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Chapter 2: Return of the Demon Biker

Within the cavernous lair of the Seven Lords in the Digital World, Beelzemon was working on his motorcycle, the Behemoth. The Lord of Gluttony wanted his pride and joy to be ready for when he went into battle again. Beelzemon was eager to fight again, especially if it was against Matt and MetalGarurumon. He had fought them before when he helped out with Lilithmon's attempt to corrupt Davis, but their fight was cut short. Since then Beelzemon had wanted a rematch. As he continued working on his bike, Beelzemon heard the sound of footsteps entering the chamber, and he didn't need to turn around to see who it was.

"Hey Daemon," Beelzemon greeted as he paused work on his bike.

"I hope I'm not disturbing you," Deamon responded.

"Nah, I was just giving Behemoth a little tune-up," Beelzemon replied as he got up to face Daemon. "Lilithmon told me about what happened to Belphemon. The Master's not gonna be to happy when he finds out."

"The Master will ignore the lose of Belphemon when he hears the success of my plan."

Beelzemon chuckled. "Well then, you better hope that your little plan works. Otherwise your ass is fried. Hell, the Master's probably still steamed about your screw up in the Dark Ocean when you lost the Hope and Light kids."

"I'm touched by your concern," Daemon responded sarcastically.

"Hey, I'm concerned. If you get fried I'll have to deal with Lilithmon on my own. You know how she gets when she's mad. Anyway, why'd ya come here?"

"I need your help with the next phase of my plan. It would involve you fighting WarGreymon or MetalGarurumon."

Beelzemon grinned. "I'm listenin'."


Later that night at Matt's apartment, Sora and Matt were in bed together. The original plan for Matt to sleep on the couch had ended up being abandoned. Perhaps it was because of the stress caused by the battle with Belphemon and the argument with Tai that afternoon, or perhaps it was something else, but for whatever reason Matt and Sora wound up making passionate love. Though they were both spent, neither of them had gone to sleep. They merely cuddled together in silence for what may have been hours or minutes.

"…You think that I was too hard on Tai?" Matt asked, suddenly breaking the silence.

"…Maybe," Sora answered honestly after a moment. "I mean he probably didn't even send me that so-called stuffed animal."

"Yeah, you're probably right."

"Why'd you think that he lied about sending me the thing?" Sora asked as she suddenly propped herself up a bit with her right arm.

Matt sighed, still looking up at the ceiling. "I don't know. Maybe a part of me thought he sent that thing to you on purpose as some kind of revenge."

"Hey! Tai might've taken me leaving him for you pretty hard, but I know he wouldn't try and get revenge like that."

"Yeah, I know that too. I guess I should apologize to him, huh?"

"Yeah, but that can wait for tomorrow. Right now we should get some sleep. It's been a long day."

"…I still down have to sleep on the couch, do I?" Matt asked jokingly.

Sora laughed. "Just go to sleep."


The next afternoon, Sora and Biyomon were walking back to the apartment building after an unsuccessful search for a new place. At the places they had tried so far, the rent was either too high, or there was just no room available. The two were unaware that they were being watched. Not too far away, Beelzemon was watching them while sitting atop the Behemoth. Daemon was with him.

"So you want me to nab the girl?" Beelzemon asked.

"That's right," Daemon confirmed. "But I want you do it when either the child of friendship or courage is watching. That way they can give chase."

"Do ya want me to kill the girl?"

"Use your own judgment. Just don't try too hard to get away when they start to chase you."

"Hey, I don't wanna run from those guys, I wanna fight 'em!" Beelzemon stated with an excited look in his eye. "But if you want me to give 'em a little ride first, that's fine by me."


A bit later as Sora and Biyomon walked up to the building, they saw Matt and Gabumon out waiting for them.

"How'd it go?" Matt asked.

"Don't ask," Sora answered as she sighed heavily.

"Well, maybe you'll have better luck tomorrow. Right now how do you feel about taking a trip to our favorite park?"

"I'd like that."

As they began walking to the car, they suddenly heard the loud roar of a motorcycle heading towards them. When they looked, they immediately recognized the rider. It was a creature with three red eyes, blue skin, and blond hair, wearing a black mask and leather jacket with a white furred collar, they had encountered the creature before, it was Beelzemon. Beelzemon laughed madly before firing a round from the shotgun he held in his right hand. The round caused a small explosion in front of the group, and in the smoke and confusion Beelzemon grabbed Sora and threw her on the back of his bike. It was a moment before Matt noticed.

"Hey punk!" Beelzemon called after stopping a little ways down the road. "I've got your girlfriend! If ya want her back, you're gonna have to come get me!"

With that, Beelzemon took of down the road, laughing madly as he did so. It didn't take long for Matt to figure out what to do.

"Let's go Gabumon!" Matt commanded.

"You got it!" Gabumon replied before glowing with a blue light. "Gabumon warp digivolve to…MetalGarurumon!"

In a flash Gabumon had become the giant cybernetic wolf that was his Mega form. Without hesitating, Matt jumped on MetalGarurumon's back. Biyomon flew up and took a seat in front of Matt, and with both passengers aboard MetalGarurumon took off down the road after Beelzemon. Beelzemon meanwhile, had driven out onto the freeway, startling many drivers and causing a few of them to crash into the side of the road. The demon biker laughed at the destruction that he had inadvertently caused.

"Hey, hey, hey! Get out of the way! This road is mine!" Beelzemon cried as he suddenly started firing his gun into the road, causing more drivers to try and veer out of the way.

Sora meanwhile was screaming and trying to cling on for dear life. Beelzemon took great delight in this.

Beelzemon laughed with mad glee. "What's the matter babe? Am I goin' to fast for ya?"

