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The very first Chapter post of 2002! I bring you Chapter 34! This is the third pure action chapter of three. the next one will be action too, but will have a bit of romance in it. But I don't really have much else to say. So I'll just let you read it...but as you know I don't own Digimon...some other guy does.
Chapter 34: Apocalypse Again
Those yellow eyes, how long had I feared having to confront those eyes. It had seemed that Evamon had finally decided to show himself, and confront us himself.
"So that's him?" Tai asked. "The big evil we've been fighting since we were eleven. Even though we didn't know it."
"We can assume that's him," Saberleomon said. "The only time we've really seen him was right before he killed Emily and Blackgatomon, and right before we met them. Aside from that he's just tossed his minions at us."
"He sure is taking his time though," Matt said.
He was right about that, the rip in the sky was only about half the size as it was during our last two encounters with him, it was growing but slowly, very slowly.
"Good," I said. "It gives us time to find the others. Obviously it'll be better if we take on the most powerful Dark Force in either world when we're all together."
"Odds are that's what he's trying to do," Tai said. "These evil Digimon tend to mock us when we're together."
"Then let's stop talking about it and just go," Wargreymon said.
We did so, each of us jumping onto our respective Digimon's back. Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon, and Magnaangemon took into the air, while Saberleomon ran at full speed along the ground towards the spot where the majority of our teammates had gathered.
I turned on the radar mode of my Digivice; most of our teammates were gathered in an area in the outskirts of town, and luckily for us weren't moving from that location, and according to the radar Ken and Andrew were on their way to that area. Within a few minutes Andrew, Ken and Wormmon flew overhead atop of Gigadramon and flew alongside Wargreymon, and Metalgarurumon. I continued to watch the screen intently, watching for any extra Digimon that may show up. I was actually expecting dozens to suddenly pop up and all chaos to break loose. I actually only ended up seeing two, they were both just a little ways ahead, near the riverbank.
"Saberleomon we're taking a little detour," I instructed my Digimon.
"Why?" he asked.
"We've got a few stray Digimon by the riverbanks, we've got to take care of them make sure they don't cause any trouble."
Saberleomon nodded as he veered off of the course that we had been taking and began running towards the raging river…the same one that had taken Dan and Janine's lives. I waved up to my comrades in the sky signaling them to go ahead. Tai gave a quick nod and waved back, giving me the go ahead. With the green lion's amazing speed we reached the raging rapids, and slid down the rocky hill to the shoreline.
We both examined the area, not noticing any Digimon around.
"That's weird," I said. "The D3 says there should be two Digimon in this area, but I don't see a thing."
"Maybe you need to change the batteries."
"Yeah very funny." I examined the D3 again, and decreased the range to its shortest scale, and it still said the same thing, that there were two Digimon here. "What's with this thing? It says there are Digimon here! Where are they?"
"Maybe they're in the water." Saberleomon suggested.
"No, the D3 says they should be just a few feet to the right of us."
"Uh Kris," My Digimon said as he looked at the ground to the right. "Maybe instead of looking up because you're expecting big Digimon you should look down."
I listened to my Digimon and looked to were we was looking, and saw two small rookie Digimon passed out on the shore, and not just any Digimon. Gizamon and Otamamon!
As soon as I saw them I jumped off Saberleomon's back and ran over to the unconscious Digimon.
"Hey guys! Wake up," I said shaking them, they're eyes slowly began to open.
"Huh…where are we." Otamamon stuttered.
"What happened?" Gizamon said as he climbed to his feet.
"I could ask you the same question," I said. "Where are Dan and Janine?"
Otamamon shook the water out of his ears, before speaking. "Oh no! Janine! I – I don't know! The last thing I remember is seeing her sinking below the water, then I got caught up in the rapids and – and I ended up here! She could be dead!"
"And Dan!" Gizamon yelled. "I didn't even see him, I jumped into the water and couldn't find Dan. Then I hit my head on a rock lost consciousness and woke up here. He could be dead too."
"Don't worry, I can guarantee you they're not," I said.
"How do you know?" Otamamon yelled. "They're not here they could be?"
"It's obvious," Saberleomon said. "You're still alive therefore they must be alive too. Are you forgetting the link between Digimon and Digidestined."
"Yeah…but they could be close to dead. By the time we find them -"
"Don't worry about that either Otamamon," I said. "Once again it's the link, if they were half dead you'd be losing energy too, you wouldn't be a rookie you'd be at a lower stage."
"So you're confident that they're okay?" Gizamon said.
"Yeah I'm sure, don't worry about it." I said with a smile on my face. I couldn't help it I'd just found out that Dan and Janine were alive! After seeing them fall off that bridge I thought they were dead. It was such an amazing relief to know that they were alive.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Otamamon said. "We've got to go find them." I looked at the tadpole Digimon and then back at the sky, the rip in the sky was almost completely assembled. I didn't have much time to get to the others, I'd probably only have enough time to get there. Let alone look for Dan and Janine.
"We can't…I don't know if you noticed but Evamon's coming, we've got to get to the others before he's completely assembled the rip."
"I can't believe you're so concerned about this war!" Gizamon yelled.
"Dan and Janine are out there somewhere and they could be seriously hurt! Don't you care about them?"
"Of course I do! But right now we don't exactly have the time to go out and look for them, if we had even an extra five minutes I would, but right now we can't spare five seconds. We'll find them I promise, but for now we've got to concentrate on making sure Evamon doesn't do any serious damage, and we can't do that unless we find the others. Now hop on Saberleomon's back with me and we'll find the others and deal with this ok."
Otamamon turned away and refused to look me in the eyes. Gizamon didn't, he looked right at me and said. "Okay, I understand. I know that Dan would want us to go and fight even if he was in danger. He was always stupid that way. But you go Otamamon and I will stay here and look for our partners."
"No you guys are coming with we need all the help-"
"What help could we possibly give? Would you send innocent Digimon into this fight? No of course you wouldn't, because without Dan and Janine that's what we are right now. Without them we're stuck as rookies we'll just get in the way. We're better off here looking for them, that way if we do find them we can head to your location and help out."
I slight grin spread across my face as the little Digimon finished his speech. "Yeah you're absolutely right. You two stay here and find you're partners, but as soon as you do Digivolve and come straight5 to our location." Gizamon gave a quick nod, and then turned to Otamamon. "Come on Otamamon we better get looking."
Seeming content with the plan Otamamon nodded at Gizamon and the two rookie Digimon began to run down the shoreline in search of their partners.
"Well are we going to go too?" Saberleomon asked.
"Yeah let's go," I said jumping onto my Digimon's back.
No sooner than I did that Saberleomon took off at his full speed in the direction of the others. We were forced to dart through the city. People screamed thinking he was one of the monsters that were destroying the city. We were out of the city within minutes and soon darting between trees and jumping over rocks and stumps until we emerged from the forest into a clearing where I saw all of our teammates gathered, minus Dan Janine, and their Digimon of course. Most of the Digimon looked weakened, and had all returned to their rookie forms. The only ones that hadn't were Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon, Magnaangemon, Gigadramon and two other Digimon who I didn't recognize. Saberleomon approached the giant golden bird like Digimon.
