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Again, children, this chapter has all that nasty red stuff and well some other stuff, so talk to mommy and daddy so they can interpret it in a meaningful manner.
Never Fear the Underdogs Are Here!
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The claw slid jaggedly down Yolei's cheek. The angel watched intently as Yolei bit harder on her lower lip. The crimson stream bubbled up like a hidden aquifer of blood. Lucemon watched in fascination as the crimson liquid slowly leaked down the woman's cheek.
The fear and pain seemed to stay boiling silently under her skin. Lucemon narrowed his eyes. He lifted his clawed hand up again. He was aware of both Gatomon and Hawkmon's feeble attempts to distract him. He silently dispelled a burst of energy at them slamming them against a wall. The human woman stood but he twitched his right eye and sent her down on her posterior again. He couldn't hear them. It didn't matter; all the faculties of his ears were turned to woman he had in his hands, the one they called, Yolei. His eyes watched as a bead of crimson fluid built on the woman's chin and dripped slightly on his arm. One of his claws dug into Yolei again. The woman tightened her grip on her lip with her teeth. Her eyes closed tight and little tears built up in the corners. Lucemon tilted his head slightly in curiosity. The tears released at different times and slid silently across the woman's cheeks.
He drew his claw up a third time. The woman's body seemed to tense up getting ready to rail against the pain and fear that had built up. He decided he needed to add a little more to the experience if he was to break through the body's defenses. A little streamer of energy, hardly comparable to the light of a firefly, slithered silently over his claw as it dug in. The woman's eyes bugged out this time instead of closing. The energy spread, coursing over her cheek. Her mouth opened in a large O and suddenly her vocal cords lurched into action releasing a loud scream of pain and fear.
"Yes," whispered Lucemon, quite pleased with the results of his experiments. "That's a girl…scream…"
The woman instantly silenced herself, trying to punish him for taking pleasure in her pain. Lucemon frowned. She was trying to rebel against him. His eyes narrowed and dropped his claws down to her stomach. He pressed his hand against her mid-riff and applied a burst of energy. The red lightning coursed up and down her body searching, pleading for an escape as Yolei screamed again.
"YOLEI!" finally the other human woman's voice shot through to Lucemon's consciousness. The angel's irises shifted slightly and a strike of lightning slashed forward striking the free woman in the gut.
"Kari!" shouted the feline.
Lucemon was about to punish the cat for making its presence known when he felt a presence behind him. He turned slightly to find the small human boy, the one the females had called Kin, with a large board fall backwards in surprise.
Lucemon narrowed his eyes and hissed softly. The boy scrambled backwards. The angel looked up and released a pulse, dislodging a hunk of brick work from the building they were under. He watched as it fell towards the human boy.
"Beak Buzz Saw!" a flash of feathers sliced through the brick work and sent it tumbling as gravel.
"You shouldn't have done that…" growled Lucemon as the held Yolei up, reminding the bird that its partner was in his hands. He pressed his hand against the woman's sternum and released a burst. The woman screamed again as the focused energy ravaged her chest.
He turned his head to oversee the look on the other female. He smiled when his gaze was rewarded by a look of complete awe and terror. He flicked his eyes up and noticed the female in his hands was unconscious. She was useless to him now. He dropped her like a spent rag doll and turned to the other woman, the one that the cat had called Kari. The feline was standing protectively in front of Kari.
"Don't come any closer, Lucemon!" shouted the feline. It raised its paws up.
"Or what, I'll get hair balls on me?" Lucemon flicked his finger forward knocking both the woman and the cat backward like dominoes. He narrowed his eyes and tossed his finger in one direction throwing Gatomon from Kari.
Kari looked up in him terror. His blue eyes were clear and cold like frozen sapphires. A cruel smirk played on his lips. His thick arm moved forward and Kari instinctually scooted backwards. Hawkmon was fussing over Yolei and Gatomon was laying in a crumpled mess on the far side of the street. She looked over at where Kin was cowering by a light post.
"No one to save you…" chuckled the angel as he snatched her by the front of her shirt. His claws threatened to cut it right off of her.
"Lucemon…" Kari tried to muster her courage and hope. "Put me down this instant…"
The angel only released a bemused smirk. "Are you going to be difficult, too?" One of his claws slid playfully up the quickly beating artery on Kari's neck.
"I won't let you do this!" shouted Kari unconvincingly.
