Chapter 9
The guys stare in awe at the newly hatched digimon as she nuzzles in Katherine's arms, unable to hold back their tears. It takes several minutes before it finally hits Izzy and the digimon that they've never seen this type of digimon before. The baby is very tiny even for a baby level. She's the shape of an oval, curves little like a tadpole with a tiny mouth, big piercing baby blue eyes, a pretty light gray color, and a tale that's slightly curled upward in front. Katherine's able to confirm that her partner's female, to the delight of Agumon.
The baby notices Kabuterimon, freaks out, and buries her head in her partner's arms.
"No no Baby;" assures Agumon; "Kabuterimon is a nice digimon, you don't have to be afraid."
Recognizing the voice, she looks at Agumon. Feeling a connection, she jumps on him joyfully, knocking him down.
"Da da!"
"Huh? What did she just call me?"
"Da da;" she gives Agumon several kisses.
"What? Does she think that Agumon's her, Dad?" asks a shocked Izzy.
"Ah how cute;" says Kabuterimon sniffing; "I never thought Agumon would become a daddy."
"Just a minute," says Agumon; "I'm not her..." As she looks at him with those innocent blue eyes, his heart melts; "Well, I guess she can call me whatever she wants, at least until she digivolves. By the way Baby, what's your name?"
The baby gets a questionable look on her face and looks at Katherine; "That's right, you need a name. How about Nixie?"
Nixie leaps of excitement and kisses her partner.
"Niximon?" ask Izzy; "Why Niximon?"
"Nixie means 'water sprite' in German folklore."
As he looks at the newly christened Niximon, Izzy wonders what kind of digimon she is. He really wishes he had his laptop with him, although if she really is a new type, she may not be in the database yet.
"She's one of the tinniest baby level digimon I've ever seen;" says Izzy; "She's the size of small shrimp, and she kind of looks like one."
Katherine doesn't like that comparison; "She's a seahorse, look at her tail."
"How can you know whether or not she'll digivolve into a seahorse?"
"Because that's how imagined her, along with wings and the crest of a Parasurolophus. I even draw a picture of her."
Izzy's amazed. He's never heard of a person imagining a digimon then it coming to life. And if so, how? Would Niximon really look like that?
"Well now, look who's awake;" says Kabuterimon. Fluffy's victim gets up confused.
"What's going on here? Where's Big Shot and Fluffy? Wait;" he feels all over himself; "WHY AM I ALIVE?!"
"We rescued you. Or rather he did;" informs Agumon pointing at Kabuterimon.
The young man can't believe it; "That thing saved me?! No way, impossible, nobody ever saves me!"
"Finally, you're up;" says Izzy; "I've got a ton of questions for you."
Izzy starts pouring out the questions, which only seem to freak the guy out even more. He finally runs off in a panic.
"HEY, COME BACK HERE! You haven't answered any of my questions!"
"Just let him go Izzy;" says Kabuterimon.
All of a sudden, something hits the trailer, sending it up in flames. However, the flames are black, completely unnatural. More black fires balls scadder all around them, Kabuterimon blocking some of them.
Suddenly, Kabuterimon starts shrinking, getting smaller and smaller until he disappears.
"KABUTERIMON!" shouts Izzy.
"We'll that's one problem taken care of." The short flunky has returned, with what appears to be a black, glowing book, floating by itself in mid-air.
"What have you done too Kabuterimon?!"
"Who? Oh the monster insect, he's right here." In his hand is a small purple cube; "Don't worry, he's fine. It's a data cube, not a mana cube."
"Bring him back now!"
"Sorry, I can't. Now for the rest of you, Poison Curse Magic...; he glances at his floating book; "Huh, wrong page! That's not the spell I want!"
Izzy, who almost never loses his cool, charges at the flunky and pins him to the ground! "Give him back...;" suddenly, Izzy not only goes silent, he can't move a muscle. To his horror, the funky seems to have shot a giant, glowing needle through Izzy, completely paralyzing him.
"Finally it worked! I'm on a roll."
