Chapter 26:
Reality is one thing, what people suppose reality might be is another. This is not a bad thing: you wouldn't like this story to be reality, for instance.
The Little Teenaged Geek (not that he would know anything)
Kari and Quadrigamon jumped out of the back of the ambulance, ready to attack.
The Monsters weren't sure what was about to happen: here was another creature that they hadn't seen the like of before, and a human was with her. The two sides stood facing each other for a while, neither one knowing what to do, and standing outside indecisively is annoying when it's pouring rain.
"Well…?" Quadrigamon asked.
"Well…?" Hare asked back.
"Well…?"
"Well…?"
"Well…?"
"…Whose turn is it?"
"Why did you just jump out of the ambulance, ready to fight?" Holly asked.
"We were afraid we'd have to fight," Kari answered.
"Why?"
"We've had some…unpleasant encounters with creatures we've never seen before," Quadrigamon answered.
"Really? So have we."
"No kidding?"
"Yeah," Ghenki went on. "One attacked us, and it looked like a dragster with a robot sitting up in the cockpit."
"Ours looked like a cross between an Anubis idol and a walker from Star Wars. About this tall," she said, holding her hand a little more than a meter off the ground.
"Did you get him?"
"Turned him into fish tank gravel. What about your dragster friend?"
"Scrap iron."
There was some silence at that point. "So…was there any reason for all this worrying and getting ready to fight?" Quadrigamon asked.
"Doesn't look like it; no," Hare answered.
"Then I'm getting out of the rain!" Quadrigamon spat. She and Kari jumped into the ambulance and the driver peeled rubber.
Unfortunately, right before Kari shut the door, Misty caught a glimpse of Ash inside the ambulance, asleep. And, right after Kari shut the door, Misty yelled, "Hey! That's my friend in there!" That presented a problem. Misty immediately ran after the ambulance, and the Monster crew followed her, not knowing anything better to do.
The driver asked Kari, "Who were they?"
"Oh, they were harmless."
"You're sure? They seem to be following us."
"What? Then you'd better go faster, or they'll catch up! If they're really attackers, then they probably waited until we were off our guard!"
"Easier said than done; they're riding on that Golemon!"
And, at the same time, Misty shouted to the Monsters, "If there are all these evil robots swarming the city, then those people might not be who they say they are, and they might be kidnapping Ash!"
"They're going faster, so that might be it!" Golem yelled back. "I don't know how long I can keep up this pace!"
Michael gaped as he saw Mimi slip off the buckling floor. But he knew what to do: "Betamon, digivolve to… Seadramon!" Seadramon flew down beneath Mimi, and before she knew it she was sliding down the length of his serpentine body to come to a complete stop at about his neck.
She shook her head and collected herself. When she opened her eyes, there was a troop of saberstrikes and canis-tors staring right back at her. Mimi gulped.
"No kidding," Seadramon agreed. "Ice Blast!" The barrage of ice struck the canis-tors and saberstrikes before they got a chance to fire, and froze a bunch of creatures in place and swept the rest off their feet--- literally.
The remaining canis-tors dropped their fuel tanks and stood side-by-side in pairs. The canis-tors said in unison, "Vorre-tor-goludai, noh kreshnaiona djom… Vorre-tor-eliish!" And, in flashes of white light, each pair became a single, new, lion-like monster: cougore.
"What are those?" Mimi asked.
"I don't know, but it looks like they just DNA-digivolved, or something!"
"You think those things might be some kind of digimon?" Mimi wondered aloud.
"Garem Dar!" the cougores yelled, firing sonic pulses at Seadramon.
Dodging the blasts of sound, Seadramon yelled, "Well, whatever they are, they aren't friendly! Ice Blast!" Seadramon's attack blew one of the cougores into a canis-tor's fuel tank. The fuel tank exploded, knocking out a few cougores.
Brock, Michael, Tiger, Suezo, and the other refugees were descending the side of the building on Steelix's back. "Those tanks must have some kind of flammable fuel in them!" Brock yelled. "Vulpix, try to hit them with your flamethrower!"
