"Enter the Dark Masters"
Here is the next chapter and the beginning of the Dark Masters arc. Hope you all like it and please review!
Everyone all yelled as we fell through the portal, darkness all around us as we fell and soon enough landed in a forest that was a bit dark from the cloudy sky.
"Well, it looks like we're back." Tai groaned.
"But where? In the Digital World?" Mimi asked.
"That's affirmative." Izzy said.
"It's dark." TK said.
"Yeah, it's kind of weird." Matt said.
"Huh? Hey, look up there!" Sora said looking up at the sky.
We all stood up and looked up to see what she saw, all of us gasping at the sight of the weird green shaped thing in the sky.
"Talk about weird." Tai said.
"Is that Earth?" Matt asked.
"It's merely speculation, but it seems to be a reasonable fact similar. We see Earth from here like we saw the Digital World from Earth." Izzy explained.
"Interesting theory." Wizardmon nodded.
"Huh, Gomamon? Hey, where are you?" Joe asked as he walked off to the tall grass, looking for his partner.
Kaitoumon was beside me with Demiveemon on his shoulder watching.
"Joe, I've been snoozing over here!" Gomamon called poking his head out of the bag Joe had left on the ground.
"Huh? Oh, we'll just save the world without you then." Joe said, then yelled as he was attacked by this pink thing that looked like a mouse.
"Joe!" Gomamon cried as the earth moved and Joe fell off of the cliff he was near, but was holding onto the ledge as the mouse jumped away.
"I really didn't need this." The blue haired boy said.
The digimon then all jumped into action.
"Koromon digivolve too…AGUMON!"
"Demiveemon digivolve too…V-MON!"
"Tsunomon digivolve too…GABUMON!"
"Motimon digivolve too…TENTOMON!"
"Tokomon digivolve too…PATAMON!"
"Yokomon digivolve too…BIYOMON!"
"Hold on!" Kari yelled making the digimon all stop in their attacking.
Kari ran over to the grass, me watching her closely as she knelt down smiling into the grass at the creature.
"Come out. You're among friends. We won't hurt you. Don't be afraid." She said gently.
The creature then stepped out of the grass looking terrified as I walked over, feeling my heart break at the sight of his fear.
He then fell forward, so I held out my arms to catch him once I saw how weak he was.
"Oh my goodness, it's Chumon." Palmon gasped as Mimi walked over.
"He looks terrible. What he needs is a complete makeover." She said.
"Mimi? Palmon?" Chumon asked as he looked up at them as I held him cradled in my arms.
"I'm so glad you came back to save us." The pink mouse groaned.
"Will somebody mind helping me?" Joe called.
"Ah, yes. Allow me to assist you." Wizardmon called running over to help him up.
He handed his wand and pulled him up to safety.
"Whoops, I forgot all about ya." Gomamon said.
"You forgot me here up on my elbows while you're in la la land." Joe said.
"Gee, I wonder what it's like to have elbows." Gomamon said.
"What's happening? Everything's gone wacko." Matt said as the ground moved around.
"Are you trying to get a hold of Gennai?" Tentomon asked as Izzy sat down with his laptop.
"Well, I'm not playing Solitare." Izzy said.
"Chumon's a mess. I wonder what happened to him." Palmon said.
"Whatever it was, it wasn't very pretty." Biyomon said.
"Hope he'll get better." V-Mon said.
"Poor thing." Sora said.
Chumon groaned as I held my hand over him, closing my eyes as I took some deep breaths as I felt my Crest glow warmly and the same feeling came from my hands, everyone gasping in awe at what they were seeing.
"So, the whole ignoring people thing, she does that often?" Kaitoumon asked.
"Pretty much." Tai said.
Opening my eyes, I looked down at Chumon seeing that some color had returned to his face and he looked livelier than before, offering a smile.
"Thank you, Keeper of the Golden Radiance." He said.
"That's a mouthful. Just call me Dai." I said.
He nodded as I stood up, feeling a bit drained but not too bad like last time.
Maybe it was worst with Kaitoumon because his wounds were older and he had more of them, plus he was bigger.
"Are you feeling better now?" Mimi asked making Chumon nod.
"What happened to your friend, Sukamon?" Palmon asked.
"I-I…I'm afraid I lost him." He said sadly with tears falling.
"After you guys left File Island, Sukamon and I went on as usual. You know, eating, eating and more eating when suddenly…the ground opened up and he fell through. I never saw him again! A powerful evil force took over the land causing all sorts of bad things to happen. Then it rebuilt the Digital World so it would be easier to conquer. I've been hiding ever since." He said.
"You mean the Digital World is completely changed from what it was?" Tai asked.
"How's it different?" Izzy asked.
"Everything's been discombobulated and taken apart! The Digital World has been relocated way up there." Chumon said pointing to this mountain that looked like it was a mixture of grass, dirt, rock and water.
