"Patamon, why is it so foggy?" TK asked as
the digimon and digidestined made their way through the city. With them
were Matt and Gabumon.
"Gee, I don't know TK," Patamon answered,
"But it sure is creepy."
"It must be Myotismon," Matt said, "only he
would do something this creepy and frightening."
"Yeah, you're probably right," TK said as
a somewhat familiar form came into view in the shadows. "What's that?!"
"It looks like a panther with somebody riding
it," Gabumon said as the form came closer.
"It's Alex and Star," Matt said, taking off
at a dead run towards the black panther and the young warrior.
"Matt, TK, Gabumon, Patamon," Star said as
he came to a screeching stop. Alex's body tumbled from his back, the bottle
of fire potion rolling on the ground. "Something's wrong with Alex."
"He looks bad," Matt said, "weak is an understatement."
"He caught one heck of a bad cold, and that
fire potion is what he used to keep his energy up," Star explained. Matt
picked up one of the bottle and read the contents.
"Well, he'll be ok with a little rest," Matt
said, a sigh of relief passing his lips, "The Gingsing in this drink will
help him to recharge his power. But what are you doing here?"
"Wish I knew," Star said, "one minute we're
out getting this drink, the next we're here.... it all happened so fast."
"What the heck hit me?" Alex moaned, rubbing
his head. He sat up a moment later, almost knocking TK from his feet. "Where
are the Bakémon?!"
"Shhhh... keep it down," Gabumon said in a
hushed tone, "we're trying to avoid them. Myotismon has cut the city off
from the outside world and he's searching for the eighth child."
"Who happens to be my sister Kari," another
familiar voice said from the fog. From the fog came Greymon, Tai and Kari
on his back. Tai and Kari dismounted as Greymon devolved back to Agumon.
"Ok, we have the eighth child," Matt said,
"but where are the others?"
"I don't know," Agumon said, "chances are
they're spread throughout the city or have been captured by Myotismon's
forces."
"We just have to hope for the best," Gabumon
said. "I know Izzy and Sora can take care of themselves, and Mimi and Joe
can come through in a pinch."
"Which means they'll be all right," Alex said
as he finished off one bottle of fire potion. A moment later he regained
his feet, though he was a little shaky for a moment, he managed to keep
his balance. "We need to find Myotismon and teach him a lesson."
"Any idea where he would be?" Patamon asked.
A sweatdrop formed on Alex's head.
"Hmmm...." Matt said, deep in thought, "If
Izzy were here he could think of a way to find our friends, Gatomon, and
then Myotismon, and do all that in a matter of a couple of hours. If we
scoured the city it would take us a really long time unless.... Say Alex,
do you have your pocket computer handy?"
"Um.... yeah. Why?"
"Can you lock on to other digivices for a
large radius?"
"I can try," Alex said as he pulled out his
computer and started typing at a fast and furious pace. A map appeared
over the screen, five red blips and four blue blips in one area. Small
green blips moved throughout the cityscape, and four more red blips appeared,
blue blips near them. In the center of the city scape was a large orange
blip surrounded by green blips with a blue blip. "The red blips indicate
us and the others, the blue blips indicate our digimon and my cat, the
green blips are lackies, and the big orange one is Myotismon himself."
"Wow," Kari said, "that blue blip must be
Gatomon." she said, pointing to the one near Myotismon.
"Yeah, and I hope for all our sakes she'll
be ok," TK said. "Do you think you can find our parents?"
"There are so many people concentrated in
several areas it's difficult to get a lock on any specific person," Alex
said, "Those two red blips there at that stadium or train station must
be Sora and Mimi. That one by the docks must be Joe, since Ikkakumon is
a water type animal. That one in the apartment center has got to be Izzy."
"But the blue blips don't correspond with
the red ones," Tai said in his simple manner. Alex zoomed in on the area
where Sora and Mimi were, a little more definition added. One red blip
was soaring through the sky on a blue blip, and one blue blip seemed very
weak near a red blip and both were surrounded by green blips.
"They correspond, but something is wrong,"
Matt said, "That's Ishida station, near where my dad works."
"But that's clear across town," TK said, "There's
no way we'll get there in time."
"When you have a sorcerer on your team, never
say never," Kari said, turning to Alex, "can you get us there Mister Alex?"
"I can try Kari," Alex said, a light blush
creeping across his face, "I can't tell her how weak I am, since she's
counting on me to save Gatomon and they need my help defeating Myotismon.
Yet something about her gives me the strength I need to work my spells."
"Technically that's the convention center,"
Izzy's voice said over the speakers in Alex's computer. Alex was so startled
he nearly fell onto his butt. "Nice to see you're online and functioning
again Alex."
