*cue Gou'Ing* MARCUS:
"Commander, I've mad a rather startling discovery about the recent digimon crimes. Someone has been purposefully destroying the barrier between worlds. At it's current rate of deletion, the barrier will completely collapse within a few months."
Geeze, what a day! Just when Thomas was about to explain about his findings regarding the Barrier between our world and the Digital World...
"Sensors are picking up digimon signals in Sector D!"
"What's going on? Is everyone okay! Where's the Digimon!"
"Is something wrong?"
A Digi-egg fell from the sky. Landing right in my own back yard. But before we could take it back to DATS...
"GRAB IT!"
"I've got it! I've Got-WAAAH!"
*CRACK!*
"KAWAIIIIIII!"
The Digi-egg hatched.
"PEPPER BREATH!"
"DOUBLE BACKHAND!"
"Ninja Trick One! First Appearance Immunity!"
And then a Strange ninja named Falcomon appeared from out of nowhere, trying to take the new-born digimon back to the digital world.
"PUWAMON SHINKA...! BIYOMON!"
The digimon digivolved from my sister's, Kristy's, emotions, making them partners. But this alone wouldn't be the end of things.
"I am Merukimon, and I will destroy you and these traitorous digimon!"
"Tell that to someone who cares!"
A Mega level Digimon showed up, backing up Falcomon, and kidnapping Biyomon even despite our best efforts. But come on! He knocked all of us without even touching us!
"I managed to save this Digi-Egg from the humans, and now it seems it's going to hatch."
"KRISTY!"
"He's remembering things from his past life!"
With some strange power, Merukimon turned Biyomon against us as a Champion level digimon named Aquailamon.
"SUNSHINE BEAM!"
"DASH DOUBLE CLAW!"
But despite everything we threw at him, Aquilamon was too powerful to be reasoned with, and too crazy from the imperfect brainwashing to even want to listen to said reason.
"BIYOMON!"
"Kristy! Get Away!"
"WING BLADE!"
Aquilamon then Digivolved to the Ultimate level: Garudamon. He knocked GeoGreymon out with one strike, and that brought me to my senses.
"I...I have to... I HAVE TO BECOME STRONGER!"
P-E-R-F-E-C-T_ _ _|
E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N_ _ _|
"D.N.A.! FULL! CHARGE!"
"GEOGREYMON DIGIVOLVE TO! RIZE GREYMON!"
I brought out the true power inside, and with one solid strike, Agumon and I Brought Biyomon back to where he belongs!
"TRIDENT REVOLVER!"
"I guess we're right back to where we started, huh Biyomon?"
But despite all that, our mission is far from complete.
"We ran Biyomon's frequency during the attack to it's current state, and we discovered a discrepancy."
"We matched it to another digimon in our data base."
"This leaves us with only one choice. As much as I hate to admit it, but we have no other options."
"You mean...?"
"We must go to the digital world and Stop Merukimon."
AGUMON: "The Wild Boy of the Digital World!"
DATS H.Q._ _ _| THE NEXT MORNING_ _ _| 3:42 A.M. TO BE PRECISE_ _ _|
Marcus Damon's face showed many emotions at this exact moment, one was anger, another was annoyance, a third happened to be confusion. But, all said the same thing: "Can we get on with this already?"
Yoshino Fujieda sighed. "Look, Marcus, I know waiting is hard, and I'd tell you if I knew anything, but I'm in the dark here too."
Lalamon, Yoshi's Digimon partner, 'hmmf'ed. "Well, I can tell you one thing, if it's got Thomas ordering us here before the break of dawn, it's got to be important!"
Agumon yawned. "...Really? And here I thought he just hated good night's sleep..."
Marcus scowled at his half-asleep partner. "Oh be quiet. You got more sleep then I did!"
Any further conversation was cut off as Commander Sampson, Thomas H. Norstein, and the two DATS technicians Miki and Megumi entered the room, accompanied by their digimon partners.
"All right, I'm glad to see you're all here." Thomas started. "Not that I wouldn't expect that, but..." The commander coughed. "Right, right." With that he dimmed the lights and brought down a projector screen. "Due to recent events, I thought it would be pertinent for a bit of back story."
Agumon yawned again. "Joy."
