Episode 6 - A Killing War

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"While searching for the Digimental of Yuuki, we learned that Taichi-sempai
had made a mistake and pissed off a Yakuza member, which Koushiro
paid for it by having his leg shattered," Daisuke recalled. "Because
of that, I somehow got elected leader of our group over him. That
doesn't bother me too much since I led the Odaiba Elementary Soccer
Team to the national championship last year. Too bad our rivals,
Tamachi Elementary, didn't put up much of a fight-- but their star
player disappeared shortly after he led his team to victory over mine back in fifth grade."

"The digimental was guarded by a bunch of ghost digimon. I had everyone
with digimon act as decoys so that those of us who didn't have one
could get to the cave where it was kept. Hikari and I made it inside
and the digimental of courage was mine. My new partner, V-mon, quickly
evolved to Fladramon to help fight Phantomon. For some reason Hikari
remained in the cave with a strange looking wizard digimon."

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Taichi hovered over Agumon. The little dinosaur had devolved shortly
after being hit by this digimon's 'Soul Chopper' attack and was
badly hurt. Yamato's digimon was now Garurumon, but there was no
way he could hold out much longer.

"Man we could really use the cavalry right about now," Takeru commented,
clutching his neck protectively since Phantomon had tried to strangle him.

"That would be a foolish hope. By now my men would have dealt with
your decoys," Phantomon replied smugly.

"Mach Impulse!" A gust of wind came out of no where and slammed
Phantomon into the side of the hill.

"Meteor Wing!" A rain of fire pelted the ghostly digimon.

"I could be wrong." Phantomon peeled himself of the hill and looked
up to see Holsmon and Birdramon flying overhead. "That matters little
though. Three adult digimon are hardly a challenge for me."

"Fire Knuckle!" A burning fist struck Phantomon hard in the back.

"How did you get past Wizarmon so quickly?" Phantomon wondered.
"This may be a problem. Soul Chopper!" A dark energy blast left
the ghost digimon's scythe aimed directly for Yamato and Takeru.

Garurumon howled in pain as he had jumped in front of the attack,
which struck him in the shoulder. Howling in pain, he devolved to Gabumon.

"Gabumon! Are you all right?" Yamato ran to his aid.

"I just need a little nap," Gabumon answered weakly.

Phantomon surveyed the situation and realized only one of the attacking
adult digimon could follow him into the cave. It would be easier
to win if he defeated them one at a time. "Soul Chopper!" he called
out, attacking Fladramon. The ghost digimon then rushed into the cave.

Fladramon dodged and scowled. "Your friend is still in there."

"Hikari!" Taichi ran into the cave along with Daisuke and Fladramon.

Phantomon stopped upon seeing Wizarmon talking to one of the Chosen.
"What are you doing? You let them have that digimental?! Traitor!"

Wizarmon turned around. "I guess I have to kill you now. Magic Game!"
An energy blast shot out of the wizard digimon's staff, knocking Phantomon into the wall.

"Fire Rocket!" A stream of fire from Fladramon struck Phantomon.

"Vamdemon will hear of this," Phantomon warned as he disappeared.

Wizarmon's eyes widened in horror. "No!" He tried to calm himself
and search out for Phantomon's mind, but he could not sense it.
He collapsed to his knees. "I've failed her again."

Hikari placed her hand on his shoulder. "I promise that we'll rescue her."

"I know you will, otherwise all will be lost." Wizarmon tried to swallow a sob.

Fladramon devolved to V-mon and looked entirely confused.

"Hikari, we have enough problems without having to go on a rescue
mission for a digimon we don't know," Taichi said.

"Niichan, the digimon we have to rescue is my partner," Hikari explained.

"How can we be sure he's not lying to you?" Taichi questioned.

"I just know he's telling the truth," Hikari answered.

"Hey, I'm all for increasing our army," Daisuke commented. "We need
as much power we can to defeat Devimon."

Wizarmon laughed bitterly. "Devimon is but an adult digimon. Vamdemon
is a perfection level with complete mastery of his powers. If you
tried to get Tailmon now, you would all be killed." He stood up
and straightened himself. "Go back and gain the powers needed to rescue her."

"What about you, Wizarmon?" Hikari questioned.

"I must stay behind and try to find where Vamdemon is holding Tailmon,"
Wizarmon explained. "Be careful, child of light, if you die-- Tailmon
will be lost and all hope shall be destroyed. When you've found
all the other crests and tags, then it will be time to confront Vamdemon to get your crest."