"Um.... Izzy, is that red blip in the apartments
you?" Tai asked. A sweatdrop formed on the computer.
"Yes, that's me. I'm here with Tentamon and
my parents. Where are you guys?"
"We're currently someplace in the middle of
this fog bank and we're completely lost," Agumon said, "I don't know which
direction is which."
Alex sighed as he cast a Regen spell under
his breath. "Tai, you and Agumon follow me and Star to the convention center.
Kari, you stay here with Matt and Gabumon, and take my computer so you
can stay in touch with Izzy and the two of us. I'll use the remote hookup..."
he said before he broke into another fit of coughing. Kari handed him one
of the bottles of Fire Potion, which he took a swig from before clipping
the bottle to his belt. "As I was saying," he said, continuing, "I'll use
the remote hookup on my wristband to keep in touch with the others. Hopefully
we'll be able to take out the trash."
"Good luck," Matt said as Star increased in
size, turning into the Sphinx like creature he morphed into in the Digiworld.
"Thanks," Alex said as he leapt onto Star's
back before hauling Tai and Agumon up onto Star's back.
"Keep an eye on Kari," Tai shouted as Star
took off at high speed.
"Wait for us," TK shouted as he and Patamon
started running after Alex and Star, only to be caught in Matt's strong
grasp. "Hey, what did you do that for?"
"You'll be safer here," Matt said, looking
his little brother in the eyes. He smiled a moment later and added, "and
besides, we might need Angemon if any of the evil digimon come to take
Kari away."
Across town, in the convention center, the
Bakémon were terrorizing the people inside. Outside the convention
center Togemon was engaged in a battle with Black Tyranomon, which wasn't
going to well. In a last ditch effort Togemon digivolved into her ultimate
form of Lillymon. The plant pixie fluttered about with grace and style,
stunning Black Tyranomon with her Flower Cannon and bringing him back to
his senses with a floral wreath. Meanwhile a pair of Bakémon grabbed
Sora, only to reveal themselves as Sora's mother and Biyomon. In a flash
of light Biyomon digivolved into Birdramon and took to the air with Sora
in tow.
"Mimi!" Sora shouted as Birdramon soared through
the sky. Mimi looked up and waved, giving a victory sign to indicate Lillymon
had whipped Black Tyranomon into shape.
"Don't celebrate your victory just yet," a
mysterious voice said in such a way as to send chills racing up and down
the spine. Out of the fog bank emerged Myotismon in all his vampiric glory.
"Myotismon," Mimi gasped when she saw the
vampire, "eeewww..... those colors simply do not match."
"Now is not the time Mimi," Lillymon said
as she fluttered up to attack, "Flower.... CANNON!"
A beam cannon emerged from a large flower
bud in Lillymon's hands, charged for battle. A slug of some sort was fired
at Myotismon, which struck a force barrier and exploded into a rain of
flower petals. Myotismon grinned before striking at Lillymon with his Crimson
Lightning attack, which the pixie was able to dodge quite easily. Unfortunately
his Nightmare Claw attack put Lillymon out of commission. The pixie turned
a pale shade of gray before plummeting to the ground.
"Lillymon!" Mimi shouted as her digimon went
down for the count.
"Meteor Wing!" came from above as Birdramon
attacked Myotismon, distracting him long enough for her and Sora to swoop
down and pick up Lillymon to spirit her to safety.
"Mimi, be careful!" Sora called as she saw
her friend retreat into the convention center, "Birdramon, take us away
from here!"
The firebird sailed higher in the air, away
from Myotismon. Sora took her digivice and used it to track the others.
Seeing two in the same area she knew that some of her friends must have
found one another. She motioned to catch Birdramon's attention, then indicated
they should head for the warehouse section of the city. A small winged
bowling ball was hot on their trail, trying to figure where they were going.
Once it knew Sora was returning to the warehouses it flew back to Myotismon,
who was terrorizing the townspeople in the convention center.
"Hey boss, I have some juicy information for
you!" the bowling ball said.
"What is it Demidevimon?" Myotismon asked,
"Can't you see I'm trying to extract some important information?!"
"But that Sora girl is heading for the warehouse
section of the city, and I'm sure we could find the eighth child and some
of the other digidestined where she's going."
Myotismon tossed the person he was "questioning"
into a nearby fountain and turned to fly towards where Birdramon was flying.
"Demidevimon, take care of the humans while I'm gone," Myotismon instructed
as he left.
"I won't let you down boss," Demidevimon said
as he fluttered down into the convention center. There he hypnotized the
townspeople and put them into a sleepy trance. The only person who wasn't
affected by this was Mimi, who was protected by her crest.
