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 XVIV
MetalSeadramon Round one
"Well, here we are." Joe spoke out loud in a slightly sarcastic voice as he stared out over the digital ocean. The sarcasm coming from the fact, that Gennai had implied that they were to head towards the forest part of Spiral Mountain, not the Ocean part. "I can't tell you how glad I am we stopped here, after all, getting to Gennai's hideout could only mean our very future."
Staring over at him, Matt sighed a bit as he stuffed his hand into his pockets. "Hey, relax will you, the digimons are tired and hungry. Not to mention myself." Turning away form Joe, Matt smiled as he spotted TK and Patamon sitting over by the campfire. "Hey, TK, want to help me try and catch a fish?"
Looking a bit stressed out by how easy Matt was taking things; Joe stared after him with a look of utter disbelief. "But what about the dark masters, what if they show up?"
"Take it easy Joe." Tai added as he walked past, holding some firewood in his arms, Palmon and Gabumon helping him. "If they show up, I'll go to my mega stage and kick there." The rest was blocked off as his sister had grabbed his shoulder. "Kari?"
Looking a bit at Tai and shaking her head, Kari looked up. "Joe does have a point, your mega form is powerful, but I don't know if it will be a match for all four Dark Masters at once."
Nodding at her words, Matt turned to look out over the water. "True, they have taken over the entire digital world, and had such powerful digimons as LadyDevimon, Gigadramon and Megadramon working under them." Staring at the group, Matt eyes grew serious as he sighed. "We may have to work even harder to win against them, and that's only against one."
Not saying much after that, the digi destined continued to try and make the best of what they could. Setting up a camp and securing something to eat. But feeling less cheerful then before as Matt and Kari's words kept on haunting them the whole time.
--------------------------------"Look at them, not a care in the world." Piedmon muttered out as he stared through his telescope, ignoring the feeling of loneliness inside his chamber. A feeling that had come up after LadyDevimon's death. Despite her over achieving nature and eagerness to please, she had at least made a good conversationalist. "A pity that we will have to destroy it."
Curling around in the air as he shot out of his tank, Metalseadramon's eyes gleamed in the dim light. "Speak for yourself, I've been waiting for a decent challenge, and those brats are just what I've been waiting for."
Sitting back on a nicely furnish couch, Puppetmon giggled as he lifted up his hammer. "Make sure you don't take all of them down at once, I want to play with them too." A sick laughter coming form him as he swung his legs back and fourth.
Holding up a wine glass and sipping a bit from it, Piedmon laughed as he floated down to join Puppetmon. "Yes, but all in good time, Metalseadramon has the first rights to them, they are in his domain after all." Turning to face the giant metal covered sea monster, Piedmon lifted up his glass. "Good Luck, and crush those brats and their digimons for us all."
"Wait."
Turning around with a dark expression on his face, Piedmon eyes locked onto a dark figure standing at the base of the staircase. "And who are you?" His voice ice cold, one of the clown digimon's hands reached for his sword.
Lifting his head, light glinted off a mask as the figure bowed down to them. "I am Yakeru, digi destined 15." Watching Piedmon's eyes closely, Yakeru stood up from his bow. "It is lord MoonMilleniummon's wish that I go with Metalseadramon on this mission."
Giving a small thinking sound, Piedmon turned to face the other Dark Masters to see what they thought about it, getting a look from them saying that they didn't really care about it. "Very well, but make sure you don't get in Metalseadramon's way."
Bowing again, Yakeru smiled as he turned to face Metalseadramon. "It shall be as you wish."
Standing silently in front of the couch, Piedmon slowly sipped a bit from his wine glass as his eyes closed. His plan was still not completely thought out, but before he did that, he would have to test these children from the other world. And if they were worthy, they would be the ones to bring the digital world back under his control.
--------------------------------Guard duty, Matt had decided, was not the most interesting thing to do. And not something he would have like to be doing after the hard day they had had. But, as the one they would turn to for leadership now, he had to make sure he put up a good front for the others to see and depend on.
Being leader, Matt decided, sucked. He never knew the burdens it carried, to know that every decision carried with it a hundred questions. Was it the right thing to do, should they do that, was there another way it could have been done, a better way. "How did he put up with it?"
At his side, Gabumon snapped out of his daze, the lure of sleep having nearly succeeded in dragging him down. "What?" Rubbing a paw over his eyes, he gave a semi loud yawn and settled back down again. "Did you say something Matt?"
Grinning a bit at his partner's behavior, Matt shook his head. "No, I was just thinking out loud."
"I see." Gabumon replied as he pulled a bit on his fur, trying to get it to cover him in just the right places. "Do you want to talk about it?"
Not answering him right away, Matt instead went over the thoughts he had been having lately, trying to find out what he should do about it. "Gabumon, do you remember the test, and what that Warmon character said."
Closing his eyes as he thought back on it, Gabumon nodded a bit. "Yes, that you shouldn't doubt yourself." Staring at his partner with a serious expression, he slowly moved over to better look at him. "And he was right, you can't go on doubting yourself, you have to have trust in you, and your friends."
"I know." Matt replied as he stood up. "It's the other thing I'm worries about." Turning his gaze away form the ground and Gabumon, Matt stared at a small furry form lying on the ground. "Tai's acting so differently some times, like he's not the same anymore. And if I want I understood was true, I may be the same way. I could also turn into a digimon, just like him."
"But you would still be Matt." Gabumon replied as he pointed at his partner's chest. "Inside of you, you know that Tai's the same as always, it just feels like he's acting different, because he looks different." Walking over to grab one of Matt's hands, Gabumon stared up at his with the most serious look he could. "And no matter what happens to you, I will still be your partner. Even if your should turn into a Numemon."
Smiling a bit at his partner's words, Matt reached out and hugged him. "Thanks Gabumon, you're a real friend you know."
Looking happy and content, Gabumon enjoyed the hug for as long as he could. "I'm always here for you Matt, remember, that, as long as you need me, I'll be there."
