Brought Together In The Aftermath
By ArtikGato
Disclaimer: *gathers all of the Namek Dragonballs and summons Porunga* Porunga! Since you have more powers than Shenlong, maybe YOU can grant my wish! I wish for Digimon to belong to ME!!!
Porunga: That wish is beyond my power as well.
Me: DANGIT!!!! *Porunga disappears* -sigh- Well, at least I own Imitamon, Blackgarurumon, and Komorimon.
Veemon: No you don't!
Me: How did you get to Namek? And how did you escape the dungeon?
Veemon: It's a secret!
Author's Note: Hello again! It is I, ArtikGato, back to bring you Part Five 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. Keeping with the tradition of the first four parts, this one is also numbered in French. Cinq (pronounced 'sank') is five. Oh, and Imitamon is a creation of my deranged mind. So I guess it's mine, kind of. And, as for Davis' glowing red and blue...well...I really like Dragon Ball Z, and Davis' glowing effects are kind of like the ki flares on the show. Anyway, I decided I wanted to incorporate some of that into this story. So what? It's kind of like when the Digidestined with crests glow to make their Digimon Digivolve. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm tweaking the laws of the Digiworld. Sorry, it's a bad habit. Now, on to part five!
Part Cinq:
Darkness. Everything was blanketed in darkness. A thousand thoughts screamed through the emptiness, but none made sense. Davis suddenly became aware of the reality around him. He was lying on his back, on the cold, wet ground below him. He could feel grass, wet from dew or possibly rain. He felt cold, wet, and distant somehow.. But, he knew he was alive. Painstakingly, he slowly opened his eyes, and allowed them to adjust to his surroundings. He was, indeed, lying on his back, in the grass. Above him were the dark outlines of trees, and through the thick canopy of the forest, he could see the stars and moon of the Digiworld. He tried to sit up, but nothing seemed to want to respond. He was conscious, but he couldn't get up the energy to move quite yet. Suddenly, a flash of memory came to him.
"Dark Lord! He's the Emperor!"
Another flash.
"Veemon! Mimi!"
His memory was slowly, surely,.returning to him in chunks. At last, he finally remembered what had happened before the darkness: he had been falling. Falling...that's right, he was on Raidramon, and trying to escape from Dark Lord's base. Apparently, he had. The last he remembered was Garudamon... before something happened and his memory abruptly stopped. He suddenly felt a cold chill, as a wind passed over him. He heard faint voices, coming from the direction the wind had blown in. They seemed sort of familiar. They also seemed to be getting louder. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a faint light, like the light of a torch. The voices became loud enough for Davis to tell what was being said, and who was saying it.
"I sure hope we find him. Who knows where he landed after the crash?" was the first one. Sora. It had to be Sora.
"Well, he couldn't have landed too far away. We found Veemon and the others near here," came another. Matt's voice.
"So, Veemon is okay?"
"Well, I just--hey! Look, over there, is that him?" Sora exclaimed. The light fell over Davis' entire body, and he closed his eyes, to keep from being blinded.
"Looks like him! Davis! Davis!" Matt exclaimed. Davis tried to move his arm or leg, or make some sort of sound, but he just couldn't. Whatever had happened to him had really done some serious damage.
"I hope he's not dead!" Sora exclaimed, as they arrived by him. Finally, Davis managed to make a sound: he groaned, and opened his eyes. Sora and Matt were kneeling on the ground beside him, Sora carrying a burning torch.
"Are you all right?" Matt asked.
"No kidding, Matt. Does it LOOK like I'm all right?" All Davis managed to do was groan again. He was content at just being able to make a sound.
"Can you move anything?" Sora asked.
"If I can't talk, why would I be able to move anything ELSE?"
"Blink once for yes, and twice for no," Matt half-joked.
"Oh brother," Davis thought, but blinked twice, obediently.
"Let's get him back to the fire, he's probably just cold," Sora suggested, and Matt shrugged.
"Whatever you want," Matt replied, and picked up Davis by the shoulders. Sora held the torch in one hand, and Davis' legs in the other, and they moved him back the way they had come. Davis just groaned, annoyed at the fact that he still couldn't move anything. He wanted desperately to ask "What happened? "How long was I out?" "Are Veemon and Mimi all right?', but all he could do was just groan, for now. He was soon sitting, propped up against a log, next to a big, roaring fire. Sora, Matt, Tai, TK, Cody, Yolei, and Izzy were sitting around the fire, as well. He also noticed four Digimon, also propped up against rocks or stumps, and also in bad shape. Veemon, who was closest to Davis, looked to be out cold, while Agumon, Tokomon, and Upamon were awake, but probably in the same condition Davis was.
'Where's Mimi?" Davis thought, as he looked around, groggily. After a while, by the fire, he could feel his body start to warm up, and could finally move something, including his mouth. He was still too weak to so much as crawl away, but at least he could now voice all these questions that had built up in his head.
"What the heck happened?" was the first thing out of his mouth. Everyone looked at him, startled. They had all been sitting in silence for a good thirty minutes, and any noise startled them, much less Davis, who hadn't been able to talk up until that point.
"Well, at least we know his mouth works now," Tai joked.
"You tell us, our guess is as good as yours. We STILL don't know half of what is going on," Yolei replied.
"I mean, before I blacked out. What happened?" Davis replied, weakly.
"Oh, you mean when you were falling. Well, Garudamon caught you guys, but then Dark Lord attacked her, and you guys fell the rest of the way in different directions. Davis, you were the last we found," Sora explained.
"What about Mimi and Palmon? Did they recover, or something?" Davis asked. Everybody seemed to grow darker, and sadness passed over their eyes, at his question. He began to get a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"Well...you see..." Sora started. He swallowed. He didn't like her tone, not at all. The bad feeling in his stomach had reached to his heart now.
