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Chapter 21: Take You Down

"Are you ready guys?" Shou called out to his friends as they all took out their digital devices.

Execute, Spirit Evolution

Lowemon

Mercurymon

Digivolution, Patamon DNA Cross Digivolve to

Shinnenmon, the soul of Belief and Faith

"Alright, we got this thing in the bag." Mercurymon said and started to attack with Lowemon and Shinnenmon.

"Ok, I'm first." TK said and lifted his staff.

Shining Spirit

His staff started to glow and shot a beam towards GranDracmon's head. He flinched a bit but it didn't seem to be having much affect. He just shook off the attack effects and prepared to attack them.

"You'll regret doing that." He glared at them evilly.

Eye of the Gorgon

But before it could make contact, Shou got in front and reflected the attack with the help of the mirrors. Although when he hit GranDracmon with his own attack, it didn't have any effect on him which confused them.

"Why didn't he get any damage?" Shou asked very loudly and frustrated.

"You fools, Eye of the Gorgon doesn't work on me because I am evil and I'm already enslaved by the darkness within me." He then chuckled evilly and attacked them again.

"You aren't hurting any more of my friends." Koichi had had enough of this senseless fighting and his friends getting hurt by these evil punks. "If you're gonna hurt them, you'll have to go through me." TK and Shou were surprised by their friend's actions.

"That's right, same goes for us." Shinnenmon and Mercurymon got up.

"This is a whole new ball game." Mercurymon said as they all got together for their next attack.

****

Takuya was still watching but sensed that something didn't seem right, like one of their friends was in trouble. Auroramon woke up with Gatomon still half asleep. "What's the big idea, I was dreaming about catching micemon." She purred.

"Something's up and I know that for sure." Kari woke up suddenly as she realized that she was the last to awake.

"What wrong? Is anyone hurt?" She crawled over to Takuya's side as he looked over the horizon. Takuya shook his head.

"Well, we aren't sure about that but there's still something wrong." Takuya explained.

"We have to check it out. Come on, let's go." Auroramon said as she digivolved to MagnaAuroramon. "Ok get on and we'll follow the sense that leads to where it leads." She said.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Takuya asked as she rolled her eyes.

"It means that we'll follow the signs of a raging battle and see who's in it." She said smugly and ran off with Kari, Gatomon and Takuya on her back.

"You see anything on your digivice Kari?" Gatomon asked her partner.

"There seems to be 3 figures that way." She pointed to the left. " But the signal seems to be really weak, we have to get there as soon as possible." She said desperately and hoping that her friends are alright.

"Hold on tight." She said and zoomed away as fast as her legs can take her especially with the extra weight on her back.

****

"Are you guys alright?" Lowemon called to his friends who were panting.

"Just peachy." Shou said as he dedigivolve out of fatigue and tried to stand up but was too weak to do so. GranDracmon stood in front of them.

"Aw, are the poor babies getting tired, hahaha, you look pathetic, and to think Minervamon couldn't handle weaklings like yourselves. I have finally proven my worth to my master!" He was so wrapped up in his mind, he didn't even notice the warriors backing off inch by inch.

"So what's the plan?" Shou asked quietly.

"We fall back and regroup." Shinnemon said sneaking over to him and picking him up.

"So what's the plan?"TK asked.

"Well, we've pretty much warn him out so it won't be that difficult to defeat him but..." Koichi said. "We can't in our condition." Patamon finished for him.

"We have to do something though, I can't just sit here like a sitting duck." Shou said but he knew that they were right. They really couldn't do anything by themselves, they needed their friends there with them but they had no idea where they'd be at this time.

Suddenly, the bushes were rustling very violently and Shou crawled away from them and towards TK and the others only to see them getting burned to ashes. "Hey join the party, of your doom!" GranDracmon started to swipe at them and knocking them in every direction, TK really didn't like what he saw when he stood back up.

