Digimon: The Quest to Restore

[masterduelist7]

Hey. This is masterduelist7. Long ago, I posted a fic called Digimon Restoration. It wasn't very good, mainly because of the piss-poor spelling and grammar. However, I felt that the concept behind it was strong, so this fic is a remake. I hope to share this fic with the world, and once again welcome criticism.

[spoiler=Chapter 1]
It was a year after the digidestined had defeated Apocalymon and gone back to their world. Peace had prevailed in the human and digital world it seemed to them, so it seemed to them that they would no longer be needed to protect the realms. With the sole exception of the attack of Diaboromon, they had not had to resume their roles. However, yet another adventure was in store.

Izzy was looking at his computer just typing away when suddenly he had received a new email. He was shocked. It was from Gennai who had given them much guidance in the adventures they'd had. He could see the old man’s face in his mind as he opened the letter.

The letter was just a picture of Gennai, but as it often had before, it started talking to Izzy, saying "how are you doing now that it's been a year away from your partners?"

"Everything’s doing great" Izzy said back and Gennai heard him, "why have you called us?"

"I'm afraid things aren't going as great as you think!" Gennai replied "when Apocalymon destroyed your crests you were able to summon enough power from within yourself to use their power anyway."

"Yes and we saved the world that way, " Izzy said. He recalled that experience as their greatest triumph, so it came as a shock when Gennai mentioned it in conjunction with things “not going great”.

"Well" Gennai said "it turns out those crests were necessary for the fabric of the digital world. The weather in our world has changed all over and natural disasters are being created. I predict the digital world may be torn apart if these are not corrected."

Izzy was very worried about this and said "Gennai how can we help to fix these problems?” He imagined with horror the thought of his friend Tentomon dying in a flood or forest fire.

Gennai just looked sad and said, "Do you remember we told you about the digidestined before you who sealed away and evil as great as Apocalymon? We in the digital world never knew where they went so we assumed they had gone back to the world of humans. But I think they never left at all. We have been hearing about dark and unhappy beings roaming our world, who are humans who have resided here so long they started to become digimon themselves! I think they may be one and the same!"

"That's astounding" Izzy yelled back, he had no idea that a human could become a digimon, "but what does this have to do with those disasters?"

Gennai continued "the disasters were caused by the lack of your crests with positive virtues. These digidestined used to have crests of their own just like yours, but their virtues must have been corrupted if they turned evil. If you can recover those crests and restore them with your own virtues, the balance will be restored. However those beings if they are so corrupted may not want the world to be saved. You may have to fight them and seize their crests by force."

"How could we fight them? They are humans just like us" Izzy asked. He didn't want to have to kill, even digimon who reincarnated right away he felt bad about, humans were another thing entirely.

"I know and hopefully it will not come to that, now please I have sent these messages to the other digidestined, but you must start calling them together, I have worked with important beings here to arrange for you to be brought here once again." Gennai finished, and the message ended.

"I won't disappoint you, we will meet and stop this" Izzy affirmed to himself as he picked up his phone to start dialing.


Back in the digital world Gennai was looking out his window. It was raining and it had been raining for days where he was from the environmental disturbances. He knew the flooding would start soon, costing the lives of hundreds of digimon and causing untold havoc. But he knew that things would be set right by the digidestined soon. Suddenly, he felt a pat on his shoulder and turned.

A tall person was grabbing him, his face couldn't be seen because he wore a large straw hat, and a blue and white cloak, the flesh of his hand was a pale blue like a body left out in the rain and cold for too long. He held a ringed monk staff in his right hand which wasn't touching Gennai, and said "so, planning on gathering some humans to stop us, eh? No human or digimon will survive the events that will come soon Gennai, sorry to say."

The old man Gennai couldn't fight, he leaped from his chair and tried to run away, but before he could the man lunged and stabbed him with the spike on the tip of his staff, Gennai gasped and then there was darkness only for him.
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[spoiler=Chapter 2]
The day after Izzy had heard about their new quest from Gennai, he had gathered up all of the digidestined together in short order; he had Matt, Sora, Mimi, Tai, and the rest of the gang all together to go and leave for the digital world. They all went to the place he had agreed upon with Gennai, and Izzy’s laptop confirmed with the directions Gennai had e-mailed them.

