Skeet: That tears it. When I get back home, I'm getting a car. The bus I was taking home went into a mysterious portal and I wound up in a strange land. I, as well as Dizzy the dolphin, Kelly the cat and Carl the bat, found myself partnered with strange creatures called Digimon. After being chased by stampeding Monochromon we found special coins that allowed our Digimon to Digivolve. We also found trouble in the form of Dokugumon, a giant spider Digimon that trapped us in his webbing and took us home for dinner... and not as guests, either. Is this the end of our lovable skunk hero? As if!
"Vee Is For Victory" by Chet "Tech" Weaver
"I must say, this is a rather disappointing turn of events," Hawkmon said.
"What did we expect?" Kokuwamon said. "We're only rookies, after all."
"If only I were a Champion-level Digimon," Floramon said. "Then I'd shove a footprint into his thorax!!"
"I know I wanted to surf the web, but this is ridiculous!" Dizzy commented.
"All this hanging upside down is making the blood rush into my head," Kelly complained.
"Yep, I'm gonna have some good eatin' tonight," Dokugumon said. "I'm gonna have some chicken... Gonna have some bat wings... Gonna have some tuna..."
"Excuse me, but I am not a tuna," Dizzy said. "I'm a dolphin, thank you very much."
"... Gonna have some tuna... Now where did I leave it? AH!"
After searching through a nearby cupboard, Dokugumon pulled out a giant peppershaker and began to shake out a lot of black pepper onto Hawkmon.
"My good man," Hawkmon said with a sneeze. "I must ask you to desist immediately."
"Hey, you gotta have your seasonings," Dokugumon said.
"Black pepper?" Skeet noted. "You call black pepper a seasoning? Don't you know how to prepare a proper meal?"
"Yes," Dokugumon said indignantly. Then after a moment of thought he added, "No. Look, black pepper's all I got. If you don't like it, that's too bad. This is my meal, and you're just the main course."
"C'mon. An event like this, you can afford to gussy it up a little."
"Whadda ya mean?"
"Well, it can't be every day you catch a meal this big. Am I right or am I right?"
"Well, uh, yeah."
"Then you should splurge a little. Get some good seasonings and make yourself a Fine meal."
"But I don't know how to cook! I usually just wrap them in webbing and drain their bodily fluids."
"Don't worry about it. I'll tell you how to do it."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"All right! What do I do first?"
"First, you oughtta buy a few things at the store. You might want to write this down..."
Skeet rattled off a long list of ingredients to Dokugumon. Having failed to commit them to memory, he got out a note pad and had Skeet dictate the list to him again. He then immediately scuttled off into the forest to find the nearest store.
"How long do you think it'll take him to get back from the store?" Skeet asked.
"To get back from the what?" Hawkmon asked with a perplexed look.
"Never mind," Skeet answered. He then began struggling underneath his bindings. "If I can just reach my pocketknife, I might be able to cut myself free."
"I'll help!" Tapirmon said as he dematerialized, leaving behind an empty web-sack. He rematerialized next to Skeet and sprayed some of his deleting virus on the webbing that bound him. It deleted, allowing Skeet to move around freely as Tapirmon disappeared back into his cocoon.
"You were able to do that this whole time?" Carl demanded.
"I guess," Tapirmon answered. "It's not something I could've done as DemiMeramon, but I was able to it now."
"That must've been your Waking Dream move," Kokuwamon said. "It allows him to move in and out of reality and move through stuff."
"Great," Skeet said. "Now why don't you help me get everyone else free?"
"Aye yi, Cap'n!" Tapirmon said, freeing himself again.
"See?" a Gatomon said as a nearby monitor showed Skeet and the others freeing each other from the webbing and making their escape. "I told ya that they'd get themselves out of Dokugumon's web, buff-stuff. You should have more faith in me."
"It's Dokugumon's wrath that worries me," a Leomon replied, irritated by the Gatomon's remark. He took a sip of his coffee. "You know how he gets when his dinner gets the better of him."
"They should have plenty of time," the Gatomon said. "It'll be a while before he realizes most of that stuff doesn't even grow on this island."
