Digimon: Endless Chaos
Chapter 2: Rescue In The Ruins
Rated M: Strong Language, Adult Themes, Blood, Gore.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
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Three buildings were up in flames, and smoke filled the street. One of the buildings had been knocked over and was laying across the street. The top of the building took out half of a two story building across the street from it. There was twenty civilians trapped inside of the building, screaming and yelling for help.
Tai was standing next to WarGreymon with his fists clenched. Matt next to MetalGarururmon. The Gururumon in the front of the pack moved his eyes from left to right, checking out each DigiDestined and each Digimon. After he was finished, he closed his eyes. "You have a strong line up of Digimon. But it's not strong enough."
Tai looked at each one of them, then at the smoke and the flames behind them. "You're all at the champion level. We have three megas, one ultimate and five champions." Tai grinned. "We've got you beat already."
"Sometimes..." Said Gururumon, "It isn't the strongest that survive." He took a few steps toward the group, then glanced behind him. "Boys, scatter!" On command, the other nine Gururumon quickly positioned themselves around the DigiDestined.
Matt approached Tai and tugged on his arm. Tai leaned back, and Matt spoke into his ear. "He might be right, every Digimon we've faced during this war has exceeded normal power."
"Chaos Blaster!" One of them yelled, firing the attack at ExVeemon. ExVeemon deflected the attack his right arm, but Gururumon latched onto it, causing ExVeemon to yell in pain.
"ExVeemon!" Exclaimed Davis as he ran toward him.
"Davis, get back!" ExVeemon said, Davis stopped. "Guys, get to safety, we'll take care of them." Davis nodded and motioned for them to follow him.
"Oh no you don't." Said another Gururumon who jumped in front of them. "You're mine!" He opened his mouth and charged his Chaos Blaster attack. The DigiDestined halted in fear of getting blasted, but WarGreymon nailed Gururumon in the side with a kick, sending him into a nearby building.
"Thanks WarGreymon." Said Tai.
"No problem, now hurry." Another Gururumon went after WarGreymon, but he quickly knocked him away with his Dramon Destroyer. The team escaped the circle of Gururumon and headed toward the cloud of smoke.
Birdramon found herself getting attacked by two Gururumon and was unable to escape. ExVeemon used his other arm and grabbed Gururumon's snout, applying pressure and causing pain. Gururumon eventually let go. "Take this you mutt!" ExVeemon threw him toward the Gururumon that were attacking Birdramon.
The Gururumon collided with the other two, freeing Birdramon who took flight. She looked at the three Gururumon, who were shaking off from the collision, and locked on. "Meteor Wing!" She shouted, launching multiple fire balls at the ground. Two of the three Gururumon were hit and knocked down hard. The third blasted Birdramon out of the sky with the Chaos Blaster. She landed hard. One more Gururumon went after her, but was struck with Angewomon's Celestial Arrow, taking him down as well.
They all struggled to their feet, only to be met by ExVeemon and Stingmon. The two were standing right in front of the three Gururumon. "What shall we do with these mutts Stingmon?" ExVeemon said.
"Hmm..." Stingmon peered behind the three Gururumon and noticed some abandoned rigs with the trailers either upside down or sideways, and some dumpsters. He pointed, causing the Gururumon to turn their heads. "That looks like fun."
"Trucks and dumpters it is, Vee-Laser!" He blasted two of the three, sending them flying into the trailers. Stingmon kicked the third one in the face, sending it flying into the dumpster, knocking it over and leaving Gururumon on the ground in pain.
WarGreymon had his hands full with one of them, when the one he kicked into the building blasted him in the back. WarGreymon stumbled forward and turned around, leaving him open for attack by the other one. He was then blasted from behind again, and then both of them attacked him. WarGreymon hit the one in front of him in the jaw with his Dramon Destroyer, but then got knocked down when the other Gururumon jumped on his back.
"Fuck!" WarGreymon shouted, pushing himself off of the ground and knocking Gururumon off of him. "It seems like there's more than there actually is."
"There is strength in numbers!" Gururumon shouted as he stood up. This one was behind WarGreymon, and the other one was in front of him. "Take this, Chaos Blaster!"
Both Gururumon blasted WarGreymon. Dust and smoke followed a small explosion that the blasts created. WarGreymon then flew out of the smoke toward the Gururumon in front of him and caught Gururumon in the throat with his Dramon Destroyer and slammed him into a wall. His middle claw went through Gururumon's neck and into the wall.
Gurururumon yelped and was bleeding from his throat onto WarGreymon's Dramon Destroyer, and it was lodged into the wall pretty good. WarGreymon was unable to pull his arm from the wall. The Gururumon behind him was approaching fast, getting ready to blast WarGreymon again. "Dammit, get out of there!" He yelled, referring to his Destroyer.
Out of no where, Seraphimon appeared and kicked the approaching Gururumon in the side, sending him through the glass window of a building. He then followed him in to keep him at bay while WarGreymon tried to free himself. WarGreymon had no choice but to pull his arm out of the Dramon Destroyer. He looked the pierced Gururumon in the eyes and saw fear, pain and suffering. His life was slipping away from him as he bled.
WarGreymon sighed. "I'm sorry." He placed his now bare hand in front of Gururumon and generated an orange ball of energy. "You suffer no more, Terra Force!" He then released the attack in beam form rather than the traditional projectile version. The beam engulfed Gururumon's entire body, the Dramon Destroyer, and the wall he was pinned to.
