Disclaimer: Digimon is copyrighted to Akiyoshi Hongo (characters and concept). What I do own that have appeared in the story so far are Adam Zuchisu/Kaiyomon, Ashley Orohugh/Spirits of the Crescent, Daren Huoichi/Spirits of Earth (AncientBouldozermon), and the Digimon Mafia (organization).
EDIT (04/02/11): As of this day, the chapters of Everyone's Just Fine and Preview of Power will be combined. The reason for this is because of the heavy editing I did to Everyone's Just Fine to try and make it better. In the end, I made the decision that it seemed to flow in tandem with Preview of Power 's content.
Preview of Power
"It's so disgustingly deplorable to think about how my ancestors failed their jobs." the creature from before sent to meet the DigiDestined thought, "One should have just stuck with that one target, and the other did not even seem to care about how nature. The only one that was even remotely close was my very first ancestor in the Digimon Mafia..." Even with the thunderstorms rocking areas of the Digital World, he found no trouble flying through the skies and showed no fear about it. Eventually, as the storms died down, he saw his destination over the horizon. "That aside, there goes my target now." He chuckled evilly as some black and blood red energy gathered in his hands.
"Yo, Adam, what's wrong?" Tai inquired as he ran down the right hallway.
"Daren, you all right, buddy?" Takuya asked as he ran in the left hallway.
Adam, ignoring the new voices apparently affiliated with Daren, he interrogated, "I will only ask you once, who are you?"
"No, you tell me who you two are first!" Daren countered indignantly.
"I asked you first!"
"I'm not answering until you answer mine!"
Kaiyomon knew this whole thing meant one thing-a conundrum. His was already confused at the sight of Adam and Daren there interrogating each other. And when their respective groups would make their appearance, Kaiyomon's head could only ache more at the confusion that would cause, "Great Digital God, make this day make more sense."
As creature outside morphed the energy into a ball that steadily increased in size, the two males continued their spat. "Then, at least about those voices that know your name," Adam requested, "I see they're on their way now."
"What about are those other voices that knew your name?" Daren countered, nodding his direction to the left staircase. Adam sighed exasperatedly, "Are you going to answer any of my questions legitimately? We're getting nowhere with this."
"You tell me what's up first!" Daren reiterated heatedly. Adam sighed, conceding defeat, when he finally heard his friends, mainly Tai, coming down the left staircase, "Then why don't you ask my friends yourself-"
The entire upper half of the house suddenly exploded from a blast. Debris and smoke flew out and onto the ground surrounding the house. The DigiDestined were instantly floored from the shockwave and the force of the attack.
The assailant chuckled evilly, examining his work cockily. Then, his communicator activated and a loud voice berated boomingly, "You idiot! You weren't suppose to kill them!"
"I didn't kill them, I only blew up the roof." He argued.
"And second floor! The bedrooms were up there!" The voice over the communicator said.
"So what? Then nobody will be in our way to rule the Digital World." He responded. A exasperate sigh was heard and, with a click, the voice disappeared.
"What the heck just happened?" Daren exclaimed, kneeling groggily. Adam brushed the debris and dust off his shoulder, stood up, and replied seriously, "Apparently we're targeted..." His blue eyes looked around the vicinity to see the sky instead of the ceiling of the house. He thanked the gods it was not raining anymore.
"Tai! Agumon!" Kaiyomon exclaimed he was flew over to the fallen leader and his Digimon. "Tai, speak to me, man. Agumon, say something." He pleaded, hoping to get a response. "Something." The yellow dinosaur replied. Kaiyomon frowned in an unimpressed manner, "Worse joke ever, Agu."
"And unnecessary," Adam stated, coming over, "Tai, can you stand up?" The brunette nodded and stood up confidently, "Looks like it! But that was crazy. Who's attacking us?" Adam responded, "For the moment, I don't know. There's alot going on right now."
"What do you mean?" Matt, who was walking over with T.K. after recovering from the shock, asked. "Let's just say this house wasn't as deserted as we thought." Adam answered simply.
