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[Signs]
(Thoughts)
Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.
Four days remains of the seven. Matt's group is falling apart around him as the digivices frees more and more from the darkness controlling them. For Matt, things are looking better for each minute as he moves towards the final hour of his plan. Myotismon, upset of the events have now lost most of his loyal generals in his army and have begun to wonder over a old legend he has heard. Tai and his small group have made peace with one another and are now headed towards Moytismon hideout to find Kari's true crest.
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Twist of fate
Part Xi
Day Four: Puppets of Darkness, Fighting For Friends
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The sun rose over the fog covered part of Tokyo known as Odaiba, trying in vain to break though and heat up the few free humans still running around in the occupied district. The rest of the city outside the fog wall, was puzzled over the strange thing, as well as the rising number of monster sighting that was taking place across the town.
Somewhere on the damp and cold streets of Odaiba, two children and their digimon partners were making a slow progress towards the far end of the streets, hoping that they could somehow free their friends from the darkness controlling them and avoid the patrols of digimons looking for anyone who had escaped the first round up.
Ducking into a door opening as a group of bakemons moved past the street, a head with neat trimmed and combed dark blue hair looked out to keep an eye on the digimons. Behind him, a girl with ceramal colored hair was clenching her hat tightly in her hand, her eyes narrowed in fear of getting discovered.
Sticking his head back in, Joe looked at Mimi with a smile as he opened the door for them. "The coast is clear, they went towards the bridge for some reason." Walking out after Mimi, he looked down the street and lifted up his digivice, staring at the screen, waiting for the blip to appear on it, telling him that they were closer to the others. "Well, we tried this part of town, maybe they're over at the shopping district.
Smiling at those words, Mimi stood up in her full height and turned to face the part of town that she had spent the most of her time in when she got out of school. "Cool, let's go, maybe I can find a few new things to wear." Dragging the blur haired boy after her, she failed to see the blush forming on his face at the contact.
"Going somewhere?"
Stopping right where they were at the time, Joe and Mimi turned around to face teo of the kids they were looking for and the one thing they had hoped not to meet at all. Feeling their partners jump out to protect them in case they were attacked, they allowed their eyes to focus on Izzy and Sora sitting on the back of Megakabuterimon, both having an evil smirk on their face. A sudden rumbling and sound of the pavement cracking from behind them alerted Joe and Mimi to the fact that Garudamon had landed behind them.
Looking down at Palmon, Mimi lifted up her digivice and stared at it with a somewhat hesitant look on her face, then she felt Joe grab her shoulder and show that he understood, he too was a bit scared of something going wrong when they asked their digimon's to digivolve. Her eyes closed briefly before she re opend them and turned to face Sora. "Sora, come on snap out of ti, you're being controlled by darkness!"
The red haired girl snorted at the words and stood up to get a better view of the scene, before her, the sight of Garudamon towering up over everything else giving her the strange desire to laugh manically. Below her, Izzy was bust typing on his laptop, using his new digimon analyzer to find the weak points of their opponents, smiling when the information for Gomamon and Palmon appeared.
On the ground, Mimi stared up at Garudamon as the huge birdman began to walk towards them, each footstep causing a small tremble in the ground, and sending both her and Joe out of balance. Landing hard on her behind, she stared when her digivice suddenly gave off a high-pitched whining noise and a beam of light left it to hit Palmon.
Glowing white, Palmon could her body powering up to reach the champion level, a silent hope that it wouldn't be a corrupted form like the digivolution into Cheerymon had been. "Palmon digivolve too... Togemon."
Joe looked up from where he had landed on the ground stared at the huge cactus digimon and then gathered up his resolve. "Gomamon." Holding out his own digivice, he nearly laughed when he saw the white beam shoot out and hit the seal like digimon on the ground.
Glowing in the same white, Goamon felt his energy and desire to protect Joe increase every second. "Gomamon digivolve too.... Ikkakumon."
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The group stared up at the side of the TV station, the towering sphere loomed high up in the air, and cast a shadow over the street as it radiated the evil that had made it their base for the invasion of Earth. The wizard like digimon lowered his sight and stared at the other two digimons in their little group. "You know the plan right, we have only one chance to get in."
Tai nodded and stared at His sister, his eyes full of concern for her safety. "Kari, are you sure that you can handle this?" While it wasn't really what he had intended to say to her, he could see a little bit of the hurt that sentence brought along with it. "I didn't mean it like that, we'll be going up against a whole army of digimon's. It might be more safer it you stayed hidden somewhere."
