Eternal Conflict:
Amalgamation
Chapter 12: Discord
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"Steve, where are we going this time?" Michael asked. He, along with the rest of the New York Chosen and Ken, where sitting at a circular table in a war-room area. Their Digimon were absent.
"The Digimon Kaiser has taken over Tonosama Gekomon's village." Steve answered his leader's question. "The Kaiser now has control over countless Gekomon and Otamamon."
Mimi rubbed her temples. "Great." She muttered. "Wallace and I are going to need to go with you."
"Actually, we can't." Wallace contradicted, his arms folded in front of his chest. "You and I have the new guys to train."
"And we can't pull Steve off of monitoring duty." Maria remarked. "I'm just glad that Elecmon's recovered."
"So you can run straight off to your death?" Lou asked. Maria glared at him.
"Stop arguing." Sam ordered in an annoyed tone. "Right now we need to figure out what we have plan to do to free Tonosama Gekomon and his villagers.
"Sam's right." Michael stated. "We know that asking the new guys for help is out. They need time to recover and train."
"And Takeru, Mimi, and Wallace need to stay here to train them." Ken said calmly. "That leaves us down three of our usual people."
"So what do we do?" Maria asked. "Like I said, Steve is too important to running the Avalon's systems for us to pull into battle."
"Especially since the only one of us versed in using the Avalon's systems besides Steve happens to be me." Ken said. "If Steve would go out to battle, I would have to stay behind."
"Which would defeat the purpose of having me leave the Avalon to join up with you in the first place." Steve added.
"Is there anything else that we should know before we go on this mission." Michael asked. It always paid to know everything after all.
Especially since there would only be five chosen sent out into the battlefield in a town full of adult digimon.
"We've completed a communication device." Steve answered. "If you guys want, we can try testing them out on the mission."
Sam and Lou both groaned. "And why do our lives have to be the one's used as guinea pigs?" Lou asked.
"We've tested the devices. They work on the Avalon, but we need the field data." Steve answered.
Michael was silent for a few seconds. "I don't see why not. Field data is important when testing devices."
"Are you serious?" Maria groaned out.
Ken shrugged. "Better communication devices than a nuclear powered Positron Cannon."
The others at the table stared at him, as they tried to process what that statement could have possibly meant.
"You experimented with nuclear energy?" Michael said in a suspicious tone.
"It was before Gennai found me and Takeru." Ken explained. "It didn't work. At all." The dark blue haired child paused. "So I destroyed it."
"And what happened?" Mimi asked in a dark tone that could've been a prelude to serious bodily harm.
"You know about the Modem Crater on Driver, right?" Ken asked.
The others stared blankly at him.
"I'll take that as a yes." Ken said, before getting out of the seat that he was sitting in. "We should all get ready." And with that, Ken left the war room.
There was silence for a few seconds. Steve arched one of his eyebrows. "Ken is right, you guys do need to get ready." And with that, Steve left the room as well. Sam, Maria and Lou followed him out so thereafter, leaving only Michael and Mimi in the war room.
"Be careful." Mimi said as she and the blond haired teenager got out of their seats. A hurt expression crossed Michael's face.
"Aren't I always?" Michael asked in an arrogant/serious tone.
Mimi glared at him. Michael laughed. "Alright, I'll be careful." Michael headed for the door, but Mimi placed her hand on his shoulder as he walked back.
"Wait." Mimi whispered.
The blonde haired chosen turned around and stared into Mimi's eyes. "Is something wrong?" Michael asked, slightly confused about what Mimi wanted.
Mimi pressed her lips against his.
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Miyako was dressed in pair of gray sweat pants and a gray sweatshirt. A wooden sword (bokken, Miyako's mind quickly supplied) was held in her shaking hand. She was in a training room similar to the one that Takeru had begun Daisuke's training in.
She was shaking, the bokken being unsteady in her hand.
'Can I really do this?' Miyako thought. 'Can I really learn how to kill people or Digimon with a sword. It's bad enough when Hawkmon kills a digimon."
