NOTE: I haven't watched digimon in over a YEAR and that was the Tamers season. I haven't watched the first two seasons in a LOT longer then that so if I make mistakes with evolving and such that's why!
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Do What We Must
Flying through the air the small group soon arrived at a small cave they'd discovered earlier that day and everyone getting off of the digimon Alice and Jaarin quickly ushered Mikey and Calumon into the cave while T.K. and Kari tried to decide whether they should barricade the front of the cave. That would trap them inside but at the same time it might hold who ever might come off. They hadn't taken the time to explore the cave so they didn't even know if there were any other exits and they couldn't afford to go and get lost looking around. Plus if they camouflaged it too well the others might not be able to find them when they came back this way. In other words it was a situation with both pros and cons equally represented.
"So are we all going to hide in the cave or some of us stay out here?" Alice asked once they had Mikey settled in the cave holding tight to Gatomon and Calumon who didn't appreciate being used as a stuffed animals but were tolerating it this once. "Since I don't have a digimon I know I'm likely in the cave with Mikey and Jaarin anyway."
"Kari and I will stay out here and keep watch with our digimon. That way we can slow them down right away and give you guys and Mikey time to get out of there and somewhere else. We can only hope they don't have the sense of smell that most digimon do." T.K. said with a weak smile on his handsome face. "And they will have to get through everyone else to get to us so odds are we won't even be bothered."
"Unless they're coming at us from both sides you mean." Alice said with a knowing look on her face. She couldn't help it, she was just pessimistic by nature. "I'll head back into the cave and send Gatomon out. Mikey can squeeze the stuffing out of me instead."
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"If things do get bad..leave it up to us, Alice. Taking care of Mikey is your first priority." Kari said quietly, her voice deadly serious. She didn't want to have to worry that Alice and the others would try to get into the fight if things went bad. Kari would stay at Gatomon's side to her last breath but that was her choice and wish. She didn't want any of her new friends, especially Mikey getting hurt or worse trying to help her. "I know we can count on you to keep him safe and out of trouble."
"We'll do our best." Alice said gravely as she held out her hand, shaking Kari's then T.K.'s. "No matter what happens..it's been nice traveling with you." Alice added with a hint of a genuine smile. "I look forward to continuing to do so after everyone finishes kicking serious bad guy ass."
"Same goes and you can count on it." T.K. said with a nod of his head, understanding the unspoken words they were mentally saying. But he hadn't finally gotten up the nerve to ask Kari out just to end up deleted by a bunch of bullies. Besides that he knew the others were counting on him to keep everyone safe and he was damned if he was going to let them down. They wanted at the girls and Mikey they were going to have to get through him and Patamon first. They had no intention of making that easy. "Talk to you later, Alice."
"Yeah, I'll talk to you guys later." Alice said with a wink then turning around got to her knees and crawled back into the cave and wondered if this was going to be the last time she saw T.K. And Kari. Since they were all data here if they got deleted she would never see them again, not even their bodies. Was that a comfort or a burden knowing that she wouldn't have to see them dead but knowing that she'd have to tell Tai his sister was dead without even a body for him to take home to bury? She'd never really thought about that before but she supposed her father and her friends parents had thought of it. They were much stronger then she'd ever gave them credit for. Reaching the others in a spot where the cave widened enough to sit Alice tried to smile encouragingly at Mikey who sat in Jarrin's lap holding the two digimon while the flashlight they were using to make things a little brighter. "Gatomon they want you outside, good luck even though I'm sure you won't need it."
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"Well I look like a cat at the moment and people say cats make our own luck." Gatomon said with a thumbs up then smiled up at Mikey who reluctantly let up his hold to let her hop to the ground. "And this will all be over before you know it. See you guys in a bit." Gatomon called out as she disappeared down the tunnel in two shakes of her ringed tail. Coming out of the hole to find that Patamon had become Angemon while she was away and looking over at Kari nodded her head and was soon transforming into Angewomon, the two digimon taking position in front of the entrance of the cave with their partners between them looking equally grim and serious as they waited to see what or in this case who would come. Their friends or their foes. Who they wanted to see was a no brainer.
"Kari, I just want to say that if we do get..deleted...I'm glad I'm here with you." T.K. said roughly, shuffling his feet in the dirt as they stood there. There was so much he wanted to say, to tell her but they all seemed to be caught in his throat and he couldn't get them out. Reaching out a hand he took hers in his, lacing their fingers together.
