Legal Poo: I don't own digimon. Hell, I wish I did 'cuz I'd get rich but I don't. I'm writing this fic without their permission and neither wind nor rain nor bloodsucking lawyer will get in my way. On the other hand, the new stuff I write into this fic is mine and it'll always be. You can write about it if you ask me first though. I also don't own Shastina or Tao. (Theo Blitz does and their digimon too but this is an alternate timeline and I got his permission =P. Nifty no?)
Blade of Destiny
Chapter II: Repeat of History
Yolei's cell phone rang as the group, now in the computer lab, spied the screen they had turned on and from which they were streaming onto Izzy's laptop over at the University of Kyoto. They already new Izzy's site and they knew it might be streaming a map sort of like this since they could no longer be at the same computer all the time. Yolei answered it, still staring in awe at the monitor as it displayed the image coming from Izzy's university server.
"You did know my IP address right?"
"Yeah we did and we're seeing it from here now." Yolei replied.
"I've managed to identify them already. My friend Tao happened to be in town and had his digivice in his bag so he scanned the digimon for me and called me from a pay phone. I'll pop 'em on your screen just now."
Sure enough, the stats on the two digimon quickly popped in a small window on the bottom left as the map of Kyoto above continued showing the two red dots, moving about. One of them just trashing buildings randomly it seemed while the other was laying down little Pacman dots as it went.
Name: Miremon
Class: Ultimate
Attacks: Magnitude, Mud Slap
Name: Ohmumon
Class: Mega
Attacks: Overrun, Terra Cannon, Golden Silk
"An ultimate and a mega, shouldn't be too hard with Imperialdramon!" Davis said at once.
"Wait! Izzy, what are those white dots."
"That's the part where it gets bad." Izzy said gravely. "From what I've seen on television, those things are some sort of upgraded control spire. If you brought Imperialdramon anywhere near Kyoto, you'd de-digivolve right away. But don't worry, we've got that covered for now. Get Imperialdramon ready. Soon as we spring the signal, get your butt over here and deal with the mega for us."
"You got it!" Ken and Davis said in unison, overhearing from Yolei's cell phone. Yolei rushed to catch back up with them as she closed her phone and charged with them for the entrance where they could digivolve their way to Imperialdramon.
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Downtown Kyoto was a scene of utter chaos and uncontrollable pandemonium as the general public ran like mad from the dual monsters assaulting the city. The crowd was in mob mentality as military forces the world over had not had any means of defending the populace over four years ago and the people couldn't reasonably expect that they did now. And indeed they didn't.
Tao and Shastina fought their way against the flow of the human river, fighting up the street in an apparent path to doom at the hands of the mud monster. The rest of the populace had survival to think of and paid little concern to the young couple fighting their way to suicide against the mobile mountain. Thus, the two did not receive urges to turn back, nor were they stopped by anything until just after they cleared the last of the runners.
"Ugh! What's the smell?!?" Shastina and her companion were immediately
"It's Miremon. He's straight out of a dump or something."
"He's also laying down control spires like crazy, we have to stop him!" Shastina cried.
"Okay!" Tao declared, whipping out something that would have been very familiar looking indeed to the third generation digidestined. "Let's do it!!!"
"Harriermon, armor digivolve to…Soukouiermon! The Wings of Love!"
"Tigramon, armor digivolve to…Angoramon! The Angel of Light!"
"Whoa! I think I like these 'digi-eggs'!"
"You bet!" Tao replied, looking at his companion digimon in his armored form like Shastina was. Harriermon was now a much larger eagle-like digimon than before and now, it had received plenty of metallic armor at select places. Tigramon had grown more humanoid, almost like a standard feline humanoid from some random anime series except now, she'd managed to muster a pair of angelic wings as well, giving her a divine, angelic look. However, their admiration was cut short as Miremon appeared from behind several buildings.
"Hahahahahaha…What have we here?" Miremon said, cackling as evil as you please. "Seems I can catch some lunch without running after all!"
"That's what you think!" Tao retorted.
"It is indeed, MAGNITUDE!!!!" Slapping the ground harshly, Miremon got the turf shaking wildly, throwing the teens off balance. With sickening cracks and rumbles, the two buildings on each side of the street tumbled inwards, shattering as they fell, threatening to crush the two under tons and tons of rubble. At the last possible moment, the two newly armored digimon whisked them out from underneath the falling debris, allowing it to crash harmlessly onto pavement, kicking up clouds of dust.
