Part 8:
Matt gritted his teeth in an attempt to keep from screaming as bolts of electricity were shot through his body. His body spasmed against the wall his was chained to. "I am impressed," Machinedramon said,"But you are only flesh and blood. If I increase the voltage, you will die."
"Then....I...will...gladly.....die," he managed to say, "I....would....never....serve....you."
Machinedramon growled. There was a beeping noise from the control console. He shut the voltage off and walked over to the screen. "Machinedramon here."
"My Lord Machinedramon, "Datamon said over the speaker,"The Digital Warriors have crossed the prison property lines. You orders?"
"Is that new weapon you created ready for use."
"Yes, my lord."
"Lead the attack, Datamon, and destroy them!"
"Hail the Dark Masters."
"I'm exhausted!" Yolei whinned,"Why can't we ride our Digimon? I'm sure my feet wouldn't hurt as much if I was ridding Aquilamon!"
"For the hundredth time," T.K. said,"This desert doesn't have any cover for a large bird. We need to move in secretly."
"But its so hot!" she complained.
"Yolei," Sora said, getting very annoyed,"Stop whining! How did you ever make it as a Digital Warrior? Even Mimi hasn't said anything yet."
"Very funny," Mimi said.
"Its easy for you," Yolei said, whipping her head,"Your hair isn't as long as mine. It feels like I'm wearing a mop on my head."
"Why, oh why did I ever die my hair pink," Mimi said,"Its such a dark color."
Michael huffed and whipped his forehead with a washcloth. Then he rung it out, making a large circle of mud in the sand.
"I don't think Michael and Betamon can take much more," Yolei whispered to T.K.,"They're both used to water, its so dry out here."
"I know," T.K. replied,"And they'd never say anything."
Ken overhead Yolei's comment and snorted. "Yeah," he said, to himself,"Let's all worry about Michael."
"I think you're jealous," Willace said.
"I am not," Ken said,"Why should I be worried? Just because Michael saved Yolei, doesn't mean they feel anything for each other, right?"
Willace was about to answer, when the ground started shaking. "What's going on?" Leomon asked.
"Sensors indicate objects moving beneath the surface," Andromon said, "Emerging....now!"
Several large black cables jumped from underneath the sand and began to wrap around the Digital Warriors.
"We're....caught!" T.K. said, struggling to get free.
The Digital Warriors were all wrapped tightly in a mess of black cables, trying to get free. Then, an object floated up from the sand. "Welcome to my parlor, said the spider, to the fly!"
"Datamon," Ken said, struggling to get free,"What are you doing out here, in the middle of the desert?"
"Why, I think it would be obvious to the Dark Master of Cruelty!" Datamon said, hovering towards them.
"That's former Dark Master," he said,"But, tell me something, has the Bishop Yagami turned traitor?"
"Yes," Datamon said,"That is correct. It appears that she had amnesia the whole time, and only Kido, Piedmon, and Motomiya knew, but, that doesn't matter."
"Are you going to kill us?" Wizardmon asked.
"Eventually," Datamon said, holding up a weird looking gun,"but first, I want to tell out my new device. Who shall go first...ah! I know."
He moved the gun until it was over Yolei,"You will be first."
He pressed the barrel right against her head. She closed her eyes, that's when she heard someone yell out,"Fire Rocket!"
The cables in front of her melted away and she fell to the ground, missing a blast of pink smoke from the gun. The fog dropped to the ground and dissolved a small area of the sand.
"Ahh!" she said when she saw this.
The rest of the black cables melted away, freeing the Digital Warriors. "What's going on?" T.K. asked, turning towards where the fire blasts came from. There was a large blue dragon man wearing orange armor, a boy to his left, and a girl in the back.
"Flamedramon?!" Datamon asked,"Not only do you leave, but now you openly attack us?"
"Right!" Davis said, as he and his Digimon ran towards them.
"I'm leaving," Datamon said,"But, I'm taking one of them with me!"
He waved his hand and another set of black cables emerged from the ground and wrapped around Yolei and Hawkmon, and started pulling them into the ground.
