Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Mystic Digital War ❯ Chapter 27: Approaching Destruction ( Chapter 27 )

A young woman with curly blond hair held a microphone close to her mouth as she spoke,"Zis is Catherine DeGual reporting live. For zose of you juzt joing us, ze Devas continued zier destruction of ze city, but were finally ztoped by ze digidestined. While Lord Ishida's injuries were being healed, Pharoahmon managed to digivolve to ze level beyond a mega to battle Levare and Deathmon, but he could not hold ze level for long. Levare and Deathmon defeated him. But, zen Matt recovered and fought Leveare and defeated him.

Meanwhile, Lord Kamiya and ze twins made zeir way to Neo-Digital City, but fought against Proteus someone who could mimic ze attack of any digidestined. Zey were able to defeat him and continued on zeir way.

Ze former Dark Digidestined commandaire, Eiri, and I are heading into Neo-Digital World to aid Kamiya.

Michael, Noriko, and Takato were buzy liberating ze Dark Ocean from evil. Michael was able to activate hiz Ezzance of Water and destroy Charon and Dragomon, freeing ze Dark Ocean from ze grip of Neo-Digital World. Now ze Digidestined and Digital Warriors must free ze Digital World.

Chapter 27: Approaching Destruction

Catherine's eyes were focused on Eiri as he stood watch over their camp. He had his back towards her and the digimon, who were sleeping peacefully. He looked so determined and she was fairly certain that if he was going to do anything to her, he would have already done so. She reached inside her bag and pulled out the diary she had been keeping since becoming involved in the "Mystic Digital War." She quickly flipped to the next available page and began writing.

June 1, 2007

Eiri, our digimon and myself have reached the inside of Neo Digital World. My companion says that we should reached the city early tomorrow. Rumors are that Lord Kamiya and his small band are heading there also. I think Eiri hopes to meet up with them. Three mega digimon surely we'll be able to handle any threats that come our way. I guess four now, if I can get this Essence of Grass to work.

It is somewhat humorous, that I, the teller of this tale, have now become directly involved in it. I was just an exchange student to Japan from France, but became evolved in the school's newspaper and morning news show. Now look at me, the reporter of this war, am about to enter into extremely hostile territory. I only hope we are able to make a difference.

Apocalymon watched as the Dark Masters bowed in front of his throne. The Neo-Digital World Emperor crashed his fist into the arm of the elaborate chair. "Proteus and his entire army are gone, my greatest assassin, Leveare is dead, along with all of the Devas, Kamiya is no doubt in the city by now, the Dark Ocean has been defeated, Geni and Charon are dead! Tell me, have I left anything out?"

The Dark Masters and Dark Digidestined glanced nervously at each other. Krake cleared her throat. "Um, I..may have an idea for defeating Kamiya. What if we were to turn him to our side, like we did to Tachikawa?"

Apocalymon grinned. "I find that idea very..intriging."

"I will aid you," Bizzard said,"There is still some past history between us."

"I believe Miss Tachikawa should aid you as well," Lucifer nodded.

"Why not you?" Apocalymon asked.

"I have my ...personal project," he said with a slight grin,"All for the glory of Neo-Digital World, I assure you. The Digidestined's days are numbered!"

Mrs. Kamiya slowly opened her eyes, staring at the ceiling of the hotel room. "What a night. I didn't think I'd ever fall asleep. I hate sleeping anywhere but my own bed. And Taisuke..." She suddenly remember that it was not a business trip and that her youngest child was in the room with her.

She shot straight up and glanced at the bed to her right. It was slept in, but the occupant was not in sight. She shot her head to the left and saw her youngest son with his partner Agumon staring out the window. She let out a sigh of relief. "Good morning honey."

The young boy continued to stare out the window.

"Taisuke?" Mrs. Kamiya asked, walking behind him,"What are you looking at?"

"The city," he said, almost in a trance,"I need to go to the city..."

