Brought Together In The Aftermath
By ArtikGato
Disclaimer: *tosses 80 bazillion dollars in a well (ha! Like I have that kind of money??)* Wishing well, I wish that Digimon belonged to me!
Veemon: Um...that's not a wishing well, that's an actual well.
Me: D'oh! Hey! I thought I locked you up in the dungeon with seventeen padlocks and a straightjacket!
Veemon: I Digivolved.
Me: D'OH!!! Remind me to kill Davis later.
Author's Note: Hello again! It is I, ArtikGato, back to bring you Part Six 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 other five parts, this one is also numbered in French, though I bet you can figure out which one THIS is. I mean, it's not rocket science. It is, however, pronounced different in French (pronounced 'siis') Oh, and Blackgarurumon and Komorimon are creations of my deranged mind, though really they are just dark versions of other Digimon, and I think a Blackgarurumon actually DOES exist...so...whatever I didn't tweak too very much with the laws of the Digiworld in the previous chapter, though, technically, Flamedramon probably couldn't heat up his claws enough to melt steel like that...but what else was I SUPPOSED to have them do? Sorry. And no, I don't know exactly WHEN Ken would have EVER seen Omnimon, but who cares? On to part Six!
Part Six:
Davis and Flamedramon ran across the roof of Dark Lord's base, Flamedramon swishing away the strange, crimson colored mist surrounding the base. A sudden burst of light from below the base startled them. Suddenly, they could hear loud shrieking, and the white light of Digivolution flooded around the base, seeming to flow like water around the base and then shoot up like lasers into the heavens above. Then, it was gone. Davis rubbed his eyes to adjust to the quick change of light.
"What do you think that was?" Davis asked.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling we don't want to find out," Flamedramon replied.
"Right, we have to get to Mimi and Palmon," Davis said. Flamedramon took another couple of steps, then lit his claws.
"Hold on, Davis! Fire Rocket!" he yelled, and punched into the metal at his feet. A huge, melted crater had formed where he punched. He lit his claws, and continued to punch, until he finally had made a hole through the thick outer shell of the base. He looked down.
"I was close, this leads to the room they're in," Flamedramon said. Davis peered down. All he saw was a dark pit.
"Terrific. At least we know that we're close," Davis said. Flamedramon looked again.
"I think they're about five feet this way," he said, and then walked over to another spot. He jumped up into the air, and lit his whole body on fire.
"Fire Rocket!" he yelled once again. He hit the base head on, then flipped up, and shot a couple of fireballs into the newly formed crater. He landed gracefully beside the hole, and looked down. He gasped.
"Davis! I was right! There they are!" he exclaimed. Davis ran over, and looked down through the hole. Directly below them were the two glass cages containing Mimi and Palmon. Now, they had about three feet of water in them, and it was rising rapidly. Mimi and Palmon, now awake, looked up, and saw them! They waved to them frantically, and shouted something, but nothing could be heard.
"Ok, got a plan?" Davis asked. Flamedramon thought for a second.
"Well we could always jump down, smash through the glass on the top, and rescue them that way," Flamedramon said.
"That would hurt, though!" Davis complained.
"What's more important to you, a few cuts, or Mimi and Palmon's lives??" Flamedramon demanded.
"Mimi and Palmon's lives," he replied. They looked down again, and then noticed that the water was at least up to Mimi's neck in her cage, and just above Palmon's head in hers. They were both floating a little ways, but they weren't floating like they should have been.
"Something is holding them underwater," Flamedramon stated.
"Ok, then we'll have to do this quick. Ready?" Davis asked. Flamedramon nodded.
"Ready, one...two...three!" Davis and Flamedramon both jumped down through the hole. Flamedramon pushed Davis a little ways away from himself, so he would land in Mimi's cage, and began to glow. As he and Davis both crashed through the glass tops of the cages, he shrank, and Dedigivolved into Veemon. Davis fell through the water, down toward Mimi, wiping a few shards of glass off of his arms. The water was now well above both of their heads. He held his breath, and forcefully swam down to the bottom of the cage. There were metal chains around Mimi's feet. He pulled on the chains forcefully, but they wouldn't budge. In Palmon's cage, Veemon tried the same, but to no avail. Mimi grabbed her throat, and began to choke. She was running out of air. Palmon looked like she was about to pass out. Davis finally got fed up with the chains, and glowed blue for a second. He pulled back his fist, glowing blue, and punched the glass tube as hard as he could. For a second, nothing happened. Then, the cage abruptly shattered, sending water spewing everywhere, and sending Mimi abruptly toppling down, on top of Davis. The other cage shattered, and a wave of water splashed over Davis and Mimi, who were both coughing and choking. Palmon landed on her back with a groan, and took a giant breath.
