Titan Tamer of The Swordsman
Chapter Nine
Forces of Nature
A/N
Karsap: Time for the next chapter.
Yuki: Okay now I'm confused 'Forces of Nature' what's with that?
Karsap: Well it's about Slade tricking Thunder-.
Kotemon: What?! This Slade found a Thundermon?!
Karsap: No Kotemon I mean. Ugh the chapter will explain itself. So Yuki do the disclaimer.
Yuki: Okay! Karsap doesn't own Digimon or Teen Titans, but he owns Me Yuki Hata.
Jump City-Night
There's something truly beautiful about the starry night sky. When looking at all those stars shinning though that eternally darkened background, one can stare out into the cosmos and truly find peace. However, this evening in Jump City, no such luxury could be received as the night sky was filled with dark thunderhead clouds with flashes of lighting illuminating their contours. Among the masses of condensed water vapor, a bulky silhouette stood and began swinging a pair of sticks against it's surroundings; every time it brought them down, another strike and thunderclap sounded throughout the sky. In another patch of sky, where even more lightning crackled back and forth, a second silhouette, much thinner and with spiky upswept hair, stood and directed it's hands from side to side, causing a new flash every time it did so.
As the silhouette continued, a flash of lightning cracked across the sky above Titans Tower, things were beginning to get lively. Inside the main hallway Starfire knocked on Yuki and Kotemon's door. "Friends Yuki and Kotemon it is I Starfire and I wish to communicate with you." Starfire said a few seconds later the door opened to revealed both the Tamer and Digimon. "Oh what's up Starfire?" Yuki asked.
Starfire looks at both of them with concern. "Are you two well, friends Yuki and Kotemon?" she asked.
"Yeah we're fine Starfire. Why'd you asked?" Kotemon answered with his own question.
"You two have been in your room all day, you two have hardly come out..." Starfire said.
"Oh sorry me and Kotemon have been working on strategies on beating up bad guys when Kotemon is Asuramon." Yuki said scratching the back of his head, it's was true both Yuki and Kotemon worked on strategies on beating up bad guys when Kotemon is Asuramon.
"I see." Starfire perk up, "Would the both of you like to consume of the junk food with me?" she asked.
"Uhh sure?!" Kotemon said when thunder roared outside.
Yuki then looked outside. "Wow it's raining cats and dogs out there."
"We must go rescue them." Starfire said as she gasped as she was reading to fly outside but Yuki grabbed her hand.
"Whoa hang on Starfire, there's no cats and dogs outside." Yuki said. "But Yuki you said..." Kotemon was about to said when Yuki explained. "It's just an expression you two it means it's raining pretty hard."
"Oh." Starfire said calming down, "I am sorry some of your Earth ways are confusing."
"Tell me about it Starfire." Kotemon said. "Yeah yeah let's go in the Opps room already." Yuki said as they started walking towards the Opps room.
A few seconds earlier down the hall, a green buffalo strained mightily at a rubber band looped over it's horns, trying to catch it on a nearby hook. Once the band reached, the animal transformed back into Beast Boy with a mischievous smile stretched across his face.
"This is going to be sweet!" he chuckled wickedly as he held up a balloon filled with strange liquid.
"What are you doing?" Raven's voice suddenly asked from behind him. Surprised by the words, he let go of the balloon and completely freaked out as he tried desperately to make a safe catch. Safely gravving it with a sigh, Beast Boy turned to looked at Raven, the mage only state- "Please tell me this isn't another ridiculous prank?"
"Okay. It's not a ridiculous prank. It's a brilliant one!" he said trying to get a laugh out of her, only for Raven to wearily roll her eyes. "Alright, check it out. 'Member how Cyborg put red dye in my shampoo and I turned brown for three days?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yeah and I remember how annoying you were on the third day..." Raven answered as a eyebrow twitched at that memory. "So annoying we put poor Yuki, and Kotemon up to taking you out to get some dye remover..." Though she and the others got thanks for having both the Tamer, and Digimon take Beast Boy out.
"It wasn't that bad!" Beast Boy denied. "Anyway, I give you the Beast Boy Insta-Lube 9000." he said suddenly pulling down a blue white-marked blueprint with a crude drawing of the hallway. "See when chrome dome steps around the corner, his foot tugs the wire. The wire trips the lever, the lever releases the mother of all rubber bands, which sends a balloon-load of motor oil flying right at him, and BOOSH! Pretty clever huh?" he said before waiting to get Raven's take on his plan. In all honesty however, he should've known that she wouldn't care one way or another, as long as it didn't affect her or Yuki.
"You're a genius." she said with of obvious sarcasm laced into her tone.
"It's just a little good clean dirty fun." The changeling chuckled. The same sounds of Yuki and Kotemon's door sliding open down the hall caused his ears to perk up. "Here he comes." he said ducked around the corner of the hall.
Raven was about to walk away from Beast Boy, but his gray-gloved hand grabbed her cloak and whisked her behind the corner as well. "Whoa!" She cried as she was forced to duck around the corner. "I don't think-"
"Shhh!" Beast Boy hushed Raven.
"But what if-" Raven tried to speak.
"Shhh!" Beast Boy hushed her again as he looked around the corner.
"Why are we hiding?" Cyborg's voice whisper from behind them.
"Shhh!" Beast Boy hushed again, only for his eyes to go wide as saucers realizing that Cyborg was nowhere near ground zero, he was currently hunched down behind Beast Boy and Raven. "Cyborg? You can't be Cyborg!" Beast Boy said.
"I can't?" Cyborg asked.
"If you're you, then who's...?" Beast Boy cried pointing at Cyborg as he looked down the hall. At that moment, Starfire, Yuki, and Kotemon's feet stepped onto the wire and caught it, the wire pulled taut, moving the lever and pulling the hook away from the rubber band. "NOOOOOOOO!" Beast Boy cried as he ran at it, as the everything gone into slow motion as the projectile was propelled forward by the built-up tension, his hands barely scraping it before it shot forward. It sailing through the air at surprised Starfire, Yuki, and Kotemon as the three rounded the corner.
