Spirits of Ages
Chapter 20
"It can't be, I destroyed you!" Tai pointed at the laughing man. "Me and BlackAgumon did so…"
"Ah yes, the standard 'desperate final attack' fueled by some long forgotten power source." Legionmon recalled. "Stung like hell." Legionmon spoke in one voice before shifting to another.
"But it wasn't enough." The deeper voice said. "We kinda destroyed ourselves actually."
"Sure, that huge gaping hole down the middle of you didn't have anything to do with it." Tai scoffed.
"That set everything off yes." Legionmon spoke. "After that everything and everyone we absorbed decided to abandon ship. We ripped ourselves to pieces"
"Sure you did." Mimi said, rolling her eyes. "Face it, we digidestined were to powerful for the likes of you." She said smugly.
"SILENCE!!" Legionmon's new army yelled out in unison, the sheer volume of their voices nearly causing them hearing damage.
"So we decided to find a new way to conquer all life." Legionmon continued while his group calmed down again. "Instead of every creature combined into one, we modified GearDevimon's control to fit our needs…"
"Entire armies of humans controlled by one single entity, namely us."
"You're nuts." Mimi said as she stared at the people around them. So they were all being controlled by Legionmon? That explained why they were acting like this.
"Can you see it before you?" Legionmon continued. "Massive groups of humanoids, spread across the country. Sleepers just waiting to spread out and conquer this country!!"
"Humanoids?" Tai asked. "Odd choice of words."
Legionmon laughed as they took a few steps back. "You can't really call them human anymore."
As if on command, two people stepped forward, one old man with a long white beard and a middle-aged women.
Tai involuntary stepped back and pushed Mimi behind him. "What's this?"
"Something we experimented on."
The women's right hand and the man's left hand began to wrap and twist until they formed something akin to a dragon's head. The man had a skull where his hand was supposed to be and the women had a metal head on her arm.
"This can't be good." Mimi said, her voice shaking a bit by this blatant sin against nature and the laws of physics. Without warning the mouths of the dragons opened and fired off a blast of fire.
Luckily Tai had thought ahead, summoning his shield in case something like this would happen. He easily stopped the attack. The force of the twin attacks only pushed him back a bit.
Legionmon looked a bit disappointed by this.
"Well, obviously they're not as powerful as their digital counterparts." Legionmon complained. "It's a good project, it just needs some more experimentation."
"Experimentation?" Tai asked angrily, noticing that Mimi shuddered at the mere mention of experiments. That was what got to her as well. "You see these people as guinea pigs?!?" Tai uttered in disbelief.
"Off course, what else are you people good for?" Legionmon laughed. "There's so many of you. And world domination isn't achieved by sparing lives… some were sacrificed in the name of progress." The man and women retreated back into the crowd, their reptilian appendages fading away again. "A few experiments work better than others. Remember Seadramon?"
"What?" Tai summoned his spear and pointed it at Legionmon. "What do you mean?"
"Doctor Isaac was one of my better experiments actually. He was the only one that managed to fully transform. Perhaps because of our prolonged contamination."
Tai didn't know what to say.
"But that was a week ago, how long have you been here then?" Mimi asked.
"Not so long really…" One voice spoke slowly. "It took us a while to get into this world and find a suitable host."
"We broke through the barrier separating our worlds." The other voice continued. "We leeched onto some poor fleshbag that stumbled upon us."
Flashback
"What the hell is this?" A man with blonde hair said. He had heard a bang before but found nothing.
Yet he felt like something was in this alley… something creeping around, waiting for the right time to strike…
It was probably some rat scuffling around.
Or so he hoped.
He turned around, walked out the alley.
And then everything went black….
End flashback
"Our bond with GearDevimon left us with some interesting abilities." Legionmon said. "We can posses people and wear them like a suit. Just like you humans we can switch in and out of these 'clothes' as often as we want."
As to demonstrate Legionmon's host's face returned to normal. Tai recognized him as the man who tagged along with Sora, Tyrone or something like that.
So that's where he disappeared too.
"Our powers are limitless, yet limited."
Legionmon's voice came from behind them. Tai and Mimi turned around to see a women with four eyes now.
"We are everywhere, yet nowhere."
"We are all yet we are no one."
The mass of people came closer and closer.
"We are eternal, never ending."
"We are Legionmon."
"I'm sick of hearing you talk!!" Tai yelled out. "Shut up!!" He slammed his spear down into the ground, breaking apart the ground beneath his feet.
The march of people stopped suddenly.
"I'm sick of this!" Tai cried out , pulling his spear back out and pointing it at Legionmon's current form. "What is it with you evil digimon and your persistency?"
