Chapter 10: The Dragon Phoenix

The main room in the building where Tagiru and the other prisoners had been held was the headquarters for the scientists. There was a large computer there and on the floor, a lot of equipment was there.

Kaito, the youngest was quite happy that they had seemed to get the King on their side thanks to Kuro disobeying orders. She was sitting on a computer chair with Kuro sitting besides her and she tousled his hair, beaming.

"You did so great, Kuro!" Kaito said happily. "The King's made more slaves than anyone."

Kuro giggled. "Although, Taiki-kun's friends know the truth now so they'll be a hindrance. We need to do something about them."

Taico, the oldest of them was typing things onto the computer. "They won't be able to do much. I've contacted Lucia. With her forces, they'll be no match against us."

"Oh Neechan is coming!" Kuro said jumping up and putting his hands together in glee. "This will be good. Should I go check on Taiki-kun? Make sure he's doing his work correctly?"

Taico shrugged. "I'm sure he's doing his work fine. Our subjects have gotten free though. I'm putting them under observation." He typed some things and the Hunters appeared on screen. He zoomed in on Mizuki and Kiichi. "These two will be interesting to bring back. Especially the girl. Kuro, you need to get Taiki-kun to lure them here before they return to the real world."

Kuro nodded. "Right!"

Taico smiled. "Good and Kaito, send Dorulumon's modified version after the other Generals and Hunters. Separate them. Divide and rule."

Kaito stood up and saluted. "You bet!" She frowned. "What about that dark knight?"

Taico hummed. "Leave those guys to Lucia and I. She has a plan."

Kaito frowned. "Hope ya know what you're doing. Don't get killed! Later!" She bounced out of the room.

Kuro laughed, following her.

Taico rolled his eyes as they left. Those guys were such idiots. He looked at Mizuki on the screen too. She seemed intelligent, confident, if not a little frightened. Of course she was…that's what made her an interesting subject in the first place. Oh yes, further experiments were definitely needed. He returned to his computer, making to start working.

Yuu cried out in alarm as Tsuwamon was thrown back, his data beginning to flicker in and out. The blond shivered. No, this couldn't be happening. He didn't want to be punished for his sins like this. Damemon, Nene, Tagiru…they shouldn't suffer because of him. Not because of his mistakes.

"Tsuwamon…oh god, please give me a way," Yuu whispered. "I want to fight with you please." His friends were being beaten mercilessly. He wanted to reach out and stop this. This was all his fault. It was always his fault…no. He shook his head. He needed to stop feeling sorry for himself. It was because of that he had joined DarkKnightmon in the first place. Nene had tried to stop him too. She had tried to talk sense into him. If he kept on standing here, feeling sorry for what he had done, he wouldn't be able to move forward.

"No, no more," Yuu said to himself as Tsuwamon was thrown back once more. "Tsuwamon! Let's fight together!"

A bright yellow light shone from his X-Loader, the same colour as his X-Loader was. The light was warm, comforting almost. The light shone brighter and a yellow bird appeared, a phoenix. The phoenix spread her wings, smiling down warmly at Yuu.

"Touch my light," The phoenix spoke to Yuu as the others tried to distract DarkKnightmon.

"What?" Yuu said, staring.

"Touch the light," The phoenix said again. "Both of you, touch the light."

The blond looked at Tsuwamon who nodded. The two of them reached out at the same time, allowing it to envelop them both.

Yuu raised his X-Loader, the phoenix being called into it. "Ultimate Xros!"

Human and digimon fused together and a new digimon appeared. "Shinobimon!"

Shinobimon looked like a raven with a yellow aura surrounding him.

"Yuu-kun," Miho stuttered impressed. "He combined with…"

"He combined with Tsuwamon," Hiroya stared at what was happening. "What is this power?"

Yuu felt really strange becoming one with Tsuwamon. "Tsuwamon…did we really become one?"

"Yeah, we did, your wish to fight with me made us DigiXros," Tsuwamon said. "Yuu? Let's fight together!"

Yuu laughed. "You got it Tsuwamon!" It felt nice having this new power.

With that, Shinobimon lunged at DarkKnightmon, aiming to kill or at least maim.

