Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Summery: AU, very AU and dark, with mentioning of torture, violence and blood drinking.
Taichi's been disowned by the master and barely escaped both his execution and the destruction of his castle as Jun and the Digimon Emperor battled for supremacy of that area. In the battle, the Emperor revealed his new great weapon, Kimeramon. And in the real world, Oikawa Ukyou approached the master with an offer of alliance or destruction.
Special note: 'Thoughts'
Spawn of the vampire
Part XI
Dark Alliance: Part 2
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Running as fast as he could, Garurumon struggled to keep ahead of the attacking Arukenimon, the wolf like digimon long past the part of attacking, as she either avoided or blocked anything he shot at her. Her attacks on the other hand were fast, precise and hurt.
Laughing insanely as she landed on a wall, the spider woman like digimon sent another round of spider tread out to stop another wolf blaster attack, and then began to fling parts of the wall after the wolf. Ripping each bit of it lose with little effort. "Face it, you can't win against me."
At the words, Matt clenched up his fist and cast a worried look in the direction his little brother had run off in. "TK, be careful, it make be a it longer before I can help you." Returning his attention to the fight, he winced as Garurumon took a slab of stone right in the side painfully. "It's at times like these I really wish I still had my crest."
Jumping off the wall, Arukenimon snarled viciously as she smashed down on a recovering Garurumon, driving him back down into the ruined street. "Well, ready to give up, I can't waste all my time beating you, you know."
Shaking her off, Garurumon emerged from the small crater and growled as he shot her up closer with a wolf blaster, the blue fire hitting her right in the chest area. "I'll never give." The statement coming from Garurumon as he stopped firing at her.
Smoke and fire dying down, Arukenimon glared at the wolf life digimon as her arms moved out of her protective stance. "You really shouldn't have done that." Moving faster then her size would suggest her of being able too, she trusted one leg into the front part of Garurumon's body, while her left hand pounded him in the side as he got lifted up enough. "Acid Mist!"
Howling in pain as the attack seared through his fur, Garurumon struggled back down. Front legs barely holding him up as he moved back from the evil digimon. "Matt, she's too strong, I need help."
Off to the side, Matt bit a nail as he watched his digimon get pounded. There wasn't any time for this; they had to help TK and Kari. They couldn't waste any more time on that spider digimon. "Garurumon, retreat, we have to find TK." And no matter how much he hated it at the moment, they had to run away from her.
Grinning as the Wolf like digimon suddenly bolted past her, Arukenimon jumped up onto a wall, and down in front of both Matt and Garurumon. One hand grabbed the front of the blond haired boy's shirt as her legs kicked down Garurumon viciously. "Well, now what." Opening her mouth, she grinned as she prepared to shot the boy with a venom mist attack right in his face, or maybe the more painful and destructive acid mist attack of hers.
"Spiking Strike!"
Screaming out in pain, her head shot back around in time to see a green insect like digimon fly off into the distance, the blond haired boy held in his arms. "Hey, that's my victim, give him back!" Moving to follow, she yelped as the freed Garurumon bounded off her back and over a nearby wall to follow his partner and the digimon.
Recovering from the ordeal, she glared up after the insect digimon as a seething hate formed in her stomach. "When I find out who you are, I'll rip your wings off and snap your antennas." Jumping into the air, she began to follow after the two digimons and humans.
Halsemon wasn't doing any greater then Garurumon against his opponent, the digimon Huoyugamon were simply to tough skinned to be hurt by any of his attacks, and his attacks were nothing short of nasty as could be seen as a sudden toss of snow froze the wall Halsemon had just flown part, the attack's near hit leaving a bit of the flying digimon's left side slightly frozen.
Spinning around in the air as a power built up in him, the armored flying digimon let lose with one of his more used attacks as he closed in on the digimon. "Tempest Wing!" The fierce tornado like wind hammering into the icy digimon head on, but only succeeding in pushing back a great deal.
Lifting up a hand in return, the blue colored Ogremon punched the air as white energy flashed around his fist. "Throwing Ice!" The white colored energy forming into a solid sphere of ice that hit Halsemon's metallic helmet with a loud clang that knocked him back a bit.
Struggling back against the pain, the armored digimon recovered and shot through the air even faster, powering up his most powerful attack that he had, red light shooting out of his eyes as he got within firing range. "Eagle Eye!"
Blocking the attack, the Huoyugamon roared in frustration, as his club was shattered into a shower of small ice crystals that quickly turned into digi dust. "Snow Barrier!" Sending out an attack as Halsemon tried to get in another hit, when the air was suddenly filled with a literal snowstorm blinding the large armored digimon.
Then the blue colored body of the enemy digimon filled his vision as the digimon shot through the snow storm, one hand pulled back as white colored energy cursed around it. "Damn." Then an intense cold feeling rushed through him, sending shocks through his body as it went numb. "Yolie!"
Darklizardmon hissed as several fireballs shot through the air, his eyes locked on the far to fast moving Raidramon as the nimbly moving digimon shot up close and head butted him again, the force of it crashing them both into a wall, with the dark fiery digimon taking the full impact on his back. "Dark Flare!"
