Digital Demons II - Part 4
by Nopporn Wongrassamee
Summary: Crossover between Digimon Tamers, Jackie Chan
Adventures, and Gatekeepers. It's the Attack of the
Monodramon!
Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. I'm just too lazy to
look up who they belong to.
"Renamon, MATRIX DIGIVOLVE!" Rika shouted quickly when she
saw the front ranks of Monodramon inhale. Given the situation,
having her partner skip past Champion level entirely seemed like
a good idea.
In the instant Renamon digivolved into Taomon, Rika indulged a
moment of longing that they couldn't biomerge. Rika had tried a
test biomerge back at Section 13 after the battle with the Invader
bowling ball and HyperHsiWuMon. Whatever the Sovereigns had
done had apparently worn off.
Taomon raised a protective dome around them and the
AEGISmobile just in time. Several hundred fireballs impacted on
the shield harmlessly. Rika idly wondered why dinosaur Digimon
always seemed to vomit some kind of fireball. There was
Guilmon, Monodramon, that little yellow guy from the TV show...
"You okay, Taomon?" Rika asked, coming back to the here and
now.
"I could do this all day," Taomon replied, her words punctuated
by the sound of fireballs hitting her shield like raindrops.
"Unfortunately, I don't think I can attack and keep you safe at
the same time. I'd have to drop the shield."
"I'll figure something out," Rika told her. " We don't want to hit
our Monodramon. Let's see what we're dealing with here..." She
looked at her Digivice and called up the stats for the two boss
Digimon that had captured Ryo. "Access denied? What's going on
here?"
First it was HyperHsiWuMon, now these two. At first, Rika thought
something might be wrong with her Digivice, but the stats scan
functioned worked perfectly fine for the Monodramon. It dawned
on Rika that these demons turn Digimon were deliberately
blocking her Digivice. And if they could do that, what else could
they do?
***
Exhausted, Jade opened her real, physical eyes. The first thing
she saw was an angry Uncle.
"Uh, hi, Uncle," she said nervously.
Uncle snatched the Sheep Talisman from her hand.
***
"Rika, we have another problem," Captain Black said as he
stepped out of the Aegismobile.
"What is it now?" Rika asked.
Captain Black just pointed. Rika's eyes followed his finger to the
two Digimon demons. Seeing that the Monodramon had basically
immobilized them, the two demons were heading out of the park
and into the city. They were leaving about two or three hundred
Monodramon to hold them in place while taking the rest with
them.
But they were wrong in one respect, thought Rika.
"Captain Black, break out that Big Gun of yours and hold on to
something," Rika told the agent. "We're moving."
"But..." Black began.
"Taomon!" Rika called to her partner. "Let's get in their way."
"Of course," Taomon agreed. Taomon's protective dome along
with everyone and thing in it suddenly shot up into the air. It flew
in a smooth arc to land squarely in front of the two demon
Digimon. The Monodramon tasked to harass them turned and
gave chase. They ran into the Monodramon following the
demons, resulting in mass confusion.
"Impressive," the froglike demon commented.
"Alright, Captain Black," Rika said as Taomon dropped her shield,
"use that Big Gun of yours and shoot those two!"
"Ah, Rika this isn't the AEGISmobile with the Gun," Black told her,
somewhat embarrased. "This is the AEGISmobile with the power
generator and capacitators."
"What?" Rika yelped.
"The Gun was in the middle of being serviced when this started,"
Black continued. "And we had alot of confidence in you and your
partner..."
For once, Rika was at a loss for words. Given the disparate power
level between her partner and the first demon Digimon she had
ever run into, Rika didn't have a whole lot of confidence she and
Taomon could handle two of them at once.
"Maybe not that impressive, brother," rumbled the obese demon
Digimon.
A Gate popped into existance between them and the demons.
Rika noticed that unlike her Grandma's golden colored Gate, this
one shined a bright violet. There was no one visible who might be
generating it.
