Part 42: Arata's Struggle, Leopardmon's Insanity & The Mother Eater

Lots to discuss once again.

We reach the top of the Tokyo Metropolitan Office and find Leopardmon charging his energy. However... we also find... you guessed it... Arata/Sasuke. Who states he's going to 'eat' Leopardmon once he's done charging. Or... not? He was actually waiting for us? Make up your mind man...

He goes on about leaving Yuugo to get eaten and not being able to protect us despite his claims 8 years ago but now he has the power to do so now. Um... YOU WERE A KID.

*sighs*

Well... Arata/Sasuke is set in his ways. Clearly. He walks through some weird wall-thing... and... becomes a full-on Eater. Well then...

This was inevitable. Just like Naruto vs Sasuke. So yes. We fight him.

To be completely honest... this wasn't overly difficult. I'm starting to think it really is because I have better high-leveled Digimon as well as Megas. I only had to do some item abuse. But I beat him in the end.

He struggles with the result... but we have to rescue him. Kyoko/Alphamon reassures us that he'll listen to us because we're his friend. So we do the same thing we did with Yuuko. We Connect Jump into him to rescue him. To be honest... Arata just kind of ranted on and on about crap that wasn't his fault. So when we reach the end... we actually end up doing exactly what Nokia suggested us to do. By that... I mean we literally punch him in the face.

Arata returns to normal and he yells at us. This eventually leads to a punch-in-the-face contest between the main character and Arata.

Which, somehow, gets him to finally realize his stupidity. Is this how Naruto and Sasuke settle their differences as well? It'd be funny if it was.

Either way enter Nokia and Leopardmon's energy being sucked away from him. But she just showed up. She could have just called us. Which was because she ran out of the strategy meeting so fast. This causes a laughing fit from Arata that could rival Yukiko's laughing fits from Persona 4.

All's well that ends well until Leopardmon snaps out of it and is shocked at what's going on. He confronts us and we confront him. Kyoko introduces herself as Alphamon, which Omnimon reveals as the legendary 13th Royal Knight. Leopardmon is annoyed that he has shown up, and as an enemy and argues that it is King Drasil's will that humanity be destroyed for our actions and for creating the Eaters and the current destructive state of the Digital World. However Alphamon argues that humanity's errors is just one aspect, as they have shown growth as well. For whatever idiotic reason, Leopardmon seems to think that King Drasil's true will is whoever ends up winning between them. I agree Alphamon. He's a fool.

But since he wants to be a fool I guess we'll oblige him.

This fight wasn't overly difficult either. Sort of. I had to revive some Digimon a couple times but it wasn't like they kept dying. The end result was still victory.

Then... Leopardmon loses his damn mind. He now thinks that King Drasil's will is destruction for both the human and Digital Worlds before being destroyed. Someone needs to go to a mental institute...

With all the Royal Knights out of our way. We have to stop the Eaters. But how? Arata suggests help from 'you know who'

OH GOD DAMMIT. NOT HIM AGAIN. Yep. Suedou.

How long has this *squee!* been here? Seriously? Either way Arata tells him he's done buying into his crap which Suedou accepts a little too easily. He wouldn't have shown up if he didn't have a way to resolve all of this. Which apparently he does.

The Digital Line from Leopardmon is already set and he suggests using it to open the Dimensional Door and putting all the Eaters back into the Digital World. Omnimon states the obvious of that dooming the Digital World and that not being the answer. However... Suedou reveals that Eaters have a 'main core' as well. Called... what else? The Mother Eater. If the Mother Eater is destroyed, all Eaters will follow suit. It seems to be located at the core of the Digital World. In King Drasil apparently. Which Suedou seems to think is why the Royal Knights were fighting among one another. I hate it when this jerk actually makes sense.

But why can't we just go there? King Drasil's core security system is effectively down. If we go, we'll be treated as nothing but bugs as it can't detect friend from foe. Which is why the Eaters need to be sent first with some sort of program that Suedou put into them. There's one other thing that needs to be done as well apparently. The rescue of Yuugo Kamishiro's mental data which is apparently inside the Mother Eater itself.

Suedou theorizes that Eaters were never meant to eat human mental data, but when Yuugo's was consumed it changed their dietary habits and made them evolve to their current state. So, because of that evolution, Yuugo's mental data is being harshly protected by the Mother Eater. If we take out his mental data... it'll... TURN BACK TIME?!

He's joking... right? Apparently not. Eaters have no concept of anything, including time, but they can remember things. Which is why we were able to witness what happened to Arata, Yuuko, Nokia, Yuugo, and the main character 8 years ago in EDEN. Which was taken from Eater memories by Crusadermon. Due to that, take out Yuugo's mental data, and it'll be as if what happened 8 years ago never happened and the future will be completely different. Why do games do crap like this? Where all this stuff happens, then they time-paradox it to where it never happened? This seems to happen a lot now...

Either way this seems to be the only choice. Which means we have to use our Connect Jump ability like we did with Yuuko and Arata. Suedou only requests that the Royal Knights hold the Dimensional Door open from the inside. Which is agreed by Magnamon, Jesmon, Kentaurosmon, and UlforceVeedramon. How does Suedou know all of this though? Apparently, according to him anyway, it's because he's affiliated with the Eaters. Or rather, has special access to their network. That... actually explains quite a lot.

Either way it's truly ENDGAME now. Suedou heads out to the Digital World. We're allowed to do anything else that we want to do before finishing all of this once and for all. Which you know I'm going to do as preparation.

Next time:

We finish off any left over cases before confronting the Mother Eater.

Although...

I SWEAR TO GOD IF SUEDOU BETRAYS US HE'S GOING TO GET A WORSE COMEUPPANCE THAN CRUSADERMON GOT.

I guess I'd better prepare to give him that comeuppance huh? Because I'm pretty sure he's going to betray us.