The Next Journey
"Well, at least that is over with" said Rena as she gave a grateful sigh of relief.
"There is still much to do though" said Titancybermon.
"Speaking of which. No offence, but will we ever have our real bodies back though." asked J.C.
"Oh don't worry." calmed Shamon said " I'm sure as soon as we de- digivolve, you will get your original forms back. I would like a single mind back too."
"Hey!" yelled Rena from her chamber
"Just kidding Rena, I would love to have you in my mind for an eternity."
"Well I wouldn't." She glared back
"Rena!"
"Just kidding" she chuckled.
"Well, I think we better de-digivolve, we don't want to strain ourselves, Shamon."
" Yeah, well you two better just keep your guard up, I don't know what will happen when we de-digivolve." said Shamon
"Um, okay." said J.C. weary.
"Don't worry J.C., they just don't know where we will land. That's all." said Rena grinning.
"Okay, be ready." said Titancybermon warningly
Suddenly the chambers of both Rena and J.C. began to shake. They could start to feel their mental separation and their heartbeats became unsynchronized. Then at the speed of sound they could no longer see the chambers screen through the digimon's eyes, but their own. They could feel the ground underneath them and both kids very awkwardly got up and walked.
"Hey Rena, we are back to normal. It feels so weird to walk again though. Do you see the digimon anywhere?"
"No, I can't see them. Darkrenamon!" she yelled
"Titancybermon! Where are you? Darkrenamon! Can you hear us?"
"We are right here" said a squeaky voice from above
"Huh?" said J.C. awkwardly when he saw two little digimon fall from the sky and onto his head, knocking him down.
"Foxmon!" yelled Rena as she grabbed her from J.C.'s forehead .
J.C.'s vision started to come back into focus until he could see a tiny Demi-cybermon leaning over his head.
"Hi, J.C." said the squeakier demi-cybermon " Its nice to see you in a separate body."
J.C. lifted Demi-cybermon and gently placed him on the ground, then getting up himself. "Hi you guys, so you are back to your in-training forms. Its been so long since you were last like this."
"Yeah, we just need to function on low energy for a little while, so we can take full recovery from all the energy we used up as megas.
"But I was just thinking, how are we ever gonna fuse like that again, the digimental is probably destroyed by now."
"But look at your DTV's, they are different now." said Foxmon
"Wow, your right, they are different now." said Rena amazed as she observed a more curved, thinner, and golden DTV clipped to their pant loops.
"Hey, Foxmon, I think I'm about to digivolve, what about you?"
"Yeah, I can feel it too."
The two little digimon started to glow until they were shrouded in layers of light. The light then started to fade, revealing Cybermon and Darkrenamon behind it.
"Okay, we are back to normal." said Cybermon relieved.
"Then we need to...well, I don't know what. We pretty much trashed the castle, its just dust now. Do you think we could have defeated our enemy?" asked Rena
"Not a chance, I just know that Satancybermon wasn't the enemy we are looking for. Its just a feeling but a strong one." said J.C. pessimistically.
"I think we might want to look through the remains of this castle. There might be some clues of what we are to do next." said Cybermon very seriously.
"Okay, then its settled." said Darkrenamon equally as serious "but almost this whole place is ruins, how will we ever find anything when all we can see is dust and broken stone."
"Well, if its any consolation, I once found a history paper in my dorm once." said J.C. sarcastically as the other three narrowed their eyes at him "Well sorry, geeze. Just trying to help."
"Okay, Rena, I want you to search around the southern side of the castle with Darkrenamon and J.C. and I will search the northern side. If any of us find anything, contact the others with your DTV's, got it." said Cybermon in a military like manner.
"Gotcha" saluted Rena as she headed south with Darkrenamon stealthily following.
J.C. and Cybermon headed north in a quiet fashion and searched endlessly through the dust and ruins while Rena and Darkrenamon did the same.
"Cybermon, we are never going to find anything this way. We can't do it by hand. Can't you just search by using your powers?" asked J.C. "We shouldn't take a chance like that. We might accidentally destroy something."
"Cybermon, if anyone wanted to hide anything here, I doubt it would be something breakable.", said J.C. slightly aggravated
"Fine, but I am only going to use some little wind skill that I absorbed from that Pixemon from a while back."
"That's fine with me" said J.C. satisfied
Cybermon cracked his joints and stretched his arms until they wouldn't make a sound anymore. He then rose up straight and yelled "Windbeast!"
J.C. stood firmly on the ground waiting for the attack to release when he suddenly noticed that nothing had happened and Cybermon remained standing with his palm facing the ruins.
"Um, Cybermon. I don't wanna alarm you...but nothing happened."
