Chapter 40: The Mighty
I watched as Imperialdramon flew up into the air with the others. The rest of us slowly walked out of the forest to get a better view of what was happening.
"Do you think they'll be able to win?" Ken asked me.
"Of course they can. Veemon and I agreed last night that we wouldn't let anything stop us. Daemon is going down, right here, right now," I declared confidently.
High above, the five mega level digimon surrounded Daemon, who calmly allowed them to do so. He seemed content to believe that they didn't have a chance against him, even though Metalskullhydramon had killed him years ago.
"It's so nice to see you all again," Daemon said, seeming completely in control. "However, you've once again forgotten one rather important detail; I can travel freely between the worlds!"
"So it's your ignorance that gives you so much confidence," Tai yelled up at him.
"Davis has some experience with that," Yolei said.
"Yeah, I . . . hey wait a second," I started to protest. I sighed and let it slide for now. The battle was beginning.
"What have you done?" Daemon questioned angrily. "What is the meaning of this?"
"We've found a way to block your escape route, Daemon," Wargreymon explained. "Now, you have to fight us."
"We won't let you escape this time," Imperialdramon told him.
"You're smarter than I gave you credit for, but still, you're attacks are no match for me. Take your best shot!" Daemon cried as flames erupted from both of his hands. He launched his first blast at Metalgarurumon, who quickly flew out of the way. Metalskullhydramon backed off to wait for his opening, while the other three digimon attacked. Wargreymon led the attack, throwing his Terra Force attack at Daemon. Daemon threw up a shield of fire to block the blast, and succeeded, but Metalseadramon and Imperialdramon moved in behind him. The combined strength of their River of Power and Imperial Cannon attacks knocked Daemon backwards through the air, right towards Wargreymon. Wargreymon attempted to bicycle kick Daemon down to the ground, but Daemon recovered quickly and blasted his Flaming Inferno at Wargreymon. Metalgarurumon then rushed him from the side, slamming into him hard and knocking him away from Wargreymon. Daemon quickly summoned the fire to himself and surrounded Metalgarurumon I it, but Wargreymon now had the opportunity he needed to send another Terra Force flying at Daemon. He scored a direct hit and Daemon crashed into the ground in front of us, sending up a cloud of dirt.
Daemon was instantly on his feet again and flew up to face the digimon. Imperialdramon attacked from directly above the demon, but Daemon's Inferno attack overpowered Imperialdramon's cannon and blasted the digimon high into the sky. Metalseadramon tried to attack form the left, but Daemon moved swiftly out of the way of his attack and let loose another blast of fire at him, which pushed him down all the way back to the ground. Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon both attack from behind then, and Daemon threw up a shield of fire to block their attack.
Imperialdramon recovered and tried another Imperial Cannon attack, but Daemon managed to hold up his shield while blasting more fire at Imperialdramon, who tried his best to block the blast, but couldn't.
"Uh oh, they're losing," TK said.
"Sora, is it time we did something to help?" Biyomon asked her partner.
"I think so, Biyo. Let's go!" Sora replied.
"I'm going to! I hit him once, and I can again!" Tentomon cried.
Biyomon digivolve to…..:::::Birdramon!
Birdramon digivolve to…..:::::Garudamon!
Tentomon digivolve to…..:::::Kabuterimon!
Kabuterimon digivolve to…..:::::Megakabuterimon!
The two ultimate level digimon rushed to join the battle. Garudamon launched her Wing Blade attack, which Daemon never saw until it struck him in the back. He turned to see what had hit him just as Kabuterimon reached him with his Horn Buster attack, and the giant horn hit Daemon squarely in the face. He was knocked up into the air for a second and lost his bearing. In a rage, he sent a torrent of fire down upon Megakabuterimon and Garudamon. Both digimon couldn't take the attack, and they fell back down to the ground and reverted back to Biyomon and Tentomon. Just as they hit the ground, Metalgarurumon, Metalseadramon, and Wargreymon all connected with their attacks against the distracted Daemon. Imperialdramon then rushed in and tackled Daemon down out of the air, slamming him into the roof of Myotismon's castle.
