Chaos Rising: Chaotic Evolutions
Author: Katreal
Category: Digimon Seasons II and IV Crossover
Genre: General
Timeline: Frontier-AU after Lucemon's defeat. 02- Practically AU now…-.- I remember almost nothing after Ken stopped being the Digimon Kaiser. I'm checking some sites to try and keep the timeline still right however(After Holy Stones Arc)
Notes: Mostly Kouichi-centric in this chapter with a little Ken thrown in the latter part.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Anyamon and Akemon's descriptions.
Warning: Not really a warning, but as promised there is a fight scene in this chapter. I am just warning you that this is my first attempt at a fight scene. Please tell me what I could do to improve it. Also, the reason I'm posting so soon is because I felt guilty for the couple month wait before.
Last Time:
"WAIT!" Daisuke shouted, everyone looked at him, "Let the newbie fight. We should know his partner's strength before we actually need it."
Kimura shrugged, "Fine. Anyamon?"
"On it, Kouji."
Chapter 9
Daisuke watched as Anyamon broke away from the other digimon to move toward his partner. The 'leader' of the Chosen smirked, revenge was sweet. Kimura had made him seem foolish in front of Hikari. Daisuke had seen the black digivice before entering the digital world, so how did it become black and blue? Ken had agreed with Kimura that it had been black and blue, but Daisuke trusted his own eyes. But then again, he knew Ken wouldn't lie to him. They may not exactly be friends, but Daisuke and the dark-haired boy had an understanding. Plus there was something off about Kimura…but Daisuke couldn't really tell what, it was just a nagging feeling in the back of his mind. As if he was missing something extremely obvious.
Oh well, at least this way Daisuke could kill two birds with one stone. He would get revenge on Kimura for making him look stupid in front of Hikari, plus he would be able to see what Kimura and his partner were capable of. It was a win-win deal really. Of course, Daisuke was ready to have Veemon jump in at anytime, annoyed he may be but no one deserved to have their partners deleted. Daisuke grinned slightly and glanced down at Veemon, his hand resting casually on his digivice. The blue dragon digimon just gave him a thumbs up, understanding easily what his partner had in mind.
The unofficial leader of the second generation of Chosen Children turned his attention toward the pending battle. Kimura was whispering something into his partner's ear, and the digimon was nodding in agreement with whatever was said. Snimon came closer and closer, his shadow now covering the entire clearing. Anyamon padded towards the edge of the woods, glancing back at Kimura once before walking out into the open. As soon as Anyamon exited the cover of the trees the Snimon spotted him. The mantis-digimon screeched and dove, its twin claws swiping at the much smaller digimon. Anyamon reacted quickly, shooting out of the way and lunging, his claws barely even scratching Snimon's armored exoskeleton.
Daisuke whirled on Kimura, the boy didn't even have him digivice out! "What do you think you're doing? Snimon's a champion! A rookie has no chance against him!"
Kimura didn't even acknowledge him, "Anyamon can take care of himself. Just watch."
-
Kouji really wasn't that worried about his brother, while he might not be sure about how this world levels compared to their own (There were no Hybrid levels for example) Kouichi could always slide evolve to either his beast or human spirit. Plus if worse comes to worse, Kouji would always go out there to help him. Forget what Ophanimon said, if Kouichi was in danger then Kouji was evolving. But for now, all he could do was watch.
"Twin Sickle!" The Snimon sliced at the air, two beams of purple energy were sent flying toward Kouichi. The Warrior of Darkness dashed forward, ducking beneath the deadly blades. He felt the wind as they rushed overhead, after hearing the muted explosion of them impacting the ground he pounced on the mantis digimon, his fangs sinking into the less armored flesh of its shoulder. Snimon shrieked wordlessly, taking flight. Kouichi clamped down harder, ignoring the bitter taste of the mantis' flesh as he tried to hang on, Snimon did its best to dislodge his hold.
