Authors Notes: Kiwimon's attack I found on an encyclopedia of digimon that has only card attacks. I doubt Kiwimon's attack is right, so please don't kill me (but feel free to e-mail me) if it's wrong.
Chapter 11
"Britney!"
"N'sync!"
"Britney!"
Davis and Yolei argued. So far, the digidestined had been walking for around an hour. For the most part, the only digimon they had encountered had been easily taken out. However, now that it was quiet, Davis and Yolei decided it would be fun to annoy the living hell out of everyone else by arguing which pop band was more popular in America.
"N'sync is by far more popular than Britney Spears." Yolei argued.
"Don't you ever see American advertisements? Blond girl singer's are major these day's." Davis shot back.
"Will you two shut up." Tai said, fed up. "I can't take it any more. Nobody cares about American culture and if I hear one more word of it I'll go on a rampage."
"Fine!" Yolei spat and walked in silence, her arms crossed. Cody took his fingers out of his ears. The peace was comforting, but it didn't last long.
"YOU WILL PERISH!" A female voice said from above. Whatever the thing was, it knocked Matt over and swung away through the trees, laughing.
"Not another one." Matt said from the ground, exasperated.
"You know, we should have a different technique for fighting these slaves. Every time, we wait for them to ambush us. How about we ambush them for once." Sora said.
"Great idea, but we'll never catch up to that digimon now." Tai said.
"So split up into groups." Ken said casually. He was leading and had been quiet all day. "We'll go in groups of two and meet up here. Start the count off." Ken pointed at Davis.
"One."
"Two"
"Three"
"Four"
"Five"
"Six"
Ken pointed at the second half and they rattled off they're numbers
"Six." Ken said, pointing at himself. "OK, that's done with. Now we should meet here."
"Well, we'll need something to mark our meeting place." Izzy said. Everyone turned to look at Davis, or rather his goggles.
"No way! There is no chance that anyone is going to touch these." Davis defended, realizing what the others wanted. After forcefully relinquishing the goggles from Davis and hanging them on a tree, the digidestined split up to go look for the attacking digimon in hopes that they could get this over with as fast as possible. Matt was with Tai, Izzy with Sora, Mimi with TK, Yolei with Joe, Kari with Davis and Cody with Ken. The search was on.
***
"We're lost, aren't we?" Yolei asked Joe.
"Don't be so negative Yolei." Hawkmon said.
"Yeah, we'll find that digimon before anyone else." Gomamon said, smiling.
Yolei smiled down at the two digimon. Then she looked around. The forest became darker and Yolei got a worried look on her face. Just then a branch snapped. Yolei whipped around just in time to see a digimon, which had a red flower for a head and many long vines with mouths on the end for a body, blow some kind of green powder in Joe's face. Joe immediately collapsed.
"Oh no!" Gomamon exclaimed. He rushed over to Joe and caught him. "That's Petuniamon, a plant digimon who is mistaken for Blossomon and can attack you with her vines or her stun pollen."
"Oh god, oh god, oh god! Joe, wake up! PLEASE!" Yolei cried. Petuniamon started to descend on her too, so Yolei opened her D-terminal. "Digi-armor energize."
"Hawkmon armor digivolve to... Halsemon, the wings of love."
Halsemon used his tempest wing and stopped the pollen from reaching Yolei. Halsemon then leapt into the air to use his Hawk's Eye. But Petuniamon took one of his vines and wrapped it around Halsemon's leg. He then proceeded to slam Halsemon into the ground, making him dedigivolve.
"Hawkmon!" Yolei yelled. She opened her D-terminal to bring up her other digi-egg, but a vine from Petuniamon whacked it out of her hand and sent it flying a few feet from her. Petuniamon gave a triumphant smile and started towards Yolei; vines out and ready to attack.
"Noooooo!" Yolei wailed as the plant digimon got closer. Her digivice glowed and Hawkmon stood up. The screech came from the digivice and Hawkmon glowed
"Hawkmon digivolve to... Aquilamon."
Aquilamon tackled Petuniamon away from Yolei.
"Blast Rings!" Aquilamon said and red loops shot from his mouth. Petuniamon screamed. Then, she tried her stun pollen again, but Aquilamon easily blew it away with the flapping of his wings.
"Grand Horn!" Aquilamon said and butted Petuniamon's dark ring. The ring broke and the digimon slid away. Yolei ran over to Joe.