"Hey, cut that out!" TK yelled getting the evil martial's attention. TK felt like what he did back when he was having his fist fight with Ken while he was the Digimon Emperor.

"What can you do pipsqueak? You and your pipsqueak digimon can't digivolve or do that DNA junk in your condition. You'll be the first to get eliminated." GranDracmon said cockily and started to stalk closer and closer towards TK.

"TK what are you doing, run!" Shou yelled but he just stood his ground.

"TK!" Patamon yelled for concern of his partner and best friend. Koichi just stared at the situation horrified that something terrible is going to happen to TK.

Then out of the blue, a swift flash of a hot red and orange beam came shooting at GranDracmon and distracted him from TK who opened his eyes looking at the sight of GranDracmon covered in hot magma like substance. He found this as an opportunity to get back with Patamon and the others and snuck off.

"What was that?" Shou looked at the direction of the Magma and saw something that made him smile.

"The cavalry has arrived!" Takuya yelled while getting off MagnaAuroramon's back.

"So you finally had back up in." GranDracmon said shaking off the lava. "This'll finally get interesting."

"TK you guys alright?" Kari and Gatomon came towards the beaten up guys. They all nodded.

"We gave you guys a fighting chance." Shou boasted and crossed his arms behind his head. "We wore him down for you, you're welcome."

"Well, thanks, I guess." Kari smiled and told Takuya. "Right, we got this thing in the bag!" He smiled but saw MagnaAuroramon come towards them.

"Yah but you should use BurningGreymon just in case, I'm just saying." She said and Kari agreed with her. They came here on a mission, to digitize at least one of the Shadow Martials and now they have their chance to do that and go home much more sooner.

"Right, whatever you guys say." Takuya took out his D-Tector and motioned to their other friends that they'll handle the rest of the work.

Execute, Beast Spirit Evolution

BurningGreymon

"We're right behind ya." Kari said winking at Gatomon who nodded then turned to GranDracmon who seemed to be waiting to see what these kids could cook up.

Digivolution,

Gatomon, DNA Cross Digivolve to

Lustromon, the soul of Radiance and Brightness

"We're ready to show you what this cat's got! And we're going to take you down!" Gatomon exclaimed from inside Lustromon. She being very feisty today... Kari thought then got in the game and focused on beating GranDracmon and seeing Tai again.

****

A shadowy figure has been observing the battle between GranDracmon and the digidestined and he didn't seem to be pleased with his progress. He vanished out of the tree that he was hiding in and he seemed to be heading towards the dark mountain that Koji and the others were just investigating.

"So you have something to report, DoruGoramon?" Darkdramon asked his group member.

"I bet it was something very bad and we'll have to bail him out of it," Minervamon boasted and crossed her arms behind her head and started to march over a nearby wall. "I guess he's not as great as he thought he was." She laughed and leaned against the wall.

"Silence Minervamon!" Darkdramon called out and she stopped and pouted turning away from the two guys. "Now, continue DoruGoramon." He gave a hand signal for him to continue on with his report on GranDracmon.

"Yes sir, anyways, I have seen GranDracmon split the digidestined up, which I may add was a pretty good idea. They were split but for some reason, he decided to go for the little blond hair's group and they put up a pretty good fight although they had some reinforcements that came out of nowhere."

"Is that so," Darkdramon thought for a moment and even Minervamon seemed to be listening in on what the two were talking about. "Is that all that you've seen or is there more?" he asked his last question.

"Well, the coming digidestined, subject, Takuya Kanbara and Kari Kamiya with partners Auroramon and Gatomon, have arrived and seem at their full energy and have achieved a high point in their digivolving process." He finished and bowed respectfully to his leader and saying that he was finished with his entire report up until that point.

"Wait, how high have they digivolved?" Minervamon rushed over from the wall and faced the Beast Dragon digimon who seemed to be at least 2 heads taller than her.

