DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon Adventures, Digimon 02, Digimon World 2 and 3.
Note: This chapter introduces the "forbidden skill" (hence the title chapter), and two versions of the Digimon Analyzers.
Gerjo -- I'm glad that you like MetalTyrannomon's story... I have fun writing about him. I can say that he's going to be a sub-major character for a few chapters more. Thanks for reviewing my fic again, I hope you will enjoy this chapter.
Psychorabbit -- Thanks for reviewing again and for the pointer, I really appreciate that. The sub-plots are done mainly to establish a few characters, but I didn't realize that it can be a little deviating. I'll try to work on that in future.
VENGEANCE
- Chapter 16 - The Forbidden Skill -
by
Alforce Zero
"Is this a private party, or can I join you?"
MetalTyrannomon spun around and met face to face with MagnaAngemon, the archangel digimon of Hope. His face contorted slightly in a mixed expression of fear and hate. Fear, because MagnaAngemon was one of the most powerful Ultimate digimon to date. MetalTyrannomon was not sure whether he was even a challenge to this angel, as he had digivolved only recently and he did not know the powers of the MagnaAngemon he was facing. His hatred was derived solely to the fact that MagnaAngemon was one of the perfect embodiment of goodness of digimons, and also not to mention that MetalTyrannomon was surprised by the angel's silent entry.
MagnaAngemon silently recalled the functions of the Digimon Analyzer, hoping that it could provide him with the status of the digimon he was facing. He was not so sure whether he could even do that, as usually the Digimon Analyzer required the third button of any Diginizer to be pressed before it could display any information about the digimon. However, the sound of soft electronical buzzing assured him that he would be able to analyze MetalTyrannomon perfectly. Suddenly, his vision through the transparent purple mask he was wearing was obscured with a digitized colored picture of a MetalTyrannomon and the list of its profile on the left of the picture, printed in gold digital-like letters on black background. MagnaAngemon was going to read the profile himself when suddenly the voice of a man, which sounded like Gennai, recited the information for him.
----------------- DIGIMON ANALYZER ------------------
Name : MetalTyrannomon
Attribute : Virus
Level : Ultimate
Type : Cyborg
Specialty : Machine
Attacks : Giga Destroyer II, Nuclear Laser
Power Level : 72MetalTyrannomon is a possible digivolutionary line for either Tyrannomon or DarkTyrannomon, the latter being the more common pre-digivolved form. This cyborg digimon can shoot an intensified version of the Giga Destroyer attack from both of its claws.
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"Is it just me, or did Gennai had added more information on the analyzer?" MagnaAngemon muttered silently with a slight smirk on his face. "An interesting hobby of his though, the analyzer is even more informative than before."
"While we're at it, T.K., why don't you analyze us?" suddenly the soft voice of Patamon inquired from the back of MagnaAngemon's head.
'Not a bad idea,' MagnaAngemon replied mentally, remembering that only he was able to hear Patamon's voice.
----------------- DIGIMON ANALYZER ------------------
Name : MagnaAngemon
Attribute : Vaccine
Level : Ultimate
Type : Archangel
Specialty : Holy
Attacks : Gate of Destiny, Excalibur, Soul Banish, Hand of Fate, Angel Rod
Power Level : 78This archangel digimon possesses the ability to banish its opponent to another dimension by opening a gateway with his holy sword. A high-ranking angel digimon, MagnaAngemon preserves the order of the Digital World with his intellect and holy powers combined.
A Trans Digivolved MagnaAngemon, resulting from the fusion of the Digidestined of Hope and his partner digimon Patamon, is able to recall the attacks of its pre-digivolutionary forms at will. This is yet another recently-discovered fact as Transdigivolution is newly introduced.
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'Cool!' Patamon squeeled excitedly. 'This will definitely give us an edge for battling other digimons!'
'Way cool,' MagnaAngemon agreed. 'I've always wanted to try out the Hand of Fate attack! And Patamon, what's Soul Banish?'
'I have no idea myself, T.K. I've never use it before... you know just how few times MagnaAngemon made his appearance?'
'Well I guess we have to test it out to find out.'
MetalTyrannomon decided to take the offensive after seeing that MagnaAngemon was somehow preoccupied with something, and quickly energized both of his claws. Strange orange spheres began to form within the claws, and after a while the spheres elongated to take on a cyllindrical-like shape. The cyllinders began to solidify and became two missiles. MetalTyrannomon was going to attack with his deadliest attack, the Giga Destroyer II! This attack was strong and was able to blow up a small city with one blow.
"Giga Destroyer II!!" he roared, and blasted the missiles towards MagnaAngemon.
'T.K. look-out!'
The whole time, MagnaAngemon never took his gaze away from MetalTyrannomon even when he was analyzing the profiles from the Digimon Analyzer. Thus, he saw the incoming attack clearly and knew just the way to counter it. Raising the glimmering violet energy blade on his right hand, MagnaAngemon charged towards the incoming attack and slashed the blade towards the two missiles. The impact from the counter attack caused an explosion, which destroyed the missiles. MagnaAngemon's blade however remained the same.
"What the --? How is that possible?!" MetalTyrannomon demanded, as MagnaAngemon descended slowly until he reached the ground.
"In my world, Excalibur is known as the strongest sword ever made in history," MagnaAngemon replied with a grin.
'Indestructable sounds more like it,' Patamon chided.
MetalTyrannomon was perplexed after hearing the reply. No, it was not the fact that the angel's blade was unbeatable. He was merely surprised that MagnaAngemon mentioned that it was the strongest sword in his world. Not to mention, this MagnaAngemon was acting a little bit differently from what he had thought every MagnaAngemon should be. He never had imagined a MagnaAngemon who would even crack a smile, as the archangel was known to be a serious, no-nonsense digimon.
"What do you mean, your world?" MetalTyrannomon eyed his opponent sceptically. "Aren't you from the Digital World as well?"
