Chapter 24: Ding-ding-ding!!!
"Mermon, mega-digivolve to…WarMermon!" WarMermon, like her ultimate form, had golden armor covering her chest. But she also had a steel retiarius's gauntlet covering her left arm, and her axe had a blade at each end of the pole. She looked up at the giantor. "So, if it's the digivolving game we're playing, then let's get this game started!"
"Yon YoNon Gazrii!" the giantor shouted at her, firing a wave of energy her way. Using her four, spherical thrusters, she dodged above the wave.
"This is your swan song, big guy! Vocal Blaster!" A green beam flew out of WarMermon's mouth, and a beautiful note sounded out from her throat, too. It was hard to label an emotion to that note, but it seemed to carry enough emotion to destroy anyone's heart. The giantor stumbled backwards from the blast.
"Finish that thing off, WarMermon!" June shouted.
"I was planning on just that. Rapid-Fire Torpedo!" WarMermon yelled, spinning her axe. Missiles flew out of the ends of her axe every time the axe was aimed at her opponent. Explosion after explosion smacked the giantor in the chest until it fell backwards. Then she raised her axe above her head and pounded it into the giantor's chest. It was finished.
"Whoa…what do we do now?" Saw-Grass asked.
"We see if the others need any assistance," WarMermon answered. "Let's get rolling!"
"Right behind you!" Saw-Grass shouted, jumping on Steelix's back as they rode after the Obelimn. "How you doing, Renamon?"
"I've felt better."
"I bet," Saw-Grass mused.
The Obelimn was right in front of them, and it began firing lasers at them the second it saw them.
"Mer Poleax!" WarMermon shouted as she reflected the beams back at the Obelimn. Unfortunately, the Obelimn was heavily armored, and the shots reflected right off the armor.
"Okay, that isn't very good," WarMermon thought aloud.
"Try your short-range attacks on its arm, WarMermon!" Tina yelled up to her.
"Mer poleax!" WarMermon repeatedly struck the arm, but she wasn't able to break it off before a shot from one of the Obelimn's mega cannons forced her away. "That didn't work, either!"
"There just has to be some way to get this thing!"
"There are four megas fighting it, and we still can't beat it!" WarMermon shouted to the others. "I think we need another strategy!"
"Uh…aim for the inside! Destroy those turrets under the backside and then try to open the garage-door thingy under its platform!" Tina suggested.
WarMermon slashed at the gun turrets under the Obelimn's back. The shots from them were only champion-level firepower, but the guns still had too much armor on them for WarMermon to destroy more than one of them. It took multiple hits from even her strongest attacks to destroy the one, and WarMermon felt more than a little angry about it. "This isn't working!" WarMermon groaned.
"See what the door is like!" June yelled. WarMermon quickly found out that the door was just as heavily armored as the rest of the Obelimn.
"Try shooting the windows!"
"Been there, done that!" Ironarchaeopteryxmon shouted.
"Then what's left to try?"
"I have one idea. But only one, and we can't do it now," Yolei shouted.
"What's that?" everyone else asked.
"Get back to base, and I'll explain it!"
As they were turning away, Tina shouted up to WarMermon, "Before we go, let's pick some mushrooms, shall we? Those mushrooms' necks can't be too strong."
WarMermon took the hint and slashed at the mushrooms inside the Obelimn's body. That stopped the Obelimn's spire-making operation, and forced it to return to its base for repairs, too.
WarMermon picked up Tina and June, and Saw-Grass took back Takato and Guilmon. The rest rode back on Cygnusmon or Steelix's backs.
"Say, WarMermon? Let's not go straight back to base. Or, at least, don't drop me off there. Put me at the mausoleum where Mom and Kari were keeping the orphans."
"Why's that?"
"I…want to see Ingrid again."
"Okay…if you say so. But I think that Youngdramon should stay with you, once I split into Youngdramon and Tibemon again."
"So Tibemon and I get to walk home," June thought out loud. "Swell."