"Kind of reminds me of you." Mimi said, joking because of the nerves. While it wasn't showing on Tai's rage filled face she felt that he was scared.
"Can't you all just leave me alone!!" Tai's eyes started to turn red. 'De-t-oy…' His head started to hurt.
'Destr-y' The voice of Duskmon started to sound through his head again.
'No…' He suppressed the voice as he calmed down again. Mimi had placed her hand on his arm again. Perhaps that was helping him a bit.
"Oh Digidestined of Courage… Why must you make all of this about you again? Have you ever thought of us? How we feel when you foil our plans?" Legionmon asked, Lucemon's calm voice sounding almost hurt. Almost.
"We feel… Disappointment. Anger. Rage. Rampant fury, just waiting to be unleashed upon those who tried to stop us, namely you." Again this was Lucemon's voice though it sounded a lot more venomous now.
"We will tear you, your family and everything you love apart. Just because we can…" Myotismon's voice this time.
"Raaaaaaahhhh!!" That was too much. Tai had had it with these bastards. Nobody threatened his family (except the clone) like that and got away with it. He jumped forward, grabbing the women by the throat, easily lifting the female off the ground.
Legionmon just smiled.
And then began to laugh.
"What's so funny you bastards?" Tai growled out.
"You haven't been paying attention, have you?"
Legionmon's hand found its way to Tai's arm, and wrapped around it. Tai had no idea what it was doing until…
"Aaaaaahhhh!!!" Tai cried out in pain and dropped the mega level digimon to the self dropped to the ground as well, his body twitching a few times before he got up again. Only to drop down again.
"Tai, are you okay?" Mimi rushed to his side to help him up. "I feel like I got hit by a truck."
"Hmm…. Still not enough kick to take out a champion level digimon… though you're an exceptional one off course…" Legionmon pondered along with the standard evil 'chin-stroking'
"What are you talking about?" Mimi demanded as she managed to get Tai somewhat steady on his feet.
"I am pure energy… I am like what you call a battery. No, a generator! A source of near infinite power. A mutation from all of those digimon's powers that we absorbed." Lucemon's voice spoke."It's like what you call electricity."
"That blast went straight through your core. It would have reduced a mere human to ashes." Myotismon informed them. "We checked."
"You… monsters…" Tai struggled to get up but only managed to get to his knees. "How dare you abuse innocent people like that?"
"Because we can." Myotismon said. "Who's going to stop us? You? Not a chance. You can barely stand right now after a single blast." Legionmon stretched their hand towards Tai. "Who knows what'll happen with two?"
Tai just glared at the creature, his gaze piercing Legionmon's, who stalled for a second, lowering their hand. A grin formed on their face, indicating that they were up to no good.
"But perhaps we are acting to rash."Lucemon said. "Indeed." Myotismon this time. The women turned around and appeared to have a discussion with herself.
"You know what?" Legionmon turned around again. "We'll make you a deal." They said, two voices at once. "Perhaps we were a bit too quick to threaten everyone you love."
"What?" Both Mimi and Tai said at the same time.
"Indeed." Legionmon continued. "For some reason you seem to thrive on the fact that you fight for your family. We know you can hold a lot of power when you have too."
Tai didn't like where this was going.
"We're offering you a deal." Legionmon said again. "We could use a general, a powerful being to command our troops."
"Even we can't be in every place at once." Myotismon's voice grumbled.
"You still want me to join with you?" Tai asked in disbelief. He was at their mercy. All the time they were wasting by talking only helped him recover from that blast. Were they that confident that he'd join them? Or just that desperate?
"As you know doctor Isaac went a bit nuts after separating too far from us, taking on his mutated form and rampaging through the seas… We are limited. In range that is. We will take this world, one way or another but the best way is an all out assault, all sides at once."
"We can't do that the way we are right now." Lucemon's voice this time.
"What's in it for me?" Tai asked as he regained his footing, the pain of the blast already numb as his superior digital body caused it to fade faster then normal.
Mimi stared at him, not believing that he'd even consider their request.
Legionmon however was overjoyed. As far as the collective minds of all evil can be joyful.
"We are evil but we are generous." They started. "We will allow your friends and family to stay sentient, allow them control."
"In other words, we will leave those you love alone." Lucemon's voice again.
"All those I love?" Tai asked, his voice sounding just a tiny bit eager.
Legionmon just nodded.
Mimi still couldn't believe he was considering this, at all. They had defeated Legionmon before, they could do it again, new form or otherwise.
"Well… you know me. I would do anything for love." Tai started, picking up his spear. "But I won't do that!!!"
He leaped forward, grasping the women by the throat, only for Legionmon to leave that body again and take that of Tyrone, Sora's bodyguard, again.