"Thank you." Matt replied as he continued to hug him.
Breaking out of the hug, Gabumon settled down next to Matt and stare up at the sky above them for a while, then his eyes slowly moved to look at his partner instead. "Matt."
Looking a bit startled as he turned to face his digimon partner, Matt took a deep breath and refocused onto the horizon, trying his best to relax, and survive the question he knew Gabumon would ask him in a minute. "Yeah Gabumon."
Feeling bit unsure about the question, Gabumon sighed and decided to ask it anyway. "If you have too, do you think you will be able to become a digimon like Tai?" As he finished asking, Gabumon watched his part for any kind of sign that he had asked the wrong thing.
Pulling out his harmonica, Matt stared at the metal surface of it for a few seconds. One finger tracing the top of the instrument as he thought about Gabumon's question. "I don't know." Not finding an answer to it that could he be satisfied with.
Settling back as Matt started to play a soft and slow melody, Gabumon sighed and looked up into the sky, trying to sort out the feelings and thoughts running through him. But coming back to the single most troublesome one, if Matt did become a digimon, where did that leave him.
--------------------------------Deep inside the pyramid that once belonged to Etemon and then to Matt, Datamon stared at the latest readouts for Digi Destined 16. His brain having a bit of trouble figuring out if what he saw was real. The numbers were off by several numbers at least. He had designed the hybrid to be the most powerful Ultimate level creature in the digital world, but these data reports were showing some troublesome side effects from his little operation.
Turning away from the read outs, he focused on the second problem he was facing. Seemed there had a been a slight problem with digi destined 13 and 14's regeneration. "Interesting." Mumbling out the word, he ignored the murderous looks he was given by them. "It would seem that the extreme amount of regeneration have caused your digimon parts to gain some strength over your human parts."
Pushing a few keys on his computer, Datamon grinned as he read the printout. "These numbers are of the scale." Standing up and pulling the data over to the main controls system, he looked up at it as he pushed a few buttons. "Lord Moonmilleniummon, if you would allow me some extra time, I could do some wonderful things with digi destined 13 and 14."
On the screen, a bright fuzzy picture formed and slowly turned into the image of Moonmilleniummon, the crystal encased mega digimon hovering above the central pillar of his room. "Explain, Datamon."
Bowing in response to the command, Datamon stood up and began to point at the various data on the screen. "The level in which their digimon parts area taking over is slow, but if I could work a bit with it, I could not only speed up the process, but get a more powerful hybrid out of it."
"Very well." Came the short answer form Moonmilleniummon, the four yellow eyes of the digital worlds ruler focusing entirely on the fourth screen in the room. "And what of Yakeru, how did he turn out."
Datamon grew silent as he stared at the fourth screen as well. "Power wise, he's now able to deal with any digimon the Digi destined have, mentally wise, there may be some problems." Datamon cringed a bit as he spoke the last part, fully expecting an out roar.
Not getting one, he turned to face Moonmilleniummon, the digimon staring back at him in a dark manner. "Explain this problem."
Looking even more nervous then before, Datamon slowly moved away from the screen, just in case the evil mega digimon had some kind of punishment planned out for this problem. "Well, it would seem the changes you asked me to perform on him, made him a bit, unstable."
Smirking at the words, even if no one could see it, MoonMilleniummon's anger slowly faded away. "It doesn't matter, as long as I can get what I want. I wonder how the Digi Destined will deal with the monster we have unleashed on them." Moving around so he was facing the screen from the side, the evil mega digimon grinned a bit. "Soon, everything will be in place, and I will be able to claim what should be mine."
"Yes master." Datamon replied as he moved back from the screen, watching the connection with the dark digimon getting turned off. There were times where he wished he were still working for that evil monkey, at least he had been easy to figure out and stop. Maybe it was time to look into the fusion files again. They might just have the information he needed to gain a better position in this crazy world.
But before that could even be looked into, he had to fix another problem that had popped up. Staring at the tube in the other end of the room, Datamon walked over to it. His eyes focused on the figure floating in its liquid. "Digi Destined 16, I wonder what caused this, mutation to happen." Running one of his hands down the glass surface, Datamon stared at the hybrid inside of it, a sick gleam in his eyes as his took the LadyDevimon like wings and Megadramon hands. "No matter, I just know that you will make me proud."
Looking back out through the glass, Digi Destined 16 eyes focused on Datamon briefly, before returning to their zombie like state. But it had been enough to get Datamon to back away a bit, a primal fear of the hate and loathing he had seen in those eyes.
On the computer screen behind Datamon, the numbers and figures slowly faded away to reveal two eyes staring into the room, a sinister feel to them as they faded away.
--------------------------------Staring out over the digital sea as the sun rose, Izzy yawned a bit. It was rare that he ha dthe time or desire to see such a wonderful thing. But this was one of the few times where watching the digital world, actually overcome the need to try and figure out a solid plan for winning over the dark masters.
"Rise and shine everybody, the sun is almost up, even if you can't tell with all this darkness around."
Staring at his partner digimon, Izzy shook his head and stood up. Facing the campsite and the sight of six cranky kids and seven digimons staring at them with murder in their eyes he held up a hand before they could protest to the rude awakening. "Hey, you all agreed that we needed to get as early a start as possible so we could make it to Gennai's hideout before nightfall."
Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Matt yawned a bit as he wandered down to the edge of the water. "I know Izzy, but that doesn't mean I like being woken up like that." Grabbing a bit of the water, he splashed his head with and stood up, barely noting that he would most likely have a bit of salt in his hair when it dried. "So, what's for breakfast this time."
Staring at the left over from yesterday, Sora shook her head. "The same as always, fish, fruit and fresh water." Poking one of the fishes with a stick, she sighed a bit. "I never thought I'd say this, but I'm starting to miss even the taste of Spinach"
"Cheer up." Joe offered as he sat down to warm a few of the fishes at the campfire. "At least we all know how to perfectly cook this stuff by now." Watching the fishes, he looked up at the image of earth spread out on the sky. "But I have to admit, I do miss home."
