Disclaimer: Although the severely warped and twisted imagination is my own, Digimon Xros Wars and its characters are the property of Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, Toei Animation, and TV Asahi.
| Digimon Xros Wars | Xtra | Part 18 |
| The Chaos Generals and the Xros Dimensional Adventure | Part 1 |
"Death Divider!" Cyberdramon spun around the shaft of his Twin Lancer and struck down several approaching Skull Baluchimon with his tail. The army led by Spinomon in the Fossil Zone had only been stunned when Imperialdramon had come to retrieve Taiki and the others, but now they were being assaulted ruthlessly by the constituents of Blue Flare.
"Heavy Tailhook!" Deckerdramon spun in place striking down another section of the army of Skull Baluchimon.
"Plasma Cannon!" Mail Birdramon, meanwhile, shot Spinomon square in the chest with one of the ultra high energy plasma shells from his mouth. The blast sent the huge theropod digimon momentarily off balance. However, Spinomon was barely damaged by the attack and recovered quickly taking a swing at the armored avian digimon with one of his clawed forearms. Mail Birdramon quickly dodged around Spinomon's arm and flew on up over the dinosaur digimon's head to move out of range of those large claws. After all, with Kiriha hanging onto his back using the armored avian digimon for transport, Mail Birdramon took it upon himself to be extra careful about not getting hit even though his general didn't seem particularly concerned for his own safety when it came to these sort of battles.
Indeed, Spinomon's army of Skull Baluchimon hadn't put up much of a fight. Pretty soon Spinomon would be the only one left standing and then it would be just a matter of time before he too would be defeated by the power of Blue Flare.
"Sonic Slash Rain!" Spinomon shot off all the metal blades from his back to rain down on the surrounding digimon without giving any consideration to the fact that the majority of them were his allies. In the aftermath, it became readily apparent that only his own subordinates had fallen while Mail Birdramon, Cyberdramon, and Deckerdramon had managed to evade or shield themselves from the falling blades.
"You've just made my job here a whole lot easier," Kiriha noted with a smirk. "Blue Flare, focus all firepower on Spinomon!"
"Erase Claw!" Cyberdramon lifted one of his clawed hands away from his Twin Lancer to project a dark shockwave off of his claws directed at the huge theropod digimon.
"Deckerdra-Launcher!" Deckerdramon followed suited with a barrage of missiles.
"Nighthawk!" While Cyberdramon and Deckerdramon hit Spinomon from the ground, Mail Birdramon swooped in overhead and blasted the dinosaur digimon from above. Spinomon seemed dazed from the multiple impacts, but because of the sturdy armor provided by his thick scales, the theropod digimon was still standing.
"Again!" Kiriha ordered. "Don't stop until he's beaten into the ground!"
"Are you sure you're ready to start traveling again?" Zenjirou was openly concerned for Crystal's safety after, but that's to be expected since she's a girl. And, since she hadn't made any mention of a boyfriend, presumably single. And she had only had the one night to recover after pushing herself to the point of collapse the day before.
"Listen, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm alright. And, since I've pretty much proven that I can't handle traveling by myself well enough to speed up the liberation of the Digital World, I'm not going to take off by myself again so it should be fine," Crystal was, for her part, maintaining the tough facade she had adopted since the night before.
"You know you don't have to push yourself so hard," Taiki reminded her.
"Sorry, guess I'm still compensating for that crippling sense of self doubt I don't want to think about," Crystal admitted with a slight chuckle. She had a hard time keeping a straight face when she put it like that.
"Is that supposed to be funny?" Shoutmon was understandably confused.
"No," Crystal responded. "Not really. It's just, when I saw Dark Knightmon, I knew my team couldn't beat him. I'm not sure how to describe it, but the feeling I got from him was really unsettling."
"Maybe you were reacting to the power of darkness he carries with him," Nene suggested as she suddenly swooped down on Sparrowmon's back.
"Hey Nene," Akari waved in greeting. "Have you had any luck finding your brother?"
"Not yet," Nene was understandably disappointed by the fact, but she got over it quickly enough. "But, I saw you guys were down here so I decided to drop in."
"Well, we were just about to head back to the Fossil Zone since we didn't have a chance to make much progress there yesterday," Akari explained.
"Maybe I'll join you," Nene considered. "I don't think I've checked the Fossil Zone yet anyway."
"Greymon, Mail Birdramon, Digi Xros!" Kiriha had grown impatient with how long it was taking to finish off Spinomon and had finally opted to bring in his trump card.
"Digi Xros! Metal Greymon!" The cyborg dinosaur immediately plunged his armored arm into Spinomon's chest with enough force to rip through the theropod digimon's thick scales. "Trident Arm!"
Metal Greymon succeeded at tearing a hole in Spinomon's chest so that flecks of golden data became to rise from the mortally wounded theropod digimon until Spinomon's entire body finally faded away and Metal Greymon stood triumphant over where his opponent had been standing.
