Simon Chapter 23—Dragon slaying—

I then left the agency and called Nokia. In a few moments, I heard her say: "Hello?" "Hi Nokia. It's Simon calling." I said. "Hi Simon! Um… what's with your tone, though? You sound tense…" Nokia said. "…It's nothing. Don't worry about it." I said back. "Hmm… alright. So what were you calling about?" Nokia asked. "Yuuko and I recently worked together to cut off a special power source the Royal Knights are using to strengthen Examon. Now that it's offline, Examon is going to be vulnerable, and we were planning to launch an attack on him. Could you please ask Omnimon to contact our Royal Knight allies to see when they could attack Examon?" I asked. "Leave it to me! As soon as we have an answer, I'll let you know!" Nokia said. "Great. Thank you, Nokia." I said. "Sure! I'll talk to you soon!" Nokia said.

We then said goodbye and hung up. As long as I had some free time, I decided to go to the Digilab and see if I could digivolve any of my Digimon to prepare for the upcoming battle. I then went to the fourth floor and logged into the Digilab. When I arrived, I greeted Mirei and checked the digivolution terminal to see if anyone could digivolve… and saw that Larry, Pepper and Jason all could!

I then rounded everyone up and brought them into the Digilab. When they were all there, Arthur said: "Looks like someone's digivolving again, huh?" I smiled and said: "Exactly right, Arthur! This time it's Larry, Pepper and Jason!" Jason then reared up and said: "Alright! Now that's something to be excited about!" "Yeah! We're finally going to be mega Digimon, at last!" Pepper said. Even Larry grinned and I said: "I'm glad you're all excited." And then I turned to Larry and said: "So Larry, are you all ready to go?" "You bet." He said back.

I then digivolved him into a Titamon—when the process finished, he was humanoid and still walked on two legs. He was muscular and had green skin on his upper body with green shoulder armor (and of almost exactly the same color, which made it hard to tell apart) that had orange stripes and hollowed empty spots like eyes, as well as three spikes on them. His arms were massive and he had yellow, spiky forearm guards on them with black segments on them—he even had a sword in his left hand that was almost as tall as he was! He had a yellow tasset around his waist and more green leg armor with orange stripes on it. He had yellow and green greaves and spiky yellow boots. He had a yellow helmet with two sets of yellow horns that had orange stripes, one set in front and one set in back (the set in back was much taller) and had gray dreadlocks. He was ridiculously tall at 12'10 tall.

I then said: "Alright! Congratulations Larry! Now you've really reached a new level, in height and power!" "Yup—it's thrilling to be at the top, at last!" Larry said. "Finally, some enthusiasm! That's an improvement for you." Scott teased. We all then laughed as Larry grinned and lightly slapped Scott behind the head before he went back to the group.

Pepper then came forward and said: "I'm all ready to go, Simon! Make it happen!" I smiled and said: "You got it! You'll be a mega Digimon in no time!" and then I digivolved Pepper into a WarGreymon, like Nokia's Omnimon used to be. When the process ended, I said: "And now you've made it to the mega level, Pepper! Great job!" Pepper then smiled and said: "Thanks, Simon. Now I can really keep all of you safe from anything that comes our way!" Elena then grinned and said: "Ha ha… how like you, Pepper. But you've been doing a great job already." Pepper then turned to her and smiled before he said: "Thanks, Elena. I'm glad everyone thinks so! And I'll keep it up! Just leave it to me!" He then went off with the others.

Jason then came up and said: "And it looks like I'm wrapping this up! So let's get started—I know it'll be worth the wait!" I smiled and said: "You're absolutely right, Jason! Now it's time to reap the results of your training!" and I digivolved him into a Kentaurosmon, like the one we were looking for—he was a centaur-like Digimon who walked on six legs. His midsection on the lower, horse-like part of his body was gray and had a black and yellow saddle. His legs had red and blue armor with gold rings above his black hooves and he had a long, white tail. On his humanoid upper body, he wore a white cloth and a red, animal-shaped breastplate like a face with green eyes, a gold muzzle and a purple nose. He also wore a black belt. He had gray shoulders with gold antler-like objects coming out of the backs of them and a gray neck. His face was gray and red and he had a purplish-pink mane. His arms had black and red armor and he had a crossbow bound to his right arm and held an enormous, red and blue shield (with two eye-like patterns painted on) in his left arm. He looked 8'11 tall.