At one particularly violent shake his fangs were torn from their spot, sending the Warrior of Darkness flying across the clearing. He twisted in the air, landing with a thump on all four paws. Kouichi winced slightly as prickles of pain raced through his body from the landing. 'Okay, new plan.' He thought to himself, eyeing the Snimon as it regained it's bearings and flew high in the sky, probably to try and dive bomb him again, 'His exoskeleton is too hard for normal attacks to get through…'
Another shriek jerked his mind away from his observations, the Warrior of Darkness snapped his head up to try and find the source. Sure enough the mantis digimon was diving toward him. 'I need to use my special…' His mind raced, 'But I'm not sure exactly what it'll do. No time to think now.'
He reached inside himself and touched the energy that all digimon had inside them, concentrating hard on the fleeting feeling he remembered from the skirmish between him and Agumon. A purple glow began to emanate from his entire form and suddenly he knew what to do. Snimon was coming ever closer as Kouichi directed all the energy toward his mouth. Within seconds a good sized ball of purple energy shot from between his jaws, streaking towards the advancing digimon, "Petite Meteor!"(1)
Snimon's image flickered before Kouichi's attack passed right through it. Kouichi would've gaped as the image faded if he weren't so perplexed, "An afterimage?"
A sudden air movement was his only warning as Snimon appeared behind him, unleashing his Twin Sickle attack at close range. Kouichi knew he would not be able to avoid the hit, so he chose to minimize the damage. He ran straight toward the attack, ducking his head as low as possible as the two energy blades sliced across his back. The sharp sensation of pain was Kouichi's cue. His eyes took on a purple tint as he drew forth the purple energy again he solidified it around himself, turning into a living spear. The glow was almost blinding as he leapt on the stunned Snimon, going straight through the mantis-digimon's chest as if were diving through water. Kouichi skidded to a stop, kicking up a cloud of dust as he turned his head back toward Snimon, his eyes returning to their blue hue as he watched the Snimon slowly disintegrate into fractions of data particles. The mantis digimon raised its head before it was completely gone, an eerie keening filling the air as the Snimon vanished. Kouichi shivered, his legs wobbling as his wounds caught up to him. He collapsed right then and there, the blood from his wounds matting his fur. The Warrior of Darkness wasn't too concerned about the wounds; they weren't very deep and wouldn't last very long, only becoming mere scratches when they returned to the real world. He looked up to see Kouji kneeling next to him, "Hey…Otouto…" He got out weakly, discovering how to mold that energy had taken a lot out of him, he was just tired. Kouji gave him a reproving look, though Kouichi knew that his brother was just worried, "You're an idiot Aniki. You should've just evolved and taken care of him. Then you'd at least have been in a more familiar form."
"I didn't want…to show them yet."
Kouji glanced back to where the Chosen stood gaping at them, apparently they didn't know that the Hybrid Rookies were more powerful then a normal Rookie, "Why not? They expected you to evolve."
"Not them; someone else is watching us now. I can feel it." Kouichi didn't know how to explain it, sometime during the fight he had gotten a prickling feeling, he knew they were being watched. He knew there was no one else in the surrounding area other then the Chosen. But nevertheless he felt the watcher, and the most confusing part is it felt slightly familiar.
-Unknown POV-
A shadow hovered above a glowing globe, peering into its depths. An image was playing in the center, that of a wounded digimon and a boy. There was no sound, but the picture was clear. With the face of the human stirring up old memories, the shadow chuckled, "Ah, the Warrior of Light, so we meet again. Who'd have thought I'd see you again. I wonder where all your little friends are? It doesn't matter. Even with all of them you wouldn't be able to defeat me. Not this time. Not even your new partner can help you."
Suddenly the view zoomed out, giving the person a new image. A dark cloud was heading straight toward the meadow. A sinister smile crossed the shadow's unseen lips, "Well, well. Let's see how you fare against this."
Making a bee-line toward the clearing was a flock of 8 Snimon, their wings buzzing with fury and their claws clicking against each other.
"Will you evolve in front of those humans? Or will you leave the life of your partner in the hands of the others? This may yet prove to be entertaining."
