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[Enter from File Mountain]



~ɱąՐʗυՏ ℈ɠσs~


"--nt you down till I've tasted... wait... what the hell?!" Ocelot was cut off by the realization that he was no longer in the mountains but actually hovering below a darkened sea of corruption. "Where the am I?!"

"Away from where you can't hopelessly harm others before it is there time." Cadaiver was sitting behind him, suspended in the air by an unknown force that he effortlessly commanded. "I did so ordered by Marcus... your employer." He would glare at the demon that was also glaring him with a look of pure anger etched on his face. "Though I must say, that was quite a display of power... no doubt there will be some consequences for using it, given your condition." He'd in non-nonchalantly.

"Tch... what do you take me for?!" the Demon would spit out in response. "What makes you think that?! I'm just as powerful as I look!" The digimon would find himself slowly giving into pride, a trait that was not of his programming.

"I don't know, maybe it's the fact that you live inside of a panda suit as a wait of keeping your power hidden?" Cadaiver sighs. "I don't think you do it to fit the new fashion trends."

The two would continue their conversation/argument over the seas while on the shore, everyone else had appeared, stretched out and showing signs of heavy fatigue. Paramiere and Destin were completely passed out and in their rookie stages, Destin showing that he had reverted back to his special red skin. Despite their front of all-powerfulness, they were very much on the verge of reverting to digitama from their own battles.

Lillymon too was in a state of unconsciousness, holding on dearly to Ocelot's panda-suit. She would begin to stir and would look around in pure confusion. She would sit up and notice that Hiro was also there, but was simply standing and keeping watch over the unconscious. She noticed Marcus as well, laying in the sand as if asleep. "Is he??"

"No... he is merely resting. No doubt using your master's artificial soul proved to be a bit more than he could handle at this stage." the Leomon would respond in a whisper. "Thanks to Cadaiver, we should be able to rest without having to worry about another fight."

"Hmm... that clown sure is something. Lucemon was right to worry." She would respond while nervously scratching the back of her head. She would begin to get the feeling that in some way this was all her and Ocelot's fault.

"I agree. Even after traveling with him for so long I feel as if I barely know about him or what he is truly capable of." The lion shakes his ebony-colored mane and breaths a sigh of relief. "I'm just glad he is on our side, but who's to say that we can even find confidence in that." He quietly chuckles and then returns back to watching over Marcus and the others like a Shepard watching his flock.

Lillymon too returns to silence, thinking over Leomon's uncertainty in the ChaosPiedmon's allegiance. She would then glance over to the suit in her other arm and would jump up. "Oh NO!! Where is Ocelot?!"

Back on the seas, the two demi-gods would continue to bicker, exchanging comment after comment, mainly about Ocelot and his ultimate trump card.

"So I take it you can absorb any amount of power... even the combined efforts of a massive group of digimon?" The chaospiedmon would be ever so suspicious of Ocelot's last trick, almost terrified by it but not truly willing to show this fear.

"Heh, so I take it you saw that, huh?" Ocelot chuckles knowing all to well that the clown before him was probably frightened by it. "Yeah, comes with being a demon lord... we all have some sort of trick that ties in with what we represent. Surprisingly enough Lucemon can't seem to muster up such a skill."

"Hence the reason for your disposal and imprisonment." The clown smiled as if he had finally found the answer that he was looking for. "Interesting..."

"No... no, not really?" the demon lord would respond in an unconvincing manner.

~ɱąՐʗυՏ ℈ɠσs~


"Ugh... My head..." Marcus's body began to stir and his eyes began to open. He felt as if he had been hit by the force of a small train with his entire body starting to ache. He opened his eyes ever so slowly and then lurched upward as he noticed that he was no longer in the mountains. Around him was a heavy fog and dense trees that were dark like ghostly silhouettes. "Alright Cadaiver, play times over... where the heck am I?"

A rather familiar voice would soon call out to him from all around."Hmmm... I find it quite interesting that you call out to the clown when something rather paranormal takes place. hehehe..."

"Come on, Cadaiver... you did your job, not quite playing around." Starting to get a little serious, Marcus would stand up slowly and would adjust his body, ready for a fight. Both of his hands would come up near his face, balled into fists, allowing his knuckles to fit nicely into the grooves they had earned from being worn so aggressively.

The voice would respond to him, now jumping around. "Come come now, surely someone as smart as you could figure out that this is not that sadistic clown's doing." The voice would make yet another laughing sound as if mocking Marcus.

