A/N: In light of the new chaptering system I
decided to put this series together and revise the first part of it. This is my take on the original digidestined
and the crests so I hope you like it. This was my first fic that many of you may not remember, but if you do
trust me it's better now. For those of
you who haven't read this enjoy and please review.
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or it
affiliates.
Destined for Revenge-
Sora looked around the campsite smiling at her
sleeping friends as the firelight danced on their faces. Nearest to her lay
Izzy with his arms draped around his computer as if it was a stuffed toy. Joe and Mimi came next each using their bag
as a pillow with Mimi mumbling something about the mall and a sale. Their digimon lay at their feet ever
protecting their young charges. Tai was
next with Kari cuddled next to him, his hand resting on her head, a constant
reminder that she was still there. Her
brown eyes fell on the final pair, Matt and TK. In his gloved hand he held his harmonica forgotten after it was
used to lull TK to sleep.
A faint beeping brought her out of her
thoughts and her heart rate through the roof. Biomon sat up her clear eyes searching the darkness for the source
"Should we wake the others?" she whispered moving closer.
Before Sora could answer Izzy's groggy voice
was heard "No need, someone is just e-mailing me".
He rubbed the sleep out of his dark eyes and
opened his computer "Its Genni" he said
punching keys furiously. The commotion hadn't only awakened the young genius
but Tai, Joe, Mimi, and Matt as well. They moved over to see what was going on,
curious. Before joining the others Matt
carefully laid TK down with Gabumon as a pillow just watching him sleep for a
few seconds, enjoying the rare peace.
"Doesn't he understand I need my beauty
sleep?" Mimi mumbled plopping back onto the ground and scowling at the
machine as if willing it to melt.
"Sorry to wake you at such a late
hour" the message began "but this couldn't wait, a new power waits
for you at Infinity Mountain, you will need it in the near future. So go and
find it immediately..." the screen went blank.
"That's it" Joe said slightly
confused "no stupid riddles or stories".
"Just clear cut directions, this isn't
right" Sora finished.
Tai looked at the others in shock "what
is wrong with you guys Genni just told us what we need to do, so lets get
going".
"For one it's the middle of the night,
two we don't even know who are enemy is, and three that message creped me
out" Matt challenged his icy eyes flashing, daring Tai to continue the
fight.
Tai was about to take the challenge when Izzy
eased the oncoming storm "Matt's right, the least we should do is wait until
morning when we discuss this rationally and weight all of our options".
Tai's eyes faded as he lost himself in
thought, after a few moments he nodded conceding "Well everyone get back
to sleep, apparently we have a big day tomorrow" Sora said going into
mother mode. Mimi and the digimon wasted no time fulfilling the request falling
asleep within second of hitting her 'pillow'.
"I'll take the last watch," Tai said as
he added some wood to the dying fire. Sora nodded gratefully and curling up
next to Biomon with thoughts of the mysterious message running through her
head.
Not far away deep within Infinity Mountain a
dark voice thundered causing his servants to quake in his fury. "Blast those children why aren't they
coming. I couldn't have made that
message any clearer, tell me how do you get confused by that…do I have to draw
them a map!"
Another voice answered, "Perhaps it is
to clear master". The owner of the
voice was a young boy, a little younger than Joe. The boy had short brown hair with clear ice blue eyes that seemed
to pierce through the darkness of the room. He wore a simple black T-shirt with
khaki shorts.
"What do you mean you fool, you don't
have any idea how to deal with these children?" The dark voice demanded
more anger seeping into it with every passing second.
"I meant no disrespect master," the
child answered quickly "but from the sounds of it their little friend Genni is
never to clear."
"Yes, perhaps you are right, which means
that they will need a little more help getting here." the voice said
cruelly as he stepped into the light. His dark wings cast a shadow over the boy
who didn't even flinch at the sight.
The demon moved to a large viewing pool at
the center of the room his eyes scanning the digidestined one by one. "Let me see, who to torment" his
red eyes finally fell on the perfect one "Ah, yes that one will do quit
nicely".
The boy moved around trying to see who he had
focused the attention to without any success, much to his disappointment. The
demon waved his hands, which were surrounded by a black light, and the chosen
child immediately started to suffer from the severe nightmare.
"Master Devimon what do we do now?"
the boy asked a smile playing on his lips as he watched the suffering.
"We wait and they will come to us"
Devimon watch with delight as the one called Izzy, the Bearer of Knowledge,
thrashed in his sleep. "They will come"
Izzy thrashed in his sleep as the nightmare
enveloped his thoughts. A demon was
after them, it had killed Genni, the digimon, and now it was after them. They ran out of room to run as a sheer cliff
rose before them and the demon caught up. It dark hand reached down for them his friends cries echoing in his
ears…
Tentomon shook Izzy hard desperately trying
to wake him up. It was obvious that
something was wrong with him and there was nothing the digimon could do to help
him. "Izzy please wake up, someone
do something," he pleaded his green eyes threatening to spill over with tears.
Gomamon ran up the hill with water a large
shell full of water. He threw it on the
shaking boy. That did the trick and Izzy shot up his dark eyes unfocused and
full of terror.
The others gathered around him concerned yet
afraid to scare him even more. "We need to go to the mountain," he
stammered after he had composed himself a little.
Tai was the first to speak "Why, what
was that all about?"
Izzy was scared to relive the terror but
gathered himself and began "We need to go, there was this huge demon in my
dream and it was picking us off one by one and the only way to stop it was
something at Infinity Mountain"
Mimi placed a hand on his shoulder still
trying to settle him down as Tai eyes grew determined. He looked to Matt who nodded and began to
gather up their supplies "Then lets go".
Hours later the group trekked to the forest
in silence each one lost in thought.
"Where are we going Tai?" Kari
asked breaking the silence causing a few of the digimon to jump. She and TK had slept through everything that
had happened the previous night. All
they knew was their brother's woke them up very early and they were looking for
something very important.
"We are going to find something to help
us beat the bad digimon," Tai explained taking her hand wanting to keep her
close. He knew trouble was brewing, and
didn't wasn't going to let her get caught in the middle of it.
TK too was full of questions "Matt what's
wrong with Izzy, he's really quiet today". Matt glanced down at his brother,
his blue eyes sparkling with innocence. He couldn't break that innocence "he just had a bad dream that
all" he answered not wanting to scare his brother. 'I hope it was just a
dream' he thought to himself taking TK's hand.
Devimon looked into the pool a smile across
his dark face. 'They're coming, they
are actually coming like little lost lambs to the slaughter' he thought with
glee.
"It worked master," the boy praised from
the side "would you like me to start phase two?"
Devimon pondered for a few moments "Yes,
but first I want to know why you are so willing to help me take over the world
and destroy them."
His eyes narrowed as he looked up to the
digimon "I want power, power you can give me" he replied passion filling
his voice "as for the children each one of them has made my life miserable…so
revenge will be sweet." With that the boy walked out the door in order to
prepare for the next phase. His revenge would be sweet. As he walked out the
necklace Devimon gave him began to glow a black light enveloping the room.
"I'm tired can we rest yet," Mimi
complained from the middle of the pack. For once her request was not unfounded
the sun had been beating mercilessly down on them for hours, which was also how
long it had been since their last break.
"Yeah." Tai said as they came
around a bend his normally energetic voice sounding weary.
"Hey look at that, it's a person"
Kari said pulling out of her brothers grasp and running forward, nearly giving
the leader a heart attack as he raced after the girl.
Yet sure enough up ahead on the path was a
boy about their age with brown hair, a black T-shirt, and khaki pants. Joe carefully
walked up checking him over. Satisfied
nothing was really wrong he addressed the others "He's alive and I can't
see anything wrong with him"
Mimi came running up with a wet cloth
"Well let's make sure he stays that way, maybe that shadow from Izzy's
dream got him." At mention of his dream Izzy shuttered once more.
"I guess we'll stay here tonight,"
Tai said a little disappointed, they hadn't made as much progress as he would
have liked but they just couldn't leave someone lying in the middle of the
forest unconscious.
The kids set up camp and took care of their
mysterious stranger. Izzy sat a few feet away punching at his computer his
dream still haunting him. Joe, Mimi, and Sora were close to the fire trying to
revive the boy; Tai was up in a tree looking at the mountain through his scope
looking for any hit of the hidden power.