"Did I forget to mention that I am actually a Trans Digivolved MagnaAngemon?"
"Trans..what in the blazes is that?"
"To put it bluntly, a hybrid MagnaAngemon resulted from a fusion of a Digidestined and his partner digimon!"
"Hybrid?!"
"Enough talking. Time for me to teach you a lesson for invading this town, MetalTyrannomon!" MagnaAngemon raised his right arm and pulled it slightly towards the back. As the violet blade entered its chamber, his knuckle glowed with heavenly white and gold lights. MagnaAngemon felt a surge of energy focussed on his knuckle, energizing it with pure energy. 'Time to test out Angemon's attack,'he said mentally.
"Hand of Fate!!" he summoned, and released a massive jet of gold-white energy beam full of holy energy towards MetalTyrannomon, and successfully hit the cyborg dinosaur's chest who was not anticipating the attack. As the attack was launched at close proximity, the force of it caused MetalTyrannomon to lose his balance and he fell onto the grounds. Fortunately his metallic armor, engrafted on his whole body, had protected him from being hurt. A scorch mark from MagnaAngemon attack was however visible on his chest, which angered him greatly that he forgot about his earlier slight fear of the angel digimon. Grunting slightly, MetalTyrannomon got up instantly and settled back on his feet again.
"You'll pay for that, you angel brat!" he seethed in rage and advanced towards MagnaAngemon.
The angel saw the danger of being knocked out by the bigger cyborg, and instantly leapt out of the way. Being smaller, MagnaAngemon had the advantage in terms of agility, he could easily evade himself from being hit or lashed by the clumsier MetalTyrannomon.
"You have to do better than that if you wanna beat me!" MagnaAngemon declared while hovering on air.
"Gah! I'll show you!" MetalTyrannomon retaliated and thrusted his right claw on air. "Nuclear Laser!" The attack was swift, but contain less amount of energy as it was done in haste and out of anger.
MagnaAngemon shielded himself easily with the violet shield on his left hand.
"Alas, all good things must come to an end, MetalTyrannomon. Personally, I regret ending the battle myself as I haven't test out a couple of my attacks yet. But..." The energy blade Excalibur materialized instantly from the bracelet he wore on his right hand. Next, he raised his right hand towards the sky, and then made a circular motion in front of him. Streaks of gold band of energy trailed the blade's movements, and a gateway to the other dimension appeared.
Meanwhile, ExVeemon had his hands full battling the remaining one Darkrizamon and one DarkTyrannomon. Apparently, after seeing their comrades failed miserably to even cause as much as a scratch on ExVeemon, the two dark digimons became more careful, and planned their attacks carefully. Thus, ExVeemon spent longer time fighting them off. Not that he minded, ExVeemon always enjoyed a good challenge.
Davis was standing somewhere near the imprisoned elders of Harmona and the destroyed statues. He however was fully engrossed with the battle, completely forgetting about the elders. As the elders were watching the battle as well, did not bother to call out for Davis to help them as they knew there was nothing Davis could do to free them.
"Go on, ExVeemon! Show them what you're made of!" Davis cried in high spirits, shaking his right fist on mid-air. Suddenly, something small and colorful coming his way attracted his attention. It was ToyAgumon, and behind him were the three Minomons. "Oh man, what are they thinking?" Davis groaned, and ran over to fetch them. When he reached up to them, he was about to scold the four little digimons for endangering their own lives when two DarkTyrannomons (DarkTyrannomon I and II) and one Darkrizamon (Darkrizamon I) suddenly surrounded them. Those dark digimons were the ones who ExVeemon had so easily defeated earlier.
"It looks like this is your final destination, children," Darkrizamon I said menacingly. Davis noted that he was slumping, his right leg seemed to be having a cut. From the black fires erupting from his lower limb, trails of colorless liquid seemed to be flowing out from the cut. Davis realized that this must be the Darkrizamon whom his partner had attacked earlier with his laser.
"Your partner might be strong, boy," DarkTyrannomon I added, baring his yellowed teeth dangerously towards Davis, who was not intimidated at all. "But he is too preoccupied to save all of you."
Before Davis could reply, Minomon I shot back. "You're nothing but a bunch of big bullies. Cowards! You're picking somebody weaker than you! Why if I have enough power to defeat you, I.. I'll kick your mouth so hard you won't even be able to talk!"
"Yeah, yeah! Cowards!" Minomons II and III chanted.
DarkTyrannomon I was perplexed, but Darkrizamon I slinked his way nearer towards the three In trainings.
"Such brave words coming from three weaklings like you. Why, you three even look familiar. Now where did I meet you," Darkrizamon I said in mock wonder while staring into the eyes of the three Minomons. "Ah yes... you are those Minomons that entertained me a few days ago. What do you say if we have some fun again. My legs are surely itching to kick the three of you again."
Davis immediately saw the danger coming towards the Minomons. He quickly jumped into Darkrizamon I's way as he advanced towards the three Minomons. Strangely enough, so did ToyAgumon, and about the same time too.
"Don't you dare hurt them, you evil digimon!" Davis warned them angrily.
"Look who has decided to become a hero," Darkrizamon I taunted.
"Toy Flame!!" ToyAgumon shouted, and a red toy miniature of a flame appeared in front of the toy, shooting itself towards Darkrizamon I. The Champion digimon however swatted the attack away as easily as getting rid of a fly.
"Surely you don't think such attack could harm me?" Darkrizamon I said, and slapped ToyAgumon away. The toy digimon landed on his head onto the metallic ground with a loud thud. Davis saw that ToyAgumon stirred slightly, but he did not get up.
"You big bully!" Davis immediately tackled Darkrizamon I, and landed a punch onto his torso. The digimon was caught off guard, but Davis's knuckle was scorched by the black flames flaring on the dark digimon's body. Angered and humiliated at the same time, Darkrizamon I kicked Davis angrily, causing the boy to fall onto the ground. It was a blow too hard on Davis's stomach, and he had to clutch his stomach in order to ease the pain.
