Chapter 5

Past:

Serena rolls her eyes at the others while playing with little Poyomon, they should just get over it, " Hey, do you hear Tommy and I whining? The exercise will do you some good, besides, you'll need it for once you two get your spirits. Seriously, Sammy bitches less than all three of you are. "

Takuya winces as he gets included into that. " Yeah, really, we're younger and we're sucking it up, why can't you all? "

" Plus, Taku-nii, you're a damn soccer player, you should be in better shape than this. I run track and believe me, I rarely let up on my training. I'm purposely late to school so I can run there, which trains my speed and endurance. " Serena points out.

Takuya groans, " All right, so maybe I slacked off on my training, which admittedly, I shouldn't have, but I'm still in better shape than these two. "

" Taku-nii, am I going to have to make sure you get off your ass this summer and train for soccer, as you know, soccer is a fall sport. " Serena states.

Tommy giggles as Takuya pouts at his little sister, then they come to a split in the track, Serena drags Takuya towards the forest, " Forest Terminal, trees, got it. I am not letting you be harebrained about this, Taku-nii. "

Zoey snickers at the affronted look on Takuya's face as he is literally dragged around by his little sister. Poyomon was sitting on her head while Bokomon and Neemon were talking amongst themselves. Tommy follows closely behind the Kanbara siblings while she and JP brought up the rear. Soon they come upon a village and Serena blinks, looking around, " Minamoto, show yourself. "

Koji actually starts at this, " How did…never mind, if you're here then this isn't the Forest Terminal. Later. "

Serena frowns, she still couldn't get an accurate read on him, and it was annoying her to no end that she couldn't. Serena climbs the nearest tree and sets about tossing down some fruits which Tommy caught easily enough and passed out to everyone. Takuya frowns, why did his imooto have to climb anything and everything that she possibly could? She tosses down some more fruit and then jumps down herself, nearly giving Takuya heart failure, " Taku-nii, I do riskier things in gymnastics, you know that. "

Takuya frowns, true, their dad did pay for gymnastics lessons when she'd shown an aptitude towards tumbling. Kanbara Hiroaki firmly believed in helping his children excel in whatever they were good at. Serena had only been in some local tournaments and had gotten as high as silver in some of them. She mostly stuck to the parallel uneven bars and floor exercise though. That didn't mean she didn't do the vault or balance beam, she just preferred the first two.

While they've stopped she feeds Poyomon and the little guy digivolves to Tokomon, " Thanks for taking care of me, Serena. "

" You're a fun little guy, Tokomon. " Serena says and once half an hour has passed the ten year old starts to stretch out, she felt like putting on a show, Takuya hadn't seen what she was capable of gymnastically for a while. Soon she has limbered up enough and starts to go through her latest Floor Exercise routine. Zoey's eyes widen in shock at how limber she really was.

" Merda Santo( Holy Shit)! Come diavolo è lei che flessibile( How the hell is she that flexible)? " Zoey exclaims in Italian.

" A lot of time and effort, not to mention practice. " Serena replies even as she does a whip back straight into a salto backward pike.

Takuya's eyes are wide with pride at the skill his little sister was showing. It had been a while since he'd seen her perform. Tommy was clapping with delight at what he was seeing while JP is just as stunned as Zoey. Takuya knew Serena was very good at picking up languages, their dad had noticed that too and had made sure that she learned any language that she wanted to. He knew that so far she had learned Italian, German, mastered English, Sign Language, Spanish, French, Russian, Latin, Esperanto, Irish, Bengali, and Coptic. Takuya had actually taken the time to learn Russian and Italian, so he also understood everything Zoey said.

The goggle head just wasn't going to let her know that. Takuya had wanted to be able to speak to his sister in a language that their parents couldn't understand. Shinya had shown no burning desire to learn any other languages. After Serena's show she starts to show Tommy how to fall correctly and how to tumble. It would be useful for all the fights he was guaranteed to get into over the course of their stay here in the Digital World. Once that was done they continue on, Tokomon taking his place on Serena's head.

Serena kicks back as she watches the drama unfold, they find the Mung Tree, JP's D-Tector reacts to Zoey's spirit, discover that the Floramon used to have the help of the Mushroomon to greet the visitors in Breezy Village, help them try and spruce the place up and then the Mushroomon crop up and destroy all their hard work again. Zoey gets mad and her spirit comes to her as the Mushroomon use on of their attacks to make the Floramon laugh, then they digivolve into Woodmon, " Execute… Spirit Evolution! Kazemon! Ha! "

" Behold the Spirit of Wind, Kazemon. " Bokomon says.

Takuya only intervenes when it looked like Zoey was gonna lose, Agunimon throws one Pyro Punch and then turns to Kazemon, " You finish this. "

" With pleasure, Hurricane Wave! " Kazemon calls out and the fractal code for Woodmon shows, " You've been pruned, Woodmon, fractal code, digitize! " Then her D-Tector renders the fractal code turning Breezy Village back into the beauty it had once been.

" Wow, this is what Breezy Village looked like. This is sweet. " JP says.

" Not bad for your first fight, Kazemon. " Agunimon says and lets the evolution end.

