Chapter 5

Kai's POV:

We were all in the computer lab and - as per usual - I was at the bottom of the pile. We looked at the time and lunch was just ending so we all went to the rest of our classes for today. The rest of the day nothing happened, so we all went home to do our homework.

Meanwhile in the Digital World Icedevimon POV:

"Curses! They defeated Mojyamon. I didn't expect them to have spirits. I need someone strong enough to defeat that spirit and scan their fractal code to strengthen my master." I said to myself. Then an idea dawned on me I called, "Mercurymon! Front and Center."

The legendary warrior of steel came forth and said in a seemingly forced Shakespearian accent complete with use of English, "Why didst thou summon me?"

I replied, "I have a mission for you; I need you to get rid of some pests for me."

He replied, "T'would be my pleasure, my lord." He went off to cause havoc to bring those pesky humans to the digi world.

Tai's POV:

"So let me get this straight," I glared at Tyler slightly. "You went to defeat a rogue Mojyamon with your partners only at baby level except for Kai and, had Joseph frozen and nearly had Sky roasted without telling us or the second group?"

"Uh…" I fidgeted under his glare. "Maybe?"

After a moment, his glare lessoned and he sighed, "Just don't do it again…"

I sighed in relief before agreeing and walking towards the kitchen with him; we had decided to surprise Kari - who generally made dinner - by making a pizza from scratch.

"Okay, you get the pickles, pineapple and… ginger nut biscuits?!" Tai read from the house's only recipe book. "No wonder mom can't cook. Uh… how about we just wing it?"

"Sounds good to me," I grinned widely, pulling out a carton of milk. "Will this be enough?"

"You'd better get another just to be safe," he said as he pulled on an apron backwards.

Kari's POV:

I glanced over at Kai - who was struggling slightly with his Chinese homework. "Why do we even have to learn Chinese?" he groaned eventually, his face hitting the pages of his workbook.

"It's the only language other than English and Japanese our school offers," I explained, not being overly fond of it myself, "and we have to do three languages. Here, let me see your answers."

I picked up my 'little brother's' workbook and compared his answers to my own, astonished to see that those he answered were perfectly correct. Before I could ask him about it, he paused and sniffed the air.

"Do you smell something burning?"

"YOU TOLD ME TO PUT IT TO THREE HUNDRED!"

"I DID NOT; I SAID TWO NINETY!"

"THAT WOULD HAVE MADE A LOT OF A DIFFERENCE!"

"MAYBE IT WOULD HAVE!"

I sighed, "Tai and Tyler must have tried making dinner…"

Kai groaned, "Great; Tyler can't cook to save his life. He's worse than Takuya…"

"Remind me again who Takuya is?" I raised an eyebrow as I followed him towards our bedroom door.

"Leader of the fourth season of DigiDestined," he explained, "He wouldn't be able to get Agumon to eat his food." (A/N: We are really breaking the fourth wall here, and we're going at it with sledgehammers!)

"That's impossible," I shook my head. "Agumon would eat anything!"

"Not Tyler's cooking."

"Yes he would," I opened the door to see Tai pointing a fire extinguisher at our blazing oven as Tyler pulled out a greasy, lumpy pizza that fell to the floor in green clumps of dough, olives, chocolate and pickles.

"YOU PUT IN CHOCOLATE?"

"YOU TOLD ME TO!"

"I SAID HOT CHOCOLATE POWDER! AND WHY DID YOU PUT IN PICKLES?!"

"I THOUGHT THE RECIPE MIGHT BE RIGHT!"

I quickly slammed the door shut to see Kai doubled over laughing. After composing himself, he smirked at me slightly, "Want to bet?"

Tyson's POV:

I sighed as I walked into school; I wasn't bad at most subjects, but I wasn't great at them either and I unfortunately also had TK's brain for geometry. Fortunately, I also had his brain for English and his talent for basketball.

But that wasn't why I was dreading school. "This sucks," I complained to Maya - who was living near TK and his mother, and so decided to accompany us to school. "Why do we have to tell them?"

"We lost 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'," Maya shrugged, a perky smile on her face at the prospect of cheerleader tryouts which were to be held later that day. "It's only fair."

"Still," I threw back my head in exasperation. "This isn't going to be easy."

"You explained it well to me," TK shrugged as well as Tyson looked at him hopefully.

"Would you-?"

"Sorry," TK laughed, "but I don't want to be there when Kari gets overprotective about Kai."

Hearing four loud beeping noises, we pulled out our D-Terminals.

"Mercurymon is creating trouble; we need your help," Mimi read. "Who's Mercurymon?"

"Of course it would be him; it's always him. It couldn't have been Arbormon; no. They had to bring out the big guns first time," I ranted quietly, causing everyone to sweatdrop.

"Just be glad it's not Duskmon," Maya whispered to me as we all began running towards the computer room. "Mercurymon is the corrupted warrior of steel from the fourth season of digimon."

"But we never met him!" Mimi exclaimed in confusion.

"You guys weren't in that season," I explained. "There were a group of other kids instead."

"Enough fourth wall breaking!" TK groaned as we skidded into the computer room - where everyone but Joe and Joseph were waiting.

"Come on," Kai said, holding out his tri-tector in the hopes that he would end up on top for once. "DIGI PORT OPEN!"

Kai's POV:

I opened my eyes and as per usual I was still at the bottom. I sighed realizing there was no way around it; I was at the bottom of the barrel. I asked everyone to get off me and they did. Once I was able to get up I dusted my clothes off and we headed in the direction of the insane shakespeare lover.

"Are Joe and Joseph already here?" Tyler called as Tai shook his head.

"No… hey, where are the digimon?"

Faced with the sudden realisation that none of their partners were there, all of the DigiDestined skidded to an abrupt halt.

