Chapter 4: Evil fathers?
Marcus, DATS Agumon, Shoutmon, Lunamon, Ballistamon, Gaomon, Lalamon, Rhythm and Dorulumon snarled at the wicked forms of Tai, Marcus and their two Agumon, who were looking down on them with dark glares and matching smiles.
"What's the matter, heroes? Not gonna fight back?" The evil Tai's Agumon asked with a mocking voice.
"How dare you hurt these innocent Digimon, Marcus Black, what's gotten in you?" Rhythm questioned, her words made Marcus look at her with a puzzled look and ask. "Marcus Black?"
"Well since he looks like you and wears black clothing, I figured it was the best idea for a name." Rhythm said in explanation.
"And I guess we'll call Tai 'Tai Black'." Lunamon said angrily, she too despising the dark forms of the male heroes.
"And the other me, 'DATS BlackAgumon' and Tai's Agumon 'BlackAgumon'." DATS Agumon said, deciding to change the names between the dark Agumon to avoid conflict or confusion.
"Call us whatever you like, but it doesn't make the fact different that you all are foul beasts that need wiping out." DATS BlackAgumon said in reply.
"YOU are the foul beasts! Hurting and taking down innocent Digimon! As long as I am Digimon King, You'll pay!" Shoutmon yelled as he charged at BlackAgumon with his mic, swinging it around with swift and powerful strikes, all of which the evil Agumon dodged with ease.
While Shoutmon had trouble with his enemy, DATS Agumon charged at his evil counterpart, where the two clashed with a right hook, before both exchanged punches and kicks, blocking the other's attacks out.
And as the heroes fought against the dark forms, from the distance, Max and his group had just arrived, where they saw the battles, confusion and shock filled all at what they were seeing.
"What is this?" Fiona questioned, upon seeing the evil versions of their father and their friends, just before the dark DATS Agumon struck Shoutmon with his claws, before kicking him in the chest, sending him back.
"Dad? What is he doing?" Biyomon Jr questioned in horror at seeing how vicious and violent Agumon was acting.
"Sis, that's not dad!" Agumon Jr pointed out, before informing. "I can sense his powers. He may look like dad, but I felt a powerful evil in him."
"Then that man over there is not my father!" Max added, looking upon Tai Black in the distance.
"Jake, down there! You see that man with them, the one with the red jacket? That's your father!" FighterAgumon suddenly pointed out, causing Jake to look down and saw Marcus below, leaving the brunette silent at seeing his father for the first time, while Gaomon joined in on the battle as he leapt in, joining DATS Agumon in fighting against DATS BlackAgumon.
But even with two on one, DATS BlackAgumon still managed to hold them off, while Marcus then leapt up and punched Marcus Black with a series of punches, before kicking his dark copy back.
"As protector of peace, I will knock you down!" Marcus roared as he went to punch the dark form of Marcus again, only to be stopped when something struck him from behind, causing Marcus to look down to see a blade of dark energy had pierced his body, turning his head to see Tai Black had stabbed him from behind.
"Marcus!" Rhythm gasped in horror at seeing the brunette in his predicament.
"Boss!" DATS Agumon followed up with a great concern in his voice, distracted at seeing his partner in pain, but left himself open as DATS BlackAgumon slashed him upon the back, making him groan in pain as he collapsed.
And not letting up in his relentlessness, DATS BlackAgumon struck Gaomon with a powerful right hook, before pinning Gaomon to the ground by his foot, which left Jake and FighterAgumon in horror at what they saw, the feelings matched with the new generations.
"You..." Marcus groaned to Tai Black, who smirked darkly and interrupted as he said. "You were no more than an opening act. You should learn your place. Prepare to perish!"
"Is that all you've got for me? Prepare to join your subjects in defeat!" BlackAgumon added as he prepared to finish the weakened form of Shoutmon off.
This was all Jake could stand.
"FATHER!" Jake yelled as he and FighterAgumon rushed down from their place as they leapt at Tai Black and slammed their fists with great punches, sending him crashing into the wall, with FighterAgumon attacking DATS BlackAgumon.
"LEAVE MY DAD ALONE!" DemiShoutmon yelled as he summoned his mic and struck BlackAgumon down.
"FighterAgumon?" Rhythm questioned, surprised greatly to see him, watching as FighterAgumon rushed to his father and Gaomon.
"Dad, are you ok?" DemiShoutmon asked as he rushed to Shoutmon's side and helped him up.
"My son... you're ok..." Shoutmon said, relieved.
"DemiShoutmon, over here. I'll look after him!" Lunamon called out, where DemiShoutmon and FighterAgumon helped DATS Agumon and Shoutmon over to them.
Seeing the new intruders, the dark enemies grew hostile.
"Who are you?" Marcus Black questioned as Jake helped Marcus up, where the brunette then said in reply. "Someone who detests you for impersonating my father!"
From the boy's words, Marcus stared at Jake, before he asked. "Father? You mean me? Who are you?"
