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The Digidestend raced as fast as they could. They knew it was put up or shut up time. The fate of both worlds fell upon their shoulders once again. They ran to a clearing in the deep forest where they found Ogremon. He had not one, but two Gomamon cornered.
"Hey, that's not fair!" Gomamon said. "He's messin' with my brothers!"
"If we don't stop him, they won't be the only one's he messes with," Tai said. "Everybody, Digivolve!"
The digimon did as they were told and Digivolved. T.K.'s team's digimon also DNA Digivolved. Ogremon heard the racket and turned around to see what it was.
"Ah, witnesses for the second coming of the all-powerful Devimon! What a delight!" Ogremon said very nonchalantly. "Pummel Whack!" Ogremon attacked one of the Gomamon, instantly killing it. "I claim his life in the name of the great Devimon!"
The team watched in disbelief.
"Great, now he only has one more to go," Davis said.
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" T.K. said. "Lets get in there and stop him!"
"Positron Laser!" ImperialDramon fired the large laser on his back at Ogremon.
"You think you're hot huh?" Ogremon said. He chanted something, and suddenly, a large force field came up. ImperialDramon's attack hit the field. Ogremon laughed evily.
"How the hell did he do that!?" Tai cursed.
"Obviously, he's been practicing his magic," Mimi said.
"This is no time for jokes!" Joe said. "Ogremon's being protected by that wall, and we can't get back there to stop him from killing that other Gomamon. Then he will have all 100 digimon souls needed to bring back Devimon!"
"That force field can't be indestructible," T.K. said. "I reckon that if all our digimon hit it at the same time, it will fall down."
"It's worth a try," said Tai. "Greymon!"
"I heard ya," Greymon said. "All right, everybody, lets do it." Greymon heard a collective 'Yeah!' from the others.
All nine digimon fired their attacks the the force field. They all exploded on contact, but the field still stood.
"Damn!" Davis cursed. "It's still up."
Meanwhile, Ogremon was playing cat and mouse with the other Gomamon behind the force field. He was getting ever closer to killing it.
"Hold on, brother!" Ikkaumon said. "We save you some how."
"Hit the force field again," Izzy said. "Like T.K. said, it can't stay up forever."
The digimon fired their attacks at the force field again. This time, a small hole was made.
"Look, we made a gap," Sora said.
"Yeah, but our digimon are all too big to fit through it," Yolei said.
"Wait, what if the force field is only a few feet tall?" Ken said.
"Yeah, we could go over it instead of through it!" Tai said.
"Allow me," Birdramon said as she flew up.
"I'll come with you," ImperialDramon said.
The two digimon flew up into the air. Thew went up 30 yards in the air. To their surprise, the force field stretched all the way up there.
"What do we do?" ImperialDramon said.
"Go higher," Birdramon said.
They flew up even higher. This time, they cleared the height of the field.
"There's the end of it," ImperialDramon said.
Birdramon and ImperialDramon glided back down to the ground. Ogremon had hit Gomamon a few time, and he was now battle scared.
"Please, don't kill me!" the Gomamon said.
"Sorry, this awful world is in desperate need of a real ruler," Ogremon said.
Gomamon continued to run with Ogremon in hot pursuit. Birdramon and ImperialDramon flew down into the path of Ogremon, blocking him from reaching the Gomamon.
"That's my Birdramon!" Sora cheered.
"Outta my way, bitches!" Ogremon taunted.
"Positron Laser!"
"Meteor Wing!"
Birdramon and ImperialDramon fired their attacks at Ogremon. Ogremon blocked Birdramon's attack with his club, then jumped out of the way of ImperialDramon's attack.
"You couldn't hit the broad side of a Whamon!" Ogremon taunted again.
Gomamon hid behind Birdramon and ImperialDramon, scared out of his mind. The rest of the Digidestend's digimon continued to assault Ogremon's force field with their attacks. They were finally starting to make some progress.
T.K. picked up a rock and threw it at the field. "I'll bring this thing down myself if I have to!"
Finally, the digimon blew a hole in the field big enough to let them all get through.
"There, we finally got that bitch!" Matt said.
The digimon charged through the gap in the field and formed a loose line with Birdramon and ImperialDramon.
"Surrender!" Greymon demanded.
"I would rather eat my own crap than surrender to you jackoffs!" Ogremon spat back.
"Have it your way," Garurumon said.
The digimon prepared to attack Ogremon, but before they could, Ogremon used his smoke trick from before to escape.
"That damn bastard got away again!" Yolei cursed.
"At least we stopped him from getting to 100 souls," Tai said.
The digimon all de-evolved back into their rookie forms, except for Gatomon.
"Why was he trying to kill me?" the Gomamon said. "Why did he kill my brother?" he started to tear up.
