(Opening Fly-away by back on)
Ash and Dorumon were looking at the sky from a cliff when the wind blow his hat with his goggles attached to it and ran to get it.
saa ryoute hiroge ano kumo o koete
Ash and Dorumon were trying together to get it and 9 other humans and Digimon join them.
niji no aachi kugutte mezasu basho e fly away
Ash, Dorumon and everyone ran through some trees before bursting out with the title going 'The Digital Adventure'!
(mukaikaze datte dekai kabe datte
oikaze matotte mezasu basho e)
Ash and Dorumon land and turned to see everyone looking ready for what's to come.
kimi ga soba ni iru kara
Ash and Dorumon were up top on a tree looking to the distance looking for his hat and goggles, the camera moved to Paul leading on a tree with his hands in his pockets and looking to the sky while BlackGabumon was right next to him.
I held you hand cuz you said
"Take you to the shining place from a maze"
Ritchie walking as Patamon flew next to him and Serena and Salamon walked with them while Barry was helping Falcomon pull an apple off a tree and when it came out it made both of them fall to the ground while Zoey catch it with Lalamon floating next to her and she laughed.
kimi o shinjite tsukanda sono te atatakakute
mitsumeru sono me ni kumori wa nakute
Gary was speaking with Gaomon with a small portable laptop in his hands while Dawn was watching Lunamon play in the water.
kodoku o tsumikasaneta omoi ga kareta daichi ni otoshita namida
hitotsubu no shizuku ga hirogatte iro toridori no hana o sakashite'ku
Red was laying down on the ground with Bearmon while Leaf was looking down on him with FanBeemon flying next to her.
tsuyogari no naifu o furimawashite
Suddenly the sky darkened making everyone get together as several Digimon surround them and a devil like figure float down and grins evilly.
kizutsukete kizutsuite kurayami de sakende'ta
The humans pulled out their Digivices and they glowed and so did the Digimon as their forms changed and flashed.
ima hikari terasu ano sora no hate e
Ash was flying on Dorugamon who fired his Iron ball, Paul riding on top of BlackGarurumon who fires blue fire, Barry riding on Peckmon who shoots kunai shaped feathers, Lekismon jumps over Dawn and fires a beautiful ice arrow.
kimi no te o tsukande hanasanai you ni
Gary rides on Gaogamon and he unleashes a spiral blow, Red rides on Grizzmon with Leaf behind him and Grizzmon jumps and it's paw glows and slashes down, Waspmon flies past Leaf and fires from it's stinger, Sunflowmon shoots a beam of light from it's head with Zoey watching and Serena next to her with Gatomon jumping up and punches at an enemy.
fly away
Ritchie looks on as Angemon flies down in front of him and Fires a beam of holy energy at the screen making the scene change to everyone falling into a dark place with the Digimon back in their child forms.
(mukaikaze datte dekai kabe datte
oikaze matotte mezasu basho e)
The dark place changes into light, and you see a human wearing a robe with the hood covering his face and only had one eye showing and with him was a Cyberdramon, Paul's older Brother Reggie with Wizardmon, May with Kudamon and Max with Terriermon, Gankoomon with Hackmon and the three Sistermon as the group reaching down.
boku ga soba ni iru kara
Ash picks up his hat and puts it on and looks at the screen with Dorumon, The team and the other mentionables.
(Opening Fly-away by back on ends)
King of Fists! GrapLeomon! Shows silhouette of GrapLeomon.
"Just a bit more and...done," Ash nodded. "Took us a while, but it looks like we finally managed to finish these."
"Finish what?" Barry asked, looking up from where he was sharpening his Katana blade.
"I was curious about the blueprints that went behind our bags, and after pleading to Ash for the secret, he finally shared it, and thanks to that, we were able to improve it." Gary said as he held up his bag.
"And we made a few extra improvements to all our bags!" Zoey said as she started handing everybody their bags and was happy she knew the secret of how Ash made them.
"It's a little project we started working on after we reached Server, just so we all can carry some extra stuff in case we need to, smaller pouches for smaller things" Ash explained.
"Well, that will certainly be convenient in case any of you ever end up separated." Wizardmon said as he looked at the bags.
"After our last incident, yeah. It'll definitely pay for all of us to have this." Dawn nodded while Ash and Red started dividing the supplies between everyone.
Once the task was done, everyone had new and improved bags on their backs and hips, full of supplies, including some of the things they had in the bags when entering the Digital World. "So how far are we from the Crests of Hope and Light again?" Ritchie asked.
"We shouldn't be too far. In fact, the first landmark should be coming up. Its one of Etemon's Network Terminals," Wizardmon explained.
"One of his Terminals, huh?" Gary mused.
"Do you have something in mind?" Paul asked.
"I just might. Think we could make a quick stop?" Gary asked.
"No problem," Red said, flashing a thumbs up.
Minutes later found the group crowding around one of the large boxes that served as the terminals for the Dark Network, Gary tapping away at his laptop, before pulling out a cable from the terminal and plugging it in. "Let's see what kind of information we can get out of him." he mused as he downloaded information he knew would be the least guarded. After a few moments... "Wow...his security is almost non-existent," Gary blinked at how easily he was downloading information. However, as he did, he noticed a mail icon appear on his laptop. "Hm?" he blinked, and out of curiosity, pressed it. What he got... "Everyone, you may what to see this."
"What is it?" Gaomon asked as he looked up and looked over hos shoulder. "Help me?"
"Someone needs help?" Dorumon asked as he hoisted himself up a bit and looked over from the edge of the network box.
"Come and save me, I am a prisoner of Etemon, I will help you find the Crests in exchange." Red read aloud, raising his eyebrow "Well that sounds suspicious."
"They have coordinates in the message as well." Ritchie pointed out to a lower line in the mail.
Wizardmon looked at them closely "That... matches the location of the Crest of Light." he said, blinking in surprise. "...okay scratch that. Its CLOSE to where the Crest is, but not quite there," he amended after looking closer. "However, that's well into Etemon's territory. I believe that's where the core of his Dark Network is located."
"Well, I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. Though I was hoping we would have ALL the crests before challenging him." Paul said with a frown.
"I'm sure we'll be fine Paul." BlackGabumon said, trying to reassure him.
"Does the message have anything else?" Barry asked as he tried to look over as well.
"Their's a program as well, but besides that, nothing else." Gary said looking over everything.
"This thing reeks of a trap honestly." Ash said with a frown.
"Tell me about it, it's almost like it's got a big neon sign that says 'Come over here so I can kill you!'" Serena added.
"For once the analogy makes sense." Salamon agreed with a nod.
"But considering the information they sent us is correct, they could be helpful." Leaf mused.
"And we would have them outnumbered if things go south." FanBeemon added.
"So...do we go for it? or do we ignore them?" Patamon asked.
"That's a good question," Dorumon frowned.
"Maybe...we should go for it," Dawn suggested. "I mean, we've gotten this far, and we ARE going that way so we might as well. Besides, we can take them. we DO have an active crest now."
"Yeah! We can kick their butts!" Lunamon agreed.
"Well...alright," Ash nodded slowly. "Since we ARE going that way, we might as well see what is about I suppose. Any objectives?"
Nobody had any real reason to refuse.
"Right then, we'll check on this as soon as we retrieve the Crests of Hope and Light," Wizardmon nodded.
With that said, everyone got back in the RV and started heading in the direction of the Crests, eventually a canyon area with the RV having some slight trouble in maneuvering through, but they managed to reach their destination nonetheless, getting out of the RV to continue on foot.
