Episode 3: "The Art of Digivolution, Enter Dorugamon"

"AAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!" Screamed the digidestines as they fell from the Digital Sky onto the grassy ground. They hit the ground sore and hurt. The digimon soon followed, but they fell a little more gracefully. The teens groaned as they stood up, while the digimon were already standing.

"Whoa! New duds!" Trevor exclaimed. He noticed that the Digital world gave him a red sleeve-torn shirt, a black and red bandana, blue jeans, and black boots. On the back of his shirt was the sign that was on Guilmon's chest. Everyone else noticed that his or her wardrobe changed too. Jacob had on a dark blue jersey, light blue jeans, and black boots. On the front of his shirt was Veemon's golden v. On Tawny was a short orange jacket over a white shirt, a jean mini-skirt, and white sturdy sneakers. On the left breast of the jacket was a black symbol of the sun. Ellena wore a cyan tank top, dark green capris, and white sneakers. On the back of her tank top was a dark blue symbol of a circle with a cross through it and two claws coming out of each side. Lucas wore a white vest, a gray t-shirt, black jeans, and matching gray boots. The front of his shirt wore a white version of Kudamon's gold ring. Darryl had on a black padded vest, white shirt under it, blue jeans, and black boots like Trevor and Jacob. On the back of his vest was Dorumon's crystal.

"I love these Capri's!!!" Ellena squealed. She was jumping up and down admiring herself in the clothes.

"I'll admit, I look good in this shirt." Jacob remarked.

"Oh please. You're like a girl sometimes, I swear." Tawny shot at him.

"Well you act more like a guy than you do a girl!"

"Guys, can we please just calm down?" Darryl asked calmly. He didn't want this team to fall apart because of dumb clothing.

"Fine," Jacob backed down. "I'll stop fighting with the tomb boy." Darryl shot him a dirty look.

"We should really be moving," Dorumon cired out to the group. Him and the other digimon were up ahead on a hill waiting for the digidestined.

"Ok, we're coming Dorumon." Darryl called to his partner.

The teens rushed to the hill and walked next to their respective digimon.

"Umm, Dorumon?" Asked Darryl.

"Yes Darryl?" Answered Dorumon.

"Where are we headed exactly?"

"Our mission is to take back our world from the Demon Lords. They poisoned the other Royal Knights to thinking they work for the Demon Lords and their Master, Lord Lucemon. Our current objective is to take back this area from Leopardmon and Lilithmon, this is his area to protect. Lilithmon sees over him like a puppet master. Each corrupted Royal Knight has a Demon Lord with them to make sure he's in line and to feed info to Lucemon. I'll bet he has some digimon under his control and will try to send them after us."

"How do they know we're here?"

"Lucemon has tons of spies. I'm sure he saw us falling from the sky. Plus, he's bound to send corrupt digimon out to conquer this continent."

"Sounds lovely," Trevor said sarcastically.

"Are we gonna have to fight them like we did with that Snimon?" Asked Tawny.

"To cleanse a corrupted digimon, we must defeat them and send their data back to the Village of Beginnings to be reborn. So to answer your question Tawny, yes we have to fight them." Agumon answered his partner's question.

The team walked till they reached a small town, where they walked around and browsed the various digi-items. Digimon were constantly eying them.

"Hey Gabumon, why are these guys staring at us?" Asked Ellena.

"Well, most digimon have never seen a human before. Very few have seen one with a digimon partner." Answered Gabumon.

"Why have they never seen one?"

"Well, only during times of great peril are humans called upon to help the Digimon and our world and dimension. You see, the Digital World exists in multiple dimensions and only certain digimon can pass through to the different dimensions, Demon Lords and Royal Knights being two of those groups. This is the sixth time where humans and digimon have interacted as one during thousands and thousands of years."

"Wow, that isn't very many."

"Well, our world is usually peaceful."

Ellena nodded in agreement. The other digidestined were in front of her, leading the team out of town and to move onto bigger things. As they approached the edge of town, they saw a blue and red plated horse-human digimon holding a crossbow in his left hand screaming and running rabidly towards them.

"Run, run, run!" Screamed the horse-human digimon.

"What is it Sagitarimon?" Dorumon asked the frantic digimon.

"There's a rabid Meramon about to attack the town!" Sagitarimon yelled.

Darryl looked at his partner. Dorumon looked at him, almost like he knew what the human was thinking, he nodded.

"C'mon guys!" he yelled to his friends. The team ran out of town in the direction that Sagitarimon came from. They saw a flaring image in the distance, but they could barely make it out. It looked like a man on fire, but the flames didn't spread.

"Meramon," Guilmon whispered under his breath as he slid to a halt.

"Yes it is I," the flame digimon stated. "I am under orders from Leopardmon to destroy that town. So if you'll excuse me." He began to walk forward.