But Jake was unable to answer, for Marcus then collapsed as Jake helped carry him to the others, where Max and the others joined them.
"You idiots!" Fiona said, sounding most annoyed as she pointed out. "Now you made our presence known."
Tai Black then emerged from the building, unscathed as he brushed the dirt and debris from his clothing.
"So we've got more interferences to deal with?" He asked calmly, while Marcus Black, BlackAgumon and DATS BlackAgumon joined them.
"I don't know who you are, but nobody impersonates Uncle Tai and gets away with this!" Hikaru said angrily.
"Stop using my dad's form and reveal to us who you really are!" Serena shouted.
"That some talk coming from rookie trainers like you!" Marcus Black said nastily.
"Then I guess we should make our appearance as well." Came another voice all too familiar to the Tamers' ears and were shocked as more dark figures appear, which looked like Davis, Takato, Takuya and Mikey, but all had evil expressions and black clothing upon their beings, while along each were their Digimon partners, who looked like dark forms of Veemon, Guilmon and Shoutmon.
"What? Father!?" Samantha gasped as Kakeru, Genamon and Ruilmon looked on in shock at seeing the dark forms of their parents.
"Now there's an evil dad too?" Daichi questioned as Fiona, Veemon-B and Guilamon looked on with an equal expression of shock.
"Now there's a dark me and an evil Mikey as well?" Shoutmon questioned, wondering how such evil forms could actually exist.
"What the heck is going here?" Jin asked, he too also puzzled.
"We're here to rid the Digital World of all humans and Digimon alike. Soon this world shall be under protection once more from filth like you" Takato Black said with a evil smirk.
"You think that because you are the fiends causing destruction to the Digital World!" Riley shouted back, before DemiShoutmon's appointed General questioned. "And I bet it was you who merged the Digital Worlds, right?"
"That is correct." Mikey Black said darkly, sounding proud of himself and his dark accomplishments, while FighterAgumon let out an aggressive battle cry as he rushed at DATS BlackAgumon, ready to strike, which DATS BlackAgumon countered and blocked each attack that FighterAgumon threw at him.
Agumon Jr. rushed at BlackAgumon and fired his Pepper Breath attack, only for BlackAgumon to block it off with his own fire attack, Spitfire Blast, before going head on with Agumon Jr.
Angered that someone had taken their father's form, Genamon and Ruilmon charged at BlackGuilmon and tried to attack him with a barrage of punches and kicks, only for BlackGuilmon to cancel and block each attack with ease.
"How dare you impersonate our fathers! Just who are you?" Jin called as he became BellowDramon and charged at Takuya Black, who smirked as he was circled in a cocoon of dark data, which he shot out from as a dark form of Agunimon, who blocked Bellowdramon's attacks.
"Someone who will rid the world of you humans." BlackAgunimon said, continuing to sound like Takuya, before he kicked Bellowdramon back.
Like Veemon, Veemon-B wanted to make sure his friends were alright as he rushed over to help Agumon Jr. but stopped when the dark Veemon blocked his path.
"Dark Vee Head Slammer!" He called, slamming his head into Veemon-B's, making Veemon's son yell in pain as he was knocked back.
"Hahaha. You might be the sons and daughters of the heroes now, but where we come from we surpass them, so no matter what you do you cannot defeat us." Davis Black said with a wickedness in his voice.
"You shut your mouth!" DemiShoutmon roared as he rushed to attack him, but BlackShoutmon appeared before him and struck him down with a dark copy of Shoutmon's mic.
BlackAgumon used his 'Claw Attack' to knock both Agumon Jr and Biyomon Jr back, which made both cry out from the pain.
BlackGuilmon used a copy of his 'Rock Breaker', Rock Crusher, which sent Genamon and Ruilmon crashing back, damaging them greatly, while DATS BlackAgumon struck FighterAgumon with a powered up Pepper Breath, blasting FighterAgumon down.
"They're just too strong for us!" Jenny said in shock as BlackAgunimon slammed Bellowdramon down.
With the new heroes no match for the black evil doubles, Rhythm saw a small stream nearby.
"Everyone, we have no choice but to retreat for now!" She called out, turning into her Agumon form as she and Guilamon used their fireball attacks at the water, creating a small smoke wall that covered them all, allowing the heroes and heroines to retreat.
"Damn! They got away." BlackGuilmon said with a frustrated tone as the smoke cleared away.
"Don't worry, they will be back." Tai Black promised, smiling with a wickedness as he added. "And when they do, we'll be waiting."
-In the forest area-
Managing to retreat as far as they could, the Digimon took their time to recover from their injuries, while Jake and FighterAgumon helped patch Marcus up, having been through enough fights to know how to treat such injuries.
"Nice use of your new form, Rhythm." DATS Agumon commented with a smile, making his wife blush.
"Are you ok, dad?" DemiShoutmon had to ask, to which Shoutmon smiled and said with confidence. "It's nothing too serious. I am just relieved to know you're safe, DemiShoutmon."