TK and Kari sat by Matt quietly watching the
stars, each one making up their own constellations. Matt's eyes twinkled watching the pair. His eyes then flickered to the stranger, there was something
familiar about him but he couldn't put his finger on it.
Izzy continued typing when his screen flashed
and it began to beep rapidly "That's not good" he muttered, his
fingers flying over the keyboard in a blur.
"What?" Mimi asked still holding
the boy in her lap.
"Someone has hacked their way into some
of my files" Izzy answered gravely. Tai came down from his perch taking special care not to fall. He knew how much information he had on his
computer, most of it concerning them "What did they get?"
"Not much" Izzy answered slowly "It
looks like they were after the information about the crests, but only got into
our bios."
Matt looked at Izzy a little worried his blue
eyes filled with concern "Are you sure they didn't get too much?"
Izzy nodded and continued typing.
Although he wasn't satisfied with the answer
Matt let the bearer of Knowledge be and settled down on a log his eyes
narrowing once again as the fell on the stranger. He had lost himself in thought when Tai sat down next to him
sensing Matt's distress.
"Matt what's wrong, you seem a little
jumpy" Tai asked careful not to flare his temper.
The blond shrugged turning to his friend
"I don't know, I just have this feeling I've seen that guy before and it
wasn't good."
"I know what you mean…"Tai said
running his hand through his hair. Kari's ear piercing scream ripped through the clearing sending the group
into a panic.
Gatomon flew out of the forest at lightning
speed her claws out ready for action. Tai's eyes darted around looking for what had caused his sister to
scream. He found it; a huge shadow
figure had appeared in the sky, its red eyes glowing menacingly at the
children.
"Kari" Gatomon cried launching
herself at the figure only the fly straight through it landing on the ground
hard.
The shadow laughed, "I'm coming for you" he
said his voice coming from everywhere. After the voice had faded the shadow disappeared into thin air. Matt and
Tai reached the their shaking siblings who jumped into their brother's arms.
The other digimon came flying out of the forest ready to fight. Their eyes glazed with excitement.
"You're a little late," Tai said
rubbing Kari's back whispering into her ear trying to calm her down.
TK clung to his brother's shirt "Matt it was
him" he stammered, "he came back, how did he come back". Matt pulled him close "It wasn't him, don't
worry I won't let it get you…I promise".
Sora looked at him confused "Who is he
talking about?" she asked. Matt looked
at her "Devimon" he replied quietly.
A groan came from their stranger as he began
to wake up. His icy eyes studying the
group focusing on each child one by one. Joe shifted uncomfortable under the gaze as it sent chills up his
spine. The boy finally spoke "Please
don't hurt me".
"We wont hurt you, we are here to
help" Mimi soothed handing him some food and water which he slowly took.
Tai wasn't as caring and generous and
bombarded the boy with questions "Who are you? How did you get here? Who
are you working for? Did you send that shadow thing after us?"
"Take it easy Tai, we don't know the
extent of his injuries" Joe said worried that he would go into shock.
The boy looked around one more time "My
name is Cory as for how I got here I have no idea, I was sitting as my computer
and was sucked in. When I woke up I was in a forest and I heard a dark shadow
talking about some kids called the digidestined and how he needed their crests
for something. I freaked and began to run, I don't know if it saw me, I must
have tripped because the next thing I know I'm here with you guys."
The kids looked around at each other casting
each other skeptical glances. Each one had the feeling that they had met Cory
before, but they just couldn't remember where or when.
Cory again spoke a little surprise in his
voice "Hey I know all of you guys, you were at camp with me and you were
the ones who killed that big monster back home, I was there I saw the whole
battle."
"Could you tell us exactly what the
shadow looked like" Izzy asked bringing up the files he had been going
through. Ever since the dream he had
been looking at the pictures of the digimon they had encountered trying to find
a match. Cory shook his head.
Izzy remained persistent "Here I'm going
to show you some pictures you tell me when one looks familiar." Cory sat
down and began to look through the pictures.
Sora stood off to the side staring at the
boy, she knew he was from camp but she had met him somewhere else before. She
looked over to see TK frantically tugging on Matt's shirt crying and pointing
at Cory. She walked over to see if she could help "Matt what's wrong with
him?"
"Sora we need to get away from him
now" he said gathering up TK and a few supplies, the look in his eyes told
Sora that he wasn't kidding. She
quietly moved across the camp in order to get Mimi and Joe ready to go, her
eyes now bearing down on the guest.
Kari sat by the fire watching the older kids
gently petting Gatomon as she watched. In her lap Gatomon wasn't as content as
she normally was, her white fur stood on end and her bright eyes were narrowed
"That boy is evil" the cat stated simply hate filling her voice.
Patamon who had given up trying to console TK
and flown over to her "Your right
he just feels wrong" he said. Gatomon looked up at Kari concerned.
Devimon peered into the pool "I didn't
think that they would catch on so fast" he said to himself. My dark child
is going to need some help," he said darkly. He waved his hands and hundreds of
Sparrowmon, tiny but effective bird digimon flew in from the darkness and
depths of his castle. "Go my minions, the dark child will instruct you
once you arrive". The birds didn't even
stop as they sailed through the windows by the hundreds.
Devimon watched them fly off into the night slowly
disappearing "Soon I will have all eight of them in my clutches and all of
the power of the crests and the digiworld will be mine."
Joe looked around at camp everyone was on
edge as if something bad was about to happen. He looked over at Cory once more,
he knew him from camp and one more place that he just couldn't remember. Joe
then noticed something around Cory's neck.
"Excuse me but what is that around you
neck" he asked his curiosity stronger than his fear.
Cory looked a little shocked but pulled out a
crest "I don't know I found it when I got here, do you know what it
is?"
Agumon spoke up "It's a crest, is has
special powers and it helps digimon like us digivolve."
"Let me see if I can figure out what it
means" Izzy said bringing up a new file on his computer and reaching for
the crest when Tentomon's screams stopped him halfway.
"AHHHHH" Tentomon screamed tackling
Izzy pushing him away from the boy, "everyone digivolve he has the crest
of revenge". During their training
with Genni he told them of the Dark Crests that had been created in a horrible
accident by the original digidestined. He told them if they ever saw them to get their chosen child as far away
as possible or face the consequences.
The others needed no further encouragement
growing into their champion forms except of Angewomon who went mega. (A/N: I
didn't feel like listing all of them but you get the idea).
The digimon immediately took protective
positions in front of their chosen child preparing for some sort of
attack. Their eyes narrowed and muscles
tensed as if daring the kid to continue.
Cory looked at the group laughing and
clapping his hands slowly "So you're on to me, oh well my help should be
arriving any second now so make it easy on yourselves tell me who has what
crest and surrender to me and my master".
"If you think were going to tell you
anything your nuts" Tai yelled furious about being tricked. The sound of
flapping wings caught his attention as he and the others looked around trying
to locate the source of the noise.
Cory ignoring the noise snickered again
"Well I guess I could use this instead" holding up Izzy's
computer. The redhead let out a low
growl but stayed back. Cory gave him a
smug look and began to type "Hey what's wrong with this thing" he
shot as the computer beeped.
"I've locked it out, I'm the only one
who can get in or out" Izzy said defiantly very happy at the moment for
installing the little trick.
"Fine" Cory said slipping the
computer into his pack "I'll go from memory, I was there when you battled
Myotismon and if I remember right Hope and Light are protected by the
angels." He looked at Kari and TK who were hidden behind their brothers as
well as their angels.
Both boys tensed up pushing the pair a little
farther back as the distant flapping noise came dangerously close. "Look" Mimi screamed pointing to
the sky as the Sparrowmon arrived "there must be hundreds of them".
"Seize the children" Cory yelled
pointing to the cluster in front of him.
"Tai, take the others and run we'll hold
them off," Greymon said preparing to fight, already swatting away the first
wave.
"Are you sure?" Sora asked
reluctantly looking to her partner
"Go now" Birdramon said without
second thought taking to the skies.
The eight children took one last look before
they ran off into the night.
Greymon watched to make sure they were out of
sight before turning to finish off the Sparrowmon and Cory. "You'll never
get them," he said firing a flaming ball at the largest group of the little
birds he could see.
Cory just shrugged "Oh I don't plan to
because you are going to bring them to me yourself" he reached into his
pocked and pulled out four familiar weapons, black gears. Eight pairs of eyes
widened in horror as he threw them into the fight. They whizzed through the air having a mind of their own, circling
the fighters like vultures circling a kill.