When the process ended, I said: "And now you're a mega Digimon too! Congratulations, Jason!" "Yeah. It looks like I ended up digivolving into another Digimon that's a species of a member of the Royal Knights too… it's quite an honor to even be a lookalike, but I'll do everything I can to live up to it!" Jason said. When I heard this, I smiled and said: "I know you will, Jason! You'll be a better Kentaurosmon than even the Royal Knight!" Jason then smiled and said: "Thanks, Simon. It's just like you to say something like that… you've always been such an amazing tamer to us. I'll give it my all then!" and then he went over to the others.

When everything wrapped up, I added Jason, Zephyr, Sabrina, Daisy, Arthur, Scott, Larry, Elena and Gil to my phone (leaving Pepper and Eustace in the farm island) and left the Digilab. As soon as I did though, I got a phone call! I checked and saw Nokia was calling, so I picked it up and said: "Hello?" and Nokia said: "Simon, Simon, listen to this! Omnimon asked the other Royal Knights, and they said they can all be ready as early as tonight! Does that work for you?" "You bet it does! I'll just tell Yuuko and we'll be there!" I said. "Great! Omnimon and I will be coming too, so see you tonight!" Nokia said. "Sure. See you then, Nokia!" I said.

We then hung up. To be honest, I wasn't really looking forward to calling Yuuko after what had happened, but I knew I had a responsibility to do so… I then called Yuuko and… she didn't answer. I left a message telling her the attack on Examon would be tonight and she could come to Odaiba to join in if she wanted. After that, I trained for a few hours until I departed for Odaiba…

When I arrived, I saw the area had suffered serious damage… overpasses and buildings had been wrecked and flaming wreckage was everywhere! It looks like it doesn't pay to live near where Examon had taken up residence… I then called out Zephyr, Sabrina and Scott and when I did, Scott looked around and said: "Whoa! This place has taken a pounding…" Zephyr looked around sadly and said: "It is tragic… to see so much destruction having taken place…" "I know how you feel… we can't let it get us down, though." Sabrina said. She then turned to me and said: "Looks like we've arrived in Odaiba, huh?" "That's right. We're going to have to fight Examon soon, so stay sharp." I said. Everyone nodded and then we got moving.

We then moved through the area, until we came up to a giant building and we could see a gigantic dragon Digimon at the top… the fact that it was visible from all the way down here was incredible! "Oh my god…! What is that thing?!" I asked. "That's him! That's Examon!" Scott said. "Ugh… fighting a Digimon that size isn't going to be easy by any stretch…" I said. "At least we have our allies on the way. Let's go!" Sabrina said. I nodded and we climbed to the top.

When we arrived on the top floor, Examon was directly in front of us! He was a humanoid dragon with red skin, a silver underbelly, silver spikes on his shoulders and he had two long silver horns on his head with yellow tips. He also had a red tail with a silver underside and spikes all the way down it and his back. He also had three spikes coming horizontally out of his cheeks on either side and a silver and yellow nose tusk with two red spots on it, as well as an upside-down silver tusk coming out of his chin, like a goatee. He had three claws on each hand and feet that were silver and had yellow tips, four giant maroon wings and held an odd weapon, which looked like a lance and a rifle in one… He looked like he was worn out though… I took advantage of the opportunity to get behind the stairwell we had come out of and when I did, I looked around, but didn't see anyone else here! I guess we must have gotten here first…

We then waited for everyone else. Nothing happened for a bit, but soon I heard Nokia's voice… she said: "Yikes! That's Examon?" and then Omnimon hiss: "Shh! Don't draw his attention!" I then got near the side and peeked my head around the corner as I said: "Psst!" and Nokia and Omnimon turned to me. I then gestured for them to come over and they immediately did so. When they arrived, Nokia whispered: "It doesn't look like anyone else has shown up yet, huh?" "No… we're just going to have to wait…" I said.