A bright smile appeared on my face as I saw Jenn riding atop of the Digimon's back. "Is that Penguinmon?"
"It sure is," Jenn said patting her Digimon on the back. "It's her Mega form, Eaglemon."
"When did Penguinmon Digivolve to Mega?"
"Long story," Jenn said. "Let's just say it happened during our fight with Machinedramon, and Metalseadramon. Both Tapirmon and Penguinmon warped Digivolved into their Mega states, Eaglemon and Skullmammothmon, after that beating them was a snap."
After she said that I glanced over at the second Digimon, and before I even saw Sean riding atop of him, I could tell he was Tapirmon's Mega.
"Here it comes!" Tai said as he looked up at the now completely formed Dark rip in the sky.
The rest of us followed suit also straining our necks looking up into the sky at what we had been fearing confronting ever since we had found out about his existence. I don't think there was one of us that didn't shiver upon seeing those haunting yellow eyes glare down at us.
"Digidestined," the dark voice boomed. "It's quite an honour to finally see all of you together…well most of you. To tell you the truth I'm not at all surprised you were able to defeat almost all of my minions. You are after all the holders of the power of the balance. You not only hold powers from light, but from darkness as well. I have to admit at first I didn't think you had a chance against even my weakest minion, but I realized a long time ago not to underestimate you."
"So stop talking and come down and fight!" Tai and Wargreymon yelled in unison.
"Oh I'm not going to fight you just yet, I'm just going to give you a chance to fight my most powerful minion yet." He paused for a moment, probably waiting for one of us to say something. "What no questions? Nothing to say? Fine, I'll just show you."
The eyes glared even more evilly as little bits of data began to stream out of the rip. For a while they just floated there, moving about randomly. But soon some began to come together, creating two familiar forms. Emily and Ladydevimon.
"Here we have your first enemies," Evamon said. "The Digimon Empress and her partner. Well copies of them anyway." Next more of the data began to reassemble itself forming another two familiar figures. Metaletemon and Kimeramon. "And here we have two of Diaboromon's strongest minions, not exactly powerful but they gave you some trouble didn't they, and of course - " Even more of the data began to reassemble this time it was the majority of it, forming into the most powerful Digimon we've ever fought. Diaboromon. " – Diaboromon himself. A very powerful creation of mine, perhaps my best one yet." It wasn't over yet; soon the last of the data reassembled itself forming into our most recently fought enemies. The Dark Masters! "Lastly we have the most known of my creation. The Dark Masters, it's a pity you've grown so powerful since your last battle with them, I had such high hopes for them. Oh well they now serve a different purpose."
We all glared up at our revived enemies. They didn't seem like they would offer too much of a threat though, each of their bodies just lay floating in the air lifelessly it didn't look like their could move let alone hurt any of us.
"Alone every single one of them failed to defeat you. But together they will form one of the most powerful Digimon in existence, aside from myself of course. It's time for you Digidestined to face my most powerful creation yet."
Each of the lifeless bodies of our old enemies began to come together until they were literately touching, and they began to merge. I could feel myself getting sick; as they merged the bodies literately began to melt turning completely black as their bodies turned globular and merged together. It was unbelievably disgusting I had to try my best just to keep from throwing up. They continued to merge, until all that was left was one giant black blob. It was far from over; the blob began to shape forming into a polygonal shape.
"No way!" Tai said upon seeing the newly formed "Digimon", if you can call it that, to me it just looked like a weird shape. "It can't be him, it just can't!"
However it didn't stay that way for long, soon a couple panels on the shape opened up and about a dozen claws emerged suspended on a ten-foot chain, which floated around the shape. The final change was the one that made it finally look like an actual Digimon, what actually looked like a body emerged from the top of the shape. It was a Digimon that looked like the male version of Ladydevimon, except his lower half was missing. Well I shouldn't say missing; actually the giant polygon was his lower half.
"Great not this again," Izzy grumbled.
"You're kidding me?" Rob said. "Don't telling me you've fought this guy too?"
"Unfortunately yes," Tai answered for Izzy. "His name is Apocalymon. He makes the Dark Masters look like In-Training Digimon. If took all our efforts just to beat him."
"Well then he shouldn't be much of a problem then right?" I asked. "You beat him before when there was only eight of you, and now there's eighteen of us, we can beat him right."
"Believe that if you want," Evamon laughed. "But this is a different Apocalymon then the one you fought three years ago. I formed that Apocalymon from all the Digimon that were reconfigured trying to Digivolve but were killed in the process, but as you know this one was formed from all your old enemies. He's five times stronger than the Apocalymon that you fought three years ago."
"I've got a feeling this is going to get ugly," Saberleomon said. Apocalymon glanced down at the sixteen of us, his eyes seething with pure hatred.
"Have fun," Evamon mocked as the dark rip and yellow glowing eyes disappeared without another word leaving us alone with Apocalymon.
"Oh I have been waiting a long time for this Digidestined!" the giant Digimon boomed.
"Yeah, yeah," Davis said. "We've heard that before! We destroyed you once and now you want to destroy us to get revenge. It's been said to us all too many times before."
"You've never heard it with the same meaning I have! You know very well that I am made from every one enemy that you've ever defeated, and I also have all their memories. Time after time again I've seen you destroy me, now I've finally obtained enough power to do so! All the enemies you've defeated and all their power is stored within me! Alone the parts of me were nothing! Now I'm completely assembled at my full potential! And it's time to put that potential to good use!"
"Then go ahead," Tai said boldly. "No one's stopping you."
"You don't expect me to fight all of you at once did you? I've learned from my piece's memory that together I'm no match for all of you. Besides it doesn't look like the majority of you can even Digivolve to fight me. No I'm saving my time for those who can actually put up a decent fight. Reverse Digivolve!"
"Heads up!" Tai yelled. "This is what almost killed us last time."
Tai's instructions came a little too late Apocalymon's claws shot out at us way too fast, there was no way we could have avoid them. However most of us didn't have to, only two of the claws were launched and clamped onto Gigadramon, Andrew, Magnaangemon, and T.K, but no sooner than they grabbed them, they released, but now Magnaangemon and Gigadramon had both returned to their rookie forms.
"Now that those weak little Ultimates are out of the way, I think it's time that us grown up Megas had a little 'chat'."
Suddenly once again we found another set of the dark Digimon's claws come shooting at us. This time there were more than just two, there were five this time, and like the last time there was no way for us to avoid the attack. I could only watch as one claw grabbed hold of Tai and Wargreymon, a second onto Matt and Metalgarurumon, the third Sean and Skullmammothmon, the fourth onto Jenn and Eaglemon, and lastly the last claw grabbed Saberleomon and I. Suddenly the light that had once peaked through the cracks between the claws suddenly disappeared, a second later we were released from the claws. As I looked back at my Digimon I expected him to be Elecmon but to my surprise he was still Saberleomon, along with the other four Digimon also still in their Mega forms. We were no longer in the field that we once had been, now we found ourselves floating in nothing but black empty space.
