Erebosmon stood furious, as Temujin was dragged in, by his fellow Digidestined, he glared harder, as they threw him down in front of him. "I distinctly said, don't destroy the mirror, yes, don't destroy the mirror, not destroy the mirror, I'm very particular with my words, Don't, Do, Don't, Do, do those sound the same?" He said, before grabbing one of the other one of his digidestined, at the same time picking up one of the obsidian blades and started driving it into them, while seething like a rabid dog. That person's Digi chip went to leave, but Erebosmon dropped the now dead person, and pulled the chip to him "We need a new digidestined"
Temujin started laughing while clutching his head, "You said destroy it, " he said, in-between laughs.
"I said don't destroy it" Erebosmon said, as the mask on the digidestined peeled back, revealing a girl with pink hair, olive complexion, who he picked up and chucked out a window, smoke still pouring from her eyes. Her digimon partner, he kicked out the window too, before it vanished.
"Yes, you did, but also said destroy it, then I lost control" Temujin said, briefly stopping in his laugher.
No, he did not, I was there watching from a distance, but a weird looking bat distracted me for a moment, but the father did not say anytime to destroy the mirror" Nyxdramon shouted, as she stops fiddling with her bangs, her shiny feather looking hair. She flushed crimson with rage, at the implications that Temujin was suggesting. She glared at him when he seemingly was ignoring her and continued to laugh insanely "Can I kill this one, he is disrespecting you, father?"
Erebosmon let out an audible sigh, at the current situation "No, not this time, but he will be severely punished before he goes on another mission against Lilithmon's chosen, he has to learn how to follow instruction" he said rubbing his temple in deep thought. "The digidestined are still on the run, that archive of theirs still gives off digital vibration, even though it takes us longer to pinpoint them than if they traveled by the mirrors, we need to find a way to track them faster, soon as they are dealt with the sooner we can go forward with making my family watch as everything they created get twisted and warped right before their eyes. They must suffer far worse than I had suffered"
"As you wish, father" Nyxdramon said, as she bowed to Erebosmon "Take the chosen of chaos, and make him regret not listening to his honored creator" she watched as Temujin was dragged off still laughing loudly. Once she left with a still laughing Temujin, Erebosmon went back to his chair, near the obsidian mirror, and sat down, he held the digichip of enmity.
"I know someone that can upgrade that for you, " said a mysterious voice, a little shadow in the corner of the room.
"Do what you want, " said Erebosmon, nonchalantly tossing the digichip to the little shadow, and it left with it.
Moments later Karone returned, didn't ask where the other chip went to, she had another one in her hands, "I have brought the new digichip you created and its new chosen" a girl with a bag over her head was thrown to the ground at Erebosmon's feet "She will be the impurity virtued digidestined" the girl struggled, as the chip was forced, dark slime secreted from her neck, made its way to her face.
Digimon Sync 02 episode 8 "The Situation"
Juniko stood in a desolate wasteland, how she got there she didn't know, there was no light, everything was encased in the chaos, darkness, she had a hard time making out what was around her. She now wondered when the sentinels would descend upon ending her life as she knew it making her one of things, a part of her even wonder if that was even a bad thing. Out of nowhere something materialized, she walked towards it, till she could make out what it was, it was a door, she walked around it, then hesitated and turning the knob, and walked through it. Inside it was a bedroom, but just not any, it was her bedroom, from when she lived in Digitopia. Around her she could hear voices, she could only make out one, which was Lorrimon, the others were muddled beyond recognition. Reality seemed to fast forward around like something was preventing her from seeing everything. When it stopped, she looked around, she caught sight of Coronamon, who was walking up to the place, she used to call home, but it was a charred skeleton of its former self, that's when he turned to face Juniko, baring his teeth in a snarl, that's when she looked down.
She screamed as she woke up in bed, she was covered in sweat, the bed was drenched in her perspiration, she rubbed her eyes until she woke completely she had a vague memory of what she had just dreamed, but the horrible sense of dread was still with her, she was now crying but not knowing what she was crying about. She showered and got ready for the meeting with her fellow digidestined, Vergil had insisted on this meeting after the incident at Arukeni village, which had been a week ago, but it was still fresh on her mind, seeing the people that hadn't gotten to the archive in time torn apart by Sentinels. Once ready, she exited her room, only to have something hit her in the face, it juices making its way down to her chin and dripping off, it had been a tomato, she smelled it.
"Down with Lilithmon, the destroyer of life!" The Attacker shouted before taking off, only to trip over something, which ended up being a leg, now they were being pummeled by something that looked like a flower garden explosion, Juniko once she cleared her vision recognized the flower print attire of Enna Kamiya.
