DM: Digital Mutants: Series 02: Part 12
[A/N: One more part after this, and an epilogue. God, I'm nearly done!]
[Disclaimer: Don't own.]
Kusanagi stood calmly, his face placid, but masking over rage. Shinji stood upon the rubble, her clothes ripped from the wind-razors, but completely all right.
"And you call you yourself a protector of life?" Kusanagi snarled, "You will nonchalantly destroy anything that disagrees with your supposedly correct little ideals."
"And you?" Shinji replied, "Yes, destroying someone goes again the 'ideals' that I hold. But you need to make the smallest sacrifice in certain times. Those who have the intent to destroy, like you and your little lover, must be destroyed."
"Enough of your ridiculous banter!" Kusanagi shouted angrily, "You were always such a slow person, you know."
Shinji's eyes tensed at the insult.
"How so?" she questioned. "Why do you think our parents threw me out of the house so many years ago?" Kusanagi stepped forwards slightly, "I knew of our powers! I wanted for you to display them to see which of us was the stronger!"
He stepped forwards again, a fist raised. "And yet you had no clue as of what was going on!" Kusanagi snarled, "I at the age of three was completely aware of all of my surroundings! And yet you were still a simple-minded fool!" "Yes, blame the one-year-old." Shinji rolled her eyes, "Shut up!"
"And still, when you became three, you still had not awakened." Kusanagi stared at his own hand, "I lashed out in anger at you—and you returned the blow. Your powers were far greater than mine, and you were able to permanently scar me."
"So why do you hunt me?" Shinji questioned, "Despite the fact that I injured you when I was three, there's no other reason!"
"SILENCE!" Kusanagi yelled. He threw a punch to the air, and shockwaves slammed into Shinji.
The younger mutant crashed into another building, but it did not collapse upon itself. The shockwaves pressed Shinji harder against the wall, making many bones crack from the pressure.
Kusanagi grinned as his sister grimaced. In a flash, the building had been blown up, and Shinji vanished in a pillar of dust once more. Kusanagi plunged his hand into his arm, withdrawing the black gun again.
He held it ready, looking in every direction. Suddenly, Kusanagi leapt upwards as the ground beneath him exploded. He fired a bullet, but it was deflected against a psy-blade. Shinji slashed at her brother, narrowly missing his skin and hitting his clothes.
"You are supposed to have the power of God?" Kusanagi laughed, "You defeated me so easily in the past, and now you can't even strike me!"
Shinji remained silent with concentration, and quickly thrust the blade forwards. Kusanagi dodged sideways and slammed his foot into his sister's chest. The younger mutant was kicked to the ground, falling through multiple layers of debris.
Kusanagi took aim and fired, but Shinji had vanished when the bullet reached the debris.
Kusanagi lifted his hand and clenched it, creating a red psy-blade of his own. Shinji reappeared and brought the blade down—only to strike it against her brother's blade.
"Use a different attack you fool!" Kusanagi fired a bullet into his sister's stomach. Shinji hovered backwards, her skin quickly healing over—but not fast enough.
Kusanagi threw a hard punch that sent Shinji spiraling. She crashed into more debris, letting out a yell. The demon let a smile adorn his face when nothing happened for many moments.
Shinji unclenched her eyes and looked into the darkened shadows of the debris. So her brother had been honing his strength so much over these twelve years? She let out a low chuckle.
Kusanagi raised a brow as chunks of concrete tumbled from the hole his sister's body had created. No…that was impossible.
Shinji's hand closed around the edge of the hole and she reappeared, a small smile on her face.
"No!" Kusanagi yelled, "How are you still able to move?!"
"I've been underestimating you." Shinji wiped away a spot of blood from her cheek, "And you have been underestimating me. What say we actually battle now?"
Kusanagi let out a low sigh of anger. How dare she toy with him?
"All right." he murmured, an aura of gleaming red energy surrounding him, "But you will die."
"And I will kill you." Shinji smiled back, her own aura of blue energy appearing, "For that is our destiny. To be forever locked in battle with each other."
Kusanagi's eyes narrowed as his sister smiled, and then, the ground beneath them exploded.
The peaceful citizens of Tokyo were shocked as the ground rumbled with fierce strength. Flashes of blue and red light streaked over the sky.