As J.C. finished his sentence, a great gust of forceful wind was sent from Cybermon's fist to the ruins. All of the idol pieces on the ground suddenly stood up as if they were alive and were sent back with the shear force of the wind. The dust and dirt form the ground spun around in a tornado like form and crossed acres of ground in seconds until everything was out of site and the ground was cleared with the exception of a rock formation and a metal foundation beneath them. Cybermon then in a millisecond, stopped the wind at once.
"Little wind skill!" yelled J.C. with leaves sticking in his now frizzy hair. "You scare me sometimes, Cybermon. I really hope you know that."
"Sorry, J.C. But I wonder why anyone would want to have a metal foundation underneath a series of dirt and ruins?"
"Maybe they wanted to hide it. Do you think that their are any hidden doors underneath those metal tiles?" asked J.C. observantly
"Hmm. Well in order to make a door hidden underneath this foundation, they would have to have one tile that is someone weaker then its real counterparts, so therefore I must send missals at all of the tiles that are slightly weaker then the tiles themselves. That way, the fake door will break and the other tiles will stay in tact. And my reading says that a 5000MPH rate of speed will break them, so I will send 4998.9 MPH assaults at them. J.C. I will need you to get on my back, so you don't get hurt. I will be launching attacks on all of the tiles."
"Okay." said J.C. as Cybermon assisted him on getting on his back.
Cybermon hovered into the air slowly until he and J.C. were over a thousand feet in the air. Cybermon aimed his two palms directly at the center tile with great accuracy. He then slowly charged up energy within his palms as J.C. hung on tightly to his shoulders. J.C. could feel the energy through Cybermon get a little more intense and the beam in the center of his two palms became noticeably larger then before. Cybermon's eyes glowed a crimson red that matched his cape and released the energy ,which thinned out into the tiles exact size, towards the ,middle tile.
The energy wave rushed towards the tile but a nanosecond before it would have hit, it split into several beams that went into each tile precisely. The whole ground that was once silver with metal and titanium, now was lit up with a crimson red beam that blocked every millimeter of silver on the tile. The beams seemed to sink slowly lower into the metal for every second that passed, but despite the great force from the beams, Cybermon seemed to have complete control over their constant speed as his eyes remained crimson as well. It seemed as if the rays would go right through the tiles but right at the moment they seemed as if they were about to go through, the beams ended and Cybermon's eyes became their usual purple again.
As the rays faded away, J.C. could notice a lowering of the metal foundation from the dirt foundation that was untouched by a beam. Cybermon lowered back onto the ground and J.C. quickly got off of his back and onto the metal. J.C. stood over the center tile that Cybermon had originally shot at and lightly touched it with his index finger. The tile sunk through and underneath was what seemed to be a huge vortex that seemed to be sucking in everything around it. Cybermon shifted J.C. to the side and with a special laser that shot out of his eyes, he melded some metal on to the gap and the suction from the portal ceased.
"Exactly as I suspected." said Cybermon in a satisfied tone
"Cybermon, what the heck was that underneath the tile! It almost killed me."
"J.C. doesn't the 'earth' you come from have what they call a core in the center of the other layers?" "Yeah, why?"
"That was kind of like a digital 'core' and inside of it, is a vortex that even the strongest of digimon cannot survive in. There have been rumors of digimon that survive in their, but they are myths to my knowledge. That is why I didn't just break the metal because if I did, I could have destroyed the whole digital world. "
"But I thought you only knew the stuff that they programmed in you in your egg?" said J.C.
"J.C. their are some things in life that don't require a computer program to know. Remember that."
J.C. went up and hugged Cybermon when he saw over his shoulder the rock formation in the middle of the metal ground.
"Cybermon! Look at that! Its is some sort of rock over your shoulder." yelled J.C.
Cybermon carefully looked over his shoulder and calmly looked at the small rise of ground in the metal. "Yeah, so?"
"It wasn't destroyed by the beams!"
"It is probably just a formation of roots and tree."
"But wouldn't that be absorbed by the vortex underneath. And besides, its right in the middle of this metal ground."
"Your right J.C. I have to break it open. Stand back." cautioned Cybermon " Giga-Blaster Attack!" he yelled as a beam made hammer was made into Cybermon's hand. Cybermon lifted the hammer and swung it directly into the formation.
As the smoke cleared the rock formation remained unscathed and as strong as ever, so frustrated, Cybermon swung at the formation with the full force of his body. He rammed right into the formation but before the formation could crack open, a barrier forced him backwards towards the metal floor. Making a thin crack in the ground.
"Cybermon! If the ground breaks, you will be killed, you have to meld it back before it cracks open." yelled J.C. from the dirt part of the ground.
