Digimon: The Year of Reckoning
Chapter 17
"Deadly Dinos"
Narrated by Nick, Mya, and JT
Nick
I knew I had made a bad decision. It'll haunt me for the rest of my life. I should have gone after him. Now he was all alone. What if he died? It would be my fault.
"Nick, don't blame yourself," Mya said, seeming to know what I was thinking about.
"But it's my fault. I turned my back on him."
"No you didn't," JT said. "He turned his back on us. If you would have gone after him he might have attacked you with his sword or something."
They were all trying to cheer me up. It wasn't working. I knew it was my fault. They couldn't change that. But I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
"Fine, I'll stop blaming myself," I lied.
"Besides, we need to worry about bigger things. Like finding more medallions. Or getting Faith back," Crustmon said.
So we continued. Keeping our eyes peeled for anything. We didn't expect what we found.
"It's a Tyrannomon," Betamon said. "Don't worry, they're usually very nice."
The dinosaur turned around and looked at us. It just tilted its head back and forth and then sniffed at our heads.
"See, gentle as a baby," Betamon said patting Tyrannomon's foot.
It let loose the biggest and loudest roar I had ever heard. My ears felt like they would bleed.
"Fire Breath!"
He attacked us! We all jumped out of the way.
"I thought you said he was gentle."
"I said…usually."
"We can handle him," Catermon said charging forward. "Absorbing Thread!"
She had him tied down. I guess his bite wasn't as tough as his bark. Then he started to make weird sounds. I had heard these sounds before. Somewhere, like in a movie…Jurassic Park 3! The raptors made that same sound when…
"He's calling for help!"
Right on cue, the trees parted as two more digimon stomped through them. One was a huge brontosaurus that was orange with blue stripes. The other was like a green Tyrannomon but had two large tusks protruding frontward.
"That's Brachimon and Tuskmon!" Crustmon said.
Tuskmon used his tusks to cut open the thread wrapping up Tyrannomon, while Brachimon came at us.
"Aqua Jet!"
Crustmon's attack did nothing except piss off Brachimon.
"Brachio Bubble!"
Crustmon was captured in a big bubble. He started to float away!
"Ninja Belt!"
A carefully aimed ninja star popped the bubble. As Crustmon fell to the ground he digivolved.
"Crustmon digivolve to…Lobstremon!"
He landed on top of Brachimon's head and pounded away with his big claws. Brachimon tilted his head and Lobstremon slid off but stabled himself so he "surfed" down the extremely long neck, then body, then tail, and landed gracefully on the ground. Until Brachimon slammed his tail into him.
While my digimon recovered I decided, I'd take a turn attacking Brachimon. I pulled out my daggers and ran at him. I dodged his tail as it swung at me, flipped up onto his back, and stabbed my daggers into his back.
He let out a loud scream and shook his body sending me flying.
"Lobstremon, get him!"
"Lobstremon digivolve to…Pearlmon!"
Pearlmon flew into the air landing a kick in Brachimon's face. Then on the way down he stabbed his katana in Brachimon's tough hide.
"Hammer Head!"
Pearlmon was knocked away. He layed unmoving on the ground.
JT
After Tuskmon freed Tyrannomon, he came after me.
"Slamming Tusk!"
His tusks were coming down on me.
"Betamon digivolve to…Seadramon!"
My digimon wrapped around the tusks and pulled them away.
"Ice Blast!"
Tuskmon evaded the attack and then slammed his tusks into Seadramon. Seadramon then whacked him in the head with his tail.
"Horn Driver!"
Lightning shot from Tuskmon's tusks. They slammed into Seadramon.
"Bow and Arrow!"
I fired arrows, but they bounced off of his tusks. Every time I fired he would block them. If I could only distract him somehow. Then I could get a hit in.
"Seadramon you have to digivolve!"
"Seadramon digivolve to…MegaSeadramon!"
MegaSeadramon attacked him from behind, wrapping around his legs causing him to fall forward. I took this as the perfect opportunity to attack. I set up my arrow, aimed, and fired. The arrow lodged itself right between Tuskmon's eyes. He bellowed in pain, before turning around, lifting MegaSeadramon with his tusks and flinging him over his shoulders.
Mya
Tyrannomon came at me and Catermon. My digimon tried to wrap his legs so he would fall, but he tore right through it.
"Time to take to the sky," I told her.
