(Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, Digimon is owned by its respective owner and this has been made for none profit use and in no way is associated with the main stream show. Kurai belongs to Angemon114.)
Everyone in the nightclub was looking at the figure as he emerged from the dust clouds. As the dust clouds started to disappear the figure became visible. He looked like an older version of Axel. Unknown to everyone who knew Axel this was none other than the older Axel from the dark future.
"Who the hell are you?" Lucas shouted at future Axel. The future Axel gave back a smirk and then clenched his fists.
"I am future Axel, have you seen my younger counterpart? If I remember correctly he's supposed to be here." Future Axel told Lucas. Lucas shook his head because he wasn't sure where the Axel they knew was.
"What if I didn't tell you?" Lucas asked. The future Axel waved his arm violently in front of himself. His fist was still clenched. Lucas looked down and saw that the ground was moving in the same direction as the moments of his arm.
"I'll bury you into the ground, everyone here! Then I'll kill Wire myself, I defeated him single handed in the future so it should be easier here." Axel informed him. Lucas looked back the fake Wizardmon who had spent the most time out of anyone with Axel.
"I didn't think Axel would be able to destroy Wire by himself!" Wizardmon shouted at Lucas, the future Axel then laughed at both of them.
"I forgot that you were both on Wire's side, I suppose anything from his twisted world would be twisted on the inside." Future Axel taunted at them. The fake Wizardmon then shot an electric shot at him. The future Axel fell on the ground and then quickly pulled himself up.
"If he destroys this place, people will get killed, we need to stop him. Even that means helping Lucas out. From what I can tell this guy can only control the ground, that means that we need to get close to him without him noticing us." Cody whispered to the group. Ian and Ken nodded in agreement. Catherine wasn't listening, as soon as she heard the name Lucas she wasn't interested in the conversation.
"Alright Ian if you go over there, Cody travel under the tables, I'll cause a distraction." Ken instructed. Cody and Ian then started to move into their positions. Meanwhile Lucas was trying to talk to the future Axel.
"Listen we have the same goals, joining with Wire would mean that you can get whatever you want!" Lucas shouted at him. Lucas didn't sound mad, it sounded like he was trying to plead for his life.
"I'll never have the same goal as Wire, never!" The future Axel shouted at him insanity in his voice. Ian then ran past Lucas catching the future Axel's attention.
"Sorry about that Lu-..." Before Ian could finish his apology he was interrupted.
"I knew I'd find you here Conflict! I'm going to kill you to ensure that no one else gets hurt, with you gone the world won't become a hell hole!" The future Axel shouted. The ground started to push itself up towards Ian.
"Ian watch out!" Ken shouted. Ian quickly jumped out of the way of the moving floor. He landed on top of a table and looked at the future Axel.
"I promised everyone I would kill you! No matter how dangerous I will always aim to kill you Ian Conflict!" The future Axel proclaimed. He then clenched his fists again. Ian looked at him confused. Just then he felt the table below him move, he jumped off of it quickly and pulled out his spear.
"Future Axel, what would you be willing to bargain for the safe return of Ian?" Ken asked, he thought that maybe bartering with the insane man from the future may help them.
"Nothing, however I do want his skull!" The future Axel shouted. He then moved one of his arms towards Ken. Ken however wasn't as quick as Ian and was thrown into the wall. Cody had also been hit in the crossfire and now was unconscious on the floor. Lucas then ran at the future Axel.
"I don't know who you are but I will ensure Wire's victory!" Lucas told the future Axel. The future Axel laughed a bit and then punched him in the face sending him onto the ground.
"I forgot how stupid you clones were. Granted you have a stupid amount of courage it still isn't enough." The future Axel said to himself. He then kicked Lucas in the rips.
"Hey Axel eat spear!" Ian shouted as he threw his spear at the future Axel. The future Axel caught it and then aimed it towards Ian.
"I'm much stronger then all of these pushovers, did you really think a spear was going to work? It might work on you though. Let's see how fast you can run?" The future Axel taunted. Ian then tried to move his legs but couldn't he looked down to see that they were stuck in the ground from a previous attack from the future Axel.
"I can't move? How is this fair?" Ian asked as he tried to move his legs. The future Axel smirked at him and then moved ready to throw the spear.
"Life's full of shit, however you won't live long enough to understand that!" The future Axel shouted at him. Just then he felt a punch in the back of the neck. Ian looked up to see T.K and Tai standing there.
"Is that really the future Axel?" Ian asked. Everyone who wasn't involved in this fight quickly ran out of the nightclub before anything else could happen. Tai looked back at him and nodded.
"I'm afraid so, don't worry the other Axel is fine... Actually that's a lie he created a diversion to let us escape from Saint." Tai informed them. T.K looked under one of the tables to see a knocked out Cody. The nightclub had become debris. The fake Wizardmon pulled himself up.
"What happened to Axel?" Wizardmon asked, he sounded concerned. Tai looked at him and shook his head.
