Chapter 12: Debugging the Dark Data
Krad watched with interest from a distance.
"Now this is certainly interesting…" He commented.
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The four watched as BlackGreymon was engulfed in dark aura that surrounded its body.
"What's it doing??"
Naruto asked.
"I don't know…" Inuyasha replied.
"But I have a bad feeling about this…" Sakura gulped.BlackGreymon...Dark Digivolve to…
Blackgreymon suddenly shot his hand out and it began to transform into a giant mechanical claw! He shot his head down as the cracked skull on his head was suddenly coated with metal, along with the horn on the front. Metal plating appeared on his chest as large, purple, wing like objects jetted out of his back. He then grew to twice his original size and roared into the sky.
BlackMetalGreymon!!
The four simply gaped at the large beast before them.
"You….have gotta be kidding me…" Naruto said.
"It's….huge…." Sakura gaped.
"Bah! Changing shape doesn't scare ME!!" Inuyasha yelled, brandishing his Tetsusaiga.
Inuyasha then ran at BlackMetalGreymon and jumped into the air.
"Eat THIS you tin can!!" Inuyasha yelled. "WIND…."
Before Inuyasha could finish, the plating on BlackMetalGreymon's chest opened up, to reveal two large missiles that were stored inside.
GIGA BLASTER!!The missiles suddenly fired from his chest and struck Inuyasha instantly, resulting in a large explosion that blew everyone else back.
"INUYASHA!!" Sakura yelled.
As the explosion faded away, Inuyasha fell to the ground. The remaining three ran up to him to see that he was ok. Inuyasha was smoldering from the explosion, but otherwise not hurt.
"Dammit…" He cursed. "He's gotten stronger…"
Luffy then ran at BlackMetalGreymon, jumping high into the air. BlackMetalGreymon swung his gigantic metal claw at him, but it missed. Luffy landed on its head and prepared to strike.
"GUM GUM….GATLING!!"
Luffy began to rapidly punch the metal skull at a speed that made it look like his fists multiplied. But despite the rapid blows, his strikes seemed to do nothing. BlackMetalGreymon then thrusted his head backwards, sending Luffy flying off the back. He then shot his hands out and grabbed onto one of his horns.
"GUM GUM ROCKET!!"
Luffy used it to catapult himself high into the air, and above BlackMetalGreymon.
"GUM GUM STAMP!!"
Luffy stretched his foot out and slammed it into the top of BlackMetalGreymon's head, but once again, it did nothing.
"The metal is too thick!" Sakura yelled. "I don't think you can break thru it!!"
Naruto then ran at BlackMetalGreymon with a kunai in his hand and jumped at him.
MEGA CLAW!!
The giant metal claw on his hand suddenly shot out with a metal rope connecting it to his arm. The claw hit Naruto dead on and slammed him into the ground before retracting back to his arm.
"Ergh… Lucky shot…" Naruto grumbled as he got back to his feet.
Sakura pulled out another Clow Card and slammed her staff down on it.
"Shot Card!" Sakura cried. "Attack the monster!!"
An orb of light suddenly flew out of the card and hovered in the air before firing short bursts of energy at BlackMetalGreymon, who blocked it by holding up his metal claw.
"It didn't work??"
The attack only seemed to make him angry as his chest opened up again to reveal more missiles.
GIGA BLASTER!!The two missiles shot out and flew towards Sakura!
"Sakura! Watch out!!" Naruto cried.
Sakura screamed as she pulled out a random Clow Card and slammed her staff down on it, hoping it would do something.
A large explosion rang out, which blew the others backwards.
"SAKURA!!" They cried.
As the smoke faded, they soon saw that she was perfectly alright! She was cringing behind what looked like a giant shield. Sakura opened one eye and saw the shield floating in front of her. She looked at the card she summoned and saw that she had summoned the 'Shield' card.
"Thank goodness…" She thought. "I called up the shield card…"
As Sakura called back the 'Shield' card, BlackMetalGreymon opened its chest to fire more missiles. Luffy (Who had gotten behind him) stretched his arms out and wrapped them around his chest, forcing the metal plating to close up again.
"Oh no you don't!!" Luffy cried as he held his chest shut.
BlackMetalGreymon roared as he thrashed around, trying to shake off Luffy.
"Way to go Luffy!!" Naruto yelled as he bounced of a few trees and leapt into the air.
SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!!
In an instant about
fifteen Naruto clones suddenly appeared in the air. All of them flung
shurikens at BlackMetalGreymon. While most of the shruikens just
bounced off his metal coating, a few them managed to strike the parts
of him that weren't metal, which needless to say,
hurt.
BlackMetalGreymon roared in pain before aiming his metal
claw at the airborne Naruto's.
MEGA CLAW!!He then shot his giant metal claw at the Naruto's. The giant claw not only took out the clones, but hit the REAL Naruto hard, and sent him flying backwards.
"NARUTO!!"
Sakura and the others watched as Naruto flew back and landed somewhere deeper into the forest.
"Great…" Inuyasha groaned. "Now we're one guy short!"
"I think we'll be ok as long as Luffy can hold those metal doors shut.
BlackMetalGreymon then swung his half metal tail upwards and slammed into Luffy who was still on his back. The force of the blow was enough to make Luffy let go of BlackMetalGreymon, allowing him to open up his chest again.
"Uh-oh…" Inuyasha and Sakura gulped.
GIGA BLASTER!!
He fired two more missiles at Inuyasha and Sakura. Inuyasha jumped up to try and intercept them.
"IRON REAVER SOUL STE--"
Before he could finish, the missiles slammed into him, which made a large explosion which sent him flying backwards and thru a few trees.
"INUYASHA!!" Sakura cried as she ran over to him.
