Like I promised part two of Chapter 25 is up, and only hours after part one goes up. I won't say much here just sit back and enjoy it.
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Dan
"This is so boring!" I yelled tossing my lucky hockey puck into the air and catching it while laying down on the bed Joe had set up for me.
I was in Joe's dorm room I had been all day. When I'd volunteered to stay with Joe in his dorm I assumed that he was like normal college kids, and went out every once and a while and partied, but all Joe ever did was stay in the dorm room and study. I had expected to be going to parties at night not lying down in bed tossing a hockey puck into the air.
"Don't you ever do anything fun?" I asked. "All you ever do is stay home and study/"
"Believe it or not," Joe said. "But in college people actually do some work, that partying thing is just a stereotype, and will you stop throwing that thing around! You're going to break something!"
"Sorry Mom," I said sarcastically continuing toss the puck into the air.
"He has a point you know," Gomamon said. Climbing onto his partner's shoulders. "You could have a little fun once and a while."
"Yeah," Gizamon agreed. "Anything's better than sitting around here. I agree with Dan this is so boring. Let's go out, party." He smiled and glanced evilly at me. "Meet girls."
Great, I knew I never should have told him that I liked Janine, he'd been bugging me ever since. I'd liked her since we first met. That's why I tried to impress her at the lake, and why I followed her home to try and convince her to join us. At first it was just a physical attraction, I mean who wouldn't be attracted to her, she had the body of a supermodel, but it wasn't just that. In time I started becoming attracted her in other ways, I don't even know why I just did, did that sound as lame as I thought it did? I would have said something, but it was painfully obvious that Kris liked her too, so I backed off, I probably shouldn't have, like he could be any competition for me, but now he was with Jenn. So there was really nothing stopping me from doing something about it. I mean it was possible she did like me, she did seem to be worried about me after I surfaced, and she even hugged me.
"I'll start having fun once I understand biochemistry," Joe said interrupting my train of thought.
"You've been studying every night since we got here," Gizamon said. "Take a break."
"The Digimon's right," I said taking my mind off of Janine. "Between the fight with Infermon and school you're going to go nuts."
"Alright," Joe said. "I'll take a break."
"Finally," I said sitting up on my bed.
"In an hour."
The three of us all groaned. We've been through this before, Gomamon had tried to convince Joe to go out and have some fun last night, he said he'd take a break from studying in an hour. After an hour he said just another half an hour, then another fifteen minutes, then another ten minutes, then another five minutes, until after the five minutes it had gotten pretty late and he wanted to get some sleep, looks like tonight wasn't going to be any different.
I sighed and looked out the window, I bet everyone else was having fun seeing the sights in Japan, meanwhile I was stuck in this dorm room with Joe the bookworm. Why couldn't I be out there? With those people? Actually that person I only saw one person outside, and I recognized him.
Ken! Yes it was definitely Ken. He was heading towards the entrance to the dorm, holding his Digimon Wormmon in his arms, making it look like a stuffed animal. What was he doing here? On a university campus? Oh well, that wasn't important, maybe he knew how to have some fun.
I slid open the window and yelled to my fellow Digidestined. "Hey Ken!"
His head immediately turned to me. "Dan? That you."
"Boy you're observant," I said sarcastically.
I jumped out the window and ran up to Ken, while hearing Joe yell "Use the door!" as I jumped out.
"Thank God you're here," I said as I reached him. "I was bored out of my skull, all Joe wants to do is study. You want to go out and do something. Anything!"
Ken's head sunk a bit. "Not really, I'm not really into doing anything right now, I'm just here to talk to Joe about something."
"Aw come on not you too," I groaned. "Doesn't anyone here know how to have fun?"
"Sorry, I just really need to talk to Joe."
"See Ken's been having these attacks," Wormmon said.
"Wormmon!" Ken yelled.
"Sorry, I forgot you didn't want to tell anyone."
"What attacks?" I asked.
He looked away from trying to avoid eye contact. "It's nothing really, just some really bad headaches. Nothing really."
"Maybe you should see a doctor?" I suggested. "Instead of a medical student."
"I can't," he said still trying to avoid looking at me. "There's a good reason, Joe's the only one I can talk to right now."
"Go ahead then," I said. "If you can tear him away from his books."
I made my way back to the window and jumped back into the room through it.
"You coming in?" I asked.
Ken slowly approached the window. "Isn't there a door?"
"Sure, but this ways faster."
The serious look on Ken's face changed to a smile, as he and Wormmon jumped through the window and into the room.
"Ken?" Joe said closing his book as he noticed Ken enter the room. "What are you doing here/"
"I need to ask you something," Ken answered. His eyes met mine. "Do you mind?"
"Yeah actually I do. I've got the crest of Curiosity for a reason I want to know about these attacks."
"What attacks?" Joe asked his voice full of concern.
"It started sometime this morning," Ken started. "I've been having mental attacks. These images keep popping into my head, and it hurts, not really physically, it just scares me so much that it causes a sort of weird physical pain in my head. Since your studying to be a doctor, I was hoping you could tell me what's wrong with me."
"What kind images?" Joe asked.
Ken sighed. "Nothing really I want to be reminded, of, just images from my past. I don't really like to talk about it."
"Ken, I'd like to help, but I am only a first year premed student, you should probably talk to a real doctor about this."
"I can't!" Ken snapped. "I'd have to tell him about the images, and I can't do that, it's about the Digimon. I can't exactly tell them about that, you're the closest person to a doctor that I can tell about it."
"What exactly are the images?" I asked.
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" Ken snapped. "It's just something I'm not proud of! I've done some horrible things! You have no idea what I've done, if you knew you'd know why I don't want to talk about it!"
"I have some sort of idea," I said. "You weren't the only Digimon Emperor you know, I've fought against them, and they have done some pretty bad things, including killing. So I have some idea of what you've done."
It wasn't until those words came out of my mouth I realized what I was saying. I had never forgiven Andrew for the things he had done, I still hated him for it, despite the fact he didn't really know what he was doing, that was the main reason I didn't want him to join our group, and why I was glad to here that he'd decided not to. Then here was Ken, a guy who had probably done the same things, and not really known what he was doing yet I didn't hate Ken, I liked him and treated him like I did all the rest of my teammates. Maybe…just maybe I'd been a little hard on Andrew. I mean Ken seemed like a good guy, he regretted the things he'd done, maybe Andrew did too, maybe I should give him a chance.
"Ken I can't tell you for sure what's wrong," Joe said. "I'm just a student, but I don't think there's anything wrong with you physically, but emotionally is a different story, I think if you want these attacks to stop you should try and deal with it, you should talk to someone."
"Yeah," Ken said with an 'easy for you to say' look on his face. "I better get going, my parents are going to get worried about me."
Ken moved towards the door.
"Wait!" I said he didn't stop. "Why don't you stay? Hang around, maybe what you need is a little socializing, it'll be fun."
"Maybe another time," Ken said, I couldn't help but notice a small smile on his face. "Like I said before I'm not really into doing anything right now."
"Ok, but if you do, give me a call. I'm sure you'll be a lot more fun than the bookworm over here."
"I'm standing right here," Joe said.
"Maybe," Ken said.
He started moving towards the door, but he never did reach it, halfway there we froze in his tracks, then grabbed his head and jerked in pain causing him to drop Wormmon.
"Ken?" I said.
"Aaaaah!" Ken screamed in pain falling to his knees.
"Oh no," Wormmon said. "Not again."
My mind was racing now; I had no idea what to do. If this was some monster destroyed the city I would, that's easy to deal with, but this? It was a good thing Joe was here or I wouldn't know what I would have done. Joe knelt by Ken's side.
"What are you waiting for!" Wormmon yelled angrily at Joe. "Do something! Please help him!"
"I'll try but I don't know how much I can do."
"Don't just try!" Wormmon yelled. "Please help him! I've seen him like this before, but it's never been this bad!"
"I'll do what I can," Joe said. "Ken, what's happening? What do you see?"
"It's him!" Ken screamed still gripping his head. "He's coming back!"
"Who?" Joe asked. "Who's coming back?"
"Him!" Ken screamed even louder. "My-my creation! He's here! He's back!"
Joe's eyes widened in fear. "You don't mean…?"
"No," Wormmon said softly. "Anyone but…"
"Yes," Ken screamed once again now tears were beginning to stream from his eyes.
"Okay what exactly is going on here?" I asked. "Who's coming?"
"You don't want to know," Gomamon answered.
"You better tell him," Gizamon advised. "He can get pretty cranky when he's left out of things."
"Kimeramon," Gomamon said, it looked like he was going to be the only one who was going to tell us anything. Ken and Wormmon obviously didn't want to talk about it, and Joe was too busy trying to find out what was wrong with Ken. "He's a -"
He didn't get to finished - or start - his explanation. A huge explosion, which shook the dorm room, suddenly interrupted Joe's Digimon; it was followed by dozens of blood curdling screams.
I was at the window in a second, only to see a horrifying scene. Half of the dormitory had been destroyed, along with any people who just happened to be in it. Dozens of people were screaming, and running from the flaming wreckage, but maybe wreckage was too strong a word, the more appropriate word would be ashes. There was nothing left of that particular section of the dorm except a pile of ashes. I could see now why Ken was so scared, whatever had done this must be very powerful to do that. In a moment I looked up and saw the source of all the destruction.
Gomamon had been right I didn't want to know what it was. What I was a hideous mix of several Digimon. I recognized some of his parts, some I didn't. He had Greymon's body, Kabuterimon's head, Garurumon's body, Monochromon's tail, Angemon and Kuwagamon's wings, and one of his four arms was Kuwagamon's. the other three I couldn't identify, one was skeleton like, and the other two were both completely black with bandages on the wrists, he definitely looked like he could do some serious damage.
"We gotta get out of here!" I yelled. "Now! Half of your dorm was just destroyed, and I'm guessing the section we're in right now is next."
"Ken I know you're in pain, but we've got to get out of here now."
"I - I think I'm okay now," Ken stuttered weakly. "The images have gone away."
"Yeah but something much worse has just shown up!" Gizamon said seeing Kimeramon. "The real thing just showed up."
"I was afraid of that," Ken said. "Why did he have to be resurrected?"
"Did you forget what I said?" I yelled. "If we don't move right now then we're going to get killed. Are you okay to get out of here on your own?"
Ken nodded. "Yeah, I should be okay."
"Then let's sop standing here talking and get the hell out of here!"
I scooped Gizamon into my arms and didn't hesitate to jump out the window. I wasn't even sure getting out of the room would help much whatever Kimeramon had done he'd done it from the air, and in one shot. We were sitting ducks here, any second he could pick us off one by one. We were going to need backup, so I unclipped my Digivice out of my pocket, and pushed the distress signal button.
Ken, Wormmon, Joe and Gomamon weren't far behind me. We joined the crowd of people who had began running from the dorm.
"Stay with the crowd!" I instructed. "Odds are he's looking for us specifically. If we stay with the crowd he can't find us."
"Either that or he'll just destroy the entire crowd and not bother looking for us." Joe suggested.
