Monster Mash
"Takato how about this for Halloween?" his young mother said, raising up a goofy dinosaur costume to a groaning Takato. "MOM I'm the one trick or treating not you so can I please pick my own costume" he said, running brown eyes off the dinosaur suit. "Looks like a cheesy rip off of Guilmon" Takato thought to himself, looking at the angry pouting face of his mother. "It's bad enough you have to go out on Halloween you know" she said.
Takato rolled his eyes and yanked down his goggles, trying to drown out the "It's dangerous to trick or treat at night with strangers and bad candy" speech."Mom for the billionth time I don't take candy from strangers besides, Henry and the guys are with me it'll be totally safe I swear" Takato pleaded. "I really wanna wear something cool to Halloween plus there's that dance/contest at the school" Takato continued, his mother sighed shrugging.
"Fine, FINE wear what you want but don't blame me when you get sick after eating an apple with typhoid fever in it," Takato sweat dropped at that remark. God only knows what the others kids are doing with Halloween, "Takato?" a sweet voice spoke from behind the trail of costumes in the Halloween store, Takato pushed the line of costumes away to clear it out. A blush filled his face and a smile formed at the sight of, "Jeri" Takato said.
The beautiful girl giggled as she saw Takato blush, "Shopping for Halloween already huh? Me too I figure get things get done before they get you first." Takato laughed softly "Yeah actually I felt the same way, the only problem is my mom thinks Halloween is dangerous and another excuse to throw eggs." Jeri smiled and giggled as she asked him "Another excuse?", Takato gulped and suddenly turned around fumbling his fingers in embarrassment at that.
Jeri grinned suspiciously and poked her head to Takato's nervous face, "Takato is there something you did and haven't told me?" she pried. Takato laughed weakly "No, no nothing at all nothing I'm regretting I did last Halloween or anything." Both sweat dropped on that one. Takato groaned and smacked his face hard at his blind stupidity, the cat was out of the bag. "All right I got in trouble last year for getting caught throwing eggs" he said.
Jeri blinked at Takato dumbfounded "YOU? You threw eggs? Why? That sure doesn't seem like you Takato," another groan escaped the young tamer. "Well technically I wasn't the one throwing the eggs Kazu and Kenta were, but when someone caught us and said they'd call the cops they both panicked. In the rush I got egg on my face literally, so it was natural for the cops to think I did it," Takato said sheepishly rubbing his brown hair slowly.
Jeri smiled softly seeing it was hard and embarrassing for him to say this, gently she stretched out her hand and gently placed it on Takato's hand. "You have nothing to feel bad for then it wasn't your fault, but you have to admit it does sound pretty funny" Jeri said with a giggle. Takato blushed smiling back. Suddenly they both broke into laughter for no apparent reason at all, maybe it was thinking about of how dumb sounding the egg thing was.
Maybe they both just felt like the other could use a cheer me up laugh, or maybe it was something more. Something nice and sweet between them. "TAKATOMON" screamed Guilmon happily as he popped his head in, Takato leaped back and screamed in fear. Jeri only laughed some more. "GUILMON don't do that" Takato shouted back, grumbling as he shoved off the fallen costumes off his head. Guilmon giggled sniffing the costumes.
"These don't smell very tasty they smell like old shoes" Takato laughed at the clueless Guilmon, poking his head through power ranger masks and stuff. "Guilmon these are Halloween costumes remember? On Halloween night kids wear these and go door to door saying trick or treat, then people give you candy" Takato said. Guilmon had his head stuck in a pumpkin candy holder, poking his eyes through the eye holes. "Cool" he said with a little laugh.
Jeri fumbled through some hangars picking out a sort of green yellow fairy dress, she smiled admiring it in the mirror. "So Takatomon what are you going to be Halloween? I want to be a Digimon ROAR" Guilmon said, Takato only laughed some more. "You already are a Digimon but I think I'm gonna dress up as some kind of a hero or a knight in armor" Takato said. Smiling sheepishly as he held up a brown colored knight suit to his eyes.
"Some people say Halloween is the time to be something that your not, try a new role in life" Takato replied, suddenly thinking back to Marcus disappearance. He slowly hanged his head in sorrow as he sighed, Guilmon looked to him sadly and approached his tamer with yellow eyes of worry. "Takatomon is a hero you help a lot of people, that's who you are" Guilmon said, Takato shook his head sadly "Some hero, I should have saved Marcus.
Should have at least helped him through his problems, we have so much in common and yet when he really needs me I don't have a clue how to help him. Some hero I turned out to be" Guilmon patted his tamer's back lightly, hugging him softly with red paw claws around his back. "Takatomon can't do everything even heroes have to take a tummy break sometimes" Guilmon said, "You are a hero but you can only do so much to help your friends.
Look at what you did with the other Digimon, you helped save people from the bad Digimon. You even helped Rika be less of a meanie Renamon too, Takatomon stop feeling bad your a good human a very good human" he finished. Looking up in amazement and sweet understanding to his Digimon friend, Takato hugged him in a tight warm hug. Tears of joy escaped his eyes. "Thanks Guilmon for a young Digimon you got a good heart" he said.
Suddenly a massive scream and a booming crash rocked the very foundation of the ground itself, people shouted as clothes and costumes collapsed. Something big just shook the entire store, something REALLY, really big. Takato looked to Guilmon who had glaring yellow eyes of anger, snorting his snout into his "attack mode" face. "There's a Digimon near by still in range" Guilmon snarled angrily, the cold hiss in his voice growled like a wild devil.
Leaping off his red hind legs out of the store, bolting to the far side of the little store. Takato immediately ran to keep up with his friend, he noticed Jeri was starting to follow him outside. "No Jeri please you gotta stay here with my mom, see if she's okay I gotta help Guilmon" Takato warned her. She shook her head, with fear escaping her frightened voice "Takato I can't." "You have to Jeri I can't let anyone get hurt because of these Digimon.
