Sins of Twilight

Chapter 1

Wrath's Fear

Daemon backhanded Wargreymon X as the digimon drilled as hard as he could in his tornado form. The air rang with loose data for a mere half second, as the leverage of the demon won, smashing the mega towards the ground. Daemon roared in pain for second holding his hand to his side, a very deep wound leaked data, the Demon smirked. "Is this the amazing Tai? The one that everyone said would be this worlds savior? I was wrong to have even worried about any resistance from this pathetic dimension!" The digimon boasted.

On top of Birdramon's back, Sora kept a close watch as Wargreymon X flew through the air. A light flare from the crash spot signaling that he had lost his Biomerge form. "Birdramon..." she shouted over the roar of the battle. The phoenix nodded, before swinging around dropping her partner off near to the crash site, before taking off to tangle with some Vilemon.

Sora ran rapidly through the forest, the roots of the trees meaning nothing as she sped towards the gogglehead. Tai was on one of his knees panting, glancing to her as he heard her footsteps. He motioned over to Agumon, "Check on him." he breathed in pain.

Agumon was lying on the ground, severely injured. Sora turned him over, but the slight movement caused a light to flash as he de-digivolved into Koromon. Sora's nerves almost snapped with worry until the small digimon started to talk.

"Anybody get the IP address of the hyperlink that hit us?" Koromon mumbled, before falling asleep in Sora's arms. The bearer of love let out a breath of relief, before turning to the object of her affection.

"He's hurt, but alright." she told Tai, walking back over to him, "Your not looking so hot either."

If Sora had been expecting an, I'll be find... that wasn't exactly what she got. Tai stood on his feet, looking at her, before stopping a second to get his balance, "Sora... could I borrow your hat for a second."

Sora was startled, yet curious, so she handed him her hat. Tai nodded a thanks, before turning around and made a retching sound. Sora just blinked for a second before registering what happened.

The blood drained out of her face, very appalled. "Tai KAMIYA!" she shouted, "DID YOU JUST THROW UP IN MY HAT!"

Tai had fallen to his knees again. He wanted to say that it was force of habit to not throw up on the ground, and that he was sorry, but somehow his strength failed him to do anything but breath over the puke filled hat. Sora noticed his weakness and instantly went to help him up. "You alright?"

Tai shook his head to clear it, ignoring the question, "How far are we from the mark?" .

"About 600 yards." she told him. Tai nodded, "Good... oh and sorry about your hat." He said managed out. Reality was that he felt winded, and ill, but he couldn't stop now. There was far too much at stake, including Sora's life.

Sora rolled her eyes, looking back at the overturned hat... Tai's stomach fluids still visible, "It was out of style anyways." As disgusted with the fact that Tai threw up in her hat... again, she knew she could use it as an excuse to go to the mall with him to get another one.

Tai smirked, before grimacing in pain as Sora helped him walk towards the mark. "You look better with a hair clip." Sora just rolled her eyes, before they turned back towards the sound of pounding footsteps.

Tai's heart had skipped in a beat in worry, but relaxed when he saw that it was just Rika and Kyuubimon. "Shouldn't you be preparing right now?"

Rika rolled her eyes, "Didn't I tell you not to go and get yourself killed?" Rika had always been the type to relish in the I told you so's, and doubly with Tai, who never seemed to be wrong.

Sora smiled, glad that Rika had come to Tai's aid. Sora helped Tai onto Kyuubimon, having to steady him for a moment, before handing him the sleeping Koromon. "Well, you know how us Goggleheads are," Tai smirked, hanging onto Rika, a little to firmly for Sora's liking, but Tai had no such thoughts going through his head.

Tai's thoughts were more along the lines of trying not to fall off the digimon that was about to give him a ride.

Rika rolled her eyes. "Far too well. You're just lucky you have us redheads to watch out for you, otherwise you would've bit the dust a long time ago."

"Ain't that the truth," Sora agreed. Rika laughed, before she and Kyubbimon took off with Tai.

