Digicross Tamers Episode 9
'Bewitching Beast Kyuubimon'
==Hypnos Scanning Dome
"Sir!" Reilly called from her seat. "I'm picking up a massive signal!"
"Another bio-emergence?"
"No," Talli replied, not quite panicking, "It's a rift!"
"Calm down." Yamaki snapped. "Reilly, number of Wild Ones in that
area?"
Reilly checked her readouts. "Five....no seven currently. Though that
could easily go up if that rift holds."
"Blast it. We're not ready yet. Status of the Yuugoth system?"
One of the technicians looked up. "It's not ready yet. The only way
it'd work is if the digimon came here. Any further, I can't guarantee we'd
hit, or what effect it would have on biological organisms."
==Park
"What's happening" Takato yelled, flung back by the force of the
explosion.
All the digimon there tensed up. "Something's coming." Terriermon
said."When Calumon and Unown did...whatever they did, I think they opened
up something really nasty. And I don't mean a can of lima beans!"
Janyu looked up where Calumon and Unown had been a second ago. "What is
THAT?" he yelled, pointing at a greenish-white column of light
"I think it's a portal!" Eevee yelled. "To where, I don't know!"
==Digital World, only a few minutes before everything went all to pot...
The two groups of digimon had been fighting for hours now. Ever since
they had lost the ability to digivolve, they had fallen on each other,
former allies now trying to gain more power, regardless of the cost.
One one side, a small group of Pteramon. The other, Flybeemon. Missiles
and bolts of electricity had been thrown back and forth between the two
groups of digimon, both sides diminishing as attacks struck, and data was
absorbed.
In the end, there were only two Pteramon left, and five Flybeemon.
"You're outnumbered," the lead Flybeemon growled, drained after the
prolonged battle.
"And you're outgunned." The Pteramon replied. "You took many of my
bretheren, bug, but I will take them back when I load your data." The two
digimon stared at each other, waiting for the next attack.
A second later, they all saw it. A bright beam of light coming from the
small green sphere that floated in the sky. Instantly, both sides forgot
the fight. Myths and stories about being able to digivolve there filled
their heads as they both flew into the transport beam...
==Hypnos
"Confirmed! Seven more signals, definitely Wild Ones." Talli reported.
"They'll appear in 20 seconds!"
"Analysis on the rift; wave pattern matches that of one of the unknown
signals we recorded several weeks ago." A signal came through on her
headset. "It's the Cabinet, sir. They want to talk to you right now."
Yamaki nodded. A second later, a man's face appeared on part of the
Scanning Dome. "Yamaki, what's going on over there? Everything connected to
the Net has gone haywire, and I'm seeing reports of bright lights and giant
animals appearing in the downtown park!"
"It's what we've always feared would happen; a stable rift has
appeared and Wild Ones have used it as a point of entry into our world."
Yamaki did not point out that he could have done something if his budget
had been a bit
bigger.
The minister frowned. "What do we do then? Didn't you say you had some
sort of anti-Wild One weapon in the works?"
"It's not ready yet; we still lack the ability to target it accurately
from here. What we need is some kind of relay system, as well as a massive
amount of power to fire the weapon."
"Fine. I'll have the government direct more power to your weapon; we'll
tell the citizens there was a blackout or something. Satellite K-147 is
over your area. Will that suffice?"
Yamaki resisted the urge to smile. "It will sir. My thanks."
"Just make sure this works."
==
"Pteramon." Henry said, checking his digivice. "Armour level digimon,
Data type. High flying digimon that uses its Sidewinder attack to destroy
its opponents. And that," he continued, indicating the smaller red digimon,
"is Flybeemon. Also armour level, Data type insect digimon. It can fire
that stinger on its tail, and use an electric attack it calls Fly Spark."
"Piece of cake." Rika said, pulling out a card (Battle Tomahawk, if you
must know -ed).
"Takatomon? I don't see any fog!" Everyone looked around.
"Fog?" Janyu asked.
"He must mean a digital field," Takato answered. "It's
what...keeps..." Takato looked at Henry, wide eyed. "Are you telling me
there's nothing keeping these digimon in the park? They could wreck half
the city!"
"Where's Calumon and Unown?" Hitomi asked. "We might need them to close
that... portal...whatever it is." Hitomi looked at the portal. Noctowl
landed beside her, also looking. He then bowed his head, indicating it
wasn't what they hoped it was. "Maybe we can lead those digimon back
through the portal?"
"They won't leave willingly." Renamon replied. "Many digimon dream of
coming to the Real World to become stronger. Some believe that loading the
data of a digimon that has a Tamer will be enough to let them digivolve."
"In other words," Eevee replied sourly, "we're all targets. Just
peachy." Beside him, Noctowl ruffled his feathers, waiting for the attack.
"I don't think we're the targets" Nami mentioned, looking at the newly
arrived Digimon. Looking up, the other tamers and digimon realized she was
right. After appearing here, the swarm of digimon seemed more intent on
destroying each other than fighting them.
==
Outside Park, Jeri, Kazu, and Kenta watched the flare of light
dissipate, then saw several...things... cartwheeling around in the sky,
firing at each other.
"Is...are those digimon?" Jeri asked, backing up. "Why are they
fighting each other?"
"Takato has all the luck" Kenta breathed.
"You call this luck?" Jeri shot back. "He could be hurt in there!"
"Are you kidding? There's digimon popping out of the woodwork! Maybe
I'll find one to be my partner!" Kazu said, grinning. Calumon and Unown
chose that moment to stagger out of the shrubbery, singed from the energy
the two
released. "Woah. Talk about service."