"I see…" whispered the angel as he looked her over, appraising her, for what she wasn't sure, but it couldn't be good. His eyes narrowed and seemed to stare at her chest intently. Kari suddenly felt tightness in her lower ribcage. She couldn't breathe. Her left arm started to ache and she felt like she had a bubble lodged in her chest. "I don't need to mar your pretty face to make you scream…" Kari started to cough; a scream was in there somewhere but it was caught up in the utter breathlessness she had. Lucemon chuckled softly. "Hurts, doesn't it? To have your heart ripped out from the inside…"
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Kari blinked. Lucemon was no longer Lucemon. He was a rotting fiend, a creature a tattered cloak and frayed waist jacket. His fangs were pressed against pale upturned lips and his faded azure eyes were sparkling in delight. The smell filled her nostrils, the smell of rotting flesh of dead fish and rotten eggs. She almost lost it. The unpleasantness in her stomach built. He held her with his hand, his slick putrefying flesh tight against her. The worm was wriggling under his palm, she could feel it moving unevenly through his vacated blood vessels as it motored along.
"It's strange, you did that to the Motomiya boy, and yet he was not affected by it when I tried to use it against him in the Dream World," said the voice of Myotismon. His cold stare was fixed on Kari's eyes. "You never loved him, you were just afraid, afraid to be alone…but then…ah yes then Takeru came…"
"That was over twenty years ago," rasped Kari as she started to struggle.
"It still festers in your mind," hissed Myotismon. "Ever since Izumi came to you about it…yes, you felt so guilty, and you felt so proud. The twerp actually loved you after you treated him like a second fiddle…you even started to question whether you wanted him to stay with Izumi. You actually wanted him to divorce her so you could toy with him all the more! It isn't surprising…you are the Child of Light…"
Kari almost sneered, but to flare her nostrils was just something her body wasn't going to let happen, "What do you mean?"
"You're the light…and Motomiya is the moth…" chimed Myotismon quietly. He smirked softly. "Unfortunately, he wasn't led into the bug zapper…but he came very close…" Myotismon growled, "Unfortunately my pretty, our time is up…" AN
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"Huh?" Kari blinked and felt something strike against her cheek. It was the pavement. Lucemon was slightly bent. Above him hovered a huge, wasp swordsman.
"You are going to pay for what you did to my mother!" shouted the voice of Hiroshi.
"Our Mother!" shouted the voice of Kiyoshi.
"And my AUNT!" shouted the voice of Isamu. Kari looked up in surprise. A cold smile cut across Isamu's face, "Boy you did it this time, Lucemon; my dad is going to clean your clock when he finds out you messed with my Aunt!"
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Medieval Dukemon had been monitoring the digi-destined since Devitamamon had been defeated. His eyes narrowed slightly at the thought of his plans being thwarted, but then again, he never truly thought the digi-destined could be thwarted by those meager attempts. They were just tests. They were converging on a position south of Chuuten City.
He looked over at Dynasmon. The dragon was stoically holding back his fear. Medieval Dukemon snorted. He is so afraid that Lucemon will be displeased with their failure, the angel doesn't care anymore. He just wants the digi-destined entertained until he can make a real strike against them.
"Dynasmon," Medieval Dukemon's voice called quietly. "We should go and deal with the humans."
"Can we not use the crystal?" asked the dragon intently. Medieval Dukemon's palm slid over the little chamber that held the crystal.
"No, its energy is too depleted to be of any purposeful use," replied Medieval Dukemon. He stood. He grabbed his axe and walked forward. "Come, they will be converging soon, we will strike them together!"
"But…" Dynasmon watched the armored knight.
"I have already dispatched a Blimpmon to pick us up, Dynasmon, let us go," said Medieval Dukemon. He walked out of the throne room. Dynasmon growled softly and followed.
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Black MegaGargomon roared forward on huge jets. Reese, Monodramon, Carlyle, Ryuudamon and Sumi were on his shoulder.
"Look!" Reese pointed to the left. A large black dragon was gliding beside them.
"Noriko! Kitai!" shouted Sumi pleased to see her compatriots.
"Hey, did you get that message from Omega?" shouted Noriko over the jets of MegaGargomon. Sumi nodded.
"Do you trust him?" returned Sumi.
"We don't have much choice!" shouted Kitai loudly.
"That's true!" returned Carlyle.
A sphinx dropped down in front of Black MegaGargomon. The boy riding the sphinx looked back and giggled.
"Akeno!" shouted Sumi as Black MegaGargomon shifted to miss the sphinx.