"Don't worry Shas, we can take this guy." Angoramon assured her partner as she flew up high and got on opposite sides of the wildly throbbing Miremon with Soukouiermon. The mud digimon slammed the ground some more but naturally, was unable to strike the flying targets.
"Lucent Beam!"
"Wing Rocket!"
The rockets from Soukouiermon and the beam from Angoramon struck with excellent accuracy, bathing the mud pile in light and then detonating a pair of high powered rockets into the mix. Miremon roared from the pain. However, the ultimate wasn't going down this easily and it turned at the two much smaller fliers and launched a renewed assault.
"Mud Slap!"
The back of Miremon melted, reshaped and formed into a giant hand. The hand fired with an arm of mud into the air. With a single swipe, both digimon were slammed hard against a skyscraper from which the tumbled their way to the ground amid the rubble sliding off the collapsing building.
"Well, that takes care of those two…" Miremon turned to the teens. "Now I'm feeling hungry again!"
"Uh oh…" Shastina whispered.
"Damn straight…" Tao replied.
Miremon charged and both teens screamed and shouted their heads off. As they did, they held their digivices forward purely by accident. The devices glowed with enormous power as the wills of their owners energized them and activated the D3's digivolution functions. That the two digimon were armored, not digivolved normally seemed to matter little to it as beams of bright light shot from the hand held objects to their respective digimon, charging them up.
"Soukouriermon!"
"Angoramon!"
"DNA digivolve to…" The glowing lights spiraled as the digimon merged in the DNA merging process. Red and white flames spiraled in streams against each other between the two digimon. Silver armor formed on the torso, arms and legs of the roughly humanoid digimon. A bronze helmet materialized on the feline head, the headgear appearing to add a beak. Snow-white angelic wings, four of them grew on the back, covering the scene briefly with white feathers. The new digimon stood up among the rubble, tossed aside easily, any pieces in the way and with a leap, was airborne, bolts of lightning crackling around it. "Goshukumon!!!"
"I…I…can't believe it! That…" Tao was silenced in awe.
"That used to be Soukouiermon and Angoramon! They must have DNA digivolved!"
"Well of course, they DNA digivolved, didn't you hear them say it just now?" Miremon retorted. "But…you two get to die anyway. MUD SLAP!" A thick stream of mud fired from Miremon's massive body and headed straight for the kids.
"Not so fast!" The double voices of Goshukumon said at once. The angel leapt in front of the kids. A blinding flash occurred as the angelic digimon spun like a tornado, deflecting the mud harmlessly to the sides. When the attack ended, Goshukumon was untouched.
"You kids find somewhere safe and take cover. This could get ugly…"
"You can bet on that!" Miremon roared. "MAGNITUDE!" A ground slap sent a tremor speeding towards Goshukumon who was airborne instantly, avoiding the attack as the ground shattered beneath it.
"Chain Lightning!" Gathering energy around itself, Goshukumon soon had a huge ball of lightning which was fired at Miremon.
"AAAARRRRRRR!!!" Miremon yelled again in pain as it took the attack. The lightning then paid due to its namesake and split into multiple blasts that set off a chain reaction, dancing off the control spires throughout the city, shattering them all and quickly terminating the digivolving restrictions in the area. The spires evidently had enough power to keep Imperialdramon away but the new spires with their rounded tops seemed no less difficult to destroy.
"You'll pay for this! MUD SLAP!!!" Miremon fired off multiple streams of mud and wet earth at Goshukumon who, with swift motions of her four wings, easily dodged them all, sending them to dissipate harmlessly behind the DNA ultimate.
"I think it might be the other way around!" Goshukumon yelled back as she gathered energy between her palms. "Lumina Cannon!" The energy congealed into a huge sphere of blinding light, firing off at Miremon and hitting its target. The attack struck with devastating results. With a scream, Miremon was thrown into thousands of chunks of mud, dirtying the streets and walls before flowing into sewer drains or seeping into the earth.
"YEAH! Seeya around, Miremon!" Tao shouted, jumping out of cover.
"I wouldn't celebrate just yet."
Both the 14 year old digidestined looked up to see a giant beetle in the air with a rider atop its back. Megakabuterimon and Izzy had arrived. "Look over there." Accordingly, both the younger digidestined were carried aloft by Goshukumon and from there, spied the situation.
"What the heck is that?!?" Tao exclaimed. He rubbed his eyes again but the juggernaut was still there, charging with reckless abandon and crushing apartments and houses alike as it ran like pacman gone mad. The eerie wail as it let loose a drawn out roar resounded throughout the city. Its fourteen hemispherical eyes glowed bright red in anger. The entire thing was covered in heavy armor, like a pillbug on steroids with giant spikes poking up here and there.
