There was a steep cliff on their right hand side, well Matt's at least for he was standing, looking at Tai. He wished for the millionth time that minute that what he had done just 20 minutes before never happened, how stupid he had been and that he was not worth everyone else's time. How could have he done that and to his best friends too?
"So come on Matt? You gonna say something?!" Tai yelled, his fists infront of his face. Matt just continued to stare down at the ground and say nothing, he knew whatever Tai did to him, he deserved it.
"What's the matter? You don't look like 'Mr Too Cool' now do you?" asked Tai with a mocking tone in his voice and with this Matt jerked his head up to look Tai in the eyes, a murderous look on his face that made everyone else jump back 2 feet.
"You know as well as I do that that fucking title was forced upon me you bastard. Plus there is nothing I CAN say to defend my actions, well nothing that you would understand or wouldn't make you tear me to pieces." Matt said in a low voice.
"So what Matt? Nothing could excuse what you did." snapped Tai and launched himself at Matt, knocking the other man to the ground and started pounding the shit out of him. To his surprise Matt didn't fight back, he just allowed Tai to keep hitting without even defending himself. Tai stopped out of shock, with his fist raised for another blow, and looked at Matt's face, his eyes showing how much pain he was going through, how much pain they had caused him. Izzy and T.K. took this opportunity to pull Tai off of Matt, so Joe and Kari could take a look at Matt's injuries and treat them. Blood was running all down his face from his nose, which was obviously broken, he had two seriously black eyes and several cuts on his face from Tai's championship ring and numerous bruises.
As soon as Tai was pulled off of him, Matt immediately got up and ran away into the bushes that were to their left not even stopping when he heard the others calling out his name. The pounding of his feet on the soft ground and the wind through the trees were soon the only sounds Matt could hear and his lungs were screaming out for oxygen. He took a few more steps forwards before his legs turned to jelly and collapsed under his weight. Sitting up, he wiped the blood that was coming from his nose away with his sleeve and looked around, he was in a small cleared area underneath a few bushes. No one would be able to find him there, so Matt leaned up against a large tree and started to catch his breath while his mind was still off in the stratosphere.
'Why the fucking hell did I do that, I could have just told her. But NO I had to go and kiss her... "FUCK!!" he yelled out to the air and looked up at the sky, which brought his mind back to her. I wonder why her parents named her that, maybe they knew that she was special from the moment she was born and that the sky was the limit to what she could achieve.
"The sky is the limit for my love for her." Matt whispered as a lone tear snaked it's way down his face, his breathing starting to become ragged from the pain that he was feeling.
"Matt?" a voice called out from infront of him, causing him to jump back in fright. He quietened down when he saw the hologram of Gennai.
"What's up Gennai? You taking advantage of cheap phone rates again?" Matt jokingly asked as he wiped his face.
"That and the fact that I need to tell you that the digimon that will be attacking shortly, Diablomon, is undefeatable and he know's it. I found all this out just a few seconds ago." Gennai said as he twitched slightly, probably nervous about what that meant for the outcome of the battle. Matt just sat there and nodded, turning his head away from the now younger digimon.
"Good luck Matt. I know you'll find out his weakness and defeat him." Gennai said as he slowly disappeared. At this point, the last thing that Matt wanted to do was go back to the group, he just felt like crawling into a ball and cry like a 10 year old girl but a huge explosion rocked the ground and someone screaming his name that caused every hair on his head to stand up forced him to run back to where he had come from.
Matt skidded to a halt as he saw the scene infront of him, Digimon were lying all over the place with the other digidestined hiding behind some rocks over the other side of the clearing. Seeing Gabumon lying in the middle, Matt sprinted over to his digimon and slid on the grass, dragging him out of the way of two sets of razor sharp claws that teared the ground up behind them.
"Matt! Help us!" he heard Sora's voice call out. He looked around everywhere but all he could see was the edge of a cliff on his right, Gabumon in front of him and a menacing looking digimon on his left. The digimon looked like a black shadow, with red horns sticking out of his head, long arms that had razor sharp claws on the end and a scythe in his hand.
