Author: As I had warned in the previous chapter, expect Mary Sue-ish powers from Barbara in this chapter. Also, I have ultimately decided to give her a digimon. Why? I had just finished Digimon Dawn, and I've wanted to put in a digimon from it, another personal fave. (I've really been giving those special treatment haven't I?)

There's no need to worry though, after this chapter she'll be pushed back to a minor role.


12

The Lunar Knight

In the sky of the darkened world, a flying yellow digimon crosses the sky.

"You want to be let down where?" TK turned around to ask Barbara who was riding behind him.

"There," she pointed to a building. "That's where Izzy lives right? He probably has some stuff I can use to help me with the search."

"Okay then," TK gave Pegasusmon a little tap on the head. "Let's go Pegasusmon."

Pegasusmon floated just outside the window to Izzy's room while Barbara and TK went in. Barbara quickly found Izzy's equipment and went to work.

"I can just hook this here…"

TK can only watch as the girl does her job.

"By the way TK," she was still capable of talking while messing around with all that equipment. "How long ago did your digivices stop locating each other?"

"Since after Sora and Kari were taken, why?"

"Did Izzy ever manage to find a way to make it work again?"

"He didn't need to, the Dark Masters made a worldwide broadcast about their victory. Of course, the rescue attempt was a live broadcast too. I guess our loses really did a number on the hopes of the other digidestined."

"Why is that?"

"We were the strongest group in the entire world, if we were beaten then I don't think anyone would have liked their own chances."

"But you never gave up."

"And I never will."

"Okay, time to get to work."

She took out a laptop and attached it to Izzy's computer. She then connected her home made digivice.

"I thought you said that your digivice wouldn't work."

"I just can't get it to turn on, but all the programs I put into it work just fine. I just need this to find out what's blocking the locator functions. Then I can fix our little problem."


"Machinedramon, Sir!" one of the gear looking digimon called to his master. "Someone is trying to hack into our system!"

Machinedramon moved closer to the screen, "It's about time, show me where!"

A map of the city pops up and a blip appears on where Barbara was accessing the net.

"Have you found something Machinedramon?" Piedmon appears right next to the giant robot.

"They're finally trying to find their friends," Machinedramon hissed. "I can go and crush them myself!"

"Now where's the fun in that? Hmm?" Piedmon smiled. "Let's send some throw aways after them and enjoy the show!"

"TK!" Pegasusmon screamed into the room. "You guys better hurry up, there's some nasty looking digimon headed this way!"

"That was a lot faster then I thought," Barbara hastened her typing. "I still need more time!"

"How much more?"

"Ten, no, eight minutes!"

TK ran to the window to see several Tankmon, Mekanorimon and Vilemon fast approaching the building.

"Okay, we'll try to buy you some time."

TK quickly jumped onto Pegasusmon's back and they both flew off to delay the invasion.

TK took out his digivice, "Tai! We need help over here!"

"Where are you?"

"I'm at Izzy's!"

"Okay, I be there as soon as I-"

TK hears a massive explosion in the distance, and he sees a large cloud of smoke.

"Tai?! Tai!"

"TK! You're on your own for now, I've got… four problems here. If I come now, it'll be trouble. See if you can get Yamaki to get the Tamers."

Tai cut off the conversation.

"Four? It can't be…"


"Well boys what do we have here?" Piedmon laughs as he and the other three Dark Masters look at the flying boy.

"Let's have some fun!" Puppetmon grabs his cross. "Flying Cross Cutter!" Puppetmon throws his cross at Tai.

"Fearless Disc!" Tai throws his courage disc and the two attacks collide in the air.

MetalSeadramon bursts through the cloud, "River of Power!"

Tai creates a crest in front of him and blocks the attack, however the force of the blast was still strong enough to push him back into a building.

As Tai was climbing out of some rubble in the building, Machindramon fired his Giga Cannons. Tai dived down and avoided the main force of the attack, but the explosion was still enough to send him tumbling down. Tai was just able to recover from the fall before hitting the ground. He barely managed to see Piedmon dash in, Tai raised his swords in time to block.