Mrs. Kamiya smiled slightly,"We can't go back there yet, there's...." She trailed off when she noticed the blank gaze in her son's eyes. She was now starting to worry. "Taisuke?"

"I need to go back," he said,"The others...he is calling us."

Mrs. Kamiya looked at her son's Agumon, he had the same gaze in his eyes as her son. She placed her hand on Taisuke's shoulder, but he remained in the same state.

"I...I'll get you some breakfast," she said, trying to stay calm,"m-maybe that'll help."

Kazu kicked a piece of metal pipping off of a pile of rubble that was once the building that held their apartment. "What a mess!"

Michael took a deep breath. "I...How could this have....there were only twelve of them, and they did this?"

Jeri was almost in tears. "I might have been able to stop this, but all I could do was save Taisuke and myself."

Takato came up behind her and place his hands on her shoulders. "It's not your fault."

"Yes it is," she sighed,"and yours. All of us! Don't you get it? They did this to get back at us."

The remaining Digital Warriors glanced at each other, then sighed, realizing that Jeri was correct. Whatever Neo Digital World's plans were, the Digidestined and Digital Warriors were the only ones standing in their way, and they were not happy about it.

Micheal's cell phone started to ring. "Hello? Mrs. Kamiya? What...What? Taisuke's...yeah, sure, okay?" He hung up.

"What?" Takato asked.

"Taiskuke missing."

"Again?" Betamon asked.

Micheal nodded. "Yeah. Mrs. Kamiya told me that Matt's secretary dropped him off at her offices, but he kept talking about coming back to the city. Now he's gone. She thinks that maybe he's heading back here."

"Really?" Anna asked, raising her eyebrows.

The blond shrugged. "Yeah, let's at least keep our eye out for him, we've still got to meet with the Digidestined later.

"But what do we do now?" Guillmon asked.

Rumiko stood by Matt's side as he was lying in his bed. After his battle with Levare, he returned to unconsciousness, but without any of his injuries; he was just exhausted. The teenage super model smiled as she held her husband's hands.

"I'm so proud of you," she said,"You were able to defeat those Devas, and stop the Devas rampage across the city."

She sat down in the chair next to the bed, her hand still in his. "In case you've forgotten, Yamato Ishida, I love you."

The door to the room opened and Rika walked inside. She saw Rumiko and Matt and started to leave. "S..sorry."

Rumiko stood up. "No, Rika, right?"

The young teenager just nodded. "Y-yeah."

Rumiko smiled slightly. "You're my daughter, right?" she lightly patted her large abdomen. Rika nodded slightly,"Y-yeah, Mom."

The super-model blushed slightly. Rika turned to leave. "Wait!" Rumiko called,"Maybe we could talk for a bit?"

Rika stopped and turned to face her mother. She was smiling. "Yeah, I guess so."

Oikawa stood outside of the first floor remains of one of the destroyed hotels. He had his arms crossed and was leaning against one of the support beams. He glanced at his watch. "She's late."

Daitiramon glanced up at his partner. "I'm sure she'll be here."

Oikawa sighed. "I hope that she didn't stand me up."

"No," his digimon smiled, glancing up at the sky,"Here she comes now."

Oikawa looked in to the sky and saw a brown haired girl riding atop a massive insect type creature. The girl jumped off and the massive creature started to glow, then shrunk into a smaller insect creature. "How ya' doing?"

"Kunemon, behave!" Noriko ordered. She turned from her partner to the man standing in front of her. "Hello."

He nodded slightly. "Good afternoon."

There was an uncomfortable silence before Noriko chuckled. "S, we're not even sure what to call each other, huh?"

Oikawa chuckled. "Why don't we continue to refer to each as we have."

She nodded. "Fair enough."

Oikawa walked inside the remains of the hotel and sat on a tattered couch. Noriko joined him a second later. "I heard about what you did for Lord Ishida earlier," she smiled slightly.

He crossed his arms and leaned back against the back of the couch,"I didn't do that much."

