Alrighty, last update for this week. I'll be working on the climax chapter then ending!
Please enjoy it~
It wasn't a loud explosion.
It was a very swift zap of unknown light dashing out of the room. Sebastian, who stood in front of the room, could feel his body being shoved away before he witnessed a flash of light in a specific shape darting away from him. He fell on the floor and caused a slight quake from his weight.
"Sebastian!" Tsubasa called to him out of worry.
"What was that?" Anjuu stood up to check what she saw for less than a second.
"It looked like a Lucemon in his Fall down Mode, but not quite." Sebastian said.
"Looked like a Lucemon in his Fall down Mode?" Erena wondered.
"Yes, I swear, there are characteristics that makes her look like a Lucemon, but she didn't completely resemble a Lucemon in fall down mode as I remember." Sebastian said.
"Could she be… that official Honoka talked about?"
"That official with Lucemon as partner, huh?" Erena confirmed.
"Yes, I heard she was able to enter this home. Which means she might be our visitor just now."
"If that is so, then we might be in trouble right now. We can't let an official know about this plan." Erena said.
"Don't worry about that. If it's Heidr you are talking about, Nozomi already told me about her." Anjuu said.
"Oh?"
"She is our support. Her job desk is to get us a power source. I don't know how it works, but Nozomi said that they are collecting the source and we shouldn't bother doing the same unless we find a small, transparent, sparkly cube."
"Transparent sparkly cube?" Tsubasa wondered.
"Yes. I don't know what it exactly is but I happened to find one in my bag. I think it came from my back-up data chip, the one that I found from the defeated copy of myself." Anjuu said.
"I found one in my bag too and it also came from my Back-up data chip." Erena said.
"Hmm… those are from memory, huh? Then you gave them that?"
"Not yet, even though I'm sure that it's the right item they are seeking, we still don't know what exactly they would do with it."
"Ah, you are right. After all, it came from your back-up data chip so you would want to know more about it first before you decide to hand it to her." Tsubasa said.
"We should help them to look for it to see what exactly it can do to their project. Nozomi even paid 500 bits for each so I suppose it's a benefit for her." Erena said.
"Haha, I don't need bits. But sure, that sounds good." Tsubasa said.
"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Nozomi paid 500 for each, she is very generous and I bet she doesn't even need to worry about bits just like you, Tsubasa. Her girlfriend probably hacked the bits for her too."
"True that!" Tsubasa continued to laugh.
"But you shouldn't do that to your crush, ok? If you truly want her to grow, then you shouldn't spoil her." Erena said.
"Hah, you don't need to tell me about that. I knew that!" Tsubasa said.
"Really? I heard from Kotori-chan that you were spoiling her in the restaurant."
"Haha, there's nothing wrong with trying." Tsubasa replied playfully.
"Well, did this 'not-a-wrong-attempt' works somehow?"
"Not quite. She doubted her feelings towards me." Tsubasa smirked a little bitterly.
Erena and Anjuu sighed at her response.
"Then this attempt might be too bold. Even though both of you are bold and straightforward, you should tone down a bit and ask for advice from an experienced person." Erena said.
"Hahaha, I doubt that will work out." Tsubasa replied with an awkward laugh.
"Could you be too embarrassed to admit that Eli is truly more senior than you?" Anjuu asked.
"G-gh… No, I knew that she is a lot more senior in that aspect."
"If you can't shake that pride off, you won't be able to grow up." Erena said.
Tsubasa averted her eyes.
"Who's being prideful here? I was just sure that I can do this by myself." She said.
"A wrong step is a chaos in the world of love, you know. You can't reset it and the possibility to fix is low." Anjuu said.
"You'll be stuck in a forever friend-zone." Erena added.
"Haha, maybe that's relative. Ayase Eli is an asshole yet Nozomi still loves her."
"Is she really an asshole to her? That's not what I heard." Anjuu said.
"Really, ask for her advice. There must be something wrong if she doubted her feelings towards you." Erena said.
