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Note: I'm sure you all know who those two are by now. I think I made it obvious enough.
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needmore That's what I like to see from reviewers! Why can't people be more like you? True, that is a bit unfair, Axl is special though, but it's only temporary. I really don't want another Ranma, as I prefer to write with different character personalities. But I guess that's true too with experience different. Possibly and maybe… The time is when the main cast of Exe is little kids, around five while Ranma's group is around eight. Also… Hell yes it'll be messed up! But not as messed up as you think technologically-wise. It'll all work out.
Wild Horse. Exe
Chapter 15: Outbreak
"My little baby!" cried a mother as she ran forward to hug her son to herself.
"Mommy!" answered the child as he hugged her back while tears fell from his eyes.
Watching the tearful but joyful reunion of the small family, Yuuichirou couldn't help but think there was something incredibly wrong with this. For the past few days, he and others had worked tirelessly over the data Takato had given them, and in those same few days, the children that had gone missing were slowly coming back. Seemingly with no injuries.
"And no one has found their hideout yet." Muttered Yuuichirou as he looked down, thinking about the kidnappers, and who they were, "Yet they are able to bring the children back in without any notice. Something is definitely happening." Pulling out a notepad, he briskly wrote a few words down on it before walking back to the Lab, now that the family was going back. He couldn't help but wonder how his own family was doing. Preferably not in any trouble, but with Netto around… He would go and visit them today. He had a funny feeling that something would happen.
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"How's it coming along now?" questioned Yanoto as he leaned on the chair one of the scientists while watching the computer readings fly past the screen.
"Incredibly fast, the readings we received from that child are seriously playing a part in all this. And you're sure he can't co-"
Yanoto stood up straight and crossed his arms while looking down at the other scientist, "Absolutely not. He and the other child are not to be bothered about this."
"Ye-Yes sir…" was the meek answer as he went back to work on the computer.
"But one thing does interest me…" mumbled Yanoto to himself. Giving the command to someone else, he walked out of the room and towards his own office. In there, he went through some past files. Specifically the ones when Takato had first arrived. While he still had it, Yanoto had been curious and had taken the liberty to scan Takato's device, Digivice as it was also called.
Looking at the data, shape and the way it was built, Yanoto could make no sense of how it worked. It seemed to have no real power source from what he could see, and the mechanics inside didn't seem to work in the way he would think they would. In fact, if he had just looked at it without knowing what it was, he would have immediately written it off as junk. But, maybe he could try to replicate the shape of it; the core of it seemed to look like an oval crystal. So very perfectly shaped and smoothed. From his estimation, with the current technology they had at their disposal, it would probably take around fourteen years to make a working replicate for Navi use. It would be hard to try and understand the workings of this device, but they may give it a try. It was an interesting idea.
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"Something's about to happen." Mumbled the cat, as he hissed and the fur on his back rose a bit. Its large black size was feeling something wrong.
"You're right… It's happening on the other side, where Ranma is." Answered the red haired female.
"We may be able to help, come!" exclaimed the feline as it ran in a certain direction it was feeling the energy from.
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"Warning! Security Breached!" displayed the computer screen in bright green font.
"What? Don't tell me we've been hacked!" exclaimed someone as he stood up from his seat.
"Impossible! The security here is the best!" exclaimed another.
"The security unit isn't responding!"
"The data is being stolen!"
"No! Do your best to keep it safe everyone!"
"Dimensional Field status is being activated! It's going above the safety level!"
A digital circle appeared in the center of the dimensional field machine. Soon, it exploded outwards, taking in everything around it into its field, soon completely encircling the building.
A couple of machines exploded, and frenzy erupted all over the buildings. Children screamed, while adults although terrified attempted to keep their calm. But they would not be able to hold on for much longer.
"What's happening here!" questioned Yanoto as he burst into the room where everyone else was still busy trying to get everything back under control.
"We've been hacked! It's supposed to be impossible, but it happened!" answered a scientist.
Ranma, Takato, and Tom all burst into the room at once, "It came from here!" exclaimed Tom, as he was the one who had seen the field erupting from this area, "It's where the Field's being developed!"
Yanoto hearing them, immediately turned and attempted to bring them out of the room, when suddenly, there was a bright green flash where the circle had appeared.
