Chapter 4: Darkness meets Truth
"So Tyriel, you have informed the digidestined that only T.K may wield
the ultimate power of Truth?" A voice belonging to another angel
asked. This angel was taller, slightly more elegant, blond-haired,
and most bystanders sighting her would tell she was Tyriel's
superior. The two of them were standing inside the main hall of the
supervision building. It was here the angels watched over everything
going on and only interfered when necessary. This was not very
regular, and these interferences were almost never direct.
The other angel nodded. "Only T.K has been informed. I have left it up
to him to make the decision of telling the others. I am sure the child
will release the information at the appropriate time. Of course, Kari
will obviously be the first to know if anyone. Nova, I am sure their
relationship has now been stabilised." Tyriel replied, a small smile
on his lips as he thought of the conversation with T.K the night
before.
"Good work. The digidestined should be able to solve the rest, but you
still need to keep in contact with T.K in case he needs help." Nova
explained. "Nova, I'm a head supervision angel, not a psychologist."
The other angel replied, raising an eyebrow. Nova almost fell
over. "This is no time for joking around! Cerin has recaptured
Wizardmon and all the evil children are trying to recapture T.K and
Kari. Of course, my protective shield around them will stop any
attempt of capture except by physical means." She added.
Tyriel nodded, much more serious now. "What about Destruction and the
three good digidestined attempting to find T.K and Kari? He
questioned. "Yes. I was getting to that. There is no news from
Destruction, but I can feel he is up to something. Leave the other
children and Wizardmon to me, although I feel they will not have much
trouble as long as their digimon are with them." Nova answered.
A bell rang for a second. Tyriel's face changed. He rushed into one of
the rooms and popped his head around the doorway. "My coffee's ready!
See you later Nova, I think I get the idea now." He said. Then the
angel closed the door to the room. Nova shook her head slowly and
rolled her eyes. "Classic example of an angel attempting to be
humorous but failing badly." She said.
*****
"So where to we go from now T.K?" Kari asked as they waved goodbye to
the Koromon. "Hmm... I'd say we go find Gennai and Tristan as
Wizardmon suggested." The boy replied after much deliberation. Kari
nodded in agreement. The two of them turned from the small village and
headed off into the forest, in the opposite direction from which they
arrived.
*****
Merla entered the control room of the half-wrecked building. "So, this
is where Cerin conducts everything. Looks like a big dump." She said
to herself, peering around. The room was around the size of a ordinary
lounge room, eight metres in diameter. A rotatable chair was placed in
front of a desk holding Cerin's computer in one corner. Around the
room various screens and technical equipment was placed.
I know this is wrong. All of it. What Cerin and Z.K are trying to
accomplish, whatever Destruction's ulterior motive is, all of it is
wrong and evil. Merla thought this, causing her crest of Darkness to
burst out in anger. "I have to stop it. Greed, Evil, Darkness. All of
these things only result in unhappiness and frustration." She said.
(Excuse me for the interruption, but I'd like to point out that IT TOOK HER
A BLOODY LONG TIME TO FIGURE THAT OUT!)
But what can I do? Only minor disruptions to Cerin and Z.K. Well, I
hope I will be able to get Z.K to come around from his evil exterior
and show his true self. I suppose I should get around to doing
something. Merla walked up to Cerin's computer and typed in a few key
words. She was startled when it replied. "Enter release code
password." It ordered in a metallic voice. Merla quickly found a way
to disable the guard system, considering the digital world had a
direct effect on electronic devices. Plus Merla herself was not far off
being an expert in these things.
"Cages 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 released." The computer returned as she
entered the command. Below the control centre five gates inside the
black-painted wall slid open. Many different digimon rushed
out. Wizardmon floated out from cage 7 and up to the control tower to
see who released them. "Merla. But why would she release us?" He
said, looking through the window.
Wizardmon knocked on the glass window. Merla turned around to see him
hovering outside. He appeared to be very alarmed and pointed to
something behind her rapidly. The once-evil child got the idea and
spun around to see Cerin standing in the entrance to the control room
with a deadly look on his face. "So Merla, attempting to betray us are
you? You do know what Destruction will do to you? Well, I think I'll
do it earlier." He said evilly.
"You stand no chance against me Cerin. I am a good three years older
than you. I have decided to stop all this madness. Evil will only
result in unhappiness and despair." Merla replied with a slightly
saint-like tone. Cerin pulled back in surprise for an instant and then
snorted. From behind him walked the gray robot digimon
Mekanorimon. Two small evil-looking rabbit type digimon called Gazimon
emerged from behind Mekanorimon.
Merla remembered all her gymnastic training, which she would need more
than ever in this situation. "E-Stun Blast!" Both the Gazimon
cried. Merla jumped up and grabbed onto a hook attached to the
roof. The computer screen cracked from the blasts. "Twin Beam!"
Mekanorimon zapped at the hook, which Merla jumped down from and
landed on one of the Gazimon, knocking it over.
Unfortunately, a yellow blast from another pair of Gazimon knocked
Merla onto the floor. "You see? Following the path of that which the
'good' digidestined follow only results in failure." Cerin put much
emphasised disgust into the word good. However the escaped digimon had
not been idle during this time, a small fact which Cerin had failed to
recognise.
"Magical Game!" Wizardmon pointed his staff at the window. A stream of
lightning bolts cracked through the glass and deleted two of the
Gazimon. The wizard digimon flew through the window and landed on the
floor. "What's this? Wizardmon?" Cerin asked, still keeping his smug
attitude.
