Sorami watched as many people were massacred right in front, she couldn't make herself move, she couldn't make herself go forward, as her father screamed at her to take part in the killing of these people that worship Lilithmon. She had never killed anything in her life, and she was being asked to do it now. A person was running towards having escaped, Sorami Hesitated and tackled them to the ground, she stared down at the frightened boy about the same age as herself, he was shaking with fear, and his attire was blazoned with the crest of Lilithmon, a lot of things were going through Sorami's mind, was she willing to kill this boy for his belief but could he be redeemed?
"Good job cadet, you caught one that got away," said an enormous woman that was Daloran Taiga, she was the largest woman that Sorami had ever seen in her life "Either finish him off or join him in death, as we were instructed to eliminate everyone as they were planning to bring back Lilithmon, the evil one that will wipe all life from this land"
Tajiri appeared beside Daloran, "Don't kill him yet, not until he answers some question" he said gesturing to Sorami to get the boy to his feet, and she did what she was told, he then walked close enough to be face to face with him "What are you doing here; I noticed strange hieroglyphs all over the place?"
The boy started to mumble in a strange language, giving Tajiri a very determined expression, and spits right in his face, Tajiri ignores this completely and turns to Daloran.
"He said we are bringing back the light and the darkness the world is rotting, and it needs to be wiped clean, all you guardians will regret their transgression of the past, she will rise," said Daloran, she then licked her teeth like she had a bad taste in her mouth.
"We got what we want now kill him," said Tajiri watching his daughter like a hawk, and waiting to see what she does, would she do what she was being asked to do or let Daloran do what was needed for her for them to prevent the dark being known as Lilithmon from rising again.
Sorami let the boy go, and he went to try to run away, but she suddenly swept his feet from under him. The Boy fell loudly to the ground with a thud; she walked towards, them as he was now trying to get away crawling on his hands and knees. Through the dirt and leaves, the grass was sticking to his now mud-covered skin, she kicked him in the back, and then without hesitation kicked his head face-first into the ground snapping his neck for the death blow, Sorami turned to her father to check his expression, It was the first person she had ever killed, and all she could think was if her father was proud of her now, and Tajiri nodded with approval.
Digimon Sync Episode 30 "Celestial Rising"
The tunnel seemingly went on forever, taking a left turn, and a right turn, it was now like a wiggly line with no end in sight for Sorami, as she hopefully got to her destination before it exploded taking her with the boy she was searching for and didn't know why she was even bothering. For all logical purposes, she should have just killed Huang, then headed home in search of the real holder of the chip of hope, because the real one was out there, she needed to find instead of trying to save an imposter, her partner even questioned her about this, and she responded that this was her fault even when this conclusion was based on reasoning she could not explain.
They finally reached a long corridor filled with cells; they were filled with demented chattering of people of various ages, and none of it made sense, but what did you expect from what was probably done to them, a Digi chip connected to one inner spirit, and if they were meant to have it ripped apart their spirit along with it their sanity. Driving the person to atrocities like it did to Tsubara and then did the same to Huang bringing out both of their inner darkness. She opened each cell hoping that if someone was there, which wasn't very likely that all these insane test subjects running loose would be a distraction. After Sorami opened the last cell, she continued on.
-Huang's inner self-
It was raining, Huang was staring at Scythe filling in graves, looking rather serene for a mass murderer, even though she wasn't after, she was burying his parents, but it was Migoku that killed them not Scythe after all, but her people tortured him and his companions, but she has left that order or has she how can he trust a word that comes out of the mouth of Kurokami brigade member they are nothing but evil they worship a demon they kill innocent people. They murdered his parents, and some of his friends, but she admits not doing that, but she could be lying, a dark hand reaches from the voice and threatens to return from its prison, life is Lilithia, light is Lumina, Chaotus is chaos, hope is in the sky's hands with the Wolf's dawn. A little child version of Huang hugged his legs and screamed at the sky.
