Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Bloodline: Descendents of the Digidestined ❯ "Digimon in Group Therapy" or "Run, Lily, Run!!" ( Chapter 12 )

Bloodline: Descendents of the Digidestined

Chapter 12: "Digimon in Group Therapy," or "Run, Lily, Run!!"

Prologue: Sakiko recounts, "Last time, Lily finally returned from the future with the others. Among the police to arrive as well was Yuuji's father, Kai Seki, and he was not happy. Afterwards, things seemed to start to calm down as almost everyone was finally able to clear out of Lewis' house. Things began to so south though when Lewis and Yolei found Miyako in a deep depression, looming still over the loss of Jou. Figuring it to be the best, the two had her institutionalized in order to get her the help she needed. This was just a forbearer to the real event, the creation of Yuumei Omnimon, a monstrous Omega digimon, claiming to be a Dark Paladin. News also spread out that Thanatomon now controlled Malachimon. After a short conservation about individuality and the quirks of an individual, Lily stormed out, Lewis blew up a frying pan, and then it started, Yuumei Omnimon attacked. Bonnie tried to warn the world of his power, but most scoffed her claims, even Mimi. Taichi though listened, and orchestrated the heist of his Power Nexus from a maximum security vault the three decided to lock them away in for all time as we fought the Dark Paladin, who seemed to have a weakness for Lunar and Gravity elemental attacks. Maybe it was karma that we even survived as long as we did, but as all this happened, Lily tried to seek out what made her tick, and some answers. She managed to get a few from the Holy Beasts and from Laomon. During our battle, Taichi arrived in time to summon forth Avalonmon, but even he fell to Yuumei Omnimon. It was only after Lily arrived did we finally stop him and force a retreat. Taichi succumbed to nearly deadly exhaustion, and we had to rush him to a hospital, which just happened to have the world's most incompetent nurse working the triage desk. Jun finally clobbered her and we made it just in time. Yeah, things did seem a little silly, now that I think about it, but sometimes, that's how life plays out. Boy, did everyone peeve the cops last time or what? I run a Yakuza syndicate, and I got a smaller rap sheet…"

"Emotions. Everyone knows them, save maybe Andromon, but otherwise, we all know love, fear, pride, happiness, lamentation…, and rage. Why is rage looked upon with an evil eye, while most other expressions are viewed in such amiable light? In some cases, rage has its place, especially in my life."

January 30th, 2046: Attorneymon slumbers away in his chambers, thinking. "I know that place existed at one time. If I could just find the ruins… Wait… The memories of Wicked Lilymon… She lived in a place that had an ancient court that used karma to judge you, and that technology doesn't even exist now. That's it!! I found you!!" He wakes up and turns to a console. "Prepare a special meeting."

Lewis wakes up. Lilymon mumbles in her sleep with a sociopathic glee, "Burn it all!! Nuke the rainforests, I don't care anymore!!" Lewis thinks, "Everything lately is going all topsy-turvy, and for once, I don't quite understand what is going on. So many curves, so many changes. Always we must wait for him to make a move, but that kind of defensive acting gets living things hurt, as it did with Fort Wick. I must make sense of it all, but my life is so consuming. To find my answers, I must leave the life of Lewis Wick behind for a while." He gets up. "I'll leave a note to her, to let know what I'm doing." He writes a note and leaves it on the dresser. He walks down, pulls out a cellular phone charger and corresponding phone, takes a key, and goes into his master bath, and locks the door.

Inside, he stares around the room and moves to an empty area of the room. "Now, there is no way anything can disturb me except any biological needs." He sits down, and begins what appears to be deep meditation.

In the conference room of Dominion HQ, Attorneymon sits waiting as groggy council members convene in their nightwear. Rina goes, "This better be good. I was having a good dream." Attorneymon goes, "Alas, I had an even better one." Thanatomon goes, "You mean you woke us all just for a dream?!" Attorneymon goes, "Well, this pertains to a very real event. Little does our old colleague Laomon know it, but her hometown in fact sits on the eastern edge of old Atlantis." Jormungamon asks, "How do you know that it is the eastern edge?" Attorneymon goes, "A long time ago, like any civilization, they made their maps of their town and such, and one such map resided in the mind of the old fool Gennai, but he, like others who still had the ancient maps, did not know where the city was. I too, learned the map as I killed him, but the location was unknown to me, but then I remember when I was draining the memories of the then Wicked Lilymon, that her town had a courthouse which possessed a computer judge that used karma as its means of punishment. Such technology doesn't exist now, which means it only could have been from the Atlantean Era. At first I thought it chance, but it coincides with the map, for at the same spot was the East Atlantic Court & Customs, and another mile to the east is a digiport to the Bimini islands, which was where the original portal led in the stories." Neo Spheremon goes, "You sure? If you're right, shouldn't someone have noticed some ruins by now?" Attorneymon answers, "I don't believe you are familiar with the stories. See, after the end of the Atlantean Era, the Nexus Wars began, and the fighting caused mass destruction, as well as some polar melting, causing the ocean levels to rise and submerge the lowlands. The city itself at the time sat in a valley at the time was 470 feet below sea level. Sea levels rose over 2000 feet. The location where Gabriel's Fjord is located now was actually a smooth mesa back then. Enough about geography though. If we're lucky, we should find plenty to help us in our campaign, and at the least, a huge store of Obsidium and Malevicite, but then you got those Digidestined kids. This means we can't move in on the site directly or otherwise we would have to invade Gabriel's Fjord, and arouse their attention, and there still is a chance of undersea digimon spotting us, so I have a plan already in mind. As you know, a little `incident' happened northwest of the city proper, wiping out the forest on an island and on a mainland coast there. Rina, I want you to head this up." Rina goes, "Yay, I do something!!" Attorneymon goes, "Yes. I need you to act as an urban developer. As we speak, we are acquiring franchise licenses from many major corporations, and since Lance signed over proxy power to us when he joined in case of his disappearance or demise, and no one has seen him, we are trying to establish a deal with the Board and the shareholders to build a new office in Gabriel's Fjord, and so far, it looks like there will be a new Kobyashi Maru office in Gabriel's Fjord, but this will just be a cover for our real operation. In this manner, we can operate without drawing any unwanted attention, not to mention add thousands more unknowing employees to our staff. Now, Rina, I've already scheduled a meeting with the mayor for you. I've already had some money drawn up, and tell him you and your associates will pay for everything, the city will not have to pay a single dime from the municipal coffers. When he agrees, and I know he will, we will send out crews to begin work around the city and on the island, and an additional group, who will move in with the others, and begin recovery at the site. Inform me when you find anything of importance. Meeting adjourned." Everyone leaves except Thanatomon. "I see why Obliviomon entrusted you with this task. You are truly a mon of action." Attorneymon goes, "Yes. We cannot afford defeats now." Thanatomon goes, "Attorneymon, what of the military campaign?" Attorneymon answers, "We will act with discretion. The invasion of villages and small towns will keep them on edge, but we will continue on. By next week's end, I plan for a multi-wave strike on Europe and other places, starting with France." Thanatomon snickers.

Over two weeks later, on February 17th… A Divermon and a Black Tailmon & Golemon in hefty pneumatic diving armor (HPDA's) move some debris underwater to find a computer, and as they approach, it boots up. Black Tailmon, "Oh crap, we hit the jackpot." Divermon, "Well, here's a big bonus for us." Another team west of them made of a Deathmon, Vulcanmon, and a Tsukaimon all in HPDA's call out, "Looks like we'll be splitting that bonus. We just busted through to the university lab!!" The first team says, "Well, we got one of the computers here online, but some of this we can't read. It must be an earlier form of digital text. Let's report this." In Rina's trailer, where she had living since the whole operation began, she is surprised by the transmission while she is laying out street plans. "Commander, we've found something you'd like to see…" Rina goes, "What is it? Can't you see I'm busy. We got a cover we have to keep." Black Tailmon says, "We found a fully functioning computer down here, though we can't decipher what some of these characters are. We think it may be an earlier version of digital text. Also, the Tsukai group has found the lab next to the University of Atlantis." Rina grins. "Splendid."

At the same time, Attorneymon calls out, "Go." From a digiport in eastern Spain, troops pour out in the middle of the night, around 8 PM, in a Blitzkrieg style rush, and generated ports appear over France, western Germany, and the Rhein Isle. They spread fast, like locusts, and overwhelmed the military of France and Spain. Before midnight had passed, they had taken most of Spain, all of France, and everything that made up former West Germany. "That went quicker than expected." Dimentiamon explains, "Well, it was to be expected in an area of the world known for its military blunders and de-militarization. Look at the Maginot Line!! Also, since WWII, militaries have just been shrinking in this part of the world because the European Union made a need for such a military almost obsolete, but I think the biggest factor was that they just finished rebuilding from all the mayhem done in 2004 only seven years ago and their economic reserves are tapped out, forcing downsizing in government-ran organizations, but most of all, French people are wussies. It's a wonder they lasted this long!!" Attorneymon goes, "Your knowledge of European social studies impresses me, but you forget such great military leaders such as Charlemagne, Napoleon, and DuGaulle." Dimentiamon goes, "Yeah, but that was back in the day when France was cool, and DuGaulle doesn't count since he couldn't break the military's reliance of the Maginot Line. I got two syllables why this is so; Blitzkrieg!!" Attorneymon smirks, "Oh look… We just did a blitzkrieg." Megalomamemon runs up. "The invasion of this area is complete. Should we continue?" Attorneymon goes, "No. Let's hold what we got. Anytime now we should be expecting some NATO or UN cannon-fodder `peacekeeping' mission to come out here, and I don't want the lines spread too thin." He turns to Thanatomon. "See, Malachimon, this is how you invade a continent. You had the firepower, the manpower, and even the intelligence to do this, but you are too soft." Megalomamemon asks, "Say, if we just did a blitzkrieg, does that mean we're German now?" Attorneymon slaps his forehead. "Leave now, before I am forced to hurt you." He then speaks to himself, "Is it just me, or has the general intelligence quotient over the last million years plummeted?" A Gazimon runs in. "Sir, we just got a report from Rina of something big in the bay." Attorneymon goes, "Well, tell me?" The Gazimon answers, "Rina wants to tell you herself." On a screen, Rina's face pops up. Attorneymon, "So?" Rina goes, "Well, two of our crews have found crucial data. One crew has found an ancient lab belonging to the nearby university almost completely intact like the day it was built, and another found a fully functioning computer still hardwired into its network. Once we translate some of the data, we will be able to extract the data." Attorneymon says, "Good. I'll be there personally within the hour." Rina says, "Personally?" Attorneymon comments, "How else can we translate it?" Rina goes, "If you say so." The screen goes off. "Dimentiamon, you can look after things here. I'm off." He vanishes in a flash.

In the Digital World, a familiar voice goes, "You got that?" The chair spins around and there sits Neko Lilymon with headphones on. She nods to Safiirumon. She says, "It seems they found something big, and he's going there to act as some sort of translator. Does it have to do with that whole Atlantis thing?" Lance goes, "I think it does. We're lucky to know this much. The fool must have not figured out that one of Malachimon's last orders was to have everything bugged. He's so enthralled in his actions it must not cross his mind." Siva Lilymon sits there pouting. "Why does she get to listen in on everything? Why can't she go and search like I have for the last month?" Safiirumon goes, "Because her ears are the only ones sensitive enough to pick up the transmissions." Siva Lilymon goes, "Well, why don't you turn them up?" Safiirumon, "If we did, they would emit a feedback pulse they could detect, and we would be exposed." Siva Lilymon says, "I never get the good jobs." Safiirumon answers, "Well, right now you're needed on the search crews since you can weather this recent cold snap better than we can." Siva Lilymon goes, "I think you're biased. Ever since we left the station, I've been the guard, the pack mule, the fetcher of food and water, and the `frigid' one always told to sleep outside by the one that I'm looking for!! My life has become a living hell!!" Safiirumon goes, "Hey, calm down!! We're doing what we must!! Stop over dramatizing this!! It's not anyone's fault that Vulcan Lilymon got separated from us, or that Attorneymon is an evil asshole, well except maybe Attorneymon, but still, it is no reason to bite our heads off!! Now, I think you need to calm down. Return to your search." Siva Lilymon angrily says, "Okay then…" Just outside, Tomoemon asks Raijin Lilymon, "Have those two always fought like this?" Her answer, "Well, no, they haven't, but until now she's had other things to be mad at. As long as I've known her, she's been snooty, stubborn, and self-centered." Tomoemon responds, "How ironic." From behind them is a rustle of bushes. Raijin yells, "Who's there?" Tomoemon goes, "It looks like Stefan, but he's carrying some sort of audio surveillance dish. Why? He knows he's welcome here." Tomoemon goes, "Could he be a double agent?" Raijin Lilymon goes, "I don't know. Ever since Christmas he's been reclusive." All of a sudden, he drops the dish, and gestures, a white glow around him. A flash goes off, and for a moment, the two are blind. When their sight returned, he was gone. Tomoemon goes, "What was that?" Raijin Lilymon goes, "I want to say a flashbang, but he didn't have anything in his hands." Tomoemon goes, "Wait… If it was a flashbang, wouldn't the others have noticed the flash by now?"

Out in the middle of the forest, Vulcan Lilymon and Tamiko still hold each other as they slowly wander forth. Tamiko goes, "You know, I at first doubted it, but now I know you have no idea where we are. We're lost. It's as cut and dry as that. Say, why haven't you healed yet? You plant types are supposed to heal real fast." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Well, if you haven't forgotten, I'm also part fire, and the two don't mix well. Because of this, I can re-grow limbs, but I only heal as fast as a human, which means it'll be a few more weeks before I'm in any condition to fly or have full use of my arms, and I know where I am, thank you very much!!" Tamiko goes, "Sure you do. I swear we've been roaming this forest for over a month, and for the life of me, we have yet to see any sign of civilization. It's improbable to hike what I figure to be over 400 miles and not encounter another sentient life form, yet here we are. I hope you're happy. You've led us to the middle of nowhere." Vulcan Lilymon remarks, "Well, it's partly your fault too, Mr. `Back Seat Driver!!' Just about every time we came to a dead end or obstacle, I listened to you!! I still think we should went right at that lake." Tamiko goes, "If I could walk on my own, I'd have left you a long time ago, and probably be back at the base…" He stops suddenly. "Say, why don't you just burn this damn forest to the ground?" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "The smoke and fire would kill you. That's why I had to go back and pull you out in the first place." Tamiko goes, "Oh, let's rest. Those pains are in my leg again."

Attorneymon enters the city discreetly. "Strange… Why is there a statue of one of Lance's cronies in the center of town? Who cares? Small town people are weird." He sees Laomon's house in the distance. "Talk about a dump. There's a hole through the wall, and the owner… Wait a second. Isn't that… I'll be damned. Looks like I'll need to call in an assassin." He arrives at Rina's construction trailer. "Rina?" She calls, "Over here." She was putting on a HPDA. Rina comments, "I'm going to show you personally. I already got you a suit…" Attorneymon goes, "That won't be necessary. Unlike you, I don't need one of those bulky suits." Rina goes, "Well, I'm not going to ask, because you'll then give a long and convoluted answer about why you don't need it, and frankly I just don't want to know."

