Hello! So this isn't my story and as some of you may remember is a story that Takara Ravenheart uploaded and then took down a long time ago. I was lucky enough to get a copy of this story a while back from her for another side story that will be up soon. The O/A/N stands for Original Authers Notes which are Takara's exact words and the story hasn't been modified in the slightest, promise. It will be updated weekly along with the side story so that it has a steady upload. So in dedication of her here is my surprise for her (SURPRISE TAKARA!) and the re-upload of The Dragon Phoenix. Enjoy and don't forget to review ^^
O/A/N: So this is my first fanfic and this is a major warning but it contains dark themes and may put the characters in situations you haven't imagined them to be in before. It also attempts to remedy the plotholes from Xros Hunters and to a lesser degree Xros Wars.
Chapter 1: Destiny
Desires and curiousity can get the best of anyone but depending on who said person is, the consequences can worry. This story begins with three researchers who loved to experiment on different creatures. These three scientists Taiko, Kurou and Kaito have reached a block in their research and this frustrates the youngest of them, Kaito. Repetition of the same experiments has become rather boring for her and one day, when she is awake attempting to find something new. A white jacket around her shoulders, her long ebony black hair curled up into a bun to prevent them from getting in the way as her eyes gaze curiously at the objects she holds in the laboratory. She lets out a groan of frustration as she scrunches up a piece of paper, throwing it towards the bin.
"This is...ridiculous!" Kaito growled, her eyebrows bent outlining the irritation on her features. Before she could ponder much more however, a dark purple aura seemed to fill the room. Her blue eyes widened and despite the fact that she had no idea what was happening, she took a step forward.
"Whose there?" The black-haired woman demanded to know. The purple aura then vanished leaving two creatures standing there. One looked like a dark knight, metallic armor covering his body while the other looked like a cross between a beast and a man with one eye a strange red color. The woman let out a cry of alarm but the dark knight quickly spoke.
"You don't have to be afraid of us." The dark knight quickly explained and while Kaito still didn't trust these creatures, she quietened down watching them warily.
"Who are you?" Kaito inquired curiously. "Why have you come here? What do you want with me?"
The creature that looked to be half-human, half-beast spoke up in order to answer her question.
"We want to make you an offer." He spoke and before the woman could say anything he continued. "Experimenting and designing the same stuff won't allow you to move forward. We have new equipment you can design, new things you can make, new prospects you can look at."
Kaito frowned, a mixture of puzzlement and wonder drawn onto her. A part of her just wanted to move forward and accept the offer being provided to her but another part of her was hesitant to accept it.
"What's the catch?" There was a suspicious tone to her voice and she didn't really trust these creatures.
"The only catch is you try them out on digimon in our world." The dark knight spoke inwardly hiding a smirk. "Even in that, you get benefited more as you will get new prospects for your future research."
The gears in Kaito's mind were turning and finally unable to resist the curiosity that pulled at her, she nodded.
"I'm willing to do this, what do I need to do?" The black-haired woman was eager to know even if her fellow researchers may or may not agree to this. It seemed too interesting to pass up. Neither of the others respond, but dark energy began to fill the room causing the other two researchers to run out. A short, blond-haired man with spectacles came out, his features formed into a frown, he was known as Taiko.
"Kaito, what's going on?" Taiko asked confused but before the black-haired woman could reply, her eyes glowed a dark red color. The other young man who had spiky red hair and green eyes was also confused but soon all confusion died away, as all three of them then seemed to lose conscious thought. A dark aura surrounded each of their bodies as the two creatures opened up a portal, pulling the three humans through it.
A dark laboratory appeared, with many strange equipment that had not been seen before and Kaito's eyes widened in glee before she realised something.
"You still haven't mentioned your names." The black-haired woman pointed out and this time the half-beast half-human creature spoke up.
"I am Bagramon and this is my brother DarkKnightmon." He introduced finally and Kaito simply nodded in agreement. The next few days were spent on making brand new inventions that would be launched on the digital world. One of the inventions made with Taiko's brains who was the smartest of the group could immobilise digimon rendering them unable to move while Kaito's invention would erase all past memories and make digimon like a puppet simply following orders without their own capabilities to think.
The next few days became chaotic for the digimon living there, innocent digimon were being immobilised and imprisoned by these three humans. When the king of the digital world, Shoutmon was informed of this, he arranged a meeting with Xros Heart in order to discuss what to do.
"Brother, what are we going to do?" Starmon queried. "We'll need our General's help!"