All of the fighting stopped, and everyone looked at WarGreymon and the large cloud of smoke that was in front of him. Small particles of data were exiting the smoke and traveling into the air. They all knew what had happened. WarGreymon's temper got the best of him. He knew all eyes were on him as well. The DigiDestined were not around though, so they had no idea what had happened. I never meant for you to die...
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Tai led them through the smoke, Kari and Matt were right next to him. Sora, TK and Cody were all walking together while Yolei was walking with Ken and Davis. They were all looking for possible survivors of the attack.
"What ever you do." Said Tai, "Stay on high alert. Anything can go wrong and most likely will." He kept Kari close to him.
Every once in a while, Kari would glance back at TK. TK never was looking, he was too busy watching for survivors or talking to Cody. Oh TK... What did I do? She thought to herself. TK noticed her looking at him and she quickly turned her head.
Cody noticed this as well and leaned over to TK. "What's up with her?"
"Don't ask me." Said TK.
"You've been acting awfully strange lately TK." Sora added.
"That girl you've been hanging out with seems sketchy to boot." Cody said.
"What the hell would you know?" Snapped TK. Tai, Kari and Matt stopped and turned around and Davis stopped next to them. It was only then that TK realized how loud he yelled. Fuck... He thought.
Ken and Yolei casually walked by them as if nothing happened. Ignoring the situation was the best thing to do in their minds, and they continued onward. "Hey bro!" Matt shouted, "Don't forget that we have a job to do, so fucking pay attention shit for brains!"
TK turned and looked at him in awe. He had nothing to say as he watched Matt, Tai and Kari continue through the smoke. "Come on." Said Sora. "Let's not just stand around."
"Smooth move T.P." Davis said as he joined Sora and Cody. TK huffed and followed them.
Ken was in mid sentence with Yolei when he was cut off by the sounds of screaming. They looked and discovered the building that had been knocked over. It was a block away from them. "Hey guys!" He yelled, "I hear screaming. That means there are people still alive!"
"Excellent!" Said Tai, catching up to him. "Where?"
Ken pointed in the direction of the screams. "There's a downed building over there, and tons of debris in the road between here and there." There were overturned vehicles, downed trees, light poles, signs and traffic lights everywhere.
Tai nodded. "That won't stop us, we have to save them. Let's go." Tai, Matt and Davis took off running through the damaged street.
Yolei and Ken began to follow them, TK right behind them, Sora, Cody and Kari in front of them. Yolei chuckled. "Boys I suppose."
Ken stumbled and looked at her in question. "What's that supposed to mean?" Yolei simply giggled and continued walking.
TK walked passed him. "Making it obvious eh Kenny boy?"
Ken began to blush, then shook his head and continued to walk.
As Matt, Tai and Davis were running, Tai noticed an overturned vehicle with a woman's torso hanging outside of the window. He slowed to a stop and stared at it. There was a puddle of blood underneath the body, and a male's torso crush under the motor of the car. Tai had a quick flashback, the image of how his parents were killed flashed in his mind and he stumbled backwards.
Kari noticed his change in behavior and quickly rushed to his side. She looked him in the face and patted him on the cheek. "You okay Tai?"
Tai nodded and shook off. "Yeah, I'm fine. Got a slight headache, I'm fine." He began to walk forward, leaving Kari behind him.
She looked down at the vehicle and saw the bodies and the blood. She gasped. "How terrible."
As she said this, TK walked passed her and looked as well. He didn't stop walking and continued forward. "If you only knew." He said, also referring to that devastating day. He was catching up with Tai, and Tai slowed down and TK eventually caught up with him. "Sorry you had to see that Tai."
"I'll be fine." Said Tai. "I just want to get these survivors out of here and get back to the shelter."
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Back at the shelter, Izzy was back on his computer trying to figure out how to get the holographic map to work. At least then he'd be able to check on the Digital World's condition. On his computer he had a globe map of the Real World and of the Digital World. These were only maps that checked communication connection between the two worlds. The maps rotated and Izzy sighed.
"If only I could contact Gennai." He said. The door of the lab opened and Izzy turned his head. Mimi walked into the room with a smile. Her hair was still dyed pink, and she was wearing a red and white tank top and faded blue jeans. Izzy smiled, "Hey."
"How's life you hermit?" Mimi joked, taking a seat next to him at his desk.
"Same." He said, resting his head on his hand and looking at Mimi. He glanced at his screen, no change. An icon in the upper right corner of his screen was flashing red. He scrolled up to it and clicked it. On screen was a woman holding a microphone and a clip board.
Mimi leaned back in her chair and sighed. "We're in the middle of the Digimon Apocalypse and these people still have the time and courage to make news broadcasts."
"It's not courage, it's stupidity." Said Izzy.
The woman on screen was standing about three miles outside of Mexico City. She began to speak. "This just in, The Mexican DigiDestined have entered Mexico City and are prepared to re-claim their nation's capital by any means necessary." An explosion went off behind her in the distance, seen on camera.
"I hope they know what they're getting into." Said Izzy. "GranKuwagamon is in control of Mexico City." Izzy again leaned back in his chair.
"You really need to relax a bit Izzy." Mimi said while leaning forward. "You've let the pressure build up on you, maybe you should let it some of it off."
