Episode 10 - Break Through

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Bandai, and so on... and is used without consent. I'm only borrowing
them I'll return them as soon as they release uncut episodes with
original Japanese language and subtitles.
Daisuke: What?! They'll never do that!
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WARNING, PLEASE READ: This series is rated R for a reason. Violence,
language, and eventually sex will play a part of this.

I'm using strict Japanese spelling for all names when possible.
If I used an English name for a digimon or his attack and you know
what the name is supposed to be in Japanese-- please tell me so I can correct it.

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"We who are about to die." Hikari sighs. "Seems like a fitting quote.

"Our group went to obtain another digimental, the one for friendship.
When we found it we were attacked by Mummymon and a group of Monochromon
and Snimon. We were forced to retreat since all we had was armor
evolution. Dark Towers prevented us from using natural evolution.
While retreating, Daisuke wasn't willing to let down his friends
again with another loss and not only gained the digimental but his second digimon, Wormmon.

"Now we're preparing to attack and make our way to the portal to
File Island. I don't know how we'll do it. But somehow we have to break through and win."

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The Chosen and their digimon carefully moved down a street lined
with Dark Towers. They had altered the plan to first try to sneak
in, and if that failed-- pound their way through.

"How very foolish." A silver haired woman dressed in red stood before
them. "Trying to sneak back into town to get to your portal is really
suicidal. I had so much hoped for more from you Chosen children."

"A woman?" Daisuke called out in surprise.

"I am so much more than a mere woman." She raised her right hand
to the air. "It's a pity that you're too weak to see the real me.
But it's time to spring my trap."

Rows of Dark Towers lowered into the ground, revealing hordes of
digimon coming out of now open trap doors.

Dark Tyrannomon are black scaled Tyrannosaur Rex looking digimon
that have been corrupted and viral. Their Fire Blast can burn you alive.

Tuskmon, giant green digimon with gigantic black horns. Their Panzer
Knuckle attack will drive you into the ground.

Kuwagamon, four plus meter tall red beetle like digimon with claws that can cut through anything

And not to mention even more Snimon than they had fought against in the last battle.

"We're dead." Yamato took a defensive step back.

"There's nowhere to run. Archnemon and I have you completely surrounded,"
Mummymon gloated flanked by a group of Dark Tyrannomon. Six Monochromon appeared behind them.

"Any last words?" Archnemon asked.

"Volcano strike!" chorused the Monochromon as they unleashed hellish
fire on Mummymon's troop of Dark Tyrannomon.

"Idiot! Didn't you recapture them?" Archnemon hissed.

Mummymon shrugged. "Sorry, love. But you ordered me to help set up this trap."

"Now is our chance. Digimental up!" Miyako cried out.

"Hawkmon armor evolve!" The hawk was encased in a glowing ball,
which somehow exploded without any force. A half-lion, half-hawk
griffon stood before her wearing a large winged silver helmet. "Flapping with wings of love, Holsmon."

"Digimental up!" Daisuke ordered.

"V-mon armor evolve!" A sphere encased V-mon and shattered in a
fiery explosion that caused no damage. The lizard now stood over
two meters tall and had flaming red armor on his knees, arms and
head. "Burning with courage, Fladramon!"

"Wormmon armor evolve!" An identical sphere surrounded Wormmon.
It too exploded with fire. Besides having black scales and flaming
butterfly wings, he appeared almost the same Fladramon. "Exploding with courage, Shadramon!"

"Cool, he can use the Digimental of Yuuki too." Daisuke grinned. "Go for the dark rings!"

"Scatter!" Taichi called out.

"Attack!" Archnemon ordered.

The Chosen and their digimon spread out as the area they had stood
in was assaulted by numerous attacks.

Shadramon and Holsmon tried to cover the air battle as best they
could while Fladramon battled along with the child digimon trying to break the dark rings.

Mummymon dodged as one of his Dark Tyrannomon fired upon him. "This
isn't going along with the plan, is it?"

"Shut up!" Archnemon hissed. "Destroy those damn digimon." She transformed
into half-woman half-spider digimon and joined the battle.

Yamato blinked. "Damn, she got ugly." He had to dodge as Archnemon spit poisonous acid at him.

The battle had quickly taken a huge domino effect. The lines of
friend and foe became muddled for Archnemon's forces.