"Sheesh, fine! I'll do that!" Tsubasa said before she stormed out of the room.
"Tsubasa, wait!" Sebastian said before he ran off to follow her.
Erena and Anjuu couldn't say anything before the two disappeared from their sight, they only could sigh to Tsubasa's instant act.
The City Outskirts;
Umi and Honoka have prepared for their battle—again— and their digimon, Yamato and Ichigo, seem to be ready as well. Kotori and Suzaku stood still by the side of the battle area since the two were about to serve as the judge and jury for the battle. They could also have asked Hanayo and Rin to join, yet the two first years and their Digimon appear to be busy taking care of the farm.
"Alright, Umi-chan. How do we start this fight again?" Honoka asked energetically.
"Just—…get in position, Honoka. We will fight after we gesture to each other."
"Like a wrestling then?" Honoka asked again.
"Yes—just… do it already!"
"Uh… alright!" Honoka replied as Ichigo set-up his battle stance.
"Ok, Ready….?" Kotori asked to start the fight.
"W-wait-wait! Do I get to use items?" Honoka asked again.
"Yes, you can, Honoka!" Umi replied.
"Then, let's start!" Honoka said before Ichigo suddenly charged his fire and blasted it towards Yamato. The Penguin-like Digimon fell down.
"I said—After we gesture to each other!" Umi yelled.
"Oh!" Honoka realized that she forgot that detail.
"There are no do-overs! Get up and attack, Yamato!" Umi yelled out loud.
Yamato jumped back up and blasted a very quick ice needle towards Ichigo. The reptile Digimon covered himself with his strong arm.
"I-it looks like we don't need to signal for them again, Kotori-chan." Suzaku said.
Kotori sighed softly.
"I guess so." she said.
Agumon once again blasted his fire to Yamato while Yamato used a freezing breath to block it. They continued to repeat the same action over and over until they started to run out of stamina.
"This isn't going to work. Plan B, Yamato!" Umi said as she threw a Floppy Disc to recover his stamina.
"D-Don't give up, Ichigo!" Honoka said as she threw a recovery disc to him.
The battle continued into a fist-fight between Ichigo and Yamato. Even though they looked like they are truly serious on trying to hit each other, it somewhat looked like two kids fighting for some stupid reason.
"What the hell is that, Yamato?! Are you seriously fighting?!" Umi shouted angrily.
"Ichigo, don't lose!" Honoka cheered for her Digimon.
"Yamato! I said, fight properly! I already taught you how! Don't fool around!"
Yamato nods and he kept trying his best to fight like how he was taught. Though, if he had to be honest, he already tried and it's so irresistible when Ichigo's fighting without even trying to behave like he is fighting seriously. The flailing arms and the random yelling make them look even sillier.
"Yamato!" Umi shouted with an angrier tone.
"Ichigo!" Honoka shouted full of enthusiasm.
A spark lit in their minds and it felt like they know what they should do.
To evolve into a better stage of their life.
Ichigo can feel the burning spirit from his tamer. The energy and everything that makes him want to reach victory. He can feel his body becomes larger, then his head became covered with a hard brown shell with three horns. He can see blue stripes appearing on his yellow skin. Even though his arm doesn't grow as much as he grew the rest of his body, he can feel his claws are strengthened.
"Aah! Greymon!" Honoka called the kind of Digimon Ichigo became from his evolution.
Then to his opponent,
It feels like something has gone right, though it's not quite the right thing that should be happen.
A dark atmosphere enveloped Yamato, the anger that was delivered to him cause him to evolve into a creature of darkness. A Black wolf-like Digimon with white stripes.
"Ohh! Black Garurumon!" Kotori said his kind's name.
Once again, Umi was surprised to see what Yamato became. However, when she looked to her ash brunette friend, she remembered that she must accept whatever she has turned her Digimon into.
After all, she is the one who raised him into such creature.
"Aah! You two managed to evolve them!" Kotori said happily.
"Yup!" Honoka replied cheerfully.
