Seeing the Digi Destined fleeing into the forest, the EDD knew they wouldn't be out of there anytime soon. They decided to get back to the castle.
Meanwhile, the Digi Destined stopped after a few minutes of running through the forest. "Can we stop Tai? I'm so exhausted!" Mimi told him as she attempted to catch her breath. Tai looked at the others. They were all panting.
"I guess so," Tai said after a moment of thought. They decided to sit down in a circle. Tai sat next to Kari.
Sora started the conversation. "Guys, how can we cope facing the EDD and Enfernomon?"
"Well," Izzy spoke up, "I'm sure the EDD haven't been able to digivolve their digimon. Did you see how they stayed rookie and the only one to digivolve was Waspmon? They would have all went to champion against us."
"Izzy's right," Matt said. "We can easily defeat them if our digimon went to the ultimate level."
"Oh, you think so?" An ominous voice spoke out of no where. The Digi Destined stood up and looked around to find the source of the voice.
"Who's there?" Kari asked.
As that was said, a golden cat like digimon leaped out of some bushes. Instead of a cat's head, it had a head like that of an Egyptian pharaoh. A digimon analyzer came up. "Hello, Digi Destined. Enfernomon sent me, Sphinxmon, to destroy you with my Pyramid Missile attack."
Izzy checked his computer. "That's an ultimate level digimon!"
Tai stepped forward. "Just try and destroy us!"
Sphinxmon lifted his paw and shook one of his fingers at the kids. "Oh no, I'm not alone."
"He's right" Giantdramon, the source of the voice, leaped out of another patch of bushes and landed next to Sphinxmon. The two ran after the Digi Destined. Their partners hopped in front of the kids, protecting them.
"Gomamon, digivolve to... Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon, digivolve to... Togemon!"
"Patamon, digivolve to... Angemon!"
"Agumon, digivolve to... Greymon!"
"Gatomon, digivolve to... Angewomon!"
"Gabumon, digivolve to... Garurumon!"
"Tentomon, digivolve to... Kabuterimon!"
"Biyomon, digivolve to... Birdramon!"
Birdramon, Garurumon, Togemon and Kabuterimon ran after Giantdramon, while Sphixmon was attacked by Greymon, Ikkakumon, Angewomon and Angemon. Sphinxmon, using his cat-like agility, jumped up into the air and tackled Greymon. Greymon landed hardly on the ground along with Sphinxmon on top. Sphinxmon started to slash and claw away at Greymon's face with his two front paws. Ikkakumon ran after the two while Angewomon and Angemon hovered towards them.
"Hand of Fate!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
"Harpoon Torpedo!"
Sphixmon saw the attacks coming, and leaped out of the way. The attacks exploded on Greymon. Greymon grunted as the attacks exploded against his body. Angemon and Angewomon landed in front of him to go apologize. Ikkakumon turned around and ran after Sphinxmon, who was running away from Ikkakumon. He saw Ikkakumon alone behind him and leaped into the air. In mid-air, he turned around and landed swiftly in front of Ikkakumon.
"Pyramid Missile!" Sphinxmon opened his mouth and a wave of little pyramid shaped rocks flew out. Ikkakumon saw them coming and he launched a wave of Harpoon Torpedoes. Most of the missiles hit the pyramids and exploded them. But some made their way past Ikkakumon's attack and they hit themselves against Ikkakumon's furry body. Ikkakumon grunted in pain and was sent back little by little until he couldn't take it anymore. Ikkakumon roared and fell over. Sphinxmon laughed.
Meanwhile, Giantdramon used his sheer strength to overcome Birdramon, Garurumon, Kabuterimon and Togemon. He already sent Kabuterimon and Togemon into trees. Birdramon flew around, hitting Giantdramon with Meteor Wings. It had no effect against Giantdramon's armored body.
"This is child's play," Giantdramon said. He then leaped up, his huge butcher knife outstretched. "Grand Sword!" Giantdramon readied the sword and brought it in back of him to do a horizontal swipe.
"Howling Blaster!" Giantdramon glanced to see a huge beam of ice shoot his way. He had no time to react, and was hit straight in the chest. The beam kept going however, making Giantdramon plummet to the ground below, but his fall was cushioned by the trees. Garurumon landed on the ground after making Birdramon's rescue. Birdramon stayed in the air, however.
