Altered Reverberations
Chapter Twelve
Unfolding the Plan –
Part 1
Rewriting the the Rules
Kitsune already had drawn the symbol in the air when Deva had noticed, "Talisman of Purification!" she cried. As she was about to swipe down, to send her attack at Hazard, Deva slammed her blade onto the Paintbrush's head, and it shattered.
Kitsune leaped over over Deva as her attack carried through, nothing was going to stop her. She grabbed the end of the paintbrush, the bristles barely holding on to the shattered wood, and slashed the Talisman down.
Time stood still, and yet all motion continued. Deva landed a few feet from where she hit the brush, the pieces of broken wood fell the ground with a clatter, and Kitsune landed, careful not to land on a splintered piece of wood.
They stood like that for what seemed like a week, but was only an hour. Catching there breath and filling there bodies with energy.
Deva finally broke the silence, "You weren't trying to hurt him from the beginning." she said in an "oh" voice.
Kitsune said nothing, and the silence seemed to Reverberate in the forest. Deva turned to face Kitsune, "Why didn't you just tell me?" she asked. "Why didn't you let me know that you were just twying to break the bond?" Deva asked quietly.
Kitsune looked at Hazard. The thought of the kiss made her shudder. Digimon mating happened through the mouth, in an exchange of data... the same data that had flown between her and Hazards mouth in the kiss. She looked over at Deva. I've become weak. She thought, Resorting to things like mating with my opponent in the middle of a battle, using a shadow to distract my opponent while I went for the real target. I should have just eliminated her out of the way and then proceeded with what I was going to do. "You didn't need to know." Kitsune said firmly.
Deva completely missed the firmness of Kitsune's voice, as Lopmon's battle hardened ways started to die down and Suzie's innocence started to appear on the surface. "Oh... ok?" she said a little confused. She begin to be happy at the prospect of finally having caught up with Kitsune. As Suzie, she had always admired Rika, and wanted to become strong as she was, so she studied the card game hard, and came up with some good strategy's, but she had always been to scared to show them to Rika, thinking herself that they weren't good enough. However, she had tried to hang around Rika as much as she could, and just observed her, learning from her and trying to understand what made her so strong.
"Hey Kitsune, now that your with us... can we go save my brother. I mean, your the fastest one here, and you could probably get to him really quick without Ebemon knowing." Deva said with excitement in her voice at the prospect of saving her brother.
"Do it on your own." Kitsune retorted back to her.
Deva was puzzled, "I thought..."
"Your starting to sound like Gogglehead now. Did you think that everything would be perfect once you met up with me. Get a grip on life Deva. We're stuck like this, and there's no going back!" Kitsune said scolding in her voice.
Deva was startled by Kitsune's reaction, "Why do you hate us so!" Deva yelled, Suzie's side of her coming out. "My bwother is captuwed... I'm here unable to help him. Hazard can't take care of me, he has his own pwoblems, and you aren't even worried about youw own fwiend!"
"Grow up, Deva. Your almost as old as we were when we first started dealing with Digimon." Kitsune snapped at her. Deva was taken back. "I don't need friends.. I don't need Hazard, I don't need Henry and I sure as in Baihumon's name don't need some whiny little kid who can't even take care of herself." Kitsune yelled at her.
Deva couldn't speak a word after that, and Kitsune seemed almost startled at her own reaction to Deva's comment. She hardened herself, "I don't need anybody... especially not him." The red fox digimon/human half bread disappeared into the shadows.
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Henry laid in his bed, it had been a week since Ebemon had last visited him. He was fairly glad that you didn't need to eat in the South Quadrant of the Digital World. He had a T.V. In the room, in which he was able to spend a lot of his time watching digimon movies. There were some fairly entertaining ones, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Kamemon, or The Machindramonator. There was also one called the City, which even had a human in it. No surprise the humans name was Neo... but still, the idea of a reverse The Matrix was something that had him pondering for awhile. There were also a couple of other good ones, like I, Guardramon and AeroVeedramonHeart.
(Betamon X: Alright, Comment right here... yes we were playing off movies... TMNT, Terminator, The Matrix, I Robot and Dragon Heart. We take not claim for even haven seen all of these movies... ... ... GO I, ROBOT!)
There was a knock on the door that startled Henry. Who was knocking? Ebemon always barged in, and he couldn't open it from the inside anyways.
"Watch out." He heard a familiar voice say, "ChronoBlaster!" he cried. Henry moved quickly out the way as the door shot into the room, crushing the bed he had been sitting on.
Beelzemon peeked his head in, "well, what do you know, if it ain't old Henry." Henry smiled.
"Geez what took you guys so long?" He asked.
Terriermon walked in, "Sorry, I had to find a pretty girl." he said grinning. He hopped onto his usual spot on Henry.
Gatomon and Kari came into view, "so your Henry... what about the others?" Kari asked.
Henry was slightly startled to see Kari Kamiya, he had been told they were real, but meeting one in person still surprised him. He shook it off. "There not here... Ebemon combined them with there digimon, and bound Deva and Hazard to him. Kitsune has escaped."
"I don't get it." Beelzemon said.
Henry shook his head, "we don't have time guys, we need to go." Beelzemon nodded, and they wound there way through the halls, when Henry stopped them. "In here." He told them. The Mega, Champion and human followed him into a room. It was the same place that Henry had seen his friends and sister get fused. "Everything in here we have to destroy it." He said quickly.
