Eternal Conflict
Amalgamation
Chapter 04: Crippled Forces
"So, there's a new threat for you kids to fight?" Ishida Hiroaki, father of Yamato asked. He had brown hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a blue trench coat. He, along with the two Yagami parents and Yamato and Taichi were seated at a table at the Ishida apartment.
"Yes." Taichi said. Agumon, who had ended up evolving overnight, was seated near the door. "But our enemy this time isn't a digimon."
"What are you talking about?" Yagami Susumu, and man with brown hair and brown eyes asked. He was dressed in a business suit, having to make up an excuse to go home early to actually be at the meeting. His wife, Yagami Yuuko was seated next to him. She had brown hair and brown eyes as well. He hair was styled in a ponytail.
"The enemy that we have to fight is a chosen calling himself the Digimon Kaiser." Yamato answered. There was silence for a few seconds.
"So, apparently not everyone who is partnered with a digimon is working for the side of good." Hioraki stated.
"We don't know the Kaiser's reasons for trying to take over the Digital World." Taichi paused. "But we did find out something interesting."
"What did you find out?" Yuuko asked.
"Takeru's alive." Taichi said. Hiroaki's eyes widened.
"Where has he been all this time?" Hiroaki asked, relief in his voice.
"Apparently he's been in the Digital World fighting against the Kaiser for the last year." Yamato said.
"This has already gone on for a year?" Susumu asked.
"Apparently another digimon called Millenniummon set up a barrier that prevented most of us chosen from actually helping in the battle sooner." Taichi said.
"Then what happened?" Hiroaki inquired. Taichi turned towards the eldest Ishida.
"Apparently that barrier was broken." Taichi said. "...But I don't know exactly what happened. Takeru was acting awfully secretive."
"That's because the Kaiser's spies could be everywhere." A voice, very similar to mysterious voice that revealed the secret of the digimentals, said from behind the group. Taichi, Yamato, and the adults turned towards the voice.
Agumon rose up. Right by the door was a man wearing a white mask and black cloak. The man had dark purple hair. However the fact that he got in the room without anyone else realizing it wasn't the thing that surprised the group.
"Gabumon?" Yamato questioned, seeing a familiar looking form at the figures side. At the mysterious man's side was a small white lizard around the size of Agumon. Black fur was over the creature's body, similar to how a man would wear an animal pelt. White stripes were on the fur. A black horn grew out of the creature's head, and the digimon had red eyes. Yamato's Gabumon would be yellow, with white fur that had blue stripes on it. Also the horn would've been yellow as well.
"Yes. My partner is a Gabumon, but he isn't the same one as yours." The man said. "Unlike your partner, this Gabumon is a virus type." Agumon tensed up, preparing to attack.
"I wouldn't do that." The Gabumon said. "We have no intention of fighting you." The man mumbled something, although it was impossible for the group to hear.
"Then what do you want!?" Agumon demanded.
"We're here to give you some information." The man answered.
"Then talk." Yamato said coldly.
"I don't have much time." The man said. "The new group of chosen is on to a rocky start."
"What do you mean?" Taichi asked.
"Iori and Miyako refuse to risk killing another digimon, and Daisuke's digimon is low on energy. You won't be able to count on them tomorrow when the group goes to find Yamato's Gabumon." The man answered. "Besides, Daisuke ended up with his first kill today."
"How do you know that?" Hiroaki asked, concerned.
"I have my ways." The man replied. "Fortunately Takeru taught Koushiro how to evolve his digimon without his digivice."
"Is that even possible?" Taichi asked, grabbing his digivice. "But what good would that do?"
"Much more than you can imagine." The viral Gabumon replied. "I'll try to explain the best I can. The most common form of a chosen evolving their digimon is using the digivice to amply the chosen's power, allowing the partner digimon to evolve with ease. With the Dark Digivice, the ability for the digivice to do that is blocked."
"...What about the Dark Towers?" Taichi asked.
"They only inhibit evolution because they're powered by the Dark Digivice." Gabumon answered. "The blocking of the digivice's ability to evolve also would block Super Evolution using a power source like a crest. But if the power was directly transferred from the chosen to the digimon..."
"Then the digimon can evolve while in the range of the Dark Digivice or Dark Towers." Agumon finished. Gabumon nodded.
"Exactly." Gabumon said.
"But then why go through all the trouble with Armor Evolution?" Yamato asked.
This time the human decided to answer. "Because the new chosen didn't yet have a partner who could evolve. The first time a chosen digimon evolves to protect their partner; the change must be done with the Digivice. It's them same when evolving to Perfect or Ultimate, the level must be achieved first. And no, that doesn't mean Agumon will be able to become War Greymon again, as you gave up the power of the crest in a futile attempt to seal off the digital world from evil."