Feeling the evil digimon attack from just above his head, Raidramon wasted no time in shooting off one of his own attack in retaliation. "Lightning Blast!" A bright shower of electricity shooting from his horn into the stomach of the evil digimon who screamed in pain as the attack connected.
Off to the side, Davis cheered on his digimon as both of them were knocked by the others attack, Raidramon armor blacken in places, and Darklizardmon sporting a smoke cloud drifting up from his stomach. "Give it up pal, we're too powerful for you."
Hissing and twisting his head to look at the human boy, Darklizardmon fired off another attack, feeling the need to removing the bragging annoyance from the battle before finishing off his opponent once and for all. "Snipe Fang!"
"Ups." Flinging his arm to protect himself as he noticed the attack, no matter how futile it might be, Davis cringed a she waited for the attack to hit him, blinking as all he felt was a burst of hot air. "Raidramon!" The yelling out of his digimon name coming as he saw his digimon smoking from his side were an attack had impacted him. "Raidramon, are you okay?"
Facing his partner, the armored digimon smiled a bit. "Been better, but it's worth it if you're okay Davis." Turning his head back around, the blue digimon growled as he moved forward again, a bit slower the before, but still a match for the other digimon. "Blue Thunder!"
Spreading out his arms as the electric wave of energy shot at him, Darklizardmon fire doff his own attack as well, dark fire shooting out from his chest and arms. "Dark Flare!" Another explosion ripping up the ground as the two powers went off right between the two digimons.
"He's too strong." Davis muttered out, as he simply couldn't believe it. There were only a few digimons he had ever met that were stronger then Raidramon, and this one seemed to fall into that category. Flamedramon wouldn't stand a chance since the other digimon was made of fire, plus he would never allow them to dedigivolve and then armor digivolve into Flamedramon.
It went against everything he believed in, but there was no doubt about it. He would need help in bringing down this digimon, and he needed it now. "Raidramon, we have to find the others!" Yelling out the command, he turned and headed in the direction that Yolei and Halsemon had gone in. "Hopefully they have already succeed in bringing down their opponent, or we're really in trouble."
Digmon moaned as his opponent slammed into him again, spark of electricity flying through him as his whole body was lit up by the small digimons attack. Finally feeling it fly off enough for him to drop to his knee, Digmon was left panting as he tried to work out where the small thing would come form next.
The battle had been completely one sides since it started, the small Thundermon outclassed him in speed so much he hadn't even had a chance to attack since the beginning of the battle. His armor was dented, scorched from electric attacks, and his armor power was all but gone as his vision swam a bit. The only good thing about it all was that the small digimon hadn't hurt Cody yet.
Holding up his drill like hands, Digimon bleached as his opponent shot right at him, with archs of electricity flying around him. "Cody, run. Get out of here!" Yelling out the command, he felt his world erupt into pain, agony flaring through every limb of his body as he was flung back through the air.
The large insect digimon stared at the battle scene as he took in the various places of combat. "They're in need of our help now." He commented as he prepared himself, placing Matt on the ground gently. "Are you ready?"
Nodding the boy closed his D-terminal as he finished the message and sent it. "I've contacted their friends by hacking into one of their D-terminal's for their addresses." Then he walked over to look down at the battle scene as well. "Let's go, we have to help Motomiya and his friends right now."
The digimon nodded and took a gentle hold of his partners arm and pulled him up into a better position to be held in as he flew off. "Let's go!" The words leaving the digimon as he and his partner faded away in the direction of the nearby battles rapidly.
Behind him, Matt dusted off his clothes and cast a curious looked after the one who had saved him. He hadn't really seen the boy whom the digimon belonged too, but he had heard his voice, and frankly, he wasn't as surprised as he should be about it, it didn't matter if he joined them or not, if they would welcome someone like Tai who had gone and hurt two humans as well as countless digimon, then the former digimon emperor would fit in nicely with the group as well.
"TK!" Screaming out the name, Matt took off looking for his little brother, if there were any problems with Ken, it would have to wait until a later time, right now, he had to find and help TK.
Landing on the remains of a nearby building, Arukenimon's eyes narrowed as she glared after the blond haired boy. The stupid insect that had dared to interfere was nowhere to be seen, but the blond haired boy was right there, and there was no way she would let him get away this time.
Ducking as Digmon flew over him, Cody stared in horror as a bright yellow light flowed over his partner digimon, the sign of a de-digivolution. "Armadillomon!" The digimon mumbling a bit as he rolled backwards before stopping in a dazed condition halfway to his partner human. "Are you okay?" Reached out a hand to him, as he got closer, Cody stopped as a blur shot down between them, tearing up the ground and hurtling him back through a small hailstorm of rock shards. "Ahhhhhh!"
Then the stabs if pain stopped as he was pulled back, and held softly by someone. "Stingmon, Take care of that fake digimon, will you?" Opening his eyes at the voice, Cody stared up in shock as he saw Ken just above him, the digimon emperor wearing a gray school uniform of all things. "Ken?"
