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Holy Hands

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Chapter 33

Though the hospital was a nice respite, getting Rafael to let them stay was an uphill battle.

"We're not equipped to accommodate long term patients, you get here, we fix you, you leave, that's how it works." He snapped irritably at Lucifer as he strode down the hallway.

"But we're not patients, we don't even need accommodations, just a place to hide." He persisted. Rafael chugged the rest of his Snapple and tossed the bottle into the garbage.

"Fine whatever I don't have time," he strode away leaving Lucifer as an afterthought.

The brothers made due, but not without contribution. They were always being pulled away to do something or another. Make this bed, take this to the east wing nurses station. The hospital seemed hopelessly understaffed and any time the opportunity arose the angels had no issues using the visitors for untrained manual labor.

The plans for confronting Michael were coming along, but there was still the problem that threw them in the first place.

"Humans are turning away from sin, we're weakening." Satan spoke solemnly, murmur's of agreement sounded around the waiting room they'd set up camp in.

"I dunno" Acacia chimed in "you guys seem pretty powerful to me, and there's 7 of you." She shrugged.

"Ah you got no idea doll" Mammon stretched his arms up, putting his hands behind his head and leaning back in his chair. "Back in my heyday I had 6,660,000 demons under my command. I was a big deal." He bragged.

"Dang"

"Yeah!" Levi agreed, "I used to boil the oceans and command the tides, I'm a little out of practice now but it was cool back then. Mortals feared me and used to call me 'Hellmouth'" he straightened up proudly.

"Daaaang!"

"That's nothing," Belphie laughed. "I used to visit the humans a lot, and they worshipped me so hard they started getting executed for it. I claimed 24,000 souls without even lifting a finger." He brushed imaginary dirt off his shoulder.

"Ugh stop bragging all of you!" Asmo chirped, looking up from where he was painting his toenails.

"Yeah" Satan agreed. "You guys can't do that anymore. We slacked off for too long and now none of us have worshipers." He grumbled.

"Satan's right, we need influence, we need numbers, and for that we need humans ." Lucifer crossed his arms. The brothers seemed to agree with his statement as they started talking quietly and...not in English.

"Woah, why are we out of the loop all of a sudden?" Acacia looked at MC, they shrugged. Lucifer seemed to notice the humans were still there.

"Well if we told you how we conducted our business then we wouldn't be very demonic now would we." He said simply, before returning to the foreign language conversation...presumably Greek?

Acacia huffed and MC checked their notifications on their DDD.

New text messages...but the brothers were all right there? And so was Acacia? Who could possibly be…?

Diavolo

Come outside

MCs heart almost stopped. They'd forgotten about the Devildom prince. They'd left him and Barbatos to the mercy of Micheal and never looked back.

He was alive? He was outside?

Trying not to look too alarmed, they excused themself from the conversation and made their way to the exit.

0Celestial Realm air was cool and dry and seemed to radiate light from the white vapor that swirled around. Trying to see anything was a doomed endeavor, so they resolved to sit tight and wait until Diavolo found them.

Hand to their earring weapon just in case.

It didn't take long for the Devil to find the human. Humans were potent after all.

"It certainly has been a long time, hasn't it?" The familiar, overly jovial voice was too loud beside them and made them jump. Turning they could make out the large form of the former student council president.

"My Lord" they said curtly. He just gave them a very fake looking smile.

"Oh don't mock me MC. I hope you're happy, you've won after all." He spat, his entire demeanor slipping into something more sinister. More believable.

"I don't know what you–"

"Of course you don't!" He loomed over them. "You weren't even trying! Yet you wormed your way in and took over everything like the parasite you humans are." His voice quieted and he backed off. This was perhaps scarier than the yelling.

MC wished they could tell him they were sorry, that they didn't know what they'd done to upset him and they wanted to make it right. But they did know.

And they weren't sorry.

"I know you think I stole from you." They started slowly, cautiously. "But he was never yours."

"You don't know what he was to me." He spoke each word in a staccato, "I gave him everything! I helped him when no one else would. He was mine and you... you." He balled his hands into fists, looking more like a toddler throwing a tantrum than the future ruler of the underworld.

MC backed away slightly as the Lord's head hung and his face grew red with anger. His muscles were visibly tense in his demon form that left little to the imagination, and he was shaking. Finally he looked up and in a strangled voice said,

"What do you have that I don't?" MC could see he was beyond furious...and on the verge of tears.

They stared at him for a moment, they didn't have an answer after all. Finally they just decided they'd speak their mind, it wasn't like he was going to get any madder.

