Disclaimer: God it's been so long since I wrote this story. I've had no time since I started my job and with the play practice being everyday but luckily the plays over, well actually half the cast including me quit in a call of no confidence in the director. We'd been practicing for months and had almost nothing done and the show airs in less then three weeks. Anyway I'm so sorry and I'll tell you that today's May 3 so you can tell how long this took. Also I figured that I'd answer a few questions from a reviewer.
Jillie062: Yes TK was aware the entire time that he was possessed but assumed that he'd get back together with Kari once she knew since he's still in love with her. The reason why Henry got the crest is a mixture of the fact that his father took part in making it, I wanted to use another tamer and I figured why not I mean even the real crests seemed to be a bit random like Matt with friendship, he was the most isolated out of all of them and how was Joe reliable or Mimi sincere. Now about Takato, the reason he was teleported as well is because the crests of Hope and Faith are interconnected so anything mystical that happens to TK while he's wearing his crest will happen to Takato and vice versa. Finally I purposefully made TK on and off mad because the fact is that they sort of are still friends. It's like in real life when you argue with friends, you're mad but if something bigger comes up usually there's an unspoken truce until the bigger event passes and many times these truces help fix friendships hint hint.
Sweet Cari: the reason there is a crest of Time is to explain why the time stream was different in season 1. Also for everyone I'm sorry I have to write another Crest chapter right away but if I don't I can't move on with any alternate storylines I have planned so please be patient with me. Thank you and I don't own Digimon.
Chapter 9:
The Crest of Change
"Hey Davis is he ok?" Takato asked, referring to TK. It had been a few days since the Crest of Time incident and ever since then Takato had felt like the blond had been avoiding him. Even in classes when they sat together the boy just seemed to be avoiding his gaze.
"He's upset, what else do you expect, two weeks ago his only problem was that he had to go back to school and now look what's happened," the red head replied in an unusually serious tone.
"Well if you see him tell him I'm sorry," the brunette said sullenly then walked past his friend. He'd begun to wonder if he'd ever regain TK's trust, even if they hadn't known each other long. As he was lost in his thoughts, the strange new digivice attached to the strap of his bag began to shine brightly. Takato quickly grabbed it and read the message it held:
"I just received word that something strange is happening in primary village. I'm not sure if this has any relation to the crests but it may be wise to do some further investigations. This is not top priority so only come if you are able.
Gennai"
'I guess I could go, Gym is next and I'd rather avoid TK if I can,' Takato thought then turned around and headed towards the computer lab. As he entered he found two others were already within, Yolei and TK. "Oh hey guys I see you're going too," the boy nervously said as he put his arm behind his head.
The blond stared coldly at him for a moment before responding, "Yeah Elecmon's an old friend of mine."
An awkward silence fell between the two and it was almost a minute before Yolei finally decided to intervene, "Come on let's get going before someone comes in." The two boys agreed and the three held their digivices up to the monitor, "Digi-Port open!"
Moments later the three digidestined arrived at the entrance of a place covered in giant toys. They looked around them to find that new people were arriving by the second along with their digimon, "Hey guys, where's Kari?" Takuya yelled as he ran over to them with two blue haired boys and a blond girl behind him.
"I guess she couldn't make it, is the rest of your gang coming?" Yolei answered her friend's cousin.
"Nah, Tommy's not one to cut class and it's right around lunch so I doubt we'll be seeing JP," the brunette answered as he rubbed the back of his neck and his friends nodded in agreement.
"Well if you're looking for a cousin I think that's Tai over there," the blond boy informed him as he pointed towards a small group of kids, only three of which happened to be the original digidestined. The other two were international digidestined who seemed to be extremely tired for some reason.
While Yolei and TK chatted with the legendary warriors, Takato spotted some of his own group a few feet away along with Guilimon running towards him and began waving wildly, "Hey guys, over here!"
"Hey goggle head; you know why we're here?" Rika asked with her normal slightly rude attitude.
Before he even had a chance to answer, an eavesdropping Patamon chirped in, "We should go see Elecmon, he can tell us what's going on."
"Ok buddy lead the way," Takuya interrupted, having overheard the orange digimon during his conversation with his cousin.