Miyako shook her head. Now wasn't the time to be thinking such things.
Suddenly, Miyako felt the impact of a blunt object hitting her in the back, sending a jolt of pain through her body and sending her falling forward, her glasses managing to somehow stay on her face. Miyako quickly turned around, and saw Takeru (shirtless and wearing a pair of white gi pants) with a bokken extended in a striking pose. "You're not off to a good start."
Many thoughts went through Miyako's head. The first dealt with anger. The second dealt with frustration. But the third thought surprised her.
It went along the lines of 'OMFG! HE'S TEH SEXAY!'
Not that any pre-teen girl could blame her, as Takeru's upper body was developed well, especially for an eleven-year-old boy.
Takeru raised his bokken and charged towards Miyako, and aimed a swing of the wooden sword at her head. The violet haired girl ducked under the sword strike and rolled out of the way.
Takeru turned towards his student, and pointed his sword at her. "Good. You're already learning."
Miyako glared at him and raised her sword, although she couldn't stop her hand from shaking.
That and she couldn't stop looking at his chest.
Takeru charged towards her again, this time striking down with his sword in an overhead swing. Miyako's attention snapped just in time to dodge this strike again. Miyako turned her head, managing to keep her eyes focused on his face.
Takeru jumped up into the air and landed behind Miyako, quickly turning around and hitting her in the back with his sword again.
"Gah!" Miyako managed to cry out in pain as she fell face first to the ground. Takeru moved over towards her, before pointing the tip of the bokken at her neck.
"You really need a lot of work at this." Takeru remarked dryly.
Miyako's cheeks went red with embarrassment. But then she realized something.
Takeru's legs were in range of hers.
Miyako decided to take a chance against Takeru and quickly kicked Takeru in the back of the leg with her foot.
He didn't budge.
'Damn it!' Miyako thought in anger. Takeru laughed.
"That would've worked really well if I didn't have a sword pushed into the back of your neck." The blonde responded. "If this was real, you'd be dead." Takeru pulled back and allowed Miyako to pick herself off the ground.
Miyako turned around and stuck out her tongue at him in response.
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Hikari leaned back into her bed, Nyaromon sitting at the head of it. Both human and Digimon had unhappy looks on their faces.
"I can't believe that Vamdemon is still alive." Hikari said, her voice conveying the disbelief that her words told. Nyaromon snorted.
"As soon as I see that bastard, he's dead!" the small cathead like Digimon exclaimed. Hikari sighed.
"Think about what you're saying." Hikari began. "You can't evolve into your Perfect form, and you Adult level's power has been severely drained. Do you honestly think that we'd stand a chance against Vamdemon now?"
Despite the fact that Nyaromon wanted to argue her partner's point, the baby digimon kept her mouth shut. Hikari let her hands drop to the sides of her bed, which seemed to come in contact with liquid.
Hikari bolted up out of her bed, and looked around the room, noticing the lack of liquid in it. Nyaromon looked up at her partner. "Is something wrong?" the small digimon asked.
Hikari didn't say anything. Her eyes glazed over as she seemed to think about something. "Hikari?" Nyaromon asked, getting more concerned by the minute.
Hikari's eyes returned to normal, and she turned her head over towards her partner. "I'm fine Nyaromon." Hikari said, although her voice seemed to be fighting against that statement.
Hikari walked up out of the bed and into the bathroom, and pair of scissors materializing in her right hand as she walked.
The lighting in the bathroom activated, revealing a white tiled bathroom, a sink with a mirror above it, a shower stall, and a toilet. Hikari walked up to the sink and looked in the mirror. In one hand, she grabbed her shoulder length hair, while she guided the scissors with her other hand, before cutting the brown locks of hair at the neckline.
When the eleven-year-old was finished, her hair was down to her neck, almost looking like a professional did it, the hairline even. Hikari put the pair of scissors down, and it and her loose pieces of hair vanished.
