[Concluded] Digi Xros - Mix, Match, & Multiply

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had listened in on the conversation, frowning when he heard the same implications as Gokuwmon, not to mention it finally put a face to the voice he had heard as he watched the things, in fact, he was just about to speak when the portal of darkness opened, and out came Duskmon, in fact, Shiro was surprised, but more than ever he snarled as his eyes glew with energy, sneaking out of the pile of women he was smothered between, and proceeded to walk over to stand next to Gokuwmon while placing a hand on the monkey Digimon's arm "hold on Gokuwmon." he said coldly, while glaring at Duskmon, before glancing to Tactimon "i assume this deep seeded annoyance you're with is your partner?" he asked, cutting to the chase at the moment.

Tactimon raised an eyebrow at the General's actual blunt forwardness, but given he also saw the underlying hatred towards his business associate at the moment he could understand why he wasn't taking time to ask pointless questions "Indeed, he is. i would like to propose an alliance of sorts between us, myself and Duskmon with your group, Team Gen'ei Kitsune... however, there is something i'd like in return for such a partnership.. namely, i want your aid in fighting Kudou Taiki and Shoutmon."

Shiro narrowed his eyes idly, keeping them focused hard on Duskmon to make sure he didn't do anything to attack his friends and allies, but he had been listening to Tactimon regardless "hmm.. an interesting proposal... but since you mentioned that you two are business partners." he said, waving off the warrior of darkness "i assume either he sent those enemies to hound me and my group constantly under your suggestion, or you sent them yourself?"

Tactimon nodded lightly, actually laying the cards out "that is indeed the case. it was a way to keep you unaffiliated with Xros Heart, as well as to help you grow and gain experience in using Digi-Xros, not to mention help you mature a bit more as a person." he adjusted his mantle lightly before narrowing his eyes "the fact i choose now to appear is because i think you are ready for being an ally of mine."

Shiro closed his eyes, pondering over things, though the Hybrid had clenched his fist as the events of Grappleomon's death came back into his mind, and caused him to clench the fist tighter "given you stayed out of things and manipulated them from the background with your Associate's help... i have no qualms with you at the moment." he said calmly, before turning his full attention to Duskmon as his eyes started shining a deep blood red "but i have a bone or thirty to pick with you, Duskmon." he said coldly, as two Scimitars poofed into hand from Instinctual tracing as he narrowed his eyes "Give me one good reason why i shouldn't turn you into spare data right here and now!"

Centralized Break, Scene Change Hatsudo!

Roveth had idly been walking about the town as he frowned a bit, gently sighing as he shook his head "well.. that was an interesting thing to do." he mumbled, while lightly pulling out the Xros Loader and moving it to Select Dracmon "Reload, Dracmon!" he called out, bringing out his new partner as he grinned "feeling better now?"

Dracmon nodded as he cackled in his interesting way "Hai, Aniki! just a bit hungry but otherwise i feel much better!"

Roveth nodded with a chuckle" let's find a place to get you something to eat, then i've got a Baka Hikari to find and beat up." with that, the two quickly went to work finding some free food somewhere they could snag.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had narrowed his eyes and took merely two steps back, and two to the left, leaving himself clear vision of Lowemon/Duskmon and without catching Gokuwmon in what he was about to do as he brought up both blades, the blades themselves began to shine and start literally cracking, red energy veins forming on them as he forced them into Broken Phantasm form "even so..i can still make you suffer!" he called out, before gripping the scimitar blades lightly "Nitoryu.. (Two Sword Style) Nana-Ju-Ni Poundo Ho~! (Phoenix of the 72 Earthly Desires)" he shouted, before swinging the blades, a loud boom would be heard as the energy blasts spiraled forwards to assault Lowemon while shortly after unleashing the powerful flying blade attack the scimitars shattered, but not too long after Shiro had created Kansho and Bakuya as he snarled "Wrong answer! i don't care if you're immortal, I'll see to it to make you suffer for the hell you put me and my friends through, for the lives you ended, for nearly breaking my ******** mind and soul, and for Grappleomon!" of course, with that, Shiro started to charge forward, a menacing aura forming over his body as he was ready to beat the living hell out of the warrior of darkness, body be damned at the moment.

