This just keeps getting weirder. Oh well, at least we know what we're supposed to do now...
Chapter 2
"Clear!" yelled Kevin as he and Lydia finished their security sweep of the restaurant. Like every other building here, there were no humans. The kids had been transported there by the Bradleys, every one of which could roomily carry 7 people. On the way, they had all swapped stories and now knew about each other's backgrounds.
"Is this really necessary?" asked Brock as the others walked into the room.
"Ever since we were ambushed by those Tankmon at that 'hotel'? Yeah, I'd say it's necessary," replied Joe.
Tai took the lid off of a plate, and there was a large fully cooked turkey. "Yeah!" he yelled as he started opening other containers and bowls. There were chicken, fish, corn, shrimp, and steak entrees. It was a banquet!
Kevin held up a hand. "Wait, it could be poisoned. Enemy forces always leave behind poisoned food to squeeze out a few extra casualties."
TK whispered to Matt, "Hey, what's with him? He's really..."
"Uptight?" Matt provided.
"I heard that. I'm just being cautious. This is what any responsible officer would do in potentially hostile territory. Anyway, we need a way to test the food for poison," said Kevin.
"I can use my Snorlax. I've seen a Snorlax get kissed by a Meowth before, and he lived. He can take a lot of poison," Ash offered.
"Let me guess, a Meowth's kiss is really poisonous?" asked Sora.
"Yup."
"Do it," from Kevin.
Snorlax popped out, and leaned forward to eat the turkey.
"Now remember, Snorlax, you're just going to eat a little bit--" Ash began, but Snorlax had already engulfed the entire turkey. After a few minutes, Snorlax was still fine.
"Okay, it's not poisoned. Let's chow!" yelled Tai.
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"Man! This is great!" TK yelled as he chomped on a chicken leg.
"I'm inclined to agree. This is the best food I've ever had, next to my mom's cooking, of course. Prodigious!" said Izzy.
"Have some more, Kari," Tai said as he put more into her bowl.
Kari smiled at him.
Haris pointed to Tai and Kari and whispered to Kevin, "He's hella pimpn' on her."
Kevin gave him a light smack on the head. "What the hell are you talking about, man? He's her older brother."
"Oh."
Suddenly, Kevin's world exploded in a world of pain. The glass window shattered and shards flew toward the kids, slicing everyone. Kevin flew back with a cut on his face and his left arm bleeding.
A cackling was heard. The digidestined knew who it was before they even saw him.
"It's Puppetmon!" Izzy warned the non-digidestined kids. "He's a megadigimon, and he's really hard to beat!"
"How can Puppetmon be back again? I thought Matt and Metal Garurumon had destroyed him on Spiral Mountain!" yelled Mimi as Palmon used Poison Ivy to try to whip away the worst of the glass shards.
"This is not good! Where's Gennai?!" Joe shouted.
"Heheheheheheheh, digi-fools! You ask how I came back? That's simple, UltraDevimon and Succubusmon brought all the Dark Masters back, plus many others! Digi-world's already been conquered, and this world is next!" cackled Puppetmon.
"And just what the hell is this world?" yelled Haris. His face had two cuts, but the Kevlar armor had protected him overall.
"Who is that? I don't recognize him! I thought only you pesky digidestined were here!" stated Puppetmon with a confused expression.
"Answer the question before we use you for firewood!" Ash shot back, bleeding from half a dozen chest wounds. "Charizard, go!"
The fiery dragon pokemon appeared. It totally obeyed Ash, after Ash had saved its life repeatedly during a vicious battle against 6 high-level water pokemon.
"Don't threaten me, whoever you are. My powers greatly exceed yours. But if you must know, this is what we call a centerpiece world. It's a dimension that is right between a dozen dimensions, including the ones that all of you different kids must've come from. If UltraDevimon and Succubusmon can take over this world, they'll have clear access to invade and conquer all the other worlds," replied Puppetmon.
"That must be why we were sent here--to prevent that," Izzy told everyone.
"Very smart. Alright, this is boring. I want to play some games!" said Puppetmon.
"The only thing we're going to play here is your termite-infested ass!" yelled Kevin as the five soldier-kids opened fire with a murderous stream of 5.56mm bullets from their M-4 carbine assault rifles.
"Whoa! You play dirty, no fair!" Puppetmon complained as he raised his hammer to block the bullets.
