Chapter 2: The trap part 1

Michael hadn't always been such a stressful person but he soon Turned into one, once he became a Digidestined, stress was his constant companion, it got so bad that after Myotismon and MetalSeadramon went into hiding, Micheal had puked a small amount of blood at school, the doctors said he had a small ulcer in his stomach, the doctors had prescribed him Anti-Anxiety medication, Michael hated taking them but his parents made him take them and for some reason, he felt he needed it now more than ever.

( The Digital world, Unknown regions)

Everything Agorramon touched died immediately.

The Ancient Digimon loved this, centuries wasted stuck in that old Temple While he could have been out in the Digital World, causing as much destruction and carnage as he pleased.

He looked down to see a single flower growing from the ground.

He looked down at it for a moment or two before he called over his servant.

" Matthew, come here."

Matt and Mimi's Son, Matthew walked over to his master.

" Look at this little flower, it clings to life while everything around it dies, isn't that Wonderful?"

Matthew was about to say something when Aggoramon touched the flower and it quickly died.

" Let this be a lesson to you, Matthew, Death is the natural order of things, life is a perversion against the natural order of things, to save a life or prolong it, goes against Nature, that is the sin your old Friends are guilty of and it is a sin they shall pay for in blood." Aggoramon said while looking over at the Isheda boy.

" They were never my friends, they always disliked me or distrusted me because my father was secretly disliked by there parents and so they grew to not like me as well," Matthew said as he looked away.

" Yes, I have been meaning to ask, why was your father so hated?" Aggoramon asked.

" Well, as much as I hate to say it, my father was a bit of an Annoying Tsundere with a rebellious streak but that wasn't what caused there loathing of him, years ago when my father was starting his career as a songwriter, he was exposed to one of the old Dark spores after an old enamy of my parents tried to take revenge, this caused his anger to increase as well as his jealousy, he slowly began to hate the other DigiDestined especially his old rival, Taichi Kamiya.

My Father tried to steal all the crests so he could fuse them together and use them as a type of super weapon but the other Digidestened stopped him before he could finish it."

" That doesn't sound so bad, or at the very least that doesn't seem to deserve such resentment...there's more, isn't there?" Aggoramon asked.

" In the process of making the weapon, my dad used his crest of friendship along with the crests of Knowledge and light to test how destructive his weapon could be, he killed 98% of the Tentomon Population in the Digital World with just those three crests fused together, even though they knew he was possessed but they still hated him for it and that hate spread to their kids which found its way to me."

" And soon you shall give that hate back to them, Matthew, soon they shall bow to your feet... Matthew, I must ask, what was your father planning to do once he had fused all the crests together ?" Aggoramon asked.

" I don't know, my mom was still pregnant with me when it was happening but from what I've herd from the Digimon that survived his wrath, he was planning to use the power of the crests for one big Thanos Snap and boom, all life in the Digital world would cease to exist, kind of like Thanos did in The old Avengers movies," Matthew said.

" Interesting, why did he fail?"

" He didn't get all the crest , the only one he couldn't get his hands on was love, he tried to get it from Sora but she and a Clockmon sent it into the future so he couldn't get it, all the other crests were destroyed when my dad tried to use them without the crest of love, he nearly died in the process."

" Interesting...Matthew, does your team have any new crests?" Aggoramon asked.

" Yeah, Mike has the Crest of fear, Atsuko has the new crest of love, Mikes Twin Brother, Hatsaharu Has the crest of Compassion, then there's two more, the Crest of Greed and the crest of hate, Piedmon stole the crest of greed from Boss Geckomon's palace and gave it to Gennai's Sister, Archimonda, last time we saw her was in the Tunnels below Andromon's factory and we never found the crest of hate.

If Aggoramon had a face, he would be smiling.

" Matthew, tell me were the new crests are kept ."

( Obaida, Japan)

Micheal opened his eyes and looked at his phone to see it was only 12:35 Am.

