Friendship is Failure #13: DARKNESS OF DIMENSIONS
Chapter 17: Act 17: A Dark Doom
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What is it that the bible said,
"A great flood shall wash away the sins and the evils of humanity"
...I doubt this will be anything compared to that! HEH-HEH-HEH
ACT SEVENTEEN
Naraku sat by himself in the fields as his insect spies returned to him, bringing back the jewel shard he used on Koga as well as having witnessed the battle between Inuyasha and Koga. “Now I know the existence of thee Dark Angels.” he hissed to himself “And I thought my own demonic powers couldn’t’ be fathomed.”
He was really starting to think nastily, “I must understand more of this darkness, and who knows, it may the key to my ultimate dominance.”
Kagome helped treat Koga’s wounds with a warm, damp cloth and bandaged him up. “There, is that better?”
“Don’t worry about me, I’ve had worse.” Koga said with a smile “But thank you for caring so much, Kagome.”
Inuyasha said nothing; he wasn’t really interested in Koga’s showing off or trying to irritate him, especially considering the events that just happened.
All the dead guards were buried and Miroku gave them a small eulogy, but after that the friends felt it was time the Princess understood what was happening.
“Nobunaga is a Dark Angel?” Tsuyu asked in shock.
“I know this appears shocking, but it is true.” said Miroku “You are only few of many who are actually to see Nobunaga when he is about.”
Tsusyu and Kimo were both astounded. “I do not understand,” said Kimo “How does this happen? What causes it to happen, and why?”
Inusyasha scoffed, “Look, long story short, that idjat was in love with your wife, and because he couldn’t have her, and his overwhelming misery, he was seized by the darkness, so now he’s one of them… Got it?!”
Tsuyu froze where she was, “Nobunaga…?” she cried under her breath, and for the first time ever it really kicked in. She remembered all the times he would blush when near her. How he would stuttered and stammer sometimes when he spoke, and why he was so brave and gallant towards her when she was in danger.
She held her hand to her cheek in deep shock, and her husband couldn’t believe this either as he thought, “He was in love with the Princess, and yet… he saved my life, putting himself in harms way.”
Tsuyu even remembered the night Nobunaga collapsed, and the way he sounded so upset, so hopeless before he went! There was more questioning it. “Oh, Nobunaga!” she cried. Her tears were falling and her heart was aching with guilt “…He is dead… because of me?”
Sango nodded her head sadly, as did Shippo.
Myoga hopped up on Shippo’s head, “I’m very sorry you had to hear of this, Princess.”
Koga overheard everything, “So he just keeled over because he couldn’t be with his dream girl? That sounds kind of lame.”
Everyone turned and glared ta him sharply, even Kagome was not impressed. “How can you say that?”
“Hey, there’s plenty of fish in the sea, and loads of birds in the sky. He could’ve just moved on and picked any one of them he wanted.”
“Ha!” scoffed Inuyasha “That’s rich coming from you, when your always flirting with Kagome.”
Despite the correctness, Koga was infuriated “Shut up, Mutt! I can have any woman I want!”
“Please, stop!” cried Tsuyu, and she began to softly weep.
“Oh, Princess!” her husband said as he comforted her. Tsuyu still loved her husband more than any other, but this guilt was eating at her hard. Though she never had feelings for Nobunaga, she hated the thought that all this was happening to him.
“Nobunaga…” she wept “…I am so sorry!”
Shippo curled up with Sango and Kirara, hating to see a beautiful princess so upset, and Sango patted his head softly.
The Princess needed a good rest after all the trauma she had suffered, and everyone was invited into the palace for a rest by Lord Kimo.
Kagome and Inuyasha stayed behind with Koga, and Kagome gave him a strict look, “Nice going!”
“What?” snapped Koga “He could have moved on, but he chose to cry about it and die.”
Kagome wouldn’t even excuse Koga’s wolf instincts for his heartlessness, but Inuyasha insisted, “Let’s go, Kagome. We’ve got other things to deal with besides this wolf cub.”
“Hey!” snapped Koga, but Kagome and Inuyasha were already heading to catch up with the others. “Whatever. I don’t need you guys.” Koga grumbled, and then he headed off by himself, out of the village.
“Nice one reading him out like that.” said Inuyasha.
Kagome didn’t seem to care much now; she was more concerned about the prior battle. “I’m sure by now Naraku knows about the dark angels too.”
Inuyasha thought about this as well, and knowing Naraku was a creature of extreme darkness, he was likely to be able to see them himself-- though this would have to be confirmed. “We should tell the others. If Naraku’s really involved with this, we could be in for big trouble.”
Meanwhile, TK wasn’t paying much attention in class. He had been pondering hard on what to do about the Dark Angels and how to expose them as monsters.
He made lots of notes and plans of how to attract them or get their attention, but all his ideas seemed fruitless as he didn’t seem to have the power to pull things off, and even if he did, because he couldn’t actually see the dark angels how would he know if they were around?
He then looked over his shoulder at Kari, who was in the seat aside from his. She caught a glimpse of him staring at her, but her features hardened and she went right back to focusing on her work, which really aggravated him.
Then, as he turned back, he saw the teacher standing there before him. “Is something wrong, Takashi?” he asked rather deeply.
“Uh… no, sir-- Just taking notes.” TK stammered, but the teacher observed his paper. “Funny, these don’t look like the notes I’ve written on the board on the book we’ve been reading. They look more like plots against someone, or something.”