"Yolei!" Sora yelled, getting to her feet and running towards them.
"Oh no you don't," Datamon said, firing the gun at Sora. A blast of pink smoke emerged and Sora couldn't help but breath it in. She coughed for a bit, then fell to the ground.
"Now," Datamon said, emerging back into the ground,"Let's see what keeps the holder of the Crest of Couarge awake at night!"
Sora shook her head and the smoke dissipated. She ran over to where Yolei's hand was still visible, being pulled in by the second. She went to grab it, when she saw something she thought she would never see again."Tai...?"
The image standing in front of her was Tai, there was no doubt. "Tai?" she asked, confused.
"Sora," he said,"I'm very disappointed in you."
"W-What?" she asked falling to the ground.
His face was stern and cold,"You've let me down. I trusted you to watch after Kari, and you failed."
"B-but Tai," she said,"I..I.."
"I hate you!" he said, starting to vanish,"I can't stand you, and I never could!"
"Sora!" Agumon shouted,"Sora, what is it?"
"Tai," she said,"He-he told me that....no..NO! It had to be a trick! That's it, Datamon made a trick to keep me from rescuing Yolei."
Then the reality of the situation hit her. She began to dig frantically in the sand,"Yolei, Yolei!"
"Sora," Agumon said, placing his hand on her back,"Sora...SORA! They're gone. I'm sorry."
She gave up and looked at her hands,"I was so sacred...I...I couldn't move. Its all my fault that Yolei's gone. Its all my fault!"
Yolei opened her eyes and saw that she was in a weird room. It reminded her of Izzy's lab. She was strapped to a table and Hawkmon was strapped to the wall. "What's going on?"
"Ahh, you are awake," a voice said.
She turned to the sound and saw Datamon floating near a large computer. "What are you going to do to me?" she asked.
"To you?" Datamon asked,"Nothing. To your Digimon..."
"What are you going to do to Hawkmon?" she asked.
"Hawkmon can digivolve to Aquilamon, then, in order to reach the Ultimate Level, he must Jogress Digivolve with an Gatomon. I am going to try and see if he can do it without an Gatomon."
"You mean..normal Digivolve?" Hawkmon asked.
"Yes," Datamon said, turning back to the computer,"Should this procedure become terminal, you have my condolences."
"What?!"
"K-K-Kari?" Sora studdered, looking at the girl in front of her,"Is that really you?"
"Yeah," she said, kneeling in front of her friend,"Its me. I-I'm sorry for everything that I did while I was the Bishop Yagami. I-I had no idea who I was, and the Dark Masters convinced me that I was evil. I'm sorry."
Sora just looked at her and started crying. She reached over and hugged him.
"So," Ken said, turning to Davis.
"Huh!" he said,"Lord Ken." He bowed in front of him.
Ken smiled. "Get up, Davis. I'm not the Dark Master of Cruelty anymore."
"Right," he said, standing up,"I..lost myself for a moment."
"Why are you here?" T.K. asked.
"I came to deliver Kari to the Digital Warriors," he said, defensively.
"And now what are you going to do?" Willace asked.
"He's going to join us," Sora said,"Same as Kari."
"Sora," T.K. said,"Listen, I know how you feel about the two of them, but, he was in charge of the Digital Army, and she was a Dark Master! I don't know if we can trust them."
"I don't know," Ken said,"I was a Dark Master, and you trusted me."
T.K. sighed deeply,"After we rescue my brother, we'll let him decided."
"How are we going to do that anyway?" Wizardmon asked.
"Don't forget about Yolei," Michael said.
T.K. smiled at his friend,"No, of course not. Izzy, I know you can hack into the Dark Masters's host computer, can you see if you can get me some information?"
"Like what?" Izzy asked, taking out his laptop.
"I want to know the schematics of this pyramid, the soldier placement and schedules, and the rooms where Yolei and Matt are kept."
"I'll try," Izzy said,"But give me a few minutes."
Everyone nodded and took it as a time to relax before a major battle. "Sora?" Kari asked, turning to her friend, who still hadn't got up from where she was sitting in the sand,"What's wrong? Is it me?"
