The Enemy Revealed

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Chapter Twenty Nine: The Enemy Revealed

Back at school in the computer lab, TK, Yolei, Kari, Cody, and Ken along with their Digimon partners were all sitting down on the tables and chairs exhausted.

"Whoa, that last fight was intense," TK groaned, and the others all nodded their heads at him in agreement. A snoring sound was heard and everyone looked at their Digimon who were all in a pile on the floor.

"I think they agree with you," Kari commented, picking Salamon who had de-digivolved from Gatomon as they came through the portal up in her arms.

"Fighting an ultimate level Digimon like Cyberdramon will do that to you," Ken said chuckling as he picked up Wormmon and then took out his new digivice along with the others.

"Yeah, and what about these things?" Yolei asked, looking at her digivice closely. "When ExVeemon was getting thrashed by that fake Digimon, Daisuke's digivice glowed brightly and shot a light at us, turning our D-3's into these things. It also gave Gatomon her tail ring back," she said and everyone nodded their heads.

"It sure did, and now our Digimon can probably digivolve to Ultimate level," Ken said, and everyone looked at him in surprise.

"What do you mean Ken?" TK asked him.

"Well, when we talked to Daisuke earlier, she said that her digivice broke because of ExVeemon Digivolving into AeroVeedramon, and she said that with her new digivice it shouldn't break next time," Ken answered him.

"Okay…still stumped here," Cody said to him.

"When we were in the digital world the last time, in order for our Digimon to digivolve to Ultimate we needed crests to do so," TK explained, and Kari nodded her head in agreement.

"Oh, okay, so who do you think is behind the creation of those artificial Digimon if Daisuke isn't the one responsible for creating them?" Cody asked curiously.

"I'm not sure, why don't we ask Daisuke. I mean, she might know or at least have a hint," Ken speculated. Everyone nodded before looking at TK whose eyes widened.

"Oh no, no way," he protested quickly.

"But TK," Kari whined.

"Don't 'but' me! Why have I gotta talk to Daisuke, why can't one of you guys do it?" he asked the others who all looked at him.

"Because you two get along better than any of us do," Kari told him and TK frowned slightly before he sighed and nodded his head dejectedly.

"Okay fine, you have a point," he muttered, and the others all rolled their eyes at him. "Okay, I'll talk to her tomorrow, I don't think she will like me turning up at her apartment this late," TK said before leaving the computer lab followed by the other DigiDestined.

Meanwhile, Daisuke and Veemon they had just returned to their apartment where Veemon collapsed on the bed. Daisuke smiled at him.

"Exhausted huh?" she asked him.

"Yeah and sore, that Cyberdramon was tough. Even if it was a fake, it was probably as strong as a real one would be," Veemon answered his partner, and Daisuke smiled and nodded in understanding.

"Well get some rest buddy, you need it," Daisuke told him, and Veemon nodded at her before falling asleep as his head hit his pillow. He began to snore loudly and Daisuke sighed and chuckled before she too fell asleep. The next morning Daisuke walked towards the school hoping to not confront the DigiDestined, but she had a feeling that they'd find her anyway.

"Hey Daisuke," she heard a voice say and she turned to see TK walking up to her.

"Hey TK, why are you here early?" she asked the blonde who looked at her and then into the sky for a few minutes. "I'm waiting," Daisuke growled, and TK looked at her.

"Look Dai, well I wanted to talk to you about a few things," he told her, and Daisuke looked at him before nodding at him. TK smiled at her lightly.

"Come on, let's find a spot to talk," she said, and TK nodded. They both walked off and found a bench inside the school grounds where they sat down. "So, what do you need to talk about?" Daisuke asked him. "Let me guess, you want to talk about yesterday against that fake Cyberdramon?" she asked, and TK nodded his head.

"Yeah, everyone was wondering if you knew who was behind turning the control spires into Digimon, because sadly you were our only suspect," he told her, and Daisuke sighed heavily.

"To be fair TK, I don't know who is behind the control spire Digimon, and if I did I would tell you." She paused for a moment, scrutinizing the blonde. "But I am guessing that there is more you want to talk about apart from who is behind the Digimon," she said looking at TK who nodded.

"Well Dai, I was wondering, where do we stand?" he asked, and Daisuke raised an eyebrow at him. "You know as a couple," he added nervously.

"I'm not sure, I mean I did like you before the whole Milleniummon business, and I was really beginning to get serious, but now I'm not so sure. Do you feel the same about me?" she asked, and TK looked at her in silence for a few minutes.