-
Miyako was the first to recover from the shock of seeing a rookie defeat a champion. Not only defeated…but deleted. (Remember this is just after the holy stones arc. They had never actually deleted a digimon, only the Dark Tower digimon and the Dark Rings/Spirals...or at least I think anyway...). That…that was the same as killing! Miyako stormed over to Kimura, her fist clenched against her sides, "How could you do that?" She yelled at both of them, "You just killed the digimon!"
"What did you expect?" Kimura retorted coldly, "It wasn't under any control. It was attacking Anyamon and would've killed him if he hadn't deleted the Snimon."
Miyako shook her head wildly, "Still! You could've immobilized him so we could all get away. Or just distracted him! You didn't have to kill him!"
Kimura glanced back at Anyamon; the digimon was staring down at the ground, sinking lower at Miyako's harsh words. His expression hardened before confronting the Chosen of Love, "Listen Miyako, not all Digimon are good. I don't know what you all have done to deserve being called a Chosen but you can't be that naïve." He took a short breath, "I've met my own share of 'good' digimon but I understand that to balance the good there has to be the bad. You can't go around assuming that every single one of them is good. If that were so then the Chosen wouldn't be needed! There is always something stirring up trouble. That is the reason I'm here!"
Hikari and Takeru were silent throughout the entire argument, glancing at each other as they remembered their first adventures in the Digital World. Back then the only choice they had was to delete the enemies they came upon. "You know…"Takeru began, "he's right…"
Daisuke glared at Takeru, "What are you talking about? The only evils we ever encounter don't begin in the Digital World! It's always the human's fault."
Ken shrunk back at Daisuke's words, realizing instantly that they were talking about him. Or at least the Digimon Kaiser stage of his life and the Dark Towers he left behind. Hikari saw Ken's anguished expression and came to Takeru's defense, "You don't get it do you Daisuke? You, Iori and Miyako have been sheltered. My brother, Takeru, and the others, they had been deleting Digimon way before Ken ever knew about the Digital World. Devimon, Etemon, Vamdemon, the Dark Masters, and Apocalymon…All of those were digimon. They were the ones menacing the Digital World, or even the Real World in Vamdemon and Apocalymon's case. I wasn't there for Devimon and Etemon but I saw Vamdemon. I experienced the Dark Masters. I stood beside my brother during the sealing of Apocalymon."
Tailmon shuddered and jumped into Hikari's arms, burying her face in Hikari's shirt. Hikari rested her cheek on Tailmon's head. She knew what her partner was remembering, "Tailmon was forced into servitude by Vamdemon. Her best friend deleted by him. Takeru…"
Takeru closed his eyes, Patamon looked up at him worriedly from his spot in is arms, some memories were very painful, "It's okay T.K…" Patamon tried to consol his partner, using his old nickname, "I'm still here."
Takeru's arms tightened around Patamon, as if to be sure that the digimon was truly still there. His eyes were squeezed shut, yet a single tear made its way down his cheek. He opened his eyes, blinking away his tears, "Don't you tell me about evil Motamiya. Devimon…Devimon had killed Patamon! How can you tell me that's not evil? The Dark Masters…MetalSeadramon, Mugendramon, Pinocchimon, Piemon, they had killed a good many of the Digimon that we had met during our initial adventures."
Hikari laid a comforting hand on Takeru's arm, "It's okay Takeru…I'm sorry for bringing it up."
"It's not your fault 'Kari…" The blonde sighed, "They need to understand. If they never do…then they might end up like I did…"
Daisuke couldn't say anything; he felt a twinge of guilt for making Takeru cry. He had heard of the adventures from Taichi and the others, but everything seemed different now. There was no evil digimon, only Ken… His eyes widened as he realized what he was thinking. He had been blaming everything on Ken. He looked around for the dark-haired chosen, but neither he nor Wormmon could be found, "Hey…" He said softly, "Ken's not here…"
"I wouldn't expect him to be." Iori looked away, "You just called him responsible for the Digital World's problems."