Into the water they dive, and after 10 minutes of swimming, they come to the computer. Rina asks, "Are you sure we don't need a translator?" Attorneymon goes, "No, we don't. I know this dialect." He types away on the computer like he was an expert on its use. "Yes!! It's here!! It's still here!!" Rina asks, "What, sir?" Attorneymon answers, "The beginning of the end." On the screen, many schematics pop up, but in the center is a detailed designed of a Power Nexus.

In the lab, the Divermon team searches for more useful stuff, when the Divermon finds something on the ground. "What the hell is this thing?" Black Tailmon answers, "It looks like two teardrop sword blades perpendicular to one another, forming a three dimensional sword, but the middle is hollow, and it has these conduits interlinked to these five clamps distributed throughout the middle area, like it was meant to hold something in them." Divermon asked, "How did you come to that? Three-dimensional sword?! Hah!! Everyone knows swords are flat!!" Black Tailmon responds, "Well, these blades and the handle support that claim, and unless it's some sort of deformed ballista bolt head, there is no way it can be anything else. I want this analyzed post haste!!" Divermon goes, "Hey, just because you got PhD's in eight different fields and are the new head of R&D doesn't give you the right to bark orders at me." Black Tailmon has a stupid stare on her face. "Okay, please take this to the lab for study." Divermon goes, "That's better." He moves on, as she thinks, "I must think of something painful, and make him my new guinea pig."

A few hours pass, and daylight reaches the Wick house. Sora stands there at the master bath door knocking. "Oh, come on Lewis!! If this is about me punching you out and making you cry like a little girl, I said I'm sorry!!" Lilymon goes, "Knock it down!! He left us in a bind, hasn't come out in weeks, and he forgot Valentine's Day!! The nerve of him!!" Sirenamon goes, "I see he's just pissing everyone off lately, but it does look like those seminars are paying off for you. You've yet to destroy any ecosystems this month!!" Lilymon turns towards her with a menacing glare. Sirenamon, "I think I'll just leave now…" She falls down, and drags herself away hastily. The doorbell rings, and an exhausted deliveryman stands there. "It took me almost a month to find these things and deliver them, so please sign this and end my suffering!!" Lilymon takes the pen and electronic pad and signs her name to the pad. The man can barely read the sorry e-signature, but frankly doesn't care. "Bring it in!!" Another man, just as worn out as the other, carts in a giant crate with a tag on it. He hands her a crowbar. "Here, knock yourself out." He leaves, complaining to his partner, "If we ever got to make a delivery for that Wick guy again, remind me to shoot him." The other man goes, "Yeah. Now I understand why postal workers are such nut jobs." Lilymon flies over to the tag. On it is written, "Sorry I can't be here to give it myself. I must find my answers. Now, open the crate… -Lewis" She takes the crowbar to the box, opening it to reveal a giant seven foot teddy bear holding a fridge plugged to a generator, and a frying pan atop the fridge. Sora, "Weird…" On the fridge is a note. "Aren't you curious? I know I am." She opens the fridge to find it stuffed to the hilt with parfait. Her eyes light up, and amongst them was another note. "If you think this is grand, check the freezer. Hurry up!! This is more suspenseful than an episode of Matlock!!" She opens the freezer to find a giant brick made of emerald inside filling up half the freezer, and an ice tray filled with diamonds, and behind the brick was… A spoon!! Lilymon lets out a high squeal of delight. She grabs it and rips into one of the parfait bowls. "He can stay in there as long as he wants!!" She mumbles as she crams her mouth and gawks at the gemstones. Sora goes, "He really knows how to make her happy." Sirenamon, "Political types gotta know how to please the masses. You should know that." Sora goes, "But Lewis made it his career, nay, his life's ambition, to piss off his fellow politicians. He's everything except rational. Say, when is she going to fix breakfast?" Lilymon mutters with mouth full, "Screw you, eating." Sora exclaims, "I guess I'll make it then." Sirenamon goes, "No… I got to learn to do it someday, and today's the day." Sora goes, "Okay…" To herself, "I think I'll skip breakfast today."

About an hour later, Sirenamon scrapes half-cooked blobs, which look like they were in the waffle maker for only a few seconds onto everyone's plates. The kitchen is a mess, Sirenamon's left hand is bandaged up, and the waffle maker lays in pieces on the floor, throwing sparks all over the place. Sakiko lets out a depressed sigh. "I thought Lewis came out." Masato goes, "It smells weird." Bonnie remarks, "It looks like processed crap mixed with sour cream." Tentomon goes, "No… It's liquid fruitcake. Can't you see the little red and green pieces?" Koushiro screams, "Fruitcake!! You made us fruitcake!! The horror!!" Sirenamon goes, "No, I didn't. I was trying to make pancakes, but I couldn't figure it out, so I made waffles instead, and I made Tentomon's plate first… Wait…" She tastes the glob… "The green things are chives." Tentomon goes, "Chives? I dare ask what the red things are." Sirenamon goes, "That would be my blood." Scarletmon's pupils narrow as her fork hangs out her mouth, and she falls out on the floor. Sakiko yells, "You trying to kill us or something!!" Sirenamon goes, "Well, I only bled on his plate. Lewis must have over-oiled that hinge, because that thing slammed down on my hand as soon as I opened it, and that's when I smashed the waffle maker." Bonnie goes, "I don't think I want to know you cooked the rest of these… er… steaming mounds of crap." Sirenamon goes, "Well, it's my first time." Masato goes quietly, "Let's humor her. Maybe she'll do something right next time." They shrug their shoulders and start to eat. Within seconds, Masato, Sakiko, Koushiro, and all the other except Bonnie and Scarletmon make a mad dash to the bathrooms and begin heaving. Scarletmon still sits on the floor, out cold with fork in mouth. Bonnie goes, "And that's why you never consume strange smelly blobs. You never know when you're eating shit." Masato yells from one of the bathrooms, "All in favor of banning Sirenamon from the kitchen say… BLAHHHH!!" She vomits in the toilet, followed by the others. From the master bath, one voice goes, "Nay."

Asleep again, Lily tosses and turns in bed. In her dreams, things have changed. No longer is there a peaceful setting, but a stormy world blown by heavy winds. "All these lies. Is that all anyone does anymore? My life, until the day you came along, was one big lie, and even now, no one speaks the truth. Even when it isn't the same load, I still only get riddles and gibberish, like someone doesn't want me to know the truth." Malachimon appears in her dream again. "That's not so. You know as of late, people have tried to help you." Lily goes, "I don't know. You seem to be the only one I can trust now. Only you know what it's like to be kept in the dark." Malachimon goes, "I sense you're still angry about not being told about told about who you really are. It's time you forgive them. I've forgiven Attorneymon." Malachimon's words are a shock to Lily. "How… How can you forgive him!! Don't you know what he's trying to do?! He would gladly see you dead, a puppet he made, a being he claimed was an accident in a plan far more sinister!! Why would you do it?" Malachimon, "I have to. Only then can I release it all." Lily goes, "Release what?" Malachimon, "My hate and the pain that holds me in bondage. If I can't do that, then he has already won." Lily goes, "You're too soft." Malachimon answers, "Alright then. It's a decision you must make, but before I go, I want to tell you about something big. Attorneymon found Atlantis. It's off the coast of Gabriel's Fjord. If he can use the technology they had, I doubt anything could stop him." Suddenly, they both wake up.

Sirenamon sits moping at the table. "What did I do wrong? I've watched others do this hundreds of times before." Bonnie asks, "What the hell inspired you to think you could cook?" Sirenamon goes, "Well, I want to impress someone, and I want to find something I can do in order to do that. Listen, I don't need this. I…" Lotusmon interjects, "It was okay, but it had a strange aftertaste, and it did kinda smell. Maybe next time." Sirenamon eyes open wide. Suddenly, there is a flashback of sorts, a voice saying, "I regret to inform you that the cook has resigned her position." Someone who looks like Sirenamon, only with her hair done up with the outside thirds of it tied up together in a bow partway down her back, the middle third hanging in the hole made by the other sections, and across the top of her head and adorning the edges of the middle of her hair are a set of braids clipped together with a broach emblazoned with a strange insignia, like the twin crescent design on Sea Lilymon's spear, at the back of her head, the braids tied together at the ends with bows, jumps out of a huge bed. "What do you mean she quit?! She can't do that!!" The voice goes, "With all due respect, she can. Her contract with the court ran out last year. She said she had to return home, claiming there was turmoil at home." Sirenamon goes, "Well, I guess she had a good reason. It's sad to see her go. Do we have anyone else?" The voice goes, "No, my liege." Sirenamon exclaims, "Why didn't I hire more cooks… Oh well. If she can do it, I can too. To the kitchen!!" In a huge kitchen comprised mostly of what appears to be stainless steel, she sits. "I can do this." Another scene shows her all messy and the kitchen partly burnt. Digimon all over the place are throwing up. The same being, whom looks like a soldier, says, "My liege, it's not my job to insult you, but I think you just single-handedly incapacitated the whole court!! Everyone has food poisoning!!" Someone that looks like Lotusmon, only smaller comes in. She says, "It was okay, but it had a strange aftertaste, and it did kinda smell. Maybe next time." Suddenly, Sirenamon snaps out of it. Bonnie is moving her hands in front of her. "Hello!! Is anyone there, or have they packed up and left for the winter?" Sirenamon slowly lowers Bonnie's hand and says, "It's okay Bonnie. Say, have you ever had the feeling you've done something before, but it was in another life that you don't remember?" Bonnie goes, "That made no sense. Besides, I'm not a big believer on that whole reincarnation stuff anyway. Try talking to Lewis, Iori, or Tetsuo about that kind of stuff. They're the experts. Well, I'm off." She leaves, and soon after comes Lily. "Sirenamon, I need to talk to you." Sirenamon speaks cleaning off some of the plates, "If it's about breakfast, here's a few yen I found around the place. Go out for breakfast, because I can't cook." Lily goes, "This has nothing to do with breakfast. I need you for something." Sirenamon goes, "Okay… What is it? It better be legal." Lily goes, "I need you to help find a location underwater…" Sirenamon's eyes shoot open and look like Scarletmon's eyes did moments earlier. The plate falls to the ground. More strange memories scramble her mind, painful ones, all when in the water, including one where she washes up on land mortally wounded. Her hand starts to tremble, but she tries to hide it. "Her voice is shaky as she says, "Oh, I don't know if I can help you today. I got a kitchen to clean, dishes to do, other things around this place, and then I have to get to that seminar again. Now go on…" Lily thinks, "That's peculiar. She's always called those seminars embarrassing and pointless, and always tries to weasel her way out of them, but suddenly she has to get to it. I wonder…" She remembers back to the moat around the pyramid, her excuses of why she couldn't swim across, and her senseless need to rush across despite there was no need to rush, and then at the beach, how she didn't want anything to do with the water when Yuuji asked her. "Something smells, and it isn't that gunk on the table." Lily speaks, "Come on, don't you want to help me look in the big ole inlet? I just know you like to swim." Sirenamon, who was sweeping up the shattered dish, almost falls down and then drop the dustpan, spilling the porcelain once more. "Didn't I say I got things to do?! Get out!!" Lily approaches her. "You're afraid of water, aren't you?" Sirenamon trembles, "I thought I said something!!" Lily goes, "This is unheard of!! A hydrophobic mermaid!! Why haven't you said anything?" Something Lily didn't expect suddenly happens. Sirenamon snatches her up Lily by her neck and holds her in the air, tears streaming down her face. With fear and anger in her trembling voice, she says to Lily, who is gasping for breath, "You ever tell anyone about this, especially Yuuji, and you won't live to see tomorrow!!" Lotusmon, whom she forgot was there, shakes her head in disappointment. Sirenamon looks at the girl whom she holds as her grip drains the very life from her, and realizes what she is doing. She drops Lily on the ground and starts sobbing. Sirenamon goes, "I'm so sorry. It's just that water scares me so much. Being in something so deep, away from the safety of land, and all alone, it terrifies me so very much. That's why for as long as I can remember back, I've always lived as far inland as I could get, and because of it, others have called me an oddball, freak, an outcast. If Yuuji knew, I don't think he'd want me protecting him anymore." Lily gets up. "That's okay. You stay here then. I gotta do something." Lily leaves. Lotusmon goes, "I understand. I had a mother that was hydrophobic as well."

Outside Lily walks, muttering, "Who chose these digimon? They're strong, but man do they have issues. I think I'll go find Attorneymon and smack him around for a while. What did Malachimon say? Oh, near Gabriel's Fjord." She enters the rift, and in seconds is a field about 20 miles away. "I hate that natural port. It keeps me from coming out any closer." She hears a rumbling noise, as first a massive ship passes overhead, then something that looks transparent whizzes past her. "That ship… It must be Jormungamon's ship!! Something big is going on." She hears a set of blips on her digivice. "I see we have other interested parties. Sorry, pops, he's mine." She charges up to Ultimate and bolts down the hill.

Back in the middle of nowhere, Vulcan Lilymon mutters in her sleep as she has dreams. "I don't understand. I know these dreams aren't mine, but why am I having them all of a sudden? A lab, suspension tanks, programming, a young boy, much like Tamiko, saving him from a burning shack, and New York… Why do I dream of these things if they never happened to me? Could be who I was in a life before?" She listens to hear two male voices, but the figures are blurred from with a liquid tube. Slowly, she makes out one of them. "Neo Apocalymon?" Sure enough, this was the one on the left. Neo Apocalymon, "How far have the human subjects advanced?" Another being, towering far above him in height, answers, "The subject known as `Tamiko' is complete. Should we start programming them all?" Neo Apocalymon goes, "Yes. It's fortunate I got these memory files from my future self. These files will enhance their combat skills greatly…" The other goes, "Sir, I think the Golgotha tube is almost complete. It is best I begin immediately." Neo Apocalymon goes, "Do that, Lucimon." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "It's so clear now. All I am is just some clone, twisted by evil science. I remember it all now. Tamiko and myself were the first two to finish, and he liked us because he believed we were his ultimate weapon. Those memories, they aren't even mine, I'll bet you. They probably belong to what I came from… Lilymon. Not just any Lilymon, but the one that fought with the Digidestined. That's why… Every time I see Tamiko, I only see that little boy in the burning shack. If I was created, why am I here then? I should have suffered the same fate of all created digimon and ceased to exist… Wait, the blade… that cut me in half… I became two… two unique digimon… My sister!! I became so wrapped up in this new life I forgot you. That's why I got a second chance…"

