The Seventh War

by Paladin9800

What if the Digital world faced not a single mastermind, but an entire army that threatened the balance of the Digital Worlds way of life? And what happens when even Jennai, the head scientist of the observers for the Digital world can't save the eggs of the chosen from Piedmon's invasion? Rated T for violence, some language here and there, and some violent imagery.

17. Chapter 16: Loss Change and Discovery

The 7th war

Chapter 16: Losses, Changes, and Discoveries

Lava Ridge: Skyline

(A few minutes before the end of the fight)

(Cue-Sword Art Online Confront battle extended)

The sky is tinted red from the volcanic ash, the volcano itself is loud with rumbling flowing lava and the crashes and roars of battle across its surface. But a truly pivotal battle is happening right above it.

A resounding explosion erupted from the clashing Holy and Dark energy from the Digimon Devimon and Angemon as they both fly back from the force of the explosion.

Immediately after each combatant flew back 15 meters in the air they recovered enough to stop midair and then fly at each other once again, Angemon comes swinging down with his staff as Devimon creates twin swords made completely of his own dark energy.

Both were on a mission to revert the other to a Digi-egg form. Angemon to purify Devimon, and Devimon to collect a new recruit before going after the Tamer.

The clangs continued as Angemon swung his staff to Devimon's mid section as he made contact with one of the dark energy blades. As he was blocked he just barely saw the other blade coming down in an overhead swing trying to shear off his left side wings in one huge cleave.

He dove down below the blades and past Devimon, who leaned too far midair after meeting no resistance to turn it into a hasty midair spinning somersault. He brings his blades into a cross guard formation while still mid roll just in time to block the next swing of Angemon's staff as the resulting blow creates a shock wave of force making Devimon fly back from it at least 60 feet.

Angemon creates a small boom of air as he rushes his currently faltering foe readying another Hand of Fate punch to hopefully deal a decisive blow to the devil themed Virus Digimon.

Seeing the move Devimon quickly turns his left sword into a coating of black energy all over his hand to catch the right fist of Angemon hoping to grab him for a slash to the chest.

Angemon feels his hand caught and out of instinct from his training with Leomon braces his staff over his chest as the dark energy blade clashes once more against it. Devimon Grins as their weapons start sparking from the force they are using to keep the stalemate even between them. At the same time Angemon keeps a stoic but serious scowl on his face at the concentration he is exerting to keep Devimon on the stalemate while he tries to figure out a plan out of the deadlock he has found himself in.

"Hahahahahahah! You are quite the treat to fight Angemon! You would think that you would have fallen to me after all the training I have endured! But you are practically my equal so far!" Devimon laughs and taunt/praises his opponent while putting more dark energy and strength into both his blade and his hand.

Angemon grits his teeth harder feeling the growing pressure from the blade against his staff and from the hand clasping his fist. He pushes more holy energy to coat the staff and to reinforce his fist as he snarks back, "Indeed! You are quite the fight as well! If only we were allies instead of enemies we could have been doing this to possibly Digivolve versus trying to kill each other!"

The stalemate is broken as both fighters push too much energy into the weapons and their fists causing an explosion big enough to cover them both despite both Champions being flung back by a good 75 feet from the center of their clash.

They both clear the smoke at the same time with a mighty flap of their wings causing them to be seen once more.

Angemon is covered in bruises and scuff marks along with a large horizontal gash covering his chest from shoulder to shoulder lightly bleeding red 1's and 0's from it.

While Devimon has new tattered holes in his wings and fresh scorch marks on his arms legs and chest with a bright blue bruise covering his chest and torso practically covering up his orange bat tattoo on it.

Both look to each other and prepare to continue the fight before they both feel a surge of power below them.

(Pause music)

With both pairs of eyes widening in shock the Angel and Devil Digimon both look down to see a unique sight, an orange glow that has coated Greymon and his Tamer as they begin to see the Champion tear apart Deltamon limb from limb.

In this case head from head.

As they see the final clash with Greymon's new arm piercing right through the powered up Deltamon they see the glow fade and the accompanying energy disappear as well.

