Jayr (Aegiomon) POV - Digital World, Lowest Layer - 2001

  After Caturamon captured Culumon and Takato, Jianliang, Terriermon, my Main Body, and my Digimon Partners were transferred somewhere else by the chaotic Data Streams, the Data storm caused by the activation of Shaggai calmed down making the weather once again peaceful, so after resting for a while, the group starts to wander around aimlessly hoping to reuh my Main Body group or finding a way for the pce where Caturamon took Calumon.

  As the group wanders around, I 't help but notice the situation that is happening on my Main Body's side as they still haven't reached their destination, something quite unusual as usually, the transfer is almost instantaneous, but I don't worry too much as I realize that the cause for this dey is the interference geed by the activation of both the Hypnos System and the Shaggai program which caused quite a bit of disturban the work and this also reflects ba the Digital World, in addition, if Takato, Jianliang, and Terriermoruly in danger I simply teleport them to safety whenever I want, for this reason, I simply decide to wait and see how the situation develops.

  While I think that, I hear Juri as she says with clear worry ione, "I wonder if Culumon is okay..." but Leomon quickly tries to reassure her, "If Culumon really is as important to them as they say, I think he'll be okay."

  Hearing that, Juri looks at Ruki and asks for firmation, "Do you think so too, Ruki-?"

  Ruki suddenly stops and calls her out, "Juri..." making the young girl also stop and ask, "What?"

  Ruki tio look down as she says, "Stop with the ""." fusing Juri who repeats "?" which seemingly pisses off Ruki who gres at her and says, "Ruki-! We're not in kindergarten anymore. We're in grade school."

  Seeing Ruki so insed, Juri meekly tries to apologize, "I'm sorry." but Ruki tinues, "And we're in fifth grade. We're almost in middle school."

  At this point, Renamon who misuood the situation tries to make her Tamer see reason, "Ruki, she has apologized. Isn't that enough?"

  But after gring at Juri for a few more seds, Ruki suddenly smiles and says, "I five you, Juri-." making Juri pout a little before she and everyone else uand that Ruki is simply trying to distract her from her worries causing all of them to smile slightly before we all resume walking.

  Sometime ter, Guilmon is the one who starts to feel down as he wonders, "Where could Takato be?" but Kenta then promptly suggests as he tries to use the same tactics Ruki used a few moments ago, "Guilmon, how about I bee your Tamer instead of Takato?" making Guilmon decre, "Takato is Guilmon's only Tamer!"

  At this point, Kenta hugs Guilmon and says, "Don't be shy!" but Guilmon breaks free and starts to run forward while saying, "No thanks!"

  In response, Kenta runs after him while yelling "Don't run away!" with Hirokazu chasing after them calling out, "Kenta!"

  But suddenly he is pulled into the ground without warning, and quickly after him, everyone else is also pulled into the ground and "falls" toward another location as we have stumbled into a hidden Gate.

  We all nd in a forest area, and we all nd safely but not all nd with style or even grace as Hirokazu, Guilmon, aa nd on their babsp;

  After a few moments, a dizzy Kenta sits up and realizing what happened, ents, "Now we're even farther away from Pucci-sensei's group..."

  Soon after that we start to study our surroundings and notice that we nd in front of a ke in the middle of a forest making Ruki question, "What is this pce?"

  But suddenly, we hear a male voice that yells, "Orochimon!" making a scared Juri ask, "Who's that?" while Ruki realizes where the voice is ing from and says, "Over there!"

  Then Ruki starts to run in that dire and we follow after her, and soon we see a humanoid Digimon pig up a big boulder and throwing it in the ke while yelling, "Orochimon show yourself!"

  It is a meical Digimon with a humanoid body structure, roughly 3/4 of its body is covered in e armor, its right leg has little to no armor at all, leaving what seems to be its anic material exposed and it wears a skull-like helmet that ceals its brain, I easily reize this Digimon as Andromon.

  (Image Here - Andromon)

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  [colpse]As we are approag Andromon, Juri makes the most cliche mistake of stepping on a branch lying on the ground causing it to loudly break which makes Andromon turn toward us and ask, "Who are you?"

