The Once King 3

You sighed and leaned back against the wall, almost slumping into it, "I'm not going to kill you," you assured Bakemon, "I only kill evil digimon or mindless ones."

"..Oh, well that's a relief," Bakemon slumped, "I might be a virus type, but I'm a good guy, I don't hurt people unless I need to."

It fell silent then, and you did too. Musing, thinking. What to do? It seemed it really was possible to open a portal again between the human and digital world. But, even if you went there now. What was there for you? Your partners were gone, your kingdom just a fairy tail apparently.

You eyed the device on your wrist. The cheat device as you mentally labelled it. Even still, the front screen on it, was filled with static, just like when it was a V-pet. You idly traced your fingers over it and pressed one of the buttons, to your surprise, it opened up a next screen, similar to your V-pet, and it looked like...an item storage?

Yeah, right there was the items you had in your V-pet, they got saved huh? "Hey, do these things work in the human world?" you asked idly.

"Mm?" Bakemon looked up before nodding yeah, "Oh yeah, sure they do. I saw that goggle headed one last night when he came to pick a fight with Lord Myotismon, he digivolved his Agumon into a Greymon and then a Metal Greymon."

...Wait, and Myotismon wasn't dead yet? Metal Greymon was one of the most powerful Ultimates there were. Far more fire power with their Giga Blaster than a Myotismon could compete with, and their physicals were massively different. Myotismon spec'd into special abilities and power. Metal Greymon spec'd into massive physical power. The average one was a dinosaur over fifty feet tall after al, enhanced with cybernetic parts. They traded special abilities in for the raw massive power of their Giga Blasters.

All in all, Metal Greymon were a superior species for direct combat. You pursed your lips, "If one of them has a Metal Greymon, what do the other 6 have?" you asked. Since apparently he thought you were the eighth. You couldn't be though, your partners were dead and gone.

"Hmm, well I know the orange haired girl has a Garudamon, and the spiky haired guy has a WereGarurumon that fought Lord Myotismon the other night," Bakemon hummed, "There's one with a Togemon I think. The youngest has an Angemon I heard, since it's all rumoured it was the one to beat Devimon. I'm pretty sure one has a Mega Kabuterimon, and the last definitely has an Ikkakumon, I saw it on television the other day."

...He had to be shitting you. A Metal Greymon, Garudamon, Were Garurumon and Mega Kabuterimon, with an Angemon and Togemon as back up. And whatever the Ikkakumon was, you hadn't ever heard of that digimon. And yet...they couldn't beat one measly Myotismon?

You beat Myotismon once with an Agumon. Granted, your Agumon was overpowered as hell, but still!

you shook your head and focused on the 'digivice' as Bakemon called it. Taking your mind off of the sheer incompetence of these other kids with digimon. You idly pressed down on the button, scrolling over the top item within it.

Leomon's Sword. huh, you forgot you had that. Leomon had given it to you as a gift. You'd stopped using it when you had made chrome digizoid armour and weapons.

You pocked at the buttons for a second, and then you barely held back a yelp of shock as the device made a whirling noise, and in a flash of light, Leomon's sword appeared from the device, the same way items appeared form your V-pet within the Digital World back in the day.

You gaped down at the sword within your hand.

"What the heck, where did that sword come from!?" Bakemon did yelp out though.

You eyed the sword for a moment before realisation hit you. And you scrolled through your items. There wasn't much there, since you stopped storing things in your V-pet, but there, while there were some useless things like some meat and mushrooms, there were multiple enhancement edibles...and more importantly.

Rainbow Horn. Coral Charm. White Fang. Fireball.

Digivolution items, created by you through studying the data of many, many digimon. You used to have hundreds of these. Now only down to a pitiful four. But with these, you could instantly digivolve any digimon into the forms of the digimon the items contained the data framework of.

A small, yet delighted smirk curled through your lips, "Hey Bakemon," you spoke up, "What do you say you kick Myotismon to the curb and become my follower instead?"

"..I'm sorry what?" Bakemon blinked at you in confusion.

"I'm not the digidestined you're looking for," you instead answered with, "I don't know about this digivice here, but my partner digimon, that this device connected to, are both dead."

"Oh.." Bakemon said quietly, "..I'm sorry to hear that?"

"It's fine," you waved him off, even if it wasn't, "I might not be digidestined, but I have been to the digital world before. Two years ago in my time, yet thousands of years have probably passed in the digital world since time moves faster over there." It had been easy to keep track, after all, the V-pet did in fact monitor the digimons ages. And both Chaosdramon and Metal Seadramon, were over two thousand years old before they died.

"Still...what does this have to do with me?" Bakemon asked, "Even if I joined you, Myotismon would make short work of us if you don't have a partner digimon."

You rolled your eyes, "Myotismon is a small time digimon, I defeated plenty of them when I was in the digital world before, and a Devimon was the guy who went got me food back then, like an errand boy," you said. A bit embellished, but not a lie either, "I didn't have one of these cheaty digivice things back then either, I just trained and raised my digimon myself."

"...It's tempting, I won't lie," Bakemon shrugged his ghostly shoulders, "But won't that take time?"

"I can make you digivolve right now easily, some of the stuff I had in the digital world before has transferred to this digivice," you said, showing it off, "Besides, I saw tens of dozens of Bakemon out there, Myotismon isn't gonna notice one single one gone."

"..." Bakemon was silent for a moment, before dipping his head a few seconds later, "Okay."