Last time, Kyle was feeling a bit down that Growlithe lost his ability to evolve during the fight against Ken. Joe cheered him up a bit, but what really got him back was finding the digiegg of Loyalty, which let Growlithe digivolve to Cyberarcanine. Good thing too, because Ken slapped one of those Dark Spirals on Birdramon, digivolving her to Garudamon and making her attack us. We got her back, but now we have to keep an eye on the area she was guarding. I hope she gets better soon, 'cause it's a big area.
==Digital World, Western Town==
The digimon there all drank silently, not knowing when their 'protectors' would return. Since the arrival of the Control Spire, the guardians of the town, Starmon and Deputymon had gone out to find the construction and destroy it. That had been two days ago.
"Hey y'all" came a familiar drawl from outside the bar. "We're back, and we gots some news about them happenin's." Deputymon and Starmon entered the bar, all smiles. The digimon there relaxed slightly. Good news, the spire was gone, they could relax.
"In fact" Starmon added, "I'm so happy, that in two minutes, I'm gonna buy everyone in this bar a drink!" Everyone cheered.
"Of course," Deputymon said, "In one minute, I'm gonna blast anyone who's still in here, exceptin me and Starmon." The other digimon sat, stunned, not sure how to take this...threat? After five seconds, Starmon and Deputymon removed their cowboy hats, revealing the control rings on their heads, the evil dark rings with glowing red glyphs leaving no doubts what had happened to the two town guardians in the two days they had been gone.
10 seconds after the two revealed their rings; the other digimon in the bar fled the room. A minute after that, Starmon bopped Deputymon over the head; he had forgotten to exempt the bartender from the threat. Starmon hated getting his own drinks.
[Opening sequence]
Digimon: Digicross TV episode 4a (4b follows this)
"Get along, little Cody!"
As the two controlled digimon settled into their new roles as lackeys for the Emperor, things looked grim for the townsfolk. Their only two fighters had been taken over, and they were helpless to resist.
But wait! Out on the plains, leading a sandstorm on a merry chase.
There!
A crash of hooves, a cloud of dust, a flash of digizoid alloy,
and a hearty...
"Hurry up Pegasusmon! That sandstorm's almost on top of us!" TK's voice was almost lost in the howling winds just behind. TK and Cody had come out of the portal only minutes before the storm had struck, and were now madly racing towards the nearest town.
"I'm a little jealous of Scizor" Cody said, trying not to swallow too much of the blowing sands. "He gets to ride in a pokeball."
"Well, unless you want to try getting smushed into a small sphere, you'd better get used to this" Armadillomon said, clinging onto Cody's back. Pegasusmon said nothing; he was just focussed on outrunning the storm.
"Hey, TK!" Cody said.
"Yeah?"
"You think Kyle's gonna be alright? I don't think he's ever been on a date before."
"Hey, if Matt can survive, Kyle should be OK."
"Why was he so nervous anyway?"
TK thought for a minute then replied "Trust me Cody, you'll know all about it when you're older."
==5 minutes later==
Having made it to town (5 points if you can guess which one :-), Cody and TK quickly dismounted, and Pegasusmon, worn out by the journey, returned to Patamon. The small group hurried inside the bar...
...And found it empty.
"Where is everyone?" TK asked.
As soon as the words left TK's mouth, several small digimon sprang up from behind the bar. "Cody! TK! You've come to save us!" As the two looked, several Gotsumon leaped over the bar and grabbed the two humans in the digital equivalent of bear hugs.
"It's the Gotsumon we saved when we were first starting out" Patamon explained to Scizor. "Don't worry, they're friendly!"
"What happened here?" Cody asked. "Did the Emperor show up?"
"Did he!" One of the Gotsumon said. "He set up a control spire somewhere, but when Starmon and Deputymon went to look for it, they vanished for three days! And when they came back, they had Dark Rings and were shooting up the place!" "Ya gotta help us" They all started crying.
"All right, all right, we'll see what we can do." TK said, trying to calm everyone down. "The storm's about calmed down, we'll go find the spire and take it out. Then everyone will be back to normal."
"Not quite!" a voice from outside called. As the winds outside died down, two figures stepped into the bar.
