I don't own Digimon, I didn't know if you guys remembered that or not, though it's probably obvious by now....
Escape
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"It's too late, virus," called the angel boy and he blasted free from the muck and purified the darkness. "You are finished!"
The shadows of the virus railed against he angel child's attack. Swarms of black swept over the angel only to have them purified and disintegrated. The child glided forward and raised his fist. The viral core shuddered in terror for the first time. It held up a swirl of darkness defensively. The angel unleashed a burst of energy and swept the core into nothing.
Lucemon blinked as his Ultimate form body pushed through the digital wind like a bullet. He felt the strain of his Ultimate form struggling to hold its composure with out the energy of the virus. His wings were heavy. His hands were like mallets. His stomach clenched. A fuzzy light consumed his vision. He felt so heavy. His body lurched forward as his extremities and torso shrunk down to his rookie form. His back curved forward as he tumbled through the air. His wings were numb and he fought to straighten them but they refused his attempts. Short swirling glimpses of coniferous trees fled across his view. Soon he was below the tree line.
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A single traveler was traveling along the trail that led up the mountain. The forest surrounded him in deep pine perfume. He felt a dark aura was approaching. He turned and looked up into the dusk sky. He narrowed his hazel eyes and drew his cloak around his body. A burst of light erupted from down the trail. A black and white burst blazed through the sky overhead.
His slightly grayish blue face crinkled. A flash of orange filtered through the forest. He ran forward. He lifted his staff with a large yellow sunflower head and glided into the darkening sky.
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The traveler landed in a clearing. The crash site was not difficult to find, all one had to do was follow the line of maimed trees. He landed at the beginning of a large trench that stretched to the opposite side of the clearing. It ended at a large pine tree. The base was littered by mountains of needles and cones. A hand was lying limply out of one of the piles. The traveler ran up and carefully removed the needles and pulled on the revealed arm. A body slid free. A blond haired boy, with twelve, drooping, angelic wings slumped against the traveler. The boy was nearly as tall as the traveler and the man carefully laid the angel on the ground.
"Lucemon..." The traveler's green eyes flashed. He drew back and curled his cloak around him. "This was the dark aura....but the aura is gone...it's changed, I sense..." His eyes narrowed, "a human's aura mixed with a calm, pleasant aura....."
"Mark..." whispered the angel hoarsely, "get away...from Mark...please..." The angel seized up and then fell silent again.
"He was dreaming about protecting a human boy..." the traveler narrowed his eyes. "What is going on...?" The traveler felt a flare of purifying aura from the angel. The traveler stepped back and glided to the far end of the clearing and gathered up some kindling and then started it on fire. He watched the angel quietly as he slumped back against one of the surviving pine trees.
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"Interesting," whispered Brendan. He shifted slightly to let more light in from the camp fire. Earlier that night he had requested to see each of the children's digivices. They had asked why and of course, he couldn't resist the urge to explain the fact that he discovered a small infra red port on the device that looked compatible with the computer's own wireless access port. He had also been investigating this when the program popped up on his screen. Two lines of code had appeared. The top one was titled Demi-Meramon the bottom one Tapirmon. Brendan had been scrolling along the code when he came to the end of Demi-Meramon's code he noticed that this stretch of code was identical to the beginning of Tapirmon's code. When he tried to access that part of the code a third stretch of data appeared, this was also labeled as Demi-Meramon but the time factor was earlier. The end code of the new data was slightly different. The more Brendan looked at the code; the more he got a formulation of a hypothesis. It was unfounded and speculative but it was a start.
"Ok, Brendan..." whispered the voice of Jason quietly. Brendan looked up quickly. Jason walked closer, "I'll watch you need sleep, you've been key pounding all night..."
"I think I've discovered something that could help us," whispered Brendan. He turned his head, "I just need to figure out how to make it work...."
"You can figure it out later," replied Jason. He yawned and stretched and gently nudged a drifting Otamamon. "Right now you need to sleep."
Brendan yawned and nodded quietly and turned off the computer and went over to the area where the boys were sleeping and laid down. Tapirmon hovered close behind and then curled up next to the boy.
Jason sat down and with Otamamon; they waited for morning to come.
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"Triplex Forces!" Jason jolted awake. He had fallen asleep. He growled. Jason turned to the others. They were still sleeping.
"Guys wake up!" shouted Jason. He shook the others awake. "Something is coming and it doesn't sound friendly."