"It's called Spiral Mountain. There's nothing left here of the old world except some ruins." He said as we all walked closer to it, out of the forest.
"So you're saying it's all up there?" Matt asked.
"Color me cynical, but nothing surprises me about this stuff." Joe said.
"Where did all the other digimon go? Are they up there too? Where's Leomon?" tai asked.
"I don't know, but I've been told they'll destroy anything that tries to get in their way." Chumon cried.
"Who will?" Sora asked.
"Who? The Dark Masters." He said making Kaitoumon gasp.
"Well, they couldn't be too much tougher than anybody else we've wrestled with before." Tai said.
"Believe me, they are." Kaitoumon said making us all look at him.
"We got rid of Myotismon, so we can get rid of them too." Our leader said proudly as he smiled.
"Don't worry about it. As long as the 9 of us are together, we'll keep those big bullies away from you." Mimi smiled down at the mouse.
Suddenly, someone started laughing far off from us in a deep voice.
"I've been waiting for you, Digidestinds." He said as water and boulders burst up from the ground behind a forest.
"Oh no, it's MetalSeadramon!" Chumon cried at the sight of the armour sea dragon that appeared.
"This guy is one real hard nose. And I mean hard nose. Take my advice. This is one train that you would rather miss." He said.
MetalSeadramon started chasing after us as we all turned and ran off to get away from him.
He slithered over us and knocked us off of our feet and onto the ground.
"OK, if that's the way you want it, we can play rough too." Matt grunted as he forced himself up.
You tell him, Mr. Cool!
Kick his sorry booty.
"Let's go, Agumon." Tai said as he stood up holding his digivice.
"Agumon digivolve too…GREYMON!"
"Now it's our turn." Matt said.
"Gabumon digivolve too…GARURUMON!"
"V-Mon digivolve too…XV-MON!"
"Biyomon digivolve too…BIRDRAMON!"
"Tentomon digivolve too…KABUTERIMON!"
"Gomamon digivolve too…IKKAKUMON!"
"Palmon digivolve too…TOGEMON!"
"Patamon digivolve too…ANGEMON!"
"Salamon digivolve too…GATOMON!"
The digimon all then began their attack, but MetalSeadramon was knocking them all back with ease, even with Kaitoumon and Wizardmon helping.
"Angemon!" TK called as his angel fell to the ground.
"Oh no." Kari gasped as Gatomon hit the ground.
Wizardmon cried out as he was hit back and transformed into a small creature that looked like a fireball, me catching him.
"What happened to you?" I asked.
"I got too weak and regressed back to my In-Training form, DemiMeramon." He said.
"You know your powers aren't strong enough." MetalSeadramon taunted as he circled us while we all went to our digimon that were on the ground.
"How come he's beating us so badly?" Mimi asked.
"It's because he's a Mega digimon and even 11 Champions can't overtake one Mega. He's stronger than all of us combined." Izzy said after checking his laptop.
"10 Champions now." Kaitoumon said looking at DemiMeramon.
"Then we're lost without more power." Tai said.
"You notice we're always in the wrong place at just the wrong time?" Joe asked.
"Now it's time to take one nasty ride." MetalSeadramon said as he swooped down to us, his cannon like nose glowing with green light.
He blasted at us, making our partners gather us up in their arms or paws as we were sent flying from the attack and blacked out.
After a little while, we all woke up in our partners' arms, feeling weak and sore.
"TK, are you all right?" Angemon asked.
"I thought I was broken, but I guess I'm OK." The child of Hope said.
Angemon chuckled in amusement before the sound of roaring made him look over into the fog.
"What's the matter?" TK asked as he was set down and I noticed that it was only the three of us awake.
"Wait, I'll be back." Angemon said as he took to the air.
He was then hit by these yellow beams of light, sending him back as he yelled in pain.
"Angemon!" TK cried as the angel turned back into Patamon and was caught by Kaitoumon, who woke up along with some of the others.
"Oh no, poor Patamon." TK said as he was handed back his partner.
XV-Mon stood up with me in his arms as Tai and Matt ran over to the 8 year old boy.
Just then, a robot looking dino came out of the fog, Izzy steeping up with his laptop.
"Be prepared for another Mega digimon. He's called Machinedramon. This metallic mutant can blow out a digimon just like a birthday candle." The child of Knowledge said.
"Greymon digivolve too…METALGREYMON!"
"Garurumon digivolve too…WEREGARURUMON!"
"Kabuterimon digivolve too…MEGAKABUTERIMON!"
"Birdramon digivolve too…GARUDAMON!"
"XV-Mon digivolve too…V-DRAGOMON!"
"Togemon digivolve too…LILYMON!"
"Ikkakumon digivolve too…ZUDOMON!"
"Gatomon digivolve too…ANGEWOMON!"
