Chapter 6

Unlikely Saviours

The drawing of Tinymon's champion form, Goliathmon, was complete but Brian wasn't satisfied. It looked too much like Leomon. The only differences were that Goliathmon was more human with red streaks in his long hair. Also, black biker boots were worn. Glancing at the clock, he walked to his bed and fell asleep. Tinymon leapt onto Brian's desk and walked over to the sheet of paper.

"Interesting," Tinymon said.

Highmiramon gazed on his newly created Devas. Each one was, coincidentally and unintentionally, based on the Horoscope Zodiac. He stopped at one he wasn't proud of. MetalScorpiomon. Not exactly the same as Scorpiomon, MetalScorpiomon was a lot more powerful but still as an ultimate. These Devas, unlike the other Sovereigns' own protectors, were created from him. They were, in fact, his children. MetalScorpiomon looked up at his master and was glad when he saw him nod.

Brian and Victor met in the school library the next morning to discuss the battle earlier between Victor and Jessica, as well as the threat that the Sovereign obviously placed on the real world. They acted as though they were reading.

"It's obvious that Jessica could be compared to Rika but what about the Sovereign?" Victor said with a book on ethics in front of him.

Peering over a copy of Prey, Brian said, "Clearly we aren't being targeted by any of the four Sovereigns we see in the cartoon. Azulongmon likes humans as do Baihoumon and Ebowdomon. That phoenix Sovereign attacked the real world but he turned to good."

"We don't know that." Victor said reminding Brian that this was real life and not like the cartoon. "For all we know, Azulongmon could be the Sovereign attacking us."

"Not his style," Brian said as the bell began to ring. "We got class, talk to you later."

Brian sat down at his desk as Levi Chapman ran into Mr Herriman's classroom and tripped over Heather Calhoun's books. Levi had short red hair and wore a KISS shirt today. With khakis and biker boots on, his appearance was scrawny. Heather Calhoun looked somewhat like Victor to a point that some people thought they were related, but they weren't. She wore a low cut green blouse and blue jeans. Levi, being as humorous as ever, got back up and acted like he was dusting himself off. He helped her straighten out her books and got to his seat.

"Class, only a couple of weeks till our trip to Washington D.C and I…" Mr Herriman said beginning his class.

Jessica came into the room and sat down at her desk.

"Nice of you to join us Miss Benton," Mr Herriman said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Sorry, trouble with my bike." She was clearly lying.

After school, Heather was walking on a sidewalk by a park. It had rained the night before and rather large mud puddles were common where she was walking. A frog crossed her path and she sat her things down to try and pick it up. She almost had it in her hands, when a blue Kawasaki motorcycle caused a rather large wave of water to crash on her. Heather and her stuff were soaked. The cute frog was gone and she picked up her stuff and walked into the park, without thinking of the bank of fog. An enormous shadow loomed over her and all she could do was scream as it picked her up.

Levi heard the scream and began to ride his dirt bike towards it. When the fog came up, he flipped the shield down on his full helmet. When it cleared, he took off his helmet in disbelief of what he saw. A giant metal scorpion was holding Heather Calhoun hostage and two smaller creatures were attacking it.

"Demi Dart!" attacked one of the creatures.

A dart hit just above the claw holding Heather. Clearly, the green thing wasn't happy.

"Hey! You almost hit her!" The green thing said.

"HELP ME!" Heather screamed.

"Quiet you!" The scorpion yelled at her.

This day was one of the strangest days of his life and he was sure that it wasn't going to be the last.

At Brian's house, Tinymon and Ebidramon were playing Digimon Rumble Arena with Tinymon as Guilmon and Ebidramon as Terriermon. Tinymon had just beaten Ebidramon when his eyes went viral red. Ebidramon seemed to pick up on whatever vibe Tinymon was feeling because his antennae and whiskers were moving rapidly.

"A digimon…" Tinymon told him.

Brian grabbed his D-Ark and the holo-map came up.

"Let's go," Ebidramon ordered them joking.

Renamon shadow-jumped into Jessica's room.

"I thought you should know. I feel the presence of a powerful digimon," she said.

"Let's go," Jessica told her.

"Shouldn't you leave a note for your mom?" Victor asked.

"My parents are both at work all the time and I've got free reign," Brian said grabbing the car keys. "Everyone into the Blazer."

As they ran out, Tinymon leapt through the open sunroof and landed in the front passenger seat as Victor opened the door.

"Shotgun," Tinymon claimed.

Victor and Ebidramon got into the back and Brian drove towards the blinking red dot. When they arrived, Brian parked the Blazer at a safe distance and they ran into the field. A gigantic scorpion was being attacked by three small digimon.

"Why can't we get a reading on him?" Victor heard Jessica ask.