Jeri knelt down. "Are you two alright?" she asked. Unown floated up,
while Calumon nodded, still woozy from the explosion. "Are you...digimon?"
"A creampuff and a flying ad for Alpha-Getti?" Kazu said skeptically.
"Get crucial, Jeri."
"I am too a digimon." Calumon insisted. "I'm just a little worn
out..." Calumon nodded off, energy drained. Unown moved closer to Calumon,
trilling as it did so.
Another digimon showed up at that moment, crashing through the brush on
the opposite side of the path that Calumon and Unown came through. "Dude,
it's Gabumon!" Kazu exclaimed, eyes wide and sparkling (think 'Jeri's
Quest'. Scary, no? -ed). "Now that's a digimon."
Gabumon looked at the three humans, wondering if they were crazy.
"Umm...hello?"
"OK, I'm Kazu, and I'm gonna be your Tamer."
"No fair!" Kenta groused.
"Deal, chumley, I saw him first."
"Tamer? Look, I'm searching for-" Gabumon stopped as his eyes fell on
Jeri and Calumon. "It's him! Please, you must give him to me!"
Calumon opened his eyes, looking at the newcomer. "You're...NO!" The
small digimon started squirming in Jeri's arms, trying to get free. "Go
away, I don't want to go back!"
"What is it?" Jeri asked, confused by Calumon's reaction. She saw
Gabumon start to move towards her, so she stood up and started backing
away. "Keep away from me! He doesn't want to go with you!"
"You don't understand, he's needed back in the digital world. I must
take him with me!" He stopped as Kenta stood between Gabumon and Jeri.
"Please, I don't want to hurt any of you."
"Well, you'll have to go through me to get...whatever that thing is!"
Kenta yelled.
"You mean us!" Kazu said, joining Kenta. "If you think you're gonna
make me look bad in front of the girl, forget it." he whispered to Kenta. A
second later, Unown floated itself in front of the two boys.
Gabumon stared at the entity. "What is that thing?" Eyes narrowing,
Gabumon decided it was an enemy. "You won't stop me. Blue Blaster!"
==
"Jeri?" Guilmon looked around. "I just heard Jeri."
"What?" Takato asked. "Where?"
"Over there."
"Go." Henry said, hoping the battling digimon didn't notice them. "If
anything happens, we'll take care of it." Takato nodded, and moved off,
Guilmon following him.
One of the Pteramon dodged an attack by the remaining Flybeemon, looked
down, and saw the humans and digimon. Screaming, he dove down, firing
missiles. Eevee blocked the attack with his energy field, while Renamon,
seeing the opening, attacked.
"Digi-modify! Battle Tomahawk, activate!" As the others watched, a
small axe materialized in Renamon's hands, which she hurled at Pteramon. It
struck, and the armour digimon was quickly destroyed. Renamon landed,
absorbing the data as she did so. "The rest of you had better get out of
here." she warned.
"Yeah right," Rika started to say, before a hard shove knocked her
down. As she fell, she caught a faint whiff of ozone. Angrily, she pulled
herself up, ready to yell at whoever had pushed her. As she got up, she saw
it was Hitomi, who promptly collapsed, jacket smoking slightly. One of the
Flybeemon, wondering where the other Pteramon was going, had broken off and
followed it down. It had been the insect digimon's plan to ambush one of
these new digimon, then he had changed targets to the humans, when he saw
Rika use that card to upgrade Renamon's attack power.
Nami ran over, grabbing Hitomi's unconcious body. "Hitomi? Hitomi, wake
up!" A sound distracted Nami and Rika from checking on Hitomi. They watched
as Eevee and Noctowl fell on the Flybeemon, Noctowl battering the digimon
with his wings and launching waves of psychic energy at it, then pulling
back as Eevee jumped on, intent on shredding Flybeemon, from all
appearances. "Eevee, wait!" Nami yelled.
"He's gone berserk." Henry said, watching. "We have to stop him!"
"On it!" Terriermon said, running over ant trying to tackle Eevee. "OK,
you've proved your point! Let him go already!" Snarling, Eevee didn't
respond, headbutting Terriermon and returning his attentions to the
Flybeemon he was trying to maul. "A little help here?" Terriermon yelled at
Noctowl. The owl pokemon nodded, and flew over. Cawing loudly, Noctowl got
Eevee's attention, then hypnotised the digital pokemon, putting it to
sleep.
"You could have done that sooner." Terriermon complained. Noctowl
looked at Terriermon, cooing as he did. "Get it out of his system, right."
Terriermon looked up at the Flybeemon, now advancing on the group. He saw
one of them
absorbing the remains of the other Pteramon.
==
Gabumon and Unown fired blasts of energy at each other; all the while,
Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri, still holding Calumon, kept backing away. "No, don't
go!" Gabumon shouted, darting around Unown.
"Leave her alone!" Takato yelled, charging through the bushes with
Guilmon. Growling, Guilmon headbutted Gabumon, sending the digimon flying.
"Jeri! Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Kazu groused. "Don't worry about me or anything..."
"Takato!" Jeri didn't quite wail, "That digimon wants to take Calumon
away."
"He can't yet, we need him here!"
Gabumon staggered to his feet. "THAT'S a rookie digimon?" he said to
himself. "I don't recgonize him. Virus type, might be a fire user..." More
loudly: "Look, I don't want to fight, but I have to bring... Calumon,
right?...I have to bring him back with me to the digital world!"
"NO!" Calumon shouted. "I don't want to go back!"
At that moment, Unown flew over, glowing with energy. With a shriek,
the Unown fired another bolt at Gabumon. He dodged, and returned fire.
Calumon chose that moment to jump out of Jeri's arms, fly in front of
Unown, and
throw up a shield just as Unown released a counter attack. For the second
time that day, the park went white for a second.
