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Spirits of destiny
Chapter 25
Kari stared at her brother, or specifically at the thing he was standing on.
"Death from above motha-!" An exploding car interrupted what ever Tai was trying to yell at the Shadow digimon. Kari prayed that mom never heard Tai say that. Else he'd be grounded for another two months.
"Tai!" Mimi yelled at her supposed boyfriend, even though he wasn't exactly human at the moment. "Calm down. You're like some kid with a new toy." Mimi thought about that for a second. "The only difference is that most kids don't use that kind of language."
"Sorry Mimi." Tai said back before turning back to the battle.
"Hey Machindramon! Fire off an other one of those canons, would you?"
The newly discovered digivolution of BlackAgumon nodded before aiming his weapons at a possessed Garudamon.
"Giga cannon!" Twin red beams were fired at the dark-blue Garudamon, knocking it out of the air.
"Good shot!" Tai yelled from atop of Machindramon's head. "Hey Mimi? How are those champions coming along?"
Mimi ran to the other side of Machindramon, carefull not to get crushed by his huge feet. There were four Shadow digimon. All four of them were tied together with one of Lillymon's Flower wreaths. This attack apparently calmed the digimon down.
"You know what." A ShadowVilemon said.
"What?" A ShadowFugamon asked.
"It might just be because of those pretty flowers but I've been thinking. Why do we always fight? I meanw, why don't we all work towards a world of peace and understanding?"
"I never thought about that." ShadowFugamon replied. "But I'm starting now."
Mimi stifled a laugh. "They're taken care of." She grinned. She then noticed Kari and Joe standing there. It was a bit hard to miss Zudomon but when there's an even bigger war-machine fighting only a few meters away, well you just don't pay attention to your surroundings.
"Mimi what the hell happened here?" Kari asked as Angewomon took off to help Tai and Machinedramon. Not that they needed it.
"BlackAgumon digivolved to mega level and turned into that." She pointed at the huge machine that grabbed a hold of a scorpion of sorts and squeezed the life out of it.
"Wow, so it is true." Joe said from atop of Zudomon as he took a better look at Machinedramon. "Man we just have to ask Gennai about this."
Kari nodded in agreement.
A few minutes later all ultimates were knocked out and the champions were still discussing the finer points of life, love, war and peace.
"So is that all of them?" Tai asked, still from atop of Machinedramon's head.
"I think so" Joe said as he climbed to the top Zudomon's shield and scanned the area for more digimon. The only ones he saw where their own. "Yup that's all of them."
Tai quickly purified them before sending them back to their world
Soon Davis, Ken, Matt and Yolei decided to show up as well.
"Damn! What the hell is that?" Davis yelled from atop of Imperialdramon.
"That's Machinedramon, but we destroyed him!" Matt yelled back.
"It's BlackAgumon's mega level." MetalGarurumon said quickly before any of them began to panic.
"How do you know that?" The twin voices of Imperialdramon asked him.
"I may be a robot but I can still smell friends from miles away. And curly fries."
Deciding to ignore that last bit Matt jumped off of his back once the machine wolf stopped moving.
"Damn." He said as he looked over all the smashed up cars. "I hope these people have digimon-insurance."
"If you think that's bad, what about me? How the hell are we gonna DNA-digivolve now?" MetalGarurumon asked the other, bigger machine, who just shrugged. Which was actually quite strange to see.
"TK!" Kari suddenly yelled as she waved at the four forms coming closer: MagnaAngemon, MegaKabuterimon, Garudamon and Aquilamon.
"Wow." Was the first thing all of the newcomers said. "BlackAgumon, is that you?" MegaKabuterimon asked the moment they landed.
"Yes, it's me." He growled in a mechanical, yet familiar, way.
"That's one big digimon." Jun said as she walked up to him, not showing any fear for the creature at all. But she never had to fight against the Dark Masters, so she didn't know if she should fear him.
A red ball with scales, four legs and a tail followed her.
"That's a Machinedramon." It squeaked. "But this is the first time I've ever seen one of them in real life."
"Ehh…" All the digidestined, except Jun, Izzy and TK stared at the red thing.