"Where are we?" Jenn asked.
Apocalymon grinned. "I've brought you to the Dark World, a third world that is between the two. I've taken you here because it has no boundaries, and the weak members of your team can't get in the way, it's a place where they can't follow. I know they'd find some way or another to Digivolve, and I know very well from Piedmon's memories that you're unstoppable when together, so I brought you all here. Where we can have a decent battle just us Megas."
"You mean you're a coward!" Sean yelled. "And you're too chicken to fight us all together."
"Possibly, but I prefer to believe that I'm being strategic, and cautious. You can't tell me you'd prefer to fight me at my full power rather than fight my pieces one by one."
There wasn't a word spoken. We all knew he was right, it would just be the smart thing to do, fight a weaker opponent rather than a stronger one, especially since the fate of two worlds were at stake. Being a coward and being strategic were two different things, Apocalymon wasn't being a coward he was thinking in the same way that we would, well except for maybe Dan. Ringing evil laughter from Apocalymon echoed throughout the black space we were floating within. How an echo could happen in here was beyond me. "I didn't think you would. I'm not making the same mistake many of the pieces of me made before. The old saying is right, you learn more from your mistakes than your successes, and seeing as in the past I've made several mistakes while battling you, you could say I've learned a lot." The grin on his face grew wider as he began to extend one of his claws. "Teaching time is over and now it's time to test what I've learned!"
The extended claw began to reshape itself eventually forming into what looked like the cannons that were mounted on Machinedramon's back.
"Giga Cannon!" Apocalymon yelled firing what indeed was Machinedramon's Giga Cannon attack the attack flew straight at Sean and Skullmammothmon.
"Marrow Missile!" Skullmammothmon yelled launching the tips of his tusk as missiles.
The two attacks collided however the Giga cannon easily tore apart the Marrow Missile and collided with Skullmammothmon's side causing the enormous elephant like Digimon to trumpet in pain. He definitely would have fallen over if there were a ground for him to stand on, instead he was sent tumbling backwards and managed to recover soon after.
"Now!" I ordered. "Let's stop standing around and attack."
My order was followed immediately as everyone sprang into action charging at the giant polygonal and devil like Digimon.
"Terra Force!"
"Metal Wolf's Claw!"
"Howling Crusher!"
"Cross Wing!"
"Marrow Missile."
Apocalymon didn't even flinch at the sight of the five attacks streaming at him. He extended five of his claws, each of which reforming themselves into a different shape, and each launched a different attack at the five that our Digimon had launched.
"River of Power! Heat Viper! Super Clown Trick! Darkness Explosion! Giga Cannon!"
Each of the five attacks launched by Apocalymon easier overpowered out own tearing right through them and continuing to stream forward, we all managed to dodge them but only by the skin of our teeth.
"This is nuts!" I said. "How can those attacks do so much? When we fought the Digimon that originally used them they weren't that powerful!"
"Obvious isn't it?" Tai said. "It's because Apocalymon has at least twenty times more power than any of those Digimon, thus he's able to put more power into the attacks."
"Okay, if that's the case then how did you beat him last time?"
Tai's glance met Apocalymon's claws. "We took out his claws, without those he can't attack, we've got to get rid of those claws after we do that he'll be just sitting there waiting for us to finish him off."
"There's a problem with that," Jenn said. "Whenever we launch an attack he just fries it with one of his own."
"Physical attacks," I said. "We'll have to give those a shot."
"Good plan," Tai said. "No time to waste let's go."
We followed the plan and charged at Apocalymon each of us choosing a claw and attacking it. Saberleomon picked one closer to the upper region. However Apocalymon had seen it coming, the claw Saberleomon had intended to attack attacked the two of us. It shot forward and attempted to clamp down and trap the two of us inside of it, but Saberleomon used the fact that there was no gravity or ground to his advantage and flew over it and landed on the chain. He was about to bite down on the chain when all of a sudden a second claw slammed into us sending the two of us flying away. Saberleomon used his tail to balance himself out and became upright again, but no sooner than he had another claw hit us again and we were thrown even farther away so far that we were out of reach of the claws now.
Basically the same thing had happened to the others, attempted to attack failed and were knocked back to the same location that Saberleomon and I were.
"That was a nice try," Apocalymon mocked. "But see if you can deal with this!" Once again Apocalymon extended one of his claws. I suddenly felt a wave of fear wash over me as I saw the claw reshape itself into the familiar image of Diaboromon's head.
"Catastrophe Cannon!"
The massive beam was fired from the claw. The beam spread itself out, making it even harder to get out of the way. Saberleomon and I were just barely able to get out of the way of the incredible attack,. I'm sure it cut off at least a quarter of an inch of my hair. As the attack finally cleared I examined the area. Everyone was okay, Eaglemon's wings were singed a bit, but aside from that no real damage had been caused.
"Uh Tai, Matt. I think this might be a good time to bring out our secret weapon." I suggested.
"You mean Omnimon?" Tai asked. "But Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon can only DNA Digivolve if Omnimon is really needed."
"Trust me he's needed!" Saberleomon and I said in unison.
"It's worth a shot Tai," Matt said.
"Okay here goes."
Tai and Matt held their Digivices close to each other both reacted immediately.
"Wargreymon! Metalgarurumon! DNA Digivolved to…………………Omnimon!"
"Ah yes," Apocalymon said upon seeing Omnimon. "The Digimon that destroyed the most powerful part of me. Well I've got more power than Diaboromon ever could have dreamed of. Good luck destroying me!"
"You're the one who's going to need the luck," Omnimon's double voice said as he withdrew his sword from his Wargreymon head hand.
"Let's see how you deal with this! Catastrophe Cannon!"
From the same claw Apocalymon fired the same massive attack. Omnimon used his sword to block the attack to split the massive energy beam in two. He wasn't exactly doing it effortlessly though, by the time the attack had completely cleared away. The Omega Digimon was actually panting.
"Looks like the once mighty Omnimon is actually tired." Apocalymon said. "Try these!"
All twelve of Apocalymon's huge claws flew at Omnimon, but Omnimon was able to quickly counter the attack by grabbing a hold of the claws then used his new advantage point to swing the massive dark Digimon around in a circle right before releasing him sending the polygonal Digimon flying and screaming the chains of his claws becoming tangled amongst each other. When Apocalymon was finally able to recover, he screamed in total frustration and ripped his tangled claws out of the knots in one swing, but before he could launch a counter attack Omnimon was on the move again and Evamon's most powerful minion received a swift kick to the midsection and an uppercut to the jaw. Once again Apocalymon attempted to counter the attack but was stopped as he found Omnimon's sword dug into the middle of his polygonal body.
