part 9:
He feels blood falling over his face, freshly healed wounds have reopened. He feels the pain in his arm, the fused bones have split opened. His legs are about to give out, his chest is on fire. His name is Tai Kamiya, and how he continues to stand is anyone's guess.
"Fall down," a voice told him, "Make it easier on all of us!"
Tai stared at his captor. Apocalymon was seated on a throne that he found in this desecrated temple. They had come here seconds after Phanotmon radioed Apocalymon. Tai overheard that message. They had learned about the time line merge and how only a super psychic Pokemon called Mew could save it. They came to this temple in South America, and used it as Apocalymon's base to find Mew, while he tortured Tai.
"Never," Tai said,"I'll never fall down!"
"Face reality!" Apocalymon said,"It is over! You lose! I win!"
He fired an energy blast at Tai, through onto the ground where his defeated Digimon lay. Apocalymon turned to a human at the throne's base. "Koga, is everything is place below?"
He bowed nervously. "Yes, M'Lord, the trap has been set..."
"Trap?" Tai asked, slowly standing.
"Yes," Apocalymon said,"You don't think I'd allow you die without the rest of the Defenders at your side?"
"You're fooling yourself! They won't risk everything to save me, my sister won't let them! Count on that!"
"I have!" Apocalymon said walking over to the end of the balcony. "I have my bait, but you are not it!"
Looking over the edge of the balcony he said,"Once my Bakemon read Sabrina's mind, I learned your biggest secret, that this world, this time line, was never meant to happened! That there were apparently two different time lines that merged together! You hope to somehow undo the merge, but I can't let that happen! In fact, I can make it impossible! I will rule this and every other dimension!"
"You can't!" Tai said, running to stare over the balcony, "Not without....without..."
"I believe the word you're looking for is...Mew." Apocalymon said.
Tai stared at him for a moment, then over the balcony. There, surrounded by a dozen soldiers, kept in a bubble connected to a machine, was Mew.
"I have found it!" Apocalymon gloated," The Defenders will come, because they believe that by using this Pokemon's psychic powers, they can travel back in time, fix the merge, and take this world away from me! They will die, I will win! Congratulate me, Taichi!"
In another section of the temple, two guards were walking by a wall when it blew apart, destroying them. "We're in!" Matt said,"Split up! Find Tai and Mew! Hurry!"
The others nodded in understanding. Matt, Gabumon, T.K., Patamon, Sabrina, Lance, Joe, Gomamon, Izzy, Tentomon, Ash, Misty, Kari, Gatomon, Sora, Biyomon, Mimi, and Palmon. They are the Defenders, and this day..win or lose..they fight their final battle.
"My liege!" Brock yelled, running into Apocalymon's throne room."We have been infiltrated! The Defenders are here!"
"What? Already?"
"Yes, they'll be in this room in mere moments!"
Apocalymon turned to Tai, and Metalgreymon, who was just coming to. "Well, Taichi, I so wanted you to live to see the destruction of the Defenders, but it seems I haven't time for the indulgence!"
He raised his hand to fire a blast, when he was suddenly thrown against the wall by a blast. "You got that right, ugly!"
"Who?" he asked, standing up.
The figure stepped closer. "By order of Matt Ishida, I was to keep this form hidden until our we meet up with you! I am Magnaangemon!"
"T.K." Tai said, as Matt's younger brother helped him to his feet.
Metalgreymon stood up also. "Stay down, older one," Magnaangemon said,"This isn't your fight anymore!"
"Think again!" he said,"You've bought the universe a few precious seconds. Together, we'll make the most of them!"
Down below in the room with Mew, the rest of the Defenders had arrived. After the Digimon digivolved to the ultimate level, they made quick work of the guards, but were awe struck when the saw Mew.
Sabrina walked towards it. "Mew," she spoke to it telepathically, "Do you know about the time line merge?"
Mew nodded and sent her a stream of images. "True!" Sabrina said,"Its all true! Reality has been broken! Mew can take us into the past, and then we can repair time!"
"Who has to go?" Ash asked.
Sabrina held up her hand. "Mew is telling me telepathically. It said Hope, Sincerity, Reliability, Water, Psychic, and Knowledge!"
"What does that mean?" Garurumon asked.
"T.K., Mimi, Joe, Misty, Izzy, and myself!"
