A/N: Alright! Just as I promised, I am not at the forefront of the story anymore. Yes, I'll still have a role in things that are happening, but I'll just be working with Yamaki and helping to fight alongside everyone else. This chapter will mainly focus on Jeri as well as Kazu and also more on the fight between Rosa, Suzie and Cody. So here goes nothing!
Rosa's Fall and ChaosGallantmon's Speedy Met Match
Hero Kazu to the Rescue!: Part 1
(Meanwhile, just as the battle in the University was ending, back on the Odaiba Beach Suzie and Rosa were locked in combat)
Rosa swung the rod towards a very unprepared Suzie, "It's over for you little girl!" But just before the rod was able to follow through to strike a blow on top of Suzie's head, a loud CWANG, rang out.
Suzie, whom had tried to defensively shield the blow, ducking along with her hands over her head, slowly lifted her head up to see that another metal rod had saved her from being knocked unconscious and possibly worse.
"That's enough!" She heard Cody's soft voice growl out. The next thing she knew was Cody looking towards her with concern, "You okay?"
"Yes, thank you so much Cody."
"Good, now go on. I'll take over from here."
She almost hesitated saying that she could take her on, but he saw the look of disapproval in his eyes, and nodded, "I understand."
Cody turned back to Rosa, "Didn't you know that's a sign of cowardice in a battle, Rosa? Striking an unarmed opponent?"
"Who cares!"
"The code of the arts! You should know to fight with honor even if you ARE now controlled by evil! Even many evil alien warriors go by that standard."
"HAH! What good is honor when people disrespect you all the time anyways?"
"Fighting back in anger isn't the answer Rosa! Now stop this nonsense! You're being controlled!"
"I'm controlled by no one! HIYA!"
Rosa swung violently at Cody which he immediately blocked. Unfortunately for him, she was intent on keeping up the harsh, but strangely accurate swings. He had been taught by his grandfather how to block them although her blows were still fearsome. He kept trying to look for open spots in which to strike Rosa to get her chi blocked, but the consistency of her swings were unlike anything he'd ever seen! Even the alien Phiranatrons and Quantrons from space fought nicer than what Rosa was bringing to the table. After blocking several shots for what seemed like several minutes he remembered what his grandfather told him and saw it in her stance, 'Remember Cody, always remember to keep a wide and firm stance, eventually your opponent in whatever art they've mastered, will grow weary, once you see this, use the strength you've gathered and maintained throughout the battle to deliver one strike towards their feet to knock them over and if necessary one last swing to knock the katana out of their hands. Like the liquid yogurt, always maintain a fluid motion, like the push and pull of yin and yang." (A/N: I have never taken Kendo so these are merely just speculations that I gather from watching Cody's few spars with Mr. Hida and his own personal training and stances. Don't take them to heart. I am looking to get into Kendo and I will change this once I learn more about the necessary movements. If this does turn out to be a correct description, I will be shocked and stunned that I knew something I've never even studied before)
Under the weight of his sword and the continuous knocking of Rosa's metal bar, Cody grunted "Here...Goes...Nothing!". After blocking another swing he turned, but didn't spin, behind her catching her off guard. Aiming straight for the back of her feet he quickly swung, hitting her achilles heels. This knocked her backwards and she hit the ground. He calmly, but firmly smacked the bottom of the metal pole in her hands and then karate kicked the pole away from her. He then placed his katana in front of her in a warning position, finally saying sternly, "Don't get up." Cody happened to look over his shoulder to see Kazu and Kenta running towards him and Suzie at that very instant.
"HEY THERE! We're here to help! This guy's going to feel the wrath of BlackWarKazumon!"
"Kazu..." Kenta groaned
"Right! Guardromon, you ready man?"
"Always!"
Kazu pulled out a card from his holder shouting "Time to save the day!". Suddenly, the card he had in his hand started to glow and turned blue." A stunned Kazu stared at it for several seconds before Kenta snapped him out of it.
"Earth to Kazu!"
"WHAT?! This is amazing, I finally hold in my hand, a blue card!"
"Then swipe it already!"
"Oh, right! DIGIMODIFY! Matirix Digivolution...ACTIVATE!"
Guardromon got pumped up, "Oh yeah! Guardromon Matrix Digivolve to-!"
As Guardromon digivolved, Rosa, Cody and Suzie each stared, wide eyed and stunned at the sight. Guardromon was finally about to digivolve back to Ultimate Level.
Rosa though stunned, was also struck with fear, "No..." She chirped.
"YEAH! Andromon!" both Kazu and Andromon shouted in unison.
Kazu pumped his fists, "FINALLY! I wonder if Guardromon's configuration was fixed thanks to the original Andromon?" He thought aloud.
*Hey Digimon starts playing
"Gatling Attack!" Two homing missiles quickly shot out of Andromon's now open chest compartment and exploded as they hit ChaosGallantmon's back. It barely hurt him, but it was enough to distract him and turn towards Andromon.
Rosa weakly tried to stop him from coming, "NO! It's a trick!" But it was too late as Andromon had succeeded to give the other digimon a ground rule advantage.
"Thanks Kazu!" Justimon rang out, "Good plan bud!"
Kazu blinked in surprise, "Plan?" He asked confused before coming up with an excuse, "OH YEAH! Right!"
Suzie sweatdropped at Kazu's actions. How could he be so dumb but at the same time somehow have good ideas?
Justimon kicked the Dark Mega onto the beach. ChaosGallantmon slammed into the rough sand making him dazed.
"HEY! GET UP AND FINISH THEM OFF!" Rosa commanded from her spot on the ground, she then snagged Cody's pole with her feet and tossed it aside catching him a little off guard, surprised that she could move that fluidly. She jumped to her feet, but with consequence. She found herself being grabbed tightly under both of her arms and the voice of Suzie mocked her, "That's as far as you go...chica!"
"GRRRRR...! LET ME GO! ChaosGallantmon, get up and attack!"
The dark mega finally complied, but too late as Justimon, Antylamon, Beelzemon and Andromon each attacked, knocking him back down and this time, finally rendering him completely unconscious.
"Did we'ze do it?"