As they walked, they were mostly confined to a straight path, until Ritchie's Tag started glowing "Well, I guess this confirms it's going to be my Crest." he said, before they followed the glow of his tag.
"Ritchie, over here!" Patamon said as he suddenly turned a corner. Following him, they saw a large slab of rock with a symbol of it, one that seem like a ray of light coming down from the heavens.
The slab started to glow a yellow color before shrinking down, and floating over to set itself into his Tag.
"8 down, only 2 to go." Ash said, before everyone looked on in surprise as Serena's Tag started to glow, but there didn't seem to be anything obvious around.
"That's strange." Wizardmon said. "The Crest of Light is suppose to be hidden deep in Etemon's territory, yet we are still a few hours away from that."
"Strange, perhaps this is some sort of shortcut?" Gary wondered as they stepped into the tunnel, the only light being the one coming in from outside.
"Hey, are these the same symbols from Centarumon's ruins?" FanBeemon noticed as she looked at the walls.
"Huh, so this is the stuff you're always analyzing?" Falcomon asked as he looked at some of the coding on the wall.
"Yes, I'm positive that with these we can learn far more about this world, how it came to be, and possibly even how its connected to our world," Gary nodded as he began deciphering. However, as he worked, his eyes widened. "This is...!"
"Something wrong?" Gaomon asked.
He shook his head. "No...just, watch." he said, touching a few keys while also rubbing off one of the symbols, causing them to blink when lights came on in the tunnel, and then a holographic map appeared.
"Whoa...what is that?" Zoey asked in awe.
"A map of the Digital World, it's gigantic from what I can see, but, if I do this..." he said, hitting another key, causing the map to wrap around itself a bit until it was a globe "We can get a better scale of things."
"Wow, it looks as big as Earth." Red noticed.
"And that brings me to my next point." Gary said, hitting a few more keys, making several lines appear on the globe of the Digital World, "This is the Digital World's network, and this..." he trailed off, making another globe appear, this one having fewer continents. "Is Earth, as well as it's network." he said, the lines appearing a second later.
"Ok... where is this going?" Dawn asked with a raised eyebrow, knowing there was a point to this, but she didn't know what that was.
In response, Gary hit a key, and the two maps overlaid one over the other, and at least some of the lines over the Digital World matched with all from Earth as they became highlighted "Earth's network makes up some of the Digital World's own."
"Then... where's the other parts?" Barry asked, already feeling like this was a big revelation, even though he didn't understand it.
Ash looked the map closely "I...may have a theory." he said, before looking to Gary and holding out his hand. "May I?" he asked, and he passed him his laptop, looking it over a little before starting to tap away, though he was going more slowly than he was.
Eventually, a few other maps appeared around the two overlaid ones, these looked familiar to everyone. "These are other Earth's." he explained to the questioning looks, before tapping away a little more as the network lines appeared on them "And I think it's the answer we're looking for." he finished, before the maps of the other Earth's were added... and and all the network lines matched up now, the ones from the other Earth's were highlighted in blue.
"Wait...so the networks of all these worlds make up the one in the Digital World, their are other Earth's with people most likely doing the same thing as we are." Red said with confusion as he looked at the sight.
"What does that mean then?" Bearmon asked.
"It means the Digital World exists between all these other Earths, created from their overlapping shadows in a sense, maybe different dimensions." Gary answered simply.
His response from the others was a stunned silence for a good while, all of them trying to wrap their heads around the information of knowing that their could be multiple worlds just like their own, until finally, Red broke the silence.
"...do you think that's why?" Red blinked.
"Why what?" Barry asked.
"Why that battle happened between Dorugamon and that other Digimon 6 years ago," Red clarified.
"That...makes a lot of sense actually," Paul mused. "If the worlds really ARE connected in some way, maybe that's how it was possible."
"Maybe that's why Dorumon and that Digimon were able to get to Earth without much hassle then." Ash realized.
"Yeah, thinking about it, it sounds like Dorumon got to our world pretty easy, even though traveling between worlds should probably be harder than that." Zoey said with a nod.
"Still...at least now we know for sure that there's a connection. When there's a connection, there should be a way to get from to the other," Gary nodded.
"The let's keep on hoping we manage to find that way back." Dawn said, crossing her arms as she sighed a bit.
"I'm sure we'll manage." Lunamon reassured with a smile, earning a grateful nod from her partner.
"And not just that," Serena added, holding up her Tag. It was glowing brighter. "We're getting closer to my Crest!"
"Looks like its at the end of this tunnel," Salamon noticed.
"All that's there is a wall though." BlackGabumon noticed.
"And it isn't one that has an obvious Crest on it." Falcomon added.
"Only one way to find out I guess," Leaf mused. "Serena, try holding out your Tag up to the wall."
"Got it." Serena nodded, moving up to the wall, and holding her Tag in front of it. She stayed like that for a few moments, before moving away from it and pouting, "Stupid wall."
"Maybe this is what the program this mysterious person sent is for?" Gaomon said, looking up at Gary.
"I think it just may be yes." he said with a nod, before running said program, and a moment later, the wall at the end tunnel faded away... revealing another wall, this one with an image that looked like a flower shaped crystal. Reacting to the Tag, it glowed pink, and soon shrunk down and inserted itself into Serena's Tag.
"That's 9 down, only one to go," Zoey grinned.
"Yes, only the Crest of Honesty remains," Wizardmon nodded, looking at Dawn.
"R-right, guess mine's the only one left." Dawn said, though if one looked closely she wasn't meeting his gaze.
"Looks like the path is open as well." Ash said as they went up to the newly opened exit, peering out of it... and gaping at the sight off to the left.
"Ok... who mentioned an upside down pyramid again?" Ritchie muttered incredulously.
"Dawn did." Patamon answered as they all looked at the huge, and very much upside down pyramid.
"Dear God, I was freaking joking." Dawn said in a bit of annoyance.
"Well...look at it this way. At least we didn't tempt the universe with something worse..." Dorumon said. Right as he said that, they heard a familiar horn, and there was Etemon's trailer. "...shutting up now..." he said, while Ash patted his back.
"Hm...this is interesting..." Wizardmon mused.
"Why is that?" Leaf asked.
"Etemon doesn't usually come around here. Perhaps something is wrong with the Dark Network. This IS where the core is. Hm...maybe that's why we haven't heard from him for a while. If his network is having a glitch, he wouldn't be able to find us," Wizardmon said...then started to ramble.
"So...is that a good thing or a bad thing?" FanBeemon asked.
"Considering whoever sent us the message is in that Pyramid...I think its bad," Gary sighed...until he noticed something else. "Hm?"
"What is it?" Lalamon asked.
"Our mysterious prisoner of Etemon's just sent me coordinates for a secret passage into the pyramid." Gary answered as he looked at the new information.
"This looks more and more like a trap honestly." Ash said with a frown.
"Maybe they're just using us to get free." Barry said, trying to think of any good reasons for this mysterious being to be so helpful.
"That's... a very good point." Paul nodded.
"So should we help them or just ignore them then?" BlackGabumon asked.
"Normally, I'd consider ignoring them, but we can't forget one VERY important detail," Ritchie pointed out. "They claim to have information on the Crest of Honesty. We can't exactly ignore that on the hope that it's a bluff."
"I think it may be worse than that actually." Wizardmon said, looking at the pyramid with narrowed eyes. "from what we've been able to figure out, the Crest would be somewhere in that pyramid, so it's possible that when they say information, they outright have the Crest itself."