Tactimon had stepped back, sighing as he crossed his arms "well this is unexpected... i figured he would lash out at me instead of Duskmon." he said calmly, glancing over to the waking up Gabumon lightly "i take it you heard everything?"

Gabumon had looked at the battle about to happen, and eye-twitched "gah! dammit.. not again Shiro!" of course he was not heard by the hybrid due to the boiling over anger and all, before looking to Tactimon "sorry about all this.. Shiro is.. not exactly happy with what Duskmon has put us through wringer wise, not to mention his involvement in the destruction of the Dragon's Nest, by one of his minions instigating a fight that led to one of our comrade's deaths, and Shiro going crazy." of course, when he was reminded of that, he involuntarily shuddered himself "... i just hope it doesn't lead to -that- again..."

Centralized Break, Scene Change Hatsudo!

Roveth raised an eyebrow looking at things as he and Dracmon ate Digi-Noir while they walked along, gladly having stored quite a few of them in the loader and his D-Scanner as well, smirking "well.. this should be interesting." he said lightly, while feeling the spiritual energy in the area ahead he raised an eyebrow "oh-ho...?" he pondered, before heading forward.

Dracmon sped up to keep up with Roveth as he too noticed the change in the air "hmmh? i'm sensing quite a bit of darkness up ahead aniki. we going there now?"

Roveth nodded, smirking "i sense it too Dracmon, and why not? should be fun, if only to help stretch some old muscles for me, and to let you get to fight some too if we find decent stuff to do." with that, the two of them ran off ahead, with Roveth chuckling darkly ~after this detour.. i'll see about kicking my Baka Hikari's a**.~  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had seen his attack cancelled out, but he had expected it as he snarled, the incoming Meteor not even worrying him given he had been continuing to fuel his own anger with more energy, given he kicked off the ground, flipping into the air and putting the swords into an odd stance while gluing himself sideways in the air before he flung his arms out, starting to produce quite a lot of copies of Kansho and Bakuya to litter the air and such with whirling blades of doom, before forming the Grand Hammer into his hands, and changing it's size while also littering it with the energy veins, even to the point of drastically altering it from it's golden shape, to a pitch black, and with wicked looking spikes all over it "Cracker-whack!" he shouted, before launching at a high speed regardless of his battered body, to swing and send the enhanced hammer's blow right for Lowemon's head, legendary warrior be damned he was going to make him hurt SOMEHOW! of course, while this was going on a definite solidification of Shiro's black aura was forming, almost like a specter of sorts, the black lines of coding starting to flare to life inside his digital core as the eyes continued glowing a bright red.

Guilmon had watched with a shiver himself, given he had guessed his tamer's been bottling this anger up inside for a bit if it was coming out like this "uhm... guys? let's get everyone into the forest for some measure of protection.." he said in an utterly serious fashion.

Gabumon blinked, and nodded lightly, quickly rousing everyone he could, with Dorulumon working to carry any deep sleepers (the renamonz at least given they were heavy sleepers despite being very alert when awake.) as well, at least getting them to safety so that they won't get caught up in the mess.

Tactimon wisely shook his head and followed the others, but stayed a distance from Gen'ei Kitsune at the moment, given he was being quite neutral though he did narrow his eyes at the two clashing ~if this doesn't stop on it's own shortly i will have to end it myself.. this is not the time for needless battle and i will not have my revenge jeopardized by this needless hatred!~  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro did not notice indeed, however he did notice the increasing strength, though he used what he could with a minor bounce off of a small array to at least avoid the blow being fatal, however as he did drop the handle for the hammer and took the spear ramming right into the non heart carrying side of his chest, he did yelp in pain, but it was short lived as he kicked himself off the spear using another array, and lanced with a skid on all fours, black energy starting to engulf him as hie eyes began bleeding red. with a loud roar the energy flared around him, creating demonic like black armor, with two flailing tails, a demonic eye beset into the chest of the armor, and Shiro's hair also starting to take a wild appearance.

Tactimon just shook his head, and immediately took Jatetsufūjin-maru from his side, keeping a firm grip on the scabbard before slamming the sword into the ground twice, creating dark specters of the undead to rise and start binding up Shiro and Lowemon. "That is quite ENOUGH!" he shouted as he started walking towards the two, more in particular Shiro.

Shiro blinked in confusion when he felt he couldn't move, and started struggling against the undead Specters, snarling and trying to lash out to get free, letting off a roar of anger at being kept back.

