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Chapter 9 College Boys
~Digital World~
Beelzemon reclined in the chair that was not quite a throne in the middle of his camp, slowly massaging his forehead.
Everyone one of these bumbling idiots has failed miserably in following my orders. The Demon Lord thought to himself as he sat there. Kamiya has managed to stop every one of them almost as an afterthought…maybe it's time to bring out the big guns… Beelzemon looked up with a grim smile on his face.
He stood up, causing a group of Rookie-Level and Champion-Level scouts and attendants to rush over to him.
"Bring all of our Mega-Levels out." Beelzemon ordered. He was done playing games here. Lucemon may want him to get Kamiya, but Beelzemon knew the real threats were the digidestined in this dimension. He would eliminate them, and if Kamiya was dumb enough to try and save them he would die as well.
He stood and strode over to the holographic map that showed a bird's eye view of Tokyo. Multiple dots were burning a dull red, signifying the location of the digidestined.
Such fools to leave a network like this so open to being accessed… Beelzemon thought as the pair of Datamon he'd brought along for this purpose continued to manipulate the access to the digidestined network.
His eyes lingered on the pair all by themselves on the far edge of Tokyo from all the others…
~Tokyo, Japan~
"Come on Joe, I'm sure things weren't that bad for you on the test." Izzy Izumi told his roommate as the two of them walked back towards their apartment from the restaurant they'd just had lunch at.
"No Izzy I'm pretty sure I failed that test…" Joe said, continuing his usual self beating up after a big test. This one he had been studying for the entire winter break and Izzy knew there was no way he failed the test.
"Joe, did you not know how to answer any of the questions?" Izzy asked, and Joe shook his head. "Were there any surprises you hadn't studied at least twenty times?" Another head shake. "Then why do you think you failed?"
"I..I…I don't really know." Joe said, signifying defeat on his part.
Izzy just nodded, taking silent satisfaction on his victory. Joe was a far cry from the nervous and over cautious person Izzy had meet on his first trip to the digital world, but from time to time would still worry over something like a test he was beyond prepared for.
"Good job Izzy, Joe wouldn't stop talking about how badly he failed that test." Bukamon chimed in from where he was hovering over Joe's shoulder. Motimon, unfortunately, was forced to ride in Izzy's backpack since he couldn't fly or keep up with the humans.
"How about you Izzy, how did your Comp Sci test go?" Joe asked, ignoring his partners comment. Despite the fact that they had just had lunch together they really hadn't spent any time talking about their courses first set of test barely a week after returning from break.
"It wasn't bad. I think I did fine." Izzy replied. The course was the first time he had actually not been able to breeze through a computer science course. It was one of the most advanced courses offered, and it really showed in the work Izzy actually had to do.
"Wow, is Izzy Izumi not confident about one of his comp sci classes?" Joe asked with a smile. Izzy just shook his head as the two college students continued their trek home. Both of them were top notch students, but for very different reasons. Joe was probably the hardest working person that Izzy knew, while Izzy was just plain smart. This isn't calling Joe stupid, but Izzy was in a class all by himself when it came to school work. He'd been taking courses designed for students with at least four years of college experience, and not even having to study extra to succeed in his course.
"This one is different." Izzy said in defense of his usual habits. "I think the teachers are looking for us to fail the course!"
Joe just laughed at Izzy's excuse. "That's part of what that course is about Izzy." Joe replied. He had a year more experience at the college over his roommate, not to mention information from his brother's time at this college. "It's the most difficult course offered here, but it's not the last one offered. It's designed to weed out those that can't actually make the cut."
"That's…that's…" Izzy seemed at a loss for words for once, and Joe laughed once more. He liked when he could turn these conversations around on Izzy that quickly, which wasn't often.
"Oh you know what I mean." Izzy finally settled on as they neared Ueno Park, a spacious park to the west of Tokyo University and just north of where they lived. They usually stopped and spent the time to walk through the park, partially to let Bukamon and Motimon get some air and partially since it was the fastest way back to their apartment.
The two friends entered the park, and quickly found their usual bench, somewhat away from the main traffic in the park. It was near one of the several temples scattered around the park, and this particular one was less traveled to, both by the inhabitants of Tokyo and the many tourists that inhabited the area.
Bukamon went straight for the small pond next to the temple while Izzy pulled Motimon out of his backpack and let him roam about. The two friends sat down on the bench and watched as their digimon released a good amount of their pent up energy.
"You ever feel like parents sitting here like this?" Izzy asked after a few minutes.
"What?" Joe asked, sitting up from where he had been drifting off, the late hours studying had worn him out and the park was a quiet and peaceful place.
