NOTE: Christian content---although I suppose Muslims wouldn't find it offensive, since I simply call Him "God".

Chapter 40: Turnabout Is Still Fair Play

"Eindramon, mega digivolve to…Kamnadramon!" Kamnadramon looked like a color-inverted copy of Imperialdramon fighter mode. It was white all over, with tarnished silver where Imperialdramon wore gold, and its wings were blue and had holes in them that made one wonder how it could fly at all. But, unfortunately, it was very agile in the air.

"This doesn't look good for us, Henry," Megagargomon said.

"Your upgrade and speed mods should still be in effect," Henry answered. "Hit 'em hard and fast, and they should go down!"

"In your dreams," The Unnamed Figure taunted. "These two have a little…addition that the Empire thought would be necessary…Digi-modify! Mode change, activate!"

"Kamnadramon, mode-change to…Druid mode!"

Totemmon and Kamnadramon seemed to merge into one digimon. It looked kind of like Imperialdramon's fighter mode, but it was covered in a brown cloak, and its hands were wicked talons.

"You mean…?!" Henry's sentence trailed off. "In one of the movies that they never translated to English, Imperialdramon and Omegamon fused and Imperialdramon mode-changed to paladin mode! If this thing can merge with other megas and get new forms, then…it's got to be almost unstoppable!"

"Doesn't stop me from trying, Henry!" Megagargomon answered.

The Unnamed Figure chuckled back, "It stops you from succeeding, though! Show 'em, Kamnadramon!"

"Positron Laser!" it shouted, letting a pair of starbursts appear in its hands. It fired green blasts of deadly energy in Megagargomon's direction, but---thanks to Megagargomon's speed-mod---it couldn't land a hit.

"Mega Barrage!" Megagargomon shot back, sending missile after missile flying into Kamnadramon. Kamnadramon raised a fold of its cloak to block itself from the blast, and the cloak somehow deflected the missiles. "Great…this guy isn't a quitter, either…"

"Positron Laser!" It fired another pair of energy beams at Megagargomon, and Megagargomon flew up and over Kamnadramon to avoid the blasts.

As Megagargomon flew, he threw a punch at Kamnadramon's unprotected head. He landed a hit for the first time, and began following the hit up with another rapid-fire missile barrage.

Kamnadramon shook off the blow. It covered its face with its cloak again, and got ready to fire another blast of lasers at him.

"This isn't working, Megagargomon! Try ripping his cloak off from him! That'll make him vulnerable!"

"In your dreams," The Unnamed Figure shouted. "Digi-modify! Speed, activate!" In a blur, Kamnadramon dashed out from Megagargomon's rainstorm of missiles, circled around behind him, and grabbed him by the throat.

"Megagargomon!"

June, Ash, Gary, and Tracy dashed out of Cleaver's lab. "What's going on?" Ash asked.

"It digivolved up to mega, and now it's crushing Megagargomon!"

"Huh? …Then it's time for a little payback! Tyranitar, I choose you!"

"Ash, Tyranitar doesn't have a chance against Kamnadramon!" Henry yelled.

"He's not going for Kamnadramon…he's going for Terrance!" Ash pointed as The Unnamed Figure tossed out Magneton to defend against Tyranitar.

"Magneton, use Rollout!" he shouted. The trio of pokémon rolled at the huge dinosaur, and barely made a dent in his belly.

"Tyranitar, use Rock Slide!" Tyranitar looked pensive, but he obeyed Ash's command. The stony attack didn't do much damage, however. It only knocked Magneton to the ground. "Now that he's grounded, use Earthquake!" Tyranitar saw where this was going and blasted the Magneton with the attack. Magneton didn't last.

"Magneton, return! Sneasel, I choose you!"

"Sneasel, huh? That's an ice-type! Ice is weak against rock! Tyranitar, Rock Slide!"

"Sneasel, dodge!" Sneasel was too quick to be hit with the attack. "Now, Faint Attack!" Sneasel disappeared, and Tyranitar felt a few blows land on his chest. He shook them off.

"Tyranitar, we need something else to get at this guy! Try…try Sandstorm!" Ash shouted, draping his jacket over his face to keep the sand from getting into his mouth and eyes. Somehow, he didn't feel any sand. He took his jacket away from his face to see that The Unnamed Figure had his gauntlet's weapon aimed at his head. Sneasel had had enough time to freeze Tyranitar in a block of ice before Tyranitar's attack began.