"No one knows. He might be dead but maybe future Axel may know." Tai said. The future Axel pulled himself up and then ran towards Tai.
"Round two I suppose." The future Axel insanely said. However just as he got there T.K stood in the way and threw a punch into his stomach. The future Axel fell to the ground again. He then got shocked by the fake Wizardmon. Catherine ran up to the others and picked up the knocked out Cody. Ian pulled himself out of the ground and ran over.
"Now tell us what has happened to Axel?" Tai asked, his future self looked up at him confused.
"I have no idea, everything is happening differently now. For all I know he could be dead." The future Axel told them all.
"Surely you would be cancelled out if that were the case?" T.K asked. The future Axel picked himself up and then clenched his fists.
"It would be nice to talk now wouldn't it? However I need to find my past self and inject him with Wire's formula, that way he can save the world!" The future Axel shouted at them. Soon the earth beneath his feet started to rise at a very high speed it flung him into the sky, the group would have no idea where he would be going or if he would survive.
"More Digi-destined? Time to make this pl-..." Before Lucas could finish his sentence T.K sucker punched him in the face afterwards everyone laughed a bit, T.K then picked up Ken and the group made their way outside, the fake Wizardmon with them. T.K started to feel a bit weird it reminded him of just before he went into his coma. T.K caught his reflection in a piece of broken glass that had fallen down from one of the tables. He briefly saw Devimon looking at him, the reflection then changed back to T.K's. Tai looked back at him confused.
"Hey you all right T.K?" Tai asked. T.K then looked back at him as if he were snapping out of a day dream.
"Yeah I'm fine just thought I saw something." T.K told Tai. T.K then continued to walk on, T.K thought that the reflection he saw was just because of stress.
The group were on their way to the hospital. Their Digimon had all met up with them and now were acting like their body guards. Ken and Cody had sustained injuries that would need some medical attention. In Cody's case it was that he may have had concussion while in Ken's case it was that he may have gained some broken bones. Ian looked down at the fake Wizardmon confused why he was still with them.
"Hey numb skull what are you still doing here?" Ian asked. The fake Wizardmon looked back up at him.
"Simple even though Lucas had control over me I'm still worried about Axel. The only reason I served Wire is because he created me, he never treated me like a friend though. Over time I learnt what it meant to have a real friend, sure I'm not like the real Wizardmon and most likely will never be but I have the deepest respect for Axel, he is a clever guy and his girlfriend Sky is nice as well." Wizardmon told him. Just then everyone came to a stop and looked at Wizardmon.
"Wait Axel's girlfriend has a name?" T.K asked. This was the first time that anyone apart from Axel and Wizardmon had heard her name.
"I wonder why he kept it secret from all of us." Ian said to himself as the rest of the group continued running towards the hospital. It was as if Axel didn't properly trust any of them.
Kari was looking out of the window at the hospital. It was still dark outside. Joe and Mimi had brought in Sora because of her leg problem. It turned out that Sora had dislocated some bones in her legs, luckily she was going to be fine but she would need to stay in hospital for a couple of days while her legs healed. Gatomon jumped onto a table near Kari.
"Kari what are you thinking about at the moment?" Gatomon asked. Kari looked over at her partner Digimon and gave her a smile.
"I'm thinking about Takeru, he left while I was asleep so I'm a bit worried about him. I don't think you'd understand." Kari said as she looked out of the window again.
"What are you talking about Kari, Patamon is with him too you know. I know you properly can't grasp it but I love him too, even though I don't tell him all the time he still knows it. Kari you shouldn't worry about Takeru he knows what he is doing." Gatomon told Kari. Kari continued to look out of the window. She saw a group of people coming towards the hospital she decided to run out to see if they needed help. As she ran outside she saw T.K and the others. Ken and Cody were both out for the count.
"What happened to them? What knocked them out?" Kari asked. T.K grabbed her hands and looked straight into her eyes.
"It was the future Axel he came and destroyed a nightclub. If we hadn't of found them then chances are they'd all be dead. Their Digimon were outside on the other side of the building so they weren't aware that there was a problem." T.K told her. Kari looked at him confused.
"Where is Davis, or Yolei? Hang on Axel and Kurai aren't with you either? Where are they?" Kari asked. T.K looked straight back at her and then he looked down to the ground.
"Axel risked his own life to save mine and Tai's he told me to stop the fake Wizardmon... Hang on those were his last words... They could've been his last ever words... Axel could be dead for all we know..." Takeru stated to himself. He had just become aware of what might have happened. T.K looked back at Wizardmon with hatred in his eyes.
"What's up T.K?" Wizardmon asked. Ian stopped and looked at the two of them.
"So what are you planning to kill us all, hell Axel is properly dead and you most likely don't care why are you even with us? I'm not going to let you kill Kari or my future child!" T.K shouted at Wizardmon. Ian then felt went to pull out his spear. However it wasn't in its case. He must've forgotten to pick it up.
