Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon and unfortunately never will. Fox and Saban do. Necromon and his new henchmen are mine though, as is the altered plot of series 01.
In my altered plot, there was a 5th Dark Master, Necromon. He nearly defeated the original Digidestined by casting them into another world thanks to Myotismon's dimension gate. However, to cut a long story short, they survived and came back to find their job had been made easier while they were gone. The Dark Masters, vying for absolute power, had gone into civil war! Puppetmon sided with Piedmon but Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon sided with Necromon. Piedmon seemingly ended up the sole survivor of the war but he ended up destroyed by MagnaAngemon as in the original story. (All this is part of another of my fics, one I haven't managed to finish yet! Sorry! I will sometime!)
This is a crossover of Digimon 02 + 03 and possibly more. I haven't decided yet. It takes place after the fall of MaloMyotismon and Oikawa's death. Peace reigns throughout the Digital World until one day…
Dark Empire
1: Axis of Evil
Izzy's home
Izzy Izumi had been working frantically on his laptop for several hours. It seemed like everything was going to be fine after MaloMyotismon's death, but 3 weeks later he'd no sooner got home and checked his e-mail when he received another message from Gennai. It had been very brief, not like Gennai at all.
Need meeting tomorrow. Possible trouble ahead. Will investigate myself and fill you in then.
Gennai.
Since then, Izzy had been scanning every corner of the Digital World for any sign of trouble. He hadn't found anything. After all, there weren't any evil Digimon left now, or were there? Izzy started to send out e-mails to the others, feeling very uneasy.
Dark Ocean
There had been celebrations all across the Digital World since MaloMyotismon's death. The Digidestined had seemingly pulled off the impossible; they'd rid the Digital World of all the evil threats and restored it afterward. But not everyone was happy at the outcome. Daemon, still marooned on a beach in the Dark Ocean realm, was seething at what had occurred. He had been able to observe events in the world outside when he strained his powers. So far, though, he hadn't been able to open a portal back.
I should have killed that maggot Oikawa when I had the chance!
he reflected sourly. I could have made things turn out differently.Daemon now knew his chances of ruling the Digital World were virtually zero with Oikawa's spirit watching over it. The only fortunate thing in this was that the Dark Ocean had been unaffected. It was still the same cesspool of dark emotion and pure evil that it had always been and Daemon had been safe inside it. But that meant he was trapped here, not exactly what he'd had in mind!
"The human wretches are pleased with themselves, aren't they?"
Daemon spun around at the voice from behind him. "NECROMON?! But how?"
Necromon was a virus type and an ex-Dark Master. He was also presumed dead at the end of that conflict. He was practically a carbon copy of Devimon right down to the horns, skulls and the wings. He was red instead of black, however, his wings were in pristine condition and, like all the Dark Masters before him, he was a Mega.
"Rumours of my deletion were greatly exaggerated! You didn't think Piedmon could kill me that easily, did you?"
Daemon was stunned. "I must admit I did. You'd been gone for so long I could assume nothing else."
"Well, you should be happy to see me still around. Especially since I have an attractive offer for you."
"And what offer is that?"
"How would you like to be one of the next Dark Masters?"
Tai and Kari's house
Gennai came through the Digiport right on schedule to find all the newer Digidestined waiting for him.
"We all got the message, Gennai. What's wrong now?" Davis cut right to the chase.
Gennai didn't mince words. "This is going to make some of you uncomfortable. It concerns the Dark Ocean."
"WHAT!" Ken and Kari exclaimed at the same time.
"It's the only area that Oikawa's sacrifice had no effect on. I think something's going on in there. In fact I know something is." He produced a laptop of his own. "I was running some scans of it just yesterday when I detected this."
Izzy looked at the readings on the laptop. "A portal? From the Dark Ocean?"
"That's what it looks like."
"Where did it go? Here or the Digital World?" TK broke in.
"Neither," Gennai was confused. "It went to a completely different world, don't ask me where or what for."
"If it came from the Dark Ocean, it can't be good." Ken still had nightmares about that place, as did Kari. She would never forget the time when she was pulled there.
"Man! How many more bad guys do we have to fight? I'm getting sick of them!" Davis snapped.
"Could it be Daemon?" Yolei asked. "We never really beat him, remember?"