Looking down at Tai with stern look, Kari began to muster up whatever courage she had in her, her fist clenching tightly around the digivice held in her left hand. Looking away from Tai, she took in the sight of the large glass door before them. "I'm sure, you'll need me to digivolve in case Myotismon shows up, you are the only one that reach Ultimate right now."
Tai lowered his ears at the words, knowing that they right, and that in her place, he would have done the exact same thing without any questions what so ever at all. Was it right of him to prevent his sister form doing something he would do as well. "Kari…" Turning to face the building again, Tai felt his claws flex at the coming task. "Kari and me will go in the front, Gatomon and Wizardmon you try the top."
Wizard and catlike digimon nodded in response to his words as the group broke up, the human and her brother turned digimon going in through the unlocked glass doors. Behind them, Wizardmon used his magic to float both himself and Gatomon up to the roof around the sphere. Clearing the windows on each floor, they could see the Bakemon patrols on each floor.
As they stepped into the large entrance hall, Both Kari and Tai began to stare around the place, looking for a map over the building so they knew where to go on each floor. Finally spotting the information desk near the left wall of the hall, both Kari and Tai ran over to stare down at the small map planted on the wall next to the desk.
Looking down at her brother who had jumped up onto the table to better stare at the map before them, Kari almost giggled at the way the tail moved around in the air, it's movements reacting to the courage and tension flowing through Tai's. Then she returned her look to the map, and the one thing that had nagged her the whole morning. "Tai, do you… Do you think that our parents are here?"
Staring at the girl next to him, Tai nearly chocked when he realized that he hadn't really wondered over the fate of his parents, the feeling and need to protect his sister had stopped him from asking that question to himself, and instead do what Agumon would done in the same place, returning to stare at the map above him, Tai stared around the place. "They must be around here somewhere, this is Myotismon's base, but we can't help them now, we need to find that crest." Sliding into his cold leader form, Tai shivered at how easy he had labeled his parents as a sacrifice for the great good.
Taken aback by the tone her brother had used before her, Mimi shook her head and turned around to stare at the map, running a finer over the different floors and where Myotismon would have been most likely to hide himself from the rest of the world and the sunlight that he hated so much when he needed to sleep. "There, studio 3 at the very center of the sphere, near the tenth floor. That's were he got to be, it completely cut off from any outside light source."
Landing on the roof, Wizardmon and Gatomon looked around the open place with the dome top of the sphere near the center of it, their eyes scanning for anyone that might be standing guard or trying to attack them. Finding no one nearby the human like and feline digimon rushed over to only door leading into the building.
Grabbing the handle and twisting it, Wizardmon swore under his breath as the door refused to open up. Removing his hand from the handle and summoning up his powers, he cast a quick look at Gatomon, telling her to back away from the offending metal plate blocking the doorway; he spread out his finger and called out the name of his attack. "Magical Game!"
Gatomon wasted no time when she saw the door blow into the hallway on the other side, rushing past her old friend and down the dark hallway, she stopped when the sound of a single Bakemon guard entered her ears. Flatting herself against the wall, she waved a hand back at Wizard, showing him that someone was coming towards them.
Pressing herself up against the wall, she lifted up her front paws and smirked at the sight of the metal claws glinting the half dark corridor, then the Bakemon floated around the corner, his eyes moving down to stare at the feline digimon before him. "Gatomon, what are you doing up here?"
"This!" Jumping forward with as much speed as she could muster, she smacked her gloves right into the head of the bakemon, sending it tumbling down the hallway from the force of it. Behind her, Wizardmon moved out from his hiding place and used his Magical game attack to send the guard into dreamland.
Looking down the hallway the bakemon had come from; Gatomon nodded and began to rush towards the staircase leading down into the depths of the TV station. Right behind her, Wizardmon followed closely, his eyes and ears keeping a close look out for anyone who might try to stop them. "We should find the others when we know where Myotismon's room is."
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Staring down at the two kids before them, Izzy and Sora laughed at the thought of those two simple Champoin digimons against the power of their own ultimate level digimon. Pointing a finger towards Mimi and Togemon, Sora's face was filled with a cold and distant smile as she notice just how small the girl and her digimon was to her digimon alone. "Garudamon, Kill them both."
Looking up from his Laptop and towards the beginning battle, his eyes narrowed on the white and slow form of Ikakumon, even without his vast knowledge of digimons, he could clearly see that Megakabuterimon was far superior to the champion in both speed, strength and agility. In fact, Ikakumon would last about 30 seconds if his calculations were correct. Giving a completely uncaring look at the insect digimon hovering above him, he said only one word. "Begin." The four digimon's rushed towards each other, the two champions ready to do their best for their partners sake, and for the sake of the whole world, and the children who was trapped under some spell.
