Episode 18 - Verses the Dark Lieutenant, Panjamon

Chibi-Koushiro walks up. "Anyway. The characters are properties
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"Strict Japanese spelling for all names when possible. If an English
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"Try to run from danger, and it finds you," Hikari said nervously.
"We went to the Village of Beginings, hoping to recover our injuries
before having to face Devimon. However, we led the serpent straight
into Eden. Devimon's second-in-command, Panjamon, and some high
level digimon followed us right into the village after us. Now I
face a terror that is probably in my nightmares, a digimon with the face of Vamdemon."

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"V-Vamdemon...." Hikari breathed, staring in horror at the digimon hovering before her.

"How would you...." Vamdemon paused and then smiled. He floated
down to her and caressed her cheek. "Oh, it's YOU."

Hikari literally pissed her panties in fright. She backed away from
the vampire digimon, crying out at the top of her lungs, "STAY AWAY!!!"

Vamdemon merely laughed, but was cut off as XV-mon and Stingmon
rushed forward and punched the vampire into a building.

"It's not nice to pick on a girl," Stingmon commented.

Vamdemon floated out of the wrecked building, seemingly unharmed. "And how would you stop me?"

"Any way we can," Daisuke retorted, moving to protect Hikari. "Take him down!"

"No!" Hikari cried out. "That's Vamdemon!"

Daisuke blinked. "He's is?"

"X Laser!" XV-mon cried out, sending forth his attack.

Vamdemon dodged and twisted in time to see Stingmon attempt to use
'Spiking Finish,' however the vampire digimon grabbed the insectoid's
arm and threw him at XV-mon. Before he could do anything else, electricity
ripped through his being. Vamdemon whipped around and glared daggers
at Kabuterimon. "You!" he said as if he cursed.

"Huh?" Kabuterimon questioned before Vamdemon gripped his face and
then forced the him head first into the ground.

Vamdemon looked around. "Where is your stupid partner..." His toothy
grin spread as he saw his target. "You shall die for what you did to me!"

Koushiro stumbled back as the Vamdemon rushed toward him.

"No so fast!" XV-mon punched Vamdemon, knocking the evil digimon away.

Vamdemon rubbed his chin. "You shall pay for that." He made a fist
and called out, "Bloody Stream!" A red whip formed from his fist
and cracked against XV-mon's face, sending the draconian digimon tumbling to the ground.

Stingmon rushed forward to attack, but he fell to Vamdemon's crimson whip.

"First I'll kill Koushiro, then I'll take Hikari to where she belongs," Vamdemon said, standing up.

"How do you know about us?" Daisuke questioned.

"That is not your business!" Vamdemon retorted before lashing out
at his whip toward Daisuke and Hikari.

Daisuke could only dodge the attack.

Hikari screamed, her hands moving to protect her face. "Please no!"
she pleaded as the attack missed her.

"Leave her alone!" Takeru yelled, Patamon flying next to him.

"And what will you do?" Vamdemon cracked his whip again, this time
striking Takeru in the chest. The young boy tumbled to the ground.

Hikari curled up into a ball, sobbing.

"You bastard!" Daisuke howled.

Stingmon tried to stab Vamdemon again, but the vampire grabbed him
and used him to block XV-mon's attack and then kicked the green
insect at the blue draconian. He turned and wrapped his whip around
Kabuterimon's neck before the blue insect could add his attack.

Patamon sighed with relief as Takeru shakily got to his feet. He
then turned and glared in hatred at Vamdemon. He knew he had to
stop this demon, and could feel Takeru was in agreement. He called
out, "Patamon evolve!" A pillar of light encased the flying brown
mammal. The pillar faded with a shower of pristine white feathers
and floating in the air was an angel dress in white, blue and gold
with six wings and holding a large golden staff. "Angemon!"

"WHAT?!" Vamdemon cried out in shock.

The others stared in awe of the angel digimon.

"Evil must be purged," Angemon condemned. "Heaven's Knuckle!" The
angel punched the air, sending forth a golden ray that washed over Vamdemon.

Vamdemon screamed in horrendous pain as his body began to delete. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

Kabuterimon looked at Angemon and then at the towering XV-mon and Stingmon. "I feel inadequate."

"Was that really Vamdemon?" Daisuke questioned.