"With Bukamon, do you ever sorta feel like he's a child and you're his parent?" Izzy repeated, and Joe opened his mouth to reply, only to stop as he thought about it.
"You know, with Bukamon, I sometimes do, now that I think about it." Joe replied as the digimon he was talking about splashed Motimon, who had strayed too close to the water. "Why are you asking this?"
"I was just thinking, you know you always see parents taking their kids to the park and sitting back while they play around…" Izzy said, drifting off and Joe let out a laugh.
"Yea, I guess this does feel a little like that must." Joe replied watching Motimon attempt to get revenge on his aquatic friend, only to end up falling into the water that Bukamon was swimming in.
Izzy nodded as Motimon attempted to get himself out of the pond while Bukamon tried not to drown in his laughter.
They sat in silence once more, just letting their digimon run around, Bukamon attempting to stay away from the angry Motimon.
"So why do you think Tai still hasn't talked to any of us yet?" Izzy asked once more, and Joe leaned back on the bench.
"I don't really know Izzy. The only thing I can think of is what Matt said back at the meeting. Something must have happened that prevents him from talking to us." Joe replied after a few seconds.
"I guess." Izzy responded. "What do you think it could have been?"
"I don't really want to know." Joe said almost immediately. He'd obviously been thinking about it on his own a bit. "I mean, this is Tai we're talking about. What could make him of all people act like this?"
Izzy just looked thoughtful at Joe's comment, at least for a second, that's when the first explosion happened.
The noise hit the two digidestined half a second before the displaced air from the explosion knocked both of them off of the bench and onto the ground. They were rolling away from the source before either of them realized what the loud noise was.
"Joe!" Bukamon shouted as Motimon called out to Izzy.
"Izzy!" Both digimon jumped towards their partners, just as their digivices let out a blinding flash of light.
"Bukamon digivolve to! Gomamon!" Bukamon digivolved into his rookie form as the light faded from him. He now looked like a rather small white seal with orange hair.
"Motimon digivolve to! Tentomon!" Motimon also emerged from the light in his rookie form, which looked like a rather large, winged, red bug.
"Joe, you ok?" Gomamon asked as he jumped over to him.
"Yea Gomamon, I just got knocked over!" Joe shouted, his ears still ringing from the loud noise, and the change in air pressure.
"IZZY!" Tentomon called, as Izzy was standing up.
"I'm fine Tentomon." Izzy replied, stopping his partner from worrying too much. "But what was that?"
Almost as if to answer Izzy's question another explosion ripped through the park, this time proceeded by a shout.
"Bone Duster!" A rather cold voice shouted, just before a huge fireball shot through the park, causing yet another massive explosion.
"I'd say a digimon!" Tentomon exclaimed in response to Izzy's question, and almost as if on cue a creature that could only be a digimon jumped into view. It seemed to be looking around for something as it pointed its left arm, which seemed to have a large cannon of sorts on it, towards one of the nearby temples.
"Bone Duster!" It shouted in the same calm, cold voice as before, just as a pillar of flame shot out from the cannon. The force of the displaced air alone was enough to throw Izzy, Tentomon, Joe, and Gomamon to the ground once more and throw a ton of dirt on top of them, even though the cannon wasn't aimed anywhere near them.
Izzy hazarded a look up at the digimon, and got his first good look at him, and almost immediately wanted to put his head back down. The digimon's entire body was covered in gold and silver armor, whose design was rather simple, if grotesque. Its main theme seemed to be skulls, with its kneecaps and the center of its chest having them to cover them. Its head was also a skull, bare of any skin or hair. Its left arm was a blade, in contrast to the cannon on its left arm.
Izzy watched as the two black sockets that had to be its eyes surveyed the destruction it had caused.
"Come out, come out wherever you are digidestined!" It called in its cold voice, looking almost directly away from the cowering digidestined.
Izzy and Joe tried their best not to be seen as the digimon kept looking around, but it was all for nothing. The digimon sent another blast in the direction it had shouted and then turned in the opposite direction, picking out the two digidestined almost immediately.
"There you are." The digimon said, and if its face hadn't been frozen as a skull Izzy was sure it would have smiled. "Time to take you out." He aimed his cannon down towards them, prompting them to jump up and run.
Tentomon and Gomamon on the other hand stayed right where they were, and both Izzy and Joe's digivices glowed with a bright light.
"Tentomon digivolve to!" Tentomon was covered in the light emitted from Izzy's digivice, and emerged from the light quite different. He was larger, bigger than quite a few houses, and was now blue. He had four wings springing from his back, and another pair of arms below his first set. His head was covered in a gray armored mask, with a large horn sprouting from it. "Kabuterimon!"
