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Chapter 7
Darkness Falls
Last time on Digimon: Naruto's Adventure…
"No," Naruto started to stand. "I won't let you harm my friends, I made a promise to protect the digital world from you, and I'm going to keep it, because that's my nindo, my ninja way!" When he shouted out the last part his crest started to glow.
A light shot from the crest and hit the digivice, it turned to a neon orange color as the symbol for determination came out of the device. The symbol shot up as it shone above Stingmon, it burst into data flakes, and Stingmon was covered in a green smoke. "Stingmon digivolve to…" When the smoke cleared a humanoid insect in green armor appeared. The armor had red markings etched into it. Upon the chest of the new digimon was the symbol for determination, a spiraling leaf. Within his left hand was a green staff. On the bottom of the staff was a diamond shape ruby; on the top of the staff were three rubies together that looked like the top of a trident. He twirled the staff around a slammed it to the ground, "JewelBeemon." He announced.
Naruto stared in awe, then he looked to his now neon orange digivice, he couldn't believe it. "Stingmon, I mean JewelBeemon, you digivolved." He laughed a bit, and then grew serious. "Okay, now it's time to take him down."
"You think that you can take me down? I'm a mega, and he's an ultimate." He started to laugh loudly at his own comment.
"You forget Machinedramon I could take you on when I was only a champion." JewelBeemon stated.
"That's right, and don't forget I even hurt you a couple times too." Naruto strung an explosive arrow, "let's go JewelBeemon." Naruto let the arrow go just as JewelBeemon made his move.
"Spike Buster." JewelBeemon threw his staff seconds before Naruto's exploding arrow hit Machinedramon. The arrows explosion was enough to distract the mega from the ultimate's attack. When it struck it struck hard, causing Machinedramon to cry out in pain from the attack.
"Take this," Naruto jumped up with his glove on, a huge energy ball forming on it. "Odama Rasengan." Another explosion rang out as the attack hit dead center of the mega's head, causing him to fall back, crying out in pain. The explosion was enough to cause Agumon and Tai to start to stir awake; they woke up in time to see Naruto flying through the air with a sword that seemed to be made out of lightning. "Try one of these!" The sword hit the digimon's gut, the mega cried out again as the wind was knocked out of him. Soon the others started to wake up.
"Let's give him some back up Agumon." Tai stated pulling out his digivice.
"Right!" Agumon jumped up into the air, "Agumon warp digivolve to…" He started to glow as he changed shape, before his mega form now took his place flying through the air. "WarGreymon." He headed straight for the fighting blonde. "Need some back up?"
"Yeah, form up your strongest attack; JewelBeemon and I will get his attention. When he's distracted, fire on my signal." Naruto made up a good plan on the fly, WarGreymon nodded, he started to form a large ball of fire.
"How will I know your signal?" WarGreymon asked while concentrating.
"Oh, it will be me giving this bastard another Rasengan." WarGreymon wondered for a second what that attack was, but didn't think much of it, he had to concentrate. "Let's go JewelBeemon." The digimon showed up by his partners side, towering over the blonde. Naruto ran off toward the mega, his gloved hand cocked back as a ball started to form.
"Shot Claw." JewelBeemon called out as he punched the mega several times causing him to be disoriented. Naruto took this time to show up behind the digimon.
"Rasengan!" Naruto shouted shoving the ball up into the mega's gut, knocking the wind out of him.
WarGreymon saw the signal, "Nova Force." He fired the large ball of fire at the weaken and disoriented mega. Naruto was taken out of harm's way by JewelBeemon seconds before Machinedramon was engulfed in flames. The mega's cries soon died down as he was reduced to data flakes.
"Yeah, we did it, we won!" Tai shouted, the others joined him, but the celebration was short lived, the ground started to shake as the sand seemed to swirl around as if it was going down a toilet.
"Everyone, quickly get to the air and follow me!" Naruto shouted above them from the grasp of JewelBeemon. Biomon and Tentomon quickly digivolved, this allowed the others to hitch a ride, WarGreymon took Kari, Tai and Gatomon. They all started to head for the water area of Spiral Mountain, but Naruto was headed away from the mountain towards an area unknown to the others.
"Naruto-kun! Where are you going?" Kari shouted but the words fell on deaf ears.
"He'll be fine Kari, he can take care of himself and plus he has Wormmon with him." Tai stated as he and the others started to head for the water area.
Naruto turned to look back at the others, he was now riding on the back of JewelBeemon, 'Sorry guys, but if Machinedramon knew about my spies, then he might know where the resistance is, I gotta check on them.' Naruto thought as he headed towards the digimon resistance HQ.