Especially you please just stay here I promise I'll be right back after we take care of this guy" Takato explained as he bolted out the doors, running fast. Jeri held her hands rightly on her green dress chest, as if preying to God as she spoke softly to herself "Just come back to me Takato." Takato ran to the far side of the store, staring baffled bulging eyes at HUGE dent in it. The bricks had a crack in them the size of a monster truck. It was gigantic.
"What in the world? I've never seen any Digimon do that before" Takato said, rubbing his fingers against the cracks lining the compressed brick wall. Guilmon sniffed the bash in the wall which actually looked like a fist print, "He's close by" Guilmon said as he dashed off again with Takato following. "Awe come on is this stupid light ever gonna change" Terriermon groaned, tapping his paws on the side of Henry's back pack. Stuck at a crossroad.
"Just cool your ears the light will change when this traffic dies out....which seems to be never" Henry sweat dropped, watching the cars zip and zoom by. They both sighed all they had to do was cross this little road so they could get home, but this maddening swarm of traffic just had to start up when they got there. Henry's blue eyes then blinked as a strange noise perked up his ears, Terriermon raised his huge ears. "You hear that?" Henry asked.
Terriermon twitched his big ears "Are you kidding I got better reception with these then most radio stations," Henry frowned at his sarcasm. Suddenly a beautiful young woman with gold blonde hair, hopped over a parked car. Her make up covered eyes were wide open and, teaming with a fear filled face. Her bare legs pumping harder and harder, dirt and mud clung to her shoes. She ran past Henry screaming out "HELP IT'S AFTER ME."
"What's after you?" both Terriermon and Henry shouted out to the woman, but she just kept on running and screaming. Refusing to stop for a single second. Loud thumps rumbled the floor like an earthquake was hitting them, but at the timed placements of the rumblings. It seemed too random for one. "This is weird what could be causing such a weird shaking?" Henry asked, feeling the loud thumps crash closer and closer as if a giant was walking.
Terriermon gulped and tapped Henry's shoulder with his wing ear, his face was pale as a ghost and twice as terrified. Just as Henry turned, he thought for a second that Halloween was already playing tricks with his young mind. But once the grizzly sight came into full monstrous view, both of them knew that THING was real. A single eye bulged from the big blue monster's form, jagged giant tooth jaws adorned the ogre beast. Massive forearms bulged.
He had a shaggy rugged sort of vanilla colored fur on the sides of his big blue body, with long shaggy hair and massive white claws on his hands and feet. "Crougher DESTROY" the cave man beast yelled, bashing his fists into the red car. Compacting and destroying the mangled mess of machinery and metal, into 2 halves. Shredding the car apart as the monster trampled through it, running on his legs adding speed using his big blue knuckles like a gorilla.
Henry and Terriermon screamed as they ran to the separate sides of the side walk, the monster plowed, shoved, bashed, destroyed, and kicked every car that came it's way. Charging on cement cracking feet towards his goal, not even caring about any people, any cars, or even Henry and Terriermon. The monster's single eye was focused on a more singular target, the woman Sarah. Sarah screamed again tripping on her cracked heels and backed away.
"NO get away from me PLEASE DAMMIT SOMEONE HELP" she screamed, Terriermon looked to Henry with a "no way" look on his face. "We have to help her" Henry shouted, "ARE YOU KIDDING? Look at that guy, he could bench press the moon on his back" Terriermon pleaded still. "What are we supposed to do just let that overgrown goon kill that lady?", her screams once again shattered the silence of the once peaceful afternoon.
Despite the ferocious appearance and size of the beastly blue monster, Terriermon knew that Henry was right and they had to help the woman. "HEY grease ball" Crougher turned around at the voice of Henry's taunt, facing him and Terriermon with a charged green blast in his mouth. "Bunny blast" Terriermon screamed as he fired the blast and crashed into Crougher, a blast of powerful force and smoke gushed out from the solid direct hit.
"OH YEAH Bullzeye Terriermon" Henry cried happily, laughing at the sizzling smoke circling the shadowed monster. But it was soon clear it was far too early to be rejoicing, as the smoke cleared Crougher remained still. Not even moved back a single inch by the blast or even harmed at all, his chest had a speck of dirt on his massive blue biceps. "Shit" Terriermon squeaked, he knew it was wrong to swear but this guy was like a brick wall.
Suddenly Crougher glared his eye attention towards the woman, trying to escape again. The monster turned away from Henry and Terriermon, reaching out his bulging blue arm he grasp his claw over the woman's bare legs. Dragging her back as she screamed and pleaded "HELP ME" "Hey let her go" Henry said, he ran to save the woman but got hit with her instead. Crougher quickly turned around bashing Sarah into Henry and Terriermon.
They both dropped with a grunt of pain, Crougher laughed and raised the woman above his head. "Crougher break woman" he chuckled, pressing one massive claw against Sarah's blonde head and the other against her legs and feet. Thinking fast Terriermon leapt off the ground and crawled up Crougher's big burly back, slapping his wing ears over his one eye. Blinding him entirely. Panicking Crougher dropped Sarah down, frantically shaking.
Trying to shake his shaggy head free of the little leech, batting his blue claws at the Digimon randomly. "A little help would be NICE WAHHHHA AH" Terriermon squealed, not able to hold him off for very much longer. Henry immediately punched in his Digivice calling for the others to get some help. "What are you doing?" Sarah asked nervously, "Calling the others for help Terriermon can't hold this guy off alone but maybe he can until the others."
The sentence was short lived as Crougher had grasped his claws around Terriermon's ears, then crunching him into his massive fists. Slamming him into the ground with a colossal smash, sending huge cracks with in the pavement. Then yanking the bunny Digimon up by his bruised little body, he yanked his fingers into his ears and fired Terriermon off like a slingshot. Crashing him head first right into a mailbox, banging into it with a loud clang.