They filling went in and four screams of pain
ripped through the night as they hit their four targets, Greymon, Garurumon,
Togemon, and Angewomon.
Cory watched with mild delight as the gears
hit the targets, a little joy left him when he realized one of his targets
hadn't been hit "Blast I wanted both angles" he thought.
Ikkakumon however watched in horror knowing
that he and the others let alone the children didn't stand a chance if their
own digimon went after them. "Angemon you're the fastest go warn the
others," he yelled launching a torpedo at the attacking Togemon. As it hit home he muttered a silent apology,
hurting his friend was the last thing he wanted to do.
"Are you sure?" the angel asked
locked in his own mortal combat with his counterpart Angewomon.
"Just go" Kabuterimon pleaded
jumping away from Garurumon's teeth.
"Be careful" Angemon warned flying
off after the kids. As he flew he could still hear the sounds of the battle
slowly fading. Five agonizing minutes later he found the kids but his energy
was almost gone and he was on the verge of passing out. "TK" he
called causing the group the stop suddenly.
The angel couldn't take it anymore and he
fell to the ground as Patamon. The
small digimon barely felt TK picking him up asking him asking what was wrong in
a shaky voice.
"The others, black gears, can't
trust…" it finally became too much and he fell into darkness.
Cory sat on a log trying to get into Izzy's
computer without any success while around him the battle raged on, he sighed
and looked up to find all of the Sparrowmon were gone just leaving the seven
guardians fighting each other.
"Howling Blaster" cried Garurumon sending
Birdramon into the ground causing her to devolve. "I'm sorry Sora," she
whispered before passing out.
"Needle Spray" "Nova
Blast" yelled Togemon and Greymon as they took out Ikkakumon. "Joe
please be safe," he thought.
"Celestial Arrow" Angewomon said as
she fired dealing the final blow to Kabuterimon "You'll never get
them" he said giving in to the pain his eyes focused on Cory.
"That wasn't as fun as I thought it
would be" Cory said looking and the three unmoving rookies. He raised his
hand and a dark ball began to develop. "Time to finish them off once and
for all" but before he could fire a bright purple light enveloped the
three whisking them away. Cory screamed in rage as they faded from sight
"No!!" he yelled, "Garurumon sniff the digidestined out now,
they will not escape" he climbed up onto the wolfs back and headed down
the path the kids had taken.
"Patamon please wake up, can you hear
me, Matt why won't he wake up?" TK cried holding his tiny partner in his
arms, his blue eyes full of tears that flowed freely down his cheeks.
"He is just really tired, I guess that
battle took a lot out of him" Matt soothed kneeling down to look him in
the eye "Just give him time to rest and before you know it he'll be back and
ready to go". The younger offered a
small smile and hugged him closer "I hope your right".
Tai looked around the small clearing that
they had stopped in. He took a few deep
breaths still winded from the run when he noticed the sounds of fighting had
faded into the night "Hey guys listen, I don't hear fighting
anymore".
The others paused to listen when Mimi shook
her head "I still hear trees crashing, it can't be over".
"Remember Patamon said something about
black gears perhaps something is coming after us" Sora said thinking of
Biomon back in the fight without her help.
"Guys I really hate to sound like a
coward but if our digimon have black gears in them that means Cory or whoever
his master is has control of them so shouldn't we run or hide or
something?" Joe said glancing around for a good place to hide.
"He's right" Izzy echoed
"there is no way we can out run them so I suggest that some of us stay in
the open and try to convince him that the others have escaped even though there
hiding right here"
Tai thought for a moment and looked down at
Kari, he would die before he let anything happen to her and whoever was after
them seemed pretty desperate to get them. He then looked over to Matt seemed to
have the same thought running through his head about TK and that is when he
made up his mind.
Matt stepped forward trying to hand TK over
to Sora "Sora take TK and get into a tree" he said his voice firm but
there was a hint of concern tainting it. Her brown eyes filled with determination as she refused "No you go
with him he needs his brother right now Matt" the blonde seemed ready to
launch into another protest when she shot him a look "His digimon is out cold
and he is scared, the last thing he needs is you getting hurt now go" she said
firmly picking up a stick.
Tai wasn't sure what to do, part of him told
him as leader he needed to fight, but the other half told him as Kari's brother
he needed to protect her. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Mimi follow
Sora's example and armed herself picking up a rather large stick swinging it a
few times to test it out.
"This guy has this coming" she said
coolly "I can't remember where I met him, I just remember that I wanted to
punch him if I ever saw him again" The others looked at her in shock, this
was the first time they had ever seen her this mad.
"Tai what are we going to do, is the bad
person going to get us?" Kari asked her voice shaking. Her innocent eyes
were full of fear, remembering when Myotismon was after her, all of the digimon
who had sacrificed themselves to save her the first time.
Tai then made up his mind and turned to Izzy
"Izzy don't even argue with me, take Kari and stay with Matt, this nut job
needs you to get into your computer so we need to get you out of the
equation".
Izzy knew better than to argue when it came
to Kari and climbed up into the tree sitting next to Matt who had TK in his
lap. The group on the ground stood firm, their eyes focused on determined as
the sound of crashing trees grew nearer and nearer.
With a loud crash the four digimon and Cory
flew out of the bushes. "There you are" he said cruelly "At, I
see what the four of you are doing, the noble sacrifice to save your
friends. I hate to break it to you but
you are only delaying the inevitable my master will get each one of you one way
or another".
"Just who is your master?" Tai
demanded a growl working its way into his voice preparing to swing yet at the
same time nervous when he saw the cold look in Greymon's eyes.
"You will see in time, now I will ask
you one more time surrender and tell me who has what crest," Cory warned.
"If you do it now I can spare you a lot of pain".
"Never" Tai yelled charging the
boy. He ran at top speed crashing into
him hard sending them both sprawling to the ground in a tangled heap.
Joe and Sora looked at each other uneasily
when they realized that their digimon were nowhere to be seen. "Please be
okay," Sora prayed heading to back Tai up.
The digimon instantly moved to protect Cory
but he quickly motioned for them to stay back. "I can handle these
miserable wimps by myself". With
amazing speed and strength he threw Tai off sending him into a nearby tree with
a loud crash. Izzy had to cover Kari's mouth to keep her from crying out "He'll
be okay" the red head whispered hoping it would calm her.
Mimi went next although she was able to get a
good shot to his stomach he let out a gasp for air before turning and slapping
her out of the way with a cry of rage.
"Garurumon find Matt and bring him to
me" he yelled before taking on Sora. "Haven't we been through enough?"
she yelled swinging her stick full of rage knowing he had probably hurt of even
killed Biomon. Chuckled grabbing her arm and threw her into a groggy Mimi who
was trying to pull herself up.
Joe was the last one standing and he knew it,
he pushed his fear down deep and narrowed his yes, he was supposed to be the
reliable one and now everyone was counting on him more than ever. He ran into Cory screaming only to be
promptly nailed in the face by his fist sending him into darkness.
Cory smiled looking over the fallen
digidestined. His smile grew wider when
he saw Garurumon at the base of one of the trees growling and bearing his
teeth. "Very clever hiding in
plain sight…get them" he muttered coldly moving forward.
In the tree TK and Kari buried their faces in
the older boys chests as the wolf prepared to fire. "No please don't"
Matt pleaded pulling his brother close cradling the back on his head in his
hand.
Just as the icy attack was about to hit them
the mysterious purple light enveloped the group. "Not again" Cory
yelled with pure rage sending a dark ring of energy out of his body, it leveled
the surrounding trees and knocked out the infected digimon. When the wave had subsided Cory stood
seething with anger clenching his fists.
"Calm down Cory" Devimon said as
his dark image materialized in front of him.
"But master I have failed" Cory
said preparing another round of energy.
"I see it as a minor set back, you did
succeed in taking control of four of the guardians as planned as well as figure
out two of the crests. Return to the castle and revise phase two, everything
will still turn out as we have planned" Devimon said with a smile picking
up the captured guardians.
"Yes my master" Cory said bowing
and picking the four digimon entering the portal.
Miles away from the devastated clearing the
digidestined lay hidden in a small cottage. Inside the cottage Kari held her brother's hand tightly within her own
tears forming in her brown eyes. "Tai please wake up, can you hear me, TAI!" Kari begged trying
to him to wake.
