Chapter 35: The Next Trick
"Silphymon, mega-digivolve to…Rainmyotismon!" Rainmyotismon was as genderless as any digi-clone, but it had the appearance of a very inadequately dressed human woman. Its body was covered in a clear raincoat, and the only things covering it from the eyes were three blue feathers that stuck around its back. One of its hands was a huge talon, and, in the other hand, it held an umbrella with an unpromising-looking trigger on its handle.
"Rainmyotismon?" Sora asked. "That doesn't sound too good!"
"I'm fed up with this weather, myself!" Youngdramon answered. "And I usually enjoy it!"
"Can you digivolve?" Sora asked Biyomon.
"I don't think I can, no," Biyomon croaked.
"It wouldn't matter if you could," The Unnamed Figure grinned, coming closer in to his digimon. "You're toast, either way. Show them what you can do, Rainmyotismon!"
Rainmyotismon opened its umbrella over itself and The Unnamed Figure. "Tsunami Monsoon!" it shouted, and immediately a flood-like downpour started. There was almost no visibility; they could only see a few meters outside the radius of Rainmyotismon's umbrella. But what they did see was that the watery attack was eroding away at the topsoil, and had already killed the grass around them. It was a wonder that they didn't drown themselves.
Eventually, curiosity won out. Rainmyotismon abated its attack a little to see what how the heroes were faring…and it saw one other digimon. It looked like a cross between an angel and a firefighter; its long raincoat was striped with reflective strips. It held a huge key in one hand and a chain in the other hand. Underneath its four wings, there were huddled a half-dozen orphans.
"What are you?!" Rainmyotismon snarled.
"The name is Abyssangemon, and I'm Swampangemon's mega form, but what I really am is your worst nightmare."
"Ha! You haven't nearly seen all my attacks! Magma Storm!" Rainmyotismon's watery attack ceased around Abyssangemon, but not anywhere else. The water was replaced by burning flecks of lava.
Abyssangemon's coat and wings were both fireproof, so the attack didn't hurt her or the children at all. In fact, it only served to warm up the freezing air around them. "Would you believe that actually feels good?" Abyssangemon asked.
"Then get a load of this! Acid Cloudburst!"
This next attack was equally ineffective, and just put a bad smell in the air. Abyssangemon said nothing, but impatiently tapped her foot on the ground.
"Fine! I'll show you who's the biggest fish in this pond!" Rainmyotismon stopped the rain attacks around itself altogether, and morphed its umbrella into a double-barreled rifle. "You're going down, now! Crimson ray!"
Abyssangemon's key glowed, and a heat rod extended out of the end of it. "Flaming Sword!" she answered, reflecting the magenta beam right back into Rainmyotismon's face. "That does it! I'm sick of you; time to end this once-and-for-all! Manacle Blaster!" She swung her chain at Rainmyotismon, and a bolt of pink lightning flew at it. It found itself instantly entangled in chains. "Justice Portal!" Abyssangemon swung her sword in a circle, and, similar to Magnaangemon's Gate of Destiny, a vortex opened in front of her. Rainmyotismon felt itself get sucked into the vortex, but it also felt something catch it. It looked, and it could see Paildramon's outline in the downpour outside.
"Paildramon, what are you doing?" Abyssangemon asked.
She saw Paildramon aim at her and fire. She was quick enough to deflect the shot away, but she also saw that the shot was orange, not blue: this wasn't Paildramon.
Indramon shouted, "Will you stop this rain, already, so that I can be invisible, again?"
"It's too bad, really…" Rainmyotismon sighed. "Oh, well…at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that I drowned them all…"
"No,"
"You,"
"Don't!" Three dragon-like heads stuck out of the mist of rain that hid the heroes' fate from view. One head had said each of the three words as it stuck out.
Bewildered, Rainmyotismon ceased the attack, only to find that Youngdramon had digivolved up to Hydramon, and was covering everyone with her wings from her Tsunami Monsoon.
Rainmyotismon roared in anger. "I'll get my revenge on you for this!"
