MA: hey everyone. The party is still on and the saiyans are still making out.
Vega and coral: (making out on the couch) shut up!
MA: we got epsilon and galaticmon challenging beast boy and Cyborg to snk vs. capcom chaos. And winning.
Max: ok. Well since this chapter will have him, let's welcome back takuya and Zoe's son, the holder of the forbidden spirit, Tyler.
Tyler: hello everyone. Thank you for inviting me master.
Max: I told you not to call me that yet.
Tyler: sorry
MA: hey everyone! Yugi and his crew have made it!
(Yugi, tea, Tristan, duke, Joey, the kaiba brothers, marik, ishizu, and serenity enter.)
Yugi: thanks for inviting us.
Ma: no problem. I was glad to do it.
Max: hey kid. There's serenity. Go say hi.
Tyler: um but what about those two, duke and Tristan?
Max: forget that. Just go! (Pushes him to her. Both blush upon seeing each other.)
Tyler: um, hi serenity.
S: hi uh Tyler.
Kaiba: kamiya!
Max: you mean me?
Kaiba: who else?! I challenge you to a duel!
Tai: what's his problem?
Max: a while back, seto and me had a duel and he beat me.
Kaiba: no! You let me win! You clearly had the advantage over me for half the duel! You could've easily beaten me but you let me win! I want a rematch!
Max: ok. But now I won't hold back.
(Just then, a motorcycle with two riders crashes through the door and does some donuts. The rider took off his helmet to reveal pikkan.)
MA: damn pikkan! Nice ride!
P: jeri bought it for me. I like it.
(Jeri removes her helmet.)
Takato: how did you afford this?
Jeri: my savings. It took a while but it's worth.
P: with this on my side, there isn't a man here who can beat me on a hog!
Marik: think again!
P: marik. So you are the one with bike outside.
Marik: yes and there is no one better on a hog than me!
P: are you challenging me, you punk?
Marik: yes and I don't even need my millennium rod to beat you!
P: well, in that case. (Jumps on motorcycle and rides out) get you ass out here and let's do this thing!
MA: hog race!
(Everyone charges out side to watch the race.)
Yugi: maybe we should stop this.
(Turns into yami yugi.)
Yami: put me down for 500 on Pikkan.
Ma: all right, while we watch this race, on with the fic!
D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE
RETURN OF THE INFERNO
Things were down for the deamons as they hid. Thanks to the warlord, the family of conquers have taken refuge in one of his underground bases that was located in the formerly name dark territory.
" This is embarrassing! We, the deamons, beating by a human and forced to like our wounds like dogs!" complained tchangzumon as he and his fellow deamons recovered from their injuries, all save the warlord and shendumon who was in his own world.
" You are all lucky that one of my bases remained hidden. Damn, why didn't you kill them when you had the chance." He complained to him.
" I don't need to explain myself to a slave."
" Well, now with max back with them, they will be harder to be now."
" I'm not worried."
" Well you should be. I don't see why I'm even following you. You're nothing but a fool!"
Angered by his words, shendumon launched his dragon's fire at the former tyrant, slamming into the wall and burying him.
" Was that necessary?" asked bai zamon.
" He was annoying me."
" What's wrong dear? You haven't been the same since the fight?"
" Nothing. It's him."
" That human. What was his name? Max."
" Yes but he's more than human and maybe even more than a digimon. I've met such a fighter in my life. I feel so excited! I bet right now, he's probably creating a strategy to defeat us."
How wrong he was as at that moment, our hero max was fast asleep and snoring, in the lap of his girlfriend, keke, in her room. Suddenly a knock was heard on the door.
" Come in." she said, allowing Tai and sora to come in.
" Hey. Are we disturbing you?" asked sora as they came over to the couple.
" No, not really."
" I hope we don't wake him. He's been through a lot."
" No way. You could drop a city on him and he'd just roll over."
" I can see why he's tired. I mean look at all he ate. I think Simms was gonna have a heart attack." Joked Tai.
" Do you really think max can help us beat these guys?" asked sora.
" I don't know but he will try his best."
Just then, max began to thrash around like a baby. Keke, having slept with him a lot, took her thumb and put it in his mouth. Like a baby with a pacifier, he calmed down and cooed. Tai and sora awed in silence at the scene.
" That's so sweet!"
" Yeah. He's like a big dirty baby but I love him."
" Well I think we better get some sleep sor. We got a big day tomorrow."
" Ok. Night, keke." Said sora.
" Night guys." She replied as the couple left the room, leaving her alone with him. She smiled as she looked down at his sleeping face and ran her hand through his wild brown hair. She then leaned over and kissed him on the forehead with brought out a smile on his face.
" Good night and welcome home, my love."
The next morning was a rapid change of pace as the males of the team as well as the digimon were in the courtyard of the watch point, while max display his skill by a little test. He wore a black shirt with brown pants and boots while takuya attacked him but despite his flying fist and feet, max easily dodged the attacks.
" Come on, takuya. All you have to do is touch me." he explained as he ate from a bag of gummi bears. Takuya went at him again, but max dodged them all. After about ten minutes, the boy was in a puddle of sweat and out of breath.
" Awwwwww man! I didn't even come close to touching you! You're amazing!" takuya spoke with a smile. Max returned the smile as he gulped down a bear.
" Thanks but you're amazing yourself. I had to keep up with your punches. Ok, who's next?"
" Me! I want to go next!" takato answered eagerly. Max waved him up and he took a fighting stance.
" You know the rules: you win if you can touch me."
Takato then took the opportunity to attack him. Max bent over backwards as his fist pasted over him. Takato rebounded and started to kick at him while, like with takuya, he easily maneuvered out of the path of his blows. As this went on, the female digidestined, save jeri, watched the practice go on from the main house.
" So that's max. I must admit sora, he is certainly is like you said." Said Mimi.
" Well he's a special person." She replied.
" Not to mention strong as hell." Said yolei.
" Yeah. We had such a hard time with those damn deamons while he took them all on and whooped them." added rika.
" Yep and with him back with us again, think we can win. After all he is the most powerful fighter in the digi-verse." Said Kari.
" Not to mention, the best body." Mumbled Zoe with a far-gone look on her face. The other girls looked at her with looks of astonishment.
" Wait a minute! Tell me you didn't just say that? Blondie has a thing for hero boy?" asked rika.
" No. No. I mean, well......"
" Well what?"
" Well is it just me or do you guys think max is really hot? Don't get me wrong! I love takuya! But you have to admit, max is very good looking." She remarked as the girls looked closely at max.
" You know she's right. Sure he looks like Tai but a bit more......dangerous." Spoke Mimi.
" Yeah I see it. And he's more buffed than Tai. I wish I could see under his shirt." Drooled yolei.
" He is my son but if I didn't know, maybe I would date." Sora thought out loud.
" Even from me, he is cute, for a gogglehead." Complemented rika.
" And that smile. I wish TK would smile like that." said Kari. Soon all the girls were virtually drooling over max. In their eyes, time seemed to go in slow motion as max played with takato. Speaking of that, takato soon joined takuya in defeat as he fell on his back.
" Too fast!" he breathed out while looked over him.
" Come on takato. You were close."
" How about if I have a turn?"
The new voice came from a flying figure in the sky that quickly landed in from of max; he had spiky brown hair, much like max's hair color. He wore a black muscle shirt, black pants, supported by a brown boots. He sported a pair of fingerless gloves and military style boots. The twins, David, pikkan, and Tai smiled while everyone one seemed surprised by this new arrival.
" Who's he?" asked Tommy.
" I don't know. I haven't seen him before." Asked TK.
" So I heard you were back in town." Max asked as he threw down the bag of candy.
" Of course. Since you are back." He said as he got in his face.
" What do you want?"
" I'm gonna do something I should've done a long time ago."
As everyone held their breath on what he was gonna do, the stranger raised his arm, as if to strike him. In an instant, he wrapped his around his head and rubbed his knuckles over his head.
" Say it!"
" No!"
" Say it!"
" No!"
" Say it!"
" Ok! You are the strongest warrior in the world!"
" And?"
" I am weaker by comparison!"
" And?!"
" I am not as good in bed as I say!"
" Great!" he said, releasing max from his grip. Although he had admitted all those things, he wasn't upset and the two embraced in a hug.
" Um did I miss something here?" Davis asked out loud.
" Oh yeah, that right. You guys don't recognize me like this. Guys, it's me, blackWargreymon."
" WHAT?" they all went, their jaws drop a mile down.
" But your human?!" said Cody, touching his body.
" I know. When my body was destroyed, Simms put my spirit inside a human body so I could fight better."
" But you look like max." patamon spoke flying around his head.
" Where do you think it come from? My body was created off his blood. Something like a clone." He smiled.
" Well, that's great black war.. Um what do we call u you now?" asked veemon.
" Just call me bw."
" Wait, if you were in this body before then, you guys knew? All along??" tentomon asked the other who just nodded.
" Why didn't you tell us?"
" You didn't ask." Pikkan answered.
" Now let's get back......oh no. Not this." Max moped.
" What's wrong?" asked Tai. Max merely pointed over to the building where the girls were. They were all in a daze and looking at max like a bunch of lovesick schoolgirls.
" What's up with them?" asked matt.
" It's me. Shinmon said there would side effects of me being brought back the way I was."
" Which is?" asked izzy.
" My pheromones are highly potent now. Meaning that at certain points, I'm irresistible." He explained.
" You mean all of them want to......" asked Tai.
" Yeah."
" Even Kari?"
" Yeah."
" Even sora?"
" Oh yeah."
" Damn. I wish I had that power." Joked sam.
" Hey bro. I got an idea. Play along." Max whispered to BW. He then began to talk rather loudly.
" Gee guys! That was a great work out! Man I'm sweating bullets!"
" Yeah you're right man! Your shirt is sticking to you!"
" Well then, I better take it off!" he shouted, making sure the girl heard him. With that, he slowly and surely removed his shirt to reveal his muscular and toned body. There was no sweat on him but max had done what he had set out to do. Just then, the sound of multiple thuds came from the building. Inside, the girls had fainted from seeing max's body. Max just grinned at his handy work as he put his shirt back on.
" Ow! My head!" said rika as he rubbed the bump on her head. The other girls involved in the incident mirrored her movements. Everyone had gathered in the top room to find out how to battle the deamons. Where as everyone was serious, max was walking around the group on his fingers.
" As much as we all enjoy watching you show off, we need to get down to serious business." Said pikkan.
" No, don't mind me. Just get started. I'll jump in when I have something to add." He spoke.
" Ok. Well, let's go over this; we have 8 very powerful digimon with different powers and abilities. Any thoughts?" Tai started.
" Well sending them back to that dark world is out of the question." Stated Henry.
" So our only option is to fight." Said rika.
" But can we win against them?" asked matt.
" The other 7 can be beaten, if we fight right. But shendumon, he's in another league." Said takuya.
" Another league? Man, he's on another planet! Remember, he beat you, Tai, and me with only 1% of his power! What happens if he wants to use half or worse, all his power?" takato stated.
" Now that is scary." Said koji.
" Naw. If he wanted to kill us, he would've done so. I don't think he sees us a challenge."
" Yeah all but max that is. Say max, how come you didn't fight him like the others?" asked kara. Max's response came as he flipped to his feet.
" Because he didn't want to. He sees me as a equal and as such, he won't fight me, until we have proper stage."
" Great. Villain with an honor code." TK quipped.
