A stormtrooper lost in the Digiworld

by Evil Nazgul

Its a riddiculous story and I wrote it because my brother and sister REALLY asked me to. He likes SW, while she - DT. Don't hit me too hard, because I'm not a good writer, and English is not my first language. Crossover between Star Wars and Digimon. R&R

12. Chapter 12

A stormtrooper lost in the Digiworld Chapter 12: Rescue of the Calumon

A stormtrooper lost in the Digiworld Chapter 12: Rescue of the Calumon.

This chapter is inspired by the actual show in some pieces. Still, it's not the same thing in most parts. Here we go…

…"Halt, you cannot pass!" a voice came from nowhere, forcing the tamers to stop. The digimon who were with them haven't sensed where from the voice came out, and formed a defensive circle around the children, with only one tamer – NZ, who has joined the defensive perimeter with his gun ready to fire. Anyway, the one who pronounced this strange warning showed himself shortly after. It was quite a strange digimon, she looked like Terriermon, only with more horns on the head and was of brown and pink color.

"Who are you, ssstranger? And why do you ssstand in our way?" Ulairimon hissed, while pointing at the strange opponent with his sword.

"I am Lopmon, a former Deva known as Antylamon. I am the guardian of the gates to the palace of the Great Zhuqiaomon. And I warn you: go back! You will find nothing here, besides your own destruction."

"Let us pass or you will meet your own destruction now." Ulairimon hissed with offence and hatred. The wave of dark energy struck Lopmon off his little feet.

"Very well, if that is what you wish, but don't say I didn't warn you. Yet, I will try to convince my master not to destroy you all." he replied, while trying to stand up again. The last words infuriated Ulairimon even more, he was extremely aggressive this day. He was going to slice the arrogant rabbit in two pieces, but his hand was now held by Susan again.

"Calm down, please." she whispered, as the anger of Ulairimon started to fade away. Before they followed Lopmon, the tamers managed to biomerge (I don't recall how exactly it is called) with their digimon to form MegaGargomon, Sakuyamon and Gallantmon. MegaGargomon appeared as some kind of a mechanism with metal body and heavy armaments. Sakuyamon stepped out of the blue light in her shiny gold armor and a wand, looking most impressive. Gallantmon stepped out as a full-armored knight in shiny white armor, and with a shield and a spear.

"That's formidable." Ulairimon hissed in amazement. He and NZ didn't even have a clue how to do that, but Ulairimon followed the others, confident in his powers, his anger which formed his inner strength, even though he was now not as strong as his allies. Before they went in, Sakuyamon said to NZ:

"You know your orders, soldier."

"Executing orders, commander. Good luck to all of you." he replied and grabbed Susan, who was trying to pass through too, and said:

"I have orders to get you away from here. Things might get ugly and I'm sure you don't want to be around for it." Susan understood about what he was talking about, and went with him without struggling…

Meanwhile the digimon followed Lopmon to the Zhuqiaomon. While they were going through the crimson – red halls of his huge palace, Lopmon said:

"Near your allies you don't look so formidable, darky." the phrase was obviously sent to Ulairimon. The next thing the others saw was Lopmon suffocating from an invisible hand, agonizing. Finally Ulairimon let loose his magic grip on Lopmon, and hissed terribly:

"One more word from you, pitiful mortal, and your soul will become imprisoned and tortured forever, forming the strength of my cursed blade along with the others who dared to insult me." This fact sent shivers even to the tough digimon in their mega form, not to mention the scared to death Lopmon, who just felt the power of darkness on his own skin.

"R…right. I'll keep quiet…" he replied, while shaking. They have continued, as the MegaGargomon whispered to Ulairimon:

"You had to be so hard on the fellow?"

"When this is over I will destroy him eventually." he replied coldly… The long corridor went to an end. They came to a wide hall with a flaming pit in the form of sharp-edged red crown. There was powerful red fire blazing in it. And from that fire a powerful and aggressive voice came:

"WHO DARES TO COME TO THE ALL-MIGHTY SOVEREIGN OF THE SOUTH?"

"It's me, my master, the guard of the gates. These are the strangers that came to take back Calumon – the source of the digievolution. I am begging you for mercy, o Great one, they don't know what they are doing, and …" Lopmon tried to explain, yet this had infuriatedZhuqiaomon.

