Chapter Forty Nine: Enough Good Men
Rika Nonaka had never actually seen Imperialdramon. She had spent most of the last 100 years fighting MetalSeadramon in random skirmishes on the ocean territory, and only ventured into other territories when she needed supplies or aid, and as such had only heard stories about him. She had actually only ever lain eyes on MetalSeadramon and Puppetmon. So that it was understandable that when she saw Imperialdramon (as she was used to the five story sea snake and the five foot mannequin), when she saw the 100 foot digimon up close and personal, she screamed. It was understandable that she screamed, but not so much that she squealed like a 4 year old child.
Izzy and Matt did it too, so maybe it was understandable. Sakuyamon, MetalGarurumon, and Rapidmon squealed too; it was definitely understandable. Kumbhiramon had seen that sort of thing all the time.
"Is he supposed to be that big?" Rapidmon fought stuttering.
"Unfortunately," Kumbhiramon replied.
Imperialdramon was perhaps the most impressive digimon the three digidestined and their partners had ever seen. Yes, he was a hundred feet tall, and that was terrifying enough. But he was also a dragon-man. All resemblance of Stingmon within him was gone, so he was basically Ex-Veemon being controlled by Ken's evil partner. Except he was a hundred feet tall, with black, three dragon-toed armor boots, black and white armor covering his legs, waist, and stomach, black metal gauntlets with two golden claws on each, black armor covering his upper arms, huge red leathery wings, large black shoulder-pieces with parallel golden spikes, a large black chest piece with a red, black, and white dragon head embedded on it, and a golden crown on his simple blue head (as well as a tail). Yes, Imperialdramon was perhaps the most impressive digimon the three digidestined and their partners had ever seen, until HerculesKabuterimon flew across the sky and punched him in the face a few seconds after the dragon-man got there.
"Hey!" Kari and Eric waved on HerculesKabuterimon's back to their six friends hovering in the sky while Imperialdramon fell into the valley below. "You're lucky you were so close, it was easy to spot you." At that moment, Eric and Kari were grabbed at the waist by Ophanimon and hovered over to their friends. "How's it going?"
"Uh, what's going on here?" Rika was stunned at the two mega level digimon hovering in front of them. "Should Sakuyamon and I have even bothered with fighting the evil digidestined for a hundred years? Because you people seem to be just so much better at it."
"We're better as a group Rika," Kari stated with pride, "You can't do everything yourself.
"So who was that, Paildramon?" Eric asked. "He's not a machine, so it's definitely not Andromon, and I'd say it was Zudomon but…" Eric glanced to Ophanimon.
"You can come on out now." Ophanimon assured the two people hanging on her back.
"What the hell is going on here!?" Rika roared, overwhelmed.
"Both of you got your partners to digivolve within two days?" Matt asked in surprise.
"Well they did more work than we did, but we certainly helped them." Eric grinned.
"Yeah, whether we encouraged them to digivolve or forced them to pick up the slack because of how incompetent we were." Kari said sarcastically.
"I wasn't incompetent; I just went catatonic for a minute!" Eric poorly defended himself. "If Tai and T.K. can do it, then I should be able to too. Besides, I heard what you did wasn't encouragement so much as flat out tricking your partner into evolving."
"It worked, didn't it?"
"What I did worked too. That doesn't make it a good thing." Matt, Rika, Sakuyamon, and MetalGarurumon just stared in shock. Izzy and Rapidmon were focused on other things.
"Hey guys." Kumbhiramon cheered to his two relatively new friends.
"Hey, Kumbhiramon, what are the odds?" Kari said happily.
"Pretty high actually." Eric murmured to himself.
"You know Kumbhiramon?" Rika gaped.
"We met him yesterday." Kari explained.
"I said you could come out now." Ophanimon said again.
"Right, sorry." A voice on her back said. Rika, Matt, Sakuyamon, and MetalGarurumon then watched in horror as Joe Kido and his partner Gomamon climbed up her shoulders.
"Okay, it's definitely getting too crowded up here." MetalGarurumon murmured.
"Hey Kabuterimon!" Izzy called to his friend's partner. "Unless you want to fight alone you should probably convince your friends to put us all down." He then pointed to Imperialdramon, who was crawling out of the forest.
"Everyone get on my back (and it's HerculesKabuterimon)," All three passenger carriers then drifted over to HerculesKabuterimon and dropped off the six humans and Kumbhiramon on the ten story beetle's back.
