SailorStar9: Chapter 12 goes up, this is Chapter 13. Enjoy.
Disclaimers: (Looks around) Has Takuya and Kouji become a couple in the anime yet? No? Then I don't own any Season of Digimon, well except for my OC.
Chapter 13: Rock Breaking Thunder! Bolgmon's Do-or-Die Challenge
"Are we really going to be okay?" Kouji shouted in the front of Kettle as said Trailmon puffed on.
"You kids leave it to me." Kettle assured.
"Izumi, are you okay?" Takuya hollered.
"I'm not sure." Izumi winced.
"There's a fork in the road." Kouji noted. "Hey, which way are you going?"
"You'll see when I go there." Kettle replied and sped up, taking the right tunnel.
"In a bit, it'd be good to see our destination." Takuya remarked.
"Izumi, I'll keep Seraphimon's Egg warm within my stomach." Bokomon stated. "It's important for me to raise it properly." he took the Egg from Izumi, parental instinct kicking in.
"Is that right?" Izumi wondered.
"Until the Egg hatches, I'll protect him this way." Bokomon stuffed the Egg into his haramaki.
"He's going in there?" Neemon asked.
"You look like a pregnant woman." Tomoki noted.
"Don't touch!" Bokomon slapped Tomoki's hand away. "What are you doing, spreading your germs to him? Please wash your hands properly first. I'll do whatever is right for you, don't you agree?" he looked at the Egg.
"Wait, the road is coming to an end." Takuya stated.
"It's okay." Bokomon assured the Egg. "Mama is looking after you. We're in mid-air!" he panicked when Kettle burst out from the tunnel. "This is bad!" only to have Kettle land safely on the other side of the damaged track.
"This is the end of the line." Kettle told the children, after arriving onshore. "Many thanks!" he returned.
"Thank you!" the children bade their ride farewell.
"I wonder if we should go along that road now." Tomoki mused.
"Over there!" Takuya voiced, the group hurrying out of the cave into the light.
"At last, there's some light from outside." Kouji concluded.
"What is this place?" Junpei exclaimed, when the group skidded to a stop on the ledge.
"If this light came from outside, then the cave can't be completely separate from it." Izumi reasoned.
"The exit?" Takuya pressed.
"It has to be somewhere." Kouji insisted.
"Let's hurry up and find the way out of here." Tomoki agreed, following the two down. "Grottomon and his gang are right behind us."
"I don't want to run." Junpei stood his ground.
"Eh? Junpei, you haven't become stubborn at this late stage, have you?" Izumi joked.
"I'm not being stubborn!" Junpei insisted. "Grottomon have your Spirit with him, Izumi. I plan to get it back from him. I'm prepared to fight him for it, if I'm able to."
"Junpei..." Izumi muttered.
"Izumi..." Junpei started.
"I wonder if you really can..." Izumi sighed, breaking the otherwise romantic moment.
"Izumi..." Junpei whined.
Back in the tunnel...
"Where did those kids go?" Grottomon fumed. "Not that it matters where they've run, I'm absolutely going to get back my Beast Spirit. Hey, Abormon,did those creeps run that way?" he asked when Abormon stepped forward.
"Since we started, the surface of the water has been cold from where those kids went through it." Abormon stated.
"Just what are you thinking? Grottomon complained.
In their hideout...
"Yapperu, yapperu." Ranamon grinned at the smirking Mercuremon. "Hey, Mercuremon. You've plundered Seraphimon's data, so what are you going to do with it? If you hang onto it, you might be able to challenge Cherubimon-sama."
"That's not my intention at the moment." Mercuremon replied.
"Huh?" Ranamon was befuddled. "Do you share the same goal as him? You're so unyielding!" she fumed when Mercuremon reminded silent. "Tell me what you are feeling!"
"That guy, Grottomon..." Mercuremon changed the subject. "I wonder if he'll catch up with them." he remarked, as Grottomon's image appeared in his mirror.
