DarkFoxKit: So I've been on a bit of a writing streak lately. I think we'll do weekly updates if that's the case.
ZAFT: Well, we have surpassed 50 reviews, and the last chapter got 6 reviews. That's the most we have gotten for a chapter so far! :D
DarkFoxKit: Yup! Looks like this story is finally starting to get some attention. :) And I've been getting a lot of ideas from reading another fanfiction, so I've been wanting to keep going while the ideas are fresh and hot.
ZAFT: No complaining from me. I have a few myself that I want to get out badly too! XD
DarkFoxKit: Of course, we are also starting to wrack up on chapters. So we should also update while we're writing.
ZAFT: Yep! So, let's get to the chapter! :D
Andy: *Looks around before sighing in relief* Good, they're gone and didn't see me.
Chapter 17: The Ghost Zone
Dash ran up to the Fenton Works' front door, and rang the doorbell. Andy was quick to answer the door.
"I came… as soon… as I heard…" Dash panted, having ran all the way here.
"Good, you came quickly," Andy said, before letting Dash in. "Come in, hurry."
Dash entered the house, Andy shutting the door behind them. "So you need my help in saving your brother and his friends because they went into the Ghost Zone?"
"Yeah," Andy confirmed.
"I'm all for rescue missions, but are we actually going into a world of ghosts?" Dash frowned, looking quite terrified at the idea.
"Yup," Andy confirmed again, leading Dash downstairs to the lab, where Takuya was waiting.
"A-are you serious? Isn't that, like, suicidal?" Dash paled.
"Dash, you're able to become a Digimon…" Andy said with a deadpan look. "You can actually fight ghosts now."
"Dude, from what you told me, ghosts can hurt Digimon, a lot," Dash pointed out.
"And Digimon can do the same to ghosts," Andy retorted. "Besides, I called you here because I was hoping you could help us. But it's your decision if you want to go or not. Takuya and I will be going whether you come with us or not."
Dash frowned here. It was true he could remain behind, but then what kind of friend would he be if he didn't help them out? He sighed. "I guess I will go with you then. After all, you have helped me a lot, and I need to return the favor."
"You don't need to return the favor Dash, but I do appreciate you helping out," Andy said before looking over at Takuya. "Okay. I have the Fenton Rod, the wrist ray gun, and the Jack-O-Ninetails. We need to go light, but we don't want to be weaponless either, at least I don't."
Andy put on his white and dark blue hazmat suit, knowing he would need it for this Ghost Zone.
Takuya nodded. "Okay. I think we're set then." He held up his D-Tector. "Are you ready, Dash?"
Dash nodded and held up his own. "Do you need to ask?"
Andy held up his D-Arc to Dorimon. "Let's do this, Dorimon."
"I'm ready!" Dorimon smirked.
Takuya invoked the power of his Beast Spirit. The red outline of his second Spirit roared and appeared on the screen of his D-Tector as he invoked a ball of fractal coding on his left hand. Takuya swiped the D-Tector over the coding and called out the phrase he knew by heart. "Execute! Beast Spirit Evolution!" He felt the primal power of his Beast Spirit flowing into him as his clothes ripped away and his body became surrounded by the coding. Takuya cried out as the power flooded into his body. His body grew in strength and power as well as size, with red, yellow, black, and white armor forming on his body. A tail extended out from the base of his spine as two large orange wings appeared on his body. His head became like a dragon's almost, but not exactly, and the top of his head was white. His eyes turned sky blue, but had a feral edge to them as well. He landed, crying out his name. "BurningGreymon!"
Dash was next. The tan digital form of his first Spirit appeared visible on the screen of his D-Tector as he held up his hand with the fractal coding around it. He swiped the D-Tector over the coding, calling out the familiar phrase he would come to know by heart. "Execute! Spirit Evolution!" His clothes ripped away as his body became digital, and the process began. Coding surrounded him as the power of the Spirit flowed into his body. Dash felt his body increase in strength and power as he felt his skin become more like wood and he felt his senses increase in sharpness and sensitivity. His eyes turned a golden color as he finally landed, crying out his name as he did so. "Arbormon!"
"Dorimon digivolve to… Dorumon!"
With everyone all evolved up, BurningGreymon stood in front of the portal that was surprisingly big enough for him to fit through. He picked up Arbormon, Andy, and Dorumon.
All three were able to fit on his back between his wings neatly, much to his relief. "Okay, make sure you hold onto my back armor tightly." BurningGreymon instructed. "Once we go in, I may fly fast and hard if we come across a ghost, and I don't want to lose anyone."
"Don't worry about us, we'll be sure to hang on tight," Andy reassured.
"I'll also make sure Andy and Dorumon don't fall off," Arbormon promised.
"You just focus on finding the others," Dorumon said.
BurningGreymon gave them all a nod before he ran towards the Ghost Portal and jumped into it, keeping his wings folded until they had passed through. It felt odd to him, like he was passing into a thick ooze almost, but then the feeling vanished, and he flared his wings open, flapping them once to get himself steady in the air.