"Ebidramon…" Victor said.

"Tinymon…" Brian said to his partner.

"READY!" The two digimon exclaimed.

"DIGI-MODIFY!" The two tamers yelled. "Digivolution activate!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Ebidramon digivolve to…Rambodramon!"

"Tinymon digivolve to…Goliathmon!"

Goliathmon seemed a little different. He wore a Shaft-like trench coat now and had sunglasses like you'd see in the Matrix.

"Goliathmon. Avenger Virus Type digimon. Champion level. Special Attacks: Time Blade and Shotgun Blast," Jessica read off her screen.

Goliathmon's eyes went viral red again as he tried to scan the digimon.

"MetalScorpiomon, Cyborg Scorpion Virus Type digimon. Ultimate Level. Special Attacks are Claw of Doom, Cyber Stinger and Deva Claw." Brian read off his screen.

"DemiDevimon. Bat Virus Type digimon. Rookie level. Special Attack is Demi Dart.

Numemon. Polluted Virus Type digimon. Champion level. Special Attack is Party Time," Victor read. "What are they doing here?"

"We heard about this guy crossing over…" Numemon began.

"And we're trying to stop him," DemiDevimon said.

MetalScorpiomon didn't seem like one to play around. His tail sailed through the air towards Rambodramon.

"Cyber Stinger!" The hulking scorpion attacked but missing Rambodramon by mere inches.

Brian pulled out the digivolution card and sent it flying to Jessica who plucked it out of the air with ease.

"Use it on Renamon!" Brain exclaimed.

"You don't have to tell me twice. Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!" Jessica said.

Renamon didn't change to her champion form which further frustrated her Tamer.

'What am I doing wrong?' She thought to herself. 'Why doesn't Renamon have the ability to digivolve?'

MetalScorpiomon whacked DemiDevimon with the back of his claw sending the bat-like creature crashing into a tree near Levi. The force of the swing made him drop his hostage who managed to land on the repugnant Numemon. The battle intensified and no one noticed the green D-Ark form on Levi's belt as no one noticed the blue D-Ark form clipped onto one of Heather's backpack's straps. No one also noticed a small white digimon with a red triangle on his head come near the battle.

"Maybe I can help…" He said as his triangle began to glow.

DIGIVOLUTION

"DemiDevimon digivolve to…Devimon!"

'Crystal Matrix activate…' the white creature thought to himself.

MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION

"Numemon matrix digivolve to…Monzaemon!"

"Devimon. Demonic Angel Virus Type digimon. Champion Level. Special Attacks are Evil Wing and Touch of Evil," Victor stated.

"Monzaemon. Teddy Bear Vaccine Type digimon. Ultimate Level. Special Attacks are Megaton Punch and Lovely Heart," Brian read off his D-Ark.

"We might delete him yet."

Monzaemon ran at MetalScorpiomon and began to punch the digimon ferociously. Suddenly, Brian got an idea.

"Goliathmon! Attack his tail!" Brian yelled. "Digi-Modify! Omnimon's Transcendent Sword activate!"

Goliathmon's original sword disappeared and Omnimon's Transcendent Sword took its place. Goliathmon, with considerable difficulty, launched himself into the air and struck at the tail, just below the stinger.

The sword went cleanly through the tail and that's when they heard MetalScorpiomon begin to scream.

"MY TAIL! YOU'VE CUT OFF MY BEAUTIFUL TAIL!" he yelled.

"Now! Attack at once!" Brian yelled.

"Bayonet Bomb!"

"Diamond Storm!"

"Touch of Evil!"

"Shotgun Blast!"

"Lovely Heart!"

The final attack began the deletion of MetalScorpiomon.

"FOR MY SOVEREIGN!" He yelled as his particles broke up.

The digimon began to absorb his data together, kind of like a group of friends sharing a large bag of potato chips. When they were done loading the data, Jessica turned to Brian and Victor.

"Don't think this makes us allies. When the time comes, Renamon will load them. Come on," she said walking over to her blue Kawasaki and riding away.

Goliathmon looked at Renamon.

"Why do you let her treat you like that?" he asked her.

"Because she's my Tamer," Renamon said shadow-jumping away.

Tamers and digimon turned around to Monzaemon and Devimon helping Heather and Levi to their feet.

"Come on, let's help our new friends." Victor said as they walked to them.

Highmiramon drove his fist through a statue of himself. The stone structure crumbled and his underlings ran out of the way. He had felt the pain of MetalScorpiomon's death. This was something he had not expected to happen. Granted, MetalScorpiomon's deletion was in question but hey, that was life. But to feel his death, that was beyond anything he'd imagined. Surprises were something that he never like to see happen.

"They will die…" He claimed.