"Grottomon really lost his temper over that Beast Spirit." Ranamon laughed. "I don't get it myself."
"Ranamon, will you be happy when you obtain your own Beast Spirit?" Mercuremon reminded.
"Darkness doesn't exist." Ranamon insisted.
"Darkness..." Mercuremon started. "Darkness and the rest of them will come into existence."
"When it does, Darkness will be mine!" Ranamon snapped.
In the cave...
"Well, this is a mess." Kouji remarked, hammering the wall to find an exit. "I really want to see a way out of here soon."
"I think we make our own exit." Takuya suggested.
"I wonder if we should go back." Tomoki reasoned.
"Right." Izumi agreed. "We're underground and the light could be coming from anywhere, so I don't believe there is a way."
Just then, a jet of water shot out from the lake, slamming Tomoki and Junpei into the wall.
"Tomoki!" Takuya called.
"Junpei!" Kouji shouted.
"Tomoki, are you okay?" Junpei asked the boy.
"Uh huh." Tomoki muttered.
"What was that?" Junpei wondered. "Now..." and exclaimed when a board stream of water burst out from the pool.
"What... is this...?" Izumi gasped.
"Something's rising." Takuya stated as Whalmon appeared after the water died down.
"This creature usually lives in the sea." Bokomon recognized. "It's Whalmon."
"Whalmon?" Izumi echoed.
"It should only be found in the vast sea." Bokomon stated. "What's it doing here?"
"No, no, no!" Whalmon flailed.
"What's up with that?" Bokomon was confused. "Whalmon is usually a timid Digimon.
"I'm finished!" Whalmon wailed. "No, no!"
"Takuya!" Kouji voiced.
"Oh great." Takuya sighed. "He'd have to be bad-tempered, wouldn't he?"
"Spirit Evolution!" the two digivolved.
"Wolfmon!"
"Agnimon!"
"Do it!" Wolfmon instructed as the two landed on Whalmon. "We're on his flank now."
"We need to calm him down." Agnimon stated.
"No!" Whalmon whined.
In the tunnel...
"Shit!" Grottomon cursed. "Another one. Hey, which way please?" he asked his companion.
"Before we strike, we need to wait for the right opportunity." Abormon reasoned.
"What are you saying?" Grottomon huffed when they heard Kettle's whistle in the distance as the said Trailmon puffed towards them. "That's... that's right. They made their getaway to wherever in that. There must be an exit somewhere at the end. It's the one that accompanied those brats." he grinned, both him and Abormon hiding behind the other tunnel as Kettle puffed past. "They're trapped like rats now."
Back in the cave...
"I want you to calm down, okay?" Izumi soothed. "Tell us what happened to you."
"I... I... I... just want to return to the sea!" Whalmon wailed. "Just a while ago, I was swimming along in my ocean home. Unmindful, unthinking, I found and swallowed a strange light. And then..."
Flashback
"If there's any Digicode here, I'll soon get it out and absorb it." Grottomon laughed on the shore. "Snake Eye Break!" and absorbed the revealed Digicode.
"No!" Whalmon gasped as the sudden increase in pressure in the cavern sucked him into the cave, trapping the large Digimon.
"I've been stuck inside this place all alone." Whalmon narrated and started crying.
"Oi, he's crying again." Agnimon sighed.
"Crying never helps to find a solution." Wolfmon reasoned.
"Where in the sea do you think he came from?" Neemon wondered.
"If only I k new..." Bokomon replied.
"For such a big Digimon, he's really pathetic." Junpei noted.
"Are you okay?" Tomoki blinked when Junpei winced from his injuries.
"I'm a man." Junpei assured. "I'll get it over quickly."
"My ocean!" Whalmon wailed. "It hurts to be separated from it! I'm sorry!"
"Stop crying!" Junpei snapped.
"We also want to get out." Izumi voiced. "Working together, we might find a way."
"I'll do my best." Whalmon let off crying, causing the group to facefault.
