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The Tamer v2.0: In His Name
Chapter 31: Beelzemon
"You're back!" Ryo said excitedly as they landed at the beach. Rika hopped out of Taomon's arms and put a hand to her hips, "I said we would, right?"
She was cut short when Tamerkato stomped past her, brushing her aside with his shoulder and marching quietly back up to the village walls. She snapped at him, "Hey! Watch it!"
He gave no response and continued on past the gate, straight into the village and the crowd of digimon inside. He hadn't said a word on the entire flight back, instead staring silently out at the ocean. Kazu and Kenta rejoined them to ask, "What's up with him?"
"Yeah, what's his deal?"
"I don't know. He just snapped at Orochimon," Juri answered sheepishly, "Orochimon said something about ShogunGekomon and nature taking course? Whatever that means."
Guilmon whimpered, "I hope he's okay. I don't like when he's like this."
Rika slapped her forehead, finally understanding, "You've gotta be kidding. It's no wonder he's pissed off!"
They all looked at Rika expectantly, hoping for some kind of explanation since they didn't have one. She tried to recall as much as she could from the book, before gesturing them all to get closer and explaining at just above a whisper, "It was in that book I told you guys about. The one that didn't get as popular. The Tamer was supposed to be good friends with ShogunGekomon. If anything happened to ShogunGekomon, it's no wonder he's acting like that. Not to mention what happened with WarGreymon."
"Right. Are we sure we want to keep following him? I don't want to be around when he does whatever he's going to do next," Ryo asked with folded arms. Henry elbowed him, "Not the time. This was a nice little detour but we still have to go on to the sovereigns."
"Tell that to Tamerkato! He's the one who's still walking!" Kazu thumbed over his shoulder at the village. Rapidmon peered over the kids, gently floating in the air, "Where do you think he's going?"
Rika cracked her knuckles, "Pain if he doesn't come back. He's the one who knows how to get back to our world and now's not the time to be moping. Let's go get him."
They went after the goggle headed boy, searching through the village while being swarmed with all the villagers asking about Orochimon. Apparently, Tamerkato went ahead and made that announcement himself but hadn't answered any questions, leaving them to appease the crowd in his wake. They must've shouted that he was gone a dozen times but each time they were met with more questions about how they were sure and asking who did it. At some point through the barrage, Monodramon roared, "SHUT UP! YOU ALL ARE JUST ANNOYING. DID ANYONE SEE WHERE TAMER WENT?"
"He's right there," one of the Agumon answered, pointing at Ryo. The boy cursed at the top of his lungs, "STOP CALLING ME TAMER! I SWEAR! I'M NOT HIM! WE MEAN THE OTHER KID! GOGGLES!"
Ryo paused to take a breath and calm down, "I mean the kid with the goggles. Where did he go?"
Their answer came in the form of a loud noise from a nearby building - something that looked like an old bar complete with signage half falling off and plenty of tired digimon trying to drink the rest of their tiring day away. Or they were until they started running out of the bar. Henry pointed at the crowd of running and screaming Gekomon and Otamamon, "I think I have an idea."
They followed the commotion all the way inside the bar, where Tamerkato was busy behind the counter throwing bottles over his shoulder as he searched the shelves. A large egg with two green legs sticking out of its shell backed out of the bar, "GET OUT OF MY BAR, KID! YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO DRINK! ALSO I DON'T SERVE HUMANS. NOT SINCE LAST TIME!"
Digitamamon, the stingiest and greediest of all the digimon who always looked for a way to make money. Tamerkato barely looked over his shoulder as he tossed another bottle, "Let me ask: how did you outlive ShogunGekomon? No, never mind. I know why. Because you're the kind of digimon who doesn't take sides. You play the field. Always looking out for yourself. And it looks like you've done quite well, all thinks considered. Anything I'm taking is a drop in the bucket compared to what you've probably got stockpiled! I wouldn't be surprised if you were the one who told Orochimon about this village."
"Where the hell do you get off accusing me of all that!?" Digitamamon huffed, leaping onto the bar and kicking the bottle Tamerkato was holding out of his hand, "GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT!"
"It's a bar. Don't try to tell me otherwise," he corrected matter of factly, stopping at a bottle of brown liquid that he whiffed, "Sour. That went bad a while ago. How do you make liquor go bad?"
