Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Return of D-Reaper ❯ Another Chance ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer:  I do not own Digimon.  Thanks to Racco (from mediaminer) and MGM Pyrolion for Kneazlemon’s attacks.  Return of D-Reaper 4 Another Chance   Jeri neglected her new digimon partner except for the times she gave it food.  Sometimes it refused to eat so it wouldn’t digivolve.  It didn’t want to be sent to the Digital World during this adverse time. It wasn’t created just to be sent back, was it?  It deserved a tamer just like any other digimon out there.  Wasn’t that why Takato took the trouble to draw the egg and the baby digimon?  He waned to give Jeri another chance.  He didn’t want to remind her of what she lost.   While all of this happened, the other tamers were facing trouble with the D-Reaper’s Agents.  Kazu and Kenta did their best to stop them but without the power to Biomerge with their digimon they didn’t have much luck.  The monster makers were working on finding the secret to Biomerging so they could help Kazu and the others.  It seemed that something had to happen between the tamer and their partner to allow them to biomerge like it did with Takato and the others.  It didn’t make any sense.  Kazu and Kenta were tamers too. Why couldn’t they biomerge? What did they have to do?  Were Takato and the others just simply stronger than they were?   As more D-Reaper Agents approached the tamers and their digimon, Guardomon was hit by one of the Pendulum feet, a flying purple cloak with scythe-like legs.    “Guardromon!” Kazu exclaimed.   “Oh dear me,” the robot digimon muttered in surprise as he lost date, causing him to de-digivolve into Hagurumon.  He now looked like three gears welded together.    “What the?” Hagurumon wondered out loud.   “We’ve got to keep our digimon away from them,” said Kenta.  “Or…they could be destroyed!”   “Man, if only we can biomerge with our digimon!” Kazu grunted. “KAHUNA WAVES!” Marine Angemon shouted and great waves of water knocked some of the Agents back.    Antylamon jumped forward and leashed her attack.  “BUNNY BLADE!”   The attack destroyed the Pendulum Feet and Beelzemon topped off his own attack. “DOUBLE IMPACT!”   “There is just so many of them!” Ai cried. -- The Tamers did not know that Jeri was watching this battle on the news.  Jeri let out a sigh and wondered why all of this was happening.  Well, it was obvious.  It was all her fault.  She let herself become an easy target for the D-Reaper and now the world was going to suffer all over again.  She had to let them take care of this. They were going to have to be the ones to stop it.  If she got involved she’ll just mess up over again.    “Fluffmon won’t eat,” she said softly.  “She knows she had to digivolve so I can take her back to the digital world.”  She took some food with her to the room and found her digimon looking out the window, still in her in-training form.   “What are you looking at?” Jeri demanded.    “I know your friends are fighting, Jeri,” Fluffmon answered.  “When are we going to help them?”   “We’re not,” Jeri muttered. “I already told you this.  I just need you to digivolve into Rookie so I can bring you back to the digital world.”   “They need our help.”   “They can handle it,” Jeri muttered.  “Here, I want you to eat this.”   “I’m not hungry,” her digimon hissed.   “Don’t you want to digivolve?” Jeri asked.  “Isn’t that what Digimon were created for?”   “Maybe,” said Fluffmon, “but I wasn’t.  I was created so I can be your partner.”   “I don’t need a new partner,” Jeri said coldly.    The doorbell rang.  Jeri shouted for someone to answer the door and when no one did it, she groaned and went to do it herself.  She was surprised to see Alice McCoy standing in her doorway.   “Alice McCoy?” Jeri mumbled.  “What are you doing here?”   “I’ve come to see you,” Alice answered.  “May I come in, please?”   “Suit yourself,’ Jeri sighed, nodding inside and Alice walked in.  