Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpedo and Reliability
- As you may have guessed, this chapter is half named after the season one episode "Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpedo". So enjoy this new chapter, and it is a great deal different as far as digivolving order goes, as you may have guessed.
Digital World
Jake woke up to the sound of birds chirping around him. He opened his eyes and saw all of his friends and their digimon still asleep, minus Kyle; who hadn't been seen since the incident with Zak. Gabumon was also still missing, and most likely with Kyle. Kyle yawned and picked his weary body off of the ground. He began to stretch before tip-toeing past the others, still sleeping, in order to get over to a nearby stream to get water. He stepped over a bush and kept walking until he reached the stream. He dunked his face into the water, taking camel-sized gulps. After being under for about fifteen seconds, he breached his head through the surface. He then heard a noise behind him and turned to Agumon coming up behind him. "You alright Jake?" Jake turned around and nodded, "Yeah, just wiped." Jake sat down, wiping water that was dribbling from his mouth; Agumon went over and sat next to him. There was silence between the two, making both of them uncomfortable. Agumon decided he should break it.
"What is your world like?" Agumon asked. Jake shrugged, "Now much, I mean if I had to sum our world up in a few words I would call it an industrial world with much conflict." Jake cupped his hands into the stream and took another swig of the water. He then sighed, "Our worlds are not much different. There is evil in our world, as well as good. Even at times that there seems to be just evil; there is good."
Agumon nodded and looked at the grass, "Well, our job is to fix the conflict going on here and currently in your world." Jake nodded, in a clearly unsure manner. "Yeah, but I am not sure if I, a D-student, can save the world."
Agumon put his hand on Jake's shoulder, "Yes you can, I have faith in you. You are my partner, and I believe you can do anything." Jake looked at his digimon, smiled and nodded. "Thanks Agumon."
Meanwhile, Megan and Palmon were the next to wake up from sleeping. They both began to walk away from the others that were sleeping. "Megan, were are we going?" Palmon asked. Megan sighed, "I just want to see how Kyle is, I am worried about him." She past the group of trees Kyle ran through and entered an enclosed area and saw Kyle asleep with Gabumon next to a tree with a knife sticking out of it.
"God, what happened to the tree?" Palmon whispered. Megan sighed, knowing Kyle must've been really upset and stabbed to tree in anger. She sat down next to Kyle and patted him on the shoulder. "Poor Kyle, I hope he's alright. He must be so upset about his father."
Back in the opening
Zak finally woke up from a very deep sleep he was having. He sat up and yawned, looking over at Gomamon; still asleep…and snoring. "Oh for the love of God."
Zak sighed and nudged Gomamon awake. He tried to ignore Zak, but he persisted and finally he woke up. "Aw, c'mon Zak. I was having a good dream." Unfortunately, he wasn't aware everyone else was asleep and he talked too loud, waking everyone else up.
"Nice one dude." Zak said sarcastically as the others got up. Gomamon just grinned sheepishly; Alex got up and so did Biyomon. "Hey Biyomon, you doing good?"
The bird digimon nodded, "Yeah, I could've done without the wakeup call." She shot Gomamon a glare, and he stuck out his tongue at her in and Alex both laughed.
"Alex, you tired still?" Zak asked. She nodded, as TJ finally woke up fully. "'Morning Patamon." He said. Patamon yawned and smiled, "Good morning TJ." Zak stood up, rubbed his eyes and picked up his digivice.
"I'm surprised we've only seen the one bad digimon since we've been here." He stood up and walked over to his backpack to grab a water bottle. He also found another granola bar wedged deep in his backpack. "Hey Gomamon! Come here man." Gomamon went over and Zak handed him half of the bar. "Thanks Zak." He said, after devouring the bar in mere seconds. Zak nodded, after eating the other half,, knowing that Gomamon would need a great deal of energy, since he was certain they would be attacked today.
"Hey TJ, want to go find your brother?" Patamon asked, TJ nodded and started to go to find him, but Alex stopped him. "What are you doing?" TJ asked, trying to find a way around Alex.
