Chapter 4: A Molehill Out of a Mountain
Alex and Koji were currently on the side of a mountain climbing along. The Warrior of Chaos although was beginning to regret listening to Koji about climbing the mountain by their finger tips and toes. As he muttered under his breath, the two heard what sounded like pleas for help from a nearby cave. Sharing a look, the two climbed up the mountainside to the cliff. Looking in, they saw a group of KaratsukiNumemon inside a cage. Based on their eyelashes, Alex assumed they were female. "Please," begged one of them. "Get us out of here!"
"Don't worry," said Koji. "We'll get you out of there!"
"Me don't think so," said a voice from the entrance of the cave. When the two turned, they saw a short shadow before they were sent flying from the cave.
Before Alex could Spirit Evolve, the two landed in a pile of hay. "Oh look, it's raining human children," said a voice. Sticking his head out of the pile, the Chaos Warrior saw more KaratsukiNumemon, only these ones were male. One slithered over to them as Koji crawled out of the hay pile. "Are you guys alright? Let me guess, you were attacked by Grumblemon, weren't you?"
Koji looked at the snail in confusion. "Grumblemon?" he asked.
Another nodded as he came forward. "Yes, he's the Digimon who kidnapped all of our women. We don't know where they are, and he's trying to negotiate for them. But we can't meet his demands!"
Koji and Alex shared a look before the Light Warrior turned to the Digimon. "Well don't worry, we've got a bone to pick with him now, so we'll be glad to help." As the snails all cheered, Alex and Koji shared a look. "What did we just agree to?" asked the wolf Warrior.
Alex could only shake his head. "I don't know, Koji. I don't know."
The KaratsukiNumemon were more than happy to bring the two boys to one of their sideways houses. As the two got comfy, they became aware of arguing among a group of familiar voices. Being cautious, Koji grabbed a stick and concealed himself just in case. Soon enough, Takuya stuck hid head through the doorway and got smacked. "Ow! Koji? Alex? The KaratsukiNumemon got you guys to help too? Was it the free food?" The others joined them and stared at the other two warriors.
Koji looked away from the kids while Alex snorted in laughter. "You got these guys to help you?" asked Koji. "Trust me, they're no good."
Takuya growled in annoyance at the two boys' attitudes. When he went to yell at them, the group of four kids and two Digimon fell through the doorway and onto the wall of the sideways house.
"God, so unprofessional," muttered Alex as he shook his head. Zoe was fuming at him.
Sensing the tension between their saviors, the KaratsukiNumemon quickly brought out some food for the children. The food brought out by the snails looked like a bunch of discolored heads of lettuce, but when the warriors bit into them, each one tasted like a different food, whether it be vegetables or meats. Alex bit into one and sighed as he was rewarded by the taste of pasta and red sauce. As he and Koji kept eating, the violet clad boy found himself looking at the larger group.
He and his friend looked at each other and Alex nodded towards the group in curiosity. He got a shake of the head from the wolf boy. Despite the obvious "don't do it", Alex walked over to Takuya's group. "Hey," he said. "Mind if I sit here?"
The four children were shocked by his question, but started smiling in a welcoming manner. "Sure thing, buddy!" said Takuya.
Zoe patted the ground next to her. "You can sit right here," she said. When he took his seat, he couldn't help but notice JP staring daggers at him for sitting between him and the Wind Warrior. She gave the Chaos child a look after stealing a look at Koji. "Is he always so difficult?" she asked.
Alex shook his head, but had a smirk. "Naw, Koji's just being stubborn. Trust me, once you get to know him, Koji's a really cool guy to hang out with." His revelation on the teen shocked the group.
Once they had all eaten their fill, Koji unrolled a map of the mountain he'd gotten from the KaratsukiNumemon. He pointed to one point on the map. "Alright, Grumblemon is holding all the women here. What we need to do is hit him hard and free them."
The mayor, who had a moustache that appeared to be made of his skin, went up to them in worry. "Are you sure you can do this?"
"Have no fear; leave everything to us Legendary Warriors." gloated Takuya making the snails cry out in fear and back away from the confused group.
"What's the matter?" Zoe asked.