"Crest and tags?" Daisuke questioned.

"They are something like the digimentals, but a lot more powerful,"
Wizarmon answered. "Beyond that I do not know anything about it. Vamdemon never trusted me."

"Why?" Taichi questioned.

"Because my loyalty has always been to Tailmon."

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"Mimi-san, we have to get back to the others," Palmon pleaded.

"No." Mimi still hadn't budged from where she had sat down. "There
was no reason for her to kill them."

"But, we're in a war. Digimon die all the time. It's something that can't be avoided."

"That doesn't make it right."

"If your life was in danger, I would kill to protect you. Does that make me wrong?" Palmon asked.

Mimi sagged a second then straightened. "There's no reason you have
to kill. You could just knock them out like you did to that black dragon thing."

Palmon shook her head. "There will come a time where the choice
becomes kill or be killed. I'll admit that the Bakemon didn't necessarily
have to die, but they don't have much endurance and are killed easily.
If the battle continued much longer, I'd have had to kill a few myself."

Mimi clenched her eyes shut. "I don't want to hear this. I want
to be home. I don't want to fight in a war. I don't want to have
to kill things. Why can't I be a normal girl?"

Palmon put her hand on Mimi's shoulder, but her partner pulled away.
"Don't you want to protect those you care about? That's why I'm
fighting to protect them and you. I'd rather be tending a nice meat
farm, but with Devimon and other evil digimon around-- I can't do
that or my friends will be killed while I did nothing to help them."

Mimi wiped away a few tears. "Yes, I want to protect my friends
too... so, I'll... I'll fight for them, but..." Mimi grabbed Palmon's
hand. "...promise me you won't kill anyone. I don't know what I'd
do if you did since I'd feel partly responsible for their death."

Palmon sweat-dropped and then gulped. "I... I promise, Mimi. I'll try not to kill anyone."

"Don't try, Palmon-san. Just don't kill anyone."

Palmon reluctantly nodded.

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"Who's he?" Sora questioned watching a defeated looking digimon trudge into the forest.

"He's Wizarmon, a friend of my digimon," Hikari answered. "The local
lord is Vamdemon and he knows the importance of my digimon and has her locked up somewhere."

"We should rescue her then," Takeru said.

Hikari shook her head. "As much as I want to do that, doing so now
would be suicidal. Vamdemon is more powerful than Devimon."

"Is that possible?" Piyomon wondered.

"Where's Mimi-chan?" Daisuke asked.

"She's still in the forest," Sora answered.

Daisuke blinked. "Why?"

Sora slouched. "Because when Piyomon evolved to Birdramon, she killed two of the Bakemon."

Miyako glanced over. "You too, huh?"

"A few less Bakemon is good for the world," Gomamon commented.

"Where were you in the fight?" Taichi questioned, while bandaging
Agumon's wound with his school over-shirt.

"Watching from the side-lines," Gomamon replied. "I'm only a child
digimon. If there was a Bakemon left to fight, I'd have taken him
on. That big guy would've killed me. You have to know when and when
not to fight to survive in a war."

Hikari nodded. "Gomamon is right. He shouldn't risk his life recklessly
if there's nothing he can do to really help."

"But he could've helped to prevent Agumon and Gabumon from being hurt," Taichi retorted.

Hikari folded her arms. "I seriously doubt that, all it would do
was put him in danger. He made the right decision, the same as you
did when you didn't try to help Koushiro-san."

Taichi flinched as if punched. He turned back to what he was doing.

"Hikari is right," Agumon said. "Some times it takes courage not
to fight. Without his partner, Gomamon doesn't have enough power
to be much help in larger fights."

"Then why do we bring him along?" Taichi questioned.

"Back-up support," Gomamon answered. "I'm useful in other ways than
fighting. Such as helping you guys catch fish like the ones you ate this morning."

Yamato slouched as he bandaged Gabumon, wondering if he had been too hard on Taichi.

"They're both cowards," Koushiro mumbled to himself.

"Someone should go find Mimi-chan," Daisuke commented.

"You don't have to. I'm back." Mimi walked into field with Palmon.

Daisuke smiled at her. "I think we should get moving before this
Vamdemon guy sends any more troops after us."

"Or worse, Vamdemon himself." Hikari shuddered.