Iori had long forgiven Ken for the Digimon Kaiser business. It had taken a while, but as he came to know the Chosen of Kindness, he had realized how wrong he had been in the beginning. No other was more suited to hold the crest of kindness then Ichijouji Ken, at least in Iori's mind.
Miyako and Kimura had quieted when Takeru spoke up, listening intently to what was being said. Miyako instantly felt guilty, but her thoughts followed along the lines of Daisuke, though she didn't admit to herself that she was indirectly blaming Ken. Kimura was quiet for a moment after Iori spoke, "At least…some of you understand."
- -
Kouichi watched as Ken left the group. He had heard what had been said and understood how Ken felt. He had gone through much the same. He ignored his wounds and pushed himself to his feet. He glanced between Kouji and Ken. Kouji followed his gaze and nodded, understanding what his brother wanted to do. Kouichi nodded gratefully before he slipped away, padding unevenly over to where Ken sat. The chosen of kindness looked up as Kouichi sat beside him, the surprise showing clearly in his face, "Anyamon! You shouldn't be moving with those wounds."
Kouichi shook his head, "They'll be fine before long…Why are you over here?"
Ken looked away, sighing softly, "They still blame me…"
"For what?" Kouichi had a vague idea, but wasn't sure.
"I…did some very bad things…" He hung his head, "I was the reason they had to become Chosen. I…I tried to kill them…tried to enslave the Digital World…I didn't realize I was doing something wrong…until Wormmon died."
Kouichi didn't say anything, knowing that Ken still had more to say. "But…it wasn't over with that. My Dark Towers…someone used them to create digimon. 100 of them became BlackWarGreymon…he cut a swath of destruction across the Digital World. He almost destroyed it…All from my towers…"
"If it wasn't you, it probably would've been someone else…Someone who didn't stop when you did…Or…it could've been someone who wouldn't have helped the others…If you hadn't helped them afterwards, would they have gotten as far as they did?" Kouichi wanted to show Ken that despite the bad, he had helped rectify it.
"They…would've found a way…" Ken managed to say.
"But it would've taken longer...BlackWarGreymon might have destroyed the World if you hadn't been helping. No one really knows what might have happened…But there is nothing you can do except to do what you can."
Ken was silent for a moment, "You sound as if you truly know…"
Kouichi closed his eyes, "I do…The first time I truely met Kouji…was on a battlefield. I almost killed him that day…"
They both were silent after that, feeling that nothing more needed to be said.
-
Ken didn't know why he had told that story to Anyamon, but he found that he felt better for it. A weight seemed to lift from his heart, to tell someone completely unrelated to the incident, and find that they understood in their own way did wonders to a guilt ridden soul.
A loud screech interrupted Ken's thoughts. All the Chosen and Digimon's heads snapped up, only to see a swarm of Snimon heading their way. Ken paled, "The Snimon's last keen…he had been calling others!"
He jumped to his feet, all the Chosen grabbing their Digivices in unison. Kimura saw Anyamon getting to his feet, "Do you have enough energy to evolve?"
Anyamon nodded, "I'll try…"
5 of the Snimon alighted in the clearing, the other three circled in the sky above. Their claws scraped against each other, a loud earsplitting shriek rising into the sky, drowning out the Chosen's shouts.
"Everybody ready?"
"Yes."
"Veemon digivolve to…"
"Hawkmon digivolve to…"
"Armidramon digivolve to…"
"Tailmon digivolve to…"
"Patamon digivolve to…"
"Wormmon digivolve to…"
"Slide evolution…"
Each digimon glowed with their chosen's respective colors, save Anyamon. A blue and white code snaked out of no where, wrapping around the black wolf-like digimon to form a moving cocoon of blue and white.
"…Exveemon!" The blue light around Veemon vanished, revealing a taller blue winged dragon.
"…Aquilamon!" The red light dimmed leaving a large red-ish colored bird.
"…Anklyomon!" The green light died, a large spike covered dinosaur thrashed it's tail against the ground.
"…Angewoman!" The pink light scattered as a six winged female angel flew into the air.
