Joe looked around Primary Village. As always, it was pleasant here, as if someone had ordered the weather to remain sunny with a few clouds.
"Relaxing, isn't it?" Baihumon asked, currently in his human guise.
Joe looked at the guardian. "Yeah, it is. Your doing?"
Baihumon shook his head. "Nope. Primary Village was designed that way. It's at the center of the digital world, sitting at the intersection of our four respective areas." Baihumon explined, referring to the other guardians. "Ebonwumon and Zhuquiamon just can't appreciate a sunny day. Unlike me, that is."
"Polar opposites?" Joe hazarded.
Beside him, GOmamon winced. "Where did you get that from?"
"You." Joe answered. Feigning insult, Gomamon tromped off, looking for Ogremon. "So, all the guardians help maintain this place?"
"Indirectly. There's actually a great power buried here. That's why all the digieggs reappear here, instead of just showing up all over the digital world. We declared this place to be neutral, but, you know what the Dark Masters did to it."
"Yeah." Joe replied, remembering the sight. A thought occurred to him. "Hey, that hidden power...it wouldn't be a Destiny Stone, would it?"
Baihumon grinned lazily. "Now that would be telling. Just don't start digging around in the center of the town. No, no reason, just don't there's nothing at ALL to find there."
"Don't you take anything seriously?" Joe asked. "What if the Dark Ocean comes here next?"
With a twinkle, Baihumon shed his human form and became the giant white tiger. "Then I get seconds for lunch. So, you're not celebrating the end of school?"
"Nahh." Joe replied. "For the last four years, some of the other digidestined, usually Tai, would invariably try to drag me into some Christmas scheme, most likely poorly thought out, that promised to be great fun, and getting Sora mad at Tai." He looked at the sky. "Come to think of it, that does sound like fun. But I think I'll just relax for now. Nice days like this are rare enough."
"Careful." Gomamon called from where he was talking to Ogremon. "That kind of talk is what usually calls out the giant monster. Uhh...no offense?"
"Grr." Ogremon replied, voice flat.
==
Digimon Digicross Episode 31
'Great Defense: Ikkakumon against the dark horde!'
==
==Dark Ocean
Demon scowled as the latest reports were coming in. His plan to take over the world was founded on destroying the digidestined, not increasing their numbers. Yet, all reports said that there were several new digidestined, some of whom were native to the Pokemon World. This meant that there would be that more many obstacles to overcome.
"Sneasel, Arukenimon." Demon commanded. Obediently, the two appeared before him, entering the room through an ornate archway. "Prepare an attack force. Sneasel, you shall lead them on an assault against Primary Village. With luck, you should be able to strike while the digidestined are all preoccupied off world."
Metal Devidramon strode in. "What of me, Demon? My power-"
"Is incomplete." Demon cut him off. "While the attack on Primary Village is happening, you and I will go to another Destiny Stone and drain its power."
"We would be done by now if you let me drain them completely."
"To do so would invite the attention of the Guardians of the Digital World." Demon replied evenly. "And we are not yet ready to face them, especially if all four strike at once. Sneasel, Arukenimon, leave us." The two nodded, and vanished. "When the attack has started, we will journey into Baihumon's territory, and drain the stone hidden there."
"What of Primary Village?" Metal Devidramon asked.
"It would be...inconvenient if it were destroyed, but not irreparable. There is a great power hidden there, but it cannot be easily bent to my will, especially while the digidestined and the four guardians still stand. It allows any digimon, even those from this plane, to be reborn there if defeated, but they have a nasty habit of turning good."
"A Destiny Stone?" Metal Devidramon asked. "Then why not attack that one? There are only infants there, barely a challenge."
"Because." Sneasel replied, "Once the digidestined find out about the attack on Primary Village, they will come to its defense, as will the four guardians. Can you face four mega-level digimon, Metal Devidramon? I do not care to."
"This is irrelevant." Demon cut in. "The digidestined are human, and cannot be reborn at Primary Village. Once the digidestined are dead, I can infect the Village and ensure that all future newborns are more...pliant. Come, we must prepare."
==Tokyo, 12:30pm
June skipped home, excited. Her school had finished with a half-day, and she had made another date with Kyle to go see Tokyo Tower. It was already decorated for the Christmas season, and she thought it looked lovely. She opened the door to her home. "Mom? Dad? I'm home!" She stepped in, and saw her father, reading a newspaper. "Hi dad!"
"June, you got out early today."
June sighed. "Yes dad, as I already told you this morning, yesterday, and all last week, we only had a half-day today."
Her father sighed. "Hmph. Probably going to spend it with that Ellison boy." he grumbled. "He showed up here about an hour ago."
June's mother came out. "June! Welcome home. Kyle got here a bit early, there was a bit of a mix up. I hope you don't mind, but I kind of drafted him to help make some snacks for your father's office party."
"Mom." June whined. "I was going to take Kyle to see Tokyo Tower."
"Oh, don't worry, he'll be done soon. June, you didn't tell me Kyle was such a good cook." June nodded.
"Why don't you adopt him?" Mr. Motomiya grumbled, not looking up.
Mrs. Motomiya looked thoughtful. "I don't think his father would approve of it. Although..." she trailed off, impish look on her face.
"Not if I marry him first." June replied, teasing. Both held back laughter as Mr. Motomiya struggled to remain calm.
Kyle stepped out of the kitchen. "Mrs. Motomiya? I'm finished everything, and...Oh, hello June!"
June walked over, and kissed Kyle lightly on his cheek (a gesture that was pointedly ignored by her father. -ed). "You poor dear. Not here an hour, and my mom is already putting you to work."
"There's nothing wrong with being able to cook." her mother reminded her. "It's a shame more men don't follow his example." She finished this with a glance at her husband (still resolutely ignoring everything except the paper -ed). She checked Kyle's work. "Oh dear. Now we have too much. Say, why don't you have lunch here? You must be starving, June."
"Well, I was going to take Kyle to a restaurant I know..."
"Oh, nonsense. The weather's horrible, and there's plenty of food here to eat. June, why don't you get some plates for everyone."
"And I thought I was on vacation." June moaned, walking into the kitchen, taking Kyle with her.
==Primary Village
"Hey, you can't sleep there!" Ogremon yelled. Resting in the shade of an old tree was a large white-furred creature with a black face and tail. Beside him was a small yellow creature with triangular ears and a jagged tail, only a few inches tall.
Absol looked up, unimpressed. His 'owner', Kyle Evanick, had left both him and Pichu here, where they would (he hoped) stay out of trouble while he went to visit the pokemon world (Actually, Casey had dragged him off to another ball-game not two minutes after he appeared in the pokemon center. Poor guy -ed). As far as the pokemon was concerned, this was his spot, and some oversized green idiot wasn't about to chase him out.
"I said OUT!" Ogremon roared. Pichu got up, looked around, and started yelling at Ogremon. "Look, this is MY spot, so out!" Annoyed, Pichu darted over and fired off a respectable spark of electricity, stunning both Ogremon and Pichu. Absol gave a long suffering sigh, and went back to sleep. Annoyed, Ogremon stomped away in a huff.
==Dark Ocean
Metal Devidramon paced in his chamber, still seething. He could feel his power growing, and yet Demon wouldn't let him fight. All this time, it was just sneak around and cower like (in his mind) some pathetic Grass type pokemon. Arukenimon and that pathetic runt Sneasel had left already, transforming countless Control Spires into expendable digimon slaves.
"The fool." he growled. "Those stupid constructs don't have a fraction of the power I wield. I could destroy that worthless village all by myself." On a whim, he checked the map left in his room. The spire he was draining today was located in Baihumon's territory, but he could make it to Primary Village. And Demon could be diverted if he 'accidentally' got a little too eager in draining the Stone's energy...
==
"At this rate, I'm going to go bald." Arukenimon muttered, casting another Spirit Needle and creating another digimon. Demon had requested devil-type digimon, so she had spent a lot of time creating Devidramon troops, a few Devimon to keep the Devidramon in line, and hordes of Vilemon and Musyamon to mop up any defenders.
"Sneasel, Demon wants you to lead the assault. Don't play around, just level the village and be done with it." Sneasel nodded, looking over the army of digimon now at her disposal. "The Devimon I created are fairly simpleminded and will obey you without question, but they can be left to attack if you're too busy." She looked around. "Watch out for Metal Devidramon. I think he may try to pull something."
"I thought Demon was going to be with him." Sneasel replied, curious.
"Yes, but he's been getting a little too full of himself lately. If he gets too out of line, we may have to destroy him."
"Understood."
==Tokyo
Elecmon poked his head out of the kitchen cupboard. "This is torture!" he whispered to Demi-Veemon, squatting beside him. "We're stuck in here, while Kyle's out there cooking up god knows what and eating it! These humans are too cruel!"
"There's no one in the kitchen now; let's see what we can grab!" The blue digimon scurried out and ran to the leg of the table, where he tried to climb up. "I can't get a good grip!"
"Let me try!" Elecmon said. "That sweet and sour sauce smell is driving me nuts!" Eagerly, Elecmon clambered up onto a chair, then stood on his hind legs. Gently, he tugged on the tablecloth, pulling the plates close to the edge. He beckoned Demiveemon to come up, then helped lift him onto the table. "Okay, grab a napkin, and start passing stuff down! Carefully!" he hissed.
"I'll just get some more, then!" they both heard June say. Panicked, Demiveemon jumped down and scurried back to the cupboard he and Elecmon had been hiding in. A second later, Elecmon made it, just as the door opened. "She probably made that office part story up." June grumbled. "I..." she saw the mess on the table, and shook her head. "Okay, get out here." she sighed.
Shamefaced, Elecmon stepped into view. "Umm....so, how was school?"
==Primary Village
Baihumon glanced to the west, concern crossing his face. "What is it?" Joe asked.
"Probably nothing. Look, I'm going to go and check on something. Just rest here, Ogremon will handle anything that comes up."
"Are you sure?" Gomamon asked, coming over. "Joe and I can tag along, if you think there's trouble coming up."
"Forget it. It's probably nothing, and besides, you're on vacation. Now stay put, and let the giant white tiger digimon handle it. Won't be long." With that, he bounded away.
Uneasily, Joe watched the giant digimon leave. "So, how are things here?" Joe asked Ogremon, who had wandered over, wondering why the guardian had left.
