'Legendary Trainer Ryo'
OP: Digicross Opening, created by Prima.
"Well, I'm waiting" June said, a bit impatiently. Kyle and his would be opponent twitched nervously. "We did have a lunch date today, right? Or is pokemon battling more important than me?"
"That...that's not true" Kyle protested. "I just lost track of time! Really!" Beside him, Scizor and the other trainer's Charmeleon twitched, not sure whether to fight or just watch this little melodrama unfold.
"It's not his fault entirely," the other trainer said. "I did challenge him. I even told him it wouldn't take that long."
"He's not off the hook yet" June replied.
A few feet off, Growlithe and Elecmon watched. "Busted, I take it" Elecmon asked rhetorically.
Growlithe answered anyway. "Yeah. Well, I could have said something." Behind him, the bushes made a crackling noise, and Eevee and a small red pokemon rolled out. "Hey, watch it you two!"
"Mag? Magby" the small pokemon asked, looking at Elecmon.
"Err...Rai raichu?" Growlithe sighed, watching Elecmon's performance. "Well," he whispered to Growlithe, "it's not like I speak the language!"
The movement attracted the trainer's attention. "Magby, there you are. I-" He trailed off, seeing Elecmon for the first time. "You're a...digimon" he asked, hesitantly. Elecmon nodded. He then looked at Kyle and June. "Hey, you're the ones from Mount Moon, aren't you? I thought you looked familiar!" The trainer reached for his belt, and pulled out a familiar object. "Do you know what this is" he asked, holding out his digivice.
"That's a D-3" June exclaimed. "How did you get one? Who are you anyway?"
"Ryo Akiyama."
==Digital World
Yolei and Aquillamon flew over a patch of control spires, exploring. "You see anything," the girl asked.
"Nope, just more spires. One sec." Aquillamon slowed his flight, surveyed a patch of spires, grinning a bit. "Grand Horn" he called, flying through a patch of spires, knocking them down. "There. Now the place looks a bit better" he commented, landing
Yolei spat some dust out. "Yeah, if you don't mind picking bits of spire out of your hair for a week. You want to warn me the next time you want to do that" she complained.
"Sorry. I...listen!" The giant bird cocked his head to the side. "I think I hear a fight. Nearby!"
==
Nohemon jumped off the remains of the control spire, just as the attack disintegrated the rest of it. The armour digimon surveyed his opponent, looking for any weakness. "This is going to be tricky, Ken."
"I know" Ken replied. "But whoever reenergized that control spire made it impossible for you to digivolve to Stingmon. Is it-"
"I saw the spire change into an Apemon, and someone leave the area before it attacked. And that blasted Metallic Fur is keeping my arrows from hurting it." The Murkrow on Nohemon's shoulder lifted off, forcing Apemon to deal with two targets.
Apemon snarled, swinging his bone stick like a bat, swatting at the bird as he flew around. "Be careful" Ken called. The bird's small size made it hard for Apemon to connect with his attack, though. Plus, the humanoid puppet kept firing arrows at Apemon, annoying more than damaging.
Angered, Apemon let out a yell, ran past both parts of Nohemon, charging straight at Ken! "Ken!" the Murkrow called, desperately trying to intercept the artificial digimon.
"BLAST RINGS!" A circular blast of energy hit the ground near Apemon, flinging the attacker into a pile of rocks. As the dust cleared, Ken saw Aquillamon, hovering over Apemon, and Yolei coming towards him.
-Is Ken attacking digimon again? - Yolei wondered. A shout from Aquillamon got her attention. With a gasp, she saw Apemon getting up, but the upper part of his body was cracked, revealing a shiny, ebony-black surface.
Apemon roared again, throwing his club at the two humans. Ken pulled Yolei down as the attack shrieked over their heads, as Murkrow flew in. "Night Shade" he called, firing a blast of black energy from his eyes. Aquillamon followed up with another Blast Ring, and Apemon was finished.
"That was..."