"Oh really? Then who's the cause of this, huh? And you'd better make it a believable answer because I don't like for my time to be wasted!" Starting to get upset, Marcus would reach for his digivice and would be slightly surprised as it was not in it's usual spot on his waist belt.

"Oh, hoho... are we looking for something?" A snapping sound could be heard from a distance and then a sphere of purple light would start to approach him slowly from within the trees. The sphere would stop a few feet from Marcus and would dissolve into his digivice.

As the digivice came into sight, Marcus would be completely caught off guard by the digivice's appearance. The spikes along it's side would be blood covered and broken leaving heavily serrated edges, the screen would be cracked and dark as if void of all life and energy, and the original shape of the device would be heavily charred, as if it had just been pulled from a fire. "What... what did you do to my DIGIVICE!!?" He would roar in anger.

"Hmph... it wasn't me that did it, but you and your reckless use of your new-found powers." The voice would ring of a serious tone now. "Maybe this gift was too much for you to bear, maybe it should be taken away and given to more capable hands. Heh, yes, more capable hands indeed." the mocking tone would begin to pick up once more as the voice then began to laugh at Marcus. Whatever powers were holding the device would lift from it and allow it to slowly fall down to Marcus's now open hands.

As the device touched the tamers hands, the cracks along the screen would spread till it covered the entire device and it would explode into 1s and 0s, vanishing into the abyss that surround him. "No..." Marcus's eyes would widen as the device vanished in his hands. "No, no, no... this has to be a dream. I have to wake up."

(Enzetsu)

The tamer would drop to his knees as the memories of using the device began to flood his mind. However, these would not be happy memories. Thoughs of stabbing Chris in his outrage would come first, followed by the killing of Alter, and finally would be Kazu and all the pain that came from that. Tears would begin flow down his face ever so slowly as the realization that he was now powerless began to draw closer and closer. The boy would find himself bent over with hands on the ground and tears falling more heavily, painting the non-existent ground a wet, yet clear color. Marcus's eyes would grow a pale, orange color.

"Sorry, but this is no dream... take on the powers of a devil and you must also pay the fine that comes with it. Hehehe..."

"Shut... shut up... stop talking... I'm not powerless..."

"Oops, looks like this one has broken t--"

"I said.... SHUT UP!!!" With hands curling back into fists, Marcus would scream at the sky and allow his feral rage to take over, covering his body in the same gray color that he used from biosoul. It began to spiral and rage around him like a fire, like angry hands trying to grab at the air around him.

"Sigh... you never learn, do you? Violence won't solve all your problems, ya know."

"Uck..." Something inside of him would snap like a twig with too much pressure applied to it. The flaming soul around him would backfire and burn Marcus. The sheer pain of his own power turning against him would cause him to pass out, laying lifeless yet twitching and steaming. He would feel as if he'd been set on fire but there would be no signs of burning anywhere on his body. As he laid in the monotone realm, a beam of light would shine down on him followed by a single feather.

"Oh Marcus, you have so much to learn." The voice would appear above Marcus and would take the form of an angelic child with many wings, flapping and showering Marcus with pure white downy. "You think yourself to be unbeatable, uncontrollable, you are but a mere child who has been lied to and been built up to be something that he is not, but I will aid you passed that point. I will rebuild you into something far better than you once were. I, Lucemon, shall make you a servant that the Demon Lords will be proud of."

As the angelic child would then land on the ground with bare feet, a light would release from the boy and would spread from there till it consumed the entire area with this blinding light, holy yet wreaking of a far greater evil.

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Slowly, Marcus's eyes would open once more to the sounds of crashing waves and shifting sand. He look up slowly only to close his eyes once more as light would hit his eyes and sting a little. "Huh? My head doesn't... it doesn't hurt anymore... strange." He would whisper to himself. He would start to sit up, only to be knocked back down by two overjoyed digimon.

"MARCUS!"
"MARCUS!"

Both Destino, the Gaomon, and Himaki, the Gatomon, would bowl over the tamer with their affection.

~ɱąՐʗυՏ ℈ɠσs~



The frustrated Leomon was starting to lose patience with the Pandamon and his attitude. Unconsciously, the lion's hand started to move towards his blade, lowly pulling it out. "I'm starting to grow extremely tired of you and your comments. Marcus doesn't--"

"Hiro... please, I can speak for myself." Marcus looked over at the lion and crossed his arms crossed. He then turned to look at the Pandmon and started walking across the dark sand towards them. "I completely understand your masters intentions and will be alright with you keeping your eyes on me, but what I will not tolerate is you going on your own." He stopped a few feet from the digimon and stamped hard into the sand, using some extra energy to make sand fly up around him. "You said so yourself that you were given to me as my allies so stop trying to go against me like you're on your own... HELP ME, DAMMIT!!" The last part of his comment boomed with the aid of biosoul that was starting to spark around him. As if being forced to, Marcus bowed to the digimon, recognizing them as his 'superiors' at the moment. While his face was hidden, the boy winced as the soul was already starting to burn him like in the dream that he couldn't seem to remember.

