We had landed by a lake. It was a nice place, but we didn't notice. We were too busy arguing.
As we were flying away, Stingmon with it's passengers Matt and Ken had started to hang low. Stingmon really wasn't meant to be a passsenger flyer. Our enemy(who apparently hadn't been hurt by the rockslide) took this to their advantage and shot some dark energy at the Insectoid Digimon, causing him to revert back to Wormon. Matt, Wormon, Ken and Gabumon were mysteriously pulled into the rockslide.
"We have to save them!" Yolei said.
"Now, let's not jump to conclusions." Jou(or Joe) argued. "For all we know they could be dead. That rockslide looked pretty dangerous."
That silenced us all. "They can't be dead...can they?" Sora whispered. Death was a fickle thing. We know everybody will die, but when it actually happens to somebody we know, we can't help being suprised.
"Don't worry." Tai said, trying to comfort the others. "Matt and Ken have faced dozens of evil Digimon. They won't let a couple old rocks beat them up."
Everyone slowly nodded, but I could tell they still weren't quite certain. Truth was, I wasn't either. What if it was my fault? What if I was some kind of omen. You're not. You saved them I reminded myself.
"We should at least look for them." Davis said. "C'mon, let's go."
The others began brainstorming up a plan. I didn't say anything. I didn't want to. I knew what would happen if I spoke up. They would just look at me and kindly say "Sorry, but we've tried it before and it worked" or "Leave the planning to us more experienced kids" or even "Shut up." My ideas had been rejected before.
"Hey Guren, you're not saying anything." It was from Davis. Maybe he had gone through the same kind of thing when he had become a Digidestined. Or maybe he was just being naive. He didn't look too smart. Either way, it was a direct invitation to speak that I couldn't ignore.
"Well..." Their plan was a simple, blunt attack on the enemy. "The plan is too predictable. He'll be waiting for you, probably set up a trap. We should organize a search party."
"The place wasn't full of dark energy a couple days ago." a voice said. From the bushes emerged the four-legged red thing I had met when I had first entered the world.
"You're still here, little guy?" I asked.
"Of course." he responded. "I was willing to act as a target for your little rescue party, so until you pay me back I won't leave you alone. Oh, and my name's Elecmon."
"That's good, because Guren will need someone to protect him." TK said.
Elecmon groaned. "Why do I have the fealing that I was just tricked."
"Because you were." everybody answered back.
"Oh."
* * *
A day later, we had organized a searched for Matt and Ken. We figured that since, according to Elecmon, the evil had just appeared suddenly, it could leave just as quickly. Thus, we decided to split up and search. Me and Cody were covering a lake area.
So far, we hadn't found anything unusual. "TK and the others told me stories about this lake." Cody said, painfully trying to make conversation. "This was where Gabumon first digivolved to Garurumon. A Seadramon attacked them."
I nodded, and glanced back at Armadillomon and Elecmon, who were trailing behind us. Armadillomon dipped his paw in the water-there was no beach like there should be around a lake on Earth. "There's something unsavory about this water." he said with that odd little cowboy accent of his. "You can't see it, but it's like it's poisonous or something."
"Well, then don't drink the water." Elecmon said. "It's that simple."
After we had walked halfway around the lake, Armadillomon looked up. "There's something there." he said, pointing to a forest. "Looks like a big cactus."
All of a sudden, that big cactus exploded out from the trees. I now saw that it had punching gloves where the ends of the cactus should be, and it had three holes where it's face would be, trying to make some kind of face.
"It's Togemon!" Cody cried out. "But...Mimi's in another area."
"LIGHTSPEED JABBING!" the Togemon cried, running towards us in a blur, it's bozing gloves jabbing air.
"Armadillomon digivolve to...ANKYLOMON!"
I had only seen Ankylomon briefly before, right before he had DNA digivolved with Angemon. He was an odd, spiky dinosaur-like Digimon. Ankylomon jumped in front of us, and took Togemon's punches, only flinching and not appearing to take any serious damage.
"You've had it easy so far, but let me give you a taste of my true power!" Togemon said. I noted "You've had it easy so far" as a good thing to say when someone beats you. "Needle Spray!"