"Damn...guess we don't have a choice then..." Bearmon groaned.
"Looks like it," Red sighed. "Okay, so how do we do this then?" Frontal assault or scouting?"
"Scouting," Ash said. "Assuming whoever this guy is is just aiming to use us, it'd be bad if we all went in. We should split up into two teams. One team scouts the Pyramid, while the other team hangs back, and if things get hairy, they come to the rescue. How's that sound?"
"Pretty good plan if you ask me." Zoey agreed with a nod.
"Whoever is on rescue duty better be fast at least." Serena pointed out.
"Right, that's why I was thinking that at least you, Leaf and Paul should be on that duty, Salamon, FanBeemon and BlackGabumon have the fastest Adult forms after all." Ash said, earning nods all around.
"We'll stay out as well, Angemon would be good for a distraction." Ritchie suggested.
"Right, in case Etemon needs to be drawn out. That's why I was going to propose that I hang back for this one, what with Dorumon having hit the Perfect Level, we'd be able to hold him off more easily." Ash reasoned.
"It's a sound idea, so, I guess the rest of us are going in?" Barry asked.
"Yeah, Gary is a given considering you'll need tech support, Dawn because this is her Crest we're getting, Red on the hopes that his silent attitude could help out in this place, Zoey because she carries supplies just in case, and you for any tactics they may need," Ash explained himself, and the others couldn't argue the logic.
"Right, so do we do this now, or...?" Barry trailed off.
"No, we'll do this tomorrow morning, not only does this let us be rested enough for it, but it also gives us a chance to catch them off guard as some of them are bound to be just waking up." Ash said as he shook his head.
"Right," everyone nodded.
"Specking of which, I'd like to volunteer to join the scouting group," Wizardmon said "I may not be the strongest, but my magic should be able to either buy us some time if not help escape."
"Right, that sounds like it'd be a big help," Zoey nodded.
"Alright then. Get some rest everyone. We've got a long day ahead of us," Ash said as they retreated back to the other side of the tunnel, back to the RV, with a campfire between the RV and the tunnel entrance.
Red yawned a bit as he and Bearmon kept watch. Big day or not, they needed to maintain night watches, lest the possibility of some evil Digimon catching them off guard. "Looks like our shift will be over soon," he mused...idly noticed Bearmon had fallen asleep in front of the fire, if the way his head was slumped was any indication. Despite himself he chuckled a little. "Guess you were more tired than I thought."
Just as he finished that statement, he noticed the RV door opening, and out came Dawn and Lunamon. "It's our turn to keep watch," Dawn said, though he also noticed it lacked her usual energy. Heck, she'd been a bit out of it all day really, especially after they figured out the final Crest was hers.
"Right thanks," Red nodded, getting down, while Lunamn went over to the fire. However, as Dawn was about to watch past him, he placed a hand on her shoulder. "You know you can talk to me, right?" he said, giving her an encouraging smile.
"Huh?" Dawn blinked. "I...I don't know what you're talking about," she said quickly.
"I'm not stupid Dawn." he said with a sigh. "I'd be a pretty crappy friend if I didn't notice how you react whenever we talk about your Crest."
She looked away at his words, staying silent.
"Dawn...you're mother just worries about you, that doesn't mean she doesn't love you, you can think like that." Red said having an idea why Dawn would be sad.
"How can I not though?" I put her through so much worry, I mostly make her mad most of the time." Dawn said, getting more glum by the second.
"You can't think like that," Red said suddenly, "I may not know what you're going through, but you can't let you're personally feeling get in the way of what you think is right, I'm sure you're more loves you more then anything, so try not to think like that until you find all the answers to this problem."
She looks at him for a good long moment, a bit at a loss of words, before eventually managing to smile, leaning into him as she gave him a hug. "Thanks...that... that does help a bit."
Red hugged back. "Just remember, even if things are hard, no matter what, you're not alone. You don't have to take it all by yourself. I'm here, so is Ash, Zoey, Lunamon, and everyone else."
She slowly nodded in the embrace, and after a few moments, they separated...and Red let out a small yawn." Sorry, I think I need to catch some shut eye too." he chuckled awkwardly.
She laughed a bit at the honesty "Right, go get some sleep then. I'll see you in the morning."
He nodded, before picking up Bearmon and into the RV to get some sleep.
The next morning saw everyone in position. Once everything was set, the scouting group made their way across the sand, using the dunes to stay out of sight, Wizardmon used some of his magic to give them some extra cover. "Okay, ready guys?" Barry whispered.
"Ready as we'll ever be," Lunamon said.
"Okay. On three. One...two...three," Red said, before they dashed across the sand and were soon pressed up against the Pyramid side.
"Alright, according to the data, the secret passage should be around...here," Gary said as he examined the side of the pyramid.
"I think you might wanna hurry in finding it," Dawn said a little urgently, before gesturing at the side, the group peeking out a little to see Etemon coming out og the Pyramid's main entrance, looking like he'd been up all night if the yawn was any indication. "The monkey's here."
"Right," Gary nodded. Unfortunately...
"Hm? Is someone there?" Etemon suddenly said, and didn't need to peek to know that he was coming their way.
"Hurry," they all whispered urgently, trying as best as they could to NOT give Etemon a reason to come faster.
Eventually Etemon rounded the corner and found...nothing. "Hm...was I hearing things?" he blinked, scratching the back of his head, turning around a little. Though when his back was turned, a hand came out of the wall, and promptly flipped him the bird, before pulling back in, right as he turned around. "I don't know why, but I feel like someone just insulted me," he frowned. "Ah whatever! I'm in a bad mood right now, so I'll go sing a song or something to make myself feel better!" he growled, doing a few punches before walking back to his trailer.
"That...was a little too close for comfort..." Gaomon sighed as they sagged against the walls of the hidden passage.
"Though...was that last bit REALLY necessary?" Gary asked, unimpressed at Red who was snickering slightly.
"Come on guys, TELL me that didn't feel good," he chuckled. Nobody could refute that, that was pretty funny.
"I certainly can't deny that, it's nice to poke fun at him." Wizardmon said, laughter evident in his voice.
"That's true," Falcomon chuckled. "Still, we should probably keep moving. Don't want him to come back and maybe find his way."
"Good point. We'd better get going then," Lunamon said. With that, the group continued down the passage, Gary consulting the data regularly to make sure they were on the right track. Along the way though, they found another translucent wall...and noticed a pair of Gazimon walking down the other side.
"Oh this is gonna be good." Bearmon muttered so low no one heard him as he rubbed his paws with a grin, before waiting for the Gazimon to pass the wall, as he ran out, quickly kicked one in the butt, and then ran back into the wall just as quickly. Unsurprisingly, the Gazimon started arguing...not that Bearmon had long to enjoy his little prank, as Red pulled him into a noogie.
"And what in God's name did you think you were doing?" Red frowned as he continued to lightly grind his fist on his partner's head.
"They freaking deserved it for being jerks to the Dorimon!" Bearmon whisper shouted.
"That may be, but that was incredibly reckless." Gaomon said with narrowed eyes and a frown. "What if they'd seen you?!"
"Well they didn't, right?" Bearmon defended.
"Well they could have," Barry sighed, before finally Red let him go.
"Just don't do it again. We don't want to attract unnecessary attention to ourselves," Red said.
"Right right." Bearmon shrugged.
The group continued on their way, eventually reaching a mildly intimidating sight.
