Chapter Ten

A few minutes later, The DigiDestined all decided to take a break. They had walked up what seemed like a thousand steps in a dark, circular stairway. Taichi decided to give them all a pep talk.

"Now, nobody worry," he said. "We've handled evil Digimon before, this will simply be a routine evil Digimon extermination."

"What about the fact that Veranmon could take over one of our Digimon's bodies?" asked Iori.

"Well that's different," replied Taichi. "But at least she can't turn us into key-chains, right?"

"Whatever," everyone else answered.

"So let's go!" exclaimed Taichi, and he led the DigiDestined up the last few steps to the top.

When they came to the top of the stairway, there was a long dark hall. When they all started forward, they got crammed in-between each other and the stone walls of the hallway, because there were too many of them to fit in the hallway.

"There are too many of us to fit in the hallway," said Yamato.

"Duh, Yamato," said Taichi. "Okay, everyone get in a line. Why would they make this hallway so dang cramped?"

The DigiDestined continued forward in a line when they reached another set of stairs. Slowly, they continued up the stairway and came to a door. Taichi opened the door, which led to the very top of the tower.

"Everyone get ready!" Taichi called back to the others. He stepped out onto the roof of the tower, but it was completely empty.

"Umm…" Taichi began. "I think maybe…" Just then a ball of energy came rushing straight towards him.

"Everybody down!" he yelled. All of the DigiDestined and their Digimon dropped to the ground, and the ball of energy whizzed past them down the stairway and it exploded at the bottom.

"Holy Crap!" yelled Miyako, who was closest to the bottom of the stairway. "Come on everyone, let me through. To the roof now!"

They all ran up the stairs to the roof, and came face to face with Veranmon and Onoxmon.

"All right, we're gonna knock you flat!" yelled Daisuke, stealing what Taichi was about to say.

All of the Digimon digivolved, and prepared to fight.

"Go!" commanded Taichi, and all of the good Digimon ran toward the evil Digimon.

The battle ensued for a long time. Both Veranmon and Onoxmon were powerful, and they took blow after blow, but fought back just as hard. There was blue energy there, a fiery blast there, and a hard punch to the left of that.

"Go Exveemon, go Exveemon!" cheered Daisuke in a steady rhythm. He began to jump and cheer when Exveemon hit Onoxmon with a carefully aimed attack.

"Yahoo! Yahoo! Yahoooahhh- whooooooaaaaa!" Daisuke shrieked when a blast from Veranmon's energy exploded on the ground in front of him, and sent him flying toward the edge of the roof of the tower. He landed a few feet from the edge, but the momentum of the blast sent him rolling over the edge.

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There was a familiar pain in Daisuke's respiratory system as he saw the ground just a few seconds away, then he was suddenly grabbed by two large arms, and flown away to safety.

* * *

Angemon returned to the fight after he flew Daisuke to safety. Although the good Digimon had the evil Digimon highly outnumbered, Veranmon and Onoxmon held them off easily. Then there was a red flash, and Veranmon disappeared.

"Oh crap," said Takeru, he knew what to expect when that happened.

All the Digimon froze, and looked at each other. For a few minutes, not a single living thing with eukaryotic animal cells moved.

Suddenly, the lake nearby rippled, and the ground shook violently. Out of the forest came a large, spider-like Digimon

"That's Veranmon!" yelled Koushiro.

"Are you sure?" asked Kabuterimon.

"More than I'm sure that the human diploid number is forty-six!"

"Is it forty-six?" Hikari asked Takeru.

"Yeah," said Takeru. "Come on Angemon, get her!"

Half the Digimon went after Veranmon, the other half went after Onoxmon.

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Daisuke looked up and saw the Digimon attack Veranmon in her new spider form.

"Must… help," he said weakly. "Must use… one good lung… stop… her."

He tried to get up, but fell over. His reduced oxygen intake made him weak.

"Must breath… extra. Should try… to… stop Onoxmon… buy the… others… time."

He looked over at the lake Veranmon came out of, and saw a familiar Digimon.

"That's it."

* * *

The battle was going bad for the good Digimon. Even when the younger children's' Digimon DNA digivolved, they couldn't stop the two evil Digimon.

"This is bad," said Hikari, clutching Takeru close to her.

"Yes," he said.

"We might lose this fight."

"Maybe."

"We could be killed."

"I hope not."

"The world is doomed."

"Possibly."

"What the hell is that?"

"I don't know."

A typhoon of water spewed up from the lake as Seadramon flew out with Daisuke on his back.

"Yeeehhaaaaaaa!" screamed Daisuke, a bit less loud than usual because of his bad lung. "Go get Onoxmon!"

Seadramon's enormous mouth closed around Onoxmon and dragged him under the surface of the lake. Daisuke hopped off just as Seadramon went underwater.

"Man, that was cool," he said.

"Davis!" said Takeru.

"That's Daisuke to you, and what?"

"That rocked!"

"Yeah," said Hikari. "You're a hero!" She ran up and gave him a hug. When she pulled away, Takeru came up to hug Daisuke, but Daisuke stuck his hand out for a handshake. Takeru stopped and reached for his hand, but then Daisuke opened his harms and hugged Takeru, taking him completely by surprise.

"Takeru," Daisuke said. "You and Hikari: it doesn't bother me. You've gots my blessing."

"Did you hear that?" Takeru asked Hikari. "We've gots his blessing!"

"Gnarly," she said. "Now let's go get Veranmon!"

* * *

With Onoxmon out of the way, Veranmon wasn't as tough. The good Digimon were slowly wearing her down, and soon she was so weak she just sat down on the stone roof.

"It's over for you," said Imperialdramon, ready to strike the final blow.

"Then finish me," Veranmon retorted. Imperialdramon readied his weapon, but suddenly Veranmon disappeared in a red flash.

"Not again!" complained Ken.

"Man, she makes me so mad I want to say a bad word," said Takeru.

"Magikarp?" suggested Yamato.

"Journalism class?" suggested Sora.

"Barney?" suggested Daisuke.

"No," said Takeru. "Rocky IV."

"Ooohhh," everyone said.

Just then, a giant, bee-like Digimon zoomed up and flew off into the distance.

"That must have been Veranmon," said Jyou.

"Looks like we scared her off," said Iori.

"But I don't think we've seen the last of her," said Koushiro.

"Well, I have the feeling she'll be gone for a while, so let's go home," said Taichi.

"We ought to stop by Digimon General to get Daisuke fixed up," said Palmon.

"Yeah, let's go," and they left.

* * *

As the DigiDestined and their Digimon walked toward Digimon General, Takeru looked in the direction Veranmon in the bee-like Digimon's body flew.

"You think we've made a new enemy, Daisuke?" he asked.

"Of course!" said Daisuke. "We gotta get that Bin Laden guy!"

"I was talking about Veranmon."

"Of course, we gotta get that Veranmon lady!"

"I hope things turn out okay."

"Me too, she's pretty dangerous. I don't think the Digital World will be safe now that she showed up."

"You're right. We have to stop her."