Eternal Conflict:
Amalgamation:
Chapter 14: Emergence of Light, Formation of Shadow Part 1
.o0o.
Hikari sighed and leaned back into the chair in her room. Tailmon looked up at her from the bed and yawned.
It had been a month since her group of chosen had begun their weapons training. Hikari had thankfully managed to keep in contact with her family over the past month, and she actually had plans to visit them the next day.
"So, tomorrows the day." Tailmon commented. Hikari nodded. Her parents hadn't made any comments about her missing school to be protecting the world, but she had idea of how her parents would react once they saw her. Hikari very rarely wore her older outfit, although tomorrow would probably be one of those times. Now she wore body armor, which completely covered her body except for her face. The armor was colored pink, with white at the joint areas. It also seemed to be form fitting. In actuality, the suit provided a rather large amount of padding all over it, giving her a more bulged out look (not to mention make her body look a little bit older than she actually was). And lastly, the body suit had a place for a spear to be holstered on her back. "Are you sure you want to be wearing that armor?"
Hikari shook her head. "What makes you think that I was going to wear this armor when I go visit my family anyway?"
"I haven't seen you wear anything else in two weeks." Tailmon commented dryly.
"Oh shut up!" Hikari shouted playfully. The body armor was actually designed by Steve a while back, and was supposed to have become standard equipment for the other chosen, but many of the group disagreed with it. This group included Takeru, who Hikari hadn't seen in anything other than the armor that he usually wore since this battle with the Kaiser had started.
Hikari was also against wearing the suit at first, but Mimi said that it would be better for her to wear that than normal clothes into battle (a fact that the older girl had decided to demonstrate by wearing a lime-green copy of the armor), especially if the Kaiser's attention would shift to Earth ("After all, if the Avalon goes to Earth, you can kiss your unlimited wardrobe goodbye."). It was after that that Hikari had decided to give the suit a trial run.
It only took one run-through with the practice droid at Intermediate Level Two for Hikari's thoughts on the suit to change dramatically. Not only was the armor highly maneuverable, it also greatly softened the impacts of the droids blows to a much greater extent than which she expected.
As far as she knew, none of the other members of her team had a problem wearing these battle suits. Daisuke thought they were cool. Iori had always worn armor in the past when he trained, and had actually asked why the suits didn't have any facemasks included. Chizuru was also pretty much for anything that added protection.
As for Miyako, she just wore the suit without complaint. That had tipped Hikari off that something was wrong, and Hikari realized what it was after seeing her blush after looking at Takeru one time when she was wearing the armor.
Hikari had confronted her about that, and had her suspicions confirmed. Miyako had a crush on Takeru.
Hikari got out of the chair and brought her arms up parallel to the ground, on had resting on the other palm, the tips of her fingers pressing into her wrists, which ended up pressing two hidden buttons at the same time, causing the suit to dematerialize, revealing that Hikari was wearing a pink tank-top and yellow shorts underneath the body armor, and that her digivice was resting on the waist band of her shorts.
Miyako and Chizuru were glad that the suit's dematerialized into their digivices when they heard that Steve had gotten the idea for the armor off of the Plug Suits from Neon Genesis Evangelion. At first Hikari had no idea what the problem would have been, until Miyako explained just what, or the lack of, was worn underneath the plug suits in that anime.
A pair of pajamas materialized in Hikari's arms, before the girl moved towards her night table and removed her digivice from her short's waistband and placed it on the night table. Hikari then quickly removed her clothes and changed into her pajamas. The discarded clothes burst into data before they hit the floor (Mimi was still slightly miffed about her tendency to do that, the older girl kept each pair of clothes that materialized 'in case of Avalon transport to earth').
"Have you noticed anything odd about Michael and Betamon lately?" Hikari asked, lying down on the bed. Michael and Betamon had shown up a week after they had disappeared. Hikari didn't know them that well, but she felt that something was odd with them.
Tailmon frowned. "When did you see Michael?" the cat digimon asked.
"I run into him in the hallways sometimes." Hikari answered. "I don't know him that well." The child of light added. "But something seems off about him."
"Maybe they're just weird." Tailmon said. "Qinglongmon knows that's why I stay away from Betamon."
"So you have noticed something odd with them!" Hikari exclaimed. Tailmon shook her head.
"Weird? Yes. From how they normally act? I'm not so sure." Tailmon answered.
"Maybe it is nothing." Hikari commented sadly as she turned off the lights and closed her eyes.
.o0o.
