Ch14
So, in this chapter.. eh, why do I need to tell you that? I think that would spoil the fun part of reading, go for it yourself, hope you like this one~!
Somewhere, not far from the base and ruins that Dianamon ruled, two Digimons watching her battle unfolding, not thoroughly but more like watching the aftereffects of it. Both staring at the sky, the heavy snowfall suddenly interrupted by a giant explosion. Its flame is so strong that it illuminates the whole ruins, even if it's just for a few seconds. One of them continue moving first while other still staring. After the flame went out, it caught up with its peers.
"Not impressed?" Said the one on the left, followed by a chuckle. "Yer not scared, aren't cha~?"
It replied with a snarl. "That's what you can think of right now?" The right one asked back. "I don't want to stay too long, better not making our Lord waiting."
Dropping the teasing and jokes, the left one nodded in agreement. "Hahhh..yeah yeah, I really hate this place too, why is it so sudden anyway? What happen with the plan?"
"What happen? It lasted for few hours, that's what happened. She's just that useless." It replied.
The left one stares in confusion. "How do we even know it's failed? So we just cleaning up some mess?"
"How do we-... Next time I'll drag you to Lord's place when we got a mission. Lord knew, and we just need to follow his order." After a sigh, the right one speaks again. "Can't say anything when you get deleted, that's what our Lord said. Just her, then we're out of here."
"Okay okay, I got that, okay? He even prepared something for us in short time, maybe he predicted this long time ago. Still, why don't we just finish it right here right now? Hmm?" Proposed the left one. "Shouldn't those pesky humans tired? It's not easy to face her without their partners, right? And.. we get some extra point from that, it's not a hard choice~"
It thinks about its friend's suggestion. Not a wild plan, it thought. "Lord's order comes first, then we'll see how this goes."
A spark of fire comes from these tubes on his back, they emit a concentrated, normal red flame that quickly turns blue in a split second. It keeps getting stronger and melting the icy ground behind him, his step becomes light as his rocket thrusters are now almost at full power. MachGaogamon grabbed the floor, still positioning himself right at the center of this corridor. There is a small light that shines from small holes at the end of this corridor, coming through that seemingly thin pile of rubble. There are still some doubts in his mind, can he do this? Can he really fly through this small place? His partner on his back also adds more mental pressure, and it's the biggest one so far. Hurting himself from trial is one thing, but it's very different when she's hurt because of his failure.
The girl on his back is getting impatient thanks to that huge explosion sound they heard before. "You can do it, MachGaogamon, nothing to be scared of." Juri said to him, still considerate and trying to ease him up despite her tone clearly showing her worry about the others. That quickly changes when they can hear a roar coming from the other side of that rubble. "MachGaogamon!"
Holding back his nerves, MachGaogamon let himself go and reached top speed in just a few meters. Placing his fist forward, he could only hope that his steel fists would break that rubble. He only realizes that he was underestimating himself when that pile of rubble feels nothing, he smashes it quite easily. Unfortunately, their smiles only last for a few seconds.
Amidst the chaos below them, Juri's eyes locked on one person. "Takato!" She points in his direction, and MachGaogamon shifts his direction immediately. He might not be able to fully control himself in the air, but still able to charge toward the boy.
Growlmon's fire breath is about to hit Takato. Suddenly, Yamaki pushing his body, the blonde man jumped just to push him away from the fire. In that moment, he can see it all very clearly. The fire coming from the side, Yamaki who pushed him, all happens when he falling down to the floor. But then, he sees something coming from behind. A large thing pushes both of them away from that fire.
Both of them were saved by MachGaogamon just in the nick of time, he hugged them tightly before falling to the icy floor, sliding quite far thanks to his speed. Another problem instantly noticed by him, he can't stop and at this rate they'll crash into piles of ice rubble. With not much choice, he grabs Juri and hugs her as well, protecting all of them. They crash into rubble with MachGaogamon's back first, he quickly tries to move away, afraid that it'll fall down upon them even though the pile isn't that big nor that tall. He lets them go and Juri immediately checks on Takato.
When she checks his body, nothing seems to be injured. "I-I'm fine.." Said Takato, all while still panting from that close call. "Thank you, ow.. that's so close eh? And.. Y-Yamaki!"
"Don't mind me." The man slowly turned his body to sit, taking a deep breath with his hands covering his eyes. After a few seconds, he peeks and sees them looking at him with a worried face. Yamaki put on his glasses again, they can't tell what's going on inside his head from his stoic expression. "I'm fine, let's worry about him first." He said, pointing at the howling Growlmon.
They see Growlmon heading to them and it's a good thing, way better than heading towards Renamon who's injured or the rest of the tamers without their partners. Without saying a word, MachGaogamon nods at Juri and ready to fight Growlmon.
"Takato, he.." Juri can't put a good word to describe the state Growlmon is in, all of it is bad and it's just going to make her feel bad if she says it to Takato. "You tried to talk with him?"
Takato shakes his head. "I'll try, he'll back to us in no time."
Watching his smile, Juri becomes confident as well. She assumes that Growlmon didn't see him clearly before and attacked Takato right away. "You can count on us, just shout at him, okay?" She grabs one of her cards. "Card Slash! Digi modify: Armor!"
Growlmon started to move faster towards MachGaogamon, then ran before trying to slash him. Clank! The tough claws meeting the steel-hard fist, Growlmon continues his attack. It's not that threatening if one sees it in terms of pattern of those attacks. Each clawing attack is rather simple, too simple in fact that MachGaogamon easily dodged them by stepping back. After dodging some more, he feels like it's time to lure Growlmon to stop his movement, so he positions his hands down. The next attack dodged by ducking a little bit, then MachGaogamon grabbed both arms and lifted them up, making Growlmon unable to attack.
