Author's note: Whew! Well, I finally got this up, this is definitely the most important Chapter! You have to read it! No buts!
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"It's...it's done." says Sam, gazing at the slightly burnt body of Patamon, with a young boy of no more than five or six years leaning over it and crying like his best friend had died, which of course he had assumed.
"What...what is done?" exclaims Sam, as she snaps into her usual, docile self once more, Elementroar's influence no longer fueling her bloodlust.
She stares in wide-eyed horror and confusion at the dried, decaying and fly-ridden blood that nearly covered her from head to toe. She also glances at the beaten looking monsters and children with concern and the destroyed landscape of the once beautiful field with more confusion.
"Excellent! Excellent! Well done, Summoner!" the deep voice of Elementroar praises cheerfully, as he rises to his paws and pace quickly to Sam's side.
"What...what happened to me, Elementroar?" stammers Sam, looking up at Elementroar with frightened eyes. The previous battles were coming back to her and she was cringing with disgust as every memory flashes past in her mind. She is frightened, frightened of what she did and became. A monster she felt that could not possibly been her.
"Do not be afraid. I merely "untapped" so to speak, your inner ferocity and strength that you needed to combat these...villians."
"I...I..." Sam continues to stammer, terrified. That was her? No, no! She would never, fight, like that, not like that.
"It is okay now, Summoner." comforts Elementroar and nudges her gently with his nose.
"Now, stand up, Summoner. You should be proud! You have defeated the enemy without any assistance from me!"
Sam rises to her feet staggeringly, and as she does so she turns to watch the Digi-destined as well. The Digi-destined are all crowding around T.K and Patamon. Matt is trying his best to comfort him but T.K does not stop crying and strokes Patamon and asking him to wake up. All the rest are injured and many unconscious.
'I remembered that they fought bravely and with heart and spirit. Could such horrible enemies possessed such valor?' Sam is constantly bothered by this thought as she stands beside Elementroar.
"Now, Summoner, I must ask you to allow me to absorb you into me."
"Ab-ab-absorb me?" Sam asks, frightened for the moment.
"I need the extra energy in you to deliver the final blow to these...invaders." Elementroar explains, sparing an evil look at the Digi-destined.
Sam nods her agreement. She is too weak and too shaken to refuse or consider.
'They are the enemy and they are the invaders, this is what they deserve.' she assures herself. But somehow, the thought does little comfort.
Elementroar places his nose over Sam. Sam feels his hot breath blowing down on her like a steaming shower. She suddenly feels uneasy and wants to run.
'What am I thinking? This Elementroar! He is the Champion and a friend!'
However, the pulling feeling in her gut keeps telling to move, run. But Sam stays put with all her will power.
Suddenly, Sam feels like she is being sucked into something and becomes light-headed. She feels light and closes her eyes as she drifts into sleep. She becomes as a pale as a ghost and like a light mist, is sucked into Elementroar through his nostrils.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'Where am I?'
Sam wakes up with a start and immediately scrambles around in a panic. She is standing on nothing.
After some seconds of shouting and frantic waving, she realises that she is neither falling nor moving. She stops and finds that she is floating in the air!
"Well, this is interesting." she says in a puzzled tone.
She looks around her. Everywhere is a sort of a swirl of purple and black that is moving constantly but slowly. It is slightly cold and Sam wraps her arms around herself in a shiver. She then notices a bright light in the distance and instinctively tries to walk towards it but she does not move. Deciding on a different approach, Sam tries to 'swim' across which amazingly, works perfectly.
Sam has not taken more than a few strokes when she is suddenly at the light in a split second.
"MORE interesting."
Sam spots something behind her glimmering.
"Hm?" she turns swiftly.
"AH!" she shouts in surprise.
All three of the Legendary Birds, Dogs and Lugia and Ho-oh, greeted her sight.
The Legendary Dogs are in mid-air, with their legs hanging down limply and eyes closed. They are enclosed within a transparent orb that glimmers with the colour of their type. Raikou's is a light yellow, Entei's is a slight red and Suicune's is a deep blue. The Legendary Birds are all floating as well, with wings partly closed and feet curled up, with heads bent slightly inwards and are seemingly asleep as well. They too are enclosed in orbs of type colour. The last two and largest orbs belong to Lugia and Ho-oh. The two great birds are curled up like the Legendary Birds. Lugia has his wings folded a little to the front, his legs are pulled in tightly into him and his head and tail are curled inwards. His orb shimmers with a swirling of light blue and darker blue. Ho-oh has his wings unfolding more outwardly and his claws peek out more and are unfurled. His head is raised higher and his beak is in full sight. Ho-oh does not lose any of his fighting spirit, even in sleep. His orb shimmers with an angry and fiery red.
