Digimon: Digicross TV series 07
"Ghosts and nightmares. Eevee, assume your second stage!"
"Final processing complete. Initiating startup."
Ken watched as all the monitors reported the same message. "Computer, display finished product." One of the monitors displayed a large, multi-armed creature, something out of a nightmare. However, there was one discrepancy that immediately caught Ken's attention. "Explain changes to Torso component."
"Unaccounted for mutation in data process. Should Kymeramon be deleted and restarted?"
"No, that will not be necessary. Odd, I had originally programmed Greymon's torso in. Oh well, this looks much more stylish." He did not recognize the different torso, a yellow expanse with a large blue diamond. Understandable, as he had never seen a Tyranitar before.
"Ken," Wormmon said, "is this wise?"
"Are you questioning me? This is the perfect Digimon, not even those blasted kids can stop me now."
Wormmon watched, sadly. He had a good idea of how those changes got into Ken's newest 'pet'...
==Human World==
The computer glowed, and the seven digidestined appeared back in the school computer room.
"Listen, I'm sorry about the way I acted back there." Cody said.
"Forget about it" TK said. "I'd feel the same way, if it was me. Look, I promised I'd meet Matt at the TV station, it's my dad's birthday and all."
"Umm, can I tag along?" Kyle asked, nervously.
"Sure, why...hey, that theater is nearby." TK grinned as it hit him. "So, June roped you into another date?"
"Well...uh..."
Davis got a bit edgy at that. "And just what did you have in mind for my sister, pal?"
"NOTHING!"
"Are you thinking about what happens in all those romance movies Yolei watches?" Poromon asked innocently.
"Yeah...THOSE ones" Davis said. "You try anything..."
Kari came to Kyle's rescue. "I think it's sweet you care about your sister so much, Davis."
"I DON'T!" Davis cried, turning red.
Outside the lab, June Motomiya listened. She had seen everything; Kyle and the others appearing out of the computer screen, those strange...things that she had seen Davis and his friends carrying around talking and moving around on their own...A sound alerted her. Moving as quickly as she dared, she hid behind a few lockers.
Davis, what have you gotten yourself into *this* time?
==
After about 20 minutes of walking, TK, Kyle, and Joe were near the rebuilt TV station where TK's father worked. As they approached, they heard the sounds of an argument.
"I'm telling you," the older of the two people the exec was yelling at said, "your problems are not technical but para-natural. If you'd just let me in...."
"And I'm telling you two to TAKE A HIKE! I don't need your cockamamie stories scaring away our business" a well-dressed executive said to two people.
"Forget it, doc" the third person said. "He's not gonna listen. He wants his station to fall apart, I say let him."
"I don't have to stand here and take this!" The exec spun on his heel and marched back in.
"What was that all about?" Kyle asked.
"It's just my brother Jim and his teacher." Joe sighed. "Hey, Jim!"
Jim turned to see his younger brother. "Hey, Joe! It's been a while." Jim looked at the two people Joe was with. "Hmm....I remember you, TK, but I don't recognize this guy."
"Oh, this is Kyle. He sorta got into the club, if you get my drift."
Jim looked at the professor. "Great. Is the sky going to get all weird again?"
As the two brothers got caught up, the professor talked to TK and Kyle. "Kyle, right? Are you a digidestined?"
Kyle raised his eyebrow. "Don't worry, he knows about it." TK said.
"Ah, sorry. My name is Professor Takenouchi, I'm Sora's father."
"Oh! It's a pleasure to meet you, sir."
"Please, please, I'm only called 'sir' during school hours. So, are you a digidestined?"
"Well, sort of." Kyle hazarded. He wasn't sure HOW the fact that he was from another dimension would be received. "What was all that about 'ghosts' back there?"
"Well, the TV station has been reporting all sorts of unusual technical trouble for the past few weeks now. Images going bad, mysterious sounds on digital media, but none of the technical crews have been able to find anything. I think there might be some form of supernatural activity. Though no one wants to admit to it."