The rookie leveled digimon brought them over to a path that appeared to be slightly inflated then rested in his partner's blond hair, "wow, it's been a long time since we've been here, huh Patamon?" the orange digimon nodded then TK jumped onto the trampoline path.
"Wow, awesome! Come on guys lets go," Takuya said then jumped onto the path as well, along with the other digidestined. (btw I'm not making up the path thing it was in the episode digi baby boom and I've always wanted to jump on it XD)
Once on the other end, the teenage boy began walking through the village towards the nursery, soon followed by the others, "It's not far from here. If I remember correctly he should be right around this corner." TK passed by a tower of giant blocks and found himself in a large field that he hadn't seen in eight years. In the middle of the meadow was a red rabbit like digimon carefully holding a baby Punimon.
Patamon flew from his blond perch and quickly flew over to his old friend as TK casually walked behind, the others only just starting to arrive. "Hey Elecmon, remember me?" the orange digimon asked after landing on the ground.
"Of course Patamon, my boy, how could I forget you? Say, where's that friend of yours, TJ?" the rookie digimon smiled then placed the baby back in its cradle
"That's TK and he's right over there," Patamon corrected then pointed at the teenager who was still walking over.
"Where, is he behind the tall gangly kid?" Elecmon asked and he moved from side to side in an attempt to get a better look.
"No that is TK," the orange digimon explained.
"Really I always thought he was shorter, my memory must be going," Elecmon sighed as Patamon slapped his forehead in defeat.
"Hey Elecmon, long time no see," the blond said when he finally arrived.
"It sure has, how've ya been TK? He asked in his strange accent.
"Hm… let's just say things have been interesting," the boy laughed meekly then suddenly became more serious, "Listen I'm sorry for cutting this reunion short but there's something I need to ask. You see me and my friend's all received messages from Gennai saying something was up around here and we were wondering, have you noticed anything strange going on lately?"
"I figured that was why you decided to come back after all these years," the aging digimon sighed then looked back up at the human and the other digidestined who had just arrived with their digimon, "The truth is for the past couple of weeks something terrible has been happening the baby digimon of this village. At first I just thought that a cold bug had come over them, it happens every few months so I didn't think much of it. Days passed and the illness only seemed to get worse and then one day I watched as a baby Yuramon faded away in my arms. It was tragic but it's not like it hasn't happened before, but usually the baby digimon will revert back into an egg but this time his data just floated away. Since then it's been happening more and more often, sometimes three or four times a day. At this point, I don't think they'll be any baby digimon left before long. That's why I hired Maladimon last week to help me out but even with the extra help I can't seem to save them," he ha cast off his tough guy act and was about to breakdown into tears when he remembered something, "I can't believe almost forgot to introduce you to Maladimon. Hey Maladimon come over here a second, there's a few old friends I want you to meet!"
Almost immediately after the call, a green rookie leveled digimon. He reminded the blond of his friend's Veemon though his face had a different appearance and he bore a strange symbol on his chest. He, along with many of the other digidestined, held out his digivice and analyzed the green rookie.
Maladimon: A rookie leveled digimon whose abilities allow it to control the spread of weak viruses.
"Hello nice to meet you," Maladimon said politely as he held out his claw to Patamon.
"Hey I'm Patamon and this is my partner TK. These are our friends; let's see if I can remember their names. Rika, Renamon, Ryo, Cyberdramon, Catherine, Floramon, Willis, Lopmon, Terriermon, Takuya, Zoe, Koji, Kouichi, Agumon, Tai, Tentamon, Izzy, Palmon, Mimi, Hawkmon, Yolei, Guilimon and Takato…"
"Takato is not my friend," TK sneered then watch Takato sigh out of the corner of his eye and smiled smugly.
"So I supposed you are here to aid us," the green digimon remarked as he looked around at the crowd.
"I guess so, come on gang let's help out the baby digimon!" Takuya announced then each Digidestined ran to a cradle and picked up the baby inside.
"Hey little guy, you don't look so good." "Hang on, you'll be Oh," "Ew, how am I supposed to clean up if she doesn't wear a diaper?"
"Hey Patamon do you really think Maladimon can be trusted, I mean how do we know he's not the one who caused this disease?" the child of hope whispered to his partner as his friends took care of the babies.
"He seems alright to me, besides he showed up weeks after it started," Patamon reasoned out.