Elsewhere in the city Alex and Tai were racing
for the convention center at breakneck speed atop Star. From different
points in the city they recieved tactical data from Izzy and Sora through
the communication channel. Anything tha got in their way wound up being
fried by Agumon's Pepper Breath, erased by an Elmekia Lance, or hit with
Star's prisim beam and turned into something less dangerous, like a piece
of trash they could easily drop in a waste basket.
"How much further to the convention center?"
Alex shouted so his words wouldn't be carried away by the wind.
"Not too much further," Tai responded, "If
I remember correctly it's another three or four blocks."
From the fog before them came a swarm of Bakémon,
who apparently were on guard duty since their first reaction when they
saw the sphinx creature was one of surprise. Their second reaction was
to form a wall to keep the creature before them from passing. Star skidded
to a stop, almost throwing his passengers from his back. Alex flipped from
the back of his mount, a sphere of greenish black energy forming in his
hand as he chanted a spell under his breath.
"Virul Blade!" he shouted, a sword forming
as he grasped the sphere. One Bakémon was cleaved in half with the
blade, infecting those the pieces touched with the same biological problem
the blade caused, which was a very powerful cold germ. Within moments the
entire group of Bakémon was infected, and the moment following they
all spontaniously combusted, leaving digital ashes to drift to the ground.
Once the obstacle was over come Star charged on. Alex leapt up to catch
hold of part of the armor, and then swung himself back onto his seat. From
that point on there was little, if no meaningful resistance given from
the evil forces. They eventually reached the convention center, finding
Mimi at the entrance, huddled in a ball and crying her eyes out. Tai, Alex,
and Agumon dismounted from Star, who shrank to cat size and ran to Mimi's
side.
"Don't cry Mimi," Star said, leaping onto
her shoulder and snuggling beneath her light brown hair, "we're here now."
"What's wrong Mimi"? Alex asked, crouching
next to her. 'She must have been asleep when something pulled her from
her slumber,' he thought, noting her pink pajamas and pink slippers.
"Guys, my parents," she said, wiping a tear
from her eye, "they're asleep and I can't wake them."
"We'll save them and all of the other people
who are here," Tai said, "we know who the eighth child is."
"And we should probably be heading back to
her and Matt and TK," Alex said as Star morphed back into being a large
sphinx creature. He hopped onto Star's back, pulling Mimi, Tai, and Agumon
on before Star took off like a rocket, leaving a trail of dust as he ran.
As they neared the warehouse where they left
Kari, TK, and Matt, more and more Bakémon attacked the group, these
ones not falling as easily as those before them.
"This could mean one thing," Alex said as
he fired off a Burst Rondo.
"They've found where Kari is and these guys
are stalling us," Tai said. Alex nodded.
At the warehouse Kari, Matt, and TK were pacing
about, waiting for Tai and Alex to return. Every few minutes Matt would
check the time on his digivice, grumble something, and continue pacing.
TK and Kari would look at one another, shrug, and continue on their trajectories.
A couple of minutes later Sora's voice came over the digivices.
"Hey guys, look up," she said. Matt and TK
ran outside in time to see Birdramon land, releasing the stone cold Lillymon
before folding her wings behind her back. Sora ran to greet the brothers,
a lot on her mind.
"Guys, Myotismon has most of the people in
the area in his grasp," she said, "They're being held at the convention
center."
"Did you see Tai and Alex?" Matt asked. Sora
shook her head to indicate a negative response.
"I didn't know Alex was in town."
"He's here," TK said as he ran up to Sora
and hugged her knees, "him and Star are back and they said they would help
us to fight Myotismon. Isn't that wonderful?"
"A pity he isn't here now," a ghastly voice
said from above. The humans and their digimon looked up to see Phantomon
and a couple of Bakémon floating above and looking smug with themselves.
"Give us the eighth child and we'll let you
go free."
"Never!" Matt said, "We'll never relinquish
the eighth child to the likes of you!"
"Then you shall be destroyed," Phantomon said
as two portals opened, a large praying mantis coming from one, a wasp type
from the other. "Meet Snimon and Stingmon."
"They just had to be insects, didn't they?"
Patamon said as he and TK hid with Kari in the shadows.
"Time to digivolve," Gabumon said, "Gabumon
digivolve to...... Garurumon!"
The small dog like creature was surrounded
by a globe of light, and from that came a large wolf - like creature. The
wolf dove at Stingmon, its teeth clamping around the three foot stinger.
Stingmon swung its body about, smashing Garurumon into buildings and whatnot
until the wolf released its grip.
"Birdramon, digivolve!" Sora shouted as Snimon
began attacking the firebird. Sora's crest glowed, beginning the transformation
to the ultimate level.
"Birdramon digivolve to.... Garudamon!"
