Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: AU, very AU and dark, with mentioning of torture, violence and blood drinking.

Spawn of the vampire
Sovern Digimon Azulongmon, dragon of the East.

Recap time:

The battle with Michael and Catherine is over. As a result of that battle, Knightmon mega digivolved into Wargreymon, and destroyed Michael's Metaltyrranomon who had also digivolved into a Wargreymon.

In the background Babel has made his latest move for glory, kidnapping Ken and demanding that the digi destined hand over their digi mentals for him. Lastly, he invaded File Island and took control of Mount Infinity and the temple of Baihumon on the very top.

Ken, after finally meeting Babel, declared that he wasn't his brother, but a monster looking like him. This defiance and refusal to join Babel, earned him the wrath of the mad man who cut off all ties with him, declaring that he could die with the other digi destined.

Going after his own goal, Skullsatamon, after having handed over Ken showed more of his dislike for the human mad man Babel. Reminding him that Daemon where to be freed before Babel could even begin to think of destroying anything, implying that he wouldn't hesitate to kill him to ensure it would be done.

And now, one with the story

Wind streaming through her hair, Jun gazed out at the growing island in the distance, her mouth stuck in a frown as she felt her stomach rumble loudly. Clearly, it was complaining about the lack of food eaten by her, and the last time she had tried to feed, as she normally would have, she had vomited as the first few drops of blood had entered her mouth.

Since then, she had been feeling like something was clawing at her stomach and chest, trying to force her to feed again despite the disgust she had felt at it. "Babel." The words full of spite, she glanced down at the ocean below her. Were the changes in her body because of him?

Pushing down the doubts and dark thoughts, she grumbled as she looked back down at her ride, Blackwargreymon carrying her on his back as he continued to speed across the vast digital ocean. "Are you sure what we seek is there?" Her voice level and calm, she did feel a light touch of fear at questioning the digimon.

For his part, Blackwargreymon had glanced upwards as soon as he had picked up the sound of her stomach growling, yellow colored eyes narrowing as he watched her confused expression. "I can feel it, the presence of a dark force, and a growing power, like the one I felt earlier from the west."

Tilting her head lightly, she narrowed her eyes as she gazed forward, a nagging feeling growing in the back of her mind as File Island kept growing in the distance. "I can feel him you know, it's faint, but he's there." Her voice growing lower in volume, she closed her eyes as the overwhelming desire for revenge flooded her mind. "Babel, you will pay for what you did to me, and so will you Yagami."

Returning his gaze to the ocean below, Blackwargreymon would have shrugged at the almost mindless need for revenge she kept ranting about.

She was so confusing to him; she clung to the idea of killing off this Babel guy, and that Yagami character. Were they really worth all this anger from her? "Remember the agreement, Babel and Yagami are not the number one priority goal, the digi destined are."

And even as the words left his mouth, he couldn't help but wonder if he really had any justification for berating her about her narrow minded quest for revenge.

Wasn't his need for answer just as narrow minded, and utterly devoid of any concern about the digital world? He had examined the events to the south, and the strange feeling of unrest from the north told him the same destruction had happened there as well.

But it hadn't really mattered to him, it had caused him pain when those stones were corrupted, but he had no real care about them. The need for answers to his question overrode everything else.

And it should have overridden his concern for the human girl on his back, but it didn't. "Girl, we'll arrive in a few minutes, better get yourself together as we'll be landing near that forest." Head tilted down, he could already judge where to find her something to eat, and maybe even something to drink.

It was confusing. She was nothing to him, just a means to finding the digi destined. Nothing more. So why was he so concerned about her welfare.

Stretching for a long time, the silence was finally broken as a loud beeping filled the air, both Jun And Blackwargreymon taking a second to catch their breath from a mild shock.

Letting out a snarl, Jun tore her digivice up, her eyes narrowing as she glanced down at the two lights blinking on its screen. "Alright, there are two of them, heading towards File Island from the western area." Looking down at the backside of Blackwargreymon's head, she grinned as she could literally feel his desire to find out who they were as well. "If we head towards the North-West, we will be able to intercept them."

Not responding, Blackwargreymon simply changed his direction, sunlight streaming off his claws briefly as he increased his speed.

Holding on tightly to Wargreymon's back, Tai, Mimi watched the ocean below them, a thick silence filling the air as each one didn't really know what to talk about. Next to them, Lillymon were just as silent, her whole mind locked in on trying to understand why her partner kept on returning to that messy haired boy.

To each of them, the conversation with Floramon, Betamon were still to fresh in their mind. Plus, the clear hatred and traces of madness that Michael had shown hadn't done wonders to Mimi who had hoped he could be saved like Tai had been, that he could be freed of the darkness within him.

Brooding as he held on tightly, Tai kept watching the ocean below as he went back over the previous events, his reactions to the hateful words spat out by Michael. A part of him admitting to the accusations leveled at him, knowing that even if he had been influence by Babel's virus, he still had a big part of the blame.

However, he had still acted rude and angry with the boy, simply because of the other things he had been yelling. Mimi had nothing to do with it at all; she had been as much a victim as Michael had been, the only difference lying in the fact that he had seen more then just a victim in her.

He had seen something that had halted his evil, turned him around completely, and made him reject the darkness and madness of Babel's cause.

"Mimi?" Breaking the silence, Tai lifted up his gaze to see the pink loving girl focus on him, the mildly distrusting glance of her partner digimon added in as the fairy like plant type digimon flew closer. "You know, when this is all over, do you think we could, you know."

Stumbling over the words, Tai gaze momentarily flickered off to the side, and froze there as a rapidly growing dark spot began to materialize. "Mimi, look out." Moving forward and pushing her, he kept his gaze locked on the now clearly seen digimon rushing forward. "Wargreymon, move, he's going to hit us."

Looking up, Wargreymon shot upwards, Mimi getting knocked off completely by the sudden change in direction, her rescue coming in the form of Lillymon grabbing her. "Tai, you jerk, what do you think you're..." Never ending her sentence, she let out a scream as something black shot past, the tail wind whipping her and Lillymon around. "What was that?"

Barely holding onto Wargreymon's shield, Tai cast a cold glance down at the digimon who had stopped moving, dark skinned arms and legs tensing up as it turned around to face them. "Blackwargreymon."

Gazing from one of them to the other, Blackwargreymon's golden eyes sent a shiver down the spine of both Tai and Wargreymon as the darker colored dinosaur man like digimon began to hover closer to them. "You, do you have the answers I seek?"

Narrowing his eyes, Tai sent a cold glare at the one looking back at him from Blackwargreymon's back, a hairstyle almost as messy as his own, eyes full of spite and anger, and a sickening sweet smile as she gazed from him to Mimi. "Well now, isn't this a surprise, we come looking for digi destined, and find my two old pains in the butt."

Smirking as she lowered her head a bit, she let out a chuckle. "These two don't have any answers for you, all they got, is a connection to Babel."

Eyes narrowing as he let out a barely heard sigh, Blackwargreymon held up his dagger tipped gauntlets and held out one to point at them. "Then, they will tell me about him, and of those corrupted stones."

Letting out an yawn as he nearly fell asleep, Davis muttered out a curse as he snapped back to attention, part of him regretting that late night playing videogames the day before, and the stress and worry from knowing that Ken had been kidnapped, and now this whole thing with the new destiny stone.