"Dark Lord..he sort of took off with both of them, after he attacked Garudamon. The Digimon did all they could to stop him, but he escaped in that weirdo cloud of his," Sora explained. Davis grimaced.
"Oh no! This is my fault!"
"So, is it true, what you sent me in the Email?" Izzy asked. The other Digidestined looked on with fervor and interest. Davis looked confused.
"Email?" he asked.
"The Email you sent me from Dark Lord's base!" Izzy reminded him. Davis thought for a moment, and then remembered sending Izzy an email from Dark Lord's control room. It had said something about...oh, yeah! He had put that Dark Lord was really the Digimon Emperor!
"Yes, it's true," he said, weakly.
"But..how?" Yolei asked.
"Well, we're not too sure, but the story he told us, after transforming himself into an EXACT replica of the original Digimon Emperor, that when we brought Ken to his senses, after beating Kimeramon.." Davis started, and then stopped. Ken. He had said that hated name...
"After that?" Yolei asked, impatiently.
"Well, after that, we sort of destroyed the Digimon Emperor. But, he wasn't deleted, just sent to the World of Data, where he found a Digimon host, and came back to the Digiworld. He figured out how to absorb Digimon into his body, to make himself more and more strong," Davis replied.
"This guy sounds like bad news," Tai said.
"He is, very bad news. I think he has the power of a Digimon at the Mega level, or maybe even greater," Gabumon said, speaking from experience.
"Well, I guess that explains all that freaky stuff that he did, like transforming into Imitiamon, and making his claws shape shift," Sora said. Everyone nodded. There was a brief pause of silence, before Davis spoke up again.
"So, what do we do now?" He asked. Everyone shrugged their shoulders.
"We rest for a while, and then come up with a brilliant plan of action off the top of our heads?" Tai asked, looking at Izzy as he said the last part. Izzy shrugged.
"Sorry, Tai, but I don't think I'll be coming up with any brilliant plans any time soon," Izzy replied. Davis glared at them.
"How can they sit around talking? Mimi and Palmon have been captured by Dark Lord! Izzy should at least be trying to track down his base or something!"
"Well, we have to do something! Who knows what Dark Lord could do to Mimi and Palmon?" Sora asked. Everyone nodded.
"Yeah, but we're facing a very powerful enemy, an enemy that is much more powerful than anything any of us or our Digimon have ever faced. I just don't know how we're going to be able to beat him," Izzy replied.
"We'll think of a way, Izzy! Remember, we're the Digidestined. We beat the Emperor once before, anyway! Plus, we beat Malomyotismon, who was supposed to be the most powerful Dark Digimon in the Digiworld," Yolei reminded Izzy. Izzy nodded.
"Yeah, and don't forget about what us original Digidestined accomplished, five years ago. We stopped the immortal Dark Masters, and Apocolymon!" Tai added.
"I'm sure we'll be able to stop him," Cody said.
"Stopping him isn't the issue right now, anyway! We don't actually have to destroy him to save Mimi, we just have to come up with a plan," Davis reminded them. They nodded.
"You know, I've got an idea for how to get Mimi out of Dark Lord's base," Joe said. Everyone looked at him. He had returned about an hour earlier, after escorting Gennai back to what qualified as his house.
"What is it?" Sora asked.
"Well, Sora, do you remember when you got captured by Datamon, back when we were fighting Etemon?" Joe asked. Sora nodded.
"Don't remind me," she replied.
"I don't think you ever told us about this one, what happened?" Yolei asked.
"Well, Datamon, a traitorous Digimon, kidnapped Sora, and took her into a secret room below a pyramid. I don't know many of the details, but I do know that Tai and Izzy went in after her, while the rest of us stayed behind and distracted Etemon," Joe said.
"Yeah, that's pretty much what happened. Izzy and I went after Sora, and I ended up having to go through a few electric firewalls, but I eventually got to her," Tai replied.
"Good thing you did, who knows what would have happened if I'd stayed any longer in that pyramid," Sora remarked. Davis thought for a moment.
"So, you're saying that one or two of us should go after Mimi, while the others stay outside and distract Dark Lord?" he asked. Joe nodded.
"Precisely," he replied.
"Right, so then who should go in after Mimi?" TK asked.
"Well, I think that Davis should," Izzy said. Everyone turned to Davis.
"Why me??" Davis demanded.
"Well, you ARE the only one of us that has actually been inside of Dark Lord's base," Izzy replied.
"Good point," Sora chimed in. Davis thought for a second. He owed Mimi, and it WAS his fault that she'd ended up in this mess...so..
"Ok, I'll do it. Just as soon as Veemon and the other Digimon wake up, we should try to go find the base," Davis said.
"I'm trying to track the base right now," Izzy said, busily typing away at his laptop.
"Ok, now the only factor left is how we're going to distract Dark Lord," Cody stated.
"Well, there's always the good old fashioned way: fight him," Matt replied. Gabumon nodded.
"Yeah, but we didn't exactly do very well against him last time," Tentomon pointed out, rubbing his head, where he had been hit hard by Dark Lord.
"Well, it's the only thing we can do to distract him. We certainly can't invite him to a tea party or something," Biyomon said.
"Yeah, that's a definite no," Sora agreed.
"Ok, then we'll just have to attack, and try to do our best," Tai said.
"Ok, but...maybe we should call Kari and Ken. The more Digidestined, the better, right?" Matt suggested. Everybody but him, Davis, and TK sucked in a breath. Bad move. TK closed his eyes, and sighed angrily, but said nothing. Davis glared at Matt, but then remembered what Mimi had said to him back on Dark Lord's base, about it being his own fault for this whole mess with Kari.
