Here we go Chapter 35! I know a lot of people have been thinking what I
meant by "The Leaders Clash" well I'll let you read and find out. Oh yeah
you know…I don't own Digimon. If I did I couldn't call this fan fiction
could I?
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Chapter 34: The Leaders Clash
Jenn
"How big is this pile of rocks anyway?" Elecmon groaned as he tossed a rock aside.
"I don't care how big it is," Kris said as he also tossed aside a rock. "Two of our teammates and friends are down there, and we're going to get them out."
I took my ears off of their conversation and got back to my own work, beginning to clear away the pile of rocks. I was determined to get this pile of rocks out of the way; the only ones who were working harder than me to get Dan and Janine out were Otamamon and Gizamon.
I was so happy after the battle with Apocalymon when Kris had told me that Dan and Janine were alive, as were everyone else. They say that the best way to suffer is to have something and then lose it. In the last few hours I learned that it worked the other way around too. Losing something and then getting it back had the opposite effect, the only time I'd ever been so happy was when Kris and I had gotten together.
After Kris had told all of us that Dan and Janine were definitely alive all of us had rushed to the riverbanks to find them. We used out D3s to find Gizamon and Otamamon at the same time we'd find a pile of rocks that was blocking the entrance to a cave below. Where our Digivices indicated Dan and Janine were. It was a make out cave actually, I'd learned about it about a year ago when some jerk I went out with tried to take me there on our first date, right after he received a punch to the gut. I assumed that Dan and Janine had run into the cave to escape an attacking Digimon, which would explain why the entrance had caved in, they wouldn't go in for any other reason.
It had started out with all of us clearing away the pile of rocks and boulders but eventually their Digimon had gotten tired from digging since they had already been weakened during the fight with the Dark Master, and couldn't do a lot, so most of them had gone back home or wherever they happened to be staying at the time. Not on their own accord of course, after Kris had convinced them that it would be better for the fight if they were rested, because Evamon could attack at any time. Actually the only Digimon still capable of Digging were Elecmon Gizamon and Otamamon, and because of that only five of us were still digging. Elecmon, Gizamon, Otamamon, Kris, and I. Ostrimon did her best to help, but she couldn't do a whole lot when she was still in her In-Training form, so she was stuck on the sidelines. Kris had told me that it would be a better idea for me to leave along with the others, but I refused to, I was determined to get these rocks and boulders cleared and help my friends. Hours ago Kris had also attempted to convince me to rest hours ago, and had failed miserably, I could understand why it was a good idea for the others to go home and rest. We needed at least the majority of us to be ready for any attack that Evamon might launch, but I couldn't just rest not when my friends were trapped down there probably scared to death.
The others were planning on coming back in a couple of hours, by then their Digimon would have reenergized and would be able to help us more, but it didn't look like we'd need their help, it looked like we were almost about to reach the bottom and free Dan and Janine. Especially at the rate Gizamon was digging, he was using his spiral edge attack to his advantage. He was spinning rapidly, you couldn't even make him out he just looked like one orange wheel shaped blur. The spikes on his back worked wonders on the pile of rocks tossing them aside easily as well as just breaking apart the larger ones. He was making more progress than any of us, and he'd been spinning like that for hours stopping every once and a while for a five minute break while he recovered from dizziness and then started up again. It looked like one of his breaks was coming up, my feeling was confirmed his spinning slowed down and he stopped spinning and landed in the same spot that he had been digging.
"Is something wrong?" Otamamon asked. "Usually you dig using that attack for fifteen minutes before taking a break, you were only using it for five that time."
"I don't need to dig anymore," Gizamon picking up a rock within his webbed hands and tossing it aside. "We're in."
He was right; where he had removed the rock from the pile there we could see a tunnel that led into the cave. You couldn't see much because there was only a small hole there where Gizamon had removed the rock, not even Otamamon the smallest of us could fit through it, we couldn't see a whole lot, all we could really see was the ground of the cave, but it was easy to see we'd managed to get to through the pile of rocks and boulders, from here we could just clear away the surrounding rocks and get Dan and Janine out of there.
Gizamon put his mouth up to the small hole. "Dan! Are you in there?"
There was a muffled reply from Dan inside the cave. "Huh? Gizamon!"
"Dan!" Gizamon said happily. "Are you okay?"
"Uh – Yeah fine, fine." Dan said which was still slightly muffled.
I was kind of surprised by his response, he actually sounded nervous. Dan never sounded nervous, and he didn't even make any joke like I'd expected something like "What took you so long" or something like similar to that.
"Dan is Janine down there?" Otamamon yelled.
There was a slight pause before Janine finally answered. "I'm here Otamamon! I'm fine."
"Great! Otamamon, Kris, Elecmon, Jenn and I will have you out of there soon."
I'm not sure because it had been muffled but I think I heard Dan laugh nervously. "Great, great, no rush or anything."
Okay this was really weird, he was still acting nervous, and still hadn't made up some sort of joke, something was definitely up.
"Let's stop talking already!" Otamamon said beginning to clear away some of the rocks. "Let's get them out of there."
"Yeah right," Kris agreed getting back to work.
We continued to clear away the rocks, in particular the one by the hole that Gizamon had found, and in about half an hour we had cleared enough away to uncover the majority of the original opened of the cave, and more than enough space had been cleared for us to easily walk through.
The second the final rock had been moved out of the way Gizamon and Otamamon ran into the cave, Kris, I and our Digimon followed. As the six of us stepped into the cave Gizamon and Otamamon immediately jumped into their partner's arms.
"Hey buddy," Dan said. "Where have you been?"
"Nowhere really just washed away in the rapids then digging in a bunch of dirty rocks for a couple hours." Gizamon answered.
"You had me so scared," Otamamon said to Janine. "I thought I might have lost you."
"You could never lose me," Janine replied.
As the reunion continued I examining the cave, it was pretty disgusting in here. There were beer bottles, and condom wrappers scattered around the entire cave, and in the center was a mattress soiled by the constant time that people had had sex on it. Actually it, looked like some of the stains looked pretty fresh, very fresh.
"We better get going," Dan said. "We've got to deal with Emily and the Dark Masters."
Kris laughed. "You don't have to worry about that, what do you think we were doing while you guys were trapped down here. We've already taken care of them."
Great here it comes, Dan's going to be pretty mad that he missed everything, the fighting was what he loved most about this war.
"Oh, that's great." Was all he said.
"You're not upset?" Kris said cocking his eyebrow in confusion. "I know how much you love the fighting part. You know the thrill of not knowing whether you'll live to see the next day. I really thought you'd be upset, you missed all the action, I doubt there's very much action down here."
A seductive grin grew on Dan's face. "Oh I wouldn't say that."
Okay something was definitely weird here, Dan was acting weird and I couldn't help but notice Janine's face go bright red as he had said that. It was also then that I noticed their clothing; it was more ruffled than you would expect. Janine usually had her shirt tucked into her pants neatly, now the front of it was tucked in but the back was messily hanging out, in fact it looked like all their clothing had just recently been thrown on in a hurry.
That's when it all hit me, every clue, Dan acting weird, the recently soiled mattress, and their ruffled clothing. Dan and Janine! They'd actually – they'd actually slept together. I held back the urge to laugh, desperately holding it back; I don't even know why I found this funny. I quickly swallowed the building laughter and faced my friends again, but it was weird I don't think I'd ever be able to look at Dan and Janine the same way again, but nonetheless I was happy for them and that they were finally together. I'd actually been anticipating that they would for a long time; it was so obvious that they both liked each other. Not all people who liked each other acted all lovey dovey like me and Kris had before they got together, sometimes they fought like those two did, and I say it was about time that they got together.
"Come on," Kris said motioning for us to leave the cave. "This is cave is really starting to gross me out."
"So what do we do now?" Dan asked. "Once again just wait."
"Yeah," Kris said taking another step towards the exit. "Unfortunately this time we're not just waiting for another minion to show up. When we're confronted next time it'll be by Evamon himself."
"Well it's about time," Dan said. "I'm getting a little impatient with this guy."
Kris rolled his eyes. "Why does that not surprise me? Let's just go okay."
"Yeah okay, I better get home before my parents notice I've been missing…for twelve hours."
"Dan, Kris," I said. "You two go ahead, I need to talk to Janine for a sec."
"What about?" Kris asked.
"Just girl talk," I told my boyfriend. "You boys go on we'll catch up."
"Aw Jenn do you have to stay here, It's dirty and it really stinks," Ostrimon said, who I held tightly in my arms.
"Actually I need to talk to Janine alone, so you and Otamamon can go with Kris and Dan, Janine and I will meet up with you in a sec."
"But-" Otamamon started.
"It's okay Otamamon just go. I'm sure this won't take that long. We'll just catch up."
Otamamon sighed, but also indicated that he was willing to cooperate. He jumped out of Janine's arms and started to follow Kris and Dan, while I handed Ostrimon into Kris's arms.
"Don't take too long," Kris said leaning over kissing me lightly.
"I won't, this won't take five minutes."
He nodded as he followed Dan, Otamamon, and Elecmon out of the cave leaving Janine and I alone.
"So how was he?" I asked.
"What?!" Janine yelled.
"Come on don't play dumb. Kris might not be able to figure it out, but I can see all the signs, I know that you and Dan slept together."
She refused to look me in the eyes as her face turned completely red. "Yeah…we did."
"I can't believe you of all people did that," I said. "Miss cautious, you actually did something daring like have sex."
"I know, I know. Now you're going to say that is was a dumb thing to do at my age, especially so soon."
"You know a couple weeks ago I probably would have, but since Kris and I have gotten closer I've learned that it doesn't really matter how young you are your first time as long as you're with the right guy, and I know for sure that I have."
"You and Kris haven't -?"
I shook my head. "No we haven't, I know he's the right guy, but it's just not the right time yet."
"Well I know for sure I've found the right guy. Yeah we fight a lot, but I just have this feeling, I'm sure you know what I mean, and I'm sure now you think I've done this too soon."
"No not at all," I said. "I'm not going to give you some lecture when I know probably in a few months I'll be in your position. For Kris and I the right time just hasn't come up yet, how did you know when the time was right?"
"I don't know," she answered her face finally returning to it's normal colour, and a happy smile grew on her face. "The same way I knew Dan was the right guy, I just had this feeling that told me that it was right."
"That's what I thought," I said.
"So was that all you wanted to talk to me about? To confront me about my relationship with Dan?"
"Yeah that was about it."
"You're not going to tell anybody are you, I'd rather no one find out just yet."
"Don't worry I won't, I'm the only one that even suspects that you so much as like each other, I won't let it leak out."
"Thanks…can we go home now? I really don't like this cave very much."
I laughed. "Yeah of course we can."