Gaomon swiftly walked up behind the dinosaur, and whaped him upside the head. "Pay attention, there's going to be an exam later." Agumon grumbled something under his breath, but otherwise said nothing.
"If you'll look at the screen here, you'll recognise Odaiba, Japan, just after the 'Vampire' movie stunt, which by now you'll also recognise as a Digimon attack." Thomas started. "Take special note of the Lines in the sky- That is the Digital World."
"Durring this time frame, and up until the conclusion of this event, the Digital World's time flow rate was significantly higher then our world's." The commander started. "It was during the years before that the Digital Anomaly Research Foundation, the predecessor to DATS, was formed and began investigating the spontaneous increase of missing persons reports across the globe."
Kudamon began to continue. "The Foundation, led in full by one 'Spencer Damon'- Yes, Marcus, your father." he added at Marcus' surprised expression. "-Led an expedetion to the Digital World in search of these missing persons."
"What they found was more then they expected, nor prepared for." The commander continued. "A world at war, in complete chaos. Beings called 'Digimon' were fighting a civil war, and some of the humans who were deemed 'missing' were in fact willingly fighting for the freedom of the world they had now been living in for years on end."
Thomas picked up. "According to official DATS reccords and testimonies from the fellow explorers of the expedetion who returned home, Marcus' father and a few select members willingly stayed behind to fight in the war, allowing the expedetion members the chance to escape. What happened to them isn't known, as that part of the Digital world's history is practically ancient to them now. But we do know one thing, Ten Ancient Warriors from that time frame did fight and defeat a great evil."
"And that brings us to the importance of this meeting." Kudamon concluded. "Your Mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go to the Digital World, and find and Defeat Merukimon."
"If you accept: Go home, pack your things, and prepare to move out." The commander ordered. "The gate will be open in three hours."
DAMON RESIDENCE_ _ _| A SHORT WHILE LATER_ _ _|
"So... The commander told you about your father's mission." Sarah Damon sighed as she poured herself some tea. "I suppose it was about time, all things considered." she sighed. "I don't know what else to add, except that I miss him."
"You knew about this...?" Marcus started. "All along?"
"Trapped in another world." Agumon sighed. "Without any way home."
Sarah glanced over to the family photograph on a nearby counter. "You can see why I was worried about you Marcus. I just don't want to lose you like I lost him. I really hope you're not ever going to have to step foot into the Digital World."
Agumon coughed nervously. "Well, you see..."
Marcus stood up. "I know, I have a choice in all this, stay here and protect everyone from any invading digimon, or go over and investigate..." He frowned. "But I've got to do this..."
"Marcus..."
He paid no attention to her voice. "I've been there once, I've fought things way deadlier then Digimon over here anyways!" he put his fist over his heart. "I'll take down whatever gets in my way- I'll beat Merukimon! I'll smash my fist into his face so fast he won't have a chance to even blink!" A smile started to break on his face. "And when I'm done with him, I'm going to bring dad back! Just you wait! I'll bring him home!"
Sarah sighed in defeat. "Alright... Just promise me one thing..."
"Sure, anything!" Marcus smiled.
"Promise me you'll come back in one piece." She started. "Promise me you won't get lost in the Digital World and- I just don't think I could lose you too."
"Hey, we've done it once, we can do it again!" Agumon grinned. "There's nothing that can stop the Ultimate team!"
Marcus nodded. "I promise, Mom. I'll come back, and I'll bring Dad back with me!"
Sarah smile widened- The abruptly turned into a frown. "Now what's all this business about going to the Digital World before?"
With that, the Consultants froze up.
FUJIEDA RESIDENCE_ _ _|
Yoshi sighed as she finished packing up a First Aid kit. "My first time over there. I wonder what it'll be like?"
Lalamon floated over. "Don't worry! If Marcus and Agumon can come through in one piece, I'm sure it'll be just like a walk in the park!"
"Yeah." Yoshi smiled at her partner. "I'm sure you're right."
"Don't worry about it! It'll just be like learning to ride a bicycle! You'll see!"
Yoshi paled slightly. "Did I ever tell you that I never learned to ride a bike?"
"Er...Ah..." Lalamon stalled out for a second. "...Learning how to drive a car then?"
Both began to laugh.
