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Chapter 5:
Digital World, here we come!
Yoshi took a deep breath, reached for the phone, and was about to dial up those two, but heard the door open up with a pair of familiar voices. "I hate to point this out, but you heard our leader. The Digital Dive is off limits." Ash informed since he did not know why he was doing such a thing since he knew that the mole would not want anything to do with Earth.
"Don't be such a downer, Ash. Come on, Agumon. It's just through this door." Marcus answered back while looking over at his employee.
"Right, boss." The reptile replied as he eagerly followed the reckless one's plan. A part of both him and Renamon wanted to see what their home world really looked like. The lizard thought that it would have several pieces of the human world: telephone poles, subway cars, mail boxes, street signs, and several other things. Renamon believed that it had several layers, and the only way to get to the other layers is through beams from the Earth. The two along with their partners will get their answers very soon.
'This is such a bad idea.' Ash thought as they all went past the doorway, and Ketchum saw Yoshi in the room as well. 'Right. She had monitor duty tonight.' The hero thought while continuing his walk into the room.
"We're in, baby." Marcus commented with his back to the wall, and a smile on his face.
"Quiet as a sleeping mime." Agumon commented as he watched the door close behind them. Their victory was short lived as the monitor duty one spoke out.
"What are you two doing?" The pink vested one shouted out which caused the 'sneaking' ones to turn and face the lady that spoke to them.
"What's the problem here, Yoshi? You seemed to have been looking at the transporter, and not a monitor." Ash pointed out to her causing the woman to look at him, and with a deep sigh filled them in on what she had just seen.
"Thomas did a Digital Dive? I'll teach him to be sneakier than me." Damon proclaimed to the others with clenched fists.
"Sneakier than us, you mean." Ketchum reminded him that the four of them were a team. The others liked the brotherly bond these two had until the yellow fox cleared her throat causing them to get back on task.
"What is Thomas thinking? Going for a Digital Dive even though it has never been tested on humans. He should know better that something horribly wrong could happen." The girl on the computer commented as she continued to work.
"He is a proud soldier. Thomas does not like letting a perp go so he decided to handle it alone, but I don't understand why go after someone on their natural soil. Wouldn't that make Thomas the intruder?" Ash stated while ending in a question.
"There." She called out causing the others to look at the screen and saw a small blue dot with the word alive right next to it.
"What is that?" Renamon questioned since she has never seen this part of their job.
"Thomas' digivice signal. I'll bring him back before..." The computer woman commented, but was stopped when the word changed to lost.
"What's wrong?" The yellow lizard questioned since he wished to know why she cut herself off.
"I lost him." She answered back with devastation evident in her voice.
"Well, that's horrible. Wah! Yoshi...we're going for a Digital Dive too." Marcus informed her while leaning on Agumon's head like an armrest. The group did not wait for an answer, and just headed for the machine.
"Guys, listen to me. It's dangerous." She informed them since she did not wish to loose her other friends.
"That doesn't matter. I'm not going to let Thomas finish the fight that I started." Marcus said to her since he was still wanting his fight with the tunnel creature. She was about to rebuttal, but another voice cut in before she had a chance to speak.
"Not as dangerous as leaving a teammate behind." Ash said back to her in a dead serious tone. That did make a logical sense, and it did reflect well with Ash's character. "First we need this machine to work." Ash said before adding, "Please, help us, help him." Seeing his expression and knowing who he was Yoshi nodded and went to work.
"I'm sending you four where we first lost Thomas' signal. So bring him back and don't do anything else, stupid. Okay?" Yoshino informed and questioned to the four of them.
"Whatever, just do it." Marcus replied back to her since he was more concerned about the fight, and not just sitting around here – talking.
"Once you get to the other side I can't help you any more." The one on the computer informed the away team. Ash instinctively spoke for the others.
"We understand. Don't worry. We will return home safely." He said to her with a smile which caused her to have some faith in what they were about to do.
"Just remember one thing, you guys, make sure that all of you are back at your point of entry by O500. Otherwise I won't be able to bring you back." She warned the search party, and despite some grumbling from the warrior the two understood.
"Transfer preparations at 80%." Lalamon informed as she did her part on another console.