TK nodded. "If it is Daemon or someone new what do we do about it?"
Ken didn't want to say it but he knew the answer. "There's only one way. We have to go there ourselves…"
Necromon's castle: Dark Ocean
"Welcome to my humble abode," Necromon cackled as he and Daemon entered. His 'humble abode' was a massive gothic castle built on the shores of the Dark Ocean, complete with moat, drawbridge, turrets and all. It looked like something out of a Dracula film.
"You built this here all by yourself? I must say I'm impressed."
"Oh, I didn't do it alone. I had considerable help but I'll tell you about that later."
Daemon went straight to business. "First, tell me your plans. How do you intend to deal with the Digidestined and regain your hold on the Digital World?"
Necromon sneered. "I've used my time here wisely, my dear Daemon. I've done more than grind my teeth over the past, however painful it was. Ever since I found this ocean and used it to restore myself I've been experimenting. I found it has many more uses than I thought. In the right hands it can be a great weapon. It helped create the Digimon Emperor when it warped his digivice and it helped restore me when I was near to death, thanks to Piedmon and his treachery. But its greatest power is that of creation…"
"Creation? You don't mean…?"
"Exactly," Necromon opened the door to the castle's central courtyard. Hundreds of digimon were there. Tankmon, Mechanorimon, Guardramon, Airdramon, Flymon and others that Daemon didn't even recognise. "My own private army, mostly created through the dark energies of the sea outside plus the knowledge I…appropriated from the Digimon Emperor's wrecked base and a visit or two to Primary Village."
"Amazing." Daemon's eyes widened as the full meaning of Necromon's words sunk in. "You can leave here?"
Necromon snorted. "I've left and come back several times. It's quite easy to do when you can tap into this realm's power. I just happen to like it here. It usually matches my mood and I'm free to do my work here without worrying about prying eyes, especially those of Gennai and his accursed Digidestined!"
"How come you can do all this but I can't?" There was a lot of envy in Daemon's voice. He had been stuck here, impotent, for weeks.
"To be honest, I'm not sure. It could be to do with my nature and the attacks I was born with."
Daemon knew what he meant. Necromon was truly a Mega to be feared. His Necro Crusher attack rivalled Daemon's own Evil Inferno, but worse still was his Soul Drain attack. He could literally leach life force from anyone or any living thing with power. No doubt this had enabled him to tap into the Dark Ocean's energies.
"So tell me why you need my help."
"Bluntly speaking, I don't. At least it's not a 'must have' in my plan. I didn't anticipate you coming here. But it is a 'nice to have' part of it. After all, if I'm to re-establish the Dark Empire, I'm going to need at least 3 more Dark Masters. You certainly qualify, being one of the most powerful Dark Megas the Digital World has produced."
"I'm flattered," Daemon said. "But why should I? I play second fiddle to no-one."
"No-one will play second fiddle," Necromon said sharply. "I don't intend to repeat the mistakes of the past. We will rule as equals and act as equals. Only that way can we defeat our enemies, agreed?"
"Fine. So you expect your army out there to take care of the Digidestined, yes?"
"Oh no. They've been 'contracted' for another purpose. We can't take back the Digital World as it stands now. You and I both know that. Not with Oikawa's spirit and another world full of Digidestined shielding it."
"How then?"
"Digimon engineering isn't the only thing I've been experimenting with. Do you know there are hundreds, if not thousands, of worlds out there? Once you can open portals you can access them all. See where I'm going with this?"
Daemon certainly did. "If you can access them, you can conquer them!"
"WE can conquer them, my dear Daemon. Once we have a world of our own, or several if need be, we can harness whatever power is there and return even stronger. Then it will be a little more…interesting for the Digidestined!"
"Sounds good. But can we do it? How many Digimon have you created since you came here?"
"Oh, just several…thousand!"
Daemon and Necromon's laughter would have sent a chill up even the toughest spine.
On the beach
"This place hasn't changed much since last time," TK muttered.
"I still remember when we fought Airdramon here," Patamon agreed.
"Can we get a move on?" Ken asked. "I don't want to be here any longer than I have to!"
Despite Gennai's help, it had still been a great strain on Ken to open a portal to the Dark Ocean.