There was no need for anyone to ask. Everyone knew, that this new arrival was a Navi, there was no way it could be anything else. Dressed in a white suit, green and yellow armor, it was obvious. The large wings on either side of his helmet, and the minute ones on his shoulder just confirmed it a second time. The Navi looked at everyone with his emerald eyes, cheeks marked with green markings.
"Justice, shall be served… These things of evil shall be removed." exclaimed the Navi, "Repent and atone for your sins! So says Harpuia! The Wind Guardian!"
With those words said, the scientists were all completely confused to what Harpuia was saying. But all thoughts of confusion turned to thoughts of danger as the green Navi pulled out two white hilts, and pink, laser short swords erupted from it. Everyone shouted as they attempted to get as far away from Harpuia. But that turned useless as multiple warps appeared all over the technological wing of the building.
"There is nowhere to run." Harpuia stated as he approached the scientists, slicing through any machines he passed by.
Although those words were stated, the people still attempted to get out of any danger, as all sense was lost.
"Takato! The Cross Fusion chips!" shouted Tom as he was pushed back through the doors. Being a child, he had no strength to stay in the room. Ranma and Takato on the other hand had been far enough from the door to not be caught by the rush. Takato, nodded stiffly as he took a short and scared step forward, but immediately stopped as the green Navi came before him.
Ranma ran over and stood in front of Takato, as a way to protect him. Takato didn't have as much training as he did. But Harpuia made no effort to attack them, instead, he looked at the two briefly, "Return to your homes children, you should not watch this. These adults have much to learn." He stated as he walked right past them.
Staring at the Navi's back as it went through the doors and walked calmly after those who had left. Takato fell backwards and sat on the floor, staring at the spot where Harpuia had stopped, "W-why?" he stuttered. He had thought that was where his life would end. Instead, Harpuia had pretty much walked right past them.
Ranma growled at the child reference towards him. Sure he was in the body of one, but that didn't mean he was actually one. Frustrated, he kicked one of the desks.
"I'm no child…"
"Takato! The chips!" exclaimed Midi, reminding them of the predicament everyone else was in.
"R-right…" answered Takato unsteadily, as he had not yet completely recovered. Stumbling over to where Yanoto's desk was, he rummaged through the drawers till he came upon a special marked box. Opening it, he was met with the sight of three Cross Fusion chips.
"Aah! No!" shouted Ranma behind Takato. As he spun around quickly, he had thought Harpuia had changed his mind and had come back for them after all. But instead, he was met with the sight of a young red haired woman hugging Ranma tightly.
"Ranma! You're just so cute as a kid!" she exclaimed, "I can't help but hug you!"
"Get off me!" shouted Ranma as his face was pressed against her breasts. Blushing, he ferociously fought back, "Some people are getting hurt! I need to help them!"
The female immediately stopped hugging him and held him away from her at arms length. Ranma was finally able to look at her face, and he immediately recognized the face for who it was.
"No way… I thought I was rid of you!"
The female Ranma of his original age looked at him, shocked, "That's so mean Ranma…" she said, her voice breaking up and her eyes starting to water.
"Wh-what? No! No! Don't cry! I didn't mean it! It's okay! I'm fine!" exclaimed Ranma, as his resolve would always immediately break in front of a crying female.
A low chuckle from behind the female Ranma came, "You haven't changed that much…"
Ranma looked around his opposite's shoulder. His eyes widened in surprise as a black cat, larger than a house cat, but not larger than a wolf appeared. Although he was no longer afraid of cats, he was still surprised at the unusual sight.
The female Ranma turned her head to look at Takato, "You should head out to help first. We'll be there soon, I just need to explain some things to Ranma here."
Takato looked at Ranma for an explanation of these events. Ranma shrugged hesitantly, "I'll be right behind you, so don't worry. I'll be there before you know it."
Tossing Ranma one of the chips, which he caught, Takato ran out of the room while giving a backwards glance at Ranma.
"Ranma will be okay!" exclaimed Guilmon from the Digivice.
"I don't know Guilmon… But those people are in danger right now, and we have to help them." Said Takato as he ran through the completely destroyed hallways. There were slash marks, and damage all over the place, but there didn't seem to have been any casualties yet. Pausing for a brief moment, he took out one of the chips and looked at it. He then took out his Pet. He didn't think a biomerge could work here.
"Cross Fusion!" exclaimed Takato.
Again, as with the first time he had done this, his Pet and Digivice responded immediately in synch.
