AN: Alright, so the last chapter wasn't as good as the first one, but this should definitely make up for it. It's time for Impmon vs Renamon. Place your bets now.
RE: Digimon Tamers 03 – REVERSAL
"Renamon. Walk all over him." Rika said, as she pulled a card from her collection. "Impmon. Toss her to the curb." Tobias said with a smirk as he pulled out a card as well. "Diamond Storm!" Renamon shouted as several shards of light flew at Impmon, which he quickly avoided thanks to the speed boost from the Omega Plug-In V card. "BADABOOM!" Impmon shouted, firing off a large red fireball, which hit Renamon hard, sending her sliding back a good deal, also due to the power boost of Omega Plug-In V. "DigiModify! SnowAgumon's Frozen Wind Activate!" Rika shouted as she swiped the SnowAgumon card through her D-Power. "Frozen Wind!" Renamon shouted, as a large storm of ice started flying at Impmon. "Impmon! You know exactly what to do!" Tobias shouted as Impmon quickly rolled out of the way of the attack, and prepared a Summon attack. "Get ready for this! Full Summon!" Impmon shouted as twenty blue crystals spawned from two rings of blue fire in front of him, and shot directly at Renamon, and the fox-like Digimon dodged most of them, only five of which hit her hard, slamming her into a tree. "Do you get it yet, Rika? Although we may not be on the same level as you, we can compensate for that by utilizing what we have available! That's why Impmon and I will NOT lose to you!" Tobias said angrily as he pulled out his D-Power.
"Why does he seem so determined to beat Rika? I mean, sure, she could use a major attitude adjustment, but why does it seem like he's unnaturally determined?" Henry asked himself, before hearing Tobias say something that really caught his attention. "Even if Renamon Digivolves into Kyubimon... We won't lose. I know that for a fact." Tobias said confidently. "I have faith in my partner, and I know he has the same belief in my potential as a Tamer! NOW, IMPMON!" Tobias shouted as Impmon dealt a Full-Power Summon attack from behind Renamon, slamming her into another tree, even breaking the tree with the force of the impact, and Impmon started rushing at her, ready to deal a final punch to knock her out, but started slowing down to his normal speed. "Oh man! Not now!" Tobias shouted, with Rika realizing that Impmon was already powered up before the fight started. "Alright, Renamon... Time to Digivolve." Rika said as she swiped a Digivolution card through her D-Power, causing Renamon to Digivolve into Kyubimon. "Kyubimon, get 'im!" She shouted as Kyubimon leapt at Impmon. "DigiModify! Afterimage activate!" Tobias shouted as he swiped the Afterimage card through his D-Power, causing the Impmon that Kyubimon attack to vanish, with Impmon having jumped over her. "BADABOOM!" Impmon shouted, and the attack hit Kyubimon square in the back, although it didn't have as much of an effect on the Champion Level Fox Digimon as it did with the last attack.
Meanwhile, Takato had just arrived on the scene with Guilmon, who was ready to attack, when Terriermon stopped him. "Momentai, Guilmon. Let them get this out of their system." Terriermon said, returning to his perch on Henry's shoulder. "Takatomon? What do you think?" Guilmon asked, wondering if he should try to stop it or not. "Don't you DARE interfere with this fight! This is something that has to be settled! Right here, right now!" Both Rika and Tobias shouted at the same time, then glaring at the other, as Kyubimon had Impmon pinned under one of her paws. "This situation is kinda familiar... Wait...!" Rika thought as she realized the card that Tobias was holding. "DigiModify! Speed Plug-In V, activate!" Tobias shouted as Impmon disappeared from under Kyubimon's paw, as Impmon took the opportunity to charge up a blue fireball in one hand and a pink one in the other, before merging them together into one giant fireball. "PILLAR OF FIRE!" Impmon shouted as he hurled it at Kyubimon, causing a huge wall of fire to form, enveloping Kyubimon in flames before he landed and the flames dispersed, leaving Kyubimon lying on the ground, seemingly unconscious. "And that's how it's done!" Impmon stated before poking Kyubimon's face. "Hey, toots. Wakey-wakey!" Impmon said, still poking her face, earning a scratch to the face from a slightly irritated Kyubimon.
This action incited a laugh from both Rika as well as Tobias. "Man, you have to admit, Impmon. You had that one coming." Tobias said, still laughing a little, while Impmon merely rubbed his face in pain. "Dammit, that smarts!" Impmon yelled in obvious pain. Tobias just looked on, chuckling, before swiping a Restoration card through his D-Power. "Alright, alright... We've had the brawl you asked for, now can we go?" Tobias asked in a melancholy tone. "I can't stand being around people... "Why exactly IS that, Tobias?" Takato asked, earning himself a glare from Tobias, followed by a response. "Because, I prefer to keep to myself. Got it? Now back off." He said, before starting leaving with Impmon following along. "Wait. Before you go, Tobias." Rika said, surprising everyone present. "If you're going to ask about the match, let's just call it a draw." Tobias said nonchalantly, then left with Impmon. "That wasn't what was on my mind at all, you idiot..." Rika thought to herself as Kyubimon got up and reverted to Renamon. "... Let's get out of here, Renamon." Rika said, before leaving Takato, Henry, Guilmon, and Terriermon alone. "Jeez... What IS it with those two?" Takato asked himself. "I mean, at least Tobias can acknowledge that Digimon are more than just data, but with Rika, it just seems like she could care less..." He said, looking in the direction she walked off in. "Yeah... But what I want to know is exactly how Tobias knows Rika in the first place..." Henry said, earning Takato's attention. "He had said her last name, but she looked surprised that he knew it. Which makes me think that maybe they had met at some point before he became a tamer."
