The Golden Goddess
Yamato and Sigma
Chapter 2
Henry jumped off of Rapidmon's back and hit the ground running towards Dorumon. "Henry," Rapidmon spoke, "there's residue of some Mega level attacks, but nothing else is here."
"Can you pick up Rika's trail?" Henry asked the rabbit floating beside him as he ran.
"No, there's nothing for me to pick up," Rapidmon piped up. "Not even Rika's cold anger." he joked.
Dorumon turned around from leaning over the girl Sakuyamon had set down. He saw Henry and Rapidmon, "Henry, Rapidmon!" he called out, running towards them. They slowed down until they all came to a halt. "Dorumon, what happened?" Henry asked.
"Well, Rika went up to fight this really powerful digimon," Dorumon started to speak, "and then these foxes came and a barrier appeared around that girl. She floated to the ground, then they fought a little bit before the other digimon took off and Rika and Renamon followed him." Dorumon spoke very quickly and timidly.
"Hey, Momenti, buddy, not much you could do," Rapidmon piped up.
Henry looked at Dorumon, piecing together what he said. "So they took off. Can you describe the digimon she was fighting to me?"
Dorumon thought for a moment, "Well, it was a mega, and it looked like a wolf."
"MetalGarurumon?" Henry asked.
"Umm, I…I don't know," Dorumon admitted sheepishly, "I…am unfamiliar with that digimon." Henry cursed himself for forgetting that Dorumon was only a week old, and yet, it seemed as if he had been a part of the group forever.
He flipped through his deck before pulling out a card and showing it to timid digimon. "Like this?"
Dorumon looked at the card, before shaking his head, "No... it was anthropomorphic."
"Antropa-wha???" Rapidmon spoke completely confused.
"Humanoid," Henry told him, "but MirageGaogamon isn't so powerful to make Rika worry. Rapidmon, you have any ideas?"
"Well, he fled, so he can't have been that strong, but what would interest a Mega digimon in this world, especially now?" Rapidmon asked, "I mean no offense, but any Mega with common sense would be in the Digital World to either carve out a name for themselves or to help repair it. Not much reason to come to the real world."
Unless of course, Megidramon brought him here. There would be no other logical explanation, not so soon after the incident. Henry's thoughts kept him occupied, but Dorumon cocked his head to look around the green color-based kid.
"Takato!" Dorumon yipped happily as he ran to greet him.
"Dorumon!" Takato quickly reached down and hugged his digimon on the cold, clear night.
"Takato?" Dorumon asked, "You're crying. Are you all right?" Dorumon was very perplexed.
"I'm fine, Dorumon." Takato said, wiping away his tears on Dorumon's fur. I'm just glad that you're here.
Dorumon's eyes cast down and his grip slackened. I'm such a fool. Why did I leave, it's hard enough for Takato to have lost Guilmon, and he needs a replacement. Why am I so selfish? Takato's the one who needs help right now, not me. I need to stop worrying about myself and comfort Takato...but how? I'm barely a week old and know nothing of this world or how humans or even digimon react. Every time I try to learn, I have to leave Takato behind. What am I supposed to do? I'm an idiot. The answers so simple and easy that anybody should know it. Takato needs me and that's why I was created, to ease the void of Guilmon.
"Takato, Dorumon! Come quick, it's Suzie!" Rapidmon told them.
"Huh?" Takato said curiously, getting up from his kneeling position to go over and look at the girl Rika had saved.
Henry was holding her in his arms lovingly giving support to her head as she lay unconscious. "This is Suzie?" Dorumon asked as he walked over. He had studied the girl for the two minutes between when Sakuyamon and the other digimon had left sight and Henry had showed up on Rapidmon's back. "I thought she was gone?"
"Shut Up!" Henry screamed at him. "She's here, this is her. She's alive!" Tears torrented down Henry's face. "This is all a dream, it has to be. She's dead, but she's here, alive..." Henry muttered quietly as he brushed back Suzie's bangs.
