Digimon Generations
Created by: Frabkie Holzwarth
Written by: Mike Reynolds
Episode 18: The Arrival of the Golden Knight!
Opening: Precious Time, Glory Days by Psychic Lover
Insert: Tagiru Chikara by Psychic Lover
"No," Sasuke mumbled, the shocked stare still etched onto his face. "Why? Why did she have to die?"
"I needed to set an example, give you all a little preview," Grimmon said with sadistic undertone. All he could do was smirk at his triumph over the weak angel.
The rest of Team Boost Soul shared in Sasuke's horrified stare. They thought there was a chance. They believed that they defeated the devil. But, Patrick began to realize that Grimmon was toying with all of them. Now, more than ever, it was apparent just how hopeless their situation was. But, Patrick knew that the Team had to keep fighting. To lay down and die while the Digital World depended on them was not something he could allow himself to do.
"Darcmon," Sasuke mumbled. "I-I'm so-sorry..."
"Sasuke, there will be time to grieve, but we have a situation on our hands!" Patrick shouted to his leader, trying to break through the barriers of sorrow in Sasuke's mind. "We have to keep trying! We'll die otherwise!"
"Oh, you'll die anyway," Grimmon said, approaching all of Team Boost Soul slowly. "But, if you want to make this fun for me, then by all means. Continue to fight. I do enjoy a good show."
"Sasuke!" Emma shouted to Sasuke. "We need you! Please!"
"Let the boy alone. After all, that was a lot to take in for him, from what it looks like." Grimmon was enjoying their fear. It was intoxicating to see how he had all the cards, while Team Boost Soul thought they held a fighting chance.
"If he doesn't wanna step up to the plate, then I will," Minato advanced forward ahead of the team, glaring at Grimmon while his hands balled up into fists. "We don't need this pathetic show to get us through this fight."
"Shut up, Minato!" Patrick shouted. "He will come around, in the mean time, we just have to focus on fighting off Grimmon ourselves!"
"Are you so sure? He's acting like he lost his best friend right now, and we can't afford that!"
"Boys, boys!" Grimmon yelled over to Patrick and Minato. Ginryumon and Sangloupmon looked to both Minato and Patrick as well as the approaching Grimmon. "Come now, you all can bicker in the after life. Right now...we have something to carry on."
"You're...not...gonna...win..." Ronald said quietly to Grimmon. But, the devil merely ignored him in favor of Patrick and Minato.
Patrick looked to Grimmon again, deciding that they had to get back to focusing on the impending fight. The sun blazed over the opposing parties fiercely. Everyone on Team Boost Soul could feel sweat pouring off of them, but the fight was more important than getting out of the desert. Patrick was determined to have everyone make it out, he needed to be considering Sasuke was out of commission right now. Indaina made his way ahead of Patrick and Minato, his legs shaking viciously once he was solely facing Grimmon.
"We're...go-go-gonna beat you!" Indaina said through his stutters. "Gwappamon, Poison Hurricane!"
Not one to waste any time, Gwappamon spinned another disc on his head, and then threw it. There was a tremendous force of winds to follow and carry the now poisonous disc toward Grimmon. Everyone else took this as a signal to finally begin the next round.
"Sangloupmon, Sticker Blades!"
"Ginryumon, Tekkoujin!"
"Kiwimon, Bullet Drill!"
The attacks, as they had before, rushed for Grimmon. Grimmon made no attempt to dodge them, the smug look on his face communicated that he had no need to fear them. In the blink of an eye, a dark beam was emitted from his cannon arm just before the attacks made contact. The beam burst forward for Sangloupmon, who was knocked into the sand again. The rest of the team saw Sangloupmon go down again, and knew that they had to keep pushing if they were going to defeat this beast.
"Give it up, all of you!" Grimmon shouted. "It's pointless! Don't you all see? I've won!"
"Wisemon," Mikey said with especially wide eyes. "They can't win...there's no way."
"Not unless Sasuke gets himself into gear like he should have already," Wisemon retorted to Mikey. "It all rides on him. He's going to have to make a choice. Accept defeat, or find another way."
