Note: This takes place just after "Storm of Friendship" Also, the management feels compelled to issue an ANGST ALERT!!
Joe was glad to get out of school; bad as his old school was, studying to be a doctor was enough to drive most normal students to the brink of insanity.
Quietly, as he waked over to Izzy's house, he thought back on everything that the new digidestined team had told him; about the Emperor, really a boy genius who came from around here, about the control spires, the rings, about how all the good digimon he had heard of being turned evil, and about Agumon.
If that ever happened to Gomamon...Joe thought to himself, repressing a shudder. Entering the building where Izzy's apartment was, he wondered again what Izzy wanted to talk to him about. Couldn't be Kari, he thought with a grin. Reaching the appropriate door, Joe knocked, and waited a few seconds.
Izzy's mother opened the door. "Oh, hello Joe! It's been a long time. Are you here to see Izzy?"
"Yes, ma'am. Is he in?"
"One second, I'll go get him."
[opening sequence]
Digicross TV episode 03
"The Strength of Loyalty"
"So, Izzy, what's the big emergency that you had to pull me out for?" Joe asked.
In Izzy's room, the two digidestined sat down. "Well, I'm a little worried about Kyle. After that fight against MetalGreymon, he's been a little uneasy. He still helps out where he can, but he's been hesitating in using his pokemon. And when he does call one out, he calls it back as soon as the problem is resolved, and leaves."
Grinning, Joe replied "and you want old reliable Joe Kido to see if he can pull the answers out of him? Sure. Where is he now?"
"At the pokemon center in Stone Town. His dad emailed me saying he's been spending a lot of time there, having his pokemon checked out. It's getting a little strained over there."
"Sure thing. I always wanted to travel; become a digidestined, see new places, and save the world, what, twice now?"
"Three times, but who's counting" Izzy laughed.
==Stone Town, Ellison Residence==
Joe walked up to the front door of Kyle Ellison's house, and knocked on the door. On the trip over, he had been thinking about what Izzy had told him. He had a good idea of what might be getting to Kyle, time to see if his diagnosis was correct.
Kyle's dad opened the door. "Yes, can I help you?"
Bowing, Joe replied "yes, my name is Joe Kido, and I'm here to see Kyle? Izzy sent me."
"Oh good. I'm getting worried about Kyle, he's been a little nervous, and being more than his usual level of overprotectedness to his pokemon. He's out back, I'll show you where."
The Ellison house was a small 1 storey building, no driveway (it was within walking distance of town), it looked like any suburban house. The backyard was fairly large though, and had a beautiful view of Evolution mountain. Joe spotted Kyle, sitting at the far end of the field. Joe walked up to where he was; Kyle gave no sign of noticing him.
"Hey there."
Starting, Kyle looked up. "Oh, I'm sorry. I was just drifting."
"No prob, I do it a lot too. My name's Joe, I'm one of the original digidestined."
"Right, I remember Izzy telling me about you."
"Only the good stuff I hope." Joe replied. Careful now, don't push him too fast...
"So, what brings you by, Joe?"
"Well, some of the others were worried, I was wondering if everything was alright."
Sighing, Kyle seemed to sag a little. "I got an update on Growlithe's condition." Kyle stopped for a second, then went on. "Whatever was in that dark ring Ken got him with didn't stop when it was removed. He can't evolve, ever again."
Ow, Joe thought. I thought I was close, but this..."That's terrible. How's he taking it?"
"Growlithe? He was bummed out, but I think he's gonna be OK."
"Whereas you..."
"Whereas I did it to him, however indirectly" Kyle said. "It didn't hit me until just a few days ago that this isn't the Pokemon League. I mean, I knew, but it never really sank in. The League was never this bad. At least there, I could do something"
Joe thought for a few seconds. "Don't sell yourself short; you've done some amazing things in the digital world. You and your pokemon saved Biyomon the first day you were there; and don't forget about Ogremon and Andromon. Kari told me about the fight with Andromon; anyone who could train someone to fight like that has to be good.
"Besides, you're hardly the first to feel this way"
"Huh?"
Joe recounted the time that Tai tried to force Agumon do digivolve to his ultimate level, and got SkullGreymon for his troubles; how agumon couldn't digivolve after that, and how Pixiemon forced Tai and Agumon to get over their fears and be able to digivolve again. And about the time Matt and MetalGarurumon fought Tai and WarGreymon during their battle with the Dark Masters.
