Digimon: The Dark Continent [IC/Arc 1 Act 2: The First Digivolution]

[King K. Azo]

Xicor cursed under his breath as his Pepper Breath bounced off the Greymon. He knew he wasn't on the same tier of power, but most champions still felt that. Just how much were those arrows powering him up? Rigor gulped and shook his head. It seemed they would have to work harder to distract the thing.

 

"NOVA FLARE!" The two heard the Greymon call out.

"Oh, sh--!" Rigor was cut off as Xicor tackled him out of the way of the massive flame. However, despite not hitting the two, the turbulence of the attack threw them back a good distance, Rigor hitting his head as he landed on the ground. Xicor turned and looked at him before checking on the the destruction that laid before them.

Cinder and Mango were doing their best to distract the Greymon and get the arrows off of its head. However, someone attacked from the shadows and the Greymon began to charge. Maybe instead of pulling out the arrows..., they could destroy them? Xicor turned to Rigor, who was slowly trying to stand back up.

"I have an idea," the black dinosaur stated before he ran off, headed to Mango. "I'm borrowing you!" he stated, leaping into the air and landing on the small bird. "Flying lessons begin now!" He then kicked off, landing on top of a building. He kept an eye on the Greymon before he leapt into the air, taking as deep as a breath as he could. "Pepper... BREATH!" He opened his mouth, firing multiple purple fireballs that flew at the arrows. 

[Mr. Hyde]

 

Mango and Shiro looked on in horror as the multitude of icicles that Mango had dispatched proved to be severely inaffective.  It was almost enough to make Shiro collapse.  Maybe they should've ran.  

 

"You know...I can hold this guy off so you can get a head start on me."  

 

"Mango...I won't do tha-"

 

"I'll be right behind you...promise!"  And with that, Mango charged the already charging Greymon.  Shiro shook her head, she wouldn't leave him.  But what she would do was avoid that giant dinosaur's path of destruction!  She made sure to run perpendicular to Greymon to avoid being in his way.  As he was running towards Greymon, Mango felt a pressure on his head that made him fall on his face.  

 

"I'm borrowing you!  Flying lessons begin now!"  

 

The digimon bounded off his head to get the height advantage, meanwhile leaving Mango on the ground in the wake of Greymon's path.  

 

"Hey what the heck pal!  I ain't a Springboardmon if you couldn't tell!"  The tremors almost made the earth below him seem like some sort of trampoline, and he continued to bounce up and down.  After he steadied himself, he started to flap his wings.  "Well...I could always try!"  As he leaped into the air, he was met with a familiar sensation.  Another face plant.  "I'm gonna break my beak if I keep this up..."  Greymon was inching ever closer.  Mango deduced that aiming for Greymon's helmet was pointless...it was the most armored part of his body.  Even if the arrows were lodged in there, they wouldn't be so easy to remove as ones lodged in a bug's shell.  Instead, Mango leaped again, but this time to the side.  He launched several icicle spears towards the underside of Greymon's foot.  

 

 

"WILLIAM'S ARROW!"

 

Shiro turned her head around to notice the other voice that had intruded on the battle, but a barrage of arrows came from the opposite direction of the voice, hitting Cinder in the process.  Maybe if Shiro found the source of the voice, she could get it to call off Greymon.  

 

"Hide and seek time's over!"  She said as she ran towards the voice.  

[Super Chaos Sonic]

 

 

Kosuke, unlike the others, didn't look back...not even once. He held Delos close to him, trying to escape and find some cover. He noticed a bit of a small place he could rest, as he hid behind a small broken down building's wall. "A-Alright...I-I think we might be safe here..."

 

"Safe? You running away like that is called 'safe'?" Delos grumbled, finally wriggling his way out of Kosuke's arms, hopping down in front of his human partner. "Your friends need you and you want to run and hide?"

 

"H-How can they be my friends? I-I don't know anything about them!" Kosuke said, his voice dripping with fear and anxiety. "A-And there's no way we could w-win against something like that, Delos!"

 

The Coronamon only looked at Kosuke, before sighing. "Don't just write us off by making assumptions, Kosuke." he said, turning around and leaving the area, cracking his knuckles. "Whatever the case...I'm helping everyone."

 

Kosuke raised his hand to try and stop the fiery Digimon, but it was already too late, he was off running back towards the battle. He leaned back against the wall, as he held his chest some. His heart was racing, almost seeming to want to burst out from his chest. But...was he a coward? Kosuke sighed greatly, knowing what the answer was...yes...he was a coward.