Jeri closed the door and led her to her room so they could speak privately.  Fluffmon glanced up at Alice.   “Good,” Alice said, “I came in time.”   “Time for what?” Jeri questioned.   “I knew you’d be planning to bring your digimon back to the digital world soon,” Alice said, turning to her.    “Takato told you this?”   “Yes,” Alice replied.  “I’ve come to stop you.”   “You can’t stop me, Alice,” Jeri muttered.  “I’m doing it, unless you want to take her back!”   “My father didn’t create this digimon just so you can throw it back!” Alice hissed, pointing at Fluffmon.  She cleared her throat.  “You’re making a mistake.  You have to be her tamer.”   “I never asked for a new partner,” Jeri said.   “I know you didn’t,” Alice said.  “But Takato thought it might make you happy.  He wanted to give you another chance to be a tamer so why don’t you use it?”   “I don’t deserve to be a tamer,” Jeri said, “Don’t you see?  It’s my fault that the D-Reaper is back.”   “So why don’t you do something about it and fight back?” Alice demanded.  “You’re such a coward!”   Jeri gasped and stepped back.  “I’m—I’m not…”  She looked down and sighed.  “You’re right, I am a coward.  But I can’t fight, I don’t know how.  Why don’t you be Fluffmon’s tamer?  I’m sure your dad’s told you everything there is to know about digimon.”   “Not exactly,” Alice answered.  “I wasn’t really interested in that stuff until I met Dobermon.”   “I see,” Jeri said, “well, maybe this is the second chance you deserve.”   “Dobermon and I weren’t partners,” Alice said firmly.  “I was never his tamer.  I was his guide.  I only had to lead him to the tamers so he could help them biomerge here.”   “He was never your partner?” Jeri asked, “You didn’t even have a digivice?”   Alice shook her head.  “I did what I was supposed to do.  It wasn’t easy to watch but Dobermon had a job to do.  The Sovereign sent him down here for a purpose, not to play with me.  Digimon aren’t just pets…”   “I know that,” Jeri interrupted.    “And they’re not just data either,” Alice added, nodding to Fluffmon.  “They are guardians, messengers, servants, even partners.  The D-Reaper won’t stop until it has you again and it will only be a matter of time until it finds you.  We didn’t just create this digimon to give you another chance, but to keep you protected.  I bet you’ve been forcing it to digivolve so you can return it home, haven’t you?”   “Well, I,” Jeri muttered, “what if I have?”   “Jeri Katou, listen to me,” Alice stepped forward, “You have been given another chance.  You can do the things you’ve always wanted to do as a tamer with Leomon when you didn’t have the chance.  You can fight along side your digimon in a purpose.  You can’t just send it back to the digital world.  It was created for you.  At least let her protect you until this is over, go join the others and stop D-Reaper before it gets you.”   “The others…”   “Haven’t you been watching the news?” Alice demanded.  “They can’t do all of this by themselves!  The other tamers are probably in more danger in the Digital World.  You can’t just sit here feeling sorry for yourself.  You’ve got to do something!  Is this the thanks the Monster Makers get for creating you a new partner?” Jeri gulped.  “Look, I’m sorry but I--,”   “Time is running out,” Alice said, “Unless you do something the world would be destroyed.  You might be the only person that can stop the D-Reaper!”   “Me?” Jeri demanded, falling into her chair in surprise.  “What do you mean?”   “Because you were a prisoner,” Alice said desperately, “You were inside it. You had to learn how it worked.  No one else knows.  You can help us beat it for good this time, Jeri.”   “I, I don’t know,” Jeri stammered, “I don’t think I can do it.  I’m sorry.”   Alice paused.  “Fine, be that way.  I should’ve known you wouldn’t listen to me.”   “Come on,” Jeri said, “did you expect it to be easy for me?”   “It’s not a question of what’s easy, Jeri,” Alice answered, “It’s a question what’s right.  I’ll let myself out.”  