This story takes place one year after the television series Season One and movie with Diaboromon. There are over 25,000 Digimon stories on FanFiction.net; I have not read them all, so I hope that my story is not too similar to any others out there.
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THE WRATH OF ISOMONBy Fenris5000-Dusty
"The tip of the Sword shall seek vengeance
To vanquish the ones daring to condemn him.
Let Friendship's shield restore virtue
For fairness shall precede the coming Storm
And gold will shatter under the Assault."
"What does it mean Master?" The crouching maroon digimon inquired curiously.
"It means that it is time we went to Earth to destroy the digidestined." The tall sleek, silver dragon-type digimon stated as he looked into his servants dark blue eyes. "Is everything ready Idlemon?"
"Yes Master Isomon. The others are waiting for your orders."
"Let us begin then." Isomon declared as giant silver wings gracefully unfolded from his back.
The smaller maroon digimon trotted faithfully after his master, kicking off the ground as his own wings unfolded. Ready to follow his master to the portal to Earth.
Izzy typed furiously on his keyboard and smiled at the challenge as his eyes roamed the screen, never staying in one spot for more than a second.
"It's only a matter of time." He called out softly as he continued to pound on the keys.
"Prodigious!" He yelled out happily as his little spaceship finally managed to blow up the enemy.
"Not Prodigious!" He yelled again as a shower of meteors appeared from out of nowhere, blazing their way across the screen to blow up his ship.
Izzy glared angrily at his little yellow laptop as 'GAME OVER' flashed across the screen in large red letters.
"This is the tenth time I've lost this stupid game." Izzy growled to no one in particular. He had found the game over two hours ago and still had not been able to win yet.
He was thinking about throwing his laptop across the room when he noticed his mail icon was blinking. He hit the icon and e-mail from Gennai appeared on the screen. "Wow. It's been a whole year since I've heard from Gennai. I wonder if there's something wrong in the digital world?"
"Dear Izzy. There is an important matter that I must discuss
with all of the digidestined. Please notify the other children
and meet together tomorrow afternoon at these co-ordinates.
Talk to you tomorrow. Gennai"
Izzy stared at the co-ordinates for a moment, then picked up his telephone to start calling the others. It was already seven o'clock; hopefully everyone would be home for the evening.
Isomon landed in the clearing and studied his small army of digimon followers. His three loyal servants Idlemon, Idiotmon and Ignoramusmon had positioned themselves slightly in front of the more powerful fighters Magmamon, Hydramon and MetalVoltmon.
"My faithful servants, it is time for us to journey to the forbidden land to finish what others before us have started. We will destroy the eight digidestined and take over the Earth."
"How do we destroy them Master?" Idiotmon asked, his green eyes bright and curious.
"The friendship of the children is the key. Together they are strong, but all of us will attack at once causing them to split up and separate. Then we will be able to pick them off, one by one."
"Brilliant plan Master." Idlemon praised.
"Let us begin." Isomon roared as he swung his silver staff high above his head and back towards the ground in one fluid motion. A bright flash of light burst out of the tear as Isomon stepped back, motioning for his army to cross through, through the portal to Earth.
* * * * *
"Hurry up TK or we'll be late." Matt called as TK stopped running and tried to catch his breath.
"But I'm tired Matt. Can't we rest for a few minutes please?"
Matt walked back towards his little brother and looked at the time on his digivice. "We only have fifteen minutes to get there TK."
"It's not my fault."
"Well actually it is TK." Matt gently reminded him. "We would already be there if you hadn't wanted to stop for some candy."
TK's face fell and for a moment Matt was afraid that he would start to cry. "I'm sorry Matt."
"It's alright TK. We're not late yet and the park isn't that much farther. Once we get there you can rest all you want."
"But I'm tired of running, can you give me a piggyback ride?" TK pleaded, looking up at his big brother with large blue eyes.
Matt looked at his digivice then back at his little brother. TK had grown about three inches in the past year and was starting to become a little too heavy for a long distance ride but it would have to be done if Matt wanted them to reach the park on time.
"Sure squirt hop on." Matt said as he bent down on one knee. He never could say no to a request from his little brother.
"You're the best big brother in the whole world Matt." TK informed him as he wrapped his arms around Matt's neck and his legs around Matt's waist.
"Not so tight TK." Matt choked out as he held onto TK behind the knees and stood up. TK loosened his hold a little as Matt started walking down the path. "Ready to run?"
"Giddy-up Matt." TK answered, gently kicking his brother's sides like a horse.
Matt nodded and started to speed up until he was running at a comfortable speed. He smiled as TK giggled from behind and yelled encouragement for them to go faster.
"I can't believe Matt is going to be late for something as important as this." Tai complained as he threw a handful of grass into the air and checked the time on his digivice. "You did tell them we were supposed to meet at one o-clock right?"