"BurningGreymon and Lustromon." He said calmly but Minervamon started to flinch with anger as she remembered Lustromon. That little punk of a girl dares to show her face back out here! She thought angrily. She felt a surge of anger building up and she felt like ripping her to shreds after what she did to her.

"um.. Darkdramon, would I be able to go and help our friend GranDracmon?" she put on a fake smile and hoped that he would say yes.

"Minervamon, by the time you get there, they'll be finished with their mission." DoruGoramon explained.

"I agree, so you will not go and try to defeat those two kids." Darkdramon said as if he could read Minervamon like a book and saw behind her fake smile. She pouted again and started to walk away. "Don't worry my dear, you'll get your chance but today will not be the day." He said and smiled evilly and dismissed DoruGoramon but Dorugoramon had another issue that he wanted to bring out.

"Um... sir, what do you want to do about those meddling kids that the Muchomon have gathered and discovered this area, when they meet up with the others, they'll eventually come back and investigate further on in here."

"We'll deal with them later on but for now, we'll focus on whether or not GranDracmon will destroy the present digidestined that have come forth in our presence." She told him and he sent a DemiDevimon to scan the area and record the current battle.

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"Alright, I'm in position boss." The DemiDevimon said into a headset and called back to his master. "And now GranDracmon and the kids are about to engage in battle."

"Excellent, make sure not to miss a single move that they make." Directed Darkdramon.

"You got it boss." He said and took out the camera and made sure to get every single detail.

****

"Koji, wait up!" Nami was still trying to catch up to him since he once again left the alone.

"What is it now?" Koji looked at her annoyed.

"Well, I just thought that we should spend the night somewhere since it is getting dark." She said pointing at the sky and seeing the bright stars.

"I don't think so." Koji said coldly and started to walk away like he usually did. Man this guy is getting on my nerves. Nami thought and asked Tommy if he was ok enough to keep on walking for a while longer. He said that he was old enough to look after himself and he marched on with a proud look on his face.

After a while, they all started to get a bit weary but Koji wouldn't admit that the forest seemed endless and that they needed a break. He was too stubborn for his own good and Nami could see that about him as plain as a red flag in a snow blizzard. She stalked up to him again and asked him again if he wanted to stop but his stubbornness got the better of him and said that he was ok and that they had to keep going.

Nami couldn't believe the attitude of this guy, it was like he was kind and smart but dumbfounded all in one. She was about to stop him and give him a piece of her mind when they heard a familiar voice coming from behind them. Suddenly, a bright light shone in their faces and realized that it was a Trailmon, but not just any Trailmon, it was Franken the Trailmon that he rode in the Trailmon Race.

"Is that Koji? How's it been?" Franken stopped and greeted his old friend. Koji actually smiled when figuring out that it was his old travel buddy.

"Not bad you?" Koji asked back and the two just went on and on. Nami looked a bit confused, so far she's only met Worm and he seemed pretty nice but this one, Koji actually like. She then walked over to him just to ask him a simple question that might show a bit of a compromise between her ideas and Koji's.

"Hey, Franken is it?" She asked and he nodded. "I'm Nami, and you might know Tommy," She motioned. "But anyways, I was kinda hopin' that you would be so kind as to give us a ride towards the end of this forest?" She asked.

"Why not? It's the least I could do for Koji and a sweet human like yourself." He said and they jumped on. Koji then realized what Nami just did, she got her way, for them to take a break and sleep a while, and he got his way, to keep on going so that they didn't waste any time. She's pretty smart now that I think about it. He thought, And it'll make up for her uselessness as Renamon in the future. He gave it a final thought then went to sleep along with Nami and Tommy who were on the other side napping the night away.

****

The night was peaceful, calm and serene but it wasn't long until they were disturbed by a loud beeping sound. Davis started to stir around looking for the source and saw that it was an alarm that was set on his D-Terminal.

"Man, even in the digital world I have to put up with these annoying Alarm Clocks!" He yelled and shut it off.

