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Chapter 1 : Helplessness

It has been 4 years since the 8 Digidestined defeated the Dark Masters and restored order to the Digital World. Returning with their Digital Guardians, the Digidestined have lived life in safety. But evil never rests, and the gates between the real and digital have once again opened.

Tai and Izzy were at the local arcade when it all happened. The sun was out, and the temperatures had reached a record high of 112 degrees. People tried whatever they could to remain cool, never anticipating another problem would come up. Tai wiped his brow as sweat ran down his face. He went to the arcade with Izzy because it was air-conditioned, and Sora was out shopping with Mimi. Tai smiled as he hammered at the buttons on the table, "Looks like I win again, Izzy!"

Izzy squinted his eyes at the message on his screen, "No way! I have the brains, the skills!" Izzy yelled as he placed 3 more quarters into the coin slot.

Tai turned to face Izzy, "Oh, so you want to feel my wrath one more time, huh?" Tai placed his left hand on the arcade stick and his right hovering over the attack buttons. "Don't worry, Izzy. I'll toy with you for a minute or two so you get your money's worth!" Tai laughed as the match began.

They'd been playing Digital Battle for over 3 hours. The game was made by some avid programmers who witnessed Myotismon's attack on Earth. Tai selected MetalGreymon while Izzy selected MegaKabuterimon. The game ran like any other fighting game; you fought one-on-one battles, filled up your power meters, and unleashed your best attacks to win. Tai landed his the first hit by sneaking in a jab while Izzy tried to use his Horn Buster attack. Izzy growled as his fighter fell back from the hit, but smiled as he unleashed Horn Buster on Tai's MetalGreymon. Tai pushed up on his stick to try to avoid the shot, but the resulting explosion knocked MetalGreymon to the ground.

Izzy grinned, "Looks like you're going to lose, Tai." Izzy's bar was at full, and he began to key in the combo for MegaKabuterimon's Ultimate Attack, Buster Storm. Tai wailed on the buttons to try to get up, but MetalGreymon remained on the ground. Izzy laughed out load, "It's all over!" As Izzy hit the button, the windows exploded in the arcade.

Tai ducked down and pulled Izzy to the ground to avoid the flying glass. Tai slowly got up and surveyed the damage, "What happened? Hey, Izzy! Look, your Digivice is going crazy!"

Izzy pulled his Digivice from his pocket, which was glowing from the digivice's power. Izzy's eyes rattled as it's power indicator flashed full, then empty. He looked up at Tai, "Is yours like this?"

Tai nodded an acknowledgment as he pulled at his own digivice. "You don't suppose something's wrong in Digiworld, do you?"

Izzy did not answer, he was staring in fear at something behind Tai. His eyes, wide like the hole in the ozone. His mouth dropped open at the sight he feared. He trembled as he moved to point up at the sky, which now was lined with black clouds.

Tai turned to see what caused his friend to freeze in a fearful state. He saw what Izzy saw, but couldn't believe it. The six winged figure stood in the sky, nearly a black away. Its black wings slowly flapped to keep it in the sky. Its helmet had two horns shooting out its sides and one from its forehead. Long, blonde hair ran down his shoulders as he slowly advanced towards Tai and Izzy. Tai mumbled, "It... looks like Angemon... but there's something evil about it."

Izzy snapped out of his trance and pulled out his laptop. He opened his Digimon identifying program and scanned the figure with his digivice. A message flashed across the screen:

No available data. Digimon unknown.

Digimon unknown? Could it be that there are digimon that not even Gennia knew about? Izzy thought as the figure neared their Location. Ok, then we simply scan for anything we can use. He hit some more buttons on his keyboard and scanned the figure again with his digivice. Data fed into the laptop and appeared on the screen.

Digimon Unknown. Subject is of the vaccine type. Power readings suggest it is at the Ultimate level of its digivolution chain.