He cast it aside and it hit the wall with crash. That was enough for Kenta, who ran over to drag him back before he earned more of Digitamamon's ire, "Takato! I mean Tamer. What's gotten into you!? Sorry about him! He's not feeling well!"
"Where do you humans keep coming from? Are you digidestined? LEAVE ME ALONE!" Digitamamon jumped up and down angrily, stamping his feet so hard on the bar that the wood shook until it collapsed out from under him. Kenta released Tamerkato to help the digimon up - not that it did them any favors, "Hey! Are you okay?"
"Get off me!" Digitamamon roared at the top of his lungs, "I already said! Get away from me! You kids are bad for business! Always have been!"
Knowing they were unwanted, they all walked their way back out of the bar but not before Tamerkato revealed a bottle he'd stolen from the bar and threw it back into the store so hard that they could hear it smash against the wall inside. Now Rika was mad and grabbed a hold of him, "What the hell goggle head? You're acting like a real jerk, right now!"
"Yeah, that's normally Rika's job," Rapidmon quipped, and was promptly smacked on the head by Taomon's brush, "Time and place."
Tamerkato pulled his arm out of her grip and adjusted his shirt, "It's none of your business, Rika. We've got about another day's walk before we get to the sovereign. Let's go."
"Dude, more walking?" Kazu complained, "Can't we stop for the day?"
In an uncharacteristic show of anger, Tamerkato turned on Kazu with a death glare, "If you don't like it Kazu, you're welcome to go."
"Tame...Takato, what is with you!?" Kazu roared in frustration, but Tamerkato had already turned around and started walking away with his hands in his pocket and his shoulders slumped. Not in the mood to deal with his attitude any longer, Ryo used his digivice to summon a rope of light and used to latch onto Tamerkato before he could get too far away.
The act caught Tamerkato by surprise, yanking back so hard that the boy fell onto his back and was reeled in like a fish. Rika tried to slap the digivice out of his hand but it was too late as Ryo pulled the boy up by the collar of his shirt, "Listen up! I don't care what's gotten into you because I'm still not the happiest person to see you. I've got a lot more reason to be mad right now than you do! You stranded me in this world for twenty years! So don't go acting all high and mighty with me, you got it!? You said you were going to make it up to me. Well you can start by taking this stupid attitude of yours and kicking it to the curb. The sooner you get done with your stupid 'saving the world' business, the sooner I can go home!"
Tamerkato stared up at Ryo impassively for the longest time before finally muttering, "Let. Me. Go."
His response only angered Ryo, who raised a fist to punch him, "Weren't you listening to me!?"
"Stop!" Juri finally cried out in a desperate bid to stop things from getting any more out of hand than they already were. The two boys paused, staring at each other angrily before Ryo finally let Tamerkato go. He grumpily dusted himself off and turned to walk away again until Henry jumped in front of him, "Tamer, talk to us. This is about ShogunGekomon isn't it?"
The sound of that name gave him pause and a contemplative look came across his face. Seeing that he finally had Tamerkato's attention, he pressed onward and asked, "Way back when, you promised something about not keeping any more secrets. Well how about you share so that this is one less secret you're keeping."
Tamerkato continued to stare quietly for the longest time, just long enough for it to become awkward. At least until he broke the awkward silence, "No. Not this time. But...I am sorry. Really."
"Takato," Henry began only to get cut off.
"That's not my name. We've already been over this. We should keep moving while there's still daylight," Tamerkato cut him off, continuing onward. They all looked at each other. Kazu and Kenta seemed the most surprised by his behavior, quietly commenting that they never figured he could get this angry as he led the way out to the other side of the village. Waiting for them was a familiar motorcycle ridden by a strange digimon wearing all leather and armed with a double barrel shotgun. The engine seemed to grumble as the rider sat there staring them down with a murderous look in his eyes. Kazu pointed at him, "Okay, now what? Who's this clown!?"
The rider revved his engine even louder in response to the insult, before taking off towards them at full speed. Right away, their digimon leapt to the front to defend their partners but the rider swiftly maneuvered the bike around them until sliding to a stop in front of Tamerkato. The rider sniffed the air and leaned down to look at him. Tamerkato looked up with the same annoyed expression, "Whoever you are, you've picked a very bad day to bother me. Run while you can."