They all raised their digivices and felt a mysterious energy enveloping them, it felt like when you haven’t eaten anything in a while and you get a sharp feeling in your mouth when you do, but all over their bodies. And they went careening into the sky. Soon they found themselves in the digital world, noticing with nostalgia that it wasn’t all that different from when they were first pulled up. Their digimon were all there waiting for them which made them excited.

Tentomon looked at Izzy and the others matched up, Izzy said “we were called here by Gennai to correct the natural disasters, is it true that that is what is happening?”

“Oh yes, they are horrible!” gatomon yelled, “Even Myotismon’s castle got destroyed by an earthquake, good riddance though. I never liked that place at all, it was awful living there.”

“You have no idea how bad things are here, “ Tentomon said, “A month or so after you left we had a volcanic eruption, at first we thought it was one thing but now everything’s changed everywhere, and always for the worse. Thankfully this is the one nice place left it seems”, and it was true, where they were standing the grass was green, the sun was shining, and the ground seemed stable enough.

“We’re supposed to be finding humans who are kind of like digimon, do you know anything about this old buddies?” Tai announces to all the digimon. At the very mention of this, the digimon became uncomfortable, and were silent for a while.

“No, we’ve never heard of anything like that” Palmon said, “but I did see a strange person walking around once, I couldn’t see what he looked like because he had a cloak on, but he didn’t look like a digimon to me!” He was very worried

“I’m sure we’ll find them, but how about we go over to Gennai’s place for further advice, that would be prodigious” Izzy said and he said “alright, we can get there by flight!” And he held up his digivice and Tentomon digivolved into the giant blue insect Kabuterimon, then into the even bigger red MegaKabuterimon, they got on his back,

“All aboard the MegaKabuterimon express!” MegaKabuterimon yelled with a laugh, as they flew over to the server continent, it took a while but they didn’t get tired and they found it was pouring when they got there.

“What a time for me not to wear a raincoat or bring an umbrella!” Mimi said to the others because her long hair was getting drenched and wet. The rain just wouldn’t stop, but they got to Gennai’s house soon enough, they were able to enter and when they got in they were surprised.

The room that was more like almost a little viewing dome, they expected to find Gennai there but they didn’t see anyone, but then they looked around and Mimi screamed, the others came and found her and they saw that Gennai’s body was there as well, dead and bloody.

“Oh no!” izzy said, but then he thought “shouldn’t his body have become data like digimon? There’s something strange here.”

As the digidestined were silent in their horror, the computer system to their right activated, and another video of Gennai played, speaking “this message has been dictated so you will know what happened. I was attacked by an intruder, he left thinking I was dead but I was able to hand on long enough to dictate this message. My attacker was I’m quite certain one of the corrupted humans I told you about. He seems to be very powerful because he could move faster than I could see, and he definitely did not want you to come here. His skin was blue and he wore a blue and white cloak and straw hat, and carried a shakujo.”

“That’s like the person I saw!” palmon gasped, amazed that the two might have been one and the same. The message continued speaking.

“I believe he may still be on this island because I have left many devices here, and he will probably be looking to destroy them as they have helped to keep the stability of this world under control without the crests. Even now he may be searching for them and destroying them as we speak. There must be eight members if they have crests inverse to your. The secret of the bad virtues their crests possess may be needed to understand their powers and motives. And now, I can write no more. Goodbye forever.” Izzy couldn’t help but cry when the message finished, and the other digidestined had to hold back their sorrow, they had to be strong or else Gennai’s death was futile.

“Those evil hybrids, we’re going to have to get rid of them before they cause anymore harm!” Tai yelled, and the others agreed. They were about to set off on their greatest adventure of all.
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[spoiler=Chapter 3]

The digidestined found some rain wear in Jennai's house, fitting them perfectly. "Jennai must have had this here because he knew we'd show up for him." Matt said, slipping on a taught yellow raincoat over himself. Nobody said anything, but just hung their heads in silence at the mention of their former mentor.


"How are we even going to start?" Tai said with exasperation, "we don't know a thing about these villains. Isn't there any more we can find out?" He looked around and didn't see anyone moving to answer him, save Izzy who was clicking away on Jennai's computer.


"Looks like he couldn't find out much either," Izzy said while still gazing into it, "there's research files on here but none of them look like they've gotten much past the starting point. Nothing that would give us useful advice on how to take down these creeps."


