MA: hey everyone and welcome to the second annual MA'S kick ass Christmas party. If most of you remember, we had a blast and we hope to have an even better one! First we have the d3s, digidestined and digimon partying! Plus our new friends the teen titans!
(Robin mixing drinks, raven is still following pikkan around, starfire is being hit on by sam, and BB and Cyborg are playing dbz: budokai 2.)
MA: not to mention the justice league. I would tell you what they are doing, but it's pretty nasty. And say hello to our house band, AC/DC!
(The band playing, back in black.)
MA: now for our guest, here's our old friend, Anthony.
A: hey ma. Um, where's starfire?
MA: over there. Next, we have infernoX and with him, blackguilmon.
BG: wow! Where's the bread?
MA: over there, with the other guilmon.
BG: yummy!
IX: forget the food! Where's that fine alien chick from the teen titans?
MA: over there! Next, we have epsilon zeta and his digimon, galaticmon.
EZ: yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's starfire?
G: yeah I want to see her too.
MA: damn, what's up with her and you guys?
EZ: she's hot and a freak!
MA: and last we have one of longest fans, and a kick ass author in his own right, SSJ4takeru with his friend, coral.
Ssj4t: hey buddy, can you tell me.....
MA: starfire is over there.
Ssj4t: no. I want to know where raven is. She's hot.
Coral: you would think that. Anyway, where's the food? I'm hungry!
Vega: who let this weakling in here?
Coral: Who the hell are you calling a weakling?!
Vega: you! Saiyan women are always weaklings! I didn't think they let trash like this in this party!
WB: um, hey. I'm wolf bane 420 and this is Vega, raditz's grandson.
Max: he acts like vegeta.
WB: well Vega is sorry for interrupting.....
Vega: I'm sorry for nothing!
Coral: besides, it's too late for sorrys! It's time to fight!
(Band stops playing and everyone looks at the two saiyans.)
MA and max: FIGHT! FIGHT!
(Ma and max start taking bets.)
A: 60 on Vega.
CY: 40 on coral!
Superman: this is wrong! People shouldn't fight for money! Can't we all just....
(Batman punches him out.)
Batman: 100 on coral.
Brian: My mates and me want 500 on the girl with killer ass! Yeah!
Coral: thanks boys.
Tai: ok, this will be a saiyan on saiyan bout. No tail pulling, no out side help and try to keep the property damage to a minimum.
Max: damn. We aren't ten minutes in the party and we got a fight! All right!
MA: well now, time for you to enjoy the chapter and the triumph return of max and for those who ask, it will be the one true max. On with the fic and LET'S GET IT ON!!!!!!!!
D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE
THE RETURN OF MAX KAMIYA
High above the digital world of the digidestined, the mood was anything but high. No, the mood was lower that low, and blacker than the skin of blackWargreymon. The last deamon had been released and now it was just a matter of time before they began to reassert their power. The gang sat together in a giant circle, but for a long time, no one said a thing. No one knew what to say in fact.
" Damn it's dead around him." Said kazu while guardromon nodding approvingly. The digimon had recovered after they returned but it was a short-lived happiness.
" No duh, visor boy. In case you hadn't noticed, we aren't in the mood for talking!" snapped rika.
" She's right. We messed up." koji simply stated.
" Maybe but what about this?" ryo asked as he retrieved from his pocket, the ying yang box. Everyone's spirit's rose up as they saw what he had.
" Great ryo." Chirped monodramon.
" Where did you get it?" asked bokomon.
" I found it after the water deamon washed us out. They must have dropped during the fight."
" Finally you did something worth doing, ryo." Shot rika.
" So now we can use the box to seal those assess back in the dark realm." Said TK.
" I'm afraid not."
The source of the statement was Simms, along with X by his side. He and keke made brief eye contact, the memory of the night before still fresh in their minds.
" Why not?" asked Tai.
" Look at the box closely." He recommended. They did as he asked and found something had changed.
" It's looks kinda dead." Said Mimi.
" That's right. The box contained the singular energies of the original warriors who sealed him away. With each portal that was open, another warrior's energy was used up. Now with all the deamons released, it has no power to open any of the portals."
" Can't we just, you know make another?" asked tike.
" I'm afraid not. The exact ritual to create another box was lost long ago. Beside even if we did find the way, it would take skill and power to do and not even shinmon has enough of either for it." explained X.
" I don't get it." said guilmon.
" Basically, if you don't have to knowledge to do it, it's just a paper weight." Said renamon.
" And those deamons knew it! I knew it!" cursed pikkan.
" What are you talking about?" asked leomon while pikkan stood before them.
" Every since I join this mission, I had a feel that the deamons were not serious with us. Shendumon got me especially interested. If he was able to beat two ascendants with only 1% of his power then he could easily have easily have killed anyone of us. Even though his siblings are weaker than him, they still overpowered anyone of us. Don't you get it? All this time, they were just toying us!" he said, causing everyone to gasp in horror.
" And now, with all of them freed, they don't have to run any more."
" But they are that strong then, why let us live?" asked Kari.
" To them, we are just cock roaches. We aren't a threat now but we can a potential threat. I don't think they can let warrior of our strength live very. The next time we battle them, they will kill us all." He said as now, everyone was again in a down mood.
X wandered the halls of the watch point. Everyone decided to wait it out and plan for the upcoming battle. As he walked, he ran into keke as she was leaving the bathroom. The two stopped in their track and just looked at each other, not moving or speak until the masked man decided to break the silence.
" Hi keke. How are you holding?"
" Better, given the situation."
" Well I think I'll continue on my way." He said, walking past her.
" Wait." She said quietly as he stop, but kept his back to her.
" I'm sorry about that night but I was feeling lonely, I guess."
" As I am."
" But don't worry about it. I know that you are who and who max is who was. You're not max, as much as I want you to be."
X was taking aback by that was about to say something when Tai, Simms, takuya, takato, and blackWargreymon running up to them.
" What's wrong guys?"
" We just a message from the digimon on file island. The deamons are tearing up the whole place! We got to go!" rushed Tai.
" No! You can't! You heard what pikkan said!" said X.
" It doesn't matter. We have to try and stop them." takuya said.
" And as a tamer, I must meet this head on." added takato.
" So you really are going huh?" he asked, everyone nodded their heads.
" Then I can't stop you." he said, almost like he was saddened.
" You guys head on ahead. Me and pikkan have to talk to him." Said blackWargreymon.
Not knowing or wanting to know, the goggle heads and keke ran off to gather the rest of them.
" You know you don't to fight. You too can stay here and train to fight them better."
" Ha. I should've guessed."
" Guessed what, blackWargreymon?"
" You may look like my brother, sound like him, and even have his body but you aren't him."
" True. He would joined us in this battle and find a way to win."
" So I can't change your mind, huh? Then there is nothing I can do so do as you will." He said in defeat as his friend walked out and going to the fight. X stood there in deep thought at what they said and they were right; he wasn't max, just his appearance and battle skills but not who he truly was. He balled his fist up in frustration until a look of determination appeared on his face.
" I know there is I can do but there is some one who can." He said to himself before teleporting out of there.
" This is getting boring. Are you sure they will come?" asked shendumon. He stood there with his sister wrapped around him as looked around him; trees were uprooted, villages lied in ruins, digimon ran for their lives while the other deamons took the island apart.
" Of course they will. They are digidestined and they will fight if others are in danger." Answered the warlord, as his sick smile got even wider for every digimon they kill.
" Good. All this senseless destruction is boring me."
" All good thing come to those wait." Bai zamon said in comfort.
" Then you don't have to wait long."
Out from the forest came the energy crew; garudamon, Wargreymon, blackWargreymon, megakabutarimon, Lillymon, sakuyamon, megagargomon, wargrowlmon, metal garurumon, imperildramon, Slyphmon, shakouamon, the d3s, kazemon, beetlemon, lobomon, and Kumamon. All of them stood together and glared at the deamons, who had stopped their activates.