"I do like you even now Dai, and I want this thing to work, but I don't know how to," he told her, and Daisuke sighed, a small smile playing across her face.

"How about we work on this together, what do you say?" she asked him, and TK nodded his head at her. The two smiled at each other before the bell rang. Daisuke left with a wave of her hand to class.

TK stood there for a few moments before walking off towards his locker. Afterwards he headed towards his class. Later, after school had ended, TK walked towards the computer lab. Once he walked inside he saw Kari, Yolei, Ken, and Cody in the lab along with their Digimon partners. "Hey guys," he said to the group, and they looked at him and smiled.

"TK, so did you talk to Daisuke?" Kari asked him and he nodded his head at her. "Well?" Kari asked him.

"Oh…she said she didn't know who was behind the control spire Digimon and that if she did know she would have told us," he answered, and Kari nodded her head at him.

"There you guys are," a voice called, and everyone turned to see Izzy walk into the computer lab.

"Izzy, what're you doing here?" Cody asked him.

"Yolei mentioned that you had all gotten new digivices and I was hoping to examine them," Izzy answered and everyone glared at Yolei who chuckled nervously. "So, can I see them?" Izzy asked eagerly and everyone sighed slightly before they nodded and they took out their digivices and showed them to Izzy who gasped in amazement. "Fascinating, how did you get these?" he asked, looking at the digivices.

"Yesterday, when we faced against a Cyberdramon that was made from a control spire," Ken answered him.

"What? Who's doing that? Daisuke?" Izzy asked in confusion.

"No she isn't the one behind it, and that's why we're going to the Digital World today to find out just who is," TK answered, and Izzy nodded.

"Well okay then guys, be careful. You don't know who you your enemy is and that gives them an advantage," he told them.

"Don't worry, we will be fine. DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Kari shouted, raising her digivice to the screen of the computer, and she along with the others apart from Izzy were sucked into the computer.

"Okay guys, let's get going," Ken said to everyone. The group set off through the Digital World.

"Um guys?" Cody asked.

"Yeah Cody?" TK asked him.

"Shouldn't we wait for Daisuke?" the youngest member of the team asked, and everyone stopped and looked at him.

"Well, we could, but she is probably already in the Digital World. We're bound to run into her if she is looking for the same thing we are," TK answered.

"And that would be?" Patamon asked his partner.

"Who is behind the control spires being turned into Digimon," TK answered.

"Well we won't find out if we keep standing around here," Ken interjected, and everyone nodded as began to continue traveling.

Meanwhile, ExVeemon was hovering in the sky as a Snimon came barrelling towards him.

"ExVeemon watch it!" Daisuke shouted as the dragon ducked the attack and kicked Snimon away.

"TWIN SICKLES!" Snimon roared as he swung his scythes at ExVeemon, making him dodge and weave through the air avoiding the attack.

"Is that your best?" he taunted. The Digimon roared and flew towards him. "VEE KICK!" he shouted as he kicked Snimon in the face and cracked it. A part of it fell off revealing a control spire beneath.

"Take him out ExVeemon!" Daisuke shouted from below, and her partner nodded his head at her.

"Roger, VEE-LASER!" he roared as he crossed his arms and then fired an x shaped beam towards Snimon. It screamed before it digitised into black particles. "Geez, that was too easy," ExVeemon said.

"Good job ExVeemon," Daisuke said as her partner flew down to her.

"Can we take a break Dai, I like destroying all the control spire Digimon as much as you do but it gets exhausting," ExVeemon said.

"Sure buddy, we can take a break for now," Daisuke said smiling, and her partner smiled before he was enveloped in a data cocoon and turned back into Veemon.

"Man, this is harder than I thought," he said to Daisuke who nodded her head at him. Veemon smiled at her.

"Agreed, even though most of the control spire Digimon aren't really intelligent and more focused on major destruction, in large numbers they can make up for that in brute strength," Daisuke said and her dragon nodded.

"So, do you think we will ever find out who is behind all these Digimon being created from control spires?" he asked Daisuke who stopped walking and looked down at him.

"I'm sure of it, and when we do we'll take care of him. I should have never built those control spires," she said bitterly. "All they've done is cause misery and suffering to everyone, and now they are being used to create abominations." Veemon frowned before he grabbed Daisuke's hand and made her look down at him.