Finally she had success "But I don't
want to go to school today mommy" he mumbled causing Kari to laugh and hug
him, clinging to him as if he would disappear at any second.
Across the room another groggy voice was
heard "Could someone please tell me what hit me" Joe asked sitting up
holding his head in his hands.
"Cory's fist" Mimi replied laying
him back down and applying a cool rag to the fast growing bump "you all
have been out for a long time".
"Where are we?" Tai asked pulling
himself free from Kari's iron grip to get a better look around.
"Genni's" Sora said entering the
room with Gomamon and Biomon in her arms. The two looked as if they had seen better days, each one sporting a
collection of bruises and scratches. "He brought all of us here to get us away from Cory…well almost all
of us" she said softly.
Joe was about to ask who didn't make it when
he saw the look on Mimi's face.
"Don't worry everything will be all
right" Genni said coming in hands clasped behind his back "come eat
and then we'll figure out what to do. The coming of this has been foreseen for
years and many scrolls have been authored so one of them will help us". He said leaving the battered group out of
the room.
"I'm in" Cory said triumphantly
throwing his hands into the air "you have to admit that the universal
password is a wonderful thing even little genius boy couldn't block it or me
out."
Devimon peered over his shoulder to get a
better look at the information scrolling down the screen "You have done
well, now can you tell me who has what crest?"
"Of coarse, with this I can tell you
what their shoe size is, Izzy kept very accurate records." He paused to make
sure he still had Devimon's attention "I told you who has Hope and Light…"
Devimon seemed to cringe. "Yes the
little one who destroyed me before, I will make sure he suffers"
Cory let the rant pass before continuing,
"The leader Tai has courage, Sora has love, Mimi sincerity, Matt
friendship, Izzy knowledge, and Joe reliability."
"Perfect" Devimon said looking around
the large room. Off to the side was his viewing pool, but it was the walls that
caught his attention. On the walls the
symbols of six of the crests had been intricly carved above a groove just large
enough for a person to stand in. In the center was another carved deep into the
floor a point of the flower like picture pointing to each grooves. At the top lay the final, a rising sun next
to a small ledge. High above the ledge
the ceiling had all eight designs had been carved intertwining with one another.
"Can you give me their location?"
Devimon asked tearing his gaze back to the screen.
Cory nodded and began to tap away at the keys
"Yes, they are a few miles away at some sort of cottage" he said
pointing to the eight linking dots next to a lake.
Devimon walked over to the pool waving his
hands causing the liquid inside to glow and finally form an image of the
cottage to appear. With another flick of his hand he saw the children and the
old man at a dinner table eating and chatting "Genni" he muttered
under his breath pure hate filling his voice.
Cory watched as the dark lord went into his
own thoughts just staring at the image rubbing his hands. After a few minutes he spoke quietly and coolly
"I think that it is time to reveal myself to them" he said "I
don't believe that I have had the honor of meeting the eighth child yet and
it's been far too long since I've seen the others."
"Do you want me to come master?"
Cory asked.
"No, I'll take the angel, you just be
ready to make contact with them when I send you the signal" he turned and
yelled down the dark hallway "Come
Angewomon" the angle appeared seconds later obeying without a sound
following Devimon out the door.
Cory watched them go "That fool" he
said when he was sure that they were out of earshot "I wish I could be rid
of him now". He them pulled his digivice and a scroll out of his
back. He turned the black digivice over
in his hands rubbing his hands over the symbols, on one side was the symbol for
his crest and on the other was one of the digidestined. Unfortunately the
device had been damaged years ago and the only part that he could make out was
part of a circle.
He unrolled the scroll that told about the
dark device looking it over once again hoping this time something would catch
his eye. "Good must have it taken in from them order for evil to gain its
true power" he read to himself "What does that mean?" he said in
frustration falling into silence "Perhaps when Devimon brings them here
everything will become clear and then I can destroy them and Devimon is one
shot."
"I'll never get over how much you kids
eat," Genni said in awe as he cleared up the dinner dishes. Once that had been done he turned to the
children motioning them to the other room "Now come into the living room
and I will try to explain things to you."
"First this kid Cory is from your time
and your world. Second I have no idea
who he is working for, all I know is you is you have fought him before and
won"
Patamon looked up from his perch on a pile of
pillows "Can we rule out Myotismon the prophecy didn't say anything about
him coming back."
"I think your right but that leaves
quite a few more" Genni agreed but his voice was still grim.
"What about my dream, does that have
anything to do with this?" Izzy asked the images still running through his
mind torturing his thoughts as he slept.
"Actually, I think the dream was just
used to get you all to fall into Cory's trap" Genni said cautiously
"now like I said before there are tons of scrolls about this crest…so if
you don't mind giving an old man a hand".
The kids smiled and each one grabbing a
scroll settling in. Matt stood up with a sleeping TK in his arms "Do you have
a place where I can put TK". Tai then looked down not surprised to see his
own sister dead asleep. "Of course, you can use the room I had you in
earlier."
Matt and Tai gave their thanks and picked up
their siblings heading down the hall. TK stirred a little as Matt laid him on
the bed gently. The little blonde
muttered for a few seconds before falling into dreamland. Matt couldn't help but smile the little guy
looked so peaceful and innocent when he slept.
Tai tiptoed out of the room behind Matt after
tucking Kari in her own bed. "Take care of them Patamon" he whispered
as he closed the door and headed down the hall to join the others.
Outside the cottage in the bushes two figures
lurked in the shadows. Devimon smiled
to himself "this couldn't get any better" he thought "I'll let
them get caught up in what they are doing then I'll strike."
Mimi rubbed the sleep out her eyes, they had
been reading for about three hours and it was finally catching up with her. She
stood up stretching out her cramped arms. "Genni where is your powder
room?" she asked quietly as not to disturb the others.
"Down the hall across from the where the
little ones are sleeping" he replied not looking up from his scroll.
Sora quickly stood up running after the
brunette "Hold on I'll come with you".
"Hey could you check on TK for me?"
Matt asked rubbing his own weary blue eyes.
"Sure" Mimi said as she and Sora
walked down the hall.
Tai watched them go and waited until he heard
doors close "Genni why do girls always do that?"
The old man let out a chuckle despite the
situation "My young friend that is a mystery that men have been trying to
figure out for ages and one I fear that will never be solved."
The boys let out chuckles of their own but
stopped when Tentomon began to fly around the room frantically. Gomamon had tensed up in Joe's arms letting
out a small whimper "Tentomon what's wrong?" Izzy asked watching his
partner.
"Something's wrong, can't you fell
it?" Gomamon said crawling out of Joe's arms.
It was then Sora's frantic voice came down
the hall "Tai, Matt get down here" she yelled her voice shaking. The sound
of shattering glass sent the entire group into a panic and running down the
hall.
At the door to TK's and Kari's room Biomon
hovered "Spiral Twister" she called trying to break down the now
locked door.
"Matt help!" TK's voice rang
through the chaos followed by Kari's screams. Matt cried out and threw himself
at the door in desperate to get in. "TK I'm coming hold on". Tai was right behind him ganging up with
Matt against the door.
Inside the room Devimon had cornered the two
frightened digidestined. The once tidy
room now lay in shambles with debris from what was once the wall lying all over
the floor.
"You can't be alive," TK stammered as he
saw his worst nightmare hovering over him "I watched Angemon make you go
away".
"Well I'm back, just like I promised,"
the dark lord sneered "and you are mine now" he said reaching down for the
children.
"TK, Kari no" Angemon screamed
taking flight. He soared forward hands outstretched
reaching for the pair. He closed in and
was a few feet away when an arrow of pure light slammed into his body. The hit
caused him to smash through the locked wooden door and devolve to Patamon.
Matt and Tai were the first through the new
hole. The two brother's eyes darted
around the room frantically until their eyes came to rest on their siblings and
Devimon. Both terror and relief washed
over their faces as they moved towards them slowly trying not to catch his
attention.
"Ah if it isn't you pesky children
again" Devimon sneered his blood red eyes twinkling "Now I'm going to give you
a choice surrender to me the easy way, or surrender the hard way".
"Neither" Ikkakumon growled from the other
side of the room. Behind the large
walrus Kabuterimon and Birdramon hovered at ready their eyes blazing with fury.