==
"Sir, second flutuation detected!" Talli yelled.
"What kind? Another bioemergence?"
Talli checked her scans. "No. It's similar to the energy we tracked
several weekas ago, but there are three sources this time. And..." Talli
trailed off, stunned.
"Well?"
"Its wavelength is similar to our Yuugoth system."
Yamaki nearly choked. "There's another Yuugoth in operation?" Yamaki
whirled around, hitting the intercom. "Reilly, has the Yuugoth been
activated?"
"Negative sir, power is still building. We're currently reading some
sort of power flux in the target area, and we can't lock on to it with the
satellite."
"What's going ON over there?"
==
Janyu and Nami had managed to pull Hitomi and Eevee away from the
battle, while Renamon and Terriermon faced off against the four remaining
Flybeemon.
"Can't we talk this out?" Henry asked the attacking digimon. "There's
no reason to fight!"
"Data is the only reason. We absorb data, we get stronger. You humans
wouldn't understand that."
"Gee, doesn't THAT sound familiar." Terriermon commented, directing a
look at Rika. "Well forget it, the buffet's closed. So just move out before
I decide to get rude!"
"I see diplomacy's not your strong point." Renamon commented; she
noticed that Terriermon's comment had stung Rika. She hated to admit it,
but she had heard Rika say similar things in the past. "Shall we-" Renamon
would have continued, but suddenly keeled over, writhing in pain. Beside
her, Terriermon did likewise, as did the Flybeemon.
"Renamon!" Rika yelled, running over. "What's wrong?"
"Terriermon!" Henry ran over to his partner.
"Rika.." Renamon gasped. "All the data I absorbed...It's tearing me
apart!"
"Absorbed?" Janyu asked, stunned.
"Henry said it's how Digimon got stronger." Nami replied, holding
Hitomi.
"What have I done?" Janyu asked. "Henry, get out of there!"
"Look!" Nami yelled. Above them, the Flybeemon were hovering in the
air. Then they glowed white!
"Are they evolving?"
"I...don't think so." Terriermon stammered. As they watched, the
attacking digimon seemed to...warp, as if they were being crumpled up.
Then, steel wings replaced their insect wings, missiles gleaming at the
ends of the wings. Legs and feet now shone silver, sharp talons where the
feet were. The heads became more angular and extended.
"It's the data they absorbed from the Pteramon." Henry realized.
"Whatever's doing this to the digimon must be causing all the data they
took to take over their bodies!" He looked at Rika. "Rika, you have to get
Renamon out of here! She's got more data in her than anyone else;
whatever's doing this could tear her apart!"
"No." Renamon gasped. "I..I can fight this." Standing, she staggered
towards the mutated Flybeemon. "Rika...get out of here." Rika shook her
head. "I'm...serious!" Renamon tried to shout. "Winning this fight won't
matter if you're not there to...". Renamon collapsed.
"Renamon!"
Eevee slowly got up. "What hit me?" he groaned. Then he saw Renamon and
Terriermon. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Something's attacking the data they absorbed, it's tearing them
apart!" Nami replied. "Wait, what about Guilmon?"
"He should be OK, I hope." Henry replied. "He hasn't absorbed
anything."
==
Gabumon keeled over, yelling as he did.
Takato looked at Unown and Calumon. "Stop it, you're hurting him!" he
yelled.
"I can't! Something's wrong!" Calumon yelled back.
"Takatomon, I feel funny!" Guilmon was staggering around. "It feels
like something's inside me, looking for something!"
"I knew all that bread couldn't be good for him!" Kenta yelled.
"I think that Numemon I absorbed is repeating on me..." Gabumon said,
staggering away.
Unown's a pokemon, Takato remembered. "We need Hitomi! Come on!
Guilmon, head back to your hideout, I'll meet you there later!"
"But-"
"No buts! Whatever's doing this is affecting any digimon nearby! You'd
better get away from here!" Takto headed back through the bushes, Jeri,
Kazu, and Kenta following him.
"Is it safe to leave Calumon there?" Jeri asked Takato.
"Right now, they're more of a threat to the other digimon. I...GUILMON?
I told you to get out of here!"
"I know, but I can't find my way back. I think I'm a bit lost."
Kazu smacked his forehead. "Takato, that digimon is so much like you."
"Well I...HEY!"
==
The mutated digimon launched more missiles at Renamon and Terriermon.
Eevee, still angered over Hitomi's being knocked out, launched his own
attacks, though he did little against the armoured digimon. Noctowl stayed
with the humans, using his own powers when one of the attackers got too
close.
"This would be a good time to digivolve!" Rika said to Eevee as he
hopped back from one rather nasty attack.
"Love too," Eevee replied, "but I need Hitomi. It's how this whole
'partner' thing works."
"?"
Eevee stopped, staring at Rika. "You didn't know? Partner digimon can
only digivolve when their partner wants them too."
"That's crazy! Digimon can digivolve on their own, I've seen it!"
"Unlinked digimon, yeah, but-" Eevee threw up a barrier, blocking a
second missile aimed at Rika. "Later, got work to do." Eevee jumped on the
nearest Flypteramon (as Terriermon had called them), trying to draw it away
from Rika. "Henry! We need Gargomon!"
"What? What if-?"
"Henry! Trust me!" Terriermon yelled. "My attacks aren't working on
these guys!"
Trust him, Henry thought. "Digi-Modify! Digivolution activate!"
"Terriermon, digivolve to...Gargomon!" Gargomon quickly opened fire,
driving the FlyPteramon back. "Yeah, that's it," Gargomon yelled, "you want
some more?"