"What should I do?" Matt whispered to himself.
"I'll stop him while you save Sora and Tai." Gabumon said as he felt the urge to shout out
"Digiarmour Power Up!"
Matt's eyes went wide as he realised how much this reminded him of his dream
As soon as he said this, a blue light flashed from his pocket and headed straight at Gabumon, who was surrounded by the light. Matt shielded his eyes and when he looked back, Gabumon was no longer there instead there was a digimon that looked similar to MetalGarurumon, except he was standing on his hind legs, holding a shield with the symbol of Friendship on it in one hand and a sword with a flameing blue blade in the other.
"WolfGarurumon!" he announced before letting out a howl that nearly shook the ground they were standing on.
"Deja Vu." Matt whispered to himself as he looked at the newly evolved digimon infront of him
"Matt, save Tai and Sora!" WolfGarurumon yelled as he blocked the demon digimon from getting to Matt.
"Where are they?!" Matt yelled back. He had a fair idea of where they were but was still afraid that he couldn't see his friends.
"They fell into the river below!" WolfGarurumon told him and Matt ran over to the edge of the cliff and saw Sora and Tai fighting the current, trying to get back to shore.
"Hold on!" Matt called down to them and tried to determine how far up he was. It was at least a good 100 feet, can I jump that far?
'No time for backing out now Matt, you've got to save your friends.' the voice inside his head told him, 'Compared to them your life is insignificant!'
"I know that now." was the muttered reply to the voice in his head as he took in a deep breath and stood up. Looking down he saw that he should have enough time before they would be at his point. Bending his knees, Matt threw his weight forward and jumped off the side of the cliff. He hit the water hard, but he pushed the pain away and concentrated on getting to the surface to save his friends. After pulling his head above the water and taking a deep breath, Matt wiped the stray water out of his eyes and saw Sora coming towards him.
"Sora, just hold on O.K?" Matt shouted to her as he swam over, salt stinging his eyes, and held onto her around the waist. Knowing where he was he looked around quickly as saw a small alcove but he knew they wouldn't make it, the only chance they had was if he could grab onto one of the rocks just behind it and pull themselves in. Using all his strength, Matt and Sora eventually made it over to the side.
"O.K. Now grab onto one of the rocks Sora." Matt told her and she obeyed. Matt, pushed her against the current and soon she was sitting on the rocks above the water line in the alcove. Sora was safe, now Tai.
Matt looked around and saw Tai coming straight towards him so he held out his hand for Tai to grab a hold of. Tai reached out and with some luck, he had a hold on Matt's hand.
"Just hold on Tai!" Matt yelled, knowing what was going to happen next and was disheartened when he felt his grip on Tai weakening. A wave came and battered them against the rocks, when he recovered Matt found that Tai had gone and he looked around frantically trying to see where he got to. Spotting him floating down the river Matt took a deep breath and let go of his rock, hearing Sora screaming for him. Matt swam as fast as he could down the river and grabbed a hold of Tai, who was struggling to keep his head above the water. Thinking fast, Matt spotted another group of rocks that were out of the way of the current, if he could get Tai up there then one of the other digimon could pick him up. Breathing heavily, Matt used his last reserves of energy to grab onto on of the rocks and push Tai up to the top. Feeling his strength dissappear as he lost his grip on the rock and floating off down the river he could just make out Tai yell,
"Hold on Matt, we'll get you back. I promise!"
The current was throwing Matt all over the place when he looked up and saw the battle still raging up above him and he could only watch in horror as an attack was averted and hit the side of the cliff, boulders tumbling down the side and straight towards him. Matt saw one right over his head and closed his eyes while waiting for the painful impact that would kill him. Milliseconds lapsed into seconds and yet he could still feel nothing.
'Maybe I'm already dead.' he thought but when he heard an explosion above him and the water dispersing from objects that were impacting it, he knew that he was lucky. The prophecy was still not fulfilled, as his dad hadn't passed over yet. At least, from what he knew he was still alive and that meant that it was only a matter of time until he was going to be the next one to fall.
