I don't Own digimon
Darkness Lost
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"Chaos Piedmon…" A red glow emanated from behind the clown. The grey harlequin growled and turned slightly. The normally white walls of the small lab he was in were now covered in a soft red light. "Analysis shows that your most capable minions are quite incapable. They are losing their hold on the humanwe necessitate."
"I am aware of the situation!" snapped the harlequin.
"Your debt is still unpaid," said the glow quietly. "We have invested many resources to your endeavor, we must have results. Give us results soon!"
"You are pushing my patience with your constant nagging, you will not direct my production!" shouted the harlequin loudly.
"We are not taking orders from a digimon like you," replied the glow. Chaos Piedmon growled but a surge of pain ripped through the clown's chest and limbs. The grey figure looked down to see crimson energy shooting through his body. "If you do not want to cease to function we suggest you attain the target subject!"
The red energy left the harlequin's body and Chaos Piedmon sneered at the glow, "Fine! I'll get your 'target subject'. I still do not see your specific need for that drama queen!"
"We necessitate the being for its energy signature. What is your plan of retrieval?" the glow replied quietly.
"I'm activating a portal now, I will retrieve our little guest actor myself!" The grey harlequin grumbled and glided out of the large room.
The surgical walls gave way to the gritty brick work of the temple they had captured. The fight for the temple had not been much of a show. A Black Rapidmon had been protecting it with his helpers. It wasn't much to destroy them. The temple was the center of their collective power and it was from here that they had taken over.
It was just like last time. With the Harmonious Ones done away with and with the Digi-destined off chasing his minions, they had no resistance. AndroDramon had taken the Village of Origins, soon after Bastemon and Karatenmon evacuated it. CyberSeadramon now controlled the sea. Metal Puppetmon had the mountains and forests under a metal fist. Chaos Piedmon had all the rest. The clown smiled quietly. The truth was, he had it all, those other four were just his underlings, but he allowed the façade of them ruling to continue if only to keep them mindfully obedient to his power, after all, it was he that defeated the Harmonious Ones.
"I have all the power, but my link to that…" Chaos Piedmon growled as he stood before the swirling mass of energy that was the link between his world and the humans', "ball of red slime is so close that it can do away with me at any moment, my entire existence is linked to its ability to keep my data ligated to my digi-core. To be so impotent when I am the superior…" Chaos Piedmon's black eyes flicked up to the portal, "is quite the nuisance." The harlequin stepped through the portal.
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"Man this is…" Kevin looked around him. A glowing orange matrix swam around his head. It was a little difficult to describe, "…different." He couldn't see the battle but he had an instinctual sense of what was going on, like he could see it with his mind's eye. "Snow Agumon?"
"Don't worry, we're approaching Ancient Sphinxmon now," replied the dinosaur's voice stoically.
"What should we do?" asked Kevin loudly.
"Firstly, stop yelling," replied the voice of his partner, "Secondly get ready cause here he comes!"
Kevin narrowed his eyes. "Ok, let's get him!"
"Right," replied Snow Agumon's voice.
A string of words flooded his head. Amongst the group was the words Justice Kick and Voltage Blade. Kevin looked about him. "Are these word things attack names?"
"Yes, they are," replied the digimon.
"Then let's try this one…" called Kevin. "Voltage Blade!"
Kevin felt something around his arm shift. He looked up. The image played in his mind as he flew up to Ancient Sphinxmon's face and a slicing lavender streak cut across the feline's face.
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GaiOumon swept in from the air. Steven was still a little unsure of himself but he extended his hand gripping an invisible sword, "Rinkazan!"
Ancient Sphinxmon snarled as Steven flew by. He turned his head and saw Justimon run a purple energy blade across Ancient Sphinxmon's face.
"Let's try the other Ryuudamon!" called Steven loudly.
"Right oh!" called Ryuudamon's voice. "Gaia Reactor!" Steven's arms lifted as he gripped the pair of invisible swords and crossed them. He felt a power swirl at the nexus of the swords and he sliced the two blades outward across each other. A blue comet of swirling energy shot down crashing into Ancient Sphinxmon's back. "Got him!" cheered the voice of the lizard.
