Digital Demons IV - Part 4
by Nopporn Wongrassamee
Summary - A Digimon Tamers/Jackie Chan Adventures/ Gatekeepers
crossover.
Disclaimer - None of these characters are mine, nor am I making a
profit here.
The humans and their Digimon were frozen in shock.
Impmon was the first to recover. "Not again..." he whispered. Then
with a roar, "NOT AGAIN!" He launched himself at QuakeDaiGuiMon.
Shouting epithets, he rained ineffective punches upon the demon's
nose.
Kazu had a sudden flashback to Impmon doing the something
similar once to a Deva. But there were a few differences here. One was
that Impmon's Tamers were present.
"Get 'im, Impmon!" Ai shouted.
"Knock his lights outs!" Mako added.
The second difference was that Impmon digivolved in mid swing. In the
blink of an eye, QuakeDaiGuiMon's chin met Beelzemon's fist. The
Demon Sorcerer went flying. Without even pausing, Beelzemon pulled
out his shotgun and fired at ElectroTchangZuMon.
"EM SHIELD!" In an instant, the blue Demon Sorcerer raised a force
field. Both of Beelzemon's bullets were stopped cold before they
reached their target. ElectroTchangZuMon shot back. "THUNDER
STRIKE!"
"Aw, crud..." Beelzemon murmured right before he was hit. The bolt of
lightning sent him reeling backwards.
"And now for you," ElectroTchangZuMon said, turning to the humans.
"THUNDER STRIKE!"
"No!" Alice cried, leaping in front of everyone else. She opened her
Gate, and ElectroTchangZuMon's thunderbolt vanished into it.
"Impressive," ElectroTchangZuMon commented. "But ultimately futile."
He raised both hands above his head. "THUNDER STO..."
Before he could finish, Beelzemon flew back into the fray, tackling the
demon. As they struggled hand to hand, QuakeDaiGuiMon chose that
moment to show back up. Bursting up from the ground, he brought
both fists down on Beelzemon's back.
"Alice! You have to get us all out of here, now!" Shibumi shouted to be
heard over the noise of the battle.
"What?" Kazu objected as he helped a quivering Kenta to his feet. The
other boy seemed oblivious to his surroundings. "We can't leave
Beelzemon behind! We gotta help him."
"Yeah!" Ai and Mako agreed, then winced as they both felt Beelzemon
take another hard blow.
"We are NOT losing another friend," Alice said firmly.
"We gotta do something!" Suzie exclaimed. "What do we do, Mistah
Shibumi?"
Looking at the set faces of the kids and then to the battle where
Beelzemon was getting the worse of the exchange, Shibumi's mind
raced. He came to a decision. He opened his briefcase and extracted
two red cards.
"Alice! Open the Gate back to our world," Shibumi ordered. "Set the
destination for the rest of the Tamers. We're going to need their help."
"Right! Whatshisname with the goggles," Alice nodded, and opened a
Gate big enough for Beelzemon to walk through upright.
"You two!" Shibumi shoved a red card each into Suzie's and Kazu's
hands. He took Kenta from Kazu's care. "Use these then go get your
friend. Fight only as much as you have to then follow us as fast as you
can."
"What do these do?" Kazu asked, puzzled.
Suzie didn't wait. Before Shibumi could answer Kazu, she swiped the
card through her own digivice. The effect was instantaneous.
"Lopmon, biomerge to..." Lopmon cried as she and Suzie began to glow
simultaneously. Enveloped by light, they merged. The light faded to
reveal a roughly twelve foot tall pink and white bunnylike figure with
oversized, winglike hands and a sunburst collar. The new Mega rose
into the air. "...CHERUBIMON!"
"Huh, cool," Kazu commented. He swiped his own card.
"Guardromon, biomerge to..." In a similar flash of incandescent light,
Tamer and Digimon merged, turning into a black armored humaoid
just slightly shorter than Cherubimon. It was hard to tell since he/they
remained on the ground. His/their most notable feature were the
mismatched shoulder pauldrons. The left was red, the other blue.
"...HighAndromon!"
"Alright!' HighAndromon cheered. "Time to kick some Demon Sorcerer
butt! ATOMIC RAY!" He charged into the fray after his own shot.
"No, remember what I..." Shibumi stopped himself. He turned to
Cherubimon. "Suzie! Get those two and follow as fast as you can."
"Aw wight," Cherubimon replied doublevoiced. She/they charged into
the fight as well.
"Okay, we can't do anymore," Shibumi thought aloud. He began
herding the remaining kids through the Gate. "Allright, everyone, let's
go!"
"But..." Ai began to protest.