"Now apologize to your creator, how dare you disrespect the great old one of life" Enna shouted, as platinum, white hair flying around, as she pummeled the person, who had thrown the tomato at Juniko, her freckled bridge of her nose, flushed red with anger, when she noticed Juniko was watching, she looked up and smiled sweetly, unintentionally letting the attack go, she went to chase him, but Juniko stepped in the way letting him get away. "Vergil sent me to find you, the meeting was starting in 10 minutes, He didn't know if you were awake yet, " she was still kind of awkward around Juniko, as she was still reincarnation of the Great old one she still worshipped. Because she hadn't been around when Lilithmon had done the atrocities, she was best known for, and Enna like the rest of the time displaced citizens of vale of Lilithia, refuse to believe any of it at all, even with a mountain of evidence to prove it, shown by the glint in her eyes every time, she saw her.
"Nice to see you again Enna, the angriest sweet girl I have ever met" Juniko said, stifling a laugh, Enna wasn't like any Kamiya, she had ever met, who were usually cold collected and calm, which Enna wasn't at all, smiling and sweet wasn't a Kamiya trait either as far as she has known from the previous one's aka Sorami and Tajiri. But Enna's positive propensities were actually starting to infect Sorami and the way she acted, who was starting to act like her now adopted technically older younger sister.
"I insist to escort you to the meeting auditorium, I really insist" Enna said, still smiling as she pulled a napkin out of her pocket, and wiped the tomato juices off Juniko's face, ignoring her whispered protests. Juniko sighed and let herself be escorted, knowing Enna would just do it anyways regardless of her saying no, it was pointless arguing with a Kamiya, that was one thing she had in coming with the rest of her family. On the way, there, they passed through where the refugees that had lost their homes, including those of Arukeni, which was a sad reminder of her failing to prevent the breaking of the travel mirror in that village. They passed pass a girl, something about her, drew her attention, other than the face, she was crying, and alone for someone her age, clutching a small purple digimon, which looked like a Patamon.
"She has been out here since, what happened in Arukeni Village, everyone has tried to find her family, but so far no luck" Enna said, once she noticed where Juniko was looking. She sighed and walked up to the girl, hugged her, letting her cry into her shoulder. "Come on Zoriu, we will find them, please don't cry" while Juniko continued toward the meeting with Enna running to catch up with her a few minutes later. "She is not the only that can't find their family, there's a village worth of people in this archive, my big sis Sorami is having a hard time maintaining this place with Vergil"
"Yeah of the meeting is going to be discussing how to get enough supplies to feed this influx of people, we can't feed past them three months with what we have, maybe four or five if we ration out stuff, but that's pushing it and people's health" Juniko said, showing the bags under her eyes from all the stress she had been going, from this and not sleeping, from the dreams she has not been telling anyone about. She did not want to worry everyone by telling them about it, until she was sure what they were about and what was causing them, her fellow digidestined had enough on their plate without dealing with her problems too. She watched as Split off from her, as soon as the door to the meeting was visible, she entered, to see Virgil and the others were already there and talking. They all greet her, and Huang offered a chair, at the table.
"We are here to talk about matters of importance, stuff we need to deal with as soon as possible, including digidestined business" Virgil said, as a big screen folded down from the ceiling. It showed a topical graphical map of the world, color coated to show how much of the world was coated in darkness, and the population of sentinels that possibly resided there. Those spots that weren't covered in it, were areas where it was protected by the travel mirrors still and the annulment stones. "We will start by trying to find a kingdom to set up a refugee camp, we can't house all these people or find out what place some of them were dragged from by Arukenimon"
Dokunemon looked downcast, as the ghost of Arukenimon, she had dragged innocent people and turned them into undead mummy creatures "I am so sorry, I forgave them, but still I came back seeking vengeance" she said, as she tried to cover her face with mandibles that were too short.
"Let me clear this up, you were too forgiving, a part of you knew that you weren't at fault, they did stuff to you, they killed your family, and you let them walk for it" Sakura said, standing up giving her digimon partner an intense look. "If I had your powers when I had been persecuted as a curious one, I would have punished them all, " she said absent-mindedly rubbing the scar on her nose.
"As painful pasts are, we should not dwell on them, I know how you guys feel, I have a dark past of my own, I have told you all what happened to me" Huang said, a sympathetic expression creasing his furrowed brow. "But I let it go, killing those that have wronged you, makes you as bad as they are"
"I know, I know, but it doesn't make it easier thinking about it, and how they wronged me, both of us, even though a different set of people with the same set of prejudices, they were the true monsters of the story" Sakura said, as she scratched the scales under Dokunemon's left antennae.
"Let's go back on track, this Segway has sidetracked us, over 70 percent of the world is covered in Erebosmon corrosive chaotic darkness, and the only thing that could stop him is the crest of light, finding a new wielder, it's also the only way to repair the damage Tajiri has done to it" Vergil said, gesturing for Juniko to bring it out. She reached into her pocket and handed him the cracked Digi chip, at this point it started screaming, and nearly flew away from him, he caught, he clutched it hard but not too hard, causing more damage. "As you remember Digi chips are living things, also known as crests, this one is in a lot of pain, so far no luck in finding someone to heal it"
"Maybe one of the refugees could be the one?" Leoben asked, finally speaking up, he was a boy of few words, since he became a digidestined, his partner Candlemon dig most of the talking for him most of the time.