"Hikari and Takeru are going to visit their family tomorrow." Mimi said, lying down on her bed, covered with a blanket below her neck.
"Is there a problem?" Michael asked. Mimi laid her head down on his chest.
"Not really." Mimi commented. "I was thinking that we should just sleep in tomorrow." She added, a smile on her face.
Michael smirked. "I guess we will then."
.o0o.
Takeru was seated in the mess hall, fully dressed in his white armor. He was seated alone at a table, a bottle of translucent green liquid in his hand.
"I didn't think you would be one for drinking." Patamon commented as he flew into the room.
"It isn't alcohol." Takeru said almost immediately, a slight frown on his face. Patamon blinked, before a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"Then what is it?" Patamon asked. Takeru laughed.
"Some where kiwi juice thing." The blond chosen said, while frowning.
"What should we do with it?" Patamon asked, knowing that Takeru absolutely hated the flavor of kiwi.
"I have no clue." Takeru said, pushing the bottle aside. There was silence for a moment. "You know, I'm kind of nervous."
"Why?" Patamon asked, actually having some idea, but Takeru rarely talked about his problems with anyone, and this would encourage his partner to talk, so Patamon decided to play ignorant.
"You already know why. I'm going to see my father. It's been so long." Takeru said. "I wonder what he's going to think." Patamon blinked.
"Did you just show normal teen angst?" Patamon asked. Takeru frowned and hit Patamon playfully on the head.
"See if I ever talk to you about my problems again!" Takeru exclaimed.
"It was just a joke!" Patamon shouted, flying up into the air, although there was a smile on his face.
"Well, maybe you should think about the consequences of your actions!" Takeru yelled, before both he and Patamon burst out laughing. After the laughing subsided, Takeru looked at his partner. "Thanks." He said. "I needed that more than you know." His voice had gone serous again.
Patamon frowned as he landed on the table. "What's wrong now?" Patamon inquired.
"I don't know. It's just a feeling that I have. For some reason, I can't help but thinking that something is going to happen tomorrow, and I can't decide if it's a good thing or not."
Patamon's ears dropped. "That's really confusing." The small mammal digimon commented.
"Tell me about it." Takeru muttered.
.o0o.
Taichi leaned back on his bed. 'Hikari's coming back to visit tomorrow.' Taichi thought, staring up at the ceiling. To say that he was surprised and shocked to hear that Hikari and the younger chosen were staying in the Digital World would have been an understatement. His parents were worried about her when she told them that, although Taichi did know that it made a lot of sense, especially when she explained exactly where they were staying in the Digital World. 'After all, if I could bring my parents there, I would stay on that airship.'
"Is something wrong Taichi?" Agumon asked, walking into the room. Taichi turned his head towards the child digimon.
"Nothing's wrong Agumon." Taichi said. "I'm just looking forward to tomorrow." Agumon laughed.
"I bet you are." Agumon said. "I miss Tailmon almost as much as you miss Hikari."
"And why would that be? Planning some midnight romance, eh?" Taichi joked. Agumon raised his arms in protest.
"Hey! The only way I could even think about Tailmon like that is if you thought about Hikari like that!" Taichi's face took on a look of disgust.
"I was joking!" Taichi said, turning over on his bed.
"That's something too sick to joke about!" Agumon cried.
"Fine then!" Taichi shouted, before looking at the digivice on his wrist. He still didn't know much about the device, but at the same time he thought that he should avoid letting Koushiro look at it. He didn't know why, but he had a feeling that taking the digivice apart wouldn't be in his best interests.
Then there were also the visions that he was getting for some reason, but he couldn't make any sense of them. One question was why was he eleven during the visions? And not only that, but why was he teamed up with Saiba Rei? It didn't make any sense.
Taichi knew that he wouldn't be able to come up with the answers on his own, but at the same time, he didn't know who to ask to get his answers.
.o0o.
"I think it's time for another attack." Neo's Agumon stated. The group of four chosen and their digimon were surrounding a black round table in their headquarters in the World of Darkness.
"What makes you say that?" Kairuto asked, in a suspicious tone. "Why should we bother wasting our time now? Don't we have an attack on the Village of Beginnings to prepare for?"
"Kairuto's right." Sigma added. "It's obvious that we're going to be fighting against the entire force of chosen during that attack."
"Who said we have to use our full force?" Neo asked. Rei looked over at him.
"What do you mean?" the brown haired girl asked. The fact that Neo didn't mention his partner's thoughts about another attack was odd enough, but she couldn't get what he was planning.