"Eh, you're all Legendary Warriors?" asked the mayor. Getting nods from the group, the Digimon all started panicking and went to a corner on what was a wall for the kids.
As they spoke in whispered tones, Takuya and the others exchanged looks. "Was it something I said?" asked the goggle head.
"Perhaps they don't believe you're really Legendary Warriors," said Bokomon. "I know I certainly didn't."
The mayor 'walked' back over with the others, uneasy smiles plastered on their faces. "Well, it's time for you all to get to bed."
Alex looked at him in confusion. "Huh, but if anything we should be going now."
"No no, we insist!" said the Mayor. "You should rest to be at the top of your game!"
Despite how odd the request was, the Warriors agreed to it and laid down to go to sleep. Alex was the last to sleep, but when he awoke, it felt like it had been only one or two hours. When he did wake, it was because he had been tied up and was dangling off the side of the mountain with a small platform next to him. "What the hell?!" He struggled to escape, but quickly realized that even if he escaped, he'd fall to his doom. His cry woke up the other seven prisoners, and they all started squirming.
Takuya looked up at the KaratsukiNumemon as they stood over them. "Hey, what are you doing?!" he shouted.
The mayor pointed a knife down at them. "We know your game! You're Legendary Warriors! You never wanted to help us! You were just trying to deceive us! So, we're giving you back to your ally," declared the moustache bearing snail.
"What ally?" demanded Koji. He squirmed around to try and get his D-Tector out of his pocket.
"Don't lie to us!" responded the snail leader. "We know you're in league with Grumblemon!"
"What?!" shouted the trapped Warriors.
"We've just been trying to help you! How can you do this to us?" asked Zoe.
"Shut up!" said the mayor while putting his knife near JP's rope.
"Hey, those knives are getting pretty close there," panicked the large boy.
Next to Alex, the wall in front of the ledge went down. Out of it came a voice Koji and Alex heard earlier that day. "Give me fractal code, or bad things be happen." said whatever blasted the hole in the mountain side.
"Oh yeah, says who?" Takuya yelled.
"Be me, and you say me too, once you know who I am. You call me Grumblemon." it answered Takuya, revealing a troll-like creature with a large nose. "You bring me Fractal Code or else. And you no want to see what or else is!" said the offending Digimon
"Guys look at those marks!" cried Zoe.
"He's a Legendary Warrior?!"
Bokomon was shocked. "Well, I didn't realize there were evil Legendary Warriors."
"Why for human yoyos?"
The mayor called over to the Digimon. "Grumblemon, we have your allies! If you want them back, give us back our women!"
"What so? Me no care what happen to weak human things." Grumblemon pointed at everyone as he said this, causing the KaratsukiNumemon to bring the knives closer to the ropes.
"Wait, you mean you really don't care about them? But they're Legendary Warriors too!" the KaratsukiNumemon questioned Grumblemon, who was scratching his giant nose.
"Huh, this weakling be Legendary Warriors? Me think somebody got their hands on some Spirits and took them when they shouldn't have. Now me put my hands on you and take them right back, so..." Grumblemon stated, taking a hammer out.
"Wait, what's going on here, you mean you aren't allies?" the KaratsukiNumemon asked in shock.
"That's what we've been trying to tell you!" Tommy cried at the snails.
Grumblemon slammed the hammer against the mountain side, making everyone dodge it, but it still freaked all of them. The tremors it made caused the snails to bring the knives closer. Koji and Alex took this as an advantage. They pushed themselves off of the wall and their ropes were cut.
They started falling, then quickly pulled out their D-Tectors.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"Beelzemon!"
"Lobomon!"
Extending his left arm, Beelzemon grabbed his friend and flew him up to Grumblemon's platform. "Lobo Kendo!" He missed, and Grumblemon dove into the mountainside.
Keeping their aerial advantage, Beelzemon flew up to look for the evil warrior. While he searched, he was aware of the KaratsukiNumemon untying the others and apologizing.
Then he saw Grumblemon stick his head out of the side of the mountain. "Yoo-hoo! Me up here, fly boy!"
