Starting Point_

Part 4

Demon Invasion! Ruki and Takato's Tough Fight!

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JC: So here's part 4!

Solo: The fight is only just beginning!

JC: GO RUKI! GO RUKI! (waves fans)

Takato: All right, let's go!

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Lee was falling… falling fast…

"TAKATO! TERRIERMON!" He screamed as the cold air rushed past him for what seemed forever in the dark void.

After a long time, Lee hit the beach… literally.

"Itai…" the boy groaned as he brushed sand off himself.

"Where am I? What is this place?" Lee wondered as he looked at the gray sand, the dark water, and the gloomy sky. He walked along the shore for a bit, calling for Terriermon and Takato… anybody.

'I wonder if this is what happened to Ruki…'

Lee started calling for Ruki too. Fog began wrapping around him again, forcing him to turn the collar of his vest up.

"Lee-kun! Lee-kun!" Takato yelled.

"JEN! JEN!" Terriermon called.

"Lee… where'd you go?" Takato whispered sadly.

"I failed to protect you… Jen." Terriermon slumped over, tears falling from his eyes.

"Lee… I never really got to tell you how I felt…" Takato sobbed as he collapsed to the ground in despair.

Meanwhile, Lee felt something warm against his skin. To his surprise, his D-ARC was glowing and pulsing with powerful green light.

'I love you…' Takato's words suddenly echoed through the air.

"Takato-kun? Where are you?" Lee called.

'I wish that you were here with me right now…'

"Takato?" Lee's heart started pounding. He felt so cold, yet, whenever Takato's voice sounded, he felt warm and safe.

'I want… you to feel the same way.' The light from the D-ARC flared brighter.

"Takato-kun… I want to be with you too. I love…" Lee said and the light shone so bright he couldn't see anymore. When the light faded, he could hear soft sobbing noises and a familiar pair of goggles buried in his chest.

"Lee… you're back…" Takato's arms were wrapped tight around Lee's waist as he cried right into the taller boy's shirt.

"Yeah…" Lee smiled as Terriermon took his perch back on his head.

"Momentai, ne Terriermon?"

"Momentai!"

"This was unexpected… no matter… the gate is open enough to send my soldiers through again… BEHOLD ONCE MORE, MY NIGHTMARE SOLDIERS! GO FORTH!"

Tamers' world:

"Takato, Terriermon. I'm so sorry I worried you." Lee apologized to the very big teary-eyed pair that stared at him. As if on cue, both glomped onto him again. But Lee couldn't complain… the warmth and love he felt were a powerful comfort from the horrible place he'd been in…

Chosen Children's World:

Ruki and Hikari walked down the streets of Odaiba with their respective partners. Suddenly, Hikari hunched over in pain!

"Hikari!" Tailmon gasps and tries to support the child of light.

"What's the matter?" Ruki knelt down and examined Hikari.

"I'm… fine…" Hikari stammered. "But just now… I felt a horrible chill."

"I feel it too." Tailmon said.

"A digimon is coming." Renamon said, fur standing up.

"It feels so cold and… desolate." Ruki shivered and braced herself as a cold blast of wind shot out from the alleyway ahead of them.

Evil red eyes glowed from behind the gray screen of mist… and a shrill cry echoed through the air.

Tamers' World:

Takato and Lee collapsed as the ground began to shake.

"Takato!" Lee grabbed Takato's hand as the ground continued to shake.

"Jen…" Takato grasped the hand tightly as the shaking grew worse.

"Takato… there's a digimon here. And it's BIG!" Guilmon growled.

"A digimon?" Takato stared at the sky.

"Where?" Lee wondered as Terriermon jumped into a tree. The bunny digimon gasped as a large dark shape rose from the ocean and headed right for land!

"Jen! It's huge!" Terriermon gasped.

"Let's see." Lee pulled out his D-ARC. "Marine Devimon. Perfect level virus. His special attack is 'Guilty Black'."

"We'd better intercept him." Takato said. Lee agreed and gave him a reassuring smile as they ran toward the harbor.

Chosen Children's World:

"What is that thing?" Ruki gasped.