"Don't worry J.C. I have complete control of the situation. Cyber- Crusher!" yelled Cybermon as he sent his strongest attack at the little hill. A large purple beam was sent from Cybermon's palm and with razor sharp ferocity, it went straight towards the hill. It hit the barrier and started to go inside and outside again of the barrier, unable to penetrate the dirt. The ground beneath Cybermon then began to crack further.
"Cybermon! The ground is cracking. You have to do something!" yelled J.C. turning green with fear.
"NO! I will not be outsmarted by a pile of dirt that could save our lives! I cannot---will not allow it!" yelled Cybermon in a ferocious tone
"Cybermon! You will kill us all if you don't seal that crack! Don't let your anger and pride blind you!"
"Cy-sword!" yelled Cybermon as he summoned a huge black sword into his hands.
Cybermon charged at the formation with his sword and went head to head with the barrier. Cybermon tried with all of his force to get through the protective barrier, but as his strength increased, so did the opening in the ground.
"Errr, Cybermon's stubbornness, is going to get us killed. I have to do something." yelled J.C. to himself when he noticed his digivice. "Hmm, I have an idea!" J.C. unclipped his DTV and grabbed for a little card in his back pack "I know it is lame, but if I can make this stupid pokemon training card change into a card like the devils snare card that snowcalumon gave me, I'll have to try. I don't know who is listening right now but I need to help my friend Cybermon from destroying us all." suddenly the training card started to become enlightened into a blue shaded card very similar to the one snowcalumon had given him. "Okay, better hope this works, if I digivolve him he might go through the ground, so this is my only hope. DIGI-MODIFY! Strength booster activate!" yelled J.C. as he swiped his card through the scanner on his DTV.
Cybermon's muscles became maximized and the power of his sword became much greater as his sword slowly pierced through the barrier and into the rock formation. Cybermon's sword then locked into the barrier and destroyed the outside covering. Satisfied, Cybermon came back to his senses and launched into the air. The ground seemed to be at its point of breaking when Cybermon yelled "Flame Reaper!" and melding the metal back, just in time.
Cybermon's sword flew from the smoke and onto the ground in front of Cybermon. Cybermon put his palm up and melded the sword to the newly merged metal.
"J.C. I am so sorry. If I would have tied myself in my instincts for one second longer, I could have destroyed the whole digital world. I wouldn't blame you if you could never forgive me." cried Cybermon almost in tears as he fell to his knees in failure.
"Cybermon, you have taught me always to focus on winning the war, not the fighting during it. The outcome is, we are all okay, so who cares why we are happy about it." said J.C. very maturely.
"J.C., you are wise far beyond your years. I am proud to be a part of your life."
"Thank you Cybermon, now at least see what was under that rock formation. You did almost kill us because of it."
Cybermon peered over ruble of the rock covering to see a metal door with a computer system in front of it.
"Whoa, I never would have guessed their is some sort of protected room in all of this ruble. We have to tell Rena and Darkrenamon." J.C. grabbed his DTV and activated the mic that came out of the base. "Rena, Darkrenamon, are you there. It is me J.C., can you hear me" J.C. said into the extending mic. "Cybermon, it says that she is out of reach, their is no connection. What do you think happened?"
"I don't know, do you think that they are in a cave or something where their is no reception?"
"I am as clueless as you" said J.C. worried. "Should we enter that chamber anyway."
"We may find some clue of where Rena and Darkrenamon is. I think we should." said Cybermon
"But how do we get it, I think it is one of those security systems that scans your iris on your eye and if we blow up the system, we might never be able to get in."
"Well, now that there isn't a barrier and an alternate coating, I can take care of that. Put your hand over my arm." asked Cybermon as J.C. did so. Cybermon then became transparent and went straight through the door as if a ghost.
J.C. letting go as they go in said "Cybermon! I didn't know you could do that!"
"Well, I can its just that their can't be any barriers or another coating of a different element in front of my destination. Look at this place though. It looks even more evil then the castle before it was destroyed."
The two observed the enormous room they were in that was surrounded by metal and computer systems. Around every ten feet seemed to be a pair of long pillars of flames surrounding a certain path. Throughout the room, the sound of roaring flames could be heard around every corner. Although the room was very brightly lit, it might as well have been pitch black because it was almost as mysterious as the whereabouts of Rena and Darkrenamon.
J.C. Cybermon walked very slowly forward in the mysterious room and kept their eyes wide open for Rena or Darkrenamon. It seemed that the further they walked, the hotter it got until it seemed that their was no place to walk anymore.
"Cybermon, what do you think this place is supposed to be. It is almost as big as the castle itself, and its getting harder to find our way through it. This seems like a dead end." said J.C. with beads of sweat falling down his fire lit face.