"Why'd you cut your hair?" Nyaromon asked, following the brown haired girl into the bathroom. Hikari turned, and looked down at the floor, seeing her partner standing on the floor.
"I just felt that it was time for a change." Hikari said.
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Michael looked at the small white earpiece in his hand. "This is it?" he asked. He, Lou, Maria, Sam, Ken and Steve were in the transporter room. Their digimon were standing next to them.
Next to Sam was a small red penguin with a green beak. His stomach feathers were white, with many red V shaped patches of feathers on his stomach. Three long black claws came out of the penguin's flippers. This was Muchomon. "Do we have things like that too?" the small penguin digimon asked.
Yuki Agumon shook his head. "We haven't gotten the devices to be able to change their shape to go into a Digimon's ear yet."
"It should be fine." Maira supplied, sticking one of the communication devices in her ear. After it was fastened in, she put her hand into her pocket and took out a light purpled trimmed digivice. She looked at it, before putting it back in the pocket. "We can relay information to our partners if we need to."
"Is there anything else that we're taking with us?" Lou asked. As he said that, he moved over to the wall and placed his hand on it. The area around his hand glowed red, and a small opening appeared in the wall. Lou placed his hand in the opening and pulled out a Forest Green digivice, and placed it on his belt.
"It would be a good idea to take some weapons with you." Steve answered the Native American's question. "Preferably something with range."
"You want us to take guns." Sam stated in a dismayed tone. The African-American didn't particularly like guns as a matter of principle, much less the thought about using one.
"Yes." If Steve knew about that part of Sam's thinking, he didn't show it. "You never know what could happen." Steve moved over to another part of the wall, and touched it, causing a large indentation in the wall to appear, displaying four black automatic handguns, each sitting next to six clips of ammunition, along with holsters for each of the guns, which also contained slots for the ammo. Three of each group of clips was made out of blue metal, while the other three of each group were made out of red metal.
"The blue clips contain non-lethal rounds." Steve paused, a look of confusion at what he was saying prevalent on his face. "Well, non-lethal to a Digimon anyway." Steve corrected. "The red clips contain bullets encased with an electromagnetic coding, causing them to be dangerous against anything made out of data." Steve paused as the four chosen moved over towards the guns and put on the holsters, the gun sections resting on their right hips. Sam quickly grabbed a blue clip and loaded it into the gun, before pulling the slide at the top of the gun back. Lou and Maria followed his example. Ken just stood away from the weapon rack.
Michael however loaded a red clip into his gun, and pulled the slide back. If one looked closely, they could see a small light from the inside of the gun when cocked the gun. The blond haired leader of the New York chosen holstered his gun immediately.
"Use the Electromagnetic bullets only when you have to." Steve said. "We don't have many of them." The four chosen nodded with the firearms nodded. The all of the chosen, minus Steve, and their digimon stepped onto the transporter. Steve sat at the terminal, and entered in some coordinates. And in a flash, the five chosen children and their partners were gone.
Steve sighed. Yuki Agumon looked over at him. "Are you worried?"
"Not that much." Steve admitted, before activating another monitor, which displayed a map of Tonosama Gekomon's village. "I'm more worried about how many Digimon Michael's going to kill with those lethal bullets than about our friends' safety."
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Labramon, Terriermon, and Lopmon were sitting on bleachers in another training room of the Avalon, watching their partners intently. Well, Labramon and Lopmon were watching Wallace training Chizuru in martial arts.
Terriermon was trying to see how long he could hold a handstand.
The small green dog/rabbit digimon fell after around two seconds. Lopmon sighed.
"Why must you keep doing that?" Lopmon asked as Terriermon positioned himself on his head again, only to fall down once again in even less time. The green digimon sat up, and looked at the back of his head at his brother.
"Because I'm bored!" The small digimon exclaimed. Lopmon sighed, his gaze never once leaving Wallace and Chizuru.
Labramon didn't seem to hear the two brothers bicker, as his attention was focused solely on his partner, who was wearing a pair of jeans and a red tee shirt.
