Part 3:
Sora slowly opened her eyes. She saw that she was chained against a wall with numerous mechanical hands a few feet from her. She was in some sort of examining room, with Seiji standing over her. He was wearing full armor, the only part of him showing was his smiling mouth. "Good morning, Ms. Takenouchi!" he said.
"What do you want with me?" Sora managed to say.
"I want to test your powers," he gloated, walking to a control consle,"I know that you have telepathic powers from the Crest of Love, let's see how developed those powers are, hm?"
He pushed a button and instantly the hands became alive, pawing and prodding at her body. Pulling her skin and poking her sensitive areas. "Use your powers to stop them!" he said.
"I...I can't!" Sora thought with a wave of horror. "He's done something to my powers!"
"Can't? Oh, thats so sad! Why don't you scream? Scream, and I'll end it all!"
Sora shut her mouth. "I won't scream! I won't!"
Seiji watched the torture for a bit longer, before pulling the mechanical hands away. "Why are you doing this to me?" Sora chocked.
Seiji smiled. "Ironic, isn't it, that I was about to ask you the same question!"
"Seiji?" Akira shouted.
Akira, Matt, T.K. and their Digimon were the only ones in Digi-Force headquarters, everyone else was in the Digiworld at Geni's house. They were communicating between video screens. The one Akira was looking at, showed the interior of Geni's house, with the Digidestined and the rest of Digi-Force.
Daisuke nodded. "That is correct."
"What do you know about him?" Matt asked, turning to Akira.
Akira paused for a moment. Then he turned to Mechmon. "Show them," he said.
A cylinder emerged from the top of the mechanical Digimon's back. A beam of light shot from it, creating a hologram of Seiji.
"Seiji, "Mechmon said," Real name, unknown, Age: most likely 18, Status: Self-proclaimed anarchist and for mentor of political dissent. Seji and his Digimon, Spacemon, have participated in acts of aggression against both the controlling rulers, the Controllers know as the Cannamons, as well as the rebellion know as the Chosenmon.
December, 25, 3020, the Cannamons defeated the remans of the Mao-Sino Province Alliance, thereby gaining control of global forces. Seji then disappeared."
The hologram shut off and Akira turned to face everyone."I was the leader of the Chosenmon who sought to over the Cannamon rule, with Apocalymon as their leader. When my girlfriend died in my arms, when the Cannamons defeated the Mao-Sino Province Alliance, I knew I had to undo the future, so I came back in time to destroy Apocalymon. Seiji obviously followed me for the same reason, to undo the future, but why would he shoot Geni?"
"We don't know," Izzy said," but to find a cure for the Dark Network Virus that's slowly killing him, we need to find Seiji!"
"One more thing," Akira said,"The last time I fought him, I discovered something about the man inside the armor."
"That was?" Gabumon asked.
"That under his helmet, Seiji and I have the same face, but we're not twins!"
"Then he is a duplicate of you?" T.K. asked.
"Or Akira of him," Matt said," but that doesn't matter now. Right now we have to find him or Geni dies! On top of that, Tai and Sora are missing also, we have our necks in trouble!"
Deep in the Digiworld, Apocalymon rubbed his chin in thought. In an effort to understand why the Dark Masters captured Tai and Sora, he was watching the footage of Metalseadramon's and Puppetmon's battle with Megakabuterimon and Akira's Digimon. Apocalymon was intrigued when Mechmon digivolved to Technomon.
"Odd," he said, watching Mechmon digivolve over and over again,"The Digidestined's Digimon have to digivolve using special armor, yet Mechmon didn't! He digivolved using crest and digivice technology! Only a Digidestined with a crest would be able to have his or her Digimon digivolve that way, and that would have to be someone from the original Digidestined, now Digi-Force, Tai, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, Joe, or Matt! Who is Akira, and how did his Digimon digivolve that way?"
Apocalymon continued the footage, then he told the computer to stop when Akira's crest was shown. "Enlarge," he told it.
The crest was zoomed in. "I have never seen a symbol like that before! Its a sun with a heart in the middle? What does it mean?"
He suddenly heard a noise from behind him. Turning around he came face to face with Spacemon. "What is this?" he demanded,"How did you get in my base? How did you get past my defensive?"