"Henry," Takato said. The blue haired kid looked up for Takato to slam his fist into Henry's cheek. Henry lay on the concrete with a look of shock on his face, Suzie's body slumped to the ground. Dorumon and Rapidmon looked at the Gogglehead with amazement. Rapidmon's body became defensively rigid. "Sorry, but Rika wasn't here to do that," Takato told him, shaking his hand, "You need to get a grip. Suzie's alive and she's right in front of you, but we need to get her to a hospital now. We can leave all of the questions for another time. Right now we need to get her to a hospital."
Henry looked at the Gogglehead for a minute in stunned silence. A small smile crept to his lips. "Thanks, Takato," he muttered.
Takato gave him weak smile. "Yeah... sorry..."
Henry shook his head at the goggle-toting tamer before scooping Suzie up into his arms. "Rapidmon."
"Rapidmon airline at your service. All first class customers aboard," he said picking up Henry by the waist. "You gonna grab coach, you two?" Rapidmon asked Dorumon and Takato. Takato shook his head.
"No thanks, I'm really tired, but give me an update tomorrow morning," Takato said as he yawned.
"No problem!" Rapidmon said with his usual energy, "Suzie will probably get to call you herself."
"Yeah," Takato said. "Now get going. You need to get her to the hospital."
Henry nodded, and he and Rapidmon took off.
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"Any changes, Riley?" Yamaki asked.
"None sir, they are traveling over India now however," Riley spoke concerning Rika and the Mega level digimon she was chasing.
"Get the India Prime Minster on the phone," Yamaki said coldly.
"On it," Tally's voice echoed.
Yamaki clicked his lighter. The digimon had showed up in the real world without any trace from the digital world. He came cold. "Riley, when was the last time a digimon showed up cold?" he asked up to her.
"Checking sir," Riley's microphone enhanced her voice as she clicked at her keyboard, "Parasimon, sir, and Mihairamon before that. Guilmon, Renamon and Terriermon are the only other ones."
"Tamers or gates that were opened from this world." Dr. Kido, the DPP's Representative with Hypnos. Taichi Yagami, the leader of the DPP, had asked Yamaki if he would mind if he sent over some expertise to look at the data they had received from the Yakuza. Yamaki really couldn't refuse, only for the fact that Yagami was the biggest sponsor of Hypnos. He would have liked to say no, but it had turned out fairly well. Jyou Kido was the local Digimon anatomy expert in DPP, and he had been very respectful of Yamaki and Hypnos policies. It almost irked Yamaki that he was so nice.
"No sign of a gate being opened from the human world though," Yamaki spoke. He looked over at Doctor Kido. "Is there anybody other then Taichi in your organization that have digimon?"
"Yeah," Dr. Kido said, "There's twenty six in all, ten residing in Japan. Only twelve can go Mega though," he clarified for him. "However, all of them can cloak themselves against your Radars. I don't understand why any of them would come to Japan."
"Unless they were trying to attract the tamers," Yamaki spoke coldly.
Jyou's eyes widened in shock, "They wouldn't... yeah... they would," Jyou admitted to himself.
"Do you have any information about who would be foolhardy enough to try and fight the Tamers?" Yamaki clicked his lighter a little more forcefully.
"I could give you some names, but I don't know who." Jyou explained. "There's Seiga, from India, who's been pretty blatant about the rashness of the Tamers and how they've made digimon so public. Yagean, from Germany, has had a pretty heavy rivalry with Taichi and might be trying to get a blow against him. John, from America, is pretty hot headed and would definitely pull a stunt like this just to prove that he's stronger than 14 year old kids. It could be Angel (An -heel) from Mexico looking to get the Tamers to help him with something."
"So to clear things up, you have no idea," Yamaki grimaced. "Which one would flee?"
Jyou leaned up against the wall "Well, Seiga definitely would not run. Neither would John, but Yagean and Angel might." Jyou stared at the ceiling, "Hard to say which one's stronger though. You're looking at either Seraphimon or MetalGarurumon X."
"Sir, they've vanished," Tally's voice of concern came solid against Yamaki's ears.
"What do you mean vanished? Try a pinpoint search. See if you can't find Renamon or something," Yamaki commanded.
"I've already tried, sir," Tally spoke frantically, "I've even scanned the area with Juggernaut, nothing."
"Damn it," Yamaki swore. The one use that they had with from Juggernaut was the ability to locate any large amounts of data within a certain area. It was not useful for looking in cities, but still was very useful. If it couldn't find them, then nothing could.