Children on their way to school stared as streaks of the two colors shot overhead. Cries of "How pretty!" and "What was that?" rang out, and suddenly, the buildings around them began to blow apart.
Kusanagi fired shot after shot of death energy at his sister, who easily dodged.
The two flew along within the streaks of light, their auras, Kusanagi flying upright and Shinji staring forwards, her body parallel to the ground.
"DIE DAMN YOU!" Kusanagi's shout was heard by all around him as he fired a bullet from his gun. Shinji dodged down, the bullet blowing a gigantic hole in a building behind her.
The cries of the many who continued to die in the onslaught of their battle reached Shinji's ears and tormented her.
Cody could be anywhere in the city, he could have disobeyed her order to stay away, but why should he of all people listen to her?
And so many more were dying, all because of this battle. Kusanagi roared with insane laughter, gleeful with death and the battle.
Somewhere else, somewhere where no human nor Cody could be harmed…
The Digital World!
Barely concentrating at all, Shinji drew the two of them out of the Real World and into the Digital one.
"You impetuous brat!" Kusanagi snapped, "How dare you bring us here?!"
"I won't let you kill anymore." Shinji stood still, her blue eyes locked upon her brother's crimson eyes, "This is our battle, and no one except one of us must die. And you will be the one that dies."
"I think not." Kusanagi accented each word as he snapped his fingers. The two shifted, and then vanished from that place.
"Kill her!"
Shinji let out a shout as four energies combined as one and smashed into her.
The energy faded and she collapsed to her knees, but three sharp points slashed into her face, throwing her back.
A lighted room came to her view; an arena. Her brother had drawn her to a battle ring.
"We owe all this to you, sensei!" Jin, the traitor student shouted, "We owe our skills to your teachings, sensei!"
Davis, Jin, Hein, and Ken were there, attacking her, attacking her while she lay defenseless, too confused at the very moment to understand what was happening.
"ENOUGH!" she snapped everything into the right place, creating her energy levels again.
The two students flew to slam into a far wall, but the experienced Digi-destined that may have been allies sometime were merely forced back.
"Kill her I said!" Kusanagi's shout rang out from some shadowed corner, "Destroy her now!"
Shinji flipped to her feet and stumbled back as Davis slashed furiously with his claws. The three lacerations on her face were healing over.
She stared at the two men's eyes. They were tiny, lifeless, devoid of all light. Kusanagi was controlling them to make them the deadliest fighters they could be.
"Release them!" Shinji shouted, "They shouldn't be following a demon that wants to destroy life!"
Kusanagi's familiar laugh rang through the arena as Ken and Davis forced her backwards step by step. She stumbled once and stepped upwards onto a stairway.
Either the two Digi-destined enemies would force her up the stairs and make her trip, or…
A psychic burst from the combined energies of Kari and Sora slammed into her mind. The others were hidden somewhere inside this place that they could not escape from. However…
Had Ken and Davis been under their own mental power, they would have realized that the white glow in Shinji's eyes was a sure sign of something that wouldn't be good for them.
In a flash, the two puppets were blown backwards and the other Digi-destined had arrived.
With the puppets obviously preoccupied, Shinji turned on heel and ran up the stairway. Her brother would be at the end of the passage; he wouldn't run away and hide from her.
And then quite suddenly, he was in front of her.
"Hello, dearest sister." Kusanagi smiled vindictively, "So are you ready to finally battle?"
Shinji took a slow breath and stood straight, her eyes narrow. Then she laughed.
"You had damn well better believe it!" she smirked, rubbing under her nose for no real reason, "Come on. Bet I can take you down."
Caught off guard by either the odd remark or her speed, Kusanagi found himself flying towards a wall. He still managed to stop in time.
Cody was beginning to get very angry. He had tried to follow his teacher to Tokyo and had.
After the fight had stopped.
Rubble, debris, and what looked like humans littered the ground as he ran into the city. He could no longer sense his teacher in the present world, and the little boy sat down on a pile of shattered concrete to think.
If the others weren't on the earth, they were in a different dimension entirely. And if they were in another dimension, he had to be able to get there.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Cody heard his teacher's scream tear across the barriers between dimensions, and felt a knife stab into his heart.