"BASTARD" Henry screamed as he reared back a fist, knowing it's useless to attack Crougher but rage told him otherwise. A quick smash and turn of the monster's gruesome forearm muscles, bashed Henry right in the face with it. Leaving Sarah and Crougher together. The beautiful woman grunted as she bashed her own fist into the beast's massive blue gut, he felt like solid stone. "OW what are you?" she whimpered, holding a broken purple finger nail.
The monster laughed and grappled both massive spread blue claws across Sarah's neck, jerking her off her struggling kicking legs and feet. Crougher laughed as he began to violently choke off her air supply, with his muscles. "Now you die" Crougher growled, watching the pink make up on Sarah's cheeks turn dead blue. Suddenly voices from the side shouted to Crougher, "Pyro sphere" a fire ball blast crashed into the monster's arms exploding.
A groveling squeal of pain roared from the cave beast as Sarah fell from his grasp, she quickly scampered away to the newly arrived kids and Digimon. "Did that burn? Here let me help cool you of with a Diamond Storm" Renamon cried, flaring out her purple fox arms and unleashing her attack. Raining a massive down pour of exploding energy crystals into Crougher, he covered himself with his massive forearms trying to block the rain onslaught.
Takato smiled as he helped Sarah to her feet, keeping her safely behind Renamon and Guilmon. Rika moved and helped a weary Henry back up, he smiled weakly to her "Thanks I thought I was a goner" Rika just shrugged. "Yeah well you didn't think I'd let you have all the fun now did you?" she replied, watching her female fox fighter battle it out. Claw to fist with Crougher. Henry frowned as he squinted trembling eyes with deep worry.
"Don't take him too lightly you guys this dude is built like a dam mountain and he hits like one too" Henry said, wiping a smudge of dirt from his cheek. Takato whipped out his Digivice waiting for it to scan the massive monster, "Come on come ON" he urged it. Impatiently waiting for the data to appear. "Dammit I got nothing" Takato shouted frustrated, Henry and Rika tried the same and got the same results. "Maybe he's not a Digimon" Guilmon said.
"That's impossible this goon has to be a Digimon why should he be any different from any other digital freak we fought before?" Rika sneered. Guilmon roared as he charged hind legs running into battle, Crougher glared his eye and bashed a fist into Renamon's chest hurling her backwards. Giving him perfect room and leverage to bash a powerful clothesline smash, across Guilmon's face and body. Toppling both Digimon painfully back down hard.
Renamon groaned as her foot paws tried to stand up on her yellow fox legs, "I don't know Rika he doesn't look like any Digimon I've ever seen before." Guilmon whimpered as he rubbed his sore red jaw "What do we do now?", Takato and the others sweated furiously as they stepped back. Watching the monster stomp closer to them, "Not much we can do actually everything we hit him with doesn't even phase him" Henry said doubtfully. Sarah gulped.
She shoved the little trio of kids in front of her pleading in frantic shrieks, "Don't talk like that you little snots THIS IS MY LIFE you have to SAVE ME" she screamed. Rika growled and pushed her back with an angry hiss, "Look lady were doing our job I really couldn't care less about YOU." Henry blinked and shook his dark blue hair wildly, he jerked Rika's attention back. "No, no that's just it she has everything to do with this monster cave guy.
He's after her even when me and Terriermon attacked him he didn't even care about us, she's the one he wants" Henry said in a panting breath. Guilmon blinked confused eyes at Henry "Where is Terriermon anyway?", Henry gasped and turned around in fear remembering he got hurt bad. "That big blue goon knocked him into a mailbox but I don't see him there" he said, Rika shouted "Guys he's coming this way." Crougher rammed forward.
Flailing his massive knuckles and muscular forearms in a frantic ape like fury, immediately going to their rescue. Renamon and Guilmon blocked the way. But Crougher simply bashed away the 2 Digimon like they were toys, plowing the kids apart with his forearms as if bowling over a bunch of pins. Sarah screamed and frantically tried to escape, but her weeping eyes knew better. The glooming shadow of Crougher's forearms were aimed high up.
Planning to smash his colossal muscles and demolish Sarah right out of her pitiful little existence, but just as he was about to make her into a living pancake. Another shadow gloomed over but this time it was over Crougher, he raised his big eye to the sky and saw a zooming pair of big fat bunny feet. "BUNNY PUMMEL" screamed the Digimon, as he colossal landed a devastating drop kick into Crougher. Plowing the monster right in the face.
He crashed in a big whopping skidmark dust spree of mangled concrete, Sarah stopped running and turned around with a gaping mouth of shock. The utterly amazing sight of this newly evolved Digimon, Gargomon. Had just drop kicked Crougher right into the ground, like a wrestler's finishing move. "Payback's a bitch huh big guy?" Gargomon laughed crossing his gun arms, Henry and the others happily walked over and hugged the big green Digimon.
"Gargomon I was so scared wondering what happened to you" Henry said, Gargomon smiled and winked "No need to worry about this wrecking machine." Rika smirked as she stared down at the lumber logged goon, "He should know better then to mess with us" Rika smirked and kicked his arm. His eye jolted to life and so did his hands as one of them grabbed Rika's head, he crushed his claws tightly around her muffled squeals for help.
Her legs kicked weakly against his big blue chest in vain as he rose up, immediately leaping to help Rika Renamon dashed urgently into battle. Only to be smacked down toppling the kids over with a bone bashing blow, from Crougher's other claw hand. Laughing in sick chuckles Crougher began to crush and squeeze and screaming Rika, her terrified cries left muffled. "LET HER GO" Henry and Takato screamed with a furious cry of hatred and anger.
If there's one thing that all 3 of these children had in common besides Digimon, it's the fact that they would never let anyone hurt their friends. Jamming out their Digivices a bright surging glare of powerful blinding white lights emerged, Crougher roared in pain as the light energy shoved him back. Releasing his hold on Rika as she fell safely into Henry's arms, while the mighty blue giant toppled to the ground with a loud stone cracking thud.
