Me: Still can't believe I'm doing this. All I ask for is one review, people. ONE! This is the only time I'll make an exception to this rule. From now on, no review, no chapter. I don't own Code Lyoko, Kingdom Hearts, Digimon, or anything therein. I do own Dartz, Sharon, Lisa, Duke, Riou, and half of the story plot. Cdc100 owns the other half of the story plot and Garrett.
Chapter 11: And So It Begins
Sharon woke with a start that night. She looked over to the other bed and saw Yoshi fast asleep. She then looked at the clock and noticed the time: 1:32.
"Of course no one's awake." She whispered to herself. "It's not even 2:00 yet." Sharon heard a swoosh of wind from the open window and stood up. She quietly tip toed into the hallway and shut the door behind her. She walked over to the stairs and walked up both flights to the roof. She climbed out the window and looked around the platform. She was surprised to see Dartz standing near the edge of the roof talking to Duke.
"We might as well just head inside, Dartz." Duke was saying. "I doubt SaberLeomon is going to attack us at this time of night."
"You never know, Duke. Neither of us guessed that Marukimon would attack yesterday." Dartz responded. "It just proves the old saying. Always expect the unexpected."
"Whatever. I'm gonna go inside and get some rest. Call me if you need me. As if you will." As Duke turned to head inside Sharon ducked behind the window. Once he went through the window Sharon came out of hiding.
"You really should go back to bed, Shar." Dartz said suddenly. He turned to face her. He was wearing black lounge pants with orange, yellow, and red flames and a matching shirt with the words 'Let the Fire Burn On' written in flames on the front.
"And leave you out here alone? I don't think so." Sharon said. "I can't sleep anyway."
"But you need to try." Dartz said. "We're going to Lyoko tomorrow, not only to introduce Doc to the concept of fighting Xana, but also to find Millenniummon. All of us will need to be at full strength for that mission.
"Shouldn't you be going to bed too, then?" Sharon asked.
"Actually, I'm not going to Lyoko first." Dartz said turning to look out over the courtyard. "I have something to do before I join you."
"But won't the others need your help fighting Millenniummon?"
"No. Duke, Doc, Yoshi, and Thomas can handle it. Of course with a little help from Marcus and Keenan." Sharon giggled. The two stayed quiet for a minute, staring out into the courtyard.
"I don't think we ever finished our kiss yesterday." Sharon said. She looked up at Dartz and noticed he was still staring into the courtyard.
"I've been thinking about that." Dartz said. He looked over at Sharon. "And I believe you're right." Sharon smiled and leaned toward him, Dartz following suit. Their lips met in the middle and they stayed in that position for a good 4 minutes before breath became a necessity. They broke apart reluctantly.
"You'd better go back to bed. I need to get going." Dartz stood up and walked over to the edge of the platform, materializing his overgear.
"You never told me where you're going." Sharon said.
"That's something that not even I know." With that he jumped onto the overgear, descended to the ground, and flew off campus and out of sight. Sharon sighed.
"Please come back soon, Dartz."
The next day
"Come on, William!" Ulrich shouted. "You've gotten rusty!" Ulrich, William, Odd, Duke, Riou, and Garrett were playing three on three in a game of soccer.
"He'd do a lot better if you stopped shouting, Ulrich. He might actually score a goal!" Odd said with a grin. This got all the boys except William into a laughing fit. William found his chance and dribbled the ball toward the goal. He was about to kick the ball in when Garrett intercepted it and kicked it toward the other goal.
"Nice intercept, Garrett." Ulrich said.
"Thanks." Garrett said. "And please. Call me Doc."
"Alright, Doc. Pass it! I got a clear shot!" Odd shouted. Garrett noticed he was being chased by Riou, who was slowly closing in.
"Comin' your way." He kicked the ball to Odd, who knocked it strait in.
"Score's 12 to 0." Jeremy announced. "That's game. Now let's get going. Duty calls." The six boys nodded and ran after the rest of the gang.
"Anyone seen Dartz?" Lisa asked.
"He left late last night for some reason. He said he'd meet up with us later." Sharon said.