System: Cross Network Fusion
Stated both devices as they exploded into data. Still uncomfortable with the whole process, Takato tried to bear it as the armor was placed on his body, and the fusion began. Blinking his eyes as the helmet formed, he stood uncomfortably in his new appearance. Looking down, he saw himself reflected in a puddle of water that had leaked out of the pipes. White gloves and boots with the two smaller and one larger triangle on the back of them, a green and black streaked helmet with a hazard symbol in its center, and a crystal in the middle triangle. A green suit with black markings, and another hazard in the center of it, and a blade jutting out from either side of his shoulder.
"That's… Me… Guilmon… Midi…" he mumbled.
"Hurry Takato!" exclaimed Midi.
Nodding, Takato ran forward, but his eyes widened as something new appeared on the walls. Bits of red liquid on the walls, blood. His breathing starting to come short, Takato stared at it, "Why…"
"Don't pay attention-to it Takato!" exclaimed Midi's voice, although it didn't sound so confident itself, "Don't be afraid."
Guilmon growled.
Taking an unsteady step, this was the first time Takato had seen blood smeared against the wall personally. No matter how small an amount it was, it still was a big shock for a young teen turned child. As he walked down the hall, he saw a few of the scientists leaning against the wall with a surprised and unbelieving look on their face. There was blood on them too, but in his confused state, Takato couldn't tell exactly how hurt they were. All he knew was that these people had been injured for a reason that seemed completely false, and the one who did such a thing was the Navi ahead.
As he saw Harpuia ahead, the scene of him standing over another man with his blades drawn and the man injured and bleeding from a few cuts didn't stand well with Takato. With his young mind influenced with the TV from when he was back home, this action only meant one thing when put together with what had happened behind him. The Navi was trying to kill them all.
"No..." whispered Takato to himself, "I won't let you kill them… I won't…"
"There is no need for you to help. I did not expect Wily to send someone else other than us three here either." Said Harpuia plainly as he dropped the man he was holding while looking over at Takato in his cross fused form, believing that it was an ally Navi.
"I won't…" Takato's voice started to break at this point, his eyes glazing over as his ideas became actions. No longer able to control himself, Takato fell out of Cross Fusion as his Pet and Digivice clattered to the floor.
Harpuia raised an eye at Takato as a boy appeared out from the Navi that had been there. But didn't make any movements.
Able to think of one action, Takato grabbed his Digivice from the floor and held it in front of him, "Guilmon… Biomerge. Now!"
The display on his Digivice displayed the starting sequence as it beeped.
System: Break Biomerge
Support Unavailable
Activate
Guilmon growled as his form appeared in a hazy outline from his Pet as the form glowed and shot out of the Digivice, leaving Guilmon growling in the real world. Again, he glowed as two forms; Digimon and Tamer were converted to data as they were mixed. Together, they formed another being, larger than what they were as it crashed through the low ceiling. Sparks of electricity shot out as the wires were ripped apart. Screams and shouts of surprise as the floor broke under the feet of people came from the building, as the large head appeared behind them, and they fell. Breaking through yet another floor, the ceiling crashed into the people below, crushing them under the weight.
A large snake-line dragon, with large red wings, a black digital hazard in its chest, and its ribs sticking out. Blades along its arms and a helmet on the top side of the reptilian face, and dilated angry eyes. As its head finally crashed through the roof of the building and hit the top of the Dimensional Area, it let out a roar when there wasn't enough space for it to be comfortable. Spreading his tattered wings and arms, his tail also thrashed around breaking down the support of more of the building, and breaking down that part of the building. Some of the building fell. Even more people now laid dead. Megidramon had appeared.
Harpuia stared at the Digimon with wondering and unfearing eyes, "What evil is this?" he questioned, "No virus can be this large."
Without any warning, Megidramon made the first move. Sliding forward, pushing more of the building away from his body and left the building itself leaving rubble in his wake, Megidramon swung his tail forward; Megidramon swept Harpuia off the ground, and straight through the air with raw power. Unprepared, Harpuia took the full blow, and because it was there, he slammed into the Dimensional Field. Crashing into it, Harpuia groaned in pain as he slid down towards the ground. Looking up, his eyes widened and he pushed himself forward just in time as Megidramon's claw dived into the ground where he had just been.
"Harpuia!" cried a voice as someone jumped out of the window and landed gracefully.
