-1 "From light comes darkness. Purest light falling into the most tainted form of evil. Consuming the heart until it is no more... and the brain slowly follows... all that is left is a killing machine. Soon every being shall follow my example." - DivineMachinedramon X
"Who believes in Prophecies? Who believes in the past?"
"Not me."
"The words speak from those of the past, you fool. Those who gave birth to us and created our world!"
"I've walked the path of light and darkness and enjoyed both. But to walk both paths... one shall sway you. The darkness calls with more force and is much more alluring. The path of darkness shall sway all..." - Sivamon X
A metallic fist clenched in anger, the steel of his fingers rubbing against his steel palm as he was forced to listen to such unjust declarations. The world would not fall to darkness... he wouldn't let it.
"Lord Dartz protects us humans! We won't fall to your insane ambitions!"
"For someone qualified to lead such a massive army, you sure are stupid. All humans are evil... moreso than us X-Digimon!"
"You X-Digimon will never win! Humans... and Digimon... together their hearts are more powerful than you! I have heard cries that speak the opposite of what you follow... the past doesn't determine anything... the future holds the true mysterious answer!"
"There is no need to falter before the darkness. With confidence and purity, it has no effect. From battling darkness for millennia... an outcome will one day be determined on the hearts of men and Digimon." - X-Omnidramon
Blue eyes stared at his robotic foe, whom stood as an agent of good. A human fused with a Digimon... a process called Bio-Merging... in order to create a warrior known as HiAndromon. HiAndromon was a Mega level Digimon... the highest evolutionary form. But in the evil one's eyes... he had one fault.
"You're not an X-Digimon. You're not strong. You cannot win."
"You're wrong..." the HiAndromon fusion spoke while staring daggers at him, "I am a human and a Digimon! I am the leader of all Tamers under the command of Lord Dartz!"
"And what does that prove? Two hearts does not equal twice the power..."
"To rely on others is foolishness. I cast aside my filthy partner forever ago and have embraced true power by evolving on my own. The darkness blossoms best alone..." - Daemon X
"SaintMachinedramon X..." HiAndromon began, staring him down.
SaintMachinedramon X was a powerful-looking warrior indeed. His six angel wings spanned out far from his body, with circuitry running along them and sprouting metallic spines through the angel feathers. The metallic cross on his chest was his defining symbol... and his blue eyes and some long blonde hair were visible through the visor of his Machinedramon head-shaped helmet. He was the spitting image of his birthgiver.
"To run is to give up on yourself. The darkness will chase you and never let go. Spiritual power runs through all of us... harness it to your heart's strength... and break through all obstacles." - WarSylphymon
"... my army will break through yours! I will break through you! This fight will end the war!"
"This fight proves nothing. So you've finally confronted me... my Eight Apostles would avenge me even if I were to fall... which I can assure you will not happen today."
An explosion rocked the earth they were standing on but neither Digimon shook from the force. Some of SaintMachinedramon X's soldiers had destroyed a tank on the human's side... but more mechas and Tamers were fighting back at them. None of the surrounding war was affecting the two generals facing off, however.
"War is coming. An effort must be made to ensure the right side wins. My companions and I have survived through many years to help ensure that will happen... but we need all of your help too! Rally and fight the Darkness!" - Nuriamon
"I'm sick of listening to you! You end today!" HiAndromon yelled, moving his right leg back and lowering his body, assuming a defensive stance.
SaintMachinedramon X smirked and held his arm up at HiAndromon, with a cannon latched onto his wrist, "Show me this power of heart you've jabbered on about."
HiAndromon aimed his cannon at the angel/machine hybrid. He may have the X-Virus... but there would still be no giving up! HiAndromon gritted his teeth together and activated the firing mechanism.
"ATOMIC RAY!!!" he screamed, firing out a yellowish beam of energy at the divine Digimon. SaintMachinedramon X took the hit and was knocked back a bit but then righted himself and prepared his own cannon attack.
"HOLY CANNON!!!"
The pure white holy blast was much more massive than HiAndromon's was and HiAndromon leapt upward to avoid it. He crossed his arms over his chest and he began a freefall toward the mechanical angel.
"COPY PASTE!!!" he shouted, suddenly splitting into two versions of himself. SaintMachinedramon X gasped in alarm and was smashed in the face by two metallic fists, one from each HiAndromon. He fell backwards and slid along the ground on his back, grunting heavily as his body slid over rocks and other paraphenalia.
"You--!"
"It gets worse!" HiAndromon stated, cutting him off, "ATOMIC RAY!!!"
SaintMachinedramon X growled in annoyance and slapped the attack away harmlessly into the air. Suddenly, a battallion of jet mecha flew overhead, dropping bombs at SaintMachinedramon! He spread his six wings and flew backward to avoid the strike but one jet flew down and a girl leapt our of it, landing next to HiAndromon. She was decked out in a blue and gray mecha suit, as was the standard for all of Lord Dartz's warriors.
"Mia! What are you doing here?!" HiAndromon exclaimed, suddenly taking a worried tone, "I thought you weren't going to be part of this attack!"
"The big man changed his mind and sent the air fleet in... I had to help you, dad!" the girl argued back.
Her features weren't really visible inside the mecha suit... but SaintMachinedramon X had already figured out how much this HiAndromon must care about his daughter. The mecha suits were developed strong... but his warrior skills surpassed what Lord Dartz's minions were used to dealing with.