"How can he find a way when they have that behemoth to deal with!?"
"He knows he has to stand against Grimmon. He's afraid to do it, though, after losing that poor digimon. And who could blame him? Trying to stand against a beast like that? Someone that was a brother to the great Chronomon? It's a lot to rise to. But, Chronomon chose him for a reason, perhaps more so than the rest of the team."
"You're so set in your ways, you know that? I think we're all goners here."
"And you'll see why I'm so set in them soon enough."
There erupted another Dark Angel Blast from Dobermon, but the attack was slashed away, and soon Dobermon: Holy Mode was as well. All the digimon littered the desert floor, all knowing that they were running out of power. Despite their best efforts, the morale each of them had was dwindling, fading just as Darcmon had. In their eyes, it was only a matter of time before the clock struck midnight, and they would all be forced to face the maker. Each passing second was another one closer to the inevitable end. How long could they continue to go on? That was the real question of the hour.
"Is that it!?" Grimmon shouted loud enough for them all to hear. "Surely...someone can bring me a small challenge. Or am I wrong about that?"
"Sasuke!" Raptordramon yelled to him, rushing over to his fallen friend. "I need you here. We need to beat this guy!"
"Raptordramon...we can't. It's hopeless...I failed all of you."
"That's not the Sasuke I remember. He was stronger than this. He wouldn't let his friends die right in front of him!"
"I can't stop him...we can't stop him. He's going to win no matter what we do."
"Sasuke...please...we have to try."
"I..." Sasuke was soon quiet. He didn't know what to say to try to make Raptordramon understand that they were done for. It was foolish to put up opposition to the impending doom. That's all Sasuke felt. Why try? Why bring on more pain? It was a foolish endeavor.
"He's going to have to stand up to him," Wisemon said to Mikey, his eyes focused solely on the fallen leader. "I don't know what it's going to take to make that happen...I'm afraid it would be something just as drastic as what Grimmon did to Darcmon."
"I hope you're wrong on that one."
Sasuke's heart was weighed down by an immeasurable amount of sorrow. No one understood the impact that Darcmon's vicious death had on his mind. He was not used to experiencing failure, and in seeing just what failing could do, he found himself unable to want to continue to fight. Grimmon got to him where it hurt the most, and now he was taunting his fellow Team members. But, Sasuke dared not lift himself up only to fail them again. Way he saw it, if he stayed down, the end might have been painless for all of them.
"Guess I'll just have to generate some excitement, then!" Grimmon then rushed for Raptordramon. As the beast turned to face the devil, he was slashed and knocked to the far right, landing in the sand as the rest of his friends had. Grimmon then looked down to Sasuke. A small chuckle of victory escaped him as he looked to the other Team Boost Soul members, and then down to Sasuke again.
"Look at you, wasted and watching others gasp for air," Grimmon began. "You're so pathetic. You'd sooner lay down in defeat and watch as everyone in front of you dies...than lift even a finger against me. I'm not objecting. I'll need some energy for when my rule over this place begins. I just wanted to thank you personally. I'm not quite ready for all of this to end, so I'm going to have some more fun with your friends' digimon...and then I will kill them. Then I'll mutilate your friends in front of you. The blood will look so nice when it's shed over the sands of this desert, don't you agree?"
Sasuke kept his gaze aimed for the sand, but he soon found that he was looking to his friends. Can you do it? Can you sit by idly and just let them die? A thought shot through his mind. C'mon, surely you're not going to just stay there and watch them all die. Aren't you the one that swore that you would save the Digital World? Doesn't that include them? Some part of Sasuke's thoughts was trying to motivate him. He needed to fight, the teen understood that. He did not want to let everyone down without at least saying that he tried. To allow Grimmon to go unopposed while he killed everything Sasuke held dear went against everything the teen stood for. Wisemon said that I had to find a way, didn't he? I have to do this. I have to beat him...no matter what it takes. I'm not going to let Darcmon down, I'm not going to let them down. I couldn't bear the thought of that before I died.
