Takeru's Fight – Chapter 14
Izzy ran as fast as he could through the field, back to where the majority of the digieggs were, Sora and Matt kept up easily. The shouts of their friends digimon and the explosions behind them were heard clearly, as they all tried their best to ignore the tugging feeling inside them to go back to help the other and just focus on helping by finding Patamon as soon as possible. They soon reached where the majority of the eggs were, Izzy was bending over trying his best to gain his breath back while Sora and Matt took a couple of deep breaths.
"Izzy, how are we going to find Patamon?" Matt asked, his gaze flittering around the large field.
"Yeah, we know what his egg looks like. But there is so many eggs, Tai and the others don't have time for us to look through them all!" Sora sweeping her hand towards the hundreds of eggs scattered. Clearly making a point of the impossibility of this task.
"Of course, I've already planned a way to find Patamon's egg. Even without calculations, it would be obviously impossible to do the task within the time limit we have." Izzy stated, while he quickly got his laptop off his back, and turned is on.
"So, I would like an explanation as to why I'm following you instead of helping Tai and..." The blond trailed off gazing over to where the fight was happening, unable to hide the pain in his face of his brothers situation. The trio went silent apart from the quick tapping from Izzy's typing.
Sora placed a comforting hand on Matt shoulder, "Don't worry Matt, we'll get him back. And the best way to do that is to find Patamon, the link between the two of them is strong like any of us with our partners." the girl nodding at her pink companion, "Together we should break TK out of whatever hold those creeps have him under"
"I'm almost done guys, just wait a moment" the tech-genius informed the group while he plugged his digivice into the back of his laptop. "I'll need both your digivices please" he asked as he held out one hand while still typing with the other.
As they handed both digivices over to Izzy watching curiously as he plugged both of the digivices one after the other, and after a bit of typing handed them both back their digivices. Carefully he closes his laptop quickly and starts to carefully pack all of his equipment again back into his yellow case.
"So Izzy are you going to tell us what's going on, or we going to carry on blind?" Matt question, staring at his digivice curiously.
"Right, you remember some biology from school right?" Izzy finished packing up his stuff and fastened the bag back on his back, both the other digidestined nodded there heads.
"Everyone has their own individual fingerprint, it's how they find criminals and identify people, due to their individual DNA. Me and Genai discussed that Digimon should have something similar to DNA. That they should have their own code, that obviously is due to their own personality and actions"
"I understand, but how can that help us find Patamon? We can't go round scanning every single egg."
"Well, we found that digimon give off a small signal like a fingerprint, I've amplified your digivices and fine tuned them to Patamon's signal. He was helping me with the research before this all happened." Izzy finished explaining, displaying his digivice to the pair and clearly pressing a sequence of buttons on the digivice, "The problem is that now we've fine tuned the device to pick up small signals, it has reduced the range a lot."
"Meaning we're going to have to split up and sweep the area until we find Patamon..." Matt finished as he pressed in the same sequence of buttons on this digivice along with Sora. "If we move quick though... Izzy how big is the range and how many sweeps do we need to do?"
"Only two sweeps should do it, we should all start on one side of the field then do the other half after. I suggest we split up and take the half furthest away from the fight first then move up"
"Izzy, if you only needed someone to scan the area why take me? You know I want to be there! I need to help my brother!" Matt asked, he could feel anger seeping into him as anyone else could be in his place, "You could of easily taken Joe or Mimi for this task"
Izzy nodded in agreement, "I know Matt, I but the reason we're looking for TK's partner is the reason your here. You have the closest link to TK, apart from Kari so when we find Patamon's egg I calculated its most likely going to respond to you." He could see the growing anger leave the blonds face as he nodded to the tech-genius. Both in apology and understanding. Nothing more was said as they nodded to each other and split up, running along to their respective 'slice' of the digiegg field to search.
"Megaton Press!" Ankylomon shouted as he smashed Devimon into the floor temporarily and quickly moved out of the way.
"Nova Blast! - Needle Spray!" Greymon and Togemon announced as the giant fireball and needles smashed into the evil digimon, smoke quickly covering the area.
"Nice on-" Cody couldn't finish his congratulations as a dark claw shot out of the dust, smashing Ankylomon into the forest "Ankylomon!"
"It won't be that easy to take me down digidestined!" Devimon appeared, with only a few scratches covering him.
"But we hit him with a direct attack, and he's only scratched! Oh I can't take this!" Mimi yelled almost messing up her perfect hair, before realising what she was going to do and stopping instantly.
