"These things look different than the ones before?" Kari statement watching as the probes landed and massed into several creature forms, they looked like oozy versions of digimon, like they had been one before someone melted them.
"Yeah they are different it's like they evolved since the last time they faced them, they were just blobs with faces. It must be prepared for us this time" Suzie said, looking up at the sky as she made her way towards Kari.
Mikuni was the first to clash with one of the probes that D-Nemesis had sent down, her and digimon partner Vasantmon, moved like a cohesive unit, she knew she had to be quick in her motions because prolonged exposure wasn't recommended, delaying these things was part the job of her team one other than getting team two in.
Takato released Guilmon from his digivice, and the red dinosaur digimon stared curiously into the sky at the D-Nemesis "Is that thing bad?" he asked Takato innocently.
"Yes, and it has our friends, let's get it" Takato said holding out his digivice. Guilmon digivolved into his champion form Growlmon and charged the nearest enemy, he was big enough to take on multiple.
The D-Nemesis was getting closer to the ground, it decompressed buildings as it touched them, absorbing their data, as team two made it was going to the location they could jump into the hole that was going to be made in the D-Nemesis, this was a do or die situation.
"This is for destroying my world" Sasuke shouted as he and his digimon partner charged towards the D-Nemesis probes. He was reckless and was dissolved and absorbed by a probe as he ran right into it, which he hadn't seen until it was too late. He was the first to fall in battle.
"Nooooooooo!" Kari shouted, as she was helpless to do anything about it, she barely knew the guy, but seeing someone die right in front of her was still painful to watch no matter who it was.
Growlmon and Takato were surrounded by probe monsters, it looked like they were going to be next, till someone shout needle spray, and knocked away the probes so they could get away. "Thanks Rika, but please you need to get to your destination" he said, turning to face Rika, who was riding Kyubimon.
Takajin had digivolved his partner into Firamon, "Rika over here!" he shouted as he climbed onto the back of his digimon's back.
Rika hesitated and went towards her team, she had already let Takato get injured, she wished she had asked to be on Team one of got Takato moved to team two, but it was too late now.
"We are going to head to the top of this derelict clock tower ahead of us, we climb to the top, and when the hole is made, we leap through, does everyone understand" Ryo said gesturing to the tower with a bunch of headless gargoyles. Then he released his digimon partner, Cyberdramon, he looked slightly annoyed that he had to use it.
Once they reached the tower, all their digimon partners' dedigivolved into their rookie forms, it was impossible for them to fit all their champion formed digimon in the clock tower. They would digivolve again once inside the D-Nemesis. The clock tower creepy, filled with cobwebs, and dust.
"I can't believe they declared this death trap a historical monument" Suzie said with distain "I know this is where the digital wars were won but seriously"
"In those digital wars a lot of people died, and they are having trouble even being allowed to restore it imagine if they tried tearing it down, those activists would be all over them about, all the people that were digitized into the structure" Ryo said looking somber, "Remember they all died in there they can never be archived, and don't you remember Mitsuo your father served in those wars"
"I will never forget those horror stories, I am sorry" Suzie said looking downcast again, as they all entered the tower "be careful this structure is not that stable.
They eased their way up the tower stairs slowly, Takajin stepped on a broken step and it gave, but Ryo was there in time to catch him before he fell, and eased him back onto the next step after it.
"That was a close one, which shows even when careful, you can still have accidents" Ryo said brushing off Takajin. And Suzie chuckled a bit, but stopped when someone was looking at her, like it wasn't funny.
Rika took a place beside her digimon partner, so that didn't happen to her, Renamon would catch her if a step gave way like it just did for Takajin. Renamon was also taking close tabs on everyone else too, she agreed no matter what happened here in this tower should be sealed up or condemned.
After several heart pounding moments, they reached their destination, the top of the clock tower, there were no clock in this tower it was empty and they looked out into the city. They could see D-Nemesis it was getting closer to them, there was no hole now, the one they needed to enter the D-Nemesis.
"Come on guys" Rika said impatiently waiting for a hole. She didn't know thing looked grim for team one, otherwise she wouldn't be complaining.
One team was surrounded by probes of the D-Nemesis, and they were closing, there had been too many of them, if nothing happened the world was coming to an end
Back at the Hypnos Building Izzy was putting in the final calculation, with Yolei's help they had taken half the time to fix the damage done earlier, instead of bringing them to where he was, he was sending them to join the others, he typed in the final command, He still couldn't get Mitsuo Yamaki, but oh well this was better than nothing "You've got back up!" he shouted as he pressed the final key.