"At least you guys are safe," Veemon said, after he had coughed a good long while.
Dark Lord, still in the form of Komorimon, hissed, and backed up in the air. The bright light of Digivolution faded, and before him, floated a huge, white Digimon. The Digimon was draped in a white cape, and seemed to be kneeling in the air. The Digimon stood up, and threw back the cape with his two hands, one looking like Wargreymon, and one Metalgarurumon.
"Omnimon! No! Impossible!" Komorimon hissed, continuing to back up. On the ground below, two flares of orange and blue energy died down. The loud shrieking of two Digivices began to fade. The Digidestined and Digimon stood, awestruck, looking up at the new Digimon.
"Dark Lord, you have done some terrible things. Prepare to meet your doom, and pay for your crimes," said Omnimon, in both the voices of the Megas he had been fused from. He suddenly jumped forward in the air, and a sword popped out of Wargreymon's mouth. Sword held back, he leapt up, so he was hovering over Komorimon, and prepared to slice him in half. Reacting quickly, Komorimon dodged out of the way. Both Digimon spun around in midair, and leapt to attack. Komorimon formed razor sharp claws on the end of his hands, and held them back, ready to attack. Soon, the violent sound of metal crashing on metal could be heard, drowning out the fading sound of the Digivices. For a few minutes, Omnimon and Komorimon fought back and forth, blocking each other's swipes, then attempting to attack, but being blocked. Finally, Komorimon blocked a slash from Omnimon, and jumped back in the air. He formed an energy ball of orange energy in his palm, and prepared to throw it at him. A cannon popped out of Metalgarurumon's head, and Omnimon charged up his own attack.
"Orenji Sphere!" Komorimon yelled, and threw the massive ball of orange energy at Omnimon.
"Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon yelled, and his attack blasted straight through the energy attack, and hit Komorimon. Komorimon hissed, and backed up.
"You are strong," Komorimon said, and shifted back into his true form. He laughed. "But, let's see if you can stop...THIS!!" he exclaimed, and, without warning, blasted an intense ray of pure energy upward. Omnimon blinked, surprised. Suddenly, he looked up. The Digidestined all looked up, and gasped. The base! Dark Lord's base was above him! He was destroying his own base?!
"No! Mimi and Davis are still in there!" Yolei yelled, but was cut off by a huge explosion. Dark Lord laughed, diabolically.
"Oops! I can always build another one," he said, and turned back to Omnimon.
"Ok, now we have to get out of here," Davis stated. Veemon looked up.
"I should probably Armor Digivolve into Raidramon, so I can make that jump," Veemon said.
"Yeah, the jump UP, but not down. It's a LOOONG way down," Davis said, reminding him of the last time he had tried to pull a stunt like that.
"Then Exveemon it is!" Veemon said, standing up. Davis stood up as well, and prepared to make Veemon Digivolve. Suddenly, the base was rocked by a sudden explosion. A bright light filled the room, as a huge ray of pure energy shot up, in the room past them, vaporizing the base. The floor suddenly fell out from underneath them, disintegrating as it fell into the huge beam of white light. The floated in midair for a second, before they fell down toward the beam of light. Davis, Mimi, and Palmon were screaming, but no sound could be heard over the intense loudness of the destruction around them. Veemon and Davis glowed blue, and a white light surrounded Veemon.
"Veemon Digivolve to...Exveemon!" Davis suddenly stopped falling, as he was caught by Exveemon. Mimi and Palmon fell past them. Suddenly, vines wrapped around Exveemon's arm, and Mimi who was holding onto Palmon, who had used her Poison Ivy to secure herself a hold on Exveemon, stopped falling. The beam of energy shot upward, and then began to dissipate. They all sighed in relief, as the beam disappeared without a trace. They looked around, however, and noticed that the base had completely vanished.
"Whoa," Mimi said.
"You're telling me," Davis replied. He suddenly realized that he was no longer wet.
"That's weird, we're not wet!" Palmon exclaimed.
"It must have been all of the heat that beam of energy gave off," Exveemon reasoned. Davis grimaced.
"That beam was about five feet away from us. We could have been disintegrated...like the base!" he said. Mimi, Palmon, and Exveemon gulped. Suddenly, the faint sound of metal clashing on metal was heard, from below. An explosion rang through the air.
"I guess the party is still going on down below, come on," Davis said. Palmon pulled herself and Mimi up to Exveemon and, them riding on his feet, all four began to descend through the clouds.