We then waited and soon Yuuko came, followed by our Royal Knight allies. When they all arrived, Magnamon said: "It looks like the whole team's here, huh? Even so, this is going to be one heck of a fight…" "Right! We'll have to steel ourselves for one heck of a battle." Gallantmon said. Gankoomon then turned to me and said: "Where's Jesmon?" "He's with me—he's just in my phone right now." I replied. "Ah, good. I'm glad you gave him the chance to be here. Now let's see…" Gankoomon began before he went on: "For a battle like this, we should attack from all sides. Seeing as how I can't float or fly, I will assist you on the frontlines." Then he turned to Omnimon, Magnamon and Gallantmon and said: "Magnamon, Gallantmon, Omnimon, can you attack him from the air?" "Of course I can!" Magnamon said. "I can too. You needn't worry—I'll get the job done." Gallantmon said. "I only take orders from Nokia." Omnimon said. He then turned to her and said: "What do you think? Should I provide support from behind the lines?" "Sure! I know you'll do great Omnimon!" Nokia said. Omnimon grinned and then Gankoomon said: "It looks like we have our plan." "Right. So to summarize, Yuuko, Gankoomon and I will be attacking from the front, while Omnimon, Gallantmon and Magnamon will be attacking from behind him." I said. We all nodded and I said: "Alright then. Time to charge, everyone!"

Yuuko, Gankoomon and I then ran up to Examon (and Omnimon, Gallantmon and Magnamon flew around Examon) and then Yuuko said: "Machinedramon, start us off!" and Machinedramon said: "Nanomachine break 3!" and shocked Examon with electricity! Examon then recoiled and looked at us before he said: "You'd dare to attack me, hmm? You'd better be ready for the consequences!" and then I felt my phone vibrate. I took it out and it said: "Examon scan data: ERROR." But it did say Examon was a data type Digimon, so I called back Sabrina and Zephyr and sent out Larry and Gil and said: "Scott, attack with lightning joust! Larry, Gil, use comet hammer 3 and wind claw 3!" Scott then said: "Lightning joust!" and rammed into Examon with his lance! Larry then said: "Comet hammer 3!" and made boulders come falling down on Examon! Gil then said: "Wind claw 3!" and he flew over and raked Examon with his claws. Examon then said: "Attack charge!" and boosted his damage output with non-magic attacks. Gankoomon then said: "Attack charge field!" and boosted everyone on our side's damage output with non-magic attacks.

Examon then said: "Gale storm 3!" and used a windstorm to attack all of our Digimon! I then said: "Alright everyone, attack the same way again!" and they all repeated their last actions. Gankoomon then said: "Quake! Blast! Fire! Father!" and stomped his foot down before a giant yellow-colored, serpent-like dragon appeared behind him and they attacked Examon together! As the serpent vanished, Yuuko said: "Machinedramon, use nanomachine break 3 again!" and he did so.

Examon then said: "Critical charge!" and he cast a spell to make it easier to identify our team's weak points. "Machinedramon, attack with nanomachine break 3 again!" Yuuko said. And he did so. I then said: "Scott, use lightning joust! Gil, use wind claw 3! Larry, use acceleration boost!" and Scott and Gil attacked with them again while Larry said: "Acceleration boost!" and prepared to really strengthen his next attack. Gankoomon then said: "I think I'll take a page from your book! Acceleration boost!" and prepared to really strengthen his next attack.

Yuuko then had Machinedramon use nanomachine break 3 again while Gankoomon said: "Quake! Blast! Fire! Father!" and attacked with the yellow serpent-like dragon again. I then said: "Alright, let him have it! Lightning joust, wind claw 3 and soul core attack!" and Scott said: "Lightning joust!" and attacked Examon with it before Gil said: "Wind claw 3!" and he hit Examon with it too. Larry then said: "Soul core attack!" and ran up to Examon and slashed at him with his giant sword! Examon howled in pain after he was hit and then looked furious as he said: "Dragonic impact!" and he flew in a circle before he came back and smashed into our Digimon! They all took it okay, but when he flew back, I saw Scott, Gil and Larry get sent back to my phone! "What? Guys?!" I said. Before I could do anything though, Jason, Sabrina and Elena were all automatically called out!