"You know Wizardmon you aren't coming with us. Frankly every time we look at you we think about your betrayal. And now the fact that Axel may be dead is something you're going to have to hold on your shoulders!" Ian shouted at Wizardmon. Ian and T.K then made their way in with the rest of the group. Kari was standing there. She then felt a nudge on her leg. She looked down to see Gatomon standing there. Wizardmon had started to walk away. Kari looked back to see that everyone had gone into the hospital. She then looked back at Wizardmon.
"We could use your help, hey Wizardmon from what I've heard you may be fake but I know that you don't want Axel hurt. Look if you direct me and Gatomon to Wire's base then we'll be able to save him." Kari suggested to Wizardmon. Wizardmon looked back at her with distrust in his eyes.
"What about T.K? Wouldn't he disapprove of this?" Wizardmon asked back. Kari and Gatomon both gave out a small laugh.
"Of course he would but who needs to listen to him? He would much prefer that I didn't do anything but I know that I'm needed for something. C'mon Wizardmon help me before he comes out." Kari pleaded. Wizardmon then nodded at her.
"Ok come with me, I need to open a portal to his main base. Hopefully inside we'll be able to find Axel." Wizardmon said to her. Wizardmon, Gatomon and Kari then quickly made their way to an ally. T.K then came out of the hospital followed by Tai. He was looking around for Kari because she hadn't gone inside.
"Tai where is Kari? She wasn't inside was she?" T.K asked as he started to panic. Tai knew that T.K was going to freak out about anything to do with Kari at this point in time but he was worried about her as well. She hadn't gone inside.
"T.K we better go take a look around, it's far too dangerous to be out at the moment and especially when you are pregnant." Tai said. The two of them quickly ran inside to call reinforcements. Inside the building however Tai received a text message from Kurai. T.K looked over at him.
"What does it say Tai? Is it Kari?" T.K quickly asked. He looked and sounded worried. Tai looked over and shook his head.
"No it's Kurai. Davis, her and Yolei are being held hostage by Puppetmon, I thought we killed him. We better go check it out. I suppose that Ian and Mimi will have to come with us since Sora, Cody and Ken are injured and Joe is looking after them." Tai said as he ran up the stairs. Just then he accidently bumped into a woman.
"I'm sorry about that." A familiar voice said. Tai looked up to see that it was none other than Joe's girlfriend Izumi. However she was crying about something. Tai looked over at her confused.
"What happened Izumi?" Tai asked. She looked back at him still upset.
"I broke up with Joe just a minute ago. I haven't seen him recently, plus he can do better than me..." Izumi told him. Her confidence had been hit badly. It was most likely because of the extra hours that Joe had put into the hospital.
"Look after tonight everything is going to go back to normal. Joe will return to his job and hopefully nothing like this will happen again." Tai said, he was trying to persuade her to get back together with Joe, he could tell she still had feeling for him and he knew Joe wouldn't take it so well either.
"Back to normal, what do you mean?" Izumi asked Tai. Tai then looked down at T.K.
"Well basically in a sentence the world's fate rests on us tonight. Joe being one of us, now I need to go talk to the others. Look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself is this what you really want." Tai told her, with that he excused himself and T.K. The two of them ran up the stairs onto the floor where the group were. Both Ian and Mimi ran over to them confused about what was going on.
"We need help finding Kari." T.K told them all. Tai looked over at him and shook his head in disagreement.
"No we need help fighting Puppetmon. Turns out we didn't quite kill him before. We need as much help as possible." Tai told them. Ian then nodded his head.
"Ok I'll help you out, I've got nothing else to do really and hospitals freak me out." Ian told them. Mimi nodded with Ian as well.
"Yeah and the fact that they've got people we need to help fight Wire." Mimi added into Ian's sentence. T.K felt a nudge on his shoulder he turned around to see Catherine there.
"I'll go and find Kari for you, it's the least I can do. Plus maybe it'll put my mind off of the break up between me and Lucas." Catherine told him. T.K then nodded. Catherine and Floramon then ran down the stairs intending to find Kari.
"I need to help find Kari." T.K said to everyone. He started to try and run but someone grabbed his collar. He turned around and saw that Tai was holding it.
"Kari never told you did she? she thinks you're over protective. T.K you have to understand that she's a person as well. How would you feel if Kari didn't let you do anything that wasn't in your normal routine?" Tai asked T.K. T.K looked upset and tried to throw a punch at Tai. Tai stopped it and then looked at him. Everyone was confused about what was going on.
"What's happening you guys? Is this some sort of motivational speech? If that's the case then hell I sure don't feel motivated." Ian sarcastically said. Ian looked down to see that Guilmon, Agumon and Patamon were all laughing at his joke.
"T.K I just need to tell you Kari hates it when you act over protective all of the time. Listen if Izzy were to ever do that then I think I would flip, hell if I was over protective I wouldn't of let him stay with Yamato in the dangerous area with Hunter." Mimi told him. T.K broke his arm out of Tai's hold and then started to walk away from the rest of the group.