"Pity…" Legionmon said. "You're sure? Think off the power! Think of the fear you'll instill in the humans that last long enough to feel fear before we forcibly add them to our forces."
"That's just it." Tai said as he lowered the women again. "My friends, my family… they would feel the same fear…"
"A pity." Legionmon said. "Truly a pity. But if you won't join us we'll have to get rid of you."
An unheard command was given to the people surrounding Tai and Mimi. Amongst them a few began sprouting odd and misplaced digital features. Claws, tails, heads, some even become entirely digimon, except for a human arm or leg here and there.
"Perhaps we should have joined him after all." Tai joked as he stood back to back with Mimi.
"Nah, evil general of Legionmon isn't really a title you'd bear with pride Tai." Mimi said, relieved that Tai's apparent hesitation and interest was nothing more than stalling. You'd never know what a person would do to protect those he loves, even if it means betraying his own morals and identity.
"Nah, it could work. Would fit great with my other titles. Digidestined of courage, savior of the world twice over, general of eternal evil… okay perhaps not." Tai said before punching a man that came to close for comfort.
"Indeed." Mimi said. "You mind me borrowing this?" she pulled Tai's spear out of his hands and swung it around, hitting a half man, half Ogremon besides the head.
"Now where was I?" Mimi asked herself. "Oh right, you can't be evil, even if you wanted too. Hell, even when you weren't thinking straight you refused to be evil."
"True." Tai said, using his shield to knock back a small closely bunched group of people resembling Mushroommon. "Where did you learn to use that spear anyway?"
"What? This?" Mimi asked, shoving the blunt end of the spear into someone's stomach. "I needed a hobby." She said.
Legionmon was still standing in place. It wouldn't take long before the two digidestined would tire out. The human was sick and frail, so she wouldn't hold up very long. Tai on the other hand was strong, fast and could easily hold off the creatures.
But why play fair when you can cheat?
"We give you one more chance Tai. One more chance. We'll even overlook this insolence and hold to our previous terms." They tried again.
"No thank you." Tai said to them. "I'm taking you down once and for all.
"Very well then." Legionmon just waved his hand, sending the minions closer and closer.
"You still good Tai?" Mimi asked, panting softly. She was getting tired, stress was getting to her and if they didn't get out of there soon she'd die, wether through Legionmon's fault or her disease.
"I can go on for hours." Tai boasted, smashing two heads together.
"She can't you know." Legionmon said eerily. "What?" Tai turned around to see Legionmon stand in between him and Mimi. How the hell did he get there?
Tai was distracted long enough for another man of Legionmon to sneak up to him, poise a claw like hand and strike!
Tai looked down, to see a malformed hand sticking through his stomach. He felt cold but he just ignored it and used his elbow to hit the minion in the jaw, sending him falling backwards, with a few loose teeth.
"Was that it?" Tai asked. He'd live, something like this couldn't kill him. It stung like hell but he was still a digimon, he wouldn't be taken down that easily.
"No." Legionmon said as a steel claw suddenly pierced through Mimi's stomach and travelled through and out her back. She had been distracted by the conversation behind her, and because of fatigue and her sympthomes appearing again she hadn't seen it coming.
"No!!"
Tai pushed Legionmon out of the way and slammed the body into the ground, with a loud crack to be heard. But Legionmon had already left that body. He smirked from a remote spot within the mass of controlled humans that retreated a bit and formed a circle around Tai and Mimi.
Tai fell to his knees. He picked her up and held her close, only to hear her heart beat rapidly as she gasped for air.
"Happy now?" Legionmon asked. "You could have prevented this from happening. You could have protected her by accepting our offer." Myotismon smirked. "But it's not too late yet."Lucemon's voice, sounding oddly caring. "We can still save her, if you take us up on our offer and join us. Can you imagine? No more pain, no more suffering ever again.
Tai looked up from his fallen love and looked Lucemon straight in the eyes. "Never." That one word echoed through the empty streets.
"Very well then." Lucemon's voice sounded defeated.
Tai just kept staring at the host body, and elderly women as it turned its back and walked away from him.
He could feel a searing pain from his back. He coughed up blood, something he wasn't even sure he could and fell over onto Mimi, with various horns, claws and blades protruding from his back.
"Leave them to rot." Myotismon's voice said with a happy tone. "They have no place in this world. Our world!!!"
Damn, this was a bitch too write. Legionmon is a very difficult character. Characters. Eh thing? Whatever.
Also about his minions, a little explanation: they are like extensions of Legionmon's own consciousness. They still have a certain level of sentience and can think and act on their own, though Legionmon commands them all to do, say or forget what he wants.
Sorry a bit too tired to reply to reviews, maybe next time.