"Sir, the Indian Prime Minister would like to know what you want," Riley said.
Yamaki glared up at her through his glasses. "Tell him I need a conference with him tomorrow."
"Yes sir."
"Has something happened?" Calumon asked, sitting on the computer as he looked up at Yamaki.
Yamaki glanced at the creampuff and a small smile appeared on his face as he looked at the small, white digimon, even with his ears in the sad position. "Yeah, something may have happened to Rika and Renamon," he told him.
"Awww," Calumon said saddened, "but she has Renamon who's all tough and stuff." The white digimon kicked a key, before his face brightened. "I know, I'll go find them!" Calumon jumped from the computer and caught the air with his large ears. "Rika, Renamon, were are you!" he called out, before giggling as he left the room.
Jyou laughed, "Wow, I've never met a digimon quite like him."
"You're not the only one," Yamaki said, rolling his eyes behind his glasses. "What was the discovery that you made anyways?"
Jyou looked over at him. "Well, the key to digimon, I suppose."
"Hmm?"
Jyou blanked out for a few moments before focusing back in. "Well, we found the reason behind why Digimon defy all laws of physics and why ChromeDigizoid is so strong. We've finally found the reason why a rookie digimon is so much less powerful then a Mega."
"Something tells me this doesn't have to deal with how complex the data of a Mega digimon is," Yamaki said.
"Trust me. It doesn't."
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MetalGarurumon glanced back, he gave a heavy sigh. He turned around and stopped. "What is your problem?!" he demanded from Sakuyamon. The mega slowed down and stopped within eight feet of the metal wolf. "You follow me relentlessly for seemingly no reason. You have not attacked, you have not tried to catch me, you've just tried to follow me."
"You kidnapped a human girl. You have no right to be in this world. Come quietly and we'll send you back the Digital World." Renamon's voice was strong and firm, but it was still only Renamon's voice. Rika? Renamon questioned her partner.
Something's wrong. He isn't a wild Digimon. "Your voice, it echoes. You're a Tamer," Rika told him.
There was no change in the wolf's face. "You noticed." Renamon picked up on the echo and it surprised her that there was a definite difference. She was surprised that she didn't notice it before.
What are you thinking, Rika? The Kitsune asked.
Rika mentally looked at her digimon, but said nothing. "Why then the girl?" Her voice was dangerous and MetalGarurumon X knew he was on thin ice. She had already proven that she was more then capable to hold her own . He had initially started to fight to get a rush of adrenaline, but her fighting style reminded him to much of his younger brother. The girl was safe and he had no reason to stay.
"She needed to get home, bringing her there was the easiest way." MetalGarurumon told her flatly.
"Yagean, Seiga is coming," Gabumon told his tamer. He barely had a chance to respond when a field of data cut him and Sakuyamon off from the real world.
Rika, it's a Mega Digimon, Renamon thought.
More than that, it's Piedmon. He's sealed us off in one of his dimensions. Rika thought back. It's a move only seen in V-Tamer. I had thought that they had just made it up.
"Seiga," MetalGarurumon X growled at the clown digimon in the center of the extra dimension. Rika took note the light colors that reflected off the walls. There were hues of gold and blue mostly, with a little black and red mixed in. The area was limited though, which meant they could escape it if absolutely needed.
That would be a bad idea, Rika, Renamon's thoughts came worried, something Rika knew to take serious. Those walls, they are nothing but illusions. You could keep on going forever but never reach them.
Scratch that idea then, Rika muttered in her head. Piedmon didn't seem to have anything special about him. Just a regular Piedmon, still the facial features were serious and angry. Far from anything the Digimon show had given him.
"Why are you here!" His voice full of hatred and anger as he spoke to MetalGarurumon X. "Bringing one of the Young Tamers with you as well," Piedmon spat. Gravity took no hold of it, so the Metal Wolf simply floated out of the way of the mucus that sped towards him.
"I have no quarrel with you," Yeagan's voice was the only one that spoke this time, "I would tell you that the girl is here to help look for her friend's partner. I would tell you that I'm not going to let you kill the red dragon simply because he flew over your area. I would also tell you that your underestimating my strength in bringing me here, but you're such a swinehund that I doubt a single word I'm saying is getting through to your brain."