Flames sweapt about the firebird, and from
the flames came a winged bird - man. Garudamon met Snimon head on, only
to have the praying mantis strike hard enough to smash Garudamon into the
side of the building.
"Garurumon!" Matt shouted as his digimon was
smashed into objects.
"Garudamon!" Sora cried as Snimon attacked
her digimon.
"It chokes you up, doesn't it?" Phantomon
said, snapping a chain so that it wrapped about Matt's throat. Matt struggled
against the tightening chain to gasp for breath.
'They're getting hurt to protect me,'
Kari thought as she stepped from the shadows to see the whole picture.
Sora had since taken some comfort and safety in Lillymon's cold arms, and
also tried to protect Mimi's digimon. Garurumon was being bashed about
and stung by Stingmon. Snimon was lashing out at Garudamon, crushing her
deeper into the wall. Matt was beginning to turn blue due to a lack of
oxygen.
"Kari, come back," Patamon said before a couple
of Bakémon attacked him.
"STOP!" Kari screamed at the top of her lungs,
"STOP FIGHTING! THAT'S ENOUGH!"
Complete silence followed this outburst, as
there was a cease to motion as well. Kari took a couple of tentative steps
forward. "I'll go with you peacefully."
"You would give your life for these others?"
Phantomon said, releasing the chain from around Matt's throat and watching
the digidestined drop to his knees. Snimon and Stingmon backed off from
attacking Garurumon and Garudamon, and the Bakémon that were attacking
Patamon backed off as well.
"Kari!" Patamon shouted.
"Don't go with them!" Sora shouted as Kari
was enveloped in a bubble by Phantomon. The bubble rapidly rose and stopped
when it was before Phantomon.
"Oh man!" Matt growled as Phantomon floated
off with Kari in tow, "Tai is going to flip when he finds out they got
his sister!"
As Alex and Star fought off the army of Bakémon,
Tai and Agumon took care of finding locations for the other digidestined,
thanks to Alex's wrist computer.
"Matt and TK are with Sora now," Agumon said
as he looked at the readouts.
"And Mimi is with us," Tai said, "which leaves
Izzy still left in the city somewhere."
From the battle field came a shout of, "Mega
BRANDO!" before several large explosions rocked the area. Tai and Mimi
peered out from around the corner to see Alex and Star giving victory signs,
most of the Bakémon gone. Those that remained ran like their after
lives depended on it.
"We got 'em!" Star exclaimed as he hopped
onto Alex's shoulder.
"We taught them not to mess with us!" Alex
cheered as he watched the Bakémon flee in terror. As he watched,
something caught his gaze.
"Tai, toss me my computer," he said. Tai tossed
it, baseball style, and Alex caught it and clipped it to his wrist in one
continuous motion. "Now let's see what we have here."
The computer generated image was fuzzy at
first, but gradually came into focus. When he saw who it was he cross examined
the trajectory with a map of the city.
"This is bad," he said when he saw the blip
moving towards the center of the fog bank, "they have Kari and now they're
heading for Myotismon."
"Say WHAT?!" Mimi exclaimed in Alex's ear.
Alex fell over, his ears ringing from the girl's high pitched shriek. Mimi
also fell over, landing in Tai's arms.
"They got Kari, didn't they?" Tai asked. Alex
and Star nodded gravely. "We have to go and save her."
"At least she'll be with Gatomon," Agumon
said, trying to comfort his human counterpart.
Star grew into the giant sphinx again and
the group piled on. The sphinx took off like a shot, smoke curling in his
wake. As they rocketed through the city Alex tapped into the communications
network in an attempt to contact the others.
"This is Alex to all digidestined in range
of this transmission," he said, "Tai, Mimi, Agumon, Star, and myself are
in persuit of what we believe to be Kari and Phantomon. According to all
tactical data they are heading for the local tv station, which appears
to be the source of the fog bank. Meet us there as fast as you can."
Once the transmission ended a separate line
opened up on Alex's communication system.
"This is Izzy and Tentamon," the voice said
as Izzy's image blinked onto the screen, "We're at the station right now
and Matt's and TK's father is here as well. No sign of Myotismon... yet,
but if we see him we'll keep you posted. Izzy out."
As the sphinx continued on its way Mimi tried
to figure out who was missing from their group.
"Let's see," she said, "I'm with Tai and Agumon.
Sora, Matt, and TK are with their Digimon and Lillymon. Alex and Star are
here. Kari and Gatomon are with... " she shuddered, "Myotismon, which leaves
Izzy who is with Tentamon and Matt's and TK's dad, and.... JOE!"
"Joe?" Alex and Tai said, "We're missing Joe?!"
Mimi nodded.
"Why didn't we realize this sooner?" Alex
asked, "We're missing one of the digidestined and we're going against Myotismon!"