"Dokugumon's daft as a bush, but ravenous nonetheless," a Wizardmon technician paraphrased from his post at the control board.
Just then, there was a knock at the door. Everyone looked at each other confusedly. Their bunker was too well hidden for anyone to find it.
"You didn't order pizza again, did you?" the Leomon asked.
"No," the Gatomon answered. "I gotta watch my girlish figure, don't'cha know."
Leomon answered the door. On the other side was Dokugumon.
"You guys wouldn't happen to know where I can find this stuff, would ya?" Dokugumon asked, handing Leomon the list.
"Do you want to tell him, or should I?" Leomon asked Gatomon.
Kelly's ears perked up and she stopped in her tracks. Skeet, noticing that Kelly stopped, also stopped. Carl and Dizzy had already stopped. Their Digimon, wondering why they stopped, stopped as well. They looked off into the forest the way they came.
"What's going on?" Hawkmon asked.
"You guys hear something?" Skeet asked.
"I think it's that spider-monster," Kelly replied.
"Dokugumon," Carl added. "And he doesn't sound happy."
"How can you tell?" Tapirmon asked.
"Bat hearing," Carl answered, indicating his oversized ears. "Very advanced."
"Dokugumon's on the rampage," Dizzy reported. "He's hungry, angry, and heading right for us. He'll be here in about a minute. Dolphin hearing. Incredibly advanced. I can count the number of fillings he has from here."
"You brag worse than your breath," Carl retorted.
"You started it," Dizzy argued.
"Settle it later," Skeet said. "We need to get out of here, fast."
"We can hide in here," Kokuwamon said. He literally flew into a tree. The others followed and found themselves in a metal cylinder about the size of a phone booth.
"What is this?" Kelly asked.
"It's a hiding tree, of course," Floramon answered.
Dizzy shushed them. "He's coming."
Everyone remained silent as Dokugumon stomped into the vicinity. He stopped and looked around.
"C'mout, c'mout, wherever you are," the spider-monster taunted. He looked to the ground, spying their footprints. "I know you're here. You couldn't've gotten much farther."
He stomped over to their tree and examined it. Dizzy took a step back. Carl looked tense. Their abilities of echolocation allowed them to sense Dokugumon's actions.
"Tracks end here," Dokugumon growled. "I'd bet your HIDING IN THIS TREE!"
Dokugumon leapt at the tree. Dizzy tripped and fell backwards. Carl practically jumped.
At the top of the tree, Dokugumon looked around. He found nothing hiding among the foliage. No Digimon. No funny-looking animals. Nothing.
"Consarn it!" complained Dokugumon. He dropped from the tree and stomped away. "Where are they!?"
Moments later, Dizzy stopped holding his breath.
"He's gone," he reported.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and filed out of the tree. Carl flew up and hung from a branch by his feet. Everyone else slumped to the ground.
"Man, I'm pooped," Skeet said.
"That's Dokugumon's Poison Thread attack," Hawkmon explained. "Like I said, it drains you of your energy. I could go for some food myself."
Glancing up, he noticed some fruit hanging from the tree. He flew up, plucked a piece off the branch, and bit into it.
"Mmm," he noted. "Juicy."
The other Digimon gathered at the base of the tree as Hawkmon sat down on a branch.
"Pass some down here, Hawkmon!" Floramon requested.
"I can't," Hawkmon called down. "This is mana fruit! You have to eat it right off the branch or it spoils! You'll have to come up here!"
"No prob," Kokuwamon said, flying up into the tree.
"Hey!" Floramon exclaimed. "Not all of us can fly, you know!"
"Yeah!" Tapirmon added, fading out. "Some of us have to teleport."
"Hey!"
Tapirmon faded back in.
"I'm sorry, do you need help getting up?" Tapirmon offered.
"No, I'll do it myself!" Floramon said, visibly annoyed. "Stamen Rope!"
The stamens on Floramon's flower-hands extended, latching onto branch. The stamens retracted, hauling Floramon up with them.
"Okay, be that way," Tapirmon said, using his Waking Dream move to get up into the tree. He plucked a piece of fruit with is prehensile snout and floated over to Carl.
"What do you want?" Carl demanded.