"Meteor Wing!" His wings brought down flames, which fell to the part of the forest which Giantdramon landed. Shortly after the flames landed, a forest fire ensued.
"Oh no!" Sora yelled. "You have to put that out, or we'll be burned to death!"
"No problem," Garurumon answered her. He jumped into the air and opened his mouth. "Howling Blaster!" The blue beam erupted from Garurumon's mouth, putting out the fire. Garurumon landed and sighed with relief. Suddenly, the trees started to rumble. The digimon looked up to see Giantdramon sit up and then get to his feet. Giantdramon reared his sword back and launched the sword like a boomerang. The sword accurately connected with every Digi Destined digimon except for Greymon. The sword landed back in Giantdramon's hand. He then walked back to where Sphinxmon was.
"I got everyone, Sphinxmon," Giantdramon told him.
Sphinxmon nodded. "Good. Now for the children." The two started to walked casually towards the Digi Destined.
"Get up Greymon!" Tai yelled to his partner. The only digimon left to protect the kids was Greymon. Greymon started to stir. He slowly opened his eyes, to see Tai and the others getting stalked by Giantdramon and Sphinxmon.
"I've got to help them. I'll have to be brave and face them alone..." Greymon said to himself. He started to glow with golden energy from his words. "Greymon, digivolve to... Metalgreymon!" Metalgreymon stomped forward, causing Sphinxmon and Giantdramon to turn around.
"Ah, it seems we have a worthy opponent at last." Giantdramon said. Sphinxmon nodded. The two split up suddenly and ran after Metalgreymon. Metalgreymon swatted Sphinxmon away easily with his metal arm. Sphinxmon smashed through a tree and was momentarily stunned. With Sphinxmon out of the way for now, Metalgreymon could attack Giantdramon. Metalgreymon whipped his tail forward. Giantdramon jumped over it like little kids playing jump rope.
"Giga Blaster!" The missile pods on Metalgreymon's chest opened and two missiles launched out of them. The missiles turned around and surged towards Giantdramon. Giantdramon had no time to react and the missiles exploded against him, creating a ball of fire which leaped to the sky. Once the smoke cleared, Giantdramon was gone.
Sphinxmon, now awake from Metalgreymon's punishing blow, got up and ran after Metalgreymon. Sphinxmon leaped with all his might and went up to Metalgreymon's face. Metalgreymon opened his mouth to chomp on Sphinxmon, but he dodged in mid-air, opening his own mouth. "Pyramid Missile!" The little pyramids flew out of Sphinxmon's mouth, each connecting with Metalgreymon's body as he fell back to the ground. Sphinxmon then ran off near a tree. He swiped the tree with his right paw and the tree was ripped completely from its roots. The tree flew and smashed into Metalgreymon's face. Metalgreymon roared and fell over. He de-digivolved back to Agumon while on the ground. Sphinxmon laughed. "The almighty Digi Destined, easily beaten! MUAHAHAHA!"
"Skull Bone Claw!"
Suddenly, Sphinxmon was cut out of no where. A moment later, Sphinxmon turned to little bits of data. Up in the air, a digimon that looked very much like Metalgarurumon, but its body a skeleton, seemed to materialize out of no where. The Digi Destined, knowing this digimon defeated Sphinxmon, started to yell up to the digimon. The digimon looked down and turned around and flew away very quickly.
The kids, looking up at the sky, lowered their heads back. "Who was that, Izzy?" Sora asked.
"I don't know. I didn't get a chance to analyze him. He got here and flew away to quickly for my computer to recognize him," Izzy said as he turned off his laptop and folded it up.
"Well I hope he's on our side," Matt said.
Enfernomon's Castle...
The EDD arrived back at the castle and went to Enfernomon's room. They bowed to him, except for Mira. "Master Enfernomon, we took care of the Digi Destined momentarily and left them in the forest. They should get lost in there, so we can come back and finish them off anytime," Lance reported to Enfernomon.
Enfernomon nodded. "I already know. I sent Sphinxmon and Giantdramon after them. Though they haven't come back yet."
Mira was dumbfounded. "What?! We come here to destroy the damned Digi Destined, and then you send you puny servants after them instead of us?!"
"Calm down, Mira." Andrew said. Mira scowled and stayed quiet.