NORSTEIN RESIDENCE- ER, CAN WE JUST CALL IT A MANSION ALREADY?_ _ _|
Thomas growled as he threw a punch at the punching bag. 'Are we really ready to take on a Mega Level Digimon? Marcus can reach Ultimate Level, sure, but the rest of us are left behind in the dust!'
Gaomon, from across the room, sighed as she watched him. "Perhaps we should focus on preparing for the trip instead of pounding on a punching bag?" A pause before she added. "Sir?"
"I need to get my anger out." Thomas replied in between thrown punches at the bag. "If I don't do it now, I'll be tearing at Marcus later."
Gaomon sighed before turning to leave the room. "If you say so, si-"
*Data Flare!*
Thomas' eyes widened as a sudden gale-force of wind exploded through the room. "What in the...?"
"Sir!" Gaomon cried out in surprise when the wind diminished. "What just happened?"
Thomas glanced down at his right arm, stuck inside the bag- or rather- having punched all the way through it. There was a definite surge of blue colored Data gathered around his fist on the other side. 'W...What?"
"Despite what we do know about the Digital World, it's little in comparison to what we don't know." the Commander's words from some long ago time echoed through his mind.
DAMON RESIDENCE_ _ _|
Marcus winced as he opened the slightly squeaky door to Kristy's bedroom. If things were going to go the way they were, he'd practically be in another world by the time Breakfast started.
He smiled slightly at the sight of his sister holding onto the Digi-egg that had fallen from the sky.
"We're in the business of saving people. No-one's going to be left behind- Not this time. I'll make sure of it!"
FUJIEDA RESIDENCE_ _ _|
Yoshi nodded to herself, then picked up the nearby phone off the table, already dialing a number from memory. "Hey, Mom? It's me. No. Nothing's wrong, I guess." She started once the machine picked up. "I'm just going away on a trip for a little while, you know... Work stuff. I don't think I'll be able to call."
Lalamon smiled to herself. 'she doesn't want her to worry.'
"Just... Wish me luck okay? I'd really appreciate it."
DATS HQ_ _ _| 6:29 A.M._ _ _|
Agumon was drooling. The Cause? The Usual suspect: Food.
"What in the world is this?" Yoshi gasped at the rather tall purple wrapped box.
"Mom decided to make us lunch." Marcus shrugged. "Or breakfast, Dinner, Midnight snack- You name it."
Thomas sighed. "This isn't a picnic Marcus."
"Sure, whatever." the Consultant shrugged. "But it sounds like you don't want your share then."
"I'd better eat it then...!" Agumon Immediately piped up. "Maybe Gaomon's too, if that's included with it!"
Gaomon's ears shot up in alarm. "Uh, Sir, I'd like my share, please re-consider!" she started.
Lalamon blinked. "I don't think food will be the biggest problem on this trip."
Yoshi nodded. "yeah."
"You bet it's not!" just then, Miki and Megumi came in, dragging a rather large metallic structure behind them.
"Oooh! shiny!" Agumon blinked.
"This case holds a whole bunch of gadgets and stuff you can use if you run into trouble!" Miki started. "It's got data capture readers, Tazer devices to keep any rogue digimon away, a fold up tent...!"
"And these are Rezeero Markers." Megumi held up a round, translucent white disk. "Place them around you and activate them to let us know when you're ready to come back!"
Marcus shrugged. "Sure we're going to need all that?"
Thomas smirked. "Sounds like Marcus doesn't want his share."
"What did you just say!"
"Digital Harmonizer Aligning... Bionic condenser coming on line..."
"Coordinates entered and locked. Digital Code recognized"
"Initiating Sequence..."
The Commander narrowed his eyes. "Good luck you three."
"Transport in Three..."
The three DATS agents, Thomas, Marcus, and Yoshi, each nodded from their placement inside the Digital Dive machine.
"Two... On-"
"DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Miki cried out suddenly as a flare of light flooded the chamber. When the light faded, the DATS Headquarters was now three occupants short.
"Well... That's that." Kudamon started. "Think they'll be allright?"
"I wish I had an answer, Kudamon." The commander frowned slightly. "But I'm afraid that all we can do now is hope for the best."
THE DIGITAL WORLD_ _ _|
There was a sudden influx of data, and, inside his castle, Merukimon looked up. "They're here."
Near the drop zone, a small form hidden in the branches of the surrounding trees narrowed his eyes as he watched the three Humans materialize from inside a beam of light.