Izzy's completely taken aback as the needle disappears. He can't move at all. What in tarnation did this guy just do to me? Where did that needle come from? Did he just, no….impossible. There's many ways he could have pulled that trick off.
Flunky then turns his attention towards the remaining three. Agumon tries to conger up the energy to run, but collapses halfway. Katherine clings to Nixie and nervously holds up her hand as in expecting something to happen.
"Kat stay back!" yells Agumon; "Keep Niximon safe!"
The flunky is now in front of Agumon, the floating book turns pages on its own; "Now for you three. Poison Curse Magic Aufwachen Dachs." Agumon and Katherine both brace themselves, however, nothing happens.
"Huh! HEY!" Flunky looks at his palms; "You worked every time in practice! Poison Course Magic Awfwachen Dachs." Oil-like substance pours from his hands, barely avoiding hitting himself while the substance forms into two badgers behind him, then jump him.
"HEY! You're not supposed to attack me! STOP! Disappear!"
Katherine and Agumon both wonder if this guy's for real.
"What are you doing?" comes a voice. The tall guy has returned, and the badgers disappear.
"You're using your magic?! Yoshi told you not too."
"Yoshi's not here you screaming worm of vomit! Wait, you're alive...oh never mind."
"Boss please, put the grimoire and amulet away, you can't control..."
"I didn't ask...ouff!" Nixie has slapped Mr. Big Shot in the face and stares at him furiously. "What's this little pip squeak;" he laughs; "a shrimp?"
Nixie's gets an angry look in her eyes and starts bouncing furiously on the short flunky's head; "Ouch, ew, owe, owe STOP THAT YOU LITTLE, hey get out of my shirt!"
As he laughs uncontrollably, Agumon tells Katherine that he'll roll up into a ball and that she should kick him like she would a soccer. She's reluctant at first, but the dino assures her that he and Tai used to do this. Still reluctant, she non-the-less kicks Agumon towards the flunky. He grabs hold of the guy and hangs on for dear life. Flunky is infuriated and forces Agumon off. Nixie exits from the bottom of his trousers.
"Why you little….I'm gonna….hey….where's the amulet?" He checks and realizes that he's no longer in passion of the amulet nor the cub, Agumon has them.
"You sneaky little pick pocket, GIVE THOSE BACK!" Out of nowhere, a ball of water hits him, then Nixie returns to jumping on him. It's only then dose he realize that his book is also missing.
"Where's my grimoire?"
"Over there?" replies Agumon.
"Where?"
"Right over there?" The foolish Flunky goes right where Agumon's pointing.
"No No No Fluffy! Don't spit out your food! Mind your own business! Poison Curse Magic Poison Needle, oh NO! I'm too nervous. YIKES!" He runs away in a panic, while Fluffy returns to her meal.
Meanwhile, the tall flunky goes to Izzy and gives him a shot, seeing the worry in the boy's eyes; "Don't worry, this will counteract the poison."
In seconds, Izzy's able to move again and jumps to his feet; "What's going on here? How can he possibly attack like a digimon without a weapon? And how do I free Kabuterimon from that cub?"
Tall Flunky looks worried; "Cub? Don't tell me he used the mana cub on a digital creature?"
"Mana cub? He called it a data cub?"
Tall Flunky breathes a siege of relief; "Oh thanks goodness. The mana cub would've killed him for sure."
"How do I get him out?" Izzy demands.
Tall Flunky shrugs his shoulders; "Honestly I don't know. Only Yoshi and Sally know how they work. They haven't even tested them yet."
Suddenly, they hear what sounds like a big rig coming up the road; "Yoshi! You guys better go now!"
"Not without freeing Kabuterimon!"
"Please, go now. Boss and I are weakling flunkies, Yoshi's a sociopath with many more deadly tricks then just the plants, and Sally's even worse." He hands Izzy a notebook; "I don't know if that will help or not, but it may be worth a try;" he notices that Katherine has his brother's grimoire; "Oh and don't bother taking that. It'll just come right back to him. You can take the amulet, it's stolen anyway. HURRY NOW!"