  Wary of him, Renamon, Leomon, and Guilmon step forward ready to fight him if needed, but Andromon misuands their iion for hostility and decres, "As I thought, you're Orochimon's underlings."

  But Renamon quickly des affirmation, "We're not." followed by Leomon who asks, "Who is this Orochimon?"

  Andromon calmly replies to this question with his guard still raised ready for a possible atta our part, "The powerful Digimon who rules over this world." which makes Renamon further ask, "And you?"

  In respoo Renamon's question, Andromon replies, "It's embarrassing for me to say it, but..." before it decres with impetus, "I'm Andromon of Justice!"

  At the same time, Ruki uses her Digimon Analyzer on it and reads out loud, "Andromon. Perfect Level. A human-type Cyb Digimon. It possesses a fighting strength that fell a Digimon below Perfe a single blow. Andromon was developed as a prototype for Cyb Digimon, and the meically-based Andromon and anically-based cyb Boltmon were manufactured at the same time. This teology ropriated for Metal Greymon and Megadramon. As a prototype Digimon it possesses her will ion, and it is faithful to its programmed behavior. It graded with a program based oa acquired from the Andromon of File Isnd, and the strength of that program varies. Its Special Move is a bde of energy which it fires from its arm module (Spiral Sword)."

  Right at that moment, the water of the ke behind Andromon starts to rise up until a very big Digimon emerges from them.

  The Digimon iion is a rge eight-headed snake whose heads are all different.

  One of the heads is covered with bck scales like the tail while all the others are covered with metal ptes, in addition, its tail ends in a rattle like a rattlesnake.

  With such a distin it is clear that this Digimon is the Orochimon that Andromon was talking about.

  (Image Here - Orochimon)

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  [colpse]Orochimon's sudden appearance scares the kids and they quickly run to put some distaween them and the ke, at the same time, Renamon, Leomon, and Guilmon also take a few steps back.

  At the same time, Andromo hesitate to open its chest pte to reveal two missile unchers, from which it fires twanic missiles at Orochimon while shouting, "Gatling Missile!"

  But Orochimon's heavy alcohol-deh intoxicates the anic missles making them pletely drunk causing them to fail and harmlessly fall into the ke's water.

  In respoo Andromon's attack, Orochimos out a roar before two of its heads covered with metal ptes attadromon sending the Digimon crashing against a nearby tree.

  At the same time, Juri uses the Digimon Analyzer to identify and learn more information about the eight-headed snake Digimon, "Orochimon. Perfect Level. A gigantic Demon Digimon that possesses eight heads. However, seven of its eight heads are dummies, and the bck head in the middle is the only real ohe roots of Orochimon's creation are old, and although it was a being such that it raged in all its fury in the a Digital World, and drove some areas to devastation, it was sealed by the servant of a "being" which sought to preserve the harmony of the Digital World. Its Signature Move is to make the oppo pletely drunk by intoxig them with its alcohol-deh (Sake Breath). Its Special Move is turning the tip of its tail into a sharp bde and then cutting the oppoo pieces (Ame no Murakumo)."

  After easily dealing with Andromon, Orochimon slithers out of the ke and stares at them for a few moments before it focuses on Juri, but when Leomon arrives in front of his Tamer and prepares to fight Orochimon to defend Juri, Oroirks before it retreats bato the ke.

  Seeing this se I 't help but roll my eyes while thinking, 'Of course... since we have the Dumbledore-like Qinglongmon who maniputes everything from behind the ses for the greater good, it is expected that we also have the Orochimaru-like Orochimon who likes tets and go after young kids with family problems... what is a Aizen-like Vamdemon that wishes to overthrow Yggdrasil and makes everything go acc to his pn...? Wait now that I think about it... it is likely possible to enter such Digimon, after all, infinite universes are equal to infinite possibilities, and the Vamdemon I know about from the anime already isn't that far off from Aizen...'

  While I think that, Kenta 't help but ent in admiration, "Orochimon... is s." but Hirokazu dismisses his friend and rushes toward the knocked-out Andromon while yelling, "That doesn't matter now!"

  Once close enough, I immediately notice many bed spots on its anic parts, most notably on its exposed leg and arm, and I'm gd that I'm not the only one as a worried Hirokazu ents, "He's wounded..." followed by Juri who says, "We have to treat him."

