Chapter 67: I Thought I Saw a Putty Cat
"Omega Cannon!"
"Mega Barrage!"
"Lightning Joust!"
"Laser Discus!"
"Lightning Spear!"
The five attacks flew at Kamnadramon, but it was ready. "Omicron Blade!" it shouted, reflecting the attacks back towards them. Megagargomon was too slow to avoid taking the hit from his own attacks.
Omegamon tried circling in from behind to attack Kamnadramon, but that didn't work, either: Kamnadramon slashed at him. Omegamon turned so that his sword and Kamnadramon's sword would hit instead of Kamnadramon's sword and his side, and Omegamon went spinning away, disoriented, though unharmed.
Sablemon motioned for them to flank Kamnadramon on all sides, and then fire. Kamnadramon was very agile, however, and refused to make it easy for them to manage to get on all sides of it. It flew in between the digimon and around them, and managed to keep them from succeeding in flanking it.
Suddenly, it decided to take some offensive action of its own: "Positron Laser!" Purple rays fired out the eye-like spots on its chest. The rays were small, but when they hit the asteroids behind them, the asteroids disintegrated.
"Omega Barrage!"
"Mega Barrage!" The two missile attacks flew at Kamnadramon. Kamnadramon suddenly seemed to disappear and reappear a few hundred meters away: it had just gone into a lyceron jerk. The only things the missiles blew up were themselves.
Omegamon decided to take a risk: he did a lyceron jerk and flew sever kilometers away from the battlefield. Then, he flew back in a lyceron jerk, poised to use his sword to ram Kamnadramon. Kamnadramon's wing was left in tatters.
Even though it knew Omegamon would never hear it, Kamnadramon spat, "You'll pay for that! Positron Laser!" The beams flew at Omegamon, and Omegamon was barely quick enough to dodge. Omegamon's cape was riddled with holes.
"Laser Discus!"
"Gargo Missile!"
"Lightning Spear!"
"Lightning Joust!" The four mega digimon's attacks smacked Kamnadramon in the back. Kamnadramon staggered, then began flying at them in lyceron jerks. It was less than four meters from Sablemon when it slashed at her with its sword. Sablemon was barely able to dodge.
"Gargo missile!"
"Lightning Spear!" The attacks flew towards Kamnadramon, but it did another lyceron jerk. This time, it was about to attack Kerpymon.
Kerpymon grabbed Kamnadramon by the arms. The two were locked in a stalemate, and tumbling through space so rapidly and chaotically that no one else could get a clean shot. Finally, Kerpymon went spinning away from the fight. Kamnadramon was firing after him like there was no tomorrow.
Kamnadramon felt another two attacks hit it in the back. It had been a yellow beam from Oyarsa, and another golden beam from Imperialdramon.
"So…what's the plan?" Davis asked.
"Maybe we should ask them," Kari thought aloud, motioning towards the digimon outside.
"Hey," Imperialdramon thought aloud, "Gallantmon's trying to tell us something…I think he wants us to go with him up the asteroid belt!"
Purple lasers flew their way.
"Looks like Kamnadramon doesn't want us to follow him," Tina cut in.
"Then we had better follow Gallantmon!" Brock shouted. "If Kamnadramon doesn't want us to do something, it's probably important for us that we do it!"
Gallantmon beamed into Imperialdramon's force field and shouted, "There's some kind of alien space station a ways down the asteroid belt. We need to get there and see what's going on!"
"Any idea what they're up to, over there?" Imperialdramon asked, going into a lyceron jerk.
"No. But since Kamnadramon is following us, it's something important!"
"Kamnadramon is after us?" Imperialdramon asked. "I'll fix that! Patriot Marauder!" A barrage of missiles flew out of Imperialdramon's mouth and rained backwards on Kamnadramon. That made Kamnadramon stagger for a moment.
"Careful, though: that thing has shields that Omegamon's cannon didn't even have the guts to penetrate!"
"Where can we get the firepower to deal with a shield like that?" Ken asked.
"I have one guess," Davis answered, looking at Kamnadramon.
"How in the world can we get Kamnadramon to shoot his own complex?" Hare asked.