"Why don't you come with us?" ask Katherine.
Flunky shakes his head; "I can't leave my brother. GO!"
Izzy hurries, picks up Agumon, and rushes out of there with Katherine and Nixie right behind him.
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Tai, Matt, Davis and Gabumon ride on Raidramon as he flies south, the direction of the base. They notice an awful smile in the air, like that of an oil fire, and notice the "black and gray" flames. Deciding to take a closer, the spot an official air force semi-rig and decide to investigate, only for a small missile to be launched towards them, exploding. Raidramon barely holds it off with his Lightning Blade. Two more another missile plus to other type of attacks launch towards them, Raidramon just barely holding his own, but manages to make it safely to the ground, de-digiving and breathing heavily.
"Talk about a welcome comity;" says Davis brushing himself off.
Gabumon digivolve to Garurumon and braces himself. They look around them and notice the still burning remains of the trailer as well the barn and several other charred spots.
"WHOA! Agumon must have been in a major fight;" asks Davis.
"This isn't Agumon's doing;" replies Garurumon.
They carefully move towards the direction of the rig. Tai, struggling due to his ankle, falls over, also causing Davis to trip over him and Matt barely stopping in time. As Matt offers him hand to help Tai up, he notices a giant snake head snapping at him, jumping up on his own.
"A MONSTER SNAKE!" cries Davis, also stumbling up. Fluffy charges towards the group and they quickly get out of the way, satisfied by their distance, the snake backs off and returns to digesting her meal.
"What the heck us that?" asks Tai after he calms down; "I've never seen a snake that big! Is it that a python or that other giant snake from the Amazon?"
"Looks like a python;" answers Matt; "Only they don't have hair."
"Jez;" says Davis; "That thing's large enough to eat Garurumon. I'd hate to know what he ate?"
"Never mind the snake;" says Tai; awkwardly leaning on Matt for support; "Let's go.
The go along a little ways, finally spotting the rig. Suddenly, they attacked by something sticky. It seems to be some king of gel substance. Veeman attempts to digivolve, but the gel hits him mid-digivolution and prevents it. After fighting for several minutes, Garurumon is gets tangled up in the sticky gel as if trapped in a spider web, reverting back his rookie form. Davis and Matt also get hit by the gel, yelling at Tai to get away. He tries, when a fireball hits him, knocking him out cold.
When Tai comes too, he finds that he's tied up, his friends nowhere in sight, and the sound of an evil laugh belonging to a woman.
"What do you want to do with this one Yoshi?" comes a male voice.
An angry looks appears on the woman's face. She blows in her clarinet and the plants snap at the the short Flunky.
"I told you never to call me Yoshi! Do you two want to end up as plant food like your sister? Put him in the jeep for now. I'll decide to what to do with him later."
"Where are my friends, psycho plant lady?!" Tai shouts at her. Miss Yoshida looks at him in confusion.
"Psycho plant person? You much have me confused with my old man. Your friends are fine, for now. And if you're looking for a teenage boy, a girl, a giant bug, an orange dinosaur, and a little gray shrimp, you can say goodbye to them. Nobody escapes the Tracker."
"The…the…Tracker?" says Flunky with a worried look; "Your letting the Tracker loose."
"Yes the Tracker. Now, where's Fluffy, I need her too."
As Tai is dragged to the truck, the only thought on his mind is that he must get out of here, FAST!
"Did she say little grey shrimp?"
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Kari wonders around the barrier while Angewoman patrols overhead. Aside from a few stragglers, most everybody is inside the barrier. Part of the military received orders to report elsewhere earlier, some have posted guard pickets outside of the grounds, while most those who remained are within the barrier. Kari can feel power from it, but has no idea what kind of power this is. Rico has a pretty good idea of who's doing this, thanks to his snooping, but decides against sharing it with Kari until he knows for sure. So far, he's had no such luck of finding the source.