"Growlmon!" Takato shouting the loudest he can. "Growlmon! Over here!" He waved his arms, trying to grab his attention. "It's me! Takato!" Still no response from Growlmon, and he also starting to overpower MachGaogamon's grip. Running out of time, Takato tries to recall something important between them. "Guilmon! It's me, Takatomon! I-I'm here, we promised to play again, right!?"
They can't understand why Takato said that, yet to their surprise Growlmon looks down a bit, for a moment. Just when they thought Takato's voice reached him, Growlmon looked up again and broke free from MachGaogamon's grip. Growlmon raises his right arm, the side blade on his right arm glows, then tries to attack Takato using that. Another close call as MachGaogamon tackles the giant lizard to the ground, he then looks at them with a panicked face.
"Cards! Use your cards!" Shouted Juri.
Takato nods, he takes out a card randomly from his deck. "Card Slash! Wormmon's Silk Thread!" It's a risky move, but that's the card that happens to be on the very top of his deck. They waited but nothing happened, so they waited for another thirty seconds in hope that it got delayed. Unfortunately, nothing happened. "N-No.." At lost, Takato trying to recall when Guilmon's lost control. That happened because of him, and resolved thanks to him as well. Takato grips his D-Ark tighter, then raises it towards him.
"Matrix Evolution!"
Again, nothing happens. Takato still there with his D-Ark and Growlmon still fighting MachGaogamon. Yamaki and Juri run to him, they can see how devastated Takato is from his expression alone, but there is no break for them. Wham! MachGaogamon pushed back by Growlmon's leg, he quickly got up again to protect them. "Howling.." Growlmon moves closer and about to attack him again, not realizing what MachGaogamon was up to. "Cannon!" His howl blasted Growlmon onto some rubble, buying them some time.
"Tch! Not even that is working, is the virus that strong?" Yamaki keeps staring at Growlmon, he gets up rather quickly, as he expected. "Takato.." He turns to the teen, a bit unsure of how to say it. "I think we need to fight him."
"But-"
Sensing the hesitation from Takato, Yamaki cuts him off. "Takato! We're just going to knock him out, that's the only way to calm him down. Alright?" With a deep breath, Takato agreed on that. Now they turn to Juri as she's the only one who has the means to carry that out.
Juri shakes her head. "There's still one thing we can do, just ask." She then points at Dianamon. "Can't be that hard, right?" Both look at each other, Juri's suggestion isn't that bad in their eyes. Now that all of them agree on this, they're about to run to Dianamon before being stopped by MachGaogamon.
Their eyes focused on Growlmon again, and they quickly understood why he stopped them. MachGaogamon starts to get nervous. "Uhh.. I think this might be a huge problem." He said. "I need everything from you, Juri. Half baked attack won't cut it this time."
"Heaven's Judgement!"
Cherubimon's barrage of lightning comes down to strike his opponent once again, he mustered most of his remaining power for this attack, yet none of it hit Dianamon. It seems easy for Dianamon to dodge one after another, but she's still annoyed by it because now there is some distance between her and Cherubimon. Dianamon didn't realize that she shouldn't be able to dodge those, she's heavily injured and exhausted, not to mention that her vision is slightly blurred. It was her weapons that saved her, her scythe lost some of its parts while at the same time making it lighter than ever. Cherubimon's attack also comes into play, as those lightnings came slower than before.
Both of them know that the final exchange might be sooner than they expected, and Dianamon knows she needs to get closer if she wants to be the one who comes out victorious. Judging by the slow lightning charge, Dianamon moves forward. With this distance, Cherubimon must be choosing to throw that attack once again. Unfortunately, her judgement is wrong. A single lightning spear comes in the blink of an eye, she quickly grabs one of her protrubances, taking out her ice arrow.
BOOM!
It was too close and exploded a bit to the right in front of her, Dinamon's vision tilting heavily to her left. She started to see the ground and about to fall, in that moment she forcefully move her left leg forward to prevent herself from falling to the ground. Another lightning spear comes towards her, she propels herself to the right with her left leg then charges in once again. What makes her afraid is that if she falls even once, she might not be able to get up again. Now she's able to face him head on, she can tell that Cherubimon is also desperate to end this fight quickly. No more ice arrows or lightning at this range, and with that, her confidence in winning this fight shoots up to the sky.
Not far from those two megas, Sealsdramon stares blankly at the snowfall. It's calming and soothing, refreshing his memory of when they were just playing around with no care in the world. It's always been him to be the guardian, the stronger one. Now it's the opposite, and that pisses him off, it's painful to see her hurt just for his sake. Grabbing his knives, Sealsdramon starts moving once again. He's fed up with himself, who became a burden for his beloved friend. His condition isn't any better than hers, but he still wants to finish what he started no matter what result he'll get.
"Look out!" Mako shouted at them, alerting them about the incoming Sealsdramon. He runs toward the cyborg lizard. "Halt! You need to walk past me first!"
Three of them stand in between the girls and Sealsdramon, their legs might be trembling but their resolve is very strong. "Y-You better turn around, Sealsdramon. It's c-checkmate now!" Kazu threatened him with stuttering voice. All Sealsdramon can think of is cute, this is a cute attempt from them. "W-What's with that laugh? It's three on one, you're done for!"
There is this weird feeling when looking at them, not anger, but some kind of respect that they're willing to put themselves in for their friend. It's still pointless, he can beat all of them in his current state, yet now he can't bring himself to hurt them. "What's your name?" He asked him. "I said, what's your name, human?" He repeat.