Angemon quickly opens his communicator while Devimon is currently distracted by the display, "Sorcerymon did you get that reading? Was that what we have been searching for?"

Sorcerymon's voice comes out quietly from the device, "Yes that is energy from the crest of Courage, Seth and Greymon do have it, I'm not sure if it is coming from them both or one of them or even just from the Digivice between them, but their bond has revived a part of the crest. Try to get them back here as soon as possible so that we can help them cultivate it and restore the crest with the surviving scientist from Jennai's lab."

Angemon nods quickly with a quiet, "Roger that, wish me luck I'm fighting a powerful Devimon who is matching me blow for blow here, send reinforcements to my position as soon as possible to apprehend him."

Sorcerymon quickly speaks once more, "Understood brother be careful and be safe, don't underestimate this one if he can match you like this. Reinforcements are on their way stay alive."

Angemon is about to respond before he has to dodge out of the way of a Dark Energy Bomb, courtesy of Devimon.

Good news was Angemon dodged it with only a little bit of burning to his right side feathers, bad news his communicator was obliterated when he let go in his rush to dodge the attack.

He looks quickly to see a seething Devimon looking at him with a murderous aura around him, "Hehehehe I heard the last part of that, so you have friends on the way eh? Well too bad for you I don't plan to make it so easy for your to survive this!"

Unknown to Angemon Devimon had been talking with Wisemon from his ear piece communicator, "I can now confirm it, the reason they grew so fast and kept up with me for the most part was the energy from the crests I felt from them during our last battle! Should I corrupt the Greymon and bring them both back? Or capture them both after beating them into submission?"

Wisemon crackles over the ear piece, "Capture them both, after all if he can have multiple Digimon on his team we can always corrupt the Tamer and have their bond corrupt their partner Digimon so that you have a team of your own to help you command the army."

Devimon quickly thinks as he looks over to see Angemon on his own call, Indeed with Wisemon supporting me and the Tamer able to help me reach higher Digivolutions, I would have my own squad to replace my brother and his fellow generals! It's perfect!

He says one word into the ear piece as he gets ready to fight Angemon once more, "Copy that."

Angemon palms his staff into a mid air staff fighting stance as Devimon readies his energy sword once more but this time with a dark energy shield coating his left arm.

(Resume previous music)

Angemon goes right in with a frontal charge, staff pointed forward like a battering ram, scoffing Devimon readies his shield and counter charges his sword ready to chop down into the hands and arms holding the staff once he stops the angles momentum.

Right as the staff end meets the shields face, Devimon is shocked as he feels his shield suddenly jarred up from the guard position he had it ready in. He quickly sees the reason as Angemon has spun is spear on the supporting back hand to lift Devimon's shield up into his own swords path making a clang noise as his own blade digs into the edge of his own shield.

Completing the spin Angemon lands a punch with his forward hand as a powerful jab using a basic kung fu horse stance to give him extra force that makes a deep impression of his fist in Devimon's own abs.

Devimon grunts at the pain and readies his sword and shield once more before seeing Angemon has already followed up his opening attack with an overhead staff slam meant to break through his shield and crush his skull.

Devimon smirked remembering how much dedication once has to put to this move and does what he always did to the Ogremon in the training pit.

He prepared his shield to block, but right as the staff came in the shield dissipated as Devimon jumps back a few feet making the attack completely miss him. He then launches his sword like a giant dart into Angemon's body, it sinks into Angemon's abdomen by about 2 inches but stops as Angemon coats his body in holy energy to destroy the swords form. But the damage has been done as a new cut is now leaking a few red 1's and 0's like his gash from earlier.

Devimon grins at the leaking data and decides now is a good time to taunt, "So Angemon! You want more? Or are you going to fight me until you bleed to dea-AAAAAAGGHGHGHG!"

Right as he taunted Angemon took the holy energy he coated his body with and transferred it all to his left arm launching it forward into a, "Hand of Fate!" beam of energy.

