Trade Up

I Don't Own Digimon or Naruto!

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Naruto Uzumaki

01/02 Digital World

He sighs as Gatomon woke after they gathered around the ice shard that contains the entity that had focus on attacking his partner. He feels a bit better now that the white Digimon has recovered, although considering how easily Gatomon was knocked out, it still might be for the best for him to continue to guard Kari. It wasn't as though he couldn't help Dorugamon from a distance like he did with that ice attack.

Gatomon leaps out of Kari's arms and walks up to the shard. He feels Dorugamon land to his right and he glances at his purple furred partner. He flashes an approving grin to the winged champion, Dorugamon seems to straighten slightly, clearly feeling proud of himself.

"Any idea of what that is?" Gatomon asks them. "All I know is that it isn't a Digimon." The white cat Digimon says as Gatomon touches the surface of the shard.

"Don't know but I think we should back up before that ice vanishes, releasing it." He says, he's never seen a card's effect last so long before and could only assume that it'll vanish in due time. "I really don't think being so close to whatever that is, is a good idea." He adds.

"Don't know, seems pretty solid to me." Gatomon says and even taps the surface of the ice shard with a claw. "See?"

"Maybe I should blast it and hope to delete it in one go..." Dorugamon muses while he moves to stand before Kari. Out of the corner of his eye, he watches as Dorugamon takes a deep breathe.

"Wait! Why not wait for somebody else to arrive? I'm sure they'll be interest in seeing this entity up close." Kari says. "I can message them now." The young woman says and he glances at the Digidestine and native of these two worlds.

"I can't argue with that... Some reinforcements would help." He admits after Dorugamon and him share a silent look for a few seconds. His current champion winged partner and friend nods, folding his wings.

Gatomon shrugs and begins to circle the ice shard as Kari takes out her D-terminal. He decides to pick out another ice attack card to refreeze the entity when it looks as though the shard is about to break apart. 'Which one would be better to use? One of IceDevimon's attacks? Or Vikemon's Artic Blizzard?'

"There, its done." Kari says as he puts the two IceDevimon's tactic change cards away. "Now to wait for a reply." The more experienced chosen says while closes the screen of the D-terminal.

"Sounds like that battle is still raging." Dorugamon ways as his partner glances off to where loud explosions seem to be going off, though not as much as before. "..." His friend and partner glances from the shard to the sound.

"If I climb a tree, I might get a clear look of what's going on." He says after a few seconds. He tucks the Vikemon card into a pocket before walking over to a tree. With a bit of chakra, he leaps and catches a low branch. With ease, he pulls himself up and continues to climb until he finds the thinnest branches.

"Wow... Guess that thing wasn't the first to wake." He calls down as he stares at this huge entity that is under attack from flying champions. "If that gets out of that shard, I think we'll need an Ultimate." He says.

"Holy crap!" He exclaims at the sight of WarGreymon joining the battle after deciding that they should just delete their entity so that they can join those fighting the giant entity since it appears that they're losing.

"What? What's going on?" Kari asks and he replies, "WarGreymon has joined that battle over there! Not that it seems to make a difference since they're still don't seem to stand a chance with it! I guess their entity has grown use to the various stages."

He then leaps down and glances over at Kari. "Nobody else in the group has replied, have they?" He asks and Kari nods. "Looks like we'll have to destroy this one and then join them. But first..."

He takes out that Vikemon card and slashes it through the card reading slit upon his Digivice after unclipping it from a belt loop. "Arctic Blizzard!" Dorugamon shouts and within seconds, the surrounding area suddenly becomes freezing. The ice shard becomes covered in snow, causing their view of the entity within to come hidden.

"Power Metal!" Dorugamon snarls and within seconds, the ice shard glows before becoming little bits of data. The entity that had been trapped breaks apart as it lies upon the ground until it leaves what appears to be a paper cut out of a person with the kanji of body upon it. Gatomon picks it up before they begin to head towards the other battle field, Dorugamon walking with them instead of flying over head.

"Kari! Gatomon! Where are you?" They hear TK shouting after they have travelled a mile towards that site.

"TK? We're down here!" Kari calls out after stopping and waving her hands above her head. It wasn't long before they spot Pegasusmon in the sky with two riders.

The flying golden digital horse lands a few feet from Kari. He watches as TK gets off of Pegasusmon's back. He watches as the Digidestine of Hope gives Kari a hug before glancing at them to be sure they were fine.

"What's going on? Naruto said he saw WarGreymon fight another strange entity and was losing." Kari says, it's clear that she's worried and he didn't blame her, after all, that one they're fighting had transformed to look like a dragon.

"He's leading it around in the air. Nothing seems to faze it. I think we'll be retreating as soon as we join the others." TK explains. "It keeps absorbing surrounding trees. If we keep this up, this whole forest will be absorbed."

"Frankly, we couldn't handle another one showing up." TK finishes and Pegasusmon nods in agreement. Kari, Gatomon, Dorugamon, and him all share looks.

