Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Ressurection War ❯ Dark Ocean: Forgotten Memories ( Chapter 21 )

Tatum here. Last time, Tk and Yolei were attacked by Dragomon. He wanted the Key Cards, and was relentless about getting them. Magna Angemon digivolved to his mega form of Goldramon. Dragomon wasn’t going to be beaten. He grabbed Yolei and threatened to kill her unless Tk gave up. He gave him the two Key Cards they had and took Tk with him. Oikawa did weird experiments on Tk and forced him to become the Digimon Emperor again.

Henry and I found the Temple of Ebonwumon but Tk was there waiting for us. My Betamon digivolved all the way to his mega form of Megidramon. Henry was kinda freaked out, and even made me stop the battle. He gave Tk the two Key Cards we had and the Digimon Emperor destroyed the Tower of Ebonwumon. What can go wrong now?     Man, can't you pass a little better?     Like, your timing is always off.     If that's true, you should try running a little faster.     It's just because I'm always trying to get a hit.     We're not gentle but we have a gentle feeling     Even though we are the Point Getters     We'll do the same (We'll do the same) So decide! (OK, come on!!) We're the ultimate 2-top     And we won't give it up     Even thought we fight, we'll keep trying.     We are tomorrow's 2-top     The others seem stingy     But we'll show you     A Digital Tamer's power.     Man, do you think you can win by doing that?     You should send that pass over here.     If you want me to do that, you should shoot better,     I always have to decide in the end. Our conflicts are proof of our energy     Anyway, we are the Point Getters     We'll do the same (We'll do the same) Hand it over!! (OK, let's go!!)     We're the perfect 2-Top     We can't be beaten     We'll turn around the worst game.     We're the toughest 2-Top     We haven't won yet     But we'll show you     A Digital Tamer's power. (“2-top” Daisuke and V-mon’s theme)

DARK OCEAN: Forgotten Memories

In the deserts of the dimension known as the Dark Ocean, two more of the hooded raincoat wearing people were stationed, standing atop one of the rock mesa littering the area. “I hate this desert!” the taller one said, “I wish I was studying Takashi. The others are so lucky, the master likes them better. He didn’t send them here.”

“You’re only comfortable in the water,” the girl said, “I don’t like this place either. I want something with grass, and trees. I wish I was in the forest, not the forest here, I mean ones back on Earth. You know, the trees that are the same color as American money. I’d even love to be on the sun, the same color as gold!”

The Water Researcher stared at her. “I wish I could understand your love for money.”

The Greedy Girl grinned. “You would probably love it if you could. Sometimes I like just lying down in a pile of…”

“Hold it!” her partner interrupted. “It looks like something happening down there. I think we’d better get back to work and watch our two subjects.”

Down below, Davis, Catherine and their digimon trekked through the desert. “Mon dieu!” Catherine sighed, whipping the sweat from her forehead, “How much longer?”

Davis sighed, “For the hundredth time, I don’t know!”

“Excusez-moi!” she screamed, “Je suis désolé que je sois une telle douleur dans votre âne!”

“I have no idea what that means,” he said, “But if it wasn’t for me, you’d have fallen into that stream of lava that separated all of us! Veemon and I could be at that stupid Tower all ready if it wasn’t for you slowing us down and asking us stupid questions!”

Catherine ignored him and turned to Floramon. “ It’s all about him, isn’t it?” she asked in French.

Her partner nodded. “ Maybe we should tell him that we’re lost in the desert because of him? ” she responded in kind.

“ No, let him figure it out for himself. ”

Floramon stared at him and Veemon as they walked through the rock-littered desert. Even though the sky was pitch black from the darkness in the Dark Ocean, the desert continued to blast it’s heat onto them. “ He looks kind of cute, doesn’t he? ”

“ What? Are you crazy! I don’t like him! ”

“ I never said you did. ”

She stared at her partner for another second before looking back. “What were you two talking about?” Veemon asked.