"You idiot!" cried another as another jumped out of a window, and landed with a crash, creating a crater.
Leviathan and Fefnir had come to help, but as Fefnir started to charge his guns, Harpuia yelled, "Stop! Do not fire from there!"
"What?" questioned Fefnir confused at the command to stop. But he was immediately thrown to the side due to Megidramon's hand. Landing next to Harpuia, Fefnir shouted, "What the fuck did you stop me for!"
"If you had shot from there, that… virus would have been drawn back to the direction of the building." Answered Harpuia as he stood up.
"So what?"
"The humans not involved with this would die."
"Shit…" muttered Fefnir swearing.
"But many have already fallen to this monster…" whispered Harpuia angrily, "These scientists are truly evil if they created such a thing!"
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"What the… Takato!" exclaimed a redheaded young woman from back inside the building. Staring at the Digimon through the large section missing from the building, she ran down what use to be a hallway, checking over all the people that were injured or buried there, hoping that they would not die.
"What has happened over there?" she questioned, cursing that she had let Takato go on ahead.
"Ranma! Takato!" shouted a young voice down the broken hallway.
"Who's there?" she questioned quickly. No one with a voice as young as that should be anywhere near here.
From behind a piece of the ceiling that had fallen, Tom looked around it, "Who're you?"
"Um, a friend of Ranma?" she answered with an unsure tone.
"Do you know where he is!" asked Tom getting hopeful.
"He's around here. But you should be getting back to where it's safe."
Tom shook his head, "Not until I find Ranma and Takato."
"It's okay, I'll find them." She said, not wanting him to get hurt.
"Then I'm coming with you. I'm not going till I find them." Said Tom as forcefully as he could.
She pointed upwards at the large thing clearly in view of everyone, "That thing is around."
Unsure for a moment, Tom quickly shook his head again and spoke loyally, "Doesn't matter. I'm not going without them."
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As Harpuia and Fefnir stood up, they were forced to immediately throw themselves to either side of the mouth that suddenly crashed into the ground, crashing into the ground to reveal dirt and stone under the grass. Megidramon growled lowly as he raised his large mouth off the ground and the drool that fell out dripped onto the grass and sizzled as it acted like an acid.
"But wasn't there a child out here with you too Harpuia?" questioned Leviathan out loud as she dived past Megidramon's swinging arms with her quick movement and stabbed upwards at Megidramon's shoulder from under it and quickly moving away when there was no real reaction from it.
Quickly remembering it, Harpuia answered, "That child…" as the memory of the boy came back to him after his shock from the monster, Harpuia continued, "That child became this monster? They would go so far as to corrupt mere children?" he shouted outraged, "May you forgive me child, but this monster of yours must fall before it kills anymore!"
As a response, Megidramon roared back at Harpuia. There was no way he would let such puny things get in his way. He was Megidramon, and nothing would be allowed to stand up to him.
"Megiddo…" growled the Digimon in a low voice and red flames started building up in his mouth as it aimed it towards Leviathan, "… Flare!"
Shocked, but not unable to move, the attack proved useless against Leviathan as although it was large and quick, Leviathan was small and agile. While the flare crashed against the side of the Dimensional Area, some of it rebounded off and onto the ground, setting a fire before the flames stopped coming from Megidramon's mouth as he realized he had missed.
Gritting his teeth as he focused himself, Harpuia jumped. Using his flying gear, Harpuia flew straight upwards at Megidramon's face, dragging one of his swords after him in an arc. Breaking off his trail after a few moments, where Harpuia had his sword dragging was now a large crescent energy flying quickly towards Megidramon. As Megidramon had a large body, and with such a confined space, there was no way for him to dodge it. Growling in annoyance, Megidramon swept a claw at Harpuia.
With the air being his territory, Harpuia used the least amount of movement required to dodge the large claw, and flew downwards in an arc, holding his sword out towards the side. Again, another crescent energy formed and flew at the Digimon. Megidramon roared as this cut into his arm. Although it wasn't a damaging, it still held annoyance for the proud Digimon.
Now that its attention was focused on Harpuia, Fefnir took this chance to attack. Charging himself up a bit for his attack, and his body glowed for a quick moment, Fefnir ran forward towards the tail as the energy transferred to his hand. Jumping a little as he got near, Fefnir slammed his hand against the base of the tail, shaking the whole tail from the massive strength the attack had. Quickly following that attack, Fefnir brought out his twin cannons, and aiming at the same area he attacked just a moment earlier, quickly let off fire balls at point blank range.