"Eh, can't complain." Ogremon shrugged. "All the new digimon here usually keep in line. Obviously a result of my great skill. I'll bet Leomon couldn't do the job half as well." The digimon sniffed. "Of course, those pokemon are another matter. Lousy ingrate, stealing my favourite spot." Ogremon trailed off, muttering to himself.
Two other digimon approached, both resembling Ogremon, but had pieces of ice sticking out of them. "Hey, you the guy in charge here?" one called.
Ogremon glanced over. "Yeah. So?"
"Arctic Ogremon?" Joe wondered.
"Nah, they're Hyogamon. They normally live up in the colder areas of the Digital World. It's odd, they normally never come here, it's too warm for them."
As Joe and Gomamon watched, both Hyogamon produced ice clubs and ran at Ogremon. Shouting gleefully, Ogremon waved his own club and attacked. "Don't worry; Hyogamon like fighting almost as much as Ogremon. Trying to bash each other's brains out is a sign of friendship." The two watched as several dozen in-training digimon gathered around, and started cheering Ogremon on.
"Should they be watching this?" Joe asked.
Gomamon shrugged. "They've survived Ogremon's babysitting so far."
Hearing the cheers, Ogremon parried one attack, gave a wave to the crowd, then delivered a brutal backhand to one of the Hyogamon attacking him. Not a lethal blow, but enough to knock out a normal digimon of its size and power level.
The first Hyogamon landed, making a loud crack as he struck dirt. "Not bad." he muttered, tightening his grip on his ice cudgel. "But I'm a bit tougher than that. See?" Ogremon's eyes widened as a section of Hyogamon's skin fell off, revealing jet black stone underneath.
"A control spire digimon!" Joe gasped.
"Heh." the undamaged Hyogamon grinned. "Too bad it won't do you any good. Throwing Ice!" A spear of ice flew at Ogremon, who parried it on his club.
"Leave this to me! YEEE-HAAAH!" Ogremon yelled, throwing himself into the battle. 'Pummel Whack!" The purple energy blast finished off the damaged Hyogamon, and a pair of strikes with his club destroyed the second Hyogamon. "That was too easy!" Ogremon crowed.
"Control Spire digimon here? I'd better alert the others." Joe said, heading back to the main building.
==
Some miles off, Hawkmon strolled down a small path. He had decided to go for a walk, having nothing else to do; Yolei would still be in school for a few hours, and Kyle would be...busy with June. He sighed, feeling alone.
"Hey there!" Biyomon called. "What brings you out to these parts?"
"Oh, I was just going for a walk." Hawkmon shrugged. "It has been rather quiet of late."
"Oh? Word is that you've been hanging around Kyle's Pidgeot." Biyomon teased. Hawkmon folded his wings and hmph'd. "Come on, you can tell me."
"She's just a friend." Hawkmon answered, not looking at Biyomon. "I....Hmm?" Hawkmon flew up, hearing a noise in the distance.
"You're not getting away from me that easily!" Biyomon said, following Hawkmon. She quickly reached the top of the tree Hawkmon was on. She started to speak, then stopped, dumbfounded. "What are those?"
Hawkmon squinted. "I can make out...Lady Devimon, and an army of digimon are following her! And they're headed towards Primary Village! We have to warn them!"
"Primary Village? Are you sure?" Biyomon gasped.
"I DO have the eyes of an eagle. Come on! No, go find the other digidestined and meet me there!" Hawkmon flew away, flying as fast as he could.
Biyomon watched Hawkmon fly away. "Good luck." she said, a bit sadly, then flew away in a different direction.
==Tokyo.
"Yes!" Davis whispered, pumping his fist. Although school was still in session for another hour and a half, his teacher had decided to dismiss the class early. Better yet, the teacher for his next class was already on vacation, meaning that, for him and about 30 other students, school was unofficially out. Technically, they were supposed to go to the cafeteria and wait for the rest of the classes to finish. However, Davis had made a certain promise, one he intended to keep, as he sneaked into the computer room, currently unoccupied. He went to a computer, opened a digital gateway, and vanished through.
He appeared in a pokemon center located on one of the Orange Islands. "Hey, you're early!" Melody said, running over to him.
"Class got out early. I guess they figured there was nothing left for me to learn." Davis sniffed. In the back of his mind, he felt like he had forgotten something.
Melody snorted. "Sure, your brain was full before October was half over. Come on, we'll be in time to catch the first set."
Davis ignored the jibe. "So, is this band any good?"
"The warm-up act's like nothing you've ever heard." Melody grabbed Davis by the arm, and led him down the street to a stadium. "I got two tickets as close to the front as I could. I hope you like base!"
"Hey, bring it on! Umm, where's V-mon?"
"He's at the beach, sleeping. Again." Melody sighed. "Honestly, is that all digimon do?"
Back at school, Davis' D-Terminal beeped quietly, as a message arrived.
==
While Davis was headed to the Pokemon world, TK and Kari, also in Davis' class, made their way home. "So, where's Davis?" TK asked. "I'd have thought he'd be tearing the school apart. He was looking forward to school getting out."
Kari giggled. "He said he was meeting Melody. Something about a rock concert." She laughed again, this time at TK's incredulous expression. "It's weird. When I first met him, he didn't seem like the type to...well..."
"Go have a good time without trying to run it himself?" TK supplied. Chuckling, Kari agreed. "Hey, he has changed. I think all of us have, since we started going to the digital world. And since Kyle showed up."
"It's like a dream I had when I left Gatomon after we beat the Dark Masters." Kari said quietly. "I always dreamed that someday, digimon could come here freely, and there were no more evil monsters trying to destroy everything. Seeing the place Kyle comes from...I feel like that dream could come true." She faced TK. "So, how's Crystal adjusting to her new digiegg?"
TK smiled. "Just fine; Kurt's showing off his new form every chance he gets. Now I just have to figure out how to top that for Christmas. So, get anything for Izzy yet?"
"TK!" Kari hissed, looking away. "I'm...still thinking about it. Do you know what he likes?"
"Can't go wrong with a mousepad." TK replied. "His room's not that big, but it's pretty bare. Maybe something for his computer desk? Ah, I got it! I saw it in a store two blocks from where I live, I'll show it to you."
"One sec, I just got a message." Kari reached into her schoolbag and took out her D-Terminal. A second later, TK's D-Term started beeping as well. "Control Spire Digimon?" Kari gasped.
"At Primary Village." TK finished, grimly. "Looks like the trip will have to wait. Come on, we can use my computer."
==Digital World
"Now." Lady Devimon said, as if speaking to herself. In a several mile wide radius from Primary Village, every portal she knew of was now being destroyed by carefully paced Gazimon agents. When reinforcements came, they would have a very long trip ahead of them. She looked around at the forces under her command. "Report." she said to one digimon.
The Bakemon nodded. "From what we can tell, there is only one digidestined there with his partner, the caretaker, and what looks like one pokemon. White fur, with a batwing for a tail. The rest are just infant digimon."
"Good." Lady Devimon answered, dismissing Bakemon. "This will be too easy."
:Do not get overconfident.: Demon's telepathic voice echoed in her mind. :The other digidestined will make all speed for Primary Village, as will any powerful digimon in the area.: His telepathic voice sounded different, as if he were not paying full attention to the conversation. :We seem to have had an unexpected guest. I will be unable to offer further help.:
:I will be ready, master.: Lady Devimon replied, then felt the telepathic connection vanish. She was a bit disturbed; she was still a Dark Type Pokemon, yet Demon was able to talk to her telepathically, her mind as open as a book. What have I gotten myself into, she wondered, and why does it feel like there's something I'm not seeing?
==
"Joe! JOE!" Hawkmon yelled as he flew into the Village. "Anyone, please! I'll even talk to Ogremon!"
"I'm here!" Joe said. "What's wrong?"
"There's a small, no make that a LARGE army of evil digimon headed this way! You have to get the other digidestined here as soon as possible!"
"How big?" Ogremon growled. "Bring 'em all on, I can take them with one arm tied behind my back, just like last time!"
"It's not Woodmon!" Hawkmon replied. "It's almost every Champion level Devil-type digimon I know!"
Ogremon thought about this. "Okay, I'll need both hands."
Joe glanced at Ogremon, incredulous. "Right. Until Yolei gets here, Hawkmon, you'll have to help guard the infant digimon; I think Ogremon the Barbarian's going to be too preoccupied. TK and Kari are aleady on the way, and I've sent messages to all the digidestined I have addresses for. Gomamon and I will help Ogremon." Absol padded over a 'what, you were thinking of leaving ME out?' expression on his face. "Absol, you'll have to help Hawkmon." Absol nodded, and growled at Pichu, standing beside him. Pichu whined for a second, then hopped off, making his way over to the other baby digimon.
"They're coming from the west." Hawkmon said, indicating a direction.
Four years ago, Joe thought, I'd have said that we should head east. "Right. Gomamon?" We could use Baihumon right now, he mentally added.
"Gomamon, digivolve to...Ikkakumon!"
Joe nodded, though Zudomon would have made him feel a lot better. He sent another message on his D-Term, but found that nothing could get through. There was no way to update anyone on the situation. "I don't suppose you can do Metal Garurumon?" he asked Ikkakumon hopefully.
"Yeah," the giant furry digimon rumbled, "but you'd have to play the harmonica and be all angsty." With a roar, Ikkakumon charged the enemy, along with Ogremon.
==Pokemon World
Mewtwo looked up, startled out of his reverie. His psychic power had flared up, alerting him to some danger in the Digital World. :Ryo.:
==New Zealand
Caryl sighed, bored out of her mind. The teacher droned on and on, with no end in sight. Due to the vagaries of plate tectonics, while Japan was experiencing winter, Caryl was stuck in some of the hottest weather she had ever known.
There was a commotion as a strange creature walked in. "Can...I help you?" the teacher stammered.
"Yes." Mewtwo replied. "You can sleep." The teacher fell over, sound asleep. A glance, and the rest of the class fell over, similarly silenced. "There is trouble in the digital world, and there is no time for subtlety."
Renamon stepped into the classroom, followed by Ryo and Charmeleon. "Effective." she remarked.
"Yeah, but where were you last week?" Caryl asked. "I had a test."
"I will keep that in mind." Mewtwo replied, voice flat.
