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Digicross Episode 26
'Magnatar and the destruction of the Indigo League'
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==Dark Ocean

Demon watched the battle by the third destiny stone intently, as Lady Devimon
and Magnatar battled their two opponent. "This is getting to be an annoyance.
My calculations showed that this would be the best time to attack."

Arukenimon looked up. "Why were you so intent on having Magnatar attack now?
Won't those other children show up soon? There are already four DNA digimon
that can equal a high end Ultimate level digimon. I'm surprised they haven't
shown up already."

Demon glanced at Arukenimon. "Well, school is in session right now."

==Digital World, Friday

Pyroangemon and Cyberarcanine circled Lady Devimon, snarling as he readied
himself for another attack. A short distance away, Charizard traded firey
blasts with Magnatar.

The fallen angel grinned back, bone-white nails already extended.
"Why don't you just give up now? Your win record hasn't been the most
impressive."

"Maybe," Pyroangemon replied, "but there's no water in the area. And a desert
is the perfect place for a fire type to practice, wouldn't you agree?" The
angel flew in, sword extended. Lady Devimon dodged, then closed to grapple.
While they did,

On the ground, Kyle Ellison and Ryo Akiyama watched the battle, calling
directions to their partner monsters. "I'm surprised June isn't here."

Kyle shrugged. "She had an exam today. Trust me, an angry June is much worse
than this." Kyle looked up, then yelled "Now!". Cyberarcanine flew towards
Lady Devimon, firing his Plasma Buster repeatedly. This distracted Lady
Devimon long enough for Pyroangemon to slam his shield into her, then blasted
her with his Sacred Fire technique.

Pyroangemon watched as Lady Devimon fell, crashing into a sand dune, then
reverted to Sneasel. "Someone evolve from an Ice type this morning?" the angel
taunted. Sneasel got up, trying to force herself to digivolve, then stepped
back as Cyberarcanine and Scizor covered her, ready to attack the moment she
moved.

Magnatar snarled, then returned his attention to Charizard. "Impressive, but
you're not the only ones who can learn techniques. Grim Reaper!" Claws
extended, Magnatar made several slashing attacks at Charizard, badly injuring
the pokemon. He fell, reverting to Charmeleon as he landed. "Now for the
stone!" he yelled, darting over and sinking one of his claws into it.

Seeing this, Pyroangemon flew to the stone, readying his sword. "Atom Force!"
The blade connected with the extended claw, shattering it and causing the
surface of the destiny stone to crack. Magnatar screamed in pain as the
uncontrolled energy tore through him. The angel brought his shield up, getting
it between Magnatar and the destiny stone, then forced the digimon away.
Pyroangemon's wings extended, both glowing bright red. Dismissing his sword,
he extended his hands over his head, and the red light flowed up his arms to
his hands. "I am sorry, but there is no other way." Without another word, the
angel released the ball of energy, launching it at Magnatar. There was a wash
of heat, then Magnatar seemed to ripple, then vanish. Pyroangemon landed,
reverted to Eevee, then collapsed.

Kyle ran over. "What WAS that?" he asked his pokemon.

"All his power focussed into a single blast." Cyberarcanine answered, staring
at Eevee. "Was it Patamon that taught you that?"

Eevee shook his head. "Gatomon did. She did it once before, but she had all
the other digimon helping out with their energy too."

"Dangerous," the armoured pokemon replied, "you could have injured yourself.
What happened to Magnatar?"

"He was destroyed, right?" Ryo asked. "Wish it didn't have to end like this."

"I don't think so." Cyberarcanine said. "My sensors read some sort of
dimensional shift. He may have tried to retreat to the Dark Ocean. We'll
probably see him again."

Ryo nodded, then looked at Kyle. "So, back to the arms of your lady love?" he
asked wryly.

"She has an essay due Monday, and said she didn't want to be disturbed
tonight. Not all of us can get a year off school just by asking, you know."

"Yeah," Charmeleon coughed, "I can just see the two of you running off
somewhere on a pokemon adventure. Well, an adventure anyway." Kyle blushed,
getting a laugh out of everyone else there.

==Stone Town, Saturday

Cody looked around the house. "Kyle should be here soon." Kyle's father said
from the kitchen. "He said that he and Ryo were going to check on something.
Hope you like...ahh, nuts."

Cody thought he smelled smoke. "Are you alright? Should Armadillomon and I
come help?"