“Nothing!” the plant digimon quickly exclaimed.

“You two are weird,” Davis sighed, shaking his head.

Catherine glared daggers at him through the back of his head. They continued on in silence. “This sort of reminds me of Piedmon’s mountain, doesn’t it?” she asked.

Floramon glanced around. “The darkness, yeah.”

Catherine smiled slightly. “Just by being here, it’s bringing back so many memories for some reason. I can remember when I found zat digivice at camp, zen being pulled into ze Digital World and met you.”

Floramon nodded. “We’re talking about past lives right? As Mimi and Palmon?”

“Oui,” Catherine nodded, “We fought against so many enemies, but ze Dark Masters were ze worst.”

“What were they like?”

The two glanced up and saw that Davis and Veemon were looking at them. Davis shrugged slightly. “I mean, you, Kari, Tk and the other kept talking about how the Dark Masters were your worst enemies, but how bad were they?”

“Zey were the worst,” she said, “Zey killed digimon like zey were disposing of trash. Just murdering zem and throwing zem away!” She sighed deeply. “Zey killed three of our friends: Chuumon, Pixiemon and Whamon. I made graves to remember zem. It was ze first time I felt loss in zat way. It was horrible, and I don’t want to ever feel like zat again.”

Davis nodded. “I understand. I guess I’m lucky, I never lost any of my friends like that.” He shrugged. “I guess you could even say that all of my friends are in the Dark Ocean.” He reached over and patted Veemon on the shoulder. “Even my best bud here.”

The blue dinosaur grinned. “Right back atcha buddy.” He lightly punched him in the side of the leg. Davis responded by lightly punching in the shoulder. Soon, the two friends started to fight each other in a playful way, rolling along the ground.

Behind them, Catherine sighed. “Why do boyz always have to act like zat?”

Davis and Veemon climbed back onto their feet. “Well,” Davis said, brushing his shorts off, “How come girls have to stand around and whine and gossip about their hair?”

She gasped. “Why you-!”

“I hate to interrupt,” Veemon gasped, “But I think we’ve got a problem!”

“What?” Davis asked.

Veemon pointed to the sky. “Him!”

The three remaining beings glanced skyward just in time to see a figure wrapped in white bandages drop in front of them. “Hiya!” he grinned.

“You’re Mummymon, right?” Davis asked.

“That’s right,” he grinned. He pointed a bandaged finger at his opponent. “And you’re Daisuke Motomiya, his partner Veemon, Catherine DeGual and Floramon.”

“What do you want?” the blond girl asked.

“Your Key Cards. Now, hand them over.” He swung his gun out in front of him. “Necrophobia!” The gun fired a lightning bolt of energy into the ground. Veemon and Floramon had only seconds to push their partners out of the way before the energy attack exploded in the ground.

“Veemon digivolve to Exveemon! Exveemon digivolve to Paildramon!”

“Floramon digivolve to Kiwimon! Kiwimon digivolve to Blossumon!”

Mummymon leapt backwards to avoid Blossomon’s laser eyes, but that left him wide open for an attack by Paildramon. The dragon warrior swung his twin shotguns around from behind his back and began firing. “Desperado Blaster!” The mummy digimon moaned in pain as his body was pierce by hundreds of small bullets.

“Leave him to me,” Blossomon called, “Spiral Flower!” All of her eyes opened and began to fire beams of lasers into Mummymon’s already injured chest. He stumbled backwards, and fell onto his knees.

“Wow, that was easy,” Davis said.

“I agree,” Catherine said, “but, too easy, maybe?”

“That’s right!” Mummymon laughed, jumping back onto his feet. He saw Paildramon from the corner of his eye and fired a stream of bandages from his hands, which wrapped tightly around the dragon’s body, constricting his arms to his chests. He smashed the butt of his gun across Paildramon’s nose. He pointed his other arm towards the charging Blossumon and wrapped the same bandages around her body as well. “Snake Bandage!”