"Eek!" Starfire cried as the projectile collided with their faces, splatting the three with the viscous contents, knocking them onto their backs.
Time resumed to it's normal speed once Starfire, Yuki, and Kotemon landed, "Guys!" Beast Boy cried worriedly as he ran up to his teammates. Cyborg, and Raven quickly rushed over to help their friends as well.
"You three okay?" Cyborg asked as the three oil-covered Titans got themselves up.
"This is punishment?" Starfire asked puzzled as she wiped some of the motor oil out of her eyes. "I did something wrong?"
"You didn't." Raven said as the Starfire, Yuki, and Kotemon stand up. "Than who?" the Tamer asked trying to calm his anger down as Kotemon recognized it ''Oh boy here we go again!' the Digimon thought.
"He did." Raven answered pointing a finger at Beast Boy.
"Guys! It was... You weren't meant to... I didn't... uh, heheh. Just to change that oil every three thousand miles." Beast Boy said jokingly, though no one was laughing.
"On my planet, we have a name for those who do such terrible thing." Starfire said as she stood over him with steadily building rage. "You are a... a... CLORBAG VARBLENELK!" she cried angrily, her range caused the oil to disappear at the last two words. "Beast Boy most of my Digimon cards are rare and now almost all of them are covered with oil! No thanks to you!" Yuki yelled in anger he and Kotemon are still cover with oil but Raven came over to him, "Stand still. I'll repair the damage to both of you and fix your Digimon cards again. Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" she called as she remove the oil made it disappear with the Tamer and Digimon and Yuki's Digimon cards was changed back before they got covered with oil. "Thanks Raven." Yuki said. "Yeah thank you Raven!" Kotemon said.
"I'm a what bag?" Beast Boy asked.
"You hear the lady." Cyborg stated.
"You are such a clorbag." Raven said.
"You really screwed up, Beast Boy." Kotemon said.
"Uh what Starfire said." Yuki said. Even though the Tamer have absolutely no idea what Starfire called him.
"Come on you guys. Can't anyone take a joke?" Beast Boy asked, gulping from the looks shot at him from the others.
"Titans! Trouble!" Robin said from down the hall, his silhouette lit up by the lightning's glare.
Jump City's Bridge
Meanwhile at Jump City's Bridge, cracks of lightning flashed across the skies and thunderclouds rumbled ominously. A few moments later, a clap of lightning suddenly struck the roadway, a big rig with graffiti on it that was on the road cutting sharply to the right, the semi-truck stopping of the smoking, flaming strike point, many cars slamming their breaks to avoid a collision, creating an instant traffic jam.
As the smoke began to clear from the crater, two silhouettes became visible from within, one bulky, one skinny. The last wisps evaporated to give a fully detailed view of both; they wore outfits similar to Musyamon's armor but without the upper body protection. The bulky one had blue skin and black clothing trimmed with blue along with a helmet similar to Musyamon's on his head. A thundercloud was emblazoned on his chest, and he had long black side burns. His thinner cohort, on the other hand, had light yellow skin and hair, and his outfit was red and yellow, with a lighting bolt on his chest. A headband kept his upswept hair out of the way and a guard plate stretched down both sides of his face to cover his cheeks. Both wore armbands and wrist and shin guards that accompanied their body armor.
"May we have fun here, brother?" The large blue one asked with a smile.
"Of course!" The yellow one answered gleefully as he created a bolt between his hands. "We are Thunder and Lightning. We may do whatever we please!" The yellow one, clearly now identified as Lightning threw the bolt upwards at one of the bridges' columns, where the suspension cables were connected. Once the projectile connected, sparks flew everywhere. "Look brother! I command the sparks to dance!" Lightning laughed as the sparks floated down around them.
"Amusing." The blue one, clearly now identified as Thunder said with a smile, "Now listen as I make music!" Clapping his hands together, Thunder created an intense shockwave that slowly resonated outward. The bridge cables were jarred lose as a result and began to whipsaw back and forth.
Lightning laughed as he traced a lightning bolt into the side of the semi that blocked the road, "Let all who pass this way know-Lightning was here!"
"And Thunder too!" Thunder exclaimed as he banged his fists together, knuckle to knuckle, and created an earthquake that sent the stopped cars and their drivers trembling, setting off all the car alarms in the process.
"Most amusing." Lightning chuckled as he patted his brother's shoulder.
"Hate to break it to you..." A voice said, catching Thunder and Lightning by surprise as they turned and faced the truck to see the Titans standing on top of it, "...but you guys have a lousy sense of humor! This ends-now!"
"No one gives orders to Thunder and Lightning!" Lightning yelled, shaking his fists at the seven Titans, "Taste my power!" he shouted as he threw a lightning bolt at the Titans, causing the Titan to scramble in six different directions as Yuki and Kotemon stayed together when the trailer got a big hole blown through it, wiping out the graffiti. Preforming a U-turn and swooping down with her starbolts blazing, Lightning leapt onto a line of cars as Starfire did likewise, the two running along the parallel tracks and trading shots for several dozen of yards until Lightning got a hit on the Tamaranian and was knocked down. Raven dodged a lightning bolt and launched herself downward with a flying kick, Lightning throwing his arms up to block the flurry of the kick as he was being driven back. Finally getting clear, he shocked her with a bolt of lightning in a instant Yuki took out his D-Arc, and pulled out his Agility card.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
He spins the selected card around gaining it in his hand then he slide it threw the card slot. "Digi-Modify!" he pauses letting the card read thew "Agility Activate!"