"I guess that means Millenniummon's ours." Marcus said. "I'll show that kid who's the better tamer."
"No you won't." Thomas said. "The six of us will fight Millenniummon together."
"Thomas is right, Marcus. You don't really think you can take a mega level digimon down on your own, do you?" Yoshi asked.
"Yes. Yes I do. We've got our mega level digimon always ready for action."
"But you've never fought a mega level digimon like Millenniummon." Thomas said. "Dartz is the only tamer who is strong enough to take him down."
"Could you guys stop arguing for two minutes so that we can get to the factory?" Duke asked. "You don't see Keenan, Doc, and I arguing over who takes Millenniummon down. We just need to get it off of Lyoko."
"Could someone please tell me what Lyoko is?" Garrett asked.
"We'd like to spend all day telling you about it, but it'll be a lot easier to just show you." Odd said. Ulrich felt a slight pressure on his left leg. He looked down at his leg and saw Kari holding on to it.
"What are you doing here, Kari?" Ulrich asked.
"You not going to weave us, awe you, Ulwich?" Kari asked. Ulrich sighed.
"Sorry, kiddo. I've got something really important to do, and I might not come back. Give mom my best." He pulled Kari off of his leg, knelt down and hugged her. "Take care of mom for me, sis."
"Are you going somewhere, Ulrich?" Ulrich's mom walked out from behind a tree.
"I've got a really important mission on Lyoko, and the others need all the help they can get. Especially since Dartz isn't here."
"Just be careful." Ulrich's mom said with a tear trickling down her face.
"I will. Just make sure that you and Kari stay safe."
"Don't worry about us. Just try to come back alive." Ulrich nodded. He moved the manhole cover from the sewer entrance and let Yumi climb down before climbing down himself. The rest of the gang climbed down, followed by the DATS agents.
"Why are we in a sewer?" Yoshi asked wrapping her arms around her body. "It's really scary down here."
"Don't worry about it." Yumi said with a reassuring smile. "We know this place like the backs of our hands." The group climbed out of the sewer in front of the factory and slid down the ropes. Odd and Ulrich flew strait into the elevator without even touching the ground.
"You guys are getting really good at that." Jeremy said. "Soon enough you'll be able to hit the button before landing on the ground."
"That's our goal." Ulrich said. Once the others were in the elevator, he pressed the down button and the doors slid shut. As soon as Jeremy and Lisa were let out at the laboratory, the elevator made its stop at the scanner room.
On Lyoko
The group of teens was virtualized into sector 5. As soon as the room stopped spinning, they took a look around and noticed Garrett's outfit. He wore a hunter outfit with gun holsters on each side. Each holster held an airsoft pistol. His hair was just as it was on earth. He had a cowboy hat and duster as well. Garrett looked down at himself.
"Heh. Nice outfit. But how do I use it?" Garrett asked.
"Each of us has our own unique weapons and abilities, so we can't tell you much about how to use your powers. First you need to figure out what your abilities are." Riou said. He took out his laser hilt and it transformed into an energy sword. "If you learn how to use your weapons and powers in synch, you'll be nearly unstoppable. Watch." Riou stepped back and held his sword toward Ulrich. The German smiled.
"My pleasure." Ulrich said as he drew his katanas. The two rushed each other and clashed their weapons. Riou managed to throw Ulrich's swords from his hands. "Super Sprint!" Ulrich ran forward and collected his swords. "Triangulate!" Ulrich split into three of himself and surrounded Riou. Riou took out the two clones but was kicked from behind by Ulrich, causing him to fall to the ground. Ulrich held the tip of his katana inches from Riou's throat.
"Each of us has 100 life points. If you run out of life points, you are sent back to earth." Aelita explained. "Each of Xana's monsters deals a different amount of damage."
"Sorry to break up the training session, but don't forget. You guys have a mission." Lisa said.
"Right. Sorry." Riou said. The gang ran out into the next room, which was full of creepers.
"Looks like Xana was expecting us." Odd said.
"He probably was." Aelita said.
"Just be careful, guys." Jeremy said. "I see something in the core of Lyoko, and boy is it BIG."
"It's probably Millenniummon." Duke said.