==Tokyo
"I'm sure it's nothing." Kyle said to June. "Your parents might get suspicious if we both leave." June had quietly been reprimanding Elecmon and Demi-Veemon when she had gotten the message on her D-Terminal, as had Kyle. "I'll just go check, and if there's trouble, I'll send a message, alright?"
"If you're sure." June answered, uncertain. She had a feeling that things were worse than they knew.
On an impulse, Kyle leaned forward and kissed her. It only lasted a second, but it was enough to surprise June. "I'll be fine." he whispered, and left.
"I'll hold you to that." June whispered back. She took a second to compose herself, then went back in.
"Where's he going?" her mother asked after she had closed the door.
"He got a message, and has to meet some people. It's very important, or he wouldn't have left."
"I know." her mother continued. She walked over and hugged June tightly. "June, I have no problem with you dating him, and neither does your father, for all he grumbles about it. Let him know he's welcome here anytime." She released June and stepped back. "Ah, my little girl is all grown up. I suppose I'll have to look forward to being a grandmother in a few years."
June blushed. "Mom!"
==Pokemon World
"Come on Metronome, CLOBBER IT!" Casey screamed. The batter, this 'Metronome' character, Kyle Evanick assumed, tightened his grip, swung, and struck the ball, the bat making a loud crack as it sent the ball flying.
"Pop fly! RUN!" Casey screamed.
"Is she on any medication we should know about?" Tsukaimon whispered to Kunemon. Kyle found himself wondering the same thing.
"Aww..." Casey groaned, as one of the outfielders positioned to catch the ball. An easy out if she ever saw one. "And we were winning, too."
It would have been an easy out too, if the baseball hadn't decided to do a very un-baseball like thing at that moment. Specifically, it hovered, just out of reach of the outfielder. Paying no attention, Michael 'Metronome' Vaughn rounded first, second, third, and took home, as did two other Electabuzz on base already. Three in, bottom of the 7th inning. Then they saw the ball floating there.
"Umm...is that normal?" Kyle asked. Casey shook her head, confused. They watched as the ball hovered for a few more seconds, then started...dancing?
"I think I have an explanation." Tsukaimon said, looking beside Kyle. Kyle looked down, and saw a small white creature, vaguely resembling a cat and having a very long tail.
"Mew!" Mew chirped. It smiled, nodding to Kyle.
"Hello...?" Kyle hazarded.
==Digital World
Ikkakumon grunted as he launched as many Harpoon Torpedoes as he could manage. "Joe, we're going to need help, there must be hundreds of these monsters!"
Grimly, Joe nodded. "I think I saw Lady Devimon towards the back of the army; I think she's holding back the really strong monsters until we're worn down!" He heard some shouts; off in the distance, Ogremon was busy with a small group of Vilemon, mixing club strikes and energy blasts. "At least he's having fun." Ikkakumon roared, surging forward and flattening a few more digimon. He overextended himself, however. One of the Devimon under Lady Devimon's control dashed forward and brutally slashed Ikkakumon, sending the digimon flying. Injured, he could not maintain his digivolution. "Gomamon!" Joe ran over to his partner, but was tackled by several Gazimon. "Let me go!" He struggled to get up, coughing as the furry digimon pressed down on him.
Abruptly, the weight lessened. "You heard him." Scizor said. "Get off." The Gazimon horde that survived Scizor's first attack broke ranks and ran.
"Scizor! Then..."
"The calvary's here!" Kyle called. Looking up, Joe saw Kyle had arrived, riding Pidgeot. On his shoulder, Eevee sat, looking at the assembled army. Pidgeot landed, allowing the trainer to get off. "Go to the village and make sure the baby digimon are alright!" Kyle instructed. Cawing, Pidgeot flew to the center of the village. "Sorry I took so long; every portal in a several mile radius has been wrecked. And I can't get through to June or the others. Is the one here-?"
Joe shook his head. "Jammed. I only hope the other digidestined can get here in time."
"No worries!" Lady Devimon called. "I have plenty of evil digimon for everyone!"
Eevee hopped down, snarling as he did. "Eevee, digivolve to Flareon!/Flareon, digivolve to... Pyroangemon!" (No blast digivolving here...yet -ed)
"Fire NOW!" Lady Devimon commanded. Beside her, a Skull Greymon lumbered up, aimed, and fired a pair of missiles at Primary Village. Horrified, Pyroangemon watched as the missiles struck the middle of the village, kicking up dirt and shattering several buildings.
==
The portal hummed, and Yolei stepped through. She shivered briefly as her whole body tingled for a second, as her new outfit appeared. It was a fairly simple design, Yolei basing it on Mimi's outfit when she first went to the digital world. The dress was a bit shorter, stopping just past her knees, and the top was now a sleeveless vest with a white tee-shirt underneath. "Not too bad." she said to herself. "Maybe I'll ask Sora for a few tips. Hey, this isn't Primary Village!"
"Yolei!" Biyomon shouted, crashing through the tree. "You have to get to Primary Village. It's under attack!"
"Wh...WHAT?" Yolei demanded.
"Lady Devimon is leading a huge number of digimon against the village, and only Joe and Gomamon are there (No, she didn't see Kyle arrive -ed). Are any of the other digidestined with you?"
"No, Cody said he had to go straight home, and I haven't seen Kari or TK anywhere (Opposite side of the dead zone. Don't worry, they'll get there soon -ed). Where's Hawkmon?"
"He went back to help defend the village."
Yolei frowned. Her first instinct was to go to her partner; however, it would make more sense to go back to the real world and get the other digidestined. But without her, Hawkmon might be...
"Need a lift?" Yolei saw a giant red lizard land. On its back, two humans and a digimon rode.
"Ryo! Caryl!"
"Mewtwo told us there was trouble here, and brought us, Seth, Stuart, Kyle Evanick and Casey here to help out. The other four are taking a different route, hoping to find more digidestined as they go on."
"Just in time!" Biyomon said, quickly explaining what was happening.
Renamon's eyes narrowed. "They've gone too far this time. We must hurry! Yolei, climb on."
"All the days I picked to wear a dress." Yolei grumbled. "Hey, where is Mewtwo? Can't he teleport us to Primary Village?"
Ryo looked worried. "No, he said there was something even more urgent he had to check on." (Next ep, I promise -ed)
==
"Just pretend I'm Crystal!" Kari said into TK's ear. Without a digiegg of his own, TK had to ride Nefertimon, Kari sitting behind him, arms wrapped around his waist.
"I can fly you there as Angemon!" Patamon said.
"No." Nefertimon replied. "It would be best if you saved your strength. I have a bad feeling about this."
Patamon, resting in TK's arms, snorted. "And you're getting a few cheap laughs out of this too, I'll bet."
"Now, now. Kari knows I'd tell Izzy in a second if anything...untoward happened."
"No catnip for you!" Kari replied, trying not to sound annoyed. "How far to the Village?"
"Another few minutes." her partner replied. "I...oh my...Kari, TK, I can make out a large army in the distance!" Kari gasped, but couldn't say anything. Patamon jumped off, and digivolved to Angemon, carrying TK in his arms. "I'll meet you there!" Angemon called, flying ahead.
==
The portal flared, and Ken stepped through. Like the other digidestined, he had also received word of the initial attack on Primary Village. "We'd better get there quickly." Ken said, taking out his digivice.
"Right. Wormmon, digivolve to...Stingmon!" Ken climbed on the insect digimon's back, and the two flew off. "I'm not very fast, but I'll go as quickly as I can!"
"I know you will." Ken answered.
==
"What did you do?" Pyroangemon demanded, blocking Lady Devimon's attack with his shield. "How could you attack Primary Village?"
"To reveal the Destiny Stone there, of course. See? Can't you feel the power coming from it?" Pyroangemon glanced over his shoulder, and saw a giant blue-black stone slowly levitating from the ground. Around it, a faint blue aura crackled; the angel could feel the power coming from the stone. "I will claim it and Primary Village for Demon, and none of you can stop me! Skull Greymon!" The skeletal digimon charged, but was bisected by Pyroangemon's sword, and destroyed.
"Can you do any better?" Pyroangemon asked. He flew forward again, sword aimed at Lady Devimon's neck.
Lady Devimon barely dodged the blow, twisting aside at the last second. "You'll pay for that! Devimon, merge now!"
"Huh? What are you doing?" Pyroangemon demanded.
"Well, you digidestined are so into DNA Digivolution, I thought I'd try it myself. So, take four Devimon, fuse them into a single digimon, and you get...ooh, let's just see, shall we?" Behind her, the four Devimon glowed and merged together, surrounding themselves in a sickly greenish-black miasma. It exploded apart a second later, throwing Pyroangemon back. "Presenting Skull Knightmon, a combination of Skull Satamon's speed and agility, and Knightmon's attack and defensive power! KILL HIM!"
Pyroangemon landed, and stepped back. This nightmare was a tall, gangly digimon, little more than red bones, held together by tattered remnants of armour. It easily swung a two-handed greatsword back and forth, daring the angel to attack. Tattered wings, patches of rust on them, idly stirred in the light breeze.
"I hope he'll last longer than your Skull Greymon; he wasn't much of a challenge."
The fallen angel smirked. "Oh, one's not enough of a challenge? Megadramon, ATTACK NOW!" Out of the sand, three giant serpents shot out, all aimed at Primary Village. "I will either claim Primary Village or destroy it utterly!"
Back at the village, Joe fought the urge to scream as he saw the three digimon charge at him. With a shout, Scizor extended his wings and flew at one of them, firing a Hyper Beam as he did. It glanced one of the Megadramons' wings, and, incredibly, made it slow down, but the other two continued. Scizor found himself occupied with the one he attacked. The remaining two flew up and took position, ready to launch a missile attack. "We need Arcanine!"
"I didn't bring him, he's back at home." Kyle answered sharply. "And none of the DNA teams are here, either." He kicked one of the attacking digimon as it closed on him. "Ivysaur, Pidgeot, attack!" he called. "I'll try and lead them away from here with my pokemon." Kyle headed off, his pokemon making several attacks on the evil digimon, getting their attention.
"Let me get out there!" Gomamon protested. "Come on!"
Joe shook his head. "Not a chance, you're too badly hurt. We'll be better off waiting here with the other in-training and baby digimon." Gomamon growled, but said nothing.
Joe looked up, and gasped as a pair of digimon broke through and charged right at him. "Joe!" TK yelled, as Angemon slammed into the two, dispatching both with his staff. A short distance away, Nefertimon landed, let Kari off, and took off, going to lend Angemon and Scizor a hand. "Where's Kyle? And is anyone else here?"