XxX
When Naruto got to the resistance HQ his heart sank, the door was completely blown down and smoke still came off of some fires that were about out. Naruto and Wormmon walked through the wrecked door looking around the once great hall. There was nothing left, and no one. Naruto's eyes hardened as he ran through the rubble looking for any signs of life. "Hello! Is anybody here?!" The blonde shouted as he ran, to find that no one was around. He came by the training room, where he and Leomon would help some of the digimon learn how to fight. It was in shambles, weapons were scattered about the room, and there was multiple signs of a struggle. He continued on as dread start to course through him.
He then made his way to where he knew Datamon's lab once was, the ex-bad digimon was a good friend of Naruto's and to know that he might be…He shook his head, he didn't want to think of his friend like that, but he had to be sure. "Datamon! Where are you?" He called as he entered the lab, the rubble here was less severe, but was still to be seen. "Datamon!" Tears started to well up in the blondes eyes, he fell to his knees, "Datamon!" he shouted out in a pain filled cry. Wormmon looked down in pain as well, he too liked the machine digimon. "Those bastards, Wormmon we'll get them, all of them, and we will stop this madness once and for all." Naruto declared as he stood up.
He walked over to the machine and placed his quiver inside, as he did that he placed his Raijin no Ken hilt and the Rasengan/Chidori glove in the machine that recharged them. As he did so he went over to the desk that was littered with tools that belonged to the machine digimon, Naruto placed a hand on them and a tear rolled down his cheek. His eyes hardened soon after the alarm sounded indicating that the two machines were done. Once he loaded up on his gear, he took one last look at the lab, 'I promise that I will stop all of this, no matter what happens, I will never give up until the Dark Masters pay for what they've done.' With that thought he and Wormmon walked out of the lab, and never looked back.
XxX
When Naruto and Stingmon flew over the water area of the digital world, the two went to work on finding the rest of the chosen children. He flew to an island that seemed like it would be a great hiding spot for the others. They landed then set to work on finding any signs of them. No foot prints in the sand, no signs of a camp site, well no recent signs. It did appear that someone had camped here at some point, but by the looks of things it seemed as though they were long gone. It could be possible that the others were here, but the campsite looked so old that it proved unlikely that it was recently.
The blonde then spotted something he thought he'd never see on a lone island. A rail cart, a red one that looked as though it had seen better days, it didn't seem to have much to it. The paint was fading, the wheels seemed like they'd fall off any minute. He ran over to it, he was about to jump inside and ask if they were there, but his instincts took over. He drew a trench knife, then he and Wormmon edged their way around the corner. Taking a peek into the cart he saw nothing inside, this caused him to relax, but staid worried. He took a tour of the area inside the cart; the seats had multiple holes in them. The guts of the seats seemed to spill out of them, not making the seats seem all that comfortable.
He looked around the cart some more, then he heard a splash coming from the shore. He ran out of the cart both knives drawn and ready for an attack, Wormmon as well. He saw a giant whale come out of the water to land on the shore. Naruto decided to wait and see if the digimon was going to attack or not. When the monster opened his mouth, Naruto tensed, he was getting ready to dodge an attack. Then he saw a group of people and digimon come out of the whale's mouth. Naruto ran towards them, he was silent, as a ninja should be, but more of a habit then him wanting to be. They had their back turned to him, facing the giant digimon.
"Thanks for the help Whalemon." Tai said as they all bowed to the digimon.
"No problem kids, I brought you back to the island that you were on before at the start of your adventure." The digimon bellowed.
At that point Naruto was behind the other children; whom didn't seem to realize that he was there, until Kari turned around to notice the blonde standing there. "Naruto-kun!" She shouted tackling the blonde to the ground. Naruto wasn't expecting it so he was prepared, this was cleared when the trench knives fell to the sides as he fell backwards with Kari attached to him.
"Naruto!" The group shouted as one.
"Hey," Naruto said as Kari held on to him tightly.
Another splash brought the groups attention to the sea, they saw that this was not another friend, rather an enemy. MetalSeadramon, he towered over the kids grinning menacingly. "I've finally found you, now you all die." A whistling sound cut through the silence, followed by an explosion, then a cry of pain from the mega. "You!" The mega of the sea shouted when he saw the blonde. "I'll kill you first, for what you did to my eye."
"Normally I would give a witty quip. But I'm so pissed off right now for what you all did to my friends I'm just in no mood." Naruto said seriously, "Wormmon, let's take this guy down." Being shrouded in light, the digimon soon changed form, then again until JewelBeemon was standing beside the blonde.
