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Takeru's Fight: Chapter 12

Tai ran as fast as his feet could carry him back along the darkened corridor, Augumon hot on his heels. He could hear distant shouts from behind him but ignored them and tried to go quicker, the longer it took to get to the digiegg field the more danger the others and digi-eggs were in.

"Tai pant pant slow down pant pantI can't keep up, pant pantI can only run so fast!" Augmon huffed as the digimon started to fall behind. But Tai started to slow down for the little digimon, these past years had done wonders on his hot headedness to some degree, realising that even if he got there as fast as he could he would be helpless without his partner.

Settling for a fast jog Joe, Ken and lastly Izzy soon caught up. Joe and Izzy looking especially exhausted, "Wheeze... thanks Tai, thought yo- wheeze were going to leave wheeze us behind!" Joe barely said, Izzy not wanting to say anything just nodded and focused on breathing. Soon a faint light could be seen in the distance,

"Look! There's the fake wall!" Ken hurriedly said, sounding hardly out of breath, and soon they all quickly exited the tunnel through the fake wall into the tiny little room. Tai grinding to a halt as the others barely missed crashing into one another as they skidded to a halt.

Tai whipped round to the others, "Right guys, we're one digimon down with Elecmon taking care of the babies but we can still do this. Lets go kic-" he started to rally, but was quickly interupted.

"Tai, we can't just go charging in. We don't have any idea what things are like with Matt, we need a plan." Joe stated.

"Well we can't just sit here and think of one! While we do Matt and the others are in danger!" Tai argued.

"Thinking logically the quickest and simplest plan is to surprise them, and attack from behind. They won't see it coming and if they bring extra Digimon with them they'll be easier to take out while they're off guard. Then regroup with Matt and the others" Izzy planned logically.

"Also remember guys we're not just one digimon down, but three digidestined and their partners as well." Ken added.

"Don't worry about those three, Ken. I trust them." Tai simply said, "They'll make it in time, though they may be hot headed and rash at times but they'll do the right thing" he thought back to the time they fought Piedmon and he had waited for Matt to get there, he also always knew Mimi would pull through in the end on that day. Ken just nodded unsurely.

"By the way Tentamon, I've noticed you and the other digimon have been very quiet recently. You ok?" Izzy noted. Tentamon just let out a sigh.

"We're ok Izzy its just we sort of feel..." Augumon began,

"Incomplete, with you know... TK and Patamon" Gomamon finished. Wormon bobbed his head in agreement while all the digidestined just sadly nodded.

"Anyway! Enough time wasted now guys, we got the plan so lets go!" Tai yelled.

"Yeah!" The others replied, all of them running quickly out of the door and running down the street and off the side into the woods.


"ARUKENIMON AND MUMMYMON!?!" All three of the youngest digidestined shouted with their digimon partners.

Both of the evil digimon were standing there in their real forms of the creepy spider lady and mummy, grinning like cheshire cats at the digidestineds expressions.

"What, miss us?" Mummymon teased. His huge gun resting on his shoulder.

"Not really! I prefered you digidust!" Davis scoffed, while X-Veemon behind him flexed his arms readying for the fight.

"How on earth are you still alive!" Yolie burst out, snapping out of her shock and quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

Mummymon tapped his nose, Cody frowned at this, the pair of evil digimon weren't acting at all like themselves. As far as he could remember. "But I can tell you why we're back..." Mummymon sneered.

"For REVENGE!" Both evil digimon shouted and Mummymon threw the rifle into both of his hands, sending rapid blasts at the digidestined.

Chaos erupted.

X-Veemon picked up Davis and Cody, then moved quickly out of the way hopping through the trees to avoid the blasts from Mummymon, while Yolie quickly jumped on Aquilamon as they took off into the sky to avoid the blasts.

Ankylomon quickly advanced on Aruenimon who had done nothing yet swinging his spiked tail in the air, "Tail hammer!" he shouted atempting to crush the digimon.