Vulpix blew streams of fire at the tanks, and Tiger used his lightning attacks on the tanks, too. The blasts of the fuel containers plus Seadramon's onslaught were enough to demolish all the saberstrikes and cougores.
"Great work, Vulpix," Brock said, calling him back into his pokéball. "So…what now? I don't think it's safe to stay in that building."
"We could try hiding in the subways," Mimi suggested.
"It's as good a chance as any," Michael agreed.
"This might be a dumb question, but what're subways?" Suezo asked.
"Tunnels that run underground and have train systems running through them. They carry people around the city."
"Oh. Ah---which way to an entrance to the---'subways'?"
"Over there is the closest," Mimi pointed. But, unfortunately, there was a flotilla of luftwaffles coming from that direction. So Steelix and Seadramon began making tracks in the opposite direction. But the luftwaffles were much faster, and they were gaining. As if to accent their evil, a storm was following the luftwaffles, with flashes of lightning licking the cloud's jaws, like a wolf going in for the kill…
GAZRIITOR:
Nickname: Canis-tor(Kanisutōru)
Real Name: Vorre-tor-goludai
Caste: Var'ka
Special Attacks: Darwawo Non, Kiro Kon
Modes: one
The canis-tor has about the power of a rookie digimon. It carries a cargo container on its back that carries fuel, electrical energy, and other forms of power storage. It can be used to refuel other ator or Linonian machinery. The canis-tor is a man-eater, and it can store the energy it gets from consuming people in its container. The canis-tor can jettison the container to gain better speed or agility, and must jettison it in order to combine with a second canis-tor to become a cougore.
GAZRIITOR:
Nickname: Cougore (Rōtestube)
Real Name: Vorre-tor-ellish
Caste: Nut'ka
Special Attacks: Garem Dar, Yon Kiro Kon
Modes: one
Cougore is a man-eater, and is quick on its feet, agile, and strong. It has roughly the abilities of a champion-level digimon. It has a sonic cannon on its back, the same model as saberstrike's cannon. Canis-tors are programmed to drop their payloads and combine to form cougores if they are met with a high-level digimon opponent. Canis-tors will also combine if they spot a group of humans or digimon that is big enough to merit a large assault; as the cougore is more agile and more effective in fighting large groups according to the standard assault protocol.
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
Oh, I'm sorry! Did you think I was done after I wrote Endgame?
If you're hoping for a speedy end to this series, don't hold your breath. The way this is going, it'll be even longer than Endgame. And I have barely scratched the surface so as to what's in store for the Digidestined, the tamers, the pokémon trainers, and the Monster Rancher crew. Speaking what's in store for them, I know that the Seventh Egyptian Plague happening to Tai, Sora, and Kari was pretty weird, but there's an explanation for that.
Anyhow, I figure it's about time someone did something like this. I mean, you'd think someone would've gotten the idea to bring pokémon, Monster Rancher, and all three seasons of digimon together. And the only way to do that is with a parallel universe plot twist and a time anomaly plot twist. And, when combining those two in a story, just about anything can happen with a plot. I don't think they've even done anything that daring with Star Trek before.
So…what do you think of this new breed of robotic creatures I've come up with? As of right now, I have in mind about fifty different species. I know, I know…there are hundreds of pokémon, digimon, and Monsters, and fifty is nothing next to those big numbers. But I'm planning to add more ator to that number. I'm not planning to hit numbers as high as the big triple-digits; I don't expect to need that many. But hey, it could happen.
Speaking of ator, I have to come up with a whole new language to describe their attacks. If you look closely at their attack names, you'll see that there are patterns. Garem Dar (cougore's technique) and Garem Non (saberstrike's technique) are both sound attacks, so you can tell that the translation of "garem" means something like "noise" or "sonic". The way I'm creating the language, the words are---at least partly---based on adjectives and nouns. There are some exceptions to that, considering that this language's vocabulary is limited, but you add a suffix to an adjective or noun to make a verb, and so---
Hold the phone! What am I doing, here? I'm making this even longer than it needs to be, and dispensing information that the reader doesn't want! Okay, I'll shut up now.