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DESTINY'S END
CHILD OF SHADOWS MINI SERIES PART 9
Chapter 59
Final Plans
A few days ago.
"Huh huh huh..." Palmon ran in the deep folliage, using her natural green skin to hide. (Bit off more than I can chew.) Palmon panted. (They are good. I thought that they would just for a good straight attack. But they are playing it smart... using tatics, hitting me from a distance...) Palmon's thoughts was caught off guard as the tree she was hiding behind was ripped from it's roots.
"Peek-a-boo!" The Darktyrannomon roared as he threw the trees to the side with a resounding crash.
"Hey! Watch the trees!" Palmon regained herself and held out her hand to attack, a mistake.
"DARK FLAME!" A Darktyrannomon attacked from the side, firing a blast of energy.
(Blast!) Palmon jumped back as the blast hit her at the feet. The force shot her upwards. (They are coordinating their attacks!) Palmon was in mid- air, and without the power of flight, she was helpless as the two Darktyrannomon converged on her. "Posion IVY!"
Palmon shot out with her left hand as the two Darktyrannomon tried to catch her with crossfire. "DARK FLAME!"
Palmon caught a large log on the ground, and pulled herself down, feeling the flames heat the air around her. (Man! I just bearly avoided that!) Palmon hit the ground rolling and held out her right hand. "POSION IVY!" Palmon aimed at the nearest Darktyrannomon's leg, and pulled hard.
"GRAH!" The Darktyrannomon was leaning forward. Palmon pulling on his knee threw him off balance. He went down hard, the ground shuddering as he landed.
"Gotcha!" The second Darktyrannomon lunged for Palmon.
"No you don't!" Palmon ducked under the claws as she turned around. "Posion IVY!" Palmon latched on to Darktyrannomon's neck as the Darktyrannomon tried to turn and catch her. Palmon pulled herself up, running up Darktyrannomon's side as she climbed up on his back.
"GAH!" Darktyrannomon choked as Palmon began to squeeze. He vainly tried to claw the vine off, but Palmon's vines were small and tough, and with his massive claws, he could not tear them off.
Palmon sweated as she felt Darktyrannomon begin to stumble. "Come on, this is sad. You think that the two of you..." Palmon's eyes went wide. (Wait, there where THREE!)
"HA!" The third Darktyrannomon leapt from the side, keeping hidden in the shadows with some difficulty.
"GAH!" Palmon was ripped off Darktyrannomon's back by the new arrival. "UHH!" Palmon was pinned to the ground by the final Darktyrannomon.
The Darktyrannomon smirked as he kept Palmon pinned with one hand. "So mighty Epislon... do you surrender?!" Darktyrannomon moved his head close, snorting flames from the nostrils.
Palmon looked up, her head sticking out between the talons. "You win."
"Hehe." The Darktyrannomon stood up, letting go of Palmon.
"Not bad." Palmon stood up, cracking her neck around. "Though three champions should have taken down a single rookie a bit quicker."
"We did take you down." The other two Darktyrannomon began to get up, injured from Palmon's training session.
"One rookie? You should feel proud. But those tricks of yours only work once." Palmon walked over to a pool of water in the gigantic biodome, and stuck her foot in. Palmon smiled as she drank the sprink water. "Same time tomorrow. And fix that tree up before you go." Palmon ordered.
"At once Master Epsilon." The Darktyrannomon, the heat of battle now gone, began to fix up the landscape.
(I must find another training ground for me.) Palmon sighed as she removed her foot from the water. (These morning bouts are fun, but such a bother on my landscape.)
"Master Epsilon!" A floramon came running in, dropping to one knee as she came face to face with palmon.
(I never get tired of that.) Palmon smirked as she bent down by the pool, splashing some water on the face. "What is it servant?"
"Your personal computer, it has become active." Floramon did not look up. Epsilon had gotton more brutal over the years. Floramon knew that even the slightest hint of disobediance could be met with dire force. "You told us to inform you immediately whenever it became active."
"Ah." Palmon held out her hands. "Palmon digivolve to....TOGEMON!" Palmon's form grew and expanded to a giant cactus. Togemon's body began to glow as a flower burst out from the top. "Togemon digivovle to... LILLYMON!" The flower fairy burst out of the flower. "It must be Ladydevimon, or one of the other Council members." Lillymon flew up. "Work work work..."