"Don't be sad, brother," Joe's Gomamon said. "He'll be reborn in the Primary Village someday."
The other Gomamon sobbed quietly. "Why did he want to kill me? He said something about Devimon."
"Basically, he is trying to revive Devimon by taking the lives of 100 digimon in the name of Devimon," Izzy said.
"How could he do that?"
"An ancient digimon legend," Ken said.
"Why would he want to revive Devimon? He was the most evil tyrant ever."
"You heard how he talked," Joe's Gomamon said. "We thought he had become a good guy, but I guess he decided to go back to his old, evil ways. And to think, we fought Piedmon together five years ago."
"I see," the other Gomamon said, his gaze fixed on the ground. "Do you think he will come after me again?"
"He needs one more digimon sould to reach 100," Izzy said,
"Yes," Ken said. "He will attack any digimon weaker than he is to achieve this. You are still in danger."
"He will!? Oh no!" the Gomamon started to hyper ventilate.
"Calm down, brother," Joe's Gomamon said. "We'll protect you."
"If I were you, I would go some place far away from here," Tai said. "The father you get from him, the safer you will be."
"He's right," Biyomon said. "Run as far as you can."
The other Gomamon sobbed one more time and nodded. "Okay, thank you all for saving me. I owe you all my life. I just wish my friend were still here."
"No thanks necessary," T.K. said.
"Yeah, we're happy to help," said Patamon.
The Gomamon turned and started running. It wasn't long before he was out of sight.
"Well, today wasn't a total failure," Izzy said.
"Yeah it was," Cody said. "That poor Gomamon got destroyed."
"It's okay, Cody," T.K. reassured his friend. "He will come back at the Primary Village soon. Plus, we made a new friend today."
"I hadn't thought about that."
Kari couldn't help but smile. T.K. was turning out to be a wonderful leader. He was there to pick up his team mates when they needed it the most. Even better, Davis seemed to like being out of the leader position. Everything was working out great now. The only thing left was to stop Ogremon. Then this crazy ride would be over.
"Come on, gang, lets look for Ogremon some more," Tai said.
"Shouldn't we get home?" Matt asked his tall-haired friend.
"It's Friday. We can tell our parents that we stayed at the resturant longer because it's the weekend."
"Yeah, and then we can stay here in the Digital World all day tomorrow," T.K. said.
"Tai," Agumon said. "I don't want to pop your bubble, but all of us digimon are tired. If we find Ogremon, we might be too tired to Digivolve."
"Okay, we'll go to Gennai's house and rest for a while," Tai responded. "Then we go after Ogremon again. How does that sound?"
Agumon canvased the other digimon before answering. "Yeah, that sound perfect."
The Digidestend started making their way back to Gennai's house, carefully watching their backs for a jump attack from Ogremon.
"So, what was that force field thing Ogremon used to keep us from getting to us?" Davis asked no one in particular.
"Some new tactic he is employing," Izzy said.
"Yeah, but since when can he do that?"
"Let me check my digimon analyzer and see if it says anything about Ogremon being able to generate force fields."
"Notice how he didn't call for help while we were fighting him?" Yolei said.
"Yeah, that's right," Kari said. "He tried to fight us all by himself the whole time."
"Maybe he ran out of digimon willing to help him out?" said Joe.
"I hope so," said Matt. "I'm tired of him crying 'uncle!' and killing the digimon he's targeting while we are tied up with his henchmen."
"According to the analyzer, Ogremon does not possess any ability to generate a force field," Izzy said.
"Then what was that back there?" Tai asked.
"I don't know. Maybe Gennai will."
"We'll have to make sure to ask him when we get there," said Mimi.
"I hope he can't do it any more," said Gabumon. "If he does, we might not be able to stop him when he attacks another digimon."
"Yeah," Hawkmon said. "Then he will have all 100 digimon souls he needs to summon Devimon."
"Don't panic, we can still stop him," T.K. said. "We beat MaloMyotismon, a super powerful Mega level. Ogremon is nothing compared to him."
Silence fell upon the team. They walked on not saying anything until they reached the lake that contained Gennai's house. The water pulled back revealing the stairs, and the Digidestend made their way down to the house. The humans and digimon all found a comfortable place to stop and rest so the could continue to hunt Ogremon.
T.K. walked up to Gennai and said, "Gennai, I need to ask you something."
"Yes?"
"We ran into Ogremon while we were out."
"I know."
"Well, he cast some kind of spell or something while we were fighting him. It raised some kind of force field that we couldn't get around. He had his targets all to himself while we were trapped outside blasting the field trying to get to him."
"A force field you say?"
"Yeah. Izzy checked his digimon analyzer to see if he had an ability that would let him do that, but it said he had none."