"As for why Armor Evolution isn't effected by the evolution block, that's because the Digimentals don't actually use the digivice for anything other than transferring itself out of the D-Terminal. Two other forms of evolution, Jogress and Dark, aren't blocked simply because it's impossible for them to be blocked." Gabumon answered.
"What do you mean 'Jogress' and 'Dark'?" Yuuko asked.
"Jogress Evolution is the process in which two digimon fuse together to become one more powerful digimon. Dark Evolution usually results in an uncontrollable partner digimon who evolved before it was ready, or just because a negative feeling fueled the evolution." The man seemed to look towards Taichi when he said this. "In either case, when the group goes to retrieve your Gabumon tomorrow, you should find him and get away as soon as you can." The man paused. "And know this, your battles against the Kaiser and his allies will not be confined to the Digital World." And then the man and Gabumon just vanished in a burst of light, leaving no evidence that they were even there.
Hikari didn't know what time it was, nor what time her brother and parents would be getting back.
Considering that Daisuke was now sleeping with his head on her lap, that wasn't a good thing. 'Daisuke...I'm sorry you have to go through this.' The brown haired girl thought, her arm on the boy's back.
"So... just what are you and Daisuke anyway?" Tailmon asked, jumping up on the back of the couch.
"We're just friends. Nothing more." Hikari answered, looking towards her partner. Tailmon got a confused look on her face.
"Right." Tailmon said in that long 'you're either lying or in denial tone'. "That's why you're rubbing his back and his head is in your lap. Last time I checked the customs here, wasn't that considered rude, unless you were very close to him? Like his lover?"
"Shut up." Hikari said, turning away from Tailmon and blushing.
"Alright, alright." Tailmon said, shaking her head. "So... what do you think of Takeru?"
"He's gotten way too cold." Hikari said. "Something just seems... 'Dark' about him and Patamon. It doesn't make any sense."
"So you've noticed it as well." Tailmon said.
"What was Patamon trying to do during today's battle?" Hikari asked, looking back towards her partner.
"Patamon tried to Dark Evolve." Tailmon said glumly. "Takeru stopped him."
"'Dark Evolve'?" Hikari asked, a look of bewilderment on her face.
"When a digimon Dark Evolves, their evolution pattern changes." Tailmon said. "In addition to that, most digimon who do that go on a rampage, trying to kill everything in sight. Others just turn evil."
"Was Vamdemon's evolution to Venom Vamdemon a Dark Evolution?" Hikari asked. Tailmon shook her head.
"No... Vamdemon was meant to become Venom Vamdemon." Tailmon said.
"Why would Patamon try that?" Hikari asked.
"It had something to do with that dark feeling that we get from both him and Takeru." Tailmon said. "Also, I can pretty much surmise that he wasn't re-given the power to evolve to Perfect like Palmon was, or that he couldn't evolve to Holy Angemon while using the Digimental of Hope for some reason."
"So we're basically stuck with Adult power digimon most of the time." Hikari stated.
"Apparently." Tailmon said.
"I wonder why we, Daisuke, and the others even need the Digimentals in the first place." Hikari said.
"What do you mean?" Tailmon asked.
"I understand why we need to use the Digimental of Light... you can't evolve to Angewomon. But if the blocking affect of the Dark Towers can be bypassed, why would V-mon, Hawkmon, and Armadimon need to use the Digimentals in the first place?"
Tailmon sighed. "I'm guessing that we'll just have to ask Takeru when we see him again."
"Hopefully he'll actually want to give us information this time." Hikari said, sighing.
"Miyako?" A small digimon that seemed to be a head with pink feathers, wings, and a beak said weakly. This was Poromon, Hawkmon's Baby II form.
"What is it Poromon?" Miyako asked, sitting on her bed, looking around her room.
"Do you hate me?" the small digimon asked, shocking the purple haired girl.
"What kind of question is that?!" Miyako exclaimed. "Of course I don't hate you Poromon."
"Then why are you like this?" Poromon asked, confused. Miyako sighed.
"Look, I just don't like the thought of having to kill anyone." Miyako said coldly.
"Who says that I do?" Poromon said. Miyako looked at the small digimon.
"Poromon... can I ask you a question?" Miyako asked.
"What is it?" Poromon replied, flying over to Miyako's lap.
"If you and I were in a battle alone and we were fighting against the Digimon Kaiser, would you kill him?" Miyako asked.