"Matt? You alright?" he heard WolfGarurumon's deep voice call out as the large digimon picked his friend out of the water and carefully carried him up to the cliff again. WolfGarurumon gently laid Matt on the soft grass and stepped back, dedigivolving to Gabumon. The rest of the digidestined ran with their digimon over to the saviour of the day.
"Matt, why the fuck did you do that?!" T.K. demanded as he pulled his brother into a tight hug,
"I could have lost you for good this time."
"I know T.K. but I couldn't just stand by and let my friends die." Matt replied, a sharp cackling infront of them made him wince.
"They're going to be dead anyway Friendship, for no one can defeat me!" Diablomon jeered, laughing the evil laugh that seemed to be a trademark for all the bad guys. Just then a thought struck Matt's head like a lightning bolt. That was it! That was his weakness.
"And how would you know that?" Matt asked snidly, snickering, "You've never come across anyone powerful enough to challenge you."
At Matt's comment, Diablomon stopped dead and stared at the young man in shock. No one had dared to question him before and he didn't like it. Matt's smirk grew larger as he could see Diablomon getting rattled and soon that was going to be his downfall.
"Matt what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Izzy yelled as he dropped his computer onto the ground, "This guy is a Terra Digimon, he's also a shapeshifter. He can assume the identity of anyone who had passed over into the other world."
A fire flashed through Matt's eyes as another idea hit him. "Thanks for the info Izman." he called back. The others just stood confused, not knowing what was going to happen.
"Come on then, I dare you to fight like a man." Matt taunted the digimon, hoping that it would take the bait.
"Fine then, just don't expect me to go easy on you." Diablomon said coldly as a black haze radiated from his body and spread to the surrounding clearing, finally disapating to reveal a form that Matt hadn't expected to see. His eyes grew wide at the figure and his eyes softened immediately.
"Gramps?" he questioned, not sure what was going on.
"It's me Matty." the old man said cheerfully as he walked over to the dazed digidestined.
"Grandpa?" T.K. whispered to himself as he started to walk towards the figure, Kari holding him back.
Their grandfather walked up to Matt, smiling proudly as he looked his granson over.
"Bill must be proud and I'll bet you're a killer with the ladies as well. Just like your dad and old gramps huh?" the two started laughing, the older man pulling Matt into a hug. Matt could remember when his grandpa had given him all the attention when he was younger, it was just like now. Although he couldn't place this cold feeling he was getting until a sharp pain in his stomach and doubled over to see his grandpa's fist where the centre of the pain was.
"Matt get out of there!" Sora screamed as Tai held onto her. They could all see that Diablomon was going to defeat Matt with the emotional advantage he had.
"What did you do that for?" Matt asked hurt, clutching his middle.
"'Cause you're a joke just like you always were. I'm tired of calling you my grandson. Especially with friends like those, what kind of sorry bunch are they? There are ruthless political leaders in the world who would be better friends than them lot!" his Grandpa yelled, moving his face to within a few millimeters of Matt's as he said this. Matt closed his eyes and refused to listen to the hurtful words that were coming out of this person's mouth.
'I have the strength within me, the light will show me the way.' he thought to himself as he opened his eyes again, to find his grandpa walking over to T.K.
"You aren't my Grandfather!" Matt hissed at the figure, who's head quickly spun around.
"What did you say boy?!" he demanded.
"I said YOU AREN'T MY GRANDFATHER!!!!!!" Matt repeated yelling at the top of his voice, "My grandpa was a good man, a holy man. Not some joke who takes a cheap shot at whatever he can for the simple pleasure of hurting others."
The others noticed the worried expression on the old man's face and his body being distorted by static.
"These people are good friends." Matt continued, "They have stuck with me through all the crap that I've had to go through. They have proven their worth, as I have to them."
The old figure was now being completely distorted by static as it started charging towards Matt.
"Our friendship is one that will stand the ages, nothing can tear it down. Not even you Diablomon." Matt declared as he started glowing a ice blue, not even hesitating with the oncoming Diablomon. The two just continued to glare each other down. Diablomon pulled his arm back for the knockout punch to get rid of this puny brat once and for all.