"I am aware of how to disable them!" a voice said from behind Spacemon.
"Who are you?" Apocalymon demanded.
"My name is Seiji," he said, walking into view," And it is time to die!"
"I don't know what you want, but if you want to fight, I'll be glad to honor that wish!"
Spacemon walked over to him.
"You must be a Digidestined!" Apocalymon said," But I've never heard of you! Did Tai Kamiya hid you, or are you just a newbie?"
Seiji smiled. "If you wait around long enough, you can ask him yourself, because you see, I've captured Tai and Sora, and soon you will be joining them!"
Apocalymon stared at Spacemon. "This...this puny Digimon defeated the Digidestined's strongest Digimon? How could Wargreymon have fallen so easily? To think, I used to respect both him and Tai!"
"That is another story!"
"It doesn't matter! You will not defeat me! I am the strongest Mega Digimon in existence!"
"Oh, "Seji said,"But you see, Spacemon is also a Mega, and, I do hate to brag, but, he's quite strong!"
Spacemon pulled his fist back and nailed Apocalymon, sending him flying into the far wall.
"Infinity Cannon!" he yelled, attacking Spacemon, but he just shrugged it off.
"I'm still too week from by rejuvenation," Apocalymon said, falling to the ground.
"The time has come, the devil to come must pay homage to the devil who made him! Pay me Master of the Time-Stream and let you death be the coin of exchange!"
"I owe you nothing, I don't eve know you!"
"Liar!" Seiji yelled as Spacemon threw Apocalymon into the wall.
"You owe me for everything thats gone wrong in my life!" he continued as Spacemon continued to attacking Apocalymon," You owe two worlds for the wrongs you have visited upon it! Millions cry in agony every day! But that screaming is like unto silence when compared to the lonely cries of an abandoned child. How long has it been since you cried a babe's tears of need? How long has it been since you longed for the gentle warmth of a mother's touch Do you want to know how long it has been for me? It has been forever! A forever brought on by you, Son of pain, Father of the Morning Fire!"
Spacemon dropped his fists as a bleeding Apocalymon crawled to a circle on the floor. "Trying to reach your teleportaion matrix?" Seiji asked,"Where can you flee?"
"To safety," he whispered as he fell on the circle and disappeared.
"No!" Seiji cried," Could he still live? No, he has no where to go. Dead in time."
The door opened and Dark Tyranamon, Phantomon, Scorpiomon, Mekanorimons, and Garbegmons walked in. "Who are you?" Phantomon asked.
"Ah, "Seiji asked,"You follow the first among Digimon, don't you? Who has bested Apocalymon?"
"You have," Phantomon asked as they bowed before him.
"You do you follow?"
"We follow you."
Seiji smilied.
Deep in Seiji's base, a cell door flew open and Tai and Agumon ran out. "Great!" Tai said to him,"Digivolve!"
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!"
Tai followed Greymon as they ran into a dark corridor. "What's Seji trying to do to us?" Tai asked,"We have to find Sora and Biyomon!"
They heard a noise in the darkness and Greymon blasted it. "Great job!" Tai said,"What's going on? Now the lights come on?"
Tai looked over to see what Greymon asked. He felt a wave of horror when he discovered who.
"Sora!"
The Digidestined were seated in Geni's house, waiting for Izzy and Joe's update on his condition when there was a giant explosion from outside. "What was that?" Mimi asked.
"Whatever it was, I bet it took out the big-screen t.v.!" Gomamon joked.
"Who'd be foolish enough to attack us in the strongest base in the Digiworld?" Daisuke asked as they ran outside to see a smoldering crater.
"Fortunately for all of us, Daisuke Motomiya," the voice mumbled," the one who is here is neither fool nor aggressor."
"You?!" Gomamon yelled, digivolving to Ikkakumon.
"Yes, me, Apocalymon," he said, climbing out of the crater," and it is good to see that old foes are waiting to strike!"
"You're right! Harpoon Torpedo!"
Apocalymon raised his hand and took each blast, but even in his weaken state, he shrugged them off. "You do not understand, I did not come here to fight you. I came to help end this game, and that means defeating the one who hurt us all, we must battle Seiji together!"
to be continued....