"Digital Harmonizer aligning. Security code recognized." The girl of their team informed through her screen.
"I'm getting kind of nervous boss." The lizard admitted since he remembered of the chicken egg was transported through this same machine.
"Ah, don't be such a baby." Marcus replied back to him.
"Digi-Gate Open!" Lalamon called out causing the two of them looked up and saw a bright light that surrounded them.
"Are we sure that this is safe?" Ash questioned since he too was feeling a bit nervous about this whole thing.
"We're about to find out." The fox creature said back to him as the light completely engulfed them.
"Begin transfer." Yoshi shouted out once her partner was finished counting down. The four of them were gone as was the light inside the machine. 'Good luck.' The one in pink thought as she looked at the now empty machine.
"Wow, the Digital World is really odd. The ground and the sky are upside-down." Ash informed as he and Marcus were looking at the landscape before them. At that moment the lizard and the fox came into view – also upside-down.
"Actually boss, you two are the ones that are upside-down." Agumon pointed out which made more sense to them.
'Not a bad angel to fall.' The fox thought to herself as she allowed herself a moment to let her darker side enjoy the view. 'Stop it. You like him as a friend and nothing more.' Her logical side thought as she shook her head, and those thoughts away. Out side of her head the two of them got back to their feet, and were looking around.
"Our first time in the Digital World." Marcus called out as he and Ash realized that this was their first time seeing this place, and it overall seemed peaceful. There was a blue sky with some sparkles of some sort, the ground was different themes just like on Earth. There was still a few odd things, but overall it was still a relaxing location.
"Yeah. Ours too." Renamon informed their human partners which confused them somewhat.
"Wait a minute. You two are both Digimon." Marcus pointed out to the bit based wonders walking along side them.
"That's true, boss, but I've been at DATS as far back as I can remember." The reptile informed with Renamon nodding in agreement.
"You know. It doesn't seem that far off from our world." Damon informed as he took interest in a leaf. Ash and Marcus were intrigued that this place was pretty much a mirror reflection of Earth.
"Ash, over here." The taller of the two Rookie levels called out causing the two to turn to them. She gestured for them to come to her which they did, and were greeted by another strange sight.
"What a funny looking river. Eh, boss?" Agumon stated to his employer as they all looked into the flowing water.
"I get it. Since we are in the Digital World then that means everything is digital." Ketchum stated with a sense of wonder in his voice.
"Ash, above us." Damon called out which, for some reason, got Ash to get defensive.
"What is it?" Ash questioned as he scanned the land around him, but saw nothing wrong.
"Look a little higher." The brother in arms instructed which Ash followed causing him to add, "A flock of flying dragons." Ketchum chuckled at that as he relaxed a bit.
"You don't see that everyday." The raven haired of the human duo pointed out.
"Or those Digimon either." The furry one said to them as she pointed at some tan furred heads with a shark fin of sorts sticking out of their foreheads were just hopping along.
"What are those?" The scaly one questioned as they saw some sort of pink creature with a blue flower coming out of they're heads.
"Walking plants." Marcus answered back with a big smile on his face since he was starting to like this place more and more.
"Man, this place is amazing. Very peaceful." Ash said to the others as the four of them were simply walking along enjoying the overall sights of the place.
"Just remember, Ash. We're on a mission to find and fight that digital mole." Marcus pointed out as he saw this place as a means for a good fight, and nothing else. "There has to be a sign of him or a clue where he is going somewhere." He added, which did make sense.
"What about Thomas?" The reptile-like creature questioned since he did wish to uphold his request from Yoshi to find and bring Thomas back safely. None of them knew that Yoshi knew exactly the answer to such a question.
"Forget him. Let him figure out a way back on his own. I mean: what's stopping him from saying something like that?" The pink jacketed one questioned to her partner as she sat at her station.
"Marcus would never say that." The floating seed pointed out as she had faith of the good in the warrior human of the group. Unbeknownst to her he was about to say just that until Ash slaps him in the back of the head before he had a chance to speak.
"What did you do that for?" Marcus shouted out since he did not appreciate getting Gibbs slapped.