"Prepare for trouble"
"And Make it double, y'all"
"To enforce the Digimon Emperor's will"
"And rough up all those who...uh...fight on still"
"To announce his rule to all above"
"And make his enemies go on the run!"
"Starmon"
"Deputymon"
"Team Emperor's gonna put out your lights!"
"Yeah, so give up now or...what's my line?"
"You Digibrain!!" Starmon whapped Deputymon over the head
with his hat, and said "So give up now or we're gonna fight!!"
[Animation note: EVERYONE else is sweatdropping right now.]
"Oh yeah, that's right!" The two, finished their speech,
turned to face the group. "Looks like we have an unauthorized gathering.
You gonna give up, pilgrims?"
TK and Cody looked at each other. "Cody" TK said quietly, "Patamon can't fight effectively in here. Can you and Scizor get them outside?" Cody nodded, and Scizor grinned.
"Well, ya got an answer for us?" Deputymon asked impatiently.
"Yep" Armadillomon said. "BARROOM BRAWL!!"
"Digiarmour Energize!"
"Armadillomon, armour digivolve to...Digmon, the Drill of Power!"
Digmon quickly fired a Gold Rush at Starmon, knocking him out the door and onto the street. Scizor, enjoying these close up fights much more, backhanded Deputymon with one claw, grabbed him, threw the controlled digimon through the window, and leaped out after him. Digmon and Patamon followed the two out, ready to keep fighting.
And they would have, if Starmon and Deputymon were still there. Two sets of footprints, each heading in a different direction. Scizor picked one track, and charged off after the fleeing digimon.
"Scizor, wait!!" Cody yelled as the rest of the group exited the bar. "That guy's as bad as Davis!" he said, frustrated.
"We'll have to deal with it later. Come on, let's follow the other set of tracks. Hopefully those two won't try and gang up on Scizor. Ready Patamon?" Patamon nodded. "Digiarmour Energize!"
"Patamon armour digivolve to...Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!"
==
Scizor ran down the streets, searching. Deputymon had come this way, and it wanted nothing more than a good fight. Intellectually, he knew that splitting off from the others wouldn't be what Kyle wanted, but that part of him that loved fighting was too strong to resist this challenge.
There! A faint movement betrayed Deputymon's presence, hiding behind a stack of barrels. "Scizor!!"
Deputymon walked out from his hiding place. "Ya got me dead to rights, varmint. What say we settle this in a fair fight." Scizor nodded, waiting. "Right then. I'll count to three, then we attack."
The wind whistled faintly, kicking up clouds of dirt.
"One"
A few digimon watched from the windows, too scared to do anything else.
"Two"
A sign, hanging off of one nail, rocked back and forth in the breeze, squeaking faintly.
"Three! JUSTICE GUN!!" Deputymon's special attack fired a huge bolt of power from the gun barrel on his torso. The shot screamed towards Scizor, and exploded. Deputymon watched, confidant that he had finished the attacker. The smoke cleared, but there was no one there!
"SCIZOR!!" Scizor had leaped a fraction of a second before the blast hit, and was now almost directly overhead. His wings flared out, and he fired a Swift Attack at Deputymon.
"OW OW OW OW!! Watch where you point those things!" Scizor's attack failed to hit the control ring on Deputymon, though it did manage to hit everything else. Time to finish this Scizor thought. Angling his wings, he flew straight at Deputymon, intent on hitting the ring with a powered up Metal Claw.
But Scizor had made a critical miscalculation. His wings were not as effective as carrying his evolved form, which threw off his aim slightly, and he caught Deputymon across the oversized gunbarrel, spinning him around and knocking him unconscious. Annoyed, Scizor stood up, intent on just removing the collar.
"Nice shot." Swinging around, Scizor had time to see Starmon and realize he'd been led into a trap. Starmon's eyes glowed red, and he called out one of his special moves. "Hypnosis!" Scizor blacked out, caught completely off guard.
As he fell, TK, Cody, and their digimon came into view. "Scizor! No!!"
"I ain't got time for the likes of you! METEOR SQUALL!!" Starmon raised his hands, and the sky above him seemed to warp. A torrent of meteors flew straight at the digidestined!
