Chapter 27: Down One Factory
"There has to be some way to get Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon to DNA digivolve!" Tai insisted.
"I dunno, Tai…personally, I think our best move would be to get all our mega digimon together and fight then, instead of trying to destroy it this way."
"That would leave our home base vulnerable! We need to find a way to get them to make it past the mega level, or we're finished!"
Yolei cut in, "I don't want my tombstone to read, 'she died because Tai and Matt argued so much, they didn't pay attention to the fight and got everyone creamed'!" (1)
"We need to make a decision about what we're going to do, here!" Matt answered
"But we need the decision now!" Yolei shot back.
Ghenki cut in, "What are those things you clapped together? What do they have to do with you trying to make your digimon evolve?"
Tai showed him the digivice. "If you have an idea how to make these things work, I'd be happy to hear it!"
"I…uh…Hmm!" Ghenki barely touched the screen of the digivice, and some kind of magnet-like forced Tai and Matt's digivices together.
"Wargreymon!"
"Metalgarurumon!"
"DNA digivolve to…Omegamon!"
"Okay, I was wrong: that did work," Matt thought aloud.
"Toldja," Tai answered.
Omegamon flew down in front of the Obelimn, and he could see that The Unnamed Figure was inside the Obelimn's heavily shielded cockpit.
The Unnamed figure gaped at this new digimon. He tried to use his analyzer tool on his D-Gauntlet to identify it, and he couldn't figure out what level it was. This was a mysterious new digimon, and he had to try and find out how to deal with it. But one thing was for sure: he'd need to defend the Obelimn from it. "Digi-modify! Digivolution, activate!"
"Ewemon, digivolve to…Impostrogarurumon!"
"Maggotmon, digivolve to…Pestilimon!"
"Jaymon, digivolve to…Nekhbetmon!"
"Digi-modify! Counter-crest digivolution, activate!"
"Impostrogarurumon, digivolve to…Houndramon!"
"Pestilimon, digivolve to…Centimon!"
"Nekhbetmon, digivolve to…Remon!"
"Blackgatomon, digivolve to…Wickemon!"
"And now, for the final stroke…" He put four pokéballs in his D-Gauntlet. "Digi-modify! Co-Op digivolution, activate!"
"Houndramon, Co-Op digivolve to…Saberus!"
"Centimon, Co-op digivolve to…Maggonet!"
"Remon, Co-Op digivolve to…Black Rook!"
"Wickemon, Co-Op digivolve to…Lilithium!" Lilithium looked somewhat human-like, but her skin was totally black, and she had a lot of metal on her body---metal that looked kind of like the hull of a spaceship.
Omegamon looked over the four super pokémon with a gulp. "Hey, we faced a million megas this way, before!" Tai thought aloud. "Four super pokémon shouldn't be a problem!"
"We'd better hope not, Tai," Matt answered.
"Tri Attack!"
"Zap Cannon!"
"Spike Cannon!"
"Ice Beam!"
Omegamon's sword extended from Wargreymon's head. "Omega Sword!" He reflected the attacks back in the super pokémon's faces.
The Unnamed Figure's mouth dropped wide open. "There is just…no…way!!! That thing is more powerful than super pokémon???"
Omegamon took the offensive: "Omega Cannon!" He fired a bolt of energy out at the four super pokémon, and they collapsed to the ground.
"Digi-modify! Recovery, activate! Digi-modify! Firepower, activate!" The Unnamed Figure unfortunately forgot that it was impossible to use his mod-cards on pokémon. He groaned in disgust. "I should've used their DNA digivolved forms!!" he groaned. "Too late, now…unless…" He took manual control of the Obelimn's weapons array, and the turret atop the cockpit aimed at Omegamon.
"Yonota!" the Obelimn shouted, firing a red blast straight at Omegamon. Omegamon staggered backwards.
"Now! While we have our chance! Tri Attack!"
"Thunder!"
"Faint Attack!"