"Looks like somebody beat us to the punch," Zapmon emerged from Crystal's Xros Loader to perch on the girl's shoulder so she could peer at Metal Greymon's handiwork as soon as the members of Xros Heart arrived in the Fossil Zone.
"You're too late Taiki," Kiriha peered down at the goggle boy from where he stood on Metal Greymon's normal arm. "The Fossil Zone belongs to Blue Flare."
"I'm not here to fight with you Kiriha," Taiki had no intention of letting himself be baited by the blond.
"Besides, you might have beaten Spinomon's army in this Zone, but I don't see you with the Code Crown which means the Fossil Zone doesn't belong to you yet," Shoutmon retorted.
"It's the same difference," Kiriha responded. "I'm the one who beat Spinomon so it stands to reason that the Code Crown will recognize me. You're just wasting your time by being here."
"I'm going to wipe that smug look off your face," Shoutmon growled. "You just want us out of here so we won't stop you from wrecking the place to find the Code Crown." He summoned his retro microphone and prepared to take a swing at Metal Greymon, but Taiki held a restraining arm in front of him.
"Stop it Shoutmon," Taiki glanced at the agitated red dragon. "With Spinomon gone, there's no one else to get in Kiriha's way so he won't have any excuse to fight like that. Besides, there are a lot of other Zones out there that still need our help."
"Alright," Shoutmon conceded, reluctantly lowering his weapon.
Kiriha cast an amused glance over Taiki's impressive entourage of both humans and digimon. "It looks like you've become fairly popular, but I don't think acting so chummy is going to serve you too well in the battles to come." He leered at Taiki. "You might want to think about that."
"I'll take that under advisement," Taiki shrugged it off. He looked to the rest of the group that had assembled around him to see if they were ready to leave. He was a little surprised himself at just how much their numbers had increased in what felt like such a small amount of time.
Kiriha inclined his head to Metal Greymon. "Come on, let's go. We've still got a Code Crown to find."
"You mean this?" The inquiring voice belonged to Chaos Dukemon. The dark knight digimon held the golden pyramidal diamond in his outstretched hand. "I'm afraid I can't let you have it. This amusing little trinket is of great interest to myself and the rest of my companions." Chaos Dukemon's silver lance formed over his arm in an attack position. "You could try to take it from me, but I can assure you that you shall not succeed."
"Metal Greymon, Giga Destroyer!" Kiriha declared without hesitation.
"Giga Destroyer!" Metal Greymon obeyed and pelted Chaos Dukemon with a barrage of blue lasers. However, the barrage bounced harmlessly off of Chaos Dukemon's shield as the dark knight digimon brought it up to defend himself.
"Judecca Prison!" The triangular markings on Chaos Dukemon's shield lit up one at a time. Then, when all of them were illuminated, the individual points of shadowy light merged to form a powerful circular blast that struck Metal Greymon full in the chest causing him to degenerate into Greymon and Mail Birdramon. The two digimon, along with Kiriha, were scattered across the ground by the force of the blast.
Chaos Dukemon chuckled darkly. "As you can see, you children are no match for me. Give up now, while I'm still in a benevolent mood."
He turned to leave as a portal of darkness opened up behind him, but then he hesitated as recognition seemed to dawn on him.
"Except you," Chaos Dukemon spoke after a slight pause. His eyes were locked on Crystal. "You're younger than I remember, but I cannot forgive the number of times we have been defeated by the likes of you and your anomalous hybrid companions. This time, human, it will be your life that shall be extinguished and I have it on good authority that you humans aren't able to reconfigure yourselves. We, the Chaos Generals, shall finally be rid of the self-proclaimed Digidestined of Time and Space."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Crystal was officially freaking out. Some digimon she had never seen before now was accusing her of being his arch nemesis and, if she wasn't sorely mistaken, he had just threatened to kill her. "I've never seen you before in my life!"
"That's too bad," Chaos Piemon emerged from a second portal of darkness directly behind the human girl. He hefted her off the ground with one arm, shaking the small black dragon off the girl's shoulder while Crystal struggled to free herself from his grasp. "You might not remember us, but we definitely remember you and you've always been somewhat of a thorn in our collective sides. So, you see, whether you like it or not, you still have to die."
"Shoutmon, do something!" Taiki cried out in alarm. He had no idea what was going on, but it was clear to him that this whole misunderstanding could be potentially life threatening to one of his friends and he wasn't about to stand for it.
"Rowdy Rocker!" Shoutmon leapt at Chaos Piemon with his retro microphone in hand, ready to smack him across the mid-section to get him to drop Crystal, but before he could make contact he was knocked back by a completely invisible blast that easily knocked the wind out of him.
"Clown Trick!" Chaos Piemon chuckled darkly. Then, when the rest of the digimon prepared to step in on Shoutmon's behalf, the four swords strapped to his back slid out of their sheathes of their own accord to strike them down one by one. "Trump Sword!"
"As my associate has already informed you, you pitiful children are out of your league." He hefted Crystal roughly over his shoulder. "Just forget about this one. She's more trouble than she's worth."