TK felt really embarrassed by now, and while he wanted to explain, how could he. Then again, the teacher never gave him a chance.
“Never mind, just think about this as you write me up a ten page essay on how important it is to pay attention in class… in class… after school!”
Some students chuckled at TK; Kari only sighed and shook her head in disappointment, while TK crumpled a sheet of paper in his hand.
Nevertheless, by the day’s end, he had served his detention, and handed in his essay.
Still, he was not deterred!
“How can I attract the Dark Angels?” he kept asking “Ken won’t let me take his D3, so there has to be a way.”
He left the school, and decided to go for a walk to cool off a bit, alone-- Kari had asked for her space anyway.
Kari was with Ken and Yolei at one of the school yard picnic tables, while Cody was doing some Kendo stances on the grass with his training stick. She watched how TK walked off, and had no idea what he was plotting. “I’m really getting worried about him.” she said to the others “He seems so determined to bring the Dark Angels down.”
Yolei shook her head, “He’s determined, but he’s really being stupid.”
“He’s under a lot of pressure right now.” said Ken “I don’t like the way he’s behaving either, but we can’t ignore that.”
Cody angrily thrusted his stick, “I don’t think it matters, Ken. TK has no right to be acting like such a jerk.”
All this only made Kari feel worse. “I’ve got to talk to Davis again.” she told the others “Maybe I can try to warn him what TK’s trying to do.”
The others all gawked at her and felt very skeptical about this.
“Last time I checked, Davis hated your guts.” said Yolei “He seems to hate us all for that matter.”
Kari was aware, “But I can’t stop thinking about this. I… I feel I need to talk to him. I hate to think of him so angry, so miserable-- not to mention a prisoner in the Dark Zone.
All the Dark Angels ever do is meditate, go and collect dark aura, and then meditate more. How can they just sit like that for all eternity? They don’t deserve to be that way.”
Ken began to have thoughts of his own dark past, and how he became the Digimon Emperor. It sickend him to think how he once actually enjoyed being nasty and beating up small Digimon-- while under the impression it was just a computer game.
He regretted it to much; a tear fell from his eye.
“Ken, are you okay?” asked Yolei.
“Oh,” Ken said snapping out of his trance “Just, having a bad memory relapse.”
His girlfriend wrapped her arm around him and cuddled him close, but now Ken was starting to think how bad Davis had it, but still, “I really don’t think we should bother. The Dark Angels made it clear that they don’t want to be disturbed.
Besides, they’re not really hurting anyone, and like I said-- I won’t put Davis through anymore of this.”
Kari looked down,
“Don’t you give me that look!” snapped Ken “The answer is “No!” definitely “No”
Cody agreed with him there, “Besides, they’ve suffered enough already thanks to the dimensions being distorted. We don’t want to make things any worse.
I think it would be better if we just focussed on TK, and try to snap him out of this.”
Kari wasn’t so sure. She knew they were right, but she still wanted to at least try and talk to Davis’ spirit again, no matter what anyone said.
“I have to go.” said Yolei “I have to work in the store this evening. Mom and Dad are going out for their anniversary.”
“I’ll go with you.” said Ken “It’s on my way home anyway.”
Cody had to leave too for his Kendo lesson with his grandfather. “Are you going to be okay, Kari?” he asked.
“Don’t worry about me, I can get home fine.” answered Kari “I just really need some alone time right now-- time to think”
The friends said their goodbyes and headed off, leaving Kari think think for quite a while.
Her mind began to wander back to when Davis glared at her and the others, telling them all to leave the Dark Zone and never return.
“Get out!”
She remembered how infuriated he seemed, not just at her, but at the entire gang, and even his own family. She even remembered how hostile the other dark angels form the other dimensions acted to their former friends, and all suffering from reasons similar.
“This is crazy!” Kari groaned to herself, but all it did was make her wish to speak to Davis more, and maybe even return to the Dark Zone and talk to all the Dark Angels-- make them see that they didn’t have to be miserable or silent.
Suddenly, she saw on the grass, “Ken’s D3.” Obviously Ken had unknowingly dropped it. She picked it up, and knowing that it was still full of the dark power she was very tempted to try to use it to attract Davis to her-- even though it was Ken’s D3, because the energy was drawn from the Dark Ocean itself, Kari also had the power to tap into it.
“No!” she thought to herself, “What am I thinking? This dark power is very dangerous, and Ken would be steamed at me if he finds out I used his D3!”
Kari’s hand trembled as she held the D3.
“Kari!” TK said, scaring her and making her jump, and he jumped too. They both calmed down quickly. “You got Ken’s D3!” exclaimed TK.
“What are you doing here?” Kari asked.
“I stopped by your place, and Tai said you weren’t home, so I figured you were still here, but hey, you got the D3. How did you make Ken give it to you?”
“I didn’t,” Kari explained “Ken dropped it, and… well…”
“Look, at least you’ve got it.” TK cut it “Now we can use it to lure the Dark Angels out.”
Kari clutched the D3 tightly. “No!” she snapped “We shouldn’t, especially not like this.”
TK couldn’t believe her. “Kari, what is with you? You’re the one who keeps going “I wanna talk to Davis” and Ken and Yolei bitch at us to say “No!”
Kari did not like his attitude one bit, and she snapped at him. “What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with you, Takeru?!”
TK winced back a bit, people only ever called him by his real name is they were really steamed with him.
“You’re really obsessed with this Dark Angel stuff-- way more than I am!” Kari growled.
TK couldn’t believe what she had just said, “Hey! I’m trying to stop those evil freaks from whatever it is they’re going to do!”
