And now I present the latest update Chapter 26! I hope your all having a happy Thanksgiving eve, or the Canadians reading this are anyway, any Americans reading this won't be having Thanksgiving for another month now. Ah! I'm getting off topic, anyway like I promised this chapter contains the very first Canadian Armor Digivolution. I'll shut up now so you can read it.
But before I do shut up. Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. That's it that's all I have to say about that.
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Chapter 23: Compassion and Kindness
Kris
A day passed by without any sign of Infermon, I spent most of that time at Davis's, playing video games and watching TV. It was nice to just kick back once and a while. What was mainly on my mind though was what I was going to tell Jenn; Elecmon had asked me if he wanted me to go talk to Penguinmon today, I told him to wait one more day. How long was I going to put this off for? I'd always been able to tell Jenn everything, why was this so hard?
Hmm, I don't know maybe because it could change our relationship forever. I hoped for the better, but no how many times I thought up a good scenario, like her hugging me telling me the same thing I told her, my mind made up about a million bad ones, like her completely rejecting me and our relationship just going down from there. Funny how I could think about stuff like this when the world was in danger, but I guess that's the mind of a teenage guy, the world could be on the brink of destruction and he'd still be thinking about girls.
I sighed and laid back on the back of the couch in Davis's living room, I'd just turned on the news. As I thought they were covering the destruction in various parts of town, but what caught my attention was what they said next.
"…the causes for all this destruction is yet to be confirmed and several theories have come about. However one that seemed completely ridiculous and once thought out of the question has just gained some credibility, the theory that monsters are responsible."
That peaked our attention, both Davis and shot up from our positions and looked curiously at the TV.
"Numerous people have claimed to see monsters running about the city and fighting amongst each other. Several people who were rescued from the subway yesterday afternoon claim an ape; a dinosaur and an angel rescued them. Another group of people whose cruise ship sunk on an attempt to return to the harbour, claim that a sea serpent like creature attacked their boat, and was only fended off by a giant scorpion, while a giant insect rescued them. However skeptics claim that these are just hallucinations brought upon the extreme stress of the situation. However people are now finding it hard to believe they are only hallucinations now that video evidence has now been produced of these monsters existence. A tourist who was attempting to film the destruction at Heightened view terrace shot the following piece of footage. Before we show it we must warn you that it contains material that may frighten young children."
The picture changed into to a fuzzy picture, showing smoke billowing in the background. A static filled roar broke the silence, it was Monochromon's roar. The picture was fuzzy but I could definitely tell it was him as he crashed through the police barricades, what really worried me was that Jenn Rob and I were in plain sight on Monochromon's back, if someone back home saw it and recognized us we could be in big trouble.
"Why exactly did you do that?" Davis asked.
"We had to find some way to get through the barricades." I said laughing nervously. "Haven't you done anything really reckless?"
"Well I - uh," Davis said nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "Of course I haven't what makes you think that."
Somehow I didn't really believe him.
While Davis and I had been talking the anchorman continued, I should have been paying attention to the news, this could be important, I turned my head towards the TV again hearing the anchorman in mid sentence.
"…we will continue to -" he was interrupted as a crewmember approached the et and handed him a message, a look of shock appeared on his face as he read it. "Excuse me, we have just been informed that the destruction may not be over. The Odeiba shopping center was been demolished, we now bring you live to the site of the destruction."
The picture immediately changed. There was a reporter standing in front of what looked like a mall, or what used to be a mall.
"As you can see the destruction here is immense, the cause like all the other sites of destruction is still unknown. Witnesses claim to have heard a deafening buzzing sound, followed objects falling through the skylight, people rushed to get outside not long after half of the Odeiba shopping center was destroyed, some witnesses even to claim to ha - Aaaaah!"
The reporter was cut off by a buzzing sound, the camera man now appeared to be running, suddenly the picture went out replaced by nothing but static, it didn't last long the picture changed back to the newsroom.
"We seem to have lost contact, We -"
I didn't listen anymore; I immediately sat up from my spot on the couch.
"Phone!" I yelled to Davis "Where's the phone!"
Davis casually pointed to the phone on the end table next to him. I grabbed the receiver as fast as possible and dialed Tai's number. I'd made sure to ask him what it was and memorize it, in case something like this happened. The phone only rang once before there was an answer and Tai picked up.
"Kris!" he yelled. "Watching the news?"
"Yeah," I said. "I'm assuming you saw it too."
"Yeah," he answered. "I'll call everyone up, you and Davis get to that shopping center as fast as possible."
"Right," I agreed.
I hung up the phone, Davis sighed.
"Let me guess we're going to rush out of here and towards the place where all the danger is?"
"You guessed it."
"About time," Veemon said. "I was getting bored just sitting here."
"Speak for yourself," Elecmon said.
So we did just what we'd done before, rushed out of Davis's apartment towards certain danger
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"Destroying the mall!" Mimi yelled angrily, staring at the half smashed mall in front of us. "Now that's going too far! This guy is so going down."
"We have to find him first Mimi," Palmon said. "He doesn't seem to be here."
"He's got to be here somewhere," Tai said. "He wouldn't attack the mall for no reason he wants us to show up."
"If this is a trap why are we here?" Agumon asked.
"No choice," I answered for Tai. "If we don't show up he'll start hurting innocent people, and we can't just sit back and let that happen."
"He can't be here," Yolei said looking at her D3. "Aside from our own Digimon I'm not getting anything here."
"Do you think its possible he just attacked the mall for fun?" Kari asked.
"I sure hope not," T.K said. "If he is then whose to say he won't just do it again."
I stared at my Digivice, still nothing no extra green dots, not signifying any extra Digimon. I looked up and saw Matt and Gabumon return from scouting the area.
"Anything?" Tai asked.
Matt shook his head. "Just a bunch of ruble, no Digimon."
"I'm afraid Kari might be right," Tai said sighing. "Infermon was just attacking for fun."
My Digivice began to beep; I took a look at it. Yes! There was an extra Digimon on it, heading right for us.
"Hold that thought," I said. "We have a Digimon."
"Kind of an empty victory," Rob said. "I was hoping not to fight."
"Better than knowing he's going to be hurting innocent people," Janine said.
The Digimon soon came into view; it was a praying mantis like Digimon. With two scythes for arms.
"Snimon!" Gomamon yelled. "This shouldn't be much of a problem he is only a Champion."
I think he was being a little too optimistic; Infermon wasn't that dumb he wouldn't send one Champion Digimon against all of us; only four of our Digimon couldn't reach their Ultimate state.
Turned out I was right, a second later five more Snimon appeared behind the first one. Still not a problem, we could beat them easily, something just wasn't right.
"Any other?" Sora asked.
I glanced down at my Digivice. "Nope, there's only six of them, seems weird that Infermon would only send six Champions to deal with us, we've fought worse."
"You're right," Tai agreed. "Something just isn't right."
"Come on Kris," Elecmon said. "I'm ready to fight, it's time to Digivolve."
I held my Digivice tightly. "Alright do it Elecmon."
"Elecmon Digivolved to……………………Elecmon?"
I could only stare in shock at my Digimon who remained unchanged.
"What was that?" I asked. "Why didn't you Digivolve?"
Elecmon was surprised as I was. "I - I don't know, I just ate so I should be able to Digivolve."
"Let's try this again."
My Digimon nodded as my Digivice activated.
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………...Elecmon?"
"What's going on here!" Elecmon yelled in frustration. "Why can't I Digivolve!"
Dan laughed. "Looks like your Digimon's getting rusty at this, watch a master. Tsunomon."
"Right," Tsunomon said jumping from Dan's arms.
"Tsunomon Digivolved to…………………Gizamon!"
Dan beamed proudly. "Now show Elecmon how it's done, one more time."