"I thought this would be more fun!" Piedmon and Tai exchanged sword swings, Tai could barely keep up with the clown digimon. His powers allowed him some increased strength, agility, speed and reflexes but it wasn't enough to compete with a master swordsman. "Clown Trick!" Piedmon fires an energy blast that sends Tai crashing back into the building.

Tai! Are you alright?

"Don't worry about me Alice. We need to keep them away from TK so that we can find out where the others are being kept."

But you can't take on all four of them alone.

"I know, and they know too. Piedmon's no idiot, he's playing with me."

What do we do then?

"We can't go back yet, or they might go after TK. There's no way they'll tell us where they're keep the others either, not when they have me in this kind of position. We'll just have to hold them off here. I can only hope that TK can find the others fast."


Barbara hit the enter key and the program was loading up, almost seven minutes have passed and she needed at least one more to find what she's looking for. Loud noises can be heard outside, TK and Pesgasusmon were fighting off an army of digimon to buy her time. Barbara heard a door break down and Vilemon started to fly into the room. She needed a few more seconds, she grabbed a few books and started throwing them to buy time, even though it was useless. The Vilemon quickly swarmed her and knocked her down.

"Get off of me!" she struggled to get them off. She saw one head for her computer. "Hey! Don't touch that!"

The Vilemon walked closer to the computer, he reached for the Digivice. A blinding flash lit up the room, scaring all of the Vilemon away. Barbara watched as a little white and blue digimon began to form right in front of her.

"No… way…" Barbara's shocked face slowly turned into a happy one as the digimon finished forming.

"Hi!" the little digimon waved to her new partner.

"Yay!" Barbara jumped at her friend. "I finally have my own digimon!"

"You're… choking… me…" the little bunny digimon tried her best to pull of Barbara's arms.

Barbara stretched out her arms and looked squarely at her digimon, "So, what's your name?"

"I'm Lunamon, nice to meet you!" the digimon was just as happy to meet her partner, or to just be out of that death hug.

"Barbara," the girl excitedly introduced herself. "Barbara Gordon. Eeeeee, I can't believe I actually got my own digimon partner! Please pinch me so I know I'm not dreaming."

Lunamon pinched Barbara on the cheek.

"Ow!" Barbara let go of Lunamon and held her cheek.

Lunamon gracefully landed on her feet, "You asked for it."

"I'm not dreaming, YES!" Barbara jumped for joy and almost hit the roof and some of the computer equipment.

A sound of screeching Vilemon quickly filled the room, they were coming again.

Barbara quickly remembered what she same to do, "I almost forgot, I have to find the other digidestined."

"I'll stay here and protect you, you do what you have to do okay?"

"Got it!"

Barbara quickly looked at her computer screen, "So that's how he's doing it." She quickly packed her digivice and laptop. "Lunamon!"

Lunamon hurried back and jumped onto Barbara's shoulder.

"Hang on tight!" Barbara ran what little distance she could and jumped out the window.

"I hope you know what you're doing!" Lunamon braced herself.

Barbara grabbed a light pole and spun around it before letting go to land on the ground. An explosion nearby takes her by surprise, a Tankmon comes around the corner. The red haired girl quickly ran off onto the street and luckily finds a sleek, blue, knocked down motorcycle, with the keys still in it. She starts it up and drives off.

"Where are we going?" Lunamon asked

"To the tower!" Barbara started to explain. "I know how Machinedramon is blocking the signal. He's using a satellite to relay some sort of jamming wave over the whole city. If I can get to the tower, I can send a signal up to the satellite to stop it."

Barbara suddenly stopped the bike, "I can probably use some of these." She quickly ran into an outdoor explorer's shop and grabbed some rope and a grappling hook.

"What for?" Barbara's little partner asked as the girl attached the hook to the rope and wrapped the rope around her arm.

"We'll be going up a tower, I want to be ready in case anything happens." Barbara hands her digivice over to her partner. "Here, hold this for me." She starts up the motorcycle again and drives off again.

"TK, are you there?"

