Chapter 5:
The Long Awaited Showdown
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The other DigiDestined were still trapped in the Emperor's base. The Emperor
had left them alone ever since they saw Davis go under in the river. None of them spoke barely a word as they mourn the lost of their friend. "Stupid Davis. Why did he have to come with Kari? He told us he was quitting the DigiDestined," cried a somewhat hysterical Yolei. "Yolei please calm down. You knew how Davis was. He could never standby and do nothing while his friends are in trouble. Isn't that right T. K. ?" "Your right Cody. That is just like Davis. Worrying about others before him. Sometimes he wouldn't think clearly but he always did what he thought was best for us." "I am sorry for every mean thing I said to him," said Yolei who was bursting into tears. "We are all going to miss him. I just wonder how Kari is going to take it."
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Kari wondered what happen to her. All she remember was her and Davis coming
to the digital world to save their friends. But when they got there they were attacked by Tryranamon and during the attack Davis had been hit into the river and went under. Then everything went black. She slowly open her eyes and saw that she was in some kind of room and her arms and legs were bounded to the walls. A noise caught her attention. She looked to where the sound came from and saw that it her friends. They were in the same predicament as she was.
"T. K., Yolei and Cody, its you. Where are we?" T. K. looked over to Kari, "Kari
your finally awake. Where in the Digimon Emperor's base. We been here ever since he captured us. You must know Kari that it was the Emperor that sent you the message, not us. Also, don't try to use your D3 or D-terminal. He took them from you when you came here and put them with ours. Don't worry about Gatomon. She is right here with the rest of the Digimon." Kari looked more the room and saw that indeed her D3 and D-terminal were on a table with the others. Also that Gatomon was bounded to the wall like the other Digimon. But when she noticed Veemon with them she saw that someone was missing. "T. K., where is Davis? Isn't he here with the rest of us?" T. K. just lowered his head down. Kari could also see that Yolei, Cody and all the Digimon were doing the same. Apparently Gatomon and Veemon knew what happen. "Didn't he get captured after getting out of the river?"
None of them knew how to tell Kari about Davis. Finally, T. K. decided to tell her,
"Kari...Davis isn't here. He never came out of the river. Even though they haven't found his body he is presumed to have drowned in the river. I'm sorry Kari." Kari couldn't believe what she had heard. Davis had died in the river when he was trying to save his friends. "It is all my fault that Dais is gone. If I hadn't made him come he would be still alive right now." "Don't say that Kari you know what happen to Davis wasn't your fault. Also that even if you didn't force him to come he would find a way come after us to save us," said T. K. but from what they all could see Kari still felt like it was her fault.
As the others were trying to cheer up Kari the Digimon Emperor came in with a
smirk on his face. "Well, it looks like everyone is here. But wait, where is the
DigiDestined of courage and friendship? Oh now I remember. He had an unfortunate
accident didn't he?" "Save us your fake pity and tell us what you are going to do to us." T. K. angrily yelled. "Since you are so not passionate enough to wait I will tell you. I am going to drain all the power from your D3s so I can destroy the barrier between the real world and the digital world and send my minions to the real world so I can become the ruler of both worlds." "You won't get away with this. Somehow we will stop you." "Oh I don't think so. Also after I am doing draining your D3s I am going to put my dark rings on your Digimon and order them to destroy you."
Through out the entire explanation of the Digimon Emperor's plan Kari kept her
head down. She heard everything he was planing to do to them and both worlds. *I am sorry Davis. It looks like I am not going to live up to my promise to fight on. *
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Davis shortly arrived to the area the Koromon had told him about. Luckily they were correct about the Emperor's base being in the small forest. Unfortunately, the base main entrance was guarded by the two Gazimon. "Just great. How am I going to get pass them without being seen and without letting the Emperor know I am still alive?" Trying to think of a way to pass the two Digimon guards a noise from behind caught Davis' attention. Quickly looking behind he saw that it was the four Koromon that saved him from the river. "What are you doing here?" "You are a DigiDestined aren't you? So we have come to help you in anyway we can." "Thanks for the offer, but I don't think their is anything you can do to help me." Suddenly an idea came to Davis. "Maybe their is a way you can help. You see those two Gazimon over there? I want you to make them follow you away from the entrance so I can sneak in. Just keep them distracted for at least two minutes. After that get away as fast as you can and don't worry about me." All the Koromon agreed that they would do it. "Thank you. You wait till I get to the side of the base then do the distraction. Lets just hope my plan works."