"Don't say that Dai, you had no idea that they could be used this way and also you had noble intentions with the control spires. You were just manipulated to use them the way they were," Veemon told his partner, and Daisuke smiled at him and nodded her head. She knelt down and hugged him tightly.

"Thank you, that means a lot to me coming from you buddy," she said, and Veemon giggled and hugged his partner back. Suddenly they heard a beep and Daisuke pulled out her digivice to see a map appear in holographic 3D. She saw five blips on it nearby. "Look, the others are here and they're heading towards the site of where my old base crash landed," Daisuke said, and Veemon nodded his head at his partner.

"So, looks like we're officially DigiDestined," he said.

"No way, just people working for the same purpose," Daisuke denied. "Come on," she said, and both she and Veemon ran off to find the DigiDestined.

Speaking of said DigiDestined, the five of them were now in the desert area of the digital world. What was odd is that as they did the sky darkened considerably like rain was going to come down any minute.

"Hey guys, what's that?" Patamon asked, and everyone looked to see a figure with white hair wearing a cloak covering most of his body standing in the centre of ten control spires.

"More like who is that?" Yolei corrected him as the figure turned to face the group and smirked. A black fabric mask covered his face below his piercing golden eyes.

"DigiDestined, such a pleasure to finally meet you," the figure said to them as he turned to a control spire. "Glorious pieces of engineering aren't they?" he mused as he touched the spire.

"Who are you?" TK asked him.

"Who I am, is none of your concern children, now run along before you get hurt."

"Yeah, not gonna happen right guys?" Ken asked.

"Right," Cody said, and the Digimon nodded their heads along with the other DigiDestined. The figure sighed deeply.

"It is your funeral then," He said as he pulled out ten strands of white hair and threw them into the air. "NEEDLE OF CREATION!" He roared and the ten strands straightened up and flew towards the ten control spires and sunk into them before they started to glow bright purple.

"He's the one behind the artificial Digimon!" Ken shouted.

"But how!?" Kari exclaimed as the ten control spires flew into the air and created a cloud of blue and black before forming into a Digimon that looked like a bipedal blue fox wearing robes that were black, and blue with gold trim.

"Meet Doumon, this wizard Digimon lurks in the darkness and specialises in assassinations and death-curses, you best watch out or you won't live to see tomorrow!" the figure said before he snapped his fingers and a portal opened up behind him. He jumped back into it just before Doumon landed on the ground.

"TK!" Patamon shouted.

"Right buddy. Guys?" he asked, and the others all nodded as they took out their new digivices and found their hands covered in data again.

"DNA CHARGE!" they all shouted, slamming their hands onto their digivices and they beeped and glowed as their Digimon did as well.

"PATAMON/HAWKMON/WORMMON/ARMADILLOMON DIGIVOLVE TOO… ANGEMON/AQUILLAMON/STINGMON/ANKYLOMON!"

"HAND OF FATE!" Angemon shouted, firing a beam of energy towards Doumon who leapt into the air avoiding the attack, Stingmon then flew in towards him.

"SPIKING STRIKE!" he shouted as he dived towards him with one of his stingers out and glowing purple, but Doumon looked at him and lifted a hand up.

"TALISMAN SPELL!" he shouted, and a translucent sphere appeared around him. Stingmon hit it and bounced off.

"Okay, this'll be difficult," He admitted grimly.

"Let me try!" Ankylomon roared, charging towards Doumon who looked at him. "TAIL HAMMER!" he shouted and swung his mace-like tail towards Doumon's barrier and made contact. The attack bounced off of it. Doumon then summoned a large brush. "What are you gonna do with that? Paint me to death?" Ankylomon asked him.

"TALISMAN OF DARKNESS!" Doumon roared painting a symbol in the air with his brush. The symbol glowed brightly and flew towards Ankylomon who gulped.

"This isn't good," he said as he was hit. The durable Champion was crushed into the ground with an explosion and felt his shell crack with large chunks of it being outright deleted.

"Ankylomon!" Cody shouted in panic, and Aquilamon dived towards Doumon.

"Take this! BLAST RINGS!" he roared, opening his mouth and firing energy rings towards Doumon.

"THOUSAND SPELLS!" he shouted and threw his arms forward. Numerous red paper tags flew towards the incoming attack and Aquilamon beyond it. The ones that collided with the incoming energy rings exploded violently, cancelling Aquilamon's attack while the rest sped towards the bird himself. Aquilamon managed to fly out of the way, barely avoiding the attack.