Devimon sneered, "I guess you mean the hard
way…" he said coolly. His dark hands
shot out grabbing TK and Kari who were inches away from the safety of their
brother's arms. They screamed in terror
as his icy hands wrapped around their small bodies and he took to the air.
"No!" Matt screamed leaping up holding onto
the demon's leg. Devimon's eyes focused
on the desperate blonde for a few moments before giving his leg a swift kick
sending Matt into an unsuspecting Joe.
"Matt" TK again cried watching his brother
fall.
"Now listen and listen good digidestined if
you want to see your precious little ones alive again you will come to my
castle and surrender to me" then out of the corner of his eye he noticed the
three guardians had began to advance. "Stop right there or…" he threatened squeezing the two tighter in his
vice like grip causing them to cry out in pain.
"Stop it…we" Tai shot pointing to
the retreating digimon his fists shaking with fear and fury, he was unable to
say the final words. Devimon began to
fly away his prizes in hand "Angewomon see that the digimon stay out of my
way".
The angel of light soared high into the air
hovering over her friends ignoring Kari's pleading to stop. "Heavens Charm" she called
freezing digimon and digidestined alike in place as she and Devimon flew off
into the night.
Izzy walked down the long hall in silence his
mind still whirling over what had happened. Behind him he could hear Tai beating up on one of the few remaining
walls screaming incoherently.
He reentered the living room to come face to
face with Genni, sadness filling the old man's eyes. "Who did they take?"
"TK and Kari" Izzy answered
quietly.
One by one the others came wandering down the
hall their faces weary and full of despair. Matt clutched TK's little blue
backpack his eyes distant and red showing the remains of tears. Sora was right behind him her arms around
Tai's seething form offering what support she could. Joe and Mimi were last carrying the unconscious and bruised
Patamon.
Genni broke the tense silence. "I know
that you may not want to hear this, but I know what Devimon wants" as he spoke
he unrolled a large scroll onto the table for everyone to see. Before Genni could even utter another word
let alone give everyone a good look at the thing a hologram figure appeared on
the table.
"Cory" Matt hissed "where is
my brother, if you hurt him in any way so help me…"
"Temper temper" Cory teased,
"now listen closely and you'll see the little ones in one piece
again."
"I guess we know who he is working for
now," Mimi muttered under her breath.
"Very good and it only took you a few
days to figure that one out, now as you were told in the first place to come to
Infinity Mountain," Cory paused as the sounds of footsteps were heard
echoing off of the stone. "Ah, Master had returned, here's a little food
for thought" the image was moved to show Devimon chaining TK and Kari
roughly to the wall.
Joe gasped when he saw the image; around him
he heard similar reactions and some cursing. Both of them were fighting tears,
trying to look brave like their brothers would even though they were scared out
of their minds.
"Don't worry Matt, Tai I'll watch your
precious siblings until you get here" Cory finished as the image faded
away leaving the table only covered by the scroll once more.
"Did you see that?" Joe asked
timidly, the looks of his friends faces could only be described as homicidal at
that moment and he feared bring their anger down on himself if he said the
wrong thing.
Dirty looks gave him his answer "No what
was behind them on the wall" he quickly added defensively.
"Sorry Joe, I was too busy looking at my
terrified sister and the insane digimon that has her" Tai shot.
"What did you see Joe?" Gomamon
asked trying to be helpful.
Joe knew he had their attention "The
symbol for my crest was on the wall behind them".
Izzy's eyes glazed over as he thought back
"He's right there was a symbol on the wall, I just couldn't make it
out".
"That's what I was trying to tell you before
I was so rudely interrupted" Genni said pointing to the scroll. On it was
a circle shaped by six of their symbols in the center lay the crest of light at
the top of the page was the crest of hope. "This says that if you all
focus your power through those two some sort of gate will open releasing a
great power that was locked away long ago by the original digidestined".
"Is it good or evil" Sora asked
studying the directions written around the drawing, it's handwriting looking
oddly familiar "and where does Cory fit into all of this?"
Genni spoke carefully "Good or evil
depends on who controls it, I believe the power is actually a digimon, and
sooner or later Cory will need one".
"We are wasting time sitting here, we
need to go before Devimon gets edgy and hurts TK and Kari" Tai said
standing up his eyes telling everyone he wasn't taking no for a answer.
"Wait, there is a few more things you
need to know" Genni said placing a restraining hand on the young leader. "First the crest of revenge also had a
digivice but it is different that yours, he needs two crests in order to make
it work."
"What? Why does it need two?" Izzy inquired wishing he had his computer to
take all this in.
"That you will know when the time is
right and its not now…the scroll does give a hint to what the crest is 'good
must have it taken in order for evil to gain its true power'"
"That could be any of ours, I mean
without courage your dead, you need knowledge and light…" Sora said dejectedly.
"Genni what about the black gears, we
have to save our digimon too" Mimi said thinking of Togemon tears welling
in her eyes at the thought of her friend as a slave to Devimon forever.
"I was getting to that" the old man
replied "your crests and digivices should be more than enough to break the
gears hold…now I have given you all I can so the rest is up to you. I will help in any way I can, but for now
you are on your own". The children said
their final goodbyes to their mentor and headed into the lush forest. As they faded from sight Genni sent out a
silent prayer 'Be safe my son'.
"Master you did it, they are
coming" Cory praised his icy eyes staring into the pool watching the
digidestines every move.
"Of coarse they are coming, I've watched
them ever since they arrived in the digiworld and have learned that they value
each other for some odd reason especially Matt and Tai, they would never let
anything happen to those two" Devimon said gesturing toward the wall and
his captives.
"You just wait till my brother gets
here, he's going to make you sorry" Kari shot pulling at her chains
causing the metal to dig into her wrists.
"Then Matt and Angemon are going to make
you go away just like before" TK put in defiantly.
Devimon just laughed at their petty threats
"You are so wrong little ones, once your friends arrive I will use them to
become supreme ruler of the digital world" with those parting words he left the
room with Cory faithfully at his heals.
TK watched the leave and once he was sure
they were gone he spoke "As soon as we get out of here I'm trading crests
with Joe, stuff like this never happens to him".
Kari smiled "Not if I get to him
first".
"What do you think they need us
for?" TK asked looking around the room studying the shapes on the walls.
"Bait" Kari answered without hesitation
"He needs the others here and couldn't get us all at once so we get to be the
worms".
The two fell silent at the sound of
approaching footsteps. The door creaked open and Cory entered once again only
this time he held Izzy's yellow laptop in his hands. He flopped down on the ground powering up the computer looking
the two over. "It's hard to
believe that they are going to give up so much to just to save you two".
"Do you really think that Devimon is
going to keep you around once he gets what he wants?" Kari demanded, "As
soon as he's done with you, you'll be in the same boat we are in now chained to
the wall waiting for him to act upon a whim".
"Ha, Devimon is a weak and a fool once I
get the power from the gate I'll dest…" Cory stopped when he realized what
he had said. TK and Kari's eyes met and
small smiles played on their faces, this could work to their advantage if they
played their cards right. A bright pink
and yellow light began to fill the room threatening to overtake the darkness.
'They know they have something on me' Cory thought bitterly.
He jumped up swiftly moving over to the two
grabbing TK's crest causing it to stop glowing in his evil touch. Cory then
looked closely at the symbol for the first time, hope was the one at the top of
the room and he had never taken the time to go check it out, something he was
regretting at that moment. "Good must have it taken in order for evil to
gain its true power…hope" he said and began to type happily on the
computer.
TK and Kari looked at each other with
confused looks but each knowing there were now in a lot more trouble than
before.
"I hate to do this" Biomon said
"but I need a break". The tiny band had been walking at a grueling
pace ever since they left Genni's cottage four hours prior. To everyone's surprise and relief both Tai
and Matt stopped and sat down without a word.
Matt still held onto the backpack left by his
brother his eyes showing a fraction of the torment ripping through his
heart. 'I promised to protect him and I
failed, he's paying for my failure now…'
"So do we have a plan going in there or
what?" Joe inquired.
"We do what he says and play it by ear,
don't worry everything and everyone will be all right," Tai answered shortly.
"Guys, this has been bothering me from the
start, why does Cory want to get you?" Gomamon asked his curiousity
finally getting the better of him.
All six seemed to think for a moment. Joe was
the first to speak "He used to be in one of my classes and I caught him
cheating on a big test. When I reported it he was thrown out of school and he
said he would get me back one day, I never imagined that it would be
here."
