//------------------------------// // Needing a break // Story: Digimon Crusaders // by Klonoahedgehog //------------------------------// Apple Bloom wakes up in a dark void. "Where am i?" She asks with an echo, suddenly the green and red eyes that belonged to Sombramon showed up. "Yyou!?" She says in a fearful tone as she stares at the eyes., Sombramon's mouth opens, diving down onto her. "Stop it!" she yells. She screams loudly... Only to wake up for real. "It was just a Nightmare..." She says with relieve. Then she looks around and notices that she was lying in her room. She looks to the side and looks in her mirror, she sees that she had some bandages on her body, she could see some covering her arms and a couple on her face. She looked on her bed and noticed some other bandages lying on her bed. "Where's Coronamon?" She asks. She looks to the side and sees that her window is wide open. Opening theme. "Haaa!!" Coronamon kicks the tree giving it a slight mark on the bark, a bunch of apples fall on some buckets. Applejack was watching from the side. "Way to go Coronamon!" She says. "There's still some up on the tree." Coronamon climbs up there to get them. She hears someone walking up from behind, she looks back and sees that it was Apple Bloom. "Apple Bloom... Good mornin'" Apple Bloom looks up to face her sister. "What happened?" She asks. "Twilight and yer friends brought ya over here knocked out, ah was so worried but they kept tellin's me ya'll were alright." Applejack puts her hand on her sisters head and scratches it, forcing a small smile from Apple Bloom. "A'm glad they were right." "Say sis do ya know where Sunmon is?" "Here i am!" Coronamon popped out of the tree with an Apple in hand. "Wait ya didn't Degenerate!" Apple Bloom says in genuine surprise, she also noticed how he didn't have any injuries despite the fact that he got more injured than her. "Wow Coronamon, ya'll look okay." Coronamon smiled at her showing a sharp tooth. "As long as we don't lose too much energy, Digimon heal pretty fast, a few hours and were up and running!" He cheerfully said as he took a bite out of the Apple he was holding. Apple Bloom heard those words and remembered. "Hey! What happened to Hawkmon and Armadillomon?" Coronamon jumped off the tree landing on hi's feet. "They woke up a while ago." Apple Bloom felt a bit of relief at that. "Ah guess i'll go see them. Lets go Coronamon." Apple Bloom says, Coronamon follows behind her. Applejack puts her arm on Apple Bloom's shoulder. "You should probably change clothes first." Apple Bloom looks down and she's still in her pijamas. "Ooh." She responds giving an chuckle. --------------------------------------------------------- Apple Bloom and Sunmon walks into the library, figuring that's where Scootaloo and Sweetie belle would be. She sees Twilight sitting in a chair reading a book and walks over to her. "Hey Twilight." Twilight looks up and puts her book down, she smiles when she sees Apple Bloom. "So your awake." She says. Apple Bloom nods. "Do ya know where the others are?" She asks. Twilight puts the book down and gets up, heading upstairs to the room they usually hang out in. Apple Bloom following behind them. "I asked them to go into the Digital World and get some intel on the black rings and towers." Apple Bloom whispers. "Coronamon what's 'intel'?" Sunmon looks up to her. "You know intelligence, information that kind of thing." "Oh." Apple Bloom nods. "But don't we need to find more about that Digimon that attacked Primary village?" Twilight looks to them. "I think if we can gather more information about the rings we can find more about that Digimon. He's definitely the one behind it all." Apple Bloom insists to Twilight that she should go to. "Alright let me go to! Ah can help!" But in her excitement she feels something in her stomach and hunches over. Twilight grabs her. "See Apple Bloom? You need to rest more." She carries her over to the couch and puts her down on there, handing her the remote control. "Why don't you just watch some TV while we wait to the others to report in." And so Apple Bloom turned of the TV. Scootaloo Hawkmon, Armadillomon and Sweetie belle jump out of the Digiport, Twilight goes up to them and asks the question. "Did you find anything out?" The group of four shared a glance at each other. "We'll we don't know if this will help much to be honest." They heard the TV and turned to the side where they notice Apple Bloom and Sunmon sitting on the couch. "Apple Bloom!" And they ran over to greet her. "Are you two okay?" Asked Sweetie belle "Don't worry! I'm feeling fine!" She said while giving them a big smile, but then she hunched over and whyned in pain. "That doesn't sound like someone who's fine, a dying cat maybe." Upamon thought out loud, the others giving him a bad look. "Ahem, So about that information?" They looked back at Twilight who had her hands on her waist. The two girls had a look on them that looked like they were trying to remember something, which Twilight noticed and gave a small sigh, she was expecting some pretty useless information. "Ohh yeah!" Twilight, Apple Bloom and Sunmon looked at them. Sweetie belle started talking first. "We're not sure if this is really anything important, we went to every place we've been to so far and talked to all the Digimon we've freed from the black rings." As she talked AppleBloom, Coronamon and Twilight payed intense attention. Scootaloo spoke up with her hand folded. "We asked if they knew anything when they were trapped like that." Sunmon interrupted them to ask something. "But didn't some of them say they were pretty much blacked out?" "Here's the weird part, you see they all said similar things when we asked." Poromon gave him that answer. Twilight looked at them with interest. "What could that possibly be?" Poromon's gazed at Twilight. "They had the same dream." Apple Bloom still lying on the couch looked over to her friends. "A... Dream? What's that got to do with anythin?" "The thing is that they had the exact same dream according to them." "Could you gives us a description of what they said?" Poromon was the one who spoke up. "All they saw was a pair of green eyes with red pupils, accroding to them it felt like they couldn't feel anything other than pure terror, they couldn't fight back at all." Apple Bloom huddled up in fetal position. "That sounds terrifying." She thought out loud. Scootaloo and Sweetie looked over to Twilight and Sweetie yelled. "So how did we do our detective work?" The two of them just stared at her with curious faces, Twilight just sat down on the desk. "Well that's some interesting information alright, but it doesn't really help us at all, we already know what he looks like." She says with her finger on her chin. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle just look at each other with disappointed faces. "How are we supposed to fight this Digimon when we don't even know what were up against! UGH This is so stress full! I know i'll open the digiport myself and research it myself!" The two girls jump and look over to Twilight stressing out in the corner. Poromon jumps at her and slaps. "Calm down woman!" Twilight looked over to the group of younger digidestined who were just starring at her. She just gave an awkward smirk. "eheh, Sorry." The group all just facepalmed --------------------------------------------------------- Sombramon materializes in hi's castle, he just goes to sit down on hi's throne. Holding hi's head up with hi's arm. "Lord Sombramon, your back." He opens one of hi's eyes and sees Trixie walking into the room. "Did you finish off those meddling kids?" She asks, Sombramon closes hi's eyes once again. "I don't need to tell you anything." Trixie just looked away for a second grunting. "Now leave." She turned around and walked away, leaving out the entrance of the room, the door closing behind her. "The only reason that Greymon was able to defeat was because i'm not at full strength yet. Once i am i will delete them." He spoke aloud to no one in particular. Meanwhile outside the room Trixie was just standing there. She looks back at the gate, smirking a very evil smile, her short cape flies through the air as she turns around and walks away. 'That Digifool will get what's coming to him. The Great and powerful Trixie will have her day!' She thinks to herself her smile growing to show her teeth. To be continued