Season 5
Tommy: Brendon and his friends woke up in the Digital World with cool new outfits, digimon partners and a really happy Genaii, who was talking to them thru a hologram projecting shield! He and Mercurymon explained to the gang that they had been called to the Digi-world to defeat an evil digimon named Pathomon. But before they could cook up a plan, they were attacked by ShadowLeomon. While Mercurymon was fighting, he threw the kids off the cliff so ShadowLeomon couldn't get to them! Let's just hope it does more good than harm!
Episode 3: Fire Versus Ice
The gang and their digimon had been falling for about 30 seconds and had stopped screaming by now. They were just waiting for the splash.
This is not going to be fun. Brendon thought. He had belly flopped off of a really high diving board before and he knew, it HURT. The chunk of cliff they were standing on landed in the water with a huge splash. In about 10 seconds, the kids would be joining it.
10…9…8…
"Everybody get ready!"
6…5…4…
"Cody, hold on to me!" Jeremy shouted.
2…1… SPLASH!
Brendon was right; it did hurt. A lot. So much, he was struggling to stay conscious; he didn't think he had the energy to rise to the surface of the river. He couldn't find Koromon anywhere. For a minute, he was temped to just let it go. He'd float to the top once he passed out.
Wait! he thought. Sarah! Sarah can't swim!
Brendon's eyes shot open. He summoned as much strength as he could and swam to the surface. He looked back and forth, frantically trying to find his sister.
"Sarah!" he cried. "Sarah, where are you?"
"Big Brother!" Sarah cried. Brendon turned to see his sister some 30 feet away from him, splashing and struggling to stay afloat. Brendon quickly swam toward her.
"Sarah, I'm coming!" Brendon called. "Just try to stay above the water!"
Sarah flailed around for as long as she could, but her arms started tire out. Soon her little body ran out of strength and began to sink. Just as her head sank beneath the surface, she felt a pair of hands grab her beneath the arms and pull her back up. She opened her eyes and there was Brendon, panting like he had just run a marathon, holding her above the water, and smiling weakly.
"Didn't I… tell you to… stay up?" he said between breaths. "Tal, come here and take Sarah!"
Tal swam over and took hold of Sarah.
"Thanks, pal," Brendon said before his eyes shut and he sank underwater. He had finally given out.
Oh no! Tal thought. He's unconscious, and everybody else is just trying to stay up! What do I do?
It turned out that Tal didn't have to do anything. He soon saw Brendon's unconscious form begin to rise, but not by itself. He was lying on the chunk of rock they had been standing on not a minute ago!
How the heck is that huge chunk of solid rock floating?
He helped Sarah onto the floating rock and then climbed up himself. Jeremy, Amber, and the others were climbing onto the rock as well equally confused but not complaining.
"Is everybody OK?" Jeremy asked. Everyone gave him an affirmative response.
"Brendon passed out, but I think he's alright." Tal said.
"He'll be fine," said Amber, wringing the water out of her long braided hair. "He's had worse."
The rock soon floated to the bank of the river and was lodged there. Every got off the rock and onto solid, sturdy land, Jeremy and Nathan carrying Brendon and laying him in the sand. As soon as they were sure they were safe, they all collapsed themselves, gasping for breath. As always, Jen and Nathan were the first to start complaining.
"I knew I shouldn't have gone on the net today, but no!" Jen cried. "I wanted to hang out with my older friends!"
"I hate swimming," Nathan said.
"Then I guess it's a good thing you weren't doing any," Bukamon said, "since I was the one holding you up.
"Oh, my head; that's the only part of me that doesn't hurt!"
The gang turned around to see Brendon slowly rising to his feet. He faltered for a minute, but then stood firmly.
"Big Brother!" Sarah exclaimed. "I was worried about you!"
"Now, that won't do!" Brendon said, lifting Sarah and swinging her around. "I'm the one who's supposed to be worried about you!"
"Hey!" Nyaromon called, bouncing up and down. "That's my job, too!"