Omnimon was force to withdraw as Apocalymon took a swing at him with another one of his claws. Needless to say the quick beating had angered the Apocalypse Digimon. He was breathing heavily from it with a look of hatred and anger locked onto his face.
"I can't believe it," he said. "You're, you're actually stronger than me."
"Of course I am," Omnimon said. "I'm an Omega Digimon. Completely Digivolved there's no level higher than myself. So you've finally admitted defeat?"
"Hardly, Just because you're more powerful than I am doesn't mean you can beat me. I've still got one more attack that'll finish all of you."
The claw that had once been formed into Diaboromon's head began to reshape itself once again this time taking another familiar shape, the shape of a tag and crest with the unmistakable crest of Darkness inside the tag.
"My most useful technique, one I obtained from you Canadian Digidestined's first enemy. Crest of Darkness!" Suddenly a Dark glow shone from the crest causing a sphere of Darkness to from around Apocalymon. "Handy little trick huh? It creates a barrier of pure Darkness. Not even the most powerful attack could break it. Not even one from Evamon, the only thing that could even rival it would be the crest of Light, and I left the little brat that has that crest back in your world."
"That brat is my sister you demented rubrics cube!" Tai yelled. "Omnimon it's time to finish this battle! No one insults anyone I care about!"
"On it Tai," Omnimon said. "Garuru Cannon!"
Omnimon launched an amazing energy beam even bigger than Apocalymon's version of Catastrophe Cannon, but despite how powerful it was when it hit the dark shield that surrounded Apocalymon it hit with massive force, but didn't even seem to scratch the shield of darkness.
"Try it again Omnimon," Matt suggested.
Omnimon did just that firing a second Garuru cannon at Apocalymon, but for a second time the attack just hit the shield not causing even the slightest damage. Omnimon continued to attack launching his most powerful attack repeatedly, but not once did even one energy particle ever break through the shield.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled firing his own attack right where Omnimon was firing. Soon the other two Mega Digimon firing their own attacks at the same spot Saberleomon and Omnimon were, but still despite the fact that we were now giving it all we had we still couldn't even make the smallest hole in the shield.
This didn't make sense, I didn't remember Emily's crest ever being this powerful, it had never been able to repel us before. It only hurt other Digimon it never hurt us. The power of our crests always canceled the powers of hers out making it impossible for her crest to hurt us aside from allowing Blackgatomon to Digivolve. They always paralyzed other Digimon never stopped our own Digimon or us. Was it because Apocalymon was using it? Was he able to modify it somehow so he could use it differently? No that was impossible, he was made up of those Digimon, he could use his own power to make the attacks more powerful but he couldn't modify it. So that meant –
"Saberleomon I have a plan!"
"Yeah what is it?" Saberleomon asked stopping firing his attack.
"I want to run straight into the shield of Darkness."
"What? Are you insane! Omnimon's strongest attacks plus three other Mega attacks couldn't scratch it, if we ran straight into the shield well – you've seen a bug zapper in action."
"Saberleomon just trust me, please what do we have to lose."
"Well we could go splat."
"And that won't happen anyway when Apocalymon gets his hands on us."
"Good point…are you sure about this."
"Yes, now please just trust me and do it."
"Aright here goes."
Following my instructions Saberleomon flew towards the Dark shield.
"Kris!" Jenn yelled. "Stop! Are you insane!"
Tai, Matt, and Sean shouted similar words, but I ignored them as we began to approach the Dark shield. I closed my eyes as we got closer but opened them about an inch away from it and – we past right through it! No pain no discomfort, nothing it was like it wasn't even there. My theory was right! The crest couldn't hurt us, it could stop our attacks because they weren't physical, but when it came to us it couldn't do a thing. This whole thing had been one big bluff! And Apocalymon hadn't even noticed we'd gotten in, which Saberleomon was going to take full advantage of.
"Howling Crusher!" he yelled firing his attack destroying one of the claws.
"Huh!" our enemy said as he noticed we'd gotten through.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled again destroying a second claw.
"You little!" Apocalymon yelled in frustration as he attacked us with one of his claws.
The claw was about an inch away from our faces before a quick moving Omnimon suddenly stopped it. The mighty Omega Digimon gave it a good yank pulling it from Apocalymon's body and tossed it aside.
"Marrow Missile!"
"Cross wing!"
Apocalymon had been so distracted by Omnimon and Saberleomon he didn't even notice the two other Mega Digimon that had past through his shield, two more of his claws had just bit the dust.
"I'll destroy all of you!" the Apocalypse Digimon yelled angrily as his remaining claws began to reshape into varying attacks, but before he could even finish reshaping his claws Omnimon acted. Moving swiftly and swinging his sword in a matter of seconds Apocalymon's remaining claws had all been removed from his body.
"Alright Omnimon!" Matt cheered. "Care to finish the job."
"My pleasure." Omnimon said. "Garuru Cannon!"
Omnimon's final attack was launched shooting right through the upper body on the top of the polygon completely destroying it. All that was left of the Digimon now was the Polygon.
"Did we just win?" I said happily.
"No you haven't!" Apocalymon boomed.
"I'm not finished yet! And I swear I will destroy you!"
"Yeah and you're going to do that how?" Eaglemon asked.
Tai slapped himself on the forehead. "You had to ask didn't you?"
"I'll show you! My most powerful attack! It will destroy me the Digital World and the real world too! But it'll be worth it to destroy all of you! My most powerful attack1 Total –Aaaaah!"
Apocalymon's speech was cut off as Omnimon's Garuru Cannon shot through the center of his polygon body, leaving a gaping hole in it, long soon after what was left of his body shattered as the bits of data eventually floated away.
"Whoops, and we didn't even get to see his big fancy attack." Omnimon said snickering.
The rest of us couldn't help but laugh too, but that stopped as soon as those menacing yellow eyes appeared in front of us.
"Good work Digidestined, but like I said before I'm not surprised you defeated him. He was after all only a minion. When you fight me you won't be as successful, and trust me you will face me."
No sooner had he said that then the eyes disappeared, and along with it so did the Dark World. Before we could even blink an eye the ten of us were standing in the empty field we had been before. Our Digimon had all Dedigivolved,
Saberleomon was Elecmon, Eaglemon was Ostrimon, Skullmammothmon was Upamon, and Omnimon was Agumon and Gabumon.
Each of our teammates heads turned as they saw us appear out of nowhere. They crowded us immediately, smiles on their faces as we were reunited, questions were thrown at us as to what had happened. We answered them all with two simple words.
"He's toast."
And that's all that was needed to be said. The questions stopped, and for now the trouble was over, key words being for now. We all knew what was coming next, Evamon had implied it when he had said that Apocalymon was his most powerful minion, which meant next time we fought we would be fighting Evamon himself.
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Stay tuned for Chapter 34: The Leaders Clash
The very first Chapter post of 2002! I bring you Chapter 34! This is the third pure action chapter of three. the next one will be action too, but will have a bit of romance in it. But I don't really have much else to say. So I'll just let you read it...but as you know I don't own Digimon...some other guy does.