They're confused when he asks that, then it's Kenta who plainly answers that. "Uhh.. he's Kazu." Kenta is pointing at Kazu since Sealsdramon seems to be focused on him. "I'm Kenta and he's Mako."
"Alright, thanks Kenta." Sealsdramon chuckles while walking closer, they freeze in spot from the fear. To their surprise, he gives one of his knives to Kazu and walks past them. "You can be a hero if you want, Kazu. That was brave for someone weak, I mean.. well, can you give me a break here? I just want to ask a little favor from her, okay?" They didn't answer so he walked past them. They stand there in disbelief, Kazu shows them the knife before they stare at Sealsdramon again.
Now it's the other three who're in front of him, Ai, Ruki, and Renamon. He can see Ai is scared, so he throws his other knife down. "It's okay, I'm not here for you."
Ruki pats Ai's back, then gestures for her to join her brother. Both she and Renamon didn't need to be on guard even when Ai walked past him, they could tell that he wouldn't pull any cheap moves. "Haven't you had enough?" She asked him. He chuckles, then shakes his head. "Well, you asked for th-" Her hand was stopped by Renamon before she could take one of her cards. While she doesn't agree with her own partner's decision, Ruki realizes there is not much she can do about the other fights even if this one finishes faster. For now she'll watch and help Renamon when this goes too far.
After the brief rest, Renamon feels ready to fight. She points out his knife that's on the floor. "Is it because of me?"
"No no, not like that. I just... I don't know, Renamon. Maybe your flame messed up my head, heheh." He laughs. "Or.. we can call it a fair fight. And I'm planning to win, just so you know. She'll win her fight, but I can't just sit there being useless all the time, right?"
They slowly move closer, and closer, only stopping when they're inside each other's attack range. Both staring at each other, trying to predict each other's attacks. Renamon is the one who breaks the stalemate, thrusting her right claw like a 'spear' towards Sealsdramon's head. It dodged very easily, Sealsdramon about to counter her with a punch but another attack coming to him. He managed to dodge Renamon's flurry of attacks thanks to his visor, from others eyes it looks so smooth and easy, but now her attacks start to graze him. Whoosh! A right palm strike, Sealsdramon decided to block it with his left arm. Giving him a chance for a right punch towards Renamon.
Wham! CRACK!
A clean hit, from Renamon. She kicked him right on the chest, pushing him two steps back and cracking his armor which was badly damaged by Antylamon. An obvious opening can be seen and Renamon isn't letting it go, she moves forward and delivers a palm strike on his chest. Crack! Crack! He wedged his right forearm in the way to reduce the damage, now another part of his armor cracked and he's reeling back even further. Sealsdramon jumps back to reset their exchange, but Renamon just uses her greatest weapon, speed. She dashes to deliver another kick at the same spot. He fell and landed back first, sliding a few meters away.
It only took him a few seconds to regain his focus, only to see Mako's and Kazu's eyes. "Tch! Get away brats!" He waved his hands to scare them before getting up. It caused more damage than he expected, he sees Renamon waiting for him to get up. "Well thanks, Renamon.. Heh, you really need to embarrass me like that, huh?"
Sealsdramon takes a deep breath then moves first, he's not going to wait for her to make the first move. Their interval of attacks is very short, but one slip can determine the outcome. He punched, kicked, and even used his tail to restrict her vision or distract her, none of them were working. Despite having a higher level, he's too exhausted for this. Renamon knocked him down again, and again, and again. He's not giving up, getting back up again right after she put him on the ground.
Wham! Sealsdramon is down to the cold floor once again, this time he's fallen right beside his knife. For a moment, he thought about using it, but then decided not to do it. He gets back up, then walks towards her. Like his earlier attempt, his attack is stopped, but this time it's not because of Renamon. A loud roar catches everyone's attention including Cherubimon and Dianamon, followed by a rain of fire. Each of them explodes on contact and one of them hits not far from them, Renamon blown back by the shockwave while Sealsdramon is caught in the explosion.
Watching it unfold, Dianamon who's in a stalemate with Cherubimon quickly pushes him away, then runs towards him. She makes it in time when another big flame falls towards them, blocking it with her scythe. More is still coming and she's forced to stay as a shield, behind her Renamon is starting to recover from dizziness while Sealsdramon is still on the ground. While defending them from those flames that are coming like an eruption, Dianamon keeps glancing back to check on him, she sees Ruki followed by five tamers running towards Renamon.
One hit from this flame will delete or revert her body into its weaker form, so Dianamon chooses to focus on defending first. With limited choices, she braces herself to ask them. "Carry him, please!" Beg her towards them. "I'll protect you but please take care of him, just that." She relieved when Jian nodded, he started dragging Sealsdramon with the help of Kazu and Kenta.
Dianamon sees Cherubimon stuck in the same spot, trying his best to dodge or defend himself from those flames. She can't find the other Digimon who came to fight Growlmon before, not that she can worry about it. Because there is a huge dragon standing in front of her, she can tell it's Growlmon or his stronger form from the symbol on its chest. That Digimon stops shooting fire from his haw, then flaps his wings while slithering with his lower snake body to move even faster.
Clank! Dianamon's cracked scythe blocked his maw from biting her, the crack got worse because of that.
It's hard to believe that she finds herself fighting to protect or working with those tamers now, but she knows that if she's not doing this, then this Digimon will obliterate them all.
MachGaogamon is holding his head and groaning in pain. When his head stops spinning, he's frantically looking for them. He can't be more relieved when he sees Takato, Juri, and Yamaki running towards him. They seem to be safe after that blast, it caught him off guard and sent him flying to the rubble. How can he digivolved with that condition? Moreover, it's not a normal digivolving process, but rather a huge jump of power in a split second.