"I think it's safe to say we did Beelzemon," Justimon implied confidently.
"You will pay for this, you...what...what's going on?"
Suzie felt Rosa slumping in her arms, "What's the matter? Are you...*GASP!* Cody! Look!"
She directed Cody to look at the back of Rosa's neck. He watched in shock as he saw a red flash glowing inside. "No, that's not possible!
(Back in the Digital World)
Puppetmon was practical throwing a royal hissy fit upon the turn of events, "THOSE DIGIDESTINED ALWAYS HAVE TO RUIN ALL THE FUN!"
Datamon meanwhile, was tapping away furiously at the controls, trying to figure out how in the world ChaosGallantmon was taken down so well and at the same time, they were losing their mole, but briefly looked away from his panel, "Please don't destroy anything else, we have enough problems to deal with as it is. Perhaps you should help and do something for a change you worthless piece of poison oak. First, we have to bring Rosa back here now and then get ChaosGallantmon back online."
Suddenly, a lightbulb appeared in Puppetmon's head, "HEEHEE! Finally! Time for a little fun!" He looked at the computers and saw seven noticeable figures running in the direction towards the harbor. Immediately, he recognized each of them, "THE DIGIDESTINED! Time for a little playtime."
Sneakingly, he grabbed a couple shots of serum and began walking towards the portal to the Real World, but Datamon noticed, "Hey! Get back here!"
"Whaaa? But why?! I'm going to go out and destroy those digi-brats once and for all!"
"You will do no such thing, I will not..." Just then he was cut off by the Dark One's voice, "Listen up the both of you!"
Both immediately jumped and gave full attention to their master's command, "What is it master?" Datamon asked meekly.
"Puppetmon, I want you to go to the Human World and stop the digidestined at once! Use whatever means necessary, and get Rosa back hurriedly, and you Datamon, find away to jolt ChaosGallantmon's programming back to life and keep working on getting that portal open!"
Puppetmon excitedly leaped over towards the portal, stuck his hand through, and immediately was pulled through the gate.
(Odaiba University)
Jyou, T.K., Kari and Tim each were making their way towards the Senior dormitories so Jyou could get Tim checked out. Tim had regained consciousness and a little strength and was walking under his own power again. However, the trio kept a close eye on him, T.K., and Kari who were both weary themselves from the earlier battle and made sure he was kept steady.
"You gave us quite the fright up there man. Why didn't you tell us you had this weakness before?"
"Sorry T.K., it wasn't so big way back when as it is now."
Jyou pushed up his glasses, "I'm still going to have to give you a full check up." They stopped and he opened up the door to the dormitory that he and Izzy shared.
"JYOU! What's happened down there?! And you look terrible Tim! I don't think any joke's going to help this situation."
Tim chuckled, "On the contrary Gomamon."
"Uh, Jyou? Am I seeing things, or do you and Izzy have practically EVERYTHING in this room?"
Jyou laughed nervously, "Well Kari, we meant to keep all this a secret, at least till the Superbowl.
The entire room looked like a secret man cave hidden within the halls of O.U. Both T.K. And Kari walked around the whole room each in awe of the materials that were in the entire place. It wasn't just the basic medical equipment, such as stethoscopes and tongue depressors, that Jyou had to have for medical emergencies and classes, nor was it the massive amount of computer equipment that Izzy had stored in the bunches of desks and open spaces and his iPad 2 right in front of his pineapple laptop, there was a whole side dedicated to things the gang never even thought the two men, especially a man going for his Phd in medics, would be interested in.
"52'' Plasma Screen LCD Television, with BOSE Surround Sound and sub woofers?!" T.K. drooled.
"A Frigi-Cooler?" Kari opened it up to find massive amounts of Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew and Pepsi products stashed inside as well as other party items like ChiChi's salsa, cheese dip and drawers reserved for packs of lunch meat for parties.
"A Wii Gaming System, and XBOX 360 equipped with MADDEN 2010 and XBOX Live?!" (A/N: Keep in mind this is technically 2009 by the original Japanese standards for when they would get to college.)
Jyou groaned, "Yes, yes and yes you guys. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to examine Tim."
Tim was sitting comfortably on the edge of the bed with an amused look on his face as he watched T.K. and Kari's reactions.
"Frankly, I'm surprised Gomamon was able to keep this a secret for this long, Jyou."
Kari laughed, "Knowing Calumon and Impmon, they surely would rather be up here than keep tabs on Gatomon and Renamon all day."
"Alright, that's enough. Tim, I'd like to know if there is anything you're allergic to, pains you've experienced before, any major injuries you've encountered within the last 5 years, possible diagnosed diseases, etcetera. First off, where was the pain originated from?"
Tim sighed, "Well, the majority of the pains usually originate here," he placed his hand towards the upper left abdomen just close to the heart region, "They're like electric shocks that occasionally happen if I unconsciously pull something."
Jyou was stunned, but he quickly recovered to try and make a reasonable diagnosis, "How often do these pains occur, and when did they start happening or occurring the most often?"
"Usually around once or twice a month though there are spurts where it happens more. They began happening more often after I dislocated my elbow my Sophomore year in High School, I had just turned 16. According to my parents, I have Ahlers Danlos Syndrome, which causes my double jointness."
Once Tim was done talking, the other three people in the room, looked at him with their mouths hanging wide open. In fact, the silence lasted so long, Gatomon ended up being the one to break it, "Sounds like you've kind of diagnosed yourself already." She said with disbelief.
"I did do a little research on the subject not too long ago and found someone with the same kind of symptoms as me, though it seems they have much more than I do."
"That's amazing!" Patamon squeaked, "I mean, not awesome, but you uh...uh..."
"Seem to know your stuff!" Gomamon finished for him.
Jyou finally spoke, "Peripheral Neuropathy."
Kari raised an eyebrow, "Come again Jyou?"
"That's the diagnosis for my static shocks, correct Jyou?"