Izzy lowered his eye lids and glared at her. "Just how am I supposed to do that when the whole world is being taken over?" Mimi smiled and stood up in front of him. Izzy shot a look up at her. "What are you doing?" Mimi grabbed his wrists and pulled him up to a standing position. "Mimi, what in the world?"
Mimi grinned, "Follow me, I know how to make all of your troubles disappear." Izzy blushed and Mimi pulled him toward the lab door.
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Joe sat on top of one of the buildings that was used as a post for the Digimon that were on patrol of the perimeter that was in place. Zudomon was on patrol, taking WarGreymon's place on patrol. Not only was the sky covered in dark clouds and ashes falling from the sky, but it was also around 10:00 PM, making it much darker out.
"I miss the sun." Said Joe.
"How long has it been since the sun was completely covered?" Zudomon asked.
"About a year now. All the destruction caught up with the atmosphere." Joe sighed. An explosion went off in the direction of the battle. Smoke followed. "You would think that all of the explosions would be annoying by now."
"Relax buddy," Said Zudomon. "I think we have a fighting chance, so you should too."
Joe smiled. Zudomon knew how to cheer Joe up even in these times of despair and agony. "Thanks Zudomon, you're a true friend. Man's true best friend in my eyes"
Zudomon blushed lightly, but this went unnoticed due to Zudomon's rugged facial features. "Thanks Joe." He said. They stared off in the distance, scanning the city, as most of it was devastated, while some of it was surprisingly in tact. They were silent for a few seconds, then Zudomon spoke. "Wait. Did you just call me a dog?"
"You're a dork." Joe said while adjusting his glasses.
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Lillymon was stationed where MetalGarurumon was previously stationed. She was watching the sky to see if that Digimon that was flying over the sky earlier was going to reappear. At the same time she was bored out of her mind since she had no company.
"Wow. This really sucks." She said. "It's dark all of the time, hard to breathe, and now I'm bored and lonely." She looked around her to make sure there was nothing going on. The area was silent, then she turned her head back toward the sky.
MegaKabuterimon was flying around the area, keeping a close eye on the entire perimeter. He noticed Lillymon and stopped for a few minutes. "Hey flower lady." He said with a laugh.
Lillymon looked at him and smiled. "Well if it isn't the over sized cock roach."
MegaKabuterimon chuckled, then stopped and scratched his head with one of his obnoxiously large hands. "Wait what?" The two had developed a great friendship, and along with it, an interesting sense of humor with each other.
"I'm kidding, relax." She looked back toward the sky. "Nothing so far. With each passing moment, I get more discouraged."
"That's because flowers need sunlight and clean water." MegaKabuterimon looked up at the sky . "And obviously, the sun is not out, and we get acid for rain, which means your changing from a lily into a Venus fly trap."
Lillymon glared at MegaKabuterimon. "That one stang a little."
"I'm sorry." MegaKabuterimon said, but then laughed. "But admit it, that one was funny."
Lillymon stared at him with no change in expression for a few seconds, but then finally smiled. "Yeah, that was." She then turned her attention back to the sky. "In a way, I hope that Digimon reappears just because I want to know what it is, but then again I don't because I'm afraid to find out... if that makes any sense." She looked back at MegaKabuterimon, who had his hand on his head again.
"Uhm... Yeah..." He said hesitantly. Lillymon looked up again. "Well." Said MegaKabuterimon, "I have to get back to my rounds." He began to fly off. "Have fun with photosynthesis... or whatever it is you flowers do..."
Lillymon grinned as he flew off.
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Sheamus and Natasha were standing in front of a large military truck, a flatbed with a large armored top on the back of it. They were behind the downed building and knew that the screams were coming from inside of it. Sheamus was lighting a cigarette when Natasha set down a long case next to him.
"RPG-7." Sheamus said with the cigarette in his mouth. "Let's see, do I want to be blasting holes in walls right now?"
"It's your call." Said Natasha, holding an M16 assault rifle upright. "They need to be rescued, and I know that they're too busy to save them."
"Is that your way of saying that they don't care?" Snickered Sheamus.
"Not at all. It's the reason they need us around." She said. "Trust me, I have as much faith in them as you do." Sheamus nodded and picked up the box. It had straps on it, so he was able to mount it on his back.
"Just follow the screams. The building is sideways, and I don't want to waste ammo by blasting holes through the ceiling." Shemus walked close to the building, listening for any yelling or screaming from within. There was no sound yet. They continued to walk along the structure, closely listening for any sounds at all. Sheamus heard a man yell and stopped.
Natasha stopped right next to him and looked at the wall. "Find them?"
"I think so." He peered into the window that was closest to the ground. There was nothing in the room but broken furniture. "Dammit. Nothing."
"Give me a boost." Natatsha said, "I'll look up in that window." She pointed to the window above, smoke was coming out of it. Sheamus nodded and got down on one knee, placing his hands together in front of him. She stepped up on his hands and he lifted her up to the window. Through the smoke she could see bodies moving around. "This is the room." She said, she slowly climbed up through the window.
Sheamus put out his cigarette and began to climb the wall. There were deep cracks and holes in the wall that he could grab. He grabbed the windowsill and pulled himself into the room. He turned around and looked around the room. It was filled with smoke, and people were lying on the ground, tied up and unable to move. Most of them were severely injured, much more dead. Twenty of them were alive, but most in critical condition.
