Heh, yes, he lives. And more too. XD Read on, loyal reviewer, LordPata!
A dark figure watched the scene from the top of a nearby building, invisible unless he wished it not to be. He watched impassively at the might of WarGreymon X, as well as the demise of the Myotismon X. However, when he saw the impending doom of the Digidestined, he acted.
A long thin, slightly curved sword was drawn from its sheath, and a hand was held up, swathed in Digicode. The tip of the sword was put to the Digicode, then drawn swiftly through it. The Digicode shattered, drawing itself around the figure. The light from the code revealed an 'X' shaped scar on the figure's left cheek, then it was hidden as the Digital Code covered him.
"Spirit... Evolution," said a low voice.
As the Digicode swirled around the figure, it slowly grew weaker, until it disappeared completely, revealing a humanoid covered in black armor, with two swords strapped to its back. A black scarf wound around its neck, and its helmet had the motif of a dragon's head, with red eyes. The bottom of a human face could just be seen at the bottom of the helmet, but the black scarf obscured any details. Red streaks punctuated the armor, pooling especially at the feet and the hands. On the chest area was a symbol, the Rune of Blood, amidst a pool of ruby.
"Bladedramon," murmured the new Digimon, for apparently Digimon it was.
With an inhuman leap, the Digimon cleared a television aerial with ease, drawing out its blades at a speed that the naked eye couldn't follow, spinning in the air with its blades held out to the sides and landing gracefully behind WarGreymon X, its blades sheathed in an instant.
WarGreymon X stopped in mid-stride, his red eyes suddenly opening wide. The Digimon behind him stayed motionless. With a gasp, WarGreymon X fell to his knees. His eyes changed from red back into the usual green. His breath came in ragged gasps.
Behind him, the figure stood up. Amber eyes gazed out at WarGreymon X from below the dracon helmet.
"The X Rage. Potent, isn't it? Do not let it overcome you again, for then I will have to delete you." The voice was low and growly, as though its user hadn't spoken for a while. "The Chosen must remain safe, for this new war they will have a role to play that is more important than Digimon. The X Virus has risen, and with it, the stability of the Digital World is at risk. You must be wary."
WarGreymon X wearily stood up, wavering slightly, then standing firm. His green eyes gazed at the new arrival with wonder.
"Who... are you...?"
The Digimon hesitated for a while, then replied, "Bladedramon."
With that said, the Digimon, Bladedramon, disappeared in a whirl of his black scarf. But as Tai would say later, as he left, right before he left their vision, a veil of Digicode surrounded him, and a glimpse of red hair could be seen, as well as the bright gleam of a drawn blade.
"I'm sorry guys... I guess I just flipped eh?" muttered a sheepish WarGreymon X.
But he was cut off as Tai ran up and threw his arms around his Destined Partner.
"WarGreymon!" he pulled back slightly, smiling up at the X Mega level through tear-filled eyes. "Welcome back."
WarGreymon X nodded as well, blinking back his own tears.
"I'm glad to be back."
They arrived at Mimi's apartment building to find the rest of the team already assembled there, with their Digimon arrived from the Digital World. They stood in a line, daring any X Digimon to come, which they did. When Tai and the rest arrived, they were all busy fending off attacks.
"Time to ditch this rubble!" shouted MetalGarurumon X.
Hidden missile compartments opened up all around his body, and the missile compartment on his right shoulder flipped up, followed by the atomic laser on his left. The Gatling machine gun that formed his left hand started to warm up, whirring with a low hum as MetalGarurumon X brought it up to bear.
"Garuru Burst!" he shouted, firing all his weapons at once. The bullets cut through the air, severing the tentacles of a Gesomon X, while the atomic laser blew a Soulmon X into data pieces with no problem at all. Missiles arced through the air, slamming into enemies, blowing them to kingdom come if they were weak enough, while weakening those who weren't.
WarGreymon X stepped up, flames gathering all around him. "Gaia Force ZERO!"
He threw his trademark ball of living fire into the fray as well, sending numerous Devimon X who were ganging up on Imperialdramon to the Dark Sea, the graveyard of the Digital World where all evil Digimon are sent upon deletion. Good Digimon were sent to one of the numerous Primary Villages around the Digital World, which are the nurseries of the Digital World, and where Digitamas were formed.
Angewomon sent a volley of white arrows over Lillymon's head as the nature fairy flew over to her tamer, blasting a team of weak Gizamon Xs out of her way as she did so.
"Mimi!" she cried.
"Lillymon!" came the return cry.