"If there was a good chance that he'd kill you or destroy the world, then I would have to." Poromon answered. "I know you don't want to be responsible for anyone's death, but actually killing someone and wanting to kill them are two different things." Poromon paused. "If you actually take pleasure in killing someone, that's when you become something that should never exist."
Miyako's only response was to sob.
Hikari, Yamato, Koushiro, and Tailmon and Tentomon were present in Koushiro's room the next day, preparing to go into the Digital World once again.
"Where are the others?" Koushiro asked. Hikari sighed.
"Daisuke can't come. While his digimon is awake now, he's still in his Baby I form." The brown haired girl said. "Daisuke decided to stay behind, knowing that he'd only slow us down."
"And with Miyako and Iori?" Yamato asked.
"They're refusing to come with us and help fight." Hikari said. "They don't understand that in battle, sometimes someone has to die..."
"And better them then us." Koushiro stated. Hikari nodded.
"Well at least I can evolve despite the Dark Towers!" Tentomon exclaimed, trying to brighten the mood.
"That's all well and good, but remember how much energy it took out of me?" Koushiro asked, sitting down at his computer. "We'd probably be better off saving that for when we need it."
"So I have to do all the work then?" Tailmon asked.
"I guess so." Hikari said, shrugging.
"So are we leaving yet?" Yamato said.
"In a bit, I'm just trying to see if this program that was on the disk Takeru-kun gave me works." Koushiro said. Hikari moved behind his desk.
"What is it supposed to do?" the girl asked.
"The program should allow us to communicate with Takeru-kun and whoever else works with him." Koushiro explained.
Suddenly a blue-framed window came onto the computer screen. Static appeared in said window before Takeru's face appeared in it.
"I was wondering when you were going to contact me." Takeru said. Yamato moved behind the desk as well.
"We plan to go get Gabumon, but we've kind of gotten into a problem." Hikari said. Takeru looked confused.
"What happened?" Takeru asked, some concern actually showing in his voice.
"Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori can't come with us." Hikari said. "Or rather, Miyako and Iori won't." Yamato said.
"Let me guess. They see me, Ken, and Mimi as 'evil merciless monsters'?" Takeru asked. Koushiro shook his head.
"Not exactly." Koushiro said. "And as you know, Daisuke's digimon used up a lot of energy in the last battle."
"So Daisuke can't come because he and V-mon would just get in the way." Takeru said. "So you're checking to see if I'll be there."
"NO HE WON'T!" Mimi yelled from off screen, causing Takeru to sigh.
"...What happened Takeru?" Hikari asked, evidently confused.
"I'm on the injured list for now. Hopefully I'll be able to join you some other time." Takeru explained. "Old wound from a year ago. Don't worry about it. I'll have one of Mimi's teammates from America join up with you."
"Who would this person be?" Hikari asked.
"Don't worry. You'll know him when you see him." Takeru reassured, before closing the comm. link. There was silence for a few seconds.
"I can't figure my brother out." Yamato said, shaking his head. Hikari turned towards the blond haired chosen.
"Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure all of us from the first Odaiba group of chosen can't figure him out either." Hikari said, trying to reassure Yamato.
"Except Mimi." Tentomon supplied.
"Anyway..." Tailmon began, interrupting the discussion. "Are we going to get into the Digital World or what?" the cat-like digimon asked.
"Yeah, we should get going." Koushiro said as the three human's held their digivices up to the computer monitor.
Hikari blinked as she, Koushiro, Yamato, Tailmon, and Tentomon entered the Digital World. Hikari looked around, noticing that the group was in a desert plain, with only cacti around as vegetation.
"Which way should we go?" Tailmon asked, looking around. Tentomon started flying in the air.
"We should look for Gabumon." Yamato insisted. Koushrio looked over towards the blond haired chosen.
"That is a good idea, but where is this other chosen that Takeru-kun told us about?" Koushiro asked.
"I'm right here." Said a male voice from behind the group. All three humans and the two digimon turned around, seeing a teenage boy with short blond hair and blue eyes. He was definitely American. He was wearing a white shirt and gray shorts, in addition to wearing an open red shirt over the white one. Two small similar digimon were at his side.
Both digimon seemed to be a cross between a dog and a rabbit, both having ears that went down to the ground, and had black eyes with white pupils. The first one had one horn on his head, and was covered in mostly white fur. The very tips of the digimon's ears were green, and the digimon had two green stripes on his ears as well. The digimon's hands and feet were green as well, and a small "V" shaped patch of fur under the digimon's neck was green. This was Terriermon.
The second digimon was brown where Terriermon was white and pink where he was green. He also had three horns on his head, as opposed to Terriermon's one horn. Also the small "V" shaped patch of fur on this other digimon had the tip of the fur missing. This was Lopmon.