Team 1 was going to make their final stand when several beams of light shot down behind them, causing a digital field to be created, when it cleared there were now several people wearing goggles, they looked at each other confusedly.
"I think we should introduce ourselves to each other "Hi I am Taiki Kudou, and this is my partner Shoutmon, do any of you guys know how I got here?" one of them said.
"I am Taichi Yagami and this is my partner Zeromaru, I don't know how I got here either I was in the digital world fighting Daemon when everything fell apart. Another newcomer said, with No one there having any answers.
"Um guys I think we need to save those guys" Shoutmon said, pointing at the group of people surrounded by melted looking digimon.
"I agree with you, I am Davis Motomiya by the wa…" a boy dressed in flame colored attire said, but never finished, when some guy nearly knocked him over as he ran passed him. The person jumped up and punched one the D-Nemesis probes in the face causing chain domino effect.
"I am Marcus Damon, and actions speak louder than words" said the person that nearly knocked over Davis.
"Right boss" said an Agumon taking its place at Marcus Damon's side.
Takato dodged a falling Probe and went to the newcomers "Guys! Guys!" he said to get their attention, then he explained the whole situation as best he could in so little time.
"This thing destroyed my world, and it wants to do the same to the Digiverse" Marcus Damon turned to face the thing he now hated a lot.
"Save the Digiverse!" Takato shouted, and then charged towards the D-probes, with the others joining soon after.
A digital field formed on top of the clock tower, and now standing on top of it was a Leomon, beside him was a girl with brown hair.
"Jeri Katou, you have been reunited with your digimon partner, along with others you have a digivice, you are tasked with an important mission, you can do the reunion thing later. See that thing in front of you need to blow a hole in it" Izzy said over her digivice communicator.
Another digital field appeared, and when it dissipated, a purple imp-like digimon had appeared with two kids, it was Impmon and Ai and Mako. Impmon looked up and saw Leomon and freaked out.
Leomon looks down at Impmon, and nods "There are more important things now than what has happened in the past, so I forgive you, you let power control you, hopefully you have learned your lesson" he said offering his hand to Impmon.
"Good to hear" Impmon said, wiping the sweat from his brow.
"When you hear singing it's your queue to take action, and that's going to happen any minute now, so hold there for it" Izzy's voice said from everyone's digivice all at once.
Ruki stood there holding a microphone, she was annoyed that she wasn't performing on a stage, Calumon was standing right in front, He was her treasured accident, a digimon that was just supposed to amplify her music but instead digivolved every digimon that heard the song. This was a very intense digimon battle in front of her making her wonder if there was more to it than what she had been told. The fate of everyone might rest on her singing, that would be awesome, and career defining. Being the pop idol that saved the world, maybe even the universe. She queued her band, which was Matt on acoustic, Mimi on bass, and boyfriend Takato on drums. :"This is for all you stupid goggleheads out there!" she shouted into the mic. She began to sing, and the triangle started glowing on Calumon's forehead.
Everyone's digimon started to digivolve to their mega forms, as the music rifted through the air, Impmon now Beelzemon returned after taking Ai and Mako somewhere safe, he turned and nodded towards Leomon, who was now Regulumon, who nodded back. And they both jumped from the tower. Beelzemon firing both his guns into the D-Nemesis, and Regulumon doing multiple fist of the beat king punches, Susanoomon joined the fray with Takuya confusedly watching from below, he was used to being the digimon and not the digimon being a separate entity all together. All this power ripped a hole in the side of the D-Nemesis.
Beelzemon stopped where the clock window should be and shout "Hurry before it close" he would wait until they were in it before join the battle below.
Rika, Takajin, Kari, Ryo, Suzie nodded, and made a quick beeline for the entrance that had been made, they hesitated for a moment, then made the plunge, they each landed on their feet except Suzie who slipped but was caught by Ryo. "This is what you got for chuckling at someone else misfortunes" he said teasingly.
Inside the D-Nemesis was way more creepy than its exterior, it reminded Kari of an Escher painting on acid throwing in a bit of Tim Burton for good measure, once inside there was no way to know where they should be heading, they didn't have a map of the inside of this or if there was even logical schematic.
Suzie was fiddling with Fuser digivice, she was seeing if she could detect the bio data of those that had been consumed by this thing, it would probably be located at this things core, or heart, she had set this thing to keep track of Ryo and Mitsuo in case they were separated, there was none of those probe monsters in here so far she didn't want to say anything that would jinx that. So far there wasn't any detection of adopted father. "I am starting to think the chamber we are seeking is shielded that's why it let us in here" she said looking over at the others.