"Yes…" Umi sighed with a forced smile. She tried her best to not show the anger that she has on herself.
Though, before the two about to continue to fight, something sparked again as if they are about to evolve once again.
"E-Eh…!?" Honoka, Kotori, Umi and Suzaku were surprised.
When they thought they are about to see another evolution to happen, a static sound buzzed along with a moment of digital glitch.
"W-what is that?!" Honoka and Umi said.
"That's…!" Kotori paused.
"Digital shift! The server is crumbling!" Suzaku said.
"E-eh..?" Umi and Honoka were flustered.
Suddenly, a bigger spark appeared before a few pixels crumbled. They can see another dimension through the crumbled pixels. Then, a holographic red dragon-like head appeared.
"R-Run! Everyone! Run!" Kotori shouted to Honoka and Umi as she prepared her cards and machine to fight against this incoming creature. Honoka, Umi, and the newly evolved Digimon quickly took turns escaping but before they could actually escape…
"Ggrrhgh…!" Yamato stopped.
"Yamato!" Umi turned back to him.
Honoka and Ichigo paused and paid attention to what exactly was happening to Umi's Digimon.
A static sound is heard coming from his body then it almost looked like if he is doubling.
"Wh-whoa! H-He is doubling!" Honoka commented.
"Yama—…!" Umi suddenly felt something has gone wrong with her body.
"U-Umi-chan?" Honoka called her out of her concern.
Her body began to make a holographic appearance, then her digivice reacted to a data flow that appeared on her body.
"Umi-chan!" Kotori began to feel concerned too as she heard Umi's painful moan.
"Kotori! Activate the card now! It's coming!" Suzaku tried to keep her focused on the Digimon that appeared.
"A-Ah, ok!" Kotori tried to activate her card but her card engine didn't make any reaction.
"E-Ehh…!?" Kotori and Suzaku lifted their eyebrows in surprise.
"A-Ah! I forgot! The cards aren't working here!" Kotori said.
"R-Right! Should we retreat too?" Suzaku asked.
"B-But! If we do that, what will happen to the city?!" Kotori asked.
"Then, we should just take his attention?" Suzaku asked.
"G-good idea, make sure you don't get hit though, ok? I get the feeling that he could destroy us in one hit!" Kotori said.
Meanwhile in the Tournament hall;
"So… what's this little change in the security, Ericchi? I'm sure that this digital world would have more Digimon using the services than a common human being." said the purplenette as she watched her girlfriend maintaining the ID engine.
"Like, reading the Digimon's specific ID instead of their registered ID?" the blonde replied as she continued tinkering with the engine.
"Yep, I'm sure it will make people like you have a difficult time breaking into the data base." Nozomi said.
"Haha, I would know how to break in since I'm be the one who created the new security system. Also, I don't plan to let anyone control a Digimon's evolution anymore. They will evolve because they can and devolve when they think they need to do so."
"So you want to completely limit the security system?"
"Yes, the security will not touch any of their evolution line anymore." Eli replied.
"Sounds good. You are really into setting these Digimon free. I'm happy, Ericchi." Nozomi said with her sweetest smile.
"That's why I'm—…!" Eli suddenly stopped. She looked like she was hit by something sharp on her arm, yet no one can see anything.
"Ericchi?" Nozomi worriedly called to her.
"N-Nozomi… my arm…"
The purplenette quickly approached her.
"Strange, I didn't activate your digivice at all. Is there anything around here that could trigger—…!"
"Nozomi-chan!" Lady shouted all of a sudden.
"What's wrong, Lady?" Nozomi turned to her Black-Cat Like Digimon who stood near the resting Kyuubimon and kept her eyes on the window.
"I feel a very strong presence in the south west of this Tournament hall." Lady said.
"Then, could that be….?" Nozomi paused as she looked deeply at her girlfriend.
"The data that caused this pain must be nearby. We need to figure it out." Eli said.
Nozomi nodded.