"Takuya!" Daren called out as he ran to the brunette, "Oh, man, what hit me?" Takuya inquired groggily as he sat up. "Some fool tried to blow us up!" He replied, helping the leader to his feet. "Don't worry, Daren, I'm fine." Takuya informed, now standing independently, "We need to check the others, first of all."
"You're right." Daren agreed, "Where were they?" Takuya placed the back of his hand behind his head, "Well, probably at the top of the staircase. I kinda left behind after you screamed." The light-brown male frowned blankly. The Warrior of Flame snapped back, "Shut up! You would've done the same thing!"
"So I see one of your friends is fine." Adam said as he, Matt, T.K., Tai, and their respective partners walked over. "Whoa. I'm seeing double." Takuya remarked as he exchanged glances between Adam and Daren. "Oh come on! We do not look the same!" Adam exclaimed objectively. "That aside, who are you guys?" Agumon asked.
"Yeah, I'd like to know that myself." Those in the foyer looked to see Koji making his way down the steps of the right staircase and then leaning against them. "So that what you meant when you said this house wasn't exactly deserted, Adam." Patamon said. "My name's Daren Huoichi, by the way." Daren introduced himself, deeming now to be a proper time. "Adam Zuchisu and my this is my partner, Kaiyomon." Adam responded as the Bat Digimon waved.
"Although these are weird circumstances for introductions," Koji spoke, "I still can't believe there are other humans besides us in the Digital World." Tai pointed to the left staircase and said, "Well, you're gonna meet some more in a minute. A friend of mine named Joe is probably treating the others."
"We got more buddies on our side of the house too," Takuya announced and then introduced, "By the way, I'm Takuya Kanbada, and the weird guy over there is Koji Minamoto." The Warrior of Light shot the Warrior of Flame a glare, "I can introduce myself, you lug nut!"
As those members of the DigiDestined laughed and introduced themselves, the anonymous assailant was just watching them interact and the others finally recover from the shock. "Huh. So some have more resilience than others." He noted. He changed more energy in his hands. "Then let's try this! This is a preview of our power!"
"Now, we just need to find out what tried to kill us." Koji said, now joining them. "Yeah, cuz now I'm all fired up!" Takuya asserted, punching his right first into an open left palm.
"And I see the problem." Kaiyomon declared, pointing up to a spherical entity in the sky. "So, who's got it covered?" Daren surveyed. "I do." Adam announced, jumping into action by taking out his Digivice, and Kaiyomon gave a thumbs-up signaling readiness.
"DIE!" the figure screamed, throwing the ball. It came down like a meteor, and with each second it came closer, the attack seemingly increased in size. Adam's Digivice emanated a white light.
"Kaiyomon warp digivolve to…" Out of nowhere, a large creature appeared in the skies and knocked away the blast effortlessly. The assailant recoiled in surprise.
"Where did that come from?" Koji exclaimed in question. "I don't know, but it's huge!" Takuya said. "Then let us educate you." Gabumon stated. "Meet Fantasiomon!" Patamon said in a presenting manner
Fantasiomon is Kaiyomon's Mega-level form. Fantasiomon was a bipedal, humanoid but somewhat mechanical Digimon, but appeared to possess six, black wings. He was the largest of the three Mega-level Digimon present. He seemed to be composed mainly of blue armor-some portions of his armor having silver or black shades-with a black, triangular armor additive on his chest and some of his torso. At the end of his arms were golden claws, and at the end of his legs was a single "toe" that was in the form of a large, curved golden blade. Lastly, he possessed a white tail with black spikes. He had defined features in his upper arms and upper body; his lower arms and lower body were more sleek.
The assailant chuckled, "Never thought I'd see you again after our battle." Fantasiomon 'hmph-ed' and said, "I hoped I'd never see you again…Demonmon." Demonmon, too, was a Mega-leveled Digimon of a Dark Demon class. He has a black helmet-similar to that of Apocalymon's-with vaguely visible dried blood strains on it. His yellow irises and black slit-feral pupils looked at his old rival mockingly. His whole body was a dull grey with some musculature with his hands, feet, and abdominal area colored dark red. Lastly, he has crescent-shaped black wings.
