Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Guardian Angel ❯ Episode Ten: "We Need Help! Will Hope Ever Earn Trust?" ( Chapter 10 )

In the Digital World...

Archnemon was standing alone inside the dark room, staring at the screen that was overlooking the Digital World. Some of it was dead or dying but there was still more areas filled with the light life that must be replaced by light of death and darkness. She then heard the noise of the sliding doors open and turned her head to see her empress walk in. What caught her eye right away was that Angel was staring down at the ground with a bothered look as she walked. "Welcome my Empress," she greeted as she bowed, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." she answered in a tiresome tone. She then sat down on her throne and sighed deeply. "Are you sure? You don't seem like yourself." Archnemon said. "I said I'm fine!" Angel snapped. She then lowered her voice back to a tired tone. Ever since that thinking with "herself", she lost her energy.
"I just need energy."
"There are still more areas with lots of energy. We are getting closer to complete our goal."
"What about the dark towers?"
"There are still many, many more that are working."
Angel then grinned evilly, "Then we must hurry and take over all the living areas, ne?"
"Hai."
"There are still more areas with digimon waiting to be slaves and energy to become darkness. Soon enough I'll take over all the areas and consume everything in darkness, sucked the life out of every pathetic life form, and become the most powerful being alive. Besides I'm bored and I need some fun..."

Meanwhile...

"Fire Rocket!"
"Kusanagi!"
"Gold Rush!"

Each of the armor digimon were knocking down more dark towers, trying to stop the dark spell that was sucking the life out of the area. "Okay guys, take a break." called Daisuke. The digimon then returned to their rookie forms and rested by their human partners. "Well, so far so good," Miyako said, "But we still need to clean up more areas." "Aww man!" wailed Daisuke. "I hope Hikari-chan and Takeru-kun are alright." said Iori. "I'm sure they are," encouraged Daisuke, "They should be back anytime soon with that dagger, which by the way was a great idea, Iori-chan."

It was Iori that Hikari and Takeru went back to the area where the children fought Angel's army of Bakemon, where she killed the innocent Electmon. They returned there to find the bloody dagger that Angel used to make that deep gash on her hand. Iori's idea was that Koushiro might be able to use the blood on the dagger to find more information about Angel, by using her DNA. Maybe even find out who she really is.

Then soon enough, Takeru and Hikari came back flying on their armored digimon and landed with the rest of the group. "Did you find it?" asked Miyako. "Yeah." answered Takeru as Hikari held a small object covered in a cloth. She uncovered it and revealed the bloodstained dagger. "Alright!" said Daisuke. "Is it lunch already?" asked Armadimon, ignoring the real reason why they were there. "Yeah, we're hungry. Knocking down towers takes a lot of energy." said Patamon. "Don't worry. I brought some food from my store." said Miyako as she pulled out her duffel bag. "Yea, food!" cheered V-mon. Then all the digimon ran straight to Miyako and jumped on her and into her bag. "Be careful not to eat my arm!" She then took out the food and gave it to the hungry digimon. "They don't have the energy to destroy dark towers but yet enough to attack me." she sighed. Hikari then giggled. "Just a few more towers and I think we'll be done for today." said Iori. "Yeah, you guys can't keep your energy up for too long." said Takeru. "If it weren't these stupid towers, it would be so much easier to destroy them with our digimon in their champion levels." said Daisuke. "It sure would, huh?" agreed Takeru. Their champion level power would make the job easier and faster. "Well, there isn't a dark tower here so it will be safe for them to evolve into champion levels after they're done replenishing their energy." said Hikari. "Well, except for me," said Hawkmon, "Miyako, when will I evolve to my champion level?" "Don't worry Hawkmon. You'll evolve soon enough. Besides, your just as tough and cool when your Shurimon or Holsmon." And she then gave the blushing Hawkmon her bingo sign with a smile. "Okay, just a few more minutes and we'll get back to work." said Takeru.

Somewhere in the Digital World...

