Rescue by the Legendary Warriors and a New Spirit

Takuya's POV:

"Come on," I growled, egging JagerLoweemon on as we neared the entrance to the Dark Continent. "We're almost there."

"I can only go so fast, Takuya," he panted; running with four people and two digimon on his back was obviously taking its toll on him. We had decided that five spirits would draw too much attention and that one person would carry everyone for a few hours.

Being energised by darkness and adrenaline, Koichi was able to run for the longest, but we were still a day's journey away from the entrance alone.

After a while, he halted and one leg buckled underneath him. Before we could climb off, he de-digivolved, causing us all to fall on him.

"Sorry," he moaned from under the dogpile.

Zoe said, "It's ok you did your best. Takuya I think we should stop and rest for now."

I answered, "We need to find Koji and we are nowhere near the Rose Morning Star."

"We'll be there in a few days," Bokomon offered helpfully asi Tommy beast spirit evolved.

"But he might need us now," I heard Koichi mumble under his breath. "And if something happens to him, it'll be my fault…"

Kai's POV:

I groaned as my eyes fluttered open I looked around and saw I was in a jail cell of some sorts. I asked to no one, "Where am I? Kari are you here?"

I heard a voice I recognized saying, "So you're finally awake huh?" I turned towards the source of the voice and saw Koji from season four.

I asked him playing dumb,"Who are you?"

He said, "You don't need to play dumb your friend told me everything. I know your name is Kai and I know you're Kari Kamiya's incarnation."

I said, "If you know all that then I must've been out for a long time. What happened to me? Where's Kari?"

He said, "When you got here you had a slight fever. Your friend's sleeping take a look." He pointed to the wall and she was fast asleep. I asked now noticing the bruises he had, "What happened to you? How did you get here?"

He said, "It's a long story."

I said, "Well I don't think we're going anywhere anytime soon." He sighed and started explaining what happened.

Out of POV Flashback:

Koji shook his head in disbelief as he gazed around the landscape of the digital world, "I can't believe it… we're actually back…"

"I know," Koichi nodded in blissful agreement, watching as his phone was transformed into a D-Tector. "Did Takuya say why we were needed again?"

"No," Koji groaned. "He only said he'd be waiting here for us."

The 'here' in question was the cavern in which Koji had first found and recently the spirits of light. Unluckily for Koichi, Loweemon's spirits had not been placed with Lobomon's, so they still had to find his.

"He did, didn't he?" a dark voice rang through the cave, causing both twins to tense as Mercurymon stepped out of one of the adjoining tunnels. "And yet, we're the only ones here. Sorry to disappoint you."

"Mercurymon," Koji growled, gripping his D-Tector tightly.

Before he could do anything though, Mercurymon held up his mirror, "Dark Reflection: Deadly Gaze!"

Yelping, Koichi tackled his brother out of the way of the blood-red beam of light, "How did he-?"

"Simple," Mercurymon shrugged. "I just absorbed the data of the fallen warriors from your spirits after I was reborn."

"Looks like you're going to have to give it up again soon," Koji snarled. "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"

"Resistance is futile," Mercurymon warned before smirking, "but so much more fun than just surrendering."

"I'll give you resistance," Lobomon narrowed his eyes. "Lobo Kendo!"

"Dark Reflection!" Mercurymon held up a mirror, absorbing the aftershock of the attack and sending it back through Lobomon's body. "I warned you."

"And I chose not to listen," Lobomon's eyes narrowed even further as he stretched out his arm, directing it at Mercurymon's head. "Howling Laser!"

"No!" Koichi yelled as Mercurymon absorbed the attack.

"Dark Reflection!"

This time, the attack was so strong that it blasted Lobomon into the far wall, forcing him to de-digivolve and his fractal code and spirits to appear. Quickly, Mercurymon scanned his spirits as Koji collapsed barely conscious before turning to Koichi. "Dark Reflection: Deadly Gaze!"

Not given any time to defend himself, Koichi was thrown back into the large hole in which Lobomon's spirits had hidden.

"K-Koichi," Koji rasped weakly, struggling to stand, but Mercurymon quickly grabbed his wrist as a dull thud followed by a groan echoed out of the hole.

