Digimon Tamers: Rika's AU

Chapter 35: Duelling with Discord Part 1

A large explosion occurred near the centre of the town, made by Thomas's shotgun which fire merely inches from Quake-Shot, he was thrown back but kept his footing while Quake-Shot himself was only pushed back by half the distance Thomas was. Quake-Shot slammed his foot down and made two large stone pillars come out from the side in an attempt to crush Thomas, but he jumped back and fired his shotgun into them destroying them. He then fired three more rounds which Quake-Shot took easily but stumbled a bit.

Thomas growled a bit feeling frustrated. "Fine, time to fight fire with fire!" he placed his free hand into the ground and quickly lifted it back up pulling out a giant hammer made of rock which quickly altered to be made of a mixture between rock and metal. Thomas jumped high easily and tried to slam it down onto Quake-Shot but he blocked with his own and threw Thomas into the air, while in the air, he fired five more shots into him before landing. He placed the hammer over his shoulder looking angry.

Quake-Shot stepped forward slightly. "How is it that you can manipulate the earth!? No two Data Streamers can have the same power unless their related!"

"My power is recoding, I can alter anything and everything, even the ground below us. And if I have to use the ground as a weapon like you then so be it!" Thomas charged forward once again.

Hook-Claw shot forward like a rocket making Henry and Ryo jump to the sides. Hook-Claw got his footing immediately and prepared for another launch, but Henry threw a kick into the hook that held onto the wall pushing it off, making his free hook shoot back and hit himself in the face. In the distraction, Ryo slammed his metal pole into the other hook and pulled it off of the other wall like a crowbar, making that shoot back, but Hook-Claw got his composure back and forced his hand to stop.

Hook-Claw shot both of his arms forward, Henry and Ryo dodged in time but the hooks latched onto the wall making him fly forward, his legs suddenly turned into hooks too and he dragged them across the ground until he lifted both of them smashing into the walls making them crumble near Henry and Ryo. The two immediately dodged them as they watched Hook-Claw land perfectly in front of them after detaching his hands from the walls.

"For a couple of brats with no Data Streamer qualities, you're quite the nuisance!"

Henry and Ryo looked at each other through the corner of their eyes, nodded and then charged forward.

The duel between Saw-Tooth and Rika raged on. Rika now used both a metal pole and her own sword to fight off this insane man's bladed arms. Rika quickly knocked back his arms and swung the metal pole into the side of his face, Saw-Tooth threw a bladed kick but Rika knocked it back with her sword and swung the metal pole again smacking him in the face. As he stumbled, Rika threw a kick into his stomach sending him further back. But Saw-Tooth jumped forward again and threw both his arms down, Rika jumped back to dodge but became shocked to see Saw-Tooth charge again so fast, Rika slammed both her weapons onto his arms and pushed him back, but not far enough and Saw-Tooth charged again. Rika dodged and began to run to get some real distance.

"GET BACK HERE!" Saw-Tooth shouted as he chased after her.

Back in the palace, we find the disco-loving leader Discord walking towards a large computer screen, he pressed a button and the screen turned on revealing the back of a chair and a large desk in front of it. The chair slowly turned over revealing a black haired man wearing a very dark green suit and had a pair of thick framed glasses, this man had an emotionless yet intimidating vibe to him.

"You asked for me?" asked Discord looking smug.

"I did." Said the intimidating man. "You are aware that the ships will be arriving tomorrow to collect the Digimon you had captured… you did capture them correct?"

"Of course I did, what do you think I am, a lowly grunt? I know when a job needs getting done, it gets done."

"Good. You must also remember that the Control Spire must remain undamaged. We need it in order to imprison the following populated settlement."

"I'm aware of that dear sir. The Control Spire will not get a scratch on it and the Digimon will not escape any time soon."

The intimidating man nodded, he then noticed something. "Hm? Where are your commanders? I am certain that I requested their appearance as well as yours."

Discord suddenly lost his smirk. "O-Oh right." He smiled again. "Oh there's nothing to worry about. They're taking care of some intruders that snuck their way into the town."

"Intruders? And you are not worried that they are here for the likely intention of ruining Comatose's plans?"

"Don't you worry your pretty yet screwed up head, they're just a bunch of kids. They won't be a bother."