"Wake Sakuya up, Lady. We are going to a fight. Call Angel too, we need her." She said. Lady doubted for a second before she responded with a nod and prepared to do what she was asked to.
"We need to use the special card engine we made, Nozomi. I feel like this is not the usual kind of Digimon." Eli said.
"Is it complete?"
"Not really, I still can't tweak the battery usage so you better use your cards wisely." Eli said.
"I see. Then I'll take my extra batteries with me."
"You have those? Nice. This is why I love you, Nozomi." Eli smiled.
"Yup, I'm always ready to back up any of your plans!"
At the house of µ's,
Erena, Anjuu and their Digimon sensed the presence through the data reaction that caused their digivices to mess up.
"This data reaction… could there be a creature from the depths of the Digital World?" Erena asked.
"Don't tell me, did Honoka-chan used her burst evolution too much?" Anjuu said.
"Sheesh, where's Tsubasa when you need her? We can't contact her with our digivice." Erena complained.
"I get the feeling that she will sense it and stop by on her own, so we better get a move on." Anjuu replied.
"Then we trigger the burst evolution of our digimon, Break the official security barrier and mess up even more? No way! We need to solve this without a fight!"
"There's no way to do that. Let's not hide behind these 'official' bars forever. We can break them all and figure out the truth behind it. If possible, we can meet up with this not-a-digimon creature who claims to be the owner of the power that The City of Memory uses for their system."
"Are you insane? That creature looks as evil as your counterpart."
"What do you mean by 'my counterpart,' Erena? Do you want me to put that Pepper Sauce in your Lunch Box?"
"I was saying that you are so kind and if you ever have a counterpart, you will be the most evil being that ever existed."
"Is that so? Then it's a compliment? Sounds so complex but since you mean it, I'll let you off the hook."
Erena sighed in relief.
"Anyway, we need to go and help out. There are some people outside, yes? Niko-chan, Maki-chan, Poly-chan, Chibby-chan, then, Angel-chan? We take them with us too."
"Do we all have to?"
"It's better to go together since we will truly need to help each other. "
"Don't put a beginner in danger."
"Don't underestimate a beginner."
Erena sighed again. This time it was because she is tired of arguing with Anjuu.
The Farm Land.
Honoka and Ichigo are now having trouble to deciding which Umi is the real Umi and which Yamato is the real Yamato, but not because they are acting the same way. It's just that they both aren't sharp enough to realize that the emotionless Umi is the fake Umi.
The real Umi is quiet and keeps her eyes on her double and the fake black-wolf-like Digimon.
"U-Umi-chan! Please say something to me! I don't know which one is the real you!" Honoka said.
"Quiet! Honoka!" the real Umi yelled at her while the fake one seemed quiet.
"Why did I get copied like this? What's the big deal?" she continued with a bitter smirk.
Before Honoka was able to reply to her, one of the Black-wolf-like Digimon growled and started to attack the other one. It became clear which the real Yamato is since he decided to be defensive and countered the attack.
"W-whoa! H-Honoka!" Ichigo said.
"Yes?" Honoka replied innocently.
"I-I think we shouldn't step in!" Ichigo said.
"W-what?"
"What are you talking about?! Step in! Help me out!" Umi said.
"B-but! They look dangerous!" Ichigo said.
"Of course they are! Why did you suddenly become a coward?!" Umi said.
"U-uh, then, go! Attack them, Ichigo!" Honoka said loudly.
But before Ichigo was able to give any response to the command, Kotori ran to them.
"Aaaah! Everyone! We need to warn the city!" Kotori said.
"Why?" Honoka asked.
Before Kotori was able to answer, they spotted Suzaku getting thrown to the center of the city, then a really-really huge and destructive dragon floated above them.
"W-what the hell is that…?" Umi took her attention off her Digimon that is still trying to fight off his copy, while Umi's copy remained still where she stood.
"J-Just, run!" Kotori quickly ran to the two tamers and they began to run along with Ichigo and Yamato. The Dragon-like Digimon roared so loudly before he decided to aim at Yamato and Umi's copy.