"I know what you were about to say, so don't. Thomas is an important member of this team, and we will find him." Ash instructed, but saw that his old friend was not sold on the idea, so he tried a new angel. "Besides: can you imagine his embarrassment of a genius like him being saved by a pair of people that he thinks are beneath him." Ketchum offered and that seemed to get his attention.
"Well, what you waiting for Ash? Times a wastin`." He called out and took point of this little rescue mission. As they continued to walk the group were a little overwhelmed of how big this world was.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Renamon questioned while pointing at a location that seemed to look like the Roman Colosseum, but covered in ice.
"I have no idea, but it sure is shiny, like a diamond." The hat wearing hero put in his two cents of what he was seeing.
"Pretty." The lizard pointed out before something similarly shiny caught his eye. The base of the object was flower in appearance, but the piece on top was not; it was a rapidly flashing computer or television screens.
"Let's try looking over there." Ash offered as he pointed to a rather large root which the others agreed to. Once they got there the team saw the location a bit better. The brawler than pointed out their next spot: a cliff-side footpath.
"All of this stuff seems pretty random." The simple minded warrior pointed out to the others even though he had a feeling that the others had already grasped that concept.
"I ell like I'm getting dejavu, boss." The fire thrower informed which confused his employer.
"You don't even know what that means." The brown haired one pointed out, but he himself knew what it meant, and it made no sense. Agumon and Renamon were born in DATS, so how would they know the lay of the land. All of a sudden both of the creatures stopped which caused the humans to stop as well.
"Something the matter, Renamon?" Ash questioned, and was a little concerned.
"Something is coming." She informed which got their attention. At that moment the Digital World began to shake. There was soon an explosion above them and out came their target.
"Drimogemon!" Agumon called out in alarm.
"Looks like he found us instead." The boss to the one that spoke before called out. The rescue party watched as he fell, and a cloud of dust appeared. Once it settled the team only saw the mole's lower half sticking out.
"I think he's stuck." The passive one pointed out before hearing the beast start up his drill. "Nope. He's starting back up. He's fine." He added after hearing the creature start up again.
"Now, he's gone." The hard skinned one pointed out as all they saw now was the hole he left behind.
"Hey, wait for us." The fighter shouted out since his need of fighting this creature overrode his duty to rescue Thomas. With a simple shrug Ash followed after him with Renamon right behind him. Unknown to the rescue party Yoshi had lost their signals as well.
"I just lost Ash and Marcus' signal too." Yoshi informed her old friend even though she knew that her Digimon could see the 'Signal Lost' statement of the screen just as easily as she could.
"Oh no." The creature pointed out since she knew the downside of that world, or at least she believed that she did. Unknown to them was a rather large shadow walking into the room she was in.
"This is the worst. Why does this sort of stuff always happens to me?" The human girl stated and questioned while trying all sorts of different methods to find the lost DATS members.
"Try expanding your search perimeters." The plant class Digimon offered to her partner.
"Please let me spot them even for a moment." Yoshi muttered to herself while focusing all of her energies on the computer before her. It was then the shadow behind her decided to make himself known.
"What are you doing?" The man questioned to her since he could tell that she had not even felt him enter the room.
"Just bringing hope to these hopeless fools. How could I have let Ash talk me into this." Yoshi responded before adding a, "Doop!" Once she had realized who she was talking to. The young woman hoped that she was wrong, but once she turned and looked up she as greeted by her boss glaring down at her.
"It seems you are searching for something. What, exactly?" The small, white Digimon informed and questioned while emphasizing the what in his second sentence. The young one did not think of having a cover story ahead of time, so she had to try an on the spot lie.
"Ah...an...an earring. That's it. Right, Lalamon?" Yoshi informed them, and was praying that her partner would back her up.
"I think I left my bathtub running." The small digital beast responded while slowly floating away from the man in charge out of fear. Back in the Digital World the four were still following the tunnel maker down his hole.
"He sure moves fast for a big guy." Marcus pointed out as they all continued to follow him.
"What do you expect from a creature that's whole purpose in life is digging in the ground." Renamon pointed out as she continued to keep her eyes on target. Eventually the creature broke through and they were in a big area, but they were still underground.
"Okay, let's go get him." Marcus instructed as he and Agumon gave chase.
