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 20 |
| The Chaos Generals and the Xros Dimensional Adventure | Part 3 |
Chaos Greymon emerged from the smoke cloud formed by the multiple impacts of Metal Greymon's Giga Destroyer virtually unscathed. The dragon man whirled around in midair and was honestly intrigued when he discovered the identity of his and Chaos Seadramon's diminutive assailant. Really, just a Metal Greymon? This one certainly had a different look to it than any of the other variations Chaos Greymon had seen on Metal Greymon, but all the parts were there and readily recognizeable. Chaos Greymon chuckled to himself as he spun back around to face Chaos Seadramon.
"Go help Chaosdramon take care of the girl," he informed the enormous mechanized sea serpent. "This one is mine."
Chaos Seadramon nodded his huge head, hissing a silent confirmation before moving off to confront the other Crystal and her newly evolved partner. Chaos Greymon shifted his attention back to Kiriha and his Metal Greymon.
"Let's see which of us is stronger," Chaos Greymon declared as he held his arms with their Dramon Killer gauntlets over his head, pressing them together to become more aerodynamic. Then he began to spin rapidly in place while gathering flaming energy around his body to form an energetic tornado of raw destructive power. "Great Tornado!" Chaos Greymon moved with the spinning current around his body and rushed toward Metal Greymon.
"Trident Arm!" Metal Greymon shielded himself by countering Chaos Greymon with his own metal arm. However, the clash only served to form numerous fracture lines in the metal before Metal Greymon was flung back haphazardly several meters away, struggling to remain upstair so as to prevent Kiriha from being thrown off. There was no longer any doubt that their adversary was a powerful enemy indeed.
Chaos Seadramon had started to lock on to Neo Zapdramon with his nose cannon when he was suddenly struck in his metal chin by an uppercut from Shoutmon X5.
"I don't think so," Shoutmon X5 defiantly informed the large, mechanized sea serpent. "You're fighting me!"
Chaos Seadramon righted himself and peered down at his assailant. "It is no matter," the serpent hissed. "You shall all perish soon enough."
Then, in a swift, fluid motion, Chaos Seadramon swung around the length of his huge serpentine body so that his flexible metal tail became wrapped tightly around Shoutmon X5, nearly crushing him with the constrictive force. "Hell Squeeze!"
Shoutmon X5 cried out from the pain as fractures began to form along his body from the pressure being exerted on him by Chaos Seadramon. Chaos Seadramon seemed to take lavish pleasure in making his opponent suffer, practically crooning with delight. "It's best not to struggle. The pain will go away just as soon as you are reduced to your constituent zeroes and ones. Of course, it will be no fun for me at all if you go ahead and die too quickly."
"As if I would die from something like this!" Shoutmon X5 declared as the drills on his thighs began to rotate, accelerating so that they pierced through the metallic flesh of Chaos Seadramon's tail, also puncturing several of the connecting cables in the process causing Chaos Seadramon's coils to loosen enough for Shoutmon X5 to bring up the large drill at the tip of his tail to finish the job by drilling clear through Chaos Seadramon's tail, severing it completely. Shoutmon X5 freed himself from the loose metal coils and tossed the severed tail aside as it finally dissolved into a golden cloud of data.
"I see that you are not without some skill and ingenuity," Chaos Seadramon conceded as he swallowed his pain. Even without his tail he was still a formidable digimon. He would simply have to decide on a different way to finish off his opponent.
"Hyper Mugen Cannon!" Chaosdramon fired the power he had charged into his two cannons down upon Neo Zapdramon.
"Shield-Arm Reflection!" Neo Zapdramon shielded herself with the mirrored gauntlet on her left arm, absorbing the blasts from Chaosdramon's cannons into the large mirror and redirecting the destructive energy back at him. Chaosdramon's metal body became cracked and scorched by the reverse impact, but the huge mechanized dragon seemed entirely unfazed by the injuries he had sustained by having his own attack bounced back at him. A large crack had also formed in the large mirror attached to the gauntlet on Neo Zapdramon's left arm. It was unlikely that she would be able to redirect another fully charged blast from Chaosdramon's two cannons.
"In that case, I'd better not give him the opportunity to recharge them!" Neo Zapdramon declared as she gripped the hilt of the huge katana that was chained to her right wrist with both hands. "Epoch Blade!" The dragon warrior started systematically striking Chaosdramon with her weapon, strategically aiming for the patches of exposed flesh that had been revealed through the cracks in his mechanized body. However, the assault barely seemed to faze her opponent.
Chaosdramon brought up his right arm and spread out the three-pronged metal pincers to open up the concealed missile port and then fired one of his organic missiles directly at Neo Zapdramon. "Destroyed Hook!" The missile quickly hit its mark causing Neo Zapdramon to cry out in agony as a virus was injected into her body to melt away her data. As a consequence, she was forced to degenerate down a stage to cast off the virus by becoming Sparkmon.