"Spider Thread" the spider replied as invisible threads seem to trap Ankylomon's tail as he struggled to get it free,

"Err help guys, I'm stuck!" He shouted to the other digidested as the she spider was preparing her next attack.

"Double Stars" A voice shouted, while shuriken flew past Ankylomon, cutting the silver threads and Aruenimon at the same time. Soon Yolie came out into the clearing and next to her armor-digivolved partner Shurimon.

"Phew, that was close Shurimon. Good thing I remembered the digiegg of sincerity!" she said, wiping her forehead, "Right get her Shurimon!"

Before the digimon could react the spider digimon rose coughing and stared at Yolie, "And what, kill me? Cause that's the only way your going to get past brat" she sneered. Yolie worriedly bit her bottom lip, it was true that she didn't want to destroy the two digimon as her beliefs, but they needed to move on and help the others.

"Yolie, we can knock them out and carry on you know" Shurimon calmed her, even though the digimon knew that was going to be a lot harder that the smaller digimon they had dealed with earlier. Yolie looked slightly relieved at that moment and nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah! Go get her Shurimon!" the digimon nodded and went to attack with Ankylomon backing him up, as X-Veemon flew by effectively dropping the two digidestined on their backsides and soon was followed by Mummymon.

"Necrophobia!" the mummy shouted, sending a giant blast towards the digidestined. X-Veemon quickly moved in front of them replying to the blast with a Vee-laser, the powerful x-shaped blast colliding with Mummymons one causing a giant explosion in the middle almost sending Cody and Davis flying from the blast.

"If only Ken was here we could digivolve to Paildramon and kick their butts!" David complained, holding his arm in front of his eyes to protect himself from the dust flying everywhere.

"We need to concentrate our all our attacks together to defeat these ultimate level digimon" Cody said wisely.

"But if the blast is too strong we might kill them!" Yolie said worriedly, though these digimon were bad she wanted to believe there was some good in them. "How about we just combine two of our attacks?" she suggested.

Sighing Davis replied "Ok, but if it doesn't work we have to try all of our attacks together. We have no choice if we want to get to the others in time!" he compromised. Yolie just nodded.

"I'll hold Mummymon off!" Cody announced, "Ankylomon, lets do it" he carried on to the digimon.

"Ok Cody time to beat up some decayed creep" he replied. As he faced Mummymon, and leapt up high into the air, "MEGATON PRESS!" Ankylomon yelled as he attacked the Mummy.

"Quick Exveemon! Lets do this!" Davis shouted enthusiastically.

"Shurimon you know what to do!"

"Right!" the two digimon replied, closing in on Arukenimon. Exveemon jumped in and started to barrage Arukenimon with punches and kicks, though she was dodging them all with ease. While this was happening Shurimon burst into leaves and teleported behind the spider.

"Acid mist" the she-spider cried, opening her mouth as a green mist sprayed out directly towards Exveemon, the blue digimon quickly moved back.

"Vee-Laser!" He yelled the giant blast cutting easily through the acid mist.

"Double Stars!" Shurimon calmly announced pulling the large shuriken off his back sending it flying towards Arukenimon. Both attacks collided into the digimon and fell on her spider-looking knees to the ground.

"Alright!" Shouted Davis punching the air. But that exitement soon turned to confusion as Arukenimon seemed to be, well... flickering.

"What's going on?" Yolie shouted confused.

Mummymon seeing what what happening quickly extracted himself away from Ankylomon and went to Arukenimon's side, "These digidestined brats are harder than we thought" he said calmly.

Cody and Ankylomon ran up to the others facing the two digimon, "Guys, something's not right. They're not acting like the pair we fought a couple of years ago." he observed.

"What you talking about Cody? They look exactly like the creeps we fought then?" Davis replied confused.

"Cody's right, something's off" Yolie said.

"Usually Mummymon's constantly flirting with Arukenimon, even in a fight. Also their personalities seem a little... off" Cody continued.

They heard Arukenimon chuckle, "I guess you figured us out." Both the digimon started to flicker now and soon the images of Arukenimon and Mummymon were gone, and replaced with two strange digimon. Still grinning.

