"cocytus breath!"
the freezing beam turned a pair of infermon into popsicles, but another one absorbed their data.
the infermon digivolved into diaboromon and fired it's cable crusher at magnaangemon.
the tamers were in quite the pinch. three diaboromon, a ghoulmon and two chaosmon. vs matt, henry, tk and kari.
"MAGNAANGEMON! WATCH OUT, BEHIND YOU!" angewomon yelled at her friend.
the archangel quickly turned around and parried the two claws with his blade.
"thanks angewomon- HENRY! NINE O'CLOCK!"
a chaosmon attempted to slash megacargomon from the side, but thanks to magnaangemon's warning, he opened a compartment on his belt, and shot a missile straight into the demon's face, blowing it to pieces. one diaboromon absorbed it's data, and grew stronger. angewomon shot a celestial arrow at ghoulmon, while magnaangemon opened the gate of destiny, and the two rays of light hit the black monster straight into the chest.
"hehehehe... d'cha think that a puny attack like this would work? i've been trained by master barbamon personally. I'M HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND YOU IDIOTS!
his eye started glowing and cackled like a maniac.
"HAHAHAHA. COWER BEFORE THE POWER OF BARBAMON'S MIGHTY ARMY! SINISTER CANNON!"
a large beam of pure darkness shot at the two angels. they braced for impact, but it never arrived.
angewomon opened one eye and was shocked to see that megagargomon jumped in front of them and his back took the full hit of the blast.
"c-crap... that hurt like a bitch... i guess... this is the end of the line for me..."
with a final cough, the biomerge dropped down and split apart. both henry and terriermon fell unconcious. henry's clothes on his back were torn and bis back was heavily burned. terriermon had a deep gash between his shoulder blades.
"HENRY! TERRIERMON! NO!" kari ran towards the fallen duo, and dropped down next to them. she checked their pulse and was relieved to find that they were alive. but they needed urgent medical help. tk. carried the unconcious boy on his back, while kari cradled the rabbit-dog digimon like a newborn.
"MATT! WE NEED TO FALL BACK. NOW!"
matt nodded and slashed a card.
"digimodify! cherubimon activate!"
the silhouette of the holy rabbit was visible for a short while, until a blinding flash was shot through the streets, blinding the viruses. when ghoulmon opened it's eye. the tamers were gone and he smirked.
"clever fools... okay... i'll play hide and seek with you... ready or not... here. i. come."
his wings sprouted and he flew up. but could not find them.
"smarter than i thought. very well. then i'll just-"
"ghoulmon."
a sinister voice was heard in his head. barbamon spoke to him.
"listen up you completely impotent fool. leave them for now. we've lost too many soldiers today. fall back and report to me at once. we need to plan the next step. do. NOT. disappoint me. GOT IT?!"
"y-yes lord barbamon. at once."
he turned around. only to see that the remaining three diaboromon and the last chaosmon were rolling on the floor, grunting in pain, rubbing their eyes.
"listen up you jackasses! retreat. NOW!"
at the underground base. medical ward.
"okay. they're both stable now. they just need some rest."
after three hours of surgery. jyou finally entered the waiting room, his shirt covered in blood, and sweat over his face.
kari ran up to him and hugged him.
"thank god jyou! it- it's all my fault. we challenged a too strong opponent. a-and he-henry protected all of us. HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR US!"
davis grabbed her from behind and hugged her tightly. she buried her face into his chest and they could hear a few heartbreaking sobs.
"hey... you heard him... henry's gonna be allright. ju-just like terriermon, okay? hey... please don't cry. hikari-chan..."
davis kept whispering softly into her ear, successfully calming her down.
after a while she stopped crying and she was dozing off. dead-tired, she stood up and leaned on davis' shoulder. (successfully pissing off tai, and tk.)
"dai-chan. i'm sleepy. will you take me to our room?"
-the room froze...
tai smiled gently, but everyone could feel the evil aura he was emitting.