"I don't know, but there is something I don't trust about this place. We ahve to keep our full guard up. I have a feeling somebody is here." replied Cybermon with a tired look on his long, purple eyed face.
As soon as Cybermon finished his sentence, J.C.'s shirt started to glow a bright red color. He quickly pulled the necklace that had his crest clipped to it and saw that it was somehow pulling itself towards the wall in front of them. J.C. signaled Cybermon to follow him towards the wall and stopped right in front of the stone barrier. J.C. could feel his crest pulling harder and harder towards the wall and it was getting harder to keep his feet flat on the ground. His crest was almost literally chocking him until something came out of the other side of the wall. Two figures came out of its solid barrier, and as the neared towards J.C. and Cybermon, the light from the flame pillars, showed them to be Rena and Darkrenamon.
"There you guys are, we have been looking for you for almost an hour. The digivice said that you guys were out of communication reach." said Rena almost as sweaty as J.C. in front of her.
"We have been looking for you too. How did you come out of that wall over there?" asked J.C. taking off his leather jacket for the first time since they had entered the digital world.
"We really didn't have a choice. There was some angry digimon guarding the southern gates. We spent almost thirty minutes just trying to get past their guardians. We were wondering why they would want to guard such a huge empty room. There seems to be nothing in it. But while we were searching, some rhinoceros like digimon came towards us at an overwhelming speed. We finally had come to a dead end and we thought all was lost. I tried to shield myself against the wall but I fell through, and then we found you two on the other side." said Rena almost out of breath.
"Well, there doesn't seem to be any digimon on this side of the wall. It is just very humid and uncomfortable. Those fire pillars, produce very intense heat." said Cybermon to Rena in a very fatigued tone. "Darkrenamon, are you okay?"
Darkrenamon seemed to be in another world as she stared into the pillars in front of her without blinking and didn't respond to Cybermon. Rena turned towards her and said loudly "Darkrenamon, are you okay? Are you there!"
Darkrenamon snapped out of her daze and quickly responded "Yes, yes. I'm so sorry for not talking. I am just somewhat distracted. I can't help wondering what will happen if anyone gets the Phoenix eye before we do. We need to find it fast. And what if the purpose of this room is to distract us while our enemy searches without anyone to stop him. We can't let that happen. We have to get out of here." Darkrenamon paused for a second and looked behind her. She whispered very palely "Cybermon, somebody is watching us. I can feel it."
"I feel it too, but I can't see anything." said Cybermon looking around himself
Cybermon turned his back for a second, when out of the stone barrier came a black cable that pierced into a slot in his back. J.C. fell over and Darkrenamon stood in front of the children protectively.
"CYBERMON!!!!" J.C. yelled at the top of his lungs as he watched Cybermon motionless with the cable sticking out of his back, coming from the wall.
Cybermon slowly turned around with his whole eye purple and the white part of his eye covered with violet light. He stood as if a zombie and as he opened his mouth, a totally different voice was ejected from his body.
"Hello." the voice out of Cybermon's mouth said in a distorted, computer like tone.
"Cybermon! Is that you!?" yelled J.C. from behind Darkrenamon.
Cybermon's mouth formed itself into an horrifying malicious grin and the distorted and high pitched voice came out of its mouth once again "I am not Cybermon, I am controlling his body through that USB you see coming out of his back. I have a message for you. Leave now because my boss is after you now Jason. You betrayed us and my boss doesn't like traitors. The Phoenix eye will be ours. We have eyes and ears everywhere. We know where the Phoenix eye is, and as soon as we get our hands on it, we will make sure you will be destroyed first. If you are smart, Rena, you will come with us at once."
"And what if we say no!" yelled Darkrenamon in Cybermon's face.
"You will not say no. I will make sure of that."
Out of Cybermon's mouth came an evil creature with three eyes and pink liquid body. Cybermon regurgitated until the whole figure was out. the horrible looking digimon split itself into a hundred copies of himself and surrounded the group. Cybermon remained motionless with the cable still attached to his back.
"Darkrenamon! Speed Digivolution activate!" yelled Rena as her digivice glowed a blue color.
"Darkrenamon! Speed digivolve too!" Darkrenamon yelled as nothing happend "Rena, there is something here that prevents digivolving! We have to break the cable on Cybermon, then maybe he can transport us before its too late!"
All of the pink, deformed creatures were getting closer to the group and for every second that passed, another two were created. J.C. ran to the cable attached to Cybermon and tried to break it with his hands. Darkrenamon quickly stepped in and tried to blast away the creatures before they could get too close. She quickly gnawed at the cable to get it broken but it wouldn't work. Rena tried to get through the stone barrier, but it seemed to only work through the other side. Suddenly an army of creatures over powered Darkrenamon, getting a grip on the children. Then everything went black...