"No buts. Go!" With that, Shibumi shoved Ai, Mako, and Kenta through
the Gate. He turned to Alice. "Alice, I'm counting on you. I need you to
close the Gate after our friends but before the Demon Sorcerers can
follow. Can you do that?"
"You can count on me!" Alice replied, resolute.
***
"...I just wanted to pay everyone back for all the help you gave me,"
Ultimon told the team morosely. He sat on the crushed air conditioner,
pouring his digital heart out. "You were all so nice to me and all. I
thought I could help too."
"There there," Ruriko said soothingly, gently patting him on the back.
She sat next to him.
"When I read those comic books I thought that was the perfect way to
go about helping people," Ultimon continued. "There was never any
mention there..."
"How long as he been going on?" Rika asked Jade quietly.
Jade glanced at her watch. "Um, ten minutes I think," she whispered
back.
"...so anyway, nobody said anything. I thought I was doing a great job
and what's that?" Ultimon raised a finger and pointed. Everyone turned
to look at Takato.
"What?" Takato said defensively. "Why's everyone looking at me like
that?"
"Uh, Takato, behind you," Henry informed him.
Takato turned around and saw a Gate almost twenty feet across was
open behind him. He backed away from it to get a better view. The
concentric rings were glowing white. There was no one visible who
might be generating the Gate.
Ruriko was suddenly on her feet, bow in hand. Ultimon followed suit
and stood up beside her. "Jeri? That's not you is it?" Ruriko asked.
"No..." Jeri replied slowly. "I think it might be... Alice."
"The girl who sent you here?" Ruriko asked. Jeri nodded. Several
seconds passed, but the Gate just hung there.
"Um, isn't someone going to come through?" Jade asked finally. As if in
reply, two little kids came stumbling through. They seemed distressed.
"Ai? Mako?" Rika identified them. She went down on a knee in front of
them. "What are you two doing here?"
Before they came through, an older boy came through. "Kenta?" Takato
said, catching his friend. He seemed unresponsive. "Hey, what's the
matter? Kenta?"
"Gone," Kenta mumbled. "He's gone."
"What..." Takato began to ask.
He was interupted when Shibumi stepped through. "Heads up, people!
We may have univited Demon Sorcerers at any moment," he informed
everyone without preamble.
"Mr. Shibumi, what's going on?" Takato demanded.
"Short version: Alice is holding the Gate open so that Cherubimon and
HighAndromon can get Beelzemon away from two of the Demon
Sorcerers," Shibumi summarized quickly.
"Hey, you forgot to mention that they hurt his partner!" Ai objected,
pointing at Kenta.
"WHAT?" everyone exclaimed.
Before anyone could elaborate, Alice stepped through the Gate.
"Incoming!" she shouted in warning, diving aside. Moments later, a
tangled ball made up of Beelzemon, Cherubimon, HighAndromon,
QuakeDaiGuiMon, and ElectroTchangZuMon came tumbling through.
Amazingly enough, they failed to run over anyone before they rolled
over the rooftop's edge and hit the street with a dull boom. Moments
later, Cherubimon flew up out of the mellee and set down next to
Shibumi as Alice closed her Gate.
"We did as you said, Mistah Shibumi," Cherubimon said happily with a
double voice. "We got them thwough."
"But you weren't supposed to bring the Demon Sorcerers along,"
Shibumi moaned.
"Um, oops?" Cherubimon spotted Henry and waved an oversized hand.
"Hi, Henwy!"
"Suzie?" Henry choked a reply.
***
With a final blast, ElectroTchangZuMon knocked Beelzemon down for
the last time. Spent, the Digimon changed back into Impmon. Before
he could finish the little Digimon off, however, a new distraction
presented itself.
"HOWY HUG!" Cherubimon wrapper her/their arms around the Demon
Sorcerer from behind, bathing him with arcane energies. Grunting in
pain, ElectroTchangZuMon flipped Cherubimon over his shoulder and
slammed her/them into the street.
"MAGIC MISSILE!" Several projectiles peppered his back. Turning,
ElectroTchangZuMon spotted a little Digimon in a funny hat.
"Was that supposed to hurt?" he snarled as he held down a struggling
Cherubimon.
"No, that was supposed to get your attention," Ozmon replied. "This is
supposed to hurt. METEOR!"
***
Getting a good grip on HighAndromon, QuakeDaiGuiMon threw him
head first into the pavement, knocking him out. Before he could follow
up, a flying human girl appeared in front of him and raised a hand.
There was a Talsiman in it. Reflexively, QuakeDaiGuiMon swatted the
human aside, sending her through a nearby building. Belatedly, he
realized that the girl was one of the accursed Chans.