"Hey T.K I told you ages ago on that beach where we fought that I thought you were a push over, recently though I started to doubt that claim but it turns out I was correct at first. You're a push over!" Ian shouted at him. T.K came to a stop and then turned around and ran towards Ian. Forming a fist he tried to punch him. Ian blocked the punch.
"Take that back!" T.K angrily shouted at Ian. This started to grab everyone's attention who was on that floor.
"I'm not taking it back. T.K you're the weakest person I know, you think you're strong but you aren't. You only act it when Kari is around now stop playing the tough guy act or millions of people will die." Ian told T.K. T.K then tried to throw another punch but that again was deflected by Ian.
"I don't put on a tough guy act!" T.K shouted at him. He then tried to throw another punch but before he could he again was stopped by Ian.
"Look T.K I know the pain you're going through, I know what it's like to have someone close taken away from you. Now think about it, I lost her for over ten years. Kari's been gone somewhat thirty seconds in comparison. She's the only girl I've ever loved and she was my only true friend. Now grow up we are all getting sick of it." Ian told him. T.K came to a complete stop and looked down at Patamon.
"Do you think I've been too overprotective?" T.K asked. Patamon looked up at him.
"I think you have T.K, now come on let's go stop Puppetmon. I trust Gatomon with Kari's life. Trust me T.K Kari will be fine, if she isn't then you can call me Devimon." Patamon said as he tried to reassure T.K.
"Ok let's get going now, though I'm going to find Kari straight after we've saved them though." T.K said. The rest of the group looked at him and then they started to move out. T.K was still worried about Kari but he knew that she would be ok. As the group ran down stairs Ian realised something.
"Guys what happened to Wizardmon?" Ian asked everyone.
Axel woke up inside a laboratory. Axel tried to move his arms but noticed that there were metal cuffs in the way of his arms. He looked around and saw Saint standing there. The robot child was looking at a computer screen. He then noticed that Axel had woken up and walked over to him.
"So you're awake? I never thought someone with your weaker white cell blood count would." Saint said to Axel. Axel looked back at him confused.
"So you're monitoring me? I thought you would've wanted to kill me." Axel told him, Saint then laughed at him and then came to a stop.
"Wire's orders." Saint told him. He then went over to a table and started to look at his robot arms. It looked like he missed being a human.
"How does it feel? Being a robot?" Axel asked in a taunting manner. Saint looked back at him.
"I'm a human! Like you!" Saint shouted at him. Axel then laughed at him and then stopped. He then looked over at him.
"You aren't human, have you looked in a mirror recently? You're as far away from a human as anything can be, fishes are closer then you are at the moment!" Axel shouted at Saint. Saint then looked away in disbelief. "Anything human has been taken out and changed, can I ask how does it feel?" Axel asked. Saint looked back at him.
"It doesn't feel like anything... All I can feel is hatred and sadness. I can't ever age though so surely it's good?" Saint asked, Axel thought that Saint had made the same mistake any other fourteen year old would've made in the circumstances. He wanted to be immortal.
"Saint have you got any siblings?" Axel asked, Saint looked away and then looked at a computer screen.
"I had two, I have one now. My brother was run over a couple of years ago. My older sister told me everything would be alright but it wasn't!" Saint shouted out. It seemed like Saint had some mental scarring.
"Tell me why did you want to hunt me down? You know before you became a robot." Axel asked. Saint looked back at him. Axel couldn't tell whether this was bad or good.
"You looked like one of his British friends I saw a picture on a social networking site. It was a group of his friends a couple of years ago around Christmas... I never intended to kill you I was going to question you about my brother, then I met Wire and you became my enemy." Saint told him. Axel was mind blown. He had a friend who had been killed a couple of years ago, though he was American. Axel then asked the question on his mind.
"Saint are you American?" Axel asked. Saint then looked at Axel and pulled out a gun.
"I am but what in the hell would make you ask that?" Saint asked. Axel then gave him a smirk.
"I knew your brother Saint, my friend Barry McGreggor was killed several years ago after being run over. That would mean you're Francis McGreggor? Your brother talked about you all of the time, he said how he wanted all of us to meet you because you were some sort of genius. Francis your brother would be ashamed of you. Look at you, you've had any type of humanity taken away from you. You don't age, you don't have emotions, just imagine you would watch all of your nephews die, and their children, and their children's children. Francis you've got to understand every day is a struggle but when you look back at it you'll of grown character, you're taking the easy way out!" Axel shouted at him, he sounded worried. Axel was sure that his death was coming soon.
"You know if I'm not Francis then you've made a huge mistake haven't you. You're lucky though I'll grant you that since I am actually Francis." Saint told him. Axel nodded his head. "One question though how did you work out it was me?" Saint asked him.