"Matt! Get your ass out of there and stop trying to be the hero!" Tai yelled from where the others were.
"So come on Matt? You gonna say something?!" Tai yelled, his fists infront of his face. Matt just continued to stare down at the ground and say nothing, he knew whatever Tai did to him, he deserved it.
"What's the matter? You don't look like 'Mr Too Cool' now do you?" asked Tai with a mocking tone in his voice and with this Matt jerked his head up to look Tai in the eyes, a murderous look on his face that made everyone else jump back 2 feet.
"You know as well as I do that that fucking title was forced upon me you bastard. Plus there is nothing I CAN say to defend my actions, well nothing that you would understand or wouldn't make you tear me to pieces." Matt said in a low voice.
"So what Matt? Nothing could excuse what you did." snapped Tai and launched himself at Matt, knocking the other man to the ground and started pounding the shit out of him. To his surprise Matt didn't fight back, he just allowed Tai to keep hitting without even defending himself. Tai stopped out of shock, with his fist raised for another blow, and looked at Matt's face, his eyes showing how much pain he was going through, how much pain they had caused him. Izzy and T.K. took this opportunity to pull Tai off of Matt, so Joe and Kari could take a look at Matt's injuries and treat them. Blood was running all down his face from his nose, which was obviously broken, he had two seriously black eyes and several cuts on his face from Tai's championship ring and numerous bruises.
As soon as Tai was pulled off of him, Matt immediately got up and ran away into the bushes that were to their left not even stopping when he heard the others calling out his name. The pounding of his feet on the soft ground and the wind through the trees were soon the only sounds Matt could hear and his lungs were screaming out for oxygen. He took a few more steps forwards before his legs turned to jelly and collapsed under his weight. Sitting up, he wiped the blood that was coming from his nose away with his sleeve and looked around, he was in a small cleared area underneath a few bushes. No one would be able to find him there, so Matt leaned up against a large tree and started to catch his breath while his mind was still off in the stratosphere.
'Why the fucking hell did I do that, I could have just told her. But NO I had to go and kiss her... "FUCK!!" he yelled out to the air and looked up at the sky, which brought his mind back to her. I wonder why her parents named her that, maybe they knew that she was special from the moment she was born and that the sky was the limit to what she could achieve.
"The sky is the limit for my love for her." Matt whispered as a lone tear snaked it's way down his face, his breathing starting to become ragged from the pain that he was feeling.
"Matt?" a voice called out from infront of him, causing him to jump back in fright. He quietened down when he saw the hologram of Gennai.
"What's up Gennai? You taking advantage of cheap phone rates again?" Matt jokingly asked as he wiped his face.
"That and the fact that I need to tell you that the digimon that will be attacking shortly, Diablomon, is undefeatable and he know's it. I found all this out just a few seconds ago." Gennai said as he twitched slightly, probably nervous about what that meant for the outcome of the battle. Matt just sat there and nodded, turning his head away from the now younger digimon.
"Good luck Matt. I know you'll find out his weakness and defeat him." Gennai said as he slowly disappeared. At this point, the last thing that Matt wanted to do was go back to the group, he just felt like crawling into a ball and cry like a 10 year old girl but a huge explosion rocked the ground and someone screaming his name that caused every hair on his head to stand up forced him to run back to where he had come from.
Matt skidded to a halt as he saw the scene infront of him, Digimon were lying all over the place with the other digidestined hiding behind some rocks over the other side of the clearing. Seeing Gabumon lying in the middle, Matt sprinted over to his digimon and slid on the grass, dragging him out of the way of two sets of razor sharp claws that teared the ground up behind them.
"Matt! Help us!" he heard Sora's voice call out. He looked around everywhere but all he could see was the edge of a cliff on his right, Gabumon in front of him and a menacing looking digimon on his left. The digimon looked like a black shadow, with red horns sticking out of his head, long arms that had razor sharp claws on the end and a scythe in his hand.
"What should I do?" Matt whispered to himself.
"I'll stop him while you save Sora and Tai." Gabumon said as he felt the urge to shout out
"Digiarmour Power Up!"