Quietly Davis went through the forest to get to his spot. He kept an on the Koromon to see that they were ready and on the Gazimon to see if they have spotted him. He was able to get to his place without being noticed. Quickly he motioned to the Koromon to get to work on the distraction. The four came from their hiding place and hit the Gazimon with their little attacks at them. Their attacks had no real affect on them, only got them mad enough to make them run after them. When he saw that the Gazimon were far enough Davis quickly ran to the entrance. Before entering he turned back to where the Koromon had run off to, "I hope you guys get away and make it safely back to your village." With that said Davis ran into the entrance to save his friends.
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The Emperor stood there looking at his fallen adversaries. They were at his mercy and unable to fight against him. Too upset about their friend gone and worried about what he was going to do to them and their Digimon. He looked at them. All of them had a looked of sadness and hatred. Especially the DigiDestined of light. His eyes went to their Digimon. All of them looking at him with hatred. None of them fazed him but as he looked into the eyes of Veemon he could see more than hatred for him. He saw in his eyes that he wanted revenge. Revenge for his fallen friend. For some reason this frighten the Emperor. Not enough to be noticed but enough to have him somewhat startled.
He walked over to the Digimon and stopped in front Veemon. "By the looks in
your eyes you still have the will to fight. I also can see something else. The look of
hatred and revenge. Why are you so upset? Is it because I captured all of your friends. Or maybe its because I was the one who sent those Digimon that caused your partner death." Veemon struggled to go after the Emperor but his bounds kept him from getting to him. "Ha, you are just as weak as your dead partner. Neither of you could harm me."
Something in Veemon just snap as he heard what the Emperor said. With ever bit of strength he had he pulled on his bounds and somehow managed to brake free. Wasting no time Veemon tackled the Emperor to the ground who was stunned about Veemon breaking free to react in time as the Digimon pummeled him with fists. After getting his faculties together pulled out an object that looked like a taser and gabbed it at Veemon. Immediately the object struck Veemon with volts of electricity which caused the Digimon to be thrown back and clasp to the ground and unable to get up.
"Worthless Digimon. How dare you attack me. Your lucky that this was set on
low." The Emperor got to his feet and walked over to Veemon who was still on the
ground. "I think I will use you as an example on what happens when you put your hands on the Digimon Emperor. I think it is time to show you what this thing can do when it is on high." After setting the taser like weapon sparks of electricity came out. Apparently that it was meant to kill the blue Digimon. Raising the weapon in the air to drive it into Veemon when a figure came running in and tackled him down.
Kari and the other DigiDestined and Digimon wondered who could have came in
and saved Veemon. The figure slowly stood up and look over at them. To their shock it was Davis. Not saying a word he walked over to his fallen Digimon friend, "Hey Veemon, you okay?" The Digimon looked up and couldn't believe his eyes. "I will be okay. It will take more to put me away." "I'm glad. You did me proud my friend. You just relax now." Carefully he picked his Digimon up and walked over to the others who were still in shock. "D-Davis? But how? We saw you go under the water." But Davis didn't say a word. He just dropped Veemon by them and looked back at the Emperor with determination in his eyes.
The Emperor got up and wondered who would dare knock him down. Their
before him, kneeling by Veemon was the DigiDestined of courage and friendship. He stood there in shock as he picked the Digimon up and carried him to his friends. After carefully putting his friend down and avoiding his friend's questions he stood up and looked back at him. The look in his eyes worried him. They were the same as Veemon's were, only looking more determined to do what he needed to do.
