DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon, but I do own the plot, and DRAGOON.

Digimon Continuity

Quest for the Digimon

Chapter 9

Digivolution Trouble

:. Digital Plane - Desert Plane

01:46 PM JST

Henry quivered. Pinning him to the ground with its paws, was a black three-headed dog. One head was baring his fangs at him, the other two were sniffing him.

"You do not appearrr to be grrreen. Norrr arrre you a Digimon. Who arrre you?" growled Cerberumon, emphasizing the growl on the various words.

Oh no. He can't be talking about Terriermon, can he? Henry would have let out a sigh if he wasn't in his current situation right now. Great, even when he is not around, he can still cause trouble for me.

The black Digimon growled again.

"I-I-I aaammm... a human?" Henry trembled. This Digimon could easily make him a Digi-snack.

Air blew out of the creature's nostrils. Not very pleasant air.

"Ha. You are one of those Tamers, aren't you?"

"Yeeeaaah, what isss this about?" He did not like the tone Cerberumon was using, especially him growling out the words.

"YOU! What have you done?" the towering Digimon said. "You have tainted the pure and innocent souls of the Digimon!"

"I-I-I... have done nothing of that!" Henry quickly closed his mouth. Despite having some way gained his courage, yelling at the Digimon will only increase his chances of getting eaten.

"Silence!" the Digimon roared, literally.

Henry tried to back away, only to remember that he was pinned to the ground.

"You have contaminated the pureness of Digimon by invading our bodies! You have corrupted the Digimon! I shall now deliver your punishment... ... DELETION!"

Come on, Terriermon! Where are you when I need you? Henry silently prayed.

Someone must have heard his prayer, because at the moment Cerberumon's jaws approached, a loud explosion was heard.

Cerberumon quickly averted its attention to the source of the sound, while Henry thanked the beings above.

The air was abruptly filled with cursing. The source of it turned out to be none other than... (I am sure you can guess by now right? No? Come on, only one person curses like her... never mind)... Rika.

Henry saw (or rather heard her) before attempting to get her to notice him and the dangerous creature on him. This was not an easy task as Henry could not talk for fear of drawing the dog to him.

Rika got out of the hole that she made crashing into the ground, and started a stream of words that would frustrate even most patient of people.

I don't believe it! I forgot that I was going to crash into the ground! Of all the things! First I forgot about the falling part, and then I forgot I was going to free fall to the ground!... ... ... Wait, isn't this the part where we... Rika paused. I run my life from the data streams?

Rika stopped her thoughts and looked up... to see a Digimon her knowledge identified as Cerberumon, one possible evolution of Dobermon in the card game. The latter being the one who provided them the power to Biomerge in the Real World.

She noticed a familiar looking blue-haired boy under the hell beast. The entire scene looked awkward. She could have made a joke about it if the Digimon wasn't staring at her with all three heads that appeared to be... ... smiling.

Why on earth would I see this as the first thing to see when I land in the Digital World?

"So Brainiac, what are you doing? Getting licked by a three-headed dog?"

Henry desperately wanted to palm his forehead or slap her. Neither was possible as his hands were pinned and ... you would not want to slap Rika.

"I am insulted to hear that you think of us Digimon as the mindless creatures present in your world, human." One of his heads sniffed the air. "You have one of the scents of a traitor Digimon on you. You must be one of the Tamers."

Rika nodded, smiling apparently that she was so famous. Henry forgot to roll his eyes. She was in a losing situation and Henry doubted agreeing with her to-be-eater would do any good... if she knew what she was doing.

Rika kept nodding, until she registered the use of the word traitor.

"Wait, you said traitor, didn't you?"

"Glad you are keeping on." was Cerberumon's answer.

Rika pondered this. "If you meant the Devas, you don't have to worry, we took care of them for you."

The Digimon somehow turned frustrated and furious. Not a good combination. "You dare gloat about your victory over the Devas! It was only because you outnumbered them three to one that you managed victory! You have no honour! I will ensure that you are next, after I finish with this one!!"

The centre head returned to Henry. At that moment, Rika realized with horror that they were not heroes of the Digital World. That Cerberumon was not a nice welcome guest, but an enemy that was about to pound Henry to little more than a pulp.

"Oh no."

Cerberumon's head returned to him. Henry turned away from the saliva dripping from the Digimon's mouth.

"Riiiikaaaa." he said, not averting his eyes from the mouth. "Help."

Rika was rooted to the ground. Her mind was blank. No ideas came. Renamon... I need you... please...

An instant later, a voice answered in her head. Ask and you shall receive. Rika felt her heart lift. The world was suddenly right again. Renamon was back.

"RENAMON!"

A yellow blur hit head-on to Cerberumon, throwing him off Henry.

Cerberumon flew to the ground, but got up immediately, ready to attack.

Renamon stood in front of both the fallen Henry and Rika.

"Couldn't cut it any closer, huh?" Henry snapped.

"Shut it, Brainiac. You should be thanking that Renamon was here to save you..."