"HOLD, FIEND!"
QuakeDaiGuiMon turned to see a purple and white humanoid Digimon
floating right in front of him. There was something...
"I AM ULTIMON! PROTECTOR OF THE WEAK! DOER OF GOOD!" the
Digimon proclaimed at an annoying volume. "YOU SHALL DO NO MORE
HARM HERE, VILLAIN! I, ULTTIMON SHALL STAND IN YOUR..."
"Oh, shut up, you annoying grub," QuakeDaiGuiMon growled, grabbing
Ultimon with one hand and drawing him close. "You will now die, you...
you..." QuakeDaiGuiMon did a double take. "You are the Catalyst!"
"I STILL STAND IN YOUR WAY!" Ultimon declared as he struggled to
break QuakeDaiGuiMon's grip. Ultimon was very strong; he almost
managed it.
"Digivolve me, little Catalyst," QuakeDaiGuiMon ordered. "Digivolve me
to Mega!"
"NEVER!"
Something exploded on the side of QuakeDaiGuiMon's head. It itched.
Turning, he saw a human woman with a bow in hand and Gate open
on a nearby rooftop. Several children were with her plus a couple of
low level Digimon. Behind them was the Immortal Shibumi.
"Allright, Guilmon," a child with goggles said to a red Digimon, "DIGI..."
"STONE HAND!" QuakeDaiGuiMon roared, not waiting to see what
annoying tricks these humans were going to come up with next. The
rooftop went fluid, morphing up hands to envelop the humans on the
rooftop. In moments they were securely bound.
"NO!" Ultimon cried. "DON'T HURT THEM!"
"Eh? Are these friends of yours?" QuakeDaiGuiMon asked, his interest
piqued. "Then digivolve me and I will consider your... request."
"No!" Jade cried as she came zooming back. "Don't do it!"
"Then perhaps I should crush them as I did to this little pink Mega
Digimon?"
"I... I..." Ultimon stammered, looking for a way out. He slumped in
defeat "ALRIGHT, I'LL... DO IT."
Jade was silent, looking for a way to rescue her friends before Ultimon
was forced to digivolve the demon. She could see anyway.
"I'M SORRY," Ultimon told Jade. "SHINING DIGIVOLUTION!" The red
triangles on his head and chest began to glow, generating a beam of
light.
"Yes! The power... QuakeDaiGuiMon, digivolve to..." his captor began,
feeling the power suffuse him. Before, during the battle with the
D-Reaper, the Demon Sorcerers had only been touched by a fraction of
the power that he was now recieveing. Then, it had only been on the
surface. Now, it seeped into every part of his digital body, making it
grow in size. The power also filtered deep down, touching his
nondigital core, the part that was eternally Dai Gui, Earth Demon.
"AARRGGHH!!! Good Magic! STOP!"
Ultimon stopped.
"No! Don't stop!" Jade countered, realizing quickly what was going on
from the demon's comment. "Ultimon, hit him with everything you've
got!"
"Stop. Start. Make up your minds," Ultimon grumbled. "SHINING
DIGIVOLUTION!"
Dai Gui screamed in pain even as he grew some more. Opposites met
and annihilated each other as Ultimon's energies touched his spirit
core. And Ultimon had more energy that Dai Gui did spirit. Without the
spirit to give it form, Dai Gui's digital body just fell apart.
"Brother?" Nearby, ElectroTchangZuMon paused in trying to swat the
irritatingly elusive Ozmon. The little Digimon had a surprising number
of spells tucked away. Between being fast and those spells, Ozmon
had been impossible to hit. Every counterspell ElectroTchangZuMon
tried was met by two more spells he had never seen before. He couldn't
try anything more sophisticated while holding down Cherubimon.
But ElectroTchangZuMon forgot all about that when he saw Dai Gui
explode into data bits. With an inarticulate roar, the remaining Demon
Sorcerer hit Ultimon with a full power thunder bolt.
***
Rika hit the rooftop as it let them all go and returned to being an
ordinary rooftop. So did the others. They seemed stunned. Looking up,
Rika just saw an irate Demon Sorcerer shoot Ultimon. She hoped her
friend had survived.
"Renamon?" Rika called. She pulled out her armor digivolve card. She
almost prayed for it to work right now. If Mega level Digimon couldn't
stop these Sorcerer guys, then this might be their only hope.
"I'm here, Rika," Renamon replied, appearing at Rika's side.
"It's payback time," Rika snarled. If what the kids had said about
Kenta's partner was true, then it was payback time. Rika swiped the
card through her digivice. Renamon was immediately engulfed in light.