With that Kotemon caught her in the nick of time and since he's a Digimon, Kotemon didn't cringed by the electricity that arced across his body. Transformed into a giant panda bear, Beast Boy lumbered towards and catching Lightning in a bear hug. For a moment Lightning struggled, but then he electrified his body and gave the shapeshifting teen a few thousand volts, forcing him into human form and causing him to let go.
"Your powers are strong, but mine are stronger!" Lightning cackled.
"Than test mine. Thunder Kote!" Kotemon shouted as he punches Lightning with his electrical charged fist in the chest sending Lightning crashing into a car. "I maybe smaller than Beast Boy. But I can take you on." the Digimon took a stance as he drew out his bamboo sword, holding it like a beginning of a Kendo match as a enraged Lightning got out of the wreckage and Yuki came up to them. The other Titans are fighting Thunder in the background.
"Ow!" Lightning said as he got up. "Who thinks they can defeat Lightn-?" He paused when he saw who attacked him.
"You're... A... Digimon?! Wow I never seen one for real!" Lightning cried out in excitement surprising both Kotemon and Yuki.
"...Huh?" the Digimon asked in confusion, as Yuki came up to Lightning. "Hold on how did you figure out that Kotemon was a Digimon and why you are happy to see him?" the Tamer asked him.
"Well I'm a fan of the TV show and he did said his attack. You must be his Digidestined do you know where I can get one?" Lightning asked Yuki.
"Sorry but I don't know, but can you please leave you're hurting innocent people." Yuki said.
"Dang!" Lightning cried "Fine then. I'll leave. There's fun to be had elsewhere!" he said launching a lighting bolt across the air, striking Beast Boy who was talking to Thunder and hopped to his brother's side. "Ah, the thrill of victory." Lightning sighed happily as he throw a arm over his brother's shoulder. "Come Thunder. We shall seek more amusement!" he said and with a nod, the brothers take to the air, leaving the defeated team by themselves.
After Thunder and Lightning left, Beast Boy sat up from a pile of rubble: dazed, disheveled, and drooling a bit. He shook his head to clear it and found Starfire floating behind him as she clutched her forearm. "Well that was a shock." he said jokingly as he caught up to the Tamaranian.
"Hmph!" Starfire replied as she turned up her nose and floated on.
"So... I'm guessing your're still mad?" He asked: only to received silence as an answer as they regroup with the rest of the team.
"Okay, team." Robin began as Starfire and Beast Boy arrived, "We have to find those guys before they do any more damage. Cyborg, search the west side. Raven, the east. Yuki, you and Kotemon, the south. I'll take downtown." He explained, giving each Titan their orders and receiving a nod in return, "Beast Boy, you and Star scan from the skies."
The final order caused Beast Boy to look uneasily up at the partner who had just been assigned to him. Starfire turned her back and crossed her arms when Beast Boy tried looking at her, "Um... maybe Cyborg should come with me instead." The nervous green Titan offered to switch partners.
Robin and Cyborg shot each other confused looks before facing Beast Boy again, "Cyborg can't fly." The Boy Wonder stated.
"Oh. Yeah." Beast Boy said nervously. "But what about-"
"No!" Raven, Yuki, and Kotemon answered flatly before their green teammate could finish his sentence.
As a big drop of sweat rolled down Beast Boy's head, Cyborg approached him, "Have a nice flight, my little clorbag." The metallic Titan teased as he pinched the Beast Boy's cheek. With a groan, Beast Boy saw the rest of the team leave to their designated areas as he left with the one person he didn't want to be with at the moment.
Jump City Museum Courtyard
In an open courtyard in front of the Jump City Museum, the trouble-making brothers wasted no time finding something else that they could have fun with as they approached a row of vertical concrete slabs where a large metal globe was mounted at the end.
"Magnificent!" Lightning cheered as he creating two lighting bolts in his hands, "We can make more mischief here!" Releasing the energy from his hands, he struck the globe, causing it to roll away from it's post towards one row of slabs. As it collided into the end slab, it toppled over into the next, which toppled into the next, and so on like a row of falling dominoes. "Brother! Did you see what I..." Lightning noticed his brother's expression was one of trepidation, "Something troubles you?"
Turning to face his brother, Thunder replied, "The green one's words. He says our fun is... wrong." he said with a bit of sadness in his voice.
"Wrong?" Lightning laughed as he thew his arm across Thunder's shoulders, "He speaks nonsense, brother! How could such amusement be wrong? The fun is only the beginning." he said. "Says the guy who was fan-boying when he saw that short one in the kendo outfit." Thunder muttered as his brother led him away from the ruined courtyard to continue their fun elsewhere.
High above near the scene Starfire was scanning the city below intently as Beast Boy, a hawk, glided next to her. They noticed the damaged courtyard of the museum as they pass overhead and quickly dove down to inspect the smashed slabs.
Having returned to his human form, Beast Boy was the first to comment on the debris, "Well ether they were just here, or this is the ugliest modern art I've ever seen." He joked, trying to lighten Starfire's mood.
"You are not funny. You are a clorbag varblernelk." the Tamaranian stated evenly as she walked past him.
"Come on, Star." The green teen groaned as he caught up to his upset teammate, "You can't stay mad forever. What? Do I have to do the face?" He asked with a smile as he jumped in front of her and continued walking backwards, "You know you can't resist the face." In no time flat, he transformed into a small kitten with huge, shining eyes. He meowed as endearingly as he could, trying to break the cold exterior Starfire placed over herself.
After looking down at him for a long moment, the orange-skinned teen turned her nose up at the cute feline, "Hmph!" She pouted as she continued walking.
"She resisted the face!" Beast Boy gasped when he returned to human form. "Just talk to me Star!" He cried as he ran to catch up with the girl again, "Come on, this is no fun!" He said, kneeling on the ground behind her as they reached the point where the globe was anchored.