Dark Lord, back in the form of Komorimon, only now with a huge sword instead of one of his hands, was furiously slashing and blocking swipes from Omnimon's sword, as was Omnimon. The battle between the two titans had finally reached a stalemate.
On the ground below, The Digidestined frantically looked around for any sign at all of Davis and Mimi. Where they were, they could only pray that they had made it out of the base before Dark Lord had disintegrated it. They were still in a state of disbelief and shock that Dark Lord had destroyed his own base, and with only one attack. Izzy was sitting on a fallen tree, frantically typing away at his computer, trying to reboot it. The sudden surge of power that the DNA Digivolution of Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon had caused had abruptly crashed his computer, and he was frantically trying to get it back online, to search for Davis and Mimi's Digivice signals.
"Come on, hurry up computer!" Izzy exclaimed, frantically, tapping his fingers impatiently on the log. Yolei sat beside him, looking on as he attempted to reboot the computer. The others were searching the sky with binoculars, their own eyes, or their Digivices, though the surge of energy had taken it's toll on the Digivices as well.
"Darn Digivice! Aren't these things built to handle the power of Digivolution?" Matt exclaimed, tapping on the side of his still blue Digivice angrily.
"Obviously, not a Digivolve of THAT magnitude," Joe, who was searching the sky with a pair of binoculars, replied.
"I don't get it, though, the Digivices and computers worked FINE the FIRST time they Digivolved into Omnimon," Tai pointed out.
"Yeah, but this time, a lot more power was involved. I mean, the whole place was lit up for miles by the white light those two gave off when they DNA Digivolved," TK pointed out.
"It's really puzzling. I don't get it either," Izzy said, looking up from his laptop for a fraction of a second. Yolei looked up, and nodded.
"Although, I did notice, after I watched them on the internet that day, that the computer acted kinda weird, like it was affected by a virus or power surge or something." Yolei said. Everyone stopped, and looked at her, in disbelief.
"Come to think of it, my laptop DID start acting kinda funny after that happened," Izzy said, thinking.
"And I remember that Dad was grumbling for weeks after it happened because the computer was acting weird, and he had to go get it fixed," Tai replied.
"Yeah, but after a while it went back to normal, right?" Cody asked. All three nodded.
"The same thing, technically, COULD have happened to our Digivices, you know. We never got the chance to use them again for years after the battle on the 'net with Diaboromon," TK pointed out.
"I just hope they don't stay like this for very long. It wouldn't be a very good thing if we couldn't Digivolve our Digimon. Especially not fighting against an enemy like Dark Lord," Sora said.
"Eterna Laser!"
"Supreme Cannon!"
The two attacks collided with each other, pressed against each other for a second, then exploded in midair. Two Digimon shot forward into the cloud of smoke, and the sound of metal clashing against metal could be heard. When the smoke cleared, Omnimon and Komorimon were both slashing at each other, impossibly fast. Their slashes, blocks, parries, and more slashes were almost too fast for the eye to see. Metallic sparks began to fly away from them, as they moved across the sky, slashing and blocking at incredibly fast rates. Finally, they separated, and charged up their attacks again.
"Eterna Laser!"
"Supreme Cannon!"
They continued their dance of death, neither succeeding too much over the other before the other fought back and gained advantage. Then, the other would fight back as well. They continued this cycle, which seemed as if it would go on forever if they did not quit. Dark Lord had finally met his match.
"Exveemon, slow down a little, would ya?" came a female voice from behind him. Davis was sitting on one shoulder, and Mimi on the other. Exveemon slowed a little, and turned around. Lillymon flew up, panting in exhaustion.
"Sorry. I guess I underestimated how fast you could go," Exveemon said, as the two Digimon hovered in the air.
"HEY!! Look, I'm just tired, all right! Don't forget the day I've had: I got roasted by Dark Lord, got the life sucked out of me by those darn energy coils, almost fell to my death, almost drowned to death, and almost got zapped by a huge laser of destruction, so don't EVEN-" Lillymon started, but Exveemon interrupted her.
"Ok! Ok! Chill! Sorry! I'll fly slower!" he said. Lillymon glared at him, but shrugged her shoulders.
"That's better, I guess," she said.
"I think we're almost to the bottom of these clouds," Davis said, and took out his Digivice, to try and get a reading on where the other Digidestined were.
"Huh? That's funny, my Digivice looks like it's fried!" Davis said. Mimi took her's out, and checked it as well.
"Yeah, you're right! I wonder what happened?" Mimi said.
"I bet it either has to do with that huge laser that destroyed the base, or that blast of white light from earlier," Davis.
"Blast of white light?" Mimi and Lillymon both questioned, at the same time.
"Huh?" Davis asked.
"They were asleep then, remember?" Exveemon reminded him.
