From The Twisted Mind Of A Brotha Pro. Presents:===============
Digimon Tamers Halloween Special: Curse of The GingerBreadMon Chapter 7: Time To Fight Back ========================================================================================
-Shinjuki Rooftop-
Double Impact!
Beelzemon fired off his twin shotguns, aimed for Takato and Rika, the four shells rapidly approached their targets, only to be stopped halfway.
Protective Wave!
Landing just before the Tamers upon the rooftop was a petite woman dressed like a nun in white. Upon her head she wore a pink mask with long tassels giving it the appearance of a bunny with long ear. She had jabbed a long golden trident into the ground, creating a dome of crackling energy, protecting the group from the attack.
Fly Bullet!
Two grinning masked bullets whizzed by, striking the rooftop where a group of fake Hypnos Agents stood, the roof exploded in a ball of fire, sending them tumbling over the edge in pieces. Beelzemon, along with Renamon and Tabbimon covered their eyes from the blinding explosion. The three looked over at the other attacker, BelleStarmon, sitting upon her motorcycle with her revolvers drawn.
"You kids alright?" The female biker said, giving the Tamers a smile and wink.
"Perfect timing as always Sistermon and BelleStarmon!" Rika said smiling back, looking at the pink nun who got to her feet turning to face the redhead, "I thought you and Lopmon had gotten taken Suzie, Henry did try calling you earlier he said."
Inside a glowing sphere of light, Suzie Wong smiled looking at a view screen of the young Nonaka woman, Sistermon speaking in the dual voice of Suzie and Lopmon.
"We were lucky, Mr. Mitsuo called and wanted us to baby-sit his son while he went into Hypnos. BelleStarmon came and found me, explaining the situation." The digital nun said.
"Let's get answers later, and ditch these posers." BelleStarmon replied, glaring over at Beelzemon and the others, "Ugh, and I thought he couldn't get any uglier."
Renamon and Tabbimon hissed out, leaping over to the rooftop towards the Tamers, while Beelzemon fired again, this time aiming for BelleStarmon. Easily she evaded the attack on Cherry, launching over to the same rooftop. Pulling out her guns, she fired at Renamon and Tabbimon, the grinning bullets struck their targets, stopping the two mid-air. Tabbimon landed upon the ground hunched over, while Renamon landed on her feet, her left arm falling to the rooftop. The kitsune looked at her stump for a moment before glaring at the biker, wagging a finger.
"BelleStarmon, how could you do that to me? We're friends..." Renamon said, holding her smoldering stump.
"Hmph, easy. 'You' aren't my friend." BelleStarmon coldly replied, firing her twin revolvers again. Here bullets struck their targets destroying the doppelgangers, angered Beelzemon was about to fire when he got struck in the face from a fireball.
Pyro Sphere!
Guilmon spat out another fireball, this one striking the fake demon lord in the midsection, sending a smoking lower body of the former clone to the ground. On the other rooftop filled with fake agents, they pulled out their guns opening fire upon the shield trying to crack it. Guilmon fired off two more Pyro Spheres, scattering the group who did their best to avoid the attack.
"Now's our chance, we need to get going now! Split up, I'll call you guys in a second where to meet up!" Isamu shouted, running with a now recovered Ghidomon to a nearby rooftop; together they leapt towards it, landing in a crash before heading down a fire escape.
Rika jumped upon the back of Cherry as BelleStarmon combined with Guilmon's attacks, laid down cover fire for them to spilt up and escape. BelleStarmon drove of the rooftop with Rika holding her waist tightly. Takato, Guilmon, and Sistermon escaped through a hole in the roof Guilmon created, slipping away. After the Tamers managed to escape, the Hypnos agents regrouped, one of the agents pulled out a cell phone making a call.
"Sir, Renamon, Tabbimon, and Beelzemon have been destroyed and the Tamers escaped." He said.
"No matter, I suspect they will be coming to the HQ soon. Return back here at once, we have preparations to make." Came the reply of Yamki over the phone.
"Understood, we are heading back now." Replied the agent, hanging up.