"Marcus, something doesn't feel right about this. Marcus, wait up." Ash informed him, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. With nothing else to say he and his fox-like friend followed after them. Soon, the four of them saw as he went back underground.
"He cut and ran again." The warrior complained as the opponent fled again.
"Marcus, we need to fall back now." Ketchum instructed to the other two.
"Look, there he is." The fighter called out as the beast resurfaced only to disappear again. Drimogemon did this tactic several times over which got on Marcus' nerves. "Stand still so we can fight." He shouted turned and saw that the enemy was now standing before them with a big smile on his face. With that smile he slapping the ground.
"Thanks to all of his drilling this section has become unstable." Ketchum informed before they fell into the rather large hole. Eventually they stopped falling, but were hurt.
"Man, that smarts." The fighter said as he rubbed his head.
"At least we had these soft rocks to break our fall." The lizard tried to bring up some good news to his employer and then saw Renamon holding Ash rather closely.
"Hey, Renamon, ride's over. You can let go of me now." Ash informed her even though he did enjoy the feeling of her fur on his face.
"Oh, right." She replied with a nervous tone in her voice. She then released her which he helped her to her feet, and once that was done a voice called out.
"You four?" The man of the voice questioned causing all to turn and face the owner, and saw that it was their other targets: Thomas and Gaomon. The blue furred canine went to work getting them out the others decided to share notes.
"So, you four fell for Drimogemon's trap as well, huh?" The blonde one questioned once he understood up to that point of their story. That is when it dawned on the fighter how these two got down here.
"Hold it! So, basically you were outsmarted by a giant gopher." Marcus pointed out causing the two of them to start laughing about how the genius didn't see this one coming.
"Ease up, Marcus. Think of it like this. If it wasn't for that trap then we would never have found Thomas or Gaomon." Ash informed which stopped the laughing fit.
"Sir, I have found a way out." Gaomon informed as he uncovered a large hole for them to use.
"Excellent. Well done, Gaomon." The partner of the boxing Digimon stated and turned to face the hole only to stop with a wince of pain.
"Your leg is damaged." Ash informed at the turn pant leg with a minor trail of blood coming from it.
"I'm fine. This barely qualifies as an injury." He responded to them and was about to be on his way, but felt the two hold him up with Ash to his right and Marcus to his left. "Let go. Whatever help you intend to offer I don't-." Thomas tried to argue that he was fine, but was cut off.
"Yes you do. Don't let your pride get in the way of making friends or letting others help you when you really need it." Ash offered to him which brought a tear to the fox's eye and emotional snot trail from the lizard.
"Don't worry, Thomas. We can start arguing once we make it outside." Damon vowed to him as they all walked through the various tunnels. Eventually the strain gets to Marcus since they hadn't made any headway. "Which tunnel do we go through now?" The fighter questioned as he saw all of the holes that surrounded them now.
"This is Drimogemon's den. All of these tunnels have given us a mighty underground labyrinth." Ash pointed out, and as they tried to figure out where to go to next Yoshino was getting a rather large chewing out back on Earth once she had come clean.
"Such foolishness." Sampson shouted out in rage once she had finished with the story.
"Why would you violate the rules like that Yoshino?" The small Digimon questioned to her since this seemed a little out of character for her unless Ash or Marcus did something to her.
"Sending Marcus and Ash into the Digital World – without permission! Do you know what you've done?!" Sampson shouted at her in rage since he had a feeling that both mothers would be very displeased at this news.
"But I didn't have any choice." The young woman responded back to him as she tried to explain herself to her commanding officer.
"QUIET!" He shouted back to her since he did not want to hear another word from her.
"It's a waste of time reprimanding her. We need to focus on finding the others." The small white Digimon informed his old friend so that he himself could calm down a bit and focus on the situation at hand. Back in the Digital World the explorers were still deep beneath the ground.
"Hey, why didn't you digivolve Gaomon and break out earlier?" Marcus questioned since he knew that he and Yoshi didn't have to summon a charge like the two of them did.
"If I could have I would have." He responded, but saw that the both of them were a little confused so he added, "Gaomon." The canine understood what was needed of him so he walked to the wall to his right and gave it a firm punch causing it to shake, but not cave.
"Instability in a cave." Ash informed after the shaking stopped, and nothing else seemed to have been wrong.