"Go ahead and call them. We need their help," he said. Everybody looked at him, surprised.
"Uhm..are you sure about-" Tai started.
"Yes, I'm sure, and no, I didn't hit my head! Call them, already," he said.
"Ok, we'll call them..but, I'm curious to know, Davis, why the sudden change of heart?" Tai asked. Davis looked at him, sighed, and then spoke.
"If you want to know the truth...back on the base, Dark Lord tried to get me to change into a Dark Digidestined just like him. I almost did, too, until Mimi brought me back to reality. She told me the bitter truth, that it wasn't anyone's fault for the effect this had on me but...well, me. As much as I hate to admit it, it really is my fault, in the first place. I've decided to stop blaming Kari and Ken, and get over it," he said, and with that, looked into the fire, silent. All the Digidestined and the Digimon were shocked at his answer.
"Wow...uh..." Matt stuttered. TK hung his head in shame, as the impact of what Davis said really sunk in. He'd been acting like a little kid this whole time...
"We got here as fast as we could, how is he?" Kari asked Sora, urgently.
"Davis? He's..." Sora started.
"He's just fine. And how's Gennai?" Tai asked, as he walked up.
"Doing good. He didn't like too much what happened to his house, but he's doing ok," Kari replied. Ken, Wormon, and Gatomon walked up.
"So, what's the situation?" Gatomon asked.
"Pretty bad. Dark Lord has Mimi and Palmon trapped in his base, and Veemon and Agumon are still out cold," Sora replied.
"That IS bad," Gatomon replied.
"So, how about it, did you find out who this Dark Lord creep is?" Ken asked. Matt, Tai, and Sora gulped.
"Well..ah.." Matt started, sweat running down his head.
"Uh oh. That doesn't sound good," Kari said, concerned. Matt gulped again, but decided to tell them, anyway.
"Ken, you're not going to like hearing this but...well...Dark Lord is the Digimon Emperor," Matt blurted out. It took Kari, Gatomon, Ken, and Wormon a second to actually process what Matt had just said.
"WHAT??" Kari and Gatomon almost screamed. Wormon blinked in surprise. Ken took a step back, mortified.
"Me? But..but..that's impossible!" he protested.
"No, not YOU, the Digimon Emperor. There's a big difference," Sora said.
"But I AM the Digimon Emperor! Or, I was.." Ken argued.
"Yeah, that's right, you WERE," Tai replied.
"Let's see..how did Izzy and Davis explain this...well, you see, it seems that you and the Digimon Emperor are actually two separate beings, Ken," Sora said.
"How?" was all Ken could ask.
"Well, from what Davis said, when he and the others brought you back to your senses, the Digimon Emperor's dark essence was deleted from your body, and sent to the world of Data," Sora continued.
"Dark essence?" Ken echoed.
"Well, I do remember that the Digimon Emperor outfit that you were wearing just sort of.. vanished off of you, back in the desert," Kari said.
"Yeah, and that WOULD explain your sudden change from evil to good," Matt pointed out.
"You know...I think I know what this 'dark essence' thing is. I was in the Dark Ocean world, and I stuck my Digivice in the water. I could feel this weird surge of...evil, I guess, enter me, and it changed my Digivice to the black one," Ken struggled to recall.
"Ok, that explains that, but I still don't get how he's here, in this world. I mean, he's only supposed to be a dark essence, and, for that matter, in the world of Data," Kari pointed out.
"Well, you see, from what he told Davis, Dark Lord was able to stabilize his data by taking over the body of a deleted Digimon. He got back to this world, then he started absorbing other Digimon, until he got to the powerful form we all know and hate," Tai explained.
"Oh." Replied Kari and Ken.
"Hi, everybody," Kari said, as she walked up toward the circle of Digidestined and Digimon, around the campfire. Ken, Gatomon, Wormon, Tai, Matt, and Sora were behind her.
"Hi guys," came the chorus from all the Digidestined and Digimon, except Davis and TK.
"Glad you could make it, we need all the help we can get," Izzy said, looking up from his computer. Kari looked over at Davis, and then at TK. Neither spoke a word.
"Uhm..Davis? TK?" Ken asked. Silence.
"Listen, we're both really sorry for-" Kari started, but Davis cut her off.
"No need to be sorry, it's not your fault," he said. Kari, Ken, Gatomon, and Wormon were all completely taken aback. Of all the things in the world he could have said, they were expecting THAT the least. Davis looked up.
"Say what?" Gatomon asked, in shock.
"If anything, I should be apologizing," Davis continued.
"Uh..." Ken started, but couldn't think of anything to say.
"Davis? Did you hit a head or something?" Kari asked.
"No, as a matter of fact, I didn't," Davis replied, annoyance in his voice. He shook his head, and continued. "But I DID get some sense knocked into me. I realized that...I can't change the fact that you two are...in love...but I CAN get over it and just be happy that you are both happy," he said.
"Uhm..uh..." Kari stammered. She couldn't believe that those words had actually come out of Davis' mouth! She was completely and totally surprised, as was Ken.
"Pinch me, I'm dreaming. Davis, do you REALLY forgive us?" Kari asked.
"Yeah, I forgive you," Davis replied.
"Wow, I figured it would take you at least a year to forgive us," Ken said. Davis smiled, but then his face turned grim.
"Ken, I'd just like to warn you now, I will kick your ass into next week if you EVER do ANYTHING to hurt Kari. Understand?" He asked. Ken was surprised, but then smiled.
"Point well taken," he said.
"Same goes for me," Tai said.
"And me," TK said, standing up. Everyone looked at him, astonished.