"What's the status?" Tai asked Rika, his stomach wanting to empty its contents again from the motions of Kyuubimon. Still, he was glad it was Kyuubimon that was carrying him. She was far more graceful then any human or digimon Tai knew.

"Most of long nose's forces have retreated towards the valley. He's lost a something like 70% of the Commandramon. Gizmon's number hasn't dwindled much, but they've done little damage as well." Rika smirked, "Most of his troops are cowering at this point... they're being hesitant to shoot and mainly just fighting poorly. We take down Daemon, they're going to fall apart."

"It would be wise to not count on that however." Kyuubimon spoke, "We still do not know what are Dragomon's plans are, nor what Kurata's final move is. He no doubt has more then one ace in the hole." Tai just hoped he didn't have a certain ace in the hole.

"Knowing him, he'll probably detonate his army or something to try and take us out just out of spite." Tai said. "What's our losses?"

"The air division has probably taken the most losses, but your battle plan has run very smoothly."

Kyuubimon came to a halt as they reached the edge of a pond. One that she had grown a distsates for from its uses lately. Tai got off her and looked around for anything suspicious, this was the place. "You two get out of here. You need to be ready."

Rika laughed haughtily,"Your talking to the digimon queen, I'm always ready." Tai watched only for a second as the redhead ran off on top of her digimon.

After the second was up, Tai's stomach convulsed, before proceeding to empty its contents on the ground. Koromon was held off to the side he wouldn't get hit by what little remained in his stomach. "I'm going to take a nice week long break of doing nothing but sleeping after this." He muttered, knowing the unlikelihood of that. He stood... barely, but it was enough. The battle had gone on for 3 hours now, and Tai had held Wargreymon X for a far longer time then he had ever previously done. He was pretty worn by now.

He searched the sky, before spotting his target, a very mad Daemon and very persistent MetalGarururmon X. It was time to end this.

Izzy surveyed the battlefield from the back of MegaKabuterimon. He had been making note of the enemies positions and sending the information down to the others via text. His hands flying fast as he texted that the Gizmon's were retreating. He quickly got a text back Michael.

Pincer. Was all it said, that was plenty for Izzy to understand. He swiftly lead the troops towards the side, before charging. The attack slammed into the Gizmon, who now where in a disordered array. The Gizmon stopped firing completely and just ran back as fast as they could. The Chosen air force was not going to miss this chance, and the slammed into the back of the Gizmon hard, depleting their ranks rapidly.

Michael had watched the Gizmon retreat, something was wrong about it, he stalled for a moment. "No... He's planning something," he told his digimon. "Watch the ridge... there's dust coming up from behind." The great serpent knew his partner was right. His eyes zeroed in on the ridge, before going wide with fear.

"All Air Force back 1000 meters!" MegaSeadramon roared, "TankDramon 12 o'clock!"

It took Izzy a second to register what the serpent said, but his face paled as he saw what the digimon was referring too. Of all of Kurata's 5 creations, Tankdramon were easily his strongest, and in the month since Tai formally declared war on Kurata, they had only managed to take down 1 of these monsters. They were known to have synchronous targeting system that they shared, giving the digimon the ability to be far more accurate and deadly when they were in groups.

As normal, when Izzy was thinking, MegaKabuterimon was doing. When he caught eye of th 10 Tankdramon's, sending their payloads of missiles' and bullets towards Tai's flying army, he turned around about as fast as he could. "Izzy... Izzy... Problem!" he yelled to his companion as another hail of missiles slammed into air formation from a group of Tankdramon on top of the hill from his east flank.

"Ahh!" Izzy cried as a bullet grazed his upper left shoulder, but he hadn't had time to think about it before MegaKabuterimon had spun hard left to avoid yet another set of attacks

The bug groaned when three missiles slammed into his side as veered towards relative safety, a distance now made much farther due to the flanking Tankdramon. MegaKabuterimon breathed hard clearing end point of the Tankdramon's range. His arms ached, and his back rippled pain, but he was still flying. He could hear Izzy whimper in pain, before the destined gathered himself. He surveyed the damaged done.