"Oh yeah," Davis remembered. "Well, anyway, when we were on the roof of the base looking for a way to get to you guys, a huge blast of white light came from down below, and I think it was a Digivolution of some kind, only it was huge. Bigger than any other Digivolution I've ever seen," Davis explained.
"Hmm," Mimi and Lillymon pondered at the same time.
"Well, whatever it was, we might as well get back as fast as we can. It doesn't sound very promisng," Mimi said.
"Right, let's go. The others should be right below us, just out of these clouds," Exveemon said.
"Transcended Sword!" Omnimon slashed at Dark Lord with such power that, if it had connected, it surely would have sliced him into two distinct pieces.
"Komori Claw!" Dark Lord blocked, using his tough, metal claws. The sound of metal crashing against metal rang out, followed by the sound of violent scraping. Dark Lord and Omnimon pushed against eachother, their blades scraping against eachother, causing metallic sparks. Dark Lord struggled against Omnimon, hissing.
"Give up, Omnimon. At best, we're evenly matched. You can't win, even if we kept fighting forever, it would always end up a stalemate," Dark Lord said, trying to discourage Omnimon.
"No chance, Dark Lord. You're forgetting one little thing..." Omnimon started, then, forcefully, shoved Dark Lord back, suprising him. "I'm stronger than you!" Omnimon yelled, and charged foreward, charging up an energy attack in his cannon at the same time. Dark Lord barely had time to dodge, as Omnimon fired his Supreme Cannon attack. If it had connected, at such close range, it surely would have killed him.
"Are you? We shall see!" Dark Lord yelled, and blasted Omnimon from the side, where he was temporarily unguarded.
"Eterna Laser!" Omnimon took the hit on his shoulder, and went streaking through the air, followed by Dark Lord.
"Komori Claw!" Dark Lord continued. Omnimon spun around, blocking the swipe with his sword, and quickly blasted a ray of energy from his cannon. Dark Lord was struck on his side, and blown backwards through the sky. He stopped himself, and, infuriated, charged up an energy attack.
"You'll PAY for that!" Dark Lord threatened. Omnimon flew up to his level, and charged an attack, as well. They both prepared to fire, when suddenly, a green ball of energy shot out of the cloud just behind Omnimon, and tagged Dark Lord on the shoulder.
"What? Who did that??" Dark Lord demanded. A blast of white energy, in the shape of an X, shot out of the cloud, but Dark Lord was ready for that one.
"Shadow Reflect!" he yelled, and a black barrier of energy formed in front of him. The laser of light hit it, and reflected back at Omnimon! Omnimon barely dodged, but took the opportunity to fly foreward, and try to attack Dark Lord while he was distracted.
"Transcended Sword!" he yelled. Dark Lord dodged to the left, and took off abruptly toward the cloud. Omnimon followed him quickly.
"Running away, huh?" Omnimon asked, and aimed his cannon. Dark Lord reached the cloud.
"All right, cowards, come out and show yourselves!!" he demanded, and slashed into the cloud with his claws. Below him, Exveemon dropped out of the cloud, carrying Mimi and Davis, and floated down toward the Digidestined below.
"Show yourselves! You truly are cowards, if you must attack from the safety of a cloud!" Dark Lord demanded, and slashed again.
"Whoops! Missed me! You need better aim!" a female voice said, from the cloud.
"Huh?" Dark Lord asked. Suddenly, a green ball of energy hit him in the chest, and Lillymon zoomed out of the cloud.
"Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon shouted, and hit the still stunned Dark Lord with a huge energy attack. Lillymon dove out of the way, and hovered beside Omnimon.
"You looked like you could use a little hand," she said.
"We thought you were dead for sure, when Dark Lord blew up the base!" Izzy exclaimed.
"Yeah, so did we. It was a miracle that we survived at all," Davis replied.
"It was really lucky. The base just...vaporized around us," Mimi added.
"Wow. That must have been terrifying," Yolei said.
"Well...yeah, it was, kinda," Davis said.
"Well, we're just glad you made it out alive," Sora said. Everyone nodded.
"So, we've got Mimi out of the base, now what?" Davis asked.
"Well, while you were there, we were trying to come up with a plan and..." Izzy started.
"And?" Davis asked.
"We
came to the conclusion that we're going to have to destroy Dark Lord," Tai
said.
"I figured it would come down
to that," Davis said.
"Well, I think Omnimon and Lillymon pretty much have this one in the bag, guys. They're pummeling the heck out of Dark Lord," Mimi said, watching the fight.
"I don't know. Remember, Dark Lord isn't a Digimon. That means, he's not limited the ways Digimon are," Izzy started.