Mimi went next "I wouldn't go on a date
with him, he asked every day for a week and I turned him down every time. The
final time he got really mad and stormed off, I didn't see him again until the
first day of camp."
"All this because she wouldn't date
him" Patamon muttered angry at not only Cory and Devimon but also himself.
"Tai and I know him from the same
place" Sora said looking at her feet. "He was all trying out for the
same soccer team as us and in a scrimmage I passed the ball to Tai instead of
him, he thought that we planned it that way in so he wouldn't make the
team."
"His reason for getting me is simple, I
beat him for a spot in a really good computer class" Izzy said quickly
"that's probably why he went after my computer"
Matt was last "I really don't know why
he is after me or TK, we used to live by him before we moved to Heighten View
Terrace" Matt's eyes widened as memories came flooding back "now I
remember, he decided to pick on TK and some other little kids one day and I let
him have it, wow that was so long ago I'd almost forgotten about it".
"Well first those seem like really
stupid reasons to team up with a dark demon over, but at least we know why he
can power the crest now" Tentomon said flying up with some food for the
group.
"How can we stop him, he has a evil
digimon and four of our own on his side. He has seen everything we do I bet
that he's watching us both right now" Mimi said bursting into tears. Sora
walked over putting a hand on the sobbing girls shoulder until she stopped.
The words 'Watching us right now' rung in
Tai's head over and over. "That would explain a lot…" he looked up to
the path ahead that split three ways. The middle one obviously went to the
castle but Tai had other plans. "Time to move out" he said standing up heading down the path
to the right.
"Where are you going Tai, that's the
wrong way" Matt demanded TK was in danger and he wasn't in the mood for
one of Tai's power trips.
Tai looked at him and winked nodding his head
upwards, Matt caught on immediately the others took a little longer but caught
on as the two's argument progressed
"We clearly need to go left" he
finished pointing down the other wrong path forcefully.
"Don't start now you two" Sora said
stepping between the two as she always did, Cory was in for one of the best
performances of their young lives.
Cory sat in the chamber still punching away
at the computer every so often letting out a gleeful chuckle. He had inserted
his digivice apparently making the last of the repairs to it successfully.
"Why does he keep looking at me
funny" TK whispered to Kari fear tainting his voice.
"Got me, look in that pool thingy Matt
and Tai are fighting over which way to go again" she raised her voice for
the second part just loud enough for Cory to hear.
"What?" he demanded eyes ablaze and
looking into the pool his black crest began to glow darkly. "Master"
he yelled staring in disbelief.
Seconds later Devimon came in not in the best
of moods "This had better be good" he muttered.
"The idiots are fighting over which way
to go and even worse both are wrong" Cory answered as the boys began to
swing at each other.
"Kari remember last time they did this, we
had to stop for three days because Matt knocked Tai out" TK lied.
The bearer of light however played along
"Yeah, this time it looks worse though…"
Devimon rubbed his head trying to ease the
oncoming headache. "We don't have time for this, Greymon, Garurumon,
Togemon, Angewomon come here," he bellowed.
A few seconds later the four silently entered
the room showing no emotion not even noticing TK and Kari. "I want you to
go get the children now, we have wasted enough time." Devimon paused to
walk over to his captives grabbing TK's hat and Kari's scarf "Use these to
make them come quietly".
"As you command master" Greymon
said leading the group out the door.
When they were gone Devimon turned to Cory
who seemed to really be enjoying the fight unfolding before his eyes "Time
to make final preparations". Cory
smiled and tore his gaze away following Devimon out of the room. Everything was
falling into place.
"Wow, their real fights never last
this long" Mimi said in amazement watching the two boy continue to pummel
each other.
Sora nodded in agreement "I think this is
actually good for them, they both needed to get out all those feelings they
have been bottling up over the past few days".
"I hope they can keep it up a little
longer because I can see them coming now" Izzy said pointing to the sky
where the four infected digimon came flying in, all in mega forms.
"Are you sure you don't want us to
digivolve" Gomamon asked a little worried.
Tai nodded as he put in one last shot before
the others landed.
The four digimon looked at the children
coldly as Metalgreymon and Weregarurumon stepped forward dropping the scarf and
hat at Matt and Tai's feet. "Master Devimon wants you to come with us now," Lillymon said
stepping forward her delicate hand reaching for Mimi.
It was now of never "Now" Tai
yelled holding out his crest sending out a bright burst of orange energy. The
others did the same sending out the multiple colors, engulfing the four in a
ball of pure light. They cried in pain as the black gears flew out and
disappeared into nothingness.
Once the light faded Biomon approached
carefully, making sure it was safe. In the small crater Agumon, Gabumon,
Palmon, and Gatomon sat holding their heads looking at each other bewildered.
"It's okay there back" she called.
"Tai what are you doing here I thought
that you had run into the woods" Agumon asked as Tai helped him up pulling
him into a tight hug.
"You don't remember do you?" Izzy
asked still trying to figure out what the black gears really did and their
affects it its victims.
"How can you not remember?" Patamon
said walking up to Gatomon his eyes full of pain "you helped him take TK
and Kari how could you not remember?"
"What?" Gatomon asked in disbelief
"I hurt Kari…please tell me?"
"Come walk with me and I'll fill you
in" Biomon said beginning to again head toward the castle.
Both Devimon and Cory stared at the pool in
disbelief as reality began to sink in.
"Now your in for it" Kari taunted.
"Yeah their together again and now their
coming to get you" TK followed their crests were glowing brightly filling
up the entire room with light.
"Shut up" Devimon commanded
shielding his eyes "they're not all together I still have you two, that
means I still have power over them". He turned to Cory "Get ready, I must
go greet our guests who will be arriving a little later than planned" his
wings caused a breeze to blow through the room as he turned and stormed out.
Cory made sure that he was out of earshot.
"It won't be much longer now" he walked over and picked up TK who
tried to struggle but was held in place by the chains "You are the key,
you will help me destroy not only Devimon but your friends as well".
TK's eyes filled with tears and he faintly
heard Kari cry out herself when he mentioned killing the others. Cory began to
laugh his insane cackling could be heard echoing throughout the chamber.
Devimon looked out the large window to see
the children approaching the castle at the peak of the mountain. "Finally,
Cory they're here take him" he ordered walking out to greet his guests.
Cory grumbled under his breath and walked
over pulling Kari from her chains on the wall. She struggled a little as he
pulled her to the center of the room over symbol for light. The slight walk however did feel good to her
stiff legs after having been held in place so long courtesy of the chains Her
happiness didn't last long, once she was in place the shackles were again
attached holding her in place.
He then moved on to TK unchaining him and
pulling him out the door and up the dark stairwell next to the exit. TK wasn't sure what to do, he was scared,
Kari was all alone, and he knew the others where close because he could hear
their voices.
'I have to warn them' he thought "Matt!!
Run away it's a trap…" Cory shoved his hand roughly over the boy's mouth
muffling his cries.
"It's no use" he hissed, "soon
everything will be mine and your friends will be dead".
He kicked open the door at the top of the
stairs ending up at the top of the same chamber. Cory shoved TK onto the ledge and manned to only way off his
waiting would soon be over.
The six children and eight digimon stood
staring at the large wooden doors of the castle.
"Do we just knock?" Agumon asked.
Before anyone could answer the doors slowly
opened to reveal a pair of blood red eyes and a midnight black body, Devimon
stepped forward casting a shadow over the group. "Throw down your
digivices now".
Tai and Matt were the first to do so causing
the others to immediately follow Devimon's lips curled in a sinister smile
"Now to get rid of your guardians" with a wave of his hand they began
to float into the castle followed by the digivices.
Izzy grabbed for Tentomon but was too late
all they could do was watch their friends float away "No bring him
back" the normally quiet boy yelled his voice full of fury.
Mimi began weeping, "I just got her
back, not again"
"They will be all right…for now, now
come we have a lot to do" it was then that TK's cries echoed through the
halls causing Matt's eyes to blaze "What are you doing to them?" he
demanded wishing he could kill the demon with his bare hands.
"I haven't done anything yet, if you
want to see them follow me". The kids
fell into a single file line walking in silence lost in their own thoughts.
'I think we should take him now maybe Cory
wouldn't notice' Tai thought taking the lead.
'Hold on TK I'm coming' Matt followed.
