Chapter 64: Enter Omicronmon

"Gary…?!" Ash asked, shocked.

"That's right, Ash: I found out that the Linonian Empire treats its officers like kings, and with this betrayal, I can easily become one!"

"You're doing what?!" Firabbit asked.

"Go back down to your previous forms," Gary said darkly. "You have five seconds. Four, three, two…"

The advance Monsters reluctantly did as he said.

"Now, the deal was that I get half of you girls…you know, Misty, I've always liked your looks, but I never---"

"Forget it, Gary!" Ash yelled. "I'd rather get myself killed than let you have Misty!"

"If you're not careful," Gary sneered, pulling a weapon out of his pocket, "Both are going to happen!"

"Sic him, Joey!" Tina whispered. A ray of white light hit Gary in the back, and the bomb and weapon fell out of his hands and to the ground. The bomb hadn't even been armed, yet.

There were claps and whoops of victory as Gary collapsed. Ash walked slowly up to Gary and felt his wrist. He didn't have a pulse…he was dead: Joey hadn't known it at the time, but his weapon was set to lethal.

"W---what do we do?" he asked. "Should we do CPR on him? I mean, it's not like…like he'd be able to attack us again…"

They felt everything rock to one side as Imperialdramon swerved to dodge another ray of purple light.

"I don't think you'd be able to, and besides, he deserved what he got," Yolei answered, picking herself up. "Hawkmon, I think it's time for some action!"

"Indubitably! Hawkmon, digivolve to…Altairmon!"

"Altairmon, digivolve to…Aeroangemon!"

Yolei shouted, "Brock, Forretress!"

"Done!" Brock shouted, hurling his pokéball at her digivice. The moment the two contacted…

"Aeroangemon, co-op digivolve to…White Rook!" White Rook soared out of Imperialdramon's force field.

"She won't be enough," Tai cautioned.

"You're right, Tai," Matt agreed. "Ghenki, are you ready?"

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

"Agumon, Gabumon, are you ready for a fight?"

"You bet we are!"

"Then let's go!"

"Agumon, warp-digivolve to…Wargreymon!"

"Gabumon, warp-digivolve to…Metalgarurumon!"

"Wargreymon!"

"Metalgarurumon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Omegamon!"

Omegamon flew out of Imperialdramon's force field to face The Unnamed Figure.

"Shall we?" Renamon asked.

"You know it!" Rika answered. "I'm just glad these gold cards can be copied! Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"

"Renamon, warp-digivolve to…Sablemon!"

"Sablemon, mode-change to…Surf Mode!" Sablemon flew after Omegamon. "Let's make this fast and final!"

"That was the plan," Omegamon agreed. "But, then again, there's no telling what he's going to try next…I really wish Saw-grass would've been able to snipe this guy out of his Trojan, digi-clones and all!"

"Too late for that now," White rook sighed. "Well…here goes nothing! Hyper Beam!" The white ray smacked Borggarurumon, and he retaliated.

"Rabid Wolf Claw!" The missile was headed for White Rook.

"Protect!" Just as the missile was about to strike, White Rook shut her wings and the missile---despite its high yield---didn't deal any damage.

"Digi-modify! Digivolution, activate!"

"Ewemon, digivolve to…Impostrogarurumon!"

"Maggotmon, digivolve to…Pestilimon!"

"I don't like where this is heading," White Rook grumbled. "Hyper Beam!"

"Digi-modify! DNA digivolution, activate!"

"Impostrogarurumon!"

"Pestilimon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Eindramon!" One of Eindramon's spiked gauntlets extended its spike. "Hand Cutter!" He slashed at the yellow bolt of light and reflected it away.

"This is not good!" Sablemon grunted as she looked on at the C-birds that were following The Unnamed Figure.

Omegamon nodded. "I think we could use some more help! Especially if---"

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

"Eindramon, mega-digivolve to…Kamnadramon!"

"Never mind," Omegamon sighed.

Gallantmon came flying out of Imperialdramon's force field to help fight. "Lightning Joust!"

"Mega Destroyer!" The two shots cancelled perfectly.

"This isn't getting us anywhere!" Omegamon spat. "Omegamon, mode-change to…Frigate mode! Omega Barrage!" Omegamon's missiles went flying into the droves of C-birds, and the C-birds were getting picked off.

"Mega Destroyer!" Kamnadramon insisted, firing at Omegamon. Omegamon was too agile to take a hit in frigate mode, but that didn't stop Kamnadramon from trying.

"Keep holding them off, Kamnadramon," The Unnamed Figure shouted. "I'm going in for the real prize: Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"

"Keramon, warp-digivolve to…Armagemon!"

"Armagemon, swing-digivolve to…Diaboromon!" Diaboromon jumped landed on Kamnadramon's arm. "Load me up!" he said, climbing into Kamnadramon's cannon. Kamnadramon aimed at Imperialdramon and fired. Diaboromon flew right through the force field like it wasn't even there, and landed standing over the orphans. Diaboromon wasn't interested in the orphans, though: "Cable crusher!" One of Diaboromon's huge, red-and-black claws grabbed Ghenki, and Diaboromon jumped out of the force field.

"I can see where this is going!" Davis gulped. "He's gonna try to make a clone of Omegamon!"

