Digimon: Dino Attack
Valerie and I were on the back of Stingmon, heading to Seattle. The wind whipped our faces with harsh breezes. Stingmon was flying as fast as he could to Seattle. Pengomon was asleep, snoring loudly.
"Well, what's the plan? We're almost to Washington." Valerie asked me as she stared over at Pengomon.
"The plan is the same as it's been for the other places, stop the Digimon. The others are there or will be there soon. Then, maybe we can all go back to a normal life."
"That'd be great. But, then all of us would go back to how it was before. We'd never see each other again." Valerie said sadly.
"Look at it this way.....we'll have a great story to tell people in chat!" I said trying to cheer her up.
"Yeah. But nobody would believe it was actually us."
"We'll be famous too. After all, we're saving the world. We'll be on Leno and Regis. We could be on Celebrity Who Wants to be A millionaire!" We both laughed. "I know we'll all see each other again after this is over."
"Yeah, you're right." I turned away from her and turned to Stingmon's head.
"How much longer, Stingmon?"
"We'll be there within the hour."
"Good."
"Do we have any idea of who the Digimon there are?" Valerie asked.
"The only ones we know about are; DarkTyrannomon and SkullGreymon. We're going to have to be careful this time around. Those are two tough Digimon, and both of them are Ultimates. And, Wormon still couldn't warp-digevolve even after he ate and slept....and the ate again....and again and then slept some more! So, the time he did warp-digevolve into Imperialdramon was just a fluke and it would be better if we started to assume that he can't warp-digevolve anymore. You hear that okay Stingmon?"
"I understand. We should still try to figure out why I can't warp-digevolve into Imperialdramon anymore."
"We don't have to bother with that. This is going to be our last battle! Then, we're done. We'll have beaten them and won. We can't lose because we're so strong!"
"Geez, with that huge head of yours Cody, why don't you just headbutt them and get it over with. Tone back on the ego."
"Sorry. Okay, let's all think of a plan of how and what we're going to do in Seattle. Then, we'll submit our ideas to this small group and we'll use the best one okay?" Everyone nodded. I started to think of an idea, but all that I got was a big blank. So, I thought of what-ifs.
What-if there were more Digimon than we've heard about or seen on the news in Seattle?
What-if the others were already there and they were destroyed?
What-if this wasn't our last battle and more evil Digimon appeared in America?
What-if evil Digimon showed up world wide this time?
After 15 minutes of thinking all of us submitted our ideas. Valerie went first.
"The first thing is this, those Digimon aren't very smart. They stay to one area and don't leave. Even after the town or city or area is destroyed. They'll still be there pounding on the metal from a building they destroyed a week before. None of them have spread out for some reason. We can use that to our advantage if something goes wrong. The second thing is the digevolving thing. For all we know, the others have been there and they were killed. So, how are two Champion Digimon going to take care of two, possibly more, evil Digimon? And even if the others were there and they were holding out, how long would it be before the Digimon ran out of strength. Our Digimon aren't going to stay in their Champion forms forever. Those evil Digimon are staying in those forms forever until they digevolve themselves and untamed Digimon take a very long time to digevolve." Pengomon went next, let's just say........he has a better chance of learning to fly than becoming a military stratigist.
"I think we should all eat as soon as we get there and then, we can worry about the evil Digimon." After that Stingmon went. Digimon have a one track mind apparently. All he did was talk about what kind of food he was going to eat. But, then he said something else.
"If the others and us all show up around the same time. We'll have five of us Champions. Five Champions versus two Ultimates sounds like a good attack plan." I went next and explained my what-ifs.
"What-if there were more Digimon than we've heard about or seen on the news in Seattle? What-if the others were already there and they were destroyed? What-if this isn't our last battle and more evil Digimon appeared in America? What-if evil Digimon showed up world wide this time?" Everyone was quiet thinking about those things when Stingmon cried out.
"Watch out! We've got incoming attacks!" Two huge missles with mouths flew past us and exploded. "What were those!?" Stingmon shouted while rebalancing himself in the air. He had dodged left then up and to the right to evade the attacks.
"Those missles were MetalGreymon's Giga-Blaster attack." I looked over the edge of Stingmon and saw more attacks coming. "Stingmon! Watch out! More incoming! Brace, brace, brace, guys!" We all gripped Stingmon tightly as a missles three times the size of the Giga-Blaster missles whipped by us and exploded creating a shockwave. After that two blue laser beams shot up and hit Stingmon in the stomach.
"Argh. We're going down, expect a little turbulance guys...." We all spiraled down through the air. Explosions rocked us back and forth. Then we hit the ground and it was the last thing I knew.
* * *
The first thing I realized was that I wasn't laying in a mud puddle anymore. I was in a bed, but I could hardly move or think. I tasted blood and felt really dirty. I tried to open my eyes, but that only made me notice the unbelievably painful headache. I groaned.
"Orh....whaat" My tounge was thick in my mouth, slurring my words. I tried again to open my eyes and I saw that I was in a small cabin. Liana, Davy, and Valerie were over my bed.
"He's definitly awake now." One of them said. I couldn't tell which because the voice just echoed and my eyes had shut withou my realizing it.
"What can we do? We can't risk moving him a second time. The first time was a danger itself."
The third one spoke, "If we can get him awake, he could take some tylenol or something and that would allivate the pain and swelling."
I swollowed and tried to speak again. "DarkTyrannomon....and MetalGreymon. Deltamon..... no... SkullGreymon! Stingmon's hurt!" I was trying to warn them about all the evil Digimon and Stingmon being hurt.
"Cody, we know. Wormon is fine now." The second voice said. I opened my eyes and my vision had cleared alot. Davy was standing right above me and Valerie was on the other side of the bed. Liana walked back into the room a few seconds later carrying a glass of water and a bottle of Tylenol.
"Here try to take some of these..." She handed them to me. I took a few Tylenol and drank the glass of water. I didn't realize that my throat was like sandpaper.
"Thanks. How did I get here?" I asked them while attempting to sit up. Valerie and Davy pushed me back down.
"Stay down and rest while you can." Valerie said.
"Yeah, man, you got it worse than the rest of us combined." Davy said, taking his hand away from my shoulder. "We got here yesterday. We were in a helicopter that I got through a connection with an uncle. One of his pilots was flying it and we got here pretty quick. Suddenly, we were struck by something and we crashed. The pilot died. He was knocked unconsious by the impact. We were in the back and we were okay. We got out and started to run. We knew that it would explode really quick and it did. We ran into this cabin when we saw it. We were running away from the town, this is probably about a fourth of a mile out of town."
"I'm glad you guys are all right. How did I get here though?"
"We heard the explosions, so we went to were we thought you guys went down. Stingmon was hit pretty bad. He de-digevolved to Wormon and managed to hit you and Valerie with a Sticky Net. Unfortunetly, the net broke and you hit tree branches on the way down. You had already fallen into the trees so, Wormon caught Valerie again and she landed safely. Along with Pengomon. You've probably got a concusion and most likely, a broken bone or two. We need to get out of this place and get you to a doctor." Liana said.
"No, we can't we have to stay and fight." I said while sitting up.
"Cody, you need a doctor." Liana said.
"Yeah, dude. You're seriously hurt. You gotta learn when to take your losses and split." Davy said.
"No, you guys can leave. But, I need you here. This city holds peoples' homes and histories. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. I am going to fight."
"I'm not leaving." Davy said, knowing I wasn't going to change my mind. "I'll stick by your side man."
"Thanks Davy." I got out of the bed slowly. Everything spun a little, but I blinked and my vision was cleared. "No time like the present, let's go."
"Cody!" Valerie and Liana both shouted at the same time.
"You've got to be kidding! You just fell from the sky and got hurt, and now, you're walking around like you tripped while walking."
"It's our job to protect the worlds. I don't care what else happens I'm going to make sure that those people have a place to come back to, not a crater. Wormon, let's go." I turned to Davy. "Where's Agumon?"
"He's outside keeping watch."
"Cody! Get back here!" Liana yelled to me as I walked out of the cabin.
"Just because you're 16 and I'm 15, Liana, doesn't mean you can tell me what to do. I'm the leader, remember?"
"I don't care if you're the King of England! Get back here! You're making the wrong choice!"
I turned to her and I knew my eyes were cold. "No, you're wrong. This time I'm making the selfless choice. And, besides. A member of our team is missing. Natalie still isn't here. We can't just leave."
"Yeah, we can!" Davy said, he really didn't like Natalie alot.
"We can, but we won't. You may not like her alot, but she's a member of the team." I said. Valerie ran up behind me.
"I'll go. But, just because you're being stubborn. Someone has to keep a close eye on you."
"I'm with you guys too. But, as soon as we're done, you're going to a doctor."
"Okay," I said while smiling. "Let's go to those Digimon and send them back."
Agumon, Pengomon, and Betamon all ran up to us as soon as the words were out of my mouth.
"Uh.....you don't have to go to them." Betamon said, agitated.
"Yeah! They're here!" Agumon said while pointing to the distance. We all looked and saw four Dinosaur Digimon running towards us. They were probably a mile or so away.
"We'll charge them!" I yelled. "All of you better digevolve!"
"What about Betamon? He can't digevolve into Seadramon, there's no water!" Liana said.
"I don't need water! Seadramon is a serpant Digimon! He can go on land or water!" Betamon said proudly.
"Wormon digevolve to"
"Agumon digevolve to"
"Pengomon digevolve to"
"Betamon digevolve to"
"Stingmon!"
"Tyrannomon!"
"Frigimon!"
"Seadramon!" They all ran forward and we all stayed behind. The two sets of Digimon got closer and closer to each other. In minutes, they were on top of each other.
"Who are those Digimon?" Liana asked.
"Well, I think we all know MetalGreymon and his Giga-Blaster attack. DarkTyrannomon is Tyrannomon's digivolution and his attack is strong. He shoots roaring flames from his mouth. I don't know the name of his attack, though."
Liana scoffed. "Some leader."
"Sorry I don't have Izzy's computer guys. Anyways, Deltamon has Tri-Plex Force, and he shoots these super strong lasers from the two heads on his hands. And the other one...is SkullGreymon. Digimon quiver in fear of this Ultimate Digimon. His DarkShot attack launches a missle from his back. It will completely obliterate SkullGreymon's enemies."
"Think they have a chance?" Davy asked.
"We need to believe in them, or else, they won't win." Valerie said. Each of our Digimon chose one of the evil Digimon to fight. Stingmon was fighting, well, trying to fight SkullGreymon. Whenever he got close, SkullGreymon just swiped at Stingmon and sent him flying. Tyrannomon was going claw against claw fighting DarkTyrannomon. Seadramon was wrapped around Deltamon's chest. His arms were wrapped too. Frigimon was slowly freezing MetalGreymon with his Sub-Zero Ice Punch. The four of us viewed the fight from just outside the cabin. SkullGreymon swiped at Stingmon and Stingmon went flying into a large tree.
"Stingmon!" I cried. I knew he was hurt bad. I ran toward the fight. Davy, Liana, and Valerie were right on my heels. "Stingmon, get up before he does something else!" Stingmon stood and shook his head, in an attempt to clear his head. He launched off the ground just as SkullGreymon stomped down on the ground where he was seconds before.
"There's no way they can win! It's four Ultimates against four Champions! They are outnumbered." I said to the three other Digidestined behind me. "We can't beat them physically. So, we have to beat them mentally."
"How? They're too strong, any trap we make, they'll break!" Valerie said.
"We might as well give up." Liana said as she sat on the ground in defeat, Valerie did the same thing.
"They're right, Cody. Even if we had Natalie here, we'd still be outnumbered. We're finished." Davy said still staring at the fight.
"No! We can't give up! We don't have to build cages and dig holes for traps. I mean, we can hide and use our laptops to send them back to the Digital World. We can't give up." I reached into the backpack on Valerie's back. I felt the laptop and tore it out.
"Cody... don't do this." She said, tears in her eyes.
"I have to. I can understand that you guys are scared. But, I believe in this fight. And if you don't believe, your Digimon are doomed. Back when were in New York Valerie, I got really upset, remember?" She nodded. "Well, I realized that if you give up, you're not just giving up the fight. You're giving up the Digimon too. Stingmon changed all the back to Leafmon, and he would've been deleted if I hadn't given up my fear. Listen, you guys all run for it okay? Stingmon and I will stay and keep them occupied. Just do it. No comments go!" They all looked at each other and ran. They knew they couldn't talk me out of it. Their Digimon ran away from the fight and towards them. Stingmon flew over to me.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"I'm setting a trap." That's all I said and I hopped onto Stingmon's back and I told him where to go.
* * *
I felt the ground shaking before I saw him. SkullGreymon came roaring down the hill unaware of the trap before him. I was up in a tree above him. He paused under the tree a looked around. Valerie had just ran past this area seconds before. Pengomon was hot on her heels. When SkullGreymon was right under the tree when I jumped down with the laptop open in one hand and my Digivice in my other hand.
"DigiPort open!" I cried as I fell and landed on SkullGreymon's head.
"Huh?" He was completely taken by surprise. He was pulled into the computer and just when I started to fall to the ground, Stingmon flew underneath me and I landed on his neck.
"Nice timing. One down, three to go." I told him where to go next.
* * *
Davy ran underneath the tree I was in. I wanted to say something to him, but DarkTyrannomon was on his tail, and he would need all the time he had to get away. He couldn't afford a distraction. DarkTyrannomon ran past the tree I was in. He was too far away for me to jump so, I tapped Stingmon on the shoulder and we flew off. We came up beside DarkTyrannomon and I waved my arms to get his attention.
"What?" He said in confusion.
"Pull over, sir. You're going over the speed limit." I said. That just confused him more and before he could recover, I flipped the laptop open and held my Digivice by it. "Digiport open!" He was pulled in before he could say a second word.
"Good work, Stingmon. We've got two more and then we're done."
* * *
I knew just after I could see him, that there was no way my plan would work for MetalGreymon. First, he was way too far away from the tree for me to jump. Second he could probably see me.
"Giga-Blaster!" His chest piece opened and he launched two missles at the tree. Stingmon and I leapt off seconds before they hit the tree and turned it into dust.
"Wow, talk about a close one." I was looking at my shoes and they had just missed the flames, barely. The bottoms of my shoes were melted slightly. MetalGreymon picked up speed and came towards us.
"Cody. Whatever your plan is, you better do it quick!" Stingmon said as he hopped up to his feet. I just laid on the ground. He came faster and faster towards me. Stingmon lifted up off the ground and flew away from MetalGreymon. "Cody!!" He cried out as MetalGreymon stepped forward to crush me.
"Digiport open!" I shouted. The screen lit up and sucked MetalGreymon in without any problem. "Let's go get Deltamon, Stingmon." I said as I stood up and brushed myself off.
"Cody! Hey man!" Davy shouted as he ran towards me.
"Cody!" Liana said as she ran behind Davy, Valerie was right behind her. All of their Digimon came right behind Valerie. As soon as they got to me, Davy gave me a high-five. Liana patted my shoulder in congratulation. Valerie came up after they backed away and smiled at me. Her smile vanished and she struck my chest with the palms of her hands.
"You jerk! You tricked us and used us a bait! You're you're you're...."
"I'm a hero and you know it, Valerie!" I said while laughing and grabbing her hands and hugged her.
"Yeah, yeah. Thanks Mr. Leader." She said as she kissed my cheek. "Thanks. I'm sorry we acted so scared earlier."
"I should actually thank you for that. If you guys had stayed and fought, we would be losing right now."
"Oh, how touching. You managed to hold off on losing till now!" We all looked over to the left (their right) and Deltamon was standing there laughing.
"Digevolve!" The other three cried.
"Agumon digevolve to...........Tyrannomon!"
"Betamon digevolve to..........Seadramon!"
"Pengomon digevolve to.........Frigimon!"
"Go, Stingmon!" I yelled to him while showing the others a place that they could run to for safety. They all ran over but, I stayed to send Deltamon back to the DigiWorld.
"Rapid Kick!" Stingmon struck Deltamon violently with his powerful kicks.
"Ice Blast!" Seadramon was flying through the air and he angled down and fired his Ice Blast down at Deltamon's feet, freezing him in place.
"Sub-Zero Ice Punch!" Frigimon hit Deltamon's chest with ice blasts.
"Blaze Blast!" Tyrannomon let lose with his powerful flame attack. This was a one sided fight. We had definatly won. I ran over to Deltamon to send him back, but a light pierced the sky and opened a port and pulled Deltamon in, I was about to cheer, but, another Digimon came out of the Gate.
"Worthless Digimon. Oh well, I will take care of you myself." The Digimon was huge. It came down from the Gate and landed loudly on the ground. I knew my Digimon pretty well, but I had never seen this one before. He was huge. He had the head of a falcon or hawk, and his hind legs were scaled like a dragons' legs. He had the body of a lion and just below the bird head, he had the mane of a lion. The lion tail was whipping around. He had huge wings on the lion's back. Suddenly, I thought back to Mrs. Gauthier's English class. It had to have been the week before this all started. She was teaching us about Greek history and I was actually paying attention because it was interesting.
"A Manticore...." I whispered. The others had come up behind me, staring in awe at the amazing creature before us.
"What. A Manticore?" Valerie asked.
"I thought that was Greek history?" Davy said.
"It is Greek history." Liana said. The Manticore flapped it's wings slightly and our Digimon flew backwards towards us.
"I am not a Manticore! I am Manticoremon! I am stronger than any Manticore, if they ever really existed. I have watched all of you from the Digital World. You are weak, pathetic. Ruled by emotions and loyalties. As are all humans. Weak and pathetic, ruled by feelings and trust. I once had faith in the human race. Now, you're expendible. Prepare to die, Digidestined." He laughed, a cold, dark laugh that chilled me to the bone. I got a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach that told me, "You've met your match."
Valerie and I were on the back of Stingmon, heading to Seattle. The wind whipped our faces with harsh breezes. Stingmon was flying as fast as he could to Seattle. Pengomon was asleep, snoring loudly.
"Well, what's the plan? We're almost to Washington." Valerie asked me as she stared over at Pengomon.
"The plan is the same as it's been for the other places, stop the Digimon. The others are there or will be there soon. Then, maybe we can all go back to a normal life."
"That'd be great. But, then all of us would go back to how it was before. We'd never see each other again." Valerie said sadly.
"Look at it this way.....we'll have a great story to tell people in chat!" I said trying to cheer her up.
"Yeah. But nobody would believe it was actually us."
"We'll be famous too. After all, we're saving the world. We'll be on Leno and Regis. We could be on Celebrity Who Wants to be A millionaire!" We both laughed. "I know we'll all see each other again after this is over."
"Yeah, you're right." I turned away from her and turned to Stingmon's head.
"How much longer, Stingmon?"
"We'll be there within the hour."
"Good."
"Do we have any idea of who the Digimon there are?" Valerie asked.
"The only ones we know about are; DarkTyrannomon and SkullGreymon. We're going to have to be careful this time around. Those are two tough Digimon, and both of them are Ultimates. And, Wormon still couldn't warp-digevolve even after he ate and slept....and the ate again....and again and then slept some more! So, the time he did warp-digevolve into Imperialdramon was just a fluke and it would be better if we started to assume that he can't warp-digevolve anymore. You hear that okay Stingmon?"
"I understand. We should still try to figure out why I can't warp-digevolve into Imperialdramon anymore."
"We don't have to bother with that. This is going to be our last battle! Then, we're done. We'll have beaten them and won. We can't lose because we're so strong!"
"Geez, with that huge head of yours Cody, why don't you just headbutt them and get it over with. Tone back on the ego."
"Sorry. Okay, let's all think of a plan of how and what we're going to do in Seattle. Then, we'll submit our ideas to this small group and we'll use the best one okay?" Everyone nodded. I started to think of an idea, but all that I got was a big blank. So, I thought of what-ifs.
What-if there were more Digimon than we've heard about or seen on the news in Seattle?
What-if the others were already there and they were destroyed?
What-if this wasn't our last battle and more evil Digimon appeared in America?
What-if evil Digimon showed up world wide this time?
After 15 minutes of thinking all of us submitted our ideas. Valerie went first.
"The first thing is this, those Digimon aren't very smart. They stay to one area and don't leave. Even after the town or city or area is destroyed. They'll still be there pounding on the metal from a building they destroyed a week before. None of them have spread out for some reason. We can use that to our advantage if something goes wrong. The second thing is the digevolving thing. For all we know, the others have been there and they were killed. So, how are two Champion Digimon going to take care of two, possibly more, evil Digimon? And even if the others were there and they were holding out, how long would it be before the Digimon ran out of strength. Our Digimon aren't going to stay in their Champion forms forever. Those evil Digimon are staying in those forms forever until they digevolve themselves and untamed Digimon take a very long time to digevolve." Pengomon went next, let's just say........he has a better chance of learning to fly than becoming a military stratigist.
"I think we should all eat as soon as we get there and then, we can worry about the evil Digimon." After that Stingmon went. Digimon have a one track mind apparently. All he did was talk about what kind of food he was going to eat. But, then he said something else.
"If the others and us all show up around the same time. We'll have five of us Champions. Five Champions versus two Ultimates sounds like a good attack plan." I went next and explained my what-ifs.
"What-if there were more Digimon than we've heard about or seen on the news in Seattle? What-if the others were already there and they were destroyed? What-if this isn't our last battle and more evil Digimon appeared in America? What-if evil Digimon showed up world wide this time?" Everyone was quiet thinking about those things when Stingmon cried out.
"Watch out! We've got incoming attacks!" Two huge missles with mouths flew past us and exploded. "What were those!?" Stingmon shouted while rebalancing himself in the air. He had dodged left then up and to the right to evade the attacks.
"Those missles were MetalGreymon's Giga-Blaster attack." I looked over the edge of Stingmon and saw more attacks coming. "Stingmon! Watch out! More incoming! Brace, brace, brace, guys!" We all gripped Stingmon tightly as a missles three times the size of the Giga-Blaster missles whipped by us and exploded creating a shockwave. After that two blue laser beams shot up and hit Stingmon in the stomach.
"Argh. We're going down, expect a little turbulance guys...." We all spiraled down through the air. Explosions rocked us back and forth. Then we hit the ground and it was the last thing I knew.
* * *
The first thing I realized was that I wasn't laying in a mud puddle anymore. I was in a bed, but I could hardly move or think. I tasted blood and felt really dirty. I tried to open my eyes, but that only made me notice the unbelievably painful headache. I groaned.
"Orh....whaat" My tounge was thick in my mouth, slurring my words. I tried again to open my eyes and I saw that I was in a small cabin. Liana, Davy, and Valerie were over my bed.
"He's definitly awake now." One of them said. I couldn't tell which because the voice just echoed and my eyes had shut withou my realizing it.
"What can we do? We can't risk moving him a second time. The first time was a danger itself."
The third one spoke, "If we can get him awake, he could take some tylenol or something and that would allivate the pain and swelling."
I swollowed and tried to speak again. "DarkTyrannomon....and MetalGreymon. Deltamon..... no... SkullGreymon! Stingmon's hurt!" I was trying to warn them about all the evil Digimon and Stingmon being hurt.
"Cody, we know. Wormon is fine now." The second voice said. I opened my eyes and my vision had cleared alot. Davy was standing right above me and Valerie was on the other side of the bed. Liana walked back into the room a few seconds later carrying a glass of water and a bottle of Tylenol.
"Here try to take some of these..." She handed them to me. I took a few Tylenol and drank the glass of water. I didn't realize that my throat was like sandpaper.
"Thanks. How did I get here?" I asked them while attempting to sit up. Valerie and Davy pushed me back down.
"Stay down and rest while you can." Valerie said.
"Yeah, man, you got it worse than the rest of us combined." Davy said, taking his hand away from my shoulder. "We got here yesterday. We were in a helicopter that I got through a connection with an uncle. One of his pilots was flying it and we got here pretty quick. Suddenly, we were struck by something and we crashed. The pilot died. He was knocked unconsious by the impact. We were in the back and we were okay. We got out and started to run. We knew that it would explode really quick and it did. We ran into this cabin when we saw it. We were running away from the town, this is probably about a fourth of a mile out of town."
"I'm glad you guys are all right. How did I get here though?"
"We heard the explosions, so we went to were we thought you guys went down. Stingmon was hit pretty bad. He de-digevolved to Wormon and managed to hit you and Valerie with a Sticky Net. Unfortunetly, the net broke and you hit tree branches on the way down. You had already fallen into the trees so, Wormon caught Valerie again and she landed safely. Along with Pengomon. You've probably got a concusion and most likely, a broken bone or two. We need to get out of this place and get you to a doctor." Liana said.
"No, we can't we have to stay and fight." I said while sitting up.
"Cody, you need a doctor." Liana said.
"Yeah, dude. You're seriously hurt. You gotta learn when to take your losses and split." Davy said.
"No, you guys can leave. But, I need you here. This city holds peoples' homes and histories. I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. I am going to fight."
"I'm not leaving." Davy said, knowing I wasn't going to change my mind. "I'll stick by your side man."
"Thanks Davy." I got out of the bed slowly. Everything spun a little, but I blinked and my vision was cleared. "No time like the present, let's go."
"Cody!" Valerie and Liana both shouted at the same time.
"You've got to be kidding! You just fell from the sky and got hurt, and now, you're walking around like you tripped while walking."
"It's our job to protect the worlds. I don't care what else happens I'm going to make sure that those people have a place to come back to, not a crater. Wormon, let's go." I turned to Davy. "Where's Agumon?"
"He's outside keeping watch."
"Cody! Get back here!" Liana yelled to me as I walked out of the cabin.
"Just because you're 16 and I'm 15, Liana, doesn't mean you can tell me what to do. I'm the leader, remember?"
"I don't care if you're the King of England! Get back here! You're making the wrong choice!"
I turned to her and I knew my eyes were cold. "No, you're wrong. This time I'm making the selfless choice. And, besides. A member of our team is missing. Natalie still isn't here. We can't just leave."
"Yeah, we can!" Davy said, he really didn't like Natalie alot.
"We can, but we won't. You may not like her alot, but she's a member of the team." I said. Valerie ran up behind me.
"I'll go. But, just because you're being stubborn. Someone has to keep a close eye on you."
"I'm with you guys too. But, as soon as we're done, you're going to a doctor."
"Okay," I said while smiling. "Let's go to those Digimon and send them back."
Agumon, Pengomon, and Betamon all ran up to us as soon as the words were out of my mouth.
"Uh.....you don't have to go to them." Betamon said, agitated.
"Yeah! They're here!" Agumon said while pointing to the distance. We all looked and saw four Dinosaur Digimon running towards us. They were probably a mile or so away.
"We'll charge them!" I yelled. "All of you better digevolve!"
"What about Betamon? He can't digevolve into Seadramon, there's no water!" Liana said.
"I don't need water! Seadramon is a serpant Digimon! He can go on land or water!" Betamon said proudly.
"Wormon digevolve to"
"Agumon digevolve to"
"Pengomon digevolve to"
"Betamon digevolve to"
"Stingmon!"
"Tyrannomon!"
"Frigimon!"
"Seadramon!" They all ran forward and we all stayed behind. The two sets of Digimon got closer and closer to each other. In minutes, they were on top of each other.
"Who are those Digimon?" Liana asked.
"Well, I think we all know MetalGreymon and his Giga-Blaster attack. DarkTyrannomon is Tyrannomon's digivolution and his attack is strong. He shoots roaring flames from his mouth. I don't know the name of his attack, though."
Liana scoffed. "Some leader."
"Sorry I don't have Izzy's computer guys. Anyways, Deltamon has Tri-Plex Force, and he shoots these super strong lasers from the two heads on his hands. And the other one...is SkullGreymon. Digimon quiver in fear of this Ultimate Digimon. His DarkShot attack launches a missle from his back. It will completely obliterate SkullGreymon's enemies."
"Think they have a chance?" Davy asked.
"We need to believe in them, or else, they won't win." Valerie said. Each of our Digimon chose one of the evil Digimon to fight. Stingmon was fighting, well, trying to fight SkullGreymon. Whenever he got close, SkullGreymon just swiped at Stingmon and sent him flying. Tyrannomon was going claw against claw fighting DarkTyrannomon. Seadramon was wrapped around Deltamon's chest. His arms were wrapped too. Frigimon was slowly freezing MetalGreymon with his Sub-Zero Ice Punch. The four of us viewed the fight from just outside the cabin. SkullGreymon swiped at Stingmon and Stingmon went flying into a large tree.
"Stingmon!" I cried. I knew he was hurt bad. I ran toward the fight. Davy, Liana, and Valerie were right on my heels. "Stingmon, get up before he does something else!" Stingmon stood and shook his head, in an attempt to clear his head. He launched off the ground just as SkullGreymon stomped down on the ground where he was seconds before.
"There's no way they can win! It's four Ultimates against four Champions! They are outnumbered." I said to the three other Digidestined behind me. "We can't beat them physically. So, we have to beat them mentally."
"How? They're too strong, any trap we make, they'll break!" Valerie said.
"We might as well give up." Liana said as she sat on the ground in defeat, Valerie did the same thing.
"They're right, Cody. Even if we had Natalie here, we'd still be outnumbered. We're finished." Davy said still staring at the fight.
"No! We can't give up! We don't have to build cages and dig holes for traps. I mean, we can hide and use our laptops to send them back to the Digital World. We can't give up." I reached into the backpack on Valerie's back. I felt the laptop and tore it out.
"Cody... don't do this." She said, tears in her eyes.
"I have to. I can understand that you guys are scared. But, I believe in this fight. And if you don't believe, your Digimon are doomed. Back when were in New York Valerie, I got really upset, remember?" She nodded. "Well, I realized that if you give up, you're not just giving up the fight. You're giving up the Digimon too. Stingmon changed all the back to Leafmon, and he would've been deleted if I hadn't given up my fear. Listen, you guys all run for it okay? Stingmon and I will stay and keep them occupied. Just do it. No comments go!" They all looked at each other and ran. They knew they couldn't talk me out of it. Their Digimon ran away from the fight and towards them. Stingmon flew over to me.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"I'm setting a trap." That's all I said and I hopped onto Stingmon's back and I told him where to go.
* * *
I felt the ground shaking before I saw him. SkullGreymon came roaring down the hill unaware of the trap before him. I was up in a tree above him. He paused under the tree a looked around. Valerie had just ran past this area seconds before. Pengomon was hot on her heels. When SkullGreymon was right under the tree when I jumped down with the laptop open in one hand and my Digivice in my other hand.
"DigiPort open!" I cried as I fell and landed on SkullGreymon's head.
"Huh?" He was completely taken by surprise. He was pulled into the computer and just when I started to fall to the ground, Stingmon flew underneath me and I landed on his neck.
"Nice timing. One down, three to go." I told him where to go next.
* * *
Davy ran underneath the tree I was in. I wanted to say something to him, but DarkTyrannomon was on his tail, and he would need all the time he had to get away. He couldn't afford a distraction. DarkTyrannomon ran past the tree I was in. He was too far away for me to jump so, I tapped Stingmon on the shoulder and we flew off. We came up beside DarkTyrannomon and I waved my arms to get his attention.