"Heh…" the smoke cleared. The large black wings unfurled. The pair of tails on the back of Ancient Sphinxmon shot up and slapped GaiOumon sending him crashing into the remains of a building. The cat's face turned around. "Necro Eclipse!" The next thing GaiOumon knew a black mass was crushing him into the ground.
"GAIOUMON!" screamed a voice. "Justice BURST!" The sounds of explosions ripped through the air as did the groans of Ancient Sphinxmon.
"Rinkazan!" growled GaiOumon as he sliced through the darkness.
He flew forward seeing Ancient Sphinxmon snapping at Justimon, who was dodging and weaving back and forth while letting loose some rounds of lavender energy. Suddenly the front paw of Ancient Sphinxmon crashed down on top of the lithe cyborg pinning him to the ground. The sphinx laughed and opened its mouth prepared to release and blast of darkness.
"No you don't!" GaiOumon looked over to see Asuramon and Wisemon approaching. "Human Emotion!" A beam of light smashed into Ancient Sphinxmon's cheek.
"Pandora Dialog!" spears of lightning lashed the flank of the beast.
"Wing Blade!" a flaming apparition of a mighty phoenix dropped down on top of the large winged cat. GaiOumon looked up to see Garudamon fly over.
"Talisman of Light!" Blazes of light lanced across the wings of the sphinx as a golden robed digimon flew forward. The large, three head rottweiler Cerberumon was galloping towards Ancient Sphinxmon its mouth burning with green flames. Seconds later the emerald blaze crossed the sphinx's chest.
"Inferno Gate!" a sphere of darkness wrapped around Ancient Sphinxmon's face.
Suddenly a red and white serpent rammed the sphinx shaking the beast off of the ground. The serpent recoiled and opened its mouth. "Mega Ice Blast!" A wave of freezing liquid covered the front of the giant black digimon as Justimon scrambled from under its raised paw.
"Looks like the cavalry's here," whispered Ryuudamon's voice.
"It may not be enough," replied Steven.
"Don't you have faith in our friends?" asked the voice of Ryuudamon.
Steven's eyes widened and then he smiled, "Of course I do; we're the digi-destined aren't we? We can do anything!"
"That's the spirit!" cheered Ryuudamon's voice. "Let's get him!"
"Get over to Justimon, I have a plan," said Steven.
GaiOumon dove down to his comrade. Justimon looked up and waved, "Hey, buddy what's up?"
"Not us," returned GaiOumon. "We have to do this together; I have a plan."
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"What the heck are they doing?" growled Jason as he looked up.
The fight had exploded loudly as GaiOumon and Justimon rushed Ancient Sphinxmon and then destined Ultimates had joined them, leaving Mystimon back as a last line of defense incase something truly horrible happened. Now the fight was not much of anything. The Ultimates were dancing about in the sky and GaiOumon and Justimon were completely gone.
"You don't think…" Amy gulped with trepidation.
"Don't even think that!" yelped Mary and Jeri as the two mothers of the boys crossed their hearts.
Mystimon suddenly jerked his head back and drew his sword. The humans leapt back.
"Ever perceptive, Mystimon," rolled a soft, theatric voice. "Now, no one has to be hurt if you just let me have…" The humans turned collectively. A grey harlequin stood behind them. Long red ribbons whirled up from his puffy grey shirt.
"Chaos Piedmon, you must be pretty desperate to come here on your own," growled Mystimon. The warrior wizard walked through the human crowd, placing himself between the humans and the clown.
"Well, you know what they say, directors like to be actors and actors like to directors," Chaos Piedmon unsheathed a sword, "Ah, Mr. Kuro Takenouchi, how's your mother? It has been a long time since I've seen her; I'll have to slay her over coffee one day when I take over this world!"
Mr. Takenouchi looked up. His black hair was mussed and his eyes narrowed. His fists were clenched. "You leave my mother alone…"
"I was quite surprised when I heard your mother and father got divorced, Mr. Takenouchi," smirked the clown. "After all, they were very close when I knew them…but that was a long time ago…"
"That's enough out of you!" shouted Mystimon as the wizard rushed forward.
"Oh, how predictable," sighed the clown as he shifted his weight and maneuvered his sword casually to parry the attack.