"What do you mean?" Mimi asked.
"Well, Digimon are limited by the level of power they can achieve, through Digivolution. Since Dark Lord isn't a Digimon, in the first place, and doesn't Digivolve, he can achieve a higher level of power than them," Izzy explained.
"He might have a higher level of power than he's letting on," Davis said, thoughtfully.
"Right, which is why we can't underestimate him. Just because it looks like Omnimon and Lillymon are pummeling him, doesn't mean they actually are," Izzy continued.
"So, what are we gonna do? We can't exactly measure his power," Davis pointed out.
"We've come to the conclusion that we need more Digimon in the fight. Primarily, Mega Digimon," Izzy said.
"Right, Imperialdramon," Davis said.
"Exactly. Right now, Imperialdramon is our best shot. The rest of our Digimon are pooped from the last fight, and, besides, our Digivices are fried," Yolei said.
"Yeah, about that. What exactly happened? Do you know?" Davis asked.
"Well, we think that it was the amount of power Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon used when they fused to create Omnimon," Izzy replied.
"Yeah, because the same thing happened five years ago when they first DNA Digivolved," Tai added. Davis nodded.
"I figured it was because of that. Either that, or the laser that destroyed the base," Davis replied.
"Ok, so we're going to try fighting him with Omnimon and Imperialdramon? What about Lillymon?" Mimi asked.
"She can stay in the fight as long as she can handle it. She may be an Ultimate, a pretty fast and powerful Ultimate at that, but we're not even sure what level Dark Lord is at, in the first place," Izzy said.
"Ok, so first of all, we've got to get Imperialdramon in the fight, right?" Ken asked, as he and Stingmon walked up to join the group, with Kari and Gatomon beside him. They nodded. He looked at Davis.
"Are you up for it?" he asked.
"If you mean, did I really forgive you...then yeah. I'm up for it," Davis replied. Ken nodded.
"Just so you know, Davis, I'm sorry--" Ken started.
"No need to apologize, Ken. I know that your intention wasn't to hurt me," he said, speaking to both of them. They nodded. "I finally realise that, now. Thanks to Mimi," he thought, and looked over at her. She was still watching the battle, intently. "I'd better help Omnimon and Lillymon," he thought, and turned back to Ken and Kari.
"No hard feelings, Davis?" Ken asked.
"No hard feelings. I've learned that I just have to move on and accept things that hurt me, because once I do, I'll become stronger," Davis replied.
"Just for the record, Davis, under different circumstances, it could have been you instead of Ken," Kari replied, smiling sweetly. Davis blushed, but then shook his head.
"Perhaps," he said, then sighed. "Oh well," he said, then turned to Exveemon, ready to get the DNA Digivolution over with.
"I hope you meet a great girl," she said. He sighed.
"Yeah, me too," he replied. Mimi looked over at him.
"Wow, he looks so sad. I guess this whole Kari and Ken thing, even if his grudge with Ken is over, is still taking it's toll on him. Poor guy. I hope me meets a great girl, too." She wasn't sure what the feeling in her heart was at that moment. It felt kind of like pity, and sadness, to see anyone, Davis in particular, looking so sad. But there was something else about what she was feeling at that moment that she really couldn't describe. "I hope he'll be ok,"
"Ok, are you ready, Exveemon?" Davis asked, turning to his partner.
"You bet! I'm ready to take out that stinking Dark Lord, for everything he's done in the past!" Exveemon said. He turned to Stingmon and Ken.
"Same here. Let's get him!" Stingmon exclaimed.
"Right, then we can all go home," Matt said.
"And, the Digiworld will return to normal...well, what qualifies as normal around here," Gatomon added. Davis and Ken nodded.
"All right then, go guys!" Ken and Davis said, in sync.
Exveemon...Stingmon...DNA Digivolve to... Paildramon!
Paildramon Mega Digivolve to...Imperialdramon, Fighter Mode!
Where once Exveemon and Stingmon stood, there now stood a towering giant Digimon. Imperialdramon rose into the air, and floated above them for a second.
"We'll be watching from down here. Good luck! And don't underestimate Dark Lord!" Izzy called.
"Right," Imperialdramon replied.
"Kick his butt!" Davis yelled up to Imperialdramon, as he flew to join the battle.
"Flower Cannon!" "Supreme Cannon!" Omnimon and Lillymon attacked from either side of Dark Lord.
"Shadow Reflect!" Dark Lord called. A barrier surrounded him, deflecting the attacks back at the Digimon that fired them. They both quickly jumped out of the way. Omnimon flew foreward, and he and Dark Lord again started to slash and defend in the air. Lillymon hovered nearby, painstakingly aiming her Flower Cannon at Dark Lord. For a split second, he and Omnimon separated.