Above them on the rock mesa, the Water Warrior and the Greedy Girl watched the battle with fierce interest. “It looks like Motomiya and DeGual are really in trouble,” the Girl said.

“I wonder if they’ll be able to pull through,” the Water Warrior said, “I hated to think that a no body like Mummymon could beat them. I really wanted at chance.”

Back down below, Davis and Catherine were forcing themselves to stay on the sidelines. “Paildramon!” Davis shouted, “You’ve got to do something!”

“I..I’m trying!” the dragon said, struggling to free himself from the tight bandages.

“You won’t break through that too easily,” Mummymon chuckled. He glanced over his shoulder at the trapped Blossomon, “But since I can take my time now…” He put his shotgun back into its holster and relied on his physical attacks to injure the dragon.

“Paildramon!” Davis shouted, “Do something!”

“I’m…I’m trying!” he shouted in between jabs to his mouth, “He’s…stronger…then…he looks!”

“Oh, I’m much stronger!” he laughed. After finishing his assault, he put all of his strength and weight into a final punch that sent Paildramon falling onto his back.

“No!” Davis shouted.

“Blossomon!” Catherine shouted. Unfortunately, her scream did not help her partner. Mummymon leapt over to the constricted plant digimon and started to attack in the same merciless manner.

“Oh Blossomon!” she called again, “Blossomon…”

Davis stared at his fallen digimon, then over at the trapped Blossomon, who was being beaten close to deletion. “They’re going to get killed, and then he’ll take our Key Cards! I’ve got to stand up to him! I’ve got to stop him!”

His digivice and crest began to glow in synch. He stared at them with awe before twisting his head to look at his partner. Paildramon’s body was starting to glow as well. He grinned and trusted his digivice towards his partner. “Do it!”

Davis’s digivice vibrated fiercely then changed to a gold hue. It fired a beam of light from its screen up to his Crest of Miracles. The symbol of the crest was pushed up by the beam of light, continuing its ascent. The symbol twisted and turned, shattering through a smoke filled sky as it gathered bits of energy and exploded, sending a twisting spiral down, merging with a twisting Paildramon.

“Paildramon digivolve to…”

A glowing dragon shot out of the sky and quickly spun around Paildramon, creating a series of glowing circles that enveloped the dragon. These circles shot to the sky before disappearing, revealing a new, larger dragon. He flapped his giant wings as a ball of energy slammed into the ground, sending a shower of rocks into the air. He opened his mouth and roared.

“Imperial Dramon!”

Mummymon stopped his assult and stared up at the impressive being floating in the sky above him. “H..H…H..how?”

“Simple,” Davis said, “Because you’re nothing but a bully! I think it’s time you got a taste of your own medicine! Imperial Dramon!”

The giant dragon shot forward and slammed his head into the mummy digimon, catapulting him off of Blossomon. The mummified digimon growled and pointed his large guns at the hovering digimon. “Necrophobia!” The stream of glowing lightning struck Imperial Dramon on the side of his leg. He gave a shout out in pain, but continued to glare at Mummymon.

“I would be lying if I said that didn’t hurt,” he replied, “But it’s nothing compared to what you’re about to feel.”

“Ha!” Mummymon laughed, “Really?” He pointed his gun barrel at the still trapped Blossomon. “If you try anything, she dies.”

“Oh no!” Catherine gasped.

Imperial Dramon continued to hover in place. “Easy does it,” he said, “Let’s try to stay calm.”

Mummymon continued to stare at the massive mega dragon. He did not notice that, while Blossom could not move, she was still able to stare at the evil digimon. She fired her eye lasers into the hand holding the gun. He was forced to open his hand and the gun dropped to the ground.

“That’s it!” Davis shouted, “Finish him off!”