Megidramon was pissed. These little things were really getting on his nerves. It was bad enough that he was in such a small space. Although the fire balls didn't hurt, the slam had been painful to an extent. Bringing his tail up, Megidramon swept Fefnir off the ground and crashing into the wall of the Dimensional Field. That wouldn't be enough for him to be satisfied. Again, he slammed his tail into Fefnir, pressing him between the wall and his tail.
In pain from the rejection of the field, and from the impact of Megidramon's attack, Fefnir screamed out loud. Gritting his teeth as he bit back the shout, he glared evenly with the large Digimon.
"Fefnir!" shouted Leviathan swinging her spear in a crescent arc, leaving three large icicles pointing towards the tail. Picking up speed, the icicles moved forward to hit the part of the tail that was in contact with Fefnir, "Don't get too close or it'll happen again!"
"Then I'll be goddamn useless!" shouted back Fefnir as he aimed his cannons at Megidramon's chest. Firing a couple of times there, the attack impacted, but didn't seem to faze the monster, "They don't fucking hurt him!"
"They still annoy him Fefnir." Stated Harpuia flying near them quickly and moving away as having them all in the same spot was a bad idea, "It'll help."
"We need a direct hit, so bother him for a moment!" said Leviathan.
"Shit…" muttered Fefnir not liking this situation. He didn't want to distract it, he wanted to hurt it.
Running off in a separate direction from Fefnir, Leviathan stopped right before a claw slammed into where she would have ran right towards. Lowering his head to her, Megidramon growled menacingly at her. Drool escaping his mouth, he opened his jaw a little.
Not liking the sight at all, as it unnerved her, Leviathan spun her spear above her. As she did so, multiple spiked ice balls formed in the air above her. Swinging the spear diagonally downwards in front of her, the ice swiftly crashed into Megidramon's nearby head, shattering as they contacted his hard skin. Not waiting to see how much it had hurt the thing, Leviathan jumped backwards and floated away from Megidramon. Although she could fly, it wouldn't be useable for very long. She thought about complaining that there was no nearby lake or river, but it would only work to distract herself from the battle. Landing, she saw out of the corner of her eye the sight of Fefnir glowing brightly.
"… No choice…" growled Fefnir as he charged himself up for his attack, "I'll just bring up the power then…"
Swinging his cannons upwards at an angle, he carefully aimed so it would hit Megidramon. He didn't want it to miss. Cannons ready, Fefnir grinned, pulled the triggers and yelled, "Die!"
Shooting out of his guns, large fire balls erupted, wildly coming out from the two cannons and flying upwards towards the top of the field. Moments later, and fire rained from the top, randomly falling and crashing into the area around Megidramon
It wasn't the burning sensation of the fire that hurt Megidramon, but the strength they had come down with. Being pulled down by gravity and rebounding off the top of the dimensional area, and because Megidramon was so large, the fire was able to cause some pain to Megidramon.
"Damn, too low." Cursed Fefnir realizing that the fireballs weren't able to fly high enough to cause enough damage.
"Good enough!" exclaimed Leviathan, as she had finished charging, "Take this!" she shouted and she spun her spear in front of her and then thrust forward with the head. Erupting from the end, the head of an angry ice serpentine dragon. With the snapping of its mouth, it flew out of the spear's end, with its long body of ice following it out. Flying smoothly over to the thrashing Megidramon in a rush, it hit Megidramon directly in the chest, freezing the area it hit for a moment before it shattered.
"Wonderful…" stated Harpuia grimly as his form was also lighted up, "This must finish it!" he exclaimed. Crossing his blades in front of him, he started rapidly spinning around. Moving faster and faster, a tornado started to spin around him. Satisfied with how strong the tornado now was, he released himself from it and pulled out of the tornado, which was steadily moving towards Megidramon. Along the way, it had picked up quite a lot of the rubble and broken trees lying around.
Crashing into Megidramon, the tornado pushed against Megidramon, where the Digimon began to try to hold it back. Taking the tornado completely on his front, Megidramon attempted to claw at it. It proved useless, as the tornado was a strong wind. With all the things inside the tornado spinning and building up power before finally crashing into Megidramon, he was having a rough time.