"Who are you?" Hikari asked. The blond haired boy and the two digimon moved closer to the group.
"Name's Wallace Anderson (1)." The boy said. Hikari, Koushiro, and Yamato blinked, hearing perfect Japanese coming from an American.
"You speak Japanese?" Koushiro asked.
"No, I only speak English." Wallace said. "There is no such thing as different languages in the Digital World, every spoken word is translated into your own language." Wallace then pulled out a Digivice like Hikari's, only with green replacing the pink areas, and a light brown color where the white of Hikari's digivice was.
Tailmon looked over towards the two digimon. "Which one of them is your partner?" she asked.
"Both of us are." Terriermon replied. Koushiro looked over towards Tentomon.
"No chosen can have two digimon." Koushiro said in a very accusing tone. Tentomon started whispering innocently. Or at least as innocently as Tentomon could manage.
"I don't blame you for not expecting that." Lopmon said. Wallace looked over towards the brown digimon.
"After all, I'm the only recorded chosen with two digimon." Wallace finished. "I already know who the three of you are, no need for you to explain it for me."
"So where exactly is Gabumon Wallace-san?" Hikari asked.
"He's in the dome over there." Wallace said, pointing behind him. Hikari looked over towards the direction that Wallace was pointing at to see a large dome covering a city. A Dark Tower was visible in the center of the city.
"So Gabumon's in there?" Yamato asked.
"Yes, and unfortunately, he's been put under the control of the Evil Rings (2)." Terriermon supplied, much to the shock of Hikari, Koushiro, and Yamato.
"What!" Yamato shouted, clutching his fist. "We have to go and save him!"
"Not without a plan." Wallace said. "There is also an army of Guardromon in that city, and an Andromon as well, all under the Kaiser's control."
"Then what do you expect us to do!?" Yamato shouted in anger.
"We'll call for re-enforcements." Wallace said, grabbing a gold object similar to the D-Terminal. Suddenly the screen on it came to life.
"Takaishi here." Takeru's voice came out of the device.
"We need back up here if we're going to free Gabumon." Wallace said.
"What are you talking about?" Patamon's voice asked, sounding confused.
"Gabumon's under the Kaiser's control and has been moved into the Guardromon city."
"Damn it!" Takeru exclaimed, in a rage. "Alright, who exactly do you need with you?"
"I know that you and Ken are out of the question." Wallace said. "We're are going to need at least two more Perfects."
"I'll send Michael and Sam." Takeru said. "Make sure you plan this mission out beforehand."
"Since when did you become the strategist? Last I checked that was my job." Wallace replied.
"Just be careful." Takeru said, before ending the connection. Wallace turned towards the other humans.
"Now we wait." Wallace said.
"How many more chosen are there?" Tailmon asked.
"A lot." Terriermon replied sheepishly. Lopmon looked over towards his white and green twin and rolled his eyes.
"We haven't been able to get anyone from any other teams to help us besides the our team and yours." Lopmon replied in a more serious tone.
"Alright... so what digimon are we going to fighting?" Koushiro asked. Wallace turned towards him, before taking out another device and placing it on the ground. A large holographic map of a city appeared.
"Let's see." Wallace said, before many red dots appeared on the map's streets. "These are the Guardromon. As far as I know, they've been completely reprogrammed to obey only the Kaiser. They won't be wearing Evil Rings. Don't be afraid to kill them if you have to." Wallace said in a calm voice. Hikari and the others just nodded. A gray dot appeared somewhere near the Dark Tower. "That is where Andromon is located. He's wearing an Evil Ring. That will actually work somewhat to our advantage."
"How?" Tentomon asked obviously doubtful.
"The Evil Rings aren't strong enough to completely control Perfect level digimon." Wallace answered. "This will help us. We'll need to send Hikari, Nefertimon, and one Perfect to battle him."
"Why me?" Tailmon asked.
"You actually want Hikari to be near a Perfect even remotely under the Kaiser's control?" Wallace asked.
"Point taken." Tailmon said, sighing.
"Anyway, Terriermon and Lopmon should Jogress into Antiramon to battle Andromon if needed." Wallace said, indicating his partners. "While Rapidmon's range attacks would be an advantage against Andromon, we might need to destroy the Evil Ring by force if we need to. Rapidmon's missiles, while they would destroy the Evil Ring, would probably kill Andromon, which is something that we should avoid if we can."
"What do you mean by Jogress? That was something that the Kaiser used against us. And why do you need me there?" Hikari asked.
"Jogress Evolution involves two or more digimon fusing together to become a higher level digimon." Wallace explained. "I can make Terriermon and Lopmon do that in order to evolve them into either Rapidmon or Antiramon."