Staring around the group, Tai shook his head and stood up, working his claws through his fur to remove a bit of dirt from it. "At least your mom can cook, mine's into all that weird health food." Sticking out his tongue at he spoke, Tai walked over to the edge of the ocean. "Besides that, which way are we headed today Izzy?"
Opening up his laptop and pushing a few of the buttons, Izzy looked at the map of the digital world Gennai had given him recently. "Okay, we're here, the edge of the digital ocean on Spiral Mountain, and we have to reach this mountain part. Which means we'll have to cross through Puppetmon's area."
"Puppetmon, he's one of the dark master's right." TK asked as he looked down at the map as well. "He doesn't really sound like an evil digimon."
Laughing a bit at TK's comment, Izzy turned to look at the group. "It would be best if we only had a few of our digimon digivolve, after all, the less of us there are, the less the chance is of getting spotted."
"So, who will digivolve." Matt asked as he leaned forward a bit, trying to fit into the role of leader.
Pushing a few buttons, Izzy stared at the red line signaling their route. "The fastest way to get there is by air, but it also means we'll have a bigger chance of getting spotted." Turning to regard the digimons, Izzy closed his laptop again and place it around his back. "Therefore, I suggest we only digivolve Tentomon and Biyomon, they can both fly and carry more then one digi destined at a time."
Holding out her digivice, Sora smiled a bit. "Sounds good, are you ready Biyomon?"
Flapping her wings and hovering a bit above the ground, Biyomon gave her best smile back at her partner. "As ready as I'll ever be Sora."
Nodding, Sora pointed her digivice at her. "Then digivolve."
Standing up as he looked at Tentomon, Izzy smiled as well. "Let's go Tentomon, digivolve."
"Biyomon digivolve too, Birddramon!"
"Tentomon digivolve too, Kabuterimon!"
Landing on the ground, the two champion level digimons looked around the group of kids and digimons. "I think we need to digivovle again Izzy." Kabuterimon pointed out. "There's still to many of you for us both to carry at once."
"Yes, digivolve would be a good idea." Came a reply as the ocean began to foam a bit out from the shore. "Cause if you don't, you'll won't even last a second against me."
Staring at the foaming water, Matt felt his blood go cold. "Guys, get ready, I think we have a big problem."
Exploding out of the water, Metalseadramon's body glinting in the faint light as he twisted around to face the Digi Destined standing on the shoreline. "Oh yeah, you're in trouble alright." At his words, the triangle shape hole on his nose began to glow a faint blue color as energy was transferred into it. "But it will only be for a short time."
Rushing forward the digimons faced off against Metalseadramon as the digi-destined digivices gave off a loud whine and glowed with light.
"Gomamon digivolve too, Ikkakumon. Ikkakumon digivolve too, Zudomon."
"Palmon digivolve too, Togemon, Togemon Digivolve too, Lillymon."
"Gabumon Digivolve too, Garurumon, Garurumon digivolve too, Weregarurumon."
"Birddramon digivolve too, Garudamon."
"Kabuterimon digivolve too, MegaKabuterimon."
"Patamon digivolve too, Angemon."
"Gatomon digivolve too, Angewomon."
"Chimon digivovle too, Chinobimon. Chinobimon digivolve too, Archchimon."
Staring at the much larger and more powerful group of digimons, Metalseadramon gave a dark laugh as he plowed forward through the air, right through the group of digimons, scattering them to all sides, nearly hitting the fleeing children on the ground as well. "Hah, you're still no match for me, River of Power!" Shooting out his main attack, he laughed as Garudamon and Zudomon was shot backwards into the ocean.
"Hand of fate!"
"Garuru Kick!"
Feeling the two attacks hitting him on the side, Metalseadramon twisted around to glare at the two digimon's who had dared to strike him. Not waiting a single second after spotting them, Metalseadramon shot forward through the air. "Giga Ice Blast!"
Grapping Weregarurumon's shoulders, Angemon shot up into the air as the white beam passed right by under them, sending a shower of frozen sand up before hitting the tree line and covering them in a thick layer of ice. "That was too close." Angemon muttered out as he looked at it.
Pulling himself out of Angemon's grip, Weregarurumon turned and pulled down on Angemon. "Look out." Just in time to save the angel type digimon from getting hit by Metalseadramon's tail, leaving that misfortune to befall Angewomon who had flown up behind them instead. "Damn."
Holding out the orange Digivice, Kari looked up at Metalseadramon as he turned away from having swatted Angewomon like a bug. "Tai, get him!"
Shooting off from where he had landed, Tai held out his metal claws in front of him, filling them with power for his basic attack. "Claws of the Beast!" Hitting Metalseadramon, Tai felt his eyes nearly pop out of his head, as he did no damage to the metal covered digimon at all.
Staring at Tai, Metalseadramon laughed a bit as he saw the shocked look in his eyes. "What was that, a loving pet?" Eyes blazing with laughter, MetalSeadramon power up his nose cannon. "River of Power!" Sending the powerful beam right into Tai, knocking him out of the sky. "My whole body is covered with Digizoidchrome, the strongest metal in the digital world."
"Great." Tai mumbled out lowly as he coughed up some sand, his impact having left a small crater behind on the beach that he was crawling out off, his wings looking rather banged up. "So now we have to get through his armor, no problem."
Laughing darkly, Metalseadramon circled around in the air and looked at the few digimons left. "Time to end this, River of power." Shooting out the beam, he watched as it hit Lillymon and Angemon, sending the two digimons flying down to the earth as they glowed brightly.
"Vulcan's hammer!"
"Wing Blade!"
Twisting his body as soon as he heard the digimon's yell out their attack, Metalseadramon glared down at Garudamon and Zudomon moving back out of the ocean. "You two fools again, how much do I have to hurt you before you learn you can't stand up to me."