"Maybe we should've prepared ourselves a bit more for this." Zoey said nervously as they looked up at the large electrified grid in front of them"
"Yes we should have." Gary said, looking back at his laptop and tapping away.
"So...what do we do now?" Red wondered.
"I guess the first thing to do would be see if their's a way around this thing." Barry said with a frown as he looked at the grid.
"That won't be necessary." Gary said "There's a part of the wall which is fake, just an illusion... right... here." he said, suddenly sticking his hand onto, and through the wall.
"Well, you don't see that everyday." Lalamon said, blinking in surprise.
"This is starting to get weird, even by our standards." Falcomon added.
"Yeah well, I'll take it over shock therapy," Barry shrugged helplessly as Red walked passed them and right into the illusion. When they got through, they were met with a large metal and spacious room, with the most notable feature being the glass pyramid in the center of the room. It appeared to be a replica of the larger pyramid, with a smaller one that was right side up inside. Inside that smaller pyramid was a platform/pedestal and standing on it was what appeared to be a miniature robot with a glass dome covering the circuits on the top of his head, an organic left eye, and a mechanical right eye that was yellow in color.
"Ok...who's this?" Dawn asked, finding the obvious Digimon had a somewhat odd shape.
"That's Datamon. The only thing we know is that he's apparently a really smart Digimon." Lunamon answered.
Digimon Analyzer: Datamon
Datamon. Virus Type. A Perfect Level Machine Digimon. Rumored to have once been a Vaccine Type, Datamon became a Virus through unknown means. Not much information is known about him, other than the fact he has all the skills of a great hacker. His special attacks are Plug Bomb, firing several small missiles from his fingers, and Nano Crush, unleashing several small viruses to corrode away at his foes.
"Do you think he's the one who sent us the message?" Lalamon asked.
"Correct!" came a new voice...coming from Gary's laptop.
"What the...?!" Gary gasped in alarm, before the group looked at Datamon.
"Are you doing that?" Lalamon asked.
"That is correct. I am speaking with you all through this device. Welcome, Chosen Children!" Datamon said jovially...or as jovial as the mechanical sounding voice could be.
"Okay...why did you call us here? Aside from you being Etemon's prisoner and all that," Red asked.
"I once fought Etemon a long time ago," Datamon said. "But unfortunately I lost and my body was heavily damaged. Etemon left my broken body sealed here, and on top of having my ability to formulate stolen, I was made into the supervisor of his Dark Network against my will," Datamon explained, by now they could hear the sheer anger and hate creeping into his voice. "However, one day I finally regained my memories, and from there I began repairing my body in ways that Etemon wouldn't notice. Once my repairs were complete, I began tapping into the Network to learn everything that was happening outside. Eventually I was even able to meddle with the information processed through the network, including information regrading all of you."
"Wait, what?" Dawn blinked in surprise.
"Etemon's network is extensive. Had it not been for MY intervention, he would have sent his followers after you every day and night," Datamon said.
"Um...thanks?" Red blinked.
"Now then, I won't beat around the bush. Despite what I'm capable of doing in here, I still require outside assistance to escape this prison," Datamon said.
"And you want us to do it, right?" Bearmon frowned.
"Of course. I believe it's only fair. And as promised, I will be sure to help you find the Crests," Datamon 'nodded'. "More importantly, you and I share a common enemy in Etemon. It would be only logical that we aim to defeat him."
The group looked at him skeptically for a few moments, before they all turned to each other and huddled up, speaking in hushed whispers, Datamon somehow managing to sweatdrop despite being a machine.
After a few moments they broke the huddle. "Okay...so we were discussing and well...no nice way to say this. What guarantee do we have you won't turn on us once we let you go?"
Datamon's lone organic eye blinking at them "Well... that's very cautious of you. I suppose I can commend that, only a fool would trust a complete stranger so easily."
"Yeah well, where we come from, doing that tends to end with people dead, so the question still stands," Barry said flatly.
However, before Datamon could say anything, a familiar and VERY unwelcomed voice cut in. "Well well, so this is where you brats have been snooping around. Shoulda known that you had a hand in this Datamon," Etemon growled as he came in.
"What the?! How'd he find us?!" Falcomon gasped.
"We have security cameras you jackass!" came the two Gazimon...the same ones Bearmon kicked. "You have some nerve doing that to us!"
Everyone, even Datamon, looked at Bearmon with dry stares. "You just HAD to kick them, didn't you?"
Bearmon had the decency to look apologetic as he laughed sheepishly "Sorry about that."
"I had wondered why my Network was acting strangely since you all landed here. I knew it wasn't like the usual sabotage your group kept doing, so I was getting more and more suspicious," Etemon said. "I guess it makes sense now. So you've finally regained your memories, Datamon."
"I had completed my maintenance shortly before they arrived. It was your own fault for not noticing. Now I intent to have my revenge," Datamon glared.
"That so? Fine then, once I've dealt with these brats, I'll be sure to smash you so badly you won't be able to fix yourself again," Etemon said, before turning to the humans, the Digimon getting in front of them.
"We don't have a choice it seems. Datamon, how do we free you?" Wizardmon said, before adding. "You all get him out. We'll distract Etemon."
"No way, we're not sitting this one out," Dawn said, as she, Red and Zoey all stood alongside the Digimon.
"You guys follow whatever Datamon asks," Zoey said as the Digimon all evolved into Adult form, ready to fight.
"Right, hopefully it's nothing complicated." Barry said, as Datamon, glaring for a moment longer at Etemon, turned to the important matter and transmitted to Gary's laptop.
Gary gave it a quick read. "It's simple thankfully, go flip that lever over there." he instructed as he went in front of a panel, Barry going up to the lever and quickly pulling it down, having to duck under a stray kunai from Peckmon uttered a quick "Sorry!"
When the panel slid down, Gary started turning the small wheel that would be more at home on a safe. "Right-5... Left-8..." he started, before looking up as Lekismon and Gaogamon slammed into the wall above him, the two of them looking down and giving him a certain look "Hurrying up now!" he said as he entered the rst of the combination quickly and pushed the button before giving the OK sign to Barry who flipped the lever back up. When he did so, the mechanisms began to work. Good thing too, as Etemon had just blasted everyone into walls, Zoey narrowly managing to avoid being crushed by SunFlowmon, while Red and Grizzmon hit the wall hard, Red's back almost breaking in the process. Seeing what happened, Dawn grew angry before she slammed her staff into Etemon's face. Hard. Etemon stumbled back, but soon kicked her back, knocking the wind out of her.
"Ya know what, I think I'll start with you! Dark Spirits!" he growled, throwing the attack at Dawn, but before it hit, a white form got in the way, Lekismon taking the brunt of the attack, causing her to hit the ground in pain.
"Lekismon!" Dawn shouted in worry. At that moment though.
"Take this! Taste the prison you put me in!" Datamon roared, as parts of his prison went flying towards Etemon, smashing into the two Gazimon, while the large piece aiming for Etemon was destroyed by his punch. Too bad that also meant Dawn and Lekismon were in the way, and acting quickly, Lekismon pushed her out of the way...leaving her to be slammed by the glass panel, flattening her against the wall before she reverted into Lunamon who fell to the ground, completely unmoving.
"What gives?!" Barry shouted, honestly angry at the double cross.
"You were quite right to show caution around me. Now that I'm free, I don't need you children anymore. I'll just handle this myself now." Datamon said coldly.