Tagiru coughed in pain as Hideaki threw him back into his room roughly while the guards had taken Gumdramon away, kicking and screaming.

"How dare you…how dare you defy me?" Hideaki said, practically shaking with rage.

Tagiru glowered through his pain. "I don't want to stay here, Hideaki! You can't make me!"

Hideaki grasped Tagiru by the shoulder. "Shut up!"

Tagiru cried out. It felt like Hideaki was trying to crush his shoulder blades beneath his fingers. He tried to bite his lip to keep him from screaming.

Hideaki pinned him against the ground. "You listen to me, Tagiru. You're mine, only mine." He leaned closer to Tagiru, almost too close to comfort, licking the shell of the other's earlobe. Tagiru let loose a shudder.

"No," Tagiru made to protest. "Not yours."

Hideaki smirked. "Aren't you? Well, let's see if your body agrees."

Tagiru's eyes widened and he desperately thrashed, trying to push Hideaki off. "No! No!" He didn't want to go through that again.

Hideaki slapped Tagiru, causing the other to flinch, before stroking Tagiru's cheek. "Stop making me use force. I hate ruining your pretty face like this."

Tagiru gritted his teeth. "Then stop hitting me." He squirmed more but Hideaki pressed a hand lightly against his throat.

Tagiru felt himself choke, losing focus momentarily and he found himself unable to do much as his vision blurred. He could see what Hideaki was doing but couldn't seem to stop him due to his inability to breathe or see properly. Even when Hideaki took his hand away, he was still a bit disoriented although felt his body being moved around.

No, no, I have to stop this. He thought weakly. Where was Gumdramon? He squirmed again, trying to clear his vision and it began to somewhat but before he could do much, he gasped at the sudden sensation he felt. His head swirled, pain and pleasure mixing with it.

Hideaki laughed and leaned over to kiss Tagiru on the lips. "You love that, don't you?"

Tagiru flinched. "No…" He didn't understand. Why did he seem to like this?

Hideaki rolled his eyes. "You're such a bad liar." He moved again causing Tagiru to let out whimpers of both protest and pleasure. "You're mine."

As Hideaki continued his ministrations, Tagiru felt himself losing control. This loss of self-control scared…no, terrified him. His body seemed to be responding to everything Hideaki did and it seemed to only encourage the other to keep what he was doing.

Tagiru's eyes watered and tears fell down his cheeks. He shut his eyes, his arms falling limp at his sides. There was nothing he could do. Darkness was reaching for him and he just wanted to pass out and not think of this anymore. Sweet, comforting, darkness seemed to be the only way out. He gasped again at the unexpected pleasure before shivering. "S-stop…this is wrong, it's rape…"

Hideaki hummed. "Is it? You're clearly in denial that you want me. Give it up, Tagiru. Yuu doesn't love you. If he did, he would be doing this to you. He and Airu love each other."

Tagiru shook his head but had no strength to argue. "Please…stop…please."

Hideaki sighed in bliss, releasing him. "Alright, for now." He kissed Tagiru again. "But as punishment, you're not leaving this room or getting your clothes back."

Tagiru shivered as he felt Hideaki's fingers travel up his inner thighs, entering inside and gasped at the sudden intrusion. He whimpered, more tears falling. Get out, get out! Too tired to say anything out loud though, he let the darkness take him and he knew no more.

Kuro returned to where Taiki was sitting with Shoutmon in his room. "That was a close one, neh Taiki-kun? If you and the King hadn't returned here, then they might have attacked you."

Shoutmon scoffed, his eyes cold. "I could have taken them. I am the King."

Kuro giggled. "Maybe so but we can't risk our most precious allies, can we?" He stroked Taiki's cheek and the other subconsciously leaned into the touch.

"Of course, Kuro-sama," Taiki said blankly. "What's our next mission?"

"Mizuki-kun, Kiichi-kun, bring them here," Kuro said simply. "They trust you so just bring them to the Headquarters. Taico-kun is rather interested in the girl and the boy, he's simply an interesting subject."

Taiki stared at Kuro. "I will do so, Kuro-sama. Will Shoutmon be going with me?"

Kuro shook his head. "We need him to conquer some zones so he'll be working on that. As the Digimon King, it's a lot easier for him to get everything in our control. You'll do that for us, won't you Shoutmon?"