Sheamus looked over to Natasha, who was kneeling down next to a tied up civilian, trying to free him. He looked around the entire room. It was huge, larger than natural, as if something broke the walls inside of it and made the room much bigger. He looked across the room toward where the ceiling was. There was a very large hole in the ceiling. On the other side in the room above, or next to it, sideways building, was what looked like a snake, a very large snake. His eyes widened. It then vanished.
Natasha looked back up at him and saw his expression. She winced and looked through the hole that he was looking through. "What did you see?"
"I don't know..." Said Sheamus. He looked back at Natasha with concern. "But it was a Digimon. I'm certain."
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The leader Gururumon stared at WarGreymon and snarled. One of his own was just destroyed "Boys! Go all out!" This Gururumon was face to face with MetalGarurumon, who was not in a good mood to say the least.
"Does it hurt?" MetalGarurumon said. "Does it hurt to see one of your own kind taken from you right before your very eyes, and not be able to do anything about it?" Gururumon snarled at him, but MetalGarurumon was unphased and kept going. "That's how the humans feel every day. Knowing that their own people are being killed and not being able to help."
"He was a good Digimon!" Gururumon barked, leaping toward MetalGarurumon. He side stepped Gururumon and kicked him with his hind legs.
He then turned around and approached the downed Gururumon. He placed his front left paw on Gururumon's chest and applied pressure, causing Gururumon to cough. "You mean a good murderer?" Gururumon struggled and eventually freed himself from MetalGarurumon. He stood up and stepped back.
Angewomon and Birdramon flew over MetalGarurumon. "Hey! We're going after the guys! They shoudn't be in there alone!" Angewomon shouted. MetalGarurumon nodded. The two then flew off toward the smoke cloud that the DigiDestined had entered.
MetalGarurumon took another step toward Gururumon, and Gururumon continued to back up. His space was cut off as he backed into Ankylomon. MetalGarurumon grinned now that Gururumon was cornered. "Hello down there." Ankylomon said with a chuckle, "Now your stuck. Where will you go?"
Aquilamon landed beside the three and looked into Gururumon's eyes. "You're scared." He said.
"Me?" He chuckled. "In your dreams you over sized pigeon, Chaos Blaster!" He blasted Aquilamon and hit him directly in the eyes, blinding him temporarily, allowing two more Gururumon to attack him. Ankylomon went to smash his paw on top of Gururumon, but Gururumon quickly avoided it, letting Ankylomon get his paw trapped in the black top.
"Chaos Blaster!" He shouted, striking Ankylomon as well and knocking him down. Gururumon laughed and stared MetalGarurumon in the face again. "You're all just being used by those pathetic humans, those fucking slave drivers!"
MetalGarurumon grew frustrated and attacked. "Metal Wolf Snout!" He fired four beams from his snout, striking Gururumon, burning holes through his fur and skin and wounding him greatly. He fell to his side and began to cough. MetalGarurumon approached him and stared down at him. "Mind your tongue boy!" He shouted. "The humans are not like that at all. You just have no idea what friendship is. Your what the humans call a wild dog, a vicious animal with no remorse."
"Watch yourself!" Shouted Seraphimon. MetalGarurumon looked behind him to see a Gururumon flying toward him, and quickly ducked. The Gururumon landed behind the leader, who was laid out on the ground.
"Incoming!" Shouted ExVeemon. Another Gururumon landed on the ground. This one right next to the leader. Then two more thrown by Stingmon, landing on top of the two on the ground.
"I've had enough of you!" Aquilamon yelled, "Blast Rings!" He fired purple rings of energy taking both of the Gururumon that were mauling him off and landing them on top of the others. Two more Gururumon appeared and were getting ready to blast MetalGarurumon, but Ankylomon squng his tail at them and hit them hard, throwing them into the pile up as well, knocking them out.
MetalGarurumon scanned the pile of Gururumon, and ExVeemon landed next to him. He chuckled and placed his hand on the back of his head. "Can we say dog pile?"
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Sora, Kari, Ken, Cody and Yolei were climbing over a, overturned truck. There was no way around it, one way was a gap in the road leading into the sewers, and in the other direction, trailers, fires and so on. Ken helped Yolei down off of the truck, then helped Kari down. Sora followed, and then Cody. Tai, Matt, Davis and TK were already over it and closest to their destination.
"That's terrible." Said Davis. There were flames shooting out of most of the building, making the chances of survival nearly impossible. Yet the screams led to that building. "Listen." He said, "The screaming stopped, do you think..."
"I hope not." Said Tai. "We still need to check. Anything is possible."
The others finally caught up to them. Matt looked the building over. This area was less smoky than most of the way to the building, but still smoky enough to compromise vision. "Let's just hope there's no Digimon here."
As soon as Matt said that, the ground exploded in front of them, creating a hole between them and the building. A hissing noise then came from the hole, followed by an evil laugh. "You'll not be saving anyone today, DigiDestined!"
"You just had to open your big mouth right Matt?" Said Tai, who was now covered in dust and ashes. A big purple shell like shape appeared in the hole, then began to rise. Underneath it was a head, resembling a snake. It was white and had red eyes. A small horn protruded from in between it's eyes.
It was indeed a snake, and a very large one. It's underside from the neck down was purple, the rest of it being white. It's four fangs were red, and it had a long tongue. It grinned devilishly at the DigiDestined. "Good evening DigiDestined." Said the snake like Digimon, "I'm Sandiramon."