"Davis, keep it down would you!" Zoe called from the other side of the camp fire, "A girl needs her beauty sleep you know!" She got up, annoyed because she was unable to get back to sleep. Then she noticed that Cody had gotten up as well. "Look what you did Davis, you woke Cody up!" She blamed him.

"What? I didn't set the alarm on!" Davis yelled from the other side.

"What difference does it make, it's your fault that you didn't check it!" She yelled back at him. "Honestly, you're worst then Takuya." She turned away.

Veemon didn't know how to respond to that but he did know that it wasn't good for them to be fighting especially since they were so tired and might attract unwanted attention from unwanted visitors.

"Guys, we shouldn't be yelling at this time of night, digimon are asleep you know." Veemon told them. Zoe nodded but she only did it for the sake of the digimon.

"So what are we going to do now? Nobody seems to want to go back to sleep." She said looking at Cody then to Davis.

"What? It isn't my fault! Anyways, if you guys don't want to go back to sleep then we should just keep on continuing on our journey." He said and looked in the distance and saw that there were a couple of Trailmon tracks.

"Why don't we just chill down there until a Trailmon comes?" He suggested and for once, he and Zoe agreed on something. After all it would be dangerous to walk around without seeing where they're going so they stalked up towards the tracks and it didn't take long for them to see a Trailmon coming their way.

"So there's many different Trailmon's right?" Cody asked Zoe.

"Yup, there's at least 7, that I know anyways." She answered then she looked over to see the Trailmon that was coming over to them. "Hey I know that Trailmon!" She pointed to the pink digimon.

"Hey Franken! How's it been?" She called to the digimon.

(*note: this is a different Franken... you'll find out later)

"Hey kid, you a friend of Koji's?" He asked.

"Yup, do you mind if we catch a ride?" Davis jumped into the conversation.

"Hey I like you, very spunky, climb aboard." He gestured them and opened the door. They all climbed in and said their thanks again before they started to speed up. Zoe and the others snuggled in and decided to try and fall asleep again. I hope we find the others soon. She thought of her friends and hoped that they didn't get involved with GranDracmon who she knew was trying to pick off every group that he finds.

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"Alright you pipsqueaks, I can take you whether I'm up to speed or not!" GranDracmon said.

"Have you heard the latest news? Having three heads was so 3 years ago!" BurningGreymon taunted him and he was dodging the angry digimon who tried to tackle him. "What's the matter buddy? Can't catch a digimon shorter than you? I guess the old saying is true three's a croud." He said laughing and bouncing away.

"What's he doing?" Lustromon looked at Burning Greymon with confusion. MagnaAuroramon then understood his actions as she saw him leave the area with GranDracmon on his tail.

"I guess he's trying to lead him away from Koichi and the others." Auroramon said while dedigivolving and chased after them with Lustromon right behind her.

"Hey Takuya, you're far enough!" Lustromon called out to him and he smirked.

"Well, finally. Now it's time to get serious." He said and flew into the air.

Wildfire Tsunami

He gave the attack everything he had to finish this fast and to prevent him from doing anymore damage.

"Alright, my turn." Lustromon jumped in the air and her tail ring started to glow. She gathered a ball of energy in the palm of her hand as if it was gathered from the rays of the sun.

Gleam Orb

She threw the orb at him and it gave him a whole lot of damage. She was amazed that all of that came from a ball of energy that was the size of the palm of her hand.

"That was awesome!" BurningGreymon ran over to her with Auroramon on his shoulder.

"Thanks but if it wasn't for your attack, we wouldn't have gotten him." She smiled.

"Yah but this isn't over yet." Auroramon pointed to him. GranDracmon was barely standing up but he was up and breathing hard. He seemed really beat up and looked like he couldn't last very long. Auroramon rolled her eyes still disbelieving that he was still willing to fight, he should've just ran away when he had the chance.