"Hey if we can scratch him that means we can beat him! We just need to hit him a little harder!" Tai rallied as he avoided a Razor wing the digimon had sent flying towards him. Greymon charged forward, successfully head butting Devimon charging him towards both a ready Ankylomon and Togemon,
"Batter up!" Greymon yelled as he put all his force into sending the digimon flying towards the pair,
"TAIL HAMMER! - TOGEMON PUNCH!" Both digimon put their all into the attacks as it hit the digimon dead on.
"ACH!" Devimon grunted as blood flew from his mouth from the power of the attack, and was sent flying towards the ongoing fight between Piedmon, Paildramon and Hawkmon.
"Cable Catcher!" Claws shot out towards the clown but he easily jumped up letting them both fly underneath him and bind Devimon flying by instead, the force almost causing Paildramon to go flying forward as well.
"Trump Sword!" The laughing clown sent out four swords, one cutting Devimon free and the other heading straight towards Paildramon.
"Grand Horn!" Hawkmon smashed into the swords making them go off course and miss the other digimon.
"Paildramon!" Both Ken and Davis shouted as they ran up to the digimon, "You ok?" Paildramon nodded in response.
Davis looked about the battlefield, Tai, Cody and Mimi running towards them with their digimon all of them starting to look tired with scratches and cuts covering Tai. The gash that he originally had above his eye re-opened. Davis then looked at Piedmon just creepily waiting there, with not a single scratch on him as Devimon got up from the crater looking angrier than he thought possible.
"Well I see its almost time for the curtains to close on this pathetic performance, and time for our full power to appear!" Piedmon announced cheerfully. Sending dread through most of the digidestined
Full Power? You mean they weren't fighting with their all now?
"Ha! Well we haven't been fighting with our full power either! Right Ken! Paildramon do it!" Davis said seriously, as the digimon was surrounded by the tell-tale white glow.
"Paildramon digivolve to!... Imperialdramon Fighter Mode!" The mega digimon appeared. But at the same time a dark glow had appeared around Devimon,
"Devimon dark digivolve to!... NeoDevimon!" White hair sprouted out and the black wings soon turned blood red. The mark on the front of his chest disappearing with red studs appearing up his body.
Joe watching in the distance next to Ikkakumon was shocked as Devimon digivolved, "Who's that?"
"That's NeoDevimon. He is a fallen angel Digimon. It is a digivolved form of Devimon that was enhanced, artificially strengthened and completely restrained, even as far as its own will. The mask which covers its face is said to suppress NeoDevimon's own power, also that it is worn in order to control its will." Ikkakumon replied.
"This is bad. This is very bad." Joe worried as he could only watch from as Tai turned towards TK, who had seemed to be just standing there watching everything happen.
"TK! Snap out of it, we're your friends!" Tai yelled at the dark digidestined, his blank eyes seem to be just boring into the group.
"Fools!" NeoDevimon mocked, "The TK you know now has fallen completely into darkness unable to ever-"
"Why did you abandon me?" a quiet voice cut through what the digimon was saying. Yolie swore she saw something flicker through the boys eyes as he asked the question.
"TK we never did abandon you! We're always here for you! We all care for you as friends!" Yolie carefully said, trying to hold the tears back.
"Guilty Claw!" what seemed to be a much nastier version of Death Claw came flying towards the group instantly splitting Imperialdramon, Davis and Ken from the rest of the group. NeoDevimon instantly appeared in front of Greymon, swiping at the digimon sending him crashing into the ground. At the same time Piedmon gracefully landed in front of Imperialdramon the air around him seeming to pulse.
"Final Act!"
The air seemed to go dead, if that was even possible, around the clown. "Wha-" Davis trailed off as blackness started to seep from the digimon.
"I was stuck in that other dimension for a long time, I did more than just sitting around doing nothing" that was all said as the darkness surrounded the digimon for a few seconds till seeping into the digimon. When Davis and Ken could see him fully again, they could see that the fashion sense was still there but everything was in a much darker shade before the most prominent change standing out was the heart originally on his face replaced with a white skull, completely contrasting now from his pitch black mask.
"Be careful Imperialdramon. We don't know how much stronger he's got" Ken warned, but it was far too late; as he finished his sentence black swords came flying at lightning speed scewering the digimon in both shoulders, causing him to fly back and be pinned to the ground.
"Ugh!" Imperialdramon cried out, looking above as Piedmon suddenly flew to the air above them.