"Uh....Thanks Henry" Rika said with a huge rosy blush on her cheeks, Henry blushed right back and quickly set her down uttering "Sure...n-n-o problem." After wiping g a smudge of blood from her nose Rika ran to the fallen Renamon, helping her back on her fox feet as Crougher did the same. "You know those Digivices really slowed big boy down there" Henry realized, Takato and the others stared at the Digivices. Guilmon guarded them snarling.
"Takatomon use the Digivices and help us Digivovle" Guilmon snorted, Gargomon grinned evilly as he locked and loaded his gallet guns. "Guilmon's right we'll take down that big palooka a lot better at the champion level," Rika nodded in agreement with Gargomon. Renamon leaped beside Guilmon ready. "All right then guys let's give this guy some real tricks" Takato shouted raising his glowing Digivice, Rika did the same as more light beamed out.
Crougher and Sarah stared in baffle awe at the blinding light power of the Digivices, the light enveloped, energized, and began to change the Digimon. "Renamon Digivovle to....Kiuveemon" Renamon had transformed into the sleek yellow fox Digimon, with nine tails, fire tail tips, and massive new body. "Guilmon Digivolve to.....Growlmon" screamed the red dinosaur, flaring fiery red scales as he changed with new claws, fangs, and white hair.
"YEAH" Takato cheered happily, the sight of 3 champion level Digimon against the lone warrior Crougher made the odds a lot more fair. "I suggest you surrender before we have to get MEAN" Kiuveemon said coldly, Crougher made a slow step forward and stopped at the sound of a gun click. Gargomon was grinning mischievously aiming his gun arms out, "Don't even try it butt ugly" "Last chance leave our friends alone or else" Growlmon said.
Seeing he was outnumbered and the unfortunate fact that he couldn't get to his target, Sarah. Without having to deal with these kids and their monsters first, Crougher blinked back his single eye and took a huge deep lung filled breath. Rika and the others stared dumbfounded at the odd sight of Crougher sucking up air, puffing it into his mutant muscle chest. "What's he doing?" Takato asked sheepishly, Crougher then glared his eye wide open at the children.
"ATOMIC BELCH" Crougher screamed out before launching a disgustingly fowl and repulsive gas ray from his fanged mouth. Everyone immediately began to frown and wince as they held their noses, coughing and wheezing. The Digimon rolled around gagging tightly at the noxious fumes of foulness, "AW MAN Kiuveemon ripped ass" Gargomon choked out. "HEY" she screamed, tackling the mocking bunny Digimon. Leaving Sarah wide open.
"GUYS KNOCK IT OFF" Henry screamed too late, charging at full steaming speed. Crougher reared back his powerful forearms, and bashed Gargomon and Kiuveemon away from his blocked path with colossal strength and force. Growlmon roared open his dinosaur jaws and fired his "Pyro Blaster," but using his gorilla arms like on a swing set. Crougher grabbed Growlmon's hair and head, yanking his blue form into the sky with the lowered head leverage.
Catapulting a screaming and fist swinging Crougher, right over the kids heads. And zooming down a collision crunch crash landing course on top of Sarah, she screamed pale blue as she fainted from over dose of fright. Takato, Rika and Henry all shouted for the Digimon, to hit him with everything they had. "Fox Tail Inferno" "Gargo Gallet" Kiuveemon engulfed Crougher with a barrage of flaming bomb attacks, and Gargomon pelted him with laser bullets.
But the force of gravity and Crougher's endless determination to destroy pushed him harder, even in all the raging pain he was in Crougher went on. "That tears it HAAAA DRAGON SLASH" screamed Growlmon, immediately turned around at the very last second to save Sarah's life. He slashed his energy forearm blade across Crougher's big buff blue body, cutting right through his shaggy waist and slicing the monster directly in half.
Crougher watched as his lower torso vanished in a crumple of dark dust, his upper torso still raised his arms to strike Sarah even thought he was dead. But his upper body soon crumbled into dark ashes as well, destroyed and disintegrate mere seconds before completing his mission in life. The Tamers cheered a happy joy and smirked proudly at their latest victorious battle. The Digimon groaned and collapsed as they quickly changed back to rookies.
"Man was he one tough cookie" Guilmon huffed, Terriermon wheezed as he wobbled back up "You can say that again." Takato laughed as he happily hugged his Digimon friend, "You did it Guilmon way to go you saved huh." A stunned face marked Takato's once he noticed that Sarah had disappeared, she was gone not a message or anything. He blinked in shock. "How do you like that? We work our tails off to save hers and she doesn't even thank us.
What a total witch" Rika huffed, she crossed her arms and she walked home calling for Renamon to follow. "In a minute Rika I noticed something very odd about that monster" she said, rubbing the black dust between her paws. "What's that Renamon?" Henry asked curiously, Renamon sniffed it and shook her head softly. "I'm not familiar with this scent or substance but I think you might know what it is," Renamon stuck her paw out to the 3 kids.
Takato sniffed it and coughed a bit blinking a surprised stare at the realization, "That's lead dust and ground up pencil shavings." Henry touched it and sniffed it too gasping, "Your right it is lead and pencil shavings. It looks like someone just ground up a million pencils" Henry exclaimed, Rika scratched her red hair staring a perplexed gaze at Renamon. "I don't get it when we defeated Digimon they broke into data not pencil dust" Rika said.
Renamon nodded as she clutched the dust tightly in her claws, Guilmon stared worriedly to Takato. "But if that wasn't a Digimon what was he? And why did he bust up into pencil dust?" Guilmon asked, but Takato couldn't answer. He simply swallowed a cold fear of doubt down his throat, and stared at the dust. "I don't know Guilmon but whatever it means I'm sure it's really bad, and I got feeling we'll find out on Halloween" Takato said softly.
to be continued...