"Wrong again, green one!" A cocky voice called out from behind them. The two Titans turned to see Thunder float down on his cloud and throw a large steel beam towards them. They also saw an equally jubilant Lightning shoot bolts of electricity at them. Reacting quickly, Starfire ran down one side of the courtyard and managed to keep just ahead of Thunder, who had jumped from his cloud and hotfooted it after her. When she reached the end of her path, she ran straight up the wall and performed a long, high backflip to come down behind him. When she landed, she thew a starbolt at the bulky blue brute.
"Ha!" Lightning shouted as he flung a bolt at Beast Boy, only for the Titan to change into a rabbit and hop away. Lightning chased him towards the ruins of the slabs and fired again. Startled, the green rabbit transformed into a crane and flew into the sky, barely dodging the continued flurry of electricity from his opponent. Finally catching on to the pattern of attacks, Beat Boy dropped to the ground as a mouse and ran towards Lighting, the projectiles were very easy for him to evade at that point. "Your animal forms cannot protect you forever!" Lightning laughed before getting caught by surprise by a bighorn sheep that barreled into him and sent him flying.
Nearby, Starfire flipped and lept her way to the end of the courtyard as Thunder closed in on her. He projected a beam of energy towards her as the Titan countered with a mighty starbolt, which connected and canceled out. Soon after the beams connected, Thunder found that his opponent's energy was quickly overwhelming his.
"Huh?" Thunder was completely puzzled at the outcome as the green energy beam reached him and knocked him across the open expanse, landing squarely on the spot where the globe originally stood.
Beast Boy, now a bear, moved in on him, and Lightning took his fallen brother's place against Starfire. The ursine Titan got to his hind legs and plowed into Thunder when he stood up, driving him into the courtyard wall.
As Thunder slumped to the ground, the changeling transform back into his human form before running up and grabbing his collar. "I don't want to hurt you. And I don't think you want to hurt me." Beast Boy said.
"Pain dose not amuse us." Thunder returned evenly.
"Could've fooled me." The green Titan said as he released his opponent's collar, "Keep playing rough, and innocent people will get hurt."
The young teen's words made Thunder think as he glanced over to the destroyed beams that laid about the courtyard.
In a sudden puff of smoke, a tall figure wearing long red traveling robes and a broad, flat-crowned hat appeared near a fence that separated the concrete of the courtyard from the museum lawn. The figure lowered a arm from it's face, revealing long white hair blowing about an old but strong male face. Overall, the impression was vaguely oriental, and was reinforced by a thin mustache and beard on his face. Under the shadows of his hat, only his left eye could be seen, and under the red robes, he wore black clothes. As the mysterious stranger watched the fighting, he pulled out an old wooden box a tripod that had a hand crank on it's side, very much like an old-style move camera. With a evil smile, the stranger began turning the crank, which caused the cover on the camera to fall away and expose a camera lens that glowed red, then white.
"Huh?" Beast Boy and Thunder uttered as they felt the ground tremble beneath them. Before they could figure out what was happening, a broad energy beam shot past them from the camera ans smashed cleanly though the intact row of concrete slabs.
The attack barely missed Starfire and Lightning, who had broken from their duel to avoid the beam. As the debris from the destroyed slabs came crashing down, Lightning sidestepped quickly out of harms way, but Starfire wasn't so lucky as a shower of ruined stonework came straight down toward her.
"Star!" Beast Boy cried as he ran over the pile of debris, only for more stones to crumble, burying him underneath as well.
Thunder and Lightning had now come to realize fear as they backed away from the piles of destruction the newcomer had just brought about.
"Your gifts are you own." The two brothers heard an elderly, yet calm, voice echo though the air, "Who are they to tell you how to use them?"
"And who are you that commands such power? Show yourself!" Lightning demanded as the dust from the destruction of the concrete slabs started clearing.
"As you wish." The voice echoed as the haze parted to reveal the old stranger standing within. "I am but a humble old man-" he said as he placed his camera he used to fire the energy beam in his cloak, "-whose power is drawn from nature, like your own. Come with me, and I will show you as much destruction as you please." The mysterious man turned away from the two brothers after beckoning them to follow.
"Yes! More fun!" the electricity user brother cheered as he rushed to follow the old man; however a larger blue hand on his shoulder stopped his advancements. Lightning glanced back to see Thunder was restraining him with a hand on his shoulder.
"Will we harm anyone?" the sound user brother asked worriedly.
"What?" Lightning asked with a puzzled look on his face, "The green one has poisoned your mind."
"This destruction..." Thunder began in a dejected tone, "...will we harm the innocent?"
"Would it matter if you did?" the old stranger asked evenly, "You are unique. Gifted. Better. Why should anything interfere with your enjoyment?" He turned to leave the courtyard. "I am going. Follow if you wish."
As the mysterious old man left the area, Lightning soon followed, "Come, brother, and leave your foolish thoughts behind." He called back to his sound user brother before fully departing.
Thunder took a few steps after them, but stopped to look back at the crumble stone. After a moment, he turned back around to catch up with the other two.
Meanwhile at South Jump City
Meanwhile Yuki and Kotemon were looking all over South Jump City for Thunder and Lightning but had no luck.
"Where could they be?" Yuki said, "We've look everywhere and still no sign of them!"
"I'm sure they show up soon Yuki." Kotemon told his Tamer.
As if on cue the two saw Thunder, Lightning, and the old stranger walk to the mountains with the brothers talking to each other and the Digimon and his Tamer hid in a alleyway.
"Really brother what about when that boy with that short one in the kendo outfit said that we are harming the innocents?" Thunder asked.
"It's because he's an Digidestined." Lightning said.
"A digi-what?" the mysterious old man asked evenly.
"Well my brother is a fan of a show called Digimon and wanted to be a Digidestined." Thunder explained.
"I see." the mysterious old man said as they continued walking to the mountains.
"Yuki did you know that old man?" Kotemon asked as they emerge from their hiding spot.
"I don't think so maybe he's a Digimon?" Yuki asked.