"He's not in pain anymore!" Janyu yelled. "Digivolving must have
removed the corrupted data in him!" He looked at Rika. "You have to
digivolve Renamon or she might be torn apart!"
Rika pulled a card out. It worked for Henry, she figured. "Digi-modify!
Digivolution activate!"
Nothing happened.
Rika looked at the card and her digivice. "Digivolution activate!
ACTIVATE!" she yelled, slashing the card several times over. "Why isn't it
working?" Rika heard Renamon gasp. Looking up, she saw her partner being
attacked by three of the mutated digimon; the fourth was harassing
Gargomon, preventing the digimon from attacking the other three. "Renamon!"
Normally, Renamon would have been able to fight off the three attackers
(yes, she's that good -ed). However, crippled by the pain Unown and Calumon
were unintentionally causing, she was barely able to fight off one of them,
much less three. Sensing her weakness, the Flypteramon closed in, falling
over each other to absorb her data. She dodged two, but the third one
managed to latch one of its talons into her shoulder.
Dropping the card, Rika ran over, hitting one of the attackers with her
digivice. "Let her go!" she yelled. Angrily, the digimon she hit turned to
face her.
"Pyro-Sphere!" Guilmon's flame attack slammed into the Flypteramon.
Takato, Guilmon, Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri ran into the area. "We need Hitomi!"
Takato yelled. "Unown and Calumon are going nuts!"
"We're a little busy right now!" Gargomon yelled back, still firing at
the mutated digimon harassing him.
"One of those things knocked her unconcious!" Nami added, holding
Hitomi. "Help Rika and Renamon!"
"Great!" Kazu yelled, heading for cover, dragging Kenta and Jeri with
him.
"Guilmon, I need to digivolve you. Can you handle it?" Guilmon nodded.
"Here goes. Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!"
"Guilmon, digivolve to...GROWLMON!" The two Flypteramon suddenly found
themselves facing a very large firebreathing dinosaur. "Why don't you pick
on someone MY size?" Growlmon rumbled. While Growlmon was in control of
himself this time, his digivolution made things worse, not better. Unable
to use his flame attacks without risking the other humans in the area, he
was reduced to swatting at the two attacking digimon.
The remaining Flypteramon focussed on Rika, who had started throwing
rocks at the digimon to get it away from Renamon. "Rika...get out of
here..." Renamon gasped, trying to stand.
Rika looked back at Renamon, having managed to place herself between
the Flypteramon and Renamon. "No." she replied, voice not quite cracking.
"I...I have to save you."
"RIKA!" Nami and Janyu yelled. Turning, Rika saw the Flypteramon fly at
her, silvery talons extended for the kill.
"RIKA!" Renamon yelled, Rika's digivice glowing as it did. "Renamon,
digivolve to...Kyuubimon!" Instantly, the pain Renamon felt vanished as the
digivolution took hold, clearing the damaged data in her system. "Dragon
Wheel!" she screamed, wreathing herself in blue flames and tackling the
Flypteramon only centimeters away from Rika's face. Rika didn't feel any
heat from Kyuubimon's flames.
"Alright!" Gargomon yelled, seeing this out of the corner of his eye.
"DUM DUM UPPER!" Gun arm glowing with energy, Gargomon leaped up and
smacked the Flypteramon he was attacking, driving it into the ground. He
heard Growlmon
dispatch the other two with his Dragon Slashers, the stricken digimon
disintegrating as they fell. A second later, the Digimon Gargomon attacked
also vanished, the corrupted data finally taking its toll.
==
It turned out they didn't need Hitomi after all; Calumon had simply run
out of energy, and had collapsed, unconcious. As he did, both the rift and
the energy wave that was attacking digimon in the area faded. Unown, also
groggy, managed to get under Calumon and lift him up, carrying the small
digimon away. The tamers got there just in time to see the two leaving.
Hitomi watched the two leave, silently.
"Hey," Takato said, "we know he's here now. We should be able to find
him again, no problem, right?" He looked at Henry.
"I hope not. I'd hate to think we'd have to go through that again every
time we run into them."
"What's to worry about?" Gargomon asked. "Now that we have this whole
digivolution thing figured out, it should be a cakewalk, right?" Gargomon
looked at Kyuubimon and Rika. "What's up? You don't look to happy for
someone who finally figured out how to digivolve."
"I..." Rika looked like she wanted to say more, but didn't.
"We should get home." Kyuubimon said quietly, leading Rika away. The
two left.
"That's probably good advice." Nami said, arm around Hitomi.
"Takatomon?" Takato looked up at Growlmon. "I'm glad I can digivolve
without going all crazy and stuff, but can I go back to being Guilmon now?"
"I...ah nuts." Takato replied, palming his face.
==
The Flybeemon that was damaged early in the fight finally came to. By
some chance, it had been spared the energy wave that mutated its bretheren.
It was badly wounded, but it was sure it could recover.
"Well, well, well," Impmon said, walking up. "What have we here?"
Flybeemon looked at Impmon, metal scraping on metal as it did so. "Don't
know? How about we just call you dessert and leave it at that?" The wounded
digimon's eyes widened, realizing what was coming next. "INFERNAL SUMMONS!"
Flybeemon was engulfed in flame, the heat finishing the job that Eevee's
berserk attack had started.
"Now that's more like it." Impmon said, absorbing the released data.
"Now, who's next?"
Next Episode:
While dealing with the aftermath of the battle, Renamon tells Rika a
story of what life was like back when Renamon was living in the digital
world. Janyu starts his new job, meets an old friend, and does not
discover what Yamaki has in mind for the digimon in the city. Next time on
Digimon:Digicross:
'Wolf's Claw, Fox's Fire'
'Bewitching Beast Kyuubimon'
==Hypnos Scanning Dome
"Sir!" Reilly called from her seat. "I'm picking up a massive signal!"