"Kyle's over by the east building, with Ivysaur and Pidgeot, so far, you're the only other digidestined I've seen here; I can't get a message through to anyone else, my D-Terminal's jammed."
Kari ran over, Hawkmon with her. "Any word from Yolei? Sylphimon would be really handy right now." Joe shook his head. More shouts; a small group of Tankmon broke past Ogremon, charging right at the children. Kari flinched, knowing that all the digimon were too far away to save them! Eyes shut, she could only hear the sounds of energy blades cutting through the air. Wait a second...Energy blades? She opened her eyes, and saw the Tankmon disintegrating; in front of them, a silvery warrior holding two energy swords knelt, scarf fluttering in the wind.
"I hope we're not too late!" Wolfmon said, standing up.
(Apologies to Endless Waltz fans; feel free to cue up 'Riot of Citizens' from the Operation S Soundtrack. -ed)
"Wolfmon!" TK exclaimed. "Then..."
"Above you!" Wolfmon replied, pointing. Looking up, the digidestined saw a black figure, backlit by the sun, stretch his wings and dive down, claws flashing. "Seth and Stuart are here too, and they brought Cyberdramon. And Caryl and Ryo brought Agnimon, who's helping Pyroangemon."
At that moment, the aforementioned digidestined ran over. "Wizardmon told me this was where all the digimon are born." Seth growled. "Attacking this place is pretty low, even for the Dark Ocean."
Kyle Evanick ran up. "Well, then anything we do to these guys is justified then. Casey's giving Kyle a hand." He sighed as Stuart glanced at him. "No, the OTHER Kyle. Anything we can do here?"
"Yeah. Help me barricade some of these buildings." Joe replied. "I don't know how long it'll be before the other digidestined get here."
==
Yolei grimaced; she was standing with Ryo and Caryl, and was watching as Agnimon dashed in to give Pyroangemon a hand against Skull Knightmon and Lady Devimon. "Is there any way through to the village? I'm useless without Hawkmon."
"I doubt that." Ryo replied. "But none of my pokemon are strong enough to punch a hole in that line; not even Nidoking could get through that."
Caryl sighed. "We'll just have to wait then, I don't think we can sneak through. Come on, Agnimon, the other digimon need us!"
"Little...(gasp)...busy here!" Agnimon called back, ducking one of Skull Knightmon's attacks. "Hey, how about a combo attack!" Pyroangemon nodded, forcing Lady Devimon back with a flurry of sword strikes. "Now! Salamander..." Agnimon started to power up.
"Sacred Fire!" Pyroangemon called, launching a gout of flame. The flame flew over to Agnimon, and was pulled into the vortex of flames the hybrid digimon was calling up.
"BREAK!" Agnimon shouted, tornado of fire enclosing him. He struggled for a second, trying to control the power, then mastered it, the vortex of flame shooting forward and enveloping Skull Knightmon. When the flames cleared, Agnimon was still there, foot planted firmly in the midsection of Skull Knightmon. Neither one moved for a few seconds. Then, the back of Skull Knightmon's armour exploded outwards, the evil digimon staggering back.
"No!" Lady Devimon shouted. "This is impossible!" Recovering, she stared defiantly at the exhausted digimon. "Very well, you can all die with your village!" Lady Devimon cried. "Megadramon, destroy everything!" Still in position, the two massive digimon flew skyward, then dove, claws stretched in front of them. Lady Devimon resisted a gasp as she saw the third Megadramon, incredibly, was occupied with Scizor. His power, Lady Devimon wondered. His power is growing!
"Hawkmon!" Yolei shouted.
Wolfmon and Cyberdramon looked up, and saw the two incoming digimon. "Megadramon!" Wolfmon shouted. "Licht Pfenil!" he called, firing several light arrows. "Stop them before they wreck the village!" He kept firing at the two massive dragon digimon.
"Roger! Erase Claw!" Cyberdramon's attacks hit the second Megadramon, but had little effect. "It's a suicide run! Seth, Stuart, RUN!"
"No time!" Kyle Evanick yelled. All of the other digimon were too far away to help, or not strong enough.
"RRR...NO WAY, YOU FLYING FREAKS!" Ogremon cried, swatting away the digimon attacking him. One of the Megadramon fired a barrage of missiles at him.
"Ogremon!" the infant digimon cried. "Don't do it! We need you!"
"Rrrr...RRAHHHHHH!" Ogremon swung his club, destroying the missiles aimed at him.
"How...Can Ogremon normally do that?" Seth gasped.
"The Destiny Stone!" Joe realized. "He must be drawing power from it!" Dumbfounded, the digidestined watched as Ogremon made an impossible jump.
"Pummel WHACK!" Ogremon called, pulling his fist back and thrusting it forward. There was a huge bolt of purple energy released, flying at one of the Megadramon. However, the digimon extended his claw, caught the attack, and sent it back at Ogremon. "No..." Ogremon gasped, just as the blast caught him, and sent him flying into the exposed Destiny Stone. He slumped down, barely conscious.
"Ogremon..." Joe whispered. Gomamon squirmed free of Joe's arms and ran over to the fallen digimon.
Ogremon tried to get up, but slumped over. "Heh...now I'll never go on that cruise..." he whispered (01 reference 'Ogremon's Honour', if memory serves -ed). "What a bummer..." He passed out.
"Ogremon!" Joe looked around. In the distance, he could see Angemon fighting off two Devidramon, across the way, Wolfmon and Cyberdramon were giving Scizor a hand with the Megadramon. There was a flash; Hawkmon had managed to get through the line, and joined Yolei, enabling him to digivolve to Aquilamon.
Leaving one Megadramon free to attack...
Gomamon tried to force himself to digivolve back to Ikkakumon, but he was too weak to do so. "Joe, help me!" he cried. As he spoke, the Destiny Stone pulsed....
"Gomamon, warp digivolve to...PLESIOMON!" The ground shook as Gomamon, getting out of Joe's grip, ran forward, trying to stop the two digimon, digivolved further than he ever had before, transforming into a giant white and yellow dinosaur, staring defiantly at the two Megadramon.
"Whoa..." TK breathed, stunned. Joe shrugged, helplessly.
"Alright Joe..." Seth said, grinning.
"Shaking PULSE!" Plesiomon fired a massive sonic attack that tore one of the Megadramon apart, and badly injured the other two. Sensing the imminent attack, Scizor, Wolfmon, and Cyberdramon jumped clear moments before the attack struck. Spent, Plesiomon collapsed, becoming Bukamon. "That...took everything I had."
"Well, I'd say it was enough." Stuart said admiringly. "I guess I'll have to start training Monodramon more, so he can do that." As he watched, many of the digimon attacking the village had started to pull back, shaken by the defeat of the Megadramons.
"Funny." Cyberdramon replied. "The ones that survived is coming around for another attack, get ready to-" There was a flash behind him, as a giant bird flew over him. "Who..."
"Aquilamon!" Kari yelled.
Yolei ran over, panting. "I was able to get through after Skull Knightmon was beaten. Come on, we need Sylphimon." Kari nodded, recalling Nefertimon and de-evolving her back to Gatomon.
"Aquilamon...Gatomon...DNA Digivolve to...Sylphimon!"
"No!" Lady Devimon gasped, horrified. Demon's plan had just gone out the window, in only a few seconds...With a snarl, she flew up, ready to attack Sylphimon before the other Megadramon could be destroyed. However, her way was blocked by Scizor. "You again..."
Scizor nodded. "I cannot allow you to go to Megadramon's aid."
Lady Devimon smirked. "You're exhausted, and I'm an Ultimate level digimon. You're not even worth my time." As she spoke, a small catlike creature flew around Scizor, emitting a soft radiance. As Lady Devimon watched, the wounds on Scizor's body faded.
Scizor nodded to Mew. "Thanks, but I'll handle it now. You'd better go check on the others." With an enthusiastic 'mew!', Mew flew off. "You were saying, witch?" He flew forward, wings humming, arms extended. Lady Devimon dodged, and the two fought.
After about a minute of fighting, Lady Devimon pulled back. Am I growing weaker, she wondered, or...no, he couldn't be getting STRONGER! A shout distracted her, allowing Scizor to graze her with a Hyper Beam attack. She floated back, looking at her arm; the leather sleeve was burned off, and the skin was damaged. "No...you're not even a digimon!"
"Neither are you." Scizor replied evenly.
On the other side of the battlefield, Sylphimon darted around one of the remaining Megadramon, the smaller digimon's speed keeping Sylphimon well ahead of Megadramon's clumsy swings. "Now!" Sylphimon shouted. Sylphimon powered up, and flew straight at Megadramon, through his mouth, releasing the energy that was built up in Sylphimon's hands. Sylphimon exploded out the other side of Megadramon, watching as the second threat to Primary Village exploded. "Who says War Greymon's the only one that can do that?"
Cyberdramon flew up, raking the side of the other Megadramon with his claws, and tossing Wolfmon on top, allowing that DNA digimon to hack away with his sabers, unhindered. That Megadramon was heavily injured, flailing in midair. Wolfmon jumped clear after a minute of hacking away, and was caught by Cyberdramon. Wolfmon stood on Cyberdramon's back, aiming an energy arrow. "Licht...PFENIL!" It speared the last Megadramon, which exploded into particles.
"This can't be happening!" Lady Devimon shouted, watching the rout. "I...AAAHHHH!" she shouted as Scizor struck her with another Hyper Beam, then followed up with a Fury Cutter. She fell, glowing and becoming Sneasel again. "This...isn't over yet..." Sneasel wheezed, vanishing and returning to the Dark Ocean.
Scizor landed. "It is today. Hey, is everyone-" the entire Digital World shook at that point, knocking everyone on their feet.
"What...Something's wrong!" Kari gasped.
"We feel it too!" Cyberdramon replied. In the distance, they could make out a bright point of light, glimmering on the horizon. It receded a few seconds later, but everyone at Primary Village knew something was wrong. Badly wrong.
==Next Episode
While the attack on Primary Village was going on, Demon and Metal Devidramon took advantage of the distraction to drain another Destiny Stone. But when Baihumon attacks the two, Metal Devidramon makes a decision that will change the fate of the entire Digital World. Next time, on Digimon: Digicross -
'Baihumon's Legacy Part 1: Fall'
"Relaxing, isn't it?" Baihumon asked, currently in his human guise.