"Simple." Agumon said. "Only four of us go."
Patamon shook his head. "There are only four of us idiot!" Piyomon brought her wing up to her face.
"He was counting all of us." Piyomon said. "The humans and digimon."
"But who will be part of the attack?" Tentomon asked. Neo smirked.
"It would be best if Rei and I were doing it." Neo said. This caused a look of shock to come across everyone gathered.
"But we lost against them last time!" Rei protested.
"So we'll be using perfects from the start of the battle." Neo answered. "And if need be, Agumon can evolve even farther than that." Both he and his Agumon grinned.
Both Rei and Piyomon decided that they didn't like those grins at all.
.o0o.
"Kaa…san…can…'t…breathe." Hikari said as she was caught in a bone-crushing hug from her mother. Tailmon just stood back and laughed. She was currently in the living room of her apartment, her mother, Taichi, and her father gathered in the room. Hikari was wearing the outfit that she wore on her first mission against the Kaiser.
"Yuuko…maybe you should let go of our daughter now." Yagami Susumu suggested, a look of shock on his face as he looked at the hug his wife was giving his daughter.
Yagami Yuuko let go of her daughter. Hikari took advantage of her new found freedom to take the time to breathe. Taichi moved over towards her. Hikari flinched back.
"Don't hug me!" the young girl shouted, still appreciating the fact that she could breathe, and forgetting about the potential rudness of that action.
Taichi and Susumu laughed. Tailmon just shook her head. She and Hikari had only been on earth for a few minutes, and things were already back to normal. She honestly couldn't understand why Hikari was worried the previous night. Her mother, much to her now apparent dismay, had immediately grabbed Hikari in that 'hug of death'.
"What have you been up to Hikari?" Susumu asked.
Hikari waited until she got her breath back before answering. "Training mostly." A look of confusion came across Yuuko's face.
"What type of training?" Mrs. Yagami asked. She already knew that Hikari was staying in the Digital World in order to avoid the press and possibly stop the 'Digimon Kaiser', she didn't understand much, other than the "Digimon Kaiser' was possibly responsible for the attacks the previous month.
"The others and I mainly deal with keeping our partner's in their evolved forms longer, and there's also weapons training." Hikari answered.
Taichi blinked his eyes. "Weapon's training?" he asked.
Hikari nodded.
"And who is teaching you this training?" Susumu asked suspiciously.
"Mimi is." Hikari answered simply, which gave every member of her family (and Agumon), blank stares. Hikari sighed. 'This is going to take a long time to explain.'
.o0o.
Meanwhile, Takeru, Yamato, Ishida Hiroaki and the two digimon were having a similar meeting.
"…This apartment isn't a mess." Takeru commented, confusion on his face. Unlike Hikari, he was dressed in his battle armor. The blond haired chosen looked around the apartment, seeing that it was in a state of cleanliness, which would never been associated with an apartment that two men, especially one a teenager, would live in.
"It took us a while." Yamato said. "I think we started cleaning this place a week early to make sure we actually had it clean for your visit."
"Of course, it would have been easier if a certain digimon had helped out with the cleaning." Hiroaki commented. Gabumon looked over at him.
"But you didn't do any of the cleaning until Yamato badgered you about it." Gabumon protested. Takeru shook his head.
"So how have things been in the Digital World lately?" Yamato asked, changing the subject as the group moved to the table.
"The Kaiser's been avoiding expansion lately." Takeru answered. "I don't know why, but it works out for us."
"In what way?" Hiroaki asked.
"The newer chosen have been given time to train." Patamon answered. "In both keeping their digimon in their evolved state, and by learning how to use weapons."
"Does this count for you as well?" Hiroaki asked, turning towards Takeru. The blond haired boy shook his head.
"I'm one of the instructors." Takeru answered. "I'm teaching Daisuke and Miyako swordsmanship. Gennai's teaching Iori."
"You must know a lot about using a sword if you're teaching." Yamato said. Takeru shrugged.
"I know how to fight." The younger chosen answered. "That's enough for learning the basics. Besides, knowing how to use a sword in controlled conditions and out on a battlefield are two different things. Take Mimi for example, she has knowledge on how to wield a spear, but as far as I know, she hasn't used it in battle in the last year. Yet she's still teaching Hikari on how to use a spear."
"Mimi?" Yamato exclaimed, confusion clearly evident in his voice. After all, Mimi plus weapon didn't seem to fit any law of physics. Imagine the effect of Mimi being a weapons instructor.