Alex shook her head, "Kyle needs time to himself, just give him a bit more time and he'll be fine." TJ nodded solemnly, and suddenly jumped to life. "Hey Patamon! Let's go swimming in the stream!" Patamon also got excited and nodded, "Yeah! That sounds fun." With that, they both ran off, TJ beginning to rip his shirt off as he went. Finally, they went out of sight.
Alex sighed and sat back down, "You alright Alex?" Biyomon asked, Alex nodded and took out her red digivice and looked at it intently. "Zak, what are crests?"
Zak looked at her and sighed, "They are what give the digimon the power to digivolve further than just their champion levels."
She nodded, slightly understanding. "When will we get them?" she asked. Zak just shrugged, "I assume we have to find them."
It was then they realized they needed some food. "I think we should fish Zak." Zak looked at Alex and sighed, "Yeah, but we don't have and equipment."
"Hey, you have string in your backpack Zak?" Alex asked. Zak nodded. "Yeah, but it is lacrosse string."
Alex shrugged, "Close enough, c'mon let's make some fishing rods."
Elsewhere
Kyle just started to wake up, groggily and stretched, just noticing Megan sitting next to him with Palmon also nearby; sleeping. She noticed him waking up and looked down at him; smiling. "You doing better?"
Kyle let out a huge yawn before nodding. "Yeah…is Zak alright?" Megan nodded before leaning over and kissing him on the forehead. Kyle blushed and Megan did too.
"That was unexpected." Kyle said, they both laughed. Palmon and Gabumon both woke up due to the laughing. "What's going on?" Gabumon asked, looking at Kyle and Megan. "You alright Kyle?"
"I'm alright. Just talking to Megan." He said, Megan giving him a wink. "C'mon, we gotta get back." She said. Kyle nodded as they both stood up.
"Why were you two laughing?" Palmon asked. Megan shrugged. "No reason in particular."
In Stream
The quiet stream flowed through the forest quietly, the only noise coming from TJ and Patamon inside the stream splashing around; Gomamon was swimming around as well. Jake, Zak, Alex, Biyomon, and Agumon were on the embankment using makeshift fishing rods to get food, as Alex had suggested. The rods were made of sturdy sticks that were found on the ground with string they got from Zak's backpack, which was used for lacrosse stick nets, and with worms on the end of it attached to hooks made from paperclips. They, as you may imagine, were not working well. All five of them looked bored. "I'm sooooooo bored!" Jake said, with a really long sigh.
"Well, this idea was a brilliant one." Zak said sarcastically. Alex gave him a look, "You got a better idea I would love to hear it."
Zak smiled slightly and looked out over the water, "Gomamon! Can you snag us some fish?" Gomamon, who just breached from a long underwater dive looked at Zak and nodded, and went under.
"Patamon, how long can you hold your breath under water for?" TJ asked, Patamon shrugged, "Why, you want to see who can hold it longest?"
TJ nodded, and Patamon smiled. "Alright, let's do it." And they both inhaled for a good five seconds and went under.
Meanwhile, Gomamon resurfaced, with a sliver fish hanging out of his mouth. He spit the fish out next to Zak, and smiled. "There you go; how many more do you need?"
Jake shrugged, "I don't know, how about 11 more for the twelve of us?" Gomamon nodded at Jake and went under. Zak looked at Alex smugly; "Well…you like my idea now…huh?" Alex sighed and nodded; just then Biyomon jumped up. Her line was bouncing up and down like crazy. "Hey! I got a fish!" The line was bending significantly, "It must be a big one, Biyomon keep bringing it up." Jake said, She nodded and began to walk backwards. Finally, the line came up and in it was…Gomamon, who was tangled in the line, who looked very pissed.
"Hey? What did you do that for?" He asked, completely tangled in the line. "Sorry." Biyomon said apologetically, as Zak went over to untangle Gomamon. Just then Patamon and TJ both emerged from the water, gasping for breath. It was then Alex realized how long they had been under, "Oh my God you two, you were underwater for about a full minute.
TJ and Patamon weren't paying attention, because they were gasping for breath and were fully exhausted. "Alright, it was a tie." TJ said, holing out his hand to his digimon. "Truce?"
Patamon nodded and shook TJ's hand. They all began to laugh, not noticing that there was movement in the deeper end of the stream. Meanwhile, Gomamon was finally untangled by Zak and shook off the feeling of being tied up.