"The Legends...that went into Elementroar during the summoning? They're here! All here!" Sam gets a flashback of the summoning and how the Legends were drawn into Elementroar, much like she was.
"Well, this must Elementroar's mind,"
*Summoner!*
"Who! What! Where! Ah!" Sam shouts in confusion and tumbles around helplessly for a few moments.
*It is me, Elementroar.*
"Elementroar? Where are you?"
*I am speaking to you from within.*
'Say what?' thinks Sam but doesn't voice her query.
"What is happening out there?" Sam asks instead, to the vast mind of Elementroar.
*Go to the large light in front of you. You will see.*
Sam remebers of the light that had led her here in the first place and 'swims' towards it.
"Oh, my..."
Sam finds that the light is really a window of a sort, a window that let's her see outside in the field and the Digi-destined.
*Now, it is your turn, Summoner! YOU shall watch as I dispose of the intruders!* booms Elementroar.
"Yes...yes, Elementroar." Sam replies.
She watches the window as a person would watch a television but she is not very happy and or thrilled of the 'disposal' that Elementroar is proposing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elementroar paces menacingly towards the fallen Digimoners. They huddle in a group, ready to defend one another if necessary. Elementroar smirks.
"Do you realise how futile it is to continue to resist?"
Tai speaks up, "Futile?"
Tai quickly turns to Sora.
*What does it mean?*
*Useless!*
Tai turns back to Elementroar.
"Futile? As if! Nothing's "futile" if its to be defeating bad guys like you!"
"Hm...Think what you wish! Your going to die now anyway.
Elementroar stalks towards the group till his maul is right in front of Tai's face. Tai slinks backwards a bit instinctively.
"What,...what are you going to do?" questions Sora, a slight tremor in her voice.
"Well, you know that I AM about to kill you. I suppose you are wondering how I'm going to do that."
"How are you going to avoid THIS?" shouts Tai suddenly and attempts to throw a punch at Elementroar.
However, Elementroar doesn't even look down at him and uses his powerful psychic powers to freeze him in his tracks.
"Tsk! Tsk! Trying to do something like that in your condition?"
Elementroar tweaks Tai's wounds a bit and Tai let's out a whimper of pain.
"Tai!"
Elementroar eyes the group."In fact, all of you don't look exactly as fresh as spring if you know what I mean. Well, I might as well patch you up in name of sportsmanship. At least you will die with some dignity. Heck, you may even survive what I have in store for you."
"Right, let's get this over with then!"
"HEAL BELL!"
A large, golden bell appears in the air and chimes a pleasant melody. Though most of the Digimoner's weren't exactly poisoned, paralyzed, Palmon's burns heal up instantly.
"Now, SOFTBOILED!"
A steaming egg appears in front of Elementroar and rolls into the middle of the Digimoners.
"An...egg?!" exclaims Izzy.
"What are we suppose to do with it? Eat it?" adds Matt, inspecting the egg.
Just then, the egg's pops open from the top and the hot, healing air seeps out. The Digimoners breathe in the air and their wounds are instantly healed and their fatigue and tiredness disappear.
"Look, my wound is gone!" shouts an amazed Agumon. The vine that tied up his wound lays forgotten on the ground.
"Look's like you are all well again."
"Yeah! Well enough to beat you!" Tai suddenly shouts.
"Agumon, Digivolve to...huh?"
"What? It still doesn't work?" says an exasperated Tai.
"Have you forgotten what I said? I can control everything in this area, including your silly Digivolution." laughs Elementroar.
Elementroar then spread his wings and takes flight. He flies till he is high above the Digimoners.
"Wha...wha...what is he going to do now?" stammers Mimi.
"Now is a good time to attack! Come on!" shouts Biyomon and starts to take off.
"WAIT! Stop!" shouts Sora and grabs Biyomon just in time.
"Look!" she points to Elementroar.
*Elementroar flaps his wings as he hovers in the air. Slowly, he flaps harder and faster.
"WHIRLWIND!"
His wings flap at almost supersonic-like speed, gusting air around till a huge twister starts to form right around the Digimoners!
'They will be blown away, away from my home at last!' thinks Elementroar with glee and flaps harder in anticipation.
*"ARGHHH!"
"WOOOAAAHHH!"
"YAH!"
The Digimoners scream and shout in horror as they are swept up into the air by the gale.