"What the…?" I said and then Gankoomon said: "Ah, that's one of Examon's nastier tricks. If you have more Digimon than are currently out, he'll hit all the ones you have out and then forcibly switch them for you. Don't worry about your other Digimon—they're okay, they're just no longer out, that's all." But then Examon said: "Gale storm 3!" and caused another windstorm! Jason took it the hardest and then I said: "Jason, heal Gankoomon! Use final heal! Sabrina, use amethyst mandala! Elena, get him with fist of Athena!" and then Jason said: "Final heal!" and restored Gankoomon's health. Gankoomon then said: "Thank you for that." And Sabrina said: "Amethyst mandala!" and she swung her staff around before a magic circle formed on the ground beneath her and flower petals went flying into the air as a dome of energy formed around her and shot outward! Examon looked mad after he took the hit (doubtlessly because it got rid of his attack boost) and then Elena ran up and leapt at Examon as she said: "Fist of Athena!" and hit him with a forceful punch and flipped backward back onto the building as he recoiled. Machinedramon then said: "Nanomachine break 3!" and shocked Examon again. Gankoomon then said: "Acceleration boost!" and prepared to really strengthen his next attack!

Examon then flew in a circle again and came back at us as he said: "Dragonic impact!" and smashed into our Digimon again and once again, mine got switched out… this time Daisy, Arthur and Larry all got called out! When Arthur saw Gankoomon, he said: "Ah, Gankoomon! So good to see you out in the field again—" and then Gankoomon said: "Stay focused, my former apprentice! This is no time for you to be socializing!" Arthur then turned and eyed Examon before he said: "…Indeed." And then he said: "Attack charge field!" and strengthened everyone! Yuuko then said: "Machinedramon, use nanomachine break 3!" and Machinedramon did so before Gankoomon said: "Quake! Blast! Fire! Father!" and attacked Examon with the yellow serpent-like dragon again. I then said: "Daisy, Larry! Use thorn whip and soul core attack!" and Daisy said: "Thorn whip!" and lashed Examon from the building before Examon recoiled and his hand fell on the building. Larry then ran up to it and said: "Soul core attack!" and slashed at it! Examon then roared out and fell backwards!

We ran forward to the edge of the building (and Magnamon, Gallantmon and Omnimon all flew over) to see him fall what must have been hundreds of feet into the bay… Examon then fell straight in (causing a colossal splash) and floated back up, but he wasn't moving right now… he then started to fade away as Nokia said: "Looks like he's down and out! Way to go team!" "Right! A job well done, everyone! There aren't that many Royal Knights left who are against us, either!" Magnamon said. "Exactly. Now it should be down to only a handful of Royal Knights left who oppose us. If we're lucky, this may wrap up soon." Gallantmon said. "Yup! We'll be working hard to make that happen." Nokia said.

"Right. That being said, it looks like we're done here. Thank you for coming, Magnamon, Gallantmon and Gankoomon. This was a lot easier with your help." I said. "Think nothing of it! It was a pleasure to help out." Gankoomon said. "Be sure to call us again for the next attack, okay? We're happy to help!" Magnamon said. I grinned and said: "We'll do that. Thanks!" I then turned to Nokia, Omnimon and Yuuko before I said: "And thank you as well, Nokia, Omnimon and Yuuko—you all were equally helpful in this battle." Nokia smiled and nodded while Yuuko looked a little relieved before she nodded. Our Royal Knight allies then went off, while Nokia, Yuuko and I went to report our success to Kyoko.

Once we returned to Nakano, we entered Kyoko's office and she looked up before she said: "Ah, welcome back! So how did the attack on Examon go?" "It was a complete success! Examon's no more, because of our teamwork!" Nokia said. "That's excellent! With his level of power, you should all be proud for bringing him down!" Kyoko said. We grinned as she went on: "Well then… with Craniamon and now Examon out, all that leaves is Leopardmon, Crusadermon, Dynasmon and Kentaurosmon. That being said, I suppose we should finish what we started and see if we can get Kentaurosmon on our side." "Alright then. Leave it to us, Kyoko." I said. She nodded and said: "Good. Make sure you get some rest before you go off, though—you'll need it after fighting a Digimon like Examon." "Sounds good to me. I'll go do that then. Bye, everyone." Yuuko said. "Bye Yuuko!" Nokia said as Yuuko left. Nokia then went on: "Well, I should be going too. See ya, Simon, Kyoko!" and she left.

I then turned to Kyoko and said: "I think I'll take a break too…" and Kyoko said: "I'm glad to hear that, especially with you running all over the place and with all the stress you had to endure recently. Be sure to recover properly, Simon." I smiled and said: "Thanks, Kyoko. I hope you do too." "Don't worry about me, Simon—as exciting as my job is, I'm always careful to pace myself." Kyoko said. We then smiled and I took it easy for the rest of the day.