 

 

 

 

 

Delos finally made his way back towards the others, seeing that everyone was trying their best to stop this rampaging Greymon. He had made it just in time to watch Xicor literally springboard from Mango up into the air.

 

"Heh...showoff..." he smirked, before rushing in and literally finding one of the mushrooms that were still around and leaping on it, which propelled him into the air. Delos saw the area where Xicor's Pepper Breath was going, so he knew exactly where the location he needed to aim at was.

 

"CORONA FLAME!!"

 

He shouted, as the flames on Delos' forehead began to move wildly as he finally unleashed a powerful fireball shot towards Greymon's arrows.

[The Warden]

As Greymon charged through building and rubble alike, the twin assaults of the BlackAgumon and Coronamon uselessly fizzled out on its strong back. This was still enough to get its attention as it swung about angrily, Mango's icicles impacting its hardened underfoot and shattering. Eyes red with rage, the dinosaur's mouth filled with flame, all of it aimed towards whatever was in its way, namely the Penmon that had last attacked it. "NOVA FLARE!" it roared, unleashing a cauldron of flame broiling in the avian's direction.

 

"That's going to hurt" Kiero uttered quietly from his position amongst some rubble.

 

"How can you be so heartless~kyu?" CP inquired from atop his head.

 

"Not heartless, just stating facts."

[Mr. Hyde]

 

As Mango's icicles shattered effortlessly beneath the rampaging Greymon's foot, he stood a little downhearted.

 

"Dang....that's all I've got...no way I can compete with a Digimon this strong."  His beak curled...was he angry at his own weakness?  "FRUIT!  What can a lowly Penmon do!?"  With that, an image of Shiro shown in his head.  Her faint smile was cheering him on.  He shook his head and brought himself back into the moment.  When he opened his eyes, a giant inferno was headed his way.  There was no way he could avoid it in time...he wasn't as fast as the others.  

 

"Icicle Spear!"  He shlt multiple shards of ice at the large ball of flame, that would surely melt before making contact...but it was all he could do now.  Hopefully some of the moisture from the ice would lessen the heat of the attack!

 

 

Shiro kept up her search for what was creating that strange voice they had heard earlier, but saw nothing.  No matter what, she'd stop that onslaught of arrows!  

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Razomon did what he could to save as many of the little Digimon as possible. Some were just unreachable, whether it be a lack of strength or something else entirely.

 

Everything was just out of control at this point. Anyone who tried fighting that powered-up Greymon was either really brave, really stupid, or just had a death wish. But the fact of the matter is, some of them are his friends now. Can he protect them? Can he do anything at this point to make sure they live for another day?

 

Why even think about it? He's been doing it for so long. Cowardly as it might be, he's still alive because of it.

 

However, others aren't so lucky. He looked towards Mango, who cursed himself for not being of much use in this fight. And it was then that Razomon saw it: the raging inferno heading towards the Penmon. He just....stood there, almost as if he felt like he couldn't dodge it in time. Without even thinking, Razomon proceeded to run towards Mango, who tried to stop the attack to no avail. When he got close enough, he attempted to grab Mango and get him out of the blast's range. He figured that since he's faster, he might be able save the Penmon with probably just a few singed tail feathers.

 

He doesn't know if it'll work, but since he's lived most of his life trying to avoid confrontation, he had to try.

[King K. Azo]

Xicor growled to himself as he watched the combined might of the three couldn't even make the Greymon flinch. This was infuriating! They couldn't stop it from tearing this place apart! He clenched his fist, ready to try again, when he heard the Greymon roar,

 

"NOVA FLARE!!!" the giant dinosaur roared, firing yet another fireball at the small Penmon. Xicor could move out of the way, no problem, but... Mango...? No way that thing could get out of the way, not with those tiny little feet. He turned, see if he could yell, maybe even try to save the Digimon.

 

To his relief (not that he would admit it), Razomon had began to grab Mango, so he was safe. However... Xicor hadn't started to run yet... And the fireball was approaching quickly. He wouldn't get out of the way in time...

 

And then he felt a pair of arms around him. Looking up, he saw Rigor running out of the fireball's way. He could see his partner was hurt-- a blow to the head was never good...-- but he kept fighting. This was different from the coward he met not even a day ago....

 

Why was he doing this?

[BANZAI!!!!]

~The Fantastic Elastic Dragon~

 

Luck must have been on his side today.

