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Destined Tamer Chapter 3
Tai push to his side. The flaming chain just missed him. "ShullMeramon," Rika said as she look at her digi-arc, "Ultimate level."
"Agumon," Tai yelled as he pulled out his digivice, Agumon quickly digivolve to Metal-Greymon.
"I'll hold them off," Metal-Greymon said, "get to a safe place."
Pushing herself up, Renamon growled as she pushed Rika to the side softly, her hand curling up as she gained a wicked grin. "No, I won't run away." Jumping on top her feet, she already had the glowing shards formed between her hands. "Diamond Storm!"
Her attack moving across the distance, perfectly aimed at his face and chest, only to get deflected by SkullMeramon's chain as he spun it around before him. "Nice try, but not good enough!" Pressing forward, SkullMeramon ducked under Metal-Greymon's attempt at crushing him with his metallic arm. "Take this, Metal Fireball1"
Moving faster then she thought she could, Renamon cursed as she held onto Rika, the blue colored fire attack only passing by her, but still coming close enough to her to burn some of her tail fur. "You'll pay for that!"
Moving around, Metal-Greymon growled as he lined up his metallic arm again, SkullMeramon turning to face him again. "Mega Claw!" The attack hitting the fire digimon right in the upper chest and sending him flying backwards over Renamon and Rika, hitting the tree he knocked over earlier. "Giga Blaster!"
Staring in horror along with Takato as Metal-Greymon got ready to attack, Tai rushed forward, holding out his digivice. "Don't shoot; you'll blow up the park along with him!"
"Force him into the air," Takato said.
"Just try it," SkullMeramon yelled as he wrapped one of his chains around a metal fence.
"He needs our help," Renamon said, "Rika help me freeze the chain." Rika nodded. Renamon ran at the chain fix on the fence. Rika nodded and pull out a Frigimon card.
Renamon ran at the chain. "Sub-Zero Ice Punch," She yelled as she attacked the chain, shattering it as it froze through.
With that Metal-Greymon grab SkullMeramon. After spinning around a bit, he released SkullMeramon into the air. Then he readied his attack.
"Giga Blaster!" Letting lose with his twin missiles from his chest arsenal, Both Tai and Takoto had the foresight to cover their ears as Skull-Meramon let lose with a series of curse words at the sight of each weapon coming closer to hitting him.
Off to the side, Renamon clenched up one hand and stepped back, he body fading away as the sky was lit up by one giant fireball, the whole area shaking as a shockwave impacted the ground.
Ignoring the small ringing sound in her ears, Rika felt a bit of awe as the sky cleared of smoke and fire, the data from Skull-meramon floating around in the air above them. "Renamon, load his data, Renamon!" Turning her head, she frowned as she saw her partner digimon was gone.
Tilting his head a bit, Metal-Greymon took one step forward and focused on the data, his eyes glowing as he pulled it in, feeling it fuse together with his own. "Wha, what a rush of power!" Glowing brightly as the last data went into him, Agumon took the place of his ultimate form. "Alright, Tai, did you see that? I did it!"
"What was that?" Tai ask.
"Agumon absorbed the SkullMeramon's data," Takato said, "Digimon can get stronger by loading data from digimons they beat."
"So do the digimons reformat?" Tai ask.
"I don't know," Takato said, "Let's get out of here before someone comes."
A bit away, Rika walk down the street. "Why didn't you take the data."
"I had other thing on my mind," Renamon said.
"You can fight the dino some other time," Rika said.
"It spike hair," Renamon said
Hiding her surprise rather well at Renamon's response, Rika kept her attention focused on the road before her. "That Tai kid? I'm not surprised, he is rather arrogant."
Face complete devoid of any emotion, Renamon slowly lifted up her paws. "How is it that he can evolve Agumon so easily, we need a blue card to even advance to the champion stage." Clenching them, she growled as she gazed upwards to the sky. "Rika, we have to get stronger."
Smirking lightly as she pulled out her cards and D-ark, Rika chuckled as she picked up the pace. "Every digimon in the city will be our opponents tonight, every last one of them."
At the same time in the digital world, Metal-Etemon growled as he smashed one hand through a monitor, several Hagurumons backing away in fear. "Skull-Meramon, you fool, you didn't complete the task i gave to you."
Turning around to face the digimon covering behind him, the metallic monkey like digimon grabbed a nearby whip and cracked it through the air. "Get back to work; I want this Metal City to be fully under the control of my new dark network by nightfall!"
Screaming in fear, the Hagurumons began to move backwards, their gear like hands shaking along with the main gear they had for a body. "As, as you wish, master!"
Watching them run off, Metal-Etemon returned his attention to the still smoking monitor. "I must find more digimons willing to challenge him, and those Tamers as well, I can't fight him directly until I have a solid base of operations!"
"I'm happy it's not a school day," Takato said, "Or else I would be in so much trouble."
"You have school," Tai said, "I was at summer camp when I left."
"It was snowing," Takato said.
"There you are," Terriermon said, "I though you ran off to look at a goggle sales or something.
"Enough Terriermon," Henry told the digimon on his shoulder.