Rushing forward to meet the charge by Garudamon, Togemon hammered her gloved covered hand into the left leg of Garudamon, grimacing when it did absolutely nothing to the corrupted form of the birdman at all. The fact the only reaction she got from the huge birdman was the fact that he kicked her across the road in response and into a concrete wall was also a good telling that she was really in trouble. Dragging her self out from the impact zone; she began to spin around and gather up the energy for an attack. "Needle Spray."
Shooting up into the sky, Megakabuterimon glared down at the small white form of Ikkakumon and the human form of Joe running out of the line for fire. Then he charged up his horn with the energy needed to carry out his attack on the lowly Champoin and return to do his partners bidding. "Horn Buster." Yelling out the name of his attack when he had it charged, he dive-bombed horn first towards the ground to execute it.
Looking up from the place where he stood, Ikkakumon was thankful for the fact that Joe had run away from the area, it gave a beeter chance of fighting, even if he didn't stand to last long against the giant beetle dive-bombing him at the moment. Still, he had to do his best, for Joe sake. "Harpoon Torpedo." The horn on top of his head gave out a small cloud on smoke and the blasted away from his head and up to meet the charging beetle digimon, breaking apart in the last second and letting out the missile hidden inside of it to make a direct impact on the diving insect digimon head.
Stopping her needle attack, Togemon gulped when she noticed Garudamon glared down at her, the left arm picking out the few needles that had managed to break through the skin and feather, stepping back, she ducked in front of the human girl when she noticed the wings of the birdman snapping out to fill the street and shatter a few windows. "Wing Blade." The twin blades of fire launched from the wings and soared down to smash into the back of Togemon, sending the plant digimon crashing to the ground in pain, her human partner still protected between her gloves, slowly opening them and turning around, she was greeted with the sight of Garudamon's right foot smacking right into her own head.
Above the street Megakabuterimon broke out of the smoke from the Harpoon Torpedo attack and continued his dive-bomb course downwards, Plowing into the fur covered body of Ikkakumon and blasting the seam monster and good deal of the street up in the progress, a cloud of dust and other debris's filling the air and hid the impact site from view as the they both went plowing into the pavement.
Looking up from his laptop with no concern, Izzy simply checked the time on his watch and nodded to Sora standing next to him. "30 seconds, just like I predicted. Megakabuterimon bring him out and crush him when I tell you too"
Laughing at the words, she gave the genius boy a pat on the head and pointed a finger at the cactus digimon, an evil grim plaster on her face. "Garudamon, grab that stupid plant and crush it."
Garudomon obeying her partners every word, reached down and lifted up the cactus digimon and began to squeeze both side towards each other, a loud pain filled scream coming from Togemon's mouth when it became to much for her to bear the pressure. Stepping out of the dust cloud at the same moment, Megakabuterimon lifted the shell bombed Ikkakumon up over his head and prepared to hurl him into the street at the moment his partner told him to finish it.
Looking up at her digimon, Mimi fell to her knees as a feeling of hopelessness swept over her, the pain of her partner clearly felt by her own heart, then she looked over at Sora and clenched her crest and digivice tightly. {I got to do something, I won't let them do that to my friend, I don't care what happens.} "But I'm not going to let you hurt Togemon anymore, do you hear me." Jumping up and rushing towards the girl sitting on the ground across from her, she failed to notice her crest reacting to her sincere wish to help protect her partner from the other digimon, even if it meant taking on someone stronger then herself.
Looking at the cowboy hat-wearing girl as she ran off, Joe shot a quick look at where she was headed and gulped. {Is she crazy or what? We don't stand a chance at winning this.} Turning to go back into hiding, Joe spotted the weakly struggling Ikkakumon on the brink of getting thrown into the ground and deleted. {No... I don't want him to die, he's my friend, I got to help him, he's counting on me to help him, and so is Mimi} The red haired boy controlling Megakabuterimon filled his vision as he turned to stare across the road and straight into a pair of eyes looking back at him with no emotions in them, but he could beat him, he was sure of it, it was the right thing to do, all his friend relied on him doing this one thing. Running out to help the brown haired girl in her charge, he felt for the first time, the true power of his crest, and the power of Reliability.
Opening her eyes from her place inside Garudamon's hands, Togomon felt her body flooded with a strange power, a power she hadn't felt before in her life, a power too. Pushing back on the hands, she grinned when the birdman gave a loud yelp at the force and stepped back. Then the light formed around her and hid her from the surroundings once more. "Togemon digivovle too... Lillymon" The small pixie like digimon shot out of the space she had been in just as Garudamon hammered his hands together again.