Tamiko wakes her up. "Tamiko, I knew who I really am now." Tamiko makes a look of sarcasm and fake surprise. "What?! You mean you aren't Vulcan Lilymon? Lies, I tell you!! This woman is a liar!! How dare you commit fraud before me?! I will see you in court!!" His reaction returns to normal. "Now, let's go. We don't have long before we have to stop for the night because of our drifting off." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Could you please listen?" Tamiko goes, "I'll brand your name on my ass if it'll get you up." Vulcan Lilymon ignores his comment and says, "I, or I should say my sister and me, were originally Project Golgotha, part of the Anti-Digidestined collective." Tamiko goes blank. "You were Golgothamon?" She nods. "I always wondered why I had strange memories that didn't seem like my own, and why I had a sister when most other digimon don't. What irony we'd meet again on opposite sides." Tamiko answers, "Two members of one of Neo Apocalymon's greatest follies reunited. Surprising, I do say." From the brush, a soldier comes out with a gun. Tamiko exclaims, "A Dominion officer!! I'm saved!!" Whizzing past his is a bullet. It hits a tree and blasts it in half. "Damn, I missed." Tamiko goes, "Are you crazy?" The officer goes, "No. It's my orders. Metzger said your usefulness has ended to the Dominion and to find and eradicate you and anyone with you. He told me to tell you that they only needed you to create Yuumei Omnimon, and he have been here to do it himself, but you aren't important enough to change his schedule." Tamiko grits his teeth. "Why the little…" Another shot rings out, and misses. "Dammit, that dimwit gun smith bent the sight to the right. I'll take care of him later." Tamiko goes, "I think this is your cue to do something, Vulcan Lilymon!!" She answers, "I'd love to, but the other reason I wouldn't torch the forest is because I can't!! I kinda need use of my arms if I plan to do any pyrotechnics, and from the looks of things… Nope, still broken." Tamiko goes, "Makes me wish I had brought some sort of firearm… Maybe if I used your arms like a marionette…" Vulcan Lilymon, "Uh, no. That wouldn't work. I could try and kick him to death. Now, if I could only get up…" The officer finishes putting away the sniper rifle and takes out a .44 magnum. "Now, I won't miss." He cocks the gun. Tamiko pats around for something to use and finds a rock. The officer takes aim, but then is hit with the rock, firing into the sky as his hand is knocked up. "You will pay for that!!" He falls to the ground from the recoil and bounces. Tamiko mutters, "Must be one of those new model .44's!!" The officer rises up and pats off the leaves. "You're being more of a nuisance than you were supposed to be. Now, hold still and let me kill you so I can earn my paycheck." He fires again, but Tamiko quickly shoves Vulcan Lilymon behind him. The bullet pierces him near the middle of his solar plexus. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Why did you do that? I could have stopped it myself… Hey, what's this bloody nub in your back? I never saw it before." She touches it, and Tamiko screams. "That would be the bullet. See, new model .44's, or `NE-44s' as cops like to call them, pack over ten times the punch of an old .44 magnum, and it was the most powerful handgun of the 20th Century. Sure, a jacketed hollowpoint round wound have crumpled on you after making a big bruise and a small prick, but these…" He feels the bullet himself. "…Are full-metal jacket rounds, which will go clean through you." The officer finishes stumbling back and slams into a tree. "You picked up on modern ballistics well. As a result of meeting digimon, military-grade weapons had to improved to take out even the baddest of the bad. GI's couldn't all pull howitzers behind them all the time. I may not be used to the recoil of the new handguns, but it will get the job done. All those heroics for nothing." He braces himself against the tree. "Now you die, useless clone." He fires again, the bullet impaling and penetrating his right shoulder, flying out the other side, barely missing her head. The tree rumbles as he is shoved into it, his body feeling almost two G's from the recoil. "I need a raise…" He aims again, and pulls the trigger, releasing another round, but suddenly sparks fly, and a small explosive flash goes off on the ground. The officer looks to see what happened and notices the remains of what looks like a feather-tipped dart. "What's going on? A blow dart?! Who on earth could shoot down a bullet doing Mach 1 with a blow dart?" He looks over to see a figure standing in a tree with a bamboo blowgun. "I thought Evamon was lying about her, but here she is." Tamiko asks, "Evamon? What is going on?" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Evamon was the digimon that made me Vulcan Lilymon, and made the other Elemental Valkyries who they are today. When he first started out, his second attempt to make a Valkyrie was when he fused a Lilymon and a Tailmon. Something went wrong, and the feral nature of her took control, and she attacked him in a rage, then escaped. She was labeled `Feral Rosemon.' To this day, no one else had ever seen her, and many thought she was just a figment of his imagination."

The light finally shone on her. She looked humanoid, with her milky skin, long yellow-green hair, and green eyes, but then there were noticeably different things about her, like a set of white stripes on her upper arms and two on her right cheek. All through her hair were many large rose petals, a dull and dark red, much like a dead leaf in winter, but the biggest things to stand out on her are her elven-like ears, which on the back edge have three brown leaves in them near the tip, and the tail of a Tailmon, which instead of a tail ring has something that looks just like the hair tie that goes in the hair of a Rosemon, but golden, and the roses on it have the same dull red color as the petals in her hair, and the stripes on it are white as well. She wears an animal skin loincloth with a leather top. Interlinked to the straps on the top is a set of wooden shoulder plates, and over them, also strapped to the strap are a bunch of long narrow brown leaves that hang to her elbows. On either side of both of them, on the bottom edges, there are steel bosses, where from each a big brown leaf hangs down, stopping at her hips. Around her neck is a silver chain, and from the back of the chain hang four silver chromadigizoid leaf shaped blades, two at a 45 degree angle down her back, and other two shorter and point up at a 20 degree angle (Saying that parallel to the ground is zero degrees and perpendicular to the ground is 90 degrees). On her right arm is a glove like one that Rosemon wears, but it only goes to a little past her elbow and to her wrist, is leather, and brown. From the shoulder plate on her right arm to under that glove is a material like fishnet stockings, and at her elbow, atop the glove, is a silver chromadigizoid ring. On the wrist end, a golden ring is sewn to the glove and extends over the back of her hand, where four silver megadigizoid claws extend out to the tip of her middle finger. Her loincloth was made of leopard skin, front and back, and hangs down to halfway down her shins, and was over a leather piece which resembles a bikini bottom, but is bigger and covers more, though it narrows out at her sides. The two pieces of loincloth are held together by a dull green vine, and on each side of her waist, a rose is on the vine. Wrapped around the balls of her feet is a set of leather straps. Vulcan Lilymon gives out her description.

"This is Feral Rosemon. She is a Giga digimon engineered by Evamon, like myself, but ran off after her being improved. Not much is known about her since she has always been shy. She is a digimon of few words, but not because she doesn't like to talk, but because she has difficulty expressing herself with them, making her somewhat mute. Her known attacks are Cat Scratch Fever (Poison attack with claw), Entwiner Needle (Spike dart which entangles), Thorn Bo (Furious energy enhanced bo and tail assault), and Anateas Rising (Plant-based energy attack that only works when she is in contact with the ground). Evamon speculated that she has a secret fifth attack, her ultimate power, `Blades of the Five Kingdoms.' What is her story?"

Feral Rosemon fires a bunch of normal darts from her location in the trees, then lip syncs…

"Entwiner Needle!!"

The spike flies from the blowgun/bo into the side of the officer, then vines grow out of the spike and tie him up. She pounces from the tree to another branch, then jumps and snags another with her tail, then flips to the ground. She puts the bo on her back (It has a rope on it) and slowly approaches Tamiko and Vulcan Lilymon. She squats down in front of them, and stares at them wide eyed for a bit. While she stares, the officer is wrangling around. Feral Rosemon looks some more, then cocks her head to the right, as though intrigued by Vulcan Lilymon, then takes notice to Tamiko's wounds, then sees their shattered limbs. She gestures to him, then grabs his leg. "What the?" Suddenly, he screams as a pop comes from his right leg, but then the pain subsides. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh, I get it. You were setting his leg." She nods all happy like. Behind her though, the officer has stopped wiggling, and seems to have almost cut himself free. She repeats the process for his other leg. Vulcan Lilymon calls out, "Hey, look out!!" Feral Rosemon turns to spot the officer with a knife about to stab her. She turns and backhands him in the gut. He drops the knife, but falls next to the gun. She approaches, and her mouth opens. "Uh… Uh… Um… Uhh… Uh…" It's clear on her face she is struggling to find the right word amidst her stuttering. She then shakes her head back and forth, gesturing `no,' wanting to say it, but just not able to do it verbally. Finally, it comes to her. "N… N… No!!" She then goes through more gestures, and then tries to speak again. "D… D… Dr... Dr… Dro… Dro…" She swings her fist in disappointment. She repeats her actions. The officer slowly raises the gun. "I don't know what you're doing, but you're in my way." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "I think she's telling you to drop the gun and surrender." Feral Rosemon has an ecstatic look as she points to Vulcan Lilymon and nods a few times before repeating herself once more. He says, "What's with you? You deaf? Speak, woman!!" She makes more gestures, trying to lip sync, but very badly. Vulcan Lilymon translates. "No sir, she isn't deaf. She's trying to tell you that." The officer raises the gun and exclaims, "Whatever." Quickly, Feral Rosemon bats the gun from his hand with her right hand, the claws slashing his hand. She holds the gun in her hand, investigating it, then pops the clip out, dismantles the weapon with a few deft moves, and places the dismembered parts in a pouch. He mutters, "Take my gun, cut me up… I still got one more gun on hand." He whips a Colt .45 revolver. "Checkmate, nature girl!!" She silently laughs, then points out he forgot to disarm the safety. In his bewilderment, she opens up the gun and empties the revolver chamber. "I got you now!!" He shoots, but he only gets a click. She laughs quietly again as she holds one of the bullets in front of him. He shouts, "But how?! How humiliating!!" Feral Rosemon thinks, "The hand is quicker than the eye, ya fool!! Say, why is that uniform so familiar?" She makes more gestures at him. He goes, "For someone who's dumb, you sure talk a lot." She makes more gestures, which Vulcan Lilymon translates, "She wants to know who you work for, and as for that other comment, she told you she isn't dumb, so screw you." The officer yells, "How dare you use such language to an officer of the Dominion?" She gets angry, and lifts him up with her tail by the nostrils and backhands over and over with her left hand, his face bleeding and tearing from her slaps, then punches him into a tree, his screams filling the air. He can barely get back up, bleeding down his back from the splinters in him, a couple of ribs broken, and his cheeks ripped open. She proceeds to make more gesturing, but Vulcan Lilymon interrupts her. "I don't think you heard yet, but Evamon is dead. He's been dead for almost two months now." Her expression goes from anger to surprise, then scratches her head Goku-style, with a look of mistake, as though she wanted to say "Oops." She signs to him to get out of here, and this he understands, and promptly obeys, screaming, "I live!!!" Tamiko goes, "Can I shoot him?" Vulcan Lilymon rudely exclaims, "No!!" Tamiko goes, "Listen, if he gets back to base, he's probably going to get a lot of his bigger, burlier friends and come back here to kill us, and I don't think she can girly-slap them all to death, and personally I like my life as it is, alive. Besides, he shot me!! He shot me twice, it hurts a lot, and after aimlessly wandering around in the woods like a democrat, you're going to tell it all ends with me bleeding to death out here. Well, if I'm going to die, I might as well get to shoot him back. Don't tell me you don't believe in poetic justice." Vulcan Lilymon goes, "No. No I don't. Now, I'm going to take you and I'm going to get you to civilization and save your life whether you like it or not!!" Tamiko blinks, then asks, "Okay, you have no good arms. Humor me? Are you going pick me up by my shirt with your teeth and carry me around like some sort of baby kitten?" Feral Rosemon shakes her head, then walks over and throws each one over one of her shoulders. Tamiko asks Vulcan Lilymon, "What just happened?" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "I think she just picked up and has decided to carry us to someplace that can help us. I wonder how she keeps her hair so clean and shiny…" She bounces up a set of trees into the high branches and heads off.

Yolei walks in the door. "Guess what time it is?" Sirenamon answers, "By any chance is it court-ordered and involves the five of us in a group?" Yolei nods. Lilymon ignores them. Sirenamon goes, "Come on…" Lilymon snaps at her hand when she tries to remove the spoon. "Can't talk. Eating…" Sirenamon goes, "Come on, you can eat later." Lilymon goes, "But, come on!! One more bite!!" Sirenamon tosses the nymph over her shoulder and begins hopping out of the house. "Stop shaking so much. You're going to make me nauseous!!" Sora interrupts her, and picks up Lilymon by her shirt, and carries her to the car. "Now, you're all in. Nobody likes to get nauseated." Lilymon sits in the back seat dizzy and nauseated. Yolei shouts, "You hurl, you clean it up!!" Sora goes back inside to see the fridge, giant bear, the generator, and the emerald brick still there where the men left all of it. "I should get these things out of the way…" She picks up the fridge with one arm and the generator in the other and tows them into the kitchen, puts them down in the corner, and plugs the fridge into an outlet. She goes back to the bear and the brick when she stops to listen at the master bath door and hears a toilet flush. "Strange, since he locked himself in their at the beginning of the month, that toilet has flushed 914 times. Odd. He must sick or something. Oh well. His note said not to disturb him." Inside, he sits, pale and sweating, holding his stomach and rocking, his face having a focused look on it.