"You've become more resilient," Chaosdramon remarked in what might have constituted a complimentary tone. "In the past you would have been forced to degenerate all the way back to your child form."
"And you shouldn't have done that," Sparkmon informed him as she directed the cannon mounted onto the back of her right arm at each of Chaosdramon's two cannon in turn. "Dragon Cannon!" She fired off concentrated silver beam into both of the cannon barrels, causing them to explode from the inside. It didn't necessarily back as much of a punch as Chaosdramon's two cannons, but it was easier to aim and it didn't have a cool down period to be concerned about.
"We should get out of here before we run into anymore of them," Crystal looked between Raptordramon and Tiger Vespamon. The rest of her digimon, except for Zapmon, Gururumon and Lighdramon, were all present and accounted for inside of her Xros Loader, but it still put severe limitations on her team's overall fighting ability. Sure, Raptordramon had managed to take down Chaos Piemon, but that was only because he got lucky and caught the evil clown off guard. Moreover, Crystal had seen for herself that the remaining Chaos Generals were primary made of metal which meant they wouldn't have the same vulnerability as more organic digimon.
"You won't be going anywhere," Chaos Dukemon dropped down from a platform somewhere up above, easily camouflaged by the repetitive nature of the surrounding environment. "Demon's Disaster!" The evil knight rushed forward and swiftly plunged his lance into Tiger Vespamon's chest forcing the Digi Xros to break apart into its dazed constituents. Once they were down he swung his lance at Raptordramon to produce a shockwave of demonic electricity that sent the armored dinosaur sprawling across the ground until he lost consciousness.
Crystal gathered her fallen digimon back into her Xros Loader. She was mentally debating which combination of digimon she still had on her with enough energy might be strong enough to stand against Chaos Dukemon. She felt like she was rapidly running out of options.
"You will find that I am much stronger than my associate," Chaos Dukemon informed her. He dismissed the lance encased around his right arm to reveal his hand clutching the piece of the Code Crown he had stolen from the Fossil Zone. "Especially now that I have this curious little trinket. Somehow, this makes me feel even more powerful."
That was when Slashmon materialized himself from Crystal's Xros Loader. The red raptor-like digimon put himself between the human girl and Chaos Dukemon.
"In that case, I will be your opponent," Slashmon informed him. He turned to Crystal. "We know for a fact that there are still three others like this one out there so we shouldn't waste the energy of our teammates dealing with this one. Just promise me that no matter what happens during this fight that you won't interfere."
"But you can't fight him by yourself," Crystal quickly protested.
"My strength will be more than adequate," Slashmon responded. "You're just going to have to trust me on that. After all, I was the strongest digimon in the Resort Zone before you arrived. I will never have the same potential as Zapmon, but there is still something that only I can do."
Crystal nodded reluctantly. "Alright Slashmon. I believe in you. Just be careful."
"Interesting," Chaos Dukemon seemed amused from watching the exchange. He turned his lance on Slashmon. "I wonder how a feeble little digimon such as yourself can perceive himself as a challenge for a Chaos General."
"Fight me and you will see," Slashmon retorted. He raised his clawed hands in a fighting stance.
"As you wish!" Chaos Dukemon quickly came at him with his lance, having re-formed it around his arm.
"Battle Claw!" Slashmon's claws began to shine as he struck down Chaos Dukemon's lance and launched himself into the air over the larger digimon's head. "Spit Fire!" He then followed by exhaling a barrage of golden fireballs at the top of Chaos Dukemon's head from above and on down the back of his cape, setting it ablaze, as he gradually descended down to the ground and landed gracefully behind him.
"This feeble digimon is not without experience," Slashmon calmly informed Chaos Dukemon as the other digimon cast off his still burning cape.
"So it would seem," Chaos Dukemon acknowledged as he turned to face the smaller digimon. "But if that is the full extent of your power, then you have no chance of harming me." He began to charge power into his shield so that each of the triangular markings along the outer rim lit up one at a time until they were all illuminated. "Whereas you are unlikely to survive this," he continued once his shield was fully charged. "Judecca Prison!" Chaos Dukemon fired off the immensely powerful blast from his shield so that it completely engulfed his opponent.
"Metal Greymon, Deckerdramon, Digi Xros!" Kiriha had seen for himself just how powerful Chaos Greymon was compared to his own Metal Greymon and decided that the best way to confront him would be to drastically increase his own firepower.
"Digi Xros!" The two digimon readily came together. "Decker Greymon!"
"Most impressive," Chaos Greymon was finding this Digi Xros ability to be a subject of great interest. "But let's see what it can do." He held is arms out wide as flaming energy was gathered between them. "Gaia Force!" And then he threw it down upon Decker Greymon.
