Digimon Link-D
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Chapter 2: Power of the Rookie! Walking the path of the dark spiders!
Paralysed with fear, both Shannon and Isaac could barely move as the spider-like monster charged at them.
"Bubble Blow"!
"Missile Crash"!
"Rolling Black"!
"Fireball"!
From those spoken words, the four partners began throwing pink bubbles, balls of shadow and flames… and even themselves at the spider's eyes, causing it to screech in pain before crashing on its back.
"Argh! My eyes!" I'll kill you! I'll kill you all!" Dokugumon screamed out as it rockedon its back, covering the many eyes on its face. 'This is real' Isaac thought to himself as he looked on shaking, 'we could have died if these guys hadn't saved us'.
"What is that?" Shannon asked DemiMeramon before her digivice beeped from her suit pocket. She then pulled it out, widening her eyes as she saw that the small screen had a picture of Dokugumon. "Oh. It appears to be a champion digimon called Dokugumon… I hope I pronounced that right. Oh… I don't like the sound of those poison moves. Wait, Missimon, what does champion mean"?
"You're asking us now, Miss Shannon?" Missimon asked as it picked itself up before sighing, "The four of us digimon are on the second lowest stage; in-training. Champion digimon are two levels higher than all of us. I suggest we make a tactical retreat whilst it's"-
That was when a number of tiny clones of Dokugumon appeared behind Isaac and Shannon. The prickly hairs of their legs felt on the back of Isaac's, causing the boy to jump and Shannon to scream a little. Isaac's digivice then beeped to give these spiders a profile. "Great. Looks like these… Kodokugumon are the big guy's cousins' Isaac stated in a half sigh half groan as he stepped back, "Oh God, there's no way out". At the drop of the sentence, Shannon turned the taller human to face her rather flustered face.
"Isaac, love, there is a way out. We go through the little spiders whilst the big one is out of action" Shannon suggested in such a determined tone that it kind of unnerved Isaac. This dainty looking girly girl had devised a good escape plan. He had to admit he was impressed.
"We'll clear a path!" Tokomon promised as it sprinted towards and fired bubbles at the tiny spiders which caused them to hiss and retreat as the others ran towards them, either using their attacks to repel the spiders or run further into the greenery. Some of them even burst into golden pixels, leaving black and fiery orange eggs behind. After half a minute, the six found themselves in a meadow of long grass filled with the sun's light.
"This isn't a good place to face those eight legged freaks" Isaac groaned before seeing Shannon do an about turn, her eyes filled with courage.
"Well then, Isaac, I guess we have no choice but to fight" she replied, her confidence wavering a little as she weighed the facts and looked towards their partners, "I just wish that there was something we can do".
'Wait' Isaac thought to himself as he took out the digivice from his jacket, 'DemiMeramon said that these digivices had a key function to connect a person and a digimon. Maybe it can help us'. Looking through the device's contents, Isaac searched for an answer when he noticed some text on the screen. Something about a rookie protocol as well as a DNA function. Additionally, beside the rookie protocol, there was a bold red exclamation point. "Shannon. Do you see a program called the rookie protocol on this gizmo?" he asked as the sound of scurrying legs advanced from the hedges. She nodded in confirmation.
"It does look urgent." she replied before closing her eyes, "Ok. Let's hope it works, loves".
Simultaneously, the two humans pressed the centre buttons of the devices and they were met with twin beams of red light that consumed their respective partners as the spider digimon appeared from the bushes.
COMMENCE DIGIVOLUTION.
"Yaamon digivolve to…" Yaamon yelled as it was concealed by a red cloth emblazoned with a yellow smiley face. Behind the cloth, a red gloved arm reached out and pulled it away before tying it around the newly grown neck of the now white faced, green eyed purple imp that had replaced Yaamon. "Impmon!" the new digimon announced with a devilish grin.
"Tokomon digivolve to…" the white rodent called out as it jumped into the way of the sunlight which flashed wildly to reveal that the little guy had been replaced by a slightly larger guinea pig with fur of caramel and cream adorned with great bat like ears. "Patamon!" the creature beamed as it floated in the air.
"Missimon digivolve to…." The missile yelled as it crashed to the ground from its position in the sky with a fiery yet small explosion. However, from within the smoke, a gun fired- which caused several Kudokugumon to burst into pixels upon impact – as a dark blue and grey skinned mechanical dinosaur donning in a military vest, helmet and a large rifle stepped out from the smoke. "Commandramon!" the new digimon announced with a booming voice.
"DemiMeramon digivolve to…" the fireball announced before closing its eyes and releasing a cloud of purple magical energy. As the cloud cleared, the flame now sits atop and armed white candle perched atop a brass stand. It smiles a toothy grin and opens its solid scarlet eyes before it rains down a mass of flames and hot wax on more Kodokugumon which causes them to burst into more pixels and eggs. "Candlemon" the object proudly states.
As the light fades, the four new digimon charged at the remaining insects of which consisted of roughlt ten Kodokugumon and their partially sighted older brother.
"They… changed" Isaac gasped as he looked at his digivice, "they're stronger. Did that program do this"?
"Well, if anything, it looks like we have a greater chance of defeating them" Shannon smiled warmly before calling out to the candle and the marine, "come on Missi-I mean Commandramon and Candlemon! You can do this"!
"Thanks for your kind words ma'am" Commandramon chuckled as he sped towards the remaining Kodokugumon before throwing a small sphere, "DCD bomb! Duck and cover"!
