The Saga of Evil: Chapter 7

A/N: Angst here, plenty of it, and please review.

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Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN DIGIMON! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Digimon Emperor: What made you think that you could turn me into that-that-

heath 999: That what?

Digimon Emperor: that coward. *points whip handle at Ken*

Ken: I'm not a coward, am I?

heath 999: You're going to hate this chapter, all of you.

Sam: I can tell.

heath 999: Please review.

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That Night

I watch triumphantly on the screens as Kimeramon defeats the digidestine's digimon one by one.

My eyes widen in surprise as they dedigivolve.

They look familiar.

Suddenly, I recognize them from the soccer game.

"They're so little," I mutter to myself.

"That's right, master, they're like human babies." The night crawler that *still* considers himself my partner informs me.

"Human babies?" I say in shock.

Do I want to hurt something like human babies?

The pain is returning to the back of my neck.

I hesitate, watching my creation get closer to the digidestine's digimon.

I can't do it.

I can't destroy something that's like human babies.

"Kimeramon! Stop!" I order, and then head towards the engine room.

I'll handle this my own way without destroying them.

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I hear a voice that's even more evil than I am cackling in my head.

Scared for the first time in a long time, I fall to my knees.

"Leave me alone!" I beg and order the voice at the same time.

I'm not going crazy.

I'm not losing my mind.

I'm above the darkness.

Yet, it seems like

the darkness is driving me insane.

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My mouth's hanging open.

I can still win, I don't know how, but I'll win somehow.

Motomiya just used the power source that I found in the desert a few days ago that was glowing to do another type of armor digivolving.

I can still beat them, though.

I yell at Kimeramon for shooting one of his "heat viper" attacks at me, and then get scared out of my wits when my creation turns to attack me.

I can't die I created it. It won't kill me.

Wormmon's latched onto my leg, begging that we leave before we get killed.

Angry, I whip him off my leg.

I'm not leaving.

"Ken!"

I whirl around, ticked beyond belief to see during the time that the blasted night crawler distracted me, the digidestined caught up to me.

Probably surrendering.

I tell them so, and then the digidestined tell me how evil I am.

HAH!

Fat chance that'll stop me from taking this world and the real world.

"Look at them! Does it look that they want to hurt you? They're living creatures like you and I!" Takaishi says, gesturing towards the digidestine's digimon.

It's not possible.

This is just a game.

I know it.

These creatures don't have feelings, and can be destroyed without causing any pain.

Kamiya says something about Wormmon being my partner, and how I should be nice to him.

Fat chance.

An explosion happens in the base, and I laugh cruelly in the digidestine's expense as that the fact that the base is going to crash with them in it, because they're digimon aren't strong enough to digivolve sinks in, and then I run up the stairs to my Devidramon.

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I stand there on my Devidramon, laughing as Kimeramon crushes Magnamom.

Who cares if the digidestined escaped from the now-crashed base, I'm still going to win.

"You can do it, Magnamon! I know you can!" A voice from in front of me says.

He's gone too far this time.

"SILENCE!!!" I bellow in pure rage as I crack the whip on the back of Wormmon's head, leaving a deep cut.

He whimpers in pain, and then turns to me.

"What has happened to you, Ken? You've changed so much from the kind boy I met so long ago." He says, tears streaming down his face.

'How dare he speak to me like that, I'll just have to teach him another lesson.' I think as I collect the lash in my hands.

"You suddenly became cruel and uncaring, and I watched for months as you abused other digimon, and then me."

So what?

"I know that deep inside is that kind and gentle boy inside you, the one I consider my friend."

He starts to glow a strange golden color, and to my surprise, Magnamon is glowing the same color.

"You'll always be my partner and friend, don't forget that. And only a friend would do this." He says, before ramming into me, knocking me to the ground.

Shocked and angry about his actions, I watch as he attacks Kimeramon, riding Devidramon.

Everything seems to go in slow motion, as I watch Wormmon give the last of his energy to Magnamon.

Good riddance.

Then, in one attack, my creation that I spent so much time working on-

is destroyed.

I've lost everything.

In one night, I've become the supreme ruler of the Digital World.

To a loser.

Game Over.

I fall to my hands in knees in shock.

"I don't believe it, how could have you won? You must have cheated somehow. That's the only way."

I couldn't have lost any other way.