"No," she said,"No, of course not, its just..well, when I was going to save Yolei, Datamon hit me with some kind of fear ray, that made me see my worst fear."
Kari sat down next to her and placed her hand on Sora's back,"If you don't mind me prying.."
"It was your brother," Sora said,"And he told me that I was a major disappointment to him, and that he hated me."
"That's your worst fear?" Kari asked.
"Yes,"Sora said, holding the Crest of Courage in her hand,"What a joke, huh? The holder of the Crest of Courage, afraid of a ghost. I can't help thinking that...he's right. That he is disappointed in me."
"Sora," Kari said,"My brother is NOT disappointed in you. In fact, I know he's very proud of you. He thought very highly of you, you were his best friend. Maybe, in a different world, you two could have been more."
Sora smiled, as she put the crest away. "Thank you Kari. I needed to hear that."
"No problem, Big Sister," Kari said.
Davis smiled as he watched the two of them hug each other. He turned around and was going to walk away, and take some time for himself, when Ken stopped him.
"Davis," he said,"So, you knew all along that the Bishop Yagami was really Kari Kamiya?"
"No," Davis said,"I had an idea, but, no, I didn't know it was her until she told me. She had me trapped, so I had to get her to remember."
Ken turned and looked at Sora and Kari,"I'm glad you did though. Sora's always been cold, moody, and way too serious, but in the past couple of weeks, she's been worse than ever. Maybe Kari can get her to open up a little more."
"I hear she's taken Taichi Kamiya's name for herself?" Davis asked.
Ken nodded. "She must have really loved him to take his name for herself."
They both nodded and stared out into the desert. "Did you know him?" Davis asked,"I mean, before you became a Dark Master?"
Ken shook his head. "No, I never had the pleasure. I wish I could have though. After Kimeramon betrayed me and I almost died, I knew that the Dark Master's weren't right. I left them, and started to wander, with no purpose, just me and Wormmon. That's when I met Yolei. She was the one that believed in me and told me about the Digital Warriors, about the impact that Tai Kamiya had on everyone. He must have been a very important person. I can only wonder what the world would have been like if he had lived."
Davis nodded,"But, that's what you're trying to do, right ?"
"Yeah,"Ken said,"We've got to get those key cards back, then we'll send Leomon back in time and prevent Tai from dying. But, we've got to do that before a very powerful Digimon called Apocalymon appeared."
"Apoclaymon?" Davis asked, shivering,"The name alone sends shivers down my spine."
"Kari," T.K. said, with a strange Digimon trailing behind him, walking over to where she and Sora were sitting,"I want to do this now, because we may need you later. Kari, this is your Digimon partner, Salamon."
The Digimon shyly walked around from behind T.K.'s legs,"Hello."
"Hi," Kari said, cheerfully,"I guess we're partners now, huh?"
The Digimon nodded, and trotted over to her,"I'm glad to finally meet you."
Sora smiled, then got up. "I'll leave you two alone, so you can get to know each other."
"T.K.," Tentomon cried from his spot at Izzy's side,"We've got what you need, and I don't think you're going to like it."
"What?" Patamon asked as he and T.K. came over, followed by the rest of the Digital Warriors.
"Machinedramon is here," T.K. said, not even missing a keystroke as he continued to type.
"What? Machinedramon is here? That's just great! The Dark Master of Technology is the second strongest Digimon, next to the Dark Master of Darkness, Piedmon himself!"
T.K. turned to Davis. "That doesn't scare us. We're the Digital Warriors."
T.K. then faced everyone else,"These prisons of his have gone on long enough! Today, we make sure Machinedramon falls!"
to be continued....
I KNOW THIS IS MUCH SHORTER THAN MY OTHER CHAPTERS, BUT I DIDN'T WANT YOU GUYS TO THINK I GAVE UP OR SOMETHING! PLUS, FOR THE BATTLE WITH APOCALYMON, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT DIGIDESTINED YOU WANT HIM TO FACE, ONLY MATT AND SORA MUST BE PART OF THE TEAM. SO, I NEED SIX OTHERS. PLEASE I WANT YOUR INPUT.
