The Once King 4

Half an hour later, you stood atop the head of the newly digivolved Bakemon, now Airdramon as he flew leisurely over the sky. You'd taken the time to get dressed, and had your arms crossed, a frown on your face as your hair billowed in the high winds and you stared below.

"This is so amazing!" Airdramon gushed, for what happened to be the sixth time in as many minutes. He'd been skeptical of what you promised, but in the end, you easily laid his doubts to rest when you brought out the Rainbow Horn to digivolve him into his current form. While Meramon would have been the easiest to hide, Airdramon had by far the best movement ability.

There was of course the option of Mega Seadramon. But there would be no hiding a leviathan like that. For now, you thought stealth and speed was the better part of valor.

'Still, this is absurd.' you thought. Most of the city streets were bare. The only ones in sight being the odd digimon. quite a few Bakemon littered the streets below. And even a few Tyrannomon, and digimon you did not recognise.

Airdramon had been happy to fill you in on a dinosaur digimon you had no knowledge of. Tuskmon it was called. It was a fascinating champion. It looked like a smaller, yet much more streamlined Greymon, probably geared as species towards dealing devastating attacks at great speed, by only sacrificing some of the defensive power a Greymon had.

'What to do?' you wondered. As much as you had boasted how low tier a Myotismon truly was earlier, it didn't change the fact, that it was still a powerful Ultimate level digimon.

If you had even a week in advance to plan with Airdramon, it wouldn't be a problem, you were sure. But, come what may, you only had the last half hour to prepare.

You had been tempted to use the edible boost items you had left over. They would only give a minor boost here, but would be multiplied on digivolution. You held off on it though, just in case you wanted to use them yourself. You never bothered in the digital world, because at the time, it was more optimal to use them on your two digimon partners, and these leftover ones you had totally forgot about in the process of gaining a break through in your research into Death Digivolution.

If all else failed though, you could just give them to Airdramon and digivolve him straight to Mega Seadramon with the Coral Charm.

You were broken from your thoughts, by what sounded like the rapid buzzing of multiple helicopters. A bit of a yelp left Airdramon's mouth and you stumbled a bit as he juked behind a building to hide with a flap of his wings.

"What are you..?" you asked, puzzled. But, you got your answer as a massive green blur whisked through the air just a few hundred feet away, passing you by and flying deeper into the city.

"Hoh?" you hummed as you took it in with interest. Analyzing it and taking it apart with all the experience of a man who had memorized the abilities and skills of hundreds of different digimon. It was like a Kabuterimon, the same type of build, albeit a little bulkier. Its flight was slower, but it was more durable, and it seemed to be highly optimized for brute force rapid slashing power. It looked almost like a combination of a Kabuterimon and a Kuwagamon. Giving out little bits of the twos main strength, to make an optimized balanced build. "What digimon is that?"

Hmm. You quite liked the look of it.

"It's Snimon, an insect digimon," Airdramon answered and then shiverred lightly, "He was the commander in charge of my group of Bakemon. He's one of the few champion levels that became a main commander because of his strength and how violent and blood thirsty he is."

You merely hummed. It may take Airdramon a while to gain his confidence now that he was no longer a weak Bakemon. Well, he was still a weakling compared to what you were used to, but you were sure Airdramon wouldn't lose outright to that Snimon, and the the Airdramon species had quite the variety of special abilities.

Besides, bug digimon always hated fire attacks. Even Hercules Kabuterimon, one of your stronger subordinates back in the day wasn't good at dealing with it.

In the end, as much as you'd like to deny it. You were hero and protector, before you were king. And you were worried for the people held hostage by Myotismon.

So, you directed Airdramon to take you to the Sports Centre where they were all being held.

It turned out though, you didn't need to go there. Because, just as you got close, you caught sight of a very familiar, tall and cape clad digimon take to the air and fly out of the building, carrying a little girl and a small white cat digimon you again, didn't know of.

You followed with Airdramon from a distance, preparing to digivolve him into Mega Seadramon at a moments notice to protect the girl and the digimon. But, again, you were unneeded. And you watched, as a group of kids your age and a bit older, numbering seven in total besides the girl, surround Myotismon at the local television station.

Metal Greymon, Were Garurumon, Garudamon, Lilymon, Mega Kabuterimon and Angemon, alongside what Airdramon told you was a Zudomon. Six ultimates, and one champion with the type advantage over Myotismon. Alongside the cat digimon, Gatomon, and another humanoid digimon, Wizardmon, both powerful Champions themselves. Myotismon was definitely out matched.

In a desperate bid, Myotismon made to attack the girl, the apparent holder of the crest of light. Just as you were about to spring into action and have Airdramon create a portal and grab the girl, the Wizardmon jumped in the way of Myotismon's attack, giving his life for her.

What a splendid friend and digimon that one was. You mourned the loss of such a good subject.

And then, the girls crest erupted into pink light, and before your eyes, you witnessed how utterly bullshit the digivice and crests were when the Gatomon instantly digivolved into an ultimate, female version of Angemon, Angewomon, and finished off the highly injured Myotismon with one final, super effective holy attack.

Not once did they notice you even as they mourned the loss of their friend and celebrated the defeat of Myotismon as you watched from high above.

You waited until they were gone. Because of one simple reason. One of the abilities of your Z-pet, was the ability to store the data of a destroyed digimon and reform them into an egg.

Myotismon was undeserving of your efforts, but, you had taken a liking to Wizardmon and his gallantry.

And as It turned out, that Myotismon was not gone. Somehow, the crazy fool had managed to take energy from every human in all of Odaiba. And reformed, somehow managing to digivolve into another form you had never seen before. Venom Myotismon.

You will admit, you almost panicked for a moment, before, to your stupefied gaze, the partners of the Agumon and Gabumon stepped up, and some how, through getting hit by their siblings digimons attacks...caused their digimon to digivolve from Rookie straight to Mega?

And Mega was actually a thing now? And not just a made up term by Analog, but an actual honest to god thing now in the concepts of the digital world.

WarGreymon and Metal Garurumon. You felt that these digidestined relied on far too much luck and happenstances and power just given to them. But those two digimon, you had to admit, they were magnificent. All the type of power that Machinedramon had, but compressed into a much smaller form, for further explosive power and durability. They even naturally had Chrome Digizoid!

My, how the times had changed since your time as king over the digital world.

That night, you watched over them, as the air ripped open and the digital world was plain in view atop the night sky. Want filled you, so much want. But you watched as the digidestined flew towards the sky in a rainbow glow and disappeared into the digital world.

And then returned not long later, just a mere few hours the portal closing behind them, within a trolley cart of all things, and lacking their digimon.

You bided your time. Rushing in wash foolish, especially...when you had a near defenceless digi-egg to care for. You would wait, and prepare and then return to the digital world when you were ready. After all, you only had Airdramon now and Wizardmon's Digi-egg. You had no dual partner digimon, or mentor figure in Jijimon and all the residents of Floatia who cared for you warmly.

Your digimon subordinate lacked strength. You would beat it into him.