Doing a quick, yet limited stretching exercise, the young, messy haired boy leaned back and focus on the rest of the group, the other looking just as tired as himself. "Everyone holding up back there?" The words carrying back with ease, reaching the nearest one. "TK, think you get you digimon to move faster, we've can't waste much more time, Ken could be in danger right now."

Rubbing his own shoulder, TK sighed as he shook his head briefly. "Davis, we need to make sure the destiny stone doesn't get corrupted." Staring intently into the other boy's face, TK gave a short smile at him. "Besides, Babel will be there, or at least Skullsatamon."

"Right." Yolei added in as she grinned at them. "After all, we already kicked LadyDevimon's and Marinedevimon's butt, so only bone head and Babel remains." Then her grin flattered as she noticed the solemn look on Kari. "Hey, you okay there Kari?"

Shaking her head, Kari gave a short nod as she focused on her side passenger on Shakkoumon, her eyes clouded for a second as her mind went back over the thoughts in her head. "It just, this Babel, he's the one who corrupted Tai."

"And Jun." Davis added in as he gave the two girls his full attention. "Even the digimon emperor can't compare to the amount of destruction this guys done."

Opening his mouth to reply to the statement, TK blinked as several Airdramons flew past them, smaller digimons standing on their back with small wooden clubs in their hands. "Great, who are these guys?"

Up front, Silphymon cast a quick look over at them, the Gatomon part of her recognizing them from her journey to recruit forces to Myotismon's army in the past. "Their Goblinmon, rookie digimons, their Goblin Bomb packs quite a punch." Tilting her head further to the side, she frowned and held out one hand. "Guys, I think that Ogremon is trying to contact you."

Snapping his head around, TK stared as a slightly large Airdramon drew up close to them, an Ogremon staring right at him with a grin on his face. "Ogremon, is that you?"

Lifting up his club in greeting, Ogremon swept his eyes across the group, a glimmer of hope growing fourth within him. "Ay digi destined, it's been a while." Looking down at the ground below, he signaled for the other Airdramons to descend. "If you have the time kid, I would like to talk with you and your friends."

Frowning a bit at the request, TK looked back at the others, his eyes stopped for a bit as he looked at Kari. "Okay." His voice barely heard as he turned back to face Ogremon. "But not for long, we need to find a human called Babel, he's kidnapped one of our friends."

His face taking on a grim expression, Ogremon simply held out his bone club pointing it at Mount Infinity in the distance. "The human you talk off, has seized control of the mountain, and driven out my men and I." Spreading out his hand, he cast a dark look at each kid. "This human, he caused massive amount of destruction, level our training school and delete countless digimons."

Holding up a clenched up hand, he closed his eyes briefly. "He had these digimons with him, an undead digimon as cruel and evil as Devimon if not worse, and following him." Voice shaking as he spoke, he quickly shook his head. "That feral digimon, it just gazed at us, driving us away with its presence alone, none of us could stand up to it."

Mouth turning into a line, the digi destined shared one common thought, that Babel had one more member off his group besides Skullsatamon remaining.

Coughing lightly to regain their attention, Ogremon held out his club, pointing off towards the desert region of File Island. "We have set up a temporary camp in the desert, if you want to, you can follow us there." Gazing intently at each of them, he saw them slowly nod. "Good, this human, he had with him something strange, it looked like digieggs made out of metal."

"Our digi mentals." Came the reply from Cody as he looked up, one hand clenching up in anger. "He took them from us when we entered into his base."

Holding up her digivice, Kari frowned as she watched it, the faint outline of the destiny stone of Azulongmon still showing up on it. "Excuse me, Ogremon, but we really need to find something called a Destiny Stone first." Seeing the confused expression crossing the digimons face, she held out her digivice. "Babel's out to corrupt them, if he gets this one, this while region will be lost."

Crossing his arms, Ogremon let out a deep hum as he closed his eyes. "A destiny stone." His voice aimed more at himself then to the digi destined; he nodded once before looking up. "Trying to free the soverns are you?"

Smirking as he looked around at the Goblimon's around him, he held up his club. "All of you return to the camp, tell the others to stay on guard." Turning his full attention onto TK, he chuckled lightly as he tapped his Airdramon on the side on the head. "As for you, follow me, I'll show you where the destiny stone is."

Grinning, the digi destined nodded as they began to follow after Ogremon and his Airdramon.

Ducking back rapidly to avoid getting cut, Wargreymon cursed as he heard Tai le tout a cry of pain, the young human no doubt having smacked into the side of his courage shield. "Tai, we can't fight with you on our back." Letting out the statement, he aimed one hand downwards. "Blackwargreymon, if you want a fight, I must insist on you letting me put my partner down where he can be safe."

Nearly hurling at the words, and from the massive amount of tumbling around she had done, Jun glanced down at the light colored digimon. "What's wrong, you think Yagami's so weak he can't even keep up with us?" Smirking as she held out a hand, she pointed right at Wargreymon's chest. "Now, now's your chance, aim for him."

Holding out both hands, Blackwargreymon growled as he held out both his hands, the red glow of his main attack forming between the gauntlets. "Silence girl, don't tell me how to fight." Flying forward while pulling in more power, he roared as he shot it forward. "This battle, is between me and them, you just sit back, and stay silent if you want our agreement to be kept."

"Blackwargreymon!" Screaming out the name, Wargreymon shot in close, one gauntlet covered hand grinding itself into the face of the darker toned digimon before him, the sound of metal grinding against metal ringing out. "This fight is pointless, all you are doing is giving Babel the time he needs to."

Getting smacked backwards before he could finish his sentence, Wargreymon wasted no time in flipping back over, hearing Tai curse as he smacked down into his back. "Very well, if this is the only way." Holding up both gauntlet-covered hands before him, Wargreymon glared right into the golden eyes of his opponent. "I'll fight you!"

Hovering further down below, Lillymon let out a gasp as she felt her strength falling. "Mimi, I don't think I can hold you much longer." Her voice stained as she gazed up at the fight above. "We need to find a landing ground."

Eyes fully focused on the battle above, Mimi shook her head as she narrowed her eyes, her gaze fully locked on the battle, her heart and mind battling as one part knew Lillymon was right, and the other wanted her to stay and fight along side Tai and Wargreymon. "We shouldn't, he needs us."

Her voice barely heard, she glance down at her tag and digivice, eyes closing as she held onto both of them. "I don't really know why I got this one back." Her voice growing smaller, she glance dup. "Was it to help them, or sort out my emotions?"

Holding the tag and her digivice close she let out a soft sigh. "No matter what is was, I need it, the power it has." Her words soft, she cast a look up. "Lillymon, we need to help them, I need to." Holding up her digivice, she gave of her most sincere smile. "I want to help him, I want to help the one I, the one I."

"Love"

Ducking around another series of punches, Wargreymon panted as he struggled to gain some space. "Tai, we, we don't know if we can keep this up." Arms shaking as he blocked a powerful double strike, he grinded his teeth together as he shot backwards to gain yet more space. "We're running out of strength, the battle with Michael's Wargreymon, and the flight over here been draining us."

Nodding softly, Tai glanced up to see Jun do the same over Blackwargreymon's shoulder. "Jun, why are you doing this?" The words yelled out, Tai watched Jun's dark glare as it shifted a bit. "Babel tossed you aside as well, you should be fighting with us against him, not against all of us?"