After a very long time of silence, Rico realizes that Kari's getting very anxiety. Believing that it will lighten the mood and make her smile, he decides to playfully flirt with her. He has just the pick-up to make her laugh.
"Hey Kari, you got a burger to go with that shake?"
Kari stops dead in her tracks; "What did you just say?"
"I said, you got a burger to go with that shake, ya sexy thing. By the way, you're glowing. The moonlight shining on your face really makes my day."
"Rico, stop it! I'm sorry, but you're not funny. You weren't funny yesterday either."
Rico's taken aback; "Jeez Kari, I just want you to lighten up, you seem worried. Besides, flirting is the art of making a man feel pleased with himself."
"Not that way please, and I have every right to be worried."
Angewomon lands in front of Rico with her hands firmly on her hips; "You better not be upsetting Kari, Mr. Rico?"
Rico rolls his eyes; "I was just trying to be nice. My ex-girlfriends still laugh at my jokes."
Ex-girlfriends? Angewoman and Kari look at each in disbelief, Rico shakes his head; "Jeez you people, can't take a little joke. Say Angewomon, you've got really fine jugs there."
Angewoman punches him (with almost no effort on her part); "Keep your perverted thoughts to yourself."
Rico rubs his head and slowly gets up, he's surprised he's not bleeding; "What do mean by that? Girls usually love that line."
Suddenly, they hear Oscar barking furiously and running towards the camp entrance. They follow him and discover more military vehicles arriving. At first Angewomon braces herself for attack, but is surprised to see Angemon flying along with them.
"It's alright Angewomon, they're with us."
Even more surprising is seeing T.K. exiting a military jeep, Aquilamon arrives with Yolei.
"More digimon?" says Rico exasperated.
"Hey Kari, you're a sight for sore eyes;" says T.K. Kari smiles, Rico wondering why she smiles at this guy's joke, but not his. Yolei and Aquilamon land as Kari ask what's going on.
"Well," starts Yolei; "We're afraid things are worse than we thought;" she notices Rico standing next to Kari, listening to them; "Aw, who's he? Is it ok that he's here?"
"Is that a problem?" replies Rico, cringing his fist. Aquilamon gets between his partner and Rico, giving him a stern look. After sorting things out, the group and the Coronel quickly explain that Dr. Yoshida bit into a poison capsule to avoid further integration and is currently in a catatonic state, however, an animus tip came in about some even bigger and deadly plant monsters (and something else) being keep in what's supposed to be a decommission and abandoned fortress deep in the woods. The military, the kids and their digimon agree to work together.
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Izzy, Katherine, and Niximon move along at a somewhat slow pace beside the road, having been on the road for around an hour. Agumon, after spending the first half hour on Izzy's right shoulder, is now nestled on his left, having fallen into an uneasy sleep. Everybody except Nixie is exhausted. Fortunately, the had found a sign that said that a convenient store nearby was nearby. Hopefully, it can't be much further. Katherine just hopes there's food for Agumon and a phone. They decide to stop only momentary to catch their breaths and Izzy puts Agumon down, both of his shoulders scream in pain from the dino's dead-weight. Katherine refushes to sit down, knowing that she won't be able to get back again if the does. Nixie just bounces around.
They take a look at the notebook, but unfortunately the words are in Brazilian Portuguese, which neither kid can read. Plus the hand-writing looks like it belongs to a 5-year-old. If Izzy could get to a computer, he should be able to translate it.
Agumon becomes half-awake, asking for food. By now Niximon, who's been off the wall energetic and curious since hatching, also starts to look tired, coughing with her tiny tongue hanging out of her mouth, meaning that she's getting thirsty. Her smooth, silky baby skin is even feeling dry. Katherine's throat is bone cotton dry, yet she turns Izzy's Oolong tea. Nixie takes a sip, only to spit it out with a clear yuck face. Izzy himself drinks only half a bottle, giving the remaining 3 and a half bottles he has to Agumon. They are too far away from the river now to take a detour towards it for water.