 

For the first time in ages, Gumdramon had elected to go forraging on his own, without a posse of eager young in-training digimon accompanying him. This rare desire for some solitide had kept him out of primary village for hours, and as it so happened the little dragon digimon was completely unaware of the events unfolding as he made his way back home, a sack full of delectible fruits and a couple of trinkets slung over his shoulder. His success had put him in high spirits, but as he made his way back through the dense foliage toward home, the scent of smoke and the ever-growing sounds of combat changed the mood considerably. As he at last emerged from the undergrowth, his suspicions were confirmed. Primary Village was burning, and he could see his friends fleeing for their lives in the wake of... was that a Greymon? Well, whatever it was, there was only one course of action now.

 

Gumdramon took off running, sack in hand, toward the rampaging dinosaur. He was never one to countenance his luck, anyway.

 

---

 

It took him a minute or two, between weaving in and out of fleeing digimon and avoiding burning debris, but Gumdramon managed to get himself into the vicinity of the fight undetected. There were others there as well, doing what they could against a clearly overwhelming opponent. Perfect. Moving quickly, gumdramon held the sack with his fangs, and climbed the remains of a building to the rear of the rampaging greymon. He was in full view of anyone looking in his direction, however.

 

"Hey ugly!!" He yelled out in his little raspy voice, getting Greymon's attention. "You picked the wrong village to mesh with!" Now he sprung himself into the air, hurling his sack at Greymon's head and using the momentum from the toss to start spinning. As he did so he stuck out his tail, the hammer on its end igniting as the sack made contact, splattering its juicy contents all over the dinosaur's helmet. Gumdramon's hammer came next.

 

"Fire Vortex!!!!!!!"

 

His attack connected, the hammer impacting Greymon's right eye as Gumdramon bounced off of his armored carapace and landed hard, but seemingly unharmed on the ground before Greymon. The dinosaur recoiled in pain, the fruit juices running down his helmet and into his eye adding an extra sting to the attack. Gumdramon finished with a retort, and stood his ground.

 

"Come pick on shomeone your own shize!"

[The Warden]

The Greymon roared with fury as juice dripped down his helmet, stinging at the ugly black and red eye it was sporting. Teeth bared in pure anger, the berserk dinosaur's maw broiled with intense flame. "NOVA FLARE!" it roared.

 

Unleashing an enormous ball of flame, it impacted the ground very close to Gumdramon, the subsequent explosion knocking the rubbery digimon hard into a wall. Injured by the attack, the assault let up as Greymon dragged his own long horn on the ground and charged. His horn slashed through the ground with ease, and soon it hooked up the smaller digimon, before bashing him through the building for good measure. Raising his head and roaring, Gumdramon was flung from his horn and landed hard by Rigor and Xicor. Turning its blazing eyes towards the impudent little digimon, Greymon charged at all 3 of them, his horn lowered and ready to impale something as it cleaved the ground.

[King K. Azo]

“Why?” Xicor asked as he looked up at his partner.

 

”Why what…?” Rigor managed to pant out, looking over at the destruction the fireball had caused. They needed to stop this beast… but how?

 

”Why are you helping? You’re hurt, and almost all the other people ran. Yet you saved me… why?” Rigor smiled softly.

 

 

”Isn’t obvious, Xicor? We’re friends…,” Rigor stated. Xicor looked up to him. Friends…? Rigor thought of him as his friend? Xicor had been thinking of Rigor as a partner… as a power source… but the human thought they were friends. Xicor didn’t know why… but it made him feel better.

 

 

”Friends…?” The small dino gave a toothy grin and nodded.

 

“Come on, we’ll make it through,” Rigor stated as he set Xicor down. “We can---,” He was interrupted by a small and honestly adorable digimon landing hard next to them. Before the human could even check on it, the sound of the Greymon charging at them was heard. Rigor turned, seeing the monster coming… but instead of running, he stood his ground, staring down the beast as Xicor stood next to him. He was not running now. He would protect the village, if even only for a second…

 

What Rigor and Xicor didn’t expect was for the Blackagumon to start glowing, being engulfed in a flash of light.

 

Showing Your Bravery

 

Xicor felt strength flowing into him, and he could feel himself changing, more data flowing into him… making him stronger! Was this… Digivolution?

 

He could feel himself start to grow, his muscles growling as claws extended. His underbelly began to turn white as red streaks began to appear on his body. Yes, this was it.

 

“Blackagumon!” He stated. “Digivolve to… DARKTYRANNOMON!!” He finished his transformation with a roar, revealing his glorious Champion form.