In an office filled with plants and diplomas, all five members sit in office chairs as a bald middle-aged man enters. He walks in and goes, "I see you're all here on time. Now, have you started the anger reduction regiments I gave each of you?" They nod. "Well then, how have you all been handling your anger?" Yolei goes, "I take some time out each day for some peace and quiet, and some quiet reflection." He nods. Armajimon goes, "Well, I like to eat, and I find that as long as I stay away from Sirenamon I actually don't get all that angry. In fact, I don't remember ever getting all that mad until I met her." The psychologist says, "Okay, but try to build a better foundation for anger control than eating. It could lead to health problems." Armajimon goes, "Don't worry. All the fighting and training I do works it right off." The psychologist answers, "Well… (Looks in his file) …you got me there." Zenmon goes, "Well, meditation, trying to have an open mind, and persistent cussing are my ticket, but I still find myself getting ticked every now and then." The psychologist says, "That's okay. We're trying to get you to express it in healthy doses, not release it in a volatile rage, like what the case file says here about Ms. Wick. Now, Ms. Wick…" Lilymon responds, "I release it all on trees. Those burdensome bark covered eyesores!! I don't think I've ever had more fun with a chainsaw in my life!!" He drops his pen in shock. "O… kay." He writes down, `Primary patient seems to be deeply, if not pathologically, disturbed and obsessed with the destruction of trees. I wonder if it has to do with her community service, or does it have its roots in another relationship?' He looks at Sirenamon. "Well, I try to help out around her house, but I find it hard not to explode, especially since Yuuji left." He goes, "Now, we know why we're here, and about past experiences, and how they made you feel, especially the whole fruit story between two of you that consumed an entire week, but I think we're past that now. I want to know about your more recent bursts of anger, how they made you feel, and see if the regiment has helped you out. Yolei, let's start with you." Yolei tells him, "Well, I haven't been too angry lately, but the last time I got mad before today was when finally got to get back to the floor of the NIKKEI, and someone knocked me down trying to sell before the closing bell. I was going to yell at him, but then I realized that the floor is a crowded place, and I would have done the same thing if I had to sell something that quick, and decided it wasn't worth the feuding. It was an accident." He goes, "Good…" He thinks, "Amazing progress. She may not need me anymore." He continues, "You said, `before today.' Explain." She goes, "Well, Lilymon had ate too much parfait this morning, and Sirenamon toted her on her shoulder, and the bouncing made her sick, and then she lost it in my car. I yelled at her, `Now why didn't you roll down the window and do that' but she showed me why. The window only went halfway down, and there was no way she could lean out. I then apologized to her, and then we were here." He goes, "You can learn something from her, you know. She is able to express her anger rationally now. In fact, as of now, I'd say that you don't need me anymore. Just stay on the plan, and you'll be just fine." He looks at Armajimon. "Well, I haven't had any problem with my rage since the funeral." The doc goes, "Well, I guess all that's left is for you to patch things up with Sirenamon." He looks at Zenmon. "I told you I live with a total pinko communist pothead. Now she had the nerve to take the newspaper one day before I could read it, and decided to tear it up and use it for you know what. I yelled at her and said words I don't even think I can say in public, but after I finished, man did I feel good." The psychologist speaks, "I think you still need a couple more sessions, but at least you aren't holding any malice or ill-will toward her anymore." He turns to Lilymon. "I hate to ask." She goes, "Well, you know how my husband boarded himself in our master bath for nearly a month now. I got even angrier when he didn't come out for Valentine's Day as celebrate with me like we normally do, but all was forgiven when he somehow had a bear and a fridge filled with diamonds, parfait, and a brick of emerald shipped to me this morning. Oh, and that stupid forest pisses me off too. Why should I have to replant the whole thing? I think I've been attacked by every kind of wildlife imaginable while doing it, and the windy days have caused so many dust storms I can't remember them all. Now I have dreams where I torch that accursed forest…" He doesn't say anything. "Maybe I can find some technicality to get her longer, but the court only lets me handle her anger. She's a nutcase!!" He looks over to Sirenamon. "Can I talk about this in private? It's embarrassing, and she might hurt me." He goes, "Trust me. It's okay. This is group therapy. We're all supposed to talk about your problems together. Just let it out." Sirenamon exclaims hastily, "After I failed miserably at cooking breakfast today, Lily kept on taunting me and then I grabbed her by the neck and threatened to kill her if she told anyone about my secret!!" Everyone gasps. Lilymon looks pissed. "Why you little!!" She jumps her and begins to pummel her. The doc pulls out a pistol-sized tranquilizer gun and darts Lilymon. Her eyes roll back, and passes out. Sirenamon lies there with her lip bleeding. Yolei goes, "How could you? What could she have said to you to warrant that?!" Sirenamon goes, "When she figured it out, she laughed at me and made snide remarks to me about it. Before, I thought this was a waste, my being here only on part of Yuuji wanting me to go, but then, when I saw her gasping for air, then I knew I needed this, but it's so embarrassing that I'm afraid to talk about it to the rest of you." Yolei goes, "What then? What would drive you to death threats?" Armajimon goes, "Your afraid of water, aren't you?" Sirenamon goes, "Huh?" Armajimon goes, "Well, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Iori was like you, in a way." It goes back to a flashback of the beginning of Chapter 4. "I first noticed it the day you blasted Lewis out of the master bath. The hot tub was in fact shallower than the normal tub in there. Second, you sat there with as much of you out of the water as you could without being out. After Araiya tossed him the sponge and he staggered off, you slipped out, took the sponge, and left the hot tub alone. You should have closed that door." Sirenamon goes, "Maybe I decided a sponge bath was easier. That doesn't prove how you came to that conclusion." Then there is a flashback to the beach vacation. He continued, "It happened again when we on that beach. Right away, something was off because you parked yourself as far from the as you could. Beings like you should have loved the water, but when anyone asked if you wanted to go swimming, you told them to buzz off, and you even punched out Gomamon. When Yuuji asked you to go with him and me, your pupils shrank, you had a fidgeting in your right hand, and you got pale, then insisted we went alone. By this time, you were almost like a surrogate mother to him, and this was strange for you. When you finally went in and came for us, you waited for us to ascend, then tried to rush us to the surface, especially after the attack. You started trembling a lot, and I swore your heart was going to explode out of your chest, and then, as though you didn't want to expose this, you swam as fast as you could, and the first thing that remotely looked like land you got on, and clawed your way from the water. Anytime I mentioned for you to slow down, you only sped up, almost `skipping on the surface' fast. It's a wonder we didn't get friction burns." The flashback ends, and she says, "Hey, time was of the essence, and…" Zenmon goes, "Remember the pyramids? Yuuji said he never saw anything move so fast in his life, and then so unaware of her speed, crashing into the shore so hard. Before that, you kept on trying to find excuses not to swim the channel, including how it smelled." Sirenamon goes, "It did!!" Zenmon goes, "Then tell us again why you screamed out and shivered when you tossed in that tomato juice?" Sirenamon goes, "It burned my eyes!!" Yolei goes, "Wrong!! You said it was cold, yet cold people get goose bumps over them. You didn't. You trembled, all balled up, in that juice as we soaked you in it, even when we tried to warm it." Armajimon continues, "But strangely, the cold doesn't faze you any other time. The biggest thing is that when you supposedly bathed, I never heard the shower or tub run, just a sink faucet." Sirenamon goes, "What do you guys do? Spy on me twenty-four/seven?!" The doc goes, "They may have raised a good point here, and maybe that you do have a problem, and if it's that bad, you should talk to us." Sirenamon starts to tremble and panic. She screams, "Alright!! I'm terrified of water!!"

Suddenly, she goes blank. In her mind, she sees a terrifying vision of a strange city burning, and her sitting in a lake, which was strange, since it was a glowing lemon yellow color instead of a blue like normal lakes, rocking back and forth in a ball, insanely petrified, when something hits her, blasting her out, her sight blurred, speaking to someone, unable to understand the fuzzy message, then being deleted.

She suddenly jumped back to reality, where the doc was desperately asking if she was okay, when she bent down, vomited, and passed out. He goes, "Why did you confront her like that?" Armajimon goes, "She wasn't going to tell us anything unless we intervened." The doc yells, "Don't you know what psychological damage your ranting may have done? You three, out!!" He forces Yolei, Zenmon, and Armajimon out. He nudges her, trying to get her awake. After a few seconds, she comes to and grabs a hold of the doc, refusing to let go. "Listen, the waves crash, demanding my death. Don't tell Yuuji. He won't understand. He wouldn't want me to protect him anymore." The doc goes, "We're miles from the closest source of water. Calm down." Sirenamon snaps out of it and calms down. She lowers herself to the floor. He says, "Now then, you have nothing to fear. You made the right choice wanting to talk to someone. As you know, I run for about ¥2000 an hour." Sirenamon goes, "Don't worry. Her old man is paying my fee. He won't mind. He's got lots of money stored away. Now, I don't like you, I don't like being here, and you only like me if I got money, but I need your help, so let's begin." The doc asks, "First off, before we deal with the situation at hand, you've mentioned someone named `Yuuji' a lot in the other sessions. Tell me about him…"

We'll come back to this at another time. Nobody came here to see a Frasier Crane wannabe at work. Back in Gabriel's Fjord, Attorneymon grins before a computer screen in Rina's trailer. "Those Atlanteans knew how to build a network. I still can't believe after almost a million years, that tower was still intact. It's as though the fates themselves wanted me to find you. Such raw knowledge, still preserved. Look at the wonders of the past." Rina goes, "According to this, it was child's play to make a Power Nexus then, and here's stuff about how to infuse Palacin with dark power. These machines they archived are more complicated than the devices we possess even now. Things we seek now they already knew." Attorneymon flips around to find something. "No wonder they were still operational. According to this, twenty-two of these computers still work, all powered on a complex fission-fusion hybrid engine which splits the atom, then recombines it all inside a compact magneto-synchrotron. They knew how to generate almost limitless power as well. I cannot wait to start reverse engineering this technology and make it my own, and bring an end to my pitiful foes." Rina calls down on a phone, "Have you retrieved all that old stuff in the lab?" Black Tailmon goes, "Well, most of it. We've got a lot new things I want to toy with already above water and on transports back to the main lab, but we still gotten this strange weapon out from the ground." She turns around to Divermon. "Ready to pull it free?" He nods. "Do it then!!" He grabs it, when out of nowhere, an electrical current radiates from the suka and kills the Divermon. She stares and asks, "What the hell just happened?" Golemon says, "Divermon just got zapped worse than a bug in a bug zapper." Black Tailmon continues, "But it only happened when he tried to grab the handle. You, grab the blade." Golemon does as ordered, only to become just as toasty as Divermon, and is deleted. "Not good." She pushes a button on her helmet. "Yeah, get me some heavy equipment here. Make sure its rubber coated. My two assistants just bought the farm when they tried to touch the weapon."

About fifteen minutes later, a crane with rubber-covered claw descends into the water. Black Tailmon slowly motions the claw towards the weapon. The operator clamps the claw, and much like she expected, the weapon was lifted out safely. She crawls out of the water and directs the crane operator to lower it on the ground. "It could have been just stuck in some sort of electrical current… Still…" She goes to a hapless Gearmon. "Hey, I'll give you $10 to touch that weapon." He grins stupidly. "Deal!!" He walks over to it, now dry, and grabs it, only to meet the same fate as the other two. "It's like it's telling us not to touch." She goes to the trailer. "Master, I need you to see if you can find out anything about that weapon. Everyone that has touched it so far has been destroyed. If this keeps up, you won't have an R&D department left!!" He goes through the files, and Black Tailmon points out the weapon. Attorneymon says, "Why, it's only a damn prototype… The name does strike me as amazing." The computer translates the text, and it comes out as `Megami's Spade.' "This weapon can only be handled by those of pure heart, and its true power is in the center, where it says that 4 Power Nexuses went in the four clamps at the bottom, and a fifth, undefined source, remained at the tip. At even a fraction of its power, it could lay waste to an army of Terra digimon with ease." Rina asks, "What about at full power?" Attorneymon goes, "I don't know. They could never get it to full power." A guard rushes in. "Sir, a Digidestined has been spotted charging. It seems to be the Fallon girl." Attorneymon grins. "Release the control spire digimon as soon as she reaches the island. Do not, I repeat, do not send regular troops. We have a low profile to maintain. I will be outside in a moment."

Running down the middle of the road, Lily charges for the coast. Cars crash as she goes by, trying to avoid her. In moments, she has reached the coastline, and watches as Jormungamon's ship lands on the island. "I see you…" From the water, a Marine Devimon jumps out. "Pitiful." She jumps up and decapitates the control spire figure easily.

"THE SHARD OF MARTYRDOM!!"

Quickly, she changes forth, and flies over the waters to the island. Many civilian workers, not affiliated with the Dominion, working on the legitimate structures, stare at surprise as she lands. "I hereby declare this area condemned!! Now, I hope you value your lives." The men stand around, bewildered. "That was your cue to run." After finishing that statement, Lily quickly began blasting the area without regard to the people below. Workers, confused, ran in terror from the site, while others lay wounded on the ground. She moved forward as the previous area began to burn. Control spire digimon moved in on her as she made her way for where the ship landed, but she blasted them all without even bothering to look at them.

A guard rushes in to the trailer, "Sir!! She's broken through the lines we had. She's heading right this way!!" Attorneymon walks out. "Guess we should give her what she wants." He walks over to the weapon. "Megami's Spade… An ironic name for what will destroy the summoner." Black Tailmon warns, "That'll fry you!!" He grabs it, but nothing happens. "I said a pure heart. I didn't say a good heart. My heart's pure… pure evil." He trembles as he feels a rush of power through his body, and the blades slowly glow.

Lily nears the trailer. Jormungamon yells, "You will stop us from getting what we have come for!!" Attorneymon comments, "Move before you die too. It's hard finding competent goons like you." Jormungamon quickly slithers aside. Lily goes, "I had a couple of hours to blow today, and I figured I'd come looking for you." Attorneymon answers, "Angry I see." He looks over her shoulder to see the coastal area ablaze. "I see you are quite hungry for a fight. Are you even worried that you just attacked civilians who happen to have no involvement with us?" Lily ignores this. "Your mind games will not work on me." Attorneymon continues, "Who said anything about mind games?" Lily goes, "I know you, you sick, evil, excuse for a digimon…" The guard goes, "We're having problems containing the fire…" Lily grits her teeth, looks angry, and exclaims, "Shut up!!" She then proceeds to blast him out of existence. Attorneymon goes, "And you're supposed to be good guy. Let's end this." He lifts the spade sword up. "Jormungamon, go home. Take our trophies with us." He nods, and they quickly herd the goods onto the ship, and blast off. Lily asks, "You got any other reasons to draw out your last few minutes?" Attorneymon goes, "Nope." Lily answers, "Fine then." He charges.

"Atlas Bolt!!"

She runs at him, but in the corner of her eye, she sees him move out of the way, spin, and slash her with the sword. A pain unlike anything Lily had ever felt surged through her body. He lashes her again after passing her, then punches her in the skull, knocking her to her buckling knees. He thinks, "Her anger destroys her focus. Excellent. This may be my best day ever. Now, to cap this off!!"

"Bureaucratic Red Tape!!"

He snags her, and begins to siphon her power away. "Such raw power!! Whatever seems to have guarded you in the past no longer seems willing to do so!!" Lily goes, "I don't need it!!" She gets up and rips the tape off her. Attorneymon stares amazed at this feat. Lily screams, "You will die now!!"

"Delta Crash!!"

She unleashes a concentration of unfocused power, releasing it relentlessly. Attorneymon thinks, "Such anger she has. She truly hates me, and anyone who gets in her way. I could truly use this to my advantage." He says to her, "Sorry to do this, but I got more important things to do." He teleports away. Lily loses it. "Get back here!!" Her Delta Crash expands, annihilating much of the isle, before she explodes out of it, and flies off.

An hour later, Attorneymon sits in the main chamber at HQ. A Musyamon reports, "Sir, aren't you going to take action? She's just destroyed 24 of our bases in the last hour. Over twenty thousand are believed dead!!" Attorneymon responds, "Let her be. Her own volatility will be her undoing. I say let her smash all the bases she wants. She's looking for me, but she won't find me." Musyamon goes, "But what about those territories?" Attorneymon goes, "Look at the big picture, would you? See, the longer she seeks me, the angrier she'll get. The angrier she gets, the more she loses focus, and inherently grows weaker. Then, let's say we do something that'll get the attention of other Digidestined or maybe those rebels. We get them there, and because of the nature of Miss Fallon's rage, they will try to run interference, and she will destroy them, and then I got her, and no more Summoner." A clapping echoes in the chamber. From the darkness walks Siva Lilymon. "Good plan there. Mother uncovers Atlantis, and granddaughter goes psycho." Attorneymon goes, "Now how did you get in here?" Siva Lilymon goes, "I came in. I'm wanting to talk about a little job." Musyamon asks, "Should I apprehend her?" Attorneymon goes, "No. I going to hear her out."