" He might not want to fight me now but I think I know someone he might want to fight."
" Who?" asked keke as max knelt down and looked at tike.
" Me? No way! I love a good fight as much as the next person but shendumon would rip me a new one!"
" No! No! I don't want you to fight him! I just need to ask you something; have you improved on your teleporting technique?"
" Oh yeah! It's better than ever now! I can teleport anywhere, as long I can sense a ki. Then I can just teleport near it."
" Just as I thought. Now, how far can you sense?"
" Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, I think about a few hundred miles. Why?"
" I gonna need you to find a ki for me but it's on another planet."
" Another planet?! But I can't go that far!"
" Don't worry. I can help you. Now just focus."
" Ok. But I don't see what good it will do." tike warned as he closed his eyes. He began to sense all the energies around him and few miles out. Max placed his hands on either side of his head and they began to glow, and suddenly, he began sense more and more energies all over the planet and then into space. He gasped at the amount of power he was sensing all at once.
" Is he ok?" asked Kari.
" Yeah, he's just a bit over whelmed. Now tike, listen to my voice. I'm gonna guide you to where I want you to go, ok?"
" Um ok?"
" Now what do you sense?"
" It's a digital world. It's uh really messed up."
" Ok. Forget that. Now what do you sense?"
" Right. I'm picking up a lot of energies: three big ones, one bigger than the others, and one that's huge but seems hidden. Whoa!"
" What?" asked TK.
" There's a gigantic one! I've never felt something like this! It's stronger than me, stronger than pikkan, and...... Holy shit!" he shouted as he jerked away from max's hands.
" Bro what's wrong?" asked kara.
" That power! I think it's stronger than max!"
That revelation came like a shot in the arm to everyone in the room. It was rare to say that someone was even stronger than max was.
" Are you sure about that? It's hard to imagine that there is someone out there stronger than you max." wondered Tai.
" Yep and I'm gonna go get him."
" Max, are you sure about this?" asked pikkan.
" Yes. I found about him about a year ago. His power is amazing!"
" But have you met him?"
" No, not really."
" Then how do you know that he is good? He might be as evil as the deamons!" pointed out yolei.
" Trust me. He's not evil. He's as innocent as child."
" So when do we leave?" asked BW.
" Sorry big bro. I'm only taking tike, takuya, and zoe."
" Um but why us?" asked the blonde girl.
" Because you will be the most help in my mission."
" Wait a minute. Are you thinking what I think your thinking?" asked takuya.
" Yep. We're going after Tyler."
Upon hearing that name, the frontier destined as well and bokomon and neemon looked up with dread in their eyes.
" Max my boy, are you sure about this?" asked the egg carrying digimon.
" Very sure. Takuya, zoe, you in?"
" If it's the only way, then yeah."
" Plus, it will be nice to see him again."
" I don't get it. Who is this Tyler?" Davis whispered to koji.
" If he's right, then our best hope for beat the deamons."
" And if he's wrong?"
" Pray that he isn't wrong."
The desert wind blew hard as our foursome of heroes, returned to the frontier home world, appearing out of nowhere, thanks to tike's teleport move. The youngster fell down on his back in exhaustion.
" You ok kid?" max asked, kneeling down to check on his cousin.
" I'm good. Just never had to teleport that far. Let me-oooohhh!" he groaned as he tried to stand but fell back down.
" No you don't. You're riding on my back from now on." he said, pulling him on his back.
" Ok. Now to find Tyler."
" How about we try there?" Zoe suggested, pointed to a small patch of trees on the horizon, with some smoke coming from them.
" An oasis? Best place to start." Said max. Takuya picked up Zoe in his arms and he and max flew fast to the palm trees and landed in a small camp with a single sleeping mat and fires. There was wide array of food on the ground, which tike would've eaten but he was still too weak. Just then, small footsteps were heard coming from behind the trees. Seemingly out of nowhere came the small robot, orda with a bucket of water over his head.
" Oh. It would appear I have guests."
" Orda!" takuya yelled while Zoe pick up the small robot and proceed to hug him.
" Orda, you little cutie! We've missed you!"
" As have I miss zoe but could you please put me down?"
" Oh. Sorry. I guess I got carried away." she said, putting him back on the ground.
" It is fine. It is great to see you again. And you seemed to have new friends."
" Yes. This is our friends, max and his cousin, tike."
" Hey!" tike said weakly while max waved at him.
" Sir, have we met?"
" Maybe. In another time perhaps." Max answered to the robot when a loud boom ripped through the area.
" What was that?" asked Zoe.
" That would be master Tyler."
" What is he doing?"
" Training. He has been training for about six mouths now."
" For what?" asked takuya.
" You'll see."
Together, the group headed outside of the oasis and back into the desert. After a few yard they say the boy in question; he wore a black muscle shirt and black pants with matching boots with silver on the side. He sat Indian style on the hot sand but he wasn't sweating a bit. All of a sudden, his entire body burst into flames.
" Tyler!" Zoe screamed and ran to help him but orda floated in front of here.
" Stop!"
" But..."
" Do not fear. Master Tyler is fine."
She looked again to see that Tyler had not moved from that spot. It seemed he didn't notice the flames. He opened his eyes and forces his arms forward and the flames swirled around him and in front of him in a fireball. Ahead of him, some distance away, was a large pyramid, made of sand. He then threw it forward, the ground burning up along its path and hit the structure. The pyramid vanished in a sea of fire of and smoke. Pleased, Tyler got to his feet and dusted himself, as he turned around to see his audience. He was speechless as he laid eyes on the one person he loved more than anything.
" Tyler!" Zoe yelled as she ran to her son. She stopped a little front of him to see him better.
" You look great. And so handsome."
" Well thank you." he said with a blush.
" It's nice to see you again, mother er, I mean, Zoe."
" It's ok. I'm still your mother." She smiled as she hugged him while hugged back.
" Hey don't get to carried away!" takuya joked as he approached the duo.
" I won't. I know she's yours."
" How are you?"
" I am better. I can tell you are stronger now."
" Thanks. Oh yeah. Tyler this is my good friend max and his cousin tike."
At that moment, max and Tyler locked eyes. It seemed the two would stare at each other forever.
" Tyler. You don't know how long I've waited to meet someone like you."
" Sir?"
" Come. We have much to talk about."
" And that's the story." Finished takuya as he explained the situation. Tike was over at the side, eating the food that orda had made while the grown ups talked. Tyler took a little time to absorb the info.
" It makes sense now. I had been trying to find you for that last few weeks but I couldn't find you. So these deamons, are they just as bad as you say?"
" Worse. If no one stops them, they could take over the digi-verse." Answered Zoe.
" I see. Then cherubimon is a distant second when it comes to these guys."
" Hey, speaking of that, how have things been going with that butt hole?" asked takuya.
" A lot. Ever since I spirit evolved into infernomon last year, cherubimon has now changed his mission from taking over the digital world to finding and killing me. He feels threaten by me and so we have been on the run."
" We've encounter many of his higher level soldiers and even some of the legendary warriors; mercurymon, ranamon, arbormon, even duskmon."
" Duskmon? I've never heard of him." Said Zoe.
" It's not surprising, miss zoe. Duskmon is perhaps cherubimon's most powerful minion. It was rare for us to encounter him since those who have faced him have never lived to tell the tale. It is said that he is stronger than all of the legendary warriors because he shares some of cherubimon's power."
" Yes and I fought him. He was very dangerous but we barely escaped."
" I don't how you had such a hard time. I mean why didn't you spirit evolve?"
" I would rather not do that."
" Why? Oh well. Tyler, the reason we came was to ask you to join us in our fight with the deamons. With infernomon on our side, we would have a major advantage."
" Takuya, I appreciate you coming here and I am honor you would ask me to join you but I'm afraid I can not come with you."
" But why?" Zoe asked, placing her hand on his.
" It's the same reason I wont spirit evolve: my spirit."
" What about it?"
" Whenever I spirit evolve to infernomon, I began to lose myself. My emotions are more extreme and I'm afraid that if I should get angry enough, I might go crazy and might lose control of my power and you know what would happen if I did."
" Man, Tyler. I had no idea."
" That's way I am here in this desert. Here, I can train to control my spirit without hurting anyone. And although I have come far, I must remain here and train."
" I understand." Max suddenly said to everyone's surprise.
" But max we need him." Said takuya.
" Takuya, I understand what he wants. He says he needs some training and I believe him. We can't force him to come with us."
" He's right takuya. I won't force our son into this fight."
" Oh ok. I have to trust his judgment." Takuya agreed when from out of the desert rushed Otto.
" Max!" he said as he arrived.
" Otto! What's wrong?"
" It's the deamons! They are attacking!" he said out of breath.
" Damn! We must go! Tike, how are you feeling?"
" Burp! Great, now that I'm full, I can take us back." He answered, swallowing the last bit of food.
" Good luck mom, takuya." Tyler said.
" Good luck to you too kid." Spoke takuya. The couple went over to tike while max lingered a little bit with Tyler.
" What can I do for you sir?"
" Tyler, a great man once said that evil triumphs when the good do nothing. Remember that, kid." He spoke as he walked over to his cousin and grabbed his hand.
" Let's do it kid!"
" Right max!" he smiled at the foursome vanished leaving Tyler to ponder his words.
" He makes a good point master." Said orda.
" Yeah but what can I do? As I am, what can I do?"
" Sir, I believe your father said it best, it's better to do anything then nothing."
" You're right but now it's too late."
" I don't think so." Spoke Otto as a slight smile rolled on his face.
Max, tike, Zoe, and takuya arrived to a virtual war zone as the destined fought with only five of the deamons; shendumon, hsi wumon, tchangzumon, tso lanmon and xiao fangmon. The foursome flew over the battle field and watched as the two sides battled.
" Man looks we got here just in time." Said tike.
" Right. Let's party." Said takuya, turning ascendant.
" Just let me change into something more comfortable."
EXECUTE SPIRT EVOLUTION
KAZEMON
The legendary warrior of wind took flight ahead of the boys.
" Come on boys! We've got a fight to win!" she called as she flew down.
" I love it when she gets forceful." Smiled takuya as he and tike flew after her. Max was about fly down when shendumon appeared in front of him.
" Hello there." He grinned.
" What? Max?" shouted tike as he and takuya stopped.
" It's ok. You two helped the others."
" You sure?"
" Yes. Go!" he ordered. The boys hunched their shoulders and flew down leaving the teen and deamon to each other.
" Well it would appear that we are alone."
" Yes. So now what do you want?"
" Me? Nothing. Just a single battle between me and you."
" What's that got to do with anything?" he asked he looked down at the battle.
" Thinking about helping them, aren't you?"
" Of course. Why aren't you helping your brothers out?"
" Well, I decided to see what it would be like if neither of us would participate in this one. Seems fair huh?"
" And the others?"
" You must realize you did do a number on them so they are healing up. So now let's talk."
" Just talk?"
" Please! Don't think me like that fool I had free me. I have my honor. Besides, I said I wanted to battle you some place better."
" Ok then. Let's talk." He said, while keeping his eye on the fighting below. Surprisingly, the destined and the fighters were holding their own with the leadership of pikkan and BW.
" Listen, we are both warrior of untold caliber. But things hinder us. You by you loyalty to your team and me by my destiny."
" Your destiny?"
" Yes. We deamons are born to rule. Our strength is beyond all digimon in the universe. As such, it is expected of us to conquer."
