Chapter 35: Evil Memories
Noriko walked down the sidewalk. Everyone that passed her by thought that she was just a normal girl. What they didn't realize was that Noriko was still unconscious and that the evil spirit of Dark Sora was in control of her body.
"I can't stay in this body forever," she said to herself, "She's too young, and doesn't have any powers. I need someone stronger, like the Digidestined! I've got to find them."
She frowned. She didn't have any idea where they lived in this world, but she did see Matt Ishida at that mall food court. Maybe they hung out there a lot. Maybe she could find one soon.
Noriko grinned to herself and made her jumped onto the first bus she saw. She sat down in the back seat and looked around at the other passengers. Most of them looked around 8-12, the age of the body she was in.
She tried to remember when she was this young, but since Dark Sora wasn't technically born yet, those memories didn't feel like her's. She could remember, after touching Emperor Tai's body and being filled with Apocalymon's powers. It was time to start her revenge.
Dark Sora proudly sat on Emperor Tai's old throne. At her side were Agumon and Gabumon. She stared down at the kneeling Devimon, who was wearing a Dark Spiral. "We're ready to start, my Queen."
Dark Sora grinned and got up from her throne. She walked out to a small balcony, overlooking a army of black digimon. Her black dress and cape flung in the wind. She raised her hand and the army cheered. "Today we reclaim the empire that Emperor Tai once had! We start by destroying the Digidestined!" She grinned, "It's time to tell them the Digiworld has a new ruler. Let's go!"
Noriko was brought out of her memory when she felt the bus stopped in front of the Nerima department store. She jumped off and ran inside the mall. She searched for at least an hour before finding a Digidestined. It was Cody Hida, buying some books from the book store. When he got out, he spotted Noriko. He almost dropped the books in his hand. He started running towards her.
"Perfect," she said to herself, "I'll take his body, and get closer to the Digidestined, until I get a stronger one." She ran into the nearest store, a clothing store, and hid in the back. Cody followed.
"Noriko!" he gasped, "Do you remember who I am?"
"Shoot!" Noriko thought, "He already knows her?"
"I was watching you, right after Oikawa infected you with the Dark Spore," Cody explained.
"Oh, right," she said, "Well, what do you want?"
"I've got to try to convince you how wrong you are," he said, "That Dark Spore won't help you in any way."
Noriko grinned. "I think you're wrong." She reached out and grabbed hold of Cody's wrist. She concentrated as hard as she could, and felt herself fling from Noriko's body and enter the boy's body.
Cody blinked at few times and stared down at the floor, where the unconscious body of Noriko lay. He grinned a twisted-smile. "I did it, perfect." He frowned, "But this body is strong enough, not like I expected it to be. I'd better get going."
He reached into his pocket to check his identification, when he found his D-terminal. "What's this?" he asked, opening the top, "Some kind of electronic address book." He started looking through what was saved onto it, when he found a list of addresses, especially the ones for the rest of the Digidestined. He paused slightly over Matt's address, but kept going until he saw Davis's address.
"Davis Motomiya," he smiled, "He was the leader of the Digidestined back on my world. He must be the strongest one here. I've got to get to him."
He started running to Davis's apartment, remembering again.
Davis and Ken stared at Dark Sora as Agumon and Gabumon snapped Dark Rings onto their arms. The Digimon Queen grinned, "Yes! Now, I'm the ruler of the Digidestined! I need to find the Tai Kamiya from this world, got it?"
"How?" Ken asked.
"I need you to build me a machine that'll boost my reality powers so I can search."
"Yes, my Queen," Ken bowed.
"I'm going to have my revenge!" Dark Sora laughed, "I'm going to have my revenge!"
"Cody!"
He turned around and saw Yolei running towards him. "There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Did you get the books?"
"Books?" he asked.
"Yeah, the books, remember? Oh, you didn't get them? Why not?"
Cody tried to think of a lie, but Yolei grabbed his wrist and started dragging him back towards the mall. "We've got to buy them, remember?"
"I need to see Davis," Cody protested.
"Why?" she asked, "We've got a project to do, remember?"
"I need to see Davis," he said again.
"He's at Ken's house, remember?"
He sighed. "Why can't anything go according to the damn plan!"
Yolei gasped. Cody didn't ever talk like that. "Cody, are you alright?"
Cody was getting angry. He focused and was suddenly in Yolei's body.