“They’re not freaks, and they aren’t evil!” shouted Kari “They’ve done nothing wrong! They couldn’t help what they became!”
“Sure they could have! If they just manned up and didn’t whine that they didn’t get their dream girls, that cunt, Erebus would’ve backed off!!”
Kari was so mad that she smacked him across the cheek, much to his, and even her own horror, but Kari’s anger returned, mixed with sadness, “I don’t know who you are anymore, but this is not the guy I knew, or want to hang with!”
“Kari…” TK tried to console her, but she already ran across the field. “Kari…!” but she was already running down the sidewalk.
“WELL, (BLEEP) YOU TOO!!” he shouted up the street, and everyone nearby could hear him and looked his way, but he didn’t care, and yet he STILL blamed the Dark Angels for all this-- preferably Davis!
He then realized that Kari still had Ken’s D3, and he had to get it from her as it was his only ticket to confronting Davis. So, he raced up the street to find her, knowing she couldn’t have gotten too far.
In the Titan’s World,
Robin had gone to the hospital to be with Starfire. Despite her injuries from the fire and the smoke, she was treated well by the doctors and awoke, but she still felt very sore and tired form the ordeal.
“How’re you feeling, Star?” Robin asked.
“I am feeling weak,” groaned Starfire, “But I shall be fine.”
She seemed more upset than hurt because she remembered how she failed to save that baby from the fire in time.
Robin comforted her “It wasn’t your fault, Star; you tried.”
Starfire still didn’t feel any better, and sadly drifted off to sleep, but still clutching Robin’s hand.
Robin stayed with her all through the night.
While back at the tower, Cyborg ran all the scans he could on Raven to determine what happened to her. “You seem fine.” answered Cyborg “But you’re energy levels are slightly abnormal.”
Raven blinked once, “How abnormal exactly?”
Cyborg typed into the computer to show images of infrared waves traveling through Raven’s body, resembling her powerful magic-- he brought up a “Before” and an “After” image.
“Look here,” he said pointing at the “Before” image, which showed the energy flowing in a straight path like the waters of a river. “Now, look here at the other.” and the “After” image showed the energy was still flowing, but waving back and forth, “It’s almost like it’s been compromised.”
This meant that Raven had indeed absorbed some of Beast Boy’s Dark Angel power, which was combining with her own.
Raven looked down at her hands with awe and astonishment, but at the same time she was concerned, “I don’t know how my powers are affected by this. I don’t know if I should dare try an experiment either.”
While Cyborg did agree he pointed out, “But we can’t just do nothing about it either. What if you get called into action? We’re going to need you more than ever now that Starfire’s out of action.”
Raven knew he was right and so far nothing really bad or unusual had happened-- other than the fact she was able to create tiny portals to the Dark Zone whenever she freaked out in anger, but that didn’t make it any less risky.
Terra wasn’t being much help. After all that happened that night, she was just trying her hardest to stay calm and quiet for the baby’s sake. She was just sitting on the sofa in the lounge, breathing steadily.
She clutched her stomach softly as she watched the news that covering the story of the fire. Though the fire had been put out, many were injured, several others were dead, including that little baby Starfire tried to rescue which landed her in the hospital.
“Beast Boy…” was the only thing she could seem to mutter, remembering that she saw him on the rooftop, via the screens, and how he was unable to do anything to help anyone and that the Titans got into a huge tiff with him.
“Hey…” Cyborg called softly as he and Raven came into the lounge, “You okay?”
Terra sighed “Physically-- yes. Emotionally-- not so well.”
The duo knew Terra had seen everything that happened, including the tiff with Beast Boy.
Raven sat down next to her, “Look, I know you’re peeved with me, but he wasn’t being any better.”
“I know,” said Terra “But it doesn’t change things. I don’t know how much more of this I can take-- everyone’s yelling, swearing, hating each other, even the Dark Angels are angry with us.” she paused and gasped softly as she felt her stomach!
“Terra!” said Cyborg.
“I’m okay, it was just a kick.” she sighed, and she calmed down. “I really don’t want to bring this baby into a world of so much anger and fighting.”
She almost looked on the verge of tears, knowing many of this happened because of her.
Cyborg and Raven had no idea of what to say about that. They talked, and talked, and talked about it, but nothing would change the facts or Terra’s mind.
Just then, Robin called from the hospital.
“How’s Star doing?” asked Cyborg.
“She’s fine, just a little burned and upset, but she’ll be okay. How’s Raven?”
Raven explained everything about her powers being altered.
“I see,” said Robin “Well, I know it’s risky, but we should try and test Raven’s powers out.”
The others, even Raven reluctantly agreed.
In Equestria, the friends took Twilight out to dinner hoping to cool her off after the big upset, but really they all needed some time together after the way Spike had balked at them, and practically threatened them to stay out of his business.
Twilight hardly touched her food, still unable to believe that even Celestia had forbade her from doing any more experiments, blocked off the mirror gate, and taken the dark powder and hidden it well.
“Twilight?” said Starlight, “Are you going to be okay?”
Twilight sighed “I don’t know. I just don’t know! I’ve never felt so… so…”
Pinkie then began to spout “Upset? Miserable? Angry? Down on your luck? At wit’s end?”
“...Lost!” Twilight finally answered “Spike is gone, and it was mostly because of us that he went.”
Rarity felt really upset, “Please don’t remind me of that.” she said tearfully “The way he… he went is one thing, but the way he is now-- dark, angered, miserable… it’s more than I can bear!”