" Thanks, Takuya. " Kazemon says, letting her own evolution end.

" You'll need to train on how to use your element outside of spirit evolving and need to work on how long you can hold the form. " Takuya says.

" I guess so, you made it look so easy. "

" I had a traveling Agumon train me. " Takuya admits.

Present:

Serena rolls her eyes as she listens to the others, especially Joe, complain. They hadn't complained nearly that much when they had been in Digiworld, well, maybe JP, but they had sucked it up. This would definitely be a growing experience for them all. The three warriors all blanch when they see the factory that Tai had found, " No fucking way, this place is still standing. Well, there are no sentry Minomon and no Goblimon overworking the Kokuamon, but still, this just sucks. I thought we'd never have to see this place again. "

" Hey, this is Beetlemon's home. " Serena points out.

Takuya sighs, " Yeah, I damn well know that, but Tommy and I got our collective asses handed to us here. "

Serena giggles, " Yeah, meanwhile Tokomon, Bokomon, Neemon, and myself were all just watching the fight. Bokomon was worried but I was kicking back and relaxing. I knew everything would turn out fine in the end. "

" Wait, this factory was the home of one of the Legendary Warriors? " Izzy asks.

" Yeah, this was where the Thunder Spirit was resting and waiting for his destined partner, Shibayama Junpei, though he prefers to be called JP. " Takuya answers.

Candlemon tenses and Serena's eyes widen as she sees a bird type digimon colored like a parrot species, " Muchomon! "

The bird tackles her, " I knew you'd be back, I knew it! "

Serena smiles, " Well, you're definitely not little Tokomon anymore. TK, Muchomon is one of the other evolutions Tokomon could have taken. He traveled with us for the entire journey too. "

Patamon blinks, " Been a while since a Muchomon has been seen. "

" I've had to be careful, since the Celestials created the Sovereigns and let them rule things have really gone to hell. Zhuqiaomon rules the south and he's an utter bastard. Takuya, I really hope you can beat some humility into him. This is the East, under Azulongmon's rule. "

" WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? THE CELESTIALS ACTUALLY CREATED THOSE DIGIMON! " all three warriors scream out with their spirits reacting to this news as well.

Shibuya:

At Koichi Kimura's apartment the other four warriors have gathered and are stunned when their spirits react until they're filled in. All four start cursing up a storm at this, what the hell were Ophanimon, Cherubimon, and Seraphimon thinking.

Digiworld, Ophanimon's Castle:

The ten warrior symbols on the floor all glow brightly and flicker at an alarming rate. Seraphimon pales, " Cherubimon, Ophanimon, they know about the Sovereigns! "

The other two celestials pale where they are, the collective thought, ' oh, shit, they know '. This was not going to end well for them, at all. They'd argued against the creation of the sovereigns, even the three that didn't have human partners.

Factory:

The others just stand there as Takuya, Serena, and Tommy all curse up a storm at what Muchomon had told them. They were all swearing in Russian too. Tai blinks, " Why are they so upset at this? "

" Because all ten warriors, including the three that do not have partners argued against the creation of the sovereigns. " Muchomon says softly.

" Wait, the Legendary Warriors were against the creation of these sovereigns. Is there any particular reason as to why they feel so passionately about this? " Sora asks.

Muchomon winces, " They all felt that the Digital World would be in much more danger if the celestials just left the work up to the sovereigns. I mean Devimon gobbled up the Fractal Code for Flame Terminal. "

Serena and Tommy quickly move away from Takuya as the air heats up around him. " HE'S THE ONE WHOM DESTROYED MY HOME. OH, THAT'S IT, THAT EMO REJECT IS GOING TO REGRET THE DAY HE EVER SET FOOT IN FLAME TERMINAL! " Takuya roars it out.

Infinity Mountain:

Devimon whimpers as the Flame Warrior's ire could be felt all throughout File island. He knew it had been him to steal Flame Terminal's fractal code. Devimon knew his days were numbered, the Flame Warrior had a target now.

Factory:

Takuya storms ahead of the others, Betamon barely able to keep up with his partner. Tommy and Serena wince, " I haven't seen Taku-nii this angry since the Royal Knights Crusadermon and Dynasmon started stealing the fractal code's from Digiworld for Lucemon. "

Tommy and Serena decided to stick with Tai's group, Takuya could take care of himself. He had Betamon with him too, he'd be fine. Muchomon couldn't believe he had set off such a Fire Storm with what he had told the three warriors present. He hadn't realized they were that against the creation of the sovereigns, though he should have known Takuya would erupt at the news of whom had gobbled up Flame Terminal's fractal code.

By the time Tentomon evolved into Kabuterimon Tommy and Serena were about ready to spirit evolve and deal with the problem themselves. Takuya finds them just as Andromon shows them the way out of the factory. With a sigh all of the group drops down though Mimi took four minutes to work up the courage to drop into sewage and a sewer itself. They roll their eyes as Tai and Agumon try to perform some percussive maintenance on Izzy's laptop only to have Izzy, Tentomon, TK, and Patamon move out of the way and they whack themselves instead. Sora makes a comment about this and they all continue on their way, Tommy was glad to be back in Digiworld but pissed that the sovereigns were created.

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