On the beach, Weregarurumon stared wide eyes at the arrow of power shot right over his head, Zudomon's attack might have missed it's target, but it didn't miss MegaKabuterimon coming to help them, sending the large insect digimon out of the sky and right down towards the wolf man like digimon.
Watching the incoming red bug, Weregarurumon lifted up his arms in the hope that he could somehow stop the insect digimon. "This is not good." The words mumbled out as his whole field of vision was filled with MegaKabuterimon.
Turning their heads away, Izzy and Matt tried to ignore the sight and sound of MegaKabuterimon landing directly on top of Weregarurumon. "Not good." Matt mumbled out as he finally looked back to see Gabumon and Tentomon lying on the ground knocked out.
"I'll say." Izzy added in as he watched Patamon, Palmon and Gatomon rush over to their partners. "We're getting creamed, not even six ultimates and one mega stood a chance against him."
Clenching up his hands, Matt glared up at the towering form of Metalseadramon. "We still haven't lost, Tai, Zudomon and Garudamon's still in the battle." Turning to face the rest of the group, Matt nodded a bit. "But I think it would be a good idea to pull back to the tree line, just in case."
Nodding, Izzy turned around to yell out the command to rest of the digi destined when he felt the first tremor go through the ground. "What the heck was that?"
Turning around to face Izzy as the ground shook again, Matt froze, staring at the rather strange sight of the beach starting to shake behind them before simply falling apart. "Now what!"
In the air, Tai turned around to see the beach turn into a giant hole, his sister running away from the expanding edge of it along with the rest of the Digi Destined. "Kari!" Swooping down, he reached out to grab her, only to feel something hit him from behind, sending him into the hole along with Kari and Gatomon. "Damn it!"
Staring at the strange hole, Metalseadramon growled as he spotted the masked form of Yakeru staring at him from the other side of the hole. The screams of the digi destined and their digimon's having faded a few seconds ago. "I thought I told you to stay out of the way?"
Not answering the mega digimon right, Yakeru stared down into the hole. "I wish to toy with them a second time, after that, you can kill them as you will, Agreed" Watching the single eye of Metalseadramon focused on him, Yakeru waited patiently for an answer.
Curling up a bit, the Evil mega digimon growled as he stared into the darkness. "Where did you send them?" His voice leaving no doubt as to what would happen if he didn't get an answer.
"Not far." Yakeru replied as he walked over to stand at the edge of the hole. "They should be in front of the old supermarket once buried at the bottom of the digital ocean."
Eyes narrowing in a devilish fashion, Metalseadramon curled around and watched the ocean, a bit of it running into the edge of the hole where Zudomon and Garudamon had been. "Ah, I know the place well." Shooting up, he glared down at the hybrid on the beach. "You have until I work my way through the tunnels."
Bowing, Yakeru watched as Metalseadramon shot out into the ocean,. "That will be more then enough time to play." Walking over to the hole, Yakeru grinned as he jumped down into the darkness, a dark laughter coming from him the whole way down.
--------------------------------Ishimon growled as he struggled to break free of Ladydevimon's grip, the devil woman laughing as she watched a rampaging dark digimon trashing everything in sight. "Such a beautiful creature, who knew that using the digiegg of darkness would make your friend into such a destructive digimon."
Glaring death up at her, Ishimon opened his mouth to fire off an attack, when a cry of anger from his partner stopped him, the sound echoing around him as a golden light erupted from below the ground.
Removing her hands from the dog boy like digimon, Ladydevimon roared out in anger as the golden light blinded her, forcing her to step away from her prey. "Damn you children, I'll kill the lot of you, just you wait."
Landing on the ground, Ishimon looked up to see his partner holding a golden digiegg, the light from it forcing the dark digimon who attacked his friends to turn back into Chimon. "Hiroaki?"
Looking down at him, the blond haired boy smiled as he held out the digiegg in fornt of him. "We finally found it, the Digiegg of Destiny." Staring up at Ladydevimon, the boy's mile turned into a cold one. "Now, let's end her evil intentions once and for all."
Jumping up at the words, Ishimon nodded as he turned to face Ladydevimon who had recovered and where glaring at them, her eyes burning with pure hate as she looked back at them. "Let's get her."
"Golden digi armor Energize" At Hiroaki's yell, the digiegg seemed to shatter with a shower of golden light again, but this time, it all headed towards Ishimon.
"Ishimon, Golden armor digivolve too... Grandmon." Breaking out of the golden light, a more taller and human looking digimon landed on the ground, a blue robe covering his body, with silver and gold colored wrist bands around his arms and a pure silver mask covering the top half of his face. "Now, the balance of power is in our favor"
Screaming out in pure anger and hate, Ladydevimon transformed her left arm into her needle sword like one. "Never, I won't fail him this time, you'll all die here!" Rushing forward, she gave a dark yell of insanity.
Lifting up a hand in front of him, Grandmon stared at the small piece of paper with a single Japanese character written on it. "No, today, your evil ends, Spirit Charm!" At his command, the paper lit up with blue light as it flew through the air, impacting with Ladydevimon's forehead, causing her to scream out in pain and anger as the blue light spread out over her body in several arcs of electricity. "Goodbye, evil one, "
Cracking open his eyes as the dream ended, Matt spat out a bit of sand as he rolled over onto his side, a small bit of pain moving through him the whole time. "Okay, whatever I had to eat last night, I'm never touching it again."
Around him, the sound of the other kids waking up could be heard. But he didn't really focus on it, as he was busier staring at the ruined building in front of him. "No way."
"Isn't that?" Sora's voice broke in as she stumbled past him, Biyomon wobbling a bit at her feet as they both tried to help Joe and Gomamon get up from where they had landed.