"Oh." Kyle said. "I'd better get going. I'm supposed to meet June in a few minutes."
"Have a good time!"
==Later that afternoon==
"So, how was the date?" TK asked, as they headed back to the TV station.
"OK, I guess, though June seemed a bit distracted about something. She wouldn't say what, though." Kyle paused for a second, then went on. "TK, how many people outside the digidestined know about us?"
"Oh, all of the original digidestined's parents do, Joe's brother Jim, pretty much anyone who was with us when Myotismon tried to take over this world. Having a half-vampiric demon on the loose in downtown Tokyo is kinda hard to miss. Why?"
"Well, I think June is getting a bit suspicious. Do you think we should tell her what's happening?"
He's really gone on her, TK thought. "I'll have to think about it. Why did you want to come back anyway?"
"That whole ghost thing Sora's dad mentioned earlier. Professional curiosity, I guess."
"You a ghost hunter? Let me guess, there are ghost pokemon too." TK said, jokingly.
"Well, yeah, there are."
As the two walked, they failed to notice that June was following them. Whatever you're into, she thought, I'm going to find out.
==TV Station==
"Kari, Gatomon, what are you doing here?"
Gatomon looked up, a strange expression on her face. "I don't know, I just felt the need to come here."
The voice was faint, almost lost in the background noise. "Gatomon.... Help me..."
"Did you hear that?" Gatomon said, rushing into the station.
"Wait up!"
The guard at the front gate was surprised to see a small white cat dash under the gate. Then a young girl ran through. "Hey, you can't-" a young boy ran in after her. "I'm with her!" TK said, never breaking stride. Five seconds later, Kyle ran by. "I'm with him!"
"That's Ishida's kid" the guard said to himself. "He's gonna get it now...nah, he can owe me later."
So it's understandable that when another girl, slightly older than the first girl came up and asked if someone matching the description of the third boy had come in, he waved her through.
"That'll teach the boss to cut MY pay. Maybe channel 6 is looking for work. I have a script and everything..."
Inside, Kari finally caught up to Gatomon. "Gatomon, where are you going?"
"He's here, I can feel it!" TK and Kyle ran in just then. The voice was heard again, too.
"Gatomon...help me..." TK and Kari recognized the voice. TK suddenly wished that he'd brought Patamon along. There was something wrong here...
"Wi...Wizardmon? Is that you?"
"Kari...yes.... Help me, please..."
Gatomon ran towards the source of a voice, a shadow, vaguely shaped like a small child in a cloak and pointed, wide brimmed hat. As the digidestined watched, a hand appeared out of the shadow. Gatomon reached up with her hand-
And cried in pain as an electrical aura surrounded her. It seemed to be feeding from her back into the shadow.
"Wizardmon, stop!" Kari cried. "You're hurting her!" But the assault continued. After a full minute, Gatomon was flung backwards into Kari's arms. Then she glowed, and reverted to Nyaromon.
"Wizardmon, why?" TK asked.
"I'm sorry, but Wizardmon is out right now. Maybe I can take a message?" The voice had changed into one TK recognized.
"Phantomon" he spat.
"Yes, and so nice of you to remember me." The shadow detached from the wall, and reformed itself into a shadowy, ghost like figure. A large golden bladed scythe was gripped in one arm. "Now I only need a little more energy, and I will be free at last!"
"What are you talking about?" Kyle asked.
"A question from the mystery contestant, how nice. My physical body was destroyed four years ago. At your digimon's hands, if I recall" Phantomon said, looking at TK. "I finally gathered enough strength to lure Gatomon here, and had originally planned to drain her dry. But, more people, more power, you know how it goes. I think I'll start with...YOU!" Phantomon pointed his scythe between TK and Kyle, to someone standing behind them. Turning to look, they saw June standing there!
"June, RUN!" Kyle yelled. Phantomon launched himself at her; clawlike hand aimed right at her. Paralyzed with fear, June screamed.