"Hey he isn't alone!" shouted the voice of Ai. Sumi looked up and saw Ai and Airdramon gliding over them. "I'm guessing everyone got the message…"
"Yep," shouted Reese.
"Well it sounds like we're actually going to get some answers," yelled Ai. She looked down, "I'd like to know how it's going at home!"
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"DinoBeemon Mega Digivolve to Imperialdramon!" the large prehistoric hornet roared forth as the wide bodied dragon Imperialdramon.
Above the wide bodied dragon hovered a golden dragon with six golden wings. Isamu was sitting on the dragon's shoulder. Lucemon only stood there with a bemused look on his face.
"I say we cut that smirk right off of his face!" growled the large wasp swordsman.
"Tiger Vespamon, we need to be careful," whispered Hiroshi. "Remember last time?"
"Aunt Kari, you and Yolei get out of here with that boy!" shouted Isamu. The woman looked up at her nephew and nodded abruptly and ran over to Yolei. The woman had been semi-awake for awhile now. Kari gently lifted her to her feet and then she directed Hawkmon to help the boy.
"Come on, Kin," Hawkmon prodded as he lead the kid away. Gatomon was hobbling next to Kari.
Lucemon didn't wait for Kari and Yolei to clear the area before he struck. His rapid fists slammed into the large golden dragon causing the holy beast to lurch backwards dislodging his charge from his shoulder.
Fortunately Tiger Vespamon caught Isamu and buzzed him to the roof of a building. Imperialdramon did the same for Kougi and Kiyoshi. Hiroshi was already on a roof top and was watching in worry from his position.
Lucemon circled upwards looking downwards at the three Mega digimon pursuing him. Suddenly his hands went up and two familiar orbs appeared in his palms.
"No you don't!" shouted a rough voice. "Metal Wolf Claw!" a blue blast washed around Lucemon. The three Megas looked up to Metal Garurumon fly past on his back were three figures. Two were human; the last was a digimon that looked a lot like Gabumon.
A golden warrior touched down on the roof top next to Isamu and a man with controlled, spiky hair hopped down next to the boy.
"DAD!" Isamu hugged the man nearly knocking him to the ground.
"Tai…" growled the dragon warrior. "What should I do?"
Lucemon exploded from the extremely temporary ice prison he was in. The man with the controlled spiky hair looked up. "Omega said to run, but that's gotten us nowhere fast…I say we give him hell, WarGreymon."
WarGreymon nodded and lifted his claws. Seconds later he was in the sky. "Dramon Killer!" Lucemon slapped the golden gauntlets aside and pressed the butt of him palm in WarGreymon's chest sending the dragon warrior painfully to the ground in a resounding crash.
"Positron Laser!" energy bolts slashed upwards at Lucemon as a purple fleshed Imperialdramon raged forward.
"Paradise Lost!" a blast of crimson shot down.
"Positron Laser!" Lucemon looked up in surprise as a blast slammed him from the right. The angel growled loudly as he faced a new opponent. A humanoid Imperialdramon with his laser risen up to Lucemon's eye level.
"God Flame!" golden flames flashed forward trying to consume the angel.
"Royal Master!" twisting blasts of pink energy raged towards Lucemon.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" missiles hailed down on him.
"ENOUGH!" there was a flash. A wash of power evaporated the attacks that were coming at him, including a suped up Terra Force, the twin dragons of Summon, a draconic and fighter mode Positron Laser, a wash of frost from Metal Garurumon and a Mach Stinger V. Lucemon looked down at his 'opponents'. They were all looking up in absolute shock. "Fools, you are nothing…but pathetic weaklings, even together you are nothing but a group of faded has beens and nonexistent never weres. I am Lucemon, Lord of Both Worlds, and there is nothing you can do to change that!"
"Screw you," shouted Tai loudly. The angel looked down in annoyance as the human lifted his digivice.
"Yeah, cram it!" shouted Matt as he lifted his digivice.
"WarGreymon, Metal Garurumon, Fusion Digivolve to Omnimon!" the golden dragon and the blue wolf merged in front of Lucemon and were replaced by a large white night with a golden cape. A hand like WarGreymon swept the cape aside unsheathing a large sword the other hand, like Metal Garurumon's head pointed forward and a cannon poked out. "Lucemon, eat this! Supreme Cannon!" the purple blast rocketed towards the angel. It drew closer and closer and just as it closed with in the ten foot mark Lucemon lifted his hand like a crossing guard with the flat of his palm exposed. The pulse stopped.
