Me: And so, another weekend comes to a glorious close-not only have I gotten to see "The Scorpion King," but there was definite Rukato in Saturday's episode. I don't own Digimon, by the way.
Takato: (blushes) Uh...what are you talking about?
Me: (grins) Don't try to deny it, pal-you were admiring Rika's shirt, weren't you?
Takato: (blushes even harder) Well, I...
Me: And you said you had feelings for Jeri-what is this I see, hmm?
Rika: He loves me and doesn't even know it yet-but he will soon enough.
Me: And on this note of happiness, we are off to the next installment in this story!
Digimon Tamers: The Lost Tamer
Chapter X-Gallantmon (and Grani) V.S. Justimon
"The jacket is coming off!" -Takato Matsuki
"All right, boys-playtime's over!" -Rika Nonaka
While Jeri and Calumon meet the D-Reaper firsthand, the other Tamers end up running into his
army of "Digimon!" After a lengthy battle, they're forced to retreat toward the Hypnos building
where Yamaki told them the group of "Monster Makers" had created a secret weapon designed
to help the team out in order to save Jeri and Calumon. Luckily for them, they make it there in
time to meet the latest Digimon/partner-Grani! Hope this guy has plenty of firepower on his
arsenal!
In awe, Takato and the Tamers unconsciously stepped forward toward the Digimon/machine. The Digimon, on the other hand, were more wary of Grani, however.
"It's okay, boy-hopefully, Grani's gonna help us save Jeri and Calumon from the D-Reaper and it'll be over before we know it." Takato insisted calmly.
"If you say so, Takato."
Not even knowing if this would work, Rika pulled out her Digivice and scanned it.
"Humph! Figured this piece of junk wouldn't work-hey, I've got something! Grani-a Digimon/machine who, so far, has only one known attack: Yuggoth Blaster."
"Talk about convenient, huh, Henry? With this guy on our side, we'll take the D-Reaper down, one-two-three!"
"Terriermon..." Henry eyed his partner with a knowing look, but he couldn't help but agree with his assessment of the situation.
"Go on, Matsuki-give it a try."
Feeling slightly nervous, Takato inched his way toward Grani, who, apparently, awaited his orders.
"Uh...what do I do?"
Smiling faintly, Henry's father stepped in and advised, "First things first-you'll have to Biomerge if you're going to get Grani to listen to you, even though he respects you enough as you are. Then, you can take him out for a little test run-it should be perfectly safe."
"'A little test run?' There really isn't a good place for us to pull off this 'test run' idea!" Rika snapped.
"Rika? The whole point of me Biomerging is so that Guilmon and I can do this 'test run'-alone?" Takato replied with a weak grin.
Rika humphed in response while turning away, obviously irritated by the whole thing, but only Renamon and Takato saw how she truly felt.
"Ready, Guilmon?"
"Ready, Takatomon!"
Sighing, the Tamer pulled out his Digivice a moment later.
Biomerge Digivolution!
"Biomerge, activate!" Takato yelled while transforming into data and merging with Guilmon.
"Guilmon Biomerge to...GALLANTMON!!!"
Instantly, the Mega Digimon leaped upward in the air and landed gracefully onto the Digimon/machine, which rose up a second later.
"Yuggoth Blaster!!"
BLAM!!! The Tamers had to dive toward the ground once Grani's main attack blasted the wall to pieces.
"Don't wait up for us!" Takato's voice rang out in a joking tone as they flew out into the sky, Yamaki hiding a grin of satisfaction.
"Excellent-true, it will cost us to pay for the wall, but I'm sure it will be worth it. Janyuu, is the camera set up?"
Nodding, Henry's father pointed towards a monitor on the wall that hadn't been blasted and the remaining Tamers and the Digimon looked toward it.
"With this monitor and the tiny camera we've set up inside Grani, we can observe the first test run and see if there are any flaws or design specs we'll need to work on."
"'Design specs?' Like what?" Rika demanded, her impatience and worry shone clearly through her eyes.
"Defects in the jet propulsion, a wobbly wing, minor stuff."
Forcing herself to bite back a scathing retort that would probably insult both Henry and his father, Rika silently fumed while staring up at the monitor, her eyes betraying the worry she felt for Takato out there on his own without her there to watch out for him.