"None of us do, Ken," Kari said, looking around warily and shivering. She didn't want to run into the Scubamon again.
"Whoa! Talk about bad taste in houses! Look at that!"
Everyone looked up to see Davis pointing to Necromon's castle.
"Who would choose to live here?" Cody asked.
"No-one who's good, that's for sure!" TK growled.
"It must be Daemon! No-one else would be crazy enough to build a castle out here," Davis added.
Ken was sceptical. "I'm not so sure. Think about it, we only sent Daemon here a few weeks ago. Do you think he could have built that in such a short time?"
Davis was all fired up. "Well, whoever it is, let's go turn his lights out! Right, Veemon?"
"Right!" With that, Davis and his blue Digimon charged down the beach towards the castle.
"He never changes, does he?" sighed Cody.
"Shouldn't we catch up with him, Ken?" Wormmon asked.
"You're right, let's go!"
Necromon's castle
Necromon and Daemon were now taking in the air (or the dark foul stuff that passed for air!) on the battlements.
"So, have you decided on a target yet?" Daemon was asking.
"Actually I believe I have. It's a very similar world to that of the Digidestined and it seems to have some digimon of its own. I made contact with one a few days ago, a small digimon by the name of Impmon. Not the sharpest blade available but certainly useful."
"There are Digimon in that world too?" Daemon's eyes narrowed. "But then there might also be…!"
"There are but according to my source, the Digidestined there aren't as powerful as the ones we have to contend with here."
"They'd better not be!" Daemon growled. "I don't want to trade one set of enemies for a completely new set!"
"If we invade and deal with them quickly, they won't be a problem. Not with all the forces we have at our disposal."
"Good. Then we'll ensure that…NO!!!"
"What's wrong?" Necromon soon noticed what was wrong. "Damn them! I appreciate a challenge as much as the next Mon but of all the times to show up!"
"This time I'll put paid to them once and for all, as I promised!" Daemon snarled as he prepared to levitate himself down and confront the Digidestined.
"No, wait!" Necromon pulled Daemon toward an elevator in one of the castle turrets. "This'll be a good test for my new army!"
The elevator descended right to the basement of the castle where it opened out into a vast control room. Hahgarumon manned control consoles all around it and there was a large viewscreen at the top. They'd already detected the approach of the Digidestined.
"Alert Megadramon! I want him to prepare a fitting reception for them!"
"Yes, my lord," the Hahgarumon were used to short tempered masters, having worked for Machinedramon in the past.
Soon Megadramon appeared on the screen.
"Megadramon! We have unexpected company. Daemon and I will go out to meet them. Get our newest troops ready and move when I give the signal. Show them how we treat uninvited guests!"
"I never thought you'd ask!" the evil flying lizard Digimon grinned and then the screen went blank.
"Shall I do the honours and go out first?" Daemon asked. "I have a little score to settle, after all."
"We both have, but go by all means," Necromon grinned. "Just don't destroy them too quickly!"
Outside the castle
The Digidestined had barely got near the castle when its drawbridge went down and a familiar hooded figure emerged.
Yolei shuddered. "Daemon! I knew it!"
"Hello Digidestined," Daemon gloated. "I said I'd be back but I must admit I didn't expect you to come and visit me!"
"Can it, you big airbag!" Davis snarled.
"Ooh, touched a nerve did I? As a matter of interest why are you here? You're not foolish enough to want another fight with me, are you?"
"You know why we're here, Daemon," TK said forcefully. "We know about the portal so quit the acting!"
"For once I'm innocent, I can't open any portals from here," Daemon admitted. "You'll have to talk to my new associate about that."
TK and Kari's jaws both dropped in shock as Necromon walked across the drawbridge and sneered in derision.
"Long time no see, eh? My, my, how you two have grown. All the more challenge for me!"
"You?! But how?" Kari finally managed to blurt out. "You were destroyed 3 years ago!"
"I was badly damaged back then. But thanks to this ocean I survived. Sorry to disappoint you! Now that portal you were asking about? It was just me doing a little world hopping, nothing for you to be concerned about. I'm not looking to invade the Digital World or yours, or at least not today. So there's really nothing for you here now, is there? That is, unless you're here to be slaughtered and we'll gladly oblige!"
