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Series: Danger Zone||Title: What's Mine Is Mine
Characters: Andromon, Digimon Kaiser||Pairing: Ken x Daisuke
Chapter: 1-20||Words: 900
Genre: Drama||Rated: PG
Notes: This takes place a short amount of time after Not At His Best.
Summary: The Chosen prevented Kaiser from taking Daisuke once. He won't allow that again. This time, they're going to hand him over personally, and they're not getting him back.
Andromon spent his time in the city patrolling, settling the odd dispute among the Guardromon and a few other Digimon who’d drifted here once the place became known as one of the sanctuaries against the Digimon Kaiser, and planning on how to defend his home against the Kaiser should he ever return.
No one expected him to. In all these months, the Kaiser’s troops hadn’t ever returned to a place after the Dark Tower there had been destroyed and there was someone to guard it.
He walked to the highest point of the city, where he could get a good view of all the lands around, and took a careful check of the area.
It took only a few seconds to process what he saw. Then he sounded the alert, a wild shrieking coming from every part of the city.
The Digimon Kaiser had returned.
And he came with a very large army.
Andromon didn’t forget things easily. He might not be able to retrieve the memory right away but it would always be there. He recalled how the Kaiser took the city the first time and arranged his strongest forces to defend there. He would also have to avoid direct confrontation with the Kaiser. Doing so the first time had led to an Evil Ring around his neck.
Being able to break it the first time didn’t mean he could again, and even if he could, he’d received information about the Kaiser’s latest upgrade to them: the evil Spirals, which could control someone of his strength.
But first points first: to defend the city and cast the Kaiser back, showing that they could defeat him.
I must warn the Chosen as well. They would be able to help.
The original gateway between the worlds in the city had been destroyed. But once Andromon ran matters here, he’d searched until he’d found another one to take its place, putting it where it could not easily be found.
Not that he needed to go there physically to send a message. He had a connection to it, one worked carefully by Izumi Koushirou, and it would take almost no time to alert them.
It took only a few moments to send it. Andromon trusted the Chosen would be there in minutes. Perhaps they were already in the Digital World on some other mission as well.
But until they arrived, it would be his task to defend the city and keep the Kaiser out of it.
In the mere moments it took him to process the attack, alert his people, and send the warning message, the Kaiser’s army struck at the front gates. Two Guardromon stood outside of them, but the Kaiser’s forces struck them down without mercy or even barely noticing them.
The Kaiser’s army flooded into the city, battling as they seldom battled, driving the inhabitants into cut off alleyways and penning them up. Terror spread as the Kaiser himself stalked after his troops, scattering Rings and Spirals with a wave of one hand. Each one wrapped itself around one of the captive Digimon, and they stopped moving, awaiting their new orders.
Andromon hadn’t gone to all the trouble of repairing the original inhabitants to lose them all again. Staying away from the Kaiser was the wisest idea, but as the city defenses collapsed, proving how paper-thin they’d actually been, he had no other choice.
But he could fight at a distance, at the least.
“Gatling Missile!” He targeted the AirDramon the Kaiser rode, only for it to dart out of the way as quick as light. He wasn’t used to moving targets as much anymore. But he didn’t give up, firing again and again, and the AirDramon kept on darting.
Some of its companions joined in, weaving in a complex pattern that even Andromon couldn’t always follow. Somewhere along the way he lost sight of the Kaiser himself, and decided that he must’ve fallen off somewhere.
Excellent. Perhaps someone of the city will do something with him.
He knew the odds on that remained slim, especially with how most of the city and its inhabitants once more belonged to the Kaiser. But slim wasn’t non-existent at all.
Footsteps sounded behind him, measured and sure, and Andromon turned, his Spiral Sword upraised.
The Evil Spiral slipped underneath his guard and fastened around his arm, tight and firm. The Digimon Kaiser stared at him, his Dark D-3 in hand.
“I think that’s enough, Andromon. Stop fighting me.”
Andromon wanted to disobey. He wanted to break the Spiral as he had the Ring, but with the Digimon Kaiser’s words, his mind blanked out.
He didn’t know how long he stayed like that. Then he heard the voice of his master, the Digimon Kaiser.
“Speak to me, Andromon. You have information that I desire.”
Andromon could see now, and he focused on his master. “How can I help you, Digimon Kaiser-sama?”
“Tell me everything that you know about Yagami Hikari. Especially who or what she values the most.”
Andromon didn’t know why the Kaiser wanted this information, but he gave it all the same, everything that he knew about the Child of Light. When he finished, the Kaiser nodded, clearly satisfied.
“I’ve brought the materials for a new Dark Tower. I want you all to build it before I leave. Understood?”
“Yes, Digimon Kaiser-sama. I understand.”
As always, the Kaiser’s word remained his law.
To Be Continued
Notes: I’ve had this started since 2016. I just now decided to wrap it up and post it.