"We'll hold them off until you return." Ophanimon said to her friend.
"Right," HerculesKabuterimon whispered, and then started flying down to the valley floor.
"I don't suppose you want to join in on this fight, do you Kumbhiramon?" Kari asked the rodent she had departed from only hours before.
"Yeah, I think I might have to sit this one out." He said sarcastically.
"I'll help." Gomamon stated, drawing concerned attention from Rika, Matt, and Izzy, who didn't know what to make of the situation.
"You sure you up for it?" Eric asked. "Can you fight someone you've been allies with for a hundred years?"
"As long as you don't need me to kill him, then yeah."
"We weren't going to go that far," Kari mumbled.
"Then suit up!" Gomamon jumped off of HerculesKabuterimon's back with the rest of the group, HerculesKabuterimon took off towards the battle, and then Gomamon digivolved.
"Gomamon, warp digivolve to… Zudomon!" The water mammal's digivolution stopped short of where he was going. "Huh?"
"It's probably just because you're tired!" Kari called up to him. "Don't worry; you've got four megas there with you!" Zudomon nodded, and then stomped towards the battlefield.
"I don't suppose you'd mind telling us (said Matt) what the HELL IS GOING ON!!!???"
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"You're going to pay for that." Imperialdramon groaned as he levitated himself into the air. "I do not appreciate what you just did."
"I didn't do it." Sakuyamon said in a condescending voice.
"But it's not like it matters." MetalGarurumon laughed.
"You're outnumbered jackass." Rapidmon said defiantly.
"And outsmarted too." Ophanimon smiled.
"Wisdom, Knowledge, Friendship, Light, and Love against Prudence?" HerculesKabuterimon said in a louder voice that uncomforted the smaller digimon, "I don't think we'll have a problem here."
"And Reliability too." Zudomon dragged himself onto the ground level of the battlefield.
"Nice timing." Ophanimon smiled. MetalGarurumon, Sakuyamon, and Rapidmon were concerned but trusted Ophanimon and HerculesKabuterimon's faith in the apparently former enemy.
"So that's it Zudomon, you're just going to abandon us?" Imperialdramon grumbled in a low voice.
"I don't want to talk about this Imperialdramon." The much shorter digimon complained.
"Well then, I hope you enjoy this." Imperialdramon then smiled.
"Cover your ears!" Zudomon called to the four digimon above him, but it was too late.
"Ayah!!!!" All Imperialdramon had to do was let out a short, not even loud (relative to his size) shriek, and Sakuyamon, MetalGarurumon, and Ophanimon doubled over in pain and fell to the ground. Zudomon would have caught them if he hadn't been incapacitated as well. The only one not affected by the screech was HerculesKabuterimon, who was the same size.
"Well this should be interesting." HerculesKabuterimon stated. "Our greatest weapon has been indisposed.
"Your voice may be your most effective weapon, but it is not mine." He raised his arm in front of his body, and a cannon then materialized on his arm.
"Uh oh."
"Positron Laser!"
"Electro-Shocker!" HerculesKabuterimon quickly formed a sphere of energy to defend himself, but it wasn't enough. The Positron Laser was too powerful against the monster whose power boost from when he first digivolved and when Eric gave him his heat energy had long faded away. The laser sliced through the orb and crushed HerculesKabuterimon's chest. While he was falling, he de-digivolved into Tentomon, and would have surely been crushed when he landed if a certain green armor covered rabbit had not caught him and set him gently on the ground. Rapidmon then levitated up to Imperialdramon's eye level.
"Now how in Yggdrasil's name did you survive my screech without fainting?" Imperialdramon asked out of curiosity.
"I turned on some sound filters in my ears." Rapidmon tapped his very large ears, "you okay with that?"
"I suppose I could amuse myself with torturing you. Fighting your friends was a lot less difficult than I thought it would be. It was very boring."
"Well I can't promise you I'll be much better," Said Rapidmon, "But I can assure you that I won't pass you if you yell at me."
"Well then, let the fun begin."
"Before we start, can I ask you a question?"
"Yeah sure, knock yourself out."
"Can you follow me down the rabbit hole?"