"Uh oh," Cody said, remembering the goriness of Death By Lawnmower, and how TK had said that he wanted to do exactly that to Ken, as revenge. Joe gulped, as well.
"TK," Kari said. TK sighed, and then spoke.
"I forgive you too," he said. Kari smiled, relieved. Ken had to stop himself from sighing, in relief.
"You do?" everyone asked, astonished. TK nodded.
"Yeah, I do. As weird as it is, Davis is right," he started.
"Hey!" Davis interjected. TK waved it off, smiling.
"I should just be happy that you two are happy. It's my fault for getting bent out of shape about this. And, There's nothing anyone can do to change your feelings. I'm just going to have to accept this, and move on. Enough silence," TK continued.
"Bra-VO!!" Cody exclaimed. Joe nodded.
"You mean it?" Kari asked, overjoyed. TK nodded, again. Kari and Ken grinned, happily. Finally, they could start to make amends with Davis and TK.
"TK, no lawnmowers?" Joe asked. TK burst out laughing. Joe and Cody gulped, fearing the worst. After TK stopped laughing, he replied "No lawnmowers." Cody and Joe sighed, in relief. Everyone else looked puzzled.
"Ok, now that THAT is all settled, let's get to the real situation," Davis said. Everyone nodded.
"Right, we have to figure out how to rescue Mimi and Palmon," TK said.
"So, fill us in, do you have a plan?" Ken asked. Izzy looked up from his laptop.
"Actually, we do," he said.
"Terra Force!" a huge ball of orange energy collided with a large, crimson colored cloud. Wargreymon fell back, and Metalgarurumon zoomed past him, glowing blue.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" Metalgarurumon exclaimed, and a stream of blue light hit the cloud. The two Megas hovered in the sky.
"Static Force!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Horn Buster!"
Silphymon, Garudamon, and Megakabuterimon soon joined them, followed by Stingmon. Zudomon and Shakkoumon were on the ground below. A few feet away, in the forest, were the Digidestined, minus Davis.
"All right, that oughtta get his attention!" Yolei exclaimed.
"I just hope Davis and Exveemon make it inside the base all right," Tai said.
"Right, the only way to get Mimi out of there is if Davis finds her. A lot is riding on his success," Izzy said.
"Yeah, but a lot is riding on the success of our Digimon as well. I just hope we have enough Digimon to overpower him now," Matt added.
"Get ready, here he comes!" Garudamon exclaimed. All eyes turned to the cloud in the sky; Dark Lord's base. A dark shape emerged from it, and flew down toward them.
"Aggressive today, aren't we, Digidestined?" Dark Lord, in his borrowed form, asked, as he stopped, hovering a little distance away from the flock of flying Digimon.
"HEY UGLY!! GET WITH THE PROGRAM!! IT'S NIGHT!!" Yolei yelled up to him.
"Oh no," Izzy groaned.
"Way to go, Yolei! Now you've got him mad!" Tai exclaimed. Everyone looked up to where Tai was pointing. Dark Lord was shape shifting again. He transformed his two hands into..
"Impossible!!" Matt exclaimed. Everyone, the Digimon included just stood or hovered where they were, dazed.
"AHAHAHA!! Think I haven't seen Omnimon? Think again!" Dark Lord exclaimed, and pointed his two claws, which he had morphed into Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon's heads, like Omnimon had, at the flock of airborne Digimon.
"And now, the battle starts," Cody said, solemnly. Dark Lord chuckled.
"This is only the beginning...or, should I say, the end," he said, and began to power up an attack with Metalgarurumon's head.
"Great time, Exveemon! We're almost to the base!" Davis, who was sitting on the shoulder of the large, blue and white dinosaur Digimon known as Exveemon. They were flying through the clouds.
"Too bad we had to take the back way, but Dark Lord would have spotted us for sure if we went the direct way," Exveemon replied.
"Never mind about that. I'm sure that the others will do find without us," Davis replied.
"Hey, Davis, isn't that the base over there?" Exveemon asked, as he spotted a crimson colored cloud on the horizon.
"Yep! See, I told you we'd get there in no time!" Davis answered.
"Yeah, I just hope we get there before the others get roasted," Exveemon said.
"Don't worry about it, those guys are more than capable of handling themselves. Don't forget, all the Digidestined except us and Mimi are fighting," Davis reassured his partner.
"I guess you're right," Exveemon replied.
"Good, now let's get to the base!" Davis exclaimed.
"Supreme Cannon!" Dark Lord yelled, and fired another huge blast from Metalgarurumon's head. It tagged Garudamon, sending her crashing to the ground. Wargreymon shot up toward Dark Lord, Dramon Destroyers outstretched and ready to slice him in half. Dark Lord noticed, and extended his arm that had morphed into Wargreymon's head. A huge sword popped out of it's mouth.
"Mega Claw!" Wargreymon shouted, and was instantly surrounded with an aura of orange light.
"Transcended Sword!" Dark Lord shouted, and slashed his sword at Wargreymon. For a moment, the two warriors were still, the sword and Wargreymon's claws hitting together. Suddenly, Wargreymon was thrown back, as the sword sliced cleanly through the Dramon Destroyers.
"Wargreymon!" Tai exclaimed. Wargreymon, who was unharmed, did a backflip in the air, and ripped the remaining part of the Dramon Destroyers off of his wrists, leaving his hands free. Metalgarurumon zoomed past him, glowing with a blue light.
"Ice Wolf Bite!" Metalgarurumon exclaimed. Dark Lord quickly countered, swinging the claw that had morphed into Metalgarurmon's head around, and pointing it directly at Metalgarurumon. Metalgarurumon barely had time to utter a cry of surprise, before he was blasted with a ray of energy.
"Supreme Cannon!" Dark Lord shouted. Metalgarurumon was blown back, and streaked through the sky, until he disappeared into the clouds.