Joe looked at the guardian. "Yeah, it is. Your doing?"
Baihumon shook his head. "Nope. Primary Village was designed that way. It's at the center of the digital world, sitting at the intersection of our four respective areas." Baihumon explined, referring to the other guardians. "Ebonwumon and Zhuquiamon just can't appreciate a sunny day. Unlike me, that is."
"Polar opposites?" Joe hazarded.
Beside him, GOmamon winced. "Where did you get that from?"
"You." Joe answered. Feigning insult, Gomamon tromped off, looking for Ogremon. "So, all the guardians help maintain this place?"
"Indirectly. There's actually a great power buried here. That's why all the digieggs reappear here, instead of just showing up all over the digital world. We declared this place to be neutral, but, you know what the Dark Masters did to it."
"Yeah." Joe replied, remembering the sight. A thought occurred to him. "Hey, that hidden power...it wouldn't be a Destiny Stone, would it?"
Baihumon grinned lazily. "Now that would be telling. Just don't start digging around in the center of the town. No, no reason, just don't there's nothing at ALL to find there."
"Don't you take anything seriously?" Joe asked. "What if the Dark Ocean comes here next?"
With a twinkle, Baihumon shed his human form and became the giant white tiger. "Then I get seconds for lunch. So, you're not celebrating the end of school?"
"Nahh." Joe replied. "For the last four years, some of the other digidestined, usually Tai, would invariably try to drag me into some Christmas scheme, most likely poorly thought out, that promised to be great fun, and getting Sora mad at Tai." He looked at the sky. "Come to think of it, that does sound like fun. But I think I'll just relax for now. Nice days like this are rare enough."
"Careful." Gomamon called from where he was talking to Ogremon. "That kind of talk is what usually calls out the giant monster. Uhh...no offense?"
"Grr." Ogremon replied, voice flat.
==
Digimon Digicross Episode 31
'Great Defense: Ikkakumon against the dark horde!'
==
==Dark Ocean
Demon scowled as the latest reports were coming in. His plan to take over the world was founded on destroying the digidestined, not increasing their numbers. Yet, all reports said that there were several new digidestined, some of whom were native to the Pokemon World. This meant that there would be that more many obstacles to overcome.
"Sneasel, Arukenimon." Demon commanded. Obediently, the two appeared before him, entering the room through an ornate archway. "Prepare an attack force. Sneasel, you shall lead them on an assault against Primary Village. With luck, you should be able to strike while the digidestined are all preoccupied off world."
Metal Devidramon strode in. "What of me, Demon? My power-"
"Is incomplete." Demon cut him off. "While the attack on Primary Village is happening, you and I will go to another Destiny Stone and drain its power."
"We would be done by now if you let me drain them completely."
"To do so would invite the attention of the Guardians of the Digital World." Demon replied evenly. "And we are not yet ready to face them, especially if all four strike at once. Sneasel, Arukenimon, leave us." The two nodded, and vanished. "When the attack has started, we will journey into Baihumon's territory, and drain the stone hidden there."
"What of Primary Village?" Metal Devidramon asked.
"It would be...inconvenient if it were destroyed, but not irreparable. There is a great power hidden there, but it cannot be easily bent to my will, especially while the digidestined and the four guardians still stand. It allows any digimon, even those from this plane, to be reborn there if defeated, but they have a nasty habit of turning good."
"A Destiny Stone?" Metal Devidramon asked. "Then why not attack that one? There are only infants there, barely a challenge."
"Because." Sneasel replied, "Once the digidestined find out about the attack on Primary Village, they will come to its defense, as will the four guardians. Can you face four mega-level digimon, Metal Devidramon? I do not care to."
"This is irrelevant." Demon cut in. "The digidestined are human, and cannot be reborn at Primary Village. Once the digidestined are dead, I can infect the Village and ensure that all future newborns are more...pliant. Come, we must prepare."
==Tokyo, 12:30pm
June skipped home, excited. Her school had finished with a half-day, and she had made another date with Kyle to go see Tokyo Tower. It was already decorated for the Christmas season, and she thought it looked lovely. She opened the door to her home. "Mom? Dad? I'm home!" She stepped in, and saw her father, reading a newspaper. "Hi dad!"
"June, you got out early today."
June sighed. "Yes dad, as I already told you this morning, yesterday, and all last week, we only had a half-day today."
Her father sighed. "Hmph. Probably going to spend it with that Ellison boy." he grumbled. "He showed up here about an hour ago."
June's mother came out. "June! Welcome home. Kyle got here a bit early, there was a bit of a mix up. I hope you don't mind, but I kind of drafted him to help make some snacks for your father's office party."
"Mom." June whined. "I was going to take Kyle to see Tokyo Tower."
"Oh, don't worry, he'll be done soon. June, you didn't tell me Kyle was such a good cook." June nodded.
"Why don't you adopt him?" Mr. Motomiya grumbled, not looking up.
Mrs. Motomiya looked thoughtful. "I don't think his father would approve of it. Although..." she trailed off, impish look on her face.
"Not if I marry him first." June replied, teasing. Both held back laughter as Mr. Motomiya struggled to remain calm.
Kyle stepped out of the kitchen. "Mrs. Motomiya? I'm finished everything, and...Oh, hello June!"
June walked over, and kissed Kyle lightly on his cheek (a gesture that was pointedly ignored by her father. -ed). "You poor dear. Not here an hour, and my mom is already putting you to work."
"There's nothing wrong with being able to cook." her mother reminded her. "It's a shame more men don't follow his example." She finished this with a glance at her husband (still resolutely ignoring everything except the paper -ed). She checked Kyle's work. "Oh dear. Now we have too much. Say, why don't you have lunch here? You must be starving, June."
"Well, I was going to take Kyle to a restaurant I know..."
"Oh, nonsense. The weather's horrible, and there's plenty of food here to eat. June, why don't you get some plates for everyone."
"And I thought I was on vacation." June moaned, walking into the kitchen, taking Kyle with her.
==Primary Village
"Hey, you can't sleep there!" Ogremon yelled. Resting in the shade of an old tree was a large white-furred creature with a black face and tail. Beside him was a small yellow creature with triangular ears and a jagged tail, only a few inches tall.
Absol looked up, unimpressed. His 'owner', Kyle Evanick, had left both him and Pichu here, where they would (he hoped) stay out of trouble while he went to visit the pokemon world (Actually, Casey had dragged him off to another ball-game not two minutes after he appeared in the pokemon center. Poor guy -ed). As far as the pokemon was concerned, this was his spot, and some oversized green idiot wasn't about to chase him out.
"I said OUT!" Ogremon roared. Pichu got up, looked around, and started yelling at Ogremon. "Look, this is MY spot, so out!" Annoyed, Pichu darted over and fired off a respectable spark of electricity, stunning both Ogremon and Pichu. Absol gave a long suffering sigh, and went back to sleep. Annoyed, Ogremon stomped away in a huff.
==Dark Ocean
Metal Devidramon paced in his chamber, still seething. He could feel his power growing, and yet Demon wouldn't let him fight. All this time, it was just sneak around and cower like (in his mind) some pathetic Grass type pokemon. Arukenimon and that pathetic runt Sneasel had left already, transforming countless Control Spires into expendable digimon slaves.
"The fool." he growled. "Those stupid constructs don't have a fraction of the power I wield. I could destroy that worthless village all by myself." On a whim, he checked the map left in his room. The spire he was draining today was located in Baihumon's territory, but he could make it to Primary Village. And Demon could be diverted if he 'accidentally' got a little too eager in draining the Stone's energy...
==
"At this rate, I'm going to go bald." Arukenimon muttered, casting another Spirit Needle and creating another digimon. Demon had requested devil-type digimon, so she had spent a lot of time creating Devidramon troops, a few Devimon to keep the Devidramon in line, and hordes of Vilemon and Musyamon to mop up any defenders.
"Sneasel, Demon wants you to lead the assault. Don't play around, just level the village and be done with it." Sneasel nodded, looking over the army of digimon now at her disposal. "The Devimon I created are fairly simpleminded and will obey you without question, but they can be left to attack if you're too busy." She looked around. "Watch out for Metal Devidramon. I think he may try to pull something."
"I thought Demon was going to be with him." Sneasel replied, curious.
"Yes, but he's been getting a little too full of himself lately. If he gets too out of line, we may have to destroy him."
"Understood."
==Tokyo
Elecmon poked his head out of the kitchen cupboard. "This is torture!" he whispered to Demi-Veemon, squatting beside him. "We're stuck in here, while Kyle's out there cooking up god knows what and eating it! These humans are too cruel!"
"There's no one in the kitchen now; let's see what we can grab!" The blue digimon scurried out and ran to the leg of the table, where he tried to climb up. "I can't get a good grip!"
"Let me try!" Elecmon said. "That sweet and sour sauce smell is driving me nuts!" Eagerly, Elecmon clambered up onto a chair, then stood on his hind legs. Gently, he tugged on the tablecloth, pulling the plates close to the edge. He beckoned Demiveemon to come up, then helped lift him onto the table. "Okay, grab a napkin, and start passing stuff down! Carefully!" he hissed.
"I'll just get some more, then!" they both heard June say. Panicked, Demiveemon jumped down and scurried back to the cupboard he and Elecmon had been hiding in. A second later, Elecmon made it, just as the door opened. "She probably made that office part story up." June grumbled. "I..." she saw the mess on the table, and shook her head. "Okay, get out here." she sighed.
Shamefaced, Elecmon stepped into view. "Umm....so, how was school?"
==Primary Village
Baihumon glanced to the west, concern crossing his face. "What is it?" Joe asked.
"Probably nothing. Look, I'm going to go and check on something. Just rest here, Ogremon will handle anything that comes up."
"Are you sure?" Gomamon asked, coming over. "Joe and I can tag along, if you think there's trouble coming up."
"Forget it. It's probably nothing, and besides, you're on vacation. Now stay put, and let the giant white tiger digimon handle it. Won't be long." With that, he bounded away.
Uneasily, Joe watched the giant digimon leave. "So, how are things here?" Joe asked Ogremon, who had wandered over, wondering why the guardian had left.
