Digital Team in Special World
Lunar: Ok, proceed to the disclaimer-thingie.
Takuya: Lunar Wave does not own the characters of this story. ExSusanoomon is the only made-up character of this shindig. And since he is no longer existing in the future chapters, it's safe to say forget all about him. Chapter 22: Former Lord of the Dark Ocean start!
(TK and Patamon)
"Boom Bubble!" A flying figure shot an air bubble onto an enemy's face and tumbled into a boy's arms, which made a quick escape from the enemy. After getting as far as his legs would take him, he lay on the wall, exhausted. Breathing heavily, he hugged his partner to try and get him some comfort.
"TK," Patamon said. "Why does that guy want to kill you?"
"I don't know, Patamon, but we got to make a quick getaway." TK said to his partner.
"It's starting to look as though sending Davis the Digimental is a bad move." Patamon sighed.
"Not really, Patamon. If the Daemon got a hold on my Digimental and whatever the other thing I got, he might gain an advantage over us." TK panted. "And I don't have my D-3 when I woke up."
"He's coming, TK." Patamon said, his ears twitching. "Run!"
"No need to tell me twice!" TK ran from the enemy.
"This is worse than a beam of darkness." Patamon shuddered.
"You can say that again." TK ran towards the right path as soon as a crossroad appeared.
"Found you!" Dragomon said, right in front of TK.
"Boom Bubble!" Patamon spat another bubble at Dragomon, giving TK a split second chance to turn and head for the other path.
"There's no need to run, child." Dragomon said, his trident flying from his hand and almost hitting TK.
"There IS a need to run!" Patamon answered as the two ran to a curve.
"Soon you will end up on a dead end, child of hope." Dragomon called after the two as he picks up his trident. "This maze will be your demise."
(Team 2)
"This is a nightmare." Kenta said, staring from a heart-shaped bubble. "A maze."
"Power-crazed maniacs love this if they have more than enough room." Henry rolled his eyes as he sketched the top view of the maze on a piece of paper Ruby had in his bag. "If we headed straight in, without this sketch, we might get lost."
"Forget 'might'. We WOULD get lost." Terriermon said.
"Why can't we use a bubble to get across?" Neemon asked Henry, riding in the same bubble. Bokomon answered for Henry.
"I told you already. The moment the Kahuna Waves flit over the Maze, it came crashing down, splat." Bokomon impatiently answered.
"Why did you two join us?" Henry asked as he finished his copy of the maze.
"It's a secret." Bokomon said.
"Ummm... Bokomon..." Neemon said. "Is it me or is that a giant octopus chasing a kid?"
"What on earth are you saying? You're hallucinating, aren't you?" Bokomon said, looking at where Neemon pointed.
"Looks like we are both hallucinating." Neemon said, as Bokomon's eyes widened with shock.
"Let's save that kid!" Bokomon shook Kenta.
"Okay." Kenta said, hurrying to get down. Henry instead decided to stay behind.
"Taichi and I will stay here." Henry insisted. "As we are the appointed strategist and decision maker, we'll point you in the direction most feasible to the team."
"I get it." Taichi said, stepping into a bubble. "My Digivice 01 will relay the instructions needed to Zero. But why do you stay?"
"We can think straighter together. If we rely on one person to lead, we might stress him out." Henry said. "And I can understand the situation better from a top view. For all we know, the Maze might shift."
"And you are the only one with a Digivice 01!" Davis yelled.
"That's possible?" Neemon asked.
"Only a few things are impossible in the Digital World." Bokomon said, now inside Taichi's bubble.
"But we are not inside the Digital World." Neemon told him.
"What about me, Henry?" Terriermon yelled at the heart-shaped bubble Henry's riding.
"Our Modify Cards might prove handy." Henry yelled. "Stay with the group.
"Will do." Terriermon said, hanging onto Kenta.
"You sure you'll be okay?" Kenta called. "You don't really have a Digimon with you."
"He has my Ruru with him." Ruby told him. Then he yelled to the top. "Send the first set of instructions!"
"Wait a bit." Henry said. "Ruru, get the Bubble near Taichi's. I'll pass him the map."
The Kirlia smiled at him and moved the bubble near Taichi's.
"Thanks." Taichi said. "Here we go! Uplink!" A red beam spurted from the Digivice and into Zeromaru.
"I got it. Let's go." Zeromaru went to the path Taichi told him. Soon, everyone had departed.
(Daemon's Location)
'So that's uplink.' Daemon thought to himself. 'Maybe I could use it to my advantage."
(TK's Location)
"There you are." Dragomon smirked. TK had run straight into a dead end. "Now prepare to die."
"Why?" TK panted heavily.