"Of course I did." Izzy replied irritably. "And they still have six minutes and forty-eight seconds to arrive before its time."
"I'm sure they'll both be here soon." Joe stated, trying to calm Tai and Izzy's flaring tempers.
"You know Matt. It isn't cool to arrive unless you're fashionably late." Mimi chirped.
Sora rolled her eyes at her friends and pointed towards the right. "Here they come."
Tai looked over just as the two blondes arrived. Matt dropped to one knee and allowed TK to climb off.
"You're late." Tai informed the exhausted looking older brother as he collapsed to the ground trying to catch his breath.
"I'm sorry." TK apologized, looking at the ground sadly. "It's all my fault. I didn't mean to make us late. I only wanted to buy some candy for me and Kari. The store didn't have what I wanted so I had to pick something else but they had so many different kinds that I didn't know what to get."
"It's alright TK." Matt said as he quickly picked himself up off the ground and kneeled in front of his little brother, throwing a glare towards Tai. "Tai is just being a jerk. We still have at least five minutes to spare, we're not late at all and the others just arrived too early."
Tai scratched his head guiltily and looked down at the sad little boy. "I'm sorry TK. I was only joking. I didn't know that I would upset you so much."
"So you guys aren't mad at me?" TK asked uncertainly, his eyes full of hope.
"Of course not." Sora answered, speaking for all of the others. "We still have a few minutes before one o-clock, why don't you and Kari go play on those swings over there until its time."
"Sure." Kari agreed as she took TK by the hand and ran with the smaller boy towards the swings while they chattered about what kind of candy he bought.
"Sorry Matt." Tai apologized after TK and Kari were out of earshot and Matt had settled himself back onto the ground.
Matt nodded from his prone position, not even opening his eyes. "You're just lucky I'm too tired to do anything about it right now."
Tai smiled as he sat down next to his best friend knowing that was Matt's way of accepting his apology.
"Does anyone know why Gennai wanted us to meet here today?" Joe questioned as he looked at each of his younger friends.
"He just wrote it was important that we all meet here at exactly one o-clock." Izzy explained. "Whatever he wants to tell us he wants us to be together or else he could have told me in the e-mail last night."
"Maybe something bad happened to our digimon." Mimi cried out suddenly frightened as she voiced what the others were all thinking.
"I'm sure they are all fine Mimi." Sora soothed as she patted her friend reassuringly on the shoulder, trying not to let Mimi or the others hear the worry in her own voice. She didn't know what she would do if something had happened to Biyomon while she was safe here on Earth.
"Why don't we wait for Gennai to tell us instead of jumping to conclusions." Tai advised as he threw another handful of grass onto Matt's black shirt. It was almost completely covered in grass. "We might just be making something out of nothing."
"Watch the hair Tai." Matt warned sleepily, not even opening his eyes as a handful of grass came dangerously close to landing on his face.
Tai snorted and let go of another handful, careful not to let it go near Matt's hair.
Izzy's computer suddenly started to beep. "Gennai." He called out as he pressed a button and Gennai's smiling face appeared on the little screen.
"Greetings digidestined."
"Hey Gennai." Tai greeted as he crawled closer to Izzy and his computer. "We haven't seen you since the Diaboromon incident."
"Yes, and I am afraid that I have some more bad news to inform you of."
"What happened this time?" Joe asked, already dreading the answer.
"Last night a small group of digimon opened up a portal and are now on the Earth." Gennai explained.
"How is that possible?" Izzy sputtered in shock.
"That is not important right now. What is important is that you children are in danger." Gennai informed them.
Tai looked around. "We haven't heard any reports of strange monsters roaming around the city. Are you sure that they came to Odaiba?"
Gennai ignored Tai and continued. "I'm sending your digimon through the same portal and will e-mail the prophecy and information to your computer. Each digimon will carry a crest like the ones you had while in the digital world. The crests will seal the portal from this side as the digimon go through, keeping any new digimon from crossing the barrier into your world, and will finish closing the seal when it is time for their return. The crests will also act to channel your energy to help digivolve your digimon just like before. Take care digidestined."
"Bye Gennai." Izzy called out as Gennai disappeared from the screen.
Before anyone could speak a bright blue flash of light suddenly appeared out of nowhere, causing the children to quickly look away and cover their eyes. The light blinked out just as fast, but where there had been grass only a second ago now held eight small objects.
"Koromon." Tai bellowed as he recognized his round little pink friend.
"Hi Tai." The little pink blob replied happily in a high voice as he jumped towards his human friend.
Tsunomon, Yokomon, Motimon, Tanemon and Bukamon all jumped towards their respective human friends as they chattered excitedly.
"Where is TK?" Tokomon asked sadly as he looked around for his missing digidestined.