"It still doesn't forgive the fact that because of me, Growlithe can't evolve."
Sighing, Joe played his last card. "Look, Kyle, there's something else I didn't tell you, that none of the original digidestined told the new kids." After a pause, Joe continued. "Look, you know about Diaboromon, right?" At Kyle's nod, Joe went on "Well, shortly after that, Gennai called us back to the digital world, and told us we had to use the powers of our crests to seal off the darkness that was still in the digital world. We did it, but it meant that most of our digimon couldn't digivolve to their ultimate or mega levels ever again.
"So you see, you're not the first to have this happen to. We've all been there."
After a minute, Kyle answered. "Thanks Joe. I'll think about what you said."
"Hey, anytime. Listen, while we're here, how about a tour of the place?"
==
-Digital World, The Emperor's Personal Airdromon-
Ken was still fuming.
Losing MetalGreymon was bad enough, but now that little twit Davis had another digiegg to use. That was almost as bad as Kyle and his little menagerie.
"Master?" Wormmon said, nervously.
"Yes, what?"
"We're taking a little shortcut through the edge of the area Birdramon was reported to be in. We should be at your base in an hour."
Ken started to reply, then stopped. Birdramon, he thought to himself. "Wormmon, change of plan." He said, pulling out a dark spiral. "I need to have a little talk with a certain airborne digimon."
==
Stone Town, Pokeworld
"And that's the trail to the base of Evolution Mountain."
Joe and Kyle had spent the afternoon going around Stone Town. Kyle explained about the Indigo League, the local Pokemon circuits, where the best places to eat were, the normal stuff one does when showing a friend around the town.
About two hours in, Kyle's D-Term started beeping. "Now what" he wondered out loud. Opening the terminal, he read the incoming message
To:kellison@stpokenet.com
From:izzy@worldnet.jp.org
Subject: HELP!!
Ken got Biyomon. Get here NOW!!
"We'd better get going" Joe said.
==
Digiworld, large desert plain. 'nuff said.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon's attack streaked at the incoming enemy, but was ignored; no effort was made at blocking or dodging it.
"It's no good Sora" Yolei said, "Halsemon's not strong enough on his own"
"Thanks for the vote of confidence" Halsemon said drily.
"We have to keep trying until the others get here!" Sora said. The two digidestined were riding on Halsemon's back, and trying to force the attacking digimon down to an altitude where Davis' and Cody's digimon could attack it.
Down on the ground, Davis and Cody kept sending emails to Kari and TK, who had the only other two flying digimon available. Unfortunately, those two were tied up with a battle of their own; a set of controllled digimon had ambushed the two as they were heading to help.
Ken had planned this well. Halsemon alone wasn't powerful enough to stop Ken's latest victim, and Raidramon and Digmon were not really effective at fighting Ultimate level air opponents.
Tiring of this, the mind controlled digimon turned on Halsemon and his two passengers, and knocked them out of the air with a single wing strike.
"SORA!" The voice was Izzy's; he caught Sora as she fell, riding on the back of Kabuterimon. Yolei was knocked too far for the insect digimon to catch. Yolei figured she had about 5 seconds to either a)hope for a miracle, or b)make peace with her deity of choice.
"PIDGEAWW!!!"
Option A, please, Yolei thought to herself. She could not see the force that grabbed her by the shoulders as she fell, but she could definitely feel the talons (ow), and the very strong blast of wind behind her, slowing their fall.
When she landed, the grip on her shulders released, and Yolei looked to see a small brown and white bird, about four feet long, flying back to Kyle. "Kyle, Izzy! YOu made it!" Kyle, Eevee beside him, and Izzy, who was just getting down from Kabuterimon and helping Sora down, nodded.
Joe ran up, panting a bit. "Don't forget about me!" "Or me" Kabuterimon said. "Guhh...I can't hold it..." Kabuterimon glowed, and returned to his Rookie form of Tentomon.
"You did fine as far as I'm concerned" Sora said. "But we still have to save Biyomon."
Looking at their giant opponnet, Kyle pulle dout his pokedex, and checked the entry. "Garudamon" the pokedex reported, "Vaccine Type Digimon, Ultimate Level. Evolved from Birdramon, this digimon is a powerful flyer, and its Wing Blade attack can devestate almost any opponent."