"I think I am going to see if I can get larger fish in the deeper end." Gomamon said, jumping back into the water and swimming over to the deeper end of the stream. Suddenly, there was the noise of water splashing. "What was that?" Patamon asked, just then they saw Kyle, Megan, Palmon and Gabumon come out from behind the bush.
"Hey; are you doing better Kyle?" Jake asked. He nodded, and Zak ignored his presence, still angry about the fight the previous night. "You have something to say Zak?" Kyle asked, noticing Zak ignoring him, and getting mad about it. "You have a problem, say it to my face."
"Kyle, don't start a fight again." Gabumon whispered. Kyle sighed and sat down. Just then, there was a strange noise coming from the deeper part of the stream. "What is that?" Biyomon asked. At that moment, Gomamon poked his head through the water, "Guys! The fish are gone, something must've scared them away!" All of a sudden the water around Gomamon started to bubble. "Huh?!" Gomamon asked in confusion, everybody knew that this could not be good.
Then, the water shot upward, and Gomamon went flying ashore and Zak caught him. "Gomamon, are you alright?" Zak asked, "I'd like some cocktail sauce with that shrimp please." He said groggily in a slur.
The kids and digimon looked up and saw a pink digimon with a shell that had blue spikes sticking out of it and pointing upright. The digimon let out a mighty bellow; with seawater being sputtered from his mouth TJ pulled out his digivice and pointed it towards the monstrous digimon. The digivice immediately gave stats on the digimon; "Shellmon; Champion Level Digimon, It's main attack is hydro blaster." TJ said out loud. Everyone looked at him oddly, "You know you don't need to read the stats like they did on the show." Kyle said, TJ gave him an annoyed look. They then got back to the digimon, "God he's big!" Megan shouted. Immediately after she said that, Shellmon reared back, "HYDRO BLASTER!!" Shellmon shouted and shot high-pressure water at the group. "Oh crap." The kids and digimon all said, just before jumping out of the way to avoid getting flattened by the blast. The blast was so powerful; the area that was hit by it was de-grassed and was currently just mud.
Gomamon jumped out of Zak's arms and landed on the ground to join the other digimon. "It looks like we have to fight guys." Agumon said, stepping forward. The other five digimon followed suit. "Let's do this!" Biyomon shouted.
"Right…PEPPER BREATH!!" Agumon shouted, but nothing happened, and he sighed in exhaustion. "What the heck?" Agumon asked in utter confusion. Jake had been equally confused, "Agumon, what happened?" Jake asked.
Agumon shrugged, with an equally confused look on his face. Just then, Shellmon shot another blast of water at Agumon, slamming him into a tree.
"Agumon!" Jake shouted. He ran over to his digimon to help him.
"SPIRAL TWISTER!" Biyomon shouted…but nothing happened. "Huh?" Biyomon asked and just then another blast of water forced her to jump back. "POISON IVY!" Palmon shouted, and nothing happened. "BOOM BUBBLE!" Patamon shouted, and nothing happened. "This isn't good." Megan whispered in fear.
"What is going on?" Palmon asked. As they, too, were blasted backwards. "Palmon!" Megan shouted, "Patamon!" TJ shouted. They ran over to assist their digimon. "What the hell is going on?" Megan asked in desperation.
Shellmon let out a loud bellow and shouted "HYDRO BLASTER!" and shot another blast of water at TJ and Patamon, whom were hit. The duo was shot backwards and flew into a tree, falling to the ground, barely moving. "TJ!" Kyle shouted, running over to his brother to see if he was all right. "I'm alright bro." TJ said softly, and Patamon nodded slightly in agreement. This wasn't enough for Kyle, though. "Gabumon, take down that dirt bag!"
"You too Gomamon!" Zak shouted, and both digimon complied and called out their attacks.
"BLUE BLASTER!" "MARCHING FISHES!" Both digimon called their attacks; Gabumon's failed and he suddenly sighed in exhaustion. Gomamon's attack…worked. A stream of flying fishes his Shellmon. Shellmon seemed a bit affected by the attack. "Why does his attack work?" Jake asked in a mix of confusion and shock.
