New Or Old DigidestinedPart #2
Izzy: Something strange is arising in the digital world, to complicated for the younger kids to handle on their own. I'm not even sure what kind of power it is accumulating. All I know it we were minding our own everyday business when suddenly we were sucked through the portal that had been sealed. We were faced by with an entirely new dilemma, our age. We had been transformed back into our young selves. Everyone but, Yolei, Cody, and Davis, are four years younger. The prodigious power of this new evil is inconceivably miraculous; he even managed to change friends of ours that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then suddenly he decided to appear out of nowhere, and his first victim was Tara. He may be evil but he sure isn't smart, because he chose the wrong digidestined to mess with! ME!
"Tara!" Izzy and Robie shouted. Robie was first at her side, when Izzy dropped to his knees "Is she breathing?" he asked
"She's unconscious," Robie said growing slowly and angry. Tentomon soon landed at Izzy's side.
"She needs a doctor, should I go get Joe?" Tentomon asked, Tai and the others attempted to come closer.
Izzy jumped to his feet "Alright Digi-glitch! Show yourself!" Izzy shouted, to the dark figure, hovering in the air. Fists clinched he waited as the dark mass slowly transformed into a tall dark digimon. He had huge black eyes that peered down at them; a long black cap flowed down past his ankles. It was almost like starring at Miodismon, but the age of his face and the style of his clothing made him resemble more of an ancient sorcerer.
"Merlockmon." Nicki gasped
"You know him?" Matt asked gazing at Nicki. But her surprised eyes were locked on the evil digimon, and his every move.
"No," Luke shook his head in disbelief "He's deleted!"
"It can't be." Russ echoed.
"I don't know who he is and I don't care!" Davis shouted "Veemon armordigivolve!"
"Ready!" Veemon answered
"No Wait!" Mike shouted "Nicki…stop him."
Veemon armordigivolve too… A bright beam of light dissolved from Veemon and ascended to Merlockmon's extended hand.
"What happened?" Davis stared in shock at Demiveemon "Veemon you digivolved the wrong way!"
"I'm sorry." Demiveemon whispered faintly, "I don't know what came over me." Merlockmon laughed in his evil way.
"Merlockmon feeds off digivolving energy," Nicki tried to clarify "you could compare Veemon to a dead piece of coral."
"Is that some kind of food?" Demiveemon asked licking his lips hopefully.
"If we can't digivolve," Biomon asked, "Then how do we fight him?"
"You don't." Merlockmon laughed Cosmic lightning a huge purple bolt of lightning came from the sky directly toward Tai and the others.
"Nicki!" Matt dove pushing Nicki with him; Tai's group all hit the deck as pieces of earth exploded around them and flew through the air. The evil digimon did the same attack again this time he aimed it at Mimi, Russ, Luke, and Mike. Mimi screamed as Luke wrapped his arms around her and pushed her out of the way.
Poison Ivy Palmon tried but Merlockmon knocked her back. Robie picked up Tara and turned and ran. Izzy followed right beside them.
Super Shocker Tentomon attacked but the evil digimon was took quick, with a swing of his arm he knocked him out of the sky.
"Tentomon!" Izzy shouted looking back.
"Tara," Robie whispered quietly, but Izzy heard him. "We need you Smart Line, come back to us!"
"Come on!" Tai stepped up "All together!" Digimon and Digidestined agreed, all at once they attacked full power but to no avail. Merlockmon shook them off like nothing.
"Great, he's a brick wall!" Gatomon said
"I think it's time to run." Joe suggested
"That may be our only hope," Gomamon agreed
"NO!" Robie shouted, laying Tara down on the ground "No one's running, not from HIM!"
"He's insane," Matt said looking at Tai "He's going to get us all killed!"
"Robie," Izzy looked down at him "There's nothing our digimon can do, do you understand? There is nothing you can do…"
"We can fight!" Robie sounded so determined that it took Izzy by surprise. Merlockmon wasn't as surprise his evil laughter echoed through the air. The hair on the back of Russ's head visibly stood on end; he was never fond of that laugh.
"What are you laughing at?" Russ shouted at the top of his lungs. Luke pushed Russ back and tried to keep him quiet. "There's nothing funny here!"
"Of course there is!" Merlockmon stated, "Your only protection are these weak digimon and there digidestined. And yet you still want to fight. I was under the impression you were going to be more difficult to capture."
"That statement proves you're not Merlockmon!" Russ stated triumphantly but Mike wrapped his fingers around Russ's mouth hoping to silence him, "We ca..Umpp!"
Sora eyed Nicki, whose expression remained the same, as she shuffled of to Tai. "What's going on?" She asked, all Tai could do was shrug.