Matt gritted his teeth in an attempt to keep from screaming as bolts of electricity were shot through his body. His body spasmed against the wall his was chained to. "I am impressed," Machinedramon said,"But you are only flesh and blood. If I increase the voltage, you will die."
"Then....I...will...gladly.....die," he managed to say, "I....would....never....serve....you."
Machinedramon growled. There was a beeping noise from the control console. He shut the voltage off and walked over to the screen. "Machinedramon here."
"My Lord Machinedramon, "Datamon said over the speaker,"The Digital Warriors have crossed the prison property lines. You orders?"
"Is that new weapon you created ready for use."
"Yes, my lord."
"Lead the attack, Datamon, and destroy them!"
"Hail the Dark Masters."
"I'm exhausted!" Yolei whinned,"Why can't we ride our Digimon? I'm sure my feet wouldn't hurt as much if I was ridding Aquilamon!"
"For the hundredth time," T.K. said,"This desert doesn't have any cover for a large bird. We need to move in secretly."
"But its so hot!" she complained.
"Yolei," Sora said, getting very annoyed,"Stop whining! How did you ever make it as a Digital Warrior? Even Mimi hasn't said anything yet."
"Very funny," Mimi said.
"Its easy for you," Yolei said, whipping her head,"Your hair isn't as long as mine. It feels like I'm wearing a mop on my head."
"Why, oh why did I ever die my hair pink," Mimi said,"Its such a dark color."
Michael huffed and whipped his forehead with a washcloth. Then he rung it out, making a large circle of mud in the sand.
"I don't think Michael and Betamon can take much more," Yolei whispered to T.K.,"They're both used to water, its so dry out here."
"I know," T.K. replied,"And they'd never say anything."
Ken overhead Yolei's comment and snorted. "Yeah," he said, to himself,"Let's all worry about Michael."
"I think you're jealous," Willace said.
"I am not," Ken said,"Why should I be worried? Just because Michael saved Yolei, doesn't mean they feel anything for each other, right?"
Willace was about to answer, when the ground started shaking. "What's going on?" Leomon asked.
"Sensors indicate objects moving beneath the surface," Andromon said, "Emerging....now!"
Several large black cables jumped from underneath the sand and began to wrap around the Digital Warriors.
"We're....caught!" T.K. said, struggling to get free.
The Digital Warriors were all wrapped tightly in a mess of black cables, trying to get free. Then, an object floated up from the sand. "Welcome to my parlor, said the spider, to the fly!"
"Datamon," Ken said, struggling to get free,"What are you doing out here, in the middle of the desert?"
"Why, I think it would be obvious to the Dark Master of Cruelty!" Datamon said, hovering towards them.
"That's former Dark Master," he said,"But, tell me something, has the Bishop Yagami turned traitor?"
"Yes," Datamon said,"That is correct. It appears that she had amnesia the whole time, and only Kido, Piedmon, and Motomiya knew, but, that doesn't matter."
"Are you going to kill us?" Wizardmon asked.
"Eventually," Datamon said, holding up a weird looking gun,"but first, I want to tell out my new device. Who shall go first...ah! I know."
He moved the gun until it was over Yolei,"You will be first."
He pressed the barrel right against her head. She closed her eyes, that's when she heard someone yell out,"Fire Rocket!"
The cables in front of her melted away and she fell to the ground, missing a blast of pink smoke from the gun. The fog dropped to the ground and dissolved a small area of the sand.
"Ahh!" she said when she saw this.
The rest of the black cables melted away, freeing the Digital Warriors. "What's going on?" T.K. asked, turning towards where the fire blasts came from. There was a large blue dragon man wearing orange armor, a boy to his left, and a girl in the back.
"Flamedramon?!" Datamon asked,"Not only do you leave, but now you openly attack us?"
"Right!" Davis said, as he and his Digimon ran towards them.
"I'm leaving," Datamon said,"But, I'm taking one of them with me!"
He waved his hand and another set of black cables emerged from the ground and wrapped around Yolei and Hawkmon, and started pulling them into the ground.
"Yolei!" Sora yelled, getting to her feet and running towards them.