"WHAT? YOU, MERE WORM, DARE ASKING ME OF SOMETHING? I WILL DESTROY BOTH YOU AND THE INTRUDERS NOW!!" he screamed in rage and launched the devastating Phoenix fire at Lopmon. The whole thing broke through the wall of the palace, making a big hole for the digimon to get out, and Gallantmon managed to save Lopmon before he was going to be obliterated, yet Lopmon snapped out because of the terror…

NZ and Susan were not so far away from the palace, waiting for their friends and hoping for the best, when they saw the giant red fire bolt coming out of the palace.

"Looks like there will be a battle after all. Susan, you better go and hide in the shelter I have prepared for you." he said with a calm and unwavering tone.

"What about you?" she asked quietly.

"Don't worry about me, just hide." NZ replied and prepared his cards and D-power. He remembered what he was taught and was prepared. He got as close to the battle as he could, so that he could assist his digimon with the cards. Meanwhile the battle in the air between the 4 digimon and one sovereign was heating up. Zhuqiaomon was enraged and was trying to hit them with his Phoenix fires and Desolation blasts. Each of the attacks was capable of destroying any of the opponents. Ulairimon knew that his own attacks, even if his powers were doubled by his own rage, were no match for the supreme power of his enemy, yet he was still fighting madly, trying to hit Zhuqiaomon in the eyes with his dark vortexes. He even managed to hit the enemy one time in the eye, but this ended up enraging Zhuqiaomon even more, throwing fire balls in all directions. The others were far more successful then him. MegaGargomon was able to produce far greater damage to the enemy with his Mega barrages, and Sakuyamon with Gallantmon were doing their best also. They were formidable, but still their opponent was far more powerful. He was able to evade the majority of the attacks, and his own attacks were far more overfull than the combined attack of all four digimon. As the battle went further, the futility of the fighting the digimon god was getting more and more evident. The things went even worse when Sakuyamon, the strongest digimon of all three, was hit by one of those fire bolts. She managed to block the hit enough to stay alive, yet keeping the form was still impossible after the hit, and Sakuyamon was broken into Renamon and Rika again, as they fell to the ground…

A shadow sneaked in the empty palace of the fire phoenix of the south, and proceeded right in the place where Calumon was hidden. To sneak past the guards was not hard, as she was skilled in such operations. She new her scope and what she was doing. It was the red renamon, who followed the group for a couple of days now. She knew why they were here, and remembered that she was spared, even though she attacked first. What she was about to do was her sign of her gratitude. She sneaked to the place where Calumon was held, and managed to open the cage, even though the cage was special and it took special knowledge to open it.

"Hello! Who are you? Who are you? Tell me!" Calumon asked cheerfully as he got out.

"You can call me ex-commander. I have come to get you out of this cage." answered the red renamon and smiled. She knew that she did a good thing for a change.

"Come, your friends are fighting hard against the one who kidnapped you, and we must get out quick."

"Sure! Let's go!" Calumon replied cheerfully as always. It seemed that nothing could bring him down…

…NZ saw what happened. Their strongest warrior just fallen. "I will help them, even if it will kill me in the process." he thought as he charged forward to pick up the fallen friends… He ran as fast as he could, and got to them in short time. Renamon was definitely hit, she was completely powerless now, as well as Rika was. He managed to carry them out of the line of fire both, even though they were pretty heavy. As he managed to hide them behind the big stone away from the heat of battle, his little maneuver was spotted by the airborne Zhuqiaomon. "A human saving the digimon? Pathetic, still, my minions will make short work of them." he thought, and, by his mental command 3 horrible Vilemon, who looked like a wicked combination of a devil, a vampire bat and a bloodthirsty mutant, went out of the castle to find and destroy the wounded Renamon and Rika, as well as their protector right now… NZ spotted the 3 flying menaces approaching fast. He opened fire at the approaching enemy, and it was so accurate that he managed to take down two of three targets, but with the last one he was not so lucky.

"DIE!" the last Vilemon screamed as he attacked NZ. His teeth tore the arm with the gun away from NZ, and blood with pieces of meat and crushed bone dripped the ground abundantly. Vilemon continued his attack and sliced through the chest armor plate of the stormtrooper with his claws, yet the armor significantly reduced the damage. NZ fell to the ground, and, when Vilemon was about to bite his head off, NZ managed to penetrate his jaw with the sword, which he was holding in his remaining hand.

"ARHHH! DIE YOURSELF! I WILL KILL YOU!!" he screamed in rage as he become to strike the enemy with his sword, blow after blow, until there was nothing left of him. After that he sat on the ground, powerless and gravely wounded…

Ulairimon, who was trying to do his best, as well as the others, was beaten badly. He barely managed to evade the last strikes of the Zhuqiaomon.