The roof suddenly erupted with fire, and Imperialdramon was sent flying backward up into the sky. Wargreymon caught him as Daemon rose once again into the sky, surrounded by an enormous cloud of fire. He motioned toward the digimon, and the entire cloud suddenly flared up and flew at them. They all tried to block it, but the fire was far too intense for them to handle. They quickly split up so that Daemon couldn't continue to focus his attacks on all of them.
Daemon ceased his attack on the digimon for a second and instead blasted a column of fire at the castle. This seemed to be a rather foolish strategy, lighting his own castle on fire, but the streak of flames smashed through the castle as he dragged it along just inside of the wall nearest us. The wall began to fall in one piece, right at us.
"You coward!" Wargreymon screamed as he tried to rush down to stop the wall from falling on us. He wasn't going to make it in time, though because he was too far away. We were in serious trouble.
Gomamon digivolve to...:::::Ikkakumon!
Ikkakumon digivolve to...:::::Zudomon!
Zudomon rushed a the wall, dropping his hammer immediately, and caught the mass of falling stone just before it smashed down onto us.
"Nice save Zudomon!" Joe called out.
"The wall's collapsing!" Izzy observed with distress. Indeed, the wall was beginning to break apart. The rocks were going to crush us.
"Armadillomon, quick, we need a tunnel!" Cody told his digimon.
Armadillomon, armor digivolve to...:::::Digmon!
Digmon put his drills to the ground immediately and began to create a large tunnel. He turned a short way down to create a small room that would be sheltered from the falling rocks, and we all rushed inside as the rocks began falling all around us.
The rocks blocked the entrance, but that wasn't a problem for Digmon. He drilled up through the ground and the rubble of the wall, creating an easy escape route for us. Back on the surface, Zudomon was just tossing back the piece of wall that was left in front of him, which he had been holding up. He was clearly tired out from having to hold up the entire wall, even for a short time, and he reverted back to Gomamon.
"Good job, Gomamon. Take a rest," Joe said.
"Hey, I just got a great idea from that wall," Mimi said. "Cody, do you mind if Palmon and I borrow Digmon?"
"Huh? What for?" Cody asked.
"You'll see," Mimi promised. She whispered something to Palmon, who smiled.
"Alright, Mimi, I'll give it a shot," she said. She shot her vines up to the roof and then dragged herself up by them. Once there, shot her vines back down at Digmon. They wrapped around him tightly, but didn't hurt him because he was at the champion level.
"Now Digmon," Mimi started, "when you hit Daemon, hit him hard with your drills. This catapult will give you extra speed, and we might be able to hurt him!"
"I'm all over it!" Digmon declared happily. Palmon retracted her vines as quickly as possible, dragging Digmon up into the air faster and faster, until she released him and he sped toward Daemon, brandishing the drills on his nose and arms.
He ran right into Daemon, the drills all connecting solidly, and the two digimon shot upward in a tangle mess. A blast of fire sent Digmon streaking away back down toward the ground.
"Mimi, I can't catch him, he's moving to fast!" Palmon yelled down to us.
"Allow me to, then!" Hawkmon said, taking to the sky.
Hawkmon digivolve to...:::::Aquilamon!
Aquilamon easily caught Digmon in his claws and drifted slowly down to the ground. As soon as they landed, Digmon returned to his rookie stage. The fire blast had been too much for him. Palmon dropped down from the roof with her vines to rejoin the group.
"I think we've got him!" Ken said. All four of the digimon had managed to hit Daemon at once while he was distracted by Digmon, slamming him down onto the roof of the castle. From behind the castle, Metalskullhydramon rose up into the air. There was a bright black energy that seemed to be flowing from all of his jaws, dripping out the tiny openings in the skull as he held in the blast. With Daemon down on the roof, he took his shot.
"Abomination!" The massive dragon roared. All of the heads unleashed massive streams of black energy. The energy gathered in a giant orb just above Daemon, and then fell right down onto Daemon.
The sky went black suddenly as a massive explosion of dark energy rocked the very earth. We all fell down as the ground shook violently. The confusion of the earthquake and the black sky made me dizzy for a few seconds.