"Gizamon Digivolved to. …………………Gizamon?"
Both Dan and Gizamon stared in shock.
"Something wrong," I said laughing.
"What's going on here?" Sean asked.
"I think I have an idea," Cody said.
I looked at my Digivice, and saw a new dot had appeared, this one was a colour I hadn't seen before it was black.
"Guys," I said. "There's something on the radar take a look."
"I was afraid of this," Cody said. "Check that out."
He pointed in the direction where the dot was on the radar, revealing a large completely black tower, it looked almost exactly like the Washington monument, except black.
"No wonder they can't Digivolve!" Tai yelled. "A control spire!"
I was amazed at how tall it was, it was far away but we could still plainly see it because of its height.
I recognized that term, that's what had created the crest of Evil and Darkness, and the reason our Digivices had been upgraded so our Digimon could Digivolve.
"The harbour," Will said. "Great, we've got to go back there."
"But shouldn't our Digimon be able to Digivolve," I said. "We have D3s that's why we could Digivolve against the power of the Dark crests."
"You should," Izzy said. "But apparently somehow you can't."
"So now what?" Jenn asked. "How do we fight them?"
"Leave that to us," Davis said. "We've dealt with control spires before, we've got special Digivolution. To override the Digivolution block."
"Armor Digivolving?" I said.
Davis nodded. "Yeah how did you know?"
"I've heard about it." I answered.
"Okay," Tai said. "You guys armor Digivolve and distract the Snimon. The rest of us will take out that control spire."
"Can you?" Yolei asked. "Your Digimon are only rookies?"
"We've got to try," Tai said.
Davis and Veemon, Yolei and Hawkmon, Cody and Armadillomon, T.K and Patamon, and finally Kari and Gatomon stepped forward. All taking out their D-Terminals. Then yelled all at the same time.
"Digiarmor energize!"
The D-Terminals and D3s activated and the five Digimon armor Digivolved.
"Veemon Armor Digivolved to……………………Raidramon! The storm of Friendship!"
"Hawkmon Armor Digivolved to………………….Halsemon! The wings of Love!"
"Armadillomon Armor Digivolved to……………..Digmon! The drill of Knowledge!"
"Patamon Armor Digivolved to……………………Pegasusmon! Flying Hope!"
"Gatomon Armor Digivolved to…………………..Nefertimon! The Angel of Light!
"Let's go!" Tai ordered.
We obeyed immediately, running from the area, and following the location of the control spire using our Digivices. It wasn't long before we were out of sight and the sounds of battle were behind us.
"Think they'll be okay?" I asked.
"They've seen worse before," Tai said.
"Yeah," Ken said. "And I'm that worse."
The odds were against them, it was five against six, but it wasn't like we could do anything, all we could do was taking out that control spire and then hope to help them. We ran towards the spire, and arrived at its location, the harbour within ten minutes. I looked up at the giant tower, it was much taller than I thought, and it was going to be hard to destroy, especially since the highest our Digimon could go was to the rookie level.
"Do you think you guys can destroy that as rookies?" Tai asked.
"We can give it a shot." Agumon said.
"Then go, all Digimon use your attacks to take that thing out."
As always there wasn't any hesitation, the fourteen Digimon that weren't fighting back at the mall stepped up ahead of us.
"Pepper breath!"
"Blue blaster!"
"Super shocker!"
"Spiral Twister!"
"Poison Ivy!"
"Marching Fishes!"
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
"Rock fist!"
"Nightmare Syndrome!"
"Spiral Edge!"
"Lullaby bubble!"
"Sticky net!"
"Worm Venom!"
The various attacks all hit the spire at the same time, and then as the dust cleared a away the spire it was like they hadn't attacked at all.
"Well now what?" Dan said. "They just gave it all they've got and there's not even a scratch on it."
"We'll just have to keep trying," I said. "Right Tai?"
Tai nodded. "It's not like we have any choice, unless of course one of you has some TNT on you."
No one said anything, not that anyone expected anyone to say anything, I'd be worried if someone had had something.
The Digimon didn't wait for an order they all attacked again, and continued to do so for about five minutes, until….
"You Digidestined are even more pathetic than I thought."
All our heads turned to the direction of the voice, just like we all though, there standing on the top of a building was Infermon. This was the last thing we needed right now, our Digimon couldn't even become Champions, how could a bunch of rookies stand a chance against one very powerful Ultimate? But despite the odds the Digimon stepped between us and the building Infermon was on.
"Your nuts if we think we're going to let you hurt them," Agumon said.
"You may be an Ultimate Digimon but that doesn't mean we're just going to lay down and surrender," Elecmon said.
"Please, don't insult me," Infermon said coldly. "I wouldn't soil my hands dealing with you now, you're just a bunch of weaklings, I have minions to do that for me. Flymon."
A large bee like Digimon emerged from the top of the building, and flew up to Infermon.
"Yes, master?" it said.
"Flymon, I want you and your friends to destroy those kids and their worthless Digimon."
"As you wish."
The air was suddenly pierced by the sound of a deafening buzzing, no doubt the same buzzing that I had heard on the news. About a dozen of Flymon appeared, in the air. Definitely not good!
"Deadly sting!" all twelve of them yelled firing giant stingers towards us.
We all jumped out of the way; fortunately none of them hit any of us. We all had the same plan in mind it was Tai who put it into words.
"RUN!" he screamed.
Like we needed to be told. We all ran in various directions, splitting up into seven groups of two Digidestined and two Digimon, Elecmon and I ended up with Ken and Wormmon. It wasn't really anything we'd planned on it just kind of happened that way. I could hear the deafening buzzing sound of two Flymon chasing after us, needless to say I was scared out of my mind.
"That street," Ken yelled pointing to a street. "We can try and lose them there."
There wasn't enough time to argue, not that I would have anyway I couldn't think of any better plans. We turned the corner into the street only to have fear wash over us it wasn't a street! It was an alley! Worse yet a dead end alley! And it was too late to turn back, if we did the Flymon would catch us, but if we stayed here the Flymon would still catch us.
"Oh this is not good!" I yelled. "Now what?"
Elecmon jumped ready to face the oncoming Flymon. "We do the only thing we can fight."
"Don't forget me," Wormmon said jumping up next to Elecmon.
"You can't fight, you're not strong enough." Ken said.
"Oh thanks for the vote of confidence," Wormmon said. "It's not like we have much of a choice there isn't any escape."
"Yes there is!" I said as an idea popped into my head.
"What?" Ken, Elecmon and Wormmon all yelled.
I reached into my backpack and pulled out my laptop. "This! Man am I ever glad I brought it."
"We can use it to open a Digiport!" Ken said happily.
"Then send them back to the Digital World?" Wormmon asked.
"I don't think that'll work, we'd have to weaken them first," I said. "And I don't think you guys can do that, I'm planning on using the Digiport so we can escape."
"Fine, as long as we can get out of here," Ken said.
The Flymon reached the alley and came into view; they'd be attacking us within seconds no time to waist. I held my Digivice up to the computer.
"Digiport open!"
The Digiport immediately opened and sucked the four of us into the computer, just as the Flymon fired one of their attacks that would have hit right where we were standing.
To our relief we were shot out of the TV, and into the Digital World, we were in a dessert, not exactly where I would have wanted to go but there wasn't any time to choose what area of the Digital World we would have ended up in. I fell to my knees as did Ken, both out of breath and very relieved we made it out in time.
"That - was too close," Elecmon, said.
"Let's never, ever do that again," Wormmon agreed.
I was about to put my Digivice back in my pocket, when I noticed something on it. On the radar screen there were two white dots, I'd never seen that before.
"Hey Ken," I said holding my Digivice up to him. "Do you know what these white dots on the radar are?"