"I've seen her before." Hikari stood up.

"Ah, I've been waiting for a rematch." Lady Devimon said.

"Lady Devimon, a fallen angel digimon. Perfect level virus. Her special attack is 'Darkness Wave'." Ruki reported. "Renamon! Walk all over her!"

"Right!" Renamon jumped into the air. Lady Devimon looked amused as the rookie vanished from sight.

"CARD SLASH! BATTLE TOMAHAWK!" Ruki slashed a weapon card.

"What's that?" Hikari gasped as a brilliant light flared from the D-ARC.

"KOHENKYO!" Renamon reappeared behind Lady Devimon and struck her with the tomahawk.

"What's this?" Lady Devimon backed away. "DARKNESS WAVE!"

"FIOSAGE!" Renamon showered the bats with leaf arrowheads, destroying them.

"Amazing!" Tailmon gasped.

"CARD SLASH! HIGH SPEED PLUG IN 'B'!" Ruki slashed another card. Renamon's speed increased as she slammed into Lady Devimon with a powerful kick. However, the virus digimon retaliated with a kick of her own, sending Renamon hard into the pavement.

"RENAMON!" Ruki cried out. Hikari stood up and her D-3 flashed with power.

"TAILMON CHOU SHINKA! ANGEWOMON!" A brilliant shower of pink light engulfed Tailmon as she evolved into Angewomon.

"Angewomon, an angel digimon. Perfect level vaccine. Her special attack is 'Holy Arrow'." The tamer said.

"Hmph!" Lady Devimon smirked. "DARKNESS WAVE!"

Hikari pulled out her D-Terminal and tried to call the other children for help, but the messages didn't go through.

"AAAAHHHH!!!" Angewomon was knocked against a building by Lady Devimon's attack.

"Angewomon!" Hikari cried out.

Tamers' World:

"Let's go! CARD SLASH! CHOU-SHINKA PLUG-IN 'S'!" Takato and Lee both slashed evolution cards.

Evolution_

"GUILMON SHINKA! GROWMON!"

"TERRIERMON SHINKA! GALGOMON!"

Marine Devimon turned as the two digimon flew at him.

"Gattling Arm!"

"Exhaust Flame!"

Both attacks hit the aquatic beast's face and exploded.

Chosen Children's World:

"CARD SLASH! CHOU-SHINKA PLUG-IN 'S'!" Ruki held the shining card up.

"RENAMON SHINKA! KYUUBIMON!"

"Enough of this! DARKNESS WAVE!" Lady Devimon blasted Angewomon and Kyuubimon away with her attack.

"KYUUBIMON!" Ruki pulled out another card but when she looked at it, it was bright blue!

"Let's take her down! CARD SLASH! MATRIX EVOLUTION!"

Matrix Evolution_

"KYUUBIMON SHINKA! TAOMON!" Kyuubimon broke away from the bats and the graceful Taomon appeared.

"She evolved…" Hikari gasped.

"Hm?" Lady Devimon looked surprised as Taomon's hands flared white with a spell and all of the bats dispersed.

"Thank you." Angewomon said and got ready to rejoin the fight.

"Go take her down Taomon!" Ruki shouted.

"You too Angewomon!" Hikari added.

Tamers' World:

The smoke from the explosion cleared, and Marine Devimon was still standing.

"What?" Takato gasped.

"PRESSURE!" Marine Devimon twisted his arms and a powerful blast knocked Growmon and Galgomon away as well as crumbling some buildings. People ran screaming in terror as debris rained down in all directions.

"We have to stop him!" Takato shouted over the noise.

"But… we'll have to…" Lee stammered.

"Lee! If we don't stop him, he'll hurt other people! Look!" Takato grabbed Lee's hand and pulled the boy in another direction to see people trapped under the destroyed buildings. Growmon and Galgomon were working to get them out and Marine Devimon was still advancing.

"Lee, I… I love you and I know how you feel about killing digimon, but this one's dangerous! It has to be stopped!" Takato pleaded. "I can't fight it alone with Growmon, you have to help too!"

"You're right…" Lee whispered. 'I'll never forgive myself if that thing hurts Takato… or Shuichon, or Terriermon.'

