Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 4

Wrenched From Calm, Thrown To Battle: Part 4

[A/N: I love the way I finished that last part! Now comes the fun!]

[Disclaimer: Don't own.]

"WHAT????!!!!!" Tai screamed.

"Wait a minute!" Joe leapt in, "How can that possibly be?" Myotismon shrugged and said, "Fate?" Shinji blinked a minute. "Can we stop the screaming for a second and discuss exactly why we're here?" she wondered, "Vamp-boy didn't give me a very good explanation."

"YOU are going back to the Real World!" Tai snapped, "WE are going to delete this vampire!"

"No, you're going to tell me what's going on, and NOT delete vamp-boy." Shinji responded. "YOU'RE GOING HOME!" Tai roared. He stood just before the teenager, standing on his tiptoes and shouting in her face. "You spit when you talk, did you know that?" Shinji said.

"YOU ARE GOING HOME!!!" the Digi-destined leader shouted. Shinji turned to Myotismon and said, "Did you notice he spits when he talks?" Tai grabbed the shoulders of her t-shirt and started to yell again. But before he could say a word, he fell flat on his back. Shinji pulled her left foot back into place from her sweep-kick and stared at Tai.

"I'm not going anywhere until I get a good explanation of why vamp-boy dragged me here." she said flatly, "So either you fess up, or you're going to have to suffer through having me along for the trip without any details." Tai growled and raised himself up on his elbows.

"Geez, you told me nothing." the newest Digi-destined said, looking at Myotismon sideways. The sun had set by the time the Digi-destined had finished with their story. Kari had to listen in intently as well. Tai sat away from the new girl, his arms crossed and staring at the night sky.

"So, you're the ex-bad guy." Mimi said, "So who are we up against now?" Myotismon stared at his partner carefully from the corner of his eye. She looked entirely calm and composed, but he knew that she was hiding her emotions.

"The Dark Masters. Metalseadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, and Piedmon." he replied, "They reside atop Spiral Mountain and will stop at nothing to get what they want." Matt curled his fingers before his mouth and leaned thoughtfully against them. "So how are we supposed to beat four Ultimates when we couldn't beat you?" he wondered.

"They're…not Ultimates." the vampire bowed his head. The group let out a collective gasp. "They are one level higher than myself." he continued, "They're Megas." There was a cold silence. "How are we going to beat them?" TK asked, his voice shaking. "Don't worry, TK." Matt smiled at his brother, "We'll find a way to get them!" "Without their help." Tai said.

"Tai, get it through that thick layer of hair!" Shinji ordered, "You need our help!" "We don't need help from a person we don't even know, and an old enemy!" the leader snapped.

"Listen, I guess that this whole thing was decided by fate." Shinji said, "If it was, we can't fight it. If I'm a Digi-destined, and so are you, we need to work together."

"SHUT UP!" Tai shouted. The teen jerked backwards. "I don't want your help!" the large-haired twelve-year-old snapped, "I don't need your help! We can beat the Dark Masters without you two! GO HOME!"

Shinji blinked. But she closed her eyes and stood up. Myotismon looked at his partner from his leaned position on a tree in confusion. "Fine, Tai." she said softly, "If you don't want our help, then we'll go. But I'm not going home." She silently walked off from the campfire, slowly disappearing from the light.

"Shinji, wait!" Myotismon called after her, dashing in the direction his partner disappeared into. The Ninth Partners vanished into the darkness.

"Tai, have you gone completely insane?!" Izzy snapped, "Shinji's right! This is fate! We need each other's help!" "No we don't." Tai replied, "We got this far without them." "No we didn't." Kari muttered, "She was the one that helped us get here." Tai glared at his sister. "We don't need them." he repeated.

Myotismon glanced around. Even with his keen sense of vision in the dark, he couldn't spot his partner. He never knew of something that wasn't a digimon that moved so fast or silent. But he had heard of humans moving faster when their emotions ran high.

He closed his eyes and concentrated. The almost-silent sound of a twig snapping reached his pointed ears. He flew quickly to the place he had heard it and saw a flash of silver dash between the trees.

"Shinji!" he called. The girl didn't stop, but he was quicker. He was in front of the human, and had a tight hold on her shoulders. "You're right!" he insisted, "This is fate, and we can't deny it! You humans have to stick together!" Shinji's head was bowed, her eyes out of view.

