Brought Together In The Aftermath
By ArtikGato
Disclaimer: I own Digimon!!!
Veemon: No you don't.
Me: SILENCE, YOU!!
Veemon: But you don't--
Me: MC, however, is 100% mine!
Veemon: Actually, he's not. You only came up with his name.
Me: I said SILENCE!!! SILENCIO!! FERME LA BOUSHE!! URUSAI! SHIZUKA NI!
Veemon: All right!! All right! I get the picture!!
Me: I suppose I own Dark Lord too.
Veemon: Well—
Me: *tackles him, and tapes his mouth shut with duct tape* You get the picture!
Author's Note: Hello again! It is I, ArtikGato, back to bring you Part Three of Brought Together In The Aftermath. Read the Author's Note for Part One if you didn't, to save me having to retype the same thing here. Same as before, flames are NOT welcome. If you must point out your disagreement with any aspect of this story, please do it nicely, and not in 75 point red fonts. Oh, and by the way, to add a little bit of culture to this fic, I'm naming the different parts by their French numbers. Trois (pronounced 'Twah') is three in French. And as for Part Two, yes, I know that a baby Monochromon can't TECHNICALLY exist, but, oh well. Just think of MC as a midget Monochromon if you want to. I don't care. Just don't flame me. Or do flame me. I won't care. I'll just get my Shellmon to put it out. And, don't worry, I don't tweak around with the laws of the Digiworld TOO much in my other stories. Ok, on to part three!
Part Trois:
In the Real World, Tai, Matt, TK and Sora were trying to round up the Digidestined. Immediately after being called by Matt, Tai called Ken's house, but he wasn't there. He left a message at Ken's house and at his own for them to go to the Digiworld right away, and he decided to meet up with TK, Matt, and Sora. Matt called Izzy's house, but he wasn't there, or at Yolei's, so Matt took off to try and find them. Meanwhile, TK called Cody and Joe, and Sora went with Matt to try and find Izzy and Yolei.
In the Digiworld, Tentomon, Biyomon, and Hawkmon found Gabumon, Gomamon, and Armadillomon, very badly beaten up, and nearly too weak to walk. They sent a distress call to the Digidestined, and then started the slow process of getting the three of them back to safety. On the other side of the Digiworld, Gatomon and Wormon found Gennai's house, burnt to the ground, but there was no sign of Gennai.
Meanwhile, Davis, Mimi, Palmon, and the family of Monochromon found themselves in trouble. A LOT of trouble.
"What?" Mimi and Davis asked. Palmon nodded.
"That's him! I'm sure of it!" she replied. The creature on the canyon wall laughed, and began to speak.
"Digidestined! Are you saying that you don't recognize me?" he asked. Davis, Palmon, and Mimi blinked in surprise.
"Uh, no, are we supposed to?" Davis asked.
"Ha, if you don't even recognize me then there's no use telling you who I am," he said, and then pointed to Palmon. "You escaped me once before... but that won't happen again!" he said, and then his claw began to glow with a strange light, and then turned into...one of Snimon's sickles!
"Twin Sickles!" he exclaimed, and sliced the air with his sickle for a hand. Two bursts of pink light shot out of it and toward Palmon, Davis, and Mimi!
"Watch out!" Davis exclaimed, as he grabbed Mimi's arm, pulling her out of the way. Palmon jumped to the side.
"How did he do that?" Mimi asked, shocked.
"Never mind that, Mimi, you have to make me Digivolve!" Palmon exclaimed. Mimi nodded, and held up her Digivice.
"Right," she said.
"Palmon Digivolve to... Togemon!"
"Ooh, a Champion! I'm SO scared!" he creature replied.
"How 'bout a little NEEDLE SPRAY!!" Togemon exclaimed, and shot her needles at him. He simply held up his one claw.
"Blaze Buster!" he exclaimed, and the needles disintegrated in a wave of fire. Togemon leapt out of the way to keep from being burnt.
"That was Tyrannomon's attack! How can he use both Snimon's AND Tyrannomon's attacks?" Davis asked.
"Who are you, anyway?" Mimi demanded.
"HA! As I said before, it would be a waste to tell you, since you already know!" he replied. Davis glared at him.
"What are you talking about? We've never seen you before in our lives!" Mimi protested.
"Ah, but yes you have. You're just not aware of it! But, for now, oh confused and simple minded Digidestined, you can call me the Dark Lord," he said, and then held up his sickle. It glowed, and turned into a blaster.
"That looks like Gorillamon's arm!" Mimi exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're right!" Davis agreed.
"Energy Cannon!" Dark Lord exclaimed, and shot a pulse of energy at Togemon. She jumped into the air.
"He's too strong, Mimi!" Togemon exclaimed, as she landed on the ground a few feet away.
"Ok then, let's go to Ultimate!" Mimi replied, and began to glow with a green energy. Her crest.
"Togemon Digivolve to... Lillymon!"
"I just got a distress call from Tentomon!" Izzy exclaimed, looking at his Digivice.
"Yeah, and I got one from Hawkmon," Yolei said. They looked at each other.
"We have to get to a computer right away," Izzy said. Yolei nodded.
"First, we should let the others know," she replied. She took out her D-Terminal, only to find that there was already a message there. "I got a message! It's from TK, and he says that they've been trying to get a hold of us all day!"
"What? But we just got the distress call--" Izzy started.
"Let's go, I have a feeling that this is big,' Yolei replied.
"Flower Cannon!" Lillymon blasted her attack at the Dark Lord. He jumped out of the way, and took to the air with his huge wings.
"Missed! Is that the best you can do, girly?" he asked. Suddenly, he was hit by two huge blasts of fire and one tiny one. He looked down, in a rage, to see MC and his parents charging fireballs.
"Watch out guys!" Davis yelled to them. Dark Lord smirked, and held up his blaster hand. It morphed into Seadramon's head!
"Ice Blast!" he exclaimed, and fired a huge blast of cold air at Lillymon.
"WATCH OUT!" Davis yelled.
"LILLYMON!" Mimi exclaimed. She was hit, and thrown back against the canyon wall. He kept up with the attack, until she was frozen against the canyon wall. With an evil laugh, Dark Lord flew down toward the family of Monochromon.