"Heh," Etemon chuckled, not surprised at all. "Boy does this bring me back. That's just the kind of mon Datamon is." he grinned, enjoying the looks of the Chosen Children's at the machine's betrayal.
"Blabber all you want, I'll destroy you this time!" Datamon snarled. "Plug Bomb!" he called out, his fingers opening and he fired what appeared to be imp-like viruses from his fingers like missiles.
Etemon gritted his teeth before countering. "Dark Spirits!"
The two attacks met, and exploded, a force strong enough to dig a hole right to the surface, which released a pillar of fire from the explosion...and alerting the others.
"Okay, if that's not a sign the others need our help, I dunno what is!" Serena blinked in alarm.
"We'd better hurry!" Paul nodded in agreement, before the rescue team sprang into action.
Back underground, Dawn had, despite the pain she felt, ran to her partner's side, frantically shaking her to try and rouse her, but Lunamon was completely unconscious, and she prayed to whatever god there was out there she was just seeing things when it seemed as if Lunamon's form was flickering every now and then. "Lunamon! Lunamon! No, please! Please wake up!" she frantically, tears in her eyes as in her eyes replaying the sight of her partner taking not one, but two major hits for her.
Before she could think on it further though, she felt a shocking pain travel through her, eliciting a scream from her lips, before she fell unconscious.
Datamon smirked as he retracted a taser into one of his fingers. It seemed fighting Etemon directly was pointless as he was still more powerful then him. With that in mind, he went for an alternative plan. "These two will come in handy for my revenge." he said, before grabbing Dawn and Lunamon and flying (somehow) away.
"Get back here with our/my friend!" Red and Zoey shouted respectively as they ran after him, Gary and Barry quickly following them while the remaining Digimon did their best to hold back Etemon.
The sight they were met with was a rather annoying one. "Great, another one of these. Gary! Where's the entrance?" Red asked, some anger creeping into his tone.
Gary ignored it though, understanding why he was asking so rudely, and he couldn't blame him as he started tapping away, before his face turned into a frown, then a scowl, and then a nervous look. "I can't find it! It's like it has layers upon layers of coding over it to keep it hidden!"
"So...nothing but luck to rely on, huh?" Red muttered, looking nervous as he gazed upon the grid, and knowing someone important to him was behind it.
Hoping for the best, he was about to step towards it, before the wall behind them exploded, the Digimon all getting thrown into the room and reverting to their Child forms (save for Wizardmon of course), with Etemon stepping in, dusting off the small debris that fell on him "Now then, I think I'll start with you lot since Datamon got away." he said, forming a Dark Spirits in his hand, before the Pyramid shook, and this time, the ceiling burst open, and several rocks dell on Etemon.
"The cavalry is here!" Serena cheered as she lifted her staff in the air.
"We have to be quick. There's no telling how many of his forces are heading our way." Gatomon said.
"Where's Dawn?" Leaf asked as Waspmon and Angemon were bringing everyone to the current floor.
"Kidnapped." Barry managed to say, everyone noticing how angry Red and Zoey looked.
Ritchie cursed at how badly the mission went. "There's no time to save her right now, we have to retreat and think of a plan as a group. Ash, Paul, Dorugamon and BlackGarurumon are outside right now and keeping the bulk of Etemon's forces distracted."
"Dammit!" Zoey shouted, tears in her eyes as they started running, carrying their partners in their arms, while Leaf carried Wizardmon on her back.
"We'll get her back. We won't stop until we do!" Red said, knowing that while it was a failure for the moment, they'd come out on top.
"So...how best should we get into the Pyramid, find Datamon, then ram my sword so far up his metal ass that'll make whatever Etemon did to him look like aNICE memory?!" Red was basically seething as they were now back near the RV, trying to formulate a plan.
"I want second dibs!" Zoey added as well, the normally nice girl was already entertaining all manners of ways to make the robot pay for kidnapping her best friend. Funny thing about the nicest people, they have the most built up rage inside.
"Don't worry you two, you'll get your revenge, but only if you keep a cool head." Ash said as he sat cross legged on a table, but you can see his aura flashing to life a couple of times from anger.
"We know..." Zoey said sadly.
"But every time we remember what that double crossing little spark plug did, I just want to take him apart with my bare hands," Red grumbled.
"You'll get you chance soon enough," Gary said as he continued to work on his Laptop. "Thanks to the data we already got from Datamon, it's only a matter of time before I decode it, and we should be able to find him. So far I'm pretty sure he's still somewhere in the Pyramid at least."
"At least he didn't far." Barry sighed in relief.
"Who knows what he's doing though? Whatever it is, it can't be anything humane." Leaf said with a frown.
"I swear to god if he tries to dissect her, I will tear off his limbs and shove them up his nonexistant-!" Red started, before Ritchie put his hand over his mouth.
"We get the picture." he said dryly.
"That aside...we have another bigger problem," Paul said, having come back from the Sphinx mouth. "Etemon's forces have completely surrounded the Pyramid, so before we can even start to get back into it, we're going to have to deal with them first."
"Our top priority is saving Dawn and Lunamon, so it'd be pointless to try and beat all of them," FanBeemon said.
"Think we could try a diversion tactic?" Salamon suggested.
"That could work. Some of us could make a LOT of noise, while everyone else gets in while everyone is focused on the distraction," Serena nodded in agreement, fully serious right now.
"That means a majority of us this time are going to get his attention, right?" Dorumon asked, looking at his partner.
"Right, and I think I've figured out all the mentality I was in when I first activated my Crest, no promises on starting the day off in Perfect though." Ash said with a nod.
"If it helps, I have learned illusion, so I should be able to hide us from Etemon to make him even more annoyed." Wizardmon supplied helpfully.
"That'd help." Falcomon nodded.
"Okay, so needless to say, Red and Zoey are definitely on the infiltration team...seeing as I doubt they'd take no for an answer..." Barry said, earning sounds of approval from the two.
"I'll make up for my blunder today, it was my fault we were caught, so this time, extra careful, and I only kick ass when told to." Bearmon said, clenching his paws with himself.
"Yeah, you probably should, cause I think can all agree Gary is gonna be leading the rescue, seeing as he's the only one with a means of navigating the Pyramid," Ash nodded.
"And the rest of us will make sure to keep all of Etemon's attention," Ritchie nodded.
"So, evolving from the start?" Patamon asked.
"It's definitely our best bet." BlackGabumon answer with a nod.
"And I've got better news. I just cracked part of the code," Gary added, before creating a visual of the Pyramid, and revealing a new section underground. "I'm positive he is hiding in this additional section, hidden from even Etemon's database," he explained.
"Clever," Paul frowned. "He's hiding right under Etemon's nose, and using him as a shield without him even knowing it."
"So he's in the safest place from us, and in the perfect place to start an attack on Etemon too." Ritchie mused.
"Well, he gave it a good try. Too bad for him, its not good enough," Zoey said with determination.
"Hold it, the biggest problem is the area is surrounded by electrified walls. Getting in is one thing. Locating the way in the sanctum is another issue. I can't tell where the opening is, only that one exists."
"I'll handle that part." Red said, "If there's ever a time when Luck is on our side, it would be now."
"Can't say I like having to bet it all on luck even though it always does come through when it counts...but doesn't look like we'll have a better than this," Ash sighed. "Alright then, get ready then everyone, we'll begin this plan at dawn."
"Right!" Everyone nodded.
"We will save them, I swear we will!" Red stated with determination with his fist clenched as his Crest glowed...and before anything else, his fist caught on fire and had wind blowing around it.