ExVeemon was extremely angered when he saw what was happening to Davis. He soared instantly into the mid-air, forgetting completely about his two opponents while rushing to his partner's side.
"No one strikes a blow onto my partner and gets away with it!" ExVeemon hollered madly. "Vee..."
"Dread Fire!!"
"Fire Blast!!"
Suddenly without any warnings, two attacks hit the enraged ExVeemon from behind. They came from DarkTyrannomon III and Darkrizamon II, whom ExVeemon had so completely abandoned. Not wanting to waste any valuable opportunity to take down the mythical dragon digimon, the two dark digimons combined their signature attacks to deliver a powerful blow towards ExVeemon just as soon as he had his back on them.
ExVeemon yelled in pain after being hit with the attacks. He felt that his wings were burning, and his powers were slowly fading. His back was burnt from the two fire based attacks, and he could no longer maintained his Champion form. Back into his Rookie form, Veemon fell onto the metallic grounds, too weak to move. He attempted to crawl his way towards Davis, not willing to give up. However, his attempt was stopped when DarkTyrannomon III landed his left feet onto Veemon's back, and pressed him firmly onto the ground.
"Da..vis..."
Davis had never felt so helpless in his life before. Wiping a trickle of blood on his mouth, Davis tried to stand up but by attempting to do so the pain on his stomach multiplied so greatly he had to sit back on the ground.
"Veemon!!"
MagnaAngemon fixed his gaze onto MetalTyrannomon just as the Gate of Destiny was about to be formed, when Davis's voice distracted him. Looking on his right, MagnaAngemon felt as if blood was being drained on his face. His friends were losing the battle, and he had to end his quickly to help Davis and Veemon. However, the distraction cost MagnaAngemon greatly as he saw two grey missiles launched towards him and an orange laser beam was in between of the two missiles.
"No!" MagnaAngemon tried to evade, but he was too late as MetalTyrannomon's combined attacks of Nuclear Laser and Giga Destroyer II had blasted him on close proximity. Out of his concern for his friends' safety, MagnaAngemon failed to hear MetalTyrannomon's calls of attacks. An explosion resulted from the collision between the attacks and his body, and the angel digimon felt his powers being drained away from him. Just as he was about to land on the grounds, his body glimmered with faint white light and separated back into T.K. and Patamon, who both seemed to be hurt. T.K. was coughing non-stop, his white shirt completely torn while his black tank-top and brown khaki pants had a few scorch marks all over. His face was soiled with dirt. Patamon was too weakened to fight, his wings ached and there were bruises on his body.
"Damnit, we were so close," T.K. muttered as he struggled to get up.
"Not so tough now, are you?" MetalTyrannomon said mockingly, and broke into a loud victorious laughter.
From the forests, the digimons of Harmona were watching helplessly as their only hope, their saviors, were soundly defeated by the Chaos Forces. They did not know what else to do. They had never thought that it would end like that.
"We can't let them fight our battle, and we can't live our lives in fear forever!" Starmon declared, trying to raise the spirits of the digimons to fight back the Chaos Forces.
"The Digidestined need our help, we must take actions now to save them. They fought our battle!" Deputymon added. "Just look at ToyAgumon and the Minomons. They are only a Rookie and three In Trainings! The majority of us, Champions and Armors, are forever in shame if we could not measure up to their bravery and patriotism!"
Fugamon raised his head, which was lowered shamefully when Deputymon was making his brief speech earlier.
"I'm going to help them!" he declared suddenly, and loudly. "Who's with me?"
Loud murmurs were heard among the digimons. Some of them were anxious to fight for the first time of their lives, some were agitated, a few were still scared while a number of them were ready to give their best shot.
Three Woodmons stepped forward from the large crowd of digimons. Following them from behind were a Veggiemon, a RedVeggiemon, a Kiwimon, a Floramon, a Fungusmon, a Palmon, and one other digimon whom looked exactly like Palmon, but she had a paler shade of green as the color of her skin, and the flower on her head was purple instead of fuchsia. This digimon was known as Alraumon.
"We nature digimons are ready to defend our forest and our home from those evil Chaos Forces!" one of the Woodmon declared.
"Glad to have you in the team, nature digimons!" Starmon beamed proudly.
Next, a Gomamon crawled towards Starmon, Deputymon and Fugamon.
"The marine digimons are ready, sirs!" Gomamon chirped exuberantly.
"That's very good news," Fugamon noted.
Two Golemons from the mountains subsequently followed suits. "We digimons of the mountains have agreed to fight alongside you."
Soon, all digimons shouted their agreement to fight. All of them were ready to drive the Chaos Forces out of their beloved town.
"With all these forces of goodness, we'll surely win this one," Starmon said with confidence.
"Today we'll win back Harmona!" Deputymon declared proudly, and raised both hands towards the sky. Everyone else applauded and roared with renewed spirits as they all started to march towards the town square, ready to chase the Chaos Forces out of their beloved town. No longer they were the cowardly ones whom the bad guys could bully whenever they wanted. Now, they were ready to do anything they could to free their town.
"So, little brats..." Darkrizamon I said menacingly as he advanced towards the three little Minomons, who were all hovering backwards slowly. "How would you like to have a little game before I end your pathetic lives?" The other Chaos Forces broke out with laughter as they watched Darkrizamon I cornered the three In-trainings towards a building. ToyAgumon tried to stop him by attempting to pull the dark lizard's leg, but upon contact with the dark flames on his body ToyAgumon cried in pain, his hands were badly scorched. Darkrizamon simply kicked ToyAgumon away before diverting his attentions back to the Minomons.
