Termination

The fallen Rika groaned as she stumbled to stand upon her weary feet, the girl's hate filled purple eyes glared at the sight of Tallos. The wicked agent loomed upon her like a shadow of death. "It's time we put an end to this Ms. Nonaka" Tallos said, flexing his shimmering finger claws in the air. The young girl gulped and looked around, finding nothing to defend herself with against this monster. Fear and terror pulsated in Rika's thumping heart.

The man approached the girl as she scurried back, ultimately hitting a wall. Tallos coldly hissed "I will not be destroyed by a child". The man screamed as he attacked Rika head on, jamming his index claws right at Rika's head. SHINK! The finer blades sliced into the metal of the wall, narrowly missing the girl's head by mere inches. Tallos growled with frustration as he pulled on his claws. It appears the claws were stuck inside the walls, totally useless.

Rika grinned "No……well then what about two? HIYA". The tamer smashed her metal toe tip shoes right into Tallos face, the man screamed as he pulled back in maddening agony. The claws broke off into disfigured shards as Tallos clutched his bleeding face. The man's glasses had shattered into his skin, Tallos desperately tried to remove it. Suddenly Henry leapt at the man's legs and jammed his pocket knife into a leg, Tallos screamed.

"Rika now" Henry said as he desperately clung onto the psychotic agent. The red headed girl charged at Tallos with anger fueling her heart, Rika shrieked "You heartless son of a ARGH". Rika tackled Tallos down to the ground hard. Immediately Henry released his hold and allowed Rika to strike down Tallos, the girl was already pummeling the hell out of him. Rika cried tears from her enraged eyes as she punched Tallos again and again.

"You monster UGH, bastard UGH, scum bag UGH, I hate you, do you hear me Tallos? I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I FRIGGING HATE YOU" Rika screeched. But the murderous agent had taken enough of Rika's physical therapy. KERSHINK! Tallos slashed his broken claw blades across Rika's left arm, the girl screamed before being punched in the face herself. The man quickly rose to his feet and turned his attention to Henry as he kicked him.

"BACK OFF" Tallos scowled, violently crunching Henry's ribs with the brunt of his shoe. The fallen female winced as she held her bleeding shoulder, watching as Tallos quickly approached her. Rika was yanked off her feet, her mouth covered by Tallos opposing hand. The dark stranger flashed his twisted broken finger claws before Rika's terrified eyes, her purple orbs widened at sight of them. Tallos grinned a sadistic little smile.

"This time you won't come back!" Tallos snapped, as he jammed his claw blades into Rika's belly. Blood gushed from Rika's stained white t-shirt, the girl's eyes widening and shrinking in a matter of seconds. Roaring fits of laughter escaped Tallos as he watched Rika die. The girl's limbs slowing down to a weak willed twitch, blood dripping off the tips of her toes. "RIKA NO" Henry screamed as tears welled up in his eyes, he cried in utter horror.

Life seemed to have evacuated Rika's limp and lifeless body, Tallos simply basked in the glow of her demise. A heart broken Henry could do nothing but watch and cry. "How could he……how could he do that to her?" Henry sobbed to himself. Tallos purred as he sniffed Rika's skin, then he rolled his tongue across the blood and flesh of Rika's dead face. "Mmmm strawberry, my favorite HA, HA, HA" Tallos said as he burst into laughter once again.


Meanwhile……

Takato grunted "UGH! Guilmon please, you have to stop this. You have to ACK".

The boy gargled his trembling voice, his weak throat being crushed by the pressing force of Guilmon's reptilian claw. The Digimon was still under Tallos control despite the damages to his cybernetic enhancements.

"Please boy……I know your still in there. I don't care what that guy says, no matter what you're still my friend, your still my PARTNER!" Takato cried out.

Guilmon stammered "Huh……p-p-partner?".

The red creature snarled as his mind started to thrash with radical stinging sensations; Guilmon's memories were coming back. Sparks started to flash and race across Guilmon's cerebral circuitry.

The young boy cheered on "That's it boy fight it, fight it, FIGHT IT! Remember who you are, who your friends are, don't let those stupid toys change you Guilmon".

Guilmon roared "ROWR NOOOO!".

CRUNCH!

The fury and maddening temptations of the Digimon's fractured mind was too much to handle. Guilmon coldly jerked his blaster paw directly under Takato's neck, preparing to fire and end Takato's life.

Takato whispered "Guilmon…….please……stop".

The reptile murred "M-m-m-memory damaged, computer off line, line, line ERK. Can't control, can't resist, you must be d-d-destroyed.

Takato sighed "Fine then, go ahead and kill me. But as my dying wish I want you to do one thing for me, I want you to say name".

"What?" Guilmon asked.

The tamer repeated "Come on Guilmon say it, say it, tell me who I am".

The Digimon groaned as his eyes bulged with incredible pain again, vines stretching over his mind as it burned. Memories flooding in like locusts.