"Takato how about this for Halloween?" his young mother said, raising up a goofy dinosaur costume to a groaning Takato. "MOM I'm the one trick or treating not you so can I please pick my own costume" he said, running brown eyes off the dinosaur suit. "Looks like a cheesy rip off of Guilmon" Takato thought to himself, looking at the angry pouting face of his mother. "It's bad enough you have to go out on Halloween you know" she said.
Takato rolled his eyes and yanked down his goggles, trying to drown out the "It's dangerous to trick or treat at night with strangers and bad candy" speech."Mom for the billionth time I don't take candy from strangers besides, Henry and the guys are with me it'll be totally safe I swear" Takato pleaded. "I really wanna wear something cool to Halloween plus there's that dance/contest at the school" Takato continued, his mother sighed shrugging.
"Fine, FINE wear what you want but don't blame me when you get sick after eating an apple with typhoid fever in it," Takato sweat dropped at that remark. God only knows what the others kids are doing with Halloween, "Takato?" a sweet voice spoke from behind the trail of costumes in the Halloween store, Takato pushed the line of costumes away to clear it out. A blush filled his face and a smile formed at the sight of, "Jeri" Takato said.
The beautiful girl giggled as she saw Takato blush, "Shopping for Halloween already huh? Me too I figure get things get done before they get you first." Takato laughed softly "Yeah actually I felt the same way, the only problem is my mom thinks Halloween is dangerous and another excuse to throw eggs." Jeri smiled and giggled as she asked him "Another excuse?", Takato gulped and suddenly turned around fumbling his fingers in embarrassment at that.
Jeri grinned suspiciously and poked her head to Takato's nervous face, "Takato is there something you did and haven't told me?" she pried. Takato laughed weakly "No, no nothing at all nothing I'm regretting I did last Halloween or anything." Both sweat dropped on that one. Takato groaned and smacked his face hard at his blind stupidity, the cat was out of the bag. "All right I got in trouble last year for getting caught throwing eggs" he said.
Jeri blinked at Takato dumbfounded "YOU? You threw eggs? Why? That sure doesn't seem like you Takato," another groan escaped the young tamer. "Well technically I wasn't the one throwing the eggs Kazu and Kenta were, but when someone caught us and said they'd call the cops they both panicked. In the rush I got egg on my face literally, so it was natural for the cops to think I did it," Takato said sheepishly rubbing his brown hair slowly.
Jeri smiled softly seeing it was hard and embarrassing for him to say this, gently she stretched out her hand and gently placed it on Takato's hand. "You have nothing to feel bad for then it wasn't your fault, but you have to admit it does sound pretty funny" Jeri said with a giggle. Takato blushed smiling back. Suddenly they both broke into laughter for no apparent reason at all, maybe it was thinking about of how dumb sounding the egg thing was.
Maybe they both just felt like the other could use a cheer me up laugh, or maybe it was something more. Something nice and sweet between them. "TAKATOMON" screamed Guilmon happily as he popped his head in, Takato leaped back and screamed in fear. Jeri only laughed some more. "GUILMON don't do that" Takato shouted back, grumbling as he shoved off the fallen costumes off his head. Guilmon giggled sniffing the costumes.
"These don't smell very tasty they smell like old shoes" Takato laughed at the clueless Guilmon, poking his head through power ranger masks and stuff. "Guilmon these are Halloween costumes remember? On Halloween night kids wear these and go door to door saying trick or treat, then people give you candy" Takato said. Guilmon had his head stuck in a pumpkin candy holder, poking his eyes through the eye holes. "Cool" he said with a little laugh.
Jeri fumbled through some hangars picking out a sort of green yellow fairy dress, she smiled admiring it in the mirror. "So Takatomon what are you going to be Halloween? I want to be a Digimon ROAR" Guilmon said, Takato only laughed some more. "You already are a Digimon but I think I'm gonna dress up as some kind of a hero or a knight in armor" Takato said. Smiling sheepishly as he held up a brown colored knight suit to his eyes.
"Some people say Halloween is the time to be something that your not, try a new role in life" Takato replied, suddenly thinking back to Marcus disappearance. He slowly hanged his head in sorrow as he sighed, Guilmon looked to him sadly and approached his tamer with yellow eyes of worry. "Takatomon is a hero you help a lot of people, that's who you are" Guilmon said, Takato shook his head sadly "Some hero, I should have saved Marcus.
Should have at least helped him through his problems, we have so much in common and yet when he really needs me I don't have a clue how to help him. Some hero I turned out to be" Guilmon patted his tamer's back lightly, hugging him softly with red paw claws around his back. "Takatomon can't do everything even heroes have to take a tummy break sometimes" Guilmon said, "You are a hero but you can only do so much to help your friends.
Look at what you did with the other Digimon, you helped save people from the bad Digimon. You even helped Rika be less of a meanie Renamon too, Takatomon stop feeling bad your a good human a very good human" he finished. Looking up in amazement and sweet understanding to his Digimon friend, Takato hugged him in a tight warm hug. Tears of joy escaped his eyes. "Thanks Guilmon for a young Digimon you got a good heart" he said.
Suddenly a massive scream and a booming crash rocked the very foundation of the ground itself, people shouted as clothes and costumes collapsed. Something big just shook the entire store, something REALLY, really big. Takato looked to Guilmon who had glaring yellow eyes of anger, snorting his snout into his "attack mode" face. "There's a Digimon near by still in range" Guilmon snarled angrily, the cold hiss in his voice growled like a wild devil.
Leaping off his red hind legs out of the store, bolting to the far side of the little store. Takato immediately ran to keep up with his friend, he noticed Jeri was starting to follow him outside. "No Jeri please you gotta stay here with my mom, see if she's okay I gotta help Guilmon" Takato warned her. She shook her head, with fear escaping her frightened voice "Takato I can't." "You have to Jeri I can't let anyone get hurt because of these Digimon.