Chaos Piemon slipped into his portal of darkness, taking Crystal with him. Meanwhile, Chaos Dukemon also disappeared through his own portal of darkness. The remaining humans and digimon were of no further interest to them. Both of the portals of darkness vanished swiftly behind them so that they could not readily be followed.
"No way," Zapmon went into a state of obvious panic. "No way. This can't happen. I promised to protect her." The small dragon beat her balled up fists against the ground. "Give Crystal back!"
It seemed that Gururumon and Lighdramon had also been left behind when Crystal had been taken. Both digimon were equally dismayed, with Gururumon howling remorsefully and Lighdramon bowing his head in shame. Neither of them had been able to stand against Chaos Piemon to rescue their general.
"Don't worry," Taiki tried to take charge of the situation. "We'll get her back." He stopped short when he realized from the way their adversaries had vacated the Fossil Zone that following them might not be as simple as just trasnferring to the next Zone and hoping to find their stronghold. It hadn't looked like those portals of darkness were connected to the familiar digital space that they were accustomed to traveling through. "We just have to figure out where they took her."
"And how do you propose to do that?" Kiriha grunted in frustration as he pulled himself up off the ground and dusted himself off, gathering Greymon and Mail Birdramon into his Xros Loader so they could recover from the abuse they had suffered at the hands of Chaos Dukemon. "Those guys definitely didn't seem like the usual digimon aligned with the Bagra Empire."
"They called themselves the Chaos Generals," Nene observed. "It's possible they represent their own faction."
"One thing is for sure," Shoutmon remarked as he started picking himself up. "Just the two of them are wicked strong. How many more of them do you think are out there?"
"There's five of them," a voice answered from the vicinity of Taiki's Xros Loader. The cartridge representing the Code Crown for the Time Zone suddenly popped out of the screen and floated off into the air at which point the shooting star symbol on the front began to shine with a bright silver light. "Now, if you don't mind, Digital Gate Open!"
The glowing shooting star symbol continued to shine in the air as it seemed to peel away from the cartridge to reveal a new symbol in the shape of an hourglass as it simply floated back into storage within Taiki's Xros Loader. The light intensified until it formed a gleaming pillar stretching down to the ground and far off into the sky. And a girl, almost identical to Crystal, but perhaps several years older, stepped through.
She was dressed in blue jeans and a silver tanktop, with a katana strapped at her waist with a hilt in the shape of a blue, serpentine dragon clutching a purple jewel in its mouth. And she wore the same winged dragon pendant around her neck on a stainless steel chain as her counterpart. However, unlike her counterpart, there was also a second necklace sporting a tag and crest. The crest bore the same shooting star symbol that had previously marked the Code Crown for the Time Zone. For some reason she also wasn't wearing any shoes. And, upon closer examination, the girl's fingernails were sharpened to a point so that they had the appearance of claws and her canines were slightly elongated so that they had the appearance of small fangs.
"I can tell you right now that the Chaos Generals are a royal pain in the ass," remarked a small black dragon standing at her side. She looked rather identical to Zapmon, but she was also slightly larger than her counterpart. "But that doesn't mean they can't be beaten. I should know. I've trounced them lots of times."
"Yeah, but we could still use some help," noted the girl who looked virtually identical to Crystal. Clutched in her right hand was a device rather unlike a Xros Loader. It was actually a digivice with the same basic design as a white and silver D3, but there was a slit on the righthand side that acted as a card reader and a barcode scanner at the top opposite the antenna. Another addition was a motion sensor built into the lefthand side.
"But, before that," she looked around at the bewildered collective of humans and digimon who were staring at her in astonishment. "We should probably introduce ourselves. I'm Crystal Mizuka, the self-appointed Digidestined of Time and Space." She paused as she waved her hand to indicate the small dragon standing at her side. "This is my digimon partner, Zapmon. And, from the looks on all your faces, I'm guessing you all must have a lot of questions for me."
"Hang on, didn't you just get captured!" Shoutmon blurted out.
"Yes and no," the girl who called herself the Digidestined of Time and Space explained. "The me from your dimension has been captured by evil digimon that originated from a different dimension than this digital world. Specifically, they came from a digital world more closely connected to the human world that I came from. So yeah, the me from your dimension is still in trouble and I'm here to help you guys save her. Anything else you guys might like to know before we get started?"
To Be Continued...
Author's Notes: Between bad weather and a lot of drama that's been happening in my life lately, I haven't been able to find the time and motivation to work on this chapter until now, but I'm really excited about where this is all going. Anyway, this is the start of another of my planned story arcs that's bound to get pretty crazy what with the whole introduction of an AU version of Crystal to complicate matters. Good luck figuring out just what kind of alternate universe she came from. All you really need to know is that she's adept at dimension hopping and suffers from a chronic case of trouble magnetism. And she will be returning to her own continuity once this story arc is over. No, this is not a crossover with another story. This is just a crazy cameo.