"He'll be fine," the warrior of steel smirked. "Your so-called friends will find him, but that will be long after we're gone."

Mercurymon then teleported out of the cavern and into the Rose Morning Star, in which he imprisoned Koji for the two weeks before Kai and Kari arrived.

End Flashback

Kai's POV again:

My eyes widened in shock, "And your injuries?"

"Uh…" he seemed uncomfortable with answering that question. He muttered something under his breath.

"Sorry; I… didn't really hear you," I said, my dread growing with every moment as I noticed similar - although fewer - bruises on Kari.

"I said Mercurymon," he repeated after a moment, not meeting my eyes. "He's been… torturing us…"

My heart beat faster as I stood up and moved over to Koji, grabbing his arm and pulling back his sleeve before he could protest.

"Hey, what are you-?"

"I'm just trying to help," I mumbled, wincing as I saw how severe the injuries were. Cuts and bruises littered the arm in the dozens, and his sleeve wasn't even past his elbow.

"How long was I out?"

"About five days," he sighed, attempting to pull his arm back, but I held it firmly, my eyes narrowed. I had done it with Joseph, so why couldn't I do it now?

Closing my eyes, I willed my crest to glow, hoping that it would work. Its powers should be magnified, considering Koji was the warrior of light.

After a moment, it finally responded, two orbs of pinkish light shooting at Koji and Kari's hearts. Opening my eyes again, I released Koji's arm, a content smile on my face as I saw his wounds fading.

Frowning in confusion, he examined his arm before gazing at me, "How did you do that?"

"One of the advantages of having a crest," I shrugged. "They sometimes give you powers."

"Powers that I need," a voice boomed as Mercurymon teleported in front of us.

Both Koji and I stiffened, edging as far away as possible from the warrior of steel, but he easily grabbed my arm.

Before he could teleport, Koji took a hold of my other arm, "You're not going anywhere with him; he's just a kid."

"Age means nothing to me," Mercurymon shrugged. "In your human years, I would be but seven weeks old. And if you insist on coming, I have no reason to object. Perhaps I should test the stake…"

Koji's grip on my arm tightened slightly and I could feel him holding back a tremble, but his glare remained strong. Gulping slightly, I shook him free, mouthing 'I'll be fine' just before Mercurymon teleported us out of the cell.

Joseph's POV:

"You're kidding me," I growled. "Please tell me you're joking."

"Sorry, Joseph," Maya avoided my eyes, "but… it's true."

"So not only once, but twice you guys went to the digital world without me even though I have one of the only spirits and Kai and Kari got kidnapped because of it?! And you're only telling me now; five days later?!" I snapped, pinching the bridge of my nose as Tyler nodded hesitantly. "Give me a moment…" If something else happens before I count to five, I'm going to scream… One, two, three, four, five… okay, good.

"Do you at least know where he is?" I inquired, sighing as Sky shook her head.

"Mercurymon kept teleporting," she explained.

"We need to figure something out, and fast," I tapped my chin. "Not only might they be in danger, but Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya are worried and the school is getting suspicious…"

"W-what if we try and grab Mercurymon as he teleports?" Tyson suggested shyly. "That way, he might bring us to where Kai and Kari are."

"That's," Marcus began to scoff only to pause, "...actually a good idea…"

"Thanks," Tyson beamed just before our D-Terminals went off. Once again, the cause was apparently Mercurymon.

"I'm beginning to see a pattern here," Marcus growled, grabbing Tyler's shoulder. "Every time we go, it's because of Mercurymon but we end up fighting someone else."

"That was only last time," he scoffed in reply.

"There was Phantomon too," Marcus added, causing Tyler to wince; that battle was a sore spot for him.

"So, you think Mercurymon is distracting us with other digimon?" I concluded, gaining everyone's attention.

"Exactly," Marcus nodded in agreement.

"But even if that's true, we still have to go," Tyler argued. "If we don't, Mercurymon wins without a fight!"

"I… guess you're right," Marcus sighed after a moment. We all ran for the computer room, not even stopping as Tyler raised his tri-tector.

"DIGI PORT OPEN!"