Chapter 34: Apocalypse Again
Those yellow eyes, how long had I feared having to confront those eyes. It had seemed that Evamon had finally decided to show himself, and confront us himself.
"So that's him?" Tai asked. "The big evil we've been fighting since we were eleven. Even though we didn't know it."
"We can assume that's him," Saberleomon said. "The only time we've really seen him was right before he killed Emily and Blackgatomon, and right before we met them. Aside from that he's just tossed his minions at us."
"He sure is taking his time though," Matt said.
He was right about that, the rip in the sky was only about half the size as it was during our last two encounters with him, it was growing but slowly, very slowly.
"Good," I said. "It gives us time to find the others. Obviously it'll be better if we take on the most powerful Dark Force in either world when we're all together."
"Odds are that's what he's trying to do," Tai said. "These evil Digimon tend to mock us when we're together."
"Then let's stop talking about it and just go," Wargreymon said.
We did so, each of us jumping onto our respective Digimon's back. Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon, and Magnaangemon took into the air, while Saberleomon ran at full speed along the ground towards the spot where the majority of our teammates had gathered.
I turned on the radar mode of my Digivice; most of our teammates were gathered in an area in the outskirts of town, and luckily for us weren't moving from that location, and according to the radar Ken and Andrew were on their way to that area. Within a few minutes Andrew, Ken and Wormmon flew overhead atop of Gigadramon and flew alongside Wargreymon, and Metalgarurumon. I continued to watch the screen intently, watching for any extra Digimon that may show up. I was actually expecting dozens to suddenly pop up and all chaos to break loose. I actually only ended up seeing two, they were both just a little ways ahead, near the riverbank.
"Saberleomon we're taking a little detour," I instructed my Digimon.
"Why?" he asked.
"We've got a few stray Digimon by the riverbanks, we've got to take care of them make sure they don't cause any trouble."
Saberleomon nodded as he veered off of the course that we had been taking and began running towards the raging river…the same one that had taken Dan and Janine's lives. I waved up to my comrades in the sky signaling them to go ahead. Tai gave a quick nod and waved back, giving me the go ahead. With the green lion's amazing speed we reached the raging rapids, and slid down the rocky hill to the shoreline.
We both examined the area, not noticing any Digimon around.
"That's weird," I said. "The D3 says there should be two Digimon in this area, but I don't see a thing."
"Maybe you need to change the batteries."
"Yeah very funny." I examined the D3 again, and decreased the range to its shortest scale, and it still said the same thing, that there were two Digimon here. "What's with this thing? It says there are Digimon here! Where are they?"
"Maybe they're in the water." Saberleomon suggested.
"No, the D3 says they should be just a few feet to the right of us."
"Uh Kris," My Digimon said as he looked at the ground to the right. "Maybe instead of looking up because you're expecting big Digimon you should look down."
I listened to my Digimon and looked to were we was looking, and saw two small rookie Digimon passed out on the shore, and not just any Digimon. Gizamon and Otamamon!
As soon as I saw them I jumped off Saberleomon's back and ran over to the unconscious Digimon.
"Hey guys! Wake up," I said shaking them, they're eyes slowly began to open.
"Huh…where are we." Otamamon stuttered.
"What happened?" Gizamon said as he climbed to his feet.
"I could ask you the same question," I said. "Where are Dan and Janine?"
Otamamon shook the water out of his ears, before speaking. "Oh no! Janine! I – I don't know! The last thing I remember is seeing her sinking below the water, then I got caught up in the rapids and – and I ended up here! She could be dead!"
"And Dan!" Gizamon yelled. "I didn't even see him, I jumped into the water and couldn't find Dan. Then I hit my head on a rock lost consciousness and woke up here. He could be dead too."
"Don't worry, I can guarantee you they're not," I said.
"How do you know?" Otamamon yelled. "They're not here they could be?"
"It's obvious," Saberleomon said. "You're still alive therefore they must be alive too. Are you forgetting the link between Digimon and Digidestined."
"Yeah…but they could be close to dead. By the time we find them -"
"Don't worry about that either Otamamon," I said. "Once again it's the link, if they were half dead you'd be losing energy too, you wouldn't be a rookie you'd be at a lower stage."
"So you're confident that they're okay?" Gizamon said.
"Yeah I'm sure, don't worry about it." I said with a smile on my face. I couldn't help it I'd just found out that Dan and Janine were alive! After seeing them fall off that bridge I thought they were dead. It was such an amazing relief to know that they were alive.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Otamamon said. "We've got to go find them." I looked at the tadpole Digimon and then back at the sky, the rip in the sky was almost completely assembled. I didn't have much time to get to the others, I'd probably only have enough time to get there. Let alone look for Dan and Janine.
"We can't…I don't know if you noticed but Evamon's coming, we've got to get to the others before he's completely assembled the rip."
"I can't believe you're so concerned about this war!" Gizamon yelled.
"Dan and Janine are out there somewhere and they could be seriously hurt! Don't you care about them?"
"Of course I do! But right now we don't exactly have the time to go out and look for them, if we had even an extra five minutes I would, but right now we can't spare five seconds. We'll find them I promise, but for now we've got to concentrate on making sure Evamon doesn't do any serious damage, and we can't do that unless we find the others. Now hop on Saberleomon's back with me and we'll find the others and deal with this ok."
Otamamon turned away and refused to look me in the eyes. Gizamon didn't, he looked right at me and said. "Okay, I understand. I know that Dan would want us to go and fight even if he was in danger. He was always stupid that way. But you go Otamamon and I will stay here and look for our partners."
"No you guys are coming with we need all the help-"
"What help could we possibly give? Would you send innocent Digimon into this fight? No of course you wouldn't, because without Dan and Janine that's what we are right now. Without them we're stuck as rookies we'll just get in the way. We're better off here looking for them, that way if we do find them we can head to your location and help out."
I slight grin spread across my face as the little Digimon finished his speech. "Yeah you're absolutely right. You two stay here and find you're partners, but as soon as you do Digivolve and come straight5 to our location." Gizamon gave a quick nod, and then turned to Otamamon. "Come on Otamamon we better get looking."
Seeming content with the plan Otamamon nodded at Gizamon and the two rookie Digimon began to run down the shoreline in search of their partners.
"Well are we going to go too?" Saberleomon asked.
"Yeah let's go," I said jumping onto my Digimon's back.
No sooner than I did that Saberleomon took off at his full speed in the direction of the others. We were forced to dart through the city. People screamed thinking he was one of the monsters that were destroying the city. We were out of the city within minutes and soon darting between trees and jumping over rocks and stumps until we emerged from the forest into a clearing where I saw all of our teammates gathered, minus Dan Janine, and their Digimon of course. Most of the Digimon looked weakened, and had all returned to their rookie forms. The only ones that hadn't were Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon, Magnaangemon, Gigadramon and two other Digimon who I didn't recognize. Saberleomon approached the giant golden bird like Digimon.
