Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Ressurection War ❯ DIGIMON EMPEROOR: Specimens of Science ( Chapter 4 )

DIGIMON EMPEROR: Specimens of Science

The sun slowly began to set behind the horizon, transforming the sky into a mixture of red and orange. This kaleidoscope cast an odd rainbow of colors into the school computer lab that were beginning to bother Cody's eyes. He closed the blinds. "That's better."

Kari looked over Ken's shoulder as his fingers danced across the keyboard. "So," she asked, "What exactly are you doing?"

"I'm trying to use the basic programming of computer language to try and construct a map of the Digital World."

"Uh, okay," she said.

Cody was standing beside her. "He's going to make a map of the Digital World appear on the monitor."

"Oh. I knew that," she said with a smile.

She looked over her shoulder and saw that the digimon were clustered together in a corner, playing with a deck of cards. "Who taught them how to play poker?"

Salamon looked at her. "What do you think I do when you're at school?"

Kari frowned. "Have you lost any money?"

All of the digimon looked at her. "What's money?" they asked at the same time.

"Never mind."

The door opened and Yolei came running inside. "Sorry I'm late," she said, placing her bag down, "Mom wouldn't let me leave until I finished cleaning my room."

She opened her large gym back to allow Poromon to crawl out. "About time," he said, "I was getting stuffy in there."

She dropped her digimon next to the other digital monsters, then stood beside the other teenagers. She looked over Ken's shoulder so she would be able to view what was displayed on the monitor: an image of a grouping of continents covered with black and white squares. "So, what are we looking at?"

"The Digital World," Ken said, "Those black squares are the Digimon Emperor's Control Spires."

"There's so many of them," Cody said in awe, "What are those towers for?"

"They block digivolution," everyone answered.

"I know that," he said, "I meant why he is so afraid of having digimon digivolve?"

"He's probably afraid of them fighting back," Yolei said.

Kari frowned. "We've got to start destroying those towers. If the're all knocked down, then maybe the digimon can fight back."

"That might take forever," Salamon said, "'Specially since we can only armor digivolve."

Kari turned to her, "Is regular digivolving stronger?"

She nodded. "Most times."

Kari looked at her watch. "I've got to get home. Mom's expecting me. C'mon Salamon." She lifted her partner and put her into her bag. She waved. "See ya' tomorrow."

"Good night, Kari."

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Even though it was late afternoon in the Digital World as well, the idea of winding down for the day was far from the mind of the Digimon Emperor. As soon as he was released from school, he entered a Digital Gate and continued his conquest of the Digital World.

His agenda for today involved erected Control Spires in the Northern regions of the Digital World. His army of Dark-Ring controlled Frigimon guarded the area as his Gizamon slaves trudged through the snow.

Tsukaimon flew over to his partner. "Tk, we've secured the area. Every Gizamon is working hard."

"Good," he grinned, "What about the test subject?"

Tsukaimon mentioned to the sky. Tk looked up and saw a squadron of his Dark Ring controlled Airdramon lowering a Kabuterimon that was bound and tied together. "Ah," he grinned, "Excellent. Take him back to base."

Tsukaimon nodded and ordered the Airdramon to bring the prionser to the lab in the Emperor's base.

Tk watched the construction of the control Spires. "Have you had any luck locationg any Destiny Stones?"

"I think we found one," he said, "In the desert."

Tk nodded. "Excellent. Once my Fusion project is complete, those stones are history." He suddenly heard a whistle in the air. He fell to the ground seconds before an explosion rocked the area.

"We're under attack!" Tsukaimon shouted.

Tk looked at the sky. "What is it?"

"A Unimon," Tsukaimon said, "Nothing that we can't handle."

Tk grinned as he held up his digivice. "Let's show them what we can do."

"Tsukaimon digivolve to Devimon!"

The black devil hovered into the air and met the flying Unimon. "Stop now!" he ordered.

The Unimon ignored Devimon and open his mouth to fire a ball of energy at a Control Spire. "Aerial Attack!"

"Stop, now!" Devimon demanded.