"While you stand down there chatting with the one about to eat him!" another voice said.

No. "Please tell me I am hearing things."

"Nope you are not!" the annoying voice continued. Out of the blue, a red dino charged into the scene, halting just before he hit any of the three.

"Henry! Rika!" the red dino said elatedly, and tried to crash them both in a hug.

"Get off, Guilmon!" Henry said angrily. "I want to kill Terriermon!"

"What Brainiac said," said Rika.

"What? Why?" the said Digimon exclaimed while jumping off Guilmon's back to hide behind him, along with Impmon, MarineAngemon and Lopmon. It seemed that the dino had been turned into a Digi-taxi.

The dino backed away and looked at them with curious eyes. Totally ignoring the current conversation, he asked: "Where is Takato?"

"Pineapple Head! How dumb can you get? You don't see him anywhere, do ya?"

Henry didn't even hear Guilmon, because he lurched at the dog-bunny, and engulfed the Digimon in a hug.

The shocked bunny did not do anything. One minute his Tamer was wanting to kill him for no reason, the next the latter is crashing the air out of him.

Renamon rolled her eyes at the sight. Humans are weird.

She, however, made sure to keep her attention on the black Digimon.

"Traitor!" he yelled at Renamon. "You would let yourself be humiliated like this?!"

Calmly, Renamon answered. "No. That is just an overly emotional human."

"You have betrayed our kindness! You shall pay dearly!"

"We shall see."

Cerberumon leapt at her, fangs bared. She jumped into the air to dodge the attack.

"Diamond Storm!" Shards materialized in front of her and she launched them at the dog.

Cerberumon was expecting the attack. He leapt to the side and unleashed his attack.

"Hell Fire!" A blast of hellish fire was shot at Renamon. It melted her Diamond Storm attack to liquid. Renamon twisted in the air and landed smoothly on the ground.

The hell dog leapt at her again, this time slashing the three ridiculously long claws at her.

Meanwhile, Henry released Terriermon, and started to scold the bunny for not coming to his aid.

Rika thought this to be a bad time and voiced it. "Hey, Brainiac! As much as I enjoy the little show you have there. I would prefer it to come after the fight."

Henry looked at her for a moment, and nodded his approval. "Alright Terriermon. This is your chance to make up for what you did not do."

"Bring it on, Henry!"

Rika and Henry simultaneously drew random cards, and focused on them.

After a few seconds, Guilmon's curiosity overtook him. "What are you doing?"

"Pineapple Head! Gush, you are dumb... they are trying to Digivolve their Digimon friends to Ultimate here."

"Shut up, Impmon, I am trying to concentrate!" snapped Rika.

After another few more seconds wasted, where only the sounds of Renamon dishing it out with Cerberumon could be heard, neither of the cards turned blue.

"What is wrong? We used to be able to do this just fine!" an exasperated Henry said.

"Maybe because the Catalyst has already released the powers of the Shining Digivolution, that is why you are unable to activate the blue cards, which draw that power from the Catalyst." Lopmon intelligently replied.

"Then what are we going to do?" Rika asked no one in particular.

"Why don't you just Biomerge?!" Terriermon said.

Why didn't I think of that before?... In fact, I don't believe that the bunny is be smart enough to even think.

"Well?" Terriermon looked expectantly to Henry.

Henry raised an eyebrow. "We can't just biomerge like this."

"Why not?"

"Our size could flatten everyone if we don't watch where we step. Also, what if one of our missiles miss and hit our friends? Or what if..."

"In other words," Rika stopped Henry from elaborating. "You can't biomerge."

"Aw man!"

Thank heavens. If the bunny was in control of that oversized... well... bunny, Rika shivered on remembering the not-so-sane SaintGargomon during the fight with the D-Reaper. ...it will be the end of both worlds.

Renamon evaded another Hell Fire attack. Suddenly, a rough voice was heard. "Desolation Claw!"

Energy slashes that seemingly appeared out of nowhere headed straight for Cerberumon.

The Digimon skillfully jumped into the air, and came down with a struggling Cyberdramon in its mouth.

Renamon gasped. Not many could pull Cyberdramon from the sky like that.

Then, Rika's voice was heard. "Renamon!"

The yellow vixen looked to her Tamer, to see her holding out the D-Power. Understanding passed. Renamon readied herself.

"BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!"

Cyberdramon threw Cerberumon off him and countered with a Cyber Nail attack.

"Now what's wrong?" Terriermon inquired.

Rika was at a loss for words. So was Renamon.

Not being to activate the blue cards was one thing... ... not being able to biomerge was a whole other problem.

PLOT TWIST!

I had this on my mind for ages. So I decided to skip a little and head straight for the action.

Now that the Tamers are unable to Biomerge and digivolve their Digimon to Ultimate, only Cyberdramon is left that is able to evenly match Cerberumon. I thought that this would add an interesting effect to the story, as well as single it out from most fics. The Tamers must rediscover how to regain their ability to biomerge and find a new way to allow their Digimon to reach Ultimate.

Please review! See you in the next chapter!