Beelzemon nodded and looked around, his ChronoBlaster deformed off his arm and he grabbed his shotguns. "I suggest you guys gett out." He said with a slight accent. Henry nodded, and the four of them proceeded out of the room.
Beelzemon let his shotguns tear the room to pieces, firing shot after shot, metal strewing everywhere, the machine that had held Hazard, Deva and Kitsune, he demolished with at least ten blasts. He twirled his weapons and slammed them into his holsters.
"Wow Beelzemon." Terriermon said looking into the room, "I'd hate to be any sort of Zombie digimon to face you."
Henry face palmed while Gatomon and Kari chuckled.
Henry looked around, "This is too easy." He said.
"Lets not jinx our luck." Kari said, knowing what he meant. Hearing nothing but the echoes of there own footsteps was starting to spook her.
Gatomon had an ominous feeling as well, "what do we do?" She asked as the group ran along.
"Momenti," Terriermon said, "Old Big Brain is probably just out doing some grocery shopping. Besides, if all the racket that trigger happy made over there wasn't enough for him to find us, I really don't think he's here."
"That's what I'm worried about." Henry said.
The group finally got to the entrance and everyone stopped. The silence became deadly. "This is all wrong." Kari fretted, "nothing's this easy, where's all of his protection. I considered it luck when we got to you without anything, but now..."
Beelzemon got sick of waiting, "I can't stand this guys, I can take on whatever this Ebemon dude has." he said. He started to walk forward, his hands on his guns.
The group walked behind him. Henry looked around for some sort of a trap, his eyes widened as the panal on the floor below him and above him on the ceiling opened up. He didn't even have time to call out when he was trapped with a black Sphere of energy.
Beelzemon turned around at the sound of the panels opening up to see both humans and digimon trapped in the black energy, frozen.
"Brain Rupture!" Ebemon cried as his attack struck that back of Beelzemon. Beelzemon fell to the floor with a thud.
Ebemon glided over the digimon over to where Henry, Kari, Terriermon and Gatomon were held inside the energy spheres. He moved over to Henry's sphere, "Well, well. Looks like you didn't manage to beat my dream machine after all." Henry couldn't move, but his eyes flashed in hatred towards Ebemon, "You fool, you thought that you could hide stuff in your subconscious. Clever, but you are dealing with Ebemon, and your going to have to do better then that.
"I assume you recognize the machine in which you reside." Ebemon told him. "It's the machine you designed, the one that will do both processes in one. Bend you to my will and transform you into the ultimate fighting machine." Ebemon let his eyes rest on Terriermon, "and then I will activate the later half of the data in Hazard and Deva... you will then capture Kitsune, and the other digidestined and there digimon..."
Ebemon let out a shrill laugh, "Just to think... Henry... you have created the most powerful army of all time. I must also thank you for bringing the light to me." He said as he walked over to Kari.
Kari's eyes filled with fear and confusion as she couldn't move, and stared at Ebemon. "Out of all my fears... you were the greatest... now I have so much the advantage." He snickered.
He stepped back and looked at the four... and activated the machine. Henry immediately knew what was happening as his and Terriermon's spheres started to merge he watched in horror as his partners data started to break away.
Kari watched in equal horror, but not nearly as understanding of what was happening as Gatomon's data started to disappear. She started to feel queasy and sick, as Gatomon's data started to conform with her own. She cried out in pain as the data was integrated into her. She heard a loud noise, but it didn't affect her.
A bright light engulfed her in data, and when it died down, she had changed. Her ears were now the same as Gatomon's, and stood straight up on her head. Her tail lashed out, and on her but and her hands were now covered by the Gatomon's gloves, which extended all the way up on her arms like her stockings had. Four long whiskers grew out of her face, as her skin turned as white as Gatomon's fur. Her clothes had changed to a bright white, with the crest of light on the back of her tanktop. Kari's hair extended in length and fell down to her waist, a glittering pink, the same as her crest.
The machine didn't stop there though. As her transformation finished, two black balls of energy appeared on either side of her, and pressed themselves into her back through the middle point of her crest, and Kari... now Light, felt them working into her system, and rewriting her data, she tried to cry out in pain, but it was useless, the black cores filled her system and settled in her. Light was now Ebemon's slave.
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Henry felt Terriermon's data flowing onto him, forcing him to be the same as Hazard, Deva and Kitsune. He looked down as Beelzemon raised his ChornoBlaster, and fired. The attack slammed itself into the bottom machine, it wasn't enough to stop the process, but it was enough.
Every once in awhile, you do something completely on instinct, and it turns out to be the worst option possible, like SkullGreymon or Megidramon. Then again, every once in awhile you do something completely on instinct that turns out to be the best option possible. Like Tai placing the Gomamon card down instead of the Agumon one.
This was one of the times where it was the best thing possible to happen... and the worse thing possible to happen.
Henry grabbed his digivice and brought it up to his chest, "BIOMERGE DIGIEVOLUTION!" he cried, as Terriermon's data fell around him.
There was a great green flash as all of the remaining machines holding Henry shattered.
Gargomon grinned, as Henry resided in the sphere, "Isn't that interesting." He said.
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So, I'm taking the story somewhere else then originally planned, hey, this idea is ten times more awesome though.