That threat must've sounded ridiculous and hollow to the rider who merely grunted. But to the rest of their group, it was downright intimidating if only because of how calmly he said it. Tamerkato's anger and frustration was still there but it was tranquil now, waiting to be let loose. The rider simply grinned back, "Sup losers? Should've figured you pipsqueaks were on the other end of that smell. I see yous all still hangin' out togethas too. Sup toots."
The toots was addressed at Taomon who gasped, "Impmon?"
"It's Beelzemon now! Although I like badass myself. Hell, toots, you can call me sexy," the rider roared back, producing his shotgun and pointing it at Tamerkato, "I got my reward. Now I'm stronger. And I didn't need a stinkin' human to do it."
"Am I supposed to be impressed?" Tamerkato fired back. Beelzemon clicked his tongue angrily and watched the boy start step walking him as if he wasn't there. It was a pretty brave thing to do, ignoring a dangerous digimon like that. But it was also incredibly stupid because Beelzemon cocked his shotgun and aimed it at Tamerkato's back, "DON'T YOU IGNORE ME!"
Leomon leapt into action just as he pulled the trigger, using his sword to knock the gun off its aim so that the shell hit the sand at Tamerkato's feet. The boy barely clinched as the blast kicked dirt and sand into the air, but he did stop in his tracks and look over his shoulder with a frown, "Did you actually have something else you wanted to say or was that all for show? Seriously, your aim is off."
"A couple of days ago," Beelzemon began, finally dismounting his motorcycle. Juri and Henry held their breath as they waited for him to calm down like everyone else who rode the bike. But he didn't. His tone was just as angry and menacing as before. The bike wasn't what made him like this. He was just naturally like this. And that made it more terrifying as he added, "I felt a great big surge of energy and saw a beam of light shoot across the sky. An attack with that kind of power behind it...it got me excited. I followed it and ran into you guys. So you better start telling me who it was and where they are. I want to fight him. Or her. I'm not real particular. Got my eye on you toots."
He winked at Taomon who clicked her tongue in disgust. A sentiment Rika shared, "Gross. Creep."
Kenta leaned over to Kazu, "Hey, you don't think he means Machinedramon's cannon do you? Because that was a power up and I don't think Guardromon can take him in a fight."
"Yeah, so we better not tell him," Kazu whispered back quietly, "No one here did it dude."
"Don't listen to them. It was him!" Monodramon said bitterly, pointing at Guardromon. Everyone collectively groaned at how easily the little digimon admitted to that and Beelzemon stomped his way over to the machine digimon, "You, Huh? And what makes you think I'd believe a little runt like you could have power like that?"
"It's cause they used a power up to give him a mega weapon!" Monodramon answered again, prompting Kazu and Ryo to cover his mouth, "Shut up!"
Monodramon bit them in response and spat out, "No! He shot me in the head! So whatever this guy does to him is more than he deserves! Screw you guys."
"Ryo, I thought you were over your anger problems!" Kazu complained as Ryo added, "Do I look like I'm over them?"
They all looked at Beelzemon, expecting him to start attacking but all he did was laugh, "Are you fucking kidding me? All that power and you needed a human to get there? You guys really are pathetic. I wanted a challenge and all I got was disappointment. Thanks for nothing losers."
"Sorry you feel that way. Now go away. We've got other stuff to do," Tamerkato snapped, pointing off into the distance, "You're literally the last thing I want to see right now. In fact, you've got a lot of nerve showing up after what you did. We're only in this mess because of you!"
Beelzemon stepped towards Tamerkato, his frown turning into a nasty, toothy grin, "Y'know, I was gonna leave. But now I think I'm going to teach you punk humans a lesson! Let's start with you! I always hated you and you're stupid 'let's talk' crap! You know why!? That's a coward, right there. And you're about to learn you can't deal with problems by talking to them!"
He pressed his gun against Tamerkato's head, "This is how you deal with problems!"
He just stood there, glaring daggers up at Beelzemon. It was almost unnerving to see him unflinching in the face of certain death. Thankfully, just as Beelzemon was about to pull the trigger - he was leapt upon by Leomon, Guardromon, and Guilmon. They knocked him aside so that the shot went wide into the air and the digimon roared, "YOU GUYS AGAIN!?"