No choice, Kyle thought. "Windy, GO!" Kyle released a pokeball, and from it, a small black sphere, covered in a mist and sporting a fanged mouth and mischievous eyes appeared. "Gastly!" it said. "Use Night Shade!" The ghost pokemon emitted a black, misty-like substance at Phantomon. The spectral digimon was driven back, but seemed otherwise unhurt.
"I'm a ghost digimon. Your tricks won't work on me!" It said mockingly. "Shadow Scythe!" Phantomon swung his scythe at Gastly. It ducked, but the blade passed through some of the mist surrounding its body, and Windy flinched in pain. "Looks like you're about to be cut out of the action"
"Windy! Go Psychic, NOW!" Windy fired a blast of psychic energy at Phantomon, who was disoriented by the attack. "Now, use your Hypnosis and Dream Eater combo!"
"I told you those tricks wouldn't work!" Phantomon dodged around Gastly, and sped right at June!
"Thunder Cloud!"
A yellowish cloud swirled around the attacking digimon, and the crackle of electricity could be heard. "Wizardmon...how?" Phantomon gasped.
"You're not the only free spirit around here." Another figure formed from the shadows, into a form Kari and TK recognized. "Wizardmon" Nyaromon croaked, still weak from the drain.
"I'll undo what has been done. Magic Game!" This time, a series of arcane symbols formed around Phantomon.
"No...I'm weakening!" Phantomon's form became blurry and indistinct.
"The only way to end this is to send him back to the Digital World" Wizardmon said, straining to recover the power Phantomon had stolen from Kari's digimon. "You must open a portal."
"But we can't get to the school from here!" TK said. "There's no way we can bring him."
"The power to open the portal is within your digivice. Hurry!"
"If that's true" Kari said, "then we need a computer. But we don't have one!"
"Yes we do!" TK said. "Kyle, you have any empty pokeballs?"
Kyle caught on. "Yeah! They're half computer already! Open up a portal on it!"
TK held up his digivice. "Digiportal open!" The light from TK's D-3 enveloped the pokeball. when it subsided, the 'M' logo on it was replaced with a 'D'.
Kyle regarded the altered pokeball for a second, then threw it at Phantomon. "Digiball, GO!" It hit Phantomon, and the ghostly digimon was pulled inside. It rocked back and forth, as the trapped digimon tried to break out. After a few seconds, it subsided, and with a noise somewhere between a 'beep' and a 'bong', it settled down. Then, it vanished!
"It has returned to the digital world" Wizardmon said. "Now, to undo what has been done. Magic Game!" This time, the symbols formed around Nyaromon, who glowed, and returned back to her Champion level!
"Wizardmon" Gatomon said, crying.
"I am sorry it took me so long, but I have little time left."
"What do you mean?"
"Ken is not the main enemy; to stop him, you must find the last digiegg"
"There's another?" everyone asked.
"Yes. He has created a great evil...rrgh..."
"Wizardmon!"
"The battle...took more out of me...I'm fading...you must save him..."
"Not so fast!" Kyle said. "TK!"
Kyle pulled out a second pokeball, and he and TK repeated the procedure. "Digiball, GO!" Wizardmon's fading form was pulled into the pokeball.
"Did we get him?" TK asked.
"I hope so."
June finally found her voice. "Could someone please tell me what's going on here?"
==
"OK, so let me get this straight" June said. "You, Davis, and the others are called digidestined, that little thing Davis keeps packing around is called a digimon, and you travel through a computer screen to another world."
"Yep" After the events at the TV station, TK, Kari, Kyle, and June went to a small park near TK's apartment. The last hour had been spent explaining just what had happened four years ago, as well as more recent events.
"And," June said, continuing, "That missing genius kid is really alright, but he thinks he's something called a 'Digimon Emperor', and he's trying to take over this Digital World." There was a nervous edge to her voice. This was completely beyond her grasp.
"Well, yeah." Kari said. June shifted in her seat to face Kyle.
"And your role in all this?"