"I was surprised too." Takeru said, leaning back in his chiar.
And so, both Hikari and Takeru got to spend some time with their families, but by noon that was going to change.
.o0o.
It was a busy day in Odaiba. As it was a Saturday, the streets were busy with students who had just gotten out of school. Motomiya Jun was among them, dressed in the green uniform of the Odaiba high school.
'I wonder how Daisuke is doing?' Jun thought. She knew that Daisuke was still alive, as Hikari and the others would have told her if anything had happened to him, but she was kind of annoyed that Daisuke wasn't visiting her and their parents yet. It supposedly had to do with security, but Jun didn't buy that. Personally, she thought that Daisuke was avoiding his family on purpose, thinking that without him there, his family would be less of a target.
Jun stopped walking and shook her head. Daisuke didn't think things through sometimes. The fact that she was a chosen would mean that her family would be a target anyway. Add that to the fact that Taichi was a chosen as well, and that made it hard for their apartment building to avoid being considered a target in the future.
Jun looked around, seeing many of the other students of both the Odaiba High and Junior High schools around, giving her short glances as she passed. She heard someone mention the name 'Rinchei' and a black haired kid turned, but she didn't recognize him.
And honestly, he was a boy who would barely talked to her, and he wasn't a chosen, so she really shouldn't care that much.
Of course, as she thought that, the sky went black. Jun looked up, and noticed that something seemed to be blocking out the sun. She then looked back to the center of a street, noticing that a rip had appeared in the middle of the road. Neo, Rei, a Viral Metal Greymon and Vermillimon walked out of it, before it closed behind them.
Jun scowled, before ducking out into an alleyway as Metal Greymon fired off in the city. Bakumon jumped out of her backpack. "We have to do something Jun!" Bakumon exclaimed.
"I know!" Jun said, snarling through her teeth. On one hand, the bastard that killed her friend was right there, but at the same time, she had no way of standing up against two perfect level digimon. Jun pulled her backpack off of her back and searched through it, looking for her D-Terminal. She was going to need help, and lots of it.
White light shot out of her digivice. "Bakumon evolve! Wizarmon!" Bakumon shouted as his body shifted into that of his adult form. Jun looked at him.
"Hey, it's better be prepared in case they attack over here." Wizarmon said, trying to justify his evolution. Jun just shook her head as she continued to send e-mails.
.o0o.
Hikari was shocked. Her family didn't seem that concerned that she was living in the Digital World, especially once she told them about the Avalon. 'I guess as long as I have a safe place to sleep and a good supply of food, they don't think I'm in too much danger.' The brown haired girl thought. Although she didn't think that her parents would be people to accept her 'blowing off school'.
"Hey, Kaa-san?" Hikari started, fidgeting. Yuuko looked over towards her daughter.
"Is something wrong Hikari?" she asked. The group was sitting down on the couch in the room (except for Tailmon and Agumon, who were busy napping on the floor).
"Neither you or Otou-san seem to be that concerned that…" Hikari began, before her and Taichi's D-Terminals beeped. They both grabbed them out of their pockets and read the message for five seconds before paling.
"What's wrong?" Susumu asked.
"Both of the Saiba's are attacking." Taichi said without emotion. Both Agumon and Tailmon woke up as soon as they heard that.
"Then we better hurry!" Tailmon said. "Who knows what those nutcases could do?" And explosion outside cut the cat digimon off before she could say anything else. Everyone turned towards the window.
"Maybe that." Agumon commented dryly as the two chosen and digimon moved to run out of the door, leaving their parents behind. Susumu and Yuuko looked outside the window and a few minutes later saw Hikari, Taichi, and Agumon riding a winged sphinx heading towards the battle.
Yuuko blinked as she thought she saw her daughter wearing light pink body armor, but that was just plain silly.
.o0o.
Taichi made no comment as Pegasmon met up with them in the air. Takeru, Yamato and Gabumon were on the flying horse digimon's back.
"I take it you got Jun's message!" Yamato shouted. Taichi nodded.
"I hope the other's will be able to help." Hikari said. Takeru didn't say anything.
"I just hope Jun doesn't do anything stupid before we get there." Taichi commented dryly.
An explosion destroyed another chunk of the city.
.o0o.