Izzy gulped. They had lost most of the Air Force in that attack, their army of 200 strong fliers had been reduced to a mere 40 or 50, but even that was not what gripped his heart in terror. The attack that had once ripped into the Air Force, was now being leveled at the battlefield itself. What had before been a giant entanglement of digimon, from Gizmon and Commandramon to Meramon, Ogremon, Mojomon among others, was now a giant dust cloud as the Tankdramon let loose on the battlefield.

"We've pushed him into a corner... and so he had saved his Tankdramon for this. Prodigious, he doesn't care about casualties, so what's he after? " Izzy spoke, wondering what was going through Kurata's mind right now.

"He just leveled his own forces." MegaKabuterimon said astonished. The fact didn't seem to register in Izzy's mind nearly as strong as it had in MegaKabuterimon... at least until something of great importance flashed through his mind. "MIMI!" he shouted. "Mimi was guarding the flank that the Tankdramon got through..."

The rest didn't need to be said, if those 5 Tankdramon got through... then what happened to Mimi?

The minute that Joe and Zudomon saw the Tankdramon ascend the hill, both of them knew what to do. Tai had taken them aside, and while had not specified this exact situation, he had told them that Kurata was a very sore loser. One who if he couldn't get things easily, tossed it all away.

Prepared for such a situation, they began to dig as the Tankdramon gunned down most of the air force... well Zudomon did. Joe started to hope that they would manage to make it out alive, climbing deeper into Zudomon's shell to what he hoped was more protection.

By the time the Tankdramon had turned their fire onto the battlefield, the only thing that could be seen left of Zudomon was the upper spikes of his shell. Not that was a small target in any way shape or form. The Tankdramon's fire rallied into the battlefield, and as the bullets ricocheted off of Zudomon's shell and the explosions washed over it, inside Joe groaned, "I'm definitely gonna have to find a new insurance company after this. I haven't had a headache this bad since you started that jam session with Terriermon." He muttered, as the sound of the explosions reverberated inside of Zudomon's shell.

"Not exactly a concha shell in there right now... is it... ." Zudomon laughed. Joe smiled as well.

They waited for a moment as the explosions stopped, not just the ones the slammed into the Walrus/Tortoise's shell, but also the ones around them. Zudomon slowly crept out of the sand. The dust covered the entire 3 mile long battlefield, but what they saw was more than enough. Digitama lay everywhere.

"Joe." Zudomon said quietly, before peetering off. The stayed quiet for a minute. As a medic, this was a hard sight for Joe. So many lives lost in moment, and nothing he could do.

"Let's go now... while we still have the dust cover." Joe told his digimon firmly.

Kurata surveyed the battlefield from the eyes of the Tankdramon in his underground bunker. He laughed heartily. "They thought they could beat me! These Tankdramon are my greatest creations. Foolish Digi-destined. Now go and look, all your precious friends are gone... and you'll be next! That's what you get for taking on the greatest! With these, I'll never have to lift a finger again to take over any world. Well, at least once I program them completely to me voice! So please be so kind and hurry up and finish off Daemon for me. His quick temper interrupts my naps." Kurata's laugh was manical, and he almost wished he had a mustache to twirl in his evil rant. Kurata's smile turned to puzzlement as the camera on the Tankdramon he was monitoring began to shake.

"What is that? An earthquake?" he wondered.

The Tankdramon had all been laughing at their success in wiping out the enemies armies, the Air forces had been ripped to shreds, and their ground forces lay as nothing more then a dust bowl. All in a mere matter of 6 minutes since they had gotten onto the battlefield. Their rejoicing stopped when the ground started to shake in a most peculiar pattern, a constant stream of pounding, as if a herd of Mammothmon's were trampling down a hillside.