"What's with you big scary demons and your ownership fantasies?"

His face didn't change, nor his posture. Angry and silently he stewed.

"He didn't owe you anything–"

"HE OWED ME EVERYTHING!!" Diavolo finally erupted. Hands slamming into MCs shoulders and crushing them against the wall behind them. "He owes me his life." Diavolo slammed them against the wall again. "He promised me his service." And again. "I demand that for which I've worked all these years. What belongs to me!" He roared.

MC saw stars as they tried to stay standing, multiple collisions to the back of their head from the wall causing their vision to swim and their knees to buckle. They didn't feel any pain, but they did feel a warm liquid running down their neck and shoulder blades.

They tried to reach for their weapon but their hands were blocked by Diavolo's arms, his fingers digging into thin human skin.

"That's quite enough"

Diavolo's head snapped up at the familiar voice.

"Way to cut it close…" MC almost passed out mid sentence, proving their point.

"Setting aside for now that you're meeting with dangerous acquaintances behind my back, what are you doing outside MC? We're hiding." Lucifer scolded softly as he approached, coming into view behind Diavolo's right shoulder.

"Dangerous acquaintances?" Diavolo repeated in disbelief. Lucifer just put a hand on his shoulder and guided him away from the wall. Away from harming MC farther.

He seemed calm, why was he so calm?

"I am glad you came here my Lord, we are in need of help if we're to take down Michael."

"What? Lucifer I came here for you. I came here to teach your pet a lesson and remind you of your duty to me." He said, baffled.

"Yes and that's all well and good but it will have to wait" Lucifer raised a hand. "If we decide now is the time to parse out emotions and vendetta's then I'm afraid you'll leave here in multiple pieces old friend." He eyed Diavolo pointedly.

Now MC got it, it wasn't that Lucifer was being calm. It's that he was waiting. If he acted on his rage now he'd give them away and lose Diavolo's help.

"I wanna help too!" A new voice invaded the standoff at a most inopportune time. Leaning on Lucifer, MC looked into the mist to identify the voice.

He was the same as he'd always been. He was short but not young. Good but not nice. Small but not quiet.

He was different now, he wore black, he had horns, his cause had abandoned him before he had the chance to abandon it. His skin still healing from the heinous burns he'd suffered.

Yet he was still the same Luke.

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the-digimon-tamer · 5 years ago

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Chapter 33 - The Siblings Lee is out now on FanFiction.Net and ArchiveOfOurOwn! Check them out with the links or find it after the break!

Title: The Tamer v2.0 - In HIs Name

Fandom: Digimon

Rating: T

Synopsis: In the next adventure of the Digimon Tamer, the lives of Juri, Rika, and Henry change forever when digimon begin crossing over into the human world. But it’s all just a story, right? Just a book series by an author no one has seen in a long time. Why are they here and can they save their world before something worse follows the digimon?

Xiaochun tried to entertain herself with her many dolls but instead found herself wondering if her brother and Terriermon were okay. It was all her fault wasn’t it? She was supposed to keep Calumon safe and instead she got him kidnapped. If she had just been better at keeping Calumon a secret and protecting him, maybe none of this would’ve happened. But she wasn’t. She just wished that she could’ve done something besides sit there and cry. Now her big brother and Terriermon were out there all alone trying to clean up her mistake. And that wasn’t fair to them. Even she knew that. She just wished there was something she could do about it.

Something that could be done. She stopped playing with her dolls long enough to stare out the window, wondering what her brother and Terriermon were doing now. By now, they were probably in the Digital World - either playing with nice digimon or fighting more mean digimon. Like that Impmon or the scary horsey from the other day. That was the worst part.

Just thinking about it scared her. She shook her head of those thoughts - wishing and praying to be of some use to the others. So that she could make up for her mistake. Then she heard a soft beeping noise, “What was that?”

“What was what?” her mother asked. There was another beep. Couldn’t her mother hear that? Xiaochun stood up and listened carefully for the beeps, “There it is again! It sounds like its coming from daddy’s office.”

“Xiaochun, you know you’re not allowed in there,” her mother said softly, but she was too busy already following the beeping noise. She had no idea how her mother was unable to hear that noise with how loud it was. And it was only getting louder. Before her mother could stop her, she made her way into daddy’s office and examined the source of the noise: her dad’s computer. He didn’t normally leave it on when he wasn’t in here but there it was - on and running. The screen looked really funny though. Usually, it just displayed some fancy weird programs but this time it was a black screen with a lot of numbers running across it. Upon closer inspection, it was all ones and zeroes. She peered at the computer closely, just as her mommy shouted, “Xiaochun! I said not to go into your father’s office!”