A slight rumble occurred getting both their attentions.

The intimidating man turned back to Discord with an emotionless look as usual. "Seems like these kids are more troublesome than you thought." Discord grunted a bit before turning back to the intimidating man. "There's a chance that some of these kids could be Data Streamers. If these kids destroy that Spire, I'll have your head for it. Now go."

"Y-Yes sir!" with that Discord ran from the room just as the screen turned off.

Thomas continued to fire his shotgun at Quake-Shot who was charging straight to him, the bullets pushed him back a bit but he still kept charging. Quake-Shot got close enough to use his hammer but Thomas jumped out of the way and prepared his gun for a more powerful round. He pressed the button under the gun and clicked it back making the blue meter fill up, the gun glowed a faint blue and shook a bit, a digitised voice then said "2x."

Just before Quake-Shot could get in another attack, Thomas fired his gun making a giant blue blast which pushed Thomas about ten feet back but sent Quake-Shot sky-rocketing over the town walls. Thomas panted a bit feeling somewhat tired, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked over to where Quake-Shot would've landed. "I think that pissed him off more than anything."

Thomas turned to his left to see Rika running from around the corner and up the hill to see him. "R-Rika are-" He then noticed Saw-Tooth coming through screaming like a madman, he tried to attack them both but Thomas threw a swift kick into his chest and sent him flying back down the hill. Thomas then fired his gun at the walls of a building making the shattered pieces fall into the path acting like a wall.

"T-Thanks. This guy's immune to blade attacks."

Thomas turned to her. "Did you get any info?"

"They seem to be from a group called Comatose, I don't know who or what they're are but they're planning on shipping the Digimon away tomorrow."

"Hm, so it was fortunate that we got here when we did."

"I recall the name Comatose but I don't know what they are."

Thomas turned to Rika. "I will explain everything when the situation is over. Listen, Takato and Kenta are still in the prison, do you think you can get them out while I take care of these clowns?"

"I'll do what I can, I'm having trouble keeping up with that guy anyway." Rika immediately ran for the prison area, at that point, Saw-Tooth climbed over the rubble and charged for Thomas, but he quickly threw a spinning kick sending him far to the right of him. Saw-Tooth got up and growled, only to be sent flying by Thomas doing a flying kick into his chest.

Back at the train, Jessica was watching Kazu play with the In-Training Digimon. Seeing them play and laughing forcefully gave Jessica a small smile, but she then let out a quiet sigh in which none of the others heard. 'Pineapple Head has a Digimon...'

Everyone suddenly kept quiet as they heard a faint noise. Sounded like screaming, they all moved to the window and saw that the screaming was coming from a giant rock falling from the sky. It made an impact on the ground causing the entire place to shake.

The gang kept quiet as they saw that this rock was actually a person. Quake-Shot slowly sat up rubbing his head. "Urgh, that punk!" he got up and quickly ran back towards the town.

Gigimon groaned a bit. "He's a bad guy right? Shouldn't we help Takatomon and the others?"

Kazu gently rubbed Gigimon's head. "Sorry boy, but we have to stay here. Don't worry, Takatomon is super strong, I'm sure he can take care of himself. He's not as helpless like he used to be."

Jessica silently grunted at Kazu for what he said. 'H-Helpless?' she began to look at each of the Digimon, all staring up at Kazu as he tried to give them all confidence that the others would return safely. They all looked surprised when they saw Jessica gently pick up Pagumon and began to stroke him gently. "Look, they'll be fine so, there's no point in worrying, all you're doing is gonna make yourselves sick... which... could make you do something you'll regret."

Kazu looked shocked to see Jessica like this. In fact, Jessica looked as if she was about to cry herself.

Rika made her way into the prison room with her sword held tightly while still in its scabbard. She had no idea how tight the security was but she had no intention of taking any chances. But she slowly lowered her guard when she found Takato and Kenta in one of the cells both sitting around looking bored.

Takato noticed her and immediately perked up. "Rika!"

Kenta turned to see her. "R-Rika! Glad you made it."

"Glad to know your safe Takato." Rika then glared at Kenta. "You should've studied those things better, especially when it's Takato's neck on the line."