"Attack!" commanded Angel as she saw her army of dark digimon attacking innocent and pure ones. She laughed in victory as many more digimon were being captured for her amusement. "I really need this. This is so much fun." Then Archnemon came up behind her. "The soldiers in the other areas are capturing other digimon while others are building more towers." she reported.
"What about the weak ones?"
"They are in their prisons. Waiting for their lives to end.
"Excellent." Angel said in satisfaction.
"Demo..." Archnemon said nervously.
"But...?" Angel asked.
"One of the soldiers reported a child has broken into one prisons and is freeing the undark prisoners."
"Then why aren't you there?!" she snarled.
"I'm on my way." she said in a weak, nervous voice.
After Archnemon left, Angel's soldiers gathered a group of digimon. "More pets, more energy." she sneered to herself. She really didn't care about any digimon, even her own soldiers. What she would do is turn digimon into dark digimon with her powers and make them her slaves. It didn't matter if the digimon obeyed her or not. Once they were finished building enough dark towers to her satisfaction she would kill them anyway because they would be useless. They would become too tried from building dark towers because they work non-stop. Angel only kept strong digimon, mostly champion level digimon. The dark tower wouldn't take energy from them because they don't take dark energy away. She began to walk up to the group of frighten digimon and lifted her hands. The feeling of dark power grew in her hands and the digimon knew they're life has met a dark fate... "Only the strong survive in any world, that's what I've learn and "feelings" make a person weaker." She was truly heartless.

Not far from the Chosen Children...

"Hurry up! Get out of here!" shouted Ken. All the prisoned digimon were running free thanks to the kindness of this child. They were all very happy. They were free and saw their world's sun and sky for the first time in a long time, but maybe just for now. There was a chance that Angel will try retrieving them back and turning them into dark slaves. Or maybe worse... They all had to hurry quickly because Ken knew that Angel's soldiers might have sent reinforcements. From the behind the crowd, Stingmon appeared. "Is that all of them?" asked Ken. "Yeah." answered Stingmon. "All right! Now let's get out of here before someone comes." "Too late." asked a woman's voice.
"Oh no." said Ken.
"You just don't understand do you?"
"I don't care what you have to say!"
"How rude. I'll teach to understand and some manners."
Archnemon then snapped her fingers and immediately a Snimon appeared from behind her.
"It must be another fake digimon. It's not dark."
"Destroy this pest and his little pet too." She then disappeared behind the trees and bushes. "Twin Sickle!" it attacked. Stingmon simply dodged it thanks to his high agility. "Give him all you got, Stingmon!" shouted Ken. Snimon then went straight after Stingmon and they began to fight. "I don't think Stingmon will be able to fight him for long, especially after knocking all those towers and freeing those digimon from the prison," Ken thought, "We might need help...but...I hope...please...help..." "Twin Sickle!" "Spiking Finish!" The fight continued.

Beep...beep...beep...huh...?

"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon went straight towards Snimon but dodged him quickly and Stingmon left down his defense. "Twin Sickle!" "Look out!" Ken shouted. But the attack hit its target and Stingmon was down. Stingmon crashed down towards the ground. "Stingmon, daijoubu?" Ken asked the fallen digimon. "I can't fight him off any longer," he said weakly, "Ken, you have to get out of here." "I can't." Ken said. He then looked up in terror and saw Snimon coming right at them...

"X Laser!"

The surprise attack hit Snimon. "Huh?" Ken said in disbelief. He then saw XV-mon along with the other armor digimon and their human partners. "Ken, are you alright?" asked Daisuke from a distance. Ken was still surprised that they came. He thought they wouldn't come to help but they did. Ken then nodded yes. Stingmon then quickly flew towards Snimon while he was still trying to regain his sanity. "Spiking Finish!" Stingmon went straight towards the head and Snimon was deleted. Daisuke and the others gasped in horror as they saw what happened. Ken looked at them with a sadden face. He knew what they thought. Stingmon then picked him up and they flew off. "Gomen nasai. Is there any more hope for me to earn your trust?" He wanted to tell them about Archnemon and her fake digimon but how would they believe him after everything he's done? Is it hopeless that they will ever unite together?

"See? And you want us to trust Ken?" said Miyako at Daisuke.
"There had to be a good reason why he did that."
"Yeah, he's still evil."
"No way! Didn't you see? He was cornered and was going to be attacked."
"But that doesn't mean he had to kill a digimon."
"Okay enough already," said Takeru, breaking them apart before there was another fight, "It's getting late and we'll deal with this tomorrow. We have to get the dagger back to Koushiro-san" "He's right," said Hikari, "Let's go." As the began to leave, Daisuke looked back, "Ken, why won't you talk to us? Please, I know there is still hope for you. Please join us soon."