"Shinji, why did you run away?" the vampire asked without emotion. "Even if I wanted to go home, I couldn't." the human said in a strangely calm voice, "You know that." Myotismon didn't reply. The two remained silent with each other.

Tai lay awake, staring at the black night sky. His trust was spread extremely thin, and didn't cover over the new Digi-destined. He didn't want it to go near them. His brown eyes glared, and he rolled over.

But before the Digi-destined leader could fall back asleep, Matt poked him in the shoulder. "It's your turn for watch." the blond said, quite awake. Tai sat up with an angry sigh and waited for Matt to lie down and go to sleep.

"Tai, don't say anything for a second and listen to me." the Child of Friendship ordered, "You forgave Gatomon the instant you met her. You didn't mind that she used to work for Myotismon. Well, tell me one thing. Why don't you trust Shinji? Is it just because Myotismon is her partner?"

"No." Tai snapped, "I just…don't trust her!" "Why not?" Matt asked again. "Go to sleep!" Tai ordered. "Not until you tell me why you don't trust her!" Matt replied.

"I-Well-I-" Tai glanced around, as if searching for a reason, "Go to sleep!" Matt still wouldn't lie down. The brown-haired twelve-year-old groaned angrily and fell onto his back. "Tai, I'm your buddy." Matt smiled, "You can tell me anything."

"Her eyes." Tai said softly. "Say what?" Matt raised an eyebrow. "There's something about her eyes I don't trust." Tai repeated. "Tai, Shinji's eyes and my eyes are exactly the same!" Matt sweatdropped.

"No." Tai explained, "There's something I don't trust about her eyes. There's something in your eyes, and TK's eyes, that I can trust. But when I look at Shinji's eyes…they're the same as Myotismon's. I just can't trust them." Matt smiled halfheartedly.

"Tai, you have to learn to trust people when you have to." the blond said, "You learned to trust all of us, when you didn't even know us. And you learned to trust Gatomon in a snap. So learn to trust Shinji, darn it!" He smacked Tai over the head lightly, laughing. Tai rubbed his head and looked at Matt with a questioningly look. Matt smiled and then, Tai did too.

The next day, the Digi-destined were in awe at Tai's sudden change of heart.

"C'mon gang!" he said, "We've got a new partner to find!" He laughed and started to run off. Matt rushed after him, but the others remained where they stood. "LET'S GO!" the two friends shouted. Blinking a bit, but then smiling, the Digi-destined raced after their leaders.

"The digivice says that they aren't far off." Izzy remarked, keeping careful watch over his digivice. "Great!" Tai laughed, "Not far off!" Suddenly, the digivice let out a loud beep and Izzy murmured 'huh?'. "Hey, the signal's coming up really quick!" he said. Glancing at the small distance between a clearing, and the signal of the digivice, Izzy said, "They'll cut right through that clearing!" The team stared at the clearing, and then saw a flash of silver run through the clear space.

"Shinji, wait!" Tai yelled. He started for the clearing, but then saw another flash, a blue flash, run through the clearing, firing off a blast of purple energy behind itself and into the sky. Almost immediately after, a huge creature that looked like a metal sea dragon flew overhead, laughing like a horse. The Digi-destined hurried after the strange occurrence.

The forest abruptly ended a few feet into the chase, and opened to an area of dry dirt and a cliffside. The Digi-destined spotted their newest partner, running quickly down the stretch. Myotismon was in the air, lashing out with his Crimson Lightning at the metal dragon.

"PUPPET PUMMEL!" came a cry. "GIGA CANNON!" rose another, metallic voice. Dots of yellow energy shot from the west, where Shinji was running towards. Two, immense blasts of yellow energy rose from the east, the other end of the dirt strip. The energy slammed into Myotismon, and he slowly fell from the sky. The dragon laughed and let him fall over the side of the cliff, down to the ground below.

"YES!" a snobbish little voice shouted, "We got 'em!" Nearly transparent strings uncurled from the horizon and latched onto Shinji. A loud, clomping sound came from the other edge of the horizon, and a huge metallic beast appeared.

"One traitor down." the beast growled, "Nine human brats to go. Throw her over the cliff!" A strange puppet walked up from over the western horizon and whined. "But I wanted to play with her first!" he moaned, "And I thought that Boss wanted her for something!"

