Chapter Twelve

Descent into Insanity, Chapter Twelve

With the Book of Runes in hand, Mephisto travels to the Middle East, to the ruins of the city of Harrogath, covered by so much sediment that it lies underground below an area close by Mount Arreat. He enters an area of the city which is close to collapsing, but Mephisto won't be here long, he comes seeking the Relic of the Ancients, the totem which will allow him to enter the Worldstone Temple unchallenged by it's guardians. he fins the totem in a small room which is already half filled with dirt. He grabs the totem and walks out, moments before a cave-in fills the area. He exits through a rift he creates and appears on the lower slops of Mount Arreat. Though he can go and shatter the boundaries between Earth and Hell, he decides to wait until he has his brothers at full power, and his forces organized in hell.

Diablo had located Baal a day before, wandering through the desert searching for his missing pieces. Diablo had been watching him closely, from their previous encounter, he knew that Baal might try to destroy Diablo if things went wrong trying to feed him the digicore. Now night, Diablo decides it's now or never and confronts his brother who stands more than twice his size. Baal looks down on Diablo and says to him,

What do you want, Insect?

I have come to restore part of your mind dear brother, so that you will remember me. Devour this orb and you will be closer to being whole again. Diablo says holding the orb up.

Why should I believe you? It may be a trick, designed to weaken me, or kill me. I refuse your offer of completion, minor demon, now leave me or die. Baal says and starts to walk around Diablo.

Do you not have any incomplete memories? A faint remembrance of something that is beyond your reach? Diablo suggests to Baal.

Yes, how could you know such a thing? Baal turns and asks Diablo.

I myself was once in your predicament, dear brother, I was missing parts of myself after my resurrection, but I found them in these orbs, I am now complete, as will you be if you consume one. You are missing two of these Baal. Diablo explains.

I suppose you may be correct, but what if you aren't, I will take your orb, but if this is not what you say it is, then I will use my last remaining strength to kill you. Baal says and takes the digicore carefully from Diablo's hand with his huge chrome-digizoid claw and places it on his tongue, he hesitates but soon swallows it. Baal is overcome with memories and power, he turns to his brother with recognition and says thankfully,

I am sorry I have doubted you brother, you have brought me to my senses, but where am I? What is this place? And why have we come to exist in these forms? Baal asks with sudden confusion.

I really have no idea brother, but I am sure Mephisto can answer our questions when he returns. Diablo says. But now we must locate your last orb so that you can be whole again.

By this time the digidestined kids are checking up on events such as the dark spore children, this about a day before one of them blooms early. The digidestined are also talking about the prime evils and where they might be, where they came from, how strong they might be, and what are their plans. They think that the prime evils are somewhere in the Digiworld since they didn't know where Mephisto went but knew where Diablo went. So far they are correct on that matter, but as to where they came from, they believe that they are digimon from the Dark Ocean come to wreak havoc for no apparent reason. They have a very good idea on how strong they might be considering what Jack told them they know they are powerful mega digimon with strength rivaling that of BlackWarGreymon at least. they have no conclusions as to why they are here, they have come to the temporary conclusion that they seek to conquer the Digital World. However not all of them are concerned with such matters.

Davis is taking a walk alongside his apartment building thinking about Veemon, the good times, the bad times and in the midst of this, he comes up with something to help him cope, a slight joke.

Too bad good digimon don't just fall out of the sky. Heh.

Almost immediately after Davis says this he hears a scream that steadily increases with volume until something impacts the concrete just in front of him with great force. When the dust clears he sees a small blue digimon that looks incredibly familiar.

Davis looks in amazement as he recognizes the digimon.

The digimon yells and jumps into Davis' arms, after a brief, but happy reunion, the two make their way back home and call friends to tell them of the good news.

To fill in a possible plot hole, as to what was Veemon was doing in heaven, he was taken on short tour by Wizardmon and Jimmy Hendrix. Afterwards, he was intercepted by the Archangel Tyreal who told him it was not his time and sent him home with a boost in power and a message to Gatomon from Wizardmon.

By this time one of the dark seed children is close to blooming early and Oikawa has already been warned of that, but thats not what we're getting into right now. Now we return to Jack at his home in Kansas, he is rummaging through an old toybox he had when he was very young, inside he will find something which will rock his world greatly. In the very bottom of the toybox he finds a digivice, and suddenly he flashes back to the 80's, his dad work for Apple back then and his family lived in California. Steve Jobs unveiled the very first Macintosh computer,after the demonstration the curtains were drawn and the various employees celebrated the people's computer' which was just released. Jack was playing in a remote corner of the area while his mom and dad were hob-nobbing in the thick of it. His parents had to bring Jack along because they couldn't find a babysitter. During the celebration, jack encountered a small black baby digimon, possibly it came from the computer after the curtains were drawn. They played for a short while, and Jack was left with a digivice, his parents came to pick him up he took the digivice with him.

He played with the digivice for a short time, eventually getting bored of it and tossing it in a toybox which he came to rummage through now. When the flashback ended, he picked up the digivice and walked out the door, to the edge of a field and threw it as far as he could out into that field then he yelled,

No! I won't go back there! Never! He then walked back into the house as if nothing happened.

Unfoutunately for Jack, the Prime Evils need him again they come to this conclusion shortly after Mephisto finds his brothers. The Lord of Hatred is pleased to see that Diablo suceeded in giving Baal the third digicore, now all he needs is the last one, and the only way to find it quickly find it, is Jack. Mephisto rips open a hole in the air above them and Jack immediately falls through. Knowing what has happened, jack is more terrified than ever before, now he must serve the Prime Evils until he has outlived his usefulness. Then of course, he is at thier mercy, if there is such a thing to them.

A day passes, and Blackwargreymon's barrier is set up, preventing the use of the Hieghton View Terrace gateway, another day and Oiwkawa will try to access this gate, resulting in failure. However, once the Prime Evils find the last digicore, the will return to the real world and the Worldstone Temple, but not by using the Japanese gate, after all, there are more than just those gates.