"Ditto, T.K.," Kari said, understanding him as she squeezed his hand back. She was terrified at the moment but she refused to give into her fear, to let her fears beat her down. If she did she'd have already lost before the battle had even begun. And she wasn't here alone, she had Gatomon, Patamon and especially T.K. at her side and as long as they were together she had nothing to worry about. "But everything is going to be okay. I know it is."
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Meanwhile
While Flurmon went about rearranging the ugly digimon's face so that it was even more ugly then before Cody turned to his own digimon and quickly had his friend armor digi-volve to Ankylomon. Going straight for Flurmon and the digimon she was fighting their attention was caught by another digimon coming straight at them from the sky. It looked like a very, very big crow about the size of an airplane with talons posed to swoop down and pick them up. "Gold Rush." Ankylomon called out as he sent the drills in his hands and nose straight at the digimon who barely managed to twirl out of the way so that the drills merely sliced instead of skewered as had been the intent. The bird circling then flying down Ankylomon continued to pound at it with Gold Rushes, just managing to stay out of the digimon's grasp. Flurmon meanwhile was busy landing blow after blow, not letting up long enough to let the other digimon recover. Finally sending it flying backwards Flurmon used it's ultimate attack since she was worried about Cody and Armadillomon.
"Hare Hurricane." Flurmon called out as it pulled her hands in close to her body, a bright pink ball appearing there then extending her hands out the ball became a whirling pink funnel, shooting out at the digimon and deleting it. Dropping to the ground Flurmon looked over to see how Cody was doing and taking stock of the situation hurried over to help. Sending debris flying Flurmon jumped into the air and joining her hands together above her head brought them down to slam into the bird's head sending it crashing to the ground with a thud. "Now, Ankylomon! Hit him with everything you've got!"
"Rock Cracking." Ankylomon said in response as the ground started to shake and open from the force of his blow to the ground. Quickly following it with another gold rush the digimon was deleted with the help of another good blows delivered by Flurmon.
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Watching the data disintegrate Cody felt a sense of lose but understood that in some cases you couldn't save the digimon you faced and that the only thing you could do was delete it. That really didn't make him feel any better. Looking over to Flurmon Cody watched as a bright light engulfed her then there was Suzy in front of him holding Lopmon, both looking tired but worked up a smile anyway. Hurrying over Cody placed a hand on Suzy's shoulder. "You okay? Both of you?"
"Like I said, it takes a lot out of you and those digimon weren't rookies unfortunately." Suzy said with a smirk as she patted his cheek with her hand thinking he looked a tad pale to her. "Then again if they'd been rookies they would have been a lot easier to take out and we wouldn't have had to bio-merge anyway."
"How did you do that anyway?" Cody wanted to know, wondering if he and his own digimon could ever do it. What would it be like and what would they look like for that matter? Now there was a funny thought.
"Well it's a long story actually. Mind if we sit down for the telling?" When Cody nodded Suzy sat down with Lopmon in her lap while Cody sat down as well with Armadillomon coming back to his side having returned to his rookie form. "Well you see in my World we had something called the D-Reaper which was doing it's best to delete the entire Digital World and the usual cause havoc on earth. No matter what we threw at it nothing seemed to work but then Dobermon was created to give our digimon the ability to bio-merge with our digimon to defeat the Reaper. Dobermon was Alice's digimon and he gave his life for us so that we could do it. Anyway so basically it's like your D.N.A. Evolution or whatever only its the tamer and his or her digimon instead of the digimon with another digimon. What's kinda cool is Impmon, one of our digimon, has two tamers so what he looks like after bio-merging depends on which one of the twins he's merging with."
"Amazing, so you have those cards, run them through your D-Arc and then you can merge with your digimon into one being. It must be incredible." Cody said in an awed tone. He'd never imagined merging with his partner but now he was thinking he really wished he had a D-Arc and a card so that he could find out what it was like.
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"It is. But it's also scary, Cody because it physically puts you in the fight and makes you responsible for whatever happens on the battlefield." Suzy said with a serious look on her normally happy and cheerful face. "Normally, when it's your digimon fighting and your on the sidelines anything your digimon does is its own actions. But when you're fighting with the digimon as one person then every deletion is one you had a hand in, ever blow aimed at you could delete you if it's strong enough. But fortunately for us I guess we're all fighters who don't like the sidelines anyway. Well Jeri isn't much of a fighter but everyone else is the type to like to fight their own battles to begin with."