"Gomamon digivolve to!" Gomamon also digivolved into a larger form, almost the same size as Kabuterimon, but he was much more massive as he wasn't designed for flight. His entire body was covered in heavy white fur and a large horn sprouted from his forehead. "Ikkakumon!"
The two Champion-Level digimon stood between their partners and the attacking digimon.
"Electro-Shocker!" Kabuterimon charged up his electrical attack in his arms before releasing the blue blast of energy.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon launched his attack at the same moment, firing several torpedoes from the horn on his forehead, which arched into the sky before slamming into the digimon at the same moment as Kabuterimon's Electro-Shocker.
Both attacks caused explosions as they hit the digimon, showcasing the two Champion-Level digimon's accuracy and covering the digimon with smoke from the explosions.
"Alright!" Joe called out as the digimon was hit by the attacks. Izzy on the other hand wasn't as confident, and unfortunately was proven to be the one who was right.
"Grim Slasher!" The digimon called out even before the smoke cleared enough to allow visibility. Kabuterimon was sent hurling away from the sight of the battle as the digimon appeared where Kabuterimon had been a second before, following through with the stroke of its blade.
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon called out again as he fired several more torpedoes at the digimon, who this time jumped out of the way, allowing the torpedoes to hit the ground where he was standing a few seconds before.
"Grim Slasher!" The digimon called once more, this time sending Ikkakumon flying, right into the temple that was in the secluded clearing they were in.
Joe looked back and forth between where his and Izzy's digimon had crashed into different parts of the clearing just before the digimon started spinning rapidly.
"Burning Cyclone!" it shouted just as fire poured out of its cannon surrounding it. It spun faster and faster as first broken pieces of wood from the destroyed temple flew towards it, followed by other heavier pieces of scrap. Izzy and Joe dove and managed to grab ahold of the bench they were sitting on minutes before, preventing them from getting sucked up as well.
Kabuterimon and Ikkakumon unfortunately weren't as lucky. Both were sucked up, and spun into the now massive fire cyclone, shouting the whole way. The two went around to many times for either Izzy or Joe to keep count before the cyclone suddenly cut out. Tentomon and Gomamon were thrown to the ground in front of the two humans as the digimon stopped its spin, both of them bruised up from the attack.
Izzy had his D-Terminal open as the digimon took a step towards them, and pulled up the information on the digimon.
"Reapermon, a cyborg digimon created from the data of a bounty hunter website. He hunts down the targets of whoever has the highest bid on the contract for his services." Izzy said, reading the information on the digimon aloud. "He attacks with either his Judgment Sickle or the cannon on his left arm." Izzy paused here for a second and took a breath, "He's a Mega-Level digimon."
~Earlier that day~
T.K. Takeru opened the door to his car, letting Patamon fly right out of the back seat, followed by DemiVeemon. Unfortunately getting Davis out of the car would be a much more difficult task.
As if to emphasize this thought Davis let out a snore at this moment, well, a rather louder than normal one since he had been snoring consistently since T.K. had picked him up.
"Davis wake up." T.K. said to Davis's sleeping form, shaking him. "Come on Davis we need to go up to the apartment."
Davis simply let out another loud snore and turned over in his sleep, ignoring T.K. with well-practiced ease.
"Davis, don't make me take extreme measures…" T.K. threatened Davis sleeping form, gaining another snore from his sleeping friend. "Ok Davis, you asked for it."
T.K. walked around to the back of the car, and pulled a water bottle, kept in his trunk just for times like these, out and walked back to the front seat. Patamon let out a laugh as he saw the bottle, while DemiVeemon went for cover, the bottle had been used to wake him up as much as Davis so he didn't like it very much.
T.K. opened up the bottle, took a last look at Davis, and dumped the entire bottle on Davis's face, causing him to jump up.
"Agah!" Davis shouted as Patamon laughed even harder, and T.K. joined in as well.
"You should learn to wake up some times Davis." T.K. said through his laughter as Davis shook his head to get rid of some of the water.
"Whatever T.K., I was having a good nap!" Davis responded, with his usual response when T.K. chided him and his sleeping habits. Davis wasn't used to being up this early at all, last week being the except with the meeting at Izzy's apartment, and the few times T.K. or Kari could manage to drag him out of his apartment, that process usually involved an entire bucket of water rather than a simple water bottle, he would go back to sleep at the first opportunity. Like the car ride over to the Kamiya's apartment.
"Davis it's always a good nap with you…" T.K. replied, earning him a glare from his friend. "Well, are you coming or not?"
Davis let out one more groan, then got out of the car, still dripping wet.
"Yea, yea, I'm coming." Davis said as he did this. DemiVeemon jumped out from where he had been hiding under the car, running right to Davis who picked the little digimon up and deposited him right on top of his head.