"Barbara? Where are- wait," Barbara can tell TK just figured out something. "You're communicating by digivice?"

"Long story," Barbara got to the point quickly. "I'm heading towards the tower right now. I need to get to it in order to remove Machinedramon's radar jamming. How are you holding up?"

"The digimon are moving towards the tower, we're fighting off as much as we can though."

"And Taichi?"

"I don't know, I think the Dark Masters found him. Can't you see all the lights and explosions?"

At that moment, a big beam of light crossed the sky.

"I see it now," Barbara told him. "I'm going to speed this up, over and out."

Barbara revved the engine and went full blast.


"That was some elevator ride," Lunamon got up from the corner she was in. Barbara had just messed with the elevator controls and the ride was unusually fast. Lunamon jumped back onto Barbara's shoulder.

They both got out of the elevator at the topmost floor.

"Wow," Barbara leaned over to admire the view. "You can really see the city from up here!"

"Then how would you like to see it from the sky?"

Barbara and Lunamon turned around to find Devimon behind them.

Lunamon jumped in front of Barbara, "Demi Dart!"

The attack had no effect on the evil digimon.

Devimon chuckles, "Death Claw!"

Devimon charges past Lunamon, grabs Barbara and breaks through the glass. He holds Barbara in the air, chuckling evily. Lunamon quickly gets up to see her partner in danger. She jumps at the two of them

"Lunamon digivolved to… Lekismon!"

Lekismon tackles Devimon from behind, forcing him to release Barbara. As the girl falls, the dark digimon focuses his attention on Lekismon.

Barbara swings her rope and hook, catching the tower. She swings herself back onto the metal structure and stands on the nearest metal beam. The redhead looked upwards to see Devimon and Lekismon fighting around the tower. Devimon was using his flying ability to his advantage as Lekismon can only jump.

"I need to get back up there," Barbara held the rope tightly and began to climb the tower.

Devimon saw the girl climb back up. Lekismon followed the evil digimon's glare. Devimon dived for Barbara. Barbara notices the evil digimon and quickly grabs the tower again just as the rope was cut.

The redhead hangs on as Devimon floats behind her, "Okay, this is so not good."

Devimon was kicked in the head by Lekismon. Barbara's partner bounced off the tower, with a strange orb in its hand.

"Moon Night Bomb!" Lekismon throws the ball at Devimon's face.

Devimon began to wobble as Lekismon jumps up to where Barbara is.

"Need a hand?"

"Don't mind if I do."

Lekismon helps the redhead onto her back and begins to jump up the tower.

There was something bugging Barbara, "What did you do to him anyway?"

"My Moon Night Bomb has the ability to put digimon to sleep, as long as they're not that much stronger then me."

Lekismon and Barbara were back inside the tower and began to search for the broadcasting room. Meanwhile, Devimon loses consciousness and falls to the ground.

"Ugh, you men are useless!" a dark, female voice yelled at him.

"Shut up, LadyDevimon!" Devimon picks himself up, but still feeling woozy from Lekismon's attack.

"Now it's my turn!" LadyDevimon jets upwards.

Lekismon breaks down a door and Barbara rushes inside. Several computers litter the room and she connects her laptop with one of the machines.

"Now, let's get rid of that signal."

Barbara quickly began to work on hacking into the computers.

"Little girl," an evil voice filled the area. "Come out and play!"

"Stay here," Lekismon told her. "I'll hold her off."

"Okay," Barbara slapped herself and focused on the task at hand. She can hear the struggle of battle just outside, she did her best not to notice until she was done. Normally this would be all too easy for her, but the pressure of finding the other digidestined and Lekismon fighting to buy her time have taken their toll.

It had taken longer then expected, the noises outside have slowed down. All she could do now was wait for the signal to upload and the other digidestined will be found.

Barbara grabbed her digivice and ran out of the room to see Lekismon severely beaten with LadyDevimon slowly walking towards her beaten opponent.

"Hey!" Barbara cried out. "I'm over here witch!"

"Just wait your turn, I'll kill you in a moment."