Lillymon flew into the computer room, making much better time than with Palmon. Lillymon went over to the computer and punched in a few commands. A screen popped up. Lillymon was surprised. Someone had traveled from the Digital World. This was strictly prohibited by Izzy, so the ports were closely monitored. No one should be able to get to the Digital World anyway, since Izzy had placed locks over the digi-ports. She was the only member of the Council of Five who had the password access to this, because she was the only person Izzy fully trusted. Lillymon activated her computer, to determine where in the Digital World the port opened.
"That.That's impossible!" Lillymon shouted to herself. There was no point of origin. How could that be? In order to have an exit port, one needs an entrance port, but the computer showed otherwise. Lillymon quickly activated her link to the base in Mount Fuji. Izzy must be informed as soon as possible.
Izzy was sitting in his Mount Fuji base working on his project, DNA digivolving. Ladydevimon mentioned it was possible, it was what she used to merge with this world's Ladydevimon. Izzy dismissed it as useless at first, until Omnimon was created in the first time line, a combination of Metalgurumon and Wargreymon. Omnimon had power even greater than that of a Mega digimon. If Izzy could crack that secret, he could create warriors whenever he wanted. Unfortunately, Izzy had never been able to crack the secret, even after all these years. It didn't really matter, Izzy had complete control of this world; he just always liked to have an ace in the hole. It had been an interesting last few years. Matt had become an efficient, ruthless Council of Five member. Demidevimon was killed by the Ken child during the rebellion, but he was quickly replaced. Izzy picked Cody, another digidestined from the first time line in his head. He considered Davis or Yolei, but they where headstrong, not to mentioned dead. Besides, Cody was young, and easily swept up by power. He was too young to be given serious powers, so tight reins needed to be in place. Yet Izzy was confident Cody would become just as effective as Matt had become. Izzy was watching the original time line in his head as well, which was a valuable source of information for him. It was the first time line that gave Izzy access to how to construct the dark spires and the black spirals. It was quite amusing that Ken, this world's greatest hero, was the villain in the first time. Of course, he was also a hero in the first time line. Izzy even based his outfit on Ken's digimon emperor uniform from the first time line, just to savor the irony. It was amazing the difference a few choices could make. Right now the second group of digidestined were stopping Ken's latest scheme, when all of a sudden, the memory stopped. Izzy just sat there, not comprehending what happened. It was as if all of a sudden he went blind, the shock was no less. He tried to concentrate, but nothing happened still. Izzy finally composed himself to realize something was up, and he didn't like it. Not one bit.
"Izzy?" Izzy's trance was broken. Lillymon was calling on his private line. All reports were supposed to go through Ladydevimon, to keep his identity a secret. This was highly inappropriate.
"Yes Epsilon?" Izzy asked, with a slight bit of anticipation.
"I don't know how to explain this, but a digi-port has been opened." Lillymon told Izzy.
"Well, find out where it opened from and where to!" Izzy ordered. While this was important, it didn't seem to require his personal attention.
"That's the problem. It doesn't have a point of origin." Lillymon answered. "It's as if the digi-port came out of nowhere, and transported something near my base."
Izzy began to sweat. For the first time in years, something was happening that he wasn't aware of. He had the computers in all his bases over the world scan for digi-ports, in case someone tried to find more allies in the Digital World, although Izzy was sure he had captured and converted all the non-viral digimon. Lillymon was the only one he completely trusted, so that's why she was the only one who had the password to the digi-ports. Izzy had set up this failsafe, never expecting it to actually be activated.
(Ok, think.) Izzy thought. (How can a digi-port open with out an origin?) Izzy contemplated the answer. (If the origin originated somewhere else, out of this space-time continuum. So if it didn't come from this time.It came from another time line. Which means someone traveled to this time period!) Izzy bit his lower lip. Only Izzy and Ladydevimon knew how time travel was possible, and with the power source Kari dead, there was no way Izzy knew of to travel in time. So someone or something had traveled in time, and now the first time line in his head had ceased to exist. Izzy almost didn't recognize the fact he was nervous. "Go on."
"Well, my computers picked up the digi-port at that old school." Lillymon didn't know what was going on, but Izzy trusted her enough with this task. "Shall I send some of my forces to check it out?"
"No!" Izzy answered, almost too fast. "Don't tell any of the other council members, I need to investigate this myself." This was very bad, Izzy couldn't afford to let this be handled by his underlings.