"Yes you did," She smiled,"You gave him enough time to recover so he was able to defeat Leveare and you managed to reach a level that no one has ever reached before. You were the worst, but you turned yourself around. I'm proud to know Ukyo Oikawa."

"But I'm not Ukyo Oikawa," he sighed,"You are. I'm just a copy, a fake!"

Noriko shook her head. "You're not just a copy, you're real, and I'm not Ukyo Oikawa..." She sighed,"Not anymore."

Tai quickly pulled his head back from around the corner of the building. He pressed himself firmly against the brick wall of the newly constructed building as two Mojyiamon's dressed in the uniforms of Neo Digital World. Lord Kamiya waited a few seconds before looking again. The two soldiers were gone.

"Come on!" he said to the twins. He grabbed Agumon and quickly ran across the intersection and behind the building on the other side. He quickly glanced around and breath a sigh of relief. "Come on."

The group quickly ran down the street they were on and dove into the shadows under a newly constructed bridge. "That's good," Tai panted, wiping his forehead,"We've been in Neo Digital City for about an hours, and we're still alive."

"But we have no idea where the others are being held," Ai pointed out.

Marko climbed to the other side of the and glanced out. "Maybe there?"

The others soon joined him. Tai saw where the young boy was pointing; a dark castle that stretched high in the sky. He grinned. "That's where, its got to be."

"Halt!"

The groups' spines turned to ice. They slowly turned around and saw a mud-colored Frigamon wearing a Neo-Digital World uniform. "Halt where you are."

The group hesitated for a second, then the two digimon tackled him to the ground. The group than ran off.

Inside of the dark tower, Bizzard, Krake, and Mimi were resting inside of a lounge when a Demidevimon wearing a uniform cap hovered in. "Kamiya has been sighted!"

The three grinned. "Excellent!"

Noriko nodded slightly at Oikawa's question. "Yes, of course it was a shock to realize that I was a different person. you have my...er...uh...that is we share the same memories up until 1990, right?"

Oikawa nodded. "I guess so."

The teenager nodded. "Well, do you remember Takato Matsuki? I mean, from 199?"

A set of memories flashed across Oikawa's mind. "Yes, the Tri-Warriors, right?"

She nodded. "After we fought Kimeramon, I was nearly killed. Takato downloaded my 'soul', I guess you could call it, and brought me to his time where I was placed in this body; which is just a female clone of my own body."

"I was always curious how that could have been?" he asked.

Noriko shrugged. "Henry said something about the cloning machine might mutate the DNA strand or something like that."

Oikawa nodded. "And I was created on that day, when Lucifer turned Kimeramon into...me. I learned that the night before the Day of Apocalypse."

Noriko sighed. "What happens...." she suddenly gasped. "Taisuke?!"

Oikawa spun around and saw the youngest Kamiya peeking through the doorway. When he saw that they were looking at him, he ran off. Oikawa, Noriko, and their digimon quickly followed.

Outside they entered into a circle of young children-a small group, but there were enough to trap them. "What are you doing?" Noriko asked.

The children did not answer.

"Taisuke!" Noriko asked again,"I don't know why you're here, but I'm sure that you're worrying your mother."

"He doesn't care, or at least, not now."

"I know that voice," Oikawa gasped, turning his head around. Emerging from the alley between what was left of the hotel and the other building was an older man, with long white hair and a demonic clown at his side. "Lucifer and Piedmon."

The Dark Master leader and second highest authority of Neo-Digital World grinned. "I was wondering if you had forgotten me."

"I could never forget your stench!" Oikawa growled.

"What did you do to these kids?" Noriko demanded.

Lucifer grinned even wider. "These children were part of my..'Master Plan.'

Oikawa felt his blood turn cold. "These children are..are the same ones from that night in Modem?"

"Not all of them, of course," he chuckled,"Most of them were from Modem and were killed along with the city, and more were killed by the Devas here. Of course, after I joined Apocalymon, I did not think that I would need this project again, especially once his Matrix of Evil is powered up. No one will be able to stop him." Lucifer frowned. "Except you! Which is why I need to revive this project. Had I known I would have advised the Emperor on a different city." He shrugged,"Oh well."