"Now, if that doesn't get our friends down here, I don't know what will." Tai said, more concentrated on the scene in the skies but unable to see who Fantasiomon was leering at. "Likewise with mine." Daren responded.
"Do you guys see that huge thing?" Tommy cried, running down the steps with the rest of the team. "It belongs to him." Koji pointed toward Adam. "Nice to meet you all. My name's Adam Zuchisu and that's my partner Fantasiomon." He introduced, followed by the rest of his friends doing the same with their names.
"That," J.P. pointed up to the Mega with surprise in his voice, "belongs to you."
"In a sense," Adam answered, "He actually digivolved."
"Digivolve?" Zoe repeated in confusion. "What, never heard of it?" T.K. asked them. "Well of course I've heard of it," Bokomon boasted, "But it seems it's best that these people have more experience with it. So let me explain." Neemon looked at Bokomon slyly, "Sounds like to me you don't know at all." Bokomon shot a glare at him, "Silence, Know-Nothing."
"Guys, who are you talking to?" The voice of Sora asked as she and the rest finally made their appearance. Before any more words to add to the confusion could come out, an explosion occurred and Fantasiomon was blown back and slid on the ground. Demonmon had released some sort of blast from his hand, "Don't irritate me with your words." He warned the fallen Mega.
Daren and Adam immediately recognized the person. "Demonmon!" Those exclamations made everybody look at the dark Digimon. "Long time, no see, DigiDestined." He greeted half-heartedly. "There's a face I never wanted to see again." Gabumon said as the Adventure children went down the steps. "So, it was you who tried to blow us up." Adam deduced sourly. "By now, I expected you guys to know that I'm the only one with the audacity to kill you in such a manner." Demonmon stated matter-of-factly.
Suddenly, Fantasiomon grabbed Demonmon by his neck, his golden claws threatening to slit his neck savagely, "I never expected you to be back from the beating we gave you."
"Oh," Demonmon said with an agitated facial expression, "that travesty. " Somehow, the dark Digimon dispersed into small molecules, baffling Fantasiomon. He reappeared and used Shadow Claw on Fantasiomon, knocking him back down to the ground.
"Matt, Tai, anytime, you guys!" Adam stated, rather upset that their Digimon have yet warp-digivolved to help out his Digimon. "Oh, right." They responded simultaneously and sheepishly.
"Agumon warp digivolve to…"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to…"
"WarGreymon!"
"MetalGarurumon!" After the Digivolution finished, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon flew up to assist the team's other Mega. "That's an awesome magic trick." Neemon commented. "It's not a magic trick, but it is amazing." Bokomon stated, flipping through the pages of his book for an explanation.
Demonmon, from the corner of his eye, spotted the group's other two Mega Digimon and prepared himself. WarGreymon was the first to reach him and the two slashed at each other's claws, producing sparks. "Ice Wolf Bite!" MetalGarurumon fired an array of missile at Demonmon, who broke away from his clashing with WarGreymon and dodged them all aerodynamically. "Black Gust." Fantasiomon's six wings flapped producing a pitch-black tornado. This caught Demonmon off-guard and became trapped in the funnel. Demonmon's arms, which were shielding his face, and some parts of his body had several cuts forming. WarGreymon, seizing the opportunity, proceeded to attack. "Great Tornado!" WarGreymon spun like a top and charged at Demonmon. He looked trapped, but, in actuality, he was smirking. "Hallucination…" Figures of Demonmon stretched from the original. Great Tornado hit the exact spot of origination, but phased right through.
"How did I miss?" WarGreymon wondered in disbelief. "Tch, old guy, new tricks. Typical Demonmon." Fantasiomon stated exasperatedly. "Then, we'll just hit them all!" MetalGarurumon roared as blue light formed in his mouth, "Metal Wolf Claw!" He fired the blast of ice. "Terra Force!" Red and orange solar energy formed in WarGreymon's hands and a large sphere was created and thrown. "Dark Finish." Fantasiomon's wings glowed purple and unleashed a fuchsia-colored energy beam from in front of his body. The attacks collided hitting every Demonmon they could see.