Gitamon landed next to Wizardmon. "Merla has finally realised the
right path to follow. I stand by her no matter which way she goes."
The cat said, pointing one clawed paw at Cerin. "I think we need
a larger area for this battle." Cerin said. A light on Mekanorimon
flashed. Everyone had a brief moving sensation, then the control room
disappeared. Cerin, the remaining two Gazimon and Mekanorimon stepped
out onto the sandy soil of the mountain.
"Mekanorimon, warp-digivolve too ---- Machinedramon!" Cerin stood atop
the huge digimon and looked down upon Merla and the others with distaste.
"Gazimon, digivolve too ---- Glarimon!" The two champion digimon were
about double the height of their rookie form. Their fur had turned black
instead of grey and their claws had extended to five inches in length.
"Merla... I can't digivolve. Your crest has gone blank." Gitamon said,
looking at the Mega and the two Champions in horror. Merla knew this.
She ripped off her crest and crushed it into pieces. Gitamon felt a
strange unknown power flow through her small body as Merla shouted the
words "Cerin! You have done wrong and evil! Now it is time you
stopped!"
"Gitamon, warp-digivolve too ---- Redemptmon!" Gitamon's Mega form had
changed alot. The digimon resembled a Garurumon sized white tiger,
with golden wings stretching out from her back. Merla jumped up onto
the digimon and they slowly rose into the air. "Metal Flame!"
Machinedramon cried, opening it's mouth. A rolling stream of hot fire
poured forth, causing Redemptmon to fly out of the way.
"E-Rabbit Beam!" The two Glarimon shouted their attack, blue beams of
energy shooting from their eyes. "I'll deal with this." Wizardmon
declared, rising into the air. "Wizardmon, digivolve too ----
Sorcerermon!" The once-again digivolved digimon rose up above the two
Glarimon. "White Flame!" The eight purple plates gathered up energy
balls which then shot out, throwing the two Glarimon back into their
rookie form.
Redemptmon saw her chance. "Redemption Angels!" She cried. A white
globe surrounded Redemptmon and her passenger. A translucent angel
flew out, a white sword in his hands. Cerin stared in disbelief
as the sword came down, a bright light erupting from it. Cerin felt
a momentary blinding pain, then it was all over.
Merla stared in amazement at the spot where Cerin, Machinedramon and
the two Gazimon had been. It was empty. Redemptmon landed and Merla
quickly hopped off. Her digimon returned to the champion stage and
Sorcerermon became Wizardmon again. "He's dead." Wizardmon stated
simply.
*****
Meanwhile, T.K and Kari were walking happily side by side through
the forest when...
"Aah!" Kari shouted as a ball of energy hit the ground underneath her
and launched her off her feet. T.K immediately spun around to see
three Gazimon, the middle wearing sunglasses. "Hi, nice of you to come
walking along. This is our forest, so you are trespassing!" Their
leader, the sunglass-bearer, said.
"Ummm, mind if I say, I don't think so?" T.K said calmly, raising an
eyebrow at the rabbits. "That's pretty brave coming from such a little
human." One of the other Gazimon remarked. The others snickered. "T.K,
don't go doing anything stupid." Kari said, getting to her feet.
"Don't worry, I know I can defeat them." The other child said, smiling
at Kari. The crest hanging from his chest glowed brightly and he felt
the power of Hope surge through him, as well as another power T.K was
not aware of before. Could it be Truth? T.K thought to himself. He
shrugged and ignored it.
"Perhaps we will start by killing your 'girlfriend' here." The head
Gazimon sneered. "E-Stun Blast!" The three Gazimon all launched balls
of energy at Kari again. In a impossibly quick motion, T.K suddenly
stood in front of the other kid. The blasts disintegrated as they
neared him. "T.K, what's happening to you?" Kari asked with concern
and delight. "No idea, I just suddenly felt really weird." T.K
replied.
The Gazimon stared at him, horrified. T.K walked up to them and kicked
one of them in the head and then followed with a double jump kick on
the other two. They all fell over and then ran off into the
distance. T.K suddenly felt extremely tired and drained. Kari rushed
over to him and caught him before he collapsed. "You didn't have to do
that you know, it was only three rookies." She said.
"Sorry. I guess I was just a little angry." T.K said with a weak smile.
Kari nodded and laid him on the ground. "I think we better rest for
a bit." She said.
******
Pheonix was an angel. To be exact, he was a golden-winged
golden-haired and generally golden slightly harsh and cold angel. Who
decided he'd run the angel digimon squad. Pheonix relaxed and
fluttered his wings as he thought of unhappier times. The screen in
front of his face flickered on and Nova's image appeared. "Please
Pheonix, we need the angel digimon squad. Destruction is leading a
giant army of digimon right for the Destiny stones." She said.
"Fmph. Let them be destroyed. What does it have to do with us? We have
more important matters." Pheonix said, sticking his nose up in the air.
Nova's face twisted into one of anger. "I can't believe how insensitive
you are! Much worse than Tyriel! How dare you call yourself an A.N.G.E.L!"
Nova shouted at him. The screen switched off and left Pheonix a little
disorientated. She's in a bad mood today, he mused.)
(Amorphous New Generation Elite Level)
"That went well." Tyriel smirked as Nova turned to face him. She
looked ready to strangle somebody. "Pheonix is renown for being cold
and insensitive, he's not going to bother with Destiny Stones."
Tyriel said. Nova nodded reluctantly. Then a smile lit up her face.
"Well, who says we need Pheonix to get the digimon squad..."