"But how does it work?" Koushiro asked.
"By having one of the digimon use the second as a power source. When Terriermon, as Galgomon uses Lopmon's data as Wendimon, they become Rapidmon. When Wendimon uses Galgomon's data, they become Wendimon." Wallace explained. "We need Hikari with us because of her powers."
"My powers?" Hikari asked, confused.
"Yes. You're powers are why you were given the Crest of Light." Wallace explained. "You still have those powers you were born with. When you were younger you got sick often, remember?"
Hikari looked puzzled. "How do you know that?" she asked.
"It doesn't matter." Wallace said. "Your powers are to blame."
"What do you mean?" Yamato asked.
"Her powers were too powerful to be in her body when she was younger." Wallace said. "Especially when they weren't being used. It was only when she became a chosen that she had a chance to use that energy. Takeru and Ken's powers work the same way, but for some reason Hikari's showed up earlier than theirs."
"Meaning?" Tailmon asked, getting annoyed.
"If they never became chosen, they would be in the state Hikari was in three years ago." Wallace said.
"Can this power be used to evolve Tailmon to perfect?" Hikari asked. Wallace nodded.
"It should." Lopmon said. "The reason that Angemon and Stingmon don't become their natural perfects is because Takeru and Ken's powers are occupied at the moment."
"Occupied with what?" Tentomon asked.
"That's not for us to say." Terriermon supplied. "If they want you to know, they'll tell you."
Tailmon looked up at the sky. "I see two things coming." The entire group looked up.
"It's about time they showed up." Terriermon remarked snidely. Wallace gave a sharp look towards his partner.
In the sky two large similar shapes were headed towards the group. The first was an orange flying dragon, with a metal helmet on his head and metal claws replacing his own claws. His purple wings were tattered, and in some places even stitched together. The dragon lacked legs and had a skull tattoo on his chest. This was Mega Dramon. There was a teenage human male on the dragons back. He had blond hair and blue eyes. His hair went to his shoulders. He was wearing a black trench coat, along with a black shirt and black pants.
The other creature was a purple skinned version of Mega Dramon. The only other difference was that this digimon had metallic wings instead of organic ones. This was Giga Dramon. On this dragon's back was a male African-American teenager with black hair and black eyes. He was wearing a red jacket over a green shirt and blue jeans. The two digimon landed and the humans jumped off of the two digimon.
"Michael. Sam. Good to see you guys." Wallace greeted. The blond haired teen, Michael, looked over at the group.
'So that's Hikari.' The boy thought. He then turned towards Wallace. "What's the plan?" he asked.
"To the point, as always." Sam, the African-American remarked, shaking his head.
"We were just discussing that." Wallace said, as the entire group turned towards the small map.
"We should use Mega Dramon and Giga Dramon as a distraction." Wallace said. "They would definitely be the hardest digimon to sneak into the Guardromon city."
"I agree with you there." Mega Dramon spoke in a deep voice.
"Just leave the blowing the crap out of the dome to us." Giga Dramon supplied.
"Alright." Wallace said, before a blue dot appeared on the west side of the city area. "That's where Gabumon is. Yamato, Koushiro and Tenotmon should be able to get over that way."
"I can't believe I'm going to have to fight against Gabumon." Tentomon complained.
"We'll free him." Koushiro said, trying to reassure Yamato. Yamato could only nod in response.
"You must be careful. There is a high probability that the Kaiser had evolved Gabumon." Wallace said. "In that case, he could either be a normal Garurumon, or a viral version of Garurumon. I doubt that the Kaiser would waste his energy adding another Perfect when he has little control over them with the Evil Rings, but I would be prepared to fight against Were Garurumon anyway."
"Alright." Yamato said, his voice hiding anger.
"Do you all know the plan?" Wallace asked. The entire group nodded. "Good."
"You should probably have another person on hand if you're going to risk going against another Perfect." A voice familiar to Yamato called from the side of the group.
The group once again turned around, and Yamato's eyes widened. "You again!" he shouted. Hikari looked puzzled.
"I see you remember me Yamato." The figure from the previous night said, leaning against a large black wolf with white stripes all over his body. This was a viral version of Garurumon.
"Who are you!?" Yamato demanded. The figure chuckled.
"My name is unnecessary right now." The masked figure said in a calm voice. "If you must call me something, call me 'Kuro'."
"Kuro's an odd thing to call yourself." Hikari remarked.
"How do we know you're not going to attack us?" Tentomon asked.
"Why wouldn't I have killed Taichi and Yamato yesterday when I appeared in the middle of the meeting with their parents?" Kuro asked. Tailmon's eyes widened.