"I'm surprise. I thought that you didn't survived from your fall in the river. Too
bad that you going to waste your life in vain." Instead of responding Davis walked to the Emperor and stopping a few feet away from him. "You know you could have left the digital world to go back to the real world and I wouldn't have know. You could have been escape from me. I know what that you were quitting the DigiDestined. Why didn't you leave when you could?"
Davis reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out the flower from his
dream/promotion. After looking at it for a while he put it back, "I came back to save my friends. Also to stop you. I have seen what will happen if you succeed in taking over both worlds. I am telling you I will not let that happen at any cost. Besides, why run away from something your not afraid of?"
Enraged by Davis' words the Emperor looked for his taser weapon. But finding
out that it was tossed away from him when Davis attacked him. Quickly he reached back into his cape and pulled out a whip. Not wasting anytime he struck him in the side of the face. However, instead of going down Davis just stood there, hardly moved from the hit. Davis put his hand on the spot where he was hit and pulled it back to see that their was blood. "Is all you can do is attack people and Digimon with weapons. Can you fight on your own?" He looked at the Emperor who was just looking at him, wondering why he didn't go down. "I always believed that I shouldn't fight someone who is unable to fight back. But I will make an exception."
Without wasting anytime Davis and punched the Emperor to the floor after hitting
him in the face. Davis stayed on the attack as he continued to pounded him. However, the Emperor was able to kicked him back and was ready to charge after him when he saw that Davis was just standing there smiling. He couldn't figure out why he was doing until he saw something in his hands. It looked like a small controller. "Give that back." "Hmm, I don't think so. I wonder what would happen if I were to push this button?" As he thought it released the DigiDestined and the Digimon from their bonds.
They ran over to the table where their D3s and D-terminals and came back behind Davis and looked ready to fight the Emperor until Davis put his hand in front of them. "Sorry guys but he is all my. So please just say out of this." They were about to protest when they saw the look in his eyes and saw that one way or another he was going to do this his way. So they agreed to his wishes and back away. He turned back to them and gave them a look of thanks and looked back at the Emperor. "Well, I am when you are, so bring it on."
A second later both men ran to each other and presumed to fight each other. Each man throwing every bit of energy in their hits. It seemingly that Davis was getting the advantage with everything that he connected. Since he was on the verge of losing the Emperor looked for something to use to help him. He realized that his whip was now gone and he couldn't get it but his taser weapon was only a few feet behind him. He thought about going for it but knew that Davis would stop him before getting to it. Thinking quickly he came up with an idea he ran to the weapon and just like he figured Davis cased after him. When Davis was about to grab him the Emperor suddenly turned around and punched him in the stomach.
With Davis unable to move at the moment the Emperor grabbed his taser and
turned back to Davis who was now getting to his feet. Not wasting anytime the Emperor jabbed the taser into Davis' side. Electricity swept over Davis as he was unable to move or let out any sound of pain because of all the electricity going through him. Finally the Emperor moved the taser away from Davis and allowed him to fall to the ground. After seeing Davis now with smoke come off of him not moving he presumed that he was dead. "Now you better stay died this time if you know what is good for you." He looked up at the other DigiDestined, they were all in the tears for their friend.
He stepped over Davis body and walked over to them with his taser right in front
of him. "Now if you don't want to end up like your friend did you will give me your D3s right now. What the Emperor didn't know was that while he was threatening the others Davis was slowly getting back to his feet and walked over behind the Emperor. Not wanting to hit him from behind, Davis lightly tapped him on the shoulder. When he turned around he gave him a small wave and punched him in the side of the jaw. "Haven't you forgotten about me? We still have some unfinished business to deal with." "But how can you still be alive? With that much electricity you should have been killed." "Well, except being fried like a turkey I am still alive. Besides, you are not going to finish me off like you tried right their." Davis then removed his jacket, gloves and D3 and tossed them to Kari. "Keep an eye on those for me Kari. Hey Emperor. Lets just finish what we started."