Koji's POV:

I fell back as Kai shook his arm free, mouthing 'I'll be fine' at me before Mercurymon teleported him to wherever they were going. Taking a shaky breath, I leaned my head against the wall. The stake… raging flames surrounding you, burning you alive as smoke filled your lungs while you were helpless to stop it…

The thought alone terrified me, and Kai knew it. If he hadn't, he wouldn't have pushed me away…

"He's got Takuya's heroism complex anyway," I muttered before glancing down at the cuff on my wrist.

It had been - other than Mercurymon and his 'torture toys' - the bane of my existence for the past two, nearly three weeks, so I hadn't paid it much attention… but then I really looked at it.

The chain was strong, driven into the wall behind me and seemingly forged into the cuff. Maybe - if it held - I could get far enough down the holes to reach another level, and hopefully a weapon…

I slowly stood up and walked to the nearest hole, taking a deep, calming breath before jumping down it.

I held back a yell as my feet hit the ground, my legs buckling under me. Standing up again, I looked up in surprise to see the room I had been in no more than five metres above me.

I glanced around for a moment, but the room was just like the one above; dark, empty and full of holes. There was one difference, however; about ten feet away stood an exit, probably leading out of the castle under the Rose Morning Star. Unfortunately, even if I could have reached it, it would have been useless with the chain. Sighing, I began climbing up the chain again, thankful for my martial arts training.

The only thing I could do was wait and hope that either our friends would come in time to help us or that Kari and Kai's partners would escape… and I hated waiting.

Kai's POV:

I gulped as Mercurymon forced me up against a table that was on its side, easily overcoming my attempts to escape by taking advantage of his greater strength and my dizziness.

Soon, a cuff was around each wrist and I was glaring at Mercurymon, who had his arms crossed, the seemingly-permanent, irritating smirk on his face, "What do you want?"

"Your powers," Mercurymon shrugged slightly before walking towards one lever and pulling it down, causing me to flinch… but nothing happened other than a large television was lowered from the ceiling along with a cage holding the unconscious Salamon and Gatomon.

"SALAMON!" I yelled, but my partner remained unresponsive.

"She won't answer," Mercurymon's smirk grew. "Do you want to find out why?"

Unable to protest, Kai watched as the television flickered to life. Various clips of the torture Mercurymon had induced on his friends flashed on the screen. Koji was struggling to remain conscious with his mouth and nose covered by a mask filled with water. I saw Kari being shocked mercilessly. I saw Salamon and Gatomon being pounded away at by an ultimate level. I asked, "What do you want with my powers?"

He said, "What do you think little one? I wish to revive my fallen comrades and rule over the Digital World with an iron fist."

I asked, "How will my powers help you?"

He said, "You have no need to know." All of the sudden a Phantomon appeared and started to hypnotise me.

Mercurymon said, "Good now tell me child how do you activate those powers of yours?"

I said in monotone voice, "I don't know I just wish to heal my friends and it happens."

He asked, "How do you know that they're your friends?"

"They've always been there for me," I answered in the same tone, struggling to stop talking.

"What if I was your friend?" he pressed. "Would you help me?"

"I would," I paused for a moment before shaking my head angrily, breaking the hypnotism, "but you're not my friend and you never will be!"

"Insolent brat, you're lucky I'm questioning you; if my torture tools were used on you, you would be dead." he growled, his smirk turning to a scowl for once.

My eyes narrowed out of anger and I strained against the cuffs, but it was in vain for they simply tightened around my wrists, causing me to cry out in pain.

I saw Salamon's eye flutter slightly; she was beginning to wake up, but not quickly enough.

"Excellent!" Mercurymon exclaimed evilly.

I moaned slightly, my head falling, chin hitting my chest as a slow tear trickled down my cheek, landing on my crest. At that moment, four orbs of light left my crest, one of which shot towards Gatomon and Salamon's cage, jolting them awake, the others hitting Mercurymon's mirrors and disappearing.

"Kai!" both Gatomon and Salamon cried, seeing my predicament, but Mercurymon snapped down another lever and something muted them.

He then smirked and continued showing me footage of the tortures.

Koji being deprived of oxygen. Kari being prodded with white-hot poles. The digimon being slowly lowered into a cage of spiders - which I knew both of them hated. Back to Koji, only this time he was blindfolded and armed with a kendo sword against a dozen Karatenmon. Then Kari was struggling to keep herself afloat in a small container that was slowly being filled with water.