Out in the forest, Feral Rosemon lands in a tree. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Well, this is a pretty nice place." Tamiko answers, "It's… rustic. I'm cold." She opens the door and puts Vulcan Lilymon down. She gestures (Subtitles in brackets) ["Rustic my ass."] Tamiko goes, "What did she just say to me?" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh, nothing." She looks around to see a sophisticated chamber resembling that of a sterile white lab. ["Neat, isn't it?"] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Not what I expected." Tamiko looks pale. "I see spots. If I'm right, isn't spots the first sign of blood loss?" Feral Rosemon puts him down, then quietly curses at the bloodstains he left on her outfit and her shoulder. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "I know!! People who lost blood need fluids and a cookie!!" She grabs a container with her teeth. "I wonder what `HCl' means? Oh well." Feral Rosemon shakes her hands in front of her, trying to stop her. Tamiko wonders, "What's going on?" Feral Rosemon warns ["Don't drink that!!"] Tamiko goes, "What?" Feral Rosemon puts on a rubber glove and rips it out of her mouth. She points out the HCl on the bottle. Tamiko says, "Vulcan Lilymon, could you come over here?" She walks over. "Bend over." He slaps her over the head. She whines, "What'd you do that for?!" Tamiko goes, "`HCl' stands for hydrochloric acid!! You could of killed me!!" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Well, it looks like water!!" Feral Rosemon pints out ["Water is made up of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Hydrochloric acid is one part hydrogen and one part chlorine, which has a negative one charge!! High school chemistry teaches you this!!"] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh… I guess I should of paid more attention to those night school classes rather than sleep through them all." Feral Rosemon goes over to a strange device. ["This is a still. It purifies and distills water. See? This clear stuff is called water. Water good for him. Hydrochloric acid bad."] Vulcan Lilymon answers, "You don't have to talk to me like I were a child, but at least I found out what that thing is." Feral Rosemon takes some distilled water to Tamiko and gives to him, then bandages up the wounds. Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Guess there's not much you can do when something blasts a hole clean through you." Feral Rosemon then takes a rag and wipes off the blood from her arm, and tries to sop up the blood from her clothes. She then wraps up his legs and plasters them. Tamiko asks, "How the hell do you understand her?" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh, I love charades, but mostly it's women's intuition. What I don't get is that I always though she was supposed to be some sort of savage being. That's what I was told. From the looks of this place, I think she may be as smart as Evamon was." Feral Rosemon gets cheery and gestures ["That's right!! I'm a super-genius, and don't forget it!!"] Vulcan Lilymon translates to Tamiko, and he asks, "If you're such a genius, then how come you don't know how to speak?" Feral Rosemon looks at him and gestures ["Oh, screw you."] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh, come on. Tell us. Why not?" She begins to work on Vulcan Lilymon's arms. ["My hands are tired."] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Oh, come on…"

After finishing her arms, she goes ["Oh, okay."] Tamiko goes, "Is she?" She begins, with Vulcan Lilymon translating, ["When I first came to be, I right away found myself smarter than most baby digimon my age. I made neat things, but I soon found a flaw in me; that no matter what it was, I could not find the words to explain how it worked, which also meant I sucked at creative writing. Confused, others scoffed me and what they took as funny sounding nonsense, but in my mind, I could explain it like that. Soon, stuttering and fear set in. In fact, as my technical skills grew, my inability to communicate grew. If you look around, you see some great devices and equations, but if you were to ask me to explain them, I couldn't tell you a thing. In fact, I have footage from my last outing to the last World's Fair in 2029."] She pulls out a big digital projector and turns it on. It shows a big crowd before a Lilymon with the same devices. One man asks, "What the hell is this thing?" He points to strange spherical panel. The Lilymon goes, with a bad stutter and severe lisp, "Well, it's… it's a light energy c… c… converter." The man goes, "What does it do?" She stands there, blank. She grabs her head, like her head hurts, exclaiming, "Wh… what are the words I'm looking for?! Uh… Uh… See… Uh… Um… Light… Here… and that's what happens." She gestures the whole time, trying to show how light enters it. The man goes, "Are you stupid or something?" She goes, "N… No. I know it… It… well… Look at the equation!! See, it makes perfect sense!!" He goes, "Lady, I have no idea what any of this means." A scientist goes, "You claim to have some medicines that people have been trying to find for decades. Mind telling us how you did this in just a year or so?" She stands there, pointing to complex charts. "Well… Well… See… It just…" Her hands keep moving around continuously, and she begins to ramble aimlessly. "Madam, do you even know where you are?" She goes, "I'm… the World's Fair… I'm not stupid!!" The scientist goes, "I didn't say you were stupid, but I need you to prove this equation. It'll help me to figure this out. This part looks familiar, but this answer is preposterous!! Where did these elements come from? How did you get here?" She stands there, thinking hard. She stands there, twitching slightly, and looks like she's ready to break down. After thirty minutes of thinking, she answers, "Well… you take… see… oh… oh, this is so… so… so clear in my mind!! YAAAAHHHHHHH!! Why can't I explain this!!" The scientist goes, "Madam, if you can't tell me how you came up with this, then you don't belong here." She screams, packs up, and leaves. The film ends. ["Funny, I got an IQ of 380 according to Evamon's test, yet I can't tell you how."] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Evamon was always bragging about his 260 IQ. You're saying you had an IQ of 380. Boy, I feel dumb. I only got a 120!! Hey, add my IQ with Evamon's IQ and there's your IQ!!" Tamiko goes, "Yeah………" ["Now, after this, you bet I was destroyed, but then I saw this ad by a digimon named Evamon in the paper. I still have it."] She hands out a piece of paper. On it is written, "Tired of the old you? Want to express yourself in a new way? Want to change? Come to…" Vulcan Lilymon goes, "This must be before Lance signed on. Evamon told us about the old days when he had to work out of an old closed Lab Corp building before he got his lab." She continues ["I went there, thinking he could help me. I expected the IQ test and other exams. To my amazement, he chose me. I went along with it until he put me on a table. I tried to ask him if this was some sort of brain surgery, but he grew impatient with me and told me to be quiet because he's had a stressful day. I sensed jealously. He injected me in the arm, and thought it was a new medicine until I felt strange, and my clothes changed as though I had digivolved. I asked him what happened, and he said the project was a success. I thought he had done what was promised, until I saw my reflection off Evamon's head and gained sensation in my tail. I was outraged at what he did to me. I tried to yell at him, but my nervousness caused me to say stupid things and a `nya' or two. That night, I figured out how to use my new limb and picked the locks on my straps. He heard me, I attacked him, and fled. I was ashamed at the fool-hearty thing I did to myself, and wanted to just go home. I got home, only to find his goons waiting for me. He wanted to take me back, by force if necessary. I took some of my lab stuff and ran into the forest. Over the years, as I fought off his capture squads and established this new place, I slowly began to forget grammar and how to converse. I figured if no one could ever understand me speak, then why should I? Being alone does that to you. Ever since, I've been trying to just live in peace, knowing there is no way to undo his work."] Vulcan Lilymon goes, "Well why don't you find some way to help you speak yourself?" She goes ["Well, I've tried. I can't seem to express myself anymore except through minutes of straining myself to talk or through my somewhat cryptic gestures, which outside of one old deaf man, you are the first to understand me, and I can only do this with both my hands free and the person facing me. I would try to go out and learn sign language, but with those goon squads after me, I find it hard to go out and find material on the subject, and even if they stopped, digimon like you and me are one of a kind, made by the Dominion this way. Normal folks know this, and fear us, so I am reduced to these charades. If only someone could just read my mind."] Vulcan Lilymon thinks, then exclaims, "Hey, I know someone who could read your mind. Her name is Sigmamon. I could show you to her, but we're so far away from where she is." Feral Rosemon shakes her head ["Oh no… We've got to get those bones healed and those bullet wounds closed first. This isn't some wacky Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor movie where one of you can't use their legs and the other is without arms. You're staying here until both of you are better. Can't run the chance of him getting gangrene in the arm, and it spreading, and how it'll hurt, but since you can't use your arms, you have no way of amputating the infected limb, and then it spreads all over, and this being his left arm, it's gonna spread to his chest cavity real quick, and that won't be pretty. Oh, and the stench!!"] Vulcan Lilymon gets pale, opens the door, and vomits out it. Tamiko proclaims, "I speak for the both of us when I say that we'll gladly stay. I don't know what you said, but it made her puke, so it's good enough for me." ["It's settled then."] She pulls out two extra cots. Tamiko thinks, "I still got something to live for…" He watches as Vulcan Lilymon wipes her mouth and watches a flock of migrating birds, imported into the Digital World, fly by. "A place to rest, and be more than some quick clone lackey, to be thrown away and forgotten when no longer needed. I am a living being."

Many miles away, Lily watches with a sociopathic grin as she watches another Dominion base burn. In her eyes, she saw the horror of the future world, and in the other, the pain of her past. "It cannot happen. It will not. Where is Attorneymon? The coward!! All the pain, all the pain." She laughs as the flames glow on. In the burning wreckage, a Zeed Milleniumon was pinned, his right head dead. The left head asks, "Please, no more… Have mercy." Lily approaches him and tells him, "What do you know of mercy? You, who sold your soul to serve Attorneymon. You, who would annihilate the future without question. You, who would love to see me dead. If I were on the receiving end, you would give me none, so I shan't either for you. Without me, this world was doomed. How quaint that fate has decided me to be the voice of irony. Justice is left in the hands of poets." She raises her foot and crushes his skull, finishing him off.

Not far off, a television news broadcast van pulls up, and cameramen and a field reporter pour out. The guys in the van go, "Cue opening effects…" James Earl Jones' digitalized voice goes on a recording of the CNN logo descending from the heavens, with lightning bolts flashing all around it and dark clouds rolling above, and with a massive reverb he says, "This is CNN. Why is it important? Because we said so, dammit!! Now in our 58th year of over-reporting the news." The broadcast director goes, "That intro still scares the crap out of me, but it reassures me what follows is worth watching." The reporter goes, "Tonight, some startling news. Military reports state that the tide in the war on the Dominion has changed drastically. Reports come in that in just the last few hours, almost 20% of all Dominion bases located here in the Digital World have been just plain out eradicated. Everywhere they went, there were no survivors. Estimates given out about the damage are that the wildfires started in these fights have spread into a dry grassland area, and a forest fire began west of here. This force also destroyed a major construction site northwest of Gabriel's Fjord. It is believed that a possible 120,000 Dominion troops are dead or deleted. Weather analysts also say that the smoke and dirt thrown up in these attacks could be dangerous to the young and elderly, and enough has been thrown up in the Western Network area, around the city of Gabriel's Fjord, that it will drop temperatures ten degrees and cause chaotic conditions in the atmosphere, resulting in some nasty weather. A similar event has happened in the Seattle and Vancouver areas after the attack in Gabriel's Fjord, and Seattle has reported over a foot of snow and massive amounts of lightning in just the last hour. Behind us is the most recent base to fall… Wait… Who's that girl standing amongst the ruins?" Slowly, Lily approaches the crew. She goes, "You're in my way." The reporter starts asking questions when she grabs the camera and rips off the lens and smashes it, then kicks the rear of the van into the air, balancing it on the grill, then toppling down onto its roof in a shower of sparks. The reporter goes, "What's her problem?" She flies off, in search of another base, where she hopes to find Attorneymon.

From the invisible tower over the soup pond, Qinglongmon looks on with dismay. "Her anger continues to build. It's like Black Wargreymon all over again, but this time there are innocents involved. At least Black Wargreymon had the decency to only attack Dark Tower created digimon, and then he learned his lesson." Baihumon goes, "In war, there are no innocents." Qinglongmon retorts, "What of the families that won't get their loved ones back?" Zhuqiaomon answers, "We are digital, as were they. They shall return. I say let her have her fit. She must learn to tame the flames insides herself." Xuanwumon responds, "You don't get it. We may be digital, but to die hurts just as much as it does for the physical. I also ask you if it is acceptable to let her slay the physicals as well, for amongst all those lost souls, many were human. This has to stop." Baihumon goes, "She needs to let it all out. It's in her blood to have trouble expressing her darker emotions, but as you see, her very emotions seem to be a source of power itself, much like her grandfather. We have seen the raw heroic power of her maternal side, and now we witness the power of emotions and thought that comes from her paternal side. The real test will be if she can use the two together." Xuanwumon goes, "Baihumon, this is no little spat we're talking about here. She's not peeved, this is a major psychotic f****** hatred she has, and it is taking over her life. Ever since she returned from the future, she has been obsessed with destroying Attorneymon, and doesn't care what or who gets in her way. If this continues, she'll pose a far greater threat to both worlds than Attorneymon ever could." A voice interjects, "This was our fault in part." The Four Holy Beasts turn to see a sparkling, but nothing more. She goes on, "A child like her has a volatile rage, as you have seen when she attacked her own father, who had just saved her life, and now, as she decimates the Digital World little by little. This anger is powerful, and even we were afraid of this emotion of hers, so after that fight months ago, we decided that action had to be taken, so we used what powers we could directly use on the living to cull her anger and defend her, ensuring she could not get mad, but when she was thrown through time, our power could not follow, and the sealed fury inside was allowed to come to the surface, and is now too great for even us to stop. She must learn to suppress that anger once more on her own, but if she cannot do so soon, you may be forced to destroy her." Qinglongmon goes, "If so, then how will the other nine even stand a chance without her. As it is now, they break even against most of his peers, but topple trivially at his hand, and even the might of Avalonmon was not enough to bring him down." The voice goes, "We don't know. We really don't know." Slowly, the sun sets behind them. Qinglongmon thinks, "The very race that guarded our eggs… Who was to know you held such a dark fury under that peaceful demeanor?"

As the sun set of this turbulent day, Attorneymon finally made his move to send in an assassination squad to off Laomon, and Rina returned to her sham operation to assess the damage and keep up appearances. Everyone back home finally was able to see all the chaos of the day unfold on the news, and most of the group went after the renegade Lily. The quack managed to make Lilymon see Sirenamon's view and the fear she felt, and patched up their little spat. As for the lost travelers…

Tamiko, "My arm… It hurts worse than ever!!" Feral Rosemon takes a look at it. ["Oh no… It's infected. The infection must have spread while I was carrying you here, and with it so close to your heart, it could be fatal… I have to stop it."] Tamiko goes, "I think it's infected. Stop it." Vulcan Lilymon says, "She may have to cut your arm off." Tamiko goes, "Please, not that…" ["I'll see if I can save it, but I don't know. Only thing I do know is that if I don't act soon, you won't be around to worry about losing that arm."] Vulcan Lilymon screams, "He better not die!! I finally find someone who knows the real me and understands me, and now I could… lose them…"