"Ice Beam!"
Omegamon fell backwards. A block of ice froze onto his chest, and he could feel the electrocution, the heat, and the pounding of his opponent's attacks.
"Omegamon, no!!" Tai screamed.
"Omegamon, you have to get up!" Matt yelled. Omegamon didn't answer. He just lay on the ground.
The Unnamed Figure sneered. "Now," he said, switching off control of the weapons and changing it to steering control. "It's time for us to finish off this pest, and secure this island for the Linonian Empire, once and for all!!!" The Obelimn was poised to run Omegamon over. Just as it was about to crush him, Omegamon leapt up. The ice that had frozen him broke off, and he picked up the Obelimn and hurled it at the super pokémon. The super pokémon became their previous digimon's forms, along with a dodrio, a murkrow, a magnemite, and a sneasel.
"So much for them!" Omegamon shouted. "Omega Sword!" He hacked away at the Obelimn's spire-making arm with his blade, and, after a few strikes, the arm came off. "And now, for the big finish!" Omegamon stabbed the Obelimn with his sword several times, until it was so full of holes that it looked like a wedge of swiss cheese made out of metal. Then he stepped back, and he shot the Obelimn. Bits of it went flying everywhere.
"So much for us having to board that thing," Youngdramon thought aloud as she climbed off of Cygnusmon's back. "Oh, well…!"
"Hold everything," Tai said, picking up a piece of metal from the Obelimn's wreck. "Matt, what does this look like to you? What kind of metal is this?"
"It looks like…silver??"
"Why would they make this thing out of silver?"
"You've got me, Tai…you've got me. …But what are we standing around here, for? We have two pokémon trainers, three super Monsters, and one mega digimon slugging it out with catamarines! They need our help!"
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Youngdramon pointed out.
"You shouldn't underestimate us so much!" Davis shouted. "Those catamarines didn't know what hit 'em!"
"And the Obelimn didn't have time to figure out what hit it," Omegamon answered. "But there's something weird about it I think you should know."
"Aw, great! What's that? That there's more than one? That this whole thing is part of some conspiracy? Or is it that this control spire thing is nothing but a plot to obliterate Earth?"
"Not as far as we know. It's that it was made of silver."
"Huh??? …Okay, that's weird."
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"You know, I'm really, really disgusted with you all," The Unnamed Figure sighed.
"Give us a break!" Ewemon insisted. "We didn't see that thing coming!"
"No, you didn't…and I'll be the first one to admit that none of us had a chance to prepare for that fight. But I know how the system works with the Linonian Empire: they're going to look for someone to blame for this failure, and that means someone to kill. It was a close enough call that we got out of there alive; I'm not going to risk my life going back to the base without doing something to get back in the sub-major's good graces. I need to prove to him that I'm worth keeping alive and in his employment."
"But we're too weak to fight," Blackgatomon insisted. "We need to get a meal and some rest before we can fight again!"
"I know…" The Unnamed Figure spied a mother, carrying her baby in her arms. She held in one of her full hands a neon orange flyer that explained the situation of the heroes, and how there was a congregated group of people staying in the storm sewers. It was her last hope to get medical treatment and food for herself and her child.
The Unnamed Figure grinned. "Kill and eat them. That will give you enough meat for your meal." And without a pang of conscience, that is what his four digi-clones did. The Unnamed Figure picked up the flyer that the woman had been holding. "Hmm…you know how I was saying I needed to do something to put the sub-major back in a good mood?"
"Yeah," Ewemon said between bites.
"I think I've found just the thing…!"
(1) That line, "I don't want my tombstone to read…" was actually a steal from a Caliber comic, Lifequest. Lifequest is a pretty gripping story, too, and it has more pictures and less narration than MON: 2028. And Lifequest also riddled with Christian stuff, although I'm not sure why the author calls God by the name, "Grimmius" in the books. I didn't ask him when I had the chance. Oh, well.