Over a marsh
Shini had just woken up from nap on the soft feathers of Swanmon. He looked up groggily and asked where they were. "We're in some marsh, and I'm very hungry so I'll touch down here and I'll find food." So they landed in a tree since they couldn't tell if there were any bogs or sand traps. Swanmon came back after a while with two branched of cherries, and they both dug in. Shini pulled out a water bottle and they both had a few sips. All of a sudden his digivice beeped wildly and pointed to a new direction. Shini threw a few berries in the water bottle and he hopped on Swanmon's back and they flew off towards the directed area.
Rei and Flybeemon hovered way above the munching Shini and Swanmon, when they suddenly took off; he dove down and followed them. He grabbed a berry branch on the way. He traveled above Shini and saw the commotion. An Ebidramon was sinking into the mud. "Twin Scissors!" Rei dodged the energy blades that came shooting by.
Shini looked up and saw Rei. He whispered to Swanmon to try and calm the Ebidramon. Shini jumped down onto a log below, and jumped from rock to rock. The Ebidramon struggled more, but shot off at Swanmon, she dodged, and said "Calm down, we'll get you out." The Ebidramon spread out and stopped attacking, Flybeemon swwoped in and tried to pull him out. Swanmon pulled too. Shini came back with a vine and tied it Ebidramon, and Swanmon and Flybeemon pulled on it. After much struggling, the Ebidramon was freed, and he crawled off. He stopped and beckoned them to follow. "Come on, if you want to beat him, you need to swim. Come come, follow!" the Ebidramon scuttled on. The boys shrugged and followed.
They eventually reached the shore of a large ocean. Ebidramon dove in and swam to a cave and the four others followed. They reached a secluded lagoon. "Now, you have to learn to swim. Your enemy can swim, and the prize is below."
"Whoa, I have no idea what you're talking about. We're just looking for the egg." Said Shini.
"Yes, I know. And the guardian of the egg is Gesomon, a big squid Digimon. He won't surface if he has too. You have to change tactics in order to fight under water. You," he pointed to Swanmon "can swim already so you just need to learn how to power up your attack so it'll get through the water. Insect boy here has to learn how to swim, some how." Ebidramon looked on pondering. Flybeemon de-evolved to Guil and evolved to Growmon. "I can learn to swim better like this,"
"Good," said Ebidramon "do laps, somehow. Swanmon into the lake, we'll have a little training fight. Oh I have something special for you boys." He dove in and surfaced a little while later with some goo in his claw. "This is an algae that'll let you breathe underwater. Anyway, in the water now!"
Growmon dove in and did the breast stroke around. Rei smeared some goo on his face and also dove in. He grabbed on to Growmon and they swam on. Shini unhappily smeared som eon his face, and dove in to see the battle. "Twin Scissors!" the Energy blades rushed towards Swanmon fast. But she dodged and yelled "Down Tornado!" the feathers shot out fast, then slowed as they met water resistance. They were washed away in an underwater tide. "See? You need more power, haha Lobster Tail!" Ebidramon kicked his tail and charged her, she was slammed to the lake floor. Swanmon floated up and yelled "White MARIE!" The energy blast flew at Ebidramon, but it was too slow, and he easily moved out of its way. "You have to believe it to be fast and over come that barrier. Twin Scissors!" "WHITE MARIE!" The two blasts hit each other and Swanmon gritted her beak and overcame his blast and he was knocked back. "Excellent, that concludes our training. Now for Growmon."
He swam over to where Growmon was, and used his twin scissors. Growmon was blasted out of the water and he splashed back in. "Come and get me!" He swam off fast, while Growmon struggled after him, after a while he got the hang of it, and caught up to Ebidramon. "Exhaust flame!" a cloud of bubbles appeared, and Growmon couldn't see anything. By the time they cleared, Ebidramon was off again, he sped after him and used his plasma blade, that certainly stopped him, then Growmon tackled him for a big finish. All got out of the water.
"Well I wish you luck on your quest, I'll stay here till this all blows over. Shoo! Begone!" Growmon turned to Flybeemon and he and Swanmon flew out, but not before Shini had collected a jar of algae.
"Wait!" Swanmon flew back. "We need a guide, please come!"
"No, don't worry, your digivices are sure to show the way." Swanmon left.
Flybeemon and Swanmon flew out over the ocean, and sighted a large rock dome. Swanmon scanned the water and saw an opening below. "Let's swim!" Swanmon dove down and Flybeemon turned into Growmon. And he dove down too. The opening was barred, and Growmon was about to cut them when a large tentacle swatted them away. A dark figure appeared, "I'm Gesomon and you will suffocate down here! Deadly Shade!" ink spilled everywhere and the four felt themselves pulled far away to the middle of nowhere. "Elastic Arms!" Gesomon's tentacles stretched out and wrapped the two Digimon. The boys were treading water on the side. "Exhaust flame!" The flames licked over Gesomon's head long enough to get him to release the two. 'He's on the surface, they've got him now!' Shini thought. "Down tornado!" "Exhaust Flame!" The many feathers whirled around Gesomon and they caught flame, making many burign cuts on him. Gesomon screamed and dove below. The Digimon took a deep breath, and headed on in. Swanmon took the lead, and sent a storm of feathers after him, cutting him. Growmon kicked hard and spun ahead of him. "Exhaust flame!" The bubbles blinded Gesomon and two plasma blades hit him hard from nowhere. "White Marie!" But Gesomon was prepared and started to spin, tentacles flying. The attack was knocked out and it also hit Growmon and Swanmon away. "Coral Crusher!" Gesomon brought his tentacles down on them and trapped them down, with out air.
Shini and Rei were watching from above and Rei dove down. "Wait up! What are you doing?" Shini followed. Rei swam to an unknowing Gesomon and slashed one of his tentacles with his knife. He dodged a blow, and swam closer and slashed him above the mouth. But a tentacle knocked him away. Growmon and Swanmon had escaped by then and they carried the boys away. Ebidramon had showed up some how and he carried them back to his lair.
"Well that totally did not work. Good tactics and attacks but you need to be a lot stronger. AND YOU," he pointed at Rei, "need to stay far away from these things, if you get killed all will be lost." Rei seethed. "How can we use White marie, down tornado, Exhaust flame, and Plasma blade to our advantage?" Ebidramon whipped out a map of the bay and drew little plans all over it, muttering furiously.
"Um, hey! Hello! HEY!" Ebidramon finally looked up at Shini. "We also have Demon fireball, Fox-flame dragon, Wild nail rush, thermal mane, Posion stinger, and Fly spark." Shini finished counting on his fingers.
"Fly spark? We could use that! Yes it works hahahahaha!" Ebidramon went back to the map and wiped it clean, than drew all over it again. "OK, here's the plan, use demon fireball and exhaust flame to smoke up the water, and then shot nails down at him driving him where we want to go, which is this secluded lagoon over here, if necessary barrage him with poison stinger to get him inside, and then once he's in, fly spark the water a few time to electrocute him, then go in for the big finish!" he waved the map like a flag.
"Um, a few corrections," explained Rei "the nails attack is Lynxmon's and she can't swim, so change it to Swanmon's down tornado, but Swanmon evolves from Rena, as does Kyuubimon, who has Demon fireball, so we need a really fast change, and if he won't go in, Flybeemon can't sting him and spark the water in two different places at the same time. So if necessary something else has to barrage him, like you." Rei looked at Ebidramon coldly. Ebidramon started to protest then stopped, "Ok ok, I'll do it. Let's get on with the show, and I'll carry Kyuubimon."
"We need a lot of food for the quick and many evolutions," piped up Rena. Ebidramon pulled a bunch of hamburgers and greasy fries. Everyone's eyes watered happily. Then everyone dug in eating noisily. "Everyone get a good night's sleep, we leave at dawn!"
Dawn,
Ebidramon let Kyuubiumon jump onto his back and Growmon held the tail. Shini and Rei smeared some goo on and sat next to Kyuubimon. They swam out to the rising sun. Growmon and Rei dove below and waited for Gesomon to arrive, while Ebidramon paddled to a rocky alcove, waiting to trap Gesomon.
"Hohum, deedee da bop dee bap! I feel good! Nananananah!" Gesomon swam within range of the trap. He floated lazily along. All of a sudden bubbles rose up around him, and more came from the back. Huge fireballs came streaming from nowhere and blinded him further. He jumped out of the water, and splashed back in again, he repeated this and came closer and closer to the lagoon. Then he stopped, and searched with his tentacles around in the water. Kyuubimon changed back to Rena, and than to Swanmon. "Quick, hit him hard enough so that the momentum carries him into the lagoon!" In the distance Flybeemon fly out of the water and zoomed inside the lagoon, carrying a black figure. Swanmon's feathers cut Gesomon and herded him in the direction they wanted, but Gesomon swatted her away. Ebidramon finally used Lobster Tail and barreled right into Gesomon, send him sailing into the lagoon.
"FLY SPARK! FLY Spark! Fly Spark! Fly," that went on for a while as the water gained more and more electricity, until finally Gesomon screamed in pain and was writhing from the shocks. From the front Flybeemon hit him with the poison stinger, and from the back, Swanmon hit him with White Marie. Then they continued to hit him until he sank to the seabed and didn't move. Then Shini and Rei jumped on their Digimon and they powered out of that lagoon to the stone dome, shortly followed by Ebidramon. Swanmon dove in, and after a while Growmon came in too. Ebidramon stood guard. The four surfaced inside the dome and climbed up onto a stone plat form. Valkyrimon was sitting there.
"That took a lot longer than I thought, but anyway"
"No buts," interrupted Rei, "Why has their been a Digimon blocking our way for every egg so far? Are they one of your little tests?"
"No! Of course not, but I cannot stop them because they are doing these things of their own free will. But they are the Digimon of a greater more powerful and evil Digimon, who wants to stop you from getting any of the digimentals, and I must say you are doing an excellent job." Explained Valkyrimon. "Now, you have to just get your selves to each digimental site, safe and sound, to take the test I have prepared. This particular test is a test of your reliability. I'll see you both soon."
Shini's world:
Shini found himself in a hospital room, looking at a small child with an IV, he was breathing shallowly. A nurse rushed in, "That's your new second cousin, but he will die if he doesn't get his medicine, can you get the medicine from the next hospital?" Shini new that he had some pregnant relative, so he guessed that it really was his second cousin. "What's the name of the medicine?" he asked worriedly. After he was told, he left.
Rei's world:
Rei found himself in a hospital room, looking at a old woman with an IV, she was breathing shallowly. A nurse rushed in, "That's your great aunt, but she will die if she doesn't get her medicine, can you get the medicine from the next hospital?" Rei new that he had some old relatives, so he guessed that it really was aunt. "Why cant one of you doctors get it?" he asked. But it was useless, he was soon shoved out the door, the nurse telling him where and who to go to.
The door slammed behind him. Rei noticed a bike and he hopped on pedaling down the street. He reached a small bridged, and went across it, but in the middle of it he hit a stone and went flying. When he got back up, he saw the bike was smashed. 'Oh well,' he thought and stuck his hands in his pockets and continued on. The path led on for a while. Soon Rei saw a trail of bills leading off the path, but he didn't stop. Later a little dog jumped in his way and pulled playfully at him. Rei kicked the dog, and it ran yipping away. Finally he reached the next town, and approached the hospital, a comic store next door had a huge sign saying, "Free comics, going out of business sale!" Rei didn't even pay attention. He went inside and took the medicine off the counter, he was flashed away.
Shini's world,
Shini hopped on the bike and pedaled fast, but when he reached the bridge, he crashed big time. So he walked on, but when he saw the bills, he stooped and collected each one until he remembered to get back on the path. Then the little dog appeared, and he sat down a bit and played fetch. Finally when he reached the town, he ran and read three comics. When the minute finally came where he entered the hospital, he was flashed away.
"Well, Rei you may not be very courteous, but you are reliable. Shini, you care a lot, by are distracted easily," Valkyrimon made a shiny ball float in the air, and Shini chased it around the dome. "Well, Rei you know the drill, and it just so happens that the Digimon can all swim. In fact, you can tell what the Digimon will be like by the area the digimental is located in, like the air fortress, they all could fly, the jungle, there are a lot of bug in the jungle, and here is the same. Your choices are: Orcamon, Depthmon, Mantaraymon, Subamrimon, Tylomon, and Archelomon."
Rei pondered a bit, he had his eyes set on two of them, but which of the two them? He eyes fell on Guil, specifically his claws. "Depthmon, cause Guil can keep his claws then. Not Mantaraymon."
"OK, now when ever Guilmon armor blah blah Depthmon, congrats, goodbye, whatever, I have a very special Angewomon waiting." Valkyrimon clapped his hands and he disappeared, and the four digidestined were transported to the top of the dome.
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Guil digivolved to Depthmon and both he and Rei dove from the top of the dome into the water, Rei got on his back, and Depthmon started to swim, fast. Rena turned into Swanmon and took Shini across the ocean. Eventually they all reached the shore, where Depthmon turned to Flybeemon and they all flew off together, away from the shores of Digimon screaming thanks to them.
In a far, far away forest,
Angewomon waited by the trees, waiting for Valkyrimon, 'What is this important thing he wants?' she thought. A flash came from behind her. "Valkyrimon, why are you so late, and what do y-" She turned and there was Diaboromon, "Uh! How dare you invade my privacy! Celestial Arrow!" The shot glanced of him, and Diaboromon raised his hand and opened it, revealing a small insect like contraption. It flew to Angewomon and clasped her chest, a needle protruded and jammed itself into her, she gasped and flickered from normal to static, and grew darker and darker until she finally grew so dark she turned into LadyDevimon. LadyDevimon stood up straight as the contraption transformed into a necklace around her neck. She smiled and walked up to Diaboromon. "Hello." She said and wrapped her arms around him, then she gasped and tried to tear the necklace from her neck. She fell to her knees and coughed repeatedly, and necklace reverted back to insect form and retreated, as LadyDevimon collapsed and was deleted.
Diaboromon shrank from the contraption, than picked it up with two claws as it started to fizzle. He flashed in Datamon, and threw it at him as it exploded. "Sssssomething went horribly wrong, but it did work. Too bad for you, it didn't work well enough! I'll ssssee to it it'sssss fixed. As for you, you causssed a catasssstrophe, Catasssstrophe Cannon!" datamon was deleted in a blast, and Diaboromon flashed in a Clockmon. "You may take Datamon'sssss energy" Diaboromon waved his hand in the air and collected some of the dark mater. He bestowed it to Clockmon, and he digivolved to a new Datamon. "Improve the machine, find out what went wrong, and I want no more missstakesss."
Elsewhere Anteiramon grew stronger and left the lagoon, as it popped with remnants of electricity. A new dark form flew into a distant glen, and when it landed, blackness swept out across the glen, transforming it into a barren wasteland of tar pits and sharp rocks. The darkness swirled around an old tree and seeped into it through the roots, turning the bark black, and making all the leaves shrivel and drop off. After the tree was consumed, all life in the glen died out. A clawed hand held a tight grip on the land. And a certain mega left a forest disappointed. Oh well.
Shini and Rei were crouched around a fire, when their D-3s started to beep. They pulled them out and saw a square of the map of the digital world blink out. "That reminds me," Rei said "I marked the places of where the eggs we already collected were. Here, here, here, and here." Shini studied the arrangement of locations, as he uploaded the map into his D-3. "So then the area that just went is another location of an egg."
"I see where you going with this, the eggs' locations form a spiral, so the other eggs would be in these locations," Rei jacked the D-3 into a wrist contraption. Shini stared. "I thought a circle, but, where did you get that?" "Oh this, I made it from a laptop, radio, game boy advance, and a Palm and other things. I use it all the time for stuff, and anyway, it's a spiral because the slope and angles decrease with every egg." He went on as Shini's eyes glazed over, and finally Rei snapped him out of it. "We could be able to transport from site to site, using the egg temples as, um, like train stations. But I still have to work it out some problems. We should rest up a bit and then ask some locals to tell us everything they know of that area. It's a good thing we've made good friends in a lot of areas, The Gotsumon, Airdramon, Golemon, Ebidramon, Agumon, well that's not really a lot, maybe it is, but anyway. We could get exclusive data for a most effective attack plan." Rei stopped because Shini fell asleep at Gotsumon. After a while, Rei threw a last stick in the fire and dropped of to sleep too.
In the morning,
Shini was prodded with a stick, as was Rei, till they woke up. They stood up quickly and found themselves surrounded by penguin things and mushroom things. They saw Rena and Guil tied up and surrounded by guards with spears.
"We are the villagers from the village of Penmon, and nomads from the forest of Mushroomon. We're going to throw you in a cave, cause you killed holy glen!" The angry Digimon shouted in angular and gestured their spears wildly.
"No no you go it wrong, we came here to investigate the problem of that area, we were hoping we could run into some of the locals and get some inside info, we just wanna help you all, we mean no harm, so please release us and our Digimon."
"You don't work with Devimon?" asked one Mushroomon suspiciously.
"Who? Is that the Digimon guarding the area?" asked Rei.
"Gaurding? Ha! He's taken it over! It used to be a meeting place for the festivities of many mythical Digimon. And he turned it into a wasteland! We want it back!" The other Digimon agreed loudly.
"Well, we're here to stop him, and do you know the layout of that area? Or have any friends to help us?" Shini asked as he and Rei untied their Digimon.
"Well it's now surrounded by a big thorn wall so we can get in, ever since one of us to a trip there to see what happened. He said that the big tree inside was turned evil and that it affected the entire land. If only the tree became healthy, the whole land would become happy again. And then Devimon wouldn't have any darkness to power up on."
"So all we have to do is find a way through the wall and get a guide for the glen," said Rei, "I'll stay here and research ways to heal the tree, you should go and seek helpful Digimon." A Mushroomon took Rei to another Mushroomon who watered the tree every day, and he talked to him about the tree, than pulled out his wrist computer and did research.
"Um, a Digimon that always visited the glen is Unimon, and he could be at the wall right now, trying to find a way in, I'll take you to him." A Penmon took Shini's and Rena's hands and lead them to the glen. When they reached it Shini looked way up at the wall, the thorns formed a dense wall, and it was ever growing higher, but slowly. 'Maybe we can weaken it by setting it on fire. Then barrel into it somehow.' Shini thought, but was interrupted.
"Ariel Attack!" A blue energy ball smashed into the thorn wall, but the damage was quickly repaired. 'Yah, we need fire to keep the repair instincts busy' thought Shini.
"Hey Unimon, this is a human hoping to get inside. He needs to defeat Devimon." Explained Penmon.
"Hey, you're a digidestined, that's great! Now I can get inside with your help." Unimon stopped attacking and flew down to them. They walked back to the village, and Shini explained everything.
Rei had been talking to the old Mushroomon about the tree and found out that an item of good virtues was need to give power to the tree. 'Our four digimentals should heal it nicely.' Rei thought. Then he asked the Digimon if there were any virtues associated with the garden itself. The Digimon told him that during times of unrest many weak Digimon evacuted to the glen, because it gave them a strong feeling of hope and made then evolve to fight the evil. Rei thanked him and stood up as Unimon and Shini and Rena and the Penmon came back from the wall. Rei thought about boosting his hope and thought of all the mythical Digimon he could choose from if he won.
"Ok, we go to the wall and we can get in by setting it afire, and then barraging it with attacks. Once inside Unimon will lead us to the tree and we'll fix it somehow," started Shini.
"We'll fix it by placing our digimentals inside, and the virtues they represent will heal it," Rei picked up. "We can do that as the three Digimon fend off Devimon, and draw him away so that we can weaken him, than the Digimon can hit him while he's weak. The Digimon will have to figure out who to evolve to this time." After a big celebration from the villagers and nomads, the five invaders settled down for the night. In the glen, Devimon smiled evilly.
In the morning they all got up Shini and Rei climbed on Unimon and They flew to the wall, while Rena and Guil stealthily moved towards the wall. Guil got there first, and picked out the weakest spot and set it afire with a few Fireballs. Rena came next and changed to Lynxmon and Guil to Flybeemon. Unimon set down and they all hit one spot repeatedly till it collapsed. They all rushed in and the wall almost closed on Unimons tail. They were in with no way out.
"This way," whispered Unimon and he flew them to the tree. The other Digimon flanked them on the top and bottom. They finally reached the tree. There the boys jumped down and looked for ways to put the eggs in. The Digimon looked for Devimon.
Rei ran around the tree looking carefully, and said to Shini "They are no little knooks in the tree, no where we can shove them in. There has to be another way," Shini looked at the tree. A few branches had fallen off and only four remained. Shini looked at the four eggs and smiled.
From above Unimon spied smoke rising from the village, and then a dark form rose from it and headed to the glen. Unimon yelled to the boys "Devimon attacked the village and I'm going to see if their ok. Hurry up boys, and you Digimon are on your own." He flew off. Flybeemon dove into a water-filled ditch for reasons unknown, and Lynxmon was left alone.
Shini had climbed up the tree and was dangling on a limb, he brushed away some ashes and felt an engraving. He cleaned it some more and saw the symbol of courage. "Hey Rei, toss up the egg of courage." Shini caught it and aligned the egg's symbol with the symbol on the tree. The egg stuck like glue, and the branch began healing. Rei caught on and worked on the next egg.
Devimon obviously didn't notice Unimon because he just charged into the glen. "Death Claw!" Devimon grabbed Lynxmon and squeezed. Lynxmon flamed his hand with Thermal Flame. She dropped to the gound and jumped on him kicking and scratching. Devimon spread his wings and shot into the air rolling and Lynxmon fell off. She landed on her feet, "Wild nail rush!" He shielded himself with his arms from the barrage of nails. "Razor Wing!" The attack knocked Lynxmon off her feet. Devimon dove towards her, arms and claws stretched out. Lynxmon got up at the last minute and knocked him into the ditch.
The boys had trouble finding the branch of Love, and discovered it on a fallen one. They tried to use the egg on that, but it didn't work. So Rei took out his knife and started to carve a new love symbol on a new small branch.
"Sargasso Drag!" Devimon surfaced and found himself covered in sargasso weeds, hecouldnt free himself, and was dragged through the ditch. A ripple bunnled "Bubble bomb!" repeatedly and Devimon was dragged into many bubbles that blew up into him. When he reached the end of the ditch he climbed out and tore the weeds from him and flew up, he grabbed the one of the eggs from the boys and flew off.
Depthmon surfaced from the ditch and looked sadly at the fleeing Digimon thief.
Shini had just woken up from nap on the soft feathers of Swanmon. He looked up groggily and asked where they were. "We're in some marsh, and I'm very hungry so I'll touch down here and I'll find food." So they landed in a tree since they couldn't tell if there were any bogs or sand traps. Swanmon came back after a while with two branched of cherries, and they both dug in. Shini pulled out a water bottle and they both had a few sips. All of a sudden his digivice beeped wildly and pointed to a new direction. Shini threw a few berries in the water bottle and he hopped on Swanmon's back and they flew off towards the directed area.
Rei and Flybeemon hovered way above the munching Shini and Swanmon, when they suddenly took off; he dove down and followed them. He grabbed a berry branch on the way. He traveled above Shini and saw the commotion. An Ebidramon was sinking into the mud. "Twin Scissors!" Rei dodged the energy blades that came shooting by.
Shini looked up and saw Rei. He whispered to Swanmon to try and calm the Ebidramon. Shini jumped down onto a log below, and jumped from rock to rock. The Ebidramon struggled more, but shot off at Swanmon, she dodged, and said "Calm down, we'll get you out." The Ebidramon spread out and stopped attacking, Flybeemon swwoped in and tried to pull him out. Swanmon pulled too. Shini came back with a vine and tied it Ebidramon, and Swanmon and Flybeemon pulled on it. After much struggling, the Ebidramon was freed, and he crawled off. He stopped and beckoned them to follow. "Come on, if you want to beat him, you need to swim. Come come, follow!" the Ebidramon scuttled on. The boys shrugged and followed.
They eventually reached the shore of a large ocean. Ebidramon dove in and swam to a cave and the four others followed. They reached a secluded lagoon. "Now, you have to learn to swim. Your enemy can swim, and the prize is below."
"Whoa, I have no idea what you're talking about. We're just looking for the egg." Said Shini.
"Yes, I know. And the guardian of the egg is Gesomon, a big squid Digimon. He won't surface if he has too. You have to change tactics in order to fight under water. You," he pointed to Swanmon "can swim already so you just need to learn how to power up your attack so it'll get through the water. Insect boy here has to learn how to swim, some how." Ebidramon looked on pondering. Flybeemon de-evolved to Guil and evolved to Growmon. "I can learn to swim better like this,"
"Good," said Ebidramon "do laps, somehow. Swanmon into the lake, we'll have a little training fight. Oh I have something special for you boys." He dove in and surfaced a little while later with some goo in his claw. "This is an algae that'll let you breathe underwater. Anyway, in the water now!"
Growmon dove in and did the breast stroke around. Rei smeared some goo on his face and also dove in. He grabbed on to Growmon and they swam on. Shini unhappily smeared som eon his face, and dove in to see the battle. "Twin Scissors!" the Energy blades rushed towards Swanmon fast. But she dodged and yelled "Down Tornado!" the feathers shot out fast, then slowed as they met water resistance. They were washed away in an underwater tide. "See? You need more power, haha Lobster Tail!" Ebidramon kicked his tail and charged her, she was slammed to the lake floor. Swanmon floated up and yelled "White MARIE!" The energy blast flew at Ebidramon, but it was too slow, and he easily moved out of its way. "You have to believe it to be fast and over come that barrier. Twin Scissors!" "WHITE MARIE!" The two blasts hit each other and Swanmon gritted her beak and overcame his blast and he was knocked back. "Excellent, that concludes our training. Now for Growmon."
He swam over to where Growmon was, and used his twin scissors. Growmon was blasted out of the water and he splashed back in. "Come and get me!" He swam off fast, while Growmon struggled after him, after a while he got the hang of it, and caught up to Ebidramon. "Exhaust flame!" a cloud of bubbles appeared, and Growmon couldn't see anything. By the time they cleared, Ebidramon was off again, he sped after him and used his plasma blade, that certainly stopped him, then Growmon tackled him for a big finish. All got out of the water.
"Well I wish you luck on your quest, I'll stay here till this all blows over. Shoo! Begone!" Growmon turned to Flybeemon and he and Swanmon flew out, but not before Shini had collected a jar of algae.
"Wait!" Swanmon flew back. "We need a guide, please come!"
"No, don't worry, your digivices are sure to show the way." Swanmon left.
Flybeemon and Swanmon flew out over the ocean, and sighted a large rock dome. Swanmon scanned the water and saw an opening below. "Let's swim!" Swanmon dove down and Flybeemon turned into Growmon. And he dove down too. The opening was barred, and Growmon was about to cut them when a large tentacle swatted them away. A dark figure appeared, "I'm Gesomon and you will suffocate down here! Deadly Shade!" ink spilled everywhere and the four felt themselves pulled far away to the middle of nowhere. "Elastic Arms!" Gesomon's tentacles stretched out and wrapped the two Digimon. The boys were treading water on the side. "Exhaust flame!" The flames licked over Gesomon's head long enough to get him to release the two. 'He's on the surface, they've got him now!' Shini thought. "Down tornado!" "Exhaust Flame!" The many feathers whirled around Gesomon and they caught flame, making many burign cuts on him. Gesomon screamed and dove below. The Digimon took a deep breath, and headed on in. Swanmon took the lead, and sent a storm of feathers after him, cutting him. Growmon kicked hard and spun ahead of him. "Exhaust flame!" The bubbles blinded Gesomon and two plasma blades hit him hard from nowhere. "White Marie!" But Gesomon was prepared and started to spin, tentacles flying. The attack was knocked out and it also hit Growmon and Swanmon away. "Coral Crusher!" Gesomon brought his tentacles down on them and trapped them down, with out air.
Shini and Rei were watching from above and Rei dove down. "Wait up! What are you doing?" Shini followed. Rei swam to an unknowing Gesomon and slashed one of his tentacles with his knife. He dodged a blow, and swam closer and slashed him above the mouth. But a tentacle knocked him away. Growmon and Swanmon had escaped by then and they carried the boys away. Ebidramon had showed up some how and he carried them back to his lair.
"Well that totally did not work. Good tactics and attacks but you need to be a lot stronger. AND YOU," he pointed at Rei, "need to stay far away from these things, if you get killed all will be lost." Rei seethed. "How can we use White marie, down tornado, Exhaust flame, and Plasma blade to our advantage?" Ebidramon whipped out a map of the bay and drew little plans all over it, muttering furiously.
"Um, hey! Hello! HEY!" Ebidramon finally looked up at Shini. "We also have Demon fireball, Fox-flame dragon, Wild nail rush, thermal mane, Posion stinger, and Fly spark." Shini finished counting on his fingers.
"Fly spark? We could use that! Yes it works hahahahaha!" Ebidramon went back to the map and wiped it clean, than drew all over it again. "OK, here's the plan, use demon fireball and exhaust flame to smoke up the water, and then shot nails down at him driving him where we want to go, which is this secluded lagoon over here, if necessary barrage him with poison stinger to get him inside, and then once he's in, fly spark the water a few time to electrocute him, then go in for the big finish!" he waved the map like a flag.
"Um, a few corrections," explained Rei "the nails attack is Lynxmon's and she can't swim, so change it to Swanmon's down tornado, but Swanmon evolves from Rena, as does Kyuubimon, who has Demon fireball, so we need a really fast change, and if he won't go in, Flybeemon can't sting him and spark the water in two different places at the same time. So if necessary something else has to barrage him, like you." Rei looked at Ebidramon coldly. Ebidramon started to protest then stopped, "Ok ok, I'll do it. Let's get on with the show, and I'll carry Kyuubimon."
"We need a lot of food for the quick and many evolutions," piped up Rena. Ebidramon pulled a bunch of hamburgers and greasy fries. Everyone's eyes watered happily. Then everyone dug in eating noisily. "Everyone get a good night's sleep, we leave at dawn!"
Dawn,
Ebidramon let Kyuubiumon jump onto his back and Growmon held the tail. Shini and Rei smeared some goo on and sat next to Kyuubimon. They swam out to the rising sun. Growmon and Rei dove below and waited for Gesomon to arrive, while Ebidramon paddled to a rocky alcove, waiting to trap Gesomon.
"Hohum, deedee da bop dee bap! I feel good! Nananananah!" Gesomon swam within range of the trap. He floated lazily along. All of a sudden bubbles rose up around him, and more came from the back. Huge fireballs came streaming from nowhere and blinded him further. He jumped out of the water, and splashed back in again, he repeated this and came closer and closer to the lagoon. Then he stopped, and searched with his tentacles around in the water. Kyuubimon changed back to Rena, and than to Swanmon. "Quick, hit him hard enough so that the momentum carries him into the lagoon!" In the distance Flybeemon fly out of the water and zoomed inside the lagoon, carrying a black figure. Swanmon's feathers cut Gesomon and herded him in the direction they wanted, but Gesomon swatted her away. Ebidramon finally used Lobster Tail and barreled right into Gesomon, send him sailing into the lagoon.
"FLY SPARK! FLY Spark! Fly Spark! Fly," that went on for a while as the water gained more and more electricity, until finally Gesomon screamed in pain and was writhing from the shocks. From the front Flybeemon hit him with the poison stinger, and from the back, Swanmon hit him with White Marie. Then they continued to hit him until he sank to the seabed and didn't move. Then Shini and Rei jumped on their Digimon and they powered out of that lagoon to the stone dome, shortly followed by Ebidramon. Swanmon dove in, and after a while Growmon came in too. Ebidramon stood guard. The four surfaced inside the dome and climbed up onto a stone plat form. Valkyrimon was sitting there.
"That took a lot longer than I thought, but anyway"
"No buts," interrupted Rei, "Why has their been a Digimon blocking our way for every egg so far? Are they one of your little tests?"
"No! Of course not, but I cannot stop them because they are doing these things of their own free will. But they are the Digimon of a greater more powerful and evil Digimon, who wants to stop you from getting any of the digimentals, and I must say you are doing an excellent job." Explained Valkyrimon. "Now, you have to just get your selves to each digimental site, safe and sound, to take the test I have prepared. This particular test is a test of your reliability. I'll see you both soon."
Shini's world:
Shini found himself in a hospital room, looking at a small child with an IV, he was breathing shallowly. A nurse rushed in, "That's your new second cousin, but he will die if he doesn't get his medicine, can you get the medicine from the next hospital?" Shini new that he had some pregnant relative, so he guessed that it really was his second cousin. "What's the name of the medicine?" he asked worriedly. After he was told, he left.
Rei's world:
Rei found himself in a hospital room, looking at a old woman with an IV, she was breathing shallowly. A nurse rushed in, "That's your great aunt, but she will die if she doesn't get her medicine, can you get the medicine from the next hospital?" Rei new that he had some old relatives, so he guessed that it really was aunt. "Why cant one of you doctors get it?" he asked. But it was useless, he was soon shoved out the door, the nurse telling him where and who to go to.
The door slammed behind him. Rei noticed a bike and he hopped on pedaling down the street. He reached a small bridged, and went across it, but in the middle of it he hit a stone and went flying. When he got back up, he saw the bike was smashed. 'Oh well,' he thought and stuck his hands in his pockets and continued on. The path led on for a while. Soon Rei saw a trail of bills leading off the path, but he didn't stop. Later a little dog jumped in his way and pulled playfully at him. Rei kicked the dog, and it ran yipping away. Finally he reached the next town, and approached the hospital, a comic store next door had a huge sign saying, "Free comics, going out of business sale!" Rei didn't even pay attention. He went inside and took the medicine off the counter, he was flashed away.
Shini's world,
Shini hopped on the bike and pedaled fast, but when he reached the bridge, he crashed big time. So he walked on, but when he saw the bills, he stooped and collected each one until he remembered to get back on the path. Then the little dog appeared, and he sat down a bit and played fetch. Finally when he reached the town, he ran and read three comics. When the minute finally came where he entered the hospital, he was flashed away.
"Well, Rei you may not be very courteous, but you are reliable. Shini, you care a lot, by are distracted easily," Valkyrimon made a shiny ball float in the air, and Shini chased it around the dome. "Well, Rei you know the drill, and it just so happens that the Digimon can all swim. In fact, you can tell what the Digimon will be like by the area the digimental is located in, like the air fortress, they all could fly, the jungle, there are a lot of bug in the jungle, and here is the same. Your choices are: Orcamon, Depthmon, Mantaraymon, Subamrimon, Tylomon, and Archelomon."
Rei pondered a bit, he had his eyes set on two of them, but which of the two them? He eyes fell on Guil, specifically his claws. "Depthmon, cause Guil can keep his claws then. Not Mantaraymon."
"OK, now when ever Guilmon armor blah blah Depthmon, congrats, goodbye, whatever, I have a very special Angewomon waiting." Valkyrimon clapped his hands and he disappeared, and the four digidestined were transported to the top of the dome.
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Guil digivolved to Depthmon and both he and Rei dove from the top of the dome into the water, Rei got on his back, and Depthmon started to swim, fast. Rena turned into Swanmon and took Shini across the ocean. Eventually they all reached the shore, where Depthmon turned to Flybeemon and they all flew off together, away from the shores of Digimon screaming thanks to them.
In a far, far away forest,
Angewomon waited by the trees, waiting for Valkyrimon, 'What is this important thing he wants?' she thought. A flash came from behind her. "Valkyrimon, why are you so late, and what do y-" She turned and there was Diaboromon, "Uh! How dare you invade my privacy! Celestial Arrow!" The shot glanced of him, and Diaboromon raised his hand and opened it, revealing a small insect like contraption. It flew to Angewomon and clasped her chest, a needle protruded and jammed itself into her, she gasped and flickered from normal to static, and grew darker and darker until she finally grew so dark she turned into LadyDevimon. LadyDevimon stood up straight as the contraption transformed into a necklace around her neck. She smiled and walked up to Diaboromon. "Hello." She said and wrapped her arms around him, then she gasped and tried to tear the necklace from her neck. She fell to her knees and coughed repeatedly, and necklace reverted back to insect form and retreated, as LadyDevimon collapsed and was deleted.
Diaboromon shrank from the contraption, than picked it up with two claws as it started to fizzle. He flashed in Datamon, and threw it at him as it exploded. "Sssssomething went horribly wrong, but it did work. Too bad for you, it didn't work well enough! I'll ssssee to it it'sssss fixed. As for you, you causssed a catasssstrophe, Catasssstrophe Cannon!" datamon was deleted in a blast, and Diaboromon flashed in a Clockmon. "You may take Datamon'sssss energy" Diaboromon waved his hand in the air and collected some of the dark mater. He bestowed it to Clockmon, and he digivolved to a new Datamon. "Improve the machine, find out what went wrong, and I want no more missstakesss."
Elsewhere Anteiramon grew stronger and left the lagoon, as it popped with remnants of electricity. A new dark form flew into a distant glen, and when it landed, blackness swept out across the glen, transforming it into a barren wasteland of tar pits and sharp rocks. The darkness swirled around an old tree and seeped into it through the roots, turning the bark black, and making all the leaves shrivel and drop off. After the tree was consumed, all life in the glen died out. A clawed hand held a tight grip on the land. And a certain mega left a forest disappointed. Oh well.
Shini and Rei were crouched around a fire, when their D-3s started to beep. They pulled them out and saw a square of the map of the digital world blink out. "That reminds me," Rei said "I marked the places of where the eggs we already collected were. Here, here, here, and here." Shini studied the arrangement of locations, as he uploaded the map into his D-3. "So then the area that just went is another location of an egg."
"I see where you going with this, the eggs' locations form a spiral, so the other eggs would be in these locations," Rei jacked the D-3 into a wrist contraption. Shini stared. "I thought a circle, but, where did you get that?" "Oh this, I made it from a laptop, radio, game boy advance, and a Palm and other things. I use it all the time for stuff, and anyway, it's a spiral because the slope and angles decrease with every egg." He went on as Shini's eyes glazed over, and finally Rei snapped him out of it. "We could be able to transport from site to site, using the egg temples as, um, like train stations. But I still have to work it out some problems. We should rest up a bit and then ask some locals to tell us everything they know of that area. It's a good thing we've made good friends in a lot of areas, The Gotsumon, Airdramon, Golemon, Ebidramon, Agumon, well that's not really a lot, maybe it is, but anyway. We could get exclusive data for a most effective attack plan." Rei stopped because Shini fell asleep at Gotsumon. After a while, Rei threw a last stick in the fire and dropped of to sleep too.
In the morning,
Shini was prodded with a stick, as was Rei, till they woke up. They stood up quickly and found themselves surrounded by penguin things and mushroom things. They saw Rena and Guil tied up and surrounded by guards with spears.
"We are the villagers from the village of Penmon, and nomads from the forest of Mushroomon. We're going to throw you in a cave, cause you killed holy glen!" The angry Digimon shouted in angular and gestured their spears wildly.
"No no you go it wrong, we came here to investigate the problem of that area, we were hoping we could run into some of the locals and get some inside info, we just wanna help you all, we mean no harm, so please release us and our Digimon."