"Why? Well for one, you took away the one that was supposed to be my queen the last time you were here in this realm." Dragomon said. "If you hadn't, I wouldn't have become Daemon's servant. This reminds me of two... Don't bother finding a way to escape." Dragomon said to TK.
"For one thing, Kari didn't want to become your queen." TK said, still looking for a way.
"I could have persuaded her enough, if you weren't there." Dragomon glared. "She wouldn't have been able to escape."
"Too bad for you." Patamon said.
"Well here's my second reason for wanting to kill you this much." Dragomon said, letting TK find a non-existential path of escape besides through him. "For two, you were part of the team who sent the Demon Lord here."
"Sorry." TK said, still looking. Without his Digivice, Patamon can forget trying to digivolve.
"Sorry won't cut no ice with me." Dragomon said.
"You live in a water world to begin with." Patamon said, trying to buy more time.
"A water world of darkness," snickered the sea demon.
"You have a holy ring on your leg!" TK moaned. "Yet why can't you see reason?"
"Reason must be invisible to him." A familiar voice said. Dragomon turned to see Team 2, tired of the Maze.
"That Daemon..." Davis said. "He managed to change the messages Taichi sent. If Henry wasn't able to contact Terriermon, we would've got lost."
"Just in time to save me though. I'm in a tight spot with this Ultimate." TK smiled as he saw Davis.
"This guy's just an Ultimate?" Ruby asked, whipping his Pokedex to reveal it is. Then he smiled. "This might be the weakest boss battle we'll ever have."
"Don't count on it." Taichi said, rushing to battle, followed by Henry, who was scribbling on a piece of paper. "Team 2, ATTACK!"
"Ruru, Shadow Ball!" Ruby said, the Kirlia jumping from Henry's shoulders into the battle. It summoned a dark energy ball and hit the Ultimate, which surprisingly hurt him a lot.
"Such tremendous power..." Dragomon said, flinching.
"Shadow Ball is at the field advantage at the moment." Ruby smirked. "That particular Shadow Ball absorbed the dark aura around it and used it to power itself."
"Nice, Ruby!" Sapphire smiled. "Now it's my turn! Toro, Blast Burn!" Toro unleashed a powerful flame from its fists as it hit the Ultimate, which made massive damage on the Ultimate.
"And you just felt the awesome power of an Ultimate Move!" Sapphire said.
"Go! Ruru, Popo! Both of you, Shadow Ball!" Ruby ordered. Two dark spheres made their way to the Ultimate, but the Ultimate tried to punch the Shadow Balls. Ruru's was knocked back but Popo's hit ferociously.
"What happened, Ruru?" Ruby looked at his confused team member.
"I'll tell you what happened." Dragomon stood up. "Daemon has control over all things in this castle. So any attack you made before can be canceled out the next turn."
"No way." Taichi said. "And that's why everyone went the wrong direction!"
"Same thing." Davis said. "And I bet if we Digivolve once, the digivolution will be canceled next round. And I bet that's why I forgot what I was planning on doing when I joined Team 2."
"Clever, kid." Dragomon said. "Your Raidramon evolution won't work now."
"Gh..." Taichi said. "Zeromaru, turn our courage into wings!"
"That kinda reminds me of Tai's song when he looked exactly like Taichi." TK sweatdropped.
"Zeromaru Digivolve to...
AeroVeedramon!"
"Alright, give him a proper whooping!" Taichi said. "Since you do not need to dedigivolve, life's smooth with the evolution problem."
"Alright! V-Wing Blade!" Zeromaru thrust a series of cutting wind onto Dragomon, causing the Ultimate to falter.
"There's more where that came from! V-Nova Blast!" Zeromaru blasted an arrow of blue flame onto the faltering victim.
"Shadow Ball -" Ruby said.
"Don't you ever listen? I said that that-" Dragomon started saying, but was interrupted by something emerging in his body. "Wha-what?"
"Point Blank Range." Ruby grinned as the Kirlia was holding Dragomon's leg. It suddenly disintegrated.
"Wha-what?" The bewildered ultimate said as his leg's disintegration started spreading to his body. Then he smiled evilly. "I see. The attack connected already as soon as it was summoned, allowing little to none reconfiguration to take place. To add that I am filled to the brim with Darkness, doesn't help me survive either. This is a feat only a non-digital being can do. Digital beings' attacks are easier to manipulate." Dragomon laughed evilly.
"Laugh while you can." TK said coldly. "Cause it looks like it will be your final one."
"That I don't care. Anything compared to the miserable torture Daemon makes me endure as he takes over my kingdom. All he allowed me to do is to control that kid, Takuya, but he stripped me that power when I returned your friends here, and the permission to kill you." Dragomon said. "Here, maybe this will help you beat the guy." Dragomon released a something from his body. It revealed TK's Digivice.