Running up, Cody and Davis filled them in. "We got here as Ken was leaving. His flying serpent distracted Birdramon, and he got a Dark Spiral on her."
"And he set an ambush for TK and Kari; they're fighting about two miles from here, and they can't help us!" Cody added. Looking behind the group, he called "Look out!" The digidestined instinctively ducked, just in time to avoid getting hit as Garudamon flew right over them. She and Halsemon continued duelling.
Kyle watched the duel for an agonizing, eternal, second. His feelings of helplessness returned; I want to help, but how? he thought to himself. Am I really that useless?
'All of the digidestined felt the way you do, at one time or another' Joe's voice rang in Kyle's mind. 'Sometimes, you feel like there's nothing left, that there's nothing left you can do. But we learned that there's always something more that can be done; you just have to stay loyal to what you believe in, and to your friends.'
He's right, Kyle thought to himself. There has to be something!
"WING BLADE!"
"DUCK!" Joe yelled. The group scattered, as Garudamon's attack slammed into the place where they just were.
"That's it!" Izzy yelled. "What, Izzy? Do you know how to save Biyomon?" SOra asked.
"I think so, but it's extremely risky! When Garudamon powers up her Wing BLade attack, the arm that has the Spiral on it is exposed, but we have to hit it fast!"
I know what to do, Kyle thought. His pokedex started glowing, as did the section of ground that Garudamon's last attack hit. From the center of the crater, a small object glowed in response, and floated towards Kyle!
"It's a digiegg!" Tentomon said. "And it has the crest of Loyalty on it!"
To Kyle's mind, the insignia on the silvery egg looked like the Pokemon League logo, inverted and inside a small diamond. "For...Eevee?" Eevee tilted his head for a moment, as if listening for something. Then, the evolution pokemon hopped up, and tapped one of the pokeballs on Kyle's belt. It opened, revealing Growlithe. "Growl?"
"Vee, Vee, Ooeee! Vee!"
"Growl?" Growlithe looked taken aback by what Eevee was saying, then nodded, almost smiling. Growlithe turned to Kyle, and nodded his head.
"All right...DIGIARMOUR ENERGIZE!!"
[animation sequence: Growlithe fades to a black sillouette, and an image of Arcanine appears behind him. A cocoon of metal forms around Growlithe, then peels back, revealing metallic wings, armored foreclaws, and a Robocop style sensor array over the eyes.]
"Growlithe, armour digivolve to...CyberArcanine, the strength of Loyalty!"
Garudamon and Halsemon stopped their fight, as the light from the digivolution distracted both opponents. Halsemon took the opportunity to land and recover its strength for a minute, while the newly armoured pokemon made the formal introduction.
"I am Cyberarcanine; a fusion armour pokemon. My sensors can pick out an enemy from miles away, and what my Razor Wing cannot cut, I can devestate with my Plasma Buster."
"Kyle, hop on"
"Right. Yolei, we'll distract Garudamon, while Pidgeotto goes in and tries to take out the ring."
"That's your plan?!"
"Unless you got a better one. You ready?"
"You bet" Halsemon said.
"Give the word" Cyberarcanine added.
"GO!"
The two armored monsters, their partners, and Pidgeotto flew up to take on GArudamon. The original digidestined wathced.
"I feel left out when this happens" Izzy said.
"Oh, we have our ways" Joe replied. Sora chuckled, nodding once.
In the air, the two armours quickly set about attacking Garudamon, while Pidgeotto hung back, waiting for an opening. While Garudamon had more power, she now had to deal with two targets, both much smaller and harder to hit. PLus, the two were working in concert, one defending while the other attacked.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon's attack had about the same result as last time, impacting on the wing covering the Dark Spiral.
"Razor Wing!" Cyberarcaine flew in close, his metallic wings striking at the area where the dark ring was. While none of the attacks hit the spiral, the desired effect was achieved. Garudamon pulled back..
On the ground, Izzy was monitoring the fight. "She's getting ready!" he yelled.
In the air, Cyberarcanine picked up Izzy's call. "Get ready" he said.
"Why are we doing this again?" Yolei said, still not comfortable with the idea of playing decoy.
"WING-"
"KYLE! NOW!"
"PIDGEOTTO, QUICK ATTACK!"
"PIDGEAWW!!!!" The small bird streaked at incredible speed towards the exposed spiral. She struck it dead on, but the spiral failed to shatter.