"It's fine, I just...oops." Mikhail walked out of the kitchen, holding a pan
with something black and unidentifiable. "Umm...you don't mind charcoal on
your grilled cheese, do you?"

Kyle opened the door. "Hey, dad, I'm...You didn't try cooking again, did you?"

"Your father offered to make Armadillomon and I some grilled cheese
sandwiches." Cody answered.

Kyle shook his head. "Dad, what have we said about flame broiling bread
products?"

"I couldn't flip it!" Mikhail protested. "Give your old man some credit!"

"You did grease the pan, right?"

"It was non stick!"

"That was the last pan, that you wrecked, if I recall! This one we had to buy
used!"

Growlithe padded over to Cody. "Don't mind them, they always go on like this."

"Yeah," Eevee agreed, "you should have seen the cake he tried to make. It
looked like Growlithe had been using it for target practice."

"How'd you survive?" Armadillomon asked.

"Well, he can do rice, but that's about it. Kyle does a lot of the cooking
when he's home nowadays."

"I had to learn, or it'd be rice and take out every night!" Kyle yelled from
the kitchen.

"Hey, I'm trying!" Mikhail retorted.

"You said that two frying pans ago!"

"Three!" Growlithe replied. "Three pans, a pot, and one fire extinguisher."

"Thanks!" Kyle called.

Cody looked at Eevee and Growlithe. "Are they always like this?"

Eevee shrugged. "Pretty much. Why don't you have a look around, it'll be
about twenty minutes before Kyle lets his dad back into the kitchen..."

Cody nodded, and started wandering around. He and Armadillomon went upstairs,
and stopped by one of the rooms. "Must be his father's room." Armadillomon
said, wandering in.

"Wait!" Cody hissed. "We shouldn't go in!"

Armadillomon looked at Cody oddly. "Eevee said we could look around. It's
not like we're going to take anything."

"I guess, but...huh?" Cody noticed something on Mikhail's night table, and
picked it up.

In the kitchen, Kyle was chipping away at the now hardened mess on the pan
with a metal spatula. "I should get Marowak out, he'd have more luck on this.
Honestly, how do you do this?"

Mikhail shrugged. "Talent?"

Cody came running down the stairs, almost tripping as he tried to turn and
enter the kitchen. "What's up? Armadillomon didn't eat that pokechow I keep
for Growlithe, did he?"

"Please, where did you get this photo?" Cody asked.

Mikhail looked up. "Oh, that? I got it from the Celadon Hospital, they have
an unknown patient there, and thought I might recognize him. I was going to
mention it to you, but with everything else going on, I kinda forgot." Kyle
sighed. "I am hopeless, aren't I? Do you recognize him?"

"I think so. I think he was a friend of my dad!"

==Celadon City

Ken looked around, still not certain about this. He had, at the invitation of
Davis, come here to relax, or so he had been told. So far, the day had
consisted of Davis dragging Ken around from store to store, with no real goal
in mind. Davis had tried to get him into a video arcade, but Ken had been
reluctant to go in.

Finally, Davis turned around. "Ken? You alright?"

Ken blinked. "Yes. It's...I'm not really into this sort of thing. Maybe I
should have stayed home."

"What? Look, Ken, the best way I know to relax is just to cut loose and have
fun. And this town has to have some of the best stores I've ever seen. Even
if they've never heard of Gundam 0083."

"Or Magic Knights Rayearth." Veemon added.

"Veemon." Davis whispered. "Ixnay on the Ayearthray." He looked up, hoping
Ken hadn't heard that. "So, there must be something you'd like to look for."

"Well..."

Davis smirked. "A-HA! Alright, spill. Who is it?" At Ken's reaction, Davis
stepped up his attack. "It's gotta be a girl. It's Yolei, isn't it? I've
seen you looking in some gift stores when you thought I wasn't looking."

"I think he's onto you." Wormmon said.

Davis nodded. "Well, as the leader of the digidestined, I have to know these
things."

"Actually, June spelled it out for him." Veemon whispered. "It was when he
was looking for something to get Melody."

"Veemon!"

"Well, why else were you looking in all those music stores?"

The two humans were spared further embarrassment by their digimon when Kyle
and Cody walked up. "Davis, Ken!" Kyle said. "What are you doing here?"

"Nothing!" Ken and Davis said automatically, leveling glares at their digimon
partners, willing them to keep quiet.

