The Mysterious Shapeshifter
[AO3 version]
Summary:
Daisuke and Iori head to a village in danger, but their enemy is... Lightnimon!?
Unable to change, Daisuke has to face an enemy without revealing his secret identity...
Who's this copycat and what is he planning to do?
[Note: It's 2008; Just a funny Daisuke-Iori combo action. I like this one too!! The comical tone was half inspired in the Kizuna Drama CD]
“I’m tired from that last battle, sigh” Daisuke lied on the grass, his arms behind his head. He was watched by Iori, Armadimon and V-mon who were collecting fruits for the camp.
“I know you’re tired but could you help us, Daisuke-san?”
“Yeah, please we can’t carry all of those alone, dagya”
“I’m… not sure what to do… Having a double identity this time is making me appreciate Spider-Man, Batman, Supergirl, and other superheroes…”
He got up from the ground and walked to the group, to help them get the fruits.
“Where have you been?” Iori asked out of curiosity “Don’t tell me you didn't sleep last night.”
“Yeah, you got me. I had no peace last night” and he sighed, “Ranamon and Frostmon are out, but there’s still troops and Lekismon around. Actually I didn’t sleep because I had to fight a horde of Tyrannomon all alone. I mean, V-mon helped but we couldn’t call for help.”
“I see…”
“Lightnimon works alone. V-mon can only help if hidden or covered by a cape.”
“But… won’t the cape burn, dagya?”
“...” Daisuke glanced at Armadimon for a few seconds. Then… “That’s a good question, but thankfully it never happened.”
Suddenly, some screams were heard in the distance, coming from a village. Its villagers started to run away, so some passed through the boys.
“What the…” Daisuke said, then dropped all fruits on the group to stop a panicked EbiBurgamon, “Oi, come here kiddo! What’s wrong?”
“A-ah…!! H-humans!! Um… You must be the Chosen Children… Please save our people and town! We’re under attack…!!”
“Those guys again!?” Armadimon gritted his teeth.
“N-No… It’s… Lightnimon! He’s against us now!!” and the child level digimon started to cry. Daisuke's eyes widened when he heard that name. He looked at Iori, Armadimon and V-mon with a grimace. Then, he patted the digimon’s head and smiled.
“Don’t worry, we will talk to him. Maybe he’s under a spell or being controlled by a gear or ring. We will save your home.”
The group ran to the village, but during their way…
“Daisuke-san, shouldn’t we call the others?”
“There’s no time for that,” he replied, “Someone’s pretending to be me.”
“Don’t you think this is exactly what he wants you to do? It’s a trap to lure you and unmask Lightnimon’s identity.”
“But… I promised that villager we would help them…!”
“... I think we can do something about this” Iori mused “We’re far away from the camp right now…”
“Alright, but I can’t change here… Whatever, I will have to face the imposter as myself then.”
“Do we have a plan?” V-mon asked.
“The plan is… Not screwing up. And you know I said it to myself too.”
Once they arrived in the village, the quartet saw a very bootleg black armor digimon walking around, commanding troops made of Fangmon. Daisuke and Iori evolved their partners to XV-mon and Ankylomon to fight such troops.
“Tail Hammer!”“X Larser!”
Iori was using the Submarimon-esque Sword to attack such enemies as well, while Daisuke couldn’t do anything this time except warn the other three about the enemies coming.
“Isn’t that a good hour for you to change?” Whispered Iori.
“The villagers will be scared” Daisuke replied, “and I can’t use that weapon without changing to him”
When the last Fangmon got beaten, they proceeded to search for the fake Lightnimon. Though, it was still risky for Daisuke to take part in battles yet, especially if their enemies didn’t know he’s still alive (or was what he assumed) which could turn things a little worse.
“There it is!” Daisuke muttered to the group, and they hid behind a house “Wait, that feels like a bootleg Lightnimon… I’m offended.”
“What, you take offense to that?” V-mon said (both him and Armadimon devolve to child form) eyes squinting at Daisuke.
“I… I mean! Ken felt insulted when I copied him…”
“That’s not the time for that” Iori whispered, “We need to find a way to unmask the copycat quickly.”
“Catch’em from their back!”
“That… is a good idea, I guess...” Iori blinked twice.
“Hmm, someone managed to beat my army” they heard the ‘bootleg’ Lightnimon monologuing, and his voice wasn’t like Daisuke’s at all, “You bet it was those annoying Chosen Children.”