Once they were in the Ghost Zone, BurningGreymon was hit by a spike of coldness, nauseousness, and a bit of fear. There was something about this world that was unwelcoming, besides the obvious. It felt like it wanted him gone, like he didn't belong here. Arbormon was shivering, likely feeling it as well.
"This is so creepy…" Arbormon whimpered a bit.
"I know…" BurningGreymon admitted. "It feels like we are not supposed to be here, like something wants us gone from this place…"
"I hate this place…" Dorumon hissed, being a pure Digimon, the feeling was likely more intense for the poor Rookie.
Andy wrapped an arm around Dorumon, hoping to calm him down a little bit.
"We shouldn't be here for too long, we just gotta find Danny, Tucker, and Sam, and get the heck out of here," Andy said softly.
BurningGreymon nodded before he focused his gaze back on the Ghost Zone ahead of him. As he flew on, there were signs of ghostly blobs floating around them, each with red eyes that were glowing and the typical ghostly noises coming from the blobs. One blob even hissed at the Digimon in the group as it got closer to the group.
A growl from BurningGreymon forced the blob to back off, much to his and Arbormon's secret relief.
Andy looked around. "There are so many doors… I really hope our friends didn't go into one of them."
"But if they did, we might have to check each one…" Arbormon pointed out.
Looking at one of the doors in question, BurningGreymon came to a stop in front of it. "Maybe we should just select a few doors. There are too many for us to look in. We would be here forever at that rate."
"Okay, there are four of us, let's each check one door," Andy suggested.
BurningGreymon, Arbormon, and Dorumon all nodded at Andy's suggestion. Carefully, BurningGreymon reached out a three-clawed hand towards the doorknob of the door they were in front of. "I have this one then."
He grabbed the knob and turned it, opening the door cautiously.
BurningGreymon peeked inside. It looked like a big kitchen inside. Cautiously, Burning floated inside.
Arbormon picked up Andy and Dorumon before hopping off of Burning. Due to the weird way gravity worked in the Ghost Zone, they were somehow able to float. Of course, since Arbormon and Andy couldn't fly, they had to move their arms to 'swim' through the air in order to move.
"This is kind of awkward," Andy commented as he was 'swimming' to one of the doors.
Arbormon floated to another door and opened it as well, keeping himself on high alert for any sort of potential attack. His door showed a child's bedroom, complete with stuffed unicorns on the bed. "This must be a girl ghost's place…"
Dorumon used his little wings to flutter, hovering over to another door. This one looked to have colorful toys on it. "Huh… is this a nursery?"
Arbormon opened the door and carefully went inside. Dorumon opened the door, and hovered in. Andy was the last one to reach a door. He opened and looked inside. It showed what looked like a rock star's room. Andy cautiously pulled himself inside.
BurningGreymon was trying to figure out his way through this kitchen. It was huge, way bigger than a normal human kitchen. It looked like it belonged to a giant.
"How big is the owner of this place…?" BurningGreymon muttered to himself. He was half-expecting the owner to come out from anywhere. Blue eyes flicked around as he glanced from right to left, and even up to down.
As BurningGreymon was passing by the stove, it suddenly burst to life. Burning turned to the stove, seeing blue fire burning suddenly. Then a giant looking skillet came down on it, before a giant marble meat fell into it. There was a big bottle of vegetable oil that poured onto the meat before it started to sizzle loudly. Everything was doing it by itself, there was nobody at the stove holding the skillet.
BurningGreymon looked a bit freaked out, but he didn't show it very much. He kept an eye on his surroundings, watching to see what would happen next. This place is creepy… Not to mention it is moving on its own...
Burning looked around before there were suddenly piles of meat around him. The piles of meat suddenly turned into living meat creatures, meat creatures that looked very familiar to Burning. They looked quite angry to see him.
"Uh oh…" BurningGreymon gulped. "I… Uh, bye!" He flared his wings and took off towards the door, gliding as fast as he could.
The door was blocked by a giant meat hand. BurningGreymon stopped and looked back, seeing a very familiar giant meat monster.
"Hello there, dearie~ Why don't you make yourself at home? Lizard meat is on today's menu," The meaty Lunch Lady said in a sickly sweet voice. "If you don't want to be on the menu, dearie… THEN GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LAIR!"
"I was just leaving!" BurningGreymon said.
However, BurningGreymon was suddenly covered in meat, and he was shoved out of the door so fast that he thought he would have whiplash.
Meanwhile, Arbormon felt very uncomfortable where he was. From what he could tell, he was in some kind of girly room, judging from the pink walls, and the unicorn bed he was looking at. But he had thought it would be a little girl's room, instead, he began to believe it was a teenager's room. There were computers, big screen TVs, a large amount of make-up products on a shelf in the room.
"Okay… maybe… Fenton and those other guys didn't come here…" Arbormon decided nervously.
Suddenly, someone else came into the room. It wasn't a teenager girl, but a young looking woman. She had green hair, pale skin, and red eyes. She wore a red jacket over a black tank top, a red mini-skirt, green tights, and long black boots.
"Uh… Hello?" Arbormon asked, unsure of what to do or if this entity was a threat.