He threw them off - Leomon skillfully landing on his feet while the others crashed into the ground. That was all the signal the others needed - Rapidmon, Monodramon, and Taomon rushed to join Leomon as he took on Beelzemon. All while Tamerkato stood there with his hands in his pockets. In fact, he barely flinched as the digimon traded blows and fought aggressively. It took Rika and Ryo running out there just to finally drag him away from the fight to get him out of the fray. All the while he stared sullenly at the digimon. Rika groaned, "What's the matter with you? Why were you antagonizing him?"
"Aren't you the one always talking about how we should stop stalking and fight?" Tamerkato countered, adjusting his clothes and producing his digivice, "So let's fight. Digimodify! Digivolution Activate!"
Before she could stop him, he swiped a red card through the digivice and a burst of light shot from his digivice to Guilmon. The digimon had just enough time to get onto his feet and cry out, "Guilmon! Warp Digivolve to! WarGrowlmon!"
The Ultimate level was back on his feet just in time, as Beelzemon managed to lift Leomon up over his head and threw him at Rapidmon, sending the two out into the ocean. Both Henry and Juri gasped as their partners crashed into the waves, "Leomon! How is he so strong?"
"It must be because he's a Mega!" Henry guessed, "He's way above any of our digimon now! We've got three ultimates, two champions, and a rookie out there! And they're barely hurting him!"
"We can beat him," Tamerkato declared firmly, proceeding closer towards the fighting digimon in spite of the danger their attacks represented. Gun shots rang, fire blazed, missiles fired, and magic whipped the air around into a frenzy as Beelzemon continued his attack. At one point, WarGrowlmon, Taomon, and Guardromon, were on Beelzemon at the same time, trying to overwhelm him from all sides but surprised to see the mega was able to easily hold them all back, "Do you think you guys can take me like this? You've gotta be joking! You're all too weak because your humans are holdin' ya back!"
"Or maybe you're just cheating," Tamerkato announced aloud, catching Beelzemon's attention just long enough for him to start going off balance, "What did you say to me?"
"I said you cheated. You sold yourself out to the Devas for...what, power?" Tamerkato folded his arms, "You realize that means you partnered with another digimon instead of a human, right?"
"At least they let me do what I want when I want without ordering me around!" Beelzemon roared. Tamerkato nodded in agreement for a second, before firing back with, "Alternatively, they don't see you as all that important. I mean, you showed up by yourself. You say they let you do whatever you want but isn't that just a fancy way of saying they don't care what happens to you? You could fall down a cliff and they probably wouldn't notice."
"YOU'RE STILL MAKING FUN OF ME!?"
Tamerkato uncrossed his arms and marched straight up to Beelzemon, "Don't be stupid. I'm not making fun of you. I'm not even laughing. I'm just pointing out how phenomenally stupid you're being. Think about it. You've got all this power at your disposal. How long until whoever gave it to you takes it back?"
"Is he trying to make him angrier?" Kazu groaned, shoulder slumping in disbelief as the mega began to raise the other digimon into the air. As he said those words, Beelzemon started to buckle under the weight of the other digimon. Seeing his chance, Kazu shouted, "Now Guardromon!"
Beelzemon heard the called attack and eyed Guardromon getting ready to swing his arms. The mega level smirked, timing his dodge so that he was out of the way of Guardromon's attack and he struck WarGrowlmon instead. This left Taomon alone, long enough for Beelzemon to draw his shotgun and aim it at Taomon. She froze in a panic, staring down the barrel of the gun while Beelzemon mocked her, "You picked the wrong side toots."
In that moment of pure adrenaline, facing down the barrel of certain death, Taomon prepared to meet her end. And to her surprise she was saved when Monodramon leapt on him from behind, digging into his back with his claws, "Did you forget about me!?"
"Argh! GET OFF ME!" Beelzemon flailed, trying to reach for the miniature dragon on his back. Seeing an opportunity to help his partner, Ryo swiped a strength boost to empower his partner and called out, "Hold on, Monodramon!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Monodramon shrieked as Beelzemon tried to pry the digimon off, "Oi! Fox chick! Do something!"
"Taomon!" Rika shouted, finally snapping her partner out of her trance. She regained her nerve and summoned her brush to draw a symbol in the air, "Talisman of Light!"
The character flew at Beelzemon and struck him across the face. He roared in anger, finally prying Monodramon off his back and throwing him at Taomon. The two digimon were thrown backwards and Beelzemon turned on the children, "You think this is funny? Let's see how strong you punks are without your humans!"