"Just shut up Yagami." Came the spat out reply as Blackwargreymon shot back through the air, putting distance between himself and Wargreymon. "You betrayed Babel, you deserved what you got, constantly out staging me, I was his most loyal servant, I did nothing but obey every single order he gave me, and what did I get in return, nothing, nothing but hate and spite!"

Lashing out with her hand, she grinned as a maniac glint filled her eyes. "Well, I'm going to pay both you and him back for all of it!"

His attention fully focused on his opponent, Blackwargreymon had still heard every single word, letting them sink in and felt a light frown form on his face beneath his mask. "Jun?" The name softly spoken as he crossed both arms in front of him, the metal gauntlets clinging as they met. "Hold on tightly."

Her eyes growing wide at the softness in his voice, she did as he said as the first tendrils of dark power swept in around them, the air giving off a low pitch. "What are you going to do?"

Smirking, Blackwargreymon shot forward, the power he had gather wrapping around him as he trusted out both gauntlet-covered hands. "Black Tornado!" As he began to spin around rapidly, he heard Jun scream bloody murder from behind his head.

Letting out a curse as the black tornado came closer, Wargreymon reached around to his back, tearing lose the two halves of his shield, belatedly remembering Tai as a loud curse rang out. "Sorry!" Slamming the shield together at the last second, he felt the very moment the shield gave in, the black tornado having been stopped all right, but his shield having been torn into several pieces. "Tai, we need a plan, now!"

Snapping his head up, Tai glanced at Blackwargreymon as the digimon hovered backwards, a strange slowness to it, almost as if he was trying to spare Jun from getting tossed off. "He's, concerned for her?" Shaking his head as the desire for victory rushed in, Tai narrowed his eyes as he snapped a finger forward. "Now, hit him with your best attack!"

Having seen the same thing as Tai, Blackwargreymon snapped himself out of it as he slammed both hands together, orange energy forming between each palm. "Here Goes!" Doing a mild spin, he pulled in as much as he dared, finally throwing it off as he faced the dark toned digimon again. "Terra Force!"

Snarling in spite, Blackwargreymon ripped off his own shield halves, slamming them together in time to feel the full power of the Terra Force impact it, the metal giving after and fracturing as he pulled them apart. "Not bad, not bad at all."

Pulling back the heavily damaged shield, he kept a wary eye on Wargreymon. "You are a powerful digimon alright, more then enough to be a worthy opponent." As he spoke, Blackwargreymon felt power flow into him, the energy spreading out over his whole body. "But if you think I will give up or lose, you are wrong."

"Until I have my answers." Willing the power into the space between his hands, the dark tone digimon looked across the distance as he felt he had gathered up enough. "I will never lose! Terra Destoy..."

Blinking as something green and pink shot up from behind Wargreymon, Blackwargreymon watched as the small, fairy like digimon let go of the girl she had been holding, the lighter colored digimon grabbing her with a surprise grunt. "What is this?"

Letting out a giggled as she flew in close, Lillymon giggled as she waved a finger back and fourth between him. "This, this is a small time out for you, flowery!" Spinning around his arms rapidly, Lillymon let out a chuckle as she stopped and flew backwards, a ring of flowers pulling in tight around his arms. "Bye!"

Screaming as his arms were roughly pulled together, Blackwargreymon cursed the moment of surprise which had caused him to lose focus, the result of his hands and arms getting pulled together, the pressure on his terra destroyer increasing.

Letting out a loud swearing curse, Blackwargreymon felt like both his hands were run over by a red hot mountain, the power of his own attack knocking him back over, bits and pieces of his gauntlets falling down towards the ocean below, along with a messy haired girl. "Jun!"

Ripping the badly burnt flower ring apart, the dark toned dinosaur like digimon shot downwards as fast he cold, his body quickly catching up to Jun's. "Human, open your damn eyes." Grabbing her softly, he slowed down their descend and looked up at the two digi destined and their digimons. "You! If she is hurt in anyway, I will not stop until you are all completely destroyed!"

Holding Mimi in his arms, Wargreymon glared darkly at his opponent, his eyes locked right into the golden ones. "If anyone is to blame for this, it is you, you're there one who attacked us."

Glowing with anger, Blackwargreymon began to rise back up again, murder on his mind as he took in the sight of the two humans and their digimons. "Worthless creature, if if wasn't for your and you little fairy's cowardly attack, this fight wouldn't have ended this way."

From his place on Wargreymon, Tai looked down at Blackwargreymon, his eyes settling on Jun, the messy haired girl groaning a bit as twisted a bit in the dark toned digimons arms "You know, we should head for File Island, we can finish this there if you want too."

Giving a nod at Jun as she began to shake her head, he returned his attention to the narrowed, golden eyes of the dark toned digimon holding her. "It would be best for her too."

Finding that the human boy's words had some value to them, Blackwargreymon shifted the human girl in his arms to a more comfortable position. "Lead the way, but don't think I have forgotten hat this about, I still want to know about this Babel."

"Babel." Tai breathed out as he lowered his eyes a bit. "He was responsible for creating me, and Jun." Nodding more to himself, then to any of the others, he looked up. "Will you cease fighting us if I tell you what I know about him?"

Not giving out a confirming response, Blackwargreymon simply grunted as he began to follow them his arms holding onto Jun protectively as he kept a firm eye on both of the other digimons, and the rapidly growing island in the distance. "Boy, you said he crated you, yet you are not a digimon? Nor is Jun one. What did you mean by that?"

Sharing a quick, painful look with Mimi, Tai turned his attention back to Blackwargreymon. "I am a human, but I also have something from the digital world inside of me, as do Jun, and Mimi here." Giving off a thoughtful expression for a second, Tai shook his head a bit. "I'm not sure if he gave the same thing to Michael or Catherine."

Returning to his tale, Tai gave a weak smile down at Blackwargreymon. "I loved my sister you know, I would have died if it meant keeping her safe, and I nearly did, at the hands of a digimon called."

"Myotismon." Came the comment from Blackwargreymon, a short, confused look flowing over his face as he spoke the name of a digimon he had never met.

Shaking of his surprise at the interruption, Tai mentally shrugged and continued. "Myotismon beat me when my sister didn't arrived at the time he had set, tossing me off to the side of the TV station like trash when they finally arrived."

"Dragged down into the alley by his Bakemons, I don't really remember how long I was down there, when he showed up, Babel, he offered me life again, a chance for survival. I took it, and passed out."

"He carried me back to his apartment, where I met Blackgatomon, and told me to rest, to let the changes come to me naturally. Far as I know, he found Jun after the digi destined had defeated Venom-Myotismon, I still don't know what deal they made, but I didn't meet her for a long time. I guess Babel didn't want both his servants in one place while he looked for a way back here."

Looking down, Tai let out a small sigh. "I, I did things while I served him, things I can't really remember, but still know were sick and wrong."

Gazing at Tai, Blackwargreymon didn't say a single thing as he continued to fly after the small group. The tale hadn't affected him much, but it had given him some things to consider.

From what he had heard, this Babel was some kind of monster carrying digital data inside of him, and with the ability to pass it on to others as well.

Things were more confusing now then before.

Entering into the small area around the mountain base, Babel cast a dull look around the place. "No wonder no one has really found it until now." His comment aimed at the plain area, and the fact that stone could be seen resting under the water of a small lake. "A perfect place for an ambush."