This energy beam came in and blasted Devimon so hard in the face and chest that he flipped a complete 360 degree about 4 times before finally stopping himself in mid air, however he now was leaking red 1's and 0's from some new gashes in his chest and cheeks, making him growl in pain and anger from the cheap shot.

Angemon smirks and readies his next move before he is blasted from behind by a red beam of light causing him to fall in altitude by at least 50 feet.

Looking behind him he sees the Ultimate level Digimon Wisemon coming out of a portal with another spell attack charged and ready. He prepares himself but is not ready for both Wisemon's spell and Devimon's Dark Energy Sphere to hit him from two directions at the same time.

(End Music)

Devimon looks to his 'ally' with a scowl, "I had him! I didn't need your help!"

Wisemon looks at Devimon with an uncaring attitude and dismissively waves him off while wrapping Angemon's unconscious body up in a spell wrap, "Clearly, after all it's not like you were both in the last 15% of your Health based on what my scanners were picking up hmmmm?"

Devimon cringes hearing that his opponent had gotten him down so low, and that he was basically being match blow for blow, the next lucky shot would have ended the battle between them, "Then why intervene? I figured you would have let me revert firs then get me back to my brother after finishing off Angemon and taking his egg too."

Wisemon lifts the still unconscious angel to eye level and grins maliciously from inside his hood, "Well he is such a powerful Angemon, I figured why not make you a sparring partner?"

As he says this he lifts a syringe with a bubbling black and purple liquid inside, "Wait! Are you saying you managed to make your corruption virus affect Vaccine Holy types now?"

Wisemon pauses as if contemplating the answer, before he stick Angemon's neck with the syringe and pushes the stopper in, "Possibly it's only in theory as I made it only about 3 minutes ago."

Devimon deadpans as they see the veins of Angemon start to bulge while his once white feathers begin to darken to a metallic gray. Writhing in agony Angemon begins to scream in pain and despair feeling his body begin to change, his wings and feathers all turn a dark gray, his helmet turns into a light purple, while his once golden staff now looks like an obsidian pole, the blue combat wrappings on his legs turn crimson as his eye glow red behind his helm as well.

Wisemon releases him from the binding spell and Angemon now flies on his own power.

He looks up to Wisemon and Devimon and then bows to them both, "I am ready for my first command masters."

Devimon grins with glee at this new ally, while Wisemon is happy to see his research bore fruit, Wisemon commands him immediately, "First we retreat and recover, even with your new form you are still injured, and from there we will show you to your fellow members of our army and then you both will train with each other to unlock a stronger form than what you two are currently at. Also my new friend, your name shall be FallenAngemon from now on."

Devimon nods while FallenAngemon bows as they all fly into the portal, only for it to close a second later once they are all through, leaving an empty sky in it's place.

Lava Ridge: Dragon Village Camp

Agumon looks up to the sky thinking he heard something but with the construction, the thumping of his heart in his ears from his wounds and the conversations all around him he couldn't be sure. Shrugging he catches up with his team to hear about Klein and Kotemon.

After setting up Deltamon's cave as a resting spot the group waves to some of the helping Digimon as they leave to continue repairing and cleaning up their camp.

Siting down beside Agumon and Biyomon, Seth starts things off, "So I'm Seth, a 21 year old gamer and arcade employee. This is Agumon my original partner and Biyomon who we gained as an ally over our time traveling together. What about you?"

Klein looks in awe at Seth and then snaps back to his own mind while Kotemon is enjoying some tea that Biyomon is brewing beside him, "Heh nice. Well I'm Klein, I am a 20yo mechanic in the real world! My partner here is Kotemon!"

Kotemon bows politely after being introduced and Seth, Agumon, and Biyomon all give him polite greetings and waves.

Biyomon perks up realizing something important, "Hey Klein?"

Klein has begun to drink his tea as he answers with a "mhm?"

"How did you get here so quickly to back us up? Was it the Palace? Or Sorcerymon? Or were you in the area?"