Damn! He was right. I stopped running, there was no way to avoid this fight we either ran and let Kimeramon destroy more - both lives and buildings, or stay and fight and probably die ourselves. Not exactly a win - win situation.
No one needed to say what we would do, all six of us agreed we were going to do without even saying a word. The three of us stopped holding our three Digimon in our arms, however the crowd didn't it stop, they continued to run until it was just the three of us and our Digimon staring up at the hideous mixture of Digimon. We were in the courtyard of the dorm, it was like the borderline of destruction, on one side was what was left of the dorm, and the other was the flaming wreckage. The major problem was the courtyard was a big place, and we were standing right in the middle, in plain sight of Kimeramon, there was no way he could miss us.
A smile grew on his face as his eyes locked on our location. Ken's eyes widened in fear after seeing Kimeramon smile. What could he have done to him to freak him out so much?
Kimeramon broke into a dive heading straight at us!
"Gizamon!" I yelled
"On it!" Gizamon yelled knowing instantly what I wanted him to do.
"Gizamon Digivolved to……………….Coelamon!"
"One more time!" I yelled as my crest began to glow.
"Coelamon Digivolved to………………Scorpiomon!"
"Joe?" Gomamon said looking questioningly at Joe.
"Yeah!" Joe confirmed. "Do it!"
"Gomamon Digivolved to………………Ikkakumon!"
"Ikkakumon Digivolved to……………..Zudomon!"
Scorpiomon swung his tail Zudomon swung his hammer at Kimeramon as he approached them, but Kimeramon broke the dive and took to the air again causing both Scorpiomon and Zudomon to miss. Kimeramon was now way to high in the air for them to attack and neither one of them could fly.
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled firing a massive beam from his mouth.
The giant blue beam shot way over Zudomon and Scorpiomon's head's missing them by a mile, but it didn't miss what remained of Joe's dorm, what had remained of the dorm was incinerated the second the giant beam hit. Now that was a massive attack!
"He's definitely got power," I said. "But his aim's horrible! We might actually have a chance against him."
"He didn't miss," Ken said. "He meant to miss our Digimon. He wanted to show us how strong he was, to let us know that we didn't have a chance. He may be an Ultimate like Scorpiomon and Zudomon but he's a very powerful one. I created him, I would know, he could even be considered a Mega."
"Powerful or not," I said. "We've still got to fight, with me guys?"
Joe nodded, but Ken still seemed reluctant, there was no time for him to make his decision Joe and I's Digimon already began to attack.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon said bringing his arms together and forming a beam, shooting it at Kimeramon.
"Zulcan's hammer!" Zudomon yelled slamming his hammer onto the ground forming an energy beam, which also shot up at Kimeramon.
The two attacks both hit Kimeramon's head, but he just smiled and shrugged the attacks off they were nothing.
"That doesn't look good!" I said.
"Firing attacks is all they can do with him up in the air," Joe said. "But it's not doing anything, they're sitting ducks just waiting to get shot by Kimeramon's own attacks."
I clenched my fists, he was right, any second now Kimeramon could just fire an attack that could easily beat our Digimon, we didn't stand a chance.
"Ken!" Wormmon yelled at his partner. "Let me fight, I can help them."
"But - don't you remember last time you fought him?" Ken asked. "No! I won't let you fight, I'm not going to let that happen again."
"That was only because-"
"NO! Losing you was one of the worst things I've ever had to deal with I'm not going to let it happen again."
"But Ken-"
"I said no!"
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled from above.
This time his monstrous blue beam wasn't aimed away from us, and it was big enough to engulf all six of us.
"Move it!" both Scorpiomon and Zudomon yelled.
Scorpiomon swept me up in his two front appendages, and jumped out of the way of the heat viper, Zudomon doing the same to Joe, Ken and Wormmon. The attack had only barely missed, had they waited a second more to push us out of the way we probably wouldn't be standing here anymore. Our Digimon placed us back on the ground.
"You guys run," Scorpiomon said.
"Yeah," Zudomon agreed. "We'll hold them off."
"Are you insane!" I yelled at both of the Ultimate Digimon. "Even fighting together you're no match for him! The others should be here soon, together we should be able to beat him, and all we need to do is fight him off for another ten minutes."
"That's too long," Scorpiomon said. "I hate to admit it but we can't fight him alone for that long, all we can do is hold him off long enough for you guys to escape."
"But you'll be killed!" I screamed.
"Nah, we'll just be reconfigured," Zudomon said. "One simple trip to primary village and we'll be back in action."
"If you think-"
"They're right," Joe said holding his head down. "We have to run."
"I'm not just abandoning my Digimon!" I yelled. "We're a team we fight together!"
"I don't like it anymore than you do, but they're right if we die then Infermon gets his human data, then he Digivolves into his Mega state, and he'll be even more powerful than Kimeramon. They're just thinking about the big picture, sometimes sacrifices have to be made, even if you really don't want to have to make them."
He raised his head and looked at us, tears were running down his face. I was trying my hardest not to cry myself.
"I don't care! I'm not leaving Scorpiomon here to die!"
"You have to!" Scorpiomon demanded. "I'm doing this for you! Wouldn't you do the same thing for me."
"Well - yeah of course I would."
"Then please understand that I have to do this."
No! I wouldn't accept that Joe was right I wouldn't accept it! I couldn't just leave Scorpiomon, either I stayed and fought with him, or he ran with the rest of us.
"No!" I yelled. "I won't! I'm staying here and fighting with you!"
"Dan I really didn't want to have to do this," Joe said. "Wormmon you know what to do."
"Sticky net!"
Before I could react Wormmon shot a web from his mouth, which surrounded my body tying me up.
"Hey!" I yelled falling to the ground, and struggling to break the web, but it was no good, it was way to strong. "Let me go!"
"Sorry we can't," Joe said picking me up by my feet. "This is for your own good. Could you give me a hand Ken?"
Ken nodded and picked me up by my shoulders. I struggled against the web as they carried me away from the battle field where Scorpiomon and Zudomon were about to engage in a fight that would most definitely mean their deaths, and there was nothing I could do about it. This stupid net of Wormmon's was too strong. They continued to run carrying me while I desperately tried to get loose until we were out of the dorm area of Joe's campus, and we ducked behind a building I couldn't identify.
Ken and Joe placed me down on the ground still tied up. I looked up angrily at both of them.
"Are you planning on untying me ever?" I asked.
"Well yeah of course," Joe answered.
"Well I wouldn't recommend it! Because as soon as you do I'm going to kill all three of you!"
"Maybe we shouldn't untie him right away then," Joe said.
I continued to struggle all in vain, but I didn't care I had to get to Scorpiomon before it was too late, I could already here sounds of battle in the background. I couldn't believe this was happening, I was going to loose him! And there was nothing I could do about it! Unless…
"Okay," I said a little more calmly, even though I wasn't calm I was anything but calm. "I'm okay, I'm sorry I got so mad, would you mind untying me I'll be okay."
"Are you sure?" Joe asked.
"Yeah," I said still pretending to be calm.
Apparently it worked, because Joe knelt down beside me and untied me. I didn't waste a second, the very moment Wormmon's net was off me, I jumped to my feet and began running to the battlefield. I couldn't believe they fell for that, and I thought they were supposed to be smart.
I didn't get very far they must have been prepared for me to run, I didn't even get beyond the building we were hiding behind before both Joe and Ken tackled me. I struggled to break free of their grip, but two of them holding me back just enough, I almost escaped a few times, but every time to managed to push me back down, finally after at least ten minutes of trying to break free, I pushed them both off, and fell to my knees, a waterfall of tears running down my face. There was no point now, no point in going to the fight, they were right as much as I hated to accept it.
"How could you!" I yelled at Joe. "How could you just leave your Digimon to die yet! What kind of partner are you."
"Dan he had to," Ken said. "It was-"
"And YOU!" I screamed. "How could you just sit and watch! You didn't even try! You just let it happen! You didn't even try to fight back."
"Dan you don't understand," Ken sighed.
"What did he do to you! He must have done something to scare you so badly."
"I don't like talking about it."
"Well that's just too bad!" I yelled. "Because if you don't tell me what the deal is with that monster I'm going to go rushing into that battlefield again!"
"Please I-"
"Well I guess I better be-"
"Okay, okay," Ken said. "I'll tell you. The truth is I actually created Kimeramon, when I was the Digimon Emperor. I was losing in the battle against Davis and the other Digidestined. I got desperate and created Kimeramon to help defeat them. I came to believe that he was to be my new partner that he was my Digimon instead of Wormmon, but Kimeramon was out of control he wouldn't listen to any of my orders he was on a total rampage destroying everything he saw, and completely mindless. The Digidestined were just barely able to defeat him, and the only reason they were was - was because-"
A river of tears was flowing down Ken's face now.
"Because?" I said.
"Because - Wormmon, he gave them what was left of his energy so they could defeat him, in the process he gave his own life."
I stared in shock, no wonder he was so afraid to let Wormmon fight Kimeramon, Kimeramon had destroyed Wormmon before and he was afraid he'd end up doing it again. I was breaking out in tears because Scorpiomon was about to be destroyed, and I rarely ever cried I think the last time I did was when I was about eight. Ken had actually lost his Digimon; I can't imagine how hard it must have been.
"Ken I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's ok you didn't know, but in a way you were-"
"Aaaaah!"
Ken was interrupted by Zudomon's screams as he crashed into the building we were hiding behind.
"Raaaaar!" Kimeramon roared from above.
I looked in horror as he held Scorpiomon's lifeless body in his skeleton like hand.
"Scorpiomon!" I screamed upon seeing my Digimon.
Kimeramon grinning and tossed Scorpiomon down onto the ground right next to Zudomon, just as both of them began to glow, Zudomon becoming Gomamon again, and Scorpiomon returning to his In-Training form, Tsunomon.
"Gomamon!"
"Tsunomon!"
Joe and I ran to the sides of our Digimon and cradled in our arms.
"Guys get out of there!" Ken yelled.
Too late Kimeramon was already powering up his attack. His mouth opened as his heat viper began to form.
"Heat-"
But before Kimeramon could fire his massive attack at us a giant bird like Digimon tackled him sending him spiraling towards the ground. However the only reason he had taken such a hard hit was because he wasn't expecting it.
"Garudamon!" Joe yelled happily.
"Who?" I said, but got my answer as I saw Sora wave at us atop of the bird like Digimon's head. I assumed that Digimon up there was Biyomon.
Kimeramon glared angrily at Garudamon, and flared his wings flying up towards the bird like Digimon, and began to power up his attack again.
"Flower cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
Once again Kimeramon was stopped from using his attack as Lillymon and Superstarmon hit him from the side.
"Raaaar!" Kimeramon yelled angrily using his black arms to toss the two attacks harmlessly aside.
Lillymon and Superstarmon flew down each on one side of Garudamon, just as Janine and Mimi ran up to Joe and I.
"Hey guys," Mimi said. "We thought you might need some help."
"How did you guys know we were in trouble?" I asked them.