"Ss..stop! Don't hurt them!" Veemon cried out helplessly as he attempted to stand up. Unfortunately, his back was sore from the attacks he'd taken from the enemies, making him fall back onto the metallic ground. Davis had to help Veemon by supporting his weight on his body, but their height differences just made that impossible. So, Davis resorted to lifting Veemon up, and craddling him on his arms. Veemon scowled slightly, but he knew his partner meant well and did not protest. Silently though, he was grateful that Gatomon was not around.
Davis took Veemon near to the place where ToyAgumon was laying. He was still conscious, and did not suffer from any serious injury. Unless of course, if excluded his burnt hands.
"Can you still Digivolve or Armor Digivolve, Veemon?" Davis asked slowly. "Those Minomons won't stand a chance against that overgrown lizard. We must do something."
"I'm willing to try, Davis."
"OK, here goes! Diginizer Energize!" Nothing happened. Veemon was still, Veemon.
"Try Armor Digivolve," Veemon said.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" Still, nothing happened.
"I guess you're drained out of energy, Veemon," ToyAgumon sighed sadly.
Davis cast a look towards where MagnaAngemon and MetalTyrannomon were battling, hoping that MagnaAngemon had better luck than him. Instead he saw T.K. and Patamon, beaten and battered, trying to run away from MetalTyrannomon.
"What'll we do now, Davis?" Veemon asked, his voice sounded angry and sad at the same time.
Davis hung his head down and looked into his partner's large red-brown orbs. "I don't know, Veemon. I feel so helpless."
"Say goodbye now, kiddies!!" Darkrizamon roared, and raised his right hand towards the cowering Minomons. Crimson and black aura glowed from it, and the flames on his hand flared even bigger. "Dread..." His face contorted into a hideous smirk as he was about to finish calling his signature attack's name. "... Fire!!"
Davis, Veemon and ToyAgumon gasped in horror when the attack was blasted towards the three Minomons, who were all huddled together in fear for their lives. It happened in the blink of the eye, and the flames had even caught the building's wooden wall, burning it as well. Smokes filled the surroundings as they heard Darkrizamon cackled maniacally.
"You.. monster!!" Davis yelled in rage, and he felt a tear started to form in his eyes. "How could you!" he cried, wiping his eyes immediately using the short sleeve of his shirt. His heart sank, he didn't even heard the Minomons scream. Their lives ended instantly, and mercilessly in the hands of a Chaos Force.
In anger, Veemon had forgotten about his injuries and got up instantly, although he winced as the pains built up again on him. Hadn't it been for ToyAgumon, who rushed to help him Veemon would had toppled back onto the ground. However, Veemon was much too heavy for the smaller ToyAgumon, and both of them fell onto the grounds again.
Darkrizamon I turned back from the burning building, and walked back slowly towards Davis, Veemon and ToyAgumon.
"Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!" He roared again into a laughter. A hideously sounded laughter which matched his evil personality.
Davis had to summon every self-control measures that he had known of to stop himself from flunging towards Darkrizamon I, suppressing the urge to deliver a kick onto the lizard digimon's face.
Darkrizamon I walked up towards Davis. "You're pathetic, Digidestined! See..."
He was cut off instantly, when out from the thick smokes, flashes of green and violet were seen. It started off as faint lights, and grew brighter every seconds. Amazingly, the lights had somehow tamed the raging flames, slowly extinguishing it in the process. As the smokes faded, a tall humanoid shadow was seen within the thin smokes.
"It can't be..." Davis said in disbelief, his eyes bulged as he took in the shadow. He recognized the shadow instantly.
Darkrizamon I was seething in anger. "There's no WAY they could..."
"Apparently, they did," ToyAgumon said flatly.
The tall shadow walked out from the smokes, revealing an insectoid human-like digimon adorned with deep green and black armor. He stood impressively at roughly nine feet tall, completely towering Darkrizamon I. As the digimon walked closer, Darkrizamon I found himself unwittingly taking several steps backward.
"Stingmon!" Davis breathed in awe.
The digimon, Stingmon, glanced at Davis and nodded in acknowledgement.
"How could it be?"
Stingmon stopped walking, and turned to see Davis while keeping an eye towards Darkrizamon I.
"I.. I guess the three of us are Stingmon now," Stingmon said hesitantly.
"But how? You've completely bypassed your Rookie levels. I don't know that that is even possible." Davis decided to check on his Digimon Analyzer for explaination.
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Name : Stingmon
Attribute : Virus
Level : Champion
Type : Insect
Specialty : Fly
Attacks : Spiking Strike, Insect Antenna, Moon Shooter
Power Level : 62Champion of the insect digimons, Stingmon is known to be fearless and dangerous. Be aware of his Moon Shooter, as it would paralyze the enemy completely by using needles coated with one of the deadliest venom in the Digital World.
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Davis realized that the Digimon Analyzer was once again, had been improved by Gennai but decided that the moment was not suitable for him to make any snide comments. Instead, he looked in awe towards Stingmon.
"You really look awesome, Stingmon," Davis commented with a smile. Veemon and ToyAgumon stood by his side and admired Stingmon's now form. They found that it was really hard to believe that the three Minomons they had come to known earlier were now fused as one, as Stingmon. No longer sounded childish, Stingmon sounded a lot more mature and confident, but one thing he had in common with his former three selves was that they had the same streak of bravery and determination.
"Thank you," Stingmon replied with a slight nod.
"The Minomons' determination must had triggered their digivolution straight to Champion form," Veemon reasoned with himself, not realizing that he had said it out loud.
"Not necessarily," ToyAgumon said thoughtfully, causing Veemon to start slightly. "It is extremely rare for digimons to skip a level while digivolving, and it is completely unheard of for three digimons to merge as one... permanently, and bypassed one digivolutionary level."
Davis nodded. "Sounds like Stingmon here has broken all the odds."
"I am ready to defend my home town, and the first thing I want to do is to get rid these slimy, good-for-nothing pests out from Harmona!" Stingmon declared, and advanced towards the now-cowering-in-fear Darkrizamon I. The dark lizard knew that he was not a match for Stingmon. He looked pleadingly at the other friends, but suddenly a loud roar of noise was heard coming from the forests.