"Renamon, Armor Digivolve to..." Rika's partner stood up straighter. She
aquired golden armor, turning into a cross between her Renamon and
Sakuyamon forms. She retained the long purple gloves, but had five
fingers on each hand now. Her legs wire straighter, more human like,
but sheahed in segmented gold armor. She retained the angular fox
head and yellow fur while growing white hair. She aquired a golden
breast plate with black body stocking underneath. In her hand, a spear
appeared, a Japanese naginata to be exact. She also still had the tail.
"...SHIMON!"
"Alright, Shimon," Rika said. "Let's see how good my design skills really
are." She pointed at ElectroTchangZuMon who was being harrassed by
Ozmon and Jade. "Walk all over him," she said coldly.
"Consider it done," Shimon replied. Leaping onto the ledge, she sighted
down her naginata like it was a rifle. "SNIPER SHOT!"
"EM SHIELD!" ElectroTchangZuMon countered, spotting Shimon. His
shield went up in time just as Shimon's shot struck it. But this was no
ordinary Digimon attack.
Rika had designed Shimon with one purpose and one purpose only:
kill a Demon Sorcerer no matter what kind of defenses it had. Those
defenses, Rika knew, were extremely tough. Armor. Shields. Force
fields. Every Digimon in existance had attacks that wore away at those
defenses, smashed them down. No other Digimon had attacks that
did not follow this pattern.
Until now.
Reading up on modern weapons, Rika had paid particularly close
attention to the methods used to defeat armor. One thing became
clear. Those methods revolved around concentrating as much energy
as possible into as small a spot as possible. Rika had designed Shimon
around a single attack, packing as much spare energy into that attack
as she could. That attack was designed to penetrate at least three
layers of any kind of defense.
Shimon's shot hit ElectroTchangZuMon's shield. A relatively "soft" outer
layer of energy plastered itself on a tiny area of his shield, weakening
it enough that the rest of the digital bolt penetrated without slowing
down. It struck his armor and exploded, inverted actually, punching
a tiny hole through which the shot's core was accelerated even further.
That core was a needle with an energy density bordering just short of a
black hole's. It's passage generated a shockwave that was might have
been mortally damaging. But that was an afterthought. When the
needle hit the back armor, it didn't penetrate. It exploded.
There was alot of energy in that needle and nothing blocking it.
***
HighAndromon sat up suddenly as consciousness returned. "Where are
they? Let me at 'em!" he exclaimed.
"Relax, Kazu," a middle aged woman told him/them. She had a some
kind of bow. "It's all over." She frowned. "It is Kazu in there, right?"
"Um, yes?" HighAndromon replied, single voiced. "Who are you, lady?"
"Rika's grandmother," she replied. "I believe you know her?"
"Oh, yeah," HighAndromon confirmed. "We're like this." He/they made a
valiant attempt at crossing his/their fingers, but the hand wasn't
apparenty designed to do such an unnatural act.
"Hmm, yes," Ruriko said doubtfully. "C'mon. Let's get you inside before
the press arrives."
"Too late for that," HighAndromon said, pointing to an approaching
woman with a microphone in hand and a cameraman in tow.
"So much for secrecy," Ruriko sighed.
"Excuse me!" the reporter hailed. "Lisa Knowles, WSPI news. There have
been reports of some kind of battle between giant monsters here. Were
you involved in that, ma'am?" She glanced up at HighAndromon. "Wow!
Is this a Digimon?"
"Uh, well, that is..." Ruriko stammered, trying to come up with a decent
explanation that didn't involve giving away the new AEGIS. Trying to
cover up the Digimon seemed to be a lost cause.
"GREETINGS, CITIZENS!" Ultimon boomed as he landed between
Ruriko and the reporter. He actually managed to land without adding to
the street damage.
"You must be the new superhero, Ultiman," Lisa said, suppressing
excitement in the name of professionalism. "Can you tell us what
happened here."
"YES! A NEW LEAGUE OF SUPERHEROES HAS FORMED TO COMBAT
SUPERVILLAINS AND THREATS TO HUMANITY EVERYWHERE!" Ulimon
announced. "TODAY, A GREAT THREAT HAS BEEN AVERTED, THE CITY
SAVED! BUT THERE ARE OTHER THREATS OUT THERE AND WE SHALL
NOT REST UNTIL WE MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FROM THESE SUPER
VILLAINS! LET EVIL BEWARE US! FOR WE ARE..."
Ruriko tried to make shushing gestures behind the reporters backs.
"...THE INTERCEPTORS!!!"
