Chapter Ten: "…Skull Greymon"
I was so afraid, my partner in so much pain, and I forced him into the most straining thing a Digimon can do, I forced him to digivolve and now he was going to kill me. "Stand down, Agumon, this is your superior speaking." Nate was trying to calm him down Amanda was doing the right thing
"Requesting back up! Rouge Digimon in sector 44863, ultimate level Skull Greymon, virus type."
Skull Greymon turned and looked right at me. "You! Skull Cannon." A huge missile launched from his back straight at me, I almost died. Almost.
"Gabumon digivolve into Garurumon! Howling Blaster." A burst of flame shot out of his mouth and destroyed missile and protected me. Garurumon protected me, he digivolved after taking so much damage. I knew what I had to do.
"Digital download, Skull Greymon and Garurumon's data downloaded." They both fit, cool.
"Cancel that backup. Hey, where did Hikasho go?" Amanda turned around. "More importantly, where did Ian go?" I ran, I couldn't bare the thought of what I had done. There had to be a way to reverse it. I ran straight to the library, I didn't stop at all. I got on a computer, inserted my digivice, planted my butt and didn't lift it until I found the answers I was looking for. In my rage I didn't notice my time was almost up, and as I was recalling my Digimon back to the digivice, the computer cut me off! It was closing time!?!? Did I lose my Digimon? Were they lost in the internet? Were they OK? I couldn't wait I had to find out!
"Digital upload, Agumon and Gabumon's data uploaded!" Gabumon came out fine but Agumon came out knocked out and in Koromon form. "Koromon open your eyes!"
"It's us your buddies, Gabumon and Ian!"
"Ian? Gabumon?"
"I'm so sorry Koromon, I promise, I'll never make you digivolve ever again."
"Ian, thank goodness we found you, It's eight o'clock." Nate and Amanda just caught up to me. "What's wrong with Koromon?"
"I think his data was too big to get through the flash port on the computer, the library shut me out before he could get through!"
"Well can he digivolve still?" Amanda put her hand on my shoulder. "Well, can he?"
"I don't know and I don't care!" I threw my digivice at Nate who caught it. "I Quit this gag of horrors, I don't want to be a part of it anymore got it? Just give me a ride home and leave me alone!" And they did. I got to keep all my memories as long as I didn't tell anyone what I had seen or heard, all I had to do was go on like it never happened. And I did.
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It was three days since I made that decision, I stopped talking about Digimon, I stopped playing my Digimon games, it was like they didn't exist in my life. DATS didn't tell my parents that I had quit yet but I knew that day had to come sooner or later. "So are your new friends going to come pick you up today?"
"No Robby, so quit asking!" I was a bit edgy, I knew something wasn't right. Koromon might be hurt, forget it! That's all just a silly memory now. I got a letter requesting me to come back to DATS HQ immediately. I threw it out, but I couldn't delete Mom's E-mail.
"They need you to come back, they said it's urgent." I had no choice, it was either lie or tell the truth and not be believed. So I said nothing, Mom dropped me off, wished me luck, and drove off. Looks like I'm stuck with DATS weather I liked it or not, so I took the elevator, opened the door, and was almost tackled by my Digimon.
"Ian! Your back! See Gabumon, I told you he wouldn't leave us forever!"
"Your right Agumon, I owe you ten bucks. Welcome back sir!"
"Alright, so this is Ian. He's smaller then I expected." A new Digimon greeted me, a blue Digimon called Veemon. "Well? Are we going to have introductions or what?"
"Why are you talking to me?"
"Ian!" Before I could get up Amanda pounced on me. "I thought I lost you forever!" She let go blushing beat red. "I mean, I thought WE lost you forever! I need to tell you something, Kyubimon digivolved into Taomon. That means I get my third Digimon" She indicated The Motimon behind her. It looks like a pink blob with eyes and a mouth and two hands.
"And by technicality, Greymon did digivolve into the ultimate level, so you now get your third Digimon Veemon. It's good to see you again Ian." Nate walked in with Gaomon as Amanda was getting off me. He helped me up. "What were you thinking leaving us?"