The irritated Digimon prepared to attack Russ, when suddenly something flew through the air and hit Merlockmon square in the back. He cried out in pain and immediately was hit again this time in the side. Blocking another, he spun around to see an ember-hared girl gripping a purple slingshot.
"Zowie!" Mike said happily
"Zowie?" Yolei looked at Kari "Whose Zowie?" Kari shrugged. Jay and Aubrey appeared behind her
"Stay away from my sister!" Jay shouted with all his might.
"Jay?" Kari said. She wasn't sure whether to be happy or shocked.
"Aubrey, Jay? How did they get here?" TK asked
"How did we get here?" Cody re-asked
"Ah I see, altogether again you think you have the strength." Merlockmon sighed in a mockingly loving tone "You'll be destroyed no doubt!"
Rattle Acid A huge wave of green acid poured down toward Zowie, Jay, and Aubrey.
"Oh Please work!" Aubrey prayed as she thrust her fist into the air. The acid poured down, but came in contact only with an invisible shield forcing it to disappear.
"What?" Merlockmon was obviously caught off guard. Aubrey jumped in excitement.
"It worked!" She exclaimed
"How…how is that possible?" Tai gasped, "What are they?"
"Just hold on guys," Nicki stated firmly, "We'll get you out of this, I promise."
"Tara?" Robie turned to her, no one had noticed but Tara sat up, still attempting to catch her breath "You're up." She gave a sharp nod 'Nicki' she thought 'I'm going to need your help'
"You got it!"Nicki said out loud as she smiled. Closing her eyes she concentrated on her friend. Her muscle's strengthened and Tara started into a dead sprint toward Robie.
Davis, Tai, Matt, Sora, and Yolei were forced to step back from Nicki as that blinding light began again.
"I don't know what their doing," Agumon said shaking his head "I just hope it works."
"Ya," Tai nodded "Me too,"
Tara approached Robie at full speed, stepping into his hands clasped together before him and he launched her into the air. Suddenly Tara's gloves let off there own bright yellow light similar to the light that surrounded Nicki but more concentrated.
'Digital key of Imagination' she thought
"What's happening?" Mimi shouted shielding her eyes. Mike put his hand on her shoulder assuring her it was all right.
"Go Sis." Russ cheered as a red disk of light formed in her hands.
"Fire Frisbee!" Tara shouted as she flung the disk at Merlockmon. This sudden blast of power stuck the startled digimon; the flames consumed him. He vanished before Tara even hit the ground. The digimon and digidestined all cried in triumph but Tara, she collapsed to the ground and passed out.
"Tara?" Izzy shouted nervously again running to her side. He cautiously dropped down beside her.
"She did it!" Nicki jumped excitedly into a sprint. Russ, Mike, Robie, Luke, Zowie, Aubrey, and Jay were already surrounding Izzy and Tara when Nicki approached. Mimi stood outside the excited group, as Nicki pushed through to the center. Where Izzy held Tara, who was still unconscious.
"Tara, wake up." Izzy whispered down to Tara. Nicki knelt beside him and smiled
"She's fine. She's not hurt, just weak."
"Question!" Yolei's annoying voice interrupted, "How and What did you do?"
"I for one want to know what you did," Cody inquired "That was truly amazing."
"And inhuman!" Davis blurted out
"I think we need to focus on one thing," Aubrey said, also moving her hands in unison. "And that's how to get back to the way we are. 'Cause I don't think my foster mother wants to live these years over again, as I recall it was something about sugar activated. I think that's what she called it and I don't want to go through all that again…"
"Okay Aubrey!" Luke stopped her "We get it. I say we move outta here, I don't like this hill anymore."
"Why?" Zowie said teasingly "Sacred Lu-Lu?" Luke clinched his fits and was about to dart after Zowie, but Nicki stood between them.
"Okay chill you two!" She said trying not to laugh "You can duke this out later, right now I think we need to move." Looking at Russ, Nicki raised and eyebrow. He understood what she was thinking, and childishly stomping his foot to the ground, Russ walked over and picked up Tara.
"The moving van is packed and loaded," Russ said sarcastically. "Where too Nicki?"
"With Tara out of commission I say let's go find JIZ!" Jay shouted happily clapping his hands, and then he stopped and straightened up. "Sorry, it's this body, makes me want to act different." Kari and Aubrey giggled in unison.
"JIZ? Are you telling us you've been here before?" Davis asked
"Actually no," Nicki smiled, "This is your digital world isn't it?"
"Yes…I mean," Now that Davis looked around he did notice it looked much different than before. "It does look different."
"We need to find someone that knows what's going on," Tai stated "and if you think this JIZ creature can tell us, than sure we'll go find him no questions asked."
"Just one question, You're sure this JIZ is somewhere here?" Sora inquired; there was silence no one talked. Then eye's shifted to Tara lying limp in Russ's arms.