"VOLCANIC STRIKE!" they exclaimed, and shot three fireballs at Dark Lord. He dodged around them, and held up Seadramon's head. It quickly turned into a claw again. He held up both claws.
"Horn Blaster!" he exclaimed, and shot a blast of white energy at the Monochromon.
"AAAH!" MC exclaimed, jumped off of his father's back, and hid underneath, as his parents deflected the attack with their hard shells. They charged fireballs again. Mimi suddenly got an idea.
"Monochromon! Aim a fireball at Lillymon!" she yelled.
"What??" Davis asked.
"Volcanic Strike!" both fireballs were dodged by Dark Lord, but one of them hit Lillymon dead on. Dark Lord turned around in the air.
"Oh no!" he said.
"What did you do that for??" Davis demanded. Lillymon suddenly flew out of the cloud of dust and debris, perfectly fine.
` "To melt the ice," Mimi replied.
"Oh," Davis said. "Huh, why didn't I think of that," Mimi smiled, but turned back to Lillymon.
"Give him everything you've got!" she yelled. Lillymon nodded, and flew toward him.
"Hey, big and ugly! How do you like girl power now? Flower Cannon!" he was hit as he looked around, trying to spot the fast flying Lillymon. He smashed into the side of the canyon, but shook it off, and flew back into the air.
'You pathetic weakling! Do you think that hurt me?" he asked, looking around. Lillymon was flying so fast, that he could barely keep up with her.
'Volcanic Strike!" Dark Lord was hit by two fireballs. He glared down at the Monochromon.
"You two are becoming nuisances!" he exclaimed, and held out both of his claws. A huge ball made out of some sort of crystal materialized in his hands. From the crystal ball, a beam of gray light shot down, and hit the Monochromon!
"AAAH!!!" MC exclaimed, and ran out of the way just as the attack hit his parents.
"Oh no!" Mimi and Davis exclaimed. Lillymon stopped in midair, in shock.
"Mama! Dadda!" MC cried, a few feet away from them. They didn't seem to be hurt by the light, but. suddenly, turned into Digi-Dust and were sucked up into the crystal ball. Mimi, Davis, and Lillymon cried out in shock and horror.
"Mama!! Dadda!!" MC yelled. The beam of light faded away, and the crystal disappeared.
"How did--" Mimi asked, but was cut off by Dark Lord laughing his evil laugh.
"Digidestined! Time to show you my REAL power!" he exclaimed, and held up both his claws. The armor that was once on the Monochromon materialized onto his body.
"How.." Davis said, but stopped. He couldn't find the words to ask the million different questions floating through his head
"I see. He absorbs Digimon into that crystal thing, and then he can use their attacks or parts of their body to make himself stronger!" Mimi exclaimed. Dark Lord laughed.
"Very good, you've figured that part out, but you still haven't figured out one thing... how you're going to get away from me!! Volcanic Strike!" Dark Lord replied. Lillymon barely dodged two fireballs.
"Flower Cannon!" Dark Lord dodged, and morphed his hands into Kuwagamon's claws. He flew directly at Lillymon. She kept her place in the sky.
"Flower Cannon!" once again she tried to hit him, but he simply dodged, and, before Lillymon could react, he had slammed her into the wall, pinning her to it with Kuwagamon's claws.
"Lillymon!" Mimi yelled. MC ran up to them.
"Davis, what happened to Mama and Dadda?" MC asked, crying. Davis looked from Dark Lord and Lillymon to MC.
"Don't worry, we'll get them back.." he said, although he wasn't sure if they could be gotten back. Lillymon struggled, in vain, against the Dark Lord.
"Ah, so YOU are the one who destroyed my precious Dark Spirals?" Dark Lord asked.
"YOUR Dark Spirals?" Davis asked, shocked.
"I got an email from Yolei, she and Izzy are headed here right now," TK announced.
"Then we have to tell Matt and Sora, they're both out there looking for them right now," Joe replied. TK quickly keyed another message into his D-Terminal.
"Time to end this, Fire Breath!" Dark Lord said, and a blast of fire came out of his mouth and engulfed Lillymon.
"LILLYMON!!" Mimi yelled. She de-digivolved, and fell out of Dark Lord's claws. Mimi started to run up and catch her, but Davis held her back.
"No! Dark Lord will make lunchmeat out of you!" he exclaimed, pulling her back from running up to catch Palmon. Dark Lords smirked, and transformed Kuwagamon's claws. One turned back into the claws he had before, and the other into what looked like Palmon's hand.
"Nemesis Ivy," he said, and shot blue vines down, and caught her in midair.
"Dark Lord saved her?" Davis asked, still holding Mimi back. She had stopped struggling, in surprise.
"But why?" she asked. Dark Lord laughed.
"Why? Simple! If I let her die, she would just come back in the Primary Village and return to fight me. This way," he started, pulling the unconscious Palmon up, "I get to keep her out of my hair. Besides, I've got quite a little collection of Digidestined Digimon going," he pulled her up, and then looked up. The cloud that had been glowing red descended, and he jumped into the air, and flew up toward it.
"Wait!!" Mimi yelled, running toward the canyon's edge. Davis ran after her. Dark Lord turned around, and laughed. Davis glared up at him.
"Bring her back!" Mimi demanded. Dark Lord smirked, but shook his head.
"Sorry, but that's not happening," he replied.
"You better let her go or else! And bring back Veemon!" Davis yelled, angrily.
"So, YOUR Digimon is Veemon? I'll tell him you said hello!" Dark Lord replied, tauntingly, and rose up toward the cloud.
"Get back here!!" Mimi yelled.
"Oh, don't worry, I'll be seeing you again, Digidestined. Until we meet again, in battle!" he said, and disappeared into the red cloud. Davis stopped in his tracks.
"What?" he asked, in disbelief. The red cloud drifted up into the other clouds, and vanished. Instantly, the sky turned back to normal, blinding the Digidestined and MC.
"Palmon!" Mimi yelled, sinking to the ground. Davis blinked, and let his eyes adjust to the brightness.
"Until we meet again, in battle? That sounds like what Ken said to me, the first time we found out he was the Digimon Emperor. This must be a coincidence. There is no way that there's a connection between this guy and Ken... unless I'm missing something,"
"Tai, did you find Kari and Ken?" Matt asked. Tai shook his head.