"Just calm down," Agumon said, "I'm sure Joe
can take care of himself. Besides. he has Gomamon with him and those two
make a dynamic duo."
Outside of the city, in the bay, a large and
very furry aquatic mammal was making its way through the water at a fairly
steady pace. Seated atop its back was a young man whose wardrobe screamed
"bookworm".
'This is just great,' Joe thought as
Ikkakumon sailed across the bay, 'I go out of town for a day and when
I try to get home the city is under seige and there is a pea soup fog surrounding
it. I know there is trouble, and I know I'm needed, but why did everything
have to break down at a time like this?'
At that moment Ikkakumon reached the bridge
leading into the city. As the fog swirled away an evil digimon by the name
of Megaseadramon came into view, wrapped around the bridge like a snake
around its dinner.
"This could be trouble Joe," Ikkakumon said
to warn his partner of possible turbulance, "Just hold on tight and leave
everything to me."
The aquatic mammal held its head so that the
horn was pointing at Megaseadramon. "Harpoon Torpedo!" The horn launched
from his head in a puff of smoke, split open in mid air, and sent forth
a guided missile, which struck Megaseadramon. Ikkakumon fired off several
more of these projectiles, and all of them struck the sea monster, but
when the smoke cleared Megaseadramon was still there.
“I hate when this happens!” Joe wailed as
Ikkakumon barely dodged MegaSeadramon’s lightning attack. The second bolt
was on target and dumped Joe into the water.
‘Just great,’ Joe thought as he began
to go down for the count, ‘the others need my help and I’m stuck here.
It’s part of my responsibility to be there for the others.’
Joe’s crest of responsibility glowed, initiating
his digimon’s ultimate transformation.
“Ikkakumon..... digivolve to.... Zudamon!”
A wave washed over Ikkakumon and from the
resulting waterspout came a creature that resembled some sort of turtle.
A hammer formed in its right hand, lightning crackling around it. The creature
dipped its hand into the water and fished out a half drowned Joe, who blinked
a few times to get his bearings.
“Wow, I now have my own ultimate digimon,”
Joe said as he climbed onto Zudomon’s back.
“That’s right,” Zudomon said, “now just hold
on tight and I’ll get you into town safely.”
MegaSeadramon used its lightning attack, expecting
to toast Zudomon with one shot. However, Zudomon used its horn like a lightning
rod, channeling the electricity through its body and out into the water.
“Vulcan’s Hammer!”
Zudamon brought his hammer down, striking
MegaSeadramon in the head and knocking it unconscious. MegaSeadramon unravlled
itself from the bridge before sinking into the water. With the threat neutralized
the ulitmate digimon turned and swam into the break in the fog that the
battle had created.
“Hey Alex, Tai, you still there?” Izzy’s voice
crackled over the communication’s network that had been set up.
“We’re here, but a tad bit occupied,” Alex
said as he ducked and dodged the attacks of some of the larger digimon
they were encountering, “what’s happening computer wiz?”
“I’m picking up Joe’s digivice on the map,
and he’s heading into the city by the bay,” Izzy explained.
“Just as I expected,” Agumon said as he belched
a few fireballs at the small army of Bakemon that were heading their way,
“Gomamon digivolved into Ikkakumon in order to get Joe to us.”
“Is Myotismon still at the tv station in the
center of the city?” Alex asked, launching a few of his own fireballs at
several large insect digimon.
“That he is. According to my calculations,
you should be within ten blocks of that location right now.” Izzy replied.
“What about Sora and Matt and TK?” Mimi asked
as she dodged the swipes of one of the insect type digimon. Star moved
in behind the insect and utilized a prism beam, sending the insect to bug
heaven.
“They’re ten blocks away on the other side
of the station.”
“And where are you located?” Tai asked as
he ducked and covered moments before Agumon belched a few more fireballs,
striking down the insect that was attacking Tai.
“Currently I’m at the tv station with Matt’s
and TK’s father, so right now everything is just prodigious.”
“We’re slowly pulling ourselves together,”
Star said as his body shape shifted to a young man with long black hair,
friendly green eyes, and a wardrobe that consisted of a black shirt, tight
black jeans, black boots, and a black leather jacket. In his hand formed
a longsword with a twin crescent pommal. Mimi took one look at him and
her eyes turned to hearts.
“Um... Mimi... now is NOT the time to be drooling
over my guardian,” Alex said as he fired off a Rune Flare, which took out
the remaining insect digimon in the area. “Izzy, we have this area clear.
Can you give us a reading on how many more evil digimon we have to face?”
“According to my calculations, the only ones
that remain are surrounding the tv station,” Izzy replied, “they’re acting
like a guard brigade or a force wall or something.”