Digimons, of various types, shapes and sizes were seen running like mad towards the town square. On the sky, several airborne digimons were seen swooping down from the sky. Out from the river flowing near the square, marine digimons jumped out and joined their land friends. In a matter of a minute, the town square was surrounded by the digimons of Harmona.
"Finally..." ToyAgumon said softly yet happily, tears welling up in his eyes. "They are going to fight back!"
"For Harmona!!" Starmon and Deputymon roared together, and their cry was chorused by all the digimons around the town square.
"We've had enough!" Guardromon stepped out from the crowd.
"Yeah! No longer you can push us around!" Fugamon followed suit.
T.K. and Patamon were amazed to see that the whole villagers of Harmona had finally decided to retaliate. From the crowd, they saw a winged zebra-like digimon soared into the sky, and swooped down towards them. The digimon landed impressively beside T.K. and Patamon.
"Quickly Digidestined, on my back," the winged zebra instructed, the deep and slightly hoarse voice being a dead giveaway that the digimon was a male. He looked like a Unimon, only the stripes on his body made him different from the former.
T.K. held Patamon in one hand, and the digimon kneeled lower to make it easier for T.K. to climb onto him.
"Who are you?" T.K. asked just as he had securely placed himself and Patamon on the digimon's sturdy back.
The digimon glanced its masked head towards them. "I'm ShimaUnimon. Hold on to my body firmly, we're going to take off now. The two of you are in no condition to fight anymore, and I'm in charge to ensure of your safety. You'll be perfectly safe on air."
T.K. grinned nervously. "Whatever you say, ShimaUnimon. And thanks."
"My pleasure."
As the battle on Harmona escalated, the interdimensional Digital World conqueror Chaos Specter had a plan of his own. While awaiting the return of Chaos WarGreymon with the Zeed Crystal to complete his experimentation of the prophecy onto the captive DemiDevimon, he decided to train his pet feline digimon, the BlackGatomon whom he fondly named as Catrina. He had chosen the Protocol Jungle, located somewhere behind the mountains that lined the path between the central and south quadrants of the East Sector.
Protocol Jungle had a reputation to be the sanctuary of hostile digimons, and digimons around did not dare to even step a mile from the mountains which hid the jungle. Several airborne digimons however managed to get a glimpse on how the Protocol Jungle looked like from air without having to worry for their safety. Strange purple mists covered the jungle from above, depriving the jungle of the lights. The trees there were unnaturally big and had thick canopies. In the middle of the jungle was a stone clearing with a black tower on the middle. The clearing led to a stone-like building which looked like those of Aztec civilations dated centuries back. The building looked as if it was deserted for a long time, and was aptly named the Protocol Ruins.
"Are you ready now, Catrina?" Chaos Specter asked his feline companion, who was walking cautiously behind him.
Catrina looked up, her determination was evident by her glowing yellow eyes.
"As ready as I'll ever be," she replied with confident.
"Do you think you are able to defeat up to three or four Champion digimons without digivolving further?"
"I.. I think so. It depends on the opponents I'm about to face, why?"
"Well, the trainings I put those Chaos Generals through during their early years were like that. As the result they progressed even quicker than I had ever imagined. But I do not want to force you to undergo such regiment. We will see how much you have progressed with your trainings, should you ever feel need to digivolve do not hesitate to do so, understand?" Chaos Specter asked sternly.
The small black feline digimon nodded thoughtfully. "Yes."
"Tell me, are you now able to control your digivolution?"
"I've mastered my Ultimate level but I'll need more time to sharpen my skills on that."
Chaos Specter's mouth broke into a slight smile as his brilliant green eyes caught on some movements within the darkness of the jungles. Three pairs of red eyes were glowing in the dark.
"Catrina, here is your chance. Rest assured that I will not interfere with your battle unless I think it is necessary."
"Got it." Catrina looked wryly towards the three digimons who had walked out from the darkness. One of them resembled a minotaur of the legends, the second digimon was a white and grey gorilla with a cannon as its right hand and the third one was a somewhat bizzare creature. In some ways it looked like a Halsemon, but had red reptillian skin with yellow stripes and green hair was seen growing on its back. It however had an almost identical silver head armor which was worn by a Halsemon.
Chaos Specter stood at a nearby tree not far from where his pet digimon was facing the three digimons. An energy-based green visor suddenly appeared in front of his eyes after a soft short command muttered by the young man. Chaos Specter directed his attention towards each of the three digimons that Catrina was facing.
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Minotarumon, Champion level digimon of Virus type. His attacks are Darkside Quake and Demon Arm.
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Gorillamon, Champion level digimon of Data type. Its attacks are Power Attack and Energy Cannon.
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Sethmon, Armor level digimon of Vaccine type. Its attacks are Heat Storm and Power Driver.
"Catrina, you have the chance to test out your skills against all three Virus, Data and Vaccine type digimons. Use this opportunity well, and do not be afraid as they are in equivalent levels as you."
"Afraid? Of them? You must be joking..." Catrina said dryly as she assessed her partners.
The three digimons whom had cornered Catrina stared at both intruders with their glowing red eyes. They however did not say anything apart from growling endlessly. However it was evident that Chaos Specter and Catrina's arrivals were not welcomed from their expressions. Finally one of them spoke up.
"Intruders! What business do you have here!" Sethmon growled fiercely, and flames began to erupt from his body. Minotarumon and Gorillamon both took a battle stance and waited for the order.
Catrina laughed a little and stared intently towards the Armor digimon.
"My master seems to think that this is an ideal training ground for me," she said with a smirk. "Apparently, he's right. You three boys here will do just fine as my new scratching posts!"
"How dare you!" Sethmon glowered angrily towards Catrina, taking offence of what she had just said earlier. "Leave now, or we'll be forced to attack you!"