"what does she mean with your room. dai. su. ke?"
the way tai pronounced davis' full name was a sign of upcoming doom.
another evil aura came from the other side of the room. tk was twitching his eye.
"yeah dai-chan. what did she mean with that."
takato shuffled towards the poor guy and mumbled under his breath.
"leave hikari to me. run. don't look back or they'll kill you. just run."
davis nodded and lifted kari onto takato's back.
he then proceeded to run like hell.
"MOTOMIYA DAISUKE! GET BACK HERE! YOU'VE GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO!"
taichi ran after the unfortunate gogglehead. since both of them were ex soccer players, their endurance was pretty high, so this could take a while, and takato took off with kari on his back.
"DAVIS! I WON'T HURT YOU. I JUST WANT TO TALK."
tai was now holding a baseball bat behind his back.
"NO WAY! YOU'RE GONNA KILL ME WITH THAT THING!"
davis was now running at double speed and made no attempt to stop at all.
beelzemon was laughing his butt off, and kept yelling: RUN FORREST, RUN!
davis, now nearly crying, only kept shrieking.
"SOMEBODY SAVE MEEEEEE!"
matt stuck his leg out, and davis tripped.
"sorry kid, but kari's like a little sister to me, and tai's like the freakish, moronic, jackass brother i've never had."
"thanks matt... HEY!"
ten minutes later davis was strapped to a chair, explaining everything that happened in the past month. tai was sitting with a serious expression on the couch across him.
"davis... even after all these years huh?"
davis smiled thinly and lowered his gaze. "yeah... even after 12 years. i still love her. never stopped. i'd still throw my life, body and mind away to save hers."
davis meant the incident with malomyotismon twelve years ago, where he risked his own psychological stability to break the digidestined free from the vampire's illusion mist.
tai pondered for a bit, until his hair dropped in front of his face. he stood up and grabbed a knife.
matt and mimi both stood up and cody yelled.
"TAI WHAT'RE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT KNIFE? JUST PUT IT DOWN, AND NO-ONE GETS HURT!"
tai flung the knife at the young man in the chair. mimi shrieked, davis squeezed his eyes shut and...
the rope fell off...
everyone stood there with googly eyes. as tai cut the rope loose, davis was panting, white as a sheet and sweating bullets.
"get up. we're going. i challenge you to a duel."
ten minutes later both ex-leaders stood across the battle simulator. flaring with determination.
"are you guys sure you want to do this?"
izzy spoke loudly and had a stern voice.
both men and digimon glanced at each other and simultanously roared yes.
davis pulled his goggles from his neck and over his head. he snapped them right above his eyes -just like in the movie- and grinned.
"winner takes all..."
tai cracked his knuckles and shuffled his deck of cards. he adjusted his D-force and pulled a diffrent pair of goggles (basically the same as his old goggles , but the glass was green.) above his eyes and pointed his thumb down.
"...loser dies trying."
agumon and veemon both grinned and shook hands.
"may the best digimon win..."
they jumped backwards to their respective partners and roared.
"...AND THE WORST EATS DUST!"
izzy put the nessecary data into the computer and the terrain shifted to a rocky mountain pass. he spoke loud and with a clear throat.
"i adjusted the terrain to full power. you can go all out, but be warned: if you smash into the boulders, it'll feel as if you've dropped head first into the concrete from the top of a skyscraper. the rules are simple. no killing, no mutilating, no torture and keep it clean for a change will ya?"
both tamers nodded.
"well then. BATTLE START!"
as soon as the bell rang, both goggleheads swiped a card.
"digimodify: evolution, activate!"
"VEEMON DIGIVOLVE TO: EXVEEMON!"
"AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TO: GREYMON!"
the two strongest dinosaurs of their respective generations stood in a hand-lock, pushing each other back. the others who watched could feel the energy coming from the two titan's sheer force. davis and tai pondered about their next move.
