Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, someone else does (I'm not sure who!). All others belong to Squaresoft Inc. This is my first Digi-fic and the most difficult crossover I've attempted yet, so please forgive me if I screw up. This takes place just after Myotismon's death and the return to Digi-World. Please review!!
Digimon: Final Reality
1: Digidestined defeated
Remnants of Myotismon's castle: Digi-World
Myotismon was dead and his castle was in ruins but a new evil 'tenant' had moved in on a scavenger hunt. His name was Necromon. He had been a Dark Master but now, thanks to Piedmon, he was a renegade. He looked very similar to Devimon in appearance except he was red instead of black and he had spikes protruding from his shoulders and legs as well as wings and skulls on his back. He was also a Mega level Digimon. But for all his power, Necromon knew that he now faced a very big problem: the Digidestined. He cast his mind over his predecessors' efforts: Devimon had nearly killed them all but had been destroyed, which had been a surprise. The defeat of Etemon had been less shocking; the bumbling ape hadn't even come close to beating them. Then came the biggest shock of all: Myotismon's defeat.
All of this led Necromon to an inescapable conclusion: a new approach was needed. Against the Digidestined, it seemed even the very best were not good enough. Direct confrontation wasn't an option without an ace in the hole, which was what he was looking for now around the crumbling ruins. Still, despite the havoc the Dark Masters had wreaked on the Digi-World the dimension gate still remained.
"Arachnomon, have you found them yet?"
Another Digimon, a large spider-like Ultimate Digimon with crab claws, scuttled forward. "I'm afraid not, Lord Necromon. This castle was huge! He could have hidden them anywhere and there's a lot of rubble to search through!"
"I don't care what size this castle was!" Necromon snapped. "If we don't find them, my plan is useless!"
As Arachnomon scuttled away to continue searching, Necromon went down to where the dimension gate still stood. Somehow it had survived the castle's destruction. If all went well, he would soon need it.
"Master! I think I've found them!" Arachnomon scuttled back.
Necromon followed his spider henchman to a spot near the dimension gate. Necromon saw it at once; there was a concealed panel in the floor near the gate. He quickly ripped it open and as he saw the 9 cards inside, an unpleasant sneer spread across his face.
"Perfect!"
"What good are those, Master?" Arachnomon asked.
"All will be revealed in good time," Necromon said. "Prepare yourself for battle. We have some pests to squash!"
"Are the 2 of us enough to defeat them, Master? We know what happened to VenomMyotismon!"
"If we act carefully, we will be more than a match for them. Our former friends have just done us a service by exhausting them. And here's what we're going to do…"
A beach on what was File Island
"But everyone's ok, right?" Tai was asking. "Besides being hungry and cold and lost…"
"Don't forget frightened, tired and upset about Piximon," Sora put in.
"Other than that, we're fine!" Matt muttered sarcastically.
It hadn't been a good day for the Digidestined. Since they'd got back to the Digi-World they'd been utterly trounced by Piedmon and his Dark Masters and the Digi-World had deteriorated still further since they'd left to fight Myotismon.
"I have a feeling we've been here before," Izzy broke in. "Wait a minute! Look! Those smashed up phone booths!"
"You don't think they could be the same ones, do you?" Sora couldn't believe it.
Tai realised at once. "Of course! I can't believe it! All this time we thought were making progress but we've just been going in one big circle!"
"Then allow me to end that circle for you!" Everyone whirled round to see Necromon descending from the skies. He stopped a few feet away and hovered over them. "It's hard to imagine how weaklings like you could prove so annoying!"
Izzy quickly brought out his laptop and accessed the Digimon file. He paled when he saw Necromon's stats.
"That's Necromon! He's another Mega Virus Digimon!"
"Another Dark Master?" Tai shuddered.
"I was," Necromon growled. "Until that impudent funster Piedmon expelled me. But now I'm in a position to rectify that! Once I defeat you, the other Dark Masters will be forced to respect me and fear me!"
"Not happening!" Matt snarled.
"Yeah! We've beaten worse than you!" Tai added.
"Have you really? All I've seen of late is you losing to my Dark friends and that's exhausted you. If you couldn't beat Piedmon, what do you plan to do against the likes of me?!"
"Can we shut this big mouth up?" Matt asked.
Tai was all for that. "Gladly. Agumon?"
~Agumon warp Digivolve to…WARGREYMON!~
~Gabumon warp Digivolve to…METALGARURUMON!~
"What do you say now, Necromon?" Matt challenged.