Especially you please just stay here I promise I'll be right back after we take care of this guy" Takato explained as he bolted out the doors, running fast. Jeri held her hands rightly on her green dress chest, as if preying to God as she spoke softly to herself "Just come back to me Takato." Takato ran to the far side of the store, staring baffled bulging eyes at HUGE dent in it. The bricks had a crack in them the size of a monster truck. It was gigantic.
"What in the world? I've never seen any Digimon do that before" Takato said, rubbing his fingers against the cracks lining the compressed brick wall. Guilmon sniffed the bash in the wall which actually looked like a fist print, "He's close by" Guilmon said as he dashed off again with Takato following. "Awe come on is this stupid light ever gonna change" Terriermon groaned, tapping his paws on the side of Henry's back pack. Stuck at a crossroad.
"Just cool your ears the light will change when this traffic dies out....which seems to be never" Henry sweat dropped, watching the cars zip and zoom by. They both sighed all they had to do was cross this little road so they could get home, but this maddening swarm of traffic just had to start up when they got there. Henry's blue eyes then blinked as a strange noise perked up his ears, Terriermon raised his huge ears. "You hear that?" Henry asked.
Terriermon twitched his big ears "Are you kidding I got better reception with these then most radio stations," Henry frowned at his sarcasm. Suddenly a beautiful young woman with gold blonde hair, hopped over a parked car. Her make up covered eyes were wide open and, teaming with a fear filled face. Her bare legs pumping harder and harder, dirt and mud clung to her shoes. She ran past Henry screaming out "HELP IT'S AFTER ME."
"What's after you?" both Terriermon and Henry shouted out to the woman, but she just kept on running and screaming. Refusing to stop for a single second. Loud thumps rumbled the floor like an earthquake was hitting them, but at the timed placements of the rumblings. It seemed too random for one. "This is weird what could be causing such a weird shaking?" Henry asked, feeling the loud thumps crash closer and closer as if a giant was walking.
Terriermon gulped and tapped Henry's shoulder with his wing ear, his face was pale as a ghost and twice as terrified. Just as Henry turned, he thought for a second that Halloween was already playing tricks with his young mind. But once the grizzly sight came into full monstrous view, both of them knew that THING was real. A single eye bulged from the big blue monster's form, jagged giant tooth jaws adorned the ogre beast. Massive forearms bulged.
He had a shaggy rugged sort of vanilla colored fur on the sides of his big blue body, with long shaggy hair and massive white claws on his hands and feet. "Crougher DESTROY" the cave man beast yelled, bashing his fists into the red car. Compacting and destroying the mangled mess of machinery and metal, into 2 halves. Shredding the car apart as the monster trampled through it, running on his legs adding speed using his big blue knuckles like a gorilla.
Henry and Terriermon screamed as they ran to the separate sides of the side walk, the monster plowed, shoved, bashed, destroyed, and kicked every car that came it's way. Charging on cement cracking feet towards his goal, not even caring about any people, any cars, or even Henry and Terriermon. The monster's single eye was focused on a more singular target, the woman Sarah. Sarah screamed again tripping on her cracked heels and backed away.
"NO get away from me PLEASE DAMMIT SOMEONE HELP" she screamed, Terriermon looked to Henry with a "no way" look on his face. "We have to help her" Henry shouted, "ARE YOU KIDDING? Look at that guy, he could bench press the moon on his back" Terriermon pleaded still. "What are we supposed to do just let that overgrown goon kill that lady?", her screams once again shattered the silence of the once peaceful afternoon.
Despite the ferocious appearance and size of the beastly blue monster, Terriermon knew that Henry was right and they had to help the woman. "HEY grease ball" Crougher turned around at the voice of Henry's taunt, facing him and Terriermon with a charged green blast in his mouth. "Bunny blast" Terriermon screamed as he fired the blast and crashed into Crougher, a blast of powerful force and smoke gushed out from the solid direct hit.
"OH YEAH Bullzeye Terriermon" Henry cried happily, laughing at the sizzling smoke circling the shadowed monster. But it was soon clear it was far too early to be rejoicing, as the smoke cleared Crougher remained still. Not even moved back a single inch by the blast or even harmed at all, his chest had a speck of dirt on his massive blue biceps. "Shit" Terriermon squeaked, he knew it was wrong to swear but this guy was like a brick wall.
Suddenly Crougher glared his eye attention towards the woman, trying to escape again. The monster turned away from Henry and Terriermon, reaching out his bulging blue arm he grasp his claw over the woman's bare legs. Dragging her back as she screamed and pleaded "HELP ME" "Hey let her go" Henry said, he ran to save the woman but got hit with her instead. Crougher quickly turned around bashing Sarah into Henry and Terriermon.
They both dropped with a grunt of pain, Crougher laughed and raised the woman above his head. "Crougher break woman" he chuckled, pressing one massive claw against Sarah's blonde head and the other against her legs and feet. Thinking fast Terriermon leapt off the ground and crawled up Crougher's big burly back, slapping his wing ears over his one eye. Blinding him entirely. Panicking Crougher dropped Sarah down, frantically shaking.
Trying to shake his shaggy head free of the little leech, batting his blue claws at the Digimon randomly. "A little help would be NICE WAHHHHA AH" Terriermon squealed, not able to hold him off for very much longer. Henry immediately punched in his Digivice calling for the others to get some help. "What are you doing?" Sarah asked nervously, "Calling the others for help Terriermon can't hold this guy off alone but maybe he can until the others."
The sentence was short lived as Crougher had grasped his claws around Terriermon's ears, then crunching him into his massive fists. Slamming him into the ground with a colossal smash, sending huge cracks with in the pavement. Then yanking the bunny Digimon up by his bruised little body, he yanked his fingers into his ears and fired Terriermon off like a slingshot. Crashing him head first right into a mailbox, banging into it with a loud clang.