She buried her face into her from limbs on the table, and wept softly.
Fluttershy and Applejack softly comforted her, and they thought she said she’d be okay.
Discord just munched on his food, “Hey, can you try to keep the tears down-- I’m trying to eat here.”
This irked everyone, and Rainbow yelled right in his ear “HOW CAN YOU BE SO INSENSITIVE?!”
Discord picked his ear, “Gee, any louder? I don’t think they heard you in the Dark Zone.”
“You weren’t exactly bein’ too nice.” said Applejack.
Discord sighed, “Look, I get all that, but at least I’m being more realistic. You heard what Spike said-- you can’t help him, you shouldn’t try to help him, and that’s that, and he doesn’t want to be helped. Some of you got that, right?”
The ponies couldn’t seem to argue with him there, but Twilight looked up. Her eye was twitching with anger. “Look, I get all that, but I still don’t think the Dark Angels should be the way they are-- trapped in a dark nightmare, languishing away and doing hardly much.”
Discord sighed and put his hand over his big snout, “Oh, boy… back to square-one again.”
Twilight growled and gritted her teeth, but Starlight calmed her down “I hate to say it, but Discord’s right,” then she looked over at him “…But he could be more sentimental about this.”
Discord scoffed, “Well, I know when I’m not wanted.” with that, he left some money for his share of the tab, “Just let me know when things start to get back to reality around here.”
Then he vanished and was gone, many of the ponies scoffed that he was gone, but Rarity was still upset and still thinking about Spike and how it was becoming more and more painful that he wouldn’t accept any apology from her or the rest of the gang.
She could only visualize him scolding her for being so shallow…
“You wouldn’t give me a chance just because I’m not a pony? You’re not a dragom, Rarity, and I was willing to at least try, and who knows…? We could have had something special, and if it turned out we really weren’t meant to be, maybe it could’ve been better.
But no… you told me flat out you weren’t willing to try, and I did my best to accept it, and then you and the others go and treat me like dirt!
…YOU’RE DISPICABLE!!!”
Every word painfully hammered into her, even though all that scolding was in her mind, it felt like it actually happened to her, and only made her cry more.
Applejack began to find her cries annoying, and so did other ponies that were nearby.
“Excuse me please!” Rarity sobbed, and she ran off, not even leaving behind a share of money.
“Oh, poor, Rarity.” said Fluttershy.
Twilight began to calm down and looked more sad than frustrated, but she still remained undeterred and still hoped there was some way to set the Dark Angels free.
Little did she or any of the ponies realize that back at the Castle of Friendship, while the mirror gate was still bound by Celestia’s magical barrier, it was still absorbing power of the moonlight.
At the same time, in the Titan’s world, the Equestrian Sun Crystal had also been absorbing energy ever since sundown!
The sunlight beamed directly through the lounge windows, and the crystal, placed at the table as a centerpiece, and though it was night now, the crystal was starting to glow again!
The Titans had not noticed this a bit, what with all the stress that had occurred, and right now, the three Titans in the tower were nowhere near the lounge to notice at this p
Cyborg still had that special chamber he had built for Raven from the time when Trigon was about to appear. “I always felt we’d need it again, so I souped it up.” he explained “So even if your powers start going shit crazy, this room should protect you and us.”
“Nice, I guess.” said Raven, and she entered the chamber while cyborg and Terra headed up to the control ops to observe her.
“What’s going to happen?” Terra asked.
“I’m going to send some targets into the chamber for her to attack, and we’ll see how her power measures.”
He then called into the radio, “Ready, Raven?”
Raven gave him a thumb up.
Cyborg then worked the controls, and several droid bots, he had made for training, entered the chamber. Some rolled on wheels, others hovered in the air. Some were even larger than Raven was, but she stood ready and began to unleash her power at them.
She fired a few dark streams, shooting some of the robots down.
Other robots were armed with laser blasters that only fired harmless stun beams that wouldn’t hurt if they hit.
Raven then conjured up a wall of darkness, which deflected the blasts right back at the bots.
Cyborg read the gauge and everything seemed fine.
“Okay, Rae…” he called to her “Give me a big blowout now.”
Raven agreed, and concentrated hard, “Azarath… Metrion… ZINTHOS!!” She unleashed a huge wave of darkness that struck every single bot, and vaporized them into dust.
The lights from the explosions were so bright that Cyborg and Terra looked away and groaned.
When the light had faded, the bots were all gone, and the gauge only read that Raven’s power was just a little higher than normal, but nothing to warrant concern.
However, Raven’s emotional readings were starting to climb, well-past the danger level.
“What’s happening?” cried Terra.
“Raven…!” Cyborg called, but he looked inside, and saw Raven’s eyes glowing red, like they did when she freaked out in anger, and her body was glowing with dark aura.
Cyborg’s controls were going crazy! “Raven, come on! Stop this!” he shouted, but Raven didn’t seem to respond, it was almost as if her true demonic nature was taking over.
“Look at this!” cried Terra, pointing at the med-readings which showed Raven’s hormones were going crazy.
“Shit! She’s having another period!” said Cyborg. Terra found this most odd, knowing what periods felt like, but keeping in mind that Raven was not an ordinary girl sure made the difference.
Raven roared, and began to blast her power at the walls of the chamber; actually trying to break out… and the walls of the chamber were actually beginning to weaken.
“No way!” exclaimed Cyborg “I thought I worked out all the bugs on the designs!” Still, he wasn’t beat yet, and did anticipate any possibility of deigns flaw.