A bright smile appeared on my face as I saw Jenn riding atop of the Digimon's back. "Is that Penguinmon?"
"It sure is," Jenn said patting her Digimon on the back. "It's her Mega form, Eaglemon."
"When did Penguinmon Digivolve to Mega?"
"Long story," Jenn said. "Let's just say it happened during our fight with Machinedramon, and Metalseadramon. Both Tapirmon and Penguinmon warped Digivolved into their Mega states, Eaglemon and Skullmammothmon, after that beating them was a snap."
After she said that I glanced over at the second Digimon, and before I even saw Sean riding atop of him, I could tell he was Tapirmon's Mega.
"Here it comes!" Tai said as he looked up at the now completely formed Dark rip in the sky.
The rest of us followed suit also straining our necks looking up into the sky at what we had been fearing confronting ever since we had found out about his existence. I don't think there was one of us that didn't shiver upon seeing those haunting yellow eyes glare down at us.
"Digidestined," the dark voice boomed. "It's quite an honour to finally see all of you together…well most of you. To tell you the truth I'm not at all surprised you were able to defeat almost all of my minions. You are after all the holders of the power of the balance. You not only hold powers from light, but from darkness as well. I have to admit at first I didn't think you had a chance against even my weakest minion, but I realized a long time ago not to underestimate you."
"So stop talking and come down and fight!" Tai and Wargreymon yelled in unison.
"Oh I'm not going to fight you just yet, I'm just going to give you a chance to fight my most powerful minion yet." He paused for a moment, probably waiting for one of us to say something. "What no questions? Nothing to say? Fine, I'll just show you."
The eyes glared even more evilly as little bits of data began to stream out of the rip. For a while they just floated there, moving about randomly. But soon some began to come together, creating two familiar forms. Emily and Ladydevimon.
"Here we have your first enemies," Evamon said. "The Digimon Empress and her partner. Well copies of them anyway." Next more of the data began to reassemble itself forming another two familiar figures. Metaletemon and Kimeramon. "And here we have two of Diaboromon's strongest minions, not exactly powerful but they gave you some trouble didn't they, and of course - " Even more of the data began to reassemble this time it was the majority of it, forming into the most powerful Digimon we've ever fought. Diaboromon. " – Diaboromon himself. A very powerful creation of mine, perhaps my best one yet." It wasn't over yet; soon the last of the data reassembled itself forming into our most recently fought enemies. The Dark Masters! "Lastly we have the most known of my creation. The Dark Masters, it's a pity you've grown so powerful since your last battle with them, I had such high hopes for them. Oh well they now serve a different purpose."
We all glared up at our revived enemies. They didn't seem like they would offer too much of a threat though, each of their bodies just lay floating in the air lifelessly it didn't look like their could move let alone hurt any of us.
"Alone every single one of them failed to defeat you. But together they will form one of the most powerful Digimon in existence, aside from myself of course. It's time for you Digidestined to face my most powerful creation yet."
Each of the lifeless bodies of our old enemies began to come together until they were literately touching, and they began to merge. I could feel myself getting sick; as they merged the bodies literately began to melt turning completely black as their bodies turned globular and merged together. It was unbelievably disgusting I had to try my best just to keep from throwing up. They continued to merge, until all that was left was one giant black blob. It was far from over; the blob began to shape forming into a polygonal shape.
"No way!" Tai said upon seeing the newly formed "Digimon", if you can call it that, to me it just looked like a weird shape. "It can't be him, it just can't!"
However it didn't stay that way for long, soon a couple panels on the shape opened up and about a dozen claws emerged suspended on a ten-foot chain, which floated around the shape. The final change was the one that made it finally look like an actual Digimon, what actually looked like a body emerged from the top of the shape. It was a Digimon that looked like the male version of Ladydevimon, except his lower half was missing. Well I shouldn't say missing; actually the giant polygon was his lower half.
"Great not this again," Izzy grumbled.
"You're kidding me?" Rob said. "Don't telling me you've fought this guy too?"
"Unfortunately yes," Tai answered for Izzy. "His name is Apocalymon. He makes the Dark Masters look like In-Training Digimon. If took all our efforts just to beat him."
"Well then he shouldn't be much of a problem then right?" I asked. "You beat him before when there was only eight of you, and now there's eighteen of us, we can beat him right."
"Believe that if you want," Evamon laughed. "But this is a different Apocalymon then the one you fought three years ago. I formed that Apocalymon from all the Digimon that were reconfigured trying to Digivolve but were killed in the process, but as you know this one was formed from all your old enemies. He's five times stronger than the Apocalymon that you fought three years ago."
"I've got a feeling this is going to get ugly," Saberleomon said. Apocalymon glanced down at the sixteen of us, his eyes seething with pure hatred.
"Have fun," Evamon mocked as the dark rip and yellow glowing eyes disappeared without another word leaving us alone with Apocalymon.
"Oh I have been waiting a long time for this Digidestined!" the giant Digimon boomed.
"Yeah, yeah," Davis said. "We've heard that before! We destroyed you once and now you want to destroy us to get revenge. It's been said to us all too many times before."
"You've never heard it with the same meaning I have! You know very well that I am made from every one enemy that you've ever defeated, and I also have all their memories. Time after time again I've seen you destroy me, now I've finally obtained enough power to do so! All the enemies you've defeated and all their power is stored within me! Alone the parts of me were nothing! Now I'm completely assembled at my full potential! And it's time to put that potential to good use!"
"Then go ahead," Tai said boldly. "No one's stopping you."
"You don't expect me to fight all of you at once did you? I've learned from my piece's memory that together I'm no match for all of you. Besides it doesn't look like the majority of you can even Digivolve to fight me. No I'm saving my time for those who can actually put up a decent fight. Reverse Digivolve!"
"Heads up!" Tai yelled. "This is what almost killed us last time."
Tai's instructions came a little too late Apocalymon's claws shot out at us way too fast, there was no way we could have avoid them. However most of us didn't have to, only two of the claws were launched and clamped onto Gigadramon, Andrew, Magnaangemon, and T.K, but no sooner than they grabbed them, they released, but now Magnaangemon and Gigadramon had both returned to their rookie forms.
"Now that those weak little Ultimates are out of the way, I think it's time that us grown up Megas had a little 'chat'."
Suddenly once again we found another set of the dark Digimon's claws come shooting at us. This time there were more than just two, there were five this time, and like the last time there was no way for us to avoid the attack. I could only watch as one claw grabbed hold of Tai and Wargreymon, a second onto Matt and Metalgarurumon, the third Sean and Skullmammothmon, the fourth onto Jenn and Eaglemon, and lastly the last claw grabbed Saberleomon and I. Suddenly the light that had once peaked through the cracks between the claws suddenly disappeared, a second later we were released from the claws. As I looked back at my Digimon I expected him to be Elecmon but to my surprise he was still Saberleomon, along with the other four Digimon also still in their Mega forms. We were no longer in the field that we once had been, now we found ourselves floating in nothing but black empty space.