"Simple me and your brother had this exact same talk, just before we took out the black tower in London. Well it wasn't exactly the same because he wasn't a robot. Your brother had moved to the UK because of your parents splitting up. They moved to the town that I come from and I met Barry there, we were good friends. Though he did try to kill himself once, that's when we had that talk. Looking back at it you are a lot like him, now Francis if I can ask you look in a mirror now and tell me if you're truly happy looking like that the rest of your life?" Axel asked. Saint then walked out of the room. A few minutes later Saint returned, he was wearing a cloak over his face. It was clear that he didn't like his new look.
"Axel I want to be human, I don't want to stay like this forever, I want to date girls and become famous, not be some sort of robot please can you help me?" Saint asked him. Axel looked at the metal cuffs around his wrists.
"Don't worry Francis I'll help you, in return can you get me out of these things. It's sorta creepy." Axel sarcastically said. Saint then broke both of the metal cuffs keeping Axel chained to the wall. Axel then started to move his fingers on his hands.
"Axel how can you help me? Wizardmon's reports back suggested that you were dumb. He said that you weren't anything special." Saint told him. Axel then laughed a bit.
"He would think I was stupid because I knew he was on Wire's side, if I was being paid for acting I would be a millionaire, sadly that's not the case and everyone is special in their own unique way don't let anyone tell you different. Anyway back on topic is there a machine that I could use, perhaps a machine that changed you?" Axel asked. Saint then pointed at a huge machine on his left.
"That's the machine that I was built from but what good is that?" Saint asked. Axel then looked back at him.
"Well the simple trick is we need rewind the data input so to speak, make it so that it reverses the effects. I know one person who will be able to help us. We need Izzy because this is his speciality." Axel stated as he ran up to the machine.
"Not a problem I can go and get them, it'll be easy." Saint told Axel. Axel then shook his head.
"Get Wizardmon to do it, you have a communicator with him don't you? I want to make him feel bad for doubting me. Plus if Wire were to come in here and see me changing one of these machines then chances are he would kill me on sight." Axel told him. Saint then nodded.
"Okay Axel I'll message Wizardmon." Saint told him. Axel looked over at Saint, he wasn't evil, he'd just made a mistake that anyone could've made, he was afraid of death. Axel had never put together that it was his old friend's brother otherwise he would've been able to just talk to him. Axel started to look at the machine, as he looked he knew he'd need some input from Izzy.
Wizardmon, Kari and Gatomon were running along in an ally way. Kari had faith in Wizardmon even though no one else seemed too. They came to a stop and Wizardmon sat down on the ground. Kari and Gatomon looked at him. He looked depressed.
"I killed Axel... He was only eighteen... I should be executed." Wizardmon muttered out, he sounded depressed. Kari sat down next to him. She didn't know how he was feeling exactly but she had a pretty good idea.
"Wizardmon if he is dead then maybe you should learn from it. Maybe this is your waking up call. Look sure everyone blames you for whatever happened to him but one day they will accept it and let you come back into the group." Kari said trying to reassure Wizardmon that everything would be ok.
"No but look at me I'm nothing more than a fake created by Wire. The real Wizardmon you know is dead..." Wizardmon said. Gatomon then looked up at him.
"You know you remind me of the old Wizardmon, sure you haven't got the thing that attracted me to him but at least you're caring." Gatomon said in an attempt to cheer him up. Wizardmon looked back at Gatomon.
"Can I ask you, if the old Wizardmon were to come back would you fall in love with him again or would you remain with Patamon?" Wizardmon asked her. Gatomon then replied back instantly.
"I'd remain with Patamon because he is my world!" Gatomon quickly said. Both Kari and Wizardmon looked back at her confused.
"Why did you rush that so much Gatomon? Have you got a problem with admitting the truth?" Kari asked. Gatomon then looked away.
"No it's just I find it hard adjusting to love life, me and Patamon are Digimon not humans, it's just a bit more awkward..." Gatomon admitted to Kari. Kari then looked back at Gatomon.
"Oh please you think you had it bad? When I was younger I had to make a choice between my best friend and the boy who had a crush on me, when I admitted to T.K who I dated don't you think it was a bit awkward? Gatomon he really liked me back then, he used to put flowers in my locker when I was distracted, I don't even know how. However when I told him that me and Davis were dating I could feel his heart break. Then it slowly got worse, when Davis beat him up I'd turn a blind eye pretending nothing happened. Then his Mum died and he didn't have anyone there to hold him. Then he moved away and I broke up with Davis. When he arrived back at the school I was so happy, he came back during a chemistry lesson and sat next to me. That's when I knew that it was Takeru I wanted to be with. I never loved Davis... But I always loved Takeru..." Kari told her Kari then looked away in disbelief. Gatomon looked up at her and smiled.
"I finally got you to admit it you made a mistake in your past. Exactly like Wizardmon but you got over it, Wizardmon don't you see the right thing always happens even if the wrong choices are made." Gatomon told him. Wizardmon then stood up. He looked over at Kari and Gatomon.