Meanwhile the nearby Maladimon smirked at the news he had just heard and pulled out a dark digivice from the cradle in front of him. After pressing a few buttons the screen began to glow and he spoke into it, "They've finally arrived, I knew they could never resist a crest… soon, I promise you they'll be dead within the hour."
For the next twenty minutes the digimon waited patiently until he heard a scream of excitement. "Guys come here, quick!" Zoe shouted as she held a Boramon in her arms.
"Hey what's wrong?" Yolei asked, having been the first on to make it over to her.
"Look at that!" Zoe exclaimed then pointed at a strange symbol on the ground, "You don't think it could be…"
"Only one way to find out," the other girl said then bent down on the ground touch it. The instance her fingertips brushed the strange rubber-like ground, the symbol began to glow bright green and condense in size. When the crest landed in her hands Yolei turned to hear friends and yelled in excitement, "Hey guys, look what I got!"
"Prodigious I'd better look this one up," replied Izzy when he saw the new crest then removed his laptop from his bag and opened it up.
The Crest of Change was an early form of digivolving. Unfortunately its power is limited to only making a physical copy of a desired form unless sample data is provided.
"What does zat mean?" Catherine asked in confusion.
"It means that your crest's power is only a cheap illusion. But it doesn't matter, I'll still take it after I destroy all of you," Maladimon laughed then was surrounded by a green aura, "Maladimon warp digivolve to… Pestilencemon." In the place of the small digimon now stood a centaur-like green beast with the same symbol on his chest.
Pestilencemon: A mega leveled digimon whose Virus Blaster can inject any Digimon with a fatal disease.
"I knew there was something off about you. What do you want with the baby digimon?" Takeru asked in disgust as he looked into the digimon's eyes.
"I am one of the Four Horsemon of the Apocalypse and I knew that the best way to take out the future generations was to destroy them while they are still weak. But when I found out that one of the sacred crests was hidden here I knew the digidestined wouldn't be far behind and if I destroy you now then they'll be no one left to stop our plans.
"The Four Horsemon of the Apocalypse? Is anyone else tired of these crappy digimon puns?" Rika asked annoyed followed by full agreement from her friends.
"It doesn't matter now, get the baby digimon out of here. My team will take care of this guy," smirked Takuya as he pulled out his D-Tector, "Execute! Fusion Evolution… Aldamon!"
"Execute! Fusion Evolution… Beowulfmon!"
"Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution… Jagerloewemon!"
"Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution… Zephyrmon!"
'Whoa, remind me never to mess with him again," Tai thought to himself as he ran with four baby digimon in his arms and Agumon at his side with two Digimon.
"OK gang let's get him!" Aldamon ordered before releasing his attack, "Salamander Kick!"
"Frozen Hunter!"
"Ebony Blast!"
"Hurricane Gale!"
The four legendary warriors watched as the four attacks joined into one and struck the powerful digimon and a cloud of dust covered the area. When the dust cleared, Pestilencemon stood there unfazed.
"I expected more from the Legendary Warriors, I thought you'd at least put up a fight," Pestilencemon laughed maniacally then raised his palm to the four warriors, "Virus Blaster." A dark green beam then shot from his hand and knocked to digimon to the ground, forcing them back into human form.
'What a bad time for Tommy and JP to skip out, it looks like we could really use MagnaGaruru and EmperorGreymon,' Koji thought before finally passing out.
Meanwhile not to far away, "I can't believe Maladimon would betray me like this, I thought he wanted to help the baby Digimon but now look what he's done. This is all my fault," Elecmon cried to TK.
"No it's not so don't worry about it, we'll take this guy down," the boy reassured him then lifted up his Digipower (it's what I named his and Takato's new devices), "Patamon warp Digivolve into… Seraphymon!"
"Come on guys let's help him," Willis said then held out his digivice, "Terriermon Digivolve to… Gargomon! Gargomon Digivolve to… Rapidmon!" "Lopmon warp Digivolve to… Cherubimon!"(I know that it makes no sense that he can digivolve to a higher form but it will be important later)
"Palmon Digivolve to… Togemon!" "Togemon Digivolve to… Lillymon!"
"Agumon warp Digivolve to WarGreymon!"
"Tentamon Digivolve to… Kabuterimon!" "Kabuterimon Digivolve to… MegaKabuterimon!"
