Chapter 18: The Gist
We were awoken by a crash outside the building. "Help, we need help." Someone yelled outside the door. I woke up to see I was the last one up. Herpetomon was shaking me and everyone was drowsy. When I heard more cries I was up like a shot.
"Come on, let's go check it out." I said. There was panic in the hotel, Digimon running around everywhere. I bent down to the Koromon from before
"Hey, what's going on?" I asked.
"There are some evil Digimon coming this way, I hear they are working for Alice-M!" The Koromon said "Codamon is going to fight, but there are 4 of them, I don't know if he can take them all."
"Well, that's what we're here for." Nick said behind me. We made our way to the clearing in the middle of town, being careful not to kick any of the in-trainings. Sure enough we saw Codamon standing alone in the center. In the distance I could see 4 Digimon coming towards us. We came up on either side of Codamon, except Matt who stayed behind him.
"We'll back you up." I said. He looked down
"Alright, but be careful." He said. I took out my D-Gadget and waited for the Digimon to come into range.
"Hooo boy. There are 4 Tyrannomon bounding down that hill, great." I said "Champions."
"This isn't going to be easy." Fatomon said. Drawing his sword. "I already know we're going to need to so let's Digivolve."
:Digivolution Activate:
"Herpetomon digivolve too…!"
"Skymon"
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"Fatomon digivolve too…!"
"Castimon"
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"Gotsumon digivolve too…!"
"Icemon"
Codamon looked around at our Champions "So these are the champions? Not bad." Then he looked back to Matt who looked so sad and alone.
"Don't worry, I'll protect you." Codamon said. Matt was suddenly beaming.
The Tyrannomon had reached the limits and the battle was about to begin.
"Ok, now, I want everyone to take one of the Tyrannomon and stick to him." I instructed.
"For Alice-M, for Alice-M, for Alice-M! " The Tyrannomon began to chant.
"RRRaaagh." Skymon shouted as he pounced on the nearest one. His eyes were even greener than normal. I assumed it was because he was surrounded by Digimon so seeing an evil one makes him especially alert. Ultimately though, I couldn't know the reason why. Skymon pounced the Trannomon into the ground then jumped up and used "Lizard Claw" on his foe. The Tyrannomon which was stuck in the hole was hit hard by the blast, he managed to get up slowly. Skymon landed and became embraced in a hand-in-hand struggle with him. Meanwhile Icemon had knocked down another Tyrannomon with his "Ice Bomb". The Tyrannomon got up and used his "Blaze Blast" on Icemon, who, by putting his ice covered hands together was able to block most of the damage, but was blown away by the blast. His Tyrannomon came over and grabbed him by the leg and began whipping him around, then he threw him into a nearby house, hopefully none of the Digimon inside were hurt. Codamon was messing with his Tyrannomon, dodging his every attack. While Skymon was handling ours I watched Codamon to see his attack. The Tyrannomon swiped at him and tried to grab him, but Codamon jumped to the side. Two gadgets on both of his shoulders popped up, they looked like some kind of laser turrets.
"Laser Dynamo" He called and the turrets began launching green rays at the Tyrannomon, then they began moving up and down, covering him in laser fire. This amazing show of power stopped the fight momentarily. The Tyrannomon Codamon was fighting was totally gone at the end of the assault.
"Get Him." The lead Tyrannomon told the others.
"But Boss, we're supposed to kill the humans." One of them said.
"Shut up and kill Codamon instead." The leader said. All of he Tyrannomon who were fighting our Digimon began to head for Codamon instead. Castimon's got away, Icemon's did too, but before Skymon's Tyrannomon could get away he grabbed his arm and yanked him down. "Oh no you don't!" Skymon said. Skymon continued to thrash our Tyrannomon who was nearly defeated, but I was more worried about Codamon. The two Tyrannomon came from either side of him. They were charging him. When they were just far enough away from each other Codamon jumped out of the way. The Tyrannomon tried to stop, but they couldn't, so they ran into each other and fell. Meanwhile Codamon had pulled out more of his gadgets. Several shafts that looked like gun barrels came out of his legs.
"Scatter Slug!" He called, suddenly the barrels began spinning and oscillating and then began launching huge shells at the Tyrannomon. Giant bullets, must have been an inch wide. There was an immense flash given off at every shot. The two Tyrannomon were defeated halfway through the attack. We were all stunned for a while. Codamon's attacks were brilliant. After a moment of silence a flock of rookies and in-trainings came up to us, shouting praises. "Yay, Codamon was so cool." "The D-Corps saved us!" "Take that, Alice-M." were among the cries. I walked up to Codamon who was surrounded by bouncing fans.
"Wow, that was pretty incredible." I said. "Are you really only a champion?"
"Yes, it's true, but I'm stranger and have more attacks than most." He said. He bent down and began playing with his fans, they bounced up and down on his back.
I walked back to the group who also had many praising Digimon following them. We all came together and stood behind Codamon.
"I can't believe how strong he is." I said to the group.
"I know, be beat 3 out of for of them. And those attacks were insane." Matt said. I could tell he admired him. We continued to discuss the fight until we saw a Digimon walk up to Codamon. Because everyone else quieted down I assumed it was the mayor or something. It was a very old-looking Gabumon. He hobbled up to Codamon so we moved up and went to his sides.
"Hello again Gabumon." Codamon said. "These are the heroes I told you about." He nodded his head at us.
"Ah, very good, thank you all for defending our town. We would never have been able to stop them on our own." He explained.
"It was our pleasure." Codamon said smiling.
"I wish we could repay you, but we don't have much to give." Gabumon said.
"No, don't worry about it, it's my job." Codamon said. "Actually we have to be going."
"Alright, well, good luck. And thank you again." Gabumon said. Codamon began walking away we had our Digimon digivolve back and then we followed him. It was still dark out, but we moved on.
"Is anybody else really tired?" Matt said. He was starting to stumble, and he fell over. We stopped and I helped him up, he had passed out.
"Wow, must've been too much for him, everything that's been happening." I said.
"Don't worry, here, put him on my back, I'll carry him." Codamon said. I did as he asked. We were now walking up another dirt road, there was a fork up ahead. Both paths led into a dense forest. When we lazily reached the fork the light came out. Like the darkness had come last night, light simply began to cover the area. It was beautiful. I could see light covering all of the forest, and the sky became the unusual blue that it was yesterday.
"So, Codamon, which way do we go?" I asked.
"We want to go left, it's longer, but it should be less dangerous. We believe Alice-M's headquarters are someplace to the right of here, so left would be wiser. Hub Tower is right past this forest, in another village. The forest is very large, so we may have to sleep in it, but only for one night." Codamon explained.
"Alright, well then, let's go!" Herpetomon said.
"Pssh, that's my line." I said.
"Whatever, Let's go!" He said again.
"Fine." I said. So we took our first steps in the dreary forest. At the entrance there was an arch of trees welcoming us, somehow it felt very foreboding.