"There are walls and walls of this stuff in the way, you might have to be closer to where it is to detect it, remember this thing is huge" Kari said reassuring Suzie. Even though it was hard telling from a wall from an entrance. Everything was shades of silvery gray. She hopes that everyone was holding up well outside of D-Nemesis. And hopefully they would find what they were looking for before things got bad out there.
At that moment Takato was looking at the D-Nemesis and wondering the same exact thing but hoping things were going well inside the D-Nemesis. His friend Rika was in there, and he hoped nothing bad would happen to her.
"Go for it UlforceVeedramon!" Davis shouted, as his digimon partner sent another volley of attacks at D-Nemesis's probe monsters. And then high fives Takato, who awkwardly stared at him, like a fan boy in awe.
OmniShoutmon sent another magma blast into another hoard of enemies, it dissolved them half way, but they regenerated, but very quickly, at least knocked them back, as a team with everyone else they were holding these things right here, and making the bad guys progress very slow. Taiki was shouting directions from below.
Mikuni was creating a wind funnel of D-Nemesis probes, with the wind power of KazeLeporimon, the wind rabbit mega digimon. "We must hold the line" she shouted "They will not get this world come on Takajin hurry up!"
All the Probe creatures stopped, and in a unified voice "The digital core is near, we are the ending all existence this is its final chapter" all the face grinned insanely.
"I don't know who you are, but you are not harming this world" Regulumon said sending a shockwave with his sword it cut one of the probes in half. "I'll stop you if it's the last thing I do"
"Same with me" shouted Beelzemon firing volley after volley into the enemy horde. "Jeri is not going to lose her partner again if I have anything to do with it, even if you forgave me, I have to put things right"
Back inside the D-Nemesis, Kari, Takajin, Ryo, and Rika, were weaving their way through what seemed like a never ending maze that was the internal structure of the Goliath of interdimensional being from someplace unknown. They each wished they had a map, even with Susie using her digivice to find the core they were lost. And yet still nothing was coming after them it's like it didn't care they were inside it right now trying to get a virus to its core.
"Hello?" Takajin called out, hoping to get a feel of how long the tunnel they were in was. He also hoped that it knows they were there and didn't see them as a threat. But instead of an echo, the voice of the D-Nemesis said hello back, the boom of its voice echoed through the tunnel "I guess it knows we are here"
"No Duh Goggleboy" Rika said annoyed with the current goggleboy she was with. "Just announce where we are to it"
"I don't think this thing cares where we are, we are Ants to it, if it wanted to squash us it could without a second thought, its daring us forward instead, it doesn't fear us" Ryo said running his hand across the surface of the tunnel wall.
"So we are rats in a maze to it" Rika asked Ryo, annoyed with being stuck with another version of the guy she wasn't very fond of, but had a slight friendship with her version based on respect.
"Yes pretty much rats in a maze, it wants to study the things that manage to get inside it, hopefully we can use that to get its core unharmed, if it attacks us in here we are dead" Ryo answered not even looking at her.
At that moment a blip appeared on Suzie's digivice, it came from a wall, they just passed, she turned towards it, and the blip got stronger, she ran her hand across the wall surface till she touched something that vibrated, she pressed down on it and the tunnel wall opened. But inside it was another tunnel, but the signal was coming from straight in front of them, she ran inside followed by everyone else. As they entered the new tunnel, it started to hum and flash like it was beating heart.
"I think we are getting close to the core" Suzie said excitedly, she was hoping their journey was finally over, and this battle to the save the Digiverse was too. Her expression was mirrored in Kari's face, as they all traversed the new tunnel, it suddenly opened into a huge chamber, at its center was a person standing on a platform, and the person didn't turn to face them. But it was obvious who it was, it was Mitsuo Yamaki.
"Father!" Suzie shouted, running towards the platform, but Mitsuo didn't respond, she jumped onto the platform, grabbing hold of the railing that ringed it as she did. She called out father again, but no response at all, she was now looking him right in the face, his eyes were open, but they were blank like he was dead, she felt his wrist and there was a pulse. She has now noticed that he was covered in wires, which were attached to his forehead. "We need to put in the virus maybe that could free him"
"I can't let you do that" Ryo said snatching the laptop from Suzie Yamaki, and tossed it across the room "Isn't this beautiful, my revenge is nearly complete" with his mannerisms changing from pleasant to dark and hate filled "Mitsuo was useful, the final piece of the puzzle, to destroying all digital life, and reviving the one person I cared for the most" at the moment he said that a form appeared of a person sitting in a wheelchair "Rei Saiba, the irony was she was taken from me by a digimon, now it will be them all of them that will help me get her back, making my vengeance complete" he turned to face Suzie, his attire changing at he did so. He wore complete white armor with digital crystals embedded in triangle gauntlets he wore. '
"Ryo, what did you do, and why are you doing this, I can't believe you done all this?" Suzie said, looking at Ryo like he was a complete stranger, he wasn't the person that was her friend anymore "Did the D-nemesis do this to you, did it brainwash you while you were in here?"