Lillymon was apprehensive to. Izzy was never nervous, but she could tell he was. Plus Izzy never showed his face in public, he considered it too much of a risk. "Anything you want Izzy."
"I'll contact you later." Izzy shut off the computer. His eyes turned red as he charged up his power. "Whatever this new force is," Izzy told himself as his dark aura wrapped around him. "I'll destroy it."
Izzy flew at inhuman speeds to the school, where he went to classes in the first time line. He had never seen this school in this time line, and marveled how torn up it was. Izzy had actually barely left his lair on Mount Fuji, and only then to visit Beta, Gamma, or Epsilon. Especially Epsilon. Izzy just marveled at how his home city had changed. Black rain pour down from the skies, drenching Izzy, but Izzy took no heed. Izzy landed behind an old building, trying to decide how to proceed next. He was wearing a torn up school uniform, instead of thr usual Digimon Emperor outfit. The Emperor outfit would be a little out of place.
"Hey there." A rough hand grabbed him by the shoulder and shoved Izzy up against the wall. An unshaven man, reeking of alcohol, held a rusty switchblade at Izzy. "Nice shoesh. Might be able to get me a bottle of the good shtuff."
Izzy grabbed the man's arm. The man just laughed. "You better lishstn to me, or I'm going cut you." The man laughed again, then he screamed as every bone in his arm was crushed to a fine powder. He fell to the ground, Izzy still holding what was left of his arm.
Izzy shook his head, his eyes dark red. He placed his palm on the man's chest. "It's hard to imagine I once thought I was a pathetic human like you." A blast of dark energy swallowed the greater portion of mugger's upper torso. The man's lifeless form, what was left of it, fell to the ground as Izzy let the arm go. Izzy regarded the smoking husk. "You know? I've never killed before. I mean, sure I've deleted digimon, and I run this word with an iron fist. But I've never killed a human with my own hands until today. Not as laborious as I though it would be."
Izzy turned his attention to the school again. Izzy focused on the boy in front of the school, rummaging through the garbage with broken goggles on his head. "I'll be damned, my old acquaintance Tai." The sight of Tai rummaging through garbage brought dark joy to Izzy. Izzy knew what Tai had been up to, he had kept close tabs on all the digidestined, but Izzy was glad to see this with his own eyes. He had crushed Tai's spirit even better than he had hoped. Killing Tai would be a mercy to him, something Izzy did not have. But then something totally unexpected happen. A girl ran out of the building and ran up to Tai. Izzy had a photographic memory thanks to his digimon/human hybrid brain, but he couldn't comprehend what he now saw. That was Kari, and she's supposed to be dead! TK, who was supposed to be in the digital world, came out of the school next. Gatomon, Myotismon's loyal servant, and Patamon, who was supposed to be deleted, followed TK out. They were talking to Tai, who was raving half-mad. Izzy began shaking in anger; something was going dreadfully wrong here. He typed on his communicator. "Lillymon!"
Lillymon instantly answered. Something must be upsetting with Izzy. He never called her Lillymon anymore, only Epsilon. "Yes Izzy?"
"Do you have any forces around the school?" Izzy asked.
"A Meramon is a block away." Lillymon answered taking quick stock of her forces.
"Contact him, tell him to attack the group in front of the school, but do not kill them." Izzy didn't destroy what he did not understand. But he needed more information.
"Immediately." Lillymon's voice clicked out.
Izzy turned back and watched. Tai was crying now. The Meramon came a split second later, attacking the group. Tai run off screaming. Kari was almost killed by a blast, but TK saved her life. TK took down Kari with a flying tackle which brought them both into an exposed sewer, where they were washed away with the drainage. Izzy made a quick mental note to delete the Meramon later for disobeying his orders. Gatomon and Patamon dodged the Meramon's attacks when suddenly; three gigantic figures came bursting out of the school, followed closely by three young children.
"Double Star!" Shurimon's shurkins hit the Meramon in the chest, striking him back.
"Blue Lighting!" Radrimon's attack dropped the Meramon to the ground.
"Rock Cracking!" Digmon opened up a fissure, where the Meramon fell in, landing in the sewers. A burst of steam filled the air as the Meramon disappeared.