"And Kari?" Salamon added, not understanding why she wouldn't be there to greet her. Didn't Kari miss her?
"They're over there playing on the swings." Mimi told them as she put Tanemon back down on the ground and placed her new crest around her neck. "They don't know that you're here yet."
"Oh." Tokomon replied as he finally spotted TK and excitedly started running in his direction, dragging TK's crest of hope along, with Salamon close behind.
"So have you guys seen this new digimon yet?" Tai questioned, ready to get started. If there were evil digimon loose in the city then it would be best to get rid of them as quickly as possible, before too much damage could occur.
"No." Motimon answered. "Not much is known about him. He is a very secretive digimon."
"This information that Gennai sent us doesn't help us much either." Izzy informed them. "It seems that the only thing known about Isomon is his name and the prophecy that goes with him."
"What does the prophecy say?" Sora inquired, not liking this one bit.
"The tip of the Sword shall seek vengeance,
To vanquish the ones daring to condemn him.
Let Friendship's shield restore virtue
For fairness shall precede the coming Storm
And gold will shatter under the Assault."
Joe paled. "Isomon has a sword?"
"Not necessarily." Izzy explained. "It could be referring to anything that is sharp like his nails or teeth. You know that Gennai's prophecies should not always be taken literally."
"Fine. Isomon is after us and he may or may not have a sword or something equally sharp like teeth and nails or pointy spikes down his back ready to slice and dice us. Plus no-one actually knows what he looks like or how we can defeat him." Joe blurted worriedly.
"Don't worry Joe, I'm here to protect you." Bukamon called out happily, smiling up at his digidestined friend.
Joe's grimace turned up into a small smile. "Thanks Bukamon."
"Why did they come here?" Mimi whined.
"Yeah, we aren't exactly a big risk to them in the digital world." Sora stated.
"They probably got bored in the digital world and decided that it would be fun to take over our world." Matt responded as he shifted Tsunomon in his arms. Tsunomon smiled, content just to listen to the conversation and be back with his digidestined again.
"Why do evil digimon always want to rule the Earth?" Tai mumbled out in frustration.
Matt shrugged his thin shoulders. "Who knows what goes on in an evil digimon's mind."
"So what are we going to do?" Sora inquired as she looked at Tai, their unofficial leader.
"Isn't it obvious." Tai replied. "We're going to split up and start searching the city tomorrow morning."
"Do you think it's a good idea to split up?" Joe questioned, nervously pushing up his glasses. "I mean we don't even know how many digimon came through that portal or what type they are."
"And the prophecy mentions 'friendship'." Izzy reminded them. "All of us working together may be the only way to defeat them."
"I don't want to meet up with an evil digimon all by myself with only Tanemon to protect me." Mimi wailed, looking around as if expecting a digimon to suddenly jump out from behind a tree and attack.
"Hey." Tanemon protested in annoyance. "I can protect you all by myself just fine Mimi."
Mimi stopped crying and looked at her angry little green plant. "I know Tanemon. I'm sorry, I just don't want you to get hurt."
Tai rolled his eyes. "Why don't we split up into two groups then."
"I want to be in Matt's group." TK hollered as he ran up to his big brother with Tokomon cuddled up in his arms.
"Sure squirt."
Tai looked around and saw that Kari and Salamon were now standing beside him. He had been so preoccupied with the news of evil digimon in the city that he hadn't even noticed the two youngsters return. "OK then. Matt, TK, Sora and Joe will search downtown Odaiba since you all live closer in that direction. And Kari, Mimi, Izzy and I will search the rest of Odaiba."
"Sounds good." Sora agreed as everyone else also nodded in acceptance.
"Each group will meet up tomorrow morning and start the search." Tai continued. "If any of you meet up with the evil digimon then destroy them or contact our group if you run into any trouble and need help."
"You too." Matt warned, remembering how foolish Tai could be in a battle.
Tai scowled at Matt but gave a curt nod in agreement.
"Good luck tomorrow." Sora encouraged as she locked elbows with Matt and started to lead him away before a fight could start. She waved at the others with her free hand as TK skipped along behind them with Yokomon and Tokomon.
"Good luck to you too." Mimi piped as she waved them off.
"Yeah. You're going to need it with Matt in your group." Tai bellowed after them.
Matt stopped walking and was about to turn around and reply but Sora still held onto his arm.
"Just ignore him." She advised as she continued pulling him along. "Everyone else does."
Matt let out a chuckle and continued walking with Sora.
Tai frowned as Matt ignored the bait and continued walking away.
"Tai?"
Tai kicked a rock furiously with his sneaker and turned towards his little sister. "What?"
"That wasn't a very nice thing to say Tai."
"I know." Tai agreed feeling uncomfortable under his sisters unwavering gaze. "But he made me mad so I wanted to say something to make him just as mad as I felt."