“That’ll get us there even faster,” Tai said
as he took off towards the tv station.
“Be careful Tai.”
“We’ll see you in a few,” Alex said as the
connection ended.
Across the city the other digidestined saw
the Rune Flare and began to converge towards the source. Sora and TK rode
in Garudamon’s claws, one of which held the still stone cold Lillymon.
Matt hopped onto Garurumon’s back and followed Garudamon toward the flash
of light. Joe was still out on the water on Zudamon when something bumped
up against the digimon’s giant shell. At first he thought it was just debris,
but it turned out to be a digimon dressed like a spell caster.
“I must.... get this to.... Kari,” the digimon
said, holding a crest and tag that glowed a faint pink.
“Kari?” Joe said, “Then that would mean that
she’s the eighth child that everyone is looking for.”
“We already knew that Joe,” Tai’s voice said
over his digivice, “right now Myotismon has her and Gatomon and we’re on
our way to his home base.”
“Is that what the bright flash of light was
about?” Joe asked.
“Yup,” Alex’s voice said, “that was li’l ol’
me, your friendly neighborhood spellcaster. Please hurry. We’re going to
need everyone’s help with this one.”
“I’m on my way, and I have someone with me
who might help,” Joe said before Zudamon increased its speed. ‘They’re
all counting on me again. I guess I really am reliable and responsible.’
A short time later the group pulled itself
together in front of the local TV station, quite a few of the digimon in
their Ultimate forms. Izzy and Tentamon met the others outside of the station,
where they explained the current situation.
“Mytoismon should be on the roof,” Izzy said,
“and he has Gatomon and Kari up there.”
“And that leaves few options left for us,”
Tai said, “should we go up there and knock his lights out or wait here
for a better plan?”
“We should go up there and hit him where it
counts,” Alex said as he began to cast a levitation spell.
“Woah, hold on there a minute mister spell
thrower,” Izzy said as he opened his laptop, “there are a few things you
need to know before you go flying into this mess. First, Myotismon has
Kari and Gatomon in an energy bubble, which means he can easily propel
them out into the open and drop them so that none of us can get to them
in time. Secondly, we don’t know the full extent of his powers, so your
spells may or may not work. Thirdly, he’s got an entire army of Bakemon
backing him up, plus Phantomon and who knows how many other incredibly
large digimon behind him.”
“Don’t we have Angemon and Garudamon and Zudomon
and Lillymon....”
“I almost forgot about Lillymon,” Sora said
as Garudamon set the stone cold Lillymon onto the ground, “she took the
brunt of one of Myotismon’s attack and she’s, well, ice cold.”
“I think I have someone who can help,” Joe
said as he rode in on Zudomon, another digimon resting on the back of the
giant turtle creature. Zudomon bent down so that Joe and the other digimon
could hop off.
“Isn’t he one of Myotismon’s informants?”
Tai asked as Agumon digivolved to Greymon.
“No, he’s a friend,” Joe said, “he brought
us the crest and tag belonging to Kari, and I’m sure he can help Lillymon.”
The digimon had since crouched down next to
Lillymon and had cast a spell. A moment later Lillymon sat up, the color
returning to her body. “Wizardmon,” she said, “what the heck happened?
Where’s Mimi?”
“I’m here for you Lillymon,” Mimi said as
she stepped to the front and embraced the plant pixie. She turned to Wizardmon,
tears in her eyes, “Thank you Wizardmon. You saved Lillymon.”
“Well, I think we’re back at full fighting
capacity,” Star said, drawing attention to himself, since he was still
in human form. “Umm.... remember me, the guardian.... I sorta digivolved
myself.”
“We can talk about this later,” Matt said,
“right now we have MAJOR troubles going on up on the top floor.”
A pair of portals opened, bringing forth a
pair of Kuwangamon with nasty dispositions. Garudamon leapt into action,
followed by Garurumon, who digivolved into WereGarurumon, Greymon, who
digivolved into MetalGreymon, and Zudomon.
“Get inside and save Kari,” WereGarurumon
shouted as he and the other two digimon leapt into battle.
“What about you?” Matt shouted back.
“We’ll take care of things down here,” MetalGreymon
replied, “Now GO!”
The digidestined humans and the smaller digimon
ran up several flights of stairs, Wizardmon hopping onto Mr. Ishida’s back
since he was still weak from being dragged out of the river. When they
reached the top floor they could see Myotismon standing atop the building,
laughing it up with Phantomon and DemiDevimon. The humans remained as quiet
as possible, listening in on their conversation.
“We’re growing ever closer to ruling this
world,” Myotismon said, “and with the eighth child in our possession the
digidestined can’t do anything.”