Sora slowly opened her eyes. She saw that she was chained against a wall with numerous mechanical hands a few feet from her. She was in some sort of examining room, with Seiji standing over her. He was wearing full armor, the only part of him showing was his smiling mouth. "Good morning, Ms. Takenouchi!" he said.
"What do you want with me?" Sora managed to say.
"I want to test your powers," he gloated, walking to a control consle,"I know that you have telepathic powers from the Crest of Love, let's see how developed those powers are, hm?"
He pushed a button and instantly the hands became alive, pawing and prodding at her body. Pulling her skin and poking her sensitive areas. "Use your powers to stop them!" he said.
"I...I can't!" Sora thought with a wave of horror. "He's done something to my powers!"
"Can't? Oh, thats so sad! Why don't you scream? Scream, and I'll end it all!"
Sora shut her mouth. "I won't scream! I won't!"
Seiji watched the torture for a bit longer, before pulling the mechanical hands away. "Why are you doing this to me?" Sora chocked.
Seiji smiled. "Ironic, isn't it, that I was about to ask you the same question!"
"Seiji?" Akira shouted.
Akira, Matt, T.K. and their Digimon were the only ones in Digi-Force headquarters, everyone else was in the Digiworld at Geni's house. They were communicating between video screens. The one Akira was looking at, showed the interior of Geni's house, with the Digidestined and the rest of Digi-Force.
Daisuke nodded. "That is correct."
"What do you know about him?" Matt asked, turning to Akira.
Akira paused for a moment. Then he turned to Mechmon. "Show them," he said.
A cylinder emerged from the top of the mechanical Digimon's back. A beam of light shot from it, creating a hologram of Seiji.
"Seiji, "Mechmon said," Real name, unknown, Age: most likely 18, Status: Self-proclaimed anarchist and for mentor of political dissent. Seji and his Digimon, Spacemon, have participated in acts of aggression against both the controlling rulers, the Controllers know as the Cannamons, as well as the rebellion know as the Chosenmon.
December, 25, 3020, the Cannamons defeated the remans of the Mao-Sino Province Alliance, thereby gaining control of global forces. Seji then disappeared."
The hologram shut off and Akira turned to face everyone."I was the leader of the Chosenmon who sought to over the Cannamon rule, with Apocalymon as their leader. When my girlfriend died in my arms, when the Cannamons defeated the Mao-Sino Province Alliance, I knew I had to undo the future, so I came back in time to destroy Apocalymon. Seiji obviously followed me for the same reason, to undo the future, but why would he shoot Geni?"
"We don't know," Izzy said," but to find a cure for the Dark Network Virus that's slowly killing him, we need to find Seiji!"
"One more thing," Akira said,"The last time I fought him, I discovered something about the man inside the armor."
"That was?" Gabumon asked.
"That under his helmet, Seiji and I have the same face, but we're not twins!"
"Then he is a duplicate of you?" T.K. asked.
"Or Akira of him," Matt said," but that doesn't matter now. Right now we have to find him or Geni dies! On top of that, Tai and Sora are missing also, we have our necks in trouble!"
Deep in the Digiworld, Apocalymon rubbed his chin in thought. In an effort to understand why the Dark Masters captured Tai and Sora, he was watching the footage of Metalseadramon's and Puppetmon's battle with Megakabuterimon and Akira's Digimon. Apocalymon was intrigued when Mechmon digivolved to Technomon.
"Odd," he said, watching Mechmon digivolve over and over again,"The Digidestined's Digimon have to digivolve using special armor, yet Mechmon didn't! He digivolved using crest and digivice technology! Only a Digidestined with a crest would be able to have his or her Digimon digivolve that way, and that would have to be someone from the original Digidestined, now Digi-Force, Tai, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, Joe, or Matt! Who is Akira, and how did his Digimon digivolve that way?"
Apocalymon continued the footage, then he told the computer to stop when Akira's crest was shown. "Enlarge," he told it.
The crest was zoomed in. "I have never seen a symbol like that before! Its a sun with a heart in the middle? What does it mean?"
He suddenly heard a noise from behind him. Turning around he came face to face with Spacemon. "What is this?" he demanded,"How did you get in my base? How did you get past my defensive?"