In real life Huang stopped laughing and began to scream gutturally, and was joined by his Digimon partner, who stopped destroying buildings to do so, there was agony in the sound they were making no. Scythe watched this from a safe distance; this was the break they had needed, Scythe's orphans were exhausted they had tried everything to stop Slayerdramon's destruction of Primary Village; which now half of it was in flames, despite all they had done nothing had made a dent in Slayerdramon. It was a mega-level Digimon and only she had a Digimon at the ultimate level, her orphans had only rookie-level Digimon partners, and Echo was a cursed one, and had no Digimon partner at all. Things weren't looking good for the defense of Primary Village, out of nowhere three streams of electricity struck Slayerdramon, and arriving was Elecmon with Aggs the mayor follows closely behind him, Elecmon digivolves into ShimaUnimon and continued his attacks. Mayor Aggs runs up to Scythe "I have gotten all the civilians out of the village and have returned to help out as much as I can, I will fight to my last breath to save my village!"
Huang continued to scream, till his voice gave out, and he threw up on the ground, once his stomach was empty, he just dry heaved, he was smacking his head into the puke puddle he had just made himself. Inside his mind his inner self was screaming, his eyes had no pupils, they were as white as snow. At that point Juniko was standing behind him, she walked up to the child that was Huang's inner-self and placed her hand on his shoulder, but as soon as she touched she was gone, leaving Huang to his madness, something had stopped her from helping him, maybe his madness over-written his image of her, this was his mind and maybe even his inner voices couldn't help now, the color now started to bleach from his inner-self, madness was now overwhelming completely the fake Digi chip was moments away from destroying his mind completely.
Huang just stood there drooling, his face covered in puke, as he watched the village burn, and people fighting to prevent the destruction of Primary Village, without any effect as Slayerdramon returned to smashing buildings in its relentless path of chaos.
Sorami reached the exit of the room with all the cells, she had let all the prisoners go free, she didn't care if they all got out in time before this complex exploded, in front of her now was a control room, no one was there, she looked up at all the monitors, they showed every inch of the complex and Primary Village, and some of the screens where fuzzy because the camera had been knocked out by Slayerdramon. but there was one that showed her in this room, a Flymon was sleeping in the corner with the camera pointed at Sorami, She nodded towards and Raikoumon pounced it slamming it into the wall and smashing the camera in the process, the Flymon squirmed fighting to get free from Raikoumon's grasp, but every time it almost did a surge of electricity surged through him, and he screamed in agony.
"Ok! OK! Whatever you want I'll talk please stop shocking me, I can't stand it anymore" said Flymon, whining as Raikoumon pinned it
A cruel smile creased Raikoumon's face, as she seemed tempted to shock the bug Digimon again, but let go instead, she still locked on it like it was her prey if it moved again she would punch it again, Lightning pulsed in its eyes, hoping that Flymon would try to get away again.
"I am looking for a boy that was captured by you, whoever is running the show, where have they taken this child, if you don't answer me I'll have Raikoumon cook you," said Sorami showing in her expression that she wasn't in the mood to wasting time, as the countdown siren continued to blare.
"Just go down the hallway, 25 doors down, there is where Sky does her experiments, she introduces people that have been abducted to whatever drives them insane, and after she is done all they do is spout gibberish," said Flymon, then he suddenly lashed out with an attacked, and took off, Raikoumon having deflected the attack, went to chase it only to be stopped by Sorami.
"We got what we needed from him just let him go," Sorami said ignoring the annoyance showing in the expression of Raikoumon, before entering the hallway stated by Flymon, they headed down the hallway counting doors they did, they reached the 25th door, and opened, no one was there it was filled with brooms, the flymon had lied to them about the door, time was running out, they needed to find that room with the boy and soon.
"If I ever see that flymon I'll kill it," said Raikoumon holding a ball of lightning without knowing it was doing that.
"No time for that kind of talk now, we have to deal with this situation now, we need to find this room or leave without this boy, we haven't reached the point of no return yet," Sorami said, before she suddenly stopped talking, she was listening, she looked over at Raikoumon, she nods in agreement that she could hear too, it was a someone mumbling, and around the corner was the boy that showed them the entrance to the tunnel that lead, the one that met them when they first arrived here, he was giving rapid hand gestures like he was trying to tell them where to go, the boy had to know where that room would be since he had been there himself, she followed him without hesitation.
