DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02

by Shinji Shazaki

The battle has begun. The last chapters of my long-running saga are finally up. Is it The End? Find out for yourself, and I hope you've enjoyed this.

10. DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02: Part 10

DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02: Part 10

[A/N: Yippee! I'm actually getting ideas for Digimon again! Now, I've got a great idea for part ten! …with my brother's help.]

[Disclaimer: Don't own.]

"YAHOO!" Tai danced around the courtyard with Matt, "IT'S THE LAST DAY!" The other Digi-destined smiled at Tai and Matt's eagerness to end the year. Cody grinned as the small digimon, the In-Training digimon Upamon, bounced on the ground around Tai and Matt's legs, laughing.

"So, how's the new Digi-destined digimon getting along?" Myotismon crouched down by Cody and smirked towards Upamon. "Upamon's great!" Cody laughed, "He's never been a problem! But…where's Shinji-sensei? Why isn't she out here?"

Shinji leaned backwards in a chair, her legs propped up on the couch in her room, a pencil balanced perfectly on the point of her nose. Her hands behind her head, she stared up at the ceiling. It had been a relatively cool beginning of the summer, so the twenty-six-year-old hadn't given up wearing her usual black clothes.

And thank God the summer was there. Kusanagi was on the rise of power again, and becoming more fierce with his attacks. Shinji grimaced as she thought about the three fresh scars in her back. The pencil twitched and fell off her nose.

"I'm not going to let you get away with anything you've done, brother." Shinji thought to herself as she caught the pencil.

"Uh, yes, Mr. Igan?" the young woman asked, "Can I do something for you?" Kusan Igan smiled at the woman and she blushed lightly. "Yes." Kusan replied, "I have news on the whereabouts of that school of Shinji Shazaki's."

As the day ended, the students were just as happy about the end of the year as Tai and Matt.

"Cody, where're you going?" Upamon asked. Cody glanced away from the door and shushed his partner. "I'm just going to talk to Shinji-sensei." he murmured. "Can I come?" Upamon bounced eagerly. Cody thought for a moment, and then nodded, smiling at his partner.

Shinji hadn't moved at all from the chair. Of course, she had fallen asleep after a while, but she still hadn't moved.

Cody knocked lightly on Shinji's door. "Shinji-sensei?" he asked, "Is it OK if I come in?"

"OK, warning shot one. And…FIRE!"

Cody gasped and squeezed Upamon as a loud explosion rumbled through the school.

Shinji's eyes shot open…and the legs on the back of her chair fell off with a loud snap. She fell flat on her back; even one of the greatest minds on the planet had a bad problem with sleeping in chairs.

"SHINJI SHAZAKI, COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" a voice shouted, "YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR DESTRUCTION OF THE TOKYO TOWER AND ESCAPING FROM PRISON!"

"What the hell?" Shinji muttered angrily, "How in God's name did they find this place?"

"IF YOU RESIGN YOURSELF PEACEABLY, WE WILL NOT OPEN FIRE!" the policeman called, "IF YOU RESIST, WE WILL FIRE UPON THE SCHOOL!"

Shinji frowned angrily and teleported out of the room.

"What's going on?" TK wondered, "What made that explosion?" Kari was looking frantically out the window, TK at her side. "TK, Kari!" Shinji's voice suddenly shouted from behind the two. TK and Kari turned around to find Shinji standing behind them, livid with anger.

"Get all of the students and everyone else out of here, now!" Shinji snapped, "The police are threatening to fire at the school if I don't go quietly!" "What?" Kari jumped, "You aren't honestly thinking of fighting, are you?"

"Kari, think about who you're talking to." Shinji raised an eyebrow sarcastically, "I just need you to get the students out of here. Get the others, and then get out of here." "Shinji, you can't fight!" TK snapped, "The stab wounds in your back still aren't fully healed yet!"

"Then I won't show them my back." Shinji grinned, "Just do what I said, all right?" The head teacher vanished, and TK and Kari looked at each other. "If she's going to be so stubborn, let's get moving before the fireworks start up." TK sighed.

"All right, it's been five minutes." the chief of the raid said, "Fire first shot, ready…F—" He stopped. Shinji was standing in the doorway of the school, hands at her side.

"All right, since you've decided to come so quietly, you have the right to remain silent—" the chief started up.

"Get lost." Shinji's mouth twitched up into a smirk.

