Ch.7: Calumon Takes A Hit

Back at his new Hypnos building, Yamaki struggled with being uncomfortable ever since the reverence from Kira's short visit seemed to echo through these halls. The words of his former co-worker flowed clearly through his mind.

"Kira" thought Yamaki to himself "Why have you come back?"

Yamaki and Kira had met way back when Yamaki was still a young boy. Yamaki was making his way through college with hopes on getting a degree in electrical engineering when he had first encounter with a digimon.

Evening had fallen, and Yamaki was slowly making his way back home, when all of the sudden a wild one appeared. It was a fearsome-looking fanged beast, and the sight of it made Yamaki stumble to the ground in fear. What was this thing? And why did it seem it wanted to devour him alive?

Fear clouded Yamaki's foolish questions, and the instinct for survival kicked in. Curling up like a ball, Yamaki prepared himself for what he was sure to be a grueling demise. But, something came to spare him at the last minute, and the beast about to maul him, disappeared into digital dust.

A man stepped out of the shadows, and was introduced as Yamaki's savoir, Kira. Kira helped Yamaki stand back on his feet, and then delivered an amazing tale that would forever change Yamaki's life, Digimon.

Digimon, viral beasts that had no right to live amongst the human plain. Monsters who had escaped from their world just to poison ours. Hatred grew in Yamaki's heart with every word spun off of Kira's tongue. A deal was made that night. A deal to put an end to the digital plague once and for all.

Hypnos was created, and with it the system that would soon make all digimon tremble in fear, Juggernaut. The Juggernaut system was a machine of wonder. Because of this little 'beaut no digimon that dared to come to Earth would stand a live chance.

Yamaki had enjoyed this power for a while, even after Kira was dismissed after indications of malicious experimentation for mal intent, which of course, Yamaki never believed. He had never seen any of Kira's ideals as wrong, until that is, he encountered the tamers.

The tamers and their digimon had given Yamaki a new look upon everything, and he figured he owed them for whatever jerk he had been in the past. His ideals about the world had changed, but some peoples still hadn't.

ADO was still barking outside Yamaki's door even after Kira left, and the evening shadows were fast approaching. Didn't these people have something better to do with their lives?

A sudden voice broke Yamaki out of his brooding thoughts, and he turned to see one of his aids walk slowly towards him.

"What is it?" asked Yamaki.

"Sir" said the aid " it took us a while to find it, but our systems had been hacked. The data on the tamers and their digimon was touched,"

"What?" said Yamaki outloud, but his mind was thinking "Kira,"

"There's more Sir" said the aid " after relentless research we've finally found out who's been funding the Anti-Digimon Organization outside, James Kira,"

"So" said Yamaki "he's still at it. If Kira did all that, I'm sure he's been part of the kidnapping too. He knew Ai and Mako were tamers even before I told him. This is bad, Kira was the one who taught me all about Digimon in the first place. If he's still out there experimenting, I doubt anyone would last for long."


"Beautiful isn't it?" said Kira to the stunned faces of the tamers " My first successful blend of human and digimon DNA. Ren was quite the willing test subject after I offered him power to prison,"

"That's right" said Ren, stalking closer to the tamers, his monster eyes gleaming fierce " Let me show you want power Master Kira can bring,"

Growling in anger, Guilamon and Terriermon instantly moved up to their tamers defense, while Calumon ran to find a good place to hide, away from the fight that was about to take place.

In a flash, Ren sped towards the two digimon, his fingers extended out like claws. Guilamon instantly fired out a barrage of pyro-spheres, but the red flashes of fire proved be no match for Ren's speed. Terriermon also unleashed his own special attack, but Ren manage to dodge it too.

Grinning like a savage beast, Ren swooped in close to the two digimon and struck out with his palms, eyeing them with his unnatural gaze. Normally, a simple punch wouldn't have that much of an effect on the digimon, but Ren was no ordinary man.

Guilamon and Terriermon were pushed savagely away, and Takato and Henry could only gasp in shock. Jumping high, Ren soared in with a hard kick to the ground, barely missing both the digimon's heads.

"Well" said Kira, looking back up at Impmon " looks like this is going to take a while. I think it's time to increase your torture,"

"Aahh!" cried Impmon, as Kira suddenly turned up the pressure on the machine, making his life energy soar faster to the gem.

"Impmon!" cried out the twins in horror.

"Come on Mako" whispered Ai to her brother " we got to help him,"

"Right," said Mako sneaking behind his sister.

"This is impossible" stuttered Henry as he and Takato watched their digimon fight " Ren shouldn't be able to beat them. Not like this,"

Guilamon and Terriermon were still trying their best to land a hit on Ren, but the no longer sun-glassed man was proving to be an equal match for digital fire-power.

"Heh, heh, heh, heh!" laughed Ren, swatting away Guilamon and Terriermon against a steel-plated wall " Even without the special powers of those so-called digimon, the strength I've gained from them is enough to bring your puny partners down,"

Eyes glowing an unnatural yellow, Ren stepped up to finish the two partner digimon off when a whispered shout suddenly caught his ear.