"Charizard, Flamethrower!"
Brock and Misty threw a pokeball each. "Golem, go!" "Starmie, go!"
"Puppet Pummel!" Puppetmon countered. Energy shots from the hammer neutralized the flamethrower, then headed toward the gun-toting kids and the pokemon trainers. Golem rolled into a ball and blocked all the shots with his tough armor, but barely. He was badly wounded, and Brock recalled him.
However, Puppetmon had ignored the digidestined for far too long.
"Agumon, warp-digievolve to...Wargreymon!"
"Gabumon, warp-digievolve to...Metal Garurumon!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!" announced Metal Garurumon as he fired a big freezing energy blast from his mouth. It blew Puppetmon back, wounding him.
"Terra Force!" shouted Wargreymon as he hurled a large and very powerful energy sphere toward Puppetmon, further damaging him.
"Charizard, Skull Bash!"
Charizard ran forward at full speed and rammed the weakened Puppetmon, knocking him out the window
"Full Stinger spread, now!" Kevin radioed to the Bradleys parked in the street. They each fired 2 Stinger missiles.
"No, not again..." wailed Puppetmon as the 8 Stingers slammed into him from behind and below, destroying him.
The digimon went back to their rookie forms, the pokemon went back into their pokeballs, and the soldier-kids safed their weapons.
"How're we doing on ammo?" asked Kevin.
"Apparently, 100%, sir. We seem to have unlimited ammo as long as we're in this world. That goes for the Bradleys' chainguns and missiles, too," replied Scott.
"Alright, now we know why we're here. We're here to stop whoever UltraDevimon and Succubusmon are from taking over this world," said Brock as he wrapped an arm wound with a piece of tablecloth.
"Do you guys know who they are?" Misty asked the digidestined.
"Nope. Although judging by their names, they're probably powerful demon digimon at the mega stage, maybe even higher," Izzy answered.
"Wait, there's a higher level than mega?" Tai spoke up, worried. Mega was the highest level that their digimon could go to, and that was only two of them. The rest were stuck at ultimate.
"For everything, there is always a higher level," a voice was heard. It came from Izzy's computer.
The kids crowded around the laptop, and saw a picture of an old man.
"Gennai!" Joe exclaimed.
"This is Gennai," Izzy explained. "He pops up periodically to give us information."
"That's right," agreed Gennai. "Indeed, I've come to tell you something. I've been working , in a secluded location of course, to locate UltraDevimon and Succubusmon."
Another face appeared on the screen.
"General Douglas!" Kevin said in surprise. It was General Peter Douglas, the soldier-kids' commanding officer.
"That's right Kevin, I'm here with Gennai. This place is weird. Anyway, when we were transported to this world, a SR-91 Aurora recon plane came with us. I've sent the Aurora in some sorties, and we've found out that those two demon digimon are located northeast of your position, in a place called Terrabyte Temple. I've downloaded the position on a map overlay to the computers on your Bradleys, your GPS receivers, and Izzy's computer."
"File Island, Spiral Mountain, Terrabyte Temple, who makes up these names?" Matt asked no one in particular.
"Wait, how did we even get here in the first place?" asked Ash.
Just then, another face appeared. It was Professor Oak. "We're not sure yet. However, there are definitely forces at work that we don't know about."
Izzy typed something on his computer, and a map popped up. He pointed to a spot, about 10 kilometers north of their position. "There, this should be our first stop. It has a healing spring, which we can use to rejuvenate ourselves and heal our wounds."
"Good idea, and if we somehow get split up, this is where we'll go to meet up again," said Tai.
"Alright, let's roll," Kevin decided as he started toward the door.
"Yeah, let's go!" yelled Ash.
"Shut up, Ash," Misty replied as she followed.
The kids filed out of the ruined restaurant and into their Bradleys.
Chapter 3
As the Bradleys neared the edge of the city, an ear-splitting roar sounded as a large explosion erupted right in front of the four vehicles. Out of the smoke appeared a long serpent-like metal dragon and a huge metal dinosaur with cannons on its shoulders.
Kevin popped the hatch of his lead Bradley and yelled to the two enemy digimon, "Hey dumb-asses, you missed!"
Tai tapped him on the shoulder. "That's not a good idea. I recognize them--they're Metal Seadramon and Machinedramon. Both dark masters, both at the mega stage. Beating them is going to be tough."