"Oh no you don't," Datamon said, firing the gun at Sora. A blast of pink smoke emerged and Sora couldn't help but breath it in. She coughed for a bit, then fell to the ground.
"Now," Datamon said, emerging back into the ground,"Let's see what keeps the holder of the Crest of Couarge awake at night!"
Sora shook her head and the smoke dissipated. She ran over to where Yolei's hand was still visible, being pulled in by the second. She went to grab it, when she saw something she thought she would never see again."Tai...?"
The image standing in front of her was Tai, there was no doubt. "Tai?" she asked, confused.
"Sora," he said,"I'm very disappointed in you."
"W-What?" she asked falling to the ground.
His face was stern and cold,"You've let me down. I trusted you to watch after Kari, and you failed."
"B-but Tai," she said,"I..I.."
"I hate you!" he said, starting to vanish,"I can't stand you, and I never could!"
"Sora!" Agumon shouted,"Sora, what is it?"
"Tai," she said,"He-he told me that....no..NO! It had to be a trick! That's it, Datamon made a trick to keep me from rescuing Yolei."
Then the reality of the situation hit her. She began to dig frantically in the sand,"Yolei, Yolei!"
"Sora," Agumon said, placing his hand on her back,"Sora...SORA! They're gone. I'm sorry."
She gave up and looked at her hands,"I was so sacred...I...I couldn't move. Its all my fault that Yolei's gone. Its all my fault!"
Yolei opened her eyes and saw that she was in a weird room. It reminded her of Izzy's lab. She was strapped to a table and Hawkmon was strapped to the wall. "What's going on?"
"Ahh, you are awake," a voice said.
She turned to the sound and saw Datamon floating near a large computer. "What are you going to do to me?" she asked.
"To you?" Datamon asked,"Nothing. To your Digimon..."
"What are you going to do to Hawkmon?" she asked.
"Hawkmon can digivolve to Aquilamon, then, in order to reach the Ultimate Level, he must Jogress Digivolve with an Gatomon. I am going to try and see if he can do it without an Gatomon."
"You mean..normal Digivolve?" Hawkmon asked.
"Yes," Datamon said, turning back to the computer,"Should this procedure become terminal, you have my condolences."
"What?!"
"K-K-Kari?" Sora studdered, looking at the girl in front of her,"Is that really you?"
"Yeah," she said, kneeling in front of her friend,"Its me. I-I'm sorry for everything that I did while I was the Bishop Yagami. I-I had no idea who I was, and the Dark Masters convinced me that I was evil. I'm sorry."
Sora just looked at her and started crying. She reached over and hugged him.
"So," Ken said, turning to Davis.
"Huh!" he said,"Lord Ken." He bowed in front of him.
Ken smiled. "Get up, Davis. I'm not the Dark Master of Cruelty anymore."
"Right," he said, standing up,"I..lost myself for a moment."
"Why are you here?" T.K. asked.
"I came to deliver Kari to the Digital Warriors," he said, defensively.
"And now what are you going to do?" Willace asked.
"He's going to join us," Sora said,"Same as Kari."
"Sora," T.K. said,"Listen, I know how you feel about the two of them, but, he was in charge of the Digital Army, and she was a Dark Master! I don't know if we can trust them."
"I don't know," Ken said,"I was a Dark Master, and you trusted me."
T.K. sighed deeply,"After we rescue my brother, we'll let him decided."
"How are we going to do that anyway?" Wizardmon asked.
"Don't forget about Yolei," Michael said.
T.K. smiled at his friend,"No, of course not. Izzy, I know you can hack into the Dark Masters's host computer, can you see if you can get me some information?"
"Like what?" Izzy asked, taking out his laptop.
"I want to know the schematics of this pyramid, the soldier placement and schedules, and the rooms where Yolei and Matt are kept."
"I'll try," Izzy said,"But give me a few minutes."
Everyone nodded and took it as a time to relax before a major battle. "Sora?" Kari asked, turning to her friend, who still hadn't got up from where she was sitting in the sand,"What's wrong? Is it me?"
