Author's notes: To clear up any misconception, I said Vexilmon was a dark master and that he ruled a part of infinity mountain. I now realized that Infinity mountain is from File Island and the dark master's place is called Spiral mountain. Sorry.
Chapter 8
Genni smiled down at the children as he had done many times before.
"Hello, young ones. Did I come at a bad time?" He said politely.
Ken shoved in between Yolei and Davis, who looked very confused, to get a better look at the screen.
"What are you doing here old man? How many times have I told you, don't hack into my computers." Ken snarled angrily
"I am here because of the catastrophe that is going on. I don't have time for your petty computer issues. Vexilmon will come, and you must at least be ready for him. Though I am confident you will defeat him, he is strong and powerful." Genni explained
"But Genni, our digimon can only go to the champion level. Hardly enough to defeat him. Even when we fought Puppetmon, our digimon digivolved to ultimate." Kari said somberly
"Yeah, and there are less digimon to fight with, since, thanks to the Kaiser, only the D-3 digidestined have digivolving digimon." Tai said angrily.
"If we could not solve these problems, then I would not be here. Now then, raise your digivices to the screen."
All of the digidestined, including Ken, held out their digivices at the screen's. The screen's then began to glow and a beam of light shot out and was sucked into each device. The digivices glowed for a second before darkening again. They all stared at the small screen's on the devices.
"A program has been downloaded to your digivices that will allow your digimon to digivolve, even with control spires. Remember, this program may help, but it will be your own strengths as a team that will defeat Vexilmon. Once this transmission is done, I can do nothing more for you." Genni said.
"That's great, Genni. Except you're missing one minor detail," Tai said impatiently. "WE CAN'T GET TO THE DIGITAL WORLD!"
"You can't? Well, we'll have to fix that, but once I do, you won't be able to come back.. Good luck." Genni said, almost slyly. Then the screen fuzzed and became whole again. As soon as that happened, the monitor became bright with light. Seeing what was happening, mostly everyone stepped away from the screen. Ken shoved Yolei out of the way and nimbly sidestepped away as five bodies were dumped from the screen to the floor. Well, except for Sora.
"What'd I land on?" Sora exclaimed
"I'll give you one guess." Davis's voice said from underneath her. Sora instantly crawled off of him. Izzy started to get up too, but was instantly downed again by a thin figure that flew out of the screen as it brightened again.
"Izzy!? What am I doing here? First I was looking at the Gap website, then the next thing I know, I'm being sucked into my screen." Mimi cried.
"It's all right. The digital world is in need of our help." Izzy assured her.
"Who was that Genni guy? You all seemed to know him." Davis asked, then his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Did I sleep through a meeting or something?"
"He's some kind of guardian for the digidestined. He helped us back when we were here four years ago." Tai said, then he pointed at Ken, still not realizing who he was talking to. "How do you know him?"
"Uhhh, we've met." Ken said quickly, reminding himself that he shouldn't reveal his identity yet. Ken knew he couldn't even hold off two, let alone six anger driven fourteen year old's ready to fight the person who dared to hurt their precious digimon.
"What's your name?" Mimi asked at Ken
"Just call me Sam." Ken said, thinking of the first name that came to mind. The younger digidestined looked thoroughly confused.
"So, just where are we?"
"In the safest place we could possibly be from Vexilmon. " TK said before Ken could answer.
The older digidestined picked themselves up and looked around. Since they had never seen the Kaiser's base before, the first digidestined didn't realize where they were.
"So," Davis began. "how do you think our parent's are going to our sudden disappearances?"
"Ah, don't worry about them. I made my dad promise to fake a camping trip. Since the guy already knows about digimon, I'm sure he won't mind us not actually being there." Matt said, waving the question off. "I know, I know. I'm the best. Don't fret, you can all thank me later."
Everyone rolled their eyes. Tai laughed, then his smile turned into a worried frown.
"What is Vexilmon like, and are our digimon in danger?"
"This Vexilmon guy is a big jerk." Yolei said darkly. "He can control any digimon with his mind and he has a vicious attack in which he shoots acid. He's attacked and almost beaten us twice, but for some reason, he's gotten cold feet and retreated. And the only attacks that weaken him are energy beams."
"Then I guess were up for a little reunion with our partners. If no one objects, let's get moving."