Held tightly in the two three fingered hands holding him off the ground, Ikkaumon blinked when he too felt the new strange power filling him, removing the pain of his wounds and giving him the strength too. "Ikakakumon Digivolve too... Zudomon." On the ground, Izzy gave a loud scream of anger at the sight of Megakabuterimon falling to hold up the much larger and much, much heavier giant form of Zudomon felt his arms bend down from the pressure, and then the sense of getting steam rolled into the ground as his knees gave out as well. Rolling off the now squashed bug, Zudomon rubbed a hand over his head and gave a somewhat stupid smile towards the swirl-eyed bug on the ground. "Ah, sorry about that."
Behind the two giants, Garudoman was on the verge of a mental breakdown over the stress and frustration at trying to hit something small and fast, someone that had a habit of getting out of the way in the last second every single time. It didn't help that the stupid fairy digimon were currently hovering right in front of his face and giving the raspberry at her, complete with a draw down eye lid and the tongue sticking out at him. "Why you little!" Hammering a clenched fist towards the fairy digimon, he gave another cry of frustration when she once again zipped out the way, only to give a loud yelp of pain when his own fist smacked in and gave him a black eye followed by the laughter of the stupid little fairy zipping past his right ear.
Pulling himself off the ground, Megakabuterimon rose to his height, every bit of his corrupted form wanting nothing more then to pound the arrogant two legged walrus into the ground for good. Rushing forward, he blinked when he missed hitting as Zudomon stepped aside and tripped him, sending him tumbling forward through the air, arms failing wildly to regain his balance.
Laughing loudly at the sight of Garudamon trying to nurse his black eye and capture her at the same time without luck, a task that was made more difficult when she zipped down between his legs and up his back, hiding between the wing blades of the much larger digimon, pulling down on two feathers as she took a small breather. Shooting a quick look down at her partner, she noticed that she was almost over to Sora and Izzy, with Joe trailing a bit behind her. Then she looked back up at her opponent and laughed at the way the birdman was almost dancing around trying to get her. Smiling as a wicked idea form in her head, she dropped her hold on the feathered wings and zipped up to fly in a faster and faster circle around the neck of the birdman. "Flowery." Hovering back, she laughed when she saw that it had been placed perfectly on Garudamon eyes, causing the digimon a great headache as the power of her flowery counter acted the darkness controlling him.
Screaming in frustration over the sudden attack, the headache and the way it was carried out to prevent him from see anyone; Garudamoon began to punch out into the air randomly, hoping that he would somehow hit the little bug that kept getting in his way. The feeling of a wall with a lot of windows breaking under his hands were felt most of the time along with the nothing of hitting just air. "Hey, over here big tall and feathered." That voice, Punching out while screaming in triumph, he laughed when he felt something soft connect with his head, then he frowned when he noticed that it had been to big to be Lillymon.
Tearing the flowery off his head, Garudamon spotted Megakabuterimon failing back down on the ground unconscious with a loud boom, a nice fist print clearly seen on his face as the bug began to glow white, the sign that he was starting to dedigivolve back into his rookie state, meaning that he was the only one left to fight the two other ultimates. "Vulcan's Hammer." lifting his head to face Zudomon as the giant humanoid walrus jumped over the out cold Tentomon, he screamed as the attack from the hammer hitting the ground rushed towards before he could even move out of the way, then he could feel himself getting knocked back over from it's impact.
Dive-bombing towards the now grounded Garudamon, Lillymon snapped her hands together and began to form her second attack, aiming to take out the last of the corrupted digimon's present at the time. "Flower Cannon." The small canon that made up both her arms formed as she wanted it too and sent out the green bullet of energy, impacting the raising Garudamon right in the stomach, and showering the place with flower petals, knocking him out and sending him back to the rookie stage again. Pulling up, Lilymon cast a quick look down at the knocked out Biyomon and then started to fly towards Sora and Izzy, eager to help Mimi some more.
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It hurt as he moved back from the attacks, but that didn't matter. Whoever these five pests were before him, they couldn't stop him, he was simply to powerful for them. After all, he had just torn a whole chuck of the digital world free with his control over time and space. Moving his crystal body closer, he began to summon up the power he needed to fight these five digimons and the… were that human's behind them… how could that be, those idiot servants off his promised that they would be gone by the time he returned to carry out his master plan.
Things blurred for a moment, and then he was standing on the other side of the field, staring at himself, his huge body encased in the colorless crystal and hiding his two heads from view, allowing only the glare from his eyes to be seen clearly, the yellow eyes speaking off the power and evil intent of his master plan.
Turning his head, he stared at the strange furry digimon next to him, his eyes closed in a silent agreement to the plan they had agreed on. Lifting his hands, he felt his claws tingle with power, then the feeling spread to his whole body. "Ishimon digivolve too… iritmon."
