Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or any of its characters. The storyline of Dragonball Z is not a property of mine. It belongs to Akira Toriyama. However, the character Burizalor is mine. Lady Myotismon, Iceladydevimon, Elfmon and Funkymon are characters made by Dark Warrior. I also don't own the characters and ideas known as X, Keke, and Max, because Max Acorn created them and I got his permission to use them.
SSJ4T: We're going to make this short and sweet. The artificials make their official debut in this chapter. Plus, you'll find that there will be two cameos by two Tamers characters. Be sure to point them out. They're in there, so don't over look them.
Coral: It's about time we got to the artificial battle. This is my first reading this.
Max: Didn't you read the old Artificial Saga?
Coral: No. I didn't want to spoil myself. Let's get on with the fic!
SSJ4T: Damn right! On with the fic!
(Digimon Zero Two opening theme "Target Akai Shougeki" plays during the opening sequence)
The Deadly Assassins: The Artificials Appear! The Secret of the Absorbers!
One Year Later - December 17, 2004 -
One year has passed by since the prophecy of the boy from the future, Dimitri. It has been three long years since the return of Tai and Agumon. Now, a year has have passed and the anticipation of the arrival of the artificials was now at hand. The earth was perhaps about to reach its darkest hour.
However, the groups of kids known as the Digi-Destined were not about to allow that to happen. With their digimon at their side, they are prepared for anything that will come at their way. Now it is time to put away all of their fears and stand up against these new terrors of mankind. If they don't stop them, then they will start a killing spree with the deadly virus known as the D-Virus.
The stage was set in Odaiba as Tai called forth all of the Digi-Destined to meet him at Highton View Terrance. This was, in fact, the same location where the first digimon made their appearances in the human world back almost nine years ago.
Each of the children all received emails from Tai and was on their way over. Since it was around the wintertime, they put on warmth to withstand the cold breeze. Tai even contacted Mimi and Michael from New York and told them of the news. Since they don't have D-3's, Yolei and Ken were able to reach them and open a gate for them into the Digital World and through another digital gate into Japan.
With all of the arrangements being made. Each of the children had already let their parents know that they would be away. Since they were a bit older, their parents gave it an "ok".
Tai and Agumon stood at the bridge of Highton View Terrance with his sister, Kari, and Gatomon. They waited for the other Digi-Destined kids to arrive. Davis, Veemon, Izzy and Tentomon were the first to arrive.
"So glad you guys could make it," Tai said.
"We're on time? Oh man. I should have slept in a little more," Davis said.
"Davis. This is important. We're dealing with deadly monsters looking on killing all of mankind and here you worry about sleep," Kari said.
"Well, a guy has to sleep."
"Tai, I managed to find the location of Kyoto through my laptop and here is what I propose. We use the flying digimon to get us on over towards that location."
"But all of our digimon can fly," Tai said.
"You're missing the point. That way, the ones that don't have to fly can reserve their energy in order to battle the artificials. No telling how strong they will be."
"Yeah. Good point. All right, I like the plan. All we need to do is wait for the others to arrive."
"Here come Yolei and Ken," Veemon said.
"Along with Mimi and Michael," said Agumon.
"Hey. You had it just in time," Gatomon replied.
"We had to get Mimi and Michael through the digital gates with our D-3's since they don't have D-3's to open a digital gate," Ken said.
Yolei nodded in agreement.
"So, what's the plan as far as transportation is concerned?"
"Izzy will explain everything once everybody gets here," Kari said.
"Well. I'm not about to wait here in the cold all day," Mimi said as she cupped her hands.
"Your not the only one," whined Palmon.
Just then, Sora and Biyomon came running down.
"Sorry that we're late!" Sora yelled out.
"Unfortunately, we just received news and found out that Cody and Joe are over at Kyoto at this moment," Biyomon explained.
"Great, they beat us to it," Tai said, "Alright. Is everybody ready?"
"Yeah!"
"Alright. Now, listen up. This is the day that we finally meet the artificials," Izzy said, "And as you all know. Our digimon has gotten stronger through intense training and the new kids have found the way to digivolve their digimon into their champion leveled forms. Now, we don't know how strong are the artificials but we know for a fact that we will give it our all and put these monsters in their place."
"Just another problem… the D-Virus," Ken mentions.
"I'm getting to that part. Now as you know that viruses can be cured with antidotes. Well, since the boy from the future gave Tai the antidote, I studied it and managed to make replicas by uploading them and creating digimon pills. They will help replenish health and kill the virus in the process. If any one of you ends up getting infected, I will give you one of these pills. There should be enough for everyone. Any questions?"
"Yeah. I got one. How do we get other over?" asked Davis.
"Simple. Some of our digimon can fly in their champion leveled forms. So we can use Biyomon, Hawkmon, Tentomon, Gatomon and… Hey where's Patamon?"
"Hey guys! Don't forget about me!" a voice shouted.
TK ran towards the others. Patamon trails right after him.
"Where were you, TL?" asked Davis, "We've been calling you all day!"
"Sorry. My mom and I had something important to do first. But I reminded her about this and she let me go."
"Well now that's settled, are we ready to go?" asked Tai.
"Yeah!"
"Alright, Biyomon. You know what to do."
"Right!"
Sora's digivice started to glow as it gave Biyomon the power to digivolve.
"Biyomon shinka! Birdramon!"
"Hawkmon! Go for it!"
"Okey dokey!"
Yolei's D-3 started to glow as it allowed Hawkmon the chance to digivolve into his champion leveled form.
"Hawkmon shinka! Aquillamon!"
"Tentomon!"
"I'm on it, Izzy!"
Izzy's digivice started to glow as it allowed Tentomon to digivolve into his champion leveled form.
"Tentomon shinka! Kabuterimon!"
"Gatomon, you conserve your strength."
"Alright then, then Patamon! Go for it!"
"Right!"
(Digimon Adventure theme "Evolution" plays)
TK's D-3 started to power up as it allowed Patamon the chance to digivolve into his champion leveled form.
"Patamon shinka! Angemon!"
Angemon, Kabuterimon, Aquillamon and Birdramon all stood up as people started looking out through their windows. Some of them could easily remember the two monsters that fought in this area before. First, Greymon and Parrotmon were seen. Then Garudamon and Mammothmon. Now they are seeing more monsters than before.
A little boy with blue hair looked up towards the skies. He was astonished by the magnificence of the digimon.
"Wow. That's so awesome. I wish I had one of those."
"Lets all decide who goes with who," Tai said.
Angemon picked up TK. Birdramon was able to carry Tai, Agumon, Sora, Kari and Gatomon on aboard. Aquillamon carried Yolei, Ken, Wormmon, Davis and Veemon. Kabuterimon carried Izzy, Mimi, Palmon, Michael and Betamon on aboard.
"So are we ready?" asked Davis.
"We said yes already!"
"Then Kyoto here we come!"
("Evolution" ends)
The flying digimon then headed towards the direction towards the city of Kyoto. As the digimon were flying above the city, many people were looking and pointing up. They could easily remember the monsters that invaded around the time Myotismon appeared. These were the same monsters that saved the earth from his wicked grasp.
"Odaiba looks so beautiful from up here," Kari said.
"Well, its not going to last unless we stop those artificials," said Gatomon.
"Your right and we should be as careful as possible," Tai said.
"Speaking of which. Tai, did you forget that in that boy's time, you would end up dying after contracting the D-Virus," asked Sora.
"No I didn't forget. And I'm not dead. So I'm still here and that's what counts."
"I'm not so sure. How do we know that you haven't been infected?"
"Look. I know Tai very well and I know for a fact that he hasn't been infected," Agumon said, "So just don't worry so much."
"Alright. I just want you two around to be healthy enough to fight these monsters."
"Don't worry. Plus I know for a fact that we will win this battle. That boy might think that those monsters will get the best of us, but when I look at it in a different perspective, I see a victory for us Digi-Destined."
This brought a smile to the face of Sora as she led Birdramon onto their flight towards Kyoto. They were getting much closer than they first thought since their digimon have increased their speed to travel over great distances without even wasting too much energy.
While Aquillamon was flying to follow Birdramon's direction, Yolei turns her attention to Ken, who looked a bit depressed.
"What's wrong, Ken?"
"I'm just a little worried about the artificials themselves. If that boy from the future said about those artificials actually killing all of us in his time, you think we even stand a chance in the present time?"
"Ken. You shouldn't even think like that. Now, I must agree that the boy was right about us being powerless against such a devastating force from the artificials. But this is our time and our chance to change our destinies. We're not going to let monsters affect our dreams and futures. It's time to be strong. So, let the sadness and fear go."
"Yes."
"You know, she's right, Ken," Davis said.
"Huh?"
"Fear has been bottled up inside of you ever since you lost your brother. But it's all in the past. I know you went through a lot of problems and Shadramon used you for his own evil ambitions. But now, you're a completely different person. But Yolei is right, you have to stay strong in order to fight such a threat as the artificials."
"Yes. I thank you two for your advice. Now I feel more confident about this situation."
"That's the way Ken," Veemon said.
"I won't let you down," replied Wormmon.
"Thank you my friend."
"Well now that's all settled, lets speed it up, Aquillamon!"
"You got it!"
Aquillamon powered up as he started flying in hyper speed in order to catch up to Birdramon, Angemon and Kabuterimon.
"So, you think you're up for it, Mimi," asked Michael.
"Well. I'm just a little worried about Matt now. He didn't come with us."
"Don't worry. I'm sure he's over in Kyoto as we speak."
"Maybe your right. Lets just worry on beating some evil creep trying to kill humankind."
"Mmhmm. We'll beat them for sure," Palmon said.
The digimon were now getting closer to Kyoto faster than they would have imagined. But they would have to find a location where not very many people were around.
"Izzy. Lets make sure that we land somewhere where there aren't a lot of people around," Kabuterimon said.
"Right. I'll let the others know."
"Make sure to send an email to Cody and Joe."
"Right."
As soon as he did that, Joe and Cody were on top of a valley ridge just a mile away from the city of Kyoto, and away from the temple shrines.
"Ahhh, there they are," Tai said.
"Birdramon, we'll land right over towards that valley ridge. Right where Joe and Cody are standing."
"Right. Hang on tight."
Birdramon landed on over down towards the valley ridge where Joe, Cody, Armadillomon and Gomamon were jumping up to get their attention.
"Hey! We're so glad that you guys managed to make it here," Cody said.
"Ahhh. I didn't know you guys liked me so much," chuckled Gomamon.
"Don't worry, Gomamon. We wouldn't leave you out," replied Sora.
"Ahhh. You're just saying that."
"No what are friends for," Kari said.
Soon, Aquillamon, Angemon and Kabuterimon all landed on the cliff ridge to meet up with the Digi-Destined. The champions de-evolved back to their rookie forms so that they would conserve their strength in preparation for the big battle.
"So we're all here?" asked Joe.
"No, except Matt. Where is he?" asked Tai.
"He said that he would come later. He's so hell bent on surpassing you Tai," replied TK.
"Yeah. I would like to see him try! So, we don't have to wait for him. I'm sure he can look for us through his digivice."
"Say, where's Leomon? I heard that he would be here," replied Davis.
"You calling for me," said a loud voice.
The Digi-Destined all turned to see Leomon walking up towards them.
"How did you get here into the real world?" asked Mimi.
"I used my D-3 to open a digital gate for him," Cody replied, "And he wanted to get a shot at the artificials also."
"I think everyone of us does, Cody," replied Armadillomon.
"So what time is it now," asked Agumon.
"According to my watch, its 9:30," said Izzy.
"And the boy said that they would arrive here at 10:00," Veemon said, "Lets just hope he was telling the truth. I didn't wake up this early to come all the way over here."
"No kidding," Davis said, "But hey! You can now evolve into your champion form. So your more than ready."
"But we don't know for sure how strong these artificials really are," Kari, "So I shouldn't underestimate their power."
"I'm not. After all, I know for a fact that Veemon has been training harder than he ever has been during these past three years."
"Plus I lost a couple of pounds. So I feel good about myself. Heh. Heh."
"Well that's Veemon's confidence for ya," replied Gatomon.
"He looks confident and that's all that matters," Patamon replied.
Kari looked at her brother, who was becoming a bit more tensed as the minutes go by. He wasn't scared or worried, but Kari could easily tell what could be troubling him. Yes, it was the fact that the possibility of Tai contracting the D-Virus before the battle against the artificials. But the question is, did he contract it as the boy from the future predicted. Even Agumon knew that Tai was healthy.
The Digi-Destined all waited around as the minutes passed by. The sun was about to fully shine over the landscape and the city would become more active as the hour of 10:00 would soon approach.
Minutes have passed by and it was now 10:00. Izzy looked at his watch and turned to face the other Digi-Destined.
"You guys. Its now 10:00, which means that the time of the artificial's arrival is right now."
"But one problem. Where are the artificials? I don't see a trace of them anywhere," said Davis.
"Me neither. But we still have to keep a look out for anything suspicious. No telling when they could arrive ay any given moment," Tai said.
"We'll let you guys know if we can sense their power levels," Agumon replied.
"Just leave it to us," Veemon said.
"Ken? You thinking about something," asked Wormmon.
"Not really. Just looking at how precious this world really is. I never really was out that often. I've always confined myself within my home perfecting my genius ways. But gone are those days."
"Its a lot more beautiful than you think," Yolei said.
"Really? How?"
"Take a look around you. The trees, the city, the skies, the birds and the animals are around us. They make up the beauty of nature around here. You really got to see the temples here in Kyoto. Legends say that spiritual creatures attempt to come out into our world. However, it is the temples that keeps these creatures away."
"Wow. I never really thought of that. Who told you this?"
"And they call you a genius? Oh well, I mean your not even the Kaiser anymore, so it doesn't matter. But, some man named Professor Takenouchi years ago while I was on a school fieldtrip told me. I brought Poromon with me and he questioned me about my digimon. He believes that the spiritual creatures might in fact be the digimon themselves. But that was just a theory of his."
Sora heard the last name 'Takenouchi' and turned to face Yolei.
"Yolei. You met my father?"
"Huh? Oh so your last name is Takenouchi. Yeah, I met him and he had a lot to say concerning digimon after he saw Poromon."
"Wow. I never really thought of that. You see, I haven't seen him in such a long time. Its a long story."
"Oh. So you live with your mother?"
"Yeah."
Ken looks up at the sky and smiles as he sees several birds flying by. He started to appreciate how precious life really was.
"Ken. If only you were around, you be proud on how much of a braver and stronger person I have become. You would have had a heyday if you met Wormmon and went to the Digital World with me. But I know you're with me inside my heart. So you have been going to the Digital World and you have been sharing the power that has made Stingmon stronger over these past three years. And you are with me during this battle against the artificials. Brother, I will not fail you."
Ken sat up and watched as the bird went flying towards the city. A smile came across his face. Yolei took notice of this and smiled as well. She was much happier to see Ken erasing all of his sad emotions and expressing his true feelings towards life itself.
"That's the way, Ken. Just let your emotions go. You'll feel much better if you erase all of that sadness that was kept bottling up inside of you."
"Well. They're not coming. I knew that boy was telling a lie," Davis said, "I can't believe we came all the way out here for nothing. No androids, no artificials, no nothing!"
"Davis. Its only 10:05, maybe he didn't realize the exact time that they would arrive," replied Kari.
"Well I don't know about you. But they're not coming. Veemon, evolve and lets get the hell out of-"
As soon as he said that, a large explosion took place in the sky as a jet plane was seen crashing down on the other side of the city, where it lands in a nearby forest. The Digi-Destined gasped at what they saw.
"Ah! What the hell caused that!" shouted Sora.
"I don't know, but it was a huge explosion," said Kari.
TK looked up and gasped at what he saw. He pointed up to three flying figures that weren't visibly identified.
"Take a look up there!"
The children looked up and gasped. The digimon were even more shocked because they couldn't even detect their power levels. Whatever these things were had no power levels to pick up energies from.
"You guys! It has got to be the artificials," Ken cried out.
"But how? We couldn't even sense their power levels," said Agumon.
"Not good at all," replied Veemon.
The three mysterious figures then flew right down into the city of Kyoto. The Digi-Destined saw the location at where they landed however, they weren't able to detect them through their D-3's and digivices.
"They've just landed in Kyoto," said Michael.
"So how are we going to find them if we can't even sense their power levels," asked Gatomon.
"Well if we can't sense their energies, then we will find them the old fashioned way, with our eyes."
They all nodded in agreement.
"Alright! I'm heading out," Tai said, "Who wants to come with me?"
Davis, Ken, TK, Yolei and Cody all raised their hands. Leomon also agreed to join up with them as he pulled out his sword.
"Alright. Kari, Sora, Izzy, Mimi and Michael will stay here then. And if Matt comes by here, tell him and let him know where we are at," replied Tai.
"We'll contact you if we can," Izzy said.
"Alright guys! Lets move out," Davis said.
The children all slid down the ridge and headed down towards the city of Kyoto. The digimon went to follow them out and they made sure not to digivolve until the right opportunity comes.
"Be careful out there you guys. TK. Tai. You two better come back safely," Kari thought to herself.
The children all decided to split up. Tai and Davis took the north section of the city. Ken and Yolei took the east section. TK decides to scout the southern section. Cody took the west section. Leomon searched in the center section of the city.
"You see anything yet, Veemon?"
"Not yet, Davis. Geez. This is going to be a lot harder than I first imagined. Luckily I was able to eat myself a nice patch of pancakes."
"Just be glad that I make the best pancakes around."
"Next time, don't over cook them. My tongue is a bit dry from those dry pancakes."
"Will you guys stop talking about food and concentrate on what we are looking for," said Tai.
"Oh right."
"Tai. I can't even find them. If only these things had some kind of energies so that I could trace them," Agumon said, "But nothing. What are these things made of anyway?"
"I have no clue. But I don't want to find out either. And be alert. These things are said to carry the D-Virus within their bodies."
"Well I feel sorry for all of these people if we can't even find those things," Davis said.
"No kidding, Davis. There's no telling what kind of devastation this virus could have on Kyoto."
As the two goggle heads run by, a small girl with a yellow sock puppet watched them pass by. She noticed their digimon and thought she was seeing things.
"Wow. Those kids really made some good costumes."
She then held her sock puppet out, which had a dog-like appearance. It had black, beady eyes and a tongue sticking out. The girl giggled to herself and made several noises to give her puppet life.
"Ruff! Ruff!"
"Hawkmon. You see anything?"
"Nada. Looks like we're on the wrong end of the stick here. I just hoped that boy would have given us a full description of these things."
"That would have been a lot easier. I agree," Ken said.
"Ken. What is it that makes you so angry?"
"These things want to kill for no apparent reason and I loathe anything that wants to kill innocent lives. I may have been the Kaiser, but I never had any intentions of taking lives away. This Datamon makes me sick."
"You can vent your anger on these things once we find them," Yolei said, "I promise we will find them."
Ken nodded in agreement. Just a few yards away from their area, Leomon was standing in the center as the crowd began to look at him but they simply ignored him as if Leomon were just 'another guy in a suit rehearsing for a movie'.
"Ugh. If only these nosey people would stop staring at me. Don't they have any idea what is about to happen? Ugh! Where are those things anyway?"
Meanwhile, on the other side of Kyoto, three mysterious figures walked out from an alleyway. They were lucky enough to walk about since there were no people around to take notice of them. The three figures marched on over down towards the lively section of the city.
Cody and Armadillomon walked across the bridge and watched as several people were walking by peacefully. He was so surprised over the fact that these people had not realized that a huge threat was coming their way.
"Don't these people realize what is about to happen to them. I just hope I'm the one to stop these things before they hurt any innocent people."
"Cody? Whatca thinking?"
"Armadillomon. It's bad enough for digimon to get killed but its even worse for people to lose their lives at the hands of heartless monsters."
"That's why we're here to stop them. And I'm right at your side on this one."
"Thanks. Your always there to protect me always."
"What are friends for?"
"If only the others are having as much luck as we are."
"Not a sight of them, Patamon."
"Even while flying from above, I can't seem to see anything suspicious."
"If only Dimitri had given us a picture of them, then it would have been a lot easier."
TK looked out towards the city and he was starting to get frustrated after looking around his surroundings. Were these things hiding or do they have some sort of camouflage to help them hide. TK had to know what their intentions were at this moment of time.
The three figures started towards a large group of people who were taking a look at the fallen jet plane that crash land in the forest just miles from the city. The crowd hadn't noticed the figures just yet but they began discussing the crash to carry on the conversation.
"Geez! That was one hell of a crash," a teenage boy said.
"I don't think anybody could have survived that disaster. But where are the cops? Shouldn't they be investigating?" asked another civilian.
Then the two guys turned around and looked towards the three figures.
"Hey! Are you three rehearsing for some movie? If you are, those are pretty phat costumes," the boy said.
But instead of responding, the three figures turned to face them. One of them looked like Lady Devimon but her body was completely made of ice. This was Ice Ladydevimon. The second figure turned out to be a short, elf-like creature with pointy ears, a small hat and no eyebrows. But it was his lifeless and cold eyes that sent chills down the spines of the civilians. This one was named Elfmon. And the last turned out to be a monkey with a surfer suit, with a pair of shades to cover his lifeless and mechanical eyes. This was Funkymon but this one was considered to be the most dangerous of the three.
"What's wrong with you three?"
"I don't know what they're problem is, but they're starting to creep me out."
"Hey! I asked you a question! And I expect an answer."
Suddenly, Elfmon's eyes started to glow, which freaked the two guys even further. Ice Ladydevimon wrenches back and stabs her claws right through the man's chest. The boy gasped in horror and tried running away but Elfmon quickly phased right in front of him and extended a hand out. The boy froze in fear as Elfmon sprayed some sort of chemical on him. The young man cried out in pain as the chemical covered his body. He felt his skin melt away while screaming in tremendous agony and pain. An evil smile came across the face of Elfmon as he looked down at the quivering body of the now melted body.
Another pair of civilians tried running away but Funkymon turned to face them. He locked his targets on a slow-moving man. He quickly flew right towards him and stopped him in his tracks.
"No… What do you want? Here. You can have everything…"
The man pulled out his wallet and handed it over to Funkymon, however the artificial grabbed him by the throat. Funkymon began choking him out so hard that the man's face started turning blue. A woman fell over and looked out towards the artificials. Here eyes were filled with tremendous fear and she let out a blood-curling scream that echoed throughout the city.
Cody heard the scream and looked over to the direction of where the scream might have came from. He believes it was on the west section where they were supposed to scout.
"You hear that?"
"From a mile away. It's within this area. It's not to far from here. I say we go check it out."
"Agreed."
Cody and Armadillomon both headed out towards where the scream of the woman might have come from. But they knew for a fact that it was around the west section of Kyoto. And they have a good feeling that the artificials are there as well.
"I have to get Armadillomon to evolve into his champion leveled form. No telling how strong these things are."
Funkymon drops his victim, as he falls the ground dead. Funkymon's eyes started to glow as he began to detect a power level heading into their direction. This power level belonged to Armadillomon. Funkymon had to act.
"I am beginning to pick up an enormous energy. It is one of those digimon of the Digi-Destined. What does your sensors indicate?"
Ice Ladydevimon was the first to speak.
"It is the one named Armadillomon."
"Yes and they're getting closer. Perhaps they are the ones we are seeking," Elfmon said in a monotonous manner.
"Perhaps. But we shall see who this is, just in case."
"We will kill him? Yes? Will we?" asked Ice Ladydevimon.
As soon as the Cody and Armadillomon made it over towards the area, they found several dead bodies on the ground. Shock came over the face of Cody. He couldn't believe what he was seeing before him. On one side, he found a person's body all melted up. Then he sees another with a hole in his chest with his insides bubbling up and melting away. And then he sees a man lying dead on the ground with an indention in his throat.
"This is getting much worse than we first thought," Cody said.
"You said it and they could have been infected by the D-Virus by judging by that melted body over there. It's making my stomach turn."
"Gross. This is just sick."
Suddenly, Cody heard whimpering. It was coming from behind a car. It sounded like a frightened woman or a little boy. Cody went to check it out and to his surprise, he found the same young woman who had screamed a while ago.
"Hey you."
The woman looked up at him and sighed a relief but was still visibly traumatized. Her eyes were filled with fear and her entire body was shaking.
"Do you know what happened to these people?"
"Yes…"
"What happened?"
"There… Were three of them…"
"Ah! The artificials!"
"They came and sprayed some chemical… I have no idea what it was but it melted some of them… Its horrible…"
"Three of them! That boy was right all along!"
Just as he said that, the three artificials were looking down from nearby building. Ice Ladydevimon began to scan the area.
"This isn't the one we are looking for," Elfomon said.
"So I shall identify him," replied Ice Ladydevimon.
As soon as she said that, she began to scan Cody and picked up quite a lot of information on him.
"My sensors are telling that boy is none other than Iori "Cody" Hida. He is of the human species. Male. Age eleven. His partner digimon is Armadillomon. He possesses the Digimentals of Knowledge and reliability."
"Excellent. We shall collect some energy from him," Funkymon said, "Then we shall infect him."
They nodded in agreement as they went hovering down towards where Cody was standing.
"Just get away from here as fast as possible," Cody said, "My friend and I will take everything from here."
"But you're just a boy…"
"Please, ma'am."
The woman nodded and started running off from the devastated area, where she left Cody and Armadillomon began their search.
"So, shall we begin, Cody?"
"Yes."
The three artificials appeared right behind Cody. Cody turned to face them.
"Huh? Hey, you three. You better get out of here. There's some killers on the loose."
As soon as she said that, he stopped to closely examine them. And it finally came to his conclusion that he was face to face with the killers themselves. He looked at their eyes and could easily tell that they weren't people in movie costumes either.
"No… You can't be them…"
Cruel smiles came across their faces. Funkymon was the first to reply.
"We are they."
Cody jumps back and pulls out his D-3. Armadillomon got ready to fight.
"Armadillomon its time to-"
But as soon as he was about to finish his sentence, Funkymon quickly grabbed Cody by the throat and hoisted him above his head. Cody began kicking and screaming but Funkymon cupped the boy's mouth shut.
"You let him go, damn it!"
But soon, Ice Ladydevimon flew right at Armadillomon and kicks him away to the curb. Armadillomon hit his head on the concrete and was laid out unconscious. Funkymon tightened his grip on Cody. The young boy was beginning to feel his energy being drained away but at the same time, he felt something entering his body. It was a cold, liquid feeling.
The artificials saw a few vehicles about to drive by but they were there to blast them all away. This allowed Funkymon enough time to collect as much energy as he needed from Cody.
"What's happening to me! I feel as if my body is getting weaker. My energy is being drained but I feel something else entering my body. A very cold feeling."
The vehicles exploded as a result of being blasted. Huge gusts of smoke were covering the area and flames were getting bigger as a result. It was now becoming ground zero in a matter of minutes.
Funkymon pulled out his other hand and an injection needle came popping out of his hand. A cruel smile came across his face as he pushed the needle into the neck of Cody. The young boy tried to scream but with his mouth cupped, he didn't have a chance to. Cody felt his body starting to go limp and a burning sensation was building up inside of his body. However, this burning sensation was as if his insides were caught on fire. He couldn't even move a muscle. Yes, it was the D-Virus taking is effect on one of the Digi-Destined.
The Digi-Destined all noticed the huge explosions taking place and felt a tremendous power level depleting. Since the artificials have no power levels, they came to the conclusion that one of their team members were in serious trouble.
Kari and Gatomon looked out from the cliff ridge as they watched the smoke rising from the city. A look of worry was coming across her face. She couldn't even do anything now, but she won't stand to see any of her friends to get hurt. She would go out to help her friends.
"Cody. No…"
Huge clouds of smoke were forming in the air as fire began covering some parts of the city. Many of the civilians made their escape through as they watched parts of the city go into flames. Fire departments were there to put out the fire but even that wasn't enough. It was as if the area was suddenly turning into ground zero all over again.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, on the western section of Kyoto, the three artificials were standing around and looking up to Cody. The young boy was quivering with tremendous pain. Funkymon had just injected him with a dose of the D-Virus through a needle and injected it into his neck. Cody's eyes began to become glazed over as a result.
Armadillomon couldn't even go and help his partner since he was so easily brushed aside by the artificials and knocked out cold for the time being. Funkymon pulled the needle out of Cody's neck. The young boy began to stop moving as his eyes were now glazed over. Blood was dripping down from Cody's neck wound at the same time.
Patamon was the first to pick up the energy decrease. He flew up and looked over towards the west section where the huge flames were blazing.
"What's wrong, Patamon?"
"TK. I can feel somebody's energy depleting. It can't be the artificials."
Then TK just realized that Cody was supposed to search in the west section. He calls out to Patamon.
"Patamon. I know who it is! Its Cody!"
"What!"
"We better send an email and get over there this instant!"
TK pulls out his D-Terminal and began to send several email messages to the other Digi-Destined about Cody.
Tai and Davis were the first to receive the email message. They read the message and gasped at what they just read. Davis couldn't believe and neither could Tai.
"TK says that Cody might be in danger. We better head on other there this instant," Davis said.
"Yeah. There's no telling what those artificials could have done to him! I don't even want to think about it."
Davis and Tai nodded to each other and both headed out towards the western section of the city of Kyoto. Veemon and Agumon followed their partners in order to catch up to them.
"Lets just hope he didn't get infected by the D-Virus," Tai thought to himself.
"This is bad. What if Cody ends up being hurt?" Yolei said.
"We can't think like that! We have to get there as soon as possible," replied Ken, "Wormmon! Lets go!"
"Hawkmon!"
Ken and Yolei notice fire coming from the west section and start heading on over there.
"Wherever there is devastation, there is trouble. The artificials aren't far from here," Ken said.
"And lets hope there's enough time to save Cody," said Yolei.
"I hope so too, Yolei. I hope so too," Ken thought to himself.
In a matter of moments, they were able to make it to the west section but they had to get passed the blazing flames first. The fire stood as a barrier, which kept the four from passing through.
"Damn it! We can't even pass through," Ken angrily said.
"This is not good! C'mon guys! We'll help!"
Leomon was quickly heading towards the west section. He was able to leap through the roofs of several buildings to avoid the raging flames that were becoming increasing common throughout the scattered sections of Kyoto.
"I've got to hurry before Cody loses it! And I should be the one protecting them at all times!"
As soon as he said that, he quickly phased out to get through further distances. This would enable him to reach the western section in a heartbeat.
Funkymon held Cody up and looked into the boy's eyes. They were soon becoming lifeless as a result of the D-Virus completing destroying him from within and the loss of blood.
Suddenly, the artificial's sensors began going off. They felt several tremendous energies heading towards their direction. Elfmon and Ice Ladydevimon both looked up to see Angemon flying down with TK.
"There they are," TK cried out.
"They've got Cody," Angemon said.
Soon, Davis and Tai were the next to arrive. Tai stopped in his tracks and looked towards the artificials. A look of shock came across his face. He looked to see Funkymon holding up Cody's dying corpse.
"Cody! No! You put him down," Davis growled.
Tai clenched his fists and the sight of Funkymon severely angered him. But it even furthered infuriated both Veemon and Agumon.
"You… monster…" Tai said with anger building up in the tone of his voice.
Ken tried throwing wooden boxes to slow down the fire but it was no use. It was only making it worse.
"Well so much for my genius!"
"Ken, hello! Why don't you get Wormmon to digivolve and we fly over."
"Yes but the problem is that he will waste energy and he needs it to fight the artificials."
"Well think about this. The others could already be over there by now and may need our help. Ever think about that?"
Ken stood there thinking for a moment. Wormmon looked up to his partner.
"Ken, so what's it going to be?" Wormmon asked.
"Lets do it! Wormmon, get ready to kick some tail!"
"Its about time!"
("Break Up!" plays)
Ken's D-3 glowed and it sent energy to Wormmon as he began to digivolve into his champion form. His body grew bigger and pairs of wings popped right out of his back. He stood upright and had a more insect like appearance.
"Wormmon shinka! Stingmon!"
Stingmon picks Ken, Yolei and Hawkmon up and flies right over the flaming wall.
"Now we must head on over to the west section, towards where all of that smoke is coming from," Ken said as he pointed out to the tremendous amounts of smoke covering a small section of Kyoto.
"I'm on it!"
Then Stingmon quickly flew right on over towards that direction. Then as soon as he got there, he looked down to see the other Digi-Destined face to face with the artificials themselves. Ken and Yolei looked down to see Funkymon holding Cody.
("Break Up!" ends)
"CODY!"
Stingmon landed and placed Yolei and Ken down. They ran over towards Tai and the others. They couldn't believe at what they were seeing. Right in front of them were the three killers that Dimitri was talking about. And their first victim ended up being Cody instead.
"You demons put him down," Leomon roared angrily.
A dark smirk came across the face of Funkymon as he dropped Cody down on the ground. The young boy was still somewhat quivering with a large wound on his neck, where he was injected with the D-Virus.
"TK! There is still enough time to save Cody. I want you to pick him up and take him away from here! Izzy has some of those antidote pills. Give Cody one of those and he should be fine."
"Right!"
TK goes over to Cody and picks. Then he looks on over to Armadillomon, who was still knocked out cold.
"I'll carry you and Armadillomon out, TK," Angemon said.
"Right. I got Cody here with me."
TK puts Cody on his left shoulder while Angemon goes to place Armadillomon on his right shoulder. Angemon goes over and picks up TK.
"I'm counting you guys," said Tai.
TK gave thumbs up and Angemon flies off into the skies and back towards the cliff ridges where the others were waiting.
Meanwhile, the other children faced off against the three artificials. It was Tai, Davis, Yolei, Ken and Leomon facing them off. Ice Ladydevimon, Funkymon and Elfmon simply stared at them without a look of worry on their faces.
"Hmm. So these three are the killer artificials we heard so much about. Kind of funny looking if you ask me," Leomon said.
"Well. Its quite interesting to realize that we are the artificials set to kill humankind," Funkymon said, "But I find it more surprising to see you here. Tell us, how did you anticipate our arrival?"
"If you want to know, you're going to have to fight us to get the answers," Davis said.
"Agumon! Time to clean out the trash!"
"Yeah!"
Tai held out his digivice and it began to glow. Then his chest began to glow the crest of courage. Those combined powers sent a powerful ray of energy to Agumon as he got set to evolve into his highest level form, the mega stage.
("Target Akai Shougeki" plays)
"Agumon warp shinka!"
Agumon went through his Greymon and Metal Greymon stages as he finally reached his mega form, War Greymon. He stood upright and developed armored claws. He powered up as his body began to glow a fiery aura color.
"War Greymon!"
"Veemon! Your up now!"
Davis' D-3 began to glow as Veemon got set to digivolve into his champion form. His body got bigger, plus two pairs of wings came popping out of his back. A large form grew on the tip of his nose.
"Veemon shinka! Xveemon!"
"Hawkmon! Go for it!"
Yolei's D-3 began to glow as Hawkmon got set to digivolve into his champion form. His body grew larger. He became more eagle-like and two horns came out of the sides of his head.
"Hawkmon shinka! Aquillamon!"
War Greymon, Xveemon, Aquillamon, Stingmon and Leomon stood on one side with their respective partners. And on the other side stood the three evil artificials. A wall of fire was blazing in the background around them. Suddenly, Tai took notice of the surroundings and watched as fire started to cover a lot of areas.
"No, you guys. We can't fight here. Too many people will get here if we fight here," Tai said.
"So you want to find another location for us to duel?" asked Funkymon, "Very well then. You can lead us into another more open area."
"Unless of course. You want to see more innocent people to suffer?" Ice Ladydevimon said
"Leave these people out of this!" Ken said.
"They have nothing to do with your sick games," replied Tai.
"Is that so, Taichi?"
Tai gasped after what Funkymon said. The artificial actually knew his name, and what makes it even creepier was the fact that these two have never met before.
"Hey, how did you know his name?" asked War Greymon.
"I know all of you. Ken Ichijouji. The brave warrior known as Leomon. Miyako Inoue. Daisuke Motomiya. Its no surprise of which you all are, Digi-Destined."
"Lets make introductions later. I say we take this battle away from here and into a more open area out in the nearby islands," Tai said.
"Very well. Lead us there."
Tai turned towards the others and nodded. They all nodded. War Greymon picks Tai up and flies off. Stingmon carries Ken and follows him. Leomon hovers up and flies off after them. Yolei hopped onto Aquillamon and they flew off right after their comrades. Davis jumps onto Xveemon's back as they set off to follow the others. The three artificials hovered up and went to follow them.
("Target Akai Shougeki" ends)
Cody looked at his neck and it was all healed up. He started to move about slowly and sighed a relief.
"Wow. That stuff does the trick," Cody said.
"Were just glad that you're ok," replied Kari.
"Hmmm. We should need more of these," TK said.
Patamon and Gatomon felt strong power levels leaving Kyoto and heading off towards the neighboring islands just miles away.
"You guys! They're leaving and the artificials are following after them," Gatomon said.
"So shouldn't we like go after them," asked Mimi.
"I think TK and I should go," replied Kari.
"Wait. Let me come," said Cody.
TK nodded in disagreement.
"You just got healed up with the antidote I gave you. You should rest here."
"But I feel useless just standing around here."
"Your not. Cause you'll be helping with Izzy and the others. Sora, Mimi and Michael are staying with them as well," replied Kari.
"Well ok."
"But tell us one thing. Do these things really absorb energy," asked Patamon.
"Yes. When that one artificial grabbed me. I felt energy leaving my body and he injected me with the D-Virus. You should stay away from their hands at all costs."
"Then we'll be careful," replied TK, "Lets go Kari."
"Right! Gatomon lets go for it!"
TK and Kari's D-Terminals opened up as their digimentals were activated.
("Break Up!" plays)
"Armor Shinka Energize!"
"Patamon armor shinka! Pegasusmon, the Galloping Hope!"
"Gatomon armor shinka! Nefertimon, the Angel of Light!"
The two children hopped onto their flying digimon as they set off to follow their comrades leading the artificals away from Kyoto. In a matter of moments, they were gone as well. Cody could only look on with worry on his face. Sora, Mimi, Izzy and Michael looked out to the sky and they began to wonder if they would beat the artificials before more innocent lives are taken away. Cody almost lost his life and the Digi-Destined can't afford to lose anybody at this moment of time.
"Come back safe and sound, guys. And please watch out for their hands."
("Break Up!" ends)
The Digi-Destined looked down at several islands. The ocean was quite a magnificent scene to look at. The artificials were right behind them. War Greymon pointed down to the largest island. Tai nodded and he signaled to the other children. They all flew down onto the island. The artificials hovered down to meet them there.
Leomon looked around his surroundings. It was quite a mountainous area with no signs of human civilizations.
"Perfect. Now we can fight them with our best of our ability without having to worry about the safety of people around us."
Tai faced the artificials as he began panting. His forehead was beginning to sweat and he looked as though if he were running our of breathe. But the odd thing was that he didn't even run or make any movements that would tire him out so easily. Ken took notice of this.
"What's wrong with Tai? He looks so tired."
But Ken wasn't the only one taking notice of this. Leomon could easily tell that Tai wasn't being his usual confident self.
"Now. You better tell us who you three are? What are your intentions," Tai asked while panting some more.
"And you better give us a good explanation," growled War Greymon.
"Yes. I shall. Since you three have been questioning us. I think its only right that I tell you our intentions," replied Funkymon.
"As you can see, We've been designed to destroy the humans and the one who designed us to carry out this attack is none other than Datamon," said Ice Ladydevimon.
"Datamon? And how did he survive and create such evil monsters as yourself," Yolei asked.
"Very simple really. Right when he was being sucked into limbo with Etemon, he managed to escape through a dimensional vortex. From there he found himself in the human world. Where from there, he built an underground laboratory to keep himself hidden without any human interaction to find out about his secrets. From the time you foiled his plans six years ago, Datamon has only been seeking for revenge," Funkymon further explained.
"Wait a minute? This is just a grudge," asked Tai.
"From that time, Datamon created us to do his evil bidding. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to survive when we were complete. So we shall realize his dream of destroying you children and putting the humans out into extinction."
"But there is another thing, you should know. Datamon has been monitoring your battles both in the Digital and the real world. So he was able to obtain as much information as he possibly could," said Ice Ladydevimon, "So we are able to calculate your every attack. And we do know about your abilities to digivolve all the way to your mega levels. So you shouldn't be surprised."
"Yes. You should feel honored to be fully recognized. It inspires us greatly to have finally get the chance to meet you," Funkymon finished as he chuckled.
The digimon got into fighting positions. They faced off against the three evil artificials.
Pegasusmon and Nefertimon were on their way over towards the grounds that the other Digi-Destined were set to do battle against the artificial trio.
"I'm picking up some high level energies over on one of these islands," said Nefertimon.
"And we know that the artificials have no energy levels to read from," replied Kari.
"So they must be nearby. We don't have time to loose," TK said.
"I can feel their power levels just ahead of us! Hang on tight," Pegasusmon said.
Nefertimon and Pegasusmon flew out towards the island in order to help the others battle the artificials. They're going to need a lot of help and as soon as possible.
As the two sides faced each other off, a smile formed across the face of Tai. It was more of a confident look on his face.
"You may think that you know everything about me. But you know what? You really don't have any clue."
"What?"
"Did your sensors indicate that Tai and War Greymon are able to perform the fusion technique with one another?"
"Fusion Shinka!"
Suddenly, the ground started to shake tremendously as an aura of light formed over War Greymon. He let out a loud cry as Tai was doing the same thing. His body started to glow an orange aura color. Both of them transformed into two energy beams. They collided with another as they each combined their powers together. The artificials watched on as their sensors were picking up a tremendous energy from this single force.
("Target Akai Shougeki" plays)
"War Greymon! Fusion Shinka!"
As the beam of light faded away, there stood a similar figure that the Digi-Destined could easily remember. It was Omega X. The Digi-Destined were surprised to see him again. But this was the first time that the artificals took a good look at the fusion technique come into being in person.
"Omega X!"
The fused warrior turned to face the three evil artificials.
"You guys stay back. This fight is all mine."
"Interesting. Taichi and War Greymon were able to fuse with one another to evolve into a more powerful fighting warrior. I'm impressed. You've managed to by pass the mega level stages with ease. But it is nothing that we can't handle," said Funkymon, "Elfmon. Please demonstrate for our good friend here."
"Yes sir."
Elfmon started to walk onto the battlegrounds. Omega X got into a fighting position and nodded.
"Alright. But you bucket heads are asking more than you can chew. Don't say that I didn't warn you!"
As soon as he said that, Omega X went flying right at Elfmon as the two prepared to clash with one another.
At last, the battle between the Digi-Destined and the artificials has officially begun. But can even Omega X stand a chance against this trio of terror? The fight for the future is on and what a way to get things under way!
(Digimon Zero Two first ending theme "Ashita wa Atashi no Kaze ga Fuku" plays)
(Preview)
Omega X: We're going to prevent the horrible future that Dimitri warned us about from becoming a reality! We'll defeat you!
Funkymon: You're talking nonsense, Taichi. You're only delaying the inevitable.
Elfmon: You're energy is mine, Taichi!
Davis: Guys! There's something wrong with Tai! He's slowing down.
Kari: No! It's the virus!
Omega X: This can't be happening… Not now…
Matt: Stop! Nobody is going to kick Tai's ass, but me. So you're the artificials I presume?
Iceladydevimon: Nice for you to show up, Yamato.
Matt: The pleasure isn't mine. Tell me, artificials. Do machines like you experience fear?
(A massive power-up occurs and a fusion is activated.)
Digi-Destined: No way! Now it's him!
Voice: If Tai can pull it off, then so can I.
TK: Next time on Digimon Fusion Zero Two, episode fourteen!
Omega X's Double Trouble! Yamato's Upgrade to Fusion: Metalla X Arrives!
Voice: Don't miss my shining moment!
SSJ4T: Well that was the set up for the showdown between Omega X and Elfmon. Plus if you're a Matt fan, then you're going to enjoy the next chapter. Be sure to check out the latest Tamers fic featuring Rapidmon and Taomon making their debuts!
Max: Until then, same fic show.
Coral: Same fic channel.
SSJ4T: Same fic network. Peace out everyone.
Coral: Ok, that was the most fucking corniest line I've ever heard! I'm not saying that again…