He pounded on a big red button, which caused the chamber to fill with sleeping gas. Due to Raven’s extreme freaking out and overbearing power, it took a few moments, but she fell to the floor, sleeping like a log.
The controls showed her energy levels dropping and her medical-readings were calm again, but her power levels were flowing and curving worse than ever, almost as if the energy had increased.
“Is she going to be okay?” asked Terra.
“I don’t know,” replied Cyborg “We can’t get her out of there yet. I need to purify the gas.”
He activated the air-cleanser unit to filter out the chamber. The meter on the console showed the gas level draining, but suddenly, the energy meter began to rise again!
“Now what?” grumbled Cyborg.
“Look!” cried Terra. She pointed inside the chamber, and saw Raven was disappearing through a portal in the hole-- a portal just like the ones Beast Boy used.
“Raven!!” shouted Cyborg, but it was more than too late, for Raven had already fallen into the portal, which vanished instantly.
Cyborg and Terra gawked at each other in great fear, and they dashed off to call Robin!
Meanwhile, Kari had called Ken on her cell-phone about his D3, and that she was just a few blocks away.
Ken came to her with Yolei.
“Thanks for finding my D3, I was going crazy looking for it.” said Ken.
Kari nodded, and then looked down at the D3.
“Um… you can give it back now.” said Yolei.
Kari continued to stare at it, knowing she was giving up her chance to try and talk with Davis, and it really bugged her.
“Hold it!” shouted TK as he came running down the street, almost like a skilled basketball player ready for the steal… and snatched the D3 out of Kari’s hand!
“I got it! I GOT IT!!” he chortled
“TK!” snapped Yolei.
“Give that back!” demanded Ken, and he rushed in to take his D3, only for TK to give him a shove to the ground.
“Ken!” cried Yolei. Now she was pissed-- Kari too!
“Can’t any of you see what I’m trying to do?!” snarled TK “Those Dark Angels are ruining everyone’s lives! They’re making you feel sorry when you shouldn’t be, and they don’t do anything to better themselves except sit on the sidelines and watch us all suffer!
…I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!”
His screams echoed all over, and many people looked his way, but they also just went about their own business anyway.
While in the Dark Ocean, Patamon actually felt it!
“TK…?”
“What’s wrong?” asked Gatomon.
Patamon listened deeply to the winds, “I thought I just felt I heard TK crying out.”
Gatomon looked at pretty much nothing, wondering if Kari was okay.
TK was quivering, like a real crazed individual, “I want it to end! I want those Dark Angels to answer for all the pain they cause the people! I want to stop them from hurting others! That’s why I want to do this!”
“TK, you’re being paranoid!” snapped Kari!
TK wasn’t interested in anymore lectures, and prepared to use his connection with the Dark Ocean to unleash the power from the D3.
Ken clenched his fists and called out, “WORMON…!”
Wormon leapt out from Ken’s backpack, “STICKY NET” and sprayed him with his webs binding him in a net, and making him drop the D3 on the ground.
Ken grabbed it and held it close while sighing in huge relief, “Thanks, Wormon.”
“Aw, it was nothing, really.” Wormon said bashfully.
Kari had warned Ken and Yolei on her call about TK’s obsession with the D3, and Ken had figured that TK would try and take it, so he had Wormon on standby, just in case.
Then, who should come along by Tai and Jun, along with Matt and Sora, on a double date.
“TK…!” Matt shouted as he saw his brother wrapped in the webbings.
“Kari, what’s going on here?” asked Tai.
Kari explained everything, and Yolei and Ken vouched for her.
“TK…!” Sora said in shock “I can’t believe you!”
“Haven’t you hurt my brother enough!” scolded Jun. Tai held her hand to keep her calm, but TK said nothing and just sulked.
Sora took a nail file out of her purse and cut him loose of the threads, but he still acted all sour and rude. “I’m just trying to do everyone a world of good!”
“This isn’t like you, TK!” said Matt “I’ve seen your freak-outs over evil or darkness before, but this goes way over the line, and I think you need professional help!”
All this anger and all this hatred going about, was starting to make the dark power in Ken’s D3 resonate!
Twilight and her friends made it back to the Castle of Friendship, but no one was saying pretty much anything.
Pinkie Pie tried to break the silence, “So… um…?” but she couldn’t think of anything to say.
“Well… maybe we should all head on home?” suggested Applejack.
The others agreed, and they also wanted to go check up on Rarity and see if she was alright.
Suddenly, there was a large glow coming from down the hallway. “What’s that?” asked Rainbow, and right then the castle began to rumble softly as the light got brighter and brighter.
Twilight gasped, realizing where this light was coming from, “The mirror gate…!”
Everyone gawked at one-another in concern and wondered how this was possible if it was blocked off.
Everyone raced to the library, and surely enough the gateway was going crazy-- glowing brightly and shaking under the barrier, and Twilight immediately saw why! “The solar-panels, they absorbed too much energy!”
In the Dark Zone, the Dark Angels could feel everything-- a great big dimensional distortion, even bigger than the ones they had felt before, making the realm become more and more unstable.
“What’s happening…?!”
“The realm can’t take any more of this stress!”
Nobunaga, Spike and Davis could barely keep on their feet.
“Who do we have to thank for this one?” Davis asked.
“Whoever it is, I sure wouldn’t want to be them right now.” said Spike, but he began to have his suspicions that Twilight was not heeding his warning.