"That's right," said Jyou, once again stunned that the hopeful teacher and broadcaster to be, knew just as much about his condition than the young doctor did. "I studied the subject of all this briefly for about a week in class, but we didn't cover much of it and now I wish we did. However, I can tell you that recurrent injuries cause the electric shocks, pretty much from the nerve endings being damaged from too much pressure being placed on the certain area of the body. When you dislocated your left elbow the first time, it caused the left side of your body's nervous system to become tender, and the second time practically put them into shock, so whenever one of your bones catches those nerve endings connected to the dislocation, the feeling has worsened and will only get better with time and rest. How long that will take, we don't know and since it's so close to your cardiovascular system, a cardiologist is going to have to examine you."
Kari gasped, "Will he need surgery?!"
"I don't know, I can only make a small diagnosis, as only an official doctor can make the final call. I do know that there is no cure for the syndrome and we can only hope that Tim does not have to live with a pacemaker. That will determine whether or not his condition is beyond saveable or not. It can be treated, but only so much. I will say this though, when you fight, you must stay morphed, no exceptions. It's what's keeping you from going into neural shock."
"GUYS! You might want to take a look at this!" T.K. exclaimed in a panic as he pointed towards the huge television screen at the other side of the room. Jyou grabbed the remote that resided on the desk, next to the bed that Tim was resting on. He immediately turned the volume up.
"This was the scene just 30 minutes ago here in West Shinjuku, as what appeared to be a giant bunny, a knight with a sword and a red cape fighting this other very large dark knight sporting a giant lance. It is unclear whether or not this is related to the Giant Pig Digimon or the giant red mass that appeared just seven years ago close to this time, but the word from the government is that they are looking into the incident. They have not said whether or not the agency, HYPNOS is involved, but assures us that if needed, the Wild Bunch Monster Makers will group together once more to halt any progress from the enemy. This is Rala Kamari, reporting. Back to you Maruki."
"Thank you Rala. I have just received word that the attack has escalated to new heights and has continued on through Shibuya and has made its way into Odaiba. We have no word on the current situation as of yet, but we'll be sure bring you word once new situation arises. Now onto SPORTS!"
"This is bad" Jyou groaned.
Gatomon sat in Kari's lap, her ears drooping down and frowning in a little bit of fear, "I agree, we've never faced anything this scary since BlackWarGreymon."
"There was MaloMyotismon" T.K. pointed out.
"Yeah, but we still were able to beat him easier than that BlackWarGreymon, T.K.!"
"Patamon's right, MaloMyotismon turned out to be Kitty Kibble compared to BlackWarGreymon. The only one worse was Daemon."
Daemon! That name sent shivers down everyone's spine, particularly Kari's. Then she frowned, "Hey, do you think?"
T.K. knew exactly what she was thinking. "That Daemon's behind Rosa's becoming evil, ChaosGallantmon's existence and all the attacks being focused on us? Then yes! I do think so, good thinking Kari!"
"Hey guys, one thing," Gomamon now directed the attention elsewhere, "Who's HYPNOS?"
"YOU'RE SO SELFISH! All you care about is your job and whether or not you get promoted! I don't want to move and neither does Matt or T.K.! If you want to split this family up, then FINE! You'd better chose Hiraoki! This hours on end television drainer, or your family!" Those words were repeatedly running through Nancy Takaishi's mind as she made her way down the halls of the Odaiba T.V. Station. It had been a long time since she'd walked through the station, the last time being when she practically threw her wedding ring at Hiraoki, just before he had permanently moved away from Hikarigaoka to Odaiba, bringing Matt with him, so he could learn to at least develop a little responsibility and that leftT.K. with Nancy. Things had calmed between them since then, their sons seemingly helping to keep the two adults into contact over the years, and she owed it all to the Digimon. Had it not been for the seemingly never ending monster attacks they would most likely have never have talked again. Now she was here, for the first time in fifteen years, to drop off some research for the Odaiba Daily Newspaper.
She rounded the corner when suddenly, she heard a loud, familiar whisper. "PSST! Nancy!" Stopping in her tracks, she looked around to try and find the direction the voice came from. The voice called out again, this time a little louder, "Over here Nancy!"
She twirled around at the voice and looked to see her ex-husband peeking out of one of the office doors that happened to be just meters from where she was standing and literally jumped back three feet into the air. "Hiraoki! You nearly scared the wits out of me! Why are you whispering like that?!" She panicked
Hiraoki roared with laughter, "OHHHAHAAAHA! I'm sorry Nancy, but I couldn't resist. I wanted to see if you'd react the way you used to back when we were teens."
Nancy tried to hold in a growing smile and denied it, "It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now!"
"Your smile seems to say otherwise, Naaancy."
Nancy grinned, "Oh Hiraoki." She sighed. Then her expression changed a little, hinting that Hiraoki didn't just call her over for casual conversation, "Alright Hir, what's the real reason for calling me over to this specific spot?"
He smiled widely as Nancy realized his true intentions, "First, I'll take that research off your hands. I'm the Assistant Producer after all." He took the folder from her hands as he bragged, flipping through to see its contents doing so for several seconds.
Nancy placed her hands on her hips, sighing, "Okay, so was there something else?"
It was as if Hiraoki had picked up the Daisuke Motomiya syndrome, because he had been so engrossed in the contents of Nancy's research. Not so much because it was the research, but because it was she who did the research, and she was standing right there.
"HIRAOKI!" She screamed.
This finally got his attention, as the folder nearly slipped out of his hands. He looked up at his ex-wife, his cheeks glowing a crimson red with embarrassment, "I'm sorry Nancy, I dunno what got over me. Let's see where was I...oh right! I need your help."
"With what might I ask?"
"Well, you see, there's a major story brewing, and all my camera-men are out doing other projects. The last one just went to the Odaiba Campus to report on the incident that occurred just this afternoon. Ironically this one occurred around the same time as the monster attacks in Shinjuku."
He motioned her eyes towards the television set hanging on the wall. It showed a group of students being interviewed., "Well, we were eating and conversing with each other, when we noticed this strange man showed up. He had this really white hair and a gold eye over one of his eyes, if that makes any sense!"
Girl 1, "Yeah! It was like he was dressed for some strange event in a prima-donna sort of way! Except he made it look creepy."