" Well, well. I have figure you guys would have ran off but it appears as our slave was right on the money." Said tchangzumon.
" If you think you can't just tear up the digital world on our watch then you are fucking nuts!" shouted Davis. Just then, shendumon laughed madly as he faced the forces of digimon and human.
" What so funny?" snapped beetlemon.
" You are, fool. Haven't you learned; you weaklings can't beat us. I had hoped that our of you would rise above the others and give me a decent challenge but so far, I'm not impressed."
" Don't worry brother. We know you look for the one for you so we shall kill this roaches." Said tso lanmon.
" Yes. Just sit back and watch." Added the water deamon as she jumped off him and on to the ground.
" If you don't mind, let join in on this." Said the warlord as he drew his sword and licked it.
" Are you that confident?" asked takuya.
" Very." Smiled hsi wumon.
" Get ready everyone!" said pikkan.
" No quarter asked." Said tike.
" No quarter given." Added Davis as everyone got ready for what could be their last fight.
" This time, there will be no retreats." Said po kongmon as she and her family started to walk towards them, slowly, as if they had all the time in the world.
" This time, we won't leave anything left to fill a thimble."
Meanwhile, X descended the stair, following shinmon as he walked ahead to the large doors leading to the nexus.
" We're here." He said as he and the masked man stopped.
" I see. Thank you shinmon."
" I must warn you; this is a very risky thing you are doing. Even I am not sure what will happened."
" I have an idea."
" If this fails, then you will not live, not as max or X."
" I know. This is my only chance to help my family."
" Well then, it's time."
With a wave of his hand, the lock on the door slid off, and the door opened, revealing the light of the nexus. X squinted his eyes at the light and began to walk inside.
" Good luck X." Shinmon wished as the doors closed behind him.
" Thanks. I'll need it."
With slowly, cautious footsteps, he approached the massive light orb that was the very heart of all digimon.
" Please let this work."
He slowly raised his hand and started to reach for the orb. He rubbed his fingers together, still wondering if he was doing the right thing as his palm, at last touched the surface. Like a bullet, the raw power ran through him and as a result, he screamed in pain. This pain was unlike anything he had ever felt. Maybe he expected it or he was in too much pain to notice but tentacles reached out from the side and drew him into itself. The next thing he knows, X found that he was at Simms' watchpoint but it was different; it was still bright but there was a strange fog over the land.
" Where am I?" he asked and as if, in answer to his question, footsteps filled the air. Out of the mist emerged keke. He was surprised to see her here but she had a blank expression on her face. As he thought how strange it was, more footsteps came calling in. He turned all around him to find all his friends and family surrounding him.
" What are you guys doing here?"
" It is the construct." Said keke in a monotone voice.
" He has returned to us." Said rika in the same voice.
" Y-you are not my friends, aren't you?"
" We are the nexus." Said takato.
" We are everything and nothing." Said matt.
" Then why do you look like that?"
" We have no form you can understand." Sam explained.
" So we looked into your mind and appeared as people whom you know and trust." Said guilmon.
" Why have you come back?" asked Tai.
" I need to ask something. You know about what is going to happen."
" But why should it matter to you?" asked pikkan.
" The one is no longer. On the construct remains." Said Mimi.
" I know but I can't sit back and watch them die."
" So what do you purpose?" asked Kari.
" I wish to have my life back, my power back."
" But you gave up the power." Said tike.
" You did so willingly." Said kara.
" I know but it is for the good of the dig-verse."
" You wish to have the power back, the danger and the responsibility?" asked Davis.
" Yes. I must."
The figures looked at each, almost as if they were talking with each other secretly. X thought about what they were doing when keke walked up to him and pressed her palm to his head and in a flash of light, he blacked out. When he would again, he was on the path leading to the nexus. He groaned as he got to his foot and looked around.
" I'm not dead?"
" No you are not."
X looked up at the nexus and heard its voice in his head.
" You have done more than any human and still hold that which is most important to you. Your heart remains pure, even through all the evil you have been through so, for this reason, we have given back that which was yours and ours. Go and be the one, max kamiya."
For the first time, X felt his power inside him and all of the feeling was back. With a smile under his mask, he ran for the door and forced them open. Suddenly, all over the planet, the eyes of digimon and high ones alike turned to the direction of the main house. The masked one ran up the stair and burst out of the door with shinmon standing there, almost waiting for him.
" I take it that it worked?"
" Oh yeah." He said in a much different voice than before. It was happier and more determined. And his eyes had a fire in them like nothing he had ever seen before.
" I can tell. What now?"
" I'm not high one anymore so I need you to take me there."
" Of course. Take my hand."
With that he took his hand, and the duo vanished and then reappeared on the destined's planet but unfortunately they weren't any where near the site of battle.
" I guess you were a bit off." He said as the wind blew. It appeared that they were in the northern part of the digital world.
" Sorry but with all that power being put out, I couldn't get close enough."
" It's ok shinmon. I'll fly the rest of the way from here."
" But File Island is on the other side of the planet! Even if you get there in time, you will be too burned out to fight!"
" Don't worry about me. I'll have enough to end this. Thank you for everything."
" I was glad to help. Now go."
With a nod and maybe a smile, shinmon couldn't tell thanks to the mask, he jumped into the air jetted off. Shinmon looked in awe as the ex high one flew faster then he had ever seen him go. He flew over the frozen land while the ground behind him ripped up and crashed under his power. In no time, he was in a warm climate as he pasted forests, which were being up rooted. The digimon looked up at this thing flying overhead and for some reason, they were not afraid. They all smiled as if they knew what had happened. After sometime, he finally arrived at the ocean. As he sailed over the water, several dolphmon surfaced and began to jump into the air, almost as if welcoming and supporting him.
" Hang on guys! I'm back and I'm not gonna let you all down!"
" AGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"
With that scream from takuya, the last able warrior had fallen before the deamons. The digimon were all in a heap, some in rookie form and the rest were sent back to their in training forms. Everyone else who found were sprawled out on the ground, cover in bruises while the deamon didn't seem winded.
" I expected a lot harder fight from them." tchangzumon said as he threw takuya to the earth. Zoe ran to her boyfriend to check on him but she wasn't in any better position to fight.
" Well what can they do?" asked tso lanmon.
" We have defeated them. Now what do we do with them?" asked bai zamon, now in the arms of her lover.
" I care not what happens to them. I just don't want to fight such weaklings again." he said, looking at the terror, fear, and utter hopelessness on their faces.
" What do you think, slave?"
" Leave the girls to me but kill the rest. I have plans for them." he said, as he licked his lips while the girls cringed at the thought.
" You sure?"
" Yes but you can kill those three." He said pointing to sora, keke and rika. He walked over and pulled sora up by the hair.
" You see, this bitch is the mother of the bastard who beat me the first time." He explained as he threw her to the ground and picked up rika.
" And I offered this little hellcat the world and she threw it in my face. Let's just say I don't take rejection well." And once again, he grabbed keke.
" And it was this bitch's love for him that gave him the power to beat me. She deserved to die more than anyone here."
" Let go of her!" said matt. The warlord blew him back with his hand and into a tree.
" Matt!" mimi yelled, running to his aid while the warlord drug her daughter in front of his master.
" Kill her first."
" Gladly." Said Dai guimon as he advanced to her.
" No, brother. I will finish her myself." Stopped shendumon as he walked and stopped in front of her.
" You should feel honored to be killed by the strongest warrior in the digi-verse." Said bai zamon.
He's not the strongest. Not in my eyes any way
" There must be something we can do!" yelled mimi but looking around, she saw that it was hopeless' blackWargreymon was barely holding together, pikkan was blasted out to somewhere on the island with jeri running after, the twin were hardly conscious to fight from their parent's laps, sam was struggling to get to his feet, and takato and takuya were worse off.
