"Fusion Confusion"
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We all stared up at the new Ultimate digimon in awe, unable to process the fact that Stingmon and ExVeemon has fused together to create this new create.
"Take your best shot." The digimon said as he glowed in an amethyst light.
"Paildramon?" Ken and I asked.
"That's us." He said in both of our digimon's voices.
"They became one." TK said in awe as he held Patamon, Kari on the ground holding Gatomon beside him.
"How can he possibly win?" Yolei asked from her place on the ground as she held Hawkmon as Cody was beside her holding Armadillomon.
"You just watch me, Yolei." Paildramon said as the lights died down.
Okuwamon then gave a roar as Paildramon got ready for battle.
Paildramon delivered a roundhouse kick, sending Okuwamon down into the sand of the desert.
Wow, he/they/whatever is really strong.
"Ready for round 2?" he asked.
Okuwamon snarled in annoyance as he charged at Paildramon, but he caught the bug by his pincers, then threw him away.
Then Paildramon shot out his cables at Okuwamon and tied them around his ankles.
"You're grounded!" Paildramon said as he threw him to the ground.
"He fights something fierce." Armadillomon said.
"Yes, he's most certainly beating the tar out of that Okuwamon chap." Hawkmon said.
"Yeah, but does he have to make it look so easy? It makes the rest of us look like weaklings." Patamon said.
"He's tearing up Okuwamon like he was a scratching post." Gatomon said.
"But I don't understand why he had to merge with Ken's digimon." Cody said.
Oh, get over it please.
Okuwamon went off to get Paildramon again, but missed as the dragon/insect gave him a kick in the back and sent the silver bug into the sand dunes.
"Going down?" Paildramon teased.
"Wow, our digimon really is powerful." I said.
"Our digimon? I don't know if I like this idea of a shared digimon." Ken said as we watched our digimon punch Okuwamon in the jaw.
"I'm not so sure how I feel about it either, but it's not like we can do anything to change what happened." I said.
"Quick, use the Crests of Kindness and Miracles!" Paildramon said as he looked over to us.
"The what?" we asked then looked at each other as we remembered why we were there.
The excitement must have made us forget.
"Oh yeah." We said as we ran off to the fallen base.
"Don't forget about us." TK called.
"Yeah, wait up." Kari called as the others all ran after us.
"There it is, the entrance to the cave." Ken said as we spotted the large cracked opening.
The two of us went inside and started to make our way down all of the rubble that was inside just as the others all caught up to us.
"There's no way they'll get through all of this rubble." TK said.
Just as he said that, Ken and I both made our way down and ran over to the hallway that led to the power room, our moves in sync with each other as we went.
Might want to rethink that, blondie.
Ken soon took the lead as we went and we stopped at this green thing that was in a room.
"There it is. Now we need to get the Crest of Kindness up there." Ken said.
"But what about my Crest? Where does it go?" I asked not seeing my mark anywhere in the room.
"I'm not sure. Maybe you were meant to keep it." Ken said as he walked over to start climbing.
"Be careful." I said as I stood at the base of the large device in case he lost his footing.
He inserted the Crest under the symbol as the eerie green glow of the contraption faded away and the quaking seemed to die down.
"Look at that. The power is shutting down. The reactor's going off line. It won't explode now." Ken said as he started climbing down.
"That's a relief." I smiled just as the others all showed up in the room.
"Nicely done." Cody said.
"Excellent." TK said.
"Yay!" Yolei cheered.
"You guys did it." Kari smiled.
"Hey, it's a message from Izzy." Cody said as he pulled out his beeping D-terminal.
"What's it say?" Kari asked.
"The warp's back to normal." The boy smiled.
"All right, score one for the good guys." Yolei cheered as she pumped her fists in victory.
"That's all we get? All that work and we get only one point? TK!" Patamon whined.
"You get 2." The blonde smiled.
"It's all thanks to your Crest." I said to Ken as he walked over to me.
"Yeah." He said softly with a nod.
Just then, there was another blast that shook the base and startled us all.
Now what?
"What's going on?" Kari asked.
"For some reason, shutting down the reactor isn't turning off the explosions." Cody said as we all started running for cover.
"Ugh, my hat's great in the rain, but it doesn't work on concrete." Yolei groaned as she ducked down for cover.
"Izzy says…the warp is getting worse, not better. The Crest didn't work!" Cody announced after he checked his message.
"How can that be?" I asked.