He turned to Oikawa, "As Kimeramon, you had a special energy generator in your blood. Call it a..Dark Spore, if you will. I infected the children that night with the spores so they could could store the children's energies. Now, I'm going to use these energies, to make you my slave, Kimeramon."

Noriko, Oikawa and their Digimon glanced at each other. "I'm not Kimeramon any more."

Lucifer just laughed as he held up a small device in his palms. All of the children gave a small moan as a stream of dark energy shot out of them and into the device in Lucifer's hand. He then pointed the device at Oikawa, shooting the energy into him. He cried out in pain, and Daitiramon disappeared.

"Are you okay?" Noriko shouted, joining him on the ground.

"R-run," he hissed in pain, "N.Noriko..get out of here!"

"B-But..!"

"Go! Please, get the children to safety."

Noriko glanced up at Lucifer, who was watching Oikawa's pain with intense interest. "Go ahead," the man of evil chuckled,"I've got what I need here."

Noriko quickly ran over to the confused children. Taisuke saw her. "Noriko?" W..what's happen'in?"

"Come on, kids," Noriko said, grabbing two of their hands and leading them away to a pile of debris. Noriko looked over the top and watched in horror as Oikawa started glowing in an intense white light. She had to cover her eyes as the light exploded.

"Kimeramon digivolve to Annubismon!"

Noriko gave out a small shriek, then covered her mouth. Oikawa had been transformed into a human figure, with a dog's head and two wings emerging from his back. Just the look in his eyes was enough to tell Noriko that her friend was gone, and that thought turned her spine to ice.

Lucifer laughed as he admired the digimon standing in front of him. "Excellent. The children's energies have enabled you to digivolve without a foreign device, like an Essence. Very good. Now, tell me, what is your mission?"

"D..destroy D..Digidestined!"

Lucifer laughed. "Excellent. Find them, and destroy them!"

Annubismon's wings opened wide, then he shot into the air. Noriko watched him as he flew away. Lucifer soon followed. "Now what?"

Mina and her Agumon glanced to the top of the massive building in front of them. "So, if this building is so big, how come it's still standing?" her Agumon asked.

Mina mentioned to the other buildings. "This section of the city is the only place that escaped the Devas' destruction."

"Ah, I see," her Agumon said, turning his attention back to the building. "How long are we going to wait before we go inside?"

"Oh," Mina realized,"Um, sure, come on." She lead her partner through the doors and into the air conditioned lobby of the building. Dr. Wong was waiting for them.

"Ah, Ms. Aishuwayra," Wong grinned,"I'm glad you made it. The others are waiting upstairs." He mentioned to the elevator,"Afte you."

Mina nodded,"Thank you."

The group rode the elevator to the top conference room floor, where Yamaki and the other Monster Makers were waiting around the table.

When Won lead Mina in, he quickly took a position at the front of the table. He glance at each of them,"We're all together again." He looked a Zoe,"Daisy," then at Tommy,"Shibumi," then Babel," Babel," then Alice,"With Alice taking her grandfather, Dolphin's place and Mina as Curly, and I of course, Dao." He grinned,"The Monster Makers are back together again! And now we will be able to complete our ultimate weapon, the Omega Project's final creation, the Holy Destroyer."

"But why are we here, in this building?" Zoe asked.

"Because we need a laboratory and a powerful satellite dish," Wong explained,"And Yamaki has been generous enough to let us use his."

The blond man nodded. "I just would like to see this weapon that you promise can destroy Neo-Digital World."

Wong grinned. "Just wait, Neo-Digital World is going to meet its match."

Ai slowly turned her head over her shoulder and saw the Neo-Digital soldiers gaining on them. She shot her head back around and started to run even faster. "They're coming closer!"

Tai panted as he lead the group through the maze of streets and buildings. He rounded a corner and came face-to-face with a brick wall. "Uh..change of plans.."