None of that registered. An image of Jiangliang and Terriermon flashed on the screen. Her brother and his digimon! They were on daddy’s computer! Were they in trouble? Maybe she could help. Daddy always used his computer when he helped them.

She looked at the keyboard and tapped a few of the buttons with her fingers, wondering if that was doing anything. Nothing. Just the same numbers running past with occasional images of Henry and Terriermon. And there was something else - a flying red bird and a blue dragon. She wanted to help them, but she didn’t know how to do that. If only she could be there.

She wanted to be there. The room was suddenly very bright and she closed her eyes to block it out; raising up her hand when that proved fruitless. The beeps grew louder until they were deafening.

...

The giant rabbit Deva Antylamon turned her head to the side and announced, “There’s an intruder in the eastern sector.”

“Are you sure?” Zhuqiaomon asked. The other sovereigns and Devas all looked in the same direction, inspecting the horizon for whatever caught Antylamon’s attention. After a moment, the flat faced dog declared, “I sense nothing.”

“I hear it,” Antylamon’s ears perked up, perking up on her head towards the different directions, “I’ll go investigate.”

“I’ll come too,” the dog added, stretching his legs in preparation of a pursuit. The two digimon took off into the distance, leaving the rest of them behind. Kenta’s shoulders slumped, “What’s with them?”

Azulongmon lowered himself to their level so he could explain, “Very few digimon are brave enough to come to this area of the Digital World. Most of them know we’re here - others simply because the rest are too afraid to approach. Someone decided to try. Either they’re really brave or they’re really stupid to think coming here is a good idea.”

“Personally, I think it’d be nice to have more guests. It would improve out current company,” Ebonwumon’s head remarked of the other head, “I’m just happy to be included.”

“You’re the same person!” Zhuqiaomon grumbled, watching the digimon disappear into the distance, “Those two better come back alive.”

Kenta folded his arms and wondered if the others were okay. On that line, he was wondering if there was anything he would actually be able to do to help. He came to help get Calumon back and so far had done little more than be a weight on the team. He didn’t have a partner like Kazu and he had no clue what he was doing unlike the others. He wanted to help - to be of more use to the team. But how could he do that without a partner? He could barely talk to either Juri or Tamerkato.

The earth trembled and the crevice cracked open wider as the rest of the team emerged from the depths with a white tiger. They looked worse for wear and struggled to get their bearings, Cyberdramon and Rapidmon collapsing on landing. Kazu and Guardromon were laid down on the ground, unconscious from whatever fight had transpired deep below them. There was someone else though, a beautiful woman in golden armor wearing a fox shaped helm. If Kenta had to guess, it was one of Renamon’s digivolutions like Gatomon and Angewomon. But then where was Rika?

The tiger let out a somber roar, “It wasn’t enough.”

Azulongmon joined the tiger, “Baihumon. What happened down there?”

“I could only slow it down. I was doing well too until these interlopers got in my way!”

“We saved your life!” the golden armored woman shouted at him. Baihumon roared in anger, “I didn’t require saving! Especially not by the likes of you, human!”

“That’s not how it looked from up here,” the woman barked angrily. The two readied to attack each other when Ryo jumped in the middle, “Cool it you two. We’ve got enough problems without trying to kill each other. Take it from me.”

Kenta scratched his head, trying to figure out what was going on and made his way over to Henry, “Glad to see you guys are back. What happened down there?”

“Man, where do I begin? It’s a hell of a story,” Henry scratched the back of his head, looking just as lost and confused as Kenta felt. Kenta was sure there was a story to tell, too. He sighed and scratched his head, only now realizing that Tamerkato had taken a sudden interest in what was going on.

...

The Devas Caturamon and Antylamon ran as quickly as they could to reach the source of the disturbance. If it was the creature that had scared their lords, they were most certainly running to their doom. And if it wasn’t, then the question became who was bold enough to come out here or stupid enough to wander in without realizing?

It didn’t take long for them to reach the furthest edge of the sector where they found a little human girl with pigtails wandering along aimlessly. She was a small fragile little thing who could only stare up in surprised disbelief at them, “Oh wow. You’re all so big. Are you friends of Terriermon? You must be! Just look at those big bunny ears!”

Antylamon was taken aback in surprise of the little girl’s declaration - and was suddenly very self conscious of the fact that her ears were flopping behind her. She had never met this girl before, but the girl knew what a Terriermon was of all things. And one was partnered with the human. Perhaps there was a connection?