Takato screamed "Say it, say it, SAY IT. TELL ME GUILMON!".

The Digimon wailed "ROOOOAAR!".

"TELL ME WHO I AM, TELL ME, WHAT IS MY NAME?" the boy screamed.

Guilmon blinked "Ta……ta……Takatomon?".

Takato cheered "Oh Guilmon your back!"

The boy wretched his tears away as he hugged his Digimon friend. Guilmon cried as he too gave Takato a hug, the reptile cried saddened tears of pain and joy. Guilmon ripped off the buster cannon and remaining fragments of Tallos robotic attachments. The two just hugged and cried together.

"NO GOD DAM YOU!" Tallos howled.

BANG!


Guilmon gasped and quickly hurled Takato away, the beast cried out in pain. Takato screamed in horror as his best friend collapsed from a bullet wound. An insanely furious Tallos stood upon the platform with a face of pure hatred, a smoking pistol in his normal hand. "Look what you've done, you ruined EVERYTHING" Tallos shouted. But Takato just ignored the man and weakly crawled to his fallen friend, Tallos growled and fired again.

BANG! The second bullet bounced inches away from Takato's feet, the boy hatefully glared tear filled eyes at his despised enemy. "You killed you him heartless son of a bitch" Takato cried out. The dark man roared "SILENCE, I've had all I can take from you people. You've completely ruined all of my research. Without experiment 28#, I'll have no way of controlling my Digimon creations. Everything I've worked for is GONE, thanks to you.

You owe me Mr. Matsuki, and I'm going to get paid back by killing each and everyone one of your friends. Starting with Ms. Nonaka's pet. She can join her dead owner in huh?" Tallos blinked. It had just suddenly hit Tallos that he could not locate Kyuubimon, she had vanished. Gargomon, Guilmon, and Takato were all on the ground; Rika and Henry were on the platform, so then where was Kyuubimon? A sound from behind caused Tallos to turn.

"DRAGON WHEEL" the female fox shouted from behind. FASCHOOM! Tallos was engulfed in an explosive sea of burning flames, the man screamed as the flames consumed his flesh. Kyuubimon wheezed as she dropped down beside Rika and turned back to Renamon. Tallos continue to shriek and flail in agony, his limbs flopping around as the fire spread. Henry's eyes widened as he spotted Tallos wavering towards the edge.

"He's going to fall, watch out" Henry shouted. Blinded by his own barbaric suffering, Tallos was unable to see where he was heading. The sizzling feel of his flesh literally frying and popping, his blood cooking inside his melting veins. Tallos tripped over the edge of the platform and dropped straight down. "AHHHHHHHHHH" the man screamed as he fell faster and faster. Just below the falling fiery figure, was in fact, the fully charged Lazarus pit.

SPLASH! Tallos had landed right into the energized blue water like energy, sparks flashed from the busted device. The gang watched weakly for any signs of life brimming inside that toxic pool of unstable energy. 5 minutes passed, and still no sign of Tallos, they sighed with relief. Henry carefully helped Rika and Renamon down the platform, with Takato's help of course. Guilmon helped as well, merely wounded much to his tamer's grand delight.

"Careful Takato, we don't want her bandages to rip" Henry said. White wrappings had surrounded the wound in Rika's chest; red blood stained the white bandages. Once Tallos has collapsed into the Lazarus pit, Henry immediately rushed the first aid kit over to Rika. The boy had managed to patch up the girl's wounds before it was too late; he saved Rika's life really. The red head slowly opened her weary eyes to a world of dizzying blurs.

Renamon smiled "Rika, your alive, I knew it". The girl smiled weakly as she looked around with a wince, "What happened to Tallos? Is he?". Henry nodded "Dead, he's dead Rika, he fell into that weird pit over there. I don't think we'll be hearing from him again anytime soon". Weak chuckles escape Rika as she held her gut in pain. Takato smiled as he gently cradled his arms around Rika's back, the boy carefully helped the girl to stand on her 2 feet.

A joyful Rika smiled sweetly into the eyes of her helpful friend. Takato looked at her and smiled in return, "Thank you" Rika said. The boy chuckled "Thank you, for what?". The girl blushed "For being good old, happy, sweet, you". Takato gulped as he too blushed very brightly, he rubbed the back of his spiky brown hair nervously. Rika laughed and simply smiled at that. The gang started to make their way towards the exit, when something happened.

Terriermon's ears raised up as a static muffled voice was sparking from the ruptured pieces of the Lazarus Pit. The computer bleeped "Malf-f-f-unct-t-t-tion system ERROR, ERROR, DNA sequences have been……activated BZZT". The blue energy waves inside the spit started to spark and rise, the energy grew higher and higher. The gang sat and watched as the machine activated. Suddenly a HUGE monster like claw rose from the energy pit.

Terriermon gulped "I want my Digi-mommy".


To be continued……