Disclaimer: Although the severely warped and twisted imagination is my own, Digimon Xros Wars and its characters are the property of Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, Toei Animation, and TV Asahi.
| Digimon Xros Wars | Xtra | Part 19 |
| The Chaos Generals and the Xros Dimensional Adventure | Part 2 |
The girl who had introduced herself as the Digidestined of Time and Space removed a gadget from one of her pockets, flipping back the cover to reveal the screen and arrangement of buttons of her D-Terminal. It only took a few seconds for her to compose a suitable message calling for backup before she hit send. She frowned when it didn't go through.
"Must be out of range," she grumbled to herself.
"What were you trying to accomplish with that thing anyway?" asked Shoutmon.
"E-mail," the other Crystal responded automatically. "I was hoping to get in touch with the rest of my team before going up against the Chaos Generals, but it looks like the signal is being blocked. Anyway, that's enough wasting time. I know they'll be upset about missing out on the fight, but where we come from there are bound to be others in the future."
She put away her D-Terminal and instinctively approached the position where Chaos Piemon's portal of darkness had previously resided. "This is definitely it," she nodded to herself and held up her digivice. "There's no mistaking their darkness signature." The screen on the front of her digivice began to glow silver. "Darkness Gate Open!"
The portal re-formed slowly, almost as if it was stubbornly refusing to cooperate of its own volition. However, within the next few minutes it had grown large enough for everyone to make it through. Once it had been successfully opened, the other Crystal fell to one knee breathing heavily and the other Zapmon quickly rushed to her side.
"Those lousy jerks must have figured out that humans react badly to the world of darkness," the small dragon shook a balled up fist at the portal.
"It's okay," the human girl shook it off. "After the number of times we've beaten them, they must think they change the odds by giving us a handicap."
"So, are we all going then?" Taiki turned to his own team before finally turning to Kiriha.
Kiriha shrugged. "I'm only going to take back that Code Crown that rightfully belongs to me. What happens to your friend is of no concern to me so don't expect me to help you save her. Besides, I doubt she really needs to be rescued."
"Kiriha..." Taiki started to protest, but the other Crystal immediately cut him off.
"He's probably right," she informed him. "If she's anything like me, then she'll be a terrible hostage."
Meanwhile, Crystal was still struggling in Chaos Piemon's grasp after being dragged into an area where the floor, walls and ceiling were comprised of a continuous grid of illuminated green lines against a black background. Because it all looked the same in all directions, it was more or less impossible to determine the actual size of the area. However, she had already been carried past the ominous shapes of Chaos Greymon, Chaos Seadramon, and Chaosdramon and, judging from the size of them, she could safely guess that the surrounding area must have been fairly large.
"Enough is enough!" Black Fladramon's voice declared as the flame armored dragon materialized from Crystal's Xros Loader so that he formed behind Chaos Piemon. His body became surrounded with an aura of flames as he rammed violently into the offending digimon. "Fire Rocket!"
The impact caused Chaos Piemon to stagger and lose his hold on the human girl who landed sprawled on the ground. She recovered quickly and held up her Xros Loader without bothering to pick herself up. "All Fan Beemonz Digi Xros!"
"Digi Xros!" The twenty-seven Fan Beemonz came together to become a single Tiger Vespamon. "Tiger Vespamon!"
The newly Digi Xrossed digimon quickly positioned itself between Crystal and Chaos Piemon. Black Fladramon swiftly somersaulted over the enemy digimon to stand beside Tiger Vespamon, giving Crystal a chance to get up on her feet before the two digimon engaged their opponent in battle.
"What kind of place is this?" Zenjirou was already becoming disquieted by the strange environment they had emerged into by passing through the portal of darkness.
"It kind of looks like the flat, highly geometric environments that were used in old video games," noted Akari. The others stopped and stared at her, with the exception of the other Crystal who was more focused on where they were going.
It didn't take long for them to spot Chaos Greymon, Chaos Seadramon, and Chaosdramon blocking the way ahead. The three mechanized dragon digimon stood out against the highly repetitive landscape.
"Alright, we'll distract them while the rest of you figure out a battle plan," the other Crystal announced suddenly.
"Wait, what?" Zapmon watched with considerable disbelief as the girl who was virtually a mirror image of her own human took off running toward the imposing figures of Chaos Greymon, Chaos Seadramon, and Chaosdramon. "You've got to be kidding."
She was even more shocked to see that her own counterpart, the other Zapmon, had obediently run ahead with the girl. Then the other Crystal held out her digivice and did something even more unexpected.
"Digimental Up!" the other Crystal declared as a white, oblong object almost resembling an egg with a silver symbol on top shaped like a shooting star with a metal spike protruding from it to form the tail emerged from her digivice. It broke apart like a jigsaw puzzle and reassembled itself around the small dragon digimon running along ahead of her.