"It did nothing I am the D-Nemesis, I am the Nemesis to all digital life and those who harbor said menace to everything it touches" Ryo said reaching out his hand, and his digimon began to scream and dissolve, it particles were pulled into the gauntlet on the opposite hand of the one he point at his partner. "Watch your futures end!" He smiled maniacally, with insanity in his eyes. "Suzie you have a choice, either come and join me or die with the rest of the digimon lovers, Digimon took your parents and your brother, Rei was just as much of a friend to you as she was to me. You were there when she was crippled, instead of finding ways to let her walk again, they made digital monsters!"
Suzie stared at Ryo, but her hand was slowly rising to toward his, he was correct about everything digimon took from her, she had mixed feelings about her friends actions.
"Not all digimon are bad, I have encountered several that were bad, and wished never existed, but you can't stick them all in the same category you just can't" Kari said, taking Suzie by the hand, the one with her digivice in it, and made her free her digimon partner Lopmon, who appeared on the ground at her feet "Your partner even with your dislike of her, has stood by your side for this whole thing, is she evil?" she then gestured to each digimon partner that was there "I know mine isn't evil, even though she worked for an evil digimon once"
"I once thought of Renamon as only a weapon that I could use in a game, then I learned how important she was to me as a friend, I lost her once, I am glad I eventually got her back" Rika said as Renamon appeared at her side.
"You have done nothing but mistreat Lopmon, she has done nothing wrong to you, and she never left your side" Takajin said releasing Sunmon from his digivice. "My partner may not always listen to me but he is family to me"
"No matter what you do, I'll always be by your side, you can hate me for the rest of my existence" Lopmon said teary eyed looking up at her human partner.
"Join me, and Rei, as we start a new existence, lets destroy everything together" Ryo said as he waved a hand across something, and pictures of the same wheelchair bound girl filled the room, but this was when she had been alive. And before she had been crippled, she was playing with other kids, they were younger versions of Ryo and Suzie, and another boy was with them, older by a couple years, it was Henry Wong. "I could bring him back too" He spread his arms wide like he was going to hug someone. "If you don't join me, you are a coward, and coward that won't destroy, might as well be destroyed" for a brief moment there was a silhouette over Ryo that appeared for a second then disappeared.
Kari, Rika, and Takajin got into defensive positions with their digimon partners, but Suzie stood there like a deer staring into the headlight of death, she had no idea what, was this her friend or was it her enemy, she couldn't decide. Each of their partner's digivolved into their mega forms except Lopmon who looked pleadingly towards her partner Suzie. It was weird for Rika since the mega of Renamon which was Sakuyamon had been a biomerge, and she wasn't a part of it this time.
Sakuyamon, Apollomon, and Ophanimon stood towering over Ryo Akiyama, who looked like he wasn't afraid at all, he had no digimon partner, and since he had moments ago destroyed Strikedramon, and was seemingly defenseless.
With only a nod from Rika, Sakuyamon launched itself into the air, and comes down upon Ryo with a thunder kick, but it impacted something, for a brief moment a shield was visible, it appeared to be the shield of a Gallantmon.
"My turn" Ryo said with an arrogant expression on his face, and a beam shot from where the shield had appeared, the blast didn't make full contact with Sakuyamon, but hit her enough to knock her to the ground.
The images around them changed to a view of outside the D-Nemesis, it showed the battle being waged, people doing their best to knock the D-probes back, "They are only delaying the inevitable destruction of this world, join me Suzie so you don't have to share their fate" he said as he suddenly duplicated into three more of himself, the other three had a different vibrating form. "Kill them, Suzie is mine, she either joins me or dies"
Lopmon started tugging at Suzie's shirt sleeve "please master, come to your senses" she said pleadingly "He's not the Ryo you knew, if you truly actually knew him at all"
"You know me personally as much as I know you, your hatred of Digimon is as strong as mine, they took everything from you like I said why you would listen to this creature, this digital ticking time bomb according to Yamaki each of them is a danger to whoever has one" Ryo said walking over and kicking Lopmon across the chamber, she struggled to get up, but got another kick in the face for doing so. "This thing is an abomination, that should not be created I only had one so I would look normal, so no one would ever suspect me of hating them as much as I do, join me and I'll destroy it for you now!"
-To Be Concluded in the next part-