"If he was a Digimon I've should've sensed him emerging Yuki." the Digimon said as he did a face palm.
"Nah I'm just joking, maybe he's-" the Tamer stopped mid-sentence as he figure something out.
"Maybe he's what Yuki?" Kotemon asked.
"Kotemon remember that all of us trying to figure out who Slade is?" Yuki asked.
"Sure but what this have to do with that old- Wait are you saying that old man is Slade?" the Digimon asked.
"Yes but look where they're going." the Tamer said as he pointed to where the three are going. "Remember that place?"
Kotemon then looked surprised as he saw the mountains. "That's near where we fought Mushroomon!" the Digimon said.
"Right let's follow them!" Yuki said as they followed the three to the mountains.
Mountains-Near Jump City Forest
Far outside Jump City in a clearing in the mountains near Jump City's Forest, a few scarecrow-like dummies stood in a seemingly random fashion around the area, consisting of two crossed tree limbs with a blanket wrapped around them with some Asian-like characters. Among these dummies, the old stranger stood, waiting for his guests of honor to arrive not knowing that they were being followed by Yuki and Kotemon.
"Sticks and leaves?" The old man heard a voice say contemptuously. He turned to see Thunder and Lightning enter the clearing. "Is this a joke? There is no fun in blasting such frail targets!" Lightning shouted in a annoyed tone.
Yuki and Kotemon decided to hide in the forest to avoid getting spotted and was also just as confused as Lightning. "Weird that old man put up a training course for them." Yuki said quietly. "If that old man was Slade, he wouldn't help those two to be better heroes." Kotemon said. "Shush Kotemon we don't want to get spotted and I think he's about to explain to them." the Tamer hushed his Digimon as they ducked behind two trees when Thunder, Lightning, and the old stranger looked where they where.
"Strange I thought I heard voices. Anyway are you certain young master?" The mysterious elder inquired, "Try. You may like what you see." He motioned for Lightning to attack one of the dummies.
Lightning then groaned as he thew a bolt at one of the dummies. Once it connected, the target caught on fire and immediately made him rethink his opinion of the whole exercise.
"Dancing lights! Pleasing." Lightning remarked with a smile.
Yuki and Kotemon saw this as they looked over the edge but the Tamer was still confused while the Digimon had a scared look on his face. "Okay what dose the fire have to do something about it? Kotemon what do you thi-?" Yuki said quietly when he noticed Kotemon's look on his face. "Kotemon what's wrong you look like you seen a SkullGreymon?" he asked quietly. "I think that old man is using those two to make a Meramon lookalike." Kotemon explain quietly as Yuki got it. "Maybe you're on to something, let's find out." The Tamer said quietly as they continued to watch.
"Let Thunder try his hand." Thunder said as he stepped towards a target. Once he threw a blast of his own that connected with a target, said dummy disappeared in a small explosion accompanied by a great clap of sound as it was put on fire like the first. "Wondrous noise!" He said happily as the burned remains of the scarecrow fluttered towards the ground.
Yuki and Kotemon had covered their ears or in Kotemon's case his helmet when the sound of thunder happen. "Ow! When you heard thunder up this close it's loud." Yuki winced quietly. "You said it Yuki." Kotemon also winced quietly.
"See, brother? There is no harm in our fun," Lightning said putting a hand on his brother's shoulder.
"And there is so much fun to be had," the old stranger spoke, the two thrill-seekers grinning at each other before taking off, blasting targets one after another with lit fervor.
After five minutes of watching Yuki and Kotemon heard a voice behind them. "Wow you two got here quick." The Tamer and Digimon turned around quickly as they get into ready positions but got out of them when they saw the other Titans as the sound of explosions go off in the background. "Whew we thought we got caught for sure." Kotemon said. "I don't get why you two didn't open your communicator to let us know you found them?" Raven asked. Yuki forgot about it. "Sorry we forgot." The Tamer lied as Kotemon did a face palm. "I'm guessing that you heard the the thunder from here?" Yuki asked. "Well yeah do you two know where the two troublemakers are?" Cyborg asked. "Sure they're in the clearing with a-" Yuki was about to explained when Robin finished him. "A strange old man." the Boy Wonder said. "Huh how do you know Robin?" Kotemon asked. "Starfire and Beast Boy saw him when he attacked them while they where fighting the brothers." Robin said as Yuki and Kotemon got shocked faces when they learned two of their teammates got hurt. "Let those evil brothers be made to apologize." Starfire said. "Like I said Star, I don't think they are evil." Beast Boy said. "I do not think so clorbag." Starfire said still mad at Beast Boy. "Hold on Starfire, Beast Boy is right." Yuki said. "Huh?" Starfire said. "Really Yuki?" Beast Boy asked. "Yeah when we were facing them for the first time, the brother that shocked you Beast Boy said he's a fan of Digimon like I am." Yuki explained. "Are you sure Yuki?" Raven asked. "Yeah I was there too." Kotemon said. 'Oh." Raven said. Yuki then turned to Robin. "And I had a hunch that that old man is using them." Yuki said. "Huh?!" the other Titans except Kotemon said. "I think that old man is Slade." Yuki said. "Really are you sure?" Robin said. "Yeah Kotemon said he's using the brothers to make-" Yuki then stopped mid-sentence when he heard the explosions had stopped. "There's no time to explain, everyone stay quite." Yuki said as the others did so, they saw that all the dummies had been set on fire, the brothers had stopped their assault and returned to the old man.
"More targets old one!" Lightning eagerly demanded.
"Yes, please give us more." Thunder added with controlled excitement.
