Chapter 67: The Escape From Digital Desert! A Ballerina's Brave Sacrifice!
Crocodile falls down and hits the sand hard. The Smashers run up to him and Dr. Mario says, "He sure took quite a beating."
"Well, he deserves it anyway!" says CF.
Peach looks up and sees several Digimon coming towards them. "There are many people coming this way!"
"They're the citizens of File City," points out Master Tyrannomon.
When the citizen Digimon approach, they say, "We have decided that we will help Gennai! Crocodile destroyed our city, so we are all coming for revenge!"
"We beat you to it!" says CF. "Just look at Crocodile lying here!"
The Digimon citizens look at Crocodile's body. "So he is the one who planned the attack on our city? How dare he! Wait till the government finds out about this!"
At this moment, Gennai walks out of the ruins, carrying a sleeping Roy on his back.
"Look! It's Gennai!" The Digimon all gather around him. "You're all right!"
Dr. Mario looks at Roy who is on his back. "Mamamia! Look at all those bloods! He needs treatment at once!"
"This boy is incredible," says Gennai. "He is the one who defeated Crocodile and saved this place."
"He sure took the spotlight this time!" admits Marth.
Gennai gently places Roy onto the sand and walks to the Digimon crowd. "Our city is half destroyed, right?"
"Yes, Gennai, and we accused you of doing it."
"Don't worry. It's all over now. The villain has been defeated."
"What do we do? Our city is in a mess."
"There is only one thing we can do," says Gennai as he walks through the crowd. "We will rebuild our city. No matter how badly things are destroyed…" He stands on top of a rock and raises his hand. "We can rebuild it again if we work together as a group!"
"Hooray! That's our Gennai! He is the best!"
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Roy slowly opens his eyes and finds out that he is lying on a bed in some house, and he gets up. "Huh? Where am I? Where's Crocodile?"
Peach runs to his side and calms him down. "It's all over. You won, Roy. And you are in File City."
"Really? That's great! I deserve a well-earned rest!" And he plops down onto the bed again.
"You've been asleep for two days already," Marth tells him.
"Really! I never slept that long!"
Dr. Mario comes over to Roy and says, "You loss so much blood that it would normally means death for the person. Yet, you…"
"It's because of his mother," interrupts Gennai as he walks into the room.
"Oh Gennai! You're all right too!" says Roy happily.
"Your mother Ninian is half-dragon, right?"
"My father told me that. She died giving birth to me, so I never saw her in person."
"Because your mother is a half-dragon and your father is human, you are not fully dragon, but more of a human. Still, you possess some of your mother's gene. That is why your strength is as strong as a dragon's and you have amazing survival feat."
"Having a dragon mother isn't bad after all!"
"Surely it's better than having a telephone father…" says Ness.
"Oh, and how's the city's condition?"
"The Digimon are rebuilding it. It's now getting better and better," says Gennai.
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That evening, a Biyomon approaches the Smashers with a phone in her hand. "There's a phone for Captain Falcon.
"Who me?" asks CF. "Who called me?"
"He says his name is Bon-Chan."
"Bon-Chan? We don't know anyone of that name," says Ness.
CF takes the phone and answers it, "Hello?"
"Hello? Is that you, Captain Falcon? It's me, Mr. 2!"
Upon hearing this name, CF slams the phone down and hangs it, but it rings again after a few seconds, and Roy picks it up this time. "Hello? Mr. 2?"
"Ah, you sound like that red-haired boy I met!"
"What do you want from us, Mr. 2, you evil subordinate of Baroque Works?"
"Don't call me that! Crocodile is defeated and Baroque Works is disbanded, so you don't need to call me by my codename anymore."
"Please get to your point fast."
"Okay, listen: I have your warp star in my possession!"
"What! Give it back!"
"Listen to what I have to say. There is a reason for this."
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Somewhere in the desert are several fleets of tadpole-shaped spaceships, and there are Space Pirates everywhere. A SP walks up to their leader Ridley and reports, "Commander Ridley, we cannot find the warp star of the Smashers."
"Keep looking! It has to be somewhere here!" replies Ridley. "There is no way it can disappear!"
"Yes!" And the SP moves out.
"That traitor Crocodile! He thinks that Naraku doesn't know about this? He knew it all along that the sand brain is turning against him someday!" Ridley says to no one in particular. "Naraku send me here to kill him, but it seems that the Smashers have done the job for me already, so I will kill the Smashers instead, which is what I want to do most! Hahahaha!"
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"So in short, Ridley has planned an ambush for you!" explains Mr. 2 through phone.
"Why are you helping us?" asks Roy.
"Naraku finds out about Crocodile's betrayal and he wants to put to death all those who worked under him! Surely I am one of them! You are my sworn friends and that's why I'm helping you!"
"Since when are we friends?"
"Anyway, you must come to the cave on the western side of File City. Come meet my men and me over there. We will help you escape! You should move at midnight, as the Space Pirates are most likely asleep at that time."
"Well, you sound believable. Okay then, we will meet at midnight."
"Good-bye, cutie!" And the phone hangs up.
Roy explains to the Smashers about the situation and what they should do. "Can we trust an enemy?" asks Pichu.
"He sounds very sincere, and he has the warp star with him, so we have no choice but to find him," says Roy.
"I'm not very convinced about this," says CF.