"It's alright." Hikari said suddenly. "I don't know why, but I feel we can trust him." Hikari asked.
"Alright, so what are you going to do?" Wallace asked.
"We'll accompany Yamato, Koushiro and Tentomon." The Garurumon said.
"How do we know we can trust you?" Michael asked coldly.
"Hikari said you could trust me." Kuro replied. "What more proof do you need?"
The Kaiser sat in his control room, looking at a monitor screen. On the screen was a picture of the Evil Rings.
'How can I improve these things?' The Kaiser thought. Suddenly his attention was caught as the door to his control area opened and a large digimon entered the room.
"Well, Cyber Dramon." The Kaiser began. "I didn't expect you to come in here. How are you holding up?"
Cyber Dramon was a large humanoid muscular dragon digimon. The digimon was covered in black armor. Patches of metal was over the dragon's body in certain places, including the digimon's head, which showed no location for eyes. Two pairs of tattered wings were coming out of the cybernetic dragon's back. Two blades like spikes were coming out of the digimon's elbows. The dragon also lacked a tail of any kind. The last thing on the dragon was a gray object similar to the Evil Rings, only in a spiral form. "I'm doing fine Kaiser." Cyber Dramon said, his voice sounding like a growl, although his voice seemed to carry off a calm tone. "I must thank you for this Inhibitor Spiral (3)." Cyber Dramon said.
"Think nothing of it." The Kaiser said. "After all, you had a hard time controlling yourself. Besides, we can't risk him being let lose again."
"That's true." Cyber Dramon said. "What are you working on?"
"I'm trying to figure out how I can modify the Evil Rings to allow me to fully control Perfect level digimon." The Kaiser answered.
"...Why don't you just modify it into a spiral?" Cyber Dramon asked. "That's what you had to do to get this to work."
There was silence for a few seconds. "...Why didn't I think of that sooner?"
"So, where going to finally attack Guardromon City now?" Sam asked, looking over towards Michael.
"Apparently. Although liberating the city isn't our objective." The blond haired American said. "I still don't see why one chosen digimon can be so important."
"It's under Qinglongmon's orders." Mega Dramon said from behind the chosen. Michael snorted.
"Last time I checked, only Mimi was one of Qinqlongmon's chosen." Michael said. "Don't we work for Baihumon?"
"The only thing that I can think of is that Qinglongmon wants to grant this Gabumon to ability to become an Ultimate." Giga Dramon supplied.
"Why would he want to do that?" Sam asked.
"Because that Gabumon under the Kaiser's control has already become a Metal Garurumon before." Mega Dramon said.
"I suppose that would be a good reason." Michael said. "Personally I wouldn't want to fight against anything that would need that kind of power to beat."
"...So how long until Wallace gives us the signal?" Sam asked, before the two chosen's digivice's started beeping from their pockets.
"Alright, go and attack!" Michael ordered, before Mega Dramon and Giga Dramon started flying towards the dome. Once they got in range they stopped in mid air, pointing their arms towards the domed city.
"Genocide Attack!" Mega Dramon shouted as two missiles shot out of his arms and collided with the dome, causing an explosion.
"Genocide Gear!" Giga Dramon shouted as he did the same thing. Suddenly red lights started going off in the city. A door opened up in the city, and seemingly hundreds of red robots came out of the dome. They had a stocky build; their torso's being vaguely square shaped. Their fronts had values on them. Theses were Guardromon. Mega Dramon smirked.
"This is going to be fun." The orange dragon said.
In the confusion, the other chosen and digimon had entered the city and spilt up. Hikari and Wallace were riding on Nefertimon in the city's sky. The blond haired American had his arms around Hikari's waist.
"I remember why I don't usually travel on flying digimon." Wallace said.
"Deal with it." Nefertimon snapped towards the male chosen, obviously annoyed.
On the ground, Terriermon and Lopmon had Jogress Evolved into Antiramon. The perfect digimon was at least three meters high. He had short ears, unlike both of his child forms. His arms were long and nearly reached the ground. Antiramon's fur was mostly brown; white a few stripes of pink on him, along with one area of white around his face. He wore white armor on his upper torso, while his lower torso was protected with red armor. He wore purple pants. "Why aren't there any Guardromon here?" Antiramon asked.
"I was wondering about that too." Hikari said. "Why would the Kaiser allow all of this city's defense to go out at the first sign of an enemy."
"It doesn't make much sense." Wallace said, looking in front of his partner, trying to see the area ahead.
Two Guardromon suddenly appeared in front of the group, their arms raised towards Antiramon. "Destruction Grenade!" both robots shouted, firing off missiles out of their arms.