"In other words, the girl's an idiot... you have no idea who you're dealing with!" SaintMachinedramon X screamed, lunging at them. HiAndromon growled and met him in mid-air, tackling him to the ground.
"You! Leave! My! Daughter! Alone!" he screamed out in-between bashing SaintMachinedramon X's face in with repeated blows from his forearms. SaintMachinedramon snarled and spat out some blood as he grabbed HiAndromon's arm and hurled him away.
"I will not be beaten by Lord Dartz's insolent defense force! And the Mecha Squad is even more pathetic than the Tamer Squad! I'm going to vaporize you, little girl!"
The girl in the mecha suit fired off a round of missiles at SaintMachinedramon X, but upon impact all they did was make him grunt a little. She gasped in despair, realizing how weak her suit really was... and she stared at the seemingly immortal X-Digimon in fear.
"I can't... even touch him..."
"SAINT CROSS!!!" the evil Digimon screamed, folding his arms over the cross emblem on his chest and charging up a massive amount of holy energy into it. Mia began to sweat and stepped backward in her mecha suit. She clenched her eyes shut tightly as the angel-machine launched a huge wave of holy energy at her.
I'm so dead! Goodbye dad...
A wave of light washed around her... but none of it struck her. Almost afraid to, she opened her eyes to see a shadow blocking the holy energy from hitting her. It was shaped exactly like HiAndromon... her father.
"... NO!!!" she screamed out as HiAndromon collapsed to his knees, totally charred from the blast. Her father's eyes closed as he tried to moan out the first syllable of her name... but then he fell onto the ground with a large clinking noise from the impact of the metal armor. He unfused into a human man laying on the ground a gear-like Hagurumon also collapsed.
"D-dad... Hagurumon..." she managed to choke out as she began sobbing. She then turned to the Apostle Lord, "YOU BASTARD!!!"
She fired off another round of missiles from her mecha suit at him in a rage. But the large burst of light had attracted some attention and other mechas and Tamers were heading their way. Two large Tamers stood out, one riding on the dinosaur MetalGreymon and the other riding atop a half-mechanical WarGrowlmon.
"Mia!!!" they both screamed with concern, apparently knowing her. Then they saw her father laying on the ground and realized why she was there, "Commander Ausa!!!"
"Grr..." SaintMachinedramon growled as he avoided both Mia's missiles attacks and took to the air. A plane came at him but he grabbed it by the wing and hurled it down at Mia, "burn in hell, wench!!!"
MetalGreymon landed in front of Mia and took the brunt of the plane crashing into him. His Tamer was knocked off of his head however and crashed down on the ground next to Mia. Thankfully he was decked out in a mecha suit also and was easily able to survive the brunt of the hit.
"Tom! Alex!" she cried out for her friends and her voice gave away that she was choking on tears, "make him pay!!!"
"Done, sweetheart," the suit indicated as Tom responded, looking up at his partner, "MetalGreymon, attack!"
"Gladly."
The one identified as Alex leapt off WarGrowlmon and landed on the other side of Mia, also seeming to like this attacking idea, "We can end the war right here, WarGrowlmon!"
WarGrowlmon stayed up in the air and glared at the human-shaped SaintMachinedramon X... they had him out-done in size, "I'll do my best Alex!" "Commander Savenoff and Commander Jameson might get mad at us for engaging the enemy leader though..." Alex whined.
"Who cares!? This is for Commander Ausa!" Tom shouted, "go get him!"
"GIGA BLASTER!!!" MetalGreymon bellowed, firing two large missiles out of his chest-plate. They were joined by two crimson colored beams coming from WarGrowlmon's nuclear reactor, "ATOMIC BLASTER!!!"
Both attacks struck SaintMachinedramon X and pushed him upward into the air. He chuckled and yelled something down at Mia, "Mia Ausa, I know your name now. I have been forewarned... I already know your destiny! You'll see me again... oh you'll see me again!"
SaintMachinedramon X seemed to disppear... and the attacks from MetalGreymon and WarGrowlmon flew off into the sky. The Digimon and all three humans stared in wonder.
"Did we... destroy him...?" Alex wondered, speaking slowly.
"I... don't know," Tom replied, also unsure as his communicator started to beep. He clicked it and a commanding female voice came out of it.
All units! This is Commander Savenoff! The X-Digimon forces appear to be retreating. Mop up as many as you can while they try to run!
"I want to nuke some X-Digimon scum!" WarGrowlmon shouted, getting worked up, "then I want to eat!"
"Me too," MetalGreymon agreed, stomping his foot down, "let's get a move on, twerps!"
"We better go mop," Alex said, "you wait here Mia... for now."
Alex and Tom leapt on their mighty Digimon and flew off, leaving Mia alone with her father's body. Mia fell to her knees, wondering what the hell SaintMachinedramon X was talking about. She threw her helmet off and let her blue hair drape down out of it, along with many tears that splashed off of the ground.
"The X-Digimon leaders are heartless scum! They want to hurt you... they want to kill you! The must be persecuted and destroyed... them and all their Apostles!" - Lord Dartz
"X-Digimon... I'll destroy every last one of you!!!" Mia growled angrily, pulling the dirt into her palm as she clenched a fist, "I will avenge my father!!!"
Little did Mia know that her life and the life of those around her was about to change even more drastically. It all begins here... Heroes Eternity!