Izzy picks up Agumon in a cradle position and they're once again on their way. A few minutes later, Nixie suddenly perks up and bounces out of her partner's arms. Katherine gives chance and soon finds the baby drinking and splashing in a stream. She calls for Izzy and they both take drinks, hoping that the water's not contaminated, then fill up the empty tea bottles. In addition, Nixie returns to her previous bounciness, as well as her skin to its previous silky softness after getting good and soaked. Both humans wonder if she needs constant water to both drink and soak in, just like Gomamon dose. Agumon, who's not thirsty after the tea, is dismayed; wanting food much more then water. In addition, he ends up rolling into the water, upset about getting all wet again, but with Nixie playfully splashing, bouncing on and sliding off him, he can't help but smile and laugh too.
Now if only some delicious fish would show up.
Suddenly, Niximon stops playing and seems distracted by something. She sniffs the air. "What is it Baby, you smell fish?" asks Agumon hopefully. Nixie makes a terrible face, then starts to look a little scared, and jumps back into her partner's arms shaking.
Katherine and Izzy try to sniff the air, but they can't really make anything out; "Izzy, do you smell anything strange?"
"Only the usual musty outdoor smells."
"Ugh, foul odor;" says Agumon; "Can't I smell something delicious for a change."
Katherine then starts to notice the smell slightly, it smells like dead animals in a garbage dump, even worse than the smell of the trailer.
"Izzy, something's coming."
Izzy still can't smell anything, but then a strange sound comes seemly out of nowhere. "What was that?"
They hear the sound again, some kind of shrike. Nixie is clearly disturbed by the sound and hides in her partner's shirt.
"What is that?" asks Agumon, "sounds like the sound that Godzillia monster makes."
"You're right Agumon, it does;" agrees Izzy, "but no real life animal makes that sound, Hollywood invited it."
"No natural creature," adds Katherine.
The shriek, and the stink, are getting closer. This sound is soon accompanied by what looks like an elephant snout emerging from the bushes. The long snout is clearly sniffing around. The group backs into the spring when a very odd creature emerges. With the exception of the trunk, it doesn't resemble an elephant at all, but rather a hunchback, dinosaur-like creature with a long horn on top of its head, plum skin, and orange eyes. It emerged on all four legs, but then it stands up and walks towards them on two.
"It's tracking us!" Yells Izzy, picking up Agumon and running.
"What is that Izzy?" Asks the digimon, unable to really see the creature due to his blurry vision, however, he sure can smell him.
"I don't know," replies Izzy. The Tracker shrieks again and aims it's trunk at the group. A large black blob shoots from it trunk, the humans just barely mange to get out of the way and the blob lands in the water, floating on the surface, and steam coming from it.
"It's tar!" yells Katherine as the Tracker aims again.
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Tai is inside a covered jeep tied up by some sticky stuff that seems to be exceptionally strong spider threads. Everything's happening in such a rush he hasn't had time to rap his head around anything. He caught a glimpse of the Tracker with the eerie Godzilla scream, making his ears hurt. He has no idea where they've taken the others, plus his digivice and phone have been confiscated.
On top of everything, Tai was forced to watch the psycho-mob force Fluffy to regurgitate a partially digested pig, then cover her face, give her shots, force her into a too small crate, and put it into the jeep right next to him.
Why was I forced to watch that? Shivers go down Tai's back at the angry hissing coming from the crate; and why is her name Fluffy? Tai struggles against the sticky webs, but the more he struggles, the stronger and stickier they become. Then the two male interns enter.
"Sally thinks she's so smart, just because she can control her spells and I can't;" says the short guy called Flunky; "And why do we have to guard the new hostage and ride in the same truck as Fluffy? At least she's sedated. Hey, what do you think you're doing?"
"Driving;" says tall intern.
"Oh no you don't!" Flunky tries to conjure up a flame, but it puffs out; "DARN IT! My magic hasn't recovered yet. What makes you think you're driving?"
"Cause I've actually got a driver's license."