"Cool," HighAndromon commented.
by Nopporn Wongrassamee
Summary - A Digimon Tamers/Jackie Chan Adventures/ Gatekeepers
crossover.
Disclaimer - None of these characters are mine, nor am I making a
profit here.
The humans and their Digimon were frozen in shock.
Impmon was the first to recover. "Not again..." he whispered. Then
with a roar, "NOT AGAIN!" He launched himself at QuakeDaiGuiMon.
Shouting epithets, he rained ineffective punches upon the demon's
nose.
Kazu had a sudden flashback to Impmon doing the something
similar once to a Deva. But there were a few differences here. One was
that Impmon's Tamers were present.
"Get 'im, Impmon!" Ai shouted.
"Knock his lights outs!" Mako added.
The second difference was that Impmon digivolved in mid swing. In the
blink of an eye, QuakeDaiGuiMon's chin met Beelzemon's fist. The
Demon Sorcerer went flying. Without even pausing, Beelzemon pulled
out his shotgun and fired at ElectroTchangZuMon.
"EM SHIELD!" In an instant, the blue Demon Sorcerer raised a force
field. Both of Beelzemon's bullets were stopped cold before they
reached their target. ElectroTchangZuMon shot back. "THUNDER
STRIKE!"
"Aw, crud..." Beelzemon murmured right before he was hit. The bolt of
lightning sent him reeling backwards.
"And now for you," ElectroTchangZuMon said, turning to the humans.
"THUNDER STRIKE!"
"No!" Alice cried, leaping in front of everyone else. She opened her
Gate, and ElectroTchangZuMon's thunderbolt vanished into it.
"Impressive," ElectroTchangZuMon commented. "But ultimately futile."
He raised both hands above his head. "THUNDER STO..."
Before he could finish, Beelzemon flew back into the fray, tackling the
demon. As they struggled hand to hand, QuakeDaiGuiMon chose that
moment to show back up. Bursting up from the ground, he brought
both fists down on Beelzemon's back.
"Alice! You have to get us all out of here, now!" Shibumi shouted to be
heard over the noise of the battle.
"What?" Kazu objected as he helped a quivering Kenta to his feet. The
other boy seemed oblivious to his surroundings. "We can't leave
Beelzemon behind! We gotta help him."
"Yeah!" Ai and Mako agreed, then winced as they both felt Beelzemon
take another hard blow.
"We are NOT losing another friend," Alice said firmly.
"We gotta do something!" Suzie exclaimed. "What do we do, Mistah
Shibumi?"
Looking at the set faces of the kids and then to the battle where
Beelzemon was getting the worse of the exchange, Shibumi's mind
raced. He came to a decision. He opened his briefcase and extracted
two red cards.
"Alice! Open the Gate back to our world," Shibumi ordered. "Set the
destination for the rest of the Tamers. We're going to need their help."
"Right! Whatshisname with the goggles," Alice nodded, and opened a
Gate big enough for Beelzemon to walk through upright.
"You two!" Shibumi shoved a red card each into Suzie's and Kazu's
hands. He took Kenta from Kazu's care. "Use these then go get your
friend. Fight only as much as you have to then follow us as fast as you
can."
"What do these do?" Kazu asked, puzzled.
Suzie didn't wait. Before Shibumi could answer Kazu, she swiped the
card through her own digivice. The effect was instantaneous.
"Lopmon, biomerge to..." Lopmon cried as she and Suzie began to glow
simultaneously. Enveloped by light, they merged. The light faded to
reveal a roughly twelve foot tall pink and white bunnylike figure with
oversized, winglike hands and a sunburst collar. The new Mega rose
into the air. "...CHERUBIMON!"
"Huh, cool," Kazu commented. He swiped his own card.
"Guardromon, biomerge to..." In a similar flash of incandescent light,
Tamer and Digimon merged, turning into a black armored humaoid
just slightly shorter than Cherubimon. It was hard to tell since he/they
remained on the ground. His/their most notable feature were the
mismatched shoulder pauldrons. The left was red, the other blue.
"...HighAndromon!"
"Alright!' HighAndromon cheered. "Time to kick some Demon Sorcerer
butt! ATOMIC RAY!" He charged into the fray after his own shot.
"No, remember what I..." Shibumi stopped himself. He turned to
Cherubimon. "Suzie! Get those two and follow as fast as you can."
"Aw wight," Cherubimon replied doublevoiced. She/they charged into
the fight as well.
"Okay, we can't do anymore," Shibumi thought aloud. He began
herding the remaining kids through the Gate. "Allright, everyone, let's
go!"
"But..." Ai began to protest.