Patamon landed on his customary spot, also atop his partners head, and the four headed towards the entrance to the apartment building. A few minutes later they were standing outside the door to the Kamiya's apartment, waiting for someone to answer their knock.
The wait wasn't a long one, but the person who answered the door was a surprise.
"Since when have you answered the door Gatomon?" Davis asked as he and T.K. entered the apartment.
"Since Kari asked me to." The cat like digimon responded as the two boys and their digimon entered the apartment.
"She told you that you couldn't have some of Miko's cat nip if you didn't answer the door, didn't she?" Davis asked with a grin, which earned him the evil cat eye from Gatomon.
"I'd say that's a yes Davis!" DemiVeemon exclaimed, as he also caught the evil cat eye. DemiVeemon ducked down below Davis's head as he got the look, doing his best to hide.
"Did you really have to bring those two along this early in the morning?" Gatomon asked exasperatedly. She was the only one in the digidestined group who could give Davis and DemiVeemon a run for their money with the love of sleep, and was also not a morning mon.
"If it makes you feel any better I had to use the water bottle to get Davis out of the car this morning." T.K. replied with a smile as the five of them moved into the small kitchen in the apartment. Both Davis and DemiVeemon flinched at the word water bottle causing Gatomon to laugh.
"It does actually." She replied, before leaving the four of them in the kitchen, heading for the sofa, and what T.K. assumed was a nice cat nap.
"So where's Kari?" Davis asked, looking around the open portion of the Kamiya's apartment. Their friend was nowhere to be seen in the apartment, though all three of the other doors in the apartment were closed and she could have been behind any of them.
Davis stood up and stretched, and then headed straight for the fridge. Opening it up he began rummaging through it, obviously looking for some breakfast.
"Davis, at least wait until Kari gets out here to raid her fridge." T.K. called from where he had sat down at the kitchen table.
Davis ignored him as he looked through the contents of the fridge. Most of it was Mrs. Kamiya's cooking, and therefore belonged in the poison/hazardous material category, but it looked like there were a few store bought things in the fridge. Davis reached for the first thing in reach, but stopped when he saw the label on it.
DO NOT EAT THIS DAVIS
Davis paused for a second, staring at the label, and then at the rest of the fridge before sighing and putting the food back down.
Luckily a distraction was at hand as he turned from the fridge. Kari entered into the main portion of the apartment, and she was carrying the small device that Tai had given her at their meeting the week before.
That instantly got Davis's attention, and T.K. turned and was as instantly captivated.
"Morning guys." Kari said, getting her a response from both of her friends, and their digimon.
"What's up Kari?" T.K. asked as she sat down at the table.
"Well, Tai said he had an idea about what about to happen, and that he needs our help." Kari replied, and both of the boys nodded.
Tai had been in fairly regular contact, but only with Kari, and on occasion Davis and T.K. He had told them that he wasn't ready to face the rest of his friends just yet, and to keep the fact that he was communicating with them a secret. He hadn't told them much when he contacted them, mostly just to be on their guard and ready for some sort of attack at any moment.
Kari pressed a button on the device, which looked almost like it was a blue tooth headset or something similar, and after a few seconds Tai's voice came over the lone.
"Kari?" He asked.
"I'm here Tai, and so are T.K. and Davis." Kari replied, which prompted DemiVeemon to speak up.
"And DemiVeemon!" He almost shouted into the device, causing Davis to grab the little ball of energy, and put him into a headlock.
The three only heard a short laugh from the other side of the connection before Tai's voice came over the line again.
"Hi everyone, and DemiVeemon." Tai's voice almost sounded like the one that the three digidestined were used to hearing, happy and full of energy, not the serious tone he had almost all the time now.
DemiVeemon renewed his struggles against Davis as Tai obviously wasn't upset by his outburst.
"I need your guys help." Tai said next, his voice getting its serious voice back.
"Sure thing Tai." Davis asserted immediately for the other two. He was falling back into the leadership role he hadn't had to assume in nearly a year every time he talked to Tai. "What do you need us to do?"
"Well, you guys know the advanced party I was telling you about?" He asked, and all three digidestined murmured an affirmative back. "Well, I think they're going to strike soon."
All three of the digidestined sat a little straighter as Tai said this. They'd expected some sort of attack to materialize after Tai had rushed out of their meeting the previous week, but it never had. Tai told them it was because the digidestined were all grouped together in Odaiba, making them a more difficult target to defeat.
Unfortunately, every one of the older digidestined, everyone but Davis, T.K., Kari, and Cody, had returned to college the last couple of days, and now the digidestined were spread all over Japan.