A glowing ball of white energy formed inside of the cannon strapped to his back. This white ball shot out of the front of the cannon, sending a massive stream of energy that tore through Mummymon, deleting him instantly. Imperial Dramon then used his claws to rip the bandages away from Blossomon, finally freeing her. The battle had proved too much for her and she returned to her Floramon stage. Catherine ran over and hugged her tightly. “I’m glad you are zafe,” she said.

Davis grinned at his partner. “Wow, a mega! I’ve got a mega! You’ve got to be the strongest digimon ever!”

“I don’t know about that,” he replied, “but I do have some more good news. I can travel at the speed of light. We can search the entire Dark Ocean in seconds in order to find the others.”

“That’s a good idea,” Davis said, “But we don’t have any idea where they are. We’d just be flying blind.”

“Maybe not,” Catherine spoke up. She held up her digivice. “Our old digivices were able to track each ozer. Maybe ze new ones can do ze zame.”

Davis studied his own digivice. “It’s worth a try. All right, Imperial Dramon, let’s do it.”

On top of the rock mesa, the Water Researcher and the Greedy Girl watched as the three passengers climbed atop Imperial Dramon and the dragon disappeared in the black sky seconds later. “Very interesting,” the Water Researcher said.

“I know,” the Greedy Girl nodded in reply. “The Master’s going to be very interested in this. We’d better get back to him. “””””””””” ”””””””””

Salamon began to sniff the air. “What’s wrong?” Kari asked.

“I can smell someone’s sent in the air,” she said, sniffing the air again. She started to walk around in circles, “But I’m having a hard time finding out where it’s coming from.”

Takato patted Guilmon on the back. “Can you help her?”

“I’ll try,” he said. He started to sniff the air as well. “She’s right. Someone’s here that’s familiar, it might be one of the others.”

“Really?” Kari asked.

“I’ve smelled the sent before, but I don’t know who’s it is,” he explained, “So I haven’t been around it enough.” He walked in circles with Salamon before stopping and staring through a row of trees in the forest. “This way.” He and the puppy digimon began to run, following the sent their amazing noses were picking up. Their partners ran behind them, desperately trying to get up. Eventually, they could make out two figures resting beside a campfire. “Hey,” Kari said, “Isn’t that Yolei?”

“That’s who I was smelling,” Salamon smiled, “Hawkmon!”

“Yolei!” Kari shouted, “Yolei!”

The purple-haired girl strained to smile as her friends ran over to her. “Yolei!” Kari smiled, “I’m glad you’re safe.” Her attention shifted down to the bird digimon lying on the ground. “What happened to Hawkmon?”

Yolei hugged Kari. “They’ve got him.”

“Who?”

“They got Tk. Dragomon captured him! Oh, Kari, what are going to do?”

The brown-haired girl was about to answer, but stopped when she noticed that her digivice had begun to beep. She lifted it up from her belt and stared at the LCD screen. She saw two blinking lights in one area, and two more blinking lights moving. She had a flash of memory from her time as Tai, and instantly recognized what function the digivice was displaying. “Some of our friends are coming,” she said.

They group watched as Imperial Dramon appeared over head, with Catherine and Floramon waving at them from atop his back. After a quickly explanation, they all bored Imperial Dramon and headed for the next nearest digivice signal. They found Tatum and Henry standing next to the remains of a destroyed building.

“Oh no,” Catherine said, “Another tower waz destroyed.”

“And I don’t like the looks on their faces,” Takato frowned as Imperial Dramon landed beside Tatum and Henry.

“Guys,” Tatum sighed, “We’ve got some bad news.” “”””””””” ;””””””””””

Rika frowned as she watched Hiroshi and Penmon climb over the hill. “Hurry up!”

The younger teenager glared at her. “You should watch your mouth, you know. I don’t usually let people talk to me like that, you’re just lucky you’re cute.”

The orange-haired young woman gasped, her mouth wide open. “You…you little…”

“Oh calm down,” he said, “You’re a little too old for me anyway…” He added with a slight smile, “Granny.”

“Granny!” she shouted, “Granny! For your information, I am only 25! You’re what, 10?”