"WHAT THE HELL!?!?!"


Matt just stared. TK stared blankly back.

"TK!" Kari gasped along with Sora, Mimi just stared with tears streaming down her face.

"Ah! I see you have already noticed the star of this performance!" Gloated Piedmon landing on the digiegg field along with Devimon and TK (Who was being carried by the Vilemon) muttering something about not even deserving to be a prop in a performance.

"TK! Are you alright?!? Don't worry I'll save you!" shouted Matt slightly snapping out of shock into terrified brother mode.

TK turned his unhealthly looking face towards his near-hysterical brother and focused his vacant eyes onto him, "Why would you want to save me? I am worth nothing. No one cares at all about me, I only live for darkness and death. I am despair" he replied blankly, his chest started to glow the symbol of despair appearing clearly making the digidestined gasp.

"Matt! We have to do something and snap him out of it!" Sora worriedly said to the brother, that's when it hit them. A wave of despair hit them and all the digidestineds eyes dimmed slightly.

"What's... happening? I feel like my light is being drained away!" Kari said sadly. Piedmon and Devimon just sat back and enjoyed the show happening between the digidestined, evil grins stretched across their faces.

"TK, we care about you! We love you! You belong in the light TK, your hope not despair!" Matt gasped as another wave of despair hit, making him and the others drop to their knees.

"TK we care about you please stop this and come back!" Kari shouted, feeling her light slipping even more, before they knew it. Another wave of despair hit causing all the digimon to dedigivolve back to their rookie forms.

"Y-yeah TK, I love you, your like the little brother I never had! I would of taken you shopping and everything!" Mimi choked, as Palmon held her up to stop her from collapsing all together, though the little digimon didn't look to good herself as well as the rest of the digimon.

Matt stared straight into TK's eyes, "Please..." he said, he felt his need and belief in friendship slipping, it felt like when he was back in the underground cave again from three years ago, about to be swallowed by darkness. But the blank eyes just stared back.

Another wave of despair hit, sending Matt, Sora and Mimi into darkness and despair. Their eyes dimmed and they just sat there staring straight ahead as their digimon de-digivolved again right back to their fresh-forms.

Punimon bounced up to his partner Matt and onto his lap nudging him to try and snap out of it, "Puni! Puni..." he said trying to get some response, but Matt just kept staring ahead blankly, "Puunnnii" he said sadly, as did the other two Digimon with their partners. Two evil laughs cut through the air.

"Look how far the mighty digidestined have fallen! You shall all die today in despair and darkness! I always knew the youngest had the most power." Devimon mocked watching gleefully the scene unfolding before him.

"Ah, this shall be a beautiful and mighty ending to this act with the first of the digidestined falling to our power!" Piedmon announced, "Such a ending could almost bring a evil digimon to tears of joy!" he continued pretending to sniff and wipe away fake tears. He looked up suddenly and stared, "Ah but wait! The plot continues, as the child of light has yet to completely fall!"

Kari slowly attempted to stand up stumbling slightly but was soon caught by Gatomon who looked like she could only hold herself up. "We..'ve got to do something Gatomon! Even now I feel I'm only clinging onto a tiny bit of my light" she whispered to her partner staring straight into TK's eyes, now wishing that argument they had a while never happened seeing now it was such a trivial thing... now leading to such a big disaster.

"Piedmon! I say we finish them off now and stop stalling! The quicker that these digidestined die, the better I will feel." Devimon said impatiently, interrupting Kari's thoughts.

"Fine fine" the clown replied, waving his hand dismissively, "Child of Despair move out of the way so we can dispose of these nuisances quickly, and end this wonderful scene" he commanded to TK who was standing directly in line between the digidestined and the evil digimon.

Kari realised she needed to do something fast, she closed her eyes and felt for what felt like the last of her light apart from a few drops and let it shine out of her and towards TK, "Please, TK... you don't belong in the darkness, we all care for you. Help us." she pleaded staring into his eyes, for a moment she thought she saw some sort of flicker in his eyes.