Guy 2, "The next thing we knew, he challenged this o Boy 1 ther guy, never even met him before, and his friends to something that seemingly resembled, Duel Monsters cards. This arena then shows up out of nowhere, the one guy tries to leave, but is knocked back by a strange forcefield blocking him from leaving, and from letting anyone else going in!
Scenes from videos taken with iPhones and other recording devices reveal the event taking place.
Nancy's eyes grew wide, "It's T.K.! Look over there Hiraoki! And Matt too! They're right in the middle of this!"
Hiraoki leaned in closer to observe, sure enough his two sons were right in the thicket of the occurring situation.
Girl 1: They started playing, neither of them seemed to be losing, though they kept talking about strange things like being able to see the other person's cards and blocking that ability with some sort of crest, it was all so weird. Then this huge black cloud formed around the entire room and after that, we couldn't see a thing! We tried to stay and see if we could help,, but everyone else was frantically running.
Guy 3, "Hey guys! Where's Hiraku? He's supposed to be at soccer practice!"
"Well, that's all we have for you now, we'll continue to bring you this developing story when we get more information. For Odaiba Channel 10 news, I'm Norakana Shimitsu.
Hiraoki turned to Nancy, "There was a report of a monster attack in West Shinjuku and it's made its way over here to the bay area. I'm the only reporter left that's willing to check it out. So what I need to ask you is, would you help with the field report? It would be just like old times." He flashed a kindly, hopeful smile, hoping that Nancy would give in. It was that same smile that T.K. always gave her when he was a little boy. They were each the spitting images of their soft sides. "I just can't report something like this as well as you can."
She remembered back to the days where Hiraoki was just starting out and was fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional broadcaster/reporter and film designer. She was often his field reporter on the assignments he took on and in fact, they were inseparable. That was the case at least, until Matt was born and then a few years later, Takeru. That was around the same time Hiraoki started spending more time, engrossed in his work, gradually for some reason drifting apart. Then, there was the supposed Heightonview Terrace bombing, as it was called, later realized by the digidestined and their families, to be the infamous Digimon Monster Attack, that T.K. continued to claim happen over and over again. Instead of being responsible first to his family, and concerned with their protection, Hiraoki was immediately out on the streets reporting over the mysterious event for hours upon end, while she interviewed a few people, including the strange Yukio Oikawa.
Nancy watched as he smiled a smile she hadn't seen from him in ages, even when the Digital World appeared from the sky and they were with each other watching, unable to do nothing to help their children as they fought the grueling battles. She gave a small smile, "Alright Hi, let's get on the case."
"I was hoping you'd say that!"
The Digidestined were running as fast as they could through the city of Odaiba. They had just passed the apartment complexes and were close to the Elementary School.
"Hurry up you guys! Takato's probably begging for our help by now!"
"Don't worry Davis," Tai encouraged him, "We're almost to the beach.
"Yeah, don't get your knickers in a twist, Davis."
"YEAAH!" A shrilly, yet very familiar voice rang out, "What computer boy said!"
Startled, Davis and Ken slid to a stop, not accounting for the extra pressure that they would endure from Yolie and Mimi slamming into them because of it. SLAM! Immediately upon impact, Yolie sprang up in anger, "HEY! What's the deal with you two?! Why did you stop like that?!"
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang behind them, Tai, Agumon, Matt, Gabumon, Sora, Biyomon, Tentomon, Palmon and Izzy, each gasped as they saw what or who was in front of them.
"What?! No! It's impossible!" Tentomon stammered.
"YEAH! MetalGarurumon abolished you!"
"And at point blank range might I add," Izzy pointed out.
"HEEHEEE, Of course he destroyed me yellow dinomon, but IIIII'M Back! And I'm ready to play! Which reminds me...Heyyy, where's ?!"
Matt pumped his fists, "You're not going anywhere near him Pinocchio!"
"Hey wait a minute, who is this guy?"
"This 'guy' is trouble Yolie," Hawkmon warned, "This is Puppetmon!"
Digimon Analyzer: (Hawkmon): Puppetmon is a Mega Digimon, and one of the former Dark Masters! He may not look like it, but he is very powerful and very dangerous too! His special Puppet Pummel is not something you'd want to see in a rock concert!"
"Not again!" Mimi moaned, "The last time we faced him, he beat the bananas off of Jyou and I!"
Palmon looked up at her partner in agreement, "And that's no joke either!"
"But this doesn't make any sense, you should have been reconfigured at Primary Village and turned good!"
"Mayyyybe, computer boy, you shouldn't always believe everything you hear!"
"Okay buddy, enough monkey business, we want answers!"
"YEAH! Lesh talk, more answers, like Davish said!"
"You want answers noodle brain? I'll give you something! PUPPET..."
Digivices frantically begin whistling...
"DIGIMON, DIGITAL MONSTERS, DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS...DIGIMON, DIGITAL MONSTERS, DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS!...DIGIVOLVE, INTO CHAMPION!"
Biyomon digivolve to!...Biiiirdramon! Birdramon digivolve to!... "Digivolve into ultimate!" GARUDAMON!
Palmon Digivolve To!... TOOOGEMON! TOGEMON digivolve to!... "Digivolve, into ultimate!" LILLYMON!"
"METEOR WING!"
"FLOWER CANNON!"
The two ultimates, ultimately threw Puppetmon by surprise, "HEY! Fine then! I'll get you instead! HEY! Come back here!"
"Agumon/Gabumon!" Tai and Matt each shouted towards their partners
"YEAH!"
"Right!"
"You too Tento!"
"Megariffic!" Tentomon praised.
"AGUMON!"/ "GABUMON!"/ TENTOMON!" Warp Digivolve TO!
"WARP...DIGIVOLVE!"
"WARGREYMON!"/ "METALGARURUMON!"/ HERCULESKABUTERIMON!
As the Mega Digimon went to fight, Tai turned to Davis, Ken and Yolie, "You guys go on ahead! We'll stall Puppetmon here."
"What?! No way, I'm staying to fight!"
"No Davis, Tai's right, if this is any indication how crucial things are, the others will need you're help."
"You're our last line of defense," Sora pleaded.