" Ugh, great!" Michael thought to himself, figures, now after seeing all the horrors of Aggoramon, now he couldn't sleep!

Michael yawned and got out of bed, he was about to go into the living room and watch tv when he herd his D-3 begin to vibrate.

" Uhh, C'mon Mike, turn your phone off !" Hatsaharu said while yawning.

" It's not me, it's my D-3," Michael said.

Hatsaharu then got out of bed with black gabumon and looked at his Brothers yellow D-3.

" What's it doing ?" Hatsaharu asked.

Before Micheal could answer, the D-3 began to turn on and showed a small hologram of Matthew, the two brothers then herd the hologram begin to speak but it was coming in on a bad signal.

" Please help...He's too strong... meet me at...the Gesomon pit!"

The transmission then ended.

" We have to tell the others," Mike said as he was about to pick up his phone but haru grabbed it before he could.

" No way, Matthew made his Decision and he chose to buddy up with an evil Digimon that nearly killed your girlfriend, no way I'm helping him," Haru said.

" But what if Anna was right and he's possessed?" Michael replied.

" So, gets him out of our hair, Mike this is a guy that wanted to leave you freezing to death instead of helping to look for you, he doesn't care about any of us so we shouldn't care about him."

" But..."

"But nothing mike, stop trying to be his friend again, now look I'm telling you as your older brother to leave this alone, it's probably some trap anyway."

"You're only older by a Minute," Micheal said.

" Yes and that minute that I came out of mom first, means that I'm older and I'm telling you, we're leaving this alone, now go to bed!"

Haru then gave black gabumon Michael's phone and D-3.

" Black Gabumon, don't give Michael his phone or D-3 back till tomorrow morning."

" You can't take that from me!" Michael yelled.

" Yes I can, you may be a genius mike but your also reckless, I'm not losing you to some trap like I almost did at the frozen base and even after that you Disappeared for three weeks!" Haru said after he got into bed.

" You seem to forget haru, that I'm still the leader Of the New DigiDestined and I'm ordering you to give me my D-3 and phone back," Michael said.

" We're not in the Digital world mike, you can't order me around here."

" No I can't but one thing you are forgetting is that I have 4 Digimon partners while you only have one."

Michael said.

" So, what does that have to do with anything ?" Haru replied.

" Simple, I have more help then you do."

Michael then pointed to the area of his brother's bed were black gabumon was already sleeping only to see Michael's Patamon slowly take his tamer's Phone and D-3 and flew over to Michael before haru could grab him.

" How did you do that, I thought you were sleeping?" Hatsaharu said.

" I was for a while but you and Mikey's fighting woke me up and once you closed your eyes, i quickly flew over the side of your bed and took Mikey's things back from black gabumon."

" So your really gonna do this, wake everyone else up in the middle of the night?!" Haru said as he shook Black Gabumon awake.

" You have to understand, I'm not doing this because of some old feeling of friendship between me and Matthew because I assure you, those feelings died a long time ago, I'm doing this because we owe it to Matt and Mimi to at least try and find their son."

Hatsaharu sighed then nodded.

" And don't worry, I know full well this is a trap and I assure you, I am fully prepared," Michael said.

Haru got up then looked around the room.

" Hey, where's Scar Gatomon?"

( The Digital world, Server Continent)

Zero took another long sip of her alcoholic beverage, she had taken it from Boss Geckomon's palace right before Piedmon killed the crime boss, she was lucky enough to grab the best bottle too, a large bottle of Geckomon pop-Skull, the strongest Alcoholic Drink the digital world had to offer and right now she needed it.

Before her was the Gesomon pit, the same place Zero had left her Sister Scar Gatomon for dead months ago.

"see were caring for a useless human got you sister, it made you weak but I'm not like you, I was always the stronger of the two of us, lady Devimon was just too foolish to notice!" Zero screamed at the pit.