The Unimon was about to attack again, but Devimon did not give him the chance. "Touch of Evil!" His hands glowed with dark electricity as he slashed his claw into the unicorn's back. He gave a scream and spiraled into the ground. Devimon landed next to him. Tk ran over a second later.

"Well?" the Digimon Emperor asked.

Devimon moved aside Unimon's mane to see the back of his neck. He sighed when he saw the bar code on its skin. "It's SEED."

"Damn those jerks," Tk growled, "Those Dark SEED soldiers are beginning to become a severe problem."

Devimon regressed to Tsukaimon and landed on the Emperor's shoulder. "Are we ready to head back?"

Tk nodded. "Yes, let's get…" He was not able to finish as a Kuwagamon shot up from the ground and slammed his claw into TK and Tsukaimon, throwing both of them to the ground. The Kuwagamon grabbed Tk and Tsukaimon with his claws and flew into the air. The wind caught his hair and blew it aside, revealing a bar code on his neck.

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Kari walked into her apartment and gently placed her bag down. "Mom?" she called, "Dad?"

"I'm in the kitchen, Honey."

Kari removed her shoes and lifted her bag again. She walked down the small hallway until she reached the kitchen area. Her mother was inside, chopping vegetables that she poured into a pot of boiling water. Kari walked in and sniffed the air. "Mmm, smells good. What're ya' making?"

"Seafood Bisque."

"Seafood Bisque?" she asked.

"Don't worry, you'll like it."

"Ah."

Her mother put the lid on the pot and whipped her hands. "Your father and I are going out tonight."

She smiled. "Really?"

"Yes," Mrs. Kamiya laughed slightly, "Now the soup is for dinner. I'll finish it before we leave. Make sure you do your homework."

She sighed. "All right."

"I mean it. I don't understand why your grades have been slipping."

"I could tell you, but you wouldn't believe me," she muttered.

"What?"

"I'm ah, going to do my homework," she said, walking into her room. Once she was safely inside, she opened her bag to allow Salamon to jump out.

"I was getting stuffy in there," she said, shaking herself like a dog.

Kari laughed slightly. She removed her school uniform and pulled on a pair of jeans and a sleeveless light pink shirt. She dumped the contents of her book bag onto the table. "Is that your homework?" Salamon asked.

She nodded. "Yeah," she sighed, "And unless I pass my next test, Mom's gonna ground me until I'm old enough to graduate." Before Salamon could even open her mouth Kari said, "I'll explain it to you later."

"Oh, okay."

"I'm not going to be much company for the next few hours," she sighed, "Why don't you take a nap or some…Salamon?" She turned and saw her partner digimon was already fast asleep. She chuckled slightly, and then started her homework.

A few hours later, she smiled with pride as she closed her text book. She had finished her homework, just as she had promised her mother she would. She leaned back in her seat and stretched her hands above her head. "Oh man, I'm beat," she sighed. She turned and saw that Salamon was still asleep. She got up and walked into the kitchen. Her parents had left an hour ago, and she had already eaten, so what was she supposed to do now?

She walked back into her room and switched on her computer. "I wonder who's on-line?" she said, intending to enter a chat room. When her device completely loaded, the Digital Gate program appeared on the monitor. However, the image that usually appeared in the monitor now showed an image of the person she knew as the Digimon Emperor, strapped to a metal table.

"What happened to him?" she gasped. Before she could do anything, however, the image changed to an overhead view of a dark forest.

"What was that about?" she asked herself, "The Digimon Emperor was captured? But, who did it? Should I even care, or...?" She debated to herself for a long while before lightly pushing Salamon. "Wake up!"

The small digimon shot awake. "What?"

"We have to go, something's happened."

After quickly explaining what she saw, Kari and Salamon entered the Digital World. They arrived in front of a large black tower. "I bet the Digimon Emperor is inside of there."

Salamon nodded. "How do we get inside?"

The teenager was about to answer when a loud screeched was heard from behind. The two girls turned around to see what creature could have made such a horrible noise, and stared as a massively dark figure dropped from the sky. It's black hands enveloped Kari and Salamon, throwing both of the girls into unconsciousness.