"Snakes, great." Complained Davis. "I hate snakes."
"Sandiramon." Said Tai. "Are you responsible for this?"
"But of course." Replied Sandiramon with a chuckle. "Where are your DigiPets, afraid to fight the big boys?"
"They're dealing with something right now." Snapped Yolei.
"Ha! Gururumon? How pathetic!" Sandiramon slithered all the way out of the hole, revealing himself to be about two and a half stories tall. "If they have their hands full with them, I feel bad for you. Your chances of survival are slim as it is!" He chuckled and inhaled deeply. "Ah, the smells of war. Few more months and this planet will crumble before us!"
"So. You're behind this huh?" Matt snickered. "This senseless war is all your doing?"
"Not all mine, no." Sandiramon said with a grin, "Even I don't know who is really behind all of this chaos. All I know is that I have a job, and my job is to kill you and your pathetic Digimon. I guess I'll have to start with you!" He opened his mouth and began to form a greenish colored ball of energy. As he did this, fire balls rained down and caused minor explosions around him.
Sora turned around and saw that Birdramon had arrived. "Alright, Birdramon!" Matt turned around as well. She was flying above the DigiDestined. Angewomon appeared over top of her and flew closer to Sandiramon.
"Angewomon!" Exclaimed Kari. Angewomon smiled at her, then turned her focus to the large Sandiramon.
"Well well well, look who showed up." Sandiramon smiled as he watched the two Digimon approach. "Delicate females. I'll go easy on you."
"Don't worry about that, we're not delicate." Said Angewomon, taking aim at Sandiramon with her Celestial Arrow. She shot the arrow at Sandiramon, who simply moved his tail in front of the arrow, destroying it on contact. "What?" Angewomon said in shock.
"Really now?" Sandiramon laughed, "Your little arrow was, which means you probably are as well."
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon sent the multiple projectiles flying at Sandiramon, all striking him, but still leaving no damage. "No way!"
"Yes way." Sandiramon grinned.
"What in the world are you?" Barked Tai. "Those attacks should have done at least a little bit of damage!"
Ken had his D-3 in hand and aimed at Sandiramon. Izzy had upgraded all of the Digivices, even the original ones, so that they analyzed the Digimon on their own. This way, Izzy didn't have to be there to analyze the Digimon for the team. The display showed an image of Sandiramon with his name and bio underneath it. "Sandiramon, Ultimate level virus type Digimon."
"Very clever." Sandiramon chuckled. "I am much stronger than your average Ultimate level digimon. Your two Digimon have no chance."
"Well then," Said a confident Sora, "I guess they'll just have to Digivolve." Sora looked over at Kari and nodded. Kari nodded back. The two then held out their Digivices. "Guys, you know what to do!" Birdramon and Angewomon nodded.
Sandiramon continued to grin. "This could be interesting."
Angewomon and Birdramon began to glow, then the glow grew larger and formed into a ball around them. "Birdramon Digivolve To..." The ball of light grew even more, then began to crack as it if were glass. "Garudamon!" The ball of light shattered into pieces and Garudamon unfolder her wings, streching out and staring at Sandiramon.
"Angewomon Digivolve To..." Her ball of light reformed into the shape of an angel, slightly larger than Angewomon, then her glow began to crack. "Ophanimon!" The light shattered and revealed Ophanimon also to be staring at Sandiramon.
"Well now, isn't this interesting..." Sandiramon said. His grin changed to a focused battle stare. "Let's do this then." He opened his mouth and formed a greenish colored ball of energy. He shot it at Garudamon, who deflected it with her arm. This provided a good distraction as Sandiramon quickly slithered up to Garudamon, whipping her with his tail and knocking her to the ground.
Ophanimon placed her hand out in front of her and formed ten crystals in the shape of a sefirot. She aimed right at Sandiramon's head. "Let's see how you like this, Sefirto Crystal!" She fired the crystals at Sandiramon which connected and exploded on contact. Ophanimon turned to the DigiDestined, "Now's your chance, find a way in there and rescue those civilians!"
"Alright, guys come on!" Tai commanded, running up the side of the street to avoid the hole that Sandiramon made. While Ophanimon and Garudamon were battling Sandiramon, the DigiDestined finally made it to the building, but they had no way of getting in.
They all stopped and scanned the building. There no way in from where they were, it was too dangerous to try to climb through a window because all of the widows on this side of the structure had smoke coming out of them. "Well." Said Matt, "What now?"
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"These people..." Natasha said softly. The room was a disaster, filing cabinets, desks, anything in the room was destroyed and spread out. The floor was one wall, the ceiling was another, and two other walls acted as the ceiling and the floor. People were either tied up, in critical condition, or dead, and spread out all over the room.
"Quickly," Sheamus said, "We have to get these guys out of here." He set down the case that was on his back and opened it, revealing the RPG-7. He stared at the weapon for a few seconds before taking his knife out. He turned to one of the tied up civilians and cut the rope around his wrists, then the rope around his ankles. There was duct tape over his mouth as well. Sheamus placed his hand on the end of the tape. "I'll be quick." He said, ripping the tape off of his mouth.
The civilian grunted in pain for a second, but was overall okay. "Thank you young man." He said.
"What happened here?" Sheamus asked him. Natasha was going around untying people.