==
When Cody came to, he was a bit surprised to find he was still alright, and lying down on a bed.
"I'm glad you're awake" Patamon said. "You've been out for about 10 minutes."
"What happened?" Cody asked.
"Well, Starmon fired that attack at us, but some of the digimon pulled us out at the last second. I'm afraid you got hit. Sorry" Armadillomon said.
"Hey, I'm alright. What about Scizor?"
TK held up a note. "He left this behind. We're supposed to meet him in one hour and surrender or they're going to turn Scizor over to the Emperor!"
"Should we call the others?"
"No. It'd take too long for them to get here. We should get going." Cody got up, and the two digidestined prepared to leave.
"Hold up." Patamon said. "Your clothes are a mess" Patamon was right, the two humans' clothes were a bit ripped up. One of the Gotsumon, overhearing this, entered the room. "We have some spare clothes that might fit."
==Five minutes later
The two digidestined, now changed, got ready to leave. TK was wearing a dark shirt and pants, as well as a brown hat and a duster. Not too bad, he thought. ~A little stubble, and I could pass for Clint Eastwood~. "You coming Cody?"
"I still feel a little silly." Cody said. He stepped out, wearing dark blue pants, matching shirt, a bandanna tied around his neck, and a white hat. "I feel like I'm at a Halloween party."
"We'd better get a move on. Come on!"
==And, shortly after that...
"Y'think they'll come?"
"Sure they will. Pass the sauce." As the two digimon waited, they broke out some lunches and began eating. Deputymon passed Starmon a small bottle. Adding some of the contents to his lunch, he said "Hey, this stuff ain't that bad. Where's it from?"
"Says New York City."
"NEW YORK CITY??"
While the two ate, Scizor was tied up to a small post, feet, wings, and claws bound together. Mentally, he was kicking himself for walking into such an obvious trap. ~I hope Kyle doesn't get too mad at me; heck, I hope I see Kyle again!~
"Hold it right there!" a voice called out. The two digimon were stunned to see a small boy on the back of an armoured Horse. "It's the Lone Digimon!" Deputymon cried.
"I'm not alone!" Cody said, hopping down from Pegasusmon's back and assuming a gunfighter stance. Armadillomon hopped down as well, and stood beside him. "Now throw down your control rings and put your hands up!"
Starmon and Deputymon stared back at Cody, daring him to make the first move. Cody moved, drawing his digivice out. "Digiarmour Energize!"
"Armadillomon armour digivolve to...Digmon, the Drill of Power!"
The two controlled digimon launched their attacks. "Justice Gun!" "Meteor Squall!"
Cody and Digmon leaped to the left, while Pegasusmon took to the air. "Star Shower!" A hail of stars rained down on the two attackers. Digmon added his attack in. "Rock Cracking!" A rip in the earth shot towards the two digimon, knocking them over.
While they battled, TK crept behind them and set about freeing Scizor. "Scizor, you alright?" Scizor nodded, still a little steamed. "I'll set you free, then you have to help the others, got it?" Another nod. TK pulled out a small pocket knife, and cut Scizor loose.
"Equis Beam!" The Green blast of energy knocked Starmon and Deputymon back towards the place where Scizor was tied up. "We can take these varmints" Deputymon said. "Yeah" Starmon replied, "Let's show 'em what for."
"Scizor"
Looking behind them, the two saw that Scizor was neither tied
up or unable to fight. The crackling energy around his claws made
that very clear.
CRACK!! The two digimon fell to the ground. They
wasted no time surrendering to the digidestined before they could resume
fighting.
"Now, where's the control spire?" Digmon asked, covering the two digimon.
"We ain't never tellin'!" Starmon snarled. Scizor and Pegasusmon exchanged a glance, then took a step towards the two controlled digimon. "On second thought, it's under the abandoned water tower just west of the town! Just please keep that loco horse away from us! And the big red bug!"
"Oh calm down!" Digmon snapped. "Just let me get those control rings off of you." Removing the rings was a simple affair; Starmon and Deputymon didn't put up any resistance as the rings were removed.
"Whu'happened?" Deputymon asked, dazed.
"Spire. Location" Pegasusmon said flatly.
