Episode 10
"UNICORN LANCE!"
"After we found Lily's Digimon, I told her everything there is to know about Digivolving. After that we went out to try to find the others, who are probably scattered all over the island. I just know somebody out there is planning some kind of weird attack. We've got to find the others or else we'll be weak. I'm not sure what's going to happen next, but I hope we survive it." -Tai
Jamie Teshamato, 26 years old, in her fourth year of med school, and soon to get her MD, came home from classes one day and found her younger sister missing.
She called the Kamiya's first.
"Hello, Mrs. Kamiya," Jamie said into the phone. "Is Lily over there? She's not here so I figured-"
"Lily isn't here," Mrs. Kamiya said, choking back a sob. "Neither are Tai or Kari."
"What?" Jamie demanded. "I don't-"
"They're missing, too," Mrs. Kamiya said.
"Missing?! But how...?"
"I don't know," Mrs. Kamiya said shortly, and hung up the phone.
Of course Mrs. Kamiya did know where both of her children were. But she couldn't tell Jamie that. As for Lily, the last Mrs. Kamiya had seen of her was when she watched helplessly as both Tai and Lily were pulled through the "drift" into the digital world. But somehow she didn't think Jamie would buy that story.
Meanwhile Jamie was calling as many people as she knew, and when nobody was able to help her, she finally called the police.
"Missing kid?" the officer said, sounding not at all surprised. "We'll get on that as soon as we can, ma'am."
"As soon you CAN?!" Jamie demanded, outraged. "My sister is missing!"
"I'm very sorry, ma'am, but yours is not the only case we have to deal with right now. There have been monster attacks all over town-"
"MONSTER ATTACKS?!"
"-plus we have eight other missing kids who all vanished between last night and right now..."
The officer droned on and on, but Jamie didn't know what to say.
*********************
It was getting dark by the time Lily finally suggested that the little group made up of her, Tai, Auramon and Agumon stop for the night.
"That sounds like a good idea to me," Auramon said, collapsing wearily on the ground.
Tai looked over the pitiful, tired little group. "Okay, we can stop here for the night. But we have to get moving right away tomorrow. We have to get out of these mountains."
*Easier said than done,* Lily thought wearily. She wasn't really used to hiking through the mountains all day long. It seemed that Tai's "dimmensional rift" had dumped them on one side of the mountains, right next to the coast. Tai was pushing to get over the mountains, and since Lily didn't really know what else to do, she followed.
Auramon said, "Just leave the mountain climbing to me! It's gonna be hard, especially when we get to the cold places, but I know some trails that should cut the trip in half."
"Why do we need to get out of these mountains so bad?" Lily demanded suddenly. "We have water right here, since we've been following this stream. We have food. It'll be hard to travel in the mountains, like Auramon said. We don't have an appointment to be somewhere, do we?"
"Well, we have to find the others," Tai said peevishly, like he was annoyed that she'd even question what they were doing.
"What others?"
"Oh, right, I didn't tell you about them, did I?" Tai asked. "Well, there are others like us. Other Digidestined. There are nine of us, to be exact, counting you and me. My sister, Kari, is one of them."
"Really?" Lily didn't think that Kari looked much like the superhero type. But then again, neither did Tai. Or Lily herself.
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Lily and Auramon fell asleep almost instantly, but Tai and Agumon stayed awake long into the night, keeping guard.
Then at last, just as the both of them were starting to nod off, Tai raised his head suddenly and stared into the darkness.
"Do you feel that?" he whispered.
"Feel what?" Agumon murmured, coming back from the brink of sleep.
"I don't know how to describe it," Tai said slowly. "I get this feeling sometimes. Like trouble about to happen. I guess you could call it my digi-sense."
Agumon was about to reply when the both heard a noise. Like a footstep.
"Did you hear that?" Tai demanded in a whisper.
Agumon nodded nervously. "What do we do, Tai?"
Tai looked around, taking stock of their situation quickly. He made a snap decision. "Get in the
bushes. I'll wake up Lily. We'll wait till this thing comes to us, then you can surprise it."
"Okay," Agumon said, and raced off into the bushes.
Tai grabbed Lily's shoulder and shook her. She started.
"Get up, Lily. We have to move."
"Why?" she demanded in a fierce whisper.
"Something's coming."
"Oh." Feeling fear rise in her chest, Lily quickly turned to Auramon and gathered the sleeping Digimon into her arms. "Now what?"
"Get in the bushes. Wake up Auramon. If there's danger, she might be able to digivolve, which would be good for us," he added anxiously.
Lily did what he said without hesitation. After all, he probably knew a bit more about these type of situations than she did. Once she was in the bushes, she gently shook Auramon awake.
