Desperate Measures:
Digidestined: Nine II
By Greyfox
The four Digidestineds and five Digimon had ran as fast as they could to find what they had thought as the ninth Digidestined. However, it was not easy.
"Tai, " said Izzy, gasping for breath, "perhaps we shouldn't be wasting our energy like this."
"He's right, " Sora continued, "we don't even know if its the ninth Digidestined or not."
"I'm not taking any chances." assured Tai.
'That's Tai for 'ya, ' thought Kari, 'never willing to give up.'
As the nine continued to dash, they had seen a winged-creature fly out of the wood, "Tentomon, " Izzy commanded, "we've got to follow whoever that is."
"Got it." Tentomon responded.
"Tentomon...Digivolve to..."
The Digivice shines white light to form an image of a metallic wasp creature. The image is broken down into small data fragments just as Tentomon is shown spinning in a circular motion until he turns to a large metal wasp.
"...Kabuterimon!"
Everyone had climbed atop Kabterimon's metallic appendages as he flew out of the wood after the strange bird-like creature. Tai had pulled out his monocular to see what the Digimon was, or if there was someone piloting the bird.
"Looks intriguing if you ask me." Izzy explained.
Suddenly, an eruption of flames had tossed Kabuterimon off course, rendering all of the others to the ground, "Looks like your flight has been cancelled." said the evil Digimon.
"Better be careful, " explained Gatomon, "that's Airdramon, a powerful 'Mega' Digimon whom is as powerful as he is ugly."
"I don't think you can get much more powerful than that." Tai commented.
'What the?, ' thought Armegeddonmon, 'he's not one of mine. Who is this guy, anyway?'
Armegeddonmon had watched the prodigious battle in occurence, and started to stare in amazement. None of the Digimon it had would equal up to the powers of Airdramon.
"Horn Buster!" shouted MegaKabuterimon as he rammed, head first, into the challenger Digimon.
"Heaven's Charge!" said Angewomon, charging up several arrows of light towards Airdramon.
"Rainbow Wave!" Pheonixmon said as she formed several waves of energy, channelling over the beast.
"Giga Bomb!" Gigamon yelled as he shot out several pint-sized bombs.
"Terra Force!" said WarGreymon, unleashing a powerful orb of light at Airdramon. This one, like the others, had no effect.
"Ha!, " cackled Airdramon, "you cannot defeat me."
At a distance, two figures could see the tremendous battle in occurence. A battle which looked as if it had no end, on one side, five powerful warriors had taken much damage, on the other, the sixth warrior had taken less than a fraction of damage.
"Sounds like we should help them." said one of the voices.
"I agree." said the other.
With that, the two figures had taken off, despite the dangers that would occur.
Continuing with the fight, Airdramon stood, laughing at the futile attempts of the five Digimon.
"Dark Force!" shouted Airdramon as he had sent out waves of darkness, engulfing MegaKabuterimon and Angewomon, instantly shrinking them to 'In-Training' size. Once again, he shout out another dark wave, shrinking WarGreymon and Pheonixmon to 'In-Training' as well. Only one Digimon still stood. "Dark For..."
"Lucent Beam!" yelled out the white flying Digimon from before. The light beam had engulfed Airdramon. He was down, but not out.
"Who're you?!" yelled Tai.
"Leave explanations for later." said the Digimon, "We've got work to do."
"Right." continued Gigamon.
"Lucent Beam!"
"Giga Bomb!"
The powerful attacks were shot at Airdramon, but his nimble agility gave him an advantage as he evaded all of the attacks. "Ha ha, " laughed Airdramon, "my quick agility gives me the upper hand. You cannot defeat me now."
"Think again, " said the bird, "Lucent Beam!"
The quick beam of light had been shot at Airdramon, this time, not missing. Airdramon had been taken down, but easily recovered. His back was turned, long enough for Gigamon to strike with his 'Giga Bomb' attack. Striking Airdramon off guard, he fell to the ground easily. "You'll pay for that, weakling, " taunted Airdramon, "Dark Force!"
The dark wave had been avoided, thanks to Gigamon's quick-thinking and evasion techniques. "Nice try, " said the Digimon, "but it'll take more than that to take me down, Giga Bomb!"
The small bombs had struck Airdramon as he was tackled to the ground. "This time I won't miss, " threatened Airdramon, "Hyper Beam!"
The beam of hyper energy had struck down Gigamon, and weakened him, sending him to pierce the ground.
"Gigamon." shouted Tai.
Gigamon had lifted his head off of the ground, "It...has been...an honor...to serve you..., " said Gigamon weakly.
"Wait, Gigamon..." said Sora, concerned.
"...good-bye...Digidestineds..." he said, "...we shall't...meet again..." His body had glown as it had been reconfigured into small data fragments as they drifted of into nothingness.
Tai had felt an earge to defeat Airdramon, "Gigamon..., " whispered Tai, "...you will be avenged." Tai's crest had began to glow, for the better. "Now you pay." Tai yelled out.
Koremon had hopped next to Tai, "Whatever you need, " he said, "I'll be right by your side."
"Great!" said Tai.
Tai's Digivice had started to ring. His 'In-Training' Digimon had appeared, circling in spiral motions.
"Koremon...Digivolve to..."
Koremon had spun out until he turned into a three-foot tall orange lizard-creature.
"...Agumon!"
Tai's Digivice had shined a bright red lucent towards Agumon.
"Agumon...Warp Digivolve to..."
The red lucent had formed a shape of Agumon; then Greymon; then Metal Greymon; and then formed onto a large dragon warrior. Gauntlets formed upon his arms, and steel claws formed onto them. The 'Courage' emblem forms a shield on the Digimon's back, splitting in half.
"...WARGREYMON!"
"Ha!, " Airdramon laughed, "you couldn't do much to me then, what threat to you pose to me now?"
"You'll see." say WarGreymon, enraged.
"Lets get him." said the new bird Digimon.
WarGreymon had nodded in agreement, "Terra Force!"
"Lucent Beam!"
The two powerful attacks had been shot at Airdramon. His evasion techniques proved false as the lucent energy forces beamed into his molecular structure. Airdramon had been defeated, and was reconfigured into small data fragments, suffering the same fate as Gigamon. The two Digimon had glew golden as they shrunk to 'Rookie' stages.
"That'll learn 'ya." said Agumon.
Just then, the second figure had emerged from the shadows, the ninth Digidestined.
"Are you the..." started Kari.
"...Ninth Digidestined, " finished the girl, "yes, yes I am."
"Okay, next question, " said Sora, "who are you?"
"I'm Erin Kourishi." said the girl.
"And I'm Garumon, " said the Digimon, "her Digimon."
"Oh, " said the others, "well that explains almost everything."
"Almost?" asked Erin.
"Tell us more about yourself, " said Protomon, "about your Crest, or anything else."
"Crest?, oh you mean this thing!, " answered Erin, "well, I'm not sure what it means, look at the Emblem."
Izzy had taken a look at Erin's Crest. It looked like a cross with a second line through it, "Ah, I remember this symbol, " Izzy stated, "you have the Crest of 'Truth.'"
To Be Continued...