Sonic ran up to Scythe with his Candlemon in tow behind him "Everyone is out of Primary Village, sorry I couldn't talk Aggs out of coming back" he said sheepishly like he didn't even try. "What the hell do we do now nothing we have is strong enough; I hope Sorami gets back soon"
At that moment there was a sonic boom above them, and Scythe wasn't too happy to hear it, she looked up and hair turned shade of a color that represented fear "Orphans get the heck out of he's here run for it, if it sees us together it will kill us all" she said as crater formed right in front of Slayerdramon, in the crater stood GuardiAngemon, its armor glinted in the sun's light, Scythe's orphans ran for it hoping that it didn't see them, with Scythe ducking into an alleyway. It stared at Slayerdramon, its metallic wings flapped, right before it sends a cross-shaped blast right into Slayerdramon, it howled as the explnsion hit, Slayerdramon turned to go around to continue its path of destruction, but GuardiAngemon was in front of it again, hitting it with another cross-shaped blast, this Slayerdramon was angry, it accelerated toward GuardiAngemon, but was dodged. GuardiAngemon was preventing Slayerdramon from doing more damage as it focused on him and not the village.
Secret Lab-
As Sorami was heading down a corridor of doors now; she was trying to listen to anything and so was her Digimon partner Raikoumon, there was nothing, she needed to hurry who knows what damage Huang has done in his deadly rampage through Primary village, all the doors looked exactly the same, thoughts raced through her mind, until she heard something, it was muffled whining noise, it was coming from several doors ahead of them, she pointed at Raikoumon, who took a position on one side of the door, and she took position on the other side, She picked in the doors glass window, there was boy strapped to a table, beside it was a person, from the body shape it was woman, she wore a wolf mask that resembled the one that Digimon that had attacked them earlier and then took off even if it had the upper hand on them at the time.
"Come on little girl, enter I am not getting any younger!" said the wolf-masked person, as she gestured towards the door, Sorami hesitated then entered the room followed by Raikoumon, who was gritting her teeth, and glaring at the wolf-masked woman with her lightning bolt electric eyes. There was something familiar about the voicelike her brain was in a fog.
The room was bigger than it appeared from when she was looking through the window of the door she just came through, it was a rather large laboratory, with wall-to-wall vials of various stuff and specimen jars, some of them contained Digimon body parts, it was confusing to see them in jars when Digimon die they dissolve meaning the Digimon they belonged to were still alive, which made Sorami feel somewhat sick in the stomach.
"I am Celestine, and I was hoping that the self-destruct alarm would have made you make a better judgment and left and not come back, I guess I was wrong, I'll be leaving you before this place goes up in flames," said the wolf masked woman, as she was turning to leave "I would hurry up and leave and take the boy I'll find more to experiment on"
"Now you are coming with me to answer for your crimes against Humanity and digivolution for you are guilty and should be sentenced to death, and as a Guardian, please don't make me fulfill that punishment now if you resist," said Sorami walking towards the Woman with the wolf mask, she stopped when she heard the woman chuckle. "What is funny?"
"Do you think I am here alone?" said Celestine before a purple explosion happened beside Sorami, and out of it came Astamon, his weapons were pointed directly at Sorami's head, and it also dropped a D-saber to the ground, showing it had down its entire vitamin content, to digivolve to this form.
"What should I do with little miss Nosey here?" said Astamon with a smile of anticipating on his face, before Raikoumon entered the room, and stepped in between him and Astamon "A very cocky champion thinks she can take on an ultimate huh?"
"Yes very much so dog face, this time I am not stuck in a tunnel in my ultimate form, "said Raikoumon through gritted teeth" She leveled her weapons on Astamon and started firing away, only to have to dodge his returning weapons, with Sorami charging at Celestine, who dodged her rapid punches, no one had ever dodged her before outside of the guardians, both Astamon and Raikoumon as they fought through the ceiling and several layers of cement, and dirt, to continue fighting in the sky, the sun was setting in the distance, they landed each on the other side of the hole they just created. They were now on the outskirts of Primary village; in the distance not too far away they could see GuardiAngemon and Slayerdramon fighting.
