So, guess you guys can all get that the digimon is DexDorugoramon. Yet, my characters don't know that. Therefore due to different angles, I will some time call him DexDorugoramon, some time Dorugoramon. It's a bit confusing, but you know he's the same guy.
The whole place dropped dead silence after DexDorugoramon's roaring. Everyone stopped, stunned. So stunned that Cerberumon didn't even realize that he had the chance to escape the crazily attacking Gotsumons. All of the attentions were turned to DexDorugoramon, who now raised his razor clawed right hand, seemingly readied to stick it directly into Blastmon's stomach and reap the gem digimon's digi-core out.
There was no time left to be wasted. Jun made up her mind quick and pulled out a card, she had to stop her old friend from doing whatever he was about to do. 'Aimed?' she asked Triceramon.
'Any time.' her partner replied
'Blaze Blast.'
Triceramon's breathing fire broke the silence and brought everyone back to the reality. Cerberumon was one of those who reacted fast. He sprang up to the feet, and then dashed toward Akio fast as he could, kept swinging the claws to get things out of the way. Not later he reached his partner, who then let out a sigh of relief. Chessmon approached the moments later.
The fireball hit right at DexDorugoramon's arm. As expected, he turned toward the direction where the fireball came, toward Jun and Triceramon. Everyone watched, carious at the event that was about to happen. Kin jumped off Triceramon's back but didn't make a landing. He fell onto the ground and hardly got up. 'You can't go to battle with me on your back.' He said to Triceramon and Jun as well, forcing a smile out of his screw-upped face. 'Don't worry about me, go now.'
Jun nodded and rode on Triceramon's back, they went to the direction of DexDorugoramon. The dragon digimon, on the other hand, seemed to have calmed down a bit, was walking toward the girl and her triceratops, making loud but smooth noise of metal panels shifting on his way.
When they intercepted, DexDorugoramon seemed to have lost his temper again as he stepped his right foot back for support while raising the right arm, making a ready-to-claw pose.
'Stop! It's me!' Jun shouted, 'It's Jun!'
DexDorugoramon seemed to recognize the blonde girl as he leaned a bit backward, looked like withdrawing his attack from the other's eyes. Jun sighed.
'Glad you remember me.' Jun whispered
DexDorugoramon lowered his arm, which was a surprise to the others.
'Interesting.' Plutomon murmured as he observed, warping his arms while standing far from the core of the battlefield.
Another loud noise broke through the silence as Blastmon stroke DexDorugora from behind. Not preparing the sudden assault, DexDorugoramon fell on his knees and collapsed right in front of Jun. The long quieted Gotsumons, seeing their leader's striking back, started to rumble again, charging different ways to swarm the two groups of humans, while leaving DexDorugoramon to be their leader's prey. The Gaossmons, however, didn't respond to Blastmon.
The swarm was even fiercer than before, held nothing back, charging toward the humans at full speed with hundreds of body moving at the same time. If their pervious attack was like the particle's formation of liquid, the current attack was like the particle's formation of solid, nothing could brake them apart; it was just a matter of time when they would finally broke through the human-partnered digimons' defense.
DexDorugoramon pushed himself up, completely ignored Jun's buzz like saying. No one need to uncover his mask to see the fire burning in his eyes, the rage could easily be felt, as if there was some sort of aura of rage surrounding the Dex.
The ground was shook by Blastmon's heavy footsteps again, which directly noticed his foe that he was coming from behind, about to slam DexDorugoramon back on the ground before he could even stood up. The heavily damaged gem digimon must had been too over confident in himself, or still hadn't leant anything from countless battles that he'd been through, otherwise he wouldn't make such a elementary mistake. DexDorugoramon may be modified both physically and mentally, but he retained his experiences as a warrior, and he knew how to make use of every inches of his body as a weapon. He kicked to his left, making a high speed turning that his tail, which was armed with a great big metal ball, swung and hit Blastmon, knocking him off his balance.
'Down!' Triceramon yelled as he ran and covered Jun under his stomach, he himself ducked down as well, but wasn't quick enough that the tail hit the spicks on his back. Though not directly slammed into Triceramon's body, the force sent him flew away. He rolled a few turns when hit the ground, finally stopped and lied on the ground; the spicks on his back were of course, broken.
'Triceramon!' Jun yelled and ran toward her best friend
DexDorugoramon stopped spinning. He stood still, looking down at Blastmon. There were sands floating around the Dex as his spinning waved them up. In the thin fog of yellowish, DexDorugoramon raised up his head, roared to the sky. The sound was still sharp and irritating, but louder than all the roarings he had made. It echoed even at the open space of the desert. He didn't speak human, but one need not translation to understand the message it carried. It was a battle cry, also a summon to gather DexDorugoramon's former followers, the Gaossmons together.