" But you want more?"
" I want to prove my strength! I want to fight that who I am meant to fight, not those I'm suppose to! I'm supposed to fight your friends because they stand in my way! I wish to battle you!"
" I'm flattered. But what is this getting to?"
" Leave them."
" What?"
" Leave your friend and my family to fight among themselves and we shall go and fight for ourselves and oh what a glorious battle it shall be."
" It's true I love a good fight. But I wont let that get in the way of what I must do. You haven't seen what I have seen so you can't know. But most of all, I can't never abandon them. They are my family."
With that, max flew down past him and towards the fight.
" Pity."
DRAGON'S FIRE
Without warning, he launched his attack at max.
" Awwwwww, shit!" he shouted as the fire beam hit him. He screamed as he hit the trees and the forest caught fire.
" Max!" they all went as the fighting came to a halt. As the flames destroyed the foliage, max emerged from the blaze and landed in the now regrouped team.
" Max, man, you ok?" asked justimon.
" Yeah. This just reminds me why I don't smoke." He answered, coughing up smoke. His face was blackened and his clothes were burnt but he was unhurt. He looked over at the deamons where shendumon had joined them.
" Looks like it's not over."
" Well since you won't taken my offer, I'll force you to take it!" he sneered as his eyes glowed.
" How?"
" By removing that which holds you back!!" he roared as his deadly gaze fell on Kari. She was running back to the group after getting gatomon, who was hurt, off the ground. Max looked back at shendumon with fear in his eyes.
" NO! Leave them out of that!"
" Kari! RUN!"
HEAT BEAM EYE BLAST
Kari was now frozen with fear as the beams raced at her and her digimon. Pikkan, being the fastest, tried to run for her but he knew he wouldn't get there in time. Kari opened her mouth in a silent scream when just then; something came out of nowhere, and grabbed her. The blast hit the already burning trees but not the girl. The next thing Kari knew, she was air born and in the metal grip of a robot, flying in the air.
" Hello. Are you alright?" it asked. Everyone was dumbstruck at what just happened.
" What the hell is that?" asked kara.
" That's orda but that would mean........." started lobomon.
(Kane's theme song, the fire still burns.)
Out of the burning fire of the tree came the figure of a boy; he wore a red jacket with long sleeves but his inside part of the jacket was much shorter with a black muscle shirt and black pants. He walked through the intense flames as if they were nothing. Just as he strolled through, the flames seemed to die down and were being absorbed into his hands. When he emerged, the flames arched from the plants and into him. He then raised hand and the other fires dove up and into his palm.
" It's Tyler!" said Kumamon as the other looked at his performance.
" Yes! I knew he would come!" cheered kazemon while she was in the air.
" Of course." Spoke orda as he landed and as he did, TK and Tai mauled Kari with hugs.
" You ok sis?"
" Yeah tai. We both are."
" Sorry for our tardiness but your friend, Otto, got us as close as he could."
" It's ok. Just glad you are here." Said takuya.
" So that's Tyler huh? Doesn't look so tough to me." spoke sakuyamon.
" Do not worry. Master Tyler's power extent far beyond fire absorption." Orda explained. Tyler spread his legs apart and extended his arms to either side of him and began to concentrate. Just then, seven orbs formed around him while he locked his fingers together. The orbs suddenly caught fire and form in front of him.
STRIKE OF THE SEVEN NOVAS
He fired them at the deamons with force, hitting them all point blank. The other deamons were knocked off their feet while shendumon was merely pushed back.
" That boy! Such power!" he grunted. Tyler's hands erupted into flame as he readied for the next attack.
" Damn, how is he doing that?" wondered Davis.
" Thanks to master Tyler's spirit, he has the power of pyro-kinesis." Explained orda. Unfortunately, he lost a good chunk of the group's male members as they wondered what he just said. Even max was lost ate what he just said.
" Pyro-kinesis: the ability to form and control fires with the power of the mind." He explained. Just then, Tyler yelled with his arms out and began to spin around in a circle. As he did, he formed a tornado of fire around him.
PYRONIC TWISTER
The living tornado of fire raced across the ground and at xiao fangmon. He spun out of the twister and gave him a vicious kick. He back flipped out of the way as he fell.
" Hey taky! Didn't that look your move?" pointed out beetlemon.
" Yeah! The kid must be imitating his hero." He boasted as Tyler looked back at his father.
" That's it Tyler! Give to them!" he cheered which didn't go over too well with tchangzumon. Out of spite, he fired a bolt of lightening at her. She was too busy to notice the attacking coming until it was too late.
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
She let out a blood-curdling scream, and in an instant, she turned back to Zoe and fell to earth. Tyler raced to her side as did her friends, takuya reaching her first.
" Zoe! Zoe! Wake up!" he spoke. Her clothes were torn and burnt and her breathing was shallow. Max reached down and touched her neck.
" She has a pulse but it's weak." He said when he noticed Tyler. His eyes were filled with rage, almost like he was about explode.
" Annoying insect! Serves her right! Never take your eyes off your opponent!" tchangzumon taunted to the joy of others. Tyler was now beyond rage, as the other seemed to back off from around him. He slowly turned around and faced the digimon conquers.
" Tyler, are you ok?" asked sora.
" You bastards! Attacking me? That's ok! But when you are attack the one person I love more than anything, THAT'S CROSSING THE LINE!" He roared as his body grew in heat.
" For this, you will pay........" he said, he left hand erupting.
" You will suffer........." he said while his right did the same.
" YOU...... WILL...... BURN!" he screamed as his d-tector on his arm glowed and the symbol of the inferno appeared on it.
EXECUTE FORBIDDEN SPIRIT EVOLUTION
Slashing through his code, his clothes burned away and his body turned into flame. Out of his chest emerged the icon of his spirit. It turned to him and broke apart and began to equip pieces to him. His armor was white with big shoulder armaments and two swords behind him.(for those who don't know, he looks like the inferno arm from ronin warriors.)
INFERNOMON
The destined ran for cover as the sky turned a demonic red as the forbidden spirit appeared before them. The earth itself ripped and broke away at his power as he stares at the deamons.
" No!" said Tai.
" It-it was him!" said a stunned takuya.
" Yes! I take it you guys felt it too!" said BW, as the boys nodded.
" What is he talking about?" asked takuya, holding Zoe.
" About a year ago, I felt a power coming from the digital universe, unlike anything I had ever felt before! It was just raw! I had always wondered where it came from! Now I know! That boy is the source of that power!" explain pikkan, with a strained look on his face.
" But it's ok. We can win now right?" asked kenta. The boys had no answer as they looked at the upcoming battle. The deamons were seemingly unsure how to fight this fiery new foe.
" If you want to feel the burn, then COME ONE!" he challenged as his power soared. Xiao fangmon answered him with his deadly gale but it seemed to dissipate at the extreme heat.
" You think a stupid breeze will stop me!? Behold my power!!"
He pulled his hand to his side and as he did, it started to glow red-hot.
RAGE OF THE INFERNO
He roared, releasing a wave of energy from his fist. The deamons jumped out of the way, but the blast obliterated the remains of the trees, screamed over the land and over the sea. The path over the water, along which the blast had traveled, was barren. All of the water was completely evaporated. The deamons and digidestined looked at the path in utter shock.
" Holy shit!" TK and Kari said at the same time. Tso lanmon levitated into the air and prepped a gravity ball. Infernomon looked up and drew both of his swords. He joined them at the hilts and leapt into the air just as the moon deamon launched his attack.
INFERNO DOUBLE SLASH
His blades glowed as he sliced the ball in two and slashed at the deamon but he barely dodged. And I mean barely, since the blade severed a few strains of hair. Shendumon flew up higher than the warrior and fired his dragon's fire, slamming him into the ground.
" Got him!" said hsi wumon as his brother returned to earth.
" The fool was no match for the deamon of fire!" he sneered at the smoking crater.
" You think that little fire can stop ME!?" he roared back to life as he emerged from the pit, and unfazed by his attack.
" I didn't want to do this but it's time to unleash the beast!"
EXECUTE SLIDE EVOLUTION
Just like that, he was surrounded by fractal code as he changed forms. Inside, when it was done, a new creature stood in his place: he resembled a white tiger with white armor all over, save his mouth, and on the sides were his swords on his sides. He let out a roar with no sign of his human side anywhere.
" What is that?!" asked beetlemon.
" That would be master Tyler's beast spirit. He found it during his training. You are now looking at the beast of the inferno, tigramon." Explained orda. The beast warrior ran full steam at tso lanmon who was scared stiff at this animal was after him. Before he could think of a counter, tigramon was on him, biting his head and clawing at his body. Hsi wumon, in an attempt to beat him off his brother, used his sky cutter on him but it barely moved him. He slowly turned at the sky deamon and let out a low growl. He jumped off him and locked on to the youngest deamon. He took to air, hoping he couldn't follow him but he didn't have to.
TIGER ROAR
He opened his mouth and let out a massive fireball. In mid-flight, it turned into the symbol of the inferno,(the same sign that forms when fire pokemon use fire blast.) and hit hsi wumon, the deamon screaming in pain as he did. Tchangzumon took to the air and fired some thunderbolt at him. Turning quickly, he some how removed his sword and caught them in his mouth. He leapt into the air above him.
SAMURAI TIGER STORM
Tigramon spun around in a cyclone, when blades of energy come out of the vortex, cutting into the thunder deamon's armor. The beast landed on the just as his opponent did.
EXECUTE SLIDE EVOLUTION
Once again, he was enveloped by the fractal code and turned back into infernomon. By now, only shendumon was left standing with xiao fangmon next to him. They both launched their attacks but infernomon fired a stream of fire into the ground and rocketed into the air. When reached his limit, his body seemed to flare up even more as he looked down at his foes.
" Now, in the name of my mother and my father, I summon my ultimate attack, PYRO HURRICANE!"
With that declaration, the flames around him swirled, like a hurricane and he dove at the earth.
" MOVE!!!!!" shendumon and max said at the same time as they rushed his own group out of the way when he impacted the earth with a fiery explosion. The heat wave knocked everyone off his or her feet and down many of the trees. When it was over, everyone looked over to see infernomon standing in a gigantic crater with flames around him. Shendumon and his brothers had taken to the air and for the first time ever, shendumon said something they thought they'd never hear him say.
" Come on. We're retreating."
" What?! But we are deamons! We don't retreat!" exclaimed tchangzumon, saying what they were thinking.
" You idiot! Don't you see?! His attacks are getting more and more intense! I don't know who he is but he is more powerful that all of us right now!"
" Even you?" asked hsi wumon but got no answer from his brother.
" The main reason we have to leave is because he is losing control. Soon, he will be all-powerful but mindless. He would destroy us all, including his friends. It's better to leave and live then to fight and die!"
With that, the deamon brothers flew off in retreat and upon the seeing, the digidestined cheered at the sight.
" Alright! Tyler sent those bastards packing!" said tike.
" You know it!" added Kumamon as they slapped hand. Infernomon had his back to the others and didn't move. Davis jumped up and ran over to the warrior.
" Man you were awesome! I can't believe that someone like you is on our side!"
" Davis! No!" shouted pikkan. Davis turned back just as infernomon turned around towards the gang. To their horror, his eyes were all red and he had an enraged look on his face.
(Plays serphiroth theme song, one wing angel.)
He screamed in rage as he blew back Davis into the arms of imperildramon.