Zak, though, knew why. Gomamon had been fed more than the other digimon and had more energy. "Gomamon, keep attacking; I'll distract Shellmon!" Zak also saw Shellmon getting pissed and he knew Gomamon was in danger. Zak, remembering the episode form season one, used Tai's distraction idea to divert Shellmon's attention from Gomamon.
Just before he attacked Gomamon, Zak picked up a rock and threw it at Shellmon, "Hey, leave Gomamon alone you smelly heap of pink crap in a shell!" Shellmon turned to see Zak; Gomamon used the opportunity to attack again.
"MARCHING FISHES!!" he shot a blast of fishes that hit Shellmon in the face. He reared back, roaring in anger. "Um…Zak are you crazy?" Alex asked in shock. Zak glared at her. "Zak, what are you doing man?" Jake asked while he had his attention. Zak looked over at Jake before answering, "Get everyone to safety Jake, you are the leader. LEAD!" Jake nodded in understanding. "C'mon guys, let's go!" They all ran behind a tree to safety, but stopped from going any further in order to make sure Zak and Gomamon were all right.
Zak threw another rock at Shellmon, but he ignored it; just focusing on Gomamon. "Uh oh." Gomamon said. "MARCHING FISHES!" he sent more fish at Shellmon, but he fluffed it off like it was nothing.
"HYDRO BLAST!" Shellmon, about to nail Gomamon, but Zak jumped in and shoved him out of harms way just before the blast of water slammed into him.
"Gomamon, are you alright?" Zak asked, getting to his feet. Gomamon nodded, "I can't believe you did that." He said to Zak. "You're my friend…I have to be there for you when you are in danger."
Gomamon smiled, having been touched by Zak's friendly words as well as his reliability for being there when he needed him. All of a sudden, Zak's digivice began to glow and so did Gomamon. "What's going on?" Jake asked. "He's digivolving." Biyomon whispered. Zak was surprised, usually the leader's digimon was first to digivolve in the show, and so this was certainly different. Gomamon began to grow, still surrounded by a white light and change shape.
"Gomamon digivolve to…Ikkakumon! A large, white walrus-like digimon replaced the small seal-like digimon that was there mere seconds before.
"Holy God." Zak whispered under his breath. Ikkakumon faced Shellmon, angrily, "You want a fight? Well you got one! HARPOON TORPEDO!" Ikkakumon shot a missile-like projection out of his horn and struck Shellmon in the chest, knocking him back into the stream. Shellmon was barely recovered when Ikkakumon sent another attack his way, "HARPOON TORPEDO!" And with that, he hit Shellmon in the face and he fell back. Shellmon, still appearing to be very dizzy, quickly turned around and he went back underwater, and disappeared.
Everyone was either cheering…or standing there dumbstruck with shock. Ikkakumon de-digivolved back into Gomamon, and Zak ran up to Gomamon and held out his hand. "High five me man! That was awesome!" Gomamon blushed embarrassed, "Thanks." He said.
They high-fived, and everyone else came over. "Why could he attack? And how did he digivolve?" Alex asked, confused. Zak shrugged, "I gave him all of my food, so he was well off. I think me pushing him out of harms way made him digivolve." Gomamon nodded. "It was when he said he didn't want to see me get hurt. It was his reliability." Zak laughed, "Well then I guess I am reliable." He shot Kyle a look, and he rolled his eyes in response.
"Well, let's finish fishing so we can eat. I'm starving." They all nodded and went off to do separate things, leaving Zak and Gomamon. "Zak," Zak looked down and saw Gomamon looking up at him, "You're a great friend." He said smiling. Zak smiled back and kneeled down, "How can I not be with a friend like you?" he said. Gomamon grinned and off to get more fish.
Jake sat down at the river's edge and Zak went up to him. "Why did Gomamon digivolve first? I thought the person with the lead digimon had theirs digivolve first. Does this mean you're the leader?" Zak looked at Jake and shook his head.
"No, I lead by example…you are still the leader." Zak shrugged, "I just knew what to do. Digimon need food in order to maintain their energy. You hadn't seen the show in years, I've seen it more recently."
Jake looked at Zak, confused. "But you told Kyle you haven't seen it since you were ten." Zak just smiled in response, "Yeah, I told him. If he found out he would ridicule me even more than he does already."