Koushiro hobbled over. "I don't think so. I think he was the Bakemon
that disguised himself as Ryo. Otherwise, he'd have no reason to come after me."

Explosions echoed through the village.

"Doesn't matter right now," Daisuke replied. "We've got to help
the others now. Come on!" Daisuke rushed off, followed by XV-mon and Stingmon.

Takeru clutched his chest as he walked over to Hikari. "He's gone, Hikari-chan."

"It wasn't him, but he looked the same. Looked the same...." Hikari mumbled through her sobs.

"You okay?" Koushiro asked.

"I'm fine," Takeru replied. "Don't know about Hikari-chan."

"We can't leave her alone," Angemon stated. "Evil is all around us."

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Mojamon launched himself into the air, only to get frozen solid
and his body shattering upon crashing to the ground. A Drimogemon
charged forward, only to be gutted like a fish. His brother managed
to scratch his opponent, but that was it before a sword was plunged between his eyes.

Panjamon snorted. "Isn't there anyone who's worthy to fight me?"
The digital information of his fallen opponents floating into the air around him.

"I doubt I'm worthy," Yuki Duramon replied.

"You've got that right," Panjamon agreed. "Just give up now."

"I don't think so." Yuki Duramon smirked. "Your ice attacks can't hurt me."

"But my sword can," Panjamon sneered.

"True, but you have to touch me first," Yuki Duramon mocked as he
raised his fists to the air and then slammed them down with all
his might. A wall of ice erupted from the ground.

"And what's that supposed to do?" Panjamon questioned.

"To buy the others time, of course." Yuki Duramon smiled.

"What a joke." Panjamon punched the wall and it cracked.

Yuki Duramon took a couple steps back and punched the ground again
to create another wall. "I can do this all night."

Panjamon glared. He leapt into the air, briefly landing on top of
the ice wall before jumping towards the snow bear digimon, sword ready to kill.

Yuki Duramon encased himself in a protective ice dome, but there
was too much momentum. Panjamon's sword pierced through the dome,
breaking it as the lion digimon crashed though the ice and fell on top of the bear.

Panjamon grinned as he brought his fist down on Yuki Duramon's head
with enough force to make it shatter like a fallen snowball. The
evil lion chuckled as he stood up. "Best fight I had in a long time. Hope the Chosen are better."

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Taichi leveled his gaze as he watched Garurumon, Birdramon and Greymon
wore down Phantomon's defenses, making the digimon tired, angry
and careless. He had doubted this was the same Phantomon from the
cave that held the Digimental of Courage, now he was sure of it.
This ghost digimon didn't have a clue how to use the chain on his
scythe while the other one they had fought used it as his primary attack.

The Phantomon blocked another attack from Greymon and tried to counter,
but the had to block attacks from Birdramon and Garurumon.

"We've got to speed this up," Yamato commented. "He's not alone."

An explosion echoed from behind them.

Taichi nodded. "Try to get Garurumon to attack from the right."
He pointed to indicate which right to use. "Sora get Birdramon to
attack straight down. I'll have Greymon go to the left. He won't
be able to stop all of our attacks."

Yamato and Sora nodded.

Taichi and Yamato acted first, running to opposite flanks of Phantomon
and calling their digimon to do the same.

"From above," Sora cried out to Birdramon.

Birdramon first looked up, but then realized what Sora meant.

"Attack now!" Taichi screamed when all three digimon were in position.

"Mega Flame!" Greymon spewed forth his fire.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon scorched the air with his burning breath.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon rained down destruction.

Phantomon tried to block Greymon's giant fireball, but failed to
block all of it as the other two attacks hit him as well. He fell
backwards using his scythe to support himself. His ghost body burnt in several places.

"Finish him!" Taichi ordered.

Once again the three digimon let loss their attacks, and Phantomon
was too weak to offer any defense. He exploded into data.

"Got him! Sora cheered.

"That was too easy," Taichi muttered to himself, before calling
out, "Come on guys, we aren't done yet!"

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"Whoa. Mirror match," Mimi observed as whatever attack Monzaemon
attempt, Waru Monzaemon would counter with the exact opposite attack,
and vice versa. The fight had gone on for a few minutes, and neither
seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

"Are you sure you don't want help?" Togemon questioned, again.

"Stay out of this!" both Monzaemon hissed at her.

"Right, I'll just protect the babies," Togemon mumbled to herself.