"READY TO GIVE UP NOW?" his enemies' voice sounded loudly in his head. But then… he felt it. He felt the connection between him and his tamer. He felt all the pain and anger his tamer just suffered… and this… gave him enormous power.

"YOU HURT MY TAMER… I WILL DESTROY YOU." the powerful and low voice came like from beneath the surface. Ulairimon suddenly was caught in the great dark fire aura, which was getting bigger, reaching the size of the Zhuqiaomon himself.

"WHAT WAS THAT FAMILIAR VOICE?" he asked him self loudly, as the dark aura of Ulairimon started to get a straight form of a human-like figure.

"OH, NO… IT CANNOT BE…" Zhuqiaomon whispered, yet it was still loud enough for anyone to understand. The strange giant figure finally formed and entered the battlefield, surrounded by the aura of darkness and hatred, which formed the dark clouds. The sun was eclipsed by them, and it became very dark, with only Zhuqiaomon's fire aura to light up the area. It was of the size comparable to Zhuqiaomon, perhaps even bigger. It wore dark armor with a helmet… They all were black. He carried the horrible mace of dark metal, and was emanating the waves of horror and pure evil. The other two digimon witnessed this, as Gallantmon asked:

"What in heavens name happened to Ulairimon? His power is so BIG, it can even be equal to the Zhuqiaomon…"

"I have no idea, and I think that "heavens" is not the right word to describe this." MegaGargomon replied quietly. Then the dark figure levitated from the ground, and asked:

"DO YOU RECOGNIZE ME NOW, ZHUQIAOMON?"

"YOU… YOU ARE … SAURMON, THE DARK LORD OF TERROR, AND MY OLD ENEMY!! DIE!" Zhuqiaomon screamed and launched the devastating Blazing helix attack. With a horrible roar the fire went to make its target parish, but it met on its way the Infernal Dark Hurricane, which devoured it with ease and slammed hard Zhuqiaomon. He flew some distance away, and then, with the scream, or more like a shriek, flied back and slammed Saurmon, as they begun to wrestle. The vortexes of red and black energy tore the place apart, they clashed and created terrible sand storms. They struggled to destroy each other, but no one had enough strength to do so. Then the horrible voice of Saurmon screamed:

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STRIKE THE HATED ENEMY IN THE BACK, AVENGE SAKUYAMON'S FALL!!" he screamed to Mega Gargomon and Gallantmon.

"KILL!!" screamed Gallantmon and MegaGargomon while going to attack at their maximum firepower. Their combined attack made Zhuqiaomon to consume some of his strength on defense, and Saurmon, with terrible shriek, managed to strike the fire bird down… And there was a big explosion… Zhuqiaomon managed to gather the last of his strength, what was left of it and to flee from the battlefield. MegaGargomon and Gallantmon fell to the ground, they consumed too much of their energy in the last attack, and they both have fallen apart to the regular digimon and their tamers. Ulairimon got his initial form back also, his last effort required all of his spared energy… He tried to rise up, relying on his sword, but failed, and fell to the ground. His form became unstable.

"Curses! I don't have enough energy to sustain my form… Hrrr, I'm… dying…" he hissed weakly, and noticed that someone approached him. It was Susan, she watched the battle from her shelter, and came to help after the battle was over.

"Don't die, please! We need you!" she whispered to him, as her eyes went watery.

"Who?" Ulairimon hissed even weaker. His powers left him.

"We need you! Your tamer needs you! I … need you!"

"Why?" he managed to ask and fell unconscious. Susan put her hands on his breastplate, and they started to glow. She tried to give the slowly dying digimon some of her energy, and she did it…

"Why? Because you deserve a better fate…" she whispered as she fell asleep near him. The procedure took a lot of energy too…

NZ finally managed to get up. His chest and the remains of his right arm were bleeding horribly. "I must do something to fix this, but I do not have any rubber band… Oh, I think I know what I must do…" he thought and grabbed his rifle with his healthy arm. "Laser can burn up my wound and stop bleeding." he thought and shot his in wound without hesitation… He was right, it stopped the bleeding, yet the pain was enormous. Stormtrooper screamed loud from the pain, but this scream was short. He took a painkiller tube from his med kit and injected it in his neck vein. "Ah, a little better. Now, looks like we have won. This was stronger than the planetary bombardment… Anyway, I must go and gather my friends now. It seems they all have fainted, or killed." He thought and went to check out everyone on the ground… First he gathered the children, he was able to carry only one person now, so it took him some time. Susan was far away from the others, so NZ got to her last. While he was carrying her to the big stone, he whispered:

"Thank you for saving my digimon. I will repay you somehow…" He was not sure if Susan hears him or not, but, honestly, he didn't really cared about that. He got work to do, there were still powerless digimon that needed care and protection, and he was the only one around for this mission, yet he was also badly wounded. After he was done, the tamers were all reassembled with their digimon, Rika was sleeping near her Renamon, Henry near Terriermon, Takato near Guilmon, and Ulairimon was sitting unconscious near Susan. And he even found Lopmon, who was also incapacitated. After that NZ took down his damaged chest armor, and put it near him. The wounds from the claws were not deep, so he quickly patched them up with the remains of his bacta serum, and also bandaged his remains of his right hand. "We are extremely lucky, we survived and haven't lost anyone." he thought and injected the tube with soporific medicine, and fell into heavy slumber in two minutes… The whole thing from the beginning to the end was witnessed by Calumon, who was flying above the battlefield…

Renamon was the first to wake up from slumber. She opened her eyes, and the first thing she was … Calumon. He was staring at her, waiting for her to wake up, and when she did, he jumped at her.

"Rena-chan! You're wake! I'm so glad to see you!" he shouted cheerfully. She was also very glad to see him.

"Calumon, I'm glad you are safe. We came from far away to rescue you…" she gasped.

"You won't believe what happened… There was fighting, and shouting, and screaming, and…" Calumon was talking nonstop, as always he did.

"Wait, Calumon, wait for one second, I think I am not completely awake yet." she nodded and looked around. "Henry and Terriermon are fine, Rika is fine, Takato and Guilmon are fine, just sleeping, everyone seems to be fine, and…" Renamon was not able to finish her thought in the head, when she saw the dreadful picture. It was NZ without a hand, without his chest armor, which was near him, and with bloody holes on it. Near him there was a puddle of blood… The whole thing looked like a scene from a horror show.

"Oh my god, what happened…" Renamon said in horror and approached the body. Near him she found the tubes of the medicine he used. She grabbed the remaining hand of his, and felt a slight pulse.

"Thank god, you are still alive." she mumbled.

"Rena – chan, I know what happened, I saw it all, really I did!"

"What … happened… tell … me … now…" she managed to say, she was in shock. It was the most horrible thing she ever saw in her life.

"You and the others were fighting the big red mean digimon, and you were hit, then this man came in and carried you away, then after him came three scary mean evil digimon, and he made two of them disappear. And the third big mean scary digimon bit his arm off. This man was screaming very bad words, and was hitting the big scary digimon with this thing." Calumon pointed at the sword, which was near NZ also, and continued:

"Then the scary digimon disappeared too, and there was red liquid everywhere. After that this black scary digimon turned into a very nig black digimon and fought the big red mean digimon, and defeated him, yet it didn't disappear, and then turned back to himself." he said and pointed at Ulairimon.

"After that the white-clad man stood up and carried the other friends here, and than snapped out…um… Rena – chan? Rena – chan? Why are you crying?" Calumon asked after finishing his story, which he said very fast, as usual. He noticed that from Renamon's eyes tears were falling to the ground.

"He just got hurt so badly… for us… for me… he disobeyed an order…" she said, and whipped her tears with her glove.

"Rena – chan, are you alright?" Calumon asked with concern.

"Yes, Calumon, I'm alright." she said and whipped her eyes again.

"Then why were you crying?"

"Can you do me a favor? Don't tell anyone about you just saw, alright? Let this be our little secret." she asked patiently.

"Sure thing, Rena – chan! Your secret is safe with me, I won't tell anyone." Calumon replied cheerfully. "How joyful is his existence, he is luck he doesn't know what pain is like and what is blood…" Renamon thought. She was looking at the breastplate if the stormtrooper with long narrow holes carved in it. She took both pieces, and when she did, she noticed that there was some writing on the other side of the armor plate. It said:

"Stormtrooper NZ-13 has fallen in the line of duty" and there was some space left to write the date of death. "This is not handmade, that's made while production… That means that this part of the armor is used as a gravestone for the fallen troopers… How cynical." she thought and looked at NZ again. Even though he was asleep, his face had a painful grimace, or at least the normal side of it. The other half remained motionless, as usual. Renamon sat on the other stone, her glare was blank. "Soldiers are … supposed to be expendable…" she thought while looking at NZ again. Calumon sat on her knee and asked:

"Rena – chan, are you alright? You look worried."