"I am aware of how to disable them!" a voice said from behind Spacemon.
"Who are you?" Apocalymon demanded.
"My name is Seiji," he said, walking into view," And it is time to die!"
"I don't know what you want, but if you want to fight, I'll be glad to honor that wish!"
Spacemon walked over to him.
"You must be a Digidestined!" Apocalymon said," But I've never heard of you! Did Tai Kamiya hid you, or are you just a newbie?"
Seiji smiled. "If you wait around long enough, you can ask him yourself, because you see, I've captured Tai and Sora, and soon you will be joining them!"
Apocalymon stared at Spacemon. "This...this puny Digimon defeated the Digidestined's strongest Digimon? How could Wargreymon have fallen so easily? To think, I used to respect both him and Tai!"
"That is another story!"
"It doesn't matter! You will not defeat me! I am the strongest Mega Digimon in existence!"
"Oh, "Seji said,"But you see, Spacemon is also a Mega, and, I do hate to brag, but, he's quite strong!"
Spacemon pulled his fist back and nailed Apocalymon, sending him flying into the far wall.
"Infinity Cannon!" he yelled, attacking Spacemon, but he just shrugged it off.
"I'm still too week from by rejuvenation," Apocalymon said, falling to the ground.
"The time has come, the devil to come must pay homage to the devil who made him! Pay me Master of the Time-Stream and let you death be the coin of exchange!"
"I owe you nothing, I don't eve know you!"
"Liar!" Seiji yelled as Spacemon threw Apocalymon into the wall.
"You owe me for everything thats gone wrong in my life!" he continued as Spacemon continued to attacking Apocalymon," You owe two worlds for the wrongs you have visited upon it! Millions cry in agony every day! But that screaming is like unto silence when compared to the lonely cries of an abandoned child. How long has it been since you cried a babe's tears of need? How long has it been since you longed for the gentle warmth of a mother's touch Do you want to know how long it has been for me? It has been forever! A forever brought on by you, Son of pain, Father of the Morning Fire!"
Spacemon dropped his fists as a bleeding Apocalymon crawled to a circle on the floor. "Trying to reach your teleportaion matrix?" Seiji asked,"Where can you flee?"
"To safety," he whispered as he fell on the circle and disappeared.
"No!" Seiji cried," Could he still live? No, he has no where to go. Dead in time."
The door opened and Dark Tyranamon, Phantomon, Scorpiomon, Mekanorimons, and Garbegmons walked in. "Who are you?" Phantomon asked.
"Ah, "Seiji asked,"You follow the first among Digimon, don't you? Who has bested Apocalymon?"
"You have," Phantomon asked as they bowed before him.
"You do you follow?"
"We follow you."
Seiji smilied.
Deep in Seiji's base, a cell door flew open and Tai and Agumon ran out. "Great!" Tai said to him,"Digivolve!"
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!"
Tai followed Greymon as they ran into a dark corridor. "What's Seji trying to do to us?" Tai asked,"We have to find Sora and Biyomon!"
They heard a noise in the darkness and Greymon blasted it. "Great job!" Tai said,"What's going on? Now the lights come on?"
Tai looked over to see what Greymon asked. He felt a wave of horror when he discovered who.
"Sora!"
The Digidestined were seated in Geni's house, waiting for Izzy and Joe's update on his condition when there was a giant explosion from outside. "What was that?" Mimi asked.
"Whatever it was, I bet it took out the big-screen t.v.!" Gomamon joked.
"Who'd be foolish enough to attack us in the strongest base in the Digiworld?" Daisuke asked as they ran outside to see a smoldering crater.
"Fortunately for all of us, Daisuke Motomiya," the voice mumbled," the one who is here is neither fool nor aggressor."
"You?!" Gomamon yelled, digivolving to Ikkakumon.
"Yes, me, Apocalymon," he said, climbing out of the crater," and it is good to see that old foes are waiting to strike!"
"You're right! Harpoon Torpedo!"
Apocalymon raised his hand and took each blast, but even in his weaken state, he shrugged them off. "You do not understand, I did not come here to fight you. I came to help end this game, and that means defeating the one who hurt us all, we must battle Seiji together!"
to be continued....