Part 2

"Izumi!" roared a voice that none of the DigiDestined had ever heard before. Izzy and Tentomon were both quick in jumping to their feet to see who was shouting Izzy's sir name. They had expected to see someone that they all knew, but they saw twenty feet away from them a huge gorilla. The gorilla was unlike anything that they had seen both in their world or the Digital World.

"What sort of Digimon is that?" Biyomon asked flapping her wings in fright as the creature walked towards them at a slow pace like a predator hunting its prey. The small pink bird Digimon looked towards her human partner who just stared at the scaly gorilla as if it had crawled out of her worst nightmares. Sora opened her mouth but ended up closing it as the massive creature took another step closer to them.

The DigiDestined and their Digimon all took a step back to avoid the creature that smiled at the look of fear in their face. Tai looked over at Izzy who was just as scared as the rest of them. Tai had acted as leader since day one and he was still doing that after a few years of defending Japan and even the world from evil Digimon. "Izzy do you know who that is?" he asked the computer expert of the team.

"I don't know who or what that thing is!" Izzy responded as the scaly gorilla focused only him. The red haired teenager took a step back as Tentomon opened up his shell and his wings began to buzz lifting the insect Digimon into the air where he hovered in front of his human partner.

"Well he seems to know a lot about you!" Tai shouted as Agumon took a protective stance in front of him.

The gorilla stopped dead only five feet away from all the DigiDestined and their Digimon. "The last time I saw you, you where nothing more than an ant! Too bad your parents died protecting you! If it hadn't been for them and that Ghoul you would have died fifteen years ago! Now there is no one to protect you!" the gorilla roared at Izzy. Veins on its head and thick nick bulged out as he glared at the boy who was saved by the Elemental Knights all those years ago. He was surprised that Nightshade would allow the boy to walk freely when he had escaped from New York under the watchful eyes of Edward. Annoying the Ghoul was always fun. Especially after the Time War.

"How do you know me and what do you mean by my parents protecting me! They died in a car crash when I was young!" Izzy shouted back to the gorilla that took another step closer to them. Izzy was glad that Tentomon was between him and the monster as his partner sent out a warning shot at the gorilla's feet that made the creature jump back and eye Tentomon as he thought of the best way of hurting the Digimon who could go to Ultimate. He didn't know what would happen if MegaKabuterimon went against the creature. He was still not sure if this was a Digimon who had managed to escape to their world when Greymon had been fighting against Parrotmon. But it didn't look like a Digimon. He knew he would have to check with the Digimon Index to see what type it was.

The gorilla looked at Izzy and began to laugh. It threw back its head and showed all the teenagers along with their Digimon its huge fangs. Fangs that had yellowed with age and neglect of dental health. "You mean no one has told you the truth? Has no one told you what your family had once done not only for Japan but for the whole planet?" the massive brute asked Izzy. He took a few more steps and glared at Tentomon with hatred as he came face to face with the insect Digimon.

"My father worked at the university as a lecturer! I don't know anything about my mum!" Izzy shouted as Tentomon charged another attack ready to fire if the creature got any closer to Izzy.

"That is only a cover story that your united government had come up with to prevent panic! I should have kept the kill nice and easy but I was in the middle of a good hunt and couldn't stop the horrific kills that I had done all those years ago. The kills that attracted your parents attentions and because they were the best Japan had to offer they went after me in hopes of ending my killing spree! Only they got in the way to often and I offed them just to get them out of the way! Little did I know at the time that they had just had an offspring!" the ape said as it walked around the DigiDestined on its knuckles like any other massive ape.

Izzy stared at the monster who had killed his parents. He had been told a lie about them since he had learned that he was adopted a few years back. He could feel his Digivice beginning vibrate in his hand. His emotions were going to make Tentomon Digivolve and this thing was not a Digimon. It couldn't be. The Digimon didn't know what Digimon this was and it looked so much different than anything that an earth based computer can create.

"Who are you?" Izzy demanded. He took a step forward. He wanted answers. No he needed answers. He didn't get the answer he wanted when a new voice roared through the park.

"Leatherback step away from the earthling!"

Izzy turned around to see a huge man in a black cloak and bicker boots stomp towards them. A huge axe was held in his hand, his hand that was green. His face was in view that allowed Izzy to look into the face of what he could only call a zombie with huge tusks sticking out of its bottom jaws. Its pupils were red while the rest of its eyes where yellow. Izzy didn't know if the eyes had gone yellow with neglect, but looking at the tusks again he could see that they were well maintained. That led him to think that the zombie looked after its body. No wonder with the huge axe that he had to carry.

The ape that they knew to be called Leatherback took a step back and away from the teenagers just as the zombie came to a stop beside Izzy. He still held his axe in his right hand. The huge blade of the weapon just an inch away from the ground but was ready to be swung into action. Izzy could see that the axe was not made out of a metal that he had seen before, no it was an energy axe much like the lightsabers from the Star Wars films.

"Edward how was New York after I left?" Leatherback asked with another laugh that forced Mimi to hide behind Palmon at the sound of the laugh and at the zombie who had come to standing beside Izzy.

Edward snorted back towards Leatherback. "It was hell! You did miss Nightshade and Kate roaring at me for losing you!" Edward replied as he pushed Izzy behind him as he became more of a shield between him and Leatherback.

Leatherback began to laugh at Edward before he stopped and glared right at Edward. "Lets get down to business, Edward! We both know why we are here!" he growled back at Edward. He cracked his knuckles as he glared at the Ghoul who was acting as a shield between him and his target.

"Just shows you, Leatherback that you can't do anything and it's taken fifteen years for you to release that you had not completed your mission!" Edward snapped back towards Leatherback as he brought up his axe as he was ready to start fighting with Leatherback. "I had told Nightshade when we captured you in New York that we should have killed you and found a way to destroy Seth when we captured you in New York but she wanted to see if you had any information!" Edward snapped back at Leatherback.

That was enough for Leatherback to begin laughing again. "I don't have anything of use for the shapeshifter. I am only the muscle like you. The brains for all of this is Seth and right now he is beginning to make bigger plans now that everything is slowly falling into place! Why I'm here it's just buisness!" Leatherback replied back to Edward. The scaly ape took a step closer to the Ghoul and the boy who was staying behind the green skinned Ghoul.

"Leatherback whoever paid you to take out the Izumi's fifteen years ago is no longer paying you! Surrender!" Edward demanded to Leatherback. His fingers gribbed the handle of his axe. His weapon of choice was ready to strike Leatherback. He had told Nightshade and Kate when he had left that Leatherback will be either brought back to the Tower of London or he was going to be no longer a threat to earth. A mistake he and Nightshade were not going to make again. They had allowed Leatherback to get away from them during the Time War and that had allowed him to lead the events of their world being destroyed.

Leatherback stopped and glared at Edward again. "I need to have a clean sheet so I can keep having a business!" he replied before he knocked Edward out of the way with his allowing him to come face to face with Izzy.

"Prepare to meet your mother and father!" Leatherback roared as he raised his massive muscular arms above his head.