"What's that?" Agnimon gasped when Whalmon was suddenly dragged back into the water.
"Whalmon!" the group exclaimed, finding the pool had dried up as Grottomon appeared from the ground. "Grottomon!"
"Found you!" Grottomon grinned.
Commercial Break.
Cut to a rocky wasteland, where we can see Frodo Baggins walking, along with Sam, and followed by Gollum.
Frodo: We must hurry, I feel him looking at me.
Sam: What about the other one?
Frodo: That girl? I fear Sauron much more than I fear her.
Gollum: She wants to steal our preciousssss...
Sam: Oh shut up, you freak.
Just then, a girl wearing a white robe, with long, black hair that falls down in front of her, covering her face, appears in front of the group. The three stare at her in a mixture of shock, disbelief and horror.
Girl: I'm sorry, Frodo, but your seven days are up.
VOA: Lord of The Ring. Coming soon.
End Commercial Break.
"This time, all of your Spirits will not prevent the incredible me from getting mine back." Grottomon declared.
"If you've captured Trailmon..." Agnimon growled.
"If we show you our Beast Spirits, you can't evolve into Gigasmon and attack us." Wolfmon stated. "And you'll also return Izumi's Spirit to us."
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Grottomon fumed and scattered his magical dust into the cave wall. "I'll teach you guys to refuse my demands. I will take what is mine. Mercuremon and the others have your surrounded. I'll snatch your Spirits and have the Egg as well." as the summoned Golemons manifested. "Attack!" he ordered.
"Leave this up to the two of us." Agnimon told the untransformed group. "Salamander Break!" taking out four Golemons.
"Licht Sieger!" Wolfmon's attack took out five more Golemons.
"Junpei, it's impossible for you to fight those things." Bokomon warned as another group of Golemon cornered the untransformed group.
"Junpei!" Agnimon hurried over.
"I'm coming now." Wolfmon followed suit. "What?" he demanded when Abormon's extended arms pulled both Human Hybrids back.
"You have to watch everything that's happening, if you don't want to get caught." Abormon warned.
"Hey!" Junpei snapped. "I'll..."
"It's impossible with these injuries." Izumi warned.
"Oi, Junpei, it's be best to hide." Bokomon advised.
"Eh, I don't think that's his intention." Neemon noted.
"Come here!" Bokomon voiced.
"I didn't notice you slip off." Neemon gaped, eyes widening.
"Bakamon, I have to protect Seraphimon's Egg!" Bokomon reminded from behind the rocks, Neemon's deathpan expression telling Bokomon that the rabbit-like Digimon did not believe him.
"Go and hide." Junpei told the rest. "I'll handle it."
"If you rush into this fight now, you'll just be a handicap." Tomoki reasoned. "The others will handle this problem."
"If only I..." Izumi looked at her D-tector. "If only I could evolve."
"Dance!" Abormon pulled Agnimon and Wolfmon to the ground.
"Huh?" Agnimon glared as Abormon's extended fists punched them in the chin.
"Dance." Abormon stated. "Dance."
"Great, Abormon." Grottomon grinned as his partner used the two Human Hybrids as punching bags. "You'll soon wear them out."
"Dance, dance." Abormon continued.
"You got them." Grottomon declared, Abormon's assault finally forcing the two Human Hybrids' Digicodes to manifest. "You made mincemeat out of them."
"If this keeps up, they're gone for sure." Tomoki gasped.
"Tomoki." Junpei stepped up. "Look after Izumi."
"Junpei." Izumi voiced.
"Junpei." Tomoki blinked.
"Is that right?" Grottomon laughed. "Evolve. Evolve and do battle with me."
"As much as you want to do this, stop!" Bokomon shouted. "This isn't the time to be rash."
"I know I'm being rash." Junpei retorted. "But I won't stand silent and watch while this happens."
"I'm with you." Tomoki stepped forward.
"Tomoki." Junpei blinked.
"Spirit Evolution!" the two chorused.
"Chakmon!"
