Chapter 52: Swing Digivolution

"All right…so…if we don't make Omegamon, we're basically toast, right?" Tai asked.

"You tell me; you're the leader, Tai!"

"…If he's got clones of those two, then, chances are, those clones are going to have the same weaknesses as the megas we faced before!"

"What are their weaknesses?" Ash asked.

"Forget it! You and Terrasaurus Rex need to take care of that In-tor-net!" Davis shouted.

"…Fine! Terrasaurus Rex, ignore those two and go for the In-tor-net!"

"Don't let them go there, Armagemon!" The Unnamed Figure shouted.

"Let them go there, Gallantmon!" Takato shouted. "Show 'em what you're made of!"

"Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon's shot hit Armagemon squarely, and that clone felt it. But it wasn't interested in Gallantmon: it was going to obey orders.

"Terminator Blaze!" A fireball flew out of Armagemon's mouth out at Terrasaurus Rex. Terrasaurus Rex dodged out of the way just as the flame flew at him, and the fireball was absorbed into the In-tor-net's force field. It was a good thing he had dodged, too, since another Yon YoNon attack bit into the ground where he had been sitting a moment ago.

"Venommyotismon, if you would kindly handle that other mega…?"

"Lightning Glare!" A quartet of white lasers flew out of his belly at Gallantmon. Gallantmon extended his shield and felt the attacks land. They knocked him backwards, almost into the force field, but he managed to keep alive.

"Careful, Gallantmon," Wargreymon shouted as he torched another few gorillouts before they could fuse into giantor. "Those two are super-powerful; we might not be able to take them without evolving again!"

"I just wish that were possible…too bad, huh? We'll have to take the next best thing, I guess…Takato?"

"Time to play one of our trump cards, boy! …Not literally a card, but still…"

"Gallantmon, mode-change to…Crimson mode!"

"That pitiful cross between an angel and a knight is meant to destroy me?!" Venommyotismon asked. "This is a joke! Lightning Glare!"

"Invulnerable Sword!" Gallantmon reflected the attack right back into Venommyotismon's face. "And you're the butt of this joke!"

"Whoa…Gallantmon…!" Takato mumbled. "Gallantmon, your upgrade mod should still be working! Use it hard and fast!"

"That I will, Takato…Lightning Joust!" Bolts of electricity flew out of his swords and jumped onto Armagemon and Venommyotismon. They both felt the effects.

"I just thought of something," Davis shouted. "I know they were powerful, but if we all focus our attacks on them one at a time, they won't stand a chance!"

"It's worth a shot," Tracy agreed. "Mantaser, use Zap Cannon!"

"Terrasaurus Rex, use Rock Slide!"

"Nova Force!"

"Metal Wolf Claw!"

"Terra Destroyer!"

"Lightning Joust!" The six attacks flew at Venommyotismon, and he regressed back down to Demidevimon.

The Unnamed Figure had a pretty good guess that this was it for his fight unless he could get some help. There was only one obvious answer.

"Yon YoNon Gazrii!" He began summoning giantors from everywhere to converge on the In-tor-net to destroy the mega digimon that were attacking.

"Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon shouted, trying to cancel the attacks before they could touch him. He eventually got hit and fell to the ground.

"This is total chaos!" Blackwargreymon shouted, dodging two attacks at once.

"Terrasaurus Rex, dig underground and waste on that In-tor-net before things get any worse!"

"Too late!" Armagemon shouted. "Black Rain!" Ash didn't like the sound of that, and immediately fished his raincoat from his backpack…not that he knew what good that would do. He saw black drops of something fall out of the sky…it looked like oil! "He's going to ignite this stuff!" Ash shouted. "Blastoise, Totodile, Lapras, I choose you!"

"Azumerril, I choose you!"

"They won't be able to save you," the Unnamed Figure sneered.

"But them and Blackwargreymon will! Totodile, rain dance! Blastoise, Hydro pump! Lapras, Ice Beam!"

"Azumerril, Water gun!" Instead of firing those attacks at Armagemon, they fired the attacks off into the air.

"Black Tornado!" Blackwargreymon shouted, catching the cold, wet attacks in his tornado and siphoning them off into Armagemon's fire attack. The oil was never ignited.

"Guys, we need to get out of here right now!" Ghenki shouted. "He's just going to shoot off another fireball again, and that will ignite this stuff and wipe us out!"

"We've got it covered: Lapras, Blastoise, Totodile, Water gun!"

"Azumerril, water gun!" The four pokémon began washing the oil on the ground away from them.

"I've had my fill of these annoying brats!" the Unnamed Figure snarled. "Armagemon, it's time to---"

He didn't finish his sentence: Wargreymon hurled a fireball into the oil that was near the Unnamed Figure and ignited it. The Unnamed Figure was in shock for a moment, but it wasn't long before his arrogance reasserted itself. "You think that's funny, huh? I'll show you!"