"Hawkmon Digivolve to… Aquilamon!"
"Floramon Digivolve to… Kiwimon!" "Kiwimon Digivolve to… Deramon!"
"Biomerge Activate! Guilimon Biomerge to… Galantmon!"
"Biomerge Activate! Renamon Biomerge to… Sakuyamon!"
"Biomerge Activate! Cyberdramon Biomerge to… Justimon!"
Like before each of the digimon released their most powerful attack at the powerful digimon. This time though instead of taking the hit, Pestilencemon jumped out of he way, "Virus Inferno!" A whirling black flame was released from his mouth and infected the digidestined digimon. The Tamers were forced apart from their now in-training digimon and the other's digimon converted to their weaker forms as well. "Well now that your Digimon are infected with my virus it should only be a matter of time before they fade away so all I have to do now is destroy you humans!"
As the Attacks began flying towards the digidestined who were now running for cover, Tai realized that his cousin was still lying on the ground and made a dash for him. The college student was only a few yards away from Takuya's limp body when a beam shot in front of his face. He was forced to avoid it and accidentally tripped over Kouichi. Knowing that he couldn't make it back to his cousin alive, Tai lifted the blue haired boy into his arms and ran for cover behind a giant toy block.
After seeing the goggle boy's act, Izzy, Ryo, Rika and Takato ran for the remaining three Legendary Warriors. Izzy was able to carry Zoe on his own to Tai's hiding spot and Ryo and Rika managed to avoid Pestilencemon long enough to carry Koji behind a giant Teddy bear. Unfortunately though, Takato found himself unable to carry the boy who was his own size and ended up having to drag Takuya along the ground while his sneezing Gigimon (Guilimon's In-Training form) tried to push him from the other side. Takato desperately wanted to call out for help but was afraid that the digimon, who was currently trying to attack a very fast and loud pink haired girl, would notice he wa there and would attack.
'Damn that idiot's going to get them both killed,' TK thought from his nearby hiding spot behind a toy tower with the French Digidestined and their two in-training digimon, "You guys stay here, I'm gonna go help them!" Takeru warned then ran for the two boys. Without saying a word, the blond grabbed Takuya's feet and led Takato over to his hiding place.
"Whoa I thought I was a goner, thanks TK," the conscious goggle boy said but TK did not seem to be paying attention as he was watching the battle, "Listen TK I really don't want to die with things the way they are between us. I really didn't mean to take Kari away from you it just happened. She was jus so frightened when she came to me so I walked her home and I don't really know what happened but I found myself falling for her. I'm didn't mean to hurt you and after what happened we were afraid that we might hurt you if you knew about us. But we were wrong, we should have trusted you. I guess what I mean to say is, I'm sorry."
TK heard the boy's words and looked back to see tears running down his face and smirked in a way meant to cheer him up, "Well I guess it could have been worse, she could have ended up with Davis."
As the two boys laughed their crests began to glow along with their digipowers. "Tokomon digivolve to… Patamon! Biomerge Activate! Patamon Biomerge to… ArchAngemon!"
"Gigimon warp Digivolve to… EmperorGrowlmon!"
Takato looked in amazement at the two new digimon. His own appeared similar to Gallantman but his head appeared to be more like WarGrowlmon and his amor was less bulky and bore the symbol for Faith on his left shoulder and the symbol for Hope on his right. TK's new form however appeared similar to his human form but with a few differences, the most noticeable being the two pairs of wings and the fact that he was now wearing similar to those he'd seen in cartoons about Egyptians and the armor helmet he wore on his head. He also now carried a strange blue bow and each of his shoulders were adorn with a gold ring halfway down his forearm right below two black symbols of Faith and Hope along with two other rings around his ankles.
"Come on Takato let's go," ArchAngemon yelled then flew towards the Horsemon with EmperorGrowlmon running behind.
Takato ran after them, leaving Catherine to look after Takuya and her sick Yokomon then watched as Pestilencemon's gaze landed on them, "I see you have some more reinforcements. No matter, I'll defeat them just as easily. I did the others. Virus Blaster!"
As the attack hurtled towards them, words flowed through Takato's mind, "Shield of Virtue!" EmperorGrowlmon held out his shield and suddenly put up a barrier to protect himself and his partner.
