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The Dark Side of the Rainbow

AN: Ok this is a little warning the Fangmon…yeah they have a little grey motivation and yeah…so…if you need a little talk with mommy and daddy…well I suggest you speak with them…

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"Patamon digivolve to Angemon!" the little brown guinea pig with bat wings glowed and turned into a six foot tall, golden haired, blue sashed, seraphim. He swung his golden staff forward and looked up at their attacker.

"Sss, sss, sss, izsss that what you are going to fassce me with?" chuckled the hissing voice. "Pathetic." The creature slithered forward. Large, hazel reptilian eyes glinted softly in the light's exposure. A large purple hood flanked a pasty white and green head. A long white and purple body slid into view. "What the heck?" Takeru dropped back as the huge cobra reared up out of the shadows.

"That is Sandiramon!" called Angemon as he glided between Takeru, Izzy and Sandiramon. "He is a serpent digimon, and his Venom Axe is as deadly as his Krishna attack!"

"Ssso the angel knowsss me," hissed the snake as its forked tongue shot out between its lips.

"Why are you here?" growled Angemon as he clenched his staff.

"I am here from orderss from Massster Lussscemon," replied the snake. "I have been given free reign to do with what I want with any humansss I find…and I plan to consssume them."

"I will not let you!" shouted Angemon. He released his grip on his staff and drew up his fist.

"You don't have a choissce, angel," hissed the serpent as he swung his tail around. The white scaly appendage snagged Angemon's staff wrenching the implement from the angel and tossing it into the shadows.

"Spinning Drill!" Suddenly Drimogemon attacked from behind pinning the angel digimon to the ground.

"Now…my feasssst," The snake opened its mouth.

"Electro Shocker!" a bolt of lightning struck the snake's head. The reptile hissed in aggravation and shot its head up.

"Venom Axe!" the serpent opened its mouth and a large green axe shot forward Kabuterimon was struck in the chest with the toxic weapon and fell to the ground. Sandiramon then rose out of the pit he was in and loomed over the insect. "A pathetic bug like you shall learn itsss plasssce in the world…Venom…"

"Tail Hammer!" the fanged maw of Sandiramon was filled with a spiked club. The shocked cobra was sent sprawling to the ground. The large, white serpent's head reared up and looked down at its new assailant. It was a large golden, anklyosaur. It stood defensively in front of Kabuterimon. A small human was seated on top of the beast. He was short and had short, dark hair and dark green eyes. "Hey Cody, are you ok?"

"Of course," replied the whispery voice of the human.

"Human….you shall pay for your interferensssce…" hissed Sandiramon. He opened his large mouth. The cobra's fangs glinted in the starlight.

"Hand of Fate!" a concentrated beam of golden light, accompanied by the unpleasant howl of a Drimogemon; rammed the side of the cobra's head. The snake growled as a six foot tall angel glided upwards with two men in his arms. A shorter red haired man on his left side and a golden haired; well toned man on his right side. The angel alighted next to the anklyosaur. The short man on the spiky dinosaur slid down bumpily off the creature's spiked shell.

"Are you guys ok?" asked the small man.

"Just our pride," replied the red haired man.

"Koushiro actually thought this may be easy," chuckled the younger, blonde man.

"Takeru, you'd think the man with experience would know better," chuckled Cody as he turned around to watch the snake growl and rise.

"You can not make a fool of me!" hissed the serpent. His head weaved back and forth.

"We have three times now, Sandiramon, why don't you just realize you're out of your league!" shouted Takeru. He shook a fist up at the snake. The serpent roared in anger.

"Was there a need to really aggravate the large, venomous serpent any further?" asked Koushiro as he backed away from the snake.

"Venom Axe!" a green glowing battle axe exploded into the street in front of them. The asphalt and black top on the street melted as the axe turned into corrosive, green acid.

"Right let's put this snake back in his wicker basket," growled Takeru as the acid dripped down into the sewer below. "All he wants to do is ruin things…"

"Right…" Cody looked at his D-3 and then at Takeru. The taller man looked up grimly.

"Sssso long digi-dessstined," chuckled the snake he opened his mouth.

"Angemon….!" The angel was covered in a glow of orange light.