This time, Hiroshi started to get angry. “I am 16, not a little baby! I ran a powerful organization in the Digital World! How dare you!”

Rika crossed her arms and smirked. “I ‘dare’ because you’re not all that great. Ever face down a Sovereign? Let me tell you, Zhuqioamon would crush you and your pathetic Penmon!”

The blue penguin digimon hopped over. “What? Hey, I’m no weakling you know!”

Renamon appeared beside the orange-haired young woman. “She is telling you the truth, even though you might not want to hear it. You are not as strong as you believe yourself to be.”

“Oh yeah?” Penmon shouted, “Do ‘ya wanna try me?” He was about to charge forward, but was stopped by Hiroshi, who grabbed hold of his shoulders.

“As much as I’d really like to show them, we don’t have the time.”

“I hate to admit it, but he’s right,” Rika said, eyeing her partner, “We’d better see if we can get to Zhuqioamon’s Tower before it is too late.”

They continued on in silence as they crossed the desert. They soon arrived at a range of small mountains, jutting up through the desert sands. One particular mountain caught their attention, while it was the tallest and biggest, it was the structure that appeared to be resting on top that caught their eye.

Hidden on top of one of the adjacent mountain stood the last of the hooded trench-coat wearing observers. He was dressed in dark blue, so dark that it almost blended into the dark atmosphere around them. “I’ve finally found you, Hiroshi,” he grinned, “And I’m gonna make sure that I know your digimon’s moves, his powers, his weaknesses, and I’ll crush you!”

Down below, Hiroshi strained his neck in order to see the building on the top of the mountain. “I wonder if that’s the Tower?”

Rika turned slightly to her partner. “Renamon?”

“Right,” she said, vanishing. She reappeared a second later. “It is the tower.”

“How did you do that?” Penmon asked, “Did you teleport or what?”

“That’s my little secret,” she said.

“How do we get up there?” Hiroshi asked.

“There’s got to be a path or something,” Rika said, “Let’s take a look around.”

Renamon took a step forward but stopped. “Renamon?” the orange-haired young woman asked.

“Digimon are coming,” she said, “Evil digimon. Above us!” She pushed Rika out of the way seconds before a beam of light smashed into the ground.

Hiroshi spun his head to the sky and saw an enormous digimon, covered in bronze. On his back rode a figure that caused Hiroshi and Penmon to gasp. “Takashi!” he shouted, “What the hell are you doing?”

“Only what my master Oikawa commands me to do,” he replied.

“Hiroshi,” Penmon said, “He’s wearing that Digimon Emperor outfit again.”

The former Dark SEED leader stared at the other teenaged boy. “Takashi, I’ll give you one minute to explain yourself, and then we attack.”

Tk chuckled. “I want your Key Cards. Hand them over now!”

“What? Are you serious?”

The Digimon Emperor did not respond. “Fine,” Hiroshi said, “I don’t know what’s happened to you, but you’re clearly our enemy now. Penmon, digivolve!”

“Penmon digivolve to Seadramon! Seadramon digivolve to Megaseadramon!”

“Let’s see,” Rika said, pointing her digivice towards Tk. A second later, an image appeared over her D-arc. “Goldramon, Holy Dragon Digimon! He’s a mega!”

“A mega?” Megaseadramon asked.

“I think we’d better help,” Renamon said, stepping forward. “Are you ready, Rika?”

Her partner nodded. “Yes.”

“Renamon biomerge to Sakuyamon!”

The fox woman and the bronze dragon leapt at each other and began to battle. “Hey!” Megaseadramon shouted, “What about me?”

“I think, maybe, you should leave them and focus on more pressing concerns.”

Hiroshi turned his head towards the source of the mysterious voice and saw a human man standing at the base of the mountain. “Oikawa.”

The human smiled. “So, we meet again, Hiroshi Hibishi.”

Hiroshi growled. “What are you talking about? I told you that I don’t remember ever seeing you before I got stuck in this dark world!”