"Terrasaurus Rex, will you start digging, already?!" Ash spat.

"We'll hold him off as long as we can!"

Tai shouted to Ghenki, "I'm not sure what it was that you did with my digivice to make Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon DNA digivolve, but now would be a good time to do it again!"

Ghenki said, "I'm telling you, all I did was barely touch the screen, and then suddenly---" Ghenki touched the screen just to demonstrate, and, once again…

"Wargreymon!"

"Metalgarurumon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Omegamon!"

"Finally!" Tai sighed. "How come it only happens when you touch the screen?"

"I dunno…but at least they DNA digivolved."

"Omega Cannon!" The green fireballs flew at the giantors that were so steadily attacking. Each shot demolished another fifteen-plus giantors.

"Don't interfere!" Armagemon hissed. "Terminator Blaze!"

"Invulnerable Sword!" Gallantmon reflected the attack right back in Armagemon's face. "This time, you're not going to win!"

It wasn't long before Omegamon finished off all the giantors, and the new crops of fusing man-droids were well within the ability of Ash's and Tracy's pokémon, let alone Blackwargreymon and Mantaser.

"Now, while they're distracted, Terrasaurus Rex…get under there and finish off In-tor-net, already!!!"

"On it!" Terrasaurus Rex grunted, beginning his hole once again.

"Armagemon, don't let them go there!"

"Black Rain!" Oil began falling out of the sky again, but Omegamon had an interesting answer:

"Omega Screen!" Wargreymon's shield panel glowed on Omegamon's shoulder, and a force field burst out from the shield. The oil vaporized the second it hit the shield.

"You're no fun!" The Unnamed Figure snarled. He thought to himself, even with two mega digimon, I wasn't able to defeat this bunch…I'm either going to need to get more power for my D-Gauntlet, or I'm going to have to come up with something clever… "I'm glad that I've still got a couple of clones left in reserve! Digi-modify! Digivolution, activate!"

"Jaymon, digivolve to…Nekhbetmon!"

"Digi-modify! DNA digivolution, activate!"

"Nekhbetmon!"

"Blackgatomon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Silphymon!"

"Digi-modify! Counter-crest digivolution, activate!"

"Silphymon, mega-digivolve to…Rainmyotismon!"

"Not this again," Tai muttered. "We've faced your stupid clones before! We know their weaknesses!"

"This time, you won't win!" Rainmyotismon spat. Its umbrella morphed into a green laser sword. "Care to dance, tall, red, and handsome?" she asked Gallantmon.

"I'll turn this femme fatale into a fatality!" Gallantmon snarled. "Invulnerable sword!"

"Lightning Dagger!" Rainmyotismon knocked Gallantmon's double-bladed sword away, and Gallantmon gripped his other sword with both hands. The two megas began slugging it out in a swordfight.

"Armagemon, while he's distracted! Focus all your attention on getting rid of Omegamon! I know your original managed that, before!"

"My original didn't face Omegamon with a force field. Maybe if I get a bit more agility…Armagemon, swing-digivolve to…Diaboromon!"

"You mean it can pick which mega form it wants to be in after it's digivolved?" Takato asked.

"That's not good," Omegamon grumbled as Diaboromon leapt to a new location. "Somebody pin this thing down! I can't get a bead on it!"

Gallantmon grunted, "I'd love to oblige, but I'm in the middle of something, here! Invulnerable Sword!"

"Lightning Dagger!" The two megas were locked in a draw against each other; neither one could score a hit on the other.

"You'll never oblige again! Digi-modify! Firepower, activate!"

Rainmyotismon's sword grew in length and got unbelievably sharp. "It's high time you were finished for good, you red, ugly---"

As he stabbed Rainmyotismon in the back, Blackwargreymon said, "You should talk. …Actually, I'd prefer it if you didn't."

Blackgatomon and Jaymon fell to the ground, exhausted and injured.

"You're useless!" the Unnamed Figure howled. "And it wasn't very honorable, stabbing my digi-clone in the back like that---"

"Your digi-clone wasn't very honorable! And now," Blackwargreymon said, shifting his posture and aiming his gauntlet at the Unnamed Figure, "Call off Diaboromon, and we just might let you live!"

"Cable Crusher!" Blackwargreymon felt the blow hit his back and knock him away from his human enemy.

"Terra destroyer!" he shot back. The shot missed.

"This isn't getting us anywhere! We need to finish that thing off, and we need to do it now!" Davis said.

"Guess again!" Ash yelled. "Terrasaurus Rex is almost there!"

"Not if I can help it!" Diaboromon snarled. Diaboromon dove into the hole.

"Yes, if we can help it!" Gallantmon, Mantaser, and Blackwargreymon flew into the hole after Diaboromon…