"Because there are so many holes it's become extremely unstable so if I had Gaomon digivolve it would have certainly caused another cave-in." The genius informed them, and that did make sense since all of their Champion forms were a little on the large side.
"That's true." Marcus said to his rival. The team traveled in silence until they came to a fork in the road. "I say this way." The fighter said to the others as he pointed to the left, but the person the two of them were carrying motioned his head to the right. Before another fight could start Ash butted in.
"Hold on, Marcus. Look down there." Ash instructed while pointing down at a coin standing before the tunnel they were about to use. "I saw Thomas drop that the first time we used that tunnel. It's to show us not to use it again, right?" Ketchum explained and then looked to the blonde one.
"That's right, Ash. Sharp eye." The tactical one responded, but before they left to the right Ash went over to the coin, picked it up, scribbled something on the ground, walked to the others, gave the coin back, and the two continued on their way out of this twisted maze. As they went on Agumon's resolve about leaving was beginning to wain.
"Hey, boss, when are we going to get out of here, already?" The reptile shouted out in anger since they were no where near the exit. His response came in the form of the fox Gibbs Slapping him. "I'll be quiet." He replied after the feeling of paw meeting skull.
"Worry not, Agumon. I know that we are almost out of here. Just remain positive, and we can handle anything." Ash informed to the yellow scaled one behind him with a smile on his face.
"Being positive has nothing to do with getting out of here; however we are heading in the right direction." Thomas informed them as he still used the ways of logic rather than heart.
"You know: you can be a real buzz-kill sometimes." The fighter responded to him. The genius just reflected the comment back at him. As the explorers continued on their journey the others were still trying to find them.
"Grr! Haven't you found those Digivice signals yet?!" The commander shouted at the four that were called in at this hour to run the monitors.
"It's taking longer than anticipated, sir." The longer haired one responded as she continued to type out information on her console.
"There's too much static interference." The blonde girl tried to reason to her boss as she tried to do the same thing as he human partner was doing.
"No excuses. Hurry." The tallest human in the room ordered. This left Yoshi and Lalamon to just stand there and to hope that the others will return soon. Back on the other side the team made it to a clearing of sorts, but they all stood at a cliff with no way down.
"How are we going to get down from up here?" The fighter questioned out loud as he looked down at how far the ground was.
'I wonder if there are any tunnel based dogs that prefer to be underground, and if so will they obsess over Renamon's Diamond Storm attack.' Ash thought as he felt as though he has met such beasts.
"We have no choice. We have to find another way down." Thomas instructed to the others before turning around and wincing in pain.
"Sir?" The loyal blue canine questioned after hearing that groan/
"Is everything okay, Thomas?" Ketchum questioned with genuine concern in his voice.
"I'm fine." He responded with a rather harsh tone of voice which caused the brown haired one to shrug in indifference. All of a sudden they heard footsteps coming their way.
"Boss, it's Drimogemon." The fire breather informed the others at the oncoming creature.
"Alright. This is a one in a million chance, Agumon. Let's go get him." Damon instructed as his adrenaline to finding a fight was getting the better of him.
"Hello, Earth to Marcus: remember what I said about the caves being unstable." Norstein instructed since he knew a Marcus style fight would decimate the entire field around them.
"Then we'll just have to fight without digivolving." The brawler said back to him with determination in his voice.
"Think about what your saying. He has the advantage down here. Without digivolving we can't win." The smart one said back to him since he knew that three Rookies couldn't take down a Champion.
"So, what do you suggest we do?" Ash offered since he wanted to hear what the genius had in mind with dealing with this problem.
"Let him go passed us. We have to make it to the surface first." The brainy one informed them, and the 'brothers' looked at one another of listening to his plane.
"I have a faster idea. Marcus, grab Thomas. We'll be taking the shortcut to the surface." Ash instructed as he continued to keep a silent eye on the tunnel beast. The brawn grabbed the brains, and made it to the cliff's edge.
"A real champion doesn't run and hide. Let's meet the enemy head on." Marcus said to him after grabbing Thomas and standing at the edge.
"Stop thinking with your fists." The smart one tried to reason, but it didn't seem to have any affect on either of them.