"We've got to stop him, now!" Yolei shouted. "I know it's a risk, but we have to do this: Willis, Henry! Send out your digimon, warp-digivolved!"

"On it!"

"Digi-modify! Warp digivolution, activate!"

"Terriermon, warp-digivolve to…Megagargomon!"

"Lopmon, warp-digivolve to…Kerpymon!" The two huge megas flew out of Imperialdramon's force field after Diaboromon. "Lightning Spear!"

"Mega Barrage!" The two attacks flew at Borggarurumon, but it was quick enough to dodge. It was also quick enough to shoot Ghenki with its Parasite Beam. It was clearly extracting energy for its next move…

"Thank you very much, Diaboromon! Now, your usefulness is at its end!" The Unnamed Figure pressed a button on his D-Gauntlet, and Diaboromon began plummeting to the ground. Kerpymon caught it and plucked Ghenki out of its grip, but Kerpymon could tell that Diaboromon was another dead digi-clone.

"This guy is unbelievable!" Megagargomon thought aloud. "He shoots his wounded."

"I'm worse than that! I shoot those of my troops who are just plain in the way!! Now, Borggarurumon, we have a job to do… Blackwargreymon, if you would,"

Blackwargreymon didn't do anything.

"Blackwargreymon, get out there and prepare to DNA digivolve with Borggarurumon!!!"

Blackwargreymon jumped off the Trojan and flew towards Borggarurumon…

"Blackwargreymon!"

"Borggarurumon!"

"DNA digivolve to…Omicronmon!"

Yolei swallowed hard, as did Tai and Matt. It wasn't difficult to guess what was coming next: The Unnamed Figure was probably going to try to make some evil clone of Imperialdramon Paladin Mode…and with their own Paladin Mode available, he would probably have the better of them…especially with the C-bird backup he had.

Omicronmon seemed to be slow and stupid, thanks to the fact that it was under the spell of the control spirals that The Unnamed Figure had latched onto Blackwargreymon.

The Unnamed Figure shut down the control spirals, and they fell off of Omicronmon. "It's all you, Borggarurumon!" he said. Omicronmon opened its cannon arm and fired at Imperialdramon: "Omicron Torpedo!"

Omegamon flew in and launched a laser blast at the torpedo before it landed a hit. The explosion that the torpedo made was very big, not unlike Borggarurumon's attack had been, but Imperialdramon was outside the blast radius, fortunately.

"Time for them to really see what you're capable of!" The Unnamed Figure sneered. "Omicronmon---" The Unnamed Figure heard his communications signal go off like a cell phone. "Ooooh, what now?!" He opened the communications channel. "What is it?"

It was the sub-major. It really hadn't been such a good idea for The Unnamed Figure to ask what it was in such a disgruntled tone, but the sub-major didn't have time to throw his weight around about tone of voice: "There had been a change of plans---apparently, I'll have to have our calculations staff terminated."

"What?! Why?!"

"Our problem is coming sooner than expected. Proceed to our other site at once."

"But I am within an inch of killing these---"

"There is no time! Go at once!"

The Unnamed Figure sighed angrily. "Omicronmon, Kamnadramon! New plan! Up, up, and away!"

The fighters looked on as Omicronmon and Kamnadramon flew upwards into the air, with The Unnamed Figure in tow on his Trojan.

"I don't like the feel of this," Imperialdramon gulped.

"Me either. Those guys must be up to something," White Rook agreed.

"Can we really take the risk of following them and seeing what's up?" Ken asked.

"Can we really take the risk not to?" Tai asked back.

"Well, then…after them we go!" Imperialdramon said, beaming Hawkmon and Forretress into his force field. Imperialdramon and Omegamon flew after them, higher and higher into the Earth's atmosphere, until they were no longer in the atmosphere.

The C-birds suddenly began to fuse into larger menace machines: Lamprongs.

"Where are we going, anyway?" Kerpymon asked. He got no answer. "Hello? Can't you hear me?"

Megagargomon turned to Kerpymon and began mouthing a few words. Kerpymon didn't hear a thing.

"Um…I can't hear you, either." Then, it occurred to Kerpymon: there is no sound in space. None of them would be able to hear what any of the others were saying. This wasn't good.

"I dunno, guys," Brock said. "This has 'trap' written all over it."

"Where are we, anyhow?" Hare asked. He looked behind them, and saw Earth as he'd never seen it before: as a huge, blue ball covered in clouds and floating in space. "What's that thing?"

"That is our world," Tina answered.

"Then…how can we be this high?"

"Good question."

Kamnadramon and Omicronmon suddenly flew into a lyceron jerk and went faster than light speed.

"What do we do now?" Imperialdramon asked.

"We're still going to follow them!" Davis shouted

"What if this is an even bigger trap than before?"

Davis thought for a moment. "Let's find a place for the refugees to stay, first, and then let's get after them. Tell Omegamon and the others to go on ahead."

"They won't be able to hear me!"

"Then…then…try sign language!"

Imperialdramon motioned for the others to continue, and pointed to the force field on his back. The others nodded, and Gallantmon, Kerpymon, Megagargomon, and Sablemon flew into Omegamon's tailing cape. They grabbed onto it, and Omegamon flew into a lyceron jerk, himself, after the two digi-clones…