Piedmon laughed, it wasn't insane, it wasn't evil, it wasn't creepy, but it sure as hell pissed of Gabumon X. The rookie wolf let his senses flow, sniffing the air. "Your not here for us. You just want to kill the girl."
"What?!" Sakuyamon yelped in surprise.
Piedmon looked over at Sakuyamon for the first time. "So, this is the famed Tamer, this is one of the Conquerors of the D-Reaper? It is because of you that this world knows of Digimon. The secret, carefully guarded for three years, destroyed and wiped out all because of you. You are despicable, thinking of nothing but your own attention. You have endangered all digimon, and for your crime you shall pay. The judgment has been passed and the decree is death."
"Everyone thinks they're Taichi," Sakuyamon smiled at him sweetly. "MetalGarurumon X, can I trust you?" she asked calmly.
"Normally, no, but right now is probably an exception," Yagean spoke.
Piedmon laughed. "You think that I will fall so easily! I will show you why I have only been defeated once." He brought out his swords, the four blades hovered in front of him.
"Sakuyamon," MetalGarurumon spoke.
"He can teleport his swords so keep my movements random so that he can't get a firm lock on my position," she finished for the blue mega. He didn't get to reply however, for the swords disappeared. She moved instantly cutting into a down ward spiral before launching herself back wards away from three of the swords that appeared were she had just been a second before. She looked at her target, the only way she could even get in a single blow was if she got up close. The problem with her fox spirits is that she had to concentrate at least somewhat to use them. If she lost any concentration she would make her movement non-random and she would be skewered.
She interrupted her backwards flight to dive in a U fashion before spinning of to the side.
Rika, this isn't going to work. He has the advantage here beyond anything we can compensate for, Renamon's hurried voice spoke to her.
"I know, I know!" Rika snapped at her. "I'm thinking, I'm thinking!"
Piedmon smiled as he heard the girl realize that she was done for. She had no advantage here and wouldn't be getting any either. The girl was dead. Still, he was seething. Her digimon had somehow communicated to her without anyone else knowing. Not even Taichi could do that with Agumon. This girl was so inexperienced and yet she had mastered something no one else had been able to. It bothered him that these children were seemingly up to the same level as even the weakest of the DPP. Piedmon may have been smiling, but Seiga was seething inside.
The scowl turned into a smile quickly as Sakuyamon stopped. He had her.
"Dimensi terus!" Rika muttered the end of her prayer. Sakuyamon stepped back as the weapons appeared.
Seiga couldn't believe what he was seeing. The girl had three large gashed through her stomach, but in a barrier in front of her was his three swords. He recognized the writing on the barrier. She had sealed them in a state of Pu. A Taoist thing. He could never get it. "Taoism. Chinese stupidity," He muttered.
Sakuyamon grinned, but winced as the pain from the blades initial appearance. "MetalGarurumon! Go!"
"I'm not blind!" MetalGarurumon X snapped at her in his duel voice. His Gatling gun was pressed against Piedmon's back and his laser cannon held to the back of his head. "Now, let us out of here. Now!" Yagean was not messing around. "Or I will kill you!"
Piedmon was trapped, he only had one sword, the other three had been sealed up by that witch. "You win," he muttered. He watched as his sword floated out in the colorless void. "But Damn it! I'll take my consolation prize you wolf *****!" He shouted.
MetalGarurumon didn't say anything, his beam just fired. The World dissolved and Piedmon de-digivolved into Demi-Devimon and Seiga. It was too late, though.
Sakuyamon watched as Piedmon focused on the sword. Her eyes widened, she didn't get a chance to speak though, the blade simply materialized in her breast.
MetalGarurumon quickly grabbed Seiga, and his eyes watched Sakuyamon fall. He shot towards her as fast as he could, but he wasn't fast enough.
Sakuyamon landed with crash, a small crater formed around her body. The X could only watch as Sakuyamon gasped her final breath when the blade was pushed out of her body. Handle first. MetalGarurumon watched as the data dissolved away from Rika's lifeless body.
He flew off leaving the girl dead.