"Everyone, jump now while he's right under us." Ketchum ordered and did just that with the others soon following after him: Marcus, Thomas, Agumon, Gaomon, and Renamon. "Now, grab a good chunk of fur and hold on tight. I'll go see if I can talk him into taking us home." Ash instructed and did just that not knowing that their right felt him climbing upward.
'What's that on my back?' The beast thought before looking up and seeing the raven haired one from Earth. After some awkward silence the creature bellowed out in alarm and started up his drill.
"He's going to make another cave." Thomas informed even thought he had a feeling that this was exactly as Ash was hoping for.
"Time to try something I've seen in a movie once." Ash shouted out and pulled on the beast's fur causing him to turn and tunnel in a direction he didn't want to. After several moments they broke through to the surface.
"Daylight!" Agumon shouted out with joy in his voice since he was so happy to see the sky again.
'Did Ash plan this all along?' Thomas thought to himself with disbelief in the forefront of his mind, but was stopped by his partner's voice.
"Sir, we should really get off." Gaomon offered as he still tried to hold onto the fur with his red boxing gloves.
"Not yet." Ash said back to the dog before adding, "If we fight him here he'll just tunnel away again. We need an element he can't tunnel through." That did seem like a sound plane to go with, but none of them knew the lay of the land well enough to guide him to.
"Ash, the Colosseum!" Marcus shouted at him causing Ash to nod, and force the beast to turn where he wanted him to. After a while they found their target which shocked the egg-head.
"It's made of ice!" Thomas shouted out in alarm since he did not expect these two to come up with a plan that actually worked. "Of course, Drimogemon can't dig his way out of this." He added once they all made it inside.
"It's fighting time again!" Ash/Marcus shouted out before giving their opponent a major backache and headache with their punches and then jumped off.
"At last! Time to fight!" Agumon shouted out with great happiness.
"DNA Charge!" Marcus shouted out first.
"Agumon digivolve to..." The reptile shouted out before feeling the energy course through him causing him to change into, "GeoGreymon!" The horned one shouted out.
"DNA Charge!" Ash shouted out next.
"Renamon digivolve to..." The vixen shouted out as she felt Ketchum's power course through her causing her to shout out, "NeoKyubimon!" The four legged one stood ready for battle.
"DNA Charge!" Thomas shouted out since he did not want to be kept of the fun.
"Gaomon digivolve to..." The boxer called out once he felt his partner's power inside of him. "Gaogamon!" The now fellow four legged one shouted out once his transformation was complete. As the all stood ready to fight Ash saw something...wrong.
"Guys, look, is Drimogemon...seizing?" Ash questioned once he, and the others saw that he was shaking rapidly before them.
"I don't think a Digimon can seize in the same way we do. I believe it's something more dangerous." The smart one informed them which made them a bit nervous. Back on Earth Yoshi and the others were still searching for them.
"Static removal at 82 percent." Miki informed to the others.
"Monitor restored. Begin scanning." Megumi informed and brought the monitor up and they were relieved at what they all saw.
"Ah, they're all safe!" Yoshi shouted out with a happy smile on her face.
"Wait a second!" The long haired beauty shouted out before hitting the alarm to get everyone's attention.
"What is going on?" Kudamon questioned since he knew that the alarm meant nothing good.
"Digimon signature, and it's enlarging rapidly." The alerted one informed them
"It's not one of ours. It's something totally different." Megumi informed them as a means to tell them that their freak out is not paranoia.
"Drimogemon is..." Sampson said in alarm and then let his partner finish his statement.
"Digivolved." Kudamon shouted out and it was true. Before them was the beast changed into a yellow/purple creature with green eyes.
"Let's see what Dexter has to say." Ash informed as he pulled out his device.
"Digimon, a Digi-Egg of Knowledge Digivolution. Digmon is said to be the swiftest tunnel Digimon both underground and above the ground." The device started to explain that much, but Marcus only saw that has a greater challenge.
"This just got a lot more interesting." Damon shouted out and tried to attack, but was slapped away for his troubles. Seeing this angered GeoGreymon, so he too went on the attack. "Did it work?" The human partner questioned after he saw that his employee made a direct hit. Ash consulted with his device:
"Due to the durability of his armor Digmon is highly resistant to standard flame attacks." The device informed them a little too late.
