAXUM'.
"I thought the old man said they wouldn't find us," Yuji remarked, scratching his chin.
"He just said they wouldn't detect our digivices," Taizou corrected.
"So, Saxum knows we're here now?" Ayaka muttered, looking at the probe. Suddenly, a fireball hit the device, causing it to disintegrate. "What was that for!" the blonde yelled at Tadashi and Coronamon.
"We can't have them following our trails," the blond boy told her, clearly frightened at the fact that one of the organizations in the real world could have found them already.
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In the real world, that was the case. In fact, Riley and Tally had already discovered their life signs and relayed that information to Yamaki and Satsuma. Saxum decided to send them the video they got of them, with an irate Antonio Guevara talking to them from half a world away.
"Okay, what's the meaning of this?" the heavy man asked through a video screen on the wall, decidedly angry. The meeting room was filled with the various interns that worked there as well as the other workers who monitor the net.
"It turns out that we had no idea they were in the digital world, provided that actually is them," Yamaki replied. "I took the liberty of contacting their parents at this late hour and it turns out that they're all at home, supposedly."
"Any ideas?" another Saxum executive, this time a thin, middle-aged woman with darker skin and her greying hair tied up in a bun, inquired in accented English.
Keith Jackson raised his hand. Yamaki already knew what the American was going to suggest. "He wants sane ideas, not ones that involve clones or time travel," the blond Japanese man told him, and the American lowered his arm.
"I have an idea that has been seen once before, though it's not a good one," Echelon executive Professor Robert McCoy said. The fifty-something year-old man then proceeded to cause some panic. "Remember that time when the original team of Tamers came back from the digital world with Jeri and she turned out to actually be an advance agent of the D-Reaper?"
Yamaki's eyes narrowed under his sunglasses as he remembered that horrific breach of security. Satsuma had read up on what happened, though he realized it must have irked the blond man to no end.
"We'll look into this," the broad-shouldered Japanese man told the executives on camera. "In fact, I would suggest running a medical check-up on each of the Tamers. I would also recommend having close watch on all of them."
"That sounds like a reasonable suggestion. We'll have to make sure that they're kept watch on from the shadows so that they don't suspect anything," the blond man added.
"You should put cameras in their classrooms," the executive from the Chinese organization recommended, causing the blond man to roll his eyes behind his sunglasses.
"We will take your suggestion into consideration," Yamaki stated. "In the meantime, we'll have to find a way past the digivices' stealth capabilities."
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In the digital world, a girl seethed, despite being waited on by a number of her servants, a few of which weren't even Tamers. Still, they had Mapachemon controlling them. The large, grey raccoon was behind her, seemingly asleep but at the same time controlling her army subconsciously.
She then sensed another presence through a Wisemon who was patrolling near the borders with Dorbickmon's domain.
She quickly slipped into the mental room, changing from the form of a fourteen-year-old girl to a fully-grown woman in an exotic costume. Then she brought forth the Tamer who had trespassed into her territory.
Imagine her sudden surprise when he turned out to be a red-haired Japanese man who immediately started to hit on her.
"Hey, how's it going, sugar," he said, grinning. He had long-hair in a pony-tail and a pair of glasses as well as a long, pointy goatee.
"Sorry, I'm under-aged," the girl said, rolling her eyes.
"Well, ma'am, you certainly don't look under-aged, but I'll take your word for it," the guy responded, shuddering at the thought. "So, lady, what's with the fancy torture chamber?" Before the girl could answer, he undid the shackles that held him to the wall. "I think you'll have to be more creative than this to brainwash me. Besides, why do that when you don't need to?" His expression turned serious.
"Okay, what do you want?" the girl asked, glaring at the man.
"Well, it's simple really. The name's Crimson and I'm here with a proposition. I want you to help me take over the digital world and bring order to it," the man offered, grinning as he did so.
"Oh, please, another 'let's take over the world' type of guy," the girl complained, rolling her eyes.
"Here's the thing, lady, I'm here to bring peace to the digital world. It's all 'survival of the fittest' out there and I don't think it should be like that," Crimson explained. "Come on, you have to admit, it's a cool idea."
"Digimon were created with the survival of the fittest built-in," the girl told him, turning away. "Besides, what makes you think you have the skills to take it over yourself?"
"Oh, I have my own personal army consisting of Champions and Ultimates ready to take the Dragon Nation by force," he said, changing area to one of where he was with a large, metallic digimon behind him that had a pair of twin cannons on his back. That was before the girl noticed the large army behind him. "Oh, and this is my partner, Machinedramon," he introduced, smiling.
"Oh, really? You're partners with a Mega?" the Digimon Queen asked in disbelief.
The Japanese man tipped his head. "Yeah, just about."
"Here's the thing, I'm in the digital world for one thing, and one thing only and that would be a boy named Ed," the Queen stated, glaring holes through the red-haired Tamer.
"Ah, boys… You teen girls don't think of anything else, do you?" Crimson asked, grinning and making the girl really angry.
"That is not true! Ugh, forget it."
"Besides, this is a pretty big army just to pick up a dude that probably rejected you in the first place," Crimson indicated. "Come on, how about you put it to good use, start up a nice sized army of wild digimon and wipe the floor with either the Dragon Dominion or Daemon's realm."
The girl looked up at the Japanese man in shock. "Daemon? You mean there's an evil digimon ruling one of the areas of this world?"
"Well, yeah. Dorbickmon's pretty evil too, ruling the western part of the digital world with an iron fist. Come on, you know you want to do this. Daemon rules the northern region, supposedly, though he mainly rules Oppidum Septentrionale, a vast city surrounding a Village of Beginnings that was set up after the digital world's population was nearly completely depleted during the D-Reaper war."
The girl thought about it for a second. "Okay, I'll do this. Is there anybody else?"
Crimson chuckled a bit. "Well, I did get a friend from the real world to join us. He's going to be here soon, so you better not brainwash him or his allies, no matter how much you may be enticed about some of them."
The Queen narrowed her eyes at the man. "Okay, anything else?"
"Just release me from this stupid vision and don't try brainwashing any of my army, and you've got yourself an ally," Crimson said, smiling and stroking his long goatee.
Neither knew what they were really getting into.
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A/N: Wow, just wow. That chick is crazy. And she won't be defeated for a while, either. Oh dear.
Crimson… the name is taken from the villain in Digimon World 2, a game that I used to own but never beat (much like a lot of my old video games… hehehe. I did beat the third one, though, like ten years ago). I thought it was a worthy shout out. You won't see much of him, though, at least not for a while. It's a bit difficult when villains are way out of the heroes' league.
A few extra notes: Saxum is the Latin word for stone. As far as the actual meaning of the acronym… I know that the first words are most likely Seguridad de las Americas. As far as the rest… Other things in Latin: Oppidum Septentrionale quite literally means 'Northern City' (It's even declined correctly for the neuter gender). Then there's Prokyomon's name which comes from Latin procyon, the genus or whatever that raccoons belong to (it's use of the letter K instead of a C is partially because I keep on pronouncing the C in procyon hard and partially because K reflects the original sound better than C does).