"Anklyomon!" A purple light swam over the large shelled dinosaur

"DNA Digivolve to…" called the two together as their lights merged. "Shakkoumon!" A large, bluish statue glided forward on invisible forces being projected from its stumped legs. The doll like digimon was adorned like a warrior with a wide shin armor skirt with a sun design on it. Its torso curved in on the stomach and then out at the chest. A blue gem was embedded on its chest. Its arms were also curvaceous and its hands were a bulb with three triangular finger-like projections. Its head was a large ovoid with tea pot handles for ears. Its large eyes were ovular and squinted with a little bit of red showing from under the ceramic eyelids. The top of its head was adorned with a golden hat-like fixture that rose up into a cross.

"Sss, Sss, Sss, you plan to desssstroy me with a piesssce of crockery?" laughed Sandiramon.

"Did he just crack a joke at us?" asked Anklyomon's voice.

"I believe he did," replied Angemon.

"Ooo, now he's gonna get it!" growled Anklyomon.

"I see Anklyomon is still a little touchy about Shakkoumon's appearance," said Takeru with a bead of sweat dropping down the back of his head.

"Well he has a right to," replied Koushiro. "How would you like knowing you'd turn into a glorified tea pot with legs…?"

"Hey!" shouted Cody. The small man turned on the two taller and older men. "It's bad enough the bad guy makes fun of him; do you two have to, too?"

"Krishna!" growled Sandiramon as his hood opened and fired bolts of lightning from the scales.

"Shakkoumon!" shouted Cody as he turned round to see the digimon retreating from the blasts. Its arms were up in a defensive position.

"Is that best you got?" asked Shakkoumon. He drew its hands down a slot opened from its chest. "Kachina Bombs!" little saucers shot forward and exploded into the snake.

The snake shot out of the smoke and swept around the large ceramic doll. It constricted slightly and turned to face the large doll. Sandiramon opened its mouth. "I'm going to melt your fasssce off…."

"I don't think so!" replied Shakkoumon as its eye lids lifted and the red glowed increased.

"Venom…"

"Justice Beam!" two darts of crimson shot straight into Sandiramon's face. The snake recoiled at first dropping off the doll like a dropped fur. The snake writhed flicking its thin body around.

Kabuterimon dove down and with a bit of a struggle lifted the serpent up and dropped it in the pit it had created with its Drimogemon minion. The large beetle the shot upwards and turned. A ball of lightning formed between the insect's forelegs. "Electro Shocker!" a blast of light and static shot down.

"Justice Beam!" growled Shakkoumon to make sure. The large snake deleted into large chunks.

"We have to get the girls and find a place for the others that were in this shelter," called Takeru to Shakkoumon. He looked at Cody, "We should take Shakkoumon, I hate to say it but he looks the less threatening than Kabuterimon."

"I agree. Izzy," Cody turned to the red haired man. "You and Kabuterimon watch our backs; we'll go on ahead and explain Kabuterimon is not dangerous."

"Right, Kabuterimon!" shouted Koushiro to the large blue beetle, "We're going to stay behind for a while, ok?"

"Right…" called the beetle as he lowered himself down, "though I'm as harmless as a newborn…"

"Right," chuckled Shakkoumon, "tell that to Sandiramon." The large clay digimon glided forward and gathered up Takeru and Cody and then levitated down the street; leaving Koushiro and Kabuterimon behind.

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Akeno held Salamon in his hands gently as Airdramon curled around to enter the vast city of the Sovereign of the east. It was still dark out. The moon was slowly trying to lower itself in the west. The large, blue, weakly glowing city was smoking underneath them. Little fires seemed to dot the soft blue glow.

"This is Azure City?" asked Ai as the large green dragon slowly lowered down to the street. The young woman with the long dark brown hair hopped off followed after.

"It looks like it needs a new city administrator," said Airdramon as he de-digivolved to Hawkmon.

"It must have been attacked by Lucemon," replied Salamon quietly.

"This is horrible…I remember seeing pictures of this city," whispered Akeno. He looked around. "It used to be such a beautiful city…that used to be the Arch of Yesterday…" Akeno pointed up to the large, shattered, blue arch that was crumbling as they spoke. It had spot lights on both sides of it. He blinked and looked down at his D-3. "There is a destined digimon in the city. We should find it before we get in a big fight…"

"This entire world was so beautiful…" whispered Ai quietly to herself as she looked in horrified awe at the damage. She looked down. "You remember flying over Mainframe Island, the entire island was split, some of it was sinking…and then there was the Temple of Harmony left in smoldering ruins….I loved this world and it is…dying…"

"We'll fix it…" said Hawkmon in his elegant, royal voice. "I promise we will."