Distracted by the oncoming object, Dokugumon tried to bat the bomb away from its little siblings yet, due to his lack of vision, he was too late. All of the tiny spiders had been reduced to pixels by the resulting explosion.
"You vile fleshy monsters! You killed them all!" Dokugumon screeched as it blindly charged at Shannon and released its poisonous webbing, "I'll kill you all! Poison Web"!
"Shannon!" Isaac as his body seemed to automatically pounce towards the foreign belle, sending her to the ground before the toxic webs could harm her.
"Thanks for that, love" she stated in her surprised tone, panting a little from the shock that she could have been assaulted.
"You dirty sneak! Air night of Fire!" Impnon growled as it jumped into the air above Dokugemon, sending numerous balls of black fire at the spider, causing it to writhe in agony.
"My turn, you villainous arachnid!" Candlemon added as it fired large globs of molten wax from it hands, "Paraffin Paralyzer!" The molten wax blistered Dokugumon's skin on contact.
"I think we're almost there. Cadet Patamon, cover me." Commandramon ordered as it dashed in a different direction to Patamon who was flying by Dokugumon's leg.
"On it! Boom bubble!" Patamon called out as it swallowed the surrounding air and fired it as a concentrated ball, irritating the arachnid and causing it to turn around.
"Poison cobweb" it hissed as it fired a series of venomous threads at the flying guinea pig which dodged them with some difficulty. That was when Dokugumon heard the last words in its life.
"M-16 Rifle".
A second later, Dracomon – who had positioned itself in front Shannon and Isaac- fired a bullet into and up through the arachnid's lower jaw, spewing its data through the hole before it dispersed into pixels, leaving an egg behind.
"All clear ma'am." Commandramon stated to Shannon as it went to hel her off the ground, "the threat has been compromised. You okay"?
"You – you killed them all" Isaac gaped as he stood up.
"Well, they were trying to force ya into the invisible choir so we had to come in and save ya. Don't worry. When Digimon die, we turn back into eggs and start again." Impmon smiled before running up to Isaac, "you okay, pal"?
"Well, I'm not injured, but what happened to you guys, Yaamon?" Isaac asked as he scratched his head in confusion, "I mean one second you're just a head but now Tokomon can fly and you… you have legs"!
"Well, that's because we digivolved, Isaac" Patamon chuckled as he descended from the air and sat beside Isaac's feet.
"Wait, digivolve?" Isaac asked again, "what does that mean".
"Nothin' much" Impmon replied with a grin as Shannon congratulated her own partners, "We just move up a stage, gain a new body, new name, practically a new everything except we'll always be the studs you know an' love. Well, I will anyway. By the way, in this form, I'm Impmon and Wilbur over there is called Patamon".
"Excuse me! I'm no pig, Jacko!" Patamon huffed, looking eager to start a fight.
"Guys, guys, calm down will you?" Isaac asked in a sterner voice, "You said you're here to help us with something, right? Well, it's not really helpful if you keep fighting each other, okay". Both digimon sighed and nodded in agreement before Commandramon stood up and spoke.
"Alright Miss Shannon, Isaac, here's the plan." Commandramon began, "originally, all eleven of you were supposed to arrive at the location we found you. However, due to some complications, you were all scattered in different locations; five in the File Forest area, five by the Calculus Caves and one… well, we have a lack of Intel on her whereabouts. However, as we have had no confirmation of the worst, it's safe to assume that she's alright".
"So, what do we do?" Isaac asked, his interest on the eleventh person increasing.
"Not to worry. We will escort the two of you to a meeting spot we agreed on" Commandramon explained, "it's a distance from here but we'll hope to have you there by nightfall to rendezvous with the other three humans. Then, we'll meet up with the other five at another meeting spot and by that point, we might have gathered some information on the whereabouts of person number eleven. Any questions"?
"Just one" Shannon replied as she raised her hand, "what if we run into stronger digimon"?
"Well ma'am, we'll simply use all in our arsenal to keep you safe" Commandramon smiled as it walked up to and took hold of Shannon's raised hand, "if we are outmatched, Candlemon can come up with a plan.
"I'll make sure we arrive safe and sound" the candle smiled as it began to hop in a Westward direction, "now come along, everyone. We have places to go and humans to see".
"Well, I do want to find some answers" Shannon replied with a soft smile as she began walking with Commandramon's silent steps matching her pace before she turned around to face Isaac, "come on, love. We might just have a world to save".
"Don't worry, I'm coming" Isaac replied with a slightly nervous smile as he started walking behind Shannon with Impmon and Patamon bringing up the rear. 'If my suspicions are correct, Acilio might have been taken to the Digital World as well. I just hope he's alright. I worry about him'.
And with that, they moved out.
Elsewhere in File Forest…
"Acilio, you idiot, stop wasting our time. Do you want to make the others think that we're dead or worse, lazy"?
"Oh come on, Liam, he's not being lazy".
"I'm sorry Liam, it's just that I haven't eaten".
"Son of a- Fine! If that Hawkmon of yours spots some food, if it will help get your behind into gear, then you have first choice. Are we clear"?
"Oh, bravissimo, thank you, Liam. I hope he finds some pizza"!
"…I had to be the one stapled to this idiot, didn't I"?
Next time on Digimon Link-D:
Impmon: After endless hours of walking-
Patamon: We've only been walking half an hour, idiot.
Impmon: Bite me, Piglet! Anyway, the six of us find none other than the sword and enforcement nut, Carmen Iglesias and her trigger happy partners. Count yourself lucky to see us next time in "Tooth and Blades: There's Carmen Sandiego!", ya' got that!