The three finally arrived and he nodded to tell them that he's fine. "You sure? Is your back okay? Those rocks look sharp." Juri still asked him, which makes him smile at her, not just to ease her up but because he's happy about that as well.
"Everything's fine, Juri. Don't worry about me." At the same time, his eyes can't ignore the thing he sees on the other side of this giant hole. "Look! He's-" They already turned to the fight before he even pointed it out. He can tell that this isn't the first time for them, and it seems to be a bad memory.
Juri moves closer to Takato, then grabs his hand. It surprises him because he's too focused on Megidramon. "It's not your fault, okay?" His expression is still grim, she didn't need to ask how he feels when his grip on her hand tightens and he trembles a bit. "You're just trying to give your feelings to him, nothing's wrong with that." Juri can feel that he's calming down from his hand, she then glances back to see that MachGaogamon is ready to roll again. "Guilmon listened to you, he won't do this again after that time."
It happened only once, in the end he worked with him and guided him on the right track. His confidence is there once again and he chuckles. "Well, that was because of you too. I still went too far and you stopped me, right?" He looks at her and surprised when she seems to be embarrassed. "I-uhh.. let's go! We're running out of time!"
"Y-Yeah!" Juri turns to MachGaogamon and gives him a go, he grabs both of them and puts them on his back. "Yamakii! We're going!" The blonde man quickly hops on his palm and then climbs to his back, he puts himself a bit lower to watch over them.
Before MachGaogamon moves, Yamaki climbs up to his shoulder. "Hey, punch him right away. Buy her some time." Said Yamaki, he got a weird stare from Takato and Juri. "It's not going to hurt him, we've talked about this. Beside that, look."
They look at the fight and Takato gets the rough idea. "You want us to work with her?"
"I think we already did, look." Juri replied while pointing at Ruki and others who running away from Megidramon. "They.. they carrying Sealsdramon! What's going on?"
"I don't know, she said Guilmon only listen to her but.. We'll ask them later, let's go!"
The rockets on MachGaogamon's back roared once again, spewing blue flames that stronger than his first flight. This time he's confident, even when he got three people instead of one on his back and took off immediately. He's flying quite fast, they're barely able to hold on to his back. Placing his right fist forward, MachGaogamon tries his best to aim at Megidramon. Unlike Megidramon, Dianamon sees him coming and desperately pushing the angry dragon. She kicked him on the chest, causing him to take off his bite from her scythe. Then, the super punch landed right on his face, sending Megidramon away for now.
Dianamon slumps down to her knees and breathes erratically, she's dropping her scythe on the floor, barely able to keep herself on the fight. Glancing to her side, she sees MachGaogamon standing beside her, watching over Megidramon who'll be coming for another round very soon. She also sees Yamaki coming down from the dog's back, walking closer to her. He seems to ask her about something, but she's too disoriented to hear it properly. "What..?" She asked him back.
"Are you okay?" He repeated his question once again. "Hey, are you okay? Dianamon?"
When she heard that question, she got confused. She quickly grabs her scythe and about to slash MachGaogamon, only to stop mid swing. She thought of something else when they came towards her and Megidramon, now it seems that they're actually trying to save her. "Why?" She asked plainly. Before they could answer her question, Megidramon who's getting up caught their attention. Dianamon takes out one ice arrow and shoots it at Megidramon, hitting the dragon right in the head and causing him to fall again. "Why!?"
Takato jumps down from MachGaogamon, joining Yamaki. "Because you saved them." Her eyes widen a bit for a moment, like finally realizing the most obvious thing she'd done. "Return back Guilmon, please. You said he'd listen to you, right?" His voice sounds a bit desperate.
To their surprise, she shakes her head. "I can't, I don't even know how he turned into that." She stares at Takato. "This isn't the first time, is it? How bad is this?"
"Worse than bad." He replied plainly.
Dianamon's mind isn't only focused on Megidramon, she keeps glancing at MachGaogamon as well. "Will you spare him if I help you?" She asked him.
Takato frowned. "What?"
"I said spare him if-"
"Damnit! YES!" Yamaki's scream surprised them. "You want that!? Yes, we'll do it! It's not the time!" Takato, who finally gets it bumps Yamaki's side a bit with a sorry face, to which Yamaki replies with a sigh and nod.
Dianamon's legs's armor is starting to glow, although it's going way slower than before. "We get one shot, and that's it."
All of them can see Megidramon moving quite fast in their direction, seemingly furious from that ice arrow. He shoots a small fire at Dianamon. Without any command from Juri, MachGaogamon had already put his body in front of Dianamon. It's easily blocked thanks to his steel fists, that flame creates a small explosion, prompting those three to take some distance from the fight. A big claw comes out from the other side of the explosion, catching MachGaogamon off guard, he's still able to put his right arm in the way even though it's pushed down instantly. He didn't expect him to attack with this flame still there, and it followed up with a bite. With no other choice, he put his left arm to defend that, his forearm bitten by Megidramon and the dragon not letting it go.
The plan is crumbling instantly, Dianamon has no choice but to step in when she hears a crack from MachGaogamon's steel hand. She bashes Megidramon's neck, it works for a moment but more than enough for him to take charge of buying time again. With a loud howl, MachGaogamon starts showering Megidramon with heavy blows. He uses his back rockets to stabilize his posture while doing this. Those blows weren't dealing as much damage as he expected, but his goal is just to stall him anyway. Unfortunately, his left hand is cracking further after some punches, he's losing focus because of that. Megidramon who barely hurt by his punches tries to bite again, forcing Dianamon to step in rather than focusing on charging her attack. She needs to take turns with MachGaogamon to stall Megidramon on top of preparing her skill.
