Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. Digimon and all related characters are copyright: Bandai and Toei Animation. So in a way this fanfic belongs to them,
even though I am writing it. This story in available free for reading by the public. Ragnormon is copyright me though, I did essentially make him up. All rights reserved.
Notice: This fanfic does contain violence, (nothing ultra gory though), minor harsh language, and some use of alcohol. Also I will be using the names of the English version, mainly because that is what I am use to.
Digimon Blaze Episode 2: New Enemy, New Ally
Inside the Hypnos control center Riley and Tally sit in their chairs suspended high above the floor, typing at their neon-like keyboards. Yamaki enters the dome-shaped, giant monitor of a room, with a clip-board in his hand.
"Riley, what's the status of the Digimon that appeared in Kyoto?" he asks.
"Still no sign of it sir." Riley replies. "It was probably just another empty digital field."
"Another one?" Janyu says as he enters the control room. "Sounds like that's all you seem to monitor these days."
"Wish it was true this time, but this time we have a witness saying that a Digimon did emerge from that field." Yamaki folds the first sheet of paper on the clip-board over. "And according to the witness, it's a very hostile Digimon."
"Hostile?" Janyu, Riley, and Tally asks almost at the same time.
"The witness, who happened to be a Tamer, stated that the Digimon attacked and killed his."
"That's terri..." Janyu is interrupted by a deep boom, that shakes the building somewhat.
"What was that!?" Yamaki can't help but ask.
Outside, not far a familiar battle-cry is heard.
"Pryo Sphere!" Guilmon fires his attack as Ragnormon, who easily deflects the attack with his arm.
"My turn, Terrier Tornado!" Terriormon's attack is allowed to make contact with the armored Digimon because it does nothing to him. "Well, that worked wonders."
Ragnormon catches Renamon above him through the corner of his eye. He places his hand on the handle of one of his swords.
"Diamond Storm!" The array of white shards shoots down toward their target.
Ragnormon systematically, and with unheard of speed, deflects and blocks every single shard with his sword.
"That's... impossible..." Rika says.
"Not only is he strong, but he is skilled." Renamon states.
"We'll see how 'skilled' he is," Takato gets one of his modify cards out, but before he can even start to use it. Ragnormon lets out a boisterous laugh.
"Quit fooling around! I didn't come here to play your idiotic games! Fight me at full strength! Do your fancy Biomerge." Ragnormon clinches his fists, "I want to defeat you, when you are at your best. Makes the humiliation more complete."
"I say we give him what he wants," Rika says, "make him regret coming and causing trouble.
Henry, Terriermon, Guilmon, and Renamon all nod in agreement.
"Alright," Takato agrees, "you want to fight us in our mega-form so badly? We'll be happy to." All three Tamers yell out, "Biomerge activate!"
As the three Tamers and their Digimon undergo the Biomerge, Ragnormon can't help but chuckle to himself. He takes out his second sword. Soon he finds Gallantmon, MegaGargomon, and Sakuyamon standing before him.
"How this, any better?" MegaGargomon asks.
"A little, your move."
Gallantmon is the first to attack, "Lightening Joust!" Ragnormon dodges the attack by quickly side-stepping to the right. The attack hits and destroys a park bench.
"Impressive," Ragnormon states with blatant sarcasm in his voice, "Gallantmon, the great 'Bench Slayer'. Your attack is slow and clumsy."
"I'd like to see you do better!"
"Gladly!" Ragnormon raises his right-hand sword, "Flame Cracker!" His sword hits the ground sending a wall of flame straight at Gallantmon. The attack creates a loud cracking sound as it slices its way through the ground, leaving a blackened cut. Upon reaching Gallantmon it becomes an explosion of flames.
Gallantmon is shoved into a nearby tree and shatters the tree, and three other trees behind it, in half. Gallantmon rolls around on the ground to put out the fire that in engulfing his cape.
"Takato, that really hurt," Guilmon moans to his tamer from within Gallantmon.
"I know, I'm feeling it too," Takato replies.
"That's it!? That's all you can handle!? And here I expected at least a five minute fight." Ragnormon taunts are visible getting on the tamers' nerves.
"Mega-Barrage!" MegaGargomon unleashes his signature missiles. Sakuyamon lends in her attack, "Spirit Strike!"
Ragnormon smug demeanor becomes even worse as he dodges MegaGargomon's missiles. Even Sakuyamon's added attack is evaded. And to add insult to injury,
he catches the last two of missiles and sends them Sakuyamon's way. The missiles hit there new target. "Sakuyamon!" MegaGargomon cries out. Remorse fills Henry and Terriermon within the mega, after seeing their own attack used to hurt friends.