"Another bio-emergence?"
"No," Talli replied, not quite panicking, "It's a rift!"
"Calm down." Yamaki snapped. "Reilly, number of Wild Ones in that
area?"
Reilly checked her readouts. "Five....no seven currently. Though that
could easily go up if that rift holds."
"Blast it. We're not ready yet. Status of the Yuugoth system?"
One of the technicians looked up. "It's not ready yet. The only way
it'd work is if the digimon came here. Any further, I can't guarantee we'd
hit, or what effect it would have on biological organisms."
==Park
"What's happening" Takato yelled, flung back by the force of the
explosion.
All the digimon there tensed up. "Something's coming." Terriermon
said."When Calumon and Unown did...whatever they did, I think they opened
up something really nasty. And I don't mean a can of lima beans!"
Janyu looked up where Calumon and Unown had been a second ago. "What is
THAT?" he yelled, pointing at a greenish-white column of light
"I think it's a portal!" Eevee yelled. "To where, I don't know!"
==Digital World, only a few minutes before everything went all to pot...
The two groups of digimon had been fighting for hours now. Ever since
they had lost the ability to digivolve, they had fallen on each other,
former allies now trying to gain more power, regardless of the cost.
One one side, a small group of Pteramon. The other, Flybeemon. Missiles
and bolts of electricity had been thrown back and forth between the two
groups of digimon, both sides diminishing as attacks struck, and data was
absorbed.
In the end, there were only two Pteramon left, and five Flybeemon.
"You're outnumbered," the lead Flybeemon growled, drained after the
prolonged battle.
"And you're outgunned." The Pteramon replied. "You took many of my
bretheren, bug, but I will take them back when I load your data." The two
digimon stared at each other, waiting for the next attack.
A second later, they all saw it. A bright beam of light coming from the
small green sphere that floated in the sky. Instantly, both sides forgot
the fight. Myths and stories about being able to digivolve there filled
their heads as they both flew into the transport beam...
==Hypnos
"Confirmed! Seven more signals, definitely Wild Ones." Talli reported.
"They'll appear in 20 seconds!"
"Analysis on the rift; wave pattern matches that of one of the unknown
signals we recorded several weeks ago." A signal came through on her
headset. "It's the Cabinet, sir. They want to talk to you right now."
Yamaki nodded. A second later, a man's face appeared on part of the
Scanning Dome. "Yamaki, what's going on over there? Everything connected to
the Net has gone haywire, and I'm seeing reports of bright lights and giant
animals appearing in the downtown park!"
"It's what we've always feared would happen; a stable rift has
appeared and Wild Ones have used it as a point of entry into our world."
Yamaki did not point out that he could have done something if his budget
had been a bit
bigger.
The minister frowned. "What do we do then? Didn't you say you had some
sort of anti-Wild One weapon in the works?"
"It's not ready yet; we still lack the ability to target it accurately
from here. What we need is some kind of relay system, as well as a massive
amount of power to fire the weapon."
"Fine. I'll have the government direct more power to your weapon; we'll
tell the citizens there was a blackout or something. Satellite K-147 is
over your area. Will that suffice?"
Yamaki resisted the urge to smile. "It will sir. My thanks."
"Just make sure this works."
==
"Pteramon." Henry said, checking his digivice. "Armour level digimon,
Data type. High flying digimon that uses its Sidewinder attack to destroy
its opponents. And that," he continued, indicating the smaller red digimon,
"is Flybeemon. Also armour level, Data type insect digimon. It can fire
that stinger on its tail, and use an electric attack it calls Fly Spark."
"Piece of cake." Rika said, pulling out a card (Battle Tomahawk, if you
must know -ed).
"Takatomon? I don't see any fog!" Everyone looked around.
"Fog?" Janyu asked.
"He must mean a digital field," Takato answered. "It's
what...keeps..." Takato looked at Henry, wide eyed. "Are you telling me
there's nothing keeping these digimon in the park? They could wreck half
the city!"
"Where's Calumon and Unown?" Hitomi asked. "We might need them to close
that... portal...whatever it is." Hitomi looked at the portal. Noctowl
landed beside her, also looking. He then bowed his head, indicating it
wasn't what they hoped it was. "Maybe we can lead those digimon back
through the portal?"
"They won't leave willingly." Renamon replied. "Many digimon dream of
coming to the Real World to become stronger. Some believe that loading the
data of a digimon that has a Tamer will be enough to let them digivolve."
"In other words," Eevee replied sourly, "we're all targets. Just
peachy." Beside him, Noctowl ruffled his feathers, waiting for the attack.
"I don't think we're the targets" Nami mentioned, looking at the newly
arrived Digimon. Looking up, the other tamers and digimon realized she was
right. After appearing here, the swarm of digimon seemed more intent on
destroying each other than fighting them.
==
Outside Park, Jeri, Kazu, and Kenta watched the flare of light
dissipate, then saw several...things... cartwheeling around in the sky,
firing at each other.
"Is...are those digimon?" Jeri asked, backing up. "Why are they
fighting each other?"
"Takato has all the luck" Kenta breathed.
"You call this luck?" Jeri shot back. "He could be hurt in there!"
"Are you kidding? There's digimon popping out of the woodwork! Maybe
I'll find one to be my partner!" Kazu said, grinning. Calumon and Unown
chose that moment to stagger out of the shrubbery, singed from the energy
the two
released. "Woah. Talk about service."
Jeri knelt down. "Are you two alright?" she asked. Unown floated up,
while Calumon nodded, still woozy from the explosion. "Are you...digimon?"