Luckily for her, she was too far out of the Gesomon's reach to be in any danger.

" Are you really mad at me for caring or are you just mad because now you care for him just as I did?" Scar Gatomon's voice said in Zero's head.

" Get out of my head, I do not care about your boy, I'm only using him

to live the cushy lifestyle in the human world that you enjoyed for so long, while I was still committing assassinations for lady Devimon! Besides your boy doesn't Evan have potential to be an assassin like we were, he's too much of a sissy to be a true leader especially not with that Meicoomon always mothering him, instead of letting him grow stronger on his own."

"Now you sound like your jealous of the Affection he has for her, maybe you feel like it should belong to you."

" Stop talking to me!" Zero shouted into the cold desert night.

Zero then shook her head.

" Uh, this stuffs messing with my head."

Zero then emptied the bottle and tossed it as far as she could into the The gigantic mouth of the Gesomon!

" Maybe if she's still in there she can drink what small amount is left."

Zero was already feeling the alcohol take an effect.

" I better go home...then again I could always stop by Boss Geckomon's palace for one more drink ."

Boss Geckomon's son had taken over the Digital words Criminal Underworld and since he was surprisingly happy that the new Digidestened had " taken out" his father, he had often invited the new Digidestened as guests to his palace but zero was the only one who actually went there, she was sure Boss Geckomon's son would welcome her, besides it's not like she was missing anything back home .

( The Castle of fear)

" Mike there better be a good reason for you waking me up at 1:00 in the morning," Andrea said while trying to repress a yawn.

" I don't mean to sound rude Mike but why are we here now ?" Jacob kido said.

" This is why." Michael then pressed a button and the hologram of Matthew showed.

" Is that Matthew?" Hideki asked.

"He's alive,Well what are we waiting for, we can't just leave him there, we need to go help him." Anna said with a note of joy.

" Anna, it's obviously a trap." Michael said.

Anna then looked away in disappointment."

" I don't know why I was sent this but what we do know is that Matthew was last seen in the unknown regions, we didn't know his fate until now, we can see that matthew is obviously alive."

Michael said.

" Are we sure this is really Matthew,Mike, I mean for all we know, this could be the work of some Shape-shifter Digimon or one of Archaminda's spells." Hideki asked.

" I already considered that but based on our encounters with shape shifting Digimon in the past

there was always a small sign that it wasn't real skin, it couldn't be one of Archamonda's spells because she's been missing since Piedmon's death so it is unlikely that she would be involved in this." Micheal said.

" So what do we do about this ?" Yami asked.

" Simple, we play along with there little game and go to the Gesomon pit." Michael said.

" Uhh,I'm sorry Mike, I must not be hearing well because of Gomamon's snoring but I thought you said it was a trap?" Wilhelm said.

" It is but we're not all going, only 3 of us will go, the rest of you will wait around the area and spring when the trap begins like Atsuko and Andrea did when Devimon tried to feed us to the Gesomon, that way we have the upper hand on who ever is behind this." Michael replied.

" What if Matthew really is there?" Atsuko asked.

" If my calculations are correct, he won't be there but by one small chance that he is, we bring him back here to the castle for qestoning." Michael said.

" Ok but who's gonna be the bait?" Andrea asked.

"Myself, Wilhelm and Yami." Michael said.

" Why can't I go, wouldn't it be better for me to go with you , we both have universal crests so it just makes more sense that I should go with you, besides if I went with you, I could protect you more efficiently." Atsuko said.

Michael then began to blush at what his Girlfriend had said, he looked over to see a mischievous grin on her face, causing him to blush.

" I don't need protecting, Atsuko!"

" Oh really, this coming from the guy who used to call me in the middle of the night, afraid that vampires were gonna steal his little sister ?" As Atsuko was saying this Michael's face became as red as a Tamato.

" Fine, It'll be me, Atsuko and Wilhelm.

To be Continued.