"Start talking. Why did I freeze up?" Grimmon said. He went back to the Reapers Brother's lair and wanted answers as to why he froze. So he went to talk to Ebemon.
"I tried to tell you that the ChronoCore was not ready to use." Ebemon said. "Since you were combined with it for too long, your data was becoming damaged."
"Then make it work." Grimmon said.
"You don't have the authority to boss me around. I'm at a much higher level than you are." Ebemon said. "Besides, the ChronoCore is a living and intelligent creature that is too dangerous to use. It won't allow me to work on it. I told you not to use it."
"You're the only one who can make it work." Grimmon said. "I was so close to destroying the digidestine once and for all. If I can hold that form as ChaosGrimmon for just a little longer, they'll be finished."
"I can't. Besides, I have to get back to work on extracting the armor power from those digimon." Ebemon said as he tried to walk away, but Grimmon stopped him from doing that.
"After you help me." Grimmon said.
"Grimmon, what's going on in here?" Reapermon said as he came into the room. "Why is Ebemon here? He should be extracting the power from our prisoners."
"I know, but I need him." Grimmon said.
"What do you mean?" Reapermon said.
"I have this power that Ebemon created a while back called the ChronoCore." Grimmon said. "It gave me more power and I had greater power. It gave me the power to digivolve. I had the digidestine on the run, but somehow my data froze up and I couldn't move. If Ebemon works on it, I can finally destroy them."
"You swear?" Reapermon said.
"Of course." Grimmon said.
"Very well, but this is your last chance. If you fail me again, I'll destroy you myself." Reapermon said.
"Of course. I just need Ebemon to do something so that my data won't be corrupted and cause me to freeze again." Grimmon said.
"Fine, as long as he'll be able to go back to extracting the power of armor digivolution once you are done." Reapermon said.
"But Lord Reapermon, the ChronoCore was never meant to be used." Ebemon said. "It won't allow me to work on it. It doesn't even seem like he has it on him."
"Then work on Grimmon if you have to and then get back to work." Reapermon said and just left the two of them alone.
"Work on Grimmon?" Ebemon said.
"You heard him. Reconfigure my data so that I'll be stronger as ChaosGrimmon." Grimmon said. Ebemon took him into his room and Grimmon was laying against a table.
"This is your last chance to back away from this." Ebemon said.
"Stop talking and just do it." Grimmon said. Ebemon got to work right away and it was like plastic surgery, but you were actually aware of the pain.
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The Real World
Davis was still upset about what happened against ChaosGrimmon. After they all made it back to the real world, they got their digimon looked at for they were all damaged. Right now, Davis was standing next to Monodramon as he was wrapped in bandages.
"I can't believe this happened." Davis said. "How are we suppose to fight against ChaosGrimmon now? How are we suppose to fight Reapermon? How are we going to save Veemon and everyone?" He looked at Monodramon and felt bad this had to happen to him. "I'm sorry this had to happen to you Monodramon?"
"Davis, phone for you." Jun said. Davis opened the door for Jun and took the phone.
"Hello?" Davis said.
"Hey, Davis. It's Izzy. I heard about what happened."
"You mean with ChaosGrimmon?" Davis said.
"Yeah. You better come over to my place and I'll show you what I found." Izzy said.
"I can't just leave Monodramon." Davis said.
"I'm sure he'll be fine. Just have Jun watch over him until you get back." Izzy said.
"Okay. I'll be over as soon as I can." Davis said and hanged up. If this meant that there was a way they can win, they have to take it.
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Izzy's Apartment
Izzy called all the second generation of the digidestine and he was given all the information of ChaosGrimmon.
"So what did you find out Izzy?" Cody said.
"That ChaosGrimmon is a scary digimon." Izzy said.
"Anything useful like you usually do?" Yolei said.
"ChaosGrimmon is basically like any other ultimate level and dangerous digimon." Izzy said. "What really caught my eye is this thing." He said as he pulled up an image of the ChronoCore.
"That's the thing we saw enter Grimmon's body and it's what caused him to digivolve." Kari said.
"What is that thing anyway? Is it some sort of digimon?" T.K. said.
"That's the thing. It's called the ChronoCore, but it isn't a digimon." Izzy said. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in the digital world. It isn't a digimon, but it seems to have components that make it alive like digimon."