"I wonder," Janine said sarcastically. "We see a giant mismatched Digimon flying in the air in plain site right over Joe's dorm, I wonder how we figured it out."
"Now was that sarcasm you were using, Janine?" I said grinning. "I think you've been hanging around me for too long."
She folded her arms and glared at me angrily. "Shut up! I come to save you and you make fun of me. I was worried about you."
"Oh like when you thought I drowned during the fight with Megaseadramon? Where's my hug this time?"
"Aaaaah!" she yelled angrily. "Just when I think you can't be any more of a jerk!"
"I don't mean to interrupt your little argument," Sora said as Garudamon landed and placed her on the ground. "But we've got a little bit more important things to deal with right now. Like the giant mutant Digimon up there!"
"Don't worry Soar," Garudamon said. "Lillymon, Superstarmon and I will handle him."
Garudamon took to the air once again and joined Lillymon and Superstarmon.
"Heat Viper!"
Once again Kimeramon fired his massive attack. It's power had surprised the three Digimon as all three of them all barely managed to dodge it.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon yelled forming a bird shaped energy beam with her wings sending it sailing at Kimeramon.
"Heat Viper!"
Kimeramon fired his massive attack once again easily overcoming Garudamon's attack and hitting Garudamon right in the chest.
"Aaaaah!" the giant bird Digimon screamed in pain falling towards the ground.
"Garudamon!" Sora screamed.
Being weakened from the attack Garudamon began to glow and shrunk to become Biyomon again, Sora caught her as she hit the ground. This was looking worse by the second.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
Both Lillymon and Superstarmon's eyes were fired at either side of Kimeramon but he easily tossed them aside one with his skeleton like hand and the other with his Kuwagamon hand.
Then before either Lillymon or Superstarmon could react Kimeramon's black hands shot forward and grabbed both of them tightly in each hand. Kimeramon held them almost directly in front of his mouth, and started laughing evilly.
"No!" Mimi and Janine yelled anticipating what was coming up next. I think we all were.
"Heat Viper!"
Kimeramon opened his mouth and began to fire his trademark attack, until-
"V Laser!"
Kimeramon's attack was interrupted by Exveemon's hitting the mix-and-match Digimon in the chin causing his head to shoot up and his attack harmlessly into the sky.
"Blast rings!"
Suddenly about a dozen rings landed on Kimeramon's black hands, which held Lillymon and Superstarmon causing him to drop the two Digimon. Two more Digimon now joined the battle. Exveemon with Davis riding on his back, and an eagle like Digimon with Yolei on his back, I guess the eagle Digimon was Hawkmon's Champion form. Now we had two Ultimates and two Champions to fight against Kimeramon, but something told me that wasn't going to be enough.
"How are you guys!" Yolei yelled down at us.
"We were a little bored with Kris and Jenn out so we'd thought we'd join you guys." Davis yelled.
"Well then let's take this guy out!" Superstarmon said. "I'm getting a little impatient here."
The other three Digimon nodded as they readied their attacks.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
"Blast Rings!"
"V Laser!"
Kimeramon only laughed at the four attacks and tossed each of them aside with each of his four arms. Kimeramon shot forward using his four wings to his advantage flying overhead Superstarmon and Lillymon kicking both of them in the head.
They both screamed as they soared into the ground, crashing into the pavement beside us.
"Lillymon!" Mimi yelled.
"Superstarmon!" Janine yelled.
Mimi and Janine ran to their Digimon's side just as Lillymon became Palmon, and Superstarmon returned to his In-Training form, Piquamon I think. Mimi and Janine cradled their injured Digimon in their arms just like the rest of us, and were forced to merely look up and the hopeless battle going on above us.
It wasn't looking good; Aquillamon and Exveemon were like helpless flies to Kimeramon. In fact that's what it looked like, Kimeramon trying to squash two helpless bugs that were desperately trying to dodge Kimeramon's hands trying to grab a hold of them, but what I really hated about this was that I knew Kimeramon was only toying with them, any second now he could end this just like he had with all the other Digimon.
Kimeramon sneered evilly; it looked like he was about to end it. He made a fist in his skeleton like hand and shot it forward right into Aquillamon. The punch was extremely powerful, no wonder it sent Yolei and Aquillamon, falling towards the ground. Yolei was sent flying form her Digimon's back as Aquillamon became Hawkmon again, fortunately before either of them hit the ground Exveemon scooped them up into his arms and dropped her off next to us.
"Excuse me," Davis said. "But I've got a mess to clean up."
"Davis no-" Ken yelled but stopped as he realized that nothing he was going to say was going to stop Davis. He was already in the air with Exveemon flying towards the extremely powerful Digimon.
Kimeramon swung his skeleton like hand at Exveemon and Davis, but Exveemon was able to dodge, but most likely only because Kimeramon had let him.
"Heat Viper!"
Once again Kimeramon fired his attack, but it wasn't fired at Exveemon like we had all expected, he fired it towards the ground. At all of us!
"Move! Move! MOVE!" Joe yelled.
"No kidding!" I responded.
Joe didn't need us to run we were running the second we'd figured out Kimeramon was attacking us. I don't think any of us had much of a problem getting out of the way of the attack, most of us managed to get clear of the attack, with one exception, me. I foot got caught on a rock; I tripped and fell to the ground, sending Tsunomon rolling away from my arms. I was on my feet in a second, a moments hesitation would cost Tsunomon and I our lives. I bent over and grabbed my Digimon in my arms.
Too late! Much too late! The attack was too close for me to get away in time; all I could do was wait for the attack to hit. I closed my eyes and waiting. I expected to become incinerated by the massive attack but instead I felt two strong scaly arms wrap around my waist and pull me into the sky, and clear of the heat viper. My eyes opened to find myself in Exveemon's arms, while I held Tsunomon tightly in my own.
"Clumsy aren't we," Davis teased. "You should really watch where you're going Exveemon and I almost got ourselves killed trying to save your life."
"I'll try to be more careful next time I'm running for my life."
Davis laughed then turned his attention back to Kimeramon. "Let's try this again Exveemon."
Exveemon nodded and turned around flying straight towards Kimeramon.
"What are you doing!" I yelled.
"What does it look like? We're going to fight Kimeramon."
"Are you insane? After what happened to all the other Digimon, we'll be killed! We've got to get out of here!"
Okay, did I just say that? I was actually suggesting we should run? I think I've been hanging around Kris a bit too long.
"Not necessarily," Davis said. "Exveemon and I beat him before we can do it again."
"You got lucky last time there's no way you can beat him now."
"Then we'll just get lucky again this time," Davis said as Exveemon flew straight at Kimeramon, it was like flying right into the center of a tornado.
Yet in a way it was kind of exhilarating, that feeling of not knowing what was going to happen whether I was going to live or die was rushing through me, man did I ever love that feeling. Why did I want to run again? Oh yeah, the possibility of death, eh not that big a deal right?
Kimeramon's Kuwagamon hand easily smacked us away like we were a pathetic insect, I guess to him we were, sending us spiraling towards the ground, fortunately for us Exveemon was able to recover.
"Ready to try this again?" Exveemon asked.
"Do we have to?" Tsunomon groaned.
"We sure do," Davis said. "Let's go Exveemon."
"You do realize we don't stand a chance right?" I said.
"Come on don't be so pessimistic," Davis, said. "We can do it. I know we can. Let's go Exveemon."
Exveemon nodded, he was about to fly towards Kimeramon again, but was stopped as out of nowhere Stingmon, with Ken on his back, shot between Kimeramon and us.
"Davis what are you doing? You're going to get yourself killed."
"What is with everyone and the pessimism, you're talking like we don't stand a chance."
"That's because we don't!" Ken yelled. "Kimeramon is too powerful for us to beat right now! I would know I created him! He took everything from me! He's too powerful! Or have you forgotten that from our last encounter with him."
"Of course I haven't," Davis said. "Have you forgotten that we beat him last time?"
"You guys got lucky last time! You beat him because Wormmon gave you all his energy to do it, and there's no way I'm letting him do that again."
"I don't expect you to, just let me-"
"Raaaar!"
Kimeramon shot at us like a bullet train, that's exactly what it felt like too. Maybe we should have been paying attention to him instead of talking. Kimeramon's head plowed right into us sending all of us spiraling towards the ground. My eyes widened in fear.
Exveemon wasn't holding onto me anymore! Tsunomon and I were falling at an amazing speed towards the ground.
Then just as fast as Kimeramon had hit us Tsunomon and I stopped falling, as I felt a tug at the back collar of my shirt. I looked up to see that Stingmon had caught me by the back of my shirt. Exveemon had also recovered from the hit and was ready to uselessly charge at Kimeramon again.
"Davis no!" Ken warned. "You can't beat him he's too powerful!"
"Stop with the bad attitude!" Davis said.
"He does have a point Davis," Exveemon said. "Kimeramon is incredibly powerful, we might not be able to beat him."
"Oh not you too, come on we beat him before we can do it again."
"Davis I'm behind you all the way, but I'm just saying it might be more sensible to run, I mean it could take a miracle to beat him."
"Then that's just what we'll have to get! A miracle!" as Davis said that I noticed his crest begin to glow dimly. "It seems whenever we're in trouble, and the odds are against us, that a miracle occurs to get us out of it and we always overcome it, and I don't think now should be any different! So let's just say I believe in miracles!"
With every word that Davis said his crest glowed a brighter and brighter gold light.
"Davis…." Exveemon said. "I feel funny."
"The crest…" Tsunomon said his voice.
The golden light from Davis crests shot from the crest and engulfed both Davis and Exveemon. We'd seen this many times before Exveemon was Digivolving!
"Exveemon Digivolved to…………………Aeroveedramon!"
As the golden aura faded away from Davis and Exveemon, Exveemon's Ultimate form was revealed. A much bigger and meaner looking Exveemon, the X on his chest replaced with a V.
Davis smiled looking at his Digimon. "See, what did I tell you, a Miracle. Let's show this big blowhard whose boss."
Aeroveedramon flared his wings and once again dove at Kimeramon preparing to launch another attack.
"Davis no!" Ken warned.
It wasn't any good, there wasn't anything that could stop those two now. Ken was right to try and stop Davis though. Even though Davis's Digimon was in his Ultimate stage there was no way that he could beat Kimeramon three Ultimates hadn't been able to do that.
"V-Wing Blade!" Aeroveedramon yelled firing a V-shaped energy beam from his mouth.
Kimeramon smiled at the attack and fired his own Heat Viper attack. There was no comparing the two attacks. The Heat Viper easily overpowered the V-wing blade, it hadn't slowed the Heat Viper one bit, it only continued to fly at Aeroveedramon and Davis.
A look of fear washed over both their faces as the attack hit both of them, but they didn't look that scared, their look of fear was almost comical.
Davis and Aeroveedramon spiraled towards the ground. Luckily for them Aeroveedramon was able to flip himself over catching the ground with his hands and feet immediately taking off into the air again, charging at Kimeramon for the umpteenth time.
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled firing his attack.