The needles started spraying off Togemon, sticking into Ankylomon's shell, mildly hurting him "Now, to finish you off!" Togemon yelled. Togemon rushed at Ankylomon and tackled it to the ground. Things weren't looking great fore either side.
"Tail Hammer!" Ankylomon cried, bringing up his spiky tail, sending Togemon hurtling several feet-right into the lake!
"It must've been a different Togemon" Cody muttered. "Dosen't matter, Togemon can't swim."
"Can they walk on water?" I asked.
"No, of course-what on Earth?" Togemon was floating on top of the water, a spot of dark energy right beneath it.
"The Waters of Impurity." Togemon muttered. "Togemon dark digivolve to...GARBAGEMON!"
"WHAT!" Cody yelled. "Togemon digivolves to Lilymon."
"This Togemon must have had different data used, and he did Dark Digivolve." Anyklomon explained. Garbagemon jumped out of the water, allowing me to see his full, hideous form. He looked like a slimeball with somesort of cannon hiding in a trash can. He landed strait on Ankylomon's side, turning the Dinosaur Digimon over. Garbagemon brought a gooey fist down into Ankylomon's underside, causing it to revert to Armadillomon.
"This isn't good." Elecmon said, before getting hit by a disc of slime called 'Junk Chunker.' Elecmon screamed something out, and landed several metres away.
"Go get Elecmon, without him we'll probably lose!" Cody instructed. I nodded quickly and sprinted off towards Elecmon.
"Junk Chunker!" The attack was right behind me. I had seen what it had did to Elecmon, and the fear made me run even faster. I felt a warm light up against my side, and realized that it was the mysterious device that had come out of my chest. Maybe it would help me out here. I kept running. Elecmon was only two metres away now. All of a sudden, both Elecmon and my device exploded into light.
"Elecmon digivolve to...LEOMON!" All of a sudden, I was down on the ground, tackled by some guy who made football players look like worms. He had a fairly muscular body with some sort of red marking around his shoulders. His only clothes were a sturdy black pair of pants. His face was the part that told me he was Digimon and not just human. He had a long, yellow main covering most of his head besides his face, and he had a small black nose like that on an animal rather than a human nose. Lastly, he had cat-like ears.
"That's Leomon!" Armadillomon cried. "A Champion level Digimon that fights for honor. His attack is the Fist of the Beast King."
"Do your Fist of the Beast Ping or whatever it's called!" I ordered. Leomon grunted, but jumped up to his feet.
"Fist of the Beast King! Fist of the Beast King! Fist of the Beast King!" Like a machine gun, Leomon threw out punches fast, but only hit air. However, he was not aiming to hit Garbagemon. Whenever he punched, a laser lionshead emerged from his fist and flew out at Garbagemon. They hit him.
"KAYAA!" Garbagemon cried as it was pushed back into the lake. Immidiately the waters of the lake turned foul and green from Garbagemon's presence.
"Now that it's in the water, Submarimon can handle it." Cody said reassuringly. "Digi-Armor Energize!"
"Armadillomon armor-digivolve to...Submarimon, the Reliable Gaurdian of the Sea!"
Armadillomon had now digivolved to an odd submarine creatuure. I didn't see much of it, as it zoomed into the toxic water immediately. I could see it's shillouete under the water, fighting Garbagemon's. "Oxygen Torpedo!" Echoed up from under water, and Garbagemon flew up closer and closer to the surface. Eventually, it came up, injured and looking as if it had swallowed a few gallons of water down there.
"Beast Sword!" Leomon's plunged his sword into where a heart would be on a human. Garbagemon let out one final gasp before being deleted, tiny pieces of him swimming around in the sky, waiting to be reborn somewhere else.
After the battle had been won, Leomon returned back to Elecmon. "I never want to do that again!" Elecmon panted.
"Hey, you could make Elecmon digivolve." Cody said as Submarimon returned
to Armadillomon form. "I guess that means that Elecmon's your Digimon
partner."
"He's my partner!" me and Elecmon both said dumboundedly.
Cody cracked a grin.
Ten minutes later, a beep came out from Cody's pocket. "I've got
mail." he muttered, pulling out his D-Terminal and reading the message.
He looked up at me, his expression solemn. "Kari and Sora have found
a big dark pit."