"BASTARD" Henry screamed as he reared back a fist, knowing it's useless to attack Crougher but rage told him otherwise. A quick smash and turn of the monster's gruesome forearm muscles, bashed Henry right in the face with it. Leaving Sarah and Crougher together. The beautiful woman grunted as she bashed her own fist into the beast's massive blue gut, he felt like solid stone. "OW what are you?" she whimpered, holding a broken purple finger nail.
The monster laughed and grappled both massive spread blue claws across Sarah's neck, jerking her off her struggling kicking legs and feet. Crougher laughed as he began to violently choke off her air supply, with his muscles. "Now you die" Crougher growled, watching the pink make up on Sarah's cheeks turn dead blue. Suddenly voices from the side shouted to Crougher, "Pyro sphere" a fire ball blast crashed into the monster's arms exploding.
A groveling squeal of pain roared from the cave beast as Sarah fell from his grasp, she quickly scampered away to the newly arrived kids and Digimon. "Did that burn? Here let me help cool you of with a Diamond Storm" Renamon cried, flaring out her purple fox arms and unleashing her attack. Raining a massive down pour of exploding energy crystals into Crougher, he covered himself with his massive forearms trying to block the rain onslaught.
Takato smiled as he helped Sarah to her feet, keeping her safely behind Renamon and Guilmon. Rika moved and helped a weary Henry back up, he smiled weakly to her "Thanks I thought I was a goner" Rika just shrugged. "Yeah well you didn't think I'd let you have all the fun now did you?" she replied, watching her female fox fighter battle it out. Claw to fist with Crougher. Henry frowned as he squinted trembling eyes with deep worry.
"Don't take him too lightly you guys this dude is built like a dam mountain and he hits like one too" Henry said, wiping a smudge of dirt from his cheek. Takato whipped out his Digivice waiting for it to scan the massive monster, "Come on come ON" he urged it. Impatiently waiting for the data to appear. "Dammit I got nothing" Takato shouted frustrated, Henry and Rika tried the same and got the same results. "Maybe he's not a Digimon" Guilmon said.
"That's impossible this goon has to be a Digimon why should he be any different from any other digital freak we fought before?" Rika sneered. Guilmon roared as he charged hind legs running into battle, Crougher glared his eye and bashed a fist into Renamon's chest hurling her backwards. Giving him perfect room and leverage to bash a powerful clothesline smash, across Guilmon's face and body. Toppling both Digimon painfully back down hard.
Renamon groaned as her foot paws tried to stand up on her yellow fox legs, "I don't know Rika he doesn't look like any Digimon I've ever seen before." Guilmon whimpered as he rubbed his sore red jaw "What do we do now?", Takato and the others sweated furiously as they stepped back. Watching the monster stomp closer to them, "Not much we can do actually everything we hit him with doesn't even phase him" Henry said doubtfully. Sarah gulped.
She shoved the little trio of kids in front of her pleading in frantic shrieks, "Don't talk like that you little snots THIS IS MY LIFE you have to SAVE ME" she screamed. Rika growled and pushed her back with an angry hiss, "Look lady were doing our job I really couldn't care less about YOU." Henry blinked and shook his dark blue hair wildly, he jerked Rika's attention back. "No, no that's just it she has everything to do with this monster cave guy.
He's after her even when me and Terriermon attacked him he didn't even care about us, she's the one he wants" Henry said in a panting breath. Guilmon blinked confused eyes at Henry "Where is Terriermon anyway?", Henry gasped and turned around in fear remembering he got hurt bad. "That big blue goon knocked him into a mailbox but I don't see him there" he said, Rika shouted "Guys he's coming this way." Crougher rammed forward.
Flailing his massive knuckles and muscular forearms in a frantic ape like fury, immediately going to their rescue. Renamon and Guilmon blocked the way. But Crougher simply bashed away the 2 Digimon like they were toys, plowing the kids apart with his forearms as if bowling over a bunch of pins. Sarah screamed and frantically tried to escape, but her weeping eyes knew better. The glooming shadow of Crougher's forearms were aimed high up.
Planning to smash his colossal muscles and demolish Sarah right out of her pitiful little existence, but just as he was about to make her into a living pancake. Another shadow gloomed over but this time it was over Crougher, he raised his big eye to the sky and saw a zooming pair of big fat bunny feet. "BUNNY PUMMEL" screamed the Digimon, as he colossal landed a devastating drop kick into Crougher. Plowing the monster right in the face.
He crashed in a big whopping skidmark dust spree of mangled concrete, Sarah stopped running and turned around with a gaping mouth of shock. The utterly amazing sight of this newly evolved Digimon, Gargomon. Had just drop kicked Crougher right into the ground, like a wrestler's finishing move. "Payback's a bitch huh big guy?" Gargomon laughed crossing his gun arms, Henry and the others happily walked over and hugged the big green Digimon.
"Gargomon I was so scared wondering what happened to you" Henry said, Gargomon smiled and winked "No need to worry about this wrecking machine." Rika smirked as she stared down at the lumber logged goon, "He should know better then to mess with us" Rika smirked and kicked his arm. His eye jolted to life and so did his hands as one of them grabbed Rika's head, he crushed his claws tightly around her muffled squeals for help.
Her legs kicked weakly against his big blue chest in vain as he rose up, immediately leaping to help Rika Renamon dashed urgently into battle. Only to be smacked down toppling the kids over with a bone bashing blow, from Crougher's other claw hand. Laughing in sick chuckles Crougher began to crush and squeeze and screaming Rika, her terrified cries left muffled. "LET HER GO" Henry and Takato screamed with a furious cry of hatred and anger.
If there's one thing that all 3 of these children had in common besides Digimon, it's the fact that they would never let anyone hurt their friends. Jamming out their Digivices a bright surging glare of powerful blinding white lights emerged, Crougher roared in pain as the light energy shoved him back. Releasing his hold on Rika as she fell safely into Henry's arms, while the mighty blue giant toppled to the ground with a loud stone cracking thud.