"A creampuff and a flying ad for Alpha-Getti?" Kazu said skeptically.
"Get crucial, Jeri."
"I am too a digimon." Calumon insisted. "I'm just a little worn
out..." Calumon nodded off, energy drained. Unown moved closer to Calumon,
trilling as it did so.
Another digimon showed up at that moment, crashing through the brush on
the opposite side of the path that Calumon and Unown came through. "Dude,
it's Gabumon!" Kazu exclaimed, eyes wide and sparkling (think 'Jeri's
Quest'. Scary, no? -ed). "Now that's a digimon."
Gabumon looked at the three humans, wondering if they were crazy.
"Umm...hello?"
"OK, I'm Kazu, and I'm gonna be your Tamer."
"No fair!" Kenta groused.
"Deal, chumley, I saw him first."
"Tamer? Look, I'm searching for-" Gabumon stopped as his eyes fell on
Jeri and Calumon. "It's him! Please, you must give him to me!"
Calumon opened his eyes, looking at the newcomer. "You're...NO!" The
small digimon started squirming in Jeri's arms, trying to get free. "Go
away, I don't want to go back!"
"What is it?" Jeri asked, confused by Calumon's reaction. She saw
Gabumon start to move towards her, so she stood up and started backing
away. "Keep away from me! He doesn't want to go with you!"
"You don't understand, he's needed back in the digital world. I must
take him with me!" He stopped as Kenta stood between Gabumon and Jeri.
"Please, I don't want to hurt any of you."
"Well, you'll have to go through me to get...whatever that thing is!"
Kenta yelled.
"You mean us!" Kazu said, joining Kenta. "If you think you're gonna
make me look bad in front of the girl, forget it." he whispered to Kenta. A
second later, Unown floated itself in front of the two boys.
Gabumon stared at the entity. "What is that thing?" Eyes narrowing,
Gabumon decided it was an enemy. "You won't stop me. Blue Blaster!"
==
"Jeri?" Guilmon looked around. "I just heard Jeri."
"What?" Takato asked. "Where?"
"Over there."
"Go." Henry said, hoping the battling digimon didn't notice them. "If
anything happens, we'll take care of it." Takato nodded, and moved off,
Guilmon following him.
One of the Pteramon dodged an attack by the remaining Flybeemon, looked
down, and saw the humans and digimon. Screaming, he dove down, firing
missiles. Eevee blocked the attack with his energy field, while Renamon,
seeing the opening, attacked.
"Digi-modify! Battle Tomahawk, activate!" As the others watched, a
small axe materialized in Renamon's hands, which she hurled at Pteramon. It
struck, and the armour digimon was quickly destroyed. Renamon landed,
absorbing the data as she did so. "The rest of you had better get out of
here." she warned.
"Yeah right," Rika started to say, before a hard shove knocked her
down. As she fell, she caught a faint whiff of ozone. Angrily, she pulled
herself up, ready to yell at whoever had pushed her. As she got up, she saw
it was Hitomi, who promptly collapsed, jacket smoking slightly. One of the
Flybeemon, wondering where the other Pteramon was going, had broken off and
followed it down. It had been the insect digimon's plan to ambush one of
these new digimon, then he had changed targets to the humans, when he saw
Rika use that card to upgrade Renamon's attack power.
Nami ran over, grabbing Hitomi's unconcious body. "Hitomi? Hitomi, wake
up!" A sound distracted Nami and Rika from checking on Hitomi. They watched
as Eevee and Noctowl fell on the Flybeemon, Noctowl battering the digimon
with his wings and launching waves of psychic energy at it, then pulling
back as Eevee jumped on, intent on shredding Flybeemon, from all
appearances. "Eevee, wait!" Nami yelled.
"He's gone berserk." Henry said, watching. "We have to stop him!"
"On it!" Terriermon said, running over ant trying to tackle Eevee. "OK,
you've proved your point! Let him go already!" Snarling, Eevee didn't
respond, headbutting Terriermon and returning his attentions to the
Flybeemon he was trying to maul. "A little help here?" Terriermon yelled at
Noctowl. The owl pokemon nodded, and flew over. Cawing loudly, Noctowl got
Eevee's attention, then hypnotised the digital pokemon, putting it to
sleep.
"You could have done that sooner." Terriermon complained. Noctowl
looked at Terriermon, cooing as he did. "Get it out of his system, right."
Terriermon looked up at the Flybeemon, now advancing on the group. He saw
one of them
absorbing the remains of the other Pteramon.
==
Gabumon and Unown fired blasts of energy at each other; all the while,
Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri, still holding Calumon, kept backing away. "No, don't
go!" Gabumon shouted, darting around Unown.
"Leave her alone!" Takato yelled, charging through the bushes with
Guilmon. Growling, Guilmon headbutted Gabumon, sending the digimon flying.
"Jeri! Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Kazu groused. "Don't worry about me or anything..."
"Takato!" Jeri didn't quite wail, "That digimon wants to take Calumon
away."
"He can't yet, we need him here!"
Gabumon staggered to his feet. "THAT'S a rookie digimon?" he said to
himself. "I don't recgonize him. Virus type, might be a fire user..." More
loudly: "Look, I don't want to fight, but I have to bring... Calumon,
right?...I have to bring him back with me to the digital world!"
"NO!" Calumon shouted. "I don't want to go back!"
At that moment, Unown flew over, glowing with energy. With a shriek,
the Unown fired another bolt at Gabumon. He dodged, and returned fire.
Calumon chose that moment to jump out of Jeri's arms, fly in front of
Unown, and
throw up a shield just as Unown released a counter attack. For the second
time that day, the park went white for a second.