Beelzemon pointed his cannon at the offending Digimon. "Corona Blaster!" Like with Koji, Grumblemon dodged. This time though, he jumped out of the cliff and swung his hammer into Lobomon. The two fell through the ledge and crashed into a house with Lobomon dangling off a ledge.
"Lobomon!" cried Zoe as Grumblemon stomped on his hands.
"We've got to Spirit Evolve too!" The others nodded in agreement.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"Agunimon!"
"Kumamon!"
"Kazemon!"
"Beetlemon!"
Beelzemon was impressed that all four of them had found their spirits. Beetlemon flew over as Grumblemon raised his hammer. "Careful, you could hurt someone with this," said the large insect. While he caught Grumblemon's attention, Beelzemon flew up with his Darkness Claw to send the troll flying back into the mountain.
"You alright, pal?" asked the demonic Digimon.
Lobomon nodded. "Yeah. We've got to get the KaratsukiNumemons' women out of their cell."
"We're on it!" called Kazemon as she flew Kumamon up to the cave where the women were held. As she did, Grumblemon burst out of the cliff again as rain started to pour down.
"Me back!" Jumping at Beelzemon, he swung his hammer "Seismic Sledge!"
As he descended on them, Beelzemon quickly drew up his pentagram and charged up. "Corona Destroyer!" Firing, the stream of dark energy pinned Grumblemon to the wall as water started falling in sheets down it.
Beetlemon hummed in thought. "Beelzemon hold him there! I've got an idea!"
"Wasn't planning on doing anything else, kid!" shouted the cannon bearing Digimon.
Beetlemon flew above the troll to the drenched mountainside. "Thunder Fist!" Striking the cliff, his attack caused the mountain side to collapse as a wave of rocks fell from above and swept the Digimon away from the demon's attack, down to the far away ground.
"Alright, JP!" cheered Agunimon. As the others started congratulating him, the mountain shuddered. As they watched, more of the mountain fell away to reveal a wall of Fractal Code.
Beelzemon's eyes widened. "I don't believe it. It's the mountain's Fractal Code."
As they stared, Grumblemon popped out of the mountain next to the Code. "Oh, look at that. Me still get what me want. Good day for Grumblemon!" He then held up what looked like another spirit, one of a crouching brown figure. "Now me beat you!" The spirit glowed as he became wrapped in Data. "Execute: Beast Spirit Evolution!" When the data strands cleared, he was a large tan rhino creature. "Gigasmon!"
The humans were shocked. A second spirit?! The Warrior of Chaos couldn't believe what he just saw. The rhino creature charged Lobomon, Agunimon and Kumamon.
"Quagmire Twister!" He spun around with his fists forming a vortex of solid pain. The impact sent the three flying into another cliff, with Kumamon turning into a mass of icicles to save the other two. Kazemon and Beetlemon flew in, only to get swatted away like the bugs their spirits inherited traits from. Beelzemon fired a salvo of blasts and even a Corona Destroyer, but the evil Digimon shrugged them all off and almost took the leather clad warrior out of the sky with a large rock. Gigasmon laughed at them. "Execute: Slide Evolution! Grumblemon! That all you can do with Spirits?" he taunted. "You pathetic! You make pathetic look good!" He laughed as he was covered in more Data streams. He laughed as he pointed at them. "Execute: Slide Evolution! Gigasmon!"
"What's going on?" shouted Agunimon.
"Isn't it obvious? Rhino boy has two evolutions!" said Bokomon.
Gigasmon laughed at them. "Now me take Fractal Code in name of Cherubimon!" He opened up his mouth and started sucking up the Fractal Code. When he finished, the whole mountain shook as Gigasmon burrowed away.
The group tried escaping, but were separated when the mountain started falling. Beelzemon de-Spirit Evolved when a rock hit him as he flew down to try and catch his friends. As he fell, he was aware of a water current and seeing the others going their own ways. As he fell down the current, he bounced back and forth between consciousness. When he started blacking out for the final time, he was aware of sunlight, and a blue face with red eyes.
Author's Note: Again, sorry about screwed up dialogue. My bad, I'm relying my memory and rewatching for help. So far, I'd say it's good, but it's all speculative. Also, can anyone guess who he saw before blacking out? To me, it's somewhat obvious.