Author's Note: I'm so sorry! I kept getting sick and didn't have the strength to write! I can't believe I actually finished a complete story. Also, the story changed so much from my planning... I also need to split the final chapter...
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon
Chapter 20: The Digidestined Part One
Davis's POV
"Guys... I can't believe that I'm actually bored of video games!" Davis groaned, throwing the controller down to the floor.
"Well, it's not like there's an attack or anything!" Yolei replied.
"Davis! I'm hungry!" Veemon whined, clutching his stomach.
"Sure... Let's see if Tai have anything to cook..." Walking over to the kitchen cabinets and frantically rummaging through the items, "Hey! They have some ramen in here! I'm not a fan of fake ramen but I think I can make it delicious!" Davis has a mad look in his eyes as he pulled out the many packets of ramen.
"Ramen... It won't be as delicious as sushi but it will do." Armadillomon drooled.
The increasingly happy atmosphere was broken by the main phone starting to ring.
"I will get it!" Cody walked over to the phone, "Hello! This is Iori speaking."
Davis watched as Cody's face turned pale. Cody covered the end receiver and whispered, "It's Tai's mother!"
"Let me! Yolei, watch the fire!" Davis grabbed the phone and asked, "Hello? Sorry but Cody has to go somewhere."
"Is it alright to let Davis talk to the parents?" Yolei asked, Davis did his best not to scream at her as Mrs Kamiya started talking again.
"Your voice... You're Davis, right? Is Tai there? I don't believe him about the whole accidental Digimon attack a few days ago! If not, Kari will come home instead of always hanging at different people's houses! I'm worried the Digimon is starting to attack again!"
"Um... You don't have to worry, Mrs Kamiya. We're just having some fun since it's summer vacation!"
"But the other parents are worried too, please, let me talk to my son!"
"Uh... Tai is..." Davis implored Yolei for help, she mouthed 'market'.
"Tai's at the market, buying some... Meat! Yeah, meat! For our little party later!"
"Oh... Then is Kari or even Matt there?"
"They followed Tai out! TK too, said that Tai cannot be trusted with the important meat!" Davis made up on the spot.
"I see... I will call again later. Thanks for your... Help."
Davis let out a long sigh of relief, putting the phone back, returning to the kitchen, adding the ingredients.
"So what now? All our parents are worried."
"The others should be back soon... I wonder why they didn't bother to email us on their progress! They should at least do that!" Yolei nearly screamed.
"We just need faith." Cody finished, his eyes were stuck on the boiling pot.
"You're just hungry, Cody. Like me!" Armadillomon joked, patting his stomach.
"Davis~ Is it done yet!?"
"I just started, you greedy mon!"
Tai's POV
He clutched Botamon to his chest, the little Baby Digimon was breathing heavily. It's his fault, he shouldn't have started fighting with Matt, even if he doesn't know what started it. Now Daemon is in what? Ultra Level? How are they even gonna win? Their Digimon is out and their powers can only be used for simple stuff, not for fighting a Demon Lord!
His eyes drifted to Sora, who was talking quietly to Izzy. Tai winced, Sora is like an out-of-control burning hurricane of destruction when completely angered. He can tell Izzy knew that too, as he seemed cautious when he spoke to Sora.
"Tai, Matt! Come over here!"
Tai winced again, moving carefully over to Sora, whose Crest have stopped glowing.
Tai actually finds it weird, Daemon is all-so-powerful now but he is staying still, watching them.
"Tai, Izzy trying to use his power to analyze Daemon for a weakness," Kari whispered, but Tai can see that Kari is much more worried for him.
"I'm fine, Kari. But our Digimon de-digivolved in one hit! How will we be able to beat that?" Tai said as he gestured to the Demon Lord of Wrath.
"Wait, wait... I need more than a nanosecond for this!" Izzy groaned as his fingers flew across his laptop, his Crest starting to glow.
The light seems to have woken up Daemon, as he suddenly moved and spoke.
"It seems I'm not fully accustomed to this new power!" Twitching his claws in high anticipation for the Digidestined's deaths, Daemon slowly floated down.
"Um... Izzy? Are you done?" TK asked, "Daemon looks like he is about to attack us and our Digimon are out!"