“Hey!” Beast Boy called as he came flying in over the hills and dragging Raven in a dark binding with her, “Look who I found just over the hills!”
He placed her down, but didn’t release her from the binds.
Raven was no longer in her demonic form having calmed down, but now she felt really awkward and nervous as all of the Dark Angels around the way seemed to be glaring at her.
Nobunaga approached her fiercely, “How dare you return here, after being explicitly barred!”
“How did you even get here?” Davis asked.
“It wasn’t my fault!” Raven sneered, and she explained how she had seemed to absorb some of Beast Boy’s power when she confronted him, and this only made her situation worse.
“What’s this I hear?!” thundered Erebus. The Dark Angels all turned and shuddered at the sight of their angry lord, and Raven felt very nervous.
Erebus glared at Raven, “It was bad enough that you dared to interfere with the Dark Angels, but did I just hear correctly that you dare to use our powers?!”
Even Beast Boy was shocked to hear that some of his powers had been absorbed, but nothing else would explain how Raven was able to get here.
“Look, I didn’t mean to come here!” growled Raven “Just send me back, and we can forget this whole thing!”
The Dark Angels didn’t like her attitude, but the realm was only become more and more distorted.
“What’s happening?” Raven asked.
Erebus felt the disturbance and realized, “There are more dimensional distortions emitting from the other dimensions!”
“Twilight!” snapped Spike.
“Kari!” cried Davis.
Beast Boy didn’t think it was Raven this time, but something in his former world was causing this.
Nobunaga couldn’t feel any disturbances occurring from his memories, but he didn’t like this one bit either.
The mirror gate in Equestria was going berserk, and having its links set to target the Dark Zone!
The Sun Crystal in the Titan’s world was linked to the mirror, and was activating in sync with it, while at the same time, Cyborg and Terra were on the video-call with Robin.
“The Sun Crystal!” cried Cyborg, and he and Terra could see it glowing like crazy.
“Quick, ditch it out the window!” Robin shouted, but the light and energy from the crystal was shining so bright that neither Terra nor Cyborg could even look to try and go near it.
“It’s too bright!” cried Terra.
Even Robin over the video phone couldn’t look, then gain, the light was actually distorting the connection and the screen went all static.
…All this while Ken’s D3 was activating and emitting dark aura. “No, stop!” he cried as he tried to contain the energy, but it was no use.
“What’s happening!” cried Yolei.
Jun held onto Tai and buried her face in his shoulder whimpering, and Matt held Sora hard.
Ken finally couldn’t stop the growing darkness and threw this D3 down on the ground.
The darkness then shot straight up into the sky like a pillar, and a small part of the blast just grazed Kari and TK, knocking them both down.
All three dimensional warps seems to resonate at the same time.
Celestia and Luna could sense the great disturbance.
“What is happening?” asked Luna.
Celestia had never seen or felt such a surge, but she had a really bad feeling that Twilight was somehow connected with this. “I don’t understand-- I blocked off the mirror gate.”
The two sisters decided to investigate, and they both teleported off.
At the same time, Rarity was on her way to the Castle, having taken a long walk to try and clear her head from the sadness she felt, when she saw the lights.
“Oh, my!” she cried “Whatever is happening up there?”
The doors to the castle were still wide open, so she ran right in, and headed straight for the source of the light, and gasped at what she saw-- the mirror portal was glowing brightly.
“Some-pony shut it down!” cried Pinkie.
“I can’t!” shouted Twilight “Celestia’s barrier is blocking the controls! I can’t get near them!”
Celestia and Luna appeared and didn’t need to question what was going on, and it was already too late to do anything about it!
The mirror gave such a burst of dimensional energy…
So did the Sun Crystal...
…and Ken’s pillar of dark power!
The Dark Zone was quaking violently as bright bolts of lightning seemed to strike the dark and stormy skies.
All the Dark Angels in the entire realm were already feeling the great surge and disorientation by the darkness being shifted and damaged in ways unimaginable!
Worse than that, just as Spike warned, Dark Angels in any dimension anywhere that were collecting dark aura in any world on any planet began to feel to disturbance striking them like strong winds.
“Now they’ve done it!” Spike thundered.
Raven didn’t need to be a Dark Angel herself to realize what was coming next…!
Large rifts began to appear showing ways to Equestria, The Digi Destineds’ world, and the Titans’ world! Many tiny rifts also appeared leading to other dimensions anywhere and everywhere, though they were not totally visible, they were there!
“This is bad!” Raven muttered.
Most everyone in all the other dimensions were confused and baffled by the mysterious holes in the skies, but only those who were involved before were horrified and frightened beyond words.
Izzy, Joe, and Mimi looked out the windows from their respective apartments and could see the rifts appearing.
“What is this?” they wondered, but Izzy had a bad idea and could tell this was not the Digital World playing some kind of trick. Worse than that, his computers were going haywire as the Digital Gates came online.
Then Gennai came online, “Izzy!” he called “What’s happening out there? We’ve felt an immense surge of darkness and distortion!”
“I don’t know what it is, but I have my suspicions.” said Izzy.
He then quickly sent a worldwide email to every Digi Destined in the world, and he hoped with all his might they were seeing this and would receive his email on the Digi-Vices. He told them to head to the Digital World immediately!
“That’s a good idea.” said Gennai “You and your friends must come here at once!”
Izzy agreed, but then he thought and asked “What about TK and Kari?”