Izzy didn't realize he had inadvertently activated his powers until he had crushed part of the wall he had clasped in his hands. These children were not supposed to exist! How dare they invade his personal earth! Izzy charged a blast, full intent on shredding them. But Izzy calmed down. He was not prone to irrational thought, he was above that. Izzy collected his thoughts as the children talked to Patamon and Gatomon, trying to figure out what happened. (What did happen?) Izzy thought to himself. (A good question.) It's just another problem, solve it. The first time line must have ended, which is why he couldn't see the original time line anymore. But why did these children appear all off a sudden? What was special about these five? The D3 devices, they had a save feature on them. When the first time line ended, it must have saved them and transferred them over to this one. Izzy smiled at his brilliance.
Now that Izzy knew how the problem came to be, what should he do about it? Destroy them? Seemed like such a waste, but he couldn't have them joining that underground which had been hounding him all these years. Izzy began to laugh as an idea formed in his head. This was perfect. These children would be the perfect dupes to get in the underground. Their Gatomon could easily be replaced by our own loyal Gatomon, making the perfect spy, and infiltrate the underground, crushing them like insects. A good start, but he could do better. The digimon would make good slaves, true enough, but he had enough servants, both willing and unwilling. Would the digidestined be useful? Not likely. From the first time line they were all completely moral, especially TK and Kari. Kari.Izzy smiled, on second thought, this was better than perfect. A miracle of fortune to him.
Izzy charged down his powers, appearing normal. He activated the communicator. "Lillymon. I have the found the problem. Believe it or not, we have brand new digidestined."
Lillymon scowled at the title of digidestined. Any opportunity to crush them was worth taking. "Shall I order them destroyed?"
"No, I have better ideas. Contact the other Council of Five members, and have them assemble. Ladydevimon will be contacting you when I have finished the details of my plans. Tell Beta to send Phantomon and a squadron of Bakemon to capture me, and only me, in one hour. The others must be allowed to escape. Have their memories wiped by Gatomon using Cat's Eye Hypnotism after they finish their missions."
"You've got it Izzy." Lillymon's voice ended as she went to follow Izzy's orders.
Izzy looked to the left at the charred cadaver. "I'm having a good day, to bad we all can't." Izzy walked out of the alley, and towards the unwilling dupes. All eyes turned to him, full of confusion, fear, and now that they saw Izzy, hope. Izzy smiled at them all, and calmly spoke. "Hello, my friends. Perhaps we should go inside and talk?"
DESTINY'S END
CHILD OF SHADOWS MINI SERIES PART 9
Chapter 59
Final Plans
A few days ago.
"Huh huh huh..." Palmon ran in the deep folliage, using her natural green skin to hide. (Bit off more than I can chew.) Palmon panted. (They are good. I thought that they would just for a good straight attack. But they are playing it smart... using tatics, hitting me from a distance...) Palmon's thoughts was caught off guard as the tree she was hiding behind was ripped from it's roots.
"Peek-a-boo!" The Darktyrannomon roared as he threw the trees to the side with a resounding crash.
"Hey! Watch the trees!" Palmon regained herself and held out her hand to attack, a mistake.
"DARK FLAME!" A Darktyrannomon attacked from the side, firing a blast of energy.
(Blast!) Palmon jumped back as the blast hit her at the feet. The force shot her upwards. (They are coordinating their attacks!) Palmon was in mid- air, and without the power of flight, she was helpless as the two Darktyrannomon converged on her. "Posion IVY!"
Palmon shot out with her left hand as the two Darktyrannomon tried to catch her with crossfire. "DARK FLAME!"
Palmon caught a large log on the ground, and pulled herself down, feeling the flames heat the air around her. (Man! I just bearly avoided that!) Palmon hit the ground rolling and held out her right hand. "POSION IVY!" Palmon aimed at the nearest Darktyrannomon's leg, and pulled hard.
"GRAH!" The Darktyrannomon was leaning forward. Palmon pulling on his knee threw him off balance. He went down hard, the ground shuddering as he landed.
"Gotcha!" The second Darktyrannomon lunged for Palmon.
"No you don't!" Palmon ducked under the claws as she turned around. "Posion IVY!" Palmon latched on to Darktyrannomon's neck as the Darktyrannomon tried to turn and catch her. Palmon pulled herself up, running up Darktyrannomon's side as she climbed up on his back.
"GAH!" Darktyrannomon choked as Palmon began to squeeze. He vainly tried to claw the vine off, but Palmon's vines were small and tough, and with his massive claws, he could not tear them off.
Palmon sweated as she felt Darktyrannomon begin to stumble. "Come on, this is sad. You think that the two of you..." Palmon's eyes went wide. (Wait, there where THREE!)