"No, I couldn't find them. But, I left a message for them," he replied.
"Well, we can't wait around for them to go home, and we can't go searching all over Tokyo for them!" Yolei exclaimed.
"We'll have to go without them, then, and hope that they come later," Izzy said.
"Fine by me," TK said. Everyone shot him looks of pity.
"All right, if this is everyone, then I think we should get going," Tai said, after a few seconds of silence. Everyone nodded. Yolei held her Digivice up to Izzy's laptop and exclaimed 'Digiport Open!'
"Great, now what?" Davis asked, sitting down. Mimi walked up to him.
"We have to go find the others," she said. Davis shook his head.
"You can, but I'm not," he replied.
"Not this again! Davis, you have to come back with me!" she exclaimed. He stood up.
"NO!!" he yelled, and started walking in one random direction.
"Davis--" MC started.
"You!! Don't you understand? Without Veemon--" she started. He stopped walking, and turned around.
"I DON'T CARE!! I'M NOT GOING BACK, AND YOU CAN'T FORCE ME!!" he yelled. She walked toward him, fuming.
"YOU'RE COMING BACK!!" she yelled back at him.
"NO! NO, NO, NO!!!" he yelled, as loud as she could. She clenched her fists, trying to contain her anger at how idiotic and stubborn he was acting, but she just couldn't stop herself..
"THAT'S IT!!" she screamed, and slapped him across the face, hard. He stumbled backwards, shocked. "I'M TIRED OF THIS STUPID STUBBORN ACT OF YOURS!" she yelled. His face turned angry again.
"Why did you slap me??" he demanded.
"BECAUSE YOU NEEDED TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE WHAT A TOTAL IDIOT YOU'RE BEING!! Davis, no matter what problems you have with the others, they're still your friends! And, besides, without Veemon and Palmon, we could EASILY get ambushed out here and get hurt or even die!" she said.
"Well you didn't have to slap me!" he retorted.
"Yes, yes I did. How else was I SUPPOSED to get you to wake up out of that delusional dream of yours? You know as well as I do that the Digital World can be a brutal place. But, you haven't even experienced half of what I have. You don't know what it was like back then, to have to kill evil Digimon, or be killed yourself. You got off easy," Mimi replied, tears starting to well up in her eyes. Davis didn't say anything. "Whether or not you want to come back to the others with me, you have to. You won't last long here in the Digiworld without Veemon, especially with that..that freak of nature running around!" she continued.
'All right, fine, you win," he grumbled.
A dark figure in a black cloak walked down a long, black hallway, carrying Palmon. It was Dark Lord, except he had replaced the Digimon parts of him with normal, human looking parts. He walked up to a door, pushed a few buttons, and it slid to the side. He stepped into a room that was lit with red light from an unknown light source. There were twelve tube like things in a semicircle around him. In two of the tubes, stood Digimon. One was a small, dinosaur-like Orange Digimon, his skin tinted red in the strange light. He glared at Dark Lord.
"Let us out of these cages now!" he exclaimed. Dark Lord just laughed.
"This again? Haven't you figured it out? You're not getting out until you surrender to the Dark Side!" he exclaimed. Agumon growled. In the cage next to him, another dinosaur-like Digimon, this one blue with a white stomach, spoke up, a glare of hatred on his face.
"Then I guess we'll stay here for eternity, because we'll never surrender!" he exclaimed. Dark Lord shrugged.
"Whatever you wish," he said, and lifted Palmon. Agumon and Veemon gasped.
"What have you done to Palmon?" Veemon demanded. Dark Lord chuckled, and walked over to the tube next to Veemon. He touched a panel on it, and a door on it slid open.
"Oh, I just knocked her out so I could add her to my collection of Digidestined Digimon," he said, as he shoved the plant Digimon into the tube. Agumon growled in disgust. He closed the tube, and walked out of the room, Agumon and Veemon glaring at him with hatred burning in their eyes. Veemon turned to look at Palmon, bruised and battered.
"I hope she's OK," he said. Agumon turned to him.
"I'm sure she's fine, she's tough," he said, and then noticed that Veemon was staring into space, with a forlorn look on his face.
"Veemon? What's up?" he asked. Veemon sighed, and slumped down to a sitting position inside the tube.
"Nothing. This just seems hopeless," he said. Agumon too sat down.
"Don't you worry, Tai, Davis and the others will bail us out, I'm sure of it," Agumon said, unsurity in his voice. Veemon sighed. Agumon turned to look, and noticed that he was staring at Palmon again.
"Uh, Veemon.." he started. Veemon didn't look away.
"Yeah?" he asked. Agumon suddenly had a startling realization, and grinned.
"Veemon, what ever happened to that crush you had on Gatomon?" he asked, suddenly. Veemon turned to look at him, puzzled.
"What? Where did that come from?" he asked.
"Just answer the question!" Agumon replied.
"Well...when Kari and Ken started going out, I kinda lost hope on her ever liking me," Veemon replied, a tinge of sadness in his voice. Agumon looked sad, but then grinned again.
"But you have a crush on ANOTHER Digimon now, don't you?" he asked. Veemon looked at him, shocked and a little wary.
"What? What are you talking about?" he asked, nervously.
"I can tell when you have a crush on a Digimon, Veemon, and I can definitely tell that you have a crush on...PALMON!" Agumon exclaimed. Veemon jumped up, a bit of red appearing on his cheeks that was even darker than the shade of red his cheeks were due to the unnatural light.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" he said, loudly, and sat back down, facing the direction opposite Agumon.
A few doors down from the room Agumon, Veemon, and Palmon were in, Dark Lord stood in a room with dark walls. There was a large control panel on one wall, and television screens of all shapes and sizes were on the other walls. They all showed static, at the moment. Dark Lord walked up to the control panel, and pushed a few buttons. Instantly, the screens showed Davis, Mimi, and MC walking along a dirt path in the Digiworld. Darkness had begun to fall around them. He grinned.
"Davis, you and the rest of your friends will pay for what you did to me! Just you wait and see!" he exclaimed. He punched a few more buttons, and Tai, Matt, Sora, Yolei, Izzy, Joe, TK, Cody, and their Digimon, excluding Agumon, appeared on another screen. He narrowed his eyes, and his lips twisted into an evil grin.
