Disclaimer: See parts 1 and 2.
Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivovle into Skullgreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon.
The digi destined are gaining strength, slowly but surely. Already they have bested two hybrids and deleted a powered up LadyDevimon in an all out battle. But darkness hasn't been beaten yet, and Machinedramon's army is moving fast towards the location of the DD's
Twist of fate
Part XV
World of Darkness
Part 4.
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Looking up from where had was placed. Tai stared with a bored expression at Gennai who was busy watching several letters and numbers run across the computer screen from the table right next to his own. "Why couldn't I go and join them in the fight against LadyDevimon?"
Gennai, briefly looking up from his notes, stared at Tai with a tired expression. "Because, I need to compare Kari's data with yours, to see if some of it matches." The last was added as he pointed at the computer screen. "And so far, it shows a very small amount alright."
Looking up at the words, Tai narrowed his eyes a bit. "So, is it dangerous for her, will she change as well?"
"I don't know." Gennai replied as he sat down at the table. "But, for now, I am sure of this." Holding out a sheet of paper towards Tai, he grumbled a bit. "Your acting like a digimon and digivolving have had a negative effect on your body, didn't help that you traveled to the real world and back again."
Pushing the paper aside as he didn't understand a single word written on it anyway, Tai gave Gennai a skeptic look as he pulled on his tail a bit. "Don't tell me, I can't change back right?"
Giving Tai a ark look as he was starting to rant, Gennai pushed his chair back a bit and dropped the paper into a waste basket next to him, pushing a few buttons on his computer and bringing up a small diagram. "Okay Taichi, This is a read out of your body." Ignoring Tai as he yawned, the digital human continued talking. "Now, this side of the circle represents your human side and this one your digimon side."
Getting an alarmed expression as he watched it, Tai cough a bit as he turned to watch Gennai. "Um, shouldn't the human side been bigger then the digimon side?"
Gennai nodded a yes as he stood up, giving a loud thinking sound as he began to walk around the lab. "I'm guessing the more you used your digimon powers, the more your spirit accepted it as it's true body." Looking back at the screen, Gennai gave a serious look at Tai who was staring back at him in a shocked state. "There's no real danger right now, but if you overdo it with acting like a real digimon, there may be a few problems when I restore your human body."
Falling down onto his back while breathing out in relief, Taichi stopped as he watched Gennai hold up a hand to show that he shouldn't be too happy at the moment. "Gennai, you can turn me back right, tell me you can, come on!" The last was added in hysterical voice as Tai was standing up on the table, his tail puffing up to show how serious it was to him.
"Well." Gennai started as he looked everywhere but right into that scared look Tai was giving him, knowing that what he was going to say would crush his hopes at least for now. "I need one thing to do it, a digimon willing to load the digimon data you have, and one that is close enough to you for it too work."
Lifting up a hand to point at Gennai with, Tai groaned as he could clearly see where this was headed, there was after all only one digimon that he could think off that fit that description Gennai had given. "Agumon, you're talking about Agumon right?"
Mutely nodding, Gennai pushed a single button on a small remote control, causing a overhead map of a large city to form on the wall to their left, a single red light clearly showing a pyramid shaped building. "I've done a lot of tests Taichi, and everything points to the fact Agumon is the only one who can help you, but, he still only a digi egg right now, waiting for his partner to find it before hatching again." Shooting a quick look over at Tai, he shook his head. "It's not your fault that he's like that, Blame it on Etemon and his attack, or blame it on Moonmilleniummon for bringing it about in the first place."
Pointing a finger at the map, Tai slowly turned his head to face Gennai's direction. "That city, it wouldn't happen to be, would it." The last was added in a whisper as Tai's hand and finger slowly lowered a bit.
"I'm afraid so." Gennai whispered out as well, his eyes downcast as he fumbled a bit with his right armrest. "Agumon's egg have been reported to be been locked away inside of Datamon's pyramid lab, right in the middle of Machinedramon's city."
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The few remaining digimon's who still refused to bow down to the rule of the Dark Master's and Moonmilleniummon looked on in fear as the Machine Army marched across the Digital world, the sun light getting blocked out by the massive dust cloud rising from the ground as Tankmon after Tankmon rolled over it.
In the sky, the almost twin form's of two dragon type digimon's cast a shadow onto the ground as they out through the dust cloud to circle above the army, their eyes keeping a look out for anyone that might try and stop their advances towards the rebel digimon's base.
And standing on the back of a large mobile platform, the master and leader of this army rose up, his metallic dragon like head casting the weak light of the day back into the air, the cannon's on his back casting a sense of fear into his army, as they spelled out instant death to all who crossed him.
Before him, two gear like digimon hovered before a vast array of computers as they worked tirelessly to keep the entire army going in the correct direction.
Turning around after checking his computer screen and data readout, one of the gear like digimon face the mechanical dragon before him with a lot of excitement. "My Lord Machinedramon, ETA with rebel base is in 3 hours and 10 minutes."
Lowering his gaze, Machinedramon regarded the rookie digimon before him with a feeling of disgust, the fact that something so weak, was the only one in his whole army that could control the computers of his city and mobile unit, was insulting to him. "Good, tell the army to prepare for battle, we're sure to meet a line of defense sooner or later." Silence filled the air for a second as Machinedramon replayed his words inside his head. "I'd prefer sooner, as I'm looking forward to causing more death and destruction."
"Yes Sir." The gear like digimon responded as it returned its attention to the computers, looking out over the vast army before them. "Stand bay for battle, Air units, intensify surveillance."
Staring back out into the desert opening up before him, Machinedramon gave a small chuckle as his systems began to glow with the desire to engage the Digi Destined in battle. For them to have survived so long in the digital world, meant that they had to be worthy opponents for him to fight, if not, he could still claim he killed them, something Metalseadramon had failed at. "Soon, it will be over, one way or another."