The digi-destined released a collective gasp. Lucemon narrowed his eyes and flicked the cannon's energy towards the Imperialdramon in Fighter Mode. Imperialdramon barely moved out of the way as the blast past under his wings. Davis and Ken, who had just ran up on the scene with TK and Cody looked up.
"Damn it…" growled Davis.
"Should we go Paladin mode?" asked Ken quietly. Davis looked up.
"No use…" growled the man. Ken almost died from shock at those two words. Davis looked at his friend, "Lucemon has us beat dead to rights…"
"No…" said Ken quietly. "We have ourselves beat…"
"Don't give me that crap now," growled Davis. "You saw it, he is way too strong!"
"Against us individually yes…" said Ken quietly he looked at Davis, "We need to fight together!"
"Yeah…nothing can beat us when we work together!" said TK as he and Cody held out their D-3s.
"Patamon digivolve to Angemon!" the brown, winged hamster shimmered and reappeared as the archangel Angemon.
"Armadillomon digivolve to Anklyomon!" the little armadillo grew and turned into a large tan anklyosaur, complete with mace like tail. A red and white blur rushed over the roof tops. It stopped to reveal itself as Silphymon. The cyborg was growling softly and staring at Lucemon.
"Right, let's go up again," said TK as he held out his D-3.
"Angemon…" the angel announced himself.
"Anklyomon…" shouted the dinosaur. The two started to glow.
"DNA Digivolve to Shakkoumon!" the large clay doll hovered into existence. Its eyes were already squinting with a crimson glow.
"Don't forget about us!" shouted a rough voice as Flamedramon, Raidramon and Yashamon ran up. Behind them was a multitude of Champion digimon. J-Mojamon, a Mud Frigimon were running forward; two or three Airdramon flew behind a squadron of Kuwagamon plus many more that seemed to swarm unidentifiable.
"All we need now is Mimi…" whispered Tai quietly.
"I'm working on it!" shouted Koushiro's voice as the figure of Kabuterimon buzzed forward, followed by Birdramon.
"Fools, you're pathetic," growled Lucemon as he looked over the army that was rising up against him.
"Psychemon, are you up for another go?" whispered Kuro. The boy looked at his white furred partner softly.
"Anything to make that demon get his butt handed to him…" whispered the semi-canine creature. Kuro held up his D-3.
"Psychemon Digivolve to Shadramon!" the red and orange moth hovered next to his partner.
"Wait for me!" yelped a small girl as she pushed through the crowd.
"Hoshi!" shouted Matt loudly. He looked down and saw a small mushroom man next to her.
"Mushroomon you ready?" shouted the girl.
"Yes!" growled the mushroom as it clenched its fists.
"Then let's do it!" she held out her digivice.
"Mushroomon digivolve to ExVeemon!" The blue winged, purple skinned phantom dragon flew forward lifting Hoshi to her mother, who had been deposited next to Matt.
"Kuro, do you think we can pull off another Mega digivolution?" asked the moth, Shadramon.
"The Guardian isn't with me anymore…" whispered Kuro as he looked at his D-3. "But we have to try…"
"Shadramon digivolve to, Karatenmon!" The tengu flashed his swords over and grimaced, "I was hoping for Paildramon…"
"Frankly…" Kuro said quietly. "I like you better as Karatenmon..."
The bird man nodded and looked upwards. "Lucemon, how do you like the odds now?"
"Heh," smirked the angel. "At least now I won't have to hunt you all down one by one…"
"When we're done with you, you won't be hunting anyone down, ever!" shouted Hiroshi loudly.
"We'll see, human," growled the angel. He lifted his hands. "Paradise…."
"God Tornado…" maelstroms roared forward from green dragons.
"Jungle Bone!" A spinning bone flew upwards into the sky.
"Piece of Earth!" Large mounds of earth flew up at Lucemon.
"Power Guillotine!" The stag beetles flashed their mandibles releasing energy blades.
"Shadow Sickle!" purple blades flew from huge mantises.
"Meteor Dance!" A green cloaked shaman flashed blasts of fiery rocks up at the angel.
"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon punched forward releasing the flaming balls of his attack.
"Thunder Blast!" Raidramon thrust his horn forward firing off a bolt of lightning.
"Gordian Knot!" Yashamon slashed through the air releasing a crimson blast of energy.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon flashed past followed by a squadron of Saberdramon and other Aquilamon.