"A control spire digimon" Ken said, helping Yolei up. "I'm sorry for knocking you down like that. I guess your friends will be along soon, I'd better get going."
Yolei grabbed Ken's arm. "Not yet, you're not." She dragged the boy over to Aquillamon. "Come on, we're going someplace priv...I mean quiet!" Nohemon glowed, reverted to Wormmon, and hopped on as well. "You're not leaving my sight until you've explained exactly what's going on here!"
==Pokemon World
The three trainers and their monsters had retired to a nearby pokemon center. As they rested, Kyle had ordered some drinks for them, and they discussed Ryo's past as a digidestined. "You've been to the digital world," Kyle asked.
Ryo nodded. "Yeah, a few years back. There was someone else too, but I haven't seen him since. Maybe you know him? His name was Ken Ichijouji." June and Kyle managed to avoid spitting out their drinks. "Umm..." Ryo said slowly, "dark hair, smart kid, had a digimon that looked like a Caterpie but wasn't..."
Kyle, June, and their partner monsters shared an 'oh god, how do we explain THIS' look. "We've...seen him, yeah. You know him?"
"Oh yeah. Best friend I ever had," that look again, "we kinda saved the digital world. Or at least a small bit of it...is something wrong? He's alright, isn't he?"
"And Wormmon" Charmeleon added. "He's alright too, right?"
"One sec" Kyle said nervously. He got up, pulled June along with him. "How do we tell him that his best friend tried to take over the digital world" he whispered to June.
June looked at Ryo. "Have you been to the digital world lately?"
Ryo shook his head. "No. After I came back, the portal closed. I've been looking for another way back, but I've had no luck. Is there a way? I'd love to see Ken again."
"No one told you?"
==Digital World. Digitamamon's Diner (Now accepting Japanese Yen, Kanto credits, The Euro, and Canadian money. But not American Express. Show your digivice at the door, get 10% off everything.)
Aquillamon landed outside the small restaurant, allowed his passengers to get off, and reverted to Hawkmon. "I just flew in from the desert, and boy are my arms tired" he complained.
"Can it, Hawkmon, this is serious." Yolei resumed her previous job, namely dragging Ken around.
"Where are we going?"
"Inside. Saving your life got me thirsty, and good and mad too. Now inside!" Yolei pointed inside the diner.
"Good and mad...?"
"Yeah. I go to all the trouble of putting my phone number in that pokegear I gave you, and you have the nerve not to call me back! Now start talking!" Yolei marched Ken inside, Hawkmon and Wormmon following.
"What's gotten into her" Wormmon asked Hawkmon.
"I haven't a clue" Hawkmon replied. "It must be one of those human things."
"We're not going to start fighting again, are we?"
Hawkmon arched an eyebrow (or would have, if he did -ed). "After you saved my life? That would be a bit rude. Besides, you seem to be a pretty well adjusted digimon, all things considered."
"Thanks. I think."
Entering the diner, Yolei looked around, trying to pick out a good seat. It was then that she noticed that there was someone else here. "Davis? What are you doing here?"
Veemon hopped down from the seat opposite Davis. "Davis thought Kyle and June might be here," he said, missing Davis' gesture to not tell the others.
"Oh for..." Yolei started.
"Well, it was my dad's idea" Davis protested. Then he noticed Ken. "Ken? Hey, great to finally see ya! Is he joining us? 'Cause we could use the help keeping an eye on my sis...I mean the Digital World!"
"What's wrong with his sister" Ken asked Yolei.
"She's dating" Yolei replied, hoping she only imagined that note of jealousy in her voice. She sat Ken down by Davis, sat opposite the two, and yelled an order for three lemonades. She amended that to six after Hawkmon pointed out that there were digimon present.
"So, what brings you here" Davis asked.
"Yolei dragged him here," Hawkmon said, getting a light rap on the skull from Yolei.
"Ken knows something about those weird digimon we've been fighting lately, and I had hoped we could get some answers out of him." Yolei didn't add that she was still waiting for Ken to call her, and wondering why he hadn't yet, and was all prepared to drag the answer out of Ken, but now that Davis was here and would probably blab it to the rest of the world...