"So we haven't learned a thing." Matt said angrily, "what's the good of coming here if we can't even help!?"


"We're not quite in the dark, Matt," Izzy replied back distractedly, "there's a layout here of 'crest routing nodes' that form a network that covers server. I think these are the devices Jennai was talking about, they seem to be powered by a crest-like power source, but these calculations show it's being stretched to the limit."


"Well, go on Izzy" his partner Tentomon said, hovering by his side.


"Jennai said those dark humans would be trying to destroy the nodes so the disasters can continue unabated. If we stick around the nodes, we're bound to run into one of them soon enough!" Izzy concluded. Clicking again, he printed out several maps that showed the network mapped to the island. He then got up and handed them out.


"There are four nodes in this area. If we split up into groups of two each, we should be able to cover them all, but still have enough of us to fight off any of them if they attack." Izzy said to the group, "we should decide on partners."


"I want big brother!" the young Kari eagerly yelled and grabbed a hold of Tai, who just shrugged his shoulders.


"Me too" TK said more quietly, walking over to Matt.


"I'll go with Mimi" Izzy said, and she just nodded almost inattentive to the choices. That left Sora and Joe to stick together. They both were thinking there was someone else they'd like to be with, but neither wanted to rock the boat.


The children took one last look at Jennai's home. It used to be a comforting place for them. Back when they battled Myotismon, he had given them the cards they needed to access the human world again there. Now it felt cold and sad. They'd talked to a digimon nearby who was a friend of Jennai's, who said he'd take care of the funeral. He never had had to deal with a dead body before though, and Izzy reflected on how strange it was for Jennai to remain solid after death.


"Well, this is no time to just stand around reminiscing," Matt said, the others nodded and they went out into the rain and parted their seperate ways, making their paths to the closest nodes on each side.


...


TK and Matt had gotten to their area, where there was supposed to be a large machine. They didn't see anything. "Maybe it's buried?" Palmon suggested. TK went to the ground to dig, but got up right away seeing the futility of that.


"Maybe," Matt said, "that would definitely be more safe for them, and Jennai was always a smart guy. I'm going to comb the area one last time, you just stay right here, and stay alert." He said and departed slowly.


After Matt had vanished from sight, TK watched around for a moment. Palmon then said, "you know if these things are powered by a crest, maybe they'd react to your digivices!" brightly, like he had stumbled upon a great idea.


"Good plan, we should go find Matt and tell him!" TK said, and he ran off with Palmon. As they walked through the rainy woods, they realized just how lost you could get. TK couldn't tell one direction from another, especially in such darkness. Turning to the side and walking some more, they saw a tall man walking in the other direction, right towards them. TK could see him carrying a shakujo, with his straw hat, and wearing a crossed blue and white shirt, right side crossed over left, and loose white pants.


TK felt scared. He thought, hadn't the recording said something about a man with a shakujo? And he definitely didn't look like a digimon! There shouldn't have been any humans in this world besides them, unless... "He's one of them, Palmon" TK said horrified, and ran to get distance. between them.


The man tipped his hat up to look at the boy, and TK could see his deathly blue skin and very short red hair. He looked like the very idea of a demon-man. He smiled, and TK felt shivers down his spine. But he was determined to stand his ground.

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[spoiler=Chapter 4]
TK stared at the man, then yelled at him, "Are you the one who killed Jennai?" TK gripped his digivice, prepared to activate it if the man tried to fight them.


The man stared off into the forest space above them, and said quietly "That must have been one of my brothers. I was assigned to destroy Jennai's devices, not the man himself."


"You're an enemy, then! Jennai warned us about you!" TK yelled back and then looked at Patamon, "we're going to have to take this guy out!" he said, and activated his digivice!


[center]Patamon Digivolve to... Angemon!"[/center]


Patamon was gone, and in his place now stood the majestic angel digimon, Six wings outstretched and staff in hand, long blond hair rapidly being soaked by the rain, but still keeping a shine. Angemon yelled "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to go down now. Hand of Fate!" and fired a blazing fist of energy from his hand, striking towards the evil hybrid, who quickly jumped away with great speed, avoiding the blast.