" Bye bitch!" snickered the warlord while shendumon opened his mouth and it glowed with his fire. Keke looked up and, resigned to her fate, he closed her eyes and waited for the end to come.
DRAGON'S FIRE
Here I come max.
No one saw it but a black blur streaked in from of keke as the attack hit. The explosion ripped into the ground and the entire island, maybe even the world, felt the aftershock of the blast. The smoke and dust was everywhere as the destined cough and hacked it all up.
" Oh my god. She's dead." Mimi said quietly as matt was in tears, seeing his daughter killed before his eyes. Everyone was silent, save for the mad laughter of the warlord when, suddenly, a cough was heard from ground zero. As the dust settled, it revealed that keke had indeed survived the attack and to everyone's shock, there, standing between her and the deamons was X.
" X! What just happened?" she asked but he didn't turn to her. Shendumon and his siblings looked in silent horror.
" They survived my dragon's fire! No one lives through that!"
At that moment, shendumon and X laid eyes on each other. It was like they were the only ones there.
" It was him."
" Whoa! Takuya, you feel that?" asked takato.
" Yeah! But that's impossible!"
" Why is that?" asked Zoe.
" High ones don't give off ki. It's so they watch other with out being detected. But he has one."
" It's not only that." Tai staggered forward with a slight smile on his face.
" I recognize that power. I know that power any where."
While TK and Kari looked on, the twins were in tears of happiness.
" I can't believe this!"
" This is fucking great!"
" How does he do it?" smiled sam.
" Now we have a chance." Said David.
" Just who are you?" asked xiao fangmon.
" Forget him. He's just a high one. He can't fight us." Answered the warlord, snickering at him.
But how could a high stop my attack.
Shendumon wasn't sure if he was who he appeared to be. Then, X began with a sigh.
" I didn't want to get involved but now I see that you need a stronger opponent."
" Oh who might that be? You? High ones don't fight! Just who do you think you are?"
" Glad you asked."
The next few moment came in slow motion: he began by removing his gloves and let them drop to the ground. He undid his coat, took it off, and threw it away, revealing a black under shirt. He raised his hand to the back of his mask and grabbed a handful of it, pulling it up, and removing it. With that, the high one known at as X was gone forever. In his place stood a boy in his late teens, brown eyes with red undertones, wild light brown, similar to tai's but with a length of hair going down the back of his head and a very determined look on his face. To those unknown of him, they didn't know who this young man was but to those who knew him, they only said two words:
" IT'S MAX!!!!!!!"
" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! IT CAN'T BE! HE'S DEAD! HE'S DEAD! GOD NO!!!!!"
The warlord was going into a full spaz attack as he jumped and flied around like a madman. Shendumon wondered whom he was to cause him to react this way.
" The name is max kamiya." He said simply with smile. Upon hearing that name, the destined were a mix of shock, awe, and glee. Shendumon looked on as the thunder deamon approached him.
" Who cares what you name is! I don't! Now move out of the way or get dropped!" he warned. Max quickly raised his eyebrow which seemed to get at tchangzumon. His eyes bugged up and a few beads of sweat rolled off him.
" What's wrong brother?" asked po kongmon.
" OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" He screamed as he grabbed his stomach and fell forward in pain.
" He punched me! It hurts!" he said.
" I didn't see him move. How could he punch them?" wondered ken out loud but shendumon secretly knew the answer.
It's simple. He moved his arm so fast that it seemed as if he was standing still. But it still had enough power to drop my brother. Impressive.
A small but noticeable smile snuck onto his face, which bai zamon noticed. The warlord jumped around as if he was going crazy or, in his case, crazier.
" WHAT ARE YOU STANDING AROUND FOR?! KILL HIM! HE MUST DIE!!!!" he roared.
(Play the matrix-reloaded theme for the château fight.)
Feeling his rage, bai zamon jumped off shendumon and attacked with water blasts at him, while max began to flip away. Hsi wumon dove down at him but max punched him into his sister. Out from the ground erupted Dai guimon, roared began his attack. It seems that now max was deamon enemy number one at they all rushed him, all except for shendumon, who was high above the battle, watching max closely.
" Let's see what you can do."
Max dodged the lightening and floating rocks from tso lanmon and tchangzumon. The earth deamon swung his fist but max was too fast and delivered a kick to his face. Just then a large gust of wind came out of nowhere. It was from the frog like mouth of xiao fangmon. Max walked against the gale and seemingly was getting somewhere. The wind deamon blew harder, stopping max a second but he dashed ahead and closed his mouth. With a punch in his throat, he dropped him. Another rock came down, which max easily avoided. Po kongmon smiled, revealing that she was the culprit. The sky deamon flew over the ground at him and max took the only action he could; he jumped onto the skin of the mountain deamon and ran over her, with her brother in hot pursuit. He kicked off a part of her, spun around and drop kicked him. He then float up to the massive digimon and fired a ki blast, point blank. As she fell back, blinded by the attack, he back flipped away and landed on to of a tree on one foot with his arms crossed. He looked around him to see them surrounding his position; bai zamon flowed up a tree and reformed with a water blast ready behind him on his left. Tchangzumon, using his cloud, flew behind him on his right. Hsi wumon recovered and was floating in front of him to his left. And tso lanmon used his larger arms to levitate to his right while his smaller arms readied a dark energy ball. Max looked around the forces massed against him and grins, as he effortlessly became an ascendant. Bai zamon and tchangzumon fired their attack but they didn't hit since max phased out of the line of fire and reappeared in front of the female, sucker punching her. Hsi wumon went after him with gusto, launching his sky cutter attack. Max barely dodged it, as a few strands of hair fell from his head. Tso lanmon fired his ball, which max dodged as he fired his own, dropping him as well. Max landed on the ground to face Dai guimon and his fist of rock. He started to pound on the teen, while he blocked the blows with his arms until he grabbed his arms under his and head butted him. Just then, a massive shadow appeared overhead. He looked up to see po kongmon floating in the air, with the aid of her brother's moon powers. Before he could move, her massive girth landed on top of him.
" HA! Got him!" he cheered while the gang watch in horror. Max's hand reached from under her body, tried to get free.
" GET....OFF....MY.....BACK!!" he shouted as a glow appeared under her. With a roar, he used power and threw her off him and a few hundred yards away. Max stood up with a pissed look on his face.
" Alright, bitches! Round two!" he announced as he went to ascendant 2. Shendumon notices his change and grows even more interested. Tchangzumon, with fists of lightening came at him and with near god like speed, avoided the fists and punched him in the face. Bai zamon came out of nowhere and began her water attack. Max buried his fist into her but she turned her mid section into water. She smiled evilly as his fist passed through her but max stopped his fist and exploded a ki blast in her, blowing her into water. Dai guimon came back like a bull and charged him but max merely stepped out of the way and tripped him. The remaining three deamons all blitzed him. Max dashed up, punched tso lanmon, zipped over to hsi wumon to kick him, and then flew to xiao fangmon and chopped him in the neck. This all took only 2 seconds. Max stood before the 7 seven downed deamons, who were on the ground while he barely broke a sweat.
" How can a mere human dominate us?!" tchangzumon asked angrily.
" Maybe there is a way we can win. He may be able to take us one on one but if we rush him, we will overwhelm him." Said tso lanmon. The others nodded and with a roar, they blitzed him. Max cupped his hands to his side and a blueish glow appeared in his hands.
TSUNAMI WAVE
With a yell, he unleashed the blue beam of energy upon them, swallowing them all. When it was over, the deamon lie on burnt earth, beaten and weaken at his hand. Max looked up to see shendumon looking back at him. Slowly he rose into the air to his eye level. Both stared at one another, seemingly waiting for the other to make a move but it never came. Then max made a move that no one expected, except maybe shendumon; he powered down and returned to normal.