So, it's not as powerful as the Dark Masters. This shouldn't be too bad. "Hey, Tai, I think we better open our bags."

Tai nodded and reached for his soccer bag. The figure had reached just 50 feet of the arcade and began to charge his attack. A red beam flew from the figure's hand and went straight toward Tai. "On no!" Tai yelled as he unzipped his bag, "Agumon! Digivolve!"

"Agumon, digivolve to... Greymon!"Agumon leapt out of Tai's bag and transformed into Greymon. His size towered out of the arcade and blew the ceiling off. He managed to complete the digivolution and repel the attack in time.

Izzy reached and opened his own duffel bag and released Tentomon. He threw the bag aside and said, "Ok Tentomon, watch out for this one, we have no data on it."

"Right. Tentomon, digivolve to... Kabuterimon!" Kabuterimon flew into the air and swooped in to ram the mysterious digimon. The winged figure dodged Kabuterimon and smashed him in the back with his staff. Kabuterimon began to fall, but managed to gain his bearings and again attacked. "Electroshocker!" The ball of electricity flew towards the figure, but it brought up an invisible shield that blocked it.

The digimon grinned, "Foolish children! Your champions are no match for me, DarkAngemon!" DarkAngemon raised his hands into the air and began to collect energy in his body. He glew red as the energy began to form in his hand.

Tai ran out of the arcade to get a better look. He turned around to signal Izzy over to him, "Izzy! Better get out of there!"

Izzy ran out as DarkAngemon unleashed the collected energy. "Hand of Hate!" The energy became an arrow as it pierced into the arcade's walls and exploded. The ground rumbled as the shockwave knocked Tai and Izzy to the ground. The roads nearby cracked open and cars fell into the gaps. Hundreds of people screamed and ran for shelter as lamp-posts fell from their roots and pipes burst open, shooting water into the streets. Buildings collapsed as the cracking continued and fires broke out. DarkAngemon laughed as the humans cried out in fear, "Now, for you pests!"

Tai and Izzy got up and began to run for their digimon. Tai held his crest, "Greymon, we need you to digivolve!"

Greymon rose to his full height and roared, "Greymon, digivolve to... MetalGreymon!" MetalGreymon flew towards DarkAngemon, "Megaclaw!" His metal claw arm launched at the evil digimon and tied him up in its chain. "Gotcha!"

"Good work Greymon!" Tai yelled.

DarkAngemon struggled under the chain's grip. He roared as he pushed harder on its sides, trying to break loose. "Foolish digimon! You cannot live without both arms!" He yelled as he burst out of the chains.

MetalGreymon screamed in pain as his arm detached from his body and fell to the Earth. The loss of his appendage forced him to revert to Agumon. Agumon began to fall down. At a deadly height.

Izzy yelled, "Agumon, no! Kabuterimon! Digivolve!"

"Kabuterimon, digivolve to... MegaKabuterimon!" MegaKabuterimon swooped in and caught Agumon, who was unconscious. "Horn Buster!" MegaKabuterimon shot lightning from his horn, but his attack was repelled by DarkAngemon's energy shield as well.

Tai punched his fist into his open hand, "Damn it! It's no good! Nothing we do can hit this guy! Izzy, we have to fall back!"

Izzy closed his laptop and placed it into its backpack. He ran towards Tai, " Where are we supposed to run?!"

"Argh!" MegaKabuterimon was hit by DarkAngemon's hand of hate attack and reverted to Tentomon. Izzy caught Tentomon while tai caught Agumon. "Sorry guys, he's too strong.

DarkAngemon laughed at the quartet of digidestined. "You see? You're helpless before me! Now, I'll destroy you both with my strongest attack!" He raised his staff high above his head and chanted, "Dark forces of the underworld, come to me! Dark Flare!"

Tai and Izzy screamed and ran for cover. But they couldn't run fast enough or hide well enough. The expanse of dark matter ate away at everything it touched. And soon it would reach the Digidestined.