"Treasure Axe!" Antiramon yelled, his arms shifting into the form of axes, which he used to bat the missiles away into a few buildings. Antiramon quickly charged towards the two adult digimon, before slashing them in half with his axe-arms. Both of the Guardromon burst into black data specks. "Let's hurry." Antiramon urged.
Wallace just shook his head. "Terriermon's a bad influence on both of their forms." He said.
"What do you mean?" Hikari asked, puzzled. Nefertimon sped up to catch Antiramon.
"Terriermon, especially when he's Galgomon, is a trigger happy maniac." Wallace explained. "Lopmon, usually is not. One of the few reasons why I try to avoid Jogressing them into Rapidmon."
Suddenly Hikari saw an android staring at Antiramon, who had stopped running. "That's Andromon." Nefertimon landed on the ground and Hikari jumped off, grabbing her pink digivice.
"Andromon." Hikari said, getting closer to the large android, pointing her digivice at him. "Please, keep control of yourself."
Andromon was around the size of an adult human, with gray skin. Silver metal covered most of his body, except for a few places, namely the right leg and part of the digimon's face that had his mouth. The area with his elbow was un-covered as well. The un-covered parts of the digimon were very bony, lacking a large amount of muscle. He turned towards Hikari. A black ring was around his neck.
"Intruders detected." He said coldly, before his right hand started spinning. "Spiral Sword!" Andromon shouted, sending a blast of energy from the blade towards the brunette.
Meanwhile, Yamato, Koushiro, and Kuro had located Gabumon, who was evolved into his adult form of Garurumon. He was pretty much the same as Kuro's Garurumon, except that he had blue and white fur instead of the virus Garurumon's black. A black ring was around the digimon's neck.
"Garurumon! It's me!" Yamato shouted. Garurumon just stared at the blond haired chosen with red eyes. Blue fire started gathering in his mouth.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon shouted, sending a blue blast of flame towards his own partner. Yamato's eyes widened.
Suddenly Kuro's Garurumon appeared in front of Yamato. "Fox Fire!" The viral Garurumon (hence referred to as Black Garurumon) fired off a black jet of flame that collided with Garurumon's own attack, canceling each other out.
"This isn't good." Koushiro said. "Try to attack the Evil Ring Kabuterimon!" he ordered.
"Alright." Kabuterimon said, flying in the air. A blue ball of electricity gathered around him. "Mega Blaster!" Kabuterimon fired off the electricity towards Garurumon, who dodged the blast easily. It exploded, causing a crater in the middle of the streets.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon shouted again, this time towards Black Garurumon. Black Garurumon dodged, making sure that the attack wouldn't hit Yamato. The virus digimon suddenly charged towards Garurumon.
"Body Blow!" Garurumon jumped to the side, causing Black Garurumon to miss him. Suddenly Garurumon's fangs began glowing blueish-white.
"Freeze Fang!" Garurumon bit into Black Garurumon's neck, causing the virus digimon to scream in pain. Black Garurumon jumped out of his Data counterparts hold.
"Fox Fire!"
Before firing off another blast of black fire at him. Garurumon countered with his own blue flames, both fires canceling each other out again.
"Mega Blaster!" Kabuterimon fired another blast of energy, this time hitting Garurumon in the back.
Garurumon jumped up into the air aiming his mouth towards Kabuterimon. "Fox Fire!" Blue flames shot out of the wolf's mouth. Kabuterimon dodged the flames as Garurumon landed, only to have Black Garurumon charge into him.
"Garurumon. Destroy that evil ring!" Kuro shouted.
"I'm trying here!" Black Garurumon shouted.
"Fox Fire!" Blue flames blasted Black Garurumon, causing the viral wolf to collide with a building. Black Garurumon growled in anger.
"Fox Fire!" Black flames blasted against blue ones as Kabuterimon charged towards Garurumon.
Garurumon dodged, causing Kabuertimon to be blasted by Black Garurumon's flames.
"Damn." Kuro said, as he continued to watch the battle.
"Snap out of it Garurumon." Yamato said, almost pleading.
Hikari's eyes widened as Andromon's attack came closer and closer to her. Suddenly Nefertimon landed in front of her partner, taking the full force of the blow. Nefertimon screamed in pain, feeling the energy from Andromon's attack. Nefertimon started glowing pink, before a beam of energy shot out from Nefertimon to Hikari's D-Terminal, before devolving into Tailmon.
"Tailmon!" Hikari yelled, checking her injured partner. "Are you alright?" she asked.
"Guess... I wasn't as...strong as...I thought..." Tailmon said weakly before passing out.