His moronic, trademark grin was back on his face. It belied the fact that it took all the strength he had just to hold her up.
"You OK there, goggles?" Jeremy asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Brendon replied.
"Well, we're all glad you're alright, Brendon," Tal started, "but there's something that's still bothering me." Brendon put his sister back down and gave Tal a perplexed look.
"Oh? What's that?" he asked.
"Well," Tal answered, "I don't understand how that huge rock floated back up. From a scientific standpoint, it should have sunk to the bottom of the river."
"That's right! I remember that from science class!" Amber said, wringing the water out of her hair. "Things sink if they're denser that the liquid they're put in."
"Maybe the water was really thick," Jen said.
"Thick maybe," Nathan said, "but denser than rock?"
"We wouldn't have fallen into it," Jeremy said. "We would've landed on it and gone splat!"
"Yuck!" Cody and Sarah chorused.
"Well, I dunno what happened," Brendon said, "but if it didn't happen, I might've drowned, so I'm not complaining! If it's not broken, don't fix it!"
Sarah smiled. The fact that her brother could be so serious one moment and then so happy-go-lucky the next never failed to amaze her.
"Well, if everybody's relatively dry, we should get going!"
"Are you crazy?" Jeremy shouted. "We just fell off of a cliff into a rushing river, and not five minutes later you wanna get moving?"
"Would you prefer for us to stay out in the open like this for ShadowLeomon or some other demented digimon to attack us?" Brendon shouted back.
"We wouldn't stay out here for long!" Jeremy replied. "But we need rest! We're not machines, you know!"
"We don't have time to argue! We've got to get out of here before something comes after us! We may not be in much condition to run, but we're certainly in no condition to fight!"
"Who died and made you boss, anyway?"
"What? You think you'd do better?"
Brendon and Jeremy grabbed each other by the collars and growled at each other. The scene truly was reminiscent of Tai and Matt. Brendon really wanted to slug the taller boy but thought better of it. Under normal circumstances, he might have beaten Jeremy in a fight, but in this case, Jeremy would probably beat him. Right now Brendon was exhausted. He still didn't have much strength after that fall. Jeremy would take him down in seconds. Plus, fighting amongst themselves was not a good idea in any event. Thus, Brendon was the first to let go.
"You're right," he said. "Maybe we should rest for a while." He walked over to a tree, parked himself underneath it, and shut his eyes. Koromon bounced over and fastened himself to Brendon's head like before. He thought he'd be too worried to sleep, regardless of his fatigue, but after a few seconds he was out like country music. Everyone else just lied down in the sand where they were.
Brendon awoke to see Jeremy lying on his back with Tsunomon sitting on his stomach. He could hear him humming some stupid song. Sarah, Nyaromon, Cody and Tokomon were scribbling in the sand. Nathan was mumbling to himself, more than likely complaining. Nathan was the only person he knew who could sit around and whine for over an hour. Bukamon was playing in the water. Amber and Jen looked asleep, their digimon in their arms. Motimon was watching Tal take apart his laptop, trying to dry it out. Wait a minute, his laptop?
"Hey, Tal, how in the world do you have your laptop with you?" Brendon asked.
"Hmm. I dunno," Tal answered. "I never really stopped and thought about it. I had it on my back when I logged onto the net and I had it when we got here."
"Well, that's weird. What about that PDA thingy of yours? You got that on you, too?"
"I think so," Tal said. He reached down and checked his pocket. His eyes widened. He pulled out a small mechanical device, but it wasn't his PDA. It was short and sleek, bright orange, with a small screen in the center and a black stripe along the left side of its face. Three-quarters of the way up the stripe was a small, marble sized slot. It looked as if something was meant to fit inside it, like some kind of jewel. Definitely not his PDA.
"What the heck is this thing?" Tal asked.