"Where are we?" Jenn asked.
Apocalymon grinned. "I've brought you to the Dark World, a third world that is between the two. I've taken you here because it has no boundaries, and the weak members of your team can't get in the way, it's a place where they can't follow. I know they'd find some way or another to Digivolve, and I know very well from Piedmon's memories that you're unstoppable when together, so I brought you all here. Where we can have a decent battle just us Megas."
"You mean you're a coward!" Sean yelled. "And you're too chicken to fight us all together."
"Possibly, but I prefer to believe that I'm being strategic, and cautious. You can't tell me you'd prefer to fight me at my full power rather than fight my pieces one by one."
There wasn't a word spoken. We all knew he was right, it would just be the smart thing to do, fight a weaker opponent rather than a stronger one, especially since the fate of two worlds were at stake. Being a coward and being strategic were two different things, Apocalymon wasn't being a coward he was thinking in the same way that we would, well except for maybe Dan. Ringing evil laughter from Apocalymon echoed throughout the black space we were floating within. How an echo could happen in here was beyond me. "I didn't think you would. I'm not making the same mistake many of the pieces of me made before. The old saying is right, you learn more from your mistakes than your successes, and seeing as in the past I've made several mistakes while battling you, you could say I've learned a lot." The grin on his face grew wider as he began to extend one of his claws. "Teaching time is over and now it's time to test what I've learned!"
The extended claw began to reshape itself eventually forming into what looked like the cannons that were mounted on Machinedramon's back.
"Giga Cannon!" Apocalymon yelled firing what indeed was Machinedramon's Giga Cannon attack the attack flew straight at Sean and Skullmammothmon.
"Marrow Missile!" Skullmammothmon yelled launching the tips of his tusk as missiles.
The two attacks collided however the Giga cannon easily tore apart the Marrow Missile and collided with Skullmammothmon's side causing the enormous elephant like Digimon to trumpet in pain. He definitely would have fallen over if there were a ground for him to stand on, instead he was sent tumbling backwards and managed to recover soon after.
"Now!" I ordered. "Let's stop standing around and attack."
My order was followed immediately as everyone sprang into action charging at the giant polygonal and devil like Digimon.
"Terra Force!"
"Metal Wolf's Claw!"
"Howling Crusher!"
"Cross Wing!"
"Marrow Missile."
Apocalymon didn't even flinch at the sight of the five attacks streaming at him. He extended five of his claws, each of which reforming themselves into a different shape, and each launched a different attack at the five that our Digimon had launched.
"River of Power! Heat Viper! Super Clown Trick! Darkness Explosion! Giga Cannon!"
Each of the five attacks launched by Apocalymon easier overpowered out own tearing right through them and continuing to stream forward, we all managed to dodge them but only by the skin of our teeth.
"This is nuts!" I said. "How can those attacks do so much? When we fought the Digimon that originally used them they weren't that powerful!"
"Obvious isn't it?" Tai said. "It's because Apocalymon has at least twenty times more power than any of those Digimon, thus he's able to put more power into the attacks."
"Okay, if that's the case then how did you beat him last time?"
Tai's glance met Apocalymon's claws. "We took out his claws, without those he can't attack, we've got to get rid of those claws after we do that he'll be just sitting there waiting for us to finish him off."
"There's a problem with that," Jenn said. "Whenever we launch an attack he just fries it with one of his own."
"Physical attacks," I said. "We'll have to give those a shot."
"Good plan," Tai said. "No time to waste let's go."
We followed the plan and charged at Apocalymon each of us choosing a claw and attacking it. Saberleomon picked one closer to the upper region. However Apocalymon had seen it coming, the claw Saberleomon had intended to attack attacked the two of us. It shot forward and attempted to clamp down and trap the two of us inside of it, but Saberleomon used the fact that there was no gravity or ground to his advantage and flew over it and landed on the chain. He was about to bite down on the chain when all of a sudden a second claw slammed into us sending the two of us flying away. Saberleomon used his tail to balance himself out and became upright again, but no sooner than he had another claw hit us again and we were thrown even farther away so far that we were out of reach of the claws now.
Basically the same thing had happened to the others, attempted to attack failed and were knocked back to the same location that Saberleomon and I were.
"That was a nice try," Apocalymon mocked. "But see if you can deal with this!" Once again Apocalymon extended one of his claws. I suddenly felt a wave of fear wash over me as I saw the claw reshape itself into the familiar image of Diaboromon's head.
"Catastrophe Cannon!"
The massive beam was fired from the claw. The beam spread itself out, making it even harder to get out of the way. Saberleomon and I were just barely able to get out of the way of the incredible attack,. I'm sure it cut off at least a quarter of an inch of my hair. As the attack finally cleared I examined the area. Everyone was okay, Eaglemon's wings were singed a bit, but aside from that no real damage had been caused.
"Uh Tai, Matt. I think this might be a good time to bring out our secret weapon." I suggested.
"You mean Omnimon?" Tai asked. "But Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon can only DNA Digivolve if Omnimon is really needed."
"Trust me he's needed!" Saberleomon and I said in unison.
"It's worth a shot Tai," Matt said.
"Okay here goes."
Tai and Matt held their Digivices close to each other both reacted immediately.
"Wargreymon! Metalgarurumon! DNA Digivolved to…………………Omnimon!"
"Ah yes," Apocalymon said upon seeing Omnimon. "The Digimon that destroyed the most powerful part of me. Well I've got more power than Diaboromon ever could have dreamed of. Good luck destroying me!"
"You're the one who's going to need the luck," Omnimon's double voice said as he withdrew his sword from his Wargreymon head hand.
"Let's see how you deal with this! Catastrophe Cannon!"
From the same claw Apocalymon fired the same massive attack. Omnimon used his sword to block the attack to split the massive energy beam in two. He wasn't exactly doing it effortlessly though, by the time the attack had completely cleared away. The Omega Digimon was actually panting.
"Looks like the once mighty Omnimon is actually tired." Apocalymon said. "Try these!"
All twelve of Apocalymon's huge claws flew at Omnimon, but Omnimon was able to quickly counter the attack by grabbing a hold of the claws then used his new advantage point to swing the massive dark Digimon around in a circle right before releasing him sending the polygonal Digimon flying and screaming the chains of his claws becoming tangled amongst each other. When Apocalymon was finally able to recover, he screamed in total frustration and ripped his tangled claws out of the knots in one swing, but before he could launch a counter attack Omnimon was on the move again and Evamon's most powerful minion received a swift kick to the midsection and an uppercut to the jaw. Once again Apocalymon attempted to counter the attack but was stopped as he found Omnimon's sword dug into the middle of his polygonal body.
Omnimon was force to withdraw as Apocalymon took a swing at him with another one of his claws. Needless to say the quick beating had angered the Apocalypse Digimon. He was breathing heavily from it with a look of hatred and anger locked onto his face.
