DAY 4
"Grrr. Those two are just despicable!" Gabumon said angrily as they woke up.
"How could they think that way?" Palmon said. "It's wrong that they'd just let a player be erased just so they could win."
Together, they stood in silence while still angry at Dinohyumon and Strikedramon.
"But they so make a point." Palmon said after the silence.
"What do you mean?" Gabumon asked.
"I mean, think about it Gabumon. What're we going to do on the last day? Only one pair can win in the end so what'll happen to everyone else?"
Gabumon opened his mouth but then closed it. "I don't know. We both want to win and get our memories back and go back to our lives but...I don't want any of the other players to loose."
Beep! Beep!
"Mission's here. Let's just do what we can today, alright?" Gabumon said. Palmon nodded and they turned to the message.
Defeat the giant Noise at the roof of Odaiba Elementary. You have 60 minutes. Fail and be erased.
-the DL's
"Argh!" The timer appeared.
"So we're taking out a huge Noise today huh?" Palmon said. "Shouldn't be too hard."
"Yeah but how big is this Noise going to be?" Gabumon asked.
"I don't really know but there's only one way to find out." And they set off towards the school.
Meanwhile...
At the rooftop of Odaiba Elementary, two players have already arrived there. One was a Shamamon and the other, a Hookmon. Both of them were grinning happily.
"Hey look, we're the fist ones here!" Shamamon said.
"Aye, it appears so." said Hookmon. "Now, where's that blasted Noise them DL's sent us?"
"Why don't you look here?" The two Digimon turned and saw Levi and Manfred looking at them.
"s'bout time someone showed up." Hookmon said. "Bring on that giant Noise and we'll sent it to Davy Jones' locker!"
"As you wish." Manfred calmly said. He snapped his fingers and a large Vespertilio Canor flew in and landed and gave an almighty roar.
"Whoa! That thing's huge!" Shamamon exclaimed.
"Yarr. That just makes things more interesting!" Hookmon said excitedly. "Bring it on! Show us what ya got!"
"Heh. Get them!" Levi said as he pointed his finger at the two and the Noise charged at them.
After a few minutes of searching, Gabumon and Palmon actually did find the school even if they were still very far away.
Any building would be hard to miss if it had a large yellow bat with tattoo wings on the roof.
"Wow, that Noise's pretty big." Gabumon said gazing at it at a distance.
"Wait, if it's revealed itself," Palmon began. "It must mean that someone's already fighting it."
"Let's go help them out." Gabumon said and they were off.
The battle was still raging on even when they arrived at the school entrance. It appeared to be recess time as there were students hanging around the campus. None of them noticed the huge yellow bat on the roof.
"Weird." Gabumon said at the fact that the students didn't notice the huge battle nearby. Just then, the bell signaling the end of recess sounded and the students began to enter the building.
"Uh oh, we better hurry." Palmon said and they ran over to the entrance of the building but stopped because it was starting to get crowded.
"Wait, what if we accidentally touch someone?" Palmon asked.
Gabumon opened his mouth to answer but didn't have to. At that moment, a student walked in his direction and went right through him and the student continued on as if nothing happened. Gabumon and Palmon's eyes widened when this happened.
"That was...freaky." Gabumon commented.
"At least we don't have to worry about hitting someone." Palmon said before walking into the building. Gabumon followed suite.
Even thought they could go right past the students without alerting them, it was still quite awkward. They found themselves saying: Excuse me" or "Oh sorry" even though they knew that they couldn't be heard. Eventually, they reached the door that led to the roof of the building.
"Good, Let's go!" Gabumon said as he pulled the door open and he and Palmon ran up to the roof.
"Super Shooter!"
"Mad Twist!"
Gabumon and Palmon arrived just in time to see Hookmon's and Shamamon's attacks miss the airborne Vespertilio Canor. It was circling above the building waiting for the right moment to strike.
"Hey, are you two players?" Shamamon asked at the sight of them.
"Yeah. Need any help?" Palmon answered.
"Sure! The more the merrier's what I always say." Hookmon said and the alliance was formed.
"Aw c'mon!" Levi yelled out incredulously at Gabumon and Palmon. "Those Mosh Grizzlies yesterday should've erased you two!"
"Well sorry to disappoint you!" Gabumon yelled back.
