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Lethal Evil-Part IX




The sun slowly rose painting the sky a faint tinge of pink before bringing with it the sweltering heat of the jungle.

Unable to continue sleeping in such heat, Mimi woke and saw something that looked even stranger than a cave in the middle of a jungle.

Directly in front of the Digidestined was an old house. Most of the windows were boarded up and the ones that weren't had only a few shards of glass clinging to them. The front porch sagged considerably and a swinging loveseat hung dangling by a single chain, scraping against the ground on the left side of the porch. Shingles on the roof had dropped off leaving large, gaping holes and the chimney was nothing but a few stray, crumbling bricks arranged into an irregular square.

"Ugh, that looks positively hideous," Mimi acknowledged.

"This just screams setup," Matt muttered.

"We should get out of here," Sora murmured, seeing a couple of shingles fall from the roof as she spoke.

Tai nodded and said: "yeah, you're right. Come on, let's go."

Kari looked once again at the ancient house and noticed that something was engraved onto the door. She squinted, trying to see what was written, but years of grime and decay obscured it.

"Wait a sec," Kari called, walking over to the door. She could almost see what was carved into the rotting wood.

"Come on, Kari," Gatomon replied. "It's probably a trap."

"Just a minute," she mumbled. She was on the porch. Just a couple more steps and she'd be able to see what was written...

Finally, she could see the carving on the door clear enough to read it.

"Gotcha?" she wondered aloud. Indeed, the word on the door was "gotcha."

Suddenly, the porch dropped away and she fell into a pit screaming.

The seven other children stood in shocked silence for about five seconds before chaos broke out.

TK felt as though he was going to start sobbing, and failed to hold back some tears from trickling down his cheek. Izzy was already going through a list of probabilities of what was happening to Kari while Tai raced for the now nonexistent porch. Sora immediately tried to stop Tai before he put himself in danger. Joe was absolutely sure that Kari was being tortured at that very second and said so aloud, making Tai even more frantic to reach the house. Mimi continued to survey the house, pointing out that it had simply appeared overnight.

"STOP!" Matt shouted, hoping to be heard over the excessive noise. Immediately, everybody stopped what they were doing and looked at Matt. He felt his face getting hot and he mumbled: "maybe it would be a good idea if we all didn't panic."

"So does anybody have an idea on how to get into the house when the porch is just a huge hole?" Mimi inquired.

"I don't care how we do it as long as Kari's all right," Tai responded.

Izzy racked his brain, trying to come up with an idea. Finally, he suggested: "we could jump. It would be dangerous, but it looks like that's our only option at the moment."

The seven Digidestined and five Digimon walked to the edge of the yawning hole that had only minutes ago been a sagging porch and looked in. The earthy walls were swallowed up by the inky darkness after a few feet, making it impossible to tell just how deep the hole was.

"So who wants to go first?" Sora finally questioned, breaking the silence.

Before anybody could say another word, the ground that they were standing on crumbled and they were all falling.

In only a few short seconds, all the children were had fallen past the light.

Once his eyes got used to the dark, Joe could see that Yokomon had Digivolved to Biyomon and was trying to keep Sora from falling as Tentomon was trying to save Izzy. He also noticed that Bukamon had Digivolved to Gomamon, though he had no wings to help Joe.

Why don't Gatomon and Patamon Digivolve? He wondered. Then, he remembered how exhausted they had been ever since they had been found and dismissed the thought.

Besides Izzy and Sora, all the others were tumbling through the air. Tentomon and Biyomon were trying valiantly to keep their partners from falling, but the best they could do was slow their descent.

The wall abruptly sloped into a slide and he hit the slide hard along with the others. Tentomon and Biyomon finally could hold on no longer and let Sora and Izzy drop the last few feet onto the slide as well.

The slide went through a narrow tunnel, making Joe duck to avoid hitting his head. Once the tunnel ended, the slide ended and he fell into a basement. Unfortunately, since he was first, the others landed on top of him.

"Ow!" he shouted from underneath everyone else.

"That's funny, I feel great," Mimi chirped from her position at the top of the heap.

Everybody quickly got to their feet and climbed up the steps out of the basement.

"Does anyone else think something lives here?" TK breathed. All the others nodded.

They were in a huge kitchen that was thickly covered with dust. Tracks in the dust showed that somebody had been there. Quite recently by the looks of things. Many of the footprints were not human. A vase of dead flowers had been tipped over and as they watched, the vase rolled off the dusty counter and shattered.

"Come on," Tai muttered, following the tracks in the dust.

"Are you crazy? Take a good look at those footprints," Matt answered.

Tai glanced at the footprints. The ones that looked human were far too large for Kari.

"Do you think-No way, it couldn't be," he trailed off.

"What, what is it?" Sora inquired.

"Alluramon," Matt answered.

A pounding from inside the old wood stove across the room made everyone jump.

"Help! Let me out!" a voice shouted.

"Palmon?" Mimi eagerly ventured.

"Mimi? Yes, it's me," the voice answered. "Let me out!"

Mimi raced across the room and yanked open the rusty door of the stove, allowing the flowery Digimon to escape her prison.

"Palmon, I missed you so much!" Mimi happily cried, hugging the Digimon tightly.

"I missed you, too, Mimi, but I can't breathe," Palmon gasped.

"Oh, sorry," Mimi giggled, releasing Palmon.

"I hate to ruin your reunion and all, but we've got to find Kari," Tai stated.

"No need," a familiar cold voice stated. The shockingly beautiful Alluramon stepped into the room carrying a struggling Kari.

"Let her go!" TK pleaded.

Surprisingly, Alluramon released Kari, allowing her to race back to her friends.

Another Digimon that Tai recognized as the one Alluramon had spoken with via hologram walked into the room.

What did she call him? Kryptmon? He thought.

"And now the fun begins," Alluramon crowed.

"Shall we show them now?" Kryptmon inquired.

Alluramon nodded and Kryptmon produced a large cage from behind him bearing Tsunomon and Koromon.

"Lets see you get out of this one without your precious Megas." Kryptmon laughed, reaching up high above him and suspending the cage from the cathedral-high ceiling.

"Who are they?" TK wondered aloud.

"Oh, how silly of me, I didn't introduce myself," Alluramon jeered. "I'm Alluramon, an Ultimate Digimon."

"And I'm Kryptmon, another ultimate Digimon," Kryptmon growled.

"Enough chat, let the games begin," Alluramon snapped. "Evil plague!"

Bright red energy formed into a large skull. The skull was made of millions of smaller glowing red skulls that quickly swarmed out of the original formation and surrounded the eight Digidestined.

"Dark blade!" Kryptmon added.

Two blades shot from Kryptmon's shoulders and directly at the Digidestined...