Caturamon looked from the little girl to his fellow Deva and grumpily asked, “Antylamon, do you have something to do with this?”

Antylamon took immediate offense, “Why would I have anything to do with this?”

“She was pointing at you. You tell me,” Caturamon answered quietly. Antylamon’s eyes narrowed, unsure how to interpret Caturamon’s accusation and scoffed, “She’s obviously connected to the other humans. Excuse me. Little girl. Who are you?”

“Mommy says I shouldn’t talk to strangers,” the little girl said back, “I’m not even supposed to give you my name. So why would I do that? By the way, do you know where I am? I have to go back or I’ll get into trouble with my mommy and daddy.”

Antylamon was dumbstruck. Then what the hell was the little girl doing? She wasn’t supposed to talk to strangers so she just kept on talking to strangers? More importantly, why was Antylamon wasting her time trying to understand the logic of a little girl? She groaned and scooped the girl up in her giant hand, “No offense kid, but I’ve got better things to do than waste time trying to figure out what the hell you’re babbling about. So we’re going to get out of here while we-”

“STRANGER DANGER!” the little girl yelped out, jumping from Antylamon’s hand and scrambling away before the giant bunny understood what was happening. It didn’t help that Caturamon remarked, “She’s getting away.”

“Are you going to just stand there or are you going to help?” Antylamon remarked, taking off after the girl and stopping just in front of her before she got too far away, “Look kid. I don’t really have time for your games.”

“As opposed to what?” Caturamon added quietly, finally breaking Antylamon’s patience, “Are you going to contribute anything besides your unwanted sarcasm or am I going to have to beat you senseless!?”

That seemed to be the final straw for the little girl who suddenly burst out in tears. The headaches were just piling up for Antylamon who couldn’t think of anything more she wanted to do than just walk away from this whole thing. Her headache was so bad, she could feel herself shaking in anger and frustration.

The little girl stopped crying and Caturamon jumped, “Why is the ground shaking?”

A sinking feeling appeared in the pit of her stomach and pure instinct kicked in. She scooped up the little girl again and leapt towards Caturamon just as the ground gave away, cracking open and allowing a red gel like substance to seep out. Antylamon’s mouth hang open as the red mass spewed out like of the ground like a gelatinous blob, “What is that?”

“Lava?” the little girl remarked curiously. Lava would’ve been hot and they would’ve caught fire just from being this close to it. Whatever this was, it wasn’t lava. In fact, it seemed to be almost alive. She leapt back towards Caturamon but it seemed even the dog Deva was caught unaware of whatever this thing was, “I don’t know what that is but I don’t like for it. We should leave now.”

The blob belched out a large red bubble that drifted gently towards them, striking the ground and causing a massive hole to appear where there had once been dirt. Antylamon gasped, “What in the sovereigns’ names?”

“Inquisition later. Flight now!” Caturamon turned on his heels and ran. Antylamon made sure to hold the little girl tight, “Hang on. We need to go!”

She ran too, running as fast as her feet could carry her just as the ground behind them opened up for more of the red mass to breakthrough. They had a pretty good lead on it though and it didn’t seem to be moving very fast. Maybe they’d be able to escape. At least that was what she thought until the ground ahead of them broke open and more of the red mass began to seep out. Caturamon slid to a stop and growled, “This abomination seems intelligent. This way!”

He turned and started running along side the forming crack in the crust of the Digital World, trying to get ahead of it so he could get around. It was no good, though. They may have been Devas but the crack was forming faster than either of them could move. Even at a full sprint, Antylamon could just barely catch up to the forming crack, “We’re never going to outrun it! We need to leap across!”

“Yes, of course!” Caturamon agreed, both eyeing the growing crevice for a good opening to leap across. It was simpler said than done though, as the gap seemed to widen the longer they tried to outrun the growing crack. And the red blob behind them was relentless in its pursuit, doing all it could to keep breaking open the earth just ahead of them. It didn’t take long for Caturamon to shout, “It’s no good! We have to jump! You go first Antylamon! Bring the girl to safety! I’ll make a distraction!”

He broke away and started running in the opposite direction, making the crack break open further to follow him. Whatever this thing was, it was smart enough to understand that it needed to follow them. Predatory instinct. Was this the creature that had so scared the Sovereigns? That drove them to desperation? She shuddered at the thought that the thing that had their masters so scared could be about took destroy them. No, it would. It will. This thing was like a predator - relentless, yet patient. It had so many chances to swallow them but it wasn’t. Was it toying with them? Or was this part of some greater scheme?