A smile grew on his face. "I sure, do they're Digieggs! This is great."
"Why is it great?" I asked. "What good wills a Digiegg do us?"
"Not regular Digieggss, I mean the Armor Digivolution kind of Digieggs."
"Your kidding?" I said as a happy expresssion grew on my face. "So you're saying our Digimon will be able to armor Digivolve? Then we can go into the real world, and help Tai and the others."
"Well necessarily, only if they belong to us, and there's a two in nineteen chance that they do."
"And if they don't?"
"Then they obviously belong to one of the others," Ken said. "We just have to go into the real world and get the others, and get them to try and lift them until one of them can."
"We don't exactly have time for that, if we go to the real world the Fymon will get us," I slumped and sighed. "Whose to say that they haven't already been hurt or killed by them, I mean we just escaped."
Ken shuddered, not wanting to think about that possiblity. "Then we'll just have to follow the signal and hope that they are ours."
"You're right," I agreed.
"Then what exactly are we waiting for?" Elecmon asked. "Let's get going."
That's what we did, keeping a close eye on our Digivices we ran through the dessert following the white dots on the radar, until after about five minutes of following them we found ourselves at the entrance of a very large temple.
"Guess this is the place," Ken said looking up at the temple in awe.
"Let's go inside!" I yelled running up to the entrance. "We don't have any time to lose."
Ken Elecmon and Wormmon were quick to follow.
The inside of the temple was nothing but one very large room, in the center of the room were two pedestals. I assumed the things standing on them were Digieggs. They didn't really look like eggs though, they had the same basic shape as an egg but definately didn't look like eggs. One of them was pink and kind of shaped like a rose, it had the crest of Kindness on it. The second one looked like the head of a fighter jet, pointed nosecone, at the top of the egg and a domed cockpit, in the middle, and rounded at the bottom like an egg, but what I really noticed about it was the fact that it had the crest of Compassion, on it.
Ken smiled. "This looks good, Kindess and Compassion, our two crests."
He was right, the odds were very good they were ours, but I noticed that when Davis Yolei and Cody's Digimon were Armor Digivolving their Digimon used the crests of Friendship, Love, and Knowledge, they didn't have those crests. Then again Kari and T.K Armor Digivolved using the Digieggs of Hope and Light, and they did have those crests.
"We should at least give it a shot," I said. "How can we tell their ours anyway?"
"If memory serves me, I think if we can lift them their ours, if their not they should be too heavy to lift."
"I sure hope they are," Elecmon said. "That Armor Digivolving looks cool."
"They better be," Wormmon said. "I'm the only one of the new Digidestined's Digimon who can't armor Digivolve."
We slowly approached the Digieggs, I the Digiegg of Compassion, and Ken the Digiegg of Kindness. How approptriate that these two Digieggs would be together, you couldn't be compassionate without being kind, and you couldn't be kind without being compassionate, it was like Ken and I's crest were exactly the same.
I picked up the Digiegg, to my relief I lifted it very easily it wasn't heavy at all, I was also glad to see that Ken had also lifted up the Digiegg of Kindness easily.
"Alright," Elecmon said happily.
"So how do we get these things to work anyway?" I asked.
"I've seen the others do this a thousand times," Ken said. "Here goes. DigiArmor Energize!"
Both the Digiegg of Kindness and Wormmon became engulfed in a bright light, a light I'd seen so many times before, Wormmon was Digivolving, but differently in the same way I'd seen Davis and the other's Digivolve to fight the Snimon.
"Wormmon Armor Digivolved to..............................Pucchiemon! The Sprite of Kindness!"
The new Armor Digimon wasn't as big as you'd think he was about our Height, covered in red except his face which had a weird cuteness to it.
"Wow," Ken said staring at his new Armor Digimon. "It doesn't look like a Digimon so small could do much damage."
"Size isn't everything," Pucchiemon said beggining to hover in the air. "I can do alot."
Pucchiemon gathered a red energy ball in one finger and seconds later, fired a small energy beam that took a huge chunk out of one of the temple walls.
"Nice," Ken said proudly. "Those Flymon are in for a big surprise."
"Come on Kris use yours now," Elecmon said. "I want to Armor Digivolve."
"Okay," I said. "Here goes. DigiArmor energize!"
The same thing happened that had with Ken, my Digiegg began to glow as did Elecmon as he Armor Digivolved.
"Elecmon Armor Digivolved to...............................Armyleomon! The Artillery of Compassion!"
Unlike Pucchiemon, Armyleomon actually looked like he could do some damage, he looked like he was half lion half fighter jet. He was about the size of Saberleomon, had orange fur, and stood on four massive lion like legs, he had wheels mounted on the back of his legs. It looked like his feet could be retracted and replaced with the wheels. It looked like someone had cracked open the Digiegg of Compassion and placed it on his face like a helmet, and added four holes, two for his eyes, and two for his metalic ears, which seemd to merge with the helmet. He also had large wings mounted on his sides the same orange and red striped colour as the Digiegg of Compassion, the wings looked just like fighter jet wings, with missles with shaped like a lion's head mounted on them. Undoubtingly those wings allowed him to fly pretty fast. What I really loved was that there was a glass dome all the way along his back, just like the one that Submarimon had, which meant that I could fly along with him without having to worry about the wind. Last was his tail which was like a lions except completely metalic, it looked like he might be able to use it for some sort of an attack.
The dome on his back slid open.
"Hop in Kris," Armyleomon said. "We've got to get to the real world and help the others as soon as possible."
I nodded. "Yeah, let's go."
I slid myself into the glass dome, it wasn't exactly big. I had to lay down to fit, just like Cody had to when he rode inside Submarimon. Pucchiemon grabbed Ken in his arms, the dome slid closed and we all took to the air, reaching the Digiport in less than a minute. Armyleomon really was fast, and he wasn't even going at his top speed, he had to slow down so Pucchiemon could keep up.
"Digiport open!" Ken yelled holding up his D3 as the the light from the TV engulfed us and sucked us in. We emerged into the real world from my laptop, the same way we had come in. To our surprise the Flymon that had chased us into this alley were still here, waiting for us to come back into the real world.
"Deadly Sting!" They both fired firing stingers at us.
"Fela Missile!" Armyleomon yelled as one of the missles mounted on his wing launched.
"Heartener beam!" Pucchiemon yelled firing the same energy beam that had taken a chunk out of the wall in the temple.
The Flymon didn't stand a chance, both the missile and the red beam smashed the stingers and kept going. The Flymon tryed to fly away but they wern't fast enough, Armyleomon's missile hit one of them he shattered and died the second it hit him, as did the second Flymon as Pucchiemon's beam hit him. Pucchiemon placed Ken back on the ground, and we ermged from the alley.
I didn't like what I saw. Tentomon and Biyomon were in the air trying to distract the Flymon and keep them away from the others, unfortunately it was only working on two of the Flymon, and in any second they'd be caught.
"Let's go Pucchiemon." Armyleomon said.
Pucchiemon nodded in agreement, and in a second the three of us were in the air and in hot pursuit of the two Flymon chasing Biyomon and Tentomon.
"Fela Missile!" Armyleomon yelled launching two missiles; one from each wing.
The Flymon looked back for only a second, they didn't even have time to scream as each missile hit them exploding on impact, when the dust cleared they were gone.
Biyomon and Tentomon looked back at us confused not recogizing the two Digimon that had just saved their lives.
"Hey guys," I said waving at them. "Thought you could use some help."
They flew up to us examining Armyleomon and Pucchiemon.
"Is that Elecmon and Wormmon?" Tentomon asked.
I nodded. "Well Armyleomon, and Pucchiemon now. Ken and I found our Digieggs."
"Well it couldn't have happened at a more oppurtune time." Biyomon said.