"A digivice," Brendon answered. "And if you have one, I think it's safe to say we've all got 'em." He reached into his pocket, looking for his Game Boy, and sure enough, there was a digivice in its place. It was similar to Tal's, but it was dark red, and instead of the black stripe, the side to the left of the screen was black and elevated, with the hole in the same place. Brendon's Game Boy and Tal's PDA had turned into digivices.
Weird.
"Great. When stuff like this happens, I start thinking, and I really don't wanna do that right now. I was about to beat the Elite Four, too. What a rip! Let's keep this between us for now, Tal. I don't want the others to freak out…some more."
"Yeah, I understand."
Once they had an understanding, Brendon noticed a familiar growling noise. He grinned and his face turned red.
"Aww, man! All that thinking made me hungry! Hey, does anyone have any food?"
Jen and Amber woke up groggily.
"Talk about a wake-up alarm," Amber moaned. "Brendon's almost as loud as his stomach."
"I'm not really that hungry," Jen said. "(Yawn) I think I'll go back to sleep."
Jeremy stopped humming and turned his head.
"Did someone say food?" he asked.
"I did," Brendon said. "Nathan, does that bag have anything in it?"
"Yeah, it's full of food," Nathan answered. "I thought it'd be a good idea to ration it. Don't tell me that you're all hungry already?"
"Nope. Just me and Koromon."
"Fine," Nathan said, tossing Brendon two packets of food. "These oughta hold you two off for a while."
Brendon and Koromon opened their packets of food and quickly scarfed them down. As soon as they finished, their faces lit up.
"That was awesome!" Brendon exclaimed. "I could eat a dozen of these!"
"Well, you're not going to!"
"Aww, c'mon! Just two more!"
"Forget it!"
"Man!" Brendon whined. "Come on, Koromon. Let's watch Tal fix his computer. That should take our minds off our stomachs."
"Hey, Tal, what's that?" Motimon asked.
"It's probably just Bukamon." Brendon answered.
"In eight different places?" Tal asked.
Tal was right; the water was bubbling in eight separate places. Bukamon might be in trouble. A few seconds later, Bukamon was thrown out of the water and landed right next to Nathan.
"Bukamon!" Nathan exclaimed. "What happened to you?"
Nathan's shouting seemed to attract everyone's attention, but it was quickly diverted towards eight orange, furry digimon with sharp black fins on their backs leaping out of the water.
"It's a pack of Gizamon!" Brendon and Koromon shouted.
Digimon Analyzer
Gizamon are aquatic mammal digimon with razor sharp claws, sharper
fins and nasty attitudes! Just look at one the wrong way and you'll end
up in pieces!
"But w-what did we do to make them mad?" Sarah asked.
"Geez, I don't know!" Jeremy said. "Drop a giant rock on them while they were swimming, maybe?"
"I guess we were too vulnerable out here in the open, huh, Jeremy?" Brendon asked with an 'I guess I was right, wasn't I' tone in his voice.
But the kids had no time to discuss what they had done to upset the Gizamon. They all leapt into the air and started spinning like buzz saws.
"Spiral Saw!"
The Gizamon had begun hurtling themselves at the digidestined, trying to cut them in two. The kids tried desperately to avoid the spinning digimon, and soon all the ducking and dodging had them as tired as they had been an hour ago.
"That's it!" Koromon shouted. "I've had enough! Who's with me?"
The other digimon gave shouts of agreement and they leapt to attack the Gizamon. The kids tried to call them back, but there was no stopping them at this point.
"Bubble Blow!"
Koromon and the other digimon hopped into the air and rapidly shot bubbles at the Gizamon, but they were more annoyed than hurt. This time they didn't spin; they just charged the digimon and slapped them around. The kids' digimon lied in a heap and the Gizamon walked menacingly towards the digidestined. Cody and Sarah cowered next to their respective brothers.
"You leave them alone!"
The Gizamon turned to see Koromon and the others, battered and bruised, but still with some fight left in them.
"C'mon, guys!" Koromon said. "Let's show 'em what we're made of!"