"Metalgarurumon!" Matt yelled, fearing the worst. Metalgarurumon, who was still smoking from the attack, shook himself, and then flew back towards the battle, streaking out of the clouds with a burst of blue energy.
"Ok, now, if I remember right, the hole in the side of the base is just around this-huh? Hey, where is the hole?" Davis asked. Exveemon floated around the side of the base.
"Are you sure it was on this side, Davis?" the dinosaur Digimon asked.
"Positive. Huh? Hey, look! There is a spot where the cloud doesn't cover the metal shell of the base!" Davis exclaimed, and pointed. Exveemon swooped closer to the base, and down to where the hole in the 'cloud' was.
"This must be where the hole was, then. I just don't understand how Dark Lord could have repaired it so quickly," Exveemon said.
"Well, never mind that. What's say you blast a way into the base?" Davis suggested. Exveemon shook his head.
"Nope, too risky. We're going to have to look for
another opening," he replied. Davis sighed, but nodded.
"Right.
An energy attack could blow up the base," Davis acknowledged. Exveemon
swooped down, and started to float below the base.
"I'd say that there's probably an opening into the base either on the bottom or the top. That's usually where deranged evil guys with cloud bases keep their doors," Exveemon said. Davis snickered.
"Phoenix Claw!" Garudamon shouted. Her hand, which was balled up into a fist now, glowed with a red light. She flew toward Dark Lord, hand pulled back, ready to strike.
"Static Force!" Silphymon, below Dark Lord, exclaimed. A ball of pink energy hit the distracted Dark Lord, allowing Garudamon to hit him with her attack as well. He streaked back, but did a backward somersault in the air. He pointed the claw that had morphed into Metalgarurumon's head at Garudamon, and began to charge his attack.
"Horn Buster!" Dark Lord was hit in the back by Megakabuterimon's purple, glowing horn, sending him flying toward Garudamon.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon blasted him with her huge, flaming attack, which took the shape of a bird. Wargreymon shot up, quick as lightning, to where Dark Lord was, arms raised above his head. He brought both his hands, as fists, down onto Dark Lord's stomach, causing Dark Lord to yell in pain, and shoot down to the ground. He crashed into the ground sending a cloud of rock and dust into the air. Dark Lord coughed, and sat up. He glared up at Wargreymon, and prepared to jump and fly back up, but was suddenly hit by a barrage of sharp, shuriken-like objects.
"Cachita Bombs!" Shakkoumon, hovering just above the ground nearby, exclaimed. Dark Lord turned to face Shakkoumon, enraged.
"Vulcan's Hammer!" Zudomon exclaimed behind him, and slammed his huge hammer down onto the ground. A bolt of lightning hit Dark Lord sending him flying through the air, toward Shakkoumon.
"Justice Beam!" Shakkoumon exclaimed, catching Dark Lord in midair with his twin blasts of red light. Zudomon finished off the combo with an upward strike from his hammer, sending Dark Lord rocketing upward, toward the flying Digimon.
"They're winning!" Kari exclaimed, overjoyed.
"I knew they could do it!" Stingmon, who was guarding the Digidestined, as he was the only Champion Digimon of the group, exclaimed.
"Davis, look! I think that's the entrance!" Exveemon exclaimed. They were now hovering above the base. Davis looked to where Exveemon was pointing. There was another lapse in the clouds surrounding the base, just like the area they had found before.
"I think you're right!" Davis said. They swooped closer, and Davis noticed part of the metal shell of the base was indented, in the shape of a square.
"That's definitely the door," Exveemon said, as he landed on the base. Davis jumped down, and landed beside him. Davis knelt down, to see if there was some sort of hatch.
"Nothing. I guess you'll have to punch it in," Davis said.
"Gladly," Exveemon said, cracking his knuckles. Davis jumped back onto Exveemon's shoulder, and, with one mighty punch, Exveemon broke the door in. Exveemon jumped into the opening, and floated down inside the base. A few minutes later, he landed on the metal floor. Davis jumped down, and looked around.
"I know where we are now! This is the control room!" Davis exclaimed. Exveemon glowed, and Dedigivolved back into Veemon.
"Yeah, this is where you sent that E-Mail to Izzy, right?" Veemon asked. Davis nodded.
"Right, so, unless the base has changed in the last twelve or so hours, I think I know the way back to that room we were in before," Davis said.
"Lead the way!" Veemon said, gesturing with his hands for Davis to start walking.
"Wing Blade!"
"Horn Buster!"
"Static Force!"
"Terra Force!"
"Metal Wolf Claw!"
All five airborne Digimon blasted their projectile attacks at Dark Lord, who had just begun to fall. An explosion formed in the air. When the smoke had cleared...
"I think they beat him!" Sora exclaimed. There was nothing there, just air.
"Oh no, they didn't! I can still sense his energy," Stingmon said, looking around. The other Digimon did as well.
"AAAAAH!!" Garudamon suddenly yelled, startling them. Dark Lord had appeared behind her, and had her in a chokehold from behind.
"Oh no!" Sora exclaimed, as her partner was held hostage by Dark Lord.
"Ahahahahaha!!" Dark Lord laughed, and then started to glow.
"Garudamon!" Sora exclaimed, fearing the worst. The others watched, in fear of what would happen. Dark Lord's body began to shift and morph into something else.
"Imitamon?" Izzy asked, puzzled, when Dark Lord finished his transformation. He had, once again, taken the form of the small, pixilated Digimon.
"What is he up to?" Ken asked.
"Magical Metamorphosis!" Dark Lord, with Imitamon's voice, exclaimed. Dark Lord suddenly shifted, and in the place of Imitamon was...