This time Aeroveedramon was ready for it, and was able to dodge it, and continued to charge at the mix and match Digimon, but he was smacked away once again by Kimeramon's skeleton like hand.
"It's no use," Ken said. "Kimeramon's just to powerful! He's unstoppable even in his Ultimate state Aeroveedramon isn't strong enough. I've seen what he can do I created him. This - this is all my fault!"
"Ken no, no it's not." Stingmon said. "You didn't-"
"Yes it is !" Ken screamed. "If I hadn't created him then this wouldn't be happening right now! I caused all this pain! It's my fault all those people who were in the dorm was hurt! I caused all this pain and suffering! I'm a horrible person, I've caused so much pain, I thought the days of causing it would end when I threw away that Digimon Emperor outfit, but I'm still causing pain, still causing all this cruelty. It's all my fault."
I looked up at the former Digimon Emperor questioningly. Could he really believe all these things he was saying? I'd gotten to know Ken over the past few days, during the battles against Infermon, and I knew he wasn't like that, in fact he was one of the kindest person I've ever met, it was hard to believe he had ever been the Digimon Emperor, the way Andrew and Emily had, but I don't think he ever could have been truly evil, not someone like that. Then if it was true about him, why couldn't it be true about Andrew - or even Emily? These same thoughts that Ken was screaming out now could be going through Andrew's head at this moment.
Yeah, I had definitely been too hasty at condemning the idea of him joining us. Now I actually regretted the fact that he'd decided not to come with us, especially if he was anything like Ken, Ken was a great guy and there was no way I was going to let him say those things about himself.
"Stop that!" I yelled at him.
"Why?" Ken said looking down at me. I couldn't help but notice the tears running down his face. "It's true isn't it?"
"No of course it's not!" I yelled. "Tell me this Ken, look at Kimeramon, now are you anything like him!"
"No - no why?"
"That's exactly my point!" I said. "Kimeramon is an out of control insane ruthless cruel monster, but that's just what you said you were. You just completely contradicted yourself. But I know that you're wrong, and that you're not like that, and I know that deep in your heart you know you're not like that too. Kimeramon represents what you used to be, but you're not like that anymore. I know you're not when Kimeramon was defeated before that part of you was destroyed with him, and the only reason you think you're like that now is because he's back too. You've got to break that feeling Ken! Because I know you're not the same person you were before, as the Digimon Emperor, but it doesn't matter if I think that or not. You have to think that Ken, you have to think that of yourself, or it won't do or anyone else any good."
Ken stared vacantly at me for a while, thinking about what I had just said. I guess it was a lot to take in. I was even surprised at what I had just said; making big speeches like that just wasn't like me, that was Kris's forte, not mine.
Ken clutched his tag and crest in his hand, and wiped his tears away, no more flowed from his eyes.
"You're right," he said. "I'm not like that anymore. I'm nothing like that monster up there. I admit that I used to be, I was cruel, I was ruthless, and there was a point when I didn't care who I hurt. But the key word in those phrases, is was! I'm not like that anymore! And I sear I never will be again. From now on I promise to be the person I was before all this happened! Before Sam died! Before my Digivice was modified! Before I became the Digimon Emperor! I swear that I will be the person that I was before my life went haywire! I will be that kind and gentle little boy I was before! My days of cruelty, from now on my life will be dedicated to the theme of my crest! Kindness!"
The next events happened just like they had for Davis! Ken's crest began to flow pink light from inside his clutched fist, becoming brighter and brighter! The light engulfed all three of us! The light pink blinded us. Now do I even need to tell you what was happening?
"Stingmon Digivolved to…………………Dinobeemon!"
Slowly the blinding pink light faded away, I looked up to see a half Insect half Dinosaur like Digimon, Stingmon's Ultimate state.
"Two Digivolutions to Ultimate in one day," Davis said as Kimeramon tossed him aside next to us. "That's a new one."
"But do you think it's enough?" Ken asked.
"We'll never know unless we try."
"Uh guys," I said. "I don't know if you noticed but I'm not really fond of hanging by my shirt collar."
"Sorry," Dinobeemon said as he picked me up and placed me on his back next to Ken.
"Let's give this thing a shot then," Aeroveedramon said.
Both Digimon found them charging at Kimeramon again.
"Heat Viper!"
Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon both managed to dodge the attack easily, and continued to fly at Kimeramon, but once again both find themselves being hit aside by one of Kimeramon's hands.
"This isn't working!" Aeroveedramon said. "He's just going to do the same thing to us over and over until we get tired."
"Even both of our Digimon their Ultimate state isn't enough." Ken said clenching his fist. "He's still too powerful! We can't beat him."
"Sure we can," Davis said. "We just don't have to do it the traditional way. You're the genius, you can figure out a way to beat him."
"He's right Ken," I said. "You created Kimeramon, so you know him better than any one else, doesn't he have some sort of a weak point?"
"You're right!" Ken said quickly. "He does, he's just like Samson."
"Who?" Davis said sounding confused.
Actually I was confused too, I knew who Samson was, but I didn't know what Ken was talking about.
"It's Kimeramon's weak point, it's the same as Samson's." Ken explained. "Didn't you ever wonder why I bothered to give Kimeramon Metalgreymon's hair?"
"I don't know to make him look stylish?"
"When I first began to build Kimeramon he kept falling apart, none of the parts would stay together, then I realized it was because they were all unstable, so they wouldn't hold. Metalgreymon's hair was the last part I added, it contained a Digital stabilizer and spread it throughout Kimeramon's body, which kept his body from falling apart. His hair is the only thing keeping that freak together if you take out his hair you take out him. I didn't just give Kimeramon hair to make him look good it serves a purpose just like the rest of his body parts. "
"Great," Davis said determinedly. "Then let's give this guy a haircut."
"Head's up!" Dinobeemon yelled.
Kimeramon charged us this time, trying to ram us with his head. Both Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon were able to use get out of the way in time, then just barely managed to get out of the way of of Kimeramon's hands which all attempted to grab us.
"V-Wing Blade!" Aeroveedramon yelled firing his v-shaped energy blade at Kimeramon's hair just behind his head.
"Irritant Buzz!" Dinobeemon yelled firing a jagged energy beam from his buzzing wings.
Both attacks were aimed at Kimeramon's hair, they would have hit too, if Kimeramon hadn't hit them away with his black devil like arms. Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon tried it again, but Kimeramon only tossed the attacks aside again.
"This isn't working!" Aeroveedramon said. "How are we supposed to cut off his hair if we can't get close enough to hit him."
"We can't just attack him head on," Ken said. "He's too powerful for that, brute strength isn't going to win this one. We need strategy for that."
"Very good," I said sarcastically. "You got a strategy we can use."
"Actually I do."
"Well you better tell us what it is soon!" Dinobeemon yelled. "Because here he comes again."
Kimeramon was trying to charge us again, and had his arms outstretched ready to grab a hold of us.
"Aeroveedramon look over there!" Ken yelled pointing at nothing.
"Huh what?" Aeroveedramon said looking where Ken had been pointing.
Kimeramon made a grab at both Aeroveedramon and Dinobeemon, Dinobeemon was able to get out of the way of Kimeramon's Kuwagamon hand, but because he had been distracted Aeroveedramon couldn't get out of the way in time, and found himself caught in the grip of Kimeramon's skeleton hand. Aeroveedramon struggled to escape from Kimeramon's iron grip, but he held him too tightly for any possible escape.
Kimeramon sneered evilly at the struggling Digimon, and bean forming his Heat Viper in his mouth.
"This better be part of your plan!" I yelled.
"Don't worry it is, Dinobeemon I think you know what to do."
Dinobeemon nodded, and began to fly forward right behind Kimeramon. Kimeramon was too busy dealing with Aeroveedramon so he didn't even notice.
"Time to take a little off the top!" Dinobeemon said. "Irritant buzz!"
Dinobeemon fired his attack. Just as Kimeramon realized what was happening, but he realized just in time to be too late. Dinobeemon's attack sliced every last hair on the back of Kimeramon's head clean off.
We all waited for Ken's prediction to occur, for Kimeramon to fall apart, but it didn't happen, it seemed all slicing off his hair had done was get the monstrous Digimon mad.
"Raaaar!" Kimeramon screamed angrily tossing Aeroveedramon aside, now concentrating his attention on Dinobeemon.
"Ken," I said as worry filled my voice. "I thought you said cutting off his hair would be enough to defeat him!"
"It is! It is! Just give it some time, once the stabilizer stops flowing though his body then he'll fall apart.
Kimeramon only got closer and closer and didn't show any sign of falling apart anytime soon.
"Ken!" I yelled.
"Wait for it." Ken said still as calm as ever.
Kimeramon's skeleton hand reached for us, he came about an inch away from us before it stopped. The only one it didn't catch by surprise was Ken. In an instant Kimeramon's hand that was only inches away from my face shattered into millions of pieces. Kimeramon looked where is arm had once been in horror, his two black arms also shattered and floated into the sky. Soon the rest of his body parts met the same face, his final arm, his tail his legs, his body, and lastly Kimeramon's Kabuterimon head disintegrated, ending the monsters short lived reign of terror. I'd done it again escaped death, but despite the fact that I'd almost died I still loved that feeling of not knowing whether I was going to die or not. I had no idea whether that skeleton like hand was going to kill me or not, and I loved it!
"It's over," Ken said smiling. "He's gone, the last remnants of my reign of the Digimon Emperor is gone. I'll never see the any trace of my past as the Digimon Emperor again."
Janine, Mimi, Sora, Joe, and their Digimon had all gathered in the crater where Kimeramon's heat Viper had hit, and had watched the battle below. Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon flew down and landed beside them, where Ken Davis and I jumped to the ground from the Ultimate Digimon's back. The second my feet hit the ground I felt two arms wrap around me.
"Why do you always have to do that?" Janine yelled half angrily half concerned hugging me even tighter than she had after I had returned from almost drowning. "You always scare me like that, for once can you not try to risk your life like that."
What was with this girl? Just a while ago she was saying I was a jerk, now she was hugging me?
My normal response would be to say some smart-ass remark, but something told me not to push it. I really liked her, and so far trying to be funny with her had only gotten her mad at me. Instead I wrapped my arms around her. I really expected to be pushed away, but instead she held me tighter.
Joe sighed and looked at his charred dorm. "Great, now where I am I supposed to live?"
"It won't matter!" a familiar and horrible voice said. "Because soon you'll be dead!"
"Please no…" Janine said quietly.
I recognized that voice from when the control spire had appeared. I looked up hoping not to see what I thought I was going to see, only to have my fears realized. He was standing only feet away in what used to be the courtyard by Joe's dorm.
Infermon!
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Well that's part two, yeah I know that Dinobeemon is actually a DNA Digivolution of Exveemon and Stingmon, but it just looked so appropriate for him to be Stingmon's Ultimate state, so no bitching about that 'kay. Don't expect part three for a while. I wish I could have posted it all at once, but I'd rather have you read part of it now then all of it a week from now. Anyway stay tuned for it.