"It won't matter if we don't take care of these creepers." William said. He pulled out his sword and rushed into the mass of monsters, destroying them one by one.
"We'll take care of the creepers." Yumi said as she turned to the DATS agents. "You guys go take care of Millenniummon. Just go out to the small platform and Jeremy will pull up the transportation. He'll guide you from there." She ran in after William, fans soaring wildly through the air. The rest of the group rushed in as well. Marcus, Thomas, Yoshi, Keenan, Duke, Garrett, Agumon, Gaomon, Lalamon, Falcomon, Impmon (Duke's partner Digimon), and Agumon (Garrett's partner digimon) ran through the nearest door and out of sight. After 5 minutes the gang was surrounded.
"This doesn't look good." Odd said. Each member had taken major damage, but no one had been devirtualized.
"There's too many of them." Sam said.
"And not enough of us." Ulrich added. There was a sudden shockwave, causing the creepers to implode.
"What the heck?" Odd asked. "What did that?"
"I did that." A voice said. A boy jumped from on top of one of the higher platforms and landed on his feet. The gang recognized him as Dartz. "Aura Field. Always works."
"Dartz!" Sharon yelled. She ran over and hugged him tightly.
"Nice to see you too, Shar."
"Where were you?" William asked.
"I had a couple of errands to run. Mostly out looking for someone, but I figured I was needed more here."
"Boy were you right." Aelita said.
"Who were you looking for?" Odd asked.
"That wouldn't be anything you need to worry about." Dartz said. "Where are the others?"
"On their way to the core chamber." Ulrich said. "We think Jeremy found Millenniummon in there."
"We'd better get going then. They might need help." Dartz ran through the door and over to the elevator. As soon as it came, the gang jumped on and rode it to the top floor. They ran through the entrance and over to the terminal area.
"Vehicles coming right up." Jeremy said. "Try to get through the opening before the mantas hatch."
"Got it, Einstein." Odd said as he jumped on the overboard with Sam. Ulrich and Yumi got on the overbike and Dartz and Sharon hopped on the Overgear. William and Riou got on the Overwing. Aelita activated her wings and took to the air. As they were approaching the opening in the bottom of the sector, a laser destroyed the Overboard and Odd and Sam fell onto a manta. "Flying Mantas have hatched."
"Think you can take them?" Dartz asked.
"Leave it to us." Sam said. She threw her sword at a manta and destroyed it. Her sword flipped back into her hand.
"Hang on tight, Sam." Odd said. He stuck his claws in the remaining manta's back, causing it to lurch upward. Sam threw her hands around Odd's waist as he controlled the manta, causing it to fly upward through the entrance, closely followed by the rest of the gang. Sam jumped off of the manta and onto the platform. Odd let go of the manta and shot it before landing on the platform next to Sam. Dartz and Sharon jumped off of the overgear as it flew into a manta waiting above. Ulrich, Yumi, Aelita, William, and Riou followed. They jumped up the staircase and looked around. The first thing they noticed was in the place of Lyoko's spherical core was a black hole.
"A digital gate." Dartz said. "That means Millenniummon is here." He took out his Digivice. "Gabumon, Lunamon, Coronamon, realize." Gabumon and two other digimon appeared. One resembled a small, red, two- legged lion with a single tuft of yellow fur on its chest, a fire- like mane, and a headband with a small stream of fire pouring out of it. The other resembled a large rabbit with a large strand of hair coming out of its forehead and four ears. It had lunar markings on its arms, forehead, and stomach and a large medal with a moon symbol on its torso.
"We're ready!" The three rookies said in unison.
"That's good to hear." Dartz said. "We've got a big fight today. Any of you hear of Millenniummon? Besides Gabumon, I mean. I know you have." Coronamon shook his head.
"Never heard of him." He said.
"I have." Lunamon said. "Large, cannons on his back, looks like Kimeramon?"
"That's the one." Dartz said. "He's here. And it's our job to take him down. Time to digivolve." The three digimon were enveloped in a stream of fractal code. "DNA, Maximum charge!" Dartz slammed his hand on the Digivice. The code stream disappeared and three digimon emerged. Besides Storm Garurumon, there was a large two legged lion with flames coming out of his arms and a large rabbit with white armor and a staff with crescents at each end.