"Yolei, you're bending cutlery in half" Hawkmon noted. "Please stop it." Guiltily, Yolei dropped the fork she had managed to fold.
Digitamamon came out, balancing a large plate with the drinks on it on his head. "OK, here you go. Though I still think some egg-drop soup would...HEY!" The tray fell to the floor as Digitamamon hopped back. "What kind of joke is this?"
"What do you mean" Veemon asked.
"Him" the egg digimon said, indicating (no, I don't know how; just go with it -ed) Ken. "If that deviled egg thinks he can fool me with a new haircut and some drab clothes, then his brains are fried. There's no way I'll serve his type in here!" Digitamamon would have continued, but something red and clawed grabbed his leg, flipped him over, and held him upside down.
"And just what type would that be" Charmeleon asked, small licks of flame coming out of his mouth.
==Dark Ocean
"It's been a long battle" Demon said to no one in particular. "And how many digimon have I sent to their demise? Or have wandered off like that fool Myotismon?"
Arukenimon walked up, Sneasel walking behind her. "Demon, Larvitar has completed his preparations and is ready to be sent. We await your orders."
"Good" Demon replied. "Have Larvitar sent to these co-ordinates" Demon handed a small crystal to Arukenimon. "Sneasel, are you ready? I have had an...inspiration." Sneasel bowed, waiting. "Once Larvitar is replaced, I want you to go to the village that Shogun Geckomon rules. I will have your orders sent by one of my agents."
Arukenimon looked at the crystal, divining the data within. "This will take Larvitar close to the last area Baihumon was spotted in. He may sense the portal forming."
"Yes. That is why we will send a digimon to the pokemon world at the same time. The noise from that should cover up any portals that appear in the Digital World. Send....send Marine Devimon, he's been champing at the bit recently. That overgrown housecat has taken an interest in that world, after all. With luck, he'll be so busy watching his precious digidestined fight that we can slip our package in undetected."
"Understood. We can begin in a few hours."
==Digital World
"So, egg-boy, what'll it be? Sunny side up, or just fried?" Charmeleon gave the digimon a threatening shake.
"Ch...Charmeleon" Ken breathed. "Then..."
"KEN" Ryo roared, grabbing Ken in a bear hug. "God, man, it's been years!"
Kyle and June walked in. "Um, guys," June said, "this is Ryo...Ryo, everyone..."
"Maybe we should take this outside" Kyle suggested.
Outside, everyone sat down. Ken seemed a bit edgy now, looking nervously at Ryo. "Ken" Yolei asked quietly, "are you OK?"
"Yeah, what's up" Ryo asked. "You been OK? Everyone gets all weird when you're mentioned." He totally missed the recurrence of the 'oh god, how do we explain THIS' look, which had managed to infect Davis and Yolei too.
Ken said nothing for a second. Then, with a sob, he stood up and ran off. "Ken, wait!" Ryo got up and ran after him, Davis following close behind him.
"That could have gone better" Veemon said. He flinched a second later under Elecmon and Growlithe's combined glares.
"Someone want to tell me what's going on here" Charmeleon demanded, getting a bit angry. Everyone else looked at each other uneasily.
"I'll do it" Wormmon said. "It all started...
===Some distance off.
"...just after Sam died" Ken said.
"Oh god" was Ryo's only response. Davis listened too; Outside of Yolei, Ken had managed to avoid the other digidestined after Chimeramon was defeated.
"Just after the funeral, I...received an email that told me about the digital world, where I could get away from the pain. I went there, and I was told that if I could rule it, I would be happy....I..." Ken began shaking uncontrollably. "I was...evil. Everything I had done, you, Charmeleon, Milleniumon...it was taken from me..." Ken looked at Ryo, eye to eye. "Well, come on. Aren't you supposed to hate me too?"
"Hate you" Ryo gasped, stunned.
"Ken, we don't hate you" Davis said. "None of us!"