"No buts. Go!" With that, Shibumi shoved Ai, Mako, and Kenta through
the Gate. He turned to Alice. "Alice, I'm counting on you. I need you to
close the Gate after our friends but before the Demon Sorcerers can
follow. Can you do that?"
"You can count on me!" Alice replied, resolute.
***
"...I just wanted to pay everyone back for all the help you gave me,"
Ultimon told the team morosely. He sat on the crushed air conditioner,
pouring his digital heart out. "You were all so nice to me and all. I
thought I could help too."
"There there," Ruriko said soothingly, gently patting him on the back.
She sat next to him.
"When I read those comic books I thought that was the perfect way to
go about helping people," Ultimon continued. "There was never any
mention there..."
"How long as he been going on?" Rika asked Jade quietly.
Jade glanced at her watch. "Um, ten minutes I think," she whispered
back.
"...so anyway, nobody said anything. I thought I was doing a great job
and what's that?" Ultimon raised a finger and pointed. Everyone turned
to look at Takato.
"What?" Takato said defensively. "Why's everyone looking at me like
that?"
"Uh, Takato, behind you," Henry informed him.
Takato turned around and saw a Gate almost twenty feet across was
open behind him. He backed away from it to get a better view. The
concentric rings were glowing white. There was no one visible who
might be generating the Gate.
Ruriko was suddenly on her feet, bow in hand. Ultimon followed suit
and stood up beside her. "Jeri? That's not you is it?" Ruriko asked.
"No..." Jeri replied slowly. "I think it might be... Alice."
"The girl who sent you here?" Ruriko asked. Jeri nodded. Several
seconds passed, but the Gate just hung there.
"Um, isn't someone going to come through?" Jade asked finally. As if in
reply, two little kids came stumbling through. They seemed distressed.
"Ai? Mako?" Rika identified them. She went down on a knee in front of
them. "What are you two doing here?"
Before they came through, an older boy came through. "Kenta?" Takato
said, catching his friend. He seemed unresponsive. "Hey, what's the
matter? Kenta?"
"Gone," Kenta mumbled. "He's gone."
"What..." Takato began to ask.
He was interupted when Shibumi stepped through. "Heads up, people!
We may have univited Demon Sorcerers at any moment," he informed
everyone without preamble.
"Mr. Shibumi, what's going on?" Takato demanded.
"Short version: Alice is holding the Gate open so that Cherubimon and
HighAndromon can get Beelzemon away from two of the Demon
Sorcerers," Shibumi summarized quickly.
"Hey, you forgot to mention that they hurt his partner!" Ai objected,
pointing at Kenta.
"WHAT?" everyone exclaimed.
Before anyone could elaborate, Alice stepped through the Gate.
"Incoming!" she shouted in warning, diving aside. Moments later, a
tangled ball made up of Beelzemon, Cherubimon, HighAndromon,
QuakeDaiGuiMon, and ElectroTchangZuMon came tumbling through.
Amazingly enough, they failed to run over anyone before they rolled
over the rooftop's edge and hit the street with a dull boom. Moments
later, Cherubimon flew up out of the mellee and set down next to
Shibumi as Alice closed her Gate.
"We did as you said, Mistah Shibumi," Cherubimon said happily with a
double voice. "We got them thwough."
"But you weren't supposed to bring the Demon Sorcerers along,"
Shibumi moaned.
"Um, oops?" Cherubimon spotted Henry and waved an oversized hand.
"Hi, Henwy!"
"Suzie?" Henry choked a reply.
***
With a final blast, ElectroTchangZuMon knocked Beelzemon down for
the last time. Spent, the Digimon changed back into Impmon. Before
he could finish the little Digimon off, however, a new distraction
presented itself.
"HOWY HUG!" Cherubimon wrapper her/their arms around the Demon
Sorcerer from behind, bathing him with arcane energies. Grunting in
pain, ElectroTchangZuMon flipped Cherubimon over his shoulder and
slammed her/them into the street.
"MAGIC MISSILE!" Several projectiles peppered his back. Turning,
ElectroTchangZuMon spotted a little Digimon in a funny hat.
"Was that supposed to hurt?" he snarled as he held down a struggling
Cherubimon.
"No, that was supposed to get your attention," Ozmon replied. "This is
supposed to hurt. METEOR!"
***
Getting a good grip on HighAndromon, QuakeDaiGuiMon threw him
head first into the pavement, knocking him out. Before he could follow
up, a flying human girl appeared in front of him and raised a hand.
There was a Talsiman in it. Reflexively, QuakeDaiGuiMon swatted the
human aside, sending her through a nearby building. Belatedly, he
realized that the girl was one of the accursed Chans.