"Flower Cannon!" Lillymon exclaimed. She fired off a triple blast, all three hitting Dark Lord one after another, allowing Omnimon the advantage.
"Transcended Sword!" he yelled, and almost sliced clean through Dark Lord, had it not been for Dark Lord's metal claws, that blocked the sharp sword yet again. Lillymon flew around again, attempting to get a lock on Dark Lord. Omnimon blasted Dark Lord away, and, finally, she had a clean shot, until another blast of light hit Dark Lord, from below. She fired off two blasts, and looked down. There was Imperialdramon, glowing fiercely from the light of recent Digivolution, and shooting up at high speed toward Dark Lord, in the form of his evil twin, Komorimon. Komorimon looked down, and hissed.Imperialdramon rose up to Omnimon and Lillymon's height. Dark Lord, completely outnumbered by the two Megas and one Ultimate, hissed, and backed up.
"No fair! I thought good guys played by the rules!" he hissed.
"Not when we're fighting dirtbags like you! Let's get him, boys!" Lillymon exclaimed. Dark Lord hissed again, but then chuckled.
"That's ok. I may not have as much power as you in THIS form...but, watch and learn. I, Dark Lord, by far posess more power than you puny ones could EVER dream of!" Dark Lord boasted.
"Oh yeah?" Lillymon asked.
"Yeah," Dark Lord replied, then began to glow white again, transforming.
"Uh oh, I don' t like the looks of this," Davis said, from down below.
"Destroy him while he's still transforming!" Izzy yelled up to the three Digimon, but in vain. They couldn't hear him. They watched as Dark Lord's glowing form slowly got bigger, and bigger.
"What the heck is he transforming into?" Omnimon asked.
"We'll soon find out," Imperialdramon replied. Lillymon gulped.
"Um, guys? Do you think he was bluffing when he said he had more power than the two of you?" Lillymon asked, a little nervous.
"Let's hope so," Omnimon replied.
"What's he transforming into?" Mimi asked.
"I don't know, I can't tell yet! Besides, my laptop is still fried!" Izzy replied.
"Whatever he's turning into, it's definetely something big!" Davis exclaimed.
Dark Lord kept growing in size, until finally, he stopped, and began to take form. He took the shape of a huge, many sided figure, at least one hundred stories tall, if not bigger. The figure possibly had six or seven sides, and was black. Out of the top of the figure, a platform rose, with Dark Lord's original form sort of...growing out of it. The other sides of the huge cube-like thing opened, and huge, metal claws floated out. Dark Lord laughed.
"Apocolymon!" all of the original Digidestined exclaimed. Lillymon and Omnimon gasped as well, as the light of transformation completely dissapated from Dark Lord.
"Apocolymon??" Davis demanded.
"Who's that?" Yolei asked.
"Apocolymon was the final enemy that us original Digidestined faced, the first time we were sucked into the Digiworld five years ago," Matt explained.
"Is he tough?" Cody asked, worried.
"Well, yeah, he was pretty tough, but we were still able to beat him," Tai replied.
"We're not sure about his level, because I never could get any data about him on the computer. We do know that Apocolymon, or at least the original Apocolymon, was incredibly evil, and probably about as strong as a Mega," Izzy said.
"That's not good news! What kind of attacks does this guy have?" Davis asked.
"There's no way to tell, for sure. When we met him, five years ago, he could use any attack of an evil Digimon we'd met in the past," Joe said.
"And since this is Dark Lord, he can probably use any attack of any Digimon he's absorbed, at the least, if not ANY Digimon, at will," TK pointed out. Everyone gulped, and turned to the sky.
"Apocolymon?" Imperialdramon questioned.
"He was the guy we fought with five years ago. He's really evil. In fact, he was the last Digimon after the Dark Masters any of us Digimon fought until the whole Digimon Emperor mess started," Lillymon started to explain.
"I wouldn't take this guy lightly, Imperialdramon. Watch out," Omnimon warned.
"He's a hundred stories tall! Did you really expect me to take him lightly??" Imperialdramon demanded. Omnimon and Lillymon shrugged. Dark Lord, at the very top of the huge cube-like shape, laughed.
"Prepare to meet your doom, Digidestined and Digimon! I am now Apocolymon, the ultimate evil! No Digimon in existence can match up to my power!" Dark Lord boasted.
"How did you guys beat him last time?" Imperialdramon questioned.
"Well executed teamwork," Omnimon replied.
"We blasted away at his claws, disabling him, and let Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon focus on attacking Apocolymon himself. So... all we really have to do to win this fight is just what we did five years ago! Only, now we're down a few Digimon, and up one." Lillymon explained.