(davis' inner thoughts: ok. greymon's a powerhouse who relies on his brute force, while exveemon's strength lies in his speed and flying ability. i'll need a defence builder, or a long-range attack to win this.)
(tai's inner thoughts: crap. exveemon is a speed-type, PLUS he's a helluva lot stronger than he appears. i'll need to finish this quick, or i'm screwed.)
"NOVA BLAST!"
the signature fireball of our favorite orange dinosaur raged across the field, while davis swiped a card.
"digimodify: gallantmon!: hazard shield activate!"
exveemon raised his left arm ad the red-white shield appeared in front of him. greymon's nova blast slammed into the round guard, but dissipated completely on impact.
" hyper speed, activate!"
before exveemon could even return the shield, greymon rushed across the battlefield, and slammed his fist into the winged dinosaur's gut, flinging him into a nearby wall.
"digimodify!: leomon activate!"
exveemon jumped out of the crater and halfway that jump his fist glowed orange. he pulled his right arm backwards.
"time to retur the favor, sempai! EAT THIS! FIST OF THE BEAST KING!"
he punched forward and in midair, twenty orange leomon-shaped heads shot out of his fist and hit greymon at the same time. greymon hissed in pain, but endured the attack. both champion-levels were now covered in bruises, but neither was prepared to give up.
tai and davis both grinned. tai spoke up first."let's take this fight up a notch."
"digimodify: perfect evolution, activate!"
"GREYMON DIGIVOLVE TO: METALGREYMON!"
"EXVEEMON SLIDE-DIGIVOLVE TO: AEROVEEDRAMON!"
{aeroveedramon's voice}
"the name's aeroveedramon. i'm actually a distant relative of exveemon, but family's family, so here i am. i may not be as large as the other dinosaurs, but my strength makes up for it. my V-nova blast and meteor volley, can send just about anyone crying for their mommy."
tai and davis also began running across the field. davis had the first strike. he punched tai square in the face. tai retaliated that and kicked davis' upper leg.
after exchanging blows for a while, they both jumped backwards, panting, sweating and bleeding. the two ultimate-level dinosaurs were also in some kind of a dragon rush, punching, kicking, biting and scratching eath other senseless.
tai roundhouse-kicked davis from the side, but davis grabbed his leg and leg-sweeped tai's other leg. tai fell to the ground and davis jumped on top of him, kneeing him in the stomach. davis grabbed tai's collar and jabbed him in the face again.
"WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH YOUR SISTER?! SHE'S TWENTY-FUCKING-TWO! SHE'S A BIG GIRL NOW, LET HER MAKE HER OWN DAMN DESICIONS FOR ONCE!"
he spat the words in tai's face. tai simply raised one leg and pushed davis off him. he gave davis an uppercut, and drove him against the wall, and repeatedly slammed his head into davis' forehead. both their goggles fell to the ground
"BECAUSE SHE'S STILL MY FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY! I'M HER OLDER BROTHER! IT'S MY DUTY TO PROTECT HER FROM ANY HARM, AND YET SHE NEARLY DIED THREE TIMES DUE TO MY ARROGANCE!* NEVER, WILL I STOP PROTECTING HIKARI! WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE, HUH? WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING OBSESSED WITH MY SISTER?"
tai's normally brown eyes, were now green, and davis' eyes turned purple. a light enveloped the two tamers, aeroveedramon, and metalgreymon.
"AGUMON BIOMERGE TO: VICTORYGREYMON!"
"VEEMON BIOMERGE TO: ULFORCEVEEDRAMON!"
two dragon knights stepped out of the lights.
victorygreymon was a ten-foot tall orange humanoid dragon, with green eyes, gold plating, red hair, and he held a HUMONGOUS three bladed claymore in one hand. instead of his other megalevel, he didn't have a shield on his back. instead, he had two smaller mechanical wings.
ulforceveedramon, was a 25-foot tall cobalt-blue humanoid dragon. his eyes were purple, his armour was deep blue, and a purple V-mark was showing on his chest. he had humongous wings sprouting from his back, and on both his wrists, energy-dispencers, were showing. one contained a purple wristsword, much like magnaangemon's, while the other contained a purple energy shield.
both knights raised their swords and fhe air suddenly became very heavy.