"Wha's goin on?" Auramon said groggily.
"There's someone coming," Lily whispered.
Auramon blinked and didn't answer, but looked much more alert.
The footsteps were much closer and louder now. It sounded like something big was crashing through the bush. And then it, whatever it was, bounded into the clearing.
"What is that?" Lily whispered. "Some kind of devil kangeroo?"
It certainly looked like one. In fact, it looked very much like a kangeroo with long, sharp teeth and boxing gloves on it's hands. It was black all over except for a white skull on it's back and on it's stomach. And it was big. As in very, very big.
"Kazikonzamon," Agumon said grimly.
"Kazi-whatmon?" Tai demanded.
"Kazikonzamon. A devil kangeroo is probably a good way to describe it. It's got a nasty attitude and a mean punch."
Tai's and Lily's digivices both started beeping. Tai and Lily both clapped their hands over them to try and muffle the sound.
"What are they doing?!" Lily whispered fiercely.
"They're recording the Digimon," Tai explained quickly. "If we get out of this alive, we can put them into Izzy's Digimon Analyzer and find out more about Kazikonzamon."
Lily barely had time to say, "What?" before Kazikonzamon was staring at the bushes.
"So that's where you're hiding," he said in a smooth voice, sounding amused. "How original."
"He's noticed us," Tai said grimly.
"Gee, you think?" Lily and Auramon both said in unison.
"Come on out and make it easy on yourselves!" Kazikonzamon called.
"Tai, should I digivolve?" Agumon demanded.
Tai nodded. "Do it!"
Agumon stepped from the bushes.
"Ah, a volunteer," Kazikonzamon laughed. "You will be the first to die."
"Guess again," Tai whispered fiercely, gripping the digivice tightly.
"Agumon! Digivolve to...GREYMON!"
Lily gaped in amazment. She was watching her first digivolution. Agumon had changed almost instantly into a much more powerful-looking creature. Greymon still looked basically like an orange dinosaur, but definitely a lot bigger than Agumon had been. And probably much more deadly.
"Looks like the kangeroo needs to be taught a lesson," Greymon growled in a deep, thick voice.
He charged Kazikonzamon. Kazikonzamon charged Greymon. They both slammed into each other like a couple of trucks doing a hundred miles an hour.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon unleashed his attack right into Kazikonzamon's face. The Digimon bellowed and stumbled back.
"Now you've made me really mad!" Kazkonzamon screamed. "DARK STRIKE!"
From his gloves shot a black kind of fire that hit Greymon squarely in the chest. He went down hard and immediately de-digivolved.
"Oh, no!" Auramon cried.
"Agumon!" Tai yelled. "Get up! You're the only one who can fight!"
But Agumon was out cold.
Kazikonzamon turned to Lily and Auramon. "My master will be disapointed that he did not get a
chance to play with you first," he laughed. "But he gave me orders to kill you if I could."
Kazikonzamon raised his gloves, pointe-blank at Lily and Auramon. "DARK STRIKE!"
Lily felt the digivice vibrate crazily in her palm.
"Auramon! Digivolve to...AURORAMON!"
Auroramon knocked Lily aside with her head and easily jumped clear of the attack.
Lily stared in wonder at her Digimon. The tiny Rookie had become a beautiful, powerful Champion. Auroramon was still a horse, but what a horse! Her powerful muscles were visible under her skin. Her white fur was pratically iridescent in the moonlight. Her blue mane cascaded down her back in wild curls, and her wings were wide-swept and gigantic. She had strange ornaments on her legs, from the knees to the hooves, which looked like some sort of metal leg-warmers. And she had a long golden horn on her forehead, where nothing had been before.
She was also very tall, much larger than a normal horse. Lily was barely the height of one of her legs.
Auroramon grinned at Lily, then spread her wings and took to the air.
"You stupid Digimon!" Kazikonzamon bellowed. "Do you actually think you can defeat ME?!"
"We'll see," Auroramon replied calmly. Her voice was deeper than it had been before, and so clear that it sounded like some sort of strangely beautiful music.
"DARK STRIKE!" Kazikonzamon yelled, unleashing his attack, but Auroramon easily dodged it. Then she raised her head proudly, the tip of her horn shining with an iridescent blue light.
"Your time is up, Kazikonzamon. UNICORN LANCE!"
Hundreds of tiny arrows of blue light shot from her horn and engulfed Kazikonzamon. He gave an anguished cry and dissolved into nothing.
"You did it, Auroramon!" Lily yelled happily.
"Wow, she was great!" Tai exclaimed.
Auroramon smiled at them. "It was nothing," she said modestly.
Next episode: ANOTHER SEPARATION
"UNICORN LANCE!"