He wasn’t looking, and the quartet approached carefully, until…
“I GOT YOU!” and the copycat turned back, releasing from his finger a shot of dark water and forced them to dodge.
“You knew we were around, heh...” Daisuke laughed nervously.
“Huh aren’t you… the dead Chosen Child?” the enemy gasped, “So, you’re alive!?”
“I didn’t die. I was just… Stuck in some dark cave waiting to be released from that prison” he shrugged. Armadimon didn’t catch that reference, but somehow Iori and V-mon did.
“Interesting… But you think you can beat me, the grand thief, Lightnimon?!”
“We know you’re not him, cut it off” Daisuke suddenly said with an annoyed tone.
“How are you so sure, human?”
“Hmm, as we saw… Lightnimon’s appearance resembles an armor based on Lighdramon” Iori started, “And judging by this fact, his attacks should be based on Lightning.”
“Yeah, and he uses a weapon with the same motif, dagya” Armadimon shrugged.
“Right!” V-mon nodded “And he doesn’t call himself by ‘Grand Lightnimon’ but more like ‘The Warrior of Night,The Silent Knight’ by what I heard from the digimon”
“Kh!! How do you all KNOW about him?! He’s a mysterious figure! Of course I am him!”
“Then, what’s your proof?” Daisuke rolled his eyes, “If the digimon in this village had time to take a look at you, they would totally see you’re not him.”
“You brats, I will--”
“Shoot us with lightning now!?” V-mon asked, “Because yeah Lightnimon’s name comes from ‘Lightning’ which means… You’re an imposter.”
The faker was making some noises of distress until he stopped and started laughing. Louder and louder, the laughter scared the digimon duo and made the boys uncomfortable.
“You’re sly foxes” the faker finally spoke again, “You manage to know more about a myth than me. Very well, I don’t have to keep this ugly form anymore.”
And his shape deformed from a small silhouette to a man’s size. A man with water-like hair and a white suit.
“This is my real form, and I’m Splashmon, the Water-tiger Shapeshifter.”
“What should we do now?” V-mon muttered to the group, “I assume he’s a higher level than us…!”
“It’s still ‘don’t mess this up’ !!” Daisuke replied in a murmur, “We might heat things up here”
“Ok! Heating things up is my middle name!”
“... V-mon, you don’t have a middle name.”
“Are you done?” Splashmon sighed.
“No, wait a little more” and both him and Iori took their digivices from their pockets “Courage Digimental Up!”
“Knowledge Digimental Up!”
V-mon and Armadimon amor-evolved to Fladramon and Digmon, stood in front of the kids and ready to attack. Iori summoned his Submari-Sword and got on guard, just to protect Daisuke this time.
“You can’t change yet, I believe” he muttered to Daisuke “I will be your bodyguard this time. Just once.”
“ ‘Just once’ you say… You had saved me countless times already, heh”
“I’ll not keep waiting for you to finish your chit chat!” Splashmon hissed, then ran in their direction.
“Here he comes!” Digmon alerted the group, “Gold Rush!!” and he shot his drills like missiles against Splashmon.
“This won’t scratch me!” the enemy laughed, the drills passed through his body like if they were passing through a waterfall, “I can turn my body solid and liquid as I please!”
“Uh oh…” Digmon gasped, the drills came back to him, “Now what should we do, dagya?”
“Fladramon might be useless too” Daisuke babbled, “I… We have to think quickly!”
Splashmon punched Fladramon and kicked Digmon quickly, making the hero digimon duo step back.
“Any plan??” Fladramon asked, and he dodged another kick, “hurry up!!”
“We… We are thinking!” Iori replied nervously, “Uh… Fladramon is fire, Digmon is earth… They’re not good for this battle…”
If… -- Daisuke thought -- If I could change to Lightnimon we could get some advantage since Lighdra-Glaive could stunt him, and water plus electricity is not a good match…
“Ugh…” Fladramon blocked a kick.
“Argh!” But Digmon received a high pressure shot of dark water and fell on the ground.
“What? Are you that weak?? Or are you trying to buy time for the real Lightnimon to appear and save you all?”
“Darn it…!” Daisuke whispered, “I should’ve changed the moment I had a chance…!”
“Hmm… What if…!! Daisuke-san, I got an idea!”