Snapping his fingers, Babel watched as the digimentals pedestal was placed before him, two Neodevimon grunted as they lowered it down. "Good, bring out the special container." Yelling out the order at a nearby Bakemon, he turned to regard the digimons tying down Ken. "Good, I want him to be secure, and unable to escape or talk."

Turning to face a third direction, he chuckled lightly as he watched Skullsatamon walk towards him, the undead digimon glowing with anger as he approached. "Ah, just the mon I was looking for." Letting off a light chuckle as he spoke, Babel nodded at the digimons around him. "Come, come, I want you to see the trap I'm setting, how brilliant it is."

Clenching his staff tightly, Skullsatamon shot a dirty look at the digimons around him, further adding in the message that he wanted them to back off. "Babel!" Spitting out the name much like one would spit out a curse, Babel kept a cold glare on the young, human man before him "Have you forgotten your side of the bargain? All of this, none of it was meant to be prepared before Lord Daemon had been freed."

Allowing a momentarily look of confusion to cross his face, Babel finally let out a chuckle, pulling out his homemade digivice and staring at each of the four digi cores on it. "Of course I haven't forgotten my friend, it's just, and I've made a few decision lately."

Holding out his staff as power began to flow into it, Skullsatamon sent a look of pure and utter hatred towards the human before him. "What decisions? Human."

Looking of to the side to see the Bakemon arrive with the requested item, Babel fet his confidence return to him once more, one hand reaching up to brush away a bang of hair. "First, let me show you something, it's really great you know." At the last word, he snapped his fingers.

Turning his head to see the Bakemon open the container, he blinked as a small, transparent digimon slid out of it, the slimy thing regarding him and everything else with a look of indifferent. "An Imitamon? Is that what you wanted me to see, it's the weakest of your creations!"

Letting a cold, evil smirk fill his face, Babel held out his homemade digivice, a group of Neodevimons flying in over the Imitamon. "Not quiet, Imitamon, digivolve!"

Stepping back as the Imitamon snapped into action, Skullsatamon watched as several tentacles shot out from the small creature, each one latching into the chest of the Neodevimon. A flow of data seeping out from the synthetic digimons rapidly "What the? What are you trying to pull human?"

Still smirking, Babel didn't even turn away from the scene. "Just watch."

Staring to glow, the Imitamon lifted off from the ground, each of its tentacles ripping free the last of the Neodevimons digital date, the last streams flowing down his tentacles as they merged with his body which had increased its glow with each data stream. "Imitamon, warp digivolve too."

Letting out a bright light as it shrunk in size, Imitamon's body sucked in the last of the Neodevimons data, before exploding outward in size, it's body growing rapidly in size, easily over shadowing the remaining Neodevimons and Skullsatamon as it took on a drop shape, a jagged tail forming beneath it as it turned lime green in color.

Shooting out from the sides of the huge body, his arms ended in three fingered hands metal covered hands, a bizarrely small head forming with a mask on it, a dark toned glass visor covering its eyes, small spiky hair shooting out from the back of it, and finally, on the stomach, a large scanning screen and two golden sphere like blobs formed. "Metamormon!"

Taking a step back to take in the sight of the grotesque digimon, Skullsatamon let out a short back as he turned to regard Babel next to him. "You must be joking, really, what do you expect that thing to do, scare off everyone with a bizarre stare?"

Giving of a patronizing sound, Babel slowly began to laugh as he watched Skullsatamon's anger increase. "Really, Metamormon's got a special gift my former friend." Snapping his finger, Metamormon let out a low groan as the scanning device kicked in, it's head focused fully on Skullsatamon before it. "He can copy any digimons form, and their powers and abilities as well."

Feeling like he had just been poked all over, Skullsatamon snapped out a curse as he flung his staff around to face Metamormon, the huge digimon glowing brightly. "Nail Bone!"

Letting out a curse as the attack missed, Skullsatamon soon found himself face to face with his own mirror image, the undead digimon moving to face Babel again, didn't miss the look from the human as another digimon emerged. "Babel, you dare betray Lord Daemon?"

Smiling wickedly, Babel simply pattered Gennai as the former digital guarding gazed across the short distance and right into Skullsatamon's eyes. "It's not that hard to understand is it, I don't want to leave the digital world in his hands, I want it destroyed completely, along with every digimon there is, even your precious Lord Daemon."

"You!" Spitting out the word in anger, Skullsatamon's eyes flashed with rage as he poured in as much power as he could into the gem on his staff. "Nail!"

"Rodeo Bullet!"

Screaming loudly as three perfect shots hit his hand, Skullsatamon stumbled backwards, his staff falling down with a clatter on the ground. "You! We had a deal human!"

Shaking his head while smirking widely, Babel barely bothered to pay attention to the ranting undead. "A deal you and your lord were planning on breaking as soon as soon as you could, no doubt." Narrowing his eyes with the last part of the sentence, he focused on Metamormon. "You may destroy him, my pet."

Holding out his staff, Metamormon in the shape of Skullsatamon focused on the real Skullsatamon glaring at him. Already, power had flown into his staff. "Nail Bone!"

Screaming again, Skullsatamon found himself knocked backwards, his right arm ripped apart just above the elbow bone, the lower part of it breaking apart into digital data. "Bastard."

Laughing loudly at the comment, Babel gave a small bow as he took in the sheer rage flowing fourth from the undead digimon before him. "My parents were married thank you, more then what can be said about you, who came from a lousy egg dropped in a swamp no doubt."

Moving to bash in the human man's head with his remaining hand alone, the undead digimon were forced to suck as his staff were nearly hammered into his head, a Neodevimon wielding it as it hovered above him. "I see, you really thought this one through."

Nodding at first, Babel focused entirely on the undead digimon. "True, and now, you may die." Snapping his fingers again, he chuckled as Gennai and Metamormon began to advance. "When you see Daemon again, tell him I'll be coming for him."

"I will." Eyes glowing as he spoke, Skullsatamon let out a low chuckled as he seemingly fell down into the shadow cast by Babel and his new digimon. "Or rather, you tell him, when he gets here." Holding out the homemade digivice he had stolen, the undead digimon chuckled at the shocked expression on Babel's face.

Watching the ground that Skullsatamon had vanished into, Babel clenched up both hands, his eyes narrowed as much as they could. "Lousy." Spinning around, he glared at the Bakemons and Neodevimons. "Get back to work, I want everything ready for their arrival, you hear me!"

Remerging into the shadows of the grounded fortress, Skullsatamon let out a groan of pain as he slid down a nearby wall, his whole body shuddering as the pain of his injuries caught up to him. "Master." Forcing his body to work, he stood up and walked over to the nearby set of computers. "I can no longer delay this, his betrayal is too soon."

Inserting the home digivice into the slot where it belonged, he watched as each screen lit up, the surrounding area of File Island showing up in the form of a map. "Hmm, so the brats are this close as well." Tracking the two sets of glowing dots, he hissed as he began to type up the commands for the digital gate programs. "Hopefully, they will keep the human fool occupied."

Opening up the needed program, the undead digimon let out a grin of triumph, his fingers flying over the gate control buttons, slowly entering in the proper code for the Dark Area. "Lord Daemon, this is Skullsatamon, there has been a new development."

Toning fourth on the screens around him, Daemon's face stared down at Skullsatamon with those cold, unfeeling purple eyes as he waited patiently for the connection to be complete.

