Episode 15 - Assault on Factorial Fortress

Chibi-Koushiro walks up. "The characters are properties of Toei
Animation Inc., Saban Entertainment and others. They are used without
consent. Archive is only borrowing them for an indefinite amount of time.

"Strict Japanese spelling for all names when possible. If an English
name for a digimon or his attack is used and you know what the name
is supposed to be in Japanese-- please tell Archive so it can be corrected."

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"We finally completed our mission to obtain all the digimentals
that we could use," V-mon explained. "Now we could begin the next
part of the war, which was to take down Devimon."

"We got together and figured out what to do. We would attack Factorial
Fortress with the armor digimon being on the infiltration team while
everyone else attacked the outer defenses.

"Things weren't going great outside. Birdramon was shot down, and
Hikari was able to evolve Kuro into Sabirdramon. However, Monzaemon
arrived with an army of Numemon."

V-mon's voice started to sound more desperate. "Meanwhile, us armor
digimon made our way deep into the fortress. Togemugomon dealt with
some of the defenses, but then came Andromon and he just shot an attack at Daisuke!"

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V-mon stared as Andromon's chest opened and the metal digimon called
out, "Gatling Missile!" The small blue digimon knew he had to act
now, and punched the back of his partner's knee to cause him to fall.

The missiles streaked down the hall, barely missing Motomiya's head
as the boy fell. Daisuke was thankful to V-mon for the save, but
wished the lizard had found a less painful way of doing it.

V-mon's clenched his fists tightly. "You're going down! V-mon evolve!"
A pillar surrounded the small blue digimon, and with a mighty shout
of "XV-mon!" out sprang a giant blue humanoid dragon with white
wings, and a silver 'V' with two slashes under it making it look
like an emblazoned 'X' on his white chest.

Andromon stood his ground as he tried to analyze his new foe, but
wasn't given a chance as XV-mon tackled him. The giant digimon's
momentum carried them down the hall and through a pair of metal doors.

Daisuke ran down the hall and ordered, "After them!"

Shurimon used his coiled legs to spring his way to XV-mon's aid
quickly. He arrived in time to see the adult digimon punch Andromon's
face, but with seemingly little effect.

Miyako was winded as she entered the room and called out, "Try to find the black gear."

"You try and figure it out!" XV-mon yelled back with obvious strain
to his voice as he tried to wrestle with the much smaller, and yet stronger, perfection digimon.

Andromon showed only a small amount of strain as he fought to free
himself of XV-mon's grip. "Reset defenses. Setting high."

"Look out!" Shurimon yelled as lasers seemed to shoot out from every direction.

Miyako screamed as she fell backwards into the hall, barely missing
having her breasts pierced by one of the destructive beams of light.
She was caught by Daisuke since she was about to fall on him.

XV-mon howled in pain as a blast struck him in the back.

Andromon pulled free and moved away as the lasers continued to fire.
He flinched in pain as his right leg was hit and a metal plate broke free from his thigh.

Daisuke blinked noticing something black there. "Go for his leg!"

XV-mon grunted and wobbled slightly as he called out, "X Laser!"

Andromon dodged as the room continued to shower laser blasts.

XV-mon was struck again, and he was force to devolve.

"It is futile to resist. Intruders will be destroyed," Andromon droned.

The laser barrage suddenly stopped.

Andromon whirled to where the control panel was.

Shurimon chuckled while pulling a throwing star from the now broken
controls. "Now it'll be just you verses all of us."

"You're going down, Andromon!" Daisuke shook a fist at the metal
digimon, with Togemugomon walking into the room.

"And if I'm not mistaken, I bet those are the tags!" Takeru pointed
at a pedestal at the far side of the room which had seven golden
necklaces on it. He turned to his partner. "Now you've got the room. Digimental up!"

"Right." Patamon nodded. "Patamon armor evolve!" A golden light
encased Patamon into a sphere. It exploded revealing a golden masked,
tan, winged horse. "The hope the gallops across the heavens, Pegasmon!"

