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Dedication: Well duh who else. Melissa Ford for the initiative. Taichi Ultimia for some inspiration and Silver Daisuke for being Silver Daisuke. Of course all the ppl who read this.
Fate Isn't A River Daisukeby: Yamato Magna
Chapter Four: Bobbing Up And Down, From A Dam To A River
Takeru turned around to face the others. Hikari and Gatomon were surveying the area, Miyako was chatting with Hawkmon about "Ken's Dreamy eyes" and Iori was scanning the area for the nearest spire. The one on the map didn't seem to show up in plain sight so it looked like they would just have to find it the old fashioned way.
"Hey you guys!" Miyako interrupted Takeru's chain of thought. "Why don't we climb that tree over there and see if we can spot a control spire." She pointed to the north where a large tree was standing alone. It was worth a shot, he for one sure couldn't see anything.
Hikari had returned and said that she couldn't find anything that looked like a spire and Iori couldn't find it either.
"Strange. It seemed to of just disaperaed of the face of the Digi-World." Iori stated.
After being told of Miyako's plan Gatomon disagreed. "It'll take way to long to get over there."
"Well there's no time like the present let's go over to that tree." Her cheerful human partner smiled knowingly at Miyako.
After what seemed like hours of walking they were only half way there. "Why does this stupid tree have to be so far." Miyako whined.
"You're the one who chose this Miyako." Hawkmon stated.
"Well, why didn't you tell me it was so far away!" Miyako retorted. The other digi-destined let out a unanimous sigh.
"That tree is way to far away." Iori nodded.
"Is it just me or does it never seem to get any closer." Hikari agreed "Yeah it's kinda like it's running away from us."
The others turned their head as Gatomon and Hikari remained fixed on that tree
"So now what should we do? Go back and find another area?" Miyako asked.
"Yes I think that would be the correct course of action until we can find out the location of the spire and possibly a portal that is closer to it." The youngest chosen child said.
Takeru nodded "Yeah let's head home."
They all began to return towards the direction of the portal. "Hey Guys!" Hikari seemed frightened.
"What is it?" Takeru turned around to face her.
"The tree." Gatomon couldn't believe her eyes. "It's moving."
"That's not a tree, that's a digimon." Patamon said.
"What… a Digimon?" Miyako couldn't believe it. "You mean they have Digimon that look like huge oak trees."
"Of course they do. It's the digital world." Iori paused "That's Cherrymon's an ultimate level digimon."
"An Ultimate.." Miyako blinked. "As in the one that comes after champion."
"Yes Miyako that Ultimate." Hawkmon said dryly.
"That explains it." Hikari said aloud. "There was no spire because it wasn't needed to direct any dark rings." The others all turned to look at her.
"Yes that's right but why would Ken not put up a spire in an area he had control of?" Iori asked.
"Um Guys…we have bigger problems?" Takeru said.
"Oh yeah like what?" Miyako countered.
"That." Takeru pointed ahead to the lumber digimon that was now within range.
In less then the time it took Chibimon to scarf down a chocolate bar the two digidestined pulled out there D-3's.
"Gatomon…"
"Patamon…"
"Armor Digivolve to…"
"Nefertimon, the angel of light!"
"Pegasusmon, flying hope!"
In the brilliant flash of digital photon the champion and rookie digimon had reformatted into armor digimon.
"Twig Tap!!!" The large ultimate sent out it's attack on the children and Digimon on the ground. Thousands of thorny branches shot out of his leafy canopy as he shook himself hard.
"Star Shower!!!"
"Rosette Stone!!!"
The attacks of the two digimon flew in the direction of Cherrymons attack. Normally the combination of the two attacks would of at the very least nullified the other but in this case.
"Gugh!!" The two flying digimon dropped to the ground with a sickening thump as the blast from ther attacks only served to redirect it towards themselves.