"You don't work with Devimon?" asked one Mushroomon suspiciously.
"Who? Is that the Digimon guarding the area?" asked Rei.
"Gaurding? Ha! He's taken it over! It used to be a meeting place for the festivities of many mythical Digimon. And he turned it into a wasteland! We want it back!" The other Digimon agreed loudly.
"Well, we're here to stop him, and do you know the layout of that area? Or have any friends to help us?" Shini asked as he and Rei untied their Digimon.
"Well it's now surrounded by a big thorn wall so we can get in, ever since one of us to a trip there to see what happened. He said that the big tree inside was turned evil and that it affected the entire land. If only the tree became healthy, the whole land would become happy again. And then Devimon wouldn't have any darkness to power up on."
"So all we have to do is find a way through the wall and get a guide for the glen," said Rei, "I'll stay here and research ways to heal the tree, you should go and seek helpful Digimon." A Mushroomon took Rei to another Mushroomon who watered the tree every day, and he talked to him about the tree, than pulled out his wrist computer and did research.
"Um, a Digimon that always visited the glen is Unimon, and he could be at the wall right now, trying to find a way in, I'll take you to him." A Penmon took Shini's and Rena's hands and lead them to the glen. When they reached it Shini looked way up at the wall, the thorns formed a dense wall, and it was ever growing higher, but slowly. 'Maybe we can weaken it by setting it on fire. Then barrel into it somehow.' Shini thought, but was interrupted.
"Ariel Attack!" A blue energy ball smashed into the thorn wall, but the damage was quickly repaired. 'Yah, we need fire to keep the repair instincts busy' thought Shini.
"Hey Unimon, this is a human hoping to get inside. He needs to defeat Devimon." Explained Penmon.
"Hey, you're a digidestined, that's great! Now I can get inside with your help." Unimon stopped attacking and flew down to them. They walked back to the village, and Shini explained everything.
Rei had been talking to the old Mushroomon about the tree and found out that an item of good virtues was need to give power to the tree. 'Our four digimentals should heal it nicely.' Rei thought. Then he asked the Digimon if there were any virtues associated with the garden itself. The Digimon told him that during times of unrest many weak Digimon evacuted to the glen, because it gave them a strong feeling of hope and made then evolve to fight the evil. Rei thanked him and stood up as Unimon and Shini and Rena and the Penmon came back from the wall. Rei thought about boosting his hope and thought of all the mythical Digimon he could choose from if he won.
"Ok, we go to the wall and we can get in by setting it afire, and then barraging it with attacks. Once inside Unimon will lead us to the tree and we'll fix it somehow," started Shini.
"We'll fix it by placing our digimentals inside, and the virtues they represent will heal it," Rei picked up. "We can do that as the three Digimon fend off Devimon, and draw him away so that we can weaken him, than the Digimon can hit him while he's weak. The Digimon will have to figure out who to evolve to this time." After a big celebration from the villagers and nomads, the five invaders settled down for the night. In the glen, Devimon smiled evilly.
In the morning they all got up Shini and Rei climbed on Unimon and They flew to the wall, while Rena and Guil stealthily moved towards the wall. Guil got there first, and picked out the weakest spot and set it afire with a few Fireballs. Rena came next and changed to Lynxmon and Guil to Flybeemon. Unimon set down and they all hit one spot repeatedly till it collapsed. They all rushed in and the wall almost closed on Unimons tail. They were in with no way out.
"This way," whispered Unimon and he flew them to the tree. The other Digimon flanked them on the top and bottom. They finally reached the tree. There the boys jumped down and looked for ways to put the eggs in. The Digimon looked for Devimon.
Rei ran around the tree looking carefully, and said to Shini "They are no little knooks in the tree, no where we can shove them in. There has to be another way," Shini looked at the tree. A few branches had fallen off and only four remained. Shini looked at the four eggs and smiled.
From above Unimon spied smoke rising from the village, and then a dark form rose from it and headed to the glen. Unimon yelled to the boys "Devimon attacked the village and I'm going to see if their ok. Hurry up boys, and you Digimon are on your own." He flew off. Flybeemon dove into a water-filled ditch for reasons unknown, and Lynxmon was left alone.
Shini had climbed up the tree and was dangling on a limb, he brushed away some ashes and felt an engraving. He cleaned it some more and saw the symbol of courage. "Hey Rei, toss up the egg of courage." Shini caught it and aligned the egg's symbol with the symbol on the tree. The egg stuck like glue, and the branch began healing. Rei caught on and worked on the next egg.
Devimon obviously didn't notice Unimon because he just charged into the glen. "Death Claw!" Devimon grabbed Lynxmon and squeezed. Lynxmon flamed his hand with Thermal Flame. She dropped to the gound and jumped on him kicking and scratching. Devimon spread his wings and shot into the air rolling and Lynxmon fell off. She landed on her feet, "Wild nail rush!" He shielded himself with his arms from the barrage of nails. "Razor Wing!" The attack knocked Lynxmon off her feet. Devimon dove towards her, arms and claws stretched out. Lynxmon got up at the last minute and knocked him into the ditch.
The boys had trouble finding the branch of Love, and discovered it on a fallen one. They tried to use the egg on that, but it didn't work. So Rei took out his knife and started to carve a new love symbol on a new small branch.
"Sargasso Drag!" Devimon surfaced and found himself covered in sargasso weeds, hecouldnt free himself, and was dragged through the ditch. A ripple bunnled "Bubble bomb!" repeatedly and Devimon was dragged into many bubbles that blew up into him. When he reached the end of the ditch he climbed out and tore the weeds from him and flew up, he grabbed the one of the eggs from the boys and flew off.
Depthmon surfaced from the ditch and looked sadly at the fleeing Digimon thief.