This one turned out to be a bit shorter than I though it was. Oh, well, some chapters I just don't have big extra scenes.
Shoutout to DigimonAT0318, MadDogLucario96, Whiteling, and God of the Challenge for the reviews. To answer a few reviews, sweet 1999 The Mummy reference there, MadDog. And Challenge... well, it's gonna be more one sided... and most of us know how it's going to end.
Anyways, let's continue to the new horror that's about to be unleashed.
Chapter 35: The Unstoppable Warrior! BlackWarGreymon!
Yagami Residence, Odaiba District, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. October 5th, 2002. 0832 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
Archnemon and Mummymon. Damn it all, if we didn't have enough problems at the moment; now we have to deal with two Perfect-Level Digimon who want to destroy everything. I knew I shouldn't have set the optometrist appointment that late in the day. If I was at the Giga House, that spider would've been dead; I wouldn't have hesitated giving the order to kill her. Eh, no use complaining now. There will be other chances to end her reign of destruction.
"Ross-chan?" Hikari opened the door to me and Taichi's room.
"Yeah, Hikari?"
"Listen, the others are all getting ready to destroy more Dark Towers, would you like to help? Onii-chan has practice today so…"
"Sure, I'll help, of course, it'll be a little later, I've got some things I'd like to handle at the moment if that's alright."
"That's fine. I'll tell the others to expect you later."
"Thanks, Hikari."
"No problem, Ross-chan." She then closed the door. Well, I guess wrecking Dark Towers would be a good waste of time later today. Certainly don't have anything better to do by then. I then hit the pause button on my GameCube and went back to work. Some levels of Super Mario Sunshine can just be so hair-pulling frustrating.
Digital World. October 5th, 2002. 1056 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person
Back in the Digital World, Archnemon was in her human disguise and still resting her wounds that she suffered at the hands of the Chosen Children in her failed trap at the Giga House. She was currently sitting in an overflowing bath tub that was sitting on the edge of a large cliff. Her mind was constantly replaying the events of the failed trap and she was trying to figure out what exactly went wrong there.
"How's the temperature?" Mummymon asked as he stopped the dune buggy not too far away from where she was currently resting now. She mostly ignored him as her thoughts remained on the last part of the fight. Being torn to shreds by Paildramon, getting pelted by salt and pepper, the bug spray, the flyswatter and of course being electrocuted by a torn power cord. She then heard the sound of the dune buggy's car door closing which indicated that Mummymon was soon walking over to approach her.
"Chosen Children…" She grumbled to herself as she looked up at the still dripping shower head.
"How is it, Archnemon?" Mummymon asked once more as he slowly walked up to her. "How's the temperature?" She didn't bother answering as her mind just stayed focus on her humiliating defeat. "How's the temperature?" Mummymon looked over her. "Hey, say something…" She finally snapped and growled before quickly standing up and giving him an angry look.
"I have a lot on my mind!" She soon grabbed him, picked him up and spun him around until she let go and threw him back all the way to the hood of the dune buggy. It actually pushed the car back a good ten feet and nearly fell off the cliff. Mummymon breathed a sigh of relief as the car's horn began going off. Archnemon just panted as her wounds started hurting once more. The sound of the horn ringing in her ears was just upsetting her even more. "Shut up!" She turned her attention back towards the Dark Towers once more. "Chosen Children…"
P.O.V. – Hikari Yagami
"Fire Rocket!" Fladramon tore his way through yet another Dark Tower. We were currently in a large rocky field that was completely covered in towers which was a good place for all our Digimon to truly knock them down.
"Good!" Daisuke nodded at the work his Digimon was doing.
"Kusanagi!" Shurimon toppled another one of them.
"Cool!" Miyako cheered.
"Big Crack!" Digmon demolished the one that stood in front of him.
"Keep it up!" Iori encouraged.
"Shooting Star!" The tower that Pegasmon struck didn't last a moment.
"You did it!" Takeru pumped his fist.
"Rosetta Stone!" Nefertimon took another one out.
"Looking good!" I said as I snapped a photo with my Digital Camera.
"Precision Sting!" Tetermon quickly dived on his tower.
"Good job." Ken nodded.
"Strike Claw!" Strikedramon ran up and tore the tower down right then and there. Osamu just looked proud and content but said nothing.
"Guys!" Daisuke waved us over as he was up in a tree. "Let's take a break!" He suggested. Our Digimon began devolving back to their normal forms once he said that.
"Agreed!" V-mon nodded at him.