"Hmmm." Ocelot, the Pandamon, somewhat speechless and looked over at the Lillymon behind him. After they both nodded Ocelot would turn back to face the boy with a smirk. "Hmmm, humbleness and weakness... I like it." His tone sounded as if he was mocking Marcus.

"That's it!" Gaomon growled as he popped knuckles and started running towards the Pandamon. He stopped when the demon finished his sentance.

"Shows that you're still willing to overcome your current state of mind and inner superiority complex."
"Huh?!"
"Alright kid, we'll off as much help to you as we can." Ocelot reached out and patted the boy on his back and the retracted as the soul power burned his paw. "But first we'll have to get you a new digivice to contain your biosoul."

"Any Marcus's team only seems to grow stronger by the moment." Cadaiver made his way over to joining Doroku and Paramiere, the original group of bad guys to join Marcus.
The guilmon chuckled to herself, something that she didn't normally do. "Who would have figured that to taming this beast would call for Marcus to humiliate himself."

Gaomon would look somewhat confused by all that was happening. First it seemed that Ocelot was mocking his tamer and now the digimon was saying that he would completely help out Marcus. "Wait... what's going on here?"

"Nothing Destin... don't worry about it, okay?" Marcus took a deep breath allowing his soul power to quiet down within him. He could already feel the heat of the moment starting to cool down. After a moment he would turn towards the red Gaomon with a weak smile. He then walked towards the dog and patted him on the head. "Alright guys... I guess I've been a bad tamer by not letting you know all that is going on. To throw all speculation out the window, I have indeed sided with the Demon Lord, Lucemon, in his quest to learn more about and acquire the digisouls of other tamers. In doing that we're going to face many tamers that will try to stop us."

"Heh, we're already used to that." The Asuramon chuckles. "You're not exactly the most well liked in this realm."
"Heh, then I guess this will be easy except for one thing... I don't have my digisoul anymore nor does my digivice work."

The digimon that were released earlier would all be caught off guard by this statement and begin talking at the tamer about his recklessness and how this would be even harder to accomplish.

"Silence... all of you!" the ChaosPiedmon would boom out, causing all of the digimon to go silent. "He is not done."

"Thank you, Cadaiver. As I was saying, I don't have access to my digisoul anymore, but I do have an alternate source." Balling his fist tightly, a small aura of gray 1s and 0s would coat his fist. "A gift from Lucemon himself, Biosoul. It's not quite as refined as Digisoul, but if we all work hard, I should be able to master it and be a better support to you all."

"Let us not forget the finding of Mugen..." Guilmon would call out to Marcus.

"Oh right!" Marcus would pound his hand into his palm. "I also need to get my hands on another digivice." He would reach from his device pocket and would reveal the broken digivice that seemed to be completely void of power. "Until I find one of those, none of you... with the exception to Hiro, Cadaiver, Ocelot, and Jou, will be able to access your other powers, namely digivolving."

"Well that's just great... you really out dig yourself this time." Gatomon would chuckle sarcastically. "Well looks like we've got a bit of a challenge on our hands, don't we?"
"One the likes we've never seen before." Marcus would respond with a little doubt.
"Then we'll be even stronger when we overcome it, right?!"
"I'm sure of it."

"Well then, I guess we'd best get training if you all are going to have to go a while without digivolving." Hiro would chuckle as he sheathed his saber back behind him. "I think it would be best that we go to the dojo in Tropical Jungle."

"Huh?" Stingmon would react to the mention of that place, recalling it as the place where he was trained by his previous mentors, Griever (Kuwagamon) and Fenrir (Kabuterimon). "Do you mean that dojo?"

"One in the same. I have a feeling that going to File Mountain might only attract more attention." Hiro would look around the sand and then go into another thought. "Ah, Cadaiver, quick question. I know you could have gone anywhere you wanted to with that forced transportation, why here?"

"Hehehe... I was wondering when someone would ask me that." Cadavier would gather everyone's attention as he moved towards the dark water. "It just so happens to be that one of the keys to Chaosdramon is right here in this very ocean."