"Where did Grimmon find something like this?" Ken said.
"I'm not sure. It could be a new tactic that they're trying out." Cody said.
"So how do we fight something like that?" Davis said.
"I'm not sure. It seems to be some sort of power source, but my computer can't analyze it." Izzy said. "I think the only thing that you can use to fight that thing is if you're digimon were at the ultimate level. That's the only way you guys can at least have an even fight."
"Our digimon can't reach the ultimate level." T.K. said.
"How come?" Davis said.
"We haven't known any of them for very long." T.K. said. "Back in the old days, we had to use our crests to have our digimon reach the ultimate level. Than Gennai gave us the extra power from Azulongmon when we all went around the world. Considering we only had these new partners for a short while, I'm not sure it would work."
"I'm with T.K." Kari said. "Gatomon might have digivolve into Angewomon a couple days after we met, but I had my crest with me."
"There's still the matter that those digimon weren't intestinally not for you." Izzy said. "Gennai and the people he worked with have managed to have our digimon ready for us. I remember seeing an image of him and those people programming our digimon's eggs and our digivices so that everything would be ready for us."
"I remember seeing that. That was during our fight with the Dark Masters." T.K. said.
"If only they could DNA digivolve." Cody said. "However, Gennai told us that and armor digivolving wouldn't work. It's like we're starting from the beginning and we're doing a worse job than we did the first time."
"So bottom line is that we won't be able to get our digimon to the ultimate level." Yolei said.
"Maybe they can, but it's going to take a long time. You just need to spend more time with them and make sure they become stronger." Izzy said.
"But we don't have that kind of time." Davis said. "ChaosGrimmon could attack again at any time and we still need to figure out how we're going to defeat Reapermon and Reapmon. We've also got to save Veemon and the other digimon because who knows what is happening to them."
"I understand Davis, but I just don't think there's anything we can really do." Izzy said.
"That should be simple. We grow stronger." Davis said. "You guys sound like you're ready to throw in the towel after one bad fight. If we need to grow stronger, that's what we're going to do."
"You seem to be ready to go in and fight as usual." Ken said.
"Yeah and you know what, I'm tired of you guys just ready to run off and I'm still the only one who won't give up the fight." Davis said. "You all need to grow some backbone." Davis left it at that and just slammed the door closed.
"He is right." Ken said. "We can't just give up the fight. We'll have to work hard and grow stronger. That's the only way we'll be able to beat these guys."
"Right." All of them agreed on that. Having their digimon reach the ultimate level is the only way they can fight now and they have to reach that level.
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Davis
Davis went back into his room. When he got in there, he saw Monodramon was out of bed and was doing some pushups.
"Hi, Davis. Jun told me you had to step out. Where did you go?" Monodramon said.
"Forget about that. What are you doing?" Davis said.
"What does it look like? I'm trying to make myself stronger." Monodramon said. "I hate how ChaosGrimmon thrashed us around like that. If we're going to beat him, we have to get stronger."
"That's just what I was thinking. I'm sorry this had to happen to you Monodramon and I had no idea you were thinking the same thing." Davis said.
"Davis, you and the others have nothing to be sorry for." Monodramon said. "All of us wanted to help you to save your friends. We're in this together. Besides, becoming stronger is the only way we can beat these guys."
"You're right. That's why we're going to work as hard as we can for you and the others to get to the ultimate level." Davis said.
"The ultimate level?! That would be awesome, but do you think we can really get that far?" Monodramon said.
"I know so. Let's do this together, Monodramon." Davis said. Monodramon agreed to that and the two of them pounded their fists together. It might be a long road, but they will reach the ultimate level and become stronger than the Reaper Brothers.
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Grimmon
Ebemon was finishing his procedure on Grimmon. When he got up, he seemed to be in some pain and parts of his body was still readjusting.
"I've done all that I can." Ebemon said. "You should be able to hold the power for a little longer than you did last time, but there's no guarantee that you will be able to prevent it from happening or if it won't become worse."
"That's perfectly fine. I just need it long enough to destroy the digidestine and I will." Grimmon said and laughed evilly.
To Be Continued…
Will the digidestine be able to reach the ultimate level and fight their enemies? Keep watching Digimon, Digital Monsters to find out.