" You're not gonna fight, are you?"
" No. How did you come to the conclusion?"
" Even though I was fighting, I kept a eye on you and your power. It didn't go up once so I figured you didn't have any intention of battling."
" I'm impressed. Only a warrior of high skill could figure that out."
" What?!"
The warlord, almost forgotten by the two, appeared at shendumon's side.
" What are you doing?! You must kill him! He must die!" he ranted until the fire deamon used his collar to silence him.
" Ha. He really hates you, doesn't he?"
" The feeling is all but mutual. So tell me, why wont you fight me?"
" You see, I am the strongest of my siblings and as such it requires me to find only those who are my equal."
" Of course."
" Sadly, my power is so great that I have never fought at my fill power, except with my father. When I first did battle with your group, I was unimpressed. I had wait for one of them to rise above the others to give me a great challenge but none came. Then I saw you. When I looked into your eyes I knew you were different, a fire that I have only seen in my eyes. And you are different; every planet that we have been to, your name is praised, worshipped almost, like a god. The human who fights like a digimon, the destroyer of buumon, the demonic angel, max kamiya."
" I'm thankful I'm so revered by you."
" Yes. Your power, your speed, your skill, and your control are near perfection. Seeing you beat my family was proof enough for me."
" I'm flattered but you still haven't answered my question; why didn't you fight me?"
" In deamon belief, for everyone deamon born, there is a warrior for them who is their equal. I believe you are mine."
" Thanks. Are we going steady now?"
" A supreme fighter and a jokester! What a combo! No, it merely means that we won't fight here, not yet. Fighters of our level deserve a much grander stage than a small island on a backwards world. When we battle, it will a battle that the entire digi-verse shall know and remember and the very stars themselves with gasp in silent awe. It will be glorious!"
With a wide smile he turned and waved his hand over the battlefield. The unconscious forms of his brothers and sisters sunk into different portals along with the warlord. He then turned and formed his own portal.
" But let's get this straight, max kamiya. I respect you and on some level, maybe even like you but know this; when we battle, I will not hesitate to use all my skill and power to kill you."
" Good. It would make our fight all the more great and I will go all out as well." He said with a smile. Shendumon smiled as well.
" Until then, be ready."
With that, he stepped into the portal and vanished leaving max alone. He let out a deep breathe and began to breath hard.
" Whew! It's good he didn't want to fight. I'm burnt out!" he said as he looked down at the digidestined.
" Well it's time to face the music."
With that, he slowly floated down to the earth and landed in front of them. It seemed like a long time had pasted between them. He just smiled at them while they had no idea what to think. There, standing before them was the savior of the digi-verse, the legend that keke and the others spoke and just now, dominated 7 of the 8 deamon conquers single handedly. No one knew what to say. Until keke stood up, with some sign of emotion on her face and walked over and did something no one even thought she would do.
SLAP!
Max reeled from the blow as tear erupted from her face.
" I don't think I deserve that." he said rubbing his cheek.
" You jerk! How could you! All this time! You hid under that damn mask!"
" I'm sorry kek. But it wasn't me."
" Don't give me that bullshit! I knew it was you! You felt the same and you just blew me off! I don't see how I could fall for such a creep!"
" I can explain....." he was cut off when she kissed him long and hard. He eagerly returned. Everyone looked on with a smile and TK and Kari shielded or at least tried to shield them from the scene but they seemed to look through their hands.
" Now that I deserved." He spoke when it was over.
" But you did save my life and you came back to me so I can't be mad at you. I have missed you."
" I have as well, kek. More than you know." He said, hugging his beloved girlfriend. There was a mix of 'awws' and sniffles as they watched the two lovers embraced each other. As they broke apart, two flying objects impacted max's body. It was his two cousins who were hugging and crying on him.
" Max we missed you!" they said together along with some other things before max got back up.
" Man, I missed you two too! Man you guys are getting big!" he laughed as they clung to him. David calmly walked up to the teen.
" Although I don't have a much enthusiasm as my friend here, it is good to see you."
" Like wise David." He said as he walked up to the group, meeting Tai's hand.
" Tai, you look stronger."
" Oh yeah. Soon I'll be able to beat you."
" I'll be waiting!" he joked as he shook his hand.
" You boys and your games. Still man enough to give your mom a hug?" asked sora.
" Of course!" he exclaimed as he embraced her.
" It's great to have you back."
" What? You don't have time for your old friend?" asked sam from behind him.
" You got time from macking for me?"
" I think I can spare a few second." The two old friends shared a handshake and a hug.
" Kamiya!"
Everyone looked over to see pikkan coming out of the woods, limping with jeri supporting him.
" You sure do know how to make a entrance! Next time, can you not cut it so damn close, like before I get my ass handed to me?!" he snapped.
" What? But I'm just a human and you are the elite of the Alterian Empire. It wouldn't be right."
" I knew you would say that. Nice to see you are back to your old self." He said with a slight grin on his face.
" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
Like a bull, blackWargreymon change max with his fist with he met with his own.
" Aw man! BlackWargreymon has gone nuts!" exclaim JP.
" I knew we couldn't trust him!" said koji.
Just then, the black mega began to laugh and soon max joined him. Then the two laughed and hugged each. For most of the digidestined, it was weird to see him act like this.
" I had you going! Admit it!"
" You did!"
" It's great to see you back to your old self, little brother."
" Great to be back, big brother." He smiled. Takato and takuya looked at max like two fan boys. After hearing all the stories of him, seeing the legendary max kamiya was like a dream.
" Hi boys." He said to them.
" You know us?"
" Of course. I have all of X's memories so I know how great fighters you two are. I'm impressed with you two and all of you as well."
Takato and takuya smiled while their girlfriends shook their heads.
" But weren't you X, max?" asked Tai.
" In a way, no. You see when I was with the nexus, I felt all the energies of the ascendants out there. I had to unleash that power in them but I was unable to. So the nexus and shinmon created a construct, a being with my knowledge and memories but it also had my looks. I could have you guys think I was back from the dead so I had him wear a mask and the name X."
" I get it: in math, X means unknown. Prodigious!" said izzy. Max's smiled slowly faded to a smirked as he looked over his friend and family. He rested his hands on the heads of his twin cousins.
" I must say that I am proud of all of you and that you all have gotten stronger since I last saw you and to those I have just met, I am impressed. But the battle is far from over. They will return and we must be ready. I have come to you now for this is the turning point in our battle. And if you have faith in me and in yourselves, we will win." With that, everyone smiled and felt they could now win with max, while he looked up into the sky, looking quite majestic in their eyes, more so in takuya and takato.
" So that is the legendary max kamiya." Said takato.
" As long as he is with us, we can do anything." Added takuya. Suddenly, a loud growling noise filled the air. Everyone thinking that deamons were coming back, prepare to fight.
" Max what is that?" keke asked while max turned from them and sighed.
" I'm afraid I know that sound all to well."
" What is it?" asked Cody.
" It was..........my stomach! Can we get something to eat?" he answered, turning with his hand behind his head and grinning like a retard. Everyone fell over in embarrassment.
" He's gonna save us?" asked ryo.
" We're doom!" said koji.
NEXT TIME: max plans the battle with the deamon as he recruits one more fighter to the gang but is he too powerful to be an ally?
RETURN OF THE INFERNO
MA: welcome back peeps! And right now we are in the battle of the year as coral and Vega are kicking each other's Asses!
(Everyone is huddled together as the two saiyans pound on each other.)
Max: man we are gonna make a killing!
(Suddenly the fighting stops. Everyone looks in and see the two making out.)
Vega: what the fuck are you all looking at?
Coral: can't you see we are busy?
Keke: awww! How cute!
Max: cute? Damn it that won the fight?
MA's corner.
MA: here is a question from my longest fan, Anthony that I forgot to answer; will there be an hours of love 3? My answer: hell yeah! None of my sagas would be good without hours of love chapter. Don't worry. This one will be the best one yet.