After what felt like an eternity to the undead digimon, the connection was complete as a loud beeping sound informed him off. "My lord, Babel has broken the agreement. He's planning to destroy everything, even you." Reaching out and pressing in more commands, Skullsatamon stood up tall as a faint humming sound filled the room. "I have no choice my lord, with the last of my power, I will open the gate for you and take your place in the dark area, freeing you."

"I understand." Lifting up one hand as fire washed over it, Daemon let out a chuckle as he let the flame grow bigger. "I will destroy this Babel as revenge for your death Skullsatamon. That you can be sure off." Lighting his whole body up with fire, the cloak he had been wearing vanished as his true form showed up.

The massive wings on his back, the fur covered arms, the right one ending in a normal monster like hand, while the left one ended in an oversized one, a small, bare part of the arm giving it a longer each. Above each hand, the fur ended in what looked like oversized fangs, the same went for the legs, where each foot had only three toes with large claws on each.

His face looked much like one would expect a demon's to look like, huge horns from the front sides of his head, massive jaws full of sharp teeth, and a flat nose. From his back, two huge wings were halfway folded up, each one sporting four huge claws at the wing joint.

Turning his full attention onto the undead digimon on the other side of the screen, Daemon let out a cold laugh as he reduced the fire to only his two hands. "Now, open the gateway, and I shall burn the three worlds to ash with our combined rage."

Smirking as he reached out, Skullsatamon felt his power flare up, moving into the homemade digivice, and through that into the gate program, forcing it to open. "Heh, it was an honor serving you, my lord, I only wish, I could have had the chance to crush the little boy, and his angel digimon this time around."

Shattering apart into a cloud of digital data, Skullsatamon's last remains began to flow into the computers, each screen letting out a powerful light as data flowed into it. "LadyDevimon, MarineDevimon, I'm coming!"

As it died down, the light form the screens illuminated the form of Daemon the massive digimon simply staring down at the floor before him. "Finally, I'm free at last." Chuckling as he walked forward, he stopped as a faint sound reached him from behind. "Who's there!"

Turning around, he barely managed to see the Bakemon floating through the wall, the homemade digivice in its hands. "I see, recovering the stolen device for your master, very well." Turning back around, he smirked as he walked forward. "I know where he will be going, and you can be sure that I will wait for him there."

Landing with his Airdramon at the foot of Mount Infinity, Ogremon grunted as he watched the digi destined and their digimon partners land around him. "Alright digi destined, the Destiny Stone is located in a spring near the foot of the mountain, you can't miss it, it's the only one around." Pointing his bone club towards the mountain base, he narrowed his eyes. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll have to return to the camp, can't leave the Goblimons alone for too long."

Turning his head to watch as Ogremon left, TK allowed a small smile to form at the thought of the green skinned digimon being their enemy in the past. "Alright guys, we need to get to that Destiny Stone."

Giving a thumps up in agreement, Davis looked in the direction Ogremon had pointed out. "Yeah, the sooner we get this over with, the sooner we can."

"Hand over your digi mentals."

Spinning around at the comment, Davis found himself glaring at the sight of a young, human man with purple hair smirking right at them from the front seat of a simple jeep. "Unless of course you want to do it the hard way?" Snapping his fingers a group of Neodevimons shot out from hiding at the signal, all of them growling as they began to advance on the dragon man like digimon. "Now please, give me your digimentals, and I promise Ken will be set free, if not."

Smirking darkly back at him, Davis glance dup at Paildramon, the massive Dragon man like digimon nodding back down at him as he cracked his Knuckles. "TK, Take Kari and the others and find Ken. I'll deal with this Digimon Emperor wannabe and his Neodevimons."

"Davis." Came the utter out comment From Kari at the command from their leader, the messy haired boy smirking as he and Paildramon began to advance.

Next to her, TK watched the scene for a second before grinned as he gave Davis a thumps up. "Okay, let's go, Davis will take of this, we've got to find the Destiny stone."

Taking note of the digi destined running away along with their digimons partners, Babel focused on the remaining one before him. "I see, it's going to be the hard way then." Snapping his fingers, the Neodevimons broke formation; two remaining behind to fight Paildramon while the rest took off after the others. "I command your bravery boy, but not your intelligence, everyone knows not to split up in the face of superior forces."

Glancing backwards, Paildramon lowered his arms a bit. "Davis, run, go after the others as well." Seeing the protesting look on his partners face, Paildramon grunted as the Neodevimons began to advance. "Davis, please, if you stay, we won't be able to fight all out, we'd." Trailing off in the end, Paildramon knocked back one Neodevimon a sit came to close. "Davis, please!"

Feeling like he had been insulted at first, Davis froze as he watched the Neodevimons, his mind already seeing what his partner had wanted to say. "Okay, give it your best Paildramon, delete those losers." Turning to run away, Davis frowned as he began to advance, the faint outline of Babel and his forces still clear in the distance. "Don't worry Ken, I'm coming."

Grimacing as Neodevimons dived down from the sky, TK let out a curse as he could pick up the sounds of Babel approaching as well. "It's no good, we'll be surrounded if we keep going like this." Turning to face Kari and Yolei, he sighed mentally as he saw them gaze back. "Kari, you and Yolei keep going, Cody and I will hold him off."

Not waiting for a response, Cody and TK slid to a stop as Kari and Yolei broke off, Shakkoumon hovering above them while Silphymon took off flying rapidly. "You nervous?" The question aimed at the younger boy as Babel approached. "Don't be, we can win this, we've stood up to so many others, and won."

Snapping out his hand, TK grinned as he watched the remaining Neodevimons behind Babel draw in for a all out assault on them. "Shakkoumon, you only get one shot at this, you must take them out before the others get here."

Rearing back as power surged into his eyeholes, Shakkoumon focused completely on the Neodevimons as they shot forward, dark power flowing into their hands. "Justice Beam!"

Tearing the steering wheel hard to the right, Babel cursed as the Neodevimons in front of him were knocked backwards at first, their screams of pain giving him a light headache as they were ripped apart, their data fading away rapidly afterwards.

Turning to face the two humans and their digimon, Babel stood up in the driver's seat, one hand clenching up as he gazed at the sky above. "You, go after the girls!" Pointing the direction with his other hand, Babel focused on the smirking TK and Cody. "And you two, don't even think you've won. Metamormon"

Looking up as a weird, wailing sound filled the air, TK and Cody found themselves blinking as one of the Neodevimons moving towards them began to glow, its body shifted around as it began to expand.

Rapidly regaining his true form, Metamormon faced down Shakkoumon, the visor covered head showing no emotion as the blob like body began to move forward. "Laser Translation!" Shooting out from the chest plate, a widespread beam rapidly moved from head to feet of Shakkoumon's body several times.

Laughing as he gunned the engine, Babel enjoyed the shocked expressions on the brats' faces as the massive digimon he had created began to glow and expand even more, soft green skin turning bright white and metallic. "That's it Metamormon, defeat them, then bring them to the base camp, I'm going after the others."

Speeding off, he slowed down just enough to give a glaring TK the finger before speeding up again. "Enjoy the fight brats, Metamormon is a master digimon, against him, none of you stands a chance."

Turning back to face the fake Shakkoumon, or Metamormon as he was called, TK began to narrow his eyes as his anger grew. "No, I won't let this thing stand in our way, Shakkoumon, you mustn't show any mercy, this fight is far to important for something like that."