"Not fast enough, not strong enough i'm afraid!" The man said, as he jumped towards Angemon, shakujo in hand, and brought it down crashing towards the angel digimon's face, who had barely enough time to parry it with his own staff. Angemon jumped back and started preparing another attack, once more yelling "Hand of--", interrupted by the man who had smacked Angemon in the side before he could even finish his attack call.


As Angemon fell to the ground, TK felt great fear that this man was so easily defeating his digimon. Could he summon his crest's power from within himself, like he'd done against Apocalymon? He didn't know, but he had to stay hopeful, knowing that hope itself was his source of power. He held his digivice up again and yelled "Angemon, you need to transform to beat him!"


[center]Angemon Digivolve to... MagnaAngemon![/center]


The man stayed calm, simply lowering his hat to cover his eyes from the blinding light of Angemon's digivolution. When it ended, Angemon had again transformed to his ultimate form. His body had become armored, and his six wings had changed to eight, four of them folding over his waste and shoulders. His left arm had a purple shield of energy, and his right had a golden wristlet that extended a similar blade. Finally, another purple energy visor covered his face, completing the change.


"Am I supposed to be impressed? Boy, I have seen many digivolutions in my time. If you talked to the old man, you probably heard how I used to be like you. That's wrong. Compared to me then, your powers as a digidestined are nothing!" The man called out, jumping again towards MagnaAngemon, landing in front of him and dashing forward, launching several attacks with his staff, all of which the angel deflected with his arm blade and shield, though he was still being forced back by the fury of this new assault.


MagnaAngemon called forth, "Shield and Counter!" blocking the man's most recent swipe and returning it with a thrust from his Excalibur sword, only nicking the man's loose shirt. Flying up to the air, he said "Gate of Destiny" and started to trace a circle in the sky.


Jumping towards him before he could complete it again, the hybrid smacked MagnaAngemon's arm out of the way, ending the circular movement and with a powerful blow knocked the digimon towards the ground again.


TK saw the battle, and saw that the two were very evenly matched. However, the dark being's speed was still proving an issue. He'd need to distract somehow, give MagnaAngemon the chance to pull off a stronger attack. As the two continued fighting with physical strikes, TK grabbed a rock from the ground, as large as he could hold, and hurled it at the man, striking him on that back. He yelled "Angemon, now!" as the man turned around to see who had attacked him.


By the time he turned around, MagnaAngemon had completed the Gate of Destiny, and created a shimmering metal circle in the sky. The circle opened up, leaving a void in its place, pulling in everything near it with irresistible suction! The hybrid was trying to resist, grabbing a tree, but was rapidly losing ground to it.


As he was about to lose the battle and fly skyward, he yelled "I think you might be forgetting something!" and held out his pale blue left hand, dangling a small metal tag from a thread. TK recognized it as the tag they had used hold their crests, before they were destroyed.


"Angemon, stop! If you suck him in, we'll lose the crest we need!" TK yelled, and MagnaAngemon moved to the vortex, closing the gate in the sky.


Immediately, the man bolted over to TK, thrusting out his staff to try and run the ten-year old digidestined through! He stopped and looked up, seeing that he had stabbed into MagnaAngemon instead, who had managed to get in between them, but was left with no chance to block the attack. MagnaAngemon gagged, and streams of pixilated data rose from the wound, immediately proceeding a flash and MagnaAngemon was reduced back into Patamon!


TK trembled as the man raised his Shakujo for one last blow, when all of a sudden missiles flew through the woods, blasting into him and sending him flying into another tree. Quickly getting to his feet, he whispered, "someone's interfering!" to himself.


Matt walked into the scene calmly, with MetalGarurumon by him growling at the enemy. "Looks like I go here just in time, bro." he said to TK.


The man reached to the fold of his shirt, as if to pull it open and bare his chest, saying "Hah! Even both if both of you had mega forms, you still won't be a match for me once I transform!" only to suddenly crumple his hand and start gripping his chest, as if he was having incredibly severe chest pain. He gritted his teeth and said "Well, it looks like i'm going to have to postpone this."


Matt yelled "Oh no you don't!" and MetalGarurumon fired two more ice missiles towards him, but the man dodged them and jumped away into the woods with ease, losing them both. Matt looked towards TK and said "He got away! We need to tell the others what happened!"


To be continued...[/spoiler]