"Digimon." The man said, then began to breathe heavily. He continued, "They just came out of no where. They managed to knock down the entire building, I'm lucky to be alive, anyone who survived is lucky to be alive." He coughed as he slowly stood up. He was shaking and stumbling as he tried to stand upright. "Not many of us survived, at least twenty did, but I don't think anyone else made it." He took a step forward and lost his balance, falling forward.
Sheamus caught him and swung his arm up over his own shoulder. "Let me help you, we're taking the survivors somewhere safe. Don't worry."
"Sheamus!" Natasha yelled. Sheamus turned his attention to her. She was staring into the large hole that stretched through the building. "There's something in there."
"Can you hold tight for a minute?" He asked the man he was supporting. The man nodded and Sheamus gently helped him back down. Sheamus then looked back into the cave like hole. There was a pair of eyes glowing red in the dark. Sheamus picked up the RPG-7 and approached the ceiling of the room, where the first breach was. It was still to dark in the hole to see what the eyes were attached to.
Then, a red ball formed right below the eyes. Sheamus stopped, then the ball fired at Sheamus. He dropped down, letting the blast fly over top of him. Once clear, the eyes turned and sped off. Sheamus was determined to find out what it was, and he chased it. The went up at least two stories, two rooms over from where the tied up civilians were. The door of the room was broken off, and Sheamus could see the hallway, and a window at the end of it. He could also see the owner of the eyes. It looked like a dog from a distance, but Sheamus was taking no chances. He aimed the RPG-7 at this dog like creature and fired the rocket.
It reached the end of the hallway and exploded. Sheamus then dropped the weapon and jumped through the door to the hallway. Since he was technically running on the wall, the was carefully maneuvering around doors and obstacles that would pose a problem to him. The smoke cleared and Sheamus reached the end of the hall. He blasted a hole in the wall, opening up to the outside. He peered out of the building. He was still only two rooms high, so he was close to the ground.
"Where'd that fucking hound go?" He snapped out of frustration. As he scanned the area, he caught sight of an Angel like woman, and a large bird creature. "Digimon." He said. He then saw that they were fighting a large snake Digimon. "That must be what I saw earlier, it's fucking huge!"
"Hey!" A voice shouted. Sheamus looked and saw the DigiDestined not too far from the building. Tai was yelling up at him. "Who are you, what are you doing up there?"
Sheamus grinned and thought to himself, Finally, the help I need to get these people out of here. He decided to respond to them. "There are survivors in here, follow me!" Sheamus turned around and ran back into the structure.
Tai ran toward the building, Matt and the rest of them followed. Tai grabbed the ledge and pulled himself up into the hole, then helped Matt up, then Ken and Davis. Tai and Matt ran through the hall while Davis and Ken helped the rest of them inside. Eventually, the made it to the room where all of the civilians were gathered. "Holy fucking shit." Matt said very slowly.
Sora was baffled by the scene and gripped Matt's hand. "This is just awful." She said.
Tai approached Sheamus, who was tending to and injured woman. "Hey, just who the hell are you?" Sheamus didn't reply, he was letting her drink out of his water bottle. Tai grew frustrated. "I'm talking to you, buddy."
Sheamus stood up while the woman drank and turned to face Tai. "I'm Sheamus. Sheamus O'Conner, and I'm trying to rescue these people."
"And where do you plan on taking them," Davis added.
"Your shelter of course." He said. "I've been living there for about a month. This is what I've been up to, saving any survivors I come across in my travels."
TK walked through the room, looking at all of the people. He bumped into Natasha on accident, who turned around to face him. "Hey, I remember you." She said.
"Natasha, right?" TK asked. She nodded. "So you have a way of getting these people out of here?"
"A military flatbed complete with an armored cover on the bed of the truck." She smiled. "All of these people should fit inside."
An explosion interrupted any conversation at the moment. Tai turned his head to the wall, then back to Sheamus. "Alright." He said. "But you and I have to talk after we get back. For now, lets just get these people out of here."
Sheamus nodded. "There's a back door in the other room. We'll take them out that way." He approached the room and peered into the room right next to it. "Careful. As you can tell, everything is sideways, including that door."
The team was now eleven strong with the addition of Sheamus and Natasha. One by one, they brought the survivors out of the back side of the building. They had to be careful when guiding the civilians down due to the gap between the door and the ground. It wasn't the most comfortable fit in the world, but all twenty of the survivors fit in the back of the truck.
Sheamus once again had a cigarette in his mouth and was lighting it when Tai approached him. Sheamus glanced at him as he was putting his lighter away. He brought his hand up to his face and pulled the cigarette out of his mouth, blowing smoke into the air before looking directly at Tai. "You guys have it rough don't you? I mean, most of the people you've rescued have given up hope and are pretty much blaming you for everything."
"I've noticed." Tai huffed. "What exactly is your deal?" He crossed his arms.
Sheamus took another puff of his cigarette and blew the smoke out again, then looked at Tai in question. "What do you mean?"
Tai went to speak, but Kari's voice calling for him cut him off. "Never mind. I have to go. Just make sure these people get back safely, okay?"
"Don't worry about them, we've got this under control." Sheamus grinned at Tai and patted him on the shoulder. Tai simply winced at him and turned away. Sheamus turned to the truck and looked inside. Natasha was sitting in the back with the civilians.
Tai walked passed Kari, Kari noticed his irritation. "You don't trust him do you?" Tai simply kept walking, oblivious to her words. She just watched him walk. Then out of nowhere, a loud bang rocked the area, shaking the ground and knocking over things in the streets and on the buildings. Then immediately following, Garudamon came crashing through the building. She landed hard in the middle of the street and didn't move.