"Yes, Calumon, I told you that I'm alright." she replied quietly. "At least thanks to him." she added in her mind. She knew that those Vilemon, and she found out that while analyzing the markings of the claws on the armor and by the description Calumon gave, were going to finish off her and Rika.

"I'm so stupid, I should have managed to evade that shot that struck us both down in the first place…" she said.

"Rena – chan, don't blame yourself, please! You are brave and strong, it is not your fault!" Calumon tried to cheer her up. Futile… Rika managed to wake up shortly after Renamon. She saw her digimon sitting on a stone staring at something. As she came closer, she found out exactly at what Renamon was staring…

"Oh my god, what the hell happened? Is he dead?"

"No… But we both owe our lives to him…" Renamon replied sorrowfully.

"Again… That makes two times for me… We should really be more careful, before NZ loses any more limbs."

"That's not funny, Rika."

"I was not joking…" she replied, and suddenly they saw that NZ started to move. He woke up, and spotted those two observers, who were staring at his wound from some distance. H guessed that they were terrified … again.

"I'm sorry, I'll try to make it less noticeable." he said and removed his armor parts from his remaining hand, and fastened them to the part of the armor remaining on his right hand, because the arm was torn away only to the forearm, and the upper armor piece remained intact. After that he put his breastplate back on too.

"Now I cannot be as efficient as before, battle capacity reduced to 40." he added.

"Thank you for saving us… We are sorry that you ended up without a hand because of this."

"Don't worry about that, I'll find an artificial hand somewhere and will be like brand new." NZ replied carelessly. It seemed that he didn't care much about the loss of the limb. This was calming and frightening at the same time…

As the others woke up one after one, almost no one noticed that NZ was lacking an arm, but this was of no importance of the moment. Almost everyone else was celebrating the victory. But this "celebration" quickly ended… From the sky to the surface out of nowhere descended Zhuqiaomon, badly hurt, he barely was able to fly, and the fires of his spheres near the neck glowed with dim light. He was accompanied by someone else… He had a strange form, and looked like a dragon of blue color, bended with chain all over his body… His appearance was completed with the thunder bolts coming out of him.

"Azulongmon, the one of the four sovereigns and the guardian of the Eastern hemisphere… We're doomed…" Lopmon managed to say. Ulairimon took out his sword and moved forward to face the thread. But no attack followed after this appearance.

"There is he, who almost deleted me… The former servant of the Dark Lord Saurmon, whom we defeated long ago…" Zhuqiaomon said weakly.

"So, he is. Tell me, son of the darkness, since your master has fallen long ago in battle against us, and the darkness you fought for has been utterly defeated, why do you continue to wage war over these peaceful lands?" asked Azulongmon with a powerful and confident voice, and it sounded very wise. Ulairimon stood silent, quickly regaining powers, fueled by his anger, but Takato answered for him:

"He came with us to help us get our friend Calumon back, and to stop the devastating attacks of the Devas against our city back at Earth from the source!" he screamed fearlessly.

"Attacks on the human world? Is this true, Zhuqiaomon?" Azulongmon asked.

"Yes, we fought the humans that betrayed us and managed to capture the digimon that possesses the key to digievolution."

"Your misjudgment and inadequate reaction have always leaded you to trouble. In you blind hatred towards humans you forgot about the real enemy." Azulongmon replied and then said:

"Allow me to explain why we have tried to capture Calumon in the first place. You see, long ago, when we managed to defeat the dark lands leaded by Saurmon, we have encountered another thread. We don't know how it is called, therefore never tried to contact it. The truth is that thread was destroying everything on its way. We managed to stop it, but not destroy it. It required tremendous powers, the powers we don't possess. But we managed to make it sleep, and I fear that your foolish deeds may awake it, Zhuqiaomon. But I haven't finished yet, Calumon is the digimon that holds the key to the digievolution of all digimon, so we are asking you, can we extract that power from him, turning him into average digimon, and enabling the other digimon to defend themselves?" Azulongmon asked the tamers. They have agreed…

Finally, their quest to retrieve their friend was finally at an end. Now Calumon was just an average digimon, as the power he held was spread upon the Digital world. Yet now their path home was shorter, as Azulongmon agreed to carry them to the gates, from where this all started. The whole group was finally going home…

That's it. I believe that there will be one more chapter to end the story. I'm sorry for all the grammar and characteristic mistakes I made. Anyway, what's done is done.