Location: Data City Dump Site

The kids gather at the dump. Ria and Milo were the first there anxiously waiting with their digimon. Botmon waited with them with Faust on an iTV screen firmly attached to Botmon's chest. Soon Hina and Yvette arrive exiting from a limo and entering the Data City Dump.

Yvette, "Hello comrades. Good to see you have evaded the politsiya."

Donniemon, "Never was a fan of Der polizei, bunch of hypocrites I say!"

Sealomon, "They aren't that bad, they do their job. Not very well, but they try."

Hina, "So… what is with the letters?"

Faust, "We are waiting for one more…"

Gatormon and Frankie run in out of breath.

Gatormon, "Sorry! Overslept a bit."

Frankie, "More like you sleep like a log!" Frankie looks at milo, "Milo! Good to see you're ok." He looks around, "Where's Bugsy?"

Milo shakes his head, "I don't know…"

Hina, "He decided to go on his own adventure with Elmurtemon. Don't worry, we got people helping him on his-"

Frankie, "What! He's only a small child! Hoe dare you let a small child go around in this dangerous world!"

Yvette steps between Hina and Frankie, "Shush! Here, he is not baby. He clearly had something he had his heart on. Do not yell at Hina, it was his decision. We are not responsible for the boy."

Frankie is fuming, "do you have no sense! He's not even 10! You let a 10 year old make his own decision because you aren't responsible! What kind of bull-"

Faust, "Enough! We got other issues, if you help us out I'll help you track down Bugsy. Deal?"

Frankie is still fuming; Gatormon pats Frankie on the back, "It's gonna be OK Frankie? He's with Elmurtemon! He'll be fiiiiiine." He smiles a large tooth grin. Frankie sighs, "Alright. What is it?"

Faust, "The floor is all yours Ria."

Ria, "Thanks for coming, so I am Ria and this is Faust on the screen. We have been tracking down Kayden to bring him home. But he's planned to go to Hexocliff."

Sealomon shouts, "Hexocliff! Why in the world?!"

Donniemon, "Are you asking us to risk our hides going to that death prison!"

Hina asks, "What is Hexocliff?"

Ria, "Uhm, I'm getting to that…"

Sealomon interrupts, "It's a prison for E-Reapermon! The scourge of all servers! They nearly wiped all Digimon out until the Rangers cooperated with Yggdrassil, the Royal Knights and the Tamer Unions around the world before they became the United Tamers Association!"

Ria, "Well yes, but they are inactive because the Red Trojan was defeated and sealed within a boss room at the very lowest level."

Donniemon, "Hmm, I heard the Red Trojanhorsemon vas not truly defeated. Mein freund, Elecmon vas there. He told me, it vas sleeping because of something Reikyu had done. Even the rangers could not defeat it and didn't even try to take it on in fear of it vaking up."

Ria, "Well… yes. But Kayden wants to go there for some reason… I think he may be trying to get to the boss room."

Frankie, "And what do you need from us?"

Ria, "The plan is to sneak in as Tamer Union Associates and make it to the bottom level."

Yvette, "Hmm, I need to think about it. Kayden is… what's the word…"

Donniemon, "A nuisance and a liability to society"

Yvette, "While I would like to assist, I do not wish to risk life and limb as we aren't more than comrades or associates."

Hina chimes in, "No can do either, we are currently waiting on news for our on mission. Plus, Kayden is destructive. I don't think he would really need us. Also, why doesn't he just come back on his own?"

Sealomon nods, "I concur our mission is just as important at the moment."

Ria, "… I understand."

Frankie sighs, "Ugh, Milo… are you really going to go?"

Milo nods, "Yes, he is my friend and we owe him a lot Frankie. Without him we wouldn't be together…"

Frankie looks at Gatormon, "What about you?"

Gatormon shrugs, "I can go either way here. Just kinda goin' with the flow."

Frankie, "Really, that's your answer?"

Gatormon, "Well, knowing Kayden in the time we knew him. If he goes into the boss room, I'm pretty sure he's going to wake up the RedTrojanhorsemon and cause a hellish apocalypse to happen. We could try to stop him or we might be running into an unwinnable slaughter. Either way, I'm with you Frankie" Gatormon smiles.

Everyone thinks a moment, Frankie says, "Uh… Yea we'll be going with you Milo. But as soon as things get bad we are getting out ok?"