" Davis are you ok?"
" Yeah, but damn, what is his problem?"
Just then, the mega digimon started to glow and turned back into veemon and wormmon.
" What happened you two?" asked ken.
" I don't know. We had a lot of power left." Answered veemon.
" Yeah we shouldn't have dedigivolved so soon." Added wormmon. As he did, sakuyamon glowed and did as imperildramon did and turned back into renamon and rika.
" Renamon what happened? I didn't want to turn back yet."
" Neither did I." Renamon spoke as, all around them, the digimon were dedigivolved back to their rookie and human forms.
" What's going on here?" wondered koji.
" It's Tyler. Some how, the heat he is putting out is messing the digivolving process." Said max as the boy raged around the area, the heat getting more intense.
" He's gone nuts!" said ryo.
" No. He's just angry." Said pikkan.
" Yeah. His mind is over come by rage and his power is feeding off of it." explained BW.
" No wonder shendumon and his brother ran. They knew he would snap like this!" said sam as infernomon locked eyes on them.
" Oh crap!" said kara.
" ENEMY!!" with a yell, he focused a wave of fire at them and incinerated where they stood. Above the earth, everyone who could fly was carrying everyone who couldn't.
" He-he was aiming right at us." A stunned yolei said as she hung on to hawkmon.
" Indeed. The boy has gone quite mad."
" It's not his fault! He just not himself." Said takuya, still holding Zoe.
" This is getting nuts!" said BW holding renamon and guilmon.
" I'm afraid I have to agree with him." Said orda, holding Henry, terriermon, kenta and marineangemon.
" According to my sensors, infernomon's external temperature is increasing 40 degrees every 10.7 seconds. If my calculations are correct, in ten minutes this continent will be too hot to live on. In 20 minutes, the oceans of the planet will begin to boil. In a hour, I do not think I really need to go on." explained the robot, much to everyone's grief.
" That's it! I'm sorry takuya but we have to take him out!" said sam, much to his dismay.
" Ok. Let's set down and stop him!" spoke max as they descended to the land. It was some yards away as the heat was too hot for them.
" Alright, let's do it!" tike announced as he dash forward at the warrior but before he could even get near him, he screamed in pain and fled back into the arms of Kari.
" What happened?" she asked. He whimpered as he showed her his hands, red and blistered.
" It was too hot! I didn't even get close!" he spoke.
" So then we will attack from afar." Said BW, jumping ahead and fired an energy blast but it some how fizzled out before it hit him. Undeterred, he let off wave after wave of ki attacks but they all suffered the same fate as the first.
" Damn! How is that possible?"
" Ok let's see if this will hit him!" pikkan jumped forward and launch his thunder flash attack upon him but it was deflected off him again.
" Damn, he's created a air lens."
" Care to share your thoughts?" asked Tai.
" Infernomon is creating so much heat that the air around him has become super hot. Any attack we try has to go through that and most times, when it reaches him, it will be too weak to do any real damage."
" Oh great! Now what do we do?" asked veemon.
" Hey max! What about the life bomb?" asked kara.
" Sorry it won't work. The life bomb only destroys evil. Infernomon is just enraged. Besides by the time I get enough energy for it, he'll be too powerful to stop. There must be a way to stop him." Answered max as the group watched infernomon rage on, out of control.
" I'll stop him."
The voice came from the now conscious Zoe who was getting to her feet.
" Zoe you shouldn't be up." said takuya but Zoe got out of his arms and on her own feet.
" I have to do this."
" Ok zoe. How can you stop him?" asked max.
" Let me talk to him."
" Blondie, maybe you got hit a little bit too hard cause he doesn't look like he's in a mood talk!" said rika.
" Please. I know he's out of control but if I can talk to him for a minute, I know I can get through to him."
" But what about the heat? You'll never get near him!" said JP.
" It's ok, JP. I know that Tyler would never hurt me, consciously or unconsciously."
" That's crazy! Taky, please tell your girlfriend that this is crazy!"
" No JP. I realize it now; Tyler would never hurt Zoe, no matter what. Zoe, do it."
" Ok zoe. But be careful." Max spoke as Zoe smiled and limped over to him. Maybe it was her spirit or maybe she was too hurt to feel it but it seemed as if the intense heat wasn't affecting her.
" See? I told you Tyler would never hurt Zoe."
" You better be right cause if something happens to Zoe, I'm holding you reasonable!" warned JP.
" Tyler. Tyler, what are you doing?" she asked, holding her arm as the warrior turned around to face her. He growled at her, as if he didn't know her.
" Tyler please stop this!"
" Enemy......"
" No they are gone now. It's just us, your friends."
She stopped just short of him and reached out to his face. Everyone gasped at her action but she was sure of what she was doing. He jumped back a little but her hand found the side of his face.
" Tyler, I'm speaking to Tyler, not infernomon. Tyler you have to stop this."
" But they hurt you......"
" And they will get theirs but you are attacking us. You have to stop this." She gently told him, placing her other hand on his face.
" Tyler, please come back to the Tyler I know: the sweet, innocent boy I took care of, and that I love."
His eyes shook a little while he looked her in the eye with uncertainty. Just then, he began flash back to memories: of zoe and takuya finding him and orda, to zoe holding him for the first time, to zoe bathing him, to her feeding him and sleeping with him. It all came back to him and finally his eyes return to normal. Without another word, he turned back into Tyler and his fire vanished with it. Seemingly like waking up from a nightmare, he looked around at the destruction.
" What happened?" he thought out loud. He looked to Zoe for an answer but she couldn't give him one. Then he remembered; the deamons, Zoe getting hit and him spirit evolving.
" Oh no." he said, stunned that it was he who did. He stared at his hand, then to Zoe, then to the others and back to his hands. He then fell to his knees and began to weep.
" What have I done?!" he sobbed when Zoe grabbed hold of him and pulled him into a loving hug.
" It's alright now. I'm here."
" Master Tyler, you must eat something." Orda said, holding a plate of hot food over his small body. It was now late at night at the watch point and Tyler, still reeling from his fit earlier. Orda tried, in vain, to get him to eat but all he seemed to do is stare off into the night sky. Sighing, the robot walked back into the building and in the dining area where everyone else was.
" So how is he?" asked Zoe as takuya bandaged her up.
" Master Tyler still refuses to eat." Orda answered as he placed the food on the table, which was picked up by tike.
" Tike, mind your manners!" scolded Kari.
" He's not gonna eat it!" he explained.
" Don't Bogart that plate!" kara yelled as the two wrestled over it.
" He's been like that all day. Isn't there anything we can do?" asked jeri.
" He is in conflict with himself. He must figure this out himself." Said leomon.
" But I've been wondering, just where did he find that spirit?" asked Henry.
" That's just it, he didn't." answered koji.
" As far as we know, Tyler was born with that spirit. Ever since we found him last year, he hasn't had a good life. His parents were killed by a digimon conqueror name piccaromon. He chased him to our world and we took him in." takuya explained.
" Piccaromon wanted him dead, even though he was just a baby." Tommy said, to the surprise of everyone, save max.
" He was a baby a year ago?! No way!" said matt.
" Tell me about it. One minute, he's peeing in my face." Said JP.
" So now what?" asked Mimi.
" We could just sick him on the deamons. He's powerful enough." Suggested ryo, which got him a death glare from Zoe.
" Idiot! Power means nothing if there was no skill behind. It's like giving a baby a gun." Said BW.
" Pity. If he only he could harness that power, he would be a force to be reckoned with." Pikkan stated when a smiled secretly snuck on max's face. He simply got up and started to walk out of the room.
" Max what's up?" asked sam.
" Nothing. Just going for a little walk. You guys get some sleep." He replied and left the gang to their talk. He casually walked the halls and out into the open air. He saw Tyler sitting on the edge and walked behind him.
" Nice view huh?" he spoke. Tyler merely turned around and look up at him.
" I would offer look up at the night sky when I'm troubled. Care to talk?"
" I appreciate your offer but talk can't help Me." he said as he stood up.
" I almost killed those I care about. Zoe is like a mother to me and I nearly killed her. I can never look her in the face again. I don't belong here, with you or them. You are all great warriors and I don't deserve to be with any of you."
" So you are just gonna leave? Without a word?"
" Yes. It's better this way." He said sadly, and began to walk away.
" Tyler. I can't change your mind but I have an offer to ask of you first. Could you do it?"
" Of course." He replied turning to face him.
" Hit me."
" WHAT?!" he exclaimed. It was a shock to him, for the strongest warrior he'd ever met to hit him.
" Hit me as hard as you can."
" But why?"
" Don't ask questions! I asked if you could do it and you said yes! Now hit me!"
" But I can't hit you!"
" I see. Then I will have to force you!" he said before dashing forward and punched him in the face. Tyler staggered back a few steps to max's surprise.
Amazing! A blow like that could floor pikkan but he's still standing!
" Why are you doing this?" he asked holding his cheek.
" I thought you might be worth something but I guess I was wrong. No wonder Zoe and takuya are ashamed of you. I would be too if I was the parent of a failure."
This struck a cord with the young man, as the thought of his parent considering him a failure was something he could barely wrap his mind around. Suddenly, a fire was lit in him as he went from not wanting to fight to wanting to rip max's throat out.
" I'm not a failure. I'm not a failure! I am not! I know my mother loves me and I will prove that I am not something be ashamed of!" he roared.
" So what are you gonna do?"
" You want me to punch you?! Then get ready for my fists of fire!"
" Oooooooh weeeeeeee! That's what I'm talking about! Come on sucka! Let's get it on!"
NEXT TIME: it's the fight no one thought would happened: max vs. Tyler! In a fight that with rock the watch point! And shendumon makes an offer that changes the battle for the digi-verse.
FIRES OF CHANGE
MA: hey everyone! The party is still going on and everyone is heading out side to see the race between pikkan and marik.
Max: not everyone.
(Points under mistletoe, where serenity and Tyler are kissing.)
Keke: how cute!
Max: let's leave those two alone. We got a race to get to.
(Leaves and see everyone out side and pikkan and marik revving their bikes.)
P: you ready to ride punk?
Marik: let's do it!
Celesta: excuse me. Can you tell me where I can find coral?
Max: who are you?
C: I'm celesta, another one of ssj4t's OC.
Max: ok. She's making out over there with that dude Vega.
C: coral what the hell are you doing? What would your boyfriend say?
Coral: don't worry. It's just a fling.
Vega: yeah. I got one too. I'm just having a fling.
Max: damn dude.
MA: just don't let your girl find out.
MA's corner
MA: ok. We got a question for takuya coming from Joseph d. hale. He asks what would you turn into if you went ascendant while as agunnimon?
Takuya: I honestly haven't given it much thought on it. Well I guess I might turn into takunnimon or something like that. I would like to try but not right now.
Ma: thanks. Here's one for max from yami chaoswolf. He asks, would you want to fight his OC, chaoswolf?
Max: well I've read his stats and I must say, he sounds like someone I would want to battle. If he wants to go a few rounds, come on with it.
MA: our next two questions come from d3 fan number one, ssj4t; will max fight the warlord in the future?
Max: don't get me wrong, I would beat him like a bitch and send him up the devil's ass but he's no challenge now. If he works out for a few years, he might handle me for about ten seconds!
Ma: the second question is for me: will I keep writing after the deamon saga? Maybe. I have some ideas for other shows like teen titans but I might.