"Move!" Growled Devimon. TK moved aside.

"Might as well blast through me, I'm not worth the energy of being asked to move" TK muttered darkly, all trace of that flicker seemed to vanish as he retreated behind the two dark Devimon with the rest of the Vilemon. As Kari's heart sank.

Please brother, save us. She thought finally as Gatomon stood protectively in front of her. Punimon also jumped off Matt's lap prepared to defend his partner, as well as Nyokimon who was in front of Sora and Yuramon protecting Mimi.

Swords appeared in Piedmon's hands and Devimon's claws turned even darker if that was possible, "This is the end" they both said.

"Trump-" "Touch of-" they began.

"NOVA BLAST!"

"HARPOON TORPEDO!"


Despair surveyed the digidestined in front of him, on their knees pleading for forgiveness. He stood in the pitch black, as memories flooded around him. Bad ones. Of his friends abandoning him and turning against him. Not believing in him.

"Please..." he heard his 'brother' say weakly, pulling him out of his memories. The brother that had now abandoned him twice. Proving that not even his family loved him, he was born for darkness and it was his destiny. He pulled all that despair from within him and sent it out to the digidested again, three of them collapsed with their digimon de-digivolving.

He ignored his masters gloating as once again he was surrounded by dark memories and thoughts, till something suprised him, out of the darkness a small light appeared and floated towards him and started to hear a voice, "Please, TK... you don't belong in the darkness, we all care for you. Help us." the light then turned into a single memory, a nice memory of before. All his friends going on a picnic, laughing and having fun with himself in the centre of it all. He felt some strange lost feeling spark within him, but it was soon smothered.

"Move!" and the light was gone as he returned to reality and moved aside, muttering things to himself reassuring himself that he belonged to darkness.


"WHAT THE HELL!" The three digidestined yelled, staring at the new digimon before them, the most notable feature is that they seemed to have mirrors nearly all over them.

"What happened to Arukenimon and Mummymon?" David asked, completely and utterly confused. Yolie and Cody just shook their heads, completely bewildered as well.

"Oh, my I thought these digimon were extinct thousands of years ago" Shurimon said in a deep voice.

"Who are these guys?" Cody asked curiously.

"Shinkiroumon" Shurimon replied, "They can take digimon data and copy it, though they are never as strong as the original. And they can only store a certain amount of data at a time" he informed them.

"So they're like copy-cat digimon" Davis concluded.

"Pretty much partner!" X-Veemon agreed.

"Guys, I suggest we attack now before they transform, they are weakest in this form and a combined dead on attack should work if we do it before they gain their strength and transform again" Shurimon continued.

"We're not going to kill them though!" Yolie questioned looking slightly horrified. Cody and Davis remained silent knowing the dillema their friend was facing, even though they had both made their own choices a while ago to protect innocent digimon at any cost.

"Yolie, these digimon are evil to the core, Piedmon and Devimon had corrupted them too much. If we leave them they won't stop killing other digimon." Shurimon said seriously.

"Anyway Yolie, they'll just get turned into data and be purified then sent to primary village. It's just like recycling" Ankylomon added sadly.

Yolie slowly accepted this information and nodded, gripping her digivice in her hand tightly, "If there is no other choice, we have to do this."

"Right guys lets do this!" David yelled as the three digimon launched at the two helpless forms, and before they knew it had started to turn into data.

"Our masters will not stop until they plunge everything into darkness" they said in unison darkly before disappearing completely.

Silently, the three digidested and their partners turned and started to run, all preparing for the upcoming battle. Where things may never be the same again.


Sorry sorry sorry! *Pleads for forgiveness* I know I haven't updated in forever, I never realised how busy college would get! Now only with the x-mas holidays was I able to finish this! I really hope that the last chapter will be out before I go back, then a epilogue.

Really hoped that you enjoyed this chapter! Please review, I love reading reviews always makes me happier :)

Next chapter, I'm going to list everyone who's ever reviewed and I'm going to try and PM everyone who reviews me from now on!

Till next time!

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