"Ai, Mako, no!" said Impmon.

"Well, well" said Ren, turning to see the two young tamers attempting to free Impmon from his prison " it looks I have some new playmates to entertain,"

With a fierce roar, Ren charged straight towards Ai and Mako, and Impmon's eyes widened with fear. Kira stood smirking at the coming action, daring Impmon with his gaze. What was more important to him right now, stopping Kira from his plans, or saving his tamers?

No contest, Impmon digivolved into his mega form, broke out of the tube, and spread out his dark wings in the air. Calling out his Darkness Claw attack, Beelzemon plunged his talons straight through Ren's chest, making the human erupt in a burst of blood and digital dust.

Horror and laughter soon came after the villain's death.

"Well done my friend" said Kira, grinning at Beelzemon " my path to revenge is now complete,"

And with that said, a red light flashed, and the alarm began to blare.


Back in the other room, an exhausted Kyuubimon and Besuramon stood glaring at each other, sporting the battle scars of a fierce fight. Both had suffered major damage during their struggle, but their thirst for victory overwhelmed the desires for their physical needs.

Besuramon's crystals began to glow, and Kyuubimon's tails lit up with bits of blue flame. This was the final showdown, in which only one could survive.

But, just before either side could launch out their deadly attacks, the sound of the alarm and its red flare shattered through the tension of the battle.

"What's going on?" asked Rika, shocked.

"Something's gone wrong" said Kyuubimon, and then looked over to where her opponent once stood "Ah, Besuramon's gone!"

"We have to find the others and get out of here quick!" said Rika.

"Right," said Kyuubimon, quickly following in her tamer's heels.

The fox-like digimon just hoped and prayed the others were alright.


From his hiding place, Calumon had watched nervously as the fight with Ren took place, and cringed whenever he saw his friends get hurt dealing with the evil man. Their bodies sang out with pain, as did the cries of Impmon when Kira turned up the power on his machine.

"You're a very bad man!" Calumon shouted to Kira in his thoughts.

A painful 'oomph' sounded from the battle zone as Guilamon and Terriermon slammed hard against the steel wall. Both remained barely conscious, and Ren was grinning from ear to ear.

Calumon gasped as he thought the man was about to finish his two friends off, when he saw Ren's gaze glance towards two more targets. Following the villain's eyes, Calumon could now see Ai and Mako trying to free Impmon from his cage, unaware of the danger approaching them.

But Impmon was aware, and when Ren charged in to attack, Impmon quickly jumped up to his mega form and sliced through that monster with one stab of his claw.

Calumon cheered that Beelzemon had saved the day, but the cheers quieted when suddenly the whole room began buzzing with noise. Wincing in pain from the sound, Calumon struggled to block his ears, when his eyes suddenly caught sight of a dark flash erupting from a table nearby him.

Climbing up to get a better look, Calumon stood on top of the table to see a mysterious, glowing stone twist and transform until it took the familiar shape of a digivice. It looked just like the ones the tamers had, except that it was black instead of white.

Curious about this strange digivice, Calumon reached out his hand to touch it, unaware that Kira's hand was reaching at the same time. The gleam in Kira's eyes became deadly the moment he felt his fingers brush across Calumon's hand. The little digimon froze in fear from the fierceness of the gaze.

"Little rat!" growled Kira, quickly drawing out a knife from his left pocket and slashed Calumon's chest. Digital data flew upward like a snowstorm, making both the tamers and digimon gasp in shock.

"Calumon!" shouted Beelzemon, instantly rushing towards the Creampuff's rescue as he fell from the table edge.

"Pyro-sphere!" shouted Guilamon, launching an attack towards Kira.

"To slow!' said Kira, grabbing up the digivice, and jumping out of the way in time. " My mission here is now complete. Have fun my good tamers, enjoy your last breaths of life,"

With that said, smoke started to fly into the room, and running off with a laugh Kira disappeared.

"This whole place is gonna blow!" said Henry " We need an exit!"

"One exit coming up!" said Beelzemon, aiming his gun towards a steel wall "Corona Blaster!"

"Dragon Wheel!" shouted Kyuubimon, leaping in from the other room.

Both attacks hit the wall with brute force, peeling it open like an over-ripe grape. For a flash of a second, Beelzemon's green eyes looked sternly at Kyuubimon.

"I could have handled it myself Fox-Face!"

"You're welcome," said Kyuubimon.

"Stop quarreling and let's out of here!" shouted Rika, running out the hole.

"Right behind you!" said Takato, following after the Digimon Queen, with all their friends following in pursuit.

Minutes after they escaped, the black building that was once Kira's hideout crumbled and burst into flame, incinerating all the tortured digimon still inside. Beelzemon held the best view of the building's destruction from his position in the air. Holding his tamers and Calumon tight in his arms, the dark angel-like digimon glanced down on what had formerly been a scene of torture.

"Calumon?" whispered out Mako's voice, making Beelzemon look back down to the injured digimon in his hands.

"Hang tight Creampuff" Beelzemon whispered to his friend "we'll make you feel better, and I know just the guy for the job,"