"Dead End?" Marko asked, his blood turned to ice.

Tai took a deep breath, then spun around to face the incoming army. "Looks like we're making a last stand."

Ai took a deep breath, then grabbed the Digivice around her brother's neck, but also yanking his neck as well. "Impmon.."

"Hold it!" Tai shouted.

Impmon stopped his evolution and the twins stared at their attackers; six figures, one older woman, one large ten-year-old, a massive robotic creature, a wizard, a plant creature, and a teenaged girl hovering above them with large white wings. "Mimi!" Tai shouted.

The winged girl chuckled. "You seem surprised to see me?"

"Mimi, please, you've got to remember who you are!"

She gave a quick laugh.

"Mimi," Tai pleaded,"I don't want to hurt you..."

"Enough of this!" Bizzard shouted,"Krake!"

The witch mentioned to her digimon partner, who floated down in front of Tai's group. "W..Wizardmon?"

Krake grinned. "No, this is Socerymon, who will now render you motionless.

Socerymon started spinning his staff at an incredible rate. All five members of Tai's small group fell to the ground. "L..Lord Kamiya," Marko struggled,"I..I can't move!"

"Me neither!" Ai shouted.

"S..stay calm," Tai ordered.

Krake laughed. She held a small black device shaped like a handheld computer, in her palm. She then pointed it a Tai, who began to scream out in pain. "Once my device finishes its job, you'll be one of us!"

Tai began spasming as his body coursed with evil energy. He hissed in pain, his hand struggled to grasp at anything to pull himself free.

"Lord Kamiya!" the twins, Impmon and Agumon shouted.

"You are under my control," Krake said, her eyes closed and in a mediation type voice,"You are under my control."

"N..N..N..No!" Tai struggled,"I..I will not...No!"

"It is no use struggling," Krake sighed. It was obvious that she had had this conversation before.

He managed to turn his head to the floating Wiant. "Muh..Mimi..h..help me..please..."

She continued to look at him with unsympathetic eyes, but, even as she watched Lord Kamiya struggling on the ground, she felt something prick at the back of her memory. She saw a flash of Tai talking to her, surrounded by other digidestined. Another image of Tai fighting Etemon, then of Tai fighting Piedmon, lying on the ground. She felt her heart start to twitch. Krake and Bizzard were too busy watching Tai on the ground, that they did not see Mimi descend to the ground, clutching her head.

Tai continued to scream, his fist tightening as he knelt on the ground. He grabbed his head and started to scream even louder. His body curled together, then gave one final blood wrenching scream, before falling onto the ground.

"L..Lord Kamiya?" Ai asked, her voice quivering. Tai slowly rose to his feet. He glanced at Ai and grinned a evil smile.

"Ha!" Krake laughed,"Tell me, Taichi Kamiya, whom do you serve?"

"I serve Emperor Apocalymon and the Dark Masters.

"No!" Marko shouted, "Lord Kamiya! Don't give in!"

"It's no use," Krake laughed,"He is firmly under Neo-Digital World's control, just like Mimi Tachikawa."

"No!" Marko shouted,"Lord Kamiya, remember, you're here to save Lady Sora!"

Tai's evil face twitched. "S..Sora...?"

Krake saw what was happening. "Taichi, I have your first mission, kill the twins and their digimon!"

Tai and Agumon turned to where Ai, Marko and Impmon were lying on the ground. They started walking over to them. "No! Lord Kamiya! Please, remember who you are!"

Tai continued to walk forward.

"Lady Sora!" Marko gasped, remembering how it effected him before,"You're here to save Lady Sora!"

Tai and Agumon stopped. "S..Sora.."

"He's starting to break out of it!" Krake shouted. She turned,"Mimi, stop him!"

The Wiant slowly walked forward, but stopped. She grabbed her head and fell to the ground, screaming in pain. "What?" Krake shouted.

A second later, Tai suddenly started screaming out in pain again.