"Tailmon!" Hikari yelled, tears appearing in her eyes. Andromon moved towards Hikari, his chest plate opening.
"Gatling Missile!" Andromon fired too missiles from his chest plate towards the human and digimon and an alarmingly fast rate.
"Damn it!" Wallace shouted, knowing that Antiramon wouldn't be able to get to the Child of Light in time to intercept the attack. Hikari looked over towards the missiles, as her eyes flashed pink for a second as pink light enveloped both her and Tailmon. The missiles collided with the light and exploded, leaving no harm to the two of them. Hikari grabbed her Digivice in her hand, before moving towards Andromon, who fired another two missiles, only to be destroyed by another blast of pink light. Hikari lifted her digivice up into the air as it shot out a pink beam of light towards Andromon's neck, where the evil ring was located. The beam of light struck the ring, causing it to burst into black specks. Andromon's eyes stopped glowing the red glow.
"I did...it..." Hikari said, before she collapsed.
"Hikari!" Andromon yelled out, no longer under the control of the Evil Ring. Wallace moved over towards the fallen girl.
"She's still breathing. Just tired." Wallace said. Antiramon looked over towards Hikari and Tailmon.
'I can't believe that Hikari's power didn't evolve Tailmon to the Perfect level.' Antiramon thought.
Andromon turned towards the Dark Tower in the distance, opening up his chest plate again. "Gatling Missile!" Two missiles fired out of the chest plate and collided with the Dark Tower, causing it to collapse.
"Fox Fire!" Both Garurumon fired off their fire attacks once again at each other. Kabuterimon was flying around, trying to find some way of destroying the Evil Ring that held Garurumon captive.
"Kabuterimon isn't having much luck." Koushrio noticed. "His Mega Blaster attack is too large to hit the Evil Ring, and his Beet Horn attack would skewer Garurumon."
Kuro looked on the battle, his expression masked. "This isn't going well." The masked chosen remarked. "We might want to run."
"And leave Garurumon slave to the Kaiser!?" Yamato questioned in rage.
"Would you rather have my Garurumon kill yours?" Kuro asked, causing Yamato to fall silent as the two wolf digimon jumped away from each other, before charging at each other once again.
"Body Blow!" Both Garurumon collided with each other, falling to the ground. Black Garurumon got up sooner, and swiped the Evil Ring with his claw, causing it to shatter. Both Garurumon began emitting light. Black Garurumon devolved into his child form (now referred to as Black Gabumon), while Garurumon devolved into Gabumon. Gabumon looked around, seeing Yamato.
"Yamato!" the small lizard cried as he raced towards his partner. "It's been a long time."
"You don't need to tell me that." Yamato said. "But what do we do now?"
"It would be a good idea for us to meet up with the others." Koushiro said. Kabuterimon landed and devolved into Tentomon.
"Do you know where Kuro and that Black Gabumon went?" the small red insect digimon asked.
Suddenly the Dark Tower in the distance collapsed.
"Maybe we should figure that out later." Yamato said. "I have a feeling that Hikari fried Andromon."
And with that, the two humans and digimon started running towards the center of the city.
End Chapter 04
1. Yes, I am putting Wallace in this series despite him not actually existing in the official timeline. There are some changes to his history though. First off, Lopmon wasn't taken away from Wallace, at all. Second, he and his digimon went to the digital world the first time with the New York chosen. And finally, this version of Wallace doesn't speak Japanese.
2. Evil Ring is the Japanese name for Dark Ring. I just forgot about it before.
3. If you can't figure out who the Kaiser is from this scene, and can't take a reasonable guess as to what the Inhibitor Spiral does, then you're an idiot.
Tamer Terra: It's called Amalgamation, which means combination. I can't say why it's called that, although it doesn't refer to Jogress Evolution.
Alforce Zero: There isn't a prequel to this story. The first version of Eternal Conflict was a massive omni-season cross over, where Takeru, Hikari, Takato, Ruki, Jenrya, Takuya, and Izumi were eventually going to end up fighting against a bunch of dark chosen like them. Kairuto was Jenrya's clone, with a Black Terriermon. He was also a shape shifter, and had soul stealing abilities. I've decided to bring him back in for this, although he doesn't look like Jenrya now. And I've changed his partner to a Patamon.
shadowblack: No, the power for Holy Angemon isn't coming from the Holy Stones, although that was a good guess with how little information I gave about it.
Xtremequeen666: Takeru being a jackass is a major plot point. And what do you mean with 'is Hikari going to get anything special?'
Western Master 3: The words Eternal Conflict doesn't refer to what you think. It should become apparent soon enough.