"PALMON! HELP!"
"MIMI!"
"Poison Ivy!"
Vines from Palmon's right hand shoot out and anchor into the ground while the other vines wrap around Mimi.
"I got you Mimi!"
The Digimoners then start to grab hold onto each other. Gomamon holds onto Mimi's ankles and shoes while Joe holds onto him. Izzy holds onto Joe's legs with one hand while hugging Tentomon with the other. Gabumon holds onto Izzy while Matt holds onto Gabumon's fur and tail. T.K has his arms wrapped around Matt's neck and Patamon is on T.K's back. Biyomon bites onto Matt's shirt with her beak while Sora holds onto Biyomon's leg. Tai grabs Sora's ankle with one hand and Agumon's claw with the other.
"Brother, I'm scared!"
"Don't worry T.K! Just don't let go!"
T.K wraps his arms tighter.
"Urk! That doesn't mean you have to choke me!"
"Tai, you had better be not looking down my pants!"
"Gee, this SURE IS THE RIGHT TIME TO THINK ABOUT THAT, HUH SORA!"
*The precarious Digimoner ladder sways to and fro in the twister, like a weak blade of grass, blown by the wind of an impending storm.
"WOAH! That's the most powerful Whirlwind attack I've ever seen!" exclaims Brock.
"This is totally cool!" shouts Ash.
"But...don't you guys think that this is a tad cruel and brutal?" comments Misty
"Yeah, I think so too. But this whole mess is in Elementroar and Sam's hands now." says Brock.
"But we can't just turn a blind eye!"
"Yeah, but we have no choice,"
"Besides, like Elementroar said, they invaded here first!" says Ash.
"PIKA PIKA!"
"Yeah, but, they haven't exactly done anything yet did they?" queries Misty.
"Well, the Pokemon did come here because of them, so I guess we had better trust the Pokemon."
"PIKA PIAK CCCHHHUU!" agrees Pikachu.
"YEAH!" shouts Ash as well.
"I guess..." says Misty, still not totally convinced.
**It's a pity, you know,*
"Why, Elementroar?" asks Sam, looking up from the 'window'.
*Well, because you could almost say the invaders don't really deserve this destruction*
"Why?" asks Sam in shock.
*Well, because the invaders aren't really 'themselves' so to speak.*
*Right now, I believe they are being controlled by a certain outside force.*
"Wha...WHAT! Then, then what you're doing now is wrong!"
*Now, now, settle down. For all I know, the outside force doesn't seem to be an immediate threat. However, better to get rid of these meddlers now, no mess.*
Sam remains silent, but her shoulders shake and she grits her teeth. Now, she is feeling an anger nary close to her previous rage but perhaps much greater in a way. Elementroar has since stopped listening or else he might have heard her say,
"No."
*"Why is this twister taking so long to obliviate those fools?" says Elementroar irritably and flaps his wings faster in earnest.
'No, still doesn't work. DAMN!'
'Hmm...That plant-like monster is anchoring the rest to the ground, and my wind gale doesn't seem to be doing the job. Impressive, the creature actually can withstand such force.'
"Then that means I have to go with a different approach."
"Teleport!"
Elementroar disappears from the top of the wind column in a blink of purple.
*"HEY!"
"WHAT?" shouts back Sora.
"ELEMENTROAR'S GONE!" shouts back Tai.
Tai being at the uppermost of the ladder, had seen Elementroar disappear.
"With Elementroar gone, there is nothing left to fuel the twister. Most likely, it will disipate within an hour or two hours at most." adds Izzy.
"Hear that, T.K? We're going to be on the ground in no time!" says Matt, trying to comfort his frightened little brother.
T.K nods and holds onto his brother tighter.
"Tha...that still doesn't mean you can cho...choke me, T...T.K!"
"Well, this is just great! This wind was messing up my hair and clothes and...PALMON! LOOK OUT!"
"Huh? WAH!"
Elementroar hovered telepathically right beside Palmon, with a noticable Cheshire-like grin across his maul.
"When wanting to stop the pain of a thorn pierced in your skin, remove the thorn." he says, laughing at Palmon's astonished face.
"PALMON! Blue Blaster!" shouts out Gabumon and fires a blue blast at Elementroar.
"Boom Bubble!"
"Pepper Breath!"
Elementroar sees the attacks coming easily.
"HYDRO PUMP!"
The huge water cannons flip out of his back quickly and swing at the incoming attacks and with one powerful blast, the attacks diminish.
"HA HAHAHA HA!" laughs Elementroar, throwing back his head.