"Blitzmon!"
"Attack!" Grottomon ordered.
"Chakmon, look after Izumi." Blitzmon instructed.
"Got it." Chakmon replied.
"Golden Thunder!" Blitzmon released his attack, taking out five Golemons.
"Kachikachi Kachin!" Chakmon fired his snow, taking out three more Golemons.
"Time to kill you off – and recover Fairymon's stolen Spirit." Blitzmon declared, the two faced off with the last Golemon Grottomon was standing on. "Thor Hammer!"
"Take this!" Grottomon snorted, Golemon blasting Blitzmon to the ground with his attack. "I'll beat Blitzmon's Spirit out of him." he remarked, after Blitzmon reverted back to his human form. "Abormon, get over here and beat this guy for me."
"Okay." Abormon relented. "Abormon, slide evolution. Petaldramon!"
"Snake Eye Break!" Grottomon raised his hammer to finish Junpei off.
"Shoot!" Whalmon's sudden water jet blasted Grottomon off course.
"Whalmon..." Junpei gasped as his Beast Spirit floated in front of him. "This is... a Beast Spirit."
"What?" Grottomon removed his head from the wall. "A Spirit?"
"That is..." Whalmon started. "That time..."
"Whalmon, thank you for protecting this Beast Spirit." Kallan voiced from the Thunder Beast Spirit. "Now, Thunder Child, let your hearts resonate as one and claim what is yours."
"That Spirit..." Grottomon jumped out. "It'll be mine!"
"Beast Spirit!" Junpei raised his D-tector to claim his Beast Spirit, causing Grottomon to fall to the ground, missing his target. "Spirit Evolution! Bolgmon!"
"That's one of the Ten Legendary Warriors, Bolgmon of Thunder!" Bokomon gasped.
"Bolgmon?" Izumi echoed.
"Ultimate Thunder!" Bolgmon fired his thunderbolts at the roof.
"He's running amok!" Bokomon exclaimed, the non-fighters running for cover as the cavern caved in.
"He doesn't know how to control it." Wolfmon remarked as another one of Bolgmon's thunderbolts clashed into the roof.
"Not again." Agnimon sighed, the two Human Hybrids jumping off.
"The cave's ceiling's coming down on me." Petaldramon noted as the roof crumbled.
"That guy's pissed!" Grottomon backed off.
"Grottomon!" Bolgmon glared. "You worthless piece of shit! It's time to die! Field Destroyer!" destroying the last Golemon and forcing Grottomon's Digicode out. "Bolgmon, slide evolution. Blitzmon. "Spirit without meaning." Blitzmon started. "Be purified by my Thunder. Digicode, scan!" and claiming Grottomon's Human Spirit, reverting the evil Digimon into a Digitama.
Izumi beamed as Fairymon's Spirit returned to her D-tector, Grottomon's Digitama floating out of one of the holes in the roof. "Commozione!" she cheered. "Junpei!" she gasped when the exhausted pre-teen reverted back to his human form. "Junpei, are you hurt?"
"I'm fine..." Junpei smiled. "Now that you've got your Spirit back."
"Junpei..." Izumi muttered. "Thank you, Junpei!"
"We did it!" Tomoki cheered.
"Run!" Takuya shouted as he and Kouji dashed back to the group. "Run!" as the ceiling gave in under the water's weight and caved in.
"We... survived?" Tomoki started.
"But it must be night." Izumi remarked.
"It's the sea." Takuya stated, when Whalmon opened his mouth, the aqua Digimon having saved the children.
"Whalmon!" the group looked up.
"Whalmon gave us help." Bokomon realized.
"Thank you, Whalmon." Izumi called.
"You gave me the lead." Whalmon replied. "For your guidance, thank you very much. But we've already come to an island."
"An island?" Takuya echoed, the group looking ahead, seeing the island appear in the horizon.
Omake
Wolfmon: Do it!
Agnimon: You want us to do it now?
Wolfmon: (Facepalm)
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