“Mental manipulations,” he chuckled.

“Stop saying that!” Hiroshi shouted, “Why don’t you just tell me whatever it is you’re trying to say!”

Oikawa chuckled again. “Perhaps, but I think first things first: I want your Key Card.”

Hiroshi chuckled and was about to speak, but Oikawa cut him off.

“And I know that you won’t give it to me, so I’ll have to take it from your dead body, right? Well, that’s no problem for my special project here.” He snapped his fingers and a dark shadow appeared over head. It hovered in the sky for a full two minutes before landing gracefully beside Oikawa.

The evil human smiled. “Say hello to the all mighty Black Wargreymon!”

“Black Wargreymon?” the Man in Blue gasped, “Interesting. I wonder if other digimon can become ‘Black’ like that? I think we need to look into it.”

Megaseadramon gasped, but Hiroshi just smirked. “Is that really supposed to scare me? What do I care about some Wargreymon wanabe?”
“Oh this Wargreymon is much stronger then the one Taichi Kamiya used to have,” he replied, “Why don’t we get started then, huh?” He mentioned to the sky, where Sakuyamon was trying her best to battle Goldramon, “They’ve started without us. Blackwargreymon, attack!”

Hiroshi nodded. “Go for it, Megaseadramon, just be careful, Wargreymon’s a Dramon destroyer, stay away from those claws!”

Blackwargreymon swung his claws at Megaseadramon, but the serpent attacked by sending a bolt of energy into his opponent. “Thunder Javelin!” Blackwargreymon was sending backwards, but the fight was far from over.

“He’s not going to make it, you know,” Oikawa smirked, “He’s going to be destroyed, followed shortly by you. Mr. Hibishi, and once Takashi finishes off Nonaka, we’ll take your Key Cards and then D-reaper will be freed!”

“So you can take over the world, right?” he snapped, “I’ve been down that road before, trust me, it’s a stupid idea.”

“Take over the world?” he asked, “What makes you think I want to rule the world?”

Hiroshi was surprised. “Then why are you…?”

“You don’t get it, do you?” he asked, “D-reaper was the most powerful being in the Tamer’s world, nothing existed that was stronger then it, nothing! I plan on using the ultimate being in the Tamers universe, to stop the most powerful being in our universe.”

“What are you talking about?”

Above them, the Man in Blue raised an eyebrow and began to listen very intently. Down below, Megaseadramon and Blackwargreymon continued to battle. Blackwargreymon kept trying to attack using his claws, but that left Megaseadramon using her basic energy attacks to keep the dinosaur digimon at a distance, while at the same time using those same energy attacks to chip away at the mega’s strength. Unfortunately, while the Ultimate was hurting him, the Mega’s strength was too abundant to make a difference. Further below, their partners stared down one another.

“What am I talking about?” Oikawa chuckled, “A fallen god of darkness is about to be revived, and his power dwarfs anything we’ve ever seen before.”

“Who?” Hiroshi demanded.

“The Cult of Darkness!”

“Those religious maniacs?” he gasped.

“Those maniacs, as you put it, are craftier then you realize,” he said, “Darkness has been worshiped since the beginning of time. Pagan rituals paid tributes to the darkness, but those that worshiped the light pushed those darkness worshipers into hiding. They know how to exist behind the scenes.”

“It almost sounds like you admire them,” Hiroshi commented, still keeping his eyes on his partner’s battle overhead.

“Just because they’re my enemy, doesn’t mean that I can’t respect their powers,” he said, “I need to unleash D-reaper in order to stop their plans!”

“I hear that D-reaper almost destroyed the Tamers’ world,” he said, “What if it destroys ours?”

“That’s a chance I’m willing to take,” he said.

“But I’m not!” he shouted, “If I had any idea that Myotismon was waiting behind that portal I opened, I would never have opened it!”

“Something else you didn’t realize, huh?” he chuckled.

“What are you talking about now?” he shouted.