Yolie grabbed and pulled his hand, "Yeah Davis, let's go!" But before they could get anywhere,
(Hiraoki and Nancy)
"Hiraoki, are you okay?" Nancy asked him for the tenth time already.
"I'm fine Nancy. Don't worry about me."
"But you're not fine, I can tell by the look in your eyes. I've seen them before. You need rest."
"Nonsense Nancy. Now stop bugging me about it."
She groaned, but before she could say anything more, she noticed a group ahead blocking the roadway. She immediately recognized them, "Hey! Isn't that Matt?! Honk the horn!"
HOOOOOONK
They turned around to see a car coming towards them at full speed, which then came to a screeching halt as soon as it reached the college students, the passenger side window then opened revealing none other than...
"MOM?! DAD?! What are you guys doing here? And...in the same car?" Sora gave him a look and smirked, holding back a laugh.
"Matt! Oh thank goodness we found you! I hope you're safe!"
"Wellllll, Mrs. Takaishi" Tai answered as he cautiously looked over his shoulder to see that their Digimon and Puppetmon were dangerously close.
She gasped, "OH NO!"
Hiraoki stayed firm, then looked over at Davis, Yolie and Ken, he noticed that their digimon hadn't digivolved yet, "You kids, get in the car!"
"WHO? Us?"
"No Davis, he means the other kids with D-3's," Yolie wisecracked, "YES US!" She yelled as she opened the car door to get in, Hawkmon flying in after her, with Ken, carrying Wormon, following suit. Ken looked over towards his friend, "COME ON, Davis!" He pulled at the boy's shirt, "OH, Right! Let's go Veemon!"
"Righto Davish!"
Tai, Matt, Izzy and Mimi ran off while Sora stayed behind, she peered into the open, passenger window, "We'll meet up with you all as soon as we can get Puppetmon out of here."
"Perfecto! Be careful Sora!"
"I will Yolie! And you too!" She replied as she began to run off towards the fight.
"Hang on kids!" Hiraoki warned as he pressed the gas.
The battle was really intense, the college kid's digimon trying to keep Puppetmon in the park while Sora and Mimi tried to evacuate the innocent bystandards"
"HEEEHEEE! Can't catch me!"
"Hey! Why don't you get down here and fight like a MON!"
"We've got to get him away from here!" Garudamon warned, ignoring Tai's taunting of Puppetmon.
"He's right Tai," Sora agreed, "It's too dangerous if we stay here much longer."
Tai sighed, "But how," He wondered, placing his fist to his chin, "Hmmmm... I know! We'll carry him!"
"TAI! HE'S GOT ME!" WarGreymon roared. Sure enough, Puppetmon had once again taken control of WarGreymon's body with his strings, "HAHA! Looks like you can't keep from being all strung up!"
Instead of gasping, Tai started actually thinking, "Strung up?! Wait a minute, that's it! HerculesKabuterimon! Grab him by his strings! The rest of you keep Puppetmon distracted, allow WarGreymon to attack you!"
Izzy nearly dropped his laptop in panic, "WHAT?!" He chirped.
Matt, Sora and Mimi each gave him equally, surprised and stunned stares, "What do you think you're doing Tai?"
"Don't worry Matt, I've got it all covered."
"Does that include destroying all our digimon and us?!" Mimi squeaked, "WAHHH! I'm too young to die!"
"It'll be fine you guys, see, HerculesKabuterimon will cut his strings at the last minute and grab ahold to the remaining strings that Puppetmon has."
"Hmm..." Izzy started tapping the keys on his laptop, "You may actually be right about this," He implied as he pulled up the Digimon Analyzer, "Let's see here...ah yes, here's something, HerculesKabuterimon is a Vaccine type AND a flying type of course. Puppetmon is a virus type, so that means, HerculesKabuterimon has an edge, he can't be affected by Puppetmon's strings! In theory that is anyway."
Tai looked and saw that the other digimon, minus HerculesKabuterimon were in fact stalling as planned, then he looked up at HerculesKabuterimon, "Then there's only one way to prove it, will you do it?"
"READY AND ABLE!" The mega digimon replied confidently.
"HAHAHAAAHAHAHAAAA! Didn't you miss having so much fun!" Puppetmon cackled, oblivious to the planning going on down below, so he didn't notice the giant beetle flying in at him until the last second, "HEY WAIT! WHOAHWOAHWOAH! HEY! Let go of me!"
HerculesKabuterimon turned to him and started using the strings on him, "The strings have turned! Let's see how you feel being controlled by your own attack!"
"NO WAIT! Yerck! Youch, hey! Let go of me! This isn't so much fun!"
Down below everyone was laughing, including the rest of the Digimon, "Serves you right!" WarGreymon roared, "You should've thought of that years ago when you first attacked us!"
"No! Please! All I wanted to do was just play!"
"I think your definition of playing is much different from ours is Puppetmon," Izzy said from over HerculesKabuterimon's head, "Alright, let's head out!"
"No wait! Please let go of me."
"No chance in Hades." The Mega Digimon replied.
"MetalGarurumon, let's follow them!" Matt called.
He jumped onto his partner, "Right!"
Sora held out her hand, "Wait, Matt!" But it was too late as MetalGarurumon already had sped off.
WarGreymon descended before them, "Tai, you ready?"
"Sure thing buddy!" He looked behind his shoulder, then reached out his hand, "Hop on Sor!"
She gratefully took hold of his hand and smiled, "Thanks Tai, I've never seen Matt do that before."
Tai frowned at her as he noticed it too, "Me neither, but it's probably nothing." He reassured her, "Giddy up WarGreymon!"
"Taiii," Sora groaned before bursting into a fit of giggles, having to admit the cowboy call was very funny.
Lilymon came down and picked up Mimi and they were off.
(HYPNOS)
"Systems at maximum efficiency, ready to track the progress of the wild one!"
"Check the kid's digimon, what's their status?" Yamaki wondered.
Talley quickly ran a systems check, "I'm reading the Tamers digimon are currently fine and not doing anything at the moment. I've got another reading though."
"Hmm, It must be the Digidestined."