It was as if all time had stopped for Takeru and Hikari. The weren't moving not a twitch of the tail or a flap of the wing. It was dead silence, interrupted only by Cherrymon's cruel laughter. Then as if by a miracle the two digimon began to glow and then after another display of lights the two digimon were back to their rookie and champion forms. The two ran and picked their Digimon partners up of the ground.
Iori stared down at his D-Terminal ready to armor Digivolve when suddenly the luminance of his digi-mentals began to lessen and then disappear entirely. Miyako was having a similar problem with the digi-mentals of love and sincerity.
"Digimental up." The D-Terminal flashed for a moment and then shut down. "Digimental up!!!" She tried again but to no avail.
What was the problem. Her D-3 lit up, it was this stupid D-Terminal. She slapped it a couple times. Where was this thing made, Geneva.
"Stupid Digi-thing! Why won't you work!"
Boy she sure has a limited vocabulary when she's mad. Thought Armadillomon.
Cherrymon began to come in closer. "What's going on? We can't digivolve." Miyako said.
"Yes there seems to be something wrong with my D-Terminal as well." Iori agreed.
"We have to get that spiral off of him or were toast." Takeru said, then brightened as if he had received inspiration from heaven.
He looked down at Patamon. "Hey buddy, you think you can handle another digivolve." He nodded . He took out his D-3 and clutched it to his chest. If there was ever a time I needed a miracle now would be it. "Digivolve Patamon!!!"
If one looked high enough at the moment they would have been able to see the gazing guardian mega in the sky, smile.
"Patamon!" The blazing white light consumed the partner of the child of hope and, bathed him in the illustrious energy of the digi-world. "Digivolve to… Angemon!!!"
The light shot out of his D-3. It seemed to be stronger than ever before. The light was so strong that it had cracked a part of the spiral stunning the controlled digimon. Once again an angel of hope had appeared to save his destined child. As he shielded his eyes, Takeru's face lit up at the sight of his champion partner. He seemed bigger than before as if he had gained more strength from somewhere else. From everything else.
"Hand Of Fate!!!" The orange beam of light demolished what was left of the spiral. The Cherrymon blinked, then fell over K.O.ed from the blow. "I think you…" Hikari paused not knowing just what to say.
"Hit him a little too hard don't you think ?" Miyako finished. It was then that the strangest thing happened.
"Hey guys do you hear that?" Takeru asked. The others paused for a moment.
"I don't hear a thing and I've got ears like a cat." Gatomon japed.
"Exactly it's way too quiet. Someone's not here." Takeru gave the digidestined a run down. Me, Angemon, Hikari, Gatomon, Hawkmon, Miyako, Iori, Armadillomon, Daisuke and Chibi… "Wait where's Daisuke!?"
"Didn't he come through, he was right behind us." Hikari said.
"Yeah and he would follow you anywhere something must be wrong!" Miyako joked. "Besides, Veemon's usually the first one to digivolve whenever there's trouble."
"I can't believe we didn't notice this sooner what if this whole area was just a setup to capture Daisuke." Iori pondered.
"I'll contact him on the D-Terminal." Hikari told them. In the back of her head was the nagging doubt that they no longer worked. Hikari message was short and to the point. They all waited for Daisuke's reply. Nothing came. She tried again and so did the other members of the group hoping that one of them would get to Daisuke.
"Huh?" Her D-Terminal started to feel warm. Then without warning her D-Terminal glowed and a small beam of gray light shot out on to the ground in front of her. The light solidified into a small round object. At first she didn't recognize it but then, as she took a closer look at it she recognized it as the Digi-mental of light.
She gasped. It looked like the Digi-mental had been burned out. It literally looked like a light bulb someone ad left on for the past two years and forgot about. He got a worse shock a moment later. His D-Terminal began to glow and then faded. The Terminal showed two words which meant that it was definitely the end. The end of armor digivolving, the end of breaking the rings, spires and spirals. It was the end of the war. It was the end of all hope they had to win.
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