The Final Countdown
In the digital world things were almost always peaceful now, because of this the digidestine had gotten to know the world more.
Unfortunately though being digidestine a few digimon had a habit of hero worshipping, mostly about saving the world and while they were grateful; the digimon could go overbored with praising them.
Luckily The Valley of No Return was an area often used by ultimates and mega's who were learning to control themselves, meaning it was the perfect place to blow off steam.
"Terra Force!"
"Catastrophe!"
Wargreymon threw the large heated spear into the air, a large red blast of fire followed as the two clashed in the sky.
Causing a large explosion, luckily the desolate nature of the valley meant no one got hurt.
Watching from the ground were Tai and Ken, an ulikely duo that had found common ground during this current problem.
"Grandkuwagamon's getting alot stronger" Tai commented, the bug was less experienced as a mega but was quickly learning.
Ken didn't say anything just watched the two mega's who were letting out their frustrations.
Tai just sighed, as he sat on a rock.
Wargreymon seemed to be showing Grandkuwagamon how to form a larger spear by demonstrating another Terra Force.
The older digimon were often like this, showing the younger digimon how to use their abilities better; it was how the older destine usually tried and protect the younger.
Not that it really mattered now, no matter what he and the other's did it wasn't enough to keep people quiet.
Not that they didn't get a brunt of the abuse as well, in fact many blamed the first generation for Myotismon.
Glancing at the other boy who kept a firm stare at their partner's he couldn't really think of what to say.
Ken was more Davis best friend, similar to how he and Matt got along despite personality wise being opposites; those two were even more different than he and Matt.
The only sound around was the two mega's clashing once again, this time Grandkuwagamon created a larger fireball; as Wargreymon praised him.
"Have you thought about what Izzy and some of our parents said"
Tai surpised that Ken had finally spoken up, looked towards the younger boy.
He still refused to look at Tai watching the digimon instead, but Tai just nodded.
"Yeah, my parent's are starting to think it might be best given the situtation" the courage holder sighed" Izzy said three more digidestine vanished from Kyoto and two other's in Shibuya" it was becoming more common these day's.
Digidestine and their digimon would disappear, when found they were dead and without their partner's; they probabaly suffered the same faith.
One thing Izzy had found out for them the techno genius he was, for them was that all the destine showed signs of experimentation; someone was purposely doing this but why? None of them knew who.
Only that it must be a very sick and twisted individual who'd do this to children, but they had no idea if the one doing this was human or digimon.
Because of this many of the destine parent's had begun to agree with their children, the human world wasn't a safe place for them anymore.
"Why do we even bother helping anymore? They clearly don't want us to and the digimon only do it because we tell them to" Ken spoke bitterly in a tone not to different from back when he was the emperor.
It held nothing but contempt for humanity in general and anger for what was happening.
Tai just shook his head" I know, but I don't think many of us could really ignore a cy for help" despite everything they couldn't condem everyone for the sins of other's.
"But it's becoming dangerous in the human world Tai" both boys turned to see Wargreymon standing in front of them.
Grandkuwagamon was right beside him, the two had obviously been listening to them.
"Who ever is doing this has already killed many, we don't want to see you two die as well" Grandkuwagamon spoke, not even hiding his fear.
The digimon always worried about their partner's they were their everything, without them it meant they failed to protect them; none of them were willing to allow that to happen.
Digimon could be reborn, human's could not.
Ken reached out and gently rubbed the large bugs head, the exoskeleton was smooth to the touch" We know, but until we get all the facts we can't just hide in the digital world" despite their parents agreement, none of the destine wanted to just up and leave earth and their families.
If they left they probably never see them again, but staying wasn't safe either.
It truely was a hard realization.
(Odabia)
Kari had long since laid down, watching the clouds move slowly; it was hard to make out as it was becoming cloudy.
It was suppose to rain later in the day, turning her head towards Cody she saw him reading the comic again.
She smiled slightly before turning her head again, this time at Gatomon.
The cat had fallen asleep, seemed the universe gave them a break today; no one had really approached them.
Of course now that Kari had tempted faith, the ground began to shake as she sat up.
Gatomon and Armadillomon both woke up, ready and alert as she and Cody stood up.