"Oh my god, Garudamon!" Sora yelled as she ran toward her partner. She approached her and knelt down next to her. "Garudamon, are you okay?" Garudamon didn't reply. She was unconscious and smoking from the chest. "Garudamon, wake up!"
A loud yell was heard and everyone's attention was directed to the now severed building. Sandiramon was slithering through the hole and had Ophanimon trapped with his tail. She was scratched, bruised and beaten. Sandiramon halted and chuckled. "It seems as though I have won this battle."
Kari was in shock as well as the rest of the team. An Ultimate class Digimon defeated another Ultimate and a Mega without a scratch. "Ophanimon..." She whimpered.
"I'm not going to kill them." Sandiramon said, whipping Ophanimon into the nearest wall. "I have more important things to do, but rest assure. You're not safe, not in the least bit!" Sandiramon turned away and began to slither in the other direction.
"Hey!" Tai shouted. "Where the fuck do you think you're going!" Sandiramon blasted a hole in the ground and slithered into it. He was gone, leaving the DigiDestined to wonder.
"Well." Sheamus said. "We can drive that way now. It'll be an easier way back."
"Let's hope." Cody said, "Our Digimon may still be fighting on the other side, it could be dangerous."
"Well if they need us, we'll be right there." Yolei added.
Sora was walking back over to the group with Biyomon in her arms. She was still unconscious, gasping for breath and coughing. "Tai, we need to go. She needs help."
Tai nodded. Matt approached her and checked on Biyomon in her arms. "She's lucky to be alive." Matt said, patting her on the head. "It'll be okay." He glanced at Sora and smiled, causing her to smile automatically.
Kari noticed something moving out of the corner of her eye. She looked over and saw Gatomon limping. She gasped and rushed over to her. She picked her up and relieved her of the pain of walking. "My legs, Kari..."
"It's okay, we'll get you back as soon as we can." Kari assured her.
"Sandiramon," Gatomon sighed, "He's different, very different." Kari just nodded, then looked at Tai.
Tai nodded back at her and turned to Sheamus. "Alright, let's get out of here."
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Izzy entered his lab, yawning and stretching as he approached his desk. His hair was ruffled up and he was a little sweaty, but it was cool in the lab. Along with his ruffled up appearance was a grin. A grin Izzy had never made before. He looked like he was stoned, but he didn't do drugs or anything. He reached his chair and plopped down in it. He leaned back and stared at the ceiling.
"Wow." He said to himself, rocking his chair back and forth. "That... was incredible."
Distracted, lost in thought and memory, Izzy had no care in the world. All of their problems didn't matter to him at this point, all he could do is day dream about her, about Mimi. He couldn't believe what had just happened, but it did, and that's that.
He shook his head and yawned again, he was exhausted. Blame him? Izzy finally decided to look at his computer. His inbox indicated that he had an email. Only one though. He clicked it and opened his email. When he read who it was from, his eyes widened and his jaw dropped. "This could be good."
xXxXxXx
The Gururumon pack were up and spread out behind their leader. Each of them were wounded, making it difficult to stand upright. However, the leader was still fired up and ready o fight, while the rest of his pack was not as excited as he.
MetalGarurumon saw this in Gururumon's eyes and chuckled. "You really want to keep fighting us?" Gururumon simply growled.
"Trust me," ExVeemon said, "You have no idea what you're getting yourself into."
"I know exactly what I'm doing!" Barked Gururumon. "We're still ready to fight!" His pack did not show any signs of agreement. They seemed more apt to retreat than to help their leader.
"Seems to me like your team isn't so happy about it." Ankylomon added. "You should just go back where you came from."
Gururumon turned to his pack. "Come on you slackers! Let's destroy them! They killed one of our own!"
"Gururumon!" A voice shouted from above. Every member of the pack froze, the leader especially. Gururumon looked up, along with the rest of his pack, and the heroes.
"Boss! I was just..." Gururumon was cut off by another yell.
"Queit! All you've managed to do is get one of your pack members killed." The source of the voice was coming from a building only three stories high. Once it was clear who the voice was coming from, everyone one of the heroes was left in shock, especially MetalGarurumon.
"But boss..."
"But nothing you limey fuck!" The owner of the voice jumped down and landed on all fours. He had landed right next to the lead Gururumon. "You should know by now that war isn't pretty. You're pathetic."
Aquiliamon was standing right next to MetalGarurumon. "Hey," He whispered, "He looks..."
"Just like me..." MetalGarurumon finished. "BlackMetalGarurumon."
"BlackMetaGarurumon sir, we took out an entire building, and many people inside of it." Gururumon said in an attempt to gain his bosses praise. BlackMetalGarurumon had other plans.
"I never gave you the authority to attack anyone Gururumon." BlackMetalGarurumon growled at the pack. "MetalGarurumon is right, you're nothing but a pack of wild dogs. Now leave. Or I'll be the one to choose the next one of you to die." The Gururumon pack immediately ran off in the other direction, leaving BlackMetalGarurumon to face the heroes on his own. He turned around and scanned each of them. Stingmon, ExVeemon, Aquilamon, Ankylomon, MetalGarurumon, and WarGreymon, who hadn't moved from the spot he had killed a Gururumon.