Wallace's training methods were much different from Takeru's. While Patamon's partner favored the training through experience route, Wallace was showing Chizuru various moves in the air, and then had the girl copy him.
Chizuru lifted her leg up and spun around, turning her head to look at some imaginary target, before extending her leg at her side as she stopped spinning. The oldest of the Inoue sisters (not a position that she liked to hold) bent her leg before resting it on the ground.
Chizuru turned towards Wallace. "This isn't going to help me in a fight." The girl stated. Wallace looked at her oddly.
"Is that so?" he asked, trying his best to imitate the 'wise old martial arts masters' from many different movies and anime.
"Yes it is." Chizuru answered without a hint of sarcasm in her voice. "Copying moves into the air won't give me any practice in a fight."
Wallace arched his right eyebrow. "So you think you're ready to spar against me?" the blond haired teenager asked. Chizuru nodded.
Wallace dropped into a fighting stance, his arms raised to his chest with his hands open. "Come at me then."
Chizuru charged, her fist pulled back behind her shoulder. Once she was in striking range, she thrust her fist at Wallace's chest.
Wallace turned slightly, deflecting Chizuru's punch with a slight movement of his right hand, before placing his left hand over her neck, putting enough pressure on it to make the girl realize that in a real fight he could break her neck if he wanted.
"…You need more practice." Wallace said, releasing the teenage girl. Chizuru turned towards him and sighed, gearing up to do more punches in the air.
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Michael opened his eyes and looked around. He and the rest of the team had materialized on the outskirts of a town that seemed to be out of Feudal Japan, with the exception of the large Dark Tower in the center of the town, which itself happened to be a large Feudal Japanese palace. 'Most likely where Tonosama Gekomon lives.' The blond haired American thought.
"Is this it?" Betamon asked, looking around for any threats in the area. The small digimon couldn't see any threats near them.
"Yes." Michael answered his partner. "This is where we want to be." Michael turned around, and saw the rest of his team (and Ken) behind him. "We need a plan."
"You haven't been noticed yet." Steve's voice said in Michael's ear. Even though the leader of the New York Chosen was expecting it, having Steve's voice in his ear still surprised him. Judging by the shocked looks on the other members of the team, they had the same reaction as well. "It would be a good idea to leave a diversion at the main entrance of the town and let the rest of you sneak in."
"But who would provide the diversion?" Maria asked.
"Leave that to me and Wormmon." Ken answered the younger girl's question.
"Yeah." Wormmon answered. "You guys don't have to worry about me."
"Alright." Michael answered. "Ken and Maria will handle the diversion."
"Why us?" Maria and Elecmon exclaimed at the same time.
"Elecmon's proven time and time again that he can't be subtle." Michael answered. "Besides, there's only one Perfect in the entire city. The two of you will be fine."
"Fine." Maria answered, while Elecmon frowned. Maria and Ken closed their eyes, as their partners started glowing in white light.
"Wormmon evolve!" the small green digimon shouted, before changing into a humanoid shape with fly wings and green armor. "Stingmon!"
"Elecmon evolve!" Elecmon shouted, transforming into a centaur with a Rockman style blaster on his arm. "Kentarumon!"
Kentarumon looked over at Maria. "Why didn't you evolve me into Knightmon?" the adult level digimon asked.
Maria looked over at her partner. "This is a liberation mission, not an extermination mission."
Kentarumon seemed to frown, but he didn't say anything.
"Alright." Ken said. "You guys wait until we draw out the attack force."
Stingmon flew up into the air and steadied his right hand with his left. "Moon Shooter!" Three bursts of violet energy shot out of the arm cannon and collided with the wall of once of the housing buildings.
Kentarumon raised his hand with his blaster on it at another house. "Hunting Cannon!" A golden blast of energy slammed into the house, causing wood to splinter everywhere before bursting into data.