Jun really wished glares were lethal weapons. That way she could finish of that Neo bastard. The viral Metal Greymon fired off another missiles at a mass of escaping people. Jun clenched her fist as the smell of burning flesh assaulted her nose. 'I can't take this anymore!' Jun thought. She had to at least hold those two off after all. Unless…
"Wizarmon." Jun began. The wizard digimon looked over at her, anger on his face as well. "I want you to kill Neo." This caused the wizard digimon's eyes to widen.
"But Jun…" Wizarmon began protesting… but Jun quickly cut him off.
"I need you to listen to me. Neo and Metal Greymon are connected. If you kill Neo, Metal Greymon will lose his source of power."
"But I…"
"I want you to do it from the shadows." Jun told him. After all, the only way this could work would be the equivalent of a sniping shot. "Wait until you get a clear shot at him." Jun said, poking out of the alley to see that Neo and Rei were on the ground near to Metal Greymon. There was another alleyway almost directly behind him and Rei. One where Wizarmon should have been able to pull of an attack that Metal Greymon wouldn't be able to see and block in time. "Teleport us to that alleyway behind them."
Wizarmon reluctantly nodded and grabbed Jun before both of them vanished and appeared in the other alley. He only hoped that this plan of Jun's would work.
In the other alleyway, Wizarmon looked up and pointed his staff towards Neo's back, golden electricity gathering around the tip of the staff. "Thunder Cloud!" The bolt of lighting shot off form the staff and headed towards Neo's back, only to be deflected by the dark blue tail of Metal Greymon.
Jun's eyes widened. How did he…
The viral Metal Greymon turned around. "Giga Destroyer!" Two missiles shot out of the cyborg dinosaur's chest and towards the buildings that Jun and Wizarmon were in between. The rubble from the buildings fell towards the pair of Chosen Child and digimon. Wizarmon raised his staff.
"Magic Game!" The mage chanted, before a blue shield appeared around the two of them, causing the rubble to bounce off of it harmlessly. Jun let out a breath that she was holding as the shield disappeared.
"They know we're here." Wizarmon shouted as he grabbed Jun and teleported them away. It was that action that saved their lives as a blast of fire from Vermillimon came speeding down the remains of the alley.
Rei was almost seething, somehow knowing that the digimon who had tried to kill her brother had gotten away. Although she could understand why they would want to kill him, especially with all this destruction (that Rei was making sure that Vermillimon was not taking direct participation in, although part of her was trying to get her to join in the killing, and Rei struggled to push it down) the fact was that it had tried to kill her brother.
"I'm surprised a chosen other than us would be willing to use a cheap shot like that." Neo commented off the side, which caused a slight amount of annoyance to emerge in Rei. Her brother was talking about someone who had just tried to kill him with something akin to pride. "Whoever they are, I like them. Too bad I'm going to have to kill them now."
.o0o.
Wizarmon and Jun reappeared on the top of an apartment building, away from Rei and Neo's line of sight. Jun let out a breath that she was holding and slumped down to the floor. "That was close." She muttered glad to be alive, although there was a small amount of anger in her voice, mostly do to the fact that she and Wizarmon weren't able to kill Neo. But how had Metal Greymon known that the attack was coming. It didn't make any sense. Jun looked up in the air and saw Nefertimon and Pegasmon fly towards the battle. Her eyes widened at the two people that she saw on the two digimon's backs.
"Taichi and Takeru are here!" Jun exclaimed and grabbed Wizarmon's arm. "Get us back to the battle."
Wizarmon sighed before he and Jun vanished.
.o0o.
"Are you ready?" Taichi asked. Agumon nodded. Pegasmon and Nefertimon were getting closer to the battlefield, and it wouldn't be long before the enemy spotted them. "Good. Get ready to evolve to Metal Greymon as soon as we land." Nefertimon lurched downward and landed on the ground. Agumon and Gabumon jumped off of the armor digimon.
"Do it Gabumon!" Yamato shouted as the human's jumped off of the digimon's back. Pegasmon glowed yellow, before he devolved to Patamon, a yellow streaked heading towards Takeru as it happened.
"Agumon Evolve!" Agumon yelled as he evolved into a large dinosaur digimon. "Greymon! Greymon Super Evolve!" Greymon called out as metal appeared on his faceplate, arm, and chest. Wings burst out of his back. "Metal Greymon!"
"Gabumon Evolve!" Gabumon shouted, as he became a large blue and white wolf. "Garurumon!"
"Patamon Evolve!" Patamon yelled as he was consumed in white light, turning into a humanoid angel with six wings. "Angemon!"
"It's about time you showed up Taichi." Neo said coldly. "Why don't we settle this?"