"Right!" the other digimon shouted. They sat in a line and started to glow.
"Hey, what's happening to them?" Jen asked.
"They're digivolving!" Amber exclaimed.
Koromon digivolve to … Agumon!
Tsunomon digivolve to … Gabumon!
Yokomon digivolve to … Biyomon!
Motimon digivolve to … Tentomon!
Bukamon digivolve to … Gomamon!
Tanemon digivolve to … Palmon!
Tokomon digivolve to … Patamon!
Nyaromon digivolve to … Salamon!
"Wow," Jen said. "They…grew."
"You guys want a fight?" Agumon asked the Gizamon. "Then strap yourselves in!"
The Gizamon were shocked but undeterred. They curled into balls and started spinning towards the new and improved digimon. They quickly hopped out of the Gizamon's path.
"That was rude!" Palmon exclaimed. "You boys need to hold still! Poison Ivy!"
Palmon's fingers extended like vines and, within seconds, ensnared all but one of the eight Gizamon.
"Hey, that one's getting away!" Gomamon yelled.
"No, he's not!" Salamon cried. "Puppy Howling!"
Salamon emitted an ear-splitting cry that froze the remaining Gizamon in his tracks. Then Gomamon charged the Gizamon and knocked him into a tree with a vicious head-butt. Palmon then swung the other seven Gizamon over her head and tossed them into the tree on top of their friend.
"Now to heat things up!" Agumon said. "Ready, guys?"
"YEAH!" the other digimon shouted.
"Pepper Breath!"
"Blue Blaster!"
"Spiral Twister!"
"Super Shocker!"
"Boom Bubble!"
The Gizamon howled as they were struck by five different attacks. They scurried for cover and eventually dived back in the water and swam away. The digidestined gaped open-mouthed at their new digimon.
"That was… amazing!" Brendon said. "You cooked 'em!"
"How'd we do for the first try?" Agumon asked.
"You were awesome! Let me tell ya, that's some gnarly breath you've got there!"
"Gabumon, that was incredible!" Jeremy exclaimed.
"Aww! It was nothing!" Gabumon said.
"I'm still not used to this, so you'll forgive me if I just shake your… claw," Nathan said.
"One step at a time," Gomamon said, shaking Nathan's hand.
"I can't believe you grew so fast, Palmon," Jen said. "You must use some killer fertilizer."
"Uh…" was all Palmon could say.
"Amber, is she always like this?" Biyomon asked.
"Always. Hey, Biyo, any chance those new wings of yours are strong enough to fly her away somewhere? Like a mountain peak?" Amber and Biyomon chuckled at the joke.
"So, Patamon, can you really fly with those?" Cody asked, pointing at Patamon's wings/ears.
"Sure can. Watch," Patamon replied. He started flapping his ears rapidly, but only managed to rise a few inches before he collapsed back to the ground. "I guess they're not broken in yet."
"My very own puppy!" Sarah exclaimed, tossing Salamon in the air.
Tal was the only one who didn't look excited about what they had just seen.
"You look worried, Tal," Tentomon said. "What's the matter?"
"Yeah, what's your deal? You always find the black cloud in the silver lining." Brendon said.
"It's just that I don't think that even eight of those digimon could've held up that big rock by themselves," Tal replied. "I think that there was something else underneath that rock with the Gizamon. Something much bigger."
"And if the Gizamon stayed there all that time, then whatever else was under there probably did, too," Amber said.
As if on cue, the water started rippling and the boulder that had once been a cliff edge began to shake. Without warning, the boulder seemed to explode and they group was showered with water and rock. A huge blue sea serpent rose from the water.
"It's Seadramon!" Tentomon squealed.
Digimon Analyzer
Seadramon may not be the smartest fish in the sea, but he's definitely
one of the strongest! If his tight grip doesn't get you his Ice Blast
attack will!
Seadramon gave out a deafening roar that shook the ground.
"Now, that's cranky!" Brendon shouted, his hands covering his ears. "Will someone shut him up!"