Watching her partner struggle, Juri takes out one card then yells at Dianamon. "Dianamon! Get back!" Dianamon jumps to the side, now nobody is in MachGaogamon's way. "Card Slash! Birdramon's Meteor Wing!" A big fire spawned on each of his palms, he then throws them at Megidramon. The red dragon isn't planning to dodge them, he's rather blasting fire from his jaw in response.
Another explosion, one of them uses that moment to take initiative, and this time it's MachGaogamon who's charging through the flame. He grabs Megidramon's shoulder with his left hand, surprising him. "My turn." He pulled back his right arm to its maximum before launcing a strong right punch. "Winning Knuckle!" He managed to stagger Megidramon, letting him back a bit and letting go of his grip. It only takes a few seconds for Megidramon to recover, but when he looks up again, MachGaogamon has already taken a deep breath. "Howling Cannon!"
Fire versus fire, then roar versus roar. Those are the same, but it's clear who's the one with greater raw strength. MachGaogamon blew back and fell to the ground, leaving Dianamon defenseless. A shout that came from Megidramon's back stopped her before she even switched from preparing her light beam to defend. Antylamon comes with his axe-hands, hitting Megidramon in the back.
"Arrrghh!"
To everyone's surprise, the scream wasn't Megidramon's. It's Dianamon who screamed and now writhing in pain, her data is starting to evaporate all of sudden. The rest of them are trying to find the attacker, yet there are no Digimons near them. Still in pain from her detoriating body, Dianamon forces herself to stand up. She glances at three of them. "Keep your promise.."
"Goodnight Moon!"
Slithering across the empty ruins, these two Digimons baffled when they didn't meet a single Digimon along the way. They still hear loud noises coming from battle, which is their destination. One of them huffed in annoyance, this is worse than he thought and he got angrier because of that. Passing one broken building after another, he finally meets another Digimon beside his peers. He called that Digimon, expecting a response. He got one, yet it was very different from his expectations.
That lone Digimon is a wounded Zudomon. "Megadramon? G-Gigadramon?" He stared at them with confused look. "How dare you enter our territory? Do you even know who rules this place!?"
They glanced at each other for a second before Gigadramon nodded, he keeps moving while Megadramon moves towards Zudomon. "Hahh.. for a weak pawn, you've got the nerve to talk to us." Megadramon now stands right in front of him, looming over him.
Feeling threatened, Zudomon tries to push him away. "W-What do you—HMMPH!?"
"Listen, small fry.." Megadramon's claw grip is too strong for Zudomon, he can't pry it open. "Just because you're bigger than your friends, doesn't mean you are on par with us. Your evolution isn't a perfect one, you didn't evolve like us, because you wouldn't need to look up if that's the case. Also, do you even know who's above you? That lovely leader of yours is nothing, just so you know. Hah, hahahah!" This is quite fun for Megadramon, sadly he must pause his fun for now. He slowly lifts Zudomon from the ground with one arm. "Heh, do you even know what she looked like? I mean, before all of this, like.. quite some time ago. She was pathetic, but.. but.. but a lucky one. My Lord gave her a chance, aaand she blew that off. Hahh.. why do I even bother to tell you? Oh wait, what am I saying? You should see your own face right now, hahahahahah!"
With all of his might, Zudomon slowly prying open Megadramon's claw. "Raaahhhh! Y-You.."
Megadramon sighs. There is something protruding from the palm of his claw. "For a failed product, you're not that bad. I'll give you a quick one." Before Zudomon could understand anything, his head exploded. Megadramon drops his body, leaving the evaporating body without batting an eye.
The two walk side by side again. "Took you long enough."
"Don't be like that, I'm bored over here." Megadramon replied, followed by a long yawn. "Let's put this place where it should be. Come on, they won't get away from us. What's the harm?"
"Suit yourself, less work for me. We need to clean up some mess after this as well, but don't forget why we came to this place."
Even with Gigadramon's approval, Megadramon isn't happy because he just noticed something else. "You already used that, why?" He huffed. "Can't even wait to use that? I want to see how it works with my own eyes."
They were both annoyed with each other's actions. They may look alike, yet they have very different minds. "I can't fully use that, happy?" They stare at each other in silence. "Just do your thing, I let you finish her on your own. Is that enough?" Finally, Megadramon nodded even though he wasn't satisfied. He then flaps his wings and flies. Not long after, the ground he flew by turned into scorching hell.
After that blinding light, both mega level Digimons collapsed on the ground. One lays unconscious while other whimpers in pain. Dianamon's sudden scream in pain confused them, no one attacked her including Megidramon, yet now her data is breaking away from her body. It doesn't take long before her whole body changes shape, shrinking a bit before showing its different form. Juri uses her D-Ark, she's not Dianamon anymore. Her armor isn't covering as much as before, her legs are also changing from human-like to the hind legs of a four legged animal.
Watching all of that happen, MachGaogamon can understand that she lost some of her power and reverted to her weaker form. What he doesn't understand is that the process is still going even after that. "What's going on? She.. her data still breaking apart!" His head leaned down, closer to his partner.
Juri can only shake her head. "It's said that she's Crescemon, an ultimate level." She looks around, Jian helping Shaocung and Antylamon, Takato running to check on Megidramon, and the rest of them just coming out of hiding. It's just her and Yamaki who can help Crescemon, so she moves closer and asks her directly. "What's going on? Is this some aftereffect of some sort?"
Crescemon looks at her. "Hrrghh.. I... don't know.." She's still huffing, trying to be calm while her body is still deteriorating. "Keep your promise.. please.."