"Why?" Matt asked.
"I don't know! But we must, and soon, if any reality is to survive!"
The balcony above them was suddenly torn apart as Apocalymon and Magnaangemon flew through it. "Magnaangemon!" T.K. cried, "We need you!"
As always, his first though is to protect T.K., Magnaangemon does as he is told. "What about Apocalymon?"
"I'll distract him!" Ash said," Go Pikachu!"
"Don't!" Kari cried,"He's too strong!"
"Do not interfere!" Tai said, ridding Metalgreymon down. Once he landed, he de-digivovled back to Agumon,"He does what he has to, to buy us enough time!"
He turned to Sabrina. "How must you and the others travel back in time?"
"Mew says it can do it as soon as we're ready!"
"Go then, and good luck!"
Mew's eyes started to glow, and the others disappeared in a flash. "They're gone!" Matt said,"Now what?"
They heard noise from down the hall. "Apocalymon's army is coming!" Lance said.
"Give me your Digivice, Matt! You too Sora, perhaps we can stop them!"
Taking his friends' digivice, he placed his in between them. Pressing a button on the side, all three started to light up.
"Its done," Tai said, after the digivices stopped glowing.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
"Your Digimon can now warp-digivolve!"
"Warp digivolve?" Gabumon asked.
"What's that?" Biyomon asked.
"You'll now when the time is right!" Agumon said, running after Tai.
Tai and Agumon ran to join Ash, as Matt, Sora, and Lance turned to face the army.
"Why hello there!" Piedmon said as he floated in. "It seems we have a challenge, Koga!"
The poison Pokemon Gym Leader stepped forward. "So it does!"
Armageddon: minus 10 minutes.
Tai ran over in time to see Ash and Pikachu getting slaughtered against Apocalymon. "Hey, Dark Lord!" Tai cried,"Want a real challenge?"
"From you?" Apocalymon laughed,"What can you do? I am a Mega, you're Digimon can only digivolve to the Ultimate Level, he's no match for me!"
Tai smiled. "Agumon, show him our secret!"
"Agumon warp digivolve to Wargreymon!"
"What?" Apocalymon screamed,"A Mega? This can't be!"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to Metalgarurumon!"
"Biyomon warp digivolve to Gryphonmon!"
The two digimon looked at each other. "What happend?" Gryphonmon asked.
"We tried to digivolve to Champion, but we jumped to Mega!"
"I'm not impressed!" Piedmon said.
Armageddon minus 5 minutes.
The battle continued to rage as Wargreymon and Pikachu fought Apocalymon, while Lance's Pokemon battled Koga and Metalgarurumon and Gryphonmon fought Piedmon.
"Keep fighting him!" Wargreymon yelled as Pikachu poured on its Thunder attack, "Don't allow him a single breath!"
"How does it feel to be on the ropes?" Ash asked,"Huh, Apocalymon, the tow of our Monsters too much for, ah!"
"Ash!" Tai cried as he turned to his friend.
"Don't worry about him!" Apocalymon said as Pikachu ran over to where Ash was,"He's about to become a little preoccupied!"
Ash opened his eyes and saw a bandaged face staring at him. "Giovanni!" Ash blurted out.
"You owe me a rematch, you little punk!" Giovanni said,"And this time its to the end, understand?"
Amrageddon: minus four.
Piedmon screamed in pain as Metalgarurumon's attack fried his arm. "You'll pay for that! Trump Sword!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
The swords froze and shattered. "Once upon a time," Piedmon said,"There was a king of the world, whom his general Piedmon, destroyed the Defenders!"
"Yeah right!" Metalgarurumon said,"Giga Cannon!"
Piedmon screamed in pain one last time before he was destroyed. "Yes!" Matt and Sora screamed, hugging each other.
"I'll destroy you!" Wargreymon said, punching Apocalymon in the face. "You've got no more cards to play!"
"Wait!"
Wargreymon's punch was held in mid-air as he recognized the voice of Gatomon. Turning around he saw Brock's Onix slowing crushing Gatomon and Kari. "You were saying?" Apocalymon smirked.
Down below, the others returned from their mission. "We did it!" Sabrina said, hugging Matt,"We fixed the time stream!"
"When is it going to change?"