Beelzemon charged them, and they all turned to run. Except for Tamerkato. When Juri looked back, she saw him walking towards the charging digimon. She called after him but he didn't answer her. Their partners were trying to race Beelzemon, but they were too far out. Juri turned back to pull Tamerkato to safety. He'd been out of it since the island and now he was walking straight into danger. Did he have a death wish?
That couldn't be. He was far too happy go lucky to have some kind of death wish. No, she had to be mistaken. She ran as fast as she could but she wasn't going to make it in time. Tamerkato was going to let himself be killed by Beelzemon. No. NO! Wait. Leomon. She stopped and swiped the card she needed, "Digimodify! Speed Boost Activate!"
Leomon gave a great burst of speed and caught up just as Beelzemon reached Tamerkato. He drew his sword and used the hilt to knock Beelzemon's gun up just as he pulled the trigger. The shot rang out and Beelzemon growled, "AGAIN!?"
He threw a punch at Leomon which the lion caught with his bare hands, "Stop it, Beelzemon! Why are you seeking violence?"
"Seeking violence?" Beelzemon repeated angrily, "I'm looking for someone to test my raw power on! Do you know what I've had to fight since I got it? Weaklings! Useless pathetic digimon who weren't even worth the time of day! This is the closest thing to a challenge I've had!"
"Okay, but why? What will you use that power for? Have you given any thought to that?" Leomon asked calmly, easing his grip so that Beelzemon could pull his fist back, "All that strength, all that raw ability. You could use it to protect the weak. Defend those in need. But all you can think to use it for, the first thing you wanted to do, is attack others. What will you do when that's not enough?"
Beelzemon paused for a moment, eyes locked onto Leomon. The two digimon seemed to relax and Juri breathed a sigh of relief. She was certain the fight was over. Even the other digimon were slowing to a stop just short of Beelzemon, able to tell the mega was beginning to calm. Leomon went on calmly, trying to dig further into the digimon's anger, "You have a lot of anger in you. A lot of it directed towards humans. What did the humans ever do to you, Beelzemon? What happened?"
Beelzemon's gaze went downward, "I-"
Tamerkato scoffed and rolled his eyes, "He had a human partner. Why else would a rookie digimon have so much knowledge of the human world? He must've been in the human world for some time. And whoever he got stuck with must've treated him awfully. That's why he thinks humans don't need digimon. It's why he tried to convince Taomon to leave Rika. Why he tried to convince the rest of you guys to leave us."
Beelzemon leered at him, arms shaking with anger as Tamerkato added, "I mean, if you really think about it. He's just projecting his problems on to us. He was probably too scared to face his actual partner."
That crossed the line. Beelzemon swung the gun onto Tamerkato and scowled, "Fuck you!"
Everything happened so fast that Juri barely had time to process it. Just as Beelzemon pulled the trigger, Leomon leapt in front of Tamerkato and took the shot right through his chest. But part of it went right through and struck Tamerkato in the shoulder. Both were thrown backwards from the shot, echoing out and hanging in the air.
Then Leomon began to come apart, distorting like so many digimon before him. He was turning to data. The other digimon ran forward to help him but Beelzemon trained the gun on them, "BACK OFF!"
He lifted Tamerkato up off the ground by his hair and leveled the gun against his head, "IF ANY OF YOU COME ONE STEP CLOSER, HE'LL GET IT!"
They paused now, everyone stopping in their tracks all while Leomon continued to turn to data before them. Juri felt her heart sink in her chest, watching helplessly as her partner turned to data before her. Leomon turned to face her one last time, "Juri."
"Leomon," she whimpered out, watching as what was left of him slowly vanished until he was just a head. With his last breath, he murmured out, "Be brave. You're so much braver than you know."
"Leomon!" she called out as what remained of him disappeared to nothing. He was gone. Her knees felt heavy and she sank to the ground, staring at where he'd been a moment ago. Tamerkato said, "Beelzemon. Don't do it. Leomon can come back!"
He could? Yes! he could! She remembered what Leomon said - if a digimon's data was let free after they died, the data could come back together! Leomon could come back!
"If you let his data go free, it'll reformat and he can come back. But please, let him go!" Tamerkato pleaded. Beelzemon pulled back the hammer of his gun, "You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well I'm not going to give you the satisfaction."
"Beelzemon! Please, I'm begging you," Tamerkato added, "He can come back. Just don't absorb his data!"