And before them both, stood a huge green insect man like digimon, a glowing pink stinger shooting out form its right upper wrist. "Spiking Strike!" The attack jabbing right into a charging Thundermon who had a split second shocked look on his face, before he exploded into digi dust.
Pulling himself free of Ken's grip in sheer rage, Cody glared at the older boy and his digimon with a truly dark expression on his face. "You! How could you just do something like that? That was a digimon, a living thing!" Standing up as he spoke, the younger boy grabbed a bit of rubble and held it out like a sword before him. "Have you no shame, ruthlessly killing off an innocent digimon like that Digimon Emperor?"
Casting a hurt look down at the boy, Ken quickly looked up as a panting sound reached him, the source of turning out to be a heavily breathing Davis as both he and Raidramon came rushing around a shatter wall of a building. "Cody, we have to, Ken." Staring in disbelief at the boy, Davis quickly moved forward as a shot of fire tore through the air above the building. "Damn, he found us already."
"Guys." Yolie yelled out as she and Halsemon descended down from the air, several lumps of ice falling form the digimon as he nearly tumbled over and crashed. "You have to help us, Hyougamon's tearing us apart." Then her eyes landed on the boy standing before the two others. "Ken, what are you doing here?"
Still glaring darkly at the boy in question, Cody answered the question for both Davis and Yolie. "He's killing off innocent digimons." Clenching up a hand, his eyes flashed with raw anger as he stepped forward, snapping a finger out to point at Ken in accusation. "Why, why did Thundermon have to die huh, he was a innocent digimon, like all the ones you enslaved, you had no right to just kill him like that!!"
Stepping back as each word was spat at him, Ken eyes closed as several painful memories rushed through him, making him want to curl up and die on the spot as punishment for it. "I, I." Stammering a bit as he spoke, he looked up as he felt a hand on his shoulder, turning his head a bit to see who, even of he already knew, he smiled in thanks as he saw Stingmon looking down at him in a supportive way. "Yes."
Turning back to face to them, Ken looked at Davis as the leader of the second team of digi destined stepped forward with a weary expression. "Please, I didn't come here to fight." Seeing two skeptical and one hopeful expression aimed at him after those words, Ken shook his head and continued. "These digimon, Thundermon, Hyougamon and Darklizardmon, they're not real digimons, Arukenimon, the witch in the red dress you saw earlier, she made them out of control spires."
Getting a bit of confused look, he looked up at the sky shortly. "Although, one of them, Darklizardmon, I'm not really sure how he was made, that girl in the digimon empress outfit, caused something to merge, and then he was there."
"Jun." Davis muttered out as his fist clenched up at his side. "You're saying that they're not real digimons?" Seeing both Ken and Stingmon nod, Davis rubbed a hand over his chin. "It still doesn't solve how we can stop them, Raidramon's not a match for Darklicardmon, and fire against fire is out of the picture, so Flamedramon's a no go."
Stepping forward, Stingmon pointed down at Davis's D3. "You must digivolve the normal way." Seeing a quick look shared between Davis, Cody and Yolie. He turned to face the direction that Hyougamon was coming from as he broke through a wall, while Darklizardmon once again fired off a bit of fire as he jumped up over the ruined wall. "Hurry up, while I'll take care of the cold one."
True to his word, Stingmon rushed forward, tackling Hyougamon as he was getting ready to fire off another blast of cold energy, both of them flying out through the hole with a war cry as the insect digimon tackled the ogre like one.
Holding up his digivice, Davis looked down at Veemon after sharing a last look with Ken, the former enemy of his giving him a thump up before he rushed over to watch the battle between Stingmon and Hyougamon. "Ready buddy?"
The small blue dragon like digimon held up his hand as he grinned. "Do you have to ask Davis?"
Rushing forward as his target looked distracted, Darklizardmon opened his mouth to fire off a plume of fire, when a bright blue light filled the air where the two were standing.
Glowing brightly, Veemon spun around as pure power rushed through him, power he had gotten from his partner Davis in order to digivolve to his champion form. "Veemon Digivolves too..." Shooting up to several times his own height, his back grew a set of leather dragon like wings, as his mouth filled white sharp teeth and his small horn grew into a bigger version. On his chest, Two stripes formed an X shape mark divided near the middle to make the upper part of it form a V. "...EX-Veemon!"
Slowing down, Darklizardmon stared in surprise as the new digimon before him, unsure of how he could go about attacking him now that he was several times bigger then before.
Looking down, EX-Veemon smirked as he took advantage of his opponents distraction, kicking the digimon into the air with a dark grin on his face. "Now, let's see how long you last against me in this form."
Growling in reply as he landed on his hind legs, Darklizardmon glared back at EX-Veemon as his firey body increased its heat by several degrees, eyes glowing slightly more as well as he began to inch toward the huge blue white dragon like digimon again.
Behind them, Davis grinned as much as his digimon as he felt the power form EX-Veemon. "Alright, now go get him EX-Veemon, and show my sister how great we really are."