"Grimmon," Sasuke began quietly, slowly beginning to stand up. Grimmon towered over Sasuke, but the teen was not going to let that get to him. "I've stood by long enough. I'm not going to let you win. I'm going to stop you..."
"You, stop me? Well, that's more like it. That's what I came out here for," Grimmon's appetite needed quenching again at the words of Sasuke.
"Yes...I'm going to stop you!" Sasuke shouted at the top of his lungs. The rest of Team Boost Soul had to look to their leader once they heard him shout. They noticed that his D-Booster began to glow just as it had before for a digivolution. Wisemon wanted to smile, he knew what was about to happen. "I'm going to stop you once and for all!
(Insert: Tagiru Chikara)
Raptordramon, Super Digivolve!"
A large beam of light shot off in a flash toward the sky. The rest of the Team did not know what was going on, but Patrick took a step closer toward Sasuke and Grimmon. Emma looked to Raptordramon, seeing that the beam of light rushing for him. The beam of light soon formed a ring that spun slowly around Raptordramon, and the beast soon tilted his head upward, his legs spread in different directions in the sand. His wings stretched out as far as they would go. Soon, Raptordramon exploded, and in his place appeared a ball of pure energy that looked like a smaller version of the sun. Everyone stared in anticipation, wondering what was going to happen next. Grimmon looked to the ball of energy himself, and even slithered toward it.
"No! Black Blast!" Grimmon shot another blast of energy from his cannon toward the opposing ball of energy, and when he saw it was engulfed, there escaped a sigh of relief. Yet, he was not fortunate this time. The ball of energy remained untouched and shining brighter than before.
Everyone waited to see what would appear from the ball of energy, if anything. Their patience was rewarded, though unexpectedly, when there appeared an armored, golden arm stained red around the elbow and shoulder. Then, there was a leg that sprouted from the energy, stained the same gold with parts of red behind the gold. At the end of the leg were strong, golden claws. There soon came a tattered cape behind the ball of energy, which first appeared as mere energy, but soon became more solid and stained blue. Just as the cape burst from the energy, a creature's head emerged from the ball, looking like a falcon's head. Behind the head appeared two long horns that stretched far upward. The creature's abdomen then appeared, looking slimmer than what Raptordramon was. When the creature stood before Grimmon, he appeared a golden knight. From one of the two sheathes attached to his abdomen, the creature pulled out one of his swords, and glared at his opponent.
"Perfect Level: Grademon..." Sasuke said to Grimmon. "Together, we're going to take you down."
A wave of excitement washed over Team Boost Soul and Mikey. Wisemon crossed his arms as he saw the newly formed digimon. There was hope. Even if it appeared small, it was there. And that's all that mattered.
"Go get him, Sasuke and Grademon!" Patrick shouted to the duo. "You can do it!"
"So you got some gold armor and a sword...that won't be enough. That won't be enough!"
Grimmon charged for the newly modeled hero, Grademon, with all his speed. He was determined to end this quickly before his fun got out of hand. Grademon shot a peculiar beam into the sky as Grimmon made his way for him. The golden knight stood steadfast, ready to take on Grimmon if it came to that point.
"I will not lose! I have a Digital World to destroy!"
"You will suffer us," Grademon said to Grimmon.
A blast of energy erupted from Grimmon's cannon again, but it was blocked by Grademon's rapier. The blast pushed Grademon through the sand, but it was soon deflected off into the distance. Then, the rapier rose, aimed for Grimmon.
"We're not going to have any of that," Grademon said triumphantly. "Yield..."
"I will do no such thing!" Grimmon could not believe that Grademon was able to deflect that blast. This could not be happening. He was so close to his goal. It could not end here, not like this.
"Grademon, give him a taste of what we can do. Cross Blade!"
Grademon sped for Grimmon, much faster than he ever was as Raptordramon. Before Grimmon could dodge, he was sliced by the golden knight's rapier. Grimmon tried to get away from the new opponent, and fired a Black Blast to ward him off. Grademon could not dodge, and was knocked backward by the blast. Yet, he still stood erect and ready to fight.