The chief of the raid drew back, and then snarled with anger. "All right, FIRE!" he shouted.

"OK, everyone, group one get as close as you can to Kari!" Tai ordered, "Don't panic, and we'll all be fine!" Many of the students wailed as gunshots and another explosion rang out. The first group of the three the students had been divided in crowded close to Kari and the twenty-year-old woman concentrated hard.

Shinji batted away the shell and didn't flinch when the explosion appeared high in the sky. With a strange glaze overtaking her eyes, she leapt effortlessly into the air as the policemen fired their weapons, but forced a shield between the school and the bullets.

This was a battle, just another battle to keep herself and everyone else safe…

"Where's Shinji?" Cody shouted over the din of the other students. "It doesn't matter!" Myotismon replied, "Just keep with the third group so I can help you get out of here!" The second group with Sora vanished into thin air.

The policemen stared as the tall and slender woman that was their target hovered in mid-air with grace and knowledge of what to do. Suddenly, one of the special operatives spread throughout the woods fired off an explosive shell. The woman jerked forwards as the shell struck her back and exploded.

Cody drew in a sharp breath. This was wrong; something was wrong! Barely conscious of his own concentration, Cody vanished from the group, too late for anyone to realize it.

When the teachers had been brought to the special hiding place, there was a sudden uproar. "Where's Cody?" Kari scanned through the students, "Myotismon, you didn't lose him, did you?" "Oh no…" Myotismon's blue eyes were wide with shock and horror.

Shinji fell with a dull thud on her knees, her back bleeding from the stab wounds once more. Such a stun this was, to be injured by mere people such as these men that the woman was frozen.

"Shinji!"

Shinji looked up. Cody was…descending from the sky. A beautiful angel that radiated with power and strength…

"KILL 'IM!"

Time slowed for the twenty-six-year-old mutant. The policemen readied their weapons…Cody gasped in shock…he was going to be hurt!

"NOOOOOOOOO!!"

There was the ripping of cloth and the beating of air against something that sounded like wings, and then, strong arms were around Cody. The arms were the same as when Shinji held him the day his grandfather died…

The gunshots fired, but were reflected off a shield of psychic energy that Cody—even the policemen could feel it.

Cody looked up—although he was slightly afraid of what he would see—and gasped. He was looking into the face of an angel, his savior.

"Why did you return?" Shinji's voice came from the angel. Cody gasped again, his green eyes widening. There was a sudden silence between him and the creature that may have just saved his life, one that blocked out the sounds of the bullets being fired.

"I thought…" Cody whispered, "I felt that you were in trouble." One of the arms around him moved away and a hand cupped the boy's cheek. "My dear silly Cody." the angel smiled with a beautiful smile, "No, now I may be in worse shape than when you arrived."

Cody's green eyes stared into the angel's eyes. They were…the angel had Shinji's eyes. He drew in another gasp. This angel was Shinji!

The black silence was shattered as an explosion quaked the shield. The angel turned and let go of Cody. The ten-year-old boy hovered under his own power and looked quickly over his teacher's form.

Huge angelic wings flapped once as Shinji hovered, glaring at the policemen. Gently pointed ears listened into every sound from below, and Cody stared even harder. Shinji was not his teacher, no. She was angel that saved him.

"Stay within the shield." Shinji ordered, "I will get rid of this fools." Cody shot forwards and grabbed his teacher by the wrist. "Don't kill them!" he cried, "Please don't kill them!"

"Why Cody, I have no intention of bloodying my hands with this foul group." Shinji spoke softly, with a strange soft smile. With a gentle twitch, she had pulled her arm free from Cody's grasp and slipped from the shield.

The battle was over almost before it had begun. Shinji had raised her arm and hundreds of energy shots flew from her palm and into the air. The energy paused, and then flew back down to Earth, hitting every one of the policemen and people in the forestry.

With a flash, all of them had vanished. Everything was absolutely silent. Cody stared at his teacher, hovering with his power. Shinji turned in the air to face the young boy and extended a hand. Cody forced himself forwards and took his teacher's hand and did not protest when she drew him close and wrapped her arms around him.

"You see, when my power becomes too high for my human body, I must change my form." the woman said in a soft voice, "It happened twelve years ago, and I did not realize what trouble it could cause. Those men know of my angel form now, and they will tell others."

"I-I'm sorry." Cody said in a whisper, "I shouldn't have come back." Shinji laughed in one syllable. "It doesn't matter." she murmured, "When my brother finally decides to fight us head-on, I would have been revealed one way or another."