The two copies were unresponsive but Umi unfortunately witnessed how her copy was eaten by the Dragon-like Digimon…
"My… copy…" Umi whispered to herself.
"J-Just ignore that, Umi-chan!" Kotori said.
"S-Sorry…" Umi said.
"Suzaku!" Kotori shouted when she saw her Digimon lying near a building. It seems that the chaotic event has warned the city before they were able to say anything about it. Honoka and Ichigo ran in to the city while Umi and Yamato stopped to watch over the Ash Brunette who tried to nurse her Digimon with items as quick as possible.
"Umi! Get on my back!" Yamato said before he charged in, lever her with his muzzle and perfectly landed her on his back.
They ran until they found out that Honoka stopped when she met with Tsubasa and her Dark Dinosaur-like Digimon near the entrance of the city.
"Megidramon…" Tsubasa called the name of the monstrous Dragon-like Digimon.
"What we should do, Tsubasa-chan?!" Honoka asked.
"We fight. That's all we can do." Tsubasa said.
"Eh, but, I've already evolved Ichigo."
"There's no turning back, Honoka. Your evolution might be the one that caused the security system to break."
"W-what does that mean?" Honoka tried to ask for detail.
But before she was able receive an answer, Megidramon caught up to them. Umi and Yamato stood at a distance while Suzaku and Kotori were nowhere to be found.
"Kotori…" Umi said softly, worried about what may have happened to her best friend.
On the other hand, Yamato noticed a hint of a fiery winged creature flying in the sky, behind the specific Dragon-like digimon, when Tsubasa and Honoka decided to jump in and face the huge dragon.
"She is fine, Umi. Let's focus on how we can defeat this." Yamato said.
"There's no way we can defeat that, Yamato." Umi said.
"What are you saying, we can defeat that! You broke my evolution's limit once, you can do that again!"
"But how? I don't even know how I did it!" Umi asked.
As they argued, Honoka and Tsubasa already gave their digimon the command to fight with this specific creature.
"We can do this, Honoka! Let's raise our spirit and break the evolution together!" Tsubasa said.
"E-Eh, I don't really get it, but alright!" Honoka replied.
Megidramon blasted a huge fire against them and Ichigo and Sebastian quickly took a defensive stance. Luckily enough, since they had the upper hand as vaccine Digimon, they didn't take a one-hit-kill damage. They survived—but they were not quite in a good state.
"T-Tsubasa, this is crazy. We only took a very little damage and yet he is so close to killing us both!" Sebastian complained.
"Endure it then!" Tsubasa said before she threw a large recovery disk to Sebastian, then she threw another to Ichigo.
"W-We are about to be the meat-shield?!" Ichigo complained.
"Attack him! Yamato!" Tsubasa said loudly.
"M-Me?" Yamato was so flustered that he forgot what he was about to say to his tamer.
"I'll unmount you first." Umi said.
"R-Right…" Yamato replied before he let his tamer go down from his back.
"Watch out!" Ichigo said before he ran to take the damage from Megidramon which was supposed to be aimed at Yamato.
"Whoa, nice one, Ichigo!" Honoka gave Ichigo a thumbs up.
"Another one incoming!" Sebastian said as he ran in to defend Ichigo. Tsubasa quickly threw another Recovery disk to both of them.
"Nice one, Tsubasa-chan!" Honoka gave Tsubasa a thumbs up.
Tsubasa winked proudly to the ginger girl as she caught sight of the bluenette giving a command to her Digimon.
"Yamato! Ice Needles!" Umi said.
"I don't have ice needles anymore, but…!" Yamato took a deep breath.
"Ice cannon!" he shot Megidramon with his ice power from his mouth.
"Ooo! Nice one, Yamato-chan!" Honoka said.
"Instead of appreciating us, Honoka, why don't you do something else?!" Umi scolded her.
"E-eh? What should I do then?" Honoka asked.