Yvette, "When you say it like that… I feel like we should do something. What do you think Donniemon?"

Donniemon, "I can't argue vith that logic. The boy is a valking disaster!"

Yvette, "I'll have to speak with the folks but, we will go. Just to make sure he doesn't let the world burn or trigger the apocalypse."

Hina and Sealomon whisper between one another and Hina responds, "We will provide whatever support we can but, our stance is still the same. Sorry guys."

Milo, "it's alright, I think we should be fine with this right Faust?"

Faust, "Eh, probably. Honestly, I'm just as much in the dark about what may happen in Hexocliff as well. I'll be providing distant support through Botmon. If you guys get in trouble, he can activate a temporary escape gate."

Ria, "Thanks so much everyone!" She bows respectively.

Yvette, "Eh, we are only doing this because I'd feel bad if the world ends and we didn't at least try to stop the walking disaster you call a… how do they say it?"

Donniemon, "A sibling?"

Yvette, "Yes, sibling."

Ria, "I don't think Kayden is that bad…"

Gatormon, "You have obviously not been around him long, and I've been around some of the most questionable Digimon possible."

Frankie, "He's right, we really can't expect Kayden to come quietly. He's defiant and stubborn, wants to do things his way. Even if it hurts many others in the process."

Milo, "But he usually has his heart in the right place, just things don't always go the way he thinks."

Ria, "I'm prepared to do as much as I can for him, he's my brother and I want him in my life. Even if he tries to shove me away, we are family!"

Yvette sighs, "I understand this very well. I will help try but our point is, he's a tad unhinged. This will not be easy."

Ria, "I understand."

The group wraps up their meeting, they plan to gather when the time arrives for them to leave for Hexocliff.

Meanwhile,

Location: Granddracmon's New Manor in the newly renovated Golden fields now renamed: Grand Resort.

Kayden, Chaosdukemon, Blackagumon and several other Digimon who volunteered to help them at Hexocliff arrive at the front door of the new Manor in the middle of a gaudy resort paved in gold and bones. Rivers of dark red liquid pour from the orifice of the once golden hills creating large and luxorious pools where rich Digimon flaunt their massive wealth with overpriced inflatable waifu boats. Wizardmon holds the box with Furrmon's egg within it. Kayden kicks the door extremely hard making loud thuds. A bakemon opens the door to answer them, "Oh no… not you again!" Another bakemon whispers, "he's supposed to be here for that!"

The bakemon that answered the door, "Welcome… honorable guest." He says with disdain in his voice. "Let us escort you to the meeting room prepared just for you. I do ask you keep your hands to yourself."

Kayden, "Wow, it wasn't even me that ruined the last mansion you know."

Bakemon, "I ask that YOU keep your hands to yourself!"

Chaosdukemon, "Ooo what's that?" He walks up to a box filled with priceless Gandum action figures and trips causing the whole collection to shatter to pieces. He quickly tries to put it back together but Bakemon isn't even surprised at this point.

Bakemon gets a walkie talkie out, "Clean up… at Gandum isle…" He faces the group, "Please for the love of the Dark Lord. Can you NOT DESTROY ANYTHING for FIVE minutes!" Bakemon seems near to tears.

BlackAgumon whispers to Kayden, "We uh, are not good at being careful. Or delicate. Or even just standing."

Wizardmon sneezes, his staff glows and a priceless replica of a D3 device falls from the wall and also shatters like delicate glass. Bakemon is in tears.

BlackAgumon, "Uh… ok guys lets go!" He pushes everyone forward following the crying bakemon down to the hall. Many other priceless collector items perish at their quaking footsteps and mere presence. Lopmon, "Next time, you guys should probably hide your priceless artifacts. No one in this group and I mean no one at home can walk five steps without breaking something. I think we're cursed. We're a bunch of hooligans. Tee hee!"

Location: Meeting Room

They enter the meeting room where Granddracmon awaits them.

Granddracmon, "Ah, you have arrived after destroying more of my property. Great."

Kayden, "So, how will you get us to Hexocliff?"

Granddracmon, "Well first, you need to not shatter any more priceless artifacts."

Kayden, "I can't promise that. Next."

Granddracmon, "Second, you will sign a contract. Both to compensate for the priceless artifacts and life insurance in case you all die. Your deaths will be my profit of course."

Kayden, "Wow. Ok, I'm broke but sure."