"Believe me, if it wasn't for my Mom, I would still be gone from here! I don't deserve my Digimon, I made Greymon Dark Digivolve!"
"You're not going to throw away our friendship over one fight are you Ian?" Agumon was crying.
"Agumon don't cry. Please don't cry again, I'll stay this time. I won't leave ever again.
"Promise?"
"I Promise."
"Promise?"
"Yes Gabumon, I promise."
"Promise?" Now Amanda was asking me.
"I Promise on my own grave, I will never leave you guys ever again."
"Well this is a Gagfest!" Nate's Impmon just showed up.
"Impmon admit it, you missed him to." Nate must have missed me to because he was defending me.
"If your reunion is over, I need Ian to finish what he started alone." Commander Shadrach entered the lounge staring right at me. "Agumon needs to defeat Skull Greymon and absorb his data or he will never be complete ever again."
"Skull Greymon got loose? How?"
"After you left, we ran some tests on Agumon to see if there were any damages, there were, he is only Forty-seven percent complete, his other Fifty-three percent is running around wreaking havoc. Because he is Agumon's data, only Agumon can stop it, but Agumon needs your human energy to digivolve into Greymon if he even wants to have a chance. Can you do this?"
"No, sir I can't do that to Agumon, I told him I would never make him digivolve ever again."
"It's ok Ian, this time, I want to digivolve."
"Fine, but remember, if you get killed, I'll never forgive you"
"OK!" We got our supply ready, according to the commander, only Agumon can cause any damage so I left Gabumon and Veemon behind. Nate came along with me in case I needed a quick retreat. Skull Greymon was last spotted attacking the Cleveland Brown's stadium downtown. When we got there, he was standing still, as if he was waiting for something. Waiting for me.
"Skull Greymon, this ends here, you and me, one on one. Agumon digivolve into Greymon."
"Skull Cannon."
"Nova blast." Greymon had enough distance to explode the cannon missile without hurting himself. We tried a physical attack like biting and clawing, nothing can penetrate that thick skeleton. After a while of fighting, things were looking grim and Nate wasn't improving the situation.
"You should run!"
"What are you talking about? We got him on the ropes!" CRASH! "On the wire?" BOOM! "On the…" CRUNCH! "Greymon? Are you ok?"
"I'm fine!" He was lying, I could tell because I lie like that during my wrestling matches, I don't like to be proven weaker. His skull helmet was cracking again.
"Greymon run, we can fight him some other time when your stronger!"
"I can handle it!" Skull Greymon hit him again, hard, into the stands, knocking a billboard right on him. He stopped moving.
"No!" I wasn't thinking about the danger or the open wires, I was only thinking about saving Greymon from himself "I won't let you hurt anymore!" I jumped in between Greymon and Skull Greymon, fists ready. "I'll fight him off while you run ok?"
"Skull Cannon"
"IAN!" Greymon wanted to protect me, I wanted to protect him, someone had to do the fighting, and apparently, Greymon didn't want it to be me! "Greymon digivolve into METALGREYMON!" His skull helmet was replaced with a metal one, his left arm was replaced with a cybernetic one, and his chest had two doors on them. The two doors opened revealing two missiles. "GIGA BLASTER!" The missiles flew past me, one took out Skull Greymon's missile, the other took out Skull Greymon, blasting him not into an egg, but into little shards of physical data. Which Metalgreymon then absorbed. Metalgreymon then degenerated back into Koromon. "What were you thinking trying to take on him alone?" Koromon was obviously ticked off at me.
"I wasn't alone, I had you."
Nate jumped down from the stands only to criticize me once more. "That was impossible, at only Forty-seven percent data, Agumon was lucky to digivolve into Greymon without pushing it, there wasn't enough data left for him to digivlove. How did you two manage to pull that off?"
"Beats me." I jumped onto Machgaogamon. "I don't know about you guys but I'm hungry, lets get back to HQ and see if Amanda's practicing her cooking!"
"Your back all right, remember though, you promised."
"I know." And I have kept that promise ever since.
The End.