Peeking up over a sand dune, two Gazimon's stared at the army as it trampled over a few cactuses in its way, their eyes getting drawn towards Machinedramon as the large unit carrying drove past in the distance. "That's him, the one who destroyed Oasis Deen."
The other Gazimon nodded as he clichéd up his hand. "Seems he's headed towards Piximon's and the others hideout." Turing to regard his companion, the Gazimon nodded at him as they slid back down into the relative safety of the other side of the sand dune. "You, go warn Leomon and the other's, I'll keep an eye out on them."
"Um, speaking of keeping an eye on them." The first Gazimon mumbled out as he cast a look up into the air, feeling his digital blood run cold as he spotted the huge dragon digimon tearing through the air just above the sand dune, the eyes of it turning to look down at them as it passed by overhead. "Um, I would suggest that we run now." The Gazimon whimpered in fear as a pure look of murder crossed the dragon digimon's head.
"Good idea." The second Gazimon agreed as he looked out into the desert, the shadow of the dragon digimon turning around in the air as it circle around to get a lock on them. "Now move it!"
Slamming the three metal claws on it's lower arm open, the Dragon digimon gave a dark laugh as it locked onto the two Gazimon's running like crazy across the desert sand below it, noticing how they spilt up and ran off in a different direction each as they noticed him flying overhead. But that didn't matter; they wouldn't escape no matter which direction they ran away from him in. "So long fuzz balls, Darkside attack!!"
Turning his attention of to the side, Machinedramon stared emotionlessly as a loud cloud of sand and smoke shot up into the air from directly below one of his flying ultimate digimon's general's. Still, the explosion had disturbed him out of his thoughts of a glorious battle, and someone had to suffer for that. "What is that idiot Megadramon doing?"
Looking up, one of the gear like digimon's gave a startled squeak as he quickly called up the digimon in question, listing to the response which came just a few seconds later. "Scouts sir, or just random digimon's. Either way, Megadramon reports them to be deleted."
Machinedramon hummed a bit as he turned to look at the gear like digimon. "Very well, now call him back, I don't want to be delayed because one of my generals decided to go digimon hunting without my permission!"
Pressing back into the computer consoles, the gear like digimon squeaked out a yes as the towering form of Machinedramon filled his whole field of vision. "As you wish my lord, ETA to rebel digimon base, 2 hours and 47 minutes."
Grumbling a bit to himself, Machinedramon settled down and waited for the moment when the battle would begin for good, doing his best to suppress the urge to give in and remodel the desert with a few well placed attacks in sheer boredom.
Beyond the Sand dune, a single Gazimon coughed out a mouth full of grain and stood in a shaking fashion, the attack had come just within a single centimeter of deleting him. Luckily for him, he had survived. But, he thought as he turned to watch the place where his friend had been, he was now truly alone in this world of no hope.
Taking a single step, he slowly began to move towards the only surviving city in this endless desert that he knew off. Forest Spring, the last of the cities near the boarder into Puppetmon's domain, and a refuge for those who found themselves hunted by Machinedramon and Piedmon.
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Staring out into the central room of Gennai's house, Leomon sighed deeply as he looked from one of the chosen children to the other in the small group. "I'm sorry we haven't been able to help you more children, but, for now, we will have to leave this place." Ignoring the sudden question in their eyes as too where they would be going, the lion man like digimon turned to face Piximon. "Piximon, I trust you will be able to get them and Gennai to safety, while we and the other digimons try to gain as much time as we can for you."
Giving a startled cry at his words, Mimi looked up the towering digimon standing at the head of the table. "But Leomon, you can't, the Dark Master's will kill you." At her last words, Tears glittered in the corners of her eyes as she spoke.
Not looking back at them as he heard the girl's argument, Leomon already knew what would happened, but it didn't matter, he had sworn to protect them no matter what, and if it meant he had to fight Devimon or a more powerful foe to do that, it was what he would do. "To be deleted in a honorable battle, is what a every warrior to ask for, but you digi destined have a far more important destiny ahead of you then this fight, and I'm willing to lay down my life to see you children have a chance to carry it out."
Not waiting to hear anymore protests from them, Leomon walked out of the room as he gave a sharp nod to Piximon who had been sitting on his shoulder up to that point, and walked out into the corridor, shutting the door behind him. "I trust you will succeed in this Piximon, for if you don't, I can only hope the children have the strength to stand up the Dark Master's evil."
Still quietly sopping a bit, Mimi ignored the comforting hand Joe placed on her shoulder as he looked over at Piximon to look for extra support, but saw the same concerned look on the small digimon's face. "It's bad isn't it?"
Nodding slowly, Piximon sighed as he gave a sharp knock on the table with his staff, watching as every eye in the room focused on him. "Yes, from what our scouts have told us, most of Machinedramon's army is headed here, as well as the dark dragon himself."
Matt coughed a bit at that as he stood up, an annoyed look in his eyes as he looked at the other kids sitting around the table. "So, we're just going to run away, we're never going to beat them if we keep on doing that."
Giving a small laugh at Matt's comment, Piximon held out his staff and pointed at Matt's chest. "We will not be running away completely, we're going to Gennai's hidden lab to regroup and prepare for to turn your friend into a human again."
"Is that wise." Izzy voiced out as he ignored the death glare shot at him by two of the girls around the table. "Right now, Tai is a digimon, and while I want him back to normal." Izzy halted his speech a bit as he lowered his head. "I believe we need his strength as a digimon more then his human form."
"He does have a point" Joe added in as he tried to avoid the death glare that was now aimed at him. "I was agreeing with him. Those evil digimons are super powerful, and we could use all the help we can get to win over them." The last was added as everyone turned to look at Matt.