"We should investigate about what is happening first." Dorulumon put in, ever the cool, calm and collected logical thinker of the group. Cutemon frowned sadly, he hated to see anyone causing such pain and destruction.
"We have to go see if our friends are okay, kyu!" Cutemon cried worriedly. "Lunamon, and the people from Shoutmon's village, Lopmon, Coronamon and Spardamon, they're all our friends! I have to help them, kyu! Sitting around here is not getting us anywhere!" He then ran off, leaving the others bewildered and slightly surprised at the slightly reckless behavior however Dorulumon simply sighed, it was just like Cutemon unable to stand any suffering even if it got him hurt.
"I'll go after him." Dorulumon volunteered but Gumdramon spoke up.
"I'll come too, I wanna teach those guys a lesson!" Gumdramon cried eagerly and Shoutmon frowned a little, not wanting anyone to become seperated before shaking his head.
"Ballistamon and I will go with Dorulumon." Shoutmon finally conceded and quickly continued before Gumdramon could protest. "Gumdramon, Damemon if things turn out bad, I'll need you guys to come with me to the digital world to call Taiki and the others."
Damemon nodded in agreement, seeing sense in the plan.
"That's a good point." Damemon immediately agreed. "After all, if Gumdramon and I get caught it will be no good, no good at all because then we can't help you!"
Gumdramon huffed, crossing his arms and pouting, resembling like a little kid who had been refused to be given candy and sulked. The others had a point, but he wanted to get into the action. Shoutmon shook his head, slightly amused despite the dire situation that they were placed with. He and Ballistamon then left with Dorulumon to search for Cutemon which didn't take long to find with Cutemon screaming and running from the humans.
The pink bunny jumped latching himself onto Dorulumon who snarled protectively in defense of his best friend.
"Rock Damashi!" Shoutmon cried launching a fire blast at the human but it was blocked by a metal pole and the red dragon digimon frowned when he came face to face with DarkKnightmon. Shock was clearly depicted on his face and the same shock was reflected in the face of his three friends, although Ballistamon was still better at focusing and launched another attack towards DarkKnightmon.
"How can this be?" Shoutmon murmured to himself. They had defeated DarkKnightmon so how could he have returned? It looked like him and it couldn't be an imposter from what he had seen but then who? Dorulumon was also thinking the same thing, though his thoughts were more focused on the fact that they had to get Cutemon out of here before he got hurt. This was why he didn't see the blast headed his way until Ballistamon shouted out an unfortunately late warning. Dorulumon tried to dodge but the blast was too fast and cut through his skin causing him to growl as he collapsed.
"Kaito now!" An unrecognisable voice called over Cutemon's begging and failed attempts in trying to heal his friend. Of course, the pink bunny was trying his best but due to the panic he felt and the tears flowing freely from his eyes, made it hard for him to concentrate on healing his friend. Cutemon attempted to shield Dorulumon as the object hit them but once it did, the pink bunny found himself unable to move at all. It was as if someone had cast some sort of freezing spell and stilled them on the spot. He could hear Shoutmon calling out their names but couldn't respond, couldn't think it was like everything was frozen solid.
"Dorulumon! Cutemon!" Shoutmon cried running forward as DarkKnightmon imprisoned them in some sort of net. "Rock Damashi!" He consistently sent attacks towards the evil knight hoping to free his friends, but his attacks had no effect and he was sent flying back from an attack by DarkKnightmon and could only watch helplessly as his two close friends were taken away. He couldn't even hear the two trying to escape, they seemed completely still causing Shoutmon to clench his fists. How did this all end up happening? He had been so useless! More evil digimon began coming causing Shoutmon to turn to Ballistamon.
"Call all of Xros Heart on the wristers!" Shoutmon said urgently. "Damemon, Gumdramon and myself need to get to Taiki urgently. For one, Taiki won't want to be left out when one of his partners has been taken and we need help. You guys create a diversion so we can make our escape."
Ballistamon did so while Shoutmon attempted to the best of his ability to distract the assailants though it didn't help much since they were higher level digimon but luckily he didn't have to hold up long. As one blast was heading his way from a Devidramon, it was knocked aside by Gumdramon's tail as he and the others appeared. The other members began fighting while Shoutmon turned to Gumdramon and Damemon.
"We have to get...out of here...we need Taiki, Tagiru and Yuu's help now." Shoutmon said his voice weak but still firm with authority. With Gumdramon and Damemon supporting an injured and weak Shoutmon between them and the others distracting and holding off the battle, the three headed to find a digital portal to return to the real world, hoping for the best.