"Like, go somewhere to check the others' condition!" Umi said loudly.
"Alright!" Honoka said before she ran off.
"W-wait! Honoka! At least—…!" Tsubasa paused. Honoka is already gone from her spot. Seeing how the ginger girl energetically left, Tsubasa smiled then turned her focus back to Ichigo and Sebastian who took turns protecting Yamato while he kept shooting his ice canon to Megidramon.
"Well, this will take a while, but let's do our best to support them, Umi!" Tsubasa said.
"Yes, let's work together!"
Honoka ran off to the center of the city.
She immediately found Jijimon who had gathered the city Digimon, though most of them looked like they haven't fight with anything.
"Ah! Jijimon!" Honoka called him.
"Oh! Aren't you Honoka?"
"Yeah!"
"Awesome, could you happen to help us with these? Some of the Digimon in the city have begun to fight other Digimon that suddenly appeared after they broke into our Dimension."
"O-oh, so, that big one is not the only one?" Honoka asked innocently.
"There's a bigger one than that one?" Jijimon pointed to the north of the city.
The Arena hall is blocked by a huge and dark demonic Digimon with long arms.
"That's Diaboromon, a catastrophic digimon. I heard that the arena hall has two of your friends guarding the place along with some other strong mega Digimon who lives in the city. The rest of them are taking care of the endless spawn in the south."
Honoka turned her attention to the south and she could see how crowded it looked like. She can see Angel; Maki, Niko; Polymnia, who already evolved into her next form, a rabbit-like with majestic decoration and black gloves; and Chibby, as the ghost-like Digimon with witch hat. Meanwhile Angel is in her white cat-like Digimon form. Since when have they been in those form, though? Honoka had no idea and it might be because she has not been going home to look at her friends.
She feels bad for not knowing and she also feels bad as she realized how serious this case is. With all the chaotic fights around the city, she wished that she had an idea on how to make this stop. It's already been many hours in the real world and now she misses living in peace.
But, come to think of it, she did ask for excitement before. Wouldn't it be her fault if she stumbled into this? Then, would it also be her fault to drag her friends into this mess?
Is it truly her fault?
She couldn't think of anything to fix, but she wants to fix this mess. There has to be something she could do! Something that could make everything turn back to normal. Is it strength?
The strength to destroy and overpower the enemy. A great power that will solve everything.
"Your greatest desire is what we need."
A voice is suddenly heard through Honoka's digivice.
"Power"
A static sound buzzed from her digivice before she felt as if her ears were buzzing with it.
"Whaa!" She quickly took off her digivice from her head.
But the buzzing sound still remained. Where is this sound coming from?
She felt herself begin to duplicate.
"H-Honoka-chan! What's happenning to you?" Jijimon asked her.
Honoka tried to answer, but her body wouldn't allow her to just yet.
"Honoka-chan!" Jijimon called her with concern.
A few moments pass and the the duplication is complete. Honoka can see another her right in front of her eyes. She has a plain expression, empty glance, her digivice is off and she has static pixels around herself. It's like a glitch happened to her.
Then, at the same moment, a loud roar was heard in a distance before Tsubasa, on top of Sebastian's head, and Umi, on Yamato's back, ran in to the two Honokas and Jijimon. Megidramon was floating above them
"Honoka! We lost Ichigo!" Tsubasa said before she stopped and realized that there are two Honoka in front of her.
"T-Tsubasa-chan! I'm here!" Honoka waved to her.
"Th-there's no time to think! Sebastian, take them all!" She said before Sebastian snatched both Honoka and Jijimon who was unfortunately taken with his jaws. He ran to the east where it wasn't too crowded.
"G-Gaaah! Can't you be nicer?!" Jijimon complained.
The condition worsened as Megidramon's destructive behavior crushed the city's buildings. On the other side of the city, the catastrophic Diaboromon turned his attention to Megidramon who just passed his territory.
Nozomi and Eli, who were in charge of taking care of him, were flustered for a second, but they quickly realized that Diaboromon is after Megidramon and their friends.