Not saying a thing at first as he saw them all stare at him, Matt finally snapped as he gave them all a dark glare as they didn't seem to stop looking at him anytime soon. "What?!"
"Well." Izzy started as he opened up his laptop, finding a small comfort in the fact that he could at least look at that while talking with the more anti social member of their group. "I was just thinking, since Tai's not here to voice his opinion, that maybe you had something to say, you're like him after all, you both have or had digital data store inside of you and." Izzy stopped as he felt Matt grab the front of his shirt and pull him up from the floor. "Uh, bad subject?"
Not answering right away, Matt simply dropped the younger boy onto the floor and turned around to hide the pain filled expression on his face. "I don't care, I got enough to worry about to make a discoing for him." Walking out of the room, Matt ended his side of the discussion as effectively as he could
Standing up as soon as Matt had left, Kari gave a dark glare at group around her before she started walking over to the door as well. "I'm going down to Gennai's lab here." Feeling the others look at her, she stopped. "I think that Matt's right, we can't make this decision for him." not staying to hear any of their comments on it, the young girl stepped out into the corridor, her hand lingering on the door as it closed.
"Headed to the lab." Matt asked as he looked up from where he stood in the corridor, his face turned away from the window he had been looking out off a few seconds before. "Mind if I come with you, I have something to talk about with Taichi."
Not finding any reason why he couldn't, Kari gave a small nod as she began to walk down the corridor, one hand holding onto her crest while the other one were fingering her brother's digivice. "Matt." Almost feeling the older boy tense up at her strange tone of voice, she thought about asking him the question that had puzzled her for a long time now and how to voice it. "I, I don't know if it's a good time to ask this, but I just want to know, why?"
Feeling a bit confused over her broken speech, Matt tired to make sense of it, feeling a bit colder when he heard the last word, clearly a where of what she had meant with it. "I, I." Not answering her, Matt lowered his head. "I, don't really understand it myself, I was scared at the time, confused and. Angry."
"Oh." Kari replied, not sure she had really understood it, but feeling that she wasn't going to get much more of an answer out of him. "He never understood it." Kari voiced out as she stopped outside the door leading down into Gennai's lab. "He never said it, but I could see it in hsi eyes, he."
"I know." Matt snapped out as he turned away from her, one hand clenched up at his side. "I hate myself for what I did under that monster influence, but I can't change the past."
Feeling a bit hurt over the sudden change in mood from the blond haired boy, Kari slowly shook her head a bit and opened the door. "Talk with him, explain it."
Staring at the lab door as it closed behind her, Matt grumbled under his breath as he pushed it open again, stepping into the rather large room behind it. The lab behind the door making him feel like he had just stepped onto a horror movie set. "Talk with him, well it's not that easy you know."
Looking up at the sound of a pair of new voice in the room, Gennai turned away from the table and stared at Kari as she came around one his bigger machines. "Oh, hello, I was just about to send Tai to get you." Stepping closer to her, Gennai smiled as a small furred form ran past him and jumped up to hug the young girl. "Guess I'm not the only one who's feeling proud of you, and the others."
"Proud?" Kari asked as she looked up at the elder digital human, her hand busy rubbing the multi colored hair on top of her brother head, giggling as one of the ears twisted a bit to avoid getting hit by a finger. "Why?"
Walking up to her, Gennai looked past her and saw Matt standing in the darker parts of the lab. "You won a battle against a very powerful digimon, and you as well Matt, I saw that your crest have been activated." Smiling as he turned to walk over to his work table, his motioned for them to join him at it. "I believe you and Matt here have come to find out what I have come up with about you and Tai, correct young Kari?"
Seeing them nod as his question, Gennai smiled as he turned on his computer screen, showing a picture of Tai and Kari on it. Tai, having both a picture of his human form and his digimon one, while Kari just had a picture of her human body. "Now, I have finished running all of my tests, and the results were not as good as I had hoped."
Looking a bit alarmed at his words, Kari turned to Tai for support, seeing the small cat like body of his sitting on the table, after having used part of Gennai's machines to make it up there. "Tai's going to become human again, isn't he, mom's going to be so mad at us if he don't."
Giving a small laugh at what she had said, Gennai turned to regard Matt standing a bit away from them, his blue eyes staring at the screen as well. "Well of course he is, but, I need a you to get a thing first, Tai can brief you all on it later, now however, we should be talking about you, and you as well Matt."
"Me?" Came the duel response from the two of them as they gave the old man a skeptic look.
Nodding as he pointed at the computer screen, Gennai kept a close eye on them. "Now, as you should know by now, Tai changed because he had digimon data hidden in his body." Ignoring the angry look he got from Kari at the mentioning of the data, he continued to talk. "Now, the data response to save Tai and gave him a new body to live in, but it is not a complete version of the original Chimon."
Looking up at the words, Tai gave a skeptic look at Gennai as he tapped a finger on the table. "It's not, feels pretty complete enough for me."
Waving a hand to show that he wanted them to remain quiet, Gennai continued talking. "Now, Kari, you have about 4 - 5 percent of Chimon in you, namely the one that regards his hair structure and eye color." The information getting a small grin out of Matt as Tai blushed while rubbing a hand through the mop of hair on his head. "But what really worries me is that somehow, you have a lot of digital energy inside of you, far more then a human should."
Looking shocked, both Tai and Kari shared a look as they tried to figure out how to deal with it. "I'm not, going to die form it am I?"
Giving a small shocked laugh at her question, Gennai stood up and pattered her on the shoulder. "No, no." Turning around, he pressed a button and smiled as a small diagram of a glowing sphere formed. "The crest of light represents the blinding light of goodness inside of you, but it is a human energy source, digital energy source is what is generated by a digimon, and that is what I'm worried about."