She turned and left Jeri in her room, causing her to feel worse than she already was.   --   Kazu and the others were having a meeting with the Monster Makers.  Kazu wanted to learn how he could biomerge with Hagurumon like Takato and Guilmon but in order to do that he would have to become data like his digimon.    “As you’re flesh and blood,” Mr. Wong said, “and Hagurumon is data you can’t biomerge here.”   “But can’t you find a way to make us data?” Kazu inquired.  “Make us a new card or something?”   “Yeah,” Kenta added.  “I know MarineAngemon is already Mega…but maybe he’d be stronger if we biomerged.”   “Well,” Babel said, stroking his goatee, “maybe.”   “What about Suzie and the other two?” Lopmon asked.  “As they are so young, Biomerging may be too dangerous for them.  I can become mega on my own somehow.”   “The red card,” said Daisy, “the one we gave to Takato—you can use it to biomerge and fight inside the D-Reaper—if it comes here.”   “Yeah, but the problem is,” said Kenta, “Takato probably still has it.”   “We’ll make another,” said Daisy.  “Leave it to us.”   --   It was not easy for Jeri to sleep that night.  She kept dreaming about the D-Reaper and the time she was inside it.  J-Reaper was talking to her in Jeri’s voice.   “You cannot escape, Jeri Katou,” it said maliciously.  “We’ve learned much about humans from you.  Humans are inferior, weak and must be eliminated!”   “You’re wrong!” Jeri shouted.  “You don’t understand how I feel.  I lost someone close to me and just because I feel miserable doesn’t mean the whole world must be destroyed!”   “It does not matter,” J-Reaper said, “Soon there will be nothing left of Planet Earth.  You cannot fight it.  There is nothing you can do.  We are back again and this time we won’t fail.”   “No!” Jeri exclaimed.  “I won’t let you do this!  I’ll do whatever it takes!”   It laughed. “Resistance is futile.”   “I’ll stop you,” Jeri muttered, “Somehow!”   --   “No!” Jeri sat bolt right in bed and wiped the sweat from her forehead.  “What am I going to do? Do I have what it takes to stop it?”   “Jeri,” said Fluffmon over in the corner, “what is it?”   “I—it’s nothing,” Jeri lied.  “Just go to bed.”   “Did you think over what you and Alice talked about yesterday?” Fluffmon asked.  “Aren’t you going to take her advice?”   “No,” Jeri replied coolly. “I didn’t ask her for her advice.”   “Jeri,” Fluffmon moaned.  “What about the others?  You can’t let them do this all on their own.”   “Yes I can,” Jeri said, laying back.  “Now go to sleep.”   Fluffmon sighed and curled around in her basket.  It was no use.  Jeri wasn’t giving any thought to what the others were trying to tell her.  What was it going to take to make her join in the fight?   When she woke up the next morning she found Fluffmon quivering in her basket.  Her new yellow d-power was glowing.  “What’s happening?  Are you digivolving?”   “I—I feel strange,” Fluffmon muttered.   “FLUFFMON DIGIVOLVE TO…”   Fluffmon was surrounded in a yellow digital sphere.  Her skin came off, revealing the layer of digital matter underneath.  Then new skin and fur began to grow on her body, making her larger.  She looked like a Gatomon only she was yellow with orange speckles and no tufts on her ears.  She had a tail of a lion with no tail ring.  She had amber eyes.   “KNEAZLEMON!”   “Wow,” Jeri moaned, staring at her now Rookie level digimon. “You look really cute.”  She gasped and stopped herself from going any further.  She shouldn’t let herself get attached to Kneazlemon.  She had to take her back to the digital world.  She could help the others once she got there.   “Well,” Jeri said slowly, “we should best get going.  Come on.”   Knealzemon lowered her yellow head.  “Yes, I know.”   Within ten minutes of their journey to Guilmon’s old hiding place, they were detected by ADR2 agents known as searchers.  They were large and purple with what looked like a CD in their middle.  Their wings had eye-like images on them.  Jeri gasped and stepped back.   “No!” she cried.  “D-Reaper agents, they’ve found me!”   “Then let’s send them to lost and found,” Kneazlemon hissed, running forward.   “Kneazlemon, no!” Jeri yelled.  “Come back!”   Knealzemon did not listen.  Whether Jeri didn’t want her or not, Jeri was Kneazlemon’s partner and she had to protect her.  Kneazlemon leapt up, held out her paws and extracted long claws.    “BLAZE CLAW!”   A flame from each claw caused one of the Searchers to lose a wing.  Jeri watched in surprise.   “Knealzemon?  Why?”   “I couldn’t let them take you,” Knealzemon told her partner.    “Enough!” Jeri yelled, “I can’t let you fight!  NO fighting!”   “I have to!” Knealzemon hissed, “it’s what I was programmed for.  CAT SCRATCH FEVER!”   As more D-Reaper agents approached, Knealzemon jumped to the nearest one and scratched it all over.  There was what sounded like a moan of pain from the agent.  Jeri pulled out her D-Arc to analyze her digimon some more.   “Her Cat Scratch Fever attack infects her opponent with a virus!” Jeri read.  “She made the agent sick!”  She laughed as he looked up and the agent was now covered in green spots.  Jeri felt a wave of excitement come over her.  This was how it was with her and Leomon.  Watching it fight, modifying it with modify cards, fighting for a purpose.   “Modify cards,” Jeri said, looking in her yellow purse.  She gasped.  No.  She left them at home under her bed as she hoped never to use them again.  What if Knealzemon needed a card?  There was no way a Rookie digimon could take on all these agents by herself.   “Kneazlemon!” Jeri called.  “We have to go back.  I don’t have any modify cards to make you stronger!”   Knealzemon took a few steps backward.  She didn’t like the idea of running from the fight but her tamer did have a point.  Without any modify cards she wouldn’t have much of a chance.  The agents weren’t like ordinary digimon.   “All right,” Knealzemon said, “Just one more…BLAZE CLAW!”   After knocking another agent back, Knealzemon turned and joined her Tamer in the run for safety.  Jeri ran as quickly as she could and her partner was right at her heels.  She was gasping for breath and her chest felt like it was on fire.  She needed to stop and catch her breath but she couldn’t.  The agents were right behind her.  They were going to capture her all over again.   “No!” Jeri wheezed, out of breath from running for her life.  “Not again.  Help, someone!”   Just as she passed an alley, someone grabbed her arm and pulled her inside.    “Let me go!” Jeri cried.   “It’s me!” said a voice.   “Huh, Kazu?” She blinked and saw Kenta with the other tamers behind them.   “Nice to see you again, Jeri,” Kazu grinned.  “Where’ve you been?  How come you haven’t—hey—who is this?”  He looked down at Knealzemon.  “Is this the digimon Takato gave you?  Last time I saw it, it was an egg!”   “Yeah,” Jeri said softly.  “That’s Knealzemon, I was going to return her to the digital world once she became Rookie but we were attacked!”   “Don’t worry, Jeri,” Kazu insisted, “we’ll take it from here!”   “Stay out of sight,” Kenta said, “we don’t want to risk them taking you again.”   “Oh, okay,” Jeri said, picking up Knealzemon.  “Be careful, guys.”   Kazu turned to Hagurumon, “ready?  Let’s go!”   He led his mechanical digimon out of the alley to face off with the agents.  “We’re not gonna let you take Jeri this time so go back where you came from!  DIGI-MODIFY…HYPER WING ACTIVATE!”   Blue wings appeared on the two side gears of Hagurumon, levitating him in the air.  “COG CRUSHER!”   He sent his attack to the agent, making it fall down.  Recruits swarmed around them and knocked Hagurumon down, losing its wings.   “No!” Kazu exclaimed.   “This isn’t going well,” said Hagurumon.   “Kazu,” Kenta said, “try that new card the Monster Makers made us!”   “Oh yeah!” Kazu reached in his pocket and pulled out a red card.  “Well, they worked all night on this present; it’d be a shame to waste it!”  He swiped the card with this d-arc followed by Kenta.   “DIGI-MODIFY!  BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!”   “I don’t believe it!” Jeri moaned as she watched Kenta and Kazu biomerge with their digimon.  “They’re Biomerging!”   “HAGURUMON DIGIVOLVE TO…”   Kazu was surrounded by metal, wires and data.  He stood in an orange data sphere.  Hagurumon’s body grew welded with in destructive metal.  Iron screws were screwed into his knee caps.  His left shoulder looked like a red head with a spike through it with a similar blue one on the right.  Its arms were huge, ending in long claw like fingers.  Two swords appeared on its back and a helmet came down on his face.     “HIANDROMON!”   “GOMAMON DIGIVOLVE TOO…”   After becoming one with the rookie form of Marine Angemon, Gomamon, Kenta was was dunked intothe sea.  Gomamon’s flippers grew and the water changed it into a large tail of a fish.  The wings of manta ray appeared on its back with the stings attached to his elbows.  An electric eel was coiled around his torso.  A helmet of seashells came down on its aqua-green head.    “POSIDONMON!”   “Hey, it worked!” Kazu shouted in excitement.  “Let’s see what we can do!”   “All right,” said Kenta, ”come on, Gomamon!” Posidonmon whipped out his arms to unleash the stings.  “LASHING STINGS!”   The stings swarmed over to the nearest agent and sent a powerful sting inside it.  Its power drained, Posidomon tossed it aside.   “My turn,” said Kazu, “ATOMIC RAY!”   He held out his hands and sent a huge blast of energy which took out half of the agents.  “This is so cool!” said Kazu.    “I know,” said Hagurumon, “why didn’t we do this earlier?”   --   After the battle with the agents, they went to speak with the Monster Makers to give a report.  They were glad that the red card worked again and they were most pleased that Kazu and the others found Jeri when they did.   “Are you still planning on taking Knealzemon to the digital world, Jeri?” Mr. Wong asked.   Jeri looked at her new partner and then to Mr. Wong.  She shook her head.   “What changed your mind?” Daisy inquired.   “Well, you did go all this trouble just to give me a second chance,” Jeri said, a small smile appearing on her usually cute face.    “After seeing what Knealzemon could do, I’d be very ungrateful if I didn’t keep her.  I still wish none of this happened.”   “So do we, Jeri,” said Mr. Yamaki, “but wishing isn’t really going to help us much.  We have to keep fighting the D-Reaper until it’s stopped.”   “I know,” Jeri sighed, “What about Takato and the others? Are they all right?”   “We’re trying to keep contact with them,” Mr. Yamaki answered.  “It’s difficult as they are in the digital world but they are still alive.    They are trying to repair the damage the D-Reaper caused to the Digital World.”   “What can we do here?” Jeri asked.   “We’re trying to come up with a plan,” said Mr. Wong.  “Since you were inside the D-Reaper, you may know some secrets that we don’t.  We hoped that you could help us with that.”   “I’ll try,” Jeri said slowly.  “What do you want to know?  Besides how scary it was inside there?”   The monster makers ran a few tests on Jeri to see if she may had extracted any chaos in her body.  She tried telling them what she could about the D-Reaper but as she explained her story it really didn’t make any sense. How could that possibly help them stop the D-Reaper besides knowing that being its prisoner was the worst thing that could happen?   --   Takato and the others were having a meeting in the castle of Zhuquiamon.    “I hope the others are having better luck than we are,” Ryo sighed.  “Good thing we didn’t bring them along with us.”   “I know,” Rika added, “Let’s hurry up and nail this thing.  I want to get home.”   ”We’re trying,” said Takato, “but it’s a lot easier said than done.”   “Yeah, I remember,” Rika groaned.   “You’ve saved most of the digimon,” said Zhuqiamon, “most of us, unfortunately, are too weak to fight the D-Reaper.  I am ashamed to admit that the strongest of digimon to fight would be the ones with tamers.”  He growled in his disgust.  