Chapter 37: Anything You Can Do…

"Digi-modify! Digivolution, activate!"

"Ewemon, digivolve to…Impostrogarurumon!"

"Maggotmon, digivolve to…Pestilimon!"

"Digi-modify! DNA digivolution, activate!"

"Impostrogarurumon!"

"Pestilimon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Eindramon!"

"Great, this guy, again!" Ash sighed. "Kingler, Noctowl, I choose you!"

"What do you think he's here for, Ash?" Tracy asked, referring to The Unnamed Figure.

"I don't know, but he won't be able to do it if we stop him once-and-for-all!"

The Unnamed Figure sneered. "You'll see what I'm up to in due time---or not! Eindramon, go to stealth mode and keep these two busy. I have work to do."

"Eindramon, mode-change to…stealth mode!"

Eindramon was once again invisible to the naked eye. But Ash knew what to do: "Noctowl, use confusion!" A field of blue light showed where Eindramon was, despite its stealth mode. "Now, Kingler, use Hyper Beam on it!" Kingler fired his deadly attack at Eindramon and dealt damage. "Tracy, you've got to figure out what he's up to! Go after him! Kingler will cover you."

"Eindramon will be able to take a lot of what you're dishing out, and someone has to protect the family!"

"There's all kinds of stuff in the JK Institute, Tracy! He could be after anything---or everything, for that matter! Somebody has to stop him, and, if you don't, who will?"

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"What're you here for?" Terriermon asked.

"You think you can just barge in here whenever you feel like it?" June asked.

"We're doing an important experiment!" Gary snarled.

"So am I: how much can smoke can a human being inhale and still live?" The Unnamed Figure dropped a smoke bomb on the ground.

Covering his mouth, Gary shouted, "Fearow, blow the smoke away with Whirlwind!" When the smoke cleared, The Unnamed Figure was still searching Cleaver's lab for something.

"Big mistake, not making yourself scarce! Bunny Blast!" Terriermon shouted, spitting a green fireball at him.

The Unnamed Figure pressed another button on his gauntlet, made a force field appear around his hand, and absorbed the shot completely. "I'm not leaving without the secret to Co-op digivolution!"

"Let's see you steal it with us around!"

"Okay…let's! Murkrow, Magneton, Sneasel, Houndoom! Watch my back while I download some software!"

"Jynx, Arcanine, Jolteon! Try and break up his party!" Gary turned around. "Cleaver, June, go outside. Get help!" He added in a whisper, "And, if you find another trainer, you know what to do."

June nodded.

Henry said, "You're not staying out of this fight, Terriermon! Digi-modify! Upgrade, activate!"

Terriermon joined Gary's pokémon in fighting The Unnamed Figure's quartet, while June dashed up the stairs with Tibemon.

"You think he'll erase all Cleaver's work?" Tibemon asked.

"Gary's smart enough not to let him do that."

"Even if he does, it's all backed up," Cleaver said. He brandished a datacube that he had hidden in his robe's pocket.

"Then let's get back to base and get---!!" June screeched to a halt as a blast of orange energy ripped up the ground in front of her. She looked around for the source, but didn't see it until a blue glow revealed Eindramon's outline.

"I wish Tina was here, so we could DNA digivolve and get an ultimate on our side!" Tibemon moaned.

"What're you talking about? Aren't you forgetting something?"

"…Oh, yeah: you have your crest! Tibemon, digivolve to…Savamon!"

"Now, let's do that again!"

"Savamon, digivolve to…Amazonmon!" Amazonmon looked a lot like Savamon, but she was armed with a bow-and-arrow, not a spear. She had black boots on her feet and wore metal bands around her arms and legs. "Show me your ugly face, Eindramon!"

"I'll show you my attack! Sleight of Hand!"

Amazonmon jumped up, since she didn't know where the attack would come from. It was a near miss. Amazonmon fired a blind shot back: "Energy Quarrel!" The purple arrow flew into the distance and didn't hit anything.

"You're no match for me!" Eindramon shouted, firing a second time at Amazonmon. Amazonmon jumped out of the way again.

"June, you know what to do!"

"Right!" June raced towards Ash. "Ash, you need to pick one of your pokémon and send it through my digivice!"

"…Huh?"

"Trust me!"

"…Fine, then! Pikachu, go!"

"Pi-ka!" Pikachu shouted, jumping onto June's digivice.

"Amazonmon, Co-op digivolve to…"

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Now this one was too short! …It seems like I'm really not giving the Monster Rancher crew enough time in the spotlight. I've got to change that.

By the way, special thanks to Gigadramon Yagami from Megchan's Digimon Message Board for drawing that picture of Eindramon for me so that I could use it to make that stealth mode animation!