Pointing a hand at the screen with the glowing sphere, Gennai tapped a finger on its image. "This is a digi core, they do more then containing digital energy. They will grant a digimon a great power. The power to digivolve to their highest level regardless of what type of digimon it is. It is also a power that can only be used by a digimon"
"Like I did." Tai added in as he looked at the screen, remembering when he had first met Archdramon in his mind and learned that he had reached a level called "Mega."
Gennai nodded at Tai's words, as he turned and walked over to the other end of the room "Yes, but this is only the power granted to Chimon, so there's only enough to allow you to reach the mega level, Tai." Opening a small box hidden away in a corner of the room, Gennai pulled out two small crystal balls. "Now, together with a good friend and one of his friends, I have created these."
Staring at them, Matt gave a snort as he shook his head. "Great, so now we can play fortune tellers and see our futures with these things, big deal!"
Grinning a bit at the sarcastic way the blond haired boy had spoken, Gennai placed one in Tai's hands and the other one Matt's. "They won't be used for that, these are a copy of something called a digi core, instead, they will store the digital energy from Kari." Turning to the one in Matt's hand, he gave a small grin. "And TK."
"What!!"
Pulling himself up after Matt's outburst, Gennai slowly shook his head a bit. "Well, I wasn't really sure, but the more I thought about, the more it made sense." Turning to the computer, he brought up a diagram with a small figure of Matt, Tai, Kari and TK on it. "Tai got most of Chimon's data, and Kari got a bit of it as well." Looking at Matt, he braced himself for another outburst. "And it is safe to assume the same thing goes for you and TK, I even did a few remote readings to be sure."
Looking rather much like someone who had been hit over the foot with hammer, Matt nearly crushed the crystal ball in his hands at Gennai's words. "My little brother is not a freak!"
"Who are you calling a freak!?" Tai and Kari yelled out at the same time, both of them glaring at the much larger blond haired boy.
Having a rather shocked expression on his face at the sudden death glares aimed at him, Matt quickly looked anywhere but at them as he began to think of something to say, anything to make them stop glaring at him. Finally thinking of something, but not really knowing if it was a good thing to ask, he blurted it out. "Will it, hurt him?"
Eyes widening a bit at the question, Kari and Tai turned their glare on Gennai as it was a much more important question to get an answer to. "Yeah Gennai, will it hurt?"
"Of course not, the process is completely harmless." Gennai smiled as he took the small crystal ball form Tai and Matt and placed one on the table and held the other one in his right hand. "Now, if you will both kindly step over here, I had this machine rebuilt while you were at Myotismon's castle Taichi."
Looking at it, Tai gave a shudder as he could clearly remember seeing it in one of Archdramon's memory flashes. "Gennai, that's the one you used to seal away Chimon with."
Shooting a sincere smile over at Tai, Gennai nodded as he placed the crystal ball inside a small glass container, watching as it floated in the air when he closed the lid on the container. "Now, Kari, please sit down here, and I'll work on getting that data and energy out of you."
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Staring out over the desert, Leomon took in a deep breath of air as he began to see the horizon turn dark from a dust cloud, the sound of Machinedramon's army approaching in the distance growing. Looking to the sides of him, he could see a small, but powerful group of digimon's ready to fight one last time. "Remember, we're not fighting to win, but to buy time for Gennai, and the Digi Destined children!"
Giving a loud cheer at his words, the rookie and champion digimons spread out, using their skills in hiding to their best as they seemed to become one with the desert.
Watching them, Leomon slowly walked up to stand on the nearest sand dune not serving as a hiding place for one of his digimon soldiers. "Ogremon, I hope I can live up to your image of a great warrior."
Watching the lion man like digimon standing before his army, Machinedramon gave a sound very similar to a dragon's growl, his arms moving a bit up into the air. "You dare to stand in my way, a champion level digimon?"
Not answering right away, Leomon slowly lifted up his sword in front of him. "I dare to do more then that, I may fall here today, but I won't let you reach the children." The last was added out as his eyes narrowed into slits.
Stomping forward a bit, the mechanical dragon ignored the groaning and whimpering sounds coming from his soldiers, as they had to rest in the sand, his eyes focused completely on Leomon. "You are just like Ogremon, a fool who think he's actually something because he has a reputation." Lifting up his Megadramon like arm. A dark chuckle escaped from him. "As LadyDevimon deleted your rival, so shall I delete you,"
"We'll see about that." Leomon roared out as he spread his arms out to the side, a small wind forming around him as he began to glow with power, sand flying out in all directions. "My contact with the children's digivices has given me a great gift, one that I shall now use to protect them with."
At his last word, the hidden rookie and champion digimons shot out of their hiding places, firing off a barrage of attacks on Machinedramon's army, making the Tankmon's look around in confusion, before trying to launch a counter attack at whatever attacking digimon they could spot.
Ignoring the rising chaos around him, Machinedramon eyes glowed a bit as he finally began to recognize the power readings he was getting from Leomon. "So, you have gotten that skill from the children, but no matter how a level you digivolve too, you won't stop me."
Opening his eyes to look at his foe, Leomon gave a small, almost insane grin at Machinedramon. "I won't let you pass so easily, Leomon Digivolve too, Saberleomon!" At his cry, a small sphere burst out around him as his body change form the lion man like form to the much more powerful, four legged, mega level of his. "Machinedramon, I shall do my best to fell you this day."
Slamming open his Megadramon like arm and punching out. Machinedramon roared out loudly at the challenge from his opponent. "You won't last long against me, Leomon!"
