Immaterium (Part 24)
"These creatures may prove to be a threat." A mechanical voice sounded in the darkness. "What do you plan to do?"
"Yeah, they don't look fun at all!" A vaguely childish voice this time.
"Nothing. The children already destroyed one of them. We will let them destroy the creatures and then, for the finale, move in to finish the children off when they are weakened. It will be my greatest performance to date."
The Bloodthirster, Greater Daemon of Khorne strode through the desert smashing the pointless poles sticking out of it to pieces as he went. Anger welled up inside him as yet more of the endless desert kept appearing. With a roar of rage he took to the air and flew upwards.
"Are you all cowards?!"
"Show yourselves and fight!"
Only the echoing silence of the dessert mocked him back.
"Do you really think we'll see anything out here Izzy?"
"It's best to make sure Tai. The Greater Daemons aren't showing up on my computer anymore."
"Oh great. They could be hunting us down right now. Or waiting till we sleep to attack us."
"Shut up Joe." Gomamon muttered as he peered out into the distance from the partially collapsed tunnel they were in.
"Sorry." Joe sighed as he sat down on one of the thousands of boulders in the tunnel
"You and Tai keep a lookout here." Izzy's voice echoed as he walked back into the cave. "I'll try and get this tracking program working again."
Slowly he went down the tunnel to one of the most stable looking caverns they'd found. A furious and echoing clicking sound pounding out from his laptop as he tried to fix the tracker program. What's wrong with this program? It should work. He checked it again and saw it showing their own partners. It does work…. But then why is it not showing the location of the Greater Daemons…? Why i….
He looked up as he crashed into something, someone, Mimi. Slowly his eyes followed his laptop as it fell, almost drifting, to the floor. A second later he heard a thunk, wincing as his laptop smashed into the solid rock.
"Izzy, I'm sorry. I should have been looking." She said quietly, a tiny unnoticed smirk showing on her face as she reached down and picked up the slightly dented computer before handing it back to him, all trace of the smirk masked under an apologetic look. He grabbed it. Mumbling a few words, walked off quickly and sat down. Carefully he re-opened the lid and started checking it. He glanced at the screen, a small flashing red dot on File Island.
Mimi watched him as his mouth went agape. The hunt is on. She thought as she broke into a grin and walked off into the depths of a tunnel
The Keeper of Secrets, Greater Daemon of Slaanesh looked out through its slave's eyes, a wide smile spreading across its face even as it winced from pain.
Yes….
Make sure they can find that damned Bloodthirster….
Make sure they hunt him down….
Make sure they banish him my sweet slave….
Slowly the blackness faded. Greyer, lighter, finally colour. Bit by bit his vision cleared as he woke from the last set of tortures. He feigned unconsciousness as he glimpsed the giant half-machines throughout what used to be his house. Vile abominations of daemons melded with various pieces of equipment he had. It had taken mere hours for completely harmless machines to turn into living torture devices. An involuntary groan escaped his lips.
Silence.
Everything stopped.
Turned.
Looked at him.
Stared at him.
A thousand daemonic minds. A hundred thousand different ways to torture him thought up. Slowly one of the flaming blue daemons leapt at him. It's grotesque features twisted between snarl and smile almost constantly. Flames trailed through the air behind it, rolling blue off of its body before quickly burning pink. The kaleidoscopic effect was everywhere he saw, made worse by his blurred vision. Thousands of sheets of flames leaping off of the daemons. Thousands of sheets of flame wanting to torture him. A gout of pink flame. Searing. A crater in the ground next to him. Yelping he rolled away. Tried to stand. His knees buckled and fell. Fell back to the floor in a small heap.
Laughter rang out.
Chittering.
Driving into the mind.
Insane, machine gun bursts of laughter.
Cutting.
Slicing.
Killing.
Bit by bit.
Piece by piece.
Till there would be nothing left.
Sobs escaped his parched, cracked lips as the laughter stopped. Knowing the torture itself was about to start again tears broke down his face as four burning hands hauled him up. Suddenly the tears stopped as he saw one of the machines open up. A mouth, filled with spinning drills for teeth leered at him. Oil dripped onto the ground, glooping into pools and puddles as the drills salivated. Faces leered out of the puddles before they burst into pink sheets of fire that screamed towards him. A blast of flame smashed into his face as the hands threw him towards the open maw.
Gennai screamed.
Nothing moved.
Even the wind stilled by the enormity of death.
Far over the horizon silent buildings looked out across the empty area. Not a single soul moved. Not a single soul was left to move.
Slowly a monstrous black figure approached another village, a low growling sound escaping from it as it went off. Searching for more food.
More energy.
More digimon to eat.
A line of trembling Yokomon assembled in between their homes and the rampaging giant. They knew they were going to be destroyed. Everyone on File Island knew about this giant digimon. Knew that it destroyed every digimon it could find. Everyone had heard of the tales of villages and homes blasted into craters from those brave enough to travel. Now these Yokomon knew who. Who was destroying everything. One of them looked back. All the other Yokomon were fleeing the village as fast as they could. Maybe they could buy them enough time. Maybe the evil digimon would hunt out new villages instead of chasing down a group of fleeing Yokomon. And maybe, just maybe, some miracle might happen to save them all and kill the evil mega.
"Bubble Blow!"
Slowly the giant digimon turned to face the pitiful insects as he heard the attack. A single gaze and the entire line broke, and fled. Slowly he lumbered after them, noticed a large group of Yokomon just beyond the village, and attacked.
"Venom Infusion!"
The Yokomon who were still fleeing through the village froze in terror. The entire group of Yokomon who they had been trying to buy time for disintegrated. Their data floated up towards the giant monstrosity. All of them watched as it went into and was absorbed by him. Sheer panic rooted them to the spot as another attack came crashing into them and their village.
He looked down at the crater, bits of data still disintegrating out of it that he hungrily ate. His eyes looked towards the horizon in a direction where he knew there was another village.
"Soon. Soon I will have enough energy. Soon I will have my revenge!"
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