Kari's gaze softened. "You know that was just Matt's way of telling you to be careful. Our groups are going to be at half strength tomorrow and we still don't know what kind of digimon we're going to be dealing with. If our groups get into trouble who knows if we'll be able to get to each other in time to help."
"I'm sorry Kari." Tai apologized as he rubbed her brown hair affectionately. "Sometimes I wish you weren't so smart."
Kari smiled at her older brother wishing that he didn't have so many responsibilities placed on him.
"So what time are we going to meet tomorrow?" Izzy inquired as he consulted his laptop.
Tai looked at his small group and bit his lip in thought. "Hmmm. How about we meet at ten o-clock tomorrow at Kari and my apartment since it's the middle point."
"Ten o-clock sounds good to me." Mimi agreed in relief, glad that Tai was also a late sleeper.
"Yes that does sound agreeable." Izzy added in acceptance. "That will give me a little bit of time to do some research before we head out."
"Alright then. See you guys tomorrow morning." Tai said as he took Kari's hand and started for home.
"Hey guys." Joe called as he caught up to Matt and Sora. "I have a test tomorrow morning can I meet up with you later?"
"Sure Joe." Matt replied, remembering that Joe enrolled in summer school every year. "I'll call you tonight with my cell phone number, then you can call us after your test and we'll let you know where to meet us."
"Thanks." Joe said. "Are you guys sure you're not mad that I won't be able to help you look for the digimon tomorrow morning?"
"Of course not Joe." Sora replied. "We understand how important becoming a doctor is to you. Besides it's not very likely that we'll actually find them in one day anyway."
"OK. I'll see you tomorrow then." Joe said as he turned to head for home. "Come on Bukamon."
"Joe, does this mean that I have to stay in your bag tomorrow while you're writing your test?" Bukamon demanded as he flapped after his digidestined. "If so then can we wash your bag tonight so that it doesn't smell like your dirty socks?"
Sora laughed at Joe and Bukamon as they walked away playfully arguing, then turned back to Matt and TK. "So what time do you want me to pick you up?"
"How about eight o-clock." Matt suggested.
"That sounds good." Sora replied. "See you then."
"Bye Sora. Bye Yokomon." TK shouted after them as they left.
Sora waved to the two blond brothers and continued down the path with Yokomon in her arms, pretending to be a stuffed animal.
"Come on TK." Matt said as he looked at his digivice. "I promised mom that I would have you home before supper so if we leave now we'll have just enough time to stop at that new toy store that you wanted to go to."
"But I don't want to go home." TK whined as he grabbed onto Matt's free hand. "I want to stay with you."
Matt looked down at his sad little brother and messed up his little white fisherman's hat. "I know TK but mom said that you couldn't stay over tonight. Maybe she'll let you come for the weekend."
"OK." TK mumbled dejectedly.
"Besides you and Tokomon will probably want to play together tonight since you haven't seen each other for so long. I'd just get in the way." Matt reminded him, trying to cheer the little boy up.
TK smiled as Tokomon jumped around on the ground excitedly. "I'll play with you TK."
"Alright Tokomon." TK chirped as he picked up the little white digimon and cuddled him. "We'll have lots of fun."
"Lets go guys." Matt repeated as he held out his hand for TK.
"Matt?" TK asked as he grabbed hold of his big brothers right hand.
"Yeah TK."
"Are you and Sora going to come and pick me and Tokomon up tomorrow?"
"No TK, you'll be staying home with mom." Matt replied as they slowly crossed the street.
"Why?" TK questioned. "I want to help too."
"I know you do TK and you are very important to our group but tomorrow we'll just be walking around looking for them. Like Sora said, we probably won't even find anything on our first day looking. Remember how long it took us to locate the eighth digidestined and destroy Myotismon? There'll probably be plenty of time for you to come out and help us."
"OK." TK agreed, feeling a little better about being left behind.
"If we do meet up with them then I'll give you a call. You can have mom bring you if it's an emergency. OK?"
"OK." TK responded happily. "Me and Tokomon will be the back up force. The secret weapon."
"What's a secret weapon TK?" Tokomon asked, just as excited as his digidestined.
Matt smiled at how easy it was to make TK happy as TK chattered excitedly with his little digimon about secret agents, while Matt continued leading them to the toy store.
As all eight digidestined and their digimon disappeared from view a gentle breeze blew through the grass where they had been sitting only minutes before. The overhead tree branches swayed back and forth to occasionally reveal a large silver form hiding in the shadows of the leaves.
Isomon's yellow eyes glowed in delight. "So the little children are going to be searching for me tomorrow."
He let out a roar of a laugh as he waved his long silver staff and blinked out of sight. He had much to plan before tomorrow arrived.
To be continued…