"Oh, really?! Hydra Blaster!" Hydramon's three heads all spat beams of energy at Indramon and Rainmyotismon. Rainmyotismon felt the attacks damage its body.
"Looks like they need a hand," Renamon said.
"You're perfect for the job," Rika agreed, searching for her gold card…but it wasn't there! "Huh? But…it was right here last night!"
"You lost the warp-digivolving card?"
"Looks like I did, yeah…"
"Then I'll take this one, if-you-don't-mind!" Hare said, hoping to impress Renamon, again. "Davis! You have the digi-egg of courage?"
"It's right here, Hare! Knock yourself out!"
"Hare, module-evolve to…Firabbit!" Firabbit started shooting at Rainmyotismon. He also shot its rifle away so that it wouldn't be able to fire back. Indramon took pot-shots back at them, too, but Firabbit knocked them away with Bludgeon Blade.
"We have to make sure that thing de-digivolves and go back down to Blackgatomon and Jaymon!" Yolei shouted. "If we don't, they'll regroup and attack again!"
"And they're getting away!" Firabbit said, reflecting another shot away.
Brock tossed out a pokéball. "Crobat, try to distract them! Use Supersonic attack!"
Indramon covered its ears from the noise. "Ugh! Will you stop that thing, already?!" it shouted to The Unnamed Figure.
"That I will! Magneton, use Thundershock!" Magneton zapped Brock's flying pokémon out of the air.
"Ack! Crobat, return!"
"These guys really don't want to stop," Firabbit said.
"And we have to stop them, and we have to now!" Kari moaned.
"I have one idea," Brock said.
"Is it crazy?" Tina asked.
"Not very, no."
"Too bad."
Brock pulled his fire stone out of his pocket. "Let's see what this does for advanced Monsters!" He threw it at Firabbit. "Firabbit, catch!"
Firabbit caught the stone, all right, and he felt a strange surge of energy race through his matrix. The stone fell to the ground as his hands changed into weapons. "Mega Flame Cannons!" he shouted, firing a pair of huge fireballs at Rainmyotismon. Both shots squarely hit it, but---like most digi-clones---it took more punishment than usual to bring it down. Firabbit picked up the stone a second time, felt that same energy surge, and fired again. That did it: Rainmyotismon regressed back to Blackgatomon and Jaymon. Unfortunately, Indramon was left to be dealt with.
"After two attacks like that, I'd think that you'd be so tired that you'd lose your module-evolution," Abyssangemon said, keeping her eyes on Indramon.
"Actually, no," he answered. "In fact, I think I got more energy out of that than I put in!"
The Unnamed Figure snarled. "I've had enough of this! Indramon, get me out of here! These pests aren't worth my bother!"
Abyssangemon and Firabbit took pot-shots at him as he left, but didn't take Indramon down.
"Do we follow him?" Firabbit asked.
Abyssangemon shook her head. "It might just be a trap. It's not worth the risk."
"Yeah…but who was he?"
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"Well, that certainly went well!" Ewemon said.
Out of anger and rage, The Unnamed Figure kicked Blackgatomon. "You're useless! And you're no better, Jaymon! With this failure stacked on top of all the others, I'll never get back into the Empire!"
"But you know where their base is!" Maggotmon pointed out.
"Sure…I tell the Sub-major where the base is one time, and then my usefulness is over. Then he'll hand me the Linonian idea of a pink slip: the electric chair!"
"But isn't your infiltration enough to convince him you're worth his time?"
"Not if it takes two weeks for me to get the information!"
"You can blame the delay on a time anomaly," Blackgatomon pointed out, nursing its wounds.
"No…I can't appear before the Empire empty-handed." He sat down and buried his hands in his pockets. But his fingers wrapped around an object in his pocket…it was flat and rectangular. He pulled it out of his pocket and looked it over. It was the warp-digivolving card. His despairing frown turned into an evil sneer, and he nodded as he said, "Then again…I won't be empty-handed…!"