Miles outside of Gabriel's Fjord, Yuumei Omnimon runs with some Dark Tower made Ragnarokmon, when the they rush ahead, hearing the Digidestined moving around in the dark wood. In Feral Rosemon's place, Tamiko is being anesthetized. As it happens, he sees his life flash before his eyes. He thinks, "It's a sham. My life has been just me hiding in fear, a joke, an anecdote made about the shadow of another. Power hungry Metzger, he thinks we are dispensable when we longer have any need for us. He has always loathed me most of all. I will prove to him I can do something, that I can stand face to face with him, and stand up for myself. I'm not just going to let myself just fade away like last time into the recesses of history. It must not end this way, on a table dying, an infection claiming me…" Out in the forest, Yuumei Omnimon stops and holds his head. "Thoughts… and feelings… I never felt before… pulsing through me… I'm losing control!!" A glow surrounds him as the moon rises. The Ragnarokmon leap from the trees and surround the children. Masato yells, "Why can't they digivolve?" Bonnie goes, "It's like some sort of energy is stopping it, and they're emitting it!!" Jun says, "This isn't good!!" One of them says, "Two for one bonus!! Let's get them!! Say, where's Yuumei Omnimon?" Out of nowhere, from the sky, in the light of the moon, rains down a grey skinned humanoid being clad in white armor shaped like that Avalonmon, but is not him. The golden X shape that is on Avalonmon's chest plate is not there, only a set of grooves resembling it marks the plates. His shoulder plates are big, but nowhere near the same size as those of Avalonmon, and lack the gold edges. Instead, they have slits all around edges, and a sculpted feather design on them. Around his neck is a white split collar which begins behind the head about 20° behind his ears, pointing out and back at a 45° angle, and each side extending and forming a 50° arc before stopping behind his head in a circular cutout area where his medium length white hair hung down. His hair on his head was pretty spiky and dominated the left side of his head. Around his neck where golden V-collar of Avalonmon sits, there is a loose fabric of gold chain mail. This chain mail continues in extremely loose sleeves, hanging on his forearms all the way to his knees. On his right forearm is an elbow plate and a white dramon destroyer, but instead of claws, it bears a colossal sword, narrower close to his hand on the outside edge, and pierced with rings on the inside edge from the plate to halfway up it. Near the top of it are three circular holes, each decreasing in circumference as they near the point. In the middle of the dramon destroyer is a single turbine. The chain mail proceeds down his waist to a belt, which has a buckle that looks like the first quarter moon, and on each side of it was white trapezoids that looked like halves to a split shield hanging down before a groin plate. The baggy chain mail goes down his thighs, and eclipses the top of a set plate lower leg plates. The kneecaps on them were pretty small, but the one on his left leg had the Crest of Courage engraved on it, and the right one had Friendship on it. Down the middle of the plates is a divide as the rest of it hugs his legs in an eggshell shape, and in the back the plate extends down to foot level. The remaining area around ankle level ends in a set of jets. The strangest thing though is that where his feet should be, on his right is Metalgarurumon's helmet and on the left is Paladingreymon's helmet, as though they were his feet. Keiko goes, "What's going on? Who is this?" Just as she finishes, the new digimon spins around and shatters one of the assassin Ragnarokmon into red pieces, which glow white and explode. The new digimon speaks, "Your dastardly plan shall not be fulfilled. Behold the might of Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon!!" Bonnie hacks through her computer. "Man, fiddling with these things is still a pain. Now I wish I had put this program on a Palm Pilot." Masato asks, "What is he?" Bonnie reads the profile, "This is Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon, an… Omega digimon? Strange… I've never seen these stats. It says he's a Jogress Techno-Mage Paladin type digimon. I've never heard of a Techno-Mage Paladin class. As for his classification, it says he's… Now this can't be right. There must be a bug in the system." Jun, "What is it?" Bonnie says, "It says he's both Lightbringer AND Malevolence." One of the Ragnarokmon stare him down. "We'll show you not to mess with the likes of the Dominion." He takes one step when Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon yells…

"Tenkurayami Jin Tachi!!"

The sword mounted to his right arm takes a hue like that of the moon. His eyes glow and send out a shimmering light, and that Ragnarokmon falls to his knees, as though forced onto them. He struggles to stand when he dashes over, and acts as though he is knighting him, but leaves a white mark on each shoulder. Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon follows this up by touching the digimon with his right hand. The kanji `shi' is marked on his forehead. He leaps back, and with another glare in his eyes, he crosses his arms, then swings them back to his sides. The marks illuminate and wisps of light mimic the path his hands traveled across the chest of the Ragnarokmon, then the wisps go to his hands, forcing his hands together, and become a dagger of light. He uncontrollably draws the dagger up, and stabs himself with the knife hara-kiri style. The kanji on his head shimmers, and he blows up. One of the Ragnarokmon respond, "That's new, but if we gang up on him, then he can't do it on us!! Let's get him!!" Four more charge him. He draws his right hand before his face, index and middle fingers extended in front of his nose, focuses for a moment, throws his arm to the side, then thrusts it up into the air, his index finger pointing to the sky.

"Black Shenlong Flame!!"

From his sword generates a long eastern dragon made of black fire flies into the sky, becoming over a quarter mile in length. When it stops emerging from the sword, it soars down towards the ground and envelopes two of them and strikes a third Ragnarokmon before resolving. The one unscathed doubles his pace. He jumps and kicks and is met with a dodge, which he quickly recovers from. As he does, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon raises his left hand like he did his right hand moments earlier, and starts chanting.

"Maho Kabe no Raimei!!"

He leaps at him, but is met with a growing sphere of electrical energy surrounding him. Still with his fingers before him and chanting, nanobots poured out of the grooves on his chest plate, and many formed into masses, which became small red scales. Little lights started blinking on one edge of them, and a mysterious force sent them hovering past the field and positioning themselves as though vertices of a cube.

"Fafnir's Flare!!"

The scales begin to shake rapidly, spewing wisps of fire that float out around them. The scales finish after releasing about 20 each, and start glowing. He begins to float as those wisps join into one super condensed ball. Columns of flame connect the eight scales, and they begin to spin around him in a counterclockwise direction. From the four in front, a spinning cyclone of fire reaches out to the ball, and with a flash, both the cyclone and ball fly forward, the ball leading the tornado. It hits the unscathed one, the ball exploding and engulfing him all over, and then the cyclone drills into him, and burns him from the inside out, leaving only ash, which sparkles white and explodes. The injured one deletes on his own from his wounds. The ringleader of them gets nervous. "I got to call back up!!" He tries to find a radio on him, but he sees Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon nearing.

"Four Edges!!"

Time seems to bend around him. Suddenly, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon is right on top of him and he hacks him in the chest. Wounded, he turns slowly, to see his shadow as he dives from the sky and slashes his right arm off. He stumbles back, only to fall right into the sword and impale himself. On his sword, Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon launches the tortured Ragnarokmon into the sky, and leaps up after him. After a mile, Ragnarokmon reaches the apex of his ascent, when Tenkurayami Siegfriedmon rises up, blue flames burning from the jets. He draws his right arm over his head, clenching his wrist with his left hand, as a massive power is drawn to the blade. He swings down with both arms and cleaves the Dark Tower digimon in half. Masato asks, "Where did he come from?" A wave of clouds pass by and for a moment block the moon, and when they pass, he is gone. Valkyrie Lotusmon stares up, and asks, "Was that unexpected, or is it just me? Mysterious digimon appears, saves us, and vanishes into the night." Masato says, "He's like some sort of `Moonlight Paladin.'" Bonnie goes, "Hate to break things up, but my map is getting a large power source which seems to be marked as Lily heading right for us." As promised, Lily suddenly popped up and came to an abrupt halt. Ryo stands there and sadly speaks, "Lily…" Masato goes, "How could you… One hundred and twenty-thousand souls, all silenced because of you." Jun adds, "What are you thinking?" Lily stands there, hovering, "Don't you get it? Will he give us any peace? No. Will he spare anyone? No. It must end. Waiting for him to move is no longer an option. We must fight back with the fervor he holds now for our deaths. No more waiting. Surely, you should understand this, Child of Devotion." Jun goes, "Not like this, Lily. Not like this. Do you even care about those you hurt?" Lily defiantly utters, "No. As I see it, their right to live ended when they pledged allegiance to him. All I'm doing is giving them their final reward, and sending them to where they belong." Sakiko goes, "What has happened to you?" Lily says, "466 years of pain, suffering, destruction, and lies, especially pain and lies. What happened to me? I was BORN!!" Scarletmon exclaims, "You can't blame life or others for what has happened today. This is on your hands." Lily retorts, "Choice words there, Scarletmon, but have you ever wondered what it would be like if you never existed? Well, I have seen the world where I never existed. It's sickening. It's my life, magnified a thousand fold. I want to let it be known to him, and then I want it all to end, and that will only happen if he dies. For this, I do not care how much Dominion blood is on my hands." Bonnie goes, "Are you mad?" Lily states, "It depends. I came from a mother engineered as a weapon of evil whom nearly killed my grandfather, and a father who killed her in turn, and further up the line you have a grandmother with extravagant fury hidden in her which can be unleashed by the slightest thing, and a grandfather who is all but normal, is so vindictive he hunted a man halfway around the world just to get the six dollars the man borrowed back, is in himself a paradox, and can't stand nature, but fell in love with a flower. If I were a complete stranger, I would say we all passed certifiable a long time ago." Sakiko pleads, "Is this who you really are? Are you just a mad killer, driven to destroy just to stop one person. Is this who your mother would have wanted you to be?" The anger in Lily's eyes fade slightly, as she thinks about the one who gave her life, but never got to meet. A tear runs down her cheek. "Momma?" She utters shaken.

Meanwhile, on the station, Attorneymon watches all this with close eyes. Siva Lilymon exclaims, "I thought we were talking here!!" Attorneymon goes, "Yes, yes, you want to act as a double agent in return for your old job. I heard you, but at the moment, my theory may be going up in smoke, but like Galileo, I know I'm right. All we need is a catalyst." He motions to the Musyamon guard, "Set up the main holo-vid systems to call at these coordinates. Also, adjust the frequency to allow it to play using a robotic medium." The Musyamon runs and does so. Siva Lilymon asks, "Why are you so set on this plan?" Attorneymon goes, "It's quite simple. You heard it yourself. She does not care how much blood is on her hands, just as long as she gets me. Now, the others will not agree with this ideology one bit, saying there is a more peaceful route to victory. In her enraged state, she will ignore this and continue to seek me out. As I now know, her power comes from her ability to focus. Anger breaks one's focus. Speaking of focus, as Dimentiamon told me, not long after her disappearance, the others did nothing but search for her, this is just how tight knit they are, and again, many of them came to seek her out. As time passes, that anger grows, and she will stop seeing them as friends but obstacles, and you've seen what she does to obstacles. She will handle the others for me." Siva Lilymon goes, "But don't you care about the soldiers and territory you lose because of her?" Attorneymon says, "If you want the truth, no. I can just replace most of them with a call down to the factories." Siva Lilymon goes, "Dark Tower digimon…" He continues, "Damn straight. I admit, there were some real guys down there, but not many. Why use real troops when I can just use inexpensive cannon fodder to take the fall for them? As for the humans, I just used some prisoners of war still loyal to Malachimon and unlucky bums from the streets. In all, I'd say that only about half a percent of those dead were even mine. As for the bases, those areas were not important anyway." Siva Lilymon goes, "You got something else planned, don't you?" Attorneymon goes, "Yes, but I won't tell you." The Musyamon goes, "It's ready."

Sakiko goes, "Yes!! What would she think of you? I may not be your biological mother, but when I was adopted, I took on that role, and I know what I think." Jun says to Andromon, "Wait, wouldn't that make Sakiko her aunt? Andromon?" He just stands there, blank. From nowhere, Attorneymon appears. Attorneymon goes, "Well, well. I see someone has been throwing a temper tantrum." Lily turns and yells, "You!!" Attorneymon goes, "I heard you have been looking for me. Naughty girl, blowing up all my bases." Lily flies down and tries to strike him, but goes through him. "Silly girl, would you think I'd come here in person, in your state of mind, and with reinforcements at your side? I may be powerful, but I'm not cocky." Bonnie, "What are you trying to do?" Attorneymon goes, "Nothing. What makes you think I'm trying to do anything? It's her mad rhetoric, but now that I know about this future and I now have the technology of ancient Atlantis in my possession, I think I'll go ahead and skip the 455 year interlude and make the future today, but how I will do it I have not decided yet, but you'll be the first to know. Here's to pain and lies." His image vanishes. Lily begins to shake uncontrollably with rage. Lotusmon mentions nervously, "Maybe you should… calm… down?" This strikes the attention of the quivering child. Solemnly, she tells her, "What will that do? Are we to yield to him? Why must you be the ones waiting for something big to happen? Why do you only undo what he has done last when you have the time? Why do you wait for him? Because, you are weak, and you are puppets in the hands of the senior group. The others are too fragile, busy, and self-righteous to handle these situations properly, and you follow their example without question. Forty-five years ago, they had their chance to end the horrors of the Seven Overlords, but refused to do so, instead choosing to imprison their foe in ice, and the other got away, and for over two years, forgot about him, until he finally made himself noticed to them. That was two years they had to hunt him down and keep him from completing his goal of restoring his master." Jun says, "If they did, you would have never been born. Remember? You said it yourself. Your mother was engineered as a weapon of evil. Lucimon made her. If they had destroyed him, your mother would have never been, and you wouldn't be here." Lily goes, "Maybe it would have been best." Sakiko goes, "You can't say that!! You don't really believe that!!" Lily adds, "You believe I don't. That's the truth. You don't know what I believe." Keiko interjects, "Can't we just go home and talk about this together? Just come home, Lily. Let's talk…" Lily fires a blast at her feet. "No more talking!!" Ryo goes over to her and grabs her hand and speaks nervously, "No, she's right!! Stop wallowing in your self-pity and doubt and come home with us. Please?" She lifts her hand up and flings Ryo into a tree. "You want to stop me because you're all afraid, isn't it? So be it." She begins to charge up. Keiko starts to cry. "Why, Lily?"

"Atlas Bolt!!"

Her attack travels amidst the others and detonates, tossing them all over the place. Bonnie goes, "Hate to say this, but we're going to have to defend ourselves from Lily." Keiko says, "But Bonnie…" Bonnie, "But Bonnie nothing!! She'll destroy us if we don't at least defend ourselves!!" Jun goes, "But we're tired, and trekking through these woods exhausted many of us…" Masato adds, "Not to mention most of us are still sick from that goop Sirenamon fed us this morning!!" Bonnie answers, "Right… All those who can digivolve do so now and buy us some time to bail!!"

"Tulisapia Warp Digivolve to Hyacinthasapia!!"

"Ardillamon Warp Digivolve to Saintmon!!"

"Saintmon Warp Digivolve to Michaeamon!!"

"Andromon Warp Digivolve to Xaviomon!!"

"Xaviomon Warp Digivolve to Alcyaid Xaviomon!!"

Bonnie exclaims, "That's it? Well, we're screwed, unless I can open a gateway quickly." Alcyaid Xaviomon makes the first move.

"Quartz Lasers!!"

Seemingly uninterested in his technique, Lily does not flinch, but in fact stares it down. As it approaches, it seems to stop, then just vanish. He goes, "She cancelled it out!!" Lily goes, "Join me!! Together we can destroy them all!!" Keiko yells, "Not like this, Lily!!" Lily points her spear at her. "Maybe Bonnie was right. Maybe we should remove the deadwood." Keiko instinctively reacts. "No!!" She fires a Photosynthesis Ray from her hand to ward her off, but Lily palms it, holding it before. "You dare try something like this? Why do you waste my time?" She hurls her own beam back at her. The impact throws Keiko into a tree. Michaeamon charges from behind. "Seven Dead…" Lily jabs him with the bottom of the spear, flips the end forward, and throws him atop Keiko. Michaeamon sits stunned for a second or two. Michaeamon goes, "I think she broke a rib or two. Can you keep her busy until I can get up?" Keiko goes, "Why should we have to fight at all, Michaeamon? This will get us nothing." She sighs. "I don't want to hurt her, but I guess Bonnie is right." Her shard shimmers for a moment, then her crest lights up.