"What the?" The ghost woman stared at Arbormon. "What are you doing in my lair!? Can't a woman have her own privacy!?"
"H-Hey! I was just looking for some friends!" Arbormon protested. "I wasn't going to remain here! I was just on my way out." He hoped to get away from the ghost who was looking quite mad, and it freaked him out.
Arbormon felt a bunch of items suddenly hitting him from behind. He was hit by a ton of make-up. By the time he got out of the door, he was covered in pink powder, red lipstick, and, strangely enough, a flora pattern on his body.
"What the?" BurningGreymon looked at Arbormon in shock. "What happened to you?"
"Crazy woman ghost hit me with make-up." Arbormon grumbled as he eyed BurningGreymon, who was covered in meat. "What happened to you?"
"Attacked by meat…" BurningGreymon huffed back.
Dorumon was nervously looking around. The place did look like a nursery, as he guessed. There was a crib, a rocking horse, lots of cute plushies scattered on the floor, the walls were a cute light pink with little white bunnies on it, and there was a beach ball.
Dorumon moved in a bit further, only to freeze when he sensed something. Looking back, Dorumon saw what looked like a blue skinned baby with yellow eyes, and light blue hair. The baby had a pacifier that was blue with a yellow top on it, and he wore a white baby sleeper with a bib on it.
Dorumon gulped, feeling nervous, his fur was standing on ends. Maybe splitting up was a bad idea, I need to stay with Andy to keep him safe. He's the only one here who can't turn into a Digimon, and I'm his partner!
The little Digimon looked around a little bit longer, before a teddy bear suddenly tackled him. "Oof! What the?"
Dorumon looked up, only to see an entire shelf of teddy bears floating, all aiming at him. Andy was right… teddy bears are evil!
Dorumon began running around the nursery with the teddy bears all coming after him, he ended up accidentally tackling the wooden rocking horse, which caused it to rock a bit, and creaked like it was old. The baby in the crib suddenly started crying before it disappeared from the bed, then reappeared on top of the rocking horse. The teddy bears all stopped when the baby had woken up. Dorumon blinked, staring at the now awake baby ghost, who's eyes were glowing a pure yellow color.
"Um… Hello…" Dorumon squeaked as he looked at the baby nervously.
The baby ghost looked at Dorumon curiously. "Aww, how cute, a new animal toy for me to play with~"
The baby ghost formed a pink rattle in its hand and started shaking it. Suddenly, Dorumon was surrounded by teddy bears.
"Andy was right… Teddy bears are evil…" Dorumon whimpered before he turned and began to rush towards the door out of the lair.
Dorumon let out a cry as he was pelted by stuffings.
BurningGreymon and Arbormon turned to Dorumon when he managed to get out of the lair and slammed the door behind him, he was covered in stuffings.
"Dorumon?" BurningGreymon asked. "What happened?"
"Teddy bears… evil bears…" Dorumon whimpered.
"... I think Dorumon takes after his daddy," Arbormon chuckled.
"Why are you wearing girl's make-up!?" Dorumon snapped back.
"A woman ghost did this to me…" Arbormon grumbled.
"And I was hit by meat from the Lunch Lady." BurningGreymon muttered. "I hope Andy is doing okay…"
Dorumon frowned at that. "Andy hasn't come out yet?"
Everyone looked over at the last door that was near them. There was no sign of Andy coming out.
"He's the only one who can't turn into a Digimon to defend himself," Arbormon realized.
"Maybe we should go after him." BurningGreymon suggested.
Dorumon was already at the door.
Andy had no idea how he got himself into this mess. He was tied up to a chair, being forced to look at the stage. On stage was a teenage girl ghost. She had pale skin and flaming blue-green hair. One arm, her right, had a long black glove that went past the elbow on it, she wore a black tank-top, but with the right strap missing, black pants, and boots that looked like they had skulls for the soles. Her eyes were an ectoplasmic green, and she had purple lipstick on.
"Can you please let me go?" Andy asked politely.
"Dipstick, you came into my lair, you have to hear my music. I'm planning to do a concert soon on tour~" The teenage girl smirked. "Don't worry, you're going to love this one, kid!"
Andy had tried to fight back, but his arms were completely tied, he had no way to use any of his weapons like this. A guitar floated over to the girl, and she took it with a smile.
This is a ghost's lair. They have full control of everything that goes on here, while the intruder, me, has no control and is subjected to the ghost's mercy. Andy frowned, realizing the trouble he was in.
The ghost girl began playing her guitar. It was loud, and Andy was surprised the loud music hadn't blasted his eardrums. He had always hated going to concerts because he couldn't stand loud music unlike most other teenagers. Andy wished he could move his hands just to cover his poor ears. Her guitar isn't even plugged in to anything! Is this the power of her lair or just ghost powers in general? THIS IS TORTURE!
Andy began to squirm in his seat, hoping Dorumon, Arbormon, or even BurningGreymon would come to help him before something happened to him. Andy felt like his mind was starting to become hazy, he wasn't sure if he was passing out or if it was something else, but he knew it wasn't good.
