Chapter 29:
Complicated situations sometimes have simple solutions.
The Little Teenaged Geek (not that he would know anything)
Misty shivered: she and the Monster crew were no longer in the shelter of Golem's arms; it was more like they were sheltering Golem's arms. To be more precise than that, they were hanging on for dear life and getting showered with so much rainwater that they looked like they had just fallen into a pool. Misty felt fortunate to have a rain jacket on, although her lower half wasn't feeling the benefits. Misty hoped that they were catching up, but, because of the way she was clinging to Golem's shoulder, she couldn't see in front of them and had no idea how close they were to the ambulance. But she had a clear view of what was behind them: "Hey, is that jeep following us?"
"L-l-l-oo-oo-oo-k-k-k-s-s-s l-l-l-i-i-i-k-k-e i-i-i-t-t-t, y-y-y-e-a-a-a-h-h-h!" Ghenki answered. He was on the part of Golem's arm that was doing the most swinging and getting the most bounced around.
"And what's that thing that that man is holding?" Holly asked. (She had never seen a gun before in her life.)
"It's a rifle!" Misty yelled. Ghenki would've shouted it in unison with her, but the shaking was too much for him. A white, lightning-like beam sliced the air, barely missing Golem's feet.
"Who's shooting at us?" Golem asked.
"I don't know, but he's not stopping!"
"What do we do?" Hare yelled. "Can we fight them from here?"
Moochi yelled, "M-m-m-oo-oo-oo-ch-ch-ch-i-i-i C-c-c-a-a-a-n-n-nnon!" He returned Mummymon's shot, but his aim wasn't very good, considering that he was clinging to Golem's other hand. But he was giving the jeep's driver something to worry about; the jeep began swerving this way and that to avoid his shots.
The hospital was coming into view. The ambulance stopped in front of the hospital, and Ash, a pair of girls, Quadrigamon, and a handful of paramedics jumped out. Quadrigamon was poised to fight.
Golem's attention was more focused on the jeep than on the ambulance. He was beginning to have trouble dodging the shots.
Kari looked. "Wait a minute! They weren't running to attack! If they'd been running to attack, they'd have shot us by now! They're running from whoever was in that jeep!" It was at this point that they heard a loud, "Snake Bandage!" and another bolt of lightning shot out from the jeep's window at Golem.
"That's Mummymon!" Quadrigamon snarled.
"I'd hate to think that he could be back," Kari thought aloud. "Anyway, we'd better help them!"
"Right!" Quadrigamon flew upwards, over the jeep. Her circular shields glowed yellow. "Golden Hubcaps!" She swung her arms in a throwing motion, and a pair of yellow energy discs shot from her arms at the jeep. The jeep swerved again.
"This isn't going well, Mummymon!" Arukennimon said as she swerved the jeep.
Mummymon silently agreed, and wondered if he wouldn't have more elbowroom if he fired out the side window instead of the open moon roof. He rolled down the window and stuck the entire upper half of his body out the window and continued to fire. Quadrigamon shot at them again, and Arukennimon swerved the jeep, hurling Mummymon out of the window and smack into a puddle---so much for keeping dry!
Thinking her companion was still with her, Arukennimon spat, "Forget it, Mummymon! There must be easier girls to catch than this!" and drove off as fast as the jeep would go, leaving Mummymon to fend for himself.
Mummymon gathered his senses and looked at the group that was slowly closing in.
Ghenki looked Mummymon over. "An mummy armed with an assault rifle?" he asked. "I'm going to have a tough time taking this guy seriously!"
"You'd better take him seriously," Kari answered. "We fought him before, and I can tell you he's nothing to sneer at!"
"I'm a lot more than that!" he spat. "Snake Bandage!" He shouted, firing his rifle at the ambulance.
Kari gasped. If the bolt hit, Sora and Tai would be history.
Quadrigamon leapt for the shot and reflected the bolt away with her shields.
Mummymon snarled. "And who are you!"
"My name is Quadrigamon," she answered. "And your name is mud!"
"Ha! Snake Bandage!" he spat, hurling a strip of his own bindings at her. She was instantly entangled.
"I see what you mean by nothing to sneer at," Ghenki thought aloud. "Time to show this 'Mummymon' guy what we can do!" he shouted to the Monsters.
"Right!" they all answered. Hare, Ghenki, and Moochi dove at him, with their hand-to-hand attacks ready to roll. Without a thought, Mummymon hurled some more bindings at them and left them in a wet heap on the pavement.
Moochi slipped out of the heap and tried a more widespread attack: "Cherry Blossom Blizzard!" Mummymon shielded his face from the blast. It did a disappointingly small amount to damage.
"What was that supposed to do?" he spat.
"…Chi?"
Ash decided to try his tricks on Mummymon. "Heracross, I choose you!" The huge bug jumped out of the pokéball and sized Mummymon up. "Heracross, try tackle attack!" Heracross dove in low, but Mummymon just tried the same trick at wrapping up his opponent, and Heracross found himself completely immobilized. Just as Mummymon was firing his rifle at him, Ash called him back. "I'll need something that can avoid those ropes…I know! Pidgeot, I choose you! Try for a quick attack!" Pidgeot dove at him from a high angle, and had knocked him for six by the time he'd had one coil of bindings off from his arm. Mummymon staggered. "Not so hot after all, is he?"
"Don't underestimate him," Kari cautioned. She was trying to untangle Quadrigamon.
"I'll trash him!" Golem yelled. Ash, Kari, Misty, Quadrigamon, and Pidgeot watched with wide-open mouths as Golem's body split into pieces and the pieces swirled around in a "Tornado!" Golem's attack hurled Mummymon into the air and he flew so far away that he wouldn't be a problem. Golem reconstructed himself over the group of Monsters that were lying in a wet, tangled heap on the ground.
"Whoa," Ash thought aloud. "I wouldn't like to be in a fight with that guy."
Untangling himself, Ghenki asked, "Who? Mummymon, or Golem?"
"Either, but I meant Golem," he answered.
"Ash!" Misty cried. "Are you okay!"
"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?"
"Uh…no reason."
"I should be asking that question to you, Misty! You look awful! How did you get so drenched? Why not go inside if it's raining like this?"
"Because I was chasing after you in that ambulance!"
"On Golem's back? ---That is his name, right?"
"Yes, on Golem's back!"
"How did you get him to carry you all this way?" Ash asked. Then, something occurred to him: with a chuckle, he thought aloud, "I knew you could be bossy sometimes, but I never thought you could talk anyone over twelve feet tall into letting you ride on his back in the rain!"
Misty rolled her eyes. "Let's just get inside the hospital, already! ---!" Misty was shocked to see that there was a huge door for the opening to the hospital, one large enough for Golem to get into. "Why on earth is there a door that big!"
"Oh, Kari explained that to me. That's for some of the bigger digimon."
"Digimon? What're you talking about?"
"It's a long story. But tell your friends to come in, too. They look even wetter than you!
Arukennimon had been driving for a few minutes, and she said, "You know, Mummymon, I'd have thought you would have started to complain about being wet by now. You're being so quiet, it's scaring me."
There was no response. Arukennimon stopped the car and looked for Mummymon. She didn't find him in the car. "Now, where could he have gone to?"
Right on cue, Mummymon came flying out of the air and smacked the pavement near the car.
"What on earth are you doing out there? Get back in here!" she spat.
Mummymon felt horrible, but he was in no mood to argue with Arukennimon. He knew what arguing with her could be like, so he kept his mouth shut and crawled back in the jeep.