Granddracmon, "Hard meaningless labor is a virtue. Third-"

BlackAgumon, "Excuse me sir! We brought my cousin (Fake)RealAgumonLawyer to go over the paperwork and iron out the details."

After a series of arguments, revises and tragic backstories.

Granddracmon worn out, "Ugh, I knew I should have hired a couple of lawyers."

(Fake)RealAgumonLawyer, "So if you both can sign here, Kayden will compensate you by doing odd jobs of equal value until you are reimbursed. You will provide a quick way to the bottom level of Hexocliff and some useful advice/planning to ensure he can return safely. As for the jobs they can NOT include selling body parts of any kinds, human trafickking of any kind or things R rated and higher."

Granddracmon sighs, reluctantly signing the paperwork. "If it was not for your mother, I would not even entertain this idea. However, the Reikyu alliance has been a great ally to the Dark Area for many years. Very well, you have a deal."

Kayden, "So, how do I help Furrmon?"

Granddracmon claps his hands, Phantomon appears with a tattered book and hands it over to the dark lord. Granddracmon hands it over to BlackAgumon, "I have provided the advice here in this book, now I will go and prepare the portal in the room over there across the hall. When you have finished, I will be waiting for you here."

BlackAgumon seems to look depressed staring at the cover, he takes a deep breath. He opens the book titled, 'Battle of Hexocliff: A bystander's view.' Written by Pagui.

"I'm going to skip ahead through some details here…" He flips through the pages. "After Tsunu, Dorumon and Dexter disappeared, Reikyu and I searched the entire island looking for the three. Tsunu came back as BlackMetalgarurumon and told us that Dexter had decided to go off on his own. It turns out he was the GreenTrojanHorse all along, the black knight known as 'Alphamon' was infected by the plague Virus and the program used on him split the virus apart from him creating an entirely new Trojanhorse Digimon capable of replacing the old one. Side Note, the plague virus drains Digimon of all their stats making them extremely weak until they die from natural causes. For humans it causes them to fall incredibly ill and makes them unable to get better until they eventually perish.

At the time I couldn't tell if Reikyu was disappointed or depressed, she held no expression. However, as days went by news of horrible atrocities caused by Dexter came by. He burned villages, spread the plague infecting humans and Digimon alike, and caused so much tragedy. It started to weigh on Reikyu, as well as Tsunu. Reikyu took us both to the side and asked, 'Did I do the right thing?' Tsunu said, 'I should have chased after him! Those people turned him into something he didn't have to be! Digimon are easily influenced by people… I feel like I just abandoned him when he was at his lowest.' We all remembered how lost Dexter was, even though I figured he would eventually grow out of it. None of us expected him to do what he did.

Reikyu stood up, 'alright, I know what we must do. We need to go bring him home or… stop him.' Tsunu agreed as did I. But, at the same time I felt like we may have to kill him. If it comes to that, I was ready to destroy him and exile myself. In reality, he was indeed a liability and a danger to the world. One beyond just letting things be, I believed doru… no Alphamon was right he was not just a Digimon. He is a monster." BlackAgumon flips the pages again, skipping minor details.

"We entered Hexocliff at the bottom level with an entire army of some of the strongest we could gather. It was a race between the Rangers and the Reikyu alliance. The rangers could not all be present at the bottom of the level because to access a level one human and one Digimon had to be present in a level for it not to lock. It's how the Ereapermon became trapped below as a safeguard to stop entire groups from just walking in there. Side Note: E-Reapermon are Mega level, unidentified Digimon they are the cursed products between exodus and defeated humans/Digimon. A mega zombie slave if you think about it.

Anyway, we arrived at the bottom level at the same time as the Rangers. The Ereapermon weren't completely active, but a couple were in fighter mode. Our army collided with the Rangers to stall them while I, Tsunu and Reikyu ran into the boss room locking it from the inside." BlackAgumon begins to shake and takes deep breaths. Closing the book for a moment, "I'm sorry give me a moment. This is just… hard to read as the memories of that day come back to me."

Wizardmon takes the book and starts to continue, "We entered the room, Dexter lays defeated by the RedTrojanhorse. We aren't sure why except he was called, 'defective'. Reikyu and Tsunu jumped to his rescue. But I hesitated a moment. Something was wrong, I felt a pain burn from within me inciting a deep, familiar rage. James. I could see him; I was reliving the moment he died. I thought he was in front of me, I had a chance to fight for him again. He told me to fight, my body moved on its own. Confused, I fought harder than I ever did before, every repressed emotion poured out of me.

