'Dino Beemon's Kaiser Blade'
OP: Digicross OP theme, created by Caloque, the Chiche Queen
"Stingmon...Charizard...DNA Digivolve to...DINO BEEMON!" The digidestined watched stunned as another pokemon/digimon fusion appeared, challenging the monster attacking Komainumon.
"YEAH" Ryo yelled. "Just like four years ago! I knew you still had it, Ken!"
"What is that thing" Cody breathed, more than a little scared by the ferocity this now monster showed.
Baihumon, back in his human guise, walked up and answered him. "Dino Beemon, Ultimate level DNA digivolved digimon. Virus type, if I recall, special attacks include Irritant Buzz and Kaiser Blade."
Komainumon, still fighting, had only seen a bit of the transformation. Blocking another strike from the mutated Marine Devimon, he ducked under the creature, and tossed it to Dino Beemon. "All yours," he called. Dino Beemon growled loudly, flexing his muscles. He grabbed the mutant digimon, and slammed him onto the water, smashing it hard against the floor of the ocean. "Ouch," Komainumon winced.
"Rrrr...IRRITANT BUZZ" Dino Beemon's wings started flapping at an incredible rate; the shockwaves pummeled Marine Devimon, but also managed to hit Komainumon as well. Dino Beemon didn't notice, so intent was he on his foe.
"Hey! Watch it, will you" Ryo called. "I don't get it, he didn't act this way against Milleniumon."
"I think he did" Ken said quietly. "When we fought Milleniumon, we were fighting him alone; this is the first time Dino Beemon's fought alongside something else."
"Who is the Milleniumon guy, anyway" Davis asked.
"Later" Ryo said. "Dino Beemon, get it together! You're supposed to be fighting WITH Komainumon, not against him!"
Dino Beemon growled, then set his eyes on Marine Devimon. Clenching his fists, Dino Beemon roared again, as a pair of sword blades appeared out of the back of his wrists. Leaping at the mutated digimon, he shouted "Kaiser Blade" and slashed downwards, in an 'X' pattern.
"Woah! He totally Sandrocked the guy" Davis said. The earthborn digidestined edged away from him, while Kyle and Ryo blinked, not getting the reference. "What" Davis scowled. In the ocean, Marine Devimon trembled, and disintegrated. The wave of power that was released knocked both DNA digimon back.
"I'm glad that's over" Komainumon said, then ducked a wild swing from Dino Beemon. "Hey" he yelled, parrying another slash from the Kaiser Blades, "I'm on your side!"
"What is with him" June demanded. "Why's he still attacking?"
"I don't know, but I'm gonna find out" Ryo replied. "Go, Fearow!" Ryo pulled out a pokeball, and summoned his Fearow. He climbed on, and looked surprised as Ken got on with him.
"It's going to take both of us to calm him down" Ken said. Ryo nodded, and ordered Fearow to fly. Crying aloud, Fearow flew quickly to where the two digimon were fighting. "Stop it" Ken yelled as they closed. Dino Beemon stopped, staring at the two digidestined. Then he nodded, seeming to slump a bit, and trudged back to the beach.
As he approached, Dino Beemon glowed brightly, and split into two monsters, appearing on the shore just in front of the digidestined. Ken ran over when Fearow landed and picked up Leafmon. Beside the infant digimon was a small red pokemon, looking a bit like Charmeleon but lacking the crest on his head and having shorter claws.
"Charmander, you OK" Ryo asked.
Charmander nodded. "Worn out, just like last time." Komainumon got to the beach, and separated into his two forms as well. Kyle and June ran over to pick up their respective monsters.
Completely forgotten, Ash, Brock and Misty just watched everything happen. Recovering himself a bit, Ash got up and walked over to Kyle and June. "Hey," he said to the two, "Aren't you two the ones who were fighting that weird monster at Mount Moon a while back?"
"Umm...yeah..." June said a bit hesitantly. Kyle was distracted, watching Misty ear-drag Brock away from Yolei.
"Can you teach my Pikachu to do that? What you just did?"
"..."
==Dark Ocean.