Moving forward at his partner's words, EX-Veemon powered up an attack and lashed out. "Vee Punch!" His fist smacking into the body of Darklizardmon and sending it flying further back, through a pile of rubble painfully as dust filled the air.
Pushing himself up, Darklizardmon roared hatefully as he charged right back at the huge blue dragon like digimon, a sphere of fire forming in his hands. "Dark flare!" A sphere that erupted into a pillar of raw powerful fire ripping towards the blue dragon like digimon.
Slamming his arms together in front of him, EX-Veemon grinned as the fire simply washed over them without doing too much damage to him. "Ha, time to finish it." Crossing his arms, he smirked as power flowed into his chest and built up. "Vee Laser!" Ripping out to hammer into Darklizardmon with an X shaped laser blast, the evil digimon was once again thrown backwards into more rubble.
This time it didn't stand back up again, instead a loud moan like sound ripped through the air. The fake digimon's head color fading away, revealing the imatamon's color below it, finally losing all of its color as it shattered into a cloud of data.
"All right!" Davis yelled out as he saw it, one hand rising up in victory. "You rock EX-Veemon!"
Turning back with a smug look, the huge blue dragon like digimon nodded as he held up his own arm in triumph. "You said it Davis, guess he wasn't a match for my champion power." Flexing his muscle as he said the last, EX-Veemon stopped as he noticed the other digimons and human children looking at him. "Um, you guys did great as well, really."
Shooting the same tired look over at Davis, Cody shook his head briefly. "Can we find Kari and TK now, we need them, Ken's back." His voice turning ice-cold at the last part he spoke out.
Slapping a hand into the other, Davis nodded as he looked around the place. "Oh yeah, Ken, I wonder where he went of too."
The sound of foots steps drawing their attention over to see the former digimon emperor emerge from a nearby ruin, Stingmon hovering in the air behind him. "I'm here." Facing EX-Veemon, he nodded slowly as he turned back to face Davis. "I take it you defeated Darklizardmon?"
Opening his mouth to reply, Davis blinked as he shoved out of the way by Yolie, her eyes locking onto Ken with a dark fire in them. "Okay Ken, spit it out, why did you help us defeat those digimon?" Her voice ice cold as she loomed over the younger boy.
Stumbling a bit, Davis looked back at tem as his smile faded away. "Back off Yolie, Ken helped us because he's a digi destined, see." The last word added as Davis pointed at the D3 in the purple haired boy's hand. "Isn't that right Ken?"
Not answering, Ken slowly turned to look into the distance, a think line for a mouth as he closed his eyes. "Your friends are in that direction, I called for help, but I don't know if they're here yet."
Looking up at that comment, Cody snapped his head around to look at the others. "We have to help them!" Nodding in response, Davis and Yolie took off running, their digimons behind them.
After a few steps, Davis stopped and looked back at Ken with a friendly expression on his face. "Come on Ken, you're one of us now." Holding out a hand, he smiled at the purple haired boy, a smile that faded a bit later as the other boy made no move to follow. "Ken?"
Shaking his briefly, the boy in question took a few hesitant steps forward, smiling weakly at Davis before the boy turned back around and headed off to help his friends.
"What's wrong?" Stingmon's voice broke through the air as the large insect digimon looked down at his partner, clearly able to see the tense state of Ken's body.
Closing his eyes, Ken stepped forward and slowly broke into a half run. "Nothing, nothings wrong." Staring ahead of him as he followed, he looked at Davis, a half puzzled expression marring his face. "How, how can he just forgive me like that? It makes no sense, I who have done so many evil things, I don't deserve to be forgiven."
Behind him, Stingmon kept a steady pace, ready to support his partner and friend if it came down to it, but in this case, he was completely powerless to help his partner, for only Ken could ever really forgive himself for what he had done.
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Stepping out of yet another shop, Tai and Mimi both wore a tired expression on their faces. They had been everywhere in the mall, and nothing had really interested them. Well, Mimi had been interested in a few things. But hadn't gone to any great lengths about it, remembering her promise to just look through the mall, and not shop till she or he dropped.
Next to her, Tai were still deep in thoughts, wondering why he was even there. It was great to be back with his family, but he still felt out of place. The real world was different from the digital world, and white this was his home, he hardly remembered anything about it, and his earlier outburst hadn't helped his mood much.
Mimi had calmed him down after a good twenty minutes, but she hadn't really understood it. Blackgatomon was gone, gone. And he couldn't get her back. The only thing he had left of her now was a bunch of memories, and nothing else.
"100 yen for your thoughts."
Looking up as Mimi's voice cut into his dark thoughts, Tai gave a halfhearted smile as he shook his head. "Nothing, it's nothing."
Closing her eyes, Mimi sighed as she grabbed his shoulder. "I know it's not just a nothing, losing someone as close to you as she was, will hurt." Turning him to face her, she smiled as sincerely as she could. "And talking with someone about it, will help you cope with the pain of loss."