***
Tai and the others had been walking through the vast plains next to a forest for about an hour. Still oblivious to the fact that this was the base of their enemy, the older digidestined went down the floating structure to the land below. TK, whose digimon had the best energy beam, was the only one of the younger digidestined with them just in case Vexilmon had kept to his promise of showing up again. It wasn't long before word had gotten to the digidestined digimon that their partners were looking for them.
"Tai! Tai, I'm so happy your here!" Agumon cried. "Thing have been strange in the digiworld for the past couple of days."
"Matt, it's good to see you, old friend." Gabumon said. "The Kaiser hasn't had any activity for the day or so, did Davis and the others beat him?"
"They didn't mention anything about him, but we have a major problem. There's this digimon by the name of Vexilmon who happens to be the last remaining Dark Master. They are going to need all the backup the they can get. Are you up for a fight pal?" Matt said, beaming at Gabumon.
"We are always ready, right gang?" Tentomon said. All the digimon looked at their partners.
"Yeah!" They said at the same time
***
Cody heard yelling in the control room. When he went to investigate, Cody found Ken standing in front of two angry looking girls and one very pissed off Davis.
"I don't like this." Ken yelled heatedly.
"Well, you don't have to like it, so deal!" Yolei said annoyed.
"I don't want them here. With the older digidestined in this place we run the risk of my exposure, putting not only me, but your loyalty as 'the fighter's for good' in danger!" Ken yelled in a matter-of-fact voice.
"When did you start caring about our well-being?" Davis asked indignantly
"I don't. But, I'd be killed without your help, which puts me in a trapped position. If they find out that you've become allies with the digimon Kaiser, who knows what might happen." Ken scowled viciously. "Have you already forgotten that Vexilmon's a mega. Without digivolving digimon, no one can get near enough to him to even try to defeat him. How do you expect to defeat a mega with only weak armor digimon."
"OK, you just went to far right there. We have so far saved your worthless life twice. Without our digimon, Vexilmon would have killed you by now." Yolei screamed at Ken, incredibly angry.
"Yeah, well, they aren't do-" Ken straightened up and stopped yelling abruptly. Cody walked from around the corner to see what was happening.
"Vexilmon! He's going to ambush the older digidestined." Ken whispered harshly.
"How do you know?" Kari asked, baffled at the sudden statement.
"Being surrounded in darkness allows me to feel movements of darkness. I have to concentrate, but Vexilmon's dark actions are much clearer than before he tried to take over my mind." Ken explained. Ken walked over and turned on the map of Vexilmon. Sure enough, Vexilmon was moving at top speed toward the plains.
"Oh, TK will be able to handle him. And now that the older digidestined have their digimon, it shouldn't be much of a problem." Kari waved off the concern.
"Don't count on it. Vexilmon brought reinforcements." Ken said, bring up another map, this time showing about fifty yellow dots also heading towards the plains.
"What are those?" Yolei cried
"Tyrannomon, all under the control of Vexilmon. There are probably more, since this map only shows ringed digimon. We better get moving." Ken said casually
"No, we are going. You can't exactly show up with your slaves and not expect anyone to be suspicious." Davis said in an authoritative voice. "If we need your help, we'll contact you, got it?"
Ken narrowed his eyes in response. He did not like being pushed around, but what was he going to do about it. The digidestined and their digimon ran toward the exit, leaving Ken to fume in anger.
***
"Hey, do you feel anything?" Agumon asked as the they walked back through the plains.
"What do you mean?" Biyomon said
"The ground, it's shaking." Agumon said worriedly. Everyone stopped and stood quietly.
"Hey, you're right! The ground is shaking." Tai confirmed. Just then, there was a huge roar and fireballs started coming at them. The digidestined looked around in panic and saw the fifty ringed Tyrannomon surrounding them and about twenty other various digimon with a diversity of destructive powers in the air above them.
"Ambush!" Matt yelled and looked for an escape route. When he couldn't find one, Matt looked down on his digimon friend and partner. "I hope Genni was true to his word. I believe you know what to do"
The digivice let out the familiar screech and Gabumon started to glow.
"Gabumon digivolve to...Garurumon"
Garurumon jumped and shielded Matt from an incoming fireball, then Howling Blaster'd another one.