 

As the Greymon neared, Xicor swung his new mighty arm, feeling immense satifaction as he felt his claw smash into the side of the Greymon’s head, sounding out a mighty boom.

 

“Round two, bullhead,”

[Super Chaos Sonic]

 

 

.....Kosuke was still hiding like a weenie while the others actually did things...that is all.

 

 

 

 

Delos was shocked to see that the Greymon literally knocked back both his and Xicor's assaults, just resulting them to fizzing out. Nevertheless, Delos didn't give up.

 

"Again...CORONA FLAME!!"

 

He launched another Corona Flame out, only watching the Greymon be not affected by it. "Dangit...this may take a while..." he grumbled, cracking his knuckles. About this time, Delos noticed Xicor being protected by Rigor. This was getting out of hand...

 

With a growl, Delos started running towards the Gryemon, only stopping seconds before seeing the one Digimon landing beside Rigor and Xicor...with the opposition coming towards them like a runaway Locomon. "H-HEY!!! Look out!!" he shouted, skidding to a halt to try and turn back around. And when he did...

 

“Blackagumon! Digivolve to… DARKTYRANNOMON!!”

 

Delos stopped suddenly before smirking a bit. "Heh...you son of a Dobermon..." he said, watching Xicor, now a DarkTyrannomon, knocking back the Greymon. "Hey!! Don't take all the fun for yourself!! CORONA FLAME!!" he shouted, jumping up and launching another fire attack straight at the Greymon.

[Mr. Hyde]

 

Mango stared ahead as the roaring inferno hurtled towards him, his icicles unable to do anything but fizzle away into mist.  As he looked to the side, he noticed Razomon running towards him, hoping to push him out of the way in time.  He was successful as the ball of fire just impacted the ground, exploding into a giant flame.

 

"You dummy!"  Mango said as he bonked Razomon on the head with his wing.  "Don't you know I was trying to do a cool sacrifice myself thing!"  It was then that a voice echoed throughout the battlefield.  

 

“Blackagumon!  Digivolve to… DARKTYRANNOMON!!”

 

Mango watched in awe as the new guy knocked the rampaging Greymon upside the head with a swing of his huge arm.

 

"Whoah..." His beak was wide open.  "How lucky!  Now we gotta big bad t-rex on our side!  Kick his butt DarkTyrannomon!"

 

 

Shiro continued to look for that voice, but stumbled upon a wimpering figure amongst the rubble.  It was the one boy...Kosuke!  Shiro ran up to him and put a hand on his back.  

 

"Hey...are you okay?"   

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

 

"Alright, now where the hell's this pansy ass birb?" Cinder had been flying around the place trying to find the Digimon that had come with the Greymon and stopped him from pulling out any of the black arrows that had been embedded into its cranium, but wound up prematurely reuniting with Teiljo instead, "Yo, Teil!"

 

Teiljo looked up just as he was finished with rescuing the in-training Digimon that was stuck, to see that Cinder was waving out to him.

 

"Cinder!" Teiljo called in return, "Is everyone safe?"

 

"Nope; while you were out saving the little guy, everyone else decided to play suicide squad," Cinder replied.

 

"WHAT??!!" Teiljo cried out, unable to believe what Cinder was saying, "Tch, damn it..."

 

"C'mon, we don't wanna be late," with that, Cinder flew off, with Teiljo following suit.

 

...

 

Sure enough, the two arrived to the scene, only to find that a different Digimon (presumably a Champion Level given its size) was combating the Greymon, and seeming to do a better job than everyone else. Although where was the BlackAgumon in all of this?

 

"Did we just miss a Digivolution?" Cinder looked around one last time as he said this, but his inability to find the guy seemed to confirm his suspicions, "Soooooon oooooof aaaaaaaa jabroni we just missed a Digivolution. All while I was trying to track down the big bad birb as well!"

 

"Never mind that, we need a game plan of sorts," said Teiljo, who then immediately began thinking of one while Cinder hovered in waiting.

[The Warden]

“Blackagumon!  Digivolve to… DARKTYRANNOMON!!”
 
Those words were meaningless to the berserk Greymon, but the fist certainly wasn't. Taken square in the jaw, the enormous dinosaur tripped as it stumbled back, crashing through some rubble and lying amongst its own destruction. "AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!"
 
Not a roar of pain, but of fury, the Greymon shrugged off the pitiful rookie attacks, its milky eyes focused entirely on this new challenger. Picking itself up, rubble fell from its body as it went into another berserk charge, colliding with DarkTyrannomon and forcing him to slide back a foot, their claws interlocked as the dinosaur just couldn't push the dark one back anymore. "ROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!" Greymon mindlessly roared as it tried to push Xicor back.