Smiling at the memories the place brought back, TK walked over to stare at the ruined front of the place. "Hey, this is where we found our Tags." Lifting up Patamon to better see, the blond haired boy walked over to the front door. "But what's it doing here, last time we where here, it was locate under the digital ocean."
Walking up next to him, Izzy used his laptop to scan the place for digimons, not really feeling like taking any chances, but still, what TK had asked was intriguing. "I'm not sure, but I think it was relocated to this position when the Digital World's code was reprogrammed to create Spiral Mountain."
"What?" Came the triple reply from Tai, Kari and Mimi, the small group looking lost as they tried to figure out what Izzy had said.
Replacing his glasses in the right way on his face, Joe sighed a bit. "He said that it was placed here when the dark masters reformed the digital world."
Looking a bit embarrassed as Joe explained what Izzy had said, Kari and Tai looked away to hide it, while Mimi simply turned to focus on something else, in this case the snack food display sticking out the glass front of the shop. "Hey, look at that everyone, snacks."
Turning away form the front door, Matt stared at the pink loving girl as she almost ran over to the display. "Hey Mimi, leave it alone, who knows how moldy it is by now."
Picking up a bag of chips, Mimi looked a bit sick as she dropped it onto the ground, shaking her hand to get some unseen stain of it. "But how can it be moldy?"
Holding out a hand to point at the ruined supermarket, Matt shook his head. "Look around, I doubt anyone has replaced the things here since our last visit, and if they had, wouldn't they have fixed the damage to the place as well."
Pushing the door open, TK stared into the dark interior of the place before taking a step into it. His eyes freezing as he spotted something stuck in the floor. "Matt, take a look at that?"
Walking into the shop past his brother, the older, blond haired boy stared at a very familiar black object sticking halfway out of the floor. "A black gear, but what's it doing here?"
Behind him, the other chosen kids walked in as well, taking care to avoid the more damaged areas of the place, all of the walking over to gather around the gear. "Is that one of the things Devimon used to control digimons?"
"Yeah." TK replied, as he looked closer at it. "It was awful, good digimons were turned into bad digimons because of them."
Nodding, Sora turned to face Kari as well. "He's right, these things were nothing but trouble for us." Smiling a bit as she patted her digimon partner, Sora turned back to face the gear. "Luckily they were easy to destroy, but we had to be careful not to hurt the digimon."
Watching the gear, Matt eyes narrowed a bit. "We can't leave it here, who knows if someone else could figure out to use them." Turning to face Gabumon, Matt smiled a bit. "Think you can destroy it?"
Moving over to the gear, Gabumon shrugged a bit before he took careful aim at it. "I'll try Matt, Blue Blaster!"
"I'll help." Biyomon offered as she flew up into the air. "Spiral Twister!"
Impacting the gear, the two attacks knocked off two chunks from it, the bits turning into digital data as soon as they were knocked away from the gear. "I don't think the gear works anymore."
Turning to face Izzy, the two digimons looked puzzled at his words. "What do you mean?" Biyomon asked as she rubbed a wing against her head.
Staring at his laptop's screen as he worked, Izzy shook his head a bit. "My theory is that you need to have some of the digital darkness inside of you to be able to activate the."
"It makes sense I guess." Kari mumbled out as she turned away from the gear. "Its a tool of darkness, so you must be able to control darkness to use them."
Holding Patamon close to him, TK shuddered a bit. "And Devimon was able to control the darkness." His mind going back to the battle between them and Devimon, a battle that had ended with Devimon's death, and the near loss of his digimon partner. "I had hope we wouldn't have to see anymore of them around."
Stepping away from the gear, Matt regarded the rest of the shop a bit. "So, any idea of how we can get out of here?" His eyes staring up at the faint light from the top of the hole, frowning a bit as he wondered where Metalseadramon had gone too. He couldn't have decided to let them go, could he?
Shaking his head a bit, Matt looked over at the digimons when he noticed they were saying something. "Say what?"
Replying to him, Gabumon looked a bit sad. "We might be able to digivolve again, we just need some time to regain our energy to reach our highest level, right now, we may only be able to last a few minutes in our champion form."
"A chance you won't get." Came a mocking voice as the figure of Yakeru landed on the ground, his mask glinting in the dim light as he watched the digi destined. "Surprised to see me again?"
Clenching up his hand, Matt glared death at the hybrid. "You, you're the one from the arena"
Smirking behidn his mask, Yakeru gave a mock bow at Matt, one hand sweeping low as energy crackled around it. "Names Yakeru, also called Digi Destined 15, I hold the powers of Angemon and Weregarurumon." Smirking as he stood up, the Hybrid spread out his arms to the side. "But don't think you can beat me, I have been enhanced by Datamon since our last meeting."
Eyes flashing with anger, Matt turned to Gabumon. "Go for it!"
Nodding, Gabumon rushed forward as light began to gather in around him. "Gabumon digivolve too, Garurumon!" Reaching his champion level, Garurumon growled as his mouth lit up with blue colored flames. "Wolf Blaster!"
Smacking out a hand, Yakeru laughed as he simply battered the attack away from him, ignoring the shower of dirt getting knocked up from it nearby impact. "Come now, you must have something better then that."
"Try this then!" Togemon yelled out as she ran in punching wildly. Kabuterimon and Ikkakumon coming in right behind her.
Grabbing the right fist as it came near him, Yakeru smirked as he spun around and tossed the cactus like digimon away, laughing the whole time.
Crossing his arms in front of him, Kabuterimon seethed with raw anger as he saw the ease with which Togemon had been thrown aside by this hybrid. "Electro Shocker!" Sending a massive bolt of pure energy at him.
Still laughing, Yakeru swung his arm a bit and knocked the attack up into the air, his other hand clenched up as a halo of power surged in around it. "Hand of fate!" Cursing a bit as Kabuterimon managed to duck it. "Dammit."
Lumbering up, Ikkakumon stared at the hybrid as he lowered his head. "Harpoon torpedo!" Sending several missiles flying right towards him.