To put the final touch on his attack, Harpuia, raised his swords to the sky before slashing them downwards in the direction of Megidramon. From above Megidramon, two bolts of thunder crashed into him on both sides of his head. Shocking and injuring him, Megidramon roared as the combined effort of the three Navis continued to wear him out. Injury to his chest to great for him to stand, Megidramon began to fall back.
As the tornado began to weaken, it finally disappeared. Push too far back and with his balance unsteady, Megidramon began to fall backwards towards the building.
"No!" exclaimed Harpuia as he saw the direction.
The Dimensional Area's wall cracked.
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Running around on the chaotic battle ground, where there was fire burning in some areas, and another part frozen into ice, Ranma and Tom ran withtheir eyes looking for their friend, and also keeping an eye on the battling fighters and Digimon.
"Excuse me miss!" cried Midi from his Pet, nearly buried by dirt that had been thrown around, "Excuse me! Tom why are you?"
"Huh?" wildly, the now older and female Ranma looked around, "Midi, is that you?"
Startled that his name was known to this stranger, he stared blankly at her for a moment, "What? How do you… Never mind! Would you kindly help me out?"
"Oh! Sorry about that." Stated Ranma as she quickly brushed away the dirt and a bit of rubble threatening to collapse on the unmoving Pet and Tom following behind her. As the Pet was removed, Ranma quickly questioned, "Where's Takato?"
"How do you know us?" questioned Midi quickly.
"Huh? Oh, I haven't been like this for so long that I forgot. I'm Ranma."
"Wha-" started Tom.
"Ho-" said Midi at the same time as Tom, but both were immediately cut off.
"No time, where's Takato?" repeated Ranma impatiently, "He might get hurt here."
In the proper state to be reminded now, Midi's eyes opened wide and he immediately panicked, "I don't know how! I don't know what's happening but I don't know why it's happening either! It's completely wrong! Not possible but he's in there! There has to be a scientific reason but I-"
"Midi. Where. Is. Takato." Questioned Ranma yet again speaking slowly, and forcefully.
Midi quickly stopped speaking his confused sentences and stared wide eyed at Ranma. He pointed up, "In that thing there."
Tom's head immediately snapped backwards to look upwards. "Are you serious? Takato got eaten?"
"No!" Midi held his head worriedly, "He just got so angry! Then the other one, the Digimon came out of his Pet. They did some kind of cross fusion to become that thing! Something went wrong! I'm sure Takato would never want to do such a thing around him!"
Ranma bit her lip. Takato was that? Was that a Digimon? The shows Takato made him watch had nothing to do with a human becoming one with a Digimon. Unless you became one yourself. But if so, this wasn't so far fetched. So Takato was this Digimon. He had to do something, but what?
"Ranma… ?" questioned Axl slowly from his Pet now attached to a different body, but same person, "What should we do?"
"I… Don't know. But we need to do something!" frustrated, Ranma started moving closer to Megidramon. She could get hurt, but that didn't matter as she was sure she could dodge it.
"Those three there. That's Harpuia, Fefnir, and Leviathan." Stated Axl pointing out the three.
"Yes, they are. But I don't know what'll happen if they defeat Takato." Said Ranma.
"Wait! Watch out!" shouted Tom as the large Digimon started falling towards them.
Quickly enough, the large body of Megidramon started to glow a bright light, as the body started to shrink. Getting smaller and smaller, it became two forms that continued to shrink. Finally stopping just before it they hit the ground, the body of an unconscious Takato, and a Digivice fell downwards.
Hitting the ground with a thump, Takato groaned still unconscious.
"Takato!" exclaimed both Tom and Ranma.
Both rushing over to him, Ranma checked to see if he had any injuries. Ranma frowned as she found no mark that Takato had gone through any battle. Surely he would have at least a bruise? Ranma moved her hand over Takato's mouth, and felt a small rush of air. He was still breathing.
Harpuia with the other two Navis nearing from behind him, started to slowly drop down from the sky in front of Ranma, "Woman, I ask you to leave that child, take the other one and leave."
Ranma stood in front of Takato and looked at Harpuia defiantly, "Hell no. You should take your little team and leave us alone."
The crack in the Dimensional wall grew larger. Leviathan looked at it worried and gave Harpuia a look.