"Everyone is spread all over Japan now, and I can't get enough warning to make it to them in time to help, if I stay here." Tai said, and all three of the digidestined nodded, even though Tai couldn't possibly see the nod. "I want to move closer to the two in Kyoto, because Matt is touring in that area as well." Tai started saying, and all three of the humans in the room shared a look. Sora and Mimi were the two in Kyoto which would mean that Tai would have to encounter them at some point in addition to Matt. "But that would leave you three uncovered, along with the four in Tokyo proper and Cody."
"So you want us to take care of any of these Demon Lady things that try and attack here?" Davis asked, and Tai let out another laugh, this one devoid of the humor from before.
"You better hope there are no Demon Ladies here Davis. None of us have a chance against them on our own. We can only hope to take them out as a concentrated team effort." Tai replied, "But in essence, yes, I want the three of you to help cover the others."
"Tai wouldn't it be easier just to fill all of them in?" Kari asked, a question she had asked many times over the last week. She really wanted her brother to meet with all of his old friends, and she felt it was the best way to help him heal.
"No. They already know something's going on, so telling them wouldn't really tip any of them off, and their digimon can't reach a high enough level to affect the battles that will be fought, unlike yours." Tai replied to Kari's question. "So can the three of you cover for me?"
Kari looked like she wanted to protest more, but Davis held up a hand and stopped her. "Yes Tai, we can handle that."
"Thanks Davis." Tai replied, "Well me and Agumon need to get going so we can make it to Kyoto before anything starts, you guys be careful." A click later and Tai was off the line.
"Davis, why did you stop me!" Kari demands as she stands up from her seat. T.K. looks back and forth between his best friend and his girlfriend, and really wishes they would have a fight.
"Easy Kari, you weren't going to win." Davis replied calmly. "Tai's at least as stubborn as you, if not more so and he never would have given us permission to tell the others."
"So? I could have at least argued it. He could have let us tell them." Kari replied, to which Davis raised an eyebrow. "Ok, fine it wouldn't have done anything, but at least we would have been trying for our friends."
"Who said I wasn't going to do something for them?" Davis replied, a grin appearing on his face.
"What?" Kari asked, surprised at Davis's sudden change.
"What Tai doesn't know won't hurt him. We can let the others know to be more careful at the least." Davis replied cheerfully.
"So you want us to email them and…" T.K. started to put Davis plan together, but Davis stopped him once again.
"No email. Tai will pick that up, so we'll have to go by in person." Davis informed T.K.
"I guess that makes sense…" T.K. said, and that was more than enough for Davis.
"Great. I'll take Izzy and Joe. You two talk to Ken and Yolei, and we'll meet up at T.K.'s to tell Cody!" Davis said, grabbing DemiVeemon and heading out the door before a protest could be heard from either of his friends.
Kari looked after him surprised.
"Since when has he ever wanted to see Joe and Izzy when he didn't need help with homework or a question answered?" Gatomon, who had never been able to fall asleep for her cat nap asked.
"Better question, when has he passed on the opportunity to visit Ken?" Kari asked. Davis and Ken's friendship had been strained when Ken's family moved to the far side of Tokyo from Odaiba, and Davis seized every opportunity to see his DNA digivolution partner.
"Easy." T.K. said, laughing as he said it. "Joe and Izzy's apartment is right by the female senior dorms for Tokyo U."
Kari and Gatomon looked at the laughing T.K. and shook their heads in unison.
"Boys…"
~Joe and Izzy's apartment building~
Davis knocked on the door to Izzy and Joe's apartment for the third time, and once more there was no answer from within.
"Maybe their sleeping? DemiVeemon said from on top of Davis's head.
"No, I think they would have heard my banging on their door, after all their neighbors heard it well enough…" Davis replied to his partner. He turned on his heels and looked out the window lining the wall behind him. It had a view straight out into Ueno park, and Davis just admired it for a second, and then he noticed the sun glinting off of something in the park, a big something.
"What the…" Davis said to himself, just as the big something sent a fireball blasting through the park. Davis didn't know what it was, but it couldn't be good.
"DemiVeemon!" Davis called as he turned towards the stairs. Davis's partner had seen the digimon as well, and jumped forward from Davis's head as Davis's digivice started to glow.
"DemiVeemon digivolve to! Veemon!" Veemon hit the door at a run, Davis just behind him. The two sprinted down the stairs and out of the apartment building before anyone else even realized that there was an attack underway.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" Davis shouted, calling forth the digiegg of Friendship once more to speed his and Veemon's travel.
"Veemon Armor digivolve to! Raidramon the Storm of Friendship!" Raidramon paused just long enough for Davis to grab ahold of one of the spikes on his back before taking off down the street.
