Author's Note: Well this is certainly going places I never saw it, but that's okay. I'm happy cause I got my military outfit the other day. Yay! So happy about that. I'm glad that everyone enjoyed the last chapter. I had so much more I wanted to put into this but I feel like this isn't the story I wanted it to be. So...this will be the last chapter. It will be the crapiest ending ever, but I couldn't stand the thought of it just sitting there, becoming one of the many 'On Hold' or 'Discontinued' fics. So this is the end of Shattered Realities. I'm so sorry. I apologize to those who liked this story and were hoping for a full fledged fic.
Chapter 9 - The End
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"GARUDAMON DIGIVOLVE TO...PHEONIXMON!"
Like the legendary bird that Pheonixmon took her name from, she arose from the ashes of death and destruction to begin anew.
And the first thing on her list:
Pay Back!
MetalSeadramon would not live to hurt another digimon, or separate any partners. Not while Pheonixmon still breathed.
MetalSeadramon shuddered. He could feel Pheonixmon's burning gaze on him and he knew, he knew, that he would not be surviving this fight.
"Crimson Flare!" Pheonixmon roared, letting loose her first attack as a Mega. Fire burst around her, obeying her and burning all those that served evil.
Sora was wide eyed and open mouthed as she watched her partner. It was...amazing...
Sora's attention was drawn away from her partner as she noticed that Tai had gone frighteningly pale.
"Tai?" Sora asked worriedly, resting her hand against his arm.
"Something's wrong..." Tai whispered as he watched the fight continue. The Digidestined were slowly winning. It was going to be a long and hard battle, but they had numbers and they knew their enemy. They would win.
And hopefully before anything else happened.
"I really don't think he should be twitching like that"
"He's just fine! Er...right Joe?"
"I...I think...is that foam coming from his mouth?"
"Uh, this probably isn't the time, but I think Izzy's laptop is dead"
"Yolie...run."
"What? Why? Oh my god! Zombie! Aaahhhhh!"
"He does kinda look like a zombie..."
"Gomamon..."
"What? Admit it! Except that most zombies don't run..."
"No, they did in that one movie..."
"Oh yah..."
"Look out he's heading right for us!"
"AAAHHHHHH!"
"Don't eat my brain...I need it!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
CHOMP.
And then there was silence...
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"MagnaAngemon! Noooo!" T.K. cried, his eyes widening as he realized the attack was going to hit his partner, his friend.
Except the attack never hit MagnaAngemon, it hit the one who stepped in the way.
Gallantmon.
A choked gasp escaped from Gallantmon as the blast hit him fully, cracking his armour and doing a large amount of damage. The viral knight didn't even have time to put up his shield to take the attack. Gallantmon was still on the ground, unmoving.
There was utter silence. Not even the 'evil' digimon had been expecting this.
MagnaAngemon was frozen in place as he stared down at the digimon that had just taken the hit for him, sparing his life.
"Gallantmon!" Sakuyamon cried out, breaking the silence. She was fuming. How dare they...how DARE THEY!
"Spirit Strike!" Sakuyamon shouted, rage filling her voice and backing her attack as she let loose the largest set of element spirits she had ever summoned. The spirit foxes ran forward, leaping and snarling with all the fury of their summoner.
Gulfmon never stood a chance. Really, if all it took was three Ultimate level digimon to take him down the first time do you really think he stood a chance against a pissed of Mega? I didn't think so...
Galfmon gurgled and thrashed at the spirit foxes that tore at him, ripping away chunks of data killing him quickly and painfully.
Beelzebumon was staring wide eyed from the side lines. He moved forward mechanically to stand beside his fallen partners. How had that happened? They were so strong...and all it took was one attack? One attack to hurt his most precious people? Unnoticed by the others, good and bad alike, the ground beneath Beelzebumon was beginning to glow black in the shape of an upside down pentagram...
"How dare you! Gabumon!" Matt shouted through clenched teeth. He was shaking with fury. He was to mad to notice who had attacked his little brother, only that they had and someone who didn't even really know them took a hit for his little brother's partner.
"Way ahead of you Matt! Gabumon warp digi-volved to...MetalGarurumon!"
"Ken, lets show em' who they're dealing with!" Davis shouted as he raised his D3 in the air followed a split second later by Ken who was wearing a grim look.