"Hawkmon's right," said Akeno quietly. The small boy with his auburn hair that was cut short lifted his hand to Ai. His eyes were large, brown and soulful. "We will…"

"The world is not broken!" growled a voice. A large wolf like tiger growled softly from the shadows. It had large purple and white stripes. Its intertwining tails twisted softly in the breeze. "Lucemon controls this city like he controls this world, we are getting rid of the bad influences and fixing this world before it gets truly broken. Megadramon, the viceroy of the city, has sent me to destroy you…"

"And you are?" Ai looked up angrily.

"He's Gururumon; Garurumon's evil twin of sorts he uses his Chaos Fire to leave you feeling hot and bothered," replied Hawkmon and he lifted his wings up. "Feather…"

"Chaos Fire!" a blast of purple and black flames rushed the group.

"Salamon digivolve to Nefertimon!" The large white sphinx with the golden armor and the white face plate dove forward and rolled with the large lupine tiger. "Ruby Claw!" the claws on the large winged feline glowed a bright red and she slashed across the wolf's chest, eliciting a howl from the dog.

It was a short victory though as the heavier wolf quickly turned the tables and slammed the cat into the ruins of a building. "Chaos Fire!" The sphinx growled as the flames rolled over her armor. The feline swept its paw and slapped the dog off of her.

"Go and find the digimon, we'll keep wolfy busy," called the feline as she took to the air.

Ai and Hawkmon nodded and turned to run.

"No you don't!" growled the wolf as he jumped forward. "Chaos Fire!" A stream of flame rushed forward. Hawkmon leapt in front of Ai and took the full brunt of the flames and dropped down in a scorched heap.

"HAWKMON!" yelped Ai as she crouched down.

"Don't worry Ai," whispered the purple hawk. "It's not nearly as bad as it looks…" The bird tried to stand but ended up in Ai's arms. "Well, I think it's not so bad anyways…"

Ai turned and lifted the bird on her back. "We'll get the digimon and then we're out of here…"

The girl ran off down the street. The wolf tried to make another move but Nefertimon glided between him and the girl. "No you don't."

"Try and stop me!" growled the wolf.

"Ok…" smirked the cat. "Cat's Eye Beam!" a pink blaze struck Gururumon in the face forcing the digimon to slide backward.

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"Right the D-3 says to go this way…" said Ai as she hiked Hawkmon further up her back. She ran down the street darkened street. The buildings she ran by were crumbled and some were still burning.

"Get off of me!" yelped a voice. A pink bird with a blue tipped crest was shoved out into the street. A gang of Fangmon leapt forward.

"Oh but you're such a pretty little bird…" chuckled one of the red furred coyotes. It walked into a puddle of light from one of the few intact buildings. It had leather joint guards and its white tipped, bushy tail swished calmly behind it. "I wouldn't want to waste such an experience by letting you get away…"

"Sing for us," growled one of the other coyotes, "we may not hurt you much afterwards…"

The third one just smiled and chuckled showing its long alligator like teeth. The first coyote walked forward and leaned its head in close to the bird. "I won't make you sing…my little titmouse…" its slobbery tongue licked the bird's cheek.

"I said get off me!" yelped the bird as she jumped back from the Fangmon. She hopped up on a pile of rubble and opened her mouth. "Spiral Twister!" A swirl of green plasma struck the coyote that licked her.

The dog yelped and recoiled then smiled evilly. "So my little titmouse likes it rough…"

"Biyomon!" shouted Ai instantly recognizing the bird.

"So…" growled the licking coyote. He seemed to be the leader. "You have little friends…a human girl…how opportune."

Hawkmon slid off of Ai's back and stood in front of the girl; in a very slumped posture but he still stood between her and the coyote. "You come any closer and I'll hurt you!"

"You are a bothersome little sparrow aren't you," growled the leader. He looked at the other two of the coyotes, "Get rid of that insignificant vermin."

The two coyotes chuckled in soft growls and walked forward. Their fangs dripped drool in long thin strands. Hawkmon lifted his arms.

"Beak Buzz Saw!" a red feather blade shot forward and snapped the two canines on the nose. The coyotes lowered their snouts in surprise but soon resumed their course. They smirked evilly. Hawkmon took a step backward. "Don't come any closer!"