The shaking stopped only for blades made of energy to head their way, the two tried to sheild themselves as their digimon stood ready; luckily the attack had hit the trees tearing them down and creating a clearing.
The dust began to settle as the sound of armor clanked, both destine stood ready as a silhouette became visible; walking ever closer.
"Can you see what it is?" Cody asked Armadillomon.
"No, but whatever it is sure is powerful" the energy level was off the charts, he couldn't remember feeling something like this.
Gatomon hissed" we have to digivolve!" The cat warned as a yellow blast tore through the dust.
They jumped out of the way as they finally saw the digimon, only to not know what exactly they were looking at.
"What is that?" Kari asked, bringing a hand to her mouth.
The digimon before them wasn't much taller than her brother, the armor was blue and the helmet and chest plate gave the impression of a wolf type digimon.
A red cape hung from his shoulders, but what horrified her was the digimon's hands.
They looked like they had once been human, now silver bladed claws covered in whatever it was producing to look like blood came out.
But the digimons eye's were what scared her most, she knew human type digimon could be scarily human looking; but she had never seen one who's eye's looked like it was in so much pain.
She held a clenched hand to her heart, her crest reacting to whatever was wrong with the digimon.
Cody was no better, they had faced many digimon but something about this one felt wrong; there was an unmistakable tension in the air.
Things were quiet for a moment, a calm before the storm before the chest plate opened and began to charge up a blast.
Both snapped out of their thought's at the hum, as they quickly brought out their digivices.
"Gatomon warp digivolve too...Magnadramon!"
"Armadillomon warp digivolve too...Crossmon!"
Right as the two finished a yellow blast twice the size of the first one headed their way, Crossmon took the blast as he used his wings as a sheild.
The Digizoid wings took the attack, as the metal smoked; giving Magnadramon an opening to attack.
"Holy Flame!" The pink digimon blasted green flames towards the strange digimon.
To her shock he moved out of the way, barley a blur as she was soon kicked in the head by an armored foot.
"Magnadramon!" Kari had never seen something move so fast, as Crossmon tried to grab the digimon only to meet the same results.
"You can barely see it, what kind of digimon is it?" Cody asked Kari who was just as lost.
Kari clenched her fist as she watched Magnadramon miss again, this time taking a punch as the blood like data from the mon's claws splattered onto her fur.
The creepiest thing was the digimon wasn't talking, nor laughing or spouting his mouth off about destruction.
This felt all kinds of wrong, as she noticed Cody had pulled out his terminal and sent a message.
"Izzy?" She asked, as he nodded.
If anyone would know about this digimon it would be him.
Suddenly the ground shook again as the two saw their digimon were easily being beaten by the smaller mon, it then turned to look at them.
It finally spoke with a voice that sounded robotic in nature and yet painful" Targets sighted, capture protocol start" with those words, he quickly grabbed Magnadramon's tail.
"Let go!" The cat/goat/dragon snarled as despite his small size the digimon was beyond powerful.
All he did was lift her and then slam her into the ground, knocking all the air out of Magnadramon; he let her go now looking at Kari and Cody.
"Light partner capture protocal" he repeated.
"What the hells wrong with this guy, he wrecks us around then starts talking like a robot!" Crossmon was as confused as the humans.
Before Kari knew what was happening she was staring into two dead blue eye's, as she was grabbed.
"Kari!" Cody grabbed onto her arm as he tried to pull her back, the digimon easily flew into the sky.
"Target acquired, Knowledge unnecessary" just as he was about to stab his claws into Cody, Magnadramon rammed her head into his back.
Dropping Kari and Cody who were caught by Crossmon" Get him Magnadramon!" The bird cheered his friend on, as he landed on the ground so Kari and Cody could get down.
He quickly rejoined the fight, as the digimon kept repeating the same line 'Capture Protocol'
The two could only watch as to their shock he grabbed the pink mega's tail again, he easily began to spin Magnadramon around as he slammed her into a building across the street; people who had been dumb enough to try and film what was going on began to run.
"Hey! Try that again!" Crossmon yelled at the digimon as he flew at the small mon" Kaiser Phoenix!" The attack made contact, as he quickly flew into the air to avoid getting grabbed.