"If this person was in proximity, shouldn't the chip be calling out to them, like it did for us, that's what happened to me, it summoned me to it" Huang chimed In, interrupting Leoben. "But mine was kind of handed to me by Sorami, but I always felt its call to me, even though I didn't know what was happening thinking back on it, that should have been obvious" right when he finished his sentence the room went red, an area on the map lit up like a firework, and all the archive tablets went full on static, within it was a silhouette, of a person in a hood, standing in front of a symbol that looked like a broken heart. Their voice was distorted, and the image seemed to react to them talking, like their voice was breaking the signal.
"Digidestined, we are the Lorrigan, you for some time have been sheltering a monster known as Lilithmon, hand her over, to answer for her crimes, To Lilithmon Surrender yourself now or everyone you care about, will suffer, don't make us have to make you come to us" The person said on the screen said, before all screens in the room went blank, turning black. And a piece of paper printed out a weird document.
"What the heck was that?" Sakura said, right eyebrow raised in confusion, "If we had enough problems already"
"Good question" Juniko said, blinking, at the now blank screen.
"I was afraid something like this would happen, Anti-Lilithmon sentiment has been at a long time high, with surviving cities blaming you for the current state of the world, they don't know what exactly is going on and they blame her for it, and Juniko as a proxy since she is the reincarnation" Vergil said, before sighing out loud, walking up and plucking the document that had been printed.
"Should go to them, taking their threat seriously?" Huang said, speaking up, on the situation. "WE can't follow up on all threats, because we already have to deal with the Erebosmon's Ouroboros Knights and his dark digidestined, do we put the same weight on Shine Brigade too?"
"These people sent a message directly here, the technology to do such was supposedly long gone by thousands of years, I think we should take very seriously" Vergil said, as he watched the video again like he was looking for something, that wasn't obvious to anyone else.
"But they want us to hand over Juniko, we are definitely, not going to do that, for any reason at all, she is important, her life is part of this world, I'll protect her with my life" Huang said, standing up, looking unnecessarily threateningly at Vergil.
"I am not even suggesting that, but we need to see if we can talk them down, or even see if one of them is who we seek, the wielder of the chip of light, which is our current mission" Juniko said, producing the damaged Digi chip of light. "Let's go find them before they became any an issue"
"What if those people are more of Erebosmon's dark digidestined?" Sakura asked, feeling she had to bring it up, " Leoben, do you think that could be a possibility too"
Leoben started scratching his chin absent-mindedly, trying to think, "anything could be possible, but they didn't sound like the crazy that those whack jobs did, we could be very careful about this just in case they are" ignoring the expression Sakura was giving him, being oblivious as he usually was.
"Everything seems to be going in circles, we need to do something about things before it all overwhelms us, so far our problems are just getting worse minute by minute, even second by second possibly even missing members of our team" Juniko said, before taking a deep breath.
"What else could go" Sakura said, with a hint of sarcasm in her tone, throwing hands in the air, in a quoting mark gesture. "WE have no idea what to deal with first, finding your boyfriend, dealing with our refuge issue, these vigilantes that want your head, or the end of the life as we know it, oh yeah the damaged digi chip of light, is that the circle you are talking about"
"Sakura, you aren't helping, you are new to being a digidestined, and this situation is too much for all of us, probably more so for you" Virgil said, whatever we deal with first, we better figure it out soon, arguing about will get us nowhere, but I think…" he was interrupted by all the lights in the room going red, and the console started making a siren noise.
"We are being pulled somewhere, is this somehow the Lorrigan or someone, they are bringing us to them to kill us all" Sakura said, clearly in a panic.
"Sakura, you are not helping again, is there no filter for your thought?" Virgil said, once again getting annoyed, with the stuff that sometimes, came out of Sakura's mouth, when she is in distress.
"Sorry I tend to babble when I am confused, and nervous" Sakura said, shrinking away from Virgil, and averting her gaze.
Leoben placed his hand on Sakura's shoulder "Whatever this can be, we will just face it like how we did, we were orphans on the streets, how we dealt with those who mistreated you as a cursed one" he said, turning her to face him.
And the static returned on every screen in the room it was different this time, it wasn't a voice like the Lorrigan threat, but displaying the words WE FOUND YOU! It repeatedly scrolled across the screen over and over. There was another shake of the archive, but this time no explosion, it was like someone was pulling it backwards, yet another shake as it seemed to impact something.
"The front door is opening, how the heck are they doing this, and who is doing this" Virgil said, running from the room, followed by the rest of the digidestined. They go to the door as it opened, standing at the door was a lot of people cloaked in the shadow of the archives massive opening door, the darkness started to recede, from the mass of strangers.
-To be continued-
Who are these people and what are their motives, To Answer questions, and More, Please tune into the next Digimon Digital Monsters.