Jumping over the attack arm, Saberleomon hung shortly in the air as he looked down at his much larger foe, then he fired off his opening attack. "Howling Crusher!"
Laughing out darkly as each of the needle like energy bursts hit him, Machinedramon stepped over his screaming servants who got hit by the attack as well, their bodies breaking apart into digital data after getting his a few times, a loss he could live with, they were just rookies after all. "My turn, Dragon fire!" Slamming open his Megadramon like hand, a large jet flame shot out towards Saberleomon.
Doing a pretty good air twist, Saberleomon landed on the sandy ground with only a few singed hairs from the sudden fire attack. "I'm not done yet, Howling crusher!" Claws glowing with power, Saberleomon hammered them down onto the Megadramon like arm, doing nothing but leaving behind a few scratches on the paint job. "Um."
Glaring at Saberleomon, Machinedramon ripped his arm back and sent the lion like digimon tumbling through the sand with a cry of surprise. "This has gone on long enough, goodbye Leomon." Even as he spoke, the cannon's on his back had begun to glow with power as the wires transferred energy into them. "I shall enjoy remembering your deletion, Giga Cannon!!"
Shouting out a loud curse, Saberleomon took off running as the sheering hot plasma blast began hammering into the ground right behidn him, sand and other things shooting up into the air with several shockwaves moving out as well as the attacks began to close in on him, then they hit in front and around him.
Watching the sand as it began to settle down again, Machinedramon gave a cruel hearted laugh as he began to turn around, watching the remains of his army staggering back up again. Seemed a few of them had been hit by his attack as well. "Now that that is done with, we will proceed to the rebel digimons base and..."
"Howling Crusher!"
Watching a few of his warriors getting hit by the attack and knocked back, Machinedramon turned back around to see a badly hurt Saberleomon staggering towards him. "You're still alive?"
Giving his best smirk, Saberleomon stood up and ignored the pain from his burn marks. "Of course, it's going to take more then that to delete me."
Stepping forward, Machinedramon gave the impression of regarding Saberleomon a bit more respectively. "I see, but I really can't waste my time here, guess I'll just have to send someone else to start the attack on your precious children." Lifting up his arm, a dark chuckled filled the air as two dragon forms swept out of the sky. "Gigadramon, Megadramon, proceed to the target point and level everything in sight."
Shooting past over the mega level digimons, laughter filled the air again as the two dragons like digimons increasing their speed. "As you wish master, we'll try and leave something behind for you." Gigadramon responded as he slammed open the metallic claws on his arms.
Next to him, Megadramon laughed as well as his eyes gleamed with the thought of deleting everything at the place, as well as destroying those so called digi destined they had heard so much about. "Come on Gigadramon, move it. I want to destroy someone today"
Watching them fly off, Saberleomon eyes widen in shock and anger as he turned around to face them better, forgetting hat Machinedramon was still paying attention to him. "Howling!"
"Dragon Fire!" Machinedramon voice filled the air as another jet flame shot out and nearly hit Saberleomon in back.
Landing on the ground, Saberleomon eyed his much bigger foe again as he began to move slowly to the side. "I may not escape from this, but at least I will have prevented you from being there to harm the kids." Rushing forward towards Machinedramon again, Saberleomon jumped through the air, right towards Machinedramon. "Howling Crusher!"
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Stepping back form the machine, Gennai gave a victory sigh toward sthe samll group as he turned and lifted up the container around the crystal ball, watching the glowing sphere before him with a look of complete surprise. "Well, this one has a bit more power then I had expected." Turning from it, Gennai stared over at Kari who looked to faint where she was sitting.
Staggering up and removing the helmet and other things Gennai had attached to her, Kari stumbled over to look at the power glowing in the sphere. "That, was hidden inside of me?" The question had been aimed at Gennai as she turned her head to look up at him.
Nodding, Gennai slowly turned away from the machine and handed it over to her. "Yes, now be very careful, this power is something even I don't know much about." Standing up to watch Tai and Matt who had been hovering at the door, the digital human smiled and waved them forward. "Now, Matt, I think you can agree that this didn't hurt her in anyway, so, can I scan TK and you as well now?"
Opening his mouth to answer, Matt froze as a loud blaring sound suddenly blasted through the room, the sound sending him crashing into the wall as he clamped both hands over his ears. "What is that? Gennai?" He roared out instead of the half doubting answer he had been prepared to give.
Looking deeply disturbed, Gennai had turned from his machine to watch the computer screen as it shifted to show an image of the outside of his house. The shocked expression on his face at what he saw, sent Matt, Kari and Tai almost running to computer as well. "This is not good." Gennai commented as he turned to face the other three in the room. "Not good at all."
Lifting up a clawed finger and pointed at the screen, as he turned his head to regard Gennai behind him. "Who is those two Gennai?"
Gennai shook himself out of his shock and turned to regard Tai, Kari and Matt. "Those two, are the strongest digimons in Machinedramon's army, Megadramon and Gigadramon." Turning away form the computer with a deadly serious expression on his face, Gennai watched each of the three in the room share a quick look. "The others will need your help with this one Tai, Matt, I will need you to find TK, get him down here as fast as you can, time is running out."
Ignoring the questioning look on Matt's face, Gennai quickly turned to his machine again. "Hurry up, we don't have all day, Machinedramon is coming here, and you're not ready to face him, not yet."
Next to Kari, Tai nodded as he grabbed his sister shirt and pulled on it gently. "Come on Kari, I'm not sitting this one out." Turning around, Tai looked up at the blond haired boy for a short second. "Matt, please, go get TK, we need him now."
Feeling a small mental pain in his heart, Matt slowly lowered his head, the feeling that he and TK were growing apart had never been stronger then it was at the moment. "I don't know."
