Descent Into Insanity, Chapter Thirteen

While use of the Heighton View Terrace Gate was permanently lost, the Prime Evils had no need of it, for Mephisto had the ability to forge gates between both the Digital World and the Real World. Jack was again forced into the Digital world by Mephisto and the Lord of Hatred had him by the neck.

Well, boy, are you prepared to serve us again?

Tears pouring down his face, Jack had no choice but to comply with the demon. He was let down, but not before having a demonic brand emblazened on his hand by Mephisto, forever bounding him to the demon's service. When asked where the final digicore of Ball could be found, Jack felt his body moving by itself and lifted his hand to point in the direction he felt the digicore could be found.

Exellent child, now, let's go get Diablo and Baal and collect our prize. Mephisto said as he had Jack climb on his shoulder and flew off in Diablo's direction.

Back in the real world, the Digidestined crew were discussing what to do. Oiwkawa already had one of the dark seeds posessed by one of the children and demonstrated power that put Blackwargreymon out of his misery. But then again, they also had the Prime Evils to worry about, they had a pretty good idea on where they were on the subject of digicore collection. They believed that the demonic digimon needed one or two more digicores to complete themselves and be at full power. They then voted on thier most pressing issue.

Okay, we have at least two more days before those dark seeds bloom and Oiwkawa starts collecting them. But we have no idea on how close the Prime Evils are to finding thier digicores. Izzy said stating the obvious.

So you're saying we should try to stop them, or postpone them getting thier digicores while we have the time. Tai suspected.

Exactly, we already have the power to go to ultimate, we just found out from Gennai that Veemon can digivolve to champion and DNA digivolve with Stingmon to form Paildramon and he even told us he could go to mega. And Gabumon and Augumon can go to mega again since they received more power from Azulongmon's digicore than the rest. Izzy explained. So we potentially have three megas, and six ultimates, I'd say those demons are pretty outmatched. As powerful as they may be, they can' possibly hold all of us off!

So we're pretty much settled, let's go! Tai said and the rest of the group agreed and they we're in the Digital World within the hour.

At this time, all three of the Prime Evil's with Jack in tow were wandering in a hellish landscape, a hot firey area with numerous volcanoes and lava-filled crevases. It was populated with many fire loving digimon, such as Meramon but they stayed away from the Prime Evils, and watched them cautiously. Jack moved like a puppet, and after a while of leading the demons towards the final digicore, he stopped and pointed towards seemingly nothing but a small expanse of dry, cracked earth, but a glimmer caught thier eyes and they smiled in thier own unique way, Baal especially.

Ahhh, you have done well child, soon you will be paid for your services, in blood. Mephisto said as Baal left to claim his core.

As Baal carefully used his mechanical hand to pick up the digicore, he boasted loudly, Soon the world of men will be covered in the fires of Terror, Hatred and Destruction!

His moment of extreme happines was interrupted by a loud voice, which would sound familar to many digimon fans as the voice of WarGreymon. Not on our watch! TERRA FORCE!

A large ball of orange energy impacted Baal and knocked the digicore out of his hand and out of sight, due to his large size, that was about it. The three turned to find a sizeable group of digidestined digimon, Wargreymon, MetalGarurumon, ImperialDramon, Silphymon, Shakkoumon, Garudamon, Lilymon, Zudomon, and MegaKabuterimon. The three were not pleased at this interference but found an imposing force such as this no laughing matter.

This doesn't look easy, brother. Diablo said. It brings back memories of my defeat.

Fear not, brother, you had to fight on your own, we all fought on our own, we've learned from our mistakes and together, we will crush them. But I do agree, this won't be easy, but it will be done. Mephisto said.

How dare you fools try to stop me, you cannot stop the inevitable! APOCALYPSE CANNON! Baal scorned and let loose his giga cannon, which would seem more like a terra cannon than anything else.

The blinding burst of power streaked across the landscape and seemed to warp the space around it, thankfully the digidestined and thier digimon managed to dodge the blast and watch the terrifying explosion as it vaporized a nearby mountain. Shocked, but undeterred, the three megas converged on Baal while the others split into two groups and fought the other two demons. Baal recieved the brunt of a positron cannon attack, a terra force and a barrage of wolfclaw missles, encasing the Lord of Destruction in a massive block of ice. Within moments the Prime Evil broke free and unleashed another apocalypse cannon in the mega's general direction but missing both time, but each blast made a huge crater some miles away.

One the other side of the battle, Diablo was dealing with Lilymon, MegaKabuterimon and Zudomon. Diablo was having a very difficult time trying to hit Megakabuterimon, let alone Lilymon since they could both fly out of his reach. So he decided to concentrate on Zudomon, he charged at the bearded turtle with his hammer in the air. Zudomon managed to block the overhead swipe, but was struggling to hold it back due to the mega's strengh, but an attack from Izzy's digimon swept him away. Diablo knew he would have to get rid of those fliers before he could really do anything, he was starting to be worn down and while those ultimates could never beat him in single combat, the three of them seemed a perfect tactical combination to fight him.

Mephisto fared somewhat better, he was facing Garudamon, Shakkoumon and Silphymon. The fight turned into a destructive arial show of epic proportions, Mephisto's chain lighting attack managed to score a few hits badly singing the extremedies of Silphymon and Garudamon. He began to wonder about Shakkoumon's purpose in this fight as the slow-moving teapotmon could barely move into position to fire a well placed shot and the flying disks he did shoot were dodged and shot down easily. So he decided to end his existence first, while getting a clear shot was easy, firing it off and then dodging the other two's combined attacks would be difficult, but it was worth a shot.

When the opportunity came, Mephisto charged up and fired, Chain Lightning! and then folded his wings around him to deflect the attacks from Silphymon and Garudamon. The energy coarsed through Shakkoumon's body and incapacitated him.

The combined retaliatory blasts sent the Lord of Hatred into the ground, while the dust was settling, the two digimon looked at thier comrade and then at the cloud of dust with the hope that Mephisto was vanquished. But since I don't want this story to end this quickly, they are wrong. The prime evil flew out of the dust and at Shakkoumon with his wraithblade extended, with one fell swipe, the giant teapot was reduced to Tokomon and Upamon.

This is the beginning of the end mortals, your death is as inevitable as the the passing of time. Mephisto boasted.

I don't think so! Static Force! Silphymon roared as the ultimate fired off a pink blast.

Mephisto flew out of the way and boldly charged the digimon with his wraithblade at full speed. Silphymon barely dodged and readied another static force, but his intended target was nowhere to be seen. The question of where Mephisto was was answered when he was blasted by painful electricty from the digidemon's hands. Falling to the ground, Silphymon tried in vain to attack but instead reverted to poromon and salamon. Mephisto turned to look for Garudamon, only to find himself tackled by the enraged bird and sent into the dirt with her. Garudamon lifted up to see the prime Evil Unconcious? Raising her fist to try to pummel him Mephisto awoke and plunged his wraithblade into Garudamon's chest.

Die! Soul Reaver! Mephisto shouted in a commanding tone, and Garudamon did just that, she exploded into data. Sora was devastated, to see her best friend killed with almost no effort, she fainted.

The Lord of Hatred was pleased to see his opponents bested with just a little strategy. He turned to see his brother Diablo struggling with arial opponents and a hulking turtle creature. Lightning inferno blasts were going in all directions as he tried to blast his foes into oblivion.

How unfair, my brother in battle with opponents he cannot even hit. Well, let me even the scales. Mephisto said and raised his hand to charge a powerful chain lightning attack, he was doing this, as he was lesurely walking towards the fight.

Flame Circle! Diablo yelled as he slammed his hammer onto the ground, shaking it and unleashing a wave of fire that was easily dodged by Lilymon and MegaKabuterimon who were previously close to the ground. Zudomon simply turned and blocked it with his shell, but he knew that anymore would surely do him in on account of overheating. Opening his eyes after the attack was through, he was about to unleash another vulcan's hammer on the Lord of Terror when he noticed something extremely bright in front of him.

Mephisto's attack was focused in a ball of electricity that was almost larger than he was, when he was almost unable to hold it any longer he unleashed it onto Zudomon. The evolved form of Ikkakumon could not move away in time as the miniature thunderstorm made it's way towards him at near-light speed. Joe could only watch in horror as his digimon was struck by the immense attack and vaporized into data as the lightning jumped to MegaKabuterimon, weakening him to the point of devolving down to an unconcious Tentomon.

The now frightened and angry Lilymon took aim and fired with her flower cannon at the somewhat fatigued Mephisto the attack itself, while not very damaging, kocked the Lord of hatred to the round. Thinking he was beaten, Lilymon proceeded to fly all around Diablo while easily dodging his attacks and remaining completely oblivious to Mephisto's true status. During her last strafe, she looked over and found him missing, this brief pause would prove to be a fatal mistake as he was sent to the ground by a simple backhand from Mephisto. Grounded and disoriented from the fall, Lilymon looked up and saw a very annoyed Diablo readying his hammer, Mimi as well as Lilymon screamed at the same moment she was smashed into data.

The rest of the digidestined watched as thier plans fell apart one fallen digimon at a time. The three prime evils were now staring down the three remaining digimon, WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon and Imperialdramon. Baal was breathing heavily, steam coming from damaged mechanical components, the fight was extremely taxing on the Lord of Destruction as well as his brothers but they knew they had to go through one more fight to obtain thier goals. Diablo and Baal had the look of confidence and fatigue, while Mephisto bore an expression of concern.

Come boy, give me the stone! Mephisto sent out a strong psychic command.

Out from under a pile of ashes, a dirty and still enslaved Jack rose and walked in a zombie-like fashion towards where the last digicore lay, after almost falling into a river of lava, he picked up the digicore and proceeded to walked towards Mephisto. The three digidestined mega digimon gave the Prime Evils one final chance to surrender, but like stereotypical bad guys, they would never do that. Knowing that Jack was on the way, Mephisto turned to see the boy coming towards him. Wondering what he was doing the kids looked and saw the poor lad walking towards the Lord of Hatred.

Jack! What are you doing!? Stop!

Drop it and run away!

Get rid of that!

Don't do it!

The kids shouted at him but to no avail, once at Mephisto's feet, Jack kneeled and offered Baal's digimore to him. Mephisto pointed at Baal and responding to another thought command he tossed the digicore at the Lord of Destruction. Baal noticed it after it was tossed, the lumbering demonic cyborg caught the yellow jewel in his hand and with some effort, dropped into his last unfilled socket.

At last, I am complete! Baal bellowed and aimed his Apocalypse cannon at the Digidestined and charged to fire. The kids reacted in time to get out of the line of fire, but since Baal was at full power, he increased the power of the cannon significantly it shot over the horizon and hit an unknown target far away.

Distracted by the blast, the three megas were hit with a follow-up attack by the other two demonic megas. In their weakened state, they devolved back to thier in-training forms. Satisfied that thier opponents were defeated the Prime Evils with Jack in tow escaped into the real world to find a way to return to hell. No one knows how this will be done and it's only a matter of time before the dark seed children bloom for Oikawa. With all thier digicores, the prime evils are finally complete, so why do they need Jack? All this and more on the next exciting chapter!