"Either I'm seeing things…" Shastina said quietly. "Or there's a pillbug the size of a football field rampaging through Kyoto!"
The identifier popped up on Izzy's laptop as Izzy began rapidly typing away, accessing data files on the powerful digimon in front of them.
"That's Ohmumon. The computer says he's one of the largest digimon ever recorded. Seventy meters long and from what I'm seeing now, a very bad attitude as well!"
"Attitude or not, we have GOT to stop him or sooner or later, someone's going to get killed underneath him! Goshukumon!"
"Way ahead of you, bro!" The angel replied and flew at top speed towards the raging beetle-like digimon.
"Wait! That thing's a Mega-Oh boy…"
"Izzy, I think we'd better follow them…"
"You're right, Megakabuterimon. Go for it!" Izzy ordered as he rapidly punched an email to Ken's D-terminal to get Imperialdramon's butt to Kyoto quick.
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The glowing sphere at the center of a certain dark chamber in the digital world depicted a furious battle taking place in the real world. In a bright flash of energy from the attacker, Miremon was splashed into countless small globs of mud flowing back into the earth. The screen reverted then to the attacker.
"I do believe, my friends, we have lost Miremon. For the time being at least." The first of the digimon reclining on a couch in the chamber. The light from the orb that displayed the situation in the real world was the only light to the room. It revealed the heart-stoppingly beautiful face on a humanoid body of the first speaker, the heavily armor scaled head of a dragon and the frail body of much smaller blue-skinned digimon.
"That fool Miremon doesn't know his own limitations. If it weren't so difficult to do anything permanent to him, he'd have long since been reconfigured. He should've known he didn't stand a chance against that angel of light and love."
"Speaking of which, Darigamon." The third figure in the cylindrical sanctum said, speaking up. "Goshukumon…" The digimon began, reading out the statistics. "The DNA digivolved form of Soukouiermon and Angoramon which are the armored forms of Harriermon and Tigramon. Classified as a low level 2nd rate ultimate. Her main attacks are Chain Lightning and Lumina Cannon. Quite a powerful digimon considering it formed right on top of upgraded control spires and you have to admit, despite them being Miremon's work as far as we know, they are effective."
"They would be, if they didn't all get wiped out in a single attack, Wobbumon." Darigamon replied with a harsh glance at the viewing orb before them. The screen had reverted back
"Well, to be fair, facts do speak well of both this Goshukumon and the spires though I agree with you on the vulnerability issue. In any case, neither this new digimon or Megakabuterimon, whom we all know well from study of its previous battles, stands a chance against Ohmumon."
"Well duh. Since when did two ultimates even come close to a single mega? If they did, it wouldn't be worth the effort gathering power for years and years to get there or going through some process that might as soon reconfigure you instead.
"Or just praying to be some digi-destined kid's partner and hope that he'll get some funky crest or egg or other to boost you up there right away. Seriously, it's not fair for us hard working digimon who actually put effort into getting to that level." The angelic digimon of the group whined.
"You should be talking, Celesmon." Darigamon retorted. "I recall you simply grabbing hold of some other mega's life force and sucking it out. How much harsh work could that have been?"
"Now, now. At least Celesmon's ultimate form went about tricking megas into submission. That in itself was probably as dangerous as simply training the power to a high enough level. I agree with both of you as well." Wobbumon explained peaceably. "I hate the digi-destined 'shortcut' as much as you two and I'm sure all of the digital world's naturally raised megas do as well."
"Eh, what's this?" Darigamon said suddenly as the screen changed its view. "Pfft. It's Ohmumon and instead of wiping out the digi-destined like he ought to, he's still just doing landscaping. Just like him really…"
"Oh? That loose cannon's at it again. I was wondering where he'd gone off to when Miremon got the crap beaten out of him."
"Hmmm, it appears the digi-destined are attacking him anyway. There's Goshukumon again with her Lumina Cannon. I do believe this will turn into an interesting show and if Imperialdramon arrives like I think he will, this will get even better."
"Bah! I could take any of them on." Darigamon muttered.
"For the others, maybe. But you know as well as I how powerful Ohmumon can be when he's on a rampage like that! Just sit back and watch!"