"More and more Anomalies just keep popping up all over the place, more and more frequently, and yet they're still dropping like flies!" Said a blonde-haired man in sunglasses, flicking the head of a lighter. "Sir. Another Wild One is trying to Bio-Emerge!" A girl with brown hair shouted, earning the man's attention. "Preparing to track it's movements." She then said, pushing buttons on a keyboard in front of her. "Excellent... We can't afford to let any more of these Anomalies break through..." The man said, flicking the head of the lighter shut.
"Darn it! Why...?" Tobias asked himself, now in his apartment with Impmon. "Why can't I stop thinking about her...? I mean... There's no reason she should still be on my mind... So why? There's something about her... I just can't figure out what..." Tobias said to himself as Impmon ate another Rice Ball. "Well don't keep mulling it over there, Tobias. We've just gotta focus on one thing right now." Impmon said, having gotten Tobias' attention. "We have to find out how to get me to Digivolve to my Champion Level... Next time I fight that fox, I definitely want to win." Impmon said, looking up before turning his attention over to the streets. "Something feels a bit off... I mean, we DID see that Infermon deleted, and it's data loaded by Kyubimon, right?" Impmon asked, looking away from the street for a moment before looking back and seeing Calumon getting attacked by a Flarizamon. "Oh man, that little cream puff?" Impmon asked himself. "Cream puff?" Tobias asked as Impmon descended the fire escape again, Tobias choosing to follow this time.
"C-c'mon, can't we talk this over?" Calumon begged, backing away slowly. "What, I thought you wanted to PLAY... This is how MY SPECIES PLAYS! Time to incinerate!" Flarizamon shouted as he was about to breathe fire all over Calumon. "SUMMON!" Impmon shouted, firing off six blue crystals at Flarizamon which hit hard, causing him to be sent back a good distance. "'Ey, Half-Pint. What're ya doin' just cowerin' around like this? Get outta here!" Impmon shouted as Calumon ran off. "Thank you, Impmon!" Calumon shouted, still running away. "Hmph... Now then, Impmon... Shall we finish this quickly?" Tobias asked, arriving next to his partner. "It would be my pleasure." Impmon said, grinning darkly. "Alright then. Time to take a move from Rika's playbook." Tobias said as he pulled out a SnowAgumon card. "DigiModify! SnowAgumon's Frozen Wind activate!" He shouted as he swiped the card through his D-Power. "Frozen Wind!" Impmon shouted, using the power of the Frozen Wind attack to freeze Flarizamon in his tracks. "Is it over...?" Tobias asked before he noted that the ice was starting to crack and Flarizamon's body was starting to glow. "No...! Impmon, he's gonna Digivolve! Get back before he fires the ice back at you!" Tobias shouted, as Impmon looked back at Flarizamon and jumped back as the ice exploded outwards and in Flarizamon's place stood a BlueMeramon. "Let the flames BURN YOU!" BlueMeramon shouted as he threw several fireballs at Impmon, most of which hit hard, sending him into the wall of a building. "Crap! Impmon!" Tobias shouted and pulled out a Restoration card. "DigiModify! Restoration activate!" Tobias shouted and slashed the card through his D-Power.
What emerged from the smoke where Impmon hit surprised Tobias, however, as Impmon was holding one of BlueMeramon's fireballs in one hand and a Badaboom Fireball in the other. "I've never tried this with another Digimon's fireball before... Let's see what comes of it!" Impmon said as he combined the fireballs. "PILLAR OF FIRE!" Impmon shouted as he threw the resulting fireball at BlueMeramon, which created a wall of fire that consumed BlueMeramon, but it didn't harm him at all. "Oh crap!" Impmon shouted as he realized this fact. "No problem, Impmon! I'm on it!" Tobias shouted as he pulled out the Omnimon card in his collection. "DigiModify! Omnimon's Garuru Cannon activate!" He shouted as he swiped the card through his D-Power, replacing Impmon's left arm with a smaller version of the Garuru Cannon. "Alright, you overgrown campfire! This is where we fight! This is where YOU DIE!" Impmon shouted and pointed the Garuru Cannon straight as BlueMeramon's chest. "Garuru... CANNON!" He yelled as he fired off a powerful blue blaze from it, which hit BlueMeramon dead center, causing it to dissolve into numerous red particles, which Impmon then proceeded to absorb into himself. "Whew... And I thought that DarkTyrannomon was a lot of data to load... This guy made him look like a Wormmon..." Impmon said before having to sit down, his arm now back to normal. "Well, at any rate, we managed to take down that one without too much of a hassle..." Tobias said as he helped Impmon to his feet, then yawned. "It's way too late to be out and about like this..." He then said as they walked back over to the fire escape and climbed back into Tobias' apartment.
"Well... That was certainly impressive..." Rika said, having been watching the battle between BlueMeramon and Impmon from a distance, along with Renamon. "I'm amazed at how quickly he was able to respond to Flarizamon's Digivolution into BlueMeramon." Renamon added, clearly intrigued by Impmon's power after partnering with Tobias. "It's very interesting that Impmon has gained such power just by allying himself with a Tamer... But I'll bet it's the Tamer himself you're more interested in, Rika." Renamon said, poking fun at Rika. "Sh-shut up, Renamon!" Rika said, protesting the idea before they both left the rooftop.
RE: TAMERS 03 – REVERSAL
END CHAPTER
AN: Yes, I know, I kinda rushed through the Impmon v Renamon battle, but that was mainly to get to the next fight, between Flarizamon / BlueMeramon and Impmon. That, and it gave me an excuse to let Impmon load some more data as a Rookie. Also, we get to see a bit of what Rika thinks of Tobias. X3 Chapters 4 and 5 will be dealing with the IceDevimon fiasco, although things will obviously be different, however, not much will change from the anime in the end of them.