Matt's eyes went wide as he realised how much this reminded him of his dream
As soon as he said this, a blue light flashed from his pocket and headed straight at Gabumon, who was surrounded by the light. Matt shielded his eyes and when he looked back, Gabumon was no longer there instead there was a digimon that looked similar to MetalGarurumon, except he was standing on his hind legs, holding a shield with the symbol of Friendship on it in one hand and a sword with a flameing blue blade in the other.
"WolfGarurumon!" he announced before letting out a howl that nearly shook the ground they were standing on.
"Deja Vu." Matt whispered to himself as he looked at the newly evolved digimon infront of him
"Matt, save Tai and Sora!" WolfGarurumon yelled as he blocked the demon digimon from getting to Matt.
"Where are they?!" Matt yelled back. He had a fair idea of where they were but was still afraid that he couldn't see his friends.
"They fell into the river below!" WolfGarurumon told him and Matt ran over to the edge of the cliff and saw Sora and Tai fighting the current, trying to get back to shore.
"Hold on!" Matt called down to them and tried to determine how far up he was. It was at least a good 100 feet, can I jump that far?
'No time for backing out now Matt, you've got to save your friends.' the voice inside his head told him, 'Compared to them your life is insignificant!'
"I know that now." was the muttered reply to the voice in his head as he took in a deep breath and stood up. Looking down he saw that he should have enough time before they would be at his point. Bending his knees, Matt threw his weight forward and jumped off the side of the cliff. He hit the water hard, but he pushed the pain away and concentrated on getting to the surface to save his friends. After pulling his head above the water and taking a deep breath, Matt wiped the stray water out of his eyes and saw Sora coming towards him.
"Sora, just hold on O.K?" Matt shouted to her as he swam over, salt stinging his eyes, and held onto her around the waist. Knowing where he was he looked around quickly as saw a small alcove but he knew they wouldn't make it, the only chance they had was if he could grab onto one of the rocks just behind it and pull themselves in. Using all his strength, Matt and Sora eventually made it over to the side.
"O.K. Now grab onto one of the rocks Sora." Matt told her and she obeyed. Matt, pushed her against the current and soon she was sitting on the rocks above the water line in the alcove. Sora was safe, now Tai.
Matt looked around and saw Tai coming straight towards him so he held out his hand for Tai to grab a hold of. Tai reached out and with some luck, he had a hold on Matt's hand.
"Just hold on Tai!" Matt yelled, knowing what was going to happen next and was disheartened when he felt his grip on Tai weakening. A wave came and battered them against the rocks, when he recovered Matt found that Tai had gone and he looked around frantically trying to see where he got to. Spotting him floating down the river Matt took a deep breath and let go of his rock, hearing Sora screaming for him. Matt swam as fast as he could down the river and grabbed a hold of Tai, who was struggling to keep his head above the water. Thinking fast, Matt spotted another group of rocks that were out of the way of the current, if he could get Tai up there then one of the other digimon could pick him up. Breathing heavily, Matt used his last reserves of energy to grab onto on of the rocks and push Tai up to the top. Feeling his strength dissappear as he lost his grip on the rock and floating off down the river he could just make out Tai yell,
"Hold on Matt, we'll get you back. I promise!"
The current was throwing Matt all over the place when he looked up and saw the battle still raging up above him and he could only watch in horror as an attack was averted and hit the side of the cliff, boulders tumbling down the side and straight towards him. Matt saw one right over his head and closed his eyes while waiting for the painful impact that would kill him. Milliseconds lapsed into seconds and yet he could still feel nothing.
'Maybe I'm already dead.' he thought but when he heard an explosion above him and the water dispersing from objects that were impacting it, he knew that he was lucky. The prophecy was still not fulfilled, as his dad hadn't passed over yet. At least, from what he knew he was still alive and that meant that it was only a matter of time until he was going to be the next one to fall.