"Things always start out so black and white but as you get older you see more and more shades of gray." Cody said with an understanding look. A person could have high morals and preach all they wanted but in some situations life didn't give you much of a choice in the matter. Especially in a kill or be killed scenario.
"I wonder why they attacked us though seeing as we didn't do anything at all. Do you think they were sent to stop us from getting back to the others?" Armadillomon asked, his instincts say that there wasn't time to sit around and talk at the moment. He had a feeling that the fight was far from over and that things were just getting started. "Or redirect us?"
"That's a good point. If they were going to attack spreading us out would be the wisest thing to do since there's more safety in numbers." Cody agreed thoughtfully as he shared a look with Armadillomon. They knew each other well enough that words weren't even necessary. "And it's likely not wise to stick around here, especially since it's so open with so few places to hide or use as shelter. We should pick up the pace to get to the forest and find the others."
"Then I guess we better hurry. Lopmon will need a few minutes but she'll be able to run us there in no time. For now it'll be her turn to get carried. Ready when you are." Suzy said getting up with the rabbit in her arms. Nodding at each other the four quickly headed off towards the woods, no idea that they were being watched and studied from all angles.
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"Well, luv. Looks like it's going to be one of those days where we'll be sending up prayers of thanks for being able to bio-merge." Justinmon said as he studied the coming opponents with cools eyes though his mind was racing all over the place with odds and game plans. "Been a while too."
"Yeah it has..and don't call me love in public or I'll shove this staff where the sun don't shine." Sakuyamon said with a smirk as she tightened her grip on her golden staff, pumped up and ready for action. "This is not gonna be fun for either side." She added thinking that it was going to be around one of them to around twenty of the bad guys. In other words she really hoped that these guys had gotten over their deletion issues because it looked like if they didn't they were going to end up dead. She'd seen what losing Dobermon and Leomon had done to their Tamers, she didn't want to see a repeat anytime soon.
"You know I really wanted to see this bio-merging thing but this isn't at all how I wanted to see you two in action." Izzy said with a weak smile as he tried not to let any fear show on his face as they faced what could be their finest and last battle. Damn but this was going to be and get ugly. "Good luck guys..we're going to need it."
"You're telling me?" Davis said with a look of pure hero bravo that was already slipping in the face of the coming hordes. "Well lets kick some butt, guys." Davis added with a thumbs up sign though he wasn't feeling all that lucky. There were so many of them and for all they knew there could be more on the way here or after the others. Well he wasn't going to let them anywhere near Kari and the others, not while he still had breath left in his body.
"You better believe it, baka." Sakuyamon said with a nod and with that took off towards the coming fight, Justinmon at her side, stride for stride with the others not far behind. Letting loose upon the masses the air was soon filled with dispatching data.
"Davis I think we're going to need to pump up our digimon's power just a little bit more. Shall we do some D.N.A. Alterations?" Ken said as he looked over at Davis who was nervously watching ExVeemon enter the masses of bad digimon who were swarming around his pal like bees to honey.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Davis said with a weak grin and quickly the two had their digimon becoming one digimon known as Paildramon who was soon back into the fight causing damage everywhere it went through not near the amount of damage Rika and Ryo were dishing out. Not really surprising since they were fighting to delete as quickly as possible and were use to it. Maybe it had been a while since they'd fought the D-Reaper but there had been others after him who'd gathered numbers and tried to following in the Reaper's footsteps. They hadn't lived long enough to succeed in their missions. After all as Kazu was fond of putting it would be dictators always screwed up and badly because they were stupid enough to want to take over in the first place.
Noticing Yolei watching the fight with fear in her beautiful eyes Ken walked over to take her hand, pulling her against his side to wrap his arm around her waist, anchoring her there. "It will be okay, Yolei. We'll make sure of that. I won't let anything happen to you or to Hawkmon. I promise."
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Arriving at the battle scene Kurokitsunmon searched for the blonde haired one but couldn't find her anywhere. Remembering that she didn't have a digimon like some of the others it wasn't hard to guess she must be away from the fighting. Back tracking he soon picked up their scent and hurrying in that direction came across a huge group of digimon who were marching along in the direction the smells of the humans was coming from. In other words they were on their way to destroy the defenseless ones. Rage building up inside him, completely unexpected Kurokitsunmon attacked without thinking, going from side to side, attacking from all directions as he went about deleting every last one of them. When there was nothing, not even floating data left Kurokitsunmon stopped to catch his breath then sensing even more coming took off in the direction he'd been going to get there first and issue a warning before it was too late.