Sabrina shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know! It could be minutes, or years, but probably very soon. I'd say, as soon as the sun comes up. Wait, where is Sora and Misty?"
Three.
"Brock!" Misty yelled,"Stop this! Please!"
Brock looked over and saw his former read-headed friend pleading with him. "Why should I?" he said,"You're a traitor!"
"And look at you! You're supposed to be a Rock Pokemon Trainer, but you're using your abilites to kill a little kid!"
Brock blinked his eyes. "Oh my...What have I done! Onix release them!"
His Pokemon did as it was told. "Kari!" Sora cried, hugging her.
Two.
As Wargreymon and Apocalymon continued to fight, Pikachu delivered the final blow to Giovanni. "He's gone!" Ash said,"That means, only Apocalymon is left!"
Wargreymon blocked Apocalymon's shot, grabbing his arm and throwing him into the wall.
"For twenty years you've gone on and on about how you're the strongest one there is, how no one else can match you!" Tai said.
Wargreymon raised his arms up. "Terra Force!"
Apocalymon screamed as Wargreymon's attack hit, and blew him to pieces. "Tell me, Apocalymon," Tai said,"Who the strongest now?"
"I...I..." he said as his head disappeared.
One.
Tai and Koromon walked over to the others. They were standing on the outer balcony of the temple, just in time to see the sunrise. "What about Apocalymon?" Sora asked.
"He's dead." Tai said,"And with him, this world."
"Our world," Matt said.
Tai shook his head."No, this was never our world."
"Do you think we did our job?" Joe asked.
"We can hope," T.K. said,"We've earned that right."
"Everyone," Tai said,"Come closer, let me see you and be by you, one last time, because none of us will remember this. But that's why we're heroes. To sacrifice what we want, for what the world needs."
He looked over everyone. "We are heroes, and we've proven that. We were destined to be heroes, no matter what. We've proven that heroes aren't made by the world, they're born! We are Heroes. We are Defenders!"
The first light of day rose from the horizon, dancing across the landscape. With it came another light, brighter, the light of time, the light of creation. As this light enveloped everything, the world, the time, that was never supposed to be, became undone, and the single time line became two once more.
Zero
THE END.
He feels blood falling over his face, freshly healed wounds have reopened. He feels the pain in his arm, the fused bones have split opened. His legs are about to give out, his chest is on fire. His name is Tai Kamiya, and how he continues to stand is anyone's guess.
"Fall down," a voice told him, "Make it easier on all of us!"
Tai stared at his captor. Apocalymon was seated on a throne that he found in this desecrated temple. They had come here seconds after Phanotmon radioed Apocalymon. Tai overheard that message. They had learned about the time line merge and how only a super psychic Pokemon called Mew could save it. They came to this temple in South America, and used it as Apocalymon's base to find Mew, while he tortured Tai.
"Never," Tai said,"I'll never fall down!"
"Face reality!" Apocalymon said,"It is over! You lose! I win!"
He fired an energy blast at Tai, through onto the ground where his defeated Digimon lay. Apocalymon turned to a human at the throne's base. "Koga, is everything is place below?"
He bowed nervously. "Yes, M'Lord, the trap has been set..."
"Trap?" Tai asked, slowly standing.
"Yes," Apocalymon said,"You don't think I'd allow you die without the rest of the Defenders at your side?"
"You're fooling yourself! They won't risk everything to save me, my sister won't let them! Count on that!"
"I have!" Apocalymon said walking over to the end of the balcony. "I have my bait, but you are not it!"
Looking over the edge of the balcony he said,"Once my Bakemon read Sabrina's mind, I learned your biggest secret, that this world, this time line, was never meant to happened! That there were apparently two different time lines that merged together! You hope to somehow undo the merge, but I can't let that happen! In fact, I can make it impossible! I will rule this and every other dimension!"
"You can't!" Tai said, running to stare over the balcony, "Not without....without..."
"I believe the word you're looking for is...Mew." Apocalymon said.
Tai stared at him for a moment, then over the balcony. There, surrounded by a dozen soldiers, kept in a bubble connected to a machine, was Mew.
"I have found it!" Apocalymon gloated," The Defenders will come, because they believe that by using this Pokemon's psychic powers, they can travel back in time, fix the merge, and take this world away from me! They will die, I will win! Congratulate me, Taichi!"