"Well, at least that is over with" said Rena as she gave a grateful sigh of relief.
"There is still much to do though" said Titancybermon.
"Speaking of which. No offence, but will we ever have our real bodies back though." asked J.C.
"Oh don't worry." calmed Shamon said " I'm sure as soon as we de- digivolve, you will get your original forms back. I would like a single mind back too."
"Hey!" yelled Rena from her chamber
"Just kidding Rena, I would love to have you in my mind for an eternity."
"Well I wouldn't." She glared back
"Rena!"
"Just kidding" she chuckled.
"Well, I think we better de-digivolve, we don't want to strain ourselves, Shamon."
" Yeah, well you two better just keep your guard up, I don't know what will happen when we de-digivolve." said Shamon
"Um, okay." said J.C. weary.
"Don't worry J.C., they just don't know where we will land. That's all." said Rena grinning.
"Okay, be ready." said Titancybermon warningly
Suddenly the chambers of both Rena and J.C. began to shake. They could start to feel their mental separation and their heartbeats became unsynchronized. Then at the speed of sound they could no longer see the chambers screen through the digimon's eyes, but their own. They could feel the ground underneath them and both kids very awkwardly got up and walked.
"Hey Rena, we are back to normal. It feels so weird to walk again though. Do you see the digimon anywhere?"
"No, I can't see them. Darkrenamon!" she yelled
"Titancybermon! Where are you? Darkrenamon! Can you hear us?"
"We are right here" said a squeaky voice from above
"Huh?" said J.C. awkwardly when he saw two little digimon fall from the sky and onto his head, knocking him down.
"Foxmon!" yelled Rena as she grabbed her from J.C.'s forehead .
J.C.'s vision started to come back into focus until he could see a tiny Demi-cybermon leaning over his head.
"Hi, J.C." said the squeakier demi-cybermon " Its nice to see you in a separate body."
J.C. lifted Demi-cybermon and gently placed him on the ground, then getting up himself. "Hi you guys, so you are back to your in-training forms. Its been so long since you were last like this."
"Yeah, we just need to function on low energy for a little while, so we can take full recovery from all the energy we used up as megas.
"But I was just thinking, how are we ever gonna fuse like that again, the digimental is probably destroyed by now."
"But look at your DTV's, they are different now." said Foxmon
"Wow, your right, they are different now." said Rena amazed as she observed a more curved, thinner, and golden DTV clipped to their pant loops.
"Hey, Foxmon, I think I'm about to digivolve, what about you?"
"Yeah, I can feel it too."
The two little digimon started to glow until they were shrouded in layers of light. The light then started to fade, revealing Cybermon and Darkrenamon behind it.
"Okay, we are back to normal." said Cybermon relieved.
"Then we need to...well, I don't know what. We pretty much trashed the castle, its just dust now. Do you think we could have defeated our enemy?" asked Rena
"Not a chance, I just know that Satancybermon wasn't the enemy we are looking for. Its just a feeling but a strong one." said J.C. pessimistically.
"I think we might want to look through the remains of this castle. There might be some clues of what we are to do next." said Cybermon very seriously.
"Okay, then its settled." said Darkrenamon equally as serious "but almost this whole place is ruins, how will we ever find anything when all we can see is dust and broken stone."
"Well, if its any consolation, I once found a history paper in my dorm once." said J.C. sarcastically as the other three narrowed their eyes at him "Well sorry, geeze. Just trying to help."
"Okay, Rena, I want you to search around the southern side of the castle with Darkrenamon and J.C. and I will search the northern side. If any of us find anything, contact the others with your DTV's, got it." said Cybermon in a military like manner.
"Gotcha" saluted Rena as she headed south with Darkrenamon stealthily following.
J.C. and Cybermon headed north in a quiet fashion and searched endlessly through the dust and ruins while Rena and Darkrenamon did the same.
"Cybermon, we are never going to find anything this way. We can't do it by hand. Can't you just search by using your powers?" asked J.C. "We shouldn't take a chance like that. We might accidentally destroy something."
"Cybermon, if anyone wanted to hide anything here, I doubt it would be something breakable.", said J.C. slightly aggravated
"Fine, but I am only going to use some little wind skill that I absorbed from that Pixemon from a while back."
"That's fine with me" said J.C. satisfied
Cybermon cracked his joints and stretched his arms until they wouldn't make a sound anymore. He then rose up straight and yelled "Windbeast!"
J.C. stood firmly on the ground waiting for the attack to release when he suddenly noticed that nothing had happened and Cybermon remained standing with his palm facing the ruins.
"Um, Cybermon. I don't wanna alarm you...but nothing happened."