"Spiral Sword!" Andromon's hand whirled and somehow fired vacuum
blades at Pegasmon. The wing horse attempted to dodge, but was still
left with a nasty cut on his neck.

Daisuke's fist clenched. Pegasmon, Togemugomon, and Shurimon against
one digimon. He was afraid the odds were still against him, but
he wouldn't give up. "Attack!" he cried out and the three armor digimon charged.

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Palmon sighed seeing Mimi's angry glare, knowing it wasn't at Monzaemon,
but at Garurumon for just having killed several controlled digimon.
She had to do something about this. "I can probably remove the gears
easily as Togemon," the plant digimon suggested.

Mimi looked at her and nodded. "Be sure not to kill anyone."

Palmon didn't reply, but walked forward and called out, "Palmon
evolve!" A pillar of light formed briefly, and when it finished
a two story cactus with boxing gloves stood there. "Togemon!"

Togemon frowned as red beams of energy shot out of Monzaemon's eyes
at Yamato. The golden haired boy was blasted against a rock and slid to the ground limply.

"Yamato!" Garurumon yelled before losing energy and devolving back to Gabumon.

"Time to even up the odds." Togemon rushed into the mass of Numemon.
"Everyone get back!" she ordered. The giant digimon then twisted herself. "Prickly Bang Bang!"

Needles showered the Numemon around Togemon causing pain to many
of them and freeing half of them from the black gears.

"That's hardly sporting. Try this, with love. Hearts Attack!" Monzaemon
called out. Several red-ish heart-shaped bubbles came from the giant
yellow teddy bear's stomach, much like an over-sized Care Bear.

The bubbles popped against the cactus digimon's needles, apparently doing no damage.

Mimi tried to get out of the way of the attack, but found herself
inside one of the bubbles. She suddenly felt very light-headed.
"Whoa. I want toys to play with me, but not the way I wanted the last time I felt like this."

Togemon felt her energy leave her and devolved. "This isn't good."

Sora raised an eyebrow at Mimi's comment, while holding Piyomon's
unconscious form protectively. Their forces consisted of Greymon,
Meramon, Kabuterimon, Unimon and Sabirdramon, who couldn't be pulled
away from attacking the fortress defenses. Mojamon had been injured.
Gabumon, Gomamon, and Ganimon were only child digimon and could
only help in fighting the Numemon. That only left Yuki Duramon against
Monzaemon, and Sora didn't have much hope for him to win that battle.

"There's Andromon!" Kabuterimon called out in warning.

Monzaemon smiled brightly. "It's not nice to have me do your dirty
work and show up at the finale. Where were you?"

"Taking care of business," Andromon answered simply before announcing his attack, "Gatling Missile!"

Monzaemon's face turned off-white as he paled noticing where the
attack was going. He back peddled away and barely dodged as the
missiles exploded at his feet. "What are you doing?!"

"Following my own programming," Andromon replied.

The laser batteries fell silent a moment before Daisuke's shout could be heard, "Attack!"

Stingmon, Pegasmon, and Holsmon sprung into the air within moments
the Numemon were all freed of the black gears.

Monzaemon stared at all of his opponents. "This is hardly a fair game!"

Andromon jumped off the fortress wall, grimacing as his wounded
leg shot pain through his system. "It is Devimon who upset the balance. It shall be put right."

Monzaemon glared. "The game isn't over yet. Hearts Attack!"

"Star Shower!" Pegasmon called out, a multitude of energy sparks
flew from his wings, causing the bubbles to break.

"Red Sun!" Holsmon cried out. Red beams of light shot out of his
eyes, blasting the teddy bear digimon in the chest.

Monzaemon clutched his chest in pain. "This isn't fair. You're cheating."

"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon stabbed the perfection digimon in the
back. He pulled out the energy blade and looked at the black gear
he had skewered in surprise. The gear exploded.