Suddenly, the lair door was flung open. "Metal Cannon!"
The ghost girl yelped when she was suddenly hit by an iron ball, stopping her guitar playing. Dorumon rushed into the room and used his teeth to bite the ropes that were binding Andy. Andy groaned as he fell to the floor on his hands and knees, feeling weakened from that experience.
Dorumon ran over to Andy's side as BurningGreymon flew in and landed in front of Andy protectively, Arbormon at his side as well.
"Andy, are you okay?!" Dorumon asked, concern evident in his voice, as it was also shaking a bit too.
"Ugh… we… we have to leave…" Andy spoke up as best as he could.
"What are you all doing in here!? You filthy digital pests!" The girl screeched against before she strummed her guitar.
Two giant purple fists came at Burning and Arbormon. They were both knocked back by the blast, which was likely amplified by the ghost's lair.
BurningGreymon grunted as he was slammed into the wall, landing on his feet, but barely. He shook himself off, but he was feeling that blow in his chest, as it hurt in that area. "Arbormon… Grab Andy and let's bolt…"
Arbormon got up from where he had been flung too and ran over to Andy, picked him and Dorumon up, and followed BurningGreymon to the door.
As soon as they were out of the lair, they shut the door behind them. Not wanting to risk the angry ghost girl chasing them, BurningGreymon quickly grabbed onto Arbormon, Andy, and Dorumon before he quickly flew away from the area as fast as he could while holding onto his friends.
"... Why… are you covered in-" Andy began to ask.
"Woman threw her make-up at me," Arbormon sighed.
"Baby ghost used an evil army of teddy bears to pelt me," Dorumon replied.
"... I knew it…" Andy hissed.
"And I met the Lunch Lady again, so she hit me with some meat." BurningGreymon finished.
"Those doors," Andy spoke up. "Each one seems to lead into a ghost's lair. I would recommend not going into those doors unless we know for sure our friends are in one. As you've all just experienced firsthand, you do not want to tangle with a ghost in their own lair."
BurningGreymon nodded. "Point taken." He then shook off some of the meat as best he could. "But now what? We have to find Danny, Sam, and Tucker still. It seems the ghost lairs are not where they are."
However, BurningGreymon had no idea of what was going to go down as he continued his flight through the Ghost the group ventured further into the Ghost Zone, BurningGreymon began to get a feeling like something was wrong. It felt like some sort of entity was watching them, but he couldn't be too sure.
"Hey, this place looks a lot… bigger, if that's the right word," Andy spoke up, looking around. "The doors are further apart here."
"There's… something here," Dorumon spoke up, his gem glowing a little.
"I'm sensing something too." BurningGreymon confirmed. "But I'm not sure what it is."
"It's either a powerful ghost or a powerful object," Arbormon stated. "Considering where we are, it's likely to be a ghost though."
Andy noticed that since Dash became Arbormon, he hadn't shown as much fear towards ghosts as he would have as just Dash. I wonder if becoming a Digimon makes him braver?
"Over there!" Dorumon suddenly pointed. "Go down, BurningGreymon."
BurningGreymon looked confused, but did as Dorumon asked. He flew down lower, wondering what it was that Dorumon was pointing at.
"What do you see?" Andy asked before his D-Arc beeped.
Andy pulled out his D-Arc from his hazmat suit's pocket, and saw some kind of glass box with a black and green key inside it, the key itself had a creepy skeleton head on it. Andy blinked before he looked away from the D-Arc, but he didn't see any box or keys.
"That's odd. The thing shows up on my D-Arc, but not if I look with my eyes." Andy noted as an observation. "I wonder if my D-Arc is malfunctioning."
"I don't think so," Dorumon said, looking over at Andy. "The D-Arc must be showing you what I'm seeing."
"You can see it?" Andy asked before he looked over at Arbormon. "Arbormon, BurningGreymon, can you two see it as well?"
"I can see something," BurningGreymon admitted. "But it's kind of hazy."
"Yeah, like a gassy form that is shaped like a box, but more blurry as well." Arbormon added.
"Hmm…" Andy looked back at his D-Arc, the picture showed it clearly. "It must be hidden with some kind of mist-like ectoplasm. Digimon must be able to see through it though. Humans obviously can't, maybe that's why it's hazy for you two, and why I can't see it at all. I'm not sure about ghosts though. It looks like it's meant to be hidden, whatever that key is supposed to be."
"What should we do with it?" Dorumon asked. "It feels like a really powerful object. It must be pretty important."
"I think we should leave it alone." Arbormon said. "We don't know what it is, and if it is important, if we take it, we could end up upsetting the ghosts here."
"It looks like it's a skeleton key of some kind," Andy noted. "But to what, I wonder… Danny, Tucker, and Sam likely didn't see it…" Assuming ghosts can't see it either. "So it's unlikely this key will help us find them anyways."
However, before the group could leave the key, BurningGreymon suddenly felt the feeling of heat and coldness at the same time. He began to look around, wondering where the ghost he was sensing was. His form was tense, and he tried to keep himself from gripping Andy's hazmat suit to the point of causing slight tears.