Tactimon just frowned as he continued approaching the enraged shiro, and quickly took to running, before skidding to a stop, the sword fully bared in a striking pose "Kishintotsu!" he called out, before slamming the sheathed sword into Shiro's chest, breaking the armor's demonic eye, and hitting the quickly unprotected chest, and sending him flying back a few feet, his outfit quickly returning to normal, and painfully knocked out by the one blow, as Tactimon put the sword back at his side he shook his head a bit in frustration before moving to go find a decent place to sit, but also re-creating Ni-no-Tachi once the digimon that had pulled Shiro to their side, to hold Shiro down again and keep him restrained.

meanwhile, inside Shiro's mind he finally woke up, grunting as he rubbed his head "what happ-- oh.. right.. Duskmon, that b*****d..." of course, what he didn't see were three more of the pedestals were glowing, and about to reveal their legendary warriors in short order, and the three of them were -not- happy with Shiro at the moment, Four, though the fourth is currently between Shiro's mental plane and limbo, waiting rather impatiently to be revived.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Tactimon just narrowed his eyes at Duskmon but mentioned nothing of Duskmon's changing back as he crossed his arms lightly "i would appreciate it, if you kept your thirst for battle for the one up ahead, Duskmon... and not antagonize our potential allies." he said calmly, before snapping his fingers, removing Duskmon's restraints, but not Shiro's given he figured it may take a quite bit of convincing to let Shiro go without being kept from trying to blindly attack the Legendary Warrior of Darkness.

Guilmon meanwhile had turned to Marine Angemon and began trying to comfort him and make sure the little water angel knew things were controlled. Gabumon of course just sat next to Shiro glaring at him in his own way "che.. i really need to beat some sense into you." he said to the unconscious Shiro, before moving to start using Shiro's shirt and stuff to patch up the hole in his chest, grumbling lightly with a head-shake ~even then... as long as that b*****d's here Shiro's Temper is going to be right up front..~

speaking of Shiro, he finally had turned around hearing a loud grumble, and when he saw Lowemon, Ryuudramon, and Garandoumon all standing behind him, looking verily -not- happy at all, he gulped, and chuckled nervously "uhm.. hi guys.." was all he got out before the three descended on Shiro and proceeded to give him a few lumps.. okay, more than a few lumps, the bulging lumps would make an easy skyscraper, not to mention an extremely puffy face comically as he mumbled out a muffled 'sorry' from his face, getting nowhere given the glares from the three of them.

after a few minutes Shiro had finally willed his head back to normal as he looked down a bit, Lowemon starting first "that was utterly, completely stupid of you! even if he was the one who caused all the hell that happened up to this point you knew you were still no match for him!" Ryuudramon picking up without batting an eyelash "not only that, but you let your anger and hatred progress enough to activate the corrupted lines of Digi-code encircling your digicore! ugh.. sometimes i wonder where that brain of yours go when you let your emotions get ahold of you!" Shiro was about to respond when Garandoumon proceeded to crack his knuckles menacingly, causing the hybrid to fall silent when the Human Spirit of Void spoke up "not only all of the above, but you failed to realize that the more you dived into your anger and hatred, you were powering him! meaning as you are, with your emotions acting as a chip on your shoulders, you won't ever lay a finger on him!" the three crossed their arms, while Shiro continued looking down, before the three of them spoke up "well? what do you have to say for yourself?" Shiro eventually just looked looked up, with a tired look "honestly? i have no excuses.. the moment i saw him appear i just.. wanted to rip his damned head off." the boy sighed lightly before looking aside "he's caused the others, and me, so much trouble, and pain.." before Lowemon held his hand up lightly "no. we already know what happened, in either case, this has gone on long enough, once you wake up you will prepare to revive Arbormon immediately, and as for my Trial of Darkness.. i do not have one." Shiro looked ready to go off before Lowemon shook his head "the reason why i do not have one, is I'm still unstable in coding, if i was brought back, i might fall apart. so it might be best for me to give you this as a command to help revive me... find some way of getting Duskmon's digi-code, and his Spirits."

Centralized Break, Scene Change Hatsudo!