Klein quickly gulps down the tea he had in his mouth to avoid choking on a mouthful of tea, "*Gulp* Ahhhh, well yeah it was Sorcerymon he saw a huge influx of Virus signatures in the area so he sent me and Angemon as backup, Kotemon and I handled about 5 of them or so. These guys were by the watch tower area, we took them all out by using Kotemon's Champion form Dinohyumon!"

Biyomon nods in acceptance to this while Seth then he asks, "Oh so you were the reason Saberdramon had a lot fewer enemies to fight earlier! Wait Angemon was sent here too? Do you know where he is? After all if things have calmed down now we should have seen or heard from him at the very least right?"

Klein nods with a smirk at Seths opening answer but slowly loses it as he hears the rest of what Seth has to say until he is left with a concerned frown, "Actually yeah we should have by now, I was told by Sorcerymon to contact Angemon on his communicator the minute the fighting was over, but I couldn't get through, I thought it was the mountains interfering but still no reply from him."

Kotemon and Agumon look at each other in worry at this news while Biyomon looks afraid that something has happened to him.

Seth then pulls up his Digivice to try and call Sorcerymon, only to see he has finally recovered signal, then seeing a Call Incoming notification from Sorcerymon himself.

Picking it up Seth and the others are unprepared for the loud worried voice of Sorcerymon, "WHAT HAPPENED?! ARE YOU ALL OKAY!? DID YOU DEFEAT ALL THE CORRUPTED DIGIMON?! AND IS ANGEMON OKAY YET?"

Seth has his Digivice at arms length from the sheer volume they all just endured while the other Digimon and Klein all had their ears covered form the loudness.

Seth begins his answers, "Okay first! Calm down Sorcerymon we are all okay, beaten up and exhausted, but okay so far. Second. We defeated them all with the help of Klein, Kotemon, and Angemon who you sent to reinforce us so thank you. And third we have no idea we haven't seen or heard from him yet."

Sorcerymon gives out a huge whoosh of air from his side of the line as he calms down slightly at the news, "Okay that I can do sorry, but I was worried about you all since Angemon reported that he was fighting a powerful Devimon that was matching him blow for blow before he got cut off. And also that you and Agumon had unlocked a new power together during your fight with Deltamon."

Seth, Biyomon, and Agumon all break out in a sweat remembering the last time they met Devimon, "Oh no! That is probably the same Devimon who evolved from that Impmon that vowed to beat us before. I'm worried that Angemon was equal to him, after all Devimon was no push over before but if he can match the abilities of one of your specially trained soldiers how powerful has Devimon grown since we last saw him?"

Sorcerymon is unusually quiet at this point while Klein latches onto another part of what Sorcerymon said, "Wait they unlocked a new power? What do you mean?"

Sorcerymon seems to come out of whatever thoughts he was lost in as he finally answers the new question, "Well it seems that Seth and Agumon are carriers for the Crest of Courage, or at least it's energy, it remains to be seen if they have the true crest or a part of it, but we shall see what happens going forward."

Biyomon falls back in shock while Agumon grins ear to ear hearing he has one of the crests within him, Seth can't believe it as Klein and Kotemon both gape at Seth and Agumon in shock, "Wait wait wait, Sorcerymon! You're saying Agumon and I are carriers for one of the 8 crests of power?!"

Sorcerymon sounds a little confused as he replies, "Well yes but how do you know about-?"

Seth deadpans as he glares at the communicator, "Digital World Encyclopedia, since I didn't know how faithful to Jennai's game this world was. I read whenever I had time and found the legends about the 8 crests of the soul. The same encyclopedia that had so little information on Digivolution when I tried looking it up."

They all could feel the sweat pouring down Sorcerymon as his voice came back, "W-well then I-I guess you are b-better studied up than I or-originally thought. And before you go pointing fingers to me ab-about the Digivolution entry! I blame Lord Seraphimon for trying to write it himself."

All the Digimon facepalm at that while in his throne room Seraphimon had 3 sneezes in a row from all the disbelief piled on him from his own Digimon allies.