"Hyacinthasapia Warp Digivolve to…"

She stands in the forest under the light of the moon, when suddenly, an explosion occurs on the surface of the moon, and a beam descends to the forest, the moon's light growing. Keiko takes on the glow of the light, but still remains visible and discernable from it. The whites of her eyes take on a silver tone, her irises stay green, and her pupils go all white, and the vine wrapping her arm turns into a white semi-transparent crystalline structure. Her wings shimmer and fluctuate in the light, changing shape into a pair of butterfly wings, yellow with cobalt spots along the edges. Her clothing lights up in white flames, leaving a body suit with a design familiar to that to the suit Ryoko wore in combat in Tenchi Muyo (Black suit with puffy shoulders and black mask over right side of face), but below the puffy left shoulder, there is no sleeve. The shoulders, right sleeve, upper leg and hips, lower legs (Except where the tibia is in the front), and feet, along with a stripe down each side of her from her armpits to her hips and curved stripes from her shoulders and the stripes over much of her breasts and ribs are all a lemon yellow color, while the rest of the suit, covering her torso, back, neck, right side of face, knees, shin, and ankles, all has a dark blue/cobalt color. Suddenly, the yellow areas begin to gain mass and bulk up, and take on a metallic chrome radiance and starts to illuminate in the night. Her hair style, though now a bright yellow-green, stays mostly the same (Flat hair that goes to her shoulders), but two strands on either side of her head in front of her ears now hang down to her waist and knees. These strands also stand out because halfway down each, they change from normal looking hair into an opaque crystalline structure like her vine. The petals of the two lilies in her hair become orange and crystalline as well, the stems now silver and metallic. From the end of the vine, a handle shoots out, which she grabs in her right hand. On top of it, where a ruby set, there grew four clear crystal leaves. Under those leaves sit four oval pods with dark blue garnet gem set between the top and middle of each of them. From the top of the ruby a golden oval rod extends out, a foot in length, another ruby in the middle of it. It opens up into four pieces, the outer two big and thick, bowing outward, the other two are thin and short, close to the gem. Electricity sparks from the large ruby on the handle, then surges up to the small gem above. About an inch and a half above the small ruby, yellow energy streams out, maintaining an inch and a half space away from any part of the handle or rods, then begins to taper after rising past the rods, reaching seven feet in length. As soon as the yellow energy stops, a blue ball of power shimmers on the tip splits in half, and travels down the edge of the yellow, blending together where they met in a thin green hue, forming a three inch thick `blade' on either side. This continues until it reaches the widest point of the yellow energy, when it continues at the same angle downward, the inner edge resting on the outer rods and each side ending in sharp points. All the flowers and trees seem to have silver metallic stems, white semi-transparent glowing crystal leaves, and vibrantly colored clear petals. All the grass looks like big quartz shards fluttering limply in the wind. She spins the sword around and rests it on her shoulder.

"…Luna Lilysapia!!"

Lily does not even pay attention to her. Instead, she approaches Michaeamon. Lily speaks to him, "You must do better that this if you hope to stop Attorneymon." She starts caning him with the blunt end of her spear, leaving bleeding whelps all over his face. Alcyaid Xaviomon starts a charge toward her, raising his tomahawk, but before he got within even a foot, Lily turns and shatters his tomahawk with her spear, then shattered and pierced his superstructure with her bare fist. She drew back again and landed a spear slash across his left side and shoulder, causing internal explosions. This is followed up with a blow from the other end, tearing his chest off, letting out a big blast from his back, and finally Lily gives him a monstrously hard kick, so hard it rips out his lower legs and knees as he falls. As he flies back, explosions are ripping him asunder. One occurs on his arm and detonates his ammunition, vaporizing his left arm. The chest less, one-armed, stubby legged robot was deleted and reverted to an egg state. Michaeamon finally stands, but only to meet Lily's foot swinging back around to hit him in the head, breaking his visor. Sakiko asks, "What's taking so long?!" To this Bonnie answers, "There are still tower fragments here, and it's disrupting portal generation!!" She turns to the others. "Sad. You let the smallest things hold you back." Scarletmon yells, "Hey, you didn't eat those undercooked pancakes of the apocalypse!! At least give us that!!" Lily's eyes open wide and does an anime fall. She gets up and yells, "Stupid!! What does pancakes got to do with saving the worlds? It's no excuse!!" She leaps up into the air. Scarletmon says, "But I saw a white light…" All they can do is watch in fear as she raises her arms, when from nowhere, an energy blade slashes Lily's side, tearing her tanktop and leaving a small cut on her waist. Lily looks to her right and feels the cut, just before she is hit in the head and knocked to the ground. Lily looks around and sees what happened. "K… Keiko?" She stands on a tree limb, looking at Lily. "Stop it, Lily!! We aren't your enemies!!" She retorts, "But you stand between me and the path to victory!!" She charges into the air. Keiko points the index finger of her left hand at her. In what seems painful, a crystal flower grows from the tip, the petals closed.

"Night Blossom!!"

Suddenly, it removes itself from her finger and flies towards Lily. "Please…" she says. The flower begins to glow, and inches in front of her, the petals open, and it explodes, throwing crystal shrapnel towards her. The blast throws her down, but the fragments just break on her. Some stray pieces fly in other directions. One whizzes by Scarletmon's head and hits a tree. She shudders, then passes out. Lily gets up, charging again. This time, Keiko holds her palm out, and the pods on the sword fly off, forming a tetrahedron before her hand. Light starts to fade away around her. All that can be seen of her is a pink outline of her body and the yellow areas of her suit. A pink light moves down the crystal vine to her arm. The crystalline portion of her hair also has this glow now. The gems in the pods light up, and from her hand comes three beams, each going to one pod. The light ricochets between all four pods.

"Looking Glass Beam!!"

From the center of three beams coming from her hand, a fourth, giant beam travels through the middle, splitting into three small beams and a medium size beam at the first three pods. The area between the three pods takes on a mirror-like shimmer, all the beams intensify, and then a gigantic beam emits from the fourth pod, just as Lily got within a couple of feet from the fourth pod, and swallows Lily up in it. She fights the power for a moment, trying to fly to the source, but then lets it shove her back, sending her flipping back. Halfway down, she spins out of the path as the soil below suffers the wrath of the beam, sending out an 10 foot diameter discharge. Everyone shields his or her eyes from the illumination. As soon as Keiko moves her arm, she finds Lily there with her spear already coming down. Keiko draws her sword and tries to hold back the weapon, but Lily's strength is overwhelming. Keiko falls to one knee, but continues to hold her back. Keiko thinks, "Lily, you used to be so nice…" At the same time, Lily thinks, "Why won't she give up?" Just then, the limb breaks, and Keiko falls to the ground and Lily flips head over heels into the side of the tree face first. ON the ground, she sits, much of the yellow on the back of the legs of her suit is missing, and a strange glowing yellow pool around her rear, which she landed on. Suddenly, the yellow goop slides back up her legs and restores the missing yellow area. Lotusmon goes, "That's just like Metal Lilymon and Neo Spheremon!! Liquid metal armor!!" Keiko rubs her head while sitting there on the ground. Lily drops down, spear down ready to shish-ka-bob. Sakiko yells, "Keiko, look out!!" Masato looks away, but suddenly there is a bright flash and a ping sound. Everyone looks, and generated from the bottom of one of the pods, circling her head now, is a pink barrier above her, which Lily landed on. A surge comes over it, and throws Lily off it. After she is off, it vanishes. Keiko stands up. Her shard is glowing, as is Ryo's shard. "I know it now, but now is not the time to use it." Lily smirks.

"Kin'iro no Kamikaze!!"

The leaves and light begin to rain down, Keiko takes one step back into a wide stance with her right side in front, and the pods orbit her head. As they reach her, the barrier generated by the pod appears again, a kind of diamond shape curved outward. They rapidly spin around her head, each generating a barrier when something nears Keiko. The fours energy barriers block much of what comes at her, but it cannot keep up with it all, and some of it passes through. Some of it hits the yellow sections of her suit, much of the force and shock absorbed on impact, and as a result series of ripples cover those areas, sometimes blasting away the yellow to reveal the same cobalt color as the rest of the suit. Those that hit the cobalt areas make cuts in it, some not piercing it, and those that do can't seem to draw blood. Lily is surprised. "Amazing defense, but let's see if she can keep it up." Slowly, the assault moves to the left, picking up speed. Keiko exclaiming, "She's moving the attack!!" Ryo yells, "Michaeamon, you got to stop her!!" Bonnie says, "Meramon, get out there too!!"

"Seven Deadly Strikes!!"

"Meramon Warp Digivolve to Boltmon!!"

Michaeamon lands his first attack, but then she turns and lands her knee in his gut, then a left cross to his head. "But how? You were supposed to be frozen?!" Lily does not listen.

"Delta Crash!!"

Sakiko goes, "What the?" Lily turns and faces Boltmon, the previous attack still forming. "Tomahawk Knuc…" Lily goes. "No."

"Atlas Bolt!!"

Jun goes, "I'm no expert on energy techniques, but what she's doing should be impossible!! She's using and manipulating three high power attacks at the same time!!"

"Delta Crash!!"

Jun yells, "Make that four!!" The first Delta attack hits Michaeamon at point blank range, blowing energy shards clean through him. The second one heads straight for Keiko. The Atlas Bolt travels in the ground, following Boltmon, throwing trees out of its way. Her first attack is still going on strong as ever, and closes in on the others, waiting for Bonnie to open that portal.

Up in the Dominion HQ, Attorneymon enters the lab. "Now, I hear tell that you found some new uses for the stuff we excavated." Black Tailmon says, "Yeah, but most of it will take a month or so to integrate into our existing technological base." Attorneymon goes, "You got a week." Black Tailmon goes, "Okay… Well, new trooper designs are ready to launch, and we could have new Valk… uh, I mean generals soon." Attorney says, "You were going to say `Valkyrie,' weren't you?" She answers, "Well, yeah. I got used to calling subjects that, and it's hard to break old habits." Attorneymon goes, "Let me guess. You plan to use more Lilymon?" She nods. "Well, they're still the best engineering candidates, and unlike Evamon, I'm not afraid to nuke a test subject or two in the name of science." Attorneymon answers, "See, that's why you got this job. Reckless determination and lack of any moral fibers in you are good things. I want to see this project."

At one computer in the lab, a Hagurumon sits and watches the fight between Lily and the others, with various bars and graphs running on the sides. One bar is rising fast. "This can't be!! He assured us her power would drop off. Sure, it did in Gabriel's Fjord after his last encounter with her, but now, it just keeps rising!! It's already 30% higher than a few hours ago!! How those others are even alive is a mystery to me!! I must warn him!!" He runs over to Black Tailmon and Attorneymon. "Sir, sir!! Important news about the Fallon girl's power!!" Attorneymon goes, "I know. It must be falling rapidly now." He goes, "But sir…" Attorneymon responds, "Don't waste my time with things I already know, lowly peon." The two walk off. The Hagurumon mutters quietly, "If it keeps growing like this, we're all doomed."

In the forest, Michaeamon sits on the ground bleeding, followed by Petit Meramon joining him next to him. Michaeamon says, "I can feel the life, draining from me. I'm going to die, aren't I?" Petit Meramon, his voice weak, says, "We're digital. That can't happen." Michaeamon says, "I know, but something deep down inside says she could very well do it." Ryo runs over to him, hearing what they said. "You won't let that happen!! Too much is at risk. She's only supposed to be a Terra!! You should be able to stop her!!" Michaeamon goes, "Oh, Ryo, the things you do not know… The data may say she is a Terra, but it like she hits like a low-level Omega. How I survived her the first time is a miracle in itself." Ryo goes, "Stop talking so wimpy. Look at the facts!! You can do this!!" Michaeamon thinks, "I can't bust his bubble. He couldn't handle it. He is right. She's only a Terra." Ryo's shard glows. Keiko goes, "No, stop it Ryo!! Don't do it!!" Ryo yells, "Now!!" The shards crack in the middle.

"THE SHARD OF INNOCENCE!!"

"Michaeamon Terravolve to…"

Standing in a beam of light surrounded his former selves, he ascends into the sky, where the sun is shining brilliant gold hues in the heavily clouded troposphere, the clouds sweeping by under him at a good pace. One ray flies up and all his armor falls off, leaving him only wearing a pair of pants. Another light moved over him, and he became encased in an egg of light. Slowly it opens to show him no different, but now sporting golden wings longer than he is tall. He spreads his arms out to his side. He eclipses the sunlight, and a look of pain comes over him. The light pierces his hands and feet. His veins start to swell, and his muscles start to gain mass. Quickly, they were double, no, triple, no, seven times bigger than before!! All of his muscles were huge, even those on his wings. His pants tore in areas due to the size of his frame, and it kept growing. His height extended as well, reaching over seven foot, and after reaching ten times their original mass and size, the muscles finally stopped growing, and the light stopped coming from his hands and feet. Sans the green skin, he was like the angel equivalent to the Incredible Hulk. He unleashes a cry that rips the sky asunder, blowing clouds away and generating waves much like how a nuclear blast does.

"…Rafaelmon, The Great Bouncer of the Heavens!!"

He dashes over to Lily and holds her in a full nelson. Rafaelmon yells, "Keiko, hit her now!!" Keiko, still blocking Lily's first attack from the others, says, "No!! I can't!! I just can't hurt her!!" Lily goes, "Keiko, I'm disappointed. I thought you actually had potential, but you're just as weak as ever." She grabs Rafaelmon's left arm and throws him over her shoulder in to the ground. He lands left foot first, and bounces off the ground, back towards her. He draws his arm back.

"Demon Purge!!"

He reaches out palm first delivering at first looks like a simple palm strike to her head, but on contact, vast amounts of holy energy are unleashed in every direction in front of his palm. The ground becomes gelatinous from the attack, throwing mud waves all around. After a second of making contact with Lily's forehead, she is sent flying back, but not very far. She says, "Nice attack. Mind if I try it?" He's surprised.

"Demon Purge!!"

Moments after he did it, she immediately recreates the same move. Her attack though throws the heaping muscle man through a series of trees and the ground. Keiko starts to cry and yells, "Stop it!! Stop it, Lily!!" Suddenly, the yellow metal seeps off her suit and joins the four pods, forming four more barriers in the empty gaps between the others. Lily turns to see this, and then, the assault on Keiko stops. Green bolts fly up from the ground around Keiko and the barriers. Her hair starts blowing up. The four pink energy barriers begin to bend forward, pointing at Lily, while the yellow four stay in place. Even more energy surges between the four barriers, traveling down path between them like electricity in a superconductor. Keiko takes on a silver toned aura about her, and the grass mysterious looked clear and like crystal shards, but still blowing around as limply as before.

"Tsukiyuri Cannon!!"