"I'm so thirsty…" I said as Tailmon and I walked over to him.
"Me too." Tailmon agreed.
"I saw a vending machine over there." Takeru informed.
"Let's get something!" insisted Patamon as he dropped down on Takeru's hat and covered his eyes.
"Good idea. Let's go?" Tailmon asked Takeru.
"I'm going too." I told them.
"Me too, me too!" Daisuke shouted from the tree before he began to climb down.
"Don't worry, we'll get something for you all." I assured him. He looked slightly disappointed.
"So, what do you want?" Takeru asked. Daisuke scoffed and turned his head.
"Whatever." We shrugged and walked away.
P.O.V. – Miyako Inoue
"Why are you upset?" V-mon asked his partner who was still up in the tree as Ken and I approached.
"No reason…"
"Why don't you just tell me? If you're sad, I'm all ears." He's probably disappointed that Hikari walked off with Takeru.
"Gah, I said it's nothing!" Yep, I was right.
"What's wrong with you?" I played innocent with him as we stopped. Daisuke quickly realized we were here now.
"Mi-Miyako-san? K-Ken?"
"It feels weird when you add the '-san'." I told him.
"Yeah, you almost rarely call her that." pointed out Ken. Daisuke started to get red in the face.
"Shut up! Man, you're all the same!" I chuckled as he shouted that.
"Oh, well." I gave him a dismissive smile. "Anyway, I need to talk to you. Can you come down?"
"What? Iori and Ichijouji-san?" Daisuke questioned as I explained the situation to him and Ken. We were all behind a rock and watched as the two of them sat on some large rocks but were looking away from one another. "So they're just ignoring each other, huh?"
"Yeah." I nodded. "Shouldn't we do something about it?"
"Yeah, I guess…"
"Wait, hold up!" Ken loudly whispered. "Miyako-san, I usually respect your judgement for the most part, but whatever you're thinking… I think this is a bad idea."
"Relax, Ken-kun. We just need to do something to make the two of them more friendly with each other. Like, this!" I quickly whispered the idea.
"That's your idea? I feel like this is going to backfire…" Ken worried.
"Calm down, okay. I think it'll be fine." Daisuke told him.
"Let's at least try it." I said as Daisuke ran out from behind the rock.
"Iori! Ichijouji-san!" Daisuke called out to them. Both of them turned their attention to him. "See that Dark Tower?" He pointed to the one behind them as I kept the Digimon in cover behind the rock. The two of them turned around to take a look at it. "Fladramon's Fire Rocket couldn't take it down!"
"What!?" V-mon got really offended about that. "It's just a stupid Dark Tower!" I quickly grabbed him and hid him behind the rock again.
"This is for Iori and Ichijouji-san to get along!" I reminded him.
"I see…" Both Iori and Osamu turned their attention back to Daisuke.
"How about you try?" Daisuke rubbed the back of his head like he was embarrassed. V-mon slowly sauntered out from behind the rock as well and mimicked his human partner's motions.
"How about you try?" He repeated before they both nervously chuckled.
A few moments later, Digmon and Strikedramon were standing side by side with one another as they stared down the tower. Both of them shouted as they charged forward.
"Strike Claw!" "Big Crack!" The tower just exploded when they attacks struck it, it wasn't even hard. The dust kicked up and both Digimon reverted back to their Child Forms. The quickly nodded before embracing one another and laughing in cheer.
"Alright! Success!" V-mon, Wormmon, and Hawkmon all clapped for them. At least the Digimon seemed to be on good terms.
"Iori and Ichijouji-san's Digimon get along, but…" We walked up to the two of them as Armadimon and Monodramon continue to happily cheer with each other like they were the greatest of friends.
"The problem is Iori and Ichijouji-san…" I looked to the two of them as they just continued to stare forward.
No one said anything for a couple of seconds before Daisuke finally snapped.
"C'mon! You destroyed the Dark Tower together, so can't you shake hands at least!?"
"Daisuke-san!" Iori loudly got his attention.
"What?"
"Fladramon alone could have destroyed it."
"I think so too." Osamu agreed.
"Told you it wouldn't work." Ken whispered to us, causing us both to look somewhat guilty.
"I guess…" Daisuke finally admitted.
"Please don't make us waste energy." Iori requested. That suddenly set me off.
"Iori, you're so…!" Daisuke quickly ran over and grabbed me to try to hold me back.
"Take it easy, Miyako!"
"I knew I shouldn't get in the way of your teamwork. This was all just a big mistake on my part." Osamu sighed.