"Crossmon keep him busy! We have to see if Magnadramon's alright!" Cody yelled up to his partner.
"Right!" Crossmon anwsered as he shot out a white beam of light, the digimon countered with another yellow beam.
The fight had cleared everyone the moment Magnadramon had hit the building, some rubble had fallen on her; as the two neared.
"Magnadramon wake up!" Kari shook her partner, as she noticed the blood stains from being punched were still there.
Now that they were up close though" Kari, I thought digimon don't bleed blood" Cody spoke up, shocked noticing the same thing she had.
"They don't" she said stunned, as Magnadramon began to wake up.
"Okay, that hurt...alot" the pink digimon groaned as she sat up, shaking the rubble off herself.
"We have to stop it, but how?" Kari didn't know what to do, this digimon there was something wrong about it.
The area shook as they saw Crossmon struggling against the digimons claws, to their suprise the claws looked like they were breaking into Crossmon's armor.
"Damn it! Kari you and Cody stay down I'm going to use that attack" Magnadramon warned as she took to the air.
"Magnadramon wait!" Kari was stopped by Cody as she had no choice but to stay put.
"Why won't you stay down!" Crossmon was astounded, what hits they managed had injuried it but it seemed it wasn't affected by pain.
If anything it seemed to make him stronger, as he was forced to break the stalemate; he touched his head feeling the cracks.
"Crossmon! Move away now!" The armored bird looked to Magnadramon as he noticed the energy she was gathering.
"If that doesn't take him out! I'll never eat junk food again" Crossmon said to himself, it was the only way to rid himseld of that cold feeling he got when he looked at the mon.
The digimon suddenly became aware of Magnadramon, as the sky began to darken to pitch black; thunder rumbled as the sky lit up.
"Apocalypse!" Was the only warning the mon got, as light began to blast down.
Everything that was hit was quickly destroyed, as even the digimon's blinding speed wasn't able to save it; the cry of pain was inhuman as the attacked ceased.
Magnadramon landed on the ground glowing pink as she changed back into an exhausted Gatomon.
Both Kari and Cody ran towards Gatomon, as Crossmon kept an eye on the smoking crater; waiting to see if they had destroyed the digimon.
What he saw however mortified him to no end, as he resisted the urge to bring back up his lunch; instead landing near his partner blocking their view of the crater.
"Gatomon? Are you okay" Kari held the white cat who blinked tiredly.
"I hate that attack" Gatomon muttered as Kari chuckled at her response.
Cody walked up to his partner who lowered his head, the helmet had been cracked; while the cross horns had broken off.
"Crossmon! Are you okay?" Cody asked his partner, seeing that the armor had several cracks.
"I'm fine Cody, nothing that won't fix itself" though this was the first time his armor had ever cracked.
Gatomon was being held by Kari, as Crossmon noticed them trying to get near the crater.
He moved his body to block them, as he knew he couldn't block them forever.
"Hey Crossmon, did I get him?" Gatomon asked, she wasn't so sure seeing how fast the digimon was.
Crossmon didn't awnser as when Kari and Cody tried to look around him, he only spread his wing's.
"Crossmon?" Kari said looking at the large bird, what was he hiding.
The metaltic bird looked down" You don't want to see it" Crossmon said, but this time he made no move to stop them.
Cody and Kari who was holding Gatomon walked near the edge of the crater, what they saw made the girl drop her digimon; quickly putting a hand to her mouth to keep from throwing up.
Cody stumbled back as Crossmon caught the younger boy, keeping his large wing's spread when he noticed some people trying to get close; seeing the menacing reaction had many stay away from Crossmon.
Gatomon could only shudder as she stubbled back towards Kari.
The digimon was barely alive, but that wasn't what made them sick it was the blood.
Blood was spilling from areas where pale skin had been revealed from shattered armor, what look like intestine's were splattered under the digimon; as the body was also fragmenting.
It was as if it was trying to be deleted but for some reason couldn't, the digimon was able to move it's head to look at them; before the blood stopped and it went still.
The armor along with both arm's burst into data, leaving a broken human body.
Kari couldn't stop the bile this time, as Crossmon hadn't let Cody see anymore than he had.