"Why not" Ken snapped. "How many times have I tried to destroy you. How many digimon did I send to their deaths to help me rule the digital world, or try to stop you, or threaten to kill you...well?"
"WILL YOU SHUT UP" Davis yelled, slapping Ken. "OK," he said, calming down a bit, "you made a few bad choices. But you're past that now, we forgive you already, and we really need your help! Diaboromon, you remember him? He showed up in the Pokemon World not too long ago. These weird digimon with shiny black insides are appearing, someone's sending them against us, and to top it off, my sister's dating someone from another world! I don't know about you but I could use a little help here!"
Ryo blinked. "Yeah, what he said..." The trainer cleared his mind, and followed up what Davis had said. "Look, you're pretty miserable right now, so I doubt you're evil, none of the other digidestined are trying to thwart your evil plans right now, so I don't think they hate you...look, let's go back to the others and hash this out properly, alright?" Ken nodded.
"Um...sorry about hitting you" Davis said.
"Forget it" Ryo said. "Hey, sometimes, the direct approach works. What was your name?"
"Davis Motomiya, leader of the digidestined. Listen, since you two are new, I'll be glad to show you the ropes." Davis headed back to the others.
"Leader" Ryo asked Ken quietly.
"I thought TK was the leader, if anyone" Ken replied, equally baffled.
Back at the group, everyone calmed down and talked for a few hours. Ryo told them about his adventure with Ken in the Digital World, culminating in the battle against Milleniumon, and their return to their own dimensions. As they talked, Hawkmon, Eevee, and Growlithe had taken turns playing with Magby. "Who is the little guy" Yolei asked.
"Oh, that's Magby" Ryo said. "He's a baby pokemon, I found him a few weeks before I ran into Kyle here."
"Baby pokemon" Yolei asked, curious.
"Some pokemon have what's called a 'pre-evolved form" Kyle answered. "Baby pokemon are pokemon that appear just after they hatch out of an egg.
"They don't battle with this type of pokemon, do they" Ken asked, horrified.
"Technically, there's no law against using baby pokemon in a battle, but a lot of trainers look down on it. Heaven help the poor fool that does and gets caught" Kyle replied. "I think one Officer Jenny volunteered to string one idiot up after he tried to force a Pichu to fight a Blastoise." Kyle chucked a bit, remembering the story. "But that was after the Blastoise turned on the guy."
==Pokemon World
Mewtwo looked over Olivine City, relaxing a bit. The psychic pokemon found an odd sense of relief near large bodies of water; usually, he attributed this to some memory from Mew's DNA that was used in his creation. He was not actually within the city. Even his impressive psychic powers could not conceal him forever in the city itself. But here, in a rarely traveled area...
"Nice day" Byron said, walking up behind Mewtwo.
"Baihumon" Mewtwo said, using the guardian's true name. "What brings you here?"
"Oh, just wandering. I think I've gained a bit of an attachment to this world; sometimes, I see here, and I wonder if the other Earth would fare as well if digimon began appearing there."
"It is not all peace" Mewtwo replied. "I have had my share of battles here, many that would tear the other Earth apart. As always, the evil humans are capable of can destroy even the most serene place." Mewtwo looked up, sensing a familiar presence. "And yet, there is hope" he said, smiling a bit. "Why do we keep crossing paths" he wondered.
"Kids like that are known for that sort of thing" Byron replied. "We four guardians were beaten by the Dark Masters, and it was children that saved us. And are at it again. I think our worlds are not so different..."
They both sensed it. A wrongness in the air, something dark was approaching, but not from any physical location. Then Mewtwo dropped to his knees, holding his head. "What...what is this?"
"They wouldn't" the avatar said. Then, growling, he glowed fiercely, and resumed his true shape. "The Dark Ocean has managed to open a portal here" the giant tiger growled. "I must get the digidestined here!"
Mewtwo stood up. "I will hold this monster at bay until you return."
"Be careful. This will be no mere pokemon that you face. It is Marine Devimon, an Ultimate digimon that is at his best in the water."