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"Lumina Cannon!" Goshukumon cried. The answering ball of light energy streaked towards earth and struck the giant pillbug-like digimon straight on. The light flashed in a single blinding flash. When the radiance had subsided, Ohmumon was still running full tilt, crushing buildings as it went.
"Man, it didn't even notice us." Tao said.
"Who said it would be easy?" Izzy replied as the giant creature finally came to a halt. Its red eyes continued simply gleaming in the dim lighting of the area. Though they were uniformly the same color in the light of the rapidly fading, overcast sky, they seemed to somehow convey the message that they were looking up now, at Ohmumon's aerial assailants. "Great, I think you just got it real angry!"
"Yo! Where'd it go?"
"Huh?" Izzy looked down where the eyes had been. They were no longer there. In their place seemed to be a hole right in the ground. It was incredibly how the digimon could disappear so swiftly! "It's underground!!!" Izzy yelled over the wind from the edges of the storm currently affecting Tokyo but it was a bit late as glowing strands, golden as autumn wheat sprang up from the ground. They tore apart pavement and a few small buildings as they grew like plants on some mega fertilizer and quickly had Goshukumon in a death grip as they spurted into the air.
"Ah! That must be Ohmumon's Golden Silk attack! Megakabuterimon!"
"Horn Buster!" Megakabuterimon's horn emitted its greenish energy blast and struck the tendrils. The golden silk was cleaved apart, freeing Goshukumon as the rements writhed wildly before falling to earth and dissipating. With a roar, Ohmumon reappeared, legs rearing up in anger at the attackers.
"Horn Buster!"
"Lumina Cannon!"
The two attacks surged towards their ground bound target and both hit, causing an explosion on the mega digimon's carapace. The giant bug returned with another Golden Silk attack. A storm of golden strands lashed out wildly, striking Izzy and his digimon out of the sky. Goshukumon was more agile in the air and managed to evade the assault. "Chain Lightning!" The great globe of electrical energy struck Ohmumon but the attack did little and was dissipated against the shell of the creature once more.
"Still nothing!" Shastina reported, squinting as Goshukumon retreated once again from Golden Silk.
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"Alright, Imperialdramon! Let that oversized cockroach have it!"
"Wait, Imperialdramon. Remember we're in the middle of a city so you can't use Mega Crusher or you'll take a lot of people down in the collateral damage." Ken said.
"Right. Gotcha, Ken." Imperialdramon slowed down from its insane traveling speed as it swerved in the sky towards the remaining threat to Kyoto. "Hey, miss me yet?" Imperialdramon called to Izzy as he caught a falling Megakabuterimon and allowed Izzy and the de-digivolved Tentomon into his 'cabin'. "Oh yeah we did. Excellent arrival, Imperialdramon."
"Don't mention it. Now let's see…Positron Laser!"
Imperialdramon's back cannon gathered energy as it spiraled in purple bands into a huge attack. A thick beam of purple, spiraling energy was sent blasting at Ohmumon who actually seemed to feel it this time. The beam burned at the carapace but still didn't seemed to do much beyond bathing the beetle in light and causing it to wail in pain. Its shell remained intact.
"Man! Talk about a hard shell!" Imperialdramon exclaimed as it circled around for another try."
"That thing's defense is incredible!" Ken exclaimed.
"Even Imperialdramon can't put him down, this is bad news!" Davis agreed. At this point, Ohmumon began to go up in an ambient glow. This wasn't going to be Golden Silk coming up. "Uh, what's it doing?" Davis asked as Ohmumon continued gathering tiny stars of energy into a glowing aura around itself like the main gun on some sci-fi anime.
"That's Ohmumon's Terra Cannon! Get outta there!!" Izzy yelled.
"Goshukumon, get out of here! THAT THING'S FOR REAL!"
Ohmumon's energy suddenly dimmed, leaving only the light of some static sizzling about its carapace. The next moment, all hell broke loose as a blinding white beam of energy, very nearly as thick as Ohmumon itself shot into the sky. With plenty of warning, both Goshukumon and Imperialdramon managed to dodge the attack as it lit up the entire city in a brought flashing light. Then, as quickly as it had appeared, the light was gone, leaving glowing particles floating about in the air, slowly drifting back to earth. It seemed the Earth was at peace again now that the beam had been fired. The energy seemed to have triggered something in the clouds or something as rain began to fall. Ohmumon's red eyes had shifted to a peaceful, barely visible blue as Goshukumon and Imperialdramon circled in shock from the attack that looked like no digimon alive could have taken. Then, with a rumble, the giant digimon dug into the earth and disappeared…