"Onii-san…" Ken muttered as Osamu started to walk away.
"Let's go, Monodramon."
"Osamu-chan…" Monodramon didn't sound like he wanted to leave but he followed him all the same.
"Ichijouji-san…" Both Daisuke and I said.
"Wait, Onii-san…!" Ken picked up Wormmon and started to chase after him, but he quickly stopped to look at me with a very upset look on his face. "Miyako-san…" He then sighed himself and the look vanished before he turned back around to chase after his brother. I just growled in anger at Osamu and Iori being so hard-headed.
"Iori…" Armadimon looked at him with a disappointed look on his face.
P.O.V. – Third Person
Back at the cliff, Mummymon had moved away the bathtub and now replaced it with a massage table that Archnemon laid on while he proceeded to give her a massage. However, Archnemon's mind was still focused on the biggest threat to the grand plan she and Mummymon had: the continually interference of the Chosen Children. If things kept up, if the Dark Towers continued to be destroyed in the numbers they were; the whole plan would be ruined.
"To defeat the Chosen Children… I have to create a powerful Digimon… Lower." She ordered Mummymon who complied. "With one Dark Tower… I'm able to create an Adult-Level Digimon like Tortamon or Golemon… With ten Dark Towers… I can create a Perfect-Level Digimon like Okuwamon… but they still lost… even when they had the advantage… they still lost." An idea soon popped into her head. "To defeat the Chosen Children, I may need one hundred Dark Towers…"
"Using a hundred Dark Towers means Archnemon would have to pull out a hundred hairs." Mummymon thought to himself. "If Archnemon lost a hundred hairs…"
When she noticed him not massaging her anymore, she gave him an angry look.
"What are you thinking!?" She grabbed him once more and threw him off the cliff where he crashed into a Dark Tower and slid down it to the forest below. "I swear…" Back on the forest floor, Mummymon pulled himself back up.
"The worse she treats me, instead of pain, I feel happiness… Could it be I'm falling in love with Archnemon…?" A moment later, he hears the sound of the Dune Buggy being turned on and it's motor revving.
"Mummymon, what are you doing? We're leaving." She shouted down at him.
"Y… yes!" He quickly got back up at full attention before he got back up the cliff and into the car. The two of them drive across the desert before reaching the top of a rocky mountain covered in Dark Towers. The two of them both gain an evil grin upon seeing the place. Archnemon takes a bunch of her hair and puts it into her mouth like she was about to cut them with her teeth.
"To defeat the Chosen Children… To destroy the Digital World… A wonderful Digital Monster…" She jumped up and her hair shot out like they were wings. "ARISE!"
P.O.V. – Takeru Takaishi
We came back with everyone's drinks but it quickly turned out that something bad had happened while we were gone. Iori was with Armadimon with a down look on his face as they sat on top of a large rock. He continued to stare at the bottle of relaxing tea we gave him as Miyako and Daisuke finished explaining things to me and Hikari.
"So that's what happened…" I said.
"Why can't they be more sincere?" Miyako wondered.
"I can't say I don't understand how Iori-kun feels, but…" admitted Hikari. We all sighed as Daisuke took a sip of his drink followed by the rest of us.
"Iori… and Ichijouji-san… They just need to grow up a bit." Somehow, as soon as Daisuke said that, we all suddenly choked on our drinks. "You think so too, huh?" We all had to quickly cough after that. "What? Did I say something weird?" As soon as we stopped coughing, we heard the sound of an engine and quickly put on a serious face. "Did I offend you guys…?" Daisuke still was unaware. A car approached and slid on its breaks… to reveal Archnemon and Mummymon driving. "What's wrong with you all? You're all quiet…"
"Daisuke-kun, behind you." He turned around and after a short gasp, he got serious as well.
"So this is your little hangout." Archnemon chuckled with a very sinister tone to it.
"So what?" Daisuke shouted back at her.
"What do you want?" I angrily questioned.
"Well, I thought I'd bring my new Digimon to play with you."
"Don't you get tired of it? You always lose to us!" Miyako pointed out.
"This time… I wonder!" She sounded very confident now. It turns out she had reason to as Iori loudly gasped in fear. The whole ground began to rock as Archnemon and Mummymon hopped back into their car and drove away. We soon found the reason why Iori was so frightened as all the Dark Towers in the area slowly began to rise up. "Follow me, kids!" She taunted as the towers began to explode into data.
"Daisuke!" V-mon cried and got his attention.
"Right!"
"V-mon, evolve! XV-MON!" Our Digimon tried to evolve as fast as they could as the towers disintegrated.
