'Transformers: Crisis' Chapter 8: "Poetic Justice".

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"MY SUPERIOR!" I said, and started to laugh. "Yes...," WarMetalSamamon begins, "What's so funny about that?" he asked. "YOU!" I laughed even harder, and slapped my knee. "What's so damn funny!" WarMetalSamamon asks me. "You...you are nothing but a ultimate level Digimon! You're nowhere near my superior!" I said as I laughed. "And your point?" WarMetalSamamon asked me getting impatient. "You're nothing but a lowly clone! You're not even close to being my superior much less a worthy adversary!" I said as I laughed uncontrollably. WarMetalSamamon clenched his fists together tightly. "I've had just about enough of your crap MS!" WarMetalSamamon said. Almost instantly I stopped. "What did you just call me?" I asked. "That's your initials idiot!" WarMetalSamamon told me with a dumbfounded look. "I hate it when anyone uses my initials!" I said as I got enraged again. "Calm down there Sparky. There's no need to catch on fire again there Skullgrin MetalSamamon" WarMetalSamamon replied to me. I looked at myself. "Oh, that's what that's supposed to mean." I quickly regenerated my body and face; restoring my clothes and flesh. "Is that better?" I asked him. "Much better, but your still ugly." he said and laughed again. "That's pretty funny coming from a guy with a pink suit." I said and snickered a bit. He looked at himself and frowned. "I always hated you. Ever since the moment we were created I hated you..."

"What?" I asked him. "You still don't know who I am, do you?" he asked me. "No, I can't place you. I know what you are; but who...no." I told him. "Remember back on Earth when you were a human and you had a Digimon partner?" he asked me. "Yes..." I said. "Well, then came that day when you're whole life changed when that accident led to you becoming a half-human half-Digimon." he said. "Yes, I remember that I was combined with my Digimon...he and I became one." I said. "You see; that's where you're wrong. Your Digimon didn't combine with you; he was split just as you were. In essence, two totally separate figures became two individual figures who shared parts of each other..." he told me. "Wait a minute! You don't mean to tell me that you're..." I began. "Yes, MetalSamamon, I'm your Digimon partner." he told me.

"But how? I don't remember you surviving. How did you survive?" I asked him. "Well, after it happened I was sent back to the Digiworld. How I'm unsure of, but it happened. So, when I got there I immediately began to look for you. I wasn't even concerned for my own well-being. I thought you had died. I was so sad that I had lost you that I spent nearly two years of my life searching for you..." I began to choke up as I listened to him; recalling all the good times we had. "...Then finally you returned to the Digiworld, and at last I found you! Or so I thought. You had changed; you were evil. You murdered innocent Digimon, you controlled your former friends, you manipulated those who once trusted you. You weren't the boy I knew before; you became someone else." He said, and lowered his head in shame.

I began to cry a little. "I had no clue you survived. I thought that I would glorify your memory by taking my vengeance out on everyone in your memory..." I told him. "In my memory!" he asked me. "What! I was never like that! I loved my fellow Digimon! How did you think that would glorify my memory?" he asked me. "I thought that was the best way..." I said. "Come on! You don't really expect me to believe that do you?" he asked. "The most I can tell you is that it's the truth..." I said to him and looked away in shame.

"Well, after I witnessed your war crimes, I decided I needed to do something about it. I intercepted the drone you sent back to the Digiworld with the transmission containing your plan to assist the Destrongers. I decided that I would get a head start and make it to Cybertron before you did. Getting here was no easy task mind you; I had to stow away on an Autobot transport vessel from Earth. Thee bumpiest ride of my life; but that's beside the point. I never realized it until about a month ago that we shared a psychic link. I decided that I would use it to draw you here; and to erase some of your memories so that you wouldn't know that it was me." he told me. "Well, it certainly worked. You took out some other memories as well, like who that version of me is down there." I said as I pointed at my decapitated future self on the ground still dead. "Well, I'll tell you that you do some time traveling, and that version of you goes to the future long after Optimus Primal and Megatron plunge to their deaths at the core of Cybertron, when Unicron returns and resurrects old Destron warriors to fight a final battle. You were recalled by Unicron from a different time, a time where you are a full-fledged Destronger. You battled well, but ultimately you were captured and sent here; except the ship carrying your corpse went through a transwarp gate and ended up in the past; where you see him today. Odd, it's like you were destroyed before you were even created." he told me. "Then why hasn't anything happened? Why no time storms from when Prowler cut his or rather my head off?" I asked him. "Do I need to get a chalkboard out here? Hello!" he said. I frowned. "That version of you was dead before the ship carrying you even went through the gate...it makes no difference what happens to him now!" he said and laughed lightly.