"All three of you together? My, for shame boys! Three of you bullying a little girl-mon such as me? Why don't we take it on one-on-one, I dare you!"
The three digimons looked at each other confusedly.
"If you don't leave now with that human, then we'll have no choice."
"Well then. Which one of you boys are gonna be first?"
Gorillamon stepped forward, nodding towards Sethmon indicating that he was volunteering. Sethmon nodded, it gave him the chance to assess the BlackGatomon's strength.
"If it isn't the gorilla. You're a data type aren't you?" Catrina asked Gorillamon nonchalantly. "Don't you know that I have an edge in fighting Data types such as you?"
Gorillamon snorted as he powered up his cannons. "We'll just have to see about that, won't we? Energy Cannon!!" he bellowed, and pointed the cannon towards Catrina. White-yellow energy wave blasted towards Catrina, whom had no choice but to jump out a way as she did not have any counter attack to use against Gorillamon. Quick-witted in nature, Catrina immediately made a mental list of her opponent's weak and strong points. Knowing that while large, Gorillamon was not the brightest or the fastest of digimons. She could use that to her advantage. However Catrina had one slight disadvantage, both her signature attacks were close-ranged attacks meaning that she would have to get closer to Gorillamon in order to strike. It was risky, but Catrina decided to go for it and darted her way towards Gorillamon with great stealth and speed that she reached her opponent within a couple of seconds. Jumping to Gorillamon's eye level, she lashed out her purple-gloved claws.
"Lightning Claw!!" she yelled, and left three scratch marks on his head. Gorillamon howled in pain and retreated instantly.
Minotarumon was next, he darted towards Catrina just as the feline was about to land on the ground. Before she could do anything, Minotarumon knocked her head hard with his metallic fist. Catrina was angered and hissed out of rage.
"All the hissing won't get you anywhere, little pussycat! Now, feel my Darkside Quake!" Minotarumon stomped his metallic fist on the grounds and immediately the grounds cracked from the place where the bull-man digimon had hit towards where Catrina was standing. She made a graceful back-flip to avoid herself from being trapped inside the crack.
"Nice move, bull face," she commented while rubbing her head where Minotarumon had hit him earlier. "But I'm just getting started."
"You've got guts, BlackGatomon," Minotarumon said and took a fighting stance.
Catrina now realised that her chance of fighting the three digimons were not on her favor while she remained at her Champion level. She was only able to attack Gorillamon due to perfect timing. Defeating Minotarumon would be hard as he seemed to know of her weakness and never stood close to her for a long time. Sethmon was perhaps her toughest opponent, him being a Vaccine meaning that he had the advantage over her as she was a Virus type.
She closed her eyes and her long purple-striped tail wriggled slightly. A glittering silver Tail ring was present on her tail. It had the Digital World alphabets engraved on it, which made it looked just the same as the gold Tail ring possessed by Kari's Gatomon. Catrina felt a wave of energy surged inside of her body as the silver ring began to glow bright red. Waves of soft orange aura enveloped her body. Her whole body emitted shimmering silver and orange lights as she grew slowly into a figure of a slim woman.
"BlackGatomon Digivolve to..."
Long hairs grew from her head and two long tails emerged from the woman's figure. Her hands grew longer and ended in large shining crimson claws. Two cat-like ears materialized from her head, and yellow puffed trousers with leopard designs and a red leotard formed around her legs and torso. Her hands, legs and tails suddenly jingled as gold bracelets formed. Each of her tail received two bracelets, while each leg got one bracelet and four bracelets for each hand. Even her long, crimson nails had gold rings attached on them. The woman's face was exotic, with green eyes and full lips red as rose. Her hair was red too, long and braided along the end. The transformation sequence was completed when her arms, legs and tails were revealed to be dark brown with patterns similar to a leopard's and a gold tiara formed around her head. Lastly, a purple transparent veil attached itself to the lower ends of Catrina's ears, covering her mouth and she struck a sultry pose.
"Bastemon!"
Chaos Specter was slightly awed by the transformation, as he had never seen Catrina digivolved before.
----------DIGIMON ANALYZER-----------
Bastemon, Ultimate level digimon of Virus type. Her attacks are Vampire Dance and Helter Skelter, which has the ability to de-digivolve other digimons against their will!
Catrina (as Bastemon) was ecstatic after digivolving, while Gorillamon, Minotarumon and Sethmon stared at her disbelievingly. Realizing that she had digivolved to an Ultimate level digimon they decided to attack her together, hoping that it would defeat her. They surrounded her closely, but Catrina just smirked as if was bored of the whole process.
"My, you boys are forward... oh all right. One dance, and that's it!" she remarked with a playful yet seductive smile. "Vampire Dance!!" She spinned herself slowly, but gradually gaining her speed until she began to glow with orange aura. Three orange bats materialized from the aura and surrounded her opponents around their heads. Suddenly the three digimons looked at Catrina blankly after the bats entered their minds.
"Lesson number one, never mess with me or I'll confuse you with my Vampire Dance attack."
Bastemon then proceeded by performing yet another dance steps, this time it started slow but became gradually quicker and faster. Her legs glowed with orange aura instead of her whole body. She grinned sinisterly as she approached the digimons one by one, kicking them hard towards the chest and sent them all flying away. On the air, the three digimons glowed and became smaller.
"And lesson number two, be careful of my Helter Skelter attack as it can..." she paused as the three formerly Champion and Armor digimosn had regressed back into their Rookie stages of three identical Tsukaimons. "... de-digivolve you."
The Tsukaimons were shocked to find themselves back in their Rookie forms, and scurried away back into the forests. Catrina attempted to chase after them, but Chaos Specter stopped her .
"Catrina, I think that is enough for one day. Let us head to the Protocol Ruins now, shall we? I think you will find more opponents there while I have to look for the master of the Protocol Ruins," Chaos Specter said calmly as he walked towards Catrina. He looked around the jungle for a while and nodded slowly.