Monzaemon collapsed to the ground.

Andromon walked up to Monzaemon and asked, "Are you functional?"

Monzaemon blinked. "Ah. I think so. What am I doing here?"

Meramon stepped forward. "You were controlled by Devimon's black
gears. You'll be fine after a little rest."

Monzaemon nodded with a blank expression. "Um, okay."

"Guess we won," Yamato commented weakly as Gabumon helped him sit up.

"Are you all right?" Gabumon asked with concern.

"Yeah. Just peachy. My back's gonna be purple, though," Yamato joked.

"Purple? You can change colors?" Gabumon questioned.

Hikari giggled. "You could say that, but it's not a good thing when that happens."

"Ah. I see." Gabumon nodded. "It's a warning you've done something wrong."

"Something like that," Yamato confirmed.

Sora smiled seeing that Yamato was okay and that Piyomon had also
awaken. Neither of them looked like they had any serious injuries.

Mimi shook her head to clear her thoughts. "I hate when I feel like that."

"What did you mean about toys?" Palmon asked innocently.

Mimi laughed nervously. "Monzaemon's attack made me want to act like a toy for toys."

"Oh." Palmon nodded. "You mentioned about another time you wanted
toys to play with you. What did you mean by that?"

"I'd like to know that too," Sora added.

Mimi blushed. "I can't."

"Want me to bring it up after Daisuke gets here?" Sora questioned.

Mimi shook her head frantically. "It wasn't really anything. Someone
slipped me a drug at a party and I got horny. Nothing happened because
Michael figured out what happened and stupidly took me home."

"Stupidly?" Sora questioned.

"Well... I wanted him to do stuff to me, but he wouldn't. I broke
up with him since he wouldn't even make love to me when I wanted
sex so badly it hurt," Mimi explained. "Please don't tell anyone about that."

"Your secret is safe with me," Sora assured her.

"I can't break your trust," Palmon answered.

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The acquired tags were passed to each of the five Chosen that did
not have a digimental digivice. The sixth was given to Hikari as
Wizarmon had told them Vamdemon had a crest meant for her. That left them with one extra.

"Who gets this tag?" Daisuke questioned.

"The leader should hold onto it," Taichi answered.

"I disagree," Koushiro called out.

A few of those gathered wondered if he was disagreeing just to disagree
with Yagami. "Look at what we have of those with digimentals. Daisuke
and Miyako have two digimentals and Hikari and Takeru only have
one. And since Hikari has a crest and tag, it's only logical that Takeru has one as well."

"What about the Digimental of Seijitsu?" Yamato questioned. "Maybe
Hikari or Takeru was supposed to get it."

"Possibly, but for some reason I doubt it," Koushiro commented.

"Hey, it's no sweat," Daisuke said before he threw the tag at Takeru,
who had to strain to catch it.

"Be careful!" Piyomon called out. "Those may be the keys we need
to save the world. They won't work if you break them."

"Sorry." Daisuke shrugged. "Anyway, if we come across a crest that's
not Takeru's or any of yours, then Miyako and I will try it with the extra tag."

"Well, now that we have that settled, what's next on the agenda?" Yamato questioned.

"In the defeat of Factorial Fortress and of Monzaemon's forces,
the remaining stronghold of troops outside of Infinity Mountain
is Overdell Mansion," Andromon analyzed.

"Yeah, and if we go after them, it'll be to the death as none of
the Bakemon are controlled by black gears," Unimon informed. "Are you willing to do that?"

"I certainly want to deal with those Bakemon once and for all," Piyomon said angrily.

"They will pay for killing our brothers and sisters," 'Kuro' added.

"These digimon aren't controlled. They're evil. I'm willing to do
what it takes to kill them," Sora pledged.

"I want to help as well," Hawkmon voiced.

"I guess... I will too," Miyako added weakly.