“Howl of the Heavens!” Caturamon howled at the top of his lungs, creating a shockwave that broke apart the ground, disrupting the cracks from forming any more fluidly. That was their opening. Antylamon turned on a dime and leapt as far as she could to get over the gap before it grew any larger, glancing back over her shoulder only to watch Caturamon being surrounded by the red blob. He bowled at the top of his lungs and declared, “Long live the Sovereigns! May they reign forever!”

It was a futile show of defiance against an enemy that didn’t understand or care what Caturamon’s dying words were. She looked ahead again and watched the ground give way where she was going to land, making an opening for the red blob to attack. She wasn’t going to make it. They weren’t going to make it. Even she knew that. The girl had to live. If she was a digidestined…if she was chosen like the others were, she could be instrumental in the saving of their world. And that made her life more valuable than her own, “Hang on kid! Tuck and roll when you land!”

She whipped her hand holding the little girl back and threw with all her might towards the far end of the gap. The little girl has ignored her advice though and wound up tumbling forward into the sand until she stopped short of a rock. At least she was safe. Now it was Antylamon’s turn. She used her free hand to dig into the crevice wall before it opened up any larger, using the momentum of her fall to create her own personal hand hold into the wall. But she was too close to the red blob and she could feel it already beginning to eat at her feet. The pain channeled it’s way up her body and became screams of pure agony from her mouth.

...

Rapidmon turned his attention towards the East where the two Devas ran off to earlier, “Huh, that’s weird. I swear I just heard Xiaochun a second ago. It’s really weird. I mean, I know she’s not there. She’s back in the human world. But it has to be her. Only she could be calling bunny’s cute. And saying she shouldn’t talk to strangers.”

Henry didn’t want to believe that announcement, but now wasn’t the time to start being skeptical. Even if Rapidmon had gotten it wrong, the fact was that someone in that direction sounded like his sister. And could very well mean it was his sister. His eyes scanned the horizon in the direction Rapidmon had said and patted his partner’s back, “I doubt it’s her, but it wouldn’t hurt to investigate it. Unfortunately-”

He looked back at Ryo trying to talk down both Sakuyamon and Baihumon from attacking each other - and it was going about as well as possible when Cyberdramon was itching to join the fight about to happen. Kenta sighed and scratched his head, “I know what you mean. Think we should get Ryo out of there before he gets flattened?”

“I sense a threat,” Baihumon declared, turning his head off into the distance, “It can’t be.”

“We’re not done here!” Sakuyamon spat at it as the tiger turned towards the distance. The tiger grumbled, “I think it broke through. I thought I was buying us time but all it was doing was distracting me.”

Henry didn’t like the sound of that. Xiaochun was possibly that way, “Rapidmon and I are going to check it out.”

Ryo looked at him with wide eyed shock, “Are you sure that’s a good idea? We just got out of the fight of our lives. I’ve been in the Digital World a long time and between the Dark Masters, Milleniummon, and every other evil creature out there, I don’t think I’ve seen anything that absorbed everything it touched. Hell, we couldn’t even hurt it. All Rika-”

Sakuyamon turned at the sound of her name and looked at him.

“-I mean, all Sakuyamon was able to do was bury a chunk of the Digital World on top of it.”

“Just like WarGreymon,” Ebonwumon’s second head remarked solemnly. Tamerkato stood up at that and joined Rapidmon, “Are you sure you heard Xiaochun?”

“I’d recognize her voice anywhere. And she sounds scared,” Rapidmon nodded certainly, his ears twitching to some invisible tune they couldn’t hear, “Yeah, she’s definitely scared.”

“Then we’d better go check it out,” Tamerkato nodded, “GUILMON!”

The red dinosaur pulled his head out of Tamerkato’s bag, blinking innocently as a half eaten loaf of bread hung out of his mouth. He seemed to be doing better given everything that had transpired from Tamerkato’s brief of stint of madness. As for Juri, she didn’t seem to be doing much better. In fact, she seemed to have completely spaced out of whatever was going on. He glanced over at Ruki or Sakuyamon, who also noticed Juri and shared what he was thinking. She nodded, “Go check it out. We’ll keep an eye on things here.”

She said that while gesturing at Juri. Henry nodded and climbed up onto Rapidmon’s shoulder, “Okay, we'll hurry back.”

Tamerkato and Guilmon climbed on to Rapidmon’s back as well, the ultimate level digimon obviously uneasy about those two being so close after everything that happened previously. Still they took off as fast as they could towards whatever noise Rapidmon had heard. Henry tried his best to hide it but he was sweating bullets. After all, they were about to go up against another round with the monster they were barely able to beat last time. And if that was the case, what chance did they have now.