"Want some fruit?" Tapirmon asked. "They're real good, but you have to eat them fast or they... Oops. This one already went bad. I'll get you another one."
"Never mind," Carl rejected. He let go of the branch he was hanging from and flew off. "I'll get my own food."
"Carl! Wait up!" Tapirmon said as he floated after him.
"I said leave me alone!" Carl scolded.
Meanwhile, Skeet had climbed up the tree to try some of the fruit the Digimon were enjoying so much.
"Can I try some?" he asked.
"If you can find some," Kokuwamon said.
"The stuffed turkey ate most of them," Floramon added.
"Hawkmon..." Skeet said disapprovingly.
"I'm sorry," Hawkmon said. "But with the digivolving and the fighting and the poison thread, it has made me so hungry and the fruit is so good. I couldn't help myself."
Skeet sighed and looked around the tree.
"I think I see some more fruit a bit higher up," he said. "I think your off the hook for now. Just remember to mind your manners next time."
"I don't know if those fruit are ripe yet," Floramon noted as Skeet climbed up higher.
"Right now, I'm too hungry to care," Skeet said.
Gaining the required height, Skeet reached out and grabbed some fruit. He bit into it, allowing the juice to flow through his muzzle.
"Hey! This is pretty good," he called down. "You guys oughtta try this! It's really good."
"I can't!" Kelly called back up. "I'm a carnivore!"
"Yeah, we can't handle fruits and vegetables!" Dizzy added.
"Well, that sucks," Skeet said. "Maybe if you find Carl, he'll share what he's caught."
"I dunno," Kelly said. "He doesn't really seem to be the sharing type."
"Why dine out when you can eat in here!" Dokugumon suddenly burst through the tree's foliage, knocking everyone out of it. "You think I don't know where all the hiding trees are? I was a Rookie once too, y'know!"
"Well, now you're just a big, fat loser!" Floramon shot back. "Stamen Rope!"
Floramon whipped her stamens in Dokugumon's direction. They didn't even reach all the way before hitting the ground and slowly retracting back.
"What happened!?" Floramon exclaimed.
"Mini Shocker!" Kokuwamon called out. His claws charged with energy, but instead of releasing a bolt of electricity he fell out of the air like a sack of doorknobs and landed at Dizzy's feet. "I think my battery light just went out..."
Dokugumon laughed. "You guys stink worse than last time!"
"Feather Blade!" Hawkmon announced. He threw his feather at Dokugumon and it poked him in the eye before returning.
"OW!" Dokugumon exclaimed. "For the luva..."
"Rain of Pol-" Floramon swung her hands towards the spider Digimon to release a cloud of pollen at him, but instead her stomach rumbled. She plopped onto the ground, clutching her belly with a grimace.
"Floramon!" Kelly called out, rushing to her Digimon partner's side. "What's wrong?"
"I didn't eat enough," she said. "Now I'm too hungry to fight... Hawkmon!"
"I said I was sorry!" Hawkmon said as he dodged one of Dokugumon's attacks. "What more do you want from me!?"
"How about lunch?" Dokugumon asked. "Poison Cobweb!"
From Dokugumon's mouth sprayed silky threads that covered Hawkmon. Encased once again, Hawkmon toppled to the ground.
"Hawkmon!" Skeet exclaimed. He rushed to his side and stood between him and Dokugumon.
"Ah, the appetizer!" Dokugumon taunted.
"Eat this!" Skeet shot back. He swung his tail around and let loose from it an acidic spray. Dokugumon shrieked as the musk hit his eyes.
"You sonuva..." Dokugumon growled before letting out a primal yell and thrashing his head about.
"Are you okay, Hawkmon?" Skeet asked as he picked up his fallen partner.
"I'm fine," Hawkmon said. "But you've got to use that coin. It's the only way to defeat Dokugumon now!"
"The coin?" Skeet asked. He pulled the coin out of his pocket and looked at it.
"It got me to Rookie level," Hawkmon said. "It must be able to take me to Champion as well!"
"But how?" Skeet asked.
Dokugumon took the opportunity to focus his attention back to Skeet and ram into him headfirst. The attack sent him and Hawkmon sprawling to the ground, but the coin he was holding flew into the air.