"Garudamon??" everybody asked, shocked. The real Garudamon whipped around, and cried out, in shock.
"He's me!" she exclaimed, dazed. The fake Garudamon, his voice exactly like the Real Garudamon's, laughed, and then shot forward, and struck the real Garudamon with one huge fist. Soon, the two Garudamon were striking each other with blow after blow.
"Which is the REAL Garudamon?" Yolei asked. The other Digimon watched, helplessly, as the fight continued. They had lost which one was the real Garudamon, and therefore couldn't attack.
"Sora, can't you tell which one is real?" Tai asked. She shook her head.
"Nope, sorry," she replied. Everyone else sighed in annoyance. The two Garudamon both hit each other at the same time, and then separated a few yards.
"Wing Blade!" they exclaimed at the same time, and fired their attacks. The attacks collided in the air, and an explosion formed. When the smoke cleared, the Digimon were back to fighting again, one would throw a punch and the other one would block, and then throw a punch of his or her own. This continued for a few more minutes, before one Garudamon fired a close range Wing Blade, blasting the other backwards. The Garudamon that had attacked glowed red, and then fired another Wing Blade, sending the other flying backwards. Everyone watched in anticipation, not sure if they should be cheering or not. The Garudamon that had been hit started to glow, and shrank. Everyone held their breath in anticipation. Would it be Biyomon or Imitamon that emerged from the glow? The glowing Digimon fell through the air, and the glow began to leave it.
"Biyomon!" Sora exclaimed, and ran toward the small, falling Digimon.
"Oh no, it looks like Dark Lord won after all!" Matt exclaimed, stating the obvious. The airborne Digimon suddenly took off toward the still flying Garudamon, enraged.
"Sora! Get away from it! That's Dark Lord!" the still flying Garudamon exclaimed. The other Digimon stopped, surprised, but then turned back to the Garudamon.
"Stop lying, Dark Lord!" Silphymon exclaimed. Sora ran, and caught the falling Biyomon.
"Biyomon! Biyomon, speak to me!" she exclaimed. The Digidestined and Stingmon looked back and fourth between Sora and the airborne Digimon.
"Wait! I'm telling the truth! I'm not Dark Lord!" the Garudamon exclaimed, backing up. The four airborne Digimon continued to advance, not listening.
"Biyomon!" Sora continued to plead. The Digimon opened it's eyes, and gave a quick, sinister glance at Sora, before they turned red, and began to glow.
"Big mistake, human!" the Biyomon, only with Dark Lord's voice, said, and then jumped out of Sora's arms, and shape shifted again into a large, black, Wargreymon look-alike. Sora screamed and backed up, but tripped over a log on the ground, and fell backwards. Dark Lord laughed sinisterly, in the form of Blackwargreymon.
"Die, Digidestined!" he said, and held up one black claw.
"Help!" Sora screamed. In the air, the Digimon looked from Dark Lord to the Garudamon. Garudamon took off, flying toward Dark Lord.
"Hang on, Sora! I'm coming!" she yelled. The other Digimon and Digidestined were in a daze.
"Mega Cl-" Dark Lord started, but was cut off as Stingmon rammed into his side, sending him flying back a few feet.
"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon exclaimed, jumping to attack. Dark Lord blocked with the two dark Dramon Destroyers, pink sparks flying into the air. Dark Lord slashed at Stingmon with one of his claws, but Stingmon dodged, and kicked Dark Lord.
"Spinning Strike!" Stingmon exclaimed, as he went into a flurry of kicks. Sora got up, and ran back to the other Digidestined, shaking with fear.
"Sora!" Yolei and Kari exclaimed, at the same time, as she ran over to them, still shaking with fear. She ran straight to Matt, who hugged her.
"Are you all right?" he asked. She nodded.
Stingmon ended his flurry of kicks with a huge uppercut with the pink laser on his arm.
"Spiking Strike!" he exclaimed, and Dark Lord was thrown up into the air. Dark Lord did a back flip, and raised his hands into the air.
"Terra Destroyer!" he exclaimed, as a huge ball of red energy formed in them. He threw the ball, but another ball, of orange energy, collided with it, causing it to explode in the air. Dark Lord snarled, and then looked over at Wargreymon, who had thrown the ball.
"Ingrate! You'll pay for that!" he exclaimed, and started to fly off toward Wargreymon. That is, until Garudamon, enraged, slammed into him, sending him flying back a couple hundred yards.
"That'll teach you to try and destroy MY partner!" Garudamon yelled at him.
"The room we were in before should be down this hall," Davis said, looking up and down the metal hallway.
"Let me guess, you just don't know which direction it's in, right?" Veemon asked. Davis nodded, sheepishly. "Well, we'll just have to try all the doors on this hallway until we find whichever room Mimi and Palmon are in, right?"
"Right," came Davis' reply. Davis took a step forward, and the tile that he put his foot on began to glow. "Uhm.." he started. Suddenly, the ceiling above the tile glowed. They looked up, surprised.
"Not good," Veemon said. All of a sudden, huge spikes erupted from the ceiling, and down toward Davis and Veemon!
"Look out!" Veemon shouted, and threw himself into Davis, pushing them both out of the way. They hit the floor, and the spikes crashed into the floor where they had been standing seconds before. They suddenly became aware that the floor they had landed on was also glowing.
"Uh oh," they both said, as the ceiling began to glow.
"LETS GET OUT OF HERE!!" Davis shouted, as he and Veemon jumped out of the way. Another set of spikes crashed into the glowing floor. The floor where they landed also began to glow. They ran off, leaving a trail of glowing floor and, soon after, spikes, behind them, until they came to a dead end.
"Well, it was nice knowing you!" Veemon said, as the ceiling began to glow.