Not answering her, Tai kept his eyes lowered as he sighed. "I know that, it, it's just." Clenching up his hands, Tai stared at her with a look of anger. "She told me that she wasn't my real partner, that I should find my real one, but, I don't think anyone can replace her."
"No has too." Mimi replied after a few seconds, one hand resting on his as she kept her eyes on the ground. "What is important, is that you keep her memory alive, but don't let it drag you down forever." Standing up slowly, she pulled him up with her. "I think she wanted you to keep on living no matter what happened, and right now, you're not doing very much of that are you?"
Moving back at bit as her words sank in; Tai felt his eyes narrow a bit, only to close completely. "It, it's hard, I don't want to let go. I want her back." Turning around, he looked into the distance. "I would do anything to have her back." Voice thick with sadness as he muttered out the last part.
Feeling her own heart slow down a bit in sadness, Mimi gave a weak smile at his back. "I didn't mean for you to completely give up on her, keep her memory with you, but don't give up on everything because of that." Turning him back around, she smiled a bit as she pulled him along after her. "Now come on, and I'll buy us both an ice-cream"
Looking up as a beeping sound reached them as they walked along, Tai and Mimi blinked before the pink haired girl pulled out her D-terminal, flicking it open, quickly reading the message on it. "Sora and the others are in danger." Looking over at Tai, she gave a nervous smile at him. "Look, I have to go, they need my help, think you can find your way back on your own."
Shaking his head, Tai slowly pulled out his digivice, smiling at her, he pressed a button on it. "If Kari's in trouble, I'm going, I don't care if I can't fight without a digimon. I need to be there for her, to protect her like I should have for the last four years."
Smiling back at him, Mimi quickly closed the D-terminal after sending a reply to the one who had sent it. "You know, the more time I spend with you like this, the more I think I like this version of you." Grabbing her own digivice, she quickly looked over at a nearby computer shop. "Sora told me we can access the digital world from any computer we want too, and with your D3 it shouldn't be any problem to unlock the gate."
Nodding as they rushed through the shops doors, Tai and Mimi quickly moved to a more quiet part of the store, the messy haired boy's digivice glowing as he trusted it at the nearest computer screen. "Digiport Open!" Mimi holding out her own digivice as a bright light filled the store, causing several people to turn and stare at the scene, only to blink their eyes confused as all they saw was an empty part of the store, with no sign of the light or whoever it was that had yelled out.
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"Star Shower!"
"Black Saber!"
The sky above the ruined city lit up as another explosion sounded out. A slight shockwave traveled though the air to reach the two kids and one digimon sitting on a slightly overturned house.
Whimpering lightly as she felt a the bruises and skid marks on her arms and legs hurt with every move she made, Kari turned her head to watch as Pegasusmon battled it out with Saberdramon in the air. While they seemed evenly matched in attack power, it was rather clear that the bird like digimon had the better ability to move in the air as well as a light speed advantage over the horse like digimon.
Feeling another jab of pain, she looked down to see the damage her sudden fall had done. Several bloody markings where her skin had been scraped or torn open. "TK, do you think, he can win?" The question aimed at the boy holding her slightly up as he gazed into the sky with a mad expression.
Next to her, Gatomon were shimmering with anger at her the way her partner had been treated, just tossed to the ground by Saberdramon when they reached the place they had chosen as a battleground. "Kari, armor digivolve me, and I'll turn them both into a scratching post for hurting you."
Watching her partner, Kari reached down to grab her digivice, agreeing with the fact that it looked like Pegasusmon would be needing help, only to whimper as more pain shot through the elbow part. "I can't, it hurts even to try and reach it."
Looking from her partner to the digivice lying on the ground, Gatomon reached out and grabbed it, pushing it into Kari's hand. "Here, now let's get them." On the other side, Kari managed to open her D-terminal slightly. "Okay, Digi Armor AHHH!"
TK pulled her down as she screamed, covering her body as a stray blast of power came far to close to them for his liking, small rocks bits raining down at them. "Pegasusmon, keep him away from Kari." Looking down at the girl, he stared slightly transfixed as she once again tried to lift up her digivice and D-terminal. "Don't, I'm getting you out here."
Lifting her up, he stared back at the fight and slowly began to move towards the edge of the ruin, one foot in front of the other as the building felt a bit fragile. "As soon as I've gotten you to a safe place, I'll find the others."
The next step, stopped halfway through the movement as a shadow fell over him, a dark and massive presence clearly felt as a slight chuckle could be heard. "You."
Nodding sarcastically, Jun lifted up her whip and looked at each of them with a amused glint in her eyes. "Leaving so soon, I thought you wanted to beat me." Looking up at the two fighting digimons, she shook her head sadly and looked back down at the two humans and lone digimon before her. "Then again, I can understand it, I wouldn't want to see my partner get killed if I were you."
Teeth gnashing together at those words, TK glared up at her with pure anger in his eyes. "You, you're worse then Ken was, at least he hurt digimons because he had a reason, as sick and demented it might have been." Each word spat out with pure loathing behind them.