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"That's odd," Ken mumbled.

Wormmon crawled onto his shoulder. "What's odd?"

The teenager was looking at his grid map of the Digital World. "Control Spires appear to be disappearing." He moved his mouse over a small section of the Easter continent. He clicked a few times, and the black square enlarged to give Ken a magnified view of the area. He gasped at what he saw; like a stack of dominos, a line of Control Spires were falling, one after the other.

"What does it mean?" Wormmon asked.

"It means that someone in the Digital World is destroying Control Spires." He gave his partner a slight smile, "Do you think we should check it out?"

"Why not?"

Ken opened his chat room, hoping to locate Yolei and Cody. He was in luck, not only were they all ready on-line but they were also in a chat room together.

KeIch has logged on.

Mialia: Ken, is that you?

KeIch: Yes. There's a situation in the Digital World, we should probably investigate.

Kendo-student: What about Kari?

KeIch: She's having enough trouble with her school work as it is. We should probably just let her finish. If there's trouble, we'll call her.

Mialia: She keeps falling asleep in class too. Let's give her the night off.

KeIch: I'll meet you two there.

KeIch has logged off.

Mialia has logged off.

Kendo-students has logged off.

When the trio and their digimon arrived in the Digital World, they found that they had appeared underneath a familiar black obelisk. "That's a Control Spire," Cody said, "Ken, what's going on?"

"Someone is destroying these towers," Ken explained, "This tower is in the direct line. I'm sure that whoever it is, will appear soon."

They nodded and scanned the area they were inside of. "You know," Yolei said, looking at the evening sky in the horizon, "This is a very beautiful place. I had forgotten."

Hawkmon looked at her oddly. "I didn't know you were here."

"I was," Yolei shook her head, "I mean, Sora was. Oh jeeze, this is going to get complicated."

"You mean, your memories of Sora as starting to come back?" Cody asked.

She nodded. "Yeah. I don't remember everything yet, but there's one thing that I can't forget about," she sighed slightly, "Sora and Taichi Kamiya were in love."

"Kari's older brother?" Cody asked.

"Yeah." She closed her eyes as the pleasant memories came to her mind, "We were in love. We were young but…we knew that we were meant for each other."

Ken nodded. "I can vaguely remember from Izzy's memories, something about a pyramid?"

Yolei shivered slightly. "Uh, no, I don't remember anything like that."

The three digimon suddenly gasped. "What's wrong?" Ken asked.

"Something's coming!" Wormmon shouted.

The three humans turned to the sky and watched as a giant red beetle flew through the trees of the forest. The three digidestined could only watch as an army of Airdramon emerged a few seconds later and began firing their laser attacks at the beetle.

"What's going on?" Cody shouted.

"That's a Kuwagamon," Armadillomon said, "But why is he getting attacked?"

"Dark Rings!" Yolei shouted, "Those Airdramons are wearing Dark Rings!"

Before the digimon could evolve to their armored forms, the Airdramon were successful in destroying the Kuwagamon. One of the Airdramon was carrying a metal jar at the end of his serpentine body. He swung it around and pointed at the Kuwagamon's data. The digidestined watched in horror as the beetle's data was pulled into the metal jar, which closed tightly after all was inside.

Cody was in shock. "They..they killed him?"

"Yeah," Yolei nodded, "I can't believe it." She growled and clenched her fists, "We've got to go after them!"

They were about to run through the foreset, when one of the Airdramon was suddenly propelled back out of the trees. The digimon sailed over the heads of the digidestined and crashed into the Control Spire. The black tower cracked along the base and crumbled into dust. A small figure ran out of the forest a second later. He scanned the area. "Where did that Airdramon go?" he asked.

Wormmon mentioned to the remains of the Control Spire. "It crashed into that."

"Really?" the figure grinned, "Wow, I've got a good shot."

"Veemon!" another voice shouted from the forest, "Veemon!"

"I'm right here."

Another figured emerged from the forest, this time a teenage boy. Ken and Cody both gasped. "You're the one that saved us the other day!" Cody shouted.