Necromon merely sneered. "I say…you lose! NECRO CRUSHER!"
The kids watched in horror as Necromon unleashed a massive red fireball catching both Digimon head on, draining their energy and forcing them back to their Rookie forms.
Necromon chuckled evilly as he looked down at them. "Anyone else want to take a shot?"
All the other Digimon quickly digivolved into their Champion forms but, as before, they were no match for a Mega Digimon at full power.
"Pathetic!" Necromon snorted as he smashed Ikkakumon and Togemon to the floor, knocking them both out of the fight. None of their attacks seemed to faze him. If anything they just made him stronger.
"Is it just me or is he getting more powerful each time they hit him?" Joe screamed.
"It seems that's the case!" Izzy replied gloomily. "Even if they go to Ultimate they're still outmatched!"
The inevitable result soon came and the exhausted Digimon were all forced back to Rookie level.
"Sorry Joe," Gomamon whimpered. "He's just too strong!"
"That's right and I'm about to get stronger still! Arachnomon!"
With that, the hideous spider Digimon leapt into the fray. "TANGLER NET!"
Instantly all of the kids and their Digimon were covered in a massive net of sticky cobweb.
"Ewww…gross! I hate spiders!" Mimi wailed.
"That was easier than I thought!" Necromon gloated. "And I thought you would be more of a challenge."
"Let us out of here, you bag of hot wind!" Tai raged.
"If you ask me, it's you Digidestined that's the hot wind! I was hoping for more of a fight than this. If I'd let you recover a little more perhaps it would have been more of a match. A pity we will never know, eh? SOUL DRAIN!"
Red light beams fired out from Necromon and wrapped around each Digimon and Digidestined. All screamed in agony as Necromon drained energy from all of them at once. After a while Necromon released them and they dropped unconscious.
Arachnomon was baffled. "Master, why don't you just finish them and be done with it here?"
"Because that would be too quick!" Necromon said. "I know I could stretch their deaths out for hours but it still wouldn't be long enough! For what they've done I want something that'll last a lifetime and I think I know how to do it. Let's gather them up. We must move them to the gate."
"At once," Arachnomon moved to help Necromon. Timing was of the essence. Unlike his master, Arachnomon did not relish the idea of another fight.
The dimension gate: 2 hours later
"Tai…Tai…can you hear me?"
"Uhh…yeah, I'm ok," Tai opened his eyes and saw that he was tied down to a concrete slab with spider web with Agumon next to him. He looked around to find the others all in the same situation.
"Is everyone ok?"
Necromon emerged from the shadows. "Don't worry. They're all here and they're all still alive. I wouldn't want to leave anyone out!"
"Out of what?" Tai didn't like the sound of this.
"Out of the reward for your failure. You should recognise this place. You've been here before after all."
Izzy recognised it as soon as he saw it. "The dimension gate! But the castle…"
"…Fell apart? Yes, it did. But the gate still exists and fortunately so do these."
Necromon pulled out the cards and started to place them in the compartments on the gate controller.
Izzy's eyes nearly popped out of his skull. "What? But Gennai has…"
"Merely one set," Necromon calmly explained. "Myotismon kept another in case something went wrong for him here. It may not have done him much good but it has ensured my victory! With you stranded in another realm and out of my way I will be ruler of this world and yours! Arachnomon!"
The spider Digimon scuttled over and attached more web lines to Matt, Izzy, Gabumon and Tentomon. Necromon grabbed Tai and Agumon as the gate opened up.
"TK!" Matt screamed in despair.
"Touching!" Necromon chuckled. "But don't worry. You're all going to the same world. You'll find each other, assuming you manage to live long enough! Have a nice trip! HA HA HA!"
With that, they were flung through the portal. Joe, Mimi and their Digimon followed them with Sora, Kari and TK last. Necromon then closed the portal.
"Well, that's that."
"Where did you send them, master?"
"To another realm that's much like their own."
Arachnomon was confused. "But how is that punishing them? And what's to stop them from coming back?"
"That world is like their own but it's certainly not as peaceful!" Necromon chuckled. "It was almost destroyed in a near-cataclysm recently and, if my predictions are accurate, it's about to face another one. Even if they survive all that they will not return anytime soon, if at all. That world is not directly connected to our world like theirs is. Unless someone over there has discovered how to create a dimension gate like this one they are stranded forever!"
"Then the future is assured, Master?" Arachnomon smiled.