"Takuya, what's wrong?" Andy asked, noticing that BurningGreymon's grip was starting to tighten.
Dorumon gasped as he turned around. "LOOK OUT!"
Purple flames shot towards them. Because it was ghostly flames, BurningGreymon knew it was dangerous to even him. He quickly moved down, barely dodging it, the ghostly flames almost grazing against the tip of his wings.
BurningGreymon hissed at the heat he felt on his wing tips, but he didn't remain focused on that. He looked around again, only to see what had launched the attack. It was a massive four-armed ghost, with black eyes and red pupils. The mouth was full of sharp and pointies, and the fur was red while the face and stomach were dark grey in color. There were four cuffs, one per arm, just above the wrists, and it had a tail as well.
"What is that?!" Arbormon gasped as he looked at the monster ghost in shock.
The giant monster ghost took a deep breath and let out a roar so loud that it caused visible soundwaves to appear. As soon as the green sound waves hit BurningGreymon, as well as the others, they all fell back. Andy and Dorumon fell away from BurningGreymon and Arbormon since the soundwaves hit them the hardest due to being so small and light.
BurningGreymon felt himself flipping head over heels before he flared his wings and righted himself in mid-air, his body aching all over. "Ugh… Okay… that was some attack!"
"Where are Andy and Dorumon?" Arbormon asked, not seeing the boy or Rookie anywhere.
BurningGreymon realized Arbormon was right and became somewhat frantic. Given how it was his cousin that was missing, it made sense he would panic. "Oh no! Where are they?! ANDY! DORUMON!"
The monster ghost swiped its claws at the distracted BurningGreymon, which caused the dragon Digimon to fall at rapid speed. Arbormon jumped away and floated there.
"I hate this…" Arbormon groaned.
BurningGreymon flared his wings again and regained his flight path, but now he was not sure if he could fight while worrying about Andy and Dorumon. He made sure to hover a distance away behind the Arbormon as he flew back to his level. "Forget it. We have to get out of here, find Andy and Dorumon, and scram."
The giant monster ghost grabbed onto Arbormon's body.
"Yeah, I'll get right on that as soon as I get out of this grip!" Arbormon snapped. "Okay, big boy, want to play?"
"Blockade Seed!" Arbormon shot out little seeds from his mouth at the monster's face.
The seeds took root on the monster's nose, before it grew out vines that quickly began to tangle up the monster.
The ghost was forced to release Arbormon to claw at the vines, and that gave BurningGreymon time to grab onto Arbormon.
"Nice shot." BurningGreymon remarked as he helped Arbormon onto his back between his wings.
The monster ghost roared angrily before breaking out of the vines. It then lashed out its tail, which grabbed BurningGreymon, then threw BurningGreymon right at a door. The door didn't open, thankfully, but the impact was still brutal.
BurningGreymon had turned so he would take the impact to his front, protecting Arbormon from being squished, but earning himself a near-perfect face-plant into the door. "Ooof!"
"Okay… I am officially starting to dislike this place…" Arbormon grumbled.
"You and me both…" Burning groaned. "It doesn't look like this… thing wants to let us go so easily."
"Then what can we do? Fight it?" Arbormon asked in confusion. "Plus, we don't know where Andy and Dorumon are."
The monster took a deep breath and began blasting out the soundwaves again.
"We'll just have to hope Andy and Dorumon can take care of themselves until we get past this guy!" BurningGreymon stated before he prepared himself to use an attack to try to counter the soundwaves.
"Wildfire Tsunami!" The flames burned around BurningGreymon and Arbormon, essentially protecting them, but only to a limited degree, as while the first soundwaves were made harmless by the flames, the ones after blew them out. But they were also weaker than the initial attacking waves, so it worked out in the end.
The monster didn't give up, however, it took another deep breath before blasting out purple flames. BurningGreymon countered with his own flames, but they were evenly matched.
"Okay, this thing is getting on my nerves," Arbormon hissed before fractal code surrounded him. "Arbormon slide evolution! Petaldramon!"
Now in his Beast form, Petaldramon stood up on his hind legs from a small floating island he found. "Leaf Cyclone!"
Petaldramon used the flames to his advantage. He created the leaves around BurningGreymon's fire, catching all the leaves on fire, but Petaldramon could still control where the burning leaves would go, he had them hit the monster full force, causing a twister of digital burning leaves around the monster's body.
The combined attack did some serious damage to the creature, forcing it to back off from the two Legendary Warriors. BurningGreymon looked at Petaldramon, impressed by what he saw. "Nice work! That was a brilliant idea."
The monster, now injured, took a deep breath and let out a high pitched roar, there were no soundwaves this time however.
"What is it doing!?" Petaldramon growled as the leaves around his head closed up his face in an effort to protect him from the loud sound.
"I don't know…" BurningGreymon hissed as he clasped his head to cover his ears.
When the loud pitch noise finally stopped, Petaldramon and BurningGreymon were horrified to see a sudden sea of what looked to be a skeleton army surrounding them.
"Shit…" BurningGreymon hissed. "So much for getting away with that attack combo…" He readied his guns for attack.