Kyle looked at TK, who nodded. "How to start...OK, you remember four years ago, when the sky went all weird?"
"How could I forget?"
"Well, where I come from, I never even heard of it."
June was confused. "But, I thought everyone over the whole world could see it?!"
Kyle looked straight at June. "Exactly."
"I think you'd better start at the beginning."
Kyle sighed. "Alright. It all started when a warp disk experiment I was watching went a little ca-ca..."
Over the next half-hour, Kyle recounted everything. Stone Town, pokemon, and his role in the fight against the emperor, not leaving out a single detail.
When he finished, he fell silent, waiting for June to say something. He looked up, saw the confusion and
(dear god please not fear anything but fear...)
-fear. There it was, clear on her face. "Kyle..."
Kyle stood up. "I'm, sorry." and ran off.
TK stood up. "Kyle, WAIT!"
==
"Did you find him?"
"Sorry, Kari, he got away. I almost wish Wizardmon hadn't told us about the portals. There was a freaked out guy at the Radio Shack that was trying to convince himself that someone didn't leap into a TV screen and vanish. Where's June?"
"I called Davis, and he's taking her home. She was pretty upset. Do we look for Kyle?"
"We'd better give him some time to calm down."
==
In the Digital World, Kyle paid no attention to where he was going, he just wandered aimlessly for about an hour, before finally collapsing.
Good one, he thought to himself. You fall for someone and wind up freaking her out. Course, I am a freak, in her eyes. Why did I even bother...
"Feeling down?" a familiar voice said. Kyle looked up, and recognized the caped figure standing on an Airdramon.
"I'm not in the mood for games Ken. Take a hike."
"So rude. And here I had planned to give you the honor of being the first to fall before my latest creation."
Before Kyle could say anything, the ground exploded in front of him. From the rent in the earth, a giant monstrosity appeared before him.
"You like?" Ken asked mockingly. "He's Kymeramon. I constructed him from the strongest parts of several digimon. And with your little friend Porygon, uniting all those pieces became simplicity itself. So in a way, everything Kymeramon does to you will be your own fault.
"Kymeramon, ATTACK!"
Kyle pulled out two pokeballs, and threw them. "Eevee, Growlithe, DIGIVOLVE!"
"Growlithe, armor digivolve to...Cyberarcanine, the strength of loyalty!"
"Flare! Flareon!"
Kyle and Flareon hopped onto Cyberarcanine's back, and the trio took off, flying as fast as they dared. "This looks bad" Kyle said, honestly scared.
"Tell me about it!" Cyberarcanine answered back. "I'm reading Ultimate power levels, and...no."
"What?" Kyle asked, not liking the tone of Cyberarcanine's voice.
"I'm also reading it as a Stage 2 Pokemon! We don't have a chance without help!"
"How about the control ring?"
It was Ken that answered. "You fool! I BUILT him! He doesn't need a control ring to follow my orders. Unlike some digimon I could think of" Ken finished, throwing a look at Wormmon. "Your attacks are useless!"
Cyberarcanine turned to face Kymeramon. "Then how about a new twist on an old favorite? STEEL FIRE BLAST!" The powered up attack slammed into Kymeramon's head, but had little effect.
"That's it" Ken giggled, "egg him on..." Then, louder: "You call that a fire attack?"
Kymeramon returned fire. "Heat Viper!" A blast of pure thermal energy shot from Kymeramon's mouth, and just missed its target. Kyle resisted the urge to scream as he saw a good quarter mile of land get burned behind him. Then the monster digimon launched itself at Cyberarcanine, and then a desperate chase was on.
==
"June? There's someone here to see you."
June didn't answer. After Kyle had left, she had gone home and locked herself inside her room. Why did I act like that??
She missed the door opening, and Kari entering. "June?"
"Kari...hi, sorry I didn't..."
"Forget it. Can we talk?"
June looked at Kari. "Where's Davis? Isn't he supposed to be falling all over you?"