"Ours is, at least," Necromon grinned. "Come, we have some loose ends to tie up before we take control of this world, namely Gennai and Piedmon!"
Another world…
Sora, TK, Kari and their Digimon landed in a heap on a wide grassy plain.
"What's so bad about this place? This looks like your world, Sora!" Biyomon said.
"I don't know," Sora replied. "It's probably not our world though. Necromon wouldn't have sent us home. We'd be able to get back to the Digital World from there."
"Where's Tai?" Kari asked, looking round in alarm.
"Matt's not here either!" TK broke in.
"Don't worry. I'm sure they're alright," Patamon tried to reassure them.
"He's right," Sora added. "They can look after themselves. Let's just try and find out where we are."
"Why don't we ask whoever lives there?" Gatomon suggested pointing with her claw.
A small town lay in the distance. It didn't look much different from any other small settlement except for one thing: it had a rocket launch pad right next to it.
Sora didn't know what to think. It didn't look dangerous, but she was certain that Necromon wouldn't have sent them here if it were completely safe. Still, Gatomon was right, it was worth checking out.
Elsewhere…
Tai, Matt, Izzy and their digimon weren't having so much luck. They'd come out of the portal onto a frozen wasteland in the middle of a snowstorm! Fortunately they'd landed near a cave and soon they were all huddled inside trying to keep warm. Agumon quickly used his Pepper Breath to light a fire in the cave.
"Tai, I've got to go look for TK!" Matt was going crazy with worry.
Tai sighed and checked his digivice and got no reading at all. That meant they were miles, if not hundreds of miles away or the storm was jamming it. "He's not anywhere nearby, Matt, and what could we do if he was? It's freezing cold and we don't know where we are!"
Izzy, as usual, was checking his laptop. He wasn't getting much information though. "Bummer! The only thing I can say for certain is that we're not in the digital world anymore. We're probably not on our world either."
"I don't care where we are as long as we can go somewhere warmer!" Agumon complained.
"Good idea!" Tentomon added.
With nothing else to do, they huddled by the fire to wait until the storm passed. As Matt moved to join them he noticed a green glow from the back of the cave. As he looked closer he noticed that it was some kind of crystal. It continued to glow bright green even when he picked it up. He quickly slipped it into his pocket and went back to join the others.
'Rocket' Town
As Sora and her group got closer, they could see that the town wasn't uninhabited.
"Hey, there's people there!" TK couldn't believe it.
"Could this actually be our world?" Kari asked.
"Maybe," Sora replied. She still didn't believe it was though. She turned to the digimon. "You'd best pretend to be stuffed animals again. We don't know what the people are like here."
"No problem," Biyomon said as she flew into Sora's arms.
"Let's go check out that rocket!" TK started running toward it after picking up Patamon.
They could see several engineers in orange and blue uniforms working on the rocket and its support gantries as they got closer. Sora couldn't understand this. Why build a rocket next to what was little more than a small village?
"Can I help you?" They turned to see a woman in a lab coat standing behind them. "I don't believe I've seen you around here before."
"Uh, no, we're kind of lost," Sora said weakly.
"Lost?" The woman couldn't believe it. "You must be extremely lost to get here. There's nothing around here for miles! Are you from Nibelheim or somewhere near there?"
Sora couldn't think of much else to say. She didn't know how to explain where they'd come from. "Uh, well, we…"
"It doesn't matter. We'll go see the Captain and arrange to get you back. Follow me." She started walking toward the rocket. "Oh, I'm Shera by the way and you are…?"
"Sora. This is TK and Kari."
"Pleased to meet you," Shera said. She pointed at their digimon. "Leave your toys down there. The rocket isn't exactly a place for them."
They climbed the stairs to the gantry and then walked to the rocket's entrance. A lot of hammering could be heard from just inside.
"Captain!" Shera called.
"Not now, Shera. Can't you see I'm @$%^&* busy with this $%&^! thing!"
Sora and Shera quickly covered TK and Kari's ears in a vain attempt to keep them from hearing the Captain's obscenities.
"Cid, this is kind of an emergency," Shera said.
"Alright, I'm coming out!"
A silver-haired man wearing a flight jacket and smoking a large cigar came out of the rocket.
"What's wrong now Shera? I've got to get this thing fixed!"
"It's these kids, Cid. They wandered through the mountains and they got lost."
"Oh great," Cid muttered. "A babysitting job. We're going to be stuck with them for awhile, Shera. Reeve's using the Highwind II, the Tiny Bronco's still under repair and I'm certainly not going through Mount Nibel without some back-up!"