"Where are the others?" I said. "Are they okay."
"For now," Tentomon said pointing towards the ground. "They're trapped down there."
I looked where Tentomon had been pointing, to see the remaining eight Flymon crowded in the entrance to an alleyway trying to squeeze into it, it didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what was going on.
"At least they're all together now." Armyleomon said.
Pucchiemon and Armyleomon exchanged glances and nodded.
"Heartner Beam!"
"Fela Missile!"
The two launched their attacks at the crowd of Flymon, they Flymon noticed what was happeneing a second too late as the two attacks hit in the center of the crowd killing every single one of them.
I breathed a sigh of relief as all my friends, new and old emerged from the alley, they all looked up happily as they saw Pucchiemon, Armyleomon and I in the air.
"Thank God!" Jenn said, there were tear stains running down her face. "I thought you might have been killed."
"If you guys aren't too busy," Tai yelled. "Would you mind taking out that control spire out."
I gave a thumbs up. "No problem."
"I don't think so!" The voice of a Flymon yelled from above us. One must have gotten away before the attacks hit. "Deadly Sting."
Armyleomon prepared to dodge as the Flymon fired his stinger, but he didn't fire it at us, instead it shot towards the ground, straight at Jenn.
"JENN!" I screamed.
My mind thought up only one solution to stopping that stinger from hitting her, get in the way of it and get hit by it myself. As if reading my mind Armyleomon broke into a dive, and at amazing speed brought us between Jenn and the stinger. It was going to hit us, killing us both but I didn't care, as long as it didn't hit Jenn. But it never did hit us Armyleomon raised his metallic paw a second before it hit us and tossed the stinger aside, causing it to crash harmlessly into a nearby building.
"Armyleomon land!" I ordered my Digimon.
He did what I said, not only landing but exactly where I wanted to right beside Jenn, and opened the dome I was in the second his feet hit the ground. I jumped out as soon as it was open enough, and hugged Jenn as tightly as I could not even thinking about what I was doing.
"Are you okay?" I asked. "He didn't hurt you did he?"
"No," she said shaking her head, looking a little shocked. "I'm fine."
I let go of her, and looked up at the Flymon that had attacked her, my emotions changing from worry to anger. How dare he! How dare he attack her! My blood was boiling
"Armyleomon!" I yelled angrily. "Kill that Flymon!"
"What?" Armyleomon said with a look of shock on his voice.
"You heard me!" I yelled angrily once again. "I want that bastard Digimon DEAD!"
Armyleomon nodded, still keeping that shocked look on his face. "Felamon missile!"
The Flymon tried to run but Armyleomon's missile was was too fast, it made a direct hit killing him. I could feel my anger start to subside. That Flymon had gotten me so angry when he'd threatened Jenn I thought getting rid of him would make me feel better, but I actually felt worse, all I'd done was sink to his level.
"Guys we've got a problem," Ken said looking at his D-Terminal. "I just got a message from Davis and the others. They're in trouble."
"What kind of trouble?" Tai asked.
"I don't know," Ken answered. "His message just said he was in trouble."
"We better get back there," I said. "But first we better take out the control spire."
"I'm on it," Pucchiemon said. "Heartner beam!"
Pucchiemon's beam sliced into the center of the spire, causing the top half of it to fall off and into the water where the spire was located. I crawled back into the dome on Armyleomon's back, it slid closed again as I did. My eyes locked to the top of the building Infermon had been standing on. He was gone, good. Even with Armyleomon and Pucchiemon we wouldn't stand a chance against Infermon, true they were strong for Champions, but they were only Champions they wouldn't stand a chance against an Ultimate, especially one as powerful as Infermon.
"We've got to get back to the mall fast," Tai ordered. "Everyone go Champion now!"
No hesitations, everyone with the exceptions of Ken and I's Digivices activated and their Digimon began to Digivolve.
"Agumon Digivolved to....................................Greymon!"
"Gabumon Digivolved to...................................Garurumon!"
"Biyomon Digivolved to....................................Birdramon!"
"Tentomon Digivolved to..................................Kabuterimon!"
"Palmon Digivolved to.......................................Togemon!
"Gomamon Digivolved to..................................Ikkakumon!"
"Penguinmon Digivolved to.............................Kiwimon!"
"Gotsumon Digivolved to.................................Monochromon!"
"Tapirmon Digivolved to..................................Apemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to....................................Coelamon!"
"Otamamon Digivolved to................................Starmon!"
"Dokunemon Digivolved to.............................Kuwagamon!"
There wasn't a second to lose, we all began to ran/fly towards the location of the mall, each of us riding on or being carried by our respective Digimon, or in my case in. The streets weren't exactly wide enough for even two of our Digimon to walk side by side, so it became a line up of Digimon running down the streets. Needless to say people were afraid. They panicked ran from the streets into buildings screaming, despite the fact that none of our Digimon really caused any damage. They were actually careful not to step on any cars or break any lamp posts, and aside from one bent lamp post that Greymon hit with his tail there were successful. It took us about half the time to get to the mall riding our Digimon than it had getting to the harbour from the mall on foot.
To say that Davis and the others were in trouble was understatement, there were more Snimon there than when we had left, an even dozen to be exact. Way too much for them to handle, the five armor Digimon were being tossed around like rag dolls, and Davis, Yolei, Cody, T.K and Kari could do was watch helplessly.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yelled firing a large fireball into the battle.
It didn't hit anything, the Snimon managed to dodge it, but he hadn't intended it to. His intention had just been to make the Snimon aware of our presence, and it worked perfectly. They stopped beating up on the armor Digimon long enough for them to join our line up. The result was a staring contest, twelve Snimon facing down Nineteen Champion Digimon, the odds wern't exactly on their side. They knew that, every one of them was shaking in fear, unsure of what to do.
"Retreat!" the Snimon that was apparently the leader of the group yelled, and began flyin away.
The others didn't need to be told, they followed immediately.
Armyleomon began arming one of the missile's mounted on his wings. "Fela-"
"Armyleomon stop!" I yelled.
He retracted the missile. "Are you sure Kris?" he asked. "They could cause more damage."
"I'm sure," I answered. "Even if they did attack another part of the city, we could just stop them again. Besides, I-I don't want to have sink to Infermon's level - like I did earlier."
Armyleomon smiled and nodded. "Good, you had me scared for a moment."
Sirens began to appear in the background.
"I think it's time to make ourselves scarce," Tai said responding to the sirens.
"I'd definately have to agree with you on that." I said.
All Digimon in the air landed, including Armyleomon, and returned to their rookie levels. We ran from the seen and slunk down into a nearby alley just as about two dozen police squad cars, and fire trucks arrived at the seen.
"Too close," I sighed leaning against the wall. I turned to face Tai again. "Same deal as last time, go to our respective homes slash tmeporary residences, and wait."
Tai nodded. "Don't see anything else we can do."
We waited awhile for there to be less squad cars, and for the crowds to appear, we blended into them trying to hide our Digimon as best we could, and slowly made our way back to our homes, the places we were staying in.
Once again trapped in that helpless position. Waiting helplessly for Infermon to make his next move. I hated being this helpless, but we had always been helpless before why should that change now.
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So how was it? This is my first attempt at actually making up a Digimon (that was higher than the In-Training level), so yes Armyleomon doesn't really exist I did make him up. Now I wouldn't start expecting the other Canadian Digidestined to Armor Digivolve, because Elecmon is going to be the only one that does, and he probably won't play much of a role during the main story, so don't expect him to appear that often. His role will increase around Chapter 35 - 40 (yes I do plan on making that many chapters). The next chapter should come up pretty soon because I have been looking forward to writing it for a long time(romantic interlude alert). You should probably be expecting it around Wednesday - though I'm not making any promises. I better stop talking now or my author's notes are going to be longer than the chapter itself.