"What do you have in mind?" Catrina asked while she de-digivolved back to her BlackGatomon form.
"Now that I think of it, this place is perfect for me to complete my experiment on that DemiDevimon."
DarkTyrannomon III found himself to be surrounded by nature type digimons, led by the three Woodmons. They inititated the attack before the dark tyrannosaurus digimon could even defend himself, using their signature attacks to instantly drain his power. One Woodmon was deadly enough, but with three of them absorbing his powers DarkTyrannomon III's chance of winning was bleak. He however, was a strong Champion as all members of the Chaos Forces had their powers enhanced by Chaos Specter. He struggled hard to ram the Woodmons away to break free, but Palmon and Alraumon both restrained his feet using their Poison Ivy and Nemesis Ivy attacks respectively, while Floramon launched her Rain of Pollen technique to obscure his vision. Fungusmon soon followed by throwing poisonous mushrooms towards his eye, where Floramon's attack had hit him earlier. All of them then combined their attacks together to deliver one final blow towards the enemy, and used their all to do that. Being hit point blanc, DarkTyrannomon III was the first to fall as he combusted into data particles after receiving the attacks.
The marine and air digimons joined forces to corner Darkrizamon II to a nearby river, where Seadramon and Depthmon, an Armor digimon of the deep, were waiting. Airdramon began the attack by summoning his God Typhoon attack which threw the dark lizard into the river. As a flame type, Darkrizamon II's weakness was of course, water. The dark flames on his body were immediately extinguished, and Seadramon took the opportunity to freeze Darkrizamon II, giving Depthmon a perfect chance to strike a fatal blow to the lizard. Thus, another Chaos Force was gone.
Stingmon, newly digivolved from the three Minomons, demanded to settle the score with Darkrizamon I himself. Starmon and Deputymon thus diverted their attentions towards DarkTyrannomons I and II. Veemon, still weakened from his previous battle, stayed close to Davis and ToyAgumon, with Fugamon and Guardromon guarding them. ShimaUnimon, with T.K. and Patamon, hovered above them. Several digimons approached the battlezone carefully, wanting to help out Starmon and Deputymon who had their hands full trying to keep the DarkTyrannomons at bay. Fugamon joined the battle scene, leaving a few Rookie digimons and ShimaUnimon to guard Davis and Veemon. The fire ogre was fairly strong, and with help of the newcomers - three Champion digimons known as Drimogemon and two Golemons - they managed to launch a surprise attack on the DarkTyrannomons just as when Starmon and Deputymon were losing. Now that they had evened up the score in terms of powers, the good digimons of Harmona fought with all they had to beat the DarkTyrannomons. Outnumbered, the two Chaos Forces were no match for the combined powers of six Champion digimons. Starmon delivered a mighty final blow towards DarkTyrannomon II, aided by Deputymon's Russian Roulette attack, and successfully deleted the dark digimon for good. Fugamon followed suit and fought fire with fire with DarkTyrannomon I. Drimogemon and the Golemons used brute force to smash DarkTyrannomon I around, weakening it to make Fugamon's job a lot easier. The Golemons then hurled DarkTyrannomon towards Fugamon, whom had his fiery club in his hands. Fugamon yanked his club onto the dark digimon's head as hard as he could muster, and deleted him successfully.
Trying to free the elders, the thunder-based digimons such as Thundermon and his stronger Armored counterpart, Thunderbirdmon, electrocuted the dome prison while being extra-careful not to hurt the elders trapped within. Meanwhile, some of the strongest digimons of Harmona cornered MetalTyrannomon, trying to stall for time before the elders could be set free.
The battle between Stingmon and Darkrizamon I was brewing to a close. Darkrizamon I began to feel exhausted while Stingmon kept on going, without any slightest of intention to stop. Both digimons however had inflicted some damages to each other, but Stingmon had the armors to protect him so the injuries were minimal. Darkrizamon I however was not so lucky, although the flames on his body usually prevent digimons from touching him, Stingmon's Spiking Strike attack was based on energy similar to MagnaAngemon's Excalibur.
"Give it up, Darkrizamon! You''ll never win this battle!" Stingmon shouted, and raised his right hand which had a purple energy blade shimmering on it. He zoomed towards Darkrizamon, shouting "Spiking Strike!!"
"In your dreams, foolish insect!" Darkrizamon I taunted, evading the attack successfully. However, he was not as comfident as he sounded. Instead, he was afraid. He never expected the young digimons that he had so enjoyed bullying a few days ago were the same digimon as the fearsome warrior in front of him. He could no longer fight, but tried to prolong the battle, hoping that something would happen to his favor. No such luck, as Stingmon had noticed him being tired.
"What's the matter? Don't tell me you're tired already, lizard!" Stingmon taunted, but keeping his attention glued to his opponent. The antenna on his head suddenly perked up, and pointed towards Darkrizamon I. "Insect Antenna!" he bellowed, and streaks of crimson lightnings erupted from the antenna, going straight towards Darkrizamon I's legs. The attack was so fast that Darkrizamon I did not have enough time to run, and he howled in pain as the attack grazed his fiery feet. Stingmon took the opportunity and darted quickly towards his opponent, and launched a close-range Spiking Strike straight towards Darkrizamon I's heart. He watched for a second as Darkrizamon I's expression contorted as he tried to resist the pain. His eyes bulged wide, but before he could say anything, slowly his body decomposed with data particles slowly leaving his body, starting from the heart region. Stingmon retracted his hand and lowered his head slowly as he trembled a little, watching Darkrizamon I disappearing slowly in front of his eyes. After a while, Darkrizamon I was completely gone.
"I.. I did it," Stingmon stuttered. "I killed a digimon." There was no pleasure in his voice. Instead, it sounded bitter.
"You've done what you should have done, Stingmon," Veemon called out towards the insect warrior.
"Darkrizamon was working for evil, you did the right thing by destroying him!" ToyAgumon said encouragingly.