Sighing a bit, Tai looked up at the sky above them. "I wonder how much time has passed back home, I've been in the digital world for months now. "
Behind him, Henry shook his head, knowing full well that in the show only a few seconds had passed since the digi destined had entered the digital world. "Actually, I'm more concerned with what Skull-Meramon said, remember, he said he had been hired to take you down."
Mouth turning into a thin line, Tai shook his head as he thought back on it. "Must have been Metal-Etemon who hired him, he's the only one in the digital world that would have a big enough problem with me to hire someone to do me in."
"There nothing you can do about it," Henry said, "So far the portals are one way from the Digi-World to here. Even if you could you can't beat him."
"So we just wait for him to attack again?" Tai ask.
"Luckily Metal-Etemon is too strong to get here," Henry said, "I told you Hypnos is good for something."
"Well," Tai said, "What are we going to do today?"
Grinning, Takato pulled out his deck of card, showing them to Tai. "We can play a game of digimon; I got all the cards we'll need."
Accepting one of the cards held out, Tai stared down at it and grimaced. "Sure, but trust me, I don't want to have this card in it." Handing it back, both Takato and Henry looked down to see a picture of Skullgreymon on the front. "Seeing him once was enough for me."
"I wouldn't want to see a monster I helped make again," Takato said.
"Let's get started," Takato said.
Yamaki looked at the screen. "How could a digimon that strong get past us with out even a warning. More powerful digimons are entering this world. I want them stopped, all of them."
Behind him, a small cough from Riley had him slowly turn to face her, his eyes lowered as she gazed down from her work station. "Sir, we could, look for those who created the digimons in the first place."
Flicking open his Zippo lighter, Yamaki frowned as he thought it over. Digimons were mere programs, so what she had just suggested made sense, as a program, they had to have been made by someone. "Good idea Ootori, I want you to head this investigation, find as much information about them as you can."
Moving his head over to face the other operator in the room, he stared at her as well. "Tally Onodera, continue to monitor for any wild ones, and get Juggernaut repaired, it is still our only chance at the moment to stop digimons from entering the real world complete."
Tai smile as he placed a card down. "I think I'm getting it," Tai said.
"You're not that bad," Henry said, "but you no where near as good as Rika."
"They call her the digimon queen," Takato said, "She won many tournaments."
"She been hunted Takato for a while," Terriermon said
"Why, you insult her or something." Tai asked as he placed down an Agumon card.
Blushing a bit at the question, Takato played a Gabumon to counter Tai's Agumon card. "Not really, I think it's because Guilmon beat Renamon, and Devidramon."
Holding one card in his hand, Tai frowned as he watched Takato. "How can she be angry if she loss? It's not like her life is on the line."
"Rika seam to be the type that does not like many things," Takato said, "I think she dislike someone outshining her in those she does like."
"Her partner is the same way," Tai said.
Meanwhile, Rika watched Renamon train. "I think that's enough," Rika said, "My grandmother will be wondering where I am."
"Just a little more," Renamon said, "I'm going to show that spiky haired kid."
Giving her partner a tired look, Rika shook her head lightly. "I don't believe this, that boy's not a problem, so what if he can get his digimon to the ultimate level, without a D-arc they can't modify or use other attacks then the ones Agumon comes with."
Punching one fist through a practice post, Renamon growled as she lifted up her hand. "I think I'm ready, this time, I won't be outdone." Turning around to face Rika, the fox digimon narrowed her eyes as she began to walk forward. "Rika, next time we meet them, I shall fight and defeat this Agumon."
You not listening to me," Rika said, "Tai will leave. Goggle head is here to stay."
"That's why I need to get as strong as I can as fast as I can," Renamon said.
"With the way you're acting, I would think you have a crush on him," Rika said.
"Funny," Renamon said, "You act the same way with Goggle Head.
"Enough." Rika grumbled out as she turned around. "We're going home, and tomorrow, we can fight against them." Walking off, Rika glanced down at her card deck, a soft grin forming on her face. "I'll need to boost my cards as well."
Behind her, Renamon took a last swing as the broken practice post, shattering it even more. "I'll show him who is an enemy."
Takato look up at the sky. "It's getting late I need to get home," he said.
"I'll gather us some food," Agumon said
"I'm going to rest," Tai said.
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Pushing open the door into his new command room, Metal-Etemon growled as he watched the various machine digimons rushing back and fourth. "Are the Dark Network ready or not? I need it to open a new gateway to the human, and I want it to be bigger then the last one."
Laughing as he sat down in his new throne/command chair, he chuckled as he ran a finger down over the sparkling metal which matched his own metallic color. "Those humans will learn that the king doesn't pull his punches anymore."
Turning his head, he smiled as he watched a small screen showing an enclosed chamber. "And I finally found a perfect digimon to send him as a greeting." Chuckling at his own dark humor, the metallic monkey watched as a Skullgreymon roared out in anger and bashed his body against the walls of his prison cell. "Battle of the Greymons II baby, the living vs. dead that is!"
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Meanwhile Tai sat next to Agumon. They eat the food in the dim light. "I wonder what the others are doing." Tai ask as he picked up some berries.
"We could ask Takato," Agumon said, "Or we can watch the show."
"I guess it won't hurt," Tai said.
"I would like to use those cards," Agumon said, "There is nothing left to do so I'm going to bed."
"I'll join you," Tai said.