Several familiar figures tumbled out of the Gate. They landed in
an untidy heap.
"What are you guys doing here?" Rika exclaimed, surprised. She
saw Takato, Guilmon, Henry, Terriermon, and... Jeri?
"Rika?" Takato said in surprise as he and the gang picked
themselves up. "This is a surprise. I thought Alice was going to
send Ryo."
"Hey, guys, turn around," Ryo called out.
They turned. They saw Ryo. They saw GaleXiaoFungMon towering
over them, holding Ryo. Next to him was MassPoKongMon, who
was even taller. They saw the mass of Monodramon behind those
two.
"Gah!" they screamed, backpeddling away.
"Guilmon, digivolve!" Takato cried.
"Terriermon, digivolve!" Henry said at the same time.
Their Digimon digivolved.
"Oh no," Rika moaned, seeing what they digivolved to.
Growlmon snarled menacingly at the two demons. Gargomon
whirled his gatlings menacingly. Of course, Rika realized, they
didn't have a clue what they were dealing with.
Rika suddenly wished she hadn't left the little guy at Section 13.
The froglike Digimon evaluated the newcomers. He openly
expressed his opinion of the opposition. He sniggered.
"Hey!" Takato exclaimed, insulted. "We're here to rescue Ryo. Let
him go or..."
"Or what?" the froglike Digimon finished. "Your Digimon will
attack?" He dangled Ryo between himself and his opponents.
"Yes, I'm sure they will all not hit this little mortal."
"Uh..." Takato said, realizing that it was very likely that a stray
shot would hit his fellow Tamer if the Digimon attacked.
"Xiao Fung, can we attack now?" the obese Digimon whined. "I'm
bored, and hungry, and..."
"My name is GaleXiaoFungMon, now," replied the other demon,
annoyed. "And MassPoKongMon, I actually like watching our
enemies make fools of themselves. It is very entertaining."
"Hey!" objected several Tamers.
"Sod your enterainment," MassPoKongMon replied. "And my
name is Po Kong, brother."
"Besides," GaleXiaoFungMon gloated, ignoring the replies, "it's
not as if they can truly harm us."
A shaft of light shining brighter than the sun came blazing in
from the side. It struck GaleXiaoFungMon on the left side of his
head. It almost exited his right. As the demon Digimon
disintegrated into bits of data, he dropped Ryo.
Everyone turned to see where the shot had come from.
"Grandma?" Rika whispered.
***
"Lemme go help them!" Jade pleaded.
"No," Uncle repeated firmly.
"But I can help," Jade pointed out.
"Jade does not have superpowers or spirit/demon partner," Uncle
objected.
"Digimon!" Calumon interjected. He was ignored.
"But with the Talismans..." Jade began again.
"Talismans are not yours," Uncle interupted. "When will you learn
this?"
"Okay, have it your way," Jade said, giving up. "But did you have
to handcuff me?" She held up her arm. One shackle of the
handcuffs in question neatly encircled the wrist. On the other
end of the chain, the shackle was locked around the arm of the
chair Jade was sitting in. The chair itself was bolted to the floor.
"I just do what I'm told," Yamaki joked.
"Yes, nice young man is respectful of Uncle," Uncle agreed. He
looked pointedly at Jade. "Unlike some people."
"Look at it this way, Jade," Yamaki added. "We're in the middle of
the control center. We'll be the first to know what's happening."
They were in Section 13's main bay, a cavernous, multi-story
room. Nearby was the pit where all the monitoring equipment
had been stalled.
"Plus we can all keep eye on Jade," Uncle told her smugly.
"Sir?" Miles called from the pit. Yamaki and Uncle turned to him.
"We have an update from Captain Black. Two Tamers and their
Digimon have shown up. They appear to be friends of Miss
Nonaka."
"Thank you, Miles," Yamaki acknowledged. "See, Jade?" He
turned back to address the girl. "We'll be able to see everything
that's going... Where'd she go?"