"Oh...a tough one... I've got it! We get him to shoot you, and then you reflect the shot at the complex's shield generator," Davis answered.
"Are you nuts?!" Hare asked.
"You know the answer to that question," Tina cut in.
"Now is not the time, Tina!" Ken cut in. "Just do your thing!"
"Youngdramon, digivolve to…Ikudramon!"
"Tibemon, digivolve to…Savamon!"
"Ikudramon!"
"Savamon!"
"DNA digivolve to…Mermon!"
"Mermon, mega-digivolve to…WarMermon!"
"The egg of courage, if you please!" Hare shouted. "Hare, module-evolve to…Firabbit!"
Brock threw Firabbit his fire stone as they slowed to a halt, and Imperialdramon let WarMermon and Firabbit out of his force field.
"Vocal Blaster!"
"Mega Flame Cannons!"
The two attacks roared past Kamnadramon. Kamnadramon didn't fire at them, though: it charged them with a lyceron jerk. WarMermon dodged over the slice of its sword and smacked its chest with her axe. One of its two laser eyes was down for the count.
Firabbit circled around and blasted it in the back. Its tattered wing took more damage.
I feel like I'm being eroded like a rock in a stream! Kamnadramon thought to itself. "Omicron Blade!" It slashed at Firabbit, narrowly missing.
"Mega Barrage!"
"Lightning Spear!"
"Lightning Joust!"
"Omega Cannon!"
"Vocal Blaster!"
"Hyper Beam!"
This barrage of attacks was enough to get its attention. It couldn't avoid all the attacks, but reflected some of them with its swords and sent half of them flying into the station shield…and that wasn't enough to punch through.
"Time to get more fighters out there!" Cody thought aloud.
"Count me in!" Suezo shouted.
"I'm with you!" Pixie agreed.
"Suezo, module-evolve to…Saw-grass!"
"Pixie, module-evolve to…Mole Sprite!"
The two advanced Monsters flew out to join the fight. "Retina Beam!"
"Laser Javelin!"
"Positron Laser!" Kamnadramon more than cancelled the two attacks.
"This isn't getting us anywhere!" Davis shouted. "Maybe if all of us concentrate our attacks on one spot on the shield, it'll give!"
Gallantmon nodded. "I'll get out there, and Imperialdramon and I will keep shooting at one spot. Hopefully, the others will catch on to what we're doing and join in."
Imperialdramon and Gallantmon fired their attacks at the shield, and they weren't making a dent. Omegamon and WarMermon joined in, and the shield looked at though it might give way.
"Positron Laser!" Kamnadramon fired at WarMermon, and she stopped her attack. She used her axe and reflected the shot back at the station, and it punched through the shields and smacked the shield generator.
Imperialdramon flew down into the station and let out the humans. "It's time we take care of this Kamnadramon pest, once and for all! He's going the way of the dodo! Imperialdramon, mode-change to…Fighter mode!"
"You, too, Omegamon!" Tai shouted.
"Switch to your normal mode! You'll have more agility fighting him!" Matt shouted.
"Omegamon, mode-change to…Contender mode!"
"So…what do we do in here?" Tina asked.
"You die at the hands of this elgo-tor-silef!" The Unnamed Figure answered. It was Putty Cat: the blob was back.
"You think we're afraid of your little blob?" Ash asked. "Guess again! Pikachu, thundershock it!"
Putty Cat was a bit too agile to get hit.
"Let's try something else on him!" Misty suggested. "Its body is made of liquid! Let's hit it with ice attacks and freeze it solid!"
"Right! Articuno, go!" Brock shouted.
"Lapras, go!"
"Armadillomon, digivolve to…Ankylomon!"
"Ankylomon, digivolve to…Euplocemon!" Euplocemon looked at Putty Cat. He was too huge to turn his whole body to face him, but he could see his opponent. "Anti-Heat Cannon!" A blue ray flew out of the black lens on Euplocemon's back. It didn't quite hit Putty Cat.
"Lapras, Ice Beam!" Ash shouted. Lapras fired at Putty Cat, but Putty Cat was still too agile to be hit.