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Dan
"This is so boring!" I yelled tossing my lucky hockey puck into the air and catching it while laying down on the bed Joe had set up for me.
I was in Joe's dorm room I had been all day. When I'd volunteered to stay with Joe in his dorm I assumed that he was like normal college kids, and went out every once and a while and partied, but all Joe ever did was stay in the dorm room and study. I had expected to be going to parties at night not lying down in bed tossing a hockey puck into the air.
"Don't you ever do anything fun?" I asked. "All you ever do is stay home and study/"
"Believe it or not," Joe said. "But in college people actually do some work, that partying thing is just a stereotype, and will you stop throwing that thing around! You're going to break something!"
"Sorry Mom," I said sarcastically continuing toss the puck into the air.
"He has a point you know," Gomamon said. Climbing onto his partner's shoulders. "You could have a little fun once and a while."
"Yeah," Gizamon agreed. "Anything's better than sitting around here. I agree with Dan this is so boring. Let's go out, party." He smiled and glanced evilly at me. "Meet girls."
Great, I knew I never should have told him that I liked Janine, he'd been bugging me ever since. I'd liked her since we first met. That's why I tried to impress her at the lake, and why I followed her home to try and convince her to join us. At first it was just a physical attraction, I mean who wouldn't be attracted to her, she had the body of a supermodel, but it wasn't just that. In time I started becoming attracted her in other ways, I don't even know why I just did, did that sound as lame as I thought it did? I would have said something, but it was painfully obvious that Kris liked her too, so I backed off, I probably shouldn't have, like he could be any competition for me, but now he was with Jenn. So there was really nothing stopping me from doing something about it. I mean it was possible she did like me, she did seem to be worried about me after I surfaced, and she even hugged me.
"I'll start having fun once I understand biochemistry," Joe said interrupting my train of thought.
"You've been studying every night since we got here," Gizamon said. "Take a break."
"The Digimon's right," I said taking my mind off of Janine. "Between the fight with Infermon and school you're going to go nuts."
"Alright," Joe said. "I'll take a break."
"Finally," I said sitting up on my bed.
"In an hour."
The three of us all groaned. We've been through this before, Gomamon had tried to convince Joe to go out and have some fun last night, he said he'd take a break from studying in an hour. After an hour he said just another half an hour, then another fifteen minutes, then another ten minutes, then another five minutes, until after the five minutes it had gotten pretty late and he wanted to get some sleep, looks like tonight wasn't going to be any different.
I sighed and looked out the window, I bet everyone else was having fun seeing the sights in Japan, meanwhile I was stuck in this dorm room with Joe the bookworm. Why couldn't I be out there? With those people? Actually that person I only saw one person outside, and I recognized him.
Ken! Yes it was definitely Ken. He was heading towards the entrance to the dorm, holding his Digimon Wormmon in his arms, making it look like a stuffed animal. What was he doing here? On a university campus? Oh well, that wasn't important, maybe he knew how to have some fun.
I slid open the window and yelled to my fellow Digidestined. "Hey Ken!"
His head immediately turned to me. "Dan? That you."
"Boy you're observant," I said sarcastically.
I jumped out the window and ran up to Ken, while hearing Joe yell "Use the door!" as I jumped out.
"Thank God you're here," I said as I reached him. "I was bored out of my skull, all Joe wants to do is study. You want to go out and do something. Anything!"
Ken's head sunk a bit. "Not really, I'm not really into doing anything right now, I'm just here to talk to Joe about something."
"Aw come on not you too," I groaned. "Doesn't anyone here know how to have fun?"
"Sorry, I just really need to talk to Joe."
"See Ken's been having these attacks," Wormmon said.
"Wormmon!" Ken yelled.
"Sorry, I forgot you didn't want to tell anyone."
"What attacks?" I asked.
He looked away from trying to avoid eye contact. "It's nothing really, just some really bad headaches. Nothing really."
"Maybe you should see a doctor?" I suggested. "Instead of a medical student."
"I can't," he said still trying to avoid looking at me. "There's a good reason, Joe's the only one I can talk to right now."
"Go ahead then," I said. "If you can tear him away from his books."
I made my way back to the window and jumped back into the room through it.
"You coming in?" I asked.
Ken slowly approached the window. "Isn't there a door?"
"Sure, but this ways faster."
The serious look on Ken's face changed to a smile, as he and Wormmon jumped through the window and into the room.
"Ken?" Joe said closing his book as he noticed Ken enter the room. "What are you doing here/"
"I need to ask you something," Ken answered. His eyes met mine. "Do you mind?"
"Yeah actually I do. I've got the crest of Curiosity for a reason I want to know about these attacks."
"What attacks?" Joe asked his voice full of concern.
"It started sometime this morning," Ken started. "I've been having mental attacks. These images keep popping into my head, and it hurts, not really physically, it just scares me so much that it causes a sort of weird physical pain in my head. Since your studying to be a doctor, I was hoping you could tell me what's wrong with me."
"What kind images?" Joe asked.
Ken sighed. "Nothing really I want to be reminded, of, just images from my past. I don't really like to talk about it."
"Ken, I'd like to help, but I am only a first year premed student, you should probably talk to a real doctor about this."
"I can't!" Ken snapped. "I'd have to tell him about the images, and I can't do that, it's about the Digimon. I can't exactly tell them about that, you're the closest person to a doctor that I can tell about it."
"What exactly are the images?" I asked.
"I said I don't want to talk about it!" Ken snapped. "It's just something I'm not proud of! I've done some horrible things! You have no idea what I've done, if you knew you'd know why I don't want to talk about it!"
"I have some sort of idea," I said. "You weren't the only Digimon Emperor you know, I've fought against them, and they have done some pretty bad things, including killing. So I have some idea of what you've done."
It wasn't until those words came out of my mouth I realized what I was saying. I had never forgiven Andrew for the things he had done, I still hated him for it, despite the fact he didn't really know what he was doing, that was the main reason I didn't want him to join our group, and why I was glad to here that he'd decided not to. Then here was Ken, a guy who had probably done the same things, and not really known what he was doing yet I didn't hate Ken, I liked him and treated him like I did all the rest of my teammates. Maybe…just maybe I'd been a little hard on Andrew. I mean Ken seemed like a good guy, he regretted the things he'd done, maybe Andrew did too, maybe I should give him a chance.
"Ken I can't tell you for sure what's wrong," Joe said. "I'm just a student, but I don't think there's anything wrong with you physically, but emotionally is a different story, I think if you want these attacks to stop you should try and deal with it, you should talk to someone."
"Yeah," Ken said with an 'easy for you to say' look on his face. "I better get going, my parents are going to get worried about me."
Ken moved towards the door.
"Wait!" I said he didn't stop. "Why don't you stay? Hang around, maybe what you need is a little socializing, it'll be fun."
"Maybe another time," Ken said, I couldn't help but notice a small smile on his face. "Like I said before I'm not really into doing anything right now."
"Ok, but if you do, give me a call. I'm sure you'll be a lot more fun than the bookworm over here."
"I'm standing right here," Joe said.
"Maybe," Ken said.
He started moving towards the door, but he never did reach it, halfway there we froze in his tracks, then grabbed his head and jerked in pain causing him to drop Wormmon.
"Ken?" I said.
"Aaaaah!" Ken screamed in pain falling to his knees.
"Oh no," Wormmon said. "Not again."
My mind was racing now; I had no idea what to do. If this was some monster destroyed the city I would, that's easy to deal with, but this? It was a good thing Joe was here or I wouldn't know what I would have done. Joe knelt by Ken's side.
"What are you waiting for!" Wormmon yelled angrily at Joe. "Do something! Please help him!"
"I'll try but I don't know how much I can do."
"Don't just try!" Wormmon yelled. "Please help him! I've seen him like this before, but it's never been this bad!"
"I'll do what I can," Joe said. "Ken, what's happening? What do you see?"
"It's him!" Ken screamed still gripping his head. "He's coming back!"
"Who?" Joe asked. "Who's coming back?"
"Him!" Ken screamed even louder. "My-my creation! He's here! He's back!"
Joe's eyes widened in fear. "You don't mean…?"
"No," Wormmon said softly. "Anyone but…"
"Yes," Ken screamed once again now tears were beginning to stream from his eyes.
"Okay what exactly is going on here?" I asked. "Who's coming?"
"You don't want to know," Gomamon answered.
"You better tell him," Gizamon advised. "He can get pretty cranky when he's left out of things."
"Kimeramon," Gomamon said, it looked like he was going to be the only one who was going to tell us anything. Ken and Wormmon obviously didn't want to talk about it, and Joe was too busy trying to find out what was wrong with Ken. "He's a -"
He didn't get to finished - or start - his explanation. A huge explosion, which shook the dorm room, suddenly interrupted Joe's Digimon; it was followed by dozens of blood curdling screams.
I was at the window in a second, only to see a horrifying scene. Half of the dormitory had been destroyed, along with any people who just happened to be in it. Dozens of people were screaming, and running from the flaming wreckage, but maybe wreckage was too strong a word, the more appropriate word would be ashes. There was nothing left of that particular section of the dorm except a pile of ashes. I could see now why Ken was so scared, whatever had done this must be very powerful to do that. In a moment I looked up and saw the source of all the destruction.
Gomamon had been right I didn't want to know what it was. What I was a hideous mix of several Digimon. I recognized some of his parts, some I didn't. He had Greymon's body, Kabuterimon's head, Garurumon's body, Monochromon's tail, Angemon and Kuwagamon's wings, and one of his four arms was Kuwagamon's. the other three I couldn't identify, one was skeleton like, and the other two were both completely black with bandages on the wrists, he definitely looked like he could do some serious damage.
"We gotta get out of here!" I yelled. "Now! Half of your dorm was just destroyed, and I'm guessing the section we're in right now is next."
"Ken I know you're in pain, but we've got to get out of here now."
"I - I think I'm okay now," Ken stuttered weakly. "The images have gone away."
"Yeah but something much worse has just shown up!" Gizamon said seeing Kimeramon. "The real thing just showed up."
"I was afraid of that," Ken said. "Why did he have to be resurrected?"
"Did you forget what I said?" I yelled. "If we don't move right now then we're going to get killed. Are you okay to get out of here on your own?"
Ken nodded. "Yeah, I should be okay."
"Then let's sop standing here talking and get the hell out of here!"
I scooped Gizamon into my arms and didn't hesitate to jump out the window. I wasn't even sure getting out of the room would help much whatever Kimeramon had done he'd done it from the air, and in one shot. We were sitting ducks here, any second he could pick us off one by one. We were going to need backup, so I unclipped my Digivice out of my pocket, and pushed the distress signal button.
Ken, Wormmon, Joe and Gomamon weren't far behind me. We joined the crowd of people who had began running from the dorm.
"Stay with the crowd!" I instructed. "Odds are he's looking for us specifically. If we stay with the crowd he can't find us."
"Either that or he'll just destroy the entire crowd and not bother looking for us." Joe suggested.
Damn! He was right. I stopped running, there was no way to avoid this fight we either ran and let Kimeramon destroy more - both lives and buildings, or stay and fight and probably die ourselves. Not exactly a win - win situation.