"I don't think so," Veemon said angrily.

Vee Headbutt

"Yea, you get him Veemon!" Jacob cried out to his friend.

Meramon caught the small blue lizard by the head and tossed him aside into a tree.

"Ouch!" Veemon cried.

Meramon raised his hand and extended his fingers.

Fireball

Fires burst from the fingertips and flared toward Veemon. He was struck hard, and was injured badly.

"Veemon!" Yelled out Jacob. He rushed over to his maimed friend.

"Foolish humans, you think you can hurt me?" Meramon said confidently.

"We sure can! Gabumon, let's go!" Ellena said to her digimon.

"Right! Blue Blaster!" An icy electric blue blast came from Gabumon's mouth and fired at the enemy.

Meramon sidestepped the attack.

Fireball

Agumon stepped in front of his friend and fired his own attack to rival Meramon's.

Pepper Breath

The two attacks collided, but the Fireball won the battle and took down the two friends.

"Agumon!" Tawny cried out.

"Gabumon!" Ellena and her sister rushed over to their partners.

The evil flame digimon smirked and turned to Lucas, Trevor, and Darryl who were standing in shock.

"Well Guilmon, it looks like it's our turn to try! Let's take him down!" Trevor called out.

"Wait Trevor," Lucas interjected "We should try to think this through!"

"Oh why should we?" Trevor said aggressively.

"Cause then we'll get beaten down like the others!" Lucas defended.

The two boys went at it while Darryl was in shock. "Why am I doing nothing? This isn't meant to happen! I'm the Varsity Soccer Captain, I should be able to do something!" he murmured to himself.

"Guilmon! Kudamon! Fall back!" Dorumon shouted.

It was too late. As the red and white digidestines argued, Meramon put down their own partners.

Darryl was scared. His eyes looked terrified as Meramon walked towards him.

"Now it's your turn to die," Meramon approached a scared Darryl.

"You're not gonna do anything!" Dorumon jumped in front of the human.

Metal Cannon

The small projectiles melted into the flame digimon. He smiled and released his attack.

Fireball

Darryl grabbed Dorumon and leapt to the right, skidding across the ground as he went.

"Dorumon, you alright?" the black clothed boy asked.

"I'm good thanks to you."

"This guy took down our friends. He's not doing the same to us!"

"Right! Lead us on!"

Suddenly, a faint black light came from Darryl's wrist; a light from his digivice. The same light engrossed Dorumon as he changed shape.

The boy looked at his watch perplexed.

"Darryl, twist the digivice and cry out the Royal Digivolution Call. It'll release more energy and allow me to defeat Meramon." Dorumon instructed.

"What is the call?" Darryl was nervous enough as is. He didn't need any more confusion.

"You'll know it once you touch the digivice."

The teen nodded and faced his enemy. His left hand slapped over the watch and twisted once to left, unleashing more light.

Initiate! Digivolution Activate!

Dorumon digivolve to…

Dorugamon!

The light on Dorumon grew and enveloped the area. In the place of the small, purple digimon was now a bigger, black digimon. He had a thinner and longer tail, red claws, a jagged look to his body, and he had wings. He flew up and circled Meramon.

"Whoa," Darryl marveled at his partner's appearance. The other digidestined looked up to see Dorumon's new form. They all oo'ed and ah'ed.

"Nice little magic trick there kid, but no can match my power." Meramon snickered.

Fireball

Power Metal

Dorugamon unleashed his own attack. Large metal projectiles shot from his mouth and ripped right through Meramon's fire attack. Unlike the metal shots from before, Power Metal took in the heat from Meramon and used it against him.

"What? This isn't possible!" Screamed Meramon as he was obliterated by Dorugamon's power. He was turned into data and it flew back to where he came from.

"Wow Dorumo- I mean Dorugamon. You were awesome." Darryl said excitedly.

"It was because of you Darryl," the flying digimon stated, "You needed me to protect you and your feelings triggered me to digivolve."

"Dude, that's awesome!" Exclaimed Trevor, who brought over Guilmon on his back.

"Yea, you totally made that Meramon pay," Jacob observed.

Tawny, Lucas, and Ellena nodded in agreement.

"Hey Dorugamon," Ellena asked, "Can you carry Gabumon? He's injured."

"It'd be my pleasure," answered the generous digimon. All the injured were loaded onto his back, except for Kudamon, who rested on Lucas' shoulders. Dorugamon flew overhead while everyone walked on towards the sunset.

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"Master, one of the digimon digivolved," a little rock man said.

A dark figure took a bite from an apple and spat it out. He mumbled something to his servant.

"Of course my Lord. I'll inform Leopardmon at once. " and with that, the little rock man left.

The shadowed figure smiled under the darkness. "I will not let this go unfettered. I will rule this world, one way or another."