At this point, countless small green bipedal frogs with large tuba's sticking out of their necks walked out of the town, Evil Spiral's on their arms, their eyes glowing red. Their tongues also seemed to be a musical instrument as well. These were Gekomon.
"Crash Symphony!" The Gekomon shouted, turning towards Stingmon and Kentarumon, before a deafening sound shot out of their tubas and tongues, actually creating a visible distortion in the air as they did so.
Stingmon fought the urge to grab his head in pain and fired another burst of violet energy at the Gekomon mob.
"Hunting Cannon!" Kentarumon screamed, a large blast of golden energy shooting out of his canon towards the attacking Gekomon.
Stingmon's burst of energy managed to kill a few Gekomon, while Kentarumon cleared a line through the mob with his attack.
Maria frowned, before turning her head and realizing that her other teammates were gone. The she smiled, knowing that the plan was working.
Kentarumon charged into the Gekomon hoard, his legs glowing gold. "Jet Gallop!" The centaur digimon trampled a few Gekomon, which burst into data, screaming in pain as they died.
"Moon Shooter!" Stingmon shouted as the rest of the Gekomon hoard turned their attention towards Kentarumon, sending another burst of violet light, causing a mini explosion that turned a few of the Gekomon's attention back towards him.
Suddenly, a Gekomon turned its attention towards Maria. The girl gulped, before pulling out the gun and flipping the safety off, pointing the gun at the Gekomon, holding it in both of her hands, before pulling the trigger. Maria's arms jerked up from the weapon's recoil, and the Gekomon fell down to the ground, but didn't burst into data, as she used the non-lethal rounds.
Ken looked over at the girl, and noticed that she was having a hard time recovering from the recoil of her gun. 'That isn't good.' Ken reached into his black leather jacket, and pulled out a silver handgun. 'I was hoping to save this for Akiyama.'
Three more of the Gekomon turned towards Maria, who mentally cursed and raised the gun up again, quickly pulling the trigger. The bullet hit one of the Gekomon in the neck, and it fell down. But the two others were still standing, and Maria had no chance to ready herself to fire the gun again.
Two quick (and loud) burst of gunfire shot from her left, causing the two Gekomon's heads to blow off, before the both digimon completely burst into data.
Maria turned her head to see Ken holding a silver handgun unlike the ones that Steve had given the rest of the chosen. He was only holding it with his right hand.
Maria recognized the gun. It was a Desert Eagle, which fired .50 caliber rounds,
If that gun couldn't blow the head off something, no handgun could.
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In the forest, a large rattlesnake digimon with eight heads, seven of which were robotic, was watching this battle. Yellow fur was around the area where the heads met the main body. This digimon was a Perfect level digimon known as Orochimon.
All eight of the serpent's heads smirked. This was the perfect time to take advantage to complete his mission. Orochimon slivered into the shadows, somehow managing to be stealthily despite his large bulk.
A few seconds later, no one would have been able to tell that he was there.
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Michael, Sam, and Lou also in the middle of a battle against the citizens of the city. It turns out that there were still Gekomon inside of the city, despite the large number that was fighting against Ken and Maria outside. However, there didn't seem to be any Otamamon, which meant that the Kaiser had managed to evolve a large amount of the species.
Betamon had evolved into a large blue serpent digimon with a yellow facemask over his face called Seadramon. Goblimon had once again evolved into Piccolomon. Muchomon evolved into a large bipedal lizard digimon made out of fire named Flare Lizamon.
"Ice Arrow!" Seadramon shouted, three shards of ice shooting out of his mouth and impaling three attacking Gekomon, causing them to burst into data as they died.
"Bit Bomb!" Piccolomon threw a black bomb into the center of a mob of Gekomon, causing many of them to die in its explosion.
"Crash Symphony!" Many Gekomon shouted at the small digimon, who dodged the visible waves of sound.
"Fire Tower!" Flare Lizamon shouted as he fired of a large beam of fire energy from his mouth, burning many of the Gekomon to ashes.