"Spiral Blow!" The blue furred out shouted out and attacked, but he dodged out of the way and countered with one of his own.
"Gold Rush!" The attack hit the wind elemental hard.
"Fox Tail Inferno!" The multi-tailed out called out, but the attack was dodged and she too was slapped away.
"Ash, Marcus remember out first fight with Drimogemon." Thomas stated to the others who nodded in confusion. "Gaogamon's Spiral Blow, GeoGreymon's Mega Flame, and NeoKyubimon's Fox Tail Inferno all canceled each other out.
"Still not following." Damon admitted since he did not know what the genius was thinking as he brought up that little blemish in their fight record.
"Your wanting to combine our attacks against this guy." Ash offered as his view on it.
"Exactly, but our timing has to be perfect." The smart one informed the others.
"You three fall back to us." Marcus shouted out to the others which they followed orders with GeoGreymon standing in between the two canines. After a stare down between the two sides Digmon tried to make his move, but the others were faster on the draw.
"Mega Flame!" The dragon shouted out as he launched his attack.
"Spiral Blow!" The dog shouted out as he launched his attack.
"Dragon Wheel!" The fox shouted out as the fire from her tails balled together and launched outward while the rest of the body remained where it was. The wind and fire attacks combined and the dragon engulfed the combo attack – making it even stronger.
"The opposing attacks didn't cancel each other out. They fused together instead. With their powers combined I wonder how much the strength of their attacks increase by?" Thomas questioned since this seemed like a very promising discovery.
"Who cares about all of that. All that matters is that we're winning. Attack!" Marcus shouted out to the others which they did just that. After a few more moments the armor fell apart, and the enemy was defeated leaving behind what could only be the Digi-Egg of Knowledge and a white egg with purple circles on it.
"Egg-selent work, you three." Ash shouted out to the others causing them to give their interpretation of a good nature smile at Ketchum's choice of words in this situation.
"Get it? Cause he's an egg, you see?" Damon questioned to Thomas before laughing about it. With nothing else needed to be said the team de-digivolved and headed out while leaving the eggs behind.
"Back in the cave. When we all jumped onto Drimogemon. You planned for him to dig to the surface and head to the ice arena, didn't you?" Thomas questioned to Ash since that thought still needed some sort of closure.
"I knew that we needed to fight the tunneler on an even field, and once I saw the ice field I knew that it would make the perfect spot, but getting from underground to there was all luck I'm afraid to say." Ash informed him with an honest face and honest tone.
'He's passive, but he knows how to throw a punch. He wants to find a way to deal with the Digimon that doesn't involve fighting, but he knows what to do in a big battle. He is one unusual character. The same for Marcus; I can't analyze either of these men with my intellect. How do you make the illogical logical.' Thomas thought it over before speaking out loud. "Wait a minute you two." He said causing them to stop and let go of the big brain for a moment. He held up his fist, and almost instantly the two knew what he wanted.
'We're a team, Thomas." Damon informed as he fist bumped with him. Ash on the other hand put their fists into hands with their palms face down, and then he put his hand on top of theirs.
"Welcome to the group, Thomas." Ash informed him with a kind smile on his face which got a nod out of the smart one. With nothing else needed to be said they resumed their walk back to the drop zone.
"Looks like the boss got a new employee." Agumon shouted out with a smile of his own.
"Let's not push it." Norstein countered the praise with a statement of his own. They all dreaded going back because they all knew that their base leader was going to not be happy with them. The six got back and stood along side Yoshino and Lalamon to await what their base leader had to say.
"You fools!" Sampson shouted out and then let his Digital Monster have a word in.
"You were able to make it back this time, but did you think of what would have happened if you had failed. There's so many more pitfalls you three don't know about the Digital World." The 'scarf' informed them and then let his human speak.
"As members of this organization you must follow the rules. I have only one more thing to say to you three..." He informed them and then let the sweat a bit before finishing with, "Well done. It's good to have you safely back home." This caught them all off guard, but they were all grateful of hearing that.
"Sir!" The six of them shouted out with a salute: happy of the experiences shared this day, and that their boss was concerned for their well being.