"Fine by me. But first answer this question. Where is Jun?" Taichi snarled, anger in his voice. Jun and Wizarmon appeared in mid air and fell to the ground. Taichi looked at her. "Never mind! Go Metal Greymon!"
Both of the Metal Greymon's charged towards each other, their metal claw out stretched. Both claws collided in mid-air, causing an almost deafening crashing noise. Both Metal Greymon's then flew up into the air and broke out of their deadlock, their chest panels opening. "Giga Destroyer!" Both of the perfect cyborgs shot out two missiles out of their chest, which collided and exploded in the air, sending shrapnel all over the street below them.
Hikari dodged out of the way of a large piece of shrapnel, which would have impaled her landed on the ground.
"Fox Fire!" Garurumon yelled, blue fire erupting from his mouth at Vermillimon. It wouldn't be enough to kill the red Monochromon evolution, but at least it would do something against her.
Unfortunately for the wolf digimon, Vermillimon was faster than he thought, dodging the attack. "Verm Breath!" Vermillimon sent out a large blast of red fire, which burned and knocked Garurumon back. The wolf digimon yelped in pain. Angemon pulled his fist back as Nefertimon took up to the air.
"Heaven's Knuckle!" Angemon shouted, thrusting his arm forward and letting lose a golden beam of energy, which slammed into Vermillimon's face.
"Curse of Queen!" Nefertimon shouted, shooting two beams of pink energy from her paw gauntlets, which also collided with the dark perfect digimon.
"Vermillimon!" Rei shouted, turning to face her partner, who seemed mostly stunned as opposed to injured.
"Why are you doing this?" Hikari shouted as she looked over at Rei. Rei turned her head to face the Child of Light, glaring at her.
"Would you be able to fight against your brother?" Rei shouted back. Hikari didn't know what the girl was getting at, and was more concerned with how anyone could willingly participate in the type of destruction that she did. Besides, Rei seemed much more insane the last time they fought, so what was going on? What had changed?
Vermillimon then jumped up into the air and opened her mouth, red fire gathering around it. "Volcano Strike S!" Two balls of dark red fire shot out of the digimon's mouth, slamming into both Angemon and Nefertimon, causing them to almost fall out of the air.
Wizarmon pointed his staff at the airborne Vermillimon. Lightning gathered around it. "Thunder Cloud!" A large bolt of lighting shot out of the staff and slammed against Vermillimon's stomach area, causing her to scream out in pain. Rei looked over at Wizarmon and at Jun.
"It was you!" She screamed, charging at the much taller girl, pulling her arms to the side as a dark black kuan dao emerged in her hands, crackling with electricity. She would make that bitch pay for trying to kill her brother! Rei made a motion to slash with the energy polearm, almost elated with the thought of killing Jun.
A metal spear blocked her path in front of Jun. Rei looked over at who held the spear, to see Hikari standing with her arms outstretched, sweat dripping down her face. "You!" Hikari and Rei broke away.
Hikari looked over at Rei, noticing that the digimon have started brawling again. Something seemed much different about Rei now. Her eyes seemed to have a phantom red glow to them now. Takeru moved beside her and drew his sword.
"Be careful." Takeru cautioned. "She's under the influence of a dark seed."
"Are you sure?" Hikari asked, watching Rei intently. While the Dark Seed would explain her tendency of destruction, that wouldn't be an excuse. Takeru had a Dark Seed in him, and he could fight it, so why wouldn't Rei?
Rei charged at the two chosen and they dodged as she swung the kuan dao down. "Yes." Takeru answered. "But something's wrong."
Hikari's eyes widened as Rei moved to attack again. "What do you mean?" Hikari asked.
"The Dark Seed seems to have taken complete control of her body." Takeru charged forward towards Rei, slashing downward at her, only to be blocked by the 'blade' of the energy kuan dao. "While she's still in control of her actions somewhat, her judgment is altered much more than normal! This is exactly how she was when she and Neo attacked before!" Rei tried chopping off his head, and Takeru ducked out of the way. Rei slashed downward, and Hikari charged forward and parried the blade with her spear.
"We have to find someway to help her!" Hikari exclaimed, before Rei knocked the spear out of her hands and slashed down at Hikari's head. Hikari raised her arms in a seemingly futile attempt to block the energy weapon from tearing her apart.
Taichi looked at this with fear, as he began moving forward to try to stop Rei, but something happened which caused him to stop moving.