"I knew something like this would happen. My Crest is meaningless." Ken said with his head bent.
I placed my hand on his shoulder to provide comfort.
"No, the Crest of Kindness should have stopped the explosion. There must be something else about this place that we don't know. Is there something you're not telling us, Ken?" Cody asked.
"There's something wrong here and if there was anyone who would know what it was, that person would have to be you." He said.
"Cody, calm down. Throwing the blame around isn't helping us at all." I scolded.
The base gave off another blast and I felt this sick feeling creeping up inside of me, that familiar horror calling to me, but I blocked it out.
"That woman's behind all this trouble." Kari said.
"Yeah, knock it off. You're a real bad egg, lady." Yolei called.
"And soon you will all be scrambled." The woman said.
Her image was on an old TV monitor that was on top of a pile of rubble.
"You don't scare us. We'll beat you yet." Kari said.
"Ha. You don't even seem to know if you're fighting the right enemy or if your friends are really your friends." The woman said with a smirk.
"You're a pathetic coward! You hide behind your evil creations and let them do all of the work. Why? Because you're too weak to do it yourself?" I yelled as I felt my anger rise from the pain and sickness I was feeling from the feeling of the Darkness.
It was in this room or at least somewhere in this base.
No one else seemed to be able to sense it like I could though.
"Aw, what a sweet thing you are. But it doesn't matter if I fight or not, because I will win and end you all." The woman laughed as the screen went black.
"I swear, I hate that woman." I muttered.
"You're not the only one." Ken muttered with a frown on his face.
He then seemed to notice something on the ground and was looking them over to where what he was looking at led.
"We've got to follow these pipes." He said as he ran off.
I didn't think twice about this as I followed him, but the sickness was rising.
The pipes were leading us to the Darkness, the main source of the trouble that was making the base give off these warps that could destroy the area.
"These pipes send energy to the reactor above. Following them will lead us right to the source of its power." Ken explained as we were now in a narrow hallway that looked a lot like what the inside of an arm would, but maybe it was just my opinion.
It was all a reddish orange color with these vein like bulges on the wall.
"If we plug that source we should be able to stop the reactor from exploding." Ken said.
The sickness was rising even more as we went, my head pudding painfully as I clung to the walls to stay up properly.
"Daisuke, what's wrong?" Gatomon asked making everyone look at me.
"You don't look too good." Patamon said.
"There's…something down here is making me sick." I stuttered as TK came to my side to help me walk.
"Then let's hurry and shut it down." Hawkmon said.
Everyone continued, Ken throwing a worried look over to me a few times as I stumbled a bit as TK helped me walk.
"These tunnels give me the creeps." Gatomon said.
"You know, this reminds me of something." Patamon said.
"What,s that?" TK asked as there was a flash of electricity at the end of the tunnel and a red light.
An explosion then went off making us all brace ourselves as the end collapsed.
"The tunnel's blocked. What're we gonna do?" Kari asked.
"Don't worry. Just leave it to old Armadillomon. Diamond Shell!" he said as he turned into a ball and rammed into the rubble.
Hawkmon also used Feather Strike and the path was cleared for us.
"Now we may continue." He said as his feather came back to him.
What a team.
"There it is. The source of the reactor's power." Ken said as we saw some sort of tower like thing at the end.
It was glowing with a dark blue mist that had the sickness rolling off of it and made the pounding in my head grow even fiercer.
"It's so cold." Yolei shivered as we got closer.
We all lost our colors just like when I was in the Dark Ocean, the tall thing that had the dark energy looked like a shriveled up tree that had the life sucked out of it.
"This feeling…" TK said.
"I remember. This feels just like when we were near that portal." Patamon said.
"Yeah, I remember now. You're right, Patamon, it is the same disturbing feeling." TK said.
"I've felt it too when Dai was acting strange in class that day she disappeared." Kari said.
"It's the Dark Ocean. I've felt it when I was pulled into that horrible world and when the portal opened and I was across the ocean from you all when you first saw Kimeramon. Being near it makes me sick." I whimpered as I held back the bile.
"The world of Darkness. This is the door that leads directly to the world of Darkness." Ken explained.
"How do you know?" Yolei asked.
"Because I've been surrounded by this ever since I came to the Digital World." Ken said.
"I can feel that thing's power building. We better do something quick." Kari said as a black smog appeared above the tree thing.
"Yeah, but what?" Yolei asked.
There was another explosion that made the place quake as we all tried to steady ourselves.