A set of vacant handcuffs dangled fromthe arm of an equally
empty chair.
"You not know Jade," Uncle sighed.
"Miles! We need to find Jade," Yamaki stated, turning back to the
control pit.
"She's disappeared again?" Miles asked. He activated the
intercom. "Security, Vault Check."
"Vault check?" Yamaki echoed in confusion.
"Jade is getting Talismans," Uncle told the secret agent.
"Talismans are in Vault."
"Hmm, yes, the Talismans," Yamaki said thoughtfully. "What can
you tell me about those Talismans, Mr. Chan? The reports are
somewhat vague, but they indicate that you're the expert."
Flattered, Uncle began talking about Talismans.
***
"NO!" Po Kong shouted.
As the giant Digimon turned towards her, Ruriko pulled another
arrow from her quiver. The bow and arrow set had been bought
from a local sporting goods store near Section 13. The bow was a
fiberglass compound bow with telescopic sights and holders for
spare arrows. Ruriko would have killed for something like it in her
youth.
The Gun AEGISmobile was parked on a low hill in Golden Gate
Park with the Gun raised. Before she had left Section 13, Yamaki
had given a terse explanation to Ruriko that the Big Gun had
Gate Engine technology built into it A Gatekeeper could power
the Gun without the other AEGISmobile. The problem was
finding a Gatekeeper. Ruriko had immediately volunteered
despite the objections of doctors and Uncle.
Standing in front of the muzzle, the Gun had not only augmented
Ruriko's first shot, it had imbued the arrow with it's anti-Digimon
energies in addition to what Ruriko had put into it. The surprise
hadn't hurt either. The results had been spectacular.
"You will die, mortal," Po Kong snarled as Ruriko nocked another
arrow. "AVALANCHE BLAST!" In an effect similar to Renamon's
Diamond Storm, a cloud of rocks materialized around Po Kong
and shot towards Ruriko. Each of the projectiles was as big as
Ruriko was.
Old reflexes came back in an instant. Ruriko dived to the ground
and attempted to become one with the hill side. As she did, a
stray thought bubbled up in her mind. Giant projectiles aimed at
her had become too much of a recurring theme in her life
lately.
***
"Grandma!" Ruriko shouted in horror as the other AEGISmobile
was pounded into junk. Had Grandma just woken up from her
coma just to be killed? Rika couldn't tell with the dust cloud
raised by the impacts.
A shining arrow shot out of cloud and exploded ineffectively
against Po Kong. Rika felt relief flood through her.
Out of the corner of her eye, Rika saw Jeri rush forward and drag
a dazed Ryo to the relative safety behind their Digimon. The
Digimon had formed a defensive perimeter, eyeing the
Monodramon milling around.
"Ryo! Are you okay?" Rika asked, concerned.
"Oh, yeah, just peachy," Ryo replied, still dazed. He could barely
stand up even with Jeri's help.
Po Kong launched a single, giant boulder in Grandma's general
direction. Before it reached the dispersing dust cloud, it stopped
dead in mid-air then evaporated into data bits. A single, solitary
figure was revealed.
Jade.
Po Kong launched several more boulders at Jade. Jade tried to
charge Po Kong, but stopping the boulders held her back. She
couldn't dodge without exposing Rika's grandmother to Po
Kong's attacks.
"Where'd all the Monodramon come from?" Rika prodded. There
was no telling how long Jade would hold Po Kong's attention.
"Uh, they're clones of my Monodramon," Ryo said, shaking his
head. He was getting steadier. "Po Kong...MassPoKongMon...
whatever-her-name-is still has my Monodramon in her hand." He
noticed Jade. "Whoa, who's that?"
"Never mind her," Rika replied testily. That wasn't jealousy she
was suddenly feeling. Really, it wasn't.
"Access denied?" Henry suddenly exclaimed in surprise. Rika
saw that he was trying to call up Po Kong's stats. "What...?"