Their eyes trailed down to the dust bowl... steadying their weapons looking for a target. Had the enemy survived such an attack? Surely no none mega digimon could still be able to fight after that? Nervously they shifted when a figure leapt from the great bowl of dust, all of them raised locked their auto-cannons and let their bullets rip, until they lost the figure in glint of the day star.

Zudomon's eyes narrowed, knowing that they had locked onto him, and as soon as he left the sun's gleam, he'd be dead. "VULCAN'S HAMMER!" he cried throwing his hammer towards the Tankdramon.

The second the glare from the hammer showed, all ten Tankdramon locked on and fired, failing to realize that Zudomon no longer held onto the hammer, until it was too late.

Zudomon clasped his fists together and slammed them into the nearest Tankdramon, destroying it instantly, and the tearing up the ground from the force of his fall, knocking all of the Tankdramon for a loop. He didn't let his advantage go to waste.

He slammed his fist into one the Tankdramon's head, crushing it with his bare hand, before grabbing the next and doing the same. Still holding the digimons crushed heads, he spun, crashing them into their next comrade, deleting all three instantly. Before the last on that side of the line had realized what was going on, Zudomon had picked him up by the treads and slammed him into the ground, before slamming him to the other side of the giant walrus.

Now in good position, he launched the dazed digimon into the other side of the line. Zudomon slammed into the now frantic Tankdramon, backhanding the first one, sending it flying. He picked up Thor's hammer with his free hand, smashing it into the next one, deleting him, before backhanding the next with his ferocious hammer. Zudomon spun, taking the now firing Tankdramon's attack to his shell, using the momentum to slam his hammer into the nearest face of the two Tankdramon, its neck and head making a clean break from its body before disappearing into a data of light.

From that point, it seemed as if time stopped, the last two standing digimon staring at each other. The air was still, the disgust of their actions in Zudomon's eyes, a warrior's hardness in the others.

Then the time snapped, Zudomon took two fierce steps towards the awaiting digimon. "THOR'S HAMMER!"

"BLAST GATTLING!"

Izzy watched in amazement, as Zudomon took down 9 of the 10 Tankdramon's, before an explosion, rocked both the Walrus and the last Tankdramon.

Izzy and MegaKabuterimon quickly arrived on the scene of the explosion, the Tankdramon trying to lift Zudomon's hammer from off his treads, while Gomamon and Joe lay on the ground.

Occupied with the hammer, MegaKabuterimon quickly made short work of the last Tankdramon, releasing two full electro shockers before it dissipated into data. Izzy quickly made his way over to the destined and digimon. Joe and Gomamon looked over at Izzy.

"Well about time you two showed up... You missed all the fun!" Gomamon declared, climbing up Joe.

"You have a very odd sense of fun." Joe told his digimon.

"What? Kicking Tail, taking names isn't fun? Sheesh, what a downer." Gomamon happily teased his partner.

Joe ignored the seals antics, turning to Izzy."Can you give me a ride into the dust bowl. I have no doubt there is still some injured digimon down there. Not all of them could have been wiped out. I might be able to save a few."

Daemon roared in a fury, his third eye desperately trying to keep up with the annoying pest that was MetalGarurumon X. He had released his original form just to deal with Wargreymon X, and now this other brat wasn't even trying to fight him, he just kept dodging his attacks, hitting him with a few rounds of the gatling gun, and maybe a shot from the beam rifle.

"You pathetic worm!" Daemon roared, "I've seen Rookie's with more fight in them then you. I don't know how you declare to be Tai and Agumon's equal!"

"You know Matt, he's got a point." Gabumon said from inside to the Mega to his bio-merged partner. "We haven't actually been fighting at all."

Matt smirked, "Yeah, but for some reason Taichi's worried that Kurata has a few Ace's up his sleeve. We need to save all our missiles for that moment."

"I know, but I feel foolish just avoiding him like this."

Matt nodded, knowing what the digimon meant, but that small distraction caught him off guard as Daemon backhanded them.