"Come on." Ken said as he slid down the side of the staircase and we followed.
"Look, up there. We've got to close the opening the dark power is coming through." Cody said.
"So what do you think we should do, Ken?" I asked as I limped over to him.
"I don't really know, but we've got to stop that power flow. There must be something around here that we can use to stop it." he said as there was another explosion that was near him.
The base shook so bad that we all were sent flying around the room we were in.
"Is…is everyone OK?" I panted as my vision started to blur.
"I'm all right, but my pride is bruised. But look!" Yolei yelled.
"The power outlet is increasing." Cody said.
"This looks like the end." TK said as the tree seemed to be sending out black smog as a white liquid fell out onto the ground.
Could that be the power of Light being drained away by the Darkness?
This can't be the end.
There has to be a way to change things around to make sure we win.
I won't let the Darkness win.
My Crest then started glowing and the gold light filled the entire room, returning color to everyone just as Paildramon burst into the room.
"Somebody call for a hero?" he asked.
I stood up smiling as my vision returned to normal and the sickness faded away.
He used his Desperado Blasters on the tree and it was destroyed.
"Do I know how to make an entrance or what?" he asked turning back to us.
"Paildramon!" Ken and I cried out happily.
My Crest stopped glowing as everything was normal in the room.
"Izzy says the warp is returning to normal and it's all thanks to Paildramon." Cody said as he checked his D-terminal.
"This was just the battle; the war is far from over." Paildramon said.
Very wise and true words.
We all ran out of the base as Paildramon used his Desperado Blaster to destroy the base once and for all.
The wind caused by the blast came over to us as we stood about 100 feet away from it and blew our hair back.
"Yes, blow it up so no one can ever use it again." Ken said.
"Hey, we're over here!" a small green creature called as he hopped over with Chibomon.
"Did we do things the way you wanted us too?" the little green digimon with a pink pacifier in his mouth and leaf on his head asked.
"Yes, you did an excellent job, my friend." Ken smiled down at him.
"Chibomon, you were amazing." I said my little blue guy came over and he chuckled with a blush.
"We make a great team, huh?" he asked the other digimon as they both rubbed their heads together in a sort of hug.
They were just too CUUUUTTTTE!
"We make a good team too, right?" I asked as I smiled at Ken.
He looked at me as I held out my hand to him and he raised his hand.
His hand paused in the air as it closed in a fist and he pulled it away.
"What is it?" I asked as he frowned.
"I just don't feel like I deserve to be friends with any of you at all." He said.
"Really, you need to stop feeling that way. You've done enough. I already told you that I'm your friend and you can't change my mind." I said.
"I have?" he asked in surprise.
"Of course. You started out like a total jerk, but you were under the influence of the Darkness. You changed back to who you truly are, which is a kind and honest person. Trust me, you're worthy of friendship." I said with a smile and hand over my heart.
Ken turned away.
"I don't know. I've done a lot of bad things that I'm not proud of at all." He said with a sad look.
"Hey now, we're all made mistakes. Even I've made them and so have the others. No one is perfect. The word is a complete and total lie." I said.
"I don't know. I need some time to think about this." Ken said as he picked up his partner and then started walking off.
"Bye." The little guy called.
"I just wish he'd stop being so hard on himself." I said as we all watched him go.
(Later in the Human World…)
When we got back in the computer room, Matt and Izzy were there waiting on us.
"Are you guys OK?" the child of Friendship asked.
"Yeah, we're fine." TK said.
Matt looked over to me and walked over as he saw Chibomon was in my arms.
"So…DNA digivolving, huh?" he asked as he placed a hand on my shoulder.
"Yep, it was really cool." My little guy said.
"Everyone, I want you all to come to my house tomorrow for a meeting." Izzy said making us look at him.
"Why, Izzy?" Cody asked.
"To learn about DNA digivolving. Now, it's been a long day, so go home and get some rest." The redhead said.
We all nodded and split up to go to our own homes, Matt walking Kari and I home as Izzy went with TK, Yolei and Cody.
Matt asked what had happened and so we filled him in as we went.
"The Darkness?" he asked with a shocked look.
I nodded to him.
We had left Kari and Gatomon as she went inside her apartment and he was walking me to my floor.
"It was so much worse from last time. I don't know why it keeps coming after me." I said.
He kept quiet for a bit until he took my arm and made me stop walking.
"Do you kind if I come in to talk? I have something I need to tell you." He said.
