Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Connections Revealed ❯ Catalyst Reborn part 1 ( Chapter 14 )

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CATALYST REBORN PART 1: A NEW MODE FOR GALLANTMON

BY HOWLING WOLF

Takato found himself running from several shadowy figures. Every way Takato turned more shadows appeared. Takato felt a wave of panic as the shadows revealed themselves to be digimon. Horribly twisted and deformed digimon that surrounded Takato in every direction.

"What do you want from me?" asked Takato.

A single word seemed to echo from all of the digimon. A word that made Takato shiver in fear.

"Murderer! Murderer!"

"What? No! I haven't killed any one." Protested Takato.

"Liar! Killer, destroyer! You shall pay for your crimes. We will never allow you to have peace."

"Aghhh!" Takato screamed waking up.

Gasping, Takato looked around him wildly. For a moment Takato did not recognized where he was. Slowly though he realized that he was back in the Kamiyas' apartment. Sweat ran down Takato's body as he tried to regain some control of his breathing. It had just been a dream, a really intense dream.

The room was suddenly thrown into chaos as Rika, Henry, Tai, and Kari came rushing inside. Seeing Takato was awake Rika instantly glomped him. Henry merely smiled, glad that his friend was back with them.

"Uh, Rika how did I get here? The last thing I remember doing was talking to Chatsuramon." Asked Takato.

"You fainted goggle head. I could believe it either. I mean you can face Daemon without flinching, but put you with a deva and you faint. Honestly." Teased Rika.

"Chatsuramon let us go without a fight?" questioned Takato.

Tai shook his head. "No. It was Azulongmon that let us go. He said something about wanting to talk to that Chatsuramon in private."

The Digital World…

Chatsuramon glared at Azulongmon in pure distain. He had been so close to recapturing the catalyst for lord Zhuqiaomon. But now thanks to Azulongmon's interfering that humans had once again escaped the devas' righteous anger. Luckily his fellow devas were already in the real world. They would search out these so called `tamers' and bring the catalyst back to the digital world.

"Azulongmon why do you interfere with our mission? Without the catalyst the chaos is sure to destroy the digital world." Said Chatsuramon.

"I am well aware of the threat the chaos posses to us. However a new complication has arisen besides that of Daemon." Said Azulongmon.

"It doesn't matter. We devas, shall do what you and your digidestined should have done. And that is bring back the catalyst no matter what!" Chatsuramon said.

Watching Chatsuramon walk away, Azulongmon sighed. Now he had three things to worry about. And at the top of them was what would happen when Takato learns the truth about Megidramon. `And heaven help us when he does.'

The real world, Southern Quadrant…

Yamaki watched the news with little interest. It had been a week and there still had not been any word from Henry or any of the others. He and the monster makers were getting extremely worried. Needless to say that he wasn't popular with Rika's family at the moment either.

Sitting home at his apartment was something Yamaki was not used to doing. But until they heard something from the tamers there was nothing anyone could do at the moment. Shaking his head Yamaki turned his attention to the stack of data that sat in front of him. Dolphin had said that he thought something strange was happening to the digital world and he wanted Yamaki's opinion. Reading over the data Dolphin had recorded Yamaki frowned. It had to be wrong, it just wasn't possible. Going over the data carefully Yamaki knew that it was no mistake. Something strange was happening to the digital world alright, it was being destroyed.

Real World, Eastern Quadrant…

Kazu and Kenta had decided to spend their time in the Eastern Quadrant exploring. It was hard to believe that they were now in their favorite TV show. Although seeing all this was exciting, the real reason Kazu and Kenta were wandering the streets was to take their minds off Takato.

Kazu would never admit it but seeing his friend turn into a huge drooling monster of destruction had scared the shit out of him. He did not even want to think what Kenta thought about the whole situation. In fact at the moment Kazu didn't want to think period.

Like Kazu, Kenta had walked in complete silence. Stuffing his hands into his jacket Kenta jumped as he felt something move against his hand. Quickly he pulled his hands free. A small pink flying digimon popped out of his pocket, causing Kenta to shriek.

Kazu looked over at his friend annoyed. "Hey duffus what's wrong? Whoa! Where did that digimon come from?"

"My jacket pocket, and there was this as well." Kenta said holding up a d-arc. "I think he's my partner."

"Oh man that's just not fair. How come you get a digimon before I do?" complained Kazu.

Kenta looked at his new partner with a frown. He was thrilled to have his own digimon, but Kenta did not recognize the type of digimon his partner was. Holding up his new d-arc Kenta watched as the digimon analyzer told him what he wanted to know.

Marinangemon, Level: Mega, Attacks: Kahuna Waves.

This digimon might be small, but it packs quite a punch.

Kenta grinned widely at the now even more shocked Kazu.

"He's… He's a…" Kazu stuttered dumbly.

"He's a mega. I have a mega digimon for my partner." Kenta finished for his friend.

Before either of them could decide what to next a digital field covered the street black they were standing on. Nervously the two slowly backed away. Even though they now had a digimon with them both boys knew that digital fields could mean trouble.