"Did they get him?" Kari worried questioningly. "It looks like it." Gatomon said. The smoke concealed the answer. The Mega level Digimon stayed alert just in case. Then, something black was spotted in the smoke. A second later, a red shockwave struck the Mega Digimon, eliciting gasps from everyone. The Megas de-digivolved to their Ultimate forms, falling to the ground and unconscious. Demonmon laughed malignantly, "Not even a challenge."
"Well, looks like it's our turn to give it a shot." Takuya declared getting out his D-Tector. His team did the same. "Watch carefully." Daren whispered to Adam. "Execute!" Takuya, Koji, Ashley, and Daren swiped fractal code on their D-Tectors. "Fusion Evolution!" The process finished. "Aldamon!" "Beowulfmon."
"Terramon." This was Daren's Fusion Spirit of Earth. A big drill replaced his right arm. The base of the drill was just above his elbow so that dark purple skin can be seen up to his shoulder pads and blades. He has knightly chest armor, and rectangular arm armor on his other arm which had a hand. From his hip to knees the dark purplish skin can be seen, prominently showing muscles. His mouth is seen but that's only part of his face that can be seen. The only exception was his eyes which were located inside his helmet armor. All of his armor was colored medium yellow.
"Darusumon." This was Ashley's Fusion Spirit of the Crescent. She possessed black, scaly wings-reminiscent of the wings from ShadowLunarmon, her Beast Spirit. Her body was generally the same as her Human Spirit, Crescentmon, but her clothes were darker hue and had what seemed to be pricks of scales adorning the fabric. Her face from nose up was covered by grey facial armor. A crescent moon was imprinted on her armor where her sternum is supposed to be. She had a staff in which one end had a large black crescent one and a smaller gold one inside the arc of the black one. The shaft of her staff doubled as a slate grey lance in which the other end was spiked.
"Execute!" Zoe, J.P., Tommy, and Koichi swiped a single strand of data on their D-Tectors. "Spirit Evolution!" This process was different from Fusion Evolution but nonetheless it was completed. "Kazemon." "Beetlemon!" "Kumemon." "Loewemon." All of the hybrid Digimon flew up to the enemy. Adam raised a curious eyebrow. "How did they do that?" Mimi mused aloud. "That's impossible!" Izzy gave an outburst, "There's no way humans could become Digimon." "But we learned that anything is possible in the Digital World." Palmon rationalized. "Now you've got me curious, Daren." Adam thought.
Demonmon faced the Ancient Warriors with an evil smile, "Now, things get interesting." Terramon pointed his large drill at Demonmon. "Driller Projectiles." The small, jagged protrusions on his drill fired. Demonmon's open palm aimed itself at the many missiles heading toward him. "Vortex of Darkness." A portal appeared, colored bloodshot red and smoke black and fired a beam. It easily overpowered the missiles causing miniature explosions. "Solar Wind Destroyer!" Aldamon gathered enough solar energy to formed a large fireball. Knowing enough power was put into it, he hurled it towards the oncoming beam. The attacks collided and smoke emerged.
Beetlemon and Darusumon took this opportunity and dashed at Demonmon. Beowulfmon's missile panel opened and was aimed for a surprise attack. "Lunar Lance!" Darusumon's lanced glowed ivory and jabbed at the demonic Digimon. Said creature simply held out his arm. The lance made impact and went right through his whole arm. Beetlemon and Darusumon's eyes widened in shock and somewhat of disgust. "Ew, I'm gonna be sick." Darusumon thought. Demonmon chuckled evilly as his weird blood spilled on her lance. She tried to pull it away but it was stuck, "An attack like this is only a mere splinter to me." The arm that wasn't pierced positioned itself so that his hand was beside her head. Energy began to form in his hand, prompting Beetlemon to move.