"Whoa." Odd said in awe.
"We'd better hurry." Dianamon, the rabbit said. The lion and Storm Garurumon nodded and they ran through a door not far from their position.
"Never saw that before." Ulrich said.
"Come on!" Dartz said. "We need to help them out!" The others nodded and ran after Dartz. Before they could run through the door they heard a thud behind them and turned around to see Sora, Riku, and Kairi sprawled out on the ground. Dartz, Odd, and Ulrich ran over and helped them up.
"What happened to you guys?" Ulrich asked.
"We don't know. One minute we're patrolling in the Space Paranoids, the next we are getting sucked into a portal and end up here." Riku said. "All I remember is seeing a dark man in samurai armor with a large sword walking into the solar sailor dock.
"Which means he's probably looking for the MCP." Kairi said. "Any chance there's a way we can get back?"
"We might be able to open up a portal, but right now there's too much interference with Millenniummon. You'll have to take him out first." Jeremy said. The Lyoko gang nodded and ran through the door, closely followed by the Keybladers. They emerged in a rather large room with explosions appearing everywhere.
"Dimension Destroyer!" A large black digimon yelled.
"Arrow of Apollo!" the lion shouted while shooting multiple flame arrows at the beam coming from the black digimon's mouth. "Take him out, Dianamon!"
"Will do!" Dianamon said. "Crescent Haken!" Dianamon slashed at the digimon's head, causing it to stagger. "Face it, Millenniummon. You don't stand a chance."
"You have yet to see my true form, Dianamon." Millenniummon said. He turned pitch black and changed shape.
"NO!" Thomas yelled. "He's digivolving!"
"Stop him, now, Shine Greymon!" Marcus yelled.
"Glorious Burst!" the dinosaur- like angel digimon shouted. A burst of light emitted from his wings, causing Millenniummon to get pushed back, but not stopped.
"Destructive Flash!" the newly digivolved ZeedMillenniummon shouted. A dark flash appeared and threw Shine Greymon, Mirage Gaogamon, and Rosemon into a wall. Dartz turned to Garrett.
"I think it's time to DNA digivolve, Doc." He said.
"You got it." Storm Garurumon returned to his rookie form.
"DNA digivolution time!" the two boys said in unison.
"Gabumon warp digivolve to… MetalGarurumon!" Gabumon said as his shape changed into a blue armored wolf with sabers on his shoulders.
"WarGreymon…" WarGreymon started.
"MetalGarurumon…" MetalGarurumon continued.
"DNA digivolve to… Omnimon!" They finished in unison, combining to form a large armored humanoid with a white cape and WarGreymon's head for a left hand and MetalGarurumon's head for a right.
"Omni Sword!" He shouted. He stabbed his sword into one of ZeedMillenniummon's heads, but was in turn damaged by a blast of darkness that erupted from the other head's mouth.
"Millenniummon has grown too powerful!" Duke yelled as he watched Feralmon get shot into a wall. "We have to fall back!"
"We can't!" Dartz shouted back. "We've come too far to give up now!"
"We don't have a choice, Dartz!" Yoshi said. "We don't stand a chance!"
"There has to be a way." Dartz mumbled. An aura suddenly appeared around him. He looked at his hands in shock. "Is this… Aura digivolution?"
"No way…" Doc said in amazement. "No tamer, not even the chiefs of Light Fang and Night Claw, have ever pulled off aura digivolution."
"Then we're looking at the most powerful tamer ever." Thomas said.
"DNA, aura charge!" Dartz shouted. Dianamon, Apollomon, and Omnimon were surrounded by blue, red, and white auras respectively.
"Aura mode!" the three digimon shouted.
"Arrow of Artemis!" Dianamon shouted. A large ice arrow appeared and shot toward Millenniummon, causing him to be thrown into a wall.
"This is far from over." ZeedMillenniummon said as he stood up.
There's chapter 11. Next chapter will end the battle between DATS and Millenniummon and start the next leg of the team's journey through their friends' worlds. As usual, one review for the next update.