"What?" Imperialdramon cocked his head in confusion, but Rapidmon soon answered by zig-zagging through the air too fast for Imperialdramon to keep up with him, and then jumped into the mega dragon's mouth. "Aggggggg!" Imperialdramon began choking wildly as the ultimate within his neck began beating the monster's insides wildly. The armored monster tried to push Rapidmon out of its body from the outside of the neck, but his efforts were futile.
"Rpd Fr!" Rapidmon announced in a muffle. Imperialdramon's eyes widened at this. He then desperately began gagging and heaving in a last ditch effort to force the monster out of its neck, but Rapidmon did that for him. When the missile launched, it put so much pressure on the inside of Imperialdramon's neck that Rapidmon was thrown out. Fortunately for Imperialdramon the pressure forced the missile out as well and all that he had to suffer through was a highly inflamed throat.
"Agh! Agh! Agh!" Imperialdramon choked out the last of his (excessive) uncomfort.
"I thought that would be more effective. Crap. Well, at least it was funny. I got the idea from Eric and Kabuterimon, weirdos." Rapidmon panted. Imperialdramon raised his eyes to look at the ultimate and didn't even glare. He just raised his fist and-
"Positron Laser!" The particle beam shot towards Rapidmon faster (if it was possible) than the rabbit could avoid. Rapidmon could only watch as the milliseconds passed by and the beam got closer and closer. Then it occurred to him.
"Rapidmon digivolve to… MegaGargomon!" Imperialdramon's eyes widened (even further than they had before) when he saw a blurry green digimon the same size as he deflecting the particle beam.
"How in Yggdrasil's name did you do that!?" Imperialdramon boomed, much to the discomfort of the digimon on the ground level (who had finally started to recover).
"It just occurred to me that it was necessary to digivolve, and since Izzy's and my crest is the crest of knowledge, that's all I really needed." The giant stated as if it were obvious. MegaGargomon was, like Imperialdramon, essentially a giant animal humanoid (a cross between dog and rabbit instead of dragon) that was covered in armor (in MegaGargomon's case green). His feet and most of his legs were covered in green, three clawed armor boots, and his upper legs were covered in a white cloth. A green metal kilt with an eagle-like symbol on it hanging from a belt was strapped to his waist and covered most of his legs that the boots didn't. His arms were covered in huge black Gatling Guns, but now his hands were exposed and in green metal gloves. A green metal chest piece with a yellow smiley face on the part covering the stomach fit his form, and huge cylindrical shoulder pads faced forward (towards the same direction that he was facing) instead of side to side, and they also had yellow smiley faces painted on them. A twin-barreled black jet pack was strapped to the back of his chest plate and and a green spiked helmet covered all of his head but his snout, his eyes, and his ears, the latter of which were covered in green plates at their tips.
"Do you really think this will work for you?" Imperialdramon groaned.
"Let's find out: Mega Barrage!" Dozens of panels simultaneously opened all over MegaGargomon's body (much like MetalGarurumon) and fired a missile from every single one of them. Imperialdramon tried to jump out of the way, but their massive sizes made it virtually impossible for the monster to make a good distance between the two before the missiles bombarded him. Fortunately for Imperialdramon he was able to defend himself very well, and escaped the bombardment relatively unscathed. But much like his battle with BlackRapidmon, MegaGargomon wasn't going to give his opponent the opportunity to recover. "Power Pummel!" He immediately powered the rockets on his back and propelled himself forward so he could land a punch in the dragon's gut. Imperialdramon responded by flapping out of the way with his gust-forming bat wings. MegaGargomon then turned up his jet-pack to full speed and tried for a head butt against his foe. Imperialdramon was ready for him.
"Positron Laser!" Imperialdramon grabbed his laser arm wrist with his other hand to steady himself and blasted short bursts at the flying dog. MegaGargomon swerved difficultly (being at such a large size without the flexibility of being a bug like HerculesKabuterimon made moving a little difficult) to avoid all of the blasts, and then came in for another-
"Power Pummel!" He drove his gargantuan fist into Imperialdramon's face, and this time he succeeded. Imperialdramon was hit point blank by a barrel lined fist and was flipped over. This gave MegaGargomon the perfect opportunity to grab Imperialdramon by the ankles and begin a more effective attack. "Juggernaut Spin!" He began spinning rapidly while Imperialdramon was helplessly dragged along by the ankles. Imperialdramon tried to make himself less aerodynamic by stretching his wings out as far as possible, but by the time he was able to push them past the powerful wind resistance MegaGargomon was going at too high a speed for them to make a difference. Imperialdramon had to struggle not to puke as MegaGargomon began to rotate up the valley and towards a tall, snow capped mountain. "I hope you like hiking!" MegaGargomon joked as he finally released the digimon so that he rocketed right towards the mountain. "Oh, and just in case you don't, I brought you some snacks: Gargo Missile!" The two smiley faces on his shoulder pads, and in fact his shoulder pads themselves, weren't what they appeared to be. Immediately the two faces launched out of the circular tubes they had been resting in to reveal a pair of powerful missiles that blew towards Imperialdramon and collided with him just before he hit the mountain, which caused him to hit it faster and have to deal with pain from both sides.