"Yeah right, as if we're going to believe that!" Davis retorted.
"Ah, the classic inverse between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain! Are you really ready to lose your head over this? You couldn't beat Daemon, remember? At least not without a little creative thinking in the portal department. How do you plan to fight both of us? Throw sand in our eyes?"
"How about we shut this big mouth up?" Davis pulled out his D3 and quickly digivolved Veemon to ExVeemon.
"Davis, wait!" TK warned, but not in time to stop ExVeemon attacking.
"V-Laser!"
The attack struck Necromon head on but it didn't even faze him.
"Was that supposed to hurt me? I'm also a Mega, you cretin!"
"Oh man!" Davis' day was really starting to go downhill.
Necromon raised his hand and waved to someone behind him. "Megadramon, bring out the troops and dispose of these pests!"
"With pleasure!" the evil Ultimate replied as he soared over the castle walls. "Darkside attack!"
The Digidestined were all sent sprawling as Megadramon's rockets exploded around them.
"Everyone digivolve all the way!" Davis ordered.
All the others pulled out their D3s and by the time Megadramon had come round for another pass he was facing Imperialdramon, Silphymon and Shakkoumon.
"Hey, no fair!"
"It'll be fair, for us that is!" Daemon chuckled as he faced off against Imperialdramon. "Now where were we last time? Ah, yes. Evil Inferno!"
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon struck back just in time as the 2 attacks slammed into each other.
"Haha! You can hold me off but you can't beat me," Daemon gloated.
"Yes, especially since I'm here too!" Necromon had flown up and behind Imperialdramon. "Necro Crusher!"
Necromon formed a huge red fireball and flung it at Imperialdramon who had no chance at all. He could block one Mega attack but not two and he was sent crashing to the ground.
"Justice Beam!"
"Sonic Force!"
The others both aimed their attacks at Necromon but he dodged both by soaring higher with his wings.
"I grow bored of this game! Troops, finish it!"
TK and Kari looked at the drawbridge with the same thought: what now? The answer came swiftly. Ten more digimon crossed over. They looked like Tankmon but they were jet black instead of green, they were much bigger and seemed to be much better armoured. In addition, the 'arms' consisted of rotary cannons.
"Digidestined, meet the Gattlomon, the fully evolved form of Tankmon," Necromon announced proudly. "Their Gattling Striker will leave you spinning and if that's not enough, their Shadow Cannon will finish the job!"
"This doesn't look good," Yolei groaned.
"When did dark digimon ever look good?" Cody replied.
All ten Gattlomon raised both their cannon arms which started to spin. "Gattling Striker!"
Streams of fire flew into Shakkoumon who had no chance of blocking all the attacks. Peppered with Gattling energy, he collapsed and reverted back to Patamon and Armadillomon.
Silphymon tried to cover them but soon found herself as the next target. She was faster and more agile than Shakkoumon but even she found herself in trouble. The longer the Gattlomon kept firing, the faster their barrels spun and increased their firing rate all the more. Plus it was impossible to dodge ten Ultimate attacks all at once and she soon met the same fate as Shakkoumon.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon managed to snap off a shot at the Gattlomon in reply. He missed them but his shot threw up a cloud of dust, blinding the Gattlomon.
"Evil Inferno!"
Imperialdramon barely avoided the massive fire blast.
"You didn't forget about us, did you?" Daemon laughed.
"We've got to retreat!" TK screamed as he picked up Patamon. Things had never been this bad before. "Ken, open the portal!"
"Running away? That's a wise decision," Necromon gloated. "But can you do it before we get you? Necro Crusher!"
This time Imperialdramon was forced to block the attack before it hit Cody and TK.
"Got it!" Ken had just finished opening the portal back. "Come on, move it or lose it!"
With Imperialdramon covering them, everyone turned to run. Unfortunately Kari tripped halfway and fell flat on her face just as 2 of the Gattlomon regained their vision.
Only Davis saw Kari's plight and turned back to help. But this didn't escape the notice of the Gattlomon.
"Gattling Striker!"
Purely on instinct, Davis threw himself in the way to protect Kari. He succeeded but the cost was horrific as he was stitched by Gattling fire and ended up flat on his back, bleeding and unconscious.