Kari smiled a bit at that, despite the sharpness of the question. "How do you think I got him to stay out?"
June chuckled for a second at that. "Is it really true then?"
Kari sighed. "Yeah. Kyle is from an alternate Earth."
"And Eevee."
"Yeah, him too, and all the other creatures that he has. Honestly" Kari pressed on, "could someone who has something as cute as Eevee be that bad?"
"It's not that!" June almost shouted. "After he told me everything, I...I got scared, and he saw it. I could tell.."
==
"HEAT VIPER!"
After dodging another blast, Kyle said. "Let's go low and through those canyons over there! Something that big *can't* be that agile!"
"Right!" Cyberarcanine flew for the canyons, while Flareon, sitting behind Kyle, launched a series of flame attacks to keep Kymeramon back.
"Like that tired old trick's gonna work! Kymeramon, cut them off!!" Kymeramon fired a blast at the cliff face, blocking Cyberarcanine from exiting.
"We're gonna have to go in close!" Kyle said. "I don't think we can handle another blast like that." Cyberarcanine flew straight at Kymeramon-
-only to be knocked aside by a huge skeletal arm. "SkullGreymon's arm. Nice touch, no?"
Cyberarcanine twisted, fell, and crashed to the surface. Kyle and Flareon were thrown clear, while the armor pokemon glowed, and reverted to Growlithe. The puppy pokemon lay there unconscious. "Growlithe!" Kyle tried to stand, but fell. With horror, he realized his ankle had been twisted. No escape. "Flareon, get out of here! That thing's an ultimate digimon, you can't do anything!
Flareon stopped, looked at Kyle. Then he turned, and ran right at Kymeramon.
"Flareon, NO!!"
"Heat Viper!" Kymeramon's attack struck the ground near Flareon, throwing the Flame pokemon back several yards. Battered, Flareon got up and went forward again. It tried a Fire Spin, its best attack.
Kymeramon merely stood there, ignoring the flames that spun around it. "Heat Viper!"
"FLAREON! GET OUT OF THERE!"
Kyle's digivice glowed, and Flareon did the same a moment later. The flame pokemon seemed to levitate several yards up in the air, and his form changed. Humanoid, with two, no, four wings. Shield on his left arm, crest of Loyalty on it. Sword in his right hand, single edge, straight bladed. Crosspiece with a handguard. Faceplate, like Angemon and Angewomon's, tinted red. Red mane of hair, pulled into a small ponytail.
"Flareon, digivolve to...Pyroangemon!"
==
"He's a really nice guy, June. Just a little, well..."
"Weird?"
Kari giggled a bit. "Yeah, I guess. I've been to his world, it's a really nice place. I just...Gatomon, what's wrong?"
"I don't know Kari. I just felt...something's wrong. I know it!"
June and Kari looked at each other. "Kyle" they said in unison. Kari got up, started for the door. "June, I-"
"Go. It's not like I can do anything now...just go."
Kari nodded, grabbed Davis on the way out, and left. She started crying about two minutes after Kari had dragged Davis out the door.
==
"Heat Viper!" The murderous blast of energy shot at the fire angel, only to be blocked by PyroAngemon's shield. The newly digivolved angel flew back, and launched his own attack.
"SACRED FIRE!" A gout of flame, more powerful than even Cyberarcanine's Steel Fire Blast, engulfed Kymeramon. Ken didn't look too concerned; justified, as Kymeramon, only slightly singed, emerged from the blaze. Kymeramon, now drawing on the abilities from the Tyranitar helix the Ken had no knowledge of, used a different attack. Flying up a short distance, he dropped, creating a huge rip in the earth, and loosening much of the surface debris. Then, whipping his wings wide open, managed to suck the loosened earth up, and, flapping his wings again, launched the hail of debris at the angel. "Sand Storm!" Pyroangemon's shield blocked some of the attack, but he still received several gashes from the sharp detritus flung at him.