"Aw, why so pale?" the redhead taunted. "Your moisturizing cream not working anymore you old hag?"

"Old hag?" that tick LadyDevimon off. "You've just cut to the front of the line!" The evil lady charges the little girl with her spear.

Barbara back flips and avoids being stabbed, "I'm warning you, I'm an Olympic hopeful."

Barbara quickly heads for the destroyed window, she jumps and grabs the top to flip herself over onto the roof just as LadyDevimon flew past.

"Okay, now what? Think Barbara think!"

LadyDevimon flew in to attack again. Barbara skillfully dodges all of the attacks with jumps, flips, rolls and whatever moves she could use.

"I'm getting tired of this, Darkness Wave!"

"I can't-"

Lekismon jumped into the attack.

"Lekismon!" Barbara called out, her digivice started to glow again.

"Lekismon digivolved to… Crescemon !"

The light of digivolution negated the attack and a brand new digimon stood before Barbara. Crescemon charged at LadyDevimon.

"Darkness Spear!" LadyDevimon turned her arm into a spear and flew forward.

"Lunatic Dance!"

The two digimon exchanged blows, thrusts, parries, slashes, with Crescemon having an edge. The night digimon danced around LadyDevimon's wildly flailing spear. At the edge of the roof, a solid kick knocked the evil digimon down.

"Whoo hoo! That's the way to do it!" Barbara cheered as her partner walked back towards her.

"This battle's not over yet!" LadyDevimon rose up again into the sky.

"Taking turns is stupid, why don't we just attack all at once?" Barbara turned to see where the voice was coming from, it was Arukenimon. And right beside her was Mummymon.

"Getting impatient are we?" at another side of the building Devimon rose up. "But our objective is to destroy the digidestined. I guess the thought of toying with them got to us."

Mummymon aimed his gun, "Then let's just finish the job!"

The four evil digimon unleashed their attacks. There were too many to dodge, and too powerful to block. The moon digimon was overwhelmed by all of the attacks. Crescemon flashed, and Lunamon dropped to the ground, all beaten up.

"Darkness Spear!" LadyDevimon flew in to deal the finishing blow.

The spear pierces the metal roof, but Lunamon wasn't there. Barabara had grabbed her partner at the last second with a roll. Now Barbara was slowly walking back, away from the evil digimon, towards the edge of the roof.

"I… I'm sorry," Lunamon weakly apologized.

"Don't worry about it," Barbara calmed her down. "I'll figure something out."

Barbara was now standing at the very edge of the roof, looking down, she didn't want to imagine how big a fall it is. Barbara turned back at the four evil digimon, they were smiling, enjoying this as they slowly came closer.

At least, Barbara thought. I know I did what I came here to do. Taichi and Takeru will soon be able to find the others.

A great beam of light tore through the sky behind her, it ripped through the dark clouds, creating a tear into the starlit space. The moon shines through the sky, casting down its light on Lunamon and Barbara. Both Lunamon and Barbara's digivice begin to glow.

BIOMERGE DIGIVOLUTION

"Lunamon Biomerge Digivolved to… Dianamon!"

A great white armored digimon appeared where they once were, wielding a double sided spear-scythe. Barbara opened her eyes, she finds herself inside her partner.
"So this is Biomerge Digivolution…"

"Are you okay, Barbara?"

"I'm fine, this is no time to be in awe. It's payback time. Let's get digital!"

Dianamon charged forward full speed.

"Darkness Spear!"

"Crescent Harken!"

With one swing, Dianamon broke LadyDevimon's spear and made a clear cut right through the evil digimon. Devimon backed off by flying away, hoping to stay away from the lunar digimon's weapon.

"Full Moon Circle!" Dianamon spun her spear wildly and threw it up at the retreating digimon. The weapon spun around in the air and cuts right through Devimon.

Dianamon turns towards the last two digimon, they were backing away slowly.

"Artemis Arrow!" the white lunar digimon unleashed a barrage of white light beams at her opponents. The beams froze on contact and incased Mummymon and Arukenimon in blocks of ice. Dianamon jumps high into the air, the full moon shining behind her.