Things blurred again, and now he was back inside the crystal, power rushing out from every bit of his body, "You won't stop me you rotten brats, do you hear me!!" Moving faster towards them, he could see his other body clearly, the armor clad arms and legs, the three claws on each hand as the white blue sphere formed between them. "Dieeeeeeeeeeeee!!!" Everything exploded as his vision switched between both forms.
"We can't let them live."
"Do something, the children are close to death."
"We can't let them remain here, and those two are the worst of them. Look what they did to the digital world."
Ice surrounded him, keeping him trapped, but how could that be, he had been over the forest, not here, in this frozen wasteland. Moving his arms didn't work at all as the ice wouldn't budge. Stopping his movement, he could clearly feel how weak he was, but that couldn't be. Even if he had been hurt and trapped, he shouldn't be this weak, he was a level above mega for crying out loud.
"Please, you can't just let them die."
"Fine, we'll send them back, but those two still have to be dealt with"
"We could hide them in their partners… no it would put to much a strain on their mind if we did."
"No, it could work… we would just have to erase their memory."
Pain racked his body as he was torn apart and pulled towards the body lying broken on the ground; everything became white, as he finally broke completely apart. The white lasted for years, his mind trapped without any clear memory of time and place, then everything began to move, and he was bathed in a bright clear light again.
"It's a boy."
"Look honey, our boy Yamato."
Sitting up straight in the chair, Matt dropped his digivice to the ground, his hands moving to hold tightly onto his head as the pain from a giant headache began to run through it, everything he had doubted about himself, the reason's he had felt like he didn't belong anywhere, began to become all too clear to him for once in his life. Even as he fell to the ground, he could hear the sick laughter in the back off his head, feel the body break apart, trapped in the cold, dark ice, how the pain from the fire and ice attacks tore through him. "Get out of my head!!"
The laughter grow as the cold feeling washed over him, tearing back into his mind and face to face with the evil inside of him, an evil that wouldn't let go off him no matter what he did. "Stupid boy, you invited me in, and as such, we can never be separated again." Moving close, the huge arms hammed into the ground as two bright red eyes glowed at him from the darkness, bathing him in the cold malice behind them. "I've waited so long for this day, do you think that I would just let go after finally finding you again, my dear Yamato or should I say Ishimon."
Standing up, Matt once again possessed by darkness, walked over to stare down at the completed program on the computer screen. "And this is how I will get my revenge on all of them." Laughing out loud at the tough of finally getting his revenge, he turned around and stared at the faint towering TV station in the distance. "And only one thing remains to be dealt with." heading towards the door, Matt left the room in a hurry, his eyes filled with the visions of things to come.
Unnoticed by him, TK sat quietly in the corner, his eyes unseeing and almost lifeless as a small aura of pure darkness flaring up around him once in a while, casting a dark shadow over his face. "Matt?"
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Screaming in frustration, Sora ripped up one of the countless piece of debris that had fallen down doing the battle, in this case it was a table leg from a office chair, the aluminum gleaming with light as she swung it through the air a few times for a test. Looking up, she stared at the Pink loving girl stopping across from her, a hand held to her chest as she was gasping for her breath. "Mimi." The word had about as much warm in it as liquid nitrogen. "I won't let you get away with that. In fact, I going to pound your pink loving brain into the ground." Swing the bat; she went on the offensive, laughing out loud at the shocked expression on the unprepared girl.
Staring at one another as the two girls duked it out in the background, Joe and Izzy were about to have one of the most shortest and most boring battles in the whole world. It was small. It was strange. It was the battle between a scared kid and someone whose idea of life challenging experience was trying to type in a many lines of codes as possible in one hour.
Falling down for the unknown time that day, Mimi screamed in frustration as she felt her cowboy hat knocked off her head and flung out into the rubble littering the street, the wind sweep from the table leg sending a shiver down her back. Then she spotted the table leg zooming straight down towards her, the sharp end glinting as it aimed to impale her on the ground. Feeling it pass close by her, she thanked whoever was up there that she had managed to react in time and roll out of the way.
Looking up and lifted her crude weapon up over her head, Sora cast a look back at her partner and growled when she spotted him trading insults with the blue haired boy traitor, his laptop still held open in his hands. Turning away from the girl in front of her, she clapped the table leg into her free hand, sending out a clear sound signal that told him to get a move on and finish off the boy once and for all before she got to angry and gave him a beating as well, then her world rocked forwards as something smacked down on her helmet from behind.