“Your past,” he simply said, “Or rather, the past you can’t remember.”

“All right, that’s it!” he shouted, “I’ve had enough of this! Just tell me what the hell happened to me!”

Oikawa nodded and crossed his arms. “Very well, all you needed to do was ask, after all. I started Dark SEED in order to try and control the Internet, including the lawmakers that try to control it and the companies that created it. Dark SEED was growing, and the entire organization was becoming world powerful, until that day.”

“What day?”

“The day my supposedly loyal servants betrayed me. The people in charge of the rebellion, were named Cho Hung.”

“Yuehon’s parents?” he gasped.

“That’s right,” Oikawa said, “and they used you to defeat me.”

“What?”

“You have a power hidden within you. I guess my genetic experiments on you did make you a little hostile towards me. Well, in any event, you defeated me, but Cho Hung feared you, more importantly, the hidden power inside you. They altered your memories, and caused you to forget about your power. They implanted memories, erasing others. Unfortunately, they died, and you became the leader.” He shrugged. “Not a bad way for a coup, huh?”

“You’re lying!” he shouted, “You’re lying!”

“If you don’t believe me, why don’t you try asking your faithful servant, Yuehon?”

“Yuehon..knew?” he asked, “I..I..”

Above them, the Man in Blue lightly rubbed his chin. “So, Oikawa knows about the plan? And what’s this with Hiroshi, a hidden power? Very interesting.”

Hiroshi glanced upwards to the black sky and watched as Sakuyamon and Goldramon continued to fight. They continued in a fierce physical battle, exchanging blows with one another. He turned his attention to lower in the sky to where his own partner was starting to falter. He called out to him, but Blackwargreymon got a good shot and used his foot to send Megaseadramon crashing into the ground.

“Megaseadramon!” Hiroshi shouted, running over.

“I’ll be fine,” he coughed, struggling to pull himself back up again, “Just give me a few seconds.”

“You don’t have a few seconds,” Blackwargreymon said, dropping down in front of him, “Prepare to be deleted.”

“Megaseadramon,” Hiroshi said, “I will not allow you to fail! Get up and show him how powerful we are!” His digivice and crest glowed and showered his partner with a bright light.

Hiroshi’s digivice vibrated fiercely then changed to a gold hue. It fired a beam of light from its screen up to his Crest of Spirit. The symbol of the crest was pushed up by the beam of light, continuing its ascent. The symbol twisted and turned, shattering through a smoke filled sky as it gathered bits of energy and exploded, sending a twisting spiral down, merging with a twisting Megaseadramon.

“Megaseadramon digivolve to…”

Megaseadramon’sbody became rigid and straight. He roared as a stream of silver light ran up his serpent body. Starting at the end of the tail, the scales rippled like a waves, transforming the organic into metallic. The light converged on his mouth, creating four sharp fins on the side of his face and two sharp sets of twin teeth appeared in his mouth.

“Gigaseadramon!”

“All right,” Hiroshi grinned, “A mega. Now show him what you can do!”

“I’m still a Dramon destroyer,” Blackwargreymon said, “And once I slice you open with my claws, you’ll be gone forever!”

Gigaseadramon pulled his head back, but shot it forward, sending out a ball of blue light. “Giga SeaDestroyer!”

Blackwargreymon crossed his arms and used his armored gauntlets to block the attack, but quickly pulled his arms open, sending the light scattering around the battlefield. The dinosaur digimon catapulted forward, intending to smash his claws into Gigaseadramon’s side, but the serpent anticipated this, and at the last second, moved forward. Blackwargreymon’s arms wrapped around Gigaseadramon’s back. The serpent wrapped the lower portion of his body around the dinosaur, then twisted his head around and brought his metal fin into Blackwargreymon’s back.

He grimaced in pain, but when he tried to free himself, Gigaseadramon squeezed even tighter. “Black Tornado!” he shouted, twisting himself around at an incredible rate. The serpent was flung into the side of the mountain. However, he pulled himself back to attention. Blackwargreymon propelled himself forward, but stopped when a beam of white light shot past him.