"That won't be necessary." The mysterious old man chuckled, "You've done quite enough." he reached into his robes and produced a metal disc from underneath; it bore a character, Chinese in appearance, which looked something like a stylized letter S. He scaled the object over the clearing as the brothers watched, with looks of complete confusion on their faces. The object stopped high in the sky and spun in place; electricity crackled around it as it picked up speed, culminating in a mighty orange flash. Rays of light shot down and struck each and every target as the metal disc continued to suspend itself high above the ground. From a bird's eye view, one could see the shot traced out a large, rough humanoid shape in the clearing, with a final wide beam from above touching the heat area. When the light show stopped, the outline started burning intensely. "Rise." The stranger ordered as he held up a staff topped with the same character that was on the disc he thew.
The apparition obeyed as it lifted itself, akin to Frankenstein's Monster, with an unearthly screeching noise. One of the most notable characteristics of the monster's was the character engraved on it's forehead matched the symbol on the stranger's disk and staff.
The Titans saw it. "See what I mean." Yuki explained. "Yeah this means business." Robin said as the Titans got out of the forest.
"Burn, Fire! Burn it all!" The old man called out to the monster with his arms raised.
The blazing behemoth looked down to the city proper and began walking towards it, only to stop it's advancement upon finding the Titans some distance away. The monster looked down to see the seven heroes standing in it's path.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you?" Robin said as he pointed to the monster, "Play with fire, you're going to get burned."
As a response, the monster swung a flaming forearm at the team, forcing them to scatter as a wall of fire flew towards them. Robin looked up from a duck-and-cover position he had assumed and saw the monster pushing trees aside and continued it's war path towards Jump City. Smoke and flames billowed in it's wake as the behemoth continued it's unflinching walk towards the metro section of the city.
"Good very good." The strange grinned as waved the flumes around his staff.
The two brothers stared in complete shock as they couldn't believe what they just had a hand in unleashing. "Brother, what have we done?" Thunder asked his brother in a horrified tone as they watch the monster continued down the mountain.
As the fire beast kept making it's way towards the city, the Titans ran and flew at equal speed to try to stop it from destroying their home.
"Titans! GO!" Robin shouted as he, Cyborg, and Beast Boy ran further down the mountain, Raven, and Starfire flew through the air in fount of the monster, while Yuki and Kotemon ran behind it.
"Time for you to into Digivolve Musyamon! Kotemon!" Yuki said as he took out his D-Arc and the Digivolution card as the Digimon nodded.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
With that said Yuki whirls the Digivolution card around catching it in his hand he then swipes the card through the D-Arc "Digi-Modify..." as he shouted letting the data of the card run through it, "...Digivoltion Activate!"
*Cue Digimon Tamers~Digivolution Theme (US)*
The words DIGIVOLUTION appeared on Yuki's D-Arc and it begins the Digivoultion process with Kotemon shouting "Kotemon...Digivole to...Musyamon!"
Lightning then saw what happen from a cliff. "Wow he Digivolve into a good Musyamon!" he said as both the Champion Level Digimon and Tamer stand still.
In an attempt to stop the monster, Robin pulled some grenades from his utility belt as he ran. Throwing them in front of the monster, the grenades erupted in large clouds of smoke, blocking the monster's view of the city and forcing it to stop moving in it's confusion.
As the fire rose, Raven waved the smoke out of her way as she flew through it, "Fire can't spread if there's nothing to burn. Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" She chanted as two obsidian beams of energy form her hands and engulfed a few trees in the monster's path before getting pulled out of the ground.
"Good idea, Raven." Robin said as he continued sprinting down the mountain with Beast Boy running next to him and Starfire flying above, "Beast Boy, Starfire, help her out!" He called out to his other two teammates.
On his command, Beast Boy quickly transformed into a green buffalo mid-stride and rammed his head at the bases of the trees causing them to topple over. High above the monster, Starfire tossed a few starbolts that destroyed some trees as well, effectively preventing the fire from spreading anymore than it already had.
"Yuki are you sure we can't help the others yet?" Musyamon asked. "Yes both of your attacks can make it bigger since they use fire." Yuki explain.
As the others continued with their objective, Cyborg began running towards the monster. He then jumped into the air before slamming a fist into the ground in front of the monster. He then transformed his hand into his sonic cannon. With his fist connected to the ground, a blue beam from Cyborg's hand ran across the ground in front of the monster, and throwing up a wall a dirt in the monster's face to put it out.
"Yes they did it without our help." Musyamon said. "No it's not over yet! It's our turn." Yuki said as he took out the Puppetmon card.
"Is he out?" Beast Boy asked as he approached the charred remains of the monster. Before he could take five steps, the blazing behemoth rose into view and released a mighty roar that surpised the team.
"You had to ask." Raven said evenly as the monster roared again, getting ready to walk towards the city again. It was then Yuki did his plan.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
He spins the selected card around gaining it in his hand then he slide it through the D-Arc. "Digi-Modify!" He pauses letting the card read through "Puppetmon's Wires Choking Activate!"
When that's done Musyamon holds out his prayer bead. "Wires Choking!" the Digimon shouted as clear wires came out of his prayer bead and hoked onto the monster stopping it's walk. "Man Cyborg didn't Smokey said not to put out a fire with dirt." Yuki said.
"Nice job you two." Robin said it was then Yuki saw the monster was struggling to break free of the wires. "Not yet, Robin take care of that old man if you take him out this monster will stop." the Tamer said with a nod Robin ran where the man is.
High on the cliff above the fire monster, the old man grinned evilly as the fire monster struggled to break free of Musyamon's wires. The two brothers stood behind him as they watched the events unfold as well.
"Go young masters. Fire is your creation." The stranger said to the brothers, "They have no right to destroy your fun."
"Yes! We must fight." Lightning said in agreement.
"But brother-" Thunder started to complained.
"Do not annoy me with your foolish concerns." Lightning interrupted, "Come!" With a unsure look, Thunder nodded before the two disappeared in a large pillar of lightning.
The old stranger watched as the brothers left him alone, "Heh." He chucked as he tuned to savor his victory as he began to swept his arms out. However, Robin jumped at him with a jump kick, completely surprising him, and knocked his staff away.