Finally a picture showed up on the monitor and Yamaki nearly dropped his lighter, "What the?! Where did THEY come from?"
"Sir! I'm reading Four Mega Digimon and two Ultimates flying in the direction of Odaiba's beach!" Riley reported, "The ones in the air, are carrying some kind of puppet. He kind of looks like Pinocchio...hold on, that puppet IS a mega! And that big Beetle Digimon is carrying him!"
Yamaki took off his glasses in surprise, focusing on the giant beetle, "Riley, Talley, zoom in closer on the big one."
They did so immediately and each realized the same thing, "It's Izzy!" The two women gasped in unison.
(Odaiba in front of Odaiba Elementary)
Outside of the Elementary school, Rika, Henry and Takato and their partners had finally made it, "Alright, this is the meeting spot. So now what?" Rika wondered.
"That's a good question." Takato replied, "What do you think Henry."
Henry however, wasn't paying attention, noticing that something was off about the lack of activity going on across the street, "You guys, something really strange is happening over there. I can feel it."
Renamon walked in front of them slowly, "He's right, I can sense the imminent danger, yet nothing is happening."
"Sheesh! Can you guys be any more tense? You're making me tense!"
Henry frowned, "Terriermon..." he replied sternly.
"Sorry."
"Don't worry about it." He turned towards Rika and Takato, "Terriermon and I are going to go check things out over there. You wait up for the others."
Rika groaned, "You've GOT to be kidding me! Why would you do something like that?!"
"Because, since I got that call from Suzy, I know that something strange is happening."
"Fine then, do what you must. Who are we to stand in your way."
Takato and Henry looked at Rika suspiciously, their eyebrows raised, but Henry just shrugged it off and ran across the street, leaving Rika and Takato behind. Then there was a moment of awkwardness, Takato blushed then turned away as did Rika. Renamon noticed this and began to chuckle under her breath.
"WHAT?!" Rika snapped at Takato.
"Oh, erm, nothing...I mean..."
"SPILL IT GOGGLE BOY!"
Takato figured he deserved the insult.
"I'm waiting." She told him, impatiently tapping her foot on the concrete.
"Well, I didn't mean to...uhm, well what I'm trying to say is...that incident, I didn't plan it that way!"
"OH PLEASE! You were sneaking around, outside, on a ladder, without me knowing, and drawing pictures of Davis trying to steal MY UNDERGARMENTS! Do you realize how idiotic and stupid that looks?!"
"It was just for the comics!"
"SERIOUSLY? You sound just like Kenta with that excuse! I know you better than this Takato! I excused that whole dream thing, because, well, things weren't exactly normal back then, but this, it's so... so..."
"Degrading? Immature? Infuriating"
"ALL THREE OF THOSE TAKATO!" She fumed, but immediately calmed down, "Look, you've never given me a reason not to trust you, so I'm going to let this one slide, but so help me, any more funny business like this again, and I'll have you stuffed tight into Jeri's little sock puppet and make you wish you'd never met me! Do I make myself clear?"
Takato let out a nervous sigh and grinned in a fake, nervous manner, "Perfectly, Rika. I'm sorry for doing that, I should've told you what I was doing."
"Yeah...yeah you should have." Then her face fell in realization, "And... I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have gotten so mad like that and pushed you and the ladder away from the window. You could've been extremely hurt." She hung her head solemnly and went in for a small hug
Takato, very surprised, hugged her back, "Wow! Thanks! Don't worry about it Rika."
After that, a moment of silence reigned supreme between the four, that is until Renamon started laughing really hard! It was truly unRenamon like.
Rika, Guilmon and Takato each gave the fox digimon a stare, "Renamon, what's wrong?" Guilmon queried.
She slowed to a chuckle, "Rika, did the other women find it funny, you know, afterwards?"
Rika raised an eyebrow, "I guess so, why Renamon?" Her eyes then grew wide, "OH! OHHHHH!" She started to giggle, then the laughter and tears took over. She keeled over to try and catch her breath. Unfortunately for Takato, she grabbed his collar in an attempt to keep her balance. "ERCK!" He choked, "Rika, what's the matter with you? You've lost it!"
"I...I'm sorry...Takato... I can't...stop..."
He grasped her shoulders tightly to try and get her to regain composure, "Deep breaths, please, you'll pass out!"
She took his advice, took quick breaths and attempted to stay calm, "Takato...please don't stop with drawing your comics. I don't care what Goggle-Man says. I think I have an idea that'll knock his socks off!"
Takato couldn't believe it, was Rika volunteering to help him? "Rika? Are you saying that you WANT to be involved in this?"
"Yes" She said slyly, "Come out with the new issue, I'll have the idea to you by the end of the weekend. The sorority would love nothing better than to get back at the guys sorority and Goggle-Man is the perfect man to help us."
"But he's not even with that group anymore! He quit it for Kari's sake!"
"Just...leave that to me. We're going to get him a little, but also help him in the process."
Takato was scared, this was a new side to Rika that he'd never seen before.
Guilmon then found himself sniffing.
"Takatomon, I smell...Veemon!"
"Really?!"
Finally, they heard the sound of a revving car motor approaching and then, "Hey! Stop here!" There was no denying it, that was Davis. The car came to a halt right in front of the curb where they were standing.
Davis got out of the car and Takato greeted him, "Hey Davis, you're finally here."
Davis frowned and then turned away. Ken then emerged from the car and finally Yolie, whom approached Rika, but not before sweatdropping at the sight of Davis ignoring Takato, "Hey what's with them?"
"Don't ask." Rika muttered.
The older girl getting the hint, quickly changed the subject, "Sorry we were late, we got tied up, literally."
Takato finally recovered, "Really? What happened?"
Ken fielded that question, "Puppetmon happened!"
Rika raised an eyebrow, "Puppetmon? Mega Digimon with the bad habit of thinking stringing people up is his idea of fun?"
"That'sh the one!" Veemon said proudly.
"Not to mention he has a horrible sense of humor!" Yolie pointed out.
"The last we saw, Tai and the others each digivolved to take him on!" Wormon finally said softly.
