A/N: Raine ask and ye shall receive. Consider this our baby gift to raine; we
wish you nothing but health and happiness with your ever-growing family. As always I beg you for feedback…
This is the sequel to 'Unlikely Savior' so if you haven't
read it I suggest you check it out. The
story takes place when Genni calls them back to seal off the digiworld with
their crests; they never said what happened so I came up with my own
ideas. Please let me know what you
think, feedback is always appreciated.
Disclaimer: I don't
own them; they are the property of really big companies who have a lot of
money.
Saviors Return:
Inside a secluded cave in the hills of Spiral Mountain a
dark angle sat tending to her fire staring at the torn and tattered picture she
had given just a few months ago. Her
black fingers ran over the brightly colored inks as her red eyes read the words
at the bottom over and over 'Thank you my savior'.
The digidestined of Hope had made this for her while he was
her prisoner, her pawn to get Angemon to do what she wanted. Her plan had backfired when Piedmon had
found out what she was up too and as a result nearly cost the boy his
life. Ever since that day she had been
in seclusion living her life out in the solitude she thought that she
deserved.
Lady Devimon carefully put the picture back wanting to
preserve it as long as she could.
Suddenly the hair on the back of her neck began to stand on end and her
warrior senses began to scream of evil.
Her eyes shot to the door while she spread her wings ready to attack, she
hadn't felt and evil like this since Apoclimon had been around.
"My my aren't we tense?" the hooded figure teased as he
entered the small cave, his black cloak hiding his features. She narrowed her eyes preparing a Darkness
Wave should she need it "What do you want?" she demanded.
The figure let himself into her home sitting down on a small
pile of leaves that she used as a chair.
"So this is where you are hiding yourself," he mused looking around
ignoring her anger "how the mighty have fallen. You go from the Imperial Palace to this and all because you had
to get a heart at the last moment".
Lady Devimon chose to shake off his comment as she once
again asked her question "What do you want and who are you?"
"Ah I see there is no deterring you," he said pulling back
his hood to reveal brown hair and dark eyes.
He took pleasure in the horror that was written across her face when she
saw his own. "Genni?" He chuckled "No
and if you ever call me that again I'll kill you" he said his tone dropping to dangerous
levels "now sit down and listen to what I have to say".
She looked at him with contempt "I answer to no one or
haven't you learned from what happened to Piedmon". He stood up and grabbed her by the throat before she had time to
launch her bats "My name is Maliki, Genni is my younger brother making that the
only thing we hold in common. I unlike
my delusional brother believe that the digiworld is a prize to be won and ruled
by those who have the power to do so…I have that power".
He had lifted her off the ground forcing her to flap her
wings to get the leverage to breath "So why are you so special? Many before you have made that claim and
each one has fallen to the digidestined".
Maliki was waiting for her to ask this, he loved to show his genius off
whenever he could and now he could show it in all its glory with his master
plan.
"I'm so glad you asked that my dear" he said setting her
down but still keeping hold of her throat he knew that a animal was most
dangerous when it was backed into a corner.
"Now my beloved little brother has come up with the insane idea that he
can block out the powers of darkness with the powers of the digidestined
brats. But every coin has two sides, if
he can block out the powers of darkness I can twist them to block out the power
of light".
As he rambled the true severity began to hit the dark angel,
if he succeeded the digiworld would be at its knees and in the palm of his
hand. Yet one thing came to the
forefront of her mind "What do I have to do with this?" Maliki looked at her surprised that she had
spoken because he was still detailing his plan out. "My dear you are an essential piece of my puzzle" he answered
leaving one train of thought for the other "The digidestined now trust you
because you saved their precious little child of hope and thanks to that little
detail you are going to lead them right to me.
Once I have them I will twist their virtues to my needs turning courage
into cowardice, friendship to foe, love to hate, knowledge to insolence, reliability
to betrayal, sincerity to distrust, light to darkness, and hope to despair".
"I will never help you," she hissed spitting into his face
with as much malice as she could muster.
He didn't even flinch at her actions or words "Yes you will" he whispered
into her ear before his fingers hit the right vein on her neck to cause her to
fall into unconsciousness. As her body
fell limp he gathered her into his arms cradling her like a baby. When he turned to leave a tattered paper
caught his attention long enough for him to grab it. His dark eyes studied it carefully as the bright colors leapt off
the page at him "My dear you will work better than I could have ever dreamed"
he said taking her and her prized possession away.