  At this point, Ruki notices a smoke ing from somewhere, and seeing that, we start to follow it hoping to find someone who help, of course, Leomon is the ohat is carrying the unscious Andromon.

  While we are heading toward the area where the smoke is inating from, something is happening on my Main Body's side as Takato and Jianliang e to the decision of throwing themselves out of their current path seeing that they still haven't reached aination, I of course, agree with their pn ahem and my Digimon to hold each other as I make use of the fuzzy physics of the Digital World to "swing" our bodies out of the roar into the void around us, where we once again start falling.

  At the same time, the group with my Digital Ination arrived at our destination, a very rge building, making Juri say, "I wonder who lives here."

  But then, while Leomoly ys Andromon on the ground, Ruki moves closer to one of the windows saying, "Rather than living..."

  She then looks inside and mutters, "I k." making a curious Hirokazu, Kenta, and Guilmon also look inside a out a surprised yelp befuilmon excims, "The Gekomon are doing something weird!"

  Kenta then quickly asks, "Is it a factory?" but instead of answering, Ruki covers her nose and asks, "Don't you smell that?"

  In response, everyoarts to sniff the air, and I immediately reize the nutty and roasted aroma that is usually produced by some brands of sake.

  I'm not the only one as Juri also seems t as she mutters, "Sake?"

  Seeing the surprise oa and Hirokazu's faces, she quickly expins, "My family has a restaurant, so I'm used to the smell of alcohol."

  Suddenly, a small old Gekomon with a wooden e appears from behind one of the nearby barrels and says, "That's right, geko. This is a factory for sake produ, geko. And I'm the manager, geko."

  Gekomon resembles a green frog with a wiry body, a white underbelly, yellow webs between its digits, and a crazed look on its fabsp;

  It has a musical horn coiled around its ned poieeth, and its tongue has three holes at the tip.

  (Image Here - Gekomon)

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  [colpse]Seeing the manager Gekomon, Leomo waste any time and quickly asks, " you treat Andromon's wounds?"

  Hearing Andromon's he old Gekomon seems quite upset as it asks, "Andromon?"

  Gekomon then notices Andromon lying on the ground and spitefully refuses, "Tch! We refuse. geko!" making Renamon ask, "Why?"

  At the same time, Leomon ents, "It looks like you have your reasons."

  Hearing that, the old Gekomon asks, "You want to know, geko?" instantly making Guilmon ily reply, "We want to know, geko!"

  Kenta also 't help but ent after hearing Guilmon's imitation of Gekomon's verbal tick, "Guilmon, I don't think you have to say "geko"." in response, Guilmon simply says, "But it is fun!"

  At this point, the old Gekomon sighs before it starts expining, "This world was so peaceful... Until Orochimon suddenly fell from the sky, geko. It said "Quiet down, you Gekomon! Digimo o evolve anymore. Even without evolving, I'll be fine as long as I have sake. So you will make sake for me. Get to it!" Orochimon is a hopeless alcoholic, geko!"

  Hearing that, Juri 't help but ask, "So you built this sake factory, right?"

  In response, Gekomon decres in anguish, "We love peace so we had no choice but to make sake, geko!" then he tio tell us its story, "We let Orochimon drink sake in order to protect the peace, geko. But Andromon here...! But Andromon refused to let himself or the Gekomon be Orochimon's sves and began to start fights with Orochimon, geko. Every time Andromon and Orochimon fight, they trash this world, geko. And it's always up to the Gekomon to up, geko."

  After saying that, the old Gekomon points at Andromon with its e and says, "Look at him today, geko! We don't want anything to do with this troublemaker, geko! Take him with you, geko!"

  At this point, Hirokazu steps forward and says, "We uand how you Gekomon feel, but Andromon is also doing this to protect the peace..."

  I also step forward and say my piece, "With some of those Data Packets and some alcohol, we could easily treat Andromon's wounds by ourselves."

  Hearing that, Hirokazu looks at me and asks, "Really?" and Leomon nods and firms, "Yes. What Aegiomon said is true."

  Hirokazu then holds Gekomon's hands and asks, "Gekomon! We'll treat him somewhere else, so you give us some alcohol and Data Packets?"