A tall girl with flowing brown hair and dressed in a long red skirt came running out, catching Lillymon in her embrace.
"Where did you go? Who are these... Digimon?"
Lillymon grimaced. "This is gonna be hard to explain. Just know that the MetalGarurumon X and the WarGreymon X are on our side."
"X?! I thought they were the bad guys!"
Lillymon shrugged. "They were. At least, WarGreymon was, almost. Don't ask." She added hurriedly, seeing her tamer open her mouth. "It's a long story."
Mimi Tachikawa closed her mouth and nodded. In battle, questions came later. Even the refined and polite Mimi knew that, although she had lived a sheltered life. Although Tai and the others would've said she had led a spoilt life.
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
The familiar huge bulk of Zudomon smashed his hammer into the ground, instantly deleting a group of X Digimon below it while the electric shockwave generated by the blow finished off another group of stragglers.
"Go Zudomon!" shouted a blue haired teen with glasses, looking slightly frail compared to the others.
"I'll take care of myself Joe! You get behind cover!" replied the sea creature.
The blue haired Jou Kido rushed to avoid a barrage of fire from a Tyrannomon X. However, the other, shorter teen near to him, wearing an orange shirt and with a laptop strapped to his back, and with lightning streaks on the sides of his shoes, stood his ground, urging a large beetle with a jewel in its hard shell onward.
"MegaKabuterimon!" he shouted. "Give 'em a taste of lightning!"
"Horn Buster!" shouted the beetle. Large and red with four arms and a horn to match, MegaKabuterimon was a force to reckon with, especially since he was roughly the size of Zudomon, which was no small feat. Being the partner of the Digidestined of Knowledge, Koushiro Izumi, helped too.
A blast of thunder hurtled from the tip of his horn: the projectile version of the attack. The blast of thunder smashed into the fountain near the front of the block of apartments, electrocuting a squad of Otamamon X whose bubbles had been irritating the team, although not wounding them much. The Horn Buster attack effectively put them out of commission, allowing the team to focus on the more important task of staying alive.
Nearby, a tall humanoid, with feathers coming out of his elbows and wearing a metal visor, and with a bird's body below the waist was firing blasts of red energy out of his hands, which were cupped together.
"Silphymon!" yelled a pink-haired teen with huge glasses. The girl was almost jumping up and down, despite the short brown-haired kid standing next to her who was trying to calm her down.
"Yolei, Silphymon will take care of himself. You better get down right about… now."
So saying, the kid threw himself to the ground dragging the teen, Miyako Inoue, with him as he dodged a full clip of MetalGarurumon X's bullets, which slammed into a Goblimon X that had sneaked up behind them. The kid, Iori Hida, stood up again, brushing off his clothes calmly.
Yolei however, stayed on the ground. "Cody, I don't know how you do that. We could die any minute!" she whimpered.
Cody ignored her, focusing on a small creature that looked vaguely like a robot, only it was completely made out of rock, which on closer examination turned out to be made of meteors that had crashed somewhere in the Digital World before. Most of the surface had been whitened by the sun's glare, making him look slightly white.
"Meteormon, there's a gap to your left. Hit it." He seemed calm, even through the chaos that was erupting all around him.
The rock creature nodded, leaping into the air and falling down with his fist out.
"Falling Star!"
The attack sent a huge explosion up, instantly deleting a group of Betamon X that were being too inquisitive for their own good. Nearby X Ultimates and X Megas were also knocked over by the force.
"Behind you."
Meteormon spun around, his fist catching an approaching Devimon X and deleting him instantly despite the X Champion's larger physical presence.
Meanwhile, Imperialdramon was smashing enemies right and left, pulverizing them with his powerful kicks and punches, with the occasional blast from the Positron Cannon on his wrist. Whenever his friends gave him adequate cover, both variations of the Giga Death attack inflicted severe casualties upon the X Digimon. All in all, he gave WarGreymon X and MetalGarurumon X a real run for their money.
The tamers of his two component Digimon stood side by side, yelling encouragement at their partners. Daisuke Motomiya and Ken Ichijouji couldn't have been more different, with Davis being outgoing and reckless, while Ken was cool as ice and always analyzed the situation with a critical eye. A boy genius, Ken was the Digidestined's enemy for a while, but it turned out that he was being manipulated, and he cast away his evil persona and joined the Digidestined after a series of events which ended with his Partner, Wormmon, being deleted before his eyes. That event made him see that Digimon were actually living creatures, not just pieces of data. Filled with guilt for his numerous crimes, he wants to punish himself by throwing himself into the most dangerous situations to help the Digidestined, but he is always followed by Davis who was his first and best friend, and was determined to keep Ken safe.