Mewtwo smiled. "I am no mere pokemon. We'd best hurry." Mewtwo glowed a bright blue, levitated off the ground, and headed for the portal. Baihumon nodded, glowed, and warped himself to the Digital World.
==Digital World.
"Well, come on" Davis said. "Let's get the rest of the digidestined here and make it official."
"Make what official" Ken asked.
"You and Ryo are members of the team now! We need a party, don't we?" Davis would have continued, but was interrupted by a giant tiger appearing in the middle of the group.
"You" Ryo said, taken aback. "You're the one that sent me here four years ago!"
"I remember you too" Ken said.
"Sorry to interrupt" Baihumon said, "but there's trouble in the Pokemon World. Marine Devimon has appeared near Olivine City and is attacking! You get there, I'll find Cody, Kari, TK, and any of the other digidestined I come across. MOVE!"
==Olivine City
The three trainers (OK, one breeder, an ex-gym leader, and a pokemon trainer -ed) sat by the beach, resting. "This is the life" the redheaded girl said. "A nice seaside city with lots of water pokemon."
"I still say we should have gone to the gym first."
The girl sighed, exasperated. "You saw the note on the door! The gym's closed until tomorrow! Honestly, I don't know how you've made it this far."
"By not quitting or taking no for an answer" the boy replied, turning to the older, darker skinned boy. "Right?"
"Forget it," the girl said, "the only thing he's going to be seeing is bikinis for a while."
Actually, the older boy was looking at something far off. The other two with him noticed it too, a small blue speck flying around a larger, blacker speck. All of a sudden, the blue speck started to grow larger. "Guys, we'd better move" he said, getting up.
"Why, what's-" the younger trainer was cut off as the blue 'speck' suddenly flew between them, crashing into the seawall. With a gasp, he recognized the being that had nearly hit them. "Mewtwo! What happened?"
Mewtwo lifted himself up. "A..Ash. You must leave this place."
"LOOK" Brock yelled, pointing. The others looked, and saw a big black monster coming towards them.
"Everyone," Ash called to the pokemon they had brought, "get back here now!" Mewtwo lifted a hand, and the pokemon were surrounded by a blue aura, and were lifted back to their trainers. "Thanks. Now, how do we stop that thing." Ash checked his pokedex. "No pokemon detected?"
"It is not a pokemon. Leave, it is too powerful for you to face!"
"But-" Ash never got beyond that, as a large white angel with red highlights flew over the group, and attacked Marine Devimon.
"Pyroangemon" Mewtwo said. "Then they are here." As he spoke, the digidestined Baihumon was able to find in the Digital World ran to the edge of the seawall.
"Mewtwo" Kyle said. "What...never mind, I see it."
"What is it" Yolei asked.
"My worst nightmare, take two" Ryo said. "We've got to stop that thing now." Everyone nodded, and held out their digivices.
"Growlithe, digivolve to...Arcanine!"
"Elecmon, digivolve to...Leomon!"
"Veemon, digivolve to...ExVeemon!"
"Hawkmon, digivolve to...Aquillamon!"
"Wormmon, digivolve to...Stingmon!" Stingmon looked down at Charmeleon. "Sure you're not too rusty" he asked.
Charmeleon grinned. "Charmeleon, digivolve to...Charizard!"
"He's an Ultimate" Kyle said. "No point waiting around!"
"Arcanine...Leomon...DNA Digivolve to...Komainumon!"
While the others were digivolving, Pyroangemon faced Marine Devimon, stalling him. "I don't know how you got here, but you're gonna wish you'd stayed home!"
"Make me" Marine Devimon replied, ducking a sword swing, and countering with a slap of one of his tentacles. "You digivolved from a fire type, so I'm guessing you're still weak against water attacks. DARK WATER!" A blast of sickly bluish-black water hit the angel, who only barely managed to deflect it with his shield.