Pulling back her own primitive fighting club, Mimi made a brief V-sign as she saw Sora stumble forward from the single hit she had just scored on her. Still, whatever courage she had, took a dive when she noticed the look of hatred the red haired girl shot her when she turned around, one hand going over the dent in the blue helmet. Grabbing and lifting her club with both hands, she rushed the older girl before she was completely ready to fight back.
Still trading insult with Izzy, Joe looked up when he notice two shape next to him, the small and fast form of Lillymon, her hands formed into a flower cannon ready to fire, and the towering Zudomon, both of them looking down at the human boy holding his laptop close to him in a protective manner as he backed up. Feeling his spirit rising at the welcome sight, Joe level a calm and superior look on the small and younger boy. "Give up Izzy, this won't hurt." Lifting his digivice, he nearly jammed into the mouth of Izzy when he held it out, then he smiled when a bright white light filled the war zone, a dark shadow shooting out from the red haired boy and into the sky where it faded away with a small puff.
Dropping to the ground in pain, the only thing saving him from getting a towering bump on the head and killer bloody nose from an impact with the broken up averment, was Lillymon catching in the last minute. Staring up at Joe, she mentioned for him to come over and hold him for her while she did was she destined for and helped her partner. As the boy was taken form her, she rose and stopped in her tracks at the sight that greeted her. "Mimi? Sora?"
"Give up you red haired Witch."
"Sod off you Pink loving ditz."
"Drop dead you cross dressing tomboy."
"At least I don't look a refugee from the wild west."
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
Sweat dropping, Joe, Lillymon, and Zudomon stared at the sight of Sora and Mimi trying to choke one another to death, both of them sporting several tears in their clothes and bruises formed on each face. Sora's helmet had fallen off sometime in their short fencing match and had a huge crack running down through it. Mimi was clearly favoring her right leg and avoided standing on the left when she could, a wise choice seeing as it had gained a rather unhealthy purple look near the lower part of it.
Stepping forward in a controlled and adult manner after gently putting down Izzy onto the ground, Joe lifted his arms and held out both hands in a peaceful, it was time to be more reliable and stop this fight before one of them killed the other, it was time to be the hero once more. "Girls, stop it right now." Smiling as they removed their hands from one another, he nodded and turned to face the red haired girl. "Sora give up, you're the only left." His response came a split second later, a kick to his knee from Mimi and a fist right into his left eyes from Sora sending him spinning around and down to land next to Izzy on the ground. "Okay, that was just mean."
"BUTT OUT!!"
Lillymon hung her head as both girl returned to the fight, both of them feeling up to tearing out the others heart on the spot. Reaching down, she grabbed the white device lying next to Joe and smacked into Sora's face as the two girls began to choke one another to death again. As it came close to the red haired girl, the same white light from before filled the street as the device purged the darkness from the human body of Sora in a single minute.
"Take that you... you... you cross dresser!" Smirking and holding up her hand in a victory stance; Mimi gave the v-sign towards her fallen comrade as he sat nursing both his eye and knee at the same. Running over and pulling him into a hug, squealed in delight when she noticed that there was none left to fight. "We won, we won." Getting no response, she pulled Joe back out of the hug and took in the daze expression on his face and the small trail of blood running out of his nose. "You pervert." A loud slap filled the street as a third human child got knocked out for the day.
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Round another corner, Gatomon and Wizardmon raced past another endless amount of offices and TV Studios in their hunt for where Myotismon would have placed his bed and private champers. Passing a lot of nervous and angry looking digimon's in the process, they finally tore through the final door into the middle level of the dome shape part of the TV Station, facing the master Studio. Located in the very center of the building.
Across from the studio, an elevator door biped as it activated and opened to allow the girl and digimon inside to step out. Or in the digomon's case, jump out, caws up to attack any evil digimon's that might be in the area. Stopping when he noticed no one was there, he turned and waved Kari out to join the rest in the hallway.
Turning to look at Wizardmon, he noticed the tense look as the digimon stared at the door, his hands were clenched and his eyes narrowed with a lot of suspicion in them. "Something's wrong, this was simply to easy." At the words, both feline digimon's looked more focused on him as Kari stared at him in confusion.
Looking at her old friend, Gatomon began to remember the number of digimon's they ran into on the way to the studio, then her eyes widen as she remembered just how many forces they had brought with them to this place. "He's right, we were getting to this place too easily, and the place should be overrun with guards, yet there's not even one in front of the door."
Smacking a hand down into his other one, Tai turned to stare at Kari with wide eyes as something that had bugged him since they entered building became clear to him at last. "They're right, we practically had free run of the ground level. No one was there." Turning to face the studio door, Tai growled in his throat as he felt his claws emerge. "This is a setup."