The controlled digimon continued to attack the Chosen and their
partners, but their targets kept on dodging the attacks. Their former
allies were also attacking them, making their orders harder to complete.

Most of the now freed digimon tried to free the other digimon from
being controlled, while others tried to attack Mummymon and Archnemon.

Then there were the ones that were starved because of the Kaiser's
improper care, those attacked anything that looked edible.

"Taichi! What are you doing?!" Sora cried out near the building with the portal.

"Baby Flame!" Agumon's fiery attack crashed against a Dark Ring,
leaving no visible damage. The Tuskmon wearing that ring tried to punch Agumon into the ground.

Taichi waved toward the building. "Just go through the portal. I'm
not going through until everyone else is safe."

"But Taichi, you can't do anything to help." Sora grabbed his arm. "We have to go."

Taichi pulled out of her grasp. "Not yet."

Fire rained down destroying the dark ring on Tuskmon. "Go!" Fladramon
yelled. "YOU are more of a liability than a help now."

Taichi growled. "Come on, Agumon."

"Right behind you." Agumon followed Sora, Taichi and Piyomon into the portal building.

Hikari ducked behind a burning building. Her heart racing. She tried
to figure out how to get to the portal building with all of this
fighting. She turned around and stared directly at Mummymon's gun.

Hikari couldn't take her frightened eyes off the digimon. She waited
for him to activate his gun and blow her head off, but his evil
smirk gave way to a shocked expression. His gun fell lifelessly from his hand.

The sound of the gun hitting the ground brought Hikari out of her
shock and she ran for her life. She expected the digimon to pick
up his gun and shoot her in the back. But the roar of a Dark Tyrannomon
who hadn't been feed in weeks brought her attention to another threat.
She covered her head, waiting for the hungry digimon to bite down on her.

"No! Necrophobia!" Mummymon had lifted his gun and fired it, disintegrating the Dark Tyrannomon.

Hikari ran blindly to the portal now. She paid no heed as Mummymon
destroyed a controlled Snimon that was about to attack her. All
she could think of was to get away as fast as possible.

Daisuke watched as Mimi, Yamato and Takeru made it to the portal.
"Miyako, let's get out of here!"

"I don't think so," boomed a voice. "You trespass on my lands, damage
and steal my property, you must be punished. Chimeramon, attack!"

The ground exploded a hundred meters from the portal as a gigantic
digimon made of mismatched parts soared into the air.

"What the hell is that?!" Daisuke called out in shock.

Miyako gulped. "Looks like something from a bad monster movie."

The voice laughed. "With wings of a Devidramon and Airdramon, the
head of a Kabuterimon, two arms from Ookuwamon, the other two from
Devimon, body of a Greymon, legs of a Garurumon, and Monochromon's
tail. Chimeramon is the perfect killer."

"He's pretty sure of himself," Daisuke commented flatly.

Archnemon glared. "Of course. He's the Digimon-Kaiser. Rightful ruler of the Digital World."

Mummymon hefted his gun at Daisuke. "I wouldn't say rightful ruler,
dear. My Father has a claim too."

"Heat Viper!" called out Chimeramon as he razed a section of Rail
Town, obliterating three digimon in the process.

Daisuke lowered his square goggles to protect his eyes from flying
debris. "Lot's of power, little control."

"Who needs control when it still does the job?" Archnemon asked with a smirk.

Chimeramon's heat attack then blasted a hole through the nearby
mountain, which resulted in an even larger explosion.

Archnemon lost her smirk.

"Ah, I think that was the Kaiser's lab," Mummymon commented.

"Shut up!" Archnemon yelled.

"That thing is a menace to everyone," Shadramon commented.

"Everyone get on my back. We're going to rush our way in." Holsmon
swooped and landed near Daisuke and Miyako.

Shadramon flew closer. "I'll cover your rear."

"Not so fast. Necrophobia!" Mummymon blasted Fladramon out of his armor form.

V-mon flopped across the ground, moaning in pain and clutching a badly burnt shoulder.

Daisuke picked up V-mon and jumped on Holsmon.

"Predation Spider!" Archnemon spit poison at Shadramon, who dodged.

"Flare Buster!" Shadramon fired back, flames shooting forth from his armored hands.