"I don't remember," Russ said defensively.
"Not you Styrofoam," Nicki laughed "We always depended on Tara if we didn't want to wander around for days."
"That's funny because we always turn to Izzy." Tai laughed, and Izzy rolled his eyes as he opened his lap top and began scanning the digital world for some clues.
"This is strange," A few people gathered around Izzy, "Everything's changed, the whole layout of the digital world."
"And the weird thing is, is that they did it over night too," Patamon said.
"What do you mean?" But the digimon just shrugged,
"There was an earthquake a few days ago and things changed, and new digimon like Tigramon showed up." Agumon stated,
"Like someone uploaded a whole new program." Izzy suggested but Nicki cut him off.
"Before the virus showed up Tara was playing around with the idea of a collision." She said, "It's like two worlds collided, but that's one theory, if that's right than even if we remembered where to find JIZ it would have been reformatted too."
"And I wouldn't even know where to start looking," Luke stated looking at there surroundings
"You'd get lost in your own backyard!" Zowie teased
"Ha, ha, very funny Slingshot girl!" That was all Luke could come up with but he looked pretty satisfied.
"So you're saying there are other worlds out there like the digital world?" Palmon asked,
"Of course," Izzy smiled, "You can look at them in a line each mirroring the other but if one gets thrown off balance than it throws the other ones off."
"And since we didn't complete the mission before and stop Arukenimon the balance was thrown off colliding with another world?" Asked Mike
"Or," Nicki interjected, "Someone from the other world purposely caused the collision. Because he sensed the balance was off, and he wanted something that had slipped to the other side."
"But what would that be?" Davis asked, and Nicki simply lifted up her pant leg revealing the thin silver anklet. Davis skyrocketed into a panic, "Hey that's the anklet I found and was going to give to Kari, how'd you get that? Give it back…"
"You were going to give me a stolen piece of jewelry, how cheep are you?" Kari folded her arms and looked away.
"So you're the digi-destined of strength?" Tai questioned,
"Maybe," Nicki sighed, "I'm not really sure if Tara's theory is true yet we need to do some exploring."
"I have an idea if anyone will listen to me." Young TK suggested.
"Sure shorty!" Davis said patting him on the head.
"You do that again Davis, you'll regret it!" TK threatened.
"What's your idea TK?" Matt asked
"We'll why don't we all just split up. Some people can camp out until Tara wakes up and everyone else can go and explore for 'JIZ'." TK frowned "After all if this is the digital world, someone sure has done some reformatting."
"Okay," Tai finally said "Who's going stay here with Tara?" Russ Shoved Tara into Robie's arms, exclaiming Not Me! Izzy and Robie both said they would."
"Izzy, I need you with me." Tai said hoping Izzy wouldn't object. He did hesitate a little but didn't want to argue.
"Okay, I'm with you Tai!" He said enthusiastically.
"Great," Tai smiled "So Izzy and Zowie you're with me. Sora, Mike, Jay, Davis, TK and…Kari, and Matt you have Nicki and Joe. The rest of you make camp somewhere near here incase we don't find a way out."
"Wait," Yolei shouted "I think it's only fair that someone that can armordigivolve should go with each group, just incase we need the extra power."
"I agree with Yolei," Cody chimed in.
"Not a half bad Idea," Nicki said "Okay, I'm not sure how they work but Yolei stay, Cody with us, and Davis go with Tai." TK slowly exhaled, but no one moved.
"What's wrong guys?" Tai shouted, "Do what she says!" Everyone shuffled into groups.
"Hey what about me?" Russ shouted angrily "I ain't staying here."
"Stay with your sister," Matt shouted.
"I wasn't talking to you!" Russ shouted back.
"Russ," Nicki jumped in. She knew it could only get ugly, "Stay with Tara, Maybe you can help her gain some energy…please."
"Whoa…Nicki said please!" Luke gasped. "She must be serious." Nicki shot him a glare and Russ nodded, but he was still obviously annoyed and not happy.
"Alright let's get on the move!" Kari ordered.
"You be careful Kari." Davis shouted, Kari smiled back. They all went different directions.
"Well," a shadowed figure said smugly, as he watched the digidestined scatter on his monitor screen. "They sure know how to cover ground." He floated to another screen and flipped a switch; the screen changed to a close up of Nicki. "Less then one hour and they did it. I never thought humans could be so cooperative. Now all I have to do is recapture the bait and the Key's will come to me. Then the rest of the digivices and all that will be out of the way." He snapped his fingers and a chair appeared, he sat down and laughed "I must find out who created this place…They were quite clever."
"Um, sir. We have two of the digimon you asked for." A voice said.
"Hum, Perfect. This is about to get interesting." He thought, "Take me to them!"