"Who?" Mimi questioned.

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The Chosen and their digimon made the slow trek back to the portal.
Several times they had to hide from various digimon that were searching
for them. They finally found refuge in a cave.

"Good thing we got those armor digimon, huh?" Miyako questioned as she sat on first watch.

Sora, who was about to take over as second watch, nodded. "They
have an easier time evolving than ours do to adult level."

"It also makes it easier for them to kill," Miyako said sadly.

Sora sighed. "We're fighting a war. Killing is unavoidable. I wish
it could only be those responsible, and none of the innocents or
even the digimon that just follow orders-- but I doubt that would be feasible."

"When we fight, we risk death. But if we don't fight, we risk the
destruction of everything," Piyomon said. "Until we've defeated
all those evil digimon lords, we're going to have to kill." She
then slouched. "Even if we never wanted to."

"You don't like killing?" Miyako questioned.

"Of course not?" Hawkmon replied indignantly. "What kind of barbaric
monsters do you take us for? We fight to protect our friends, our
world, countless innocent digimon, and you. If we have to kill something
to protect others, so be it-- but I take no pleasure in it."

Piyomon nodded. "Though some of us also want revenge for the ones
who have been killed, like the other Piyomon."

"The black one, Kuro?" Sora questioned. "Why?"

"On File Island, there was a Pyocomon village. A Pyocomon is my
second baby form, same as the other Piyomon. Devimon had the village
destroyed and of over one hundred Pyocomon that lived there, there
were only four survivors," Piyomon recalled sadly. "Two of them are still Devimon's slaves."

"Oh, gods...." Miyako covered her mouth. "That's horrible."

"How can someone be so evil?" Sora questioned.

"He didn't get the name, Devimon, for no reason," Piyomon answered.

"I shall endeavor to aid you in his defeat," Hawkmon pledged.

Piyomon nodded. "Thanks."

"Is there any special reason that Kuro is black?" Miyako questioned.

"The reason he's black is because he's viral," Piyomon replied.

"Viral?" Miyako asked.

"There are three types of digimon: vaccine, data and viral. I'm
a vaccine type digimon," Piyomon answered.

"And I'm a data type digimon," Hawkmon added. "The three types show
a inclination of alignment. Vaccine tend to be good, viral evil,
and data somewhere in the middle. However, that doesn't have to
be the case as there are evil vaccine and good viral digimon."

"Exactly," Piyomon agreed. "The other Piyomon may be viral, but
he's really a nice guy. Just a bit psychotic in battle."

Miyako sweat-dropped. "How reassuring."

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Deep inside the cave, most of the Chosen had gone to sleep. A few
of them were still awake though.

"Unimon should be happy to hear we got two armors and four adult
digimon now," Taichi commented.

"Yeah, but he won't be happy to learn two of them are on the injured list," Yamato retorted.

"Hopefully they aren't lying when the said they heal fast," Daisuke added.

"We're made of stern stuff. We can take anything!" V-mon grinned.

"I hope so. We haven't done a great job so far," Yamato said.

Daisuke shook his head. "We're growing in power, we'll start having
an effect soon enough. And we can get more. Which digimental do
we go after next? Koushiro has translated the directions to Junshin, Seijitsu and Yuujou."

"Purity, sincere faithfulness or friendship?" Yamato questioned.
"Hate to say it, but Takeru doesn't fit any of those."

"According to Wizarmon, Hikari has the Crest of Hikari. One of the
locations Koushiro hasn't translated yet probably contains the Digimental
of Hikari as well," Taichi theorized.

"Why would she have a digimental or crest of light?" Daisuke wondered.
"She acts more dead than alive."

"It's the nightmares she has which have caused that," Taichi answered.
"She's the kind of person who always thinks of others, and never
herself. I don't want her sleeping by herself, but I understand why she wants to."

Yamato sighed. "I don't want to sound cold, but it's better if she
does sleep by herself. If there's nothing we can do about her nightmares,
then having her wake us up will only hurt the team."

"So guys, which digimental should be next?" Daisuke asked to change subjects.

"Seijitsu sounds like our best bet," Yamato answered.

Taichi shrugged. "Sure, but let's leave Koushiro and Gomamon behind
this time. They're liabilities if we have another fight like we did today."

Yamato scowled. "What about Takeru and Hikari, they're liabilities too."