"Argh!" Archnemon cried out in pain. "You scorched my hair."

Mummymon glared. "Snake Bandage!" The bandages on his arms flew
out and encased Shadramon, who then devolved.

Miyako snatched Wormmon from the bandages, and hopped on Holsmon
behind Daisuke, who was holding V-mon. She then ordered, "Let's get out of here!"

"You don't have to tell me twice. Hold on tight." Holsmon took off straight for the portal.

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"Lay off him, Koushiro-san." Sora glared. "I practically had to drag him through the portal."

"I'm sure." Koushiro replied flatly. "He's just protecting you like always."

Hikari's eyes widen as the portal room flashed brightly. "Guys,
something big is coming through."

The air shrieked as Holsmon bulleted pass them and tried to break
before colliding with the wall. With a mighty crash, he failed.
He then devolved and joined the pile of human and digimon that had rode on his back.

"We've really got to stop doing this. Ite!" Miyako moaned.

Daisuke pulled his head way and gagged, having felt more than feathers
between Hawkmon's legs. "The only crotch I want to get that close
to my mouth would belong to a girl."

Hawkmon hurried off him. "It's not like I planned where I fell."

"Another great mission, Daisuke. Maybe we should go with Taichi as leader," Yamato commented.

"I second that!" Mimi called out.

"There's no way I'd follow Taichi," Koushiro stated flatly as he closed the portal.

"Come on guys." Takeru stepped forward. "Daisuke hasn't done that
bad of a job, and we did succeed in what we set out to do with no casualties."

V-mon held his burnt shoulder from where Mummymon had hit Fladramon.
"No casualties? I can barely move my arm."

"Okay, minor casualties. And it's not like Daisuke is solely leading
us. Taichi and Yamato are helping him out," Takeru pointed out.

"We need to work as a team, or we're going to lose. That means working
together to accomplish our missions and doing what we need to do.
Even if it means taking orders from someone you don't like," Hikari spoke out.

"From someone I don't like is one thing, from someone who's far
too cowardly and reckless to be a good leader is entirely different," Koushiro groused.

"Just forget it," Taichi said bitterly. "I have no intention of
being leader. So this entire argument is pointless." He walked off.

Yamato followed him. "Why do you let Koushiro get to you? I know
it was your idea that got screw up and his leg smashed, but you
shouldn't be so hard about this still."

"Because it's my fault. It was my plan, my idea, and my stupidity."
Taichi sighed. "If I led people like that, we would've already been
killed. Daisuke is a lot better of a leader than I'll ever be. Since
he became leader we got three digimentals and two digimon, I doubt I could do as well."

"I'm sure you could've done better. We might even have the one he lost," Yamato assured him.

Taichi shook his head. "I was technically leader on the first mission
and Koushiro almost became that dragon digimon's lunch. I didn't
do anything to save him, Miyako did."

Yamato paused trying to think of a better argument.

"Daisuke is willing to die for us, but I'm too much of a coward
to risk my life for someone. You need to be reckless like that to
lead properly, otherwise you won't get any respect." Taichi walked off.

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Mummymon dragged his right foot as he walked, since that leg was
broken. His right arm was missing as well.

The Kaiser turned away from the statue he was looking at. "Have you subdued Chimeramon?"

"Yes, my lord. He's howling in rage in his cage as we speak." Mummymon
would've saluted, but his missing arm made that impossible.

"Good. Now leave me." The Kaiser turned around.

"Um, sir, about why I saved that girl...." Mummymon trailed off.

The Kaiser glared angrily at him. "I don't care to hear that lame
excuse again. There is no way for that to be true. If you hadn't
harmed the leader's digimon, I would've had you killed instead of
making you capture Chimeramon alone. Now be gone."

"Yes, sir." Mummymon bowed and left.

The Kaiser turned and looked at the statue of a young teenage boy.
"Ah, Akiyama, looks like I finally have a new challenge to face
that's worthy of me. Hopefully they won't die as easily as you did."

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Author's notes:

Why Mummymon saved Hikari will get explained later. MUCH later.

Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake! Omake!

A glass door silhouettes two forms. Suddenly they jump on the door
causing it too fall, but miraculously doesn't break.

"Hi, everyone! I'm Taichi!" called out chibi-Taichi.