"So how did you guys beat him, five years ago?" Davis asked.
"Well executed teamwork," Matt and Tai said at the same time, then blinked, suprised.
"Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon mainly took care of him," Izzy said.
"Although, the other Digimon DID play a big part. They blasted away at his claws and stopped him from attacking," Mimi added.
"Ok, so this should be a sinch, then, right?" Yolei asked. Izzy shook his head.
"I'm not so sure," he replied.
"All they have to do is avoid whatever whacked out attack Dark Lord decides to try, and then destroy his claws!" Davis said.
"Yeah, they should have this fight in the bag!" Ken chipped in.
"Besides, back when we first fought Apocolymon, we only had two Mega Digimon, and now we have two with the strength of two each! This shouldn't be a problem," Kari pointed out.
"She does make a good point," Sora said.
"She does make a good point," Imperialdramon said. Lillymon beamed with pride.
"Right, so all we have to do is watch out for any attacks that Dark Lord uses, and then try and destroy as many of his claws as possible," Omnimon said.
"No problem!" Lillymon said, and held up her unopened flower cannon, "I have experience with Apocolymon claw-whacking!" she said. Imperialdramon and Omnimon snickered.
"Are you three through chatting?" Dark Lord bellowed, and then, abruptly, all of his claws shot toward the spot they were hovering. They dodged out of the way, and the claws stopped just in time to avoid hitting eachother. Omnimon flew up, dodging claws and chains to the left and right, and then appeared in front of Dark Lord, sitting at the top of the cube-like base of Apocolymon.
"Transcended Sword!" he exclaimed, and swung his sword, with the intention of cutting Dark Lord's head off. Dark Lord transformed one of his arms into a huge blade that looked exactly like Omnimon's only black, and blocked Omnimon's slash with it.
At the same time, Imperialdramon and Lillymon were dodging around swarming claws down below. Lillymon gracefully did an aerial backflip over one claw headed her way, and quickly ducked out of the way of another. She flew back a little, and raised her cannon.
"Flower Cannon!" she exclaimed, and shot a blast of light at one claw. It barely missed.
"Darn!" Lillymon said, snapping her fingers, and then dodged to the left, to avoid being skewered by another claw headed her way. Imperialdramon punched claws away here and there, and then powered up an attack.
"Positron Laser!" he exclaimed, and blasted his attack at several claws. The claws, seeming to move with brains of their own, quickly dodged out of the way, and shot out toward Imperialdramon. Imperialdramon ducked, and punched a couple of claws out of the way. He backed up in the air, and attempted to aim another attack. Lillymon dodged out of the way of some claws, and flew up to Imperialdramon.
"Did the original Apocolymon have this many claws??" Imperialdramon demanded.
"No, Dark Lord must have sprouted more or something!" Lillymon answered, and dodged another claw. Imperialdramon ducked underneath it.
"This isn't working, we can't hit them! What do you suggest?" Imperialdramon asked.
"Keep blasting away until we hit them?" Lillymon pondered.
"Well, I guess that's all we CAN do, anyway!" Imperialdramon answered, punching more claws away. Lillymon flew down a little ways, and began to dodge claws at high speed, raising her flower cannon at the same time. She turned a couple of loops around a claw, in hopes to confuse it, then flew back away from the claw.
"Flower Cannon!" she exclaimed, and this time tagged the claw with a blast of light.
"Yes! I hit it!" she yelled. The chain that the claw had once hung off of hung limply in the air for a second, but then straightened out, and dark energy seemed to fly to the spot where they claw once was.
"Uhm.." Lillymon started, dumbfounded.
` "Regeration!" Dark Lord yelled, and suddenly, the dark energy transformed itself into an exact replica of the claw that had just been destroyed, and re-attached itself to the chain! Lillymon gulped.
"Oh crap," she said. Suddenly, five claws appeared from out of nowhere, seemingly, and swarmed toward her. She quickly rose up into the air, and turned a backflip, watching the claws as they smashed into eachother and became tangled up. She took aim with her cannon.
"Flower Cannons!" she exclaimed, and fired off ten or twenty rapid-fire shots from her now bloomed flower. A cloud of dust and smoke rose up in the spot where the claws were, and the chains from the claws fell down through the air. Suddenly, the dark energy returned, and formed back into claws.
"Regeneration!" Dark Lord yelled again.
"Ah! No good! He can just keep regenerating the claws! Darn it!" she exclaimed. Behind her, she heard 'Positron Laser!' shouted, and an explosion sounded. Imperialdramon blasted his laser at several more claws, and temporarily dissentigrated them.
