"So where do we start?" asks Parry.
"Master Tyrannosaurus Mon said the kidnappers went towards the west," points out CF.
"In that case, I will fly up and take a look." Parry flies up into the sky, but falls back down after a short while. "Ugh…"
"What happened?" Pichu asks him.
"The sun is going to roast me… Too hot to fly…"
"It's quite dangerous to fly up high where the sun can easily give you sunburns," warns Dr. Mario.
"So how do we know if the enemy is really in that direction and if it is far from us?" asks Roy.
At this moment, the sand before them bursts open and a gigantic beetle-like monster with a large pincer in front of its mouth rises up and roars at them. "I saw it in the book once!" says Ness. "It's a Kuwagamon. They are very violent insect type Digimon."
The Kuwagamon opens its jaws wide and slowly stomps toward them, ready to attack or do whatever bloody massacre. "It wants to fight us," says Ness.
"So we should fight back, right?" asks CF, cracking his knuckles.
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Somewhere in the desert, a large rhinoceros-like Digimon, Monochromon, is dragging a carriage behind it, and inside the carriage are two people.
"How long until we reach the base, Mr. 3?" asks Ms. Goldenweek.
"If this slowpoke walks only at this pace, then it can take a whole day to get there," replies Mr. 3. "Why can't I have some cool desert vehicle like Mr. 2's?"
"Because our rank is not high enough."
"I know… Perhaps after completing this mission, we will get promoted to the next level! And we will get more respect from others and I can pull Mr. 2 down from his position!"
"What happens to Mr. 2 when we get promoted to his place?"
"Actually, I don't know that either… There's never been two people in the same rank before."
Unknown to them both, high up in the sky above their carriage (okay, not that high) is a Kuwagamon flying. The Kuwagamon is swollen, bloodied, and beaten up all over, and the Smashers are riding on top of it. "That must be it!" says Roy, pointing to the carriage down below.
Peach turns to look at Marth, who is sitting on the back and curled up, looking very down. "What's wrong with him?" she asks.
"You would feel that same if you lose a bet?" CF tells her. "He'll get over it soon. Now what is our plan?"
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The Monochromon continues to walk through the sand, carrying along the carriage when suddenly the Kuwagamon lands in front of it with a stomp. The two Digimon stare at each other fiercely, but then the Kuwagamon collapse onto the sand and passes out. The Smashers hop down from him. "He was useless anyway," says CF.
"Well, you gave him quite a beating before he finally allowed us to ride him," says Dr. Mario.
"What's with stopping in the middle of a desert?" asks Mr. 3 as he steps out the carriage. He sees the Smashers but doesn't recognize them, but when he sees Peach, he knew who they are at once. "So you are the Smashers! And it's good to see you again, young lady."
"I will not accept politeness from a vile person like you!" snaps back Peach.
"Hey! You kidnapped some person named Gennai, right?" Ness asks him.
"Yeah. Mr. 0 ordered us to bring him back to him," replies Mr. 3.
"Gennai is a good guy! Give him back!"
"We caught him first, so I will not give up my prisoner easily!"
"Looks like we'll have to give you a beating until you do!" says Roy, stepping forward with his sword.
"I'm not afraid of you! You'll see why I get the ranking number 3!" says Mr. 3, but in his mind, he is actually thinking, "Not now! My wax will easily melt under the hot sun!" Nevertheless, he creates a large sword made of wax in his hand.
"So that's your ability, uh? Pretty interesting. But is its sharpness like that of a real sword's?" Roy charges forward with his sword raised. The both clash swords in midair and push back and forth.
Roy's sword begins to cut through Mr. 3's wax sword, because it's made of wax and the sun is slowly melting it. Just when Roy is about to fully cut through it, he suddenly turns around and swings his sword at his comrades, but they moved back before they got hit.
"Oi! What are you doing swinging your sword at us!" Marth shouts at him. But Roy ignores him and begins swinging his sword madly at them, as if he really wants to kill them.
"What are you doing!" CF yells at him. "Have the sun baked your brain to the point you've gone mad!"
Roy dashes at Peach and she has no time to avoid, and he clutches her by the throat and lifts her off the ground. "Ack! Stop… it!" says Peach painfully.
Roy's eye is filled with evil and he grins wickedly. "I will tear off your heart and feed it to the vultures!"
"Nooo…!"
"ROY! STOP THAT AT ONCE!" the other Smashers shout at him.
"I have painted the color black onto his cape," explains Ms. Goldenweek. "It is the color of betrayal, and he is now betraying his own friends—wanting to kill them."
"If that's so, then we'll just pull off the cape!" says Dr. Mario. He quickly runs behind Roy and yanks the cape off his back. Roy releases Peach from his clutch and says, "What have I been doing? Why am I trying to kill Peach?"
"Don't worry… It's not your fault…" Peach tells him while trying to get some breath after getting choked badly. "That girl can hypnotize people with her paints."
"Then she's a more dangerous opponent!" says Marth. "But I can't bring myself to hurt a little girl like her!"
"In that case, I will put her into a harmless sleep using my special sleeping dose." He takes out an injection needle and is going to throw it at Ms. GW, but right when he is about to throw it, he turns to a cactus and throws the needle at it instead. "Hey! Why did I aim there!" He turns to Ms. GW and tries to throw another needle, but again, he throws it at the cactus. "What the!" He tries again, but with the same result. "What's wrong with me!"