"Are we all agreed that Overdell needs to be leveled?" Daisuke questioned.

Mimi sat quietly. While she to wanted to vote against this, she
had seen what these Bakemon had done to the Pyocomon village. They
needed to be punished for what they did, but why did she have to
assist in being judge, jury and executioner?

Daisuke nodded. "Good, we'll move out as soon as all the injuries have been attended to."

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A shadow loomed over four wounded Numemon. Not that they would notice
in the dark confines of the collapsed sewer tunnel they were in.

Five Numemon had been trapped down here since shortly after the
battle began. It had been hours since they had eaten anything and
after the first of them fell asleep, the rest of the group decided
he would make a good food source. Three Numemon held him in place
as the forth reached into the now struggling digimon's mouth and
pulled out the digi-core to feed upon.

The shadow chuckled evilly at what the Numemon had done to their
brother just to survive. These four would work well for his plans.

The shadow then passed over the Numemon and they were gone.

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"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 romance extra," chibi-Hikari moans.

Chibi-Koushiro pops up. "More like screwed-up romance."

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"Time to call the Upset At Toei's Romance Pairings meeting," Daisuke called out. "I'll start off.

"I'm Motomiya Daisuke, and during my series I was clearly shown
to be in love with Yagami Hikari. And yet at the end of the series
I was perfectly happy married to someone I don't even know! What's up with that?!"

"Yeah, but Hikari had shown very little interest in you," Takeru
commented. "I've got episodes worth of evidence and I didn't get her either."

Daisuke looked over. "Why isn't Hikari here, anyway?"

Taichi shrugged. "She didn't mind not marrying either of you as
long as everyone is happy. She doesn't seem to understand that we
aren't happy about this. Sora's been chasing after me since before
I hit puberty, and by the time I realize 'Hey, Sora's kind of hot,'
she's running off with Yamato. That's not fair."

A man in an orange martial arts clothes, long messy black hair that
reached the middle of his back, and had a cross on his cheek, or
Yamcha to Dragon Ball Z fans, folded his powerful arms and said,
"You want not fair. Try spending seasons trying to get over being
shy about girls, only to have the girl you wanted ending up with
Super-man's evil twin brother because of how good he's in bed."

"I am not his brother," Vegita snipped, a short lanky man whose
hair defied gravity more than Taichi's did. "And I don't appreciate
having been saddled with... that woman."

"If you want to insult her, go ahead," Daisuke encouraged.

"I can't. Bulma would get upset if I called her names," Vegita whimpered.
"Or if I ruin this business suit." He tugged at the gray suit he was wearing.

"Pussy whipped," Makoto, a.k.a. Sailor Jupiter, commented.

"I know. How could the prince of a once great planet end up broken
by a woman merely because of what she has between her legs," Vegita questioned.

"You know, you don't remind me of any of my ex-boyfriends," Makoto said.

"I don't?" Vegita raised an eyebrow.

"You remind of a few generals I had to help kill though." Makoto smiled.

"Why are you here?" Daisuke asked.

"Do you see me with any guys?" Makoto asked. "I've only tried to
date anyone with three lower appendages and I'm still single. You'd
think I'd have found someone to be with, but no-- I'm just the token slut who won't get married."

"Actually, Miyako was sort of the token slut in Digimon, and she
got married to Ken," Daisuke pointed out.

"Though not nearly as bad as you were," Taichi commented.

"But much more open minded. She did have the hots for Mimi and you sister," Daisuke returned.

Taichi paled. "Ew."

A young child of ten sporting familiar goggles peeked into the room.
"I'll be awfully upset if I have to join this club." Takato pouted.

A girl in a green dress and reddish-brown hair looked at him strangely.
"Is there someone you like?" Juri asked.

Takato began to laugh nervously and couldn't stop.

Chibi-Sora walked up. "That's enough of this. Be seeing you." She waved.

Takato and Juri joined in.

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