"I still can't believe that I don't know everything. I was designed to know everything. You took that from me." I said as I looked at him with a sad expression. "It's so unfair! I don't deserve this! I know I've done some bad things in the past, but that doesn't mean that I have to endure the pain that I have..." I said. "Turnabout is fair play." he told me. "But you! Of all people, why you? You were my partner back on Earth and in the Digiworld. Why did you do this?" I asked him. "Because you needed to be stopped Samuel Daikawa." he said and began to cry a little. "You know how long it's been since anyone has called me that?" I asked rhetorically. I began to cry too as I recalled all of the good times we had, my family, and my girlfriend that I let go; all for my personal and evil goals and ambitions. "You were once a good guy, Samuel. Please, come back with me to the Digiworld. We can start again, and become friends like we were before. You're not a bad person. I know; I still remember the times we would walk along the park together, how we would fish, how we would listen to old Beatles records together and sing along with them. Your favorite was 'In My Life'." he told me. I wiped the tears from my eye. "You still remember Blankmon..." I said. He began to sob uncontrollably. "Oh you still remember my name! You remember me!" he said as he approached me for a hug. I went to hug him went a force field suddenly appeared around him and sent us flying apart in opposite directions.

"What the hell was that?" I said as I got a hold of myself. "Oh crap! I forgot to mention that I made it so that you can't touch or harm me in anyway. I'm such an idiot!" he said. "Why did you do that?" I asked him. "I wasn't sure if you would hurt me or not when you met me in real life. I had to take some precautionary measures." he said. "How did you do that? Your current form isn't capable of that..." I said with serious doubt in my voice. "I...I...I used...I used that drone." he stuttered out. "You sad sorry little Digimon! You went so low as to use my technology! What in the hell were you thinking?" I asked him. "Hey, at least I didn't murder thousands of innocent Digimon and now Transformers!" he retorted. I could feel the anger build up inside me. "I have my reasons..." I said. He suddenly got a sad expression. "Why are we fighting Samuel? Aren't we better than this? You are my friend, my partner. I loved you like a brother, like a father, maybe even more. Please Samuel, come back with me...let's end this here and now." he begged me. I looked around at the destruction below. I looked around at the burning corpses and the ruined buildings. I looked around at the drones using their scanners to find and destroy any surviving or hiding Cybertronians. I looked back up at WarMetalSamamon, and for just a split second I thought I seen Blankmon staring back at me. I hovered there, and contemplated the future and my life thus far. "Well, WarMetalSamamon, you're right about one thing..." I said. "What's that?" he asked me. "It ends here and now!" I said as I attacked him.

He was so taken back by this that he immediately flew back and pulled out a pair of Samurai swords (he had lots of weapons from all different races and Digimon which came with his new form). "You can't harm me! I have complete control over you!" He said as he used our psychic link to cause me pain. I grabbed my head and fell to the ground from the pain. "ARRGGHHH! Get out of my head!" I screamed as I fired my cannons at him. The force field deflected it. "What did I say before? You can't harm me. Nothing that you have control over can harm me!" he said as he landed on top of me and plunged one of the swords into my chest. I cried out in pain; and then I stopped. "What the hell? Why am I feeling pain so intensely?" I asked to myself out loud. "Part of our psychic link my former friend." he told me and pulled the sword out. I cried out in pain again and he raised the sword above his head in a slicing motion. But just then a laser blast shot him in the back and he fell to the ground about five feet away from me.