"It didn't work!" Kyle said.
"No, it's damaged! Look!" Halsemon said. Dark energy crackled from the damaged spiral. Garudamon writhed in pain, unable to get away.
"TEMPEST WING!"
"PLASMA BUSTER!" The two attacks combined and hit the damaged controller, shattering it. Garudamon glowed, and reverted back, not to Biyomon, but to her in training form of Yocomon!
"Yocomon!" Sora cried.
"Pidgeotto, get her!" Pidgeotto flew down at terrific speed, intercepting the small digimon, and catching Yocomon on her back. Pidgeotto landed in front of Sora, who picked up Yocomon in a firm hug. "Yocomon! I was so worried!" Sora said.
"Ohh, I have such a headace." Yocomon replied woozily.
Smiling, Sora replied "And considering you're all head, it must be one doozy of a headache." As the two talked, Kyle, Yolei, and their monsters landed. Halsemon reverted to his rookie form, but Cyberarcanine waited for a moment. "Kyle."
"Yes?"
"I never blamed you for what happened. Not for a second."
"Thanks, CyberArcanine." The Armoured pokemon glowed, and reverted back to his basic form of Growlithe. The puppy pokemon barked happily, then leaped into Kyle's arms.
"Thank you, everyone" Sora said.
"We'd better get out of here" Joe said. "Yocomon's going to need a few days to recover." Looking, he noticed Davis looked a little uncomfortable. "What's wrong Davis?"
Davis shuffled uncomfortably. "Well, my sister kinda caught me sneaking out of the house, and..."
"And?" everyone asked in unison.
"And..well..." Davis turned to Kyle. "She sorta made me promise to ask Kyle out for her this saturday..."
"why me?"
Next Ep: With Biyomon still recovering, TK, Cody, and Scizor head to a small town being guarded by Starmon. But, when Starmon is revealed to have been captured by the EMperor, it is up to the digidestined to save the day! Can the digidestined survive a throw up of the Wild West genre? And can Kyle survive a first date with June Motomiya?
All this, a cloud of dust, a flash of smoke, and a hearty "Hi Ho Pegasusmon!" Next, on Digicross TV, episode 04
"Get along, little Cody!"
Joe was glad to get out of school; bad as his old school was, studying to be a doctor was enough to drive most normal students to the brink of insanity.
Quietly, as he waked over to Izzy's house, he thought back on everything that the new digidestined team had told him; about the Emperor, really a boy genius who came from around here, about the control spires, the rings, about how all the good digimon he had heard of being turned evil, and about Agumon.
If that ever happened to Gomamon...Joe thought to himself, repressing a shudder. Entering the building where Izzy's apartment was, he wondered again what Izzy wanted to talk to him about. Couldn't be Kari, he thought with a grin. Reaching the appropriate door, Joe knocked, and waited a few seconds.
Izzy's mother opened the door. "Oh, hello Joe! It's been a long time. Are you here to see Izzy?"
"Yes, ma'am. Is he in?"
"One second, I'll go get him."
[opening sequence]
Digicross TV episode 03
"The Strength of Loyalty"
"So, Izzy, what's the big emergency that you had to pull me out for?" Joe asked.
In Izzy's room, the two digidestined sat down. "Well, I'm a little worried about Kyle. After that fight against MetalGreymon, he's been a little uneasy. He still helps out where he can, but he's been hesitating in using his pokemon. And when he does call one out, he calls it back as soon as the problem is resolved, and leaves."
Grinning, Joe replied "and you want old reliable Joe Kido to see if he can pull the answers out of him? Sure. Where is he now?"
"At the pokemon center in Stone Town. His dad emailed me saying he's been spending a lot of time there, having his pokemon checked out. It's getting a little strained over there."
"Sure thing. I always wanted to travel; become a digidestined, see new places, and save the world, what, twice now?"
"Three times, but who's counting" Izzy laughed.
==Stone Town, Ellison Residence==
Joe walked up to the front door of Kyle Ellison's house, and knocked on the door. On the trip over, he had been thinking about what Izzy had told him. He had a good idea of what might be getting to Kyle, time to see if his diagnosis was correct.
Kyle's dad opened the door. "Yes, can I help you?"
Bowing, Joe replied "yes, my name is Joe Kido, and I'm here to see Kyle? Izzy sent me."