"If any Digimon, or the D-Reaper, tries to take him on, they'd better watch out for me!"
"Woo-hoooo!" Gallantmon was having the time of his life-at least, Takato was. Guilmon, on the other hand, was scared out of his wits!
"Takato, how do you stop this crazy thing?!"
"Like I know what to say to it? Just relax and enjoy the ride, Guilmon-whoa! Stop, Grani!"
Almost immediately, Grani halted as Gallantmon was surrounded by the same number of Digimon that had ambushed the Tamers earlier!
"Now what do we do, Takato?"
Grinning while inside his sphere, Takato replied, "That's easy, boy-we attack these things, together!"
"Lightning Joust!!" Gallantmon demanded. The powerful attack wiped out over half the invading army, but more still showed up!
"I'm almost wishing Rika had come with us after all, Guilmon."
Unbeknownst to Gallantmon, or to any of the Tamers, a camera crew had shown up near downtown Shinjuku and was taping the event live!
"What-Monodramon, isn't that Takato?"
Narrowing his eyes, Ryo Akiyama turned up the volume concerning the "multiple hordes of creatures seemingly appearing from out of nowhere and were attacking a bigger monster atop of a dragon-like machine."
"That sounds like Takato to me, and it looks like in his Mega form, he's got another partner.
Since it doesn't look like Rika's there to help, let's get down there as fast as we can!"
"What do you mean we can't get down there to help?! He needs me-us to help him right now!" Rika ranted heatedly, struggling against Henry and Renamon's hold as she glared at Yamaki.
"I tried. Since there's already a camera crew down there taping this, the entire area is being cordoned off-or, at least half of the area is, anyway."
"So what you're saying is that Takato's 'out of the frying pan, and into the fire,' right?"
"Terriermon!"
"Not exactly-he's got Grani to assist him."
Finally pulling away from Renamon and Henry, Rika eyed Janyuu with a look of hope in her violet eyes. "Now what?"
"Just hope that they pull through this."
Gallantmon had jumped off of Grani the second he had a spare chance to do so!
"Shield of the Just!!"
"Yuggoth Blaster!!"
Together, the two were a formidable team, but it didn't matter how many of these things were beaten-the more that were defeated, they just kept coming back in doubles! One of Grani's attacks destroyed the camera taping the live event-possibly by accident.
"There they are, Monodramon! Let's just hope this works." Holding up his Digivice to the sky, Ryo waited patiently until it glowed brighter than it ever had before.
Biomerge Digivolution!
"Biomerge, activate!" Ryo demanded while changing into data and Biomerging with Monodramon.
"Monodramon Biomerge to...JUSTIMON!!!"
"Well, it's been real, Grani. Had a lot of fun while it lasted." Takato cracked, trying to lighten the mood up even as they were surrounded by the D-Reaper's forces.
"Justice Kick!!"
In shock, over more than half of the D-Reaper's army of "Digimon" were deleted!
"Who's that?!"
"Trinity Arm!!"
As Gallantmon and Grani waited, a Mega Digimon appeared amidst the destruction and chaos, a
supposedly wicked grin on his face.
"That's Ryo...I know it!"
"Hey-I thought you were supposed to be with Takato, not subconsciously stabbing him in the back!" Terriermon objected irritably.
"I am with Takato! I can just tell, okay? That's Cyberdramon's Mega form!"
Pulling out his Digivice, Henry couldn't disagree with her on that point.
"Justimon: Mega level Digimon! His Trinity Arm, Accel Arm, Critical Arm and Justice Kick attacks prove that any enemy Digimon will get the point across."
"Hmm-it seems we have another Digimon to add to your team of Megas." Yamaki muttered calmly.
"Hey-did you guys put in a comlink with that machine-like Digimon?" Rika spoke up.
"Yeah, but it hasn't been tested yet-"
"Then just call me your first and last guinea pig!" Rika headed over to a console and pressed
some buttons. Instantly, a tiny microphone appeared in front of her, so she just grabbed it and
turned on the communications systems.
"Gogglehead, can you hear me?"
"Huh? Rika-is that you?"
Rolling her eyes, Rika retorted, "No, it's Jeri, in disguise. Of course it's me! Did those things hurt you?"