Izzy was next 'I wonder where my computer is
and if it's still in one piece'
'I wonder what they really want us for' came
Sora looking around the dark halls.
'I wish I had my big stick back I bet Cory's
around hear somewhere and I want to get a lick in for what he did to Palmon'
Mimi thought smiling at the memory to nailing him in the stomach.
Joe brought up the rear 'We are so doomed, we
are so doomed, we are so doomed…'
They snaked through the seemingly endless
passages until Devimon finally stopped and opened to door to the chamber. As the doors opened Tai's brown eyes
immediately fell on his bound sister, she seemed weak but alive. Overjoyed he ran past Devimon and to her
side. "Kari" he cried pulling
her into a tight hug, surprised that Devimon didn't try to stop him.
A ping of jealousy ran through Matt's body as
he watched the reunion "Where's TK?" Matt demanded after seeing his
brother wasn't in the room.
"Look up" Devimon said grabbing
Izzy by the collar of his shirt.
Matt ignored this and looked up to see TK on
the ledge with Cory right behind him with a smug look on his face 'I'm going to
wipe that look off of his face with my fist' he thought with narrowed eyes.
"You've seen him, now into your groove
under your crests" Devimon's demanded his hand began to glow with the
touch of evil, the black light threatening to envelope Izzy.
No one argued and Tai reluctantly left his
sister taking his place between Sora and Joe. As the fell into place Devimon powered down his attacked and tossed Izzy
to his spot raising his hands high darkening the room. "Now give your power to the Light," he
said his voice becoming distant and his eyes glazing over.
The digidestined closed their eyes not know
really how to comply yet feeling a new power within them stir. The six crests sparked to life, glowing in
their respective colors. Kari watched
in awe the immense light began to surround her. Her own crest lit up absorbing
the power like a vacuum converting it to the pink aura that surrounded her
small body.
"Light to Hope" he yelled not even
attempting to keep the excitement out of his voice. Kari's aura disappeared in
beam of light that shot up toward TK.
At the top TK was shaking with fear.
"Shhh it will all be over in a second" Cory whispered right before TK
was surrounded and disappeared into the light.
Like with Kari's, TK's crest absorbed the
light forming a blazing golden aura around the boy. The aura flashed a beam of pure light shot into gate. Every one
of the symbols began to glow in their bearers color as the gate began to open.
In the depths of the castle the digimon sat
locked in a small cell. Each one sat looking for a way out.
"There is nothing up here," Tentomon
buzzed as he and Biomon finished inspecting the ceiling stone ceiling.
"Can't get through the walls," Gomamon
said glumly as he finished his check with Gatomon kicking one of the bricks for
good measure.
"Maybe we can chew through the
bars" Agumon suggested taking hold on one by the mouth preparing to
forcefully chomp down when Gatomon stopped him "If you don't want to eat
solid foods again go right ahead" she warned.
Palmon squealed with delight as she sunk her roots
into the floor "We can dig are way out, it dirt" she said happily.
The others dove to the floor digging claws, wings, and flippers in shoveling
away feeling the their digidestined needed them and needed them soon.
Meanwhile up in the chamber the amazed
digidestined watched in awe as the ceiling slowly open bringing light into the
room. Cory carefully walked onto the ledge and picked up TK and again covered
his mouth not wanting him to warn his brother or Devimon. Below Devimon himself
reached over and again picked up Izzy knowing the kids would try anything if
they got the chance.
The gate was now fully open and a small black
object was seen hurling toward the earth.
"Hang a left" Tentomon yelled as
they came to a fork in the tunnels. They
obeyed running right into what seemed to be a small bedroom furnished only by a
bed and a desk.
On the desk sat eight familiar devices, "The
digivices" Patamon cried with joy flying over and picking up TK's before
handing out the others.
"Isn't that Izzy's computer in the
corner" Gabumon asked pointing to the object tucked away in the corner.
"Sure is he'll be really happy to get
this back" Tentomon replied carefully picking up his digidestines prize
possession.
"We need to go before Devimon gets his
hands on whatever he was after" Agumon said his voice edgy, he could feel
something was wrong and if they didn't hurry they would be too late.
The kids stood in front of Devimon still
watching in awe, Tai had freed his sister and now held her tightly in his arms
determined to protect her this time around.
"We can't let him get that," Sora
whispered to Matt who nodded "we need to get to TK too" he said in
response.
However their little conversation didn't go unnoticed,
"Try anything and you lose the bearer of knowledge" Devimon grumbled holding
Izzy a little tighter shutting the pair up.
Up at the top Cory smiled. "It's
time" he quietly said stepping forward as the object finally cleared the
gate and landed into his free hand. He pulled it to his icy eyes looking it over,
"All this for a egg" he muttered but when he heard TK's muffled cries he knew
it had to be something big.
Devimon cheered "Excellent work Cory bring
it to me and we will be able to take over both worlds as well as take care of
these children once and for all". "Coming"
Cory replied then lowered his voice "Little does he know he's going to met his
end just as your friends are…at my hands" he could feel the warm tears coming
from TK as he struggled harder to get away.
Devimon tapped his foot impatiently waiting
for Cory to enter the room with the egg. His eyes stayed on the digidestined as they sat in silence casting
each other odd looks, but he knew he was safe as long as he had a hostage. After a few moments Cory came in his crest
glowing darker than ever.
"You've got what you wanted now let TK
go" Matt said carefully stepping forward holding his arms out to take TK
from him. His heart nearly ripped in
two when he saw the look in his brother's eyes, it was a look of pure and utter
terror. He was also trying to tell him
something but Cory's hand stopped the words angering Matt even more.
Cory took a step away refusing pulling him
close "No, I need him". Devimon turned to see the commotion. "Now Cory I
told them that when they gave me what I wanted I would give them what they
wanted, I may be evil but I have honor and never go back on my word. Give him back so they can die together".
"They're not going to die period, Blue
Blaster" Gabumon yelled from the door hitting Cory in the back. He let out a cry of pain and fell forward
onto the stone floor hard, losing his grip on TK on the way down. Matt swooped
in like a hawk catching him before he hit the floor and holding him tight. Felt
Matt arms wrap around him for the first time in what seemed like forever, and
he finally felt safe. He clutched Matt's
shirt and buried his face in his chest releasing everything he had kept inside
for the past few days.
Across the room a very unhappy Tentomon was in
the process of saving his own digidestined "Super Shocker" he called
sending the electricity into the demon. He bent over with an annoyed look on his face turning his fury on the
bug.
With Izzy momentarily forgotten Palmon used
her vies to pull him to safety out of Devimon's clutches.
Cory pushed himself up slowly his entire body
shaking with an inhuman rage. The crest
around his neck also shaking with the dark power feeding off of the boy's
anger. "Give me the child
now" he screamed at his feet the digiegg began to hatch.
"Cory you fool what on earth are you
doing!" Devimon shouted throwing Agumon off of him sending him flying into
Biomon getting the two out of his way for a few seconds.
"We should digivolve," Mimi cried as
Gatomon flew over her head.
"No the room is to small and we would
get crushed" Tai said dodging Gomamon and Patamon.
"I'm sick of you" Cory screamed turning
his attention from the brothers for a moment "ever since I brought you
back to life you have been pushing me around not giving me one ounce of
respect, now I have no more use for you, you have brought the child I needed to
me, and helped me get my digimon, so this is goodbye." he raised his hands
creating a ball of dark energy being fed by the crest. At his feet the digiegg
fully hatched revealing a small digimon that no one could really make out.
Without second thought he fired at Devimon,
who was still stunned from the outburst, hitting him full force in the stomach.
The virus cried out as his body began
to dissolve bit by bit until there was nothing left on the demon king.
While Cory was busy with Devimon the kids
made a break for the door and running out of the castle. Izzy led the way following the map that had
so conveniently been left of his computer. They ran out the door "Digivolve" Tai shouted once they were in
the clear. All the digimon went mega with the exception of Angemon. (Like I
said before I'm too lazy to type it all out).
As the digimon finished lone dark figure
appeared at the door carrying something in his arms. Once on the drawbridge
Cory spoke. "Give me the child," he thundered his voice seemed to echo
throughout the mountain his eyes had became pure black to match the aura behind
him.
"Izzy what on earth does he want?"
Joe asked watching as the crazed boy walk toward the group.