But before I do shut up. Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. That's it that's all I have to say about that.
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Chapter 23: Compassion and Kindness
Kris
A day passed by without any sign of Infermon, I spent most of that time at Davis's, playing video games and watching TV. It was nice to just kick back once and a while. What was mainly on my mind though was what I was going to tell Jenn; Elecmon had asked me if he wanted me to go talk to Penguinmon today, I told him to wait one more day. How long was I going to put this off for? I'd always been able to tell Jenn everything, why was this so hard?
Hmm, I don't know maybe because it could change our relationship forever. I hoped for the better, but no how many times I thought up a good scenario, like her hugging me telling me the same thing I told her, my mind made up about a million bad ones, like her completely rejecting me and our relationship just going down from there. Funny how I could think about stuff like this when the world was in danger, but I guess that's the mind of a teenage guy, the world could be on the brink of destruction and he'd still be thinking about girls.
I sighed and laid back on the back of the couch in Davis's living room, I'd just turned on the news. As I thought they were covering the destruction in various parts of town, but what caught my attention was what they said next.
"…the causes for all this destruction is yet to be confirmed and several theories have come about. However one that seemed completely ridiculous and once thought out of the question has just gained some credibility, the theory that monsters are responsible."
That peaked our attention, both Davis and shot up from our positions and looked curiously at the TV.
"Numerous people have claimed to see monsters running about the city and fighting amongst each other. Several people who were rescued from the subway yesterday afternoon claim an ape; a dinosaur and an angel rescued them. Another group of people whose cruise ship sunk on an attempt to return to the harbour, claim that a sea serpent like creature attacked their boat, and was only fended off by a giant scorpion, while a giant insect rescued them. However skeptics claim that these are just hallucinations brought upon the extreme stress of the situation. However people are now finding it hard to believe they are only hallucinations now that video evidence has now been produced of these monsters existence. A tourist who was attempting to film the destruction at Heightened view terrace shot the following piece of footage. Before we show it we must warn you that it contains material that may frighten young children."
The picture changed into to a fuzzy picture, showing smoke billowing in the background. A static filled roar broke the silence, it was Monochromon's roar. The picture was fuzzy but I could definitely tell it was him as he crashed through the police barricades, what really worried me was that Jenn Rob and I were in plain sight on Monochromon's back, if someone back home saw it and recognized us we could be in big trouble.
"Why exactly did you do that?" Davis asked.
"We had to find some way to get through the barricades." I said laughing nervously. "Haven't you done anything really reckless?"
"Well I - uh," Davis said nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "Of course I haven't what makes you think that."
Somehow I didn't really believe him.
While Davis and I had been talking the anchorman continued, I should have been paying attention to the news, this could be important, I turned my head towards the TV again hearing the anchorman in mid sentence.
"…we will continue to -" he was interrupted as a crewmember approached the et and handed him a message, a look of shock appeared on his face as he read it. "Excuse me, we have just been informed that the destruction may not be over. The Odeiba shopping center was been demolished, we now bring you live to the site of the destruction."
The picture immediately changed. There was a reporter standing in front of what looked like a mall, or what used to be a mall.
"As you can see the destruction here is immense, the cause like all the other sites of destruction is still unknown. Witnesses claim to have heard a deafening buzzing sound, followed objects falling through the skylight, people rushed to get outside not long after half of the Odeiba shopping center was destroyed, some witnesses even to claim to ha - Aaaaah!"
The reporter was cut off by a buzzing sound, the camera man now appeared to be running, suddenly the picture went out replaced by nothing but static, it didn't last long the picture changed back to the newsroom.
"We seem to have lost contact, We -"
I didn't listen anymore; I immediately sat up from my spot on the couch.
"Phone!" I yelled to Davis "Where's the phone!"
Davis casually pointed to the phone on the end table next to him. I grabbed the receiver as fast as possible and dialed Tai's number. I'd made sure to ask him what it was and memorize it, in case something like this happened. The phone only rang once before there was an answer and Tai picked up.
"Kris!" he yelled. "Watching the news?"
"Yeah," I said. "I'm assuming you saw it too."
"Yeah," he answered. "I'll call everyone up, you and Davis get to that shopping center as fast as possible."
"Right," I agreed.
I hung up the phone, Davis sighed.
"Let me guess we're going to rush out of here and towards the place where all the danger is?"
"You guessed it."
"About time," Veemon said. "I was getting bored just sitting here."
"Speak for yourself," Elecmon said.
So we did just what we'd done before, rushed out of Davis's apartment towards certain danger
* * *
"Destroying the mall!" Mimi yelled angrily, staring at the half smashed mall in front of us. "Now that's going too far! This guy is so going down."
"We have to find him first Mimi," Palmon said. "He doesn't seem to be here."
"He's got to be here somewhere," Tai said. "He wouldn't attack the mall for no reason he wants us to show up."
"If this is a trap why are we here?" Agumon asked.
"No choice," I answered for Tai. "If we don't show up he'll start hurting innocent people, and we can't just sit back and let that happen."
"He can't be here," Yolei said looking at her D3. "Aside from our own Digimon I'm not getting anything here."
"Do you think its possible he just attacked the mall for fun?" Kari asked.
"I sure hope not," T.K said. "If he is then whose to say he won't just do it again."
I stared at my Digivice, still nothing no extra green dots, not signifying any extra Digimon. I looked up and saw Matt and Gabumon return from scouting the area.
"Anything?" Tai asked.
Matt shook his head. "Just a bunch of ruble, no Digimon."
"I'm afraid Kari might be right," Tai said sighing. "Infermon was just attacking for fun."
My Digivice began to beep; I took a look at it. Yes! There was an extra Digimon on it, heading right for us.
"Hold that thought," I said. "We have a Digimon."
"Kind of an empty victory," Rob said. "I was hoping not to fight."
"Better than knowing he's going to be hurting innocent people," Janine said.
The Digimon soon came into view; it was a praying mantis like Digimon. With two scythes for arms.
"Snimon!" Gomamon yelled. "This shouldn't be much of a problem he is only a Champion."
I think he was being a little too optimistic; Infermon wasn't that dumb he wouldn't send one Champion Digimon against all of us; only four of our Digimon couldn't reach their Ultimate state.
Turned out I was right, a second later five more Snimon appeared behind the first one. Still not a problem, we could beat them easily, something just wasn't right.
"Any other?" Sora asked.
I glanced down at my Digivice. "Nope, there's only six of them, seems weird that Infermon would only send six Champions to deal with us, we've fought worse."
"You're right," Tai agreed. "Something just isn't right."
"Come on Kris," Elecmon said. "I'm ready to fight, it's time to Digivolve."
I held my Digivice tightly. "Alright do it Elecmon."
"Elecmon Digivolved to……………………Elecmon?"
I could only stare in shock at my Digimon who remained unchanged.
"What was that?" I asked. "Why didn't you Digivolve?"
Elecmon was surprised as I was. "I - I don't know, I just ate so I should be able to Digivolve."
"Let's try this again."
My Digimon nodded as my Digivice activated.
"Elecmon Digivolved to…………………...Elecmon?"
"What's going on here!" Elecmon yelled in frustration. "Why can't I Digivolve!"
Dan laughed. "Looks like your Digimon's getting rusty at this, watch a master. Tsunomon."
"Right," Tsunomon said jumping from Dan's arms.
"Tsunomon Digivolved to…………………Gizamon!"
Dan beamed proudly. "Now show Elecmon how it's done, one more time."
"Gizamon Digivolved to. …………………Gizamon?"
Both Dan and Gizamon stared in shock.
"Something wrong," I said laughing.