"Ah... We encountered another one..." Kari trails off and TK seems to pale. "But it's gone now! Naruto and Dorugamon handled it without any problem." The Digidestine of Light explains and the other two 'blonds' stare at Dorugamon and him.

"We used an ultimate and mega attack to deal with it." He explains. "Never expected the first attack to remain so effective as it did. I thought for sure it would have vanished within five minutes after it got trapped." He adds and Kari nods in agreement.

"So you're a mega?" Pegasusmon asks and his partner shakes his head. "Still a champion." The dark purple Digimon replies.

"Naruto swiped some card through his Digivice. Then he slashed another card and Dorugamon used another ice attack." Kari says. "His Digivice is very different from ours." The young woman adds, shaking her head slightly, he's not sure if its out of disbelief or what.

"Koichi had shown up in the form of a black armour wearing lion." Pegasusmon pipes in when TK opens his mouth to say something. "It I guess other chosen children have different Digivices for a reason." The armour Digimon adds.

'Oh yea, out of the native chosen, only Kari was around when it was explained about how Koichi and Tommy can transform into Digimon.' He admits as TK sighs. "Maybe we can continue this after we rejoin the others?" He suggests, he didn't want to explain how his Digivice works more then he has too.

In the end, he rises upon Dorugamon's back with Gatomon while Kari rides upon Pegasusmon's back with TK. He grips the white mane around Dorugamon's neck rather hard, this was the first time he's ever flow upon his partner's back. Gatomon is in Dorugamon's arms as the other champion is still rather small, as in rookie small.

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Dorugamon

'That's one big dragon entity.' He thinks as he banks to his left to avoid WarGreymon and the foe hot on the mega's tail. He ducks down as the tail of the dragon entity snaps back and forth, he notices that Pegasusmon hadn't moved fast enough to get higher into the air to escape the tail's wake. The flying digital horse wasn't thrown much in the wave wake from what he can see.

They land down by the group of native tamers, called Digidestine, and the two Legendary chosen. He feels his passenger get off of his back, he helps by sitting down, causing his partner to fall back while Gatomon leaps out of his forearms. He watches as the natives crowd around Pegasusmon while his blond partner, Naruto, moves to stand to his right, an arm draped upon his neck.

"Glad to see that you're ok, Koichi. Tommy." His partner and friend says to the pair of fellow dimensional travelers as the two walk over to greet them.

Gatomon finally leaves to rejoin her partner. He can hear Kari begin to speak of what happened with the entity they encountered. As expected, Tai and Davis were the most alarmed out of that group. He feels Naruto tense up a bit as Kari begins to speak of how the Digivice belonging to his partner displayed a window from his view point but had granted him ice attacks by slashing a card through the it.

Koichi and Tommy listened and didn't comment upon anything they heard. He grew bored with discussing this when Kari was asked, for the third time, about the holo viewing screen and upon the appearance of the entity they destroyed. He glances over to the other partner Digimon, noting how worn they look.

MetalGarurumon fires off the occasional attack at the dragon entity. He's glad that he hadn't fired off any attacks until that ice one that encased the entity. He could only guess quickly that particular entity would have grown immune to his attacks and any other attacks his partner could have used viva slashing cards through the Digivice.

His attention returns to the group when he heard mention of them leaving this part of the island.

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Henry Wong

Tamer Real World

He stares out of the living room window as white bits of hail continues to rain down from the dark grey storm clouds that are hanging over the city. Terriermon, he's still a bit unsure what to make of the fact that Digimon were real, had mentioned that this storm seems off but the rookie doesn't know why it does, only that it does. 'Doesn't help that we can't even get a radio signal.'

"You're turn Henry!" His baby sister Suzie says to him as she tries to hand him the dice. He takes the dice upon glancing down at the game board. Within seconds of shaking the two dice in his hands, he gently tosses them upon the board and they come up as a two and a five.

"I hope your father's ok..." He hears his mom say with a sigh as he moves his game piece about the spaces. He doesn't say anything, just glances off to the door of his room, he could only guess at how hungry his partner was but couldn't think of a reason to take food into his room at this time.

'I hope this storm goes away. I rather not have to try and explain Terriermon to my family...' He think to himself as he suppresses a shudder at the mental image of the happy, go lucky Digimon strapped to a lab table and about to be dissected in the name of science.

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Ryo Akiyama

Tamer Digital World

"It's huge!" He says with a bit of awe and uncertainty at the massive beast that seems to be resting in the eye of the storm. Cyberdramon just hovers at the edge of the eye, the snow continues to pile up on the outer edge of the eye, causing it to be rather easy to distinguish the eye of the storm from the still raging storm.

He takes his D-Arc and waits for the information concerning this Digimon to appear as a holo over the screen. It wasn't long before that holo to appear but it takes a few minutes before it finally finishes scanning the offending Digimon. The image of the sleeping Digimon is shown with the Digimon standing upright, displaying the Digimon's canine like head with yellow eyes and row of pale blue stripes upon the Digimon's head like a badger's head.