"Hey Agumon, why don't you show these Tyrannomon who's the top dinosaur in this place." Tai said with a shout.
"Mm hm." Agumon nodded in agreement and Tai's digivice let out a screech. "Agumon digivolve to...Greymon."
Greymon leapt into action and started attacking the Tyrannomon. The flying digimon, which consisted of Kuwagamon, Snimon, Unimon, Flymon and many Bakemon, started to strike the digidestined below.
"Aerial attack!" One of the Unimon screamed as it shot an energy ball straight for Izzy.
"Ahhh!" Izzy yelled in surprise as the energy ball came straight for him. just then a screech came from his digivice.
"Tentomon digivolve to...Kabuterimon"
Kabuterimon's electro shocker took care of that threat and he leaped into the sky to ward off the flying digimon. Biyomon, followed that same idea and digivolved into Birdramon and started to attack the flying digimon.
"Where are you, Vexilmon?" TK shouted above the battle noise. "I know your here."
You assume well, keeper of hope. Vexilmon's sly psychic voice said. Faster than the blink of an eye, Vexilmon came into view from behind the Tyrannomon.
"What the heck is that blob thing?" Tai yelled
Ah, you must be the ones who defeated my colleague's, the Dark Masters. I have been waiting to meet you for a very long time. As your inferior second group already knows, I am Vexilmon. Vexilmon said almost politely.
"We're not going to let you do what the Dark Masters did to the digital world." Mimi said, remembering how the dark masters had killed so many of her digimon friends. "Palmon, get him."
"Palmon digivolve to...Togemon."
Oh, I'm so scared. As if I'm going to get beaten by a plant. Venom explosion.
Togemon was shot with acid before she could even move and instantly dedigivolved.
"I'm sorry Mimi, but he's drained all my power." Palmon sadly said
"It's OK." Mimi said, running to hold her beaten digimon.
TK looked up in hatred at Vexilmon and tightened his hand around his digivice.
"Digi-armor ener-WHOA!" A fireball hit the ground right next to TK as he was saying the digivolving words and was knocked to the ground.
"Howling Blaster"
"Nova Blast"
Garurumon and Greymon attempted to weaken Vexilmon with their attacks, which not only made them turn away from the attacking Tyrannomon, but just made Vexilmon laugh at them.
Your feeble attacks are useless against me Vexilmon said and got ready for another attack.
"Wanna bet?" Davis's voice said
Two pink beams came shooting from the sky and hit Vexilmon square on. Flamedramon came out of the sky and whacked one of the Tyrannomon to the ground. TK picked himself up.
"Digi-armor energize" TK said, now smiling.
"Patamon armor digivolve to...Pegasusmon. Aqueous Beam"
The green energy beam went straight for Vexilmon, but was stopped by an Aerial Attack from one of the Unimon. Nefertimon and Halsemon dropped their passenger onto the ground and speed off. Then the ground started to shake again and the digidestined barely heard the words "Rock Cracking" Before five Tyrannomon fell into the fault line created by Digmon.
"Tempest Wing"
A huge sideways tornado flew and knocked many of the Bakemon out of the sky. Birdramon, who had been temporarily hurt by a Kuwagamon, now used her attack and tried to take out whatever digimon was attacking them. With all this going on, nobody seemed to notice Vexilmon getting ready to attack.
Venom Explosion Vexilmon yelled excitedly as acid shot everywhere. The digimon that were under Vexilmon's control were missed and the acid instead went straight for his opposition. Birdramon, Kabuterimon, Halsemon, Nefertimon and Pegasusmon were all able to avoid being hit since they were in the air. The ground digimon were not so lucky. Greymon, being the slowest and largest, was hit first and went back to Agumon immediately. Digmon was not able to move in time and he too was hit. Garurumon and Flamedramon, however, were able to jump out of the way. With half of the land force down, Vexilmon turned his attention to the air attacks. With the flick of his liquidated hand, every single flying digimon attacked the four digidestined digimon. Needless to say, they were defeated.
"NO!" Yolei screamed as she saw her digimon fall to the ground and revert back to his rookie form.
"Gomomon, you better digivolve!" Joe said to the only digimon there who hadn't digivolved.
"Right, Joe." The small seal digimon said. "Gomomon digivol-OOF!"
