Immaterium (Part 25)
Izzy looked up as the rest of the group as he showed them his computer. "I've managed to locate one of the Greater Daemons. Not that I yet know how I managed to bypass this one's cloaking system."
"Keep to the point Izzy. Where is it?" Tai said quickly to cut him off.
"File Island. It looks like it's moving at random. I can use my laptop to transport us there ."
"Is that really such a great idea?" Joe piped in. "I mean we all almost died last time, if you hadn't got us out of their quite so fast we would have been dead. Every time we go up against them we end up coming closer to dying."
Tai turned to face him. "They've already tried to kill us. We can't just sit here and wait for them to do it."
"Tai's right, we have to take the fight to them. Maybe we can take it by surprise." Matt added.
"Yeah. Don't be so down Joe. We beat one of them, didn't we?" TK said as he turned to face Joe.
"We can't just leave File Island. Nothing there can stand up against one of those things, or don't you think we can do it Joe…?"
"That's not what I meant Gomamon…." Joe turned to face him. "Alright guys…. You win…. Just don't blow the portal up this time Izzy."
A small round of cheers went up as Izzy started working on the laptop. Mimi stared off into space for a few moments as she recalled one of the prophecies her master had told her about. There's no way we can beat that Bloodthirster…. Not without the extra power of two megas…. How do I make them discover that prophecy…?
The Greater Daemon of Tzeentch swooped down towards the collapsed mountain, light glinted off of its wings and staff as the changed colours. Faces leered out of the wings, their thoughts mimicking, but different. All in one place…. Azulongmon has grown stupid in his old age. Leaving the keys for all seven locks and the gate itself in one place. And with humans no less. This will be too easy….
He pointed his staff down at the mostly collapsed entrance to the cavern. Blue fire spewed out of the end of the staff. A massive crack resounded through the area as the air became superheated. Everything else fell silent. Raw energy sliced through the rock, vaporising everything it touched. Stream after stream of fire slashed down at the rapidly exploding network of caves. Molten rocks flowed through the tunnels, melting everything inside. Finally the barrage of firepower stopped as the Greater Daemon crashed through the roof and landed in one of the few remaining caverns.
It looked around, no trace of the humans.
Just a rapidly dwindling portal now far too small to go through.
Slowly it levelled its staff at the portal and blasted more of the blue fire at it.
It exploded.
A display of pyrotechnics washed through the area as the Greater Daemon flew out through the hole above its head. Rock melted and fused with the ground. Colours flowed, mutated, disappeared. Bit by bit the entire mountain collapsed in on itself. Huge plumes of dust burst out from it once more as it completely collapsed, consumed by the leering and glaring faces in the pink fire.
The Greater Daemon of Slaanesh looked at the mass of electronic equipment in front of it. A dozen or so Gazimon scurried around altering the controls or adjusting something in one of the remnants of Etemon's rule. It spoke random nonsense till the Gazimon got the voice sounding perfect. You'll never know that it wasn't Gennai that sent this little message. With this you should be able to gain more power. Enough to banish that damned servant of Khorne hopefully. Then I can make my move, and with one of your happy little group on my side still without you realising it….
Its thoughts broke off as one of the Gazimon told it that the machines were ready to record. It cleared its throat and began saying one of the many prophecies the digital world had produced.
"The sky will be darkened by the wings of many bats.
The fallen people will invoke the name of the undead Digimon king.
When the clock strikes the hour of the beast,
he will reveal himself as the beast and then angels will shoot arrows of hope and light at the loved ones of those they have been sent to protect,
and a Miracle will happen.
Please always recycle."
One of the Gazimon played it back.
The voice was that of Gennai.
"Send it. Now."
The Gazimon rapidly pressed some of the controls then sat back a bit more relaxed. "It's done boss."
The Greater Daemon nodded slowly before slashing him in half with one of its claws. The other Gazimon jumped up as a sphere of cream coloured energy smashed into and deleted them. Too weak…. Too easy to kill….
It smashed its sword down through the control panel, sparks flew out of the damage, angry buzzing protesting the wound. Slash after slash reduced every piece of equipment to sparking debris before it walked out of the room.
It turned round to face the building and pulled out a purple guitar. You may not be my old doom siren… but you'll blow this up almost as well. It started strumming the doom siren to warm it up. A flash of movement faster than the eye could follow and rock music blared out from the guitar. Ripples and distortions could be seen in the air and the building and the Greater Daemon watched while singing along to its own masterpiece.
Slowly the blocks of the building started to ripple themselves, bubbles formed on the surface, and exploded. Faintly a scream could be heard as the music resonated throughout the building. The equipment inside blared out their own shallow imitation of the doom siren's tune. Adding to the explosive banshee wails their own death cries. Sparks flew up, out of the equipment, as though trying to escape the torturous music. A loud creaking noise filled out the bass sections of the song as cracks ran up the exploding walls. A second of dreadful silence filled the area before the building slowly and anti-climatically crumbled into a pile of rubble in the middle of a forsaken desert.
Gennai looked up from his cell once more.
Once more amazed that he was still alive.
Still he could feel the hundreds of ways they had killed him. Every last one of them he remembered. And yet he knew there were many many more to come, all worse than the last set. Silently he hoped, prayed even, that the digidestined would kill the forces of Chaos. Every day his hope fell. Despair took over after every torture. They were never meant to take on enemies so strong. It had taken almost everything the digital world could throw at the armies of Chaos to push them back last time, and even that had been at an enormous cost. And if they did destroy the Wall of Fire… he shuddered at the thought. Thoughts best left unthought. But thoughts he couldn't help thinking about.
"Awake old man…?"
"Old man awake…?"
Gennai looked up at two of the daemons that had taken over his home. A pair of annoying blue short humanoids with giant faces. Inwardly he groaned as they started babbling mind-wrenching truths or lies about Chaos. He felt a gnawing in his head for a short while before a large daemon with flaming nozzles for hands shoved them out of the way.
"It isssss time for another torture old man…. How ssssshall we kill you today…? Perhapsssss asssssphixiation….? Or maybe we ssssshould sssssimply consssssume you…."
A burst of blue flame spouted out from one of its hands, pain seered through Gennai's left side first as the flame swept from one side of the room to the other. The smell of burning flesh and hair spread through the room. Flesh melted, peeled, fell to the floor in bubbling and molten globules. Slowly Gennai fell to his knees, no sound escaped his mouth already fused into one disfigured and deformed piece. Back and forth the all consuming flame swept as all flesh melted off of him.
Slowly the skeleton clattered to the ground as the daemon stopped the flames and walked away.
Another village of in-training types lay deserted in front of him. Every settlement he went to now empty. Completely empty. Anger coursed through him as he looked at the equally empty land around him.
"Venom Infusion!"
A large section of huts exploded into their constituent data as he took his anger out on them. His giant form rippled for a moment causing him to pause. I still need more food. He reached out with his senses, searching for anything. Minutes passed as he stood immobile, towering over a collection of huts built to house weak in-training digimon. Finally his head snapped up and he looked at something over the horizon, far out of his sight. He turned the rest of his body towards that direction and set off at his steady pace towards it.
Deep in thought his feet smashed apart the remaining huts and anything else directly between him and this new food source. I do not know who you are, but an ultimate should be enough to sate my hunger.