There was a soft jolt—Cody opened his eyes to see that they had touched down onto the ground and Shinji sank down to her knees, still embracing Cody.

"But I do wish you hadn't risked yourself for me." she said in a strangely shaking voice, "Can you not see that I care for you as if you were of my own flesh and blood?"

"Why?" Cody asked, looking into Shinji's face. "I don't know." Shinji shook her head slightly, "Maybe it's your power, or maybe it's your beauty, but I don't know why exactly." Cody's eyes glanced over her shoulders and found the angelic wings gone.

Quite suddenly, Shinji brushed aside Cody's hair and pressed her lips against his forehead. Cody blinked at the action, but was moreover stunned at what he felt.

Tears.

"Why are you crying?" he asked mentally to her, "What's wrong?" Shinji laughed slightly and her hands shook. "Cody, your innocence is what makes you so beautiful to me." she replied mentally, "You have remained pure, despite everything that goes on in this world." Cody looked straight at his teacher. She smiled—a sincere smile—warmly at him.

"What are we going to do for the summer?" the boy asked, "I mean, it isn't safe for the other students to stay anymore, is it?" "No." Shinji shook her head and the tears vanished from her face, "They must return to their true families." "Are you going to reopen the school this fall?" Cody inquired.

"Only if everything is safe by then." his teacher replied, "I won't allow anything to happen to them."

"Dammit!" Kusanagi growled, "Are you saying that she was able to defeat all of your men?!" He had returned to the police the day after the raid, only to find that the men had failed. "I'm sorry Mr. Igan." the chief of the raid shook his head, "But the strangest thing happened. That lady—Shinji or whatever—she grew wings or something like that."

Kusanagi's red eyes shot open. "What?!" he shouted, "She transformed?!" The chief looked at Kusanagi strangely. "Yeah, big feathery wings." he replied, "Looked like an angel or somethin'." Kusanagi looked down towards his own hands, sneering.

"I don't believe it." he thought to himself, "She changed her transmutation!" A cold grin appeared on his face and he thought, "Well, so have I, my dear sister. We will see how long your emotions will let you stay alive."

"Well, thank you for telling me that useful little bit of information." Kusanagi put on his best fake smile, "Goodbye now." He turned away and headed out the door, the smile vanishing and the vaguely psychotic grin returning.

Kusanagi teleported into his secret lair, the psychotic grin still on his face. Albeit he was still irritated about his sister's amazing ability to win without killing or even harming anybody, he was stronger than ever before, and he was ready to battle soon.

His hand closed about the knob of the door to his chambers and he froze, pulling back. The sound of strumming—of some sort of string instrument—reached his sensitive ears. Someone was inside his chambers!

"Hey!" he shoved open the door with an angry shout, "Who the hell are you and how did you get in here?!" Kusanagi fell silent. A girl, a girl perhaps of just twenty to his twenty-nine, was sitting on his futon, fiddling with a guitar.

She looked up with thin gray eyes, eyes that reflected some strange intelligence. "Who are you and how did you get in here?" Kusanagi snarled, "How did you get past my two guards?"

"You really should hire some better people, Mr. Igan." the girl looked down to her guitar again, checking to see if it was in tune, "They weren't exactly a problem to get by." Kusanagi hissed through his teeth, his eyes narrowing in anger.

He stormed to the girl and grabbed her by the elbow, forcing her to her feet.

"Who are you and how did you get in here?!" Kusanagi shook her roughly. "My name is Lain, if you really want to know." the girl replied, "And how I got here…" She smirked slightly, her eyes thinning. "Well, that's just a little secret of mine." she finished.

"What are you doing here?" Kusanagi shook her again, "How do you know who I am?" "Who doesn't know who you are, Mr. Igan?" the girl Lain replied, "Your standoff against that woman Shinji Shazaki has been all over the news."

"So what are you doing here?" Kusanagi growled. "I want to offer you a partnership with me." Lain replied, "I'm sure that you would enjoy a more competent ally than those two guards."

Kusanagi stared at the girl. He had very few 'allies' to speak of besides the students he had already taken from the school and Davis and Ken. Perhaps another helper would be of some use…

"I accept your offer." Kusanagi finally spoke, "However, if you fail or if you dare to betray me…"

"Yes, I know." Lain smirked, "I go boom."