In another section of the temple, two guards were walking by a wall when it blew apart, destroying them. "We're in!" Matt said,"Split up! Find Tai and Mew! Hurry!"
The others nodded in understanding. Matt, Gabumon, T.K., Patamon, Sabrina, Lance, Joe, Gomamon, Izzy, Tentomon, Ash, Misty, Kari, Gatomon, Sora, Biyomon, Mimi, and Palmon. They are the Defenders, and this day..win or lose..they fight their final battle.
"My liege!" Brock yelled, running into Apocalymon's throne room."We have been infiltrated! The Defenders are here!"
"What? Already?"
"Yes, they'll be in this room in mere moments!"
Apocalymon turned to Tai, and Metalgreymon, who was just coming to. "Well, Taichi, I so wanted you to live to see the destruction of the Defenders, but it seems I haven't time for the indulgence!"
He raised his hand to fire a blast, when he was suddenly thrown against the wall by a blast. "You got that right, ugly!"
"Who?" he asked, standing up.
The figure stepped closer. "By order of Matt Ishida, I was to keep this form hidden until our we meet up with you! I am Magnaangemon!"
"T.K." Tai said, as Matt's younger brother helped him to his feet.
Metalgreymon stood up also. "Stay down, older one," Magnaangemon said,"This isn't your fight anymore!"
"Think again!" he said,"You've bought the universe a few precious seconds. Together, we'll make the most of them!"
Down below in the room with Mew, the rest of the Defenders had arrived. After the Digimon digivolved to the ultimate level, they made quick work of the guards, but were awe struck when the saw Mew.
Sabrina walked towards it. "Mew," she spoke to it telepathically, "Do you know about the time line merge?"
Mew nodded and sent her a stream of images. "True!" Sabrina said,"Its all true! Reality has been broken! Mew can take us into the past, and then we can repair time!"
"Who has to go?" Ash asked.
Sabrina held up her hand. "Mew is telling me telepathically. It said Hope, Sincerity, Reliability, Water, Psychic, and Knowledge!"
"What does that mean?" Garurumon asked.
"T.K., Mimi, Joe, Misty, Izzy, and myself!"
"Why?" Matt asked.
"I don't know! But we must, and soon, if any reality is to survive!"
The balcony above them was suddenly torn apart as Apocalymon and Magnaangemon flew through it. "Magnaangemon!" T.K. cried, "We need you!"
As always, his first though is to protect T.K., Magnaangemon does as he is told. "What about Apocalymon?"
"I'll distract him!" Ash said," Go Pikachu!"
"Don't!" Kari cried,"He's too strong!"
"Do not interfere!" Tai said, ridding Metalgreymon down. Once he landed, he de-digivovled back to Agumon,"He does what he has to, to buy us enough time!"
He turned to Sabrina. "How must you and the others travel back in time?"
"Mew says it can do it as soon as we're ready!"
"Go then, and good luck!"
Mew's eyes started to glow, and the others disappeared in a flash. "They're gone!" Matt said,"Now what?"
They heard noise from down the hall. "Apocalymon's army is coming!" Lance said.
"Give me your Digivice, Matt! You too Sora, perhaps we can stop them!"
Taking his friends' digivice, he placed his in between them. Pressing a button on the side, all three started to light up.
"Its done," Tai said, after the digivices stopped glowing.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
"Your Digimon can now warp-digivolve!"
"Warp digivolve?" Gabumon asked.
"What's that?" Biyomon asked.
"You'll now when the time is right!" Agumon said, running after Tai.
Tai and Agumon ran to join Ash, as Matt, Sora, and Lance turned to face the army.
"Why hello there!" Piedmon said as he floated in. "It seems we have a challenge, Koga!"
The poison Pokemon Gym Leader stepped forward. "So it does!"
Armageddon: minus 10 minutes.
Tai ran over in time to see Ash and Pikachu getting slaughtered against Apocalymon. "Hey, Dark Lord!" Tai cried,"Want a real challenge?"
"From you?" Apocalymon laughed,"What can you do? I am a Mega, you're Digimon can only digivolve to the Ultimate Level, he's no match for me!"
Tai smiled. "Agumon, show him our secret!"
"Agumon warp digivolve to Wargreymon!"
"What?" Apocalymon screamed,"A Mega? This can't be!"