LATER FICCERS! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
(Robin mixing drinks, raven is still following pikkan around, starfire is being hit on by sam, and BB and Cyborg are playing dbz: budokai 2.)
MA: not to mention the justice league. I would tell you what they are doing, but it's pretty nasty. And say hello to our house band, AC/DC!
(The band playing, back in black.)
MA: now for our guest, here's our old friend, Anthony.
A: hey ma. Um, where's starfire?
MA: over there. Next, we have infernoX and with him, blackguilmon.
BG: wow! Where's the bread?
MA: over there, with the other guilmon.
BG: yummy!
IX: forget the food! Where's that fine alien chick from the teen titans?
MA: over there! Next, we have epsilon zeta and his digimon, galaticmon.
EZ: yeah, yeah, yeah. Where's starfire?
G: yeah I want to see her too.
MA: damn, what's up with her and you guys?
EZ: she's hot and a freak!
MA: and last we have one of longest fans, and a kick ass author in his own right, SSJ4takeru with his friend, coral.
Ssj4t: hey buddy, can you tell me.....
MA: starfire is over there.
Ssj4t: no. I want to know where raven is. She's hot.
Coral: you would think that. Anyway, where's the food? I'm hungry!
Vega: who let this weakling in here?
Coral: Who the hell are you calling a weakling?!
Vega: you! Saiyan women are always weaklings! I didn't think they let trash like this in this party!
WB: um, hey. I'm wolf bane 420 and this is Vega, raditz's grandson.
Max: he acts like vegeta.
WB: well Vega is sorry for interrupting.....
Vega: I'm sorry for nothing!
Coral: besides, it's too late for sorrys! It's time to fight!
(Band stops playing and everyone looks at the two saiyans.)
MA and max: FIGHT! FIGHT!
(Ma and max start taking bets.)
A: 60 on Vega.
CY: 40 on coral!
Superman: this is wrong! People shouldn't fight for money! Can't we all just....
(Batman punches him out.)
Batman: 100 on coral.
Brian: My mates and me want 500 on the girl with killer ass! Yeah!
Coral: thanks boys.
Tai: ok, this will be a saiyan on saiyan bout. No tail pulling, no out side help and try to keep the property damage to a minimum.
Max: damn. We aren't ten minutes in the party and we got a fight! All right!
MA: well now, time for you to enjoy the chapter and the triumph return of max and for those who ask, it will be the one true max. On with the fic and LET'S GET IT ON!!!!!!!!
D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE
THE RETURN OF MAX KAMIYA
High above the digital world of the digidestined, the mood was anything but high. No, the mood was lower that low, and blacker than the skin of blackWargreymon. The last deamon had been released and now it was just a matter of time before they began to reassert their power. The gang sat together in a giant circle, but for a long time, no one said a thing. No one knew what to say in fact.
" Damn it's dead around him." Said kazu while guardromon nodding approvingly. The digimon had recovered after they returned but it was a short-lived happiness.
" No duh, visor boy. In case you hadn't noticed, we aren't in the mood for talking!" snapped rika.
" She's right. We messed up." koji simply stated.
" Maybe but what about this?" ryo asked as he retrieved from his pocket, the ying yang box. Everyone's spirit's rose up as they saw what he had.
" Great ryo." Chirped monodramon.
" Where did you get it?" asked bokomon.
" I found it after the water deamon washed us out. They must have dropped during the fight."
" Finally you did something worth doing, ryo." Shot rika.
" So now we can use the box to seal those assess back in the dark realm." Said TK.
" I'm afraid not."
The source of the statement was Simms, along with X by his side. He and keke made brief eye contact, the memory of the night before still fresh in their minds.
" Why not?" asked Tai.
" Look at the box closely." He recommended. They did as he asked and found something had changed.
" It's looks kinda dead." Said Mimi.
" That's right. The box contained the singular energies of the original warriors who sealed him away. With each portal that was open, another warrior's energy was used up. Now with all the deamons released, it has no power to open any of the portals."
" Can't we just, you know make another?" asked tike.
" I'm afraid not. The exact ritual to create another box was lost long ago. Beside even if we did find the way, it would take skill and power to do and not even shinmon has enough of either for it." explained X.
" I don't get it." said guilmon.
" Basically, if you don't have to knowledge to do it, it's just a paper weight." Said renamon.
" And those deamons knew it! I knew it!" cursed pikkan.
" What are you talking about?" asked leomon while pikkan stood before them.
" Every since I join this mission, I had a feel that the deamons were not serious with us. Shendumon got me especially interested. If he was able to beat two ascendants with only 1% of his power then he could easily have easily have killed anyone of us. Even though his siblings are weaker than him, they still overpowered anyone of us. Don't you get it? All this time, they were just toying us!" he said, causing everyone to gasp in horror.
" And now, with all of them freed, they don't have to run any more."
" But they are that strong then, why let us live?" asked Kari.
" To them, we are just cock roaches. We aren't a threat now but we can a potential threat. I don't think they can let warrior of our strength live very. The next time we battle them, they will kill us all." He said as now, everyone was again in a down mood.
X wandered the halls of the watch point. Everyone decided to wait it out and plan for the upcoming battle. As he walked, he ran into keke as she was leaving the bathroom. The two stopped in their track and just looked at each other, not moving or speak until the masked man decided to break the silence.
" Hi keke. How are you holding?"
" Better, given the situation."
" Well I think I'll continue on my way." He said, walking past her.
" Wait." She said quietly as he stop, but kept his back to her.
" I'm sorry about that night but I was feeling lonely, I guess."
" As I am."
" But don't worry about it. I know that you are who and who max is who was. You're not max, as much as I want you to be."
X was taking aback by that was about to say something when Tai, Simms, takuya, takato, and blackWargreymon running up to them.
" What's wrong guys?"
" We just a message from the digimon on file island. The deamons are tearing up the whole place! We got to go!" rushed Tai.
" No! You can't! You heard what pikkan said!" said X.
" It doesn't matter. We have to try and stop them." takuya said.
" And as a tamer, I must meet this head on." added takato.
" So you really are going huh?" he asked, everyone nodded their heads.
" Then I can't stop you." he said, almost like he was saddened.
" You guys head on ahead. Me and pikkan have to talk to him." Said blackWargreymon.
Not knowing or wanting to know, the goggle heads and keke ran off to gather the rest of them.
" You know you don't to fight. You too can stay here and train to fight them better."
" Ha. I should've guessed."
" Guessed what, blackWargreymon?"
" You may look like my brother, sound like him, and even have his body but you aren't him."
" True. He would joined us in this battle and find a way to win."
" So I can't change your mind, huh? Then there is nothing I can do so do as you will." He said in defeat as his friend walked out and going to the fight. X stood there in deep thought at what they said and they were right; he wasn't max, just his appearance and battle skills but not who he truly was. He balled his fist up in frustration until a look of determination appeared on his face.
" I know there is I can do but there is some one who can." He said to himself before teleporting out of there.
" This is getting boring. Are you sure they will come?" asked shendumon. He stood there with his sister wrapped around him as looked around him; trees were uprooted, villages lied in ruins, digimon ran for their lives while the other deamons took the island apart.
" Of course they will. They are digidestined and they will fight if others are in danger." Answered the warlord, as his sick smile got even wider for every digimon they kill.
" Good. All this senseless destruction is boring me."
" All good thing come to those wait." Bai zamon said in comfort.
" Then you don't have to wait long."
Out from the forest came the energy crew; garudamon, Wargreymon, blackWargreymon, megakabutarimon, Lillymon, sakuyamon, megagargomon, wargrowlmon, metal garurumon, imperildramon, Slyphmon, shakouamon, the d3s, kazemon, beetlemon, lobomon, and Kumamon. All of them stood together and glared at the deamons, who had stopped their activates.