"Who's the new guy?" Tai asked as he jumped off of Machinedramon's head.
"That's Gigimon, Jun's partner digimon." Izzy said with a grin on his face. "I kind of took her to the Digital World with me."
"Well, all help is appreciated. Especially now with this new evil and stuff." Kari said.
Jun snorted. "New evil? Oh please. Those minions of his were nothing. Even Gigimon was able to defeat them."
"Uh-huh! They were easy." Gigimon said as she stepped in front of Jun.
"How on earth did you get a digimon?" Davis went nearly hysterical. "You numbskull. If you paid any attention then you would have heard that Izzy and I made a trip to the Digital World."
"But I already told you it's dangerous there." Davis continued his assault.
"So what? You're in danger every day."
This silenced Davis. "She's right you know." Ken said to his friend. "Shut up."
"And when we encounter this so called 'New Evil' we'll kick his ass to!" Jun continued.
"She's really Davis's sister." Tai whispered to his own sister. "You're right about that. They even have matching digimon"
"Yeah that evil digimon doesn't stand a chance!" Gigimon just continued.
"Really?"
A voice dripping with evil spoke, causing the three megas and all the ultimates to turn around, looking for whatever that voice belonged to.
"So you plan on defeating me as well? Kick my ass, as you like to put it?"
It spoke again, coming from nowhere, yet from all around them.
Kari saw two red eyes in the shadows Machinedramon cast over them for like a split-second and then it was gone.
MagnaAngemon readied his sword. "I know that voice."
"I recognized it to." TK said as he remembered that voice. It had been long since he last heard it. But not long enough.
"Devimon!" TK yelled. "Show your face!"
"Ah so you do remember me little TK." The voice shifted from location again and Cody could have sworn she saw two red eyes in Zudomon's shadow.
All the original digidestined stared to look a bit uncomfortable. They had destroyed him so many years ago. But just like any digimon he must have been reborn in the primary village, just to start wrecking havoc again.
"What do you want Devimon?!" Tai demanded.
"What's the matter Tai? Not happy to see me again. Well not that you can see me."
Again the voice shifted to another location.
"I see that you've managed to come back from the dead Tai. I thought that ShadowWereGarurumon did a rather nice job on your body." GearDevimon said as he thought about the remains of Tai's body. "But now you're back and you apparently changed as much as I did."
A few gasps were heard at the fact that Devimon had something to do with Tai's death.
Again the pair of eyes in the shadows that no one noticed.
"After Angemon foolishly sacrificed himself to destroy me, well how to say this… I changed."
TK looked around and saw the red eyes. They were just hovering in front of him in the shadow of MegaKabuterimon.
"He's hiding in the shadows!" TK yelled as MagnaAngemon saw what he saw and attacked the air in front of TK. Whatever was hiding there disappeared just in time to dodge the blade.
"I see you have already noticed my new abilities. You see, when you destroyed me I was still connected to the Black Gears. They changed me, made me weak. I lost all of my attacks, but they gave me something in return."
Tai looked around. With all those huge digimon standing here Devimon had no problem hiding in their shadows. It didn't help that the parking lot was rather big, it was large enough for all their digimon. So there were enough places to hide and to move through the shadows.
"Who needs special attacks when you control an army as vast as mine!?" GearDevimon cackled insanely.
"So you're the one who is controlling those digimon!" Tai yelled at the shadows.
"How do you do it?" An ever curious Izzy asked.
"Simple. Like this!" GearDevimon materialised again and leapt out of the shadows. His intended target in sight.
"Shadow Possesion!" He yelled as he slammed a fist into Zudomon's head. The darkness quickly spread through Zudomon's body, leaving him a twisted version of the kind, yet dangerous creature.
ShadowZudomon threw Joe of his back. Luckily Machinedramon was able to catch him just before he was thrown into the remains of the mall. Not that hitting metal was any better.
"What the hell did you do to him!!" Joe screamed at the now visible devil digimon.
"I made him my new pet. With my entire militia defeated I need someone to fight for me."
GearDevimon spread his six wings wide open and rose into the air.
"Fear the terrible might of GearDevimon!!"