A few blocks away Davis and Veemon were on their way home when they saw a strange fog appear out of nowhere.

"Veemon where did this fog come from?" asked Davis.

"I don't know Davish. But it feelsh really weird. Itsh almost like we're in the digital world." Veemon said.

Davis looked at his friend in surprise. He had never heard of such a phenomenon before. Deciding to investigate the fog Davis stepped forward with Veemon quickly following. They had not taken five steps when Davis bumped into Kenta and Kazu.

"Oaf. Hey watch it." Kazu said before seeing whom it was he and Kenta had backed into.

"Kazu its Davis and Veemon." Said Kenta.

"What are you guys doing here?" asked Davis.

Kenta looked around quickly. "Right now we're trying to get out of this digital field."

This caught Davis' attention. He and the other digidestined had heard Takato's description of what a digital field was, but Davis never thought he would actually see one. His awe was soon forgotten as Davis realized that Kenta and Kazu kept looking around nervously.

A loud crash caused all five to jump. Kazu looked to his left where the noise had come from. A large figure was coming towards them. As the figure came closer Kazu realized that it was two digimon instead of just one.

Davis could help but gasp as he saw an Andromon crash into the ground before de-digivolving into Guardromon. Kazu rushed over to the injured digimon.

"Hey are you all right?" asked Kazu.

The Guardromon made no reply except to push Kazu out of the way as lightning struck the fallen digimon.

"Hey!" Kazu shouted as a rooster like digimon flew above them.

"Who is that?" asked Davis.

Veemon shook his head. The digimon didn't look like anyone he had seen before. Kenta raised his d-arc and frowned when all he got was static. But after a minute the digimon's data appeared.

Sinduramon-Exalted Beast, Level-Ultimate data type, Attacks-Positron Pulse and Puyavaha. Watch out for this digimon's shocking personality.

Kenta couldn't believe it, another deva! One that was getting ready to attack his best friend. Kenta's face suddenly became serious.

"Marineangemon!" Kenta said.

The small mega nodded as he rushed forward. Not to be forgotten Davis digivolved Veemon to his champion form.

Back at the Kamiyas' apartment…

Takato rested his arms on the back of the chair he was sitting in as he stared at Rika. Rika merely returned his stare. Tai kept looking back and forth between the two of them. He couldn't believe how stubborn Takato was being.

"Come on Takato tell me." Said Rika.

Takato shook his head. "No. It was just a nightmare Rika. I'm fine."

"Than it must have been some nightmare. We all woke up to your screaming. I thought you were being murdered!" snorted Rika.

Takato paled at Rika's choice of words. An assortment of images from his dream flashed through Takato's mind. Suddenly shivering Takato gripped the chair's back hard.

Tai and Rika both noticed Takato's reaction and looked at their friend in worry. Rika was especially worried; she had never seen Takato so pale. Except during the time Devimon had tried to take over Takato's body.

"Hey Takato are you all right?" asked Tai.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Takato said taking a deep breath.

Rika kept staring at Takato in concern. Although he had regained some of his color back Takato still looked ill. Before she could get Takato to admit the truth Kari came rushing in from the balcony.

"Tai there's a strange fog covering a block of the city." Kari said.

The word fog caught both Takato and Rika's attention. "Fog." They both said at the same time. Both were thinking the same thing, a digital field!

"Think it could be another deva?" asked Rika.

Takato shrugged. "I don't know, but let's hope not."

"Um excuse me but what are the two of you talking about?" asked Kari.

"Well we think that the fog you saw might be a digital field." Said Takato.

"And if it is then that means one or more of the devas might come through it." Added Rika.

"How do you know it couldn't be some other digimon and not a deva?" Tai asked.

"Simple, only digimon from the Southern Quadrant can use the digital field to enter the real world." Said Takato.

Rika looked at her boyfriend in surprise.

"How did you know that Takato?" she asked.

"I'm not sure, Rika, I just do. The knowledge must have come from when I merged with Guilmon." Takato said with a shrug.

"Well let's go check out this fog. Renamon." Rika said.

Renamon silently appeared next to Rika. Before Rika could leave the apartment Takato grabbed her arm.

"Wait a minute Rika. We can get there a lot quicker if we take Grani." Said Takato.

"Good idea goggles, let's go." Agreed Rika.

And once again back to the idiot squad…

(Davis, Kenta, and Kazu: Hey!)

Sinduramon laughed as he saw the two digimon that had come to challenge him.

Did these two really think that they could challenge him, a deva?

Exveemon and Marineangemon stood before the deva firmly. Behind them Kazu was attempting to help Guardromon stand back up.

"Positron Pulse!"

Marineangemon quickly countered with his Kahuna Waves, effectively blocking Sinduramon's attack. Exveemon quickly followed up with his V-Laser. Sinduramon easily dodged Exveemon's attack. Davis growled. Without Ken and wormmon, Exveemon couldn't dna digivolve to Paildramon. He looked over at Kenta, surprised to see the young tamer desperately searching through his deck of digimon cards. Finding one he liked Kenta quickly slashed the card through his d-arc.

"Digimodify! Power activate!"