I saw the monster that took James away from me, I wanted to kill it. The Ereapermon that took James away was right in front of me. However, it kept calling my name with such a familiar voice. 'PAGUI! Snap out of it!' I couldn't fail James and ignored the call. Then all of a sudden, I was held down by the GreenTrojanHorsemon, it crushed me with all it's might. More Ereapermon showed up from the locked door, now broken. I digivolved into Gaiomon and fought even harder, with more rage and disdain for the monster. What he had done, the things I had seen and all that was lost.

Then a bright crest, of friendship, shined from an E-Reapermon, I could see Tsunu now as (Black)Zeedgarurumon. I was infected with the War Virus for most of that fight when I came to. The rangers had broken into the room, Reikyu was heavily injured and fading away. Dexter held me in his arms tightly and an escape portal opened. The last thing Tsunu said to me was, 'My brother, you must continue this journey on your own. Don't forget us. And Dexter, I never blamed you.' Tsunu with Reikyu holding the sword shot with every bit of data he had into the Redtrojanhorsemon. It sent the sword deep into it, making him collapse on the floor to an inactive state. This destroyed them both. The sword and crest of friendship had de-activated the war virus, all those affected in the other rooms were freed. Some of the Ereapermon reverted to their original Digimon and human forms. A lot of things remained a mystery, but the cure has something to do with the sword and the crest when it comes to the war virus."

Wizardmon closes the book and hands it to a Bakemon standing by, "Your welcome." BlackAgumon was depressed but gathered himself together at that moment.

BlackAgumon, "So, the way to help him has to do with the sword and the crest of friendship. I don't say this often, but I also hold the crest of courage. Usually our 'normal' counterparts are the ones who can make use of it but James… He was a legend. We worked hard for it. So, with me by your side I think we will be able to save your friend. I think, if your friendship is true; Anything can happen."

Diary of a Mad Green Digimon: Pt 5

I came back again diary this time I am a Green Dorugoramon. After the cultist took me to Hexocliff, I met with Bellum. They reunited me with a piece of my original data, Pestilintia. I could remember every bit of information from my original birth from exodus, up to my destruction and extraction. The leader of the cult called himself, Father. Soon I would learn, Father was no family of mine. In his eyes, I am a tool and a program.

While I was whole again with all my memories, I still felt empty. No desires, no joy or sorrow, there was nothing; I thought maybe it would change. Father was cold and uncaring as others suffered under both my and Bellum's plagues. Constantly we fought the rangers who could do little to challenge us individually, we waged war upon the world causing every human and Digimon to fight while even in a sickened phase.

At first I felt no pity or sorrow for anything, I did as I was born to do. For father. But, the more I fought every creature that fell; I remember mothers words: 'all life is precious, once it is gone there will be nothing left.' I saw digimon weaken, suffer, then die in front me. Their suffering and sputtering filled me with joy at first but then they stopped moving. Everything faded away and nothing was left. Eventually the rangers stopped showing up to try and counter us. It didn't feel good anymore, not like when I fought with tsunu and mother on the beach. The only thing I could feel was pain.

I went back to Bellum after our latest objective was done. I asked him if he felt loneliness, he said: 'I know nothing of that you describe, our objective is to carry out our design until Mors calls us back. Your time away may have altered you slightly, if you continue to feel we will fix this'.

The more time went by and the more I had done, everything was painful. Existence was painful, we live, then suffer, die and fade. Nothing to be left afterwards. I wanted to not exist anymore. I wanted nothing more than to be held and hugged by something warm. I wanted mother to hold me with a smile and tell me it's alright, someone will stop me. That she'll be there. I hope mother does not see what I have done. Can I go back home? I don't want to do this anymore; I want to go home. I hope the rangers succeed in their mission to eliminate me.

Next day,

Bellum and Father planned to finally put an end to Main City, the very center of their operations. I don't know how but he completely shut down their security. I… couldn't do it, so I sent a signal to Alphamon as silently as I could.

He found out, this may be the last time diary. He allowed me to create a final will and testament before I am reset to default. Mother, I think I understand now. Love. Lust. Desire. I wish you could hold me one more time, like you did the day I was born. Your Dexter."