She turned around and saw Cody lying on the ground, same as Noriko. She grinned wickedly. "This is getting easier and easier, but I need my own body, I need those Dark Spores! But until that time…"
She checked her D-terminal for Ken's address, then she walked over Cody's body and headed towards Ken's apartment.
Meanwhile……
A golden Labrador walked down the sidewalks of Tokyo. This was not any ordinary dog, she used to be a human teenager. Alice didn't panic. If she could just get to Dark Ryo, he would be able to change her back.
But she was scared. She was starting to remember things that she thought didn't happen to her. She could remember being with Emperor Tai in a desert, fighting Apocalymon. She somehow slipped through worlds and landed in the desert in the Digital World connected to Emperor Tai's world. She found that Tai, who was still partnered with Agumon, and they tried to find a way out of the desert. Apocalymon appeared, but War Greymon stopped him. She now could clearly remember the feelings she had for Emperor Tai. They were in love with each other! After Apocalymon was deleted and his power entered Emperor Tai and Alice, they lost their memories. She got back to her own world and met Dark Ryo, and he sent her after Emperor Tai.
Alice got to the door of the abandoned factory building that Hypnos was using as their base. She got onto her hind legs and started scratching the door. After a long time, the door finally opened and a Hypnos soldier looked out. He kicked Alice in the side. "Get out of here! Go on, get!"
Alice ran past him and ran down the hall until he got to Dark Ryo's room. He was lying in his cot, but looked up when he saw the dog. "How the hell did you get in here?" he asked, "Get out!"
Alice wanted to tell him who she really was, but it only came out as whines. Dark Ryo stared at her. He put his hand over Alice's head and used his power to read her mind.
He stood up and stared down at her. "So, you got your memory back, huh? And you lost your reality powers, too? So tell me, what good are you? Huh? Why should I waste my time changing you back when you can't give me anything back? Huh?"
Alice stepped back and stared at him. He wasn't going to change her back!
Dark Ryo grinned. "I'll give you a chance to live." He kicked her in the stomach. "Go on, leave now before I change my mind!"
Alice stared at him and started barking. Dark Ryo pointed his palm at her and a dark energy blast sent her back. She whimpered and ran out of his room.
Dark Ryo felt a familiar tingle in the back of his head. He closed his eyes and teleported to the very bottom of the factory which was connected to a giant underground subway tunnel, where Millenniumon was crunched inside. "That was cold," the giant digimon said.
"She's useless to us now," Dark Ryo said, "I let her live, that was enough."
"How many Dark Spores do we have?" Millenniumon asked.
"We only need a few more," Dark Ryo said, "And our connection should be stronger, since I re-absorbed my so called lighter side. Don't worry, once we open the entrance to all reality, we'll control everything!"
Meanwhile, Yolei had made it to Ken's apartment building. She didn't even need to go into the building because Davis came out of the door. Finally, something went right.
"Yolei?" Davis asked, "What are you doing here? I thought you and Cody were doing something for school."
She needed to get closer. She grinned a sexy smile. "I just wanted to see you so much."
"What?"
She jumped over and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I need you, right now." She kissed him, allowing her spirit to flow into Davis's body.
Yolei's unconscious body fell onto the ground and Davis grinned.
"Perfect! This body is powerful! He has so much Digi-energy in it! But, why can I feel something else? There's someone else who's even stronger!" He grinned, "Matt."
Inside of Willis's house in Colorado, the humans sat in the living room and the Digimon were on the floor. Since Gatomon was on Kari's lap, Tai crawled onto Sora's. "All right," Tai said, "We did that training thing, now what do we do?"
"We've got to go back to Japan and confront Hypnos and the Digimon Queen Sora," Sara said.
"But what can I do?" Sora asked, "Biyomon's dead! Willis has his powers, but what good am I?"
"And me?" Tai asked, "I'm a cat! I don't even have a partner anymore."
"I might be able to help," Sara said, "My reality powers got a lot stronger, but I don't think I can change you back to a human yet."
"Why not?"
"It's hard to do," she said, "I could do it to myself, because it's just easier. It's harder to change one thing into another, especially something less complex to something more complex."
"What do you mean?" Kari asked.
"A human body is a lot more complicated then a cat's. You know, there's a lot more chromosomes, DNA, stuff like that."
"So why did you say you could help?"
"I might be able to turn you into a Digimon, Sora's partner."
"What?" Tai and Sora asked.
"How is turning me into a Digimon easier then a human?"