Feeling Gennai's hand on his arm, Matt turned to watch the old man look up at him with a gentle expression. "You are afraid, scared that he will leave you alone." Ignoring the shocked and tormented expression on Matt's face, Gennai turned around to face the machine behind him. "He won't leave you, he seeks your approval, and looks up to you. As much as he does to Tai."
Not feeling convinced at all, Matt stood up and nodded his head as he turned around. "I'll get him down here safely, but I won't like it." Running out of the room, Matt stopped as he spotted Kari and Tai standing up ahead of him in the corridor.
Holding up the sphere, Kari turned to stare at Tai with a nervous expression. "You think this will work?" Her voice showing just how much she was concerned.
Smiling up at her, Tai nodded as he slowly took the sphere away form her. "We won't know until we try it." Turning around to face the door leading out into the open, Tai took a deep breath of air as he reached up and opened it "You ready?"
Nodding a bit, Kari reached down and picked up Tai's digivice from her belt, the device feeling a bit alien to her, but still with a comfortable feeling as she held it out towards her brother. "Digivolve!"
At her yell, the sphere in Tai's hands seemed to explode with light, streams of it flowing from the sphere into his digivice. A loud humming sound responding as it began to shake violently, finally responding with a blast of orange fire shooting right at Tai.
Crossing his arms as his body became flooded with power, Tai cast his head back in a silent scream as the feeling caused him to spread his arms out to the side again, as he grew to three times his normal size. "Chimon, Mega digivovle too..." at his words, he spread out over his arms to the side, a wave of fire running over them, forming into the familiar wristbands with the claws on them, the only new thing to his mega form, was the two Garudamon like wings forming on his back as the fire died out. "Archchimon!"
Landing on the ground, Tai flexed his new muscles in a testing manner, before moving his head to stare at his wings. "Cool." Returning his gaze to Kari, he smirked as he reached down and picked her up, then he turned his head to face Matt who had stepped out of the corridor as well. "Hey, need a lift?"
Looking a bit apprehensive at Tai offer, Matt finally sighed as he reached down and grabbed a hold on Tai's neck, trying to ignore how soft the fur felt under him. "Tai, don't do anything stupid okay, nor tricks, no stunts, just get me to where TK and Gabumon are."
"Me, do tricks?" Tai asked as he spread out his wings, somehow knowing just what he should do in order to get off the ground and fly through the sky, well, he knew how to take off, the rest would come to him when he was up there. "I couldn't dream of it." Tai answered with a voice telling clearly that he would be doing a loop de loop as soon as he could. "Let's go!"
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Moving low through the air, Lillymon watched as Megadramon and Gigadramon proceed to destroy even more of Piximon's barrier then before, making a hole big enough for both of them to get through at the same time. Turning around, the pixy type digimon rushed back towards the location where her partner was hiding.
Looking up over the small rock blocking her from view, Mimi breathed out in relief as Lillymon landed on the ground next to her. "There's only two of them, but." Looking a bit tense as she watched her partner and a few of the other kids giving her their full attention, she sighed. "They're both powerful, on the same level as LadyDevimon if not stronger."
Looking concerned at the words, Izzy turned to face the rest of the group, Watching as MegaKabuterimon and Zudomon continued to try and hide behind some of the larger rocks spread out in the area. "Okay, this is the plan, MegaKabuterimon and Garudamon will take on Gigadramon. Lillymon and Zudomon will tackle Megadramon, and TK." The young blond haired boy looked up as his name was mention. "Have Angemon ready to help anyone of the groups if they look like it."
Nodding, the group of Humans turned to watch their partners stand up as well. "Okay everyone!" Sora yelled out as she turned to face the two ultimate dragon like digimon heading towards them. "Give them everything you have!"
"Flower Cannon!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Electro Shocker!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Hand of Fate!"
Moving backwards, Megadramon gave a roar of anger as his cannon hands slammed open, the glowing light coming from them, sending a chill down the Digi Destined children back. "Dark Side Attack!" Sending out a shockwave, Megadramon's missiles impacted the attacks heading towards him.
Gigadramon having seen the attacks as well settled for a different approach, as he simply dodged the three of them by flying down as low to the ground as he could. Diving up again, he slammed open his own cannon hands and pointed them at the kids who gave a loud scream at the sight of it. "Goodbye brats, Dark Side Attack!"
Firing off the missiles, the dark dragon like digimon gave aloud roar of triumph as they headed right towards the defenseless kids on the ground below him. Or they did until a white sliver of light hammered into them, causing half of the to blow up, the other half getting knocked completely out of the sky by a cross of light.
"Who!" Roaring out the word, Gigadramon turning his attention to the two shapes rushing out of the smoke screen caused by the explosions. "Die!" Slamming open his arms again, he grinned only to give a loud cursed as something big, and red smashed into his side, pushing him away from his intended targets. "Get away form you."
MegaKabuterimon ignored the order from Gigadramon as he powered up one of his attack, grinning, as there was no way the dragon could avoid getting hit this time. "Horn Buster!"
Giving a loud scream of surprise and pain, Gigadramon twisted free form MegaKabuterimon as smoke rose up from his side, the metal covering his back colored a nice black tone where he had been hit, pain shooting from it through his body. "You'll pay for that." Gigadramon promised as he twisted his body so he could face the insect digimon.
Ducking out of the way, Lillymon flew up into the air and gave a quick giggled as she speed up, forming a fast moving blur around Megadramon's neck. "Flowery!!" Shooting away form the dragon like digimon, she giggled as she turned around. "That should cool him down a bit, nothing like my lovely flowery to cool down a virus infected digimon."