"Digimental Up!" I shouted.
"Patamon, Armor-Evolve! Soaring Hope, PEGASMON!"
"Hawkmon, evolve! AQUILAMON!"
"Armadimon, evolve! ANKYLOMON!"
"Digimental Up!" Hikari shouted.
"Tailmon, Armor-Evolve! Light of Smiles, NEFERTIMON!"
"Let's go, guys!" Daisuke charged ahead. The rest of us nodded and followed him.
"Full of energy as usual, huh?" Archnemon taunted once more. The mountain up ahead began to have a reverse tornado of black energy swarming around it. "But… it will soon turn into fear!"
"Iori!" Daisuke and Miyako shouted at him as he ran past them.
"Daisuke-san, Miyako-san! This looks different from the other times! I have a bad feeling about this… Takeru-san, Hikari-san!" Iori yelled out at us as we flew on Pegasmon and Nefertimon towards the mountain. "You're getting too close!" A large shadow began to form before us… and it looked oddly familiar. Suddenly a burst of a dark wind struck us and sent us back down towards the ground. We hit really hard and slid across the hard ground.
"Hikari-chan!" "Takeru-kun!" Daisuke and Miyako called out for us. The shadow receded until it materialized… into a form Hikari and I knew all too well.
"That's…" Pegasmon groaned. "Black…"
"Black… WarGreymon…" Nefertimon moaned.
Upon closer inspection, they were right. BlackWarGreymon looked exactly like WarGreymon but with a black color scheme and yellow hair. We heard it loudly groaning before it's eyes flashed and screamed out in anger.
"But that's… impossible…" I struggled to say in pain as my body was screaming at me that it was in pain from the landing. I was slowly losing consciousness.
"No… it can't be BlackWarGreymon…" Hikari muttered as she passed out and I followed suit.
P.O.V. – Iori Hida
"What should we do, Ankylomon?" XV-mon asked as the three Digimon stared down the new Dark Tower Digimon.
"You have to ask? We protect the kids, dagyaa."
"That is all we can do." Aquilamon added. The three of them charged forward once more as BlackWarGreymon growled and shot forward like a missile. He rammed XV-mon in the chest before head-butting him to the ground. He then quickly turned and slashed Aquilamon in the face. Ankylomon ran over to XV-mon but BlackWarGreymon charged down and tackled them away. Archnemon just laughed.
"Wh… what strength…" Daisuke was as dumb founded as the rest of us.
"At this rate, everyone will…" I didn't even want to finish saying what I was thinking.
"Only Paildramon and MechaRaptormon can beat him!" Miyako informed. "We have to call Ken-kun, Ross-san and Ichijouji-san!" She pulled out her D-Terminal and found a message from Ross. "'Here in the Digital World, where you guys need me?'" She read to us. She quickly sent a message back to Ken who was still probably with Osamu. "'He says he doesn't want to get in the way of our teamwork.'" Ken quickly replied back.
"It's not the time to worry about the damn teamwork!" roared Daisuke. I growled upon hearing all that.
"We'll fight by ourselves!" I declared.
"Iori!"
"Cut it out, you two!" Miyako stood up. "I'll tell Ross-san to go where they are and meet up with him so we can bring them back. Aquilamon!"
"Miyako-san!" She ran towards him.
"I'll be back with them! Until then, hang in there!"
"My BlackWarGreymon… His strength is so charming…" Sounds like Archnemon was extremely proud of what she just created.
"Indeed." Mummymon observed as we watched out poor Digimon get absolutely destroyed.
P.O.V. – Ken Ichijouji
I followed Osamu until we ended up in this large area of building sized rock that were different colors and had many holes like they were cheese. After we destroyed a few Dark Towers in the area, we stayed put. It was only a few minutes ago that we got the message from Miyako but Osamu just wanted to stay.
"Onii-san, shouldn't we go?" I asked him.
"Where?"
"Don't act dumb! The others called us for a reason!" He looked away from me.
"Me and your friends…"
"Ken-kun!" "Osamu!" We both heard Miyako and Ross' voices as they both approached us on Aquilamon and Waibanmon.
"Miyako-san?" "Ross-kun?" We questioned.
"Come quickly! Archnemon made an incredibly strong Digimon!" She explained to us.
"Osamu-chan!" Strikedramon tried to get his attention.
"From the sounds of it, it'll take Paildramon and MechaRaptormon to beat this thing." Ross said. We all looked at him before he finally got up.