Which we did, left the smelly damp cave, which he had dug for hours to get into. The day was finally over; I'd say it was one of the longest days we've had since the fight, we'd taken out six of Evamon's minions in one day, each of us had fought a long hard fight today. I could only imagine how hard it was going to be when we actually came up against Evamon himself.
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Demidevimon
For about the hundredth time tonight I once again shifted in my position on Andrew's bed. I wasn't exactly having an easy time falling asleep. Whenever I closed my eyes I kept seeing those yellow glowing eyes staring back at me. That was the last things I wanted to see right now, it was bad enough that I was going to have to actually fight him now. Did he have to haunt my subconscious too? Unfortunately what Kris had said was true, the next time we fought Evamon's forces we'd be fighting Evamon himself. I was familiar with his minions, and there weren't any left except maybe the weaker ones, the ones that any one of us could toss aside easily, and he wasn't going to waste his time sending them after us. I still wasn't sure why he didn't just attack us out right, and not bother with all these minions. Of course that wasn't what was keeping me awake, it was the obvious, I was afraid of Evamon. I doubt very much that he was happy with me right now he didn't take kindly to treachery.
After about the hundred and first time of shifting in my position, I got fed up. There was no way I was going to get any sleep tonight, so instead of fighting a losing battle and attempt to sleep I flew over to the window opened it up and flew outside. I just need to get some air and stretch my wings a bit and try and unload my mind. I didn't fly too far, I hadn't intended too, I circled the beaten up house for a while and finally landed on the top of the roof knocking a few loose shingles off of it as I did.
Even I still couldn't believe how things had changed for me. Before I met Andrew I had dedicated my life to doing whatever I could do make sure I was taken care of, to make sure I was rewarded, no matter what demeaning or disgusting job I did to make it so. All I cared about was myself, whether I was working for Myotismon, or Evamon I always groveled and did their dirty work just to get a little reward for myself, and for the most part that work included attempting to eliminate the Digidestined, for most of my life I had spent over half of my time trying to figure out ways to destroy them, and in only about a months time things changed and now I was actually one of them. For once I was actually fighting against Evamon, and I had to admit it fighting against him was a lot better than fighting with him. This last month was the best of my life, the only time in my life I was actually considering someone else, this all started out as just an assignment to cause some trouble in the Digital World as Andrew's partner, then the partnership changed into something else: a friendship. For the first time in my life I actually had a friend, someone I actually cared about for than myself, and someone who cared about me more then themselves, and I was willing to do anything to maintain that friendship, even if it meant my own death, it was a totally new feeling to me, I liked it.
I actually liked it! I was starting to get almost as bad as the other Digimon who were so dedicated to protecting their partners. Who was I kidding; I was just like that, I always thought it was so pathetic how they did that, risked their lives for some worthless humans. Then I met Andrew and everything changed, I understood why they were so ready to lay down their lives to protect them. Not that I cared for the other humans, but if Evamon or any of his minions so much as looked at Andrew the wrong way I would make sure they regretted it. Yeah there had been a lot of changes in my life the past month, and they had all been for the better, which brought me back to the reason I couldn't sleep tonight, now Evamon was threatening to come in and take it all away. But at least there was a bright side, he couldn't make me go back to my old life, the one I know dreaded going back to. I had two possible fates, I either keep the life I had now, or I would die, if you could call that a bright side.
I continued to just sit up on the roof and think for a while, that was until my sensitive bat an ear picked up something approaching the house. It was definitely a Digimon, a small one at that, it was flying a few feet over the ground, and it was more of a hovering flight. I didn't here the flapping of wings.
I took off from my perch on the roof and flew higher to get a better view. I saw two Thundermon approaching the house. Not too much to worry about, Evamon used Thundermon mainly as scouts or messengers, as they were agile and silent flyers, as well as small so they could sneak up on people and Digimon easily without being detected, plus they were at the Champion level so they had some firepower if needed. Odds were they were just here to deliver a message to Tai letting him know that Evamon challenged them to the final showdown or something no reason for me to get involved if they were just going to talk.
I continued to stay at my current altitude just in case. The two Thundermon approached the window to what used to be Emily's room, where Matt and Tai were sleeping. They were being pretty quiet, opening the window very slowly, and trying not to make any noise. That was weird if they were delivering a message they shouldn't be concerned about waking them up, in fact they would want them to wake up. If they were being quiet it meant they didn't want them to wake up which meant of course they were going to attack.
It was time for me to spring into action. Just another indication of how things had changed, before I would do anything to see their lives in danger like this, now I was actually going to try and save them.
I pulled back my wings and broke into a dive, and hit rammed one of the Thundermon with my head sending him crashing into the ground. I'd only been able to do that because I'd surprised him, which meant I had to get moving before the second one attacked. I flared my wings and started to fly away as quickly as possible.
"Thunder volt!" one of the Thundermon yelled launching a bolt of electricity at me.
I veered left and was barely able to dodge the attack, looking back for a second I noticed the second Thundermon I hadn't knocked to the ground was now in hot pursuit of me, just what I expected, at least he wasn't after the sleeping and vulnerable Matt and Tai now. I only wish that I thought this through more I really didn't know where I was going to go from here, it was only a matter of time before Thundermon caught me.
"Thunder volt!" a second Thundermon voice yelled from below as a bolt from electricity from below hit me knocking me out of the sky, and I spiraled downwards then crashed face first into the dirt.
The Thundermon that I had hit into the ground had recovered sooner than I thought and launched a surprise attack from below. I didn't even get very far; I was only about seven feet away from the house. Both Thundermon landed on opposite sides of me, both looming over me. They weren't very big Digimon, but considering my own size and the position I was in they were big enough to offer a pretty big threat.
"Well if it isn't the traitor," one of the Thundermon said. "Time to kill two birds with one bolt."
I cringed as I saw the other Thundermon begin to charge up his Thunder Volt attack.
"Thunder -"
"Pepper breath!"
One of Agumon's fireballs suddenly exploded on the back of the Thundermon that was preparing the attack.
"Whoever thought would be saving your butt? Huh Demidevimon?" Tai said.
"My sentiments exactly," I said pulling myself out of the dirt.
Both Thundermon stared angrily at Tai and Agumon the two new opponents they had been presented with. They flew off into the air, but stopping a few feet above them and held their hands out once again preparing to fire another attack.
Tai smiled confidently. "Agumon you know what to do."
Agumon nodded as Tai's Digivice activated.
"Agumon Digivolved to…………………Greymon!"
The second Agumon had finished Digivolving; the Thundermon fired their Thunder Volts at Tai's Digimon. However their didn't cause a bit of damaged as the bony shield on Greymon's head absorbed the attack.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yelled firing a giant fireball from his mouth.
One Thundermon just barely managed to dodge the attack, but that other took the attack head on, and after it cleared the charred body fell lifelessly to the ground. The uninjured Thundermon attacked again by launching volleys of punches onto the giant dinosaur's nose, but it didn't seem to do a thing, Greymon just snorted sending the small spherical shaped Digimon sailing into a nearby rotting tree, and sliding down into the ground.
"Alright! That'll teach him to mess with us." I cheered as Greymon finished off the Thundermon firing a second Nova Blast completely destroying Thundermon.
Even though I've been on their side for a month now, I still found it weird to be rooting for them. That's when I noticed a subtle sound scraping across the ground, it was very soft, no human could hear it but my sensitive ears picked it up pretty easily. I looked in the direction of the sound, and saw the Thundermon that Greymon had knocked out before had gotten up and was about to throw something at Tai.
"Look out!" I yelled taking off into the air after the Thundermon.
It was already too late Thundermon threw the object which I could now tell was some sort of completely black bracelet. Before I could stop it the bracelet clamped itself around Tai's wrist, no sooner than it had it began to take an effect on him. In a matter of seconds a wave of darkness spread over him only to disappear as quickly as it had appeared, and for a few moments Tai just stood there dumbfounded.
I flew inches away from his face. "Tai you okay."
For another few seconds he just stood there completely paralyzed even though my wings were practically flapping right in his face, until finally something happened as he shook his head and stared at me with evil looking glowing red eyes.
I backed off immediately. I knew those glowing red eyes, I've seen them tons of times on enslaved Digimon after Andrew or Emily had slapped a Dark Prism on them! That bracelet! It was some sort of device to control humans.
"Greymon!" I yelled fluttering up to the giant orange dinosaur's face. "We've got to get that bracelet off of Tai it's going turning Tai against us."
Greymon nodded. "Right, be glad to." Greymon approached his partner and began to bend down reaching his claw towards Tai's wrist. "That doesn't look good on you Tai, black just isn't your colour. Let's take it off."
"Never!" Tai screamed as he held out his Digivice in Greymon's face, which immediately changed from its normal light blue colour to a dark shade of black, just as Dark light began to shoot out of it engulfing Greymon. It soon cleared, and luckily Greymon was still the same. Or at least that's what I thought until I saw his glowing red eyes.
"Gotta go!" I yelled attempting to fly away, but before I could Thundermon was on me, holding me in a full nelson, I struggled and attempted to escape but it was pointless, even though he had been weakened by Greymon's Nova Blast he was still strong enough to hold me.
"Take him back to Evamon," Tai said as his eyes stopped glowing, but I could tell he was still under control of the dark bracelet he still had an evil look on his face. "I'm sure he'll be happy to be able to punish this traitor. I'll get to work on my part of Evamon's plan."
"What are you going to do?" I yelled. "If you even think about hurting-"
"Don't worry about your partner, it's not him Evamon has his eyes set on."
"Then who?"
"That's none of your business! And you're not going to stick around long enough to find out. Thundermon take him to Evamon."
I continued to struggle, but to no avail Thundermon had he held too tightly. He began to fly away and I struggled even more, maybe if I continued to struggle I could get free, but that ended as Thundermon shot a bolt of electricity through my body, it was only a matter of seconds before the bolt had somehow made me feel drowsy, and I eventually everything went black.
* * *
Kris
I rolled over comfortably in my bed. There was no reason for the fact that I couldn't sleep, I was wrapped in a nice warm blanket laying on a soft mattress, with Elecmon sleeping at my feet keeping me warm, there was nothing that should be keeping me awake, except for the incredible dark force that would be descending on us anytime now. The shrill ring of the phone finally broke the incredibly annoying silence. My eyes met with my clock radio before picking up the phone, it was four AM, who would be calling at this time?
Without getting up from my bed I reached for the phone on my nightstand.
"Hello?" I said.
"Kris," a groggy voice said.
"Matt?" I asked recognizing the voice. "Is something wrong?"
"Possibly," Matt answered. "Tai just woke me up, and told me to call everyone for an emergency meeting. But something is definitely up. Andrew really seems upset and both Tai and Agumon are acting weird."