-Purple Orchid Hotel& Spa, Kabukicho District-
The Purple Orchid had been around for decades, one of the red-light district's little hidden gems. Madame Yu had ran and owed the establishment since her husband died long ago, a fair woman who treated all her workers like daughters. Out of all the girls who worked for her, Rei, Isamu's mother was her favorite. When Isamu was just a baby, Madame Yu would take care of the boy at times when his mother was 'working'. The elderly Chinese immigrant used to call him 'Fa Gao' - Chinese cupcake.
When Isamu arrived at the hotel with the Tamers and digimon, she was more than happy to help; setting them up with an empty room to rest and plan their next move. At the moment Ghidomon and Guilmon were asleep in a corner while Lopmon sat upon the bed watching Oshiro Matsuo, the young baby was currently sleeping as well. Rika, Takato, Isamu, and Suzie were all sitting down on the floor in a circle. Takato had came up with a plan that so far everyone agreed to, save for Rika.
"No Way Takato!" Rika got to her feet yelling at the boy, "No way and I'm staying behind!"
"You have to, there is no other way! You don't have Renamon with you, and from what we know, those things are stronger than a human. No way you can do anything!" Takato yelled back.
"So I'm forced to baby-sitting? Forget it! I'm not going to sit back and do nothing!" She shot back.
"Rika, he's right about this." Suzie said, "I understand how you feel, Dad and brother are most likely in trouble, but I know if I couldn't do anything, I'd just be in the way. You don't have Renamon with you and can't Biomerge." Suzie rose, placing a hand on Rika's shoulder, "And Oshiro needs to be with someone that I trust, Mr. Yamki and Riley entrusted me to care for their child, but they may need my help. I can do that. Please Rika, do this."
Rika wanted to say something, but she knew Suzie was right, at the moment, Rika couldn't Biomerge, and would be more or less useless. She hated that, being on the sidelines. With a sigh, she gave in with a slight nod.
"Fine...but make sure you find Renamon for me, and deliver an extra does of butt-whooping for me." The redhead said.
"Alright!" Takato said, "Then we should be all set, there's just one more person we need to wait on and..." at that moment the boy's phone rang, fishing it from his pocket he answered, "Hello? Oh great you're here! Uh, yeah just go to the front desk and tell them you are here to see the people in room 2D."
"Who was that?" Rika asked.
"Oh, well you see... I figured we would need every able body person, ...and I figured no way any cookie clones traveled that way..." The teenager said in a shaky voice, feeling Rika's trademark icy glare upon him.
"Yeah? And?" She took a few steps towards him as he backed away towards the wall.
Fortunately before he could answer, there was a commotion outside in the hallways.
"I said no! Get your chubby hands off me you fat pervert!" The Tamers heard BelleStarmon shout out.
"Yes! That's just how I liked to be talked down! Please I'll pay you twice as much; I don't care who you are with right now!" Replied the voice of an older one of the customers at the spa.
Rika, Takato, and the others poked their head outside to see a middle-aged man in a robe holding onto the tail of BelleStarmon trench coat. An intense look of annoyance was upon her face as she grabbed her coat, yanking it from the man's grasp.
"For the last time you old geezer, I'm not a worker here! I'm just staying with a few friends of mine to plan out an attack on a government building that's been taken over by a unknown threat!" BelleStarmon said, stirring a collective groan from the Tamers.
"Role-play! I figured you were into that, but I have to admit, that's a little too detailed and kinky for me. Um...might if I join in though?" The man said giving her a smile, which she responded with a huff, pushing the man aside, heading for the room.
"Forget it, this little game would be too rough for yah. I doubt you could keep up." She said with a snort, "Hey fellas, so are we ready to do this or what?"
"Well after that little outburst, we defiantly don't have much of a choice. I'm staying behind to watch the kid, and you guys are gonna head to Hypnos." Rika said to BelleStarmon, then glaring at Takato, "Just as soon as..."
"Hey guys! I must say, you choose quite the spot to meet up at! Takato, I'm still having a hard time believing what you told me over the phone earlier, but me and Cyberdramon are ready for a good fight! Hey Isamu, Suzie, Princess...you're looking beautiful as ever." A brown-haired teenage boy said, dressed in a black turtleneck and brown cargo pants. He looked at the group with a winning smile, Suzie and Isamu returned, while Takato and Rika were still eyeing one another. At the moment, Takato felt like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.