Hyookaimon

Level: Beast Hybrid

Attribute: Variable

Attacks: Summon Hail, Flash Freeze, Icy Needles, and Snow Shape

Beast Man type.

"Hybrid? What does that mean?" He wonders upon reading that part of the description that his Digivice provides. "Not the most helpful description but at least we know he focuses on ice type attacks." He admits as he presses a button to dismiss the profile that his Digivice has provided them.

Cyberdramon lands within the non-snow covered part of the field and allows him to get down from his perch upon his partner's arm. He takes out a few cards from his deck and begins to think of which cards would be best to use against this furry beast man. He's confident that if they finish this guy off quickly, they won't have to deal with finding out just how powerful a beast hybrid is.

He goes through his deck to find the right card combo. He swipes the three through his Digivice and watches as Cyberdramon becomes affected with the power provided by the three cards. With a snarl, his dragon man partner charges aflame at the massive beast man.

The flames covering Cyberdramon leap from the ultimate Digimon to the beast hybrid. This causes the sleeping Digimon to bellow out in pain as the area affected by the fire becomes a burnt bald spot. With a throaty growl and not even getting to its feet, Hyookaimon waves an arm and sends Cyberdramon flying into the snow bank that rings the area.

As his partner recovers, the massive furry Digimon is up upon its feet and glaring at him. He steels himself as he expects to be sent flying through the air. As the Digimon pulls an arm back, something slams into the beast Digimon's back.

As Hyookaimon twists about to grab the offending Digimon, he spies a Leomon clinging to the back. He couldn't see the Leomon's sword but assumes that the sword has been stabbed into the elemental Digimon's back.

"You're reign of icy terror ends here!" The noble champion declares as Cyberdramon fires off an Erase Claw, distracting the massive size Digimon from its attempts to grab Leomon. "Fist of the Beast King!" The lion man Digimon declares upon climbing up the back of Hyookaimon, the attack sends Leomon blasting off of the giant's shoulders while a smaller bald spot can be seen from where Leomon's attack had connected.

"Thanks." He says after Leomon lands a few feet from where he's standing. The champion Digimon glances his way, giving him a brief nod before charging at the hybrid Digimon who's busy trying to bat Cyberdramon out of the sky using Icy Needles.

Moves to stand in another spot as he doesn't want Hyookaimon to change tactics and focus on attacking him in order to cause either of the two Digimon attacking it to go on the defensive trying to protect him. He continues to move around, trying to stay out of Hyookaimon's range of sight as he slashes a card to boost his partner's health. He'll need to be careful about what cards he uses to help Cyberdramon as that first combo had consumed a rather large chunk of his partner's energy and his energy boosting cards were in his pack as he didn't think he'd need them since his partner is an ultimate and the chances of facing off against other ultimates were fairly low.

"Summon Hail!" The five story tall Digimon finally bellows and the overhead clouds darken with rumbles of thunder echoing about the air. With a rather loud pearl of thunder, hail the size of basket balls begin to rain down from the sky.

"Ryo!" He hears Cyberdramon bellow as he begins to evade the huge balls of hail. In the end, his partner pushes him into the snow bank.

Although it's freezing within that ring, he is safe from the hail that's raining down. He watches as Cyberdramon and Leomon try to evade the hail while attacking Hyookaimon. The hail doesn't seem to do much harm to the five story monster but to the smaller Digimon, the hail did, at times, cause Leomon to become dazed and although Cyberdramon's helmet offered some protection, it didn't stop his partner from also becoming dazed.

He assumes that it's only a matter of time before the hail takes its toll upon the champion and ultimate, causing them to become unconscious. Making it easy for this beast hybrid to delete them. With a frown and shivering, he begins to go through his deck, looking for something to at least protect his partner from the pounding hail raining down.

He finds WarGreymon's Shield and without a second thought, swipes it through his Digivice. Within seconds, the shield appears in Cyberdramon's hands. And then his partner mimics some comic book character from the Americas and throws the shield like a frisbee at the enemy Digimon's head.

The hail vanishes as the five story Digimon staggers backwards, the shield falling to the ice covered ground. "Cyber Nail!" His partner snarls and the grey colour dragon man's attacks hits about the eyes, causing the huge Digimon to fall upon its butt.

Leomon charges and when the champion Digimon appears again, it is with his sword. His partner picks up the shield and once more throws it at Hyookaimon's head, knocking the Digimon out. As the shield vanishes into particles of data, the five story Digimon shrinks until the Digimon is about six feet in height.

The raging snow storm seems to let up and the snow all around him suddenly transforms into data particles and the temperature warms. Digi-Gnomes appear and circle overhead as the particles of data drift upwards. After a time, a few of the laughing creatures move towards the hybrid, causing the furry Digimon to lift up.

Suddenly a ring of data appears and upon that rotating ring, an odd looking statue. Then, suddenly, the statue comes shooting towards him only to meet a glowing shield. As the statue tries to get through, his partner snags the statue and the shield vanishes.

He glances around and finds that only the exhausted Leomon remains upon the wet sand. The Digi-Gnomes have vanished.

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