Suddenly Sam and Lou both felt their heads feel like they were going to explode, which caused their partner's to stagger for a bit.
Michael noticed this and quickly pulled his gun out of its holster and flipped off the safety, and fired the gun twice. Sam and Lou both felt whatever was attacking their heads let up, as two Gekomon distorted into odd shapes before vanishing with a pained scream, not even leaving any data particles behind.
Lou and Sam turned towards Michael, seeing smoke coming out of the barrel of his gun. Michael then turned around and fired eight shots, which killed eight more of the Gekomon.
Michael ejected his guns clip and slapped a fresh one in (which was red). The rest of the Gekomon that were still alive ran away, still having some sense of self-preservation.
"Come on." Michael ordered, before he and Seadramon ran off ahead.
Lou stared at Michael's retreating back. "Did he just use a full clip of the Electromagnetic Bullets?"
"Yes." Sam said in contempt, before the other two chosen ran off after their leader.
As Michael and Seadramon made it to the entrance of Tonosama Gekomon's palace, five Gekomon jumped in the way of the two chosen partners.
"Water Breath!" Seadramon shouted, opening his mouth and letting loose a large stream of water which knocked the approaching adult digimon away.
Michael and Seadramon continued towards the center of the palace, not even checking to see if they killed the attacking Gekomon with the attack.
Eventually, the two of them came to the center courtyard of the palace, where the Dark Tower stood in all of its evil glory.
Of course, Tonosama Gekomon was waiting for them, sitting next to the tower. This Perfect digimon was around half the height of the Dark Tower, and around twice the width. He had red skin and a large beige colored rounded stomach area. Two bronze tuba-like appendages came out of the digimon's back, and a tail-like appendage came out of the back of his head and curved in front of his face. Green leaves stuck out of his neck. A Dark Spiral was around his right arm, and the Digimon's eyes were pure red.
"My master has been expecting you pathetic chosen to attack this place." Tonosama Gekomon said in a neutral voice. "But know that one chosen can not defeat me."
Sam, Lou, and their digimon entered the area soon after this. Seadramon and Flare Lizamon started glowing in bluish white light.
"Seadramon Super Evolve!" Seadramon shouted, as his upper body suddenly became muscular. The blue colored serpent's skin turned red and two muscular arms burst out of a now humanoid muscular torso. Tattered purple wings grew out of the digimon's back, and the yellow facemask turned a steel gray color. Finally, the claws on the digimon's arms were encased in steel. "Mega Dramon!"
"Flare Lizamon Super Evolve!" Flare Lizamon shouted, his legs and tail merging into one serpent like appendage. The fire over his body vanished, leaving the digimon with dark purplish skin. Two metal wings exploded out of the digimon's back, and his face and claws were encased in steel. "Giga Dramon!"
"Impressive." Tonosama Gekomon said in an emotionless voice, before he quickly stood on his legs. "Horn Howling!" the large perfect digimon shouted as loud sound waves came out of the two tuba's which were extending out of his back. The three human's and digimon were forces to cover their ears in pain.
"Mich….ta…….ut……on…...wi…..mon….iles….." Michael heard from the comm. link in his ear, although he couldn't make anything out due to the interference from Tonosama Gekomon's attack.
Piccolomon risked uncovering his ears, causing the pain from the sound to increase. "A black bomb appeared in his hand. "Bit Bomb!" The small perfect digimon shouted, throwing the bomb over at Tonosama Gekomon. The bomb exploded in the digimon's face, causing him to lose his concentration, and let up on his attack.
"Mega Dramon! Attack him now!" Michael shouted. Mega Dramon flew up into the air, his claws folding open, revealing two missiles hidden inside them. Mega Dramon pointed his open claws at Tonosama Gekomon.
"Genocide Attack!" the flying cyborg digimon yelled out, the two missiles shooting out of their launcher pods towards the large bulky Perfect level.
"Horn Howling!" Tonosama Gekomon fired off two sound waves from his tuba-limbs, which caused the missiles to explode before they came into contact with him.