Inuyasha rubbed his head as he slowly got up.
"Dammit…we're not getting ANYWHERE!!" He cried.
Sakura cringed when she saw BlackMetalGreymon slowly stalking over to them. Luffy was on his head, trying to pound his way thru the metal coating protecting his skull.
"Those missiles are a problem…" Sakura commented.
"Then what do you suppose we do?" Inuyasha asked.
Sakura thought for a moment before coming up with an idea.
"We're gonna use them against him!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Enlighten me as to how we're going to do that…" Inuyasha sarcastically commented.
"Just leave that to me!!" Sakura said as she ran towards BlackMetalGreymon.
Sakura ran up to BlackMetalGreymon and waved her arms rapidly.
"HEY!!" Sakura yelled. "OVER HERE!!"
"What is she THINKING!?" Inuyasha thought as he ran towards her.
BlackMetalGreymon opened his chest and shot more missiles out.
GIGA BLASTER!!
Sakura then pulled out a Clow Card and slammed her staff down on it.
"TIME CARD!!" She yelled. "STOP THE MOMENT!!"
A large field of energy suddenly exploded outward from the card, bathing the area in a greenish orange tint. Everything was frozen in position, except for Sakura.
Upon seeing that time had stopped, Sakura pulled out another card.
"Move Card…" She said. "Flip those missiles around!"
A pair of pink wings appeared on the missiles before they suddenly flipped so that they were facing BlackMetalGreymon.
Sakura just smiled as she called back the 'Move' card.
"Alright Time Card…" She said. "RESUME!!"
The area resumed its natural color and time kicked in again as the missiles suddenly rocketed towards BlackMetalGreymon, and exploded into his chest.
BlackMetalGreymon roared in pain as it stumbled backwards. Luffy jumped off his head as he crashed backwards and fell on his back, crushing a few trees in the process.
"Not bad Sakura!" Inuyasha smirked. "What did you do??"
"I stopped time…" Sakura smiled.
The three just looked at BlackMetalGreymon, who just layed on the ground lifelessly.
"Looks like that's it…" Inuyasha said.
"We should go find Naruto now…" Luffy said.
The other two nodded in agreement and began to walk off when they heard something.
"Oh...DON'T tell me…" Inuyasha groaned.
They all turned around and saw that BlackMetalGreymon was getting up, and he looked angry.
"For the love of…Why won't this thing stay down??" Inuyasha yelled.
Luffy put on a concerned look before bringing up his hand.
"I'll deal with this…"
He brought his hand to his mouth and stuck the tip of his thumb in his mouth.
"GEAR…TH--"
Before Luffy could even finish, they heard something from the bushes. They all turned and were surprised when Naruto jumped out and ran at BlackMetalGreymon.
"Naruto??" Sakura gaped.
"What's he doing??" Luffy asked.
"And what's he holding??" Inuyasha asked also.
As Naruto ran, he held his arm behind his back. In his hand was a blue orb of energy. Running behind him was a shadow clone that held the orb in place.
As they got closer, the clone suddenly vanished as Naruto dove towards BlackMetalGreymon.
"Take this…RASENGAN!!"
He then slammed the orb into his chest with all his might. All was silent for a moment into the energy from the orb exploded outward. BlackMetalGreymon roared in pain as the force of the orb blew him backwards, taking out any tree that was in his path.
Krad had to fly out of the way as BlackMetalGreymon flew back and tumbled across the ground before sliding across the ground and finally stopping, smoldering and lying defeated.
The others gaped at the size of the massive trail left by BlackMetalGreymon as he skidded across the ground.
"Wow…you did it!!" Sakura cried.
"And you only took out three quarters of the forest!" Luffy said.
"You say that like it's a good thing…" Inuyasha said.
Although Inuyasha didn't want to admit it…he was impressed, he didn't think Naruto had it in him to pull off a move like that.
"Told you not to underestimate me!" Naruto smirked.
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Krad looked over the fallen beast with both disappointment and shock.
"That ninja boy…" He muttered. "There's no way someone like him could pull off a move like that…."
He then looked down at wear Naruto had hit BlackMetalGreymon.
"There must be more to him…." He said. "I'll look into it…."
With that, he held up the disc and it absorbed what was left of BlackMetalGreymon's data and then flew away.
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"So…what
now?" Naruto asked.
"We go find the torch…." Sakura said.
"Well then let's go already!" Inuyasha said impatiently.
With that the four heroes began to walk away…until they heard a rumble.
"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO KILL THAT DAMN THING!?" Inuyasha screamed, taking out his sword.
"Actually….that was me…" Luffy said, clutching his stomach.
He and Naruto then dropped to the ground.
"We're still hungry!!" They groaned.
"You gluttons…." Sakura groaned.
"Gimmie a break!" Naruto said from the ground. "I just used my strongest move with no food in my system, that's rough!!"
Sakura and Inuyasha then grabbed them by their shirts and dragged them along the ground as they headed torch.
"Just deal with it!!" Inuyasha yelled as he dragged Luffy.
"We'll find food later…" Sakura said as she dragged Naruto. "Right now…let's just go…."
As they dragged them along, Inuyasha heard something and turned around, only to see Luffy with his mouth open and near Inuyasha's arm. Luffy then noticed he saw him and shut his mouth.
"Luffy…" He said. "Tell me were not about to bite my arm…."
Luffy was silent before answering.
"Well, it depends on how you'd taste…." He answered.
Inuyasha then grabbed him and flipped him over his head and slammed him into the ground.
"I'M NOT EDIBLE!!" He yelled.
Sakura and Naruto just gave an exasperated look.
"This….is going to be a looooooong journey…" Sakura sighed.