"You're going to need some help." Tai stated grabbing his digivice.
"No save your energy." He was about to head in until a hand on his shoulder stopped him. At first Naruto thought it was Tai, but he was shocked to see it belong to Matt.
"Naruto, I understand you wanting to go in and protect the others, but we're your friends, we help each other." The older blonde stated with surprising wisdom.
"Okay, but only Gabumon, I could use some help from a mega." Naruto stated, with some stubbornness at not letting the others partake in the battle.
"Fine," Matt sighed, it was better than nothing. "You ready Gabumon?" The dog like digimon nodded, he two was then shrouded in light.
"MetalGarurumon." He announced when he fully transformed.
"Alright, I have a plan so listen up." Naruto said to the mega, the metal wolf nodded and gave the blonde his full attention.
When MetalSeadramon recovered he sent a glare the blonde's way. "How dare you attack me boy!" he started to charge up his nose beam but lost sight of the blonde boy and his partner before he could fire. "Where'd you go brat? Come out and fight me." He felt several small things strike his back, when he went to look an explosion sent him forward.
"Now JewelBeemon!" Naruto shouted the digimon nodded then threw his spear to where it would be pointing to the falling digimon. The handle stuck in the ground, just as it did the mega fell upon the staff then rose back up trying to shake it off. Naruto then took out several ball looking pieces, he threw them at the mega, sticking to the beast they sent an electrical charge threw the digimon, causing it to shout out in pain. "Go, MetalGarurumon, finish it." The mega fired his most powerful attack straight at the mega. "Piss off you big metal dick." Naruto mumbled as he watched the several missiles strike the water mega. His rein was then ended as he was reduced to data flakes then scattered to the heavens. The group of children celebrated their win, when Naruto and JewelBeemon landed in front of the group they surrounded him and started giving him praise for his plan.
"Great job Naruto." Sora congratulated.
"I'm so glad you were able to get rid of that big meanie." Mimi stated in her usual way.
"Thank you Naruto." TK stated, "You and my brother were awesome."
Naruto was still getting used to praise, the blonde was grinning while scratching the back of his head. "Thanks guys." The celebration soon ended when the ocean started to look like toilet water being flushed. "Celebrations over, let's get going guys." They all nodded each taking to the sky in their own way, Naruto and JewelBeemon led the way to the forest area.
XxX
When they got to a clearing among trees, the digimon they used went back to their rookie forms. The exception being Gatomon; when they were all settled Joe made his thoughts known. "Anyone else get the feeling that defeating these mega's is way too easy?"
"Joe, don't worry about it." Tai stated not wanting to get everyone thinking that they only got lucky so far.
"The answer is obvious," Naruto decided to speak up, Kari was next to him, closely, and gave her full attention to the blonde. "I've been close to taking these guys down so many times, with just me and Wormmon only going to champion. Now that he can go to ultimate, and with the help of a mega, the dark masters don't stand a chance."
"So what you're saying is," Matt started, picking up the blondes train of thought, "With us working together and the right plan, the Dark Masters are push overs."
"That's basically what I said only reworded, but yeah pretty much." Naruto gave the older blonde a deadpan look.
"Guys," Mimi started to speak up noticing something.
"Hey I'm just saying it in my own words." Matt countered, TK started to move in closer to Naruto and Kari, the three were already standing together.
"Guys," Mimi started to speak up this time, brown mud like walls started to inch out of the ground.
"It's more like plagiarism." Naruto countered.
"Guys!" Mimi shouted.
"What?!" Matt and Naruto both shouted turning their heads to look at the girl. At this the brown walls shot up, Naruto, Kari, TK, and their digimon partners were cut off from the others.
"Matt," TK shouted.
"TK, I'm right here don't worry." As soon as he said his words, the three eight year olds rocketed off to the side, then the front, then the side again.
"What's going on?!" Kari screamed out as they went sailing across the ground.
"It's Puppetmon!" Naruto tried to talk loud rather than scream, but due to his own screaming and the others that he was with, this proved difficult. "He's mixing us up, probably 'cause he knows he doesn't stand a chance against all of us at once!" Naruto finished his explanation, but the three were still rocketing around. Then they stopped suddenly, all hitting the wall and ending up as a pile on top of each other; the walls went back to their home underground, thus making the youngsters scatter out. They soon stood up, shakily, but with the help of each other they were standing. "You two okay?"
They nodded, "Matt?!" TK called out.
"TK, your brother and the others are God knows where, I don't even know where we are." Naruto looked around them only seeing trees.