"Takato-kun!" A voice called out as Juri, Kenta, and Hirokazu ran up with Culumon.

"Katou-san… Kenta, Hirokazu." Takato was surprised.

"Come on! You guys have to stop that thing!" Hirokazu said.

"If only we were tamers we could help." Kenta groaned.

"Do something!" Juri cried as Marine Devimon roared and shattered another building.

Takato looked at Culumon. The red mark on his forehead glowed.

"CULU-SHINKA! CULU!" Culumon said.

"Right! Lee!" Takato grabbed Lee's hand.

"When did they hook up?" Hirokazu wondered as the cards in Takato and Lee's hands changed blue.

"CARD SLASH! MATRIX EVOLUTION!" Takato and Lee shouted.

"Here we go-culu!" Culumon concentrated and a brilliant burst of evolution aided the blue card power.

Matrix Evolution_

"GROWMON SHINKA! MEGALO GROWMON!"

"GALGOMON SHINKA! RAPIDMON!"

Now powered up, the two perfect digimon re-engaged battle with Marine Devimon.

"RAPID FIRE!" Rapidmon showered the dark digimon with missiles.

"GUILTY BLACK!" Marine Devimon spat out black ink.

"DOUBLE EDGE!" Megalo Growmon sliced the attack in half and rammed the marine digimon with the sharp blades, slicing off several tentacles.

"Go!" Hirokazu, Kenta, and Juri cheered.

"GOLDEN TRIANGLE!"

"ATOMIC BLASTER!"

Both attacks hit Marine Devimon and blew him into tiny bits of data.

Chosen Children's World:

"FOX OFUDA!" Taomon threw the paper seals at Lady Devimon, slowing her down, allowing Angewomon to come up from behind and strike her with a slap.

"What the?" Ruki stared, surprised as Angewomon and Lady Devimon started a fury of slapping each other silly.

"This is the third time." Hikari sighed. "But it has to be done! ANGEWOMON GO!"

"Taomon, get in there!" Ruki shouted.

"BUDDIST BRUSH BRANDISH!" Taomon traced her attack out and the shining kanji hit Lady Devimon, paralyzing her.

"HOLY… ARROW!" Angewomon's attack pierced the evil digimon and disintegrated her.

"AAAAAHHHHH!!! NOT AGAAAIIIINNNNN!!!"

"Nice." Ruki commented.

"Yeah. Taomon's cool." Hikari said as the two digimon devolved back to their rookie forms.

"Hikari… there's something odd about Lady Devimon's appearance in the real world." Tailmon said.

"I know. You don't think that…" Hikari started.

"I'm not quite sure." Tailmon replied. "But anything is possible."

"What is?" Ruki asked.

"When you told us you were in the Dark Ocean… and then you encountered Demon." Hikari started.

"What are you saying?" Renamon asked.

"The gate must be open a bit. I'll explain later, but right now, we need to call the others!" Hikari picked up her D-Terminal.

Tamers' World:

"That was great you guys!" Takato said as he embraced Guilmon.

"Momentai!" Terriermon laughed and hugged Lee.

"But what about Ruki?" Juri wondered. "Didn't you guys find her yet?"

The two tamers shook their heads. But the ground shaking again interrupted the emotion.

"What… What's going on?" Kenta cried and clutched Hirokazu as the ground split open.

"A earthquake?" Takato wondered.

"CULU-CULU!" Culumon cried and buried himself in Juri's arms.

"I think Marine Devimon was only just the beginning…," Lee said.

'You have no idea…'

To Be Continued…

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JC: Well, that was part 4! Hope you all enjoyed! Please R&R!!!

Takato: Lee-kun and I have confessed our love to each other and beat Marine Devimon!

Ruki: Hey, don't forget about me!

Lee: But now, the battle is far from over! Why is the ground shaking? And what is the next nightmare soldier that's going to appear? Will we find Ruki?

Ruki: You'd better!

Takato: Jiikai! Digimon Tamers, Starting Point, 'Reunion of the Tamers! Skull Satamon and the Thousand Dark Towers!'