Of course some wild digimon had to choose today of all days to attack in Tokyo… Davis thought to himself as they enter the park. Luckily it wasn't hard to locate the digimon, as he left a trail of fire behind him. And where are Joe and Izzy, they should be taking care of this… Davis's thoughts cut off as a giant fire cyclone came into view, and Kabuterimon and Ikkakumon were thrown out of the cyclone.
It resolved into a gold and silver colored digimon that seemed to have a love of skulls, as they covered its body. Raidramon slowed his speedy pace into something much quieter, as both he and Davis had learned the advantage of surprising their enemies.
Someone was talking, and just as it finished the digimon started to talk. The cold calculating voice that it used sent a shiver down Davis's spine as they got closer.
"Thank you for the introduction, digidestined. Unfortunately the bounties on your heads are simply for your heads, not the rest of you." The digimon said, raising the blade that had replaced its right arm.
"Raidramon!" Davis called, as he rolled off of his partners back.
"Thunder Blast!" Raidramon sent a bolt of lightning right at the digimon, who stopped its attack to look at Raidramon.
"Another one?" The digimon asked, and let out a sound that may have been a laugh. "Looks like todays my lucky day."
"Davis!" Another voice called, and Davis looked to see Izzy and Joe, along with their battered and bruised partners, standing just beside the digimon.
"Hey guys! We'll take it from here!" Davis called, waving at the other two digidestined.
"Bone Duster!" The digimon sent a blast that had Raidramon flying, affecting him much more than the digimon had been affected by Raidramon's attack.
"Davis! That's Reapermon, he's a Mega Level!" Izzy shouted to Davis, and Davis's eyes narrowed.
Mega-Levels didn't usually Bio-Emerge into the human world, unless they tried to. They had the strength to resist the forces that pulled lower leveled digimon into the human world, which meant this digimon was here to cause trouble and destruction.
He may even be one of the advanced party digimon… Davis thought as Raidramon jumped back to his side.
"Change of plan Raidramon." Davis said, pulling out his Crest and Digivice.
Raidramon let out a growl just before dedigivolving into Veemon.
"Ready when you are Davis!" He called out, just before running at Reapermon.
Reapermon looked at him in bemusement as the rookie charged towards him. "And what do you think you're going to do to me?" He asked with another of his almost laughs.
"Veemon will handle you just fine!" Davis called out, just as an intense gold light emitted from his Crest. The light consumed everything in the park, causing Reapermon to shield his eyes, as well as Joe and Izzy, while Gomamon and Tentomon both jumped up reenergized.
"Veemon Warp digivolve to! Magnamon!" Veemon hit his most powerful form just as he jumped into the air towards the blinded Reapermon.
"Magna Kick!" He called out, just before his foot connected with Reapermon's face, sending the large digimon flying.
"Agahragh!" Reapermon shouted as the powerful blow sent him into the dirt. He shook his head as he looked up at the hovering Magnamon. Magnamon was glowing with sheer power as he hovered there, arms crossed.
"Bone Duster!" Reapermon attacked as suddenly as he could, bringing the blaster on his left arm around almost faster than the eye could see, but the fiery blast hit empty air.
"Magna Punch!" Magnamon appeared behind Reapermon and sent him sprawling once more.
"You'll have to move faster than that if you want to have a chance of hitting me." Magnamon boasted as he watched Reapermon slowly rise.
"How's this! Bone Duster!" again the attack hit empty air, but this time Reapermon was expecting Magnamon's attack.
"Grim Slasher!" He cut behind him, hitting Magnamon as he attempted to repeat his attack from earlier. Magnamon was sent flying, and Reapermon had the chance to recover by his surprise appearance.
"Bone Duster! Bone Duster! Bone Duster!" Reapermon sent multiple blasts, and managed to hit Magnamon with at least one of them.
"Come on Magnamon! You can take this guy!" Davis shouted towards his partner as he joined up with Izzy and Joe.
"Magna Blast!" Out of the smoke created by the Bone Duster attacks a multicolored blast of plasma shot out, hitting Reapermon dead on, and causing him to crash once more into the ground.
"Magna Punch!" Before Reapermon had the chance to recover, Magnamon was all over him, delivering a flurry of punches straight into the chest of Reapermon. "Magna Punch! Magna Punch!"
"Grim Slasher!" Reapermon sent Magnamon flying after just a couple of seconds, and then both digimon stopped to see the results of their attacks. Magnamon was panting as he hovered in front of Reapermon, a cut on his right arm from one of Reapermon's Grim Slashers, but unharmed other than that. Reapermon, wasn't damaged in the least, but was breathing hard as well.