"Eh, can't complain." Ogremon shrugged. "All the new digimon here usually keep in line. Obviously a result of my great skill. I'll bet Leomon couldn't do the job half as well." The digimon sniffed. "Of course, those pokemon are another matter. Lousy ingrate, stealing my favourite spot." Ogremon trailed off, muttering to himself.
Two other digimon approached, both resembling Ogremon, but had pieces of ice sticking out of them. "Hey, you the guy in charge here?" one called.
Ogremon glanced over. "Yeah. So?"
"Arctic Ogremon?" Joe wondered.
"Nah, they're Hyogamon. They normally live up in the colder areas of the Digital World. It's odd, they normally never come here, it's too warm for them."
As Joe and Gomamon watched, both Hyogamon produced ice clubs and ran at Ogremon. Shouting gleefully, Ogremon waved his own club and attacked. "Don't worry; Hyogamon like fighting almost as much as Ogremon. Trying to bash each other's brains out is a sign of friendship." The two watched as several dozen in-training digimon gathered around, and started cheering Ogremon on.
"Should they be watching this?" Joe asked.
Gomamon shrugged. "They've survived Ogremon's babysitting so far."
Hearing the cheers, Ogremon parried one attack, gave a wave to the crowd, then delivered a brutal backhand to one of the Hyogamon attacking him. Not a lethal blow, but enough to knock out a normal digimon of its size and power level.
The first Hyogamon landed, making a loud crack as he struck dirt. "Not bad." he muttered, tightening his grip on his ice cudgel. "But I'm a bit tougher than that. See?" Ogremon's eyes widened as a section of Hyogamon's skin fell off, revealing jet black stone underneath.
"A control spire digimon!" Joe gasped.
"Heh." the undamaged Hyogamon grinned. "Too bad it won't do you any good. Throwing Ice!" A spear of ice flew at Ogremon, who parried it on his club.
"Leave this to me! YEEE-HAAAH!" Ogremon yelled, throwing himself into the battle. 'Pummel Whack!" The purple energy blast finished off the damaged Hyogamon, and a pair of strikes with his club destroyed the second Hyogamon. "That was too easy!" Ogremon crowed.
"Control Spire digimon here? I'd better alert the others." Joe said, heading back to the main building.
==
Some miles off, Hawkmon strolled down a small path. He had decided to go for a walk, having nothing else to do; Yolei would still be in school for a few hours, and Kyle would be...busy with June. He sighed, feeling alone.
"Hey there!" Biyomon called. "What brings you out to these parts?"
"Oh, I was just going for a walk." Hawkmon shrugged. "It has been rather quiet of late."
"Oh? Word is that you've been hanging around Kyle's Pidgeot." Biyomon teased. Hawkmon folded his wings and hmph'd. "Come on, you can tell me."
"She's just a friend." Hawkmon answered, not looking at Biyomon. "I....Hmm?" Hawkmon flew up, hearing a noise in the distance.
"You're not getting away from me that easily!" Biyomon said, following Hawkmon. She quickly reached the top of the tree Hawkmon was on. She started to speak, then stopped, dumbfounded. "What are those?"
Hawkmon squinted. "I can make out...Lady Devimon, and an army of digimon are following her! And they're headed towards Primary Village! We have to warn them!"
"Primary Village? Are you sure?" Biyomon gasped.
"I DO have the eyes of an eagle. Come on! No, go find the other digidestined and meet me there!" Hawkmon flew away, flying as fast as he could.
Biyomon watched Hawkmon fly away. "Good luck." she said, a bit sadly, then flew away in a different direction.
==Tokyo.
"Yes!" Davis whispered, pumping his fist. Although school was still in session for another hour and a half, his teacher had decided to dismiss the class early. Better yet, the teacher for his next class was already on vacation, meaning that, for him and about 30 other students, school was unofficially out. Technically, they were supposed to go to the cafeteria and wait for the rest of the classes to finish. However, Davis had made a certain promise, one he intended to keep, as he sneaked into the computer room, currently unoccupied. He went to a computer, opened a digital gateway, and vanished through.
He appeared in a pokemon center located on one of the Orange Islands. "Hey, you're early!" Melody said, running over to him.
"Class got out early. I guess they figured there was nothing left for me to learn." Davis sniffed. In the back of his mind, he felt like he had forgotten something.
Melody snorted. "Sure, your brain was full before October was half over. Come on, we'll be in time to catch the first set."
Davis ignored the jibe. "So, is this band any good?"
"The warm-up act's like nothing you've ever heard." Melody grabbed Davis by the arm, and led him down the street to a stadium. "I got two tickets as close to the front as I could. I hope you like base!"
"Hey, bring it on! Umm, where's V-mon?"
"He's at the beach, sleeping. Again." Melody sighed. "Honestly, is that all digimon do?"
Back at school, Davis' D-Terminal beeped quietly, as a message arrived.
==
While Davis was headed to the Pokemon world, TK and Kari, also in Davis' class, made their way home. "So, where's Davis?" TK asked. "I'd have thought he'd be tearing the school apart. He was looking forward to school getting out."
Kari giggled. "He said he was meeting Melody. Something about a rock concert." She laughed again, this time at TK's incredulous expression. "It's weird. When I first met him, he didn't seem like the type to...well..."
"Go have a good time without trying to run it himself?" TK supplied. Chuckling, Kari agreed. "Hey, he has changed. I think all of us have, since we started going to the digital world. And since Kyle showed up."
"It's like a dream I had when I left Gatomon after we beat the Dark Masters." Kari said quietly. "I always dreamed that someday, digimon could come here freely, and there were no more evil monsters trying to destroy everything. Seeing the place Kyle comes from...I feel like that dream could come true." She faced TK. "So, how's Crystal adjusting to her new digiegg?"
TK smiled. "Just fine; Kurt's showing off his new form every chance he gets. Now I just have to figure out how to top that for Christmas. So, get anything for Izzy yet?"
"TK!" Kari hissed, looking away. "I'm...still thinking about it. Do you know what he likes?"
"Can't go wrong with a mousepad." TK replied. "His room's not that big, but it's pretty bare. Maybe something for his computer desk? Ah, I got it! I saw it in a store two blocks from where I live, I'll show it to you."
"One sec, I just got a message." Kari reached into her schoolbag and took out her D-Terminal. A second later, TK's D-Term started beeping as well. "Control Spire Digimon?" Kari gasped.
"At Primary Village." TK finished, grimly. "Looks like the trip will have to wait. Come on, we can use my computer."
==Digital World
"Now." Lady Devimon said, as if speaking to herself. In a several mile wide radius from Primary Village, every portal she knew of was now being destroyed by carefully paced Gazimon agents. When reinforcements came, they would have a very long trip ahead of them. She looked around at the forces under her command. "Report." she said to one digimon.
The Bakemon nodded. "From what we can tell, there is only one digidestined there with his partner, the caretaker, and what looks like one pokemon. White fur, with a batwing for a tail. The rest are just infant digimon."
"Good." Lady Devimon answered, dismissing Bakemon. "This will be too easy."
:Do not get overconfident.: Demon's telepathic voice echoed in her mind. :The other digidestined will make all speed for Primary Village, as will any powerful digimon in the area.: His telepathic voice sounded different, as if he were not paying full attention to the conversation. :We seem to have had an unexpected guest. I will be unable to offer further help.:
:I will be ready, master.: Lady Devimon replied, then felt the telepathic connection vanish. She was a bit disturbed; she was still a Dark Type Pokemon, yet Demon was able to talk to her telepathically, her mind as open as a book. What have I gotten myself into, she wondered, and why does it feel like there's something I'm not seeing?
==
"Joe! JOE!" Hawkmon yelled as he flew into the Village. "Anyone, please! I'll even talk to Ogremon!"
"I'm here!" Joe said. "What's wrong?"
"There's a small, no make that a LARGE army of evil digimon headed this way! You have to get the other digidestined here as soon as possible!"
"How big?" Ogremon growled. "Bring 'em all on, I can take them with one arm tied behind my back, just like last time!"
"It's not Woodmon!" Hawkmon replied. "It's almost every Champion level Devil-type digimon I know!"
Ogremon thought about this. "Okay, I'll need both hands."
Joe glanced at Ogremon, incredulous. "Right. Until Yolei gets here, Hawkmon, you'll have to help guard the infant digimon; I think Ogremon the Barbarian's going to be too preoccupied. TK and Kari are aleady on the way, and I've sent messages to all the digidestined I have addresses for. Gomamon and I will help Ogremon." Absol padded over a 'what, you were thinking of leaving ME out?' expression on his face. "Absol, you'll have to help Hawkmon." Absol nodded, and growled at Pichu, standing beside him. Pichu whined for a second, then hopped off, making his way over to the other baby digimon.
"They're coming from the west." Hawkmon said, indicating a direction.
Four years ago, Joe thought, I'd have said that we should head east. "Right. Gomamon?" We could use Baihumon right now, he mentally added.
"Gomamon, digivolve to...Ikkakumon!"
Joe nodded, though Zudomon would have made him feel a lot better. He sent another message on his D-Term, but found that nothing could get through. There was no way to update anyone on the situation. "I don't suppose you can do Metal Garurumon?" he asked Ikkakumon hopefully.
"Yeah," the giant furry digimon rumbled, "but you'd have to play the harmonica and be all angsty." With a roar, Ikkakumon charged the enemy, along with Ogremon.
==Pokemon World
Mewtwo looked up, startled out of his reverie. His psychic power had flared up, alerting him to some danger in the Digital World. :Ryo.:
==New Zealand
Caryl sighed, bored out of her mind. The teacher droned on and on, with no end in sight. Due to the vagaries of plate tectonics, while Japan was experiencing winter, Caryl was stuck in some of the hottest weather she had ever known.
There was a commotion as a strange creature walked in. "Can...I help you?" the teacher stammered.
"Yes." Mewtwo replied. "You can sleep." The teacher fell over, sound asleep. A glance, and the rest of the class fell over, similarly silenced. "There is trouble in the digital world, and there is no time for subtlety."
Renamon stepped into the classroom, followed by Ryo and Charmeleon. "Effective." she remarked.
"Yeah, but where were you last week?" Caryl asked. "I had a test."
"I will keep that in mind." Mewtwo replied, voice flat.
==Tokyo
"I'm sure it's nothing." Kyle said to June. "Your parents might get suspicious if we both leave." June had quietly been reprimanding Elecmon and Demi-Veemon when she had gotten the message on her D-Terminal, as had Kyle. "I'll just go check, and if there's trouble, I'll send a message, alright?"
