They were standing on a cliff looking down at a group of tents, it was Sorami first mission as a Guardian, she stood at her father's side, and Drake, Trevor, and Daloran were with them, Daloran was a soft spoken brutal woman about 8 years older than Sorami.
"This is a group of Tainted people, they worship the Dark one Lilithmon, they like the Kurokami Brigade want to revive the dark one, so she can fulfill her dark legacy of destruction our family for generations has stopped" said Tajiri as he was looking directly at his daughter Sorami.
Tajiri Kamiya walked to the top of the hill, as additional Guardians arrived, there were hundreds of soldier's arriving. The expression never changed on Tajiri's face, as he raised his left hand into the air, and dropped it into a pointing gesture at the tent below, "down with the tainted followers of Lilithmon" he shouted loudly.
Everyone charged at the tents below the hill, except Sorami and Tajiri, she walked toward her father, Sorami tugged on Tajiri's shirt "Father, Is this necessary, maybe if we can convince them the error of their ways and how evil Lilithmon is, they might not worship her anymore?" She said looking worried, she had never taken a life before, and did it take a piece out of your spirit like people said it did. Tajiri's reaction was sudden and she didn't even see him move, she was just briskly shoved to the ground, and a bruise formed on her cheek.
"Guardians do not question their leader, these people cannot be reasoned, we have tried in the past and ended up getting stabbed in the back, you are my progeny, and daughters listen to their fathers, and solders listen to their commanders, is that clear guardian?" Tajiri said as he offers his hand to help Sorami up.
"I understand my father" said Sorami being helped up by her father, she ignored the throbbing pain in her cheek, and then she bowed to Tajiri "Sorry father I won't ever question ever again"
Tajiri ruffled Sorami's hair "No I am sorry I over reacted, this is your first mission, I should have expected questions, like I said these people are irredeemable, they are gathering energy to revive Lilithmon, and they need to be stopped at all cost, now let head down there and join the battle"
Digimon Sync Episode 29: "A Shift in Paradigm?"
The cells were dank, there was no light at all in each cell, each contained on child, most of them hollering madness into the air, except one who was huddled in a corner wordless sobbing. It was the boy nicknamed Silence, who was Huang's other younger brother, listening to the madness around him was ripping at him mentally, he wanted to go back to Scythe, and be with his other orphan friends, and maybe see his brothers, the three of them united again after what happened to their village.
"Darkness is a dessert, filled with cranberries, and Mackintosh apples, the forest is a fruity place to eat despair" shouted the girl in the cell beside Silence's, then she started to bite the cell's bars, till a little trickle of blood ran down the left side of her mouth.
-The Tunnel-
A digimon called Astamon, appeared in front of them, and made his introduction to them; he now pointed an unrealistic looking weapon in the direction Sorami and Huang, Thunderbirmon couldn't do anything the tunnel was too small for her to move, Dracomon was now high enough in level, but he and his human partner Huang still charged to challenge Astamon.
"Hellfire" said Astamon pulling the tripper of the weapon he held, a blast hit the tunnel ceiling above Thunderbirmon, and it collapsed on her, Sorami shouted no as the rocks fell on her digimon partner, and cutting off from Sorami, and she collapsed herself and started gasping for air like she buried in rock too.
"Don't worry I won't let your partner die, I was ordered to let you live all cost, my master wants you for her experiments, and she can't use you dead" Astamon said now pointing his weapon at Huang, which halted him in mid charge "Be a good boy and just surrender, you cannot compare to my level of power"
"I rather die than give up, you have my brother Keung, and I am getting him back before you do whatever you have done to drive these children insane" said Huang, his digivice reacting to each word he said, but something felt wrong about it.
"Bold words for a little child yourself, I should just kill and say it was an accident, but my master wouldn't believe it at all" said Astamon with a sinister glint in her eyes, which faded into a look of disappointment, "but she did not say you have to be in one piece to be useful in her experiments"
Despair wrapped itself around Huang, and his digivice begins to glow, both Huang and Dracomon were enveloped in black spheres, inside of them Huang was screaming like he was being ripped to shreds. When the spheres dissipated Huang had black hair, he was pale as a sheet, and beside his digimon partner was now Coredramon, but it was black as the color of Huang's hair. Huang's eyes were bloodshot; he had an insane expression on his face.
"Impressive darkness you have in you?" Astamon said taking a measure of Huang, a smirk spreading across his face "I would like to see what makes you tick" he raised his weapon into the air, but instead of pointing it Huang or Coredramon, he blasted the ceiling again bringing down rocks upon Coredramon, but he melted down and reformed as Wingdramon, Huang ignored this weird digivolution, the madness was overwhelming him, and threatening to swallow him whole.
