Japanese Title: Heaven Zone, The Snare of Paradise!
In the Heaven Zonenote , a Puttimon is publicly executed for an unknown crime by the Zone's leader, SlashAngemonnote , as a horrified crowd that includes a Lucemon looks on. Meanwhile, Taiki and friends land in a garden in another part of the Zone. Taiki notes that the place looks peaceful, but Beelzebumon appears and tells him that not everything is as it seems. Beelzebumon then leaves to scout the area, telling Taiki that he will be nearby. Taiki also goes off to look around, but walks right over the edge of the floating platform that the entire Zone is situated on. Taiki is saved by Shakkoumon, who also says that paradise is not as it seems. Taiki wonders if the Bagra Army hasn't invaded the area due to its position in the sky. The members of Xros Heart go off to relax, with Dondokomon happening upon a group of violinists performing. He is arrested for making noise and walking on the grass when he tries to join them. Dondokomon attacks the officer, a Piccolomonnote . The Piccolomon counterattacks and when several more of them show up, Starmon and the Pickmons swarm them. Taiki runs over to stop the fight and Lucemon shows up to ask the officers to show mercy. The officers' superior, a Gargomonnote , shows up and attacks Lucemon for protecting wrongdoers before threatening him with execution should his activities continue. As Gargomon leaves, Lucemon explains that the Heaven Zone is a police state powerful enough to fend off the Bagra Army, but that he is challenging SlashAngemon in an ongoing election to rule the Zone. Lucemon says that he wants to put an end to the Heaven Zone's incredibly strict laws and also tells Taiki that the Zone's Code Crown has been sealed away.
Lucemon shows Taiki and the others around the Zone. Taiki sees Shakkoumon in the distance and thanks it, but Lucemon tells him that Shakkoumon may be spying for the police. Lucemon leads them to an outdoor art gallery where Dondokomon realizes that he is missing the piece on the end of one of his arms and rushes off to look for it. One of the statues falls over near Dondokomon, who denies having knocked it over. Gargomon shows up to arrest them again and finds Dondokomon's missing piece next to the fallen statue. Gargomon also orders Taiki and Shoutmon taken away when they try to interfere. At the police station that night, Gargomon tries in vain to get Taiki, Shoutmon, and Dondokomon to confess, even putting words in their mouths in an attempt to incriminate them before finally threatening them with execution and walking off. Taiki resolves to find the real criminal to clear Dondokomon's name. Ballistamon breaks through the wall with Akari and Zenjirou to rescue Taiki, setting off an alarm. As they escape, Gargomon tries to arrest them again, but he and the other officers are easily repelled, causing SlashAngemon to take them down personally. He incapacitates Taiki and the others with a single attack and orders them executed for fighting the police.
The next day, Gargomon prepares to execute Taiki and the others with electrified cages. Taiki says that he opposed the police because they were acting without any evidence, but SlashAngemon silences him and says that talking back to an officer is also illegal. Lucemon then calls SlashAngemon out for punishing the first suspicious person instead of conducting an actual investigation. SlashAngemon begins to order Lucemon's execution as well, but a Cupimon emerges from the audience to confess that he knocked over the statue by accident. Gargomon orders the Cupimon executed in Xros Heart's place, but Taiki and Lucemon rally the crowd against SlashAngemon's heavy-handed rule. This causes SlashAngemon to attack Taiki, who DigiXroses Shoutmon X4. SlashAngemon proves to be too fast. Beelzebumon intervenes just as SlashAngemon is about to finish off Shoutmon X4 and tells Taiki to DigiXros him. Taiki does so, creating Shoutmon X4B. X4B defeats SlashAngemon, but Taiki stops Shoutmon from delivering a killing blow. Lucemon asks SlashAngemon to release Cupimon. With that, Lucemon wins the support of the crowd and with it leadership of the Heaven Zone. Shakkoumon looks on from behind the crowd.
Tropes:
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Gargomon and his underlings just arrest on sight without even conducting an investigation. This is normal in the Heaven Zone.
- Crapsaccharine World: Pretty much all of the Digimon in the Heaven Zone are talented artists of some sort and the whole area is beautiful, but it's also a merciless Police State.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While many of the things Xros Heart and Lucemon did (resisting arrest, breaking out of jail, interfering with the police) are illegal pretty much everywhere in the real world, few jurisdictions would consider them capital offenses. Likewise with damaging artwork. Both Taiki and Lucemon are very quick to call SlashAngemon out on this along with the fact that his forces had made the Zone a living hell for its citizens.
- Felony Misdemeanor: Practially everything. In true Police State fashion, this includes speaking out against the police.
- Floating Continent: The Heaven Zone is made entirely of floating platforms.
- Great Escape: Which gets foiled right away because the guards are alerted immediately.
- High-Voltage Death: Those cages are essentially the Digital World's equivalent of the electric chair.
- In the Back: Beelzebumon blasts SlashAngemon from behind to distract him from finishing Shoutmon X4 off.
- Lawful Stupid: SlashAngemon and everyone under him.
- Lightning Bruiser: SlashAngemon is too fast for Shoutmon X4 to handle. It takes DigiXrosing Beelzebumon to keep up with him.
- Mysterious Watcher: Shakkoumon.
- Never Say "Die": Criminals (for a very loose definition of the word) are "erased" in the dub instead of "executed".
- Our Centaurs Are Different: Shoutmon X4B is a mashup of X4's components and Beelzebumon in the shape of a centaur whose front legs are on backwards.
- Police State: SlashAngemon and his police force rule the Heaven Zone with an iron fist. True to form, even speaking against authority is punishable.