Gennai fell silent for a moment, and he didn’t have to say what Izzy already suspected. They were barred from the Digital World and couldn’t enter, that also applied to Tai’s girlfriend Jun, as well as anyone else who was not a Digi Destined and didn’t have a Digi-Vice.
Izzy could already feel his heart aching, but the sudden earth shaking snapped him out of his trance.
“Izzy, you must hurry!” shouted Gennai.
Izzy agreed and grabbed his Digi-Vice and he ran past the living room where his parents were looking out the window and up at the sky.
“Izzy,” his mother called “Where are you going?”
“Mom, Dad, I’ve got a real emergency here.”
“You mean you know what’s going on with all these holes in the sky?” asked his father.
“Well, sort of,” replied Izzy, and at the moment just looking at his two loving adoptive parents really shook him painfully inside for what was about to happen.
“What is it?” asked his mom.
Izzy couldn’t control himself and ran over and hugged both his parents tightly, and they hugged him right back. “I love you both very much!” Izzy said with tears in his eyes.
His mother had tears falling down her face too, “Just be careful.” she said to him. “We love you very much too!” added her husband.
Izzy didn’t know how, but he managed to break off from his parents and ran out the door. His mother started to cry and her husband held her softly. Though they both had faith in their son, whatever was happening outside gave them nasty feelings this was bigger than anything before.
In Jump city, Robin could see the rifts from the window of Starfire’s room, and Starfire had been awakened by the sudden shakings. Despite her injuries, she was able to sit up.
“Robin, what is happening?”
“It’s bad, Star… really bad!”
Everyone else in Jump City looked up at the rifts and couldn’t understand them.
A rift even appeared inside where the mirror gate stood, and Twilight could see Spike and the other dark angels, as well as the many rifts to the other dimensions.
“Spike…!” Twilight called
He saw her, and he marched straight and over and balked, “Do you realize what you’ve done?! Do you have any idea what’s going to happen because you wouldn’t listen?!!”
It was in vain that Twilight tried to explain she didn’t mean for this to happen, and wasn’t quite sure how altogether, but it changed nothing.
Erebus then glared at the ponies, and he then turned to look at the Digi Destined in their world and the Titans from their world.
Every one of the mortals shuddered in fear at how pissed his seemed, despite his lack of facial features.
Erebus then spoke very deeply to the mortals, “Your persistence is strong, but now my anger is stronger!
For eons upon eons, we Dark Angels have existed in silence, solidarity! We have done no harm, and only asked to be left to our own ways….
But you mortals have repeatedly defied my warnings, and because of your foolishness… the Dark Zone, our domain, our home, has been brutally assaulted!!”
His long black hair stuck up and out in all directions as his anger increased and the dark power with in him showed, and he transformed into his giant, monstrous form once again.
“Hear me now, my Dark Angels… my children!” he called out “Our ways of peace and silence are no more! The mortals have desecrated us, not just in life which sent us here, but they have caused us nothing but disturbance and pain!
Now, it is our time to act! Our new priority is to invade each and every single world, every dimension, and make that world OURS!!!!”
Every dark angel agreed and cheered with prosper and willingness, while Raven’s stomach gave such a turn like no other, and all other mortals whom had just heard the threat were shaking with fear and beginning to panic.
“They can’t do that?!” cried Terra!
“They’re spirits! They can do anything!” whimpered Cyborg
Erebus cast a great magic on all the Dark Angels, unlocking their powers so they would no longer be restricted, or intangible! They were now able to use their powers as they pleased in the first step in the great conquest.
“The Dark Aura…!” Erebus hollered “Harness it! Use it! Unleash your Darkness!”
As the angels absorbed the aura gathered over the eons, not only did their powers and might begin to increase, but every world, in every universe, even the spaces in between planets was starting to rumble and shake.
“What’s happening?!” cried TK!
“You want answers?!” panicked Yolei “YOU WANT ANSWERS…?!!
…WE… HAVE… (BLEEPING)… PISSED OFF… THE GODS!!!”
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Erebus then shouted to all the mortals, “Mortals… you will… NEVER AGAIN SEE THE LIGHT… OF DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!”
POW!! All worlds began to shake violently as large dark pulses began to rain from skies, and explosions of darkness blasted across the space of every universe!
Erebus ROARED and THUNDERED extremely loudly, making the trembling worse, and more explosions and bombings rocked each world.
People and creatures that got hit by the darkness were instantly disintegrated. Many other creatures ran for their very lives, but there was quite literally no place to escape to as the darkness continued to spread-- flattening cities, wiping out forests, waters and mountains. Even the very stars in space were losing their lights and began inverted into dark forms of themselves, causing the people die all the faster.
“GO, DARK ANGELS!!” shouted Erebus “GO AND DESTROY!! GO AND CONQUER!! TAKE BACK WHAT WAS TAKEN FROM US!!!!”
The angels all charged in armies through the rifts and began to invade every single world, and attacked the people.
Nobunaga couldn’t return to the feudal era, but he did return to Kagome’s world, and began to help his fellow dark angels invert it to the darkness, and destroy any mortal that got in the way.
“MOM!!” cried Sota.
His mother grabbed him, “SOTA!!”
Kagome’s grandfather ran to the both, but all three of them were annihilated in the dark waves that spread!
Davis and Beast Boy along with whatever armies they had brought went back to attack their own worlds-- demolishing every building, every landscape they could find, and murdering any being that came into their view.
Beast Boy suddenly saw three familiar faces-- Jackie, Jillian, and Jackie’s lawyer mom, all together.
