//------------------------------// // 3: An Attack // Story: Digimon: The Equestrian Digital Force (EDF) // by TwinSwords79 //------------------------------// [An Hour Later - 9:30] EDF Headquarters Dust and Dash entered the Equestrian Digital Force's headquarters, the rainbow maned teen looking around in awe at what she saw. It was a huge high-tech room full of holographic monitors suspended in the air, many computers and keyboards with colorful buttons. She even saw a couple more of Digimon along with the other members of the force. She looked at Lightning, who was by a huge white desk, the pony behind it was a yellow, orange pegasus that she didn't know. As she walked over to them, Dust took out her badge and showed it to the pegasus along with saluting her. "Agent Dust, reporting for duty Commander." "Good to have you back, Dust," The pegasus replied, looking at the rainbow pegasus now. "So you must be Dashlyn...I'm Commander Spitfire...Welcome to The EDF" Dash looked at her with a bit of an annoyed expression as Dust whispered to Spitfire. "Commander...if you'll excuse me, but Dashlyn prefers to be called 'Dash.'" "Oh, my apologies," Spitfire said to Rainbow, who nodded with a small smile. Just then, an egg Digimon with yellow eyes and green reptilian feet came over to them. It carried a steaming hot bowl on a tray and put the bowl on Spitfire's desk for Rainbow Dash. She looked inside of it and saw it was Yang Chun Noodle Soup. The egg Digimon spoke in a female voice as it also put chopsticks on the desk next to the bowl. "Enjoy." As she walked away, Dash looked at her. "But, I'm not really hungry..." The egg Digimon didn't listen to her and just continued to walk; Dash looked at the bowl and shrugged. "Oh well..." She took it and began to eat it, slurping up the wet noodles with chopsticks. Spitfire and Dust actually watched her eat as a male kid voice spoke. "Can't believe that this is the pegasus who managed to go toe to toe with a Digimon." Rainbow looked up and saw a half-human, half-beast Digimon that was standing next to Spitfire. Dash arched her eyebrow, slurping up the noddles in her mouth and speaking with her mouth full. "Hey, who's the little kid?" The Digimon took offense to her comment. "Little kid?" Spitfire gave a small chuckle and ruffled the Digimon's hair as she answered the teen. "This is Flamemon; he's my Digimon partner." "Partners?" asked Dash, putting her half-eaten bowl of food on the desk. "Yes, every member of the EDF has been paired with a Digimon partner." Dust answered; she then motioned her hand to the hedgehog Digimon that tried to subdue Dash and Veemon. "This little one is my partner, Herrismon." The little white hedgehog gave Dash a small cute bow. "Pleasure to meet you, Ms. Dash" She then pouted to Dust. "And I'm not small; I'm a big girl." Dust and Dash both chuckled as the cyan pegasus held up her hand at her. "Nice to meet ya too..." "Now listen, Dash." The teen looked at Spitfire as she spoke. "You don't understand how dangerous Veemon is...he's a wild Digimon and could lose control at any moment. He might harm others if he loses control unless you give him up." Dash looked at her angrily and spoke back. "Look, I don't understand why you guys have such a hate boner for Veemon; he's harmless!" "He's not harmless, Dash!" Dust exclaimed. "He's wild and therefore untamed; what you don't understand is that he can kill you if you hang around Veemon for too long!" "Calm the buck down!" Rainbow snapped, putting her finger on Dust's chest. "What you don't understand is what if things were bad in the digital world and Veemon just had to get away from it all!" She used the same finger to push Dust, and she looked at the commander and held her hand out toward her. "Look, any bad thing that Veemon does from now on, I'll claim full responsibility for his actions...but only if you give me some Digibytes so I can feed him!" Commander Spitfire was about to answer before a loud alarm started blaring, and the room was blinking red, the yellow, orange pegasus looking