Klein laughs like crazy as he asks Seth, "So the lord of his own army didn't have any clue about Digivolution? Jeez I read that entry myself and I thought someone simply didn't research it enough, but hearing who actually wrote it down? I can't help but imagine it HAHAHAHAAHAH!"

Seth gives himself a couple chuckles at the news as well before returning to the topic at hand, "Oif but still that means we will need to make it to Holy Angel palace even more urgently now to make sure we can cultivate the crests energy in myself and Agumon more quickly, it should give us the edge we need in this war."

Sorcerymon calms down as well, "Yes that is indeed the more urgent need, for now I will focus on what happened to Angemon as his communicator could have been destroyed in the fight and he is simply too wounded to make it to you right now, in which case the squad I sent to reinforce him should be there soon. If you wait for them then we can bring you straight to the palace without having you go through the next zone."

Seth looks at everyone and asks for their votes,

"Hmmm we have grown a lot in our own time and with our own training out here, I say we keep on going through with what we have been doing and focus on getting practical experience for now as we make our way to the palace." Biyomon thinks out loud.

"I agree with Biyo there, we have grown so much from our struggles and we have a lot more growing to do, let's keep with what we have been doing so far for the sake of our own growth Seth!" Agumon happily suggests.

Unseen by him Biyomon blushes lightly at the nickname he gave her.

Klein smirks at their thoughts and puts his own two cents in, "I'm with that plan! Let me and Kotemon join you guys! We had to fight the simulator a lot to get to our Champion form! And if you guys achieved a similar result from being out in the field for practical experience! I'm in! What about you Kotemon?"

Kotemon nods and then bows to Seth and the others, "I would be honored to join such a group of friends alongside Klein, and as my partner so wonderfully put it, we could use the practical experience to grow further as well."

Seth turns back to the communicator and smiles warmly at everyone, "Well you heard the consensus Sorcerymon, I think we will stick to what we have here and make our way back in due time."

Sorcerymon sighs, but relents with a smile knowing that they have shown incredible growth in their journey so far, "Oh very well do be safe on your journey and I will see you here soon, besides this will free up a simulator room for others to use since Klein is no longer there to practically live in it."

Everyone stares at the battle junkie while Klein scratches the back of his head sheepishly from that little look into his mentality.

Sorcerymon ends the call with one more line, "Good luck to you all and may the Sovereigns watch over and guide your journey."

Everyone manages to thank him before the communicator cuts off and ends the call.

Seth looks at everyone and simply says, "Alright listen up we have a few days to rest here and then get back on our journey to the palace. But we won't be idle. Klein how do you feel for some training and sparring against another Tamer Team?"

Klein smirks in a feral way ready to begin, right as he opens his mouth to tell Seth to begin right away, his and Kotemon's stomachs rumble to remind them they haven't eaten much in the last few hours.

Everyone laughs at this as they bring out gear to prepare some food on.

7 Vices Headquarters: Council Room

The council of the 7 Vices Generals were all looking at the new addition to their forces, the FallenAngemon alongside Devimon and Wisemon.

Wisemon had just finished his explanation of how they acquired the new trooper when there was a question raised.

Barbamon asked, "So this new ally is completely under your and Devimon's command Wisemon? He won't break out of your control and rebel?"

Bowing to the current head of the Generals he confirms it, "Yes sir with the help of the corruption Virus Lady Lotusmon has given me I turned it into a solid corruption attack that can be spread by these beetles I inject with it. And since I used the undiluted version meant for full control in the liquid form I am sure he won't be breaking out of the Viruses influence any time soon milord."

All eyes turn to Lotusmon as she nods her confirmation and show an example of this by retrieving some bubbling black venom from her twin snakes on her staff and handing another vial to Wisemon.

Murmukusmon nods at this but his eyes are focused solely on his brother and his recovering wounds, "I see my brother has been through a bit of hell, but I can also sense his growing strength. Tell me my brother what have you learned form this fight?"