"If there was an actual ground, I could hit most of these guys at once with my Thorn Jab." Petaldramon frowned.
As the army was closing in, there was a sudden iron ball that fell into the group. The group that noticed the iron ball looked down in confusion, seeing a small piece of paper attached to it. Then suddenly, there was a large explosion, wiping out a big number of the army.
"That was…" BurningGreymon recognized that technique anywhere. "ANDY?! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
Petaldramon looked up. "Takuya, above you!"
BurningGreymon looked up, and saw Andy clinging onto Dorumon's paws, while Dorumon was holding Andy's hands while doing his best to hover through the Ghost Zone. While it was a struggle, the nearly non-existent gravity made it much easier for the little Rookie to carry his partner.
"Andy!" BurningGreymon flared his wings and took flight up to where Dorumon was hovering. He extended his clawed hands and grasped the two of them gently, enabling Andy to let go and Dorumon to rest. "You had us worried…" The concern and panic were evident in the Beast Warrior of Flame's voice.
"Sorry about that… my head's probably going to be ringing for a while, but… I should be fine. Dorumon did all the work to bring us back here," Andy stated while Dorumon was panting in exhaustion.
"I can see that." BurningGreymon noted. "You did good, Dorumon. When we get back, you will definitely get a big treat for that."
"Yay," Dorumon smiled tiredly.
"Leaf Cyclone!" Petaldramon surrounded the remaining army and the injured monster with sharp leaves before he jumped up high to where BurningGreymon was.
"Petaldramon slide evolution! Arbormon!" As soon as Petaldramon was Arbormon again, he landed on BurningGreymon's shoulder. "Now, while they're distracted, let's get our hides out of here!"
"No need to tell me twice!" BurningGreymon said before he turned and took off as fast as he could fly, which was fast! Now, with all of them reunited, BurningGreymon felt relieved to be headed back to the Ghost Portal, wherever it was.
"Wait!" Andy called out suddenly. "Turn left from here, quick!"
BurningGreymon frowned, but did as Andy asked. He turned left, wondering why Andy wanted him to do just that. The look he gave Andy said it all.
"Keep going in this direction," Andy instructed.
"Why?" Arbormon asked.
"After that behemoth monster ghost blasted me and Dorumon away from you two, I got a glimpse of the Specter Speeder," Andy answered. "I saw them going this way."
BurningGreymon kept going in that direction, hoping Danny, Sam, and Tucker were safe. However, it was then that he got that feeling he knew meant ghosts again. The flashes of heat and coldness ran through him, making him shiver. "Agh… I hate that feeling…"
"It gets annoying after a while, doesn't it?" Arbormon sighed.
"Wah?" Dorumon frowned as he recovered enough to look. "More ghosts?"
Andy frowned as they saw the Specter Speeder ahead, but there were also a lot of ghosts chasing after it. These ghosts looked to be wearing some kind of uniform and helmet, they all had green tails and green faces, and they held some kind of baton in their hands. The batons they held shot out some kind of energy blast at the Specter Speeder.
"We have to help them!" Andy yelled.
"No questions asked here!" BurningGreymon said as he altered his flight path so they flew just behind the Specter Speeder, turning around so he was facing the ghostly force pursuing the vehicle. "Pyro Barrage!" His guns fired off the small flame bullets at the ghosts.
The ghosts that were chasing the Specter Speeder let out gasped of shock and pain from the sudden fiery bullets. Andy took out a baton-like thing from his hazmat suit's pocket, and pushed a button on it. "Dorumon, you stay with BurningGreymon and rest, okay?"
"What? What are you going to do?" Dorumon frowned.
"I'm going to help my brother and my friends," Andy answered before he pointed the baton thing at the Specter Speeder, then pushed a button.
The baton shot out a string, before the ball that came out turned into nine hooks, with the middle being Jack's face. The hooks grabbed onto the back of the Specter Speeder, then pulled Andy with it. While Andy was being pulled along with the Specter Speeder, he got out his Fenton Rod from his pocket and extended it. Two of the ghost guards got close to the Specter Speeder, and were about to shoot their baton weapons at it, when Andy came swinging in like Tarzan and smashed the two ghosts with his Fenton Rod.
BurningGreymon turned to the rest of the ghost guards and gave out a loud roar, showing that he was now their enemy if they wanted to attack the Specter Speeder and its occupants. "Wildfire Tsunami!"
"Blockade Seed!" Arbormon shot out seeds at more guards, causing vines to grow out and entangle them, and made them much more flammable to BurningGreymon's fire.
As soon as the ghost guards were made to back off, a white-skinned ghost with pupiless green eyes and a menacing air appeared before the three Digimon. "What do we have here? Digital beings in a place where they don't belong, that's against the rules."
"That's the guy, the guy we saw here the first time!" Dorumon exclaimed.
BurningGreymon heard that and glared at the ghostly sheriff. "So you're that ghost I was told about."
The white ghost ignored the three Digimon when he saw Andy on top of the Specter Speeder. He glared as he pointed at the boy. "You! Just because you may be half human doesn't mean that you're above my rules, kid!"