"HA!" The third Darktyrannomon leapt from the side, keeping hidden in the shadows with some difficulty.
"GAH!" Palmon was ripped off Darktyrannomon's back by the new arrival. "UHH!" Palmon was pinned to the ground by the final Darktyrannomon.
The Darktyrannomon smirked as he kept Palmon pinned with one hand. "So mighty Epislon... do you surrender?!" Darktyrannomon moved his head close, snorting flames from the nostrils.
Palmon looked up, her head sticking out between the talons. "You win."
"Hehe." The Darktyrannomon stood up, letting go of Palmon.
"Not bad." Palmon stood up, cracking her neck around. "Though three champions should have taken down a single rookie a bit quicker."
"We did take you down." The other two Darktyrannomon began to get up, injured from Palmon's training session.
"One rookie? You should feel proud. But those tricks of yours only work once." Palmon walked over to a pool of water in the gigantic biodome, and stuck her foot in. Palmon smiled as she drank the sprink water. "Same time tomorrow. And fix that tree up before you go." Palmon ordered.
"At once Master Epsilon." The Darktyrannomon, the heat of battle now gone, began to fix up the landscape.
(I must find another training ground for me.) Palmon sighed as she removed her foot from the water. (These morning bouts are fun, but such a bother on my landscape.)
"Master Epsilon!" A floramon came running in, dropping to one knee as she came face to face with palmon.
(I never get tired of that.) Palmon smirked as she bent down by the pool, splashing some water on the face. "What is it servant?"
"Your personal computer, it has become active." Floramon did not look up. Epsilon had gotton more brutal over the years. Floramon knew that even the slightest hint of disobediance could be met with dire force. "You told us to inform you immediately whenever it became active."
"Ah." Palmon held out her hands. "Palmon digivolve to....TOGEMON!" Palmon's form grew and expanded to a giant cactus. Togemon's body began to glow as a flower burst out from the top. "Togemon digivovle to... LILLYMON!" The flower fairy burst out of the flower. "It must be Ladydevimon, or one of the other Council members." Lillymon flew up. "Work work work..."
Lillymon flew into the computer room, making much better time than with Palmon. Lillymon went over to the computer and punched in a few commands. A screen popped up. Lillymon was surprised. Someone had traveled from the Digital World. This was strictly prohibited by Izzy, so the ports were closely monitored. No one should be able to get to the Digital World anyway, since Izzy had placed locks over the digi-ports. She was the only member of the Council of Five who had the password access to this, because she was the only person Izzy fully trusted. Lillymon activated her computer, to determine where in the Digital World the port opened.
"That.That's impossible!" Lillymon shouted to herself. There was no point of origin. How could that be? In order to have an exit port, one needs an entrance port, but the computer showed otherwise. Lillymon quickly activated her link to the base in Mount Fuji. Izzy must be informed as soon as possible.
Izzy was sitting in his Mount Fuji base working on his project, DNA digivolving. Ladydevimon mentioned it was possible, it was what she used to merge with this world's Ladydevimon. Izzy dismissed it as useless at first, until Omnimon was created in the first time line, a combination of Metalgurumon and Wargreymon. Omnimon had power even greater than that of a Mega digimon. If Izzy could crack that secret, he could create warriors whenever he wanted. Unfortunately, Izzy had never been able to crack the secret, even after all these years. It didn't really matter, Izzy had complete control of this world; he just always liked to have an ace in the hole. It had been an interesting last few years. Matt had become an efficient, ruthless Council of Five member. Demidevimon was killed by the Ken child during the rebellion, but he was quickly replaced. Izzy picked Cody, another digidestined from the first time line in his head. He considered Davis or Yolei, but they where headstrong, not to mentioned dead. Besides, Cody was young, and easily swept up by power. He was too young to be given serious powers, so tight reins needed to be in place. Yet Izzy was confident Cody would become just as effective as Matt had become. Izzy was watching the original time line in his head as well, which was a valuable source of information for him. It was the first time line that gave Izzy access to how to construct the dark spires and the black spirals. It was quite amusing that Ken, this world's greatest hero, was the villain in the first time. Of course, he was also a hero in the first time line. Izzy even based his outfit on Ken's digimon emperor uniform from the first time line, just to savor the irony. It was amazing the difference a few choices could make. Right now the second group of digidestined were stopping Ken's latest scheme, when all of a sudden, the memory stopped. Izzy just sat there, not comprehending what happened. It was as if all of a sudden he went blind, the shock was no less. He tried to concentrate, but nothing happened still. Izzy finally composed himself to realize something was up, and he didn't like it. Not one bit.