Taichi Kaymia, leader of the digidestined and bearer of the
crest of courage, slowly opened his eyes only to be greeted by the blinding
sunlight of the digital world. He let
out a groan and rolled over pushing himself up high enough to evaluate his
surroundings. He was in a meadow at the
base of Spiral Mountain just outside of Puppetmon's reconfigured forest. This was a little hard to understand at the
moment for just minutes ago he and the other digidestined had gathered in the
part as per Izzy's request, apparently Genni had sent a very important email
that they all needed to see.
As his senses came back to him he began to do a headcount of
the other digidestined. Kari was the
first one he looked for his heart beating faster every second her fate was
unknown. His worried eyes fell upon her
sleeping form tucked behind a rock a few feet away from him. He carefully crawled over pulling her into
his lap checking her over relieved when her eyes fluttered open and her hands
clutched his shirt for comfort.
"Its okay" he soothed resuming his search for his
friends. The clicking of keys led him
to Izzy up and already on his laptop; Joe sneezed not to far away mumbling
something about allergies before cleaning his glasses. Mimi and Sora popped up next rubbing their
heads helping each other to stand and make their way to Izzy and Joe. That only left Matt and TK and the leader
didn't have to look for them long.
"Are you all right?" a concerned voice asked. Tai turned to find the last member of their
group coming up the hill. Matt cleared
the hill his compassionate blue eyes checked over each on of his friends before
returning to his brother huddled in his arms. Tai gave a small smile "I'm fine
and so are the others, what about you two?"
Matt sat down next to him adjusting TK in his arms allowing
the younger boy to look around at his friends "I'm fine but I think TK's a
little shaken up he landed in a pond".
It was then Tai noticed the smaller boy was dripping wet and his
shakiness was well founded due to the fact the kid could barley swim and had a
history of being dumped in the water.
"Izzy I think you had better tell us what Genni said in that
email" Joe said peering over the red heads shoulder trying to get a glimpse of
the screen. Izzy continued to work of
his computer off in his own world. Mimi
rolled her eyes "Joe you have to make sure you have his attention first" she
said knowingly going up to his ear and letting out a ear piecing screams
sending him a few feet in the air out of surprise.
He composed himself as the others stifled laughs "I was
awake you didn't have to blow out my eardrums" he said settling back in front
of his computer. "Well if you answered
Joe's question I wouldn't have done that" she huffed throwing her hair over her
shoulders for emphasis. He merely
rolled his eyes and turned to his companions with a curious expression silently
asking for the question to be repeated.
Joe complied with a slight annoyance in his voice "As I said
before what did that email from Genni say?"
It was Izzy's turn to look annoyed "I was getting to that just give me a
nano second…there" he finished pulling the short message up onto the
screen. The others gathered around "Digidestined a new evil is threatening to
take over our world and we are once again in need of your services. I will give you a day to prepare for the
trip and the digimon will be there to greet you when you arrive. Genni" Tai read quickly.
"I got this email three hours ago so either time has been
once again been thrown off or Genni didn't bring us here" Izzy said a small bit
of dread keeping into his voice. Deep
down he was worried about the elder guardian, he was a lot like the curious boy
and he looked up to him.
As Izzy mused TK looked up at Matt with his innocent blue
eyes "Where's Patamon the message said the digimon would be here". Matt wasn't sure how to answer his little
brother, the fact that the digimon weren't there to greet them led him to
believe some other force had pulled them in.
Not wanting to scare his brother he answered carefully "They probably
just stopped for a snack and will be here soon don't worry".
That seemed to satisfy the younger as he finally pulled
himself out of his brothers arms and to Kari's side "Lets go play" he said
grabbing her hand and pulling her into the open space leaving the older
digidestined to figure out the puzzle.
Matt and Tai watched the two like hawks, between the two never letting
the bearers of hope and light out of their sight.
"So what do we do?" Sora asked getting the ball rolling "we
could make camp here and wait for the digimon to come for us, but that's
assuming Genni brought us here". Tai
picked up her line of thinking "Or we can try to find Genni by ourselves, and
that means wandering around the digiworld without protection". Five sets of stunned eyes fell on the
leader; for the first time in his life he was thinking things through.
"What?" he questioned seeing the stunned looks on his
friends faces "Look even I wouldn't wander around here without protection
especially when we don't know who the enemy is. I want to camp here until Izzy can get a hold of Genni".
The remaining digidestined sat in the silence before Matt
spoke for the group "Okay we stay here until we hear from Genni or the
digimon. So lets get a camp going from
the looks of it night will be coming soon and no one wants to be wandering in
that forest when its dark". Everyone
nodded in agreement falling back into their old routines and old jobs as if
they hadn't been away at all. Little
did the digidestined know two pairs of eyes watched from the cover of the
forest.