"Aquilamon! You have to get help! I'm glad you digivolved, but we can't just leave Joe." Yolei cried to her digimon. "Find the closest group and get them here immediately and I'll contact the others through e-mail. I have a feeling Petuniamon wasn't the digimon who knocked Matt down."
"All right." Aquilamon said in his deep voice and flapped away. Yolei started lightly slapping Joe's face, trying to get him to wake up.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Ken and Cody were also scanning for digimon.
"How can we find something if we don't know what it looks like." Cody inquired.
"We could guess." Ken suggested, looking around. Cody looked up at Ken with annoyance. "Oh I see. You don't like the fact that we're stuck together."
"I never said that." Cody huffed angrily
"I can see it in you eyes. Believe me, the feeling is shared by me. Unfortunately, we are together and your teammates seem tolerant of that. So why not you?" Ken said.
"If I didn't have too much respect for my friends, I would call them fools for even thinking of trusting you." Cody said heatedly.
"You think I'll betray you at the first chance I get." Ken said in fake surprise.
"I know you will."
"Well, despite what you may think, I am not without honor. Betraying a person whom I am in his debt is dishonorable. I wouldn't do that." Ken said.
"Why do I not believe you?" Cody said angrily.
"Because you're a simple-minded child?" Ken suggested. Cody's eye twitched in anger. However, before Cody got to respond, ten Floramon came out of the bushes with a Kiwimon.
"Fool's! How dare you try to fight the great Vexilmon. We will stop you." One of the Floramon said. Ken immediately recognized the female voice.
"Look's like we found Ishida's attacker." Ken said, amused.
"Rain of pollen!" The Floramon said and brown powder shot from their hands at Ken. Ken ducked and ran.
"Nice try! Now it's our turn. Wormmon, digivolve." Ken said.
"Wormmon digivolve to... Stingmon."
The Floramon leaped onto Stingmon so he couldn't use his Spiking Strike. While Ken was busy with his digimon, Cody brought up the digiegg of knowledge.
"Digi-armor energize!" Cody yelled.
"Armadillomon armor digivolve to... Digmon, the drill of power."
Digmon bounded towards Kiwimon with his drills spinning, but Kiwimon simply leapt out of the way.
"Like that's going to work." Kiwimon said sarcastically. "Little Pecker."
Kiwimon opened his mouth and small Kiwimon shaped heads came out and exploded on Digmon. However, since Digmon was covered in armor, the bombs did little damage to him. Seeing that, Kiwimon jump-kicked Digmon. His talons dug into Digmon
"Hey, that hurt." Digmon said, rubbing the place where he was kicked. "Gold Rush!"
Digmon's drills came off of him and went flying toward Kiwimon. The drills hit their target and Kiwimon went flying backwards. While Kiwimon was down, Digmon took the opportunity to get all those Floramon off of Stingmon.
"Thanks, Digmon." Stingmon said, swatting the last of the Floramon off him.
"Don't mention it." Digmon said. The Floramon and Kiwimon ran away just as a large shadow came from above.
"Cody! Ken!" The large bird with horns called as it landed.
"State your name and business with us, digimon!" Ken said suspiciously.
"My name's Aquilamon, but I'm better known as Hawkmon." The bird said.
"Yolei's digimon?" Cody asked
"Yes."
"What's wrong? Is Yolei hurt?" Cody asked nervously.
"We were attacked. Joe was stunned and I fear for both of their safeties. You were the closest group and they need help quickly." Aquilamon explained
"Show us." Ken said. Cody then climbed up onto Aquilamon and Ken climbed up Stingmon. They took off, not realizing that the Kiwimon was looking up and following their path. The Kiwimon then ran in another direction.
"Yolei! We're here." Cody called. Yolei was now sitting next to Joe, watching him breath, waiting for him to wake up. Ken jumped down and walked over calmly, while Cody on the other hand ran over and started talking to Yolei.
"Petuniamon! She ambushed us." Yolei cried, very distressed about Joe.
"You're not alone." Ken said. "A lot of Floramon attacked us too. Don't be too worried, stun pollen isn't poisonous, just annoying. He'll wake up soon."
Yolei sighed in relief.
"Ken! Something large is coming our way." Stingmon called from the sky. "And that Kiwimon is there also."
Ken cursed. The attacks were becoming increasingly bothersome. But with the digidestined of reliability injured, they couldn't go anywhere. Ken waited until he heard some kind of growling noise. Kiwimon jumped out with a smile on his face.