A roar shrieked through the air and everyone turned. Ancient Sphinxmon was reared up and a large red X was sliced across his chest.
"It seems I haven't much time before my little pet gets put down," whispered Chaos Piedmon. His dark eyes looked at Mystimon. "Then I'll have to do away with you now."
"Try," grunted Mystimon as he pushed forward.
"Oh dear me," whispered Chaos Piedmon with a sneer. The clown let the wizard push him back slightly and as Chaos Piedmon slid back, he pivoted and pushed forward with a stable thrust, tossing the wizard off of his sword. The harlequin then shot into the air and pulled a handkerchief from his shirt and tossed it down, "Clown Trick!"
"No! Blast Fire!" Mystimon swept his sword around releasing a whirl of flame that burned the handkerchief. The fire ball raced toward Chaos Piedmon but the clown only smirked and flicked his palm open reflecting the flames back at their owner.
"Here, I'll add a little spice to it, Clown Trick!" a wavy burst of energy shot forward forcing the fire ball to bulge. Mystimon was sent flying back and crashing to the ground. The clown disappeared and reappeared above the wizard his sword drawn and the point of the blade at the neck of the wizard.
"No!" shouted the humans and instantly recoiled as the sound of fluid squirting out of a small space sloshed from clown and the wizard.
Mystimon exploded into data and the clown turned, "Now…Mr. Takenouchi, please come with me…"
"Don't do it!" yelped the children loudly. The man lifted his hand and walked forward.
He walked up to Chaos Piedmon. The clown looked down at the man and frowned, "Where's the crest?"
"What crest?" returned Mr. Takenouchi.
"Don't be stupid, you know what crest!" roared the clown impatiently.
"All I know is that Karatenmon had a pendant like those kids," said Mr. Takenouchi quietly.
The clown growled and then put his gloved over Mr. Takenouchi's face. As the children gasped the clown released a pulse of magic and the man slumped. "Then you'll just have to nap as I retrieve the crest."
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Ancient Sphinxmon was livid. The large wound across the winged cat's chest was still glowing from a combined attack of Justimon's Voltage Blade and GaiOumon's Rinkazan. A dark smoke flowed from the cross slash. A lavender glow shimmered from the epicenter of the slices.
"Fools," the lavender glow pulsed. "I am nearly a god! And you attempt to strike me down with such weapons…"
"That's not Ancient Sphinxmon's voice…" gasped Wisemon as the sorceress hovered in front of the beast.
"I know that voice," growled Asuramon. The four fists clenched, "The defiled darkness…the leftovers of the Founder of Darkness…"
"What?" yelped Taomon and Wisemon simultaneously.
Asuramon didn't get a chance to respond as the cross slash glowed with red energy that condensed into the epicenter and erupted forward, blasting the three Ultimates back.
"Gaia Reactor!" roared GaiOumon loudly. A spinning blue comet slammed into Ancient Sphinxmon's face. The large winged cat stomped back a few steps.
"Thunder Clap!" A wave of electrically charged air slammed into the chest of the beast eliciting a soulful howl.
"I grow weary of these…Piedmon…" The cat's eyes narrowed.
"Ah, my little stage hand," replied a soft voice. The digimon turned and saw a grey harlequin standing on the remains of a building. Under his arm was the sleeping form of Mr. Takenouchi. The smile on the harlequin's face hardened and his eyes narrowed, "You defied me…you are a traitor and I don't take kindly to being betrayed. You have something I want, now give it to me!"
"Never!" The feline growled. "You have my partner, release him!"
"Oh, yes, him…" The harlequin looked down at the figure under his arm and released his grip, letting the man fall onto the building. The corner of the harlequin's lip curled upward, "Oopsies…"
"DARK BLAST!" roared Ancient Sphinxmon. The twirl of shadows swarmed towards the clown. The harlequin unsheathed a sword and sliced cleanly through the shadows dispelling them.