Elecmon whimpered next to her. He wanted some means to stop them.
While stronger than most of his kind, he still had little chance
to stand up to a Perfection digimon. He then noticed something occurring
in the nearby field. "Someone already died in battle," he observed seeing a new digi-tama form.

"Would that be the first one tonight?"

"Well, yes," Elecmon replied before realize he didn't know who asked
that. He turned and saw Panjamon walk over to the freshly formed
egg. His eyes widened in shock. "What are you doing?"

Panjamon picked up the egg and tossed it a few times. "Simple, I'm
making sure Unimon never bothers me again." He then crushed the egg in his mighty hand.

"He'll never be reborn!" Elecmon cried in horror.

"That was the idea," Panjamon sneered.

Mimi had heard every word. She seethed in anger. "Togemon!"

"He's dead meat," Togemon vowed. She rushed forward, trying to punch
him in the face with all her might. However, he dodged and twisted
as she continued to try to punch him silly.

"Not bad," Panjamon taunted. "But you really need to work your legs."
He dropped his upper body to the ground while kicking up on of his
feet, hitting Togemon right in the face.

Togemon sprawled to the ground, very pissed off.

"Gattling Missile!"

Panjamon jumped out of the way of the attack, and remarked, "Thanks
for the warning." He spotted Andromon supporting himself against
one of the buildings, and sent a freezing punch in his direction.

Andromon sprawled to the ground as the icy attack froze the building next to him.

"Stay down," Panjamon ordered as he tried to freeze Andromon again,
however Miyako riding Holsmon swooped down to pulled him out of the way.

Panjamon then felt a sharp pain as Togemon punched him in the jaw,
however he didn't fall down like she expected. Instead he used his
freezing punch at point blank range, right into her face.

Togemon bounced once off the ground before devolving into Palmon.
Mimi ran to carefully cradle her partner, but her enemy loomed above her.

"Red Sun!" Holsmon attacked, trying to drive Panjamon away from Mimi.

Panjamon scowled darkly, knowing he would have to get Holsmon to
move in closer if he wanted to score a solid hit. He bent down to
grab Mimi to be his lure and to be a shield against the flying digimon
since he wouldn't attack with the risk of hitting her. However,
when his hand touched Mimi's digivice, it burned him and he stumbled
away while growling, "What trickery?"

Mimi noticed that her digivice was glowing, and guessed that had
been what hurt Panjamon. Being upset over what Panjamon had done,
she took her digivice and slammed it down on his foot as hard as she could.

Panjamon yelped in pain and hopped several meters away from her.
"I won't be defeated by a toy," he hissed. He reared back to freeze
Mimi where she stood. The attack from Holsmon wasn't enough to stop
him, but being tackled by Stingmon and XV-mon sent the humanoid lion flying.

"What's with bad digimon picking on girls," Stingmon commented.

"Probably upset that they can't get any," Daisuke quipped.

Panjamon growled in angry fury. He rushed toward Stingmon, shoving
his sword into the insectoid digimon's shoulder and pining him to
a building. Then he whipped around kicking XV-mon in the stomach.
He continued to unleash a series of furious combination of punches
and kicks that left XV-mon flat on the ground. He prepared to finish
off the draconian with his ice punch when flames erupted around him.

"Thanks for the save," Daisuke called out.

"No prob.," Taichi returned. He could see the battle between Monzaemon
and Waru Monzaemon going on in the background, but that fight seemed
to be well in hand. Panjamon, however, apparently had taken out
Stingmon, XV-mon, and Togemon.

Panjamon rose from his fire bath despite his pain. He dashed toward
Greymon who was far too slow to dodge the onslaught of punches and
kicks inflicted on him. However, that left his back open as Garurumon
pounced, biting hard into the lion's shoulder. Panjamon grabbed
the wolf digimon, flipping and slamming him into Greymon.

This gave Birdramon and Holsmon the room they needed, and launched
their airborne attacks. However, Panjamon grabbed Greymon and hoisted
him in the air to block all the damage.

Daisuke clenched his fists. "He's beating us senseless. The Vamdemon
we just fought wasn't this tough."

"Vamdemon?!" Taichi questioned.

"Yeah. He freaked out your sister and hurt Takeru, but he died easily
enough," Daisuke replied. "Koushiro thinks that Vamdemon was the Bakemon he fought, evolved."