"Krake, what is happening?" Bizzard demanded.

"I..I'm losing control of them!" Krake shouted.

"What?"

Mimi and Tai both screamed out in one final burst, then both of their eye lids slammed shut.

"Damn!" Krake shouted,"I've lost my hold on them."

Bizzard was panicking. "Quick! Regain control!"

"I don't think you'll get the chance!" Impmon grinned and stood up with the twins.

"Too much.." Socerymon moaned, "couldn't hold it..."

Ai and Marko grinned at each other. "Impmon mega digivolve to Beelzemon!"

Krake's face drained of all color. "Beelzemon y..you're back." She glanced over her shoulder,"Lord Bizzard, you'll forgive me if I leave the heavy work to you." She and Socerymon vanished.

Machinedramon grinned. "I'll destroy you all! Giga Cannon!"

Beelzemon whipped out his twin guns. "Double Impact!"

The two attacks slammed into each other and exploded on contact, creating an enormous explosion that destroyed the brick wall and surrounding buildings. When it was over, Beelzemon was lying on the ground and Machinedramon was stumbling around, but none the worse for wear. Bizzard looked at the injured warriors in front of them. "Machinedramon, finish them off!"

"No!"

Bizzard and Machinedramon watched as Eiri, Bakemon, Catherine and Floramon ran in front of the injured fighters. "Eiri, you traitor!" Bizzard shouted,"How dare you show your face here!"

"Stand down!" Eiri shouted,"You will not harm Lord Kamiya or the others!"

"Ha!" Machinedramon laughed,"What's a puny Champion going to do?"

Eiri pointed to the Essence of Grass hanging around Catherine's neck. "She has a mega and if you wish to fight, fine. But it appears to me that you are suffering from some loss of stamina as well."

Bizzard stared at them, then he and his digimon vanished.

"They..they're gone?" Catherine gasped.

"Teleported away," Eiri breath a sigh of relif,"Good thing he didn't know that you're not able to use the Essence yet." He turned to the unconscious warriors. "Come on, we've got to get them somewhere safe."

Derek and Rika turned their attention to the sky when they heard the sound of something flying overhead. It was the Digital Warriors. Michael and the others descended to the roof of the Ishida's apartment building.

"Well," Michael grinned slightly,"at least your building appears to still be standing. We lost our home."

The Australian chuckled. "Well, I'm sure we're not here to discuss housing, 'ey, mate?"

"You called us here."

"Good point. Well, the reason we've called you here today is because our leader is currently...under the weather, and your leader is off on his own," Derek smiled slightly, "Rika and I were thinkin' that maybe we might be able ta put aside our differences and work together ta do what we can for this city, consid'rin' that it was our fault tha' th' Devas came here ta begin wit'.""

Michael crossed his arms,"What exactly were you thinking of?"

"The Digidestined have enough resources ta at least aid the city in rebuildin'," the Austrailian smiled slightly,"We may even be able to provide materials. If you can leaned some manpower...." Renamon suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Renamon?" Rika asked.

"Something's coming," she said, her fur standing up on it's end, "Something..powerful."

The remaining Digital Warriors and Digidestined started to run to the edge of the roof, but they were not quick enough. When they were halfway to the edge, an enormous creature shot into view, a creature with a dog head, and a pair of white wings. Takato, Rika, Henry and Jeri could not believe their eyes.

"A Annubismon?" Rika gasped.

"The Digidestined Destroyer!" Takato shouted.

"We're in trouble now," Terriermon mumbled.

Next: The invasion of Earth begins. With Annubismon keeping the Digidestined occupied, the Dark Masters lead the Neo-Digital Army against Earth. The human world is still safe, but when Apocalymon himself steps onto the battlefield the end seems near. The Monster Makers launch their ultimate weapon, but will the Holy Destroyer be enough to stop the Monster of the Apocalypse? And from their battle, the ultimate warrior will arise! Next: Mystic Digital War: Chapter 28: Eleventh Hour.