 

- - - - -

 

The onlooker, the cause of this disaster, was definitely not pleased by this turn of events. "BUU GEH GEH GEEEEEHHHH?!?!"

 

This wasn't supposed to be happening! The Greymon was supposed to destroy them, they weren't supposed to be fighting back with a champion of their own. Shoes it going to be so mad knowing those upstarts have already started to unlock digivolution!

[~Faytl~]

Kudamon had been absent from the fight for some time now, rather uncharacteristically. The second she had seen the new slew of arrows pick off Cinder, knocking him from the Greymon's head like a bowling pin, she had scurried down the raging Digimon's back and into the woods (after taking a second to laugh heartily at Cinder's misfortune), searching for the source of the arrows. 

 

It was starting to try her patience.

 

"Where IS this bastard?!" she demanded, popping her head out of a bush, the third one she had fallen into after a particularly ambitious jump to another tree. "Goddamn it, quit hiding like a freakin' wimp, come ON," she groused, pulling herself from the bush and scurrying up another tree, looking around and wrinkling her nose. "Geez... All that's here is some dumb old scarecrow." She scurried back down the tree and out into the remains of the village, looking around and seeing-

 

"Oooooh, bull CRAP," she yelled, glaring up at DarkTyrannomon. "BULLCRAP. You don't get to Digivolve before me, I've WORKED for this... Aaaah, screw you, who needs you." She poked her head up, searching for any signs of the wielder of the Dark Arrows and catching sight of Shiro coming across Kosuke, stopping as she headed towards the opposite side of the woods. She scurried up, alighting on a piece of rubble as she looked at the pair with a pensive expression.

 

"Heeey, you, you seem to have your head screwed properly on... Though I can't say the same for the rest of you," she quipped to Shiro. "So listen, what say you ditch the bird and this wimp and help me find whats-her-name? I wouldn't look for Riley or Ray or whatever her damn name is normally, but apparently I need her to Digivolve and fight THIS idiot." She glared back over her shoulder. "I can't believe he Digivolved before me, can't BELIEVE it..." She looked back to Shiro. "What are you lookin' over here for anyway? The Dark Arrows came from over THERE... good luck finding the wimp, though," she griped.

[Kōsuke Ueki]

"You dummy! Don't you know I was trying to do a cool sacrifice myself thing!"
 
Razomon decided not to respond to Mango's retort, at least not yet. He was, however, entranced by BlackAgumon digivolving all of a sudden, at least for a moment. He then turned his attention back to Mango. "Look, I'm not letting you give your life up so easily. I'll be damned if I lose anyone else!" He then came to a sudden realization towards what he said. He's lost someone before. Whoever it was, it must have been someone very important to him. He turned away from Mango upon saying those words, trying to think of what he can't remember. But it was just......blank. He knew there was something missing, but it's like he can't access it.
 
"Just..... just don't do that again, alright? See if there's anyone else that needs to be evacuated." He then ran off without another word, seeing if he can find somebody else in need of help.

 

 

Fear is a fickle thing. It's natural, it's understandable, but most of all it's real in all of us. Any normal person that ends up in the Digital World who would have to endure something as utterly terrifying as a Greymon -- and reacted by running away in fear -- would be completely justified.

 

Rui is a prime example of that.

 

However, in her moment of sorrow, the sound of footsteps could be heard close to her. If she were to look and see, she would notice Rio, of all people, walking up to her. "Hey, are you alright?" he asked with a concerned look on his face.

[Super Chaos Sonic]

 

 

"Hey...are you okay?"

 

Kosuke looked up and saw Shiro right beside him. He began to slowly nod, still shaking a bit from this whole experience. "W-What...w-what are you doing here?" he asked, his voice shaking a bit. "W-Why aren't you...h-helping like the o-others?"

 

 

 

 

"Well looks like scales there has everything under control..." Delos said, rubbing his chin some, watching Xicor going toe to toe with the Greymon. Still doesn't mean he doesn't need help...cause they seem VERY evenly matched.

 

Just meant something needed to be done to tip the scales of battle some. And Delos knew just what to do. A fastball special would work...have someone throw him and he could end up landing on Greymon's back and bug the hell out of him... However with Kosuke off hiding, Delos needed to improvise for someone to throw him. That's when he glanced over at Rigor.

 

"Hey! Hey you!" Delos said, somewhat forgetting the human's name. "I need you to grab me and throw me up towards the Greymon. I'm gonna distract him some to give scales a bit of an edge!"