Decker Greymon raised his arm cannon firing out a massive ball of plasma to intercept Chaos Greymon's Gaia Force. "Plasma Deckerdra-Launcher!"
The two enormously powerful attacks collided in midair, exploding on contact to produce a massive shockwave and a cloud of heavy, electrically charged smoke. But Decker Greymon didn't stop there. Suddenly all of the armaments on his back, wings, and tail became illuminated with destructive energy. "Mail Birdra-Launcher!" He bombarded the smokescreen with a dense barrage of blue colored laser blasts on the assumption that some of them would make contact with Chaos Greymon on the other side.
Chaos Greymon was unfortunate enough to find himself in the worst possible position where he received almost the full brunt of the bombardment to his entire body. One of his Dramon Killer gauntlets broke off from his arm and plummeted harmlessly to the ground and evaporated into a cloud of data while the dragon man struggled to recover well enough to make a counter attack. But Kiriha wasn't going to stand for that.
"You got him," Kiriha seemed exceptionally pleased with himself. "Now fire again! And this time hit him with everything we've got!"
This time when Decker Greymon prepared to fire, all of the armaments along his back, wings, and tail became illuminated along with the barrel of his arm cannon as he assaulted Chaos Greymon with a simultaneous bombardment from all of his weapons at once. "Tera Destroyer!"
Chaos Greymon's eyes went wide as he was struck by the sheer multitude of plasma and laser blasts that ripped through his body until he finally dissolved into a cloud of data. He had no complaints. It had been a good battle.
"Ultimate Stream!" Chaos Seadramon fired a massive blast of energy from his nose cannon.
"Impact Laser!" Shoutmon X5 countered by firing the spiraling green blast from his own cannon. The two blasts collided and began pushing against each other at the collision point as both digimon steadily charged additional energy into their own side of the blast in an effort to overpower the other. It seemed that Chaos Seadramon certainly had the upperhand when it came to raw destructive power, but he did suffer from one rather notable disadvantage by having only one primary weapon to take advantage of it with. "Three Victorize!" Shoutmon X5 continued to deflect the blast from Chaos Seadramon's nose cannon with the energy stream from his own Impact Laser while simultaneously shooting out a crimson v-shaped blast from the V on his chest underneath the clashing beams to strike Chaos Seadramon in the lower jaw so that the huge sea serpents whole head was pushed back by the impact. This caused his Ultimate Stream to become accidentally redirected at a harmless angle into the sky as Shoutmon X5's impact laser finally made contact with the serpents actual body. And, while Chaos Seadramon was briefly stunned and disoriented, Shoutmon X5 came at him with sword in hand. "Burning Star Crusher!" Shoutmon X5 made a vertical slice with his sword to cut Chaos Seadramon cleanly in half leaving the two surprised halves to gradually dissolve into a cloud of golden data suspended in the air.
"Thunder Storm!" Sparkmon declared as dark clouds suddenly formed over Chaosdramon. Silver lightning bolts quickly rain down onto the entire surface of the mechanical dragon's body. Unfortunately, it didn't really seem to accomplish much other than causing the patches of flesh exposed by the cracks in his metal body to smolder from the intense energy and heat.
"Truly we could carry on like this forever," Chaosdramon chuckled in spite of the electricity crackling around him. "However, I have already grown weary of this repetitive little game. Yes, I think I'm done playing with you."
The electricity that had been crackling over his body suddenly dispersed as Chaosdramon started to increase in size. His head elongated into a more angular shape with a demonic horn curving out from either side. The metal armor that encased his body rapidly repaired itself as he nearly doubled in size.
"Well damn," Sparkmon frowned looking to the other Crystal for help. "He transformed into Chaos Lord already. I was sure we'd have a little more time before it came this."
"Not much we can do about it except to keep on fighting," the other Crystal responded. She reached around and dug out a handful of Digimon cards from her back pocket. She rifled through them until she found the ones she was looking for and put the rest back in her pocket. "This should make you take hits a little better." She swiped the first card through the slit in the side of her digivice. "Card Slash! Digimental of Miracles!" The black scales covering Sparkmon's body turned golden and metallic. "And these should help to boost your firepower." She swiped the next two cards through in rapid succession. "Card Slash! Paildramon's Desperado Blaster! Card Slash! Imperialdramon's Positron Laser!" Paildramon's flexible twin cannons materialized mounted around Sparkmon's waist while Imperialdramon Fighter Mode's cannon became mounted onto the back of her left arm.
"Oh yeah, I love the way you think!" Sparkmon began cackling maniacally as she took aim at Chaos Lord with all of her newly equipped weaponry along with her own Dragon Cannon. "EAT LASERS YOU BIG METAL CAN OPENER!" she exclaimed as she bombarded Chaos Lord with a combination of silver, blue and purple laser beams from each of her weapons.