Demon watched Marine Devimon's fate in a crystal ball. "So," he mused, "he did come from there after all. That makes this all the more convenient."
Arukenimon, who had been listening, looked at Demon. "You recognize that...thing? It looked so repulsive."
Demon smiled to himself. "Yes. I sent a servant to the digital world once who was defeated by that fused monster. When Sneasel was first brought to me, I had my suspicions that this was the world Dino Beemon came from. Now that I know..."
"Shall I prepare another invasion" Arukenimon asked.
"Not yet. As you saw, they could barely control that monster; with the right manipulation, that could be turned to our advantage. Was our primary goal successful?"
"Yes. Sneasel is on the way to ShogunGeckomon's village, and Larvitar is inside Baihumon's territory. As you planned."
"Excellent."
==Digital World
The small pokemon got up, flexing the muscles in his small body. Looking around, he did not recognize where he had appeared.
:Larvitar: the telepathic voice came, :listen to me:
:I hear...master: Larvitar replied, disliking taking orders.
Back in his lair, Demon allowed a small chuckle. :You may feel weak now, but under my guidance, you will be the strongest, both in this world and the Pokemon World. After myself, of course.: In Larvitar's mind, an image appeared. :Burn this map into your mind. It lists the locations of eight nodes of power, what the digimon call 'Destiny Stones'. Drain a little from each, and you will gain strength.:
:Why not just drain one stone completely? Why must I sneak around like a common Meowth?:
:Calm yourself: Demon's voice stabbed into Larvitar's mind. :To drain the stones completely would destroy the world, and you with it. Plus it would draw the attention of the other three guardians. Into your DNA I have coded the ability to digivolve, but you must gather the energy of all the stones to do so. Do this, and you will be rewarded with power.:
Larvitar nodded. :I go.:
==Pokemon World, Olivine Pokemon Center.
After the fight, the digimon had been checked into the local pokemon center, and the digidestined, as well as Ash, Misty, and Brock, had checked in to rest. Mewtwo and Baihumon had to leave, saying something about checking an unusual portal opening in the digital world, but they would be back as soon as possible. Cody had caught up with the group, having been stuck when the portals to the pokemon world were jammed.
"OK" Davis said, "now that we're all here, would someone please tell me who this 'Milleniumon' character is?"
Ryo answered. "Well, it started about four years ago, around Mahogany Town."
"Four years ago..." Kyle wondered. "Hey, wasn't there some kind of 'mad pokemon' outbreak?"
Brock piped in. "I remember reading about that! Apparently, one day, a bunch of the pokemon that were local to the area just went nuts and started attacking everyone. Then it just stopped. No one really knew what happened."
"Well, I did. It's how I first came to the Digital World."
==4 years ago, Mahogany Town.
"NO," the specter roared, watching the small red pokemon blast away with its fire attacks. "How could I have been beaten again by one so small?"
"Your bad luck" Ryo replied, watching his pokemon finish off the...thing. It was by no stretch a pokemon, that much was apparent. Around him, the other pokemon that were controlled slumped to the ground, those curious black metal gears appearing out of them. As he watched, the specter seemed to disintegrate, small bits of it breaking off into small square-shaped bits. The opponent done, Charmeleon glowed, the devolved to Charmander!
"You turned back" Ryo breathed, looking at his pokemon. His gaze shifted to the small teardrop shaped device in his hand. White with midnight-blue grips on the side, the device, which had made a great deal of noise when his pokemon evolved, was now silent. "Did this thing trigger your evolution? Maybe it's some kind of high-tech elemental stone."
In front of him, in the spot the specter had fallen, a field of energy appeared, and a figure stepped through. To Ryo, it looked like an albino Arcanine, though it had some sort of mask and foreleg guards on it. "That's actually not too far from the truth, Ryo" Baihumon said. "That monster you battled was called Devimon, a digimon."
==
"DEVIMON" the digidestined yelled, startling Ken and Ryo.
Ryo nodded. "Yeah. Baihumon explained it to me. When he was beaten by Angemon, the energy opened a small hole between the worlds; a part of Devimon's consciousness was able to escape though it to this world."
Cody looked at Baihumon. "You mean Agnomen's responsible for bringing Devimon to the pokemon world?"