Just before the digidestined arrived Genni lounged in his
over stuffed chair in front of his fireplace reading one of the many scrolls
about the digiworld. Elsewhere in the
house hidden beneath the lake the eight destined digimon prepared the for the
arrival of the their charges. Although
they were ecstatic of their return they wished the circumstances had been
better, darkness was coming and the children were the only thing that could
stop it.
The guardian of the digital world put his scroll down as the
hair on the back of his neck stood on end.
His well-trained ears picked up the digimon stopping what they were
doing a few growls breaking the silence.
It was then the alarms went off causing him to jump. Genni pulled his robes up and ran down the
halls to his observation room.
Though the room was small he could see anything and
everything that happened in the world.
His dark eyes scanned the various monitors looking for the disturbance
horrified when he saw the eight children lying in the meadow barely coming to
their senses. "They're not supposed to
be here yet," he muttered flopping into his chair his fingers flying over the
keys.
"What's wrong Genni?" Agumon asked as he and the other
digimon crowded into the room. He
didn't bother to answer the question because the digimon saw the children and
let out a series of frightened gasps.
"They're not supposed to be her yet" Gatomon said the panic evident in
her voice. The last thing the kids
needed was too being unguarded.
"I know that" Genni snapped "Go to them now whoever brought
them here wanted them alone, I'll contact Izzy and warn them to get to
safety". Needing no further encouragement
the digimon turned to leave only to be blasted back into the control panel with
a shout.
Genni whirled around coming face to face with Maliki. "Its you" he seethed seeing his older
brother enter the room "you brought the children hear". Maliki laughed as he placed a restraining
foot on Gomamon preventing him from moving if he had been awake "Yes it was me
but I just want to let you know none of the coming suffering would have been
necessary if you just let Piedmon do what I sent him to do in the first place".
"I knew it" Genni roared standing up careful not to hurt any
of the fallen digimon "you were the one who led him to the base. But how are you here that clown sealed
everyone away after I got away with the eggs".
Maliki gave him another laugh "Yes he did the ungrateful
lout but I was able to pull myself out and I'm going to finish what I started
all those years ago…domination of the digital world". Genni stood his ground getting ready to attack his brother
"You'll never succeed Maliki the children will stop you, that is why I sent for
them to seal the world away from evil like you".
"I already have; the children are here and you and their
digimon are now my prisoners" he sneered sending Genni over the edge. The warrior launched himself at his brother
with a battle cry prepared to stop him with his bare hands. Maliki too was prepared for this only in a
different way. As his younger brother
came at him he reached into his robes pulling out a long needle. Had Genni seen the needle he still wouldn't
have had time to react. Genni landed on
his brother full force knocking him to the ground bringing his fist up ready to
pummel his elder brother when he felt a pinch in his arm and a satisfied smile
on Maliki's face.
"Gottcha" he said happily as Genni's dark eyes fluttered
closed and he fell to the ground joining the destined digimon in the realms of unconsciousness.
It had only taken the kids an hour to set up their temporary
home and they'd moved on to preparing dinner.
The fish had been found in the pond TK fell into and Matt was carefully
preparing them over the fire. TK
hovered at his side holding out the large leaf plate ready for the cooked
fish. Izzy still worked endlessly on
the laptop worried he hadn't been able to get Genni. Joe, Sora, and Mimi gathered a large supply of firewood not sure
of how long they would be staying in the meadow. Tai climbed up a large tree and was using his mini telescope
trying to find any sign of the digimon.
With a dejected sigh he climbed back down forced to break
the news to his expectant sister. Her
chocolate eyes glittered as she waited for her brother to report what he had
seen "I'm sorry Kari there's no sign of them" her eyes fell and Tai went down
on one knee "but don't worry they could already be in the forest and that's why
I can't see them.
"Dinner" Matt called perking everyone up immediately as the mouth-watering
smell reached their noses. With in
seconds the hungry group of children had gathered around the fire happily
munching away at their fish as if they had never been away. Their laughter echoed through the night and
happy memories once again surfaced.
Day turned to night and the laughs turned to yawns as the
events of the day finally caught up with them.
"Who wants the first watch?" Tai asked.
Izzy's hand went up quickly "I'll go first I want to keep looking for
Genni" he said. Tai nodded in agreement
as he spoke "I'll take next then Joe and how about we have Matt finish up the
night".
Joe grunted his agreement and settled into his pile of leaves
bidding the others good night as he did.