"Ryo..." Rika slowly said out in a toxic fashion.
"Heh...yeah Ryo..." Takato said with a chuckle followed by a hard swallow.
-Hypnos HQ-
Two guards once again stood inside at the front entrance of Hypnos HQ to maintain cover that everything was as it seemed. Even at the front desk sat a cookie clone of the same young agent from earlier, reading from the very same magazine the original agent had. Being late as it was, and with the remaining Tamers still about, the government building was on high alert. Upon the twin roof-tops, agents stood ready armed with the only weapons known to be effective against digital life forms. It had been a project spear-headed by Yamaki and Janyu to be ready the next time the D-Reaper would return, or even perhaps another threat from the Digital World.
The rifles each of the cloned agents carried, produced a short E.M.P. wave that was able to disrupt a Digimon's digital code, rendering them stunned and nothing more than a wire-frame shell of their body for a short period. Only tested in secret with captured Wild-ones, the pulse rifles proved effective, prompting mass-production. Only when the Tamers failed to neutralize a digital threat were the guns used.
Now, every agent on alert at the H.Q. was armed with the weapons, ready to use the weapons against the Tamers, should they try and breach the facility. An effort not wasted at all. It happed fast, first with BelleStarmon and Sistermon on Cherry. They crashed through the front doors, on the digital Harley bike skidding straight into the front desk, BelleStarmon taking out the two guards with well-placed shots. Sistermon leapt from the bike, skewering the surprised agent sitting at the desk.
"Ha! These mooks ain't so tough! Just cheap imitations of the real thing!" The demon desperado said stepping off her bike.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet." Sistermon replied, removing her trident from the crumbled remains of what was once an Hpynos agent. "That was only three of them, I'm pretty sure there are more inside."
"Well let's hurry on up, I don't want to let the others have all the fun. And hopefully we'll find Impmon and the others first." BelleStarmon said, which Sistermon nodded in agreement.
"What do you think? Elevator or stairs?" Sistermon asked.
"I'm not walking up all those things! The elevator of course!" BelleStarmon replied with a smile.
Just several minutes after BelleStarmon and Sistermon's attack, from the center of the building, Justimon struck. The biomerged form Ryo and Cyberdramon smashed through an office window landing in a three-point stance. Two agents burst through the office door firing several EMP pulses at the cyber superhero. Easily he dodged the light purple blasts of energy, rolling to the side. They kept firing as he ran across the room, along the wall and deliver a kick that connected with both their rifles.
The force of the impact knocked the agent's guns from their grasps. If one could see the face of Justimon though his visor they would have seen a smile as he punched the head of one agent, and kicked the other into the adjacent wall. The one in the wall was reduced to two cracked halves, while the other stood there headless before the legs buckled under the body; sending it to the ground.
"Wow, Takato wasn't lying on the phone." Justimon said in Ryo's voice as he picked up a piece of the crumbled remains of the agent clone observing it in his hands. The chuck did resemble that of a cookie, gingerbread exactly as his friend described.
"This really does feel like some campy horror movie...the campiest." Ryo said.
"Yes, but regardless, a fight is a fight. Let's find the main body, it's somewhere inside this building. I can smell him!" Cyberdramon said back.
"Heh, you think we should have stopped and grabbed some milk?" Ryo quipped.
Cyberdramon growled a bit before answering, "I do not think that would be wise Ryo. They may smell like gingerbread, but by no means could it possible be. I would advise against it."
Justimon looked at the chunk, before a purple blast stuck the side of the door, shaking him from his two halves' inner discussion.
"Whoa that was close!" Justimon said, ducking back into the room, spotting three agents coming down the hallway. "Well better get a move on, before we get pinned down!"
Rushing into the hallway, Justimon's cybernetic arm increased in size, raising it in the air, he slammed it to the ground. The powerful shockwave sent the clones to the ground, shaking the very floor itself. Taking the chance, the Mega digimon dashed forward, destroying the rifles and clone agents.