After a few seconds, Seadramon stopped roaring and started spraying ice in every direction. The ice instantly froze whatever it touched.
"You had to open your big mouth, didn't you?" Jeremy scolded. "We've got to get out of here before he turns us into ice cubes!"
Oh, now you feel like running! Brendon thought. "You guys go! I'll distract him! Come on, Agumon!"
"Right!" Agumon shouted. The two ran towards Seadramon.
"Wait!" Amber cried. She tried to run after them, but Jeremy snatched her by the arm.
"Jeremy, what're you…" she began but Jeremy cut her off.
"Let him go," he said. "If we're lucky, that thing'll freeze his mouth shut and he'll learn a lesson from all this!" Jeremy retreated to a safe distance, still holding Amber's arm. The rest of the group quickly followed.
Seadramon didn't seem to be aiming at anything in particular; he was just blasting wildly. It was easy to get up close.
Tentomon was right, Brendon thought. He really isn't big on brains. He scooped up a couple of rocks and tossed them at Seadramon. The small barrage struck the giant serpent in the head.
"Over here, you overgrown eel! Just try and turn me into a snow cone!"
That got Seadramon's attention. He turned his head toward Brendon and fired a vicious blast of ice. Brendon quickly dived out of the way. When he looked up he saw the blast had created a spire of ice twice his height.
"This guy's serious!" Brendon shouted. "Agumon, let 'im have it!"
"You got it!" Agumon said. "Pepper Breath!"
Agumon shot a fireball from his mouth that impacted harmlessly on Seadramon's face. Either the blast didn't faze him or he was too enraged to care about Agumon. Seadramon started slamming his giant red tail on the river bank, trying to flatten him. Brendon was surprisingly agile, but he was starting to tire out. Seadramon was pretty fast with that tail of his.
"Agumon, I don't think you let 'im have enough!" Brendon exclaimed. "Why don't you try shooting him more than once! Before he turns me into a preteen pancake!"
"Pepper Breath!" Agumon launched a volley of fireballs at Seadramon's head. One of the blasts struck him right in his left eye.
"Bulls-eye!" Brendon laughed, but his celebration was a bit premature. That just got Seadramon angry. The giant serpent started thrashing his tail wildly as he howled with rage. His swinging tail eventually found its mark, swatting Agumon into a tree that he hit with a very loud thud.
"Agumon!" Brendon cried. "Are you OK, buddy?"
"BRENDON, WATCH OUT!" Jeremy shouted.
Brendon turned to see Seadramon's tail right behind him.
"What the… AAAAHHHH!"
Brendon's scream was cut off as Seadramon's tail wrapped tightly around his body and lifted him high into the air. Seadramon roared and started to squeeze.
"AAAAHHHH! HELLLP! HARD… TO BREATHE!"
The rest of the digidestined watched in horror as Brendon was being crushed. Tears were streaming down Sarah's face. She tugged at Jeremy's shirt.
"We have to help him!" Sarah cried.
But what can we do? Jeremy thought. There's no way our digimon can take that guy down! They're too weak to fight! Agumon's the only one who's had anything to eat and he's knocked out!
"Please!" Sarah begged. Watching this happen to her brother was more than she could take.
"I'm sorry, Sarah," Jeremy said. "There's nothing we can do. It's… up to Agumon now." Seadramon growled deeply and looked into Brendon's eyes. Then it squeezed as hard as it could. Brendon felt one of his arms crack under the pressure and screamed. He could still barely breathe, but his cries echoed for miles.
Great, Brendon thought. If I make it out of this, it'll be the last time I pick a fight with someone this much bigger than me!
Agumon stirred and shook his head. Where was that screaming coming from? He opened his eyes and saw Brendon high in the air, being crushed by Seadramon.
"Oh, no!" Agumon cried. "I've got to help him! But what can I do? I'm too small to hurt Seadramon, but I have to do something!" He shut his eyes tight and clenched his teeth, as if he was trying to conjure more strength. "I HAVE TO HELP!"
