Chapter 68: Iron Mine!

Kamnadramon was definitely winning hands-down. It knew what tricks the advanced monsters, digimon and pokémon could play; it wasn't about to be fooled. It knew that they would probably have the firepower to waste him, if given the opportunity, so it kept moving in a lyceron jerk away from them, the moment before they could land a hit.

"Rock Throw!" Blasteroid opened his mouth, and super-speeded boulders flew out at Kamnadramon. Not one landed a hit.

"Omega Barrage!"

"Mega Barrage!"

Kamnadramon did a lyceron jerk away from the two missile attacks.

"Mer Poleax!"

"Imperial Sword!" The two mega, DNA digimon few in for the kill with their short-range, powerful moves---only to find that their target was elsewhere.

"Mega Flame Cannons!"

"Laser Javelin!"

"Retina Beam!"

Kamnadramon felt only one of the attacks hit it: the Retina Beam. After that his, it beamed away, again.

"Hyper Beam!"

"Rock Throw!"

Kamnadramon was too fast for those attacks, too.

******

Back inside the station, Ash, Brock, and Misty's pokémon were trashing the Linonian scientists and security guards who were still inside the control room.

"So…we still need to figure out what those launchers are," Davis said.

"Joey fix-it!" Joey shouted, hopping out of Tina's pocket.

"There's one thing that doesn't add up, though," Ghenki thought aloud.

"What's that?" Davis asked.

"Why would these aliens destroy their own missile? And why would they want to destroy Earth in the first place if they have so much of their own stuff on Earth?"

"Good question…maybe the missile wasn't supposed to go to Earth, or something…"

Joey let out a loud whistle. "Joey find out what this building for!" Joey had found a graphical simulation of the station's purpose. He switched on the simulation, and, on the computer screen, the station's four launchers deployed and let out a quartet of rockets. The rockets flew out to beyond the borders of the asteroid belt, and then some kind of net-like apparatus appeared between the four rockets. Then the rockets flew along the asteroid belt, and the net-like apparatus caught each asteroid and made it disappear.

"What are those things?"

"They called krahn jatato," Joey answered, looking at the nets. "They use them for movin' stuff long ways."

"You mean they're trying to move our asteroid belt?" Ash asked. "What's the point of that?"

"Maybe they want to put a planet here, instead," Brock suggested.

"Maybe…hold on a sec! Asteroids are made of iron and silicates," Tina realized. "And Joey said that silicon was something that didn't exist in the rest of the universe…so it's really rare, and so---"

"These asteroids are like a gold mine to these aliens!" Ken finished.

"Hold on, there might be even more to it than that," Tai cut in. "When we beat Obelimn, Matt and I noticed that it was made out of silver, when steel or titanium would be a better choice for a metal to build it out of. Maybe they don't have iron, either."

Ken nodded. "…So these asteroids are really a gold mine! Where are they beaming these to, Joey?"

Joey snorted in frustration. "No use words Joey no understand!!" he insisted.

"Where they gonna move 'em?" Tina asked.

"Joey fix-it," Joey answered, working at the controls, again. He looked at the screen and started shivering. "They gonna put all this kamnalatato in middle of their…house!"

"And if they get the…kamnalatato, what they gonna do?" Tina asked.

Joey let out a terrified whistle and jumped back into Tina's pocket.

"Joey…Joey, we need you out here!"

"Joey no wanna think about what they gonna do with kamnalatato!"

"Joey no hafta. Joey fix-it. Joey make it no move stuff."

Joey slowly crept out of Tina's pocket and began working the controls, again. "No can stop!"

"Then we have to destroy this base!" Ken thought.

"We can't do that while Kamnadramon is keeping everyone busy," Ghenki muttered.

"If only we could make Paladin mode!" Davis groaned.

******

Back outside, Kamnadramon was still winning.

"Lightning Joust!"

"Lightning Spear!" The two attacks flew at Kamnadramon, and Kamnadramon reflected the attacks right back at them. There was enough room to dodge, but the attacks hadn't done their jobs.

Omegamon withdrew his cannon and let his sword out. He flew into a lyceron jerk at Kamnadramon and let his sword fall on it.

"Omicron blade!" Kamnadramon answered. Kamnadramon's sword easily blocked Omegamon's attack.

"Retina Beam!"

"Hyper Beam!" Kamnadramon felt another two attacks pummel its injured wing, nearly slicing it off.

"That does it!" Kamnadramon shouted. "Time to finish these pests!" Kamnadramon flew to the other side of the station and grabbed one of the cannons that protruded from the side. It aimed the cannon at the heroes and fired again and again.

Omegamon, Imperialdramon, and Gallantmon began using their swords to reflect the attacks away. They had to do some fancy flying to avoid being hit, themselves, but they suddenly felt something as they closed in on each other…there was some trick that they hadn't tried before that was beginning to rise to the surface…