"No, not at all, though my pride might need some mending thanks to this new Digimon who popped in and pulled me and Grani out of a jam."
Turning away from his metallic partner, Gallantmon found himself staring at Justimon, a confident look on his face-at least, on Ryo's face, but since he was inside his own sphere, Takato couldn't really tell.
"So, Rika, what do I get now that I've not only saved you twice from impending disaster, but your boyfriend as well?"
"Lightning Joust!!" Angered and extremely jealous by that remark, Gallantmon fired full power at that second, striking Justimon and sending him flying backward into a building!
"The next time you ever think about asking Rika for something, it'll be over my dead body!" Takato's voice rang out loud and clear.
Forcing a growl back, Justimon spoke with the voices of Ryo and Cyberdramon. "I can arrange that. Accel Arm!!"
WHAM! Gallantmon was pushed back, but wasn't seriously injured. Knowing that since he could feel this pain, Takato could only assume that Rika felt it, too.
"Grani...I need your help, please."
Shrieking loudly, Grani waited until Gallantmon got onto his back, then flew back into the air. "Yuggoth Blaster!!"
Justimon grunted as he felt the extremity of that attack. "Nice-for a toy."
Roaring with pure anger, Grani powered up before sending an even more powerful attack directly aimed at the Mega Digimon. "Yuggoth Blaster!!"
BLAM!! Justimon almost screamed as he was forced to his knees.
"Shield of the Just!!"
Regaining himself, Justimon got back up and powered up his final attack. "Critical Arm!!"
Moments later, the two attacks were launched and were sent flying directly at the other...
"There's something weird going on, and it isn't just 'cause the kid wanted me to help out with
Daemon. Whatever this is, Daemon could just be considered cat food compared to whatever
those kids and their Digimon are facing! Wonder if they'll need my help." Beelzemon
considered this before shooting toward the barrier separating the Digital World and the Real
World as fast as possible.
WHAM! Gallantmon and Justimon screamed in agony as the two of them were forced back to the ground, both Tamer and Digimon in extreme pain.
"Okay, you two-stop this fighting now!" To Takato's surprise-as well as Ryo's-Rika had yelled that.
"Rika...why?"
Sighing deeply back at the Hypnos building, Rika stared at Gallantmon before responding. "As much as I would love to see the two of you duke it out to see which Digimon is the strongest, having the two of you battling-in the middle of Shinjuku, no less-is pointless! Sounds shocking, coming from me, I know-I still can't believe I'm saying this! Takato, no matter what happens, good or bad, I will always love you-even if these fights you somehow get yourself involved in costs me an iota of pain. Nothing will ever happen between me and Mr. Confidentiality over there. Speaking of which, who said I was gonna give you anything in the first place? Gogglehead was just caught off guard by those things-we can't really call them Digimon, since they were minions of the D-Reaper."
Takato blushed heavily while inside his sphere. Ryo, on the other hand, was confused, and it wasn't about the thing with Rika.
"The D-Reaper? Want to fill me in on this, Takato?"
"Maybe later. Why don't we just-?"
Whatever Takato was gonna say next was interrupted as more of the D-Reaper's hordes ambushed them from behind!
"What's that?!"
"Huh?" Turning, the entire team of Tamers, their Digimon and even Yamaki and Janyuu all saw that blob that had first appeared when Jeri and Calumon were kidnapped-it had grown so big, it overlapped the buildings!
"Wow. Talk about eating the right kinds of foods, right, Takato?"
"Guilmon!"
The hordes didn't try to attack the Mega Digimon-they simply surrounded Gallantmon and, by using their combined strength, encased him inside a big bubble!
"Hey-let us out of here!"
"Takato, get out of there!" Rika yelled out.
"What do you think I'm trying to do?! Lightning Joust!!" The attack struck its target, but nothing happened! Seconds later, Gallantmon disappeared entirely, bolts of electricity left in the wake of the D-Reaper's minions.
"Grani, please, get in there and find Takato!" Hearing Rika's response as a momentary plea for help, the metallic Digimon roared before vanishing inside after Gallantmon!
Well, at least the battle against Gallantmon and Justimon was enjoyable, huh? Can Grani pull through for Rika and save Takato? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters!