"Transport Complete." Thomas nodded.
Yoshi looked around in awe. "It's so... Different..."
"And yet the same." Lalamon noted as she materialized out of the Data Link Digivice. "Except for the occasional floating rock, of course."
Marcus shrugged. "Looks like nothing changed compared to last time."
"You're not weirded out by all this?" Yoshi glanced over at him.
"Incase you forgot, we deal with 'weird' every day. It's not so-"
Thomas cut them off as another beam of light descended in the distance. "And there are our supplies." With that, he headed off.
"What's with him?" Marcus frowned.
"Our Lunch, perhaps?" Lalamon suggested- not seconds before she and Yoshi were racing off after Thomas.
"Boss!" Agumon cried from the orange Digivice.
"eh?" Marcus glanced down.
"The lunch your mom made is with the supplies!" Agumon continued. "if they get it first, we'll never get any!"
"AH! Hey! Wait up!"
As the Dats Agents headed off to gather their supplies the form slowly stepped out of his cover in the trees and down onto a lower branch- The "form" was a human boy- almost nine, or even ten. He was dressed with Indian styled clothing, has blue triangles painted onto his cheeks, and carried a large boomerang on his back.
Without a word, he bounded across the tree tops after them.
"Last one there's a rotten egg!" Agumon cried out as they neared the supplies. "Hehehahaha! Fried eggs here I come!"
But, before anyone could get more then a yard away, the boomerang seen last in the boy's possession came shooting out of the trees, slicing through the supplies- Digitizing them instantly- and returning back to his hand.
Shock descended upon the group, silence filling the air- until Agumon sniffled. "Those eggs never hurt anyone..."
"GAOMON! REALIZE!" Thomas ordered- and then there were three digimon on the playing field.
The boy scowled as he spotted the blue digivice- his golden eyes widening in annoyance- before he threw the boomerang to destroy the device as well.
It didn't work- The incoming boomerang gave the three DATS agents enough time to scatter.
"There! In the trees!" Marcus ordered as he spoted the boy fleeing through the jungle. "After him!"
"YOU EGG-SCRAMBLER!" Agumon roared, and continued the chase. "I'm right behind you, Boss!"
Lalamon and Yoshi weren't even a second behind them, and even Gaomon had given a "Sir, Yes Sir!" before following as well- Leaving a confused Thomas in the clearing the supplies had landed in alone for a few moments.
"Aren't we supposed to stick together?" With a sigh, he also followed them.
The boy was an expert at dodging his pursuers, who were on foot compared to his tree limb bounds. "Hehaha!" he laughed to himself, then kicked a nearby tree as he bounded off, sending a shower of small spiky fruit down onto the DATS agents.
"Hold up! Is that a kid?" Yoshi gasped. "What's a human child doing here?" Her question went unanswered as- at that moment- a rather angry jungle vine wrapped itself around her legs before yanking her into the air. "KYAAAAA!"
"Yoshi!" Lalamon cried out in surprise.
As the agents began to sort out this issue, the boy landed on a cliff face, behind a few bushes. "Heh..."
Just then, the bird ninja Falcomon appeared next to him. "Ikuto! There you are!"
"Falcomon!" The boy smiled slightly.
"I've been looking everywhere for you! Why are you out here hiding in the bushes?"
The boy merely pointed towards the struggle- where Agumon was cutting through the hungry vine with a short burst of fire. "Humons."
"Them!" Falcomon's eyes widened.
"I hate all Humons...!" With that the boy jumped up, grabbed a vine, and swung down. "DIEEE!"
The child warrior then landed, feet first, on Marcus, knocking him to the ground.
"What the!" Marcus had little time to react as the blue haired child threw a few punches towards his face- Both easily caught. "Nice try...! But you're dealing with a-!"
"IKUTO!" Falcomon suddenly cried out, and the Boy backflipped away from Marcus- leaving him confused for a second, but no more then that- Marcus rolled out of the way just in time for a few Star Shaped blades embedded themselves into the ground.
Before anyone could react, the boy then jumped up off the ground, flipped another time, then landed next to Falcomon- both smirking wildly as the stared down at them.
"What in the...?" Marcus growled as he spotted the bird. "it's that guy!"
"It's Falcomon!" Agumon gasped. "What's he doing here?"