"I don't know how or why you're here, but we don't want you here! It's time to wipe you out permanently, so that you can't interfere with UltraDevimon and Succubusmon's plans!" roared Metal Seadramon.
"You may have destroyed that fool Puppetmon, but we should prove to be much harder," Machinedramon added.
"Aw great," Kevin began as he began to sink into the Bradley and close the hatch. "Arm and lock LOSATs!"
"Pikachu, Wartortle, Ivysaur, Charizard, Pigeot, go!" Ash yelled.
"Golem, Ninetales, Onix, go!" Brock ordered.
"Starmie, Staryu, Seaking, and yes, even Psyduck, go!" commanded Misty.
Pikachu jumped out of his Bradley's hatch. The others followed as they got out of their pokeballs.
"Agumon warp-digievolve to...Wargreymon!"
"Gabumon warp-digievolve to...Metal Garurumon!"
"Palmon digievolve to Togemon!"
"Tentomon digievolve to Kabuterimon!"
"Gomamon digievolve to Ikkakumon!"
"Biyomon digievolve to Birdramon!"
"Patamon digievolve to Angemon!"
"Gatomon digievolve to Angewomon!"
Before any good guys could launch an attack, the two Dark Masters struck.
"River of Power!"
"Gigacannon!"
A fearsome blue beam shot out from Metal Seadramon's mouth, and Machinedramon rapid-fired his twin cannons to launch powerful energy projectiles. The attacks exploded in the center of the Bradleys, knocking all four (and the kids inside them) flying.
"Izzy!" Kabuterimon yelled as it quickly flew and grabbed one of the Bradleys.
"Sora!" Birdramon cried. It too grabbed a Bradley.
"Matt!" Metal Garurumon exclaimed as it grabbed the remaining two. All four were set down gently.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon yelled as it launched its signature move against Machinedramon.
Ikkakumon launched horn-shaped projectiles that split open to reveal missiles. The missiles struck Metal Seadramon in the head. "Have some Harpoon Torpedoes!"
"Needle Spray!" Togemon cried as it fired dozens of sharp needles at both enemies.
"Hand of Fate!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
The two heavenly attacks slammed into Machinedramon.
"Metal Wolf Claw!" yelled Metal Garurumon as it fired a dazzling barrage of missiles at Metal Seadramon.
"Meteor Wing!"
"Electro-Shocker!"
These two firey and shocking attacks slammed into Machinedramon.
"Pika!" Pikachu announced as it fired a Thunder at Metal Seadramon. Charizard used Flamethrower, Ivysaur shot off Razor Leaf, Wartortle fired Ice Beam, Golem rolled into a ball and did his Rock Slide attack, and Onix used Headbutt. All these attacks were directed at Machinedramon. Pigeot did Sky Attack, Ninetales used Fire Spin, Starmie fired an Aurora Beam, Staryu used Water Gun, Seaking did a Waterfall, and Psyduck just stood there. These were all at Metal Seadramon.
"Fire LOSATs!" Kevin yelled as soon as the Bradleys stabilized. Eight LOSAT missiles streaked out and spread their damage evenly between the two Dark Masters.
All the kids, digimon, and pokemon stood there, breathing heavily, as they waited for the dust to settle.
Suddenly, "River of Power!"
"Gigacannon!"
The attacks slammed into the good guys, damaging them and forcing them back. Those who were fast enough managed to avoid the powerful energy blasts, but some didn't. Onix, Golem, Psyduck, Seaking, and Staryu were hit repeatedly and knocked out. The digimon who were hit were wounded, but not direly. The Bradleys split up to avoid the shots, all the while maintaining their locks on the two enemy digimon. However, one explosion erupted very close to a Bradley, knocking it 50 feet into the air before it fell down on its side. Thankfully, no one was killed, although most were wounded and some suffered broken bones and even concussions.
"Haha, fools! When we were brought back, our powers were also increased. We may have been damaged by your pitiful show, but not critically. We both have another layer of chrome digizoid armor. You will never win!" Metal Seadramon sneered.
Is he right? Will the kids' crusade to save this world and therefore all the other dimensions end before it begins? Will anyone be killed? Will I get a life? No, wait, that last one wasn't right. Whatever.
Find out during Part 3!