Chapter 23: Round Two
"The last time we made an assault like this, we got creamed," Cygnusmon insisted.
"We're going to make it look like we're using the same tactics as the last time. Same digimon for the welcoming committee---different pokémon trainers, though---and we use the same attack plan---except that we add Gallantmon, Ironarchaeopteryxmon and Mole Sprite form to the list for our attack party."
"And…what if something goes wrong with us in the welcoming committee?" June asked.
"That's why you have an ace up your sleeve: Rika and Renamon."
"Huh?" They looked to their left, and Renamon was carrying Rika and jumping from building to building to keep up with Cygnusmon.
"I just hope that Rika will be able to pick up the warp-digivolving card after I use it," Takato cut in.
"Just make sure you can use it," Yolei answered.
"I will, don't worry."
Cygnusmon fired a laser shot at the obelaser in front of them and destroyed it before it could fire. "We must be getting close," Cygnusmon thought aloud.
"We are," Yolei answered, looking at her digivice's radar. "Let's do our thing!"
"Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"
"Guilmon, warp-digivolve to…Gallantmon!" Takato threw down the warp-digivolving card. "It's all you now, Rika!"
"Suezo, module-evolve to…Saw-Grass!"
"Youngdramon, digivolve to…Ikudramon!"
Tina touched her digi-egg of adventure to Pixie. "Pixie, module-evolve to…Mole Sprite!"
"You be careful this time, Mom!" Tina shouted up to her mother.
"I will!" she yelled back as they parted company.
"All right, let's get this show on the road!" Tina shouted.
Looking down at the gorillouts that were racing out of the Obelimn's back door, Ikudramon added, "…And here comes the audience! Hopefully, this'll be a stunning performance! Dynamo blaster!" Her lightning shots barely fazed the gorillouts.
"Not yet, Ikudramon! We have some business to attend to, first!" Tibemon yelled back. "Tibemon, digivolve to…Savamon!"
"Now! Let's do our thing!" June yelled.
"Ikudramon!"
"Savamon!"
"DNA digivolve to…Mermon!"
The gorillouts stopped and stood all in a row. "YoNon Gazrii!" they shouted, firing blue spheres of energy out at them.
"Mer poleax!"
"Roto-saw!"
Saw-Grass and Mermon reflected the shots away.
"They're coming in for short-range!" June yelled.
"That's a move they'll regret!" Brock shouted. "Graveler, Steelix! Go!"
Gary threw out some more pokéballs. "Machamp, Hitmonchan! Go!"
"Time to get this party started," Mermon shouted.
Renamon looked down from one of the rooftops. "Rika, this doesn't exactly look like the best of fights for them."
Rika nodded. "And I owe Tina one. We need to get the warp-digivolving card back and join in. But where did it go?"
"I think I see it," Renamon answered, looking at a golden-metallic gleam on the street. "There's only one problem: I don't see how we can get it; it's right in the middle of that fight!"
"There's a way I can think of," Rika thought aloud. "Digi-modify! Hypersonic, activate!" Renamon ran into the fight at top speed to get the card, and she picked it up…but before she could escape the fight, she was hit over the head with one of the gorillouts' huge, hammy fists. "Renamon!" Rika shouted down to her. There was no answer. Steelix pulled Renamon into the cluster of humans in the middle to keep her from getting more hurt.
"There is only one way to that card," Rika gulped. Unless---!!" She looked again, and she saw a metallic object go flying out of the fight, just to where the gorillouts' feet were. Rika slid down the downspout of the building, and she looked at the fight. She gulped: she knew that she risked getting killed if she jumped in to that fight. Looking up at the sky, she said to herself, "My soul is secured…here…I…go!" She ran at the fight with her head low. She couldn't avoid being seen by one of the gorillouts, and it made a shout of alarm to its friends. Rika snatched up the card and rolled away as one of the gorillouts' feet came slamming down on the spot where she had just been. She swiped it through her digivice without even saying a word.
"Renamon, warp-digivolve to…Sablemon!" Sablemon leapt up from the fight and unloaded shot after shot at the gorillouts, taking them out for the tired and injured group of heroes.
There was a problem, though: five of the gorillouts didn't go down before… "Praze-tor-epio! Noh kreshnaiona djom…Praze-tor-arliitu!" The gorillouts combined into a giantor. "Yon YoNon Gazrii!" it shouted, firing a wave of energy at Sablemon. Sablemon fell to the ground and regressed back to Renamon.
This was clearly not good. They needed someone to make it to the mega level; otherwise, that giantor would win. Tina thought hard, and she remembered how Archaeopteryxmon, a DNA digivolved digimon, unexpectedly had made it to the mega level. Nobody had seen that coming. For all they knew, it might happen again. Tina looked a June with a look that said, "Let's get going!!"
June had been thinking about the exact same thing, and she returned Tina's look with an expression that replied, "And let's keep going!"
"Mermon, mega-digivolve to…"