"Ugh..." grumbled Kevin as he stood. The others rubbed their eyes.
"Let's retreat," called Stephen. He pulled on Mark's arm dragging the smaller boy with him.
"Oh...I don't think so," said a malicious voice. Stephen turned his head. A red devil stood in front of the child. A trident was in the grip of his left hand.
"Who are you?" growled Stephen.
"I am, Boogeymon, lord of this island," said the red devil quietly. He flicked his eyes over the astonished look of the eight children and the gritted teeth of seven digimon. He smiled, "Oh, where is Lucemon...didn't he like the present I sent him?"
"You monster!" Janet moved forward. "You, have no conscience, you aren't sorry for what you did!?"
"Foolish girl," growled the devil. "Why would I be sorry for something I wanted to happen?"
"You don't deserve to live..." growled Janet. Her mind's eye shot back to the scene of the Burgermon village in a crater. Growlmon had also succumbed to this monster. Her teeth gritted. She loved her friends new and old, strange and normal, and this guy had caused a good number of them get blasted.
"I will show you who doesn't deserve to live," The devil swung his pitchfork forward. "Death Clash!" A blast of dark energy flickered forward.
"Janet!" The others reached forward, but they were all too far away. Janet stood their numb.
Renamon stood in front of the girl. "Diamond Blast!" shards of sparkling crystals shot forward. The oncoming blast of darkness disintegrated the diamonds and swept Renamon away.
"Renamon!" Janet ran over to the fox. "Are you ok?"
The fox looked up and saw Boogeymon approaching his eyes glowing red. "Janet!"
"Ruby Eye!" two lasers of red raced forward.
"Renamon, Digivolve to, Youkomon!" A large purple fox with flaming feet glided forward. "Demon Fire Ball!" A blast of lavender fire rammed the lasers. The two streams of crimson light shot through the fire ball and struck the fox in the chest sending it backwards.
"Youkomon?" Janet ran forward.
"I'm fine," growled the fox and it stood.
"Well, let's not just stand there, let's help her!" shouted Kevin.
"Snow Agumon, Digivolve to Shima Unimon!" The zebra unicorn galloped forward.
"You too Ryuudamon," called Kevin.
"Ryuudamon, digivolve to Ginryuumon!" the long necked wingless dragon stomped forward.
"Triplex Forces!" a three prong beam of energy sliced in front of the two new champions. A three headed dinosaur roared out of the brush. Its main head was a normal flesh like head. Its other two heads were skeletal and in the same place as would its hands have been if it had hands. The left one was a serpent like skull the other was like Growlmon's head if, Growlmon's head had no skin.
"Meet, Deltamon, my pet," chuckled Boogeymon. He turned to the dinosaur, "Destroy them, Deltamon."
"What about me, Boogeymon?" growled Youkomon as she dove forward. "Demon Fire Ball!" Youkomon fired a second blast at the devil.
"Pathetic," Boogeymon slapped the ball away.
"How's this for pathetic!" growled Youkomon. Her tails glowed deep lavender. The energy flowed into the barber shop like collar and collected in the golden tips. "Jaenryuu!" twin fiery dragons twisted forward. They spun around each other like a DNA helix.
Boogeymon growled as the glowing purple dragons spun towards him. He swept his trident forward. The two dragons twisted around the fork and roared. Boogeymon struggled with the dragons but then crashed them down on the ground.
"My turn..." He lifted his hand up. A black orb formed there, "Death Clash!" He thrust the orb forward and watched as the ball enveloped Youkomon and then flashed with purple lightning and catapulted the fox digimon backwards.
Janet ran up to the fox. Youkomon growled and stood up again. The girl looked at the others. Ginryuumon and Shima Unimon were tied up with Deltamon. The rookies had herded the children without champions into the bushes away from harm.
"Youkomon, we have to keep Boogeymon busy..." whispered Janet. She patted the fox's back. "Let's try that dragon thing again...it seems to keep him a little more occupied..."
"Ok," said Youkomon under her breath. The flames around the foxes feet flared and she took to the air. "Jaenryuu!" growled the fox and released another helix of twin dragons.
"Death Clash!" growled Boogeymon and blasted an orb at the dragons. The dragons ate orb and roared angrily. They dove at Boogeymon and constricted around the devil and turned their heads and bit him and released their energy. Boogeymon fell backwards and growled.
