"Ultimate level?! Tai we must abscond from this location or we will perish!" Izzy frantically shouted at the top of his lungs, his cold mask torn away. "That must be the top tier of power, and even if it isn't, we still are not a match for its overwhelming power."
Tai opened his mouth to reply.
Kyukimon, twenty feet away from Tai, flicked the blade on its arm in his direction.
Tai disappeared in a flash.
Izzy had very little ideas and was strained by this situation - the leader of their group was gone, perhaps killed, none of their Digimon even reached the attacking one's knee, and his computer had completely short circuited.
There was no hope.
Kyukimon's weasel-like snout was marked with a star-shaped scar, with a long, bright blue mane of hair that fell to the ground. Blades sharp enough to cut a building into pieces had replaced its arms, and they gleamed with splotches of blood.
It crouched on its hind legs for a second, as if listening. Even at half its height, it still loomed over the digi-destined, casting a shadow over all of whom lay unconscious on the ground.
Izzy saw it sniff the air. Why is it not taking their lives? Free food lies at its feet. This turns all my studies of biology on their head.
Kyukimon's head snapped to face his position.
Izzy bolted in a random direction as fast as his legs could carry him. The reason is because it takes a perverse pleasure in the hunt! His feet pounded the ground. I do not wish to abandon my companions, but this is the only approach I can take in regards to the current conditions - if I die, we are left without a strategist.
The leaf-strewn ground morphed into open ground, before Izzy finally came to beach sand. Catching his breath, Izzy stood in the middle of a wide expanse of seashore, chest heaving.
A crash filled his ears.
Izzy turned, instantly on guard against any threat.
A dust cloud had been disturbed at the base of a cliff. My guess is, this...Kyukimon...could not control its sudden evolutionary increase in speed, Izzy thought, I need to analyze any possible courses of action that could ensure my survival-
The dust had been beginning to settle when Kyukimon burst out, feet clattering and reaching for purchase on the slick, slippery stone-covered section in between the hill and the beach. Every step it took tore up the rocks in the ground, flinging them miles away at a speed of seventy miles per hour.
Muscles straining, it gave up on trying to gallop, skittered to a halt, and leapt one hundred feet in the air instead.
Remarkable intelligence!
Kyukimon hurtled past Izzy and dived into the ocean, splashing everything in a thirty feet radius. Izzy was doused with a wave of water. I cannot deal with this - even my intelligence is obviously no match for it. Izzy ran past an out of place telephone pole, contemplating upon it in his mind, Well that is odd indeed, before dashing back to where he came.
The ocean parted for Kyukimon, who sprang again, landing in front of Izzy, who came to a halt.
IIIIIIII
Tai woke up. He attempted to get to his feet, but the scalding pain in his upper back and head convinced him otherwise, causing him to collapse.
Resigned to his fate, Tai settled for looking around.
To his left was a person he'd never seen before.
To his right was some shrubbery and- Hold up.
Tai looked to his left again. Next to him lay a curled up teenage boy around his age, with his thumb in his mouth, snoring his head off.
"Hey, kid!" Tai bellowed, shaking the stranger. "My friends need all the help they can get, so wake up!"
The other child grunted angrily, then simply turned over in his sleep.
Tai repeated the process.
The unknown kid drowsily said, "Go away I'm not ready," before falling back to sleep again.
Annoyed, Tai unleashed his trump card. "If you get up I'll give you chocolate dude."
The boy sat up, combing his hair casually. He introduced himself, "The name is Takuya." A pause. "And I can see you don't have any chocolate. This is perfect."
Tai grabbed Takuya by the shoulders. "Okay, I might have lied about the chocolate. But! I can get ya my goggles if you help me."
Takuya took Tai's goggles off his head. "Deal."
IIIIIIIIII
Kyukimon raised its arm back in preparation to strike Izzy down. The force of the swing pushed the ocean back in one fell swoop.
A voice gained the threatening Digimon's attention. "I'm much more juicy."
Kyukimon tilted its head in almost a questioning manner. It did not understand why the boy looking at it from the top of an overlooking cliff would willingly attract its eyes.
Takuya walked and walked. His hands dug into his pockets, searching momentarily, then, upon finding the object of his search, pulling it out. An elongated version of Tai's digivice was in Takuya's palm. Tai widened his eyes. Why is it different?
Takuya stopped when he reached the edge of the cliff.
The parts of the cliff began to dissolve into bits and pieces of code the instant Takuya placed his fist on his digivice. Veins popped in his face and he made a swiping motion on the top of his digivice as he yelled, "Execute! Spirit Evolution!"
The numbers of 0's and 1's flared, kicking up dust, and it swirled in the air around him. The very topsoil of the ground crumbled into powder and formed code, all of it filling the area surrounding Takuya. It circulated faster, transforming into a spinning vortex of sand and digital code that shielded the unknown, clearly dangerous boy from Tai's eyes.
The code spun even faster, yet began to shrink and envelop Takuya's arms and legs. It coalesced into a hardened skin, then grew stronger and stronger, lengthening his arms into bulky packages of muscle. Takuya's legs, initially hidden by the billowing code, attached, warping the legs into those of a track runner.
Takuya brushed away the code with a single sweep of his arm, casting it away and revealing himself. He was covered in thick, maroon red armor. Takuya had changed from a brunette human to a blonde, and hair hung out of his helmeted skull. Holes a couple inches in diameter were in groups of three on each hand. Smoke trailed from the gaps.
Tai's mouth dropped open. "You...are a Digimon?!"
Takuya answered with a smile and, "Yes," before jumping off the cliff.
He cut through the air and crash-landed, both arms swinging down. The holes on his hands released gas before igniting flames into existence. Takuya slammed into the ground, the impact leaving a crater. A wall of fire shimmered around him.
Even Izzy was awestruck. I have not seen a sight more interesting than when I discovered the full capacity of my computer hard-drive...! "Who are you?" He asked.
The fire cleared, exhibiting him in all of his glory.
"Agunimon."
Please don't be mad that I re-used the transformation sequence from chapter 1. I did that because of nostalgia. You know how the old Digimon series always recycled the Digi-evolutions? Well that's what I tried to do, and that's what I plan to do in future chapters. However, if you want it to be original every single time (not really sure I can do that but I can try) please tell me in a review, because otherwise I won't know.
Thank you to everyone who has read this fanfic so far!