"We need to end this," Sasuke said to Grademon. "He needs to perish once and for all. Especially for what he did to Darcmon."
"I couldn't agree more, Sasuke," Grademon said, taking out his second rapier. Then, he proceeded to shout to the other digimon around. "Everyone! I need your energy to defeat him. Lend it to me...and we can be rid of this evil for good."
Grademon pointed upward to the energy he shot off earlier. Resting in the sky was a small ring of energy that continued to rotate slowly in a clock wise circle. Without any hesitation, the other digimon were ordered to put everything they had into one final attack for the ring of energy, understanding that this was their one chance to end Grimmon's life. Everyone reverted back into their previous forms before any of the fighting had begun, unable to sustain them. Grimmon could not stop any of the attacks, and merely prepared for one final assault to end Grademon before he himself was destroyed. When the attacks struck the small ring of energy, it grew larger. It appeared to be forming into a large shape now, one resembling a large bladed sword.
"No! No!" Grimmon shouted. "I cannot be defeated! I will not!"
He charged for Grademon, cannon aimed for him. The battle of the titans was about to come to a close in this last attack. They would see who would come out on top, and who would be reduced to mere grains of data.
Grademon sheathed his two blades, and grabbed the larger one as it fell. The Black Blast sped for one last time for him. With the giant sword in hand, the blade touched the sand, gold flames swirling around the blade.. In a split second, Grademon swung the blade upward. There erupted powerful bursts of golden flames as the sword moved, and then came a powerful dragon that sped for, and shot through, the Black Blast. Grimmon saw the beast heading for him, and though he would have been able to dodge, the surprise of this sudden emergence of power was too much to bear. He screamed in defeat as the dragon devoured him entirely, leaving nothing but a charred body with golden flames engulfing where Grimmon was to blaze over the sand in the sun.
"We did it..." Sasuke blurted out in amazement. He could safely say that Grimmon was finally defeated. He looked to Grademon with a small smirk, saluting him before the knight reverted back to a now exhausted Dorumon. The rest of Team Boost Soul rushed for both Sasuke and Dorumon, grabbing the both of them when they could. Cheer could be heard through the entire desert, that was how happy they were over their victory.
"I never doubted them for a second," Wisemon said, making his way over to them. "And you shouldn't have, either."
"Oh, c'mon!" Mikey said. He grumbled soon after. Wisemon could not have expected that they would come out on top after what they were seeing.
The pair soon reached the rest of the group. Wisemon had his arms crossed, while Mikey had his hands in his pockets.
"Well, it's probably best that we get going," Mikey said to them all. "A job well done, all of you. It looks like this place is safe."
"I'm sure we'll find some new trouble around. You guys can come with us, if you want. You don't have to be out there on your own. The more the merrier!" Sasuke said, smiling again. "Please, we could use your guys's help."
"Sure. I should get out and see more of the world anyway," Wisemon said, soon reaching out to shake Sasuke's hand. "I hope you can put up with this kid, though. He can be a little much at times...especially when he's hungry."
"Wisemon!" Mikey said, and everyone shared a laugh.
They all began to journey out of the desert now. Though exhausted, they wanted out of the immense heat and the bitter cold. Team Boost Soul wanted a place that was more temperate, more relaxing. Sasuke looked to the sky as they walked, nodding to it. I'll never forget you, Darcmon. You'll always be in my heart.
The charred remains of Grimmon stirred once they were gone. A black cluster of data left the body it inhabited, and skulked away to gather its strength again. This isn't over, Team Boost Soul. I will have my revenge, and I will have this world bow to me.
(Next Episode Preview)
"Ronald, is there something wrong?"
"I feel like something's watching me."
"My name in Phelesmon, an Agent of Dagomon!"
"DAGOMON? Lets Super Digivolve and stop him!"
"Digimon Generations - Episode 19: The Emerald Blaze, Cerberumon! You can't give up on us!"
Ending: Touchousha Tachi by KENN