No one needed to say what we would do, all six of us agreed we were going to do without even saying a word. The three of us stopped holding our three Digimon in our arms, however the crowd didn't it stop, they continued to run until it was just the three of us and our Digimon staring up at the hideous mixture of Digimon. We were in the courtyard of the dorm, it was like the borderline of destruction, on one side was what was left of the dorm, and the other was the flaming wreckage. The major problem was the courtyard was a big place, and we were standing right in the middle, in plain sight of Kimeramon, there was no way he could miss us.
A smile grew on his face as his eyes locked on our location. Ken's eyes widened in fear after seeing Kimeramon smile. What could he have done to him to freak him out so much?
Kimeramon broke into a dive heading straight at us!
"Gizamon!" I yelled
"On it!" Gizamon yelled knowing instantly what I wanted him to do.
"Gizamon Digivolved to……………….Coelamon!"
"One more time!" I yelled as my crest began to glow.
"Coelamon Digivolved to………………Scorpiomon!"
"Joe?" Gomamon said looking questioningly at Joe.
"Yeah!" Joe confirmed. "Do it!"
"Gomamon Digivolved to………………Ikkakumon!"
"Ikkakumon Digivolved to……………..Zudomon!"
Scorpiomon swung his tail Zudomon swung his hammer at Kimeramon as he approached them, but Kimeramon broke the dive and took to the air again causing both Scorpiomon and Zudomon to miss. Kimeramon was now way to high in the air for them to attack and neither one of them could fly.
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled firing a massive beam from his mouth.
The giant blue beam shot way over Zudomon and Scorpiomon's head's missing them by a mile, but it didn't miss what remained of Joe's dorm, what had remained of the dorm was incinerated the second the giant beam hit. Now that was a massive attack!
"He's definitely got power," I said. "But his aim's horrible! We might actually have a chance against him."
"He didn't miss," Ken said. "He meant to miss our Digimon. He wanted to show us how strong he was, to let us know that we didn't have a chance. He may be an Ultimate like Scorpiomon and Zudomon but he's a very powerful one. I created him, I would know, he could even be considered a Mega."
"Powerful or not," I said. "We've still got to fight, with me guys?"
Joe nodded, but Ken still seemed reluctant, there was no time for him to make his decision Joe and I's Digimon already began to attack.
"Tail Blade!" Scorpiomon said bringing his arms together and forming a beam, shooting it at Kimeramon.
"Zulcan's hammer!" Zudomon yelled slamming his hammer onto the ground forming an energy beam, which also shot up at Kimeramon.
The two attacks both hit Kimeramon's head, but he just smiled and shrugged the attacks off they were nothing.
"That doesn't look good!" I said.
"Firing attacks is all they can do with him up in the air," Joe said. "But it's not doing anything, they're sitting ducks just waiting to get shot by Kimeramon's own attacks."
I clenched my fists, he was right, any second now Kimeramon could just fire an attack that could easily beat our Digimon, we didn't stand a chance.
"Ken!" Wormmon yelled at his partner. "Let me fight, I can help them."
"But - don't you remember last time you fought him?" Ken asked. "No! I won't let you fight, I'm not going to let that happen again."
"That was only because-"
"NO! Losing you was one of the worst things I've ever had to deal with I'm not going to let it happen again."
"But Ken-"
"I said no!"
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled from above.
This time his monstrous blue beam wasn't aimed away from us, and it was big enough to engulf all six of us.
"Move it!" both Scorpiomon and Zudomon yelled.
Scorpiomon swept me up in his two front appendages, and jumped out of the way of the heat viper, Zudomon doing the same to Joe, Ken and Wormmon. The attack had only barely missed, had they waited a second more to push us out of the way we probably wouldn't be standing here anymore. Our Digimon placed us back on the ground.
"You guys run," Scorpiomon said.
"Yeah," Zudomon agreed. "We'll hold them off."
"Are you insane!" I yelled at both of the Ultimate Digimon. "Even fighting together you're no match for him! The others should be here soon, together we should be able to beat him, and all we need to do is fight him off for another ten minutes."
"That's too long," Scorpiomon said. "I hate to admit it but we can't fight him alone for that long, all we can do is hold him off long enough for you guys to escape."
"But you'll be killed!" I screamed.
"Nah, we'll just be reconfigured," Zudomon said. "One simple trip to primary village and we'll be back in action."
"If you think-"
"They're right," Joe said holding his head down. "We have to run."
"I'm not just abandoning my Digimon!" I yelled. "We're a team we fight together!"
"I don't like it anymore than you do, but they're right if we die then Infermon gets his human data, then he Digivolves into his Mega state, and he'll be even more powerful than Kimeramon. They're just thinking about the big picture, sometimes sacrifices have to be made, even if you really don't want to have to make them."
He raised his head and looked at us, tears were running down his face. I was trying my hardest not to cry myself.
"I don't care! I'm not leaving Scorpiomon here to die!"
"You have to!" Scorpiomon demanded. "I'm doing this for you! Wouldn't you do the same thing for me."
"Well - yeah of course I would."
"Then please understand that I have to do this."
No! I wouldn't accept that Joe was right I wouldn't accept it! I couldn't just leave Scorpiomon, either I stayed and fought with him, or he ran with the rest of us.
"No!" I yelled. "I won't! I'm staying here and fighting with you!"
"Dan I really didn't want to have to do this," Joe said. "Wormmon you know what to do."
"Sticky net!"
Before I could react Wormmon shot a web from his mouth, which surrounded my body tying me up.
"Hey!" I yelled falling to the ground, and struggling to break the web, but it was no good, it was way to strong. "Let me go!"
"Sorry we can't," Joe said picking me up by my feet. "This is for your own good. Could you give me a hand Ken?"
Ken nodded and picked me up by my shoulders. I struggled against the web as they carried me away from the battle field where Scorpiomon and Zudomon were about to engage in a fight that would most definitely mean their deaths, and there was nothing I could do about it. This stupid net of Wormmon's was too strong. They continued to run carrying me while I desperately tried to get loose until we were out of the dorm area of Joe's campus, and we ducked behind a building I couldn't identify.
Ken and Joe placed me down on the ground still tied up. I looked up angrily at both of them.
"Are you planning on untying me ever?" I asked.
"Well yeah of course," Joe answered.
"Well I wouldn't recommend it! Because as soon as you do I'm going to kill all three of you!"
"Maybe we shouldn't untie him right away then," Joe said.
I continued to struggle all in vain, but I didn't care I had to get to Scorpiomon before it was too late, I could already here sounds of battle in the background. I couldn't believe this was happening, I was going to loose him! And there was nothing I could do about it! Unless…
"Okay," I said a little more calmly, even though I wasn't calm I was anything but calm. "I'm okay, I'm sorry I got so mad, would you mind untying me I'll be okay."
"Are you sure?" Joe asked.
"Yeah," I said still pretending to be calm.
Apparently it worked, because Joe knelt down beside me and untied me. I didn't waste a second, the very moment Wormmon's net was off me, I jumped to my feet and began running to the battlefield. I couldn't believe they fell for that, and I thought they were supposed to be smart.
I didn't get very far they must have been prepared for me to run, I didn't even get beyond the building we were hiding behind before both Joe and Ken tackled me. I struggled to break free of their grip, but two of them holding me back just enough, I almost escaped a few times, but every time to managed to push me back down, finally after at least ten minutes of trying to break free, I pushed them both off, and fell to my knees, a waterfall of tears running down my face. There was no point now, no point in going to the fight, they were right as much as I hated to accept it.
"How could you!" I yelled at Joe. "How could you just leave your Digimon to die yet! What kind of partner are you."
"Dan he had to," Ken said. "It was-"
"And YOU!" I screamed. "How could you just sit and watch! You didn't even try! You just let it happen! You didn't even try to fight back."
"Dan you don't understand," Ken sighed.
"What did he do to you! He must have done something to scare you so badly."
"I don't like talking about it."
"Well that's just too bad!" I yelled. "Because if you don't tell me what the deal is with that monster I'm going to go rushing into that battlefield again!"
"Please I-"
"Well I guess I better be-"
"Okay, okay," Ken said. "I'll tell you. The truth is I actually created Kimeramon, when I was the Digimon Emperor. I was losing in the battle against Davis and the other Digidestined. I got desperate and created Kimeramon to help defeat them. I came to believe that he was to be my new partner that he was my Digimon instead of Wormmon, but Kimeramon was out of control he wouldn't listen to any of my orders he was on a total rampage destroying everything he saw, and completely mindless. The Digidestined were just barely able to defeat him, and the only reason they were was - was because-"
A river of tears was flowing down Ken's face now.
"Because?" I said.
"Because - Wormmon, he gave them what was left of his energy so they could defeat him, in the process he gave his own life."
I stared in shock, no wonder he was so afraid to let Wormmon fight Kimeramon, Kimeramon had destroyed Wormmon before and he was afraid he'd end up doing it again. I was breaking out in tears because Scorpiomon was about to be destroyed, and I rarely ever cried I think the last time I did was when I was about eight. Ken had actually lost his Digimon; I can't imagine how hard it must have been.
"Ken I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's ok you didn't know, but in a way you were-"
"Aaaaah!"
Ken was interrupted by Zudomon's screams as he crashed into the building we were hiding behind.
"Raaaaar!" Kimeramon roared from above.
I looked in horror as he held Scorpiomon's lifeless body in his skeleton like hand.
"Scorpiomon!" I screamed upon seeing my Digimon.
Kimeramon grinning and tossed Scorpiomon down onto the ground right next to Zudomon, just as both of them began to glow, Zudomon becoming Gomamon again, and Scorpiomon returning to his In-Training form, Tsunomon.
"Gomamon!"
"Tsunomon!"
Joe and I ran to the sides of our Digimon and cradled in our arms.
"Guys get out of there!" Ken yelled.
Too late Kimeramon was already powering up his attack. His mouth opened as his heat viper began to form.
"Heat-"
But before Kimeramon could fire his massive attack at us a giant bird like Digimon tackled him sending him spiraling towards the ground. However the only reason he had taken such a hard hit was because he wasn't expecting it.
"Garudamon!" Joe yelled happily.
"Who?" I said, but got my answer as I saw Sora wave at us atop of the bird like Digimon's head. I assumed that Digimon up there was Biyomon.
Kimeramon glared angrily at Garudamon, and flared his wings flying up towards the bird like Digimon, and began to power up his attack again.
"Flower cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
Once again Kimeramon was stopped from using his attack as Lillymon and Superstarmon hit him from the side.
"Raaaar!" Kimeramon yelled angrily using his black arms to toss the two attacks harmlessly aside.
Lillymon and Superstarmon flew down each on one side of Garudamon, just as Janine and Mimi ran up to Joe and I.
"Hey guys," Mimi said. "We thought you might need some help."
"How did you guys know we were in trouble?" I asked them.
"I wonder," Janine said sarcastically. "We see a giant mismatched Digimon flying in the air in plain site right over Joe's dorm, I wonder how we figured it out."