"Then we waste time by using our powers!" Mimi exclaimed.
"If that will work at all!" Matt interjected.
"Sure it will! Don't be as pessimistic as Joe over there!" Mimi jabbed a finger behind her, Joe was currently mumbling incoherently while pacing around. Pitchmon was hovering beside Joe and was blowing bubbles, apparently trying to calm him down.
"Izzy, seriously! Are you listening?" Mimi turned to Izzy, who was being exactly like Joe, except for the pacing and his body was glowing really brightly.
"...Maybe if I reversed the polarity? No...that won't help find Daemon's weakness. But how exactly do you defeat an Ultra Level Digimon? I should ask Gennai about this..." Izzy mumbled.
"No good, Izzy's in computing mode."
"Computing mode?" Tai asked incredulously at Mimi.
Mimi nodded, returning to stroking Yuramon, "But ew, Palmon's baby form isn't really cute." Yuramon replied by blowing bubbles indignantly in Mimi's face.
"Is anyone even worried?" TK asked again, gesturing towards Daemon, who apparently froze up again.
"Prodigious! I think I found a possible weakness of Daemon!"
The other Digidestined immediately crowded around Izzy, who had stopped glowing, peering into the screen.
"Um, what does that mean?" Kari asked, gesturing at the lines of code on the computer.
"Ultra Level is rare, very rare. It can only be achieved with huge amounts of energy. And that energy is special. Like from a higher being."
"So, we Digidestined are higher beings? Well, that's cool!"
"Yes, Tai. But due to the amount of energy needed, most Digimon will disintegrate, unable to withstand that amount of energy. But for Daemon, his status as a Demon Lord helped him in withstanding the energy."
"He will still have consequences, right?"
"That's right, Joe. The only consequences I found is that he freezes after about a minute of movement. But that can change if he gets used to the power. Unfortunately, I don't know when he will move again. So the first thing we have to do is restore TK's and Kari's powers."
"From the crystal, right?" Mimi said, pulling out the purple rock from her bag.
"So, just breaking it again will do?" Kari gingerly took the crystal from Mimi.
"It worked before, so it should again," Joe replied.
"Okay then." Kari raised her hand and brought it down, throwing the rock to the floor. The crystal broke into tiny pieces and two lights, one pink and one yellow, flew out, hitting TK and Kari.
"Well, it worked!" Mimi smiled, though it was not her usual cheerful smile.
"Right, TK and Kari, stand in front of Izzy!" Motimon instructed, having digivolved during Izzy's frantic typing before.
"40%. This means that Daemon has 60% of TK's and Kari's powers."
"Before, Daemon had 80%, right?" TK asked, Tokomon in his arms.
"Great! Then Daemon isn't as powerful!" Tai exclaimed.
"He still has the Dark Spore's power, Tai," Sora replied, Tai instantly recoiled.
Matt hadn't said anything for a while. Tai wondered if he's okay.
Probably he's scared stiff of Sora's Rage Mode. He let out a quiet snicker, partly because of Matt and partly because Tai named Sora as if she's a Digimon.
"Blasted humans! DIE!"
Daemon shot himself towards them, claws extended out, ready to dice them into pieces. Following his instinct, Tai jumped in front of Izzy and brought his hands up. Walls of flames sprouted into the sky, Daemon hissed as he flew through the fire.
"Damn, it doesn't affect him! Though I already knew that!"
Tai heard Matt made a familiar irritated groan and Tai smirked, which he quickly stopped when Daemon reached him.
Bracing himself for a horrible pain, not feeling anything, Tai opened his eyes to see Daemon's claw just a hair breadth away from his face.
Tai slowly backed away from the frozen Daemon, running back to where the other Digidestined had run off to.
"Tai! That was dangerous!" Koromon, Sora, Kari and Izzy all shouted at once.
"I know. I know." Tai replied off-handedly.
"If your firewalls weren't able to slow Daemon down, you would have been killed, Tai! You shouldn't take this easily! We're fighting a Demon Lord!"
Tai held up his hands in surrender, "I'm sorry, okay!?"
Izzy continued to glare at him, "We have no more time. It takes about five minutes for Daemon to act again."
"So we have a few minutes to get our Digimon back into fighting form?" Mimi asked.