Spreading out his arms, Shakkoumon powered up his eyes once more, the white glow gaining in strength as he felt the anger from TK adding strength to it, as well as the slight hint of doubt from Cody, acting as a weak counter to TK's anger. "TK, Cody. We won't let you down, Justice Beam!"

Scoring a direct hit, Metamormon in his Shakkoumon form were completely obscured by the reflection of the attack hitting his armor, but other then that, nothing really happed.

But unlike Babel, the mutant digimon didn't take any enjoyment from surprising the others as he were busy powering up an attack of his own. "Kachina bomb1" the small, almost saw blade like disk shooting out from the small hole near his abdomen, each of them rapidly shooting across the ground.

Hitting Shakkoumon directly and in a state of surprise, each explosion had the massive digimon moving as his armor were scorched, as well as chipped and even cracked a bit in places.

Groaning as he regained his battle stance, Shakkoumon fired off his own Kachina bomb attack, watching as each of them came closer to the other digimons, only to miss as Metamormon rapidly shifted form, turning into a much smaller Neodevimon that could easily dodged the spinning disks.

Shooting up into the air, power flowed into his hands as Metamormon focused his attention on the humans behind Shakkoumon, his mind already having come up with a nice battle plan to use. "Deep Sorrow!" The tell tale dark power shooting off towards TK and Cody, rather the massive digimon as he triggered his morphing power, drawing on the stored digimon forms in his systems.

Moving to protect his human partners, Shakkoumon didn't really see the new form the other digimon took, but he did feel and hear it as a rapid form came closer to him. "Nail Bone!" The tell tale attack from Skullsatamon ripping through his whole body in a split second, causing his body to freeze as it overrode his own commands.

Jumping back up into the air, Metamormon took on his own form again, the massive blob like body once again hovering above the digi destined and their digimons. "Transceirave!" Snapping his head downwards as he spoke, the dark glass on his visor glowing reddish green at first, before a beam shot downward, smashing into Shakkoumon at full force.

Knocked back over from the attack, his armor cracked loudly as bright, white light shot up around him, Shakkoumon let out a last groan as he split in two, Patamon and Armadillomon both falling from the sky with loud screams as the de digivolution ran its course.

Moving to each of their partners as they landed, TK and Cody barely had time to check on them before the felt the cold feeling from each of Metamormon's hands as he grabbed them.

Clearing the last part, Kari and Yolei found themselves standing in the one place they hadn't expected. It were where they had tried to go, but the spring Ogremon had mentioned were long gone, rather, a large muddy hole where in it's place, with large metal girders around it, and suspended from chains on them in the center, where not only the destiny stone, but Ken as well.

Turning her head back, Yolei snapped out her hand, her eyes fully locked on Silphymon hovering above them. "Silphymon cut him down." Her voice cutting through the clearing easily as she snapped one hand out to point at the bound boy.

Nodding as he began to advance, Silphymon suddenly froze as he snapped his head, his face showing a pure look of surprise as he ducked just in time to avoid several powerful bolts of light shooting through the space he had just occupied. "Who, who are you?"

Chuckling as he looked down from his vantage point on the destiny stone, a large, fuzzy wolf monster like digimon pulled back his right arm, the gauntlet covered hand still emitting smoke from the three gun like nozzles on top of its glove. "You're fast, I'll give you that, but it won't help you this time around." Ripping his left hand down over his leather west, he finished the sentence with a chuckle.

On the ground, Kari felt her eyes widen as the words were arrogantly spoken, her mind trying to deny it even as she saw both Yolei and Silphymon stiffen. "It can't be, you sound like him, but you can't be."

Next to her, Yolei lifted up her hand to her chest, feeling it shake as she felt her heart race a bit faster at the sight of the overly muscled chest and arms of the digimon above them. Her mind failing to find any way that this beast like digimon could sound just like. "Gennai."

Smirking as he took in the shocked expression on the faces of the digimon and just how open they had left themselves for an attack. "This is it, Rodeo Bullets!" Firing off the attack, he le totu a roar of joy as Silphymon, even with all of his speed, only managed to avoid two the light bullets, the third one hitting the right arm with a loud, cracking sound that the girls gasp and Silphymon scream as he fell to the ground. "It's over, Lord Babel will be pleased with this."

Struggling up on his feet, Silphymon spat out some grass as he turned to face the digimon above, his right arm hanging down uselessly at his side. "That hurt you bastard!" Glowing bright pink, Silphymon forced as much power a she could into a counter attack, the beast like digimon chuckling again. "Top gun!"

Shooting off from the ground as the glow intensified, Silphymon let out a gasp as the digimon simply jumped up into the air, left hand snapping out as he passed by, each finger gripping onto his skull tightly as he torn out of his attack move, and flung down to the ground again.

Finishing the attack he had started, the beast like digimon snapped out his right hand, bullets firing off right towards the digimon below, missing as he rolled to the side at the last second. "Eh, you're still able to move after that?"

Landing on the ground as he spoke, the beast like digimon looked back over his shoulder, eyes firmly locked on the destiny stone. "Oh, I see, it's because of that." Turning his attention back again, he lifted up both hands and began to laugh, eyes gazing down at the fused digimon before him. "Still, how long do you think you will last against a mega digimon of my level?"

Standing up, Silphymon forced his battered, broken body to move as power flowed into him, the strength of the positive energies within the destiny stone fueling him to continue fighting. "Long enough, Dual Sonic Laser!" Filing out his left arm, a pink colored image of his shot out, crossing the distance rapidly before impacting the wide-open beast like digimon.

Grunting as he was blinded by the pink light, The beast like digimon shook his head, one hand shooting out to grip Silphymon as the fused digimon flew in to try a close up attack, "Nice one birdie." Clenching with his left hand, he enjoyed the gasp of pain. "And now, to end it."

Lifting up his right hand, he smirked as it got closer and closer. "Say goodbye."

"Goodbye!" Turning his head around at the new voice, the beast digimon only had time to see the wooden plank before it hit him right on the snout, A very small, but still hurtful place as his sudden step back revealed, his hand opening up and freeing Silphymon. "Brat."

Smirking as he stepped fully into the area, Davis grinned as he looked up at the digimon. "Heh, took me a while to get here, but I still made it in time."

On the ground, Silphymon looked and grinned, it was now or never, the digimon was busy with Davis, and had left himself wide open for an attack.

Powering up one last strike, Silphymon's ears twitched a bit as the sound of an engine reached him, the sheer, unexpected presence of it causing him to lower his guard at the wrong time, and the wrong place as he found out less then a second later.

Letting out a yell as the metal grill and hood of a jeep plowed into him, Silphymon felt his body get knocked back over, glass cracking under him as he rebounded off a windshield screen before flying briefly out of control, then it ended as the wet grass around the dried up spring met his face.

Glancing back over his shoulder, Babel chuckled as he watched the birdman like digimon struggling to get up, his body finally giving up as it glowed and separated into Gatomon and Hawkmon. "Heh, sorry to be such a road hog, but I really want those digi mentals, and therefore, can't waste anymore time on this."

Facing back towards Kari and Yolei, he chuckled as he pushed open the jeep door. "Now ladies, if you will be so kind, I think you both have something that I want." Snapping his head back to Davis, he chuckled as he held out one hand. "And don't even try it, no one wants a hero, least of all, when I hold the very lives of your friends, in the hands of my newest creation, Metamormon."

Glancing over at the beast like digimon, he chuckled as he held out a hand towards him as well. "And I don't believe you have been introduced to my latest accusation, Callismon! Although I'm sure you have already recognized as the fool Gennai from his voice."