This is not going well, Pyroangemon thought to himself. The injuries he'd received as Flareon hadn't healed when he digivolved; worse, he'd expended too much energy with that last attack. I have to end this now. Turning to Kyle, he saluted with his sword, then, wings flared, faced his opponent.
==
"I got your message" Cody said. "What's up?"
"Kyle's in trouble" Davis explained. "Izzy, have you found anything?"
"I'm trying, but all the portals to the areas Kyle was entering are gone."
"Then find the nearest one! Hurry!"
==
"Heat Viper!"
Again, the beam lanced out. This time, however, Pyroangemon flew -at- it, sword extended in front of him.
"ATOM FORCE!"
Kyle had about 2 seconds to turn and cover Growlithe's inert form before the two attacks collided, and a sun dropped on everyone in the area.
==
"Anything?" Yolei said, as she and Halsemon flew alongside TK and Pegasusmon.
"No, I can't even find...WHAT'S THAT??" As they looked, a part of the horizon seemed to turn pure white. They both turned away as the light hit unearthly levels, then, when it faded, they saw what looked like a mushroom cloud.
==
Kymeramon stood up, having been bowled over by the force of the two attacks. The part of him that was Tyranitar raged at the damage; the helmet from Kabuterimon that covered his head had a ghastly rip in it, and the front spike was shattered. One of his wings hung limp, and numerous gashes could be seen all over him.
Before him, Eevee lay unconscious. Revenge, yes.
"Master, that's enough" Wormmon said.
"Not yet."
"Ken..."
"I said not yet!"
"BLAST IT KEN, HE'S GOING TO KILL THEM!!"
Ken stopped, stunned. Wormmon had -never- raised his voice, ever. Then he saw Kyle's body, not moving
(just like Sam...deaddeadead. I did it...)
"No....not..." Ken regained his composure. "Kymeramon, return."
The monster stopped its advance, caught between its desire to destroy and the programmed obedience to Ken.
"I said RETURN, Kymeramon! You'll be repaired at base." Kymeramon relented, and flew away, slowly.
Wormmon looked at Ken. "Master, I-"
"Just drop it." Ken said. All this dust, making my eyes water...
After a few minutes, Kyle's body shifted, though it remained unconscious. The move did activate one of his pokeballs. In a flash of red light, Marowak appeared, and looked around.
Tch, it looks like a Charizard went nuts...KYLE! Marowak ran over to Kyle. Unable to rouse him, or Growlithe, both of whom looked very badly hurt, he opened up another pokeball. Gastly appeared.
~Windy~, Marowak said, ~Kyle and Growlithe are hurt. Can you find help?~
The ghost pokemon nodded. ~I'll...LOOK!~
As the two remaining pokemon looked, they saw Eevee, battered, his fur matted and partially scorched, walk towards them. ~Is...~the evolution pokemon asked, barely able to stand.
~I don't know~ Marowak said. ~Windy, get moving~!!
==
After the digidestined saw the explosion, Yolei and TK landed, picked up Davis and Cody, and, along with Kari and Nefertimon, flew towards the area. Even at this distance, they saw several fires and knocked over trees from the force of the blast.
"Kyle.." TK said.
"He'll be fine" Davis said. "You know him, TK. He's probably just waiting for a ride from us!" TK was too worried to notice that Davis had used his name correctly.
"Down there!" Yolei called, pointing to a small dark speck that seemed to be flying towards them.
"It's one of Kyle's pokemon, Windy, I think" Nefertimon said. The ghost pokemon caught up to the digidestined, and urged them towards the center of the blast area.
==
~Eevee, look!~ Marowak said, spotting the incoming digimon. ~Kyle's friends are coming. He'll be all right!~
No response.
~Eevee? EEVEE!!~ Marowak ran over to Eevee, who had finally collapsed from his wounds.
Next Episode:
Convinced of his invincibility, Ken goes on a rampage through the Digital World. It is up to a desperate plan hatched by Izzy to stop him, and all the digidestined unite to stop Ken's madness once and for all.
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