"Ericchi! They are after Honoka and the others!" Nozomi pointed out.
"Drag them here somehow! I can't move from here!" Eli said out loud as she pointed to her Kuzunoha who lingered behind the green holographic walls. She looks damaged, but she stood as a prepared fighter.
"We can't, we have to chase them, Ericchi! Just use Sakuya! You said you wanted to train her, right?" Nozomi said.
"But…!" Eli pauses. Her eyes focused on her Sakuya who looked somewhat fit enough to jump into battle.
Sakuya didn't say anything but she nodded to convince Eli to believe in her.
"Forget about the past already, Ericchi. We need to do something and it's not staying here! This World would probably crumble away and we won't even be able to step out of here anymore!" Nozomi said.
"I knew that! But there must be another way than to fight those! We need to act smartly!"
"If you are smart enough to understand that, then let's get out of this place. Let's seek for the others and take them with us!" Nozomi said.
Eli bit her lip as she tried to think as quickly as her brain allowed her.
"We need to move together, fight together, and defend each other." Nozomi continued.
"If that's all we need to do, we can use a club call. I'll just take over Honoka's Digivice system again so that we are all teleported to where she is." The blonde said.
"That's my Ericchi! Now that you have thought about the solution, we need to inform the others. Kotori must be somewhere else by now since I texted her about something a while ago. We still need to inform the rest of the girls and I need my Angel to return to my side so that I could use a card on her."
"If it's only a mount you are seeking, then why don't you use me?" Lady asked.
Nozomi turned to her Digimon. She has never expected her Digimon to demand something that she has never assigned her to.
"I think you should sit back and watch." Nozomi asked.
"There must be something better than sitting back and watching!" Lady answered back to her. There's a hint of jealousy in her voice, though Nozomi remained oblivious while Eli somewhat understood what she was trying to say.
"Even if I have to evolve into something ugly, even if I have to get through something rough, there must be a form that I can take, right? A form that could be of use for you. Maybe you can ride on my back if I'm in my ultimate or mega form. I don't move that much when attacking!" Lady continued.
Nozomi shook her head.
"Lady, it's not the time for us to argue. We need a short cut and we will use Angel's Magnadramon form. We don't have much battery supply to do an experiment." she explained.
Lady smirked bitterly.
"We will try to look for your form in another time." Nozomi continued.
"No, we can try now. There's a line that she can crash into and we will only need two common cards." Eli said. Lady looked somewhat excited when the blonde said it.
"Ericchi, what are you even thinking? Will her evolution be able to keep up with this mess? Angel's Magnadramon is the best we can use, plus, she is vaccine. She can fight both of them."
"You told me to listen to Sakuya but you won't listen to Lady? This is her favor, plus, she doesn't have to be the one who fights, right? Angel can take her place. You can even use Ophanimon instead of Magnadramon."
"Fine then, but listen, Ericchi, even though I told you that I have batteries, I can't guarantee that we have enough power to do an experiment. I didn't calculate anything about this experiment."
"I'll help you to re-calculate it. But anyhow, use one De-digivolver, then dragon-data injector. We will get a Devidramon and we can ride on her back."
"A Devidramon?! You are about to evolve my cat into a devil-dragon?!" Nozomi exclaimed.
"It's true they look ugly, but hey, I think they are pretty cool and we can ride on them. That's what's important now, right? I'm sure you can evolve Angel into an Ophanimon with only the Burst-breaker card and Holy Spear card." Eli replied.
"It's not like she will not be helpful anywhere! There's a time and place, they have to know their turns! That's how I always raised them!"
"And I don't want to stay quiet and watch Angel fight on her own!" Lady said.
"Why are you being like that all of a sudden?! It's always—…!"
"Cut it out, we need to be off now!" Sakuya cut in as she kept her eyes at the mess on the other side of the city.
"Sakuya is right, we need to be going now before it gets worse." Eli said.
They finally agree and run to work with what they needed to do.