“You got one!? Quick, say it!”
“Right… Listen carefully”
“You’re too slow to attack, to block, to do anything!” Splashmon complained, but Fladramon shoved him away from them, “Oh…? That’s a different reaction…”
“Enough!” Fladramon growled, but Daisuke approached him, the same time Iori approached Digmon, whispering something in their ears “Oh, I got it…!!”
“What?” their enemy had no interest in what they were saying and conjured a chair made of dark water “Are you planning to entertain me this time?”
“Well you will see” Daisuke smirked.
“Big Crack!” Digmon impacted his drills on the floor and caused the ground to open under Splashmon’s feet. Once the enemy fell, Fladramon threw rocks to cover it quickly.
“Did you forget I can change from solid to liquid you silly-mons?”
“We know that” Iori said with a serious glare, “But you forgot that…”
Fladramon quickly changed its form to BurningFladramon and hit his paw on the top of the rocks burying Splashmon, “ Knuckle HEAT!!”
Splashmon’s screams were heard, and steam came from the opening. Yes, they had beaten Splashmon.
“... If you go to a liquid state, we will just need to boil you until you turn into steam.”
“As expected from Master Iori hehe~” Daisuke laughed, then, “Oh, wait a second. Point your digivice to the white mist before he disappears! And then press this button to devolve him to the Digiegg stage.”
“Huh…? O-Okay!!” And Iori pointed his D-3 to the steam, pressed the mentioned button and a flash of light shot from the screen, hitting the vapor and turning it into a Digiegg, who got caught in time by Daisuke.
“There, there you faker…” he gave it a little pat, “I think Frostmon can take care of you too…”
“Huh, Frostmon is alive?” Digmon and Iori exclaimed.
“Yeah, she is” BurningFladramon returned back to V-mon form, “Lightnimon didn’t kill her.”
“He didn’t, dagya…?” Digmon returned back to Armadimon form.
“... She devolved to a lesser form and is free from the bad guys” Daisuke said, then… “Ah, we need to bring everyone back… I need to do one more thing.”
“Huh?” The three tilted their heads.
The villagers came back, after Iori, Armadimon and V-mon gathered and brought them to the village. The absence of Daisuke made them confused, and once all the villagers were reunited…
A shadow appeared at the top of one of the houses.
“Fear not, dear villagers” Iori just recognized that voice and him plus Armadi-Vee squinted at Lightnimon, the one and only, jumping to the ground.
“Y-you!!” The villagers cried nervously.
“I don’t want to cause more trouble” Lightnimon tried to calm them all down, “To be honest, I’ve been under control of an evil digimon, but the Chosen Children here broke the curse and I’m back to my senses.”
Some noise from the crowd was heard, they were rumbling about what they had just heard.
“I’d like to give my sincere apologies for what I had done” and he bowed his head, “I’m so sorry, please accept my apology.”
“So… it was what I thought that happened!” The same EbiBurgamon from earlier said, and looked at the villagers “Lightnimon was out of himself, he’s fine now!”
The villagers cheered, “We forgive you, thank you for defending our village!”
“No, no…” Lightnimon said, “This time I was causing havoc. The ones you have to thank are the Chosen Children there.”
“Thank you, Chosen Children!”
“Uh… Thank you” Iori blushed, Armadimon and V-mon were waving their paws and hands.
“Now I need to go! See you! ” and Lightnimon ran away.
“You really had to do that?” Iori, Armadimon and V-mon had caught up with Lightnimon and now they were a few kilometers away from the village, in the forest.
“Couldn’t ya tell’em the truth, dagya?”
“I wish I could” he replied “But don’t you think it’s easier to let them believe the copycat was Lightnimon and then he was controlled by some spell or evil digimon?”
“Hmm, yeah I think so” V-mon said.
“All I could do was apologize for the damage. Even if it wasn’t me, I think I had a part in it…”
“I see,” Iori nodded sagely.
“Well, I have to bring this egg to his friend so he can hatch and have Frostmon and Ranamon’s company at least.”
“... Oh, so you will have to go there first?”
“Yeah, and quickly. If we’re seen together it might be suspicious.”
“Ok. Let’s go, Armadimon.”
“Come, V-mon.”
“We… meet at the camp right?”
“Yeah, I’m not running away anymore.”
And they went in different directions.
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