"Matt? You alright?" he heard WolfGarurumon's deep voice call out as the large digimon picked his friend out of the water and carefully carried him up to the cliff again. WolfGarurumon gently laid Matt on the soft grass and stepped back, dedigivolving to Gabumon. The rest of the digidestined ran with their digimon over to the saviour of the day.
"Matt, why the fuck did you do that?!" T.K. demanded as he pulled his brother into a tight hug,
"I could have lost you for good this time."
"I know T.K. but I couldn't just stand by and let my friends die." Matt replied, a sharp cackling infront of them made him wince.
"They're going to be dead anyway Friendship, for no one can defeat me!" Diablomon jeered, laughing the evil laugh that seemed to be a trademark for all the bad guys. Just then a thought struck Matt's head like a lightning bolt. That was it! That was his weakness.
"And how would you know that?" Matt asked snidly, snickering, "You've never come across anyone powerful enough to challenge you."
At Matt's comment, Diablomon stopped dead and stared at the young man in shock. No one had dared to question him before and he didn't like it. Matt's smirk grew larger as he could see Diablomon getting rattled and soon that was going to be his downfall.
"Matt what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Izzy yelled as he dropped his computer onto the ground, "This guy is a Terra Digimon, he's also a shapeshifter. He can assume the identity of anyone who had passed over into the other world."
A fire flashed through Matt's eyes as another idea hit him. "Thanks for the info Izman." he called back. The others just stood confused, not knowing what was going to happen.
"Come on then, I dare you to fight like a man." Matt taunted the digimon, hoping that it would take the bait.
"Fine then, just don't expect me to go easy on you." Diablomon said coldly as a black haze radiated from his body and spread to the surrounding clearing, finally disapating to reveal a form that Matt hadn't expected to see. His eyes grew wide at the figure and his eyes softened immediately.
"Gramps?" he questioned, not sure what was going on.
"It's me Matty." the old man said cheerfully as he walked over to the dazed digidestined.
"Grandpa?" T.K. whispered to himself as he started to walk towards the figure, Kari holding him back.
Their grandfather walked up to Matt, smiling proudly as he looked his granson over.
"Bill must be proud and I'll bet you're a killer with the ladies as well. Just like your dad and old gramps huh?" the two started laughing, the older man pulling Matt into a hug. Matt could remember when his grandpa had given him all the attention when he was younger, it was just like now. Although he couldn't place this cold feeling he was getting until a sharp pain in his stomach and doubled over to see his grandpa's fist where the centre of the pain was.
"Matt get out of there!" Sora screamed as Tai held onto her. They could all see that Diablomon was going to defeat Matt with the emotional advantage he had.
"What did you do that for?" Matt asked hurt, clutching his middle.
"'Cause you're a joke just like you always were. I'm tired of calling you my grandson. Especially with friends like those, what kind of sorry bunch are they? There are ruthless political leaders in the world who would be better friends than them lot!" his Grandpa yelled, moving his face to within a few millimeters of Matt's as he said this. Matt closed his eyes and refused to listen to the hurtful words that were coming out of this person's mouth.
'I have the strength within me, the light will show me the way.' he thought to himself as he opened his eyes again, to find his grandpa walking over to T.K.
"You aren't my Grandfather!" Matt hissed at the figure, who's head quickly spun around.
"What did you say boy?!" he demanded.
"I said YOU AREN'T MY GRANDFATHER!!!!!!" Matt repeated yelling at the top of his voice, "My grandpa was a good man, a holy man. Not some joke who takes a cheap shot at whatever he can for the simple pleasure of hurting others."
The others noticed the worried expression on the old man's face and his body being distorted by static.
"These people are good friends." Matt continued, "They have stuck with me through all the crap that I've had to go through. They have proven their worth, as I have to them."
The old figure was now being completely distorted by static as it started charging towards Matt.
"Our friendship is one that will stand the ages, nothing can tear it down. Not even you Diablomon." Matt declared as he started glowing a ice blue, not even hesitating with the oncoming Diablomon. The two just continued to glare each other down. Diablomon pulled his arm back for the knockout punch to get rid of this puny brat once and for all.
"Matt! Get your ass out of there and stop trying to be the hero!" Tai yelled from where the others were.