"If that will even work. Daemon already caused all our Mega Digimon to revert into Baby Level in one shot." Matt stated.
"True. If we had a high energy source to constantly keep our Digimon Levels up and heal them at the same time, we could stand a chance." Izzy theorized.
"High energy source? Don't we use our Crests to let our Digimon digivolve? And you did mention before that the energy we give out is special." Sora questioned.
"If our energy is special, can't we reach the Ultra Level too?" TK suggested.
"There's a chance but I don't think so. We aren't that strong and there isn't any information on whether our Digimon can handle that amount of energy. But we still need a high energy source to keep up the fight." Izzy explained.
"Izzy, we left three minutes till Daemon start moving again!" Motimon informed, looking at the counter on Izzy's computer.
"Wait a minute. You said we needed the energy to digivolve without the use of normal rest and food. Constant energy. So..." Sora turned to look at Kari, who is looking bewildered.
"Sora's right! Kari got the power we need! But it is exhausting for her and we don't know how Kari even activated it before." TK continued.
"What? What are you talking about?" Kari looked between Sora and TK.
"Yeah, explain!" Tai said impatiently.
"Tai, remember that time when we got lost under the buildings of Machinedramon's territory? When Kari was sick." Sora started, Tai nodded, a bit tense on remembering how he didn't take care of Kari that well then.
"Is it something to do with Andromon calling Kari 'Queen Kari'?" Izzy prodded.
"Queen Kari!? What happened!?" Mimi, Matt and Joe yelled, plus some of the Digimon.
TK smiled sheepishly, "Well, Kari saw those Numemon being used as slaves and then all of a sudden she started glowing white. After that, she released the Numemon, gave energy to Biyomon, Gatomon and Patamon, allowing them to digivolve to their highest levels then and even managed to track Tai and Izzy!"
"And she was the one who gave Agumon the energy to digivolve to Wargreymon and allowing us to defeat Machinedramon!" Tai finished, realization sprouting in his eyes.
"I did?" Kari asked, confused at what had just transpired.
"So if Kari can tap into that power again..." Mimi said, eyes starting to sparkle with hope.
"We can fight Daemon!" Matt ended her sentence.
"But what if that power wasn't really Kari's but Homeostasis? We already know that Homeostasis can possess Kari. She might have been the one who gave Kari that power." Izzy shot down everyone's hopes through his logical thinking.
As usual, the Digidestined of Knowledge tries to find the answer. I might be able to possess the Child of Light but that power wasn't mine. It was her own dormant powers. Haven't you realize, Digidestined? That the power you have unlocked and are using is the dormant powers within you, released by your Crest being a conduit. I can help release the power you seek from within the Child of Light but I cannot help you other than that. For this Dark Realm is sapping my energy, I shall say no more."
"Was that...?" Mimi gasped before a bright light engulfed the surroundings.
Kari's POV
A warm light passes through her, so familiar yet strange as well. She really couldn't see much as the whole area was covered with blinding white light.
She then felt something else, a feeling that always gave her comfort in the dark. Yellow slowly mixed in the white, pink ribbons flowed, intertwining with yellow and white, into a dazzling, shiny light show.
"Ready? Homeostasis says to support. Which is what I usually do anyway. So hold on!"
Kari reached her hands out at his signal, pulling the mingling lights in and then imagined the lights splitting to eight paths, eight colours and let it go.
Mimi's POV
When the white light cleared and she could see again, she thought that she was dreaming. Eight glowing lights spread from Kari, sparkling in the air, flowing like waves. The colours, the same as their Crests, went slowly into the respective Digimon.
Mimi berated herself for not bringing a camera as each Digimon burst into their highest forms.
"Motimon! Digivolves to... Tentomon!"
"Tentomon! Warp digivolves to... HerculesKabuterimon!"
"Yuramon! Digivolves to... Tanemon!"
"Tanemon! Digivolves to... Palmon!"
"Palmon! Warp digivolves to... Rosemon!"
"Pitchmon! Digivolves to... Bukamon!"
"Bukamon! Digivolves to... Gomamon!"
"Gomamon! Warp digivolves to... Vikemon!"
"Nyokimon! Digivolves to... Yokomon!" "Yokomon! Digivolves to... Biyomon! "
"Biyomon! Warp digivolves to... Hououmon!"