"Don't even think about it!" He shouted as his horn produced electricity. "Proton Slam!" Demonmon turned his hand towards Beetlemon's direction and fired the energy ball. The blast connected and Beetlemon fell. Darusumon finally managed to pull her lance from Demonmon's arm. She saw the horrifying damage his arm had sustained. From the center of his palm to the middle of the bicep muscle was a tear. The tip of her lanced pierced a hole the bicep to the other side of the arm. Of course, his black and red blood was spilling out.
Darusumon was so distracted by his injury that she was unaware that a Hallucination clone came behind her. "Darusumon, watch out!" Loewemon alerted. Too late. The clone chopped her the neck. She fell unconscious and fell down just like Beetlemon. "That's it!" Loewemon roared as he went up to Demonmon, "Now, I'm angry!" The dark demon Digimon's injury stopped bleeding and began regenerating, skin and everything. "Shadow Meteor!" The lion head embedded on his chest fired a black and yellow ball. Demonmon's arm regenerated back to status quo. To prove it, he grabbed Shadow Meteor and transformed the colors into his trademark colors of smoke black and wine red. Once it was fully under his control, he fired back.
Aldamon swooped into in front of Loewemon. "Atomic Inferno!" Bringing his hands together, Aldamon produced many fireballs, He held out his hands and the fireballs flew at the modified attack. Both came in contact and created an explosion. Before any chance of retaliation, a large ball swooped past sending Aldamon and Loewemon to the ground in seconds. "Cleansing Light!" The missiles fired from the panel. Demonmon held out his hands again, "Shadow Mirror Move." The same missiles from the Cleansing Light discharged from his hands but were colored black. Both attacks cancelled each other out.
Kazemon then appeared beside Demonmon and gave him a barrage of kicks. Demonmon guarded himself. Out of great timing, Demonmon grabbed her leg and, after spinning a couple of times to gain momentum, he threw her to the ground. Terramon and Kumamon got close enough to Demonmon for a surprise attack. "Blizzard Blaster!" Kumamon got his rectangular cannon and fired snowballs out of its four barrels. "Ultimate Drill!" Terramon's large drill spun and a grey wind current circled around it. Even at close range, Demonmon ducked under the snow balls and delivered a Shadow Punch to both of their stomachs.
They were immediately drained of their energy and fell from the sky. Beowulfmon held up his sword, "Frozen-" Demonmon teleported above Beowulfmon, interlaced his fingers, and brought his balled fists down like a hammer onto Beowulfmon. Just like his teammates, he fell to the ground defeated. Demonmon chuckled perniciously. "I guess it wasn't that interesting," He thought, "Well, guess there's no point for staying here any longer. I've done my part." Demonmon turned the other direction and began to fly back to the coalition's headquarters. But, he sensed an omen. A large array of attacks were heading his direction.
"Giga Blaster!"
"Wolf Claw!"
"Spear Storm."
"Wing Blade!"
"Horn Blaster."
"Flower Cannon!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Gate of Destiny."
"Celestial Arrow."
Demonmon turned around in shock was the assault headed his way. Being posthaste, the evil Digimon held out his arms, "Black Shield!" He now encapsulated himself in a charcoal-colored, spherical shield. All the attacks hit the shield in one big blast. The smoke drifted to reveal that Black Shield proved their simultaneous hits useless and ineffective.
"I promised myself not to destroy you guys," He said with eerie calmness, obviously now threatening to reach his boiling point. He held his left arm up and smoke black/bloodshot red energy developed in his hand. Red electricity cracked as an enormous ball stated to form, and Demonmon help up his other arm for stabilization. The procedure completed as Demonmon threw it, "But you guys make me angry! Hell's Revelation!"
Author Notes
Without a doubt, the hardest part of this chapter was getting the DigiDestined to meet. It was also mainly why this chapter underwent such editing because the last one was...meh. So I tried to changed that. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if people still found their first encounter to be disappointing, but it would have been worse just writing them meeting and introducing with no spice to it. Thankfully, we had Demonmon to prevent that.
Adios and Adieu for now!