"And you, Digidestined and Digimon, you will soon face my wrath!!" he exclaimed.
"I say some of us go look for them," Cody spoke up. TK nodded.
"They should have been back by now, or sent us an Email, or something like that. Mimi left over five hours ago to go look for him," he said.
"Yeah, and, even though Togemon isn't the fastest Digimon, she can still make good time," Sora pointed out.
"Ok, we'll just have to go look for them," Izzy replied.
"The only problem is, Joe, Cody and I have to stay here and take care of Gabumon, Gomamon and Armadillomon," Matt added, gesturing to their battered partner Digimon.
"Ok, we'll form a search party, then," Tai said.
"Well, I volunteer to go," Yolei spoke up, eager to look for her idol, Mimi.
"I'll go to," Izzy said. Yolei grinned. Tai arched an eyebrow, and made a gagging noise.
"Oh, shut up, Tai!" Yolei yelled at him, and then hugged Izzy from the side. "You're just jealous that you don't have a great girl like me and Izzy does!" Tai laughed, and Yolei stuck her tongue out at him. Izzy sighed.
"Well, I think I'll stay here. Matt, Joe and Cody might need someone to protect them in case that weird guy shows up," TK said. Sora nodded.
"I'll stay here too," Sora replied. Everyone looked at Tai.
"So, are you going or staying, Tai?" Sora asked.
"I'll go, I guess," Tai said, and shrugged, "though, it might be wiser to stay here so I don't interrupt the 'lovebirds'," he said, mockingly. Yolei glared at him, and Izzy sighed.
"Are we taking Aquilamon or Kabuterimon?" Izzy asked Yolei. Yolei thought for a second.
"Well, Kabuterimon can see better at night, due to the fact that he is an insect and insects have better night vision, caused by their heightened sonar senses," Yolei said. Izzy was the only person who understood most of that.
"In English?" Tai asked. Izzy sighed, and turned to them.
"We're going to fly on Kabuterimon because he has better vision at night," he explained.
"Oh, ok," Tai said. Izzy rolled his eyes.
"Are you coming or not, Tai?" Izzy asked. Tai seemed to think about that for a second.
"Ok, I'll come," he said.
Tentomon Digivolve to...Kabuterimon!
"We'll be back in about half an hour, if we don't detect Davis and Mimi's signals! Wait here!" Yolei shouted, over Kabuterimon's buzzing. Then, the huge beetle took off, carrying Izzy, Yolei, and Tai on his head.
Davis, Mimi, and MC trudged along a dirt path. It was twilight, and they could barely see anything.
"You know what? Raidramon would really come in handy right now, he can run fast, and light up the darkness..." Davis started. Mimi sighed.
"Yeah, too bad you don't have Veemon," she said. They kept walking. The bushes to the right of the path they were walking on suddenly rustled. They jumped, and looked at the bushes with fear. The bushes continued to rustle. Quivering, Mimi clung to Davis' arm. Davis blushed, but it didn't last long, as he was way too focused on whatever was in that bush. The bushes rustled once more, and a small Digimon with a mushroom on it's head jumped out.
:"Oh, it's only a Mushroomon," Davis said. Mimi looked closer at the Digimon.
"Davis! That thing has a Dark Ring!" she exclaimed.
"Huh?" he asked, and looked at it's mushroom. Around it was, indeed, a Dark Ring.
"That's not a good thing!" he exclaimed, as they backed away from the Mushroomon. It lifted it's head, and they could see red eyes gleaming in the near darkness. With an evil grin on it's face, it raised it's hands, as if to attack.
"Fungus Crusher!" the Mushroomon exclaimed, but before he could attack, a fireball collided with him, and "Volcanic Strike!" was heard. The Mushroomon flew off into the trees beyond the path, flaming a little from the attack. Davis and Mimi, Mimi still clutching onto Davis' arm, looked down, to see MC with his mouth open and his back arched.
"All right MC! You got him!" Davis exclaimed.
"Quick, let's get out of here, before more of them show up!" Mimi exclaimed, letting go of Davis' arm. Suddenly, the bushes all around them rustled, and red eyes gleamed out of the darkness of the trees around them. They gulped, and backed up a step. Suddenly, dozens of Mushroomon with red eyes leapt out of the bushes and formed a semicircle in front of Davis, Mimi and MC.
"Fungus Crusher!" they all exclaimed, and held up their hands. Mimi screamed, and Davis snapped out of his state of shock.
"RUN!!!" he shouted, picking up MC hurriedly in one hand and grabbing Mimi's arm in the other. He took off in the other direction, pulling Mimi and MC along with him. Behind them, small explosions formed in the dirt, and the Mushroomon began to pursue them. MC leapt onto Davis' shoulder.
"Volcanic Strike!" he yelled, and blasted a few Mushroomon into the air with a flaming attack.
"Nice shot!" Mimi said, looking over her shoulder.
"Tai! I'm home!!" Kari exclaimed, as she stepped in the front door of the Kamiya apartment. When there was no answer, she went in search of a note. Her parents were at a meeting of sorts, but she had expected Tai to be home by now... On the fridge, she found a note, among the other notes, written in huge, bright red letters.
KARI THIS IS URGENT, GO TO THE DIGIWORLD RIGHT AWAY!! THE DIGIMON NEED OUR HELP!! OH, AND TELL KEN TO COME TOO!! AGUMON'S BEEN CAPTURED!!!
-Tai-
She rushed over to the phone, and quickly dialed Ken's number.
"Hello?" asked Ken.
"Ken, did you get a message from Tai?" Kari asked, frantically.
"No, I haven't checked my Email yet, why? What's wrong, Kari?" Ken asked.
"I found a note on the fridge in big red letters from Tai, he said that the Digimon were in trouble and Agumon's been captured! He told me to call you and get to the Digiworld right away!" she replied.
"What?" Ken demanded.
"That's what the note says!" Kari exclaimed.
"All right, then we have to get to the Digiworld, and fast. I'll meet you there!" Ken exclaimed.
"Right, bye!" Kari said, and hung up the phone. She pulled her pink Digivice out of her jacket pocket, and headed for her room.