"Crescent Kick!" she dived down at the two ice blocks, her foot stretched forward. The ice shatters from the force of the attack, releasing dust and data into the air. Dianamon's spear lands by her side and she picks it up. The moon light shines down on the moon knight.

"TK is never going to believe this," Barbara giggled a bit.


"Aaaahhh!" Tai flies across the ground, bouncing like a pebble on the concrete road. A parked car stopped him, its windows breaking and the doors bent in from the impact.

Tai get up! Alice cried form within.

Tai struggled to hold himself together as he picked himself off the ground. He stood, just barely, one arm limp from injury, his whole body all beaten up, his clothes torn and cut at various places.

"This is starting to get boring!" Puppetmon cried to the others.

"You're right," Piedmon takes out one of his swords as he slowly walks closer. "What we need is more suspense, more drama! More blood!" Piedmon dives forward, ready to cut up Tai.

"Lightning Joust!"

A pillar of white light flashed between Piedmon and Tai, stopping the clown in his stracks. The light disappeared and a white knight digimon held up a charged shield.

"Shield of the Just!"

There was no range, the attack hit the clown full force head on. He cried out as he was knocked back into the air.

"Corona Destroyer!"

MetalSeadramon was hit by another bright light, his whole body crashed a nearby building that soon went up in smoke.

"Justice Kick!"

Justimon kicked Puppetmon square in the head.

"Gargo Missiles!"

Two giant missile land near Machindramon, the force of their explosions was enough to knock down the metal behemoth.

Sakuyamoon landed near Tai and quickly tended to him, "Are you alright?"

"I will be," Tai kept his breath even. "As soon as we find out where the others are. Any word from TK?"

"None yet but listen," Sakuyamon grabbed a hold of Tai. "You shouldn't be so stubborn."

"Look who's talking."

"Hmph," Piedmon stood annoyed. "We've strayed too far from the script." He tosses giant white sheets into the air. "But rest assured, the show will go on! I'll make this the perfect tragedy! HAHAHA!" The white sheets cover each of the Dark Masters. A strong wind came and blew all the sheets away, the Dark Masters have disappeared.

"They're gone," Henry stated. "What now?"

"You guys go look for TK!" Sakuyamon called out. "I'll take Tai back."


"Gate of Destiny!"

A gate of judgment opens in the sky and sucks in several digimon.

"Excalibur!" MagnaAngemon's sword lights up and extends as he dives down the road, slashing down anything in his path.

"I don't know how long we can keep this up," TK watches from a nearby rooftop, safe from the enemy digimon. "Hurry up Barbara."

"You called?" a voice behind TK stuns him.

He turns around to find a white armored digimon, "Barbara?"

"Yep!" perky, despite being a digimon. "Let's kick some butt."

Dianamon jumps into the fray and helps MagnaAngemon wipe out more and more of the henchmen digimon.

"TK!" Gallantmon lands on the rooftop as the rest join the fight, more like a slaughter. "What's going on here?"

"I don't know," TK started to answer, trying to make sense of what's happening. "I think our new friend has managed to do what she needed to do."

"You mean Barbara?" Gallantmon asked, TK just looked at him. "Yamaki gave us a quick explanation before we came through. Where is she?"

"Over there," TK pointed to the white armored digimon that's fighting with everybody else.

"That's her?" a shocked Takato asked.

A call came from Ryo, "Hey TK! Who's that digimon?!"

"Ryo!" Gallantmon took the call. "That's Barbara, the girl Yamaki told us about!"

"Wait!" Henry butted in. "Are you telling me she BioMerged?"

"That what it looks like," TK told them. "Anybody know what digimon that is?"

"I certainly don't know it," Terriermon pointed out.

"Sorry Takato," Guilmon apologized to his partner.

"Well," Takato started to take charge. "We'll figure it out later, let's just finish this and get out of here!"

Gallantmon jumped in to join the fray, "Lightning Joust!"


Author: Well, that's enough spotlight for her. It's time to get going and save the rest of the gang. With 6 Mega levels on each side this will be interesting.