Turning his attention back to them, he chuckled as he snapped his fingers, four Bakemons floating out from the backside of the destiny stone, the device holding the digi mentals of Hope, Knowledge and Reliability held up by them. "Introductions aside boys and girls. I think it's time we got down to business, namely, your digimentals of Courage, Friendship, Love, sincerity and Light."

Chuckling as the device landed before him, he tapped one finger at the empty spots. "Now, if you don't mind, hand them over, and I'll let you have back Ken as well." His eyes narrowing, he suppressed the urge to hurl out a massive insult about the young boy. "The fool has no value to me anyway, he rejected the truth and denied his part in my destiny."

Letting out a growl as he edged closer, Davis looked around the area quickly, hoping that Paildramon would come charging in to save the day after all.

Instead, he was met with silence as more Bakemons arose from there hiding places, laughter and giggles breaking out as they began to float closer. "You promise to let Ken go?"

Looking down, Babel stared right into the rock eyes of Davis as the younger boy glared back at him. "Hmm, you got a high level of courage to speak that way to me boy." Unclenching and then re-clenching his grip on the side of the jeep, he finally let out a small back of laughter. "Amusing, so much like me in my younger days, but, that is the deal boy, give me all your digi mentals, and Kenny boy there is free to go."

Pulling out his D-terminal, Davis glanced over at Kari and Yolei. "I'm sorry, but there's no other choice." Holding out the small device, two beams of light shot out from it, moving around the air briefly before landing in his free hand. "Here, the digi mentals of courage and friendship."

Gazing as the metallic digi eggs with a pure look of greed, Babel quickly motioned for his Bakemons to come closer. "Good, good, now plant them on the device." Moving his attention over to Kari and Yolei, he narrowed his eyes at them. "What, if you two don't hand over your digi mentals, I'll have Ken destroyed along with your digimons."

Planting both of her hands on her hips, Kari glared right back at Babel with venom in her eyes. "Yeah, but what about TK, Patamon, Cody and Armadillomon." Nodding at the still towering above them Metamormon, she returned her gaze to the purple haired man. "Let them go now, or the deal is off."

Right next to her, Yolei held out her own D-terminal. "What she said, if not, I toss this one away, and none one will ever be able to get the Digi mentals back."

Feeling the anger and hate emerge at their demands, Babel had to use every ounce of his willpower to remain calm, his eyes letting out a few twitches as he took a deep breath. "Fine, but no tricks, or you all dies right here." Snapping his fingers, he let a cold smirk form as the sound of four bodies getting dropped where heard. "See, they're free, now give me the digi mentals."

Not replying to the comment, or the demand, Kari pulled out her D-terminal, the digi mental of light showing up rapidly as she called it out. "Here." Planting it on the device along with Davis's digi mentals of courage and friendship, she turned her attention to Yolei. "Your turn, but be careful."

Staring sadly down at her digi mentals as they fit into the empty spaces on the device, Yolei glanced up at Babel as he stepped closer, gazing at each digi mental. "What are you going to do with them anyway?"

Grinning darkly as he walked over to the jeep, device getting carried along by the Bakemons, he grabbed the door and looked over his shoulder as he watched each kid in turn. "I'm sure the traitor Yagami told you about my virus, well, let's just say that even if the barrier is gone, I'll need some power to not only open a gate to the center of this world, but also to keep it open."

Nodding more to himself then to anyone else, he watched as all the digi mentals were in the proper places. "Good, and as I promised, Ken is free to go." Pulling open the door to his jeep, he chuckled as he slid into the driver's seat, one last dark look from him reaching the kids. "Free to die that is, Metamormon, Gennai, crush them!"

Hitting the speeder, he sent his jeep flying forward, a dust cloud rising up form behind as he began to pick up speed. It was finally time to finalize the last part of his great plan. "Later digi brats."

Speeding over a small bump in the road, a dark look filled his face as a massive shape passed by overhead, Paildramon's hip guns already charging up to fire at his last two worthy servants. "Heh, so what, they still won't win this, victory is mine at last."

"I'm picking up the signal of the other digi destined, they're nearby." Turning to face Mimi, Tai stared at her, as she was busy looking over Jun who had been placed careful on the ground. "She okay over there?"

Rising her head, Mimi shrugged as she pushed herself up from the ground. "I'm not really sure, Joe's the one with the urge to become a doctor, not me." Turning her attention over to Blackwargreymon and Wargreymon, she shook her head as she found each of them glaring at the other. "Tai, You and Wargreymon should go to the others."

Snapping his attention back to the pink loving girl. "What, why?" Gazing down at Jun, he opened his mouth to add some comment about her evilness when he felt the girl he, cared for, touch his arm. "Meems, I, I don't know if I should leave you here with her. You heard Jun back there, she's not fully free of the virus yet."

Smiling from both the new nickname he had given her, and the concern in his voice, Mimi let out a soft giggle as she stood up. "I'll be fine, I have Lillymon here with me, and I'm sure Blackwargreymon won't try and capture me." Gazing down at Jun as she finished talking, she ran a mildly shaking hand through her hair. "But, I do admit she scares me a little, but I have to do this, the others need your help."

Moving back to sit next to Jun, Mimi held a hand out to the messy haired girl's forehead. "She reminds me of you, you needed the help of others to find the light and goodness inside to free yourself of the virus." Smile turning a bit sad, she looked back over her shoulder. "Jun needs the same, but I also think it would help if the main source of her anger isn't here, and besides, I know you want to go and help Kari and the others."

Letting out a sigh, as he knew he was beaten on that subject, Tai finally shook his head as he walked forward, his hand grabbing his D3. "You're unbelievable, you know that." Kneeling down next to her, he chuckled as he gazed at her. "I'll go, but promise me to be careful around her, okay."

Opening her mouth to reply, Mimi froze as she felt Tai plant a small, soft kiss on her cheek, the simple thing making her stomach do a flip-flop. Forcing her heart to slow down, and the redness in her cheeks to fade, she grinned as she faced Tai head on. "I will, but only if you promise to make it back in once piece."

Moving forward, she planted a kiss on the messy haired boy's mouth, planting both her hands on his shoulders as she felt him tense up a bit from shock. "Now, go get him, Taichi."

From her place, Lillymon simply narrowed her eyes as she watched the display. One part of her happy for Mimi, another put off by the fact that she had chosen the messy haired boy, and the final one admitting that maybe, maybe that Yagami kid wasn't such a bad choice after all.

But she would still need to inform him just what would happen if he tried to hurt her again.

"Cheer up Lillymon." Came the gruff comment from Wargreymon as he turned to leave with Tai. "It's not the end of the world, besides, I can tell you the best way to prank him if you give him a chance."

Simply raising one eyebrow, Lillymon watched the dino man like digimon. "Oh, I was going to give him a chance, but that prank deal sounds too good to give up on, I still need to get back for the jail cell."

Replying to her statement with a shrug, Wargreymon let out a small grunt as he reached down to pick up Tai. "Okay, lead the way Tai."

Nodding, Tai cast a quick look back at them. "Hey, take care okay, and when she wakes up, tell her I said hi." Turning his head back again, Tai held out his left arm, pointing in the correct direction. "Okay, it that way, about 20 minutes time if we fly."