[Admiral_Stalfos19]

 "Aight... I think I have a play," Cinder decided.

 

"What're you gonna do?" asked Teiljo.

 

"Probably the most cowardly attack anyone could try and make, if I'm honest," Cinder replied, "But hey, if it frees up a hand for our trusty DarkTyrannomon here..."

 

"Er.. alright," Teiljo stated reluctantly, but as Cinder was about to take off... "Wait! How do we know this'll work?"

 

"Well... we've thrown a whole bunch of attacks at Sir Bonehead over there already. I'm just banking on this one being the straw that breaks his back," with that, Cinder took flight, darting somewhere behind the Greymon as it and the DarkTyrannomon fought for dominance.

 

...

 

Before going through with his attack, however, Cinder thought he'd do a series of visual checks. He wasn't sure what these checks were meant to be, but he seemed satisfied... probably because he was impatient. In any case, Cinder aimed his stinger at the approximate center of the Greymon's back, and accelerated towards it with all the speed he could muster. With any luck, the resulting strike would inflict just enough damage for the DarkTyrannomon to capitalize on.

[Mr. Hyde]

 

Shiro looked down at the boy...he was shaking uncontrollably.  The fear was showing itself in all of the digidestined in different ways.  If anyone were to look closely at Shiro's knees, they buckled severely at the earthquakes produced by the giant stomps of the two dinosaurs fighting in the background.  But if this was the case, if she was scared, why was she able to move so easily.  

 

"W-What...w-what are you doing here?  W-Why aren't you...h-helping like the o-others?"  

 

The response was quick...and released from quivering lips.  Shiro stuck her one good arm towards the boy and smiled.  

 

"You are one of the others, silly~"  Just then, a sharp voice rang through the air.  

 

"Heeey, you, you seem to have your head screwed properly on... Though I can't say the same for the rest of you.  So listen, what say you ditch the bird and this wimp and help me find whats-her-name? I wouldn't look for Riley or Ray or whatever her damn name is normally, but apparently I need her to Digivolve and fight THIS idiot.  I can't believe he Digivolved before me, can't BELIEVE it...What are you lookin' over here for anyway? The Dark Arrows came from over THERE... good luck finding the wimp, though."

 

If Kosuke were to look at Shiro, he would see a vein almost pop out of her forehead.  She turned around to shake her fist at the serpent.  

 

"Quiet you!  Where have you been this whole time?!  I could tell you haven't been around because of that loud mouth of yours!"  She continued.  "And no!  I will not leave my beloved Mango, or my friend Kosuke.  And your partner, her name is Rui!  And you better get used to her, because without her, you're nothing but a loudmouth snake in the grass parading as some deity above all these other guys!  Whatever that tiny Dino did to digivolve, he earned it!  If you don't shape up, neither will you!"  Shiro took a deep couple of breaths, her chest expanding and compressing at rapid rates.  She then clasped her mouth the moment she realized what she said.  

 

"I'm sorry!"  She whispered.  But what she said must have been so suppressed internally, that it had boiled over and broke the surface.  She turned back to Kosuke, beads of sweat dropping down her forehead.  "Let's go find our partners!"  

 

 

"Look, I'm not letting you give your life up so easily. I'll be damned if I lose anyone else!" 

 

Mango saw that Razomon was distressed.  It made Mango cock his head.  The two had only known each other for a couple of days, but this Razomon already cared deeply for the team.  Apparently this Digimon had a troubled past...one filled with loss.   

 

"Just..... just don't do that again, alright? See if there's anyone else that needs to be evacuated."

 

Mango nodded his head.  

 

"This team just came together!  Like digiheck it'll fall apart so easily!"  Mango chased after the Razomon who seemed to be looking for stragglers.  

[King K. Azo]

Xicor grunted as the Greymon pushed against him in its wild charge. With a roar, he began to push back, and soon, the two were in a dreadlock, the dinosaurs unable to overpower the other. Xicor looked around, and he noticed some of the Rookies were attempting to attack Greymon. But they weren't...

 

"Don't attack the Greymon!" He roared. "I'll hold him down! GET RID OF THE ARROWS!" With that, he began to dig his claws into the ground, holding the monster in place. Rigor watched the clash of the titans, in awe of the two dinosaurs that were struggling to overpower the other.

 

"Hey! Hey you!" Rigor snapped back to reality as he saw the small fire lion come his way. "I need you to grab me and throw me up towards the Greymon. I'm gonna distract him some to give scales a bit of an edge!" Rigor looked up at the Greymon before looking back at Delios. 

