Chapter 51: Victory Keeps Shifting

"Raptormon, co-op digivolve to…Terrasaurus Rex!"

"Cicadamon, co-op digivolve to…Mantaser!"

The Unnamed Figure had to admit that these two were nothing to sneer at: Terrasaurus Rex was much bigger than his two super pokémon, and Mantaser's sickle blade looked very sharp… "Maggonet, supersonic attack!"

"Mantaser, hit him with Zap Cannon before he can go there!" Tracy shouted. Mantaser's claw opened, and a cannon stuck out and shot Maggonet. It scored a direct hit.

"Saberus, use Super Fang on Terrasaurus Rex!"

"Terrasaurus Rex, use Earthquake!" The ground shook beneath Saberus's feet so much that he couldn't move. "Great work, Terrasaurus Rex! Now, try Rock Slide!" Terrasaurus Rex tilted its head backwards, and then snapped it forward again. A slab of rock flew out of its horn and smacked Saberus.

"Saberus, use Swift attack!" A barrage of yellow stars shot out at Terrasaurus Rex. Being a rock-type, the attack didn't do much. "Now, use Fly!" Saberus made a completely unexpected move as a pair of bat-like wings extended from its back and it flew into the air. Its attack wasn't very effective against Terrasaurus Rex, though.

"Mantaser, try Double Team!" Mantaser seemed to clone himself into a dozen copies, and Maggonet really didn't know which one to attack.

"Maggonet, Lock-on!" A laser beam flew out of Maggonet's eyes and disrupted each clone, then the beams hit Mantaser. He was sighted for Maggonet's next attack.

"Maggonet, use Sonic Boom!" A tornado of sonic energy flew at Mantaser, and Mantaser couldn't dodge.

"Ash, this isn't getting us anywhere…let's switch opponents!"

"Fine by me! Terrasaurus Rex, use Earthquake on that Maggonet!"

"NO!!" The Unnamed Figure shouted. He was too late: Maggonet was definitely feeling the effects of the ground attack on its electric body.

"Mantaser, power up with Swords dance, and then use Metal Claw on Saberus!" Mantaser flew at Saberus with his sickle ready to attack.

"Saberus, Tri attack!" The fire attack was easy to dodge, the electric was a little more difficult, and the ice attack hit him squarely in the chest. But he had a half-steel body, so it wasn't effective. Mantaser stabbed Saberus, and Saberus regressed back to Dodrio and Ewemon.

Meanwhile, Tai and Matt were having no success attacking the In-tor-net. "All right…let's try all our attacks together. On the count of three. One, two three!"

"Nova Force!"

"Terra Destroyer!"

"Metal Wolf Snout!" The three attacks flew at the force field, and all three were absorbed.

"This is unbelievable!" Tai spat.

"Let's go for Omegamon, Tai!" Matt said.

"Right!" They clapped their digivices together…and nothing happened.

"Ghenki, whatever you did to make Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon digivolve the last time, do it again!"

"I don't see what there is for me to do…I mean, all I did was just barely touch the screen…maybe I accidentally jiggled one of the buttons on it…?"

Tai wiggled the buttons on his digivice, and that didn't help either. "Aw, man!!"

"It's not getting any prettier, Tai!" Matt said as he saw man-droids fusing into another giantor.
"What're we supposed to do?! …Wargreymon, take care of that giantor, while Blackwargreymon and Metalgarurumon go for the force field!"

"On it, Tai!"

"Don't count me out!" Mantaser shouted as he flew after Wargreymon to intercept the giantors.

The In-tor-net was getting ideas of its own: "Yon YoNon!" it shouted, firing a huge ray blast at them.

Blackwargreymon took off his wing panels and made them into a shield. It reflected the blast into the air. "Perhaps digging under the earth and getting at it from there would be useful," Blackwargreymon suggested.

"We don't have any super-powerful digging digimon; the closest thing would have to be Excavatemon or Moleg…but we didn't bring either of those…!"

"I've got it covered," Ash answered, as he had the Unnamed Figure in a headlock, Maggonet down for the count, and Terrasaurus Rex advancing against the In-tor-net. "Terrasaurus Rex, dig underground and attack that menace machine!"

"Not so fast, kid!" The Unnamed Figure hurled Ash away from himself. Pikachu tried without success to shock The Unnamed Figure for that. "I've still got the trump card!" He brandished a black card that had a few Linonian characters written on it. "Recognize this?"

"This doesn't look good, Guilmon," Takato said. "Time for action! Digi-modify! Upgrade, activate! Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"

"Guilmon, warp-digivolve to…Gallantmon!"

"Two can play at this game! Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"

"Keramon, warp-digivolve to…Armagemon!"

"Demidevimon, warp-digivolve to…Venommyotismon!"

Tai stood with his mouth wide open. "You've…you've got to be kidding me!"

"You wish, Tai…you wish…"

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

Okay, okay…maybe saying that Devimon's ultimate form is Myotismon is a little bit of a stretch, but, then again, maybe not. You see, Devimon had a red, bat-like insignia on his chest, and Myotismon carries that same insignia on his shoulders and hands. Venommyotismon also has that insignia on his hands, so it's not that big a stretch to say that they're in the same evolution chain. Also, I've noticed that mega forms and champion forms of digimon tend to have a lot in common: Greymon shoots fireballs, and Wargreymon shoots fireballs. Garurumon fires a blue blast of energy out his mouth, and so does Metalgarurumon. Imperialdramon's attack is Positron Laser, a similar name to Vee Laser. Also, this attack---in fighter mode, anyway---comes out of his wrist, the same place where Lightning Spike comes out with Stingmon. So, you can see, there is a correlation between the champion and mega forms of digimon. Venommyotismon and Devimon seem to fit the bill: both have two, long horns, very long arms, and wings that look like somebody shot them with an UZI. So I really don't think this is that big a stretch.