Harpuia bit his lip and made eye contact with her to let her know that he knew it needed to be quick. "I will not harm you. I merely ask of you to leave the child."
Tom looked at the three with uncertainty in his eyes. But the look quickly disappeared as he ran in front of both Takato and Ranma, "I don't want you to hurt her or Takato! Ranma and Takato are both my friends!"
Taken aback by the braveness of the child, Harpuia took a step back. Surprised at the unexpected action of a child, Harpuia had no idea what to do, "I-"
"Harpuia! We can't delay any longer!" exclaimed Fefnir cutting him off.
The crack in the wall was starting to break through into a hole. Harpuia knew that if there was an opening in the field, they would no longer be able to stay here in the real world.
"Move aside!" he said commandingly.
Neither Ranma nor Tom moved an inch.
"… I see." Stated Harpuia calmly, "I do not understand how a child like he could have such people loyal to him. But I understand you will not back down."
Ranma didn't answer. Not receiving a response, Harpuia then continued, "That child can not continue to live with such a thing in him. We will come for him."
With the last word, all three Navis disappeared with a burst of light as a hole finally formed in the wall. Data pieces also started floating off Ranma. Immediately, the entire field started to collapse.
Now the person who stood in the older female's place was a young boy. He moved forward and put a hand on Tom's shoulder, "Are you okay?"
"I'm… okay…" answered Tom while shaking, "I'll be fine…"
"Jeez, I can't believe you did such a thing. What if they had attacked us?" said Ranma, questioning Tom's actions.
Tom quietly stood there, silent on the spot. His mouth moved but Ranma could barely hear him, "I would have still done it…"
Taken aback, Ranma looked at Tom, who seemed to have calmed down. He would have never thought the quiet Tom would be capable of doing such a thing. But he had seen enough strange things before. Turning around, Ranma picked up Takato's Digivice which seemed to have a blank screen at the moment. Putting it in his pocket, Ranma then kneeled on the ground while pulling Takato onto his back. If would be best if they got out of this area quickly before someone saw them. Children after all, were suppose to be in a safe place. Hopefully no one had seen Takato transform back from the Digimon, he was also hoping Takato would be able to handle having been the one to crush many people in the building and cause some of the collapsing.
Tom didn't seem to be worried right now either. Perhaps all that had happened hadn't quite sunk in yet? Shaking his head, Ranma stood up, "Let's go Tom, we can't stay here."
Tom nodded in reply as they started running back towards the part of the building that was still standing. Hopefully someone could help, and hopefully, everyone would be safe.
- - - - -
A young child was sitting down on the floor, in front of a large piece of the concrete ceiling. The blood dripping from his black haired head and into his eyes were left unbothered, as he had different things on his mind. Reaching forward with his hands, he crept forward to hold it closer to himself.
Tears fell from his blue eyes, mixing with his own blood. "Mother…" he said in a quiet voice, "Mother… Mother… Mother…" each time he repeated himself, his voice and his sobbing grew louder and louder. Shaking, the child held his mother's arm to himself. He wanted to hold her, but the large piece of concrete was in the way.
All of a sudden, he suddenly became still and quiet. With a swift movement, he suddenly brought a hand up and wiped the blood and tears breaking into his sight. Whipping his head quickly around, he stared with angry eyes at the large monster causing destruction. Even though the three Navis were trying to stop it, it was too strong.
What he was feeling, the anger. The death of his mother, the sorrow. The pain in his head, an annoyance. The destruction being caused, the hate. He would remember it all, because he would delete that monster. He would take revenge for his mother. He would not forgive it.
The world fell into darkness as he became unconscious.
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Author's Note
KrayZi: Oh wow, finally done. You probably won't notice, but this chapter is a bit shorter than the rest. But I think the action that happens makes up for it. What sucks is that I can't think of plot ideas, but I can think of ideas for individual characters. I'd rather have more plot than more character abilities. Now that I reread it, that last part seems to have some influence on it…
Kao: In his opinion while reading over it, KZ believes it to seem a bit rushed. Readers may not share the same view, but it was just something to share. Anyways, another story is in the works. But it will not be actually written until the ideas have been laid out. Someone doesn't want to write another story with no real idea where it's going at all. Someone wants to write it while knowing the direction he's going in, and make a better story than this. Someone wa-
KrayZi: Someone wants you to shut up. Thanks for reading again. Please review. Makes me so much happier.