"We're not dead yet! Digi Armor Energize!" Davis exclaimed, as he called out his Digiegg of Courage.
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to...Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
As
the spikes shot out of the ceiling, Flamedramon pointed his claws upward,
toward them.
"Fire Rocket!" he exclaimed,
and blasted the spikes with two fireballs. The spikes melted, and stuck to the
ceiling. Davis and Flamedramon sighed, in relief.
"Good thinking, Davis," Flamedramon said, and they eyed the spikes down the hall, and then jumped forward, claws pulled back, glowing with fire already.
"Fire Rocket!" he exclaimed, as he punched through a set of spikes. "Fire Rocket!" he said again, and punched through the next set of spikes. Davis ran behind him, through the trail of melted and broken spikes.
Dark Lord, still in the form of Blackwargreymon, coughed, and then sat up.
"That overgrown bird has a mean tackle," he said, and then snickered. "This is a weak body, anyway. I think I'll transform into something a little more fearsome," Dark Lord said, as he stood up. He rose into the air, thinking.
"Attack!" Wargreymon shouted, and the airborne Digimon all began to power up their attacks. Dark Lord continued to think, unfazed by the charging Digimon.
"AHA! I've got it!" Dark Lord suddenly exclaimed.
"Terra Force!" "Metal Wolf Claw!" "Wing Blade!" "Static Force!" "Horn Blaster!"
Dark Lord dodged the attacks expertly, and then flew higher into the air.
"Time to destroy you all, pathetic Digidestined!" Dark Lord yelled, and then glowed. His body grew larger, and then morphed into a new shape. He looked like Imperialdramon, in fighter mode, only he was completely black!
"Imperialdramon?" all the Digidestined asked at once, astonished.
"No, that can't be Imperialdramon, he's solid black!" Ken protested. Izzy began to furiously type away at his computer. The Digimon were all frozen in shock.
"Ok, I've got some data on him. The computer says that his name is Komorimon, a Dark Dragon Digimon. Mega level. His special attacks are Shadow Reflect, Negative Polarization, and his most powerful is the Eterna Laser," Izzy said. They all looked up at Komorimon, astonished. Komorimon, with Dark Lord's voice, laughed.
"Try and stop me now, Digidestined! Not only am I at the Mega Level, but I've gone a step further. You see, I possess the power of your Imperialdramon, a power that goes BEYOND the Mega level!" Dark Lord explained. The Digidestined glared up at him.
"It's still eight against one, so you can just kiss your butt goodbye!" Tai contradicted him. Dark Lord glared down at Tai, and began to glow with a dark red glow.
"Shut up!" Dark Lord yelled, and suddenly all the dark red energy around him condensed, and was sucked into his palm.
"Eterna Laser!" Dark Lord yelled, and a beam of black and red energy, an almost exact duplicate of Imperialdramon's Positron Laser, erupted from his palm. It shot down toward the Digidestined, but was deflected, as an orange energy ball and a blue wave of energy collided with it. An explosion formed in midair, and all of a sudden, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon were shooting like orange and blue comets toward the temporarily stunned Komorimon. They hit him with a huge crash, and another explosion, of blue and orange energy, erupted from Komorimon, as Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon emerged behind him, still glowing.
"Ok, this is only room on this hallway that we haven't checked," Davis stated, as he and Flamedramon stood outside of a closed, metal door. A pathway of melted spikes led down the hallway behind them. Davis tried the knob to the door, but couldn't get it to open.
"Allow me, Davis," Flamedramon said, and Davis stepped back. Flamedramon punched the door as hard as he could, his heated up, razor sharp metal claws slicing through the metal door like a hot knife through butter. An instant later, Flamedramon withdrew his hand, and the door fell over backwards, the hinges having melted away from the wall by the intense heat. Flamedramon leapt into the room, and Davis followed suit, careful not to step on any molten metal. They found themselves in another laboratory like room, with iridescent lights along the walls. In the center of the room were two large, glass tubes. As they approached, they noticed that Mimi and Palmon were inside the tubes.
"Victory!" Davis exclaimed, happily. "We found them!" Flamedramon walked up to the cages, and examined them.
"They look like they're made of glass. I can't melt glass," he said. Davis walked up as well.
"I guess we'll have to break it then, or something," Davis replied.
"Wait a minute! We can't do that! What if we hurt Mimi and Palmon?" Flamedramon argued. Davis looked defeated.
"We have to do SOMETHING, though!" Davis argued back.
"Maybe there is a control or something that opens the tubes," Flamedramon suggested.
"Maybe. But, I think Dark Lord controls this entire base from his own thoughts. You notice how it just all of a sudden changed layout completely? And those spikes certainly weren't there before," Davis replied. Flamedramon shrugged. "Besides, I don't see any controls in this room at all,"
"Well what do we do, then?" Flamedramon asked. This time, Davis shrugged.
"Beats me," he replied, and tapped on the glass of the cage that held Mimi, asleep, inside.
"We'll think of something," he said. Suddenly, the iridescent lights inside the room started to flash red, and a siren seemed to boom through the base.
"Warning! Warning! System breach! Commencing floor melt in 3..2.." a female computer voice boomed over the siren.
"Crap! What did I do??" Davis yelled.
"1...floor melt commencing!" the voice boomed. Suddenly, the entire floor, except for the doorway and the floor Mimi and Palmon's cages were sitting on, flashed. Davis backed up.
"Oh no..not more spikes!" he yelled. Suddenly, the tiles of the floor began to fade and turn invisible, almost as if they were disappearing.