"After we found Lily's Digimon, I told her everything there is to know about Digivolving. After that we went out to try to find the others, who are probably scattered all over the island. I just know somebody out there is planning some kind of weird attack. We've got to find the others or else we'll be weak. I'm not sure what's going to happen next, but I hope we survive it." -Tai
Jamie Teshamato, 26 years old, in her fourth year of med school, and soon to get her MD, came home from classes one day and found her younger sister missing.
She called the Kamiya's first.
"Hello, Mrs. Kamiya," Jamie said into the phone. "Is Lily over there? She's not here so I figured-"
"Lily isn't here," Mrs. Kamiya said, choking back a sob. "Neither are Tai or Kari."
"What?" Jamie demanded. "I don't-"
"They're missing, too," Mrs. Kamiya said.
"Missing?! But how...?"
"I don't know," Mrs. Kamiya said shortly, and hung up the phone.
Of course Mrs. Kamiya did know where both of her children were. But she couldn't tell Jamie that. As for Lily, the last Mrs. Kamiya had seen of her was when she watched helplessly as both Tai and Lily were pulled through the "drift" into the digital world. But somehow she didn't think Jamie would buy that story.
Meanwhile Jamie was calling as many people as she knew, and when nobody was able to help her, she finally called the police.
"Missing kid?" the officer said, sounding not at all surprised. "We'll get on that as soon as we can, ma'am."
"As soon you CAN?!" Jamie demanded, outraged. "My sister is missing!"
"I'm very sorry, ma'am, but yours is not the only case we have to deal with right now. There have been monster attacks all over town-"
"MONSTER ATTACKS?!"
"-plus we have eight other missing kids who all vanished between last night and right now..."
The officer droned on and on, but Jamie didn't know what to say.
*********************
It was getting dark by the time Lily finally suggested that the little group made up of her, Tai, Auramon and Agumon stop for the night.
"That sounds like a good idea to me," Auramon said, collapsing wearily on the ground.
Tai looked over the pitiful, tired little group. "Okay, we can stop here for the night. But we have to get moving right away tomorrow. We have to get out of these mountains."
*Easier said than done,* Lily thought wearily. She wasn't really used to hiking through the mountains all day long. It seemed that Tai's "dimmensional rift" had dumped them on one side of the mountains, right next to the coast. Tai was pushing to get over the mountains, and since Lily didn't really know what else to do, she followed.
Auramon said, "Just leave the mountain climbing to me! It's gonna be hard, especially when we get to the cold places, but I know some trails that should cut the trip in half."
"Why do we need to get out of these mountains so bad?" Lily demanded suddenly. "We have water right here, since we've been following this stream. We have food. It'll be hard to travel in the mountains, like Auramon said. We don't have an appointment to be somewhere, do we?"
"Well, we have to find the others," Tai said peevishly, like he was annoyed that she'd even question what they were doing.
"What others?"
"Oh, right, I didn't tell you about them, did I?" Tai asked. "Well, there are others like us. Other Digidestined. There are nine of us, to be exact, counting you and me. My sister, Kari, is one of them."
"Really?" Lily didn't think that Kari looked much like the superhero type. But then again, neither did Tai. Or Lily herself.
*********************
Lily and Auramon fell asleep almost instantly, but Tai and Agumon stayed awake long into the night, keeping guard.
Then at last, just as the both of them were starting to nod off, Tai raised his head suddenly and stared into the darkness.
"Do you feel that?" he whispered.
"Feel what?" Agumon murmured, coming back from the brink of sleep.
"I don't know how to describe it," Tai said slowly. "I get this feeling sometimes. Like trouble about to happen. I guess you could call it my digi-sense."
Agumon was about to reply when the both heard a noise. Like a footstep.
"Did you hear that?" Tai demanded in a whisper.
Agumon nodded nervously. "What do we do, Tai?"
Tai looked around, taking stock of their situation quickly. He made a snap decision. "Get in the
bushes. I'll wake up Lily. We'll wait till this thing comes to us, then you can surprise it."
"Okay," Agumon said, and raced off into the bushes.
Tai grabbed Lily's shoulder and shook her. She started.
"Get up, Lily. We have to move."
"Why?" she demanded in a fierce whisper.
"Something's coming."
"Oh." Feeling fear rise in her chest, Lily quickly turned to Auramon and gathered the sleeping Digimon into her arms. "Now what?"
"Get in the bushes. Wake up Auramon. If there's danger, she might be able to digivolve, which would be good for us," he added anxiously.
Lily did what he said without hesitation. After all, he probably knew a bit more about these type of situations than she did. Once she was in the bushes, she gently shook Auramon awake.