"I just need a Digimon's file to copy it. If I have something to copy from, I can make it."
"Wait a minute," Kari said, "If the Digimon Emperor Tai didn't die, could you…?"
"Probably," she sighed, "But we can't do anything about that now."
"Could I help?" Female Tai asked.
Sara shook her head. "No, because you're a girl. Tai would end up in a girl's body.
Sora, give me your Digivice."
"Wait a minute," Tai said, "Is this going to give me any problems? Is it permanent?"
"Permanent just like your cat body," she said, "Once we free Ryo, he'll be able to give you a new body. This way, you'll be able to fight."
Tai sighed. "Alright."
Sara held Sora's Digivice in one hand and concentrated as hard as she could on her reality powers. Tai felt something weird happening to his cat body. Sara smiled and handed the Digivice back to Sora. "There."
"That's it?" Tai asked, "I still look the same."
"You're an In-training Digimon right now," she said, "You can Digivolve when you need to."
Tai stared at Sora. "I've got a bad feeling about what I'm Digivolving into."
"We'd better get to Japan as soon as we can," Willis said, "I foresee that something very dark is going to happen very soon."
Back in Japan, Davis sat in his room, staring at the address that was in his D-terminal. "Ishida wasn't at his apartment," he said, "I don't have any idea where he is! I was so close! I've got no choice, I'm going to need to use Motomiya's body!"
He slammed his fist into the wall. "If that so-called Dark Ryo attacks with his Milleniumon partner, Motomiya's power won't be able to stop them. From what I can feel from this body, Ishida's stronger. And I'll need that power if I…"
The door opened and June walked inside. "What are you doing home, you dweeb?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You were hanging out with Ken, weren't you? I'm not staying home to baby-sit you."
"Baby-sit me?" Davis shouted, "I don't need to be baby-sat!"
June laughed. "You're still the baby of the family. Well, tell Mom and Dad that I'm going to Matt's concert."
"Concert?" Davis asked, "Where?"
"At the town concert hall, duh!" June sighed. She blinked her long eyelashes. "I hope he notices me tonight."
Davis grinned. "I think he will." He ran over and grabbed June's hand, and soon his body fell onto the ground.
June blinked a few times and stared at Davis's unconscious body. She grinned. "Alright, Ishida, you're next!"
She ran all the way to the concert hall. She had to pretend to be the stupid fan-crazed girl until the end of the show. She ran back stage. "Matt!"
"Oh no!" he gasped, "June?"
"That's right!" she grinned. She ran over to him and wrapped her arms around him. In her home world, she used to be in love with the Matt Ishida of her world. She felt a few lingering feelings, but she pushed them away.
"June, what are you doing?" Matt asked.
"I need you!" she grinned, "Right now!"
Matt tried to push her away. "June, stop it!"
She kissed him and her body twitched and fell to the ground. Matt took a few deep breaths, and almost shouted out loud. He ran out of the concert hall.
"Hey, where's Matt going?" one of his band members asked.
"I don't know, he didn't take his guitar."
At Oikawa's apartment building lab, Arukennimon and Mummymon walked inside. Arukennimon looked at the debris around the lab. "What happened here?"
"It looked like a war or something," Mummymon said.
"You two are here, good."
They turned to the door and saw Matt standing in the doorway. "What are you doing here?" Arukennimon asked.
"How did you find us?" Mummymon asked.
"I've been here before," Matt said, "I killed Oikawa and Myotismon, and now, I'm taking over this little operation."
"What? You've got to be kidding! We're going to tear you apart!"
Matt snapped his fingers and Metalgarurumon smashed through the doorway. "I think you know Metalgarurumon."
"Why is he wearing a Dark Ring?" Mummymon asked.
"He wasn't as cooperative as I wanted him to be," Matt said, "Now listen, I'm really the Digimon Queen Sora Takenouchi. My body was overloaded with the powers of Apocalymon. I want your help to get the Dark spores and use them to create a new body for me that can handle that power."
"Why should we?" Arukennimon asked.
"If I put a Dark Ring on Metalgarurumon, I can put one on you. I'm just giving you the choice of helping me willingly."
The two Digimon looked at each other. "Okay, fine."
Matt grinned. "Good. We need to get Dark Rings onto the other Digidestined and their Digimon. I'll be the Queen of the Digidestined again. And once I get my new body and destroy Ryo and Milleniumon, I'll be the Queen of every reality too!"
To be continued