towards the other two EDF members. "What's going on, Aloe and Lotus?!" Aloe was pressing the high-tech keyboard very fast. "Hang on, ma'am, pulling up traffic cams." The monitor then showed a pizza parlor on fire. "We have sightings of a Digimon over in Ponyville Sector BA; a local pizza parlor is on fire!" Rainbow gritted her teeth and gave a small growl. That was the area where she was hiding Veemon, Lightning spoke. "I get the feeling that Veemon has something to do with that...did you give him anything to eat, Dash?" "No...I didn't..." Dash mumbled a bit before speaking out. "But if it is him, he's probably just attacking out of hunger!" "Exactly!" Dust pushed Dash with one finger. "This is your fault, Dashlyn! Because of you, innocent ponies are gonna be killed thanks to Veemon; we told you he was dangerous!" The cyan teen growled and sighed. "You're right...It is my fault...and I'm gonna make it right..." She then ran out of the EDF Headquarters, her open sports jacket flailing behind her. "Dash, wait!" Dust called; Spitfire looked at the turquoise pegasus. "Dust, go after her." The agent nodded, and she and Herrismon ran after Rainbow Dash, who already had a huge head-start. [An Hour Later - 10:45] Outside of Ponyville Pizza Parlor Dash landed in front of the burning pizzeria and shielded her eyes with a few cars exploded. She then began to shout to the top of her lungs. "VEEMON!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?!?! VEEEEMOOOOONNNN!!!!!!" "Rain!! is that you?!" Dash looked to her right and saw Veemon was running toward her. "IT IS!!!" He then jumped up and hugged Dash tightly, his legs and arms wrapping around her. "Yay, I can finally have delicious food!!" Rainbow growled and made Veemon let go of her, sounding completely hysterical. "ARE YOU BUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW, VEEMON?! DID YOU REALLY ATTACK THE PIZZA PARLOR BECAUSE YOU WERE STARVING?!!?!?!" Veemon held up his hands, trying to calm her down. "Rain, what are you talking about? I didn't attack anything; why are you shouting at me?!" "Huh?" The cyan teen looked at the burning parlor with confusion. "W-Wait...if you didn't set the parlor on fire....then w-who-" Just then, they heard a lion-like roar, and a huge tiger that was made of fire came out of the flames. It had large white talons on both its front paws and back paws. Dust arrived and landed a few feet from the parlor and gasped when she saw the fire tiger. "That's not Veemon..." She then heard a beep on her earpiece and pressed the answer button. "Lightning." A female voice spoke. "It's Lotus, and we got a reading on who the attacker is... it's not Veemon." "I can see that, but who is it?" Dust asked. "It's Lynxmon: An Armor Digimon... its attacks are Wild Nail Rush, Wild Nail Claws, and Thermal Mane, which creates a huge fire explosion." "Damn it.." The turquoise pegasus then started to run towards the parlor. "CELESTIA!!! IS THAT A GIANT FIRE CAT?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, backing up a little bit. "I think that's a Lynxmon, Rain!" Veemon answered. "How did it even get here?!" "I don't know...but I think it's our duty to send him back...I won't let some overgrown hot-headed cat destroy my town!" Rainbow said with a smirk, looking at the blue dragon Digimon. "Ready to fight Veemon?" "Yes, I am Rain, let's get 'em'!" Both Rainbow and Veemon both charged the Lynxmon as it growled and tried to swipe its claws at Rainbow, who dodged out of the way as Veemon ran up and jumped at the fire Digimon head-first. "Vee-Headbutt!!" His head connected with the Digimon's face, and it staggered back a bit with a small grunt. Rainbow jumping onto the Digimon's back, surprised that she didn't get burned from its fur; she then started to punch the top of its head with a smile rapidly. "Take this, you hot-headed furball!" Dust arrived and gasped when she saw Rainbow on Lynxmon's back. "DASH!!!! GET OFF OF THAT THING AND GET OUT OF HERE; IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!!!!!" Dash heard her and shook