"Stop talking like that! We're going to help you!"
Before they could do anything, a distant sound of an explosion caught everyone's attention. Then it's getting louder, even louder, more explosions, and it keeps going until they see the smoke caused by one of those explosions. Those Digimons who were watching their fight started running away as missiles raining down from the sky. Then something big fell into the middle of this hole.
A big Digimon suddenly appeared in a shocking way. His body has the same proportions as Megidramon, the most noticeable differences are that he's not wearing armor and his hands are steel claws. Both claws are glowing a bit red and emitting smoke, like overheating. The first thing he does after landing is laugh, like having fun with all of this.
Megadramon looks around. "Hmm? Am I late to the party?" He said it with a grin on his face, showing his sharp teeth. Then, his eyes locked on MachGaogamon, who seemed to be ready for a fight. "You.. who are you? I don't have you on my list. Well, who cares!? Better get ready because you're going to be the first! So put on a smile and be happy for that, yeah~? You're lucky enough to fight me."
A missile hit the spot in front of Megadramon, he's not fazed by the explosion but annoyed by it. Another Digimon flew down and landed beside him, they're similar, but this one has grey skin rather than orange, its wings are metallic and grey unlike Megadramon's purple wings. "I told you to focus on our-" Clank! Crescemon's blade met Gigadramon's claw, he's not surprised at all even when she launches a surprise attack. "See, our main problem still here."
Crescemon still holding back the pain, she's starting to get what's going on. "You.. you sent by-Arrrghh!" Just when she about to say something, a sharp pain came from inside her body. "That-ahhh!" Once again, she falls on her knees, panting from the pain.
"You don't have the right to it, Crescemon. Or should I say.. Lunamon?" Gigadramon raises his claw again, preemptively blocking Crescemon's ice arrow. "If only you put in more effort like this, then we'll negotiate for you."
Her eyes widen in realization. "What!? So all this time we just-arrghh!" She winced in pain again.
Gigadramon scoffs with a disgusted face. "You should've known your place, what's even in your head that day? Well, it's too late.. Hey! Your turn!" Not getting any response, Gigadramon turns to his friend. "Hey."
Megadramon shakes his head, his eyes still fixated on MachGaogamon. "She's yours, I'll take care the rest. It's more fun this way."
"..." Gigadramon stares for a few more seconds, then shifts back to Crescemon, he notices someone else at the same time. "I'll let him watch your data fizzle away, then it's his-" That ice arrow is now glowing darkly, surprising him a bit. Although he still easily blocked it despite that. "Tch, you just asked for it."
The pain she felt before is suddenly gone, her body can move as she wishes again. She can't be more happy and feels lucky when giant metallic claws come to get her, dodging those is easy when she doesn't feel any sharp pain from each step. Moreover, most of injured parts of her mega form is gone, leaving her with a weaker form but a healthy one. Left-right-left-right, she started to feel that this wasn't that hard. This size and power gap don't matter much when those attacks aren't landing. She kept dodging effortlessly before finally noticing something, he's not just blindly attacking her out of anger, now her back is against big pile of rubble.
Raising his right claw again, Gigadramon isn't just slamming it right down, this time it's more like a stabbing movement with that big closed claw. Crescemon rolls to her left side, his claw plunges into that rubble, he forcefully break free by moving it at the direcction she fled. Big and small rocks are flying in her direction, along with some snow. When she thinks that she's free from him, his big claw comes out of the dust. Crecemon jumps back and surprised when his claw doesn't plunge into the ground, like he stopped it mid-thrust.
The closed claw opened and pointed towards her, something is coming out of the middle of that three-clawed hand. "I've had enough, Crescemon." A missile shot at her and she couldn't dodge it mid-air, she crossed her arm and bracing herself for the impact. But she got hit from her side, making that missle miss. "You should've stays put and watchs the show, what can you do with that body anyway?"
"Sealsdramon!" Crescemon holds his body, he jumped to save her even in his bad condition. "What are you doing? I already told them to-"
He shuts her mouth and points to the other side. "Renamon and her friends saved me, but there is no safe place no-" Coughs forced him to pause for a moment. "No safe place, okay? Beside that, I can't just leave you to fight him alone, right?" He's smiling, trying to be positive yet only making her feel worse.
Not far from his friend, Megadramon is fighting MachGaogamon and Antylamon at the same time. He's still coming out on top even when they got help from their partners, it's just a one sided beatdown. A bright arrow is coming and he just raises his metal claw to block it. It confuses him a bit since that arrow coming from MachGaogamon. It's not long before Megadramon noticed that a girl kept using her cards before MachGaogamon launched a variety of attacks, which just excites him even more.
Rocket powered punch coming on his right while a sharp buffed axe-hands coming on the left at the same time, all Megadramon do is block each of them with one arm. They stopped immediately, trembling as they tried to keep some pressure on Megadramon. "Heh, raahh!" Megadramon pushes MachGaogamon a bit then swings his right arm to Antylamon, he tilt his arm a bit to hit Antylamon with his forearm rather than stabbing him with his claw, hoping to fight a bit longer. Antylamon pushed back and fell to the ground, groaning in pain.
MachGaogamon uses his rocket to launch a counterattack after being pushed back. "How dare y-" WHAM! His belly punched by Megadramon, he didn't expect him to turn around and hit him that fast. Clenching his fist, MachGaogamon not backing down and throwing punches with the help of his rockets to stay up.
"Heh! I know you had something~" Megadramon said while defending from those punches. He hit him back and to his delight, MachGaogamon isn't stopping. He can't help but drag this fight on longer. "Come on! Show me more! You didn't take her out with just these, right? You-.. huh? Turning coward after all of that?"