"Come on guys; show him what you're made of." Tai cheered.
"Hope they're made of something strong enough." Kari said making our brother gasp in confusion.
The Ultimates all charged off to Machinedramon getting blasted at and sent back by him.
"Angewomon!" Kari gasped as she held her arms up and caught her angel, falling back from the weight while V-Dragomon fell to his knees in front of me.
"It's no use sending Champions and Ultimates after a Mega." Kaitoumon said.
Machinedramon then blasted at us and the ground underneath us broke and we all fell down into this dark cave, then floated in mid-air.
"We stopped." Izzy said.
"I can't complain. It's sure a lot better than landing on our heads." Mimi said as she held Chumon while I held DemiMeramon.
For some odd reason, Garudamon and WereGarurumon were fighting each other, landing hits and kicks.
"Hey, can't you two take a break for one minute?" the child of Friendship scolded.
"Yeah, come on. We're all supposed to be on the same side." Sora said.
"We can't control it." Garudamon said as she landed a hit on WereGarurumon's chest, then he punched her in the face.
"That's right. Our bodies are doing this all by themselves." WereGarurumon said.
"All by themselves, huh?" Sora asked.
"Great, three of these freaks in one day." Kaitoumon growled in annoyance.
Sora's body then started moving by itself too.
"I always hated any form of exercise. What's happening to me?" Joe asked as he held onto Zudomon's horn as his legs kicked.
"We've become string puppets and someone's operating us." Izzy said as he found some strings on him.
As I felt something touch me, my Crest burned the strings away from me, DemiMeramon, Kaitoumon and V-Dragomon.
"Well aren't we a little smarty pants?" someone laughed making me look up to see this puppet looking dude with a hammer.
"Who are you?" Izzy asked.
"Wanna know? How about if I help you look up my profile on your special computer?" the puppet asked as he moved his hand.
Izzy's body moved, being controlled by him to open up the laptop and check out who this guy is.
"He's also a Mega digimon. Puppetmon has a controlling personality and rotten temper. Get him mad and he'll bop you with his hammer." Izzy said.
"If you have to hit something, you should bop yourself for how you look in that stupid helmet." Mimi said.
I love that girl.
"Mimi!" Lillymon scolded.
"I'm gonna have to let you go for now, but I promise to destroy you." Puppetmon said as he threw the other humans away since he still had them tied up, but TK knocked into me sending me back.
Puppetmon then blasted these bullets out of his hammer at our digimon, moving them go back to their Rookie, Champion and In-Training forms.
We all wound up in this coliseum that looked familiar like I had seen when Etemon was around and we found Joe's Crest and Agumon became SkullGreymon.
We all groaned in pain from the landing and looked up when we heard some honking from a toy horn.
"Well, hello there boys and girls and welcome." A clown on a red ball said as he rolled out from behind a pillar.
"Today I'm going to tell you an amazing story." He said holding up pictures of us that he'd drawn.
"Once upon a time there were 9 Digidestinds. They went with their digimon companions to try to save the world. The children and their digimon discovered that in order to do it, they had to climb up Spiral Mountain. But to their dismay, the Dark Masters defeated them. So sad." He said as he continued showing the pictures of us climbing the mountain and then us falling off of them.
"Hey, Clownie, no one's laughing at your story!" TK yelled.
"Oh dear, I'm so sorry. Did I happen to mention the story's true? I wanted to give you a preview of the plot." The clown laughed as he transformed into a more digimon looking form.
"Fools!" he laughed jumping up on one of the pillars.
"It's Piedmon! He's a Mega digimon of the worst kind. You never know what he's going to look like next." Chumon said.
"Well, I think your plot needs a few rewrites." Tai said.
"Agumon!" he said holding out his Crest.
"Gabumon, go do it!" Matt said holding his Crest.
"Take him out, V." I said holding my own Crest.
All three glowed as the three Rookies started digivolving.
"Agumon Warp digivolve too…WARGREYMON!"
"Gabumon Warp digivolve too…METALGARURUMON!"
"V-Mon Warp digivolve too…ULFORCEVEEDRAMON!"
"Yeah, let him know we mean business, WarGreymon!" Tai called as his partner flew past him.
"MetalGarurumon, teach that joker a lesson he'll never forget!" Matt called as his partner flew past him.
"Good luck, UlforceVeedramon!" I called as my partner flew by.
The dino and wolf fired off their attacks at Piedmon, but they were canceled out or dodged.
Piedmont threw his swords at WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, turning them back into their Rookie forms while UlforceVeedramon came up at Piedmon, clashing blades with him.
"My, I've never fought a Royal Knight before. What an honor." The clown said as the two started exchanging blows.
"Take him out, UlforceVeedramon!" Kaitoumon called.
"You can do it." DemiMeramon called.