"Salamon?" I called, looking frantically around for the cream-coloured digimon.

Suddenly, a low, dark chuckle filled the air as a hooded figure appeared out of thin air and slowly circled us, "Maybe they're in your world, maybe another. Maybe near, possibly far. But you'll never see them again, no matter where they are."
I said, "Enough speaking in riddles Mercurymon!"

"Mercurymon?" the figure seemed genuinely confused for a moment. Then he laughed again, "I can't believe you mistook me for that pitiful excuse of a corrupted legendary warrior. The only thing he should be legendary for is his meagre attempts at Shakespeare to impress the one digimon he has eyes for."

Maya said, "What did you do with MY JOSEPH?!

"Your what?" the digimon cocked his head to one side. "That's an odd name for a digimon…"

"I mean my friend; the Hookmon."

"Uh…" the digimon paused. "No; I saw plenty of digimon between dimensions, but no Hookmon… but then again, who's to say one of my brethren didn't take him?"

Growling, I glanced at my tri-tector.

Digidex:

Phantomon

Level: Ultimate

Attribute:Virus

Attacks: Shadow Scythe, Words of Death, Diabolic Star

"Not this guy again," Matt muttered, rubbing his throat in recollection of the Phantomon that had throttled him in its search for the eighth child.

"Great," Tyler growled, fists clenched. "No partners, no Hookmon and we're against an Ultimate…"

"At least he's not Mercurymon," I stated as Cody and Marcus eased into the fighting stances they had learned from kendo and karate respectively.

"It's pointless," Phantomon chuckled, throwing his cloak over the original eight save Kari, TK and Izzy, causing them to disappear. "You'll all disappear one. By. One."

"We need to think of something," Lina mumbled, her eyes darting around. "Wasn't Kouichi in season four the only one to defeat these guys?"

"Yeah; how did he do it?" Sky pressed as Kai's eyes narrowed.

"He cleared his mind and used his lance… and his powers over darkness."

"Oh," Marcus blinked, Yolei and Davis disappearing as he did so. "We are so dead."

"Unfortunately so," Cody sighed as Ken disappeared.

During all of this, Maya's hands had slowly balled into fists, anger blazing in her eyes as Izzy, TK, Kari and Cody disappeared under the cloak.

"You bring onii-chan back now," Lina growled, "or you'll be sorry…"

"Bring Kari back!" I shouted as well.

"Oh, I'm so scared," Phantomon yawned. "The kids want their brothers and girlfriends back…"

"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!" I shouted.

Phantomon said, "Whatever if you miss her so much maybe you should be next?"

I yelped as the cloak was thrown over me and darkness filled my vision.

Maya's POV:

My eyes narrowed into slits as the cloak was thrown over Kai… only for his figure to remain underneath it.

"Huh?" Phantomon blinked as a light pink light shone through it. "NO! THAT WILL DESTROY MY CLOAK!"

Quickly, he yanked it off Kai and threw it to one side, it landing over everyone save me and Kai, causing them to disappear.

"You…" hearing me, the Phantomon turned as Kai fell to one knee. "You monster…"

"Oh, forgot you were there," he hummed, moving to take his cloak. "Well, we can soon fix that, and your friend here will disappear too."

"No!" I snarled, surprising him. "You will never hurt anyone again; do you hear me?! I SWEAR I WILL DESTROY YOU IF YOU TRY!"

Suddenly, Kai's crest and body began glowing again, a small ball of energy leaving him and hitting the earth as a small statue shot up from the ground.

"My spirit…" I breathed happily before pointing my tri-tector at it. A green coloured fractal code surrounded my hand as I shouted, "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"

Unlike Joseph's Matrix-like data, mine wrapped around me like vines only to fly back as I finished evolving to Sunflowmon. My entire body was green, my feet pointed, my nails growing to claws as a tail not unlike a rose's stem - thorns and all - appeared behind me. My face became round and yellow with petals surrounding it and dark eyes while a green triangle appeared on my forehead. At my shoulder blades, two leaf-like wings grew from my shoulder blades as my teeth sharpened to fangs.

Glaring at the surprised Phantomon, I lunged towards him, managing to grab the crystal around his neck, "This is for my friends! Smiley Slap!" A mischievous grin on my face, a backhanded him before forcing my face to glow and looking at the crystal. "Sunshine Beam!"

The beam of light shot at the crystal, shattering it immediately. Soon, each of the DigiDestined and our partners appeared on the ground again, Salamon, Gatomon and Kari quickly running to the exhausted Kai.

Glaring at Phantomon, I shoved him away, my face glowing again, "Sunshine-" I heard a snap as a mirror appeared in front of me, but I was too far into the attack to stop, "Beam!"

"Dark Reflection!"

The light was shot back at me, knocking me out of the air, forcing me to de-digivolve.

"Mercurymon," Phantomon breathed in relief as the warrior of steel appeared in front of him. "Thank you."

"What for?" Mercurymon's lips curved into a smirk. "I was merely making sure that you were alive long enough for me to exact my revenge."

"Huh?" Phantomon's eyes widened.

"Pitiful excuse of a corrupted legendary warrior, hm?" Mercurymon chuckled before holding up a mirror again. "You should really make sure no one is listening if you're trying to badmouth someone stronger than you. Dark Reflection!"

Sunflowmon's beam of light shot at Phantomon again, forcing his fractal code to appear.

"To the victor go the spoils," Mercurymon smirked again as he absorbed the fractal code before gazing at us. "It seems a shame to end the game this early on… perhaps a small consolation prize for defeating you would do."

With lightning fast speed, Mercurymon lunged forwards and grabbed Kari, Gatomon, Kai and Salamon, teleported himself away before anyone could stop him.

"Kari…"

"Kai!"

END OF CHAPTER!

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