Amidst his confusion on why MachGaogamon is retreating, Megadramon notices a shadow cast upon him. He turns back to find another Digimon who's just like him, this one way bigger than he expected, way bigger than when he sees him still unconscious on the ground. Before he could react, his head slammed to the ground. Megadramon quickly gets up and howls, he stabs him on the chest only to find that his claw didn't even put a scratch on his armor. A single swing from Megidramon is enough to send Megadramon into the rubble, burying him in the process.
Boom! The rubble where Megadramon fell exploded, and he got up with a smirk on his face. "Gehahahaha! That's more like it!" He aims both arms at Megidramon. "Genocide Attack!" Two missiles strike Megidramon yet he's not fazed by that, even starting to move towards Megadramon. Megadramon keeps shooting and shooting, not stopping when he can't even see him thanks to the smoke from those explosions.
The commotion from those explosions alerts Gigadramon, he throws Sealsdramon to the side then activates the program inside her again, causing Crescemon to scream in pain. He increases the effect to its maximum and her data is rapidly breaking apart.
"Stop it!" Sealsdramon tried to attack him, but slammed to the ground.
"Tch, too slow." Gigadramon suddenly stopped the program inside her, then aimed his right arm towards her. "Enough of you, begone!"
It was so quick, she felt a hug from Sealsdramon before the missiles hit them. Everything becomes blurry for a moment and when she opens her eyes, she only sees snow gently falling on her face. She can't feel much, but one thing she knows is that her current form might be her weakest. Strangely, she feels calm, eerily calm yet she's happy about it. "Is this it?" She thought, she wanted to go longer but she knew that she should've been gone a long time ago. Everything she did after that was meaningless, except one thing.
It's dark, she closed her eyes for a few seconds before someone called her name. She opened her eyes to see a blonde human face. he's holding her body and taking her somewhere. "Yama.. ki..? What are you-"
"Shh, save it for later. I'm just doing his request."
Yamaki put her down near Sealsdramon, there are Ruki and Renamon who sit near him. All of them are in bad condition, but Sealsdramon has the worst of it. While her body reverted to her rookie form, Sealsdramon still retained his but started to break down entirely. "No! No! This can't be-" Tears coming out like waterfalls while no one says a thing. "I-I can still.. P-Please, help him! Please!" Lunamon turns to them, all of them look down and away from her.
A gentle pat on her head makes her cry worse. "Shh shh~ What are you crying about? Funny to see you begging them after all that happened, heh heh~" Sealsdramon is coughing, yet his hand won't stop patting her head. "Hey, it's just like that day, no? This snow.. ahhh... it's.. lovely.. not as quiet but I won't complain." He chuckles. "Hey, I have a small request, it's the same request on that day. You still-" Lunamon's eyes widen, and that puts a smile on his face. "Heh, I know you still remember. So.. do that for me, okay~?"
About hundreds of Digimons are running away from their own base, fear and panic have already taken over their minds. First, they saw their leader lose to their enemies, then another disaster that is Megadramon raining them with his missiles. In their minds, it's just pointless to fight back, not even Dianamon can stop even one of those three dragons with her strongest skill. Now they're just trying to save their own life from this nightmare, but they just didn't know that they'll meet another nightmare on their way.
A flash of light comes from one of them, it's Zudomon. He suddenly reverted into Ikkakumon, then some Digimons are starting to de-digivolve into their weaker forms. This adds to the chaos amongst them, some keep running while others are too confused to do anything. Out of nowhere, a big Digimon is walking in the opposite direction of where they're going. This Digimon just walked past some of them while a small Digimon rested on his shoulder.
One of them yelled. "It—It must be him! He's doing this to us!"
"R-Run away! He's absorbing your data!" Shouted some of them.
Beelzemon keeps walking, ignoring their screams. If no one wants to fight him then he won't bother to fight them, they seem to be different from those Digimons that tried to stop him before. Amongst them, he notices one Zudomon who still retains his form and aims his gun at him. In that moment, Zudomon de-digivolved to Gomamon, making them more panic. Beelzemon holsters his gun back. "That damned deva, why is he stopping controlling them now?" A loud noise snaps him back to his goal, and he starts running again.
It's not taking him a long time to find the big hole where the fight still going, Beelzemon hopping down and scaling the steep way down without any fear. Unlike him, Terriermon screams all the way, his heart even skipped a beat when Beelzemon decided to jump half way down to speed up the process. Their landing wasn't smooth, creating a small crater around his legs.
Everyone's attention shifted to the new Digimon, they felt fear the moment their eyes met Beelzemon's. It's not his size, they didn't even see his fight before this, yet there is intense mental pressure coming from Beelzemon. On the other hand, all Beelzemon see are five identical deva laughing at him. "Oh my, you finally here, Impmon~" Said one of them. "About time you show up, I'm getting bored over here~" Beelzemon turns to the other one who mocked him. "Getting little confused are you? Don't worry, you'll be gone soon enough~"
"Y-You.. you... YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" Beelzemon screams and takes out both shotguns, aiming at them. "DOUBLE IMPACT!"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
It's hitting all big sized Digimons there, whether they're friends or foes. While Beelzemon only shot each of them once, his attacks aren't something that they can easily shrug off, although Gigadramon and Megidramon are still able to stay in their spots. MachGaogamon and Megadramon who were injured, fell to the ground, their left hand and head armor were cracked respectively. The worst outcome is for Antylamon, he suffered too much damage and reverted to Lopmon.
Terriermon noticing that Beelzemon holsters back his shotguns and now his right hand is glowing dark. "I-Impmon, you don—AHHH!" Without second thought, he rushed towards Gigadramon with a raised right arm.