As J.C. finished his sentence, a great gust of forceful wind was sent from Cybermon's fist to the ruins. All of the idol pieces on the ground suddenly stood up as if they were alive and were sent back with the shear force of the wind. The dust and dirt form the ground spun around in a tornado like form and crossed acres of ground in seconds until everything was out of site and the ground was cleared with the exception of a rock formation and a metal foundation beneath them. Cybermon then in a millisecond, stopped the wind at once.
"Little wind skill!" yelled J.C. with leaves sticking in his now frizzy hair. "You scare me sometimes, Cybermon. I really hope you know that."
"Sorry, J.C. But I wonder why anyone would want to have a metal foundation underneath a series of dirt and ruins?"
"Maybe they wanted to hide it. Do you think that their are any hidden doors underneath those metal tiles?" asked J.C. observantly
"Hmm. Well in order to make a door hidden underneath this foundation, they would have to have one tile that is someone weaker then its real counterparts, so therefore I must send missals at all of the tiles that are slightly weaker then the tiles themselves. That way, the fake door will break and the other tiles will stay in tact. And my reading says that a 5000MPH rate of speed will break them, so I will send 4998.9 MPH assaults at them. J.C. I will need you to get on my back, so you don't get hurt. I will be launching attacks on all of the tiles."
"Okay." said J.C. as Cybermon assisted him on getting on his back.
Cybermon hovered into the air slowly until he and J.C. were over a thousand feet in the air. Cybermon aimed his two palms directly at the center tile with great accuracy. He then slowly charged up energy within his palms as J.C. hung on tightly to his shoulders. J.C. could feel the energy through Cybermon get a little more intense and the beam in the center of his two palms became noticeably larger then before. Cybermon's eyes glowed a crimson red that matched his cape and released the energy ,which thinned out into the tiles exact size, towards the ,middle tile.
The energy wave rushed towards the tile but a nanosecond before it would have hit, it split into several beams that went into each tile precisely. The whole ground that was once silver with metal and titanium, now was lit up with a crimson red beam that blocked every millimeter of silver on the tile. The beams seemed to sink slowly lower into the metal for every second that passed, but despite the great force from the beams, Cybermon seemed to have complete control over their constant speed as his eyes remained crimson as well. It seemed as if the rays would go right through the tiles but right at the moment they seemed as if they were about to go through, the beams ended and Cybermon's eyes became their usual purple again.
As the rays faded away, J.C. could notice a lowering of the metal foundation from the dirt foundation that was untouched by a beam. Cybermon lowered back onto the ground and J.C. quickly got off of his back and onto the metal. J.C. stood over the center tile that Cybermon had originally shot at and lightly touched it with his index finger. The tile sunk through and underneath was what seemed to be a huge vortex that seemed to be sucking in everything around it. Cybermon shifted J.C. to the side and with a special laser that shot out of his eyes, he melded some metal on to the gap and the suction from the portal ceased.
"Exactly as I suspected." said Cybermon in a satisfied tone
"Cybermon, what the heck was that underneath the tile! It almost killed me."
"J.C. doesn't the 'earth' you come from have what they call a core in the center of the other layers?" "Yeah, why?"
"That was kind of like a digital 'core' and inside of it, is a vortex that even the strongest of digimon cannot survive in. There have been rumors of digimon that survive in their, but they are myths to my knowledge. That is why I didn't just break the metal because if I did, I could have destroyed the whole digital world. "
"But I thought you only knew the stuff that they programmed in you in your egg?" said J.C.
"J.C. their are some things in life that don't require a computer program to know. Remember that."
J.C. went up and hugged Cybermon when he saw over his shoulder the rock formation in the middle of the metal ground.
"Cybermon! Look at that! Its is some sort of rock over your shoulder." yelled J.C.
Cybermon carefully looked over his shoulder and calmly looked at the small rise of ground in the metal. "Yeah, so?"
"It wasn't destroyed by the beams!"
"It is probably just a formation of roots and tree."
"But wouldn't that be absorbed by the vortex underneath. And besides, its right in the middle of this metal ground."
"Your right J.C. I have to break it open. Stand back." cautioned Cybermon " Giga-Blaster Attack!" he yelled as a beam made hammer was made into Cybermon's hand. Cybermon lifted the hammer and swung it directly into the formation.
As the smoke cleared the rock formation remained unscathed and as strong as ever, so frustrated, Cybermon swung at the formation with the full force of his body. He rammed right into the formation but before the formation could crack open, a barrier forced him backwards towards the metal floor. Making a thin crack in the ground.
"Cybermon! If the ground breaks, you will be killed, you have to meld it back before it cracks open." yelled J.C. from the dirt part of the ground.