I slowly regained my senses, and stared up at the bright blue sky. I quickly got to my feet, looking around to see what had happened. Everyone else was also standing up and dusting themselves off. Slowly, I turned toward the castle.
The enormous structure was no longer there. Only a smoldering pile of rubble remained where it had once stood. On top of the pile, Dremon was looking at us, smiling with his tiny mouth. He started to slither over to us as the other digimon landed around us.
"I think I got him, Will," the little digimon reported happily.
"I think you did. Great work," Will said, picking up his digimon and holding him up in the air. "You got him good!"
"So, is that it? Is it really over?" Sora asked, anticipating an affirmative answer.
The answer she got was not from who she expected, nor was it affirmative.
"It's . . . not over yet," a voice sounded from the rubble. Fire began to stream out through holes in the pile of stone, and then the center of the mound exploded in fire, sending the pieces of the bricks hurtling through the air. The four remaining mega digimon stepped in front of us and blocked the rocks, but they couldn't stop Daemon from rising up out of the rubble in his familiar shroud of fire.
"You missed," he said with an incredible derision. "Now, you will all fell the fury of my fire!" He rose up above us and unleashed a stream of fire straight for us. Imperialdramon stepped in front of it and put up an energy shield, but the shield was not strong enough, and it was gradually being pushed backward.
"How can we beat him?" Izzy questioned. "If he can survive an attack like that, even an indirect hit, can our attack even hurt him?"
"Don't worry Izzy. We've got one more trick up our sleeves," Tai said. He turned to Matt. "You ready?"
"Absolutely," Matt said. He and Tai both began to glow and their digivices exploded with a brilliant light.
Wargreymon, Metalgarurumon, DNA digivolve to...:::::,',',',','Omnimon!
"Wow, Omnimon's back, TK said in awe.
"Tai and I talked about this last night. We figured if plan A didn't work, we should have a plan B," Matt said.
Omnimon stepped in front of Imperialdramon, blocking the blazing flame.
"What is the meaning of this?" Daemon screeched.
"You're done for," Omnimon said. He raised his right arm, pointing it at Daemon.
"Garuru Cannon!" Omni bellowed as he let a blast fly from the head-like cannon on his arm. The beam cut straight through Daemon's fiery inferno and struck the demonic digimon squarely in the chest. Daemon was knocked backward, smashing into the rubble. He tried to stand back up, but Omnimon was already on top of him again, now brandishing the sword in his left arm.
"Transcendent Sword!" Omnimon cried as he thrust the blade at Daemon. The sword smashed right through Daemon's body, right in the middle of his chest, where his heart may or may not have been. Daemon cried out in agony.
His screech seemed to shake the very ground, and we all had to cover our ears. But none of us shut our eyes; we were too excited to see Daemon's form slowly beginning to dissolve into data. Right around the sword, Daemon vanished into tiny particles which scattered themselves into the sky. There was no coming back from that for him.
Omnimon reverted all the way back to Koromon and Tsunomon. The two little digimon turned back to us and bounced over to their partners, who scooped them up happily.
"Great work Koromon, you did it!" Tai celebrated.
"You were great Tsunomon. Nice work!" Matt grinned at his digimon.
"So it's really over this time? We've finally taken out Daemon?" Yolei asked, hardly able to believe it.
"Yeah. He won't be bothering us ever again," I said confidently.
Imperialdramon and Metalseadramon digivolved back to Veemon, Wormmon, and Betamon. Veemon ran over me.
"How'd I do, Davish?" he asked with a big grin.
"You were awesome, Veemon!" I said, wrapping him up in a big hug.
"Aw, thanks, Davish," he said happily.
"You know what that means," Gomamon said. "Joe's buying lunch!"
"What? When did I say that?" Joe protested.
"Gee, thanks, Joe. You're a great guy," Sora laughed.
"Yeah, you always come through for us, Joe!" Tai said, also breaking into a laugh.
"Oh, screw it," Joe sighed.
"That's my Joe!" Gomamon declared with glee.