"Gotcha," He said simply as he picked up Delios. Aiming the best he could, he threw the digimon like a football, hoping he would land on the arrows. Please, lead something go right.

[~Faytl~]

Kudamon huffed, eyes hooded as she gave Shiro an annoyed look. "Wow, alright, little miss hissy-prissy, keep your hair on. You've only got so many body parts left." She pointed out towards the woods she had been exploring with a cross expression. "I've been looking for the idiot shooting them Dark Arrows this whole time, haven't I? But he's nowhere in there. Just some dumb scarecrow in a tree." She crossed her arms proudly, nose in the air. "Guess I scared him off... Which means we won't see any more Dark Arrows anytime soon. You're WELCOME." 

 

She was cut off from bragging further by the bellow of Xicor, covering her ears with her paws as the fur on her back rose up. "Jeez, alright!" She yelled, scampering towards the fray yet again. "I'll hit the damn Arrows, you loud idiot."

 

She paused for a second, turning back and looking with a frustrated face at Shiro. "I can Digivolve without that Rui if I want to... And it looks like I WILL have to." With that taunt, she flipped back around, soaring into the air and barking out "Holy Shot!" A barrage of glowing darts issued from her tail, clashing through the air towards the Greymon's skull. She hadn't been as careful with her strikes as the others, but the Arrows were by and large in her sights regardless.

 

- - - - - - -

 

Rui was crying at the foot of the tree she had collapsed under, but when Rio came into view she jerked upright, hurriedly wiping at her eyes, shaking her hands in distress.

 

"Oh... Rio!" she exclaimed, trying to get her breathing back to normal, non-sobby levels. "I... I'm okay, I... I was just scared and I ran..." She looked around through water-blurred eyes, sniffing. "Where are the others?" she asked, not without trepidation. "Where is... Where did Wizardmon go?"

[The Warden]

The Wizardmon in question had fled the Primary Village, a small armada of infant Digimon standing beside him as they watched the carnage from afar. A Yuramon sobbed loudly as the battling Digimon were basically trashing their home, to which the magical Digimon knelt besides it, gently stroking its head. "Try not to cry little one. What can be destroyed can be rebuilt, and I'm sure once the battle is over-" SMASH! "If the battle is over with minimal damage, there will still be plenty of places to live... I hope." "Though it is something of a miracle that in such short time the power of Digivolution has been unlocked. The Digimon and their partner must possess phenomenal power to achieve it so soon."

 

- - - - -

 

Kiero peered out from behind a structurally sound building with CP, the two watching the fight intently. "So THAT'S digivolution huh?" the human remarked.

 

"Yes~kyu. It is the power to transform a Digimon to the next level~kyu" the Cutemon replied as he scanned the rubble. His little black eyes looked cautiously, until he saw a splash of red and purple near Rigor. "There~kyu!" he uttered, leaping off Kiero.

 

"Where the heck are you going?!" Kiero demanded as he begrudgingly followed after his partner.

 

With great agility CP leapt and bounced from rubble to rubble, coming to a pause by the injured Digimon. Looking him over carefully, the little rabbit's hands glew green as he brought them to Gumdramon's chest, the wounds made to him slowly fading away. "You were crazy to try and fight Greymon alone~kyu" CP chided his ward.

 

"Crazy and stupid are pretty synonymous y'know?" Kiero pointed out as he caught up to his partner and knelt by them, before looking up at Rigor. "Just saying, but good job trying to figure out this magic voodoo digivolution thing" he said sincerely.

 

- - - - -

 

Greymon roared loudly as his feet dug into the soft ground, before leaving large cracks as he was being forced back by Xicor's far superior champion level power. Twisting its head about, the proud horn of the dinosaur struck Delos as he flew through the air, sending him flying away. Turning back to Xicor angrily, its mouth opened wide. "NOVA BLAST!"

 

Waves of flame washed over the DarkTyrannomon, only for him to be completely unfazed by it. "Okay, I'm out."

 

The sound of squawking was heard as a crow flew through the air towards the hidden scarecrow. Landing on its shoulder, the dummy blinked twice, before making a silent retreat into the forest. As for his puppet, it was getting harder to fight off the DarkTyrannomon, and then. "ARGH!" it roared as Cinder's stinger buried deep into its back.