"You drive like a woman!" Flunky grabs his brother hard by the arm and throws him out of the way, bumping him into and getting stuck with Tai; "Now stay out of my way you piece of vomit! Fluffy should've eaten you when she had the chance."
Tai's appalled by that and tries again to get free. "Don't bother;" says Intern; "You're making it worse." The jeep moves with a suddenly jerk and they take off rather fast, Tai feels nauseous and mums through his covered mouth. "Oh, let me help you with that;" says Intern surprising Tai. He takes out a pocket knife. Huh? How's he going to cut through this stuff with that? Then a creepy green glow comes from Intern, forming around the knife; "Wind Magic, Severing Blade."
Tai closes his eyes and the next thing he knows, he's mouth is free.
"What the heck was that? What are you some kind of magician?"
Intern isn't sure he should tell him anything, but he longs to talk with somebody who isn't a psycho-path wacko; "Are you friends with the group the Tracker went after?"
"YES!" exclaims Tai; "Where are they? What happened? Are they going to be alright? Agumon can't digivolve without me? What's that thing that went after them? How strong is it? I hope Kabuterimon can beat that thing!" Tai's out of breath and realizes he got carried away, yet he has so many questions running through his brain.
"Kabuterimon, the giant insect?" says Intern; "That may be a problem."
"Why? What happened?"
"Well;" Intern rubs his fingers together and fidgets; "My brother...Whoa!" The jeep jerks, it feels like a totally smashed out drunk is driving.
"Jeez;" says Tai; "Who taught him how to drive?"
Intern's embarrassed; "Himself. Anyway, he trapped that giant bug into a data cube."
"A WHAT!" shouts Tai; "He can get out can he?"
Intern shrugs his shoulders; "I really can't answer that. Only Yoshi and Sally know how they work. In fact, I think they haven't even tested them yet. They tried to capture digital creatures with mana cubes but those killed them instantly, as in completely erase them, so they created these data cubes. They've been wanting to catch digital creatures for several months for experiments, maybe creating a magic-digital hybrid creature. They're no limit to their curiosity and experiments really. Professor's also interested in the plant-type digital creatures, do you know of any?"
"I'm really not following you...ouff;" comes another jerk; "How do I get out of here? Where are they taking us? Where are my friends? And where's my digivice?"
"Slow down;" says Intern; "You're going too fast. Actually, I shouldn't have told you any of that, I'll be quadrupole killed for sure."
"I don't want to get you into any trouble;" replies Tai; "but I really need to know what happened to my friends, all of them? Maybe I can help you too?"
Intern gives a little shy smile; "They've already helped me once, and it's not like I'm going to get out of this alive. Ok, they probably took your friends to the abandoned cave fortress, and I know where your stuff is;" he pauses and takes a deep breath; "So you own one of those digital creatures too? Do you own that starving yet kind and brave orange dinosaur or the feisty gray shrimp?"
"First off pal, we don't own any of them, they're our partners, not pets. Agumon, the kind, brave, starving dinosaur is mine. How is he? Is he ok? Wait a minute;" Tai pauses; "Gray shrimp? That's the second time I've heard that tonight. What gray shrimp?"
"The one that gave my brother a run for his money;" smirks Intern; "That sure was funny."
"I don't know any gray shrimp. Anyway, we're rambling on here;" says Tai; "Can that trick of yours get me loose?"
Intern looks down; "Well, I guess it can, but if I help you escape, they'll know."
"So, escape with me."
Intern freaks; "NO! I CAN'T!" Another jerk and crash suggest that Flunky has hit something. The crate also moves and hits the back, followed by a series of more jerks as Flunky tries to back out. The crate move again and nearly sits on top Tai and Intern. Fluffy hiss angrily from the inside.
"Jeez this girl's heavy;" says Intern. They can hear Fluffy banging on the top, trying to get out. "She's waking up!"
"Free us, NOW!" says Tai.
"But….but….I can't leave my brother."
"We'll take him with us;" suggest Tai.