Everything seemed to pause as the coin flipped. It rose into the air slowly until it reached the apex of its leap. There it hung in midair, spinning faster and faster. The air around it turned dark as the coin itself began to glow brightly and emit a high-pitched whine. For the briefest moment, it stopped, with the designed side facing Hawkmon. The coin gleamed before exploding into energy that streaked down into Hawkmon. The energy struck, and the bird Digimon began to glow and grow.
"Hawkmon, digivolve to..."
Hawkmon's form grew to stand taller than Dokugumon. His girth and tail grew, and his head sloped and developed long horns. As the glow faded, blue and white scales replaced his brown feathers. A blue "V" shape appeared on his white chest.
"VEEDRAMON!"
"Veedramon!?" Dokugumon exclaimed.
"Veedramon," Skeet noted.
"Astounding," Dizzy said.
"That's right, Veedramon!" Veedramon proclaimed. "The blue dragon of the Wind Guardian Kingdom! You're in big trouble now, Dokugumon! My Hammer Punch packs quite a wallop, as does my powerful V-Nova Blast!"
"Well, it's nice of you to super-size it for me!" Dokugumon declared as he lunged for Veedramon. The blue dragon countered with a punch to the gut. Dokugumon flew back and landed on his feet. "POISON THREAD!"
Veedramon rolled to avoid the attack.
"V-NOVA BLAST!"
Veedramon reared his head back as energy gathered in his mouth. He then unleashed a v-shaped blast that exploded at Dokugumon's feet, throwing him into the air. Veedramon leapt up after him.
"HAMMER PUNCH!"
Putting his fists together, Veedramon slammed them down on Dokugumon's head. The force was added to that of his drop, driving him headfirst into the ground like a tent stake. Veedramon landed next to him.
The energy leaped out of Veedramon, leaving Hawkmon in his place. It flowed into Skeet's hands, where it reformed into a coin.
"Is he...?" asked Kelly.
"He's just unconscious," Hawkmon replied. "Might I suggest that we get as far away as possible before he awakes?"
"Yeah," agreed Skeet. "We better find Carl and Tapirmon, too. We're getting out of this forest, and I'm not leaving anyone behind."
"Well," Leomon said as the group on the screen went off to find Carl. "Looks like I owe you a TokaCola."
"Vee Is For Victory" by Chet "Tech" Weaver
"I must say, this is a rather disappointing turn of events," Hawkmon said.
"What did we expect?" Kokuwamon said. "We're only rookies, after all."
"If only I were a Champion-level Digimon," Floramon said. "Then I'd shove a footprint into his thorax!!"
"I know I wanted to surf the web, but this is ridiculous!" Dizzy commented.
"All this hanging upside down is making the blood rush into my head," Kelly complained.
"Yep, I'm gonna have some good eatin' tonight," Dokugumon said. "I'm gonna have some chicken... Gonna have some bat wings... Gonna have some tuna..."
"Excuse me, but I am not a tuna," Dizzy said. "I'm a dolphin, thank you very much."
"... Gonna have some tuna... Now where did I leave it? AH!"
After searching through a nearby cupboard, Dokugumon pulled out a giant peppershaker and began to shake out a lot of black pepper onto Hawkmon.
"My good man," Hawkmon said with a sneeze. "I must ask you to desist immediately."
"Hey, you gotta have your seasonings," Dokugumon said.
"Black pepper?" Skeet noted. "You call black pepper a seasoning? Don't you know how to prepare a proper meal?"
"Yes," Dokugumon said indignantly. Then after a moment of thought he added, "No. Look, black pepper's all I got. If you don't like it, that's too bad. This is my meal, and you're just the main course."
"C'mon. An event like this, you can afford to gussy it up a little."
"Whadda ya mean?"
"Well, it can't be every day you catch a meal this big. Am I right or am I right?"
"Well, uh, yeah."
"Then you should splurge a little. Get some good seasonings and make yourself a Fine meal."
"But I don't know how to cook! I usually just wrap them in webbing and drain their bodily fluids."
"Don't worry about it. I'll tell you how to do it."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"All right! What do I do first?"