:"Grr, if I can't destroy you then I'll just destroy your friend," Pestilencemon told them then aimed his palm at ArchAngemon, "Virus Blaster!"
ArchAngemon found himself easily dodging the attack with his enhanced speed but when he turned around, TK saw that the beam had hit the now crumbling tower of toys they had been hiding behind and quickly flew towards it, "Takato hold him off!" ArchAngemon called then scooped up the two digidestined and then small digimon in his strengthened arms before they were crushed. Catherine looked up into her savior's eyes and could help but blush as he smiled back at her. ArchAngemon searched the area from the sky and spotted three human's hiding behind a giant teddy bear then landed nearby. "Hey do me a favor and watch them," TK ordered the lift back off the ground.
While ArchAngemon was off saving the other two digidestined Takato was trapped in a stalemate with Pestilencemon, "Shield of Virtue!"
"Virus Inferno!" as before the evil digimon's attack was unable to pierce the shield, "Hm I wonder how long can you hold that up because I've stored up enough Data to last for weeks off the baby digimon but how much energy do you have?" Pestilencemon asked then did an evil half smile.
"You forgot one thing though, I'm still here," ArchAngemon shouted from the sky as he pointed an arrow towards the green Horsemon then released it, "Justice Arrow!"
The attack was too quick for Pestilencemon to avoid and it pierced his flesh and caused him to begin to fade away, "I may have been defeated but this is far from over," the evil digimon yelled with his final breath then disappeared.
As ArchAngemon landed on the ground, he was surround by data and the human and digimon were separated. At the same time EmperorGrowlmon dedigivolved back into Guilimon. The other digidestined quickly emerged from their hiding places and ran over to them, "Whoa guys that was awesome! How did you do that?" Yolei asked her friends.
"I'm not sure, one second I was talking with TK then…" Takato started but was cut off by the girl.
"Wait you guys were talking, does that mean you're friends again? That's awesome!" she exclaimed then wrapped her arms around their necks in excitement.
"Thank you TK, thanks to you and your friend all my babies are back to normal," Elecmon said as he tugged on the bottom of his kaki shorts.
"No problem," he replied embarrassedly as he attempted to pry his friend off of him.
"Uh my head," Takato heard a voice nearby. He looked to see that the boy that he and TK hand rescued was now awake, "Tai what happened?"
"You were knocked out by Pestilencemon. Don't worry though, we got you guys to safety before he could destroy you," Tai told him awkwardly.
"Really? Thanks for saving my butt cuz," Takuya thanked with a half smile but saw that his cousin didn't have the same expression on his nineteen year old face.
"Takuya, the truth is I wasn't the one who rescued you. I tried to but I wasn't able to get over to you so I grabbed one of your friends instead. Those two over there were the ones who got you out of there," the original goggle bay told him ashamedly.
"Don't worry about it cuz, you did what you could," he said then walked over to his rescuers who had just escaped a purple-haired girl's grip, "Hey I heard what you did, thanks buddies."
"It's no big deal, we digidestined have to look out for each other," Takato replied as he scratched the back of his head.
Having overheard, Catherine walked over to TK slowly, "I almost forgot to thank you too, see you later," the blond girl said then kissed the boy on the cheek and walked away.
"Hey it looks like somebody likes you," teased Takuya as he watched the boy's face turn red.
"Yeah right, it's just a French thing, it doesn't mean anything," TK argued but watched as they two boys burst into laughter, "Will you guys cut it out? Come on Takato, we better get back to class."
"See ya later guys!" the child of Faith called out then followed then ran to catch up with TK as did Yolei.
As TK walked alone he spotted something black resembling a digivice on the ground. His eyes suddenly turned glassy and a twisted smile formed on his face. The boy picked up the device then thought to himself, 'Hmm this may come in handy later.'
"Hey TK wait up!" hey heard someone call then quickly slipped it into his pocket.
Once again the boy's eyes went blank and then became fixated on the ground, 'I could have sworn there was something there a second ago.'
Yeah I'm finally finished after 4 weeks of work. Actually the funny thing is I wrote over half of this up yesterday because I was home alone most of the day and we were off from school. Also I read over one of my old fanfics the day before and got completely re-inspired which is awesome. Anyway I'm hoping to get the next chapter out by the end of the month so until then R&R.