"Now was that sarcasm you were using, Janine?" I said grinning. "I think you've been hanging around me for too long."
She folded her arms and glared at me angrily. "Shut up! I come to save you and you make fun of me. I was worried about you."
"Oh like when you thought I drowned during the fight with Megaseadramon? Where's my hug this time?"
"Aaaaah!" she yelled angrily. "Just when I think you can't be any more of a jerk!"
"I don't mean to interrupt your little argument," Sora said as Garudamon landed and placed her on the ground. "But we've got a little bit more important things to deal with right now. Like the giant mutant Digimon up there!"
"Don't worry Soar," Garudamon said. "Lillymon, Superstarmon and I will handle him."
Garudamon took to the air once again and joined Lillymon and Superstarmon.
"Heat Viper!"
Once again Kimeramon fired his massive attack. It's power had surprised the three Digimon as all three of them all barely managed to dodge it.
"Wing Blade!" Garudamon yelled forming a bird shaped energy beam with her wings sending it sailing at Kimeramon.
"Heat Viper!"
Kimeramon fired his massive attack once again easily overcoming Garudamon's attack and hitting Garudamon right in the chest.
"Aaaaah!" the giant bird Digimon screamed in pain falling towards the ground.
"Garudamon!" Sora screamed.
Being weakened from the attack Garudamon began to glow and shrunk to become Biyomon again, Sora caught her as she hit the ground. This was looking worse by the second.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
Both Lillymon and Superstarmon's eyes were fired at either side of Kimeramon but he easily tossed them aside one with his skeleton like hand and the other with his Kuwagamon hand.
Then before either Lillymon or Superstarmon could react Kimeramon's black hands shot forward and grabbed both of them tightly in each hand. Kimeramon held them almost directly in front of his mouth, and started laughing evilly.
"No!" Mimi and Janine yelled anticipating what was coming up next. I think we all were.
"Heat Viper!"
Kimeramon opened his mouth and began to fire his trademark attack, until-
"V Laser!"
Kimeramon's attack was interrupted by Exveemon's hitting the mix-and-match Digimon in the chin causing his head to shoot up and his attack harmlessly into the sky.
"Blast rings!"
Suddenly about a dozen rings landed on Kimeramon's black hands, which held Lillymon and Superstarmon causing him to drop the two Digimon. Two more Digimon now joined the battle. Exveemon with Davis riding on his back, and an eagle like Digimon with Yolei on his back, I guess the eagle Digimon was Hawkmon's Champion form. Now we had two Ultimates and two Champions to fight against Kimeramon, but something told me that wasn't going to be enough.
"How are you guys!" Yolei yelled down at us.
"We were a little bored with Kris and Jenn out so we'd thought we'd join you guys." Davis yelled.
"Well then let's take this guy out!" Superstarmon said. "I'm getting a little impatient here."
The other three Digimon nodded as they readied their attacks.
"Flower Cannon!"
"Galactic eye!"
"Blast Rings!"
"V Laser!"
Kimeramon only laughed at the four attacks and tossed each of them aside with each of his four arms. Kimeramon shot forward using his four wings to his advantage flying overhead Superstarmon and Lillymon kicking both of them in the head.
They both screamed as they soared into the ground, crashing into the pavement beside us.
"Lillymon!" Mimi yelled.
"Superstarmon!" Janine yelled.
Mimi and Janine ran to their Digimon's side just as Lillymon became Palmon, and Superstarmon returned to his In-Training form, Piquamon I think. Mimi and Janine cradled their injured Digimon in their arms just like the rest of us, and were forced to merely look up and the hopeless battle going on above us.
It wasn't looking good; Aquillamon and Exveemon were like helpless flies to Kimeramon. In fact that's what it looked like, Kimeramon trying to squash two helpless bugs that were desperately trying to dodge Kimeramon's hands trying to grab a hold of them, but what I really hated about this was that I knew Kimeramon was only toying with them, any second now he could end this just like he had with all the other Digimon.
Kimeramon sneered evilly; it looked like he was about to end it. He made a fist in his skeleton like hand and shot it forward right into Aquillamon. The punch was extremely powerful, no wonder it sent Yolei and Aquillamon, falling towards the ground. Yolei was sent flying form her Digimon's back as Aquillamon became Hawkmon again, fortunately before either of them hit the ground Exveemon scooped them up into his arms and dropped her off next to us.
"Excuse me," Davis said. "But I've got a mess to clean up."
"Davis no-" Ken yelled but stopped as he realized that nothing he was going to say was going to stop Davis. He was already in the air with Exveemon flying towards the extremely powerful Digimon.
Kimeramon swung his skeleton like hand at Exveemon and Davis, but Exveemon was able to dodge, but most likely only because Kimeramon had let him.
"Heat Viper!"
Once again Kimeramon fired his attack, but it wasn't fired at Exveemon like we had all expected, he fired it towards the ground. At all of us!
"Move! Move! MOVE!" Joe yelled.
"No kidding!" I responded.
Joe didn't need us to run we were running the second we'd figured out Kimeramon was attacking us. I don't think any of us had much of a problem getting out of the way of the attack, most of us managed to get clear of the attack, with one exception, me. I foot got caught on a rock; I tripped and fell to the ground, sending Tsunomon rolling away from my arms. I was on my feet in a second, a moments hesitation would cost Tsunomon and I our lives. I bent over and grabbed my Digimon in my arms.
Too late! Much too late! The attack was too close for me to get away in time; all I could do was wait for the attack to hit. I closed my eyes and waiting. I expected to become incinerated by the massive attack but instead I felt two strong scaly arms wrap around my waist and pull me into the sky, and clear of the heat viper. My eyes opened to find myself in Exveemon's arms, while I held Tsunomon tightly in my own.
"Clumsy aren't we," Davis teased. "You should really watch where you're going Exveemon and I almost got ourselves killed trying to save your life."
"I'll try to be more careful next time I'm running for my life."
Davis laughed then turned his attention back to Kimeramon. "Let's try this again Exveemon."
Exveemon nodded and turned around flying straight towards Kimeramon.
"What are you doing!" I yelled.
"What does it look like? We're going to fight Kimeramon."
"Are you insane? After what happened to all the other Digimon, we'll be killed! We've got to get out of here!"
Okay, did I just say that? I was actually suggesting we should run? I think I've been hanging around Kris a bit too long.
"Not necessarily," Davis said. "Exveemon and I beat him before we can do it again."
"You got lucky last time there's no way you can beat him now."
"Then we'll just get lucky again this time," Davis said as Exveemon flew straight at Kimeramon, it was like flying right into the center of a tornado.
Yet in a way it was kind of exhilarating, that feeling of not knowing what was going to happen whether I was going to live or die was rushing through me, man did I ever love that feeling. Why did I want to run again? Oh yeah, the possibility of death, eh not that big a deal right?
Kimeramon's Kuwagamon hand easily smacked us away like we were a pathetic insect, I guess to him we were, sending us spiraling towards the ground, fortunately for us Exveemon was able to recover.
"Ready to try this again?" Exveemon asked.
"Do we have to?" Tsunomon groaned.
"We sure do," Davis said. "Let's go Exveemon."
"You do realize we don't stand a chance right?" I said.
"Come on don't be so pessimistic," Davis, said. "We can do it. I know we can. Let's go Exveemon."
Exveemon nodded, he was about to fly towards Kimeramon again, but was stopped as out of nowhere Stingmon, with Ken on his back, shot between Kimeramon and us.
"Davis what are you doing? You're going to get yourself killed."
"What is with everyone and the pessimism, you're talking like we don't stand a chance."
"That's because we don't!" Ken yelled. "Kimeramon is too powerful for us to beat right now! I would know I created him! He took everything from me! He's too powerful! Or have you forgotten that from our last encounter with him."
"Of course I haven't," Davis said. "Have you forgotten that we beat him last time?"
"You guys got lucky last time! You beat him because Wormmon gave you all his energy to do it, and there's no way I'm letting him do that again."
"I don't expect you to, just let me-"
"Raaaar!"
Kimeramon shot at us like a bullet train, that's exactly what it felt like too. Maybe we should have been paying attention to him instead of talking. Kimeramon's head plowed right into us sending all of us spiraling towards the ground. My eyes widened in fear.
Exveemon wasn't holding onto me anymore! Tsunomon and I were falling at an amazing speed towards the ground.
Then just as fast as Kimeramon had hit us Tsunomon and I stopped falling, as I felt a tug at the back collar of my shirt. I looked up to see that Stingmon had caught me by the back of my shirt. Exveemon had also recovered from the hit and was ready to uselessly charge at Kimeramon again.
"Davis no!" Ken warned. "You can't beat him he's too powerful!"
"Stop with the bad attitude!" Davis said.
"He does have a point Davis," Exveemon said. "Kimeramon is incredibly powerful, we might not be able to beat him."
"Oh not you too, come on we beat him before we can do it again."
"Davis I'm behind you all the way, but I'm just saying it might be more sensible to run, I mean it could take a miracle to beat him."
"Then that's just what we'll have to get! A miracle!" as Davis said that I noticed his crest begin to glow dimly. "It seems whenever we're in trouble, and the odds are against us, that a miracle occurs to get us out of it and we always overcome it, and I don't think now should be any different! So let's just say I believe in miracles!"
With every word that Davis said his crest glowed a brighter and brighter gold light.
"Davis…." Exveemon said. "I feel funny."
"The crest…" Tsunomon said his voice.
The golden light from Davis crests shot from the crest and engulfed both Davis and Exveemon. We'd seen this many times before Exveemon was Digivolving!
"Exveemon Digivolved to…………………Aeroveedramon!"
As the golden aura faded away from Davis and Exveemon, Exveemon's Ultimate form was revealed. A much bigger and meaner looking Exveemon, the X on his chest replaced with a V.
Davis smiled looking at his Digimon. "See, what did I tell you, a Miracle. Let's show this big blowhard whose boss."
Aeroveedramon flared his wings and once again dove at Kimeramon preparing to launch another attack.
"Davis no!" Ken warned.
It wasn't any good, there wasn't anything that could stop those two now. Ken was right to try and stop Davis though. Even though Davis's Digimon was in his Ultimate stage there was no way that he could beat Kimeramon three Ultimates hadn't been able to do that.
"V-Wing Blade!" Aeroveedramon yelled firing a V-shaped energy beam from his mouth.
Kimeramon smiled at the attack and fired his own Heat Viper attack. There was no comparing the two attacks. The Heat Viper easily overpowered the V-wing blade, it hadn't slowed the Heat Viper one bit, it only continued to fly at Aeroveedramon and Davis.
A look of fear washed over both their faces as the attack hit both of them, but they didn't look that scared, their look of fear was almost comical.
Davis and Aeroveedramon spiraled towards the ground. Luckily for them Aeroveedramon was able to flip himself over catching the ground with his hands and feet immediately taking off into the air again, charging at Kimeramon for the umpteenth time.
"Heat Viper!" Kimeramon yelled firing his attack.
