Episode 7: Duke and Fangmon

Kyuubimon finally reached the parking lot of a WalMart and Ruki looked up on the roof, where everyone's attention was. "I guess it's up there," she suggested. "Let's go, Kyuubimon!" Kyuubimon ran and leaped onto the roof, where she found a dog-like Digimon with a very long snout and extremely sharp fangs was standing, looking the other way. It was just a little smaller than herself. "

"Should we attack...?" Kyuubimon asked. "After all, he doesn't seem to be causing any trouble..."

"It doesn't matter to me, just get 'im!" Ruki ordered, and jumped down.

"Very well... Dragon Wheel!" Kyuubimon called out, and rolled at the Digimon. Without turning, he jumped up and landed behind Kyuubimon. She halted to a stop and turn around. "You, what kind of a Digimon are you...?" Kyuubimon asked softly. "You don't seem to be causing trouble... Why are you here?" The Digimon simply growled and snapped his fangs, making Kyuubimon gasp slightly and get into a hesitant fighting position.

"Coffin Blaster!" the Digimon ordered, and a black beam flew from its mouth.

"Ah!" Kyuubimon leaped over it, the attack barely missing. She landed and looked back as she heard a train's horn in the distance. There were tacks only a matter of 15 yards from the roof they were on. She then brought her attention back to her opponet and its fangs snapped right in front of her face. She snapped back and the two began a dogfight.

"Man, now what..?" Ruki asked herself aloud. "There's no upgrades for THIS..." The two Digimon continued to fight as the horn got louder. Finally, Kyuubimon snapped a shot at the enemy's leg, and its foot was injured. He broke away from Kyuubimon and backed up a little. The train horn blew again, louder this time, and he looked past Kyuubimon. A few seconds later, the horn was EXTREMELY loud, and the train flew by them. The Digimon backed up a little, looking at Kyuubimon, then finally leaped onto the top of the train.

"Ruki, stay here so I can find you!" Kyuubimon ordered, and leaped onto the train as well.

"Does she really expect me to DO that..?" Ruki laughed a little to herself. She took a deep breath and made a running leap for the train. Since she was no Digimon, she didn't make it all the way across, but managed to barely grab a hold of a ladder than one on the side of a car. "Whoa, crap..!" She looked down, her feet only a few feet from the tracks. She struggled to pull herself up the later.

In the meantime, up about five cars, Kyuubimon was car-hopping across the train towards the Digimon. He was also running forward - but he didn't have much more space until the engine. Despite this, he continued to move. He finally ended up on the front of the engine. The horn blew once again, making him jump. He looked back to see Kyuubimon closing fast. He then looked forward again, wind blowing his thin layer of fur slightly. He saw something up ahead - a station! He sighed with relief as they neared it. He turned around again, right in time to see Kyuubimon diving at him. The collision caused the two to slam down right outside the platform of the station. Their fall wasn't deadly, however, since the train had begun to slow up. He escaped Kyuubimon's grasp once again and hopped onto the platform, running across it. Kyuubimon followed in hot pursuit. Finally, the train was moving at only around ten miles an hour as it crossed the platform. The two Digimon had reached a standoff at this point, since a building's side prevented their further movement. Ruki came hopping along the cars until she finally jumped off beside Kyuubimon and landed on one knee. She stood up straight and sighed.

"Alright, Kyuubimon, walk all over him..."

"Wait! Don't hurt Fangmon!" a little boy's voice came from seemingly nowhere. They all looked to see someone running towards them, and he slide in front of Fangmon. "Fangmon isn't bad! He's MY Digimon! He's nice!"

"Not if he was sent by that Gijinka, he isn't!" Ruki argued.

"No, I was waiting for this train here when he told me there was trouble! He went to stop it! See? He's a good Digimon!" The boy turned around to pet Fangmon.

"I'm sorry for any misunderstanding I may have caused," Fangmon apollogized. "I thought you were one of them. But I should've known from the fact that you have a Tamer with you.

"Exactly," Ruki said with a hint of anger in her voice. "You didn't have to try and rip us to shreds."

"Hey, I said I'm sorry. Besides, I'm the one that got injured."

"You're hurt?!" the boy cried in surprise and concern. "Where?!" Fangmon laughed.

"Duke, really, I'm fine."

"Duke?" Kyuubimon asked. "What an interesting name..."

"Yeah..." Duke sighed. "I got it from my Italian family history. I dunno why."

"You... Ruki..." Nyxmon's voice came from behind Ruki and Kyuubimon. They both turned as he appeared. "You can help me..."

"You're... Nyxmon, aren't you?" Ruki asked, a little scared for a change.

"So.. You've heard of me. I need you to lure a certain friend of yours out to me..."

"Shove it, loser! I'm not telling you where Ryan is!" Ruki snapped, backing up a little.

"Then I suppose I'll have to torture it out of you..." He slowly stepped forward and reached out, but Kyuubimon jumped in the way, growling.

"Don't you touch her..!" Kyuubimon warned.

"Step aside, fool, or I'll make you." The threats began to fly.

"I'll rip you apart limb by limb, you...!!"

"Hah! Seeing you try would be quite amusing..."

"How's this for amusing?! Fox Tail Inferno!!" Kyuubimon shot balls of blue flames at Nyxmon, but they simply went through him. He laughed in that evil tone of his.

"I don't even need this form to defeat you!" he taunted, and his shape took on physical armor. "Come at me, I dare you!" Suddenly, Fangmon leaped off of a wall to the side of Nyxmon and tackled him.

"Run, Kyuubimon!" he barked, and Ruki and Kyuubimon took off. Duke cimbled up on Fangmon's back as fast as he could and the two followed them.

"Argh..! Now you've done it...!" Nxymon grumbled as he stood up and watched them. He floated after them at high speed and began throwing black electro-orbs at them.

"We really need some help, here!" Ruki minded, and jumped on Kyuubimon's back so she didn't have to slow down. "Any ideas, Duke?!"

"Yeah, I've got one!" The area around them turned black as Duke hit 'Scan'. "Command: Upgrade! Bullet-time!" He echoed, and one everything returned to normal, Fangmon left Kyuubimon in the dust.

"Whoa..! Thanks, kid!" Ruki then hit the button as well. "Command: Upgrade! Bullet-time!" Kyuubimon darted off after Fangmon, and Nyxmon finally stopped.

"... I'll find him one day... And now Miss Makino and that Fangmon have a part as well... Hmp." Nyxmon turned away and faded just before another train flew past where he was standing.