"First, you oughtta buy a few things at the store. You might want to write this down..."
Skeet rattled off a long list of ingredients to Dokugumon. Having failed to commit them to memory, he got out a note pad and had Skeet dictate the list to him again. He then immediately scuttled off into the forest to find the nearest store.
"How long do you think it'll take him to get back from the store?" Skeet asked.
"To get back from the what?" Hawkmon asked with a perplexed look.
"Never mind," Skeet answered. He then began struggling underneath his bindings. "If I can just reach my pocketknife, I might be able to cut myself free."
"I'll help!" Tapirmon said as he dematerialized, leaving behind an empty web-sack. He rematerialized next to Skeet and sprayed some of his deleting virus on the webbing that bound him. It deleted, allowing Skeet to move around freely as Tapirmon disappeared back into his cocoon.
"You were able to do that this whole time?" Carl demanded.
"I guess," Tapirmon answered. "It's not something I could've done as DemiMeramon, but I was able to it now."
"That must've been your Waking Dream move," Kokuwamon said. "It allows him to move in and out of reality and move through stuff."
"Great," Skeet said. "Now why don't you help me get everyone else free?"
"Aye yi, Cap'n!" Tapirmon said, freeing himself again.
"See?" a Gatomon said as a nearby monitor showed Skeet and the others freeing each other from the webbing and making their escape. "I told ya that they'd get themselves out of Dokugumon's web, buff-stuff. You should have more faith in me."
"It's Dokugumon's wrath that worries me," a Leomon replied, irritated by the Gatomon's remark. He took a sip of his coffee. "You know how he gets when his dinner gets the better of him."
"They should have plenty of time," the Gatomon said. "It'll be a while before he realizes most of that stuff doesn't even grow on this island."
"Dokugumon's daft as a bush, but ravenous nonetheless," a Wizardmon technician paraphrased from his post at the control board.
Just then, there was a knock at the door. Everyone looked at each other confusedly. Their bunker was too well hidden for anyone to find it.
"You didn't order pizza again, did you?" the Leomon asked.
"No," the Gatomon answered. "I gotta watch my girlish figure, don't'cha know."
Leomon answered the door. On the other side was Dokugumon.
"You guys wouldn't happen to know where I can find this stuff, would ya?" Dokugumon asked, handing Leomon the list.
"Do you want to tell him, or should I?" Leomon asked Gatomon.
Kelly's ears perked up and she stopped in her tracks. Skeet, noticing that Kelly stopped, also stopped. Carl and Dizzy had already stopped. Their Digimon, wondering why they stopped, stopped as well. They looked off into the forest the way they came.
"What's going on?" Hawkmon asked.
"You guys hear something?" Skeet asked.
"I think it's that spider-monster," Kelly replied.
"Dokugumon," Carl added. "And he doesn't sound happy."
"How can you tell?" Tapirmon asked.
"Bat hearing," Carl answered, indicating his oversized ears. "Very advanced."
"Dokugumon's on the rampage," Dizzy reported. "He's hungry, angry, and heading right for us. He'll be here in about a minute. Dolphin hearing. Incredibly advanced. I can count the number of fillings he has from here."
"You brag worse than your breath," Carl retorted.
"You started it," Dizzy argued.
"Settle it later," Skeet said. "We need to get out of here, fast."
"We can hide in here," Kokuwamon said. He literally flew into a tree. The others followed and found themselves in a metal cylinder about the size of a phone booth.
"What is this?" Kelly asked.
"It's a hiding tree, of course," Floramon answered.
Dizzy shushed them. "He's coming."
Everyone remained silent as Dokugumon stomped into the vicinity. He stopped and looked around.
"C'mout, c'mout, wherever you are," the spider-monster taunted. He looked to the ground, spying their footprints. "I know you're here. You couldn't've gotten much farther."
He stomped over to their tree and examined it. Dizzy took a step back. Carl looked tense. Their abilities of echolocation allowed them to sense Dokugumon's actions.
"Tracks end here," Dokugumon growled. "I'd bet your HIDING IN THIS TREE!"
Dokugumon leapt at the tree. Dizzy tripped and fell backwards. Carl practically jumped.