"Punimon! Digivolves to... Tsunomon!"
"Tsunomon! Digivolves to... Gabumon!"
"Gabumon! Warp digivolves to... Metalgarurumon!"
"Botamon! Digivolves to... Koromon!"
"Koromon! Digivolves to... Agumon!"
"Agumon! Warp digivolves to... Wargreymon!"
"Tokomon! Digivolves to... Patamon!"
"Patamon! Warp digivolves to... Seraphimon!"
"Salamon! Warp digivolves to... Ophanimon!"
"What? Impossible!"
Mimi turned to see Daemon stretching his body, not afraid of the danger but surprised they managed to digivolve again.
"Oh, I see. Those brats! I should have destroyed them when I had kidnapped them!" Daemon growled.
Seraphimon and Ophanimon instantly floated in front of TK and Kari, blocking them from Daemon's view.
Mimi noticed how both of their chests were heaving, sweat glistened on their foreheads while a mixed glow of white, yellow and pink outline their forms.
The battle was on a standstill, each side just staring to each other. Daemon made the first move, breaking the tension as he shot forward in a blast, Wargreymon raised his arms to block but was still tossed back to the wall. The Digimon all charged, trying to use their numerical advantage but Daemon was too fast.
Seraphimon and Ophanimon moved in front of all of them, seemingly taking a more protective role, but using their long ranged attacks when they spot an opening.
"Rosemon!" Mimi yelled in fear as Rosemon got sliced with particularly sharp claws.
"I'm okay!" Rosemon shouted back, quickly getting her balance and shooting right back into the fray, with her Thorn Whip right in front of her.
"She should have been hurt more badly than that!" Mimi exclaimed in shock and relief.
"It's TK and Kari, they are supplying energy to the Digimon, strengthening their durability while Ophanimon and Seraphimon heal them as they fight," Izzy explained.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon wound up way back, making as huge the compressed ball as he could, the Digidestined's Digimon pushed Daemon to the center before scattering as the attack was released.
"A direct hit! Way to go, Wargreymon!" Tai cheered, unfortunately, Daemon has one hell of a body. It did not even scratch him!
"Hahahahhahha! As if that will hurt me! The Great Daemon of Wrath!"
"He sure likes to brag, huh?" Vikemon chirped.
"Well, he won't be soon!" HerculesKabuterimon replied, slowly drifting back, close to Seraphimon and Ophanimon. The other Digimon covered his backwards movement, Vikemon placed himself solidly and slightly in front of the three hovering Digimon who were readying their attacks.
"The Digimon are being really cautious, trying to use strategies to defeat Daemon." Izzy informed as he had noticed the others' confused faces, actually mostly Tai's.
"Well, brains are always better than brawn." Joe replied, having finally regaining his cool.
"Power causes people and probably Digimon to not think straight. That's the only advantage we got over Daemon right now." Matt said, his eyes firmly rooted on the battle.
Mimi turned back her attention to the battle, just in time to see the Digimon released their attacks.
"Sefirot Crystal!" "Strike of the Seven Stars!" "Horn Buster Kai!" "Arctic Blizzard!"
"'No damage again?" TK groaned through clenched teeth, the glows around the two of them still bright, enough to blind anyone who looked at them.
As the dust clears, Mimi could see slight scratches all over Daemon's body.
"No, it damaged him." She replied to TK.
A sudden purple glow caught Mimi's attention, "Izzy?"
The Digimon stayed in their current positions, watching to see Daemon's reaction. Daemon bellowed, the scratches fading away.
"As if that will harm me!"
"I got it! Daemon might be used to the form now but he doesn't know that his energy is split up to cover all his high-speed abilities! If we attack him when he uses all his energy in one devastating attack..."
"He will be completely vulnerable!" Mimi finished, "Having Izzy as a Digidestined is so lucky for us!"
"Then we have a plan. You heard that!?" Tai yelled up to the Digimon.
"Yes!" They replied.
"The Digimon need to brace themselves, one devastating attack can wiped them all out. And we need to lure Daemon into using it." Izzy said, his body glowing once again.
"Right." Tai answered, his gaze on the battle, "This battle is not over yet."