"It's... alright... we're okay," Sakuyamon tries to reassure MegaGargomon. But this reassurance is short lived when Ragnormon appears in the air before her.
"Spoke too soon," his swords start to glow, "Charge Cutter!" Two twisting, red,
waves emerge from the swords and impact Sakuyamon, hard. The sound of the attack hitting her echoes though the entire district. However, that sound is soon drowned out by the sounds of Sakuyamon colliding an elaborate jungle gym,
and impacting the ground. When the dust clears MegaGargomon can see that it isn't Sakuyamon inside the crater, but instead it is Rika and Renamon. Rika is unconscious, her left arm broken. Renamon is conscious, but has trouble getting up. She has a fair share of cuts and bruises, as well as a dislocated shoulder.
"He beat Sakuyamon!" Henry states the obvious. "That does it Ragnormon! You're..." MegaGargomon's attempt at taunting is cut short when they can't find who he's after. Ragnormon lands on the end of MegaGargomon's nose, his swords on his back and his arms crossed. "I'm what?"
MegaGargomon can't say anything in response. "You're size is fairly impressive. But you know what they say, 'the bigger they are' ..." the mega-
sized mega swallows the lump in his throat, "... 'the harder they fall.' This is gonna hurt." Ragnormon takes one sword, "Flame Cracker!" An blast of fire encircles MegaGargomon's head. The once mighty mega falls to the ground. The victor in the short fight watches as his the mega becomes a tamer and a rookie Digimon again.
"I was right... that did hurt," Terriermon groans as he looks over at Henry.
He is quite shocked at what he sees, "Henry! You're bleeding!" Henry sits on his hand and knees, a hand on his forehead trying to stop the blood from pouring out. Renamon has finally managed to crawl toward the crater that she, and Rika,
are in. She sees Ragnormon standing before a badly beaten Terriermon and Henry.
The little rabbit Digimon standing between his tamer and enemy.
"Who is this guy?" Renamon whispers to herself. She looks back at her tamer,
"Hold on Rika," She slams her dislocated shoulder onto a nearby post, which was once part of a slide, multiple times. She does this until it finally, and most painfully, pops back into place. After taking a few moments to catch her breath and get over the pain, she slides back down to the center of the crater and tends to the unconscious Rika. "Her arm is broken," Renamon gives herself a narrative of Rika's injuries, "I probably shouldn▓t move her."
Ragnormon shakes his head, "So these are the great tamers that defeated the D-Reaper. Guess the rumors were true. The D-Reaper was a weak and powerless program." Helicopter blades can be heard from above. He looks up to see four Cobra Attack Helicopters circling the park. "That must be Hypnos." A figure suddenly lands behind him.
"Lightening Joust!" Gallantmon's attack hits this time, point blank range.
Ragnormon is pushed by the attack, shifting his weight his is able to twist away from the beam and avoid the full force of the attack.
"Nice try. Flame Cracker!" Ragnormon sends his attack toward Gallantmon, who avoids it with a solid jump. "Sucker," Ragnormon snickers, "Charge Cutter!" Hanging in the air with no where to move Gallantmon cannot avoid this twisting waves. Instead all he can do is try to block it with his shield. The attack sends out a shockwave upon hitting the shield. Kicking up dust and knocking Gallantmon into the air, who ends up landing as Takato and Guilmon.
"I can't believe... you beat us..." Takato strains to say.
"It really doesn't matter what you believe, now does it?" Ragnormon states.
"You lost and now I'm going to finish the job." He raises his right sword,
ready to deal Takato a killing blow.
One of the Cobra Attack Helicopter pilots sees this, "Sir, the one in the armor is about to kill that kid. Requesting permission to engage." The response over the radio comes in, "Negative, target is too close. Besides, our weapons might not be effective." The pilot shakes his head, "then why the hell are we here?"
"Ta... ka... to..." Guilmon painfully mutters.
"Takato, Guilmon!" Renamon yells out.
"Hmmm!?" Ragnormon points his sword in Renamon's direction. "Wait you turn!
I'll deal with you in a min..." He is interrupted when a throwing stars knocks his right sword out of his hand. "What!? Dammit, not him!!"
Everyone▓s attention, at least those who are not unconscious or nearly unconscious, is directed toward a figure standing on the tip of a tree branch.
The figure is wearing a dark gray ninja outfit, a basic katana on his back, and two throwing stars between his fingers.