Kari shuddered as she took in a deep breath, unable to believe what she was seeing and the reality of what they did hit her; causing her to throw up again.
Cody could only watch Kari as he began to put the pieces together on his own, digimon didn't bleed and they deleted instantly.
Which meant whatever the digimon had been, it hadn't been fully digital.
But unlike Kari, Crossmon hadn't allowed Cody to even see what happened next.
People were starting to become curious as Crossmon looked at his comrades, they had to get out of here before they were accused of killing a human.
"Kari, Gatomon we should go" the mega said offering a large clawed hand for them to climb on.
Kari whipped the bile from her mouth, as she stood up ableit wobbly as she looked at Crossmon and noticed why.
People were starting to become curious, as she picked up Gatomon and climbed onto the black clawed hand.
Crossmon quickly took off, despite his injuries he kept airborn as he knew he had to get them out of there; espeically when he sae a familar helicopter.
Crossmom growled to himself, he actually was tempted to shoot down that darn reporter; but Cody wouldn't like that so he supressed the urge.
There was a sudden ring, as Crossmon didn't even look down at the noise.
Cody who was situtated on Crossmon's left hand, pulled out his terminal.
Kari looked over, she still looked pale and looked unwell but she was silently grateful that Crossmon had shielded Cody from the rest of the gore.
He didn't need to see that, she hadn't needed to see that.
"It's from Izzy, he say's he know's what digimon it was and we should go see him he want's to know about the fight; that Davis and Jun just fought a digimon that had alot of similarities to the one we fought" Cody said to Kari.
The girl looked surprised" Davis and Jun were attacked too!?" How had Jun even found Davis?
Cody nodded" he said the one they fought bled when she was cut by Ravmon's sword, their waiting for us at Izzy's" he said.
Kari nodded" Tell him we'll ne there soon" she said as a sickening realization began to dawn on her.
Had that digimon been a human all along or a new kind of digimon who was more flesh than data.
Her mind suddenly went back to the disappearances, they had been happening for awhile now; from what Izzy said many were found dead.
Could that strage digimon be part of what was happening.
(Meanwhile)
Fuji walked near the crater, seeing what remained of their creation as she looked at the crowd that had formed.
Many people were yelling in outage that the digidestine had killed an innocent civilian, other's didn't know what to think.
The crowd was soon forced to move when a helicopter flew in, a ladder came down as a familer face was climbing down from the helicopter.
Fuji currently dressed in the civilian outfit of a red shirt and black pants, her brown her left to fall past her shoulder's as she made her way to their informant and partner.
"Miguri!" Fuji called out to the woman as she waved.
The black haired reporter turned her green eye's and smiled, putting her hands on her hips.
"Well if it isn't Sakura" Miguri said, using unkowingly the fake name Fuji gave her.
Fuji walked over to the woman currently clad in a red suit shirt and skirt.
"We have another request for you today" Fuji said quietly once she reached the woman.
Miguri looked intrigued, as she looked at the crowd who was now being controlled by the police to stay away from the crater.
"Oh? Will the deposit be waiting for me?" Miguri smiled, she enjoyed her job she was very well off because of it.
Fuji nodded" Use your connections with the cheif of police to make sure we get that body back to the labs, and you'll get your compensation" she told the black haired woman.
Miguri nodded" as long as the money is there before tomorrow consider it done" she winked as Fuji nodded.
"Thank you" she said turning to leave.
"Are you ever going to tell me why you need those specific bodies?" Miguri asked, this wasn't the first time Fuji and her company wanted the remains of certain people.
Fuji stopped as she glanced at Miguri" keep your nose out of it and you'll get your payment, cross us and you'll find yourself in a casket" the threat was clear as Fuji walked away.
Miguri just watched the other woman go" I'll find out what your hiding Sakura, but for now" she had other people's live's to destroy.
She had no idea watching her from a scope gun was another hybrid, this one was one of the few early stage survivor's; his mission keep an eye on their pet.
If the bitch stepped out of line, the digimon smiled; the bullet would be in her brain before anyone knew what was going on.
They were in control amd the digidestine were none the wiser to the true danger lurking below Odaba.