"Hello you three." I greeted Megidramon, Sakuyamon, and MegaGargomon. "Bit late to the party, aren't you?"

"It does kind of seem pointless that we came out, now." MegaGargomon stated.

"In-"

shudder

"Oh, I felt that." Megidramon growled.

I turned to the side, staring in the direction of where I had felt...

Something.

My eyes narrowed as I scanned the D-Reaper mass, looking over every inch of the red, chaotic blob.

"As did I, Megidramon." I glared at the D-Reaper mass.

Where are you hiding...

shudder

My eyes shot to a building.

There you are.

pulse

A thin red beam lanced out from the building, sweeping across the sky and over my body.

It was intense and powerful, so it didn't surprise me at all when the beam scythed across my body and split me in two.

A shame for it, then, that it would take far more than that to kill me.

I twisted space, and appeared behind the D-Reaper Agent-

My eyes widened.

The hundreds of Bubbles Agents immediately opened fire.

You clever motherfucker.

The blasts tore into and through my body, powerful, violent, and in such a number that I was almost instantly reduced to smoke, scattered from the sheer volume of fire.

You set a trap.

I reformed instantly, the acrid smoke that I was made of shifting into thousands of tiny pieces of Darkness, disconnected- but all still me.

And I fell for it.

I struck at them, sharpening the thousands of pieces of myself and sending them at the D-Reaper's Agents, cutting into them, through them, and ripping them to shreds.

It was... strange controlling myself like this. I knew, instinctively, how to move each individual piece in any which direction, and I was aware of all the pieces of myself at once, which made it... different to what I was used to.

Megidramon rounded the building, fire building up in his mouth-

Only to pause as he saw what was happening, the horde of D-Reaper Agents being torn apart by my flakes.

"Megidramon, stay on your guard! The D-Reaper is intelligent."

I finished off the last member of the group, and pulled the flakes together into a single spot, merging them and taking form again.

I looked around, searching for any more D-Reaper Agents.

I knew full well that Bubbles didn't have a laser weapon.

In fact, the only one I knew that did have a red laser weapon was the-

Several... things, shot out of the D-Reaper mass, yellow, jagged mouths shooting out at myself and Megidramon.

Was the Paratice Head.

The jagged maw clamped down on my body, the sharp 'teeth' piercing through me.

I repaid the favour a second later, spikes of Darkness extending from my body, and through the maw.

One of them curved downwards, the tip of it forming into a blade, and cut off the cable that connected it to the Paratice Head, leaving the mouth to dissolve into fading chaos goo.

Megidramon roared, grabbing onto the maws that were approaching him, and then yanking, pulling to the D-Reaper Agent up- and out of the D-Reaper mass.

Yep, that's a Paratice Head.

"Megiddo Flame!"

Well, that was a Paratice Head.

The wave of crimson fire spilled out, falling upon the Paratice Head, consuming it and burning it away in an instant, doing the same with the rest of the D-Reaper mass behind it.

In his hands, the maw promptly dissolved.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine." I turned to him. "Seriously, you don't need to worry about me."

"Would you not just fly off like that?" Sakuyamon asked, coming around from the other side of the building. MegaGargomon followed shortly behind her.

shudder

My head shot to the side.

"There it is again." Megidramon growled.

"I felt that too." Sakuyamon stared, looking around.

"All of us did." MegaGargomon stated.

"As an aside, be careful. The D-Reaper was intelligent enough to lay an ambush on me."

I rose further into the air, heading above the buildings that surrounded us.

I was all too aware of the fact that those buildings made a good ambush point. As was the D-Reaper.

After a few seconds, I noted that Megidramon, Sakuyamon, and MegaGargomon were following, the four of us rising into the air.

"Keep an eye out. The D-Reaper can strike from any direction."

pulse

I spun around, just in time to catch a number of Bubbles Agents appearing from the D-Reaper. There was an entire swarm of those annoying blights, and all of them had their four arms pointed at us.

They opened fire an instant later, a wall of bullets streaming towards us.

Sakuyamon instantly created a shield around herself, while MegaGargomon simply raised his arms in front of him.

Megidramon didn't even bother with that.

He moved in front of Sakuyamon and MegaGargomon, his wings spreading and his mouth opening.

The wall of bullets came up, and had approximately the same effect on Megidramon that GrapLeomon did- absolutely none.

"Megiddo Flame!" He exhaled a wall of fire, wide and tall, raining down upon the Bubbles Agents.

Having a wide-effect attack sure was useful against these Agents.

The wall of fire washed over them like a wave, leaving nothing behind where it touched, the intense heat enough to destroy the D-Reaper Agents, and the D-Reaper mass that they had rose out of.

"They don't seem that strong." Sakuyamon frowned.

"That particular kind isn't." I noted. "The threat they pose comes from swarming, and that rapid-fire attack. Sheer quantity instead of quality."

That they're up against three more-powerful-than-normal Mega Level Digimon and me wasn't helping matters.

pulse

I turned around-

And paused.

"Although... now it seems to be trying to rectify that."

A portion of the D-Reaper mass was shifting, flowing upwards and to the side as something emerged from underneath it.

A big something.

Two portions of it broke through the D-Reaper mass, revealing the tips of purple and yellow wings-

Which I immediately recognized as belonging to the Optimizer.

The Optimizer.

Oh dear.

"Well, this just got a little bit more complicated."

pulse

On cue, several dozen more Bubbles immediately broke through the D-Reaper mass, rising into the air, their arms pointed in our direction and swelling.

"Of course."

They fired.