"If you're sure." June answered, uncertain. She had a feeling that things were worse than they knew.
On an impulse, Kyle leaned forward and kissed her. It only lasted a second, but it was enough to surprise June. "I'll be fine." he whispered, and left.
"I'll hold you to that." June whispered back. She took a second to compose herself, then went back in.
"Where's he going?" her mother asked after she had closed the door.
"He got a message, and has to meet some people. It's very important, or he wouldn't have left."
"I know." her mother continued. She walked over and hugged June tightly. "June, I have no problem with you dating him, and neither does your father, for all he grumbles about it. Let him know he's welcome here anytime." She released June and stepped back. "Ah, my little girl is all grown up. I suppose I'll have to look forward to being a grandmother in a few years."
June blushed. "Mom!"
==Pokemon World
"Come on Metronome, CLOBBER IT!" Casey screamed. The batter, this 'Metronome' character, Kyle Evanick assumed, tightened his grip, swung, and struck the ball, the bat making a loud crack as it sent the ball flying.
"Pop fly! RUN!" Casey screamed.
"Is she on any medication we should know about?" Tsukaimon whispered to Kunemon. Kyle found himself wondering the same thing.
"Aww..." Casey groaned, as one of the outfielders positioned to catch the ball. An easy out if she ever saw one. "And we were winning, too."
It would have been an easy out too, if the baseball hadn't decided to do a very un-baseball like thing at that moment. Specifically, it hovered, just out of reach of the outfielder. Paying no attention, Michael 'Metronome' Vaughn rounded first, second, third, and took home, as did two other Electabuzz on base already. Three in, bottom of the 7th inning. Then they saw the ball floating there.
"Umm...is that normal?" Kyle asked. Casey shook her head, confused. They watched as the ball hovered for a few more seconds, then started...dancing?
"I think I have an explanation." Tsukaimon said, looking beside Kyle. Kyle looked down, and saw a small white creature, vaguely resembling a cat and having a very long tail.
"Mew!" Mew chirped. It smiled, nodding to Kyle.
"Hello...?" Kyle hazarded.
==Digital World
Ikkakumon grunted as he launched as many Harpoon Torpedoes as he could manage. "Joe, we're going to need help, there must be hundreds of these monsters!"
Grimly, Joe nodded. "I think I saw Lady Devimon towards the back of the army; I think she's holding back the really strong monsters until we're worn down!" He heard some shouts; off in the distance, Ogremon was busy with a small group of Vilemon, mixing club strikes and energy blasts. "At least he's having fun." Ikkakumon roared, surging forward and flattening a few more digimon. He overextended himself, however. One of the Devimon under Lady Devimon's control dashed forward and brutally slashed Ikkakumon, sending the digimon flying. Injured, he could not maintain his digivolution. "Gomamon!" Joe ran over to his partner, but was tackled by several Gazimon. "Let me go!" He struggled to get up, coughing as the furry digimon pressed down on him.
Abruptly, the weight lessened. "You heard him." Scizor said. "Get off." The Gazimon horde that survived Scizor's first attack broke ranks and ran.
"Scizor! Then..."
"The calvary's here!" Kyle called. Looking up, Joe saw Kyle had arrived, riding Pidgeot. On his shoulder, Eevee sat, looking at the assembled army. Pidgeot landed, allowing the trainer to get off. "Go to the village and make sure the baby digimon are alright!" Kyle instructed. Cawing, Pidgeot flew to the center of the village. "Sorry I took so long; every portal in a several mile radius has been wrecked. And I can't get through to June or the others. Is the one here-?"
Joe shook his head. "Jammed. I only hope the other digidestined can get here in time."
"No worries!" Lady Devimon called. "I have plenty of evil digimon for everyone!"
Eevee hopped down, snarling as he did. "Eevee, digivolve to Flareon!/Flareon, digivolve to... Pyroangemon!" (No blast digivolving here...yet -ed)
"Fire NOW!" Lady Devimon commanded. Beside her, a Skull Greymon lumbered up, aimed, and fired a pair of missiles at Primary Village. Horrified, Pyroangemon watched as the missiles struck the middle of the village, kicking up dirt and shattering several buildings.
==
The portal hummed, and Yolei stepped through. She shivered briefly as her whole body tingled for a second, as her new outfit appeared. It was a fairly simple design, Yolei basing it on Mimi's outfit when she first went to the digital world. The dress was a bit shorter, stopping just past her knees, and the top was now a sleeveless vest with a white tee-shirt underneath. "Not too bad." she said to herself. "Maybe I'll ask Sora for a few tips. Hey, this isn't Primary Village!"
"Yolei!" Biyomon shouted, crashing through the tree. "You have to get to Primary Village. It's under attack!"
"Wh...WHAT?" Yolei demanded.
"Lady Devimon is leading a huge number of digimon against the village, and only Joe and Gomamon are there (No, she didn't see Kyle arrive -ed). Are any of the other digidestined with you?"
"No, Cody said he had to go straight home, and I haven't seen Kari or TK anywhere (Opposite side of the dead zone. Don't worry, they'll get there soon -ed). Where's Hawkmon?"
"He went back to help defend the village."
Yolei frowned. Her first instinct was to go to her partner; however, it would make more sense to go back to the real world and get the other digidestined. But without her, Hawkmon might be...
"Need a lift?" Yolei saw a giant red lizard land. On its back, two humans and a digimon rode.
"Ryo! Caryl!"
"Mewtwo told us there was trouble here, and brought us, Seth, Stuart, Kyle Evanick and Casey here to help out. The other four are taking a different route, hoping to find more digidestined as they go on."
"Just in time!" Biyomon said, quickly explaining what was happening.
Renamon's eyes narrowed. "They've gone too far this time. We must hurry! Yolei, climb on."
"All the days I picked to wear a dress." Yolei grumbled. "Hey, where is Mewtwo? Can't he teleport us to Primary Village?"
Ryo looked worried. "No, he said there was something even more urgent he had to check on." (Next ep, I promise -ed)
==
"Just pretend I'm Crystal!" Kari said into TK's ear. Without a digiegg of his own, TK had to ride Nefertimon, Kari sitting behind him, arms wrapped around his waist.
"I can fly you there as Angemon!" Patamon said.
"No." Nefertimon replied. "It would be best if you saved your strength. I have a bad feeling about this."
Patamon, resting in TK's arms, snorted. "And you're getting a few cheap laughs out of this too, I'll bet."
"Now, now. Kari knows I'd tell Izzy in a second if anything...untoward happened."
"No catnip for you!" Kari replied, trying not to sound annoyed. "How far to the Village?"
"Another few minutes." her partner replied. "I...oh my...Kari, TK, I can make out a large army in the distance!" Kari gasped, but couldn't say anything. Patamon jumped off, and digivolved to Angemon, carrying TK in his arms. "I'll meet you there!" Angemon called, flying ahead.
==
The portal flared, and Ken stepped through. Like the other digidestined, he had also received word of the initial attack on Primary Village. "We'd better get there quickly." Ken said, taking out his digivice.
"Right. Wormmon, digivolve to...Stingmon!" Ken climbed on the insect digimon's back, and the two flew off. "I'm not very fast, but I'll go as quickly as I can!"
"I know you will." Ken answered.
==
"What did you do?" Pyroangemon demanded, blocking Lady Devimon's attack with his shield. "How could you attack Primary Village?"
"To reveal the Destiny Stone there, of course. See? Can't you feel the power coming from it?" Pyroangemon glanced over his shoulder, and saw a giant blue-black stone slowly levitating from the ground. Around it, a faint blue aura crackled; the angel could feel the power coming from the stone. "I will claim it and Primary Village for Demon, and none of you can stop me! Skull Greymon!" The skeletal digimon charged, but was bisected by Pyroangemon's sword, and destroyed.
"Can you do any better?" Pyroangemon asked. He flew forward again, sword aimed at Lady Devimon's neck.
Lady Devimon barely dodged the blow, twisting aside at the last second. "You'll pay for that! Devimon, merge now!"
"Huh? What are you doing?" Pyroangemon demanded.
"Well, you digidestined are so into DNA Digivolution, I thought I'd try it myself. So, take four Devimon, fuse them into a single digimon, and you get...ooh, let's just see, shall we?" Behind her, the four Devimon glowed and merged together, surrounding themselves in a sickly greenish-black miasma. It exploded apart a second later, throwing Pyroangemon back. "Presenting Skull Knightmon, a combination of Skull Satamon's speed and agility, and Knightmon's attack and defensive power! KILL HIM!"
Pyroangemon landed, and stepped back. This nightmare was a tall, gangly digimon, little more than red bones, held together by tattered remnants of armour. It easily swung a two-handed greatsword back and forth, daring the angel to attack. Tattered wings, patches of rust on them, idly stirred in the light breeze.
"I hope he'll last longer than your Skull Greymon; he wasn't much of a challenge."
The fallen angel smirked. "Oh, one's not enough of a challenge? Megadramon, ATTACK NOW!" Out of the sand, three giant serpents shot out, all aimed at Primary Village. "I will either claim Primary Village or destroy it utterly!"
Back at the village, Joe fought the urge to scream as he saw the three digimon charge at him. With a shout, Scizor extended his wings and flew at one of them, firing a Hyper Beam as he did. It glanced one of the Megadramons' wings, and, incredibly, made it slow down, but the other two continued. Scizor found himself occupied with the one he attacked. The remaining two flew up and took position, ready to launch a missile attack. "We need Arcanine!"
"I didn't bring him, he's back at home." Kyle answered sharply. "And none of the DNA teams are here, either." He kicked one of the attacking digimon as it closed on him. "Ivysaur, Pidgeot, attack!" he called. "I'll try and lead them away from here with my pokemon." Kyle headed off, his pokemon making several attacks on the evil digimon, getting their attention.
"Let me get out there!" Gomamon protested. "Come on!"
Joe shook his head. "Not a chance, you're too badly hurt. We'll be better off waiting here with the other in-training and baby digimon." Gomamon growled, but said nothing.
Joe looked up, and gasped as a pair of digimon broke through and charged right at him. "Joe!" TK yelled, as Angemon slammed into the two, dispatching both with his staff. A short distance away, Nefertimon landed, let Kari off, and took off, going to lend Angemon and Scizor a hand. "Where's Kyle? And is anyone else here?"