"That's cute but to no avail."
"No, we can't give up! Keep shooting at him guys!" shouts Tai encouragingly.
However, Elementroar throws up a Barrier and all the attacks diminish upon impact with the wall-like Barrier.
"Now, YOU! You, tsk tsk tsk! I'll just get rid of you and you can say goodbye to this life."
"Not if I take you with me!" snaps back Palmon.
"We'll see, we'll see."
"Plucking out weeds doesn't help as far as I know, the only effective way is to - burn them."
"NO!" shouts Mimi.
Elementroar opens his huge huge jaws and vibrant red fire energy start to gather and collate within it as he prepares his attack.
"FFFFIIIRREEE"
"NO!"
Elementroar gasps with a look of surprise as Sam slams his mouth shut with her hands.
"YOU-ARE-NOT-GOING-TO-HURT-THEM!" Sam screams, holding Elementroar's mouth shut with all her might.
But Elementroar snaps open his mouth and sends Sam hurtling backwards into space. She quickly summons out her wings and hovers in front of Elementroar, between him and Palmon.
"You! How, how could you escape from my mind! That will take a huge amount of will and dedication!"
"There was no way I was going to sit back and let you take the lives of innocent people!"
"What are you talking about? They are the ENEMY! Their lives mean nothing!"
"NO!" snaps back Sam, her voice bristling with anger.
"They could be Adolf Hitler and his army for all I care! The thing is, they are not responsible for what is happening and I'm not letting you hurt or kill them for something they didn't do!"
Elementroar remains silent for a while but a now familiar evil grin crosses his face.
"I get it. Your 'huge amount of will and dedication' comes from your wish to save these invaders. In that case, YOU DESERVE TO DIE AS WELL!"
"RRROOOWWAAAAHHH!" roars the furious Elementroar and charges at Sam, unleashing various powerful attacks at Sam like some crazed Metronome attack!
Sam dodges and tries to retaliate but get's hit simultaneously by attacks like Stun Spore, Bubblebeam, Hyper Beam and the like. She can't even throw up a decent defense.
"SLASH!" roars Elementroar and slashes Sam viciously with his stone paw.
That delt the finishing blow and Sam collaspes, blood bleeding from various wounds on her body.
"I won't kill you with the benefit of the doubt that you are just too naive and delusional." Elementroar says and absorbs Sam back into him.
"The twister! It is losing power! No matter, I'll kill you all right now! You have been far more troublesome then I ever suspected, you invaders!"
"Say your last words, fools!" laughs Elementroar.
"I wish you have a bad hair day after this!" shouts Mimi.
"I hope you get more diseases than I know!" adds Joe in a surprisingly loud voice coming from a wimpy (don't kill me but hey, he is) person like him.
And so other similar curses come from the other Digi-destined.
"Bad choices for last words." growls Elementroar and laughs in glee as he prepares his attack.
*"Oof! Shoot! I'm back inside him again!"
Sam lands back inside Elementroar's mind and though she can't see it, she could feel Elementroar tighting his grip on her in his mind, making the whole atmosphere stifling and almost choking her.
"Gotta he... Oh no!" she exclaims as she spots the scene outside through the 'window'.
"Got no time for that now! Gotta get out and help!"
But Sam can't leave Elementroar's tightened grip, her injuries making her weaker.
"NO! They're gonna die because of me! There has to be a way!"
Sam can see Elementroar using Thundershocks and Vine Whips to tease and toy with the Digimoners.
"DAMN IT! What can I do?!" she exclaims.
But outside, Elementroar has stopped playing and gathers energy to obliviate the Digimoners.
*Ha ha! There is nothing you can do, is there summoner?*
"YOU! Let them go! NOW!"
*As if! You're all alone aren't you? The only creatures in there with you, are those Legends and there is no way they can help you! HA HA!*
'The Legends?' Sam thinks, looking towards the dozing Legends.
'It's a long shot but...'
Sam runs to the orbs and starts hammering them as hard as she can.
"LUGIA! HO OH! ARTICUNO MOLTRES! ANYONE! WAKE UP!"
Elementroar almost has full energy.
"Please, WAKE UP! They need you!"
The Legends do not stir.
"WAKE UP! PLEASE! JUST WAKE UP!" Sam is tearing and she continues to hammer heavily on the orbs.
Elementroar is at full power and about to aim a powerful Hyper Beam at the Digimoners.
"WAKE UP GOD DAMN IT! WAKE UP!"
Lugia's eyes flash open.
*Wait for the next instalment soon!