  In the end, overwhelmed by Hirokazu's enthusiasm, the old Gekomon plies and gives us everything we o treat Andromon.

  After that, we move away from the factory and find a quiet pce to treat Andromon where I quickly give the instru on what to do to treat it and Hirokazu dutifully follows them.

  Meanwhile, looking at the process at the process, Juri asks Leomon, "The alcohol is for disiing, right?" making the Digimon reply, "Yeah."

  Curious Ruki 't help but follow up with another question, "And the Data Packets?"

  Again Leomon answers as I tio instruct Hirokazu, Kenta, and Guilmon on what do to do, "For us Digimon, data be used as medie, not only to stop iions, but also cure other ailments and wounds."

  After ing and disiing the wounds, and ying the Data Packets on top of them we only have to wait a few moments for them to have their effed while waiting, Hirokazu 't help but ent, "He knew how strong Orochimon was, yet he still went to fight alone..."

  Suddenly, Andromon's body starts to shine before it quickly grows smaller as it degees to its Adult Level, Guardromon.

  Guardromon is a mae Digimon that gives a strong steampunk vibe, its armored body is made of solid brown iron, and it also has rocket jets mounted on its back.

  (Image Here - Guardromon)

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  [colpse]At the same time, Ruki also quickly uses the Digimon Analyzer to identify its new form and reads out loud the information projected by her D-Ark, "Guardromon. Adult Level. A Mae Digimon that protects the puter work's defensive barrier. It was inally a Digimon that repelled anyone illegally entering the work's defensive barrier alongside the " Keeper" Giromon. However, a malicious hacker who noticed its ironcd defensive ability ied Guardromon with a puter virus, and used it to protect themselves from the Vae justice group, the "Virus Busters". Basically, Guardromon only has program ands for "defending", so even if its position ges, it does not pose a huge problem for it as long as it defend against intruders. Its Special Move chases intruders to the ends of the earth and pletely destroys them (Destru Grenade). Guardromon will tayone uhey are intruding."

  Seeing Guardromon current state, and hearing that it is now at the Adult Level, Renamon expins, "The fighting must have drained his energy." while a relieved Ruki ents, "His wounds have healed."

  But suddenly, Orochimon appears again, and snatches up Juri making Leomon and the ive chase, although Hirokazu stays behind when he sees Guardromon stirring.

  I also follow after the group but don't put any major effort as I know that she will be safe, meanwhile, as Juri is taken away, she yells to Leomon that she'll be fine, being the daughter of a restaurant owner and very experienced with drunkards.

  Through my awareness, I easily sense Orochimon demanding that Juri pour his liquor for him, and Juri calmly has all of his snake heads drink the sake in the hopes of getting all of them drunk.

  Leomon, meanwhile, is still worried about her, knowing that Orochimon is more than just a regur drunkard.

  At the same time, Hirokazu tio tend to Guardromon, who bmes himself for Juri's kidnapping and tells him that there may be a way to save her.

  As the Gekomon prepare to serve Orochimon his sake, the group asks them for help in saving Juri but when they refuse, Guardromon reminds the Gekomon of their happy times singing together before Orochimon had ehem, and they finally agree to help us and fight Orochimon.

  They transport roup to Orochimon's ir in the sake barrels, while Juri succeeds in putting all but one of Orochimon's heads to sleep.

  The Gekom the barrels to Orochimon, and Leomon, Renamon, Guardromon, and Guilmon emerge to fight Orochimon while I stand by the kids' side ready to act if needed.

  Seeing that we came to save her, Juri starts to run toward us while telling us that she tricked Orochimon into drinking a lot and it is now very drunk and vulnerable.

  But the Gekomon reveals that Juri had actually made Orochimon stronger by feeding him sake, which distresses her.

  The group of Digimon mao fight off Orochimon's heads one by one, but Orochimon proves strong and quickly reforms them sihey're not part of the main body.

  Juri believes that it's her fault fiving Orochimon all of the alcohol, but Hirokazu reminds her that she's a Tamer and that she has to have fidenbsp;

  At this point, Juri pulls out her card ded uses a LadyDevimon card to give Leomon a powerful attack that poisons Orochimon and takes him out i turning the eight-headed Digimon into motes of Data.