"As much as I want Hikari left behind..." Taichi sighed. "...We
still need to get her digimental, and Takeru's as well. And if the
Digimental of Chishiki is any indication, we can't get the digimental and bring it to them."

Daisuke nodded. "Taichi does have a point, sort of. It probably
would be best to leave Koushiro behind. Then he could finish the
translations and find us the rest of the digimentals we need. But
I have one question: there are more digimentals than those of us
with digimental digivices, do we get two or more each, do you guys
also get one, or does the remaining ones belong to someone on Earth?"

"How are we supposed to know that?" Yamato questioned.

V-mon waved his hands. "Don't look at me. I was born yesterday."

Taichi shrugged. "Guess we'll find out when we get those digimentals."

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Hikari slept alone in an alcove of the cave wearing only her panties
and bra. Her body turned and writhed. She screamed out in pain over
and over again. Her fear was so intense, she relieved herself of her bodily waste.

Finally Hikari awoke and curled up into a ball. She began to cry
uncontrollably, unmindful of the piss and shit soaking her panties.

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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.

Chibi-Taichi sweat-dropped. "Well, the series is finally darker
than the omake, but now I wish it wasn't."

"Careful what you wish for," chibi-Sora warned.

"Yes, yes. Sometimes in comes true." Chibi-Taichi straightened himself.
"This part is 'Tai Kamiya' verses Kaoru Kamiya, or 'Kamiya Tai'
against Kamiya Kaoru as we Japanese say our names."

"A warning first, though." Chibi-Sora waved her finger. "This is
set AFTER the manga series, so this will have many spoilers in it."

"Let's watch the fun," chibi-Taichi cheered.

"I knew you'd have fun beating on a girl." Chibi-Sora glared.

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"Kamiya dojo." Tai read the plaque on the outer wall of a home.
"This must be the place." He entered the yard with Agumon and saw
a boy of about two or three years of age playing with a spinning top.

The boy stopped and looked at them. "Who you?"

"We're here to find the strongest Kamiya. Do you know who that is?" Tai asked.

The boy nodded and bounced happily. "Kaasan! Kaasan is strong!"
He giggled and pointed toward the dojo where two guys were being
chased out of it by an irate woman.

"Do you two know how much it'll cost to repair the floor?" she demanded.

"But Kaoru, we were just practicing...." The red haired guy shrank away from her.

"Since when did you start teaching Yahiko those kind of moves." Kaoru glared.

"I wasn't showing anything from my school, just a move I picked
up in my travels." He smiled sheepishly.

"Come on, ya old bag, we were just learning new techniques. Besides,
I am a teacher now," Yahiko defended.

"Not if you keep that up!" She hurled a piece of the broken floor at him.

"Ahem. Excuse me?" Tai waved. "I'm here to challenge the strongest
Kamiya. I didn't think you'd be a girl, but that's what I have to do."

"Oro!" cried out the guy with red hair.

"Challenge me?" Kaoru blinked. She then looked determined. "I accept."
She pulled out a wooden bokken.

"Agumon," Tai said firmly.

The dinosaur nodded. "Pepper breath! Ha!" A burning ball of fire streaked toward her.

Kaoru's eyes widened in fright.

The red head pulled the sword strapped to Yahiko's back and in one
fluid motion cut the fireball in half, dissipating it. He glared
harshly, light gleaming threateningly off the sakabato sword. "In
order to fight Kaoru-dono, you must first defeat me."

Yahiko poked the red head. "I think you're forgetting something,
KAMIYA Kenshin. You're the one they've got to fight."

Kaoru waved her arms. "No. No. Not here. We don't have any more money to repair damages."

"A field would be fine with us," Tai commented.

Kenshin nodded once. "I'll lead the way."

"Wanna watch! Wanna watch Touchan lose!" The boy giggled.

Kenshin sagged. "Kenji, you're supposed to cheer for your 'Touchan.'"

"Kaasan strong. Beat Touchan!"

Kenshin sighed.

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Chibi-Taichi grinned. "Even better! I get to fight Kenshin!"

"Go Kenshin!" chibi-Sora cheered. "He's so great. I just love him!"

Chibi-Taichi slouched. "You could try cheering for me."

Chibi-Sora glanced over. "Nah."

"Anyway." Chibi-Taichi straightened himself. "Tune in next episode
for the next part of Kamiya verses Kamiya! Be seeing you!"

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