Both Sora and Beelzemon glanced back and saw MetalGarurumon following after them with Matt and Biyomon aboard. The gap between them was wide, but gradually closing.

"So, ya think you can keep up with my Behemoth?" Beelzemon called to his pursuers. "Well just try and catch me punk!"

With that, Beelzemon increased speed, as did MetalGarurmon. For quite some time the metal wolf chased after the demon biker. Occasionally Beelzemon would fire a few shots into MetalGarurumon's path, causing the wolf to swerve to avoid them. Matt wasn't sure how much longer MetalGarurumon could keep up the chase.

"Matt, I have an idea about how to stop this chase, but it's a risk!" MetalGarurumon told his human partner.

"What is it?" Matt asked.

"I think that from this range I can fire a few missiles in Beelzemon's path to stop him! The problem is that Beelzemon might crash, and with Sora on his bike she could get hurt."

"Well, I guess we don't have any other options. We can't keep this up for much longer. Do it!"

MetalGarurumon opened a few of the missile ports on his body and opened fire. Most of the missiles hit the road in front of Beelzemon, but one hit the front tire of the Behemoth and caused the rest of the bike to swing upward and throw both Beelzemon and Sora into the air. Matt looked on in horror at the sight before him. Suddenly a figure flew past from the left at incredible speed and caught Sora. Beelzemon hit the ground, while the Behemoth crashed and exploded a few feet away. MetalGarurumon stopped and Matt looked to see that the figure that saved Sora and was surprised to see that it was WarGreymon. A car suddenly pulled up behind MetalGarurumon and the driver got out. The driver of the car of course was Tai. Matt ran up to WarGreymon as he set Sora back on the ground. Biyomon was flying close behind.

"Are you alright?" Matt asked Sora as Tai joined him.

"Yeah, I'm okay," Sora answered as she hugged Matt.

"You punk!" Beelzemon yelled as he got back to his feet. "Look what you did to my Behemoth, it's trashed! For that I'm gonna KILL YOU!"

With that, Beelzemon pulled out both his shotguns and opened fire. Very quickly WarGreymon jumped in front of the group, pulled the shield from his back in front of him, and blocked the shots.

"WarGreymon, finish this psycho!" Tai commanded.

"You got it!" WarGreymon replied.

With that, WarGreymon began charging forward, his shield still up to block the barrage from Beelzemon's guns. When he was close enough, WarGreymon quickly put his shield back and impaled Beelzemon in the stomach with the blades on the end of his right arm. Beelzemon's arms slumped to his sides and he dropped his guns. WarGreymon then pulled his arm back out.

"You…son of a…" Beelzemon began to curse, but before he could finish he fell to the ground on his face.

The Lord of Gluttony was no more, and his body began to dissolve into particles of data. Beelzemon's fallen motorcycle dissolved with him. With Beelzemon gone, Tai suddenly punched Matt in the face and knocked him to the ground, surprising Sora.

"You son of a bitch!" Tai shouted at Matt. "What the hell were you thinking with firing those missiles? You almost got Sora killed!"

"It wasn't like I had any other choice!" Matt shouted back. "MetalGarurumon couldn't keep up with Beelzemon forever, so I had to take a gamble!"

"A gamble that almost cost Sora her life! You're lucky I was here to save her!"

"I suppose that firing those missiles was your idea!" WarGreymon said angrily to MetalGarurumon. "Your answer to everything is to just blow stuff up!"

"And I suppose you would've done way better." MetalGarurumon said sarcastically. "You arrogant piece of…"

"Enough!" Sora yelled, stopping all of the arguing. "Stop fighting, all of you! Look, you both saved me and Beelzemon is dead! It's over!"

"Sora is right!" Biyomon cut in. "Matt may have taken a huge risk with what he did, but Sora is okay, and that's the only thing that matters."

Tai's expression softened a bit, but he was still furious. "Fine, I'll drop this for now. But you haven't heard the last from me about this Matt!"

With that, Tai stormed back into his car. WarGreymon reverted back into Agumon and got in with him and the two drove off.

"…Sora, you know that I wouldn't do anything to put you in danger on purpose, right?" Matt asked after a moment.

"Of course," Sora replied with a smile. "Now let's go home."

With that, the couple and Biyomon got onto MetalGarurumon's back and rode off. They were unaware that Daemon was on a nearby hill watching them. Lilithmon suddenly appeared next to him in a burst of flames.

"This is a disaster!" Lilithmon told the Lord of Wrath. "Belphemon getting killed was one thing, but Beelzemon too? The Master is going to be outraged!"

"Indeed, I did not intend for Beelzemon to parish," Daemon admitted. "I either underestimated WarGreymon's strength, or I overestimated Beelzemon. Still, despite this lose my plan is one step closer to succeeding. I intended for one of the two to take a huge risk in saving the girl that would put her in danger, thus earning the wrath of the other. I'm certain that the success of my plan will cause the Master to overlook Beelzemon and Belphemon's deaths."

Lilithmon sighed. "I hope you're right. Incidentally, how did you know that Tai would be around here?"

"I've been observing him for the past month, and I know he takes this route home from work. With this in mind, I told Beelzemon to have Matt chase him down this route."

"Clever as always. So what now?"

Daemon let out an ominous chuckle. "Now I will prepare to cast my spell."


Author's Note: One of the reasons why I'm doing Demon Crisis as a series instead of a single story is so I can "thin out the herd" of Demon Lords before the final battle. Now if you haven't been keeping track, I killed of Leviamon in Home by the Sea, Barbamon was killed off in Dark Tamer, and you just saw Belphemon and Beelzemon killed off in this story. So the only members of the Seven Lords left at this point are Daemon, Lilithmon, and "you know who". This chapter was a bit of a challenge to write, as I've never written a chase scene before.

Please review and let me know what you think.