Eyes flashing with raw fury, Jun pulled her hand back, whip glinting as it uncoiled in it full length, ready to lash out at the blond haired boy for his insolent tone of voice. Then her eyes darken as she looked up at his digimon partner. "No, I won't hurt you, I'll hurt him first, then I'll finished that snot nosed girl and her kitty cat off, and finally force you to see as your other friends are destroyed."
Eyes gleaming with insane cruelty, Jun urged her Megadramon to move forward, into an attack position. "And then I'll hurt you, and make it last as long as I can." Snapping a finger as she stopped talking, TK, Kari and Gatomon could only stare as the Megadramon arms snapped open, ready to fire at Pegasusmon at any minute.
"Flower Cannon!" And then the whole thing changed as a small, fairy like digimon shot up over the hill of rubble with a look or determination. The bullet of green energy fired from the flower shaped cannon hitting the Megadramon right in the side of its metal covered head with a clanging sound.
Looking up at the rubble, Kari smiled as she spotted two other figures coming to help them. A mop of messy brown hair she had missed for so long clearly seen even with the distance between them. "Tai!"
Turning her head at the yell from the girl, Jun eyes narrowed to slits as she spotted the messy haired boy running towards the two kids she had trapped on the roof, Anger and resentment running through her as she turned around to deal with her unfinished business. "Yagami."
Then her eyes moved from the traitor to the digimon who had attacked her Megadramon, eyes narrowing a bit in mock surprise and amusement at the sight of it. "Isn't she a bit to girly a digimon for you to hang out with Yagami?"
The comment causing both Lillymon and Mimi to get look rather ticked off at the comment. "Lillymon's my digimon, and I think she's great looking." The Pink haired girl yelled out as she stepped closer to the battle zone. "Unlike yours, who is nothing more then a cheap Birddramon rip-off."
Eyes narrowed in anger, Jun turned completely to face Mimi, hand tightening around her whip. "Rip-off, Saberdramon's better then all of your digimons put together!" Snapping a finger, she pointed at the battle ahead of them. "He can take out your little pixy doll with no problem."
Clenching up her own hand, Mimi growled right back at Jun as she took another step forward. "Oh yeah, Lillymon will beat him back to the In-train level."
Nearly shaking with fury at the pink haired girl's insult to her digimon partner's strength. Jun snapped her head back to stare up at Saberdramon flying in for another attack on Pegasusmon. "SaberDramon, turn the little pixy doll into digi dust!"
Turning to face her own digimon, Mimi's eyes were narrowed about as much as Jun at the pixy doll insult her digimon had to suffer from. "Lillymon, take out that trashy Birddramon rip-off!"
Behind her, Tai shook his head as he watched the two digimons fly off to battle each other, their human partners continuing to thrown insults at one another as soon as they began to fight. What was it with that girl, she was all nice and sweet one minute, and now, she was like a monster. At least it gave him a chance to slip off and reach his little sister.
Landing as soon as he was free, Pegasusmon gave a tired gasp and sank down next to his partner, glowing brightly as he de digivolved back into Patamon, the smaller digimon looking up at the one who had arrived to help them. "Hey, how come Lillymon can be here, shouldn't the control towers have prevented any normal digivolving?"
Shooting a quick glance at his partner, TK's face frowned a bit as he thought about it. "You're right, and Garurumon, he didn't de digivolve when we entered this area." Grabbing his digivice from his belt, he smiled down at Patamon. "Ready for some old fashion digivolving buddy"
With a gleam in his eyes, the small digimons stood up and smiled back at his partner. "You got it?" grinning as he flew up into the air, Patamon nodded and began to fly off towards the battle between Saberdramon and Lillymon. "Here I go!"
At his last words, a bright column of light shot out of the sky and hit him, the small pig like body glowing as a TK's digivice gave off a loud whine. "Patamon Digivolves too... Angemon!" The large angel type digimon hovering in the air confidently as he took in the sight of the battle before him, hand rising up as one of his attacks powered up. "Hand of Fate!"
The beam of light shooting through the air and hitting Megadramon instead of Saberdramon, The impact of the beam sending Jun out of balance and down onto her back. "Have you had enough, or do you want some more?" He spat out as she pushed herself up again.
Smirking back down at the angel digimon, Jun grinned a bit as she grabbed a hold of her digimon. "Actually, I was going to ask you the same." Turning her head to the side rapidly, she glared at Saberdramon chasing after Lillymon. "Get her you fool! And you." The words spat out as she turned back to Angemon. "Will be nothing more then a light snack for Megadramon here."
Watching a bit unnerved as the huge dragon type digimon turned to face him head on, Angemon moved back a bit. "Ah, yes, we'll see about that." He mumbled out as he powered up his attacks.
Smiling arrogantly, Jun nodded as she gave the sign to attack. "Oh we will." The words coming as a challenge from her as Megadramon soared forward to attack.
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Looking around the area, Sora's eyes flashed as her fists clenched up. The battle with the Vilemon's had been a hard one at first, but once they had figured out they were those so called Imatamon's, those fake digimons that Taichi had told them off. It had been no problem to destroy them, but still unnerving as they screamed like a real digimon would when they were deleted.