"What? How can he not be hurt at all!" Davis asked in confusion.
"My body is extremely well armored. You don't have a chance of breaking through it." Reapermon laughed though the laugh turned into a cough.
"Izzy?" Davis asked, turning to the genius.
"The only thing I can think of is the fact that Reapermon is vastly more experienced than Magnamon." Izzy replied, looking back and forth between the two digimon.
"What do you mean?" Davis asked as he too looked between his digimon and Reapermon.
"Reapermon has been at his level for a long time. He knows the optimum power for his most devastating attacks, and exactly when and where to use them. Magnamon is new to his form, and doesn't have the same experience." Izzy replied quickly.
"Experience?" Davis asked, never having heard that digimon got more powerful the longer they used a form.
"Yes, it's the only way to explain how Reapermon's even able to keep up with Magnamon." Izzy replied with confidence.
"It's just like the first time we fought Piedmon. The same thing happened." Joe added.
In unison as Joe Finished saying this first Davis's Crest, and then Izzy and Joe's digivices began to glow.
"Gomamon digivolve to! Ikkakumon! Ikkakumon digivolve to! " Gomamon digivolved into his champion form, but only stayed there for a second before digivolving once more into his ultimate form. Continuing with the aquatic theme of his lower forms, Gomamon's Ultimate form had a large shell on his back, in addition to the hammer carried in his hands. The horn on his head was much more jagged and a mane of hair flowed around his head. "Zudomon!"
"Tentomon digivolve to! Kabuterimon! Kabuterimon digivolve to!" Kabuterimon grew in size, becoming even larger, with a bigger shell forming on his back as he got bigger. His horn grew much larger, splitting into a more hammer like shape, and the color of his body changed from blue to red. "MegaKabuterimon!"
All three humans were awestruck as the two digimon finished digivolving, as where the two fighting digimon.
"What?" Davis asked, confused as to what had happened, but Izzy noticed the fact that his Crest was still glowing.
"Davis! It's your Crest! It reenergized our digimon, and brought Joe and I's Crests out of dormancy!" Izzy exclaimed with excitement.
Davis still looked a little confused, but still turned back to the battle, just as Reapermon attempted to hit Magnamon once more. Magnamon though saw the attack coming and avoided it again, instead hitting Reapermon with his Magna Blast attack once more.
"Agh!" Reapermon shouted as the attack hit him in the back, once more knocking him into the ground.
"Get him MegaKabuterimon!" Izzy shouted to his partner, who took to the skies in response.
"Now Zudomon!" Joe shouted to his partner. Zudomon lumbered forward just as MegaKabuterimon turned around in the sky.
"Horn Buster!" MegaKabuterimon launched his most powerful attack from his horn, straight down at the knocked over Reapermon.
"Vulcan's Hammer!" Zudomon joined in, slamming his hammer into the ground and releasing a blast of energy. The two attacks hit Reapermon simultaneously, right where Magnamon had hit him with his Magna Blast seconds before.
"Argagh!" Reapermon shouted once more as the attacks hit him.
"Now Magnamon!" Davis shouted to his partner seeing the weakened state Reapermon was in.
"Right!" Magnamon shouted just before speeding towards Reapermon, who had managed to weakly stand up. Magnamon went right at him, and Reapermon aimed his cannon at him, releasing several fiery blast, but Magnamon avoided all of them. Then he reached Reapermon, who slashed downwards with his bladed right arm, but Magnamon literally disappeared before getting hit.
"What?" Reapermon asked as he stumbled forward from the follow through.
"Experience this." A voice said behind Reapermon, "Magna Explosion!"
Magnamon had reappeared right behind Reapermon, and started glowing far brighter than he had at any time during the battle, including when he first digivolved, he did that for about a second then a tidal wave of pure energy exploded out from him, consuming Reapermon right where he had been weakened.
Davis, Izzy, and Joe all ducked for cover, as did Zudomon while MegaKabuterimon stayed in the sky. The explosion disappeared after a few seconds, revealing Magnamon, who hovered there, panting, for a second, just before he dedigivolved into DemiVeemon.
Davis jumped up and managed to catch his partner before he hit the ground. Joe and Izzy walked over to where Davis was standing, just as Zudomon and MegaKabuterimon dedigivolved and came over to their partners.
"Good timing Davis." Joe said, grabbing a hold of Davis's shoulder for support as the battle finally seemed to catch up with him. "I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't shown up."
"No problem Joe. I was actually coming to see you two…" Davis started to say, just as four shapes appeared in the sky above them. They quickly came into focus, revealing Stingmon, Aquilomon, MagnaAngemon, and Angewomon all with their partners arriving.