"Wha's goin on?" Auramon said groggily.
"There's someone coming," Lily whispered.
Auramon blinked and didn't answer, but looked much more alert.
The footsteps were much closer and louder now. It sounded like something big was crashing through the bush. And then it, whatever it was, bounded into the clearing.
"What is that?" Lily whispered. "Some kind of devil kangeroo?"
It certainly looked like one. In fact, it looked very much like a kangeroo with long, sharp teeth and boxing gloves on it's hands. It was black all over except for a white skull on it's back and on it's stomach. And it was big. As in very, very big.
"Kazikonzamon," Agumon said grimly.
"Kazi-whatmon?" Tai demanded.
"Kazikonzamon. A devil kangeroo is probably a good way to describe it. It's got a nasty attitude and a mean punch."
Tai's and Lily's digivices both started beeping. Tai and Lily both clapped their hands over them to try and muffle the sound.
"What are they doing?!" Lily whispered fiercely.
"They're recording the Digimon," Tai explained quickly. "If we get out of this alive, we can put them into Izzy's Digimon Analyzer and find out more about Kazikonzamon."
Lily barely had time to say, "What?" before Kazikonzamon was staring at the bushes.
"So that's where you're hiding," he said in a smooth voice, sounding amused. "How original."
"He's noticed us," Tai said grimly.
"Gee, you think?" Lily and Auramon both said in unison.
"Come on out and make it easy on yourselves!" Kazikonzamon called.
"Tai, should I digivolve?" Agumon demanded.
Tai nodded. "Do it!"
Agumon stepped from the bushes.
"Ah, a volunteer," Kazikonzamon laughed. "You will be the first to die."
"Guess again," Tai whispered fiercely, gripping the digivice tightly.
"Agumon! Digivolve to...GREYMON!"
Lily gaped in amazment. She was watching her first digivolution. Agumon had changed almost instantly into a much more powerful-looking creature. Greymon still looked basically like an orange dinosaur, but definitely a lot bigger than Agumon had been. And probably much more deadly.
"Looks like the kangeroo needs to be taught a lesson," Greymon growled in a deep, thick voice.
He charged Kazikonzamon. Kazikonzamon charged Greymon. They both slammed into each other like a couple of trucks doing a hundred miles an hour.
"NOVA BLAST!" Greymon unleashed his attack right into Kazikonzamon's face. The Digimon bellowed and stumbled back.
"Now you've made me really mad!" Kazkonzamon screamed. "DARK STRIKE!"
From his gloves shot a black kind of fire that hit Greymon squarely in the chest. He went down hard and immediately de-digivolved.
"Oh, no!" Auramon cried.
"Agumon!" Tai yelled. "Get up! You're the only one who can fight!"
But Agumon was out cold.
Kazikonzamon turned to Lily and Auramon. "My master will be disapointed that he did not get a
chance to play with you first," he laughed. "But he gave me orders to kill you if I could."
Kazikonzamon raised his gloves, pointe-blank at Lily and Auramon. "DARK STRIKE!"
Lily felt the digivice vibrate crazily in her palm.
"Auramon! Digivolve to...AURORAMON!"
Auroramon knocked Lily aside with her head and easily jumped clear of the attack.
Lily stared in wonder at her Digimon. The tiny Rookie had become a beautiful, powerful Champion. Auroramon was still a horse, but what a horse! Her powerful muscles were visible under her skin. Her white fur was pratically iridescent in the moonlight. Her blue mane cascaded down her back in wild curls, and her wings were wide-swept and gigantic. She had strange ornaments on her legs, from the knees to the hooves, which looked like some sort of metal leg-warmers. And she had a long golden horn on her forehead, where nothing had been before.
She was also very tall, much larger than a normal horse. Lily was barely the height of one of her legs.
Auroramon grinned at Lily, then spread her wings and took to the air.
"You stupid Digimon!" Kazikonzamon bellowed. "Do you actually think you can defeat ME?!"
"We'll see," Auroramon replied calmly. Her voice was deeper than it had been before, and so clear that it sounded like some sort of strangely beautiful music.
"DARK STRIKE!" Kazikonzamon yelled, unleashing his attack, but Auroramon easily dodged it. Then she raised her head proudly, the tip of her horn shining with an iridescent blue light.
"Your time is up, Kazikonzamon. UNICORN LANCE!"
Hundreds of tiny arrows of blue light shot from her horn and engulfed Kazikonzamon. He gave an anguished cry and dissolved into nothing.
"You did it, Auroramon!" Lily yelled happily.
"Wow, she was great!" Tai exclaimed.
Auroramon smiled at them. "It was nothing," she said modestly.
Next episode: ANOTHER SEPARATION