Shera nodded. She'd expected as much. "I'll tell the inn to expect some visitors."
Cid looked at Sora with an amazed expression. "Tell me something uh, what was the name?"
"Sora."
"Ok, Sora. How did you 3 kids manage to get through Mount Nibel with no escort and no weapons? That area's full of monsters!"
Sora, TK and Kari all exchanged worried glances. Monsters?
"It's kind of hard to explain…" Sora started to say.
"Ah, doesn't matter," Cid broke in. "Let's go back to the house and you can tell me there. Oh, I almost forgot. I'm Cid, most people call me Captain though."
With that, Cid led them off the gantry and down the stairs. Unfortunately, Cid didn't notice the 'stuffed toys' at the bottom of the stairs and ended up stepping on Gatomon's foot!
"What the %$£!" Cid jumped backward as he found himself facing a furious Gatomon.
"That hurt!" the cat digimon snorted. "LIGHTNING CL…"
"No, Gatomon!" Kari ran down the stairs quickly.
"Uh-oh!" Sora wasn't pleased at this turn of events.
"A talking monster!?" Cid couldn't believe it.
"They're not monsters!" TK said, scooping up Patamon as he did so.
"Well, not exactly anyway," Sora added.
Cid considered this and then looked around. "We'd best go to my house and talk there. We're drawing flies!"
The kids looked round and saw that they were drawing a crowd that was gaping in shock at the digimon.
Cid managed to get everyone into his house and bolt the door behind him.
"Ok. Just give me the whole story. What are they? A Shinra Mako experiment gone wrong?"
Sora, Kari and TK gave him the whole story of the Digidestined and how they'd ended up here. Cid's head felt like it was going to split open once she'd finished.
Shera wasn't doing much better. "You'd better talk to Reeve about this."
"Good idea," Cid muttered as he walked over to the new video link that he'd just had installed and switched it on. A bearded man in a blue suit appeared on the screen.
"Reeve? I've got a situation here. I've just had 3 kids with talking Mon… creatures drop in on me!"
"What, you too?" Reeve replied, shocked.
"What do you mean 'me too'?" Cid asked.
"I've got two here myself. Dropped right out of some kind of portal into my office while I was in a meeting! Their names are Joe and Mimi. The creatures are Gomamon and Palmon apparently."
"Can we go meet up with them?" Sora asked.
"I'll need some transport," Cid said.
"I'll send the Turks with a Gelnika airplane to pick you up. I'll see you in Junon soon."
"Christ! What a $%£^ day!" Cid muttered.
"Is he always like that?" Sora asked as Cid walked away.
"All the time," Shera said.
Ice Glacier
"TK!" Matt was calling out again and again over the ice wastes but there was no answer.
"I wish we could find the others!" Tai said to Izzy. "He's been driving me crazy since we left the cave!"
"Sorry Tai," Izzy apologised. "But I still don't know where we are. I can only surmise that we're in the polar region of wherever we've been sent and that probably means we're miles from anywhere and anyone!"
"We should find shelter," Gabumon warned. "I think another storm is coming!"
Unfortunately he wasn't wrong. The winds had picked up again and soon they were in the middle of another raging snowstorm.
"Everyone stick together!" Tai screamed.
"It's too late, Tai! Matt and Gabumon are gone!" Izzy shouted back.
Tai looked around in panic. "Oh man! We'll never find him in this storm!"
"We've got to find shelter or we'll freeze, Tai!" Izzy warned.
Matt and Gabumon were just on the edge of a group of firtrees nearby. They hadn't actually gone very far from the others but the storm prevented them from seeing or hearing them.
"Tai gets us lost again and then he loses himself and Izzy too! Typical!" Matt snorted.
Oddly enough, Gabumon did not reply.
Matt frowned as he turned to his digimon. "Gabumon? Are you…"
Matt gaped in horror as he saw his friend face down in the snow. Standing over him was a powerfully built man. He was white-haired, dressed in black with white shoulder pads and he held a Japanese katana style sword that was almost as big as he was. But it was his eyes that really scared Matt. They glowed bright green with malevolence. That was all Matt had time to take in before the stranger raised his sword and brought the hilt down on Matt's head. Matt saw stars and then nothing.
By the time Tai and the others found their way through the snow, Matt, his digimon and his assailant had all vanished into thin air…
TO BE CONTINUED…