"Ahhh!" Marco and Veedramon shouted as they were dragged down to the black ocean while holding onto Leviamon. He stopped screaming, but instead gripped the scales of Leviamon's body for dear life, it felt like they were free falling and the wind pressure was incredibly powerful. Marco looked up at the sky, the portal was slowly closing and through it he could see the nearly destroyed Network City. He looked away, they could not be returning there any time soon and Marco wondered if they would be returning home at all.

Leviamon landed on the waters in a giant splash that shook the water violently, creating terrible waves. Marco finally looked up and spotted Veedramon next to him, they had not fallen off the giant leviathan, but there presence was instantly notice by the beast. "You dare follow me to my domain!" Its voice was loud and sounded more like roars. Veedramon quickly picked up Marco and placed him on his back as he traveled down Leviamon's scaly back. The mythical dragon looked around, from all sides there was nothing, but water and no land. Leviamon began to shake its tale in order to throw them off, but Veedramon was already running up his back towards its head. Leviamon roared as it began to flip his tail trying to hit them. Veedramon was barely dodging them and each hit created small shock waves making it even harder.

Marco looked around frantically, there was no escape. "I can't see any land, but if we stay here then he's has it pinned down." They were suddenly hit Leviamon's tail, the air knocked right out of them along with being send flying. Marco had lost consciousness and so had Veedramon. They reached up high and began to fall down. Leviamon swam under them and opened his huge jaws ready to devour them. Veedramon slowly opened his eyes and noticed they were falling. Marco was falling faster than he was and when he looked down his eyes widen, what would meet at the bottom was not water, but Leviamon's bottomless pit.

Veedramon placed his arm at his side and positioned his body directly down like a missile to increase his falling speed. "You won't take him!" Veedramon shouted as he reached Marco and wrapped his arms around him. A light engulfed their body and Leviamon flinched from the sudden brightness.

"Veedramon digivolve to....AeroVeedramon!"

Veedramon grew in size. A pair of dragon wings emerged from his back and large blades extended from his elbows. His horns became sharper and there were metal shoulder armors in each of his shoulders. His features became more rough and strong. AeroVeedramon flew over Leviamon with a now conscious Marco on his back. "We can't run away from this! AeroVeedramon we make our stand right here!" The holy dragon digimon nodded as he faced the large leviathan. Leviamon turned to them and laughed, "I respect your courage, but its going to take a miracle to defeat me, kid! I will devour you and your digimon!" Marco and AeroVeedramon cried out as they charged towards Leviamon who had opened his mouth wide again charging for his attack. A long battle had begun.

[Enter from Network City]

D walked into the area where the entrancing landscape of the Dark Ocean was located, witnessing the electric current surging through the corrupted ocean of vile infection. He had been travelling for a long period of time to find the one he was hoping to meet. He looked towards the huddled group of Digimon surrounding their Tamer, Marcus. D had caught word of a Tamer who had been corrupted by a Demon Lord Digimon, and was hoping to find him. Keeping a steady stance, and a careful watch of his surroundings, D spoke towards the Tamer. "Are you the Tamer who had taken another's life?", he inquired noting each of Marcus' Digimon, and the Tamer's current lack of a Digivice not being visible, as his Digivice was also not visible for the time being.

A small smile came upon the Tamer's face, looking downwards as he continued his introduction, "I know this may seem odd for me to be telling you this, but I know of your so called Contract with Lucemon. I can still sense his lingering presence here..." The Tamer was surrounded by the dark aura coming off from the area, while identifying the Demon Lord Digimon simply by the particular feel he obtained while sensing the area. "I am not here to fight against you, yet, but I am here with a proposition. I know that I may not be able to undo what you have done, but I am quite sure that I can offer you much more than what Lucemon is offering you, and with not a single string attached. Of course I am in no way so ever planning on you cutting ties with him due to his... 'connection' if you will, with you, but to simply aid you for the time being." he explained further, as his head raised, glancing at the Digimon that were supposedly under his control. The very ominous Tamer had a small smile upon his face, especially once his eyes had caught upon Destin, Paramiere, Doroku, Hiro, and even Cadaiver for a different reason, as his eyes narrowed upon that one Digimon in particular.

"This Digimon, does it know of its origins, Marcus?" the Tamer asked, watching the clown themed Digimon. Still standing from a safe distance from attack and ever ready to react, D awaited for Marcus' response to his words, and was simply waiting patiently, as well for his answer upon Cadaiver's knowledge upon its very own existence. Although D was not too well known around these parts, he has quite the experience to be knowledgeable upon the various topics that were currently of his concern, the main one being with Marcus, for the time being.