  After that, the others are impressed with Juri, and the Gekomon sing for the group in celebration of being free from Orochimon.

  But Hirokazu suddenly finds a D-Ark of his oearing to him and realizes that Guardromon is his Digimon Partner making the boy ecstatic at finally having bee a Tamer, while Kenta is distressed at still being the only ohout a Digimon.

  Meanwhile, on my Main Body's side, roup happeo find ourselves nding in an immense body of water.

  Jayr POV - Digital World, O Area - 2001

  After we nded in that immense body of water, the boys quickly started to swim toward the surface as they felt like they were about to drown not realizing that being in the Digital World means that they actually breathe and talk in this water.

  I and my Digimon Partners calmly swim after them and soon we all find ourselves in an underground cave with no way out, and seeing that, Terriermon offers to jump into the water and see if he find something that indicates a way out of this pbsp;

  While Terriermon jumps into the water and scouts ahead, Takato worries about Guilmon, but Jianliang quickly tries to reassure him, "You don't have to worry about Guilmon. He's with Ruki and the others, after all."

  Soon after that, Terriermon reemerged, and seeing that, Jianliang rushed toward him and asked, "How did it go?"

  Terriermon shakes his head to dry himself and ents, "It's like a maze." making Jianliang ask again, "Did you find any other pce with air?" but Terriermretfully says that he didn't find any before asking what our move is going to be.

  At this point, Jianliang looks at me and asks, "Pucci-sensei... do you have any solution?"

  Hearing that question, I smile and say, "Well, there are many possible solutions... the most direct is that you could try to make a hole in the wall..."

  Before I even finish saying that, Jianliang excims, "That's right!" before he pulls out his D-Ark and a card and theries to get us out of the cave by using an Option Card to give Terriermon a drill, but the use of the drill cause water to flow from the hole in the wall he just created.

  Seeing that, Jianliang quickly uses a Yukidarumon card to give Terriermon aack which he uses to freeze the water and tap the hole.

  The only good thing about what just happened is that we learhat the frozen water firms that there's water oher side of the wall.

  At this point, Takats out the unicator Yamaki gave him and asks, "Hey, what about this?" but Jianliang quickly decres, "It's useless."

  Hearing that, Takato asks, "Why? It could work like that other time." but Jianliang quickly expins, "It was ier. It's broken."

  Still uerred, Takato tries to turn on the unicator and is surprised to see it w, even more so when he receives an email from Yamaki, "No way! I got mail. It's from Yamaki-san. "I'm gd you're safe. I wish you good luck." Ah! Maybe we ask for help!"

  At this point, I decide to stop them, "Stop! you guys stop and think for a few moments before you act? I mean, really!? First Jianliang doesn't even wait for me to finish speaking before he goes on and drills a hole in the wall, and the moment you are about to ask for help without knowing if Yamaki even help us from the Real World. In addition, if for some reason your parents also see that message you guys will only end up making the worry even more! Are you guys really in that much hurry to do something that you aren't even willing to listen to me?"

  Hearing that, both Takato and Jianliang lower their heads and say, ""We're sorry..."" before they start to expin the reason behind their as oer the other.

  "It is just that because of Chimairamon and Mugendramon's presence I'm worried about Guilmon and the others, and want to return by his side as soon as possible..."

  "I admit that when I realized that we were trapped in this cave surrounded only by water I panicked a little at the thought of not having a wait out of this situation..."

  Hearing that, I smile and reassure them, "Don't worry too much. It is natural to feel fear and worry about those you care about, even more so at ye. But you guys have to remember that as long as I'm here, I'll make sure that nothing will happen to guys. Moreuilmon and the others are also safe too. After all, Aegiomon is with them and as you have seen he is powerful enough to protect them."

  My words seems to be able to calm and reassure both the Jianliang and Takato, and after seeing that, I nod and say, "Now, let me finish expining what our options are... as I was telling before, there are many possible solution to our current problem. Making a hole in the wall was only one of them and while direct, it isn't the easiest nor the safest. Our best choice is simply to jump ier and explore our surroundings..."

  Odyin