==
"Sir, second flutuation detected!" Talli yelled.
"What kind? Another bioemergence?"
Talli checked her scans. "No. It's similar to the energy we tracked
several weekas ago, but there are three sources this time. And..." Talli
trailed off, stunned.
"Well?"
"Its wavelength is similar to our Yuugoth system."
Yamaki nearly choked. "There's another Yuugoth in operation?" Yamaki
whirled around, hitting the intercom. "Reilly, has the Yuugoth been
activated?"
"Negative sir, power is still building. We're currently reading some
sort of power flux in the target area, and we can't lock on to it with the
satellite."
"What's going ON over there?"
==
Janyu and Nami had managed to pull Hitomi and Eevee away from the
battle, while Renamon and Terriermon faced off against the four remaining
Flybeemon.
"Can't we talk this out?" Henry asked the attacking digimon. "There's
no reason to fight!"
"Data is the only reason. We absorb data, we get stronger. You humans
wouldn't understand that."
"Gee, doesn't THAT sound familiar." Terriermon commented, directing a
look at Rika. "Well forget it, the buffet's closed. So just move out before
I decide to get rude!"
"I see diplomacy's not your strong point." Renamon commented; she
noticed that Terriermon's comment had stung Rika. She hated to admit it,
but she had heard Rika say similar things in the past. "Shall we-" Renamon
would have continued, but suddenly keeled over, writhing in pain. Beside
her, Terriermon did likewise, as did the Flybeemon.
"Renamon!" Rika yelled, running over. "What's wrong?"
"Terriermon!" Henry ran over to his partner.
"Rika.." Renamon gasped. "All the data I absorbed...It's tearing me
apart!"
"Absorbed?" Janyu asked, stunned.
"Henry said it's how Digimon got stronger." Nami replied, holding
Hitomi.
"What have I done?" Janyu asked. "Henry, get out of there!"
"Look!" Nami yelled. Above them, the Flybeemon were hovering in the
air. Then they glowed white!
"Are they evolving?"
"I...don't think so." Terriermon stammered. As they watched, the
attacking digimon seemed to...warp, as if they were being crumpled up.
Then, steel wings replaced their insect wings, missiles gleaming at the
ends of the wings. Legs and feet now shone silver, sharp talons where the
feet were. The heads became more angular and extended.
"It's the data they absorbed from the Pteramon." Henry realized.
"Whatever's doing this to the digimon must be causing all the data they
took to take over their bodies!" He looked at Rika. "Rika, you have to get
Renamon out of here! She's got more data in her than anyone else;
whatever's doing this could tear her apart!"
"No." Renamon gasped. "I..I can fight this." Standing, she staggered
towards the mutated Flybeemon. "Rika...get out of here." Rika shook her
head. "I'm...serious!" Renamon tried to shout. "Winning this fight won't
matter if you're not there to...". Renamon collapsed.
"Renamon!"
Eevee slowly got up. "What hit me?" he groaned. Then he saw Renamon and
Terriermon. "Hey, what's going on?"
"Something's attacking the data they absorbed, it's tearing them
apart!" Nami replied. "Wait, what about Guilmon?"
"He should be OK, I hope." Henry replied. "He hasn't absorbed
anything."
==
Gabumon keeled over, yelling as he did.
Takato looked at Unown and Calumon. "Stop it, you're hurting him!" he
yelled.
"I can't! Something's wrong!" Calumon yelled back.
"Takatomon, I feel funny!" Guilmon was staggering around. "It feels
like something's inside me, looking for something!"
"I knew all that bread couldn't be good for him!" Kenta yelled.
"I think that Numemon I absorbed is repeating on me..." Gabumon said,
staggering away.
Unown's a pokemon, Takato remembered. "We need Hitomi! Come on!
Guilmon, head back to your hideout, I'll meet you there later!"
"But-"
"No buts! Whatever's doing this is affecting any digimon nearby! You'd
better get away from here!" Takto headed back through the bushes, Jeri,
Kazu, and Kenta following him.
"Is it safe to leave Calumon there?" Jeri asked Takato.
"Right now, they're more of a threat to the other digimon. I...GUILMON?
I told you to get out of here!"
"I know, but I can't find my way back. I think I'm a bit lost."
Kazu smacked his forehead. "Takato, that digimon is so much like you."
"Well I...HEY!"
==
The mutated digimon launched more missiles at Renamon and Terriermon.
Eevee, still angered over Hitomi's being knocked out, launched his own
attacks, though he did little against the armoured digimon. Noctowl stayed
with the humans, using his own powers when one of the attackers got too
close.
"This would be a good time to digivolve!" Rika said to Eevee as he
hopped back from one rather nasty attack.
"Love too," Eevee replied, "but I need Hitomi. It's how this whole
'partner' thing works."
"?"
Eevee stopped, staring at Rika. "You didn't know? Partner digimon can
only digivolve when their partner wants them too."
"That's crazy! Digimon can digivolve on their own, I've seen it!"
"Unlinked digimon, yeah, but-" Eevee threw up a barrier, blocking a
second missile aimed at Rika. "Later, got work to do." Eevee jumped on the
nearest Flypteramon (as Terriermon had called them), trying to draw it away
from Rika. "Henry! We need Gargomon!"
"What? What if-?"
"Henry! Trust me!" Terriermon yelled. "My attacks aren't working on
these guys!"
Trust him, Henry thought. "Digi-Modify! Digivolution activate!"
"Terriermon, digivolve to...Gargomon!" Gargomon quickly opened fire,
driving the FlyPteramon back. "Yeah, that's it," Gargomon yelled, "you want
some more?"