" Well, well. I have figure you guys would have ran off but it appears as our slave was right on the money." Said tchangzumon.
" If you think you can't just tear up the digital world on our watch then you are fucking nuts!" shouted Davis. Just then, shendumon laughed madly as he faced the forces of digimon and human.
" What so funny?" snapped beetlemon.
" You are, fool. Haven't you learned; you weaklings can't beat us. I had hoped that our of you would rise above the others and give me a decent challenge but so far, I'm not impressed."
" Don't worry brother. We know you look for the one for you so we shall kill this roaches." Said tso lanmon.
" Yes. Just sit back and watch." Added the water deamon as she jumped off him and on to the ground.
" If you don't mind, let join in on this." Said the warlord as he drew his sword and licked it.
" Are you that confident?" asked takuya.
" Very." Smiled hsi wumon.
" Get ready everyone!" said pikkan.
" No quarter asked." Said tike.
" No quarter given." Added Davis as everyone got ready for what could be their last fight.
" This time, there will be no retreats." Said po kongmon as she and her family started to walk towards them, slowly, as if they had all the time in the world.
" This time, we won't leave anything left to fill a thimble."
Meanwhile, X descended the stair, following shinmon as he walked ahead to the large doors leading to the nexus.
" We're here." He said as he and the masked man stopped.
" I see. Thank you shinmon."
" I must warn you; this is a very risky thing you are doing. Even I am not sure what will happened."
" I have an idea."
" If this fails, then you will not live, not as max or X."
" I know. This is my only chance to help my family."
" Well then, it's time."
With a wave of his hand, the lock on the door slid off, and the door opened, revealing the light of the nexus. X squinted his eyes at the light and began to walk inside.
" Good luck X." Shinmon wished as the doors closed behind him.
" Thanks. I'll need it."
With slowly, cautious footsteps, he approached the massive light orb that was the very heart of all digimon.
" Please let this work."
He slowly raised his hand and started to reach for the orb. He rubbed his fingers together, still wondering if he was doing the right thing as his palm, at last touched the surface. Like a bullet, the raw power ran through him and as a result, he screamed in pain. This pain was unlike anything he had ever felt. Maybe he expected it or he was in too much pain to notice but tentacles reached out from the side and drew him into itself. The next thing he knows, X found that he was at Simms' watchpoint but it was different; it was still bright but there was a strange fog over the land.
" Where am I?" he asked and as if, in answer to his question, footsteps filled the air. Out of the mist emerged keke. He was surprised to see her here but she had a blank expression on her face. As he thought how strange it was, more footsteps came calling in. He turned all around him to find all his friends and family surrounding him.
" What are you guys doing here?"
" It is the construct." Said keke in a monotone voice.
" He has returned to us." Said rika in the same voice.
" Y-you are not my friends, aren't you?"
" We are the nexus." Said takato.
" We are everything and nothing." Said matt.
" Then why do you look like that?"
" We have no form you can understand." Sam explained.
" So we looked into your mind and appeared as people whom you know and trust." Said guilmon.
" Why have you come back?" asked Tai.
" I need to ask something. You know about what is going to happen."
" But why should it matter to you?" asked pikkan.
" The one is no longer. On the construct remains." Said Mimi.
" I know but I can't sit back and watch them die."
" So what do you purpose?" asked Kari.
" I wish to have my life back, my power back."
" But you gave up the power." Said tike.
" You did so willingly." Said kara.
" I know but it is for the good of the dig-verse."
" You wish to have the power back, the danger and the responsibility?" asked Davis.
" Yes. I must."
The figures looked at each, almost as if they were talking with each other secretly. X thought about what they were doing when keke walked up to him and pressed her palm to his head and in a flash of light, he blacked out. When he would again, he was on the path leading to the nexus. He groaned as he got to his foot and looked around.
" I'm not dead?"
" No you are not."
X looked up at the nexus and heard its voice in his head.
" You have done more than any human and still hold that which is most important to you. Your heart remains pure, even through all the evil you have been through so, for this reason, we have given back that which was yours and ours. Go and be the one, max kamiya."
For the first time, X felt his power inside him and all of the feeling was back. With a smile under his mask, he ran for the door and forced them open. Suddenly, all over the planet, the eyes of digimon and high ones alike turned to the direction of the main house. The masked one ran up the stair and burst out of the door with shinmon standing there, almost waiting for him.
" I take it that it worked?"
" Oh yeah." He said in a much different voice than before. It was happier and more determined. And his eyes had a fire in them like nothing he had ever seen before.
" I can tell. What now?"
" I'm not high one anymore so I need you to take me there."
" Of course. Take my hand."
With that he took his hand, and the duo vanished and then reappeared on the destined's planet but unfortunately they weren't any where near the site of battle.
" I guess you were a bit off." He said as the wind blew. It appeared that they were in the northern part of the digital world.
" Sorry but with all that power being put out, I couldn't get close enough."
" It's ok shinmon. I'll fly the rest of the way from here."
" But File Island is on the other side of the planet! Even if you get there in time, you will be too burned out to fight!"
" Don't worry about me. I'll have enough to end this. Thank you for everything."
" I was glad to help. Now go."
With a nod and maybe a smile, shinmon couldn't tell thanks to the mask, he jumped into the air jetted off. Shinmon looked in awe as the ex high one flew faster then he had ever seen him go. He flew over the frozen land while the ground behind him ripped up and crashed under his power. In no time, he was in a warm climate as he pasted forests, which were being up rooted. The digimon looked up at this thing flying overhead and for some reason, they were not afraid. They all smiled as if they knew what had happened. After sometime, he finally arrived at the ocean. As he sailed over the water, several dolphmon surfaced and began to jump into the air, almost as if welcoming and supporting him.
" Hang on guys! I'm back and I'm not gonna let you all down!"
" AGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!"
With that scream from takuya, the last able warrior had fallen before the deamons. The digimon were all in a heap, some in rookie form and the rest were sent back to their in training forms. Everyone else who found were sprawled out on the ground, cover in bruises while the deamon didn't seem winded.
" I expected a lot harder fight from them." tchangzumon said as he threw takuya to the earth. Zoe ran to her boyfriend to check on him but she wasn't in any better position to fight.
" Well what can they do?" asked tso lanmon.
" We have defeated them. Now what do we do with them?" asked bai zamon, now in the arms of her lover.
" I care not what happens to them. I just don't want to fight such weaklings again." he said, looking at the terror, fear, and utter hopelessness on their faces.
" What do you think, slave?"
" Leave the girls to me but kill the rest. I have plans for them." he said, as he licked his lips while the girls cringed at the thought.
" You sure?"
" Yes but you can kill those three." He said pointing to sora, keke and rika. He walked over and pulled sora up by the hair.
" You see, this bitch is the mother of the bastard who beat me the first time." He explained as he threw her to the ground and picked up rika.
" And I offered this little hellcat the world and she threw it in my face. Let's just say I don't take rejection well." And once again, he grabbed keke.
" And it was this bitch's love for him that gave him the power to beat me. She deserved to die more than anyone here."
" Let go of her!" said matt. The warlord blew him back with his hand and into a tree.
" Matt!" mimi yelled, running to his aid while the warlord drug her daughter in front of his master.
" Kill her first."
" Gladly." Said Dai guimon as he advanced to her.
" No, brother. I will finish her myself." Stopped shendumon as he walked and stopped in front of her.
" You should feel honored to be killed by the strongest warrior in the digi-verse." Said bai zamon.
He's not the strongest. Not in my eyes any way
" There must be something we can do!" yelled mimi but looking around, she saw that it was hopeless' blackWargreymon was barely holding together, pikkan was blasted out to somewhere on the island with jeri running after, the twin were hardly conscious to fight from their parent's laps, sam was struggling to get to his feet, and takato and takuya were worse off.