"HOLD, FIEND!"
QuakeDaiGuiMon turned to see a purple and white humanoid Digimon
floating right in front of him. There was something...
"I AM ULTIMON! PROTECTOR OF THE WEAK! DOER OF GOOD!" the
Digimon proclaimed at an annoying volume. "YOU SHALL DO NO MORE
HARM HERE, VILLAIN! I, ULTTIMON SHALL STAND IN YOUR..."
"Oh, shut up, you annoying grub," QuakeDaiGuiMon growled, grabbing
Ultimon with one hand and drawing him close. "You will now die, you...
you..." QuakeDaiGuiMon did a double take. "You are the Catalyst!"
"I STILL STAND IN YOUR WAY!" Ultimon declared as he struggled to
break QuakeDaiGuiMon's grip. Ultimon was very strong; he almost
managed it.
"Digivolve me, little Catalyst," QuakeDaiGuiMon ordered. "Digivolve me
to Mega!"
"NEVER!"
Something exploded on the side of QuakeDaiGuiMon's head. It itched.
Turning, he saw a human woman with a bow in hand and Gate open
on a nearby rooftop. Several children were with her plus a couple of
low level Digimon. Behind them was the Immortal Shibumi.
"Allright, Guilmon," a child with goggles said to a red Digimon, "DIGI..."
"STONE HAND!" QuakeDaiGuiMon roared, not waiting to see what
annoying tricks these humans were going to come up with next. The
rooftop went fluid, morphing up hands to envelop the humans on the
rooftop. In moments they were securely bound.
"NO!" Ultimon cried. "DON'T HURT THEM!"
"Eh? Are these friends of yours?" QuakeDaiGuiMon asked, his interest
piqued. "Then digivolve me and I will consider your... request."
"No!" Jade cried as she came zooming back. "Don't do it!"
"Then perhaps I should crush them as I did to this little pink Mega
Digimon?"
"I... I..." Ultimon stammered, looking for a way out. He slumped in
defeat "ALRIGHT, I'LL... DO IT."
Jade was silent, looking for a way to rescue her friends before Ultimon
was forced to digivolve the demon. She could see anyway.
"I'M SORRY," Ultimon told Jade. "SHINING DIGIVOLUTION!" The red
triangles on his head and chest began to glow, generating a beam of
light.
"Yes! The power... QuakeDaiGuiMon, digivolve to..." his captor began,
feeling the power suffuse him. Before, during the battle with the
D-Reaper, the Demon Sorcerers had only been touched by a fraction of
the power that he was now recieveing. Then, it had only been on the
surface. Now, it seeped into every part of his digital body, making it
grow in size. The power also filtered deep down, touching his
nondigital core, the part that was eternally Dai Gui, Earth Demon.
"AARRGGHH!!! Good Magic! STOP!"
Ultimon stopped.
"No! Don't stop!" Jade countered, realizing quickly what was going on
from the demon's comment. "Ultimon, hit him with everything you've
got!"
"Stop. Start. Make up your minds," Ultimon grumbled. "SHINING
DIGIVOLUTION!"
Dai Gui screamed in pain even as he grew some more. Opposites met
and annihilated each other as Ultimon's energies touched his spirit
core. And Ultimon had more energy that Dai Gui did spirit. Without the
spirit to give it form, Dai Gui's digital body just fell apart.
"Brother?" Nearby, ElectroTchangZuMon paused in trying to swat the
irritatingly elusive Ozmon. The little Digimon had a surprising number
of spells tucked away. Between being fast and those spells, Ozmon
had been impossible to hit. Every counterspell ElectroTchangZuMon
tried was met by two more spells he had never seen before. He couldn't
try anything more sophisticated while holding down Cherubimon.
But ElectroTchangZuMon forgot all about that when he saw Dai Gui
explode into data bits. With an inarticulate roar, the remaining Demon
Sorcerer hit Ultimon with a full power thunder bolt.
***
Rika hit the rooftop as it let them all go and returned to being an
ordinary rooftop. So did the others. They seemed stunned. Looking up,
Rika just saw an irate Demon Sorcerer shoot Ultimon. She hoped her
friend had survived.
"Renamon?" Rika called. She pulled out her armor digivolve card. She
almost prayed for it to work right now. If Mega level Digimon couldn't
stop these Sorcerer guys, then this might be their only hope.
"I'm here, Rika," Renamon replied, appearing at Rika's side.
"It's payback time," Rika snarled. If what the kids had said about
Kenta's partner was true, then it was payback time. Rika swiped the
card through her digivice. Renamon was immediately engulfed in light.