"I've got a reading!!" Yolei shouted, over Kabuterimon's buzzing. Izzy and Tai looked at her Digivice. Two blinking dots appeared on the screen.
"Great! All right, Kabuterimon, turn to the left a little!" Izzy exclaimed, and Kabuterimon obliged.
"This is seriously not good," Davis said. He, Mimi, and MC were standing in the center of a huge circle of Digimon. Aside from the Mushroomon from earlier, there were also Kunemon, larvae Digimon that shoot thread of static electricity, and Goburimon, goblin Digimon that attack with fire.
"Volcanic Strike!" MC shot an attack at a few Mushroomon, making them back up a little. The other Digimon growled, menacingly.
"I don't suppose you guys are going to let us go peacefully, huh?" Mimi asked to a few Kunemon on her right. They glared at her.
"Can't we all just be friends?" Davis asked a troupe of Goburimon, who snarled at him. Mimi and Davis backed up, until they had their backs together, with MC facing forward, charging another fireball.
"Volcanic Strike!" a few Mushroomon simply jumped out of the way.
"Oh no, we're doomed!" Davis said. The Digimon glared at them, and then moved to attack.
"Goodbye, Mimi! Nice knowing you!" Davis exclaimed.
"Dito!" Mimi replied.
"Fungus Crusher!" the Mushroomon raised their hands.
"Electric Thread!" the Kunemon sparkled with static electricity.
"Goburi Bomb!" balls of fire grew in the Goburimon's hands. Davis and Mimi gulped. The Digimon shot their attacks at the helpless trio, but when the dust cleared, they had disappeared! The circle of Digimon looked around, confused. Above them, Shurimon appeared, with Davis, Mimi, and MC in it's vine like arms.
"Shurimon!" they both exclaimed, shocked. Kabuterimon flew up.
"Good work, Shurimon!" Yolei shouted. Shurimon flew up to Kabuterimon, and dropped Davis, Mimi, and MC off onto his head. He De-digivolved back into Hawkmon, and landed beside Yolei.
"Why were those Digimon about to roast you two...er, three?" Izzy asked, noticing MC.
"Probably something Davis said," Yolei said, flatly. Davis shot a death glare at her.
"No, they have Dark Rings on them, that's why!" Davis replied, in a tone of defiance.
"Dark Rings?" Tai, Izzy, Yolei, Kabuterimon, and Hawkmon asked at the same time, in shock.
"Yeah, that's right. Some how, the Dark Rings that Ken used have become active again," Mimi backed Davis up.
"Hey, what happened to Palmon?" Tai asked, noticing that the power plant wasn't with Mimi.
"Well.." Mimi started, but then started to cry, and Davis finished for her.
"Dark Lord captured her," he said.
"Who's Dark Lord?" Yolei asked.
"Dark Lord? You mean that man that attacked Primary Village?" Hawkmon demanded. Davis nodded. Mimi wiped her eyes, and stopped crying, feeling embarrassed. Two sudden explosions of fireballs to their left and right startled them back into reality, and they looked down. The Goburimon were charging some more fireballs, preparing to attack them.
"What do we do about them?" Tai asked.
"Well, if they're being controlled by Dark Rings, then we have to remove the Dark Rings," Izzy said.
"How are we supposed to do that without hurting them?" Yolei asked.
"We have to get the Dark Rings off, though!" Davis replied. Hawkmon stood up.
"Kabuterimon and I will have to attack them, then. Yolei?" he asked. Yolei nodded, and took her Digivice out of her pocket.
"Digi Armor Energize!"
"Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to... Halsemon, the Wings of Love!" Yolei jumped off of Kabuterimon's head and landed on Halsemon's back. Halsemon swooped down toward the circle of Digimon, and Kabuterimon followed.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon exclaimed, and shot two beams of red light from his eyes. Two Mushroomon were hit, and their Dark Rings disintegrated.
"Hold on tight, everyone! Electroshocker!" Kabuterimon yelled. Mimi, Izzy, Tai, Davis, and MC clung to Kabuterimon's head, as he released a blast of electricity onto the Digimon bellow. It hit a good half of them, and their Dark Rings broke off.
Gabumon stirred a little, and opened his eyes. He focused them, and saw that Matt was looking at him, a worried expression on his face.
"Gabumon! Are you all right?" Matt asked. Gabumon sat up, wearily.
"Anybody get the number of the Monochromon that just hit me?" he asked, and then shook his head. "I'm fine, just a little tired," he said. He looked around, and saw Biyomon and Patamon sitting in a tree, and Sora and TK sitting on the ground nearby. Joe and Cody also sat nearby, each holding their Digimon, Gomamon and Armadillomon respectively, who looked badly bruised. Patamon's ears suddenly twitched, and he sat up, and looked around, worried.
"What is it, Patamon?" TK asked.
"Trouble is headed this way!" Patamon exclaimed. Sora and Matt stood up, and looked around.
"From where?" Matt asked.
"The sky!" Biyomon exclaimed, as she and Patamon rose into the air. Everyone looked around, and then saw a glowing, crimson colored cloud coming over the horizon toward them. Gabumon gasped, suddenly, a look of fear in his eyes. Patamon and Biyomon did, as well.
"What is it?" Sora asked, looking at the cloud.
"I saw that over Primary Village, just before it got attacked! That man came out of it!" Gabumon exclaimed. Biyomon and Patamon nodded.
"If that's true, then we'd better get out of here, and fast!" Joe exclaimed, standing up, with Gomamon in his arms. Cody nodded.
"Normally, I'd say that we should stay and fight, but, right now, that doesn't seem like such a bad idea," Matt replied. Sora and TK looked to Biyomon and Patamon.
"You two are the only ones that can Digivolve, are you up to it?" Sora asked. They nodded.
"Ready!" Patamon replied.
"The Biyomon transport service is ready and waiting!" Biyomon exclaimed, saluting them. Sora and TK nodded, taking their Digivices out of their pockets.
"Digi Armor Energize!"
"Patamon Armor Digivolve to... Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
"Biyomon Digivolve to... Birdramon!"