At the top of the tree, Dokugumon looked around. He found nothing hiding among the foliage. No Digimon. No funny-looking animals. Nothing.
"Consarn it!" complained Dokugumon. He dropped from the tree and stomped away. "Where are they!?"
Moments later, Dizzy stopped holding his breath.
"He's gone," he reported.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and filed out of the tree. Carl flew up and hung from a branch by his feet. Everyone else slumped to the ground.
"Man, I'm pooped," Skeet said.
"That's Dokugumon's Poison Thread attack," Hawkmon explained. "Like I said, it drains you of your energy. I could go for some food myself."
Glancing up, he noticed some fruit hanging from the tree. He flew up, plucked a piece off the branch, and bit into it.
"Mmm," he noted. "Juicy."
The other Digimon gathered at the base of the tree as Hawkmon sat down on a branch.
"Pass some down here, Hawkmon!" Floramon requested.
"I can't," Hawkmon called down. "This is mana fruit! You have to eat it right off the branch or it spoils! You'll have to come up here!"
"No prob," Kokuwamon said, flying up into the tree.
"Hey!" Floramon exclaimed. "Not all of us can fly, you know!"
"Yeah!" Tapirmon added, fading out. "Some of us have to teleport."
"Hey!"
Tapirmon faded back in.
"I'm sorry, do you need help getting up?" Tapirmon offered.
"No, I'll do it myself!" Floramon said, visibly annoyed. "Stamen Rope!"
The stamens on Floramon's flower-hands extended, latching onto branch. The stamens retracted, hauling Floramon up with them.
"Okay, be that way," Tapirmon said, using his Waking Dream move to get up into the tree. He plucked a piece of fruit with is prehensile snout and floated over to Carl.
"What do you want?" Carl demanded.
"Want some fruit?" Tapirmon asked. "They're real good, but you have to eat them fast or they... Oops. This one already went bad. I'll get you another one."
"Never mind," Carl rejected. He let go of the branch he was hanging from and flew off. "I'll get my own food."
"Carl! Wait up!" Tapirmon said as he floated after him.
"I said leave me alone!" Carl scolded.
Meanwhile, Skeet had climbed up the tree to try some of the fruit the Digimon were enjoying so much.
"Can I try some?" he asked.
"If you can find some," Kokuwamon said.
"The stuffed turkey ate most of them," Floramon added.
"Hawkmon..." Skeet said disapprovingly.
"I'm sorry," Hawkmon said. "But with the digivolving and the fighting and the poison thread, it has made me so hungry and the fruit is so good. I couldn't help myself."
Skeet sighed and looked around the tree.
"I think I see some more fruit a bit higher up," he said. "I think your off the hook for now. Just remember to mind your manners next time."
"I don't know if those fruit are ripe yet," Floramon noted as Skeet climbed up higher.
"Right now, I'm too hungry to care," Skeet said.
Gaining the required height, Skeet reached out and grabbed some fruit. He bit into it, allowing the juice to flow through his muzzle.
"Hey! This is pretty good," he called down. "You guys oughtta try this! It's really good."
"I can't!" Kelly called back up. "I'm a carnivore!"
"Yeah, we can't handle fruits and vegetables!" Dizzy added.
"Well, that sucks," Skeet said. "Maybe if you find Carl, he'll share what he's caught."
"I dunno," Kelly said. "He doesn't really seem to be the sharing type."
"Why dine out when you can eat in here!" Dokugumon suddenly burst through the tree's foliage, knocking everyone out of it. "You think I don't know where all the hiding trees are? I was a Rookie once too, y'know!"
"Well, now you're just a big, fat loser!" Floramon shot back. "Stamen Rope!"
Floramon whipped her stamens in Dokugumon's direction. They didn't even reach all the way before hitting the ground and slowly retracting back.
"What happened!?" Floramon exclaimed.
"Mini Shocker!" Kokuwamon called out. His claws charged with energy, but instead of releasing a bolt of electricity he fell out of the air like a sack of doorknobs and landed at Dizzy's feet. "I think my battery light just went out..."
Dokugumon laughed. "You guys stink worse than last time!"