Truly, that had been an accident, Daemon had gotten so annoyed, that he was just waving his hands around like a maniac trying to hit the annoying fly that was attacking him. Daemon let out a roar of victory, when his 3 eyes caught the real prize. There on the other side of a lake was Tai Kamiya.

"Your still not dead! What does it take to kill one of you!" He roared, before charging towards the young limping man and his In-training Koromon. His wings flapping at an incredible pace to cover the distance.

"Suzie... NOW!" Tai roared as Antylamon leapt from the forest.

"Treasure Axe!" Lopmon and Suzie cried from inside of Antylamon. While Suzie and Lopmon had never actually managed to reach the Mega level, they had managed to do something nobody else had. They could Bio-digivolve into both their Champion and Ultimate state, giving them a significantly increased power output.

Daemon was surprised as he was pushed back, so that he stood above the lake, the former deva standing on the other, blocking his way to Tai. "What foolishness. Even with the strength you receive from your tamer, you are merely an Ultimate, did you really think your resistance to Darkness would help you fight me."

Lopmon was almost taken back by this comment, and for a moment, her pride stuck out. "Don't you underestimate us! Suzie's the youngest tamer ever, and I'm the last surviving Deva! We'll kick your but so bad you'll have Sukamon coming out of it."

Suzie cringed inside of Antylamon. "Lopmon... you've been hanging around Terriermon too much."

Daemon laughed, "You think you Tamers scare me? You're no better then destined, so what if you have a few more Mega's... I'll destroy you all!"

"You are right." Taichi said calmly, limping towards the lake. "The tamer's aren't here to scare you... he is."

"Daemon!" A voice rippled through the water, sending small waves crashing towards the edge. "Daemon"

"What... .NO!" he said, he Demon's lord voice filling with fear.

Taichi's eyes narrowed at the Demon lord, "You come into our world, seeking dark power, bringing Kurata and war to this place. You've tortured hundreds of digimon, caused the death of so many more. Have hunted us destined down..." Taichi's voice was riddled with poison. "You sought my friend's life, you sought Kari's power, you sought the data of the world. Yet even through all this... I'm not the one who desires your life the most. No there is another."

"NO... NO!" Daemon started to tremble, "I... I … I am a Demon Lord! I fear nothing! You made some sort of a trick Tai Kamiya... you wouldn't... you couldn't... you know what he desires from your sister... he will hurt her in the worst possible ways! He'll rape her far worse then I ever would!"

"And yet revenge on you will be so much sweeter!" a sickly voice called out as a blue squid like digimon reached through the surface of the pool towards the now trembling demon lord.

"NO... NO..." Daemon couldn't stop trembling as he released wave after wave of fire that merely washed over the dark lord of the sea. "I am the great Daemon! You will not stop me! Burn in hell Demon!" the digmon roared, releasing one giant flame from his hands.

"Oh... how pitiful... shouldn't a demon lord end gracefully?" Dragomon asked, the fire searing his skin "Where are your armies, your worlds you've conquered? You don't deserve the title of Demon Lord!" Daemon's body was now fully engulfed by Dragomon's tentacles as the blue digimon brought him fully under the water.

They all heard one final scream from Daemon, before his body was pulled under. Dragomon turned to Tai, just his eyes stick out of the water. "I sense great dark power here Tai... even in you. Perhaps you'll "

Tai didn't even let him finish that statement, "End it," he told Sakuyamon, the shaman happily complying.

Dragomon disappeared and the water of the lake stilled. Tai looked over to a nearby cliff where Sakuyamon had fallen to her knees, exhausted from having kept the portal open. "One down everyone... one down."

I'm back... big thanks to Crazyeight... (And my apologies to him... wow... I'm sorry, you'll never have to edit something that poor again) He kind of kept me back in my place when it came to some of the characters.

Review with Questions, comments, Criticisms... I'll take it all. Won't get to Dream land for a little bit yet, but be assured and this fic will travel around the Different seasons...

FrozenTwins