"Okay, Elecmon and I will be there as soon as possible."
"Alright," Matt said. "Gabumon and I will keep calling the others."
With that we both hung up. After some grumbling and complaining I managed to get Elecmon up, and he armor Digivolved and we flew to Andrew's house, where Matt Tai and Ken where staying, and where we had been instructed to go. It was only a matter of time before the rest of the team had arrived and we were gathered in Andrew's room.
"So what's this all about," Dan asked. "What is so important that you had to drag me out of my warm bed for."
"I'll tell you what it's about!" Andrew yelled angrily. "Our leader! Our leader let Evamon's minions get Demidevimon!"
"What?" I yelled. "What do you mean by that?"
"They took him!" Andrew yelled practically breaking out in tears. "Evamon took Demidevimon, and it's all our brave leader's fault!"
"Andrew I'm sure it's not Tai's fault." Jenn said. "What exactly happened?"
Tai hung his head. "I can't be sure why they were here, for either Demidevimon or myself, but two Thundermon attacked, Demidevimon saw them first and fought them off, but they clobbered him within seconds, the fighting woke up Agumon and I and we tried to help him, but there were too many of them. Agumon and I got away, but Demidevimon wasn't as lucky. They captured him, apparently Evamon isn't very happy with him."
"So I guess the next question that comes to mind is how exactly are we going to save him?"
Gatomon grunted. "Why bother, whatever that little rat gets he deserves, I know what he's done in the past, and so do most of the others, we should just wait until Evamon gets tired of him."
"Gatomon!" Kari scolded.
Needless to say that last statement got Andrew a little upset. "Yeah that's real easy for you to say!" he yelled. It looked like he was fighting the urge to get up and strangle the small white cat Digimon. "You didn't just lose everything tonight! I care for Demidevimon more than anything! He's not just my partner he's my best friend! And he was all that I had left, the only person I had left that still gave a damn about me! My family is either dead, or close to death! And I never had any real friends except for him. He was all that I had left. I've lost everything now! And I don't care how the rest of you think! I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit here and let Evamon take away the only family I've got left. I sat idly by while I lost my parents and even Emily, but I'm not losing Demidevimon too."
"Andrew I understand what you're saying." I said placing a hand on his shoulder. "And not once did we say were weren't going to try and save Demidevimon. We are, definitely; he may have been an enemy of the Digidestined at one point, but now he's one of us, and as one of us we're going to rescue him just like we would have if it was any other member of the team, and don't mind Gatomon. She and Demidevimon have a very bad past, which I'm assuming she's still a little bitter about."
Gatomon crossed her arms and grunted angrily. Oh well I guess you can't keep everyone happy.
"I think we're all forgetting one very important thing here," T.K said. "We can't exactly go about saving Demidevimon unless we know where he is. He could be anywhere in the real world or in the Digital world."
"Then there's the third option," Patamon added. "The Dark World, which we can't even get to."
"They couldn't have gotten too far," Sean said. "Tai, Agumon you said the attack was just over half an hour ago. Well then there's no way they could have gotten out of town by now, and if we put our D3s into their longest range it covers the entire town and about a mile radius outside of it, if they're in the real world we could tell if they're still in town."
"I thought of that," Andrew said sighing and wiping away the last of his tears. "I checked the D3 as soon as Tai told me they took him, and used the longest range. I didn't see a single Digimon aside from our own on it. They're not in the real world they either snuck into the Digital World or the Dark World."
"Or it's possible they're using a radar block," Ken said.
"A what?" Davis asked.
"A radar block," Ken repeated. "How do you think I kept from being found by you while I was the Digimon Emperor, I had to block my slaves, Wormmon and myself from the radar of your D3s, so I built a device that would block everything, it's possible that Evamon created a duplicate of that device, so he could enter the real world right under our noses and hide from us."
"That sounds like a definite possibility," Rob said. "Izzy do you think you could possibly find a way around the radar block?"
"Yeah I might," Izzy said. "Of course I'd need help from you Ken, I'd need the schematics for the device, and of course your debugging skills Rob."
"This is great!" I said laughing. "If this theory is correct then when we unblock the radar we'll not only find Demidevimon we'll find Evamon too, and we can launch a surprise attack, and maybe even beat Evamon."
"Hold on," Izzy said. "That's only if they're in the real world, and if they're using Ken's device."
"Even if they're not I think I've got an idea," Rob said as a smile grew on his face. "Izzy you said you had all the Digimon's data you've ever seen stored in your Digivice right?"
Izzy nodded.
"And you can upload that data into your computer?"
"Yeah," Izzy answered. "Gennai installed a port into my laptop so I can upload it to the computer."
"So you can that data on your Digivice, and scan the town and certain areas of the Digital World for similar data, and if you find a match we've found Demidevimon!"
"That's a great idea! And I could do it too, it might take a few days, to get the scanning program and to get around the radar block, but I can definitely do it!"
"It works out better than you'd think," Davis said. "Chances are that Demidevimon is being held in Evamon's base. So at the same time at finding Demidevimon we find the base, and like Kris said launch a surprise attack."
"This is going to be so cool," Dan laughed. "Kidnapping Demidevimon was the biggest mistake Evamon ever made."
"I don't think so," Tai said. "I really don't like this plan."
I gave Tai a confused look. "What are you talking about Tai? This plan is perfect, we find Demidevimon and we find out where Evamon has been hiding out. What's wrong with it."
"I just don't think it's that good of an idea okay!" he yelled.
Okay this was weird, this sounded like the exact type of plan that Tai would approve of, but he didn't, and even if he didn't approve of a plan he usually gave a reason when I asked, this time he was completely dismissing it.
"Why? Why doesn't it seem like a good idea? I don't see anything wrong with it."
Tai met my gaze with an angry glare. It sent shivers up my spine; there was something definitely wrong with him.
"I – uh I just don't think it's a good idea to go rushing into Evamon's territory that's all! It's the heart of his dark forces we could get seriously hurt."
"That may be true Tai, but it couldn't hurt to at least do the scan, that way we at least know where, Demidevimon and Evamon's headquarters is."
Tai's angry gaze grew even more intense, I stopped myself from taking a step back, I was part leader too, I couldn't start to show him that he was intimidating me.
"Look! I'm the leader of this group and I said that we don't carry through with this plan! It's just stupid okay!"
"No it's not stupid!" I yelled. Why did I do that? I looked up to this guy for being a great leader and now I was questioning his leader skills. I'm sure there was a good reason for him not to like this plan; I just wish he would tell me what it is. Well I'd already yelled at him might as well continue to plead my case. "Tai I don't know if you forgot but when our teams first merged I thought we agreed that we would both work together, and we would both lead. I'm leader of this team too, and I'm not going to back down from my decision to carry through with this plan until I here a good reason for us not too."
"I already gave you one! It's stupid for us to rush into the heart of Evamon's territory!"
"I'm aware of that Tai, but first of all Demidevimon is in there, and the only way to get him out is to go in there, so we're going to have to go in there whether it's dangerous or not. Second, all we've done so far is sit around waiting for Evamon to attack, wouldn't it be good if for once we surprised Evamon instead of the other way around."
Tai continued to glare at me angrily. "Well I know that my group will back me up on this! And I'm sure you notice that my team has four more Digidestined than your own. I say we put it to a vote, those who want to put up with Rob's – one of the Canadians – plan raise your hand."
To Tai's surprise (but not my own) everyone except for Tai's hand was raised. Tai looked at the rest of the Japanese Digidestined in shock.
"I'm sorry Tai," Sora said. "I don't know what you think is so wrong with this plan, but just because your our leader doesn't mean we're going to agree with you when you're wrong."
That last statement was enough; Tai was tired of holding in all his anger.
"Fine!" he yelled jumping up from his eat. "Go through with Perception's stupid plan! Come on Agumon let's go home."
With that Tai stormed out of the room, Agumon not looking any happier than time was quick to follow.
"What was that all about?" Gabumon asked.
"I'm not sure," Matt said. "I'll talk to him about it later."
"Okay Izzy so you're sure you can get that radar block and scan working?" I asked trying to change the subject from Tai and I's argument.
Izzy nodded. "Yeah, I'll need some help, and it'll take some time but I can definitely get it up and running."
"Good," Andrew said. "I think we should get started right away, you and Rob can stay here to work on it."
"Yeah…" Izzy said. "No offense but I'm not sure what you'll be able to help us with."
"Nothing probably," Andrew answered. "But I want to know how it's going along at all times, I'm concerned about Demidevimon."
"There's no need for the rest of us to stay here then?" I asked.
"No," Izzy said shaking his head. "You should probably all go home, get some rest."
Which is what we did, in a matter of minutes we'd all left and Armyleomon and I were in the sky.
"You okay?" Armyleomon asked a few minutes after we'd left Andrew's house.
"I'm fine," I answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Just that argument you had with Tai, you seemed to be bothered by it."
"No I'm fine," I lied.
"No you're not, I know you. You've admired Tai for a long time; his opinion means a lot to you, and he basically told you that you were a bad leader back there, I know you couldn't just throw that off."
"You know me too well," I sighed. "I saw Tai fight Myotismon, and he was an awesome leader, ever since I became the leader of our group I always hoped to be like him, I guess I never will be."
"Kris, don't say that! You're a great leader; you led us to victory against Emily. I don't know what had gotten into Tai when he said that. I think – Aaaaah!"
Armyleomon suddenly veered off course as he dodged a missile that flew down towards the ground and exploded into the lake below.
"T-that was one of Metalgreymon's missiles!" Armyleomon yelled.
I looked up as I felt a shadow over us. Just as I had feared, flying above us was Metalgreymon; I really didn't like the look in his eye, especially the fact that they were glowing red.
"Pull over!" Tai yelled from his position atop of Metalgreymon's head.
"Tai what the hell is wrong with you?" I yelled. "You could have killed us with that missile."
"Too bad, Metalgreymon's aim has been off lately."
"Too bad! Tai what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing's wrong, I've just finally come to my senses. It's time to eliminate you and thus my competition!"
"Tai we're not in competition with each other, we work together."
"That's over! You're interfering with my plan! The only way for it to continue is to eliminate you."
"What plan?"
"You'll find out soon enough. Metalgreymon take them out."
"Giga Missile!" Metalgreymon yelled as his chest plate opened up launching two giant missiles.
Armyleomon veered right and dodged one of the missiles, but the second one crashed into his side sending both of us crashing down below into the middle of the highway, luckily it was still pretty early in the morning so there weren't any cars on the road.
"Are you okay?" I asked my Digimon.
"Yeah fine," Armyleomon said slowly getting up.
Soon Metalgreymon landed on the side of the road knocking down five or six trees, which were part of the forest on the highway as he landed.