"Feather Blade!" Hawkmon announced. He threw his feather at Dokugumon and it poked him in the eye before returning.
"OW!" Dokugumon exclaimed. "For the luva..."
"Rain of Pol-" Floramon swung her hands towards the spider Digimon to release a cloud of pollen at him, but instead her stomach rumbled. She plopped onto the ground, clutching her belly with a grimace.
"Floramon!" Kelly called out, rushing to her Digimon partner's side. "What's wrong?"
"I didn't eat enough," she said. "Now I'm too hungry to fight... Hawkmon!"
"I said I was sorry!" Hawkmon said as he dodged one of Dokugumon's attacks. "What more do you want from me!?"
"How about lunch?" Dokugumon asked. "Poison Cobweb!"
From Dokugumon's mouth sprayed silky threads that covered Hawkmon. Encased once again, Hawkmon toppled to the ground.
"Hawkmon!" Skeet exclaimed. He rushed to his side and stood between him and Dokugumon.
"Ah, the appetizer!" Dokugumon taunted.
"Eat this!" Skeet shot back. He swung his tail around and let loose from it an acidic spray. Dokugumon shrieked as the musk hit his eyes.
"You sonuva..." Dokugumon growled before letting out a primal yell and thrashing his head about.
"Are you okay, Hawkmon?" Skeet asked as he picked up his fallen partner.
"I'm fine," Hawkmon said. "But you've got to use that coin. It's the only way to defeat Dokugumon now!"
"The coin?" Skeet asked. He pulled the coin out of his pocket and looked at it.
"It got me to Rookie level," Hawkmon said. "It must be able to take me to Champion as well!"
"But how?" Skeet asked.
Dokugumon took the opportunity to focus his attention back to Skeet and ram into him headfirst. The attack sent him and Hawkmon sprawling to the ground, but the coin he was holding flew into the air.
Everything seemed to pause as the coin flipped. It rose into the air slowly until it reached the apex of its leap. There it hung in midair, spinning faster and faster. The air around it turned dark as the coin itself began to glow brightly and emit a high-pitched whine. For the briefest moment, it stopped, with the designed side facing Hawkmon. The coin gleamed before exploding into energy that streaked down into Hawkmon. The energy struck, and the bird Digimon began to glow and grow.
"Hawkmon, digivolve to..."
Hawkmon's form grew to stand taller than Dokugumon. His girth and tail grew, and his head sloped and developed long horns. As the glow faded, blue and white scales replaced his brown feathers. A blue "V" shape appeared on his white chest.
"VEEDRAMON!"
"Veedramon!?" Dokugumon exclaimed.
"Veedramon," Skeet noted.
"Astounding," Dizzy said.
"That's right, Veedramon!" Veedramon proclaimed. "The blue dragon of the Wind Guardian Kingdom! You're in big trouble now, Dokugumon! My Hammer Punch packs quite a wallop, as does my powerful V-Nova Blast!"
"Well, it's nice of you to super-size it for me!" Dokugumon declared as he lunged for Veedramon. The blue dragon countered with a punch to the gut. Dokugumon flew back and landed on his feet. "POISON THREAD!"
Veedramon rolled to avoid the attack.
"V-NOVA BLAST!"
Veedramon reared his head back as energy gathered in his mouth. He then unleashed a v-shaped blast that exploded at Dokugumon's feet, throwing him into the air. Veedramon leapt up after him.
"HAMMER PUNCH!"
Putting his fists together, Veedramon slammed them down on Dokugumon's head. The force was added to that of his drop, driving him headfirst into the ground like a tent stake. Veedramon landed next to him.
The energy leaped out of Veedramon, leaving Hawkmon in his place. It flowed into Skeet's hands, where it reformed into a coin.
"Is he...?" asked Kelly.
"He's just unconscious," Hawkmon replied. "Might I suggest that we get as far away as possible before he awakes?"
"Yeah," agreed Skeet. "We better find Carl and Tapirmon, too. We're getting out of this forest, and I'm not leaving anyone behind."
"Well," Leomon said as the group on the screen went off to find Carl. "Looks like I owe you a TokaCola."