Now, Davis, with his trademark goggles that Tai had given him on his first venture into the Digital World perched on his brown spiky hair, wearing his usual blue blazer with fiery decorations along the bottom border and a fur collar over a pale brown shirt and wearing his usual khaki pants was standing side by side with Ken, who was also in his usual attire of light grey long-sleeved shirt and a pair of light grey track pants with his blue hair spilling over his eyes, cheering Imperialdramon on while Ken gave clipped orders as his cool grey eyes surveyed the area.
But the real winning cards for the Digidestined were WarGreymon X and MetalGarurumon X. The two X Megas wrecked havoc among the X Digimon ranks, using the incredible power gifted by the purified X Antibody to demolish their enemies and saving the teens' skins many a time.
MetalGarurumon X's pinpoint accuracy coupled with WarGreymon X's deadly efficiency formed the ultimate team, working simultaneously to hold back the much larger enemy force. Their experiences and skills as well as their determination made them more powerful than the occasional BlackWarGreymon X and BlackMetalGarurumon X that popped up, and a well placed Gaia Force ZERO or a carefully aimed Blue Crusher took them down almost as soon as they came up, although they sometimes proved powerful enough to stay standing after the attack, and then WarGreymon X or MetalGarurumon X would swoop down to take them on in one-on-one duels, leaving the other to take on the duty of protecting the others with Imperialdramon.
But unlike normal, where the Digimon were the only ones fighting, this time, the teens actually pitched in and helped, guided by first Tai, then Matt, then finally the impulsive Davis. Following their leaders' lead, the rest of the teens opened up their own assault, some like Joe and Izzy scared at first, but slowly growing bolder with each rock they threw, others like Mimi and Yolei who threw themselves right into the fray despite the fact they were girls and started smacking anyone who came near them with, in Mimi's case, her hat, while Yolei swung her briefcase.
But that was when Matt noticed someone missing.
"Where's Sora?!"
Sora Takenouchi, Matt's girlfriend, was the only one absent at the time. Her flaming bird Digimon, Garudamon, was also missing; only now missed despite her huge bulk.
Tai called out to WarGreymon X.
"WarGreymon! Have you seen Vritramon since he left?"
"No!" WarGreymon X shouted over his shoulder. "I haven't seen him since he left to find Sora!"
Matt slammed his fist into the ground, heedless of the pain. "Damn it! Where is she?!"
MetalGarurumon X shot down a Cerberumon X with his Garuru Burst attack, turning to face Matt as he trusted WarGreymon X to guard his back.
"Matt, you want me to radio KendoGarurumon or Vrtitramon? They've got inbuilt radios that let anyone with radios contact them."
Matt shook his head. "No... Leave them be. They can take care of each other and I trust Biyomon to take care of her. We better concentrate on getting this rabble outta here first..."
But although he threw himself into the battle with renewed vigor, there seemed to be an almost maniacal desperation in the way he swung his pipe. Tai came up beside him, covering his back.
"Matt, Sora's tough. She'll live. Trust me on this... 'kay?" Tai seemed to be trying to reassure himself as well as Matt, and seeing that just made Matt feel worse.
"Whadaya mean live?!"
He dropped his pipe on the ground with a clang, turning around and grabbing Tai by his collar.
"Tell me she's alive dammit! Don't give promises you can't keep!"
There was silence around them. The battle continued around them but it seemed like they were trapped within a bubble of air that let no sound pass through.
"Tell me… Tell me she's alive…"
Matt was sobbing, almost begging as his powerful grip lost strength and he slumped to the ground.
Tai knelt down beside him, awkwardly patting his shoulder, ignoring the fact that just seconds ago those shoulders had been tense and ready to shake him.
"Matt, I've known Sora a long time. If she wants to do something, rest assured: Nothing's gonna stop her."
Matt glanced up at him with tear-stained eyes, then his blue eye's suddenly widened as they focused on a point slightly above and behind Tai's shoulder. He pushed his friend out of the way, grabbing his pipe up and swinging it to smack stoutly against the muzzle of an Airdramon X who had sneaked through WarGreymon X and MetalGarurumon X's guard.
Tai whirled around, his own pipe swinging up in a whistling arc that whacked the Airdramon X right under the jaw, forcing it upwards where it was obliterated by a blast from MetalGarurumon X's X-R5 atomic laser.