"Huh?" Turning his head away from Kabuterimon, Yakeru eyes grew a bit big as he spotted the three missiles just before they hit him, the force of their impact sending him staggering back.
Shaking the shock off him, his eyes refocused on a white blue running towards him. Gatomon taking the chance to attack him while he was still distracted, the white feline digimon smirking as she jumped through the air. "Lighting paw." Hitting the Hybrid right in the chest as hard as she could.
Stumbling back again, Yakeru cursed loudly as he found himself facing a brown colored digimon with multi colored hair descend towards him, fire crackling around its hands. "Get lost!" Smacking the digimon away, Yakeru glared death from behind his mask as he stood up right.
Behind him, the ground seemed to shake and exploded as three black colored cables erupted out of the rocky surface, swinging wildly in the air before swooping down towards Yakeru. "Fun times over brats, I'll make you all pay for those little stunts you pulled." Even as he spoke, the cables attached to his back, going into the flesh with a soft, squishy sound, dark lighting sparking briefly around the place where they had attached to him.
Looking a bit sick from the sight, Mimi held a hand up in front of her mouth. "That's the most, disturbing thing I've seen so far."
With a dark and cold laughter echoing, Yakeru took several steps forward, his hands glowing with dark power. "Now do you fools understand, I'm more then a mere hybrid, I'm a living extension of Etemon's dark network." As he spoke, his body glowed a dark purple color as it began to grow in size, not stopping until it matched Kabuterimon easily. "And with its power, I shall crush all of you right here and now."
Running towards the hybrid, Garurumon growled as he fired off his attack one more time, hoping that it would do some damage despite the hybrids claims. "Wolf Blaster!"
Above him, Kabuterimon decided to help him, his body almost glowing with the amount of power he drew out from it. "Electro Shocker!"
Pushing herself up from where she had landed on the rocky ground, Togemon glared as she slammed her hands together, before spinning around like a top. "Needle Spray!"
As the three attacks hit, Yakeru didn't even flinch, his gaze firmly locked of Garurumon. "Such a bunch of weaklings, haven't you figured out, you can't beat me." Lifting up a hand, Yakeru didn't say a word as a beam of dark power shot from his palm to hit the ground in front of Garurumon, sending the wolf like digimon flying. "No one can beat me, no one!"
"Garurumon?" Mumbling out the name of his partner, Matt watched in muted horror as his partner impacted the ground right before him, a whimpering sound coming from the digimon as he rolled over to return to the fight. "Garurumon!" Screaming out the name, Yamato felt his crest erupt into life as his digivice gave out a loud whining sound again. "Digivolve!"
"Garurumon digivolve too, Weregarurumon!"
Eyes narrowing in annoyance, Yakeru stared down at the ultimate level digimon with a bored expression on his face. "Still not willing to give up are you." Lifting up hand as he spoke, his expression twisted into an insane one as a dark green glowed formed in the palm of his hand. "Good, I didn't want this battle to be over too soon."
Looking a bit concerned at what he had said, Weregarurumon began to move off to the side, trying to find a weak spot on his opponent. "Matt, get the others to safety, I don't know how tough this battle will be."
Smirking, Yakeru tossed the green sphere of power at wolf man like digimon, watching as WereGarurumon jumped off its way to land in a safer spot. "Hey, nice reflex, but can you dodge this." Eyes glowing at his words, the ground erupted again as several cables shot out of it, wrapping around Weregarurumon.
Struggling to get free, Weregarurumon growled as he felt the cables tighten around him, seconds before he was ripped off from the ground, up into the air briefly and then smacked back down into the ground painfully. Struggling wildly, the wolf man like digimon spotted his partner running towards him. "Matt, Run away."
Lifting his head, Yakeru looked from Weregarurumon's struggling form to one of the humans whom he had been made from. "No, stay, the more the merrier." Lifting up a hand, he summoned up more power from the dark network. "I'm going to enjoy finishing you off."
"No!" Hearing the words from the hybrid, Birddramon, Togemon and Kabuterimon stormed forward, once again intent on taking on the more powerful then normal hybrid.
Turning his gaze away from Matt, Yakeru snarled at them, sending the blast of dark power towards the three champion level digimons instead. A dark laugh coming from him as the digimons glowed brightly before dedigivolving back into their rookie forms. "You see, you can't defeat me this time." Snapping his fingers as he spoke, he turned away as each digimon was grabbed by a dark cable and tied up.
Refocusing on Matt, he lifted an eyebrow when he saw the human boy standing next to Weregarurumon, instead of hiding like he had expected. "Tsk, tsk, you should have followed his advice." Pulling back his right arm as he spoke, Yakeru's face took on a dark smirk. "Farewell loser, Hand of "
He never got any further, as a staff smashed into the side of his face, the force of its impact snapping his head around. "Who dares" Yelling out the words, he turned back to find a winged digimon hovering before him. "Angemon."
"Don't forget about us!" Rushing across the ground, Gatomon and Tai looked up as they jumped into the air, the words having come from both of them as they prepared to punch the hybrid in the stomach.
Blasting them with a bolt of darkness, Yakeru snarled as he watched them fly backwards through the air. "Insolent Creatures." His mood brightening a bit as they smashed through the door into the super market. "Good riddance." Then he cursed as once again the golden staff of Angemon hit him, this time in the shoulder. "Ah, get away from me you stupid digimon."
Ducking out of Yakeru's reach, Angemon stared down at the hybrid, his hand slowly lifting up as orange energy waved around it. "I will not allow a monster like you to hurt any more innocents digimons." Punching the air as he finished his little speech, Angemon fired off his main attack. "Hand of Fate!" Taking a grim satisfaction in the fact, that his attack seemed to have an effect on the hybrid, Angemon pressed his attack, swing his staff around to hit him again.
But to the angel digimons disappointment, it didn't last long before Yakeru was able to shrug off the attack and begin to defend against his other attacks.