"We got him!" shouted Janet. She pointed at the prone figure of the devil digimon, "Let's finish him off now!"
Youkomon stepped forward and prepared another blast, "Jaenr...aar!"
Deltamon's attack loosed him from Shima Unimon and Ginryuumon and struck Youkomon in the back. Boogeymon stood slowly.
"Deltamon, finish this up," growled the red devil and he opened his wings. "I find these annoyances no longer entertain me!"
"You're not going anywhere!" growled Janet and Youkomon.
"Death Clash!" Boogeymon shot a blast into the ground. When the dust cleared he was gone.
"He got away!" growled Janet.
"Wild Thunder!" Janet turned to see Shima Unimon send a blast of blue lightning at the three headed beast.
"Armor Piercing Blade!" Ginryuumon shot one of the energy blades from his helmet, but Deltamon used his skeletal heads like shields protecting himself from both the lightning and the blade.
"I'll hold him!" Youkomon glided forward. "Jaenryuu!" the twin dragons flew forward and spun around the giant dinosaur.
"Triplex For..." Deltamon growl was choked out as the two dragons tightened around his chest.
"Now, attack now," growled Youkomon.
"Wild Thunder!" Shima Unimon thrust his horn forward and fired a blast of blue lightning at the dinosaur.
"Armor Piercing Blade!" Ginryuumon fired a blade at the three headed beast.
The two dragons bit down and exploded. Deltamon dispersed into dust.
"We won!" cheered Kevin and Stephen.
"Boogeymon got away," growled Renamon.
"But we hurt him..." said Brendan.
"So he's not invincible!" said Jason.
"We just let another monster get away," said Janet. She looked down. "First Fallen Lucemon got away and killed an entire village and then now Boogeymon..."
"LUCEMON IS NOT A MONSTER!" shouted Mark he yanked himself from the others and ran to the other end of the clearing, "And to prove it I'll find him by myself!" He disappeared into the bushes and moved towards the Burgermon village.
"Great!" Stephen turned on Janet. "Now we have to chase after my brother!"
"Not me," said the girl. "I'm going after Boogeymon. He's going down, I don't care what we have to do, he's gonna pay!"
She ran off in towards the area where Boogeymon had been.
"Wait!" Brendan shouted after her. She was already gone.
"I'll go after her," said Jason.
"Now wait!" Kevin stopped Jason and stood up. He dusted off his blue shirt. "We have to do this right..."
"My brother is off on his own!" shouted Stephen. He grabbed Kevin by the shirt cuffs. "We don't have time!"
"Fine, you and Brendan go after Mark!" shouted Kevin in return, "The rest of us go after Janet!"
"Actually..." It was Michelle. She walked up and wedged between the two boys. "I think I should go after Mark. If Lucemon is still a virus...we'll need D'Archmon..."
"She's right," chirped Labramon and stepped forward with a wince.
"But you are too hurt to travel fast," growled Stephen.
"But I can track him with my nose!" retorted the retriever.
"They're right," said Amy. The others looked back at the girl. She smiled softly, "plus it makes us even..."
"Fine!" growled Stephen, "Then come on!"
The others nodded. Stephen, Michelle and Brendan, with their digimon, ran in the direction of Mark. The others ran after Janet.
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"The master's plan has succeeded?" the bat winged bowling ball tilted his head, "but he was defeated by their fox...or did he fake it...? Either way they have parted in more than their feelings..."
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A/N: So is Boogeymon weak, or is he just crafty...and how will Lucemon react to his host? And what is this with Brendan...and is Mark safe alone? Are questions getting annoying yet...?
Thanks Alforce, we'll see, I think it's the same one, But there is no canon that doesn't say that a Lucemon didn't try and take over the digital world, possibly causing the first digi-destined experience...It maybe that all the realities start similarly but the actions of the people cause the cracking events that lead to the multiverse we have now... Or...I was too deluded and chagrined and tried to conglomerate all three universes together, cough, there will be reference to the third season universe soon enough...You'll just have to see how it plays out...
And as to Renamon's digivolution; I kind of wanted something that reflects Janet's feelings. Though Youkomon's good, she was brought forth in a period of revenge. Jaenryuu is something from the Digidex...(cough I realized too late the possible evilness there) and though I will in future use megchan's encyclopedia for new digimon and digivolution lines and attacks, though I will maintain those attacks I used for the digimon I have already had attack calls for...