Grinning through their mutual tears at their fears of Sora's safety, the two clasped hands together, sliding from that hand clasp into a battle position with their backs to each other.
"On the count of three…" muttered Matt, holding his pipe before him like a sword.
Tai nodded, in the same stance but with the pipe angled downwards as though he had just finished a slashing maneuver.
"One…" murmured Matt.
"Two…" continued Tai.
Then the cry came.
"Guys!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Corona Blaster!"
"Solar Laser!"
The three attacks came from above, with the armor lupine form of KendoGarurumon sending bolts of light energy down hitching a ride on the massive Garudamon's back behind Sora, while Vritramon flew nearby, raining down fiery blasts down onto the horde of X Digimon, which was noticeably thinning now. Flames gathered before Garudamon and formed the shape of a phoenix, then plummeted down to smash with an explosion in a thick swarming mass of X Digimon.
"Get on me," said KendoGarurumon, turning sideways so that Sora could mount him. "I'll get you down there."
With a leap, the lupine leapt into the air.
"Hold on!" he shouted. "Blade Whirlwind!"
He started to spin, literally drilling through the air as he dived down, with Sora clinging to his back as tight as she could with her eyes shut, trying to ignore the tumbling in her stomach. The golden wing blades on his back flicked out, and with that he sliced into the top of a Seadramon X, deleting it instantly as he landed on all four feet.
Sora, a little dizzy from the spinning maneuver, nearly fell off his back, but Matt, who had ran out the instant he heard her cry, was there to steady her.
WarGreymon X glanced over his shoulder, nodding to himself as he saw that Sora was safe.
"No mercy."
The words echoed through his mouthpiece, reaching the ears of all the Digimon present, both Destined and X. The codeword for the final push of the Digidestined galvanized them into action, the X Digimon now fighting for their lives, and the Destined Partners of the Chosen fighting to protect their partners.
"Gaia Force ZERO!"
"Garuru Burst!"
"Flower Cannon!"
"Vulcan's Hammer!"
"Wing Blade!"
"Horn Buster!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
"Flame Storm!"
"Speed Star!"
"Giga Death!"
"Top Gun!"
"Galactic Flare!"
The explosion that went up was massive, with lightning threaded through it, as well as flames and streaks of red energy that came from Silphymon's fists. Bullets zinged through the air as MetalGarurumon X unleashed another seemingly inexhaustible torrent of armaments at the enemy, while Vritramon and KendoGarurumon jumped right into the middle of the explosion, using its power to enhance their own attacks. The single light beam that was emanated from Angewomon's bow separated into numerous rays that pierced through the bodies of the X Digimon, being especially effective on the darkness and undead-based X Digimon. Meteormon's Galactic Flare attack shot forth a huge blast of energy from within him, almost as powerful as an exploding star while Imperialdramon fired his awesome chest cannon.
And in the midst of all that the greatest miracle occurred. TK's D-3 suddenly glowed bright white and the insignia of Hope hovered in the air before him as a squeaky voice called out, "Patamon, Digivolve to... Angemon!" Then a deep warm voice continued the evolutionary line, crying out, "Angemon, Crest Digivolve to..."
The angel swung his right hand out, the mighty Excalibur humming to life as the purple beam shield activated in his left arm. His eight white wings spread through the air, while the purple beam shield on his left arm activated.
"MagnaAngemon!"
TK's eyes were wide in wonder and joy, tears of happiness brimming in the corners.
"Magna... Angemon..." he muttered.
"Gate of Destiny!" shouted the angel, slicing right through to the Digital World with Excalibur, opening the feared Gate and its terrible vacuum.
One by one, the X Digimon succumbed to the Gate, being drawn inside it even as they fought to retain their footing. First, it was a small trickle, then MagnaAngemon increased the power of the gate and soon there was a flood through the air of X Digimon as they were pulled into the Gate of Destiny, given no chance and expecting none as they roared and clawed at each other in a last desperate attempt.
"But… how…?" muttered Matt.
"Be gone!" called out MagnaAngemon. "The Gate of Destiny has decided your fate!"
Excalibur slashed down in a glowing purple arc, cutting straight through the middle of the Gate of Destiny and causing the two halves of the Gate to draw together, sealing the final lock. The Gate then shrank into itself, deleting itself and the X Digimon within it.
"Game… over." WarGreymon X lowered his Dramon Slayers, making a gesture that grieved for the souls of the dead.
There, how d'you like it? MagnaAngemon's back! Yay! XD