"I can't believe it," he said. "You're, you're actually stronger than me."
"Of course I am," Omnimon said. "I'm an Omega Digimon. Completely Digivolved there's no level higher than myself. So you've finally admitted defeat?"
"Hardly, Just because you're more powerful than I am doesn't mean you can beat me. I've still got one more attack that'll finish all of you."
The claw that had once been formed into Diaboromon's head began to reshape itself once again this time taking another familiar shape, the shape of a tag and crest with the unmistakable crest of Darkness inside the tag.
"My most useful technique, one I obtained from you Canadian Digidestined's first enemy. Crest of Darkness!" Suddenly a Dark glow shone from the crest causing a sphere of Darkness to from around Apocalymon. "Handy little trick huh? It creates a barrier of pure Darkness. Not even the most powerful attack could break it. Not even one from Evamon, the only thing that could even rival it would be the crest of Light, and I left the little brat that has that crest back in your world."
"That brat is my sister you demented rubrics cube!" Tai yelled. "Omnimon it's time to finish this battle! No one insults anyone I care about!"
"On it Tai," Omnimon said. "Garuru Cannon!"
Omnimon launched an amazing energy beam even bigger than Apocalymon's version of Catastrophe Cannon, but despite how powerful it was when it hit the dark shield that surrounded Apocalymon it hit with massive force, but didn't even seem to scratch the shield of darkness.
"Try it again Omnimon," Matt suggested.
Omnimon did just that firing a second Garuru cannon at Apocalymon, but for a second time the attack just hit the shield not causing even the slightest damage. Omnimon continued to attack launching his most powerful attack repeatedly, but not once did even one energy particle ever break through the shield.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled firing his own attack right where Omnimon was firing. Soon the other two Mega Digimon firing their own attacks at the same spot Saberleomon and Omnimon were, but still despite the fact that we were now giving it all we had we still couldn't even make the smallest hole in the shield.
This didn't make sense, I didn't remember Emily's crest ever being this powerful, it had never been able to repel us before. It only hurt other Digimon it never hurt us. The power of our crests always canceled the powers of hers out making it impossible for her crest to hurt us aside from allowing Blackgatomon to Digivolve. They always paralyzed other Digimon never stopped our own Digimon or us. Was it because Apocalymon was using it? Was he able to modify it somehow so he could use it differently? No that was impossible, he was made up of those Digimon, he could use his own power to make the attacks more powerful but he couldn't modify it. So that meant –
"Saberleomon I have a plan!"
"Yeah what is it?" Saberleomon asked stopping firing his attack.
"I want to run straight into the shield of Darkness."
"What? Are you insane! Omnimon's strongest attacks plus three other Mega attacks couldn't scratch it, if we ran straight into the shield well – you've seen a bug zapper in action."
"Saberleomon just trust me, please what do we have to lose."
"Well we could go splat."
"And that won't happen anyway when Apocalymon gets his hands on us."
"Good point…are you sure about this."
"Yes, now please just trust me and do it."
"Aright here goes."
Following my instructions Saberleomon flew towards the Dark shield.
"Kris!" Jenn yelled. "Stop! Are you insane!"
Tai, Matt, and Sean shouted similar words, but I ignored them as we began to approach the Dark shield. I closed my eyes as we got closer but opened them about an inch away from it and – we past right through it! No pain no discomfort, nothing it was like it wasn't even there. My theory was right! The crest couldn't hurt us, it could stop our attacks because they weren't physical, but when it came to us it couldn't do a thing. This whole thing had been one big bluff! And Apocalymon hadn't even noticed we'd gotten in, which Saberleomon was going to take full advantage of.
"Howling Crusher!" he yelled firing his attack destroying one of the claws.
"Huh!" our enemy said as he noticed we'd gotten through.
"Howling Crusher!" Saberleomon yelled again destroying a second claw.
"You little!" Apocalymon yelled in frustration as he attacked us with one of his claws.
The claw was about an inch away from our faces before a quick moving Omnimon suddenly stopped it. The mighty Omega Digimon gave it a good yank pulling it from Apocalymon's body and tossed it aside.
"Marrow Missile!"
"Cross wing!"
Apocalymon had been so distracted by Omnimon and Saberleomon he didn't even notice the two other Mega Digimon that had past through his shield, two more of his claws had just bit the dust.
"I'll destroy all of you!" the Apocalypse Digimon yelled angrily as his remaining claws began to reshape into varying attacks, but before he could even finish reshaping his claws Omnimon acted. Moving swiftly and swinging his sword in a matter of seconds Apocalymon's remaining claws had all been removed from his body.
"Alright Omnimon!" Matt cheered. "Care to finish the job."
"My pleasure." Omnimon said. "Garuru Cannon!"
Omnimon's final attack was launched shooting right through the upper body on the top of the polygon completely destroying it. All that was left of the Digimon now was the Polygon.
"Did we just win?" I said happily.
"No you haven't!" Apocalymon boomed.
"I'm not finished yet! And I swear I will destroy you!"
"Yeah and you're going to do that how?" Eaglemon asked.
Tai slapped himself on the forehead. "You had to ask didn't you?"
"I'll show you! My most powerful attack! It will destroy me the Digital World and the real world too! But it'll be worth it to destroy all of you! My most powerful attack1 Total –Aaaaah!"
Apocalymon's speech was cut off as Omnimon's Garuru Cannon shot through the center of his polygon body, leaving a gaping hole in it, long soon after what was left of his body shattered as the bits of data eventually floated away.
"Whoops, and we didn't even get to see his big fancy attack." Omnimon said snickering.
The rest of us couldn't help but laugh too, but that stopped as soon as those menacing yellow eyes appeared in front of us.
"Good work Digidestined, but like I said before I'm not surprised you defeated him. He was after all only a minion. When you fight me you won't be as successful, and trust me you will face me."
No sooner had he said that then the eyes disappeared, and along with it so did the Dark World. Before we could even blink an eye the ten of us were standing in the empty field we had been before. Our Digimon had all Dedigivolved,
Saberleomon was Elecmon, Eaglemon was Ostrimon, Skullmammothmon was Upamon, and Omnimon was Agumon and Gabumon.
Each of our teammates heads turned as they saw us appear out of nowhere. They crowded us immediately, smiles on their faces as we were reunited, questions were thrown at us as to what had happened. We answered them all with two simple words.
"He's toast."
And that's all that was needed to be said. The questions stopped, and for now the trouble was over, key words being for now. We all knew what was coming next, Evamon had implied it when he had said that Apocalymon was his most powerful minion, which meant next time we fought we would be fighting Evamon himself.
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well did you enjoy the last minions Chapter. Evamon will be making his appearance pretty soon. In the next Chapter? Maybe...you'll just have to wait and see won't you. Well my offer for those of you who want to be in my fic is going along nicely, only four slots are available. Hurry up and check out my site if you want to be in the fic.
Stay tuned for Chapter 34: The Leaders Clash