Robin smiled as he landed, thinking he just bust the old man's bubble, only to be surprised himself when said stranger manage to withdraw the staff back by having it fly back into his hand. "Robin, we meet at last." The stranger said with a nerving smile.
"Who are you?" The Boy Wonder asked before the old man charged at him.
"Hyaaaaaa!" the stranger cried as he raised his staff to attack the leader.
"Rrrrraaaaaa!" Robin growled as he ran toward the mysterious man to meet him in combat.
At that moment the fire monster broke free of Musyamon's wires. "Yuki! You need to Digivolve me into Asuramon now so I can beat this guy!" Musyamon said. "Got it." Yuki said as he turned to Raven. "Raven can you distract this thing while I get my Matrix Digivolution card?" He asked. "Sure. Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" She chanted as she shot two beams of obsidian magic form her hands at the monster. When the beams connected, the monster leaned backwards from the attack, and the flames around it were extinguish.
"Thanks Raven that buy us some time." Yuki said as he took out his Matrix Digivolution card.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
With that said Yuki whirls the Matrix Digivolution card around catching it in his hand he then swipes the card through the D-Arc. "Digi-Modify..." as he shouted letting the data of the card run through it, "...Matrix Digivoltion!"
*Cue Digimon Tamers~Digivolution Theme (US)*
The words MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION appeared on Yuki's D-Arc and it begins the Digivoultion process with Musyamon shouting "Musyamon... Digivolve to.. Asuramon!"
After Asuramon was done Digivolving the flames reignited on the monster, it then saw the Ultimate and roared as both it and Asuramon charged at each other, when the two clashed into each other, it sends a giant shockwave that destroyed every tree within the mile radius in the process.
Raven was fast enough to shield the rest of the Titans from the shockwave they then saw the brothers float down.
With a grin, Lightning charged his hands with more of his trademark powers before approached the heroes. Thunder harnessed some of his energy in his hand, only to be met with a green tiger. "Stand aside, green one." Thunder ordered only to be met with the animal.
Without another word, Thunder charged at Beast Boy, the green teen did the same. Once they were close enough, a thick purple haze surround them.
Inside the smoke, nothing but the purple clouds could be seen as the two combatants faced each other in a dark nothingness.
Amid the haze, Thunder sat on one of the clouds with his legs crossed, looking for Beast Boy. Shadows hid most of their bodies, highlighting the contours of their bodies, "I Do not wish to harm you." His voice echoed though the void.
"But you wanna destroy homes and innocent lives?" Beast Boy's voice asked through he was still in the form of a tiger.
"No." Thunder's voice said.
"Then what are you fighting for? Beast Boy asked.
"My brother and I- The old one says we are unique. Gifted. Better." Thunder replied.
"Gifts don't make you better, just different." Beast Boy stated, "It's how you use them that counts."
Those words seem to stuck a cord with Thunder as he had no words to the young hero.
Back in reality, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire were laying on the ground, defeated by Lightning. Yuki on the other hand was avoiding Lightning's bolts while Asuramon and the monster locked fists with two Asuramon's arms free with nether one winning.
Lightning had enough patience and shot a bolt in front of the Tamer causing it form a dust cloud which the Tamer breathed in.
As Yuki went into a coughing fit making him stop he failed to realized Lightning floating above him. "I am sorry it had to be this way, but I must have my fun continue." Lightning said as his hands start to charge up more electricity making Yuki nervous, "Hey wait! Jjust hold on a second! That old man that you and your brother are with just trick you into making that monster." The Tamer said nervously as he back up making Lightning more angry. "Like I said I must have my fun continue." he said as he raised his electricity-filed above his head, ready to unleash the attack on Yuki who then closed his eyes waiting for the attack. But when he opened his eyes he saw a strong blue beam blasted Lightning on the side before he release the blast knocking him away from Yuki. "Gah!" Lightning cried as he landed against a tree. Yuki looked over to the source of the attack to see Thunder walking past him.
When Lightning stood up from being hit, he formed more electricity in his right hand, "You betray me?!" He asked in angry yet surprised tone.
"We have done wrong, my brother." Thunder replied as he took another step forward, "Our fun must stop."
"No one commands Lightning!" Lightning growled as he summoned electricity in both his hands, "Not even Thunder!" He then brought both his hands together and shot a large beam at his brother.
"Gah!" Thunder cried as the blast him tumbling across the ground.
Away from the fighting brothers, away from the weaken heroes, away from Asuramon and the flaming monster in their stalemate, Robin was engaging the old stranger in combat. Being driven back by the swinging of the old man's staff, the Boy Wonder blocked the attacks with his gloved forearms, before getting pinned against a tree.
With a growl, the old man brought his staff back and stabbed the head against the Boy Wonder, only for him to doge to the side. When head of the staff came into the tree Robin was against, a -hiss sounded in his ear before he jumped to the side and readied himself for another assault.
Father down the mountain, the remaining Titans stood and watched as the monster pushed Asuramon out of their stalemate and closer to the city.
"Those houses go, the whole city could go. We've gotta stop that fire." Cyborg said.
"How?" Raven asked as she floated behind him.
"Any way we can." Cyborg returned before catching up to Asuramon and the monster. The other Titans except Yuki who wasn't there followed suit, hopping they can help Asuramon stop the creature before it can destroyed the suburban part of Jump.
Yuki watched as Lightning flew at his brother at high speeds and released a beam of electricity from his hand. When it struck Thunder it send him flying back, causing him to collide with a bolder.
When Thunder slid to the ground and landed in a slump, he looked up to see his brother approaching him, an angry frown on his face, a bolt of electricity in hand, and ready to strike. "Tell me, brother, are we still having fun?" Thunder asked.
"No..." Lightning uttered weakly as he withdrew his attack.