"Thank you for the advice. You're right the only way to mo-..." Before Wizardmon could finish his speech something grabbed his attention, he put his hand in one of his pockets and pulled out a communicator. He then answered it. It was none other than Saint.
"Wizardmon you picked up, look I need some help. I need you to collect Izzy the holder of knowledge it's for a little project." Saint told Wizardmon from the communicator.
"No Saint, I quit I don't won't to work for Wire anymore!" Wizardmon told him. He then heard laughter from the communicator.
"Well you know that's two of us, but Axel told me to get Izzy. Supposedly he is the only one who can help him with this machine." Saint told Wizardmon. Wizardmon looked up to see that Kari and Gatomon were smiling.
"Can I talk to Axel then? I just want to make sure." Wizardmon said. Wizardmon couldn't be sure whether this was a trick or not.
"Look Wizardmon trust me on this, this machine will get rid of all the Wire cells if we work it correctly. Now in your case it'll make you a real Digimon and Wire won't be able to have any control over you, however Izzy is the one who did research on this type of machine. If we want to be successful then we are going to need Izzy." Axel told him down the communicator. Wizardmon passed the communicator to Kari.
"Go on you're in command here now, I'm not a crest holder." Wizardmon told Kari. Kari then smiled and pushed down on the communicator.
"Axel I just want to make sure it's you, not trying to be harsh or anything but I don't want this to be a trap. What gift did you get me and Takeru for our wedding?" Kari asked. Kari knew that no one would know because Axel's gift arrived late due to postal errors.
"I got you a one of a kind vase with red spots on it. I also left some proper English tea in there as well as a small gift. Look Kari I need you to get me Izzy here quickly because I think this machine is the way in which we can defeat Wire." Axel told her. Kari then nodded to Gatomon and Wizardmon.
"Ok then Axel, I'll get you Izzy we'll be there as soon as possible." Kari told him down the communicator, she then passed it back to Wizardmon who put it back in his pocket. The three of them then started to walk out of the ally.
"So how do we get Izzy's attention?" Wizardmon asked. Kari then pulled out her phone.
"We're going to phone him and we're going to tell him what's happened." Kari said to the group. Just then a familiar blonde haired girl ran up to them with her Digimon. Kari noticed that it was Catherine.
"Kari, T.K is worried about you..." Catherine said, she sounded out of breath.
"Sorry about Catherine, we've been running around like headless chickens. T.K went crazy earlier in the hospital, Kari how do you keep him sane?" Floramon asked. "Oh well Patamon was still cute, a bit of eye candy for me." Floramon said, she had forgotten the fight that her and Gatomon had about this subject earlier on in the year.
"Floramon why would you say that? I thought I told you!" Catherine yelled at her. Floramon just gave off a smirk.
"Well if you're as cute as me eventually you win all the boys over." Floramon said. The group then burst into laughter. Wizardmon and Gatomon included. They all then came to a stop.
"Maybe if they were a hippy looking for something to smoke..." Gatomon muttered under her breath.
"Well we better go get Izzy. C'mon Axel needs our help!" Kari instructed as she ran forward. The rest of the group followed her. Catherine and Floramon included.
Tai and the others had reached the building in which Kurai, Yolei and Davis were, they were using MetalGreymon to fly up towards it. They had taken a detour so that Ian could receive his family spear from the broken nightclub, luckily they hadn't run into the future Axel there. As they flew towards the building they saw that Kurai, Davis and Yolei had all been hung off the building like puppets.
"Guys how should we attack Puppetmon?" Tai asked everyone. They were slowly flying towards the top of the building.
"We should go for an all out attack on Puppetmon." Takeru suggested. Ian then shook his head in disagreement.
"No that's what he wants I think we should go in for an attack on the building. That would render him useless, then with whatever energy left he has we can then take him out like that." Ian suggested. T.K then pushed Ian out of the way.
"No that would be too dangerous. Plus that would put Davis and the others in danger. I still suggest that we go in for the main attack." T.K argued back. He then looked back at Ian who had his arms crossed.
"You know T.K you better watch your back, friendly fire is common on the battlefield." Ian muttered. Mimi looked at him confused. She knew that whatever he muttered wasn't good. Just then MetalGreymon came to a stop. They were now in front of the building's roof. Patamon and Palmon then started to digivolve. T.K and Mimi then nodded at each other. As they looked down at the building they saw Puppetmon standing there, blood stained on his hammer. Puppetmon looked like he had been hurt a bit but he was walking around normally.
"Guys are you ready?" Tai asked. He looked back at the rest of the group. Patamon and Palmon had digivolved into Angemon and Togemon. After that they continued to digivolve. Puppetmon looked up at them with determination in his eyes.
"So they called reinforcements? I wonder if you'll be easy as the other three?" Puppetmon taunted as he span his hammer around, he then lifted up his right hand and pulled it back just then Ian then jumped down and pulled out his spear. Before anyone could stop him he was in a fight with Puppetmon.