Gennai walked into the next room and sat down at his computer. "Let me look into this." He typed several keys. "Did he do anything, or say anything to do this?"
"Yeah, we heard him chant something, then the field came up."
Gennai typed more on the keyboard. "Oh, I see what he did."
"What?"
"It's another ancient legend."
"How in the heck does he keep finding all of these legends?"
"It's of no importance. What matters is that you stop him and prevent the revival of Devimon. Once you stop him, I'm sure he won't be able to find any more of these ancient legends."
T.K.'s eyes bulged. "You don't think we're going to have to kill him, do you?"
Gennai crossed his arms. "I don't see any other way. If you just stop him, what's to prevent him from trying it again. If you kill him, he won't be around to do his evil works."
T.K. sighed. He didn't want to destroy Ogremon. But Gennai was right. If they didn't, Ogremon would just do all this over again. Just then, Tai walked in. Gennai and T.K. both looked up at him.
"There you are, Gennai," said Tai.
"Need something?"
"Yeah, I wanted to tell you that Ogremon didn't call in any help."
"Really?"
"Yeah. We think he ran out of digimon willing to help him."
"Excellent. Now, there will nothing standing in between you and Ogremon."
"What are you two doing in here?"
"I told Gennai about that force field," T.K. said.
"It looks like Ogremon has found another legend."
"Where does he find this stuff?" Tai said as he scratched his head.
"I dunno," T.K. said. "But he better find another one that will stop us, because when we find him next, he's as good as dead."
The Digidestend stayed and rested for a while longer, and then made their way back up to the surface.
"Well, what do we do now?" Kari asked.
The group stood in thought for a moment.
"I know a way to get him out of hiding, but none of you are going to like it," Tai said.
"You have a plan? Tell us," Matt said. "We're completely out of time at this point."
"We could have one of our digimon Digivolve to Champion and back several times until he reverted back to their in-training level. Then, we reuse Ken's idea of challenging him to a test of strength and say that our digimon is the one who wants to fight him. Ogremon will be too head up to refuse, plus he will think it will be an easy kill to finish collecting souls. Then, we charge in with all our digimon and we jump him."
Tai looked at how his plan sounded to the others. They did not look thrilled.
"Great plan, but it's way to dangerous," said Sora.
"What if Ogremon comes with helpers?" Biyomon asked.
"If Ogremon really is out of digimon willing to help him, then we don't need to worry about that," Tai answered.
"As much as I hate this plan, we have to use it," Izzy chimed in. "We can't just sit around and hope we get lucky and catch him. We need to take action. Now."
The rest of the Digidestend agreed, although reluctantly.
"Where should we try this?" T.K. asked.
"Some place where there aren't any other digimon around," Ken said. "We have made that mistake one time too many. This way, it will just be us and Ogremon."
"I know a real good place like that," Patamon said.
"Oh yeah? Where?" Yolie asked.
"Right here. I don't see any digimon. It's out of the way, inconspicuous, exactly what we need."
"Yeah, I guess it is," said Izzy.
"All right. It's settled," Tai said.
The Digidestend all nodded.
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The Digidestend found a spot near Gennai's house, but not right next to it. This way, they could make a hasty getaway if the need arose. It was essential that Ogremon not find out where Gennai's house was, but even if he did, it would be impossible for him to reach it. The Digidestend waited patiently for Ogremon to arrive. This was finally going to be the end.
"Ah man! I don't wanna stay here and wait for that idiot all day!" Davis moaned.
"Suck it up, you wuss!" Kari said. Davis started pouting.
"Run us through that plan of yours again, Tai," Sora asked his tall-haired friend.
"We can get one of our digimon to Digivolve backwards. Then, we go spread rumors that the In-Training digimon wants to challenge Ogremon, Just like Ken's plan. He will be insulted and will jump through his ass hole to kill the digimon to get up to 100 souls."
"That's a very dangerous, very gutsy, very bold plan," Sora told Tai. "Just like something you would come up with."
Tai laughed. "You know me all to well." Too bad you don't know how much I love you.
"Who's the digimon going to be?" Joe asked.
"I will!" Agumon said and stepped forward.
"You sure, buddy?" Tai asked.
"If it will stop Ogremon, yes, I am."
"So how do we get him to go back to Koromon?" T.K. asked.
"Make him Digivole and revert several times," Tai answered.
"You know he won't be able to Digivolve if we do that," Izzy told Tai.
"I know. But we have a chance to end this. We have to take it."
"He's right," said T.K. "Innocent digimon are going to die if Devimon is revived. We have to end this, however we can."
"Alright. I better start Digivolving, huh?" Agumon said.
"Yeah," said Tai.
Agumon started Digivolving and then going back to rookie form for over an hour while T.K. and his team all went to spread the word that Koromon wanted to fight Ogremon to determine who was stronger.
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