"Maybe if you'd shut up for one second, I wouldn't have done that. But since you won't stop talking, I'm going to make sure you shut up!" Beelzemon grumbled, pushing Tamerkato free. Tamerkato stumbled for a second, looking back, "BEELZEMON!"
Beelzemon rose into the air, letting Leomon's data gather around him until it merged into his body. All of it, until not a single bit of his data remained. Tamerkato stood with his mouth hanging open, fists trembling. Juri already knew what Tamerkato was going to say. Leomon was gone now. Absorbed by Beelzemon. He wasn't going to come back.
Rika was at her side, trying to pull her back up on to her feet and pull her away but she couldn't find the will to move. Just watch as Beelzemon cackled, "Oh yeah! That's some good energy right there! Let's see how well it comes out! FIST OF BEAST KING!"
He punched the air and a ball of fire emerged, gliding through the air in the shape of a lion before fizzling out. Beelzemon roared with laughter and turned on Tamerkato, "See that?"
"Yes," Tamerkato growled, "That was cruel."
"That was freedom," Beelzemon countered, "Now he doesn't have to listen to you humans!"
"He was our FRIEND!" Tamerkato roared back. Then something odd happened. His digivice began to crackle and shake in his hand, like it was about to explode. Beelzemon egged him on, "And what are you going to do? Little goody two-shoes always trying so damn hard to not fight or kill anyone! Cry at me? COME ON! DO SOMETHING!"
"I'm not going to," Tamerkato finally said. There was a sound like glass breaking and tendrils of dark energy emerged from his digivice, jumping straight towards WarGrowlmon and wrapping around him. Juri felt Rika pull her up onto her feet and shout, "TIME TO GO! GUYS! RUN!"
"Why?" Henry shouted.
Rika scoffed, "YOU'VE SEEN THE SHOW! SKULLGREYMON!"
Juri had no idea what any of that meant but they did. Everyone scrambled away except for Beelzemon and Tamerkato who stared each other down. The dark energy became a mist around WarGrowlmon until it consumed him and the digimon roared, "WarGrowlmon! Digivolve to! MeGiDrAmOn!"
Henry joined Rapidmon along side Ryo and Monodramon as they watched the black mist dissipate. Whatever came out of that black energy was not the digimon who went in. It was something else. Something worse. It was serpentine and monstrous, with more teeth than they could count and horns and claws protruding from every inch of its body. It called itself Megidramon and said nothing else. Any noise it made afterwards was just a loud growl that echoed through the air. And something else came with it. A foreboding dread and cold fear that filled the air and made them want to run away in fear.
"He will," Tamerkato said coldly, staring Beelzemon down. Beelzemon laughed, "YES! THIS IS MORE LIKE IT! COME AT-"
Before he could even finish his sentence, Megidramon slammed into him with its massive claw and threw it straight into the ocean. Beelzemon crashed into the water with a splash and a silence fell, until the digimon reemerged and roared, "YES! THIS IS WHAT I WANT! LET'S DO THIS!"
He charged again with his shotgun out and fired blast after blast at Megidramon. Each shot found their mark but barely caused Megidramon to flinch. In fact, he hardly seemed to registered the attack. Then Beelzemon took a leap into the air with his fist back to punch the digimon in the face, "TAKE THI-"
He was snatched out of the air by Megidramon's talon and held between the two massive claws in the air. The smile vanished from Beelzemon's face for the first time as he seemed to realize the gravity of his situation, "GRAH! THIS ISN'T RIGHT! YOU WEREN'T THIS STRONG BEFORE!"
"The digivices work by turning emotional energy into something digimon can use for strength," Tamerkato said quietly, "What do you think is happening right now?"
"ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF M-"
His words turned to screams as Megidramon ripped his left leg off of his body. Beelzemon howled in agony and was dropped onto the sandy beach beside his motorcycle. He tried to sit himself back up as Tamerkato went on, "Making fun of you is what I was doing before. This…this is called a murder."
"Tamer that's enough!" Henry shouted but the boy didn't listen. Beelzemon tried to aim his gun but Tamerkato kicked it out of his hand, "I tried…so hard…to be better. To be kind…to be merciful…but no matter what, it always ended in bloodshed and death. All the memories I had until now were foggy. What I could remember was I was not a good person. I desperately wanted to not be that person any more. I was scared of what I would do if I ever became that person again. But it doesn't matter does it? Because destiny always catches up to us. And I'm not afraid anymore."