"Don't worry J.C. I have complete control of the situation. Cyber- Crusher!" yelled Cybermon as he sent his strongest attack at the little hill. A large purple beam was sent from Cybermon's palm and with razor sharp ferocity, it went straight towards the hill. It hit the barrier and started to go inside and outside again of the barrier, unable to penetrate the dirt. The ground beneath Cybermon then began to crack further.
"Cybermon! The ground is cracking. You have to do something!" yelled J.C. turning green with fear.
"NO! I will not be outsmarted by a pile of dirt that could save our lives! I cannot---will not allow it!" yelled Cybermon in a ferocious tone
"Cybermon! You will kill us all if you don't seal that crack! Don't let your anger and pride blind you!"
"Cy-sword!" yelled Cybermon as he summoned a huge black sword into his hands.
Cybermon charged at the formation with his sword and went head to head with the barrier. Cybermon tried with all of his force to get through the protective barrier, but as his strength increased, so did the opening in the ground.
"Errr, Cybermon's stubbornness, is going to get us killed. I have to do something." yelled J.C. to himself when he noticed his digivice. "Hmm, I have an idea!" J.C. unclipped his DTV and grabbed for a little card in his back pack "I know it is lame, but if I can make this stupid pokemon training card change into a card like the devils snare card that snowcalumon gave me, I'll have to try. I don't know who is listening right now but I need to help my friend Cybermon from destroying us all." suddenly the training card started to become enlightened into a blue shaded card very similar to the one snowcalumon had given him. "Okay, better hope this works, if I digivolve him he might go through the ground, so this is my only hope. DIGI-MODIFY! Strength booster activate!" yelled J.C. as he swiped his card through the scanner on his DTV.
Cybermon's muscles became maximized and the power of his sword became much greater as his sword slowly pierced through the barrier and into the rock formation. Cybermon's sword then locked into the barrier and destroyed the outside covering. Satisfied, Cybermon came back to his senses and launched into the air. The ground seemed to be at its point of breaking when Cybermon yelled "Flame Reaper!" and melding the metal back, just in time.
Cybermon's sword flew from the smoke and onto the ground in front of Cybermon. Cybermon put his palm up and melded the sword to the newly merged metal.
"J.C. I am so sorry. If I would have tied myself in my instincts for one second longer, I could have destroyed the whole digital world. I wouldn't blame you if you could never forgive me." cried Cybermon almost in tears as he fell to his knees in failure.
"Cybermon, you have taught me always to focus on winning the war, not the fighting during it. The outcome is, we are all okay, so who cares why we are happy about it." said J.C. very maturely.
"J.C., you are wise far beyond your years. I am proud to be a part of your life."
"Thank you Cybermon, now at least see what was under that rock formation. You did almost kill us because of it."
Cybermon peered over ruble of the rock covering to see a metal door with a computer system in front of it.
"Whoa, I never would have guessed their is some sort of protected room in all of this ruble. We have to tell Rena and Darkrenamon." J.C. grabbed his DTV and activated the mic that came out of the base. "Rena, Darkrenamon, are you there. It is me J.C., can you hear me" J.C. said into the extending mic. "Cybermon, it says that she is out of reach, their is no connection. What do you think happened?"
"I don't know, do you think that they are in a cave or something where their is no reception?"
"I am as clueless as you" said J.C. worried. "Should we enter that chamber anyway."
"We may find some clue of where Rena and Darkrenamon is. I think we should." said Cybermon
"But how do we get it, I think it is one of those security systems that scans your iris on your eye and if we blow up the system, we might never be able to get in."
"Well, now that there isn't a barrier and an alternate coating, I can take care of that. Put your hand over my arm." asked Cybermon as J.C. did so. Cybermon then became transparent and went straight through the door as if a ghost.
J.C. letting go as they go in said "Cybermon! I didn't know you could do that!"
"Well, I can its just that their can't be any barriers or another coating of a different element in front of my destination. Look at this place though. It looks even more evil then the castle before it was destroyed."
The two observed the enormous room they were in that was surrounded by metal and computer systems. Around every ten feet seemed to be a pair of long pillars of flames surrounding a certain path. Throughout the room, the sound of roaring flames could be heard around every corner. Although the room was very brightly lit, it might as well have been pitch black because it was almost as mysterious as the whereabouts of Rena and Darkrenamon.
J.C. Cybermon walked very slowly forward in the mysterious room and kept their eyes wide open for Rena or Darkrenamon. It seemed that the further they walked, the hotter it got until it seemed that their was no place to walk anymore.
"Cybermon, what do you think this place is supposed to be. It is almost as big as the castle itself, and its getting harder to find our way through it. This seems like a dead end." said J.C. with beads of sweat falling down his fire lit face.