"Right, I've got a job to do. I'll leave the whole brutal killing of Dark Lord to Omnimon," she said, and hefted her flower cannon once again.
At the top of the huge cube, Omnimon and Dark Lord struggled back and fourth, twin blades locked together in the air.
"Give up, Omnimon! Why don't you help your pathetic friends against my swarms of claws?" Dark Lord taunted. Omnimon pushed harder on the sword, but said nothing. Dark Lord was forced to push back with even more force than he was using before. Omnimon suddenly decided that it was time to quick with this seeming stalemate, and, using his sword as sort of a lever, catapulted himself over Dark Lord, turning a couple of flips in the air, so that he was falling feet first into the sea of claws and chains. Dark Lord growled in annoyance.
"Get back here, coward!!" he shouted, and watched Omnimon dissappear, blasting away at the claws in the process. He growled again, and changed his sword back into his hand. He folded his arms, annoyed.
"Fine. I'll just destroy you with my claws," he said, and began to take control of them.
"Flower Cannon!" Lillymon shouted again, and blasted another claw into semi-oblivion. Before it could reform, she blasted several more, with the same effect. Imperialdramon wasn't faring any better against the claws than she was. Suddenly, there was a large, crashing sound, and several chains, with the claws still attached, fell past him, severed from the cube-like thing. Omnimon fell into view, slashing through a few more chains, with the same effect. The chains and claws fell out of sight, but a black light, in the shape of a rope almost, reached out of the cube thing, and pulled the chains back up, to re-attach themselves to the cube thing. Omnimon looked up at the cube with utter disgust.
"Darn! He can regenerate!" Omnimon exclaimed.
"No kidding," Lillymon said, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"What do we do now?" he asked.
"I was hoping that you were doing well against Dark Lord up there," Imperialdramon replied.
"No go. I can't attack him, he keeps blocking," Omnimon replied, and slashed through an entire claw. Black light flashed, and the claw reformed.
"Well, what are we gonna do?" Lillymon asked, gracefully dodging another claw.
"I figured that we could just destroy all of these claws, and get them out of the way, but I guess I was wrong," Omnimon replied.
"Well, we've got to do something. I think Dark Lord's power is increasing with every claw we destroy and he regenerates," Imperialdramon said.
"Hey! I've got it! Let's destroy the CUBE!!" Lillymon exclaimed, and pointed toward the huge, hundred story black cube like thing.
"WHAT?? How in the WORLD are we every going to be able to destroy THAT??" Omnimon demanded.
"Well...uh...I dunno...but we can't attack the claws, because they regener-" she started, but had to dodge yet another claw. "Flower cannon!" she exclaimed, temporarily blasting it from the sky.
"As I was saying, the claws regenerate, and you said that Dark Lord's defenses are way too strong to attack him directly...so..." Lillymon continued.
"Well, it's worth at try, I suppose," Imperialdramon reasoned.
"Maybe if all three of us attacked Dark Lord together, we could have a chance of destroying him," Omnimon said.
"Yeah, ok. And, if that doesn't work, we'll attack the cube, as plan B," Lillymon replied.
"Ok then," Imperialdramon said, and they all looked up, toward the top of the huge cube. Dodging around and destroying claws and chains left and right, they flew up toward the top.
They finally reached the top, after many claws had been destroyed and reformed, then destroyed again.
"So, you three think that attacking as a group will help you? Be my guest! Hit me with your best shot!" Dark Lord exclaimed, and threw his arms open wide.
"Gladly!" Imperialdramon and Lillymon exclaimed, and flew foreward.
"No! Wait!" Omnimon exclaimed, but it was too late.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Positron Laser!"
Dark Lord did nothing but close his eyes. Just as the two attacks were about to hit him, he glowed with a purple light.
"Parry Force!" he exclaimed, and a bubble of dark purple light surrounded him, deflecting the attacks back at Lillymon and Imperialdramon.
"Whoa!" Lillymon exclaimed, barely dodging her own attack thrown back at her.
"Light Reflect!" Imperialdramon exclaimed, and blocked his attack with a white shield of light.
"See what I mean?" Omnimon asked. They nodded, grimly. Dark Lord smirked, and held up his arms. Suddenly, all of the claws were hovering around them, every single one pointed with deadly intent toward the three Digimon.
"Uh oh," they all said, at the same time.
This is the end of this part. What did you think? Suspenseful enough for you? Unfortunately, this next part won't be the last. There will be two more chapters. That's ok, though, right? Anyway, next chapter, Lillymon gets to kick BUTT!!! Review, as usual. Daimi forever, and rock on, and all that junk.