Chapter 60: Bye-Bye Blackwargreymon!
"These guy's transformations just get weirder and weirder," Firabbit thought out loud.
"Pika," Pikachu agreed, still nursing the wounds Armagemon had given him.
"…What was that?"
"He said, 'Tell me about it!'" Ash answered.
"Well…what do we do?"
"You get wasted by Blackwargreymon!" The Unnamed Figure taunted. Blackwargreymon stood motionless for a pause. "Blackwargreymon, that was your cue!" Still no response. "…Attack them, already!"
Blackwargreymon charged up his Terra Destroyer attack.
"Okay, not good," Turtledove thought aloud. It wasn't difficult to dodge the fireball, but the advanced Monsters knew how strong an attack it was.
"Let's do our thing again!" Ash shouted. "Thunderdog, here's the thunder stone!" Ash threw the stone at Thunderdog. It sailed over Blackwargreymon's head, well within catching distance…and Blackwargreymon didn't try to catch it.
"You idiot!" The Unnamed Figure spat. "When the stone gets close enough to you, catch it!"
"Static Warhead!" Thunderdog shouted, firing a lightning missile at Blackwargreymon. Blackwargreymon barely reacted as the missile struck him and dealt hard damage.
"Are you going to stay this stupid?" The Unnamed Figure asked Blackwargreymon. "Defend yourself from their attacks, catch their evolution stones, and attack them!"
Blackwargreymon paused, and the purple control spirals on his arms glowed.
"Quick! While he's hesitating, let's destroy the spirals and get him out of this!" Firabbit shouted. "Bludgeon Blade!" Firabbit charged at Blackwargreymon, but Blackwargreymon was one step ahead of him.
"Terra Destroyer!" Hare fell to the ground, and the digi-egg of courage landed in Davis's hands.
"That didn't go so well," Turtledove thought aloud. "Misty, hit me with your water stone again! Tsunami Blaster!"
Blackwargreymon took his wing panels and blocked himself from the spray of water.
"Static Warhead!" Blackwargreymon turned his shield to block the lightning.
"Ash, your sun stone!" Mole Sprite shouted. "Laser Javelin!" Blackwargreymon blocked the shot.
Imperialdramon's fight with Kamnadramon wasn't going much better. Kamnadramon was not very shy about showing off its attacks: "Black Crusher!" it shouted, as a pair of missiles flew out at Imperialdramon.
"Hyper Prominence!" Imperialdramon let a flare of yellow energy blow out his sword, and that energy was enough to detonate the missiles.
"Terminator Laser!" Kamnadramon fired a pair of orange beams out at Imperialdramon. Imperialdramon smacked one beam back at Kamnadramon, and the other flew off into the air. It did something strange, though: it flew into the clouds, and a temporal eddy began to form as lightning and the subspace energy of the attack combined and reacted with each other.
"I'm getting sick of you!" Imperialdramon grunted, charging Kamnadramon. "Omega Blade!"
"Black Crusher!" Kamnadramon's missile knocked Imperialdramon's sword away. "Now, what will a disarmed Imperialdramon do?" Kamnadramon taunted.
"A lot more than you think!" He opened Metalgarurumon's mouth, and out from it stuck Imperialdramon's old cannon. "Ultra Cannon!"
Kamnadramon wasn't happy to feel that. "Terminator Laser!"
"Omega Sword!" Wargreymon's head opened to reveal Omegamon's sword, and Imperialdramon used it to reflect Kamnadramon's attack back in its face. That distracted Kamnadramon long enough for Imperialdramon to slash at its legs and immobilize it. Imperialdramon retracted Omegamon's sword and picked up his own blade out of the water. "This is getting old, Kamnadramon! Go back down to your rookie forms and we'll go easy on you!"
"Fat chance!"
"We've wasted you beyond repair! You can't win against us!"
"Don't…bet…on it! Mega Crusher!" A huge blast of energy flew out of Kamnadramon's mouth. Imperialdramon went unconscious and flew backwards into the temporal eddy…and disappeared.
The Unnamed Figure laughed. "Ha! I thought that this would be a difficult fight! But now, as it turns out, I'm going to get rewarded more than I ever thought I would…and, even if I don't get some huge benefit, I'll have you," he said, pointing to June.
"You still have to go through us!" Thunderdog shouted. "Static Warhead!"
"Laser Javelin!"
"Tsunami Blaster!"
"Terminator Laser!" Kamnadramon answered, canceling all three ultra attacks in one shot.
The Unnamed Figure chuckled. "Getting through you should be about as easy as getting through a wall made out of construction paper! Finish them off, Kamnadramon!"
"Not so fast!" a voice shouted. It came from the direction of the eddy. It was Paildramon who had said it. "Davis, Ken! What are you waiting for! Digivolve me again!"
"Oh…"
"Right!"
"Paildramon, mega-digivolve to…Imperialdramon!"
"Imperialdramon, mode-change to…Fighter mode!"
"But where's Omegamon?" Matt asked.
"Backing me up!" Imperialdramon answered. Omegamon was in a mode that they had never seen before: Frigate mode. He looked like a huge starship in the air.
"Omega Cannon!"
"Ultra Cannon!" The two attacks struck Kamnadramon.
"What're you two waiting for? Combine into Paladin Mode!" Davis shouted.
"We…can't!"
"New plan!" Hare shouted, dusting himself off. "Guys, flank him on all sides, and then attack! Even if he can take one of you down, you'll still have him finished!"
Mole Sprite picked Ash up and Turtledove took Misty on his back. Ash tossed Brock his thunder stone to use on Thunderdog. Omegamon and Imperialdramon flew behind Kamnadramon. Kamnadramon didn't know who to attack first.
"Now, all together! Omega Cannon!"
"Ultra Cannon!"
"Laser Javelin!"
"Static Warhead!"
"Tsunami Blaster!"
Kamnadramon regressed back down to a tired, floating trio of digi-clones: Keramon, Ewemon, and Maggotmon.
"Useless creatures…" The Unnamed Figure muttered.
"Let Blackwargreymon go, you traitor!" Ghenki spat.
"In your dreams! Blackwargreymon, we're out of here!"
Blackwargreymon, stupid as ever under the control of the manipulation spirals, didn't do a thing.
"Pick me up, pick my digi-clones up, and fly us back to base!" The Unnamed Figure spat.
"Do we shoot him down?" Mole Sprite asked.
"He's already out of range," Imperialdramon sighed. "This isn't going to be pretty, what he's planning with Blackwargreymon…"
"You don't suppose that they're going to copy Omegamon, do you?" Ghenki asked.
"They'd need a boost of energy to pull it off, like the kind you can dish out," Ken answered.
Matt cut in, "But there's no telling what all they have in their arsenal…they might just have the energy they need to do that."
"So…what do we do?" Tina asked.
"I don't know…"
As they beamed into Imperialdramon's force field, June said, "I'm sorry our date got ruined…first by rain, and then getting attacked…but…" She paused for a moment. "Thanks…for not letting him get me."
Matt was flush---not out of hormones for June, but because he didn't like June and he knew that she didn't know that he didn't like her. (…What did I just write, anyways?) "Um…no problem," Matt said.
Upon seeing Matt flush, June almost swooned: she had made Matt show a little love back! She was in!!!