This time Aeroveedramon was ready for it, and was able to dodge it, and continued to charge at the mix and match Digimon, but he was smacked away once again by Kimeramon's skeleton like hand.
"It's no use," Ken said. "Kimeramon's just to powerful! He's unstoppable even in his Ultimate state Aeroveedramon isn't strong enough. I've seen what he can do I created him. This - this is all my fault!"
"Ken no, no it's not." Stingmon said. "You didn't-"
"Yes it is !" Ken screamed. "If I hadn't created him then this wouldn't be happening right now! I caused all this pain! It's my fault all those people who were in the dorm was hurt! I caused all this pain and suffering! I'm a horrible person, I've caused so much pain, I thought the days of causing it would end when I threw away that Digimon Emperor outfit, but I'm still causing pain, still causing all this cruelty. It's all my fault."
I looked up at the former Digimon Emperor questioningly. Could he really believe all these things he was saying? I'd gotten to know Ken over the past few days, during the battles against Infermon, and I knew he wasn't like that, in fact he was one of the kindest person I've ever met, it was hard to believe he had ever been the Digimon Emperor, the way Andrew and Emily had, but I don't think he ever could have been truly evil, not someone like that. Then if it was true about him, why couldn't it be true about Andrew - or even Emily? These same thoughts that Ken was screaming out now could be going through Andrew's head at this moment.
Yeah, I had definitely been too hasty at condemning the idea of him joining us. Now I actually regretted the fact that he'd decided not to come with us, especially if he was anything like Ken, Ken was a great guy and there was no way I was going to let him say those things about himself.
"Stop that!" I yelled at him.
"Why?" Ken said looking down at me. I couldn't help but notice the tears running down his face. "It's true isn't it?"
"No of course it's not!" I yelled. "Tell me this Ken, look at Kimeramon, now are you anything like him!"
"No - no why?"
"That's exactly my point!" I said. "Kimeramon is an out of control insane ruthless cruel monster, but that's just what you said you were. You just completely contradicted yourself. But I know that you're wrong, and that you're not like that, and I know that deep in your heart you know you're not like that too. Kimeramon represents what you used to be, but you're not like that anymore. I know you're not when Kimeramon was defeated before that part of you was destroyed with him, and the only reason you think you're like that now is because he's back too. You've got to break that feeling Ken! Because I know you're not the same person you were before, as the Digimon Emperor, but it doesn't matter if I think that or not. You have to think that Ken, you have to think that of yourself, or it won't do or anyone else any good."
Ken stared vacantly at me for a while, thinking about what I had just said. I guess it was a lot to take in. I was even surprised at what I had just said; making big speeches like that just wasn't like me, that was Kris's forte, not mine.
Ken clutched his tag and crest in his hand, and wiped his tears away, no more flowed from his eyes.
"You're right," he said. "I'm not like that anymore. I'm nothing like that monster up there. I admit that I used to be, I was cruel, I was ruthless, and there was a point when I didn't care who I hurt. But the key word in those phrases, is was! I'm not like that anymore! And I sear I never will be again. From now on I promise to be the person I was before all this happened! Before Sam died! Before my Digivice was modified! Before I became the Digimon Emperor! I swear that I will be the person that I was before my life went haywire! I will be that kind and gentle little boy I was before! My days of cruelty, from now on my life will be dedicated to the theme of my crest! Kindness!"
The next events happened just like they had for Davis! Ken's crest began to flow pink light from inside his clutched fist, becoming brighter and brighter! The light engulfed all three of us! The light pink blinded us. Now do I even need to tell you what was happening?
"Stingmon Digivolved to…………………Dinobeemon!"
Slowly the blinding pink light faded away, I looked up to see a half Insect half Dinosaur like Digimon, Stingmon's Ultimate state.
"Two Digivolutions to Ultimate in one day," Davis said as Kimeramon tossed him aside next to us. "That's a new one."
"But do you think it's enough?" Ken asked.
"We'll never know unless we try."
"Uh guys," I said. "I don't know if you noticed but I'm not really fond of hanging by my shirt collar."
"Sorry," Dinobeemon said as he picked me up and placed me on his back next to Ken.
"Let's give this thing a shot then," Aeroveedramon said.
Both Digimon found them charging at Kimeramon again.
"Heat Viper!"
Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon both managed to dodge the attack easily, and continued to fly at Kimeramon, but once again both find themselves being hit aside by one of Kimeramon's hands.
"This isn't working!" Aeroveedramon said. "He's just going to do the same thing to us over and over until we get tired."
"Even both of our Digimon their Ultimate state isn't enough." Ken said clenching his fist. "He's still too powerful! We can't beat him."
"Sure we can," Davis said. "We just don't have to do it the traditional way. You're the genius, you can figure out a way to beat him."
"He's right Ken," I said. "You created Kimeramon, so you know him better than any one else, doesn't he have some sort of a weak point?"
"You're right!" Ken said quickly. "He does, he's just like Samson."
"Who?" Davis said sounding confused.
Actually I was confused too, I knew who Samson was, but I didn't know what Ken was talking about.
"It's Kimeramon's weak point, it's the same as Samson's." Ken explained. "Didn't you ever wonder why I bothered to give Kimeramon Metalgreymon's hair?"
"I don't know to make him look stylish?"
"When I first began to build Kimeramon he kept falling apart, none of the parts would stay together, then I realized it was because they were all unstable, so they wouldn't hold. Metalgreymon's hair was the last part I added, it contained a Digital stabilizer and spread it throughout Kimeramon's body, which kept his body from falling apart. His hair is the only thing keeping that freak together if you take out his hair you take out him. I didn't just give Kimeramon hair to make him look good it serves a purpose just like the rest of his body parts. "
"Great," Davis said determinedly. "Then let's give this guy a haircut."
"Head's up!" Dinobeemon yelled.
Kimeramon charged us this time, trying to ram us with his head. Both Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon were able to use get out of the way in time, then just barely managed to get out of the way of of Kimeramon's hands which all attempted to grab us.
"V-Wing Blade!" Aeroveedramon yelled firing his v-shaped energy blade at Kimeramon's hair just behind his head.
"Irritant Buzz!" Dinobeemon yelled firing a jagged energy beam from his buzzing wings.
Both attacks were aimed at Kimeramon's hair, they would have hit too, if Kimeramon hadn't hit them away with his black devil like arms. Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon tried it again, but Kimeramon only tossed the attacks aside again.
"This isn't working!" Aeroveedramon said. "How are we supposed to cut off his hair if we can't get close enough to hit him."
"We can't just attack him head on," Ken said. "He's too powerful for that, brute strength isn't going to win this one. We need strategy for that."
"Very good," I said sarcastically. "You got a strategy we can use."
"Actually I do."
"Well you better tell us what it is soon!" Dinobeemon yelled. "Because here he comes again."
Kimeramon was trying to charge us again, and had his arms outstretched ready to grab a hold of us.
"Aeroveedramon look over there!" Ken yelled pointing at nothing.
"Huh what?" Aeroveedramon said looking where Ken had been pointing.
Kimeramon made a grab at both Aeroveedramon and Dinobeemon, Dinobeemon was able to get out of the way of Kimeramon's Kuwagamon hand, but because he had been distracted Aeroveedramon couldn't get out of the way in time, and found himself caught in the grip of Kimeramon's skeleton hand. Aeroveedramon struggled to escape from Kimeramon's iron grip, but he held him too tightly for any possible escape.
Kimeramon sneered evilly at the struggling Digimon, and bean forming his Heat Viper in his mouth.
"This better be part of your plan!" I yelled.
"Don't worry it is, Dinobeemon I think you know what to do."
Dinobeemon nodded, and began to fly forward right behind Kimeramon. Kimeramon was too busy dealing with Aeroveedramon so he didn't even notice.
"Time to take a little off the top!" Dinobeemon said. "Irritant buzz!"
Dinobeemon fired his attack. Just as Kimeramon realized what was happening, but he realized just in time to be too late. Dinobeemon's attack sliced every last hair on the back of Kimeramon's head clean off.
We all waited for Ken's prediction to occur, for Kimeramon to fall apart, but it didn't happen, it seemed all slicing off his hair had done was get the monstrous Digimon mad.
"Raaaar!" Kimeramon screamed angrily tossing Aeroveedramon aside, now concentrating his attention on Dinobeemon.
"Ken," I said as worry filled my voice. "I thought you said cutting off his hair would be enough to defeat him!"
"It is! It is! Just give it some time, once the stabilizer stops flowing though his body then he'll fall apart.
Kimeramon only got closer and closer and didn't show any sign of falling apart anytime soon.
"Ken!" I yelled.
"Wait for it." Ken said still as calm as ever.
Kimeramon's skeleton hand reached for us, he came about an inch away from us before it stopped. The only one it didn't catch by surprise was Ken. In an instant Kimeramon's hand that was only inches away from my face shattered into millions of pieces. Kimeramon looked where is arm had once been in horror, his two black arms also shattered and floated into the sky. Soon the rest of his body parts met the same face, his final arm, his tail his legs, his body, and lastly Kimeramon's Kabuterimon head disintegrated, ending the monsters short lived reign of terror. I'd done it again escaped death, but despite the fact that I'd almost died I still loved that feeling of not knowing whether I was going to die or not. I had no idea whether that skeleton like hand was going to kill me or not, and I loved it!
"It's over," Ken said smiling. "He's gone, the last remnants of my reign of the Digimon Emperor is gone. I'll never see the any trace of my past as the Digimon Emperor again."
Janine, Mimi, Sora, Joe, and their Digimon had all gathered in the crater where Kimeramon's heat Viper had hit, and had watched the battle below. Dinobeemon and Aeroveedramon flew down and landed beside them, where Ken Davis and I jumped to the ground from the Ultimate Digimon's back. The second my feet hit the ground I felt two arms wrap around me.
"Why do you always have to do that?" Janine yelled half angrily half concerned hugging me even tighter than she had after I had returned from almost drowning. "You always scare me like that, for once can you not try to risk your life like that."
What was with this girl? Just a while ago she was saying I was a jerk, now she was hugging me?
My normal response would be to say some smart-ass remark, but something told me not to push it. I really liked her, and so far trying to be funny with her had only gotten her mad at me. Instead I wrapped my arms around her. I really expected to be pushed away, but instead she held me tighter.
Joe sighed and looked at his charred dorm. "Great, now where I am I supposed to live?"
"It won't matter!" a familiar and horrible voice said. "Because soon you'll be dead!"
"Please no…" Janine said quietly.
I recognized that voice from when the control spire had appeared. I looked up hoping not to see what I thought I was going to see, only to have my fears realized. He was standing only feet away in what used to be the courtyard by Joe's dorm.
Infermon!
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Well that's part two, yeah I know that Dinobeemon is actually a DNA Digivolution of Exveemon and Stingmon, but it just looked so appropriate for him to be Stingmon's Ultimate state, so no bitching about that 'kay. Don't expect part three for a while. I wish I could have posted it all at once, but I'd rather have you read part of it now then all of it a week from now. Anyway stay tuned for it.