LATER FICCERS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Vega and coral: (making out on the couch) shut up!
MA: we got epsilon and galaticmon challenging beast boy and Cyborg to snk vs. capcom chaos. And winning.
Max: ok. Well since this chapter will have him, let's welcome back takuya and Zoe's son, the holder of the forbidden spirit, Tyler.
Tyler: hello everyone. Thank you for inviting me master.
Max: I told you not to call me that yet.
Tyler: sorry
MA: hey everyone! Yugi and his crew have made it!
(Yugi, tea, Tristan, duke, Joey, the kaiba brothers, marik, ishizu, and serenity enter.)
Yugi: thanks for inviting us.
Ma: no problem. I was glad to do it.
Max: hey kid. There's serenity. Go say hi.
Tyler: um but what about those two, duke and Tristan?
Max: forget that. Just go! (Pushes him to her. Both blush upon seeing each other.)
Tyler: um, hi serenity.
S: hi uh Tyler.
Kaiba: kamiya!
Max: you mean me?
Kaiba: who else?! I challenge you to a duel!
Tai: what's his problem?
Max: a while back, seto and me had a duel and he beat me.
Kaiba: no! You let me win! You clearly had the advantage over me for half the duel! You could've easily beaten me but you let me win! I want a rematch!
Max: ok. But now I won't hold back.
(Just then, a motorcycle with two riders crashes through the door and does some donuts. The rider took off his helmet to reveal pikkan.)
MA: damn pikkan! Nice ride!
P: jeri bought it for me. I like it.
(Jeri removes her helmet.)
Takato: how did you afford this?
Jeri: my savings. It took a while but it's worth.
P: with this on my side, there isn't a man here who can beat me on a hog!
Marik: think again!
P: marik. So you are the one with bike outside.
Marik: yes and there is no one better on a hog than me!
P: are you challenging me, you punk?
Marik: yes and I don't even need my millennium rod to beat you!
P: well, in that case. (Jumps on motorcycle and rides out) get you ass out here and let's do this thing!
MA: hog race!
(Everyone charges out side to watch the race.)
Yugi: maybe we should stop this.
(Turns into yami yugi.)
Yami: put me down for 500 on Pikkan.
Ma: all right, while we watch this race, on with the fic!
D3: THE DEAMON'S STRIKE
RETURN OF THE INFERNO
Things were down for the deamons as they hid. Thanks to the warlord, the family of conquers have taken refuge in one of his underground bases that was located in the formerly name dark territory.
" This is embarrassing! We, the deamons, beating by a human and forced to like our wounds like dogs!" complained tchangzumon as he and his fellow deamons recovered from their injuries, all save the warlord and shendumon who was in his own world.
" You are all lucky that one of my bases remained hidden. Damn, why didn't you kill them when you had the chance." He complained to him.
" I don't need to explain myself to a slave."
" Well, now with max back with them, they will be harder to be now."
" I'm not worried."
" Well you should be. I don't see why I'm even following you. You're nothing but a fool!"
Angered by his words, shendumon launched his dragon's fire at the former tyrant, slamming into the wall and burying him.
" Was that necessary?" asked bai zamon.
" He was annoying me."
" What's wrong dear? You haven't been the same since the fight?"
" Nothing. It's him."
" That human. What was his name? Max."
" Yes but he's more than human and maybe even more than a digimon. I've met such a fighter in my life. I feel so excited! I bet right now, he's probably creating a strategy to defeat us."
How wrong he was as at that moment, our hero max was fast asleep and snoring, in the lap of his girlfriend, keke, in her room. Suddenly a knock was heard on the door.
" Come in." she said, allowing Tai and sora to come in.
" Hey. Are we disturbing you?" asked sora as they came over to the couple.
" No, not really."
" I hope we don't wake him. He's been through a lot."
" No way. You could drop a city on him and he'd just roll over."
" I can see why he's tired. I mean look at all he ate. I think Simms was gonna have a heart attack." Joked Tai.
" Do you really think max can help us beat these guys?" asked sora.
" I don't know but he will try his best."
Just then, max began to thrash around like a baby. Keke, having slept with him a lot, took her thumb and put it in his mouth. Like a baby with a pacifier, he calmed down and cooed. Tai and sora awed in silence at the scene.
" That's so sweet!"
" Yeah. He's like a big dirty baby but I love him."
" Well I think we better get some sleep sor. We got a big day tomorrow."
" Ok. Night, keke." Said sora.
" Night guys." She replied as the couple left the room, leaving her alone with him. She smiled as she looked down at his sleeping face and ran her hand through his wild brown hair. She then leaned over and kissed him on the forehead with brought out a smile on his face.
" Good night and welcome home, my love."
The next morning was a rapid change of pace as the males of the team as well as the digimon were in the courtyard of the watch point, while max display his skill by a little test. He wore a black shirt with brown pants and boots while takuya attacked him but despite his flying fist and feet, max easily dodged the attacks.
" Come on, takuya. All you have to do is touch me." he explained as he ate from a bag of gummi bears. Takuya went at him again, but max dodged them all. After about ten minutes, the boy was in a puddle of sweat and out of breath.
" Awwwwww man! I didn't even come close to touching you! You're amazing!" takuya spoke with a smile. Max returned the smile as he gulped down a bear.
" Thanks but you're amazing yourself. I had to keep up with your punches. Ok, who's next?"
" Me! I want to go next!" takato answered eagerly. Max waved him up and he took a fighting stance.
" You know the rules: you win if you can touch me."
Takato then took the opportunity to attack him. Max bent over backwards as his fist pasted over him. Takato rebounded and started to kick at him while, like with takuya, he easily maneuvered out of the path of his blows. As this went on, the female digidestined, save jeri, watched the practice go on from the main house.
" So that's max. I must admit sora, he is certainly is like you said." Said Mimi.
" Well he's a special person." She replied.
" Not to mention strong as hell." Said yolei.
" Yeah. We had such a hard time with those damn deamons while he took them all on and whooped them." added rika.
" Yep and with him back with us again, think we can win. After all he is the most powerful fighter in the digi-verse." Said Kari.
" Not to mention, the best body." Mumbled Zoe with a far-gone look on her face. The other girls looked at her with looks of astonishment.
" Wait a minute! Tell me you didn't just say that? Blondie has a thing for hero boy?" asked rika.
" No. No. I mean, well......"
" Well what?"
" Well is it just me or do you guys think max is really hot? Don't get me wrong! I love takuya! But you have to admit, max is very good looking." She remarked as the girls looked closely at max.
" You know she's right. Sure he looks like Tai but a bit more......dangerous." Spoke Mimi.
" Yeah I see it. And he's more buffed than Tai. I wish I could see under his shirt." Drooled yolei.
" He is my son but if I didn't know, maybe I would date." Sora thought out loud.
" Even from me, he is cute, for a gogglehead." Complemented rika.
" And that smile. I wish TK would smile like that." said Kari. Soon all the girls were virtually drooling over max. In their eyes, time seemed to go in slow motion as max played with takato. Speaking of that, takato soon joined takuya in defeat as he fell on his back.
" Too fast!" he breathed out while looked over him.
" Come on takato. You were close."
" How about if I have a turn?"
The new voice came from a flying figure in the sky that quickly landed in from of max; he had spiky brown hair, much like max's hair color. He wore a black muscle shirt, black pants, supported by a brown boots. He sported a pair of fingerless gloves and military style boots. The twins, David, pikkan, and Tai smiled while everyone one seemed surprised by this new arrival.
" Who's he?" asked Tommy.
" I don't know. I haven't seen him before." Asked TK.
" So I heard you were back in town." Max asked as he threw down the bag of candy.
" Of course. Since you are back." He said as he got in his face.
" What do you want?"
" I'm gonna do something I should've done a long time ago."
As everyone held their breath on what he was gonna do, the stranger raised his arm, as if to strike him. In an instant, he wrapped his around his head and rubbed his knuckles over his head.
" Say it!"
" No!"
" Say it!"
" No!"
" Say it!"
" Ok! You are the strongest warrior in the world!"
" And?"
" I am weaker by comparison!"
" And?!"
" I am not as good in bed as I say!"
" Great!" he said, releasing max from his grip. Although he had admitted all those things, he wasn't upset and the two embraced in a hug.
" Um did I miss something here?" Davis asked out loud.
" Oh yeah, that right. You guys don't recognize me like this. Guys, it's me, blackWargreymon."
" WHAT?" they all went, their jaws drop a mile down.
" But your human?!" said Cody, touching his body.
" I know. When my body was destroyed, Simms put my spirit inside a human body so I could fight better."
" But you look like max." patamon spoke flying around his head.
" Where do you think it come from? My body was created off his blood. Something like a clone." He smiled.
" Well, that's great black war.. Um what do we call u you now?" asked veemon.
" Just call me bw."
" Wait, if you were in this body before then, you guys knew? All along??" tentomon asked the other who just nodded.
" Why didn't you tell us?"
" You didn't ask." Pikkan answered.
" Now let's get back......oh no. Not this." Max moped.
" What's wrong?" asked Tai. Max merely pointed over to the building where the girls were. They were all in a daze and looking at max like a bunch of lovesick schoolgirls.
" What's up with them?" asked matt.
" It's me. Shinmon said there would side effects of me being brought back the way I was."
" Which is?" asked izzy.
" My pheromones are highly potent now. Meaning that at certain points, I'm irresistible." He explained.
" You mean all of them want to......" asked Tai.
" Yeah."
" Even Kari?"
" Yeah."
" Even sora?"
" Oh yeah."
" Damn. I wish I had that power." Joked sam.
" Hey bro. I got an idea. Play along." Max whispered to BW. He then began to talk rather loudly.
" Gee guys! That was a great work out! Man I'm sweating bullets!"
" Yeah you're right man! Your shirt is sticking to you!"
" Well then, I better take it off!" he shouted, making sure the girl heard him. With that, he slowly and surely removed his shirt to reveal his muscular and toned body. There was no sweat on him but max had done what he had set out to do. Just then, the sound of multiple thuds came from the building. Inside, the girls had fainted from seeing max's body. Max just grinned at his handy work as he put his shirt back on.
" Ow! My head!" said rika as he rubbed the bump on her head. The other girls involved in the incident mirrored her movements. Everyone had gathered in the top room to find out how to battle the deamons. Where as everyone was serious, max was walking around the group on his fingers.
" As much as we all enjoy watching you show off, we need to get down to serious business." Said pikkan.
" No, don't mind me. Just get started. I'll jump in when I have something to add." He spoke.
" Ok. Well, let's go over this; we have 8 very powerful digimon with different powers and abilities. Any thoughts?" Tai started.
" Well sending them back to that dark world is out of the question." Stated Henry.
" So our only option is to fight." Said rika.
" But can we win against them?" asked matt.
" The other 7 can be beaten, if we fight right. But shendumon, he's in another league." Said takuya.
" Another league? Man, he's on another planet! Remember, he beat you, Tai, and me with only 1% of his power! What happens if he wants to use half or worse, all his power?" takato stated.
" Now that is scary." Said koji.
" Naw. If he wanted to kill us, he would've done so. I don't think he sees us a challenge."
" Yeah all but max that is. Say max, how come you didn't fight him like the others?" asked kara. Max's response came as he flipped to his feet.
" Because he didn't want to. He sees me as a equal and as such, he won't fight me, until we have proper stage."
" Great. Villain with an honor code." TK quipped.