"Uhm, guys, look." Kari got the attention of the two blondes, thus making them turn to what the girl was pointing at.
"You've gotta be kidding me." Naruto deadpanned as he took in the sight of a gigantic house.
"Is that what I think it is?" TK asked in fear.
"Yep, old splinter butt went and build himself a new house." Naruto shook his head, "Damn, he works fast."
A sound was heard, almost as if a microphone was being turned on. "You like my new fun house?" The voice of Puppetmon rang out through the speakers on the sides of the house. "Come inside and play with me."
"Fuck you!" Naruto shouted this caused the other two turned to him in shock by his choice of words. "You drag us all the way out here, away from our friends just to toy around with us? Why don't you come out here and finish what we started you coward!" Naruto shouted making sure that the mega heard him.
"Oh, you'll get your chance to be taken down by me, but first I want you to take a VIP tour of my new fun house." Puppetmon then laughed at that, the speakers went silent. Carnival music started to play, the gates opened and a conveyer belt dragged the children to the front door and into the house of fun.
Naruto grounded his teeth, "He's not giving us any choice, okay TK, Kari-Chan stay close to me or your digimon. There's no telling what he has in this house of horrors." The large door opened, and then the sound of carnival music began to play. Naruto looked around taking in the inside of the house, there were clowns, jack in the box, little animals doing tricks. It was all animatronic, but it all looked really normal. "This is not what I expected." Naruto gave the objects a very confused look.
"It doesn't seem so bad, it looks like fun." TK remarked smiling at all the fun looking things around them.
"Don't be deceived TK, stay close to me." Naruto stated.
"I wanna play, come on Patamon, let's go." TK ran off to look at all the things, jumping off the conveyor belt, leaving his partner and the others behind with confusion.
"TK!" Naruto shouted out to the boy. "Geez, Kari-Chan stay close to me, we gotta go after him." When he looked behind him, he saw that Kari was also gone too. She was running off to play with some dolls and a big doll house. "Kari-Chan, what are you doing? We need to stick together." Naruto went to catch up with the girl. He placed his hand on her shoulder and gave it a lite shake; she didn't even look at him. "Kari-Chan? What's going on?" He turned her around, she had on a big smile and laughing. It's as if she was having the time of her life. Then Naruto noticed her eyes, they seemed glassy, as if she wasn't there. He recognized that kind of stare, it was the same look people under a genjutsu would have.
"Let's play, let's play!" She remarked turning out of the blonde's loose grasp, she went back to the doll house and continued her playing.
"What the hell is going on?" Naruto went to find TK; the little boy was playing with a toy gun, pretending he was firing at invisible enemies. Naruto grabbed a hold of the blonde boy, he had the same look in his eyes that Kari had.
"Let go of me. I wanna play." He struggled and got out of the blondes grasp, Naruto just let him go the boy then went back to playing with his toys.
"Wormmon, what's going on here?" He turned to his partner; the worm digimon couldn't understand what was going on either. The others digimon were trying to get the attention of their children partners. Naruto looked around the area, "It's gotta be something that is putting them in a hypnotic state." Naruto looked around he couldn't find anything out of the ordinary; it was just normal toys, in a seemingly normal house. There was no dispersion of gas; they didn't look into a mirror or at a pendulum. So what was it then? "Argh! I can't think with this stupid music playing!" Naruto grabbed his head and rubbed it in frustration at the annoying music that has been playing ever since they came into the house. "Wait," Naruto's eyes widen with realization, "that's it, the music." He looked around pin pointing all the speakers in the house. He took out some kunai and threw them at the speakers in the area, shutting off the music. He went to the other places that he heard the music coming from, and did the same to them.
Soon the music wasn't playing anymore and Naruto turned to see if his friends were alright. TK was coming out of the room rubbing his head. Kari was shaking hers, as Naruto ran to help her up. "Kari-Chan?"
"Naruto-kun, what happened?" Kari asked her eyes back to normal.
"You and TK were hypnotized." Naruto explained.
"But we weren't, and neither were you." Gatomon stated pointing a paw at the blonde.
"It must only work on those with childlike minds. Ones whose minds are not mature enough to withstand the music." Naruto theorized.
"Then why didn't you get hypnotized?" TK asked.
"The only thing I can think of, is that my mind is far more mature than you or the others." Naruto let out, not thinking about TK who didn't know the truth.
"What's that mean?" TK asked confused, that's when Naruto realized his mistake.