...

Zhenyu Lee went over the code with his colleagues, unsure if any thing they’d written in the last few hours was actually any good. However, a lot of what they were doing was guess work. Izumi, the two Ichijoujis were the only other members of the team with any clue what they were doing and it was safe to say that not a lot of progress was going to be made. After all, what was the point of having a whole government agency if less than half the agency had any practical knowledge that didn’t involve guns and shooting. It didn’t help that Izumi was on too many pain meds to actually think critically for long, the husband of the Ichijouji couple hadn’t returned in some time, and the wife was clearly not at their level when it came to the computer work.

That wasn’t to say she was an idiot by any measure. By all accounts, she could keep up with the rest of them when it came to the programming side of things. But she didn’t have the knowledge to rip open the fabric of reality like Izumi did. And between her and the other ‘Monster Makers’, it was obvious that they were all just stumbling in the dark when it came to this kind of stuff.

Still, every second they spent on the problem was another second their kids wouldn’t be stuck in another world. Or day. Or whatever amount of time was passing over on the other side. He only stopped when he received a sudden and unexpected phone call from his wife, “Dear, I’m busy at the moment. Can I-”

“Xiaochun is gone!” she shouted. He pulled the phone away from his ear to keep from going deaf but the news made his heart sink. He waited a moment longer after she was done panicking to ask, “Dear, what are you talking about?”

“She’s gone! She said your computer was making noise, but I didn’t hear a thing. I told her to leave it alone but she went into your office. I tried to stop her but then your computer started glowing, there was a light, and then she was gone! I’ve looked in the entire apartment and I’ve even asked the neighbors! I can’t find her! She’s gone Zhenyu!”

“Gone,” he repeated stupidly, lowering the phone. How could she be gone? Light from the computer? No, it couldn’t have been. He raised the phone up to his ear, “Hang on a minute.”

He made his way over to Izumi, who was busy trying to rework the formulas for his Juggernaut weapon while his wife poured him a cup of tea, “Izumi! Can I borrow your communication device for a moment?”

“The D-Terminal? Sure I guess. What’s wrong?” she answered, producing the odd communication device from her purse and passing it to him. The device was simple enough to understand - like a flip phone with a built in keyboard. But with the technology to communicate between worlds, he was sure there was more inside of it than just a wireless receiver. He opened it, scrolling past a lengthy series of texts from their daughter, and started typing a message, “To whoever gets this. This is Henry’s dad. Is Henry’s sister in the Digital World with you?”.

It only took a moment for a reply to come back, “Yes. She showed up a little while ago and she’s got a rabbit with her.”

Zhenyu’s heart sank even deeper into his chest but also felt awash in relief, “Damn.”

He returned the device to Mrs. Izumi and returned to his wife, “Honey, I think I know where she is. I’m going to find her and bring her home but it’s going to take me a while.”

“You do? Where is she Zhenyu?”

“She’s with Henry,” he answered. Her silence spoke volumes. His project as a college student was coming back to bite him and his kids. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do about it. Izumi’s wheeled his way over to him and elbowed him, “Don’t worry - your son and my daughter will take good care of her. They’ll keep her safe. And we’ll get them out of there as soon as possible.”

...

Henry, Rapidmon, Tamerkato, and Guilmon were stunned into silence at the sight of an endless red blob expanding forward out of the chasms reaching deep into the Digital World. Rapidmon especially groaned, “We just got away from that thing and now it’s here!”

“It must’ve escaped through another part of the Digital World after Rika...Sakuyamon cut off its only escape before,” Henry surmised. He scanned the ground anxiously, looking for whatever Rapidmon had heard but dodgy deer anything of booger in this sea of red. Then Tamerkato pointed at the ground and shouted, “Down there!”

Henry could feel the color run out of his face when he saw what he was pointing at. It was his sister Xiaochun standing by herself at the edge of a crevice, peering down at Antylamon who was hanging on for dear life while both were surrounded by endless red sea of gelatinous blob everywhere. Meanwhile, Caturamon was nowhere to be seen. Henry called out to her, “Xiaochun!”

“Henry! Help! The bunny is in trouble!” Xiaochun cried back up.

“Go in low! Guilmon and I will go in first to make an opening. Then you two go rescue them,” Tamerkato said. Henry pointed out the red mass at him, “Are you insane? We’ve seen what that red blob does to the Digital World around it! It literally deletes everything it touches! You’re dead if you get too close to that thing!”

“Don’t worry about us. Now go!” Tamerkato said. Henry looked at Rapidmon and nodded, the flying rabbit remarking, “You two are insane. You know that, right?”