“What?” Oikawa gasped. He turned his attention to the sky and watched as Imperial Dramon shot into view.

“Hiroshi!” Kari shouted, waving her hands.

“I guess the Calvary’s here,” Hiroshi said, grinning at Oikawa, “There’s no way you’re going to escape now.”

The evil human glanced from the left to the right. He was surrounded. “Well, you’ll forgive me if I try. Blackwargreymon, destroy Gigaseadramon!”

“Imperial Dramon!” Davis shouted, “Stop the attack!”

“No!” Hiroshi shouted, “We’ll handle it!”

His serpent leapt into the air and quickly snapped his tail, sending gray waves flinging towards the black dinosaur. “Sky Wave!” Blackwargreymon was caught in the translucent waves and flipped about.

Kari turned to her partner. “Help him.”

Tatum pointed to the sky, where Goldramon and Sakuyamon were still battling. “You help her,” she said to her partner.

Both Salamon and Betamon leapt off of Imperial Dramon’s back and quickly digivolved to their mega forms, Holydramon and Megidramon. Henry needed to calm Takato down and yell to Sakuyamon that Tatum’s partner was a friend, but the red dragon soon hovered beside the fox woman. Imperial Dramon and Holydramon positioned themselves near Gigaseadramon. Takato and Henry bio-merged with their partners to form Gallantmon and Megagargomon, and Catherine and Yolei’s partners evolved to Blossomon and Silphymon. Oikawa scanned the collective force surrounding him. He glanced up to the Tower of Zhuqioamon, then back down again. He snapped his fingers, and Blackwargreymon leapt over and, and grabbing his partner by the leg, Oikawa was hoisted into the air.

“Takashi!” he shouted to the Digimon Emperor, “We’re leaving!”

“What?” he shouted in surprised.

“Now!”

The Digimon Emperor turned to Sakuyamon and bowed his head. “You’ll forgive me, but our dance must come to an end.” Goldramon shot after Blackwargreymon like a bronze bullet.

“What about the Tower?” he asked.

“Forget the Towers!” Oikawa shouted back. He glanced downward and focused on Kari, “There is always another way.”

“Aren’t we going after them?” Megidramon asked.

Tatum looked over at Kari, who hesitated before shaking her head. “No..let’s…no.”

The braided-haired girl placed a reassuring hand on the brown-haired girl’s shoulder. “It’s okay, we’ll get him back. Don’t worry, you saved Tk before, I’m sure we can do it again.”

She took a deep breath. “Yeah, I hope so.”

“At least they didn’t destroy the Tower,” Davis said, “But what did he mean at the end. ‘There’s always another way?’”

“I don’t have any idea,” she sighed.

Down below, Hiroshi smiled at his new mega. “Good job, Gigaseadramon.” He glanced over at Sakuyamon, “You said we were weak.”

“You might have survived,” she said, “But that guy was nothing compared to D-reaper. Trust me. And what was he talking about? All that stuff with your memories?”

Hiroshi shook his head. “Just lies, that’s all.” Inside his own mind, however, he was full of doubt. Could Yuehon’s parents have really done that to him? And did Yuehon really know? The only comporting thought that he had, was that Oikawa had only said memory manipulation, nothing about mind controlling. He was still his own master, that much, at least, he was sure of.

High above them, still hidden on the mountain’s cliff, the mysterious Man in Blue stared down at the Digidestineds and Tamers, focusing on Hiroshi. “A young man with an interesting past. There’s much more to him then meets the eye. I’m sure going to have fun tearing him apart.” He turned and vanished into the darkness of the Dark Ocean. “””””””””̶ 1;”””””

Preview:

Oikawa may have failed in destroying the Towers of the Sovereigns, but he has a new plan in order to achieve his goals, a plan that pits friends against one another.

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