Unfortunately, it didn't put a scratch on him. Chaos Lord simply shrugged it off and then took aim at Sparkmon with his own massive cannons. "Chaos Cannon!" The enormous mechanized dragon fired three times in rapid succession, effectively pulverizing Sparkmon with each successive blast until finally allowing her to succumb to the pain as she collapsed onto the ground almost a kilometer away. The modifications that the other Crystal had made to her partner with her Digimon cards were quick to fade as Sparkmon shrunk back into a barely conscious Zapmon.
"If I'm not mistaken I did say I was done playing with you," Chaos Lord noted darkly. "And this time you don't have those two volatile little hybrids to back you up."
"That's because she brought something better! Meteor Buster Attack!" Shoutmon X5 came down from high in the air, taking on the destructive force of a meteorite as he slammed into Chaos Lord from above. The force of the impact produced a large dark crater surrounding Chaos Lord, as if the illuminated green criss-crosses that formed the grid had been disrupted by the sudden collapse of the ground.
"Tera Destroyer!" Decker Greymon immediately followed by bombarding Chaos Lord with everything he had. Several stray laser beams nearly collided with Shoutmon X5, but he was quick enough to move out of the way.
"Don't tell me this guy has actually been giving you a hard time," Kiriha called down mockingly.
"That's easy for you to say with your little army of digimon. Where I come from most people only ever have one!" The other Crystal called back. "Anyway, it looks like you guys have this one under control so I'm going to go check up on Zapmon."
"Slashmon!" Crystal cried out as the red raptor-like digimon was consumed by Chaos Dukemon's attack. She was frightened that he might have already been killed by the blast.
"Remember what I told you," Slashmon stated as the destructive energy radiating around him suddenly dispersed. At first glance it seemed like bits of his body were breaking away as he was beginning to be deconstructed into a shapeless cloud of data, but then it became apparent that his body wasn't so much breaking down as it was rapidly filling out. "My strength will be more than adequate!" He clenched his eyes shut as he transformed from being a roughly four and a half foot tall dromaeosaur to standing nearly seventeen feet in height with a length of perhaps twenty-five feet from snout to tail. Each of his limbs grew larger and more thickly muscled accordingly. "Slashmon Shinka! Slashdramon!" His voiced boomed as he stood strongly in his new form.
"You've evolved," Chaos Dukemon stared him down. "But you should be dead."
"Under regular circumstances I would have been," Slashdramon retorted. "However, being struck down by your attack has fulfilled the only condition that was remaining for me to reach the next stage in my life cycle. I had to lose one final battle in order to evolve. And now," he added. "It is you who doesn't stand a chance. Desert Inferno!" Slashdramon exhaled a steady stream of granulated golden fire with the consistency of a localized sandstorm onto Chaos Dukemon's shield, riddling it with numerous puncture marks until it finally shattered.
"Demon's Disaster!" Chaos Dukemon quickly attempted to lash out at Slashdramon with his lance.
"Razor Slash!" Slashdramon brought up one of his clawed hands to intercept the blade as his claws began to shine. His claws pierced through the metal and broke off the tip of the blade, casting it aside as he beat Chaos Dukemon back with his strong tail. Then the claws of his other hand began to shine right before he swooped down and plunged them straight through the armor covering Chaos Dukemon's chest.
Chaos Dukemon coughed as his body began to give out on him. "You were... a worthy adversary."
And then he dissolved into a harmless cloud of data, leaving the piece of the Code Crown he had stolen suspended in the air above where he had fallen. Crystal was still in awe of Slashdramon.
"Now, if I'm not mistaken, you wanted to get out of here," Slashdramon tilted his head to her inquisitively. Then he glanced at the piece of the Code Crown still floating in the air. "You might want to grab that if you want to give it to Taiki."
Crystal nodded dumbly and went to grab it. "You know, I don't think Kiriha is going to be too happy about this."
"That's his problem," Slashdramon snorted. "Come on," he knelt down so Crystal would be able to climb onto his back. "I'll give you a lift."
Crystal managed to climb up so that she was balanced on top of Slashdramon's head, hanging onto the smooth metal of his large horns for support. "Alright, lead the way."
Slashdramon started back the way they had seen the rest of the Chaos Generals. With any luck, their friends in Xros Heart had already arrived to help out with that particular problem.
To Be Continued...
Author's Note: I would just like to clarify that Slashmon's evolution into Slashdramon isn't a spontaneous evolution borrowing power from his future self. In this case it was actually just his time to evolve and he won't be changing back again. From now on he will be Slashdramon for life until he fulfills the conditions for his next life cycle transition which, if it evers happens, will be a long way off. So, was that enough overkill for everyone?