"HUMONS!" Ikuto started. "You all ebil! You enemies of all Digimon!"
"What...?" Yoshi groaned as she sat up.
"You Humons always disturb peace in Digital World! You Cause all kinds of trouble!"
Falcomon didn't seem to quite agree with that, part, though; But he said nothing.
"Give me a break kid." Marcus narrowed his eyes. "Way I understand it, the only one disturbing the peace is Merukimon- What with him destroying the barrier and all!"
"YOU LIE!" the boy cried. "Merukimon protect us all! Now Go! Leave Digital World!"
"Hey! We would if you hadn't destroyed all our stuff!" Agumon interjected. "Our only way back home was inside that box!"
"You All LIE!" With that, Ikuto threw his boomerang- again.
It easily missed, but that didn't dismay the boy. He easily caught it again as he leaped off the branch and down towards the DATS agents, swinging it wildly.
"HEY! Watch it!" Marcus growled as he dodged the wild boy.
Agumon let loose a blast of fire, but the Boy dodged it, jumping back away from them. Gaomon threw a punch, but he only used it as a stepping stone to gain even more distance.
"NINJA SMOKESCREEN!" Falcomon cried out, throwing several dozen smoke bombs at the Agents.
K-SSSSHHH
The Forrest was filled with smoke.
And that was not supposed to happen.
"GET OUT OF HERE! TRESPASSERS." A loud, booming voice cried out.
"Even more trouble." Marcus growled between coughs.
Even Ikuto and Falcomon seemed troubled.
"GET. OUT. YOU'RE ALL INTRUDERS AND I DON'T WANT YOU HERE!" the voice boomed again. "GET OUT OF MY FORREST RIGHT NOW!"
Thomas frowned. "Great, as if our luck wasn't bad enough, we just woke up the neighborhood grouch."
"Or WHAT?" Agumon called out, tempting fate just once too much. Several large vines came out of nowhere, grabbing Agumon and Gaomon and lifting them up into the air, squeezing rather tightly on the former. "Waaah! I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry!"
"Great! Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Loudmouth." Gaomon growled.
"GAOMON!" Thomas cried out.
"AGUMON!" Marcus went charging, but a vine sent him flying back into a tree.
"Lalamon!" Yoshi ordered.
"Right!" The little plant floated into the air, and with pin-point accuracy: "SEED BLAST!"
The vines holding Agumon and Gaomon captive shattered, dropping the two Digimon to the (relative) safety of the ground below.
"Are you two allright?" Yoshi asked, her eyes wide with concern.
"Just fine..." Gaomon grumbled as she rubbed her head. "Only I suddenly have a strong desire to hit Agumon where it hurts."
"If yer talkin' 'bout my 'toumach, da vines' be't ya to th' punch..." Agumon barely managed to complain as he tried to catch his breath.
"What in the world is this...?" Marcus frowned. Then, as if to grant his wish, the fog parted infront of them, revealing A giant oak tree with cherries in it's branches, six arms on it's side, and a giant moustache over it's mouth.
{CHERRYMON: "I Am Cherrymon. You eight are tresspassing in my forrest and I want you out NOW!" Ultimate Level. Plant type.}
"Four?" Yoshi blinked. "HEY! Why are you grouping us in with that kid from over there! We're not with him!"
"'With you' or not." Cherrymon growled. "You are ALL trespassing!"
"I NOT HUMON! THEY MUST LEAVE!" Ikuto cried out.
"I CARE NOT." Cherrymon rebuked. "Servants of Merukimon, even if you have been directed here, you MUST LEAVE."
"Hey! Just tell us the quickest way to Merukimon's hideout and we'll be out of your hair!" Marcus offered. "We don't want any trouble here- we're just here to resolve some attacks on our town."
"Fast? You Want FAST?" Cherrymon began to laugh. "My Forrest is endless! And You are in the dead center of it! There is no FAST way out!"
Thomas frowned. "Then lay off us already."
"Ikuto..." Falcomon started. "Show them your power."
The boy nodded, and then... "RAH!" ...He pulled out a Purple Data Link Digivice from his belt, the screen proudly stating "EVOLUTION."
"A Digivice!" lalamon gasped.
"Where'd he get one of those?" Marcus narrowed his eyes as the boy slammed his Purple D.N.A. Charge onto the top of the digivice, then thrust the screen out towards his partner...