" Bye bitch!" snickered the warlord while shendumon opened his mouth and it glowed with his fire. Keke looked up and, resigned to her fate, he closed her eyes and waited for the end to come.
DRAGON'S FIRE
Here I come max.
No one saw it but a black blur streaked in from of keke as the attack hit. The explosion ripped into the ground and the entire island, maybe even the world, felt the aftershock of the blast. The smoke and dust was everywhere as the destined cough and hacked it all up.
" Oh my god. She's dead." Mimi said quietly as matt was in tears, seeing his daughter killed before his eyes. Everyone was silent, save for the mad laughter of the warlord when, suddenly, a cough was heard from ground zero. As the dust settled, it revealed that keke had indeed survived the attack and to everyone's shock, there, standing between her and the deamons was X.
" X! What just happened?" she asked but he didn't turn to her. Shendumon and his siblings looked in silent horror.
" They survived my dragon's fire! No one lives through that!"
At that moment, shendumon and X laid eyes on each other. It was like they were the only ones there.
" It was him."
" Whoa! Takuya, you feel that?" asked takato.
" Yeah! But that's impossible!"
" Why is that?" asked Zoe.
" High ones don't give off ki. It's so they watch other with out being detected. But he has one."
" It's not only that." Tai staggered forward with a slight smile on his face.
" I recognize that power. I know that power any where."
While TK and Kari looked on, the twins were in tears of happiness.
" I can't believe this!"
" This is fucking great!"
" How does he do it?" smiled sam.
" Now we have a chance." Said David.
" Just who are you?" asked xiao fangmon.
" Forget him. He's just a high one. He can't fight us." Answered the warlord, snickering at him.
But how could a high stop my attack.
Shendumon wasn't sure if he was who he appeared to be. Then, X began with a sigh.
" I didn't want to get involved but now I see that you need a stronger opponent."
" Oh who might that be? You? High ones don't fight! Just who do you think you are?"
" Glad you asked."
The next few moment came in slow motion: he began by removing his gloves and let them drop to the ground. He undid his coat, took it off, and threw it away, revealing a black under shirt. He raised his hand to the back of his mask and grabbed a handful of it, pulling it up, and removing it. With that, the high one known at as X was gone forever. In his place stood a boy in his late teens, brown eyes with red undertones, wild light brown, similar to tai's but with a length of hair going down the back of his head and a very determined look on his face. To those unknown of him, they didn't know who this young man was but to those who knew him, they only said two words:
" IT'S MAX!!!!!!!"
" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! IT CAN'T BE! HE'S DEAD! HE'S DEAD! GOD NO!!!!!"
The warlord was going into a full spaz attack as he jumped and flied around like a madman. Shendumon wondered whom he was to cause him to react this way.
" The name is max kamiya." He said simply with smile. Upon hearing that name, the destined were a mix of shock, awe, and glee. Shendumon looked on as the thunder deamon approached him.
" Who cares what you name is! I don't! Now move out of the way or get dropped!" he warned. Max quickly raised his eyebrow which seemed to get at tchangzumon. His eyes bugged up and a few beads of sweat rolled off him.
" What's wrong brother?" asked po kongmon.
" OOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" He screamed as he grabbed his stomach and fell forward in pain.
" He punched me! It hurts!" he said.
" I didn't see him move. How could he punch them?" wondered ken out loud but shendumon secretly knew the answer.
It's simple. He moved his arm so fast that it seemed as if he was standing still. But it still had enough power to drop my brother. Impressive.
A small but noticeable smile snuck onto his face, which bai zamon noticed. The warlord jumped around as if he was going crazy or, in his case, crazier.
" WHAT ARE YOU STANDING AROUND FOR?! KILL HIM! HE MUST DIE!!!!" he roared.
(Play the matrix-reloaded theme for the château fight.)
Feeling his rage, bai zamon jumped off shendumon and attacked with water blasts at him, while max began to flip away. Hsi wumon dove down at him but max punched him into his sister. Out from the ground erupted Dai guimon, roared began his attack. It seems that now max was deamon enemy number one at they all rushed him, all except for shendumon, who was high above the battle, watching max closely.
" Let's see what you can do."
Max dodged the lightening and floating rocks from tso lanmon and tchangzumon. The earth deamon swung his fist but max was too fast and delivered a kick to his face. Just then a large gust of wind came out of nowhere. It was from the frog like mouth of xiao fangmon. Max walked against the gale and seemingly was getting somewhere. The wind deamon blew harder, stopping max a second but he dashed ahead and closed his mouth. With a punch in his throat, he dropped him. Another rock came down, which max easily avoided. Po kongmon smiled, revealing that she was the culprit. The sky deamon flew over the ground at him and max took the only action he could; he jumped onto the skin of the mountain deamon and ran over her, with her brother in hot pursuit. He kicked off a part of her, spun around and drop kicked him. He then float up to the massive digimon and fired a ki blast, point blank. As she fell back, blinded by the attack, he back flipped away and landed on to of a tree on one foot with his arms crossed. He looked around him to see them surrounding his position; bai zamon flowed up a tree and reformed with a water blast ready behind him on his left. Tchangzumon, using his cloud, flew behind him on his right. Hsi wumon recovered and was floating in front of him to his left. And tso lanmon used his larger arms to levitate to his right while his smaller arms readied a dark energy ball. Max looked around the forces massed against him and grins, as he effortlessly became an ascendant. Bai zamon and tchangzumon fired their attack but they didn't hit since max phased out of the line of fire and reappeared in front of the female, sucker punching her. Hsi wumon went after him with gusto, launching his sky cutter attack. Max barely dodged it, as a few strands of hair fell from his head. Tso lanmon fired his ball, which max dodged as he fired his own, dropping him as well. Max landed on the ground to face Dai guimon and his fist of rock. He started to pound on the teen, while he blocked the blows with his arms until he grabbed his arms under his and head butted him. Just then, a massive shadow appeared overhead. He looked up to see po kongmon floating in the air, with the aid of her brother's moon powers. Before he could move, her massive girth landed on top of him.
" HA! Got him!" he cheered while the gang watch in horror. Max's hand reached from under her body, tried to get free.
" GET....OFF....MY.....BACK!!" he shouted as a glow appeared under her. With a roar, he used power and threw her off him and a few hundred yards away. Max stood up with a pissed look on his face.
" Alright, bitches! Round two!" he announced as he went to ascendant 2. Shendumon notices his change and grows even more interested. Tchangzumon, with fists of lightening came at him and with near god like speed, avoided the fists and punched him in the face. Bai zamon came out of nowhere and began her water attack. Max buried his fist into her but she turned her mid section into water. She smiled evilly as his fist passed through her but max stopped his fist and exploded a ki blast in her, blowing her into water. Dai guimon came back like a bull and charged him but max merely stepped out of the way and tripped him. The remaining three deamons all blitzed him. Max dashed up, punched tso lanmon, zipped over to hsi wumon to kick him, and then flew to xiao fangmon and chopped him in the neck. This all took only 2 seconds. Max stood before the 7 seven downed deamons, who were on the ground while he barely broke a sweat.
" How can a mere human dominate us?!" tchangzumon asked angrily.
" Maybe there is a way we can win. He may be able to take us one on one but if we rush him, we will overwhelm him." Said tso lanmon. The others nodded and with a roar, they blitzed him. Max cupped his hands to his side and a blueish glow appeared in his hands.
TSUNAMI WAVE
With a yell, he unleashed the blue beam of energy upon them, swallowing them all. When it was over, the deamon lie on burnt earth, beaten and weaken at his hand. Max looked up to see shendumon looking back at him. Slowly he rose into the air to his eye level. Both stared at one another, seemingly waiting for the other to make a move but it never came. Then max made a move that no one expected, except maybe shendumon; he powered down and returned to normal.
" You're not gonna fight, are you?"
" No. How did you come to the conclusion?"