"I have no idea" he replied typing
on his computer, he seemed to be almost smiling as he worked; he had been
reunited with his best friend and felt like he was useful again.
At the back of the group and behind the wall
of digimon Matt still held onto TK, "I'm the one he wants Matt" TK
whimpered.
Matt glanced down in shock, as did Sora who
was right next to him "What" he said looking into his brother's eyes for more
explanation.
"He wants me Matt he said so in the
castle" TK again repeated.
"Well he's not going to get you"
Matt said rubbing his back comfortingly. Angemon walked over to the two "Don't worry I'll get him" he
said ruffling TK's hair before taking to the skies where he was quickly joined
by Angewomon. TK smiled he had said the same thing just before he took out
Devimon.
His crest began to glow and shot a beam at
Cory causing him to cry out but his digivice began to glow causing his small
digimon to digivolve leaving Cory on the ground unconscious.
"Izzy you can tell us who that is any
time now." Tai said seeing something from his nightmares appear before
him.
"That's Scarecrowmon" the genius
replied his finger flying "that's all the information given on him".
"All you need to know is he's terribly
evil" Genni said flying in on Unimon "see I told you that I would
help you out".
Metalgreymon was the first to charge the
monster. "Straw Dart" he yelled hitting the dinosaur head on.
Genni landed as the digimon helped ward off
the new foe. "Listen kids there is only one way to defeat him and that is
to get Cory out of here, you need to make a portal like the one you used to get
here the second time"
"Genni I hate to be a downer but how do
we do that?" Joe asked as glancing over at the battle in time to see
Megakabuterimon slam into the castle door.
Izzy answered for him "Easy, we use the power
of the digivices to transport him home" he said putting the puzzle together.
"Yes correct as always". Genni said
his eyes glimmering "now the only catch is you have to surround Cory and
that means getting past Scarecrowmon".
Their hearts sank as he finished the
sentence. Sora looked at Garudamon. "I have an idea I'll get Garudamon to
take off with him that should by the few seconds we need."
"Sounds good to me" Tai said
grabbing Kari by the hand.
"Everyone ready" Sora checked as
the group nodded "okay Garudamon get him"
Garudamon swooped down and picked up the
scarecrow taking him high into the air kicking and screaming all the way. The
two angles flew up to grab onto his arms while Megakabuterimon held his legs.
Cory held his head in pain as he slowly came
too 'That's why I needed him, next time he's the one who gets drained…stupid
child I'll get him for this' he looked around to see the digidestined surrounded
him each one holding out their digivice.
"Bye Cory" Kari waved with a cheerful
smile on her face as they began to active creating the pillar of light.
He yelled in rage sending out a string of obscenities
that children his age weren't meant to know; Matt and Tai cringed wishing they
could cover TK and Kari's ears at that moment.
Soon his voice and figure had faded allowing
the pillar to disappear leaving a burned mark on the ground as the only
evidence it had existed at all. Scarecrowmon
disappeared in a flash of black light his voice echoing off of the hills "Master
help me…" The nightmare was over…or was it.
A/N: That was my first fic so I hoped you
liked it and it will explain a lot of what happens in Family Ties (the next
chapter). Anyway in the segment below are out takes for my fic, I love doing
humors but putting these things in would ruin the flow so enjoy and please
review.
Destined for Revenge- Bloopers
Part 1
Before Sora could answer Izzy's voice was
heard. "No need I'm getting a e-mail from someone."
He opened the computer while Sora walked over
to join him. The noise had awakened Tai, Joe and Matt as well. They too walked
over to see, Matt carefully laid TK down with Gabumon as a pillow.
"Doesn't he understand I need my beauty
sleep?" Mimi mumbles sitting up.
"Good evening" the message began
"are you sick of high long distance rates, if you are do we have a deal
for you…"
Izzy groans and shuts his computer as the
kid's glare at him.
The shadow laughed and disappeared into thin
air. Matt and Tai finally reached the two children who jumped into their
brother's arms. The other digimon came flying out of the forest ready to fight.
"You're a little late," Tai said
Agumon looked devastated "I haven't
gotten to digivolve once today, Tai go fall off a cliff or something so I
can."
The group gave him a weird look and backed away.
Devimon peered into the pool "I didn't
think that they would catch on so fast" he said to himself. My dark child
is going to need some help. He waved his hands and hundreds of Sparrowmon flew
in from the darkness of his castle. "Go my minions, the dark child will
instruct you one you arrive.
The Sparrowmon headed for the window running
into the screen and falling to the floor.
"I knew I forgot to do something"
Devimon said pulling out his conquer the world to do list 'take screens off of
the windows'.
Part 2
Cory sat on a log trying to get into Izzy's
computer without any success. He sighed and looked up at the battle, all of the
Sparrowmon were gone just leaving the seven guardians fighting each other.
He then felt something on his head as one of
the birds flew over he slowly reached his hand up.
"Ahhh now I need a shower, this is like
the fifth time today can't we put diapers on those things or something"
Mimi went next although she swung and Cory
ducked Joe wasn't able to get out the way in time and fell down unconscious.
Mimi put the stick down and walked away as whistling.
Devimon walked over to the pool waving his
hands causing an image of the cottage to appear. With another wave the pool
began to smoke and the image disappeared. "Ah man the warranty just
expired," he said kicking it then pulling out his to do list 'get new viewing
pool'.
"I'll never get over how much you kids
eat," Genni said clearing up the dinner dishes. "Hey has anyone seen my
Chia Pet" Tai looked at the ground, "I thought it was some sort of
salad" Genni looked crushed "No not Mr. Chia Cow"
Outside the cottage in the bushes Devimon
smiled. "This couldn't get any better" he thought "I'll let them
get caught up in what they are doing then I'll strike." He then realized
that he was hiding in a patch of poison ivy. "Doesn't his guy ever weed
his garden, how can you have poison ivy when you have little kids running
around Angewomon go fetch me some ointment"
Mimi rubbed her eyes, they had been reading
for about three hours. She stood up stretching her arms. "Genni where is
your powder room?"
"Down the hall across from the where the
little ones are sleeping" not looking up from the scroll he was reading.
"Hold on I'll come with you" Sora
said quickly standing up.
"Hey could you check on TK for me?"
Matt asked looking up.
"Sure" Mimi said as she and Sora
walked down the hall.
Tai watched them go "Genni why do girls
always do that".
"Because we plot are hostile world take
over while were in there bwa ha ha ha ha ha" the girls replied walking
down the hall.
The boys all jumped behind the couch afraid
to come out.
"Tai, Matt get down here" Sora
yelled frantically. Then the sound of shattering glass sent the entire group
running as Devimon fell through the living room ceiling. He landed and looked
around "okay who moved my mark"
The two fell silent at the sound of
approaching footsteps. The door shook as if someone was trying to open in.
"Why won't it open" Cory said a little annoyed. "Push not
pull" TK and Kari said through the giggles. Cory walked in his face bright
red "I knew that"
Cory began to laugh his insane cackling could
be heard echoing throughout the chamber his laughs became a coughing fit as he
struggled to catch his breath. "I swallowed a bug," he said wiping the
tears out of his eyes.
Part 4
The six crests began to glow and Kari watched
in awe the immense power surrounded her. Her crest absorbed the power and began
to glow a bright orange. "Hey that's not right" Devimon said looking
at the other kids Tai had pink, Matt red, Joe purple, Mimi silver, and Sora
blue. "Who's been playing with the color settings? Can't a guy take over
the world and kill his enemies without every single little thing going
wrong."
"Maybe we can chew through the
bars" Agumon suggested taking hold on one by the mouth and chomping down a
small tink was heard as one of his teeth fell onto the floor. He began to run
around the cell screaming hysterically. "I didn't even get a chance to
warn him," Gatomon said with a sigh.
Up at the top Cory smiled. "It's time,"
he said stepping forward as the object cleared the gate he reached out his free
hand to grab it but missed. The egg fell through the air and landed on Tai's
head knocking him out cold. The others looked up at Cory who turned away
sheepishly "It slipped so sue me".
After that he was done and the children
celebrated and Scarecrowmon disappeared in a flash of black light allowing the
digimon to devolve into rookie form and run to their partners to celebrate. TK
and Kari then tackled Joe to the ground and grabbed his crest leaving theirs in
its place. "You can get taken hostage by the insane people next time"
the two said running into the forest.
The End so please enjoy the sequel Family
Ties and review.