Roveth of course had finished his little side-trip to the haunted house, smirking at the quite a good few willing ghosts and such for setting up spies if need be, much more useful than Monitamonz, before he started sinking into his own shadow, smirking lightly as he headed towards Shiro's energy signature from the 'shadow realm' so to speak.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Tactimon merely nodded while looking to Shiro once more, and then speaking up just as calmly "I am sure Shiro will have an idea to keep the others occupied from your target." he simply said, while setting down with the cursed blade sitting on his lap as he began meditating quietly.

Shiro had woken up a couple of hours later groaning a bit and rubbing his head, as if he was feeling for something" good... least that-- Ow." of course he idly looked around, seeing Tactimon still around, he mentioned nothing, he then looked to Duskmon, and while he did want to get up and bash the jerk's head in, he merely turned to give the Warrior of darkness a cold shoulder, and got up a bit to his feet while pulling out both his Xros Loader and his D-Scanner as he moved a distance away, closing his eyes and beginning to focus, digital letters forming in circles underneath him as he readied the next revival ritual.

Tactimon opened an eye, and glanced over to see Shiro up and about "hmmm...? ah.. this must be one of those Spiritual Revival rituals..." he said, turning to watch with actual interest of his partner's abilities and skills, a bit impressed in how Shiro could handle things despite things going the way they had.

Guilmon and Gabumon both had sweatdropped, feeling Shiro's energy ~how the hell did he get back to 60% power energy wise?~ of course, what they didn't know, was that Ryuudramon had a hand in that, having given an infusion of mana and digital energy through the body which went mostly unnoticed by the others.

of course, out of, oddly enough, duskmon's own Shadow, Roveth had appeared, crossed arms, glaring at Shiro, but not saying anything yet given he knew better than to disturb his Baka Hikari.  

[unholy_blaze]

This was not the best idea I've ever had.

*BLAM*

Maybe grabbing some of those unconscious Commandramon's guns and helmets was not the best idea.

It was probably the shooting that did it.

"Well, shooting at both sides was not the best plan. But at least they're not shooting at each other, right?"

Omekamon just glared.

"I'd like to hear one of your plans sometime then, so BLEH."

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It was not a good moment for both leaders to be KO'ed. Seems that one of the remnants of Bugramon's foot soldiers was holed up near the castle, and was not inclined to move.
There had been a lot of skirmishes, but both sides were tired of endless fighting; a compromise was made mid battle: a one on one duel, no weapons, no help, winner gives up and leaves the other side alone.

But Sealsdramon pulled a knife, and that made the Toy Agumon mad. The Commandramon didn't want to back down; it turned out to be a draw, why should they give up?

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"The castle's been the same size for hours, and I hate running!" Blaze yelled.

Of course, as soon as he said that, the last hill was crested. It was just a short run down hill to the castle.

As Blaze and Omekamon made it to the bottom of the hill, the top turned black with the number of Toy Agumon and Commandramon swarming down it.

"Hey-Zenjirou-fancy-seeing-you-here!—Here-take-this-hat-and-coat-gottarunbye!"

Omekamon slapped a picture of his face on Ballistamon's chest.
"Omeka!"  

[unholy_blaze]

"We're still being followed, aren't we?"

"Omeka." Omekamon nods and sighs.

"Well, half is still better. I know, let's fight them in the castle! They can't surround us then."

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The dinning room had just quieted down from the usual eating sounds of a late lunch, and the dinner was on it's way for those who didn't gorge themselves unconscious.

Or at least it was on it's way to the dinning hall, till Blaze and Omekamon crashed through.

"Sorry! Excuse me! Coming through!" shouted Blaze, as he made sure to grab everything out of passing digimon's arms and stuff them in his pockets.

"Oh, and do watch out for the horde." called Blaze over his shoulder.

"How rude!" said one Pawn Chessmon.
"What was he on about?" said a Pandamon
"I think he meant those guys—dive for cover!" shouted a Toy Agumon, as the rest of the angry Toy Agumonz and Commandramonz stormed in after Blaze.

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"Hi Crystal! Hey Akari!" shouted Blaze, as he and Omekamon jogged up to them.

"Could you both do me a huge favor and hold these?" he says as he dumps out the contents of his arms and then pockets into their arms.

"Thanks! Oh, and be sure to hand them out to... *gulp* Those guys—GottagoKTHXBYE!"

Blaze and Omekamon dash off down and around a corner, clearly about to run out of places to escape very soon.