Chapter 41: Speed = Distance / Time = ?????
"What's going on, up there?" Tiger asked as he saw that refugees were coming out of the shaft instead of into it.
"They're getting us from both sides!"
"Trapped underground and losing the battle…where's Mole Sprite?"
"She's unconscious at the top!"
Tiger snarled. "This is a gamble, but I think that one of your digimon should evolve and counterattack!"
Mimi shouted, "But if we're attacked later, then---"
"There isn't going to be a later!"
"Palmon, digivolve to…Togemon! Needle Spray!" Togemon fired her barrage of needles into the mandroids and finished them off. "Now what? It'll be too slow to get the people out of here up the manhole!"
"But the shaft is swarming with tor-mites! We can't go that way!"
"Then I guess that Pixie is already yesterday's obituary?"
"Probably…"
"If we stay in here, we'll be attacked again."
"Then the only way out of here would be through the water…and I don't trust that."
"We can't just stay here all day, we've got to get out of here, before---" Joe's sentence trailed off as he heard explosions and laser welders working away at the shaft they had made, widening it and advancing towards them.
"Togemon, digivolve!" Mimi screamed.
"Togemon, digivolve to…Lillymon!" Lillymon was ready to blast whatever was coming through the hole, but it didn't look like any menace machine they'd ever seen. She wasn't going to fire yet; she wanted a good, hard look at this thing, so that she'd be able to find a weakness, and---
Her mouth dropped open as she recognized this creature: it was Moleg. He was holding Pixie in his arms, and he was the one who had dug the hole. It was easy to guess that he had also finished the tor-mites. He smiled and asked, "You going up?"
The refugees packed out of the hole in the ground to get back to sunlight, back to freedom, back to…a thunderstorm.
"Great. Perfect weather to make a mass escape in, isn't it?" Mimi asked.
"The weather is the least of our worries, Mimi!" Joe shouted. "How are we going to find the others? We're separated from Takato and the other monsters! We need to get back to them, somehow!"
"Too late!" a voice shouted. It was Rainmyotismon, again.
"Who are you?!" Mimi asked.
"Your worst nightmare, of course! You're all going to drown, now!"
"Yeah, I know. But I don't see what you have to do with that," Mimi shot back.
"You will…Tsunami Monsoon!" What happened next was more like a tidal wave than a rainstorm. But it swept them off their feet and made it impossible to breathe.
"Gomamon, digivolve to…Ikkakumon! Harpoon Torpedo!" The missile flew at Rainmyotismon and did almost nothing along the line of damage. Ikkakumon did his best to swim toward the refugees and digidestined and give them something to hold on to to keep afloat.
"That was entertaining!" Rainmyotismon sneered, ending the attack. "Now, for a little---"
"Ikkakumon, digivolve to…Zudomon! Horn Taser!" The bolt of lightning knocked Rainmyotismon backwards, but didn't do much else.
"I've had enough of you!" Rainmyotismon ended its water attack and morphed its umbrella into a laser weapon. "Crimson Ray!"
Zudomon put his hammer between himself and the ray, and he felt himself get blown backwards by the beam. He skidded almost a block away from her, and---when he looked at what the shot had done to his hammer---he saw a bite taken out of it that almost tore the hammer in two.
"Flower Salvo!"
"Energy Wedge!"
"Lightning!"
The three attacks flew at Rainmyotismon, but it turned its gun back into an umbrella and deflected them all. "You don't have a hope against me!" it shouted.
"But I do!" Gabumon stepped in and snarled. "I owe you a good thrashing for getting my fur wet!" he shouted. "Gabumon, warp-digivolve to…Metalgarurumon! Ice wolf claw!" He fired a blast of ice at Rainmyotismon, but it deflected that with its umbrella, too.
"Oh, so you're sending an ice-power digimon at me, huh? Well, you fight ice with fire!" The fabric of its umbrella became a silver alloy, and it used it to shelter itself from her next attack: "Magma Storm!"
Metalgarurumon stood over Matt as the lava rain swept over them.
"Metalgarurumon, you can't take this forever!"
"I don't plan…to need to…! Metal Wolf Snout!" A few laser beams shot out of his nose, and struck Rainmyotismon squarely. It staggered and its attack ceased. "Ice Wolf Claw!" He fired the attack at Rainmyotismon, but it made an unexpected move: a pair of wings that looked like a cross between bat wings and umbrella spokes jutted out its back, and it flew above the ice.
"Surprised I can fly? Don't be. Crimson Ray!"
"Metal Wolf Snout!" The two attacks cancelled.
"Just give up while you're ahead, big-shot!" it shouted. "You don't stand a chance!"
"You think you're great at making it rain, but so am I! Metal Wolf Claw!" Missiles flew at Rainmyotismon like a rainstorm, and it was frozen solid in a block of ice before long. "That's the end of that digi-clone! Now, to finish it off---"
"Mega Destroyer!" A purple beam of energy flew at Metalgarurumon, but he was quick enough to dodge.
"Who's that?!" Joe asked.
"That's Kamnadramon!" Matt answered. "And look who he's with!"
The Unnamed Figure stood proudly atop Kamnadramon's shoulder. "Surprised to see me back? Heh. I just attacked your friends at the Jacqueline-Keeves Institute, and I really didn't like the way it went. Payback time! Digi-modify! Mode change, activate!"
"Kamnadramon, mode-change to…"