Shoutmon shrugged. "Course. Anything to help our cause."

Kuro giggled. "That's good. That's very good. Let's get to it then!"

Gumdramon struggled wildly as the guards threw him into another room, locking it and he glowered at them, trying to get out. "You'll pay for this! I need to get to Tagiru!"

The guard laughed from outside. "Unfortunately, Hideaki wants to punish your friend alone."

Gumdramon felt his blood turn cold. Punish him? What was Hideaki going to do? There had to be something he could do for Tagiru. Tagiru had seemed so desperate to get out of here but those…those bastards had just left him here to Hideaki's mercy. Was anyone coming for him, for them? He didn't know but someone needed to. Tagiru was broken enough and if Hideaki hurt him again, there was no telling what it would do to his mental condition.

He banged his fists helplessly against the door. "Someone please help my friend…"

"You'll hurt yourself if you do that," A small voice said and Gumdramon blinked.

"Who said that?" Gumdramon said, a little defensively.

Something moved in the dark room and Gumdramon peered closer to see a young girl, who looked even younger than Tagiru sitting there. She had short brown hair, tied up in two blobs above her head. At least they looked like blobs to Gumdramon.

The little girl giggled. "Well, aren't you defensive? Name's Amano Kotone. So how'd you get trapped here?"

Gumdramon blinked. "Amano huh? You a cousin or something of Yuu's?"

Kotone laughed. "Oh, you know Niisan huh? He's my dork of a brother. Do you know Neesan too?"

"Nene?" Gumdramon said and Kotone nodded. "Yeah, I know her. How'd you end up trapped here?"

Kotone shook her head, looking a bit confused. "I don't know. Last thing I remember was Neesan and Niisan crying. I was falling asleep and when I woke up, I was here. Maybe I got kidnapped. Dunno." She yawned. "Kinda wanna go back to sleep but you look beat bad."

Gumdramon scowled. "I'm fine! This is nothing. It's Tagiru I'm worried about! He's being tortured out there and I promised to protect him."

Kotone pondered that for a moment, before getting to her feet. "Ok then I'm helping ya! Wanna see my siblings again and can't do that if I sleep on the job right?"

Gumdramon stared. "You sure you're related to Yuu, kid?"

"I'm not that little!" Kotone protested when Gumdramon called her a kid. "And yeah I am. Long story though. Now, are we gonna work together or what? Your friend needs our help right?"

Gumdramon nodded. "Yeah, but we're locked inside here."

Kotone shrugged, moving forward and pulling a hair pin out of her hair, beginning to pick the lock. "I used to always pick really hard locks with my friends so this should be a piece of cake."

Gumdramon grinned, in spite of the situation. "I like your style!"

The Xros-Heart group was walking in the forest. Nene was besides Kiriha and Akari looked a bit better. They had made the plan to go search for Taiki and Yuu, since Taiki was clearly being controlled and Yuu wasn't doing so well either, considering the damage he had caused in the digital world. Beelzebumon and Mervamon had led them to the other digimon, which was a big help having their partners there.

Ryouma reached over, grasping Airu's hand as she had been rather quiet. "Airu, talk to me."

Airu smiled a little. "There's nothing to talk about, Ryouma. I'm alright. Really."

Ryouma sighed, not wanting to push but at the same time being worried about her. He glanced at Ren who shrugged.

"Leave her be for awhile," Ren said. "She's tough, she'll get through it man. We know our best friend better than that."

Ryouma rolled his eyes. Yes, that was Ren with the emotional tact of a teaspoon. He glanced at Airu once though and decided not to push for now. Ren had a point. Airu was strong. She'd come around to acceptance in her own time and maybe things would get better between her and Yuu. He glanced around at the others and saw Kiriha talking to Akari about what they should do about Taiki while Zenjirou spoke quietly to Nene, trying to give her some reassurance.

Everyone seemed to be worried about the situation at hand and he was too. There was no sign of where Tagiru could be and Yuu was probably still out, wreaking havoc. And now Taiki was being controlled? Sheesh, the Power Trio really was out of commission huh? He hoped they would be able to get back up before things got worse than they already were.