"What's going on here?" Sean asked.
"I think I have an idea," Cody said.
I looked at my Digivice, and saw a new dot had appeared, this one was a colour I hadn't seen before it was black.
"Guys," I said. "There's something on the radar take a look."
"I was afraid of this," Cody said. "Check that out."
He pointed in the direction where the dot was on the radar, revealing a large completely black tower, it looked almost exactly like the Washington monument, except black.
"No wonder they can't Digivolve!" Tai yelled. "A control spire!"
I was amazed at how tall it was, it was far away but we could still plainly see it because of its height.
I recognized that term, that's what had created the crest of Evil and Darkness, and the reason our Digivices had been upgraded so our Digimon could Digivolve.
"The harbour," Will said. "Great, we've got to go back there."
"But shouldn't our Digimon be able to Digivolve," I said. "We have D3s that's why we could Digivolve against the power of the Dark crests."
"You should," Izzy said. "But apparently somehow you can't."
"So now what?" Jenn asked. "How do we fight them?"
"Leave that to us," Davis said. "We've dealt with control spires before, we've got special Digivolution. To override the Digivolution block."
"Armor Digivolving?" I said.
Davis nodded. "Yeah how did you know?"
"I've heard about it." I answered.
"Okay," Tai said. "You guys armor Digivolve and distract the Snimon. The rest of us will take out that control spire."
"Can you?" Yolei asked. "Your Digimon are only rookies?"
"We've got to try," Tai said.
Davis and Veemon, Yolei and Hawkmon, Cody and Armadillomon, T.K and Patamon, and finally Kari and Gatomon stepped forward. All taking out their D-Terminals. Then yelled all at the same time.
"Digiarmor energize!"
The D-Terminals and D3s activated and the five Digimon armor Digivolved.
"Veemon Armor Digivolved to……………………Raidramon! The storm of Friendship!"
"Hawkmon Armor Digivolved to………………….Halsemon! The wings of Love!"
"Armadillomon Armor Digivolved to……………..Digmon! The drill of Knowledge!"
"Patamon Armor Digivolved to……………………Pegasusmon! Flying Hope!"
"Gatomon Armor Digivolved to…………………..Nefertimon! The Angel of Light!
"Let's go!" Tai ordered.
We obeyed immediately, running from the area, and following the location of the control spire using our Digivices. It wasn't long before we were out of sight and the sounds of battle were behind us.
"Think they'll be okay?" I asked.
"They've seen worse before," Tai said.
"Yeah," Ken said. "And I'm that worse."
The odds were against them, it was five against six, but it wasn't like we could do anything, all we could do was taking out that control spire and then hope to help them. We ran towards the spire, and arrived at its location, the harbour within ten minutes. I looked up at the giant tower, it was much taller than I thought, and it was going to be hard to destroy, especially since the highest our Digimon could go was to the rookie level.
"Do you think you guys can destroy that as rookies?" Tai asked.
"We can give it a shot." Agumon said.
"Then go, all Digimon use your attacks to take that thing out."
As always there wasn't any hesitation, the fourteen Digimon that weren't fighting back at the mall stepped up ahead of us.
"Pepper breath!"
"Blue blaster!"
"Super shocker!"
"Spiral Twister!"
"Poison Ivy!"
"Marching Fishes!"
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
"Rock fist!"
"Nightmare Syndrome!"
"Spiral Edge!"
"Lullaby bubble!"
"Sticky net!"
"Worm Venom!"
The various attacks all hit the spire at the same time, and then as the dust cleared a away the spire it was like they hadn't attacked at all.
"Well now what?" Dan said. "They just gave it all they've got and there's not even a scratch on it."
"We'll just have to keep trying," I said. "Right Tai?"
Tai nodded. "It's not like we have any choice, unless of course one of you has some TNT on you."
No one said anything, not that anyone expected anyone to say anything, I'd be worried if someone had had something.
The Digimon didn't wait for an order they all attacked again, and continued to do so for about five minutes, until….
"You Digidestined are even more pathetic than I thought."
All our heads turned to the direction of the voice, just like we all though, there standing on the top of a building was Infermon. This was the last thing we needed right now, our Digimon couldn't even become Champions, how could a bunch of rookies stand a chance against one very powerful Ultimate? But despite the odds the Digimon stepped between us and the building Infermon was on.
"Your nuts if we think we're going to let you hurt them," Agumon said.
"You may be an Ultimate Digimon but that doesn't mean we're just going to lay down and surrender," Elecmon said.
"Please, don't insult me," Infermon said coldly. "I wouldn't soil my hands dealing with you now, you're just a bunch of weaklings, I have minions to do that for me. Flymon."
A large bee like Digimon emerged from the top of the building, and flew up to Infermon.
"Yes, master?" it said.
"Flymon, I want you and your friends to destroy those kids and their worthless Digimon."
"As you wish."
The air was suddenly pierced by the sound of a deafening buzzing, no doubt the same buzzing that I had heard on the news. About a dozen of Flymon appeared, in the air. Definitely not good!
"Deadly sting!" all twelve of them yelled firing giant stingers towards us.
We all jumped out of the way; fortunately none of them hit any of us. We all had the same plan in mind it was Tai who put it into words.
"RUN!" he screamed.
Like we needed to be told. We all ran in various directions, splitting up into seven groups of two Digidestined and two Digimon, Elecmon and I ended up with Ken and Wormmon. It wasn't really anything we'd planned on it just kind of happened that way. I could hear the deafening buzzing sound of two Flymon chasing after us, needless to say I was scared out of my mind.
"That street," Ken yelled pointing to a street. "We can try and lose them there."
There wasn't enough time to argue, not that I would have anyway I couldn't think of any better plans. We turned the corner into the street only to have fear wash over us it wasn't a street! It was an alley! Worse yet a dead end alley! And it was too late to turn back, if we did the Flymon would catch us, but if we stayed here the Flymon would still catch us.
"Oh this is not good!" I yelled. "Now what?"
Elecmon jumped ready to face the oncoming Flymon. "We do the only thing we can fight."
"Don't forget me," Wormmon said jumping up next to Elecmon.
"You can't fight, you're not strong enough." Ken said.
"Oh thanks for the vote of confidence," Wormmon said. "It's not like we have much of a choice there isn't any escape."
"Yes there is!" I said as an idea popped into my head.
"What?" Ken, Elecmon and Wormmon all yelled.
I reached into my backpack and pulled out my laptop. "This! Man am I ever glad I brought it."
"We can use it to open a Digiport!" Ken said happily.
"Then send them back to the Digital World?" Wormmon asked.
"I don't think that'll work, we'd have to weaken them first," I said. "And I don't think you guys can do that, I'm planning on using the Digiport so we can escape."
"Fine, as long as we can get out of here," Ken said.
The Flymon reached the alley and came into view; they'd be attacking us within seconds no time to waist. I held my Digivice up to the computer.
"Digiport open!"
The Digiport immediately opened and sucked the four of us into the computer, just as the Flymon fired one of their attacks that would have hit right where we were standing.
To our relief we were shot out of the TV, and into the Digital World, we were in a dessert, not exactly where I would have wanted to go but there wasn't any time to choose what area of the Digital World we would have ended up in. I fell to my knees as did Ken, both out of breath and very relieved we made it out in time.
"That - was too close," Elecmon, said.
"Let's never, ever do that again," Wormmon agreed.
I was about to put my Digivice back in my pocket, when I noticed something on it. On the radar screen there were two white dots, I'd never seen that before.
"Hey Ken," I said holding my Digivice up to him. "Do you know what these white dots on the radar are?"
A smile grew on his face. "I sure, do they're Digieggs! This is great."
"Why is it great?" I asked. "What good wills a Digiegg do us?"