"Right, follow us" Starmon answered. The group headed to a location near town, where an abandoned water tower stood. "When we were captured, we were ordered to build a water tower over the spire so it couldn't be discovered as easily. The emperor figured you'd be so busy trying to tear the town apart, you'd never think to look here for it."
"I gotta admit, this is pretty clever." TK observed. "I don't think we would have found this place without help."
Cody looked at the spire. "The only thing I'll admit to is the need to get rid of that thing. Digmon?"
"I agree wholeheartedly. Rock Cracking!" Drilling into the ground, Digmon's attack sent a fissure straight at the ramshackle construct. There was a splintering of wood, and the fake water tower fell, leaving the black Control Spire.
"My turn!" Pegasusmon said, flying up. "Star Shower!" A wave of stars hit the base of the spire, carving a big gouge out of it. "Next?"
Scizor got ready to attack. "Hold up!" Starmon said. "We caused this mess, we'd like to be in on fixin' it up."
"That goes double for me, pardner." Deputymon added. Scizor nodded, and the three got ready to fire their attacks.
"Meteor Squall!"
"Justice Gun!"
"Scizor!!" Scizor's Swift attack, combined with the attacks of the other two digimon, vaporized the entire column. Starmon's "YEEEEE-HAW!!" summed up the mood of the group at that point.
==
"You sure you have to go?"
"Yeah. We have to get back to our world. Hopefully, the emperor won't show up here again." Cody said to Starmon.
"Well, alright. Y'all come back now, y'hear?"
"We will! You ready to go Scizor?"
Scizor grinned, and nodded. "See ya around buggy!" Deputymon said. "Next time, how about a game of canasta? I'll let you cut." Everyone sweatdropped at that.
"Scizor, return!" Cody held out Scizor's pokeball, and the bug pokemon vanished in a flash of red light. They mounted up on Pegasusmon's back, and rode off into the sunset.
As they left, one of the Gotsumon approached Starmon. "Uh, sir?"
"Yeah, what?"
"Umm...we were wondering, who was that masked digimon?"
==
Epilogue:
The portal in the school computer room glowed, and TK and Cody rematerialized in the Human world (As opposed to the Pokeworld, which was how they referred to Kyle's world). Izzy was there to meet them, as were Yolei and Kari.
"We're back. Hey, where's Davis?" TK asked.
"He's at home, he kinda blew a fuse" Izzy said.
"Blew a fuse?" Yolei said, nearly laughing. I think he almost had a heart attack."
"Kyle's first date go well?" TK asked, smirking.
"Looks like. She asked him out again" Kari replied, grinning.
Cody seemed surprised. "You're kidding."
"Why? You got designs on June?" Kari teased.
Blushing furiously, Cody relied "No! Kyle just doesn't seem like June's type, that's all."
"Just so I know" TK asked, "Did Davis blow before or after Kyle said yes?"
"After" Kyle said, entering the lab. He looked completely embarrassed, as well as a little confused. "I take it..."
"We all know" Yolei said.
Cody handed Kyle Scizor's pokeball. "He's a good pokemon. Thanks for letting us borrow him."
"Um...anytime...I have tobegoingnowthingstododigiportal2open..." The screen glowed, and Kyle vanished.
"I wish I'd gone with him" Izzy said.
"Why?" Kari asked.
Grinning, Izzy responded "because I just emailed his dad what Yolei told me." Then he broke up laughing.
"You are EVIL!" TK said, and the rest of the digidestined in the lab started laughing.
Next ep:
Ken starts his latest plan to take over the digital world, using
the data on pokemon and digimon he's gathered to date. Meanwhile,
Arukenimon has Sneasle battle a rampaging Tyranitar, intent on adding the
Dark type pokemon to her arsenal. Why is Arukenimon catching dark
type pokemon? Next on Digimon: Digicross TV:
"Gathering of powers"
Also, keep an eye out for Kyle's first date ever, as well as why
June has become so interested in the pokemon trainer. Where will
they go? What will they do? Can Kyle convince June that he's
NOT an extradimensional visitor, and that meeting his dad isn't really
an option? The first Digimon: Digicross Side Story:
"Kyle's first date!"