" He might not want to fight me now but I think I know someone he might want to fight."
" Who?" asked keke as max knelt down and looked at tike.
" Me? No way! I love a good fight as much as the next person but shendumon would rip me a new one!"
" No! No! I don't want you to fight him! I just need to ask you something; have you improved on your teleporting technique?"
" Oh yeah! It's better than ever now! I can teleport anywhere, as long I can sense a ki. Then I can just teleport near it."
" Just as I thought. Now, how far can you sense?"
" Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, I think about a few hundred miles. Why?"
" I gonna need you to find a ki for me but it's on another planet."
" Another planet?! But I can't go that far!"
" Don't worry. I can help you. Now just focus."
" Ok. But I don't see what good it will do." tike warned as he closed his eyes. He began to sense all the energies around him and few miles out. Max placed his hands on either side of his head and they began to glow, and suddenly, he began sense more and more energies all over the planet and then into space. He gasped at the amount of power he was sensing all at once.
" Is he ok?" asked Kari.
" Yeah, he's just a bit over whelmed. Now tike, listen to my voice. I'm gonna guide you to where I want you to go, ok?"
" Um ok?"
" Now what do you sense?"
" It's a digital world. It's uh really messed up."
" Ok. Forget that. Now what do you sense?"
" Right. I'm picking up a lot of energies: three big ones, one bigger than the others, and one that's huge but seems hidden. Whoa!"
" What?" asked TK.
" There's a gigantic one! I've never felt something like this! It's stronger than me, stronger than pikkan, and...... Holy shit!" he shouted as he jerked away from max's hands.
" Bro what's wrong?" asked kara.
" That power! I think it's stronger than max!"
That revelation came like a shot in the arm to everyone in the room. It was rare to say that someone was even stronger than max was.
" Are you sure about that? It's hard to imagine that there is someone out there stronger than you max." wondered Tai.
" Yep and I'm gonna go get him."
" Max, are you sure about this?" asked pikkan.
" Yes. I found about him about a year ago. His power is amazing!"
" But have you met him?"
" No, not really."
" Then how do you know that he is good? He might be as evil as the deamons!" pointed out yolei.
" Trust me. He's not evil. He's as innocent as child."
" So when do we leave?" asked BW.
" Sorry big bro. I'm only taking tike, takuya, and zoe."
" Um but why us?" asked the blonde girl.
" Because you will be the most help in my mission."
" Wait a minute. Are you thinking what I think your thinking?" asked takuya.
" Yep. We're going after Tyler."
Upon hearing that name, the frontier destined as well and bokomon and neemon looked up with dread in their eyes.
" Max my boy, are you sure about this?" asked the egg carrying digimon.
" Very sure. Takuya, zoe, you in?"
" If it's the only way, then yeah."
" Plus, it will be nice to see him again."
" I don't get it. Who is this Tyler?" Davis whispered to koji.
" If he's right, then our best hope for beat the deamons."
" And if he's wrong?"
" Pray that he isn't wrong."
The desert wind blew hard as our foursome of heroes, returned to the frontier home world, appearing out of nowhere, thanks to tike's teleport move. The youngster fell down on his back in exhaustion.
" You ok kid?" max asked, kneeling down to check on his cousin.
" I'm good. Just never had to teleport that far. Let me-oooohhh!" he groaned as he tried to stand but fell back down.
" No you don't. You're riding on my back from now on." he said, pulling him on his back.
" Ok. Now to find Tyler."
" How about we try there?" Zoe suggested, pointed to a small patch of trees on the horizon, with some smoke coming from them.
" An oasis? Best place to start." Said max. Takuya picked up Zoe in his arms and he and max flew fast to the palm trees and landed in a small camp with a single sleeping mat and fires. There was wide array of food on the ground, which tike would've eaten but he was still too weak. Just then, small footsteps were heard coming from behind the trees. Seemingly out of nowhere came the small robot, orda with a bucket of water over his head.
" Oh. It would appear I have guests."
" Orda!" takuya yelled while Zoe pick up the small robot and proceed to hug him.
" Orda, you little cutie! We've missed you!"
" As have I miss zoe but could you please put me down?"
" Oh. Sorry. I guess I got carried away." she said, putting him back on the ground.
" It is fine. It is great to see you again. And you seemed to have new friends."
" Yes. This is our friends, max and his cousin, tike."
" Hey!" tike said weakly while max waved at him.
" Sir, have we met?"
" Maybe. In another time perhaps." Max answered to the robot when a loud boom ripped through the area.
" What was that?" asked Zoe.
" That would be master Tyler."
" What is he doing?"
" Training. He has been training for about six mouths now."
" For what?" asked takuya.
" You'll see."
Together, the group headed outside of the oasis and back into the desert. After a few yard they say the boy in question; he wore a black muscle shirt and black pants with matching boots with silver on the side. He sat Indian style on the hot sand but he wasn't sweating a bit. All of a sudden, his entire body burst into flames.
" Tyler!" Zoe screamed and ran to help him but orda floated in front of here.
" Stop!"
" But..."
" Do not fear. Master Tyler is fine."
She looked again to see that Tyler had not moved from that spot. It seemed he didn't notice the flames. He opened his eyes and forces his arms forward and the flames swirled around him and in front of him in a fireball. Ahead of him, some distance away, was a large pyramid, made of sand. He then threw it forward, the ground burning up along its path and hit the structure. The pyramid vanished in a sea of fire of and smoke. Pleased, Tyler got to his feet and dusted himself, as he turned around to see his audience. He was speechless as he laid eyes on the one person he loved more than anything.
" Tyler!" Zoe yelled as she ran to her son. She stopped a little front of him to see him better.
" You look great. And so handsome."
" Well thank you." he said with a blush.
" It's nice to see you again, mother er, I mean, Zoe."
" It's ok. I'm still your mother." She smiled as she hugged him while hugged back.
" Hey don't get to carried away!" takuya joked as he approached the duo.
" I won't. I know she's yours."
" How are you?"
" I am better. I can tell you are stronger now."
" Thanks. Oh yeah. Tyler this is my good friend max and his cousin tike."
At that moment, max and Tyler locked eyes. It seemed the two would stare at each other forever.
" Tyler. You don't know how long I've waited to meet someone like you."
" Sir?"
" Come. We have much to talk about."
" And that's the story." Finished takuya as he explained the situation. Tike was over at the side, eating the food that orda had made while the grown ups talked. Tyler took a little time to absorb the info.
" It makes sense now. I had been trying to find you for that last few weeks but I couldn't find you. So these deamons, are they just as bad as you say?"
" Worse. If no one stops them, they could take over the digi-verse." Answered Zoe.
" I see. Then cherubimon is a distant second when it comes to these guys."
" Hey, speaking of that, how have things been going with that butt hole?" asked takuya.
" A lot. Ever since I spirit evolved into infernomon last year, cherubimon has now changed his mission from taking over the digital world to finding and killing me. He feels threaten by me and so we have been on the run."
" We've encounter many of his higher level soldiers and even some of the legendary warriors; mercurymon, ranamon, arbormon, even duskmon."
" Duskmon? I've never heard of him." Said Zoe.
" It's not surprising, miss zoe. Duskmon is perhaps cherubimon's most powerful minion. It was rare for us to encounter him since those who have faced him have never lived to tell the tale. It is said that he is stronger than all of the legendary warriors because he shares some of cherubimon's power."
" Yes and I fought him. He was very dangerous but we barely escaped."
" I don't how you had such a hard time. I mean why didn't you spirit evolve?"
" I would rather not do that."
" Why? Oh well. Tyler, the reason we came was to ask you to join us in our fight with the deamons. With infernomon on our side, we would have a major advantage."
" Takuya, I appreciate you coming here and I am honor you would ask me to join you but I'm afraid I can not come with you."
" But why?" Zoe asked, placing her hand on his.
" It's the same reason I wont spirit evolve: my spirit."
" What about it?"
" Whenever I spirit evolve to infernomon, I began to lose myself. My emotions are more extreme and I'm afraid that if I should get angry enough, I might go crazy and might lose control of my power and you know what would happen if I did."
" Man, Tyler. I had no idea."
" That's way I am here in this desert. Here, I can train to control my spirit without hurting anyone. And although I have come far, I must remain here and train."
" I understand." Max suddenly said to everyone's surprise.
" But max we need him." Said takuya.
" Takuya, I understand what he wants. He says he needs some training and I believe him. We can't force him to come with us."
" He's right takuya. I won't force our son into this fight."
" Oh ok. I have to trust his judgment." Takuya agreed when from out of the desert rushed Otto.
" Max!" he said as he arrived.
" Otto! What's wrong?"
" It's the deamons! They are attacking!" he said out of breath.
" Damn! We must go! Tike, how are you feeling?"
" Burp! Great, now that I'm full, I can take us back." He answered, swallowing the last bit of food.
" Good luck mom, takuya." Tyler said.
" Good luck to you too kid." Spoke takuya. The couple went over to tike while max lingered a little bit with Tyler.
" What can I do for you sir?"
" Tyler, a great man once said that evil triumphs when the good do nothing. Remember that, kid." He spoke as he walked over to his cousin and grabbed his hand.
" Let's do it kid!"
" Right max!" he smiled at the foursome vanished leaving Tyler to ponder his words.
" He makes a good point master." Said orda.
" Yeah but what can I do? As I am, what can I do?"
" Sir, I believe your father said it best, it's better to do anything then nothing."
" You're right but now it's too late."
" I don't think so." Spoke Otto as a slight smile rolled on his face.
Max, tike, Zoe, and takuya arrived to a virtual war zone as the destined fought with only five of the deamons; shendumon, hsi wumon, tchangzumon, tso lanmon and xiao fangmon. The foursome flew over the battle field and watched as the two sides battled.
" Man looks we got here just in time." Said tike.
" Right. Let's party." Said takuya, turning ascendant.
" Just let me change into something more comfortable."
EXECUTE SPIRT EVOLUTION
KAZEMON
The legendary warrior of wind took flight ahead of the boys.
" Come on boys! We've got a fight to win!" she called as she flew down.
" I love it when she gets forceful." Smiled takuya as he and tike flew after her. Max was about fly down when shendumon appeared in front of him.
" Hello there." He grinned.
" What? Max?" shouted tike as he and takuya stopped.
" It's ok. You two helped the others."
" You sure?"
" Yes. Go!" he ordered. The boys hunched their shoulders and flew down leaving the teen and deamon to each other.
" Well it would appear that we are alone."
" Yes. So now what do you want?"
" Me? Nothing. Just a single battle between me and you."
" What's that got to do with anything?" he asked he looked down at the battle.
" Thinking about helping them, aren't you?"
" Of course. Why aren't you helping your brothers out?"
" Well, I decided to see what it would be like if neither of us would participate in this one. Seems fair huh?"
" And the others?"
" You must realize you did do a number on them so they are healing up. So now let's talk."
" Just talk?"
" Please! Don't think me like that fool I had free me. I have my honor. Besides, I said I wanted to battle you some place better."
" Ok then. Let's talk." He said, while keeping his eye on the fighting below. Surprisingly, the destined and the fighters were holding their own with the leadership of pikkan and BW.
" Listen, we are both warrior of untold caliber. But things hinder us. You by you loyalty to your team and me by my destiny."
" Your destiny?"
" Yes. We deamons are born to rule. Our strength is beyond all digimon in the universe. As such, it is expected of us to conquer."