Taichi gritted his teeth. "There's got to be a way to stop him."
He then flinched as Panjamon threw Greymon into a building and tossed
Garurumon at Birdramon, knocking her out of the air.

Holsmon tried to attack, but had to dodge as Panjamon attacked with freezing punches.

Sora blinked as she saw Mimi stomp towards Panjamon, and then screamed, "Mimi, get away from him!"

Panjamon turned to look at her, but was too late as she punched his shin with her digivice.

Everyone stared in surprised as Panjamon cried out in pain and backed
away from Mimi, who continued to advance on him as if she was the hunter.

"Her digivice is able to hurt him," Elecmon answered their unspoken question.

Taichi grabbed his digivice and looked at Yamato and Daisuke. "Care to give it a try?"

"This is crazy," Yamato commented, but pulled out his digivice anyway.

"Count me in," Sora added.

Panjamon tried to attack Mimi, to stop her from using her digivice
on him. However each time he moved to hit her, another digimon would
attack him and gave the girl the opportunity to hurt him. He had
unwittingly backed himself against a building, staring down five
children each holding out their digivices. He made one more attempt
to kill them, but the now recovered XV-mon hit the lion digimon
with his laser attack, slamming Panjamon against the building.

The five children didn't know how their digivices hurt Panjamon
as they touched him with them, and quite frankly didn't care. Their
digivices glowed brilliantly as the lion howled in pain. His eyes
looked up in horror as he saw Angemon fly toward him and used Heaven's
Knuckle, aimed straight for his head.

A blinding light flashed from Panjamon's body, and everyone instinctively
protected their eyes. When it faded, the gray furred humanoid lion
gave way to a much smaller yellowish-orange furred version, who fell bonelessly to the ground.

"What happened to him?" Mimi questioned.

Greymon stared at the fallen digimon in shock. "That's Leomon! You freed him."

"He is?" Daisuke questioned.

Taichi turned to see if he could find Hikari, but saw no sign of
her, Takeru, Koushiro, Kuro, Tentomon or Patamon. Unless the angel
digimon was one of them. He then looked over and saw the end of the Monzaemon battle.

Waru Monzaemon had been looking in Panjamon's direction when he
devolved, momentarily blinding him. Monzaemon wasted no time in
exploiting that, slamming the tattered bear to the ground and holding
him there. The big yellow teddy-bear then fired his Hearts Attack,
right into Waru Monzaemon's back.

Waru Monzaemon couldn't help but feel happy from Monzaemon's hearts.
Those good feelings somehow destroyed the black gears inside him,
causing him to devolve into a Numemon.

"You mean the Monzaemon evolve from those icky Numemon?!" Mimi called out in surprise. "Ew."

"There's nothing wrong about Numemon," Monzaemon huffed.

"Is that all of them?" Daisuke questioned.

"It appears that way," Angemon replied. "I still sense evil around
us, but it's not in the village."

"So we've got a moment to recoup." Taichi sighed, his adrenaline
rush from battle subsiding. "Has anyone seen Hikari and the others?"

"They should be coming from that way," Angemon answered, pointing with his staff.

Taichi gave another sigh, but this one was in relief as he saw Kuro
guiding Hikari towards them with Kabuterimon carrying Takeru and Koushiro.

"W-wha-what have I done?" came a mumbled growl.

The Chosen and most of the digimon turned nervously toward Leomon.

The lion digimon was staring at his hands, and was crying. "How
could I have done those things? I-I-I killed so many digimon... Why? Why did I do that?!"

Before any of them could think of something to say, a stream of
energy spikes streaked from the sky, piercing Leomon's body and killing him.

Everyone immediate tensed up, trying to spot who had killed him
when they heard a mocking voice call from the air, "His usefulness
was at an end. With the Village of Beginings, I can create an army
of loyal troops that will only obey me."

"Over my dead body!" Elecmon yelled back.

"Granted. Nail Bone." More energy spikes rained from the sky, removing Elecmon from existence.

"Devimon," Kuro said as if he cursed.

"Close." The night sky seemed to darken as giant form with black
wings attached to red and black skeleton holding an evil looking
staff. He gloated haughtily, "I WAS Devimon, but I have evolved!
You can't stand against the perfected might of Skull Satamon!"

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Author's Notes:

Next: Episode 19 - Battle for File Island
Devimon finally reveals himself as Skull Satamon, but can the Chosen
defeat him when he sets the battle to his own rules?