Pegasusmon, carrying TK, Gabumon and Matt on his back, rose into the air, followed by Birdramon, carrying Sora, Joe, Cody, and their unconscious Digimon. The cloud flew closer, and a dark shape shot out of it, and toward them.
"Faster! That's him!" Gabumon exclaimed, frantically. The dark shape flew closer to them, and then zipped in front of them, and stopped. Dark Lord seemed to be a blob of pure shadow, his black cloak billowing around him. Pegasusmon and Birdramon stopped, and then flew the other way.
"Ah, ah, ah, you can't run from me!" Dark Lord said, and flew to block them off again. In the moonlight, they could see his features. His face was still hidden in the shadows of his cloak, and black hair came out of it a little. He had human looking hands and feet, but had huge, demonic wings sprouting out of his back.
"Our only chance is to fight!" Birdramon exclaimed.
"Right, hold on tight you two!" Pegasusmon replied. Dark Lord laughed.
"You want a fight, huh? I'll give you a fight!" he exclaimed, and held up his hands. They morphed into the familiar looking claws, and his feet morphed into the hooves that he had earlier. A huge tail sprouted out of his backside, and Monochromon's black armor materialized onto his body. All of the Digidestined were shocked, as were Pegasusmon, Gabumon, and Birdramon. Gabumon gasped, and then turned abruptly to Matt.
'Matt, you have to make me Warp-Digivolve! It's our only chance!" he exclaimed. Dark Lord smirked.
"Yes, Warp-Digivolve, by all means!" he said. Matt glared at him, and then turned to Gabumon.
"Are you sure? You look pretty tired, and you haven't Warp-Digivolved in a long time.." Matt asked his Digimon. Gabumon nodded.
"I can rest later, right now, I have protect everyone! Are you with me?" Gabumon asked. Matt nodded, and held up his Digivice. A bright blue glow surrounded Matt and Gabumon.
"Gabumon...Warp Digivolve to.... Metalgarurumon!"
Metalgarurumon flew toward Dark Lord forcefully, glowing blue.
"What's this?" Dark Lord yelled, surprised. Metalgarurumon slammed into Dark Lord and they flew through the air, with a streak of blue energy behind them. Pegasusmon and Birdramon flew down to the ground, and let their passengers off. Gomamon and Armadillomon had awoken by now, and were watching the fight from the ground with the Digidestined. Pegasusmon and Birdramon rose into the air, and went to attack Dark Lord, who was now slashing at Metalgarurumon with his claw-turned-sword. Metalgarurumon dodged around the swipes gracefully.
"Equus Beam!" Pegasusmon shouted, and shot a blast of green energy at Dark Lord. It hit, and sent him flying toward Birdramon.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon exclaimed, hitting Dark Lord with an explosion of fire, blasting him back through the air.
"Ice Wolf Claw!" Metalgarurumon yelled, and blasted Dark Lord with his ice rockets. They hit, and froze Dark Lord solid!
"All right!" the Digidestined, Gomamon, and Armadillomon cheered, from the ground. Dark Lord fell toward the ground, but began to glow red, and exploded from his icy tomb in a blast of fire. Still flaming, he turned around, and aimed a blast of fire at the three attacking Digimon.
"Fire Wave!" he yelled, and threw a huge blast of fire at them. They were thrown backwards through the air. Birdramon and Pegasusmon fell to the ground, but Metalgarurumon stayed airborne, shaking off the attack. Pegasusmon de-digivolved, and a ball of yellow light went back to TK. Birdramon got up shakily, but took to the air again.
"Patamon!" TK exclaimed, and ran up to his fallen friend.
"This isn't working, Birdramon, you'd better Digi-" Sora started, but was cut off, as a huge blast of electricity hit Dark Lord. Everyone looked to the direction of the attack, and saw Kabuterimon fly up. Halsemon flew up also, carrying Yolei on his back. Dark Lord turned in the direction they were flying in, after shaking off the attack.
"More Digidestined? Perfect!" he exclaimed. Halsemon flew Yolei to the ground, and then flew up to join Birdramon and Metalgarurumon.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon spun around, creating a huge tornado. Dark Lord responded by flying above the tornado, and morphing his sword-claw into a sickle.
"Shadow Scythe!" he yelled, and slashed at Halsemon with the sickle. A blast of dark energy came from the sickle, and hit Halsemon, sending the bird Digimon spiraling down to the ground. He de-digivolved, and a burst of red energy returned to Yolei. She ran up to him.
"Hawkmon, are you all right?" she asked, as she reached him. He just groaned, and stood back up, glaring up at Dark Lord. Kabuterimon landed by the others, and let Izzy, Mimi, Davis, MC, and Tai off of his head. He then rose into the air.
"Electro Shocker!"
"Meteor Wing!" Dark Lord easily dodged the attacks. Metalgarurumon glowed with a blue light, and flew toward Dark Lord at a high speed. Dark Lord attempted to fly away, but was hit by Metalgarurumon head on, and sent flying through the air. Before he could crash into the ground, he turned around, and held up his claws.
"Orange Inferno! Fire!" he yelled, and instantly, Metalgarurumon, Birdramon and Kabuterimon were engulfed with an orange fire. They crashed into the ground, but didn't de-digivolve.
"Birdramon!" Sora exclaimed.
"Kabuterimon!" Izzy yelled. They exchanged glances, and then yelled, simultaneously, "Digivolve!" they then both glowed Red and Purple, respectively, and their Digimon did as well.
"Birdramon Digivolve to..."
"Kabuterimon Digivolve to..."
"Garudamon"
"Megakabuterimon!"
A huge firebird and a gigantic beetle took the place of Birdramon and Kabuterimon, and they, along with Metalgarurumon, flew back up to continue the battle. Patamon and Hawkmon took to the air as well. TK and Yolei nodded, and took out their Digivices.
"Patamon Digivolve to.."
"Hawkmon Digivolve to.."
"Angemon!"
"Aquilamon!"
Patamon was replaced by a tall, humanoid figure with six angel wings, and Hawkmon was replaced by a huge eagle with the horns of a bull. They joined the Ultimates and Mega in the air.
"Wing Blade!"
"Blast Rings!" the two bird Digimon attacked, but Dark Lord dodged around them.
"Hand of Fate!"
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Dark Lord dodged those attacks as well.