The Gaossmons were back in action soon after the battle cry faded. Their synchronized roars showed no sign that they were lost earlier. Formation began to formed and groups and groups of Gaossmons crashed themselves into the Gotsumons, the two sides' formations fell apart soon as they collided, there was only mixture of blue and brown gray, the colours bouncing frequently. The whole thing was a mess up and chaos.
'Did they just saved us?' Cerberumon said in exhaustion
'I say that was just between them,' said Akio, still stunned by the messed up fighting of the dragons and rocks, 'they just saved us by the way.' He then turned to Plutomon's direction while the tribes' digimons were too busythey ignored the digi-destined. 'I say we seize this chance, that skinny Hades might bring us some clues of dotty.'
His companions nodded and followed Akio.
Another kick from DexDorugoramon and Blastmon rolled meters away. DexDorugoramon leaped and flew toward Blastmon's direction, landed when he was directly above Blastmon. The mineral digimon's attempt to fight back was just clinging strews; he had the Dex's knees' pointed armors stabbed through each of his palms, fixed him in position which he could only refusingly expect yet another wave of attacks from DexDorugoramon. Then came the punches. DexDorugoramon should have more variations and some more powerful attacks, but still the punching seemed to give him the best feeling. Feeling the reaction forcers ran from the knuckles through his arms to the body, that told him how hard he'd damaged his old enemy. That was the feeling that out matched all other means of striking.
As if Blastmon had lost his will to gain back his glory, he lied still, not showing any signs that suggest a potential counter attack, like he'd given up. Maybe he was being hit too hard that he was so numb to feel any pain. There were cracks, from the forehead, the chest, and they went along the whole body with DexDorugoramon's constant frequency of punching.
'Interesting, isn't it?' Plutomon mumbled, loud enough to be heard by the digi-destined approaching him. The sudden burst out of words surprised the group and made them stopped.
'What's it?' asked Akio grimly. It was a tone that the other had never heard from him
Plutomon turned to the kids, smiled and nodded toward the battlefield of DexDorugoramon and Blastmon, indicating the kids to watch the battle, and let they know that he had something to talk about it.
'That Dorugoramon,' he started, turned his sight back and fixed to the battlefield, not seemed to care if the kids were not listening, 'I found him on an occasion, back then he was barely alive, over 90% of his body was covered in sand, only a handful forearm and half his head were exposed. Usually I would just ignore it, but you know, Dorugoramon is a very rare species, especially one that weak that I can do whatever I want with him. So I dug him out, kept him for further usage. He was left alone for … like … a few months, until I saw how you used the egg's power to digivolve, but not for healing power. After seeing that, I decided to test this power out, and the subject, as you know, is Dorugoramon.'
The group fixed their sights especially on the purple armored dragon digimon, who was still raging.
'Unlike Millenniummon, I didn't do any thing on his mind; he's not a zombie. The egg changed him, physically of course, as you can see he is more robotic now. However, what I didn't anticipate is the mental changing of him. I have heard of his story. The respectful leader, believe in fair fight and all sort of that noble staffs. But look at him now, only have the wish to kill, torture his old enemy. The new power seems to have done a good job unleashing his dark side, brings out his long buried hatred toward Blastmon.' Plutomon then stopped and began another topic, 'That's enough for story telling. You didn't come here just to hear a story, and I didn't came here just to talk, I came here to slow you down.' The caped black figure turned to the kids and their digimons, making a battle-readied pose, 'shall we begin?'
Triceramon got up back to his feet to see Jun hugging on one of his leg, refusing to let go.
'No, Triceramon, it's enough, don't go back.' She cried
The triceratops gently gave the girl a little push with hid toe. 'We've been through worse things,' he comforted Jun, 'and I'll be fine.' Triceramon paused as Jun slightly released him. 'Beside,' he continued, 'You want to stop Dorugoramon deep in your heart.' He knew Jun all too well, the blonde would never give up Dorugoramon, her old friend, though now he's nothing but a furiously cruel monster.
'Yes,' Jun murmured, 'I do.'
'Then let's go.' Said Triceramon
Jun rode on Triceramon's back and Triceramon charged to DexDorugoramon
'Stop!' Jun yelled at DexDorugoramon on her way, 'stop now, can't you see he's already lost?'
The words were ignored; the Dex didn't even seem to have heard it. He was still too focus on his own business. Blastmon was nearly falling apart.