"No more messing around!" He cried as another black sword appeared in his hand, "Dark Trump Sword!" the sword was sent flying towards the digimon.
"IMPERIALDRAMON!" Both digidestined ran as fast as their legs could carry them to the trapped digimon, watching as the sword was sent flying.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Imperialdramon cried as he bent his right arm upwards facing the sword and Piedmon, "Positron Laser!" a beam came from the cannon attached to his arm, disintegrating the sword and heading straight for Piedmon, who simply ducked under it. With another grunt in pain, he quickly grabbed both hilts with either hand and pulled them out. The swords being quickly discarded to one side as Piedmon was already heading for him again with frightening speed.
Imperialdramon placed his arm up to block another black sword the digimon was wielding, the sudden strength behind the clown surprised the Mega digimon as he was sent skidding across the ground, struggling to stop the sword slash through him. With one quick movement with his arm, Piedmons sword was sent flying into the air with Piedmon quickly dodging a blast from Imperialdramon, both not giving time for the other the duel started again. But with clearly Piedmon having the upper hand as Imperialdramon was injured and slowly get more and more tired, trying to hold his own.
"Final Act must only improve Piedmon's speed and strength" Ken observed, one hand gripping his digivice so hard that his kuckles had gone white, "Though his speed and brute strength have increased, the actual power of his attacks haven't as Imperialdramon was able to blast away that sword fairly easy, and Piedmon is still dodging all the attacks, so we must still be able to servilely damage him."
"But is just landing a hit on that bastard!" Davis growled out in anger, watching the fight intently, feeling uneasy at not being able to do anything to help his best friend.
Matt ran through the field as fast as he could as he moved up to scan the second half of the digifield, closer to the fight. He had dared risk a glance at the fight.
It didn't look good.
He could see that Imperialdramon was getting more and more injured by the minute against the evil clown, and winced as he watched Greymon again get blasted across the field from whatever Devimon turned into. His eyes glanced to TK who just was watching Tai's group intensly as Mimi again yelled something to him, from knowing her for years he could tell she was trying best not to cry and failing as she tried to help his brother.
Matt shook his head violently, Got to hurry they all need me. He arrived at his sector of the field and set off at the fastest pace he could across the field, glancing to and from the digieggs laying harmlessly on the ground and his device that was scanning the surrounding area.
Come on come on come on come on come on! The blond begged to the digivice, he had almost got to the end of the field as he rapidly started to loose hope, Izzy and Sora haven't shouted, we haven't found the little guy, he was TK's only help! What if he isn't here? What if someone has already got to Patamon? Wha- his panic was cut off by a simple sound 'Beep!' coming from his digivice and hope once again rushed through him, he quickly saw a light blinking on his digivice. He started to sprint towards where it said the egg was, yelling at the top of his voice to Izzy and Sora who immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed towards Matt.
The digivice was bleeping erratically as he looked up in front of him, and sitting innocently on the ground in front of him was the egg. Patamons egg.
Matt slowly picked the egg up, it was warm in his hands. He looked up towards a exhausted Izzy and Sora showing them the egg, a smile threatening to appear on their faces untill they were reminded instantly of the situation they were in by hearing an explosion back towards the fight.
"Ha-s -huff- i-it rea- rea- reacted to tthe digivice?" Izzy managed to gasp out, he hadn't ran so fast in his life. Even when deadly digimon have been after him.
"Yeah, maybe we can him to hatch with your digivice, seeing as he's your brother" Sora continued, she had quickly recovered.
Matt bent down and picked up his digivice, he hadn't even realised he had dropped it at the time. As soon as he held the egg in one hand and the digivice in another, the digivice sent out a beam of light towards the egg, making it glow softly. Matt had the strangest sensation come over him at that moment.
"Lets go" All he said before he ran off towards the fight, leaving a confused Izzy and Sora behind for a moment before they ran off as well,
"Gabumon digivolve to... Garurumon!"
"Biyomon digivolve to... Birdramon!"
"Tentomon digivolve to... Kabuterimon!"
As Matt and the others jumped onto their digimon, the blond only knew one thing. Get that egg to TK.
Izzy pulled out his phone and quickly dialed Tai. He watched as the Tai, who was rapidly getting closer. Dive to the side, while still managing to get out his phone and answer.
"Izzy!" Tai practically shouted down the phone.
"Tai, we're approaching now! We need a clear path for Matt to get to TK! Those two won't let us get near him once they realise we've actually found Patamon's egg! Me and Sora will help!" Izzy promptly hung up the phone and glanced at Sora who had just managed to inform Davis. All three nodded to each other as they got to the fight.