"He's not in pain anymore!" Janyu yelled. "Digivolving must have
removed the corrupted data in him!" He looked at Rika. "You have to
digivolve Renamon or she might be torn apart!"
Rika pulled a card out. It worked for Henry, she figured. "Digi-modify!
Digivolution activate!"
Nothing happened.
Rika looked at the card and her digivice. "Digivolution activate!
ACTIVATE!" she yelled, slashing the card several times over. "Why isn't it
working?" Rika heard Renamon gasp. Looking up, she saw her partner being
attacked by three of the mutated digimon; the fourth was harassing
Gargomon, preventing the digimon from attacking the other three. "Renamon!"
Normally, Renamon would have been able to fight off the three attackers
(yes, she's that good -ed). However, crippled by the pain Unown and Calumon
were unintentionally causing, she was barely able to fight off one of them,
much less three. Sensing her weakness, the Flypteramon closed in, falling
over each other to absorb her data. She dodged two, but the third one
managed to latch one of its talons into her shoulder.
Dropping the card, Rika ran over, hitting one of the attackers with her
digivice. "Let her go!" she yelled. Angrily, the digimon she hit turned to
face her.
"Pyro-Sphere!" Guilmon's flame attack slammed into the Flypteramon.
Takato, Guilmon, Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri ran into the area. "We need Hitomi!"
Takato yelled. "Unown and Calumon are going nuts!"
"We're a little busy right now!" Gargomon yelled back, still firing at
the mutated digimon harassing him.
"One of those things knocked her unconcious!" Nami added, holding
Hitomi. "Help Rika and Renamon!"
"Great!" Kazu yelled, heading for cover, dragging Kenta and Jeri with
him.
"Guilmon, I need to digivolve you. Can you handle it?" Guilmon nodded.
"Here goes. Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!"
"Guilmon, digivolve to...GROWLMON!" The two Flypteramon suddenly found
themselves facing a very large firebreathing dinosaur. "Why don't you pick
on someone MY size?" Growlmon rumbled. While Growlmon was in control of
himself this time, his digivolution made things worse, not better. Unable
to use his flame attacks without risking the other humans in the area, he
was reduced to swatting at the two attacking digimon.
The remaining Flypteramon focussed on Rika, who had started throwing
rocks at the digimon to get it away from Renamon. "Rika...get out of
here..." Renamon gasped, trying to stand.
Rika looked back at Renamon, having managed to place herself between
the Flypteramon and Renamon. "No." she replied, voice not quite cracking.
"I...I have to save you."
"RIKA!" Nami and Janyu yelled. Turning, Rika saw the Flypteramon fly at
her, silvery talons extended for the kill.
"RIKA!" Renamon yelled, Rika's digivice glowing as it did. "Renamon,
digivolve to...Kyuubimon!" Instantly, the pain Renamon felt vanished as the
digivolution took hold, clearing the damaged data in her system. "Dragon
Wheel!" she screamed, wreathing herself in blue flames and tackling the
Flypteramon only centimeters away from Rika's face. Rika didn't feel any
heat from Kyuubimon's flames.
"Alright!" Gargomon yelled, seeing this out of the corner of his eye.
"DUM DUM UPPER!" Gun arm glowing with energy, Gargomon leaped up and
smacked the Flypteramon he was attacking, driving it into the ground. He
heard Growlmon
dispatch the other two with his Dragon Slashers, the stricken digimon
disintegrating as they fell. A second later, the Digimon Gargomon attacked
also vanished, the corrupted data finally taking its toll.
==
It turned out they didn't need Hitomi after all; Calumon had simply run
out of energy, and had collapsed, unconcious. As he did, both the rift and
the energy wave that was attacking digimon in the area faded. Unown, also
groggy, managed to get under Calumon and lift him up, carrying the small
digimon away. The tamers got there just in time to see the two leaving.
Hitomi watched the two leave, silently.
"Hey," Takato said, "we know he's here now. We should be able to find
him again, no problem, right?" He looked at Henry.
"I hope not. I'd hate to think we'd have to go through that again every
time we run into them."
"What's to worry about?" Gargomon asked. "Now that we have this whole
digivolution thing figured out, it should be a cakewalk, right?" Gargomon
looked at Kyuubimon and Rika. "What's up? You don't look to happy for
someone who finally figured out how to digivolve."
"I..." Rika looked like she wanted to say more, but didn't.
"We should get home." Kyuubimon said quietly, leading Rika away. The
two left.
"That's probably good advice." Nami said, arm around Hitomi.
"Takatomon?" Takato looked up at Growlmon. "I'm glad I can digivolve
without going all crazy and stuff, but can I go back to being Guilmon now?"
"I...ah nuts." Takato replied, palming his face.
==
The Flybeemon that was damaged early in the fight finally came to. By
some chance, it had been spared the energy wave that mutated its bretheren.
It was badly wounded, but it was sure it could recover.
"Well, well, well," Impmon said, walking up. "What have we here?"
Flybeemon looked at Impmon, metal scraping on metal as it did so. "Don't
know? How about we just call you dessert and leave it at that?" The wounded
digimon's eyes widened, realizing what was coming next. "INFERNAL SUMMONS!"
Flybeemon was engulfed in flame, the heat finishing the job that Eevee's
berserk attack had started.
"Now that's more like it." Impmon said, absorbing the released data.
"Now, who's next?"
Next Episode:
While dealing with the aftermath of the battle, Renamon tells Rika a
story of what life was like back when Renamon was living in the digital
world. Janyu starts his new job, meets an old friend, and does not
discover what Yamaki has in mind for the digimon in the city. Next time on
Digimon:Digicross:
'Wolf's Claw, Fox's Fire'