Kari stepped over to the small group and lifted up her two digivice and stared at them with a mixed look on her face, one part wanting to run out and find someone to help her, and another part filled with courage wanted to beat down the door, trash whoever was on the other side and reclaim her Crest of Light from Myotismon.
Stepping up to the door, Wizardmon lifted his hands and ran it over the soft surface, his eyes closed in concentration as he used his magical abilities to read just who and how many was inside the room. Letting go of the wood, he looked back at them, concern clear in his eyes as he settled them on Kari. "There's three person's inside the room, who they are is unclear to me, but you should know that two of them are at least on the Champion level with the last one at the Ultimate level."
Lifting her gloves up into the air, Gatomon smirked as she stepped up to her old friend, while still staying in a protective position in front of Kari, her eyes glowing with the desire to do battle just for her partner's sake and not someone else's. "Let's just do it. I want the crest back in Kari's hands. That way I'll be able to digivolve and really kick Myotismon's ass."
Staring at the power mad Gatomon, Tai shook his head and stared up at his sister, every bit of his brother role screaming out for him to try and convince her to stay in the background and hide in a safe place while he and the other dealt with the digimons inside the room. "Kari?"
"No!"
Both Tai and Gatomon stared at the girl as she crossed her arm, her eyes full of Courage and determination to protect them with her life, just as they would anything to protect her from danger. "I will not hide, I going in there with you, and we're getting my crest back understood." As both feline digimon's lifted up their hands, she narrowed her eyes and set her mouth in a thin line. "No buts" Both felines dropped there hands down and gave a look at one another.
"Scary."
"I know, she's my sister."
Wizardmon lifted his staff into an attack posistion and tensed before the door. "Everyone ready." A series of yes and nods answered him as the group got ready for battle. "Then, let us do it." Pushing opened the door with those words, all three digimons and one human rushed into the dark room beyond.
Stooping as the door slammed shut behind them, the group looked around the dark room in confusion. The feline digimon's lees confused them Wizardmon and Kari, their eyes made to be able to see in the dark had already picked out the closets chairs where the audience could sit, and beyond stood a large scene with a very familiar coffin planted in the center. "There!" The words left both Tai's and Gatomon's mouth at the same.
"Ah, that's my cue... Welcome Digi Destine Brat, and welcome to you too traitors."
Stopping, all three digimon glared up at the source of the voice, a lone speaker chained to a scene light pole. The voice was one all three of them had grown to hate ever since they had met the one digimon it belonged too. "Demidevimon." At the word, a small light turned on in the master control booth high above the ground, showing Demidevimon and a single Bakemon sitting behind the glass window.
Looking down at them and waving a wing to greet them, Demidevimon turned and nodded at the bakemon. Then he returned his attention to the microphone before him, giving a loud cough as he cleared his throat. "As I said, welcome everyone. Tonight we have a real treat for all you late night viewers, the one we haven't captured yet." Pointing a wing down at the digi destined, he signaled the Bakemon to turn on the lights above them, as well as the Camera next to them. "Fighting to stop us from taking oever the earth, we have the legendary Eight Child with us here tonight, seeking to reclaim the Crest of light which will allow her precious cat to digivovle." A small red light turned on as the camera pointing at both Kari and the group turned on. Up in the booth, Demidevimon lifted his other wing and pointed towards the other side of the room, as he was once again live on TV. "And fighting for our side, we have three mean fighting machines. I give you the champion of all insects Snimon." A spotlight turned on and bathed the tall insect digimon in a cone of white light, the sickles on each hand sending the light back out in bright glints as they moved up and down rapidly. "And the second man on our team tonight, is the monster of the ground. Welcome Tuskmon." A loud roar filled the room as another cone of light showed a reptile type digimon with huge horn growing out of the shoulders, the mouth dripping drool down on the ground as it looked at Kari. "And finally, we have the master of All ghost digimons, the master of the hunting business. Phantomon." The cruel Sickles it had for arms moved rapidly in half circles as Phantomon became bathed in light, the red glow coming fro his eyes telling just how much he was looking forward to this moment. In the booth, Demidevimon put down his glass of water and gave the signal to turn on all the light at once. "And now humans and digimons a like, let the battle begin." The sound of a gong getting hit filled the room as the three evil digimon began to rush through the room, their intent on killing the good guys very clear.
Summing up the entire situation in a second, Wizardmon gave a very clear spoken and right to point two word description of the mess they were in. "Oh shit."
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Floating down to land on the top of his new home after another hunt for his once faithful servants and the eight brat, Myotismons stared around the fog covered city, his eyes full of anger over the fact that he had lost track of the little group of traitors and their human trash. But it didn't matter, now he knew how the girl looked, and soon he would have her both captured and killed in the same minute, and then, his darkness would covered both the human world and the digital world, just as he was destined to do from the start.
