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New Threats--Part XII
Creed was feeling quite anxious indeed. He was sure the children that opposed him knew why he wanted them dead by now and were at this instant planning on how to defeat him.
For quite some time he had been at a loss of what to do and it took every nerve he possessed to refrain from losing his wits completely.
But he was a villain, cold and true and he wasn't about to allow a band of eight children to stop him.
"Cin!" he called.
The psychic woman teleported into the room and stood awaiting instruction.
Creed took a deep breath and stated: "those children must be found immediately. Under no circumstances are you to return here without them. As soon as you find them I want you to bring them here and destroy them with Ruki and Mazu."
Cin nodded and disappeared from the room instantaneously…
~*~
Halfway across town the former Digidestined were resting in the abandoned building, saving every bit of energy they could possibly muster for the fight that would be happening later on that night.
Every detail was planned, every action rehearsed. It would all be set into motion in an hour's time.
Kari sat against a wall, knees hugged to her chest thinking of everything that had happened. She hated to cause pain to anything, but Creed had to be stopped.
"Scared?" TK queried, sitting down beside her.
"Not too much," Kari replied. "More nervous than anything I guess."
TK nodded and answered: "me too."
The two sat in silence for a moment until something happened that all eight of them had been hoping wouldn't: Cin appeared in the room with them.
Before a word of warning could escape either TK or Kari's mouths Cin had cried: "so here you are!"
All chaos erupted in the small room. At the exact same moment the eight children that had been occupying the room leapt to their feet and raced for the door.
"Do you think you'll get away from me that easily?" Cin inquired as she appeared directly in front of the door. "Not happening."
Her eyes traveled around the group of children in front of her. She was surprised to see TK up and around again, but quickly masked the surprise with a sneer.
It was at that moment that TK remembered he was able to teleport everyone out of the room. He quickly concentrated on anywhere but the place they were in at the present and then the walls disappeared along with the floor and ceiling.
Cin shrieked in rage and disappointment as she watched her eight prisoners disappear right before her eyes.
But the place they ended up was the last place they had wanted to be: Creed's room.
Creed was extremely surprised to see his foe suddenly appear in his room, but he quietly stated: "so now. This is it."
And he stood facing them, staring them down.
It took a moment for realization to dawn on the former Digidestined, but they all knew that it was down to the wire. There would be a fight and it was for everything in the world.
They stayed poised for a few horrible seconds, the silence piercing through the room. Then the door opened and in stepped Ruki.
She walked to Creed's side calmly with no hesitations whatsoever. The fighting erupted in one instant.
Ruki raced for Joe faster than he could possibly move out of the way, but Matt was ready, moving even faster than Ruki and he pushed Joe out of the way just in time. Ruki was immediately swiping at Matt, but she was unable to hit him as he was moving so fast he was little more than a blur.
Mimi and Izzy both moved to the side as they had planned earlier. Izzy picked up every single thing he could find on the floor and started changing the objects into weapons while Mimi watched the battle taking place thirty seconds into the future.
Joe was going after Ruki as well, the electricity coursing from his fingers at the agile catlike lady.
Sora, Kari, Tai and TK all attacked Creed, Tai with his re-formed wings glowing brightly, Sora with her icy beams, Kari with her rainbow beams and TK with his psychic powers.
But even though he was outnumbered, Creed seemed to be getting the upper hand dodging their attacks and even managing to interject some blows of his own here and there.
After nearly ten minutes of fighting, everybody was tiring, save Ruki and Creed. They seemed to be even more charged and ready to go than before.
Mimi suddenly gasped and cried out: "hurry! Mazu and Cin are coming! They'll be here any second!"
Izzy stopped making the weapons and casually picked one of them up. It looked like a tiny squirt gun.
Creed saw this and burst out laughing.
"What are you going to do? Squirt me to death?" he sneered. "Go ahead. Take your best shot."
Izzy wryly smiled and pulled the trigger on the "squirt gun." It let out a high-pitched whine and then a silver jet of sparks erupted from the barrel, smashing into Creed and knocking him against the wall.
"What was that, Izzy?" Sora questioned.
"It's a device that will freeze him in place for ten seconds," Izzy explained. "If we're going to do this, we'd better do it now."
"No!" Ruki cried. "You will not ruin all my master has worked for!"
Cin and Mazu appeared in the room, both having traveled via teleportation.
"Stop them!" Ruki shrieked.
But they were too late. In an unspoken agreement Tai, Sora, TK and Kari all hit Creed with everything they had.
And Creed was destroyed.
At the point where the attacks had hit Creed, the air shimmered and suddenly became an empty hole. Ruki, Cin and Mazu, surprised by this were sucked in. And then it stopped and the eight children were left standing in the room with no sign of their now defeated foe save for the thousands of computer monitors.
"So that's it?" Joe wonderingly queried. "It's over?"
Mimi's eyes glazed over for a moment before she nodded and said: "yeah. I looked into the future five years from now. Everything's back to normal."
"But what about Cin, Ruki and Mazu?" Izzy questioned. "They could still be alive."
Again Mimi looked into the future before replying: "they did survive. But you'll never believe this. They're in prison."
"But couldn't Cin just--" Matt trailed off.
Izzy shook his head and answered: "I think they'll be staying there if they know what's good for them. There are going to be a LOT of people that aren't going to be too happy with them…"
~*~
Hours later, a worldwide broadcast was made of Creed's defeat. All over the world people removed the masks and burned them along with all the black robes. Weeks later, Mazu was found and thrown into prison along with Ruki. Cin was found one year later attempting to murder Jim after finding out he had been a spy. She was caught and thrown into prison and remains there to this day.
As for the eight children who saved Earth and their families; the story of how they overcame Creed and his world conquest is passed down from generation to generation…
THE END
(A/N: shall be getting another ficcy out sometime in the near future. Thanks for reading and write on!)