"G-Gimme a flipping break! I divided them into their right piles, I swear I had the right ones."

Rika noticed a pile of keys on the ground, she picked them up and began trying each key on the lock, until suddenly they just broke apart in her hands. "W-What the!?"

"Oh man, they must've got hit pretty hard when that fat rock guy hit Thomas." said Takato.

Rika pondered for a moment, then she suddenly kicked the lock as hard as she could, but not even a dent. "Drat." she then faced Takato. "Wait, can't you just break out yourself? You have super strength right?"

"I tried to, but I can't seem to activate it this time. Guess I haven't mastered being a Data Streamer fully yet."

Rika began to think. 'Takato's Data Streamer blood must be weaker than mine, so he can't use it as often, only when there's danger.' she turned back to the lock. "Looks like we'll need a key after all."

"A key..." muttered Kenta. "That's it!"

Kenta stood up and ran to the bars. "Rika, I have an idea! I have a Key Floppy in my bag, Key Floppies can unlock any door."

Rika felt unsure. "Hold on, are you absolutely sure you know which ones are which? I don't want confetti in my face."

"Relax, I put the Key Floppies in their own specific pocket." Kenta turned to his side showing the bag pocket in question. "Hurry up and get it."

Rika still felt unsure about all this, but she dug into the pocket anyway knowing she has no choice. She took a grey floppy disk out of the pocket and examined it, she had no way of telling if this was indeed a Key Floppy.

"HOLD IT!"

Rika looked from left to right and saw several guards and one huge muscular guard surrounding her. "You better stay perfectly still or else!" the muscular guard took notice of the floppy in her hand. "And just what is that?"

Rika looked behind her seeing the huge hole in the wall, she then placed the floppy on the lock making it stick there. She then pressed the button. But it didn't unlock the gate. Instead it let out a large farting noise and the sound of Kazu and Kenta giggling.

There was a strong awkward silence, all of the guards looked confused while Kenta looked terrified. "Oh... crap I brought the Recorder Floppies by mistake!"

Rika's face slowly went bright red with rage and embarrassment, biting onto her lower lip as her hands shook. Kenta felt like being in the jail cell was safer right now. Takato looked over to Kenta. "I think you just shortened your lifespan with that one."

The muscular guard smirked. "Looks like this little kid has a bit of gas doesn't she?"

Rika slowly stood straight and faced the guards. She then looked over to them with a death stare that could bring a demon to its knees. "SHUT UP OR I'LL GUT YOU!"

All of the guards and even the muscular one all stepped back feeling absolutely terrified by this girl who was three foot smaller than all of them. "Y-Yes ma'am!" whimpered the muscular guard.

Kenta slowly made it back to Rika and shown the other pocket, he smiled nervously. "Oh uh, s-s-sorry R-Rika, it was um, on the other side, sorry, sorry." Rika slowly turned to Kenta with the same death stare, she dug into Kenta's other pocket and took out another floppy, Kenta then ran to the wall. Rika placed the floppy on the lock, the guards this time waited patiently for her. Rika pressed the button again.

Suddenly a huge thick green gas emerged from the floppy surrounding the entire prison. Rika immediately covered her nose and mouth trying to avoid this horrendous odour. "Urgh! F-Foul!"

All of the guards began choking on this horrible smell. Takato and Kenta were worse off because their hands were tied behind their back, they couldn't cover their noses. "ARGH!" yelled Kenta. "Kazu must've mistook one of the Recorder Floppies for a Scent one, they store and amplify smells!"

"I'M GONNA KILL BOTH OF YOU!" Rika screamed before covering her nose and mouth again.

"I-I've had enough!" shouted one of the guards as he pulled up his gun. Rika saw this and immediately ran for the hole in the wall just as the gun fired. But the gun itself let loose a few sparks which reacted with the strong odour.

The entire prison was caught in a massive explosion which sent them all flying back, Rika herself was thrown out of the prison through the hole, she hit the ground hard but immediately turned back around to see the damage. The prison was still intact but it was cracked everywhere and smoke was coming from those cracks.

"T-Takato!" Rika shouted before running back into the prison. Upon entering, she saw that all of the guards were burnt and unconscious, Takato and Kenta were both lying on the ground looking burnt themselves. "T-Takato! Are you alright!?"

