Beelzemon crashed through the wall of Masashi Takeda’s private office, looking upon an old, wizened Japanese man sitting at his desk. With a roar, he leveled his cannon at the man…and fell to his knees in agony as four cylindrical devices emerged in the corners of the room, glowing bright yellow. After a few seconds, Beelzemon himself began glowing white, devolving slowly back into Dirk and Impmon. The lights in the office shut off for a moment before emergency power kicked in, illuminating the room in a dim glow as the four devices in the room shut off as well, smoke wafting out of each one. 

“Wh-what the hell?” Dirk gasped, panting for air as he tried to recover from the sheer agony he’d just felt. 

“Come now, did you really think I wasn’t prepared for this?” Takeda smiled, rising from his seat as he walked up to Dirk. “After the girl disappeared, I had no hold left on BlackWarGreymon. To be honest, I’m surprised he’s not here right now instead of you. Tell me, did you like it? It’s called the Digivice Wave Inhibitor. Blocks signals from that infernal gadget of yours and reverses your evolutions. It also took the entire building’s power to activate in just one room, but I rather prefer that to death.” Takeda turned away, taking a katana mounted on the wall and unsheathing it. 

“And speaking of, here comes yours, Western trash.” He swung the blade, taking the exhausted Dirk’s head off. 

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Lucas entered the doorway, sliding his keycard into the final reader, and flung the door open only to see Dirk’s head fall off his shoulders. He gaped for a moment, not comprehending what he was seeing before it finally registered. Takeda just killed Dirk. 

“BASTARD!” Lucas roared, drawing his pistol and leveling it at Takeda, only to be knocked back as Kimeramon crashed down into the office from the roof. 

“Don’t speak to me of bastards, boy, considering that you’re Hideki’s.” Takeda frowned, flicking Dirk’s blood off his sword before he turned away.

“I’m going to rip your fucking head off!” Lucas roared as he pulled his Digivice out and set his briefcase down with Elecmon emerging from it. 

[b][i]Biomerge activate.[/i][/b]

BanchoLeomon snarled in fury as he prepared to charge at Kimeramon, only to be interrupted by the sound of rasping steel. 

“I wouldn’t advise doing that.” Takeda said as he pointed his sword at Impmon’s kneeling form. After watching his partner die, the Rookie seemed to be nearly catatonic, not even reacting as Takeda put his katana in front of Impmon’s throat. “Unless you’d like to lose two friends today, instead of just one.” 

BanchoLeomon paused and opened his mouth, but was cut off as Impmon began laughing, glowing in a sickly yellow aura. 

“I...remember now.” He giggled, causing Takeda to unconsciously back away. “Everything that happened to me before. That fucking asshat sealed my memories and my Crest away, saying something about a second chance. Too bad for him that whatever fake personality he put in me just fucking up and croaked!” He cackled as the aura rising around him reached a crescendo. 

“Impmon warp evolve to...BEELZEMON!” 

And just like he had months ago, an insane Beelzemon emerged, Berejena shotguns in hand. Only this time, there was a yellow crest upon his brow. 

“I am Beelzemon, Demon Lord of Gluttony!” He bellowed as Takeda scowled, backing away as he hit a button on his desk. A section of the wall behind him opened up, and he quickly scurried into his panic room, leaving a three-way standoff in the now-ruined office. 

“Fuck!” BanchoLeomon shook in rage as Takeda got away, looking between both Kimeramon and Beelzemon. “Leon, Veemon!” He roared back behind him, voice echoing through the long hallway. “Biomerge and get your asses up here now! Zei, get Dorumon from whereever the hell she is already!”