"Did he just throw Imperialdramon into a mountain and hit him with two nuclear sized missiles at the same time?" MetalGarurumon tiredly asked as Sakuyamon and Ophanimon helped him to his weak and tired legs.
"Yes, I think he did." Sakuyamon replied in awe.
"What's the matter Blondie?" MegaGargomon chuckled. "Are you too tired to come out and play with me?"
"How am I blonde?" Imperialdramon grumbled as he pulled himself out of the indention he had made in the mountain.
"It's the crown. It gives the impression of hair."
"Oh. Should I be insulted by that?"
"No. You should be insulted by this: Mega Barrage!"
"Positron Laser!"
"Gargo Missile!"
"Giga Crusher!"
"Power Pummel!"
"V-Head Butt!"
"Gargo Laser!"
"Spiking Strike!"
Sakuyamon, Ophanimon, MetalGarurumon, Zudomon, and Tentomon watched from a distance (that was safe for their ears) the random battle that was ensuing up the valley. Imperialdramon launched attack after attack at MegaGargomon and vice versa for what could have been hours, and then they breathed heavily and landed on opposite ridges of the valley to stare each other down.
"Why are you so powerful?" Imperialdramon complained. "At least the others had a reason to lose. HerculesKabuterimon got an extra energy boost than normal, WarGreymon and Sakuyamon were already at our level, and the dark needle's influence on Joe was severed before Plesiomon could do any real damage. But you don't have any of those advantages!" The observers did not appreciate this outburst.
"You want to know why?" MegaGargomon smiled. "It's because yours is the crest of prudence, but you can't be prude, or efficient, or anything productive really if you want to digivolve to mega. So even though in reality you should be the most well trained digimon, you can't because you're evil and your crest won't work for you unless you do the opposite of what it wants you to do!"
"That's an interesting theory, but I think I'm going to chalk it up to blind luck: Positron Laser!"
"Gargo Laser!" Both the energy beam and the energy bullets collided with each other and refused to back down. Imperialdramon and MegaGargomon kept that pose for the next few minutes, neither one wanting to give in, even though they were both exhausted. Imperialdramon kept thinking about why Zoe was taking so long to get there with MetalSeadramon, and what Ken was doing about it. MegaGargomon kept thinking that if he could just hold out for a tiny bit longer than Imperialdramon, then he and his friends could escape and go find Agumon, Patamon, Tai, and T.K. Finally something happened that turned the tide of the battle, for better and worse.
"Lord Imperialdramon!" Two voices sounded in a panic as they flew through the air towards him. Both giants gave up the useless stalemate to see who had come. It was BlackWarGrowlmon and Doumon, the last of the Evil Partners. "Lord Imperialdramon, we heard the constant explosions and we thought you might need our help. Not that you can't do it yourself or anything-"
"Shut up and destroy that bastard!" Imperialdramon immediately ordered them. BlackWarGrowlmon and Doumon nodded, and then flew in between the two behemoths to continue the battle.
"Atomic Blaster!" BlackWarGrowlmon yelled to command his two cannons on his shoulder plate to fire.
"Jugonsatsu!" Doumon slipped a tag onto her brush and launched it at MegaGargomon. As he watched the three projectiles coming towards him, he knew he didn't have enough energy left but for one more move, so he decided to make it count.
"Mega Barrage!" Dozens of missile exploded from his body and obliterated, not just the projectiles coming towards him, not just Doumon and BlackWarGrowlmon, not just Imperialdramon (he wasn't obliterated so much as bombarded mercilessly to the point where it was hard for him to stand), but the entire landscape. As Terriermon fell to the ground and the smoke cleared, he could see not only the fading trails of the Evil Partners but that the entire half of the valley they had been fighting in was just barren earth and rock. He was too tired to think about how he would survive the fall, but fortunately he did not have to. Sakuyamon jumped into the sky and caught the little digimon before he had a painful collision with the earth. When she landed, Terriermon could see that Ophanimon, MetalGarurumon, and Zudomon where there as well, and that he was quickly taken out of Sakuyamon's arms by Tentomon and flown to where the digidestined were.