"Izzy?" Izzy's trance was broken. Lillymon was calling on his private line. All reports were supposed to go through Ladydevimon, to keep his identity a secret. This was highly inappropriate.
"Yes Epsilon?" Izzy asked, with a slight bit of anticipation.
"I don't know how to explain this, but a digi-port has been opened." Lillymon told Izzy.
"Well, find out where it opened from and where to!" Izzy ordered. While this was important, it didn't seem to require his personal attention.
"That's the problem. It doesn't have a point of origin." Lillymon answered. "It's as if the digi-port came out of nowhere, and transported something near my base."
Izzy began to sweat. For the first time in years, something was happening that he wasn't aware of. He had the computers in all his bases over the world scan for digi-ports, in case someone tried to find more allies in the Digital World, although Izzy was sure he had captured and converted all the non-viral digimon. Lillymon was the only one he completely trusted, so that's why she was the only one who had the password to the digi-ports. Izzy had set up this failsafe, never expecting it to actually be activated.
(Ok, think.) Izzy thought. (How can a digi-port open with out an origin?) Izzy contemplated the answer. (If the origin originated somewhere else, out of this space-time continuum. So if it didn't come from this time.It came from another time line. Which means someone traveled to this time period!) Izzy bit his lower lip. Only Izzy and Ladydevimon knew how time travel was possible, and with the power source Kari dead, there was no way Izzy knew of to travel in time. So someone or something had traveled in time, and now the first time line in his head had ceased to exist. Izzy almost didn't recognize the fact he was nervous. "Go on."
"Well, my computers picked up the digi-port at that old school." Lillymon didn't know what was going on, but Izzy trusted her enough with this task. "Shall I send some of my forces to check it out?"
"No!" Izzy answered, almost too fast. "Don't tell any of the other council members, I need to investigate this myself." This was very bad, Izzy couldn't afford to let this be handled by his underlings.
Lillymon was apprehensive to. Izzy was never nervous, but she could tell he was. Plus Izzy never showed his face in public, he considered it too much of a risk. "Anything you want Izzy."
"I'll contact you later." Izzy shut off the computer. His eyes turned red as he charged up his power. "Whatever this new force is," Izzy told himself as his dark aura wrapped around him. "I'll destroy it."
Izzy flew at inhuman speeds to the school, where he went to classes in the first time line. He had never seen this school in this time line, and marveled how torn up it was. Izzy had actually barely left his lair on Mount Fuji, and only then to visit Beta, Gamma, or Epsilon. Especially Epsilon. Izzy just marveled at how his home city had changed. Black rain pour down from the skies, drenching Izzy, but Izzy took no heed. Izzy landed behind an old building, trying to decide how to proceed next. He was wearing a torn up school uniform, instead of thr usual Digimon Emperor outfit. The Emperor outfit would be a little out of place.
"Hey there." A rough hand grabbed him by the shoulder and shoved Izzy up against the wall. An unshaven man, reeking of alcohol, held a rusty switchblade at Izzy. "Nice shoesh. Might be able to get me a bottle of the good shtuff."
Izzy grabbed the man's arm. The man just laughed. "You better lishstn to me, or I'm going cut you." The man laughed again, then he screamed as every bone in his arm was crushed to a fine powder. He fell to the ground, Izzy still holding what was left of his arm.
Izzy shook his head, his eyes dark red. He placed his palm on the man's chest. "It's hard to imagine I once thought I was a pathetic human like you." A blast of dark energy swallowed the greater portion of mugger's upper torso. The man's lifeless form, what was left of it, fell to the ground as Izzy let the arm go. Izzy regarded the smoking husk. "You know? I've never killed before. I mean, sure I've deleted digimon, and I run this word with an iron fist. But I've never killed a human with my own hands until today. Not as laborious as I though it would be."