"…Angemon!" A four winged angel flew out of the yellow light.
"…Stingmon!" The light purple light faded away, a green insectoid digimon launched itself into the air to join the others.
The code dispersed, the small particles flying away before vanishing. Anyamon collapsed. He weakly lifted his head, "Sorry…Kouji…"
-
Kouji would've run to his brother if he hadn't been held back. He whirled to face the culprit to find himself face to face with Ken. Ken glared at him, "Don't go out there. Stingmon will take care of Anyamon. If you go out there you'll just distract them."
Kouji clenched his fist around his digivice, he hated feeling useless. His brother could get killed out there! Normally he wouldn't worry too much, but Kouichi had just had his first real fight as Anyamon. The Warrior of Light should've known that Kouichi would be too tired to evolve. IT had happened to all of them before, when they first received their spirits; the first fights had always been more taxing then any after that. It took a lot of willpower to control a form so different from your own, and even more to move as quickly as is needed during battle.
Kouji wanted to do something to help. The Warrior of Darkness was collapsed near the center of the field, within easy shot of one of the Snimons. He set his jaw, mentally willing up the digital code that allowed him to evolve. The faint blue code danced around his hand; luckily none of the other chosen were paying any attention to him. He positioned his digivice to scan the code, "Spirit Evo-"
"Argh." The digivice fell out of his hand. Kouji rubbed his hand; it was numb from having been shocked. It wasn't enough to seriously hurt him but it had got the point across. Kouji could clearly hear Ophanimon's voice in his head, "Don't use the Spirit Evolution in front of the Chosen."
"Fine…" He grumbled turning away and running into the woods, "Then I won't do it in front of them."
-
"Kimura! Where are you going?" Ken watched the retreating form of the newest Chosen with confusion. He turned his attention back to the impending battle and yelled to Stingmon, "Take care of Anyamon for me Stingmon."
"Got it Ken." The insectoid digimon broke the stalemate, flying straight toward the Snimon closest to the downed digimon. A blade of energy extended from his hand, "Spiking Finish!"
That attack sent everyone into motion. Angewomon, Angemon, and Aquilamon split up the three in the sky, doing their best to distract them so as to give the others a better chance with the 5 on the ground. Exveemon just charged right in, dodging his Snimon's attacks and countering whenever he saw an opening. Anklyomon took on two at a time. While Stingmon tried to fend off the final two.
Ken turned away from the fighting and ran after Kimura, he could just barely make out the other's form in the trees, "What are you doing?"
Kimura didn't even look back, instead ducking into a thick growth of trees. When Ken tried to follow a bright blue-white light flared, forcing him to cover his eyes. When he opened them again, there was no one there.
- -
Exveemon crossed his arms, "X Laser!"
The attack sped toward the Snimon he was fighting, but the mantis digimon just stopped its downward assent, allowing the attack to fly harmlessly by him. Unfortunately Angewomon was also in the attack's path. Luckily she spotted it coming, and was able to move out of the way, "Watch it!"
"Sorry!" Exveemon laughed, throwing a punch at his Snimon, "I didn't see you!"
"Right…" Angewomon put her gloved arm out, forming an arrow in the other, "It's easy to miss the angels. Holy Arrow!"
The arrow sped straight for Exveemon's Snimon, hitting it in the back. The Snimon screamed before disintegrating.
"Hey! That was mine!"
"Not anymore." Angewomon retorted, before going off to help Stingmon with his two Snimon. Exveemon just shrugged before jumping into the fray with one of Ankylomon's enemies.
Meanwhile, in the air Aquilamon and Angemon were working together against the final airborne Snimon. "Twin Sickle!"
The energy blades sliced through the air, straight toward where Aquilamon and Angemon were clustered. The large bird banked to the left, pushing Angemon out of the attack's range. The angel digimon quickly righted himself and pulled out his golden weapon, "Holy Rod!"
Not one to be left out, Aquilamon added his own attack to the fray, "Blast Laser!"