Bright pink light appeared in Hikari's hands and shot of and hit Rei, knocking the younger Saiba sibling backwards the energy weapon vanishing from her hands as she screamed in pain. The majority of the light gathered around her neck, before dissipating. "What was that about?" Hikari asked, before Nefertimon was hit by a fireball from Vermillimon and slammed into the ground, devolving back to Tailmon, a pink beam of energy hitting the girl's hand, reforming into the Digimental of Light. Hikari blinked, wondering why the digimental remained outside the D-Terminal.
"Giga Destroyer!" the viral Metal Greymon shouted, hitting Taichi's Metal Greymon in the chest with his missiles, and sending him flying downwards to the ground. Metal Greymon broke the fall in midair and pointed her cyberized limb towards his virus counterpart.
"Trident Arm!" Taichi's Metal Greymon shouted, and the claw part of his arm shot out towards his adversary, tied to his arm by a cable. The cable looped around the Viral Metal Greymon, who then went speeding into the ground, which caused the area around him to form into a massive crater. The vaccine Metal Greymon landed on the ground, and his claw returned to his arm.
"Damn it!" Neo shouted. This wasn't how it was supposed to work. Taichi and his digimon were supposed to be killed! Neo then calmed down and took a deep breath while turning towards Taichi. "Well Taichi, you're forcing me to do something that I wasn't willing to do before." Neo then turned towards his digimon while he rolled up his sleeve, revealing a similar digivice to the one that Taichi wore on his wrist. Taichi's eyes widened as dark violet light shot out from it.
"Now Metal Greymon! Evolve!" Neo ordered, and the viral Metal Greymon took in the dark light.
"Metal Greymon Ultimate Evolve!" The viral Metal Greymon shouted. The whole group of chosen looked on in shock at what they were witnessing.
Meanwhile, Rei got off of the ground and looked over at her brother, and saw a look that she scared her deeply in his eyes.
When the violet light subsided around the viral Metal Greymon, a different digimon was in his place. The new Ultimate digimon was massive and stood up on two legs, and wore black and gray armor. The figure had a Greymon-like head, and the back of the armor had two halve of a shield split behind it. His arms had large black gauntlets on them, which had metallic claws. "Black War Greymon!" the new form of the digimon called out, his monstrous evolution complete.
Taichi's eyes widened at looking at the dark form of his partner's Ultimate form. "This can't be!" Taichi shouted.
"Giga Destroyer!" Metal Greymon shouted, firing off two missiles at Black War Greymon. The ultimate level digimon just battled both of the missiles away with the forearm area of his gauntlets, knocking both missiles away and into two nearby buildings, which both exploded.
Hikari was filled with sorrow at such a sight, and held back tears as she felt a large amount of life leave the area of the destroyed buildings. She had no idea how she could feel that, but she did have one thing that she knew she had to do.
Black War Greymon needed to be stopped.
"See if you can't defeat this Taichi!" Neo shouted boastfully.
Angemon pulled his fist back, golden light appearing around it. The angel digimon clenched his teeth as he sent a large amount of power into his arm. He needed to make sure that this attack actually damaged Black War Greymon. The golden energy was now three times the size of the angel digimon's hand, and it kept growing.
Rei looked at where the angel digimon was aiming his attack. Vermillimon noticed this too, fire already beginning to form in her mouth.
"Fox Fire!" Blue flames hit the dragon digimon in the side. Wizarmon appeared next to Garurumon.
"Fire Cloud!" Wizarmon shouted, jets of red flame mixing in with Garurumon's blue flames, which slammed Vermillimon back. Neither of the two chosen digimon were about to let Vermillimon mess up Angemon's chance at attacking Black War Greymon, who was busy dealing with Metal Greymon's 'useless' attacks, apparently playing around with the cyborg digimon.
"Giga Destroyer!" Metal Greymon fire off two more missiles, which Black War Greymon blocked and used to destroy two more buildings with. The police were busy trying to keep people away from the battlefield, as they knew they couldn't do anything to harm most of the monsters that were attacking.
Hikari was glad for the police efforts, as they kept the deaths from Metal Greymon's deflected attacks to a lower number.
Angemon thrust his arm forward. "HEAVEN'S KNUCKLE!" A large beam of golden energy at least quadruple the size than normal headed from Angemon's fist towards Black War Greymon. The beam collided with the dark warrior digimon before he had a chance to react to it, and caused a massive explosion that covered the area in smoke.