“Oh, this is going to feel sweet!” he gloated, and he shot the two teenage girls first, “That’s for calling me a brat boy!”
Then he cornered Jackie’s mom “And this is for taking me to court!!” and he killed her too-- blasting her into dust!
Davis and his crew were blasting his world to pieces. Many humans and animals were already killed and many more were dying in the shelling!
“PAY FOR YOUR SINS!!!” Davis shouted “DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!”
He seemed to have no qualms whatsoever in those he destroyed, and was enjoying this like playing a video game!
All couples saw what was happening, and were panicking like crazy.
“WE’RE DONE FOR!!” screamed Jun “AND I NEVER EVEN GOT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU, TAI!!!”
Tai wasn’t even disturbed by that, and just continued to hold her.
Izzy came dashing up the streets with his laptop ready, “GUYS!!” he called, and he opened the screen showing the portal, “QUCIK, WARP THROUGH!!”
The Digi Destined knew they had to, but TK, Kari and Jun, they couldn’t go inside on their own, and Tai really couldn’t bear to leave his girlfriend and sister behind, nor would Matt leave TK behind.
“NO!!” cried Kari “NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Right then, a dark aura began to awaken within her.
“KARI!!!” TK shouted, and the same darkness emitted from him as well as he leapt for her, colliding into her, and the two actually disappeared!
“KARI!!” shouted Tai.
“TK!!” cried Matt.
The rumbling got worse as dark explosions flew about, and dark shelling rained down all over.
“WE HAVE TO GO NOW!!!” shouted Izzy, and he opened the Digi-Port himself, casting light over him and the other Digi-Destined.
“JUN…!!” Tai cried as he felt his grip on her slipping “NO, NO!! JUN, I WON’T LEAVE YOU!!” but he had already vanished with the others leaving Jun on her own.
Jun’s tears were cascading down her face, but she couldn’t find in her to sob, but just tilt her head up to the sky, close her eyes, and embrace her incoming fate.
KAPOW!! She was hit in an explosion and was gone, just as more and more people were dying with her.
In Equestria, Spike led a force of Dark Angels in and began to obliterate everything.
Ponyville!
Cloudsdale!
Canterlot!
…All were crumpling like crackers and falling like avalanches as the darkness spread.
Spike even made it to the Crystal Empire, and headed straight for the palace to settle an old score with the royal family.
He found them all in Flurry Heart’s bedroom, all panicking and crying in fear.
“Spike…?!” Shining Armor called, and then there was a big explosion that made the whole place shake Cadance was thrown back hard, accidentally dropping Flurry Heart.
The baby cried in pain and fear, but Spike landed near her and used his new strength to pick her up by the horn!
“SPIKE!!!” screamed Cadance. She could see the lust and evil in his expression! “NO, DON’T!!” but Spike, grabbed Flurry’s head in his hands and CRUSHED IT like a grape, making blood and broken bones spill all over!
Cadance and Shining Armor were horrified, devastated, and Shining Armor furiously charged at Spike, shouting “YOU’LL DIE!!!!” only for Spike to blast him into dust before Cadance’s eyes, “…Yes, you’ll die!” he mocked.
Cadance was so devastated and overwhelmed by what she had just seen that she collapsed from her sadness, falling ill with grief and no more care to give.
“Here,” Spike sneered “Let me put you out of your misery!” and he moved in to obliterate her, only for her to suddenly vanish out of sight. “What?!” snapped Spike, but as pissed as he was, he decided to let her go, and continue on his onslaught.
Twilight and friends tried to do battle with the dark angels, but absolutely nothing they could do even fazed the spirits. Even Celestia’s power didn’t even make them flinch.
“What are we going to do?!” cried Twilight.
“There’s nothing we CAN do! Not against this!” shouted Celestia.
“WE’RE DONE FOR-- DONE FOR!!!” screamed Pinkie.
The darkness was spreading towards them like a huge tsunami, wiping out everything it touched, and the ponies all huddled together to embrace their oncoming end as the castle was struck and obliterated!
Many races of many dimensions, human, animal, or alien alike tried to battle the Dark Angels, and stop their destruction, but all efforts were completely fruitless. Not even reality benders, nor those that could control cosmic energies had the power to stop it, since Erebus was a CREATOR who helped to make such energies!
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As Erebus continued to thunder and roar, causing more worlds to collapse to the darkness, Raven, still bound by the dark bindings, was left completely unguarded, and she would never be able to get over all the destruction she had witnessed. Even her father couldn’t have done anything this deadly!
“I can’t let my friends die!” she cried, and she managed to get up onto her feet, and hop, hop, hopped her way over to a rift that led to Jump City.
She leapt right through, leaving the Dark Zone, and plummeted from the skies.
The further she got from the Dark Zone itself, Beast Boy’s bindings around her began to fade, and soon she was free, but there was extremely little time left.
She quickly teleported!
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Titans Tower was starting to crumple as the dark shelling and explosions continued to bombard it and chip it away!
“Cyborg…!!” Terra cried, and Cyborg held her tightly!
While at the hospital, Robin looked deeply into Starfire’s eyes. “Starfire… I’ve always…!”
“I have always too!” she said back to him, and she reached up and kissed him deeply as they both embraced for the end.
Erebus gave one final ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR, and dark waves spread across every world, every dimension in huge crashes, wiping out absolutely everything that was left of the mortals and their world, leaving only darkness and chaos behind.
…and all was quiet again.
Erebus finally felt calm, and reverted back to his smaller, humanoid form. “The world belong to us now. Only the darkness is!”
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