"Best to do the explaining in a group." Davis said with a sigh, sitting down in the grass as the others ran up to them.
Later, after relocating away from the nearly destroyed park to Izzy and Joe's apartment, everything was explained to the other four digidestined.
"So there's some advanced attack party from another dimension attacking us digidestined, and Tai's here to protect us?" Izzy asked after a few minutes of silent contemplation. The three high schoolers all nodded. "But why not just come out and tell us? Why all this secretiveness and hiding?"
"Something happened Izzy, something he still hasn't really told us about that makes it difficult for him to trust people, even us." Kari replied, looking out the window sadly. "I don't know how to help him, but I plan to do everything I can, and right now that's keeping all of you safe." T.K. and Davis both nodded from where they were sitting, flanking Kari.
Izzy just looked at the three of them thoughtfully, that is until his computer let out a rather loud beep. He looked over, as did all the others crowded into his apartment. Izzy hit a few buttons, and then his eyes narrowed.
"There have been two more Bio-Emergences. Both near Kyoto, and, judging from these energy readings, both Mega-Level digimon." Izzy said, and everyone knew what wasn't being said, three of their friends were in that area.
"We need to get there, and help them!" Davis declared, jumping to his feet. T.K. and Kari also jumped to their feet, but the others remained on the ground.
"I don't know if we can Davis. I mean, how are we supposed to get there?" Yolei asked from where she was sitting next to Ken.
"Our digimon can fly us there!" Davis declared, but Izzy stood up at this point.
"We can't all go Davis, but I agree some of us at least should go." Izzy said, using his head, something Davis forgot to do on occasion.
"Why can't we all go?" Davis asked, and Izzy smiled.
"Some of us have to stay here in case something attacks Tokyo in our absence." Izzy said, and Davis nodded in understanding.
Joe stood up as Izzy said that.
"I'll stay behind. Make sure nothing else tries to rampage through our town." He said, and Ken and Yolei agreed. So it was agreed. Joe, Yolei, and Ken would stay behind while Davis, Kari, T.K., and Izzy went to help Tai.
Well there we go, little bit of action without Tai for once. How was that? Hope you enjoyed. Until next week!
Review Replies:
Edasama: Thanks, and hope you enjoyed
Lord Hierarch: Thanks! And I did really dislike taking out WarGreymon (he's my favorite) but I really, really dislike Greymon and MetalGreymon. GeoGreymon's ok, but I really like BurningGreymon. And his mega….definitely a digimon that's a decent replacement for WarGreymon. And it's all a mix, so yes and no. and I actually hadn't thought of that. It may come into play at a later stage.
Angelfish369: Thanks! I actually thought of that idea for my very first story idea, but I got incorporated into this one instead. And it's his difficulties in trusting people. He felt betrayed by his best friends in his own dimension (matt and Sora) and then a year later gets betrayed by the new people he meets in a different dimension, and they used him to conquer that dimension. He doesn't trust other people, and in a way he doesn't trust his own ability to decide if people deserve trust.
TaioraWarrior: Thanks! And yea, that was the main idea. And I haven't completely decided how that chapter(s) will go yet…but I can tell you that it will be interesting, and Sora will have an opportunity to do something that goes a long way to regaining some of Tai's trust.
LyraXEthan: Yea, I rather like the idea myself. And no, no frontier gang. This story was started before I watched frontier (and grew to really like it), and the way it's plotted out prevents the frontier gang from being included. And you should expect that to come, eventually. And I will, just a little slowly lol.
HikariNoTenshi-San: Yep! Yay for Tai! Of course it still needs a lot, but it's a step. And yes he is that type of person, it's what makes him, well him.
Zeobide274: Good to hear! And yea, I do as well, but thing will turn out well for them…eventually. And I can't completely agree with you there. WarGreymon is my all-time favorite digimon, but I really don't like Greymon or MetalGreymon. So I decided to change it up a bit. I don't know how you feel about the other Greymon species digimon, but the only Mega Greymon I really don't like is ShineGreymon. Both Emperor and Victory Greymon I think are almost on the same level as WarGreymon, and neither are very well represented in FF. That's just my opinion, thank you for giving me yours, and hopefully I can make that part of the story a little better in the end. And no, Omnimon probably won't make an appearance in this story.
Odinson83: Ah…but did I assay where Agumon got his mega level yet? I'd go back and look at the flashback scene at lost Ford, mostly what Tai thinks afterwards. That should give you a good hint as to when Agumon got to Mega, and what form it is *cough*EmperorGreymon*cough*
Blank: Thanks a bunch! And yea, I really liked that scene when I was writing it…I felt it was good bit of humor lol.
Agubiyofan: of course!