"Crap!" Davis said, as he continued to back up. The tiles began to slowly vanish and fall, leaving a big, gaping black hole in the floor. The sound of angry hissing could be heard. The tiles around where Davis was standing were vanishing, and Davis looked as if he was screaming, but he could not be heard over the shrill siren and deafening hissing. Suddenly, Flamedramon jumped over to where Davis was, picked him up, and jumped toward the doorway. As they landed, the floor completely disappeared. They turned back around, and were facing a huge, black pit between them and the cages that still held Mimi and Palmon within them. The hissing was still as loud as ever. Davis looked over the edge of the flooring of the doorway.
"I don't even want to know what is down there," Davis said, shivering.
"We'll have to find another way to get to them," Flamedramon said, annoyed.
"Stupid Dark Lord," Davis grumbled. The sirens began to die down, but the computer voice was heard once more.
"Now what?" Davis asked, annoyed.
"Warning! Warning! Tube flooding commencing! Repeat, tube flooding commencing!" the computer voice yelled. Davis and Flamedramon blinked, and looked over at the glass tubes that held Mimi and Palmon. A bit of water began to collect in the bottom of the cage.
"Crap!" Davis and Flamedramon both exclaimed. They looked frantically around.
"Flamedramon, I don't suppose you can jump over to the cages-Flamedramon?" Davis asked. A wave of heat passed over him, and the familiar sound of crunching metal was heard. Davis spun around, and looked up, to find Flamedramon burning his way through the roof, his fiery claws outstretched.
"Good idea!" Davis commended. Flamedramon fell back down, but lighted his claws and jumped back up, punching his way through the thick metal of the wall. Below him, molten metal dripped like water, hissing as it hit the cold tiled floor, and became solid again. One more jump, and Flamedramon punched powerfully through the roof. He jumped back down, and, after the melted hole in the base was cool again, Flamedramon jumped down.
"Need a lift?" Flamedramon asked.
Another explosion formed in the air, as all the Digimon fired their attacks at Dark Lord, still in Komorimon's form. However, when the explosion dissipated, Komorimon was nowhere to be found.
"Do you think they destroyed him?" Sora asked, hopefully.
"Not quite!" Dark Lord yelled, high in the sky above them. He laughed, and then pulsed with dark red energy. Before any of the Digimon could react, he attacked.
"Eterna Laser!" he exclaimed, and tagged Garudamon on the shoulder. The impact of the attack caused an explosion, and rocketed Garudamon through the air. She landed on the ground with a thump, and then promptly Dedigivolved back into Yokomon!
"Yokomon!" Sora yelled, and started to run to her. Matt held her back.
"Sora no! You'll get hurt!" he yelled, as she struggled to try and break free of his grasp.
"Yokomon!" she yelled again, but stopped struggling, sobbing. Komorimon laughed. The Digimon all turned back to Dark Lord, enraged.
"How dare you?" Wargreymon demanded. Dark Lord just laughed again, and one of his arms began to glow again.
"As for the rest of you..." he started, and completed his transformation. His hand hadn't changed. He grinned an evil grin, as the Digimon stared up at him, puzzled. He crossed his arms over his chest, then threw them out, opening the hand that had apparently gone under some sort of transformation. Six huge, metal claws abruptly erupted out of his hand, and streaked down, on chains, toward the remaining Digimon.
"Reverse Digivolve!" he yelled.
"No!" the Digidestined exclaimed, when they realized what was happening.
"That was Apocolymon's attack!" Izzy yelled, at the realization. A claw clamped over Megakabuterimon, and glowed fiercely. The claw disappeared into thin air, but was left with a still glowing Tentomon. Silphymon dodged around the claw, and finally tried throwing an attack at it, only to have the attack dissipated, and the claw clamp over her. The claw disappeared a few seconds later, leaving Gatomon and Hawkmon in the place of Silphymon. Two claws shot to the ground, and clamped themselves onto Shakkoumon and Zudomon, before they could react. There was a glow, and then the claws disappeared, leaving only Gomamon, Patamon, and Armadillomon. The two remaining claws rocketed toward Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon.
"Oh no!" Matt and Tai exclaimed. They suddenly began to glow orange and blue, respectively. In the sky, Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon also glowed. The two claws reached their target Digimon quickly, and clamped over them.
"No!" everyone yelled. The two Megas had been their last hope against Komorimon! Suddenly, beams of light began to shoot out from the claws, orange and blue light, and the claws suddenly exploded.
"What?" cried Komorimon, astonished. The claws seemed to evaporate into thin air, leaving Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon still floating, glowing even more fiercely than ever. Komorimon glared at them, but then suddenly seemed to realize something, and began to back away in midair.
"No! No! This can't be happening!" he stared wide eyed at Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon, who's glows all of a sudden seemed to converge. On the ground, Matt and Tai were now glowing as fiercely as their Digimon, the crests of Courage and Friendship glowing on their chests as bright as the sun. Their Digivices in their hands were now vibrating wildly, and shrieking loud enough for Komorimon to hear clearly.
Wargreymon...Metalgarurumon...
The two Megas glowed white now, the light of Digivolution. They suddenly seemed to shrink into their heads, reforming their bodies into two arms. The white glow seemed to condense into a body and a white, flowing cape.
DNA Digivolve to...Omnimon!
And so, part cinq is concluded. Was it suspenseful? Was it satisfying to FINALLY have confirmation that Dark Lord is, indeed, the Emperor? And Aren't Blackgarurumon and Komorimon just cool? Ahem...sorry. Well, look forward to more nonstop action in the next part! I've been told that I write my fight sequences very well. Anyway, review, if you liked it. Daimi forever!! Peace out, ff.net! Rock on!! And, by the way, Sethoz, the 'hatmon' idea is...interesting...maybe I'll use it in the sequel. ^_~ And...sorry for yet ANOTHER cliffhanger. I guess I'm just good at suspense...