"Oh now I'm sure you can do better than that…" Piedmon sheathed the sword and cocked his head to one side, "No? That's a shame, because you'll have to do much better than that to stop me." The clown suddenly shot forward. Seconds later he was yanking something from the chest of Ancient Sphinxmon. The bloody glove of the harlequin held a pendant. It crackled angrily as the clown held it up to his face and smirked, "My after all these years your still so very vehement." The harlequin repelled backward as Ancient Sphinxmon swept his claws at the clown's grey attire. Piedmon alighted back on the perch he had before and looked at GaiOumon and Justimon. The two biomerged digimon looked at the clown. A frustrated look came over the harlequin's masked face as he looked from Ancient Sphinxmon to the biomerged digimon, "Well aren't you going to do away with him, after all, that's what you bit players do!"
"We don't take orders from strange clowns!" shouted Justimon. The grey cyborg leapt up. His metallic arm morphed into a large purple energy blade. "Voltage…"
The butt of the clown's palm slammed into Justimon's chest sending the digimon flying backward and crashing to the ground. "I don't have time to play, now do your job!" The harlequin snatched up Mr. Takenouchi and leapt into the sky.
"KURO!" roared Ancient Sphinxmon. "Bring him back!" The large beast's wings flapped and he started to take flight.
"Rinkazan!" an arc of crimson energy slammed into the beast's wings slicing them off. "You aren't going to touch him!"
"Fool, Piedmon will do worse things to Kuro than I will!" shouted Ancient Sphinxmon.
"I don't care," growled GaiOumon. The samurai dragon man hovered between the de-winged Ancient Sphinxmon and the retreating clown. "You have done enough damage already; you can't be allowed to wreck any more havoc!" The dragon man looked about him, "Everyone, strike as one!"
The Ultimates lined up and growled. White blasts of lightning and beams of energy shot forward. Blue arcs of lightning and emerald flames shot forward. A burst of crimson bird dove towards the large lion. Finally a blue comet and a blast of lavender energy crashed together merging into one large lavender burst that absorbed the other attacks and exploded as a golden fire ball. Ancient Sphinxmon roared loudly as his fur tore from his skin. Soon there was nothing but data dust and smoke left.
"GaiOumon, Justimon!" chorused a group of voices from below. It was the other digi-destined. "Where's Mr. Takenouchi?"
GaiOumon and Justimon leapt down to the children, "He went with a clown, it didn't look very consensual."
"That clown killed Mystimon!" yelped the humans. "He wanted Mr. Takenouchi!"
"We have to get him back!" shouted Amy loudly.
"I know but how?" growled Justimon as he looked at the others, "We have no idea…"
"Look up…" Michelle whispered and pointed, "The darkness is gone…"
It was true; the dome of darkness over the district was replaced by the twilight's early gleam.
"And look!" gaped Mark as he pointed up. In the sky was a huge swirling light.
"It's your only chance children…" said a voice. A man in beige robes was standing in the middle of the street. "That portal is the one that Chaos Piedmon made, you don't have much time, go now, now while you have a chance! I can't keep it open much longer…"
"You're the one guy when Yashamon…who are you?" growled Justimon loudly.
"That is not your concern, now go!" commanded the man loudly.
"Wait!" shouted the parents interspersed, "We aren't just going to let them go…"
"Do you think this damage is bad?" asked the man loudly as he swept his hands around the pile of concrete and metal that remained of the business district, "this is but a mere particle of dust compared to the death and destruction that will occur if these children don't return to the Digital World and stop the work that has been started there!"
"What if we don't want to go!" shouted Jason loudly. The dark haired, blue eyed boy looked determinedly at the stranger.
"Go…" said the boy's father.
"Michael," whispered the others.
"Our children are destined to save this world, it's not our place to stop them, like it wasn't our parents place to stop us," whispered the man as he clenched his hand tightly around an invisible object. "Our destiny was taken from us, let us not take theirs."
"What do you mean?" asked the adults.
"We were like them, the dreams, the faint memories, but something happened," whispered Michael quietly. "Something took them away…something horrible...it changed us. We can't do this to our children, go, go and fight the evil, go and fight it for us, fight it and win!"
"Hurry, the portal is collapsing you haven't much time!" shouted the stranger. His brow was now occupied with sweat.
"Mark…Steven…" whispered Henry and Mary.
"Kevin, Michelle," Jeri and Samuel walked forward.
"We'll be ok…" whispered Michelle, "We have a lot of powerful allies…don't worry."