"Tai why are you doing this?" I groaned.
"I thought I already told you, to eliminate you! The rest of the Digidestined are disobeying me and going on with your stupid plan because of this stupid leader partnership we've got going. All I have to do is eliminate you and I can stop the plan from going any further."
"What is with you and this plan?" Armyleomon yelled. "Just because you and Kris disagree about something it doesn't mean you have to kill him."
"This isn't about some dumb disagreement!" Tai said. "This is about the fight, I can't let the plan be carried out because it would completely jeopardize Evamon's own plans."
"What? Tai have you gone nuts. That would be a good thing! What's wrong with you."
An evil grin grew on Tai's face as his eyes began to glow bright red just like Metalgreymon's were.
"I've had a changing of allegiance." Evamon is my master now.
"Is it just me, or did you notice that weird bracelet on his wrist."
"That looks new, think it has something to do with his sudden change in attitude?"
"Yes definitely!"
The evil grin grew as Tai held up his wrist. "Do you like it? It was a gift from Evamon. It's a combination of the Dark Ring, Spiral, Prism, and Cube. The power of all four objects so it's able to control Digidestined, and because of the link between Digidestined and Digimon it allows Evamon to control that Digidestined's Digimon partner."
"It must be a good plan Kris," Armyleomon said. "For Tai to want to stop it this bad."
"Metalgreymon take care of them," Tai instructed.
Metalgreymon smiled evilly. "Giga missile!"
Metalgreymon's attack was launched in less than a second, which was exactly the amount of time it took for Armyleomon to jump out of the way as the missiles landed where he had once been standing. We jumped into the forest in an attempt to escape, dodging between the trees at lightning quick speed. Metalgreymon was too big to do that, so hopefully that would slow him down enough for the two of us to get away. Unfortunately that wasn't going to work very well; Metalgreymon and Tai weren't very far behind us. Metalgreymon was big enough that he could just knock the trees down; they weren't even slowing him down.
Suddenly the ground beneath us exploded sending both of us flying, and falling into the dirt, the dome I was inside opened up.
"Kris run!" he told me. "I'll hold them off."
"I'm not leaving you," I said, then jumped out of the dome, and helped Armyleomon to his feet.
"Nice shot Metalgreymon," Tai said as he and Metalgreymon approached us.
"Looks like we'll have to fight, Armyleomon you know what to do."
Without so much as a word Armyleomon returned to his rookie state, ready to Digivolve again.
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to………………….Saberleomon!"
The second the light from the Digivolution had cleared Saberleomon jumped into action head butting Metalgreymon in the stomach. Despite the size difference Metalgreymon toppled and fell to the ground face first in the dirt.
"Metalgreymon! Get up!" Tai ordered.
Tai's Digimon did so but no sooner he was on his feet did Saberleomon attack again.
"Howling Crusher."
Saberleomon's attack connected with Metalgreymon's lower jaw, just before Saberleomon jumped into the air a second time and hit Metalgreymon with all his power in the jaw. The blow was more powerful then you would have thought and the surprised Metalgreymon was sent flying crashing down onto the ground for a second time, this time he didn't get up and returned to his rookie stage.
"You should know that know Ultimate is any match for a Mega," Saberleomon bragged.
"Then let's make you a Mega! Agumon warp Digivolve."
Agumon only nodded as Tai's Digivice and crest began to glow.
"Agumon Warp Digivolved to………………………Wargreymon!"
The two Mega Digimon quickly began eyeing each other down as they took a step closer to each other ready to fight at a seconds notice.
"Tai we don't have to do this," I said. "We're both Digidestined. We shouldn't be fighting."
"Don't insult me by calling me that! I'm not a Digidestined anymore. I've joined a much more powerful team now!"
"Tai I know you're in there somewhere! If that dark bracelet is part Dark Prism and Dark Cube then the real Tai is lying dormant. You've got to break free of this, I know you can you've never been one to give up. You've got to beat the Dark Force that's keeping you dormant."
"Forget it, I've changed and the old Tai isn't coming back. Wargreymon shut this kid up and just destroy his Digimon so we can take care of him."
"Yes Tai," Wargreymon said launching the first attack.
Wargreymon attacked jumped into the air coming back down again throwing his claw forward at Saberleomon but Saberleomon jumped into the air as well and out of the way of the claw which ended up getting stuck in the ground. Saberleomon took advantage of Wargreymon's moment of vulnerability and fired a Howling Crusher attack at him. The attack hit Wargreymon in the back but his shield took most of the damage so he wasn't really hurt, in fact the attack had managed to free Wargreymon's claw.
Wargreymon launched a second attack taking another swing with his armored claws, Saberleomon used his cat like speed to dodge it right before Wargreymon took another swing at him with his other claw, but Saberleomon just dodged that one too, only to have another swing thrown at him just to dodge it again, and it continued like that for a while until Saberleomon finally broke it by catching Wargreymon's claws in his paws.
They stayed like that for a while each trying to overpower each other in what looked like a never-ending stalemate. Wargreymon finally break it by flying into the air, while Saberleomon who couldn't fly could only helplessly watch him from the ground.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon yelled firing his classic red energy ball down at Saberleomon.
He was able to dodge it but just barely, just as another one of Wargreymon's attacks came down, and luckily Saberleomon was able to dodge it, it seemed like that's all he was doing. Soon a barrage of Terra Forces were being launched at the lion Digimon, who was desperately struggling to dodge them, and at the same time helpless to do anything about it. He couldn't attack him physically because he couldn't fly, and he barely had enough time to dodge the barrage of attacks let alone launch one of his own. Worse yet I could tell that we wouldn't be able to dodge these attacks for much longer, sooner or later one was going to hit him. He was going to lose and it was all because he couldn't fly.
Actually this time I could do something about it, I didn't just have to stand here and watch. My eyes locked onto Tai. They said when you were fighting something powerful the best thing to do was take out the source, and Wargreymon's source of power was definitely Tai. I hated to have to do this but maybe just maybe it would snap Tai out of it.
For only the second time since this war started I actually rushed into battle myself not Saberleomon, but me. I tackled Tai pushing him to the ground, and pulled back my fist ready to punch him.
"I'm sorry about this Tai," I said. "But I don't have much of a choice."
I swung my fist at him but he caught it in my own fist, and at the same time punching me in the face. I was thrown off of him by a swift kick; I got up slowly just as another fist hit my face. I tried to punch him back but he just moved aside easily and delivered a punch to my gut. I tried my best to ignore it and tried to punch for the third time, but he only caught it laughed and I received another punch to my face.
"You're really pathetic," he mocked. "Good thing your Digimon doesn't fight like you or you'd have lost your first day on the job."
He was right, I did fight pathetically even Emily had overpowered me, during my first fight, and it was even worse that he was two years older than me and pretty strong for a kid that age anyway. Meanwhile I was two years younger and weak for a kid my age.
In about two seconds I felt a very hard punch to my gut, which knocked the wind out of me. I held my stomach, not looking up; all I could do now was wait for another fist to land on my head.
Instead I heard Tai scream. "Aaaaah! Let me go you bitch!"
I slowly pulled myself up, and a smile formed on my face at what I saw.
"Jenn?" I said upon seeing Jenn holding Tai in a full Nelson.
"Don't ever hurt my boyfriend again bastard!" she yelled at Tai.
I couldn't help but laugh. She wasn't only holding him; she was doing it very successfully. Tai was struggling with all his might but he still couldn't break free.
"Jenn should I warp Digivolve and give Saberleomon a hand?" Penguinmon asked appearing from behind a tree.
"No," Jenn answered. "I have a better idea."
She tightened her hold on Tai; in fact she tightened it on his throat cutting off his air.
"Uh Jenn I think you might be holding him a bit too tight."
"That's the idea." Jenn said.
Jenn's actions got Wargreymon's attention immediately.
"Tai!" he yelled in concern, as he flew right at us drawing back his claw.
Saberleomon did the same running forward moving Jenn, Penguinmon and I out of the way causing Wargreymon's claw to just barely miss us.
"About time you saved me…that girl's stronger than she looks, now kill them!"
Wargreymon stayed motionless, and raised his head, revealing that his eyes were no longer glowing red.
"No Tai," he said. "I won't hurt them. I won't hurt our own!"
"What's wrong with you! We're not one of them anymore."
"Yes we are Tai, no matter what happens to us we'll always be Digidestined no matter what Evamon does to us."
"What happened?" Saberleomon asked. "A second ago he was trying to kill me, now he's good again."
"It was his concern for Tai," Jenn said. "He saw me hurting him and nothing could stop him from protecting Tai, not even the power of the dark bracelet."
"How did you know about that?" I asked.
"I saw it when he was leaving Andrew's room, from that I just figured it all out. Then got another clue when I was following you home, and saw everything. I wasn't going to jump in but then I saw him hurting you and couldn't take waiting anymore."
"I'll make you!" Tai yelled holding out his Digivice, except it wasn't its normal blue colour it was black now, but before he could use it Wargreymon hit it out of his hand, and it slid to my feet.
After that Wargreymon went out of his Mega stage and became Agumon again.
"I know this is hard, I've been in your shoes before, I've been under control of dark forces, but you helped me through it. You helped me get free, and now I'm going to do the same for you. I'm going to help you through this; I'm going to stay here until you're free. Tai I know deep down in there yearning to get out, regretting all the things your doing. Fight it Tai! I know you can do it, you can do anything beat this."
Tai and Agumon only stared at each other for a while until Tai's upper lip began to twitch, then suddenly he grabbed his head and screamed in pain.
"Agumon help!" he screamed. "I've got control again! But it won't last long! The bracelet break it now!"
Agumon didn't hesitate he clamped his claws down on the bracelet it broke in half immediately. Tai fell to his knees, as he and he and Agumon hugged.
"I'm sorry," he said.
Agumon laughed. "Let's not start that again."
I approached the two of them, and placed my hand on his shoulder. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but are you okay? I'm so sorry, I said horrible things to you, and worse yet I attacked you."
"It's okay," I said. "I know it wasn't your fault. Let's just go home."
"Alright," Tai said. "As long you're still willing to help me lead this team."
"You know I will." I said.
So we did, we all hopped onto Saberleomon's back and started to run home. Once again we found ourselves waiting, but at least time we were doing something about it. All we had to do was wait for Izzy to find Demidevimon and the base. So at least this time we'd be the ones doing the attacking and not the other way around.
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I can guarantee you there will be no more stall chapters. This is the last one I swear. We're moving onto the actual plot with Evamon soon. Unfortunately it might take a while for the next one because Christmas break is over and school is starting. A very busy time of the year too, Exam time! Aaaaah! So I'll have to study a lot. It maybe a week or two until the next one.