"Observe," Thunder said pointing in the direction of the the other Titans. When Lightning looked over to the city, he saw the heroes trying to stop the progression of the fire; Asuramon held the monster in place again, Raven surrounded her hands with black magic, levitating objects to throw at the monster, Beast Boy transformed into an elephant and shot water from his trunk, Starfire readied starbolts in her hands, and Cyborg broke off the top of a fire hydrant and redirected the water sprouting from it in the direction of the monster.
"They also have gifts. But they use them for good, while we waste ours on dangerous fun." Thunder reached his hand out and grabbed his brother's shoulder as Yuki then smiled, "If we are so special, brother, let us act special. We must help." Thunder continued.
Lightning looked down on the ground, dejectedly, "But how? Our gifts can only destroy." he explained.
"True." Thunder said, "But together we have another gift." He added as he looked to the clouded sky.
"Well than I see that you two can help me." The brothers turn to see Yuki standing behind them. "Really what for?" Lightning asked. "Just do that other gift you two and me and my Digimon partner will do the rest." the Tamer said.
With a smile and a nod Lightning looked to the sky as well and in a bright flash of electricity, both brothers flew up in the clouds and Yuki catching up to the others to finish the monster once and for all.
As the other five Titans were on the last leg, as nothing seemed to work at stopping the fire monster as Asuramon still kept the monster at bay, Yuki rushed to the others and called out Asuramon, "Asuramon I found a way to stop this fire punch it back!" the Tamer called. "Really? Okay you know what's the best thing having four arms is? Is that you can punch someone back when two of your arms is full." Asuramon said to the monster as he punch it away from him. It was then a crack of lightning flashed across the sky as the sound of thunder echoed overhead.
In the clouds, Thunder, silhouetted against the clouds, swung a pair of sticks against his surroundings. A thunderclap throughout the sky each time a stick struck. On the other side of the clouds, Lightning, also silhouetted, thew his arms from side to side, electricity flashing across the sky each time he did so. In one final flash of lightning, a heavy rain started falling down to Earth.
"This is it!" Yuki said as he took out the Whamon card.
*Cue DigiModify! Blank track*
He spins the selected card around gaining it in his hand then he slide it through the D-Arc. "Digi-Modify!" He pauses letting the card read through "Whamon's Tidal Wave Activate!"
As that happen Asuramon then began to concentrate as he somehow able to use magic to gather some of the rain to form a bubble of water.
Looking up in surprise, the monster let out a blood-curling shriek as the rain came in contact with it's body. It then looked at it's flaming rival and saw in horror at a giant bubble of water in front of the Digimon. "Time to put you out for good! Tidal Wave!" Asuramon shouted as he release the floating water and the bubble collapsed and sends it towards the monster in a giant tidal wave and destroyed it. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire cheered while Raven smiled at the destruction of the monster, Yuki then rushed at the now De-Digivolved Kotemon and the the Tamer and the Digimon high-fived.
Higher on the mountain, the stranger got the upper hand on Robin and held the teen against a tree by the collar of his uniform, "Robin is that the best you can do?" The old man asked before a bolt of lightning struck his staff, causing him to drop the Boy Wonder.
When the Titan landed, he looked up to see that the left half of the old man's face had crumbled away, revealing a orange mask underneath. Robin gasp at the sight before the stranger vanish in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, all that was left was a disk with the same symbol that was on the head of the staff.
The Boy Wonder reach down to pick the object up and held it up to his face, analyzing it with great intensity. "Slade." he said.
Jump Suburbs
In the suburb, the heroes were celebrating their victory in their own ways as the rain fell down on them.
Beast Boy look back to see Thunder and Lightning approaching them and walked over to greet the two. "I am sorry for the trouble we have made." Thunder apologized as he bowed, his brother crossed his arms in a pout.
Thunder forcefully nudged Lightning in the back, causing him to straighten him up. "I am... also sorry." Lightning said as he bowed to the green teen.
"You have taught us much, green one." Thunder added as he shook Beast Boy's hand, "Thank you."
Beast Boy let go of Thunder's hand go, ' "Don't thank me, thank the person who taught me." He said gesturing to Starfire who walked up and stood next to her teammate. The brothers bowed to her when she approached.
"And thank you in helping to defeat the flame monster." Starfire said as she bowed in return. Cyborg, Raven, Yuki, and Kotemon walk up after to give their thanks as well.
Mountains
After the rain stopped, and the clouds dispersed, a bright and colorful rainbow arced from the sky from Jump City and landed in the bay. On the mountain the seven Titans stood gazing out and saw the rainbow end behind the Tower.
Robin handed the disk to Cyborg, brought it up to his face to analyze it, "So Slade wants to destroy the city. Question is: why?" Cyborg asked.
"I don't know," Robin said, "But I will find out. And he won't get away with it."
Beast Boy walked up to Starfire while Raven, Yuki, and Kotemon continued enjoying their view from the mountain. "So..." Beast Boy began, getting Starfire's attention, "Am I. You know, still a clorbag?" He asked with a hand behind his back and the other up to his chin.
"Mmm, no." Starfire replied, holding her right hand to her chin, "I believe you are more of a 'milnip wusserloop'." She finished.
It took Beast Boy a second to process what she said before a huge, toothy grin came across his face, "Sweet!" He cheered as he lifted both his arms over his head, "Go Beast Boy! I'm a milnip! Who's your wusserloop!" he chanted as he danced happily. He stopped at the sudden realization that he had no idea what that meant, "That is a good thing... Right, Star?" Starfire only giggled at the question as she flew off down the mountain, followed by Raven while Robin, Cyborg, Yuki, and Kotemon walked. "Star?" Beast Boy called out again before running to catch up with the rest of his team.
End of Chapter
Man another long chapter in a row, well I added some references in there see if you can find them. What happens next? Find out next time on Titan Tamer of The Swordsman. R&R