"Demi-Veemon digivolved to...Veemon! Veemon digivolved to...Ex-Veemon!" Ex-Veemon stood ready and waiting for his DNA digivolving parter.
"Minomon digivolved to...Wormmon! Wormmon digivolved to...Stingmon! Are you ready Ex-Veemon? Stingmon!...Ex-Veemon! DNA digivolved to...Paildramon! Paildramon digivolved to... Imperialdramon!" Imperialdramon let loose a massive roar as he finished digivolving. It took a lot to rush through all those levels, but right now the adrenaline rush kept them and their Digidestined partners from noticing.
"Excellent. A challenge!" Dynasmon spoke in a pleased and feral sounding voice. He and his pink armoured partner sprang forth. They would be needed now for sure. There was a distinct advantage for the Digidestined side now that the cavelry had arrived. They would have to work together if they wanted to beat them. That was always how the Digidestined managed to beat all of them. Through team work.
Apocalymon moved forward. They would need his help, now more than ever. Help had come a lot faster than any of them had anticipated and now it was going to cost them...well perhaps not him personally, all he had to do was grab the lance bearing knight and leave. That was all that Kage had asked of him. He could easily leave the others to be killed by the Digidestined. And right now he was leaning more and more towards flight than fight.
Beelzebumon knew that Gallantmon would be okay eventually but that didn't stop the rage he felt at the digimon who dared attack his partner. Black flames licked at his leather clad legs and emerald eyes bled into blood red crimson. A deranged grin graced the face of one of the seven Demon Lord digimon of the digital world. Around him both sides leapt into a battle that both were about to loose.
"Positron Laser!"
"Death Evolution"
"Spirit Strike!"
"Cocytus Breath!"
"Spiral Masquerade!"
"Breath of Wyvern"
"Pandemonium Flame!"
"Excalibur"
"Tail Hammer!"
Attacks exploded everywhere, some missing their tartgets, while others were a direct hit. Beezlebumon ignored it all. The focus of his anger was gone, but there were others that intended to hurt Gallantmon, to hurt him. Beelzebumon would destroy them. And after that, no one would dare hurt him or his friends again.
Both sides pulled apart, sizing up the other. Noting damage and who was weakest. Who took hits and who managed to dodge in time. Luckily there were no casualties.
Yet.
"Corona Destroyer!" Beelzebumon shouted, unleashing the attack that had been building underneath everyone. Unlike the smaller version that was a blast of hellfire from his armorment, the one that arose from the ground was hell brought to the surface.
"Beelzebumon..." Gallantmon groaned as he stood shakily. Black fire danced across his armor, happily caresing the white armor as if it were a friend, while around the two untouched digimon the others screamed in pain as black fire from the pits of hell arose and laughingly burned them.
"Gallantmon...I won't let them hurt you...I own't let them hurt me..." Beelzebumon explained, his arms wide and his fire red eyes dancing.
"Stop! This isn't right!" Gallantmon shouted, stepping back from his partner and friend. The person he thought he knew. What had happened to him? Gallantmon had been attacked before and it had never done this to their friend. Is this what being their partner did to him? Is this...what he would do to all his friends? Would they all be like this? No!
As Gallantmon(or more specifically, Takato) fought with himself, a sybol began to glow on his forhead. One that would spell disaster...
A wave rippled out from Gallantmon, snuffing the flames and making every freeze from shock. All eyes were wide as they felt it. They were at the epicentre. There was no way that they could not sense it. And it scared them. Because they were helpless as they felt the blackness envelope them. Because it was the end. Of Everything.
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Grani bit back a groan as he flew above a slew of broken trees and what looked like it may have been a rather large stone but was only so much gravel now.
Forget the original plan.
When he found Behemoth, he was going to kill the stupid bike.
Brutally.
There were tracks everywhere and it was impossible to tell where one path ended and the others began.
Grani growled to himself and activated his scanners. His scanners sorted through the paths, organizing them by depth and how they were drying. When his scanners were finished, Grani pulled the mental equivelant of a frown. There was something wrong. He had a lock on Behemoth, but according to his scanners...there was something terribly wrong.
Grani took off grimly. Whatever was going to happen was going to happen soon. If he wanted to do anything to help he would have to move swiftly.
He just prayed that he would be quick enough to do something.
Anything, because if he was right. They were all doomed.