Stay tuned for Chapter 36: Dark Force Revealed
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Chapter 34: The Leaders Clash
Jenn
"How big is this pile of rocks anyway?" Elecmon groaned as he tossed a rock aside.
"I don't care how big it is," Kris said as he also tossed aside a rock. "Two of our teammates and friends are down there, and we're going to get them out."
I took my ears off of their conversation and got back to my own work, beginning to clear away the pile of rocks. I was determined to get this pile of rocks out of the way; the only ones who were working harder than me to get Dan and Janine out were Otamamon and Gizamon.
I was so happy after the battle with Apocalymon when Kris had told me that Dan and Janine were alive, as were everyone else. They say that the best way to suffer is to have something and then lose it. In the last few hours I learned that it worked the other way around too. Losing something and then getting it back had the opposite effect, the only time I'd ever been so happy was when Kris and I had gotten together.
After Kris had told all of us that Dan and Janine were definitely alive all of us had rushed to the riverbanks to find them. We used out D3s to find Gizamon and Otamamon at the same time we'd find a pile of rocks that was blocking the entrance to a cave below. Where our Digivices indicated Dan and Janine were. It was a make out cave actually, I'd learned about it about a year ago when some jerk I went out with tried to take me there on our first date, right after he received a punch to the gut. I assumed that Dan and Janine had run into the cave to escape an attacking Digimon, which would explain why the entrance had caved in, they wouldn't go in for any other reason.
It had started out with all of us clearing away the pile of rocks and boulders but eventually their Digimon had gotten tired from digging since they had already been weakened during the fight with the Dark Master, and couldn't do a lot, so most of them had gone back home or wherever they happened to be staying at the time. Not on their own accord of course, after Kris had convinced them that it would be better for the fight if they were rested, because Evamon could attack at any time. Actually the only Digimon still capable of Digging were Elecmon Gizamon and Otamamon, and because of that only five of us were still digging. Elecmon, Gizamon, Otamamon, Kris, and I. Ostrimon did her best to help, but she couldn't do a whole lot when she was still in her In-Training form, so she was stuck on the sidelines. Kris had told me that it would be a better idea for me to leave along with the others, but I refused to, I was determined to get these rocks and boulders cleared and help my friends. Hours ago Kris had also attempted to convince me to rest hours ago, and had failed miserably, I could understand why it was a good idea for the others to go home and rest. We needed at least the majority of us to be ready for any attack that Evamon might launch, but I couldn't just rest not when my friends were trapped down there probably scared to death.
The others were planning on coming back in a couple of hours, by then their Digimon would have reenergized and would be able to help us more, but it didn't look like we'd need their help, it looked like we were almost about to reach the bottom and free Dan and Janine. Especially at the rate Gizamon was digging, he was using his spiral edge attack to his advantage. He was spinning rapidly, you couldn't even make him out he just looked like one orange wheel shaped blur. The spikes on his back worked wonders on the pile of rocks tossing them aside easily as well as just breaking apart the larger ones. He was making more progress than any of us, and he'd been spinning like that for hours stopping every once and a while for a five minute break while he recovered from dizziness and then started up again. It looked like one of his breaks was coming up, my feeling was confirmed his spinning slowed down and he stopped spinning and landed in the same spot that he had been digging.
"Is something wrong?" Otamamon asked. "Usually you dig using that attack for fifteen minutes before taking a break, you were only using it for five that time."
"I don't need to dig anymore," Gizamon picking up a rock within his webbed hands and tossing it aside. "We're in."
He was right; where he had removed the rock from the pile there we could see a tunnel that led into the cave. You couldn't see much because there was only a small hole there where Gizamon had removed the rock, not even Otamamon the smallest of us could fit through it, we couldn't see a whole lot, all we could really see was the ground of the cave, but it was easy to see we'd managed to get to through the pile of rocks and boulders, from here we could just clear away the surrounding rocks and get Dan and Janine out of there.
Gizamon put his mouth up to the small hole. "Dan! Are you in there?"
There was a muffled reply from Dan inside the cave. "Huh? Gizamon!"
"Dan!" Gizamon said happily. "Are you okay?"
"Uh – Yeah fine, fine." Dan said which was still slightly muffled.
I was kind of surprised by his response, he actually sounded nervous. Dan never sounded nervous, and he didn't even make any joke like I'd expected something like "What took you so long" or something like similar to that.
"Dan is Janine down there?" Otamamon yelled.
There was a slight pause before Janine finally answered. "I'm here Otamamon! I'm fine."
"Great! Otamamon, Kris, Elecmon, Jenn and I will have you out of there soon."
I'm not sure because it had been muffled but I think I heard Dan laugh nervously. "Great, great, no rush or anything."
Okay this was really weird, he was still acting nervous, and still hadn't made up some sort of joke, something was definitely up.
"Let's stop talking already!" Otamamon said beginning to clear away some of the rocks. "Let's get them out of there."
"Yeah right," Kris agreed getting back to work.
We continued to clear away the rocks, in particular the one by the hole that Gizamon had found, and in about half an hour we had cleared enough away to uncover the majority of the original opened of the cave, and more than enough space had been cleared for us to easily walk through.
The second the final rock had been moved out of the way Gizamon and Otamamon ran into the cave, Kris, I and our Digimon followed. As the six of us stepped into the cave Gizamon and Otamamon immediately jumped into their partner's arms.
"Hey buddy," Dan said. "Where have you been?"
"Nowhere really just washed away in the rapids then digging in a bunch of dirty rocks for a couple hours." Gizamon answered.
"You had me so scared," Otamamon said to Janine. "I thought I might have lost you."
"You could never lose me," Janine replied.
As the reunion continued I examining the cave, it was pretty disgusting in here. There were beer bottles, and condom wrappers scattered around the entire cave, and in the center was a mattress soiled by the constant time that people had had sex on it. Actually it, looked like some of the stains looked pretty fresh, very fresh.
"We better get going," Dan said. "We've got to deal with Emily and the Dark Masters."
Kris laughed. "You don't have to worry about that, what do you think we were doing while you guys were trapped down here. We've already taken care of them."
Great here it comes, Dan's going to be pretty mad that he missed everything, the fighting was what he loved most about this war.
"Oh, that's great." Was all he said.
"You're not upset?" Kris said cocking his eyebrow in confusion. "I know how much you love the fighting part. You know the thrill of not knowing whether you'll live to see the next day. I really thought you'd be upset, you missed all the action, I doubt there's very much action down here."
A seductive grin grew on Dan's face. "Oh I wouldn't say that."
Okay something was definitely weird here, Dan was acting weird and I couldn't help but notice Janine's face go bright red as he had said that. It was also then that I noticed their clothing; it was more ruffled than you would expect. Janine usually had her shirt tucked into her pants neatly, now the front of it was tucked in but the back was messily hanging out, in fact it looked like all their clothing had just recently been thrown on in a hurry.
That's when it all hit me, every clue, Dan acting weird, the recently soiled mattress, and their ruffled clothing. Dan and Janine! They'd actually – they'd actually slept together. I held back the urge to laugh, desperately holding it back; I don't even know why I found this funny. I quickly swallowed the building laughter and faced my friends again, but it was weird I don't think I'd ever be able to look at Dan and Janine the same way again, but nonetheless I was happy for them and that they were finally together. I'd actually been anticipating that they would for a long time; it was so obvious that they both liked each other. Not all people who liked each other acted all lovey dovey like me and Kris had before they got together, sometimes they fought like those two did, and I say it was about time that they got together.
"Come on," Kris said motioning for us to leave the cave. "This is cave is really starting to gross me out."
"So what do we do now?" Dan asked. "Once again just wait."
"Yeah," Kris said taking another step towards the exit. "Unfortunately this time we're not just waiting for another minion to show up. When we're confronted next time it'll be by Evamon himself."
"Well it's about time," Dan said. "I'm getting a little impatient with this guy."
Kris rolled his eyes. "Why does that not surprise me? Let's just go okay."
"Yeah okay, I better get home before my parents notice I've been missing…for twelve hours."
"Dan, Kris," I said. "You two go ahead, I need to talk to Janine for a sec."
"What about?" Kris asked.
"Just girl talk," I told my boyfriend. "You boys go on we'll catch up."
"Aw Jenn do you have to stay here, It's dirty and it really stinks," Ostrimon said, who I held tightly in my arms.
"Actually I need to talk to Janine alone, so you and Otamamon can go with Kris and Dan, Janine and I will meet up with you in a sec."
"But-" Otamamon started.
"It's okay Otamamon just go. I'm sure this won't take that long. We'll just catch up."
Otamamon sighed, but also indicated that he was willing to cooperate. He jumped out of Janine's arms and started to follow Kris and Dan, while I handed Ostrimon into Kris's arms.
"Don't take too long," Kris said leaning over kissing me lightly.
"I won't, this won't take five minutes."
He nodded as he followed Dan, Otamamon, and Elecmon out of the cave leaving Janine and I alone.
"So how was he?" I asked.
"What?!" Janine yelled.
"Come on don't play dumb. Kris might not be able to figure it out, but I can see all the signs, I know that you and Dan slept together."
She refused to look me in the eyes as her face turned completely red. "Yeah…we did."
"I can't believe you of all people did that," I said. "Miss cautious, you actually did something daring like have sex."
"I know, I know. Now you're going to say that is was a dumb thing to do at my age, especially so soon."
"You know a couple weeks ago I probably would have, but since Kris and I have gotten closer I've learned that it doesn't really matter how young you are your first time as long as you're with the right guy, and I know for sure that I have."
"You and Kris haven't -?"
I shook my head. "No we haven't, I know he's the right guy, but it's just not the right time yet."
"Well I know for sure I've found the right guy. Yeah we fight a lot, but I just have this feeling, I'm sure you know what I mean, and I'm sure now you think I've done this too soon."
"No not at all," I said. "I'm not going to give you some lecture when I know probably in a few months I'll be in your position. For Kris and I the right time just hasn't come up yet, how did you know when the time was right?"
"I don't know," she answered her face finally returning to it's normal colour, and a happy smile grew on her face. "The same way I knew Dan was the right guy, I just had this feeling that told me that it was right."
"That's what I thought," I said.
"So was that all you wanted to talk to me about? To confront me about my relationship with Dan?"
"Yeah that was about it."
"You're not going to tell anybody are you, I'd rather no one find out just yet."
"Don't worry I won't, I'm the only one that even suspects that you so much as like each other, I won't let it leak out."
"Thanks…can we go home now? I really don't like this cave very much."
I laughed. "Yeah of course we can."
Which we did, left the smelly damp cave, which he had dug for hours to get into. The day was finally over; I'd say it was one of the longest days we've had since the fight, we'd taken out six of Evamon's minions in one day, each of us had fought a long hard fight today. I could only imagine how hard it was going to be when we actually came up against Evamon himself.
