Summon Eight - The Agents Strike Back
The gang had head back to Guilmon's old hideout, where the large cave Guilmon had dug was still there. Within that cave was thenow dormant portal that had once been used by the Tamer's in their first adventure to the Digital World.
Guilmon, Terriermon and Monodramon were playing with Patamon and Salamon inside while Renamon watched. The four Tamer's were gathered together not to far away on the stepsto discuss their plan of action.
"So what do you think this new kind of evolution is?" Takato asked excitedly, "Maybe it's DNA Digivolution!"
"I don't know, Azulongmon said it was something that had to do with humans and Digimon fighting together. But it wasn't biomerge...but there is no other way that humans and Digimon can fight together..." Henry observed.
"Well that's what we've been led to believe anyway," Ryo stated.
"Sorry Ryo, I'm siding with Henry on this one," Rika said.
"All I say is that we figure it out soon. It's our only chance to defeat that atrocity and save Calumon," Renamon said, suddenly appearing before the Tamer's.
The four nodded.
Unbeknowest to the Tamer's, this sort of evolution that they are trying to decipher was actually one they knew very well. For humans and Digimon to fight together, they don't need to nessecarily be part of the same body, but rather share the same energy. This is of course referring to the original form of digivolution that the Tamer's knew from the very first season of the Digimon television show. The Digimon from that series digivolved through tapping into and sharing their partner's energy source. This is essentially the foundation of the 'humans and Digimon fighting together' principle. Although the Tamer's did not realise it, and Azulongmon himself did not know of it, it was exactly this.
Guilmon began to growl, and his eyes looked cold, and vicious, "I smell Digimon!"
"What's wrong boy, you think Malvagitamon followed us?" Takato asked.
"No, its not him. I would have smelt Calumon," Guilmon replied.
"Baihumon said the Digital World's portals were closed off, theres no way a Digimon could enter our world!" Henry began to panic.
"Rika, I can sense it too. It's not Calumon," Renamon said.
"Terriermon! You too?"
"Hate to dissapoint you Henry...but yeah, I've got that gut feeling again!" Terriermon laughed, then sighed.
"Ryo, I'm getting it too. Theres a prescence here," Monodramon said, approaching his Tamer.
Guilmon and Terriermon took their place beside Takato and Henry. Renamon was already with Rika.
"Everyone stay together!" Henry shouted.
All of a sudden, on the steps before them appeared a sort of foggy substance.
"No way! A Digital Field?" Takato reacted.
Henry and Rika, who still had their sun glasses put them on. Takato shuffled through his pocket to find his old goggles, in which he put on. Ryo covered his eyes with his arm. The fog then englulfed them.
Upon entering the fog, the quartlet discovered something that seemed almost impossible. There was a small white Digimon dancing around within the fog, with large spread out ears, and a red triangle on it's forehead. it was Calumon.
"CALUMON!" Guilmon shouted excitedly and went over to hug the creature. When he wrapped his long arms around the small Digimon, he felt it to be a little squishy. He then retracted his arms to find a thick red and purple coloured slime that covered them. Guilmon quickly jumped behind Calumon to find a bunch of small red wires that were attached to his back, which was a large patch of that red slime. The red wires went onfor an infinite distance towards something Guilmon couldnot make out,"This isn't Calumon!"
Takato ran over to accompany his partner, to find that Calumon was an imposter. He recongnized this body form before, it was one of the D-Reaper's agents.
The head of the Calumon look-a-like quickly spun around in afull circular motionto face them. Takato jerked and gagged as he watched this movement.
"Do you want to play?" It asked in the familiar Calumon tone, yet halfway through shifted to a rather sadistic voice pattern. It opened it's mouth, and a dozen red wires emerged from it wrapping around Takato and Guilmon.
"Terriermon! Help!" Henry cried.
"You too, Renamon!" Rika ordered.
"Monodramon..." Ryo said.
The three Digimon head towards the pair that were being attacked by the agent. Calumon's head then turned back to it's original position and asked the same question, now in a fully sadistic tone.
This time, the D-Reaper's agent's hands turned into that red goop and materialised into two large tentacles. It began to whip and slash at the oncoming Digimon. The trio was knocked back, and flew back to their partners.
"PYRO SPHERE!" Guilmon shouted, burning through his purple ropes. He then issued the same attack to free Takato.
"BOOM BUBBLE!" Patamon came flying in, as a large ball of air hit all the tentacles that connected the agent to its primary source of life. The Calumon imposter was felled.
Salamon came dashing into the fog, "Didn't think you could fight without us, did you?"
Herny scooped up Terriermon, "Thanks..."
Rika bent down and grabbed a hold of Renamon; Ryo was comforting the squirming Monodramon.
"Quickly! We need to follow these wires!" Patamon shouted.
Takato nodded, as he and Guilmon followed the small orange Digimon as he took flight above the yards and yards of red wire that led to who knows where. The three followed a pathway that was not to far away from Guilmon's hideout. Although they were following that pathway for quite some time.
Henrynoticed the pair and Patamon suddenly run off, "Hey! Takato, wait..."