Matt stood moving a few feet away from the fire settling under a large
tree pulling out his harmonica before settling in. TK who had been falling asleep since he had finished his dinner
stumbled sleepily over to Matt who opened his arms welcoming the smaller
boy. The younger settled into his arms
with a content smile his eyes looking up at his brother expectantly, urging him
to play the harmonica.
Matt complied putting the small instrument to his lips
sending the hallowed melody across the camp lulling everyone into a peaceful
slumber. He played for about fifteen
minutes playing until he thought everyone had fallen asleep. "Matt?" a small voice asked causing him to
jump a little at the sound. Once he
regained his bearings Matt gave TK a slight hug "Yeah Squirt".
"Do we have to go home after we make the bad guy go away?"
he asked turning in Matt's lap to look him in the eyes. Matt was taken by surprise not sure where TK
was going with it "What do you mean?"
The little boy seemed to be wrestling with himself before he spoke again
"I mean I want to stay here forever I don't want to go home".
Now Matt was at a total loss "TK why not, what about mom and
dad? Not to mention your friends and
school," he said getting worried when tears began to well in his brothers baby
blue eyes "You won't be there" he stammered through the tears holding onto his
brother's shirt as if it was a lifeline "I don't want to be away from you
anymore. Mom doesn't know what to do
when I have a scary dream or skin my knee.
She doesn't play a harmonica until I fall asleep… Nearly all the other kids have their whole
families look at Kari and Tai she gets to see him everyday"
The tears took over and TK buried his face in Matt's shirt
allowing his brother's arms to close around him in a simple yet comforting
gesture. Matt had been afraid something
like this would happen. Though they had
only been away from the real world for a few days they had been in the digital
world much longer. In that time TK had
become attached to his brother and vise versa, more so than before the divorce
so when they went home it was as if TK had to go through the separation all
over again.
Matt too had hurt when their parents took them their
separate ways after the battle with Apoclimon but he had been slowly
adjusting. TK's sobs had clammed to
small sniffles giving Matt the chance to try to sooth TK "Now don't worry I've
missed you too and I promise when we get home I'll talk to mom and dad to
arrange to see you more often". More
tears filled TK's eyes and he shook his head.
Fear now began to well in the pit of Matt's stomach "Why
can't I do that?" TK looked up with
watery eyes "Mom got a new job and we have to move to another district…it's
even farther than where we are now".
This news had totally stunned the older brother because neither one of
his parents had mentioned the move.
Matt pulled TK onto another hug holding him tight cooing in his ear
"Listen I promise you we won't be pulled apart again, mom and dad can take
turns with both of us. But for now we
have to help our friends and the digital world so go to sleep…"
TK nodded content with Matt's plan and he snuggled deeper
into Matt's arms finally allowing the calls of sleep to come. Matt watched as his breathing grew steady
and his tiny body went limp in his arms.
"I was wondering what was wrong with you" he whispered brushing away a
stray lock of his unruly hair "but I promise they won't pull us apart again".
The rest of the night passed without incident and as the sun
peaked over the horizon the morning routine began. Izzy was the first to rise eager to resume his search for
Genni. He opened his dark eyes scanning
the campsite a faint smile on his face as he looked over his friends. Joe curled up around his medical bag, Mimi
talking about a manicure, Sora's gentle smile, Kari safely curled up against
Tai, and TK settled in Matt's arms.
"Morning Matt" he said quietly not wanting to wake the
others yet. The blonde looked up from
his brother offering a small smile as his greeting "Shouldn't you be sleeping"
he replied in the same tone.
Izzy shook his head "I want to find Genni, the fact that the
digimon haven't come yet has me really worried".
"As you should be," a cruel voice boomed over the small camp
casting his shadow over the children.
The two boys looked to the source of the voice feeling conflicting
emotions coursing through their veins.
The source of the shadow was a man with brown hair and dark eyes,
bearing a remarkable resemblance to Genni.
The only problem is a sense of evil seemed to reek from the man.
"We have company" Matt shouted getting to his feet adjusting
TK in his arms, without their digimon he was his last line of defense. The sleeping digidestined were on their feet
only seconds after waking, Maliki's dark power sending shivers up their
spines. Tai pushed Kari to Sora taking
his position at the front of the digidestined "Who are you?" he shot.
Maliki rolled his eyes "Must I go through this every time I
go to capture someone. I am Maliki your
beloved Genni's older brother and future ruler of the digital world".
The children looked at him as if he had grown three heads
out of his stomach "You and what army" Tai yelled hearing Mimi retort behind
him to herself "Famous last words".