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Demidevimon
For about the hundredth time tonight I once again shifted in my position on Andrew's bed. I wasn't exactly having an easy time falling asleep. Whenever I closed my eyes I kept seeing those yellow glowing eyes staring back at me. That was the last things I wanted to see right now, it was bad enough that I was going to have to actually fight him now. Did he have to haunt my subconscious too? Unfortunately what Kris had said was true, the next time we fought Evamon's forces we'd be fighting Evamon himself. I was familiar with his minions, and there weren't any left except maybe the weaker ones, the ones that any one of us could toss aside easily, and he wasn't going to waste his time sending them after us. I still wasn't sure why he didn't just attack us out right, and not bother with all these minions. Of course that wasn't what was keeping me awake, it was the obvious, I was afraid of Evamon. I doubt very much that he was happy with me right now he didn't take kindly to treachery.
After about the hundred and first time of shifting in my position, I got fed up. There was no way I was going to get any sleep tonight, so instead of fighting a losing battle and attempt to sleep I flew over to the window opened it up and flew outside. I just need to get some air and stretch my wings a bit and try and unload my mind. I didn't fly too far, I hadn't intended too, I circled the beaten up house for a while and finally landed on the top of the roof knocking a few loose shingles off of it as I did.
Even I still couldn't believe how things had changed for me. Before I met Andrew I had dedicated my life to doing whatever I could do make sure I was taken care of, to make sure I was rewarded, no matter what demeaning or disgusting job I did to make it so. All I cared about was myself, whether I was working for Myotismon, or Evamon I always groveled and did their dirty work just to get a little reward for myself, and for the most part that work included attempting to eliminate the Digidestined, for most of my life I had spent over half of my time trying to figure out ways to destroy them, and in only about a months time things changed and now I was actually one of them. For once I was actually fighting against Evamon, and I had to admit it fighting against him was a lot better than fighting with him. This last month was the best of my life, the only time in my life I was actually considering someone else, this all started out as just an assignment to cause some trouble in the Digital World as Andrew's partner, then the partnership changed into something else: a friendship. For the first time in my life I actually had a friend, someone I actually cared about for than myself, and someone who cared about me more then themselves, and I was willing to do anything to maintain that friendship, even if it meant my own death, it was a totally new feeling to me, I liked it.
I actually liked it! I was starting to get almost as bad as the other Digimon who were so dedicated to protecting their partners. Who was I kidding; I was just like that, I always thought it was so pathetic how they did that, risked their lives for some worthless humans. Then I met Andrew and everything changed, I understood why they were so ready to lay down their lives to protect them. Not that I cared for the other humans, but if Evamon or any of his minions so much as looked at Andrew the wrong way I would make sure they regretted it. Yeah there had been a lot of changes in my life the past month, and they had all been for the better, which brought me back to the reason I couldn't sleep tonight, now Evamon was threatening to come in and take it all away. But at least there was a bright side, he couldn't make me go back to my old life, the one I know dreaded going back to. I had two possible fates, I either keep the life I had now, or I would die, if you could call that a bright side.
I continued to just sit up on the roof and think for a while, that was until my sensitive bat an ear picked up something approaching the house. It was definitely a Digimon, a small one at that, it was flying a few feet over the ground, and it was more of a hovering flight. I didn't here the flapping of wings.
I took off from my perch on the roof and flew higher to get a better view. I saw two Thundermon approaching the house. Not too much to worry about, Evamon used Thundermon mainly as scouts or messengers, as they were agile and silent flyers, as well as small so they could sneak up on people and Digimon easily without being detected, plus they were at the Champion level so they had some firepower if needed. Odds were they were just here to deliver a message to Tai letting him know that Evamon challenged them to the final showdown or something no reason for me to get involved if they were just going to talk.
I continued to stay at my current altitude just in case. The two Thundermon approached the window to what used to be Emily's room, where Matt and Tai were sleeping. They were being pretty quiet, opening the window very slowly, and trying not to make any noise. That was weird if they were delivering a message they shouldn't be concerned about waking them up, in fact they would want them to wake up. If they were being quiet it meant they didn't want them to wake up which meant of course they were going to attack.
It was time for me to spring into action. Just another indication of how things had changed, before I would do anything to see their lives in danger like this, now I was actually going to try and save them.
I pulled back my wings and broke into a dive, and hit rammed one of the Thundermon with my head sending him crashing into the ground. I'd only been able to do that because I'd surprised him, which meant I had to get moving before the second one attacked. I flared my wings and started to fly away as quickly as possible.
"Thunder volt!" one of the Thundermon yelled launching a bolt of electricity at me.
I veered left and was barely able to dodge the attack, looking back for a second I noticed the second Thundermon I hadn't knocked to the ground was now in hot pursuit of me, just what I expected, at least he wasn't after the sleeping and vulnerable Matt and Tai now. I only wish that I thought this through more I really didn't know where I was going to go from here, it was only a matter of time before Thundermon caught me.
"Thunder volt!" a second Thundermon voice yelled from below as a bolt from electricity from below hit me knocking me out of the sky, and I spiraled downwards then crashed face first into the dirt.
The Thundermon that I had hit into the ground had recovered sooner than I thought and launched a surprise attack from below. I didn't even get very far; I was only about seven feet away from the house. Both Thundermon landed on opposite sides of me, both looming over me. They weren't very big Digimon, but considering my own size and the position I was in they were big enough to offer a pretty big threat.
"Well if it isn't the traitor," one of the Thundermon said. "Time to kill two birds with one bolt."
I cringed as I saw the other Thundermon begin to charge up his Thunder Volt attack.
"Thunder -"
"Pepper breath!"
One of Agumon's fireballs suddenly exploded on the back of the Thundermon that was preparing the attack.
"Whoever thought would be saving your butt? Huh Demidevimon?" Tai said.
"My sentiments exactly," I said pulling myself out of the dirt.
Both Thundermon stared angrily at Tai and Agumon the two new opponents they had been presented with. They flew off into the air, but stopping a few feet above them and held their hands out once again preparing to fire another attack.
Tai smiled confidently. "Agumon you know what to do."
Agumon nodded as Tai's Digivice activated.
"Agumon Digivolved to…………………Greymon!"
The second Agumon had finished Digivolving; the Thundermon fired their Thunder Volts at Tai's Digimon. However their didn't cause a bit of damaged as the bony shield on Greymon's head absorbed the attack.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yelled firing a giant fireball from his mouth.
One Thundermon just barely managed to dodge the attack, but that other took the attack head on, and after it cleared the charred body fell lifelessly to the ground. The uninjured Thundermon attacked again by launching volleys of punches onto the giant dinosaur's nose, but it didn't seem to do a thing, Greymon just snorted sending the small spherical shaped Digimon sailing into a nearby rotting tree, and sliding down into the ground.
"Alright! That'll teach him to mess with us." I cheered as Greymon finished off the Thundermon firing a second Nova Blast completely destroying Thundermon.
Even though I've been on their side for a month now, I still found it weird to be rooting for them. That's when I noticed a subtle sound scraping across the ground, it was very soft, no human could hear it but my sensitive ears picked it up pretty easily. I looked in the direction of the sound, and saw the Thundermon that Greymon had knocked out before had gotten up and was about to throw something at Tai.
"Look out!" I yelled taking off into the air after the Thundermon.
It was already too late Thundermon threw the object which I could now tell was some sort of completely black bracelet. Before I could stop it the bracelet clamped itself around Tai's wrist, no sooner than it had it began to take an effect on him. In a matter of seconds a wave of darkness spread over him only to disappear as quickly as it had appeared, and for a few moments Tai just stood there dumbfounded.
I flew inches away from his face. "Tai you okay."
For another few seconds he just stood there completely paralyzed even though my wings were practically flapping right in his face, until finally something happened as he shook his head and stared at me with evil looking glowing red eyes.
I backed off immediately. I knew those glowing red eyes, I've seen them tons of times on enslaved Digimon after Andrew or Emily had slapped a Dark Prism on them! That bracelet! It was some sort of device to control humans.
"Greymon!" I yelled fluttering up to the giant orange dinosaur's face. "We've got to get that bracelet off of Tai it's going turning Tai against us."
Greymon nodded. "Right, be glad to." Greymon approached his partner and began to bend down reaching his claw towards Tai's wrist. "That doesn't look good on you Tai, black just isn't your colour. Let's take it off."
"Never!" Tai screamed as he held out his Digivice in Greymon's face, which immediately changed from its normal light blue colour to a dark shade of black, just as Dark light began to shoot out of it engulfing Greymon. It soon cleared, and luckily Greymon was still the same. Or at least that's what I thought until I saw his glowing red eyes.
"Gotta go!" I yelled attempting to fly away, but before I could Thundermon was on me, holding me in a full nelson, I struggled and attempted to escape but it was pointless, even though he had been weakened by Greymon's Nova Blast he was still strong enough to hold me.
"Take him back to Evamon," Tai said as his eyes stopped glowing, but I could tell he was still under control of the dark bracelet he still had an evil look on his face. "I'm sure he'll be happy to be able to punish this traitor. I'll get to work on my part of Evamon's plan."
"What are you going to do?" I yelled. "If you even think about hurting-"
"Don't worry about your partner, it's not him Evamon has his eyes set on."
"Then who?"
"That's none of your business! And you're not going to stick around long enough to find out. Thundermon take him to Evamon."
I continued to struggle, but to no avail Thundermon had he held too tightly. He began to fly away and I struggled even more, maybe if I continued to struggle I could get free, but that ended as Thundermon shot a bolt of electricity through my body, it was only a matter of seconds before the bolt had somehow made me feel drowsy, and I eventually everything went black.
* * *
Kris
I rolled over comfortably in my bed. There was no reason for the fact that I couldn't sleep, I was wrapped in a nice warm blanket laying on a soft mattress, with Elecmon sleeping at my feet keeping me warm, there was nothing that should be keeping me awake, except for the incredible dark force that would be descending on us anytime now. The shrill ring of the phone finally broke the incredibly annoying silence. My eyes met with my clock radio before picking up the phone, it was four AM, who would be calling at this time?
Without getting up from my bed I reached for the phone on my nightstand.
"Hello?" I said.
"Kris," a groggy voice said.
"Matt?" I asked recognizing the voice. "Is something wrong?"
"Possibly," Matt answered. "Tai just woke me up, and told me to call everyone for an emergency meeting. But something is definitely up. Andrew really seems upset and both Tai and Agumon are acting weird."
"Okay, Elecmon and I will be there as soon as possible."
"Alright," Matt said. "Gabumon and I will keep calling the others."