June shook her head. "It must have been a million to one chance" she replied. "There was no way he could have known."
"She's right" Ryo said. "And in a way, if Devimon hadn't come here, I never would have run into you guys. Anyway..."
==
Ryo had met Ken some days after entering the digital world. The two had become fast friends, and had shared stories of their worlds. Ken had been particularly interested in stories of the Pokemon World, about how any kid could go on a pokemon adventure, become their own person and not live in other people's shadows...Wormmon had befriended Charmander, who had begun speaking English soon after Ryo's entry to the digital world. Baihumon had told them that there was an entity trying to take over the Digital World, and could become a menace to another team of digidestined that were in a different part of the digital world at the same time.
"It's pretty delicate" the giant tiger explained to the two humans. "They've just taken care of Etemon, but the digidestined are all scattered to the four winds, which make them easy prey. What's worse, only one of them has managed to reach Ultimate level, and he just got himself shot back to earth. The others...haven't even passed the Champion level. You two are our only chance. Whoever's calling the shots for these guys has created a digimon called Milleniumon, a mega-level digimon."
"A...mega" Ken breathed, clutching Wormmon. "How are we supposed to defeat that?"
"Same way we beat everything" Ryo said cockily. "Teamwork."
"More true than you know" Baihumon said. "Follow your instincts and trust each other. Don't worry, you are more than able to handle it."
Several weeks passed, and the pair managed to defeat the hordes of digimon sent by their foe. Wormmon was able to digivolve to Stingmon, and Charmander was able to digivolve all the way to Charizard, equaling a Champion level digimon. Then...
Ken and Ryo weren't expecting it. They had just managed to defeat an ultimate digimon by the barest of margins when Milleniumon attacked. The monsters fought bravely, but were easily beaten back.
"This is nuts!" Ryo said. "He's just too powerful."
"Stingmon" Ken yelled. You have to digivolve again!"
Ken's partner looked back. "It's no good" Stingmon said, wincing from the pain of his injuries. "Even if I did manage to digivolve, he's a fully powered mega. I'm sorry Ken."
"Don't talk like that" Charizard snapped. "I haven't given up yet, I don't care how powerful that overgrown Magikarp is!"
"He's right" Ken yelled. "Ryo, we have to defeat him! You promised...you promised to show me your home sometime!"
"Yeah. You hear that, you overgrown Grimer wannabe? We're taking you down!"
"Stingmon...Charizard...DNA Digivolve to...DINO BEEMON!" The fusion digimon charged at Milleniumon, Kaiser Blades extended and on fire. Milleniumon howled in pain, and exploded.
"Ryo, get down!" Ken knocked his friend down as a swarm of projectiles, released at the moment Milleniumon died, shot at the pair. Ryo was not hit, but Ken took a hit right in the back of his neck! Howling in pain, Ken collapsed, feeling as if something was eating his mind as he lost consciousness.
Ken came to about a week later. Ryo, Wormmon, and Charmander were watching him, concerned. "How...how long was I...?"
"'Bout a week" Ryo said. I'm glad you came to, you had us all worried."
The door to the tent they were resting in opened, and Baihumon stuck his head in. "Ah, you are awake. It is good." The humans and monsters came outside, wondering what the tiger wanted.
Outside, Baihumon seemed as if he was not sure what he wanted to say. "You have beaten Milleniumon, and saved the digidestined. But events have changed now. I am sorry, but it is time for you to go home."
"H...home?"
"Yes. The one who sent Milleniumon has unleashed four more mega digimon, and they are too powerful for you to face. What's worse, if you stay here, Ryo, your homeworld will be discovered."
"Well, I'll fight 'em off too!"
"Ryo" Ken said, still unsteady. "You...you have to."
"Ken?!"
"He's right" Wormmon said sadly. "Do you want another Milleniumon in your world?" Ryo looked down, not trusting himself to speak.
"It may be," Baihumon said, "that the door will open again. I cannot promise anything, but one can always hope."