"Also, Enfernomon, I'd like to know why our digimon can't digivolve. Only Mira's could." Ken told him.
"Yes," Enfernomon said. "The scientists wanted to talk to you about that in the lab. Now go!"
The EDD nodded and walked to the lab.
The Lab...
The EDD arrived once again to the lab. Five scientists greeted them as they came in. "What is it?" One of the scientists asked after the greeting.
"We need to know how to get our digimon to digivolve." Tyler told them.
The scientists nodded. "Ah, ok. Come this way." The scientists lead them to a big monitor. One scientist turned around to face the EDD.
"Attached to your digimon were digivices, tags and crests when you met them. The tags and crests go together. Anyway, the digivices you have are used to make digimon digivolve to any level. They can go to the champion level alone, but they work with the crests to go to the ultimate and mega levels. You need to be in danger, or your digimon needs to be nearly defeated to digivolve. To go to the ultimate level, the same rules apply, or you could show the trait of your crest to your digimon. Each crest has a different trait," the scientist pushed some buttons to show Lance's crest, a big square with two squares on every side of it. Its color was yellow.
"This is Lance's crest, the Crest of Fear." He pushed some more buttons to show two triangles forming an hourglass like shape and one triangle on its left and right sides. It was purple. "Missy, this is your crest, the Crest of Insincerity." The monitor then showed an X, but the lines connected to a circle which had a dot in the middle. One dot was on the top, one on the bottom, one on the right and one on the left. It was white. "This is the Crest of Unreliability. Yours, Carlos." Next the monitor showed a circle with Vs pointing towards it in all directions. It was a Dark Grey color. "Ken, this is your Crest of Darkness." The monitor then showed an orange circle that had three pointed ends on the top of it. "This is your crest, Kim. The Crest of Doom." Next the monitor showed a blue cross with each end curving with a point. "This is The Crest of Ignorance. This is yours, Tyler." The monitor showed next a dark green moon (the one that looks like a C i forgot what its called) and on either side of it was a dot. "Andrew, this is your crest of Despair." The monitor switched to the last crest, a red heart with an X over it. "Mira, here is your Crest of Hate. That is all of the crests. I hope that this explanation helped!" The EDD walked away from the scientist and exited the lab.
Meanwhile, the Digi Destined stopped after a few minutes of running through the forest. "Can we stop Tai? I'm so exhausted!" Mimi told him as she attempted to catch her breath. Tai looked at the others. They were all panting.
"I guess so," Tai said after a moment of thought. They decided to sit down in a circle. Tai sat next to Kari.
Sora started the conversation. "Guys, how can we cope facing the EDD and Enfernomon?"
"Well," Izzy spoke up, "I'm sure the EDD haven't been able to digivolve their digimon. Did you see how they stayed rookie and the only one to digivolve was Waspmon? They would have all went to champion against us."
"Izzy's right," Matt said. "We can easily defeat them if our digimon went to the ultimate level."
"Oh, you think so?" An ominous voice spoke out of no where. The Digi Destined stood up and looked around to find the source of the voice.
"Who's there?" Kari asked.
As that was said, a golden cat like digimon leaped out of some bushes. Instead of a cat's head, it had a head like that of an Egyptian pharaoh. A digimon analyzer came up. "Hello, Digi Destined. Enfernomon sent me, Sphinxmon, to destroy you with my Pyramid Missile attack."
Izzy checked his computer. "That's an ultimate level digimon!"
Tai stepped forward. "Just try and destroy us!"
Sphinxmon lifted his paw and shook one of his fingers at the kids. "Oh no, I'm not alone."
"He's right" Giantdramon, the source of the voice, leaped out of another patch of bushes and landed next to Sphinxmon. The two ran after the Digi Destined. Their partners hopped in front of the kids, protecting them.
"Gomamon, digivolve to... Ikkakumon!"
"Palmon, digivolve to... Togemon!"
"Patamon, digivolve to... Angemon!"
"Agumon, digivolve to... Greymon!"
"Gatomon, digivolve to... Angewomon!"
"Gabumon, digivolve to... Garurumon!"
"Tentomon, digivolve to... Kabuterimon!"
"Biyomon, digivolve to... Birdramon!"
Birdramon, Garurumon, Togemon and Kabuterimon ran after Giantdramon, while Sphixmon was attacked by Greymon, Ikkakumon, Angewomon and Angemon. Sphinxmon, using his cat-like agility, jumped up into the air and tackled Greymon. Greymon landed hardly on the ground along with Sphinxmon on top. Sphinxmon started to slash and claw away at Greymon's face with his two front paws. Ikkakumon ran after the two while Angewomon and Angemon hovered towards them.
"Hand of Fate!"
"Celestial Arrow!"
"Harpoon Torpedo!"
Sphixmon saw the attacks coming, and leaped out of the way. The attacks exploded on Greymon. Greymon grunted as the attacks exploded against his body. Angemon and Angewomon landed in front of him to go apologize. Ikkakumon turned around and ran after Sphinxmon, who was running away from Ikkakumon. He saw Ikkakumon alone behind him and leaped into the air. In mid-air, he turned around and landed swiftly in front of Ikkakumon.
"Pyramid Missile!" Sphinxmon opened his mouth and a wave of little pyramid shaped rocks flew out. Ikkakumon saw them coming and he launched a wave of Harpoon Torpedoes. Most of the missiles hit the pyramids and exploded them. But some made their way past Ikkakumon's attack and they hit themselves against Ikkakumon's furry body. Ikkakumon grunted in pain and was sent back little by little until he couldn't take it anymore. Ikkakumon roared and fell over. Sphinxmon laughed.
Meanwhile, Giantdramon used his sheer strength to overcome Birdramon, Garurumon, Kabuterimon and Togemon. He already sent Kabuterimon and Togemon into trees. Birdramon flew around, hitting Giantdramon with Meteor Wings. It had no effect against Giantdramon's armored body.
"This is child's play," Giantdramon said. He then leaped up, his huge butcher knife outstretched. "Grand Sword!" Giantdramon readied the sword and brought it in back of him to do a horizontal swipe.
"Howling Blaster!" Giantdramon glanced to see a huge beam of ice shoot his way. He had no time to react, and was hit straight in the chest. The beam kept going however, making Giantdramon plummet to the ground below, but his fall was cushioned by the trees. Garurumon landed on the ground after making Birdramon's rescue. Birdramon stayed in the air, however.
"Meteor Wing!" His wings brought down flames, which fell to the part of the forest which Giantdramon landed. Shortly after the flames landed, a forest fire ensued.
"Oh no!" Sora yelled. "You have to put that out, or we'll be burned to death!"
"No problem," Garurumon answered her. He jumped into the air and opened his mouth. "Howling Blaster!" The blue beam erupted from Garurumon's mouth, putting out the fire. Garurumon landed and sighed with relief. Suddenly, the trees started to rumble. The digimon looked up to see Giantdramon sit up and then get to his feet. Giantdramon reared his sword back and launched the sword like a boomerang. The sword accurately connected with every Digi Destined digimon except for Greymon. The sword landed back in Giantdramon's hand. He then walked back to where Sphinxmon was.
"I got everyone, Sphinxmon," Giantdramon told him.
Sphinxmon nodded. "Good. Now for the children." The two started to walked casually towards the Digi Destined.
"Get up Greymon!" Tai yelled to his partner. The only digimon left to protect the kids was Greymon. Greymon started to stir. He slowly opened his eyes, to see Tai and the others getting stalked by Giantdramon and Sphinxmon.
"I've got to help them. I'll have to be brave and face them alone..." Greymon said to himself. He started to glow with golden energy from his words. "Greymon, digivolve to... Metalgreymon!" Metalgreymon stomped forward, causing Sphinxmon and Giantdramon to turn around.
"Ah, it seems we have a worthy opponent at last." Giantdramon said. Sphinxmon nodded. The two split up suddenly and ran after Metalgreymon. Metalgreymon swatted Sphinxmon away easily with his metal arm. Sphinxmon smashed through a tree and was momentarily stunned. With Sphinxmon out of the way for now, Metalgreymon could attack Giantdramon. Metalgreymon whipped his tail forward. Giantdramon jumped over it like little kids playing jump rope.
"Giga Blaster!" The missile pods on Metalgreymon's chest opened and two missiles launched out of them. The missiles turned around and surged towards Giantdramon. Giantdramon had no time to react and the missiles exploded against him, creating a ball of fire which leaped to the sky. Once the smoke cleared, Giantdramon was gone.
