A/N:Okay, for some reason, this chapter hated me. It just would not get written until like: now. Anyway, we're reaching the end!
Edhla! EDDDDDDDDYYYY~ I don't mind the comment! It wasn't mean at all! I accepted it and will have to remember it!
Xros-Hero, the playing field is about to be leveled! LET'S DO THIS.
Warning for curse words.
XXX. Barriers
"There's nothing more satisfying than smashing a wall."
"Even the playing field."
"Do we have time for that?"
Taiki shrugged. "We could if we wanted to." Shoutmon's roar above them made the walls shiver and Yuu paused. That was... not right somehow. Then again... maybe that was just something Shoutmon could do. He had, in his stint, paid more attention to the humans' hearts than the Digimon. He regretted that now. "We'll have to make time in any case." He clenched a fist and red ran down each finger, both the light and -Yuu cringed- from blood.
"Don't tell me there's a secret power up that you haven't told us about yet," Kiriha deadpanned as he leaped from SiegGreymon's back to the rest of them.
Taiki shook his head. "Nothing more than what we already have... and nothing more than what he already wants." He sighed. "It's what he has left that I'm waiting for... and what we need to counter. The darkness... it's not deep enough. Remember?"
Nene frowned, looking horribly disconcerted. Then her eyes widened. "Wait... wait... this isn't..."
Taiki nodded and ignored the confused look from everyone else. "Shoutmon! Get ready!"
"All right!" His body shone a familiar golden and Taiki gave his Xros Loader a single glance. Kiriha smiled, an expression of pure delight. Nene's voice was quiet enough to be missed in the roar of the battle.
"Great Xros." In a rush of flames and multicolored energy Shoutmon X7 stormed through the battlefield, flaming microphone crashing into Bagramon's bone arm with a satisfying thunk. Yuu, despite himself, cheered for a moment, until his golden Xros Loader began to beep urgently. That warning is just enough for him to leap from the path of a claw.
Taiki hissed something under his breath and icicles stabbed through the claw and into the creature's face. "Not time for celebration yet. Time to get creative."
"Got it!" Yuu paused for a moment. While he had learned absolutely nothing about the hearts of the Digimon, their abilities were so easily memorized it was like math homework. "Gaozmon! PawnChessmonz! DigiXros!"
An army of biting dinosaurs with flying spears. Well. It was a start. However...
"There isn't enough power here to defeat me."
Shoutmon sneered through his mask. "Don't be so disappointed! Seven... Victorize!" The blast impacted into the fallen angel's face, revealing... nothing. No marks, no scratches, not a wound. "Oh shit..."
Bagramon -DarknessBagramon- smiled, and jet black wings burst from his back. "I think it's time to stop lying... don't you? Balefire Eyes."
Kiriha cursed. "Knew I was forgetting that little detail."