ShadowZudomon slammed his hammer down, intending to crush a few digidestined. They had nowhere to run to, as the parking lot was littered with car wrecks everywhere, they blocked any way out. Luckily MegaKabuterimon posed as a shield and took the blunt force of the hit.
But that didn't stop Zudomon. He just continued to strike MegaKabuterimon's shell.
"You see, as long as my shadow possession is in place they will do whatever I say. I can turn the best of friends against each other with one word. That is true power!!"
"You're even more crazy then last time!" Tai yelled at the creature while Matt, Cody and Davis did their best to prevent Joe from trying to rip GearDevimon apart. 'Major déjà vu.' Matt thought as he held back the struggling young doctor.
"Maybe I am." GearDevimon said as he floated back down. "But rest assured, I will turn each and every one of your friends against you till I have you."
Tai looked a bit confused. "Why do you need me?"
"I need your help for something and I sincerely doubt you'll come along, so I'm just gonna force you."
"Hell no. And by the way." Tai quickly drew his crystal out. "Your power ain't that almighty."
Tai chucked the crystal at ShadowZudomon. GearDevimon, who had no idea of what he was trying to do, let it pass by like nothing.
"Was that your desperate attempt to save your friend here, well I'm not-"
He got cut of by a bright silver light and a roar from ShadowZudomon.
The until just now possessed digimon aimed his hammer at GearDevimon, who just barely dodged it.
"How did you do that!" GearDevimon demanded.
"None of your business." Tai replied coldly.
"Well Tai, you have turned out to be a very challenging opponent. You know what? I'll make you a deal." GearDevimon decided to try a different approach.
"What?" Tai said bluntly, not really interested in whatever the creature had to say.
"Since I am unable to defend myself any longer and you are able to turn my minions against me, I propose a trade. If you let me go unharmed, I'll give you back your old and dear friend…"
He pulled a humanoid shape out of the shadows.
"Gennai!" Izzy yelled.
"Let him go GearDevimon!" Tai shouted as he looked at the old withered man that Gennai had become. Again.
"Only if you let me go." GearDevimon smirked.
"Okay we'll let you walk away from here." Tai said back. At once the darkness that possessed Gennai disappeared out of his system, making him a free man once more.
He wanted to yell something but was to weak to open his mouth.
GearDevimon threw to the ground.
"Well this was an interesting experience but now I must depart." GearDevimon said before fading into the shadows.
"Well, we got rid of him." Lillymon said as she checked the surroundings.
"Shadow Possesion!!"
"Or not!" Mimi yelled.
GearDevimon jumped out of the shadows again. And this time he was aiming at Tai.
The darkness spread into Tai's system.
"You're mine now boy." GearDevimon said with a smug grin on his face.
For everyone the world stood still for a second. Until...
"Hell no." Tai yelled as he pushed the devil digimon away.
This time GearDevimon really disappeared.
"Is he gone now?" Lillymon asked.
Matt walked over to where the possessed version of Zudomon had stood. There he picked up Tai's crystal. He would have just returned it to him if it weren't for that light coming from the champion.
Tai dropped down from the struggle, obviously exhausted by the battle against the shadow digimon and the Shadow Possession attack.
He dedigivolved to DemiSphinxmon. Joe picked the limp rookie up. "He's just asleep." He quickly said.
Kari took her brother from Joe and checked him. 'He's exhausted. Poor thing.'
"Okay people, we should check for places where we can help. There might still be human victims around here." Matt said, deciding to take on the role of leader for a while.
Hours later the city was cleared of most debris and the injured were found. Life for the normal people just went on. Not for the digidestined. The possessed digimon they left at the school, park and river were gone. GearDevimon must have taken them with him.
Izzy dragged a barely conscious Gennai home as everyone decided that Izzy knew the most about him and was the only one that knew how to help him. He promised to call everyone once Gennai regained his strenght.
Some other digidestined searched for GearDevimon but came to the realisation that he must have returned to the Digital World.
It was already dark when Tai, Mimi, Joe and Kari went to the siblings their home. Joe and Mimi just decided to tag along. One of them wanted to do a quick check-up on Tai one he woke up, the other wanted to know when she could start pampering him.