"We meet at last."
Turning around quickly in response to the voice, the vampire digimon lost his cool for a split second as he failed to see who had dared to talk to him in this moment of his thinking. In fact, all he could see were a series of deep shadows and the fog covered sky above him, removing even the most of the faint starlight. Clenching his hand in frustration, he narrowed his eyes and allowed his anger to show itself clearly. "Show yourself."
"As you wish, after all, none of can stay in the shadows for too long, can we?"
Slowly near the other end of the roof, Matt slowly moved out into the faint light on the roof, his eyes and face still showing his confidence in himself and his powers. Next to him, Weregarurumon stepped out as well, his face filled with a bloodlust, and a desire to fight. Dusting a few grains of dirt off his shoulder, Matt stared at the vampire digimon before him, taking in the pale face with the blue eyes and blond hair, the long fangs sticking out over the thin line the lips made. "Greetings Myotismon, I am the digidestined Matt, and this is my partner digimon Weregarurumon."
Staring at both the human child and his digimon as they stepped out of the shadows, his anger faded away at the insane idea that those two could have posed any danger to him at all. Staring in pure contempt at the blond haired kid as he began to talk to like they were equals. Hands uncurling and clenching as his body twitched with the desire to use his crimson lighting attack to choke both the boy and his digimon to death. "Well, now that you're here boy, I can only assume that you are here to surrender yourself."
Eyes glinting with amusement at those words, Matt shook his head. "You would be the wise one if you surrendered Myotismon, after all, you don't stand a chance against me and my pet."
Looking at the blond haired boy and the evil looking Weregarurumon standing next to him, Myotismon narrowed his eyes in anger as he could still feel the last failure and the betrayal of his best servant in his mind, and now some human and his pet digimon was giving him orders. "So it is you, the human fool who has been working against me both here and in the digital world." Clenching his hands, his anger boiled over as the confident smirk increased on the blondes face. "I don't know how you came to have that power child, but I won't back down from you. It is my fate to cover the two worlds in darkness and rule both the human and digital world."
Shrugging, Matt looked at the vampire digimon with a curious expression. "So you say, but the few things I have learned and heard about the legends and prophecies says otherwise." Turning to stare at Weregarurumon, Matt reached out and settled his hand on the arm of his digimon partner, the smirk turning into a taunting and almost pitying smile. "I've heard of the great battle on Server, and the day of despair from digimons who thought they would be spared if they told me."
Narrowing his eyes, Myotismon crossed his arms and leveled a glare of complete disinterest at the boy. "Fate is what we make it, the past can't effect our outcome." Smirking on his own, the vampire stared at the human boy with a glint of amusement as he spoke again. "Besides, the Power was lost that day, all that remains of it are legends and fools who cling to the hopes of its return."
Matt nodded and pulled his hand back to rest at his side. "Fate, such a strange thing, many claims that we are forced to be who we are because of fate, I say we make our own fate, and to get to mine, I must destroy and absorb your date." Weregarurumon stepped closer to the Digimon vampire and began to crack his knuckles. Behind him, Matt walked over to sit down on a small crate. "Beside Myotismon, the power has returned, or part of it has. Haven't you felt it near the strange digimon you captured."
Eyes narrowing in hidden surprise, Myotismon prepared to fight once more, the words of the human running through his mind, the notion that he had been near the legendary power. But who, Gatomon had wandered into his domain all those years ago, Demidevimon had given up even before he could get a chance to hurt that bowling ball shaped body of his and Chimon…
Matt nodded as he noticed Myotismon eyes light up with understanding. "That's right, Chimon, the only digimon not even you know anything about, is one of the legendary digimons who battled with the fist great evil to trouble the digital world."
Surprise moving into confidence, Myotismon began to chuckled silently as he took in the news, the very idea that he had harbored such a grand power so near him and not even seeing it, it was beyond all doubt that this was simply to much of coincidence. Chuckles turning into maniac laughter at that point, his eyes snapped opened and stared down at the kid before him. "Thank you for that information, now just as soon as I have killed you, I will find this worthless Chimon and take his data for my own, as well as his powers." Lifting his hand and clenching it, the blood red color of his attack spread out between his fingers. "Let us begin shall we, Crimson Light!!"
TBC.
Day Five: Battles of Darkness, Matt VS Myotismon.
AN: Sorry for the long delay with this chapter, I suffered from a case of writers block right in the middle of it all, but I'm back now and ready to kick some... Well, let's just say I'm back shall we.