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Chapter Seven

Metal Earthquake

TK and Cody were trudging through Drill Tunnel.

"I don't know what set her off though. We were doing fine, and the next minute we were biting each other's heads off." TK moaned.

"I reckon something happened. Something made Kari and Sora do what they did." Cody stated.

"You think Ghoulmon might have caused it?" Patamon asked.

"I reckon so. Look, they're all madly in love. Next thing we know they have a fight and go and sleep with their lover's rivals. I don't think it's a coincidence." Cody said.

"It would explain a lot if Ghoulmon could spread his influence outside of the Digital World. And we know he's powerful, as he's taken away the power for the others to digivolve to Ultimate. If Cody's right, Ghoulmon engineered the entire plot to make us weaker." Armadillomon said.

"Which means we're in trouble" TK moaned.

"You need to sort things out with Kari." Cody warned.

"I know. But she slept with Davis…"

"And I know she regrets it. It was a stupid mistake." Cody soothed.

"But Davis…"

"Is still rather immature, and would have jumped at the chance. But he wouldn't have done it to hurt you. He just wouldn't have thought." Cody said calmly.

"I hope so."

"What's that light?" Patamon asked.

They went up a side tunnel to see a glowing light, which was a shimmering white colour.

"What's that?" Armadillomon asked.

"A crest." Patamon answered.

This crest was in the shape of a question mark, with two circles at the bottom.

"The crest of wisdom. Its only meant to appear at the beginning of a very dark time for the world." Patamon explained.

"Who's it for?" Armadillomon asked.

"Cody, I expect. I've already got mine." TK said.

Cody reached out and touched it. With a flash, it turned into a tag and hung around his neck.

"Does that mean I'll be able to digivolve to Ultimate?" Armadillomon asked.

"Probably." Patamon said.

There was suddenly a loud rumbling.

"What was that?" Cody asked.

In response, the wall beside them suddenly collapsed in, revealing a skeletal and evil looking Digimon.

"Oh no, it's SkullGreymon!" TK cried.

They had encountered the evil creature before, when Tai had accidentally made Agumon digivolve the wrong way by mistake. The combined force of Garurumon, Birdramon and Kabuterimon couldn't stop him.

More recently, they had had to rely on Raidramon to stop a corrupted Agumon from doing the Digimon Emperor's bidding.

"Dark Shot!" it croaked.

A massive dark beam fired from the rocket on it's back and blew them up into the air.

"Not good!" Cody yelled.

"Patamon digivolve to…Angemon!"

"Armadillomon digivolve to…Ankylomon!"

The two Champions glared at the evil Ultimate, who dashed at them.

"Dark Shot!"

"Hand of Fate!"

"Tail Hammer!"

The skeletal Digimon cackled insanely and shrugged off the attacks, then brought his tail crashing into the two, throwing them up into the air and down to the ground.

"That aint on. I'm the one who plays with the tail around here." Ankylomon snarled.

"We need to DNA digivolve to stand any chance of stopping him." Angemon said.

"Agreed."

"Ankylomon, Angemon, DNA digivolve to…Shakkoumon!"

The massive metal Digimon materialised. All SkullGreymon did was laugh.

"Dark Shot!"

The massive dark beam crashed into the Digimon with such force it blew him through several walls.

"Please get up!" Cody yelled.

"Kachina Bombs!"

The attack crashed into the evil Ultimate, who reared up, grabbed Shakkoumon and threw him to the ground.

"He's no match for SkullGreymon." TK whispered.

"Don't lose faith guys. Justice Beam!"

The red lasers shot out from his eyes, but SkullGreymon just absorbed them.

"Dark Shot!"

As the bolt hit him, Shakkoumon shrunk back to Angemon and Ankylomon.

"Not good." Ankylomon said.

"Oh, he's given me heartburn." Angemon complained.

"Let me relieve it. Dark Shot!"

The blast hit Angemon right where it hurt.

"That's a terrible place to get shot!" Angemon croaked as he keeled over.

"Tail Hammer!" Ankylomon roared.

SkullGreymon grabbed Ankylomon's tail and smashed him to the ground.

"Hand of Fate!" Angemon moaned from the ground.

SkullGreymon shrugged off the attack and stakpeded at the angel lying on the floor.

"Oh crap." Angemon said as he was kicked through the wall.

Cody ran up to a weakened Ankylomon.

"Don't give up Ankylomon! If you work together, you can destroy him. Angemon can distract him, and you can finish him!" he implored.

"Bit late Cody." Ankylomon muttered.

Angemon skidded through and crashed into the wall.

"Not good." He moaned.

SkullGreymon barged through.

"Dark Shot!"

Ankylomon leapt in the way of the blast.

"NO!" Cody yelled.

Ankylomon thudded to the floor, and Angemon swept down at SkullGreymon.

Ankylomon struggled to his feet.

"Please don't give up." Cody implored.

"I won't."

His Digimon advanced towards his enemy.

"You can do it!"

Suddenly, Cody's crest blazed with a bright white light.

"Oh nuts." SkullGreymon moaned.

"Hmm. I feel weird." Ankylomon said.

"Oh goodie." Angemon grinned.

"Ankylomon digivolve to…MetalAnkylomon!"

He had morphed to twice his usual size, and was now sheathed in metal armour.

MetalAnkylomon: An Ultimate level Digimon, his Metal Earthquake will send an enemy to the fiery depths.

MetalAnkylomon glared daggers at SkullGreymon.

"Oh mother." He moaned.

MetalAnkylomon gave a roar and charged at SkullGreymon, crashing him up into the air.

"Metal Earthquake!"

He stamped his meet, and massive jagged spikes formed around a massive chasm. Below them, they could see fire below them. SkullGreymon moaned.

"Shattering Earth!"

Rocks fell from the ceiling and flew up from the ground and knocked SkullGreymon into the chasm.

"NOOO!" he screamed as he fell down the chasm. The chasm slid shut and the place reverted back to normal.

"Hold on!" MetalAnkylomon said, as he leapt into the earth and started tunnelling.

Ten minutes later, they were back outside Gear Tunnel in Mt Panorama.

"I'm so proud of you!" Cody said excitedly as he cuddled Upamon.

"Yeah, I'm pretty cool." The Digimon said happily.

"Where do we go? Gear Savannah, or Mt Panorama?" TK asked.

"Up to you."

With that, the four set off, towards their friends.

A new Ultimate! Sorry this took so long, but I've been fixing Second War.

I know it's short, but there wasnt much to happen aside from Armadillomon digivolve.

Hope you like and I ill update soon.

Until then, please read and review!