The two attacks collided, they merged together before it struck the Snimon. It erupted into a cloud of data, leaving merely four remaining Digimon to take care of.
Standing off to the sidelines the new Chosen were hard pressed not to call off the attack. Miyako could barely stand to watch what she considered 'murder'. When Aquilamon's attack blasted the final airborne Snimon into oblivion she couldn't take it anymore, "STOP!" She cried out, falling to her knees, "Just. Stop!"
Aquilamon slowly descended to the ground, a soft red light wrapping around him as he devolved. Hawkmon sighed and hung his head, "My apologies."
Daisuke looked between Miyako and the battle, he didn't really want to continue either. But if he pulled ExVeemon out now…He shook his head violently. He couldn't do that. It would be leaving Angemon, Angewoman, and Stingmon all alone in this fight. He knew that if he withdrew, Iori would as well.
By this time, two more of the Snimon had been deleted. One had fallen from Ankylomon's Tail Hammer and the other from ExVeemon's X laser. Stingmon hadn't been able to get many hits in, sticking to Ken's order and protecting Anyamon. The insectoid digimon had the smaller canine in one arm, using the other to get in a Striking Finish every now and then. By now the two Snimon were getting desperate. Outnumbered and overpowered they decided to go for the weakest seeming of the digimon, who unfortunately happened to have his hands full at the moment.
"Stingmon! Lookout!" Angewomon, the closest at the time, raced to try and intercept the two mantis digimon. But one turned around and cut her off while the other continued it's track toward Stingmon. Before the insectoid digimon could do anything the Snimon was right in front of him, it's claws raised as it prepared to slash. Stingmon was prepared for the worst, he knew he wouldn't be able to dodge at such a close range.
After finishing her Snimon off Angewomon turned around, only to see flashes of white light cut through the final mantis Digimon and it dissolving into thousands of tiny data particles.
"Licht Sieger!
(1) If someone comes up with a better name for that attack...tell me. I couldn't think of anything else .-.
A/N: Am I evil for leaving it off there? .-. Over 4000 words, this makes a new record for me. Um…I'm not used to the Japanese version of the 02 season…so I used the Japanese names and attacks that I found on Digimon Himitsu. If I mixed up the name of an attack with the actual attack…that's why. Well…this was my first attempt at an 'action' filled chapter…what did you think?
In case you can't tell I can't really write a lot of people at once, Iori and Anklyomon didn't show up much, Neither did Daisuke and ExVeemon. But Angewomon got a lot of action … I guess I just have an easier time writing some people….
Um…I think I might have a time-line problem. I can't really remember much from Season 02…so if Miyako didn't really freak out about killing, or if she already had, then…um…I don't know…This is turning out to be more of an AU then I thought it would be…
Can anyone guess who the shadow is? I don't think it's that obvious…
Hm I am going to answer some reviews in paragraph format…first is…wouldn't you like to know XD...Aniki is the same as nii-san. It just means older brother. For some reason I've found myself liking that better then Nii-san lately… OmnicromXR, .-. I said I was having trouble remembering the 02 season…well….either way it works. Ken is the only 02 chosen with a digivice that has black that I know of. Also…I know I have a very bad tense problem…but thanks for pointing it out, I'll go back and fix it. –sighs- I just think that Aniki or Otouto sound better then 'older brother' or 'little brother' in the context…but then again that could just be me… And finally…last chapter was mainly for introduction purposes. The plot showed up a little during the first chapter, the meeting with Gennai, and a little snippet in this chapter. We're getting closer. It should be starting next chapter or so…depends on how much I can get into next chapter. This 4400 word chapter; 12 pages long took me almost three days to write, and the only reason I was able to write is because I was bored out of my mind and stuck with an internet-less laptop…I'll try and keep them this length(or longer) but it all depends…Now that I'm running out of unread fanfiction(that I can find anyway) I won't be tempted to read instead of write.
Thanks to the rest of you who reviewed, and I'm looking forward to seeing your comments on this chapter as well. I also hope you didn't get scared away by my bad fight scenes…-.-;