"I painted the color red onto the cactus," explains Ms. GW. "It makes all your attacks go to it, no matter how hard you try to ignore it."
Mr. 3 steps forward to fight again. "I will show you my art of killing!" He produces several wax knives and throws it at them. The Smashers move around swiftly to avoid it, except for Ness who got poked in the butt.
"OW!"
CF rushes towards Mr. 3. "I will show you my art of killing instead! Raptor Boost!" His hand starts to glow with a fiery aura as he prepares to uppercut Mr. 3 in the chin, but right when is about to execute the move, he turns to that cactus and uppercuts it instead. The cactus breaks into pieces and flies into the air, but CF jumps around and cries in pain, because the spines stabbed into his fist. "OW OW OW OW OW OW! CURSED CACTUS!"
"It's not your fault, but the red paint's fault!" says Peach. "But at least the cactus is destroyed."
While CF is in pain from punching the cactus, Mr. 3 slashes him across his right shoulder with a wax knife. "OUCH!" screams CF and then he collapse onto the sand.
Mr. 3 steps on his head and is about to plunge the knife into his body when suddenly Pichu comes flying in and smashes into his abdomen hard. "WOOOOOOOO!" SCREAMS Mr. 3.
And then Pichu proceed to electrocute him. "PIIIICHUUUU! 10,000 VOLT SHOCK!"
"YAAAAAAAAA!" screams Mr. 3 as he gets zapped.
Ms. Goldenweek got out some paints again. "I should help Mr. 3, or else he will die!" But before she can do anything, Parry flies to her and starts pecking her rapidly in the forehead. "Ouch! That hurts!" She runs from Parry, but the parrot follows her everywhere while continuously pecking her in the back of the head.
"Bad girl! Bad girl!" he chants over and over while pecking.
Mr. 3 is dazed from the zap, and CF gets up and uses this as an opportunity. "Falcon Punch!" He punches Mr. 3 in the face and sends him flying into a saguaro cactus.
"OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!" screams Mr. 3 at the top of his voice as his butt sinks into the cactus's spines.
Peach appears in front of him and smacks his face HARD with a frying pan.
CLANG!
"Now the followings are for how you treated me in Halloween Town!" she says angrily, and then she continues banging Mr. 3 in the head over and over.
CLANG!
"OUCH!"
BANG!
"ACK!"
PANG!
"OWWWW!"
CLANK!
"WAAAAA!"
WANG!
"YAAAAAAA!"
Then Peach turns around and thrusts her rear into Mr. 3 very hard. The impact sends him flying high into the sky, and he falls back down on top of the Monochromon. This startled the Monochromon and it begins running off.
I should've said this earlier, but while the fighting was going on, Marth secretly took the harness off Monochromon, so it ran off without dragging the carriage along. "Wait for me!" shouts Ms. GW as she runs after the runaway Monochromon. When she got near, she hops onto its back and clings on for dear life.
Eventually, the Monochromon disappears into the distance.
"That took care of them," says Roy.
"Peach's butt is more dangerous than the rest of her body!" says Ness.
They quickly go to the carriage and checks inside for the hostage, and sure enough, they found a man tied up and placed inside. They quickly untie him and let him out. The man wears a white cloak like that of a priest's. He has brown hair with a neat haircut and he is probably in his late 20s. "You are Gennai, right?" G&W asks him.
"Yes I am," replies the man.
"But aren't elders supposed to be old people?" asks Ness.
"Not all are old, you know. Anyway, you wouldn't happen to be the Smashers, right?"
"Yes we are!" answers Marth.
"I knew you people were coming! Come, let us go back to File City and discuss this matter over."
So they begin walking towards the fort that CF and Ness saw in the previous chapter. It was a long walk, but they eventually got there. The Smashers are almost dropping dead by the time they got there, but Gennai shows no sign of tiredness. When they got inside Master Tyrannomon greets them happily. "Gennai has returned! You people really rescued him as promised!"
So they all went into the city, and all the Digimon citizens there are happy to have Gennai back. "Look! It's Gennai! He's rescued by some foreigners!" They made their way through the cheering crowd and enter his house.
"You got a nice place here!" comments Peach.
"It's just a small place," says Gennai. "Have a seat!"
So they all sat down and relaxed themselves until they are full of spirits again. "So now we have to discuss things over," says Gennai. "Firstly, you people are surely here for the Dark Reactor, right?"
"Yes we are," says Marth.
"Good. I believe it's hidden in the Baroque Work's base."
"Baroque Works?" wonder the Smashers curiously.
"It's a criminal organization led by Mr. 0, whose real name is Sir Crocodile."
"Mr. 2 mentioned once about someone named Mr. 0, and I wondered who it was. So it's their leader!" says CF.
"Why did they kidnap you?" Ness asks Gennai.
"I believe there's only one reason they want to kidnap me," answers Gennai. "That is possibly they want me to reveal to them the location of the 27th Holy Weapon."
"27th Holy Weapon?" say the Smashers curiously.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Yes, the Gennai used here is from Digimon Adventure 02, where he is reverted back to his young form. His old form in 01 looks awfully creepy… And there is one good reason why I use the young one instead of the old one, and you'll find out about it soon. Anyway, happy reviewing!
In case you didn't count, there are 26 Holy Weapons. Popo and Nana are counted as separate persons, and that makes it 26 Smashers in total, not counting Parry since he's my OC and is only a pet.