"Shut up and let me go!" Shinji shouted, trying to move at all. "Ha!" the puppet laughed, "Now you'll do as we want!" The wooden puppet yanked the strings upwards, and the Ninth Digi-destined flew into the air. The strange digimon brought the strings down, and slammed Shinji into the ground. He kept repeating the process, laughing.

"YOU TERMITE-INFESTED PIECE OF DRIFTWOOD!" Tai shouted, running towards the digimon, "I'M GONNA TURN YOU TO TINDER!" The puppet had no idea that Tai was going to rush at him, and could only stand still. Tai slammed into the wooden puppet with all his might, and the puppet strings snapped. The digimon was thrown back, and Tai dashed to his new ally.

"Tai-Dark Masters-here-" Shinji groaned. She suddenly scrambled to get to her feet and stumbled to the edge of the cliff. "Vamp-boy?" she called down. Tai started over towards her, but froze as she shouted, "MYOTISMON!!" She looked as if she were going to jump down the edge of the cliff. Tai grabbed her shoulder

"Don't try it!" he ordered, "It's too far! Even the best jumper would die!" Shinji glared down at the crevice, Tai's hold like a vice on her arm. "You don't understand." she hissed, "You don't even trust me, so let go!" She tried to pull her arm free, but Tai held fast. "I understand that I acted like a real jerk!" he snapped, "But I'm sorry!" Shinji stared at him.

"Hey brats!" the sea dragon roared, "You never attack the Dark Masters like that! RIVER OF POWER!!" The two Digi-destined whirled around and saw a stream of blue energy flying towards them. Tai suddenly shoved Shinji aside and stood in the spot she had been. The energy slowly headed towards the courageous boy.

The Crest of Courage began to glow brighter than ever before, and Agumon jerked. Power and energy coursed through the Rookie digimon and a new command of digivolution entered his mind. He knew what to do.

"AGUMON WARP-DIGIVOLVE TO!" he shouted. The orange light of digivolution enveloped Agumon, and he shifted through each of his forms. But then, a new form overcame his body, and he cried out the name of his Mega form.

"WARGREYMON!" the Mega level digimon roared. In a flash, the new digimon had flown to the two Digi-destined and flew them away. The blue energy of the Dark Master smashed into the dirt and rock, but the Digi-destined weren't harmed.

"War…Greymon?" Tai turned slightly in his partner's arm, to gaze at the new digimon.

"Wargreymon is a Mega level digimon of the Vaccine type!" Tentomon supplied as Izzy pulled up the profile, "His Terra Force and Mega Claw attacks rip apart his enemies! Don't get in the way of this dino!"

"Right!" Wargreymon said in his roaring voice. He gently landed by the rest of the Digi-destined, letting Shinji and Tai go. "Time to fight!" he bellowed. The Mega digimon flew at the metal sea dragon, ready to fight.

"Tai, why in the world did you do that?" Shinji asked, not looking at Tai. "Hey, I wouldn't be a good leader if I wasn't ready to risk my life for my friends!" Tai replied with a grin. The Digi-destined were too intent on watching Wargreymon battle against the metal sea dragon to notice Shinji's hands clenching to fists and smiling, shaking her head.

After landing a screeching blow on the sea dragon's metal body, Wargreymon flew back slightly. "Ready to give up?" he growled. "You'll meet us again!" the dragon roared, "Until next time, Digi-dolts!" He flew away.

"Digi-dolts?" Matt asked, "He couldn't come up with anything better?" The Digi-destined laughed loudly. "Hey, what about Myotismon?" Kari asked. The soft clop of a heavy boot made the Digi-destined turn. "You could be a little more concerned and at least try to get to me." Myotismon said sarcastically.

"You're all right, aren't you?" Shinji questioned, actually serious. "A bit of energy bruising, but fine none the less." Myotismon replied. Shinji sighed a breath of relief. The Digi-destined stared at Shinji strangely. "You're really concerned!" Mimi teased. "You even called him by his real name!" Kari giggled. Myotismon raised an eyebrow and asked, "You did?" Shinji turned a light red color and turned slightly. She lifted her nose and said, quite easily, "I did no such thing, vamp-boy!" The Digi-destined started to laugh again.

Shinji opened one eye and glanced at Myotismon. He smiled at her, and she returned the smile.