"Oh good. I'm getting worried about Kyle, he's been a little nervous, and being more than his usual level of overprotectedness to his pokemon. He's out back, I'll show you where."
The Ellison house was a small 1 storey building, no driveway (it was within walking distance of town), it looked like any suburban house. The backyard was fairly large though, and had a beautiful view of Evolution mountain. Joe spotted Kyle, sitting at the far end of the field. Joe walked up to where he was; Kyle gave no sign of noticing him.
"Hey there."
Starting, Kyle looked up. "Oh, I'm sorry. I was just drifting."
"No prob, I do it a lot too. My name's Joe, I'm one of the original digidestined."
"Right, I remember Izzy telling me about you."
"Only the good stuff I hope." Joe replied. Careful now, don't push him too fast...
"So, what brings you by, Joe?"
"Well, some of the others were worried, I was wondering if everything was alright."
Sighing, Kyle seemed to sag a little. "I got an update on Growlithe's condition." Kyle stopped for a second, then went on. "Whatever was in that dark ring Ken got him with didn't stop when it was removed. He can't evolve, ever again."
Ow, Joe thought. I thought I was close, but this..."That's terrible. How's he taking it?"
"Growlithe? He was bummed out, but I think he's gonna be OK."
"Whereas you..."
"Whereas I did it to him, however indirectly" Kyle said. "It didn't hit me until just a few days ago that this isn't the Pokemon League. I mean, I knew, but it never really sank in. The League was never this bad. At least there, I could do something"
Joe thought for a few seconds. "Don't sell yourself short; you've done some amazing things in the digital world. You and your pokemon saved Biyomon the first day you were there; and don't forget about Ogremon and Andromon. Kari told me about the fight with Andromon; anyone who could train someone to fight like that has to be good.
"Besides, you're hardly the first to feel this way"
"Huh?"
Joe recounted the time that Tai tried to force Agumon do digivolve to his ultimate level, and got SkullGreymon for his troubles; how agumon couldn't digivolve after that, and how Pixiemon forced Tai and Agumon to get over their fears and be able to digivolve again. And about the time Matt and MetalGarurumon fought Tai and WarGreymon during their battle with the Dark Masters.
"It still doesn't forgive the fact that because of me, Growlithe can't evolve."
Sighing, Joe played his last card. "Look, Kyle, there's something else I didn't tell you, that none of the original digidestined told the new kids." After a pause, Joe continued. "Look, you know about Diaboromon, right?" At Kyle's nod, Joe went on "Well, shortly after that, Gennai called us back to the digital world, and told us we had to use the powers of our crests to seal off the darkness that was still in the digital world. We did it, but it meant that most of our digimon couldn't digivolve to their ultimate or mega levels ever again.
"So you see, you're not the first to have this happen to. We've all been there."
After a minute, Kyle answered. "Thanks Joe. I'll think about what you said."
"Hey, anytime. Listen, while we're here, how about a tour of the place?"
==
-Digital World, The Emperor's Personal Airdromon-
Ken was still fuming.
Losing MetalGreymon was bad enough, but now that little twit Davis had another digiegg to use. That was almost as bad as Kyle and his little menagerie.
"Master?" Wormmon said, nervously.
"Yes, what?"
"We're taking a little shortcut through the edge of the area Birdramon was reported to be in. We should be at your base in an hour."
Ken started to reply, then stopped. Birdramon, he thought to himself. "Wormmon, change of plan." He said, pulling out a dark spiral. "I need to have a little talk with a certain airborne digimon."
==
Stone Town, Pokeworld
"And that's the trail to the base of Evolution Mountain."
Joe and Kyle had spent the afternoon going around Stone Town. Kyle explained about the Indigo League, the local Pokemon circuits, where the best places to eat were, the normal stuff one does when showing a friend around the town.
About two hours in, Kyle's D-Term started beeping. "Now what" he wondered out loud. Opening the terminal, he read the incoming message
To:kellison@stpokenet.com
From:izzy@worldnet.jp.org
Subject: HELP!!
Ken got Biyomon. Get here NOW!!
"We'd better get going" Joe said.
==
Digiworld, large desert plain. 'nuff said.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon's attack streaked at the incoming enemy, but was ignored; no effort was made at blocking or dodging it.
"It's no good Sora" Yolei said, "Halsemon's not strong enough on his own"
"Thanks for the vote of confidence" Halsemon said drily.