Suddenly, Po Kong stopped shooting. Jade shot forward and hit
the giant Digimon like a tank shell in the gut. She bounced off,
slamming into the Monodramon clones and scattering them like
bowling pins. Po Kong just grunted.
"Got it!" Henry whooped. "MassPoKongMon, Ultimate Level. Look
out for..."
"Destroy them all!" Po Kong screeched, waving the Monodramon
in her hand and drowning Henry out. The Monodramon on the
ground suddenly swarmed towards them.
"All right guys, you heard what Ryo said," Takato said to everyone
as he pulled a Modify Card out. "The Monodramon on the ground
are just clones. OPEN FIRE!" He swiped the card through his
Digivice. "Digimodify, rapid fire activate!"
Henry pulled out a card of his own and swiped it through his
Digivice. Rika spotted a card sticking out of Ryo's back pocket.
Wonderful, Rika thought, everyone has Modify cards but me.
Her cards were back in Japan.
The Digimon cut loose. Taomon pulled an oversized paint brush
out of her capacious sleeve and literally painted destruction.
Growlmon vomited fireballs. Gargomon blasted away with his arm
guns. Monodramon clones began dying off in droves, but more
kept coming.
Rika caught a brief glimpse of Jade. The other girl had one of the
Monodromon clones by the tail. She swung him around like a
club, trying to keep the other clones away as they swarmed her.
Po Kong laughed at their plight.
"We're gonna have to digivolve some more," Takato judged. He
pulled out a homemade blue card.
"Guys, if you stop shooting long enough to Digivolve, the clones
will overrun us," Rika objected. "We're going to need...Jeri! What
are you doing?"
Unnoticed in the confusion, Jeri had walked to the zone between
Growlmon and Taomon. She was looking directly at Po Kong.
"You, fat lady!" Jeri shouted at Po Kong. "Give us our friend back!"
Po Kong looked down at Jeri. "You spoke, little morsel?" she
inquired, not quite believing this little girl had the audacity to
insult her.
"Yeah, I'm speaking to you," Jeri replied fearlessly, pointing at Po
Kong with her puppet hand. "You have our friend. Give him back
right now."
"Come get him," Po Kong rumbled, dangling the authentic
Monodramon between thumb and forefinger.
"Give us back Monodramon," Jeri demanded again.
"NOW!" the puppet added in emphasis as an orange Gate
suddenly manifested in front of it. The puppet practically leapt
off Jeri's hand and through the Gate. As it passed through the
Gate, the lion-like sock puppet took on the Gate's orange glow
and grew to Growlmon's size. It looked more like a real lion now,
too, complete with limbs.
The lion dashed over the attacking clones to Po Kong. It clamped
it's mouth on the demon's extended arm, completely engulfing
her hand...and the real Monodramon.
"Getitoff! Getitoff! GETITOFF!" Po Kong shouted frantically, waving
the bitten arm frantically. The lion held on stubbornly for several
seconds before Po Kong managed to toss it aside. She examined
her hand. It was intact, but there was no Monodramon.
Triumphantly, the lion bounded back to the Tamers. It padded
over to Ryo, then evaporated. Monodramon and a perfectly
ordinary sock puppet dropped to the ground. When Monodramon
hit the ground, Rika saw his clones all flinch.
"Did I do that?" Jeri asked faintly as the orange Gate vanished.
"All right!" Ryo cheered. "Time to kick some butt. Monodramon..."
"NO!" Rika, Henry, and Takato shouted simultaneously. They had
all drawn the same conclusion.
"...DIGIVOLVE!" Ryo finished.
Ryo's digimon had spent the majority of his existance at Ultimate
level, especially after bonding with Ryo. Thus, he was very
comfortable being there. It was no surprise that Monodramon
digivolved and became Cyberdramon. But the clones digivolved
right along with him.
There were still hundreds of them left.
"Bummer," Ryo commented, seeing the ranks of Cyberdramon.
Suddenly feeling dead tired, he sank to his knees.