Looking out from behind their hiding place, four digi destined stared at the way the hybrid had taken out their partners easily. "They're not doing so well are they." Sora voiced out as she focused don her partner tied up tightly by a dark cable.
"I'd say so." Joe replied as he tried to see where his partner had ended up, feeling a bit of joy when he couldn't see him anywhere, hopefully it meant he was still able to fight, as they need all the help they could get. "Izzy, any ideas?"
Working as fast as he could on his laptop, Izzy was busy scanned their opponent's data, hoping that they could get some kind of read out on his weaknesses. "I'm trying Joe, but it's going to take time, I'm having a bit of a problem getting this data to make sense."
Holding her hat out of nervousness, Mimi stared out at the fight, and the pain filled expression on Palmon's face. Then she turned her anger filled eyes onto Yakeru who had grabbed Angemon's staff and tossed it away. "If only he was a computer, then we could just pull the plug out."
Snapping his head up at her comment, Izzy felt like smacking his head against something hard. But shook it off as he had to focus on making sure the idea would work. "It could work Mimi, but we have to get close to him, and right now our digimons are not really able to do so."
Staring at the red haired boy as he spoke, TK turned back to the fight with a pure look of determination as he took a step forward, and then broke into a run. "Angemon!"
Spinning around at the yell, Both Yakeru and Angemon stared at TK, one with a look of shock and fear, the other with a sick, twisted grin as he fired off a bolt of dark power at the young child.
Stopping at the sight, TK closed his eyes, as he could nothing, his body frozen with a sudden surge of fear. Hearing a loud cry of pain and feeling a puff of hot air. TK opened his eyes slowly, stopping as he saw Gabumon land on the ground before him, smoke rising from the blue fur coat. "No!"
Narrowing his eyes in pure anger behind his helmet, Angemon pulled his fist back and delivered a mean, right hook right into a laughing Yakeru's face, firing off his attack at the same time his punch landed.
Ducking out from his hiding place, Izzy stared at the scene as he held onto his laptop. "The cables, you have to destroy the cables going into his back!"
Shaking off the effect of the punch/attack, Yakeru pulled back his own right arm, ready to fire off his own attack, when a rapid movement in the water caused his attention to move away from Angemon.
Swimming as fast as he could, Ikkakumon cursed the trouble he had faced in order to get around Yakeru, still, getting a chance to deliver a surprise attack like this had been to good to ignore. "Harpoon Torpedo!"
Feeling a dark rage tear through him, Yakeru slapped out a hand to simply knock the attack away, giving a loud curse as the green yellow missile exploded against his hand the second he touched it, the small flash of pain sending him backwards in shock.
Stuck in the cable, Biyomon stared down at the hybrid, her mind replaying Izzy's words as she watched the three black cables. "Tentomon, fire off your attack!" Yelling out the order, Biyomon opened her beak as a spiral of green colored fire formed. "Spiral Twister!"
A bit off to the side, Tentomon had heard the words form Izzy as well, and had already powered up his attack. "Super Shocker!" Hitting the cable right on, just a second before Biyomon's hit the same place, cutting one of the cables in half.
Feeling a sharp spike of pain, Yakeru began to turn around to face the source of it, when he was forced to turn his attention back to the front as Ikkakumon and Angemon moved in to continue their attack on him.
"I'll help." Palmon yelled out as she pulled her arms free, focusing on the closest cable. "Poison Ivy!" Shooting off her vines to grab the cable, she grinned as she pulled back on them, watching the cable tighten, before it started to spark as it was torn in half. "I did it!"
Turning around as a second wave of pain swept through him, Yakeru lifted up a hand to attack, when he sudden remembered that Angemon and Ikkakumon now had a chance to attack the final cable feeding him dark power. "No, wait."
Ignoring the hybrids words, Ikkakumon simply move forward and used brute force to rip the cable out of Yakeru's back, the action earning him a scream of pain from the hybrid as a brief shower of black electricity arched between the broken cable and the skin of his back.
Feeling all of his extra power fade away, Yakeru glared at the digi destined coming out of hiding as he shrunk back to his normal height. "You'll pay for this, you hear me." As he spoke, orange colored energy formed around his hands, swirling as they began to from into one of his attack techniques.
Then a tall, white and blue colored figure moved into his field of view. "No Yakeru, your evil presence ends here." Angemon stated as he pulled his right arm back, aiming the attack right at the face of the hybrid. "Hand of Fate!"
Screaming out in pain as he took the beam of light ring in face, Yakeru fell back over as his metal mask fell of, landing on the ground next to him as he impacted the ground. "How, how could I lose?" Mumbling out the words, the hybrid looked up at Angemon, hoping to get an answer, but getting none as his body chose that moment to break apart into a cloud of digital data, data that blew away as a sudden gust of wind formed.
Turning around, Angemon looked back at the rest of the digimons and digi destined, noting that the dark cables had released Biyomon, Tentomon and Palmon. Then he glowed and de digivolved back into Patamon. "We did it TK, we won over him."
TK didn't answer as he was busy staring at his brother, the other digi destined having crowded around him to see the blond haired boy holding A badly hurt Gabumon in his arms.
Walking over to see if he brother was okay, TK reached out a hand and touched his brothers shoulder, feeling it shake beneath his fingers. "Matt?" Voice nearly breaking as he spoke his brother's name, TK stared at something he had never expected to see.
Still holding Gabumon in his lap, Matt lifted up his digivice to his face, a single tear glinting on his cheek as his fist clenched up. "They won't get away with this." Voice ice cold, Matt turned his head to look at the group standing around him. "Moonmilleniummon will pay for this."
Placing a hand on the blond haired boy's arm, Izzy sighed lightly. "I agree with you, but right now we have to find a way to get out of here." Lifting his other arm to point, the red haired kid looked a bit nervous. "And right now, the only thing we can do, is climb up the side of the wall."