A small light shone from Brendon's pocket and Agumon felt a strange surge. He started glowing.
"Whoa," Agumon said. "This is…new."
"Hey," Sarah said, tugging on Amber's shirt now. "What's happening to Agumon?"
"He's doing it again!" Amber said. "He's digivolving!"
Agumon digivolve to … Greymon!
The digidestined gasped in awe at the giant T-rex – like digimon in front of them.
"Wow!" Jeremy exclaimed. "He did it again! Now he's Greymon!"
Seadramon didn't seem to notice Greymon and continued to crush his screaming prey. Greymon roared and charged Seadramon.
"Come to papa, fish–breath!" Greymon yelled. He tackled Seadramon and started wrestling with him in the water. Seadramon released Brendon from his grip and he fell into the water like a rock. He bobbed in the water and then sunk.
"Big Brother!" Sarah cried.
"I'll get him!" Gomamon said. He ran towards the water and dived in. Within seconds, Gomamon surfaced with Brendon in his arms.
"Nice job, Gomamon!" Nathan shouted. "Now reel him in!"
Gomamon dragged Brendon to the shore where the group gathered around him. They then turned back to Greymon, whose battle with Seadramon wasn't going very well. The giant sea serpent had managed to wrap its body around him and begun to squeeze Greymon as it had his partner. Seadramon brought its face to Greymon's and fired its Ice Blast. But Greymon was ready, and he matched Seadramon's attack with his own.
"Nova Blast!"
The moment Seadramon let loose its stream of ice, Greymon matched it with a sea of fire. The two blasts collided in mid-air. (BEAM STRUGGLE!) For a while, it looked as if the two could go on forever, but Greymon's fire slowly began to overpower Seadramon. Without warning, Greymon's flame completely enveloped Seadramon's head. The giant sea dragon gave out one final roar and then sank into the river, steam rising from its mouth. Greymon roared in triumph as he began to glow bright yellow. He then started shrinking. When the glow faded, Agumon was floating in the water. He started swimming back to shore.
"Wow," was all Sarah could say.
"He…turned him into fried eel!" Cody exclaimed.
"What am I, chopped liver?" Brendon asked.
"Big Brother!" Sarah cried. The group huddled around Brendon, who looked like he was in bad shape, not the least of his injuries being a broken left arm.
"Nathan," he said weakly. His voice was getting quieter and quieter. "I have to ask you something. Come closer."
Nathan brought his head was so close to Brendon's that he could feel his breath on his face.
"What is it?" Nathan asked.
"Could I have some more food?" Brendon asked perkily.
The entire group facevaulted and Jeremy mallet-fisted Brendon in a flash. Brendon hollered and sat up, nursing a large lump on his head with his good arm.
"You jerk!" Jeremy scolded. "You get a broken arm and all you than think about is your stomach! We all thought you were dying!"
Jeremy turned red as he felt seven perplexed gazes hit him. No one had expected that kind of outburst from him. Jeremy was actually worried?
"Uhh… I mean they allthought you were dying. I knew you were fine!"
"Yeah, right!" Tal laughed. "Brendon, he had white knuckles the entire time!"
"Brendon, you're OK!" Agumon shouted. He rushed over to Brendon and tackled him to the ground with a bear…uh…dinosaur hug. Brendon winced with tears in his eyes. He was obviously trying not to scream in pain.
"Agumon! Broken arm! Broken arm!" he shouted.
"Oops! Sorry!" Agumon said. He released Brendon and bowed his head apologetically.
"He have saved the day," Amber started, "but he's as big a dufus as Brendon!"
Agumon turned red as the entire group laughed their heads off at him.
Yeah, Brendon thought, but he's still a hero.
To Be Continued…
Tommy: Looks like Brendon's seen better days! Good thing Agumon was there to bail him out! Will everyone else get out of a tight spot so easily? Find out on the next Digimon: Digital Monsters!