He learned to accept the human children helping but he was too proud to believe that humans, beings outside his world could be stronger than most digimon.   “We need you to fight it from within,” Zhuqiamon continued, “before it becomes stronger.  It is feeding from the data in our world.  If it finds a host, I am afraid it would only get stronger.”   “Host?” Takato gasped, ‘you mean, like Jeri?”   “Yes,” Zhuqiamon answered, “that is the reason why it returned.  It wants a host.  It was Jeri.”   “Well, we’ve got to stop it then!” Takato exclaimed, getting to his feet.  “We can’t let it get Jeri.”   “We know,” Henry said softly, “we’ve been doing our best to keep the D-Reaper from leaving the Digital World.  But we know it already sent out its agents looking for her.” Zhuqiamon suddenly began roaring.  The tamers gasped in shock.   “What is it?” Rika inquired.   “The D-reaper has located us!” Zhuqiamon cried.  “I can feel it!”   The tamers ran out of the castle to face the D-Reaper and its many agents.  A sea of Chaos surrounded them.    “Better biomerge quickly,” said Rika, “before they wreck the place!”   “BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!”   “GUILMON DIGIVOLVE TO…GALLANTMON!”   “TERRIERMON DIGIVOLVE TO…MEGA GARGOMON!”   “MONODROMON DIGIVOLVE TO…JUSTMON!”   “RENAMON DIGIVOLVE TO…SAKUYAMON!”   “We won’t let you win!” Guilmon and Takato shouted together.  “SHIELD OF THE JUST!” The blast deleted many of the agents while the other megas sent their attacks.  A couple of Horn Strikers, green humanoid agents with horns swarmed around Gallantmon.  Gallantmon used his Lightning Joust attack to protect himself.  Many agents and chaos merged together to form a Parasite Head, large pink thing with yellow talking mouths in the voice of Jeri.   “I don’t understand,” said Rika, “how can it still speak in Jeri’s voice?”   “I suppose its in its memory,” said Henry.   “Foolish humans,” said the Parasite Head, “you underestimate us.  Once we get our host Jeri Katou back we can continue our mission to delete the human race.”   “You can forget it!” Takato shouted.  “I won’t let you go anywhere near Jeri!”   A hand came out of the side of the Parasite head, grabbed Gallantmon and smashed him into the ground.    “Oh no!” Rika exclaimed.  “Are you all right?”   “Fine,” Takato grunted.   “Do not try to stop us, human.”   “What if you took me instead?” Takato demanded.   “No!” the three tamers inside their digimon shouted in disagreement.   “You can’t!” Rika pleaded, “Takato, don’t be stupid!”   “Take you?” said the D-Reaper.   “Takato,” Guilmon said slowly, “I don’t think this is such a good idea.”   “I don’t think there’s much of a choice, Guilmon,” Takato said as Gallantmon pushed himself up.  “Look, D-Reaper, you need a host, right?  Well it won’t be Jeri so you might as well take me!  Either you take me or we defeat you here and now!” Loosing power, Gallantmon divided back to Takato and Guilmon.  Takato stared up at D-Reaper.    “You can’t fight if you give yourself up, Takato!” Henry said.  “WE don’t let you!”   “Just stay out of this!” Takato snapped and he approached the D-Reaper.  “Just take me now, D-Reaper.  I’m yours to do with what you will.  I don’t care what happens to me but you will not harm Jeri!”   “But Takato!” Guilmon protested, reaching for his tamer.   “Sorry, Guilmon,” Takato muttered, tears flowing from his eyes.  “There’s no other way.”   The tendrils of the Parasite head took hold of Takato.  Sakuyamon raised her arms to attack but MegaGargomon stopped her.   “No!” he said.  “You might hurt Takato!”   “Sorry guys,” Takato told them as he was pulled into a red bubble, “it’s the way it has to be!”   The three megas stood in shock.  The D-Reaper has found a new host.  What were they going to do now?   TO BE CONTINUED   Gah, so sorry this update’s so late!  Such a hard story to write.  The next chapter might be the last.  By the way, HiAndromon’s attack is real but I don’t know its effect.  I found this information on the Digital Empire.  It’s a cool site. Check it out!