"Zapmon Armor Shinka!" the other Zapmon rapidly increased in size to fill in the gaps in the white armor that had formed around her, becoming a wolf-like draconic quadruped in the process. Her scales became concealed under a layer of fine fur where they were still visible between the gaps in her armor. Her golden wings were also slightly larger, extending from the shoulder joints of her forelegs, although they were still only aesthetic and not really useable for flying. Most of her body was encased by the white armor formed from the Digimental, including a helmet over her face with slits for the eyes and a silver and gold lightning-bolt spike protruding from the snout. "Lightningmon, Transcending Time and Space!"
As soon as the evolution process was complete, the other Crystal jumped up onto her partner's back and larger head-on at the three enemy digimon still looming in the distance.
"How come I can't do that?" Zapmon pouted.
"Perhaps you simply haven't met the necessary requirements to reach that stage in your life cycle yet," noted Gururumon.
Lighdramon nodded. "You act tough, but you're still just a kid."
"Anyway, it didn't sound like they are going to be able to hold them off by themselves so we'd better hurry up and figure out how we can lend a hand," noted Taiki. I get the feeling these enemy digimon are really dangerous.
"Hmph," Kiriha stepped away from the crowd. "While you're busy thinking about it, I intend to just go out there and overpower them with brute force."
"Hey you big muscle heads! You want me, come and get me!" The other Crystal wasted no time drawing the attention of Chaos Greymon, Chaos Seadramon, and Chaosdramon to her.
"The prisoner is escaping!" Chaos Seadramon hissed.
"Then we have our orders," Chaos Greymon snorted. "If we can't recapture her, then we have permission to destroy her."
"Then why are we still discussing this? We should be annihilating her so that there won't be any pieces left!" Chaosdramon declared viciously. "Hyper Mugen Cannon!"
Chaosdramon had already fully charged his twin cannons and fired the enormous energy waves at his approaching adversary.
"Gaia Force!" Chaos Greymon quickly followed suit, gathering flaming energy between his hands and hurtling it at the other Crystal and Lightningmon.
"Ultimate Stream!" Chaos Seadramon contributed a massive energy beam from the cannon built into his nose to the joint attack, pleased to see that the pitiful human and her digimon were making no discernable effort to get out of the way.
Of course, all three of them had completely overlooked the fact that the girl racing toward them wasn't the same girl that had been captured by Chaos Dukemon and Chaos Piemon, even though they looked pretty much identical. As such, they had no idea that the actual prisoner was presently locked in battle with Chaos Piemon while the three of them were being distracted by an imposter. Except for the fact that the other Crystal was really the one they had been after all along.
"These guys never learn," the girl sighed and shook her head. "Oh well, I guess it's time for us to give them another demonstration of why they can never catch us."
"You've got that right," Lightningmon voiced her agreement. In the blink of an eye they both disappeared from the battlefield completely so that the blasts from Chaosdramon, Chaos Greymon, and Chaos Seadramon missed them completely and simply impacted harmlessly with the ground. In the next instant Lightningmon could be seen dashing across the serpentine metallic body of Chaos Seadramon as if nothing had happened.
"Over here you morons!" Lightningmon taunted her three opponents.
Chaos Seadramon began flailing around in the midair trying to knock off the smaller digimon, but Lightningmon managed to regain her footing despite all of the thrashing movement. Chaosdramon began charging up his cannons again, preparing to open fire on his ally if it meant obliterating his adversary.
"Hold still," Chaosdramon instructed the serpentine digimon. "I'll gladly put you out of your misery."
"Wait," Chaos Greymon flew between them. "You'll hit Chaos Seadramon if you do that."
"And why should that bother me?" Chaosdramon ignored him.
"Fine, if I don't get to them first, you can have it your way," Chaos Greymon conceded. He flew off to pursue the other Crystal and Lightningmon as the latter continued leaping between the coils of Chaos Seadramon's enormous body to maintain her footing while the larger digimon kept trying to dislodge her.
"Giga Destroyer!" Metal Greymon descended upon them without warning, raining down an indiscriminate barrage of blue laser blasts that struck Chaos Seadramon, Chaos Greymon, and very nearly struck the other Crystal and Lightningmon in the process. The latter two quickly disappeared from their position and then reappeared so that they were instead charging at Chaosdramon from behind.
"Lightning Beam!" Lightningmon unleashed a continuous blast of electricity over Chaosdramon's body, but after that brief instant the outcome was obvious. The electricity crackled for several long seconds and quickly fizzled out without having any effect on the mechanical dragon. Chaosdramon simply twisted around and smacked them down with his huge, metal clawed arm so that they skidded across the ground. Lightningmon's armor broke apart, reassembling into the Digimental as it was restored to the other Crystal's digivice as her partner shrunk back into Zapmon.