Megidramon leaned in close to Beelzemon and let out a might roar, so loud that the mega level digimon was frozen. Tamerkato added, "Do you know what they used to call me? There were a lot of names…murderer, monster, Destroyer of Worlds…"
He paused for a second, "This...anger...I'm shaking. It's new. I've never been this angry. Not with this face. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do next. Doesn't that terrify you?"
"You think I'm afraid of you!?" Beelzemon shouted at the top of his lungs, throwing himself forward to take a swing at him. Tamerkato jumped out of the punch's way and let it hit Megidramon on the snout. Megidramon roared at the insult, using his mouth to bite down on Beelzemon's other leg and throwing him up into the air. As Beelzemon went flying, Tamerkato added, "If you're smart, yes. But we both know you're not that smart."
Megidramon caught him and slammed him back into the ground, again and again. Over and over until the smaller digimon was left lying on the ground. Henry couldn't just sit here and watch this. He called out to the others, "Guys, we should do something."
"Like what? You've seen what Megidramon can do. There's no way our digimon stand a chance! We couldn't even keep up with this guy! What chance do we have against that!?" Kazu pointed out. He was right. They'd get creamed. But maybe Ryo and Cyberdramon wouldn't. He shuffled through his deck and threw the red card at Ryo, "Catch!"
The boy caught it and glanced down, catching onto his plan right away and hesitating in a panic, "Are you sure about this?"
"You hated Tamer so much that Cyberdramon was basically an uncontrollable killing machine for a long time. If any one stands a chance against him, it'll be you two," Henry explained, trying not to think about the implications of two horrifically overpowered and mindless digital monsters in this battle. Especially since there was no guarantee that the two wouldn't kill everyone in the crossfire. Ryo looked down at Monodramon, "Are you up for this?"
"Are you kidding? This is exactly what I've been waiting for!" The little digimon shouted ecstatically. Ryo nodded and prepared the card, "Okay. Digimodify! Digivolution Activate!"
He swiped the card and a beam of light shot from the digivice to Monodramon, "Monodramon! Warp Digivolve to! Cyberdramon! RARGH!"
Cyberdramon took off without missing a beat and struck Megidramon across the face, taking the digimon off guard and allowing Beelzemon to fall flat onto the sand. Rapidmon flew in to snatch the digimon before he got caught in harm's way and retreated to the safety of the group. This act of selflessness took him off guard, and left him asking, "Why are you helping me!?"
"It's not that I want to but I'm not leaving you to get eaten! And maybe you didn't notice, but you just pissed off the most dangerous member of the team. And his partner turned into that!" Rapidmon shot back, returning to the others' side. It was just in time too as Cyberdramon and Megidramon squared off against each other Tamerkato's eyes darted up at them, his eyes burning with a fire they'd never seen before. Megidramon roared at them, filling the air with the noxious stench of his breath as Tamerkato scolded, "Are you serious? Now you guys have a problem with killing!?"
"Not like this! It's like you said! This is cold blooded murder!" Henry pointed out. Tamerkato scoffed, "Do you honestly think I care right now? Never mind. I wanted to do this quickly but if you want to prolong the inevitable, then that's fine with me. Beelzemon is going to die. How long he has to suffer is up to you guys."
Author's Notes: The Digimon Tamer has snapped - becoming the person he feared to be. Will the others be able to snap him out of it? Or will it not matter? And what of Beelzemon - will he be able to recover? Find out all this and more in the next chapter of The Tamer v2.0 - In His Name, due out next Friday November 29th at 5 PM CDT. If you loved it, let me know in the reviews section. And don't forget to favorite the story to show support and follow the story to keep up with all the latest updates That's all I have for now, so let's look at previews for the next chapter!
The air was heavy with Megidramon hovering over them. As if to make the digimon more ominous, the sky darkened with storm clouds every passing second. The Digital World itself seemed to be protesting this monstrosity's very existence and looked to be doing all it could to drive him away. If only a little inclement weather would be enough.
"I'm suddenly having second thoughts about this," Rapidmon said. Megidramon roared at the top of his lungs and spewed hot ash at them, "MeGiDo FlAmE!"
The ash was coming at them too fast for them to try to get away. But worse was the fact that the attack was coming right at them. Rika shouted, "Is he trying to kill us!?"