"Playtime's over! You're all my prisoners!" The Unnamed Figure sneered. Megagargomon had already regressed back to Terriermon, and was too exhausted to do anything. Mandroids had grabbed and handcuffed June, Tracy, and Gary, already. The Unnamed Figure smiled at June, and June really didn't like the look of the smile. She knew he was a womanizer. She made a mental note to make sure she poisoned him, if she ended up his personal attendant. He seemed to know that she was thinking about him with dread, and so he let out an evil laugh. "This is going to be sweet…and I got what we came for!" He brandished the datacube in his hand. "I will get so rewarded for this!"

"Guess again! Dragon Bomb!" A blue sphere of light smacked the datacube out of his hands and sent it skidding across the pavement. Its plastic shell was broken, and it landed in a puddle of water. That datacube was history.

Youngdramon didn't stop there: she fired another shot at his gauntlet and knocked that to pieces, too.

"You just made a mistake that will cost you dearly! You'll never make it past my praze-ator-epio!"

"We won't need to," Cleaver answered, climbing up out of the lab.

"How did you get up here? You ought to be restrained and sedated!"

"Who by?" Cleaver asked, as if this conversation were going somewhere.

"The praze-ator-epio!"

"You mean like these guys?" Cleaver asked. He raised up an earlier version of the D-Gauntlet and pressed a few buttons on it. The Mandroids fell to the ground: Cleaver had commanded them to shut down.

"Not bad, but you've forgotten about Kamnadramon!"

"No we didn't!" T.K. shouted from behind him. "Freeze him, Ironarchaeopteryxmon!" T.K. shouted.

"Armadillomon, digivolve to…Ankylomon!"

"Patamon, digivolve to…Angemon!"

"Ankylomon!"

"Angemon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Archaeopteryxmon!"

"Archaeopteryxmon, mega-digivolve to…Ironarchaeopteryxmon! Cryo-gate!" A ring of icy energy flew at Kamnadramon with unbelievable speed and knocked it backwards.

"You think that your puny, original mega can fend off with my enhanced, super-charged one?"

"You're evil, we're good!" Cody shot back. "We serve a God of goodness, and he's more powerful than any god the Empire serves!"

"Oh, a religious struggle, huh?"

"It's a struggle between truth and lies," Cody shot back.

"Funny…deceit is the super-crest I used to make Eindramon digivolve. And deceit is how I infiltrated your base in the first place…sounds like powerful stuff, to me!"

"Truth is more powerful than that! Can your lies change a person's destiny for the better? Can they change what's really going on?"

"They changed my destiny for the better: the Empire will reward me for your destruction, and the destruction of Ironarchaeopteryxmon! Kamnadramon, you know what to do!"

"Positron Laser!" it shouted, firing a pair of beams at Ironarchaeopteryxmon. Ironarchaeopteryxmon was six stories tall and a big target, so he put his armored gauntlets between himself and the blast. He was knocked backwards and his gauntlets burst into data fragments. "You can't win this one!" Kamnadramon sneered.

"If I can't, then we will!" Ironarchaeopteryxmon spat.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Youngdramon, digivolve to…Ikudramon!"

"Tibemon, digivolve to…Savamon!"

"Ikudramon!"

"Savamon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Mermon!"

"Mermon, mega-digivolve to…WarMermon!"

The Unnamed Figure chuckled. "Your Ironarchaeopteryxmon was worthless against Kamnadramon! WarMermon won't be any better! You're just multiplying zero by two. What do you get when you do that? Anybody answer me! Anybody at all!"

"You get zero…from the Empire!" Tina spat.

"Positron Laser!"

"Macro Blaster!"

"Vocal Blaster!"

The two good digimon's attacks cancelled the evil laser blasts, but none of the digimon stopped shooting. "Digi-modify! Firepower, activate!" Kamnadramon began to gain ground as the point where the two shots cancelled began to move back towards the heroes. But just as the beam was about to land on WarMermon, she moved her axe between herself and the blast, reflecting it back into Kamnadramon's face.

"Mer Poleax!" WarMermon shouted as she flew in and slashed at Kamnadramon's protective cloak. It fell to the ground in a wrinkled heap. "Now, let's finish him!"

"Cryo-gate!" Ironarchaeopteryxmon shouted. Kamnadramon was frozen in place.

"Rapid-fire torpedo!" Shot after shot exploded in Kamnadramon's face and chest. In a cloud of smoke, it regressed back down to a quartet of beaten-up digi-clones.

"Ball game!" Tina shouted.

"And as for you---huh?!" T.K. looked at where The Unnamed Figure had been standing. "Where's he go?"

They looked off in the distance, and saw that he was riding a c-bird that was rapidly flying away from the JK Institute. WarMermon and Ironarchaeopteryxmon fired at it, but didn't land a hit.

"When is he going to stop?!" June asked.

"He won't until we stop him," Cody sighed.