The blonde let out a sigh of defeat, "Look, when we make it out of here, I'll tell you everything I told Kari-Chan, but you can't tell the others, or anyone else. I'm entrusting you with this." TK realized how big this was, he nodded his head. "Okay, now let's find splinter butt-"
"Looking for me?" The floor opened up, and rising out of it was Puppetmon, the mega of the forest area. "I see you managed to get out of my hypno music, well I'm still going to destroy you." He went to slam his hammer down on them, but Naruto pulled out his twin batons and caught the hammer within them.
"Quick, guys' digivolve." Naruto said to the others, Gatomon, Patamon, and Wormmon started to glow before their next state was before the children. Stingmon went in to knock the mega off his feet to help his partner. Angemon and Angewomon both fired their attacks at the mega. Naruto grunted in pain, he grabbed at his arms.
"Naruto-kun, are you okay?" Kari asked in worry.
"I'll be fine, but I can't fight him." Naruto grounded out through gritted teeth. 'When I caught his hit, there was a lot of force behind it, damn it, my arms feel like rubber. I have to rest them if I want to fight in the future.' Naruto stared at the digimon before them, they were fighting with there all, but the mega was too much for one Ultimate and two Champions.
"We, we can't win." TK fell to his knees in despair; he stared at the fighting digimon. "He's too strong, and with Naruto out of the fight…"
"TK!" Naruto shouted from where he sat, in front of Kari leaning into her. "We can't give up, never lose hope, not even at the end. If the end seems like it's in sight then ignore it, as long as you have hope, it's never the end! I'm not going to give up, not until this bastard and his buddies are beaten! Never give up hope, TK." Naruto's speech was enough to cause the child to rise.
He wiped the tears from his eyes, "Your right, I'm not a little kid anymore, I can take care of myself, and we can take care of this guy, I know we can!" TK's crest started to glow, as did Angemon.
"Angemon, digivolve to…" The digimon glowed and grew in size, "MagneAngemon." He announced showing his ultimate form.
"Stingmon, let's do this too." Naruto shouted to his partner. The digimon glowed then grew in size before JewelBeemon stood in his place. "Now Puppetmon, how will you fair against all three at once?" This gave the mega pause, he shook a bit with fear and regret, but he caught his resolve.
"I-I'm not scared, I'll, I'll finish you off before you can attack." He went for Angewomon who was recovering from an earlier attack. However, a long blade came from out of nowhere and almost took the puppets head off. He turned to see MagneAngemon standing in front of the recovering digimon. He heard a cry of an attack, when he turned the Mega barely had enough time to dodge a spear attack from the humanoid bug digimon. His back was literally against the wall. "This isn't fun anymore."
"Playtimes over, you splintered son of a bitch." Naruto said as he stood up, his arms starting to get some feeling back in them. "Finish him!" He shouted. The three nodded, they prepared there best attacks, JewelBeemon's recovered spear started to glow at the top as he was at the ready to throw it. A bow seemed to form out of Angewomon's arm as she pulled back a hidden string. MagneAngemon moved his bladed hand in a circle as a yellow light started to form. When the attacks were charged they were fired at the cornered mega.
"I hate this game!" He shouted as he was reduced to data flakes.
The house started to crumble, the ground shook drastically. "Damn it, the area is deforming, let's get out of here!" Naruto called the others digimon grabbed their respective partners then started to fly through the falling debris. "Come on let's meet up with the others." He looked to the sky to see what looked like a group coming off the ground. He turned to his fellow blonde, "I promised answers and I keep my promises. First off let me begin with the fact that where I come from I'm older, but also was a ninja." This caught the other blondes attention as he listened in on the blondes story.
XxX
Soon the others were caught up with Naruto and his small team. Tai and the others were on top of MegaKabuterimon, the large digimon came up close to the three children. Tai called out to them, "Hey! Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah!" Naruto answered the older boy, "We took down Puppetmon!"
"I figured that, we did a great job everyone that only leaves one more to take out." Tai called back.
Naruto nodded as the group made their way to the top of Spiral Mountain for another confrontation with Piedmon.
(A/N: It's been a long time, I hope you all are still in to this story. Here is the seventh chapter. To tell the truth I had this done and ready to go months ago. I just wanted to get the last and finale chapter done before posting this. So needless to say that this story is done. Once I post the finished chapter I will be done with this one. But don't worry I do plan and have planed out the adventure two. So be looking for that. Well I hope you all liked this chapter. I know I killed them off rather anticlimaticly but there is a reason for that, one that will be shown in the next chapter. Hope you all liked it though, please tell me your remarks on this chapter. Leave a review and let me know what you thought. Well ttfn, ta ta for now.)