"Gabumon warp digivolve to Metalgarurumon!"
"Biyomon warp digivolve to Gryphonmon!"
The two digimon looked at each other. "What happend?" Gryphonmon asked.
"We tried to digivolve to Champion, but we jumped to Mega!"
"I'm not impressed!" Piedmon said.
Armageddon minus 5 minutes.
The battle continued to rage as Wargreymon and Pikachu fought Apocalymon, while Lance's Pokemon battled Koga and Metalgarurumon and Gryphonmon fought Piedmon.
"Keep fighting him!" Wargreymon yelled as Pikachu poured on its Thunder attack, "Don't allow him a single breath!"
"How does it feel to be on the ropes?" Ash asked,"Huh, Apocalymon, the tow of our Monsters too much for, ah!"
"Ash!" Tai cried as he turned to his friend.
"Don't worry about him!" Apocalymon said as Pikachu ran over to where Ash was,"He's about to become a little preoccupied!"
Ash opened his eyes and saw a bandaged face staring at him. "Giovanni!" Ash blurted out.
"You owe me a rematch, you little punk!" Giovanni said,"And this time its to the end, understand?"
Amrageddon: minus four.
Piedmon screamed in pain as Metalgarurumon's attack fried his arm. "You'll pay for that! Trump Sword!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!"
The swords froze and shattered. "Once upon a time," Piedmon said,"There was a king of the world, whom his general Piedmon, destroyed the Defenders!"
"Yeah right!" Metalgarurumon said,"Giga Cannon!"
Piedmon screamed in pain one last time before he was destroyed. "Yes!" Matt and Sora screamed, hugging each other.
"I'll destroy you!" Wargreymon said, punching Apocalymon in the face. "You've got no more cards to play!"
"Wait!"
Wargreymon's punch was held in mid-air as he recognized the voice of Gatomon. Turning around he saw Brock's Onix slowing crushing Gatomon and Kari. "You were saying?" Apocalymon smirked.
Down below, the others returned from their mission. "We did it!" Sabrina said, hugging Matt,"We fixed the time stream!"
"When is it going to change?"
Sabrina shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know! It could be minutes, or years, but probably very soon. I'd say, as soon as the sun comes up. Wait, where is Sora and Misty?"
Three.
"Brock!" Misty yelled,"Stop this! Please!"
Brock looked over and saw his former read-headed friend pleading with him. "Why should I?" he said,"You're a traitor!"
"And look at you! You're supposed to be a Rock Pokemon Trainer, but you're using your abilites to kill a little kid!"
Brock blinked his eyes. "Oh my...What have I done! Onix release them!"
His Pokemon did as it was told. "Kari!" Sora cried, hugging her.
Two.
As Wargreymon and Apocalymon continued to fight, Pikachu delivered the final blow to Giovanni. "He's gone!" Ash said,"That means, only Apocalymon is left!"
Wargreymon blocked Apocalymon's shot, grabbing his arm and throwing him into the wall.
"For twenty years you've gone on and on about how you're the strongest one there is, how no one else can match you!" Tai said.
Wargreymon raised his arms up. "Terra Force!"
Apocalymon screamed as Wargreymon's attack hit, and blew him to pieces. "Tell me, Apocalymon," Tai said,"Who the strongest now?"
"I...I..." he said as his head disappeared.
One.
Tai and Koromon walked over to the others. They were standing on the outer balcony of the temple, just in time to see the sunrise. "What about Apocalymon?" Sora asked.
"He's dead." Tai said,"And with him, this world."
"Our world," Matt said.
Tai shook his head."No, this was never our world."
"Do you think we did our job?" Joe asked.
"We can hope," T.K. said,"We've earned that right."
"Everyone," Tai said,"Come closer, let me see you and be by you, one last time, because none of us will remember this. But that's why we're heroes. To sacrifice what we want, for what the world needs."
He looked over everyone. "We are heroes, and we've proven that. We were destined to be heroes, no matter what. We've proven that heroes aren't made by the world, they're born! We are Heroes. We are Defenders!"
The first light of day rose from the horizon, dancing across the landscape. With it came another light, brighter, the light of time, the light of creation. As this light enveloped everything, the world, the time, that was never supposed to be, became undone, and the single time line became two once more.
Zero
THE END.