Taking off at the comment, Wargreymon began to pick up speed, the rather well earned break he had just taken, having given him a much needed boost of energy. "Let's just hope we don't show up too late."

Smirking at the words from his fused digimon partners, Tai shook his head as he kept his eyes on the digivice. "Let's just hope we get in time to help kick Babel's butt."

Moving as fast as they could to avoid getting hit by an attack, Kari and Yolei both let out a cry of fear as a massive, bone like staff dug a small hole into the ground right between them.

Pulling the staff back up. Metamormon, in the shape of Skullsatamon looked after each girl, as he debated which one to strike out at next.

Further away, Gennai, in the massive Callismon body were having the time of his life as he were busy taking random shots after a hastily running Davis, the messy haired boy diving in between two metal girders in time to avoid getting hit.

Stopping right outside the mass of girders, Gennai growled as he could clearly see Davis hiding behind the metal construct, but where unable to get a clear firing angle. "Brat, come on out!"

Doing his worst in suppressing a laugh, Davis did manage to overcome the urge to flip off the digimon who had once been an allied. "Come on Gennai, I'm not that stupid you know." Turning his head to gaze up at Ken, Davis did his best to come up with a way to get Ken out of danger.

Facing back to the front, Davis ducked around it as Gennai took the small chance to try and catch him. "Come on Gennai, even Armadillomon is faster then you."

The words, while brave didn't do much in showing him just how much trouble they were in, the sudden terrified cry from Yolei having him nearly turn and run to her help, the only thing stopping him being a rapid firing of bullets that whizzed over his head as he turned. "Damn it!"

Reaching the metal girders on the other side, Kari snapped out one hand and pulled Yolei to safety, or a small measure of safety as both of them felt the sound of Metamormon smashing his staff right into the metal girder at full power. "This isn't working, we need a plan, or stronger digimons."

Huffing as she moving avoid a probing hand from Metamormon, Yolei didn't waste anytime as she moved to get more distance between herself and the evil digimon. "Where you brother anyway, doesn't he have a mega level digimon or what?"

"Well." Came the somewhat unsure of reply from Kari as she had to struggle to avoid getting hit by the same hand as Yolei, her head turning to stare at Gatomon laying unconscious in the dirt. "At least they trying to get of us first rather then those who are out cold."

Letting out a snort Yolei grabbed Kari's arm and began running around the small, dried up spring hole. "Is it any wonder, they aren't going to run away, but we could." Passing Davis as they reached roughly the center of the run, Yolei stopped running as she spun to stare at Davis. "Hey, what are you doing here?"

Looking back at them, Davis did his best to appear unafraid, his eyes moving past them to the rapidly approaching Gennai who were already taking aim at them. "Never mind that, Get down!"

Having yelled out the thing same, Kari wasted no time in acting as she had spotted Metamormon still looking like Skullsatamon approaching them, the head of his staff already glowing as he flung it forward.

Impacting the ground, Yolei let out a scream as she felt the hot blast of air pass by overhead, the sound of three rapid gunshots filling the air as well.

Gennai, having fired his attack just one fraction of a second too later, could only stare as each of his bullets impacted Metamormon who screamed, as he was knocked back, losing his form from the pain. Then his own body was wrapped in pain as the mutant digimons attack hit him dead on.

Shrugging off the pain as fast as he could, the human digimon turned into an evil digimon, reached out for the nearest chosen child, his massive paw closing down on Yolei's leg. "Got you girl, now, die!"

"Desperado Blaster!"

Releasing the leg as a flash of pain ripped through him, Gennai spun around as he saw the rest of the attack hit a recovered Metamormon as well, each bullet springing off the machine like part of the mutant digimons chest. "That, actually hurt me a little, Rodeo Bullet!" Firing off a rapid series of bullets at the newly Arrived Paildramon, Gennai could see the girl he had grabbed moving away. "Stop right there girl."

Snapping his head back as he too focused on Paildramon, Metamormon felt power flow through his as he focused his full attention on the Paildramon. "Transceirave!" Power erupting from him, Metamormon smiled as the attack flowed through the air.

Laughing as he managed to avoid both attacks, both bullets and Metamormon's attack. Paildramon watched as the Neodevimon that had followed him, took each attack head on, three large bullets holes forming on the chest right before the power attack hit home, the synthetic digimon deleting instantly.

Spinning around to attack again, the dragon like man didn't get a chance as Gennai jumped him, dragging him down as he impacted his body. "Get, off, me!"

Chuckling coldly as he lifted up his right hand, all three gun barrels still smoking, Gennai chuckled as he felt Paildramon impacting the construction holding up the Destiny Stone. "Now, Die!"

"No!" Turning around at the word, Gennai stared as the messy haired boy came flying through the air, a piece of rock in his hands as he drew closer. "Let them go!"

Lashing out with his left hand, Gennai balanced himself on Paildramon with his legs only, his hand grabbing Davis as he came close enough. "Moron, you can die right after your pet digimon." Slamming Davis against the rock, the massive digimon didn't expect a loud wailing sound to fill the air, not to see a column of light erupt from the destiny stone. "What the?"

Looking down, he cursed as he spotted that boy Ken, having been moving from the metal grinders buckling under their added weight, his D3 pressed tightly against the destiny stone, just like the messy haired boy's. "No."

Rocking his head back as his skin felt like it had been lit afire from the light. Gennai dropped both his grip on Davis, and Paildramon as he began to fall down, his head erupting with the most powerful headache. "You, this." Turning around, he noticed Metamormon shifting back into his prime appearance, the massive body just staring straight ahead at them.

Then it happened, like a flood rushing fourth after the dam holding it broke apart, the memories blocked out by Babel treatment of him, came back. An endlessly rush of memory, after memory of painful treatments. Forming the guardians, serving under Azulongmon, fighting the first darkness, then Babel rise.

The period after his banishment, the rise of the Dark Masters, loss of the four soverns and the final deletion of his fellow guardians. The arrival of the second team of digi destined, the war that lasted over 80 years, the peaceful period of time, then, the return of Babel, the Digimon Emperor, other evil digimons, and the four temples.

The virus, the virus he had studied, which he had been infected by. His body burning as data of a Grizzmon was forced into him, Babel's laughter as he faded away to be replaced by the Gennai utterly loyal to Babel.

As each memory fell into place, Gennai felt along with the return of himself, a growing sense of anger, a level of which he had hadn't felt since the day Piedmon invaded the guardians laboratory, deleting all of his friends, and stealing the tags from them.

Snapping his head around, Gennai lifted up his arm, aiming the gun barrels right towards the machine of Metamormon's chest. "Rodeo Bullet!"

Letting out a scream of anger and surprise, Metamormon floated backwards as his chest device erupted in a shower of sparks, his main ability now lost as he could no longer scan other digimons, nor change into them.

But overpowering this, were the massive dragon like creature forming above the destiny stone, a colorful decorated mask with four eyeholes focusing on the group below them. "Greetings Digi Destined, I am Azulongmon, Sovern of the Eastern part of the digital world."

And even inside his one-track mind, Metamormon could figure out, that things were not going to be pleasant anymore, as the dragon digimon focused on him.

TBC: A Darkening Horizon.

AN: Well, another chapter finished, and with my usual ability to completely avoid having the content live up to what the title said. A strange thing indeed, must be something mental with me. Anyway, head way is being made, the last chapter with Babel as the head villain is coming up, then it's everyone's favorite vampire digimon who is up for the role of villain.