"Renamon, Armor Digivolve to..." Rika's partner stood up straighter. She
aquired golden armor, turning into a cross between her Renamon and
Sakuyamon forms. She retained the long purple gloves, but had five
fingers on each hand now. Her legs wire straighter, more human like,
but sheahed in segmented gold armor. She retained the angular fox
head and yellow fur while growing white hair. She aquired a golden
breast plate with black body stocking underneath. In her hand, a spear
appeared, a Japanese naginata to be exact. She also still had the tail.
"...SHIMON!"
"Alright, Shimon," Rika said. "Let's see how good my design skills really
are." She pointed at ElectroTchangZuMon who was being harrassed by
Ozmon and Jade. "Walk all over him," she said coldly.
"Consider it done," Shimon replied. Leaping onto the ledge, she sighted
down her naginata like it was a rifle. "SNIPER SHOT!"
"EM SHIELD!" ElectroTchangZuMon countered, spotting Shimon. His
shield went up in time just as Shimon's shot struck it. But this was no
ordinary Digimon attack.
Rika had designed Shimon with one purpose and one purpose only:
kill a Demon Sorcerer no matter what kind of defenses it had. Those
defenses, Rika knew, were extremely tough. Armor. Shields. Force
fields. Every Digimon in existance had attacks that wore away at those
defenses, smashed them down. No other Digimon had attacks that
did not follow this pattern.
Until now.
Reading up on modern weapons, Rika had paid particularly close
attention to the methods used to defeat armor. One thing became
clear. Those methods revolved around concentrating as much energy
as possible into as small a spot as possible. Rika had designed Shimon
around a single attack, packing as much spare energy into that attack
as she could. That attack was designed to penetrate at least three
layers of any kind of defense.
Shimon's shot hit ElectroTchangZuMon's shield. A relatively "soft" outer
layer of energy plastered itself on a tiny area of his shield, weakening
it enough that the rest of the digital bolt penetrated without slowing
down. It struck his armor and exploded, inverted actually, punching
a tiny hole through which the shot's core was accelerated even further.
That core was a needle with an energy density bordering just short of a
black hole's. It's passage generated a shockwave that was might have
been mortally damaging. But that was an afterthought. When the
needle hit the back armor, it didn't penetrate. It exploded.
There was alot of energy in that needle and nothing blocking it.
***
HighAndromon sat up suddenly as consciousness returned. "Where are
they? Let me at 'em!" he exclaimed.
"Relax, Kazu," a middle aged woman told him/them. She had a some
kind of bow. "It's all over." She frowned. "It is Kazu in there, right?"
"Um, yes?" HighAndromon replied, single voiced. "Who are you, lady?"
"Rika's grandmother," she replied. "I believe you know her?"
"Oh, yeah," HighAndromon confirmed. "We're like this." He/they made a
valiant attempt at crossing his/their fingers, but the hand wasn't
apparenty designed to do such an unnatural act.
"Hmm, yes," Ruriko said doubtfully. "C'mon. Let's get you inside before
the press arrives."
"Too late for that," HighAndromon said, pointing to an approaching
woman with a microphone in hand and a cameraman in tow.
"So much for secrecy," Ruriko sighed.
"Excuse me!" the reporter hailed. "Lisa Knowles, WSPI news. There have
been reports of some kind of battle between giant monsters here. Were
you involved in that, ma'am?" She glanced up at HighAndromon. "Wow!
Is this a Digimon?"
"Uh, well, that is..." Ruriko stammered, trying to come up with a decent
explanation that didn't involve giving away the new AEGIS. Trying to
cover up the Digimon seemed to be a lost cause.
"GREETINGS, CITIZENS!" Ultimon boomed as he landed between
Ruriko and the reporter. He actually managed to land without adding to
the street damage.
"You must be the new superhero, Ultiman," Lisa said, suppressing
excitement in the name of professionalism. "Can you tell us what
happened here."
"YES! A NEW LEAGUE OF SUPERHEROES HAS FORMED TO COMBAT
SUPERVILLAINS AND THREATS TO HUMANITY EVERYWHERE!" Ulimon
announced. "TODAY, A GREAT THREAT HAS BEEN AVERTED, THE CITY
SAVED! BUT THERE ARE OTHER THREATS OUT THERE AND WE SHALL
NOT REST UNTIL WE MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FROM THESE SUPER
VILLAINS! LET EVIL BEWARE US! FOR WE ARE..."
Ruriko tried to make shushing gestures behind the reporters backs.
"...THE INTERCEPTORS!!!"
"Cool," HighAndromon commented.