" Even though I was fighting, I kept a eye on you and your power. It didn't go up once so I figured you didn't have any intention of battling."
" I'm impressed. Only a warrior of high skill could figure that out."
" What?!"
The warlord, almost forgotten by the two, appeared at shendumon's side.
" What are you doing?! You must kill him! He must die!" he ranted until the fire deamon used his collar to silence him.
" Ha. He really hates you, doesn't he?"
" The feeling is all but mutual. So tell me, why wont you fight me?"
" You see, I am the strongest of my siblings and as such it requires me to find only those who are my equal."
" Of course."
" Sadly, my power is so great that I have never fought at my fill power, except with my father. When I first did battle with your group, I was unimpressed. I had wait for one of them to rise above the others to give me a great challenge but none came. Then I saw you. When I looked into your eyes I knew you were different, a fire that I have only seen in my eyes. And you are different; every planet that we have been to, your name is praised, worshipped almost, like a god. The human who fights like a digimon, the destroyer of buumon, the demonic angel, max kamiya."
" I'm thankful I'm so revered by you."
" Yes. Your power, your speed, your skill, and your control are near perfection. Seeing you beat my family was proof enough for me."
" I'm flattered but you still haven't answered my question; why didn't you fight me?"
" In deamon belief, for everyone deamon born, there is a warrior for them who is their equal. I believe you are mine."
" Thanks. Are we going steady now?"
" A supreme fighter and a jokester! What a combo! No, it merely means that we won't fight here, not yet. Fighters of our level deserve a much grander stage than a small island on a backwards world. When we battle, it will a battle that the entire digi-verse shall know and remember and the very stars themselves with gasp in silent awe. It will be glorious!"
With a wide smile he turned and waved his hand over the battlefield. The unconscious forms of his brothers and sisters sunk into different portals along with the warlord. He then turned and formed his own portal.
" But let's get this straight, max kamiya. I respect you and on some level, maybe even like you but know this; when we battle, I will not hesitate to use all my skill and power to kill you."
" Good. It would make our fight all the more great and I will go all out as well." He said with a smile. Shendumon smiled as well.
" Until then, be ready."
With that, he stepped into the portal and vanished leaving max alone. He let out a deep breathe and began to breath hard.
" Whew! It's good he didn't want to fight. I'm burnt out!" he said as he looked down at the digidestined.
" Well it's time to face the music."
With that, he slowly floated down to the earth and landed in front of them. It seemed like a long time had pasted between them. He just smiled at them while they had no idea what to think. There, standing before them was the savior of the digi-verse, the legend that keke and the others spoke and just now, dominated 7 of the 8 deamon conquers single handedly. No one knew what to say. Until keke stood up, with some sign of emotion on her face and walked over and did something no one even thought she would do.
SLAP!
Max reeled from the blow as tear erupted from her face.
" I don't think I deserve that." he said rubbing his cheek.
" You jerk! How could you! All this time! You hid under that damn mask!"
" I'm sorry kek. But it wasn't me."
" Don't give me that bullshit! I knew it was you! You felt the same and you just blew me off! I don't see how I could fall for such a creep!"
" I can explain....." he was cut off when she kissed him long and hard. He eagerly returned. Everyone looked on with a smile and TK and Kari shielded or at least tried to shield them from the scene but they seemed to look through their hands.
" Now that I deserved." He spoke when it was over.
" But you did save my life and you came back to me so I can't be mad at you. I have missed you."
" I have as well, kek. More than you know." He said, hugging his beloved girlfriend. There was a mix of 'awws' and sniffles as they watched the two lovers embraced each other. As they broke apart, two flying objects impacted max's body. It was his two cousins who were hugging and crying on him.
" Max we missed you!" they said together along with some other things before max got back up.
" Man, I missed you two too! Man you guys are getting big!" he laughed as they clung to him. David calmly walked up to the teen.
" Although I don't have a much enthusiasm as my friend here, it is good to see you."
" Like wise David." He said as he walked up to the group, meeting Tai's hand.
" Tai, you look stronger."
" Oh yeah. Soon I'll be able to beat you."
" I'll be waiting!" he joked as he shook his hand.
" You boys and your games. Still man enough to give your mom a hug?" asked sora.
" Of course!" he exclaimed as he embraced her.
" It's great to have you back."
" What? You don't have time for your old friend?" asked sam from behind him.
" You got time from macking for me?"
" I think I can spare a few second." The two old friends shared a handshake and a hug.
" Kamiya!"
Everyone looked over to see pikkan coming out of the woods, limping with jeri supporting him.
" You sure do know how to make a entrance! Next time, can you not cut it so damn close, like before I get my ass handed to me?!" he snapped.
" What? But I'm just a human and you are the elite of the Alterian Empire. It wouldn't be right."
" I knew you would say that. Nice to see you are back to your old self." He said with a slight grin on his face.
" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
Like a bull, blackWargreymon change max with his fist with he met with his own.
" Aw man! BlackWargreymon has gone nuts!" exclaim JP.
" I knew we couldn't trust him!" said koji.
Just then, the black mega began to laugh and soon max joined him. Then the two laughed and hugged each. For most of the digidestined, it was weird to see him act like this.
" I had you going! Admit it!"
" You did!"
" It's great to see you back to your old self, little brother."
" Great to be back, big brother." He smiled. Takato and takuya looked at max like two fan boys. After hearing all the stories of him, seeing the legendary max kamiya was like a dream.
" Hi boys." He said to them.
" You know us?"
" Of course. I have all of X's memories so I know how great fighters you two are. I'm impressed with you two and all of you as well."
Takato and takuya smiled while their girlfriends shook their heads.
" But weren't you X, max?" asked Tai.
" In a way, no. You see when I was with the nexus, I felt all the energies of the ascendants out there. I had to unleash that power in them but I was unable to. So the nexus and shinmon created a construct, a being with my knowledge and memories but it also had my looks. I could have you guys think I was back from the dead so I had him wear a mask and the name X."
" I get it: in math, X means unknown. Prodigious!" said izzy. Max's smiled slowly faded to a smirked as he looked over his friend and family. He rested his hands on the heads of his twin cousins.
" I must say that I am proud of all of you and that you all have gotten stronger since I last saw you and to those I have just met, I am impressed. But the battle is far from over. They will return and we must be ready. I have come to you now for this is the turning point in our battle. And if you have faith in me and in yourselves, we will win." With that, everyone smiled and felt they could now win with max, while he looked up into the sky, looking quite majestic in their eyes, more so in takuya and takato.
" So that is the legendary max kamiya." Said takato.
" As long as he is with us, we can do anything." Added takuya. Suddenly, a loud growling noise filled the air. Everyone thinking that deamons were coming back, prepare to fight.
" Max what is that?" keke asked while max turned from them and sighed.
" I'm afraid I know that sound all to well."
" What is it?" asked Cody.
" It was..........my stomach! Can we get something to eat?" he answered, turning with his hand behind his head and grinning like a retard. Everyone fell over in embarrassment.
" He's gonna save us?" asked ryo.
" We're doom!" said koji.
NEXT TIME: max plans the battle with the deamon as he recruits one more fighter to the gang but is he too powerful to be an ally?
RETURN OF THE INFERNO
MA: welcome back peeps! And right now we are in the battle of the year as coral and Vega are kicking each other's Asses!
(Everyone is huddled together as the two saiyans pound on each other.)
Max: man we are gonna make a killing!
(Suddenly the fighting stops. Everyone looks in and see the two making out.)
Vega: what the fuck are you all looking at?
Coral: can't you see we are busy?
Keke: awww! How cute!
Max: cute? Damn it that won the fight?
MA's corner.
MA: here is a question from my longest fan, Anthony that I forgot to answer; will there be an hours of love 3? My answer: hell yeah! None of my sagas would be good without hours of love chapter. Don't worry. This one will be the best one yet.
LATER FICCERS! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!