"What, are you crazy? I'm no match for him, despite the fact that he's a pathetic mage."
"HURRY!"
Intern manages to get out a book, his own grimoire. It glows light green, floats and opens, freaking Tai out.
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Izzy and company have entered a large pond and back up into a waterfall, hoping that the Tracker might lose their scents, unfortunately, to no avail. They had tried hiding in some stinky plants to no avail, and they refused to cover themselves in animal dung when Katherine suggested it, really not wanting to do it herself. The thing can stiff them out by both air and water. So far they've just barely avoided being hit by tar, and it can eat through large rocks and thick tree trunks like acid. Izzy thinks real hard, but he's not sure how to fight this thing. Just 3 hours ago, Izzy would've assumed all these creatures were digimon, now however, he's sure none of them are. Tracker keeps shooting, some tar causing a tree to fall right slap down the middle between Izzy and Agumon and Katherine and Nixie, startling them. Tracker shoots again, this time, Izzy gets hit in the arm, causing him to drop Agumon into the water. His arm feels like it's on fire.
"If only Tentomon could get free;" says Izzy as he feel inside his pocket, but he can't feel the cube. Just a drop of tar got on his pocket and burned a hole, causing the cub to fall out and float in the water; "NO TENTOMON!"
"I'll get him." Agumon tries to find the cube, but his vision's so blurry he keeps missing it, plus he's got water in his eyes.
"Agumon, to the right, further;" calls Izzy as he soaks his burning arm.
"AGUMON!" Katherine jumps from the tree trunk and jumps in front of Agumon, taking the blast of tar that was meant for him.
"KAT NO!"
"Kat Kat!" Nixie bounces from the tree and goes to her partner. She's furious and turns around to face the Tracker.
"Baby NO!" shouts Agumon; "You can't fight him unless you digivolve."
Tracker shoots and Niximon gets completely covered by burning tar. Agumon calls out to her again in tears, failing to notice the glow coming from Katherine's digivice. Suddenly, a sea blue glow comes from the tar and it burst. The glow intensifies and the next thing they know, a dome water barrier is covering them, successfully blocking the Tracker's repeated attacks. Agumon looks up and can just barely make out a still small creature with wings controlling the water barrier and thinks he's seeing an angel. Izzy is shocked by what he sees, and Katherine opens her eyes to see flying above her the very digimon she saw in her mind. Niximon's now shaped like a seahorse, with cream-colored skin. Her pestle colored wings are a hybrid between butterfly, dragon, and angel wings, with blue rings lining out the wings. Nixie briefly looks down at her partner, revealing a sea-horse like face with round edges, the same baby blue eyes, and the pink heart on her right check, completed with the Parasaurolophus crest on top of her head.
Izzy is both shocked and amazed by what he sees. Is this really is Niximon? Her size is smaller than Gatomon, yet this power is at least Champion/Adult level. Did this newly created, freshly hatched digimon just jumped three digivolution levels in an instant? Izzy's never seen that before. To a lesser extent, Agumon's wondering the same things, just lost in wonder at what he's seeing. He's never seen a digimon of such small size pack so much power.
Suddenly, another glow appears. The boys looks and are even more surprised. There's Katherine, actually glowing herself. Her messed up hair is now completely loose and flowing like it's underwater, and she's almost clothed by what looks like magical water. She walks towards the barrier as if in a trance and places both of her hands on it. Outside the barrier, the Tracker's still going strong with no signs of tiring. When Katherine touches the water barrier, both she and Niximon glow even brighter, whirlpools appear on the barrier, and from them come perfect circle water attacks, larger than an average adult human. Several attacks hit the Tracker over and over again until he can no longer shoot tar, plus his nose is full of water and he sneezes. One more water ball sends him packing, at least far enough for them to make a good head start.
As the two glows fade, the water barrier disappears, leaving behind water showering down on them like rain. Niximon reverts back to her baby form and collapses, as does Katherine.
I did borrow some elements from Black Clover and other anime. Always wondered what it would be like if the digimon ever faced magic.