"It's over Imperialdramon," Sakuyamon ordered the giant monster; "You can't win here. We have more energy than you do right now, you'll collapse if you try and fight us any longer. Go back to Ken and tell him that we're not going to stand by idly and let the evil digidestined do any more damage than he's already done. This is no longer a resistance, this is a war."
"We'll, see, what I can, and cannot, do." He raised his arm and supported it with is other hand. "Positron…" He stood there for a second, breathing heavily. "Okay, I can't do it. You win." He dropped his arm and turned to his left. "Mode change to… Imperialdramon, Dragon mode!" The three digimon watched in awe as the dragon-warrior transformed himself into a full blown dragon that had the same wings weapons and armor that his previous form had, and then fly off into the sunset.
"Well that was interesting." Ophanimon commented.
"Terriermon!" Izzy cheered as Tentomon brought his partner back to him. Tentomon dropped the tired bunny-dog in the digidestined of knowledge's arms, and Izzy gave him a deep hug.
"I don't think I can take this much pain Izzy," Terriermon wheezed.
"Oh, sorry buddy," He released the poor digimon from his choke hold and allowed the monster to rest on his shoulder. "You did great today. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I didn't know you had it in you."
"I didn't know I had it in me either," Terriermon moaned tiredly as he began to slip off of his partner's shoulder. Izzy had to readjust the exhausted warrior. "It just came to me that I'm a digidestined, I should be able to do something cool." Izzy gave a satisfied laugh at his comment.
"You're just full of surprises aren't you little guy?" Rika smiled and scratched the top of Terriermon's head. "And apparently so are some other people." She gave a quick glance to Joe, but dropped the subject almost immediately.
"You know what I could go for," Terriermon murmured.
"What's that?" Izzy asked the rookie.
"A burger; I haven't had one of those since that feast back at that place where we came from. I wonder if it's inappropriate that I like burgers since I'm a rabbit, and rabbits are supposed to be vegetarians. I guess I'm part dog too so it doesn't matter." Terriermon kept rambling on about this for a while, and eventually it was so low and so incoherent that it didn't bother anybody. Instead, the six awaited the return of the four partner digimon who had just chased off Imperialdramon. Upon their return, MetalGarurumon, Zudomon, and Ophanimon degenerated into Gabumon, Gomamon, and Salamon, but Sakuyamon remained the same.
"Don't you ever get tired like that?" Kari inquired of the constant formed mega.
"Occasionally." She replied. "I'm due for a degeneration in a few months."
"So, what's next?" Izzy asked cheerily. "I vote we take a nap for the next fifty years."
"I still need to get this letter to SaberLeomon." Said Kumbhiramon. "I'd ask for an escort, but I don't think there's anyone for you to escort me from." He said while staring out into the burnt valley.
"To be on the safe side," Rika began, "Someone should go with you to his base. Look at all the trouble you caused last time you went all by yourself." She gave him an apologetic smile.
"Tai and T.K. are still in danger," Eric said to Kari, "We should all go back to the machine territory. Tentomon and I can lead the way."
"T.K.'s in danger!?" Matt yelled.
"That's a good idea." Rika added. "I'll take Kumbhiramon to his base, and you guys can go to the fringes of the machine territory. I'll meet you over there."
"What do you mean T.K.'s in danger!?" Matt lunged towards Eric calmly, but the boy slid out of the way so that Matt just sort of tumbled into the bushes.
"Will you be able to find us?" Kari inquired.
"Just stay on a straight path from here to the city territory," She said, "And make sure to stay on the edge of the territory itself on one of the bridges, and I'll find you. It should only take me a few hours to get Kumbhiramon to SaberLeomon's hideout."
"Good, so we don't have to be separated for long. Izzy, Matt, you guys don't mind travelling with Joe, do you?" Eric gave an innocent smile to the two.
"I promise you, he's a good guy now." Kari cheered. They heard Joe mumble something to himself that was probably self-depreciating, so they ignored it. Matt was still on his rant.