"Electro Shocker!" Kabuterimon fired his attack forward followed by a group of Pteranomon.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon pushed through the crowd, "See, Joe we're always late!"
"Well, I needed my medical bag!" shouted Joe's voice.
"V-Laser!" a shining X flew forward from ExVeemon.
Water blasts rocketed up from the bay as Submarimon, Tylomon and whatever other water digimon fired their attacks upwards.
Silphymon flashed forward his palms cupped, "Static Force!"
"Justice Beam!" Shakkoumon was finally allowed to fire his crimson burst.
"Ballistic Feathers!" Karatenmon pushed his wings forward firing a salvo of explosive feathers.
"Are we late!" shouted a familiar voice as a pink clad fairy rushed forward.
"No!" shouted the others in unison as Lilymon put Mimi down.
"We'd have been here sooner but we had a hard time getting the port station to work…" called Mimi as he she touched the ground.
Lilymon spun around, opened the cannon flower in her hands and, "Flower Cannon!"
"Royal Master!" Tiger Vespamon in all of his wasp-like glory rose up lifting his stinger blade and slashed it forward firing a wave of flames at Lucemon.
"God Flame!" the golden dragon opened his mouth unleashing the golden flames.
"Positron LASER!" shouted the two Imperialdramon, giving the attack a strangely memorable stereo affect.
"Transcendent SWORD!" Omnimon lifted his sword, which seem to pull all the attacks from their course and into the blade. The knight glared at Lucemon. The angel stood remarkably still and had not moved since the entirety of the digi-destined had appeared, in fact, the angel had condescending smirk on his face. Omnimon sliced the sword forward so that the blade was pointed directly at Lucemon. A pulse of energy sang from the hilt of the sword within WarGreymon's head, slicing over the digi-code kanji to the tip of the blade. The energy collected at the very tip of the blade like a bead and then exploded forward.
The energy flashed in a tremendous explosion. The sky was filled with an aural light that seemed to blaze like the sun. The light faded. The humans looked up and collectively they gasped.
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AN: The reason I put this under a special note is because, Lucemon doesn't turn into Myotismon, rather, Kari is having a hallucination, or has blacked out and is dreaming, as it has been stated Myotismon, as he appears in this story, is for all intents and purposes a figment of Kari's imagination, brought about by her exposure to Phantomon's hospitality.
As to this chapter's title...I'm going to be truthful, I forget to give it one so I just pulled something out of my bum...hehe.
Qiviut: Well Another cliffhanger, well two, and Omega is going to reveal himself to the digi-destined.
Sora: Yes, Yamato and Sora are married, and they have two children, Kuro and Hoshi. I myself am not a shipper(believe in relationships), I only use these two in this way, because it is implied, in the anime in the epilogue, if only because the child that Matt is with looks like it is very much related to Sora and because the child that is with Sora looks like it has Matt's chromosomes in him, which means they did the light fandango in el dormitorio. As to the other Chosen Ones….
Tai is married to a woman named Ayame, and they have a son, Isamu.
Takeru is married to an unidentified woman and has a son named, Kitai.
Ken and Yolei are married; to each other, and have three children; two boys and a girl, Kiyoshi, Hiroshi, and Ai.
Koushiro (Izzy) was married but his wife died in a car accident, and so he is left with a daughter, Sumi.
Cody is married to a woman, unnamed, and has a daughter, Noriko, possibly named after the spore child….
Davis is married to a woman named, Izumi (NOT the Izumi from Frontier) and they have a son, Kougi (AGAIN NOT the Kougi or Koji from Frontier)
Mimi has a son…with a man who is not shown…her son's name is Samuel.
Kari is also married to a person, not shown, and has a son, named Akeno.
Joe is the only Chosen One that has not had his family present in any plot noticeable ways.
Joh: I went back and fixed those things. The thing is Hiroshi and Kiyoshi have such similar names, and I probably had planned on the partners to be divvied up that way but I just flubbed and well it's just easier to go back and change it there than to go through the whole story and change it. I know there is a spot in the beginning of the Damienmon arc that I'd forgotten I'd sent Koushiro ahead of the others and so he kept appearing in places he shouldn't and I had go back some three or four chapters to find Koushiro…and yeah I typo sometimes and usually the spell checker catches it, because I put digimon names in my dictionary, and well…must not have caught that one. Lilymon is another one where I couldn't chose whether to use one L or two.
The battle isn't over, and the last of Royalesque Knights are ready to take on the Digi-destined in the next chapter and someone gets up on the wrong side of the bed next chapter….