Angemon fell to the ground and devolved into an unconscious Patamon. Takeru quickly moved over to his partner, sheathing his sword before grabbing Patamon in his arms. "Did that work?" Takeru yelled, looking over at Hikari. Hikari's body was shaking.
"He's still there. He's barely injured." Hikari said. "He needs to be stopped."
Taichi and Yamato were both in shock at Hikari's declaration that Black War Greymon was practically uninjured. Even though he was an Ultimate digimon, Angemon's attack had used far too much power. Taichi had a suspicion that even Piemon would have been seriously injured from that attack.
"Black Tornado!" Black War Greymon shouted as he spun around in place, sweeping away the remaining smoke. When the smoke cleared, Neo had a look of shock on his face.
Black War Greymon's shield that was on his back was in place on the digimon's arms, but only one-third of each side was all that remained of the shield. "Damn it!" Takeru shouted. The fact that Black War Greymon used the shield meant that if Angemon had hit Black War Greymon in either the chest or head, they might have beaten him.
"Black War Greymon!" Neo shouted. "Kill everyone! Leave no survivors!" Rei's eyes widened as she heard this. Was her brother planning on killing every in Odaiba? Rei then flashed back to her saying a similar statement over a month ago. Did she really contemplate genocide?
'I can't let this happen!' Hikari thought as her Digimental started glowing. Tailmon noticed this while she had similar thoughts.
'Neo and Black War Greymon are worse than Vamdemon is.' Tailmon thought. 'This has to end!"
Meanwhile, Jun was having darker thoughts. 'I will not allow this bastard to kill anyone else! He has to die NOW!" Jun's digivice let out dark violet light at the same time that the Digimental of Hope shot out from Takeru's digivice and towards Hikari.
Wizarmon glowed with dark light. "Wizarmon Dark Evolve!"
Rei moved towards Neo and grabbed him as Wizarmon started growing taller. When the light subsided, Wizarmon was replaced by a large humanoid figure with pale blue skin under a red robe with a white hood. "Wisemon!" Jun felt that something was wrong. Energy seemed to be off from her partner.
The Digimental of Hope and Digimental of Light dissolved into yellow and pink light an melded together, before reforming into a crystal cross with a symbol that looked like a cross between the crests of Hope and Light on it. The actual symbol had the crest of Hope, but with the outer 'spikes' of the crest of light around it. Takeru gasped as Hikari grabbed the object.
"That's the Zohar of Heaven." Takeru said in awe, before the cross began glowing with a very light orange light,. The light formed into a beam, which shot off towards Tailmon.
Tailmon glowed the same color as the light, power flowing throughout her entire body. "Tailmon Super Evolve!" Tailmon shifted into a human-like figure with eight pink wings that was wearing a white leotard like outfit and had a gray visor over her eyes. "Angewomon!"
Rei grabbed Neo and a rift opened behind them. 'I have to get him out of here!' Rei thought, before pulling her older brother through the portal. Both Vermillimon and Black War Greymon noticed this, and ran through the portal. Black War Greymon didn't want to take the chance of losing his power once Neo was off of Earth.
Wisemon looked around before an open book appeared in his hand. "Eternal Nevada!" Wisemon chanted, before a red ball of energy appeared before the dark mage and slammed into a building, the rage from the dark evolution suppressing conscious thought.
Jun's eyes widened. "Wizarmon, stop this!"
Takeru shook his head, knowing that the only way to control a dark evolution was to either have powers affiliated with darkness, or by lots of practice.
Angewomon turned, knowing that while Black War Greymon was gone, she had another digimon that she had to contain.
End Chapter 14.
.o0o.
Author's Notes:
Well, I seem to be on the roll with my fanfics lately. This is the forth chapter that I completed in a week.
The Village of Beginnings is the Japanese name for Primary Village. I've already edited this into the previous chapters for consistency.
Also, I changed Leomon's child form in chapter 8 from Agumon to Leormon. Here's a picture of the digimon:
http// shining evo .ultimate digimon . com/ encyclopedia/ images /leormon.jpg
Digi Fan: You'll have to wait a bit to find out what's going to happen to Ken. The Zohar are a religious reference and a reference to Xenosaga. Hikari's Zohar's shape is although reference to Xenosaga, and here I'm using the definition of the word Zohar which means 'radiance'.
I also altered the last scene in Chapter 11. This way the odds will be a little more possible for the chosen to overcome (that, and new planning shows that the battle at the Village of Beginnings isn't going to be the end of Amalgamation, so I had to tone things down).