Koji was shown his friends dying. Kari was temporarily blinded. The digimon were almost killed by Sakkakumon and his guardians or whatever they were.

"Please… stop…" I whispered, squeezing my eyes shut. However the images kept playing.

Mercurymon was using every element against us. Eventually, I growled, my eyes glowing pink, "ENOUGH!"

Tyler's POV:

I growled as I saw the digimon covering for Mercurymon; a Stingmon, "That's just great…"

"I hate to say I told you so, but…" Marcus shrugged. "I told you so."

"Not the time," Sky quipped. "Marcus, you, Maya, Tyson and I can look for Mercurymon. Joseph, you can handle Stingmon, right?"

"Easily," he nodded, pulling out his tri-tector. "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"

Unlike the other two digimon, Stingmon was not at all subtle in his attempts to attack everyone who didn't have a spirit.

"Spiking Strike!" he yelled countless times, forcing Hookmon to take the hits without fighting back due to the fact that if he did, he would hit us.

"I hate this," I muttered, fists clenched. "I'm supposed to be the leader… I have the Crest of Courage… but I have to stand here and watch Joseph take hits for us…"

"You don't have to," Koromon objected in my arms, squirming around so he could look up at me. "Everyone has choices, Tyler. We just sometimes don't see them."

Growling, I nodded in agreement, placing him on the ground before jogging away from my friends, "Hey, sarge! Over here!"

Turning, Stingmon smirked as he saw me, preparing for another attack.

"Hookmon, now!" I yelled. "Don't worry about me!"

"But-"

"NOW!"

Taking a deep breath, he nodded, but Stingmon was already attacking, "Spiking Strike!"

I held up my arms to protect myself, but before I could be attacked, a pink orb rocketed down from the sky, revealing a small statue.

Immediately, I pulled out my tri-tector, not caring whether it was mine or not; I could always try. Thankfully, the orange fractal code surrounded my hand, "EXECUTE! SPIRIT EVOLUTION!"

Orange data flickered around me like fire as I transformed into Dinohyumon. My skin was green-and-beige like a reptiles. I had two orange bands from my wrists to my elbows, forged into which was an axe-like blade while a necklace of orange teeth was around my neck. I wore purple pants and had a large blade in my left hand and two larger blades strapped to my back. A feather was strapped to my head by a purple headband and my feet were large, flat and had three claws.

Not pausing for a second, I whipped out my largest blade, "Akinakes!"

Unfortunately, Stingmon was extremely fast and dodged the attack so that I barely scratched him.

"Super Shooter!" Hookmon yelled, coming up from behind and shooting the Stingmon back towards me.

"Lizard Dance!" I cried before he could recover from Hookmon's attack, slashing him with the blades on my armbands.

"It'll...take more...than that to beat… me!" Stingmon gasped as he lopsidedly flew back a metre.

I glanced at Hookmon and shrugged, "Luckily for you, we have more. Akinakes!"

At the same time, Hookmon yelled, "Super Shooter!"

The flame from the attack shot at my blade, heating it dramatically as I slashed at Stingmon, forcing his fractal code to appear.

I pulled out my tri-tector, "Soul corrupted by evil… the courageous fire will purify you. Fractal code, digitise!"

I fell to one knee, de-digivolving instantly after Stingmon's egg floated away only to jump up again as I heard a shriek.

"TYSON!"

Kari's POV:

"AND YOU JUST LET MERCURYMON TAKE HIM?!" I yelled, causing Koji to wince slightly.

"He… Kai didn't want me to come," he muttered. "I tried to stop him, but he pushed me away."

"BUT HE'S...he's just a kid," my voice lowered to a whisper. "Just give me a moment…" I took a few deep breaths before nodding, "Okay, I'm fine now. Sorry about that."

"It's fine," Koji nodded, his deadpan back. "So, he's like your little brother, huh?"

"Yeah," I nodded in agreement, pinching the bridge of my nose, thankful that my injuries had been healed.

"What are you going to do if he has to go back to his world?"