"Guilmon what is he doing?" Tai asked. Guilmon shrugged as he prepared to jump off to help his friend, however before he could make it off he was grabbed by T.K and Mimi.
"Calm down Guilmon I'm sure Ian knows what he is doing." Mimi told Guilmon. He looked back at her and shook his head.
"I doubt it, Ian is pretty hot headed. I doubt he would be smart enough to think about the situation." Guilmon told Mimi. They then all watched as Ian fought Puppetmon. Puppetmon had started to move to quickly for Ian to keep up with. Puppetmon then came to a stop in an attempt to taunt Ian and lowered his right hand.
"What are you doing? Why aren't you fighting me?" Ian asked, he sounded out of breath. He then noticed that he had strings attached to him.
"Feeling a little caught up? I'm going to make you kill your so called friends. It's a good job you have a sharp object. Oh and don't think I'm unaware of the show of you up there, I'm the puppet master, no one stops me!" Puppetmon shouted out. He then put his hammer away and all of the strings became noticeable. T.K tried to move but couldn't move anything. He then noticed that Puppetmon's left hand was now in the air and his fingers were moving around.
"Guys Puppetmon is controlling us with his left hand. Ian you have to cut those strings!" T.K shouted over. Puppetmon then looked up and noticed T.K.
"I remember you, you destroyed my house. You must've been the jerk who destroyed my little Wire clone. Oh how you thought you could escape me. All I wanted was to show you my friend but instead you decided to destroy my home. You don't see me destroying your home! Actually that's a thought I could ask Machinedramon to destroy it." Puppetmon insanely suggested. T.K started to think about all of the memories of his flat. He could remember the day when him and Kari first put a bid on the flat and brought it. On the same day he had fallen into a coma.
"That was the day... The return of darkness..." T.K whispered out as he fell onto his knees.
"What do you mean T.K?" Tai asked, he sounded genuinely worried. He however couldn't move any of his body because of the strings that Puppetmon had attached.
"I was living a great life! Then all of this crap happened! How? Why? Why am I important? Why is Kari so important? We're just normal people! Nothing else! All of this unfair crap with Wire and now you guys is just stupid! Why can't anything be normal? Why can't I live a peaceful life?" T.K shouted out. It was as if he was mentally breaking down. Ian looked up at T.K and then realised that he could move his body. Puppetmon was fixed on breaking T.K down that he must've forgotten about his right hand. Ian then swung his spear through Puppetmon's left hand. Puppetmon looked down as he saw his left hand fall to the ground and disintegrate slowly. The entire group who were stuck because of Puppetmon moved their bodies around. Just then Tai stood up and smirked at Puppetmon.
"You don't scare me Puppetmon, from what I can tell the dark masters have all left Wire have they not?" Tai tauntingly asked. Puppetmon looked up at him confused.
"Oh yeah, what's you point?" Puppetmon quickly asked back Tai started to smile, he knew why Puppetmon was here.
"You've been abandoned haven't you? You made a deal with Wire which the other masters disagreed with. They want us to kill you..." Tai told Puppetmon. Puppetmon looked up at him confused.
"Why would they want to kill me?" Puppetmon asked. Just then everyone heard something walking up the stairs. Everyone watched as Piedmon came to the top of the building and stood in front of Puppetmon.
"You betrayed us ages ago. I thought a whole army would've come. Turns out I was wrong. Puppetmon our main plan hasn't started yet, though you decided to tell our plan to Wire saying we'd team up with him? Sorry but that's not the case. We need Takeru in a normal state of mind! You failed all of us. Now you're going to a place that will respect you!" Piedmon told him as he reached out his arm. Just then Puppetmon jumped back.
"I'm never going to die! I want control of this Earth!" Puppetmon insanely shouted. He had lost his mind. Piedmon looked back at all of the Digi-destined and gave them evils.
"You may want to save your three friends down there because things are about to get nasty." Piedmon told them. Ian quickly jumped back onto MetalGreymon and the group went down to the others who were tied to the wall.
"Hey T.K are you ok?" Tai asked. T.K looked around and saw MagnaAngemon standing next to him. He slowly started to lose balance T.K was starting to lose concentration a lot like he was just after the fight with in future Axel. He then shook his head and looked over at Tai.
"I don't know what happened back there Tai, it felt so weird. It felt like I was going back into my coma. Tai I need to go to the hospital as soon as possible because I think I'm about to fall back into it." T.K said to him as he felt his head.
"No T.K I'm not taking any risks, MagnaAngemon can you take him back now? There is something very weird about this and I know it involves Kari but what would be targeting you? Anyway hurry back to the hospital, if you were to fall into a coma here I think you would be dead, quick go!" Tai instructed. MagnaAngemon grabbed T.K and started to fly him back to the hospital. Tai looked back at the others. Mimi and Ian had gotten everyone off of the walls.
"Hey Tai what do you think he did to Pupp-..." Ian however was interrupted.
"Trump sword!" Piedmon's voice shouted. MetalGreymon decided to fly away instead of staying and finding out what had happened. Tai looked over at Kurai, Davis and Yolei and knew that this was only the start of it.