Hiraoki's voice then interrupted the chosen children, "Hey, you kids, look up over in the distance." He pointed to four creatures, three flying and one being held on to.
"IT'S TAI!" Davis yelled. "And WarGreymon, I'd recognize them anywhere!"
Takato stared in and whispered in amazement, "WarGreymon...Awesome!"
"Hey you guys!"
This time, the group turned to see MetalGarurumon coming towards them with Matt right on top.
"Matt, what is it son?" Nancy asked worriedly.
"We managed to capture Puppetmon before he could do any damage. We're heading over to the beach now, come on! Mom, dad, you should leave immediately before you get hurt."
"We're at a safe distance Matt, we'll be fine," Hiraoki countered.
"But Hiraoki..."
"Now Nancy, we've been in tougher spots before, right? Besides, we have to get something for a live report. I'm sure it will be worth it in the end to gain some sort of information on this."
Matt sighed, "Fine then, just don't go anywhere else, and if we get close, LEAVE!"
Nancy placed a hand on his shoulder, whilst still frowning over at her ex-husband, "We will, now go on."
(HENRY)
Henry ran as quickly as he could onto the beach, over in the distance, he spotted Beelzemon, Justimon, Andromon and Digmon, then Kazu, Kenta and then two young teens and it didn't take him long to recognize either one of them, "SUZIE! RYO! KAZU! CODY!"
Suzie turned around to see her brother running at her, Cody also acknowledging as he turned his head, "Brother? Henry! You're finally here!"
"Yes I...WHOAH! Is that..."
She nodded, that's ChaosGallantmon, but he's out, for now."
"BUT NOT FOR LONG!" Rosa snapped before she collapsed again, panting really hard.
"I don't believe it, he looks just like Gallantmon, only meaner!" Terriermon observed.
"Unfortunately, I agree." Cody noted.
"Hey Cody, it's good to meet you again."
"Likewise. By the way Suzie, I never properly introduced myself. I'm Cody Hida, a Kendo artist." He briefly got up and bowed and went back down to make sure Rosa didn't escape.
Suzie bowed as well, "I'm Suzie Wong, a student of Tai Chi, my brothers master is my master." She then stopped as if to try and remember something, then it clicked, "Wait a minute, you're Cody Hida?"
"That's right."
"THAT'S RIGHT! I thought I knew you from somewhere. You were on the DIGIMON SHOW!"
Cody laughed, "So you've heard as well eh?"
"So Cody, what happened here?"
Ryo answered from inside Justimon instead.
"I wish we knew man. We don't even know how Rosa got ChaosGallantmon through a Digi-port!"
Suzie nodded, "One minute everything was clear, but then the next minute, ChaosGallantmon was in West Shinjuku doing tons of damage! We battled till we got here, I fought Rosa until Cody valiantly took over soon after we got here when Rosa picked up a weapon. Finally Kazu managed to digivolve Guardromon into Andromon."
"Wait! He finally digivolved?! How?"
Kazu grinned with pride, "Blue Card! I'M DA MAN!"
"You'ze keep tellin youzself that, you just might believes it!" Beelezemon stabbed.
"Ohhh, good one...IMPMON!"
"HEY! Youze take that back bunny boy!"
Henry and Suzie facepalmed, "Oy-vey."
"Hey you guys, look up there!" Kenta finally spoke sheepily.
"It's WarGreymon!" Digmon shouted happily, "Down here!"
"Hey you guys!" Tai shouted as WarGreymon landed. He jumped off and then helped Sora down once more. "Looks like we missed the action."
"I wouldn't say that. Something seems too obvious here."
"Huh? How so?"
Puppetmon finally began laughing at the group, "HAAAHAA! I got you now!" He snapped the strings off of HerculesKabuterimon, causing him and Izzy to fall to the ground with a THUD! "Now fiiirst! You're coming with me Rosa!"
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Matt yelled from nowhere, as MetalGarurumon slammed into the Puppet, causing him to drop the corked medicine. Luckily, it landed softly in the sand. "HEEYYY! That was mean! You'll pay for that! Time to get back up ChaosGallantmon!
"OH No youze don't! Corona..."
Puppetmon was faster and ChaosGallantmon was back up and running much to everyone's dismay. Beelzemon took advantage of the few seconds he had before Puppetmon could make a move to rethink his strategy. Since he was already in the middle of blasting he let ChaosGallantmon think he was going to fire at him. At the last second he moved in front of Puppetmon.
"...Blaster!"
The shot was angled downwards so that he would shoot the strings and not Puppet. However, his trajectory was off and he ended up roasting Puppetmon's arms in the process. ChaosGallantmon fell back to the ground with a loud THUD and Puppetmon fell to his knees in agony.
"Why...WHY?! Why do this kids ALWAYS win?!"
His body began to shake and his body emitted a black light from it. He didn't notice this himself, but everyone else around him did.
"Um...youze okay?"
"I think he's about to blow!"
Terriermon wasn't as far off as they thought as a black light engulfed Puppetmon and to their shock they realized he was digivolving.
"Puppetmon...digivolve to...AncientTroiamon."
(Jyou and Izzy's dorm)
While Jyou meticulously ran some minor checks on Tim, T.K. and Kari were fiddling around with the random, expensive items in the bedroom. In the meantime, Patamon and Gatomon were engrossed in the television watching a Japanese game show. Without warning however, their entertainment was cut out by a 'Breaking News' Screen.
'BREAKING NEWS'
"This is a special news report from Odaiba Channel 10 News. Now, here is Hiraoki Ishida with a Breaking News Update on this afternoon's developing issue."
Patamon and Gatomon's jaws both dropped, "Gatomon, turn it up, turn it up!"
"I am Pata, I am!" The Digi-kitty replied as she tried to get the remote under her control.
"T.K.!" Patamon squeaked, "Come see this!"
The program quickly switched from the Breaking News screen, music playing as it transitioned to a view of Odaiba Elementary, and much to T.K.'s surprise, his mother appeared on the screen.