“We’ll see about that,” Patamon said a little
too loud. The three evil digimon turned around and faced the group. “Um...
hello.”
“Unless you give up we’ll destroy your precious
Kari and her digimon,” Myotismon said, waving his hand so that the bubble
floated about one hundred meters into the air.
“Tai!” Kari shouted, “Don’t worry about me
Tai. Just defeat that batface!”
“Time to digivolve,” Tentamon said as he and
Patamon moved to the front line, “Tentamon digivolve to.... Kabuterimon!”
“Patamon digivolve to.... Angemon!”
“Kabuterimon digivolve to.... MegaKabuterimon!”
An angel and a large brown bug erupted from
where the smaller digimon were only moments earlier. From the side of the
building came Garudamon, MetalGreymon, WereGarurumon, and Zudomon, all
of whom stopped when they saw the predicament that everyone else was in.
“This does not look good for anyone,” Izzy
said as Lillymon sailed past his head, “if my calculations are correct
then we’re in for the fight of our life.”
“We’ll take care of Kari and Gatomon,” Alex
said as he cast Ray Wing, sailing over Myotismon’s head. When the vampire
lord tried to strike out he found Star’s sword deflecting his attack.
“Never mess with my charge,” Star said before
leaping into the air, his sword above his head. He quickly regretted it
thanks to a bolt of crimson lightning that sent him flying through the
observation deck and out into the stairwell.
“Stop the spell caster,” Myotismon bellowed
as he dodged and dispelled the attacks of the other digimon.
“Mister Alex,” Kari shouted as Alex neared
the bubble. A moment later the bubble popped, sending Kari and Gatomon
in a downward spiral.
“Kari! Gatomon!” Alex shouted as he dove as
fast as he could, first catching hold of Kari’s hand, then catching Gatomon
by the back of her neck and coming in for a landing on a nearby rooftop.
“Well, we’re safe,” Gatomon said, “and this
kitty’s about ready to use bat for brains as a scartching post.”
“You’re not doing anything without this,”
Wizardmon shouted as he hurled Kari’s crest and tags across the chasm.
Gatomon leapt into the air, catching hold of the crest before being caught
by the little girl.
“Thank you Wizardmon,” Gatomon called as Kari
put the crest around her neck, “now we just need that digivice and I can
digivolve.”
“Coming right at you,” Tai shouted as he pitched
the best he could, the tiny digivice sailing through the air and into Kari’s
hand. A moment later Kari’s crest glowed, beginning Gatomon’s digivolution.
“Gatomon digivolve to..... Angewomon.”
Alex and the others looked at Angewomon and
blinked, since another angellic being usually meant something BIG was going
to happen. Myotismon was rather tied up with other things at the moment,
since the other digimon were busy attacking him head on.
“We gotta get you to safety,” Star said as
he came up beside them, his clothes a little worse off for wear. He lifted
Kari onto his shoulders and headed for the stairwell of the building they
were on. “Alex,” he called back, “take care of TK, since Angemon has yet
to reach his Ultimate form.”
“Right,” Alex said as he leapt across the
chasm, dodging any fire that came his way.
“You’re not going anywhere you brat,” DemiDevimon
said as he flapped into Alex’s path, “You are going to pay for making me
look bad.”
“Outta my way,” Alex said as he stuffed a
fireball in DemiDevimon’s mouth and watched as the winged bowling ball
got a major case of heartburn. With a Ray Wing in effect he picked TK up
and took him to a lower level of the building, where they could watch the
battle from a safe distance.
When things began to get too hairy, Alex turned
to TK and said, “I believe in the powers that all of you possess, but we
really need the power of hope more than anything right now.”
“What do you mean Mister Alex?” TK asked,
his eyes shining with youth and innocence.
“What I mean is you have some magical power
imbued in you that we could really use right now in this battle.”
As Alex said that he unclipped his pentacle
talisman from around his neck, “I want for you to take this and wear it.”
“But Mister Alex,” TK said as Alex clipped
it around his neck, “won’t you need it yourself?”
“Not particularly,” Alex replied as his gauntlets
with six of the Chaos Emeralds formed around his wrists and his sword which
held the seventh gem appeared on his back. “My Chaos Emeralds work just
fine for spell casting.”
As he said that Weregarurumon crashed through
the wall next to them. The pair looked out a nearby window to see Myotismon
duking it out with most of the other Digimon. Angemon and Angewomon tried
their own attacks on the vampire lord, only to have them proven ineffective.
One swat with a bolt of crimson lightning slammed the pair of angels into
the side of a building, rendering them inactive.
“Angemon!” TK cried, the crest of Hope and
the talisman glowing, “Mister Alex, what spell shall we use?”
“Just follow my lead,” Alex said, assuming
the starting position for his favorite spell. TK followed suit. “Repeat
the words after me.”