Everyone was shocked to see this happened.
"Well, this will make things easier." Ash said.
The next morning saw Etemon's forces dealing a night without sleep, as even some of the Gazimon who were manning the control seemed to be half asleep. However, they were soon wide awake when one looked at a monitor...just in time to see a flaming kunai flying right at them, before it hit the Pyramid with a loud 'boom'.
"What the heck is going on here?!" came Etemon's angry voice as he stepped into the room...for some reason wearing a bathrobe which he threw off just like that.
"Hang on sir, getting a visual..." the Gazimon started before more attacks impacted the Pyramid, causing it to shake more before they finally what was happening. "It's the Chosen Children! They're attacking!" one of the Gazimon reported.
Etemon growled as he looked at the screen, seeing Kunai's, iron balls, lasers and more being launched at the Pyramids. "So round 2 is it? Alright then, I'll go handle it myself!" he said, stomping back out and heading for the exit.
Meanwhile, outside it was complete chaos as the group had attacked when the guards were at their weakest. After a long sleepless night, and thus they were easy pickings for the well rested group. "Okay so far so good," Barry mused as he and Peckmon were in the middle of a tactical retract to lure some of the guards away and into a trap.
"Yeah, now the only question is, how long before..." Peck started, but didn't get to finish as...
"Dark Spirits." came Etemon's voice followed by a large explosion.
"That happens..." Barry and Peckmon finished together lamely. "Guys, the monkey's in the house!" he warned through his phone.
"Right, we need to keep his attention divided as much as we can. Gary's group still needs time," Leaf responded, as Waspmon fired a barrage of lasers, further peppering the battlefield.
Meanwhile, deep inside the pyramid, Dawn stirred...and woke up to a less than enjoyable situation, seeing as she was restrained on what looked like a metal operating table, with what appeared to be a scanner over her waist. "What the?!" she blinked...before she noticed Datamon working on a nearby console...and remembered what happened. "You motherfucker!"
I don't know what that is, but it sounds like an insult." Datamon stated as he turned around to her.
"What was your first clue you double crossing tin can!" she growled, trying to get free.
"You can forget about trying to escape. I made sure those restrains would be able to hold any of you," Datamon said.
Dawn continued to struggle, but it was no good. It was also at that moment that she saw Lunamon restrained against the wall, still unconscious." Lunamon!" she called out in alarm, but her partner didn't responded.
"She won't be waking up just yet. It was fortunate I managed to put her in a stabilizer in time, or she may have become useless to my plan," Datamon said, before working on the console again. "After all, I need her to defeat Etemon for me.
Dawn stopped at his words "Stabilizer?" she repeated in confusion.
"Yes her data was unstable after taking so much damage yesterday, but I managed to fix that issue quickly." Datamon answered as if talking about the weather.
Dawn however had stopped short, her anger dying a cold death when she heard that. She knew Digimon were made out of data, and if Lunamon had been unstable that meant...she'd...
Datamon didn't seemed to notice or care about her distress as he continued working on the console. "Honestly," he started. "It's pathetic. Out of 10 of you only one has actually drawn out the power of the Crests, and of all the ones who could have entered the Pyramid, he wasn't one of them," he said in annoyance. "No matter, I will simply need to draw out the powers of this Crest to defeat Etemon," he said as an arm emerged from the machine, revealing in its grasp a sky blue Crest depicting a rain drop, followed by another arm emerging, holding her Tag, as the Crest was inserted into it.
Dawn didn't even noticed as the scanner moved, too lost in her own mind about what her recklessness had nearly caused to see that as the scanner moved up her body, a replica of it was being formed on a table opposite of her. "Once the replica is complete, I will make use of it to draw out the powers of this crest so that this Digimon may defeat Etemon in my stead," Datamon said. "For the memories I lost and can never regain, I will make sure Etemon suffers an utter defeat," he said, his voice lowering into a growl as he continued to work, the girl strapped on the table unable to do anything but look at her still unconscious partner, guilt weighing too heavily on her heart, robbing her of her usual defiance.
"Well...this is just going how I pictured it honestly." Paul said as fired some fireworks at Etemon, the monkey bending out of the way of his fireworks while still fighting off the Adults.
"He's kicking our butts to the curb." Serena added as Etemon kicked one of the kunai's into the sky where it exploded right in Waspmon's face.
"Honestly, did you kids really think you could fight me with just a few Adult Level Digimon?" Etemon asked, laughing at what he assumed was stupidity.
"Honestly? No, just needed enough space for our secret weapon." Ash said as Dorugamon shook his head after being thrown, getting back up as his partner's crest started to glow.
(Brave Heart)
Ash's D-Core shot the beam of light through the Crest, releasing the projection which soon sent down a blast of energy right into Dorugamon, triggering his next stage of evolution. "Dorugamon, Super Evolution! DoruGreymon!
Etemon looked up, before sweat droppingas he saw the new Perfect Level Digimon that now towered over him. "Okay...that's new..." he admitted.
"What? Did you really think we were gonna stick to being your punching bags forever?" Ash smirked.
"Hope your ready monkey man, cause this is gonna be sweet sweet payback," DoruGreymon growled, before launching his Bloody Tower right at Etemon, who managed to jump out of the way at the last second.
"Oh yeah? Well didn't anyone tell you bigger isn't always better?" he growled. "Dark Spirits!" he threw his attack, the ball of destruction sailing right towards DoruGreymon...who promptly slapped it away with his tail, causing it to explode harmlessly in the sky.
"Oh boy..." Etemon gulped as the Dragonic Perfect and the Adult Level mon who still had some fight in them were now stalking towards him, all of them having eyes that promised him a LOT of pain. "This...could be a problem..."
(Brave Heart ends)
"Here we are," Gary said as they once more stood before a mass of electrified walls. "The chamber Datamon is in, and hopefully so are Dawn and Lunamon, should be right passed these walls."
"So, the entrance is right in here then." Red said, looking up at the wall that had blocked their entry last time.
"At the very least, let me see if I can't TRY to remove all the coding and make the entrance obvious." Gary said, starting to tap away on his laptop.
"This is probably going to take a bit." Zoey said, glaring at the wall.
"I know you're both worried, but we're not going to be able to help Dawn and Lunamon if either of you end up roasted...actually I think that'll only make things worse for her..." Lalamon said.
"...fine..." Zoey and Red sighed, admitting the logic to the statement.
Too bad for them, they didn't notice the security camera that was hanging near the ceiling.
"H-had enough?" Etemon panted as he'd narrowly dodged a Metal Meteor...which had just dug a good trench in the sand from the sheer force of the explosion.
"Not even close," DoruGreymon growled.
"Okay...this isn't working out as well as I'd hoped..." Ash frowned. So far they'd ended up in a stalement, as while DoruGreymon was stronger than Etemon for sure...the monkey was faster than DoruGreymon, meaning while Etemon couldn't actually hurt him...he couldn't hurt Etemon either. Nearby, the others were slumped on the ground, as Etemon had had a chance to use his Love Serenade...and quickly found that while it worked on the Adult Digimon, it didn't work on anything Perfect and above.
Etemon growled, wracking his brain as he kept avoiding the Dragon's attacks, before blinking as the VERY loud PA system of the Pyramid came on "Lord Etemon! Some of the children snuck into the Pyramid again.
"What?!" Etemon roared as he turned towards the Pyramid, before it clicked in his brain "So you were-!" he started, whirling back to the others, only to stop short as he saw they were gone somehow "Well... they don't matter right now! I'll show these kids to stop messing with me!" he growled, as he started to run back towards the Pyramid as fast as he could.