On the southern side of the city;
Maki, Niko, Hanayo, Rin, Anjuu, Erena and their Digimon are fighting the massive number of random wild Digimon that appeared through the broken pixels. They can see the other dimension better and clearer as more Digimon crashed through the pixels. It scared them to even speak about it. Alas, they don't even know if they should talk about it as they also realized that their home is no longer reachable at this time.
The other dimension keeps expanding its door and they began to doubt if they have the chance to get through this. Even with plenty of supplies, even with two Sunflowmon working at the back of the line as support, three vaccines on the front row, and a somewhat useful virus in the middle to secure the two data Digimon behind him, it still feels impossible to be able to keep up and see through the end of the seemingly endless wave.
They need to retreat, or so they thought, before Erena and Anjuu received a call. The two accepted it at the same time.
"Erena! Anjuu! I'm with Honoka right now!" Tsubasa said.
"Yes, and?" Erena asked back.
"Come follow me to the west! We are running from Diaboromon and Megidramon!"
"W-what kind of bullshit you are saying?! You can't be running around with two of the most destructive digimon!"
"Did you not even see them before? Well, either way! Just come to the west, ok? Drop those critters. They won't stop appearing. Just run as fast as possible!" Tsubasa said.
"Can't you just call us with club call? We will teleport to you instead!" Anjuu suggested.
"Right, I can do that. Hang on!" Tsubasa replied.
"You're going to leave us?" Maki asked.
"Uh, Maki-chan, we already got a club call from Honoka-chan." Hanayo said.
"E-eh?! We did? When?" Maki quickly checked her digivice.
"Hah! You are not paying attention, are you?" Niko said smugly.
"You're the only one who didn't accept the invitation-nya…" Rin said.
"E-ehh?! O-ok!" Maki replied.
"Hurry up, Maki-chan! We only have 5 seconds left!" Hanayo said.
"Alright!" Maki quickly accepted the club call.
Further away to the east,
Kotori and her Suzaku flew to a deserted area, the land is infertile and she could barely see any sign of greens among the barren field. As soon as she noticed a presence that she needed to find, she signaled her Suzaku to land as gently as possible.
"Uhh… what was her name again, Heidi?" Kotori asked her Birdramon as they flew lower.
"Yes, Heidi…"
"Alright, so… Heidi-saaaann!" Kotori shouted.
The purplenette beauty turned around, the two colors of her irises dazzled the Ash Brunette for a second before she regained her consciousness. To be honest, she never believed that a human being with Heterochromia iridium actually existed.
"Can I help you, Valkyrie?" Heidr replied with her charming smile.
"E-Ehh…? V-Valkyrie?"
"Oooh, my mistake! You are just a Phoenix Trainer, alright. I was mistaken since you appeared like a Valkyrie to me. Your cute voice sounded like the Valhalla bell, your gaze shines like a polished armor, and your smile is worth a sunshine."
"E-Excuse me but, I have an emergency message from Nozomi-chan!" Kotori tried to keep their conversation in track.
"Hmmm? What does that blasted witch want from this skewered zombie?"
"B-Blasted witch?! Skewered zombie?! U-Uh… Anyway, the city is under attack. Another dimension appeared after a few pixel glitches happened. I don't know what triggered it though!"
"Aahh… I see. So that really sounds like an emergency. Why she didn't contact me directly?"
"N-Nozomi-chan told me to fetch you since you might need me for something?"
"Ohh sure, so that's what she wants. Alright. Let me think of anything you can do for me."
"Errrh…Heidi-san, please be quick. I don't think they can last fore—…"
Kotori paused as she sees a club call on her digivice.
"Oh…."
The Purplenette giggled.
"Well, I guess I need you to accept that call." Heidr said.
"But…?" Kotori is flustered.
"Just accept it, little bird. Don't make the Captain wait!"
Kotori was still confused about what she just said, though she decided to accept the call without any other question. Right before the ash brunette and her fire bird teleported away…
See you next chapter!