===
"And that was it" Ryo said. "After that, I returned to my world, found that maybe a day had passed since I left. SO, I went on with becoming a pokemon trainer, entered and aced the singles tournament, and kept listening. Then you two" he pointed to Kyle and June, "show up, and I just knew that there was a way to the digital world again."
"All that fighting in the digital world must have paid off" Kyle said. "I remember reading about you in the papers. I always wondered how you got to be so good."
"Yeah. It was weird, in a way. All that time in the digital world equaled a day here."
"Tai told me about that" Davis said. "They were there for a month and a half or something, and it was only a few days back in our world."
"One thing I don't get" Yolei asked. "Izzy was explaining the digimon levels to me once, and showed me a rough guess of the power levels." Everyone nodded, following her so far. "So how could an ultimate digimon like Dino Beemon beat a Mega digimon like Milleniumon? Izzy said that, one on one, a mega will win every time."
Ryo opened his mouth to answer, then stopped. He looked at Ken, who also started to answer, then stopped as well.
"I...I don't know" Ken finally said. "At the time, we weren't questioning it...but..." Confused now, he trailed off.
It was then that Baihumon, in his human guise of Byron, reappeared. "A masterful summary" he said to Ryo, "and a most insightful question, young lady" he said to Yolei. "As it is, I think I can answer it. To be blunt, I was used. Played for a sap."
"Once we guardians were sealed away, the evil digimon began their takeover of the Digital World. While trapped, I began searching for a way of release. You must understand, Piedmon had destroyed our lab where we were creating the partner digimon, we were powerless to stop them, had to watch as our human avatars were slain or enfeebled...I was desperate."
"Then, my searching turned up the possibility of summoning help from other worlds. And one of those worlds was your world, Kyle and Ryo. I saw...I saw a world of peace, where creatures much like the digimon of my world lived in harmony. My first thought was to simply bring the guardians through, regroup, and reenter the digital world though a new portal. But after seeing this place, I paused and looked too long. It was in that instant that Devimon was able to pass through, sending the last spark of his being to the pokemon world. It is in fact my fault that the pokemon world was dragged into this."
"After the digidestined were sent back, I leaned that Milleniumon was only a decoy. He could have succeeded in his task if unopposed, but his main goal was to infect one or more children with Dark Spores."
"That shot you took to the back of your neck" Ryo said to Ken. "Was that...?"
"Yes. Compounding it was our lunacy in shutting off the digital world to the children. We did not know anything was amiss until Diaboromon appeared in the Human world's Internet."
"So that's why the portals were opened again" Davis said.
"Yes, but they were shut again, once the Digimon Emperor started moving. The control spires, in addition to stopping digivolution, weakened our powers." Ken seemed to shrink at that. "Haven't you been listening" Byron asked the boy. "In all likelihood, that dark spore you were hit with probably helped make you into the Emperor. Didn't Mewtwo say there was something inside you, something amplifying your darker tendencies?" Ken nodded. "In a way, it's a good thing you did stop him. Imagine if there were eight Digimon Emperors instead of one! Or if Ryo had been hit instead of Ken!"
Yolei shook off a sudden image of Davis as the Digimon Emperor. "So someone else was behind Apocalymon and the Dark Masters then" she asked incredulously.
Byron nodded. "Yes. And you are already familiar with it. It is the Dark Ocean."
"That weird place they dragged Kari off to" Davis yelped.
"Yes. You'd best keep an eye on her. And Ken as well." Ken looked up, surprised. "The Dark Spore you carry may be inert now, but they may wish to retrieve it. As long as you stick together, you should be fine."
"What about Kari" Cody asked.
"We'll tell her when we get back" Davis said. "And anyway" he added slyly, "I think a little knowledge will keep her safe." Chuckling, Davis walked over to one of the windows and asked for a drink.
"A little..." Cody asked, not getting it.
"Subtle Davis," June sighed, "REAL subtle."
At a nearby table, Ash, Misty, and Brock listened. "Do you believe any of that" Misty asked when Baihumon finished speaking.
"I don't know what to believe" Ash said. "Other dimensions, pokemon that can join and become one big pokemon, it's like something out of a movie, right Brock?"
"Umm...who is that guy," June asked, noticing Brock was staring.