Once he was out of sight, the area where the fight was taking place seemed to shimmer, before everyone appeared again, Wizardmon sighing as he rested his staff on his shoulder.
"Hate to admit it, but that was really luck..." Ritchie said.
"Why do you say that?" Serena asked. Ritchie shot her a dry look before looking at the very tired Dorimon in Ash's arms. Had they been fighting for any longer...they'd probably have been in trouble.
"Hopefully we learn how to master the Perfect forms before we have to do any long drawn out fights..." Barry sighed. As it was, the Perfect level was their Ace in the holes...in a way that made them need to use them more carefully, especially since they only had one right now.
"Hm...no, that's not it...maybe...no..." Gary frowned as he worked on his laptop, TRYING to break the code.
"Any luck?" Red asked dryly.
"Not yet." Gary sighed.
"...I vote we use Red's luck for this..." Zoey deadpanned.
"Seconded," Lalamon sighed, utterly bored.
"Thirded," Bearmon agreed.
"Now hold on," Gaomon started. "Come on guys, let's not-" he tried to talked but...
"Heeere's Etemon!" Etemon grinned as he literary smashed through he wall...face first, flashing the closest thing to a slasher smile his goofy face could managed.
"Nevermind, go go go!" Gary and Gaomon said frantically.
"I'm going! I'm going!" Red nodded, before they ran to the wall.
"Let's go!" Bearmon shouted as he ran behind Red.
"We'll try to hold him off, get Dawn out of there, and kick Datamon's butt hard for me would ya?!" Zoey said as Lalamon and Gaomon both evolved and started doing their best to stop Etemon's advance.
Red nodded, staring at the wall as he kept running, getting closer and closer, and just as he was about to run headfirst into the wall, his crest started glowing softly, and he ran right through it, Bearmon hot on his trail.
What he saw when he got pass the wall was...confusing.
Dawn stood there, with a lifeless look in her eyes, still as a statue.
And Datamon was right behind her, tapping away at a computer, seemingly not noticing him entering as he spoke to himself. "Now that the copy is finished, the original is worthless to me, I suppose it's time I dispose of her."
Bearmon nudged Red's leg, making him look down, before following his finger as he pointed to Lunamon stuck on the wall, who was nodding frantically and silently at the real Dawn who was still stuck on the table. Nodding, he slowly crept to the table. Getting Datamon could wait.
When Dawn saw him, she smiled, but looked like she'd been through mental hell, making him smile back at her as he discreetly pulled out a lockpick.
He worked on it for a few moments, but just as he was about to get her out, Dawn's eyes widened. "Look out!" she shouted, right before Red turned around...just in time to get hit in the face.
"Hmph, so you managed to reach this room," Datamon said with a frown. "Unfortunately I have no intention of letting you escape with her. As long as she exists, the ownership of these will be contested," Datamon said, looking at Dawn's Digivice and Crest.
Red rubbed his cheek with a wince after getting that hit, looking at the Dawn Copy that was standing in a rather sloppy stance with Dawn's staff. Obviously Datamon didn't have the power to copy the skills of the original, so it tried hit him again, he grabbed it by the tip, a gathered wind into his palm, and pointed it at the copy and fired it, making it get flung into the wall, putting it in Dawn's hand, while dropping his sword into Bearmon's and running up to Datamon, picking him up before he could hit any keys on the computer, and throwing him at the wall, boosting the throwing with a fireball, his glass dome cracking at the action.
"Trust me, there's a lot more where that came from." Red said with a small growl as he grabbed the D-Core and Crest from the hands that were coming out of the computer as he walked to the table, seeing Bearmon fiddling around on the first lock, and managing to open it after a few moments, moving over to the other hand and freeing it as dawn rubbed her wrists and placed her staff back on her back, and accepted her D-Core and Crest from Red while Bearmon freed her legs.
"Did he hurt you?" Red asked her as he hugged her, relived to have her back to the group.
"I'm fine... just... I realised something I guess." she said with a sigh, returning the hug.
"Normally I'd ask what it is, but I think we should save it for when we're NOT with a killer robot...and your new evil twin sister," Red half joked.
"You miserable brats, I won't allow you to get away so-" Datamon didn't get to finish as Bearmon had evolved, with Grizzmon slapping him aside with his claw.
"Nope, we're taking our friends and getting out of here," Grizzmon said as he freed Lunamon who jumped into Dawn's arms and hugged the girl tightly...though Red noticed she wasn't returning it quite as strongly as she normally would...
However, any musing was cut off when the door suddenly exploded, with Gaogamon and SunFlowmon flying in having been thrown, but fortunately reverted to their Child forms before they could hit anyone, Zoey and Gary running in before Etemon soon entered the room. "Found you all." he smirked.
"Not for long," Red grinned. "Grizzmon, bring the house down!"
"BodyStrike Reversal!" Grizzmon called out as he made a impressive leap to one wall and went to the ceiling and clawed a big hole, large enough for multiple people to go through.
"Dawn!" Red said, earning a nod from the blue haired girl, as despite her doubts, she quickly grabbed her D-Core, allowing Lunamon to evolve into Lekismon, and wasting to time, they made their escape as Lekismon grabbed the two and put strength into her legs and made an impressive jump through the hole, as Zoey and Gary grabbed onto Grizzmon as he jumped to the wall and used it to jump through the hole.
"Oh no!" Datamon gasped, a look that only grew more profound when the Copy Dawn was crushed by more falling rubble.
"Well well well, looks like its just you and me." Etemon smirked. " As much as I'd like to deal with those brats, you just hit the top of my shit list for today."
"Fine, I don't need them! This room is fully under my control!" Datamon said, before a hole opened where Etemon was standing, but the monkey was faster and jumped again, managing to land a strong blow on Datamon, causing parts of him to break off as he landed a bit further away with a clatter.
"Nice try, using my own Network against me, but unfortunately for you, I win again," Etemon smirked.
"Damn monkey! I swear I will defeat you, even if it KILLS ME!" Datamon roared, before grew bigger, Etemon gasped in surprised before jumping to the console, but right as he was about to grab hold of it, Datamon grabbed his leg and tried to pull them both down.
"What are you doing?! Let me go!" Etemon growled as he was being pulled down.
"I told you fool, if I'm going to die, I'm dragging you down with me! Plug Bomb!" Datamon said as he fired his attack...into the mass of cables in the pit. "This virus will amass the evil powers and cause it to go out of control, sucking in everything nearby as its amassed into a massive ball." Datamon laughed.
"What did you say?!" Etemon gasped, realizing what this meant.
Outside, the Chosen had by now managed to get away from the Pyramid, Zoey all but clinging onto her best friend, who smiled weakly as she returned the hug. However, any mood for celebration was dampened when they noticed how all the nearby Digimon were being pulled into the Pyramid, as of something was sucking them all in. "I don't like the looks of this..." Paul frowned when they saw that.
"I think we all share the sentiment." Ash nodded.
Back inside the pyramid, the mon being sucked in flew into the pit, vanishing into the darkness as they were absorbed instantly.
"THIS IS THE END FOR YOU, ETEMON!" Datamon laughed maniacally as the monkey was losing his grip little by little.
"Damn, damn, damn...DAMMIT!" Etemon cursed as he finally lost his grip, the two falling into the mass of twisted cables, yet when they made contact, he was only half submerged, cables starting to attach to his body." Not...like...this!" he growled as he continued to struggled.