"I always hated these things." Justimon said in Cyberdramon's voice as he crushed the barrel of a rifle in his hands. His ears perked to attention as he heard reinforcements approaching. Instead of staying to fight, Justimon dashed down the hallway, his long red muffler trailing behind.
Upon the right rooftop of Hypnos, the agents scrambled about as they heard and felt the shockwave of Justimon crashing into the side of the building. They ran to the side and peaked over to spot the point of impact, which was their mistake. A large knight in blue armor with golden trim resembling a dragon landed behind them; in his hand he held a sword and shield bearing the symbol of the digital hazard upon it.
Shield Toss !
Like a Frisbee, the dragon knight threw his shield at the group of agents preoccupied. Only one of them turned around to see the giant shield, knocking the group of agents off the side of the roof, sending their broken pieces tumbling to the ground.
Inside a dark blue sphere of light Isamu floated, watching the cloned members of Hypnos disappear from the roof. Valiantmon, Isamu and Ghidmon's biomerged Mega form caught the shield, speaking in the young teen's voice.
"Alright! A combo!" The boy said in triumph, only to be interrupted by a blast of purple EMP energy, striking his left shoulder guard. Valiantmon grunted in pain from the blast, staggering. He held up his shield to block several more blasts coming from agents on the opposite rooftop, obviously catching sight of his approach. Unlike his shoulder guard, which was now nothing more than a wire-frame outline, the dragon knight's shield proved to be more durable; but the toll on it was starting to show. Cracks appeared upon the crest of the digital hazard as the shield continued to get hammered by the EMP pulses.
"Gwah! Should have spent less time gloating and more time watching where I was going!" Isamu said inside the sphere.
"Got that right." Takato's voice said within the sphere, not at all much to Isamu's surprise.
Gallantmon flew up between Valiantmon and the agents, using his own shield to block the blasts, taking the pressure off his brother in arms. The dragon knight used his lance to pierce an agent, sweeping his weapon to knock several others away. He easily dispatched of the remaining clones, looking over to see if Valiantmon was ok.
"Are you alright bro?" Guilmon asked, to which Valiantmon responded with a thumbs-up.
"Just a little scratched, but we'll be fine." The blue knight responded in Ghidmon's voice, looking at this cracked shield "Good thing you showed up in time, it could have been much worse."
"Yeah, or you two could have been a little more careful, remember that next time." Takato responded.
"Yes 'mom'", Isamu said, getting a laugh from the brothers.
"No problem, now let's get on in there. No need for the subtle approached I think, let's just crack this cookie!" Gallantmon said, using his lance to burst a hole into the roof, making himself an entrance.
Valiantmon did like-wise, stabbing his sword into the ground, "I hope Mr. Yamaki doesn't send us a bill for the repairs." The knight said as a hole opened up beneath him.
Just like that, both knights were inside the building, along with the other Tamers, unaware that their progress was being monitored.
Deep within the Hypnos command center, agents were busy about their stations monitoring the situation happening around them as if business was usual. And at the center of it all stood Yamaki, or rather his clone watching the situation at hand. Unlike the original, he didn't carry his trademark lighter with him; not carrying over the original Yamaki's need to constantly flick his lighter open and closed in a tense situation. Above him in chairs supported by cranes sat two young technicians, filling him constant updates and reports on the invading digimon.
"Sir, Justimon has cleared the twelfth floor of all agents and making his way downward." One technician said.
"BelleStarmon and Sistermon have reached the fifth floor. Reports from the top levels report that Valiantmon and Gallantmon are making their way down each floor." Said the other.
"Very well, keep an eye on them and keep me updated." Yamaki said.
From behind the massive form of Gingerbreadmon approached Yamaki, looking up at the large display screen overhead.
"So they are here, perfect. Prepare everything for our guests...I must get ready myself." The hulking digimon replied.
"But of course, it will all be set as you ordered master." Yamaki replied.
"Of course, I didn't expect anything less from you." Gingerbreadmon said, heading for the doors leading out of the control room.
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To Be Continued...