"Hey Tai wake up." Kari tried again. Tai hadn't woken up since GearDevimon's attack and Kari was starting to worry about him.
"Kari you should let him sleep." Joe said in a wise way. "I already told you he's just exhausted."
"I know but this can't be normal. I mean he's been asleep since the battle and has hardly moved since."
"Just let him sleep for a while." Mimi reassured her. "He'll wake up soon."
Meanwhile the digimon were caught up in their own conversation. Baromon had seen the news reports and was interrogating them about the current events.
"So you really turned into Machinedramon?" Baromon asked again.
"Yes and leave me alone now." Koromon said, highly annoyed by the champion.
"That's so cool." Baromon said for the tenth time. "And what about Tai? What happened to him?"
"Don't know." Salamon said simply.
"That creep tried the same attack on Tai as he did on me." Gomamon said. "I'm glad he didn't have to go through that."
Gomamon looked down a bit. "It felt so awful. It was me, but I couldn't stop myself. GearDevimon just commanded me to destroy and I couldn't do anything to stop him."
He fell silent again.
"I know how you feel. The first time I turned into SkullGreymon I felt the same."
"Hey don't worry about it." Palmon said in attempt to cheer Gomamon up.
Meanwhile Tai was still asleep. He was dreaming. A thing he hadn't done for quite some time. Since he came back to the real world he hadn't had any 'meaningful' dreams.
That changed this time.
"Obey." A voice said to Tai. It had been saying that for quite some time. "Obey your new master."
"Why?" Tai simply asked. He figured that this voice was just a remain of GearDevimon's attempt to take him over.
"You will obey your new master!" The voice suddenly grew louder. At first it had just been a whisper but now it was roaring.
The sound hurt his ears and Tai began to move in his sleep.
Kari looked at her brother. He had suddenly started to shake, as if he was in pain.
"Joe! Something's happening!" She yelled at the blue-haired doctor in training.
He quickly took a look at Tai while Yuuko and Mimi decided to come and see as well.
Joe just pushed his glasses up again, as they had slipped down. "He's just dreaming." He said.
This calmed Kari down a biy. "I wonder what he's dreaming about."
Tai was still fighting against the voice that started to intrude his mind. But it wasn't helping.
"OBEY!"
"Don't listen to him!!" Tai's digimon side suddenly yelled. He had decided to help his other half, cause if Tai was controlled so would he.
But that didn't help either.
The last thing Tai heard was his digimon side swearing before he fell into darkness.
Tai's eyes opened up.
"He's awake!" Kari nearly cried.
"Tai, how are you feeling?" Joe asked, as he was still a bit worried about his 'patient'
Tai didn't say anything. He just started coughing and he sounded like he was about to throw up.
"I think he's just a bit hoarse." Joe made his diagnose.
"Really? I think he looks more like a dog." Gomamon added.
"I don't get it." Baromon said.
Gomamon would have explained it if it weren't for…
"What the hell?!"
Tai began to glow a wicked dark purple colour.
"What's happening?" Mimi asked, shocked by the sudden display.
"I have no idea." Joe said as he backed away from the rookie.
The purple light completly surrounded Tai as he shifted into something else.
Yuuko screamed as she saw what had taken Tai's place. It looked like a human ribcage and spine with some internal organs inside of it. A huge eyeball was one end of the spine, functioning as a head. The iris was a deep red colour and the eye was locked in an eternal stare, as it had no eyelids. Where normally the shoulder blades woud be, were vulture-like wings. At the other end of the ribcage were two scrawny bird legs and a rat's tail.
All things considered it was a creature made of nightmares.
"What the hell is that?"
The creature locked his sole eye on the human that said that. A women, older then the other occupants of the room.
She gulped when the eye gazed at her.
"Tai?" Mimi was the first to try something. "Is that you?"
A feeling came up in his mind. This girl was important to him for some reason but he couldn't remember why.
"Come to your master slave! And hurry! We don't have any time to waste."
A voice said to him in his head. "Yes master." He said with a toneless voice. The humans and digimon flinched as they heard that voice. It came from within the eye. It was so cold, so not like Tai.