The Cyberdramon clones charged.
by Nopporn Wongrassamee
Summary: Crossover between Digimon Tamers, Jackie Chan
Adventures, and Gatekeepers. It's the Attack of the
Monodramon!
Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. I'm just too lazy to
look up who they belong to.
"Renamon, MATRIX DIGIVOLVE!" Rika shouted quickly when she
saw the front ranks of Monodramon inhale. Given the situation,
having her partner skip past Champion level entirely seemed like
a good idea.
In the instant Renamon digivolved into Taomon, Rika indulged a
moment of longing that they couldn't biomerge. Rika had tried a
test biomerge back at Section 13 after the battle with the Invader
bowling ball and HyperHsiWuMon. Whatever the Sovereigns had
done had apparently worn off.
Taomon raised a protective dome around them and the
AEGISmobile just in time. Several hundred fireballs impacted on
the shield harmlessly. Rika idly wondered why dinosaur Digimon
always seemed to vomit some kind of fireball. There was
Guilmon, Monodramon, that little yellow guy from the TV show...
"You okay, Taomon?" Rika asked, coming back to the here and
now.
"I could do this all day," Taomon replied, her words punctuated
by the sound of fireballs hitting her shield like raindrops.
"Unfortunately, I don't think I can attack and keep you safe at
the same time. I'd have to drop the shield."
"I'll figure something out," Rika told her. " We don't want to hit
our Monodramon. Let's see what we're dealing with here..." She
looked at her Digivice and called up the stats for the two boss
Digimon that had captured Ryo. "Access denied? What's going on
here?"
First it was HyperHsiWuMon, now these two. At first, Rika thought
something might be wrong with her Digivice, but the stats scan
functioned worked perfectly fine for the Monodramon. It dawned
on Rika that these demons turn Digimon were deliberately
blocking her Digivice. And if they could do that, what else could
they do?
***
Exhausted, Jade opened her real, physical eyes. The first thing
she saw was an angry Uncle.
"Uh, hi, Uncle," she said nervously.
Uncle snatched the Sheep Talisman from her hand.
***
"Rika, we have another problem," Captain Black said as he
stepped out of the Aegismobile.
"What is it now?" Rika asked.
Captain Black just pointed. Rika's eyes followed his finger to the
two Digimon demons. Seeing that the Monodramon had basically
immobilized them, the two demons were heading out of the park
and into the city. They were leaving about two or three hundred
Monodramon to hold them in place while taking the rest with
them.
But they were wrong in one respect, thought Rika.
"Captain Black, break out that Big Gun of yours and hold on to
something," Rika told the agent. "We're moving."
"But..." Black began.
"Taomon!" Rika called to her partner. "Let's get in their way."
"Of course," Taomon agreed. Taomon's protective dome along
with everyone and thing in it suddenly shot up into the air. It flew
in a smooth arc to land squarely in front of the two demon
Digimon. The Monodramon tasked to harass them turned and
gave chase. They ran into the Monodramon following the
demons, resulting in mass confusion.
"Impressive," the froglike demon commented.
"Alright, Captain Black," Rika said as Taomon dropped her shield,
"use that Big Gun of yours and shoot those two!"
"Ah, Rika this isn't the AEGISmobile with the Gun," Black told her,
somewhat embarrased. "This is the AEGISmobile with the power
generator and capacitators."
"What?" Rika yelped.
"The Gun was in the middle of being serviced when this started,"
Black continued. "And we had alot of confidence in you and your
partner..."
For once, Rika was at a loss for words. Given the disparate power
level between her partner and the first demon Digimon she had
ever run into, Rika didn't have a whole lot of confidence she and
Taomon could handle two of them at once.
"Maybe not that impressive, brother," rumbled the obese demon
Digimon.
A Gate popped into existance between them and the demons.
Rika noticed that unlike her Grandma's golden colored Gate, this
one shined a bright violet. There was no one visible who might be
generating it.