I looked around to see who it was, and gasped as I seen the figure approach. It was Dozenkillezia. "Are you alright MetalSamamon?" she asked as she helped me to my feet. I grabbed my chest in pain as I tried to repair myself, but couldn't. "No, I'm not. My power reserves are too far depleted. I can't autorepair." I told her. "Good!" WarMetalSamamon said as he stood up and charged me again. I grabbed a piece of jagged metal from the ground and chucked it into his torso. It penetrated and he staggered back. "Crap! I knew I forgot to include something when I made myself invincible." he said as pulled out a small communicator. "Drone! Come here at once!" he said into the device and he put it away. "You won't win that easily MetalSamamon!" he said as he pulled out a small boom box. I looked at him in question. He pushed the play button, and it began to play "Drive My Car" by the Beatles. I looked at him puzzled. "What's he doing?" Dozenkillezia asked me. "I have no clue...I think he might be trying to play upon my emotions." I told her. "I suppose that's what you would think; you being so self-centered and all..." he told me, "Actually, I wanted to kill you in style, so I thought I would play the Rubber Soul album!" he said and took out a WWII-style grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it at me. I grabbed Dozenkillezia and took off into the air and managed to get far enough away as it exploded. "That was too close!" I said. She looked at me lovingly. "Oh no..." I mumbled to myself in a super-low whisper. She didn't hear it (I was actually hoping she wouldn't). I landed back on the ground.

"So, MetalSamamon, how does it feel to no longer be invincible?" he asked me with a grin. I merely sneered at him. "In truth it reminds me that part of me is still human, that part of me still has those emotions of greed, hatred, love, spite, and total lack of compassion for my fellow man. It reminds me that I once was like that, and that somewhere deep within this Digimon exterior I still am human..." I said and got a sly grin. "And people wonder why I hate humans." I said. "You and I are one in the same MetalSamamon! We are two of a kind! You are me, and I am you! You can't defeat me! There is nothing you can do that can harm me!" he said defiantly. "Well, we'll see about that..." I said as I took to the air and said those fateful words, "Death Gate Open!" I said as I made a circle with my arm in front of me and a Death Gate appeared. WarMetalSamamon's eyes grew wide and he stared at the gate in fear. "NO! You wouldn't dare!" He yelled as he tossed every weapon he had at the gate. "Oh yes! If I can't physically attack you and nothing I can control can harm you, then perhaps something I can't control will work!" I said as I floated down to the ground. Again the gate sucked in everything within a range in front of the gate. He shot missiles, nukes, and bombs into the gate, but nothing worked; it seemed to grow stronger by the moment.

His feet became to lift off of the ground, and he looked at me in sadness. Then his expression turned to anger. "If I must die," he said as he began to float towards the gate. He grabbed my wing. "Then I shall take you with me!" he said as we both took off towards the gate. Dozenkillezia grabbed my leg. "I'll save you!" she said as she tried to keep me on the ground. "Please let go Dozenkillezia. I must do this." I told her. "No! I won't lose you!" She said. "Dozenkillezia! Listen to me! I'm an evil Digimon! You're a good Destronger! This would never work out! I've caused so much pain in this universe, now I must get my long overdue justice! Please, for the sake of the Cybertron! Only I can close the gate, and I can't do it until WarMetalSamamon is in the gate; and if I must die to destroy him; then so be it!" I said as I blasted her hand. She let go of my leg, and cried out in pain. "NOOOO! I LOVE YOU METALSAMAMON! DON'T DIE!" she said as she extended a hand towards the gate as we traveled towards the gate. "Please don't weep for me..." I told her as we entered the gate. "Until all are one!" I called out as I entered the gate fully, and I closed it.

Just then as the dust began to settle the drone came. I received a signal from it, and I used it to see what was happening on Cybertron. There, Dozenkillezia sat next to the drone and the boom box. It was playing, "In My Life." She sat there covering her face and I could hear her weeping even through the rough transmission. I wished I could say something to her, but I knew that it was impossible. I watched the transmission slowly fade out as the song ended. I began to cry as WarMetalSamamon and I fell through the hot, searing tunnel and approached our hell together, reunited as comrades in pain...

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Is this the end for MetalSamamon? Guess you'll just have to read on and see...