" But you want more?"
" I want to prove my strength! I want to fight that who I am meant to fight, not those I'm suppose to! I'm supposed to fight your friends because they stand in my way! I wish to battle you!"
" I'm flattered. But what is this getting to?"
" Leave them."
" What?"
" Leave your friend and my family to fight among themselves and we shall go and fight for ourselves and oh what a glorious battle it shall be."
" It's true I love a good fight. But I wont let that get in the way of what I must do. You haven't seen what I have seen so you can't know. But most of all, I can't never abandon them. They are my family."
With that, max flew down past him and towards the fight.
" Pity."
DRAGON'S FIRE
Without warning, he launched his attack at max.
" Awwwwww, shit!" he shouted as the fire beam hit him. He screamed as he hit the trees and the forest caught fire.
" Max!" they all went as the fighting came to a halt. As the flames destroyed the foliage, max emerged from the blaze and landed in the now regrouped team.
" Max, man, you ok?" asked justimon.
" Yeah. This just reminds me why I don't smoke." He answered, coughing up smoke. His face was blackened and his clothes were burnt but he was unhurt. He looked over at the deamons where shendumon had joined them.
" Looks like it's not over."
" Well since you won't taken my offer, I'll force you to take it!" he sneered as his eyes glowed.
" How?"
" By removing that which holds you back!!" he roared as his deadly gaze fell on Kari. She was running back to the group after getting gatomon, who was hurt, off the ground. Max looked back at shendumon with fear in his eyes.
" NO! Leave them out of that!"
" Kari! RUN!"
HEAT BEAM EYE BLAST
Kari was now frozen with fear as the beams raced at her and her digimon. Pikkan, being the fastest, tried to run for her but he knew he wouldn't get there in time. Kari opened her mouth in a silent scream when just then; something came out of nowhere, and grabbed her. The blast hit the already burning trees but not the girl. The next thing Kari knew, she was air born and in the metal grip of a robot, flying in the air.
" Hello. Are you alright?" it asked. Everyone was dumbstruck at what just happened.
" What the hell is that?" asked kara.
" That's orda but that would mean........." started lobomon.
(Kane's theme song, the fire still burns.)
Out of the burning fire of the tree came the figure of a boy; he wore a red jacket with long sleeves but his inside part of the jacket was much shorter with a black muscle shirt and black pants. He walked through the intense flames as if they were nothing. Just as he strolled through, the flames seemed to die down and were being absorbed into his hands. When he emerged, the flames arched from the plants and into him. He then raised hand and the other fires dove up and into his palm.
" It's Tyler!" said Kumamon as the other looked at his performance.
" Yes! I knew he would come!" cheered kazemon while she was in the air.
" Of course." Spoke orda as he landed and as he did, TK and Tai mauled Kari with hugs.
" You ok sis?"
" Yeah tai. We both are."
" Sorry for our tardiness but your friend, Otto, got us as close as he could."
" It's ok. Just glad you are here." Said takuya.
" So that's Tyler huh? Doesn't look so tough to me." spoke sakuyamon.
" Do not worry. Master Tyler's power extent far beyond fire absorption." Orda explained. Tyler spread his legs apart and extended his arms to either side of him and began to concentrate. Just then, seven orbs formed around him while he locked his fingers together. The orbs suddenly caught fire and form in front of him.
STRIKE OF THE SEVEN NOVAS
He fired them at the deamons with force, hitting them all point blank. The other deamons were knocked off their feet while shendumon was merely pushed back.
" That boy! Such power!" he grunted. Tyler's hands erupted into flame as he readied for the next attack.
" Damn, how is he doing that?" wondered Davis.
" Thanks to master Tyler's spirit, he has the power of pyro-kinesis." Explained orda. Unfortunately, he lost a good chunk of the group's male members as they wondered what he just said. Even max was lost ate what he just said.
" Pyro-kinesis: the ability to form and control fires with the power of the mind." He explained. Just then, Tyler yelled with his arms out and began to spin around in a circle. As he did, he formed a tornado of fire around him.
PYRONIC TWISTER
The living tornado of fire raced across the ground and at xiao fangmon. He spun out of the twister and gave him a vicious kick. He back flipped out of the way as he fell.
" Hey taky! Didn't that look your move?" pointed out beetlemon.
" Yeah! The kid must be imitating his hero." He boasted as Tyler looked back at his father.
" That's it Tyler! Give to them!" he cheered which didn't go over too well with tchangzumon. Out of spite, he fired a bolt of lightening at her. She was too busy to notice the attacking coming until it was too late.
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
She let out a blood-curdling scream, and in an instant, she turned back to Zoe and fell to earth. Tyler raced to her side as did her friends, takuya reaching her first.
" Zoe! Zoe! Wake up!" he spoke. Her clothes were torn and burnt and her breathing was shallow. Max reached down and touched her neck.
" She has a pulse but it's weak." He said when he noticed Tyler. His eyes were filled with rage, almost like he was about explode.
" Annoying insect! Serves her right! Never take your eyes off your opponent!" tchangzumon taunted to the joy of others. Tyler was now beyond rage, as the other seemed to back off from around him. He slowly turned around and faced the digimon conquers.
" Tyler, are you ok?" asked sora.
" You bastards! Attacking me? That's ok! But when you are attack the one person I love more than anything, THAT'S CROSSING THE LINE!" He roared as his body grew in heat.
" For this, you will pay........" he said, he left hand erupting.
" You will suffer........." he said while his right did the same.
" YOU...... WILL...... BURN!" he screamed as his d-tector on his arm glowed and the symbol of the inferno appeared on it.
EXECUTE FORBIDDEN SPIRIT EVOLUTION
Slashing through his code, his clothes burned away and his body turned into flame. Out of his chest emerged the icon of his spirit. It turned to him and broke apart and began to equip pieces to him. His armor was white with big shoulder armaments and two swords behind him.(for those who don't know, he looks like the inferno arm from ronin warriors.)
INFERNOMON
The destined ran for cover as the sky turned a demonic red as the forbidden spirit appeared before them. The earth itself ripped and broke away at his power as he stares at the deamons.
" No!" said Tai.
" It-it was him!" said a stunned takuya.
" Yes! I take it you guys felt it too!" said BW, as the boys nodded.
" What is he talking about?" asked takuya, holding Zoe.
" About a year ago, I felt a power coming from the digital universe, unlike anything I had ever felt before! It was just raw! I had always wondered where it came from! Now I know! That boy is the source of that power!" explain pikkan, with a strained look on his face.
" But it's ok. We can win now right?" asked kenta. The boys had no answer as they looked at the upcoming battle. The deamons were seemingly unsure how to fight this fiery new foe.
" If you want to feel the burn, then COME ONE!" he challenged as his power soared. Xiao fangmon answered him with his deadly gale but it seemed to dissipate at the extreme heat.
" You think a stupid breeze will stop me!? Behold my power!!"
He pulled his hand to his side and as he did, it started to glow red-hot.
RAGE OF THE INFERNO
He roared, releasing a wave of energy from his fist. The deamons jumped out of the way, but the blast obliterated the remains of the trees, screamed over the land and over the sea. The path over the water, along which the blast had traveled, was barren. All of the water was completely evaporated. The deamons and digidestined looked at the path in utter shock.
" Holy shit!" TK and Kari said at the same time. Tso lanmon levitated into the air and prepped a gravity ball. Infernomon looked up and drew both of his swords. He joined them at the hilts and leapt into the air just as the moon deamon launched his attack.
INFERNO DOUBLE SLASH
His blades glowed as he sliced the ball in two and slashed at the deamon but he barely dodged. And I mean barely, since the blade severed a few strains of hair. Shendumon flew up higher than the warrior and fired his dragon's fire, slamming him into the ground.
" Got him!" said hsi wumon as his brother returned to earth.
" The fool was no match for the deamon of fire!" he sneered at the smoking crater.
" You think that little fire can stop ME!?" he roared back to life as he emerged from the pit, and unfazed by his attack.
" I didn't want to do this but it's time to unleash the beast!"
EXECUTE SLIDE EVOLUTION
Just like that, he was surrounded by fractal code as he changed forms. Inside, when it was done, a new creature stood in his place: he resembled a white tiger with white armor all over, save his mouth, and on the sides were his swords on his sides. He let out a roar with no sign of his human side anywhere.
" What is that?!" asked beetlemon.
" That would be master Tyler's beast spirit. He found it during his training. You are now looking at the beast of the inferno, tigramon." Explained orda. The beast warrior ran full steam at tso lanmon who was scared stiff at this animal was after him. Before he could think of a counter, tigramon was on him, biting his head and clawing at his body. Hsi wumon, in an attempt to beat him off his brother, used his sky cutter on him but it barely moved him. He slowly turned at the sky deamon and let out a low growl. He jumped off him and locked on to the youngest deamon. He took to air, hoping he couldn't follow him but he didn't have to.
TIGER ROAR
He opened his mouth and let out a massive fireball. In mid-flight, it turned into the symbol of the inferno,(the same sign that forms when fire pokemon use fire blast.) and hit hsi wumon, the deamon screaming in pain as he did. Tchangzumon took to the air and fired some thunderbolt at him. Turning quickly, he some how removed his sword and caught them in his mouth. He leapt into the air above him.
SAMURAI TIGER STORM
Tigramon spun around in a cyclone, when blades of energy come out of the vortex, cutting into the thunder deamon's armor. The beast landed on the just as his opponent did.
EXECUTE SLIDE EVOLUTION
Once again, he was enveloped by the fractal code and turned back into infernomon. By now, only shendumon was left standing with xiao fangmon next to him. They both launched their attacks but infernomon fired a stream of fire into the ground and rocketed into the air. When reached his limit, his body seemed to flare up even more as he looked down at his foes.
" Now, in the name of my mother and my father, I summon my ultimate attack, PYRO HURRICANE!"
With that declaration, the flames around him swirled, like a hurricane and he dove at the earth.
" MOVE!!!!!" shendumon and max said at the same time as they rushed his own group out of the way when he impacted the earth with a fiery explosion. The heat wave knocked everyone off his or her feet and down many of the trees. When it was over, everyone looked over to see infernomon standing in a gigantic crater with flames around him. Shendumon and his brothers had taken to the air and for the first time ever, shendumon said something they thought they'd never hear him say.
" Come on. We're retreating."
" What?! But we are deamons! We don't retreat!" exclaimed tchangzumon, saying what they were thinking.
" You idiot! Don't you see?! His attacks are getting more and more intense! I don't know who he is but he is more powerful that all of us right now!"
" Even you?" asked hsi wumon but got no answer from his brother.
" The main reason we have to leave is because he is losing control. Soon, he will be all-powerful but mindless. He would destroy us all, including his friends. It's better to leave and live then to fight and die!"
With that, the deamon brothers flew off in retreat and upon the seeing, the digidestined cheered at the sight.
" Alright! Tyler sent those bastards packing!" said tike.
" You know it!" added Kumamon as they slapped hand. Infernomon had his back to the others and didn't move. Davis jumped up and ran over to the warrior.
" Man you were awesome! I can't believe that someone like you is on our side!"
" Davis! No!" shouted pikkan. Davis turned back just as infernomon turned around towards the gang. To their horror, his eyes were all red and he had an enraged look on his face.
(Plays serphiroth theme song, one wing angel.)
He screamed in rage as he blew back Davis into the arms of imperildramon.