"Uh....Thanks Henry" Rika said with a huge rosy blush on her cheeks, Henry blushed right back and quickly set her down uttering "Sure...n-n-o problem." After wiping g a smudge of blood from her nose Rika ran to the fallen Renamon, helping her back on her fox feet as Crougher did the same. "You know those Digivices really slowed big boy down there" Henry realized, Takato and the others stared at the Digivices. Guilmon guarded them snarling.
"Takatomon use the Digivices and help us Digivovle" Guilmon snorted, Gargomon grinned evilly as he locked and loaded his gallet guns. "Guilmon's right we'll take down that big palooka a lot better at the champion level," Rika nodded in agreement with Gargomon. Renamon leaped beside Guilmon ready. "All right then guys let's give this guy some real tricks" Takato shouted raising his glowing Digivice, Rika did the same as more light beamed out.
Crougher and Sarah stared in baffle awe at the blinding light power of the Digivices, the light enveloped, energized, and began to change the Digimon. "Renamon Digivovle to....Kiuveemon" Renamon had transformed into the sleek yellow fox Digimon, with nine tails, fire tail tips, and massive new body. "Guilmon Digivolve to.....Growlmon" screamed the red dinosaur, flaring fiery red scales as he changed with new claws, fangs, and white hair.
"YEAH" Takato cheered happily, the sight of 3 champion level Digimon against the lone warrior Crougher made the odds a lot more fair. "I suggest you surrender before we have to get MEAN" Kiuveemon said coldly, Crougher made a slow step forward and stopped at the sound of a gun click. Gargomon was grinning mischievously aiming his gun arms out, "Don't even try it butt ugly" "Last chance leave our friends alone or else" Growlmon said.
Seeing he was outnumbered and the unfortunate fact that he couldn't get to his target, Sarah. Without having to deal with these kids and their monsters first, Crougher blinked back his single eye and took a huge deep lung filled breath. Rika and the others stared dumbfounded at the odd sight of Crougher sucking up air, puffing it into his mutant muscle chest. "What's he doing?" Takato asked sheepishly, Crougher then glared his eye wide open at the children.
"ATOMIC BELCH" Crougher screamed out before launching a disgustingly fowl and repulsive gas ray from his fanged mouth. Everyone immediately began to frown and wince as they held their noses, coughing and wheezing. The Digimon rolled around gagging tightly at the noxious fumes of foulness, "AW MAN Kiuveemon ripped ass" Gargomon choked out. "HEY" she screamed, tackling the mocking bunny Digimon. Leaving Sarah wide open.
"GUYS KNOCK IT OFF" Henry screamed too late, charging at full steaming speed. Crougher reared back his powerful forearms, and bashed Gargomon and Kiuveemon away from his blocked path with colossal strength and force. Growlmon roared open his dinosaur jaws and fired his "Pyro Blaster," but using his gorilla arms like on a swing set. Crougher grabbed Growlmon's hair and head, yanking his blue form into the sky with the lowered head leverage.
Catapulting a screaming and fist swinging Crougher, right over the kids heads. And zooming down a collision crunch crash landing course on top of Sarah, she screamed pale blue as she fainted from over dose of fright. Takato, Rika and Henry all shouted for the Digimon, to hit him with everything they had. "Fox Tail Inferno" "Gargo Gallet" Kiuveemon engulfed Crougher with a barrage of flaming bomb attacks, and Gargomon pelted him with laser bullets.
But the force of gravity and Crougher's endless determination to destroy pushed him harder, even in all the raging pain he was in Crougher went on. "That tears it HAAAA DRAGON SLASH" screamed Growlmon, immediately turned around at the very last second to save Sarah's life. He slashed his energy forearm blade across Crougher's big buff blue body, cutting right through his shaggy waist and slicing the monster directly in half.
Crougher watched as his lower torso vanished in a crumple of dark dust, his upper torso still raised his arms to strike Sarah even thought he was dead. But his upper body soon crumbled into dark ashes as well, destroyed and disintegrate mere seconds before completing his mission in life. The Tamers cheered a happy joy and smirked proudly at their latest victorious battle. The Digimon groaned and collapsed as they quickly changed back to rookies.
"Man was he one tough cookie" Guilmon huffed, Terriermon wheezed as he wobbled back up "You can say that again." Takato laughed as he happily hugged his Digimon friend, "You did it Guilmon way to go you saved huh." A stunned face marked Takato's once he noticed that Sarah had disappeared, she was gone not a message or anything. He blinked in shock. "How do you like that? We work our tails off to save hers and she doesn't even thank us.
What a total witch" Rika huffed, she crossed her arms and she walked home calling for Renamon to follow. "In a minute Rika I noticed something very odd about that monster" she said, rubbing the black dust between her paws. "What's that Renamon?" Henry asked curiously, Renamon sniffed it and shook her head softly. "I'm not familiar with this scent or substance but I think you might know what it is," Renamon stuck her paw out to the 3 kids.
Takato sniffed it and coughed a bit blinking a surprised stare at the realization, "That's lead dust and ground up pencil shavings." Henry touched it and sniffed it too gasping, "Your right it is lead and pencil shavings. It looks like someone just ground up a million pencils" Henry exclaimed, Rika scratched her red hair staring a perplexed gaze at Renamon. "I don't get it when we defeated Digimon they broke into data not pencil dust" Rika said.
Renamon nodded as she clutched the dust tightly in her claws, Guilmon stared worriedly to Takato. "But if that wasn't a Digimon what was he? And why did he bust up into pencil dust?" Guilmon asked, but Takato couldn't answer. He simply swallowed a cold fear of doubt down his throat, and stared at the dust. "I don't know Guilmon but whatever it means I'm sure it's really bad, and I got feeling we'll find out on Halloween" Takato said softly.
to be continued...