"We have to keep trying until the others get here!" Sora said. The two digidestined were riding on Halsemon's back, and trying to force the attacking digimon down to an altitude where Davis' and Cody's digimon could attack it.
Down on the ground, Davis and Cody kept sending emails to Kari and TK, who had the only other two flying digimon available. Unfortunately, those two were tied up with a battle of their own; a set of controllled digimon had ambushed the two as they were heading to help.
Ken had planned this well. Halsemon alone wasn't powerful enough to stop Ken's latest victim, and Raidramon and Digmon were not really effective at fighting Ultimate level air opponents.
Tiring of this, the mind controlled digimon turned on Halsemon and his two passengers, and knocked them out of the air with a single wing strike.
"SORA!" The voice was Izzy's; he caught Sora as she fell, riding on the back of Kabuterimon. Yolei was knocked too far for the insect digimon to catch. Yolei figured she had about 5 seconds to either a)hope for a miracle, or b)make peace with her deity of choice.
"PIDGEAWW!!!"
Option A, please, Yolei thought to herself. She could not see the force that grabbed her by the shoulders as she fell, but she could definitely feel the talons (ow), and the very strong blast of wind behind her, slowing their fall.
When she landed, the grip on her shulders released, and Yolei looked to see a small brown and white bird, about four feet long, flying back to Kyle. "Kyle, Izzy! YOu made it!" Kyle, Eevee beside him, and Izzy, who was just getting down from Kabuterimon and helping Sora down, nodded.
Joe ran up, panting a bit. "Don't forget about me!" "Or me" Kabuterimon said. "Guhh...I can't hold it..." Kabuterimon glowed, and returned to his Rookie form of Tentomon.
"You did fine as far as I'm concerned" Sora said. "But we still have to save Biyomon."
Looking at their giant opponnet, Kyle pulle dout his pokedex, and checked the entry. "Garudamon" the pokedex reported, "Vaccine Type Digimon, Ultimate Level. Evolved from Birdramon, this digimon is a powerful flyer, and its Wing Blade attack can devestate almost any opponent."
Running up, Cody and Davis filled them in. "We got here as Ken was leaving. His flying serpent distracted Birdramon, and he got a Dark Spiral on her."
"And he set an ambush for TK and Kari; they're fighting about two miles from here, and they can't help us!" Cody added. Looking behind the group, he called "Look out!" The digidestined instinctively ducked, just in time to avoid getting hit as Garudamon flew right over them. She and Halsemon continued duelling.
Kyle watched the duel for an agonizing, eternal, second. His feelings of helplessness returned; I want to help, but how? he thought to himself. Am I really that useless?
'All of the digidestined felt the way you do, at one time or another' Joe's voice rang in Kyle's mind. 'Sometimes, you feel like there's nothing left, that there's nothing left you can do. But we learned that there's always something more that can be done; you just have to stay loyal to what you believe in, and to your friends.'
He's right, Kyle thought to himself. There has to be something!
"WING BLADE!"
"DUCK!" Joe yelled. The group scattered, as Garudamon's attack slammed into the place where they just were.
"That's it!" Izzy yelled. "What, Izzy? Do you know how to save Biyomon?" SOra asked.
"I think so, but it's extremely risky! When Garudamon powers up her Wing BLade attack, the arm that has the Spiral on it is exposed, but we have to hit it fast!"
I know what to do, Kyle thought. His pokedex started glowing, as did the section of ground that Garudamon's last attack hit. From the center of the crater, a small object glowed in response, and floated towards Kyle!
"It's a digiegg!" Tentomon said. "And it has the crest of Loyalty on it!"
To Kyle's mind, the insignia on the silvery egg looked like the Pokemon League logo, inverted and inside a small diamond. "For...Eevee?" Eevee tilted his head for a moment, as if listening for something. Then, the evolution pokemon hopped up, and tapped one of the pokeballs on Kyle's belt. It opened, revealing Growlithe. "Growl?"
"Vee, Vee, Ooeee! Vee!"
"Growl?" Growlithe looked taken aback by what Eevee was saying, then nodded, almost smiling. Growlithe turned to Kyle, and nodded his head.
"All right...DIGIARMOUR ENERGIZE!!"