"It matters not. Our new Noise will surely erase all four of you!" Manfred yelled and the Vespertilio Canor flew in on them.
"Super Shooter!"
"Dancing Bone!"
"Metal Wolf Claw!"
"Flower Cannon!"
The Vespertilio Canor flew sideways to avoid the attacks before heading towards the ones who fired them again. They scattered to avoid the it's diving attack and flew into the air again. Then, it swung its wings and sent cross-shaped boomerangs at the four Digimon.
"Yarr! Scatter or we'll we sunk!" Hookmon yelled and they ran sideways to avoid the boomerangs. They fired their attacks again but the Noise just dodged them like before.
"We can't get any of our ranged attacks to hit him!" Gabumon yelled out frustratingly.
"Maybe we could hit him with a melee attack, it would work." Palmon suggested.
"But who'd want to get up close with that thing!" Shamamon asked.
"How 'bout me!" Hookmon yelled as he ran to a spot away from them.
"Hookmon, what're you doing?" Shamamon called after his partner but Hookmon just ignored him.
"C'mon ya big lug! C'mere and I'll show ya how it's really done!" Hookmon yelled while pointing his hook at the Noise.
The Vespertilio Canor seemed to have heard him and flew in on him. Gabumon, Palmon and Shamamon yelled for him to avoid but he just readied himself. When the Noise had gotten close enough, Hookmon jumped onto its back and inserted his hook into the Noise's mouth. When it flew back up, it did so with much jerking as it tried to shake Hookmon off. After several tense moments where the three remaining Digimon watched the Noise try to shake Hookmon off, he pointed his cannon right at the bat's head.
"Captain Cannon!"
He fired three shots at the Vespertilio Canor's head at point blank range. The bat screamed from the pain and shook so hard that it was finally able to shake Hookmon off. Shamamon screamed for his partner but the latter missed the school building and fell to the ground bellow.
Meanwhile, the Vespertilio Canor fell to and hit the roof of the school. It tried to get up but then, it vanished into thin air causing the timers to disappear.
"Aw man!" Levi yelled frustratingly before vanishing with Manfred.
"We have to get to Hookmon." Gabumon said. The three of them ran to the edge of the building and Palmon let down her vines so they could climb down. In just a few moments, they were at Hookmon's side.
"No...No! Hookmon, don't die on me!" Shamamon yelled at his unmoving partner.
Author's Note: OK. I know technically speaking that they're already dead but it just seemed appropriate to say that.
"Wait, if your partner gets erased, you'll be erased too!" Palmon pointed out.
"What? No! No!" Shamamon cried out. "Hookmon! Hookmon, get up! Please get-"
BANG!
Hookmon's cannon arm suddenly swung upwards and struck Shamamon knocking him sideways. When he recovered, he saw Hookmon sitting up completely unhurt.
"What's with the tears? We ain't got time for tears boy!" Hookmon said.
"Y-you're alright!" Gabumon exclaimed.
"Well of course i'm alright!" Hookmon said. "T'is just a little fall y'know. It'll take more than that to get rid of me!"
"Anyway, let's just be glad that you're OK." Shamamon said relieved. He faced Gabumon and Palmon. "Thanks you two. We couldn't have defeated that Noise without you.
"It's alright." Gabumon said. "I'm Gabumon and this is Palmon."
"I be Hookmon and this is me partner Shamamon." said Hookmon. "We both died in an accident and that's how we ended up in these blasted games. I had a partner when I lived and we just wanna go back to him. Shamamon here died in the Digital world leaving his family behind."
"Partners?" Palmon asked. "Aren't you two partners?"
"No. He means that he had human partners back when he was alive." Shamamon explained. "We're actually using our free time after missions to visit him in the city. I mean, he can't see us but we still want to know how he were doing."
"He were sad at first of course-they were mourning our death." Hookmon began. "But that'll change when they see us alive and well."
"And my family will be thrilled when I go back to them." Shamamon added.
"Oh...OK." Gabumon said smiling. He realized that they too wanted to win the games.
"Yarr. Well, we best be off." Hookmon said. "Take care you two. Good luck with the rest of the games."
Hookmon extended the hook on his right arm. Gabumon smiled and shook it and Hookmon and Shamamon were on their way.