Marineagnemon felt his power increase and he cast a grateful look at his tamer. Kenta merely nodded.

"Hey Kazu are you alright?" asked Kenta.

"Yeah but I think this big lug needs to be rebooted." Kazu replied.

"Don't worry about him human. In a moment it will be over for all of you." Sinduramon said as he flew up in the air above them.

"I don't think so. Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon said as he jumped down off Grani.

Rika watched Gallantmon land on the ground before nodding to Renamon. She had no intention of letting Takato having all the fun of beating up the current deva. `I hope this thing works here.' Rika thought as she grabbed her d-arc.

"Bio-merge activate!" Rika shouted.

At first nothing happened but then a beam of light struck Rika's d-arc. Renamon looked down at where the light had come from. What she saw surprised her. Gallantmon's figure was dimly glowing. Before Renamon could draw Rika's attention to this the bio-merging process kicked in.

Renamon bio-merge to …. Sakuyamon.

Sakuyamon landed next to Gallantmon grinning. Sinduramon looked at the new arrivals and frowned. He had barely manage to dodge Gallantmon's attack. The odds for this battle had definitely gone out of his favor. Despite this Sinduramon was not about to let himself be defeated.

"Are you going to kill me too, murderer? If so think carefully before you do. You might delete me but I'll make sure that your friends go with me." Said Sinduramon.

Gallantmon paused at Sinduramon's words. What did the deva mean by murderer? Was he speaking of the other devas that he and the other tamers had deleted? Sakuyamon saw the indecision in Gallantmon's eyes and made her move. Placing herself between Sinduramon and the others Sakuyamon raised a shield.

"What do you mean?" asked Gallantmon.

Sinduramon laughed. Did the fool really not know about the chaos he had caused in the digital world? Then perhaps a small victory for his fellow devas could be won after all.

"What I mean, killer, is that you rampaged through the digital world until your friends were able to stop you." Sinduramon said.

"You are lying." Growled Gallantmon.

"Am I? Then ask the digidestined. But you'll have to ask the ones that aren't about to die!" Sinduramon said turning on Sakuyamon.

However the shield Sakuyamon created held against his attack. But Gallantmon noticed none of this his mind was in turmoil over what the deva had just said. He couldn't really remember anything after Lady Devimon deleted Calumon. In fact the only thing Gallantmon did remember after that was waking up to see Rika standing over him. Rika, she wouldn't lie to him about something so important would she?

"Gallantmon what are you doing? My shield won't last much longer against this over sized chicken!" shouted Sakuyamon.

Inside her data sphere Rika watched Gallantmon worriedly. Now was not the time for Takato to find out about what he had done in the digital world. `Please Takato keep it together until I can explain what happened to you.' She thought.

"My friends would never lie to me about such matters deva." Gallantmon said as he powered up his lance.

"Perhaps, but this time you are wrong. Now watch as I destroy your so called friends. Positron Pulse!"

The attack struck Sakuyamon's shield and danced around it while Sakuyamon struggled to keep her shield maintained. Suddenly Sakuyamon dropped to her knees as her shield began to shimmer. Gallantmon saw this and rushed forward unaware of the eyes that followed him from behind.

"Lightning Joust!"

This time the attack hit Sinduramon directly deleting him. However Gallantmon was unprepared for the attack that hit him from behind.

"Venom Axe!"

The attack struck Gallantmon right his back causing the mega to fall to his knees. Before he get back up a large snake digimon wrapped its tail around Gallantmon's neck and began squeezing. Struggling to get free Gallantmon found his strength slowly beginning to fade.

"Gallantmon!" Sakuyamon screamed dropping her shield. "Let him go you oversized piece of shoe leather!"

Sandiramon merely hissed at her. As far as the snake deva was concerned the only thing that mattered was making Gallantmon unable to continue fighting. Once that was done it would be a simple matter to take the hybrid back to the Southern Quadrant.

Sakuyamon stalked menacingly towards Sandiramon. She could see that Gallantmon had already quite struggling to break free. As she neared them Sakuyamon gasped as she saw Gallantmon glow and then revert back into Takato. Sandiramon looked down at the human he now had in surprise. This had certainly been a surprise. But it would certainly make his mission more easier.

"How convenient. It looks like I shall be fulfilling my sovereign's commands." Said Sandiramon.

Quickly making his escape Sandiramon slivered off deeper into the digital field. Feeling a cold dread enter her, Sakuyamon followed closely behind. She turned to others for just a moment.

"I'm going to follow snake boy. You guys go back and let the others know what happened." She said.

Davis, Kenta, and Kazu watched their friends disappear into the digital fog. Once again Kenta and Kazu had a feeling that they had failed to help their friend Takato.

To Be Continued…

Howling Wolf: I decided to make this a two part chapter. The second part is already in the works so I should have it posted soon. In response to some of your reviews the remaining devas as of now are Sandiramon, Chatsuramon, Majiramon, Kumbhiramon, Vikaralamon, and Antylamon. Most of whom shall be making an appearance in the next chapter. And don't think Takato is out just yet. Because the next chapter will reveal a secret that not even the devas could have forseen.