"LIGHTNING PAW!" Gatomon shouted as she charged towards Doumon. She jumped towards him with her claw outstretched and crackling with energy. Doumon caught the attack on the handle of his brush and threw her backwards. He pulled out a scroll from his robes.

"EXORCISM SCROLL!" Doumon shouted as he threw it towards Gatomon and it wrapped around her.

"Oh no," Gatomon said as the scroll detonated and sent her flying burnt and bruised crashing to the ground. Upon contact she groaned and reverted to Salamon.

"Salamon!" Kari shouted in worry.

"Dai, where are you?" TK asked himself in worry. Unknown to him, Daisuke and Veemon were running through the desert and stopped on a sand dune where saw the ongoing fight with the Champion Digimon getting thrown around.

"My turn?" Veemon asked, and Daisuke looked at him.

"Oh yeah, hero time buddy," she said taking out her digivice, and her hand was engulfed in blue data. "DNA CHARGE!" she shouted, slamming her hand into her glowing digivice.

"VEEMON DIGIVOLVE TOO…EXVEEMON!" Veemon shouted as he digivolved into ExVeemon. He flew towards the battle just as Doumon rose into the air. "EX-VEE KICK!" he shouted as he kicked Doumon in the face and sent him crashing down into the ground.

"ExVeemon!" Angemon shouted in relief.

"Hope I'm not too late to join in on the party," The winged dragon replied.

"If he's here than that means…" TK trailed off as he looked at Daisuke who nodded her head and him smiled, which he returned.

"So, another Ultimate huh?" ExVeemon asked as Doumon got to his feet.

"Yeah, and I doubt this will be easy," Angemon said to him.

"THOUSAND SPELLS!" Doumon roared, launching numerous paper tags towards the two of them.

"Watch it!" ExVeemon shouted and they both ducked under the tags that exploded moments after.

"I got this guys," Stingmon said flying towards Doumon. "SPINNING SPIKING STRIKE!" he shouted as his feet became a blur and started to pummel Doumon. Unfortunately for Stingmon, every strike was met with a block from Doumon's brush handle. "Oh come on," Stingmon said before he was punched and sent flying before he righted himself mid-fall.

"TALISMAN OF DARKNESS!" Doumon roared, taking out his brush and painting a symbol again. It glowed bright purple and flew towards Stingmon. The off balance Stingmon would have been struck if it wasn't for Angemon flying up and shoving him out of the way. The mark hit the ground and exploded.

"VEE LASER!" ExVeemon roared, firing an x shaped laser towards Doumon.

"TALISMAN SPELL!" Doumon countered, creating a barrier and blocking the attack. "THOUSAND STAR!" he shouted as he held his hands up and several stars appeared in them. He threw them towards the Champions who all scattered. All of them avoided direct hits by none escaped without long and painful cuts.

"Guys, we need to attack together and remain mobile!" Stingmon shouted. The other Champions nodded. They scattered in a circle around Doumon. "Ready guys?" he asked everyone, and they all nodded. As everyone readied an attack, Doumon interrupted.

"SHIKIGAMI DANCE," he said calmly, and a swarm of red tags appeared around him and shifted into various origami animal forms made out of the same red paper. They all dove towards the surrounding Champions.

"VEE LASER!" ExVeemon interjected, and his attack crashed into the incoming shikigami. It destroyed several but many more continued forth. He started flying in various patterns to discourage pursuit, but the shikigami were persistent. Soon they began to swarm the blue dinosaur and each of them made a cut into his body as they flew around. With each cut ExVeemon found himself a little bit weaker and eventually he fell to the ground, unable to move.

The others were doing no better; they each tried to destroy or evade the incoming swarm, but there were far too many and the curses that each carried made each of them fall to the ground, too weak to move. Ankylomon, already badly injured, reverted to his Rookie stage as some shikigami went after him, along with Aquilamon. Stingmon was down for the count and barely hanging on. Angemon managed to hold onto his evolution at least for the moment, not that it did him any good as he still couldn't move. Even his holy type data couldn't protect him against the massive horde of curses he had to fight. Doumon turned to the DigiDestined.

"TALISAMAN OF DARKNESS!" Doumon shouted again as this time it was aimed towards the DigiDestined.