"Horn Buster!" Megakabuterimon flew at full force toward Dark Lord, his huge beetle horn extended. Dark Lord turned around, and morphed his claws into bigger ones. He caught Megakabuterimon by the horns, without even moving backwards, and swung the huge beetle Digimon around in the air. The other four Digimon dodged backwards to avoid getting hit. Dark Lord swung Megakabuterimon around a few more times, and then let go, sending Megakabuterimon crashing into the trees nearby. The Digidestined stood there, gaping.
"Wow, this guy is strong," was all Matt could think of to say. The others nodded in agreement. Dark Lord laughed, and formed his claws back to normal size. Gomamon and Armadillomon stepped forward.
"What are you two doing?" Joe asked.
"We have to help!" Gomamon answered, and they looked back at their partners.
"No way, you're too weak! Conserve your energy!' Cody protested.
"We can rest later, right now, we have to help! If Dark Lord wins, it's game over!" Armadillomon answered. Joe and Cody were silent, but then nodded, reluctantly. Gomamon and Armadillomon nodded, and ran forward, toward the battle.
"Gomamon Digivolve to... Ikkakumon!"
"Armadillomon Digivolve to... Ankylomon!"
Ankylomon ran up until he was directly underneath Angemon, and Cody ran up to where TK was standing.
"Ready?" Cody asked. TK nodded, and they both held up their D3's. Ikkakumon ran to underneath where Metalgarurumon and Dark Lord were currently sparring in the air, and looked back at Joe.
"Joe?" he asked. Joe nodded, and a grayish aura surrounded him, and spread to Ikkakumon.
"Ankylomon... Angemon... DNA Digivolve to... Shakkoumon!"
"Ikkakumon Digivolve to... Zudomon!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!" Zudomon slammed his huge hammer into the ground, and a bolt of lightning slammed into Dark Lord a few seconds later. Shakkoumon hovered up.
"Cachita Bombs!" he yelled, and dozens of small, shuriken-like objects flew out of his metal body and into Dark Lord. Dark Lord flew up, and laughed.
"What's this? Three Ultimates, a DNA Digimon, a Mega, and a Champion Digimon, and yet you still can't hurt me? You Digidestined are pathetic!" he exclaimed, and glowed with a strange, black aura. He held out his hands, and dark energy collected in his hands.
"Attack!" Metalgarurumon yelled, and the Digimon all began powering up their special attacks.
"Shadow Star Wave!" Dark Lord yelled, and the energy in his hands exploded away from him and toward the Digidestined Digimon. They all attacked, but the dark energy just flew past their attacks, and slammed into them. Dark Lord cackled evilly, and then held up his two claws. One hand formed into a Meramon's hand, and the other into a Triceramon's. He flew forward, and up to Aquilamon and Garudamon. He punched one, and then the other, and they were sent plummeting to the ground. He then flew up to Megakabuterimon and Metalgarurumon, and did the same thing. Next were Shakkoumon and Zudomon. The six Digimon hit the ground, hard, but didn't de-digivolve.
"Pathetic!" Dark Lord yelled, and formed his hands into claws again. He held them out in front of him, and spread them apart as though he was holding a huge ball. In the center of his hands. a small speck of dark energy began to form. It soon spread out into a huge ball of swirling, dark energy. He laughed, and raised it above his head. The Digimon began to stand up, but couldn't fly away in time.
"Terra Destroyer!" he yelled. The Digimon and Digidestined looked up in shock.
"Blackwargreymon's attack?" Davis asked.
"DIE!!" Dark Lord yelled, and heaved the ball of energy at the Digidestined Digimon.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Metalgarurumon tried to deflect it, but it was too big and too powerful. The ball of energy collided with the Digimon, creating a huge shockwave, which threw the Digidestined off of their feet. Dark Lord laughed, again, and flapped his huge wings, creating a wind, which blew away the cloud of dust. Tsunomon, Yokomon, Tokomon, Upamon, Poromon, and Motimon were lying in a huge crater, unconscious.
"Oh no!" Matt exclaimed, and stood up. Dark Lord flew closer to the ground, and formed his claws into what looked like Palmon's.
"Nemesis Ivy!" he exclaimed, and shot down two sets of blue vines, which wrapped around Tokomon and Upamon.
"Tokomon! Put him down!" TK yelled, and stood up.
"Upamon!" Cody cried. They ran toward the crater, followed by the others. Dark Lord snarled at them, but pulled Tokomon and Upamon up to where he was. He formed one of his claws into a blaster cannon. TK and Cody stopped in their tracks, followed by the rest of the Digidestined.
"Watch out!" Matt exclaimed.
"Energy Cannon!" Dark Lord shot a bullet of white light at TK and Cody. Matt jumped and pushed them to the ground, and just barely out of the way of the attack. Dark Lord turned, and aimed another blast at them.
"Celestial Arrow!" exclaimed a heavenly female voice from nearby, and an arrow of white light collided with Dark Lord, causing his blast of energy to collide with a tree, harmlessly. A black and green insect Digimon flew up to Dark Lord.
"Spiking Strike!' completely caught off guard, Dark Lord didn't have the time to block Stingmon's flurry of kicks, followed by a slash from one of his pink energy blades. Angewomon flew up.
"Hurry!" she exclaimed, and pointed toward the TV. Kari and Ken stood by it, waving them and yelling for them to hurry. TK and Davis looked at them, and then looked away, hatred burning in their eyes.
"Thank goodness you two showed up! We'd be finished for sure by now if it wasn't for you!" Sora exclaimed, as she picked up the fallen Yokomon. Izzy, Yolei, Matt, and Joe did the same for their Digimon, and then headed for the TV, along with Tai. Mimi looked from TK and Davis to the group.
"TK! Davis! Come on!" she shouted.
"No way!" TK replied. Davis was silent.
"Come ON!! We don't have time to waste!" Mimi yelled, in response. Cody looked up at Dark Lord, and then back at the rest of the retreating Digidestined.
"Stingmon! Angewomon! Get Upamon back for me, ok?" he yelled up to them, and then took off after the group. Angewomon and Stingmon turned to Dark Lord. Dark Lord smirked.
"You two are no match for me!" he boasted.
