Shot Through the Heart CH 144, a private fanfic

"Megiddo Flame!" Megidramon roared, spitting out a gout of fire at a group of Agents.

He quickly hunched back over Sakuyamon, defending her as best he could.

MegaGargomon dropped next to him a few moments later, the rooftop beneath him giving an ominous creak as he did.

I twisted and warped, shifting around all them and forming myself into a torus.

In a flash of Darkness, my Keyblade appeared. Taking inspiration from the Lingering Will, a brief moment of thought had it shifting and changing just like I myself was.

I had it settle on a four pointed star, reminiscent of the Shuriken back in the Elemental Nations, spinning around at the same speed that I was. Four lines of Darkness extended from my form to the points of the Keyblade, linking it together.

I concentrated, pulling in as much Darkness as I dared, hoarding it all into a single sphere in the middle hole of the Keyblade, compressing it as much as I could.

I thought of lightning.

The sphere of Darkness changed, shifting into a ring of purple lightning that hovered in the middle of the Keyblade.

With a pulse, I unleashed the spell, the massive amount of Darkness I'd gathered and converted amplified even further thanks to my Keyblade.

What might have been an exceedingly powerful Lightning spell instead became a horrifically powerful cascade of electrical energy.

I released that energy, sending arcs of electricity out at the D-Reaper Agents, the sheer volume sufficient to ensure that all of them were hit.

The lightning coursed through them, arcing from Agent to Agent, lighting up their forms and violently dispelling them.

I spared nothing in the assault, directing more and more electricity at them until there were none left to direct electricity at, attempting to wipe them from existence with extreme prejudice.

I stopped only when I'd succeeded in that task, stopping first the lightning, and then the spinning.

A small groan caught my attention.

"Sakuyamon!" Megidramon called.

She coughed, remaining still. "That hurt a lot."

"You're alive, at least." I banished the Keyblade, letting it resume its normal form in the process. "Most things would have been straight up wiped out from that blast."

"I don't particularly feel like getting hit again." She groaned as she pushed herself upwards.

Megidramon delicately leaned over, offering what support that he could.

pulse

I glared downwards, immediately launching a blast of lightning down at the D-Reaper Agent that had only just begun to emerge from the D-Reaper mass, destroying it before it could even pose a threat.

"We can get attacked from any side while we're here." MegaGargomon noted. "I really don't like that."

"No one does." I noted. "And Megidramon? You need to calm down. Your anger is still causing adverse effects."

"It isn't easy." He rumbled.

"I know. I'm not exactly calm myself." I noted. "Sakuyamon, you might want to retreat-"

"No." She cut me off. "I'm going to stay and fight."

"What? You're hurt!" MegaGargomon stated.

"I'll deal with it." She rose up to her full height, pushing off of Megidramon.

"Sakuyamon, that is-"

"I don't care." She stated. "We're a team, and I'm going to help."

I felt the determination coming from Rika's and Renamon's Hearts. They would do this, one way or another.

I couldn't slump, but...

I shifted my form, shrinking and flowing around her before solidifying into a slightly smaller torus, still wider than Sakuyamon was tall.

"This would be much easier on the nerves if I didn't have to worry about you." I said.

"Stop whining." She rose into the air. I followed her movement, making sure that she was exactly in the middle of my torus.

Megidramon and MegaGargomon came up after us, the former's anger diminished, but still powerful.

"Megidramon, I will make sure that Sakuyamon isn't hurt." I spun around slowly, the movement only barely visible. "You need to calm down."

He nodded, closing his eyes and taking a few, deep, slow breaths.

pulse

Lightning built up around my form, and immediately struck out at the Agent I sensed moving to us, wiping it out with vicious fury.

Megidramon's eyes opened, glowing red. "Is that enough?"

"Yes." Just.

pulse

Another portion of the D-Reaper mass began rising, another Optimizer slowly appearing, breaking through the red chaos.

The sight of it caused a torrent of rage in Takato's and Guilmon's Hearts, which the two quickly tried to suppress.

It didn't even wait before it fully rose out before blue energy began to build in its mouth, charging up another beam.

"Not this time." Sakuyamon growled.

She gripped her Khakkhara, beginning to glow with a golden light.

"Amethyst Mandala." Sakuyamon breathed.

The light faded- and a golden ring appeared around the Optimizer Agent, quickly beginning to shrink.

The Optimizer glowed where the ring passed, its entire form shortly cast in bright, golden light.

And then, it disintegrated, falling apart into massive blobs of fading chaos.

Sakuyamon gasped, falling slightly before I caught her in tendrils of Darkness, holding her up in the air.

I grabbed her Khakkhara as it slipped out of her grasp, holding it up next to her.

"Okay, maybe this wasn't such a good idea." She rasped.

"Sakuyamon..." Megidramon came a bit closer. MegaGargomon also moved slightly closer, concerned.

"Don't say it." She coughed. "I can barely even..."

pulse

She looked up, seeing another three bulges appear in the D-Reaper mass.

"Damn it." She spat. "I can't move."

"Sakuyamon-"

"Shut up." She looked at him. "If I can't help out directly, then I'm going to do it indirectly."

She reached out, grabbing her staff, closing her eyes. "Megidramon, I'm going to give you my power. What's left of it, anyway."

"That's-"

"Shut up." She repeated. Her body began to glow, the golden light returning. "I'm doing this. Doesn't matter what you say."

She smirked.

Bright white light consumed her form, Sakuyamon disintegrating into Rika and Renamon, both of whom I quickly caught.

A golden ring of energy flew at Megidramon, phasing into his body.

A moment later, he too was consumed in bright, white light.

It faded after a moment- and what emerged was not Megidramon.

Clad in crimson, gold, silver and black armour; holding a white, ethereal sword in the right hand, and a white, ethereal lance in the left; with ten white, ethereal wings extending from his back.

Gallantmon Crimson Mode.

He turned in the air slightly, staring at the Optimizer Agents, which were even now rising into the air.

"Royal Saber." He swung the sword, releasing a slash of energy that shot out towards the Optimizers, spreading and cutting all three in half with ease.

For a few moments, he floated there, before turning back to Rika and Renamon.

"Are they alright?"

"They're fine." I noted. "Just unconscious."

He nodded.

"Now what?" MegaGargomon asked.

Gallantmon turned back to the D-Reaper. "I think I have an idea."

connection

His head tilted to the side. "Yamaki? Can you hear me?"

"Megidramon?" Yamaki's voice came, seemingly from nowhere. "How are you- Nevermind. What is it?"

"It's Gallantmon now." He spoke. "That program you mentioned; the one that was meant to connect all the instances of the D-Reaper together. Can you activate it?"

"What?" I heard the shock. "But we don't have a way to kill the D-Reaper yet, we can't-"

"I have an idea." Gallantmon interrupted. "Can you activate the program or not?"

"... We can." There was brief moment of hesitation. "You realised that if we activate it and whatever you're planning doesn't work, Humanity is doomed, yes?"

"I know." He held his arm out, red light beginning to gather around his lance.

For a second, nothing happened.

Connection.

"Done."