"Answer me Eric!" Matt got in the boy's face and refused to be ignored. "What do you mean T.K.'s in danger?"
"I'm ignoring your rant Matt because it's going to get us nowhere. Right now I promise you that he's safe, but I can't guarantee that he's happy, or even indifferent. In fact he and Tai are probably in some serious discomfort right now-" Matt tried to land a punch on the boy, but Eric immediately grabbed his fist and twisted it around his back so that Matt was indisposed. "That's why I said calm down, you get too emotional and then you start acting like an ass, and nobody likes you when you act like an ass."
"Don't worry Matt; we'll get him back safely." Izzy assured him. "We're almost all together now, and in bigger numbers," He eyeballed Joe, "So he'll be fine." Matt sighed and then released his tension. Eric let him go, and then Matt walked away, but not before shooting his leg backwards and hit Eric where the sun doesn't shine. Eric cried, doubled over in pain, and fell to the ground, prompting a big laugh from Rika.
"I hope you're happy," He said in a high pitched voice, "I don't think I'll ever be able to reproduce. Although that might be a good think, I have a grating personality."
"We should all get going." Matt suggested with a satisfied look on his face.
"Rika, Kumbhiramon, let's go." She grabbed the two passengers by the waist and they were off, over the mountains and towards the mysterious SaberLeomon's place.
"I don't suppose you can fly, can you Tentomon?" Eric winced as he got to his feet.
"About as well as you can walk." Tentomon groaned.
"I can get us to the city territory." Said Gomamon. "I know the way."
"I don't suppose you know where to get us some food and drink do you?" Izzy inquired.
"The water in the city territory is fresh water, and it's kept pretty clean despite all the factories." Joe explained. "We'll have to find some food while we're there though. Except for fish and berries, there's not a lot of food that the evil digidestined- I mean we- haven't harbored."
"You don't have to refer to yourself as evil anymore Joe." Kari patted the boy on the shoulder. "Besides, if you really want to redeem yourself than do what Matt did and stop being such a crybaby all the time."
"Hey!" The blond Japanese boy protested.
"Don't deny something that's true Matt," Izzy laughed a little, "And Kari's right." He walked up to Joe and held his hand out, prompting Joe to shake it. "You're free from the dark needle, which makes everything you've done, not your fault." Joe gave him a confused smile. "You're one of us Joe, and as far as I'm concerned, you always were."
"It's good to have you back ya big lug!" Matt gave the lanky boy a bear hug and caused him to wince.
"We haven't really known you before you turned evil," Gabumon walked up to Gomamon and said, "I hope we can still try to be good friends now that we're allies on the side of good."
"All I really did was swim in my pond and eat berries all day anyway," Gomamon laughed, "I'm sure I won't annoy you too much."
"Are you ready Gomamon?" Joe turned to look at his partner.
"Yep. Let's get this show on the road. Gomamon, warp digivolve to… Zudomon!" Joe, Matt, Kari, Eric, Izzy, Terriermon, Tentomon, Salamon, and Gabumon all piled onto Zudomon's enormous shell, and they then set off for the edge of the city territory (which, as they soon found out, did not take long since Zudomon ran very fast for a turtle-walrus). A few hours later Zudomon had released his cargo and were piling onto where the mountain terrain dropped off shortly to the fresh water river that was the city territory and where a huge metal bridge ejected out of the mountain side and raced across the water for miles. They set up camp at the connection (as it was nightfall) and settled in for a well deserved rest, when they began to see a light orange glow and a pillar of smoke farther down the bridge in the distance.
"Well that doesn't look good." Eric commented while pushing himself out of the dirt bed he had made. "You don't think that's where Tai is, do you?"
"That's where the city is where Kazu has his base of operations." Joe unfortunately answered.
"Crap."
"We have to go over there," Said Matt, "If Takeru and Tai are in that fire, they could be seriously hurt or even…"
"But what about Rika?" Asked Izzy. "She's really the only one of us who has a partner with enough strength to do anything in there right now."
"I have enough strength to fight Andromon right now." Salamon proposed.
"And I can help." Gabumon added.
"Um, I don't think you guys understand exactly how powerful Machinedramon is." Joe warned.
"It doesn't matter," Said Eric, "Tai, T.K., and their partners are in the middle of that, and we can't abandon them."
"Let's go." Matt said with determination, and then set to running down the metal walkway. The other digidestined filed after him.