"Okay..." Kyle said uncertainly. "Actually, Cody and I were heading to the
Celadon Hospital. We just discovered something odd."

==Indigo Plateau

Some rubble shifted, and Larvitar regained consciousness. "Where...no, I've
reverted to my rookie level! That angel will pay for this!" Larvitar looked
around, scowling. "I must find another source of power. If I can find another
destiny stone...wait, this is the pokemon world!"

"Hey, over here!" a voice called. "A Larvitar! I'm gonna try capturing it!
Gligar, GO!"

Larvitar snarled. "I have no time for this." He ducked Gligar's first
attack, used a Hyper Beam to knock him out, and ran off.

The trainer ran over to check on his pokemon. "That Larvitar was...Gligar?
What's wrong?" The pokemon had recovered, and was eyeing the path Larvitar had
run down warily. He looked back at his trainer, and shook his head. "You
don't want to go after him? Maybe I should use Wartortle instead?" Gligar
shook his head again.

Larvitar tore through more underbrush, pokemon scattering before him. "I can
feel something ahead. I know this place. This is what the humans call Indigo
Plateau, where they gather to hold their pathetic competitions." Larvitar
smirked. "Well, maybe I can work off some of my frustrations. And find out
what that mysterious power I can sense is."

==Celadon Hospital

It was interesting, to say the least. Once the digidestined had been escorted
to the room, Ken and Cody had gasped, recognizing the person in the bed,
playing with an Oddish. "You're Yukio Oikawa!" Cody gasped, double checking
with the photo he had brought.

The patient looked up. "Who? I'm sorry, I don't remember that name."

"He has an extreme case of amnesia." the nurse explained. "He can't even
remember his name. Are you sure his name is Yukio Oikawa?"

Cody nodded. "I remember Grandpa showing me a photo of you with my father."

"Your father?"

"Hiroki Hida. I'm his son, Cody."

Ken looked at Cody. "I know him too. I think he was at my brother's
funeral." Ken looked again. "Yes, it was you. But...you look different now."
Oikawa had looked more...sinister, Ken recalled.

"Hi...Hiroki...I know that name..." Oikawa started to say, sitting up. He
looked at Cody. "You have your father's eyes..." He looked at Ken. "I know
you too. But from where?"

"My brother Sam." Ken answered. "It was at his funeral. Do you remember?"

"This is weirding me out." Davis whispered to Kyle.

"I know. But how did he get from your world to mine, if he's not a
digidestined?" Kyle replied.

Oikawa picked up on what Kyle said. "World? Another world...an ocean...all
black...no...no..." Oikawa settled down, as the nurse administered a sedative.

"You should go now. He's just had a very nasty shock to his mind."

"I'm sorry." Kyle said.

"Don't be." The nurse answered. "We now have a name for him. And I have
something I can work with."

Kyle looked at the nurse carefully. "Sabrina?" he gasped.

The 'nurse' nodded. "I had a feeling that something might come up if I kept
an eye on him. I think that I can help rebuild his mind, now that I have
something to work with. I-" Sabrina looked up. "Something's wrong."

Kyle looked out the door, and spotted several doctors and nurses gathered
around a small radio. Curious, he and Davis went over.

"-we repeat, all trainers are urged to avoid the Indigo Plateau area. There
is an extremely dangerous pokemon that has caused significant damage to the
Stadium are. Early reports say that it might be a Larvitar, but it has
demonstrated unusual power levels, defeating several pokemon with a single
attack and hospitalizing their trainers."

"Come on." Davis said, heading for the nearest computer.

==Indigo Plateau

It had been a spirited defense of Indigo Plateau. Several trainers that lived
in the area, on hearing that there was a powerful pokemon in the area,
immediately selected their strongest pokemon and went to challenge the
mysterious intruder. However, they had not expected to be battling a pokemon
that had had its power enhanced by the Dark Ocean! Thier initial plans of
catching Larvitar had soon switched to simple self defense or all out assault
as they found that Larvitar was too powerful to be restrained by traditional
means.

Larvitar finished with a final Machop that had been sent to fight him, then
turned on the human trainers. "You're in my way!" he yelled, calling up a
Sandstorm,
driving the humans away. He could feel the power more clearly now. It was
inside a building nearby. He realized he was in the actual Stadium now, where
the Matches were actually held. The power was a short distance away. He
quickly
tore through the remaining trainers there, and made his way to a small, well
appointed house. There was an old man just leaving it, something tucked under
one arm. He turned to leave, and saw Larvitar there. "Give me that item, old
man." Larvitar commanded him.