"We'll see about that! Heaven's-" Angewomon started, but before she could complete her attack, Dark Lord rushed forward, his free arm morphed into Meramon's arm again, and punched her.
"Fire Fist!" he exclaimed. She flew backwards, but recovered in the air.
"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon attacked him from the back.
Down below, things weren't going so well.
"Come on!" Mimi pleaded with them. TK looked up at the fighting Digimon, and then back at Mimi. Kari ran up behind her. TK glared at her, and then turned back to the battle going on. Kari walked up beside Mimi, a look of pain in her eyes. She'd never seen TK and Davis so mad at her.
"If it makes you feel any better, I'm sorry.." Kari started.
"Sorry won't help, Kari," Davis answered. He looked around, and then spotted MC, cowering under a bush.
"But Davis-" Kari protested. He ignored her.
"MC!!" he called. Mimi looked to where he was calling, and noticed the small Monochromon walk out from under a bush.
"Is it safe to come out?" MC asked.
"No, but you need to get to safety!" Davis yelled back, and pointed behind him, to where the others were clustered.
"Yeah, and so do you two!" Mimi said. Davis ignored her. Kari looked desperately from one to the other.
"Look, I'm really, truly sorry--" she tried again.
"Save your sorries for someone who cares!" Davis snapped. Kari stood there, for a few seconds, shocked. Mimi tried reasoning with TK.
"TK, there's nothing more you can do to help Tokomon! The best thing you can do now is retreat, so that we can come back later and get him back as a team!" Mimi said. TK sighed, and then turned around.
"You're right," he mumbled, and walked back toward the others, not even casting a sideways glance at Kari. She watched him go, pained at how mad he looked. She turned back to Davis, who still wasn't looking at her. MC ran past her, and joined TK on his retreat back to where the others had gathered.
"Spiking--" Stingmon tried again to attack Dark Lord, but Dark Lord dodged to the side, and caught Stingmon's arm in his claws. Angemon flew up behind him, preparing to blast him with a pink ray of light. Dark Lord slung the stunned Stingmon around, hitting Angewomon in the process, and sending them both careening toward the ground.
"Davis, we're running out of time!" Mimi exclaimed, frantically, looking from the battle, which had just taken a definite turn for the worse, to him.
"I'm not going anywhere with her," Davis replied. Kari looked shocked, and opened her mouth to speak. Mimi stopped her, and shook her head.
"But Mimi--" Kari started.
"You'd better just go back to the others. He's not listening to reason," she said. Kari nodded, looked once again at Davis, and then took off back toward the others.
"It's a real shame that I can only carry two Digimon at a time, you two would look great in my collection," Dark Lord said, down to the fallen Wormon and Gatomon. He turned, to see the Digidestined beginning to disappear, one after another, into the Digiport.
"Drat, they're escaping!" he exclaimed. He looked down, and realized that Wormon and Gatomon and gotten up, and were running back to the group of slowly thinning Digidestined. He cursed his luck, and looked around again. He spotted Davis and Mimi. They hadn't moved from their spot during the battle between Stingmon, Angewomon, and himself.
"Hmmm.." he started, and then a cruel smile played over his face.
"Come on! Kari's gone, we have to leave, NOW!!" Mimi exclaimed. Davis shook his head.
"I'm not going anywhere," he replied.
"You stubborn fool! Dark Lord is RIGHT THERE!! If you stay here, you'll most certainly get roasted! We can rescue Veemon and Palmon and the others later, right now, we have to RUN!!" Mimi exclaimed, and ran up to Davis. She grabbed his arm, and attempted to pull him in the direction of the TV. Davis didn't budge.
"Davis we have to MOVE!!" she tried again. Dark Lord flew down a few feet, toward them.
"Digidestined, are you staying? Perhaps you want to play a little game of cat and mouse?" Dark Lord taunted. He held up his claws, and transformed them. One became a drill, like that of Minitarumon, and the other became Centarumon's arm. He flew down to the ground.
"DAVIS!! COME ON!!" Mimi shrieked. Davis stood, paralyzed, as Dark Lord flew down to the ground. Dark Lord smiled, and raised his drill, which was formerly a claw.
"Oh no..." Davis exclaimed, jumping out of his stubborn trancelike state.
"Darkside Quake!!" Dark Lord exclaimed.
"RUN!!" Davis and Mimi both yelled at the same time, and turned to run. But, it was too late. Dark Lord pounded his fist into the ground, and a huge shockwave shot out, sending Davis and Mimi sliding to the ground. Dark Lord then hovered a few feet in the air.
"Hold still, this won't hurt.. at least until it hits you! Mwuahahaha!!" Dark Lord exclaimed, and aimed Centarumon's hand at them. Davis and Mimi scrambled to their feet, and took off toward the TV.
"Solar Ray!" Dark Lord yelled.
"DUCK!!" Davis yelled, and pulled himself and Mimi down, as the Solar Ray passed just above them. The two Digidestined got back to their feet, and took off for the TV again. Dark Lord spotted it, and flew off after them. He smiled again, a dark smile, and aimed Centarumon's arm at the TV.
"Say goodbye!" he exclaimed.
"Davis! Mimi! Hurry up!" MC yelled. Davis held up his D3, and MC jumped up into the beam of light that shot out from the TV to meet it. MC was sucked through, and Davis and Mimi began to be sucked into the TV, but suddenly...
"Solar Ray!" a blast of energy hit the TV, blowing it up. Davis and Mimi fell back onto the ground of the Digital World, and stared, in shock and horror, at the ruined TV.
"That's not good.." Davis started. Dark Lord flew up, and morphed his drill hand into a flower that looked a lot like Palmon's.
"Gloom Dust!" he exclaimed. A cloud of blue, powdery stuff flew out of the flower, and onto Mimi and Davis. Davis suddenly felt sleepy. He fought the urge to close his eyes, but it soon became too strong, and he fell backwards, and fell asleep. His world suddenly began to become darkness...
So...what did you think of Part Three? Suspenseful? Full of action? Well..I thought so. :P. Anyway, if you haven't figured out where most of Dark Lord's attacks come from, then I will list the Digimon that the attacks originally came from at the end of the fic. As for length, it's eight chapters long. Anyway, review, Daimi forever, all that good junk.