'Why it had to go like this?' Jun mumbled sadly as she another card
'Volcanic strike'
Triceramon shot a blazing jets of flame toward the gap between DexDorugoramon and Blastmon, separated DexDorugoramon's hand from touching Blastmon. Seizing the one second after the flame was off, Jun got off Triceramon's back and ran straight toward the wounded Blastmon, standing in front of him, facing DexDorugoramon as she extended her arms, showing protection upon Blastmon. 'It's enough, Dorugoramon, please stop.' She said as tears ran down her cheek, 'you're not like this.'
Either Jun's words were too soft DexDorugoramon couldn't hear or just simply being ignored, her attempt at convincing DexDorugoramon was in vain. The purple dragon treated Jun as if she was not there. He raised his arm again and formed a firm knuckle, which would fall off at any second and crush the blonde into a pump.
It wouldn't take a genius to predict what would happen next. Something must be done or the girl's death would be inevitable, and that was the future that Triceramon would never accept. The green triceratops dashed, and stabbed his horns into DexDorugoramon's chest before any one could react. He felt his horns broke through the hard metal of the dragon's chest armor, but wasn't deep enough, they didn't hurt the flesh. 'It's the only way, Jun, we have to defeat him before he kill us all, he's lost, and could hardly come back.'
Though Triceramon couldn't see Jun, she nodded with more tears falling off.
'Golden Tri-Horn Attack, Offence plug-in A'
Triceramon's horns began to glow a golden light and rotate like drills as DexDorugoramon grabbed them, trying to pull them out. Loud and uneasy noise of metal crashing was made through the act. The noise was like the one that could be heard when DexDorugoramon was making a major movement, just way more rapid, like a full on spinning chainsaw got jammed.
'Hang on there, Triceramon.' Jun uttered
Triceramon could felt strength loading to him from inside his digi-core. With a little progress each time he pushed himself closer to DexDorugoramon; the attack nearly got the mega, just a little more. DexDorugoramon further tightened his grip, and squeezed the drill horns. Cracks formed and could clearly be seen even the horns were rotating. Just at the last moment before the horns were completely broken, Triceramon used the last bit of his strength and successfully stabbed them into DexDorugoramon's real chest as each horns were broken in half and stopped rotating. With the pain brought by the attack, DexDorugoramon backed off a few ten meters, and Triceramon fell on his knees, unusually silent.
'Triceramon!' Jun yelled as she rushed to her partner, 'You okay? Say something!'
She was terrified. Triceramon might just be too weak to even speak, or passed out due to his damage, or worst, dead. Though the possibility of happening those three were equal, she couldn't help thinking to the bad way; she had lost too many, she couldn't help to have a pessimistic routine of thinking.
'Please…' she uttered as her tears almost blinded her
Fortunately, Triceramon nodded to Jun, telling her that he's alive as well as comforting her.
They didn't have much time to celebrate being alive. DexDorugoramon wouldn't wait for them to do so. The dragon digimon had got back on his feet, slowly walking toward the blonde and the triceratops while charging energy for the greater shooting. Tiny vortex seemed to have formed in his mouth as more and more particles like purple glowing things being dragged into the vortex in the mouth and mixed to glow even brighter.
'You're not hurting her any more!' A familiar voice from a boy shouted
Darkdramon landed on the sandy surface as he thrown away his lance to the ground and dashed straight toward DexDorugoramon. He had both his palms opened, grabbed the upper and lower jaws of DexDorugoramon, forcing them to stay closed.
DexDorugoramon's head swung back and forth so fiercely that Darkdramon could hardly held it in place. The mouth was slowly opening again, with light shined through the gap between the upper and lower jaws. Forces acting on Darkdramon's palms were increasing, to his fear; an explosion would take place at any second.
'I can't hold he for long!' the dark blue dragon shouted, 'take cover!'
Using the least bit of his strength, Triceramon moved just enough to shield Jun and Kin. 'Stay low.' He uttered
The time of the explosion wouldn't come any longer, Darkdramon swung DexDorugoramon's head facing the sky and let go of it. Bright purple beam fired from DexDorugoramon, forming a pillar of light connected straight to the sky, and fell as DexDorugoramon fell backward. Part of the beam backfired in the purple dragon's mouth and a small-scale explosion was taken place there. Then all left to be seen was thick layer of smoke in the place where the head should be on.
Darkdramon, along with his partner, sighed in relief, but the expression of a short lasted relax faded away. Kin did so because he was worried about Jun; Darkdramon did so for what he saw after the smoke faded away. DexDorugoramon's head was still there while it should be blasted into some mass he couldn't quite tell. Though the look of the head was slightly different from before; half of it was still the metallic armor with purple and yellow, while the left half of the armor was broken, revealing a normal living looking Dorugoramon head.