"Not regular Digieggss, I mean the Armor Digivolution kind of Digieggs."
"Your kidding?" I said as a happy expresssion grew on my face. "So you're saying our Digimon will be able to armor Digivolve? Then we can go into the real world, and help Tai and the others."
"Well necessarily, only if they belong to us, and there's a two in nineteen chance that they do."
"And if they don't?"
"Then they obviously belong to one of the others," Ken said. "We just have to go into the real world and get the others, and get them to try and lift them until one of them can."
"We don't exactly have time for that, if we go to the real world the Fymon will get us," I slumped and sighed. "Whose to say that they haven't already been hurt or killed by them, I mean we just escaped."
Ken shuddered, not wanting to think about that possiblity. "Then we'll just have to follow the signal and hope that they are ours."
"You're right," I agreed.
"Then what exactly are we waiting for?" Elecmon asked. "Let's get going."
That's what we did, keeping a close eye on our Digivices we ran through the dessert following the white dots on the radar, until after about five minutes of following them we found ourselves at the entrance of a very large temple.
"Guess this is the place," Ken said looking up at the temple in awe.
"Let's go inside!" I yelled running up to the entrance. "We don't have any time to lose."
Ken Elecmon and Wormmon were quick to follow.
The inside of the temple was nothing but one very large room, in the center of the room were two pedestals. I assumed the things standing on them were Digieggs. They didn't really look like eggs though, they had the same basic shape as an egg but definately didn't look like eggs. One of them was pink and kind of shaped like a rose, it had the crest of Kindness on it. The second one looked like the head of a fighter jet, pointed nosecone, at the top of the egg and a domed cockpit, in the middle, and rounded at the bottom like an egg, but what I really noticed about it was the fact that it had the crest of Compassion, on it.
Ken smiled. "This looks good, Kindess and Compassion, our two crests."
He was right, the odds were very good they were ours, but I noticed that when Davis Yolei and Cody's Digimon were Armor Digivolving their Digimon used the crests of Friendship, Love, and Knowledge, they didn't have those crests. Then again Kari and T.K Armor Digivolved using the Digieggs of Hope and Light, and they did have those crests.
"We should at least give it a shot," I said. "How can we tell their ours anyway?"
"If memory serves me, I think if we can lift them their ours, if their not they should be too heavy to lift."
"I sure hope they are," Elecmon said. "That Armor Digivolving looks cool."
"They better be," Wormmon said. "I'm the only one of the new Digidestined's Digimon who can't armor Digivolve."
We slowly approached the Digieggs, I the Digiegg of Compassion, and Ken the Digiegg of Kindness. How approptriate that these two Digieggs would be together, you couldn't be compassionate without being kind, and you couldn't be kind without being compassionate, it was like Ken and I's crest were exactly the same.
I picked up the Digiegg, to my relief I lifted it very easily it wasn't heavy at all, I was also glad to see that Ken had also lifted up the Digiegg of Kindness easily.
"Alright," Elecmon said happily.
"So how do we get these things to work anyway?" I asked.
"I've seen the others do this a thousand times," Ken said. "Here goes. DigiArmor Energize!"
Both the Digiegg of Kindness and Wormmon became engulfed in a bright light, a light I'd seen so many times before, Wormmon was Digivolving, but differently in the same way I'd seen Davis and the other's Digivolve to fight the Snimon.
"Wormmon Armor Digivolved to..............................Pucchiemon! The Sprite of Kindness!"
The new Armor Digimon wasn't as big as you'd think he was about our Height, covered in red except his face which had a weird cuteness to it.
"Wow," Ken said staring at his new Armor Digimon. "It doesn't look like a Digimon so small could do much damage."
"Size isn't everything," Pucchiemon said beggining to hover in the air. "I can do alot."
Pucchiemon gathered a red energy ball in one finger and seconds later, fired a small energy beam that took a huge chunk out of one of the temple walls.
"Nice," Ken said proudly. "Those Flymon are in for a big surprise."
"Come on Kris use yours now," Elecmon said. "I want to Armor Digivolve."
"Okay," I said. "Here goes. DigiArmor energize!"
The same thing happened that had with Ken, my Digiegg began to glow as did Elecmon as he Armor Digivolved.
"Elecmon Armor Digivolved to...............................Armyleomon! The Artillery of Compassion!"
Unlike Pucchiemon, Armyleomon actually looked like he could do some damage, he looked like he was half lion half fighter jet. He was about the size of Saberleomon, had orange fur, and stood on four massive lion like legs, he had wheels mounted on the back of his legs. It looked like his feet could be retracted and replaced with the wheels. It looked like someone had cracked open the Digiegg of Compassion and placed it on his face like a helmet, and added four holes, two for his eyes, and two for his metalic ears, which seemd to merge with the helmet. He also had large wings mounted on his sides the same orange and red striped colour as the Digiegg of Compassion, the wings looked just like fighter jet wings, with missles with shaped like a lion's head mounted on them. Undoubtingly those wings allowed him to fly pretty fast. What I really loved was that there was a glass dome all the way along his back, just like the one that Submarimon had, which meant that I could fly along with him without having to worry about the wind. Last was his tail which was like a lions except completely metalic, it looked like he might be able to use it for some sort of an attack.
The dome on his back slid open.
"Hop in Kris," Armyleomon said. "We've got to get to the real world and help the others as soon as possible."
I nodded. "Yeah, let's go."
I slid myself into the glass dome, it wasn't exactly big. I had to lay down to fit, just like Cody had to when he rode inside Submarimon. Pucchiemon grabbed Ken in his arms, the dome slid closed and we all took to the air, reaching the Digiport in less than a minute. Armyleomon really was fast, and he wasn't even going at his top speed, he had to slow down so Pucchiemon could keep up.
"Digiport open!" Ken yelled holding up his D3 as the the light from the TV engulfed us and sucked us in. We emerged into the real world from my laptop, the same way we had come in. To our surprise the Flymon that had chased us into this alley were still here, waiting for us to come back into the real world.
"Deadly Sting!" They both fired firing stingers at us.
"Fela Missile!" Armyleomon yelled as one of the missles mounted on his wing launched.
"Heartener beam!" Pucchiemon yelled firing the same energy beam that had taken a chunk out of the wall in the temple.
The Flymon didn't stand a chance, both the missile and the red beam smashed the stingers and kept going. The Flymon tryed to fly away but they wern't fast enough, Armyleomon's missile hit one of them he shattered and died the second it hit him, as did the second Flymon as Pucchiemon's beam hit him. Pucchiemon placed Ken back on the ground, and we ermged from the alley.
I didn't like what I saw. Tentomon and Biyomon were in the air trying to distract the Flymon and keep them away from the others, unfortunately it was only working on two of the Flymon, and in any second they'd be caught.
"Let's go Pucchiemon." Armyleomon said.
Pucchiemon nodded in agreement, and in a second the three of us were in the air and in hot pursuit of the two Flymon chasing Biyomon and Tentomon.
"Fela Missile!" Armyleomon yelled launching two missiles; one from each wing.
The Flymon looked back for only a second, they didn't even have time to scream as each missile hit them exploding on impact, when the dust cleared they were gone.
Biyomon and Tentomon looked back at us confused not recogizing the two Digimon that had just saved their lives.
"Hey guys," I said waving at them. "Thought you could use some help."
They flew up to us examining Armyleomon and Pucchiemon.
"Is that Elecmon and Wormmon?" Tentomon asked.
I nodded. "Well Armyleomon, and Pucchiemon now. Ken and I found our Digieggs."
"Well it couldn't have happened at a more oppurtune time." Biyomon said.
"Where are the others?" I said. "Are they okay."
"For now," Tentomon said pointing towards the ground. "They're trapped down there."