But it still left the issue of what had been stolen from the underground ruins, clearly that digimon had gotten away with it, and it was rather important to him. But that was just about all they knew, they hadn't gotten much out of Taichi yet to fully understand this Master he had worked for, or what had motivated him other then a desire to return to the digital world.
And that information would have to wait until they made it back to the real world. For now, they would have to help these digimons recover from the damage they and their village had suffered.
But it didn't mean she had giving up on trying to find out just what was going on, and how to stop it. "Joe, Izzy, how long will it take to fix this place?" Her voice free of any emotion as she faced the horizon, a small reminder of the few times she had been forced to act as leader in the past weather she wanted too or not. "We still have to see if Matt and the other could need our help."
Looking up from his lab top, the red haired boy hummed a bit as he cast a look around the place. "Could take a while, there been a lot of damage to the whole area." Pressing a few keys on the lab top he sighed and closed it. "But it nothing that we can't handle on our own, and if Matt and the others are facing an Ultimate level digimon, they will be needing help."
"Ultimate?" Sora mumbled out as she gave her full attention to Izzy, a trouble expression on her face. She could clearly remember the digimon boosting that they wouldn't stand a chance against him, if they couldn't digivolve to a higher level then champion. "Great, I'm starting to regret giving up my crest powers more then ever."
Nodding in agreement, Izzy turned to face her with a serious expression. "We may be able to regain them, like Mimi has, but I wouldn't suggest it. Our crests formed a shield to boost the digital worlds ability to hold any outside darkness from entering into it."
Sighing in defeat at the reply from the young computer genius, Sora stood up in her full height. "You're right, but it would still be a big help." Turning to see how Birddramon were doing with the removal of rubble, she nodded to herself. "Look, you and Joe can help them clean up this mess right?"
Nodding in repose, Izzy smiled as he watched Kabuterimon simply lift up a part of a crumble buildings front, a few rookie digimons moving out from the inside of the rubble. "Sure, but be careful Sora, we don't know their full power, so stay alert if you have to battle them."
Running over to Birddramon, Sora smiled as her partner moved down enough for her to get up on her back. "You be careful too Izzy, just because that digimon ran away, doesn't mean that there's no danger around."
Giving her a thump up in reply, Izzy turned back to oversee the clean up, Birddramon flying rapidly into the digital sky. Opening his lab top, Izzy stared down at the information the digimon analyzer had come up about their new opponent. "I hope we can find a way to get our digimons to the ultimate level, we're really going to need it."
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"Kari, we have to help them." Gatomon mumbled out as she stood protectively in front of her human partner, eyes constantly moving to see how Angemon and Lillymon were doing against their opponents.
Nodding, Kari lifted her head up to face the battle above her. "You're right." Grabbing her D-terminal and D3, she smiled a bit at her partner. "Just promise me that you will be careful out there."
Nodding in agreement, Gatomon turned back around as she heard Kari open her D-terminal. "Hold on Angemon, I'll help you fight that monster."
Lifting her D3 up into the air, Kari eyes flashed with determination as the digiegg of light popped up on the D-terminal's screen. "Digi Armor energize!"
Power rushed through the air and into Gatomon as her body merged with the digiegg of light. "Gatomon, Armor digivolve too..." The power itself making her grow in size several times, while a heavy gold sphinx like mask formed over her head, with ornament armor forming around her front legs as well. "Nefertimon, the angel of light!"
Not wasting a single second after her digivolution, Nefertimon shot off into the sky, aiming her attack at the black, Birddramon like digimon chasing after Lillymon. "Cat's Eye Beam!"
Screeching in pain as the attack hit him in the back, Saberdramon cast a death glare down at his new opponent, moving around to attack her, when a flash of pink made him freeze.
Moving in fast, Lillymon giggled as she passed by Saberdramon's head, her body suddenly going into super speed as she spun around his body near it's middle. "Flowery" Lillymon's flower wraith tightening in around him as it finished forming, pining his wings to the sides.
Taking advantage off the opening Lillymon had given her, Nefertimon powered up another attack as she closed in. "Rosetta stone!" This one hitting the bird digimon right in the face harshly as it faced her again.
Looking up in anger, Jun's face twisted into a look of shock as her partner fell down from the sky, his body glowing brightly before it de-digivolved back into Penmon. "No!" Kicking her Megadramon as she saw it, Jun cursed as the huge digimon slowly turned to intercept his fall.
Hissing as she nearly fell of Megadramon's back from another hit, Jun turned her attention back over her shoulder to see Arukenimon glaring at the blond haired boy with the Garurumon as she followed after them. "Arukenimon, We must retreat, there's too many of them!" She didn't hope she could pick up the slight amount of fear in her voice, cause truth be told, she was more worried about one of the attacks hitting her then causing damage to her Megadramon, plus Penmon needed help to recover, and fast.