Before anyone could react the creature that was once Tai took off. He flew forward, dodged any attempts of the humans to grab him and crashed through a window, shattering all the glass. He didn't pay attention to any cuts or the fact that one of his legs was bleeding. He just needed to get to his master.
"Tai!!" Koromon yelled. "Come back!"
Kari quickly sat down on the couch. She started hyperventilating. She had lost him. Again!
"Kari, I need you to calm down." Joe said to the stressed out teen. "We will get him back, okay?" He tried to reassure her, but actually he needed it more. He didn't want to lose Tai again. Not after just getting him back.
Mimi didn't know what to do. She had just lost Tai again. She loved him and now he was gone again. Just when they were starting to accept their feelings for each other he disappeared again.
She clenched her hand into a fist.
"GearDevimon! I'm coming for you!" Mimi yelled out of the window. A few neighbours complained to her about it but she didn't care.
Yuuko didn't know how to handle this. She had had her son back for a few days and now he turned into that. She just hoped that her daughter could bring him back as soon as possible.
The only sound that was heard for a while was a sorrowful howl coming from Phoenix.
Meanwhile the creature was flying through the night sky. With all the lights out here in the city it wasn't hard to find his way.
'What the hell are you doing!?' A voice called out to him.
'Obeying the master.' He responded as he landed at the damaged school.
'Why?' The annoying voice asked again.
'He's the master.' Tai answered. He didn't remember why but this voice was an annoyence to him.
'Idiot' The voice said before deciding to try an other time to talk to his other side.
Soon Tai found what he was looking for: a small rip between dimensions. GearDevimon left it there for him.
He quickly hopped through it as it closed behind him.
Once in the Digital World he continued his flight to his goal.
"GearDevimon!!" The voices inside the crystal yelled. "Where is he?! Or did you fail us again!" It screamed before turning a deep red colour.
"No my lord. I didn't fail you. As a matter of fact, he's on his way now." GearDevimon cowered before his imprisoned masters.
"Very well. You have five minutes, if he doesn't show up by then we'll destroy you." One voice said.
GearDevimon waited anxiously. If his new pet didn't show up soon he'd be dead.
"One minute left." A voice said unable to repress a laugh.
GearDevimon suddenly heard the flapping of wings.
The creature had finally arrived.
"Took you long enough!" He yelled at the vulture-eye-something hybrid.
"Is that it?" The first voice asked. Is that creature created from pure darkness?"
The other voice snorted. "Pathetic. Looks kind of like that one annoying rookie. I hated that thing!"
"You!" GearDevimon sneered at the vulture creature. "Digivolve! Now!"
The creature did as his master commanded.
"Giermon digivolves to…
A silver light surrounded him. Yet it seemed as if it had lost all shine as his shape warped and twisted into a new one.
"Duskmon."
"That's better." The second voice said.
Duskmon drew out his sword and planted it into the ground and kneeled while still holding the handle.
"I live to serve you my lord." Duskmon said, all emotion drained from his voice. His face was once again covered by cold steel.
GearDevimon smiled. Today had been a good day. He had a new pet and he would soon unleash his masters onto this world once more.
At the same moment, all over the Digital World the Ancients fell a shiver go down their spine.
Yes I am evil. Very evil. But who saw this coming? And by the way: Gier is dutch for vulture. You pronounce it kinda like 'gear'
And it's Machinedramon!! If you were able to translate my hint you would have read this: It's the bad guy from season one, the third one of those four that get defeated.
And apparently Machinedramon is SkullGreymon's Mega so I picked him.
Reviews
Vigatus: Sorry no BlackWargreymon, even though he does kick ass
Lord Pata: Congratulations! You're one of the few who made a correct guess! 'Throws cookie'
digi-writer1392: It's Machinedramon!
Fruitloop Trooper: And a cookie for you. 'Throws another cookie'
Coppa-Cola: Thanks
Depthmon: DemiSphinxmon is Tai's rookie form
graypheonix: I know that BlackWarGreymon would have been cool but I like Machinedramon better
vanhelsing425: Thanks and yes I am very evil 'evil laugh'
GRX3m0m: Thanks and yes, it could have been anyone with a twisted auther like me.
Bye and thanks for reading!!