Though glad to see all were seemingly alright, Genamon spoke his mind, concerned as he asked. "But who were those characters? They looked like our dads, but they all had a pure evil vibe to them."
"That's a good question, and I wish I knew." Dorulumon said, lying down and taking it easy as Cutemon used his healing powers to tend to the wolf Digimon's wounds
"Riley, there you are! We've been looking for you." A familiar voice then called, to which Riley, Shoutmon and the other Fusion Fighters turned and saw Mikey and Angie rushing over to them.
"Mikey!" Shoutmon cheered as he hugged Mikey, before saying with a continued joy. "It's good to see you again."
And seeing Mikey Kudo, DemiShoutmon was starstruck, looking at Mikey with amazement.
"He's the famous Red General?" DemiShoutmon then asked, feeling a great honour to finally meet the human that taught his father how to Digifuse and who helped him become the Digimon King.
Ruilmon was about to say something where she was caught in a deep hug by her mother who appeared behind her.
"Mum? What are you doing here?" She asked, though glad to see her, she was a little embarrassed by Renamon's motherly affection.
"I was so worried about you both. I am just relieved to see you're alright." Renamon said, tearing up.
"What happened? You look like you challenged Impamon to another spar and let her take it too far again." Guilmon asked, concerned as he appeared and approached Renamon, where he saw the injuries on their children.
"It's not my fault! And it wasn't me!" Impamon said, defending herself.
"We're fine, dad. We're involved in a rough battle, which proved a little tough for us is all." Genamon said, before he saw Takato, Rika, Henry, Terriermon, Impmon and BlackRenamon appear, with Rika showing similar emotions as Renamon as she rushed to hug Samantha, while Takato checked on Kakeru.
"Max! Serena!" Sora cried out as she, Tai and the other Digidestined and Digimon appeared next.
"Oh, I am relieved you're safe." Sora then said, holding both her children close to her.
"Mum..." Max whined, blushing and embarrassed at his mother's show of care and protectiveness.
"Junior, what happened?" Agumon asked, noticing the bruises Agumon Jr and Biyomon Jr had, concerning him and Biyomon.
"Dad, we have lots to tell you." Agumon Jr said, which made his sister nod in agreement.
"Jin! Amy!" Takuya called as he, Yoshi and Zoe appeared next, where the blonde Italian girl then asked her children. "Are you alright?"
"I'm ok." Jin said as Amy helped her brother up.
"Marcus!" Yoshi called as she helped Marcus up, blushing a little at how handsome and stronger he looked, before focusing as she questioned. "What happened? Are you alright?"
"And Jake Daemon..." She then said, not forgetting about her son. "You're in big trouble."
"But why? I didn't do anything!" Jake pointed out, trying to defend himself and not be blamed.
"Am I missing something here?" Marcus asked as he was trying to put two and two together.
"My apologies, Marcus." Yoshi said, facing Marcus as she placed her hands on Jake's shoulders to face him, where she then smiled and informed. "Marcus, this is your son, Jake Daemon."
Jake looked over and smiled at his dad, while Marcus was shocked to hear he was a father, as well as stunned that the boy who saved him from Tai Black was his own son.
But he was broken from his stupor when his Agumon nudged him and whispered with a sly smile. "Way to go, Boss."
Looking upon his children, Davis questioned. "So what happened? Who did this to you?"
"The enemies... they called looked almost like you." Lunamon said, looking around and at Tai, Davis, Takato, Takuya, Marcus and Mikey.
"As well as their Digimon, which looked like Agumon, Veemon, Guilmon, DATS Agumon and Shoutmon." Dorulumon added, before adding. "Only it was like staring into a set of dark mirrors."
"They're what!?" Matt let out in shock, before Tai questioned in shock "They're us?"
"Are you guys trying to tell me that the new enemies we're facing here have our names and claim to be us?" Takato asked in shock, as was Rika, who was horrified at what she heard.
"That is correct." Marcus said, hating the truth, but knew he had to tell his allies.
"Well isn't that a kick in the face?" Agumon asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Expect they wear black clothes and their Digimon partners have black skin and dark markings on their bodies. Rhythm calls them Tai Black, Davis Black, Takato Black, Takuya Black, Marcus Black and Mikey Black. As for the Digimon, they were classified as Black Digimon BlackAgumon, BlackVeemon, BlackGuilmon, BlackAgunimon, DATS BlackAgumon and BlackShoutmon." Dorulumon explained.
"So they're all named Black? What's up with that?" Davis questioned.
"I'm not too sure, but they didn't really care what we called them." Amy pointed out.
"How dare they, using my husband's image for evil?" AquaVeemon questioned angrily as Biyomon, Renamon and Lunamon felt the same, to know that the image of their beloveds were being used for nefarious purposes.
"Ok, Max. Tell me what happened so far." Tai said, all wanting to hear what happened, earning a nod in reply from Max as he explained everything that had happened, making sure to add as much information as he could, certain that if anybody could stop this new evil, it would be their parents.
Little did they know, that they would be the world's hope too.