"What?" He said in confusion.
"Pull over, sir. You're going over the speed limit." I said. That just confused him more and before he could recover, I flipped the laptop open and held my Digivice by it. "Digiport open!" He was pulled in before he could say a second word.
"Good work, Stingmon. We've got two more and then we're done."
* * *
I knew just after I could see him, that there was no way my plan would work for MetalGreymon. First, he was way too far away from the tree for me to jump. Second he could probably see me.
"Giga-Blaster!" His chest piece opened and he launched two missles at the tree. Stingmon and I leapt off seconds before they hit the tree and turned it into dust.
"Wow, talk about a close one." I was looking at my shoes and they had just missed the flames, barely. The bottoms of my shoes were melted slightly. MetalGreymon picked up speed and came towards us.
"Cody. Whatever your plan is, you better do it quick!" Stingmon said as he hopped up to his feet. I just laid on the ground. He came faster and faster towards me. Stingmon lifted up off the ground and flew away from MetalGreymon. "Cody!!" He cried out as MetalGreymon stepped forward to crush me.
"Digiport open!" I shouted. The screen lit up and sucked MetalGreymon in without any problem. "Let's go get Deltamon, Stingmon." I said as I stood up and brushed myself off.
"Cody! Hey man!" Davy shouted as he ran towards me.
"Cody!" Liana said as she ran behind Davy, Valerie was right behind her. All of their Digimon came right behind Valerie. As soon as they got to me, Davy gave me a high-five. Liana patted my shoulder in congratulation. Valerie came up after they backed away and smiled at me. Her smile vanished and she struck my chest with the palms of her hands.
"You jerk! You tricked us and used us a bait! You're you're you're...."
"I'm a hero and you know it, Valerie!" I said while laughing and grabbing her hands and hugged her.
"Yeah, yeah. Thanks Mr. Leader." She said as she kissed my cheek. "Thanks. I'm sorry we acted so scared earlier."
"I should actually thank you for that. If you guys had stayed and fought, we would be losing right now."
"Oh, how touching. You managed to hold off on losing till now!" We all looked over to the left (their right) and Deltamon was standing there laughing.
"Digevolve!" The other three cried.
"Agumon digevolve to...........Tyrannomon!"
"Betamon digevolve to..........Seadramon!"
"Pengomon digevolve to.........Frigimon!"
"Go, Stingmon!" I yelled to him while showing the others a place that they could run to for safety. They all ran over but, I stayed to send Deltamon back to the DigiWorld.
"Rapid Kick!" Stingmon struck Deltamon violently with his powerful kicks.
"Ice Blast!" Seadramon was flying through the air and he angled down and fired his Ice Blast down at Deltamon's feet, freezing him in place.
"Sub-Zero Ice Punch!" Frigimon hit Deltamon's chest with ice blasts.
"Blaze Blast!" Tyrannomon let lose with his powerful flame attack. This was a one sided fight. We had definatly won. I ran over to Deltamon to send him back, but a light pierced the sky and opened a port and pulled Deltamon in, I was about to cheer, but, another Digimon came out of the Gate.
"Worthless Digimon. Oh well, I will take care of you myself." The Digimon was huge. It came down from the Gate and landed loudly on the ground. I knew my Digimon pretty well, but I had never seen this one before. He was huge. He had the head of a falcon or hawk, and his hind legs were scaled like a dragons' legs. He had the body of a lion and just below the bird head, he had the mane of a lion. The lion tail was whipping around. He had huge wings on the lion's back. Suddenly, I thought back to Mrs. Gauthier's English class. It had to have been the week before this all started. She was teaching us about Greek history and I was actually paying attention because it was interesting.
"A Manticore...." I whispered. The others had come up behind me, staring in awe at the amazing creature before us.
"What. A Manticore?" Valerie asked.
"I thought that was Greek history?" Davy said.
"It is Greek history." Liana said. The Manticore flapped it's wings slightly and our Digimon flew backwards towards us.
"I am not a Manticore! I am Manticoremon! I am stronger than any Manticore, if they ever really existed. I have watched all of you from the Digital World. You are weak, pathetic. Ruled by emotions and loyalties. As are all humans. Weak and pathetic, ruled by feelings and trust. I once had faith in the human race. Now, you're expendible. Prepare to die, Digidestined." He laughed, a cold, dark laugh that chilled me to the bone. I got a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach that told me, "You've met your match."