"BlackMetalGarurumon." Said MetalGarurumon, "Why'd you make them retreat, aren't you going to fight us?"
"Hah." BlackMetalGarurumon laughed, "I'm not interested in fighting you right now." He looked over at WarGreymon and frowned. "Is he the one that killed my soldier?"
"What if he is?" ExVeemon exclaimed.
BlackMetalGarurumon shot him a mean, violent look, then looked back to his data type counterpart. "War is never pretty. I expected one of them to go down. They're lucky I intervened."
"It was a two on one assault!" MetalGarurumon snapped. "What the hell was he supposed to do, let them tear him to shreds?"
"I'm not happy about it, but it's part of life." BlackMetalGarurumon turned around. "Those dogs have to learn patience. I never ordered them to attack those humans. They will be punished for it." He glanced back. "I'm not in this world to attack innocent humans. I'm here to fight." He began to walk away. "One more thing, MetalGarurumon, don't think that what I said means I'm on your side. I will not harm your humans, but when it comes to Digimon..." He chuckled. "Well you get the idea. Later." BlackMetalGarurumon then took off in the direction of his pack. The battle was over for now.
"How very strange." Stingmon said. He then began to glow, then D-Digivolved back into Wormmon. He was betweem ExVeemon and Ankylomon. "Okay, this is awkward..."
Immediately, the Digimon began to glow and D-Digivolve to their rookie forms. All accept for WarGreymon, who was still at peak energy level. Gabumon scratched his head and looked at his comrades. "Well. I'm glad they already left."
This is about the time that the Military Truck that Sheamus and Natasha drove pulled up. It drove out of the smoke and parked right next to the Digimon. Matt got out of the truck and approached them. "I see you've reverted." They all laughed sheepishly. "So, did you guys get rid of them?"
"Yes and no." Said Veemon.
"We'll explain on the way back." Wormmon added.
"Alright." Matt said. He looked up and noticed WarGreymon not moving. "What's up with him?"
Gabumon sighed and shook his head. "Talk to him about it." He climbed up into the back of the truck, followed by the rest of them.
Sora, Kari, Tai and TK hopped out of the truck, Tai walking closer than the rest. "WarGreymon, come on, let's go home."
WarGreymon did not answer. Kari then yelled to him. "WarGreymon, what happened, surely it isn't that bad."
WarGreymon turned around and hovered over to them, landing right in front of Tai. "Listen, you have no idea." He raised his right arm, the arm without the Dramon Destroyer on it.
"Hey," TK said, "What happened to..."
"Through a Gururumon's neck..." He said, "I had to end his suffering..."
The five in front of him nodded. "Don't worry big guy," Sora said cheerfully. "It happens, Digimon come back to life though. I'm sure he'll come back pure."
"If you had seen in his eyes... If you saw the fear and terror in his eyes before I destroyed him..." WarGreymon turned away. "I need to be alone for a while." He then took off toward the sky.
"WarGreymon! Where the fuck do you think you're going?" Tai yelled, "WarGreymon!"
"Let him be Tai." Matt said. Tai just looked at him like he was nuts. "WarGreymon will be fine. He can handle himself. Now lets go, I'm sure he'll be back before you know it."
Tai could only sigh. Then a loud crash from a garbage can lid was heard from the other side of the street. Tai looked, it was a civilian. Someone who was not in the building, who was on his own. "Hey! Over here!"
The man looked and saw Tai. He immediately started to freak out. "No, you... and your monsters... they're killers! Stay away from me!" The man then ran off toward the cloud of smoke that they had just exited.
"No, we're not... come back!"
"Let him go..." Sheamus said, smoking a cigarette. He was the one driving, and was getting rather impatient. "Come on, gas ain't cheap." Tai sighed again and got into the truck, followed by Kari, Matt, Sora and TK. Sheamus then pulled the shifter into drive and drove the other way, back toward the shelter.
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The civilian man ran through the smoke, and through the street. He repeatedly tripped over objects in the road. He was frantic, afraid that he was going to be slaughtered by a Digimon. The very sight of Tai set him off. Someone who had been driven over the edge by this Digital Holocaust.
There was an alleyway right next to the fallen building, where the man turned and ran in. Ahead of him was another man, an older man in his late fifties, early sixties. He wore a long black duster coat, cowboy hat, had a white handlebar mustache and long white hair. The man stopped in front of him.
"Sir, please help me!" He said, "Digimon, DigiDestined, bad things, help!" The old man looked at him with disgust. The frantic civilian just stared at him. "Please, I don't want to die!"
The old man shook his head and closed his eyes. "My boy..." He said, "It's too late for that..."
"What?" The civilian asked.
The old man drew a gun from his side, a revolver, a Single Action Army. The end of the barrel almost touching the man's forehead. Without second thought, the old man pulled the trigger, firing the gun at point blank range. The bullet quickly went in, and blasted the civilians brains out. With the back of his head ripped apart, blood running down his body, the civilian fell to the ground in a pool of his own blood.
"Life lesson, never talk to strangers..." The man said. He put his gun away and pulled out a radio set. He clicked a button and began to speak into it. "How's everything going..."
A woman's voice came through the speaker and answered him. "Everything is going according to plan."
"Excellent..." The old man replied. "Not much longer now..."
To be continued...
Another chapter down. Still much more to come. Please leave reviews. If you have any questions, I will answer them at the begging of the following chapter. Thank you.