"And I'm Sora!" added chibi-Sora.

"Not it's time for what you've all been waiting for, the second part!" they chorused.

"In this special omake, we give you a hint of what's to come!" chibi-Taichi cheered.

Chibi-Sora nodded. "This is to let you know how bad things will
get. We'll ask general questions like 'which Chosen losses/lost their virginity first?'"

"Now if you send in an answer of 'Taichi and Sora,' you won't get
acknowledged as being correct, even if you are." Chibi-Taichi grinned.

"You wish." Chibi-Sora folds her arms. "However, if you write that
Yamato and Jun had dated for a while before the series began and
on one of their dates, they had a one night stand of unprotected
sex in her bedroom. Then you might get a reply if you're correct.
The more detailed your guess, the more likely that you'll get a reply."

"Archive's begging for reviews, isn't he?" chibi-Taichi asked.

"Yep." Chibi-Sora pulled out a piece of paper.

Chibi-Taichi scratches his head. "I don't know how he suspects anyone
to be able to answer any of these questions. He's asking people
to speculate on rather specific stuff, isn't he?"

"Well, yes. But there is the off chance that someone will guess
correctly." Chibi-Sora shrugged. "Or the idea offered is actually
better that what Archive has planned currently and he decides to use it."

Chibi-Taichi crossed his arms. "That sound cheap."

Chibi-Sora straightened herself. "Let's just list the questions.
The first question is, of course, which Chosen losses/lost their virginity first?"

"The second question is, which Zero-One or Zero-Two Chosen will
be the first to... DIE PERMENANTLY?!" Chibi-Taichi blinked repeatedly.
"I don't think I'm going to like this."

Chibi-Sora gulped. "I don't like the notion of FIRST either. That
implies more than one of us will get killed."

"I had better live through this," Chibi-Taichi grumbled.

Chibi-Sora decided to go back to the questions. "Third question,
how will Sylphimon first evolve before Hikari gets Tailmon?"

"Four, who will be the first to admit l-love for someone?" Chibi-Taichi blushed slightly.

Chibi-Sora smirked. "Fifth question, why did Mummymon protect Hikari?"

"Question six, who are the third and fourth digimon go to Ultimate
level (Mega level in American dub), and how do they accomplish that?"
Chibi-Taichi folded his arms. "We only need two for Zero-One and
for Zero-Two. Why do we need more for this?"

"The fact not all of us will live is a good indication." Chibi-Sora
sighs. "Seventh question, the second digimon to become Ultimate
will do so in an evolution process that is not natural like Paildramon
to Imperial Dramon nor warp like Agumon to War Greymon-- how will
this evolution be accomplished?"

"Eight, which two of the current main team Chosen, including Koushiro
but not the Kaiser, will take sadistic pleasure in killing digimon?"
Chibi-Taichi sweat-drops. "What's Archive smoking?"

Chibi-Sora ignored him. "Ninth question, which couples will become
official before the series ends? Official as in have sex or admit love for each other."

"Finally, number ten, who will be alive after the final battle with
the Dark Masters and how far can their digimon evolve then?" Chibi-Taichi
grumbled, "Why do I get all the bad questions?"

"Just lucky, I guess." Chibi-Sora smiled. "If you want to try for
the last question, list surviving Chosen and what level their digimon
would likely be when they're about to get into a major battle. For
example: Taichi, Sora, Yamato, Omegamon, and Garudamon."

Chibi-Taichi sweat-dropped. "There had BETTER be more of us alive."

Chibi-Sora scowled. "It was just an example. Please note that there
are other Chosen besides the twelve from the Odaiba area, and a
couple of them have already had an effect on the Digital World and
might join in the final battle like Ken, Akiyama Ryo, Michael, Wallace
(Willis), Maria, Chichos, and so on...."

Chibi-Taichi grinned. "Archive will give this hint, two digimon
will have new higher level evolution that are created by Archive
and at least one digimon won't follow the full evolutionary path
set by Toei. For those digimon, assuming they live to get to this
point of the series, you can be general in your comments on them."

Chibi-Sora held up a finger. "Remember to include your e-mail address
if you submit any guesses so Archive can tell you if you're right
or wrong. But until next time..."

"Be seeing you!" they chorused.