She felt relieved to hear Takato grunting a bit as he tried to push himself up, he slowly turned to Rika. "I'm... I'm alright yeah.

Kenta slowly leaned up too. "Don't know how we survived that one, but that was close."

Rika saw that the bars were heavily damaged, so much in fact that pulling them off was easy. She got into the cell and began to untie Takato's binds, she then went to Kenta whom immediately flinched, expecting to get hurt. "Please be gentle!" Rika untied Kenta's binds too and stood up.

"Ok, we gotta go! The others are fighting Data Streamers." said Rika.

"We know." said Takato who stood up. "One of them attacked Thomas."

The three ran out of the prison and began to make their way to the centre of the town.

Hook-Claw began swinging his arms around which stretched to about twenty feet, the hooks on his hands broke through several pieces of the buildings and the ground. Henry and Ryo were unfortunately caught in the middle of this rampage and were forced to constantly dodge in a blind panic trying to avoid both the hooks.

"Dance little brats! Dance!"

Little did they know, the hooks accidentally struck the box Jeri and Elecmon were in smashing a piece of it, the hole made was big enough for Jeri and Elecmon to squeeze out of. Both of them peeked out to see Hook-Claw giving Henry and Ryo a disadvantage.

"W-We gotta help them." Muttered Jeri.

"I'm on it!" Elecmon jumped out of the box and began emitting electricity from his body. "SUPER THUNDER STRIKE!"

Elecmon blasted out a huge bolt of lightning which struck Hook-Claw making him wail in agony as his hooks returned to his arms. As he stopped, Hook-Claw grunted with rage, he looked somewhat burnt as he glared over to Elecmon and Jeri.

"W-What are you doing Jeri!?" shouted Henry.

"You're dead!" Hook-Claw shot both his arms up into the sky and swung them down in an attempt to strike Jeri and Elecmon like a hammer to a nail. Both of them ran back dodging the attack and Elecmon shot another bolt of lightning from his body. Hook-Claw dodged them by jumping up high using his legs as springs.

Hook-Claw tried to attack them again but Ryo swung his pole into his extended leg making him stumble and fall onto the top of a building.

"Quick, run!" shouted Henry as he and the others began to run through an alleyway. Hook-Claw got his composure back, turned his legs back to normal and began to jump from roof to roof trying to chase after them.

Thomas found himself dodging more of Saw-Tooth's attacks rather than counterattacking due to Saw-Tooth's sudden increase in speed. But soon he was able to counterattack by throwing a kick right into his jaw sending him stumbling back, he then threw another kick into his chest sending him flying back.

He heard a crashing sound and turned to his left to see some parts of the town being destroyed. There Thomas saw Henry, Ryo, Jeri and Elecmon running from the falling debris, Hook-Claw shot himself directly at them but they turned a corner just barely avoiding him and he crashed into a pile of junk.

Thomas quickly pointed to the same direction where Rika ran off to. "Quick, you three go this way, I'll hold him off!" The four ran past him and went into the direction he pointed to. Thomas then turned back and prepared his gun as both Hook-Claw and Saw-Tooth jumped in front of him. A smashing sound occurred to the right, all three of them looked to see that it was Quake-Shot.

"I am REALLY pissed off!" shouted Quake-Shot.

Thomas sighed. 'Called it.' he then prepared himself to fight all three at once.

The end for now.

I'm really sorry for the massive delays, I don't have any good excuse apart from working on my other stuff, then I had some personal problems, and working on fan-fictions have slowly became harder to focus on.

Yeah I know, this is really short, but I just wanted to get the next chapter out ASAP and I decided to simply chop the chapter in half.

One other thing, I'm 100% determined to finish this fan-fiction, as such I've discontinued every other fan-fic and... once Rika's AU is finished, then I will be retiring from fan-fictions permanently. This may sound shocking, but it's the truth, once Rika's AU is done, I'm done.

Now... I wanna ask you guys something, do any of you mind if I cut chapters in half more often, they'll get submitted sooner but will be shorter, but I think this may be a better solution anyway since not everyone has time to read lengthy fan-fics. but I'd like to hear what you say.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter of Digimon Tamers: Rika's AU.