"I think....Hey" Kyle said, standing up, "have you ever been to the Kanto region?"
Ash answered. "Yeah, I'm from there. I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. This is Misty" indicating the redhead, "and this is Brock" Ash trailed off, noticing, and recognizing, the look on Brock's face.
"Ah" Kyle looked at Brock. "She's spoken for." Brock seemed to collapse.
"What was that all about" June demanded.
"Oh. That was Brock, the Pewter City Gym leader." Ryo palmed his face, recognizing the name. "He's made passes at every pretty girl from Pewter City to, well, here. There's an informal warning about him sent to every police station that has an Officer Jenny on the staff." He noticed Yolei's slightly worried look. "No worries, he just makes a complete goof out of himself, but that's it."
"DAAVISSS" Veemon came running in, tail scorched. "Make him stop!" Behind Veemon, Magby came running in, chasing the digimon around. As Magby ran, small embers fell out of his mouth, leaving scorch marks on the floor.
Repressing a groan, Ryo got up. "Magby. Come here!" Magby stopped chasing Veemon, and walked over to Ryo. "Magby, how many times to I have to tell you? You can't play 'Pass the Ember' with non-fire types!" A second later, A yellow ball rolled in, a small, egg shaped pokemon on top of it.
"Togepi! Get off of that Sandshrew!" Misty ran over and collected the pokemon. Armadillomon unrolled himself, a bit dizzy. Oh I'm so sorry. Is your Sandshrew hurt?"
"His name's Armadillomon," Cody said, walking over. "You OK?"
"It'd be fun, he said..." Armadillomon said, eyes spinning, before passing out.
Nurse Joy walked out, Growlithe, Elecmon, Wormmon, and Charmander walking behind her. Surveying the scene, she said "Umm...your pokemon are ready..."
==Digital World
Gatomon walked towards the village that ShogunGeckomon was watching over. She hadn't been to the town in some time, but the message she had received was urgent. There was no identification, just a note that had been given to her by a passing digimon who said he'd been given it from another passing digimon, who was looking for Gatomon.
"I should have waited for Kari" she said to herself. Sensing a presence, she spun around and faced a black, catlike creature, about her size, and sneering evilly.
"And spoil this wonderful fight" Sneasel asked, appearing behind her. "I wouldn't dream of it." Sneasel jumped, claws extending, small crystals of ice forming and melting off, leaving a light train of steam as they swept through the air.
Though Gatomon was not at full power, her agility was still second to none, and she dodged the claw swipes. "Who are you?"
"Sneasel. Servant of the Dark Ocean, and bane of this world! FURY CUTTER!"
"Th...that move..." Even Gatomon couldn't dodge the hail of claw swipes, and was quickly rendered unconscious.
As Gatomon fell, Sneasel looked at the digimon. "Weak, just like all the others. Relying on a human for their power." Picking up the digimon, Sneasel carried her captive towards the edge of the town, where she had a small hiding place. "Phase one is completed" she said to the air.
:Excellent: Demon's voice echoed in her mind. :And now...: In the distance, Sneasel heard a series of small explosions. She now knew that all the digital portals within a day's travel were now destroyed.
==Human World
"Gatomon" Kari said, looking up.
"Kari" Tai asked his sister. "What is it?"
"Something's wrong...I know it."
The phone rang. Tai answered it. Kari watched as her brother's shoulders stiffened, and then slowly hung the phone up. "That was Izzy" he said, confused. "Apparently a whole bunch of portals in the digital world were just blown up."
"We have to go there" Kari said, getting up. "We have to find Gatomon, I'm sure she's in trouble."
"Kari" Tai said, "it's Sunday night, we have to be in school tomorrow. First thing after school, we'll meet at Izzy's place and go to the digital world, alright?" Tai's face softened a bit. "Hey, Gatomon's tough, she'll be just fine."
Next Episode:
In the samurai village, tragedy strikes and Gatomon is blamed for it.
The digidestined must race to clear her name, but dark forces are aligning
against them. A sad part of Gatomon's life is revealed and secrets are
uncovered. Next, on Digimon: Digicross Episode 16-
-'Kidnap part 1: Trial"