The man stepped back, shaking his head, hiding any fear he felt. Larvitar
started to advance when the ground around him tore apart, flinging the pokemon
away.

Larvitar recovered, looked at his attacker. "Mewtwo." he snarled.

Mewtwo narrowed his eyes. "You have no place here. Leave now, while you can."

Larvitar smirked. "I have retained my Dark type status, even in this form. I
can defeat you easily."

"As Lady Devimon, or rather Sneasel, learned, there are many ways to utilize
psychic powers. Observe." Mewtwo glanced at a large rock, and telekinetically
threw it at Larvitar.

"Old trick. Surely you can do better? I-" Larvitar's insults were stopped as
Mewtwo vanished, reappeared behind him, and swiped a fist across the back of
the evil pokemon's head. "How...?"

"Teleport, combined with Rock Smash. Shall I continue?" Mewtwo looked at the
old man. "Leave now. This will be...dangerous. I will hold him here as long
as I can."

Mr. Goodshow nodded. He knew, somehow, that the Larvitar was after the very
thing he had spent his life guarding. He turned, ran, silently thanking every
god he knew that the mysterious pokemon had come to save him. The flame of
Moltres had to be protected.

==

Kyle, Cody, Ryo, Davis, and Ken all made it to the plateau about the time that
Larvitar and Mewtwo started to fight it out. As they neared the stadium, they
saw two figures standing there, waiting for them.

"Sneasel!" Eevee growled. "And Arukenimon, to boot."

"One boot, coming up!" Davis yelled. "Digiarmour energize!"

"Veemon, armour digivolve to...Raidramon, the storm of friendship!"

"Growlithe, digivolve to...Arcanine!"

"Eevee, digivolve to...Flareon!"

"Wormmon, digivolve to...Stingmon!"

"Charmeleon, digivolve to...Charizard!"

"Armadillomon, digivolve to...Ankylomon!"

Arukenimon smirked, switching from her human form to her more powerful digimon
form. "Bring it on, boys, there's enough to go around!"

Sneasel nodded. "Sneasel, dark digivolve to...Lady Devimon!"

"Arcanine, Flareon, go after Lady Devimon!" Kyle yelled, taking out a pokeball.
"Scizor, give 'em a hand!" Scizor appeared and immediately went after the
fallen angel. "Can you cover Arukenimon?" he called to Davis.

Davis caught on. "Ken, you and Ryo go after Larvitar, Kyle and I will take
care of these creeps!" Ken nodded, and he and Ryo, their digimon following.
"All right, you overgrown spider, I'm gonna squash you! Raidramon, attack!"

"You don't have to yell! Thunder Blast!" Arukenimon blocked the attack, and
countered, forcing Raidramon to keep his distance. "Davis, she's an ultimate!
I'm not strong enough like this!"

Davis nodded, wishing he had a partner to DNA digivolve with. "Then we'll
have to take it up a level! Digivolve to Exveemon!" Raidramon glowed,
reverted to Veemon, and digivolved.

"Veemon, digivolve to...Exveemon! V-Laser!" That forced Arukenimon back a few
steps. "Much better! Hey, how are you three doing!" he called to the pokemon
battling Lady Devimon. "I could use a hand over here!" Arcanine broke off and
helped Exveemon with Arukenimon. Sneasel tried to stop him, but wound up
having to duck a swing from Ankylomon's tail.

==

Mr. Goodshow stared awestruck as Mewtwo and Larvitar battled. Both appeared
to be evenly matched in terms of power. A few seconds later, two more
creatures, one a Charizard, the other looking vaguely like a giant green
Beedrill joined Mewtwo. As he watched, he clutched the case he was holding
more tightly.
"Shame that there isn't a camera crew here." he muttered. "We could use
something to
inspire the trainers around here." A second later, A Scizor joined them.

"That is the least of your problems." The Indigo League chairman swung
around. Standing before him was a hooded and cloaked figure, eyes glowing a
menacing blue under the cowl of his hood. Its hands were visible, but they
were blue,
and resembled claws. The being's very presence inspired terror. "The flame of
Moltres, if you please."

Mr. Goodshow stepped back, shaking his head. "No! This is the symbol of the
Indigo league. I can't let you have it."