"This is Nancy Takaishi and we are coming to you live in front of Odaiba Elementary School, where just across the street, on the bay, a battle between monsters is raging. You may have heard earlier about reports of monster sightings in West Shinjuku, and it has made its way over here to Odaiba. The situation is very dangerous and all Odaiba residents are advised to stay clear of the bay area until further notice. We will continue to bring you more...wait a minute, what is that?!" She frantically pointed ahead of her. The camera's view was blurred as it attempted to focus on the ensuing battle. A large flash of light temporarily flashed on the screen, even blinding the room a little.
"MOM!" T.K. impulsively shouted.
"That was the light of Digivolution," Gatomon pointed out.
They all watched intently as the camera tried to focus in on the scene. As the light faded, sure enough Gatomon was right, a Digimon had digivolved.
The light on the screen slowly faded down as the camera continued to get a better focus on the change. In the meantime, Nancy attempted to portray what was happening as best she could, "This light...it...it means one of the monsters is changing and I believe the monster that is going through this transformation is not on our side. This does not bode very well for us I'm afraid." The camera finally got a clear view of the transformed monster.
Both Patamon and Gatomon each slinked back away from the T.V. as if they were afraid of being attacked by what was on the screen, each whispered at the same time, "AncientTroiamon!"
"Who's that?"
"Jyou, that's the final mega form of...Puppetmon!" Gomamon responded with fear in his voice.
(Hypnos)
"Sir! The status of one of the digimon has changed, and it is not one of the children's digimon either." Talley announced from her post.
"Riley, analysis on that digimon!" Yamaki commanded
"It's levels have reached maximum capacity, he's at the Mega level. However, he's much larger than most mega level digimon sir!"
"Information just now coming in on the new Digimon," Riley said, "AncientTroiamon is an Ancient Plant Digimon whose name and design are derived from "Ancient" and the mythological Trojan Horse. It possesses the attribute of "Wood", and is one of the legendary "Ten Legendary Warriors" that saved the ancient Digital World. It is the largest of the Ancient Digimon, and its body is loaded with various mechanisms that allow it to display tricky attacks and movements. Its Surprise Cannon shoots super-massive shells from the huge cannons in its mouth and chest."
"A Trojan Horse," Yamaki repeated, "This is getting bad and there's no more time to play it safe. Riley, initiate the Juggernaut!"
Yamaki's girlfriend hesitated, "Wait, what?! Are you serious?!"
"Yes Riley, now do it!"
Riley sighed uncomfortably, "Fine then sir, I just hope that this will work for all our sake."
"WAIT!" Janyu yelled out, "We still haven't tested the modifications for Juggernaut, there's no telling what it will do! I beg you Yamaki, please don't do this!"
Yamaki stood firm, "My decision is final Mr. Wong, fire it up Riley, Talley."
Riley and Talley looked at each other and shook their heads, 'This is a mistake," Talley thought to herself. Where's that one boy with that idea?"
"Test sequence complete, going on to phase one of the Juggernaut progam." Riley announced.
Yamaki chuckled, "Perfect,"
(Digital World)
"PERFECT!" Datamon laughed, "Those fools started up Juggernaut, and it's just the boost we needed! Perhaps sending Puppetmon to the human world was a great idea after all! Soon, the greatest of all evil return and exact his revenge on both humans and on Digimon! Soon master you will be able to enter with your troops, and then you can take over!"
(Odaiba Harbor)
"HEEHEE! There is nothing you can do now digidestined! I have far surpassed my mega level now, you might as well give up!"
"He's huge!" Takato remarked.
"Well no one said he was small Takato."
"Yeah, that's great. Thanks for confirming that Gargomon the Sarcastic."
"HAH! That's me!"
"Uh guys, perhaps you should get ready." Tai suggested.
"He's right Takatomon!"
"Mhmm! You all ready?"
"Well we're sure not doing anything standing around here."
"Well said Rika." Henry replied.
They all began to shout, "BIOMER..."
Just then, a loud sound similar to thunder roared right above them, causing them to see what was occurring.
"NO! Not again!" Henry shouted fearfully.
Takato panicked. "Definitely not good! I thought we were done using that!"
"Using what?!" Matt wondered. "Do you know what that huge hole in the sky is?"
(Jyou and Izzy's dorm room)
Tim was definitely angry at what he was seeing on the T.V. Screen. "NO! Even after I requested him to wait!"
Jyou, T.K. and Kari just stared at him each curious as to what he meant.
"Requested what Timmy? What's this all about?" Gatomon commanded an answer.
Takato, Henry, Rika and Tim simultaneously replied darkly from their respected spots:
"Juggernaut."
NEXT TIME on Digimon the College Years!...
"Don't do this Yamaki! For our own safety, you must turn off Juggernaut!"
"I will not Janyuu! If we are to give the kids digimon a chance, Juggernaut is the best chance we have!"
Talley cut into the argument, "SIR! Someone is hacking into our system."
"What?! Get a trace on it, NOW Riley!"
"It's coming...coming from inside the Digital World!"
"I told you we weren't finished with the modifications!"
"Mr. Yamaki," One of the engineers approached him, "We just did a diagnostic before fully turning on Juggernaut, it appears that someone tampered with our systems just a few days ago, right from under our noses!"
…..
AncientTroiamon laughed in his usual annoying way, "HEEHEE! You thought that would stop me?! I came here to halt that Juggernaut!"
"OF COURSE! It makes sense now!"
"What makes sense now Izzy?"
"It's quite simple really, Mimi. Not only is AncientTroiamon based off the mythical Greek story of the Trojan Horse, it also has a different meaning for today!"
"What in the world is he talking about Henry?"
"Izzy's right Terriermon, it is simple! This is a computer term!"
…...
"You humans have made a grave mistake in opening Juggernaut! You have now allowed for your own demise!"
…..
"How could I have made the same mistake?!" Yamaki raged in frustration. "I should have learned from the first time!"
…...
"It's up to us Guardromon, we have to help our friends! I feel so helpless though. How can we fight when there are two very powerful megas up there?!"
"You have to believe Kazu! There must be a way!"
…..
"I have always wanted to be a hero, so now is the time to prove that I can be! Guardromon! IT'S TIME TO FIGHT TOGETHER!"