 

Unable to struggle any further, the hold it had on Xicor was broken with one swing of the dark dinosaur's arms. "No dice brick head" Xicor stated as he uppercutted the Greymon, launching it and Cinder into the air, the bug catching itself while the dinosaur wasn't as lucky as he smashed through a building, and left lying amongst the rubble.

 

Groaning weakly, Greymon struggled in the rubble as an arrow broke away from its head, turning to nothing as the dinosaur shrank down a little, now allowing Xicor to stand tall over it. 

[King K. Azo]

Xicor grinned widely as he watched the Greymon fall to the ground. He did it! He triumphed over a Champion! He became a Champion! Something he had dreamed of forever! He could move on to greater and better things! He looked down at the Greymon, his teeth visible as he took a step forward, putting his foot on him and raising a claw. "Now to end this!" He stated with a triumphant roar.

 

Meanwhile, Rigor watched with a mixture of fear, awe, and confusion. He still didn't know how they managed a... digivolution. Was it a permanent thing? Would he have a T-Rex following him everywhere? He didn't know, but he couldn't rule it out. Everything he knew was being turned upside down.

 

"Just saying, but good job trying to figure out this magic voodoo digivolution thing" Kiero complimented. Rigor rubbed the back of his head. 

"Thanks, but... even though it just happened, I still no idea how we did it...," He muttered. He then noticed Xicor posed to bring down his claw. "Xicor! Don't kill the guy! Just get the---," He went silent as he saw Xicor swing his claw, swiping at another arrow.

"I might have gotten bigger, but I'm no monster," Xicor stated as he kept his foot on top of the Greymon to keep him pinned.

[Mr. Hyde]

 

As the battle waged on, and Xicor had gotten the upperhand on the giant horned t-rex, Shiro couldn't help but look to the sky to notice a small, cartoonish crow flying towards where Kudamon had previously stated that there was a strange scarecrow.  It couldn't be just a coincidence...could it?  Snapping out of it, Shiro then urged Kosuke again to follow her.  As the two of them made their way through the village, Shiro kept an eye out for her penguin companion.  

 

"Mangoooooooooooo!  Helios!!!!!!!  Where are you guuuuuuuuys!"  

 

In the distance, a small feathery puff popped it's head up from a pile of rubble.  Mango's eyes watered as they layed eyes on his tamer.

 

"Shiro!  Thank goodness you aren't hurt!  Things are getting intense!"  He pointed to the toppled Greymon and exclaimed.  "That Xicor is making mincemeat out of Greymon!  We should be finished with this in no time at all!"  Mango ran off again towards the direction of the fallen Greymon.  

 

"Wait up you bird brain!"  Shiro shouted as she chased after him.  When the two of them approached the head of Greymon, Shiro couldn't help but flinch.  This guy was way bigger than she had anticipated.  She could feel the heat of it's breath wash over her, as it struggled to breath with the giant foot that lay atop it's chest.  Shiro noticed the arrows that had lodged themselves in the fractured helmet.  "Mango!  Can you break those things?"

 

Mango contemplated for a moment.

 

"Well...I tried shooting icicles at him earlier, but I think I missed my mark.  At this range I should have no issue!"  Mango slid up towards the top of Greymon's scalp.  "POLAR PECK!"  He shouted as his beak covered with frost, hardening it as well.  Mango aimed his now hardened beak at the arrows that still lie in Greymon's head.  

[BANZAI!!!!]

~The Fantastic Elastic Dragon~

 

The next thing he knew, he was looking at a pastel colored sky... that had eyes?

 

It took Gumdramon a little while to realize that, one, he wasn't dead, and two, that there was another Digimon looking over him. The third point (that the digimon in question was the one responsible for his being not dead) took a longer to sink in. Being observant wasn't exactly his strong suit.

 

"Did I get him?"

 

Nor was being appreciative, apparantly. At last, his senses began to fully return to him, and the pain in his abdomen began to subside. He sat up, nearly bumping his head into his savior's chin, before taking a look around. The tide had, seemingly, turned, as there was now another Champion level digimon in the fray. Where did he come from?

 

A further look this way and that gave the little dragon his answer. Humans. He'd never seen a human, of course, but the lot of them didn't resemble any digimon he'd ever seen. And the glowing gizmo that one of them held... that was a digivice. It was just like the stories!

 

All in order Gumdramon became delighted, then curious, and finally dismayed. Where was his partner? He scanned the area, hoping maybe that he'd missed a human in the confusion. Nothing. He frowned. At last, it dawned on him that he should probably thank the Cutemon that had healed him.

 

"Eahg... thanksh for the hand there...." he sounded and looked deflated.