Blinded by pure rage that no matter what he did he could get rid of Davis he
charged at him with the taser ready to strike him again. Calmly Davis stepped to the side and stuck out his foot to trip the Emperor. Not able to stop himself the Emperor ran into the control panel of the giant screen. Also he jabbed the taser into the panel. Before he could do anything the electricity from the taser went into the panel which caused the whole thing to go crazy. The electricity then went into the Emperor as well, and like Davis he couldn't move or say anything.
Davis looked back at the Emperor and saw what was happening to him. As he
watched the Emperor being covered in the electricity he remembered how it felt when it happen to him and saw that no one deserved to go through that. He looked to Kari and asked for his gloves back. Without thinking anything about it she tossed them back to him. After he put them back on he ran to the Emperor. With his gloves giving him some protection from the electricity he grabbed on to the Emperor and after a few tries was able to pulled him free as they both fell to the ground and barely moving.
Kari and the others immediately went to Davis to see if he was all right. They
were relieved that he was still breathing. "Man Davis that was some stunt you pulled
their. I am surprised that you aren't extra crispy right now," said T. K. as he was helping Davis to his feet. "Your right about that. But I would rather be well done." Davis joked. "Is Veemon okay you guys?" None of them answered. Instead they made a little room and allowed Veemon to walk in. "I am okay Davis. I just had the air knocked out of me." "I am glad buddy." "Can we please go home now? All this talk about extra crispy and well done has made me hungry," replied the blue Digimon as a rubbed come from his stomach. Everyone couldn't help but laugh at this. Even Davis had to laugh but let out a cough and a moan. "Please make me laugh right now. It hurts too much." "I think we should get you back to the real world so you can be checked on," said Kari.
When they were leaving the control panel started to go nuts again. As it was
started to blow up the base started to shake. "You guys I think that this place is coming apart. So yet us get out of here." They were all leaving when Davis turned back around and saw the Digimon Emperor still on the ground. Davis couldn't just leave him here to die. "Hey you guys get out of here right now, their is something I have to do." "What do you mean Davis? We have to get out of here before this base comes down." "I got to save the Emperor." "Why do you have to? You have no reason to save him. Don't you remember that he almost killed you, twice?" "I know, but I can't just leave him here. It is just not right." "Then I am staying here to help," said Kari. Davis shook his head. "Sorry Kari but you have to help Veemon get out of here for me."
Kari was about to protest before Davis interrupted. "You promised me that you
would help protect Veemon for me remember? So please just do this for me." "All right Davis, but you better get out of here." "Don't worry, I will be right behind you. Now move it." Reluctantly they did as Davis asked and wished him good luck and left to escape. After since they were leaving Davis turned back to the Emperor. "Man I don't believe I am doing this." He ran to him and started to pick him up.
"What do you think you are doing?" "I am here to help you get out of here. So
get moving before we are both crushed under the rumble." "Leave me alone. I don't need your help." "Are you kidding? You can barely move. So stop complaining and move it." "I said I don't need you help," he then pushed Davis down then got up and walked to one of the walls of the base. Even in Davis' weaken conduction he was able to get up and see that the Emperor was pushing some buttons on a small panel. After he was done a part of the wall open up to reveal another passage. "Until we meet again DigiDestined." The Emperor then walked through the passage. Davis tried to follow him but the wall closed right back up before he could get there. Davis wanted to go after the Emperor but saw that their was no time for it and decided to get out of there.
Even though Davis was still hurting he was still able to move quickly through the
passageway. However, when Davis was only a few feet away the rooftop clasped in front of him and blocking his way out. *Damn it, this stinks. At least I was able to free my friends. Also I am glad that I went down fighting. *