Apparently Maliki had heard her too "Yes my dear they are
however I give you the option of coming quietly, trust me if you do you will
save yourself a lot of unneeded pain" once again defiant looks answered him "I
warned you…Mechanorimon take them" he said coldly pointing to the
digidestined. Out of the woods six of
the robot like digimon appeared their eyes red and uncaring as the fixed on
their targets.
Maliki himself led the charge giving the digidestined mere
seconds to plan an escape. Seconds wasn't
nearly enough time and only one plan formed itself "Scatter" Tai yelled
returning to his sister's side gathering her into his arms. The digidestined did as they were told each
one running a different way sending the Mechanorimon into action. Long silver tentacles came out of the
machine like digimon seeking out the children like an octopus capturing its
dinner.
Mimi ran toward the forest that surrounded their camp
seeking sanctuary among the trees thanking her lucky stars that she wasn't in a
dress. She risked a glance behind her
seeing the attacking digimon closing in its tentacles shooting at her. A terrified scream escaped her throat as the
cool metal wrapped around her waist pulling her away from the safety of the
forest mere inches from the tree line.
Joe heard Mimi's cries his dark eyes widening in horror as
it died away. He turned his head to the
source of the cry just in time to see the bearer of sincerity pulled off the
ground wrapped in the digimon's tight grip.
"Mimi no" he cried abandoning his escape to get to her aid. Although his intentions were noble it let to
his downfall. The Mechanorimon used
this to its advantage snatching Joe up as he frantically changed direction.
Izzy heard a surprised gasp at his side as Sora watched two
of their friends fall. "They got Mimi
and Joe," she panted looking at the computer genius pain filling her eyes. "Then we can't let them get anymore of us"
he replied determinedly his dark eyes catching the glint of metal shooting at
them. He grabbed Sora's hand pulling
her to the ground letting the arm sail harmlessly over their heads. Sora let out a sign of relief only to have
it fade into a squeak when she tried to pull herself up feeling herself held
back. She looked down at her ankle and
saw the digimon had indeed managed to snare her along with Izzy.
The genius kicked his legs furiously trying to free himself
from the iron grip with no success. The
digimon looked at him as if he was an annoying mosquito before pulling them up
letting them dangle by their feet as he took them to his master. Maliki looked on with glee he had half of
them and it only took a few minutes leaving the strongest and little ones. That meant it was time for his secret
weapon, he put his fingers to his lips letting out a loud whistle that echoed
for miles summoning his dark angel.
Tai and Kari suffered the same fate seconds later after Tai
tripped over a rock falling to the ground hard. He had tired to shield Kari from the machine but only succeeded
for a few seconds. The digimon weaved
around Tai's protective stance gathering them both up in one fail swoop.
Matt knew who had been taken and had silently vowed that he
would get them back or die trying. TK kept
quiet in his arms taking in the situation with his blue eyes. The bearer of friendship heard the whistle
as well as the skittering of his pursuer getting closer and the cruel reality
began to set in…there was no way he could outrun the thing. He glanced down at TK knowing if he couldn't
get away he was going to make sure his brother did. "TK listen I want you to do something for me".
TK tore his eyes away from his friends to look his brother
in the eyes getting worried when he saw the look that was there. Love and determination. "TK I'm going to let that thing get me but
right before he does I'm going to let you go and when I do you are too run as
fast as you can into the forest. Hide there
until someone comes to get you".
The younger blond shook his head vigorously "I won't leave
you" grabbing a fistful of Matt's shirt "and you can't make me". Matt heard the tentacle coming at them and
desperately pushed TK of him as the metal wound around his frame pinning his
arms to his side. TK let out a scream
and ran at his brother ignoring his protests to run away. Matt could feel on of the arms binding him
moving away to go after TK.
He seemed oblivious of the oncoming danger with all his
thoughts of getting back to his big brother.
A long slender black arm wrapped around him little frame pulling him off
the ground away from the Meckanorimon's grasp.
Matt let relief run through his body when he saw Lady Devimon pull his
brother away. Though she was a viral
digimon she had proven herself to the boy by protecting TK and saving him from
Piedmon.
Matt's trust shattered when she landed at their attackers
side sadness filling her eyes but a satisfied smile on her face.
Maliki let out a triumphant yell as she took to the skies
for all eight digidestined were now in his.
To Be Continued…
A/N: Okay this was merely the introduction to test the
waters and see how well it was accepted so tell me if you want more and what
you to see. Also just a heads up we
will be leaving on vacation next week and we will try to post one more chapter
of each of our stories but we won't make any promises so don't think we died or
anything. We always check email so feel
free to contact us with requests of suggestions.