"Now what?" Terriermon asks.
Renamon can't help but quietly ask, "Who is that?"
The ninja leaps off of the tree branch and lands between Ragnormon and Takato.
His face can now be seen clearly. First of all he appears to be human, and is fairly young, at least in his late twenties. His hair is brown and short, and his eyes are a medium green. Ragnormon hops back toward his knock away sword,
he picks it up and gives the man a glare.
"You really are scum, aren't you Ragnormon?" the man says.
Ragnormon grips his swords tighter, "And you're a pain in the ass, Gennai."
"Gennai? As from the show?" Takato is stunned by what is happening in front of him.
"Takato is it?" Gennai says.
"Y... yes, sir." Takato answers.
"Don't worry about this guy. I'll deal with him. You help your friends."
Takato looks over at the injured Guilmon, "Guilmon... right..." he gets up and runs as fast as he can towards his best friend. Ragnormon tries to intercept Takato, but is stop by a swift right hook from Gennai.
"Like it or not," Gennai unsheathes his katana, "you're fighting me."
"Fine," Ragnormon sneers, "but that puny blade is no match for my Sacred Charges."
"Don't you ever shut up," Gennai throws one of his throwing stars, and sticks it right in Ragnormon's right arm. One second passes and the throwing star explodes. The once cocky armored Digimon is left holding a limp and bloody arm, which barely appeal to hold on to the sword it holds.
"Cheap trick, Gennai!" he complains.
"Excuses, excuses," Gennai throws a second throwing star, but his enemy dodges this one, and it's explosion. Gennai charges forward with his katana.
"Flame Cracker!" Ragnormon counters. The swift ninja has to dive out of the way to avoid the attack. He is able to get to his feet quick, however, it is not quite fast enough. The vile Digimon is gone, deciding to flee than fight.
"Never a fan of a fair fight, as always." Gennai sheathes his sword and walks toward Takato and Guilmon. Looking at Guilmon, he states "He's not looking so good."
"No, he's not..." Takato starts to sob, "I... I can't lose him... I..."
"Hey, hey, calm down Takato," Gennai pats the unnerved tamer on the head. He then takes a tiny first aid kit from one of the pouches on his belt. "Sorry,
if I scared you there," he removes a syringe from the kit. "He's not scared of needles is he?"
"Um... I don't really know... What are you gonna do?"
"He's currently in a mild form of shock," Gennai gently sticks the syringe into Guilmon's neck and injects the liquid inside it. "This'll bring him out of it."
Just a few moments later Guilmon wakes up, "I'm... hungry..." he says. Takato can't help but give the red dinosaur and hug. "Ow! Don't squeeze so hard."
The sound of sirens can be heard approaching the park, as well as an additional set of helicopter blades. This time it is a medical copper landing in a clearing nearby. Soon there are paramedics and police officers attending to the tamers.
"Takato, are you all right!?" Jeri yells out as she tries to rush to Takato's side but is stopped by a police officer. "Please, let me see him," she pleads.
"He'll be alright. Just let the paramedics do their job," the officer tries to explain.
Calumon fidgets worriedly as he watches all the activity from the hood of a police car.
Kenta, Kazu, and Guardromon stand near the same police car a bit stunned at what they had witnessed. While MarineAngemon does his part in helping heal the injured Digimon.
"Dude, I can't believe what just happened," Kazu says.
"I know, they got their butts kicked," Kenta says in response.
Renamon stands at the edge of the crater watching the paramedics left the still unconscious Rika onto a red plastic board, and carry her out of the violently created pit. Sorrow can be seen in her eyes, she grits her teeth and clenches her fists.
"It's not your fault." Gennai tells her.
"Yes it is," Renamon wipes a tear from her eye, "I wasn't strong enough. I couldn't protect her."
Gennai can only scratch his head, and clear his throat.
"Gennai... that's your name?"
"Uh, yes."
"And you're human, right?"
"Yes, that's right?"
"So," Renamon looks at Gennai, "how is it that you can take on, and defeat, a Digimon as powerful as Ragnormon?"
"Oh, well," Gennai clears his throat again, "it's a little complicated to explain..."
"I want to learn it."
"What?"
"What ever it is that you know, I want to know it."
"You serious?"
Renamon simply looks at Gennai and gives a silent, but serious, nod.
"Alright, but it won't be easy. Not easy at all."
"I understand." Renamon turns and watches Rika being put into the medical helicopter. Watching the helicopter left off and fly away, she says "I promise you Rika, I will never let anyone hurt you again, ever."
(To be continued...)