Stingmon nodded, and although it was hard to see, somehow his expression lightened.
MetalTyrannomon was aghast. All of his minions were gone. Chaos Piedmon would certainly blame him for this. From afar he saw that Thundermon and Thunderbirdmon were almost successful in freeing their elders. He was thinking fast, finding a way to escape. All three enders were Ultimate, and had more experience than him although MetalTyrannomon actually held the better advantage as he had more firepowers. However, he was overcomed with fear. If he run, Chaos Piedmon would hunt him down and destroy him himself. He had promised to make sure that the situation in Harmona was under complete control. He had no where else to go, and he could not return to Tyranno Valley as MasterTyrannomon had banished him for his betrayal.
A thought came to his mind. A plan, which MetalTyrannomon thought was the only way out.
'Evil digimons don't get reconfigured. It is the natural laws of the Digital World, for they are the threats to the peace and all that is good.' MetalTyrannomon recalled what he had been told when he was young, back at Tyranno Valley.
"They don't get reconfigured, could it be that their data particles are floating around?" MetalTyrannomon wondered out loud, earning odd looks from the digimons surrounding him, who were hesitating to attack as MetalTyrannomon did not attempt to attack them beforehand.
'Never use the forbidden technique as it will corrupt your heart, making it void of all goodness.'
Yet another thought occured to him. "Yes, that's the only way," MetalTyrannomon said maliciously, his eyes glinting with greed and satisfaction. "I'll never have to fear Chaos Specter, Chaos Piedmon or MasterTyrannomon ever again! No more I'll be working under them!"
He extended his hands wide and roared loudly, causing all the digimons around him to take a few steps back.
"What is he doing?" T.K. asked worriedly.
"I have no idea," ShimaUnimon replied, sounding unsure with himself.
"Me too," Patamon said. "But it can't be good."
All of them watched as swirls of data particles shot towards MetalTyrannomon from five different directions. The data particles were from the deceased Chaos Forces, and as the particles coalesced around the metallic dinosaur's body, strange crimson and black aura erupted from his body. The digimons gasped in shock and disbelief as MetalTyrannomon absorbed all of the data particles. His eyes glowed red, and he felt himself growing larger in size. The data particles he had absorbed from his fallen comrades had given him a power boost.
MetalTyrannomon roared again, but with maniacal laughter as he unexpectedly turned to face Davis and T.K.
"This isn't over, all of you! I'll come back for this town later, and by then there is nothing you can do to stop me!" he said darkly before turning away as quickly as possible towards the town entrance, nearly knocking over a few digimons who were blocking his path. The digimons watched MetalTyrannomon with a mixed feeling of confusion and fear.
However when he was gone, all of the digimons cried happily as they had won back Harmona. Rookie and In-Training digimons were jumping around exuberantly while the Champions and Armors watched the whole event grimly. They were thinking of what MetalTyrannomon had just said before he left Harmona. The young digimons did not take the threat seriously and were happy that the 'bad digimons' were gone. A loud cries of triumph were heard as Thundermon and Thunderbirdmon finally destroyed the dome-prisons, freeing the elders from their captivity.
A while later, the local healer of Harmona was dispatched to treat the injured digimons and the Digidestined. The healer, Witchmon, possessed the same healing capabilities that any Wizardmon had, and she easily healed them back to health. A rather aloof digimon, Witchmon took off from the crowd just as immediately as she had arrived. A few digimons had gathered at the square to watch the Digidestined away. They were Starmon, Deputymon, Fugamon, Guardromon, Stingmon and ToyAgumon.
"Digidestined," Fugamon began to say towards Davis and T.K. "You've given us back, our self-respects."
Davis and T.K. looked at each other, grinning wide. "No, you got that back yourselves," Davis replied. "You're wonderful!"
"But we have you four to thank to," Deputymon said.
"If it weren't for you to first initiate the battle, we wouldn't have gathered enough courage to stand up to the Chaos Forces ourselves," Starmon reasoned.
"Courage," Davis said while rubbing his Diginizer of Courage. "When good people stand together, they can work miracles."
Veemon looked up to his partner knowingly, but didn't say anything. T.K. and Patamon however got the pun, and snickered silently, earning themselves confused looks from the digimons.
"I think we better get back to Asuka now. It's getting really late," T.K. said with a polite smile.
"We're gonna miss you guys," ToyAgumon said sadly. He was sitting on Stingmon's right shoulder.
"You're always welcome to visit," Davis said. "Stingmon here can fly you there."
Monzaemon, WaruMonzaemon and Pandamon joined them shortly to watch the Digidestined teleport away. The elders extended their gratefulness for the Digidestined's efforts to save Harmona and for protecting ToyAgumon.
"You and your fellow friends are always welcomed to visit," Monzaemon said.
"That is, after we have repaired the town," Pandamon added with a smile.
"Good journey," WaruMonzaemon said shortly. "And thank you again for your willingness to come all the way here."
"It is our pleasures, elders," T.K. replied.
"See you guys again next time!" Davis said with a wave before the four of them disappeared in rays of blue and green lights.
The peacefulness of Harmona Town was restored thanks to the Digidestined, and the realizations of the villagers of how important it was for them to stand up for their rights and to protect their village. Now they were ready to face any challenge, and thankfully the lesson was given without any sacrifices on their part. Nevertheless, it was a valuable lesson for each and every one of them.
However, the battle was not over yet. One particular digimon who was not really far away from Harmona, had revenge plotted in his mind. He would make the Harmonian digimons pay for the humiliation they had caused him. But first, MetalTyrannomon would wait for the right time to replenish his energy, and to get accustomed by the new powers he had received from the data he had absorbed. The forbidden technique of downloading other digimon's data was banned by the four digi-gods of the Digital World a long time ago, as the technique would corrupt the digimon for good. But MetalTyrannomon did not care. He knew now that with the powers he would never had to run away from anyone ever again.