"Stop it Huang this is wrong, I don't think it should have digivolved like that?" Sorami said, her expression finally changing from her usual dangerous expression to that of someone deeply concerned, but she was still worried about her digimon partner, but Huang was treading on similar territory of the boy named Bastion who died before they found this tunnel, whose corpse still marked its entrance above.
"Won't these people fit under the type of people the Guardian would kill, I need to kill them to reach my brother" Huang said clutching his digivice like it was trying to get away.
-Secret lab-
The one in the wolf mask, only part of their face that wasn't covered was their mouth, she was grinning at what she was seeing a monitor, "I knew this one would be a treat of a specimen, and he came right to us" Beautiful Sky said clapping in excitement "Paragon, Prepare to collect our new test subjects"
"As you command, Beautiful Sky" said the man with the scarf and shades, as he left the room, leaving the wolf masked woman alone in the secret lab.
"We need to prep that boy we found earlier, maybe since he is actually the Digidestined's brother it might work on him?" Said Beautiful Sky walking toward the cell area, where they keep all the children they have abducted locked up.
-Tunnel-
It was odd that even a digivolution going from Coredramon to Wingdramon, there was a size increase but it did not hinder him, in a tunnel not big enough to fit Thunderbirmon, Wingdramon moved with ease towards Astamon, his extra mass passing through rock like it was nothing. Astamon moved out of the huge digimon's path and fired three, which hurt Wingdramon severely but did not stop him, Wingdramon just lumbered toward Astamon with an expression of pain on its face.
Sorami wished her digimon partner was there, or at least not buried under the pile of behind them, she turned and stared back at it, she started to move away rocks with her bare hands hoping to find Thunderbirmon, it was pointless in a way this Digimon was too powerful for her partner, but she still wanted to get her back. She would never leave her Digimon partner in this way regardless of the situation.
"Darkness is the cloud reality of the mist" said Huang before breaking into insane laughter, and Wingdramon turns and molds into a Black version of Slayerdramon, and both he and Huang screamed insanely, the force of this corrupt digivolution blew open the tunnel, part of the building above started to fall into it.
Astamon began to digitize like a faulty TV, he looked at his hands "I guess my ten minutes, but I have done it will take you hours before you can get through that tunnel you just caved in, so goodbye" and he vanished.
Enraged by Astamon leaving Slayerdramon started to smash buildings; Huang has lost complete control and was ranting to himself, he was ripping his own shirt off.
Sorami climbed out of the hole, "This is not going to be good?" She said looking up at Slayerdramon, she ran over to Huang, and she slapped him hard across the face, other than a bruise forming on his cheek Huang wasn't affected at all. She slapped again and again and again, she couldn't get through to him at all, she went to do it once more but someone seized her hand before she could.
"That's not going to work that digichip I tried to tell him there was something wrong with it, now he just confirmed that the Chip he has been using is a fake, he is going insane like that girl named Tsubara, and the boy you met here named Bastion, these people whoever they are have been giving children fake digichips" Scythe said before letting go of Sorami's hand.
"Don't ever touch me again Tainted scum" Sorami said backing away from Scythe "Then what do you suggest we do"
"You find a way to get to where that tunnel leads, I will keep that busy, we need both brothers to get through to Huang, both their bond will reach him" Scythe said pointing in Slayerdramon's direction.
"Do you even have a digimon partner, how can you do what you say without one, I haven't seen you with any sort of digimon at all?" Sorami asked trying to see if she could spot anything around Scythe.
At that moment a weasel dressed in a kimono appeared, it wielded a giant bladed weapon called a scythe "This is why I renamed myself Scythe, this is my digimon partner Katarimon" the digimon she gestured to was very impressive. "Now go we have very little time to go"
Sorami agreed grudgingly, and then looked over at her digimon partner Impmon, who nodded in response, "have you recovered enough to digivolve again, we can't risk using your Thunderbirmon again the tunnels are too small for that" she said walking toward Impmon. "Digi synchronization, Friendship chip activation" and they were both enveloped in spheres, now standing beside Sorami was a birdlike girl, she wore a lightning bolt necklace, the pupils of her eyes were also lightning bolt shaped, all her feathers were white and neon blue, her tunic was emblazoned with the symbol of the digi chip of Friendship.
"Raikoumon the Lightning strike of Friendship!" Said the birdlike girl, as two crossbows appeared in her hands, where arrows should be there was flickering electricity; she wasn't as powerful as Thunderbirmon but she still packed punch. Both Raikoumon and Sorami looked down into the caved in tunnel it would take them too long to clear it out, then out of nowhere someone ran past them, it was the boy who has tackled Bastion and the one who lead them to the tunnel, they decided to follow him, he hopefully is leading them to another way into the tunnel. It wasn't far till the boy reach down and pull a steel plate from the ground, it was a hatch leading into the tunnel, and Sorami ran past the boy and entered the tunnel followed by Raikoumon.