"Spiral…" Biyomon made a move to help but the leader pounced and pinned her to the ground.

"Naughty, naughty my little titmouse…" purred the coyote.

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Nefertimon swung around and growled as a blast of fire shot past her face. The sphinx lifted her paws up to reveal the armor cuffs, "Ruby Claw!" little red beads shot forward and exploded into Gururumon. The wolf growled angrily. The feline took her chance as the dog scratched at its face. "Rosetta Stone!" a stone slab rose up out of pink aura and exploded into pink shards. Gururumon howled in pain as he deleted.

"Hurry, we need to find Ai, I don't like the idea of her and Hawkmon wandering about alone," called Akeno as the sphinx landed next to him. The boy leapt on the cat's back and the large white wings flapped lifting the sphinx off of the ground.

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"Blast Coffin!" a blast shot slammed Hawkmon into a slab of cement.

"Beak…Buzz…" Hawkmon slowly stood and wobbled a bit as he tried to raise his hands. He had a black eye and his feathers were tussled and torn in places. The little feather on his bandana was now wilted, "…Saw." A slowly spinning pair of feathers tied together by some fiber landed softly on one of the coyote's snout.

This elicited a snigger from the two fighting dogs. "I think the sparrow has lost his singing voice…"

"If that little bird can't sing…throw him in the oven and cook his wings," sung the leader. He growled. "Finish him off, but I want the girl alive…"

"Blast…" growled the coyotes; but Ai leapt in the way.

"You'll have to go through me to get to him!" shouted the girl and she stood in front of the bird shielding him.

"Ai…no…" whispered Hawkmon.

"They won't hurt me; they want me alive remember!" Ai looked back at Hawkmon.

The two followers looked back to their leader. The coyote growled angrily. He then looked down at Biyomon who was under his clawed foot. "I guess if push comes to shove, we have what I want…the girl was just gravy, if you must, kill her too."

"Blast…"

"Cat's Eye Beam!" two pink blasts slammed into the coyotes sending them hurling backwards on top of their leader. The leader fell off of Biyomon and the bird ran for the digi-destined and Hawkmon.

"What is this?" growled the leader coyote. He looked up at the flying sphinx. "A little boy…but a pretty girl sphinx…" He snarled at his two flunkies, "Get off me and shoot that pretty thing down…We'll have ourselves quite a harem when we're done!"

"Fat chance, mutt," growled Nefertimon as the sphinx glided in front of Ai, Biyomon and Hawkmon. The coyotes stood. Nefertimon smirked and a pink beam shot up from her collar. "Rosetta Stone!" the exploding holy rock deleted the first two coyotes and severely scorched the leader.

The leader growled angrily and leapt forward. "Snipe Steal!" His fangs glowed deep black.

"Cat's Eye Beam!" the two pink arrows slammed into the coyote's throat and threw him to the ground. The feline flicked her tail. "Leave now or you'll be feeling a lot worse."

The coyote slunk off with its scorched red tail between its legs. Nefertimon de-digivolved to Salamon and walked over to the others.

"Are you ok?" asked Biyomon to the little purple hawk.

"I'm fine…" yelped Hawkmon as he waved his hands up to get them away from him. "Really I am…though I'm hungry…"

"There's a little food this way…" whispered Biyomon. She pointed down the street. The pink bird turned and looked back at Hawkmon, "but we need to bind your wounds…you look bad."

"I'm fioow…" Hawkmon gripped his chest.

"No you aren't," giggled Salamon. She followed Biyomon. "You'll feel better after we look at you."

"Come on…" Ai leaned down and picked up the bird and carried him.

"Hey! I can walk!" yelped the hawk embarrassed.

"You can but you aren't!" retorted the girl and she walked on.

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Small cameras on the tops of new poles on the corners of the streets blinked with red lights; on the other end of those cameras was a large coiled wyvern. His huge orange arms ended in large mechanical claws. His orange body was topped by a metal helmeted head. He had huge purple wings that were like sheets of feathery tinfoil.

"They are moving towards the food storage lock on Second Street," growled the large dragon. He watched the group of humans and digimon walk from one pool of light from the streetlights to the next. "They have survived my general Gururumon. I could send more but I don't want to bolster their esteem…I will crush them now, and as punishment for their interference I will destroy the food storage lock…the other digimon will starve because of the Digi-destined!"