"Miyako-kun, Ross-kun, I'm sorry but…" Ross jumped off of Waibanmon and landed right next to Osamu… before he decked him in the face once more.
P.O.V. – Osamu Ichijouji
I swear, I think Ross nearly dislocated my jaw when he hit me this time. I was riding with him on Waibanmon while Stingmon and Aquilamon flew next to us with Strikedramon in Aquilamon's talons. Ross quickly gave me a whole speech about how I was being stupid with my actions. That if I wanted to atone for my mistakes, this whole 'I'm not good enough for the others' attitude needed to stop. I suppose he was right about that… guess a quick knock to the jaw makes me more likely to listen.
"Everyone is fighting for their lives against BlackWarGreymon!" Miyako insisted.
"Wait?! Did you say BlackWarGreymon?!" Ross questioned as we soon reached the others and saw them taking a beating.
"Hang in there! I'm sure Stingmon will come!" Ankylomon informed XV-mon was lying on the ground in pain.
"Yeah…" XV-mon slowly got back up.
"BlackWarGreymon! Go, finish them off!" Archnemon ordered. The devastating monster soon held Ankylomon over his head.
"It's an order from Archnemon, who created you!" Mummymon informed.
"Daisuke!" Miyako shouted as we flew over them. "I brought them here!"
"Ken!" Daisuke wave at him.
"Daisuke!" I looked over to Ross and nodded. He did the same. Our Digivices all then glowed once more.
"XV-mon!" "Stingmon!" "Jogress Evolve! PAILDRAMON!"
"Growmon!" "Strikedramon!" "Jogress Evolve! MECHARAPTORMON!" Ross and myself quickly got on the ground while Ken hopped on Aquilamon as our Digimon merged and soon charged towards the Dark Tower Digimon.
"Those two have been giving me a really hard time!" Archnemon shouted at her monster. "BlackWarGreymon, let's get our revenge!"
"Esgrima!" "Metallic Swipe!" Both our Digimon flew forward, with MechaRaptormon's cannon and claws glowing. All three collided and push each other back.
"He's clearly different from the Digimon Archnemon created so far." Paildramon noticed.
"Then we'll fight with all our strength!" declared MechaRaptormon.
"Desperado Blaster!" "Howitzer Blast!" Both attacks slammed at him… but when the dust cleared… he wasn't even scratched.
"What!?" They both shouted.
"Even the two of them can't…" Miyako muttered.
"It can't be…" Ken said. We all were in shock about this. BlackWarGreymon began to growl as his eyes glowed white.
"Everyone, run!" Hikari screamed before he roared and everything went white.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery
Ugh… not… dead… yet… My body was in pain and I was barely hanging on to consciousness as I saw BlackWarGreymon slowly walk towards our beaten up Baby Digimon. A quick check around showed that I was the only one still awake after the blast as everyone else was near their Digimon and covered in dust and bruises. This is just great… this is how it all ends… we've got nothing to stop him at this moment.
"Good job, BlackWarGreymon." Archnemon congratulated. "I have plenty of work for you. First… finish off those insufferable annoyances and then go out and destroy the Digital World!" There was no response. BlackWarGreymon just stood there.
"What's wrong, BlackWarGreymon?" Mummymon asked. "It's an order from Archnemon, who created you! Tear out the hearts of those children and their Digimon then destroy everything she tells you!"
"I don't take orders from anyone." BlackWarGreymon spoke up. If I could guess, he sounded like Olin Garn from X-Wing Alliance if that voice actor was speaking Japanese.
"What?" Both Archnemon and Mummymon were taken aback from his sign of rebellion.
"You also look weak. You're not suitable opponents to fight, much less take orders from. I'll look for someone stronger." He then took off.
"Archnemon!" Mummymon shouted as she practically passed out from the shock of her creation resisting her. Mummymon quickly caught her. "Archnemon… are you okay?" She quickly got back up and punched him in the gut.
"What are you thinking!?" She then bit her thumb. "BlackWarGreymon… Well, what are you waiting for? After him!"
"But… the Chosen…"
"Forget about them for now! No Dark Tower Digimon I create defies me!" The two of them sped away and left us along. God, I don't know how BlackWarGreymon fits into your divine plan… but at least I thank you for making him rebel against Archnemon and keeping us alive once again.
Still, even if he isn't taking orders from Archnemon, BlackWarGreymon has just became a titanic threat to the Digital World…
These kids just can't catch a break, can they?
Anyways, I've got nothing more to say this time so take care.
"Push the button, Frank."