"Oh, you're back, huh?" the boy asked. He looked over Ken and Cody's shoulders to the girl that was standing behind them. "Yolei?"

"Davis?" the purple-haired girl gasped, "You're a digidestined?"

"You're a digidestined?" Davis gasped, "How long have…that's not important right now. Listen, does your team have another girl?"

"Yeah," Yolei said, "Kari."

"Kari?" Davis gasped, "Kari Kamiya? She's here too?"

"Yes," Ken nodded, "She's our leader."

Davis shook his head. "Alright, me and Veemon heard a rumor that a girl was capture near a dark forest. We were going there right now."

"If that was Kari, we have to help her," Cody said.

Davis nodded. "You can fill me in on the way."

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When Kari opened her eyes, she was aware that her head was giving her a serious, pounding ache. "Oh, man," she groaned, trying to keep her eyes closed to reduce the amount of pain. It did not work.

She tried to raise her hand to rub against her forehead, but found that she was not able to lift her arm. She opened her eyes and saw that she was lying on a metal table with her arms and legs trapped underneath metal bars. "Salamon!" she shouted, "Salamon, where are you?"

"Karis?" she heard a weak voice call out. The teenager looked to the left and saw another, smaller table where her partner was lying.

"What happened?" the small digimon asked.

Kari turned to look back at the black ceiling, "I don't know."

She heard a slight moan from beside her. She turned to the right and saw another table with another teenager strapped to it. "It's you!" she gasped.

The Digimon Emperor stared at her. "So, they got you too, huh?"

"Where are we?"

He shook his head. "I don't know."

"Why do you do it, huh?" Kari asked, "Why are you doing this to the Digital World?"

"My reasons are my own," he snapped, "I was meant to rule this world! That's all you need to know."

The lights in the room suddenly turned on. The prisoners could see that they were in the center of a room filled with machinery that resembled equipment found at a doctors office. A man wearing a white lab coat entered the room. "Ah, you are all awake, good." He turned he back to them and Tk was able to see a bar code printed on the doctor's neck.

"You're part of Dark SEED!" he shouted.

"Dark what?" Kari asked.

The man nodded. "Yes, I am. My name is Dr. Yazuna."

"Why are we here?" Tk asked, "I demand to know right now!"

"Very well. You two have the greatest potential out of all of the other Digidestined. I'm here to gauge that power, to see how much of a threat you may later pose. If you'll excuse me, I have to finish preparing." He turned back around.

Tk turned to his right where Tsukaimon was attached to smaller table.

Kari whispered to Tk. "What's Dark SEED?"

Tk sighed, "They're a society in the Digital World that have been giving me a lot of trouble lately."

Kari smiled slightly, "So, they're good guys, then?"

Tk glared at her. "They captured you, didn't they?"

She frowned. "Well, maybe, but that can't be any worse then you."

Dr. Yazuna walked back towards the prisoners. He moved Tk's bangs out of the way and lightly dabbed his forehead with a cotton ball full of alcohol. He then did the same with Kari. "Um," Kari said, "What are you doing?"

Dr. Yazuna reached above them and pulled down a metal headband that he wrapped around both of the teenager's foreheads. He made sure that a small screen on the inside of the headband was resting on the alcohol dapped foreheads. "I'm just going to try to register the level of Digital energy that your body is giving off."

Tk watched as he walked back to the machine he was standing at before. "And how are you going to do that?"

"By sending an electric shock through your bodies."

"What?" Tk shouted.

"Engaging," Yazuna said. He twisted a dial on the control board.

Tk and Kari suddenly became streaming in intense pain as their bodies were shot full of electricity. Tears came to Kari's eyes as her muscles became white with pain. Tk tried to fight it, but the pain became too much for him to bear, and he screamed.

"Easy, easy,' Yazuna said, turning the dial back around. "All is necessary for science." He looked at a computer monitor that was attached to the wall. The screen began to display lines of information. "Now, let's see what we can….." He started laughing.

Kari and Tk looked at each other. "What's so funny?" Tk asked.