"Guys!" Daisuke shouted in panic. This panic was gave Angemon a small burst of energy. Fortunately he was lying very nearby, and managed to lunge into the attack's path. The explosion immediately dispelled his evolution as he reverted to Patamon. Daisuke gritted her teeth. 'This can't be the end,' she thought to herself. "ExVeemon!" she shouted. "Please get up, do something! You can't give up ExVeemon, you just can't! You have to get back up and beat this fake Digimon!" Daisuke cried to her partner. "I have to get stronger!" she shouted to herself as her entire body was engulfed in blue data particles and the DigiDestined gasped.

"Daisuke!" everyone shouted in shock as Doumon looked at her. Daisuke glared at him before she took out her digivice.

"D…N…A FULL CHARGE!" she shouted as she slammed her hand into her digivice and it glowed brightly before firing a bright blue beam of energy towards ExVeemon. It engulfed him and he opened his eyes.

"EXVEEMON, DIGIVOLVE TOO… AEROVEEDRAMON!" ExVeemon roared as he digivolved into AeroVeedramon. Doumon growled at him. AeroVeedramon then roared loudly as he took off into the sky.

"AeroVeedramon! Alright! Now this fake is in for it!" Daisuke said smiling.

"MAGNUM CRUSHER!" AeroVeedramon roared as he blurred towards Doumon and went to punch him. The wizard Digimon blocked with his brush and was sent flying into the ground, causing smoke to rise up. The swarming shikigami immediately dove towards AeroVeedramon in a massive cloud.

"WIND GUARDIAN!" AeroVeedramon countered, and an opposing blast of wind pushed the red paper animals back. After a few moments, they all combined into one long scroll of red paper and circled around AeroVeedramon's wind barrier.

"EXORCISM SCROLL!" Doumon countered, and the red scroll glowed and exploded in a massive blast. Doumon flew into the air and waited to see the result. Before the smoke cleared, a voice was heard.

"V-WING BLADE!" AeroVeedramon roared as he fired a v-shaped beam towards Doumon. Doumon countered with surprising speed.

"TALISMAN SPELL!" A translucent sphere once again appeared around Doumon and dispersed the incoming attack. "TALISMAN OF DARKNESS!" "THOUSAND SPELLS!" Doumon released one attack after another but every time AeroVeedramon would disappear in a burst of speed.

"V-BREATH ARROW!" AeroVeedramon spat out a v-shaped ray that Doumon managed to barely avoid. The winged dragon appeared next to his opponent in a rapid movement. "MAGNUM CRUSHER!" A glowing fist crashed into Doumon once again, and this time it wasn't even blocked. The wizard Digimon was sent crashing into the ground where he lay there stunned. "V-WING BLADE!" AeroVeedramon cried. His wings formed a V-shape and released a beam into the downed Digimon. Doumon screamed before vanishing in a burst of black particles.

"He did it!" Salamon cheered.

"Incredible, he won," Ken said smiling as AeroVeedramon landed beside Daisuke. He didn't look particularly tired but there were some visible burns on his scales from the explosion he was caught in.

"So, how'd I do?" he asked as Daisuke hugged his leg.

"You did great, and my digivice handled the strain of turning you into Ultimate this time," she said and AeroVeedramon puffed his chest out.

"I know, ain't I a badass?" he boasted.

"Nope, you're a big giant softie at heart," Daisuke said giggling.

"Oh come on, I am a giant winged dragon, that doesn't scream softie now does it?" AeroVeedramon complained plaintively, and Daisuke laughed.

"Keep telling yourself that bud," she said and AeroVeedramon pouted, an odd sight for the usually chipper blue dragon. A few minutes later, the DigiDestined told Daisuke about the mysterious figure and the mahogany haired girl frowned.

"So this guy, whoever he is, is the one behind the control spires being turned into Digimon, right?" she asked, and everyone nodded at her. "At least we know who we're facing in a way, and that the spires don't just change on their own," she added. Daisuke paused for a moment. "Not that we really thought the spires were changing on their own."

"What do we do now?" Kari asked.

"We go home and recover, our Digimon took a beating from Doumon. Then we go and find out who this guy is, and when we do, WHAM!" Daisuke exclaimed, punching her palm with her fist.

"Good plan, nice and simple," Ken said with a wry grin at her, and she nodded her head back at him.

"Thanks for helping us Dai," TK said.

"No problem guys, it is the least I can do," she replied.

"So do you think you can join the DigiDestined, we could use your help," Yolie said.

"I'll think on that, but for now, later," Daisuke said as AeroVeedramon grabbed her gently and flew off.

The end of the chapter

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