[animation sequence: Growlithe fades to a black sillouette, and an image of Arcanine appears behind him. A cocoon of metal forms around Growlithe, then peels back, revealing metallic wings, armored foreclaws, and a Robocop style sensor array over the eyes.]
"Growlithe, armour digivolve to...CyberArcanine, the strength of Loyalty!"
Garudamon and Halsemon stopped their fight, as the light from the digivolution distracted both opponents. Halsemon took the opportunity to land and recover its strength for a minute, while the newly armoured pokemon made the formal introduction.
"I am Cyberarcanine; a fusion armour pokemon. My sensors can pick out an enemy from miles away, and what my Razor Wing cannot cut, I can devestate with my Plasma Buster."
"Kyle, hop on"
"Right. Yolei, we'll distract Garudamon, while Pidgeotto goes in and tries to take out the ring."
"That's your plan?!"
"Unless you got a better one. You ready?"
"You bet" Halsemon said.
"Give the word" Cyberarcanine added.
"GO!"
The two armored monsters, their partners, and Pidgeotto flew up to take on GArudamon. The original digidestined wathced.
"I feel left out when this happens" Izzy said.
"Oh, we have our ways" Joe replied. Sora chuckled, nodding once.
In the air, the two armours quickly set about attacking Garudamon, while Pidgeotto hung back, waiting for an opening. While Garudamon had more power, she now had to deal with two targets, both much smaller and harder to hit. PLus, the two were working in concert, one defending while the other attacked.
"Tempest Wing!" Halsemon's attack had about the same result as last time, impacting on the wing covering the Dark Spiral.
"Razor Wing!" Cyberarcaine flew in close, his metallic wings striking at the area where the dark ring was. While none of the attacks hit the spiral, the desired effect was achieved. Garudamon pulled back..
On the ground, Izzy was monitoring the fight. "She's getting ready!" he yelled.
In the air, Cyberarcanine picked up Izzy's call. "Get ready" he said.
"Why are we doing this again?" Yolei said, still not comfortable with the idea of playing decoy.
"WING-"
"KYLE! NOW!"
"PIDGEOTTO, QUICK ATTACK!"
"PIDGEAWW!!!!" The small bird streaked at incredible speed towards the exposed spiral. She struck it dead on, but the spiral failed to shatter.
"It didn't work!" Kyle said.
"No, it's damaged! Look!" Halsemon said. Dark energy crackled from the damaged spiral. Garudamon writhed in pain, unable to get away.
"TEMPEST WING!"
"PLASMA BUSTER!" The two attacks combined and hit the damaged controller, shattering it. Garudamon glowed, and reverted back, not to Biyomon, but to her in training form of Yocomon!
"Yocomon!" Sora cried.
"Pidgeotto, get her!" Pidgeotto flew down at terrific speed, intercepting the small digimon, and catching Yocomon on her back. Pidgeotto landed in front of Sora, who picked up Yocomon in a firm hug. "Yocomon! I was so worried!" Sora said.
"Ohh, I have such a headace." Yocomon replied woozily.
Smiling, Sora replied "And considering you're all head, it must be one doozy of a headache." As the two talked, Kyle, Yolei, and their monsters landed. Halsemon reverted to his rookie form, but Cyberarcanine waited for a moment. "Kyle."
"Yes?"
"I never blamed you for what happened. Not for a second."
"Thanks, CyberArcanine." The Armoured pokemon glowed, and reverted back to his basic form of Growlithe. The puppy pokemon barked happily, then leaped into Kyle's arms.
"Thank you, everyone" Sora said.
"We'd better get out of here" Joe said. "Yocomon's going to need a few days to recover." Looking, he noticed Davis looked a little uncomfortable. "What's wrong Davis?"
Davis shuffled uncomfortably. "Well, my sister kinda caught me sneaking out of the house, and..."
"And?" everyone asked in unison.
"And..well..." Davis turned to Kyle. "She sorta made me promise to ask Kyle out for her this saturday..."
"why me?"
Next Ep: With Biyomon still recovering, TK, Cody, and Scizor head to a small town being guarded by Starmon. But, when Starmon is revealed to have been captured by the EMperor, it is up to the digidestined to save the day! Can the digidestined survive a throw up of the Wild West genre? And can Kyle survive a first date with June Motomiya?
All this, a cloud of dust, a flash of smoke, and a hearty "Hi Ho Pegasusmon!" Next, on Digicross TV, episode 04
"Get along, little Cody!"