"Catermon digivolve to…Buttramon!"
She flew up and then dove down kicking Tyrannomon in the face. Then with unbelievable strength, lifted him by the tail and swung him around before tossing him into a tree.
"I didn't know you had it in ya," I said.
"Me either," she said sounding amazed.
"Slash Nail!"
His claws shot out. One punctured Buttramon's wing. She fell to the ground. I saw another claw that was way off course.
"Magic!"
I raised my hand and the claw stopped. With a flick of the wrist it turned and flew back at Tyrannomon landing in his chest.
"Finish him off!" I yelled.
"Buttramon digivolve to…MetalButtramon!"
"Wing Scythe!"
She dove down preparing to slice through the evil digimon, but was stopped when Seadramon crashed into her. They both lay sprawled on the ground. I looked over to see Pearlmon down too.
"Nick what do we do?" I asked.
"I don't know. It seems like no matter how much we attack them, they just shake it off."
"We need Brandon," JT concluded.
Nick pondered this as the three dinos regrouped and prepared to finish us off.
"Mya, go."
"What?"
"Go. Go find Brandon. We can't win without him. Go get him and bring him back."
"I'm not leaving you. What if I don't find him? Or what if I don't make it back in time? You guys could die."
"It's our only hope to survive," JT said. "Nick's right, just go."
I knew this wasn't right. If I left and something happened to them…I'd feel nothing. I wouldn't care. Without a soul I could care less if they died even if I had killed them myself. So I went.
MetalButtramon got up and I hopped on her back as she flew off into the sky.
"We'll find Brandon," she promised.
I didn't say anything, because I honestly didn't believe that.
JT
"What are gonna do now?"
"Three ultimates couldn't defeat these guys. But maybe a Holymon can. Pearlmon, let's do it."
Pearlmon changed back into Crustmon.
"DigiMedallion energize!"
"Crustmon medallion digivolve to…Holymon! Angel of Hope!"
Holymon used his light to heal MegaSeadramon and the two of them stood ready for the dinos.
"Brachio Bubble!"
"Horn Driver!"
"Fire Breath!"
"Mega Ice Blast!"
MegaSeadramon froze all of the attacks. Holymon took to the sky.
"Holy Claw!"
He opened his claw to fire a huge beam of light. It blasted a hole through Tyrannomon destroying him. But the attack took away too much energy. A weak Crustmon fell from the sky. Nick caught it and ran.
"Come on JT, we have to run, it's our only chance!"
I hopped on MegaSeadramon's back and flew after him. The two evil digimon were right on our tails. Nick ran faster but he tripped over something. Crustmon flew from his hands. I hopped off of my digimon and ran over to him. MegaSeadramon held off the dinos, while we examined what I tripped over.
"It's a medallion," I said.
It was purple and had a huge bug on it.
"It's…Ke…Ki…Kab…Kabuterimon!" Nick realized. "It must be yours."
I picked it up and looked it over.
"Well what are you waiting for, use it!"
"Right. DigiMedallion energize!"
His digimon became Betamon again as the purple bug flew out of the medallion and implanted itself in Betamon.
"Betamon medallion digivolve to…Eelmon! Thunder of knowledge!"
Eelmon was way cool. He had the body of Seadramon only it was dark green. And he had two pairs of wings and three sets of legs that hung from his body as he flew. He also had Kabuterimon's helmet and his body was surging with electricity.
"I am Eelmon. I digivolved from Betamon using the medallion of knowledge. I have an electric personality that I prove with my Bug Zapper attack."
The three digimon faced off.
"Brachio Bubble!"
With a beat of his wings the bubbles flew back at Brachimon.
"Horn Driver!"
Eelmon just absorbed the electricity and prepared to fire it all back.
"I'm sending you back to the Jurassic! Bug Zapper!"
Electricity shot from all over his body. He beat it out of his wings, fired it out of his claws, and shot it from his mouth and horn. The once dark evening sky, lit up as if it were noon. And when the light went out again, the dinos were no more. Eelmon changed back to Tadpolemon and collapsed in my arms.
"I guess we didn't need Brandon after all," Nick said.
"Yeah."
Then it dawned on me.
"What if we just sent Mya off on a death trip?"
All the color left Nick's face.
Will Mya ever find Brandon? Will she die trying? And will Brandon find Faith? Or die also?