"You think you're so tough. Why don't you meet my good friend Blossomon." Kiwimon leered. From the shadows of the forest, a huge digimon came out.
"Petuniamon?" Yolei said, confused.
"No." Gomamon said soberly. "Petuniamon was only a champion level digimon. This look-alike is an ultimate and very mean."
"You want a fight? You've got it." Ken said angrily. "Stingmon, you know what to do."
Stingmon flew towards Blossomon, stingers out.
"Spiking Strike!" Stingmon said. The stingers hit their target and Blossomon winced. However, the attack wasn't strong enough and it didn't stop the digimon.
"Go Aquilamon! Help stop that thing." Yolei yelled to her digimon.
"Blast Rings!" Aquilamon said as he leapt into the air. The red ring hit Blossomon, but she still kept coming.
"Armadillomon, you better armor digivolve!" Cody said, taking out his D-3.
"Wait Cody. Stay with Joe. He's venerable to an attack and we need someone to protect him." Yolei yelled. Cody looked from Yolei to Joe and reluctantly nodded as Kiwimon started to go for the weaker Armadillomon. Both Ken and Yolei's digimon were pounding and pounding on the Blossomon, not only hurting it very little, but also making the digimon very mad.
"Spiral flower." Blossomon said and two small flowers with razor sharp petals came spinning out. One whacked Aquilamon, while Stingmon deflected the other.
"Where are they!?" Ken yelled at his D-terminal. He was e-mailing the others to get them to where he was, but no one was responding. As he tried to hail the digidestined again, Kiwimon started to bomb Stingmon with his attack.
"Little pecker." Kiwimon said. Blossomon used her attack again and with the combined attacks, Stingmon dedigivolved. Blossomon started for the kill on Ken. Cody just stood there in awe.
"What can I do? What can I do?" Cody thought desperately. "I don't want anyone hurt, but all the digimon seem to be wanting Ken the most. Maybe if they take Ken, we can go back to normal."
As Cody watched, Ken was backing up, yelling at Yolei to help him. Unfortunately, Aquilamon was doing very little damage to the determined digimon.
"Why do you bother to fight, bearer of love?" Kiwimon said to Yolei. "All our master wants is the Kaiser so he may have his revenge. Just give up your enemy and we'll be gone."
"Don't listen to him. After I go, you'll be next." Ken said. Yolei nodded so Kiwimon gave up on her. He moved to Cody.
"What about you, Knowledge?" Kiwimon said shrewdly. "You hate him, don't you? Why don't you help hand him over and justice will be served."
Cody blinked in confusion. He looked from his friend to his former enemy to the bird digimon. Ken looked back at him with cold, questioning eyes. Cody clenched his fist in anger and looked at Kiwimon with fire in his eyes.
"NO! This is wrong! Ken may be evil and what he does may be wrong, but even he doesn't deserve to be brought into the hands of Vexilmon. I've never willingly given up in the face of danger and I'm not about to do it now!" Cody yelled. As soon as he did that, his digivice glowed.
"Cody! Your digivice. You're doing it!" Armadillomon said. Cody looked at his digimon in determination.
"Kiwimon, tell your master he'll never win and we'll never surrender!" Cody said and his digivice grew brighter.
"Armadillomon digivolve to... Ankylomon."
The huge dinosaur digimon towered above everyone.
"Spiral flower!" Blossomon said, but the attack aimed at Ken was bounced off of Ankylomon's hard shell.
"Tail Hammer!" Ankylomon said and his tail slammed into Blossomon. His attack stopped Blossomon in her tracks, turned toward the yellow dinosaur and growled at him. Ken stopped backing up.
"Good work, Hida." Ken called quickly. Cody turned; surprised that Ken would compliment him, but something started beeping and Ken looked away. Yolei opened her beeping D-terminal and let out a whoop of joy.
"It's the others! They're coming!" Yolei shouted. As soon as she said that, they heard a voice.
"Electro shocker."
A ball of electricity came shooting from the sky and hit the ultimate digimon. Blossomon screamed in anger.
"Hey everyone! The Calvary's here." Tai said, coming through the woods on Greymon's shoulder. Birdramon, Kabuterimon, Nefertimon and Pegasusmon came through the air with their partners, while Raidramon, Garurumon and Togemon came up behind Greymon.