With that we both hung up. After some grumbling and complaining I managed to get Elecmon up, and he armor Digivolved and we flew to Andrew's house, where Matt Tai and Ken where staying, and where we had been instructed to go. It was only a matter of time before the rest of the team had arrived and we were gathered in Andrew's room.
"So what's this all about," Dan asked. "What is so important that you had to drag me out of my warm bed for."
"I'll tell you what it's about!" Andrew yelled angrily. "Our leader! Our leader let Evamon's minions get Demidevimon!"
"What?" I yelled. "What do you mean by that?"
"They took him!" Andrew yelled practically breaking out in tears. "Evamon took Demidevimon, and it's all our brave leader's fault!"
"Andrew I'm sure it's not Tai's fault." Jenn said. "What exactly happened?"
Tai hung his head. "I can't be sure why they were here, for either Demidevimon or myself, but two Thundermon attacked, Demidevimon saw them first and fought them off, but they clobbered him within seconds, the fighting woke up Agumon and I and we tried to help him, but there were too many of them. Agumon and I got away, but Demidevimon wasn't as lucky. They captured him, apparently Evamon isn't very happy with him."
"So I guess the next question that comes to mind is how exactly are we going to save him?"
Gatomon grunted. "Why bother, whatever that little rat gets he deserves, I know what he's done in the past, and so do most of the others, we should just wait until Evamon gets tired of him."
"Gatomon!" Kari scolded.
Needless to say that last statement got Andrew a little upset. "Yeah that's real easy for you to say!" he yelled. It looked like he was fighting the urge to get up and strangle the small white cat Digimon. "You didn't just lose everything tonight! I care for Demidevimon more than anything! He's not just my partner he's my best friend! And he was all that I had left, the only person I had left that still gave a damn about me! My family is either dead, or close to death! And I never had any real friends except for him. He was all that I had left. I've lost everything now! And I don't care how the rest of you think! I'll be damned if I'm going to just sit here and let Evamon take away the only family I've got left. I sat idly by while I lost my parents and even Emily, but I'm not losing Demidevimon too."
"Andrew I understand what you're saying." I said placing a hand on his shoulder. "And not once did we say were weren't going to try and save Demidevimon. We are, definitely; he may have been an enemy of the Digidestined at one point, but now he's one of us, and as one of us we're going to rescue him just like we would have if it was any other member of the team, and don't mind Gatomon. She and Demidevimon have a very bad past, which I'm assuming she's still a little bitter about."
Gatomon crossed her arms and grunted angrily. Oh well I guess you can't keep everyone happy.
"I think we're all forgetting one very important thing here," T.K said. "We can't exactly go about saving Demidevimon unless we know where he is. He could be anywhere in the real world or in the Digital world."
"Then there's the third option," Patamon added. "The Dark World, which we can't even get to."
"They couldn't have gotten too far," Sean said. "Tai, Agumon you said the attack was just over half an hour ago. Well then there's no way they could have gotten out of town by now, and if we put our D3s into their longest range it covers the entire town and about a mile radius outside of it, if they're in the real world we could tell if they're still in town."
"I thought of that," Andrew said sighing and wiping away the last of his tears. "I checked the D3 as soon as Tai told me they took him, and used the longest range. I didn't see a single Digimon aside from our own on it. They're not in the real world they either snuck into the Digital World or the Dark World."
"Or it's possible they're using a radar block," Ken said.
"A what?" Davis asked.
"A radar block," Ken repeated. "How do you think I kept from being found by you while I was the Digimon Emperor, I had to block my slaves, Wormmon and myself from the radar of your D3s, so I built a device that would block everything, it's possible that Evamon created a duplicate of that device, so he could enter the real world right under our noses and hide from us."
"That sounds like a definite possibility," Rob said. "Izzy do you think you could possibly find a way around the radar block?"
"Yeah I might," Izzy said. "Of course I'd need help from you Ken, I'd need the schematics for the device, and of course your debugging skills Rob."
"This is great!" I said laughing. "If this theory is correct then when we unblock the radar we'll not only find Demidevimon we'll find Evamon too, and we can launch a surprise attack, and maybe even beat Evamon."
"Hold on," Izzy said. "That's only if they're in the real world, and if they're using Ken's device."
"Even if they're not I think I've got an idea," Rob said as a smile grew on his face. "Izzy you said you had all the Digimon's data you've ever seen stored in your Digivice right?"
Izzy nodded.
"And you can upload that data into your computer?"
"Yeah," Izzy answered. "Gennai installed a port into my laptop so I can upload it to the computer."
"So you can that data on your Digivice, and scan the town and certain areas of the Digital World for similar data, and if you find a match we've found Demidevimon!"
"That's a great idea! And I could do it too, it might take a few days, to get the scanning program and to get around the radar block, but I can definitely do it!"
"It works out better than you'd think," Davis said. "Chances are that Demidevimon is being held in Evamon's base. So at the same time at finding Demidevimon we find the base, and like Kris said launch a surprise attack."
"This is going to be so cool," Dan laughed. "Kidnapping Demidevimon was the biggest mistake Evamon ever made."
"I don't think so," Tai said. "I really don't like this plan."
I gave Tai a confused look. "What are you talking about Tai? This plan is perfect, we find Demidevimon and we find out where Evamon has been hiding out. What's wrong with it."
"I just don't think it's that good of an idea okay!" he yelled.
Okay this was weird, this sounded like the exact type of plan that Tai would approve of, but he didn't, and even if he didn't approve of a plan he usually gave a reason when I asked, this time he was completely dismissing it.
"Why? Why doesn't it seem like a good idea? I don't see anything wrong with it."
Tai met my gaze with an angry glare. It sent shivers up my spine; there was something definitely wrong with him.
"I – uh I just don't think it's a good idea to go rushing into Evamon's territory that's all! It's the heart of his dark forces we could get seriously hurt."
"That may be true Tai, but it couldn't hurt to at least do the scan, that way we at least know where, Demidevimon and Evamon's headquarters is."
Tai's angry gaze grew even more intense, I stopped myself from taking a step back, I was part leader too, I couldn't start to show him that he was intimidating me.
"Look! I'm the leader of this group and I said that we don't carry through with this plan! It's just stupid okay!"
"No it's not stupid!" I yelled. Why did I do that? I looked up to this guy for being a great leader and now I was questioning his leader skills. I'm sure there was a good reason for him not to like this plan; I just wish he would tell me what it is. Well I'd already yelled at him might as well continue to plead my case. "Tai I don't know if you forgot but when our teams first merged I thought we agreed that we would both work together, and we would both lead. I'm leader of this team too, and I'm not going to back down from my decision to carry through with this plan until I here a good reason for us not too."
"I already gave you one! It's stupid for us to rush into the heart of Evamon's territory!"
"I'm aware of that Tai, but first of all Demidevimon is in there, and the only way to get him out is to go in there, so we're going to have to go in there whether it's dangerous or not. Second, all we've done so far is sit around waiting for Evamon to attack, wouldn't it be good if for once we surprised Evamon instead of the other way around."
Tai continued to glare at me angrily. "Well I know that my group will back me up on this! And I'm sure you notice that my team has four more Digidestined than your own. I say we put it to a vote, those who want to put up with Rob's – one of the Canadians – plan raise your hand."
To Tai's surprise (but not my own) everyone except for Tai's hand was raised. Tai looked at the rest of the Japanese Digidestined in shock.
"I'm sorry Tai," Sora said. "I don't know what you think is so wrong with this plan, but just because your our leader doesn't mean we're going to agree with you when you're wrong."
That last statement was enough; Tai was tired of holding in all his anger.
"Fine!" he yelled jumping up from his eat. "Go through with Perception's stupid plan! Come on Agumon let's go home."
With that Tai stormed out of the room, Agumon not looking any happier than time was quick to follow.
"What was that all about?" Gabumon asked.
"I'm not sure," Matt said. "I'll talk to him about it later."
"Okay Izzy so you're sure you can get that radar block and scan working?" I asked trying to change the subject from Tai and I's argument.
Izzy nodded. "Yeah, I'll need some help, and it'll take some time but I can definitely get it up and running."
"Good," Andrew said. "I think we should get started right away, you and Rob can stay here to work on it."
"Yeah…" Izzy said. "No offense but I'm not sure what you'll be able to help us with."
"Nothing probably," Andrew answered. "But I want to know how it's going along at all times, I'm concerned about Demidevimon."
"There's no need for the rest of us to stay here then?" I asked.
"No," Izzy said shaking his head. "You should probably all go home, get some rest."
Which is what we did, in a matter of minutes we'd all left and Armyleomon and I were in the sky.
"You okay?" Armyleomon asked a few minutes after we'd left Andrew's house.
"I'm fine," I answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Just that argument you had with Tai, you seemed to be bothered by it."
"No I'm fine," I lied.
"No you're not, I know you. You've admired Tai for a long time; his opinion means a lot to you, and he basically told you that you were a bad leader back there, I know you couldn't just throw that off."
"You know me too well," I sighed. "I saw Tai fight Myotismon, and he was an awesome leader, ever since I became the leader of our group I always hoped to be like him, I guess I never will be."
"Kris, don't say that! You're a great leader; you led us to victory against Emily. I don't know what had gotten into Tai when he said that. I think – Aaaaah!"
Armyleomon suddenly veered off course as he dodged a missile that flew down towards the ground and exploded into the lake below.
"T-that was one of Metalgreymon's missiles!" Armyleomon yelled.
I looked up as I felt a shadow over us. Just as I had feared, flying above us was Metalgreymon; I really didn't like the look in his eye, especially the fact that they were glowing red.
"Pull over!" Tai yelled from his position atop of Metalgreymon's head.
"Tai what the hell is wrong with you?" I yelled. "You could have killed us with that missile."
"Too bad, Metalgreymon's aim has been off lately."
"Too bad! Tai what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing's wrong, I've just finally come to my senses. It's time to eliminate you and thus my competition!"
"Tai we're not in competition with each other, we work together."
"That's over! You're interfering with my plan! The only way for it to continue is to eliminate you."
"What plan?"
"You'll find out soon enough. Metalgreymon take them out."
"Giga Missile!" Metalgreymon yelled as his chest plate opened up launching two giant missiles.
Armyleomon veered right and dodged one of the missiles, but the second one crashed into his side sending both of us crashing down below into the middle of the highway, luckily it was still pretty early in the morning so there weren't any cars on the road.
"Are you okay?" I asked my Digimon.
"Yeah fine," Armyleomon said slowly getting up.
Soon Metalgreymon landed on the side of the road knocking down five or six trees, which were part of the forest on the highway as he landed.
"Tai why are you doing this?" I groaned.