It was the same tunnel; they must have been hoping that this entrance wouldn't have been found. Raikoumon's flickering electric eyes lit up the tunnel, making it easy for them to find the right direction to go in. The tunnel was dark dank and Sorami's each footstep echoed, which got louder the further she traveled down, Raikoumon's graceful steps made no sound what so ever it have perceived that Sorami was being followed by a feathered ghost. They traveled for some distance; the cave seemed to go on forever stretching out in one direction till it split in four different directions. They stood and stared in all directions in all four directions trying to see if any of them showed any sign of which was the right way to go and nothing stood out so far.
All of a sudden in the third tunnel, stood a figure in a cloak, that had their back turned to both Sorami and Raikoumon, her long flowing red hair going to her shoulders "This is the tunnel you seek, young Sorami but be careful danger comes from ahead of you" she said calmly, and then the figure turned into a ball of life and vanished into the tunnel roof.
"I think The Deus Ex Machina is telling us to go that way, should we trust it?" Raikoumon said still blinking at what just happened, with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
Sorami didn't answer, she just headed down the tunnel the figure had said they should take and Raikoumon followed without question, even with the warning danger ahead.
-Primary Village-
Primary village was still being destroyed by Huang's out of control digimon partner, as it was going out of control, with Huang's maniacal laughter echoing through the streets, as Scythe and her orphans rushed to rescue people from burning buildings.
"Hurry up Sorami, we are running out of time" Scythe said before running into a burning building to rescue children trapped inside, and came out with two children, and holding infant baby. They weren't going to be able to save everyone at this rate.
-Tunnel-
Sorami had reached the metallic area now, and found cells with children that were insane, she looked at each of them wondering if it was a good idea to let them out, they would never function in the world; they might as well be dead. She finished searching and couldn't find the boy that she was looking none of them looked like they were related to Huang.
"Why are we here, didn't that Scythe person say Huang's chip are being fake, if he isn't digidestined why are we bothering just kill him, that's what your father would do?" Raikoumon said looking confused at Sorami's current actions. "We do all this save him, and then what he is useless?" She continued her questioning of her human partner's Judgment.
"Because the one I gave him had to be real, somehow they must have switched it, he is still a digidestined" Sorami said like that would explain everything, and she expected it would.
"What makes him different; you left the others in the hands of the Kurokami brigade, and the only reason you are on a mission to get them back was because your father ordered you to, making your motives questionable" Raikoumon said walking around to look right in Sorami's eyes, to see what her reaction to this line of questioning would be but instead got the usual cold expression of a trained Guardian.
"The only reason I left them behind was because my father's life was more important than theirs, I would do it over and over again if they sacrifice let us get away, he is my father and my leader I love him" said Sorami with her tone cracking enough to show it was sensitive subject "I would have done the same thing to Huang if he had been there too!"
"Should we head forward or head back just to kill Huang, I think this is a waste of our time but it's your choice I'll do whatever you want" said Raikoumon leaning against the left wall of the tunnel.
Sorami looked directly into her digimon partners; she knew her partner was right, but she didn't if killing Huang was a good idea as well, who knows when the next person to receive his digi chip will happen, would they also be worse off with the next person but maybe the next person in line would actually be a hardened warrior just like her father and herself, maybe it would be Drake this time. At this moment a siren went off and a voice announced through the tunnels that a self-destruct of this complex had been initiated, making Sorami have to choose quickly.
-Primary Village-
Things were still going badly, with half the buildings either in flames or catching fire, and attempts to knock out Huang himself weren't working, he had attained through his partner's digivolution the metal skin of a dinosaur, it was shown by Echo nursing probably broken right hand.
Katarimon breathed heavily as it ceased its current barrage of attacks, whatever scratches it made in the armor of Slayerdramon was regenerated instantly, and it gave no reaction at all about being attacked in the first place, Sonic leads the other orphans in an attempt to put out the buildings that were catching fire trying to stop their spreading, something had to be done about Huang and soon or Primary village was done for. Aggs suddenly joined the fray with his digimon partner Elecmon; he tried his best to put out each fire, but his action caused villagers to return to help him.
Scythe's orphans have been living in this village since they had been rescued, and knew almost everyone living there, even if none of them knew them in return, this was their home and they weren't going to let anything happen to it, they would die to protect all of them, and they would do anything to stop Huang's rampage.
-To be continued-
Will they stop Huang's decent into madness and prevent him from destroying Primary Village, will Sorami help or kill Huang to finish her mission, to answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters!