Blade Dancer

For all those who believe, I dedicate this story.

ELP: Okay, last chapter we figured out some things:

Kaiser and Kari have the same problem. Kaiser's blades are made of Iron, Kari's are made of Silver. Cody's grandfather might know more about the blades. There are inscriptions on the blades, each different from the others. The healing gets faster and less painful each time. Blade Dancers are a race of people. Kari and Kaiser are the only ones who are able to create the blades so far. The tunnels lead almost everywhere. Kari and Kaiser really don't need weapons.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. They belong to some other company. Oh, and for KOI, thanks for reviewing, and I might be able to continue the old fics, but don't get your hopes up. I still have to regain my thoughts for those ones. Right now, these ones interest me. Sorry!

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Takeru stuck the gun in one of his belt hoops, and continued with the others. They stood in the large room, watching Kaiser twist open a hatch. Wormmon had seemingly disappeared. The hatch popped open, and he climbed down the latter. The others followed. The others followed, Davis being last. It was a HUGE latter. Kari looked down. It went down, bolted into the wall. They were in a cylinder like tunnel, going down. A laugh came from below Kaiser. Standing there was LadyDevimon, holding a long whip in her hand. She flew up behind Kaiser, who was near a section of bolts and metal fasteners.

" Well, well, well, look what we have here. All of the Digidestined on a dangerously large latter, which leads down to a dangerous electrical generator room. Below that is the Darkness tree, which gives off enough evil to knock anything that has a sliver of good in it out. Hmm, I wonder what these bolts are for? Why, they hold up this latter, don't they? Hmm, I wonder what would happen to you, Kaiser, if I was to say, whip one off?" *SNAP!* LadyDevimon whipped at the bolt, tearing it up and off, letting the latter go off the wall on one side. Kaiser grabbed a fastener, pulling the latter and himself close to the wall. LadyDevimon snapped the other, smirking demonically. Kaiser was forced to save that side as well, hanging on tightly for their lives.

" Oh, look again, Kaiser, you're trapped! Let's see how long you last......." *CRACK!* LadyDevimon brought the whip down hard on Kaiser, creating a long slash mark on Kaiser's back, below the torn suit. He grimaced, tightening his grip on the fasteners that were holding them all up. Kari leaned back on the latter, pointing her hand at LadyDevimon. LadyDevimon was too busy torturing Kaiser with the whip to notice. Kaiser finally let out a scream, his back sliced and slashed in various areas, such as both shoulder blades, below middle back, across the spine, on his sides, the suit practically disintegrated. The front of the shirt was hanging down, leaving Kaiser's skin left open for attack. LadyDevimon rose the whip for another attack, ready to carry out the wish of DeltaDevimon.

" HEY, OLD HAG! CATCH!!!" Kari shouted, letting a pack of Silver blades loose. LadyDevimon snapped the whip at Kaiser and looked up a the same time. The blades caught her in the wing, sending her careening down. She flapped wildly, pulling into an alcove. Kaiser had taken too much pain, the latter's supports giving away, sending them all falling backwards on the latter. They screamed, waiting for the latter to crumble. It hit the other side of the cylinder, creating a perfect balancing beam.

Davis opened his eyes. They were just above a platform. Kaiser let his legs dangle below him, just hanging on with his arms, head downcast, staring at the platform. Kari had her eyes glued to her hands, which were death gripping the latter, even though they were only about 5 feet down from the platform. Kaiser let his hands go, landing on both feet. The rest followed, staring around. Kaiser leaned against the doorway to a room within a large cylinder.

" Witch......." He muttered, walking into the room. The others followed. Kaiser stopped dead. The room was simple: Weird techno walls and a black pedestal in the middle. He ran over to it, placing both hands on it. Kaiser backed up, running out of the room. The others followed, staring at him. He started shouting, yelling, practically screaming.

" WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!?!? WHERE THE F*CK ARE YOU!!!?!?!?! YOU'RE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE YOU MOTHER F*CKER!!" He screamed, the echo bouncing through out the cylinder.

" Ken, what did they do?" Kari asked wearily. Kaiser snarled.

" I'm not Ken. I'm Kaiser. They took the main power source. If that doesn't get returned in the next 8 hours, this base will blow. Damnit, I don't know what to do........." Kaiser mumbled, sitting down on the platform. Miyako blinked, placing her hand on his shoulder.

" Well, you could sit there and think it over, you could continue screaming, or we could rush in like a bunch of courageous Digidestined and kick their butts. What do you say?" She smirked. Kaiser sighed.

" Let me think......" Miyako frowned, yanking Kaiser up by the back of his cape. She spun him around so they were face to face. She stared into his eyes, slapping him once.

" Come on, Ken, where's your guts? You have to have some! Or did you leave them in that cave? Huh? Or should I re-name you the gutless whipping boy, eh?" Kaiser was getting mad. Miyako kept trash talking at him, the others staring. She slapped him again, giving him a little shove.

" Hey, I know, I got an even better nickname! How about, Ken the gutless little loner guy who sits in a chair and taps his fingers together! Come on, getting mad? Dude, they stole everything you worked for, and your just gonna sit there? Come on, coward, face up to it, and be a real Kaiser!" Kaiser went nose to nose with Miyako, snarling.

" Number one, I am not gutless or a coward, number two, I didn't say anything about sitting back, number three, I don't sit in a chair and tap my fingers together, yes they stole everything, I am a real Kaiser, and got and gonna ARE NOT PROPER GRAMMAR!!!!!" He shouted. Miyako grinned.

" THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!!! Now that you're motivated again, let's go kick some butt, get the power source back, and re-take control!" Miyako exclaimed, slamming her fist into her hand. Kaiser rolled his eyes.

" Geez, and I thought you were going to pick a fight. Don't let this go to your head, but your a pretty good trash talker slash actress. Now, let's move. We'll just need to use the alcoves again." Kaiser commanded, snapping his whip on the ground, getting it limber for the jump. It curled around a jutting pole, tightly locked into place. Kaiser pulled a bit, then attached it to the back of his belt. He motioned them over.

" I can take one person at a time." Cody was first, gulping at the long drop. Ken swung across, tossing Cody and Armadillomon into the alcove tunnel. He swung back, picking up Davis and Veemon. They swung across, being flung into the tunnel. He swung back. Kaiser repeated the same thing with Takeru, and Patamon just flew across, carrying Gatomon with the help of Hawkmon. He picked up Kari, readying to leap across again. Suddenly, the platform gave out below Kari, Kaiser and Miyako.

Miyako was forced to leap onto Ken's leg, since the platform had been her only safe point. Kari was hanging onto Ken's waist for dear life. They dangled just out of reach of the tunnel alcove. Kari leapt over, Davis and Takeru grabbing her and pulling her up into the tunnel by her arms. Suddenly, when Kaiser was about to swing over, the pole gave way, sending them falling down at an alarming pace. Miyako held onto Kaiser's back, her own back skidding on the wall. Suddenly, the wall started emitting sparks, and they slowed down, dangling dangerously over the blackness below them. Kaiser looked up.

" Holy..........." Miyako looked around.

" Hey, we're not falling anymore!!" She exclaimed, smiling wide. Kaiser blinked.

" You have........ Gold blades sticking out of your back! They slowed the fall, and eventually got deep enough to stop the fall! You saved us both..." Miyako blinked.

" Hey, I guess that means I'm a Blade Dancer, too, except for that I have Gold! Hey, that's pretty cool. But it hurts.........." She mumbled, looking around. Kaiser blinked.

" Well, we could try to climb up, or we could go down. Depends what you think is easier." Miyako looked straight ahead, over Ken's shoulder pads.

" Or, we could just watch as LadyDevimon comes screeching at lightning speed towards us......" They both let out a scream, Miyako's blades letting loose. LadyDevimon crashed into the wall they had just been attached to. Miyako screamed, looking around. Kaiser grabbed the ends of his cape, making a parachute like catch. Miyako hung onto his torso, eyes glued shut. The fall was slowed enough so that they just landed on a floating platform. They looked around. The area was filled with floating platforms, along with black bats. Kaiser blinked.

" Pretty weird......... They must have really messed up. Oh, um, you may want to sew the back of your shirt........." He stated, sweat dropping. Miyako looking behind her. There were holes in the back of her shirt. She blushed.

" I'll....... Cover it with my backpack for now. But, how are we gonna find the others?" Kaiser looked around, since the platform was moving at a nice pace in a set pattern.

" Well, if only I had a minion to ride on, like a bird type or something. Well, we could take the risk and leap across all these platforms to that tunnel, take that to the Darkness Tree. Let's hope they take the right way................" Miyako blinked.

" I could e-mail them Directions. Just type it in." Kaiser quickly typed Directions to where they would meet, sent it, and handed the D-terminal to Miyako.

" Let's move. Take your biggest leapt possible for each one. Here, take my arm. That way, if I land, you won't fall." When their platform and another came closer, the 2 people leaped hard, landing on the platform. They walked to the edge, ready to leap again. They continued this until they found the last platform, coming extremely close to falling. Kaiser and Miyako landed on their knees, looking around. They landed right in a tunnel. It was fairly dark.

" Let's move. We don't have much time." Kaiser pulled Miyako along, taking turns every so often. After about 15 minutes, they had made their way to just above the Darkness Tree. The Digidestined were all looking down at it.

" Okay, listen. If I can touch the tree, the control will switch to me. You all try and attack Datamon's wires." They dropped down into the room. Kaiser started to run, but stopped at the sound of a laugh. DeltaDevimon stepped out from the shadows. It looked like Devimon, only completely red with black symbols.

" Welcome to hell, boy. Now, about your former base: The design was good, but I needed to make it more....... Maze like. I'll do that after I kill you. The Darkness Portal is mine, boy. And you can do nothing about it." He laughed, snapping his fingers. LadyDevimon, a Rockmon, and a cloaked figure appeared. Kaiser blinked.

" How did you bypass my security?" He asked, crossing his arms. DeltaDevimon smiled.

" Well, Datamon served as a password hacker, and one other person had both other qualities. Meet Sam Ichijouji. You should remember him." The Digidestined watched as Kaiser's eyes nearly flew out of his head. The cloaked figure stepped up, tearing off the hood. It was Sam, only with scars across his face.

" Hey bro."

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ELP: CLIFFIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!