I nodded as I felt my curiosity rising in what he could want.
When we got to my door, I unlocked it and let myself in.
"Jun, are you here?" I called.
There was no answer meaning she was out, so I let Chibomon down as he hopped over to the couch to sit there.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked as I turned to fridge to take out the food to start cooking it.
The sound of the chair being pulled out made me know that Matt was sitting at the table.
"When I was first in the Digital World, Gabumon and I were in this cave all alone. I had separated from the others because I was trying to find myself, just like I'm sure Ken is trying to do now." He said as I washed my hands.
"I thought that TK needed me to be at his side all of the time, but I was wrong and…it felt like my world was crashing down around me. I thought that protecting my little brother was my one perpuss in life. He didn't need me in his life anymore and Tai was better at acting like a big brother than I was. I was just letting my depression swallow me up. It was the Darkness." He said.
I gasped in shock at that.
"You were almost taken by the Darkness too?" Chibomon asked as I turned to see Matt pick up my digimon and set him on the table.
"Yeah. I thought I was a terrible person and then the Darkness started coming after me and I was just letting it do that. I was drowning. Gabumon was there for me and he snapped me out of it." Matt said as I started cooking the steaks and rice.
"I never let anyone get close to me before, not since my family split up. Ever since then, I've been alone. I figured that if my family didn't want me, then I would just keep to myself and never tell anyone what I was feeling and never let them see me cry, when really all I wanted to do was cry. Gabumon was there for me the entire time and he helped me turn away from the Darkness and go after my friends to help them." He said.
I was quiet the entire time he was speaking because I realized that half of what he said was what I had felt before.
It's weird.
We're both so alike that it's scary.
Maybe Matt should be the one to talk to Ken and help him out.
"Why did you tell me this?" I asked.
The sound of the chair being pulled back made me know that Matt had stood up and he was soon standing behind me.
"TK told me what happened before. After you and Raidrmaon freed Agumon, he told me what you told him when you went to rescue Kari." He said as his arms went around my shoulders and he held me to his chest as his head rested on top of mine.
My face was burning in a blush at the contact as we stood there, but I was trying to focus on the food so it didn't burn.
My heart was beating so loud and hard in my chest I was afraid he heard it or it would jump out soon from the pace it was going.
"Dai, I really do care about you…more than I think you realize." He said making me gasp softly.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see that his cheeks were tinted red and his grip around me tightened in a comforting way.
"I-I really care about you too, Matt." I said softly, afraid my voice would crack.
He gave a small relieved chuckle as he kissed the side of my head.
"You know that song I played you today? It was for you. I was going to tell you earlier, but then you had to run off to save the day." He said.
"S-Sorry about that." I said with a small smile as I turned the stove off after the food was done.
"It's fine; at least I was able to tell you now. I really want you to be my girlfriend, so…will you?" he asked.
I reached up and held onto his arms that were around my neck.
"Oh, just say yes already!" a shrill voice said making us jump and turn around quickly.
Jun was there with my smiling mother as my father was banging his head into the door as a wave of despair rolled off of him.
"How long have you guys been there?" I asked mortified.
"When your friend here told you he cared about you. It was really very sweet." My mother said as Jun had stars in her eyes.
"Um, sorry for the intrusion, Mrs. Motomiya. Mr. Motomiya." Matt said bashfully as he pulled away from me.
"Oh, please. Call me Kaoru. And this is my husband Tohru." Mom said as Dad pulled away from the door.
He wasn't glaring at Matt or anything like most dads would, but he did look miserable.
"Hey." Dad greeted.
"It's nice to meet you both. Anyway, I should get going." Matt said as he started walking to the door and I followed him.
Jun giggled as she went over to the food while Dad went to his room to go sulk and Mom went to go console him.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't expecting your family to come in and make things awkward." Matt said as he put his shoes back on.
"It's fine. Just be happy my sister won't be stalking you anymore." I said.
"Didn't you say she would give up if I had a girlfriend?" he asked.
"Mm-hmm." I nodded with a smile.
Before he could say anything, I leaned in and kissed his cheek as he was out the door.
His face was red as I pulled away as was mine.
"My answer is yes. See ya around." I said as I closed the door.
I leaned against the door for a few seconds to wait for my face to cool down.
"YES!" I heard someone shout from the other side of the door.
Guess I'm not the only one excited.
Hard to believe I actually have a boyfriend now.
To be continued…