Sorami was knocked on her butt by Celestine in a maneuver that was so familiar, she got up "Who the hell are you?" she said getting back to her feet "You fight like a Guardian, but no one has an Astamon as far as I know, I find out who you are, take off that mask" she ran up and tried to take the mask off but she dodged in every attempt before she was knocked down again.
"I rather not little brat," said Celestine, she laughed mockingly, but out of nowhere the mask shattered, its remnants sliding off her face, leaving half her face exposed, with the top half of the mask still intact.
"Donica, I am surprised it was you," said a voice behind Sorami, and standing there was Tajiri Kamiya; who was now holding part of the shattered mask and was clearly upset..
Donica removed the rest of the wolf's mask, her face was twisted in rage, and she pulled something out of her pocket, it looked like some kind of remote but it only had one button on it, she pressed it a door opened, she dove inside "I suggest you run" she pressed a another button in the other room, explosion started rocking the lab, Sorami ran over the restrain boy, but she watched as the door Donica had went into closed.
Outside Astamon and Raikoumon, were fighting, even though Astamon was playing around since it wasn't doing any of its attacks, and shoot, Raikoumon stopped when she heard an explosion "I think my job is done" said Astamon before vanishing as he did before, leaving Raikoumon fuming because he got away. She remembered the explosion and ran off to see what was going on; she jumped down the hole she had made with Astamon. And an enormous explosion rocked the landscape, and Raikoumon jumped out of the hole, she was holding Tajiri, Sorami, and the boy, they were all safe and sound as flames shot out of the hole.
"What are you doi9ng here father, you should be in bed recovering from being tortured by the Kurokami brigade," Sorami asked with a look of confusion replacing her usually calm expression, she almost seemed like a normal teenager at that moment.
No time for that now, we need to get that boy to his brother" Tajiri answered taking the boy they had rescued and running back toward the village, as Huang began to scream once again, he was on the verge of losing it completely. The Siblings Leung and Keung reunited in front of their brother Huang, "snap out of it, big brother!" Leung shouted at his brother, while Keung didn't say anything he just stared at his brother before he called out too.
"You are both dead, I saw you buried," said Huang screaming, tears flowing down his cheeks, Go away you are tormenting me ghosts"
Keung and Leung ran up to their brother and embraced him, both hugging their brother "We are not ghosts, we missed you so much, we thought you were dead!"
"Alive!" said Huang, taking his two brothers in a tight embrace, he started a smile of happiness and hope crossed his face.
"No" screamed Slayerdramon as the shadows that had formed left, leaving Babydmon floating, but he shattered too, and formed a Digi egg, that hovered towards Huang, and landed beside Huang and his siblings feet, Huang let go of his brothers "Noooooooooo!" he said grabbing the Digi egg and picked it off the ground "what have I done to you?" He cradled the egg in his lap, trying to keep the tears from renewing their flow on his face.
"He will be OK," said Tajiri as he walked over to Huang, and placed his hand on the Digi egg "he was too drained to take on any form, he will hatch and you will have your Digimon partner as good as new, now celebrate you are with family again" he said now ruffling the hair of both Leung and Keung. "Let's get back to the sanctum, your family is welcome, but we have some important matters to discuss"
They didn't see Scythe and the rest of her orphans slipping away in the crowd of people that had come out to thank them for saving Primary Village, they were returning after they noticed Slayerdramon was no longer there, this included Mayor Aggs; and it was crowd relieved that it was all over, Tajiri, Sorami, and a reluctant Huang shook everyone's hands as they were leaving the village.
"We need to get your real Digi chip back, I am guessing it was Donica who replaced it while at the Guardian sanctum, and replaced it with the one that drove you insane," said Tajiri as he turned to face Huang, who was still stroking his Digi egg.
Hoping someday he and his Digimon partner will be reunited, and this time things will be different.
-To Be Continued-
Will Huang and Babydmon will ever be reunited, and will he get his real Digi chip, to answer these questions, and more, please tune into the next Digimon digital monsters