"Articuno, Blizzard!" Articuno's more wide-angle attack made Putty Cat wish it wasn't liquid, but it wasn't totally solidified.
The Unnamed Figure shouted, "Elgo-tor-silef, time to take a more offensive stance! Show them what you're really capable of!"
Putty Cat flew onto Euplocemon, but only stayed for a moment. The next second, it flew onto the wall and made itself into a lens-shape, similar to what was on Euplocemon's back. A strange shout of, "Anti-Heat Cannon!" came from Putty Cat's direction, and Euplocemon was hit with his own attack. His feet were frozen to the ground, but he could still return fire: "Anti-Heat Cannon!" Putty Cat shifted itself out of the way to avoid the shot. "Anti-Heat Cannon!" he shouted again, and Putty Cat kept relocating.
"Lapras, Ice Beam!"
"You too, Articuno!"
"If you think your petty ice attacks can get rid of elgo-tor-silef, you're dead wrong!" The Unnamed Figure shouted.
"It's not our attacks that'll get rid of Putty Cat!" Misty said, looking at the airlock on the wall where Putty Cat was crawling.
"It's the vacuum of space!" Davis added, catching onto her plan.
"Huh?"
The Unnamed Figure watched as Euplocemon, Articuno and Lapras's attacks made Putty Cat jump from one place to the next, until it decided that the airlock was the best means of escape.
Tina shouted, "Joey, shut the airlock and send the menace machine inside out into space!"
Joey hopped out of Tina's pocket and said, "No is 'menace machine'. Is tor."
"Whatever! Just send it into space!"
"Okee-dokee!" Joey hopped up to the controls of the airlock and shut the inside doo.
"NO!!" The Unnamed Figure shouted. On his last leg, he raised his gauntlet and shouted, "Joey, stop what you're doing, or I start shooting!"
Unfortunately for him, there were so many people that he couldn't aim his weapon at everyone at once. Pikachu was one step ahead of him; he shocked The Unnamed Figure and sent him into unconsciousness. Joey promptly opened the outside door to the airlock and blew the Putty Cat out into space.
"Now what?" Tina asked.
"Now we see what this complex is," Ken answered.
"Joey, what can you read in here?" Tina asked.
"Joey not know…Joey see that weda rewenutha is over there," Joey answered.
"What does a weda rewenutha do?" Ash asked.
"It make…stuff so that everything can do stuff."
"So…it's vital to the workings of this station?"
Joey snorted. "No use words Joey no understand!"
Tina cut in, "If there no weda rewenutha, would stuff do anything, here?"
"Nope-nope."
"The basic answer to your question, dad, is 'yes'."
"Then let's have a look at it." They ran into the weda rewenutha, and found out that it was the energy generator for the whole station. It took fuel from a pair of huge tanks and burned it to make energy. "You know…this generator isn't that big…this station can't be that versatile."
"Then why would they put so many weapons on it?" Davis asked. "I mean, if it's not that important, they wouldn't protect it like this."
"Maybe if we found out what those nacelles on the side of this thing are, we'd learn what was going on," Brock said.
"Right." Tina kneeled down next to Joey. "Does Joey know what things on side of this building are?"
"Things?" Joey asked with an inquisitive squeak.
"Things look like that," Tina answered, picking Joey up and taking him to a window.
"Oh! Those things grimn af'tato derui!"
"What to they do?"
"They throw…things."
"Joey know what kind of things?"
"Nope-nope."
"So…they're launchers of some kind?" Ken asked.
"That sounds like a good guess to me," Tina answered.
"But if we don't know what they're going to launch, what do we do?" Misty asked.
"We take the control room by storm!" Tina answered.
Sablemon went spinning through the atmospheric force field of the station's landing bay and regressed back to Renamon. Tina kneeled next to her. "No…we need more fighters out there!" Renamon groaned.
"Shall we test out my new form?" Euplocemon asked.
"Let's go for it! Brock, is Steelix ready for a fight?" Cody asked.
"You bet he is!"
"Then let's so this!"
"Euplocemon, co-op digivolve to…Blasteroid!" Blasteroid proudly flew out of the force field to see what he could do about Kamnadramon.
"So…let's get to that control room, already!" Tina shouted.