“When did you lose your nerve Rapidmon?” Tamerkato asked with that frustrating smile of his. Rapidmon rolled his yes, “Around the time that thing tried to eat us!”

“Moumantai!” Tamerkato fired back. Rapidmon was struck, knowing his catchphrase had just been used against him and he dove down towards the ground, “Fine! But don’t go anywhere near that thing!”

When he was just above the endless sea of the red blob, Tamerkato held up his digivice for Guilmon, “Digimodify! Digivolution Activate!”

“Guilmon! Warp Digivolve to! WarGrowlmon!”

Rapidmon dropped the red dinosaur as the added weight of his ultimate form came to bare and he had to drop the digimon on the ground. Right off the bat, WarGrowlmon opened with a beam of light aimed straight at the red blob as Tamerkato leapt onto his partners back, “Atomic Blaster!”

The beam of light cleared a path on the ground and WarGrowlmon angled himself so that beam continued forwards, striking the red mass and creating a clearing in the sea of red for Rapidmon to land. Henry leapt off his partner to join Xiaochun, trying to avoid the reforming gelatinous mass as it swept back to retake lost ground.

“Rapid Fire!”

“Atomic Blaster!”

They were keeping the red mass at bay for now, but he couldn’t waste time. He picked up his little sister as soon as he got to her, “We have to go, now!”

“But Henry! Look! The bunny’s in trouble!” she protested, pointing down the cliffside at Antylamon who was struggling against the red mass starting to eat at her leg. It had already worked its way up to her knee and showed no signs of stopping. All around them, the red mass was getting closer and they were running out of room. They had to go now or they were going to be in trouble, “I’m sorry, Xiaochun. There’s no time!”

She answered by hitting him so hard in the chest that he dropped her. She scrambled up to her feet, “You’re mean! She helped me! You have to help her!”

“Xiaochun, if we don’t go now, we’re going to end up just like her!” he pleaded with her, trying to make her understand. But either she didn’t understand or she didn’t care. Either way, she turned and ran towards the edge of the cliff, “Fine! Then I’ll help her myself!”

She reached down as far as she could, offering a hand to the rabbit, “Here! Let me help!”

“Xiaochun!” Henry shouted, running after his little sister to pull her back. Just as he took the first steps, the ground gave way around her and collapsed. The crevice was getting bigger and his little sister had just fallen in. His legs ran faster and his arms reached out, trying to grab her before she fell. Their fingers were just inches apart and it was too late to reach her. She was falling in. In a panic, he leapt in after her and only realized the stupidity of his idea after he’d grabbed hold of her. The only thing between them and that red mass below was a few feet of empty air.

He closed his eyes, holding Xiaochun close to spare her from seeing their demise just as they hit something soft. He opened his eyes again and saw they were in the free hand of Antylamon, “Don’t worry. I have you!”

It took Henry a moment too long to realize what had happened. With ears that big, she must’ve heard how he planned to leave her but she still saved them. He held Xiaochun tighter, “Why?”

“She’s a nice rabbit! I told you Henry!” his little sister insisted.

Rapidmon appeared over the edge of the cliff side, “Henry!”

“Rapidmon! We’re here!” Henry called back up. Rapidmon looked around them and groaned, “Geez, this is the day that just keeps on giving. Hang on! Rapid Fire!”

He descended downward, unleashing a blaze of machine gun fire all around them, “I’m going to clear some space!”

“We need to help Antylamon too!” Henry shouted back up. Rapidmon looked down at him again, “Are you kidding me? I can’t carry all of you guys plus WarGrowlmon and Antylamon at the same time!”

“Forget about me. Save yourselves. You’re the only hope my world has!” Antylamon finally managed to grunt out as she raised them up to Rapidmon. The flying digimon used a free arm to lift them up, “You heard the lady! Let’s get out of here!”

“No! Rapidmon! We can’t leave her!” Xiaochun protested again, pleading through tears and cries.

“We’re not leaving her!” Henry barked back. Rapidmon stopped firing to look at his partner. The two of them stared at each other for the longest time and both trying to read the other. This had never been something that was difficult for either of them but for the first time, both of them were of different minds than they usually were. Rapidmon wanted to flee the danger, and he wanted to run straight into it. Both knew this and were amused at the sudden switch in mindsets. Rapidmon asked, “When did you become the one who wanted to do something dangerous?”

“Around the time you wouldn’t stop saying Moumantai,” Henry said back. Rapidmon laughed, shoulders slumping as he looked back down at Antylamon, “Oh man, we are going to die. Okay, hang on!”