"I suppose it shouldn't surprise me that it didn't work," the small dragon coughed up some dust and staggered back onto her feet taking on a defensive stance. "That form might be able to outrun them, but it doesn't pack enough of a punch."
The other Crystal nodded as she pushed herself up off the ground. "That was just supposed to be a diversion anyway." She peered up at Kiriha circling around on Metal Greymon with unconcealed contempt. "Anyway, since that guy is already going on the offensive, we might as well start being serious about this."
"I couldn't agree more," her partner confirmed without hesitation.
"Then let's show them some of our real power," the other Crystal held out her digivice. The screen shined silver and so did the crest contained within the tag worn around her neck.
"Zapmon Warp Shinka!" The girl's partner transformed from a small dragon that had barely come up to her knees into a dragon roughly fifteen feet tall, with a respectable wingspan to go along with it. In another flash, a metallic cannon formed along the back of her right arm with cables extending from the barrel connected to the base of her neck. The upper righthand portion of her face was also covered by half of a metallic mask. There was another flash and suddeny the cannon had been replaced by a large metal cuff connected by heavy chains to the hilt of a large katana clenched her right hand with the word "time" etched into both sides of the blade in digital code. A steel gauntlet formed around her left arm with a massive circular extension embedded with a large mirror attached to the outside of her forearm. And a powerful cannon became mounted to the tip of her whiplike tail. "Neo Zapdramon!"
Neo Zapdramon grinned fiercely at Chaosdramon. "Now, where were we?"
Zapmon started to sulk even harder after witnessing the second mode of evolution employed by her counterpart from another dimension, but by that point no one was really paying any attention to her. There were other, more important, matters to deal with at the moment. Akari and Zenjirou had already been situated on Gururumon and Lighdramon respectively, with Akari hanging onto Cutemon and Zenjirou with the red Pickmon sticking up from his hair.
"I'll be counting on you guys to them keep out of the line of fire," Taiki told the two beast digimon.
"You can count on us," Gururumon assured him. The large wolf snatched Zapmon up by her wings with his mouth.
"Just make sure you bring our general back in one piece," added Lighdramon.
Taiki turned to Nene who simply nodded to confirm that she was ready to make X5.
"Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon, Starmonz!" Taiki dialed in his digimon on his Xros Loader.
"Sparrowmon!" Nene did so as well.
"Digi Xros!" They finished together.
"Digi Xros!" The component digimon came together to form Shoutmon X5. "Shoutmon X5!"
Taiki and Nene positioned themselves on Shoutmon X5's shoulders as the newly Digi Xrossed digimon took to the sky, bracing themselves as they flew toward the battle at hand.
"Trump Sword!" Chaos Piemon unsheathed a pair of swords from his back, flinging them at Tiger Vespamon and Black Fladramon before drawing a second pair and doing so a second time. Aside from the four actual swords he had thrown at the two digimon, numerous illusory swords filled in the space between them making the illusory swords virtually indestinguishable from the real ones.
"Mach Stinger V!" Tiger Vespamon moved to intercept Chaos Piemon's swords with its own, becoming slightly disoriented when intercepting empty air, but nevertheless continued swatting at each of the swords in turn while Black Fladramon readied himself to launch another attack at Chaos Piemon.
"Knuckle Fire!" Black Fladramon's flame patterned gauntlets lit up with crimson flames as he began launching a barrage of fireballs at Chaos Piemon. Unfortunately, the evil clown simply shrugged them off.
"Clown Trick!" Chaos Piemon formed an invisible blast between his hands and flung it at the flame armored dragon digimon.
Black Fladramon took the blow full in the chest and toppled to the ground, groaning in pain before being drawn back into Crystal's silver Xros Loader to recover. However, at the same time that Black Fladramon was pulled back in for recovery, Raptordramon emerged with his sights set on Chaos Piemon.
"Crash Charge!" The black armored dinosaur charged into Chaos Piemon with the sharp metal blades of his armor, cutting into the evil clown's torso causing Chaos Piemon to let out an agonized cry. "Ambush Crunch!" Raptordramon then leapt onto the wounded digimon's chest, pinning Chaos Piemon under his weight, and bit fiercely into the evil clown's exposed throat, causing Chaos Piemon to finally explode into a harmless cloud of data.
"One down," Raptordramon declared with a slight snarl. "That leaves four."
To Be Continued...
Author's Notes: So, the new season of Digimon Xros Wars begins next month in Japan. Should be interesting to see where they decide to go with it after the insanely awesome finale they pulled for the previous story arc. I'm not sure how they plan to top it, but I'll still be watching to find out when they do. And, of course, I'll probably still be writing fanfiction. Can you believe this story hasn't even gotten past the "first season" of Xros Wars yet? Bad weather and other distractions aside, I do enjoy having time to actually work on this.