Tahnks to Icer 757 for pointing out a couple grammar errors.

Yes, the Vamdemon was the Ryo-Bakemon evolved. How he knows what
he does will get explained in full later. You didn't honestly think
I'd make the Odaiba-Vamdemon that easily killed.

The more experience a digimon is with their body and powers, the
stronger they are. Ryo-Bakemon/Vamdemon had only been evolved for
days, while Panjamon had been around for at least a year Digital
World time. The Odaiba-Vamdemon has held his form for several years,
and fully knows the powers of his form.

"OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE! OMAKE!"
shouts the entire chibi-Chosen as they prance around File Island.

Chibi-Daisuke tries to sneak a skirt peak of what's under chibi-Mimi's
school dress. A tail whips out from her skirt, wraps around his
neck, and draws him in. Chibi-Mimi makes a strange face and chibi-Daisuke
is suddenly thrown out of her skirt by the tail. He looks like he
had been beaten into a bloody pulp.

The remaining chibi-Chosen continue the mantra until they start
climbing up Infinity Mountain. Chibi-Hikari falls off and her skirt
lifts up showing a picture of a broken heart on her white panties.

"Now for a little extra," chibi-Hikari moans.

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"Welcome back to 'Whose Line is it Anyway' - Digimon style," Referee
announced. "To recap our guests, we have Bobby from Lord Archive's Diaries series."

Bobby waved, a blond America boy of fourteen who was dressed in
torn jeans and a new T-shirt with 'Shameless Plug: Read Red Digivice
Diaries Entry 15 & 16' written on it.

"Hirokazu, or 'Kazu' to you North American viewer, to represent
the Digimon Tamers," Referee continued. "Also we have Armadimon
for Adventures Zero-Two, and...." Referee looked over to make sure
who was there. "And Gomamon representing Adventures Zero-One."

"Now for movie scenes," Referee stated. "This will be for Hirokazu
and Bobby first. They'll come up and act out a scene using film
various film genres. As we don't have a live audience, I'll have
to come up with them as we go. The scene will be acting IS: Bobby
is here to fix Hirokazu's computer. The round begins NOW!"

Bobby hiked up his pants to the point of nearly giving himself a
wedgy. In a nasally voice he asked, "What seems to be the problem?"

"It doesn't do anything!" Hirokazu replied frantically.

Bobby sat down and started pressing the same button over and over again. "It looks dead."

Hirokazu peered over and slapped his forehead. "I forgot to plug it in."

BUZZ

"Tragedy," Referee announced.

"I'll just plug it in," Hirokazu stated and inserted the plug.

Bobby moved ever so slowly. "Nooooo Dooooon't"

Hirokazu mimed plugging the computer and then spasmed as if he was being electrocuted.

Bobby kneeled down next to him. "Oh, dear God he's dead! And he
was the greatest chemist to live. Now the virus will run rampant and destroy humanity.

BUZZ

"I said tragedy, not B-movies. Now Romance," Referee intoned.

Bobby stroked Hirokazu's face and spoke dearly, "Oh, my beloved.
If only you had recognized that was the air-condition plug you were
trying to plug the computer into."

Bobby stood up, with a hand to his forehead. "How shall I go on
without your cheerful smile. Your sardonic wit. How can I stand
having lonely nights without you forceful touch from behind!"

BUZZ

"Horror," Referee called out.

Bobby acted as if he was sobbing.

Hirokazu shambled to his feet.

Bobby noticed and jumped back. "Beloved, you're alive!"

Hirokazu grinned sickly. "Meat. Flesh. Yummy."

"I wouldn't think you'd be so horny after dying," Bobby edged away.

Hirokazu jumped forward and latched onto Bobby's arm, slobbering
all over it as he 'bit' into it.

"You're not my beloved 'Kazu!" Bobby jerked his arm away, holding his 'wounded' arm defensively.

"Food!" Hirokazu lurched forward menacingly.

Bobby screamed like a little girl and ran around the stage.

BUZZ

"That's all for you two," Referee stated. "Bobby has lost points
from straying off genres, while Hirokazu gets extra points for being
a convincing stiff. Now stay tuned for the next Digital War episode,
where it'll be Tento... er, I mean Gomamon and Armadimon's turn
at theater styles."

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