Several familiar figures tumbled out of the Gate. They landed in
an untidy heap.
"What are you guys doing here?" Rika exclaimed, surprised. She
saw Takato, Guilmon, Henry, Terriermon, and... Jeri?
"Rika?" Takato said in surprise as he and the gang picked
themselves up. "This is a surprise. I thought Alice was going to
send Ryo."
"Hey, guys, turn around," Ryo called out.
They turned. They saw Ryo. They saw GaleXiaoFungMon towering
over them, holding Ryo. Next to him was MassPoKongMon, who
was even taller. They saw the mass of Monodramon behind those
two.
"Gah!" they screamed, backpeddling away.
"Guilmon, digivolve!" Takato cried.
"Terriermon, digivolve!" Henry said at the same time.
Their Digimon digivolved.
"Oh no," Rika moaned, seeing what they digivolved to.
Growlmon snarled menacingly at the two demons. Gargomon
whirled his gatlings menacingly. Of course, Rika realized, they
didn't have a clue what they were dealing with.
Rika suddenly wished she hadn't left the little guy at Section 13.
The froglike Digimon evaluated the newcomers. He openly
expressed his opinion of the opposition. He sniggered.
"Hey!" Takato exclaimed, insulted. "We're here to rescue Ryo. Let
him go or..."
"Or what?" the froglike Digimon finished. "Your Digimon will
attack?" He dangled Ryo between himself and his opponents.
"Yes, I'm sure they will all not hit this little mortal."
"Uh..." Takato said, realizing that it was very likely that a stray
shot would hit his fellow Tamer if the Digimon attacked.
"Xiao Fung, can we attack now?" the obese Digimon whined. "I'm
bored, and hungry, and..."
"My name is GaleXiaoFungMon, now," replied the other demon,
annoyed. "And MassPoKongMon, I actually like watching our
enemies make fools of themselves. It is very entertaining."
"Hey!" objected several Tamers.
"Sod your enterainment," MassPoKongMon replied. "And my
name is Po Kong, brother."
"Besides," GaleXiaoFungMon gloated, ignoring the replies, "it's
not as if they can truly harm us."
A shaft of light shining brighter than the sun came blazing in
from the side. It struck GaleXiaoFungMon on the left side of his
head. It almost exited his right. As the demon Digimon
disintegrated into bits of data, he dropped Ryo.
Everyone turned to see where the shot had come from.
"Grandma?" Rika whispered.
***
"Lemme go help them!" Jade pleaded.
"No," Uncle repeated firmly.
"But I can help," Jade pointed out.
"Jade does not have superpowers or spirit/demon partner," Uncle
objected.
"Digimon!" Calumon interjected. He was ignored.
"But with the Talismans..." Jade began again.
"Talismans are not yours," Uncle interupted. "When will you learn
this?"
"Okay, have it your way," Jade said, giving up. "But did you have
to handcuff me?" She held up her arm. One shackle of the
handcuffs in question neatly encircled the wrist. On the other
end of the chain, the shackle was locked around the arm of the
chair Jade was sitting in. The chair itself was bolted to the floor.
"I just do what I'm told," Yamaki joked.
"Yes, nice young man is respectful of Uncle," Uncle agreed. He
looked pointedly at Jade. "Unlike some people."
"Look at it this way, Jade," Yamaki added. "We're in the middle of
the control center. We'll be the first to know what's happening."
They were in Section 13's main bay, a cavernous, multi-story
room. Nearby was the pit where all the monitoring equipment
had been stalled.
"Plus we can all keep eye on Jade," Uncle told her smugly.
"Sir?" Miles called from the pit. Yamaki and Uncle turned to him.
"We have an update from Captain Black. Two Tamers and their
Digimon have shown up. They appear to be friends of Miss
Nonaka."
"Thank you, Miles," Yamaki acknowledged. "See, Jade?" He
turned back to address the girl. "We'll be able to see everything
that's going... Where'd she go?"