" Davis are you ok?"
" Yeah, but damn, what is his problem?"
Just then, the mega digimon started to glow and turned back into veemon and wormmon.
" What happened you two?" asked ken.
" I don't know. We had a lot of power left." Answered veemon.
" Yeah we shouldn't have dedigivolved so soon." Added wormmon. As he did, sakuyamon glowed and did as imperildramon did and turned back into renamon and rika.
" Renamon what happened? I didn't want to turn back yet."
" Neither did I." Renamon spoke as, all around them, the digimon were dedigivolved back to their rookie and human forms.
" What's going on here?" wondered koji.
" It's Tyler. Some how, the heat he is putting out is messing the digivolving process." Said max as the boy raged around the area, the heat getting more intense.
" He's gone nuts!" said ryo.
" No. He's just angry." Said pikkan.
" Yeah. His mind is over come by rage and his power is feeding off of it." explained BW.
" No wonder shendumon and his brother ran. They knew he would snap like this!" said sam as infernomon locked eyes on them.
" Oh crap!" said kara.
" ENEMY!!" with a yell, he focused a wave of fire at them and incinerated where they stood. Above the earth, everyone who could fly was carrying everyone who couldn't.
" He-he was aiming right at us." A stunned yolei said as she hung on to hawkmon.
" Indeed. The boy has gone quite mad."
" It's not his fault! He just not himself." Said takuya, still holding Zoe.
" This is getting nuts!" said BW holding renamon and guilmon.
" I'm afraid I have to agree with him." Said orda, holding Henry, terriermon, kenta and marineangemon.
" According to my sensors, infernomon's external temperature is increasing 40 degrees every 10.7 seconds. If my calculations are correct, in ten minutes this continent will be too hot to live on. In 20 minutes, the oceans of the planet will begin to boil. In a hour, I do not think I really need to go on." explained the robot, much to everyone's grief.
" That's it! I'm sorry takuya but we have to take him out!" said sam, much to his dismay.
" Ok. Let's set down and stop him!" spoke max as they descended to the land. It was some yards away as the heat was too hot for them.
" Alright, let's do it!" tike announced as he dash forward at the warrior but before he could even get near him, he screamed in pain and fled back into the arms of Kari.
" What happened?" she asked. He whimpered as he showed her his hands, red and blistered.
" It was too hot! I didn't even get close!" he spoke.
" So then we will attack from afar." Said BW, jumping ahead and fired an energy blast but it some how fizzled out before it hit him. Undeterred, he let off wave after wave of ki attacks but they all suffered the same fate as the first.
" Damn! How is that possible?"
" Ok let's see if this will hit him!" pikkan jumped forward and launch his thunder flash attack upon him but it was deflected off him again.
" Damn, he's created a air lens."
" Care to share your thoughts?" asked Tai.
" Infernomon is creating so much heat that the air around him has become super hot. Any attack we try has to go through that and most times, when it reaches him, it will be too weak to do any real damage."
" Oh great! Now what do we do?" asked veemon.
" Hey max! What about the life bomb?" asked kara.
" Sorry it won't work. The life bomb only destroys evil. Infernomon is just enraged. Besides by the time I get enough energy for it, he'll be too powerful to stop. There must be a way to stop him." Answered max as the group watched infernomon rage on, out of control.
" I'll stop him."
The voice came from the now conscious Zoe who was getting to her feet.
" Zoe you shouldn't be up." said takuya but Zoe got out of his arms and on her own feet.
" I have to do this."
" Ok zoe. How can you stop him?" asked max.
" Let me talk to him."
" Blondie, maybe you got hit a little bit too hard cause he doesn't look like he's in a mood talk!" said rika.
" Please. I know he's out of control but if I can talk to him for a minute, I know I can get through to him."
" But what about the heat? You'll never get near him!" said JP.
" It's ok, JP. I know that Tyler would never hurt me, consciously or unconsciously."
" That's crazy! Taky, please tell your girlfriend that this is crazy!"
" No JP. I realize it now; Tyler would never hurt Zoe, no matter what. Zoe, do it."
" Ok zoe. But be careful." Max spoke as Zoe smiled and limped over to him. Maybe it was her spirit or maybe she was too hurt to feel it but it seemed as if the intense heat wasn't affecting her.
" See? I told you Tyler would never hurt Zoe."
" You better be right cause if something happens to Zoe, I'm holding you reasonable!" warned JP.
" Tyler. Tyler, what are you doing?" she asked, holding her arm as the warrior turned around to face her. He growled at her, as if he didn't know her.
" Tyler please stop this!"
" Enemy......"
" No they are gone now. It's just us, your friends."
She stopped just short of him and reached out to his face. Everyone gasped at her action but she was sure of what she was doing. He jumped back a little but her hand found the side of his face.
" Tyler, I'm speaking to Tyler, not infernomon. Tyler you have to stop this."
" But they hurt you......"
" And they will get theirs but you are attacking us. You have to stop this." She gently told him, placing her other hand on his face.
" Tyler, please come back to the Tyler I know: the sweet, innocent boy I took care of, and that I love."
His eyes shook a little while he looked her in the eye with uncertainty. Just then, he began flash back to memories: of zoe and takuya finding him and orda, to zoe holding him for the first time, to zoe bathing him, to her feeding him and sleeping with him. It all came back to him and finally his eyes return to normal. Without another word, he turned back into Tyler and his fire vanished with it. Seemingly like waking up from a nightmare, he looked around at the destruction.
" What happened?" he thought out loud. He looked to Zoe for an answer but she couldn't give him one. Then he remembered; the deamons, Zoe getting hit and him spirit evolving.
" Oh no." he said, stunned that it was he who did. He stared at his hand, then to Zoe, then to the others and back to his hands. He then fell to his knees and began to weep.
" What have I done?!" he sobbed when Zoe grabbed hold of him and pulled him into a loving hug.
" It's alright now. I'm here."
" Master Tyler, you must eat something." Orda said, holding a plate of hot food over his small body. It was now late at night at the watch point and Tyler, still reeling from his fit earlier. Orda tried, in vain, to get him to eat but all he seemed to do is stare off into the night sky. Sighing, the robot walked back into the building and in the dining area where everyone else was.
" So how is he?" asked Zoe as takuya bandaged her up.
" Master Tyler still refuses to eat." Orda answered as he placed the food on the table, which was picked up by tike.
" Tike, mind your manners!" scolded Kari.
" He's not gonna eat it!" he explained.
" Don't Bogart that plate!" kara yelled as the two wrestled over it.
" He's been like that all day. Isn't there anything we can do?" asked jeri.
" He is in conflict with himself. He must figure this out himself." Said leomon.
" But I've been wondering, just where did he find that spirit?" asked Henry.
" That's just it, he didn't." answered koji.
" As far as we know, Tyler was born with that spirit. Ever since we found him last year, he hasn't had a good life. His parents were killed by a digimon conqueror name piccaromon. He chased him to our world and we took him in." takuya explained.
" Piccaromon wanted him dead, even though he was just a baby." Tommy said, to the surprise of everyone, save max.
" He was a baby a year ago?! No way!" said matt.
" Tell me about it. One minute, he's peeing in my face." Said JP.
" So now what?" asked Mimi.
" We could just sick him on the deamons. He's powerful enough." Suggested ryo, which got him a death glare from Zoe.
" Idiot! Power means nothing if there was no skill behind. It's like giving a baby a gun." Said BW.
" Pity. If he only he could harness that power, he would be a force to be reckoned with." Pikkan stated when a smiled secretly snuck on max's face. He simply got up and started to walk out of the room.
" Max what's up?" asked sam.
" Nothing. Just going for a little walk. You guys get some sleep." He replied and left the gang to their talk. He casually walked the halls and out into the open air. He saw Tyler sitting on the edge and walked behind him.
" Nice view huh?" he spoke. Tyler merely turned around and look up at him.
" I would offer look up at the night sky when I'm troubled. Care to talk?"
" I appreciate your offer but talk can't help Me." he said as he stood up.
" I almost killed those I care about. Zoe is like a mother to me and I nearly killed her. I can never look her in the face again. I don't belong here, with you or them. You are all great warriors and I don't deserve to be with any of you."
" So you are just gonna leave? Without a word?"
" Yes. It's better this way." He said sadly, and began to walk away.
" Tyler. I can't change your mind but I have an offer to ask of you first. Could you do it?"
" Of course." He replied turning to face him.
" Hit me."
" WHAT?!" he exclaimed. It was a shock to him, for the strongest warrior he'd ever met to hit him.
" Hit me as hard as you can."
" But why?"
" Don't ask questions! I asked if you could do it and you said yes! Now hit me!"
" But I can't hit you!"
" I see. Then I will have to force you!" he said before dashing forward and punched him in the face. Tyler staggered back a few steps to max's surprise.
Amazing! A blow like that could floor pikkan but he's still standing!
" Why are you doing this?" he asked holding his cheek.
" I thought you might be worth something but I guess I was wrong. No wonder Zoe and takuya are ashamed of you. I would be too if I was the parent of a failure."
This struck a cord with the young man, as the thought of his parent considering him a failure was something he could barely wrap his mind around. Suddenly, a fire was lit in him as he went from not wanting to fight to wanting to rip max's throat out.
" I'm not a failure. I'm not a failure! I am not! I know my mother loves me and I will prove that I am not something be ashamed of!" he roared.
" So what are you gonna do?"
" You want me to punch you?! Then get ready for my fists of fire!"
" Oooooooh weeeeeeee! That's what I'm talking about! Come on sucka! Let's get it on!"
NEXT TIME: it's the fight no one thought would happened: max vs. Tyler! In a fight that with rock the watch point! And shendumon makes an offer that changes the battle for the digi-verse.
FIRES OF CHANGE
MA: hey everyone! The party is still going on and everyone is heading out side to see the race between pikkan and marik.
Max: not everyone.
(Points under mistletoe, where serenity and Tyler are kissing.)
Keke: how cute!
Max: let's leave those two alone. We got a race to get to.
(Leaves and see everyone out side and pikkan and marik revving their bikes.)
P: you ready to ride punk?
Marik: let's do it!
Celesta: excuse me. Can you tell me where I can find coral?
Max: who are you?
C: I'm celesta, another one of ssj4t's OC.
Max: ok. She's making out over there with that dude Vega.
C: coral what the hell are you doing? What would your boyfriend say?
Coral: don't worry. It's just a fling.
Vega: yeah. I got one too. I'm just having a fling.
Max: damn dude.
MA: just don't let your girl find out.
MA's corner
MA: ok. We got a question for takuya coming from Joseph d. hale. He asks what would you turn into if you went ascendant while as agunnimon?
Takuya: I honestly haven't given it much thought on it. Well I guess I might turn into takunnimon or something like that. I would like to try but not right now.
Ma: thanks. Here's one for max from yami chaoswolf. He asks, would you want to fight his OC, chaoswolf?
Max: well I've read his stats and I must say, he sounds like someone I would want to battle. If he wants to go a few rounds, come on with it.
MA: our next two questions come from d3 fan number one, ssj4t; will max fight the warlord in the future?
Max: don't get me wrong, I would beat him like a bitch and send him up the devil's ass but he's no challenge now. If he works out for a few years, he might handle me for about ten seconds!
Ma: the second question is for me: will I keep writing after the deamon saga? Maybe. I have some ideas for other shows like teen titans but I might.
LATER FICCERS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!