Andy furrowed his eyebrows. "What? I think you got the wrong-"
"Get him!" The white ghost ordered.
The ghost guards all flew towards Andy and the Specter Speeder at once. Andy fired his wrist gun at the ghost guards to push them back, but there were too many of them. Dorumon jumped from BurningGreymon's arms and flew towards Andy and the crowd of ghosts.
Andy managed to swing his Fenton Rod at some of the ghost guards that got in close to him, but one of them managed to hit him with a baton beam. Andy yelped as he felt burning pain on his chest, as that was where he was hit. Andy hit the roof of the Specter Speeder hard, and tried to push himself up from that.
"Hyper Dash Metal!" Dorumon came in and tackled the ghost guard who got in close and had hit Andy.
Thinking fast, BurningGreymon flew towards the large group and tried to come up with a plan. He had one that was a bit crazy, but it would possibly work. He looked to Arbormon. "Get ready to jump to the Specter Speeder. I have an idea that might help, but it is going to be a bit crazy."
Arbormon looked at BurningGreymon in a confused manner, but he did as he was asked. "Okay, just don't do anything that'll get us all killed." With that, he jumped off of BurningGreymon's back and landed on the roof of the Specter Speeder.
Now freed of his burden, BurningGreymon turned to face the guards again and a glint of a smirk appeared in his eyes. Fractal code surrounded his form as he slide-evolved back to his Human Spirit form. "BurningGreymon, slide evolution! Agunimon!"
The code dispersed as Agunimon was revealed. But he didn't waste any time, for fire began to surround his form before Agunimon then began to spin around, creating a fiery vortex that surrounded him and began to head for the ghost guards. "Pyro Tornado!"
The ghost guards were caught off guard by the sudden fiery twister coming at them and tried to flee. Several managed to, but a larger number was wiped out by the attack. The fire dissipated from around Agunimon, who called upon his Beast form once more. "Slide Evolution! BurningGreymon!"
"What the?"
They heard a very confused Tucker yelping, he had peeked out the window to see what all the commotion was, and was very surprised to see the Digimon there, along with Andy. Tucker ducked back into the Specter Speeder, and shortly after, Danny Phantom phased up onto the roof of the Specter Speeder.
"Didn't think I'd see you guys here of all places," Danny remarked, looking at Andy, Dorumon, and BurningGreymon, though he was surprised by the new Digimon he had never seen before. "Who's that?"
"I'm Arbormon." The new Warrior introduced. "You can call me the Warrior of Wood. And you are?"
"Uh… Danny Phantom," Danny introduced. "Nice to meet you."
"What trouble did you get yourself into?" Andy questioned. "Why is this sheriff ghost coming after you?"
"I… may have done a prison break with some of my past enemies?" Danny said sheepishly.
"Why were you in prison in the first place?" Andy frowned.
"Um… littering…" Danny mumbled.
BurningGreymon came in and landed on the Specter Speeder before he reverted back to his Human Spirit form. The fractal code dissipated from around him as he walked over. "Are you okay, Andy?"
"I'm fine," Andy answered.
"You're covered in bruises b- Andy." Danny frowned.
"I had a bit of a tough time getting here," Andy grumbled.
"What the!?" The white ghost shouted when he saw Danny and Andy. "There's two of them!? … No, the ghost boy must've just duplicated himself to try to throw me off."
"Yeah, I can totally duplicate myself, Walker," Danny rolled his eyes in sarcasm.
Agunimon looked back at the white ghost sheriff, whom Danny called 'Walker', now identified as Walker. His blue eyes held a hard glare as he stood in front of Andy and Dorumon, as well as Danny Phantom. His body language said it all about his intentions to Walker.
"Why must you interfere with my rules, Digital Being?" Walker glared at Agunimon.
"Twins should never be separated, and I won't let you do that, no matter what your so-called rules say!" Agunimon growled back.
"Twins?" Walker frowned.
"The portal isn't far from here, but we can't go through if Walker and all his goons are chasing us, they'd run chaos all over the real world," Danny said to the others.
"Then in that case, give me a minute, Dorumon and I should be able to do something to throw those ghosts off our tail," Andy stated. "Try to keep them distracted until then."
"Whatever it is you have planned, you'd better hurry." Agunimon warned before he then slammed his fists together and let loose with his Pyro Punch. Two ghost guards were hit by the fireballs, burning one of them badly and wiping out the other.
"Blockade Seed!" Arbormon shot out the seeds from his mouth and they grew into vines, surrounding a large group of ghost guards, getting themselves entangled in the vines. He smirked as he saw the handiwork of his attack.
Agunimon moved beside Arbormon, the two Warriors now standing back to back as they watched the ghost guards around them.
Walker raised up a green ecto gun at them, and he fired a strong looking ecto blast from it. Agunimon was hit and thrown back. Arbormon was hit next, and also thrown back. Andy and Dorumon gasped as they were aimed at next. Danny quickly got in front of them and created a barrier around them, which barely held up from the ecto bullet. There was already a crack in Danny's barrier.