Gomomon had been running toward Vexilmon and didn't see the Tyrannomon that came up besides him and whacked Gomomon with his tail. Gomomon rammed into Joe, knocking Gomomon out cold and making Joe fall down.
"How is this possible? We were never this easily defeated before!" Davis yelled at everyone.
Vexilmon laughed in the digidestined's head. The Tyrannomon (now only twenty of them) started to move in for the kill. Garurumon positioned themselves in a defensive pose, ready to fight for their and their friends lives. However, when the Tyrannomon were almost in the position to attack, they stopped abruptly. Everyone looked up at Vexilmon and saw him whipping his head around in anger.
Where are you? Vexilmon screamed to what seemed to be no one in particular. I can sense you just as well as you can sense me. Don't think I don't know your hiding around here.
"You mean you can't sense my exact location" Ken's drawling voice said, coming from the forest next to them. Everyone, including Vexilmon, whipped around to see Ken (or to the older digidestined, Sam) standing on a tree limb, leaning against the trunk.
You are a fool. I can kill you just as easily as your allies.
"Oh really? I see that my allies are as alive as ever, and I am nothing like them. If you to kill me so bad then let's make it an interesting death." Ken said lazily.
I'm listening.
"I challenge you to a shooting game. You start firing at me, and when you hit me, you get me." Ken said evenly
"Is he insane!?" Yolei whispered to Davis.
"We've been fighting him for month's and now you ask that question?" Davis whispered back.
Sound's fun. Now then, let's start...NOW! VENOM EXPLOSION! Vexilmon said, shooting acid straight at Ken. Ken instantly jumped out of the tree and landed gracefully, not even jostling TK's hat that was on his head. Ken started running at the speed he uses when playing soccer. Vexilmon kept firing acid at him, but Ken easily avoided it.
"Is that what you call aiming? A Bukamon could aim better than you." Ken yelled to Vexilmon as he avoided another shot. To make Vexilmon even more angry, Ken stopped and actually waved to him before running again. In that time, Ken caught TK's eye and jerked his head toward an escape route. TK understood and nodded, Ken was distracting Vexilmon so the others could get away. With one quick glance at the inanimate Tyrannomon standing over them, TK started to lead the group away from Vexilmon's reach. Ken on the other hand, was right in the middle of danger, running at top speed.
"What about Sam?" Mimi cried. Kari looked back and abruptly stopped. Ken was slowing down, rapidly.
"Why is Ken slowing down? He plays soccer all the time and is able to run at that speed for almost an hour." Kari thought. Then it hit her. "He's still injured"
"What does Sam think he's doing?" Tai asked as he ran away. "At the pace he's going, Vexilmon is sure to get him."
Kari turned on her heel and started running toward Ken. Ken stopped running and clutched his side where his wound was.
Well, well. It look's like you're still weak from my last attacks. Good, it will be much easier to capture you now. Vexilmon laughed.
"I'll never submit to the likes of you." Ken snarled.
Too bad. You would have made a wonderful pet. Vexilmon said in an amused voice. Venom Explosion.
Acid shot straight for Ken, but the pain from his injuries made him unable to move. Just as it was about to hit him, Kari jump-tackled Ken to the ground. Ken then heard a pain-staking scream and smelled burning flesh.
"Ahhh! It hurts, it hurts!" Kari screamed, weeping in pain. Ken looked and saw Vexilmon's acid bubbling on her arm. Blood could be seen running down Kari's arm.
"You...you fool! What were you thinking." Ken said, shocked, amazed and confused at what just happened.
"I couldn't just stand there and let you die by Vexilmon's hands." Kari said clenching her teeth in anguish.
Poor, poor fools. This should teach you a lesson, never defy Vexilmon. HAHAHA. Vexilmon laughed in everyone's head, then sped off through the air, still laughing.
Everyone ran over to Kari. Yolei, who had gloves on, attempted to whack off the acid.
"How were we able to be defeated?" Davis asked Ken. Ken snapped out of his trance of glaring at Vexilmon's retreating self and turned to glower daggers at Davis.
"You underestimated the powers of darkness. Never do that...never." Ken said.
"But how are we going to defeat him if has this much power?" Davis said worriedly.
"If I knew, do you really think I would have saved you're pathetic lives?" Ken whispered angrily.
Davis turned his attention back to Kari and for the first time in his life, Davis felt fear.