As Sora got closer to Piedmon she jumped and rolled roughly onto the ground next to Davis and Ken, as Birdmon bashed into the clown who was currently focused on Imperialdramon, taking the digimon by surprise as it flew through the air.
Matt and Izzy took that chance as they flew/ran quickly past the fight, Piedmon saw instantly what was under Matts arm and before he could move to do anything, the two digimon were already on top of him. They may not have the speed or strength to stop him, but they could slow him down enough to let Matt get to TK.
"NEO DEVIMON! STOP THEM BEFORE THEY RUIN EVERYTHING!"
The digimon also suddenly had found himself easily blocking a combination attack from Tai, Mimi and Yolie's digimon, was too busy gloating before he heard and had Kabuterimon smashing into his side. Izzy having landed safely near the others.
This gave Matt a clear shot of TK as he got closer to his brother. "TTTTTTKKKKKKK!" He yelled, gaining the blank blonds attention easily, eyes gazing intently at the egg under Matt's arm as Garurumon came to a halt. "Catch!" Matt shouted as he threw the egg to TK, which was easily caught.
"Wha-" The glow almost instantly spread out all over him.
"TK, we thought you were dead! I'm so glad your safe, we're all like family and we all love you! Your my little brother, and I won't let anything happen to you!" Matt took his chance as he said what he wanted to his brother, the friendship crest on his chest burning brightly once again like all those years again. The a blue light from Matts digivice and hit TK, increasing the light.
Piedmon and Neo Devimon seemed to come to a standstill in shock. That these teenagers with much less power than them, managed to get past them both. The onlooking digidested suddenly realised their digivices in their hands were glowing. They all held their digivices towards TK, instantly knowing what they should do. Even Joe and a now concience Kari and managed to get here, Joe supporting Kari a lot as she had one arm round Joes neck and another carefully holding her digiegg.
Light shot out from all of the digivices hitting TK and bathing him in a powerful and blinding light.
TK didn't know how long he had been wandering for, searching for his answers. But nothing came but bad memories, fighting, loss... more loss... He was trying not to let it overwhelm him. Untill he got to the next memory, he had dug deep for it, as it seemed to be burried deep in his concience. He wished he hadn't digged.
Before anyone could blink Piedmon vanished and reappeared behind TK. Pulling out two white sheets he chucked one over TK and the other over Angemon, they only had time to cry out as they struggled.
The older digidestined gasped in shock. "What? Its only a tiny little sheet! Is the big bad TK afraid now" Davis mocked stupidly. The older digidestined only watched in horor and the grin slowly disappeared off the new leaders face.
"Ta da!" Piedmon appeared with two key-chains in his hand, one of TK and the other of Angemon. He looked at the two key-chains thoughtfully.
"Hmm, I don't really like these keychains to be honest. I think I'll just get rid of them" With that word he snapped the two keychains in half.
TK watched as he saw the little broken Angemon figure turned to dust and blew away in the wind, and he just knew that was real. That was Patamon who had died. He dropped to his knees, he lost Patamon... again. He felt every bad thought just collapse onto him, he curled up into a small ball as memories attacked him again and again and again. Turning into a repetitive cycle that seemed would go on forever.
"Please, someone..." he whispered, not caring for what he had been searching for, the pain was too much. He could feel the nothingness and darkness touch his mind again, enticing him to give up and fall back into complete darkness again. "no, no no..."
"TK!" A familiar voice cut through that pain like a knife, he slowly opened his eyes as he watched bright multicoloured light appear and surround the room, momentarily blinding him and wiping the bad memories away. As he slowly opened his eyes he found himself floating in what appeared to be a pure white space.
"TK" A happy voice said, as TK slowly turned towards that person, tears streaming down his face.
"Patamon..."
Well! I found my inspiration!
4005 words btw :)
Sorry about the very long delay, as you might tell I've hit serious writers block with this story atm (Nothing to do with the fact its been a shit year, due to not good exam results and quite a few funerals of family and close family friends :( ).
Even though I know exactly how its going to end and even have written a ton of notes down :P
But, I have only ONE more chapter to go before its done! Then after I may go back and tidy it up a bit, take out authors notes etc... you get the picture XD
Please review if you have the time! It really inspired me to make myself write this chapter after reading through all of your reviews one night!
Well its 1:30am and FF is not loading for me, so it may be much later for when I get some sleep! Anyway! See you next time for the end!