"Kyle's over by the east building, with Ivysaur and Pidgeot, so far, you're the only other digidestined I've seen here; I can't get a message through to anyone else, my D-Terminal's jammed."
Kari ran over, Hawkmon with her. "Any word from Yolei? Sylphimon would be really handy right now." Joe shook his head. More shouts; a small group of Tankmon broke past Ogremon, charging right at the children. Kari flinched, knowing that all the digimon were too far away to save them! Eyes shut, she could only hear the sounds of energy blades cutting through the air. Wait a second...Energy blades? She opened her eyes, and saw the Tankmon disintegrating; in front of them, a silvery warrior holding two energy swords knelt, scarf fluttering in the wind.
"I hope we're not too late!" Wolfmon said, standing up.
(Apologies to Endless Waltz fans; feel free to cue up 'Riot of Citizens' from the Operation S Soundtrack. -ed)
"Wolfmon!" TK exclaimed. "Then..."
"Above you!" Wolfmon replied, pointing. Looking up, the digidestined saw a black figure, backlit by the sun, stretch his wings and dive down, claws flashing. "Seth and Stuart are here too, and they brought Cyberdramon. And Caryl and Ryo brought Agnimon, who's helping Pyroangemon."
At that moment, the aforementioned digidestined ran over. "Wizardmon told me this was where all the digimon are born." Seth growled. "Attacking this place is pretty low, even for the Dark Ocean."
Kyle Evanick ran up. "Well, then anything we do to these guys is justified then. Casey's giving Kyle a hand." He sighed as Stuart glanced at him. "No, the OTHER Kyle. Anything we can do here?"
"Yeah. Help me barricade some of these buildings." Joe replied. "I don't know how long it'll be before the other digidestined get here."
==
Yolei grimaced; she was standing with Ryo and Caryl, and was watching as Agnimon dashed in to give Pyroangemon a hand against Skull Knightmon and Lady Devimon. "Is there any way through to the village? I'm useless without Hawkmon."
"I doubt that." Ryo replied. "But none of my pokemon are strong enough to punch a hole in that line; not even Nidoking could get through that."
Caryl sighed. "We'll just have to wait then, I don't think we can sneak through. Come on, Agnimon, the other digimon need us!"
"Little...(gasp)...busy here!" Agnimon called back, ducking one of Skull Knightmon's attacks. "Hey, how about a combo attack!" Pyroangemon nodded, forcing Lady Devimon back with a flurry of sword strikes. "Now! Salamander..." Agnimon started to power up.
"Sacred Fire!" Pyroangemon called, launching a gout of flame. The flame flew over to Agnimon, and was pulled into the vortex of flames the hybrid digimon was calling up.
"BREAK!" Agnimon shouted, tornado of fire enclosing him. He struggled for a second, trying to control the power, then mastered it, the vortex of flame shooting forward and enveloping Skull Knightmon. When the flames cleared, Agnimon was still there, foot planted firmly in the midsection of Skull Knightmon. Neither one moved for a few seconds. Then, the back of Skull Knightmon's armour exploded outwards, the evil digimon staggering back.
"No!" Lady Devimon shouted. "This is impossible!" Recovering, she stared defiantly at the exhausted digimon. "Very well, you can all die with your village!" Lady Devimon cried. "Megadramon, destroy everything!" Still in position, the two massive digimon flew skyward, then dove, claws stretched in front of them. Lady Devimon resisted a gasp as she saw the third Megadramon, incredibly, was occupied with Scizor. His power, Lady Devimon wondered. His power is growing!
"Hawkmon!" Yolei shouted.
Wolfmon and Cyberdramon looked up, and saw the two incoming digimon. "Megadramon!" Wolfmon shouted. "Licht Pfenil!" he called, firing several light arrows. "Stop them before they wreck the village!" He kept firing at the two massive dragon digimon.
"Roger! Erase Claw!" Cyberdramon's attacks hit the second Megadramon, but had little effect. "It's a suicide run! Seth, Stuart, RUN!"
"No time!" Kyle Evanick yelled. All of the other digimon were too far away to help, or not strong enough.
"RRR...NO WAY, YOU FLYING FREAKS!" Ogremon cried, swatting away the digimon attacking him. One of the Megadramon fired a barrage of missiles at him.
"Ogremon!" the infant digimon cried. "Don't do it! We need you!"
"Rrrr...RRAHHHHHH!" Ogremon swung his club, destroying the missiles aimed at him.
"How...Can Ogremon normally do that?" Seth gasped.
"The Destiny Stone!" Joe realized. "He must be drawing power from it!" Dumbfounded, the digidestined watched as Ogremon made an impossible jump.
"Pummel WHACK!" Ogremon called, pulling his fist back and thrusting it forward. There was a huge bolt of purple energy released, flying at one of the Megadramon. However, the digimon extended his claw, caught the attack, and sent it back at Ogremon. "No..." Ogremon gasped, just as the blast caught him, and sent him flying into the exposed Destiny Stone. He slumped down, barely conscious.
"Ogremon..." Joe whispered. Gomamon squirmed free of Joe's arms and ran over to the fallen digimon.
Ogremon tried to get up, but slumped over. "Heh...now I'll never go on that cruise..." he whispered (01 reference 'Ogremon's Honour', if memory serves -ed). "What a bummer..." He passed out.
"Ogremon!" Joe looked around. In the distance, he could see Angemon fighting off two Devidramon, across the way, Wolfmon and Cyberdramon were giving Scizor a hand with the Megadramon. There was a flash; Hawkmon had managed to get through the line, and joined Yolei, enabling him to digivolve to Aquilamon.
Leaving one Megadramon free to attack...
Gomamon tried to force himself to digivolve back to Ikkakumon, but he was too weak to do so. "Joe, help me!" he cried. As he spoke, the Destiny Stone pulsed....
"Gomamon, warp digivolve to...PLESIOMON!" The ground shook as Gomamon, getting out of Joe's grip, ran forward, trying to stop the two digimon, digivolved further than he ever had before, transforming into a giant white and yellow dinosaur, staring defiantly at the two Megadramon.
"Whoa..." TK breathed, stunned. Joe shrugged, helplessly.
"Alright Joe..." Seth said, grinning.
"Shaking PULSE!" Plesiomon fired a massive sonic attack that tore one of the Megadramon apart, and badly injured the other two. Sensing the imminent attack, Scizor, Wolfmon, and Cyberdramon jumped clear moments before the attack struck. Spent, Plesiomon collapsed, becoming Bukamon. "That...took everything I had."
"Well, I'd say it was enough." Stuart said admiringly. "I guess I'll have to start training Monodramon more, so he can do that." As he watched, many of the digimon attacking the village had started to pull back, shaken by the defeat of the Megadramons.
"Funny." Cyberdramon replied. "The ones that survived is coming around for another attack, get ready to-" There was a flash behind him, as a giant bird flew over him. "Who..."
"Aquilamon!" Kari yelled.
Yolei ran over, panting. "I was able to get through after Skull Knightmon was beaten. Come on, we need Sylphimon." Kari nodded, recalling Nefertimon and de-evolving her back to Gatomon.
"Aquilamon...Gatomon...DNA Digivolve to...Sylphimon!"
"No!" Lady Devimon gasped, horrified. Demon's plan had just gone out the window, in only a few seconds...With a snarl, she flew up, ready to attack Sylphimon before the other Megadramon could be destroyed. However, her way was blocked by Scizor. "You again..."
Scizor nodded. "I cannot allow you to go to Megadramon's aid."
Lady Devimon smirked. "You're exhausted, and I'm an Ultimate level digimon. You're not even worth my time." As she spoke, a small catlike creature flew around Scizor, emitting a soft radiance. As Lady Devimon watched, the wounds on Scizor's body faded.
Scizor nodded to Mew. "Thanks, but I'll handle it now. You'd better go check on the others." With an enthusiastic 'mew!', Mew flew off. "You were saying, witch?" He flew forward, wings humming, arms extended. Lady Devimon dodged, and the two fought.
After about a minute of fighting, Lady Devimon pulled back. Am I growing weaker, she wondered, or...no, he couldn't be getting STRONGER! A shout distracted her, allowing Scizor to graze her with a Hyper Beam attack. She floated back, looking at her arm; the leather sleeve was burned off, and the skin was damaged. "No...you're not even a digimon!"
"Neither are you." Scizor replied evenly.
On the other side of the battlefield, Sylphimon darted around one of the remaining Megadramon, the smaller digimon's speed keeping Sylphimon well ahead of Megadramon's clumsy swings. "Now!" Sylphimon shouted. Sylphimon powered up, and flew straight at Megadramon, through his mouth, releasing the energy that was built up in Sylphimon's hands. Sylphimon exploded out the other side of Megadramon, watching as the second threat to Primary Village exploded. "Who says War Greymon's the only one that can do that?"
Cyberdramon flew up, raking the side of the other Megadramon with his claws, and tossing Wolfmon on top, allowing that DNA digimon to hack away with his sabers, unhindered. That Megadramon was heavily injured, flailing in midair. Wolfmon jumped clear after a minute of hacking away, and was caught by Cyberdramon. Wolfmon stood on Cyberdramon's back, aiming an energy arrow. "Licht...PFENIL!" It speared the last Megadramon, which exploded into particles.
"This can't be happening!" Lady Devimon shouted, watching the rout. "I...AAAHHHH!" she shouted as Scizor struck her with another Hyper Beam, then followed up with a Fury Cutter. She fell, glowing and becoming Sneasel again. "This...isn't over yet..." Sneasel wheezed, vanishing and returning to the Dark Ocean.
Scizor landed. "It is today. Hey, is everyone-" the entire Digital World shook at that point, knocking everyone on their feet.
"What...Something's wrong!" Kari gasped.
"We feel it too!" Cyberdramon replied. In the distance, they could make out a bright point of light, glimmering on the horizon. It receded a few seconds later, but everyone at Primary Village knew something was wrong. Badly wrong.
==Next Episode
While the attack on Primary Village was going on, Demon and Metal Devidramon took advantage of the distraction to drain another Destiny Stone. But when Baihumon attacks the two, Metal Devidramon makes a decision that will change the fate of the entire Digital World. Next time, on Digimon: Digicross -
'Baihumon's Legacy Part 1: Fall'