Devimon feels all eyes now hyper focused on him alongside their ears as he gulps down his nervousness. With a small supportive nod from Wisemon he steps forward and addresses the Generals, "I learned not to underestimate my foe, after all I learned many different fighting styles from the foes I fought to reach where I am now, but they only helped me get to the point I am at now, I realize that while practice is good to get a solid foundation, you need true experience to see yourself grow and find what else still needs to grow further."

The Generals all agree and even ChaosGallantmon hits his joust tip into the floor as a way of applause, "Very good young warrior if you were not under Murmukusmon's army I would welcome you into a captain position with my troops. Your lesson is one every one of my Ultimate level troops have learned to reach their current strength. SO I applaud your growth."

Piedmon even adds to this notion, "I am mighty proud of Devimon and Wisemon for their own growths, Devimon for his experience and strength and my own pupil for his growth in finding us a new weapon to deploy to turn the tides of this war."

Barbamon nods then slams his staff to gain the attention of the council once again. All eyes are once more upon their leader as he stands, "All around excellent progress, now Devimon you and FallenAngemon shall be partners heading forward to grow together in our new training program that ChaosGallantmon will help supplement with some of his own troops."

He looks to the dark knight Digimon who nods in understanding and summons a tablet to select some troops to help in their growth.

Barbamon continues after seeing that it is being done, "And you shall continue your research into this sudden appearance of the Crest of Courage, see if this is the true crest or if it is merely a fragment."

Wisemon nods and then thinks of a clarifying question to follow up on, "And if it is either my lord? What is your command for each situation?"

Barbamon runs his hands over his beard as he contemplates the inquiry, "Well in the event that it is a fragment see if your corruption research can be use don the Tamer and the Digimon who unlocked it, if it is the true one," He slams his cane so hard the room quakes from the force in it. "Then we destroy the current holder of it and his partner, we cannot allow the return of the crests otherwise they will be able to turn the tide of this war. We may have gained some ground with the original destruction of the lab they developed them in with Piedmon's raid, but the crests can only be temporarily removed from this world, they can never be fully destroyed. Am I understood?"

All the Digimon present bow and say in unison, "Understood Sir!"

"Then you are all dismissed to your original duties we shall reconvene should any new developments be made for our troops or this war, understood?"

They all nod once more as the holograms of Chaosdromon, ChaosGallantmon, Murmukusmon, Lilithmon, and Piedmon all disappear as they disconnect form their locations. Leaving only Devimon, FallenAngemon, Wisemon, Lotusmon, and Barbamon in the room.

The trio of non-megas leave to continue their growth and research, while Lotusmon returns to her room to prepare to head out to her army's location.

Barbamon goes to his personal study and illuminates it with his magic, going to the back of it he opens a book case to reveal a lab behind it.

In the lab are various half finished experiments, computers currently keeping track of it, spell books and tomes with half researched spells ready to be completed and on the back wall chained by his arms, legs, and torso to the wall is none other than Jennai. Jennai is black and blue from various burns, beatings, and electrocution torture, his former robes are in tatters revealing he only has his monks pants left in decent shape as his eyes are over shadowed by his now longer hair.

Barbamon sneers at the former scientists current state. He lifts his head to see broken dead eyes of a man who has lost nearly all hope and tells him, "Soon Jennai your efforts to keep us from destroying your last hope will be wasted! We have found a fragment of the crests and shall soon destroy it or bring it over to our side! You will have failed the Holy Angel Alliance once we have finished our work! HAHAHAHAHAAHAH!"

He heads out of the lab to prepare his next strategy locking the lab back up with a flick of his wrist.

Once he is gone, Jennai lifts his head to allow his eyes to be seen, but instead of the dead burnt out eyes of a broken man, they are revealed to be the alive determined eyes of a man who has a lot more fight left in him. Just you wait Barbamon, when one crest appears the rest will follow in short order as their holders are revealed by the trials they undergo and grow from. Your time will come, and even if you should kill me before I see it, I know the Tamers I have summoned will prevail, after all the Sovereigns themselves helped create the Crests with Yggdrasil's blessing and energy for the sake of this world.

With that final thought he lets his head fall back down to rest more before his next session of further torture to 'keep' him broken.