"I'll go home and delete all the Digital World off my computer, and reprogram it, so you can't cheat. That'll fix you."

I barely hear the digidestined explaining it that it's for real; it's not a game.

NO!

IT CAN'T BE TRUE!

I look up, about to tell them that, when I see the In-training form of Motomiya's digimon.

The same one I saw at the soccer game.

Realization struck me harder than any blow I received before, even from judo practice.

If it were a game, they wouldn't have been able to be at the soccer game.

"NO," I whisper in disbelief, "I recognize your digimon from the soccer game. They couldn't have been there if this is a game."

T.K. says: "we tried to explain it to you before, but you didn't believe us, that we were playing a trick on you."

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~Ken's POV~

Why?

Why didn't I figure it out earlier?

I suddenly flashback to the things that I have done as the Digimon Emperor, me torturing living creatures for pleasure.

I'm a monster!

I didn't notice that I said it out loud before Kari says that I can repair what I have done.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" I scream in shame, throwing away my outfit, realizing that I can no longer be this monster.

The next thing I know, I'm on the desert ground again, on my knees and arms, head down, sobbing unashamedly.

I barely notice myself back in my school uniform.

The screams of all the Digimon that I have hurt, killed, and enslaved echoing in my head.

I'll never get rid of that for the rest of my life.

I hear a gasp.

"WORMMON!"

Wormmon.

The one that stuck by side ever since I started my reign.

I walk dazedly over to where the digidestined are standing over him.

He's gasping for air.

He can't die.

I have so much to apologize about.

"You've changed back to your normal self, Ken. I knew that you could do it." He says, before whimpering in pain again.

"I'm sorry, there's nothing that I can do to allow you to forgive me." I say, strangled.

"It's never to late to apologize." Wormmon says, and I can tell that he's not in good shape.

Something's glowing in Davis's hand.

I notice to my surprise it's a crest.

And it's coming towards me.

"It's the crest of kindness." I hear T.K. say.

It can't be mine.

I don't know what kindness means.

Let alone be kind.

I watch numbly as it floats towards me.

"I don't deserve it," I whisper in protest, holding out my hands as it falls gently into them.

"I told you deep inside you had kindness." Wormmon says.

I drop to my knees, and gently take Wormmon in my arms.

"Don't leave me, I have no one else who loves me, and I love you too much for you to die."

"I love you, too, Ken. Bye." He says, and then lets out one more gasp.

No!!!

He can't die!

Then, with a burst of digital data

he's gone.

"Wormmon, NO!" I say in the voice that I've used last when Sam died.

"He's gone, Ken." T.K.'s harsh voice says from above.

I stare in shock.

Less than a minute ago, a living creature was in my hands.

Another sin for the Digimon Emperor.

I suddenly flashback, seeing Wormmon falling like Sam did when he got hit by that car.

Suddenly, my world is a lot smaller.

"Not again!" I say, jerking back, trying to get from the painful memory of Sam lying dead on the street.

Like Wormmon.

I couldn't save Sam.

And now Wormmon's gone.

I slump back onto the ground. "WHY DO I KEEP LOSING PEOPLE?!"

I sob uncontrollably on the ground.

I've lost everyone who loves me.

Sam.

And now

Wormmon.

The e-mail lied to me.

It said that I could escape from all these emotions.

Now they're back.

And they're ten times worse.

"There are still people that love you. Don't run away from your problems." I hear Davis's voice from what seems a mile away.

My parents.

They must be worried sick about me.

I slowly stagger to my feet.

"I got to go." I say, slowly walking away, feeling the sobs shake my body like a leaf in the wind.

"You're a digidestined! JOIN US!" I hear Davis's voice fade away.

I walk numbly back to the crashed base, where the nearest television is.

It's for real.

Not a game.

I open the television that will bring me back home, and the first thing I hear is sobs coming from the living room.

I walk slowly in, and immediately get embraced by my parents.

"I'm so sorry," I whisper as I bury my face into Mama's shoulder.

Less than two minutes later.

I'm back in my room.

Stretched out on my bed.

My face buried in my pillow.

The glowing computer mocking me.

The sobs coming from my parents in the living room.

"Wormmon,"

I whisper brokenly before falling into a deep sleep.

Only a game.

TBC.

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A/N: Hope you liked it; it's the longest chapter I've ever written. Until next chapter, please review.