Izzy turned his attention to the school again. Izzy focused on the boy in front of the school, rummaging through the garbage with broken goggles on his head. "I'll be damned, my old acquaintance Tai." The sight of Tai rummaging through garbage brought dark joy to Izzy. Izzy knew what Tai had been up to, he had kept close tabs on all the digidestined, but Izzy was glad to see this with his own eyes. He had crushed Tai's spirit even better than he had hoped. Killing Tai would be a mercy to him, something Izzy did not have. But then something totally unexpected happen. A girl ran out of the building and ran up to Tai. Izzy had a photographic memory thanks to his digimon/human hybrid brain, but he couldn't comprehend what he now saw. That was Kari, and she's supposed to be dead! TK, who was supposed to be in the digital world, came out of the school next. Gatomon, Myotismon's loyal servant, and Patamon, who was supposed to be deleted, followed TK out. They were talking to Tai, who was raving half-mad. Izzy began shaking in anger; something was going dreadfully wrong here. He typed on his communicator. "Lillymon!"
Lillymon instantly answered. Something must be upsetting with Izzy. He never called her Lillymon anymore, only Epsilon. "Yes Izzy?"
"Do you have any forces around the school?" Izzy asked.
"A Meramon is a block away." Lillymon answered taking quick stock of her forces.
"Contact him, tell him to attack the group in front of the school, but do not kill them." Izzy didn't destroy what he did not understand. But he needed more information.
"Immediately." Lillymon's voice clicked out.
Izzy turned back and watched. Tai was crying now. The Meramon came a split second later, attacking the group. Tai run off screaming. Kari was almost killed by a blast, but TK saved her life. TK took down Kari with a flying tackle which brought them both into an exposed sewer, where they were washed away with the drainage. Izzy made a quick mental note to delete the Meramon later for disobeying his orders. Gatomon and Patamon dodged the Meramon's attacks when suddenly; three gigantic figures came bursting out of the school, followed closely by three young children.
"Double Star!" Shurimon's shurkins hit the Meramon in the chest, striking him back.
"Blue Lighting!" Radrimon's attack dropped the Meramon to the ground.
"Rock Cracking!" Digmon opened up a fissure, where the Meramon fell in, landing in the sewers. A burst of steam filled the air as the Meramon disappeared.
Izzy didn't realize he had inadvertently activated his powers until he had crushed part of the wall he had clasped in his hands. These children were not supposed to exist! How dare they invade his personal earth! Izzy charged a blast, full intent on shredding them. But Izzy calmed down. He was not prone to irrational thought, he was above that. Izzy collected his thoughts as the children talked to Patamon and Gatomon, trying to figure out what happened. (What did happen?) Izzy thought to himself. (A good question.) It's just another problem, solve it. The first time line must have ended, which is why he couldn't see the original time line anymore. But why did these children appear all off a sudden? What was special about these five? The D3 devices, they had a save feature on them. When the first time line ended, it must have saved them and transferred them over to this one. Izzy smiled at his brilliance.
Now that Izzy knew how the problem came to be, what should he do about it? Destroy them? Seemed like such a waste, but he couldn't have them joining that underground which had been hounding him all these years. Izzy began to laugh as an idea formed in his head. This was perfect. These children would be the perfect dupes to get in the underground. Their Gatomon could easily be replaced by our own loyal Gatomon, making the perfect spy, and infiltrate the underground, crushing them like insects. A good start, but he could do better. The digimon would make good slaves, true enough, but he had enough servants, both willing and unwilling. Would the digidestined be useful? Not likely. From the first time line they were all completely moral, especially TK and Kari. Kari.Izzy smiled, on second thought, this was better than perfect. A miracle of fortune to him.
Izzy charged down his powers, appearing normal. He activated the communicator. "Lillymon. I have the found the problem. Believe it or not, we have brand new digidestined."
Lillymon scowled at the title of digidestined. Any opportunity to crush them was worth taking. "Shall I order them destroyed?"
"No, I have better ideas. Contact the other Council of Five members, and have them assemble. Ladydevimon will be contacting you when I have finished the details of my plans. Tell Beta to send Phantomon and a squadron of Bakemon to capture me, and only me, in one hour. The others must be allowed to escape. Have their memories wiped by Gatomon using Cat's Eye Hypnotism after they finish their missions."
"You've got it Izzy." Lillymon's voice ended as she went to follow Izzy's orders.
Izzy looked to the left at the charred cadaver. "I'm having a good day, to bad we all can't." Izzy walked out of the alley, and towards the unwilling dupes. All eyes turned to him, full of confusion, fear, and now that they saw Izzy, hope. Izzy smiled at them all, and calmly spoke. "Hello, my friends. Perhaps we should go inside and talk?"