"Really." Megadramon spat out the words as he gave a sudden flick with his tail, catching Lillymon in the back with a sickening sound, the force sending her crashing into the Rockwell. "Too bad I'm not infected by a virus!" Spreading out his arms, the dragon like digimon gave a cold laugh. "Dark Side Attack!!"
Watching it, Mimi eyes grew a bit bigger as her hands flew out in an attempt to reach her partner, despite the distance separating them. "Lillymon!" Then the missiles hit, sending a large cloud of dust and smoke rising into the sky, hiding everything form Mimi's view. "Lillymon?"
Turning around in midair, Megadramon's mouth opened a bit as his cannons hands remained open. "One down, one to go." His flight path aimed right towards Zudomon, who looked a bit unsure about his chances at winning.
Then a shape shot out of the smoke, wings spread out as a scream of pure rage filled the area, catching Megadramon oaf guard as the shape flew close past him with the words. "Claws of the Beast!" Rang out through the air, the surprise of the attack allowing Tai to score a direct hit on the dragon like digimon with his right fist.
Tumbling back in pain as his left eyes blacked out, Megadramon roared as his cannons fire doff into the distance, sending up a series of explosions in the other end of the battles field. "You are dead, you hear me!"
Not stopping, Tai shot up into the air, and made a quick turn, pointing his claws right down towards Megadramon who had spotted him at last, the evil dragon taking off up towards him.
On the ground, Mimi had dropped to her knees as she gave a loud sob, her best friend had been hit by such a devastating attack, there was no way she could have survived, no way. "Lillymon."
"Mimi?"
Looking up at her name, the cinnamon haired girl froze as she spotted Palmon heading towards her, her body heavily bruised as she stumbled and fell down. "Palmon!" Rushing over to hold her partner, Mimi smiled as she saw Palmon give her a reassuring smile. "You're okay right?"
Smiling as she held one of Mimi's hands, Palmon closed her eyes a bit. "Of course Mimi, I just need to sleep a bit. That attack hurt me more then I thought."
Smiling and lifting up her head, Mimi watching as Tai glowed brightly orange, the claws of his getting pulled together in front of him, making his whole body look like a spear. "Please be careful Tai."
"Rocket attack!" Attacking first, Megadramon fired off his missiles at Taichi, sending out an endless flow of them as he slowed down to simple hovering in the air.
Moving downwards rapidly, Tai narrowed his eyes as he powered up his claw attack again, not caring that he could end up break his arms hitting Megadramon with the speed he was traveling at, or one of those missiles might blow him to digi dust if they hit him. That bastard digimon had hurt one of his friends, and he was going to pay for it. "Claws of the Beast!!"
Giving a laugh of triumph, Megadramon watched as his missiles exploded in mid air, right where he had expected the other digimon to pass through. Laughing a bit more, Megadramon stopped as the smoke was blown apart by a orange glowing blur shooting out of it spinning from his own attack, hitting him right in the chest, sending a wave of pain through his body as the digimon drilled right through him.
Not even giving a scream of pain, Megadramon simply broke apart into digital dust, his one good eye showing just how confused he was over his defeat.
Under the place where the dark dragon digimon had been, Tai finally managed to stop his spin. The blasted missiles having caused him to do it when he had been forced to do a quick turn to avoid getting hit, but had ended up acting like a spin top instead.
But it had been rather cool to see Megadramon's shocked expression as he drilled right through his chest, or the few fractions of a second he had seen it. Still, he hadn't expected to be fighting this hard in his first battle as a mega level digimon.
Landing on the ground, Tai gave a small smile at Mimi and Joe who stared at him in shock, before he glowed bright white and returned to his rookie stage.
"Joe!" Izzy yell had the oldest of the digi destined turn his head away form the sight of the small puppy like form lying on the ground before them, to see the others fighting against Gigadramon. "Shoot, Zudomon, Help them!"
Running off, Joe didn't see Mimi concerned look at she watched Tai sleeping on the ground. "How, how could you fight such a powerful digimon like that, I." She mumbled out as she held Palmon closer to her. "Don't any of you worry about dying in those battles?"
Running across the ground, Kari and Matt watched their digimon fight against the flying metal dragon like digimon above them, feeling a bit of fear as it knocked Weregarurumon down and smacked Angewomon into Garudamon. "I don't believe it."
Kari nodded as she watched Angewomon struggle her way back into the air, ready to attack again, only to get thrown into MegaKabuterimon. "He's creaming all of them." She breathed out as they reached the three Chosen Children standing before them.
Turning her head, Sora nodded at Kari before returning her gaze to the battle. "Izzy, we have to do something, they're getting beaten."
Watching the fight, Izzy stared at MegaKabuterimon and then at Gigadramon for a few minutes before he gave a quick nod at something. "Okay, we can't hit Gigadramon because he's too fast for us, only when he's not looking have we scored a direct hit on him." Turning to face the other kids, he gave a quick smile. "We need to slow him down, and give out digimons enough time to hit him."
"Got an Idea?" Matt asked as he watched Weregarurumon miss Gigadramon again, his energy attack sailing right into Garudamon who stumbled back. "Damn."
Turning his head to the side, Izzy nodded as he saw Megadramon get deleted, then he frowned as Tai dedigigolved. "Okay, we lost two of our fighters, but we could use Zudomon for this." Cupping both hands around his mouth, Izzy yelled out for the oldest kid to join them.
Huddling together with the other kids to explain his plan, he ignored the sound of the battle raging nearby. "Okay, here's the plan." Watching Matt look a bit concerned at TK, Izzy pulled at his hand. "Matt, pay attention okay, I need Weregarurumon, Garudamon, Angewomon and Angemon to distract him." Turning away from them, he watched MegaKabuterimon land on the ground nearby.
Running off, the red haired boy stopped next to his digimon and grabbed Joe's arm, talking with him as he gestured towards Gigadramon.