"You have no doubts about giving this to us?" Kenta looked as though something impossible happened.
"We have a common enemy. The one who took over my empire." Dragomon said. "Get rid of him, if not for me, then for the ones who you care about." And with that, Dragomon disappeared from the face of that realm.
"Sheesh... He had to turn good guy when he was being disintegrated." Zeromaru rolled his eyes.
"All he really wanted was to get back his kingdom." Veemon shrugged. "He never planned on joining us."
"Let's just get outta here." Henry rolled his eyes. "Looks like they didn't need your help after all, Terriermon."
"I owe you a Pwincess Pwetty Pants photo now, do I?" Terriermon moaned (Obviously Henry's). To this, everyone laughed.
"You owe us that too." Kenta grinned. "We were also betting they won't need us."
"Ugh..." Terriermon (Still Henry's) moaned.
"I thought Gold was the gambler." TK laughed. "Hey Davis, I want my Digimental back."
"Sorry, there's no internet here." Davis said, showing TK his D-Terminal's screen. "I can't send you the Digimental even if I wanted to. And I bet you don't have your D-Terminal with you."
"What do I owe you, Davis?" TK rolled his eyes. "Cause you won that bet."
"You owe me Veemon's Ice Cream for the whole week when we get back." Davis grinned. TK groaned. Veemon was always known to be a big eater. Especially chocolate-flavored ones. Davis followed this by saying. "Oh, and Terriermon? You owe me and Veemon a picture too." Henry's Terriermon groaned.
"Please... No..." Henry's Terriermon said.
"Give us some too!" Willis laughed. "Gummimon will love one. Plus, it's a deal."
"Why are you calling me Gummimon? I already evolved into Terriermon." Willis's Terriermon said. "I think I want to kill Izzy now. You have to resort to calling me by my In-training form."
"Why don't you evolve your Terriermon now." Henry asked. "That should make things easier."
"It would... But I should not dedigivolve him." Willis considered it, pulling out his digivice.
"Fine." Willis's Terriermon pouted. "Okay. Just don't wear me out."
"We'll save the Digimental for later." Willis said.
"Terriermon Digivolve to...
Gargomon!"
"That should make things easier." Gargomon said. "I think."
"What will happen when I digivolve into Gargomon?" Terriermon rolled his eyes.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." TK said, looking at the map Henry is holding. "Let's walk."
"Right!" Henry said, leading the way.
(Daemon's Thoughts)
That Dragomon... He was never on my side, eh? He even nabbed that Hope Child's Digivice. But that attack... That wasn't normal. I already know otherworldly moves are hard to manipulate as they are not originally Data. But Digimon attacks... Even in a split second, I can change those. Simple. Now to my master plan. And Dragomon failed to make those Ultimate moves threat disappear too... But even so, everything seems to be going quite smoothly. A few minor bumps in the plan. But even without Hope's Digivice, having Friendship's and Courage's Digivices is giving me quite a lot of power. With the addition of the other's Digivices, I could retain my new form. But the Child of light... She still won't cooperate with me. Even in her unconscious state, her body is resisting me. If I could just... Well. I'll just get rid of the Team on the middle path.
(Team 1)
"Whatever those lights were, I hope their friendly." Sora said.
"We won't know." Biyomon said. "But I also wish the others are okay."
"They'll be okay. I won't be surprised if they already found some of our captive friends." Takato said.
"Right, Takatomon." Guilmon said.
"Stop adding mon." Takato moaned.
"It will pass." Ryo said. "Guilmon's still a baby."
"That's mean, Ryomon." Guilmon pouted. "You shouldn't say that."
"Your so cute." Jeri smiled. Leomon looked at Jeri. He never thought he would see her smile again. But, he doesn't know what will happen after this.
"This will be one uphill battle." Leomon said. "If what Taichi said about Daemon able to manipulate data is true, we're gonna be trying to make a mountain move."
"We won't just be making the mountain move, Leo." Brock said. "We'll be trying to wipe it off the face of all the worlds."
"Yep!" Misty smiled. "We're not gonna lose to some overgrown devil."
"I guess..." Takato shrugged. "I wonder where Grani is..."
(Grani)
Grani looked at the dark sky. Not a star. This world seems strange, but Grani hope he can find a friend. The ark he is with fails to respond to his nudges. 'It's officially not a sentient being.' Grani decided. 'I never felt this loneliness before. I hope my friends will be with me soon.'
Chapter End
Takuya: Lately your chapters are short...
Lunar: You could blame it on multiple reasons.