"VICTORY-SLASH!"
"EXCALIBUR-STRIKE!"
izzy could already see the energy buildup, and roared to the others
"EVERYBODY HIT THE DECK! SHIT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN!"
everyone dropped down to the ground, and ken and jolei hid behind a small mountain. ken hugging jolei, and holding his back towards the two titans to protect his pregnant wife.
the two sword attacks crossed each other, and they engaged in a saber-lock. the magnitude of the clash was enough to create an enormous white shockwave, destroying the entire canyon. as izzy expected, the shockwave passed over them, but headed straight for ken and jolei.
"KEN, JOLEI! WATCH OUT!"
victorygreymon and ulforceveedramon heard izzy's roar, and turned around. they saw their attack heading straight for davis' best friends, and former teammates.
"NO!" ulforceveedramon roared and he tried to catch up to the energy wave, but it was going too fast.
the wave was going straight at them. jolei closed her eyes, and ken kissed her forehead. they waited for the impact that would surely kill them. ken could feel the heat building.
KLANG!
ken opened one eye. shockwaves weren't supposed to do klang. they did BOOM! -not klang.
he saw two figures in front of them. one splitting the wave with an orange energysword, the other blocking the wave with a red-white laser erupting from a shield.
gallantmon and justimon jumped in between on the last moment, using their justice-sword and shield of the just attacks to counter the enormous attack.
the two biomerges were pushed back a bit by the raw force of the attack, but they kept standing tall.
after a while the attack dissipated and the two heroes also stopped their attack. justimon reverted back to ryo and cyberdramon, while gallantmon returned to takato and guilmon. all four were panting and sweating heavily, before dropping to their knees.
"f-fuuuuck! that was one hell of an attack." ryo wheezed from exhaustion.
takato stood up, shaking.
"yeah... no kidding. that one really gave us a run for our money. thanks for the help guys."
cyberdramon and guilmon both grinned, and shook hands.
jyou returned his gaze to the battle and saw that both dragonoids were just standing there, with empty eyes.
suddenly, they both fell backwards and reverted to tai, davis, agumon and veemon. all four of them dropped to the ground and stayed there, unconcious. the battle ended in a tie, and a firm scolding from mimi.
jyou punched both of them a black eye, for almost killing ken and jolei, before he examined their wounds.
davis had a black eye, a split lip, a bloody nose, a heavy concussion, three fractured ribs, and all the fingers on his left hand were broken. also he had a few nasty skid-marks on his shoulders and back.
tai's nose was broken. so were his right shoulder and two ribs. he had a black eye, bruises all over his body, a heavy concussion, two of his toes were bent the wrong way and his stomach was gonna hurt like crazy for a few weeks.
as if it was a miracle, agumon and veemon only had a few bruises and cuts.
it was nothing a few weeks rest couldn't heal.
henry and terriermon were both quite suprised to see that they would be kept company by a couple of auburn-haired, goggle-wearing mummies.
"WAHAHAHAHA! YOU GUYS REALLY LOOK LIKE SOMEONE OPENED A CAN OF WHOOP-ASS ON YOU TWO! ouch my back hurts!"
tai and davis both growled at that remark.
"as soon as we get outta here, we're going to hunt some rabbit-dog."
terriermon shut up, and wouldn't talk for the rest of the week.
author's note.
well, i hope you enjoyed this piece of Drama/hate.
* tai was referring to the time that kari almost died as a four-year old by a disease, when he took her outside to play without permission, the time during season one, where she got struck by the same disease during the machinedramon/dark masters arc, and that time in season two, where kari almost got trampled by mochronomon and agumon couldn't digivolve.
please enjoy my next chapter.