-He's right- Pyroangemon though. -But how did he know?- "Sacred Fire!" Pyroangemon's fire attack clawed at Marine Devimon, but the digimon ducked under the water, taking only a few minor burns. The angel followed up with an Atom Force attack, but the digimon remained under the water, which dissipated much of the attack. "I could use some help here" he called back. At that point, a whirlpool engulfed him. As Marine Devimon had guessed, the water attack quickly drained Pyroangemon's strength, reverting him to Eevee in seconds.
"Hang on" Aquillamon yelled, flying in and catching the falling pokemon. "We'll take over now."
"Sure" Eevee weakly replied. "Just when I had him..." Eevee tried to get up. "He knows about pokemon types...Gotta warn the new guy."
"Already on it" Charizard said, flying by. He and Stingmon took over where Eevee had left off. Charizard hung back, shooting lances of flame at Marine Devimon, and allowing Stingmon to get close.
"You fools" Marine Devimon shouted. "I am the mightiest of Ultimate water digimon! What hope do three champions have against me?"
"Make that four! V-Laser!" Exveemon's energy bolt struck the attacking digimon square in the face. Roaring, Marine Devimon swung at Exveemon, totally ignoring the other digimon.
"Hey" A voice said behind Marine Devimon, "don't forget us! CELESTIAL EDICT!" Komainumon, who had managed to sneak behind the attacker, launched his most powerful attack. Marine Devimon staggered, barely hanging onto consciousness. -Still there- Komainumon wondered, surprised by the digimon's endurance. -That should have finished him!-
"I...I'm not done yet...I have one more hand to play..." Marine Devimon began glowing, and the space around him seemed to ripple.
"What's happening" Davis yelled, watching from the shore.
==Dark Ocean
"That idiot!"
"What is it, Arukenimon" Demon asked.
"Marine Devimon is trying to open another portal; that fool must have panicked and is trying to get help."
"Really? Let's watch and see what happens."
==Pokemon World
"Trouble" Yolei called. "All the portals here are down; whatever that oversized octopus is doing must be blocking all the Digiport! TK and the others can't get to us!"
"LOOK" June yelled. The force of the space warp pushed all the digimon away from Marine Devimon. Inside the rift, he seemed to shift, warp. With a loud 'BOOM' (yes, the all caps type of 'boom' -ed) the rift closed, leaving a different digimon.
Kyle checked the new digimon with his D-3. "There's nothing on this thing...I can't even get a good reading on its power level."
"It must be stuck between digivolutions" Ken said. "It must have tried to digivolve to its mega level, but botched it somewhere. Sort of a hybrid digimon."
The digimon roared in pain, its body torn between two incompatible forms. The energy within it was surging and falling at the same time, driving the monster insane. It backhanded Komainumon, and swept the other champion level digimon away with a blast of pure power.
"It's stronger than an Ultimate now" Kyle said.
Ryo looked at the monster, then at Ken. "Hey, Ken. Let's show these guys what we can do, alright?" Ken blinked not sure what Ryo was talking about. "Oh, come on, Ken, you couldn't have forgotten that could you? After Milleniumon, this guy should be a pushover."
"What are you talking about" Davis asked confused. Then, as he saw Ken smile, evidently remembering what Ryo was talking about, he caught on. "You mean, you can..." He watched as Ken and Ryo held out their digivices, calling their respective digimon to digivolve!
"Bout time" Charizard yelled. "Lets link up and put the hurt on this creep!"
"Right" Stingmon called back, feeling the power surge, as he remembered it.
"Stingmon...Charizard...DNA Digivolve to...DINO BEEMON!" The new digimon was all red and black, massively over-muscled forearms ending in bone white claws, reddish-black tail with a bright blue and white flame at the tip. Dino Beemon roared, exulting in the power and daring the insane Virus digimon to attack.
ED: 'Boku no Best Friend' (Pokemon ED)
Next Episode:
Dino Beemon and Komainumon join forces to attack the monster that was
formerly Marine Devimon. But, can Ken and Ryo control the berserk power
of their own DNA digimon? Next on Digimon: Digicross:
'Dino Beemon's Kaiser Blade'