I looked where Tentomon had been pointing, to see the remaining eight Flymon crowded in the entrance to an alleyway trying to squeeze into it, it didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out what was going on.
"At least they're all together now." Armyleomon said.
Pucchiemon and Armyleomon exchanged glances and nodded.
"Heartner Beam!"
"Fela Missile!"
The two launched their attacks at the crowd of Flymon, they Flymon noticed what was happeneing a second too late as the two attacks hit in the center of the crowd killing every single one of them.
I breathed a sigh of relief as all my friends, new and old emerged from the alley, they all looked up happily as they saw Pucchiemon, Armyleomon and I in the air.
"Thank God!" Jenn said, there were tear stains running down her face. "I thought you might have been killed."
"If you guys aren't too busy," Tai yelled. "Would you mind taking out that control spire out."
I gave a thumbs up. "No problem."
"I don't think so!" The voice of a Flymon yelled from above us. One must have gotten away before the attacks hit. "Deadly Sting."
Armyleomon prepared to dodge as the Flymon fired his stinger, but he didn't fire it at us, instead it shot towards the ground, straight at Jenn.
"JENN!" I screamed.
My mind thought up only one solution to stopping that stinger from hitting her, get in the way of it and get hit by it myself. As if reading my mind Armyleomon broke into a dive, and at amazing speed brought us between Jenn and the stinger. It was going to hit us, killing us both but I didn't care, as long as it didn't hit Jenn. But it never did hit us Armyleomon raised his metallic paw a second before it hit us and tossed the stinger aside, causing it to crash harmlessly into a nearby building.
"Armyleomon land!" I ordered my Digimon.
He did what I said, not only landing but exactly where I wanted to right beside Jenn, and opened the dome I was in the second his feet hit the ground. I jumped out as soon as it was open enough, and hugged Jenn as tightly as I could not even thinking about what I was doing.
"Are you okay?" I asked. "He didn't hurt you did he?"
"No," she said shaking her head, looking a little shocked. "I'm fine."
I let go of her, and looked up at the Flymon that had attacked her, my emotions changing from worry to anger. How dare he! How dare he attack her! My blood was boiling
"Armyleomon!" I yelled angrily. "Kill that Flymon!"
"What?" Armyleomon said with a look of shock on his voice.
"You heard me!" I yelled angrily once again. "I want that bastard Digimon DEAD!"
Armyleomon nodded, still keeping that shocked look on his face. "Felamon missile!"
The Flymon tried to run but Armyleomon's missile was was too fast, it made a direct hit killing him. I could feel my anger start to subside. That Flymon had gotten me so angry when he'd threatened Jenn I thought getting rid of him would make me feel better, but I actually felt worse, all I'd done was sink to his level.
"Guys we've got a problem," Ken said looking at his D-Terminal. "I just got a message from Davis and the others. They're in trouble."
"What kind of trouble?" Tai asked.
"I don't know," Ken answered. "His message just said he was in trouble."
"We better get back there," I said. "But first we better take out the control spire."
"I'm on it," Pucchiemon said. "Heartner beam!"
Pucchiemon's beam sliced into the center of the spire, causing the top half of it to fall off and into the water where the spire was located. I crawled back into the dome on Armyleomon's back, it slid closed again as I did. My eyes locked to the top of the building Infermon had been standing on. He was gone, good. Even with Armyleomon and Pucchiemon we wouldn't stand a chance against Infermon, true they were strong for Champions, but they were only Champions they wouldn't stand a chance against an Ultimate, especially one as powerful as Infermon.
"We've got to get back to the mall fast," Tai ordered. "Everyone go Champion now!"
No hesitations, everyone with the exceptions of Ken and I's Digivices activated and their Digimon began to Digivolve.
"Agumon Digivolved to....................................Greymon!"
"Gabumon Digivolved to...................................Garurumon!"
"Biyomon Digivolved to....................................Birdramon!"
"Tentomon Digivolved to..................................Kabuterimon!"
"Palmon Digivolved to.......................................Togemon!
"Gomamon Digivolved to..................................Ikkakumon!"
"Penguinmon Digivolved to.............................Kiwimon!"
"Gotsumon Digivolved to.................................Monochromon!"
"Tapirmon Digivolved to..................................Apemon!"
"Gizamon Digivolved to....................................Coelamon!"
"Otamamon Digivolved to................................Starmon!"
"Dokunemon Digivolved to.............................Kuwagamon!"
There wasn't a second to lose, we all began to ran/fly towards the location of the mall, each of us riding on or being carried by our respective Digimon, or in my case in. The streets weren't exactly wide enough for even two of our Digimon to walk side by side, so it became a line up of Digimon running down the streets. Needless to say people were afraid. They panicked ran from the streets into buildings screaming, despite the fact that none of our Digimon really caused any damage. They were actually careful not to step on any cars or break any lamp posts, and aside from one bent lamp post that Greymon hit with his tail there were successful. It took us about half the time to get to the mall riding our Digimon than it had getting to the harbour from the mall on foot.
To say that Davis and the others were in trouble was understatement, there were more Snimon there than when we had left, an even dozen to be exact. Way too much for them to handle, the five armor Digimon were being tossed around like rag dolls, and Davis, Yolei, Cody, T.K and Kari could do was watch helplessly.
"Nova Blast!" Greymon yelled firing a large fireball into the battle.
It didn't hit anything, the Snimon managed to dodge it, but he hadn't intended it to. His intention had just been to make the Snimon aware of our presence, and it worked perfectly. They stopped beating up on the armor Digimon long enough for them to join our line up. The result was a staring contest, twelve Snimon facing down Nineteen Champion Digimon, the odds wern't exactly on their side. They knew that, every one of them was shaking in fear, unsure of what to do.
"Retreat!" the Snimon that was apparently the leader of the group yelled, and began flyin away.
The others didn't need to be told, they followed immediately.
Armyleomon began arming one of the missile's mounted on his wings. "Fela-"
"Armyleomon stop!" I yelled.
He retracted the missile. "Are you sure Kris?" he asked. "They could cause more damage."
"I'm sure," I answered. "Even if they did attack another part of the city, we could just stop them again. Besides, I-I don't want to have sink to Infermon's level - like I did earlier."
Armyleomon smiled and nodded. "Good, you had me scared for a moment."
Sirens began to appear in the background.
"I think it's time to make ourselves scarce," Tai said responding to the sirens.
"I'd definately have to agree with you on that." I said.
All Digimon in the air landed, including Armyleomon, and returned to their rookie levels. We ran from the seen and slunk down into a nearby alley just as about two dozen police squad cars, and fire trucks arrived at the seen.
"Too close," I sighed leaning against the wall. I turned to face Tai again. "Same deal as last time, go to our respective homes slash tmeporary residences, and wait."
Tai nodded. "Don't see anything else we can do."
We waited awhile for there to be less squad cars, and for the crowds to appear, we blended into them trying to hide our Digimon as best we could, and slowly made our way back to our homes, the places we were staying in.
Once again trapped in that helpless position. Waiting helplessly for Infermon to make his next move. I hated being this helpless, but we had always been helpless before why should that change now.
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So how was it? This is my first attempt at actually making up a Digimon (that was higher than the In-Training level), so yes Armyleomon doesn't really exist I did make him up. Now I wouldn't start expecting the other Canadian Digidestined to Armor Digivolve, because Elecmon is going to be the only one that does, and he probably won't play much of a role during the main story, so don't expect him to appear that often. His role will increase around Chapter 35 - 40 (yes I do plan on making that many chapters). The next chapter should come up pretty soon because I have been looking forward to writing it for a long time(romantic interlude alert). You should probably be expecting it around Wednesday - though I'm not making any promises. I better stop talking now or my author's notes are going to be longer than the chapter itself.