"FALCOMON SHINKAAA..."
His legs lengthened, claws sharpened, his wings became more defined and changed to a bright yellow color. A scarf materialized out of thin air, and finally, his head and neck lengthened, eyes turning blue and a wild main of red hair on his head. "RRR. RRR! PECKMON!"
{PECKMON: "A Champion level digimon. His powerful legs and sharp beak lead to quick speed and impressive attacks including the "Spiral Claw" Strike.}
The Bird took to the air, diving right towards the humans and Digimon. "SPIRAL CLAW!" he suddenly spun like a top, clawed feet digging into the ground, sending the digimon and DATS agents scattering.
Gaomon growled. "How can we defeat such speed?"
E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N_ _ _|
Thomas held out his Digivice, and summoned his DNA Charge, there was a slightly higher amount of blue data around his fist this time compared to usual, but he went ahead anyways. "DNA CHARGE!"
Yoshi held out her digivice, and summoned her own Pink DNA Charge. "DNA CHARGE!"
"GAOMON DIGIVOLVE TO...GAOGAMON!"
"LALAMON DIGIVOLVE TO...SUNFLOMON!"
"You'll never defeat me and my First Appearance Immunity!" Peckmon bragged as he took to the air once more, Ikuto jumping onto his back. "Never!"
"Now Leave Humons!" the boy then threw his boomerang once more. It flew straight and true this time, but nobody flinched- well, except for when Marcus rushed forward to punch the boomerang. Ikuto's eyes widened as the Boomerang disintegrated in a flare of data. "Wh...Wha..."
"Now listen here you gramatically challenged little boy!" Marcus glared as he held up his fist, containing a burning ammount of DNA around it. "Here's what happens when you mess with the Ultimate Team of Two worlds!"
E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N_ _ _|
Marcus threw his fist onto the Digivice. "D.N.A. CHARGE!"
"AGUMON DIGIVOLVE TOO... GEOGREYMON! RARR!"
"KUNAI WING!" Peckmon slashed his wing, and dozens upon dozens of triangular shaped blades came rushing down on GeoGreymon.
"STOP THIS!" Cherrymon ordered. "You're destroying my forrest!"
Meanwhile, Gotsumon, riding on a bug like digimon named Yanmamon, smirked. "Come on Yanmamon, let's show these humans they can't just come to the Digital World and start trouble."
{YANMAMON: "A Champion level digimon whose wings allow him to strike from above without warning using his Knife like Talons!"}
"They're going to wish that they never came here in the first place!" He glanced to one of the many floating rocks around them.
"DASH DOUBLE CLAW!" GaoGamon tried to knock Peckmon down, but the bird just used his Spiral Claw attack again.
"SUNSHINE BEAM!" Sunflowmon's attack was easily dodged. "Man! I need to work on a faster-!" before she could say "attack", Peckmon descended from above with a mighty kick.
"STOP IT AT ONCE!" Cherrymon growled. "You two! Merukimon's servants!" The two looked over at the tree... "PIT PELTER!" just in time to be hit by the Ultimate's attack. "Just what part of "stop" don't you reckless maniacs understand!"
Marcus, Yoshi, and Thomas looked over to Cherrymon to spot a rather large gaggle of In-training level digimon hiding underneath him. Nyokimon, black blobs with a few green sprouts on the top of their heads.
"They're below Rookie level." Thomas noted. "No wonder Cherrymon didn't want us to fight."
Ikuto's eyes widened. "We...We attacked..."
Peckmon's eyes narrowed. "How Reckless."
"You two escalated a battle that you were repeatedly told to not continue!" Cherrymon started. "I will forgive these three trespassers for digivolving due to your recklessness- and therefor they are given free pass through my forrest!"
"eh?" Ikuto blinked. "But these Humons...!"
"Were causing no harm until you attacked!" Cherrymon growled. "I sware, you anti-human rebels are always claiming 'we bring peace! we bring joy!' but all you do is cause harm to your surroundings and refuse to listen to reason!"
"But Merukimon...!" Peckmon started.
"Can choke on my cherries for all I care!" The giant tree growled. "When you next see Merukimon, tell him that I-!"
Before he could finish that sentence, a rock that was floating in the sky came crashing down, soon followed by all the others.