"Maybe I can help you with that." Came a reply in a friendly voice.
Turning their heads to face the voice, the digi destined stared at the strange sight of a mole like digimon with a drill for a nose.
Looking closer at the digimon, Joe lifted up a hand as a memory of it came back. "You're the digimon with the black gear, the one who guarded the tags for Devimon."
Getting a painful expression at the mentioning of the evil digimon, the mole like digimon lowered his head. "Yes, and I thank you for removing that gear." Lifting his head, his eyes twinkled a bit. "I'm guess the reason for all that noise before was you defeating another evil digimon?"
"Yeah." Tai mumbled out as he and Gatomon came out of the supermarket, their bodies looking a bit hurt from the battle against Yakeru. "Now we only need to defeat the Dark Masters."
Drimogemon turned his attention to the digi destined as he heard those words. "You're really fighting those guys?"
--------------------------------Inside of his throne room, Piedmon smirked as he watched the screen. No doubt this defeat would be a major set back for Moonmilleniummon. And give him the needed to time to figure out a way to get the brats to work for him while removing the troubles filling his world.
But all of this would be for nothing, if they couldn't survive Metalseadramon. For even the metal sea dragon like digimon, was nothing against MoonMilleniummon's power. "Truly, the battle ahead will be a fine show, regardless of who wins." And if the brats lost, they were not worthy of working for him.
Sitting in the couch, Puppetmon grumbled a bit as he swung his hammer back and fourth. Things had been fun when it was just the dark masters ruling the digital world as they had planned, but after that boring old crystal covered jerk showed up, it was just work, work and nothing but work.
Halfway turning his head, Piedmon observed the most chaotic member of their little group. Wondering just what had convinced him to include the wooden digimon in the Dark Masters. Then he remembered why, at the time, the only mega digimons gifted with power by the darkness had been him, Puppetmon, Machinedramon and MetalSeadramon. It wasn't until after they had recovered from their battle with the guardians of the digital world that they had noticed other digimons trying to take over the digital world.
They had failed of course, mere ultimate and champion level digimons could never hope to control the digital world, but it was the way that had died in that should have alarmed them. "Where is Metalseadramon right now?" Piedmon mused out loud as he turned to face the monitor they had used to watch the battle.
As the image shifted to show his fellow dark master, Piedmon smirked as he saw the evil mega digimon heading through the cave opening leading to the place where the digi brats where hiding. "Yes, the test can begin." Jumping down to sit in the couch, Piedmon laughed a bit as he signaled a Vilemon to bring him another glass of wine to enjoy along with the show.
--------------------------------Shooting through the tunnel, Metalseadramon's eyes gleamed with raw anger as he thought of what he would do to the hybrid if he had killed all of the digi destined. The brats' were his to delete, not some freak show Datamon had cooked up in that rotten lab of his.
Seeing a faint light a head of him, the mega digimon would have smiled, but a frown filled his face as he couldn't see any kind of struggle up there. Not even a slight sign that a fight had taken place. Urging himself forward, Metalseadramon shot out of the water's surface, twirling around to look right down at the small patch of land and lone supermarket. But no brats could be seen at all.
Turning his head to the side, the metal sea dragon like digimon roared out in anger. The blasted hybrid would suffer for this, and so would everyone else he met. Stopping, Metalseadramon focused on something he hadn't noticed before, the area around him did carry traces of battle, but no signs of the human children. "Escaped?"
Swinging his head around to look up at the hole to the surface, MetalSeadramon eyes gleamed with a sick desire as he shot up towards it. "No matter where they hide, I will find them." Flying through the air, the mega digimon laughed as he stopped to look back down at the ground. "River of Power!" Firing of his attack to destroy the supermarket completely. Then he left, laughing the whole way as a pillar of smoke rose up from the ground below him.
On the surface of the digital world, the sound of a drill cutting through the ground became loud enough to be heard. Then a small white and purple head with a drill for a nose broke through the rocky surface, and up into the faint light of the growing morning. "Well kids, here we are."
Moving up behind the digimon, seven kids and eight digimons smiled as they looked up towards the top of the cave. "Thanks for the save Drimogemon." Joe spoke out as he brushed some dirt of his clothes. "If it wasn't for you showing up, we would have had to climb up that hole."
Blushing a bit in embarrassment over his thanks, Drimogemon simply smiled as he turned back to the hole he had dug to help the digi destined get back to the surface. "You're welcome, if it wasn't for you kids, I would still be under Devimon's control."
"I would say we're even now." Matt commented as he looked out over their new location, finding a small ocean bay surrounded by a thin forest around them. "Any idea where we are?"
Drimogemon looked out over the area as well, and then shook his head. "I'm sorry, but I spend most of my life in the underground, so I'm not sure what's what up here." Then he looked away, and down into the hole he had left behind when he broke through the ground and up onto the surface. "Well, if you kids don't need my help anymore, I'll be leaving." Not waiting for an answer, the mole like digimon started to drill a new hole into the ground. "Until the next time kids."
Waving or saying farewell to the digimon as he went back underground, The digi destined turned to looked at one another as silence filled the air. "Well, I'm feeling more then ready to continue on the way to Gennai lab." Matt commented as he stretched his arms a bit.
"We could have been there by now, if we hadn't stopped." Joe mumbled out as he adjusted the first aid bag around his shoulder.
"Joe." Came the reply from the other digi destined and Digimon as they shook their heads.
Looking a bit offended at the way they had mentioned his name, Joe crossed his arms as he looked away from them. "I was just pointing it out okay."
A deep groan filled the air as the digi destined and their digimon began the trip to the forest area of the digital world.
TBC: MetalSeadramon Round Two
AN: Okay, the Metalseadramon parts stink. I was unsure how to pull it off, and I ended up with something that's, I can't even think of a way to describe it. At least I think I got the hybrid battle to look more decent then the other battles scene I've written so far. The next chapter will be better, I hope.
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