Aurora Beam

She gave a small and very feeble beam and when it made contact, GranDracmon fell backwards with a Fractal code surrounding him. Auroramon shot a pathetic look in his direction but it didn't really matter, she had a feeling that he would be the first martial to be taken down by the digidestined kids.

Execute, Slide Evolution

Agunimon

Takuya took out his D-Tector and looked at GranDracmon. "It's time for me to complete our mission and for you to be purified." Takuya said and pointed his D-Tector.

Fractal Code, Digitize

Takuya drew back his D-Tector and then dedigivolved back into him along with Kari and Gatomon.

"That was awesome Takuya!" Kari ran over to her friend and hugged him as a sign that she was glad that they could finally go home.

"Hey it was nothing, I mean, we couldn't have done it without Koichi, TK, Patamon and Shou." He said pulling apart from her.

"Now that you mention it, where are those guys?" Auroramon looked around for them.

"We're over here!" The 3 guys all came over at a slow pace. "So you beat him!" Koichi said congratulating his friends.

"Hey we couldn't have done it without you guys." Kari said hugging TK, happy that he was ok.

"Hold the catnip!" Kari and the guys all looked at Gatomon who had a questioning face on her and she looked at Takuya. "I have a question, why did you have to evolve back into Agunimon in order to scan digimon?" She asked.

Takuya was kind of surprised by the question, he never really thought about it until now. "Well, you see... um... the reason why we slide evolve back to our human spirit is because they um...." Takuya looked at Auroramon who shook her head and looked at Shou but he was obviously a noob to this so she looked at Koichi. "Well, it's probably because our beasts can't hold a D-Tector in their hands so um... we slide back to human forms so that we could grip our devices." He answered uncertainly.

"Makes sense." Gatomon said and the 3 guys sighed with relief.

"Ok so we can go back home right?" Shou asked. TK nodded but brought up the situation that they weren't reunited with the others yet so they can't leave until they find eachother." He explained.

"So how do we find them?" Takuya asked.

"We keep searching!" Auroramon said stating the obvious. "That's the best plan that I ever heard." Gatomon said sarcastically.

Patamon giggled. "I think Veemon is rubbing off on her." He, Gatomon and the others laughed but Auroramon didn't find it funny. "Can we just find them and leave!" She yelled and they agreed and walked off as the sun started to come up.

****

Tai and the others woke up the next morning and saw that Jun was in their tent. Tai was the first to notice then woke up Izzy who woke up Matt. Matt really seemed to be cranky that morning since he blew his top that caused the whole forest to wake up.

"Jun! What are you doing in our tent!" He yelled, that got her attention.

"I'm up, where's the fire!" She got up and stood in a karate stance with both arms in the air. Man she has some brain. Izzy and Tai thought as they sweatdropped.

"Jun, what's wrong with your tent that made you move in with us?" Tai took her outside before Matt murdered her.

"Well, you see, last night it started to rain, the wind started to blow harder, the branch that was holding the tent up broke and a random bear came out of nowhere and grabbed the tent cover and I got soaked." She said cheerfully as if it didn't bother her at all.

"A bear huh?" Tai wondered if it was Gabumon that she saw last night. He left her with Izzy and the guys and left to find Agumon and them.

"Agumon, where are you guys?" He looked around then found them munching on something that looked like a live fish.

"Where did you get that?" Tai looked at them suspiciously.

"We got in on that branch over there that was hanging from a rope." Tentomon said.

"Is that so?" Tai looked even more suspicious. Then he heard Matt yelling even louder than he did before. Tai and the digimon exchanged glances and ran back to camp. "What's wrong Matt?" Tai looked around for something horribly wrong.

"We don't have food." Mr. Ishida looked into an empty bag. Tai seemed to recognize that bag. Agumon... He said under his breath. Agumon hid further behind a tree.

"so what are we going to do?" Izzy asked.

"We'll have to scavenge around for our own food." Mr. Ishida said wiping sweat off his forehead.

"Yay." The guys said miserably as Jun was off in her own world cheering her head off.

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