TK nodded and Alex closed his eyes to start
the spell. “Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows.”
Alex chanted.
“... crimson beyond blood that flows...” TK
chanted, following Alex’s moves for the spell.
“Buried in the stream of time is where...”
A bolt of crimson lightning tore through the
window, wrapping around Alex and pulling him out of the building. Star
tried to cut him free, but a second bolt tossed the sphinx through a building
as well.
“Mister Alex!” TK shouted, “How does the rest
of the spell go?!”
“Forget the Dragon Slave,” Alex shouted, “Matt
would never forgive me if I taught you that one.”
“The Dragon Slave?” TK asked, recalling a
long hidden memory, ‘I remember a shojo anime, with a powerful sorceress
named.... Lilly, who traveled with her sidekick named Garren. She had one
big spell that could blow away any big monster who got in her way... almost
any big monster. Maybe it’ll help me out here.’
“Hey you ugly pile of bat skin,” TK shouted,
getting both Phantomon’s and Myotismon’s attention.
“A small brat dares to talk to us like that?”
Myotismon said, outraged that one so small could be so disrespectful.
‘I get one shot, and then I end up like
the others,’ TK thought as he prepared to cast his own spell. “Light
beyond dawnslight, gold beyond sunlight that flows. Buried in the stream
of time is where your power grows...”
“That spell...” Myotismon gasped, dropping
Alex to a rooftop below him. “Phantomon, stop him before he finishes casting
the spell!”
“Yes master,” Phantomon said, moving towards
TK at an incredible rate, only to be delayed by Lillymon and Angewomon.
“TK, finish casting the spell,” Lillymon shouted
as she fired her Flower Cannon at Phantomon.
“I pledge myself to punish all the fools who
stand before the mighty gift bestowed to my all to worthy hands...”
A large sphere of golden energy formed above
TK’s head as he chanted the spell. Lillymon and Angewomon grabbed Phantomon
and hurled him into Myotismon the same moment that Alex cast a Flow Break
around the pair.
“Do it TK,” Alex shouted, “finish casting
it!”
“Demon SLAYER!” TK shouted, bringing the sphere
before his body. The sphere exploded into a beam which vaporized Phantomon
on contact and weakened Myotismon, not to mention slammed him through a
building. Myotismon crawled from the hole a moment later, just in time
to have a pair of glittering purple dice explode in his face, a blizzard
forming and enveloping him.
“How? How were you able to wound me?” the
vampire king asked as he struggled to his feet, snow falling from his shoulders.
“Let’s just say you underestimated your opponants,”
Alex said as he floated up to the same level as Myotismon. “Simply put,
you snooze, you lose.”
“Why you little...” Myotismon said, preparing
to attack, “Grisley...”
“Heaven’s CHARGE!”
Angewomon created a pocket dimension which
gave her access to incredible power. TK fired another Demon Slayer spell
into the pocket, which joined the attacks of the Digimon. Once the power
level was sufficient Angewomon commenced her attack.
“Celestial Arrow!”
A bow formed off of Angewomon’s left glove,
which she notched with an arrow comprised of light and celestial power.
She released the arrow, which pierced Myotismon’s evil heart and vaporized
him in a flash of light. The digimon digivolved to either their rookie
or in - training forms and their human counterparts joined them on the
ground.
“Did we get him?” Alex asked as he finished
his third bottle of fire potion.
“Nothing on the astral plane,” Star said,
his form now that of a small kitten, “I hope we got him.”
“So do I,” Patamon said from atop TK’s head,
“I don’t know how much more we can take.”
“I don’t know how many more times I can fire
off the Demon Slayer,” TK said through a yawn, “I’m tired.”
“I think we all are,” Matt said, “that battle
took a lot out of us,” he added, looking at the now sleeping Gabumon.
“Time to go Kari,” Tai said as he looked to
his little sister, who was staring at the sky, “what’s wrong?”
“The fog,” Kari said, “it hasn’t lifted yet.”
The others looked to the sky, only to see
it still blocked out by a thick mass of clouds.
“If we didn’t get him, where did he go?” Yohkomon
asked from Sora’s arms.
“We’ll think better in the morning,” Matt
and TK’s father said. “There might be a room at a nearby motel for you
kids and your digimon to rest for the night and in the morning we’ll search
the city for Myotismon and find your parents.”
A round of yawns rose from the group as they
walked towards the nearest hotel, which was a couple of blocks from the
scene of the battle. As they walked off a stray bat flitted down and alighted
on Myotismon’s creepy mask, turning into energy which was absorbed into
the mask. A pair of eerie red eyes glowed from the mask, beginning the
resurrection of the undead king.
To Be Continued....