A set of vacant handcuffs dangled fromthe arm of an equally
empty chair.
"You not know Jade," Uncle sighed.
"Miles! We need to find Jade," Yamaki stated, turning back to the
control pit.
"She's disappeared again?" Miles asked. He activated the
intercom. "Security, Vault Check."
"Vault check?" Yamaki echoed in confusion.
"Jade is getting Talismans," Uncle told the secret agent.
"Talismans are in Vault."
"Hmm, yes, the Talismans," Yamaki said thoughtfully. "What can
you tell me about those Talismans, Mr. Chan? The reports are
somewhat vague, but they indicate that you're the expert."
Flattered, Uncle began talking about Talismans.
***
"NO!" Po Kong shouted.
As the giant Digimon turned towards her, Ruriko pulled another
arrow from her quiver. The bow and arrow set had been bought
from a local sporting goods store near Section 13. The bow was a
fiberglass compound bow with telescopic sights and holders for
spare arrows. Ruriko would have killed for something like it in her
youth.
The Gun AEGISmobile was parked on a low hill in Golden Gate
Park with the Gun raised. Before she had left Section 13, Yamaki
had given a terse explanation to Ruriko that the Big Gun had
Gate Engine technology built into it A Gatekeeper could power
the Gun without the other AEGISmobile. The problem was
finding a Gatekeeper. Ruriko had immediately volunteered
despite the objections of doctors and Uncle.
Standing in front of the muzzle, the Gun had not only augmented
Ruriko's first shot, it had imbued the arrow with it's anti-Digimon
energies in addition to what Ruriko had put into it. The surprise
hadn't hurt either. The results had been spectacular.
"You will die, mortal," Po Kong snarled as Ruriko nocked another
arrow. "AVALANCHE BLAST!" In an effect similar to Renamon's
Diamond Storm, a cloud of rocks materialized around Po Kong
and shot towards Ruriko. Each of the projectiles was as big as
Ruriko was.
Old reflexes came back in an instant. Ruriko dived to the ground
and attempted to become one with the hill side. As she did, a
stray thought bubbled up in her mind. Giant projectiles aimed at
her had become too much of a recurring theme in her life
lately.
***
"Grandma!" Ruriko shouted in horror as the other AEGISmobile
was pounded into junk. Had Grandma just woken up from her
coma just to be killed? Rika couldn't tell with the dust cloud
raised by the impacts.
A shining arrow shot out of cloud and exploded ineffectively
against Po Kong. Rika felt relief flood through her.
Out of the corner of her eye, Rika saw Jeri rush forward and drag
a dazed Ryo to the relative safety behind their Digimon. The
Digimon had formed a defensive perimeter, eyeing the
Monodramon milling around.
"Ryo! Are you okay?" Rika asked, concerned.
"Oh, yeah, just peachy," Ryo replied, still dazed. He could barely
stand up even with Jeri's help.
Po Kong launched a single, giant boulder in Grandma's general
direction. Before it reached the dispersing dust cloud, it stopped
dead in mid-air then evaporated into data bits. A single, solitary
figure was revealed.
Jade.
Po Kong launched several more boulders at Jade. Jade tried to
charge Po Kong, but stopping the boulders held her back. She
couldn't dodge without exposing Rika's grandmother to Po
Kong's attacks.
"Where'd all the Monodramon come from?" Rika prodded. There
was no telling how long Jade would hold Po Kong's attention.
"Uh, they're clones of my Monodramon," Ryo said, shaking his
head. He was getting steadier. "Po Kong...MassPoKongMon...
whatever-her-name-is still has my Monodramon in her hand." He
noticed Jade. "Whoa, who's that?"
"Never mind her," Rika replied testily. That wasn't jealousy she
was suddenly feeling. Really, it wasn't.
"Access denied?" Henry suddenly exclaimed in surprise. Rika
saw that he was trying to call up Po Kong's stats. "What...?"