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Vritramon gasped and choked as he bore the attack head on. It was not the power of the attack of the accuracy of it, it was something that only he could feel. And right now, it was screaming at him of the wrongness, of how he had to fix it.
Vritramon stumbled away from Lucemon, data leaking from his wounds. The fire beast trudged on. Why couldn't they sense it? The humans...
"Takuya! Stop!" Kouji and Kouichi called together. The twins broke free from the others and stood in front of Vritramon, blocking his path.
"Move" Vritramon growled out, not quite Takuya, but not the insane ravaging beast he had been mere seconds ago.
"No, you have to let us help you!" J.P shouted, joing the brothers in their stand.
Vritramon just looked at them, seeing something beyond them and knowing that if he didn't do something, or at least get to the people that could do something, it wouldn't matter if Lucemon had gone insane and was trying to destroy digimon again.
Shock lanced through him, causing him untold pain and forcing him to revert back to his human form.
Takuya lay on his side, his eyes wide as his friends gathered around him. They all were frantically asking what was wrong, was he okay, would he be okay.
No...he would never be okay...
Takuya closed his eyes and slumped to the ground. It was to late. He had failed. He hadn't realized what was happening sooner. If only he hadn't been blinded by his rage, his pain...
Then this would not be.
The last thing Takuya heard was a scream from someone, he didn't know who, and then...
Nothing.
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Kage gasped and typed furiously.
No no no no no NO! It could not end this way!
Kage's eyes were wide as he watched everything that he had built unravel. All that he had done, accomplished was torn asunder. There would be no coming back from this.
Kage continued typing, even as the darkness crept in around him, swallowling all in its path.
As the darkness pulled Kage in and under, the last thought in his mind as it shut down was...
Lara...
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Takato groaned as he found himself floating in a familiar gold sphere of energy and data. Wasn't he supposed to be doing something? Ugh. And where was he?
Guilmon's head hurts.
Guilmon? Where are we?
I dunno, Takatomon. But Impmon isn't here. I can't find him! Where is he?
I...I don't know...
Takato...I'm scared...
It'll be okay, we're still together, right?
Right! But Impmon's all alone...
Don't worry Guilmon, we'll find him!
Okay!
Takato shifted inside of Gallantmon so that he and Guilmon were both controlling their form as one. He only hoped that he wasn't going to be made a lier. The last thing he remembered was demonic red eyes glowing in the darkness and a mad cackle that sounded all to familiar. And now he was surrounded in an inky void that no light seemed able to penatrate.
Suddenly a pain rippled through them.
AHHHHHHHHH!
Gallantmon screamed in pain as he felt himself being torn apart from the outside, in.
Takato was on all fours, panting as he tried to recover from the wave of pain that had nearly consumed him and his partner.
"Guilmon? Guilmon!" Takato called out frantically, looking for his partner who was now no where to be found. Where was he? Guilmon had just been there! They had been biomerged for crying out loud! What was going on? Why was this happening!
Tears formed at the corner of crimson eyes as Takato fought the urge to cry.
This was not happening! It couldn't be!
Oh but it is.
Don't be so cruel.
But isn't this what you wanted?
"Wha...what?" Takato trembled as he looked around, trying to find where the voices were coming from.
It's alright, we won't hurt you. We're a part of you now.
In front of his eyes, as if a mirror was placed there, Takato saw himself, only instead of the three symbols that now usually graced his head, there was only one. Life.
Aren't you lucky?
Another appeared, just like the first only bearing the symbol for hazard.
You need to find them. Only you can fix this
A third appeared, looking a little less sane than the others and the symbol for chaos was glowing softly on its forehead.
"I...what's going on? Wasn't I just fighting...and what about Guilmon? Beelzebumon?" Takato asked his duplicates.
They had to go back. They couldn't stay here. Chaos...was let loose, at an inopportune moment, like it should be, and it finally undid everything. The first one, Life 'said'.
Ch, it was going to happen anyways. If not now, then later when you and the other more prominent chosen failed. The second, Hazard snorted.
That's not right. They could have won, fixed everything like it should be. I just got a little impatient, thats all. Its better this way, anyway. This way you can remake the world, as you see fit! The third, Chaos said cheerfully, not at all fazed by what the others or it was saying.
"..." Takato was quiet. He had to be going crazy. There was no other way to explain it.
No, you are not going mad. This is unfortunately all to real. And if you want to fix everything you are going to have to move quickly. You will need our help, all you need to do is think of it and we will help. We will help you make the world better Life coaxed softly, building on what Chaos had layed down.