"No," she said,"No, of course not, its just..well, when I was going to save Yolei, Datamon hit me with some kind of fear ray, that made me see my worst fear."
Kari sat down next to her and placed her hand on Sora's back,"If you don't mind me prying.."
"It was your brother," Sora said,"And he told me that I was a major disappointment to him, and that he hated me."
"That's your worst fear?" Kari asked.
"Yes,"Sora said, holding the Crest of Courage in her hand,"What a joke, huh? The holder of the Crest of Courage, afraid of a ghost. I can't help thinking that...he's right. That he is disappointed in me."
"Sora," Kari said,"My brother is NOT disappointed in you. In fact, I know he's very proud of you. He thought very highly of you, you were his best friend. Maybe, in a different world, you two could have been more."
Sora smiled, as she put the crest away. "Thank you Kari. I needed to hear that."
"No problem, Big Sister," Kari said.
Davis smiled as he watched the two of them hug each other. He turned around and was going to walk away, and take some time for himself, when Ken stopped him.
"Davis," he said,"So, you knew all along that the Bishop Yagami was really Kari Kamiya?"
"No," Davis said,"I had an idea, but, no, I didn't know it was her until she told me. She had me trapped, so I had to get her to remember."
Ken turned and looked at Sora and Kari,"I'm glad you did though. Sora's always been cold, moody, and way too serious, but in the past couple of weeks, she's been worse than ever. Maybe Kari can get her to open up a little more."
"I hear she's taken Taichi Kamiya's name for herself?" Davis asked.
Ken nodded. "She must have really loved him to take his name for herself."
They both nodded and stared out into the desert. "Did you know him?" Davis asked,"I mean, before you became a Dark Master?"
Ken shook his head. "No, I never had the pleasure. I wish I could have though. After Kimeramon betrayed me and I almost died, I knew that the Dark Master's weren't right. I left them, and started to wander, with no purpose, just me and Wormmon. That's when I met Yolei. She was the one that believed in me and told me about the Digital Warriors, about the impact that Tai Kamiya had on everyone. He must have been a very important person. I can only wonder what the world would have been like if he had lived."
Davis nodded,"But, that's what you're trying to do, right ?"
"Yeah,"Ken said,"We've got to get those key cards back, then we'll send Leomon back in time and prevent Tai from dying. But, we've got to do that before a very powerful Digimon called Apocalymon appeared."
"Apoclaymon?" Davis asked, shivering,"The name alone sends shivers down my spine."
"Kari," T.K. said, with a strange Digimon trailing behind him, walking over to where she and Sora were sitting,"I want to do this now, because we may need you later. Kari, this is your Digimon partner, Salamon."
The Digimon shyly walked around from behind T.K.'s legs,"Hello."
"Hi," Kari said, cheerfully,"I guess we're partners now, huh?"
The Digimon nodded, and trotted over to her,"I'm glad to finally meet you."
Sora smiled, then got up. "I'll leave you two alone, so you can get to know each other."
"T.K.," Tentomon cried from his spot at Izzy's side,"We've got what you need, and I don't think you're going to like it."
"What?" Patamon asked as he and T.K. came over, followed by the rest of the Digital Warriors.
"Machinedramon is here," T.K. said, not even missing a keystroke as he continued to type.
"What? Machinedramon is here? That's just great! The Dark Master of Technology is the second strongest Digimon, next to the Dark Master of Darkness, Piedmon himself!"
T.K. turned to Davis. "That doesn't scare us. We're the Digital Warriors."
T.K. then faced everyone else,"These prisons of his have gone on long enough! Today, we make sure Machinedramon falls!"
to be continued....
I KNOW THIS IS MUCH SHORTER THAN MY OTHER CHAPTERS, BUT I DIDN'T WANT YOU GUYS TO THINK I GAVE UP OR SOMETHING! PLUS, FOR THE BATTLE WITH APOCALYMON, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT DIGIDESTINED YOU WANT HIM TO FACE, ONLY MATT AND SORA MUST BE PART OF THE TEAM. SO, I NEED SIX OTHERS. PLEASE I WANT YOUR INPUT.