Gotsumon grinned as his eyes glowed a fearsome red. "Take that Humans! If you don't leave now you'll be crushed!"
Cherrymon glared up at the rock digimon. "Were you even listening to a thing I just said?"
Regardless, the rocks continued to fall, and Cherrymon was powerles to stop any of the ones that would land on him, thereby crushing the digimon under him.
Thankfully...
"SPIRAL BLOW!"
"SUNSHINE BEAM!"
Sunflowmon and GaoGamon were already attacking those ones.
"Now GeoGreymon!" Marcus ordered.
"MEGA FLAME!"
Another boulder exploded.
Cherrymon's eyes widened. "They're helping... I already cleared them..."
"SUNSHINE BEAM!"
"MEGA BURST!"
"SPIRAL BLOW!"
All of the smaller boulders had been destroyed, and Gotsumon was severely annoyed.
"You Filthy...!" He threw up his hands, and began to controll one of the largest boulders. "ROCK FIST!"
"There's no stopping that one with Champion level attacks." Marcus realized immediately. "Then it's time for us to Rize to the occasion!" "GEOGREYMON!"
"Boss?" GeoGreymon looked back, eyes widening in approval at the golden orange glow around his partner.
"Let's finish this in one shot!" He held out his Digivice as the orange DNA charge grew in intensity. "D.N.A.!"
PERFECT
EVOLUTION
"FULL!" he held up his right hand, collecting the charge, then slammed it down onto the Digivice. "CHARGE!"
Peckmon, Ikuto, Cherrymon, and Gotsumon alike all had wide eyes as a blinding flare of light encompassed the area.
"GEOGREYMON... MATRIX SHINKAAA!" the call was different from before, but the result was the same. Armor, Wings, and a giant revolver for an arm. "RIZE GREYMON!"
The Ultimate took to the air, gun aimed right at the giant rock. A second later and the metallic cannon was literally pushing against the falling rock. "TRIDENT REVOLVER!"
The following explosion created a sonic boom that could be heard all the way to the Dark Zone and back.
As the smoke cleared and the dust settled, Gotsumon and Yanmamon were already gone- presumably deleted in the explosion- Peckmon and Ikuto were soaring off into the distance, trying to escape any possible rage comming from Rize Greymon, who was completely unfazed by the explosion, not a scratch on him.
RizeGreymon blinked as The Nyokimon came pouring out from underneath their shelter to greet their saviour, all of them cheering and crying in excitement as they surrounded him. "Uh...Boss?"
Marcus just gave the Ultimate a thumbs up. "Don't sweat it, even the Ultimate fighter's got to keep his cool when facing a crowd of his biggest fans!"
"He has fans?" Gaogamon rolled her eyes as she reverted to Gaomon.
"Apparently." Sunflowmon shrugged.
Cherrymon smiled at the sight. "Well, Humans, I must say, you're certainly proving those anti-digimon folk wrong."
Thomas looked up, eyes narrowing. "You mentioned them before. Who are these 'anti-humans'?"
"A long and complicated story." Cherrymon sighed wearily. "But, in exchange for your help, I'll be glad to tell you it."
Yoshi smiled at the tree. "Thank you, Mr. Cherrymon!"
"Oh, it's no problem. Anyone who helps out this old tree these days is okay in my book!"
MEANWHILE_ _ _| THE INFINITE ICE RIDGE_ _ _|
"MERUKIMON, SIR!" Gotsumon, looking a bit worse for ware but otherwise fine, bowed to the Mega. "I bring news from the front!"
"Yes?" Merukimon asked from his throne. "What is it?"
"Cherrymon of the Forrest has sided with the humans!" Gotsumon started. "It's unavoidable now that they'll be coming right for us any day now!"
Silence for a moment, then. "Good."
"WHAT?" Gotsumon looked up in surprise. "Y...You mean you have a plan?"
Merukimon just laughed.
NEXT TIME ON DIGIMON:
"We're surrounded here guys...!"
"Whatever you do, don't get caught in their webs!"
"WAAHHH!"
"YOSHI!"
"AGUMON! LALAMON!"
"Now what?"
"Humans... Worthless pieces of scrap data... Sleep so you can roan endlessly through your nightmares... Sleep... And then your hearts shall be mine for the taking!"
"Gaomon!"
TO BE CONTINUED.