Triceramon moved slightly out of the way so that the humans could see the scene too. Jun looked into Dorugoramon's eye. It was exactly the same as that of the Dorugoramon she used to know; he looked gentle, not like the mindless monster minutes ago.
Seeing the blonde girl with his own eye seemed to truly awaked Dorugoramon. 'Jun?' he asked, 'what've I done?'
Plutomon never lose his advantage even after HiAndromon joined the battle. He moved like dancing, not fighting. The action was elegant and smooth, and was tricky enough that led to the three mega and ultimate fall on their knees. They couldn't even touch Plutomon, even with the assistants from the cards. Cerberumon stood up and strike again. He waved the right claws toward Plutomon, only to slash through air and lost his balance himself as Plutomon simply raised his arm to give the claws clearance. He dropped his arm to hit Cerberumon's back with the elbow. The werewolf digimon lay on the ground and was kicked away by Plutomon.
'As another me, I was expecting you to be stronger.' Said Plutomon, the voice calm and steady but the mocking inside it was obvious.
Too tired to reply, Cerberumon squeezed his jaws and had his eyes wide opened. Though Plutomon couldn't see that grimy face from his angle.
Glancing around seeing the exhausted partners of the new team, Plutomon seemed to be satisfied. 'Looks like my job is pretty much completed.' He said to no one in particular. Then the same portal that he always makes appeared behind him and he stepped in without bringing DexDorugoramon back. Just as the portal was about to close, he said something wired, 'Consider Dorugoramon as a gift that I dropped by.' With that he returned to his base.
Sunset, DexDorugoramon retreated his fellow Gaossmons. Blastmon, who had regained some strength, had his Gotsumons retreated as well, knowing that neither sides would actually have a victory if they kept on fighting. The war was small in scale, so the lost to both groups was not bad as lost of life, but quite an amount of digimons suffered from serious injury.
The group watched as Blastmon and his followers disappeared down the horizon.
'Where will they go?' Kin mumbled, 'their cave collapsed.'
'They've got plenty of caves below this land.' Said Jun
The group of digi-destined reunited, five humans and five digimons again.
'I can finally take a break.' Said Reiko as she collapsed. Akio caught her quickly, so the girl would not be hitting the ground.
'Oh no.' Jun uttered as she walked over, 'she's been uncomfortable earlier this day.'
Akio placed his palm on Reiko's forehead, slightly hotter than it would be normally.
'Gzz, you're hot.'
'I know.' Said Reiko with a weak smile, hoping that the red head could get her pun.
'She needs medic,' suggested Chessmon
'I know, but we didn't got any!' said Akio
Jun and DexDorugoramon exchanged a look, then said, 'I've an idea, but you might not like it.'
'What's it?' asked Katsumi, 'I don't see why we would dislike you.'
'She should be took to Plaka, there are digimons that know human medics, only…' there she stopped, as if the next line would kill.
'Only what?' asked Cerberumon
'The fastest way to take her there is to let Dorugoramon carry her and fly there, but I don't know if you trust him.' Said Jun, the voice fading since the middle of the sentence, but still could be heard.
'If you do, I do.' Said Kin
'Why not?' said Akio, 'How long would it take?'
'The should be there in a day or two, but Dorugoramon couldn't carry all of us, the rest of us have to walk a week or so to get there.' Said Jun
'So we'll see you guys days later.' Said Akio as he turned his sight from Reiko to Kin, 'you're going too.' He told the blue haired
'What?' Kin asked in confuse
'You look quite beaten up, better have a check up.' said Akio. Before Kin could react, he continued, 'Darkdramon, you can keep up with Dorugoramon, right?'
The mega nodded with a smirk, 'don't underestimate me.'
'Good,' said Akio, 'you will carry Kin to that Plaka, what's Plaka anyway?'
'It's a village,' said Jun, 'I used to live there in the past two years.'
'Sounds like a good place.' Said Cerberumon
'Well, any where is better than Blastmon's cave.' Katsumi added, successfully brought some laugh to the team.
Not much was said before they took off. Reiko on DexDorugoramon's back, still not forgot to tell HiAndromon to take care of the others, especially Akio.
Before Kin rode on Darkdramon, Jun walked up to him, saying the last few words, and then pulled him into a hug. 'Take care.' She whispered
'I'll be fine, long as Darkdramon doesn't throw me off.' Kin joked, earning an elbow from Darkdramon
The blonde gave Kin a kiss on the cheek. Then they finally took off. The digi-destined were separated again.
'So when will we meet them again?' asked Cerberumon
'I say at least a week and a half.' Answered Triceramon, who regained enough strength.
'Then let's not waste any seconds,' said Akio, 'we can still make a bit progress before it's completely dark.'