"What else can we do? We will go when the clock strikes 12 at midnight."
After everything is settled, they wait until 12:00 a.m., and they all go to the gate of File City, where Master Tyrannomon is waiting for them in the Sand Blazer X-II.
"This vehicle is capable of traveling through sand unnoticed," says MT. "So nobody will notice us when we move."
"That's good," says Peach.
The Smashers climb aboard the vehicle and Gennai says to them, "Good luck to you all. You are the only ones who can save the world from the Darkling."
"We will!" replies Pichu. "Leave that to us!"
"You can trust us on that," adds Marth.
After saying good-bye to Gennai, the Sand Blazer drives off into the dark night.
After about a 30-minute ride, they finally come to the cave Mr. 2 spoke of. Mr. 2 steps out of the cave to greet them, "Good evening, my friends! You came as you said you will!"
"Okay, I'll drop you guys here," says MT. "Farewell!" So MT drives back to File City.
"We won't forget your kindness!" Peach calls to him.
"Shhh! Quiet!" Mr. 2 tells her. "The Space Pirates will hear us!" He points across the desert to some spotlights that are shining their lights at the sky. "They are very cautious of their surroundings! If we do anything right now, they will surely notice us!"
"So what do we do?" asks G&W.
"We will escape at first sight of light tomorrow. The hot sun will surely make the Pirates less active and you can use this as a chance."
So they all go into the cave and sleep.
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When morning finally came, one of Mr. 2's men rush into the cave in great panic. "Mr. 2 Bon Clay! The Space Pirates are coming here!"
"What! They spotted us?" gasps Mr. 2.
Sure enough, several desert vehicles and Space Pirates are approaching the cave from all directions. Ridley is sitting on top of the largest vehicle. "Ha! The Smashers think they can hide from me? There's no escape for them this time!"
Everyone in the cave is panicking. "What do we do? The warp star needs a running start in order to fly!" says Ness. "And we'll be shot down by the time we started flying!"
"Looks like we have to fight them," says CF.
"But there are a lot of them, and they have big guns too!" says Parry.
Mr. 2 paces around the cavern floor, wondering what to do, and an idea hits him. He turns to the Smashers and says, "I may have a plan."
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As the Space Pirate fleet gets closer, they spot a desert vehicle driving out of the cave. "There's a vehicle coming out of the cave!" reports a SP.
"That's just a decoy to lure us," says Ridley. "Ignore it."
"But the Smashers are on that vehicle!"
Ridley takes the binoculars and looks into it, and he sees Roy on the vehicle. "Uh? The Smashers are really there! All units after that vehicle!"
"Yes sir!" So all the SP units head for the runaway vehicle instead of the cave.
The Space Pirates finally caught up with the vehicle and surrounds it. "Smashers, you are surrounded! Give up immediately!" says Ridley.
Roy steps out of the vehicle and smiles. "Hehehe! You said I'm Roy? Are you sure?" Roy touches his face and changes into Mr. 2. "Haha! You got fooled! Don't you know we're the masters of disguise?"
Some of Mr. 2's men step out, and each are disguised as the Smashers. A tall man wears a helmet (Captain Falcon). A scrawny man wears a blue wig and a tiara (Marth). A bearded man wears a golden wig and a crown and also a pink dress (Peach). A fat man wears a Pichu hat (Pichu). A mustached man wears a lab coat and a headgear on his head (Dr. Mario). A short man wears a baseball cap (Ness). A thin man wears a black jumpsuit and a black mask (G&W). Another man wears a fake parrot beak (Parry).
"What!" gasps Ridley.
"He's Mr. 2, one of Crocodile's subordinates," a SP tells him.
Mr. 2 gets into fighting stance, along with his men. "We will not let you hurt the Smashers. They are our friend and we will protect them with our friendship!"
Ridley grits his teeth angrily and says, "Argh! I don't care! Kill them all!" The Space Pirates charge forward to attack
"Prepare for battle, my men! We will protect our bond of friendship until the end!"
"Yes, Mr. 2 Bon Clay!" And they all clash with the Space Pirates.
Ridley turns back to the cave and sees a warp star flying away. "The real Smashers have escaped!"
But Mr. 2 appears in front of him and says, "I will not allow you to get them!"
Pichu and Parry poke their head down the warp star to take one last glance at Mr. 2 and his men, who are having a fierce battle with Space Pirates. "Bon-Chan!" they cry out loud.
"Farewell, my friends!" Mr. 2 shouts to them one last time. "Save the world! You are our only hope left!"
"BON-CHAN! WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR KINDNESS!" cry the two as tears run down their cheek.
They last thing they saw is Mr. 2's desert vehicle exploding into flames.
Mr. 2 stayed true to what he believes in and his bond of friendship. He fought for what he believes in, and he kept his word till the end…
You might lave lived wrongly as a man,
you might have lived wrongly as a woman,
in the end, it's still the way of the human.
We may part under the blue sky,
but our friendship will never be separated.
- Mr. 2 Bon Clay
WORLD COMPLETE!
TO BE CONTINUED…
So ends this arc and also all the Dark Reactors. Mr. 2 made a good and brave sacrifice, and lets hope that it does not come to waste.
The final arc may be approaching, but this does not mean the end is near. The final arc will have lots of chapters, so it's still a long while before this story comes to the end.
Anyway, review!