Zak stood up and brushed off dirt from his pants. "How recently are you talking?" Jake asked. "Within a year or two, and you tell anyone…I will put a serious case of hurt on you." With that Zak walked over to the others.
Jake was still unconvinced that he was really the leader, but decided to wait and see what would happen.
New Mexico
The cave was full of sleeping soldiers; exhausted from the day's action. Timothy heard a noise coming from the distance, closer to the cave. "What is that?" he whispered. He got up, grabbed a revolver from his backpack and went to the cave entrance. He looked out, fearing the worst, and saw a helicopter coming in from the distance. He recognized it as an Army Helicopter. He suddenly got excited and turned back, facing the cave.
"GUYS! THERE IS A HELICOPTER OUT HERE!" he shouted, causing everybody to wake up. "What?" Will asked. David hopped up and ran to the cave's entrance. He, too, saw the helicopter.. "Yes…YES! GUYS!" He and Timothy ran back into the cave to call the others. "A RESCURE HELICOPTER IS HERE!" Everyone woke up to this news, grabbed their supplies, and ran out of the cave. The helicopter saw the soldiers and began to land. A man got out, dressed in a pilot's uniform and wearing a helmet with a visor and a headset speaker, and walked over to the men. "Hi, I'm Captain Oliver Weston, I'm with the National Guard." He looked around the group of men, "Is this all of you?"
Timothy looked back and counted eleven men, and minus Marcus and the other man that Scorpiomon killed, they were all there. "Yes." Timothy said. The pilot, Oliver, nodded and opened the helicopter door. "Get in." he said, gesturing into the helicopter.
They didn't need to be told twice and they all jumped into the helicopter. After they were all in, Pilot Oliver shut the door and went up to the front of the helicopter and shut his door. After strapping himself in, he pushed some buttons and the helicopter started to leave the ground.
"How did you know we were here?" one of the soldiers asked. "Authorities saw a huge amount of flares."
Then, Timothy realized the truck exploding caused the authorities to call for someone to find them. The helicopter reached a good distance from the ground and flew off.
Scorpiomon saw them going off, "Not on my watch! SAND STORM!" Another massive blast of sand slammed into the side of the helicopter, making it fly unevenly.
"Whoa! What was that?" Oliver asked, the helicopter began spinning wildly. "Keep on course!" Will shouted over the noise of the screaming men and emergency noises emitting from the front of the plane. Finally, Oliver got the helicopter back on track; evenly flying out of the sandy air. "Man! What on Earth was that?" He asked the soldiers.
"Long story. Just get us out of here." David said. Oliver nodded, "Roger that." And with that the helicopter continued it's journey to the Kirtland Air Force Base.
"Stupid humans! The boss is going to kill me!" Scorpiomon shouted in anger. "Maybe I should meet up with Black WarGreymon and discuss it with him and the boss." He sighed and dove back into the sand and went off.
At Bella's house
Bella had just heard that her cousin and his friends had disappeared after the snowstorm. She was busy in her room, sitting quietly and pondering if they would be alright. She had also heard that TJ was one of the kids who disappeared. She always had a bit of a crush on him and now that he was gone; she felt upset. She stood up and went over to her computer and clicked it on. She went onto youtube to look up the new videos. Just then the screen went white. "Oh God, not another virus. "She tried to get to Spy ware, but it wouldn't come up. The screen remained white, and suddenly began to hum. What the heck?" The humming got louder and a glowing object shot out of the computer. The object continued to glow, and when it stop it revealed a computer-like device with pink coloring, and she didn't ever see anything like it in her life. "BELLA! AR YOU DOING YOUR HOMEWORK?" Bella heard her mother and quickly shoved the device into a drawer of her desk.
"Yeah mom." She quickly turned off her computer and jumped back onto the bed to commence studying on material she had down-pact. She didn't realize that putting the device into her drawer instead of keeping it out would cause a change in events, for she was to make the future different than it would've been.
- Oh God! Agumon was not first to digivolve, Gomamon was! I just committed Digi-blasphemy! I don't care, if you have an issue with it you can bring it by me, otherwise I hope you enjoyed a difference from the show and please review. Thanks, and maybe the Giants will win this weekend, otherwise I will get hazed at school, haha.