"You don't even know do you," Yazuna laughed, "You have no idea what's really inside of you, do you?"

"What are you talking about?" Kari shouted.

Yazuna kept laughing. "This is actually very humours."

"Stop it!" Kari screamed, "I'm not your lab rat, and I'm not your personal joke!" The digivice on her belt began to shower the room in pink light.

"Kamiya?" Tk asked.

At her side, Salamon's body suddenly started to course with energy. "Salamon digivolve to Gatomon!"

"She digivolved?" Ken shouted, "Of course, there aren't any of my Control Spires here!"

When Salamon digivolved, her body may have only become slightly larger, but it was enough to break the metal bars that kept her attached to the table. "No!" Yazuna shouted, "Stop them, Ogremon!"

"Ogremon?" Gatomon asked. A large green goblin charged out of the darkness of the room. "Ahh, Woodmon."

The green digimon swung a large club at the small feline, but Gatomon leapt out of the way. Ogremon's attack destroyed created a large crater in the ground. The shockwave was enough to flip the metal table that Kari and Tk were trapped on to fall onto their sides. The metal shackles became undone and the teenagers and Tsukaimon were freed.

"You idiot!" Yazuna shouted.

"Don't worry," Ogremon said, staring at Tsukaimon and Gatomon, "I'll stop them."

He charged forward and was about to swing his club when he stopped. "Do you hear that?"

The left wall was suddenly blown apart as a blue digimon pounded his head through the cement and bricks. "V Head Butt!"

"Kari!" Yolei shouted, "You're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," she said, mentioning to V-mon, "But who's this?"

"He's my partner," Davis said, running inside.

"You're a digidestined?" Kari shouted.

"That's right," he said, staring at her chest, "And you have the Crest of Courage."

"Yeah, so?" she asked.

Ken looked around the room. "What happened in here?"

Kari spun around. "That guy…wait, where is he?"

"Where's who?" Armadillomon asked.

"Yazuna," she said, looking around the room, "Where did he go?" She sighed, "Well, at least we have the Digimon Emperor." She turned to talk to Tk, but found that he was missing as well.

"Oh man, we lost him too!" she sighed.

Davis chuckled slightly. "So, Kari, since we're both digidestined, maybe this means we can spend a little more time with each other?"

Kari sighed. "Davis, I'm really not in the mood right now."

"Oh, sorry," he said.

"Don't worry about the Digimon Emperor," Gatomon said, "He'll show up again, and then we'll get him."

Kari sighed. "He's not who I'm worried about."

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Yazuna and Ogremon walked slowly down a long hallway, illuminated by a few lights hanging above. They entered a room at the hallway's end that resembled a throne room, with a large seat in the center, made of brick stone. A figure wrapped in robes sat on that elegant chair.

"Sir?" Yazuna asked.

"Did you complete your report?" the figure asked.

Yazuna bowed. "I was not able to finish my analysis, but I did discover something I thought you would want to see."

The figure nodded. "Okay, let's see."

Ogremon handed him a manila folder. The figure opened it and quickly read the report that was inside. He started laughing, "So, they've returned, huh?"

"Yes, sir," Yazuna bowed.

The figure on the throne grinned. "Keep your eye on them. We will make our move soon, and, when the time is right, I will crush the Digidestined with the power of my Crest of Spirit! No one will escape when Dark SEED attacks!"

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Tk kicked the door to his own throne room open as he and Tsukaimon walked inside. "Dark SEED is going to pay for doing that to me! Me, the Digimon Emperor, a common lab rat!"

Tsukaimon hovered over to one of the monitors that were littering the room. "Tk, you've got to see this."

He walked over and stared at the monitor. His face twisted into a grin. "It's complete! Those digimon technicians finally did something right!" His grin widened as he watched a massive creature struggling against the chains that attached it to the wall. "The Digital World will fear my coming, with my ultimate creation…Kimeramon!"

to be continued….

Author's note: I'm trying to find out the names of the four great dragons of the Digital World. I know that Holydramon, Goddramon, and Megidramon are three of them, but if anyone can tell me the name of the fourth, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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