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Rewriting: Digimon Dereliction Season 01 Episode 12
The group had entered the gates of the castle headed towards the main entrance to the building itself as the others were impressed by what they were seeing together, Seiko mentioning that it was really beautiful as they got to the main door and then proceeded to go on into the castle building itself. The architecture was also beautiful on the inside as well, and a voice called out to the group.
There was a Digimon that looked like a big coin with arms and legs there greeting the group, Muchomon introduces them to Ganemon, their basically butler, if they needed anything they could ask them. Michael immediately asks if they had any food, they sorta rushed this morning and didn't have time to get anything. Laughing Ganemon nods telling the entire group to come along with him and they will have the chef cook something up.
While the rest of the group was shown to the Dining Room, Muchomon and Jean wandered the castle talking to one another about how it feels to be home. As they were doing this a yellow foxlike Digimon runs over and hugs them saying that they've come back and the two are a little awkward but laugh and question where that little pipsqueak Pokomon had gone teasingly.
The Fox says that she's Digivolved into Renamon finally smiling at the two of them, Muchomon then questions where Mom was. Renamon says that she's in the throne room at the moment and the boys nod saying that needed to talk to her, though their sister says she'll go to since she wanted to hear about their adventures outside the castle.
They then went to the throne room where the queen, who looked like a beautiful female humanoid with a purple fox mask and blue robe with black pants was finishing up some stuff that needed to be taken care of. They knocked on the door while peeking their heads through and she'd said to enter without looking up.
The three then entered into the throne room shutting the door as the boys looked a little awkward but spoke saying "Hi mom." to the queen as she'd dropped what she was doing turning to see that her sons had come back and rushed over to them hugging them both tightly crying a bit glad to see that they were alright.
They apologized to their mom for not coming back sooner, but said that they had a message from dad, telling her what the cloaked figure had said to tell her. The queen looked saddened to hear that he wasn't coming back yet, but was happy that their sons did. Jean says that they'd also made some friends and sorta got their own team together. Muchomon adding that they are at the dining area now if they'd like to meet them.
She'd agreed to that wanting to meet the friends of her boys and so they all went to the dining area where the others were filling their stomachs, but when they saw the Queen the guys couldn't help but stare with Michael dropping food from his mouth due to it being hung open, Seiko then nudged him with her elbow making him close his mouth as the Queen introduced herself as Kuzuhamon.
Kuzuhamon then notices Seiko and Hiroki saying that they sorta looked like her sister in law, referring to them by name, the two looked surprised hearing that saying that was the name of their mother. Hearing that she was right Kuzuhamon then asked how she was doing, stating that their mother is the younger sister of her lover the current king calling him Nichole as she'd done so.
Seiko says that their mom said they had an Uncle named Nichole who was a great hero. Then something hit them, if Nichole was their uncle, that meant that Jean and Muchomon were their cousins. Hiroki looked surprised by that fact, and the yellow fox, Renamon says that Nichole is her father too. Well, this was odd. They'd been traveling with family and didn't even know it. Kinda funny though.
Norn asked what exactly the king was trying to do, and Muchomon says there's something bad that he's trying to get rid of, and planned to use the Wall of Fire to get rid of it. This did make Norn look a bit worried, which Michael questioned why. She then says that the Wall of Fire was dangerous, the other side of it could split them but it may not be in the way they wanted. They needed to go and help.
Kuzuhamon said that she just got her son's back, stay at least for the night, they needed to rest and come up with some sort of plan anyway. At least, Nichole would come up with a plan when important things had to happen. That's how they'd become King. Jean agreed with his mom about spending the night and coming up with a plan, as did Muchomon, and Renamon said she wanted some time to play with her brothers.
Liollmon said that rushing in blindly may only make things worse, and with a reluctant sigh Norn agreed about staying for the night, but they had to leave after breakfast in the morning. Jean says that they'll leave the planning up to the rest of them so that he can spend more time with his mom and sister, Muchomon adds a quick "Me too" indicating he was going to join their mom and sister also.
Hiroki and Seiko chose not to intrude on their cousins reunion with their mom and sister, and instead stayed with the group to try to come up with something. Which was difficult as even Norn didn't really know much about the Wall of Fire and how it works. They'd all but given up as Muchomon and Jean enjoyed spending time with their mom and sister for the day.
When it was eventually time for supper the group were shown back to the Dining hall and a hearty meal was waiting for them as Kuzuhamon said that they needed to gather as much strength as they could. Seiko asked if it was alright to ask about Nichole, to which the queen says that it's alright to ask, and began telling them what she'd known of Nichole and things that they had done together to help better the Digital world, along with moments their family was together too.