While this was going on, Giga Dramon flew behind the large red bullfrog digimon, mirroring his colored counterpart's pose, his claws opened. "Genocide Gear!" The gray cyborg shouted, two missiles shooting out of his claws and slamming into Tonosama Gekomon's back, causing the perfect digimon to howl in pain as they exploded in his back.
Michael, Lou, and Sam watched the battle, seeing Tonosama Gekomon turn towards Giga Dramon. Lou turned his head and saw Piccolomon getting ready to attack Tonosama Gekomon.
"No." Lou said, causing Piccolomon to turn around and look at his partner in confusion. "Destroy the Dark Tower."
Piccolomon made a slight nodding motion and turned his attention towards the Dark Tower, a bomb already appearing in his hand. "Bit Bomb!" Piccolomon threw the bomb at the Tower, causing an explosion, which cracked the tower.
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"Hunting Cannon!" Kentarumon shouted, a massive golden beam obliteration a few Gekomon.
'This isn't going according to the plan.' Maria thought. After all, they were supposed to be freeing the Gekomon from the Digimon Kaiser's control, not kill them.
"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon shouted, diving down into a Gekomon from the air, his purple arm-blade going through the frog digimon's head.
Stingmon then quickly flew away before the Gekomon could gang up on him, and pointed his arm towards the swarm again. "Moon Shooter!" Stingmon shouted, firing off another burst of violet energy, which killed a few of the small digimon. Stingmon was preparing to fire his attack again, but suddenly felt an inexplicable weakness overcome him.
The flying bug digimon flew around, seeing Ken in the jaws of an Orochimon, who quickly vanished, taking his partner with him, Ken's Magnum dropping to the ground.
Stingmon then passed out.
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"Ultimate Slicer!" Mega Dramon shouted, speeding towards Tonosama Gekomon, red energy appearing around his claw. Once Mega Dramon was in range, he slashed at Tonosama Gekomon's arm, missing the Evil Spiral. Tonosama Gekomon howled in pain, blood dripping from his wound.
"Horn Howling!" Tonosama Gekomon shouted in a voice possessed by anger and pain. The sound waves blasted Mega Dramon into a wall. Giga Dramon slashed at the perfect's back, causing another scream.
Michael grabbed his gun and pointed it at Tonosama Gekomon's head. Sam glared at him.
"Put the gun down Michael." Sam hissed. Michael turned towards Sam.
"Why should I?" Michael asked. "We need to stop him and liberate the town."
"And how would we be able to do that if we kill the Gekomon's leader?" Sam asked. "The Gekomon once freed will attack us."
Michael didn't drop the gun.
"Damn it Michael!" Sam shouted. "We can't risk it!"
Both Sam and Michael heard the sound of a Gun's safety being switched off. Michael turned his eyes, and saw Lou pointing a gun at his hand.
"Drop the gun." Lou said simply, and emotionlessly, which caused a look of confusion to appear on Sam's face.
'How did this happen so fast?' the African-American thought. "Guys. Stop this, we're on the same side!"
"Guilty Claw!" Giga Dramon shouted, slashing his claw into Tonosama Gekomon's arm, this time shattering the Evil Spiral, before Piccolomon threw another bomb at the Dark Tower, destroying it.
Michael holstered his gun and turned away from his two teammates and walked out of the palace as Mega Dramon devolved back into Betamon and followed him, lingering a moment to glare at Lou. Giga Dramon and Piccolomon devolved into their child forms as well, and went over to their partners. Lou holstered his gun as well.
"Guys, I'm bringing you back to the Avalon." Steve's voice answered over the communication devices.
"You'll have to wait." Lou said, noticing that Tonosama Gekomon was looking over at him. "We have to explain things to Tonosama Gekomon." Goblimon nodded at his partner's assessment.
"Why do you need us back so soon anyway?" Sam asked.
"Ken's been captured." Steve answered.
End Chapter 12
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