“You can do it!” Henry declared, realizing how insane he must’ve been to advocate for running straight into danger like this. Still, Antylamon had saved his sister not once but twice. They may not have gotten along with the Devas but they owed this Deva their lives. He couldn’t just leave her to die. He could hear his heart beating in his ears from the blood rushing to his head. He held Xiaochun tight with one arm and held onto Rapidmon with the other, determined to save the Deva. Unaware to both partners, his digivice was erupting with light.

“Rapidmon! Biomerge to! MegaGargomon!”

Henry had no idea when it happened but the light flashed and he felt a strange sensation over come him. He’d become larger in size and Xiaochun was no longer around his arm. Rather, she was in the palm of his hand. His massive, green metal hand, “Wait, what just happened?”

“I don’t know but it feels weird,” Terriermon’s voice echoed somewhere.

“Terriermon? Is that you?”

“Yeah...huh...you have a lot of anxiety about grades. And your parents. And getting killed. What’s up with that?” Terriermon’s voice repeated. Henry took another moment to examine his massive size, especially Xiaochun who was staring up with wide eyed awe, “Henry! Is that you? Or are you Rapidmon?”

“I…maybe? I really don’t know,” Henry answered.

“This must’ve been what happened to Rika and Renamon. It feels really weird,” Terriermon’s voice echoed, “You’ve really got a lot of anxiety about grades and impressing your dad. Do you want to talk about it partner?”

“Get out of my head,” Henry snapped.

“It’s our head, now,” Terriermon remarked. He was right. It was their head. He added, “Of course I’m right. Duh! Oh wow. There’s a lot thinking going on in here. Is this why you’re so quiet all the time?”

Wait, how did that happen? “I can hear your thoughts!”

“Will you stop that?” Henry snapped again. Xiaochun pushed against his finger, “Terriermon! We have to help the bunnymon! She’s in trouble!”

“I think her name’s Antylamon but you’re right,” Terriermon corrected.

“Right! Here we come!” Henry shouted closing his hand around Xiaochun to protect her before descending downward into the fray. He needed to dislodge the red blob’s hold around Antylamon. But how? “Gargo Missile!”

Two missiles erupted from his shoulder and blew up the space around Antylamon. The red blob seemed to lurch from the attack and retreated away releasing Antylamon but revealing one leg already missing from the knee down. Henry was at a loss, “Did I do that?”

“We did that,” Terriermon remarked. He had to focus. Still, she was free and the rabbit used her last leg to kick herself out of the ravine. She landed just on the edge, hobbling on her one leg before collapsing onto the ground. The red mass was on the attack again, moving to surround her. Henry rose back into the air to land by herself, “Mega Barrage!”

Another barrage of missiles came out of his body and blew apart the surrounding red mass, clearing an opening for them. Once Henry descended, Xiaochun demanded to be let go so she could join Antylamon. The moment Henry let her go, though, the ground cracked open again at her feet between her and Antylamon. The red mass moved straight for the defenseless little girl.

“ARM BOMBER!” Antylamon’s arms came to life with light and she threw herself forward on to the red blob - destroying it with one swift blow to its side, “Leave the girl alone!”

Once again, Antylamon had saved Xiaochun’s life. But that last effort must’ve been too much for the digimon. She collapsed onto the ground and her eyes closed - body dissipating into data and leaving behind a small brown version of Terriermon. Xiaochun’s gasped, “Bunnymon! No!”

She picked up the small bunny, pulling her away from the danger around them. Henry scooped them both up as quickly as she could, scanning around for Tamerkato and WarGrowlmon. Thankfully, the two of them were just a small distance away and fighting their way towards them. Another barrage of missiles would clear a path forward, “Mega Barrage!”

The missiles hit their mark and cleared another path for the three to rejoin. Tamerkato looked up with a smile at Henry, “Nice digivolution, Rapidmon.”

“I’m in here too,” Henry answered. Tamerkato’s eyes narrowed, “Who? Wait, Henry!?”

“Boy, you should take a look at your face,” Terriermon said aloud. Henry scooped him up, “We can talk about this later. WarGrowlmon! Hop on!”

WarGrowlmon latched onto his back and Henry kicked off the ground, ascending skyward just as the red mass closed in around on where they had been. WarGrowlmon continued glancing down, “That was close. Now what?”

“We head back,” Henry affirmed, turning back towards the others, “Tamer…I mean Takato…whatever, what the hell is that?”

“The D-Reaper,” he answered quietly. We’re in a lot of trouble.”

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