Kari and the others had found Izzy and Yamato with their Digimon at their apartment. All of them were now in an ally way circled around Wizardmon. Izzy had been informed that Axel needed his help and that he was the only person who would understand. The group watched as the blue aura that had surrounded their enemies in the past surrounded all of them. Moments later they found themselves in a laboratory. Wizardmon looked around and saw Saint standing there. However this time he had a cloak around his face. Just then Saint turned around and looked directly at them.
"I knew you'd listen to me Wizardmon, we were always on the same side. Hell it even looks like you brought an army with you." Saint said to Wizardmon as he walked over.
"Where is Axel?" Wizardmon asked. He knew that everyone was thinking the same question. Saint then laughed a bit.
"He's over at that huge machine over there. He thinks he can reverse the effects of Wire." Saint told Wizardmon as he pointed out the machine. Izzy was looking up at it in awe. He'd never seen anything like it before. Just then Axel appeared as he walked past the side of it.
"It's amazing isn't it Izzy, from the world where we come from this would be deemed as impossible to make." Axel said. Everyone apart from Saint looked over at him.
"Axel is it really you?" Catherine asked. Axel nodded and smiled as he pulled out his crest.
"I promise you it's me. But right now I have another promise on my hands you see my old school friend wanted me to make sure that his brother lived a normal life if he died. But right now he is a machine. Izzy god knows I can't work on this by myself but with the two of us it should become more reachable. Can you help me make a dead man's dream come true?" Axel asked. Izzy smiled and nodded back.
"I would be crazy to pass an opportunity like this. Consider me ready to help, first of all however let me take a look at the machine." Izzy stated as he walked over to the machine and started to inspect it. Axel looked back at the rest of the group.
"So what's happened so far on the day fourteen front?" Axel asked, Catherine then looked over at Wizardmon and then looked back at Axel.
"Lucas and Wizardmon held us prisoners at the nightclub we were in. Then we got attacked by someone who used the ground to attack. Cody and Ken were knocked out. Oh also me and Lucas broke up and Wizardmon was worried about you so that's why we are here right now." Catherine admitted to Axel, he looked back dazzled by all of the information that Catherine had just told him.
"Hunter came to our apartment and tore the place up trying to kill us. It's ok though because Joe, Mimi and Sora escaped safely and we locked Hunter in a closet so he won't cause us many issues for now." Matt said. Axel nodded. He thought that locking someone in a closet was smart.
"By the way I've locked this area off to everyone else. Right now no one can come in and no one can go out. All communication has been blocked as well so Wire can get in contact with this area. But we have a time limit before Wire starts to worry over the lab." Saint told them.
"Hey Axel come over here, I think I know how we could use this machine!" Izzy shouted over to Axel. Axel quickly ran over to Izzy to see what he meant. Saint then looked over at the machine. Just then Kari sat next to him on an office chair that was nearby.
"So Saint what was it like working for Wire?" Kari asked. Gatomon then jumped on a nearby desk, ready to attack in case Saint was tricking them.
"I can't think of a word to describe it. Axel was right I am losing my humanity." Saint said to himself. Kari looked back at him confused.
"What do you mean? Surely he kept you human?" Kari asked. Saint then shook his head.
"Anything human got changed into metal. He kept DNA of me so he could clone me but that was it." Saint told her. This reminded Kari of when T.K fell into a coma. A fake Davis body was found inside the hospital by Joe, she had to ask the question that was on her mind.
"Saint does Wire have Davis's DNA?" Kari asked. Saint then nodded.
"He has DNA of everyone who is a destined. He told me he got it from a separate universe, one where Davis hated T.K." Saint told her. Saint then looked at his robotic hands; it looked like he was ashamed of them.
"Yes but how did he make the body die after the assassination attempt?" Kari asked. Saint then looked back at her and sighed.
"He had a timer on the clone. So it died after it did a certain thing. Wizardmon has the same thing on him as well. But to be on the safe side I'm not going to tell him. You see the machine Axel and Izzy are modifying will change all the cells which Wire made into human cells. This means that Wizardmon will lose the death clock thing." Saint told Kari. However Wizardmon had overheard and decided to walk over to find out what they were talking about.
"What are you two talking about?" Wizardmon asked. Kari looked back at him worried.
"Wizardmon please don't do anything otherwise there is a chance you could die." Kari told him. Wizardmon looked back at her confused.
"Please don't be silly." Wizardmon said. Kari however kept her serious face on. Wizardmon now knew that this was no joking matter. Kari gazed over to Izzy and Axel who were now working on the machine it seemed that everything was down to them at the moment. She however wasn't aware of the future events that were going to unfold and the state that her husband was in at the moment.
(A/N: Thanks for the reviews and personal messages. These chapters are going to take longer to come out but of course you can see the length of them so I believe it's justified. There shouldn't be too many more chapters. Thanks for reading.)