"I thought I already told you, to eliminate you! The rest of the Digidestined are disobeying me and going on with your stupid plan because of this stupid leader partnership we've got going. All I have to do is eliminate you and I can stop the plan from going any further."
"What is with you and this plan?" Armyleomon yelled. "Just because you and Kris disagree about something it doesn't mean you have to kill him."
"This isn't about some dumb disagreement!" Tai said. "This is about the fight, I can't let the plan be carried out because it would completely jeopardize Evamon's own plans."
"What? Tai have you gone nuts. That would be a good thing! What's wrong with you."
An evil grin grew on Tai's face as his eyes began to glow bright red just like Metalgreymon's were.
"I've had a changing of allegiance." Evamon is my master now.
"Is it just me, or did you notice that weird bracelet on his wrist."
"That looks new, think it has something to do with his sudden change in attitude?"
"Yes definitely!"
The evil grin grew as Tai held up his wrist. "Do you like it? It was a gift from Evamon. It's a combination of the Dark Ring, Spiral, Prism, and Cube. The power of all four objects so it's able to control Digidestined, and because of the link between Digidestined and Digimon it allows Evamon to control that Digidestined's Digimon partner."
"It must be a good plan Kris," Armyleomon said. "For Tai to want to stop it this bad."
"Metalgreymon take care of them," Tai instructed.
Metalgreymon smiled evilly. "Giga missile!"
Metalgreymon's attack was launched in less than a second, which was exactly the amount of time it took for Armyleomon to jump out of the way as the missiles landed where he had once been standing. We jumped into the forest in an attempt to escape, dodging between the trees at lightning quick speed. Metalgreymon was too big to do that, so hopefully that would slow him down enough for the two of us to get away. Unfortunately that wasn't going to work very well; Metalgreymon and Tai weren't very far behind us. Metalgreymon was big enough that he could just knock the trees down; they weren't even slowing him down.
Suddenly the ground beneath us exploded sending both of us flying, and falling into the dirt, the dome I was inside opened up.
"Kris run!" he told me. "I'll hold them off."
"I'm not leaving you," I said, then jumped out of the dome, and helped Armyleomon to his feet.
"Nice shot Metalgreymon," Tai said as he and Metalgreymon approached us.
"Looks like we'll have to fight, Armyleomon you know what to do."
Without so much as a word Armyleomon returned to his rookie state, ready to Digivolve again.
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………Leomon!"
"Leomon Digivolved to………………….Saberleomon!"
The second the light from the Digivolution had cleared Saberleomon jumped into action head butting Metalgreymon in the stomach. Despite the size difference Metalgreymon toppled and fell to the ground face first in the dirt.
"Metalgreymon! Get up!" Tai ordered.
Tai's Digimon did so but no sooner he was on his feet did Saberleomon attack again.
"Howling Crusher."
Saberleomon's attack connected with Metalgreymon's lower jaw, just before Saberleomon jumped into the air a second time and hit Metalgreymon with all his power in the jaw. The blow was more powerful then you would have thought and the surprised Metalgreymon was sent flying crashing down onto the ground for a second time, this time he didn't get up and returned to his rookie stage.
"You should know that know Ultimate is any match for a Mega," Saberleomon bragged.
"Then let's make you a Mega! Agumon warp Digivolve."
Agumon only nodded as Tai's Digivice and crest began to glow.
"Agumon Warp Digivolved to………………………Wargreymon!"
The two Mega Digimon quickly began eyeing each other down as they took a step closer to each other ready to fight at a seconds notice.
"Tai we don't have to do this," I said. "We're both Digidestined. We shouldn't be fighting."
"Don't insult me by calling me that! I'm not a Digidestined anymore. I've joined a much more powerful team now!"
"Tai I know you're in there somewhere! If that dark bracelet is part Dark Prism and Dark Cube then the real Tai is lying dormant. You've got to break free of this, I know you can you've never been one to give up. You've got to beat the Dark Force that's keeping you dormant."
"Forget it, I've changed and the old Tai isn't coming back. Wargreymon shut this kid up and just destroy his Digimon so we can take care of him."
"Yes Tai," Wargreymon said launching the first attack.
Wargreymon attacked jumped into the air coming back down again throwing his claw forward at Saberleomon but Saberleomon jumped into the air as well and out of the way of the claw which ended up getting stuck in the ground. Saberleomon took advantage of Wargreymon's moment of vulnerability and fired a Howling Crusher attack at him. The attack hit Wargreymon in the back but his shield took most of the damage so he wasn't really hurt, in fact the attack had managed to free Wargreymon's claw.
Wargreymon launched a second attack taking another swing with his armored claws, Saberleomon used his cat like speed to dodge it right before Wargreymon took another swing at him with his other claw, but Saberleomon just dodged that one too, only to have another swing thrown at him just to dodge it again, and it continued like that for a while until Saberleomon finally broke it by catching Wargreymon's claws in his paws.
They stayed like that for a while each trying to overpower each other in what looked like a never-ending stalemate. Wargreymon finally break it by flying into the air, while Saberleomon who couldn't fly could only helplessly watch him from the ground.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon yelled firing his classic red energy ball down at Saberleomon.
He was able to dodge it but just barely, just as another one of Wargreymon's attacks came down, and luckily Saberleomon was able to dodge it, it seemed like that's all he was doing. Soon a barrage of Terra Forces were being launched at the lion Digimon, who was desperately struggling to dodge them, and at the same time helpless to do anything about it. He couldn't attack him physically because he couldn't fly, and he barely had enough time to dodge the barrage of attacks let alone launch one of his own. Worse yet I could tell that we wouldn't be able to dodge these attacks for much longer, sooner or later one was going to hit him. He was going to lose and it was all because he couldn't fly.
Actually this time I could do something about it, I didn't just have to stand here and watch. My eyes locked onto Tai. They said when you were fighting something powerful the best thing to do was take out the source, and Wargreymon's source of power was definitely Tai. I hated to have to do this but maybe just maybe it would snap Tai out of it.
For only the second time since this war started I actually rushed into battle myself not Saberleomon, but me. I tackled Tai pushing him to the ground, and pulled back my fist ready to punch him.
"I'm sorry about this Tai," I said. "But I don't have much of a choice."
I swung my fist at him but he caught it in my own fist, and at the same time punching me in the face. I was thrown off of him by a swift kick; I got up slowly just as another fist hit my face. I tried to punch him back but he just moved aside easily and delivered a punch to my gut. I tried my best to ignore it and tried to punch for the third time, but he only caught it laughed and I received another punch to my face.
"You're really pathetic," he mocked. "Good thing your Digimon doesn't fight like you or you'd have lost your first day on the job."
He was right, I did fight pathetically even Emily had overpowered me, during my first fight, and it was even worse that he was two years older than me and pretty strong for a kid that age anyway. Meanwhile I was two years younger and weak for a kid my age.
In about two seconds I felt a very hard punch to my gut, which knocked the wind out of me. I held my stomach, not looking up; all I could do now was wait for another fist to land on my head.
Instead I heard Tai scream. "Aaaaah! Let me go you bitch!"
I slowly pulled myself up, and a smile formed on my face at what I saw.
"Jenn?" I said upon seeing Jenn holding Tai in a full Nelson.
"Don't ever hurt my boyfriend again bastard!" she yelled at Tai.
I couldn't help but laugh. She wasn't only holding him; she was doing it very successfully. Tai was struggling with all his might but he still couldn't break free.
"Jenn should I warp Digivolve and give Saberleomon a hand?" Penguinmon asked appearing from behind a tree.
"No," Jenn answered. "I have a better idea."
She tightened her hold on Tai; in fact she tightened it on his throat cutting off his air.
"Uh Jenn I think you might be holding him a bit too tight."
"That's the idea." Jenn said.
Jenn's actions got Wargreymon's attention immediately.
"Tai!" he yelled in concern, as he flew right at us drawing back his claw.
Saberleomon did the same running forward moving Jenn, Penguinmon and I out of the way causing Wargreymon's claw to just barely miss us.
"About time you saved me…that girl's stronger than she looks, now kill them!"
Wargreymon stayed motionless, and raised his head, revealing that his eyes were no longer glowing red.
"No Tai," he said. "I won't hurt them. I won't hurt our own!"
"What's wrong with you! We're not one of them anymore."
"Yes we are Tai, no matter what happens to us we'll always be Digidestined no matter what Evamon does to us."
"What happened?" Saberleomon asked. "A second ago he was trying to kill me, now he's good again."
"It was his concern for Tai," Jenn said. "He saw me hurting him and nothing could stop him from protecting Tai, not even the power of the dark bracelet."
"How did you know about that?" I asked.
"I saw it when he was leaving Andrew's room, from that I just figured it all out. Then got another clue when I was following you home, and saw everything. I wasn't going to jump in but then I saw him hurting you and couldn't take waiting anymore."
"I'll make you!" Tai yelled holding out his Digivice, except it wasn't its normal blue colour it was black now, but before he could use it Wargreymon hit it out of his hand, and it slid to my feet.
After that Wargreymon went out of his Mega stage and became Agumon again.
"I know this is hard, I've been in your shoes before, I've been under control of dark forces, but you helped me through it. You helped me get free, and now I'm going to do the same for you. I'm going to help you through this; I'm going to stay here until you're free. Tai I know deep down in there yearning to get out, regretting all the things your doing. Fight it Tai! I know you can do it, you can do anything beat this."
Tai and Agumon only stared at each other for a while until Tai's upper lip began to twitch, then suddenly he grabbed his head and screamed in pain.
"Agumon help!" he screamed. "I've got control again! But it won't last long! The bracelet break it now!"
Agumon didn't hesitate he clamped his claws down on the bracelet it broke in half immediately. Tai fell to his knees, as he and he and Agumon hugged.
"I'm sorry," he said.
Agumon laughed. "Let's not start that again."
I approached the two of them, and placed my hand on his shoulder. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, but are you okay? I'm so sorry, I said horrible things to you, and worse yet I attacked you."
"It's okay," I said. "I know it wasn't your fault. Let's just go home."
"Alright," Tai said. "As long you're still willing to help me lead this team."
"You know I will." I said.
So we did, we all hopped onto Saberleomon's back and started to run home. Once again we found ourselves waiting, but at least time we were doing something about it. All we had to do was wait for Izzy to find Demidevimon and the base. So at least this time we'd be the ones doing the attacking and not the other way around.
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I can guarantee you there will be no more stall chapters. This is the last one I swear. We're moving onto the actual plot with Evamon soon. Unfortunately it might take a while for the next one because Christmas break is over and school is starting. A very busy time of the year too, Exam time! Aaaaah! So I'll have to study a lot. It maybe a week or two until the next one.
Stay tuned for Chapter 36: Dark Force Revealed