Outside...
"Look! The Pyramid!" Serena said, as they noticed what appeared to be dark energy being released...before the Pyramid exploded.
"That's never a good sign." Dorimon said nervously.
"Betcha Etemon is still kicking." Grizzmon said dryly, before they all heard a very familiar laugh "Called it."
When Etemon appeared from where the Pyramid once stood, they all noticed how he looked...buffed up, the cables of the huge ball of Dark Network connected into him and seemingly being the reason for his larger muscles.
The monkey laughed, juggling a Dark Spirits like a basketball "Let me tell you, I was honestly worried at first, but now? Now this is a whole other ball game!" he said, throwing the ball at the sphinx, and to everyone's shock, it was like the sphinx started to warp in on itself.
"Great, that was our way out." Barry said nervously.
"And the RV was still back there." Gary added with some slight annoyance.
"We can find the RV later again later. For now we gotta deal with the monkey on steroids over there," Red said.
"Are you STILL planning on fighting?" Etemon laughed. "I'll tell ya this much, with this power you guys are 100% guaranteed...to DIE!" he roared before throwing more Dark Spirits, warping more and more of the landscape.
"Ok... this is getting worrisome right now." Gaomon said, leaning on Gary's leg as he was still a bit sore from the thrashing Etemon gave him and Lalamon earlier.
"It doesn't help that Dorimon just reverted back from DoruGreymon a few minutes ago." Ash added with a frown.
"Now would be a good time for one of our Crests to activate." Paul said, sounding a little nervous.
"Only one question. How?" BlackGabumon said as they were running to avoid the attacks.
"This...is really bad..." Leaf frowned. "Most of our Digimon are tired, and Etemon's stronger than ever. Even if we do awaken a Crest, do they even have the energy to keep fighting?"
Red looked at all of them, before looking towards Grizzmon, who met his gaze, the two nodding after a few moments "It doesn't matter that it's impossible, we'll just MAKE it possible. If Etemon is so strong, then we'll become stronger!" he said, the glow of his Crest slowing growing.
"Taking this lying down isn't in our style." Grizzmon added.
"So matter what sort of fate we get told we have, we'll just kick it to the curb!" Red finished, as the glow of the Crest reached it peak. "Let's go, Grizzmon!"
"I'm with you all the way, Red!" Grizzmon nodded as the two charged forward.
(Brave Heart)
Red's D-Core vibrated as it changed color, becoming orange with grey buttons, before a beam of light shot out of the screen, going through the back of his Tag, releasing the projection of the Crest of Determination. The Crest flew through the clouds, gathering energy as it ascended, and at its peak, it spun and glowed brightly, releasing a burst of energy that produced a powerful beam of light with what appeared to be a DNA helix in it, flowing into Grizzmon. "Grizzmon, Super Evolution!" Grizzmon called out as he began to change. he gained a more humanoid shaped with arms and legs with metal plating on his body, his face was lion like, like Leomon except he now has fangs, and a orange spiky long mane going down his head, and finally had turbines spinning on his arms and legs. "GrapLeomon!"
Etemon was more than a little drunk on power, but his moment was cut off a blur suddenly rammed into him, knocking him back a little, before following up wtih a strong kick...to his face. "W-what the?!" he gasped, looking around till he finally spotted the cause.
"This ends here monkey boy!" Red and GrapLeomon growled.
Digimon Analyzer: GrapLeomon
GrapLeomon. Vaccine Type. A Perfect Level Beast Man Digimon. It is a grappling-species Digimon that took on in the data of various fighting games. GrapLeomon inherited the data of the 'King of Beasts', Leomon, and so that strong will to justice drives the turbines to the highest limit of their rotation speed. His special attacks are The King of Fist, driving the turbines on its arms to the highest limit of their rotation speed then drives forward blow heavy enough to distort gravity, and Cyclone Kick, rotates its whole body for the ultimate barrage of roundhouse kicks.
"Looks like Red really got through to us," Zoey grinned at the sight of the new Perfect level.
"But do you think they can win." Blake frowned.
"They can win," Ash said with absolute confidence.
Back in the fight, Etemon growled. "Just because you've evolved, don't think this means you have a chance," he said throwing another dark Spirit, but GrapLeomon evaded without issue. "Okay...how about THIS?!" he said throwing a volley of Dark Spirits, but not one hit.
"Heh, you may have gotten power, but you've lost in a ton of speed," Red chuckled.
"And that means you won't be able to stop us from doing THIS! Cyclone Kick!" GrapLeomon called out, as he jumped to the giant and ball and unleashing a barrage of powerful kicks to the monkey Digimon.
"Why you...!" Etemon growled and tried to fight back. However...
"Missed me! Nope! Ooooh, so close! Nothing but air! No cigar for you! Whohohohoho!" GrapLeomon evaded every last attack, all the while clearly toying with the monkey.
"Okay, I think that's enough messing with him. Time for the Coupe de Grace!" Red ordered.
"You got it!" GrapLeomon grinned, before his turbines started spinning much faster and faster until they seemed to be generating winds of their own. "The King...of Fist!" GrapLeomon called out as he jumped towards Etemon, slamming his fists into the mass of wires from the bottom and started drilling through with the wind, much to Etemon's horror, and before long, the wind emerged from the wires, shredding into his chest, and blowing a hole right through it.
"N...no way...I...lost?!" Etemon choked and gasped, grasping his head, before his body started to fold on itself, his form imploding. "Damn you...DAMN YOU!" he roared before he was swallowed by the mass of evil energy, which soon turned into what looked like some kind of black hole...and then it started to suck everything in...
(Brave Heart ends)
"Not good! Not good! Not good!" Red and GrapLeomon said together as the fighting Digimon ran away from the hole, still being pulled back a bit himself at first, giving it all he got, slowly gaining distance from it.
"I think this is what dust feels like under a vacuum." Ash said as he got low to the ground and held onto Dorimon tightly while trying to himself into it, the others copying his actions, yet they were slowly being pulled towards the hole.
"Hang on! There can only so much power behind this vortex! As long as we outlast it, we should be fine!" Wizardmon said...before he noticed something emerging from the shadows, a figure in what appeared to be a cloak/cape.
"Y-you?!" Wizardmon gasped, eyes wide, as the figure seemed to spread their cape, and a black mass flew into the portal, and had the winds not been rushing, one would have heard the chitter of bats. The attack entered the vortex and suddenly became utterly unstable, and in a flash of white exploded, the sudden force blowing everyone back, and scattering them to the winds.
All that remained was the figure, who smirked to themselves triumphantly.
Hey guys, DragonForceAsh aka zenotai123 here with another update for ya.
Well the group managed to get two more Crests at the beginning thanks to the help of a mysterious being in the Pyramid.
After making a plan, they go in and meet Datamon.
Only to be double crossed by him attacking and kidnapping Dawn and Lunamon.
The group comes up with another plan to save them.
One group would go in while the other distracts Etemon.
Once they were in, they see Datamon with a copy of Dawn and her Crest.
Saving Dawn and Lunamon, they make their escape.
Datamon tried to bring Etemon to their deaths together.
Only for Etemon to survive and become stronger.
Determined to the end, Red unlocks the power of his Crest and Grizzmon evolves to GrapLeomon.
The battle was won but who was the mysterious figure?
Is he another obstacle for the Chosen Children to face?
You'll have to find out on the chapter of the Digital Adventure!
Well that's all I have to say for now guys.
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