"I don't know, but there is something I don't trust about this place. We ahve to keep our full guard up. I have a feeling somebody is here." replied Cybermon with a tired look on his long, purple eyed face.
As soon as Cybermon finished his sentence, J.C.'s shirt started to glow a bright red color. He quickly pulled the necklace that had his crest clipped to it and saw that it was somehow pulling itself towards the wall in front of them. J.C. signaled Cybermon to follow him towards the wall and stopped right in front of the stone barrier. J.C. could feel his crest pulling harder and harder towards the wall and it was getting harder to keep his feet flat on the ground. His crest was almost literally chocking him until something came out of the other side of the wall. Two figures came out of its solid barrier, and as the neared towards J.C. and Cybermon, the light from the flame pillars, showed them to be Rena and Darkrenamon.
"There you guys are, we have been looking for you for almost an hour. The digivice said that you guys were out of communication reach." said Rena almost as sweaty as J.C. in front of her.
"We have been looking for you too. How did you come out of that wall over there?" asked J.C. taking off his leather jacket for the first time since they had entered the digital world.
"We really didn't have a choice. There was some angry digimon guarding the southern gates. We spent almost thirty minutes just trying to get past their guardians. We were wondering why they would want to guard such a huge empty room. There seems to be nothing in it. But while we were searching, some rhinoceros like digimon came towards us at an overwhelming speed. We finally had come to a dead end and we thought all was lost. I tried to shield myself against the wall but I fell through, and then we found you two on the other side." said Rena almost out of breath.
"Well, there doesn't seem to be any digimon on this side of the wall. It is just very humid and uncomfortable. Those fire pillars, produce very intense heat." said Cybermon to Rena in a very fatigued tone. "Darkrenamon, are you okay?"
Darkrenamon seemed to be in another world as she stared into the pillars in front of her without blinking and didn't respond to Cybermon. Rena turned towards her and said loudly "Darkrenamon, are you okay? Are you there!"
Darkrenamon snapped out of her daze and quickly responded "Yes, yes. I'm so sorry for not talking. I am just somewhat distracted. I can't help wondering what will happen if anyone gets the Phoenix eye before we do. We need to find it fast. And what if the purpose of this room is to distract us while our enemy searches without anyone to stop him. We can't let that happen. We have to get out of here." Darkrenamon paused for a second and looked behind her. She whispered very palely "Cybermon, somebody is watching us. I can feel it."
"I feel it too, but I can't see anything." said Cybermon looking around himself
Cybermon turned his back for a second, when out of the stone barrier came a black cable that pierced into a slot in his back. J.C. fell over and Darkrenamon stood in front of the children protectively.
"CYBERMON!!!!" J.C. yelled at the top of his lungs as he watched Cybermon motionless with the cable sticking out of his back, coming from the wall.
Cybermon slowly turned around with his whole eye purple and the white part of his eye covered with violet light. He stood as if a zombie and as he opened his mouth, a totally different voice was ejected from his body.
"Hello." the voice out of Cybermon's mouth said in a distorted, computer like tone.
"Cybermon! Is that you!?" yelled J.C. from behind Darkrenamon.
Cybermon's mouth formed itself into an horrifying malicious grin and the distorted and high pitched voice came out of its mouth once again "I am not Cybermon, I am controlling his body through that USB you see coming out of his back. I have a message for you. Leave now because my boss is after you now Jason. You betrayed us and my boss doesn't like traitors. The Phoenix eye will be ours. We have eyes and ears everywhere. We know where the Phoenix eye is, and as soon as we get our hands on it, we will make sure you will be destroyed first. If you are smart, Rena, you will come with us at once."
"And what if we say no!" yelled Darkrenamon in Cybermon's face.
"You will not say no. I will make sure of that."
Out of Cybermon's mouth came an evil creature with three eyes and pink liquid body. Cybermon regurgitated until the whole figure was out. the horrible looking digimon split itself into a hundred copies of himself and surrounded the group. Cybermon remained motionless with the cable still attached to his back.
"Darkrenamon! Speed Digivolution activate!" yelled Rena as her digivice glowed a blue color.
"Darkrenamon! Speed digivolve too!" Darkrenamon yelled as nothing happend "Rena, there is something here that prevents digivolving! We have to break the cable on Cybermon, then maybe he can transport us before its too late!"
All of the pink, deformed creatures were getting closer to the group and for every second that passed, another two were created. J.C. ran to the cable attached to Cybermon and tried to break it with his hands. Darkrenamon quickly stepped in and tried to blast away the creatures before they could get too close. She quickly gnawed at the cable to get it broken but it wouldn't work. Rena tried to get through the stone barrier, but it seemed to only work through the other side. Suddenly an army of creatures over powered Darkrenamon, getting a grip on the children. Then everything went black...