Golden light shimmers down the yellow barriers from the ends to the center, meeting with the green energy. Keiko sticks her hands inside the tubular center made by the four barriers. A white light builds up from Keiko's hands. Finally, the light whips through the corridor, feeding on the energy trapped in there. As it escapes, energy flares and energy bolts fly out the sides of the beam, ripping all things surrounding the beam asunder. It comes at Lily, not the least bit surprised. It hits her, and she holds it back in her hands. She continues to shove it, but some of the wisps and flares strike her, knocking her back a little each time. One hits her right arm and cuts her open. Keiko continues to feed the beam, and then the barriers began to move apart, like a flower blooming, increasing the size of the beam. As it does, small rocks and debris seem to be drawn into the beam. Lily starts sliding back from the power of the beam. As the beam grows, and the barriers extend to a 45º angle, a green pulse travels down it. About 30 seconds later, another pulse goes out. Lily sees these pulses and is engulfed by them. After the first, her skin had a light blue tone. "Stupid poison!!" Lily skids some more, trying to fight off the poison in her. Lily thinks, "Finally, one of them got it… Maybe… How do I get out of in front of this thing?" As the beam widens, bigger things are sucked in, and some larger things seem to slow down as it approaches the surface of the beam. Jun and Ryo begin to slide towards it as well, until Masato and Sakiko grab them. Lily begins to scream out as she feels herself being drawn in and thrusted back all at once. The barriers finally extend out 90º, and the beam stops. The yellow metal seeps back on her, and the pods fall to the ground lifeless. Keiko falls to her knees and goes limp. Sakiko scoops her up. She asks, "Are you okay, Keiko?" Keiko sits there, sweaty, and tells her, "I'm tired, and weak. I think I can understand her now. She just wants it to stop so she can finally be at peace. She wants happiness, but she has to fight through a fog of hate and sadness, feeling that we hold her back. One thing is for sure; it's so hard, so frustrating, so lonely to fight on her level." Lily sees that the beam travels above the ground, not on it. She draws back with her left hand and punches the beam back, then dives onto the ground, letting the beam travel just above her. It soars past and hits a mountain in the distance, blowing a half-mile wide hole through the center of it and starting an avalanche. Lily dashes back down the trench made from dirt sucked up. Bonnie goes, "That's it!! Keiko destroyed the last of the tower fragments. I can open a stable rift now!!"

Rafaelmon seems to awaken from a stupor. He rises once more, and flies back, this time swinging… his fists. The first one is blocked, and Lily dodges the second. As he recovers from the miss, she kicks him squarely in the head, and then, something strange happens. For a moment, it almost seems like her pants turn orange, the yellow in her hair becomes red, and her wings turn red as well. She outstretches her arms to the sides with her hands above her head. She raises her index and pinky fingers up.

"Furiae Orb!!"

Energy surged between the two extended fingers on both hands, and met above her head. The area around her ripples and becomes hazy and hot. Bonnie goes, "Hey, I got the damn gate open!! Get your asses through it now!!" Petit Meramon goes first. He says, "Whatever happened to `Digiport Open?'" Bonnie says, "Oh, shut up." Keiko goes, "Help me up, Sakiko." She does so, as requested. Sakiko goes, "Boy, this liquid metal stuff on you is cold!!" They get through the gate. Jun runs through moments later, followed by Masato and Lotusmon. Bonnie walks over and picks up the unconscious Scarletmon and tosses her through the gate. Ryo yells, "Rafaelmon, come on!!" Bonnie says, "Don't worry over him. Get to the other side!!" Ryo goes, "We can't leave him!!" She picks him up by the back of his shirt. She goes, "Listen, I'll go get him. You go home now." She punts him through the rift. The ball over Lily continues to build in power. Rafaelmon, now holding a whole tree, comes at Lily. He starts to swing, when Lily reaches up and kicks the tree in half, sending the top half flying into other trees, and devastating a mile long path of forest. He goes, "How dare you break my tree?!" Bonnie yells, "Stop the Cro-Magnon macho man testosterone crap and get out of here, Rafaelmon!!" He seems to ignore her. He rises into the air. Golden radiance glimmers down from the sky.

"Divine Intervention!!"

He literally is ablaze in golden flames, he rockets down, wings fully outstretched, and comes at her. Partway down, he breaks the sound barrier. Further along his decent, he makes it to Mach 3, then to Mach 5, the angel now lost in a wall of flames. He gets within a foot of her, ready to swing his fist, when a discharge hits him, resolving his attack, and throws him away, screaming in agony all the way. Amazingly, only 10 seconds had passed since she started charging the attack. It stops charging and Lily looks at the soaring Rafaelmon, hurtling helplessly in the sky. Bonnie goes, "I must be crazy." She runs over and jumps on Lily, causing her to throw the orb downward instead of up. Quickly, she slides off and punches her in the head once, which results in the sound of a couple of bones breaking. Bonnie is holding her left hand, blood trickling from her index and middle fingers. Lily turns around and faces her. Bonnie has a stupid, paranoid grin on her face. "Well, I did my one good deed for the day." She begins to bolt for the port when Lily blocks her off. The strange change in color is gone from her and Lily looks normal again. Lily asks, "Do you now feel you were wrong when you said that the weak must go?" Bonnie looks at her and says, "Yes, I was wrong. Every facet of a group is important, waiting to show their full potential." Lily goes, "Fine then. I want you to lead them. Now, leave before I change my mind!!" Suddenly, there is an explosion a distance away, and a colossal flare of power surged forth, on it Bonnie sees Rafaelmon being thrown from it, reverting back his infant state of Soramon, whom lands next to her. Bonnie grabs him and runs out the gate. Lily just stands there as the wall swallows her up, vaporizing the forest. She stands there inside the chaos… and yawns.

Aboard Dominion HQ, the same Hagurumon watches in horror the explosion, reaching out over forty miles, then, suddenly drawing back on itself. "That energy… It's still rising!!!" At ground zero, the blast shrinks down, and then the energy draws back, sitting on Lily's fingertip. She stares into it, and then snuffs it with her other hand. "I shall do the same to you, and all who stand in my way."

Back in Tokyo, the group gathers in Lewis' house. Sora goes, "What happened?" Keiko sits there, still as Luna Lilysapia, and says, "We'll tell what is going on." Daisuke, being quiet, suddenly jumps up and yells, pointing at Keiko, "So Mr. Bojangles was right!! The devil sent thee from Hell to destroy me!! We're all going to die!!" He immediately runs into the doorway and knocks himself out. Masato goes, "I think he's built up a tolerance to his medication, but he had the right attitude for the news we got to tell you. Keiko, you want to?"

They explain everything. Jill faints, as does Wormmon. Most of the others are in shock. Hikari goes, "Are you sure this isn't some clone, or mind control maybe?" Bonnie goes, "I'm pretty sure I broke my hand on the real deal." Araiya goes, "Why didn't you go to a hospital first?" Bonnie goes, "I kind of felt that this was more important." Sakiko goes, "The way she spoke, it was more like madness than mind control, a mad rhetoric about how she shouldn't exist, her horrible her life is, and how weak you guys were. She also talked about the future, and how it is her life, and the way she wanted Attorneymon to experience this… hell before he died at her hands." Lilymon goes, "She's blaming herself for a timeline that shouldn't even exist anymore, and is acting she's carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders alone. She was always alone. Jill told me she never really talked to anyone outside of her, and how betrayed she felt when we told her the truth." Scarletmon goes, "It's true, but the walking guilt trip is also packing enough power to wipe us all out. I dare say it, but she may now be more dangerous than Attorneymon." Lotusmon adds, "That's right. I saw her first use her power, and she beat Attorneymon, as an Omega, with no help, but now that power is even greater!!" Masato goes, "I don't know. I think she was holding back for some reason. If she wanted too, she could have killed us all. I think she could still be reasoned with." Mimi says, "Well, there is nothing that we can do tonight. We'll talk of this later." Many of them leave. Araiya goes, "Bonnie, you need to see a doctor. Come with me." Bonnie leaves with her. Masato goes, "I think that goop is acting up in me again, so good night." Sakiko says, "I just don't know about this…" She goes upstairs. Jun says, "I hope my parents don't ground me for being late." She leaves. Only Keiko, Ryo, and Sora remain in the room now. Keiko asks, "Why did you feel you had to do it?" Ryo goes, "Do what?" Keiko asks, "Why did you let Michaeamon reach his Terra form?" Ryo says, "Well, I thought since she was a Terra and that would be, they would be equal, but not I know I wasn't right at all. I thought if we could stop her, we could get her home and talk to her." Keiko replies, "It's okay. I was afraid to hurt her myself, but I think I hurt her most of all."

Just moments later, as Sora got up, Sirenamon came in, holding her head and dizzy. Sora goes, "I wonder when she got up?" Sora runs over to her. She asks, "Are you okay?" Sirenamon says, "I guess…" Ryo asks, "What's wrong with her?" Sora goes, "Earlier on, Armajimon and Zenmon threw her into a panic attack when they confronted her about something she was afraid of." Ryo ponders, "What are you afraid of, Sirenamon?" Sirenamon is helped to the couch, where Sora gives her a cover. Lotusmon hears the commotion and sits from the stairway listening. Sirenamon tells him, "Well, It was only a matter of time before anyone noticed, and he said that admitting it and getting it out is the first step… Keiko, Ryo, please don't laugh at me. I'm afraid of water." A short pause starts… "Go ahead, laugh at it." Keiko goes, "That's nothing to laugh at. You are afraid of something. Everyone is entitled to his or her fears. We all know Lewis is afraid of political correctness taking over the world and bees. Romi's mother is afraid of her husband. Araiya is afraid of all Lewis stands for. Iori used to be like you. Daisuke fears that the devil sent me from Hell to destroy him. Attorneymon is afraid of Lily could do, and Lily is afraid of the end of the world, and that she may be at fault for it. It's okay." Ryo goes, "I don't like it when people laugh at me for being afraid of clowns." Sirenamon goes, "I guess you got a point, but if Attorneymon ever did sic sarcastically politically correct abusive underwater clowns of the apocalypse sent from the very bowels of Hell with a jar of bees and a salad shooter, you do know we're all doomed. Didn't Stephen King write a book about that?" Keiko goes, "I don't think so." Sirenamon goes, "Okay… I think I feel a little better about this now." Keiko goes, "I think we should get some rest." Keiko starts to get up, but then, something catches Sirenamon's eye. The flowers in Keiko's hair shimmer in the light. Sirenamon stares right at them. Her face now seems blank…

In her mind, she sees the flower again, but somewhere else. Again, she is dressed in elegant but strange clothing, and is talking to some one. "Come over here. This is called the Citrus Lily. They're getting more and more rare each passing day. Also, have you noticed that everything seems to be dimmer now? The flora are dying, and we don't know why." A strange figure, wearing a dark blue cloak attached to a pair of shoulder plates over a golden crystal chest plate over a dull near white liquid metal tunic which hung to his knees and yellow-orange pants, whom had skin of wood, crystal leaves growing from his fingers, and a head that on one side was the moon, and the other side looked like the sun, each one having a face. He says, "Are you sure? If so, what could be doing this?" She says, "I know it!! How long has it been since you just stopped and looked at the scenery, dear?" He says, "It's been awhile. I've been so busy." Sirenamon goes, "Tsukitaiyomon, what have I said about overworking yourself? Back to what I was saying, remember when you were younger, back a few decades, and remember that all the plants were all metallic and crystalline, and made a bright glow? Plants of white, silver, yellow, and clear assortments covered the land?" The digimon, apparently known as Tsukitaiyomon, spoke, "Yes… Yes, I do." Sirenamon goes, "Now look… It's fading, green, and dull… Oh dear…" She looks at his arms. "You really need to rest more!! Look at how brown those arms are!!" Tsukitaiyomon says to her, "But isn't brown the color of wood on your world?" She answers, "Yes, there, but that's not here. Here, brown wood is dying wood!!" A small figure, which looks like a small Lotusmon, comes in. She says, "These legs are so hard to use!!" She trips over her own feet and falls down. She looks at the chest plate she wears. "Strange… She's so young. She should be totally healthy, but she is like her father…"

Suddenly, she comes out of it. Sora is shaking her. Keiko is going, "You can let go of my hair, Sirenamon!!" Sirenamon lets go, but takes one of the flowers in Keiko's hair. Sirenamon says, "What… What's going on?" Sora answers, "When Keiko stood up, you just grabbed her hair and went into this trance, mumbling some stuff about plants dying, how all the plants were crystal and metal, that brown wood is dying wood here, and you seemed to be talking to a `Tsukitaiyomon.' Who's Tsukitaiyomon?" Sirenamon goes, "I wish I could tell you… I don't know…" She sees the flower again. "Keiko, where did you get a Citrus Lily?" Sora says, "A what?" Keiko goes, "A Citrus Lily. I've only heard about them in Biology class when we studied the similarities of digital and real world lifeforms. My professor had a special chapter about lunar digimon and flora, and talked about stories he heard of extinct plants, one of which was a Citrus Lily. He even got excavate a fossil of one. Now that I think about it, that does look like what he describes." Sirenamon goes, "This… is from the moon? Except for the day I hatched, I've never once been on the moon. I shouldn't know this, but it seems so familiar…" Lotusmon thinks, "She knows Tsukitaiyomon… my father!! The only ones who remember him are the founders of the Resistance and Neo Spheremon… Could she be…"

In Dominion HQ, Black Tailmon leads Attorneymon to a huge room. "You wanted to see the new `toys' we got…" She goes to what seems like a giant turret. "This is the Charged Particle Railgun Turret. It gives a small mass of lead atoms a charge, then through synchatron and rift technology, launches the microscopic ball of doom into the target at the speed of light. At that speed and power, it can blow a hole as big as my head through this station. This will make base defense a lot more interesting." They go over to a small collective of people. "With those designs, we have now begun of our own Power Nexuses." Attorneymon exclaims, "Most excellent, indeed." She adds, "Also thanks to the schematics, we now know the absolute minimum power level of the Omega level, and can now build Omega level dark tower digimon, but there is one bad this about it." Attorneymon goes, "What is this?" Black Tailmon says, "It would require us to build a planet made of the substance used to make the towers twice the size of the moon!! That's equivalent to making a number of towers equal to 1•104,000,000!!" Attorneymon goes, "I see. You would have to make a planet of them because there isn't enough surface area on the Digital World to place even a quarter of them, but I still want you to get to work on it. Start construction on a system of Dark Tower Planets. I want the first two ready by the equinox." She goes, "Okay… With the power core we got from Atlantis and a new energy barrier technology we are working on, Vindicator 1 could be ready for use by the end of April." Attorneymon goes, "Good!! That thing has been gathering dust in the hangar for ages." She goes, "There is much more, but they are still in development, but now here is the main event." Attorneymon goes, "I must see this." They go into a lab where three Lilymon are tied down to tables. Attorneymon goes, "Now explain this, because I don't want the losers Evamon made." Black Tailmon says, "Well, the first thing we did was choose DNA of more sinister digimon, and then we found `meaner' subjects. That's what I like about Data digimon. They can any degree of alignment." The one on the right goes, "Gimme my money!! If this some sort of scam, I'll kill you!!" The middle one goes, "What's your offer, ya stupid cat?!" Black Tailmon continues, "Also, through the notes we found, we found a way to take the Palacin crystal we found and corrupt it, allowing us to make Dark Paladins." Attorneymon goes, "I wish to know what the changes will be." She goes to the left one. "She will be infused purely with corrupted Palacin. The one in the center will get a big old genetic cocktail made of Palacin crystal, various other Lilymon DNA, Musyamon DNA, and some Enokimon, a Mega level Lunar plant digimon, for some flare. Finally, the one on the right will be given this neat mix of Gigadramon and Megadramon." Attorneymon goes, "Okay, but if they all screw up, it's your ass." Black Tailmon says, "I know." She goes to a console. She opens a series of files, then enters a program and hits the OK button. "Now, prepare to scream!!"

What will become of Lily now? Can anything stop her? What will be the result of Black Tailmon's twisted science? Will Siva Lilymon's betrayal be noticed? What are these strange dreams Sirenamon having? What is with Stefan… and what the hell is Lewis doing in there? Is he constipated? What?!! Find out the answers to these questions and see if anyone dies of food poisoning in Bloodline: Chapter 13 - "Dark Paladins Arrive!! Dominion Foothold Falls, The Rise of `Red Lily!!'"