My Knight was quick, but so was Piedmon, two of them fighting and going all out until the clown got in a lucky blow making my Knight fall back to the ground in his Rookie form.
"I hate that guy." V-Mon groaned.
"This is bad news." Joe said.
"Even three Mega digimon couldn't take him down. That's really bad news." Sora said.
"Well, they were in three other previous battles and are still recovering from VenomMyotismon. You can't blame them." DemiMeramon said.
"Not to mention, Piedmon's a fashion disaster." The child of Sincerity said.
"Your three Megas are newly digivolved. How can you expect them to compete against an experienced and might I add most superior digimon?" Piedmon said boosting his own ego.
This guy is such a pain.
"Tai, sorry." Agumon groaned weakly in the child of Courage's arms.
"Allow me to present my fellow actors in this charming and captivating chapter comedy and errors. MetalSeadramon." Piemon said as the sea dragon burst from the lake behind him.
"Machinedramon." Piedmon continued as the robo dino burst out into the clearing from a wall.
"Puppetmon." Piedmon said as the annoying guy appeared hanging upside down.
"You thought you were through with me, but I wanted to have more fun." Puppetmon laughed as he stood right side up.
"And finally myself, Piedmon. We'd like to begin by asking the audience for volunteers. Who would like to be the first to be destroyed?" the clown asked.
"Oh, come now. Don't tell me you have stage fright?" he said as he looked around.
"I didn't even wanna go to camp in the first place. I wanted to go to the mall! Why can't somebody else save this world besides me?!" Mimi cried.
"Mimi!" Sora gasped.
"I wanna be a normal kid and not have any big responsibilities. I mean, come on, is that so much to ask?! It's not fair!" the pink lover continued.
"Huh, your insistent whining is getting on my nerves. You will be the first one to go." Piedmon announced.
Oh no, Mimi!
Piedmont pulled out a knife and threw it at her, but Chumon jumped up and was hit with it instead making my eyes widen in horror.
"Oh, Chumon! Speak to me you poor thing." Mimi said as she gathered him up in her arms.
"Mimi…it's time for me…to be deleted. Don't…" Chumoon stuttered as he passed out.
"Chumon!" Mimi cried as he turned into data and faded away.
"Chumon was a fool. So, now that he's out of the way…who would like to be the next one to make their grand exit?" Piedmon asked.
"Piedmon, you're gonna be washed up when we're through with you!" Tai yelled.
"Be my guest." Piedmon said as the Dark Masters all chuckled.
"Pixie Bomb!" a familiar voice called.
A small bomb was thrown in front of the Dark Masters, a light blocking their view as it exploded.
We were then gathered up in an invisible bubble and saw our old friend from before who once again saved us from danger.
"Hey, Pixiemon. Perfect timing." TK complimented.
"I missed ya." Pixiemon said.
"Prodigious. You cleverly used a barrier to avoid detection." Izzy said.
"I sure did." The pink guy said.
"But you said it was possible to save the planet if the 9 of us were all together. How come it's not happening, huh? What's up, Pixiemon?" Tai asked.
"The truth is, being together is not enough. There's still something else that you need to do to beat them." Pixiemon said.
"How're we going to find out if you won't help?" the child of Love asked.
"Yeah, enough riddles." Joe said.
"This is something you will discover on you own." Pixiemon said before he grunted as the orb was hit by something.
We all cried out from the attack, knowing the Dark Masters found us.
"Next time we're trying to escape the bad guys while in an invisible spear, keep your mouths shut!" Kaitoumon yelled.
"I'll try to stop them. Meanwhile, make a run for it and climb for the top of Spiral Mountain, but you better move it." Pixiemon said.
"You can't stop them. They're all Mega digimon." Matt protested.
"I know I can't win, but I should be able to distract them long enough for you to get away." Pixiemon said.
"I'll stay with you." Tai said, only to have Kaitoumon whack him over the head.
"Don't be a fool. Always rushing in without thinking, you're a terrible role model for your sisters." He said.
"No way. Besides, we need you on Spiral Mountain. We're counting on you to beat them." Pixiemon said.
The orb was hit by one of MetalSeadramon's attacks again, Pixiemon flying up out of the orb to go fight.
"Please go now. You have a very important task ahead of you. When you succeed, no one will ever be able to stop you again. I know you will make me proud of you." Pixiemon said as he then gave the orb one hard whack and sent us off.
"Wow, he's stronger than he looks." Gabumon said.
"He'll have to be." Matt said grimly.
We all stared off sadly at the coliseum as we left our friend to fight the Dark Masters on his own, wishing him luck.
"Do you think it's possible he can do it?" Kari asked.
"I don't know, Kari. I hope so." Gabumon said.
"All we can do is pray." DemiMeramon said as he went to sitting on her head.
She smiled gratefully at him.
Please be all right and come back to us in the end, Pixiemon.
To be continued…