"From what you said about Blossomon, we all thought maximum speed would be needed. So we took the digivolving express." Tai said light-heartedly.
"Listen, Blossomon is being controlled by a dark spiral." Ken said as he looked at his D-3. "I'm sure of it. Unfortunately, it seems the spiral is buried deep in its vines, so we have to weaken it in order to get the spiral. If you do that, though, aim for the spiral's ends, so we don't have to deal with the..." Ken quickly glanced at Greymon. "Unpleasentrys that happened the first time."
Tai nodded in understanding.
"You heard what he said." Tai yelled, "Get the spiral."
One by one, the digidestined's digimon attacked the ultimate, hurting him little.
"If we want to beat that thing, we're going to need a giant weed whacker." Gomamon said from his spot besides Joe.
"That's it! Gomamon, you're a genius!" Yolei exclaimed. "Aquilamon, dedigivolve and get ready to armor digivolve."
Aquilamon landed and Hawkmon reappeared.
"Digi-armor energize!"
"Hawkmon armor digivolve to... Shurimon, the samurai of sincerity. Double Star."
The two three-pronged asterisk Shurimon had for hands shot out and knocked the attacking vines out of the way. Then Shurimon jumped up.
"I am going to destroy the spiral, so make that plant stay still."
"Golden noose." Pegasusmon and Nefertimon said at the same time and the gold glowing rope tied up Blossomon. Shurimon's bladed hand went vertically into a space between the vines and suddenly Blossomon fell to the ground.
"Great job, Shurimon!" Yolei cried. Shurimon dedigivolved back to Hawkmon and she hugged him. Ken gave one quick glance at the fallen digimon and walked away without a word or any expression. The digidestined stared at his retreating back as Joe woke up and Izzy and TK helped him to his feet.
"Man, that guy really needs to loosen up and chill." Davis said after congratulating Yolei.
"I don't think those words are even in his vocabulary. Ken would probably freeze up from being so stiff before he loosens up." Matt said.
Blossomon started to stir.
"Let's go before that digimon wakes up." Tai said and started walking.
"I'll race you to the goggles." Davis challenged.
"You're on." Tai said playfully and they both ran at top speed toward the direction of Ken.
"Brainless dummies." Yolei said, shaking her head.
"You said it." Sora said with a laugh.
***
"How much longer?" Mimi complained. With the newly digivolved digimon, the attacks from the opposition were easier to crush. And to make sure that the digimon conserved energy, the group was still walking through the woods.
"I don't know, you asked the same question five minutes ago." Izzy said.
"Well, this is tiring. I haven't done this much walking since we were in the digital world four years ago." Mimi whined.
"Hey, there's a clearing! Maybe Vexilmon's place is there." Joe said, hopefully.
"Or maybe that pollen really did effect you brain." Ken said sarcastically. "We still have a bit to go, so don't get your hopes up."
Unfortunately, Ken was right. As the forest grew less dense, the digidestined could see desert that seemed to span for miles. Everyone groaned as they walked into it, only Ken and Wormmon seemed unfazed.
"Great, another desert. And this one's hotter than the first one." Yolei complained, fanning herself. After a few minutes, the sun was making everyone have very bad moods.
"Whose idea was it to walk in at desert?" Davis said, annoyed.
"We all decided to go on this mission, though it seems we should have left you at home." Matt said.
"Yeah, well, who decided it was OK to be out in this heat without any water?" Tai said.
"Ken was the one who said we shouldn't stop by that river." Davis inquired.
"So you're saying it's Ken's fault?" Tai said. That statement made Ken turn with a very annoyed look on his face.
"First off, I'm right next to you, so don't think I can't hear you. Second, nobody, I repeat, nobody thought of bringing water with us, and third, I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A DESERT!" Ken said. Tai and Davis backed away in caution, blown away by Ken's outburst. Ken then stiffly speed walked to the front of the group.
"Typical. You just had to play the blame game, didn't you?" Sora sighed. A few minutes passed, then the lone leader of the group slowed and stopped, focusing on what looked like to be nothing.
"What is it?" Kari asked.
Ken pointed to a spot, and out of thin air, a structure seemed to shimmer and appear.
"Vexilmon's last known location. I can feel it." Ken said calmly.
"What is it?" TK asked.
"Well, whatever it is, we better get to it." Davis said and started walking to it. The others followed curiosity and fear knotted in their stomachs as the wandered toward the structure and Vexilmon.