I froze, my eyes wide in shock; I hadn't considered the fact that Kai might actually have to go back. "I…"

Before I could answer, an orb of light fell from the mirror substituting as a ceiling and exploded, forcing both Koji and I to shield our eyes. When we were able to open them again, the cuffs around our wrists clattered to the floor.

"Kai…" I mumbled, a soft smile on my face before looking at Koji, my eyes full of determination. "We have to find him!"

Koichi's POV:

"Looks like you were right," Takuya shrugged slightly as we stared up at the Rose Morning Star. "Koichi, you lived here before; are there any ways in without us being seen?"

As Zoe elbowed Takuya angrily, I nodded, "Yeah; there's a small entrance about two metres up the side of the wall, but we'll need to fly.

DigiDestined.

"Huh?"

We all pulled out our D-Tectors to find the symbol of Ophanimon on the screen, "Ophanimon!"

I can only aid you with advice; do NOT try to engage Mercurymon in combat. You are not ready for this.

"But-" Takuya began to protest.

I said NO! The spirits of light may be important, but your lives are MORE important.

After a moment, JP nodded in agreement, "Okay; we'll be careful."

It was at that moment that an orb of pinkish-coloured light fell towards us and exploded, causing all of us to cry out in shock. When we opened our eyes again, we were at the entrance to the Rose Morning Star.

Clenching his fists, Tommy took a step forwards, trying to hide the tremble in his voice, "Let's go."

Kai's POV:

I felt stronger; as if anything could happen and I would be the cause of it. But I also felt useless. I wasn't in control, and I knew it. My crest was.

Mercurymon took an involuntary step backwards as the cuffs around my wrists glowed pink before opening abruptly, allowing me to drop to the ground.

"Excellent," Mercurymon smirked as he raised his mirror.

"Salamon," I said in a rough voice. "It's time."

I raised my tri-tector, closing my eyes as it glowed a pink colour along with the cage the two digimon were in - which broke open a moment later.

"Right," she nodded in agreement, closing her eyes momentarily. "Salamon digivolve to… Gatomon!"

The two Gatomon advanced on Mercurymon angrily, teeth gritted, tails lashing, eyes blazing with fury only for me to shake my head and hold out one arm, blocking them, "No."

"But, Kai!" my partner began to protest.

"No, Gatomon," I repeated, glaring at Mercurymon. "I just asked to to digivolve so you could protect yourself. He's mine ."

"Not on my watch!" a new voice cried as a large, dragon-like creature flew into the room. "Pyro Barrage!"

I turned towards the voice and saw BurningGreymon. I thought to myself but I wasn't sure if it was the crest talking, They should have stayed out of it!

The attack caught Mercurymon by surprise and threw him across the room before he glared at me, "Fine; leave if you want. I have what I need. Just remember that your friends have no clue where you are."

He then teleported, leaving us alone.

"Takuya, wait up!" a voice called as Takuya from the fourth season of digimon de-digivolved and I turned to see JP carrying Kari bridal style while Kouichi supported his limping brother; apparently the healing qualities of my crest could fade.

Blinking rapidly, I groaned as the light faded from my eyes and I collapsed into darkness.

Tyson's POV:

I saw that Mercurymon had appeared. I shouted, "Guys, look!"

Mercurymon said, "Well there goes my entrance; how dare you prevent my surprise entrance you little brat."

"We all knew you were coming anyway," I deadpanned.

"Why you!" he sighed and took a deep breath. "Must not kill him yet… must not kill him yet…"

I asked, "Why do you keep sending other Digimon to do your dirty work? Are you scared, Mercurymon?"

"Scared,no I just have better things to do." he scoffed angrily. "I am the strongest warrior, and you call me scared. I'm simply not reckless."

Sky shouted, "what did you do to Kai and Kari!"

"That's none of your business," he shrugged before smirking. "Unless you want to make it your business."

He lunged at me, grabbing my arm just as Sky, Marcus and Maya caught up to me.

"Would you like to see what I did?" he smirked again.

Paralysed by fear, I couldn't move as he snapped his fingers, but Sky managed to grab my arm - and Marcus had been holding her wrist - so I wasn't alone. Unfortunately, as we teleported, we left Tyler alone.

"TYSON!"

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