Sphinxmon, now awake from Metalgreymon's punishing blow, got up and ran after Metalgreymon. Sphinxmon leaped with all his might and went up to Metalgreymon's face. Metalgreymon opened his mouth to chomp on Sphinxmon, but he dodged in mid-air, opening his own mouth. "Pyramid Missile!" The little pyramids flew out of Sphinxmon's mouth, each connecting with Metalgreymon's body as he fell back to the ground. Sphinxmon then ran off near a tree. He swiped the tree with his right paw and the tree was ripped completely from its roots. The tree flew and smashed into Metalgreymon's face. Metalgreymon roared and fell over. He de-digivolved back to Agumon while on the ground. Sphinxmon laughed. "The almighty Digi Destined, easily beaten! MUAHAHAHA!"
"Skull Bone Claw!"
Suddenly, Sphinxmon was cut out of no where. A moment later, Sphinxmon turned to little bits of data. Up in the air, a digimon that looked very much like Metalgarurumon, but its body a skeleton, seemed to materialize out of no where. The Digi Destined, knowing this digimon defeated Sphinxmon, started to yell up to the digimon. The digimon looked down and turned around and flew away very quickly.
The kids, looking up at the sky, lowered their heads back. "Who was that, Izzy?" Sora asked.
"I don't know. I didn't get a chance to analyze him. He got here and flew away to quickly for my computer to recognize him," Izzy said as he turned off his laptop and folded it up.
"Well I hope he's on our side," Matt said.
Enfernomon's Castle...
The EDD arrived back at the castle and went to Enfernomon's room. They bowed to him, except for Mira. "Master Enfernomon, we took care of the Digi Destined momentarily and left them in the forest. They should get lost in there, so we can come back and finish them off anytime," Lance reported to Enfernomon.
Enfernomon nodded. "I already know. I sent Sphinxmon and Giantdramon after them. Though they haven't come back yet."
Mira was dumbfounded. "What?! We come here to destroy the damned Digi Destined, and then you send you puny servants after them instead of us?!"
"Calm down, Mira." Andrew said. Mira scowled and stayed quiet.
"Also, Enfernomon, I'd like to know why our digimon can't digivolve. Only Mira's could." Ken told him.
"Yes," Enfernomon said. "The scientists wanted to talk to you about that in the lab. Now go!"
The EDD nodded and walked to the lab.
The Lab...
The EDD arrived once again to the lab. Five scientists greeted them as they came in. "What is it?" One of the scientists asked after the greeting.
"We need to know how to get our digimon to digivolve." Tyler told them.
The scientists nodded. "Ah, ok. Come this way." The scientists lead them to a big monitor. One scientist turned around to face the EDD.
"Attached to your digimon were digivices, tags and crests when you met them. The tags and crests go together. Anyway, the digivices you have are used to make digimon digivolve to any level. They can go to the champion level alone, but they work with the crests to go to the ultimate and mega levels. You need to be in danger, or your digimon needs to be nearly defeated to digivolve. To go to the ultimate level, the same rules apply, or you could show the trait of your crest to your digimon. Each crest has a different trait," the scientist pushed some buttons to show Lance's crest, a big square with two squares on every side of it. Its color was yellow.
"This is Lance's crest, the Crest of Fear." He pushed some more buttons to show two triangles forming an hourglass like shape and one triangle on its left and right sides. It was purple. "Missy, this is your crest, the Crest of Insincerity." The monitor then showed an X, but the lines connected to a circle which had a dot in the middle. One dot was on the top, one on the bottom, one on the right and one on the left. It was white. "This is the Crest of Unreliability. Yours, Carlos." Next the monitor showed a circle with Vs pointing towards it in all directions. It was a Dark Grey color. "Ken, this is your Crest of Darkness." The monitor then showed an orange circle that had three pointed ends on the top of it. "This is your crest, Kim. The Crest of Doom." Next the monitor showed a blue cross with each end curving with a point. "This is The Crest of Ignorance. This is yours, Tyler." The monitor showed next a dark green moon (the one that looks like a C i forgot what its called) and on either side of it was a dot. "Andrew, this is your crest of Despair." The monitor switched to the last crest, a red heart with an X over it. "Mira, here is your Crest of Hate. That is all of the crests. I hope that this explanation helped!" The EDD walked away from the scientist and exited the lab.