A sudden sneering sound from behind had her glance up to see Arukenimon glaring as she glanced down at the three digimons heading up to attack. "Why should we run away, I'm stronger then them all combined?" Her words aimed at Jun as Megadramon started to fly away.
Just settling for snorting in response, Jun continued to cradle her digimon in her arms. "You'll be okay Penmon, just wait and see." Eyes narrowing with anger, she looked back at the battleground and the three digimons hovering in the air. "And those fools will pay for doing this to you, that I swear."
Ignoring the rambling girl, Arukenimon refocused her attention back to the battleground as it faded away. "Next time I meet you insect, I'll rip your wings off, one by one." Staring silently into the horizon after that, Arukenimon turned back into her human body, running a hand through her hair as she turned around to face Jun's direction.
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Standing around in the ruins, Tai cast a quick look over at Ken standing with Wormmon near the edge of the village, a slightly unsure look in his eyes as he looked down at his partner. "I'm sorry for all that I have done to you and your digimons." Turning to face Sora, he bowed even deeper. "I am very sorry for what I did to you and your partner, enslaving her and forcing her to digivolve and fight against all of you."
Standing up of his bow, he picked up Wormmon and turned around to leave the area, taking a few steps before Davis moved out of the group. "Wait Ken, join us, we could use your help?" Not getting an answer, he moved even further towards the boy with a slightly confused expression. "Come on Ken, don't walk away, you're a digi destined like us, you belong in our group."
Feeling someone grab his shoulder, Davis looked back at TK who stared after Ken as well. "He needs time Davis, we can't expect him to just pretend nothing has happened." Looking back at the rest of the group, the blond haired boy sighed a bit at the mixed expression he saw there. "Besides, I don't think the whole group is willing to forgive him for what he has done yet."
"They aren't?" Davis started, before nodding slightly as he understood what TK was saying. "But I'm not giving up, got it, I believe that Ken can and will become one of our group." Turning to face the direction Ken had left in, he smiled with a determined look in his eyes. "I won't give up on you Ken, Someday you will join us."
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"You failed us."
Reclining in a chair each, Oikawa and the Master stared harshly at the three in front of them. Arukenimon and Jun looking the most defeated as they hadn't even gotten away with a small victory or anything to prove they had succeed just a little bit.
Turning to face Mummymon, the Master frown eased a bit as he motioned for the bandage wearing digimon to hand over the core in his possession. "At least one of has something to show after all." Looking up at the digimon as he took the core, he snarled a bit. "But it still doesn't excuse the fact that I lost several of my Imatamon's because you ran away."
Looking a bit angry at the comment, Mummymon looked over at Oikawa for some help in telling this human to back off, when he saw and even darker look on that man's face. "Ah, I'm sorry, I thought that they could take on the Digi Destined."
Standing up, Oikawa walked through the room and gazed out the window with a furious sneer. "Those brats are becoming to much of a problem." His voice ice cold as he looked at Arukenimon and Jun. "The next time you set up a trap, make sure no one can show up to help them, you got it?"
Finishing his rant, he stopped as bright green light filled the room, the master's small laugh making him stare as the homemade digivice that he had made outright ripped the digi core to piece and absorbed it. "I trust that you can locate the next temple on your own again Mummymon?"
Getting a rather shocked expression on his face at the question, the bandaged digimon turned to face his leader as he scratched his head. "But, I thought you wanted me to find the Destiny stones?"
Settling for giving his digimon the look rather then yell out in anger, Oikawa walked back to his chair, planting a hand on the top of it. "Yes, but those digi cores offer a more faster and easier way to the digital world." Smirking a bit at the thought of finally entering into the digital world, he looked away from the others and towards a small picture in a frame on a bookcase. "To finally go there, it's the one thing I live."
Silence filled the room as Oikawa gazed at the picture, then the master chuckled as the device signaled a successful absorbing of the digi core, a clear green color added to the surface of it. "Only two more to go, and both the digital world and vengeance will be mine." Laughing outright after that, the human man stood up and brushed hand across his chin in an excited way. "I will return to reclaim my place in the digital world Gennai, you can't stop me."
Laughing insanely, he watched the screen as Oikawa stepped back a bit from him, briefly wondering if the alliance was a good thing or not. Would it be wise for him to leave someone with the power he claimed those small orbs carried. Then again, he could wait until all four had been secured, and then take it from him, with Arukenimon and Mummymon on his side, it wouldn't even be a battle, more like a ruthless theft.
Smirking as a chuckle left him, Oikawa turned to regard his own plans for the future. Everything was almost in place. The loss of Ken as the Digimon Emperor didn't matter anymore. If it came down to it, he could make a new one, all he need was to copy the dark spore form the young super genius and he could have as many of them as he needed, and the dark power they would generate once they bloomed would easily power a gate if need be.
TBC: Dark Alliance: Part 3.
AN: Another chapter out, and an action filled one to boot, at least I hoped it seemed that way to you folks as well. Things are picking up once again, as the DD's rush to stop Jun and the others from robbing the last two temples. And Tai finally meets his real digimon partner.