Suddenly, Po Kong stopped shooting. Jade shot forward and hit
the giant Digimon like a tank shell in the gut. She bounced off,
slamming into the Monodramon clones and scattering them like
bowling pins. Po Kong just grunted.
"Got it!" Henry whooped. "MassPoKongMon, Ultimate Level. Look
out for..."
"Destroy them all!" Po Kong screeched, waving the Monodramon
in her hand and drowning Henry out. The Monodramon on the
ground suddenly swarmed towards them.
"All right guys, you heard what Ryo said," Takato said to everyone
as he pulled a Modify Card out. "The Monodramon on the ground
are just clones. OPEN FIRE!" He swiped the card through his
Digivice. "Digimodify, rapid fire activate!"
Henry pulled out a card of his own and swiped it through his
Digivice. Rika spotted a card sticking out of Ryo's back pocket.
Wonderful, Rika thought, everyone has Modify cards but me.
Her cards were back in Japan.
The Digimon cut loose. Taomon pulled an oversized paint brush
out of her capacious sleeve and literally painted destruction.
Growlmon vomited fireballs. Gargomon blasted away with his arm
guns. Monodramon clones began dying off in droves, but more
kept coming.
Rika caught a brief glimpse of Jade. The other girl had one of the
Monodromon clones by the tail. She swung him around like a
club, trying to keep the other clones away as they swarmed her.
Po Kong laughed at their plight.
"We're gonna have to digivolve some more," Takato judged. He
pulled out a homemade blue card.
"Guys, if you stop shooting long enough to Digivolve, the clones
will overrun us," Rika objected. "We're going to need...Jeri! What
are you doing?"
Unnoticed in the confusion, Jeri had walked to the zone between
Growlmon and Taomon. She was looking directly at Po Kong.
"You, fat lady!" Jeri shouted at Po Kong. "Give us our friend back!"
Po Kong looked down at Jeri. "You spoke, little morsel?" she
inquired, not quite believing this little girl had the audacity to
insult her.
"Yeah, I'm speaking to you," Jeri replied fearlessly, pointing at Po
Kong with her puppet hand. "You have our friend. Give him back
right now."
"Come get him," Po Kong rumbled, dangling the authentic
Monodramon between thumb and forefinger.
"Give us back Monodramon," Jeri demanded again.
"NOW!" the puppet added in emphasis as an orange Gate
suddenly manifested in front of it. The puppet practically leapt
off Jeri's hand and through the Gate. As it passed through the
Gate, the lion-like sock puppet took on the Gate's orange glow
and grew to Growlmon's size. It looked more like a real lion now,
too, complete with limbs.
The lion dashed over the attacking clones to Po Kong. It clamped
it's mouth on the demon's extended arm, completely engulfing
her hand...and the real Monodramon.
"Getitoff! Getitoff! GETITOFF!" Po Kong shouted frantically, waving
the bitten arm frantically. The lion held on stubbornly for several
seconds before Po Kong managed to toss it aside. She examined
her hand. It was intact, but there was no Monodramon.
Triumphantly, the lion bounded back to the Tamers. It padded
over to Ryo, then evaporated. Monodramon and a perfectly
ordinary sock puppet dropped to the ground. When Monodramon
hit the ground, Rika saw his clones all flinch.
"Did I do that?" Jeri asked faintly as the orange Gate vanished.
"All right!" Ryo cheered. "Time to kick some butt. Monodramon..."
"NO!" Rika, Henry, and Takato shouted simultaneously. They had
all drawn the same conclusion.
"...DIGIVOLVE!" Ryo finished.
Ryo's digimon had spent the majority of his existance at Ultimate
level, especially after bonding with Ryo. Thus, he was very
comfortable being there. It was no surprise that Monodramon
digivolved and became Cyberdramon. But the clones digivolved
right along with him.
There were still hundreds of them left.
"Bummer," Ryo commented, seeing the ranks of Cyberdramon.
Suddenly feeling dead tired, he sank to his knees.
The Cyberdramon clones charged.