"Admirable. But futile." Demon's arm shot out, snatching the case from
Goodshow. A second fist landed in the human's gut, dropping him. Demon
regarded the unconscious form impassively, then left. The human was not worth
the energy to destroy. Cradling the case, Demon walked over to the ledge of
the stadium and watched the battle. "Impressive." he said to no one in
particular. "His power has increased, as I expected it would. He is now a
match for several champion level digimon in his current form." Mewtwo launched
another bolt at Larvitar, then stopped, looking up at the stands. Demon and
Mewtwo regarded each other. "Another one. Also of impressive power."

Mewtwo snarled, feeling the power coming from Demon. He formed a psibolt, and
hurled it at Demon. Demon caught the blast as if it were a ball, and balanced
it on his finger, examining it. "A psychic bolt, focussed to this degree. You
should be proud, many digimon never achieve this level of refinement in their
psychic attacks." He added his own energy, and threw the bolt back at Mewtwo.
The pokemon parried the blast, sending it flying into the far end of the stands.

Ken whirled around, and spotted Demon. "Who's that?"

"An evil digimon of extreme power." Mewtwo replied. "I will deal with him."
Mewtwo flew at Demon, readying another attack.

Demon teleported, reappearing by Larvitar. "You were looking for this, I
believe." he said, handing the case to Larvitar. Larvitar took it, broke the
case open, and seemed to absorb the flame that was inside it.

"What is that?" Ken asked, confused.

"That flame contains the spiritual essence of Moltres, a legendary pokemon.
It has a high level of psychic energy in it." Mewtwo answered. "Attack now,
before he can finish absorbing it!" Everyone threw their strongest attacks at
Larvitar. There was
an explosion, and a large cloud of dust was kicked up.

Kyle, Davis, and Cody ran in. "Sneasel and Arukenimon just vanished." Cody
said. "What happened here?"

"Your end, that's what." Demon answered. The dust cloud cleared, and Magnatar
stood there, energy crackling around his body.

"Cody," Davis whispered, "get to the pokemon center and get everyone here."
Cody started to protest, but felt Armadillomon nudge him, nodding his head.
Quickly, the two left.

"Asking for help?" Ken asked Davis. "That doesn't seem like you."

Davis shrugged. "Shakouomon managed to beat this guy once, so we'd better get
TK here. Just don't tell him I said that, alright?"

Ken smirked, nodding. "Ryo, we're going to need Dino Beemon to keep this guy
in check."

"Stingmon!"

"Charizard!"

"DNA Digivolve to...Dino Beemon!"

"Don't forget me!" Flareon called. "Flareon, digivolve to...Pyroangemon!"
Larvitar snarled, seeing the familiar angel reappear.

Pyroangemon raised his sword, ready to attack, but Dino Beemon ran in front of
him, charging wildly at Magnatar. The smaller digimon dodged Dino Beemon's
swings easily, as Exveemon, Arcanine, and Pyroangemon battled Demon.

Kyle stepped back. "We're in trouble." he said, watching his pokemon
attacking Demon.

"Why?" Davis asked. "We've got him outnumbered!"

Ken looked at Demon, and realized what was happening. "He's just playing with
them." Ken said, stunned. "Demon's not even using half his power."

"Dino Beemon!" Ryo yelled. "Forget Magnatar, go after Demon, he's the bigger
threat!"

Demon looked up, just as he deflected a V-Laser and a Fire Blast. "Well, that
won't do, will it? Chaos Flare!"

==Tokyo

TK got up, hearing the phone ring. No one else was home, so he decided to
answer it, rather than let the machine take it as he usually did on Saturdays.
"Takashi residence."

"TK!" Cody's voice came over the phone, slight edge of fear in it. "You have
to get to the Indigo Plateau right now! Davis and the others are fighting
Larvitar and LadyDevimon!"

"Whaah? Cody, when did this happen?" Cody started to reply, but then there
was a screech on the other end of the line, and the signal was cut off.
"Cody? CODY!"

Next Episode
The battle against Demon and Magnatar takes a turn for the worse as the
combatants are pulled into the Dark Ocean, where Magnatar is able to reach his
ultimate level: MetalDevidramon. Not even Pyroangemon and Dino Beemon can
stop this
new Digimon. How will the digidestined escape? Find out next time, on Digimon:
Digicross...
'Paildramon, take aim!'