"Darkness Claw!"
"Tch! Guilty Claw!"
Clank! Their claws clashed and it seemed to be a draw at first before Gigadramon staggered back, he wasn't ready for that because of that gunshot and now in a bad position. Wham! Beelzemon kicked his belly, then swings his right arm again, Gigadramon still recovering from his earlier attack is trying his best to dodge. Fortunately for him, Beelzemon only managed to graze his head armor. Fully knowing that Beelzemon won't stop, he tries to stab him using his left claw, which is then knocked down by Beelzemon's left arm. That makes both of their bodies lean in the same direction, Beelzemon to his right while Gigadramon to his left, and Gigadramon uses that to aim his right claw when Beelzemon is barely able to react.
Something is about to come out of Gigadramon's claw and Terriermon has a bad feeling about it, he can't attack while clinging to Beelzemon so he jumps from his shoulder. "Terrier Tornado!" His small tornado hit Gigadramon's head, making him miss. Gigadramon tried to attack Terriermon because of that but his tail grabbed by Beelzemon, Beelzemon pulled his body from the tail and spun him before throwing him to Megadramon. The two dramons collapse on the ground again, as the one who recovers first, Gigadramon pushes his friend away. WHAM! That last second push saved Megadramon from Megidramon's attack. Gigadramon gets up and takes some distance from the red dragon, he glances back to see Beelzemon grabbing his guns again. He can't believe their easy task turned into the worst possible scenario he ever thought of.
Meanwhile, tamers are running towards MachGaogamon. The sudden appearance of Beelzemon shocked them, especially when he attacked blindlessly. MachGaogamon becomes nervous, that was a close call for him and now his left hand cracks worsen. They can only watch as the megas are fighting, jumping right in won't do any good right now, at least not without a plan. One of their main fighters is badly injured, all Lopmon can do is rest in Shaocung's embrace.
They're too focused on the fight and didn't notice a small Digimon running to them. "Heyyy!" The first one to notice him is his partner Jian, who starts running to him. When he's close enough, he jumps and hugs him tight. "Moumantai Jian~ I'm here~" His smile has never been wider, he also wipes Jian's tears with his ears.
Jian lets out a relived laugh. "You're safe.. ha, haha.. I heard bad things from Lopmon.. I'm.. I just glad you're safe.." His hug tightened but interrupted by Teriermon's ears.
"Hey, he needs our help first." Said Terriermon. "Something's wrong with his thick head."
They run back to them and Terriermon explains everything as simply as he can. After listening to Terriermon, Ai and Mako become confused. "He's not listening? But.. But that's Impmon, right?" Ai asked with a worried face, replied with a nod from Terriermon. "Y-You didn't make him angry, right?" Mako asked. Juri quickly patted their shoulders, trying to calm them down first.
"You said he's calling Caturamon? But Caturamon is-" Takato turns to Lopmon, then back to Terriermon.
Both nodded, which makes Takato even more confused. "That's why I don't get it! He.. keep blaming him all the way here, it's-"
"Look out!"
Suddenly, Beelzemon and Megadramon fall not far from them. It seems that they're falling from the sky, which is not that shocking considering Megadramon's ability to fly. Megadramon tries to get up immediately, but his arm is kicked by Beelzemon. The demonic biker then grabbed his wings before punching his head relentlessly, only stopping when he isn't showing much reaction. A bit satisfied with that, Beelzemon grabbed him on the body before lifting him even with his smaller build, then throwing Megadramon away. Beelzemon takes out his guns and goes for it, but he's stopped by two familiar voices.
Mako and Ai run to him. "Impmon! Stop! That's enough!" Both holding his legs, trying to pull him. "You already win, Impmon. Don't-" Ai's voice stopped when one of Beelzemon's hands moved in her direction. Beelzemon stares at them and looks confused, that confusion gives MachGaogamon time to punch that gun from his hand, making him angry in the process. Juri and Takato quickly pulled them away before Beelzemon punches MachGaogamon's head.
Beelzemon growls. "Caturamon... enough with the trick, you coward! I can see that this is your pawn! I will-" He aimed MachGaogamon with his other gun and about to shoot him. Out of nowhere, an energy beam in the form of 'slash' hit his hand, making him drop his other gun. "Who is-gah!" Vajramon came at full speed and tried to hit him with both swords, but he managed to grab both and stop him.
"Get back!" Vajramon is trying to hold Beelzemon on his own to give MachGaogamon time to retreat, it's hard when he's exhausted and his sword already chipped from the previous battle. "Takato, what's going on here? Isn't this your friend!?"
Watching the fight, Ai is too afraid that her partner will get hurt. "No! Don't hurt Impmon!" She breaks free from Juri and runs to him again, only to be stopped by Takato.
"Not now, Ai.. He's not-"
CRACK! One of Vajramon's swords was snapped into two by Beelzemon, the biker then kicked him and about to grab Takato and Ai. This time, a roar stopped him. All of them turn to Megidramon who just beat Gigadramon, the red dragon moving towards them.
Beelzemon's eyes turn from red to black. "Caturamon.."
Like an invitation, Beelzemon also walking towards him. Both growling and ready to fight. One has size and power advantage while the other wins in speed. All eyes that are watching them know that they don't care about anything else. The only thing they can see is the fight in front of them, and whoever comes out on top won't get out unscathed.
And that's it for this one. Did you expect it over this chapter? Nuh uh, not this one. Well, I have fun writing the last two chapter, I hope you had the same thing when reading it!
Thanks for reading! As always, feel free to critique it! I would like to see some feedback!