Watching it, Matt stared at the others. "Do you think he even has a plan?" The question had a s lot of doubt in it as he turned to the battle. "Weregarurumon, try a frontal attack." Next to him, Sora, Kari and TK gave a similar order to their digimon partners.
Firing off their attacks, the digimons groaned as one again, Gigadramon fired off his own to counter them, sending out a smoke screen from the explosions to hide him for a few seconds. "Some Plan." Angewomon mumbled out as she tried to guess how Gigadramon would attack, her concentration getting broken when a huge shadow fell over the area with the smoke screen. "What's he doing?"
MegaKabuterimon gave a battle cry as he landed on Gigadramon's back, the dragon like digimon having been fully occupied with trying to figure out how to attack the digimons before him. Now, he began to buck, and twist, to get the rather heavy insect digimon off. "Slow down will you." MegaKabuterimon mumbled out as he crossed his upper arms. "Take this, Electro Shocker!"
Giving a loud scream a of pain, Gigadramon stopped moving as his whole body lit up from the electricity, then he crashed into the ground, digging a small trench as he plowed through the ground. "Damn!" Pushing his head up, he blinked as he felt the Weight of the insect digimon vanish. "What?"
"Vulcan's hammer!!"
Then he got his answer as Zudomon filled his line of vision all of sudden, the hammer heading right towards his head with a glow of power around it. "No!" Then everything blacked out as he was hit, a sound of metal breaking briefly heard before everything became white.
On the side lines, the four digi destined watched as Izzy plan was carried out, their faces turning green as Zudumon's attack deleted Gigadramon by hitting him in the head as hard as he could, crushing the metal head completely, instantly turning the large digimon into digital data floating off into the air.
"Okay." Matt weakly mumbled out as he looked away from it, his stomach twisting a bit. "No one deserved to go out like that."
Sora nodded weakly. "Yeah, sometimes, this hero stuff is just to much."
Izzy looked over at them as he ignored the shocked expressions. "It had to be done, if not, we might have lost to him."
"Yeah." Matt replied as he pointed at the place where Gigadramon had been. "But did it have to be in such a disturbing way?"
"Digi Destined." Gennai's voice interrupted them as they looked up towards the house in the distance, seeing Gannai standing there in the doorway with a serious expression on his face. "Hurry up, I've spotted Machinedramon entering the first line of defense, it only a matter of minutes before he's here."
Rushing up to him, Kari looked over to See Mimi holding both Palmon and her brother. "Tai?" Grabbing him, she turned to look up at Gennai. "Is he okay?"
Looking down at Tai briefly, Gennai nodded as he began to turn around. "Yes, he's only drained from the fight, I'm guessing he used to much power in his last attack." Stepping into the building, Gennai walked towards the main room. "Get your stuff children, it's time to head towards one of my more secret labs."
"Okay." Came the reply as the children rushed off to pick up their stuff form their room.
Standing behind, Mimi looked over at Gennai and then down at Palmon. "Gennai, I don't know if I can go on." Seeing his concerned expression at her words, she sighed. "Palmon nearly died out there today, I don't want to lose her."
Smiling a bit in a reassuring way, Gennai looked down at Palmon held in her hands. "I understand, but you must know this, as long as the Dark Master's are out there, you will never find the peace you long for. Neither here or in the real world."
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"They have escaped again!" Moonmilleniummon roared out as he watched the Dark Master's standing around him. Machinedramon's place empty as he was still in the desert area. "Once again those brats have managed not only to escape, but to add a blow to my plans."
Barely able to hide his smirk, Piedmon turned his head to regard his fellow Dark Master's. Puppetmon who was closest to him, were sitting with his feet dangling out over the edge of the pillar, MetalSeadrmaon had curled up around his pillar and were simply staring into the darkness.
Returning his attention to the crystal encased digimon, Piedmon smiled as he stepped forward a bit. "Lord Moonmilleniummon, we, the Dark Master's shall take over for now, and destroy the Digi Destined." Pulling out a sword as he spoke, Piedmon smirked. "Count on it, the brats don't stand a chance against us."
Simply staring at the clown like digimon, Moonmilleniummon eyes glowed a bit before a dark chuckle came from him. "I like your attitude Piedmon, very well. I shall leave this matter over to you." Watching the Dark Master's before him, the evil mega digimon gave a dark laugh. "But, my own servant's have not been completely beaten yet, and I shall send one of them out for one final battle."
Bowing as the Dark digimon vanished, Piedmon's smile faded, things had not gone as he had expected. LadyDevimon was gone, and now Machinedramon's strongest servants as well. "MetalSeadramon." Watching the weakest and most dimwitted member of the Dark Master's look up at him, Piedmon gave a dark smile as he floated up into the air. "The Digi Destined are headed towards your domain, I trust you know what to do.
Grinning, MetalSeadramon uncurled from around the pillar and flew out of the room, his laughter filling the area with a sense of dread.
Standing up, Puppetmon pulled his hammer free and swung a few times in front of him. "About time we got some action around here, I've been wanting to play with those brats for a long time." Floating up into the air as well, the small wooden digimon turned to regard Piedmon. "You been acting strange lately Piedmon. Are you plotting something again?"
Smiling falsely as he regarded his fellow Dark Master, Piedmon slowly began to leave the room as well. "Maybe I am."
TBC: MetalSeadramon Round one.
AN: Finally, the story reaches the Dark Master's parts. Which means there is almost an end to this story. The next chapter will be more action filled then this one, I promise.
And about this chapter. I don't really know, I feel like I did a good job, but I have a nagging feeling that it is not up to my usual standard. Anyway, hit reveiw and give me any comments you migth have, as I could use some feedback on how you think teh story is coming along.