"DAVIS!!!" Imperialdramon was enraged. "Positron Laser!"
Both Gattlomon were blasted into oblivion. In the blink of an eye, Imperialdramon flew in, picked up all the Digidestined and flew out through the portal before anyone could stop him.
Daemon cursed as the portal slammed shut. "We almost had them!"
"No harm," Necromon smiled. "We got an unexpected bonus with that battle. With their leader on his back or hopefully even dead…"
"Yes, no more Imperialdramon! At least not for awhile!" Daemon realised.
"A little while is all we need," Necromon said confidently. "Come, we've a few more preparations to make."
"Lead on," Daemon said eagerly.
Odaiba Park
Imperialdramon reverted back to Demiveemon and Minomon as soon as he came through the portal. He'd used up all his strength in the fight. He wasn't the only one.
"Davis!" Kari was beside herself. This was all her fault!
"Can you digivolve? We've got to get him to hospital?" TK asked his partner in desperation.
"I don't have any strength left," Patamon sighed.
None of the other digimon had either.
"I'll e-mail Izzy and get him to send help!" Yolei said as she opened her D-terminal.
"They're going to pay for this!" TK growled.
Necromon's castle: control room
"Prepare to open the portal," Necromon ordered.
"Where does it open from?" Daemon asked.
"The room next door. I think we'd better go," Necromon replied. "Inform Megadramon, Gigadramon and Arachnomon that they have command until I return. Also make sure that the special project gets priority attention."
"At once, my lord. Have a good trip!" the Hahgarumon controllers turned back to the consoles.
"What's this special project?" Daemon asked.
"Oh, just a little hopeful scheme of mine. If anything starts to come of it I'll explain it all then. Come on, it's time you saw the world we're going to conquer first."
He led Daemon into another room. This room was empty except for a large gate at one end. It looked exactly the same as the one in Myotismon's old castle.
"You recreated the dimension gate!"
"Yes. With an added bonus: I don't need the cards anymore. Thanks to the Dark Ocean I can open a portal anywhere. And there are 3 more rooms like this. When we're ready to launch the invasion, the whole force can come through at once."
"Excellent. You've really planned it all out."
"I hope so. Anyway, this trip we'll make sure of that. Once we are…the fun begins!"
The gate opened and they stepped through together.
Hypnos building
"Not again!" Riley sighed as 2 more red dots appeared on her tracking screen.
Ever since Juggernaut's first phase had been implemented things had got worse, not better. More and more wild ones had bio-emerged and nearly all had come from the Juggernaut core.
Except these 2,
she suddenly realised. Wherever they'd come from, it was from somewhere new.Yamaki had just realised that fact too. "Well, wherever they came from they won't last long. Send out 4 tracers!"
"4, sir?" Riley asked in surprise.
"We've got our hands full with the ones from the Juggernaut core. We haven't time for anything else. This'll make sure of that. Since they're not from the core it should work."
"Yes sir."
However, Yamaki couldn't have been more wrong if he tried. Soon after the tracers were launched the whole screen seemed to flare up and everyone was forced to look away.
"What was that?" Yamaki spluttered as he regained his vision.
"Some kind of energy surge," Riley replied. "It went right off the scale! I've never seen such power!"
"All the tracers have been destroyed!" the other controller reported. "What! Damn you!" Yamaki slammed his fist into another control panel.
He's definitely losing it,
Riley thought to herself. Things were spinning out of control…City park
"Anything else you conveniently forgot to mention?!" Daemon asked indignantly as they emerged from the portal.
"Don't blame me, nothing like that has ever happened before," Necromon replied evenly. "This certainly makes things more awkward. We destroyed whatever those things were but we can't risk bringing the army across until we find out more about this. I'm not going to risk losing troops before they've even arrived here."
"Then I suggest we find this Impmon of yours and ask him about it," Daemon suggested. "Then we'll deal with whoever or whatever was responsible."
"Good idea," Necromon growled. "Whoever did this had better pray that I don't find them! I'll show them how I treat cowards!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Not much crossover this time, I know. Sorry about that but I had to put the background in. There'll be more of the Tamers' side next time, especially since they now have 2 Mega problems! That is, if you want a next part. Review and let me know.