"Mom, grandpa, I'll be very careful and I'll hold you in my heart so I don't forget you," Janet hugged her mother and then her grandfather.
"Dad, you have to find Mom, and tell her I love her very much and that I promise I'll be back as soon as I can!" Brendan looked up at his father.
"Ok son," replied the man as he rubbed his stubby fingered hands through Brendan's reddish brown hair.
"Please, Amy, don't go!" cried Amy's mother as she hugged her daughter.
"I have to, if it was just for me, I'd stay but, everyone else is depending on me," replied the girl as she backed away and stood with the rest of the children.
"Dad, I'll be back, I promise, and don't worry, I love you, and so does Mom," called Jason as he scrambled up on Mega Seadramon.
"I love you too, Jason, be safe…" shouted Michael loudly and then more quietly, "Please be safe, you're the last thing I have in this life worth living for…"
Brendan Amy climbed up on Garudamon and the large bird picked up Cerberumon. Janet hopped onto Mega Seadramon and Taomon hovered nearby the large red and white sea dragon. Asuramon and Wisemon picked up their partners and hovered upward.
"Well, that just leaves me with a ride," grumbled Justimon as he looked up at the shrinking spiral in the sky.
"Get on my back!" said GaiOumon. Justimon looked up in surprise. The dragon man gave a bemused look, "think of it as one hell of a piggyback ride."
"Right!" Justimon hopped up onto the back of the dragon man.
"Oof, did you gain weight?" grumbled GaiOumon as he took off.
"Maybe, maybe not!" snickered Justimon.
The parents looked up. The mothers were crying the fathers, tried not to. Michael looked up with his, now dirty blonde hair and sullied blue eyes. He did something he hadn't done for a long time, he started to pray. The spiral snapped shut and the twilight darkened slightly as the smoke around the adults reminded them of loved ones and strangers that needed their help. They looked over to where the strange man was, but all that was left was a couple of pairs of butterflies that faded off into the distance.
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"Heh, the fools," Chaos Piedmon looked at a monitor showing the digi-destined passing through the portal. He pressed a large green button. Suddenly the portal split into four. The clown smirked, "Let us crush them."
Three figures hovered behind the harlequin. They were backlit by a soft crimson light. Chaos Piedmon turned his head and looked at a red sphere of ooze, where Kuro Ishida floated. Around his neck was the dark crest. A tortured expression filled the man's sleeping face.
"Finally, the debt is starting to be repaid," called the crimson voice. "Now go and get rid of those humans!"
The three figures nodded and rose out of the room.
Chaos Piedmon looked at the man in the red sphere and smiled, "Yes the debt is being repaid."
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The battle was probably not as many expected. I myself had it protracted much longer than what I have here…but I felt that this was a superior road to take. I had myself trying to figure out just how being biomerged would be like and I must say it's harder to visualize in words than it is on video. I also believe I changed my pattern of spelling biomerge, which I think I'll keep as one word and not hyphenated, but I am too lazy to go back and search out every time I use the word biomerge and fix it.
Alforce: I hope it was satisfying, I know I delegated a large portion of the fight to the background and to the imagination, but because I sometimes get the feeling a long protracted fight gets a little clunky, not only that but we had Chaos Piedmon in the mix. Any question as to why Ancient Sphinxmon fell so fast after Chaos Piedmon's departure goes to the realm of the crest being removed; which I believe I made obvious enough that it didn't need exposition.
Blue: Alphamon really doesn't work in this adventure. A: Alphamon would kick the snot out of Chaos Piedmon and B: Snow Agumon doesn't really digivolve into Alphamon, it's strange how bottlenecked Alphamon's digivolution line is. GaiOumon was going to be OuRyuumon, but then I decided on something else since OuRyuumon has better uses. I had always planned on biomergence, because I like it. I think one of the major flaws of the first two digimon series was the relatively cheerleader position that the digi-destined have…I even make a snide remark about it in Genesis of an Adventure (Ooo shameless plug…evil). So it was always in the cards to make the digi-destined biomergeant (New word making, cool) plus it lends credence to the idea that this reformation of the Digital World has been built on the data donations of other digital worlds.