her head, continuing to punch the Digimon. "NO WAY! A TRUE FIGHTER NEVER BACKS DOWN AND NEVER SURRENDERS, THEY FIGHT TO THE END EVEN IF IT MEANS YOUR LIFE IS IN ABSOLUTE DANGER!!!" "YEAH, GO RAIN!!!!" Veemon cheered. Dust face-palmed with a long sigh as her device bleeped; Herrismon spoke. "Wow...how single-minded is this chick?" "I don't know...and I'm starting not to care..." Dust replied, furrowing her eyebrows. Lynxmon had enough of the punches, and its mane started to glow along with it opening up its mouth, a beam slowly building up inside of it. Veemon, Rain, and Dust all gasped. "Thermal Mane!!!!" A huge fire beam came out of its mouth and hit many nearby cars by Veemon, causing them to explode right next to him and throwing him back into the wall of a shop, Rainbow shouted. "VEEMON!!!!!" She jumped off Lynxmon's back and did a small somersault when she hit the ground, going on her feet. She then sprinted towards Veemon, covered in bloody scrapes and burn marks, and knelt to him, her hands going under his body and holding him. "V-Veemon...wake up..." Rain then started to pour down on top of the town as Dash's hair was covering her eyes, putting Veemon's forehead onto hers as she felt her eyes get watery. "Veemon...." The pegasus put the Digimon back on the ground gently and then growled, balling her left hand into a tight fist, her vain popping out a bit as she looked at Lynxmon with kill in her eyes. "You....." She then slowly stood up and yelled at the top of her lungs, which made Lightning's eyes widen. "ARE GONNA PAY FOR HURTING HIM YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!" Rainbow Dash then fully sprinted toward the fire Digimon without a second thought, her sports jacket, and mane flying behind her like a cape in the wind. Lynxmon growled and readied its attack again. "Thermal Mane!!!!" Dash sidestepped it and kept sprinting towards the flaming cat. She then jumped in the air with a roar, her left fist still clenched tightly. "GRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!" She then slammed her fist onto Lynxmon's face, the Digimon roaring in pain as her fist dug into its face. Rainbow kept growling with anger until she noticed that this punch felt different, like it was more powerful than she anticipated. What proved her point was after she punched Lynxmon, it launched backward and hit the flaming pizza parlor, breaking the building. Dash backed up and looked at the fist she used to punch the Digimon, confused till she saw it glow some...digital-Esque aura, its color was dark blue. "The hell...what's going on with my hand?" "HEY!" A male voice called with a thick southern accent; Dash looked in the voice's direction in confusion. "H-Huh?" The teen looked to see who was calling her and saw a muscular red pony with a blond mane; he wore a dark red flannel, blue jeans, and cowboy boots. She watched him take something out of his pocket. "Heads up!" He then chucked something at her, and Rainbow quickly caught it with one hand, looking at what he threw. She saw that in her hand was the same small rectangular device that Lightning Dust had, but it was blue and white. "What's this?" Dash asked. "A Digivice..." The stallion answered. "Use it in combination with yer Digisoul which is triggered bah your fist...bah using a technique called a D.N.A. Charge yer Digimon can digivolve." "Digivolve? Digisoul? D.N.A. Charge?! What are you talking about?!" Rainbow asked in complete bafflement. "Trust yer Digisoul and yer heart to awaken Veemon's champion-level young filly." "Champion level..." Rainbow whispered to herself; she looked at Lynxmon, slowly trying to get up from the hit Dash gave. Rainbow Dash then took one final look at Veemon's knocked-out faze and knew what she had to do. "Alright then...let's dance!" [Elsewhere] - EDF HQ "Commander, look at Dash's hand!" shouted Lotus, zooming the camera's feed so they could see her hand glowing with her dark blue Digisoul. Spitfire continued to look at the screen. "Is that...a Digital Natural Ability...how did she get that?"