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"Where are we?" asked Ai as they walked up to a large grey chapel.

"A shelter," replied Biyomon as she walked under the outside lights of the chapel. "Well, that's what Megadramon calls it. It's a place that hands out food to the prisoners in the city…"

The bird walked into the chapel with her friends. There were downtrodden digimon everywhere. Gekomon, Otamamon, Bearmon and Clockmon were all standing around depressed. Many had bowls of gruel in their hands.

"Weren't there any other guardians of the city, I mean this was Azulongmon's home…" whispered Akeno.

"Dynasmon came and destroyed lady Ophanimon and Regulumon," whispered Biyomon. She reached up to the counter and grabbed some gruel and handed it to Salamon and Hawkmon. The two digimon looked at the grey mash suspiciously but ate it none the less, "after that he put Megadramon in power to watch over the burning rubble…and Megadramon has forbidden us from leaving. Many have tried but Megadramon's forces hunted them down and deleted them in front of the remaining populace…since then no one else has tried to leave…"

There was a low rumble like wind was tearing at the roof. An orange whip snapped the roof off the chapel. The digimon in the chapel screamed in terror. The Octomon cook hid under a table. The groups of Otamamon, Gekomon and Bearmon huddled up in the corner. Clockmon turned into a babbling wreck. A group of Numemon scuttled under chairs and their eye stalks tentatively peered out hoping the large beast in the sky would disappear.

"Megadramon!" yelped Biyomon as the bird staggered backwards. "An Ultimate level Dark Dragon Digimon, Megadramon uses his Dark Side Attack to bring destructive rain to any city and Ultimate Slicer will cut any city's defenses to nothing."

"So the fabled Digi-destined has taken up residence in my little burgh…" chuckled Megadramon. "I hope you enjoyed your stay; it's a shame it won't be lasting too much longer!" He flicked open his metallic claws; large cannons were visible in the palms of his hands.

"Salamon digivolve to Nefertimon!" the small beige puppy kitten shot upwards turning into the large white sphinx Champion. "Cat's Eye Beam!" pulses of pink zapped up the wyvern's stomach.

"Fool!" Megadramon slammed his metal fist into the flank of the sphinx.

"Nefertimon!" Hawkmon leapt forward. He turned and looked to Ai. "I have to digivolve."

"No, you'll get hurt!" said Ai.

"We don't have a choice!" yelped Hawkmon.

"I-I can't…" whispered Ai.

"Why?" shouted Hawkmon.

"I love you too much, if you go…" Ai looked down at the hawk. She saw his look. His soulful eyes pleaded.

"I have to help Nefertimon," said Hawkmon quietly.

"Ok…" whispered Ai and the hawk flew forward. "Hawkmon digivolve to Airdramon!" the green air amphitere flew forward on its tattered wings. His head was covered in a bony helmet and he had a reddish mane.

"Insignificant worm!" growled Megadramon.

"God Tornado!" Airdramon opened its mouth and fired a ball of aerial turmoil at Megadramon.

"Rosetta Stone!" Nefertimon shot up from behind buildings the holy stone fragments exploding into the humungous, orange wyvern in the sky. The air dragon and the sphinx flew in close together.

"Dark Side Attack!" a black missile shot forward and exploded into the two Champions.

"Airdramon!" shouted Ai. Tears ran down her face.

"Nefertimon!" Akeno looked up in horror as the sphinx was felled.

"Now I shall destroy this little food station…" growled Megadramon. He turned his cannon on the chapel. "Not only will I get to destroy you, but the digimon in this section of the city will just have to be that much hungrier…"

"No…" whispered Akeno quietly.

"You monster…" shouted Ai. "It's bad enough you destroy this world but now you're just torturing its inhabitants!"

"You are nothing but a monster…" whispered Akeno. "A monster and a bully…"

"And you will be nothing but dust when I'm finished!" roared Megadramon in return. He lifted his cannon like arms and chuckled as the cannons charged.

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Thanks to those who have reviewed. We are reaching the end of the Ultimate digivolution line! And the return of Shakkoumon! I like Shakkoumon, and those people that change Anklyomon's digivolution line to get rid of the clay man I don't envy as much I mean you should just use what you have. Shakkoumon isn't so bad, plus he can absorb a lot stuff! Next time...The darkness truly starts to begin...