Agunimon grunted as he pushed himself up slightly, only to see the green ecto-barrier all around them. And to his concern, there was a large crack in the middle of the barrier. It took a lot to make Agunimon worry, and this was one such occasion.
Danny lowered his barrier, seeing how it was already cracking, he then fired his ghost rays at Walker, hoping to try to stop the bullets. The ghost ray did hit the bullets, but the bullets were pushing Danny's ghost ray back. Danny groaned as he struggled to keep his ghost ray up.
Agunimon got to his feet and took action to attack Walker. "Pyro Darts!" While his weakest attack, it was also one that was accurate in range. The small flame bits were thrown at Walker, hitting his suit's arm.
Arbormon managed to get on his feet as well, then he held out his hands. "Roundhouse Punt!"
Arbormon's hands shot out to Walker's face as fists, attached by long cables from his arms. Walker let out a shout of pain, feeling both the flames from Agunimon, and the punches to the face from Arbormon.
"Look, you were right, we do do more damage to ghosts," Arbormon noted to Agunimon.
Agunimon could see Arbormon was right as well. Walker had a burn on his arm now, and he had large bruises on his face from Arbormon's punches. "Yeah, but there are still more ghosts than we can handle. I hope Andy's plan is ready, because we will need to act soon. We're almost at the Ghost Portal."
"Alright, now, everyone stand away from Dorumon," Andy warned the group. "I don't want him accidentally hitting you with this next attack."
Agunimon and Arbormon didn't need any more warning, as both moved back from Dorumon. Danny hovered back behind Andy, wondering what his brother had planned, he was also panting from trying to push back Walker's bullets with his ghost ray, luckily, Agunimon's earlier Pyro Darts caused the bullets to melt away.
Andy pointed at Walker's chest. "Spit!"
Dorumon spat out what looked like liquified metal at Walker. The liquid metal stuck to Walker's chest.
"How dare you!? This will take weeks to wash off, and some stains don't come out!" Walker snapped. "That's against the rules, boy!"
"You know what? I don't care," Andy said. "Because you'll be doing more than cleaning a simple stain."
"Metal Explosion!" Dorumon shouted.
When the liquid metal exploded, it caused some of Walker's ectoplasm to go flying across the Ghost Zone. The ghost guards were worried and confused for their boss, and there was also heavy green smoke covering up the area.
"Hurry, we have to get the boss to the medical bay!" The ghost guards were fussing as they flew into the smoke where Walker was.
"Danny, tell whoever's driving this thing to head to the portal, now!" Andy instructed hastily.
Danny gave a nod and phased into the Specter Speeder, which then changed direction towards the portal not even five seconds later.
"Get down to the roof." Agunimon said as he ducked down so that he was laying flat on the roof of the Specter Speeder, Arbormon following his lead. "This way the Specter Speeder can fit through the portal with us on it."
"Heh… looks like we're going to make it out of this alive after all," Arbormon stated.
"We're not out of the woods yet," Andy warned. "Remember Murphy's law, if something can go wrong, it will."
Agunimon didn't like hearing that, but he knew from first-hand experience back in the Digital World it was possible. "Yeah. I hate to admit it, but Andy's right. Only when we pass through that portal will we be in the clear."
"There are more ghosts here," Dorumon noted, looking around for any danger. "But they seem more curious and frightened than hostile. It looks like damaging that Walker ghost made all the guards stop chasing us to attend to him."
Agunimon looked back over his shoulder, only to see Dorumon was right. There were indeed no ghost guards following them.
While all of them were on high alert for anything to suddenly ambush them or the Specter Speeder would stop for whatever reason, they were all very glad to see that it was for naught. They made it to the Ghost Portal and went through it all in one piece.
"Great… and now the next biggest obstacle…" Andy frowned before looking at Agunimon, Dorumon, and Arbormon. "Explaining you three to Tucker and Sam."
Agunimon, Arbormon, and Dorumon all looked a bit nervous, Agunimon especially.
"Oh boy…" Arbormon muttered.
MikotoSuoh23789: ZAFT: You will see, don't worry. :)
Irusha the Kitsune: DarkFoxKit: Heh, well Jazz is going to play more of an active and important role here than she did in canon season 1, as you will soon see. Jazz was already kind of… psycho in the actual episode, we just carried it here, but she has different reasons for why she's acting this way than she did in canon. And the subplot will actually collide with the main plot, so keep a look out for that~
ZAFT: Don't worry. We have twists galore planned! XD
Luna Lillyth: ZAFT: Things will get better for Jazz, and make no mistake, the secrets will cause a few problems down the road. :)
GirlFish: DarkFoxKit: Dark Patamon? You mean Tsukaimon? And… let's just say 'Dark Patamon' will have changed his mind long before we get to the cloning part of the series.
ZAFT: As for Lopmon, yes he was once Cherubimon, and as for his partner, you will have to read on to find out who it is~
DarkFoxKit: We have plans for Paulina, don't worry. But as for her and Zoey meeting… oh yikes, that's one cat fight I wouldn't want to get involved.
ZAFT: XD