Or you could mess up and make everything worse. You are just some stupid little kid. Hazard smirked.
"The world...?" Takato whispered. How did this sort of thing happen?
You could always just ignore it all and wait for me to do something, but that could take a while. I might not get bored and decide to do anything for a millenia. And by then all of your friends will be long gone. You still be here though. You can't leave us and we can't leave you! Chaos said inanely, talking as if he was discussing nothing more than the weather. Like this was the sort of thing he did all the time.
"I can't do this! This isn't something one person can do! This isn't something anyone should do!" Takato shouted, his hands curling into fists at his sides. Why? WHY!
Ah, righteous anger. I love this feeling. I suppose I should help though. I would really rather not be stuck here for an undecided amount of time with only you morons for company. I hope you appreciate this kid Hazard growled out to Takato and closed his eyes.
What are you doing! This is going to be difficult enough for him alone! And you want to bring distractions! Life shouted, eyes blazing much like Takato's had done only moments before.
Ooooo! Fun! Chaos said and pressed his hand against Hazard to help with what he was doing.
In five spots, light gathered and took shape, forming people he had fought with and bonded with. They weren't the Tamers, but it was better than nothing.
"Hey Takato, didn't expect to see you again" Matt said, a small smile on his face despite what he knew. Friendship had filled him in, and he suspected the others had been filled in because they all looked a little sad and no one seemed at all confused.
"Matt? Takuya? Davis? Ken? Tai?" Takato asked, seeing all of them and what looked like them behind them.
"Yah, Courage filled me in. So you gotta fix it all? Thats quite the job" Tai said, hands in his pocket.
Takato was quiet. He didn't know what to say. What could he say? Could he do it alone? He always had his friends to back him up before...even if he hadn't known it at the time.
'Stupid Goggle-head, like you could get rid of us!' A familiar voice taunted him. Takato whirled around to see dozens of children. Some were his friends, others he recognized from time spent together and some were new faces. All were hazy forms, not solid like him or the other Chosen, but they were there, and that alone gave Takato strength.
'Its just like Terriermon says, Momentai Takato, Momentai.' Henry smiled, placing his hand reasuringly on Takato's shoulder.
'Yah! We'll help you, even if we're not allowed to! It's not like it would be the first time that we didn't listen to what we were told!' Kazu shouted
Bah, that's nonsense! You can help him to make it all better. It would probably work better that way. Life just wants Takato to do it by himself cause he wants the credit for creating the Universe this time around. Chaos said, giggling at the expressions on everyones(excluding Hazard, 'cause he was scowling) faces.
"We can do this...together!" Takato said, a small smile forming on his face. This wasn't something they should have to do, but Destiny and Fate had placed them together.
Really! It was just like last time, only then he had even more help. It wasn't like you could make everything with only Life, or Miracles. You needed it all to make the world work. Chaos was just the one who set everything in motion last time.
This time it would be Takato who started it. A spark of Life, nurtured by Friendship and Kindness, protected by Courage. Intuition and Hope would guide it, Love would shape it. Sincerity and Knowledge would humble it. Order and Balance would keep it in line while Darkness would hide it, giving it the chance to grow strong through Hazard and Power's challenges. Destiny and Fate would set the road for it, Light would give it a goal to reach despite Death's haunting call. While Responsibility would teach it lessons along the way. Chaos would keep things interesting and finally Luck and Miracles would follow close by, just in case.
Chaos smiled. The world was in good hands.
Skittles: I am so cruel. That's all I could write though.
Yuusuke: Tell me about it.
Skittles: O.O Where the heck did you come from! I thought you died!
Yuusuke: I'm good at not staying dead. Who do you think kept pestering you with ideas all the way through camp when you were no where near a computer?
Skittles: (twitches) So it was you eh?
Yuusuke: ...Maybe I should be going now, BYE!
Skittles: Stupid Muse...And I apologize again to all. I know there were lots of you who liked this fic. I'm sorry that it ended this way, but I just can't finish it. Not the way that I intended anyway. I left it with I bit of an open ending so that if I ever get the need to write something up for it I can. It wasn't quite the ending I had imagined, and I had hoped to make the final chapter longer, but this is all she wrote. I apologize again (again) and hope that you at least enjoyed the last chapter of Shattered Realities.